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        "content_text": "\n\nکیه \n\nهم هم کیسے \n\ntogether \n\n... \n\nhr h \n\nin the thougth of the current, and the farthe diprouity procented by \n\nترسم \n\ndder hon et \n\nForente: ships from perceeding \n\nکھنے کے \n\nthe 15th. On \n\nthe 16th however, Jaccompanied Sir W. Parter steam juegate Besen, an of we made \n\na \n\n12.... \n\nthe \n\nsatisfactory \n\nand accurate pe connoissance of both Thin sheen and -Heary fee. The steamer passed close to the thre of the Imperial Canal, which \n\nChin Heer within musket \n\nrange \n\npaper through the suburts of the City. \n\nising the sc. \n\nd with out \n\nthe slightest oppositions; hundreds of the \n\nhubitando \n\nhaped. \n\ncrorodari \n\naderiz. \n\nthe shore to \n\nHour \n\nاویر \n\nWe believe that little, if amp \n\n-1. \n\nher. \n\nای ایران به گفته ایم \n\nAs led me \n\nmode. Not a soldier appeared upon the citywally \n\nEpercion. \n\nthe \n\nor could Epercre any neighbourhood. We shorned to the flock that wvening \n\nships of War were preceded up the \n\nffected the \n\nOn the 17th so \n\nthe fast santing inaited te pa jo the bon d \n\nحمر \n\nCH \n\nOn the 19th the Cornwallis \n\nwende enabled If, and a favorable change of the whole fleet to rooch Chinkoan, \n\non the 20th \n\nتم \n\nThis city, with its wathe in decellent repons, plands within little more than half a \n\nthe northern and the Eastern steep hills the west and A with the Imperat \n\nVinite \n\nfrom Face upon Southern \n\nCanal \n\nthes \n\nex \n\nLany \n\nface \n\ngrown \n\nFor..... \n\nwet detalis \n\ns these faces to the westward, the suburb, thes which the canal passes, catouds to the piver, ands Commates under a precipitous hell, opporates to which the Kol and of Him shaus, \n\nyou \n\nرام \n\nfree la \n\ntising \n\nsessing abruptly, from the water; pagoda \n\nLusind dark p \n\nthe \n\n\"? \n\nہو کر مجھے۔۔ میں مجھے تم یہ کی ہے۔ \n\nکم کی ہے۔ \n\nبه یه \n\nmit, and a few temple \n\nفورم \n\nand Imperial pavit wirs, partly in reuno, and only occupied by Chinese priests, run round, it's base and up its sides, unterspersed with trees. The ester and is mot than a few teen die de \n\nd bey \n\nyor. \n\nK \n\nColin Ca \n\ncumference, \n\nfor a military position, being \n\nby the hill. \n\n6. \n\n22.- \n\ntre tre arr \n\ncalculato \n\nin an dod completely \n\nthe right bank of the river. \n\nAbout a \n\nmile and \n\ndown the streams, there is a \n\nby a \n\nwith \n\nhalflore. \n\nbluff height connected \n\nridge \n\na smatter hill, both capped with Joss-houses and both commanding northern angle of the city wall \n\nOver \n\nBriga de \n\nthe \n\nHere I determined \n\nMy frist untention, when \n\nto land Ipe connoitred the places on the other brigades \n\naboni too \n\nAr \n\nEX.... \n\nthe 16th \n\nبر ہے \n\nCo Rd \n\nto land \n\nof love hills. \n\nmites further Eastward, three miles further \n\n4.0 \n\nas to act against the Eastern face of the City ; but the great having \n\nto anchor \n\nمحه چه اقدامی \n\nthe 20th so \n\nI perceived from \n\nfor up the river, I was induced to alter any plan futback, and the more readily \"the top of the Po \n\nhill: \n\ndad ou \n\nPagoda \n\nKin-shan \n\nσ \n\nthere \n\nthe slope of the \n\nfoments at some distance \n\nth-wess of the city. It therefore appeared \n\nand object of importance to land a part of the force so as to cut off these loops, and as Jascertained \n\nthat the.. \n\nورش \n\nمیں میجیے \n\nof landing place below the \n\nhell nearly opposite to Renishan \n\nto disembark there the live \n\nwith the Birgade of Artillery. \n\nThe we \n\nIdetermined \n\ng. Brigades \n\nwents \n\nEvere \n\ndiately made for Canding at day-light on \n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "they did not; their \n\nhomer to say key \n\nMarsh. H \n\nright \n\ntes to me \n\nante tome \n\nay \n\nفرید \n\nت کرد که نمدی \n\n我 \n\nVaying \n\nefter \n\nCnak \n\nHub 2 \n\nith them if Le Lad \n\ninstrel, which Ser \n\nking. So this aspects them this work 2. \n\nnot properly, attended to? \n\nnot, but from \n\navoidable circumstances \n\nwhat. \n\nAbout. lines did the \n\nmortality prenoril \n\n^ \n\nIt was pretty \n\nبرو \n\nthe greatest \n\nbb Q \n\nOfficers \n\nlly the same & \n\nEming this won the of July, August and \n\ncrowded at West Paint \n\nHe Hospital subarinates left \n\nJ. A.S \n\nEidenced Dr. Scold Q \n\nދ . އފ.ޓީ \n\nbeen \n\nOfte \n\nthe \n\nther \n\nand pewants \n\nIn Love \n\nlly \n\nA. \n\nApps. They \n\nwill \n\nLe Ce \n\nLove \n\nmany of them fie \n\nfreen speaking off) pick? \n\nfaller H. \n\nthats the picture, \n\nshave thaw \n\nyou states your reasons \n\nجو مجھے تو کیجیے \n\nBoard of this, \n\nfor peemsending, \n\nIncit \n\nthats the Hospital, pliss phu. Cô be given user \n\nWith a view \n\nafbring of being in \n\nto Merial \n\nEstablis buiente together, that fatter \n\nattentions & Couts her fo and to the sick in \n\n2.2.2.4 \n\nyors \n\ninform \n\nin gewest. \n\nthe Carts of the \n\nnatures of the farmailing fever einen ge \n\n2. \n\nIntermittent & remittent \n\nthe \n\nShare is for is the Nations of Lusia \n\nکم \n\nffer from the same description of \n\nEuropeen trees?. \n\nseptember. \n\n2. \n\nc \n\nthe avere they Q. \n\nA \n\nat \n\nbutth, as Chul kohe! \n\nthe pour ellents of a \n\nto gover, avated Character \n\ndanced from the Hospital pluks, mi to the Barracks at West Point? \n\nComparatively speaking, they worse. A. At what period were the sick Q. \n\n: feat. \n\nAbout the begining of a Angur 0. A. \n\nDid this conce \n\nding of ther \n\nlist in the \n\nto the y \n\nLad \n\nThey would have had \n\nFunderstand, on former \n\nZen \n\nQ \n\nnote this same ffordd Dt. Lidian Hospital, but \n\nsions, they \n\nbeen \n\ne \n\nGod of diar. \n\nGr. but in a milder form, the \n\nا تو ام سیتی \n\nIs it \n\nbut they afterwards \n\ngeneral debiliti. \n\nyour opinion, that Zen \n\nLove deveribes \n\nthe hypes & character \n\nDuring these \n\n< \n\nDark\"",
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        "content_text": "Wuplicate \n\nA3070. \n\nMy Lord. \n\nFead Quarters. Kasion \n\nSong thong 19th December 1842. \n\nA \n\ntre Avedalek \n\nI have the hover to forward, \n\nہو کر مجھے \n\nReferee to \n\nthe 30th. Anumber to the address of. \n\nof the \n\nSteinler, Captrine Rase report of the Bonarkis \n\nand Stospitals. Staalinses and Guaid Rome actually co \n\nArcotics \n\nIf plans. \n\nཝིདྷབྷསྶ ''' \n\nin forog, \n\nto at sloughing, degether witte, \n\na file \n\nThe report & hours a less convvatiofactor state \n\naccommodation, to \n\nJaccommodar to far as it goes, there i \n\nhod \n\nدارید کویر \n\nI \n\nPexpertists, and Fremained in Command, Icheuls have bem lined to adopt moet of Captain Pear enggrations \n\nthe future, the fixing Baracutis and Storfulet, \n\nجم کر کیسی \n\nم اینه که \n\nIk \n\nکر کے تم بھی کر \n\nsite for \"Fenmansut \n\nof \n\nHov \n\nserious \n\nCovel \n\nceration, and the outlay once made, the badusss of \n\nthe site, if ill & hose! onnet be lift to be shewn by eve there so and le \n\n+3 \n\ncurred. \n\nloss of life, before frohe outlay is \n\nDuring \n\nmy \n\nxlay at Stoughong I visited, steent \n\nneighbourhood prepord vitel zur Bebents in the wigh tens hand of \n\nThe Mächt Strumable \n\n1 Lord. Ellenborough \n\nGevriner General of India \n\n.. \n\nthe",
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        "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
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        "content_text": "Pas \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nThe \n\nFriend of \n\nQuina SUPPLMENT TO No. 75. \n\nHong Kong Gajette, \n\nVICTÒRIA, HONG-KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1843. \n\nREPORT of Cases treated in the VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN, \n\nfor the momh ending, 19th August, 1843. \n\nDiseasDa \n\nAdmitted. \n\nDischarg. \n\ned relier. \n\nInitammation of the Liver. \n\nInflammation of the Brain. \n\nDelirium Tremens. \n\nDysentery. \n\nUlorrhoea. \n\nFever.. \n\nRácuratism. \n\nConsumption. \n\nVenereal \n\nTOTAL \n\nכני \n\nDischarg. \n\ned oured, \n\nD 0 \n\n(*) This Paliom left the Hospital contrary to the advice of the Surgeons, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 20th August, 1845. \n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY \n\nOF LONDON. \n\nTHE Undersigned having been, appointed Agents in China, for the above Company, are prepared to accept. Assurances at Hong-Kong, as under: \n\n1st-On Buiklings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal of other incombustible material, together with their contents, when such Bniklogs are isolate! from all others. \n\nRate of Premium, 3 per cent, per annum, 2xD.--On such Buildings and their contents, when not so isolated, at the rate of 1 per cent. per ann Assurances for 6 months † 7 of the annual rate, will! \n\nand for 3 months, į 3be charged. \n\nOf the 1st Class, Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one risk. And of the 2nd Chies, to the extent of £3000. \n\nrisk. \n\nA Building and its contents taken together, form one Thas the above suns may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the contents alone; on, part on the Building, and part on the contents. \n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in foron until the Premiam be paid. \n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured will be entitled to participate in the profits after five successive payments. \n\nParties applying for Assurances will please send in full particulars of the risk to be taken; any deviation. from which, without the censent of the Company, will vitiate the Policy. \n\nJARDINE, MATILESON. & Co., \n\nAgents in China, \n\nMocan, 12th July, 1863, \n\nNOTICE. \n\nThe undersigned in connexion with Mn PareICK CHALMERS at present in England, has this day estal- Jished a house of Agency in China, under the firm of AKPRUSON, CHALMERS & Co. \n\nMacao, 1st July, 1843. \n\nJ. S. ANDERSON, \n\nFOR SALE. CHAIN Cables, Europe Rope, Wines, Spirits, Stores of every description, Dressing Glasses, Plate Glass and Warm Clothing, \n\nALFRED HUMPHREYS, \n\n20. Queens Road. \n\nHong Kong, 1st August, 1848, \n\nNOTICE--The un forsignal is authorized by \n\nflis Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Land Forces in China, to recsivo al pack- ngem adresaid to the Officers or Messes of any of the Regiems ployed during the late war. \n\nN. LUGS. \n\nlong-Kong, 15th April, 1842 \n\nOne half per cent, Commission will be charged upon all Goods bought in. \n\nProceeds of Arconat Sales will be rendered fifteen hys after Sale, or sooner if realizeal. \n\nQueen's Road, Hong-Kong, kat Juno, 1843. \n\nXO. W. BENNETT, \n\nJUST RECEIVED, AND FOP SALE. BEEF, Pork. Flour and Bread, Brandy and Wines, Cherry Cordial Vinegar, Rum, and Anack, Beer in Cask, Sales &c. \n\nRice. Singapore Plunks, \n\nSpesin Candles. Tlouse-iltings. \n\nManda Timber, Sheathing Copper, \n\nAmerican and Castile Spip, \n\nTobacco, Raisins, Spirits Turpentine, Tar, Rusin, and I'l \n\nBlack, White, Brown, and Drab Flats. \n\nP. TOWNSEND, \n\nHong-Kong, 31st July, 1943. \n\nti \n\nDead. \n\nRetain \n\ning in the \n\nHospital. \n\n[ \n\n幾 \n\nJ SATCHELL, M. D, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon. \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D., Resident Asst. Physician & Surgeon, \n\nD. WILSON & Co., \n\nBEG to intimate to the Gentlemen of Hong-Kong that they have From thus, date opened their Billiard Room to be Pullic. \n\nPRICE OF THE GAMES. Ese Ga \n\nFoun Two \n\nof 24 for One Dollar \n\n\" \n\nNight games double the above. \n\nN. B. No Credit will be allowed in the Biard Room \n\nVICTORIA, HONG-KONG \n\n1st August 1848 \n\nD. WILSON & Co. \n\nAVE just received a fresh supply of Allsop's Lutin Ale, sound Chadder Chinese, Perfumery, Stationery, and a variety of ather articles. \n\nVICTORIA, Roxo-Kong, \n\n1st August, 1843. \n\nJUST Landed and for SALE. \n\nAlachines. \n\nApply to \n\n20, Quren's Road, Victoria, 2nd August. 1843 \n\nwo \n\nWeighing \n\nALEX. MOSY, \n\nNOTICE Goons and Merelmedio of all descrip \n\ntions received and curetilly stored ia sparions dry and secure Brick Godowns situated on the Queen's Road No. 20, at Hongkong, upon moderate terris. \n\nApply upon the premises to. \n\nALEX, MOSS. Goods are received and sold on Commission Hongkong, 2nd Angusi 1833, \n\nFOR SALE--Singapore Bears, on moderate \n\nApply to ALEX. MOSS, Hong Kong, 2d August, 1843, \n\nterms. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nIN consequence of the mytan! Dissolution of Part. nership betweeen Mesars, BENNETT, PAIN, & Co., the Undersigned bags to Notify, that the Busi ness will be cartiod on by lamseif, où the same Pre ruises, and most respectfully, solicits a continustee of the liberal support be has hitherto been favoured with Parties desinos në susting Goods for Pablie. Auction, are requested to, de so two days previous to the time of Sule. \n\nAuctions will be held every Friday. at Eleven A. 37, \n\nTerms-Five per Cent, at all. Goods. \n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL, \n\nFUR \n\nSEA MEN, \n\nNos. 1, 2, 3, Queen's Roud, immediately opposito Fearon's Wharf, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon, JAMES SATCHELL, M. D. Resident Assist, Physician, & Surgeon, \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D. \n\nTHE HOSPITAL is now open for the reception of i \n\nPatients, and is furnished with every convenience necessary for the comfort and speely recovery of the sick. \n\nPatients are admitted at any hour of the day or night, on production of an undertaking to defray the expenses inerrel, signed either by the Captain of the Vessel to which the sick person belongs, or a Member of some Mercantile Firo in Chica. No Patient çan \n\nbe admittcik without such an undertaking. \n\nTERMS For Medical attendance, Medicines, and \n\nProvisions. \n\nSeamen-One Dollar, \n\nOFFICERS--Two Dollars per day, Victoria, Hong-Kong, \n\n20th July, 1843. \n\nFOR SALE, REIGHT on CHARTER, \n\nTHE Fine A. 1. British Brig Iris,\" \n\n277 Tous N. M. Captain MERCE, \n\nApply to \n\nHOLLIDAY WISE, 4. Co. Victoria, Hongkong, 24th August, 1843, \n\nFOR LONDON. \n\nTHE A British bull Barque Mary Catherine\" Captain Taylor, having \n\nTur \n\na large portion of her cargo engaged will meet with quick despatch, generat freight or passage, baving supe- \n\nG. F. DAVIDSON. LINDSAY & Co. \n\nrior accommodations, apply here w \n\nAt Macao to \n\nFlong-Kong, 14th August, 1943. \n\nFOR AMOY AND CHUSAN. \n\nTHE Barque Lanusy Campbell, Capt. Darley Will Sail for the above Parts in ath this month--For Freight or pis- \n\nN. DEUS Apply to \n\n18. Queen's Road, Or to the Captain on lumed. \n\nsaga. \n\nVictor 2, Aogust 9th, 1943. \n\nFOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER. \n\nTHE A. L. Barque Extzaketh Moonn, W. 3isap Comunander, register ton. nage 241. \n\nFOR SALE. on board the Elizabeth Moniy,\" fod tons of Liverpool Coals, such as II. M Mail Steamors\" between Liverpool and fasiio, use. \n\nApply to 6, F. DAVIDSON. Hong-Kong, 2d, August, 1848. \n\nThe fist sailing British bult Brig \"NAUTILUS\" \"Captain Gibson, £33 toms Register, now ging at Hongkong, and ready to receive vargo. \n\nApply to FOX, BAWSON. & Co. \n\nBongkung 35th July, 1843. \n\nFOR-SALE. FLERGILE OR CuAXTER, \n\nTHE Clipper Bag ANOLESA, Capt. Rowland 10 Tons register, built at Ipswich, in 1840, & A. 1'de 13 years, has been newly coppered and is well found in stores Apply to the Captain on board; or to \n\nFOX, RAWSON, & Co. Hongkong, 25th. Jaly 1543. WANTED-fer the Gun Room Mess of 11. A. S. Cunwallis-a good Cook-either European or \n\nNalive. \n\nTestimonials at to character and efficiency will be required. \n\nFor further particulars, apply on board, butween the \n\nhouss of nine and twelve 4. N.\" \n\nH. M. S. Con wallis. \n\nAugust, 17th 1843. \n\nALL persons indebted to the firm of P. Townsend & Co. are desired to take immediate payment iv, \n\nP. TOWNSEND \n\nPR SALE. \n\nPRIME Bottled Beer. Apply in. \n\nPAIN & Co. \n\nFOR SALE. \n\nAr go. Secaes of Tus USDERSTORED. Prims Mess feeland Pork \n\nPaint and Paint End Torpentine and Tar Matlive Cair \n\nCalan api Slip Brend Superive Golden Sherry \n\nCockburts\" Port Wine \n\nClaret 31 Julen and Murgaux Hock. Bresar and Canignze \n\nBarton Ale in Cash and Bottle \n\nTumblers ani Wine Glasses \n\nSingapore planks \n\nBeaver and Sour Flats \n\nLaubes Mut, dilk stockings, Soilpe \n\nBrandy in Wood and Boitie \n\nAb assortment of Hosiery \n\nWah numerous other articles at moderate prices, \n\nNo. 2 Magistracy Street, \n\nPAIN &AG. \n\nTARIFF, PORT REGULATIONS &c. \n\nA few Cupies are still on SALE of No.71 of the Friend \n\nof China wad Hong Kong Gazette, contrining the Proclamation of His Excellency. Tariff, Government Notification. Table of Consular Fees &c. &c. \n\nAlso the Extraordinary of 31st July, Containing the Proclamation of the Chinese Commissioner, General, Regulations for the Ports, in Cléna, &c. &c. \n\nPrice—to Subscribers to the paper; each copy 25 pents, to non Subscribers 1 Rupeo. \n\nPAINTED AND I'encreuen For The ProPainTORS, NE rup Payaso Orvice, Querx's Rojo, Verona. \n\nWe are informed that Monsieur C. ALEX, CHALLAYE, Esa. ex Acting Consul for France in China, nas, by a decision of his Excellency Monsieur Guizot, Mi- nister for Foreign Affairs, bearing date the 14th March of the present year, her attached, in his capacity of Elove Consul, to the CoxsULATE ÚExEAL ci Franco in Egypt. \n\nINQUEST AUGUST 14TH, 1848. \n\nBEFORE MR. E. FARNCOMB. CORONER. \n\nFROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS. \n\nCrtSAR-August 4th, 1843. \n\nwere arenred under the Old System. They are, the Eliza, Mary, and Bahamian Business is very dull, New Congous are arriving, the quality good. \"Crop, \n\nNo matter of political import need be looked for in 650 Chops, 20 maels. Shout price about the rate. this quiet locality, we are becoming gradually acquint. Whilst the Export in April and May, was 174 millions ed with the denems of a great intercourse, the \n\nof lbs., in 29 ships, the probable Export of 3 months, friendly disposition of the people favors it, and the June, July, and August, in 5 ships, is about 3 mil perfeet reliance which they place in the honour and hops of the integrity of British dealers, leads to the fervent hope LocAL Nuws-The British Flag was re-hosted at the that it may never be destroyed by questionable trave Consulate, on the 14th inst. \n\nOfficial responsibility to actions. \n\nthe Chinese, for the payment and collection of their \n\nThis was an inquest on the body of James Prestoe, The only true system of trade is a liberal one, and duties, is an enormous thor, and wifi catail endles \n\nThere can be no greater fillacy, than for the faw, to use and vexation on the Conals. Here, I should who died suddenly in the Exchange Room The Jury aere summoned to attend on the evening of the suppose that the knowledge of commercial particulars, he will want fy Claks, when basintesis upon this coast can be limited to themselves, here active. The Consulate order, to prevent ship'a boots 12th (Saturday), but in consequence of the post mor the examination of the Body un bring concluded where ready money transections constantly obtain, the exting Her Majesty's) dig at the Old Company till a late bour and the Medical Report being requested simplicity of business render its details obvious aden, bas given as inch disgust to the skipper, \n\nit hus given satifaction to the residents. to be given in writing the Jugnest was deferred to enough to the most obtuse piserver. the 14th (Monday). The following evidence was then \n\nIt is with very deep regret, we have to announce the takon. Mr. J. W. Bennett, sworn, sąl \n\nde mise of J. A. Murder, Esq. He died on hard the General Work, on the siternoon of yesterday, after a severe illness of three weeks datarion. A wide circle of friends not acquaintances will bewail the loss of a truly kind-heartedman, and our commu - nity will deplore the loss of a valuable incraber. \n\ni was informed on Saturday at about 3 o'clock that James Preston the deceased was dying. The deceased kept the Exchange Roome for me. On my coming up to see him I found he bad expired. Daring the time that the depensed had born in my employ be had always conducted himself in a sober manner. I \n\ndischarged from the Hospital he secured weakly and when I saw him going about in the wet. I remon- strated with him, and told him that he ought to en- play a man for the purpose. \n\nA subject upon which we may congratulate ourselves is the continued bathy nature of this loculty ; out national selfishness leads us to regret that this valu- alle island is one day to be restored; its worth as a commanding position can scarcely bo over-rated. situated in a glorious climate, exempted from the ord nary riak of the elements, provided wah the most Secure and spacious harbours and in itself abondant- \n\nof the Chinese Empire, with such a possession what \n\ndo not know what his bubits of life had been before 7 productive, populated with a quiet industrious raceOS KEENASSA FALAN KUGELSESKPROT \n\namong whom rict, crime, my dishonesty, is scarcely 1 employed him. About five days previous to his docense, he had been sent to the Hospital of Messrs. Known a rural people castly governed, Imants each J. N. ANDERSON, begrepectfully to inform Satchell and Jenes, he bad them an eruption on his member of the community seems to know himself\" \n\nthe inhabitants of Victoria, and the public generally, and then if we might venture to speak of its political tha the has opened those premista next Mr. Boulle's skin, ou different parts of his body; en huis being inuener, within a few day's sail of the riches cities teen's Road, as a winlesale al rail wine and might not the genius and enterprise of Great Britain Strict attention to business, good Articles, and mode Spirit Store, and BILLIARD ROOM, and hopes, by rate elurges, to meet a share of Public Putronage. \n\nJ. N. A. begs respectfully to solicit the attention of the Naval and Military, as well as private Gention.co in Flong-Kong, to the Hilliard Room, which is Spaci ous and weil aired, and to state, that every possiblo attention on his part will be paid to the confort of those who may honour him with a visit. Victoria, 14th August, 1843. \n\nMr. Francis Dickens, sworn, \n\nI am Clerk to Mir. Bennett: I was present when the dencased died, he died in the Exchange Room. When I came into the room he was sitting in one of the chairs with his bead hanging over the fuck of the chair. I supported hun in my arms and spoken to him, but received no answer, his lips moved as if to spek but he could not do on, and his pulse was scar- cely perceptible, I called up a servant and he took hold of hie zal i went and fetched a Doctor. The deceased did not recognise one when I came up. \n\nAr J W. Beaned, Re-examined, A day or two before the deceased went to the Hos. pitul he complained to me of sickness and a pain in Jus heal. I administered to him an Emnetic which gave him considerable relief: the eruption afterwards appearing on his body, I advised him to go to the os pital. \n\nJamce Satchell, Surgeon, Sworn-The deceased was in the Hospital under my charge from the seventh to the eleventh instant. His eomplaint was that of a nettle rush and disordered bowels. When he left the Hospital he wna perfectly well but was weak. I was sent for on Saturday to sec bin and on my arrival at the Exchango Rooin he was dend. \n\n(Signed) \n\nThere was no possibility of forming an opinion us to the cause of his death without an internal examination. I consider that course was necessary. \n\nJ. SATCHELL, M. D. \n\nResident Surgeon, Victoria Seaman's Hospital. Charles Alexander Winchester, \n\nI am the Acting Colonial Surgeon.- produce a copy of the notes taken whilst examining the body of the deceased. The report was then read. \n\nOn the Coroner enquiring what was the cause of the deceased's death the witness said, \n\nThe signs in the brain led me to suppose that influm mutory action must have existed for serae considerable time before death, and from the evidence given, of a sgb-acute character. I consider the immediate enese of death to have ben the pressure of a very considerable \n\nquantity of serum found at the case of the brain, on that órgin (in other words) that it was a rese of serious upo, lexy. He must have enjoyed very irregular health Prom the state of the liver. \n\nf \n\n(Signed) \n\nCHARLES ALEXANDER WINCHESTER, \n\nActing Colonial Surgeon. The Evidence having been summed up, and the Jury being charged to consider their verdict it was returned, \n\nDied by the visitation of God. \n\neffect in this remote, but highly interesting, portion of the civilised world? \n\nThe recent intelligence from Woosung, the Port of Shanghai ( with which place we have constant com- unication) is to the effect, that a sumber of men are engaged in repairing the ruined fortifications. They were formerly of cud: we are given to under- stand that they are now being feed with granite, sonte of the Opium vessels have recently gone up to the northward, with the intention, doabitess, of establishing other trading stations; it is useless to talk of a limited number of parts for all the coast will be open. The people are eager to trade, and the Mandarina are at Present very cautious in their interference in this matter, nothing but urbanity and kindness is expe- rienced from these dignitaries; certainly upon this coast there exists every outward manifestation of a sincero desire for peace and aliianey. \n\nThe immense amount of native toumage which finds its way up the Shanghai river daily, is worthy of remark, as being one of the most protaient features in the Yangtze kiang: they come from North and Sound, but as yet we canunt obtain the particulars of trade the English Ships keep healthy up the river, but the heat has been ahaost insupportable this season. \n\nA very fair trade has been doing here both in Straits produce and manufactured goods PEPPER has averaged 50 25 per picul; Rarrans still selling at 85, Grey sorrisos 68 30, Wuerz 84, Pic Leap,on account of large stock is down to $5 50, Saxval wOOD, without inquiry, Rion 81 50 no sales. Opium market unsettled, MALWA $610. PATNA 8710 to 720-very lit tle on hand. Speaking of the latter article, vessels coming up here with a general cargo should not neglect to com- prise it, helping off, as it does, heavy stock, it becomes a voluable auxiliary occasionally Alarm has been offer. ed in quantity at $1 15 it will doubtless be available era long as a rough return and calculated for purposes of ballast. I have no doubt but return freight on eative account, might be obtained from Niagpo and other consular ports, indeed some I believe has already beca obtained. \n\nAmov,-11th August, 1943. \n\nVaer quantities of Piece Goods have been brought to this market from Hongkong, and prices have given way. Lose Ctorns, far whites. $350 to $3 60, Greys $2 90 to 83 10; Twist $27 to $29. OPIUM raining its price, and good Malwa sells readily at $625. Rice 100; a good harvest. \n\nCanton, 21st August, 1843. \n\nThe former Hong Merchants continue to decline ex- porting Tens under the New System, and all the out- side man, are afraid to begin. Three slups are being loaded with Teus, at 1 taels on the short price, but these \n\nJ. \n\nMc. MURRAY, Baker, Pastry Cook, 4. opposite the Godowns of W Scott, Esq., Lower Bazaar, begs to announce to the Public, til be car ries on business in the above named sivinity, and hopes to participate in that Public Patronage which it shall be his constant endeavour to deserve. \n\nN. B.-Parties can be supplied with Bread, Pastry, &c., on the shortest notice, also ship biscuit, \n\nHong-kong. 14th August, 1848. \n\nBakings of every description, carefully exe- exted, from cleven in the moring till five in the evening FOR SALE-Anchors and Chain Cables, \n\nCopper sheathing, and nails Claret, and flavona cigars Sperm. Candles, and Ainerican Soap Cabin Biscuity in Tins of 58 s. Brass & Iron Bedstewis. \n\nApply at the Godowns of Holliday Wise, of Co. JOHN RITSON. Victoria, 17th August, 1543 \n\nto \n\nFOR SALE-The bull, masts, yards, anchors, chains, &c. &c., of the Brigantine, Roza, now lying in Ilong Kong. \n\nThe above may be Sold together or separate. The vessel is seven years old built of American live oak, and would make an excellent receiving vessel in say of the new Ports, having also good accommodation for resi dence on board, \n\nApply to \n\nN. DUUS. (1 T. M. METCALFE. \n\nGINGER BEER \n\nMATUEUS DB COSTA & Co. respectfully intimate \n\nthat they have opened an establishment at Ne. B Webster's Bazaar for the sale of Ginger Beer prepared by a peculiar process from the best fresh finger; it will be found to retain in the fullest perfection all \"invigorat ing and refreshing qualities, parties requiring a regular supply at intervals, are requested to give noties, this will ensure their having beer in its best condition at the Line wanted. —— \n\nPreserved Provisious, Cigure, Soap, Cheese & other Groceries,",
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        "content_text": "re \n\nNOTICE. \n\nSUPPLEMENT. \n\nCONSULAT DE FRANCE EN CHINE. \n\nWE hereby give Notice that on 1st August, next, A decision consulaire en date d' aujourd'hui, \n\nour Establishment will be removed to Canton, \n\nMacao, 10th July, 1843, \n\nDALLAS, 4. Co. \n\nOTICE-The business of the undersigned was NO \n\ntransferred to Alcests. Gibb, Livingston & Co., on the 1st of July last. \n\npr. pro. \n\nCanton, August 5th, 1843. \n\nJ. 8. RIGGE & Co., JOHN SILVERLOCK. \n\nCIRCULAR. \n\nMR. ROBERT STRACHAN is authorised to sign \n\nby Procuration for our Firm \n\nMr. Adans Scott is also authorised to sign by procu. \n\nration for our Fira. \n\nW. & T. GEMMELL. &Co. Victoria Hong-Kong, 24 July, 1843. \n\nCIRCULAR. \n\nSINCE the 30th ultima our Office has been removed from Macao to Hong-Kong and correspondents will please address us at this settlement accordingly. Our business at Canton will continue to be managed by Mr. James A. Bolbert. \n\nW. T. GEMMELL. & Co. Victoria Hong Kong 24 July 1843. \n\nPUBLIC AUCTION. \n\nWILL be sold. by Public Auction, on Saturday, the 26th Inst., at the Godowns of N. Duus, 18, Queen's Road. \n\nPine and Pune Spars-Singapore Beats. Raisins in cask and Boxes. Fresh Flour-Glassware - 4. 6, 8, aud 12 lb Gung,-Muskets -Sherry, Port and Madeira in Wood and Bottles, Brandy. Rum, and Atrack Vinegar and Claret in Wood, American Drill, and Longcloth- Blae cloth, Chintz Gram, Preserved Meats, Coals-aleo two handsome Mahogony hair cloth couches. \n\nP. TOWNSEND, \n\nAuctioneer. \n\nN. B. No goods delivered before the amounts paid. \n\nare \n\nNOTICE. Goods and Merchandise, of all descrip. tions received and carefully Stored in pacions dry and Secure granite Godowns Situated on the Queen's Road, below the premises of Mesrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. at Victoria, Hong Kong, apon moderate terms. \n\nApply upon the premises to \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN. \n\nGoods are received and sold on Commission \n\nVietoria, 10th August 1843, \n\nWANTED. \n\nA RESPECTABLE young Man, to take charge of \n\na complete set of Books, \n\nJNO. BENNETT, Victoria, August, 1943. \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN'S advertises for Sale Cham pagne, Sauterne, French Claret in Casks, Selt. zer water, Wax candles, Stationery, Salad oil, Eau de Cologne, Batavia arrack, Copper Sheathing, Win- dow Glass, Shot and other artioles, apply to, \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN. \n\nQueens Road. \n\nVictoria, 10th August 1843. \n\nFOR SALE,-Prime Port, E. I. Sherry, W. I. Sherry, Hock, Moselle, and Claret in dozen Cases, Brands warranted, apply to \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN. Victoria, 10th August 1843. Queens Road, \n\nFOR SALE at the Godowns of the Undersigned, Europe, Manila, and patent Manila cordage, of sizes. Do, Amberline, Flanseline, Oakum double and single blocks, paints, canvas and Twine, Chain suitable for Sheets and Tyes, Anchors 21 to 24 cwt. Boats \n\nAnchors, \n\nApply to Mr. Gutiorres on the premises. \n\nWILLIAM SCOTT. Victoria, 9th August 1843. \n\nMr. CHALLAVE éleve consul, n'appartient plus au Consulat de France en Chine. \n\nCOMTE DE RATTI-MENTON. \n\nMacao, le 17 Aout, 1842. \n\nAVIS.--Les Français qui se trouvent, ou se trouveront en Chi. ni, sont prévenns que s'ils veulent s'assurer la protection du Consulat de France et la jouissance des druitz et priviléges deju attribuée, nu qui pourront l'étre à l'avenir, par les traités, les loia o ordonnances aux sujets de S. M. le Roi des Français, devront se fuire inscrire snr. le registre matricule du dit Consulut, en se présentant eux.nièmes, où.on.cas d'impossibilité en adressant au Consul une requête, où ils déclarerout, sous serment, qu'ils n'ont encouru la perte de leur qualité de Français, par aucune des eireanstances spécifiées dans l'art, 17 du code civil, tels que la naturalisation, l'acceptation non autorisée par le Rai, de foncti as publiques conférées par un gouvernement étranger, et enfin, par tout établissement fait en pays étranger, sats esprit de retour. \n\nLe Consul de France. COMTE DE RATTI-MENTON. \n\nFOR SALE at the Godowns of the Undersigned \n\nNo, 20 Queen's Road, \n\nPort, Sherry, Madeira, Raspberry Ratafia, Brandy in wood and bottle, Arrack, Preserved Provisions, Vi- negar, Sauces. Pickles, Mustard, Anchors, Chain Cables, Rigging and Boat Chain, Europe and Manila Ropo, Canvas, Blocks, Stationery, Saws. Chisels, Telesco- pas. Pistols, Percussion Capa, Musical Boxes, Lundan London Bottled Beer, and a variety of other articles \n\nALEXANDER MOSS. \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 22d August, 1843. \n\nFOR SALE-Bally Rice, ditto Coffee, Copenhage Cherry, Cordials in Pints, Manila Cordage, Oakum, Corks, Singapore Planks, Anchors and Chains, Ar rack. Bengal Chitney, Butter in Kegs, Candles, and a variety of other articles. \n\nAt the Godowns of JOHN BURD & Co. \n\nTO LET.-Spacious Dry and Secure BRICK GODOWNS, situated below the premises of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. For Terms, apply to, \n\nJOHN BURD & Co. \n\nVictoria, Hong-Kong, 12th July, 1843. \n\nQueen's Road, \n\nFOR SALE. \n\nAT the Godowns of C. W. BOWRA, Ship's Stores \n\nof all descriptions. \n\nNo. 13, Queen's Road. \n\nNOTICE \n\nTHE undersigned has just received ex, a late arrival a fashionable assortment of Boots & Shoes at mode. rate prices. \n\nJNO. BENNETT. \n\nCURIOSITIES \n\nAN elegant selection of Card Ivory, Japan Ware, Silks, Satin, Crape Shawls, figured Crape, and other Fancy Goods, at Canton prices. The above are now ex. posed for sale at the Show Rooms of the undersigned, \n\nJNO. BENNETT, Victoria, August, 1843. \n\nBOOKS. \n\nA Book Auction will be held at the Rooms of the un. dersigned, on Friday Evening next, at 5 o'clock pre- cisely. \n\nJNO BENNETT. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nIN Consequence of the great difficulty and expense of supporting in an efficient manner the Exchange Rooms, (unassisted by the means expected to have been derived from the monthly subscription), the undersigned is sorry to announce the absolute necessity of closing henceforth used as a Show Room in Connexion with the same, and he begs leave to notify that it will bo \n\nhis general business. \n\nJNO. BENNETT. \n\nVictoria, 22nd August, 1843 \n\nTHE NEW TARIFF. CORRECTED Copies of the new Tarit have been \n\ngot up at great expence and with much attention for the use of Merchants, etc. etc. They can be had at the Office of the Friend of China in two forms, \n\n1. On a Broadside to hang up in the Counting House. \n\n11. As a letter for Overland Mail. Price one Dollar \n\nach. \n\nFOR SALE-A 12 Oared Cutter, built at Singapore, \n\nquite new, length 22 feet beam, 6 feet inside, \n\nApply to \n\nWILLIAM SCOTT, Victoria, 24th August, 1843. \n\nNOTICE.-J. J. LOPES and G. MOSES, beg to inform the public that they have this day established themselves under the firm of Lopes, Moses, & Co., Gen- eral Agents, Auctioneers &c. &c, and shal be happy to execute, with care and promptitude, any orders they may be entrusted with. \n\nMacao, 23rd June, 1943, \n\nNOTICE.-We, the undersigned, beg respectfully to intimate to the Merchants, Captains, Officers, and the inhabitauts in general, that we have already engaged a very commodious House in a convenient part of the Praya Grande, by a previous licence of His Excelleuny \n\nthe Governor of Alacao, to open Public Auction and Commission Rooms; therefore, beg to solicit the kind Patronage of the Public. \n\nCONDITIONS. \n\nproceeds fifteen, or sooner, if required, \n\nAccount Sales will be rendered three days after, and \n\nA Commission of 5 per cent will be charged on any \n\namount. \n\ncent. \n\nOpium, Ships, Vessels, Silver-ware. &c. &c. 2 per LOPES, MOSES, & Co. Macao, 10th July, 1843, \n\nFOR SALE-Sparkling Champagne, and Johannisberg Flock, from Messrs. T. Giesler, & Co., of Rheims and Cologne. Apply to \n\nJOHN LEATHLEY. Hongkong, 29th June, 1843. \n\nTO BE SOLD. \n\nOX Tongues in pickle, Rounds of Corned Beef, Oil Paints; White, Green, Black, Yellow, Belfast Bacon flams, Truckle Cheese, Preserved meats and Soups- \n\nApply on board tho \n\nDUKE OF WELLINGTON, \n\nVictoria Harbour, Hong-Kong, 11th August, 1843. \n\nAUGUST. \n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. \n\n17th, Caroline \n\n18th, Swallow (Am.) Williams \n\nARRIVE D. \n\nPhelps \n\nCarib \n\n\" \n\nIlcaton \n\nColonist \n\nLeisk \n\nMacao Whampoa Chusan Chusan \n\nIris \n\n+ \n\n19th, Time \n\nMeritt Anderson \n\nLiverpool \n\nNamoa \n\n}} \n\nWill O'the Wisp Walker Mazeppa \n\nFraser \n\nChusan \n\n20th, Sophia Fraser Williams \n\nCalcutta \n\nFair Barbadian Wolfe 22nd, H.M.8. Starling \n\nMacao Amoy \n\nDEPARTED. \n\nAUGUST. \n\n17th, City of Palaces Byworth \n\nAnna Robertson Hutchinson 18th, Royal Exchange Hubertson \n\nAden \n\n19th, Carib \n\nMacan Whampoa \n\n1913, \n\n1845. \n\nAm \n\nThorn \n\nFredrk Huth \n\n\" \n\nToby \n\n> \n\nRod Rover \n\nMc. Murdo \n\n+! \n\nChusan \n\nJulia \n\nM \n\nJennings \n\nAmoy \n\n> \n\nMacto \n\nClark \n\nWhampos \n\nHeaton Will O'the Wisp Walker Time \n\nMacao \n\n\" \n\nAnderson \n\nMazeppa \n\nFraser \n\nMadras \n\nSlack \n\nWhampoa \n\n20th, Prince Regent \n\nChipp \n\n21th, Thos Fielden \n\nBlackston \n\nAmoy Whampos \n\n++ \n\nGood Success Fair Barbadian Velocipede \n\nEames Wolfe \n\nMacao \n\nWoodward \n\nMarula \n\nWilliam \n\nMacao \n\nWilliam \n\nAmoy \n\n22nd. Swallow (Am.) 24th, Sophia Frasct' \n\nWILLIAM PEDDER \n\nHarbor Master, \n\nHarbor Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, August, 23rd 1848, \n\nMy Lord. \n\nREC \n\nEIVED \n\nC.0. \n\nJAN 5 1844 \n\nColonical department. \n\nHouse Victoria \n\nGovernment House \n\nHonything) 26th August 1943. \n\nکچھ \n\nB:ree the date of my despatch No 5 of the 13th j 21st month, I have had the hener \n\nto receive Your Lordship's despatches from no \n\nI of the 26th Mary to 1010 of the 6th of June, both inclusive; also Your Lordship's Erenlait of the 9tof March and 6th and 18th May - ind. the Dreplicates of all preceding deepulches and Circulars, not befue acknowledged. \n\nThe Night; Nenerable, Word Stanley \n\nfo \n\nto",
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        "content_text": "Battery Island and the \n\nLandy \n\nfinch which connecte \n\nobs Print will probably be the \n\nposition selected for Government \n\numed that acces \n\nis presumed \n\nworks, it may generally be obtaince to the \n\nLété. \n\nΣ \n\nakring Places \n\nWater abounds in every part of the Island of Hong Kong; but from the prevailing \n\nof leading the sheams \n\nthrough the various cultuated scraps \n\nby \n\nland, the washings of regstatbe \n\nmatter, (not at all \n\nimproved. \n\nred by the \n\nChinese modes. \n\nenriching the coil \n\nrender the water unholesome, Pendiacommen \n\nto point out a \n\nremedy, and et hallish \n\na Public run for shipping, during \n\nthe Commands of lie & Lenhouse \n\nZ \n\nand \n\nlie Hugh Gough but - their influence was overuled, Cam satisfied that to \n\nthis cause we \n\nmay in tome measure attribute the sectness, in Lune 1841 The water procured by us at that perion has so dicidedly objectionable that & cont sent timer to a position where \n\nLeverel \n\nI knew that its flowed by cover conduit \n\nthe hills (where I was further \n\nfrom \n\ninformed that it was supplied by \n\na small lake) Even at this position \n\nCr \n\nryeta \n\nalthough the water was clear as it possessed such an act bringent botter flavor that it was du contenired, Lam Purefore of opinion that at certain secisons-Lune Curly, a and August when \n\nVegetation",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Hope \n\nReferring to the Letter from the B?; \n\nbe \n\nright \n\nL \n\n\"Bade refas of sunless this by stating that hord Stanley is not aware that \n\nof trade to the dearring, we it not \n\nand the definitive arrangements to which the Pr \n\nthing refer to the regociations ponding \n\nconne Lowhunter here no \n\nwith the Gov. of China of which, \n\nOfficial information. I thr day \n\nthe arrangements for the God of Hong Kong have been definitivity \n\nthis but he \n\nthere are assangerucals Hill to be made with abut \n\nwifcheese to Aa \n\nthat att \n\nmade. \n\nرو \n\nhjazetted \n\nar a \n\nBistich \n\nund award \n\nI think the B. of Teade \n\nhamsaght it - and if there \n\nlover \n\nе \n\nhangalin Gett Jeefees Cearcy tha \n\nmallee \n\nHugels \n\n་ \n\nmy \n\nlong \n\nB \n\n496 Honghe \n\nLoween 20 \n\nFor the dress Commissioners \n\nPH. M. Trassing \n\nBenth. Liri \n\nWe are. \n\ninfermi. \n\nCaptain of the Autry \" \n\n*A3 \n\nRECEIVED \n\nJUNE 13 1845 \n\nd by the \n\nnow lon \n\nloading to abe at Newport for the government Stous at Honey Hory, that the lus soon aus Authorities at that Port have referred \n\nto allow the Shipment of the Couls \n\nunless a deposit is made for the \n\nas get, drty, they not haviny, \n\nintimation of Hong Kon \n\nrerewed \n\nanty \n\nbeing Gazetted as a British Peppepun. In we have been oblegia to deposit \n\nthe required amount in \n\navoidi \n\nany delay \n\nfor \n\nIf 2073 20? \n\nin in the dispatch \n\nof the lessets, we shall ful bhiid by your giving Deristions \n\nfor Hong Story to be inverter in \n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "Cover \n\nlaust \n\naccounts \n\nwas li \n\nrnost \n\ninef= ficient state, to judge by the amount of crime & the insecurity of property. Sincapore serves as a penal settle= -:ment to the Seepreme Courts in Indias. Chinese convicts at Hongkong might \n\nnmployed in making roa \n\nand diner \n\nA \n\nbe well er \n\nand drain \n\nining, \n\nstres contributing \n\nat once to the communications and to the health of the new settlement: They minight also do the work. :tary fatigue parties, and save men in that in congenial chemmates. \n\nwork of mili. \n\nach \n\nwould be presumption in me to dwell on the details of the pro- \n\nsed civil establishment, and t \n\npod \n\nکو ایک عام سوچ ہے کہ تھے۔ \n\ntherefore confine \n\nmyself chicefly to the principles which may influen its administration, with a peculiar reference to changed & novel circums. : stances in China - Having before Canced at the points of analog, between Sincapore & HongKong, must not omit to notice here the Capital points of difference. Sincapore \n\nis far bey \n\nBin Cl \n\ncond. \n\nand the \n\ncognizan \n\nChinese you \n\nvernment, and \n\nef \n\nthe \n\nent, and from its \n\nposition ne cessarily limited to being \n\na \n\nDepot: Hongkong is within \n\nshot; almost within bral, of \n\nthe mainland of China, \n\nremtried our artci \n\nChina, cind possess. \n\nFriges \n\nconvent it cr to can \n\nAnd he \n\nwhich may \n\nodern Tyre my Lord, is the \n\nlice those alterations \n\nmy. \n\nwwww \n\nformer relations with the 277 Chinese government in hich have been effected by the results of the War; also terations which the tumult &ff success & the livery of commercial speculation \n\nhurry have left \n\nی عمر کو ہے۔ ہے باہم \n\nto cond inter. \n\nหา \n\nen's minds little lecoure \n\n♡ -2 \n\nif indeed this have been quick to seize the rights that have been yielded, they have been es qually slow to advert to the correspond- ring obligate \n\nRefe \n\nto the treaty of Nanking, \n\nclaims of \n\nwhile China admitted no \n\nequality - but, on the contrary, \n\nbeyon \n\nNational \n\nfrascribed, ut at \n\nsnd the - \n\npole of \n\nEnglish. \n\n\" celestial humanity, - while ans \n\n:On le 21 \n\nredley \n\nguilty of mene, homicide by chance. \n\nuses required for execution, and mot trial, as amenderer_ \n\nwhile at the same \n\negne that was demanded, the \n\nequal protection of the laws was re- \n\nallegiance \n\nfused, I was one \n\nof the foremost to \n\nexpose the absurdity of \n\nand talk about \n\nThe \n\ninternational law. When coven \n\nworthless signature of a bland anion \n\neneral term well expresses (and that \n\naquality among \n\nthe slaves \n\nthe virtual equality \n\nof a despot) us fair \n\nwas obtained by us, we \n\nwere, as far as ever \n\ne by from. \n\na settlement, \n\nMeler what side would doon \n\nDI \n\nke him evade or disavow \n\nfor \n\nhis fe. \n\nJe was on \n\nthis brand extorted. \n\nwhat his \n\nBut ten the aminter : \n\nrupted progress of c \n\n0.04. 7. \n\nکو ہمیں الہجے میں \n\narms had reached \n\ninver \n\nthe vitals of the Empire, in involving \n\nful. \n\nJou \n\nnue to mo",
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        "content_text": ": \n\nto \n\nSuch instrument \n\nwithin a certain time after execution. \n\n4-And be it further enacted that all judgments deeds wills conveyances or be registered instruments in writing hereafter obtained made or executed, which shall be duly registered within the respective times next mentioned: \"that is to say \" all deeds conveyances and other instruments in writing (except wills) which (if executed in Hongkong or its dependencies) shall be registered within one month, or which if executed in any other place shall be registered within twelve months after the time of execution thereof respectively, and all wills which (if the devisor die in Hongkong or its dependencies) shall be registered within one month, or which (if the devisor die in any other place) shall be registered within twelve months, after the decease of every devisor respectively, and all future judgments whe's shall be registered within one month after the entry or recording thereof, shall severally be in like manner entitled to priority, and shall take effect respectively by relation to the date thereof, only in the same manner as if this Ordinance had never been made. Mode of Registra- \n\n5. And be it further enacted that the registration inten 'ed by th tion by a Memorial Ordinance shall be made in manner following, that is to say \"a Memorial containing certain containing the particulars herein after specified shall be delivered into the said particulars to be de- Land Office, signed (in case of deeds conveyances or other instruments in writing except wills) by some or one of the parties to the original deed or instrument, or if such parties be dead or absent from the Colony, then by one or more of the witnessess to such deed or instrument, and (in case of wills and devises) signed by some or one of the devisees or his or her guardian or trustees, and (in case of judgments) signed by the plaintiff or plaintiffs: and every such Memorial shall be verified by the oath of some competent person, that the same contains a just and true account of the several particulars therein set forth, which oath shall be taken before the Chief Magistrate of Police, or before any Justice of the Peace of the said Colony. \n\nlivered to the land officer. \n\nParticulars which \n\nZain. \n\n6.--And be it further enacted that every memorial of any judgment shall it is necessary for contain the following particulars,\" that is to say \" the names and additions of the the memorial to con- planitiffs and defendants respectively, the sum thereby recovered or secured, the time of entry or recording the same, and the sum of money bona fide due thereon; and every memorial of any deed or conveyance will or other instrument shall contain and set forth the date of such deed conveyance will or other instrument, and the particular nature and object thereof the names and additions of all the parties to such deed conveyance or instrument, and of the devisor devisee or devisees of such will, and the names and additions of all the witnesses thereto, anf shall especially particularize and express the parcels of ground tenements aud promises affected or intended to be affected by such deed conveyance will of instrument, and the proper and ordinary or accustomed names of the places where the same shall be situated, and (except in cases of wills) the pecuniary or other consideration for the same, in the form or to the effect of the form numbered i in the Schedule hereunto annexed. Provided always, that when there shall be more writings than one for perf cting the same conveyance devise or security affecting the same parcels of ground tenements and premises, all such writings shall be stated in one and the same memorial, in which it shall be sufficient to particularize such parcels tenements and premises only once. \n\nSuch memorial to \n\n-And be it further enacted, that on delivery of any such memorial as be numbered by the aforesaid, the said Land Officer shall number the same according to the order of Land Officer and a receipt to be given \n\ntime in which it shall bave been so delivered, and shall give a receipt for the same, for the same and in which receipt shall be specified the certain day and time of day when such Land Officer shall memorial shall have been so delivered, and the proper number thereof in the endorse thereon a Register of the said Land Office, and he shall also in like manner immediately certificate of the day indorse on the back of such memorial a certificate, containing the day and time of & hour when such memorial was deli- day when the same was so delivered, and the name and place of abode of the vered into his Office person verifying the same, and shall sign the said certificate when so indo sed and such certificate to be such certificate shall be taken and allowed as evidence of the registration, and evidence of the time time of registration of every such judgment deed will devise conveyance or other of Registration of \n\ninstrument whereof such memorial shall be so made. the Memorial. \n\nThe Memorial to 8. And be it further enacted that every such memorial shall, as soon after be registered as soon the receipt thereof as practicable, be carefully registered by the Land Officer, in as possible in a pro- regular succession as received, according to its proper number, in a particular book per book and be de- to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall afterwards be deposited by him in posited in a secure place in the Office. some secure place in his Office, and there kept for future reference when required, \n\nLand Officer to \n\nand he shall also keep an index of the parcels of ground tenements and \n\nprim'ses keep an index of mentioned in every such memorial, and also a like index or indexes of the names of places and names the several parties to conveyances and other deeds and instruments, and of devisors vennected with the and devisees in wills, and of the plaintiffs and defendants in case of judgments with \n\ninstruments so re- accurate references in all such indexes respectively to the number and page of gistered with correct \n\nregistry of the memorial to which any entry in sucli index or indexes shall relate. references to the pro \n\nper page of the Re- gistry book. \n\nenter satisfiction for \n\nForm of the certi- ficate of satisfaction \n\nmortgage. \n\nIn case of mortga 9. And be it further enacted that in case of mortgages and judgments ges and judgments registered in pursuance of this Ordinance, if at any time afterwards such verified Land Officer shall certificate as is hereinafter next mentioned shall be brought to the said Land the same on receiv Officer, signed by the respective mortgagoers and mortagagees or plaintiffs and ing a verified certi- defendants or their agents respectively, and attested by two credible witnesses, ficate as after des whereby it shall appear that the whole of the monies due on any such mortgage cribed. \n\nor judgment have been fully paid, or that such mortgage or judgment is otherwise satisfied, then the said Land Officer shall make a short entry or memorandum thereof on the memorial and on the margin of the registry of such mortgage or judgment, and shall afterwards carefully register the sanie certificate in one of the registry books of his office, and the Land Officer, shall make an entry thereof in his index or indexes, referring accurately to the page of registry of such certificate. 10. And be it further enacted that every such certificate shall contain the on a judgment or following particulars; \"that is to say\", (in case of judgments the names and additions of the plaintiffs and defendants, the time of entering upor recording the same, the sum or sums thereby recovered, the date or dates of payment or other satisfaction of the amount bona fide due thereon, and in case of mortgages the names and additions of the original parties, the date of the instrument, the sum thereby secured, and the time or times of payment or other satisfaction thereof, and every such certificate shall be verified by the oath of some competent persou, that the same contains a just and true account of the several particulars therein set forth, which oath shall be made and taken before the said Chief Magistrate, or before any Justice of the Peace of the said Colóny, and on the back of such verified certificate the Land Officer shall immediately indorse the date when the same was received by him, and the name and place of abode of the person verifying the same, and the said certificate shall after being so indorsed and entered as aforesaid be safely kept in his Office for future reference when required. Any person may \n\n11-And be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for any person or deposit in the said persons whatsoever to deposit in the said land office for safe custody any convey- Office any deed will or other instrument ance deed power of attorney or instrument in writing whatsoever or his or her last will and testament of which deeds wills conveyances or other instrument the said land officer shall (first giving a receipt for the same) immediately make an entry or entries in a book to be kept for that purpose to which book he shall keep an accurate alphabetical index having reference therein as well to the name Wills when so de- of the testator or parties to each such deed or instrument as to the person or posited for safe cus- persons depositing the same and the said Land Officer shall carefully and securely lody to be wrapped keep all such deeds wills or other instruments in his said Office until required by up in an envelope the party or parties depositing the same to deliver them back again. Provided testator or testatrix, that every such will or testament shall be cnclosed within a cover or envelope; On the death of sealed with the seal of the testator or testatrix, whose name shall be endorsed by testator or testatrix the Land Officer on such envelope or cover, and every such will shall retain in Land Officer shall the said Offre until the dicense of the testator or to statrix unless he or she shall deliver the will to previously require the same to be delivered back, and upon the death of the the first named ex- testator or testatrix the said Land Officer shall (after examining such will) deliver \n\nfor safe custody. \n\nunder the seal of. \n\necutor \n\nOr \n\nto any \n\nperson ordered to the same to the executor first named therein, or to such other person as shall be receive the same. duly authorized to receive the samë. \n\nOfficer or subordi- \n\nduty. \n\nPenalty on Land 12.—And be it farther enacted that if the said Land Officer or any other nate Officers wilful person employed in the said Land Office shall wilfully neglect or omit manner hereinbefore directed any memorial ly neglecting their to number register or enter m \n\nor certificate delivered into the said Office, he shall for every such offence forfeit and be liable to pay to Her Majesty Her, Heirs and Successors for the public purposes of the said Colony, the penalty or sum of five hundred dollars, and be Wilful destruction further liable in damages to the party injured to the extent of the loss or injury Forgery or altera sustained. And if the said Land Officer or any clerk or person whatsoever shall tion of any register wilfully destroy embezzle or secrete forge counterfeit raz? deface or alter any intent to defraud or memorial or any part thereof or any indorsement made thereon or any entry or injure punishable registry thereof in any book in the said office, with intent to defraud or injure any with 7 or 14 years person or persons, such Land Officer clerk or person so offending shall be guilty of trans ortation. \n\nfelony, and being thereof duly convicted shall be liable to be transported beyond Correction to be seas for any term not less than 7 years and not exceeding 14 years. verified by signature of Land Officer. \n\ned instrument with \n\n13. And be it enacted that all corrections by erasure interlineation or otherwise in any memorial of the registry of any document required to be register- ed by this Ordinance shall be noted and set forth at length in red ink in the margin \n\n",
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        "content_text": "\n\nto Mr Scales on the 29th of. April. \n\n1. Copy of a Government Notification (printed) referred to in N.3. Your Lordship will \n\nobserve in Enclosure No 2, of Despatch that Mr. Scales' attention was \n\nло \n\n1027 called to the necessity for providing for the transmission of letters to the United Kingdom and to other Places beyond India, via the Ports of Calcutta and Madras; and that in Enclosure No 3, of the Jame Despatch, Mr Scales stated, that he had been \n\ngiven that arrangements had bron made by His Lordship the Post Master \"General to meet this object. - \n\nShat \n\nmyself given Mr. Scales impresion at an \n\nthes erroneous \n\nto understand, \n\ninterview \n\ninterview on the 5th Instant, from having casually perused Notifications published in the Calcutta Government- \"Gazette, which I thought referred. \n\nto those arrangements; and the matter remained in this state until \n\na \n\nNossel (the Clipper \"Red Rover\") was about to depart for Calcutta, which led to a number of letters \n\ntendered with the \n\nwith the Indian \n\nbeing tendered \n\nPostage chargeable \n\non \n\nthem at the \n\nM. \n\nPost Office, and Mr Scales - acting \n\nunder the erroneous. \n\nimpression he had imbibed from me _ destining to receive the Portage. \n\nA reference \n\nby \n\nsome \n\nwas made to \n\nof the parties wishing \n\nthe Indian \n\nto post, and prepay Postage on, their letters; and on a suore careful perusal of the \n\nCalcutta",
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        "content_text": "learn that the Notifications in the Calcutta Government Gazette of the 21th. of Kebruary, herewith sent for your perusal, relates solely to British Postage \n\nJan o further desired to call your attention to a Sotification issued by this Comment in the Houghong bazette of \n\n\" your the 200t of February (also sent for perutal) by which you will barn that unless the Indian Ship and Inland Postage is levied here and credited to the respective lovernments of the Presidencies of India, to which it may appertain, the \n\nletters will be returned to China- \n\nto \n\nWith this explanation His .--. Excellency the Governor leaves you decide how you will act on the occation of the approaching departure of the Red Rover to Calcutta, \n\nCalcutta have th I &e- (Signed) Richard Koomam- \n\nA hive Copy. \n\nRichard Horsham \n\nMemorandum \n\nOn looking \n\nmore narrowly into the \n\nNotifications published by the Pot masters Veneral at Calcutta and Bombay, I \n\nfind they have no reference to anything else than British Postage -- \n\nI therefore think it advisable to draw W = Scales' special attention to the lovernment Sotificatione published in the Extra Houghong Gazette of the 8% of April 1843, agreeable to which he must be guided in levying Indian Postage all Letters and newspapers that may be put into the Post Office to go by the \n\nRed Rover\" to Calcutta. \n\nBy \n\now \n\nove \n\nthe Regulations therein taid down a double letter (not exceeding Folah in weight 2/1⁄2 Folachs being equal \n\nto",
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        "content_text": "\n\nand together with : he fortress, and havours. \n\nloud \n\nof Malta and Corfu give♦brigland. \n\npreponderatung prower \n\na \n\nice that great \n\nFreepare god, which is beos \n\nof \n\nکھی ہیں تو بیج کھو \n\nming. \n\ndaisymers, and more value in bot \n\ninter comise with the \n\nbussure \n\n: \n\nAuglo Gebeulter \n\nRasteri \n\nboulter is ca \n\nDo Aers \n\nYouur \n\nvaluable commercial, entrepot, at one. \n\npecced P4000,000 47. of wo \n\nwere exported through Gibralter \n\nAs a fortress Gibralter \n\nGrain \n\nis \n\nperfect, it is \n\n:pregrable. \n\nThe revenue. \n\nof Aid. 2 is fully adequate to its vicil \n\nGovernment aved aver upwards \n\nof £250,000 fir \n\nmges \n\nm; the Military \n\nexpectes incurred by Ganisening \n\nGibralter saves the conttor maintenance. \n\nof a large fleet. \n\nthe Mediterran \n\nof prover, & materialtiff \n\nqueserves the balance \n\nsilps to keep the peace of Europe, The \n\nRemarks \n\nlicable to Gibralter an \n\nalto \n\nalso applicable to Malta and she denian Islande lesh of which stations ne \n\nonly pay \n\nshelling \n\ntrow whole suit exéperatione, without in \n\nishtarget. \n\non the Brition chequer but \n\net \n\nalde contribute à considerable from an \n\ntowards & Milita \n\nعربی \n\nMilitary defences, and pustection. \n\nof these places are also entrepôts of \n\nBoth \n\nck \n\nlarge \n\ntroide \n\nBritish \n\nSvery Colony of thes Birch \n\nhupice pays for its men Civile Gerement \n\nexcept small nut which are voted \n\nannually, in part for the Pahamas Rennusta, the Fattiland. Islands Mele. \n\nand Helige lands. Put all. \n\nthese places are intrinsically vasecable; \n\nThe Bahamas for the \n\ngeographical. \n\nposition of their harbours, Bermuda \n\nas a stic \n\nstrong fortress \n\nand doch word- \n\nin the Western Atlantic; the Fathloud \n\nislands for their important position- in the great. \n\ntreat \n\neat Southern Ocean \n\nSt. Helena as a sliving. \n\n42 station for \n\nCape More; \n\nfortress, and reacting \n\nbing \n\nneroner",
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        "content_text": "The Chief Justice having approved this charge with his signature, it has been paid; \n\nI do not pel \n\nbut, as Satisfied \n\nas to the intentions \n\nof Her Majesty's Government, or the custom of other Colonies, on this point, I lose no \n\ntime \n\nin referring it to your \n\nLordships have the hover to be \n\nWith the highest respect, Your Lordship's, \n\nmost obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nizdaní \n\nIntion 1080 220 thous I. L. Davis S. Lin \n\nMurdoch 15 #Stephen | K \n\nLast Stanley \n\nDS. \n\n14. Lib/5. \n\nمیں \n\nHave Back? the \n\nreceipts of gounder patch of the 22 Oct. \" lust host, suberitting for my consideration thought of the Attorney General of Hongkong Bressive Fer ccount of information, \n\nfiled Chine at the instans of the God.\" \" \n\nthe God.\" in the Supreme Court. \n\nMreply Shave to informs you that when the Salary of the Allong General was fixed at £1.500 a gear it was intended & St M Godt hat \n\nthat suce should be kaken as a full reum. \n\n· mration for all the",
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        "content_text": "Cify Ne 20. \n\nMlydord; \n\nGovernment. House \n\nHony Mony 10th Mariany 1813. \n\nI have the hover to acknowledge the \n\nreceipt of Your Lordship's letter h:18 of the 7th Instant and under the explanation it \n\naffords, I do not hesitate to request that Your Lordship will at once instruct Lieut Ouchterlong the Executive Engineer to carry out his original Plans and Estimate for \n\nthe Barracks, &c at the earliest period. I think it very desirable that a_ \n\nParlig \n\nMajn Seneral. \n\nRod Saltown G. C. It and B. \n\nKo \n\nto \n\nto \n\nた",
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        "content_text": "\nChy 234. \n\nally \n\nRad \n\nGovernment House \n\nHony May 10th June 1894 3. \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the \n\nreceipt of \n\nYour Lordship's letter of the 6th Inst \n\nand to return the Original, one from dient : \n\nOncklerlony to which it gave \n\nreferred to in the Postscript. \n\nperfectly \n\neover, and which is \n\nThe Lords of Ster Majesty's Treasury \n\nAwar \n\nof \n\nall the difficulties which \"Lieutenant Puchterlony points out at such \n\nlength \n\nMajor General, \n\nI have my self had occasion to report \n\nThe Lord Saltown 19.2°. B. and B.C. H. \n\nfo \n\nto \n\nدیکھی \n\nthat \n\nbut...",
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        "content_text": "657\n\nNo: Date\n\nTo whom.\n\n116 27 March. Hon Major Caine\n\nPurport lodging to\n\nRegarding Correspondence between himself and the Military Commandant at Kowloon for the suppression of Crime Regarding the erection of a Police Station\n\nChor.\n\n117 27 March. Hon: Major Caines\n\n118 22 March, Lieut. W. Pedder R.\n\nRegarding a distressed seaman named\n\nBela Betoli\n\n119 22 March. E. Pine Coffin Care\n\nRegarding rent of Mr Gillespie's\n\nCommissary Stores Premises.\n\n120 27 March. Hon. Major Caine.\n\nThanking him for leave of absence from\n\nthe Colony.\n\n121 28th March. As Charles Bullock, of\n\nSanctioning Establishments of the\n\nChinese Secretary's Office, and\n\nof the Assistant Magistrate of Hongkong in the\n\nRegarding Marine and Harbour Regulations\n\n122 25 March. Red Charles Bruce.\n\n122 25 March Rolph Edward Elage\n\nRegarding grants of Land in this Colony.\n\n124 25 March. Hon: Major Caine\n\nRequesting day as Chief Magistrate of Hongkong.\n\nRegarding commencement of his increased Civil Salary\n\n125 25 March. Dr. Staunton.\n\nSanctioning Expenses incurred\n\non account of the Mat Church.\n\n022\n\n126 26th March. A.J. Gordon Esq.\n\nSanctioning the purchase of the new\n\nPress referred to in letter No: 189.\n\n127 28th March. A. J. Gordon, Esq.\n\nDirecting him to put a wooden railing\n\nto the Bridge, near the Commissariat Stores.\n\n128 26th March. Captain D'Aquilar.\n\nRegarding the subject of letter No: 127.\n\n129 26th March Messrs Jardine Matheson.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of their Rejoinder\n\nto letter No: 92.\n\nDent He Homell de\n\nHether Larkins Ho\n\nh, ye, t\n\n130 26th March. Lieut. H. Redder R. &\n\nGranting Mr. Lena, the Assistant to the\n\nHarbour master leave of absence from the Colony.\n\n132 26th March, Cecil Beadon Exte\n\n131 26th March. Lieut: W. Edder R.\n\nDirecting the distribution of copies of\n\nnotice regarding the Pilot Station for the River Hooghly,\n\n64 the Acknowledging receipt of Copies of a notice.\n\nUnder Sic to the bout regarding the Pilot Station for the River, of Bengal fr Hooghly during the St. Monsoon of 1843\n\n133 27 March. A. Torbull les.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of Copies of a printed\n\nUnder Sic to the Report on the Honorable Company's Botanic Gardens.\n\n134 28th March, Lieut. W. Edder, R.R.\n\nDisposing of three of the colored\n\npicked up at sea by the \"Comwall:\n\n135 28th March. The Post Master General.\n\nForwarding Postage Collected in China on Bombay letters to and from Bombay to the 31st January, 1844.\n\nForwarding\n\nTo whom...\n\nCalcutta\n\nPerport\n\nCalcutta,\n\nNo. Date:\n\n136 | 28th March. The Post Master General.\n\nForwarding Postage collected in\n\nChina on letters to, and from Calcutta to the 31st January, 1844.\n\n137 28th March. A. J. Gordon Esq.\n\nGranting him leave of absence from\n\nthe Colony,\n\n138 28th March. Hon. Major Caine.\n\nGranting him leave of absence from\n\nthe Colony,\n\n139 29th March. Richard Burgafs.\n\nBy the Granting him leave of absence from\n\nI. Scales Esq.\n\nRegarding his instructions and\n\nDeputy Post Master Office arrangements in this Colony be\n\nof Hongkong.\n\n140\n\n17 April. Thomas &\n\n14. 1 2 April. A. J. Fordon Esq.\n\nSanctioning Leases for the occupiers of Land, which was to be included in the Cantonments as proposed by Major Aldrich,\n\n142 2 April. Captain De Aquilar.\n\nRegarding the creation of a Police\n\n2=April.\n\n143|2th April. Dr. Bridgman.\n\nRegarding his exchanging a lot\n\ngranted to him for the one that he bought from the late Mr Morrison.\n\n144 2u April. Hon. Major Cainer\n\nIncreasing the salaries of the Clerks\n\nin his Office\n\n145 3rd April . A. J. Gordon Esq.\n\nReferring to letter No: 75, and\n\ninstructing\n\nhim to register and prepare leases for the new lots that may elsewhere.\n\nbe selected\n\n146 3rd April. Hon. Major Caine\n\nRegarding the trial of Certain House,\n\nBreakers at Chek Choo, and the establishment of a Head Salt Weigher in the Harbour of Hongkong, tho\n\n147 4th April Hon. Major Caine.\n\nSanctioning the hire of four Cots\n\nfor accommodation of the Police at the Seaman's Hospital.\n\n148 6th April. A. J. Gordon Esq.\n\nRegarding a proper site, and\n\n149 6th April.\n\nStation at Chek Choo\n\na\n\nplan, and Estimate, for a Police\n\n- The Editor of the\n\nReferring to letter No : 102 and informing\n\nFriend of China's\n\nhim that his paper is to cease from\n\n\" \" being the Official organ of the Government of this Colony.\n\n\"Hongkong\n\n150 6th April. The Editor of the\n\nAccepting of his tender for printing\n\nRegister Government Documents and informing him, that his Paper is to become the Official Organ of the Government, of this Colony.\n\n107 8 April. Captain J. Larkins :\n\nRegarding the rent. If to Callespie's Premises being paid to Mr. Matheson.\n\n152 15th April. J. R. Davidson Esq.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of letters, and\n\nSee to the Good Of India\n\nconveying thanks\n\nRegarding",
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        "content_text": "761\n\nActifications in the Calcutta Government Gazette of the 21st of February, herewith sent for your perusal relates solely to British Postage.\n\nI am further desired to call your attention to a notification issued by this Government in the Hongkong Gazette of the 24th of February (also sent for your perusal) by which you will learn that unless the Indian Ship and Inland Postage is levied here and credited to the respective Governments of the Residencies of India to which it may appertain, the letters will be returned to China.\n\nWith this explanation His Excellency the Governor leaves you to decide how you will act on the occasion of the approaching departure of the Red Rover to Calcutta.\n\nI have to ...\n\n(signed) Richard H[ar]man\n\nin letter No:168\n\nMemorandum\n\nOn looking more narrowly into the Notifications published by the Post Masters General at Calcutta and Bombay, I find they have no reference to any thing else than British Postage.\n\nI therefore think it advisable to draw Mr Scales' special attention to the Government notification published in the Extra Gazette of the 8th of April 1843, agreeable to which he must be guided in levying Indian Postage on all letters and Newspapers that may be put into the Office to go by the Red Rover to Calcutta By the Regulations therein laid down a double letter (not exceeding one Tolah in weight 2½ Tolaks being equal to one ounce) will pay,\n\nInward ...\n\nluck",
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        "content_text": "Kygeia Harlequin. John.\n\nKelpie & schomer\n\nKelpie barque.\n\nLanrich ×\n\nLyra.\n\nLintin Louisa\n\nMazeppa:\n\nMor. x\n\nMasdeu. Mahmoodie. Omega:\n\nPoppy\n\nPart\n\nRob. Roy. X\n\nRoy. Royalist.\n\nere\n\n× Red Rover.\n\nX\n\n× Sylph.\n\nX\n\nX\n\nSwallow.\n\nSyed Khan.\n\nTime.\n\nTernate.\n\nIsland Queen:\n\nLord Amherst\n\nByche Lyna Versen William\n\nWave:\n\nWill o'the Hisp.\n\nWilliam Hughes\n\nWaterwitch.\n\nX\n\nX\n\nLoe\n\nSydney Warlock.\n\nThose marked with a cross x generally kept running between China and India.\n\nCaptain Carr in the schooner \"Vixen\" and Captain Fangan in the Island Queen in the year 1843 were in the Gulf of Patchelee and Captain Rees in the \"Lord Amherst\" pushed his trade to Bhin but was forced to leave his anchorage by the Chinese. He Lat 36° N. Long. 116°26″\n\nPage 236\n\nPage 397\n\nC - Teenpach is the Westermost station of these Clippers in Lat. about 12½° N. Long. 111° 13′ E. Wosung is at present the Northernmost station in Lat. about 31°20′N.\n\nOf the above list, which is however incomplete, nineteen Vessels are the property of Messrs Matheson & Co. and thirteen Dent & Co. Besides these, there are several little schooners which are constantly plying up and down the coast, belonging to Duus, Scott, and others.\n\nThese have openly advertised for a freight and have put their own charges upon conveying Letters. This system was put a stop to during Mr Spring's, the late Acting Postmaster's time; but it is known that...",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n20\n\n(No. 353.)\n\nSir,\n\nFEES RECEIVED IN PUBLIC OFFICES\n\nLAND OFFICE.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, 7 August 1845.\n\nI AM commanded by his Excellency the Governor to inform you, that letters No. 297 and 201 of last month, from this office, are cancelled, and you are in future to levy only a fee of 5 dollars each lease in addition to the fees fixed by Ordinance No. 3. The 10 per cent. hitherto levied upon leases will, of course, now cease, and the exemption is to extend to all leases not yet taken out.\n\nIn the preparation of transfers, &c. for the Chinese, a fee of 2 dollars is to be levied to cover the expenses of the clerk kept by the Land Office, for the sole purpose of drawing up such conveyances.\n\nTo Charles St. George Cleverly, Esq.\n\nActing Surveyor-general.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed);\n\nI'm Caine, Officiating Colonial Secretary.\n\n(True copy.)\n\nCha St. Geo. Cleverly,\n\nLAND OFFICE.-TREASURY ON BURIALS.\n\nAt two meetings of Council held at Government House on the 6th November 1844 and 15th January 1845 respectively, the following resolutions were come to on the subject of the new burial-grounds in Victoria:-\n\n1st. That the burial-ground to the east of Victoria shall be in the second ravine on the right, after passing through the Gap into the Wongnei-chun valley.\n\n2nd. That the burial-ground at the west of Victoria shall be the one formerly used as such by Her Majesty's 55th regiment.\n\n3rd. That a ground fee of 15 dollars shall be paid to the Crown for every grave which may be dug in the eastern ground, and one of 3 dollars for every grave which may be dug in the western ground, except as hereafter provided.\n\n4th. That the burial-ground in Victoria west shall be surrounded by a ditch and bank, and in Victoria east by a stone wall.\n\n5th. That the sexton shall be at liberty to charge 3 rupees for digging and filling a grave, which must be of not less than 5 feet in depth.\n\n6th. That all pauper funerals and the funerals of persons dying in charitable institutions shall be conducted with great decency by the sexton, at a charge of not more than 7 dollars in all.\n\n7th. That a hearse and pall, &c. shall be kept by the sexton for such as are willing to pay 4 dollars for the use of the same.\n\n8th. That the sexton shall keep a register of burials at his house for the inspection of the public.\n\n9th. That at both burial-grounds the non-commissioned officers and privates, the warrant officers and sailors of the army and navy, shall be exempted from paying any ground fee.\n\n10th. That all monuments or tombstones, except an (upright) headstone, shall be charged with a fee of 50 dollars.\n\n11th. That the cemeteries shall be open for interments only between eight o'clock at night and eight o'clock in the morning.\n\nVictoria, 22 January 1845.\n\n(signed)\n\nAdolphus E. Shelley,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nTREASURY, TRANSFERRING LICENSES.\n\nHONG KONG. Anno Sexto et Septimo Victoria Regina, No. 11 of 1844.\n\nBy his Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Major-general in the Service of the East India Company, Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\n(Extract.)\n\nAN ORDINANCE for Licensing Public-houses, and for regulating the Retail of Fermented and Spirituous Liquors in the Colony of Hong Kong-(1 May 1844.)\n\n11. And be it further enacted, that in case any person, having duly obtained a license as aforesaid, shall, either from necessity, by accident to the house in such licence stated, or from any other cause, be desirous to remove his business from the house expressed in such license to any other house, then, upon memorial from such person to the said chief magistrate, it shall and may be lawful for the said chief magistrate, after such person shall have entered into a new recognizance, to grant a certificate, authorizing the colonial treasurer for the said colony, on payment of the sum of 5 dollars to the said treasurer, and lodgment with him of the original license, to grant a new license within 48 hours after application, for the residue of the term for which the original license had been granted, and for such house as shall be authorized and described in such new certificate: Provided that in such new licence the said original license shall be briefly recited, and that the same had been, as it is hereby required to be, cancelled, on the issuing of such new license; and provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to admit or sanction the person to whom the said original license was granted to retail any of the liquors aforesaid elsewhere than in the house or place expressed in such new license.\n\nIN THE CROWN COLONIES.\n\n21\n\nHONG KONG.-Anno Nono Victoria Regina, No. 5 of 1845.\n\nBy his Excellency John Francis Davis, Esquire, Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\nAN ORDINANCE to repeal Ordinance No. 21 of 1844, and to make better provision for licensing the Weighing and Brokerage of Salt, and the Sale of Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel and Betel Leaf, within the Colony of Hong Kong, and for the licensing of Pawnbrokers and Auctioneers; with a Table of Fees on Official Licenses and Signatures.\n\n11. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the following official fees, as set forth in the annexed Table, shall be levied and made payable from and after the passing of this Ordinance- all fees so levied to be paid into the colonial treasury:-\n\nTABLE of FEES.\n\n1. For granting a Marriage License, 5 dollars.\n\n2. For the Signature of the Governor, 5 dollars.\n\n3. For the Signature of the Colonial Secretary, 2 dollars.\n\n(signed)\n\nJohn Francis Davis,\n\nGovernor, &c. &c.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 12th day of July 1845.\n\n(signed)\n\nAdolphus E. Shelley,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY,\n\nHONG KONG.-Anno Octavo Victoriae Reginae, No. 18 of 1844.\n\nBy his Excellency John Francis Davis, Esquire, Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\n(Extract.)\n\nAN ORDINANCE to repeal Ordinance No. 16 of 1844, and to establish a Registry and Census of the Inhabitants of the Island of Hong Kong.(13 November 1844.)\n\n12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that all lighters, bum-boats, ferry-boats and other vessels plying for hire within the harbours and waters of this colony, shall be duly registered, with the number and description of the crew and of the persons living therein, by the said registering officer, or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid, the said particulars to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, and a certificate of such registry shall be given to the master or headman of such lighter, bum-boat, ferry-boat or other vessel, the number of such registry to be legibly painted on each side and on the stern of such lighter, bum-boat, ferry-boat or other vessel.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nEnclosure\n\n339",
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        "content_text": "REPORT ON \n\nthe town of Victoria, which may be likened to the bottom of a crater with a lake, prevents the dissipation of this gas, while the geological or marshy origin of fevers will not here hold, for that \"the hills are here not more woody than in other healthy places; some, indeed, where the epidemic of 1808 and 1810, as well as the endemic, were most destructive, are quite naked of trees, as Diudigal, Madura, and the rocks west of Seringapatam.\" \n\n\"Now, if it should be found, that this fever exists constantly and invariably among certain description of hills, when others of a different composition are as constantly free from the same, would it not become reasonable to suppose that the nature or composition of the rock itself must furnish the cause of the calamity? \n\n\"The hills where it is found to prevail, appear, at first view, to be quite harmless, as they are granite, which is the most common rock-kind on this globe. They contain, however, besides quartz, felspar, and mica, a great proportion of ferruginous hornblende, which, by its disintegration or separation from the rock, becomes highly magnetic, and in which, I suppose, the cause resides which produces this fever. This iron hornblende occurs in such quantity, that all rivulets, public roads, indeed, all hollows along these hills are filled with its sand; from which, also, all the iron in this part of the country is manufactured. This granite is remarkable for its disintegration, as it not only separates during the hot season in large masses of many tons, but crumbles as easily into its composing particles, and is found as sand in great abundance, not only near every rock, but near every stone, from whence it is carried by the torrents during the rains to the lower parts of the country, and thus forms the particular mark by which these hills may be distinguished from all others. It is generally not attracted by the magnet when united to the mass, even when it occurs as in hornblende state, or greenstone, in the greatest abundance, but after it has been separated it is attracted as much as any iron filing. This may be owing to the incipient state of oxydation, or, more likely, to the development of magnetism by the high temperature to which it has been exposed in the hot season, which also may have weakened the cohesion of the rock, and caused its disintegration in the mass. \n\n\"Hills of this description form the principal ranges of the Ghauts, as far at least as the Godavery; they predominate also among the smaller, and in single hills and rocks in the low country, so that they might be taken at the exclusive rock formation of this country. However, fortunately, this is not quite the case. They are easily recognised at a distance by their very rugged and abruptly pointed appearance, and the great steepness at their tops. The ranges of this formation are also very interrupted, and generally consist of rows of single hills, although to the southward, I have found them also connected at bases, and in triple and quadruple ranges.” \n\nDr. Heyne then gives an excellent topographic description of the hills \"which have rendered themselves known to Europeans for the malignity of the fever,\" and after that of such as are as \"constantly free of the hill fever.\" This is the right kind of topography, but for obvious reasons we cannot here enter into it. The hills where the fever is \"totally unknown,\" Dr. Heyne describes as \"primitive trap, which consists of quartz, felspar, and real hornblende.\" He then adds, that the epidemic fever of 1808 stopped short at a range of hills of this latter composition, in the Coimbatore district—a remarkable fact. \n\n\"These two ranges of trap proceed with very little or no admixture of iron stone through the whole Baramahal, from Namcul to Darampoory and Vellore; the rocks are sometimes compact hornblende and greenstone, or basalt, all belonging to the same formation; but here and there hills appear among them of iron granite, which stand in connexion with other ranges of that description in that province, both east and west of that valley, which have the hill fever as virulent as in other parts of the country, where whole ranges of these hills occur. \n\n\"A most remarkable instance illustrative of the above facts, and of my deductions from them, I found at Tripatoor, which lies in the above valley, close to a large table-land, the rock of which is sandstone. I asked there a respectable native whether any such disorders as fevers were frequent in the country, but received in answer, 'No, thank God, not within ten miles of this place; at To Javadymalle, a hill fort, where no man can live two days without getting it.' \n\nAt this place a peon was dispatched with the simple order of bringing two or three stones from the rock of the hill, and some sand as might be found on the road. The man returned, and brought pieces of a rock composed of red felspar, quartz, and plenty of ferruginous hornblende; and the sand of the road consisted entirely of magnetic sand and particles of felspar. \n\n\"I must name now the Pulicat hills, among which, as far as they extend to the southward (Chittoor), the hill fever is totally unknown; I was particular in my inquiries on this subject, in the beginning of this year, when among them. They consist entirely of flinty slate, and are bare in some places as they are woody in others, and as lofty and as low as the granite hills. \n\n\"I come now to a country and hills where I have lived myself for some years, the Cuddapah district. It is divided from Gurrumcondah on the south, and from iron granite and the hill fever, by a range of flinty slate. The same bends there to the northward, where the ranges thicken as they advance, and leave narrow valleys as far as Cummuur, and further up the river Kishna. The whole or most of these hills belong to the clay-slate formation, some are calcareous, all however are free of the hill fever. Other fevers may occasionally be seen, such as simple intermittents and bilious remittents, but they do not, like the hill fever, run into a typhus, and the cautious may easily guard against and get rid of them. \n\n\"This is the largest extent of inland country which I know to be free of the hill fever, viz., from Cuddapah to Kishna near Chintapilly, a place that has been at all times dreaded for its fevers. There, the iron granite hills prevail again. To the westward of Cuddapah, the healthiness of the country extends to the Ganjecottah hills, which belong to the flinty trap formation, consisting of sandstone, limestone, jasper and hornstone pebbles cemented together, and which are perfectly free of magnetic ironstone. \n\n\"Bababudden is another range of hills which is remarkably free of hill fevers, although it lies between places of notoriety for such, as Seringapatam to the S.W., and Chittledroog to the N.W., and Naggury to the W., an unwholesome country amongst the Ghauts. It belongs to the clay-slate formation, and active magnets are found in large depositions on them. It rains on them for six months in the year continually, when plants keep fresh and alive in the open air for many days after they have been taken out of the ground, or broken off the stem. \n\n\"In fact, my observation, viz., that the hill fever on this coast exists exclusively among the hills of the granite formation, or where iron-stone is found in large quantities, will be confirmed, the more it is brought to the test.\" \n\nHONG KONG, \n\nformation favours the retention of a morbific poison on the surface, to be occasionally called into deadly activity. There is no extent of marsh on the island capable of generating miasm; but the heavy rains are annually washing large portions of the mountain through deep ravines into the bay, and thus continually exposing a fresh rotten surface to the sun's rays, and preserving a focus of disease which will finally become endemic. \n\nVast quantities of the silt from the hills are being deposited along the shores of the harbour. Owing to this circumstance, and to the rapid receding of the tides from this coast, the bay is becoming shoaler every day. The average depth is only four to five fathoms, except in the stream, where there is six to seven fathoms. In no great interval of time, the harbour of Hong Kong will be too shoal in many places for large vessels. \n\nClimate. It is difficult to convey by thermometrical registers an accurate idea of the climate of any place. The range of the thermometer will not indicate the pressure of the atmosphere; the barometer, in or near the tropics, is of little utility as an index; the hygrometer imperfectly shows the quantity of rain which is in solution; while the \n\n436",
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        "content_text": "436\n\n45\n\n44\n\nREPORT ON\n\nment, cattle might be cured and fattened in great numbers. The milk and butter of the cow and of the buffalo is very rich, and sells at moderate price. The flavour of the Chusan mutton is excellent; goats are numerous; hams are well cured, and nearly equal in flavour to those of England. Deer and hares are in season during the winter months. Beef and pork might be cured to any extent in winter, for the supply of the navy, and kept in ice-houses till required. Bullocks are about forty shillings each. Salt is made in great abundance on the coast of Chusan, and on the neighbouring islands. Poultry are plentiful, moderate in price, and of fine flavour. The Chusan fowls are larger than any that are to be seen in England; geese are excellent. Ducks are hatched by steam, and reared by thousands; one boy has charge of many hundreds; they feed in the rice-fields and canals. Eggs are very abundant, usual price 150 for a dollar. Of game, there are pheasants, snipe, quail, woodcock, teal, duck, wild geese (large and good), wild swans (very beautiful), &c.\n\nBread and confectionery, prepared in the English style, are well made by the Chinese. Sixteen-pound loaves of excellent white bread may be bought for a dollar. Wheat is grown on the hills, and rice and millet in the valleys; cauliflowers, peas and beans, cabbages, spinach, cucumbers, onions, turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes, bringalls, gourds of different descriptions, French beans, radishes, celery, &c., are brought to market in season. European potatoes are now being introduced, and every English vegetable and fruit, when cultivated, thrive in perfection. The tea-plant grows on the hills, and is sent to Ningpo and Chapoo to be manufactured for the beverage of the higher classes. The wild raspberry and strawberry are in abundance; melons and oranges are excellent; the peach, grape, apple, pear, apricot, cherry, and plum, only require careful cultivation for their improvement (at Shanghai the peaches are large and excellent). Walnuts and Spanish chestnuts come to perfection at Chusan. The tallow-tree and varnish-tree are among the most valuable productions of the island; from the tallow-tree a great abundance of candles of a waxy consistence are prepared; the varnish-tree yields a wood-oil of great use in furniture. The bamboo and dwarf oak abound. Cotton of excellent quality is largely cultivated; silk, as yet, is of limited production. The tobacco of Chusan is much prized. The hop (humulus) grows on every hill.\n\nThe shores around Chusan abound with fish, some of excellent quality, such as the pomphlat, sole, seer, salt-water trout, herring, rock-cod, sturgeon, mackerel, and eel; oysters and cray-fish are in perfection. It is stated that 40,000 fishing-vessels arrive annually from different parts of the coast of China, and remain three months fishing off Chusan. The \"Yellow Mandarin\" fishery is analogous to the herring fishery of Great Britain or of Holland. About 300,000 dollars capital is invested in this lucrative trade. Ice-boats attend the fishing-boats off Chusan, and as soon as the fish are caught they are packed in ice, and sent to the most distant parts of the empire*.\n\n* The following extracts from Dr. Gutzlaff's \"Retrospect of two years' Peace,\" written at Hong Kong, November, 1844, entirely confirm my previous report:\n\n\"Chusan will hold a very prominent place in the history of our commerce\n\nCHUSAN.\n\nCommercial Advantages of Chusan.--The external commerce of Chusan, on our occupation of the island, consisted chiefly of salted and\n\nand intercourse with this country, whatever the political events may be in future. As a mere territorial possession, its advantages will be considerable. The tea that grows on the island is fit for exportation, though not carefully prepared for a foreign market; it is merely sold at Loo-choo, and other places in Keangsoo. There is space enough, unoccupied by any other cultivation, which could be carefully planted with tea shrubs; and the proper tea men invited for this branch of trade from the Sungho hills, about seven days' distance from Ningpo.\n\nWith a small expense of capital, Chusan and the neighbouring islands might produce, instead of ten or twenty boat-loads as at present, the same number of ship-loads of green tea.\n\n\"The silk worm thrives in the island; but is now merely kept by a few females, who take an interest in weaving home-spun dresses. People brought up from their childhood in this branch of industry, could be brought from Loo-choo (one day's sailing distance from Chusan).\n\n\"The island is fertile, and contains a dense, industrious, agricultural population, who, though more than ten times the number of the Chinese inhabitants of Hong Kong, require not one-fifth part of the police establishment for keeping them in order.\n\n\"As a fishing station, Chusan possesses great advantages.\n\n\"The catching of the Mandarin fish during the spring months, is a very extensive and lucrative business to the inhabitants, and employs a large capital and many boats.\n\n\"For the whale fishery Chusan presents great facilities; for, during summer, the fish go to the Japanese seas, and along the coast of Korea, whither they have never yet been pursued. Vessels, therefore, fitting out in the island, would be just in the track.\n\n\"As a commercial emporium, few places in Asia can vie, in point of situation, with Chusan, On the opposite main are the most flourishing cities, as respects manufactures as well as commerce. In its neighbourhood the largest rivers in China disembogue, and these will always be the highroads of commerce. It is only two days' sail from Japan--the same from Korea; and though the former country still remains hermetically sealed, and the other has always kept aloof from contact with the whole world, they cannot always maintain this exclusion of national intercourse. Chusan is a half-way station between the northern and southern provinces; and was, as such, visited by large numbers of junks before the conquest.\n\n\"Inasmuch as it ought now to be an object of our constant endeavour to open new outlets for British manufactures, no spot on earth presents such facilities as Chusan at the present moment.\n\n\"As a station for European troops the climate is most favourable; it is congenial to the European constitution, and the soil would produce all the fruits and vegetables to which we are accustomed at home, if properly planted and cultivated. The imperfect attempts made for that purpose have well succeeded; and the mountains might be clad with the vine, instead of with the dwarf fir which now cover their sides.\n\n\"On account of the great rise and fall of tide, docks might be constructed on Tea Island, or on the north coast of Chusan, for the repair of vessels; and it is worthy of remark, that the neighbouring Korean islands produce firs and oaks of the best quality, excellently adapted for the use of carpenters and shipwrights.\n\n\"In a political point of view, Chusan appears in the most favourable light. The great political maxim, always as much as possible to keep the peace with the Celestial Empire, can never be so well attained as by retaining possession of this island.\n\n\"The neighbourhood of a British force so near the great canal, and only about five days' sail from Pekin, will always make the great emperor very careful to adopt any measures that may wound the feelings of the neighbouring foreigners; and in case of such an event, the appearance of a few steamers at Kwachoo or Chinkeangfoo, would soon change the views of the great monarch.",
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        "content_text": "VICTORIA, BY THE GRACE OF GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, or to our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our said Colony and its Dependencies for the time being, or to the Officer administering the Government of our said Colony and its Dependencies for the time being; To the Chief Justice of our said Colony, or to the Chief Justice of our said Colony for the time being; To the Officer commanding our Land Forces in the said Colony, or to the Officer commanding our Land Forces in our said Colony for the time being; To the Colonial Secretary of our said Colony, or to the Colonial Secretary of our said Colony for the time being; To the Chief Magistrate of Police of our said Colony, or to the Chief Magistrate of Police of our said Colony for the time being; To our Commander-in-Chief, and to the several Flag Officers of such Squadron of our Ships of War as shall happen to be in any of the Ports or Roadsteads of our said Colony for the time being; And to our several Captains and Commanders of such of our Ships of war as shall happen to be in any of the Ports or Roadsteads of our said Colony for the time being, and to each and every of them, Greeting.—\n\nWHEREAS by an Act made in the Twenty-eighth of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, entitled “An Act for the punishment of Pirates and Robbers of the Sea,” which Act is extended and explained by three other Acts, the first made in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and entitled \"An Act for remedying certain defects in the Law respecting offences committed upon the High Seas;\" the second made in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and entitled \"An Act for the more effectually providing for the punishment of offences in wilfully casting away, burning, or destroying Ships and Vessels, and for the more convenient trial of Accessaries in Felonies, and for extending the powers of an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, as far as relates to Murders, to Accessaries to Murders, and to Manslaughters\" and the third made in the First Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, and entitled \"An Act to remove doubts and to remedy defects in the Law with respect to certain offences committed upon the Sea or within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty,\" certain powers and authorities touching all Treasons, Felonies, and other crimes and misdemeanors committed in or upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or place where the Admiral has power, authority, or jurisdiction, are given to certain Commissioners constituted as therein provided after the Course of the Common Law of this our Realm, to enquire of, try, and determine the same as within this Realm. And Whereas by another Act made in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, entitled \" An Act for the more speedy trial of offences committed in distant parts upon the Sea,\" the like powers and authorities touching all offences so committed as aforesaid are given also to certain other Commissioners, constituted as by the last mentioned Act is provided after the course of the Common Law to enquire of, try, and determine the same in any of our Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, and Factories. And Whereas by another Act, made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, entitled \"An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the abolition of the Slave Trade,\" the Commissioners constituted according to the said Act of the Forty-sixth year of the Reign of King George the Third are invested with the like powers and authorities to enquire of, try, and determine all offences against the said Act of the Fifth year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, which shall be committed in any place where the Admiral has not Jurisdiction, and not being within this our United Kingdom nor within the local jurisdiction of any ordinary Court of a British Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Territory competent to try such offences. And whereas by another Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled \"An Act to enable Commissioners for trying offences upon the Sea and Justices of the Peace to take examinations touching such offences, and to commit to safe custody persons charged therewith,\" certain powers and directions are given to any one or more of the Commissioners constituted according to the said Act of the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, to take informations on oath and to apprehend and commit or bail the parties charged: Know Ye Therefore, That We, confiding very much in your fidelity and careful circumspection, have appointed you or any one of you our Commissioners or Commissioner to take such informations, and to apprehend and commit or bail such persons under such circumstances and in such manner as by the said Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth is provided in that behalf, and have also appointed you or any three of you (of which number our will and pleasure is that our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being, shall always be one) our Commissioners to enquire upon the oath of good and lawful men of our said Territory, and by other ways, means, and methods, according to your best knowledge and ability, as well within Liberties as without, whereby the truth of the matter may be the better known and enquired into concerning all Treasons, Piracies, Felonies, Robberies, Murders, Conspiracies, and other offences whatsoever, and accessaries thereto, whomsoever and howsoever done or committed, or hereafter to be done or committed, upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or place where the Admiral hath power, authority, or jurisdiction; and also concerning all offences against the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, which shall be committed in any place where the Admiral has not jurisdiction, and not being within this our United Kingdom, nor within the local jurisdiction of any ordinary Court of a British Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Territory, competent to try such offences and to hear and determine all the offences aforesaid, according to the Laws and customs of this our Realm, and the Statutes hereinbefore mentioned, and all other Statutes in that behalf made and provided. And therefore We command you that you and each of you diligently discharge the respective duties of taking informations and of apprehension, commitment, and bailment as aforesaid, and that at certain times and places which shall be fixed for this purpose by you or any three of you at the least (of which number our said Governor or Officer administering the Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being shall always be one) you diligently enquire of, try, and determine all the said premises, and do in manner aforesaid all things to be done thereupon as appertains to Justice according to the said Laws, Customs, and Statutes of this our Realm, And We do by these Presents command, that it be in our name strictly enjoined to the Provost Marshal or other proper Officer of our said Colony, and others whom it may concern, and to every of them, as well within Liberties as without, and at certain times and places when and as often as need shall require, which our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government for the time being shall make known to them, or either of them in form aforesaid, they cause to come before you or any three of you at the least (of which number our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being, shall always be one) so many good and lawful men of our said Colony, as well within Liberties as without, by whom the truth of the matter concerning the premises may be the better known or enquired into; commanding, moreover, all Governors, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Stewards, Constables, also Keepers of Gaols and Prisons, and all other Officers and Ministers, and all other our faithful and liege Subjects whomsoever, that from time to time, in the execution of the premises and every of them, they be assisting and yielding obedience to you and every of you. In Witness whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Tenth Day of January, in the Ninth Year of our Reign.\n\nBY WRIT OF PRIVY SEAL.\n\nEDMUNDS.\n\n(True Copy.) By Command of His Excellency the Governor, FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th May, 1846.\n\n451",
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        "content_text": "For J. H. Davis,\n\n19th November, 1847.\n\nTo\n\nThe Earl Grey.\n\nReceived\n\nto 120.\n\nSheets of the Blue Book\n\nSeptember, and Blank\n\nDespatched to t. 111 of 32\n\nAcknowledging receipt\n\nfor 1827.\n\nS=121.\n\nDispatch.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n20th November, 1847\n\nIn Your Lordship's Despatch No.\n\n111 of September 3rd my opinion is required as to whether a claim advanced by Mr. Parker, Solicitor at Hongkong for a sum of Eighteen dollars for conducting the prosecution of the master of the ship \"Red Rover\" should be allowed.\n\nIn addition to Your Lordship's remark to the Postmaster General that, if Mr. Hyland the Postmaster had pursued the course often recommended of informing the Governor whenever he made any such reference home, the delay of this reference back to Hongkong would have been avoided, I may state that Your Lordship's Circular of the 12th April was duly...\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nThe Earl Grey,",
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        "content_text": "Red Rover for detaisio ses detaining certain Snif Letter Mails from Calcatta and Singapore Which were\n\nEntrusted to his charge,\n\nAnd Sam to direct\n\nYou\n\nto report to me your opinion whether\n\nit would be proper that this claim should\n\nthe Moved.\n\nI have\n\nCopy\n\nRe Honble\n\nPost Office, Victoria,\n\n19th March 1847.\n\nI take the freedom of submitting a\n\nCommunication which I have received from\n\nMr Parker, the Acting Crown Solicitor, accompanied\n\nby a Bill of Costs amounting to eighteen\n\nDollars, for his alleged Services in the recent\n\nproceedings instituted against Captains Olive\n\nof the \"Red Rover\", for\n\nserious detention of Mails, and as it would appear by The Attorney General's letter to Mr Parker, dated 27th February, (copy of which is enclosed)\n\nMajor Caine\n\n$2.\n\n12",
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        "content_text": "12th May 1847\n\nRomas Hyland Sy\n\nMajor Carne\n\nwith sues;\n\n19th March 18407\n\n302\n\nSir,\n\nPost Office, Victoria, 15th April 1847.\n\nI beg leave to submit the enclosed copy of a communication addressed by ... to the Colonial Secretary relative to the serious detention of Mails by the Merchant Ship Red Rover, and to inform you,\n\nthat his Excellency the Governor, in order to make an example, and to deter others from following a similar course to that pursued by Captain River,\n\nhas pleased to fine that party; but in consequence of its having been the first instance...\n\nLt. Col. Maberly\n\nFr.\n\nFL.\n\nPage ...\n\n  // Not enough information to determine the page number, so this line is left as is, however, according to rule 11, it should be kept if it was originally 6 lines. Since the original text does not have \"Page XX\" format, this is not added.\n\nHowever, to follow the format to the letter as requested, here is the revised output in HTML:\n\n12th May 1847\n\nRomas Hyland Sy\n\nMajor Carne\n\nwith sues;\n\n19th March 18407\n\n302\n\nSir,\n\nPost Office, Victoria, 15th April 1847.\n\nI beg leave to submit the enclosed copy of a communication addressed by ... to the Colonial Secretary relative to the serious detention of Mails by the Merchant Ship Red Rover, and to inform you,\n\nthat his Excellency the Governor, in order to make an example, and to deter others from following a similar course to that pursued by Captain River,\n\nhas pleased to fine that party; but in consequence of its having been the first instance...\n\nLt. Col. Maberly\n\nFr.\n\nFL.",
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        "content_text": "303\n\nin which the law has been enforced\n\nHere, for a breach of the Post Office regulations, his Excellency was fined £20.\n\n2.5. Mbey belongs to the Firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nI have,\n\n-signed-\n\nThomas Hyland\n\nPurporting to be a copy of a letter from the Post Office, Victoria, 16th February 1847.\n\nI have the honor to report that the Clipper \"Red Rover\", Commander ..., from Calcutta and Singapore, arrived in this Harbour yesterday about 4 p.m. having Mails on board from both the above-named places, and which have been delivered at this Office at 10.15 a.m., although the Commander of the Vessel admits that he was fully sensible the Mails in question should have been sent to the Post Office immediately.\n\nMajor Cameron ...\n\nFo 42.",
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        "content_text": "and qua:\n\nT. Hyland Sy\n\nto\n\nLieut. Col. Maberly 15th April 1847.\n\nCopy\n\n305\n\nPost Office, Victoria, 12th May 1847.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 15th ult., relative to a fine imposed by order of His Excellency the Governor, upon the Commander of the \"Red Rover\" for serious detention of Mails, I beg respectfully to submit a Bill of Costs (with 4 other documents) brought against me by the Acting Crown Solicitor, for his fees in this case, amounting to $13, or £3. 15 Sterling;\n\nand as I am aware that the Defendant,",
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        "content_text": "3 \n\nto Lente. Cl. Maberly \n\nП. Назвать вида \n\n12 \n\nVar: Sucti \n\nMay 1947. \n\nFebruary 1947 \n\n308 \n\nIn the Supreme Count \n\nHyland & Hiver \n\nQue Faux Actions. \n\nAttending the Attorney General this day when he handed me your letter re detention of Mail by the \"Red Rover\" \n\nPerusing same \n\n2 \n\nAttending you thereon \n\n1/2 t the Attorney General as to whether it would be preferable for the Lucers or that you should proceed in the Faux Actions \n\nSummons having issued in your name \n\n224d \n\nAttending you when you handed me Mr Matheson's Letter and advising \n\n2 \n\nReceived letter from you with correspondence W/L to you in reply",
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        "content_text": "fr 18/18/19 1.33 Goe, as it appears in the Estimate\n\nCow be for Partia went.\n\nsight amsing\n\nIt\n\naccidental: sven\n\nthe row line\n\ntere sinees that the bat ate\n\nof Colonial Mazza\n\nMen originally feamer\n\nve this\n\nto exhibet its\n\ntwo distinct elements, lomme\n\nme a god upon the for of\n\nthe document louid be\n\nlouid befrie\n\nParliament in one\n\ngeneral openly trimed\n\nCela wine. Theme re\n\nMr Bonhamn in the\n\nDespatches\n\nFor w\n\nhansmitter\n\nto the Lords Cowher\n\nI do not think\n\nthat th\n\nsubstantiall\n\nparticular, and\n\nshould approtend.\n\nMhat this popoge\n\nappr\n\nwhich Care Fren tive to\n\namy\n\nRever\n\nke\n\nWat Cocovine\n\nfor the\n\nno cyreed\n\nconsequentl\n\nb\n\nConvide\n\nHaya\n\nA\n\nkeen.\n\n12\n\nJoan\n\nSpeer; and it\n\nbecome so pay\n\nthe Colonl\n\nCAUS\n\nto have\n\nrex\n\nstated, in this\n\nle\n\nport, in the slin laid before Pactions out by\n\nof e\n\n44,078.\n\ninl\n\nhave been disposed\n\nW the Lanwhips that\n\nmal deficicns of the\n\n77",
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        "content_text": "473\n\nAppendix\n\nReport on the Tea\n\nTrade.\n\n[64]\n\nThe territory in which the large amount of tea consumed in Europe and America is grown is south of the Great Yan-tze-Keang river; the whole region lying between the 27th and 31st degrees of north latitude, and from the sea coast inland for 500 to 600 miles, may be considered capable of producing tea; but the most favoured region is the generally sterile hilly province of Fokien, and the provinces of Keangsoo and Chekeang, between the 25th and 31st degrees of north latitude. This territory, which extends over 350 to 400 square miles, is composed principally of the debris of a coarse granite, and of a ferruginous sandstone, crumbling into decay; but when well comminuted and irrigated, yielding sufficient nutriment for the hardy tea plant (a camellia), whose qualities, like that of the vine, are elicited by the nature of the soil, the elevation, the climate, and the solar aspect to which the shrub is subjected*.\n\nIt is generally stated that green and black teas are produced from the shrubs of the same species, with a slight variety; the leaf of the green being larger and broader than that of the black; the former leaf is rounded, the latter elliptic, flatter, and more coriaceous.\n\nThe cultivation in different soils, the picking of the leaves at different stages of expansion, and subjecting them to greater or less degree of heat and manipulation in drying, is the cause of considerable variety; probably the same difference exists as between the red and white grape, or the black and white currant.\n\nThe shrub is cultivated with great care, planted in quincunx rows, in beds, by seeds, chiefly along the sides of hills with a southern aspect, and on a poor gravelly soil, among the debris of decayed granite and disintegrated sandstone, and where nothing else will grow, and it is used for hedgerows or boundaries.\n\nThe height varies from three to seven feet, and it is very leafy. The flower resembles the wild rose or briar flower, common in English hedges in autumn; the seed vessel is a nut of the size of a small hazel, or rather like the castor-oil nut, but rounder; three red kernels are in each nut, divided by capsules, and from these a quantity of oil, termed \"tea oil,\" is extracted, and used for common purposes by the Chinese. Six or seven seeds are put into each hole when planting; in 12 or 18 months transplantation takes place, and about the third year the leaves are first plucked. At seven years of age the top is cut almost down to the stem (as gardeners do with old currant trees), and a more leafy set of shoots spring up the ensuing year.\n\nThe age of the tree is unknown; it has a useful duration, probably to 15 or 20 years. It is an evergreen, and blossoms from the end of autumn throughout the winter until spring. The leaves are dried by placing them first in flat baskets, and exposing them to the air and a moderate degree of sun. They are then further dried or \"tatched\" in thin pans of iron, heated by a small furnace of charcoal, the leaves being kept constantly turned round by the hand, and rolled or rubbed between the fingers, to give the leaf a rounded form. When sufficiently fired, it is picked and packed for Canton in chops of 100 to 1,000 chests, each chop having marked on it the name of the maker, the district where the tea is grown, its quality, date, &c.\n\nCopper is not used in the preparation of any description of tea; iron pans are solely employed. I visited a tea manufactory five miles above Canton, where about 500 men, women, and children were engaged in converting coarse-looking refuse leaves, into several sorts of green tea. A series of large flat iron pans were placed over a range of furnaces heated by charcoal, in several successive degrees. The teas, which had been previously picked and sorted, were then placed successively in these pans by men, who each rolled them to a certain extent. After passing four or five pans a small quantity of turmeric was sprinkled over the leaves, in a pan highly heated, and in the next pan a blue powder, composed of Prussian blue and gypsum was added, which gave a delicate green bloom to the leaf, which formerly had been of a dingy black or brown hue. The tea was then gradually cooled in large shallow baskets, then placed in a winnowing machine and sifted into different sizes, the smaller being packed and sold as gunpowder or pearl tea. Thus the greatest refuse of tea, or the leaves which had passed through the teapots of the Chinese, were converted into \"Gunpowder,\" \"Hyson,\" and other teas for exportation, as the Chinese never drink green tea. The proprietor of the manufactory told me that the green tea thus prepared was sold to the Americans, who consume but little black tea. It is said to be difficult to detect this coloured tea from the pure, and as the Americans have good tea-tasters at Canton, the English probably receive their share of the adulterated manufacture.\n\nThe names of teas are a very imperfect criterion of their quality. Formerly Bohea was the principal tea in use; now the title is used to designate the lowest description of black tea. It may be useful to indicate the designation of the names in general use. Bohea is an English corruption of the words \"Woo-e,” \"Voo-yee,\" or \"Ba-yee,\" some hills of that name, about 12 miles in circumference, in Fokien, on the borders of Canton province, yielding a common tea of that name, which is gathered three times a year. It is called by the Chinese \"Tacha\" (large tea).\n\nCongo, from \"congfoo,\" labourer, is of a better quality than Bohea, less dusty, and with a rougher and more astringent flavour.\n\nWo-ping teas are so called from a district of that name in Canton province, and when mixed with Bohea form \"Canton Bohea.\"\n\nAnkoi, a coarse tea from the district of that name.\n\nCampoi, from Keinpoi, selected. It is a stronger tea than Congo.\n\nSouche or Caper, from \"swangche,\" double preparation, or \"choolan,\" fragrant pearls. A great deal from Ankoi district.\n\n[65]\n\nSouchong, from \"seaore-chong,\" scarce or small, good thing. It is carefully made from trees three years old, grown in good soil. Older trees, in a similar situation, produce Congo; older still, Bohea and other inferior teas.\n\nThere are different sorts of Souchong, and it is not easy to get this tea pure and good in England. The leaf is of agreeable fragrancy, somewhat like new-made hay; the leaf crisp, of a glossy black colour, and when subjected to boiling water, of a sick-red hue; the liquid is an amber brown.\n\nPeko, or Peho, from \"pih,\" have white petals or hair, so called from being made of leaves, gathered in when the blossoming is over in spring, when there is a whitish hair or down young on the leaf.\n\nThe tea flowers are fragrant mixed with the leaf, and give a fine odour and flavour to the tea.\n\nTwankay, from Tunkay, a district where the tea is generally made. In green teas it corresponds in quality to Congo among black teas.\n\nSinglo, from Sungle, a mountain in Ganhway. Both these teas have large flat leaves, and are not much rolled.\n\nHyson, from \"hechuen,\" genial spring or first crop, when the young leaves are gathered. Hyson Skin, Puha tea skin. In Chinese \"skin\" signifies the refuse. It is formed of the leaves rejected in the preparation of Hyson. The dealers in London give it the name of bloom tea.\n\nYoung Hyson, from \"yee-tseen,\" before the rains. It is a very small leaf. Gunpowder is the picked, small, well-rounded Hyson, like shot, also called Pearl or Imperial tea. Several other teas with new names are being introduced.\n\nThe different teas are prepared roughly by the tea farmers, and then taken to the manufacturers, who prepare and sort the teas according to the districts in which they are grown, the variety and age of the tree, the size and quality of the leaf, &c. The leaves are passed through sieves of different sizes before their quality is determined. The judgment of the manufacturer in selecting and sorting, and the skill of his workman in firing or \"tatching\" the leaf, is of the first consequence. The better quality teas are more frequently roasted, and each leaf separately rolled. The finest descriptions do not reach England; the mandarins pay very high prices for those teas, and their flavour is so delicate that they would not bear four or five months' sweating in the hold of a ship.\n\nThe production of tea for the use of the Chinese middle and lower classes must be very great, as it is used at every meal.\n\nThe tea found in Russia, conveyed by land and river carriage thither, is said to be superior to the tea generally used in England. This may be owing to the leaf being less fired; many of the finest teas drunk in China would not bear five or six months' stowage in the hot and humid atmosphere of the hold of a ship, and therefore the teas conveyed to Europe by sea require to be dried and fired to a degree which must injure their quality. Teas that I drank at Foochoo, Ningpo, and Shanghai were not highly dried, and had a very delicate flavour, when drank as the Chinese do, without milk or sugar; but these teas could not be preserved more than a few months. The Chinese say, that the high dried superior black teas improve in flavour by being closely packed in air-tight leaden cases for one or two years. Some of the finest teas in China scarcely colour the water, and the preparation consists solely in pouring boiling water on a small quantity of the leaves placed in a teacup, fitted with a close cover; among the highest classes a silver strainer is placed at the bottom of the teacup. Tea made up into balls, or compressed into the form of bricks, or of flat cakes, is exported to Tartary, Tibet, Burmah, &c., boiled with milk, and constitutes an agreeable and nutritious beverage.\n\nThe constituent properties of tea are,\n\n  \n    \n    Black\n    Green\n  \n  \n    Tannin\n    40.6\n    34.6\n  \n  \n    Vegetable albumen\n    6.4\n    5.7\n  \n  \n    Mucilage\n    6.3\n    5.9\n  \n  \n    Insoluble fibre\n    44.8\n    51.3\n  \n  \n    Loss\n    2.0\n    2.5\n  \n\nThe tannin blackens salts of iron. The proportions of tannin must vary with the quality of the tea. A salifiable base, named \"theine,\" in regular colourless crystals, has been obtained from tea.\n\nThe ashes of black and green teas yield silex, carbonate of lime, magnesia, chloruret of potash. In distillation tea yields a volatile oil, and according to some, a small quantity of resin, soluble in alcohol, and possessing the odour of tea. The effects of tea on the human system are, first stimulant, and then narcotic, according to the strength of the beverage. In moderation tea is an excellent diluent; it promotes digestion, and stimulates the renal glands. The constant use of tea, however, in large quantities, especially by persons living on a poor vegetable diet, is not favourable to physical strength or nervous energy, and to persons engaged in sedentary employments and imperfectly alimented, the frequent imbibing of \"tannin\" has a decided and manifest pernicious effect. 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        "content_text": "Reference\n\nRemark\n\nDescription\n\nQuantity\n\nRed Tape\n\nIndia Wafers.\n\nInk stands—with cover\n\nPencils.\n\nWafers.\n\n2 Dog Pe\n\nSealing Wax\n\nSteel Pen\n\nBook\n\nIndia Wabber.\n\n26 packets\n\n2\n\n6 H\n\n1066.\n\nAssorted\n\n2 chrop\n\nIt is requested that the Sealing Wax may be of that hard brown kind known as \"Indian Wax\", in the hot season the Cornwax may be used.\n\nN.B. Besides Quills, and other varieties of Stationery not included in the above Indent, there are sufficient on hand to last through the year.\n\nAudit Office,\n\nHongkong 17th May, 1849\n\n(Signed) B.Caine.\n\nAuditor General.\n\nTrue.\n\n[Secretary's] Office\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nPage 119",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure. No 1 in. Despatch.\n\nN 155 of 1849.\n\n294\n\nHER MAJESTY'S SLOOP Columbine, CHOKUM, Cocon-Chinsa, 23 October, 1849.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the satisfaction to report to Your Excellency the great success of the expedition you did me the honour to place under my command. 58 Piratical Vessels, mounting about 1200 Guns, and with crews of 3000 men, have been totally destroyed by fire; and, by the blessing of God, without the loss of One life of the Officers and Men under my orders.\n\nAfter leaving Hongkong on the 8th October, I searched the Harbours of Concock, Sattei, St John's, Mong, Mance, Sungyue, and Tienpak, and proceeded to Now-chou. From information received there, I determined to proceed to Hoi-how in Hainan, inside the shoals, and through the Junk passage, for I found good pilots, and junks with 14 ft. draught going through, and we drew little more than 15 ft.; moreover Shap-ng-tsai had boasted he would go where English ships dared not follow him. This vaunt I determined to belie. We reached Hoi-how on the 13th, and found the Governor General (Ho) whom I visited at the Capital, in great fear of the Pirates, and with a most friendly feeling to the English nation. He immediately ordered a Mandarin named Wong to proceed with me, taking with him 8 War Junks, and I gave him a passage, to prevent delay, on board the Fury.\n\nOn the 16th we reached Chook-shan, which the Pirate Fleet had left 5 days before, and we found the same sad story of towns destroyed, men murdered, and women taken away, that mark his track along the Coast. We fell in with one of his look-out Vessels, which having got into shallow water, was overtaken by the Phlegethon, and destroyed by her boats under the command of Mr Simpson, 1st Officer.\n\nOn the 19th we reached Hoo-nong, his reported haunt, and found he had gone about 12 miles further, and I feared we had lost him; but that invaluable Officer Mr Daniel R. Caldwell impressed me so strongly with the correctness of his information, that I decided on a reconnaissance in the Phlegethon in spite of our shortness of fuel; and proceeding into Chokeum for that purpose, on Saturday morning the 20th, saw 37 of the fleet under weigh. From 7 until 4 P.M., like terriers at a rat-hole we hunted for the Channel. Then a pilot managed to escape from the shore. I proceeded in Phlegethon, with Fury astern, Columbine in tow, over the Bar 14 ft. (mud), and at 4.40 had the pleasure of finding all the ships warmly engaged. At 5.5 Shap-ng-tsai's Junk blew up with a tremendous crash, and at 5.30 they had ceased firing. Before 8 o'clock 27 were in flames, and the squadron in position to blockade the river.\n\nOn the 21st October, the Steamers and Boats destroyed 24 more; and nine of them gave Lieutenant George Hancock in a Paddle-box boat of Fury, assisted by Captain Moore, R.M. and Mr Close, Acting Mate, with Mr Leao, an opportunity of distinguishing himself. Two large Junks turned to bay, to defend the retreat of the rest, but Mr Hancock so handled his boat and her gun, that after an hour and twenty minutes he had beaten them from their guns, and carried them by boarding without loss, and then pursued and destroyed the other 7.\n\nMr Hancock's boldness in attacking, and correct judgment in managing this affair, are worthy of the highest praise; and Captain Moore, R.M., Mr N. N. C. Leao, a Brazilian Lieutenant, and Mr F. A. Close, Acting Mate, gave him the greatest assistance.\n\nOn Monday the 22nd, I proceeded in Phlegethon and Boats to destroy all that were left. We found that the Mandarins had destroyed 4, and we finished 2 others. The low flat islands at the mouth of the river were at times covered with men deserted from the Junks, yet afraid of the Cochin Chinese, who had assembled in great numbers to attack them. The Ships' boats and small-arm men harassed and destroyed many by constant fire of shell and grape, whilst the Cochin Chinese destroyed and captured the rest.\n\nFrom the best information it appears that the Fleet consisted of 64 Vessels of War, which may be classed as follows:-\n\n  \n    Class\n    No.\n    Guns\n    Crew\n  \n  \n    1st\n    1\n    42\n    120\n  \n  \n    2d\n    16\n    28 to 34\n    75 to 80\n  \n  \n    3d\n    42\n    12 to 19\n    40\n  \n  \n    4th\n    5\n    6\n    30\n  \n  \n    Total,\n    64\n    1224\n    3150\n  \n\nOf these, 2 small of the 3d class and 4 of the 4th have escaped with Shap-ng-tsai, but without much ammunition; and the Mandarin assures me he will shortly destroy him—now an easy prey. He took with him about 400 men, so that 1700 having been killed, about 1000 more remain to be finished by the Cochin Chinese, who have already sent some prisoners to the Mandarins.\n\nI shall now proceed to Hongkong with all despatch. I have the pleasure of mentioning the exceeding good conduct of the Officers and Men during these laborious and hazardous operations. Their unanimity, willingness, and cheerfulness have made it a most pleasant service, and no plunder, rapine, or misconduct, has tarnished their honour.\n\nMajor General Wong, the Mandarin, proved himself a gallant, active, and efficient ally, and I trust his own Government may reward him for his good services. To have Commander Willcox with me, is, I feel, to have success. As a friend and an officer he is unequalled, and his ship is in such good order that I believe there is nothing he could not do. His judgment and gallantry are on an equal footing.\n\nMr Niblett of the Phlegethon has handled his ship in a bold and determined manner, and has given me every assistance. As I was frequently obliged to be in the Steamers, the command of this Sloop has devolved upon Lieutenant J. H. Bridges, Senior Lieutenant, and he conducted her in action on the 20th with much ability.\n\nLieutenant Darnell, Senior of the Fury, in command of her boats, has also rendered good service. Captain Moore of the Hastings's marines has assisted me most materially in command of that body. Lieutenant Hancock, and Mr Chambers, Acting Mate, in command of the respective detachments of Hastings's men, have given me much satisfaction, and Mr Rathbone, Midshipman of the Fury, has brought himself into notice for his zeal.\n\nI have also to notice the name of Mr Algernon Wootton, Midshipman, a most promising young Officer, who has acted as my Aide-de-Camp, and been very useful on every occasion.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a List of the Officers employed in the boats*, who I have no doubt would equally have distinguished themselves if they had had the opportunity.\n\nI enclose a Journal of my Proceedings since leaving Hongkong, together with some Hydrographical Remarks compiled by Mr Thomas Kerr, Acting Master of this sloop, which will, I trust, be of service to commerce and navigation in the Gulf of Tonquin, hitherto so little known. Mr Kerr, during all this very hazardous navigation, has proved himself a careful and judicious Officer.\n\nMr D. R. Caldwell of the Police Force has again proved his talent as a linguist, his intimate knowledge of the Chinese character, and the thorough correctness of his information. To him in a great measure our success is to be attributed.\n\nMr Soames, Master of the Hongkong Company's Steam Vessel Canton, did his work well as Pilot, as far as he was acquainted with the Coast.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,\n\nJOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY, Commander.\n\nHis Excellency Rear Admiral Sir FRANCIS A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c.\n\n* See next page,\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301",
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        "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "content_text": "Age \n\nherself and infant daughter, were \n\ncalamity Entirely \n\ncut off. \n\nThat the said \"ticias smithers the month of January \n\nhundred and forty a proportion \n\nlowa \n\ndy creating \n\n\" \n\nby this \n\nfree \n\nof his to a \n\nprusion pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases. \n\nof his saing disabled (your) beheres that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during \n\nthe remainder of his life. \n\n\"That it has \n\nbeen \n\na \n\npetitione. \n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration \n\nand render assistance to the survivors of \n\npersons killed in their device and a lit Ke.. \n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers \n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly \n\nprays that she \n\nVOL. I. No. 9. \n\nChina \n\nOverland \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28 \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Ilis Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China, \n\nBy Order, \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848. \n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE, \n\n12th August, 1848. \n\nNOTIFICATION. \n\nA Boats \n\nBoots \n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is \n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with \n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission. \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nConsul. \n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae. \n\nbe allowed \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nmay some small pension \n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to \n\nsupport \n\n4 \n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for. \n\nAnd your petition to \n\nEver pray te. \n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers. \n\nlue steered for. \n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail. \n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848. \n\n64 \n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM. \n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to \n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx \n\njunk and me who hire \n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven \n\ndhuli \n\n*ximating \n\nof Nether \n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners, \n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were \n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar- \n\nen beide 0115 on \n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain. \n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended. \n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;--- \n\npar. \n\nM. \n\nplying \n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED. \n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and \n\nYes Clock, \n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not \n\nCourse Grace Modlig \n\nJis (Cafe Cotto \n\nForeign Lung Colon, \n\nRay Coto, uoleened, \n\ninfertor Fort, \n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found \n\nOf that stabburn craw \n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant \n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon \n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ; \n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox \n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka, \n\nWe also extract from the Friend of \n\nI \n\n13ch cleaned, \n\noh gluing Boston, \n\n10. \n\nElo \n\nWhite Lead, \n\nColuared Paper \n\nFlowed and Note Paper, \n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur \n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so \n\n11. \n\nDi \n\nSugar Candy \n\nሱ \n\nKwangbang, dan, \n\nGreat Glager, \n\nTony Chry Sucks, \n\nCents. \n\n\"1\" \n\nPicen 2 \n\n· Dale \n\nWhico. \n\nPcular de \n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez, \n\nMetropolitan Gods. \n\nBlack Treppe \n\nBlack and Gruen, du.. \n\nBarn Wood, \n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids \n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay \n\n- \n\nTAIFOONG. \n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY \n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity. \n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information— \n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China. \n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2, \n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground. \n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th \n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre- \n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years, \n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu \n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought \n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order, \n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i \n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from \n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar- \n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire \n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed. \n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty. \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348. \n\nOverlang China Mail. \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN \n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon. \n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter, \n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter \n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P. \n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK. \n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens, \n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti- \n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens, \n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean \n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc. \n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas \n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i \n\nAt b \n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge. \n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani \n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa. \n\nArt:lery. \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON. \n\nPer \n\nVIDEO \n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t \n\nPre \n\n& 10 8 \n\n40 \n\nX \n\nSappers and Minora. with erent...... \n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551 \n\nH \n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181 \n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the \n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nL'onsul. \n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:-- \n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship \n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and \n\nAs all for \n\nothers severely wounded. \n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.) \n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa \n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received \n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l. \n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill. \n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed, \n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house \n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich \n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles \n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt \n\n\"Foreign in \n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer- \n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks \n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro \n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this \n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be \n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou \n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by \n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest \n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors. \n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept, \n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte, \n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting \n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese, \n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a \n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment \n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli \n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on \n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next. \n\nwith.\" On recript of the the \n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca \n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp \n\npondnet your royarske, \n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock \n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts \n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the \n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples, \n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro- \n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated \n\nand \n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS \n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of \n\nevash, and \n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei \n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag, \n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin \n\n1sthet romanda The \n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that \n\nidly \n\n31st Auz. 10 \n\n.. \n\n3. NE \n\nheavy pas \n\n11 \n\n90.24 N.IS. \n\nJ \n\n+3 \n\nugly weader \n\n1 \n\n1. 20 in M.K \n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M \n\nInscriure \n\n9. \n\n\" \n\nH. by X \n\n- \n\n2.45 \n\n2 \n\n$12 \n\n13 \n\n21 \n\n:: \n\n| \n\nн \n\n4 \n\n. \n\n29ki \n\nJE. \n\nJa \n\n5 \n\n11 \n\n59 15 \n\nBy Soperaterra's. \n\n5,3). 24.37 \n\n8 May \n\n20.45 \n\nور \n\nE by N. \n\nጉ \n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008 \n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu \n\nSWly der:n \n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi \n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara \n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim. \n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites. \n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge \n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust \n\nnedors \n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of \n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying \n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her \n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven- \n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit \n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of \n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days. \n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and \n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The \n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile \n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con- \n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe- \n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist \n\nopium &makers. \n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving \n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian \n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease. \n\nNevertheless crio does \n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now \n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to! \n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to \n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately \n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present \n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty \n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti \n\nJunio \n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter \n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences. \n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue. \n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed \n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho \n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen- \n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa \n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores \n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there \n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste \n\nสปาไ \n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion \n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi \n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada \n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, and correcting spelling errors, spacing issues, and other formatting problems while preserving the original word count and order.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a collection of historical records and news articles from the \"China Overland Mail\" dated September 28, 1848. The text includes various sections such as government notifications, news, births, marriages, deaths, and reports on typhoons and their aftermath.\n\n## Step 3\nTo begin proofreading, we need to correct obvious spelling errors, remove extra spaces, and fix hyphenation or line-break artifacts. For example, \"calancity\" should be \"calamity\", \"savo 'ticias\" should be \"said Ticias\", and \"prusion pond\" should be \"prisoner or provision pond\" but based on context, it seems \"prision\" is likely meant to be \"provision\".\n\n## Step 4\nRejoining broken sentences and restoring paragraph breaks where necessary is also crucial. For instance, sentences split across lines without logical reason should be merged.\n\n## Step 5\nThe text contains sections that need to be formatted into Markdown. Headers, sub-headers, bold types, and tables need to be formatted accordingly. For example, main titles should be preceded by \"#\", sections by \"##\", and bold text should be surrounded by \"**\".\n\n## Step 6\nFile references should not have any spacing inside parentheses, e.g., \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72\". Page numbering lines, if detected, should be kept as they are, usually six lines in total, three at the page beginning and three at the end.\n\n## Step 7\nNewspaper texts might not make sense due to OCR errors in recognizing columns. Reorganizing them like a puzzle might be necessary to restore the original meaning.\n\n## Step 8\nData in tables should be properly organized to reconstruct the table format.\n\n## Step 9\nSome Chinese writing might start from right to left, and if such reversal is observed, the text should be reversed to meet modern reading habits.\n\n## Step 10\nThe output should be in HTML using  for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nAge\n\nherself and infant daughter, were\n\ncalamity Entirely\n\ncut off.\n\nThat the said \"Ticias smithers the month of January\n\nhundred and forty a proportion\n\nlowa\n\ndy creating\n\n\"\n\nby this\n\nfree\n\nof his to a\n\nprovision pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases.\n\nof his saying disabled (your) believes that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during\n\nthe remainder of his life.\n\n\"That it has\n\nbeen\n\na\n\npetitione.\n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration\n\nand render assistance to the survivors of\n\npersons killed in their device and a lit...\n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers\n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly\n\nprays that she\n\nVOL. I. No. 9.\n\nChina\n\nOverland\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China,\n\nBy Order,\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE,\n\n12th August, 1848.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nA Boats\n\nBoots\n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is\n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with\n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nConsul.\n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae.\n\nbe allowed\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nmay some small pension\n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to\n\nsupport\n\n4\n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for.\n\nAnd your petition to\n\nEver pray te.\n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers.\n\nlue steered for.\n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail.\n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\n64\n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM.\n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to\n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx\n\njunk and me who hire\n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven\n\ndhuli\n\n*ximating\n\nof Nether\n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners,\n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were\n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar-\n\nen beide 0115 on\n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain.\n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended.\n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;---\n\npar.\n\nM.\n\nplying\n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED.\n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and\n\nYes Clock,\n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not\n\nCourse Grace Modlig\n\nJis (Cafe Cotto\n\nForeign Lung Colon,\n\nRay Coto, uoleened,\n\ninfertor Fort,\n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found\n\nOf that stabburn craw\n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant\n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon\n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ;\n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox\n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka,\n\nWe also extract from the Friend of\n\nI\n\n13ch cleaned,\n\noh gluing Boston,\n\n10.\n\nElo\n\nWhite Lead,\n\nColuared Paper\n\nFlowed and Note Paper,\n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur\n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so\n\n11.\n\nDi\n\nSugar Candy\n\nሱ\n\nKwangbang, dan,\n\nGreat Glager,\n\nTony Chry Sucks,\n\nCents.\n\n\"1\"\n\nPicen 2\n\n· Dale\n\nWhico.\n\nPcular de\n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez,\n\nMetropolitan Gods.\n\nBlack Treppe\n\nBlack and Gruen, du..\n\nBarn Wood,\n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids\n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay\n\n-\n\nTAIFOONG.\n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY\n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity.\n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information—\n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China.\n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2,\n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground.\n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th\n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre-\n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years,\n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu\n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought\n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order,\n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i\n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from\n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar-\n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire\n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed.\n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348.\n\nOverlang China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN\n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon.\n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter,\n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter\n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P.\n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK.\n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens,\n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti-\n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens,\n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean\n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc.\n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas\n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i\n\nAt b\n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge.\n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani\n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa.\n\nArt:lery.\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON.\n\nPer\n\nVIDEO\n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t\n\nPre\n\n& 10 8\n\n40\n\nX\n\nSappers and Minora. with erent......\n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551\n\nH\n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181\n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the\n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nL'onsul.\n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:--\n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship\n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and\n\nAs all for\n\nothers severely wounded.\n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.)\n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa\n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received\n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l.\n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill.\n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed,\n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house\n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich\n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles\n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt\n\n\"Foreign in\n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer-\n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks\n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro\n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this\n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be\n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou\n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by\n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest\n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors.\n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept,\n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte,\n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting\n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese,\n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a\n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment\n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli\n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on\n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next.\n\nwith.\" On recript of the the\n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca\n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp\n\npondnet your royarske,\n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock\n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts\n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the\n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples,\n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro-\n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated\n\nand\n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS\n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of\n\nevash, and\n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei\n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag,\n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin\n\n1sthet romanda The\n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that\n\nidly\n\n31st Auz. 10\n\n..\n\n3. NE\n\nheavy pas\n\n11\n\n90.24 N.IS.\n\nJ\n\n+3\n\nugly weader\n\n1\n\n1. 20 in M.K\n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M\n\nInscriure\n\n9.\n\n\"\n\nH. by X\n\n-\n\n2.45\n\n2\n\n$12\n\n13\n\n21\n\n::\n\n|\n\nн\n\n4\n\n. \n\n29ki\n\nJE.\n\nJa\n\n5\n\n11\n\n59 15\n\nBy Soperaterra's.\n\n5,3). 24.37\n\n8 May\n\n20.45\n\nور\n\nE by N.\n\nጉ\n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008\n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu\n\nSWly der:n\n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi\n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara\n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim.\n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites.\n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge\n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust\n\nnedors\n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of\n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying\n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her\n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven-\n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit\n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of\n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days.\n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and\n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The\n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile\n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con-\n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe-\n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist\n\nopium &makers.\n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving\n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian\n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease.\n\nNevertheless crio does\n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now\n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to!\n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to\n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately\n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present\n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty\n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti\n\nJunio\n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter\n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences.\n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue.\n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed\n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho\n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen-\n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa\n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores\n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there\n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste\n\nสปาไ\n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion\n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi\n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada\n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a",
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        "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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        "content_text": "conse \n\nہے سوه \n\nمي سمير \n\n139 \n\nthis town of the lore defiled for \n\nدار \n\nThat in \n\n(in the \n\nکرکے منكم \n\nVotanical Gard \n\nہیں ہے پے گا \n\nمنتشر منة \n\nFlens of thi \n\ntor to this frounds \n\nم \n\nBeing, come led \n\nZarden, in \n\nމ މ \n\nހ \n\nto \n\n22 \n\nG- \n\nScherme de \n\nނ \n\nводим \n\n7 \n\nکے \n\nJ DZ \n\nI belain \n\nfeilently state l A \n\nSeton in t. \n\nSee in \n\nlang of Berghing \n\nis disfreed to the \n\ntemp \n\nat the high \n\nf.thi Gr. \n\ne \n\nمحمد \n\nthethard, frond \n\nکی \n\nZ \n\n< \n\nGod with & Willlic \n\nBooker \n\nI this Royal \n\nKew such \n\nbear with the geoprend \n\nditional story \n\nThey exist \n\nast at fe \n\nہے۔ \n\nof the form de \n\nI have the hover \n\nfarazy. \n\nYour obedient hunth \n\nA Braine \n\nAuchfest abbey \n\nhear Ashburton Devon \n\nluve 25 1850 \n\nور مگرم \n\nwould apparently \n\nforming \n\nbenefüh dei förtävie, \n\nde fot \n\n~ \n\nnursery \n\nCountrero \n\nthe collection of denti \n\nfrom China the \n\nنے سے \n\nanother \n\nspot",
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        "content_text": "HONGKONG, 7TH JUNE, 1853. did not dare to attempt a landing. One lorcha got into the midst of the river, but no armed prizes. They \n\nSIR GEORGE BONHAM'S VISIT TO NANKING. (From the North China Herald, May 14 and 21,) The Hermes started on the 24th April, with His Excellency on board, and having in tow the Chinese river craft, under the charge of Mr E. A. Reynolds, in which it had at first been arranged Mr Meadows should proceed alone,\n\nOn the 26th April, the difficulties of the intervening navigation having been overcome, the Taoutae's fleet of lorchas and square-rigged vessels was passed at anchor, about 12 miles on this side of Chin-keang. At about 1 A.M., the Hermes anchored off Silver Island, where both mandarins spoken to the day before and fishermen in the immediate vicinity declared the Insurgents had an outpost. Mr Meadows, on landing in the Chinese boat, found in the temples only a few priests, who, however, stated that certain junks, lying opposite the heights of Chin-keang about a mile farther up, were manned by the Insurgents. To these vessels Mr Meadows repaired, but found them unarmed, and occupied only by two or three men in each, who declared themselves to be the original trading crews, compelled after their capture to lie at that spot. In the meantime the steamer weighed anchor and followed the China-boat; and a great bustle was observed on shore. One or two armed boats on the beach began firing guns, and the Insurgent troops were seen running to man the stockades both there and on the heights above. The cause of all this was soon found not to be merely the appearance of the Hermes, but the approach of the whole of the Taoutae's lorchas, &c., which had weighed anchor and closely followed her; and which appeared to have been sooner descried from the heights than had been done from the steamer, owing to a thick fog on the river which only then began to clear off. The lorchas had all red flags that at a little distance were not to be distinguished from a faded British red-ensign, and after the false proclamations that had been issued about steamers, the Insurgents naturally took the Hermes for the first of an attacking squadron. They accordingly opened a fire on her, and as the lorchas were rapidly nearing and a general action imminent, no course was left but to steam on at once to Nanking, which was done, after a note explanatory of the circumstances had been handed to a boat-man for delivery to the Insurgent Commanders. The Hermes continued to be fired at from junks and stockades on both sides of the river till she had passed Kwa-chow; and we are told that the occasional whizzing of round shot close over the awning of the quarter-deck by no means detracted from the excitement of the singular and highly picturesque scene there. As she had appeared in very suspicious company, and it had become still more necessary than before to convince the Insurgents of our neutrality, she did not even prepare to return the fire directed against her.\n\n...jaground at Silver Island, and had to signalize for assistance; whereon one of her fellows returned, into which her crew, after an hour or two, was transferred. The priests of the adjoining temples said it was then about dark, and that they retired to their dormitories for the night, but were soon roused by a loud report and found the vessel in flames. This account was corroborated by the Insurgents, who said they had not approached her, and that she must have been fired by her crew before being deserted. We are informed that the Mandarins are bound to pay $10,000 for every lorcha destroyed; also that this particular vessel was reported as having on board, when lost, a sum of three or four thousand dollars recently sent up as pay for the fleet. The success of that day is therefore likely to prove an expensive one.\n\nSo far as could be ascertained or perceived by the Hermes on her return a week after, the attack had had no other effect on the Insurgents than to make them dispose their grain junks in a position more protected by their batteries, and to mount more guns in, and make material additions to, the latter.\n\nAfter leaving behind her the fight at Chin-keang on the 26th April, the Hermes steamed on till dark, when she anchored about ten or twelve miles below Nanking. During the night, several large timber-rafts passed her on fire. In the forenoon of the 27th, she anchored off the northern angle of Nanking, below the first battery planted by the Insurgents to defend the entrance to two creeks running under the walls, and in which lay an immense number of large river junks. A great bustle was observed on shore, and a gun or two in the battery began firing at the Steamer, but ceased when two people (that had been taken the preceding day out of a junk) landed with a letter explaining that she had come with no hostile intentions. Shortly after, some eight or ten of the Insurgents came alongside in a small boat, the first to appear on the deck being a good-looking young man, an officer, in a close-fitting red Chinese jacket, who, from his long hair, was evidently a genuine \"rebel\" of old standing, and who, as the first specimen of these much-discussed people met with, was viewed and questioned with some interest by our countrymen. Other boats speedily followed, in one of which Mr Reynolds took a passage on shore, where he met with a civil reception from a leader in charge of the stockaded battery that had just been firing. In the meantime, a reply having been received to the note despatched on arrival, His Excellency sent Mr Meadows on shore to open a communication with some more influential leader. Mr Meadows, who was accompanied on the occasion by Lieut. Spratt, desired on landing to be led to the highest authority to whom immediate access could be obtained. He was in consequence brought, after a walk of about half an hour, into the presence of the two leaders known as the Northern and Assistant Princes, from whom he had a strange reception, followed by an equally extraordinary and very interesting conversation. The two gentlemen returned to their boat, surrounded, as in coming, by numbers of the armed crowd, but meeting with neither molestation nor insult.\n\nDuring the 28th, 29th, and 30th of April, the Hermes lay off the entrance to the creeks aforementioned, only occasionally shifting her position to avoid the fire-rafts sent down nightly by the Imperialists, in the hope, it was believed, of setting fire to the Insurgents' junks. On the 30th, Mr Meadows rode into the city in charge of a despatch, and was joined by a party consisting of Captain Fishbourne, Lieut. Burton, and Mr Woodgate. They were conducted close to the Tartar or Imperial Citadel, to a large private house occupied for the present by the four leaders next in rank to those bearing the title of Prince.\n\nOne of these exercises the functions of Criminal Chief Justice; and when our countrymen arrived, they found him just giving judgment in a case, declared by the females concerned to be one of rape, and for which two men were then condemned to death.\n\nDuring which they were received by the four occupants of the place and other officials, the approach of evening compelled the party to return to the steamer; previous arrangements for proceeding up the river on the next day forcing them to decline a pressing invitation to dine and sleep there that night and be introduced to the Princes in the morning.\n\nThis portion of the Yang-tsze must at all times have much interest. Out of the wide expanse of channel through which the turbid waters of the third river in the world roll rapidly towards the Ocean, rise at the distance of two or three miles from each other two high islands, covered with temples and wood. Between these, known to foreigners as Golden and Silver Islands, the heights of Chin-keang, a high promontory, likewise capped with temple and pagoda, overlooks the stream from its southern bank. The islands were not occupied by the Insurgents; but the heights and large portions of the river-banks underneath had been fortified by stockades. Past Silver Island and up into this scene the lorchas now advanced, and, sailing close in-shore, opened a vigorous and well-sustained fire on the stockades and on the armed boats on and near the beach. There were few guns in the latter, but these the Insurgents, nothing daunted by the sudden attack, coolly manned and discharged on their advancing enemy. In the meantime, the noise of the cannonade was bringing down numbers of their comrades from the city, the officers on horseback and the men running along on foot. Many of these bore banners, a few had matchlocks, but the great majority were armed only with swords and spears. Yet they came rapidly down and planted themselves on the beach in the face of the heavy fire, with a boldness that excited the admiration of our countrymen.\n\nAt day-light on the first of May, the Hermes got under weigh and proceeded up the river.\n\nWhen about 8 miles above Nanking, some 15 or 20 river craft of the Canton build and rig (centipedes) were observed ahead, getting their sails up and going off as if in flight. They were at once perceived to be the Imperialist upper flotilla. The rearmost was soon seen to be proceeding quietly to the steamer and seeing the latter stop, doubtless comprehended there was no hostile intention, and therefore thought proper to fire a gun, which sent its shot over the bows of the Hermes. The boat that had been called alongside was sent on to tell the others that there was no occasion either to fire or to move, as the Hermes had come merely to get information as to the state of affairs. She proceeded on this mission very leisurely, and as two more shotted guns were fired by vessels she had spoken to, Captain Fishbourne ordered the ports to be dropped and the guns prepared. After this, there was no more firing.\n\nPage 310",
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        "content_text": "7\n\napplies to Grenada and the Cape is considered sand, I omit that it receives additional force in the case to which \n\nattention is now \n\nmore \n\nGrace's your immediately requested. \n\nfor, it is hardly unbilited that Lord \"Campbell's act, was not only \n\nOrdinances com \n\none \n\nloose \n\nconfer \n\nties and privileges which, once red, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two \n\nfirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\nShould it nevertheless be held that the 3? Section of the Ordinance, 5th May, 1846, took away from this Colony the privileges and protection of the Laws of England passed subsequently to 6th April, 1843, then it follows that another, equally still more important \n\nParliament which received the \n\n10. \n\na teen \n\n1 \n\non \n\nto \n\n£22, 1843, \n\nAct of Rez al \n\nAugust two days before Lord Campbell's Stat. is also abrogated. It is entitled, \n\nAn act for the better Government of the Majesty's Subjects resorting to China \n\n+ forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Commula) giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters \n\nthorizing \n\nthe Governor of Hong Kong Superintendent of Trade \n\nand is se \n\nPatent, King \n\nCh.21 \n\nas \n\nas \n\n52 9 \n\nin \n\nto legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance rendering them \"subject in all matters to the Law of \n\nthe Colony of England (asmiob \n\nad www \n\nHoughing, §1.) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong \n\nthe same.\" \n\n11.. Surely it could never \n\ned, by. \n\nof a single \n\neve \n\nhave been natins. \n\nclause \n\nen an \n\nothers \n\nyears \n\nwise moimportant Ordinance, to sweep away \n\nthe Laws of England from the Colony. Tom Memoriabel has within these few days read a \n\nreport of an appeal \n\nthe \n\nto the House of Lords (May 6, 1853) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythewoods policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Ranfen, - \n\nThat in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament \n\nhad been passed for improving navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a \n\ntowing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected \n\na rubble wall and iron railing along \n\nthe the towing path, enclosing appellants lands, and these Acts declared that allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir. \n\nno one was \n\nto the \n\npossession of Blythswood for the time being.",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,",
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        "content_text": "64\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA WATERS\n\nIn 9490/52\n\n63\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVALS\n\nAT HONGKONG, WEEK ENDING 8TH JUNE, 1845.\n\n  \n    Date of\n    Vessel,\n    Tons\n    Captain.\n    From\n    Destination\n    Cargo,\n    Consignees.\n  \n  \n    Arrival.\n    \n    Register.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 16\n    Jane\n    331\n    Baby\n    Whampoa\n    \n    \n    B. Ibbotson\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Turner and Co\n  \n  \n    May 19\n    Basinad\n    240\n    Woodberry\n    Singapore\n    \n    \n    J. D. Sword\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Turner and Co\n  \n  \n    May 20\n    Culton\n    275\n    Aken\n    Rotterdam\n    \n    \n    Turner and Co\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Robt. and Co\n  \n  \n    May 21\n    Flora\n    160\n    \n    Singapore\n    \n    \n    Turner and Co\n  \n  \n    May 30\n    Preciosa\n    500\n    Cucullo\n    Manila\n    \n    \n    Nanies\n  \n  \n    May 31\n    Cayuga\n    294\n    Hagle\n    \n    \n    \n    Sund. C. & Cavern\n  \n  \n    June 2\n    Juno\n    245\n    Prescott\n    \n    \n    \n    A. P. Gourback\n  \n  \n    May 24\n    Rogina\n    \n    \n    Macao\n    \n    \n    Herita\n  \n  \n    May 20\n    Ruapehu\n    \n    \n    Macao\n    \n    \n    D. & Taslonjea\n  \n  \n    May 16\n    Julio\n    100\n    Mil\n    Singapore\n    \n    \n    Kost Ceast\n  \n  \n    May 8\n    Willa IV\n    \n    \n    New York\n    \n    \n    Gammelt und Co\n  \n  \n    May 29\n    Kennedy\n    14\n    \n    Singapore\n    \n    \n    Frenjve and Co\n  \n  \n    June 4\n    Julen\n    \n    \n    Bombay\n    \n    \n    General\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Fry Ecan & Co\n  \n\nAT MACAO, WEEK ENDING 26 JUNE, 1845.\n\n  \n    Date of\n    Vessel,\n    Tons\n    Captain.\n    From\n    Destination\n    Cargo,\n    Consignees.\n  \n  \n    Arrival.\n    \n    Register.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    June 1\n    Petzel\n    85\n    Rogers\n    Shanghai\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    June 4\n    Valer\n    \n    \n    Singapore\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 29\n    Margolfet\n    \n    \n    Hongkong\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 30\n    Cowasjee\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 30\n    Precim\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 30\n    L. Fomuly\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    June 1\n    Red Rover\n    \n    Jones\n    \n    \n    \n    C. Furber\n  \n\nAT WHAMPOA, WEEK ENDING 31 MAY, 1845.\n\n  \n    Date of\n    Vessel,\n    Tons\n    Captain.\n    From\n    Destination\n    Cargo,\n    Consignees.\n  \n  \n    Arrival.\n    \n    Register.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 24\n    Gina\n    20\n    san\n    \n    \n    \n    Boulay\n  \n  \n    May 20\n    keab\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Blay # barcha\n  \n  \n    May 20\n    leste\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    NIS\n  \n  \n    May 30\n    Grievend\n    412\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    JA. S.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1. 1590 y\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    5. Ik 340\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Freeman\n  \n\nDEPARTURES\n\nFROM HONGKONG, TO 8 JUNE, 1845\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Vessel,\n    Tons\n    Captain.\n    Destination\n    Cargo.\n    Consignees.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Register.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    June 1\n    letard Grear\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    D. W. Backford\n  \n  \n    May 29\n    Bangor\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 31\n    Sapphire\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 30\n    Wonosar\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 3\n    hamas trisp\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nFROM MACAO, TO 25 JUNE, 1845.\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Vessel,\n    Tons\n    Captain.\n    Destination\n    Cargo.\n    Consignees.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Register.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 27\n    Viven\n    105\n    Mina\n    Hongkong\n    \n    B. A. Bartch\n  \n  \n    May 29\n    Margolfet\n    \n    \n    Hongkong\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 29\n    Kons\n    10\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 30\n    Cowasjee\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 30\n    Precim\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nCOMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.\n\nIMPORT DELIVERIES AND STOCK OF TEA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1844 AND 1843.\n\n  \n    \n    1844.\n    1843.\n  \n  \n    Imports.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n     Canton, Bohea\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ditto Pekoe\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stock.\n    \n    \n  \n\nCANTON MARKET, 24 JUNE, 1845.\n\nIMPORTS.\n\nCotton - The demand during the week has been upon a fair scale, and prices generally have improved.\n\nLong Ells - Very dull, and must be offered at much lower prices.\n\nCASSIA LIGNEA - $12 wanted, the market being completely clean.\n\nCHINA NANKEEN - $34 per box of 160 pieces, stock large.\n\nCAMPHOR - $10 a $16 per picul, stocks small, and holders offing well at 14.\n\nSILK RAW - Canton No. 3, no stock in market.\n\nEXCHANGES.\n\nON ENGLAND - There are very few Bills now in the Market, and the rate having declined to 4s. 8d. in China, with the prospect of going lower, the Exchange here is likely soon to follow.\n\nON CALCUTTA - Bills considered rather negotiation - Sales of Private Bills at 223.\n\nON MADRAS AND BOMBAY - In demand.\n\nTONNAGE WANTED FOR ENGLAND.\n\nPRICE OF GOODS SOLD IN THE HONGKONG MARKETS.\n\nVICTORIA, 15 MAY, 1844.\n\n  \n    \n    $\n    Cents\n    per\n    Catty\n  \n  \n    Beef\n    \n    12\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mutton\n    \n    40\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Pork\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nCALCUTTA.\n\nImporters will not submit to Concessions.\n\nPRICE CURRENT.\n\n  \n    \n    Per\n    \n    Co.'s\n    R\n  \n  \n    NANKEN\n    per\n    corge\n    24\n    30\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    13\n    8\n  \n  \n    VAZHU\n    per\n    chest\n    120\n    150\n  \n\nEXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES.\n\nJune 30, 1844 up to April 28, 1845.\n\n  \n    \n    lbs\n  \n  \n    Black Tea\n    8,836,861\n  \n  \n    Green Tea\n    2,062,220\n  \n\nFREIGHTS TO CHINA.\n\nCotton $3 per bale.\n\nEXPORTS OF TEA AND RAW SILK TO GREAT BRITAIN.\n\n  \n    Vessel,\n    Tons\n    Captain.\n  \n  \n    \n    Register.\n    \n  \n  \n    JA. S. 147\n    249\n    Preuss\n  \n  \n    A. 169\n    130\n    Comminge\n  \n  \n    B. N307\n    \n    Gove\n  \n\nPage 65\n\n...\n\nPage 66\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIBING.\n\nTwelve Months, Seven Dollars; Six months, Four Dollars; all payable in advance.\n\nSingle Numbers, to Subscribers, 25 cents; on sale, 50 cents.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISING.\n\nEight lines and under, One Dollar; each additional Two lines, Twenty-five cents.\n\nNo Advertisement will be repeated unless ordered.\n\nPrinted and published by A. 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        "content_text": "And I do hereby further declare that with respect to Passengers being Chinese, or persons accustomed to Chinese diet, in addition to, and irrespective of any provisions of their own which any such passenger may have on board, the Master of every \"Passenger Ship\" shall make to each statute adult during the voyage, including the time of detention, if any, at any port or place before the termination of such voyage, an allowance of pure water and sweet and wholesome provisions according to the following dietary scale, and the provisions mentioned in such scale shall in the case of such Chinese passengers only be substituted for the Articles of food and provisions specified in the said Act.\n\nRice, ...\n\nSalt Pork, ...\n\nFirewood, ...\n\nSalt, ...\n\nLard, Salted Fat, Fresh Fat or Oil, ...\n\nPickled Vegetables, ...\n\nTobacco, ...\n\nPepper, Vinegar, Tea, ...\n\nWater, ...\n\n  \n    \n    1 lb diem\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1/2 lb diem\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1/4 lb\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1 oz week\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1 pint\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    ... 4 ozs\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1/2 gallon\n    \n  \n\nGiven under my hand and Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, this 28th Day of December in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three and in the Seventeenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nManne\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nThree weeks supply of Biscuit is to be placed on board, to be issued at the rate of 2lbs a day only when the weather is too bad for cooking, or when required by the Surgeon.\n\nPeas or Beans may be substituted for Rice, and Opium for Tobacco, to the extent and in the proportion to be fixed by the Surgeon.\n\nHalf issues to be made to Children under ten years of age. The issues in accordance with this scale are to be made daily; the first issues to be made on the day of embarkation.\n\nAnd I do hereby also further declare in pursuance of the said last mentioned Act, that Twelve instead of Fifteen feet shall be deemed a sufficient allowance of space for any Natives of Asia or Africa who may be conveyed from Hongkong through the Tropics.\n\nAnd lastly, I do hereby further declare, that the medicines, medical instruments, and other matters necessary for the medical treatment of the Passengers during any such voyage, shall be as follows; namely:\n\n  \n    For a Ship carrying 100 passengers and in like proportion for any greater or less number.\n  \n  \n    Calomel\n    3 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Blue Pill\n    8 ozs\n  \n  \n    Rhubarb Powder\n    2\n  \n  \n    Compound Jalap Powder\n    8\n  \n  \n    Ipecacuanha Powder\n    2\n  \n  \n    Opium\n    *\n  \n  \n    Dover's Powder\n    1\n  \n  \n    Magnesia\n    12\n  \n  \n    Epsom Salts\n    2\n  \n  \n    Chloride of Lime\n    1\n  \n  \n    Tartar Emetic\n    1\n  \n  \n    Quinine\n    1\n  \n  \n    Senna Leaves\n    2\n  \n  \n    Blistering Plaister\n    100\n  \n  \n    Sulphur Sublimed\n    16\n  \n  \n    Sulphur Ointment\n    12\n  \n  \n    Linseed Flour\n    4 lbs.\n  \n  \n    Country Soap\n    24 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Castor Oil\n    6 bottles\n  \n  \n    Oil of Peppermint\n    2 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Antimonial Powder\n    \n  \n  \n    Extract of Colocynth Compound\n    6\n  \n  \n    Carbonate of Ammonia\n    20\n  \n  \n    Assafoetida\n    JJ\n  \n  \n    Camphor\n    \n  \n  \n    Camphorated Liniment\n    \n  \n  \n    Catechu\n    \n  \n  \n    Prepared Chalk\n    \n  \n  \n    Tincture of Opium\n    2 oz phial\n  \n  \n    Adhesive Plaister Spread\n    4 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Simple Ointment\n    16 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Ringworm Ointment\n    2\n  \n  \n    Aromatic Spirits of Hartshorn\n    4 drams.\n  \n  \n    Jeremie's Opiate\n    2 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Cholera Pills in Phial\n    \n  \n  \n    Cubebs Powder\n    2 yds.\n  \n  \n    Sweet Spirits of Nitre\n    16 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Copaiba\n    12 drams\n  \n  \n    Sulphate of Copper\n    4 lbs.\n  \n  \n    Sulphate of Zinc\n    116 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Lunar Caustic\n    27\n  \n  \n    \n    4 drams\n  \n  \n    Prepared Lint\n    8 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Turpentine\n    4 ozs.\n  \n\nINSTRUMENTS, &c.\n\n  \n    1 Set of Amputating and other Surgical Instruments.\n    1 Spatula.\n  \n  \n    1 Dressing Scissors.\n    1\n  \n  \n    One ounce glass measure.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Infusion box.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Minim glass measure.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Quire of Country paper.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Pestle and mortar (Wedgwood).\n    1\n  \n  \n    Penknife,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Set of weights and scales (grains in box).\n    2\n  \n  \n    Metal Bedpans,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Set of common splints.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Trusses for Hernia, Right and Left.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Set of Bleeding Lancets.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Male Syringes.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Silver Catheter,\n    \n  \n\nENGLISH LABELS TO BE AFFIXED.\n\nThe following articles must also be placed on board, to be issued on demand of the Surgeon\n\n  \n    Arrowroot, Barley, Oatmeal or Sago\n    10\n  \n  \n    Lime Juice\n    75 lbs\n  \n  \n    Rum or Brandy\n    36 Quart bottles\n  \n  \n    Port Wine\n    36\n  \n  \n    Combs\n    6\n  \n  \n    Razors\n    \n  \n  \n    Soap\n    12\n  \n  \n    Sugar\n    24\n  \n  \n    \n    150 lbs\n  \n  \n    \n    300\n  \n  \n    \n    21\n  \n  \n    \n    24\n  \n  \n    \n    770\n  \n  \n    \n    26",
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        "content_text": "And I do hereby further declare that with respect to Passengers being Chinese, or persons accustomed to Chinese diet, in addition to, and irrespective of any provisions of their own which any such passenger may have on board, the Master of every \"Passenger Ship\" shall make to each statute adult during the voyage, including the time of detention, if any, at any port or place before the termination of such voyage, an allowance of pure water and sweet and wholesome provisions according to the following dietary scale, and the provisions mentioned in such scale shall in the case of such Chinese passengers only be substituted for the Articles of food and provisions specified in the said Act.\n\nGiven under my hand and Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, this 28th Day of December in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three and in the Seventeenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.\n\nS, G, BONHAM,\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nW, CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\n  \n    Rice,...\n    14tb\n    1 p diem\n  \n  \n    Firewood,\n    \n    \n    Salt Pork,\n    +\n  \n  \n    Salt,\n    Lard, Salted Fat, Fresh Fat or Oil,\n    Joz\n    Pickled Vegetables,...\n    E\n    ... 3\n    77\n  \n  \n    Pepper, Vinegar,\n    Tobacco, ...\n    ウタ\n  \n  \n    Tea,\n    Water,\n    gallon 1\n    JJ\n    3lbs loz\n    diem week\n    ... l\n    \"\n    pint 2\n    \"\n    ...4 ozs\n    \"\n  \n\nThree weeks supply of Biscuit is to be placed on board, to be issued at the rate of 2lbs a day only when the weather is too bad for cooking, or when required by the Surgeon.\n\nPeas or Beans may be substituted for Rice, and Opium for Tobacco, to the extent and in the proportion to be fixed by the Surgeon.\n\nHalf issues to be made to Children under ten years of age. The issues in accordance with this scale are to be made daily; the first issues to be made on the day of embarkation.\n\nAnd I do hereby also further declare in pursuance of the said last mentioned Act, that Twelve instead of Fifteen feet shall be deemed a sufficient allowance of space for any Natives of Asia or Africa who may be conveyed from Hongkong through the Tropics.\n\nAnd lastly, I do hereby further declare, that the medicines, medical instruments, and other matters necessary for the medical treatment of the Passengers during any such voyage, shall be as follows; namely:\n\nFor a Ship carrying 100 passengers and in like proportion for any greater or less number.\n\n  \n    FOR 100 PERSONS.\n    \n    FOR 100 PERSONS.\n  \n  \n    Calomel\n    3 ozs.\n    Senna Leaves\n    8 ozs\n  \n  \n    Blue Pill\n    \n    Rhubarb Powder\n    2\n  \n  \n    Blistering Plaister\n    8\n    Sulphur Sublimed\n    16\n  \n  \n    Compound Jalap Powder\n    \n    Sulphur Ointment\n    12\n  \n  \n    Ipecacuanha Powder...\n    \n    Linseed Flour\n    4 lbs.\n  \n  \n    Opium\n    \n    Country Soap\n    24 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Dover's Powder\n    2\n    Castor Oil\n    \n  \n  \n    Magnesia\n    »\n    Oil of Peppermint\n    \n  \n  \n    Epsom Salts...\n    6 lbs.\n    Adhesive Plaister Spread\n    6 bottles\n  \n  \n    \n    2 ozs.\n    \n    2 yds.\n  \n  \n    Chloride of Lime\n    20\n    Simple Ointment\n    16 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Tartar Emetic\n    4 drams,\n    Ringworm Ointment\n    16\n  \n  \n    Quinine\n    2 ozs.\n    Jeremie's Opiate\n    2oz phial\n  \n  \n    Antimonial Powder\n    \n    Aromatic Spirits of Hartshorn\n    4 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Extract of Colocynth Compound\n    \n    Cholera Pills in Phial\n    \"\n  \n  \n    \n    12 drams\n    Carbonate of Ammonia\n    \n  \n  \n    Cubebs Powder\n    4 lbs.\n    Assafœtida\n    \n  \n  \n    Sweet Spirits of Nitre\n    16 ozs.\n    Camphor\n    \n  \n  \n    Copaiba\n    \n    Camphorated Liniment\n    \n  \n  \n    Sulphate of Copper\n    \n    Catechu\n    \n  \n  \n    Sulphate of Zine\n    \n    Prepared Chalk\n    2\n  \n  \n    Lunar Caustic\n    16\n    \n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    4 drams\n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    Tincture of Opium\n    8 ozs.\n  \n  \n    Prepared Lint\n    4 ozs.\n    Turpentine\n    116\n  \n  \n    Cloth for Bandages\n    2 pieces\n    \n    1\n  \n\nINSTRUMENTS, &c.\n\n  \n    Set of Amputating and other Surgical Instruments.\n    1\n    Spatula.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Dressing Scissors.\n    1\n    One ounce glass measure.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Infusion box.\n    1\n    Minim glass measure.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Quire of Country paper,\n    1\n    Pestle and mortar (Wedgwool).\n    I\n  \n  \n    Penknife,\n    1\n    Set of weights and scales (grains in box).\n    2\n  \n  \n    Metal Bedpans.\n    2\n    Set of common splints.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Trusses for Hernia, Right and Left.\n    1\n    Set of Bleeding Lancets.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Male Syringes.\n    1\n    Silver Catheter.\n    \n  \n\nENGLISH LABELS TO BE AFFIXED.\n\nThe following articles must also be placed on board, to be issued on demand of the Surgeon\n\n  \n    Arrowroot, Barley, Oatmeal or Sago\n    75 lbs...\n  \n  \n    Lime Juice\n    36 Quart bottles\n  \n  \n    Rum or Brandy\n    36\n  \n  \n    Port Wine\n    10\n  \n  \n    Combs\n    6\n    Razors\n    24\n  \n  \n    Soap\n    24\n    Sugar\n    150 lbs\n  \n  \n    \n    300\n    for 100 Persons.\n    \"\n  \n  \n    \n    21\n    \"\n    \"\n  \n\nPage 343",
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        "content_text": "4\n\n348\n\nCont\n\n25 Sep\n\n72\n\n26\n\nSt God Caine\n\nReports\n\n16th Sept pr L.M. Steam this \"Rattler\".\n\n73 Police Force. Recommends increase of - both in Strength and Pay.\n\n74 Police Clothing. Forwarde Requisition for, for 1855.\n\n75 Market Ordinance 2/54. Transmits for approval.\n\n76 Piracy in the vicinity of Hong Kong. and the Canton River, & affairs of Kwang tung Province. Reports the continuance of Piracy – Plunder of a Port Boat, and loss of Mail Bags. Canton besieged by the Insurgents.\n\nSchedule of Despatches via Marseilles.\n\nTransfer",
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        "content_text": "Your communication of the day's date directing the, by order\n\n7th Govt. the Queen: God\n\nHon'ble administering the Govt. other.\n\nJohnny, Bodelam to delam for Mr.\n\narriving\n\nInspection of all letters arriving at the office addressed to ... on board the Russian Hut in China,\n\nall letters addressed & authorised Agent of the Busan\n\n119 Russian Govt., and all letters under cover to other persons, which I may reasonably suspect to be Russian and Castreland op.\n\nI beg respectfully postal\n\nWall, while I shall not fail to act up to the spirit and letter of these instructions, I shall, on behalfing\n\navail myself of the consideration",
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        "content_text": "Fine may be substituted for Forfeiture.\n\nMode of Procedure in Criminal Cases.\n\nApplication of Penalties.\n\nXII. It shall be lawful for the Court before which any Ship liable to Forfeiture under this Act is proceeded against to impose such a pecuniary Penalty as to the same Court shall seem fit, in lieu of condemning the Ship, and in such Case to cause the Ship to be detained until the Penalty is paid, and to cause any Penalty so imposed to be applied in the same Manner in which the Proceeds of the said Ship, if condemned and sold by Order of the Court, would have been applicable.\n\nXIII. All Misdemeanors and other Criminal Offences punishable under this Act shall be dealt with, tried, and judged of in the same Manner as Misdemeanors and other Offences punishable under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and all the Rules of Law, Practice, or Evidence applicable to the last-mentioned Misdemeanors and Offences shall be applicable to Misdemeanors and other Offences under this Act.\n\nXIV. Any Court, Justice, or Magistrate imposing any Penalty under this Act for which no specific Application is herein provided may, if it or he thinks fit, direct the whole or any Part thereof to be applied in compensating any person for any Wrong or Damage which he may have sustained by the Act or Default in respect of which such Penalty is imposed, or in or towards Payment of the Expenses of the Proceedings; and, subject to such Directions or specific Application as aforesaid, all Penalties recovered in the United Kingdom shall be paid into the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer in such Manner as the Treasury may direct, and shall be carried to and form Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom; and all Penalties recovered in any British Possession shall be paid over into the Public Treasury of such Possession, and form Part of the Public Revenue thereof.\n\nWritten Declarations\n\nXV. In any legal Proceeding taken under this Act or in respect of the Bond herein-before required, any Document purporting to be the written Declaration of any British Consul, or of the Commander of any of Her Majesty's Ships of War, or to be a Copy of the Proceedings of any Court of Justice, shall, without any Proof of Signature, be received in Evidence, in case it shall appear that such Copy or Declaration, if produced in the United Kingdom, was officially transmitted to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or, if produced in any Colony, was officially transmitted to the Governor thereof: Provided always, that no Person making such written Declaration as aforesaid shall be capable of receiving a Share of any Penalty or Forfeiture which shall be procured by such written Declaration.\n\nAct.\n\nShort Title.\n\nCommencement of\n\nXVI. This Act may be cited for any Purpose whatever under the Name of the \"Chinese Passengers Act, 1855.\"\n\nXVII. This Act shall come into operation as soon as it shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor thereof, or if not so proclaimed, on the First Day of January next ensuing.\n\nSCHEDULE (A.)\n\nRegulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships.\n\nNote. The wilful and fraudulent Breach of any of these Regulations by the Person in charge of any Chinese Passenger Ship is punishable by Forfeiture of the Ship, and every Person concerned in such Breach is liable to a Fine of One hundred Pounds for each Offence.\n\nI. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Days' Duration without a Certificate from an Emigration Officer; and such Certificate shall be in the Form provided by the Chinese Passenger Act, 1855.\n\nII. No Emigration Officer shall be bound to give such Certificate in respect of any Chinese Passenger Ship till Seven Days after receiving Notice that the Ship is to carry Passengers, and of her Destination, and of her proposed Day of Sailing, nor unless there are on board a Surgeon and Interpreter approved by such Emigration Officer.\n\nIII. After receiving such Notice, the Emigration Officer shall be at liberty at all Times to enter and inspect the Ship, and the Fittings, Provisions, and Stores therein, and any Person impeding him in such Entry or Inspection, or refusing to allow of the same, shall be liable to a Fine of not more than One hundred Pounds for each Offence.\n\nIV. The Emigration Officer shall not give his Certificate unless he shall be satisfied,--\n\n1. That the Ship is sea-worthy, and properly manned, equipped, fitted, and ventilated; and has not on board any Cargo likely, from its Quality, Quantity, or Mode of Stowage, to prejudice the Health or Safety of the Passengers:\n\n2. That the Space appropriated to the Passengers in the 'Tween Decks contains at the least Twelve Superficial and Seventy-two Cubical Feet of Space for every Adult on board; that is to say, for every Passenger above Twelve Years of Age, and for every Two Passengers between the Ages of One Year and Twelve Years:\n\n3. That a Space of Five Superficial Feet per Adult is left clear on the Upper Deck for the Use of the Passengers;\n\n4. That Provisions, Fuel, and Water have been placed on board of good Quality, properly packed, and sufficient to supply the Passengers on board during the declared Duration of the intended Voyage, according to the following Scale:\n\nPork and Fish; or1 per diem.\nRice,1/2 lb.\nSalted Provisions.-\nWholly Pork; or1/3 lb.\nPork, Beef, and Fish1/3 lb.\nSalted Vegetable or Pickles3 oz.\nWater3 Imperial Quarts\nFirewood5 lbs.\nTea#2 oz.\n\n5. That Medicines and Medical Comforts have been placed on board according to the following Scale:\n\nRhubarb Powder,For every 100 Passengers, and in like Proportion for any greater or less Number.\nCompound Jalap Powder,3 oz.\nIpecacuanba Powder,2 oz.\nOpium,1 oz.\nDover's Powder,2 oz.\nMagnesia,8 oz.\nEpsom Salts,1 lb.\nChloride of Lime,8 oz.\nTartar Emetic,2 oz.\nQuinine,2 oz.\nAntimonial Powder,1 oz.\nExtract of Colocynth, Compound,2 oz.\nCarbonate of Ammonia,1 oz.\nAssafoetida,1 oz.\nCamphor,4 oz.\nCamphorated Liniment,8 oz.\nCatechu,4 oz.\nPrepared Chalk,1 lb.\nTincture of Opium,4 oz.\nTurpentine,8 oz.\nSenna Leaves,8 oz.\nBlistering Plaister,12\nSulphur Sublimed1 lb.\nSulphur Ointment,12 oz.\nLinseed Flour,4 lbs.\nCountry Soap,24 oz.\nCastor Oil,6 Bottles.\nOil of Peppermint,2 oz.\nAdhesive Plaister, spread,2 Yards.\nSimple Ointment,16 oz.\nRingworm Ointment,2 oz.\nJeremie's Opiate,2 oz. Phial.\nAromatic Spirits of Hartshorn,4 oz.\nCholera Pills in Phial,1 oz.\nCubebs Powder,4 oz.\nSweet Spirits of Nitre,16 oz.\nCopaiba,8 oz.\nSulphate of Copper,1 oz.\nSulphate of Zinc,1 oz.\nLunar Caustic,8 oz.\nLime Juice,1 gallon.\nRum or Brandy,36 Quarts.\n\nV. The Master of any Chinese Passenger Ship being a British Ship and proceeding on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' Duration shall, during the whole of the intended Voyage, make Issues of Provisions, Fuel, and Water, according to the aforesaid Dietary Scale, and shall not make any Alteration, except for the manifest Advantage of the Passengers, in respect of the Space allotted to them as aforesaid, or in respect of the Means of Ventilation, and shall not ill-use the Passengers, or require them (except in case of Necessity) to help in working the Vessel; and shall issue Medicines and Medical Comforts, as shall be requisite, to the best of his Judgment, and shall call at such Ports as may be mentioned in the Emigration Officer's Clearing Certificate for fresh Water and other Necessaries; and shall carry them without unnecessary Delay to the Destination to which they have contracted to proceed.\n\nVI. The Emigration Officer shall not give his Certificate until he shall have mustered the Passengers, and have ascertained to the best of his Power that they understand whither they are going, and comprehend the Nature of any Contracts of Service which they have made; he shall also take care that a Copy of the Form of such Contracts, or an Abstract of their Substance, signed by himself, is appended to the said Certificate: If any of the Passengers are in bad Health, or insufficiently provided with Clothing, or if the Contracts are unfair, or if there is Reason to suspect that Fraud or Violence have been practised in their Collection or Embarkation, he may detain the Ship, and, if he shall think it, may order all or any of the Passengers to be re-landed.\n\nSCHEDULE (B.) Emigration Officer's Certificate.\n\nI hereby authorise the Chinese Passenger Ship [name] to proceed to Sea for the Port of [port]; and I certify that the said Ship can legally carry [number] Adults, and that there are on board Passengers, making in all [number] Adults, viz., [number] Men, [number] Women, [number] Male Children, and [number] Female Children, such Children being between the Ages of One and Twelve Years; that the Space set apart and to be kept clear for the Use of such Emigrants is as follows:-On the Upper Deck, [number] Superficial Feet, being [here describe the Space], and in the Between Decks [number] Superficial Feet, being [here describe the Space]; that the Ship is properly manned and fitted, and that the Means of ventilating the Part of the Between Decks appropriated to Passengers are as follows, [here describe the Means of Ventilation]; that the Ship is furnished with a proper Quantity of good Provisions, Fuel, and Water for [number] Days' Issues to the Passengers according to the annexed Dietary Scale, and with a proper Quantity of Medicines, Instruments, and Medical Comforts according to the annexed Scale of Medical Necessaries; that I have inspected the Contracts between the Emigrants and their intended Employers (the Terms of which are annexed to this Certificate), and consider them reasonable; that no Fraud appears to have been practised in collecting the Emigrants; and that there are on board a Surgeon and Interpreter approved by me, and designated [respectively [names] and [name]] Master of the Ship is to put into [port] for Water and fresh Vegetables.\n\nDated this [date] Day of [month] 18 [year].\n\n(Signed)\n\nEmigration Officer.\n\n[The Part between Brackets is to be inserted or not, as may be required.]\n\nSCHEDULE (C.).\n\nForm of Bond to be given by the Masters of Chinese Passenger Ships.\n\nKnow all Men by these Presents, That we are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the Sum of One thousand Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors; to which Payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally, for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and every of them, firmly by these Presents.\n\nSealed with our Seals.\n\nDated this [date] Day of [month] 18 [year].\n\nWhereas by the Chinese Passenger Act, 1855, it is enacted, that before any Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' computed Duration, the Master thereof shall, with Two sufficient Sureties to be approved by an Emigration Officer, enter into a Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of One thousand Pounds.\n\nNow the Condition of this Obligation is this, that if (in respect of the Ship [name] whereof [name] is Master) all and every of the Requirements of the said Chinese Passenger Act, and of the Regulations contained in Schedule (A.) to the said Act annexed, or enacted by the Legislature of Hongkong, shall be well and truly observed and performed in like Manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said Ship were a British Ship, and the said [name] a British Subject, then this Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full Force and Effect.\n\nSigned, sealed, and delivered by the above-bounden [names] in the Presence of [witness].",
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        "content_text": "8+\n\n£70212\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nARRIVED.\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NAME\n    FROM\n    SAILED\n    CAPTAIN\n    CARGO\n    CONSIGNEE\n  \n  \n    May 10\n    Levant\n    Shanghai\n    April 29\n    Allmaun\n    Sundries\n    John Burd and Co\n  \n  \n    13\n    Eaglet\n    New York\n    Nov. 13\n    Smith\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Eatont\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Dent and Co\n  \n  \n    13\n    Vinder\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Jardine, M. and Co\n  \n  \n    19\n    Wild Dayrell\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Jardine, M. and Co\n  \n  \n    13\n    Masick\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Melanie\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Nina\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Lanesfell\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Antelope\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Roehampton\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nPage 363\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NAME\n    FROM\n    SAILED\n    CAPTAIN\n    CARGO\n    CONSIGNEE\n  \n  \n    May 14\n    Evening Star\n    Shanghai\n    April 29\n    Roberts\n    \n    Lyall, Still and Co\n  \n  \n    14\n    Alligator\n    \n    \n    Mu\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Casrier\n    \n    \n    Rodgers\n    \n    Fletcher and Co\n  \n  \n    14\n    Louise Sophie\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16\n    Neptun\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Sancho Panza\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Daring\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Bayadere\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16\n    Resolute\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    P'engula\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nPage 363\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NAME\n    FROM\n    SAILED\n    CAPTAIN\n    CARGO\n    CONSIGNEE\n  \n  \n    May 10\n    Mazuppa\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    Hermanu\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    19\n    Surpos\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    19\n    Hervalos\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16\n    Constancia\n    Amoy\n    April 29\n    Denia\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Sen Rainger\n    \n    \n    Larpoor\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    April 29\n    Vindex\n    Shanghai\n    April 26\n    Shungase\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    27\n    Comet\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    28\n    Lorenza\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 7\n    Roa\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nSAILED.\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NAME\n    TON\n    MASTERS\n    FOR\n    CARGO\n    CONSIGNEE\n  \n  \n    May 8\n    Henry Miller\n    \n    Putt\n    Manila\n    Sundries\n    Dent and Co\n  \n  \n    12\n    Fncounter\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12\n    Starr King\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Congo\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nPage 364\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NAME\n    TON\n    MASTERS\n    FOR\n    CARGO\n    CONSIGNEE\n  \n  \n    May 14\n    Queen Margaret\n    538\n    Spence\n    Manila\n    Sundries\n    John Burd and Co\n  \n  \n    14\n    Hellespont\n    336\n    Keya\n    Shanghai\n    Sundries\n    L. J. Gutierrez\n  \n  \n    14\n    Cometa\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Kroo!\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Theodora\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Ellen\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Sophia Fraser\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Black Warrior\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Hamlison\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Amistad\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nPage 364\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NAME\n    TON\n    MASTERS\n    FOR\n    CARGO\n    CONSIGNEE\n  \n  \n    May 18\n    Sarah Warren\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Chieftain\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Trees\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Launceston\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nSHIPS OF WAR.\n\n  \n    GUNS\n    COMMANDER\n    AT\n  \n  \n    Pique, ship\n    36\n    F. W. Nickson\n    Hongkong\n  \n  \n    Bellona, ship\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Syblle, ship\n    \n    Comodore Elliot\n    \n  \n  \n    Christiana, barque\n    American\n    Bllis, Master\n    Hongkong\n  \n  \n    \n    18\n    Smith\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Hon N. Stewart\n    \n  \n  \n    Sibylle, Frigate\n    50\n    Captain Maison\n    Japan\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    therve\n    \n  \n  \n    Virginie, Frigate\n    50\n    Captain Wilson\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    12\n    Bernard\n    Macao\n  \n  \n    \n    14\n    Bave\n    \n  \n  \n    Juzona, Frigate\n    Portagnese\n    20\n    Lopez\n    \n  \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NAME\n    AT\n    TON\n    MASTERS\n    CARGO\n    CONSIGNEE\n  \n  \n    April 29\n    Alligator, brig\n    Hongkong\n    189\n    Sinden\n    \n    Gibb, Livingston and Co\n  \n  \n    May 1\n    106\n    Caes\n    \n    Lyall, Still and Co\n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    11\n    Deza\n    \n    Order\n    \n  \n  \n    Sept. 26\n    43\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMRS. MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the Name of our Firm in China.\n\nKING & Co.\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partner in our Firm.\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co.,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nN. WEISMANN, is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm in China.\n\nREISS and Co.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1855.\n\nTRUSTEES-Hon. DAVID JARDINE, Esq., U. D. W. McCALMONT\n\nE. Hon. W. T. MERCER Esq., R. H. WALES\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & G. Steam Navigation Company, &c., &c.\n\nTREASURER-G. BENTHAM, Esq.\n\nRESIDENT SURGEON-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $1\n\nper day.\n\n.. $2\n\nper day.\n\n.. $5\n\nper day.\n\nPATIENTS are also admitted on deposits, at the following\n\nrates:-\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $16\n\n.. $20\n\n.. $30\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nApply to\n\nDROM, GRAY & Co.\n\nShaughae, 8th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\n(Established in 1843)\n\nNo. 1320\n\nROBERT S. WALLER, Hongkong.\n\nE. WANDEN, Shanghai.\n\nH.T. MASALL. Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love, Calcutta.\n\nROBERT FRANCK, Madras, or James Arnot, Bombay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co. London, 8th January, 1854.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nW. immediate cases, 4 STAMPED THE DWELLING HOUSE and BUSINESS PREMISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAND in the rear of the Godowns, situated in a most eligible position, and fronting the River,\n\nCHINA for The above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES as follows:-\n\n1st-On Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal, or other fire-resisting Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,--Rate of Premium, 1 per cent per annum.\n\n2. On such Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at per cent 2 per annum.\n\nAssurances for 6 Months 1, and for 3 Months §.\n\nAnnual rate will be charged.\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the HOSPITAL.\n\nTO LET.\n\nA Hospital Building to be receipted by the Superintendent only.\n\nSituated on part of Marine Lot No. 15. True Bay only.\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nbetween\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON,\n\nTUTE WILLAMETTE.\n\nCaptain W. Conrad, having been fitted up expressly for the River Passenger Traffic, will now run regularly between the above Places, as follows, viz:--\n\nFrom Hongkong to Canton.\n\nevery MONDAY & TUESDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFrom Canton to Hongkong.\n\nEvery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFare for Passengers-\n\nEuropean, First-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$5 each.\n\n$3 each.\n\nEuropean, Second-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$2 each.\n\n$1 each.\n\nCHANGE FOR REFRESHMENTS, Breakfast, &c., (including Wine and Beer)...\n\n4d:1\n\nOwing to the Willamette's large Cargo Capacity, it is intended that she shall carry Cargo on Freight, as per separate Tariff, to be had on application to the Agents.\n\nCargo, when safely large quantities, will be delivered alongside Vessels, if practicable.\n\nTowage\n\nWill be furnished on Moderate Terms; and intending Consignees will, when possible, be informed by Circular as soon as any such Service has been engaged for.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkong,\n\nMAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton.\n\nHongkong, 24th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nMR. A. J. CAMPBELL is authorized to sign our Firm\n\nFLETCHER. & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st February, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMR. JAMES McCORMICK, is authorized to sign our\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th January, 1856.\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $20; Six Months, $10; Three Months, $6. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $12; Six Months, $7; Three Months, $4. To the OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT also For One Year, $8; all payable in advance.\n\nAGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTHONS, Esq., London; Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Calcutta; Messrs. BORRADAILLE & Co. Bombay W. S. DUNCAN, Esq., Singapore; Messrs. THOMPSON, ROWES & Co., Batavia; J. P. FUDA, Esq. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkong Register Office: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, Tuesday, May 20, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. HERMAN NOTMAN, having taken charge of the\n\nAgency, has ceased to sign our Firm.\n\nMR. COYLE HEBBENBR has been authorised to sign with Firm, per Procuration\n\nL.E. LEBERT\n\nCanton, 8th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nOXFORD.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nSUPERIOR TINTO and WHITE WINE, in Casks\n\nex Brigrs from Lisbon.\n\nApply to\n\nBRANDAO & Co., Canton,\n\nJ. C. LUIZ DA SILVA, Macao,\n\nM. DE CARVALHO, Hongkong,\n\nHongkong, 6th March, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFRENCH COGNACS.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLD HERRIES,\n\nCLARETS of Superior quality, Chateau, Margaux, Mouton. St. Estephe, &c. Julian, and Leoville.\n\nApply in Hongkong and Canton\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\n500 Bags Eureka Mill, Superfine Selected,\n\nSAN FRANCISCO FLOUR.\n\nApply to\n\nF. & D. N. CANJOC and Co.\n\nFR GRATIAM ANDERSON joined me as a Partner:\n\non the 1st of January last.\n\nThe business will be carried on in the name of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nCanton, 5th March, 1856.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nALEX. WILSON, Agents, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns,\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDESTROYERS and Labuan STEAMERS' QUALITY.\n\nApply to\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, October, 1855\n\nZINC SHEATHING, AND NAILS FOR SALE,\n\nWILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nFOR SALE SUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s\n\nGodowns.\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT WINE in quarter Casks, from the\n\nROYAL PORTO WINE COMPANY—just received.\n\nALEX WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns.\n\nEast Point, 15th February, 1856.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one risk. And of the 2nd Class-To the extent of £8,000.\n\nAssurances on Buildings and their Contents when together form one Risk. Thus to above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured be entitled to participate in the Profits after Five successive payments.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China.\n\n[Hongkong, 1st January, 1845,\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\nand after this day, M. MAXIMILIAN FISCHER\n\non\n\nCanton, is empowered to sign\n\nPOLICIES\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Agent.\n\nHongkong, 3d March 1854.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room in the Chinese\n\nHall, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock p.m., to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books. Non-members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE,\n\nSecretary\n\nHOME EDUCATION, CHELTENHAM.\n\nLADY, the Widow of a Clergyman, who has\n\nresided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own children, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFurther particulars and references will be obtained on application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE undersigned has received authority by the last Mail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued here by the above Office, payable in THREE Months after notice, in place of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong. 6th June, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nROB. S. WALKER,\n\nAgent.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720.\n\nTestimonial to be presented to Mr ROBERT RIENAECKEL, now lying at the \"VICTORIA LIBRARY\n\nRooms.\n\nFor Signature.\"\n\nHongkong, 1st March, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nREV. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of English Parents at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the comforts of a HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION,\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Queen Street, Victoria, HongKong.\n\nWHAT SHALL I Fr?--A young lady exiled in a\n\nPOLICIES to do something for a rash of red to the\n\nE undersigned.\n\nAgents at Hongkong for above Corporation, are prepared to ISSUE POLICIES AGAINST FIRE to the extent of £200,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same\n\nDENT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nI have been doctoring myself,' said the languid fair one, with a smile, to the bluff, though kind M. D. while he was feeling her pulse. Why I have taken Morrison's pills, Parr's pills, Cockle's pills, Allen and Bell's pills. Bell's balsam of liquorice, and Powell's cough electuary. I even med Beary's calcined magnesia, Fawcett's nervous pills, and Madam,\" interrupted the astonished doctor, all these to your complaint no good\" Now then what shall I take? inquired the patient. Take, exclaimed the doctor, eyeing her from head to feet, Take, echoed after a moment's reflection, take-why, take of\n\nyour stools!'\n\nNOTICE\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 23d January, 1856.\n\nHONGKONG INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nTHE undersigned hereby give notice, that on and after this date POLICIES will be granted in the above Office, payable in CASH and the various Agents, at THREE Months after first proper notice of Loss is given in lieu of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong, 13th December, 1854\n\nLINDSAY & Co.,\n\nSecretaries.\n\nWe conclude with the following, which we recommend particularly to all anxious mothers --\n\n\"One day, when Dr. Read was sitting with us, we saw from the open window his own little boy. about four years old, playing on the green with a large hatchet-\n\nWe pointed it out to the father, and urged him to go and take from his child so dangerous a play-thing.\n\n'Well now, I guess, if I did, he would find something else perhaps worse. You know that the other day he had got the percussion caps and gun-powder that your master Frank blew himself up with.' It is impossible to be always looking after them. They must take their chance.\"--(Mr. Beste, vol... 132\n\nCORRESPONDENTS of England.They told us how they should like to see England; but could not bear the idea of living there; and they asked us if we had no fear in living in England When we asked why, they said some of their priests told them that England was only a piece of land like an iceberg and just sticking out above the ice, and which might be overflowed or covered any night when there might be an extraordinary rough sea, which catastrophe they considered must at some time happen. 1 -Carr's Russia.",
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        "content_text": "DIC \n\nA 10 09 \n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE OVERLAND FRIEND OF CHINA, MAY, 1856.\n\nTHE BOWRING PRAYA, On the 5th altiso n Onvernment notification ap peared arong our advertisements, to the effect that the Bowring Prayn Commission would sit daily with open doors. No counter noties uppeased by which we were to learn when the labours of that Cntamission ended; and when some three weeks afterwards one Marine Let haider who hurd ben absent from the Colony over the whole time made enquiry of one of the Commissioners regarding the sittings, he was then told the Commission was at an end and that the report was in progress for early rendering A Supplemental scale of yesterday gives to the world the result of the Commission's labears; and appears that a Schedule was at sached to the Coutaission containing the following\n\nfive grescens\n\n1. Wther the Gaverement of this Tsland ought or eight set to actase the emire son traction of the saul Fraga, or of say and what part threat?\n\nIL. After what rate or rates ought the preson; hokters of Mine Lot to be admittal to the possession slower.mtion at the grean lying between their aur Boulades and the Praya, where the Fanstruction shall have been undertaken by the Government?\n\n. In the event of of the holders of Marine Lote heng wiling, and others of them being siding, to wader. take the chastraction at their van orm, ought or waght Fote Govermest to undertake the conception of one of the san! raya as able to the front of the lots of the bywing headers, and to allow the willing filers to under- sake of novel wil their peepozion of the work in respect of their own lots?\n\nIV. Ongla or ought not the Burian Strand portion of tho sait aya tu be coingraced lagerber with the catres portions thereof, or which i\n\nV. What provision stylt su hade for the shipping and lolis of goste, and the parking and disembarking of pengers at ul uleog the saki Prapa when escapicted?\n\nTo the first of these questions, the Commission repbei-stɔvement ought to undertake the work, and in an ather way could it be accom plished.\n\nTo the second-that the rate on and reclaimed should be lifteen shillings per 100 square feet-ur very nearly two peace per boot, being about three hal pence por foot more than the peel of Marine Tot lands at last year's salos.-\n\nLease wall wakich Lenscholilors generally are desirous of heilding-with a roadway along the vad wall, to he kept cred by chains of rus to public thoroughitre, and panel only on cases of public marguney--would not such a construction as tuis Le ali that is requisite for the public weal?\n\nQuestion 2Would it not be better to leave the Police control of this roadway and wath to the Lease holders themselves!\n\nQuestion --Would it not be fair to charge Louseholders first class intand Let upseter te for the and redeemed-in addition to the rental at which they are at present assisted?\n\nQuestion 1-Whald i ust be advisable to com route the rent, either ever the whole jot, run the part redeemed ouiy, for a fixed suto down?\n\nwas naturally ta be anticipated upon the question as to the conditions of tencre of landle reclaimed or to her fir the sea. In one raspect nuly they appeared to is unrella, igrating too fast antal proer the Crown alune basi tite to all such bende, bether arely reclaimed ar ve\n\net,, ., &c.\n\nI can only of course spenk na w gronad already reclaimed, but on that point f deny that I either now igre, er did so in toy evidence to the Com- mission, the fact that at present the Crown lone Ares site to all such hurts.\" \n\nMy esidence will be found to state, that I cou- sidered Coverament not eath led to ady rest upon grounds how reclaimed, but that if any rate was to be fired, it should be such as ao sioun to a mere nominal real.\n\nSurely this admits most faily the Creven's de le the land, for except the Crowa hels the title, how etix any rate of Rent and surely the fact should be patent to the nest ordinary understand-\n\nAn Qurtina 6-Wand it not exhibit better sense is Excellency the Governor, and less\n\nunity, if he refrained from boring those w interests as is paid to protect, and whose confeting, that such evidence is based on the consider1-\n\nhe is supposed to have at heart, with what the? so wat went 2-Bowa PRAYA. F of C. April 3.\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China,\n\n\"HONGKONG, -- April, 1856. DER $1-- would suggest to the Bowring Penya Commission un aditional question to le raggested by yun-wis, \"Would not the expert cace of the Greek Luna dubbings be xafficleur to warrant a speculation for doing a fand to be deno minated the Bowing Praga Consels ?\"--it would pay well.--Sophistically thine,\n\nA DREAMER IN SHADOW LAND, of C. Apral 96,\n\ntion of what ander the circumstances in which the land was reclaimed, equitably due to Govern meat upon it.\n\nAnd now, Sir, as it is not my chieet to review: the Report, either as to its gemein matter, of the spirit which perrades it, but only to point out and Tefate those parts wherein it ia wafair and incorrect in relation to my own evidence, I will conclude with a gentle admonition to the President of the Bearing Prays Commission, that before grap pling\" in future, he wish do well to look to the metal of his grappling irous, for anless tant metal ba found true and withou: ww, the gripe which it is fempted to is, will never prove bei delusive and unavailing-ara, Sir, your shelient servaus,\n\nFfC. April 25. R. C. ANTRORUS.\n\nthe Edit of the \" Fyfend of China,\"\n\nFoxoxoso 28th April, 1856.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Friend of thing” ** Hosunun 23rd April, 1856.\n\nSHowever unwilling I am to do so, I re- grot to say, that one portion of the Pawing Praya-The Fe rels Proverb Qui s'excuse a'a. Commission, as laid before the public in the Government Gazette, forces ne as to make use of some public channel of connoication, that\n\nTo the third- they thonght Government vaierepresentation may not be allowed an unob structed coarse, and that perversion of the spirit of had better undertake the whole work-\n\nTo the fourth-That the Benham Strand por evidence gives may not remain unchallenged.\n\nThe Commissioner \"close their caquiry in al tion of the Praya should be commenced at once.\n\nAnd the fifth-the Commission gave at indo ceritade of being free from the reproach of par- aste answer. The wharfage it could not be deniality and injustice, na they are inquestionably ed was vested in the Leaseholders. The Commis- free from the kindred one of concealment \"\n\nFrom their correctness, which must be placed sion would take away dru privilegs if they could but as the law was against them, they would rather under the former category, as recording is the Re- For the substance of certain evidence. I must diz- Sublim zao. You will fad in the second and third The evidence of the six valutary deponents be fore the Commission, ces Messis Ambus, Duddell, paragraphs of page 4 of the Report, a reference ta Edger, Marrow, Postau and Sherede, apres to ceratin evidence which 1 gave before the Commis- have been supplied to the Governor in an Apion. The report hore states,\n\nhe report but these depositions, per lis described as the testimony of intelligent witnes Bes-of respectable witnesses-of highly respectable witnesses-and of witnesses deserving of all attention\n\nhave cot bear furnished to the public.\n\nad recommend !\n\nIt is only with specific instances like thesĘ \" (viz: two which they are pleased to call dubians cases that it is possible to grapple,\" &c, Ázu,\n\nby\n\nA gentleman who has confesund & purpresture committed selfin 18ht, and who had mafn thien oson percent,\n\n•with stoe Burhasis, the con of a general understand. Ting, that is wlained would to be interfered with by vorment, not the parties' right of access to the ses prs- juiced by the set,' was at length and to state the circu s which had prodowy that impression, so far as he an his fler ware ennesined a cover is curious ilustration of the proneness of these gentlemen is dorciva there It appears that the present Serveyor Chemeral, Dr Cheverly, and the late overner Sir George Bonn, gave him, in 1654, a verbal curarance, tad ten would not he prosecuted, ot called count for his encroachment. They gave me, he do father asses. This come in femity against pakich nant-fil be even thathe at unde interpreted into a renunciation or sesiver of a crown gh\n\nYou will observe, Siz, the Haport does not pre- suma to place as a quotation the words \"a verbal assurance that he would not be prosecuted or cal led to account for his encroachment,\" but it does\n\nThe reply to question the second is an elabor are disquisition-remarkabte, principally, far two things--ne its extreine one sidedness, another its taunciates of the most radical praciples. The object of the Comunission was to show that, At no time, from the days of Elias downwards, was official sanction ever given to the redemption In showing this,and it of fund from the sea. is shown as clavery as could possibly be expected from writers determined to tow only what would suit their purpos- the pressing requests by Filic? to the Merchants to come here and settle-to do as they pleased only to build godowns to store the tou for which he would get a remission of a penny upon duty-the proprsed allotment of the ground bought by them, royalties and all, in fte Emple-the premise that ju rehasers of Main so insert the next sentence, viz; they gave me,\" 1 should have the perption even of lots on the in- he adds, au further assurances. I call on the land side of the mad-all this was stadiously over. Commissiours to prodace, if they can, from my 3. Co., Laues Fletcher & Co., Mac Vient Bura & fact of prosecution with reference to the point tooked Theletters written by the frus of Cermell evidence, any use of the word, or allusion to the Co.,Tamer Co., Fox Rawson & Co. and Capt. barkins, protesting most strongly agmine: the ferece can with reason or fairness he no constru od as to justify them in thas expressing for me the mation of a Psya, as first propceed in the lane of\n\nassurances given to me. ur first Govainor, have all disappeared Bom\n\n\"cun say drielly, ther my firm aku myself chord 50 the records of Government; the very suggestion\n\nSu gesend anderstanding; and that no fut an they wad\n\ncad by converadio with Sit were condemnail, is over yout\n\nBasta and Me Cheverly, de Sarveyer Genezai,\n\nof irving chains across the road way mea\n\nca\" may be forcibly applied to the concluding Pangraph oftheRepoil of the Bowring Bags Cemission,\" whichhambly cerudies\" His Ex cellenes, that they are free from tee reproach of The necessity for partiality\" and injustice 1\"\n\noch o declaration had scarcely suggested bed to the minds of the Comunissioners but for some mois. givings of conscience, which are not in be wooder edat, for while we will not suppose that any me o- her of the Commission would wittingly set his name to a document containing that which he be levet to be it direct oppositinu to fact, we an heeitaringly assert, that the Report itself is a per- version of means towards a given end.\n\nThis may appse a harsh and unpleasant asser- tion, but (s a writer in the N. D. Herald apily quoted some short time sinca)\n\n†\n\nSurly, Mritor, all this borbast might ad- Fantageously have been omittel. It is well lowo, both to Sir John Burring, rad Me Chisholm An- tey. that if each cinetrine was once brought to bent justly, it would be resisted by all proper means: and the the resuks would be neb, as neither of them would wish to face. The delusion\" which one witness\" labored under this hend, in con- sequence of a conversation with the late Acting Attorney General,\" maxy, if tried, prove a enggerer to the full blowo cigary.\n\nWith regard to the Records of the Last Office in the early days of the Colony, on which so such weight place, it may soned somewhat strange that Mr Julius C. Power on one occasion, whico be contrived to speak unchecked for a few capravitis) stated, that these records were very imperfect, and Thai co doubt could be entertained that sang tings were not entered therein which ougla to have been\n\nEV.\n\nIt is somewhat curious also to notice in the wording of the report the animus which prevails anungst there impartial men. Where the evidence given is very favorable to the Government project, the givor is an inteliigent witness!\" i moderniely propitious his opinione deserve attention! If slightly apposed to the intusure, he izbora under a do lusio!\" denidedly adreree, he is purile!! hut whers the evidence rans really counter to their cause, it is a tee signslised as a man of in comertul asscueration and unsupported pretentim ! ! Unfortunately, however, for the campilers of the report, ugly nanies will not pass cures for argu- nents, and invectiva ia un proef. Already, one of the Gentiero examined has protested against the miscbracı actions to which he tina beer subjected,\n\nothers are prepared to do is some.\n\nWhy is not the appendix published? Do the Govern Tent really suppose, that those interested will quietly permit such a decent as the repart la go forth w the world, at a correct statement, made as unprejudiced men. who by their refer there to at appendiz, shakenge contradiction of log on which their assertions are based? No Sr. 1 como tarness that appende must ac ronde se public as the report itself, and then tha public will have an opportunity of adging how far the two agree together, They will fad, as wa have before eated, that the evidence is passed over when adverse, and brought prominently forward when favorable to the cause which has been re- rievably damaged by such a contre; and not only this, but mayhap uthers of real impurtance and deixal benefit, for we assurt on the very best grounds, that many of this community would now declin to appear before any future commission, compused of s or any of the members of the one lately cle solved, or to ca-opera-e with those who have for. fered that confidence which nu intial treatme of the subject committed to them would have coal- manded. This is not vegue assertion, as the fuma will show.\n\nThere is nother paint, which are we close, 13 may be well to notios, viz, the sigma that Marine La Bolders have been in the habit of Squeezing\" The Chinese by exacting atoll through\" for landing at their Private Wherves. This, however, we nurst adini fonded on the evidence of bet ope Holder of a Marine Lot, and peramps he way be the maly one who is aware of such exactions! Of this he must be the best judge, but that each pre- Lices have been in vague, or can turn any sigu ment in favor of a Prayn, scheenly needs refutation. Had Government baik proper wharves at the pains where such mecrable excresences as \"1\"\n\n\"Facta are things that winna ding\" \n\nand duorna be disputed.\" Let us glance pt sous of the leading points of the Repor, found. § no 65 vepablished \"Appendix ! Having considered the nailers referred to them, the Commissioners agree that the fire questions connined in the Schedule, have subraced every substantial matter of enquiry,\" and that the Witnesses called in end examined also pertain \"od that opinion,\" as there is little to he and in their evidence, which does not range iseli under some of those hau's of enqairy! No truly m it would have required no emilac, and much determisation, to obtain a Lending on any point which was adverse to the ubject of the Commission, (ie, lo support at a bazards the views of Sir John Bowring) Fer no seoner did evidence divergodere Whar\" were to be found, there never would 10 dangerous grond, then it was strangled by the have been any necessity for asking, or reagiving favore from Marine Lo: Holders. There is ample acrvous fins of the President, who doubling it\n\nspace now. and more than ample space to form relevancy, forthwith ignored its existence.\n\nPublic Warves, for double the wants of the Com- munity, who have not sex frontages. What are their quirements? Much fuse is made by the China Mail and others about the inconvenience to the public dwelling to the south of the Queen's Road! Le any one who knows the place run bis eye along the list of residente, and their occupations, and then see how my to the south of the queen's Read, w up the fill, que largo Wharing sc. connection. What the China Mail require '$ What goods dil fe latte wa inconvenience was an su'jected to ? None! And some reply will serve for nike tenths of those who habit the Iniant Lots do the lil; and such aust ever to the case, for Coolle hire alone would very soon absorb any benefit scecking from reduced rentals on In. land Lots were they used us storage ground,\n\nMoreover, when thune to be examined were first informed that any evidence they might give was whody uecuanected with the question of whe thers Praya ought or ought not to be made, end would not be considered as involving any opinion\n\nin question; and I deny that any portion of my ion that head, it is scarcely to be expected that\n\nsure intended to meet, not only an obiections of Gure we that was choar in jecam lava, there was no\n\nthose days, but the main objection of Leaseholders of the proscut, is carefly passed ever, when there is ocasion quote from the report prepared by Me Surveyor General Gordon.\n\nAnd as Non-genservative principles-70,000 Atates now in this Colony-65,000 of whan, at least, baking to the great anwashed\" with no more interest in it thau is requisite to gel meal of the frem day to day-this swarm of vagabonds, we are sold, ure entitled to an absolute equality of rights and duties in other word thay have as much right to perigrinate in front of our private dwelinge on the sou frunt as we bare, who pay four times more luar rent than the as14- ers of inland lots for the privilege of enjoying a brenzes andistrrbed, and for ather advantages 8 We havo you in juanne holding must give.\n\none power, and we will do as we please with you is the one all pervading spirit of the re part before as.\n\nBe it subat assertion and por formance are riva distinct things; and however ah stinate Sir John Bowring, he is not oranipotent- and this perhaps he will bad when-in the House Commons if needs be-the question is brought be\n\nore the horse Government by the constituents of those interested-Concitaents, Sir John Bowring and Mr Chisivalm Anstey must know, possessing as much power as any single section of the rope- sentatives of Great Britain.\n\nThe five questions in the Schedule, the Commis- sioners tell us in the report, embrace every thing With all due deference to their superior wisdom we will now suggest to them them five other ques¦ tinns and though they may doubt it, they may rest assured that on the antisfactory solution of there questions the matter has yet to depend.----\n\nQuestion 1-Would not a sea wall, to be called appropriately \"THE ALBERT WALL\"the supporting battress of ta Queen's Rond, w be boil along the sna front of all the lots already granted on Crown\n\nMy the terms of the Most Land Sale in 1844, merc istinctly rest to have sea, aot to fredage--the depth from these to the way wohl wary agosling to a torqueat letter Front Captain in solids at all, la kotiated moly the ncessities of die serafiants\n\nejection to an duing so, at that no difficulty or inconve nichou was likely to rise in us leam baring done it. They gave me the sarther as conges\n\nThe latter short stulence. I gave most willingly as an answer to a remark from the Frezident af Commission, that as both the gentamen alluded to were now absuut from the Colony, if they made no further assurances, perhaps I would not object to Sidy 841\n\nleave it then to the public to decide,-looking at my evidence abore quoted, and remerabering the\n\nThe views of liora interested in that part of the ques. tinn ahould meat with a patient heating, withough missioners are not failed to “specify in their appropriate places, all such coasters Rese incidentally under ones, in the course of the enquiry\" altas they fid not necesary arse \"out of either of the Five Points\" in plain English wherever the evidence favora che av ernmeal scheme, it is brought prominently far ward, and where it is adverse it to kept carefully behind the stenes, us its appropriate place! With all respect for those Getlenies who gave evidence before the Prays Commission, we connel admit, or consider them as the exponents of greetal opinion. The in question is not hus-bot che ther the Prays should be munt; and had Sir John Bowring desired to nike on impartial enquiry into the opinions of thres interested, he would have found himselt willingly, and openly rael with candid views, But not so in the present instance; for how could Goverment suppose dias these whinisepproved of the formation of a Preya, would one larward to how-how it should be constructed!! Yet, in the face of this beardity, the Comadesionere\" merely \"Indemolly against punishment are strong add, that the general unwillingness of the Marine worls, bat carry little weight in the present \"La Holders\" afford any evidenon in Bustra Any one of louger residence lure than in of their asaeried claims to equitable consi the President of the Commission, to whom chiefyderation ought of self to deprive the claimants I attribute time drawing up of the Report and theofull expecbition (bat their supposed claims will\n\nruceive any consideration at all!!! disagrocable necessay entailed on nf now pob-\n\nassertion I am said to have raure than ones made with some emphesis\" which induced the questions to which my evidence forms the reply, whether the Report as written is not a distortion of the sub cance of toy remarks, and rather the expression of interested advocates than of impartial Coremis signers?\n\nstances.\n\nlely addressing you, woll knows that the infliction\n\nShade of Nicholas A Right Royal Proclama\n\nof punishment for reclaiming tand, or fat antion is from those who hold that the Crown is crouchiment that word be preferiet, was never\n\nThat at once interpreted the assurances of Sir G, Benham and Mr Cleverly into a renuncia. tion or waiver of a Crown righ,\" is not the case, and is not the plain meaning of my evilence, but an arbitrary inference on the part of the Commis sioners, as unjustifiable by them, as the interpin. tacou attributed to me would have been absurd on ny part.\n\nbut the Trustoo for the Publie and quite su\n\nfor a moment contempland by Government; while ficient, we admit, to extinguisa in the el san- onthe aber hand, direct indemnity against guine Marine Lat order, any expectation of panist ment\" was never requested by the person equitable consideration, were sheir hopes founded on the tender sarees of the Praya Commission, intending to reclai\n\nBut they are not nervous men, these Marine Lot holders; the fine See air which they have so long enjoyed gabruksted, haz brace) then up, and even now, with the above awel denunciation sounding in their ears, they have not abandored oil hopes of justice at the hands of their Public Trustee \"! No, not even in the matter of compensation for being tarnell out of House and Home, will they for one tout acknowledge than it sexts with the Surveyor General alone to decide the question,\" altho' the locum inaeus asserts that it is 8o, and our entry!) Judge bas niready delivered his Ferdien!\n\nTo one point more in the Report I must alude, abric at variance with facts and my evidence At the deading of the reply to the second question of the Sebetale, it will be found stated,-\n\n\"Sotan difference of sows mongst the Marine Lenders\n\nNo Sir! The object in view in the project of a Praya is quite evident cnaugh, and there is no use trying hike an Ostrich to hide its head when tho whole body is exposed to view. It was proposed long since by Sir Henry Poninger before the Co. Leny was fairig seed, und before Lot Holders had bean induced to expend vast as in completion of their netangements, and the construction of their premises, It died a natural death from want of Funds, and so remained in pure until fortuiten cirentistances placed in the power of the present Goverans the menus resuscituring the plon ar\n\nThis we firmly believe was calling it his con! done without weighing or considering the cane- quences, the interests of those concerned. There was Bonham Strand\" and theis must be a Bowring Praya, Opposition arose, and fat moment there was taking between public Instico and private vanity. The latter prevailed. and evne hrward stroyed as the former \"ol in sheep's clothing\". But the argument is felt to he bullow and the position untenable. An intrench. ment toust be formed to retire to when attacked. Parliamentary recollection furnishes on idea! Commission,-a Commission of course) but form. ed only of these known adherents who can be well depended on. No difference of opinion or shade of opposition must exist amongst it's Merbere, and then the Public cu sutely be admitted to hear their doom 1 The Men are found, and the Com- mission formed, and the Political Sogers have cooked a dish of such piquancy, tant even those was furnished the materials cansel recognise their awn ingrediena.\n\nA\n\nWe crave pardon for prolixity, but we eat draw Alution to the fact, that of the six gentlemen ex amined, there was only one who being present at the November Malings in acquiesced in the resolutions then passed by an overwhelming\n\n311",
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        "content_text": "Majority and what is the fate of ins evidence?\n\n1st represented as having \"confirmed a purp-es- fure \"under\" a Verbal assurance Baz die would But be FROSECUTED\" for his encroachments.\" We are assure by thow, who have seen the appen dix, that no such evidence the found therein, or any one word enpulite of being fairly construei Into a declaration that the mere indemnity agrins JUNISHMENT\" was interpreted into a reaction of Crown rights! The campission would hav done well to listen to the copeluing portion of the evidence of that Witness whose opinioas deserve all attention,\" when he says for all ess encouragement being given, I think if on inle to speak of the legal responsibility neur Art\"\n\nThe President the Commission, however, can- act divest himself of his gama fat ano modent; and not only, but ne his seasily pronounced his opinion aifany Marine Lo folder should fechos to take the ground flted in in front of his Lot, Gaverament rony oust him from the Lore IT ELF!\n\nLet this be borne ja rind, for should ang eir cumalance deprive as of the presence of our ante and respected Cliet Justice, surely his suegrant 1ust be fauad some where else than amongst those whose Verdists are delivered before the Jury is exponnelled. And mark the grounds.--1 opanks the Lease.\n\nUnder 5000 fest-\n\nscawan\n\nSUPPLEMENT.\n\nBut we hure yet to explain, and it should have been stated in the first place, that the lines on the sea you are driven to a imaginary depth We believe, however, theeo tiuas pretty nearly represcat the extent to which Sir John Bowring wishes leare holders to carry their fets and make a Roadway of thirty feet in width. To nary out there lots to the extent required the whole of the hosters are willing enough: bet to the for mation of a Rund way for public per shey have no in sination, put, the Honorable! the Aitorney Gen- eral's opinion notwithstanding-it is not in the ardinery mainer of the Crown to insist on such n Real being spevat.\n\nThat such a Road is not wanted for mere pas- senger traffic wilt be auparest to wit on an in- spection of the wood eat-there being ample space on the Queen's Rood for the passage of all fa po- polarna we hang at present. That sven a Rond in not wants for wasrfage purposes, inspectors of the wood eut will also be satis lad: -and we razy well ask, if ont for hare, den for what perpes la the Priya winted? In M. Sa mayor General Gordon's suggestion for 2 primate Praya, prepared an a scheme propounded by Sir Henry Pottinger befors Las for int were drafted, it is there sail that in case of an invasion by foreign forces the runway would be convenient for transporting cantan speedily and this, really, is the only use conver ible as a necessity.\n\nExcept and always reserved unto fer a Majesty. Ber Heirs, Suecreare and Amigos, fall As for any aid la Police arrangements, it is our \" parver to resume and lake pession of all or any opinion thai, whatever any be in store for us in part of the said pisce or pircel of ground hereby the future, as regards a more efficient force the demised, if required for the improvement of the formation of a Praya will never be other tasa au anit Colony of Hongkong or for any other Publicaid to intending burglars; and the consequence *parpuse whatsnovor, three Calendar Manito will be that when the Bank and Merchants Bird nation heig giera to the occupant thereof of us they coneet lood Pressure and valuable merchan. being so required, a full and fuir compensation *for sizeh end land and buildings thereon being pald to the said und an, his heirs, executors cal vigation to be fairly and imputing\n\n  \n    \n  \n\nTo the flattor of the \"Hosszene Revuras.\"\n\n-\n\nHasan, 254 47, 153 Sen-Referring to the letter in the fast iseac of the China Mail on the subject of the unfair deductions drawn from the bulence taken by the Boxing Trays Chearsalon in huis published report, beg leave to second my testimony in care buration of the laws of the waiter of that letter, so to sixte in my videre given to that Commission netther warra fins justifies n\n\nvery rouse, what an a\n\npoint thing whatever is said. but it sorte respects on here pats upon it,\n\n3(\n\nmare Mtorney General at Hunghong, for the sume reason, by the same person, Cash, by the way. has gone to the Catentivels in a nimbolte frame of mind. He rears he is sacrifont - a regular mantyy vie | tim of all kinds of machinations, to get rid of Adan; aud though he admits that the berth is a govi out, great pay and little to do, he weys ke ought to have something far better, must higher pay, nothing es all to do in deply to do is He vores he is honestly\n\nTollectie my nating givethe fableving extret for worth for were respectable figure; that Palmers the report, which from the anginui neto apunate to be based ¦ton knows it, or if he doesn't that he is the only wae ratire on ny evidence. Another witness, also a zizristiarn of the jacts whe is ignorant on that deadz jat kokler, was perbally satisfies? ↑ « maid (int lie host rennired and trai heltt lake care the world shall be wiser befors very recently an excouragement from the Governor imagifit is much older. li surmind that the ut us time\n\ncrari apon the sea shore in front of his lot and reclaim it Cu being estar to crudescend to prurlavhars, red particularly sugary temper of Chisholm is rather that the Governor in queson was Sar G. Bonham chat Bir soared by the analytic proces a certain little biti 1. Botham ad id in answer to a questions, thus he of his, relation in something forensic in the com had no pawer to sulfanze his intended purprentare, or to wate him any tile to the ined when he should have reclamissionership line, has been subjected to : and that, as and it-that all be (the Gosure) wonkl say wha, that unless he has got all he is likely to get, he don't see the his the tenant's) neighbours compainel, Dovernment would we of exhibiting manh thankfulness for passoura to mot prosende son for the entrenchment, and that in his than, as his countryman, thi pheographer of the | Gavertur's) primate spizion the tumant would be “at right,\"\n\nwould be done at his own risk, and than as the tenant wrest held himself responsible for the consequences,\" \"The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. First, as to being requied to closed to particulara. it may be remembered that at the pelic meling bell to ecrandér tin Government notilleation of 10th November last, I strongly advod the pelicy of meeting the icon of His Excellency the Governor, bring my arents en the same intervw with Sir G. Bestum. Is giving my evidence before the Commission, this interview was brough toy bentlection, sud I prouistet re give the whole parti calars of it without any attempt at centralmer, rolering Grły grosa-questioning unnecesway -- Berninly the report wash it appar that but plendouragement to reclaim, and that on the tall bring esete, (corlewing partient) I had overly been praiser innvaruty fron panishment, (if it be even that it me sellers siching to me about punishment anerosement,\" ble for the congeecaces. Now I will declare that Eiz George\n\nor responsibility for the aequcxers, and feonsider the wond\n\nciasto.\n\nbut that the tenant trust anderstand that what he oughts, defines gratule. Ainsley hay dore this the Bust lably, am in Chian, but Aur Monor; and is reported to have left for publication in this country a record of experiences optriciy confirmatory of his ginnt Tower kill wud kropping block theory an The Fizon, Afghanistan, and the Oriente ahontas ation of the same category --Correspondent of Li- verpacť Albion.\n\ndize noticed by such a mulus ay be seen condescension que inapplicatie to my detector before the\n\nthe Bonham Strand ocw, and would he soon on the Bowring Puya, too, if once completed, they wit think high sine to make arrangements to:\n\nmade by the Surveyor of fer vnd Myasty establishing alsowhers. Nor let this ideo be whis\n\nIf, in these words, the Allorney General can find right in disposase the lanse holder whose cand is not required, but who derlines to PUKERASE More, or it on the latter clause he can watabiish the fact that the fairness and impartiality of the Surveyor General emaot be challenged by thu Lease holder, we shall willingly accord to hire the Conjora's Medal, and hail biar es the 4 Wizard of the East,\"\n\nAnd now, Sir, nilow us to apologise for the pro Jongation of this Letter, for when we beg a place in your columns, -Your obedient Servants.\n\n— F. of U. Apríl ið,\n\nCAVENT & Co.\n\nStates with the pertinence of that passage in Ca. reat Ca's letter running--\n\nThere is ample space now, and ware than ample space lo teen fallic Warien, for double the wants of the Com regnity who have ut se foutages Wat aro thuir repirnama! Minch\n\nmain by the China Mail and others about tiam inumavenience to the publin dwel ing to the sauth of the Queen's Road! Leteny one who knows the pture an Es eye along the fist of residents, and \"their accopations, and then re how many to the \"of the tusen's Road, and up the Hill, nynire large Whar fage accordation. What did the China Mare require « What goods did he land -and what inconvenience was he \"subjected? None! As the same reply will serve loy whe tenths of those who inhabit the tata es on the \"Bill; aut such mast niet he the case, at Cooke tice aline would very soon abs any hone hit serving from redacod rentals on Inland Lots were they used as stung ground, \" --and impressed with the idea that readers at a disuence can never understand the Bowring Praya question from letter press alone, we have prepared, and publish below, a small woed cut of the distracted district.\"Spaces marked Nu. I t on this wond cut exhibit the tots affected by the proposed measure and the dotted lines delineate the general contour of the shore, up to which approximately, leases are already practed hy the Crowa The parts in black are Government holdings, available for Junding placas if goven- ment wilt make them.The fretted lots enclosed in No. 1 represent streets ia Chilmon's, Chinam's and Endicott's Baznars, the whole sen front at which is as open to the public for wharfage as it can well! he. The surch, as slightly altered from the plan accompanying the Hongkong Almansek for 1848, ¦ is drawn to a scale of 400 funt to the inch, and gives a sea ling of 2,700 fest, of which 600 are Loveramant avaliables -400 private bazaare with public wharves, and the remaindet,-private pro- perty the comparative figures being us 17 to 10, or say of private property, and 3 of public landį ings. Surely these faci-that wie ding\" should be sufficient for the most seeptical if stiti dis posed to cavil ni Carat of Cs assertion that i there is ample space for pubite Wharver for #donble the wants of the Comininity who have not sea frontages withou: disturbing rosted rights. For the farther information of readors et dis\n\ntance wo way state that area No. I of the wood eur\n\nis\n\nis part of land sold last year an eoedition that ai Feaya should run in front of it-Port of No, the same; the space between 2 and 3 is Padder's Wharf--between 4 and 5 is the Oriental Bank Who:f-between 5 and 6 the Central Market, and betweco 8 and 9 the privata Bazar and Wharf of Messrs Gibb, Lavingston & Co.-—the deep line of the angle n 9 representing the entrance from the Queen's Road to Benbam Strand. The Leasehol ders opposing the Bowring Praya schome are, in No 2, Mears Lindsay & Co and Dent & Co-in No. 4. Messrs Jardine Mathearn & Co., Turaer &Co, Bowra & Co., Legraik and Storgie, To No. 6, the Onental Bank Corporation and Mesars Jardine, Mathesan & On. In No. 6, the Agents\n\nfor Thomas Ripiey. In No. 8, Mosers William Scott, James White and Julin Bird & Co.-and in\n\nNo. 9, Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. On the In-\n\nland side of the Road, the storekeepers, to a jana,\n\nas we are informed, express themselves in opposi tips to the Praya; and it only remains to be said of the mercantile offices in streets in rear of the Queen's Road-eit. in those of Messrs Williams, Anthon & Cu, Dreyer & Co., J. Dos Remedios, James Staphenson, Angier & Co, 8. E. Barrows and C. Boyd, that only two are in the habit of storing Croods on the basements of their premises; the su perficialGlown area so used boing, we are sure,\n\n• The round member given are quite approximato we repost; but the spacas used na landing plairs by the pub- ho are ukeratuted if any thing,\n\n......\n\nled down. A quarter of a century henes and, in these days of annexation and progress to whom mey belang ibe the island of Lenia? With a French or an American, or, it may be, s Russian settlement herend less chance of being borns down by the \"trong talkce\" of a Bowring Praya Comms sion, how long is likely offered advantages would remain accepted\n\ni\n\nIt was clearly manifeat ra me that the presiding member af\n\nment had been in the habit of resumứng lợin without giving inty other compensation than the Surveyör Generļa spínatè ment. On the print i was closely quistioned by the \"Cone- ssina, and although I acklaced two cases where she ca ant, retting the compensatum cffered, obtained third he asked, the report is not only silent on the portion of spy es dence, but itcally asserts thos it reale with the Sarvey General\" alone to code the question of ommpensation.\" \"la one of the casey I addured, I alleged that in February 1954,\n\nandaard, Lendale, Matize for No 79 e 10 del bars; us Isoil a year after fae 15 as the sale on anualed by the receipt of notice of resumption, the esi price 180 dollara, bring named as compensación. Ón veference to de lerse secret it stipulated that I was to have a alirampantion at a rate to be Sirly and impartially made by the Surveyor, de 19 anitced the hardship of the ee to the Acting Alertsy General who replied that the compensation must be far and equitable, which the offer whe not, and that I count ant be crapeited to access, it, Tur report the public, I was thos, with many others of the simple and cezading publis, deluded into a vers extraordinary error. If such be the case I don't think that any one wil\n\nbuilding in din Clony whendir cars be taken fora him by a Government whose legal adviser not only propounds bad. vocates soch a munstrous doctrine,\n\nslo L'aring wishet in have it related that Govern\n\nWe have said the Lenses were drafted after the Gordon Prays was suggested: and this face is worthy of particular note, for had Sir Henry Putinger ve amourent éontemplated coercion ino a Prays shows, how casy would it have ben to have inserted words giving authority to the action! Yet, hard as are the terms of the fenses, not parage-not a word—can be con-in be deleted into the day of exerting aus substantia strued towards an abrogation of the term on which Marine Lots were first bought. viz holding from the Ses to the road. If, owing to washings from the hitis, and other causes, the as recedes, the terms of the original sale bare still to be acted on by the Crown-he taste of the interests of the to whose use the kod is demised—and, the surne suivit that the Crown promises fall and fair compensation for ell it takes away-such fairt compensation must be given for the lard it adds. Such Mr Chisholm Anstey with and to be the de- should it be found necessary still further to resist cision of higher legal authorities than himself. the formation of a BowRING PRASA F. of C.Aprii\n\n30.\n\nSEA\n\nW\n\n起\n\n*Not two pence per foot--nar the fourth of it,\n\nin conclusion, I have to state may regret that this effoient manner of obtaining the views of the\n\nsaking gri- Buna tratores commission should be so for abused as to render it calikely that such thony with infulare procurable. The non attendance of a rouch respected anal leading member of the enciminals, eu inne comptinet of by the Fraya Coromin, may doubtices be travel infe sight rather than discotusy-1 am, Sir, Your client Servant.\n\nof 17, May 3.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\nAUDI ALTERAM PARTEM is a motto for which wo bava much regard, and we readily give insertion to the letter front Lex, with the extract, in italics, to which it refers. The emoluments of the office of Attorney Greeral here are certainly not mere\n\nFRIENDS of the Caprain Coonew some time in the service of ike P. & 0 Company here, and displaced from his common and under sirzamances reflecting little erafit un ruo Agent of that day in China, will learn with pleasure that he is now in the service of the Honourable East India Company; and mor has it will shortly have the appoints ment of Master Attonduit at Matlah. The\n\nfollowing extract from the Caletta Finglish-\n\nnot a 7th ult., is interesting --\n\nOx the ah ulana Sept Comew commanding the E. Company's servaying vessel Gruppler which has been employed in buoying off the Mur all, took charge of the bark. Murmyan Crown China, which vesel\" tad entered that rive by mistake. The Marion was brought up eately to Calcntia, Cap. Priest the Commander of the Maraina was dangerously l, when the Grappler fe in with her which probably caused the mistake. Capt. Commend the crew of the Grappler are criting > ly entaled to me renumeration for thuir ser vices, as the Marmion wes in a dangerous patitisa and would probably have been lost without exis. cane of 13. April 19.\n\n(Continued from supplement poge 31, column 4.) ment, wiz, that on all papers hence passing aror the Isthmus of Panainn, a separate chargo of two pence was a be collected in advance\n\nOn the 2nd of Fairmary came nirections to pay a penny in advance mill sepers hence i England: these sent via Marseilles, with a three peny collection at hone, remaining unlistar- Newspaper Proprietors and forwarding Agents ed. The hard bearing of this amurcement oa\n\nis most manifest. Had the order appeared a month before instead of a month after the beginning of the year we could then have charged such additional pernigs to the Bills for subscription -as it is we must put up with the lows-au inconsiderable one in the ag gregate.\n\nUpon what enamon sense principle this ar-\n\ntha a Barrister of Mr Chisholm Anstoy's stand-rangement has been made we are at a bus 19\n\ning might have expected for doing a \"boom\" in\n\nhis Augran stable.\n\ndiscover. It, simply, with vie w lo econ. omise the labnar el taxing clerks at home, then, in two ways, will the pathe be made to pay a Jor the false idea-firel, in the more costly pay. ment in Colonin: Post Offices for the extra fa- lour given to the collectors, and second-in the reduction in the number of papers regular-\n\nknow that many people take no other means for notifying friends at home of their being able male Newspapers:-the charm of the thing in e a pen tion by addressing covers on lying the little tronbie al na exponse. Alas! we shoult speak in the past tea+d, — the spel is broken the demand for the penny in advance has checked the kindly patention the longing friend loves his expected treat- the postal revente ja so much the less-and the not wanted newspaper is eat to the Ash: box. With so many arguments for the alteration of thia demon for peuries in advance, we tre assured that the tenuro ofile existence will he very brief,\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China\"\n\nHONGKONG, 16th April, 1856. Fiz,--Possibly some ingenious philosopher will one day discover a rural storecacope, which wits trasmitted.ts for instance-We all enable us to comprehend at one view the real cha- racter of every illustrious stranghouers cer litte colony with it presenco. At present we can only see one side at a time; and as an object is described by various parties from different points of view, the want of resemblance, and, what is worse, the want of harmony in the several portraits. ie perplexing in the extreme. Witness our last new breone comes upon pa like a comet, in un atmosphere of glory-Gur quit nunos rajoice in the advent of another piller of the state-a real, thorough, radicel, independent. reforming patriotic member of the House of Commons, and we hear of nothing save hire and his career for more than the statue number of nine days. The Mail gives hint an oration from the tow Magazine, you re-produce a sketch by the Parliamentary por trait painter, both highly credible to the artists and honorable to the subject of their labours;-but, intermediately, the Register obtains a nearer view, and resolves the appearance of our corces in the shape of a broom- now broom-which sweeps about is a very eccentric orbit, and hita hard with the shank besides. It was wrong in the Register not to begin by describing the glorious appe manes of the thing at a dislunce.—not to hunt up its splendid antecedents, like his neighbours, before producing his daguerreotype iikennes of ithus be found its stiff sharp bristles rush so romorso leasty across the grain atong our good old China am, with a view, as he shabbily avers, to profits: with a cover open at the sides, at a enarge of\n\nTwo other notifications still comain to be noricet-one of the 22nd vitine, to the effect that the French Post Office will account for ali poarages on papers from Hongkong to the United Kingdoin, a knowledge of which face to this community is not very importan lastly a \"trausuiseios of books\" afisation, in the Gazette of the 55 tastant, by which it is usdained that pa kata may be forwarded hence to Malta and Gibraltar, via Bgypt,and to Ber muda and the British West tudies (Barbadoses, Trauidad and Tork's Baland excepted) not ex- ceeding Two feet in lenghth breadth or widin,\n\nout of the repairs, that bis injured toelings at once tight pence per bulí a pound to Malis and\n\n: \n\ngove vent to their anguish. It will comiert tho, Gibraltar, and one sholing and two pence par Register to know that others have entertained half pound in the Wen ludies such rates p- suspicions respecting the peculiar \"Quixotism\" of plying to the first pound only, after which: the tis new broom, and no doubt he will read with charge has to be incrensed for every fraction action the other side of the questions etted of a pound as a pound-letters found in suc by the well known London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion, in the subjoined extract, which I packets being charged postage with an addi- \n\nition of back packet postage as a penalty. suppose your fairness to both sides will allow you to insert.-I enclose the name of my Solicitor, sud am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nLE X\n\nHow the-ow-Post happens to be Pam's own print is unintelligible to all, and their name is legion, who reject the Urquhartive story about a former edi- tor having called for P.'s mad as a traitor, and then being muzalisha St. Petersburg esksut skip, just as in the present ease of Ansley, who is\n\nSuch are some of the changes that have caught our eye: there may be others, and if there are out, we may, after the late rate of two notifications a mouth, soon expect them. But this, really, is too serions a matter og tyne unfled with, and something must be done t check the nuisance of indeercet legislation.\" by auteur Post Masters General,--F. of C. April, 19.\n\n312\n\nINDEX",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nWANTED.\n\nWe have to acknowledge receipt of a table of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's revised rates of Passage-money; and we have hung up the same in our office for the use of our personal friends.\n\nBy Order,\n\n2. H. CARVALHO, Secretary\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1857.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"HONGKONG REGISTER.\"\n\nMACAO, 1st February, 1857.\n\nDEAR SIR—The 10 mandarins, who came from Shang-hae, have been here for a few hours, and having taken their dinner at Cau-qa hong, embarked in the ensuing for Casa Branca, and from there to Yan-san and Cass feathers; and 5 of them bare blue buttons. Two of the mandarins have red buttons and peso sent to Caatho to assist Yeh—and it is said, that two of them were formerly in Canton in the time of the first war with Commissioner Lin.\n\n\"Every thing here is quiet, but I say in the harbour a good many mandarin junks displaying a varying flag. Though people are at this time they cannot do any harm here, I would question, that. What could we do prevent their attacking this place and carrying away the heads of the English that are living here?\n\nI am, &c,\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Posting Wrons in the CENTRAL POST OFFICE, Hollywood Road, are on the Subirth at 11 am, and stand on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock.\n\nSIXTY.\n\nWe recorded a pedestrian feat last week —walking to the top of Victoria Peak and back six times in twenty-four hours. The same gentleman did the same task this week in twelve hours, which shows, speaking in all honor and praise, that he is an artful dodger; for the latter feat though apparently more difficult, is in reality easier.\n\nProof—a friend of ours went up and down in fifty-seven minutes.—say one hour at four miles. Four times six's twenty-four; and good steady walking, making the trip equal to twenty-four miles in twelve hours is not very great walking.\n\nTaking all the difficulties into account on an undertaking like this is more easily carried through at one heat than in two, we have no doubt that with, or, from what we hear, without halting, the gentleman who has done the six times could easily do the eight if he set his mind on it.\n\nWe have been trying to persuade our ... C. to put himself in training and try the feat—but he says he has been once to the gap and considers that enough is as good as a feast.\n\nNo. 5. FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nThe climate of London is one thing, and the climate of Hongkong is quite another.\n\na more material matter than that of Hongkong, we must decidedly feel of any corps being sent away from this place.\n\nAn urgent necessity exists for augmenting and making the most effective part of the regular police force here, many of whom do their duty conscientiously to the best of their ability—but the superintendence of London is one thing: and the superintendence in Hongkong is another.\n\nThe screw Steamer Sir James Brooke left this at noon yesterday to Hongkong, having on board three companies of Sepoys, a detachment of European Artillery-men, for service in China, despatched on the requisition at the hands of Hongkong.\n\nThe troops consisted of two companies the 29th M. N. I., the European Artillery-men, Pang, and the Company of the Rifle Company accompanying this force are Major Cheslett, Captain Cazalet, Lieut. Foote, and Passingham of the gun, Capt. Man, Lieut. Forster of the Madras Artillery, Dr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary Edwards and Sub-Conductor Ball.\n\nThe Sir James Brooke has been chartered for Twelve thousand dollars.\n\nFrom these and other causes which might be specified Hongkong is not in effect London, and a system which may do very well at the latter place may require important modifications at the former.\n\nWe can never obtain the same raw material for a police here as obtainable in London, but we certainly, both in ordinary and in extraordinary times, such as the present, can make the most of our raw—excessively raw material.\n\nFirst: we would make the men effective by putting them on duty for a four hours beat; and if that could not be done conveniently from the central police station, we would do it from three stations—East, West, and Central.\n\nThe S.S. Auckland brought about 100 tons of shot, shell and ammunition from Pinang last week, which will be sent to China as soon as possible.\n\nBraitonore crew Pressa, Jan. 22.\n\nOn the arrival of the Mail at 6.30 PM of Sunday the 1st February we did, for the convenience of our subscribers, what we have not done before—viz: apply for a pass for two coolies to carry the respective Papers, which will secure early delivery.\n\nTwo passes were granted dated 10th January good for 21 days, the time expiring on the 31st January. Of course the 1st February was beyond the pale of the pass but coming direct from the Superintendent of Police we deemed it all right, thinking that police matters were going on in their usual cuddle.\n\nIn this belief the passes were on the night of the 2nd instant given to two of our Chinese Compositors to take them home, and we were somewhat astonished on being awakened at half past twelve, and informed, that our men were in custody.\n\nWe went down to the police office, and there we found the authorities pondering over the passes, and wondering to see the names of the boys written in red pencil, that being the color of the printing of the new passes.\n\nWe explained that a red pencil is a very common article in a printing office and that the names had been written in with that; then on making ourselves responsible for the lads we saw them let go.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Belgrave-square, on the 24th November, the wife of Admiral Sir T. COCHRANE, of a Son.\n\nAt Victoria, Cox, ELIZABETH SANDERS.\n\nMarriage Register xi:10.\n\nON SUNDAY, the 1st instant, the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Cadiz arrived with the English mails of 10th Dec.; from Singapore 24th, Penang 21st, Chusan 9th and Bombay 1st January.\n\nThe general news from Europe are of a most uninteresting description: and they are our readers have had them in the Extra we delivered on the arrival of the mail.\n\nThe Cadiz brings on:-\n\nOPIUM—For Cumsingmoon,.....875 chests,\n\nHongkong, 216\n\nWunsung.......435\n\nTotal—1581 chests,\n\nTREASURE\n\nFor Hongkong 459,965 dollars\n\nShanghai 479,697\n\nCanton 29,072\n\nTotal—1,126,831 dollars\n\nSTOCK OF TEA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, November 30, 1856.\n\nLondon\n\n...t. 86,786,000 19,115,000\n\nercel...\n\nHull and other English Ports\n\nFaith and\n\nGlas other Foreign Ports\n\nIreland...\n\nStock, 30th November, 1856..\n\ndo, do. 1855.\n\n1,000,000 2,000,000 2,933,000 1,130,000\n\n1,700, una\n\n.67,214,009\n\nSome doubt having been felt in the trade as to when the next reduction of the duty on tea would come into operation, an inquiry was sent to the Board of Customs: the Board stated in reply, that on the 6th of April next the duty will be reduced from 1s. 9d to 1s. 3d. per pound.—one News.\n\nCHINA SHIPPING.\n\nArrivals.\n\nAt London, November 12, Orient from Shang-hae: 21. Cûnger, from Canton; 29, John Wade, from Foo-chow; 2, Coega, from Foo-chow: $5, Flery Cross, from Foo-chow 2, Sff from Canton 27, Sea Witch Gram Foo-chaw; a fon Taylor, from Foo-chow; 24, Rant of Hyland, from Shangte; December 1. Lorena, from Canton; 1, Kangaroo, from Canton; 5. Lente Sophie, from Foo-chow, Daphne.\n\nfrom Canton, Celualat, from Canton; Julin, from Canton.\n\nAt Liverpool, November 23, Viking, from Foo-chow; 28,\n\nAt Pen. Dom Canton,\n\nWe observe that H. M.'s brig of war Camilla, Commander Civil, from the Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 15th passed Anjer on the 7th inst. bound to China—strife Tema January 20.\n\nHOME NEWS\" Nov. 20.\n\nH. M. Str, —Notice is given that preparations are now making for the intended distribution of proceeds arising from the Greek brigantines Chrissys, apprehended on May 22, 1855, by H. M. S. Niger.\n\nBranded dise Heriblad, captured on May 19, 1855, by H. M. S. Nya; tribution of proceeds arising from the Greek esse and for the intended distribution of proceeds arising the Gruss, vessel Pagis requifio.espted on 30, 1855, by ET. 31. S.\n\nThe Charlotte June, for Shanghai, which put back to undergo thorough repair, will sail again on the 15th of January, having discharged her cargo, and, being leaky.\n\nSecond we would provide for a more effective superintendence from sun down to sun rise either by a four or a three hours' compulsory patrol of the inhabitants, which would be no hard task on 150 to 200 men.\n\nThese are the first imperative alterations or amendments, but—\n\nThird; we would put the men into barracks and in effect, put them, as nearly as possible under military discipline.\n\nThe man who would not submit to that discipline is not fit for a police-man, and a smaller force of well cared for men would be infinitely more valuable than the no-cared for rag tag and bob-tail that we now call police.\n\n\"COMMERCIAL SHIPPING NEWS\" The John Wade from China to London, as Arrived in the Tower, She lost her main, tort, and mizzen mast, and re-rigged mast, off the Cape of Good Hope on August 11.\n\nShe sailed from St. Helena on Sept. 22.\n\nAt the present moment—What is the best part of the police, as far as acting in a body is concerned, and as far as looks go? Why the Gaol brigade.\n\nThey step well together, and they carry their arms as if they know how to use them, neither of which assertions can be made of the rest of the police force.\n\nAnd what does this smart active clearly appear to arise from, but from discipline.\n\nThey are in barracks; they have good wholesome food: they are properly drilled, and the result follows, which always follows when men are well cared for, and well disciplined.\n\nA contemporary recommends a mounted patrol.\n\nThe Times are serious, and perhaps it might cheer the spirits of the colonists to see a mounted policeman with his trousers half way up his leg. his legs swaying backwards and forwards like pendulums, in what the equestrian, audaciously, imagines is rising to the trot of the bony police charger; while by his side clatters a word, that he could not draw—or use if he drew.\n\nWe have no fault to find with the policeman, nor with Janier Burton, who captured the two lads, nor with his superiors who were trying to see out a\n\nWe record without either regret or astonishment the above event.\n\nIt is another sign and are we less amused at the figure of certain superior officers who lean back to prevent the jar of the canter on their spinal column.\n\nAmusement is sometimes very useful, and we expect that amusement would be the extent of the utility of a mounted patrol.\n\nWe have given serious advice about the police, and finding that of no avail we have attacked them by ridicule; but they are thick-skinned animals, and we fear we are far from having pricked them into watchfulness by our sting.\n\nWe will not give up our task however, knowing how much depends on the vigilance of the police, and as vigilance is not natural in them, as it certainly is not, we shall try and establish it as an exotic which perhaps with due care may become a thriving plant.\n\nFirst then, the whole system of the police is wrong.\n\nThe day duty extends from six o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night, and night duty from ten o'clock at night until six o'clock in the morning.\n\nAll the changes of the day and night duty being effected from the central police station.\n\nThe hours of patrolling of each constable on night service is for the whole extent of the time.—night hours.\n\nWe believe this is the London system; and may for anything we know answer very well there; and perhaps it would answer very well here, if all the conditions were the same as they are in London, which they are not.\n\nOfficers,\n\nServants\n\nHank & Pike\n\nArtificers,\n\nFollowers 22, servants 18,\n\nDATA.\n\n2. 37.N.T Art.N.L\n\nDepartures.\n\nNovember 28th Armitage, for Shanghai: 23, Countess of Rarfield, for Shanghae; December,\n\n8, Mencide, fur Sigita\n\nThe amount of bills drawn by the East India Company on their respective Presidencies, from the 26th ult. to the 9th inst, is as follows:-\n\n£  s. d.\n\nBengal......442,920 12\n\nRate of Exchange. 91 2. Od. per Cus\n\nMadras 46,097 U\n\n9 Rupee.\n\nBombay 4,263 6\n\n28. 04. per ditto.\n\nTotal........£22,077 9\n\n4\n\n--Atlas, December 10.\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4 PM, the following pieces:-\n\n1.—Prince Albert: March --Kilmer\n\n2.—Spanish Volonaise,--Isrypsant.\n\n3.—Aric. Finale Lip Sonnambula. Bellini 4.—Royal Irish Quadrille's,—Julien,\n\n—Dalkeith Piwo Waltz—Labicky.\n\n—Maltese Gallop—no\n\nH. M. Str, Barracouta arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Fire to the Comus.\n\nThe night was very dark and two fire rafts came down and were close on the vessel before they were seen—one was boomed off by the fire boom. but the other worked on to and carried away the spanker boom.\n\nThe ropes about the bow were nearly burnt through.\n\nThe H. C. steamer Auckland returned to this port from Pinang on Friday last, bringing on for service in China about 159 Tons of shot, shell, and ammunition.\n\nThe Auckland brought on from Pinang the following officers and troops for service in China:\n\nMajor Cheslett 29th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Cazalet,\n\nLiu, Foote,\n\nPassingham\n\n»\n\nTwo Companies Sepoys 20th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Man, Madras Artillery.\n\nLieut. Forster,\n\nForty Europeans\n\nDr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon.\n\nApothecary Edwards.\n\nSh.Conductor Ball.\n\nFor the purpose of conveying the above Officers and Troops to Canton the Bore Company's steamers steamer St James Brooke has been chartered, and sails to-morrow for Whampoa.\n\nThe sum of Dals, Twelve Thousand for the trip and coals are the terms upon which the steamer has been chartered.\n\nAs the sement of troops from India has commenced Calcutta and Madras. The way with China as be we may look forward for speedy reinforcements from entered upon with a large military force, stronger than employed during the last war—Siraits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce, January 20.\n\nIn consequence of the pressing request of the Governor of Hongkong, General Bodelt has resolved to\n\nsend away to-morrow the Rifle Company of the 39th M. N. I with Capt. Bark and Lieut. Cos.\n\nConcerning the (From our Overland Edition.)\n\nCUMSTAL OF ARTUM AND NINE OTHERS ACCUSED TO POISON.—Particulars of the attempt to poison the whole community by bread from the E-sing Bakery will be found elsewhere.\n\nThe partner of the firm, Ahlum, arrested at Macao, was brought back, and after an examination before the Magistrates, was committed with nine others to take his trial at the Criminal Sessions this month.\n\nThe trial will commence on Monday next.\n\nOn Wednesday last an application was made to the Court to have the money seized or Ahlem's premises given up to pay for his defence.\n\nAttorney General, backed by the affidavit of two of Altun's creditors, resisted the application. stating in his as courteous manner that he did so to prevent the money being Thundered or squandered in his defence.\n\nThe Counsel, in support of the motion, seemed to think the Attorney General was using strong language. when, of course, the Attorney General repeated\n\nthe bill for Aldam's defence being paid out of the money, after it was laid before and approved of by His Lordship.\n\nHis Lordship very properly sustained the Attorney General, except of course as regarded his insinuations.\n\nThe prisoners will be well defended—they have two Attorneys and two Barristers.\n\nChinese New Year.—The Chinese New Year fell on Monday, the 25th Instant.\n\nIt is usually a scene of noisy rejoicing for several days and nights.\n\nIn London they have the pick of the very best labor of the country,—they will not other.\n\nHere our only easier is from bad request the Authorities to stop the usual expenditure of fire-works as a means of preventing the probability of fire.\n\nAided by this support, the Government issued an order that there should be no fireworks, let off.\n\nIn consequence, the New Year has passed without any of the usual rejoicings, showing, that if we choose to exercise it, we have a power of repression, especially if we show ourselves earnest in the matter.\n\nIn London, the men are well paid, and properly housed and cared for.\n\nHere they are not well paid—they live where they can, in low and dirty hovels, and no one cares for them.\n\nIn London, the care and training of strong healthy men originally, make them still stronger and handier—they are quite able, though not useless to walk their eight hours beat without inconvenience, to keep awake and be an effective sure of praise, and rewards, and promotion—give them up and retire.\n\nHere the want of care and discipline makes men in the end, neither strong nor healthy at the first, so they never were able to walk an eight hours beat steadily; they have little or nothing to look forward to.they are not likely to be praised in their present state.\n\nthe rewards they obtain are paltry and the promotion is a doubt full affair.\n\nSee the case of a licenum, who by great pluck at sea single-handed more off an armed gang of Chinese at Aberdeen, he was rewarded with ten dollars until we\n\nstate of our Settlement, and that the Chinese population ? shazed the government in to giving more.\n\nThe Admiral in reply to the muy treacherous attempts made against us on the morning of 19th inst. sent ashore several parties of Sailors and Marines, who set fire to the western suburbs in the neighborhood and above Sa-men; this work was carried out successfully by the boats of the Niger, Encounter, and Barracouta.\n\nThe men of the Fifty-ninth were also detailed to fire the Streets behind the Factories but, owing to loosing their way in the labyrinth of Streets in that neighborhood they had to return without effecting their object.\n\nAmen of the 59th, with a Lieutenant, a Sergeant, and 20 men of the 59th, with a Sergeant and six men of the Police, who are to return, by a Mail Steamer\n\nAnswer---I do.\n\nOn the\n\nCras and by Mr. Jay—I'm not aware that the delivered the remainder of our bread to Mr. May at the Police Court on the evening of the following day.\n\nQuestion—Do you not, as an Editor, make it your Ahlam's father, when the ninth prisoner was not in the neighborhood of the Yamun of the Governor General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent.\n\nIn the body of the paper will be found Maui-General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent. The whole operation was effected with a loss of two men of the Fifty-ninth killed and about six wounded; the latter are doing, worth attention.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nQuestion—Then Sir, do you mean to say you did not know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nAnswer—What have I to do as an Editor of Newspaper with B-ring's stores.\n\nI wanted to say that I know of a bakery being near the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a little po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-\n\nto sancos Mr. May was not present when the known to face for menfacturing but necessity for the ly cluding the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! H. M. Str, Barracontu arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Ret tre to the Comus.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a litle po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-    the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! Look the dangerous leup.\n\nAs they ruse from the water, tendent of Police, and Mr. Meer as ColonialS erretary.\n\nMr. Fowler assisted his wife in procuring a yout baid of fi was a general investigation into the eas-Cases him on or about his shoilers, Sire wiped the weter which require particular investigation, 1 enquire into be from his eyes and mouth, and encouraged him to retain fore sending then to the Magistras way my origins: his inpe of being saved.\n\nHe continued to struggle with intention to follow the sun course in the pressul ins the waves.\n\nHalf-an-hour elapsed, and there were no tanen: I tried to put a fasight into the cast as super-sigan of unsistance.\n\nHis strength was rugidly failing afterwards we turced ourselves his wife observing it, tried asrw to cheer him.\n\nEle suid\n\nbread to my house.\n\nI made this objection on the isch THE DEPORTATION Onntaver. -This is one Jaanary Inn & and 7 o'clock in the morning when I saw him bringing bal.\n\nAnother qual va cung of the many Ordinances which of late have passed ing the bread is the baskets, tlo secourt priser tool: before the mind's eye of the Legislative Council.onit the bend was delivered it.\n\nI said, \"Oh oh my Enne If we were called open to give succinctly our ab low you deliver my breas de you I made un res- We pense but gave me a kind of a grin.\n\nI saw him go away. jections to it, we could not well to .\n\nand I then went in an old y compradore to mentio could but answer in these words:--\n\nE-eing's all and have no more broad from him, es [ theagle he would poison 56.\n\nA partook of the breast, and intendeat of police, the servant git des cat what we left on the plate into justices and took the depositions.\n\nWe did not he could not stand it any longer, it sees as though he About five sivutes afterwards I wont be my sitting make this change in consequence of having illegally must give up.\n\nAt this moniest she bear a steamer coming rapidly through the water.\n\nShe says, \"My dear room from the Inekfast table; immediately afterwards admiciatore: ontis.\n\nSANDWITH DRINgen, -I am in business in the firm husband, a few moments more and we are safe.\n\nDon't To\n\nyou hear a boat coming?\n\nHe said he did, and immedi the 28th instant, carried with her 168 of the fast.\n\nI at lown en was looking over some papers, who of Thomas Hunt & Co, 1 lived in the sine house with deported, to be lender en the itiand of Hairan al of a sudden I vomitest- vomited three or four times | Captain Ľudrost.\n\nOn the 15th January, 1 cat of some ately revived, and made all the efforts in his power, ned move during the course of the day, sail I have concinnaly bred supplied by the ninth prisoner, and I was alterwards struggled for Simself and his herose wife until the Mia.\n\nLandel there, if they can be landed, what will suffered fict the effects of the poisoning up to the pre very ill.\n\nand no over all that eat of it in the house.\n\nI say took them, with scores of others, on her com- I nocious decks.Syracuse Journal.\n\nhave not perfectly recover from it at this tale.\n\nbecunus of them?\n\nAccompanying the motley sout time.\n\n*I do not like thes Dr. Feil,\n\nThe son why I mot tell;\n\nBut us\n\nnow, and dust all well,\n\nI do not like thee Jr. Tril,”\n\n319",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.—Continued.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continued.\n\nDate of Tave\n\nCORSION BA\n\nSame\n\nArrival\n\n27 Frick\n\nHongkong Jan. 28\n\nSneon Draper\n\nAm. ship\n\n200\n\nAshly\n\n26 Luni\n\n81. Zephyr\n\n31 May\n\nSiilelena\n\nJan. 29\n\nTuss\n\nBrit. ship\n\n24 Middleton\n\nShanglice\n\nJan. 25\n\nBellast Da.\n\nBrit. ship\n\nSimons\n\n81 Sir Jus. Brooke\n\nBrit. ship\n\n8795k: amer\n\nFeb. 1 Carondon\n\n1 Bansive\n\nBrit. xh.\n\n#50 MoGregor\n\nSingapore Dec. 37\n\nGeneral\n\nSingapore\n\nSun. 21\n\nTroops\n\nSanghus\n\nJan. 27\n\nBala River\n\nMina.\n\n207 Bambay,&Jur.\n\nOman\n\n1 Jacob Cornelia\n\nDut, ship\n\n492 Rosenboom\n\nBombay\n\nH31S. Porkowess\n\nCanton\n\nSAILED.\n\n1 Chempion\n\n3+\n\n2 Harraventa\n\nBril. b.\n\n445 Thurs\n\nBrit. at.\n\n1000 Aba\n\nAm. h.\n\n500 Gray\n\nFHA\n\nDAIS\n\nNAXE\n\n| FLLO &\n\nKiu\n\nBonghong Jan. 26\n\nThobe Danbar\n\nBrit. al.\n\n70 Tucker\n\nA Separa\n\n#\n\nFitohormal Ca\n\nP. & D. S. N. Co\n\nOrder\n\nSoler and Co\n\n225yal, Suli and Co\n\n688 Fieber und On\n\nApril 21\n\n120 Tarner sad Co\n\nOrlen\n\nMarinera Hope, Lrg\n\nAu Nile, brig\n\nShanghae\n\nAmericaa\n\nSegnoant, ship\n\nB. R. Milaro, ship\n\nDurrington, ship\n\nChanning, ship'\n\nCompetitor, ship\n\nNorwester, sisip\n\nArrival\n\nDate Tur\n\nCOXSTOMER\n\n535 King and Ca\n\n090Isaac M. Bolf & Co\n\nNov. 125Moner!, O. & Co\n\niBee. 1174jRussell and Co\n\nDuc.\n\n1500. Huar nd Co\n\n740Campton. II. & Co\n\nBall, Nye and Co\n\nDec 10 128 Heard and Co\n\nCormances of Seas ship\n\nDeo. 24782 wall and Co\n\n118 Order 289Dent, Deals and Co\n\nDurch\n\nAlbrecht Beiling, q.\n\nNov. G. C. D. You\n\nTwist, b\n\n700 Schafer and Co\n\n464 Selacier and do\n\n4788chiler and Co\n\n244. D. Sys and Ga|\n\nSmidlow, ship\n\nWhite Swallow, skip\n\nDanish\n\nDanmark, barque\n\nGloriosa, brig\n\nOuto, barga\n\nVirgine. brig\n\nSept. 182 Cracapton, IL & Co\n\nSept. 1012001. Kinard and o\n\n270 W. Pasta and Co\n\n10. uste abi Qə\n\n230iems and Co\n\n21Johe Burd and s\n\nSALO\n\nFLAU&\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nNAME\n\nTURB CAPTAIN FRCM\n\nSURO CARGO\n\nCONSTUNTES\n\nAmoy Brininte\n\nFuhelusu\n\nJan. 24 Teze\n\nrit. g. 20 Jonca\n\nJun. Gener\n\nBrit. 283 Thanpean\n\nSinggu\n\nBrit, ul. 148 Dring !Swaluw\n\nJan. 26kenyal\n\nA. Hoard and Ca\n\nComajou mad Clu\n\nBankno.M. sad Ca\n\nDent and Co\n\nJolie, M. and Co\n\nHardin, 51. and Craner brig\n\nBila, barque\n\nEllen Oliver, barjue\n\nEtama, schooner\n\nEraignent, bowma\n\nNov. Jardine, M.and Candily\n\nAanina, eh.\n\nForerunner, lawonor\n\nOne.\n\nHine Gem, brig\n\nJly\n\nNov.\n\n¡Feb.\n\nJan.\n\nDay.\n\n49Rusell and Co\n\nNor.\n\nJuly 2685 King and Co\n\n165. Fardon & Co\n\nNov, 18180 King acul Co-\n\n140 aprak\n\nEagle, shin\n\n251 Dont, and Co\n\nBuggle Wing, ship\n\n595 Under\n\nGoblen Wert, sip\n\n38u0nder\n\nHenry Harlock, ship\n\nNov. 1\n\n204Aater and Ch\n\nMails, &c.\n\nJau. 17 General\n\nNov. 3 General\n\nHoratio, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\nNymph, Larque\n\nlec.\n\nPet, arque\n\nAng.\n\n400 filmy and Co\n\n375'Urder\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nAri.\n\n680 Russell and Co\n\nclita, schooner\n\nJan.\n\n140 Russell and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n434, Russell and Co\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh.jdet.\n\n134. Heard and Co\n\nSisters, brig\n\nHone\n\n158 is an! Ca\n\nUnele Tom, schooner\n\nept.\n\n1801ail, Still and\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nPA 15\n\nOriaz\n\nCAPESIN\n\nFGa\n\nCANDO\n\nCorrenbes\n\nI'vrluyLave\n\nArora, buoner\n\nMay\n\nPapushon, steuer\n\nJune\n\nLive. 326 and Co\n\n26 Aroat\n\n.bk. 27oct Lam a ale\n\nSingapore iShangrae\n\nHathwa Sundries\n\n27 Remi\n\nBr, str. 229)and\n\nShanghac\n\nSundries\n\nBria ok. 3748{lva\n\n29 Recapont\n\nBrit. str. 336 Crockett\n\nSingapore Sundrice\n\nShanghas\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nSandrian Wm. Pustau and Co\n\nKing end\n\nos n Cz der Sandries Jarine, M, sud Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJan. 14 266 Siemen and Co\n\nCarlow, schooner\n\nSupt\n\nFlorida, big\n\nΚαν.\n\nHado, abip\n\nแบบ\n\n$49 Queboil and Co\n\nUse Lyal. Still and Co\n\n597W.M.Bobinet & fo\n\nSev Jan.\n\n250 Uverweg ad Co\n\n133 W. Pustau and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nFapocanz buraz\n\nau\n\nAdmiral Laman, ship\n\nDes\n\nJaunius), pokaduer\n\nies.\n\n+\n\n20 Lahura\n\nBeit, str. 400jBrowes\n\nIserl, rig\n\nAky.\n\n24 Alapco\n\nBrit, bit. 677 Mason\n\nLindsay and Co\n\nLima, barque\n\nNov.\n\nBonabag, 20. Muila, fc\n\nSleeglina Sundrier\n\nShanghon Sundries\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.--Continued.\n\njatin Long, barco\n\nJune\n\nMary Ralp\n\nThe\n\n404 Biousson and Co\n\nW. Pastan and s\n\nWm. Pusta al Co\n\nFustina, burqve\n\nAng.\n\n337 in Salt\n\nMercarius, arque\n\n1808chur and O\n\nthiader, atque\n\nSenator, b\n\n250W. Put and Tə\n\nPlclades,\n\nJuly\n\nPrussian\n\nAinarika, brig\n\nOcc.\n\n21 Tutmeet and Co\n\nVernel, hig\n\nDea.\n\n21€ Dreyer and Ca\n\nSiamese\n\nDec.\n\n225|Steraan and Co\n\nSCIPS\n\nFhanbury\n\nBouits, brig\n\nNov.\n\n311 John B\n\nBangkok Mark, ship\n\nGodisler, Jarque\n\nAng\n\nEBS Order\n\naly\n\nKing and Co\n\nand Co\n\nSue ship\n\nfang, 9 Stoking sna Co\n\nLaco.\n\n200, Dreyer al Ba\n\nApril\n\n176 Urder\n\nAng. 10385 Kasseli and Co\n\n118 Jardins, and to\n\nNor.\n\nClarita, brig\n\nCora, ship\n\nAvg.\n\nDea.\n\n400 Order\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Hone, que\n\nSian, barque\n\nAug.\n\n430 Order\n\nJuly\n\n32: Order\n\nSpanis\n\n29.\n\nJan. 2 198 W31. Robinet & Co\n\nBan Lorenze, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nJuly 11\n\n220 F. D. Syme and Co\n\n16F. D. Syme and C\n\nTESSEL\n\nAT\n\nFLAG\n\nFubchan British\n\nAcarn\n\nBictor\n\nHhong Scop\n\nAgnes Garland, atque\n\nNor Mady, sing\n\n255,0. L, and Co\n\nCalcutta\n\nAng.\n\n1500. Nathaluoy & Cu\n\nkong Flag Ship\n\n84\n\nMelanie, barqu\n\njau.\n\n18. Heard and\n\nCams\n\n14: Jenkins\n\nNov.\n\n510)Dem and Ca\n\nPantaloon, brig\n\nNev.\n\nSoCamajos and Co\n\nfixcogier\n\nPowai, si\n\nfact.\n\n687ade, M. and Ca\n\n| Mercales\n\nDet. 24] 628A. Heard and Co\n\nH&ret\n\nAng. 20 Gas Gito, L. and Co\n\nMiss\n\nSe Dec.\n\n550 Rassell and Co\n\n31 Bollu\n\n2 Virginie\n\n20 Boulay\n\nB: pr. 600 Curling Bets. bg\n\n107 Makissiek ian.\n\n168 Appon\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nLondoR Smudries Lindsay and Co\n\nTORT Sundries\n\nP. &Ì & N. Co\n\nSmies\n\nAt Hongkong\n\n• British\n\nDate ut! anini\n\nTONS! CONSIUNEES\n\nAlfred the Great, ship\n\nCot. 24 312 Fames Steplanon\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nAulandsle, ship\n\nAeasy, ship\n\nAustralia, ship\n\nAvaca, bargur\n\nJaner, schooner\n\nBanekae, haque\n\nBreshera, Utg\n\nCaldera, ship\n\nCadiz, wamer\n\nCity of Carlisle, ship\n\nClarendon, ship\n\nDeva, ship\n\nPaglub, steamer\n\nBarl Grey, hangne\n\nEena, brig\n\nErin, steamer\n\nEurquie, stip\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nFalco, ship\n\nFous, ship\n\nGlencoe, sp\n\nGood Success, thiş\n\nHoro, abip\n\nJubu Matible, ship\n\nKensington, ship\n\nLady Hayes, barque\n\nLanrick, brig\n\nLord Bagian, ship\n\nLouis, Barque\n\nMaryhull, schooner\n\nMaria Hay, hip\n\nNeure brig\n\nNimrod, ship\n\nPanhua, brig\n\nPerseverance, barque\n\nPrincos Royal, ship\n\nPady Daveon. thip\n\nBamarang, barque\n\nJan. 17 187Gibb, L, and Cu\n\nDec. 7yall, Sail and Co\n\nJan. 1673 Fletcher aud Co\n\nSept. 560 John Bard and Ca\n\nSept. 30 SuRusch and Co\n\nJa, 155ohn Burd and Co\n\nFeb. 14Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 16 2400-der\n\nJan. 820;Under\n\nFeb. 1006P. & O. S. N. C\n\nJau. 15 936 Jardins, M. and Co\n\nFeb. 850 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nJan, 181039 Ruseli and Co\n\nDos. 8 165lemsson and Co\n\nDec. 17 67 Jardine, M.\n\nJan. 26 207 Vaunaice and Co\n\nJua. 850. & G. S. N. C\n\nDec 28 728 Order\n\nNov. 3835 Lyull, Still and Cu\n\nSept. 26 430 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJun. 14 400Order\n\nJau 1784 N. Murray and Co\n\nNay. 5 500Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1| 401| Lindsay and Cə\n\nJou 2 500 Turner and Co\n\nJan. 1a 800Order\n\nGet. 18 318iten. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 282 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17581anline, M. & Co\n\nJan. 11 374Dent and Co\n\nlocs, si 19els. E. Burrows\n\nJan. 31 924 Jardin, M. and Co\n\nDec. 1l 200Order\n\nJan 23 33 Dent and Co\n\nddell\n\n0 14 148o.\n\nHongkong Hamburg\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbis, schoonet\n\nMewor, saip\n\nPerucian\n\nAmireas, brig\n\nAnbitvet, ship\n\nCarmon, barque\n\nCallao, barqué\n\nSantiago, barque\n\nUgarte y Sauiing,\n\nSiamese\n\nNoortol, barque\n\nSan Juan, barque\n\nSiamese Crowa, chip\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpanish\n\nPetua, schooner\n\nBremen\n\nC. Melchers, barque\n\nSoloo, barque\n\nChitian\n\nAlianza, Lurquo\n\nGreyhound. Phip\n\nSaray, enhuoner\n\nNew Granndian\n\n| Anuic. barque\n\nMacao\n\nBritian\n\nRoehampton, ship\n\n1 Date of Town\n\nArrival\n\nDec. 31 W. Postan and Co\n\nNev, 16 aga John Burd and Co\n\nJan. 15 540, Sierunson and Co\n\nHalt and Co\n\nNov. 15 Nov. 12 540 W. M. Robinet& Co\n\nDec. 23 356 J. J. das Henesis\n\nJan. 23248 Wm l'ostau and Co\n\nDec. 193 J. J. des Becicios\n\nSept. 13, 200 Order\n\nNov. 39; 4500ndar\n\nDec. 15 800 Order\n\nAug. 28 250 Order\n\nChico, belg\n\nBuno Ayres, brig\n\nChristiau, brig\n\nFaust, schooner\n\nPavian\n\nRosalia, arque\n\nNov. 37 230 Lyall, Still and Co\n\nNow Era, ship\n\nJan. 24 47NR S. Waller\n\nQel 2 186: John Bard and Co\n\nQueensbury, kip\n\nJan. 23 210Order\n\nNov. 250W. Fustan and Co\n\nD. 22 325 W. Lubinet & Co\n\nJuly 13 907Edward and Balley\n\nPortuguese\n\nEnando Macaense, hire.\n\nMay 251 207 Jose d'Almeida\n\n394. J. das Beridos\n\nMaria Carlota, banque.Tan.\n\nSanyma, barque\n\nTona 21|| 170|§. J. dun Renadioe\n\nSept Tremely, barens\n\n375bindsay and Ca\n\n670 Dont and Co\n\nFraich\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship\n\nOct.\n\nAmerican\n\nHoher Sall, All\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Busiwam, by.\n\nFlyaway, skip\n\nKingsher, ship\n\nMandarin, shin\n\nHamburg\n\nAbardus, barque\n\n250W.M. Robinel & Co\n\n1375|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n126da. Heard and Ce\n\nMay 10 200 Russell and Co\n\nAug. 318&farstine, M. and Co\n\n778A. Jies and Co\n\nRussell and Co\n\nوندی کی\n\n400 Siemsson and Co\n\nSprintma\n\nSanta Leda. Larque\n\nOldeanzung Schlosser, bargue\n\nSept. 3 77W. Pustan and C\n\n550 W. Pustau und Ca\n\nBRITISH SRIPS DE WAR IN CHINA.\n\nCanton Sloop Barratte\n\nHeng P. W. ST.\n\nCloromeda\n\nNankin\n\nNiger\n\nRacehorse\n\nSampeon!\n\nSybille\n\nCanton Sloop\n\nGanton P. W., Str.\n\nCanton Ser. Str.\n\nkong Hospital\n\nCanchor. Str.\n\nH.kong Store Ship\n\nLingue Pigate\n\nCanton Ser Str.\n\nglas Brigato\n\nBubcha Song\n\nAmey P. W. Str.\n\nHogue Priate\n\nט\n\nCOMMANDRA\n\n12 A. W. A. Hood\n\nT. A Furtescue\n\n12 Ticut, Beamish\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n& Douglas 1.W.DO'Callaghan\n\n12\n\nForny fl\n\nJH. T. ER, Master\n\n60 Hon. Keith Stowel\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 Sir S. W. E. Nicolson\n\n14 3. R. Barnard\n\n& G. & Fund\n\n40 Wire. Hon, C. Ellied\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCOMMANDERS\n\nW. T. Bate\n\nG. T. Colville\n\nCa BIGLAND\n\nGolden Racer, ship\n\ni\n\nSamuel Russol, ahip\n\nMay\n\nSarah II. Snow, by.\n\nにし、\n\n420 King and Co\n\nAng. ace! A.A. de Mello & Co\n\nVancouver, ship\n\nJuus\n\n$18 Kussell and Co\n\n$20John Bard and Co\n\n¡SAILED FROM\n\nWedentara, banque\n\nLouisiana, arque\n\nDutch\n\nApril22\n\nNingpo Britian\n\nCornacle, ship\n\n348,W.M. Rebisen&Car, shooner\n\nSolon, banque\n\nArtoon\n\n28 Prigate.\n\nNov.\n\nAerity\n\nH. Kajone\n\n4 Ser. Str.\n\nMar.\n\n632 Dent, Baale and On | Buscaṛd\n\nCWERAD\n\nGun Boat\n\nOct. 25\n\nOct. Oct.\n\n180 kindsay and Co\n\nCamilla\n\n13 Scop\n\nGOJE Bord and Co\n\nCesiser\n\nC. Fellowes\n\nElt\n\nBarcas, brig\n\nLort\n\nDroggrabank, ship\n\nDet.\n\n695 ebaeffer med Do\n\n257. Puslan and Co\n\nWilmingtou, ohuones\n\nFeb.\n\n$6 R and Co\n\nForester\n\nA. J. Lunes\n\nFury\n\nEverdina Elizabeth,bq.\n\nJan.\n\n600 Schaeffer and Co\n\nHaughty\n\nSt. Helena, bug\n\nDee.\n\n1896chauder and Co\n\nLightver\n\nJuflexible\n\nJan. 24 103 James Stephenson\n\nTouis, ship\n\n52:Order\n\nArg\n\n497 J. Bowmen and Co\n\nOposzan\n\nFrow Jolierna, bij.\n\nDet.\n\n530 Beneffer and Co\n\nNo. 28 1247 Darley, W, and 0%\n\nOsprey\n\nHenburg\n\nDec.\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nPlayer\n\nLaum & Louie, by\n\nRase, rig\n\nJau,\n\n248 Dryer and Co\n\nKaleigh\n\nJair 1\n\n1768. Burrowa\n\nNov. 28, 372 Lindsay and Co\n\nBandei\n\nJuly\n\nNar.\n\n7.8 Deb and Co\n\nStarling\n\nJA, J. Villers\n\nSept.\n\n175 Burner and Co\n\nJaas\n\n280 Joan Band and Go\n\nen\n\n100 Holiday, Wis: GÜC\n\n120 121\n\nSept. 15 286 Turner and Co\n\nDec 28 900 Dent and Co\n\nDec. 93 78) Onder\n\nDec. 26 560 Dent and Ca\n\nBir Jamar Broshe, str.\n\nJan 91 73 lecher and Co\n\nSpeedy, ship\n\nSpirit of the North, eh.\n\nNov, 11 67, L. and Co\n\nSollane, barque\n\nTruro, ship\n\nUnicoro, simmer\n\nVizzinie skip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWegsoia, stip\n\nOct. 1 588ebatfer and C\n\nJan. 2469rder\n\nAug. 16 786 Taos. Hunt and Co\n\nJaur 18 830yal, Su, and Co\n\nNov. 143ardine, M. & Co\n\n¡Dee. 24 549 Illiday, Wise&Co\n\nWater Witch, harque\n\nJan. 15) 958). Laprak WP.. Nii\n\nWiki Wave, selvoner\n\nJan. 24. 200/Jardine, M. & Co\n\njosemary -\n\nZepliyi, chonne\n\nFrench\n\nEtaile, Ba\n\nInitia, barque\n\nMansur, Lip\n\nMount Riant, ship\n\nSaceos. ship\n\nJan. 3, 118 Dent and Co\n\nJa 21 389korder\n\nJan. 10j 545;Deas and Co\n\nDec. 26 617ent and Ca\n\n¡Nov. 2) 414jOrder\n\nWillemins, brig\n\n1'/\n\nGimeneze, ship\n\nمشهدال\n\n224 Schacter anti Co\n\net. 15 600 Order\n\nA MEDICAR\n\nShanghae\n\nBritish\n\nAlbert Bowd, ship\n\nAliquis, sp\n\nAlchymies, ship\n\nArrow ship\n\nAngrata, alip\n\nBailarat, li\n\nChallenger, Earque\n\nMara Nativaladept 28 010 M. Rolanes & Co\n\nChieftain, arc\n\nEast Coast\n\nArn, stomer\n\nVille de Dieppe, barqueFan. 2014)yali, St and Co\n\nproste, abip\n\nAmercom\n\nAutonita. schooner\n\nAntelope, steder\n\nBarham, arque\n\nCarben, schooner\n\nChampion, ship\n\nDee. 1134rder\n\nJan. 24 200 iussell and Co\n\nOct 28 248 W. Pustau and Co\n\nDen 26 200. Girly\n\nFeb.\n\n360 Order\n\nC. W. Bradley, Jr., bc, Oct. 9 218A. Heard and Co\n\nDom Quixoto, ekip\n\nDement, ship\n\nFaruka, ship\n\nFrancis P. age, ship\n\nGarland, schooter\n\nHolen Mar, barque\n\nJames Maishail, brig\n\nJ. Godfrey, barque\n\nHate Hooper, shig\n\n2438 King and Co\n\nBan. 18 4003. fleard and Co\n\nNov. 5100, Heard and Co\n\nNov. 12115Jardine, 1. & Co\n\nJan. 15 118s. E. Burrows\n\nDec. 26 saalonder\n\nAnek tan, argue\n\nPorly, ship\n\n16% Robers S. Walker\n\n115andine, M. and\n\nConfums Ship\n\nCrystal Palace, eng\n\nElisse, barqu\n\nBizabeth, brig\n\nFazil Curria, barque\n\nForrtev.sip\n\nCots, ship\n\n537 Curlewine and Co\n\n140Jardins, M. & C\n\nDe 12 25 Birley, W. and Ca\n\nJane 15, 566 per and Co\n\nJan.\n\n207 Viliam P. and Cu\n\n8spt, in 20 Jarding, B. and Co\n\nMay 30 802 Tait and Co\n\nJ.F.C.Hamilton 12 Sicop\n\nC. T. Tudītie\n\nEL V Tamilcar\n\nSer. Str. Sept. 25\n\nFout Sept. 25\n\nKiun Boat Sept. 25\n\nGF.A.Shadwel 21 Scr. St.\n\nST. Corbett\n\nP. W. Str. Oct. 23.\n\n2. A. Campbell Bat\n\n54. 3. m.ield. S.\n\nKeith Stewart. Go Bast\n\nHou. R.Keppel 50 Trigate\n\nNov. 'Willmau\n\nBoat Sep, 25 ina Boot Oct. 25\n\nFOREJON SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA\n\ndid\n\nAT\n\nFisc.\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\n805. 839W.1. Warley &Co\n\nCatinat\n\nSur Are\n\nVirginin\n\nLevent\n\nPortsmouth\n\nJau 16 BJ, Kouper\n\nAug.\n\nGuzole, schooner\n\nQuetonio, bargco\n\nGeralWindham, slap\n\nDo Guinare, ship\n\nHeltespant, 6tomer\n\nIndia, barque\n\nBeta Hip\n\nW.M. Rubinel&Ross\n\nKate Carnie, Ali\n\nKelso, ship\n\nLaviermuir, ekip\n\n11 382 Giinue, B. and Co\n\nGsa Lyall, Stink and Co\n\nJuny 2002 graves and Co\n\n336 Jardine, M, and Co\n\nJau Sept. 15 53 Den, Brule & Co\n\nI. 21 020, Birley, W. and Co\n\nDee. 27560 Galien Co\n\nJou. 75%y Lindsay and Co\n\nSept. 26 952 as, Bowman Co\n\nLuly A. Dort barque\n\nNov. 8 870s. Koney and Cul\n\nLady Mary Wood, str.\n\nLammermuir, ship\n\nLouisa Baltic, ship\n\nMary Wieuheit, sp\n\nDee. 563 P. & 4. S. N. OS\n\nJan Bourns and Co\n\nAng. 24, 494 Gilman, B and\n\n1205 Jarine, M. Co\n\n780 and Ca\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nlungkung. Su. Houghong Fr. Frig.\n\nDangkong U. S. SL\n\nShangbae 17. S. Sh.\n\nR.-A. Gner in 50 Capt. Plas 18 St\n\nJC Fote\n\n(bars, Amtree. A\n\n{ Capt. Beli\n\ntea\n\nHongkong U. S. Str.\n\nFort Brig\n\n20 Cam. Tayfres\n\n21 (0) Daterin\n\nMuiden\n\nSulpicc\n\ndc.\n\nAlaxants\n\nPorthorea Prameel\n\n8. Rer Sp. Bg.\n\nHangkong Peru. Str.\n\n4 Briar.g\n\n14 Doran\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nBritish\n\nJeliz\n\nChin Chin, arque\n\n310,Camajeu and\n\nBanons, schooner\n\nJa\n\n121 Dens zod Co\n\nJan. 21 56sell and Cu\n\nGaver achooner\n\nApril\n\nHart, schooner\n\nFly\n\n4 Y. J. Marrow\n\nHelen, brig\n\nJan\n\n130 Turtar and Co\n\nJuns\n\nMalac, urque\n\nAng\n\n869 lewitz and Co\n\nBlaze pjs, schooner\n\nu.\n\nBear, arhooner\n\nJuly\n\nTriopho, schooner\n\n200 D. Laprik\n\nFrench\n\nAnais, ship\n\nNov.\n\n632 Lyait, Stilt and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJac.\n\n304W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nJaly\n\n1068 A. Huurd neu Co\n\nProgressive Age, rig\n\nNov.\n\n296 A. card and Co\n\nKugleader, shi\n\nMay\n\n1:56 A, Koard and Co\n\nSadie Peaza, ship\n\nSep\n\n875 Bonac Cad Os\n\nWitch, barone\n\nCe\n\n| 4100rder\n\nJan.\n\n100 Scbacter and Co\n\nferiests Marie, gee..\n\n581 Sebaffer and Co\n\nJuly\n\nJane\n\n700, F-W. Lawresno\n\ntopur\n\niwan\n\nNov.\n\nJameson\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\n►\n\nWicusy\n\nSailtea\n\n126 Siemsson anal Co\n\nGerard\n\nDent & Co.\n\nFune\n\n218 John Bund and Co\n\nJord Ambers Anany\n\nBrown\n\nDent & C\n\nJav.\n\n202 Turner and Co\n\nPatlirler\n\n14M\n\nJa\n\n025 W. Pieter and Co\n\nHarleggin\n\nClutches Fitgibbon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Út\n\nTera\n\nParti\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDec.\n\nBremen\n\nBertha, arque\n\nSept\n\n40W, Pastau anil Os\n\nsir E. Aberamby, sb.Man.\n\nya Tamer od Os\n\nMahanolic Tubeca worl\n\nWuter Witch\n\nFalix, barne\n\nClitian\n\nJaz,\n\nJame\n\nKod Lyal, ul auá Ca\n\nVenilia, ship\n\nThen\n\nGaming, M. and Co\n\nHinly\n\nDent & Co.\n\nAnn Woleh\n\nWeorang\n\naircott\n\nA\n\n1. Icare & Co.\n\nVudex, schooner\n\nMa\n\nFully Jane\n\nKing\n\nFulkste\n\nBaylis\n\n478say and Co\n\nNimrod\n\nCobb\n\ni. S. Sons & Co.\n\nSea Horaé\n\nKeppel\n\nP. F. Curas & Ca\n\nHenderson Lindsay Co\n\nMan. 10 13. E Barrows\n\nNev. 18 456Y. J. Murrow\n\nDec. 1488Js. Stephenson\n\nMary Whitidge, chip\n\nNov. 27 07 Russell and Co\n\nMeteor, ship\n\nMins, schooner\n\nMiu, steamer\n\nMosaur ship\n\nNorth Wind, ahip\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nJan. 20088ja. Heard and Co\n\nMar 300rder\n\nJan. 14; 130 Russell and Co\n\nJuno 28 50Thorens Hunt &Co\n\nOct, 21041as Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1100 Rossc aud Co\n\nQueen of Be Res, ship! Dec. 170350 all and Co\n\nBachand\n\nRescate, ship\n\nSimon Dumper, kali.\n\nSpotaran, ship\n\nStar King,\n\np\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYeang America, slip\n\nDutch\n\nAlmonde, Tarque\n\nAnna Justina, ahty\n\nAhna Elizabeth, iq.\n\nChristina, bargne\n\nAug. 25 5303. E. Burrows\n\nSupt. 251 SUGRasseti and Ca\n\nJan. 26 20. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 2u1 826Order\n\nDoa, 11176 Order\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\n8pt 202000). Iesed and Co\n\nDat. 19 600w. Postau and Co\n\nJas. 13 550 Schaeffer a d Co\n\nJan. 161iemisen und Co\n\nNov. 26 648 Schander and Co\n\nGeneral de Stucs, by.\n\nJan. 2 79Order\n\nHollar Astrow, haupe\n\nSept. 79, Schacter and Co\n\nJaenh Cats, banque\n\nOct. 22 800Saborifer and Co\n\nJacoba Coracia, hq.\n\nKlazina, barque\n\nOosterling, legra\n\nFeb. 140Britaefer and Co\n\nJan. 17 Schactor and Co\n\nDec. 15 53 Var der Haven\n\nP. von Baren, barque\n\nFan, 14; 250W. Pastau and Co\n\nProvenz, barque\n\nBegins, barqa\n\nDazisk\n\nHercules, brig\n\nHelena, barque\n\nJan 18 19 Schaster and Co\n\nJan. 173 W. Fustan and Co\n\nMay 1 2siemsson and Co\n\nUan. 91 e Win.Plan and Co\n\nDutch\n\nDiana, submer\n\nPogosophyr, bq.\n\nVienesha, ship\n\nDanish\n\nBaldar, schooner\n\nLoots\n\ne, schooner\n\nHumbury\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig.\n\nDet\n\nLisa, barque\n\nMcibido, ig\n\nSiusness\n\nParagon, ship\n\nFrolic, actuoner\n\nSwatow British\n\nChina, ship\n\nFazel Carram, barque\n\nJune\n\nNama, schooner\n\nAug.\n\nAmoy\n\nBradish\n\nAbbotsford, barque\n\nAun Kay, rehvoner\n\nAs F. W. Lawrenceklo\n\n4. Puatau and Co\n\nW. Pustau anu Ca\n\n708|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n!April\n\n80gOrder\n\n250 Order\n\n1, Lapraik\n\n! \n\nNov.\n\nApra\n\nAutoinette, barque\n\nSept.\n\n430E. D. Syme and Co 121 Tait and s\n\nBlack River Facket, be\n\nApril 19 25:Order\n\nConfucius, ship\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nCaluchow, ellip\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nSept\n\n21Sebaftor and Co\n\n51allay, Wine &Ca!\n\nNapoleon II, sip\n\nNia, schooner\n\nNie, ship\n\nNightingale, ship\n\nPaculise, varque\n\nFabr.gra, barque\n\nPeba, banque\n\nPiuto, alcamer\n\nIve.\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Bard and Lo\n\nDee.\n\n70s fling. 1. und Lu\n\nDec. 16 Juzeline. M, and Ce\n\nVESSEL.\n\nAr\n\nCAPTALS.\n\nJuly 320, Wet more and to\n\nNov. 28 705 Captam\n\nJan 11 1890. C. Schmuva\n\nJune 41st, 3a and Co\n\nPrinces Koyal, chipet.\n\nPruth. sip\n\nRemi, stoster\n\nRutin, brig\n\nLal Still\n\nJan. 12 A8Limisty and Co\n\nJAS\n\nJail.\n\nSual Lucy, sequely 10\n\nSauel Stosur, bg.\n\nSept. 11 Salvetin ship\n\nSir James, bargue\n\nWhampoa, lurque\n\nWild Flower, slip\n\nFrench\n\nCanton, saip\n\n322 N. Dogs and Ca\n\nOWALKE\n\nHart Willia. Longkong MDerant ||F. & C. 8. N. Co.\n\nJofon Adria\n\nGama Family\n\nCooray\n\nJa Wa. Posh and Co\n\n45 Water and Co\n\n42rpent, Banky and Ce\n\n647 Lindsay awi Osi\n\n179 Dent and Co\n\nSept. 10 375mler\n\nDea.\n\nDec. 638 Dent and Co\n\nKopanál\n\nAnteyeca\n\nHongkong\n\nSwailow\n\nD. S. Sens & Cu\n\nP. H. Cha & Co.\n\nEusseit & Co.\n\nJuri, M. & Co.\n\nJardine, M. & Ca „Jardine, M. & Linke\n\nDem, Beale & Co.\n\nJarding, M. & Coi\n\nTERMS OF SUKSCRIPTION to the HONOKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT:-For One Year, 829, Six Mouths, $19. Three Manthe, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER-For One Year, $15; Six Montuz, $9; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRIOD CURRENT slone-Por One Year, $8; all payable in advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER —Advertisements, not exceeding i lines,\n\neach insociic. $1, each additional line 20 cearts; van halt of these charges for Repetitica AGENTS for the DONGKONG REGISTER S OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTIO, Paq, Lomion; Mesars. JARDIN, SKIN & Co., Calcutta; Marrs. Emisoras à. Co. Bourbag; W. S. Danska, Esq., Singapors; Mesary, TAXON, Researy & Co., Batavia; J. P. PE, Esq. San Francisco.\n\n76 Jawline, M. and Colltel, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACILAN, at the Hongkong Register Offer: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkang. Tuesday, February 3, 1857.\n\n76,P. D. Syme and Ca\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 6.\n\nENTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1867.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHERRAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. MR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our\n\nWHERE the Futva the 11th day of March.\n\n1866, at the fine of the UvITAL STATES' CONSULATK in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in frust for the benefit of their Ureditore, to the undersigned: We bestby giva potica to all voneer el to make payment to ma of all sums due to, and lo present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co. JAMES FURDON & Co. Canton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n-\n\nPum.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTH\n\nHE undoraigned has this day established himself at\n\nMac, as 3 Berchant, and General Agent\n\nà. 1. §. na CASTRO,\n\nMac, 1st January, 1857,\n\nNOTICE\n\nInstant\n\nAssignment of the property, real and personal, of. A. A. Du MELIO JE, in authorized to sign the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Chatou, Too- name of our Piru per procuration frost the chow, and Shanghuse, Chiux, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the\n\nA A, D MELLO & Co. beatit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, 1 horeby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of sii sume due to, kand\n\nclaims against, the said Firm. to prescut to m\n\nCantan, 7th August, 1856.\n\nOLIVER IL PERRY.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBeamen's Hospital. Trustees. Jostra farming, faq., C. D. WILLIS, Esq. Hon. W. T. Mesca, Esq., R.S. WALLER, E Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Coa pany. (ex oficio.j\n\nTrauren-d. Maantaa, Esq.\n\nBriuent burgeon-Renard G. JACK. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.]).\n\n*\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION, Paltic Warda,****\n\n75 cents per day, fazermediate Wards...\n\ndollar .. 1 Private Recal\n\ndollars Pasicuts are also admitted on deposita, atthe following rates, renewable one day previous to the amountdeposited having been expended.\"\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$ 20 $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignces of Veale uetbe respon. sible for the express of Palents sent by them luke\n\nHas itzi.\n\nAll Hospital Billa to be receipted by the Treasurer vuly.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE.\n\n[HE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port To the undersigned Busier the style of WILLIAMS, ANTION & CO. expiter the day by lapse of time sud mutual consent, the outstanding ass cants will te verde by either Partner, sad a stricy Agency and Commission business will be conducted by Et us Partners at the Port of Singapore antier the stylo of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & CA\n\nJagkong, 1st September, 1836.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nB. ANTHON, J G. HASKELL\n\nM. THOMAS WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong. NOTICE\n\nOTICE 16 hereby given that our busiest in Shang- lae, will be cuudneted in future under us Sty víúlublAN & Evil Cautun sad uv-chow.\n\nGILNAN, BOWMAN & Co. Shungbae, 26th August, köbó,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE undercly and have perished & their buss Store Keepers, Ship\n\nMacas, 3d January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nINSURANCE S.\n\nNOTICH.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1790, THE ́undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Carporation, are prepared to great PULICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, ou any Buthling or on Merchandize to the star,\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1955.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY\n\nOF LONDON,\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nNOTIC\n\nNo. 1,365\n\nTHE undersigned have taken out az AUCTIONEER'S 1 LICENSE, and heg to uder their sarvkes to thu Public.in that Capacity,\n\nTROL HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 181J.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION. THE Rev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies 1 for the Admission into in jimsig of the chüdren of such FORRION Xstrants at the Mec Porta, who may\n\nPHE Undersigned having been appointed Aczstain be desirous of securing for them the Conforte of s\n\nFor Terms and Particulats apply at\n\nNo. Gough Street, Vicronka, Hongreso.\n\nNOTICE,\n\nTHE LIBRARY THE MORRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY,\n\ntheatre CAIXA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to HOME, sad the Advantage of a LIBERAL EDUCA\n\nrept ASSURANCES Hengcag, as ander\n\n1st. On Buildings of Brick ne Stone, covered with Tiles, Blaces, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contenta, when such Buildings ors isolated from all othera,-Rate of Premium, i per cont per Aman.\n\nd. On sanh Buildings and their Contents, when not lealated, cut the Mats of 1 per cent per Axaum, the Su ieslated, as the Mots of per cent per Annum Annut liate will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Asrances, for the prescut, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 24 Glass.→To the extent of £9,000. A Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building zione, or the Coutents alone; or, fart ou the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMOND\n\nNEWMAN Sow in our Firm ceased on 31st Decem ber last. Our Piria now consists of WITAM WALKIN SHAW, WILLIAM Hursos, Joan SCARTO, and ROBERT Ранкетка Іновий ко\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1867.\n\nHOUSER\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned having erected a spacious GO\n\nspring prepared to recclys ou Storage, Quods of all deereiptions which may act interfere with Insurans against fire. The charge for Storage of Loeros will be 10 cents per Bale per oath, and for Rice, Sus and hor Dead weight 3 cents per picut for the brai, and 2 cents per piest for the second and subazqnent months. The Rater for older Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALI, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1550.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid,\n\nAmongst other advantager of the Company, the Ax Aared will be entitled to participate in the Ï'rolite after Fivo sucucasive payments.\n\nHoney, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock .x.. to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books, Paris, not bombers of the Society, may jotain the savantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Truziles,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary,\n\nÀ DESORIPTION OF EXGLINE PAL-On the Englich\n\nface are combined decision and nerve, with the fair\n\nThe fair Saxon\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sund in full particulare of the Blak to be taken; nay Deviation | complexion, blue eyes, and open and florid expret, from which without the consent of the Company, will; Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine vitiate che l'olicy.\n\nperception, and portie construction. Dian, with open front and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, ve inquisitor, or assassin is mede, but he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the pucture of child- zen, for calleges, churchsea, chariiles, and rolouies. They nre rather manly then warlike. When the war over,\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, 1st January, 1875- ERLIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY,\n\nundersigned Eaving\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nBIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. FOR SALE.\n\nIlongkong, 26th April, 1950. BEST English STAR CUAL\n\nApply to\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Hongkong, 7th April, 1350.\n\n(Established in 1845.) FOR SALE.\n\nTHE Underzigned are prepared to accept RISES HAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PA (covered by protecting POLICIES at Lotos and the various lour Insurance CoPANIES,) by the PEN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Cus tos and dongkong, wo Amoy, Shanghue, tie Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and Estund. The interest in the protecting Policies is assigned the P. and G. S. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Playmont in this event of Loss. For LATE PREW.CM and cherinformation, apply to\n\nRKS. WALKER, Hongkong. MAXIMILIAN P1son, Canton.\n\nand bluL SHERRIES\n\nLYALL, STILL & Ù». \n\nA fow Cones FRENCH CORKS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nN Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL\n\nSHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE,\n\nApply to\n\n1YALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALP INVIOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, LANDING WHARF, &c. Ettached, at present in\n\n& Co, id iuxt\n\nflore, ed un part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulare apply to\n\n, at fiongkong, which will be carried on the pre- uises Intely occupied by Mr. W. Scort, ruder the to- agement af ár. . . Exuicers, who is authorised 20\n\nigor the saingkong Branch,\n\nTua HUNTE Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1854\n\nNOTICE\n\nInterest and Resperabity of Mn, ABRAHAM BOWMAN in our Firm, oth hire si at konchow, Lo Sith June susi.\n\n11.MAN & Co.\n\nCanton, Shib August, 1850,\n\nNOTICE\n\nAFR. REGINALD PADDAY was admitted a Part\n\nHAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 24 Sep, 1556.\n\nMR. was admitted\n\nW\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have this day established at Hongkong under\n\nthe scan style a branch of our Canon\n\nVAUCHER FRERES, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nBains herewere carried on under the Fire of Kwa & Japan, will, fron mud alive this date, ve Conducted by Mr. Mos Moses and Ale LEL J. ANKARA, under the designation of JobsH & Ly waerein Mr. Zum JUDA alcutta is the Senior Purtatt.\n\nEZRA & JUDAH.\n\nHongkong, It\n\n1867.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WuJA, DE Firma of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Ca, of China, and T. A. 118 Co., of Loudon, terminated on the auth Jure 1865.\n\nngay, 26th December, 1850.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWILLIAM PROBST in this day admitted a\n\nM Partner in our Ficus in libing, which Mr. Jenave\n\nER is authorised to sign per procuration, while Alt. WH. HOLLMAN size the firm of February that has dis\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co.\n\neuntinued to net for u\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 2857. NOTICE\n\nM\n\n2. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Office, wil siga my name from this lare per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN, \"longkeng Register\" Office, 1st January, 1867.\n\nTHOMAS L. WALKER Estate and ifcus Agent, Queen's Rouch\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\n\"MALTA,\"\n\nYork & Canberland HAMS. P CHEESE.\n\nBreakfast BACON, Bach CHOPS, &c., &c.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nE. WAXDOS, Rhengåre,\n\nH. T, Marshall, Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love Cricutta.\n\nThe dog ind lays been appointed Aunts for the ransk falls from the affectionate ant to westic tantes, POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, which makes them women in kindness. This union of HANGGON, PERANG, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nqualities is fabled in their national legend of “Beauty and the Beast,\" yr, long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite. \"The two sexes are co-prezent in the English wind. I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine: \"ake la as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.\" The English delight in the un- taganden which comhlars in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness. Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood, and, like an inco- eent schoolboy that goes to bed, says, \"Kiss me Hardy,\" und turns to sleep. Lord Collingwood, his comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic. Admiral Rudney's figure approached to delicacy med effeminary, and he declared himself very sensible to fen, which he surmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. Clarradan says, the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some com tiers altempted to put effrouts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a wark for the most terrible determination. And Sir James Perry said, the other day, of Sir Joha Franklin, that, \"If he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a Mon- quito,\" Even for tusir highway men the same virtues is elclmued, and Robin Hued tomes described to us an altissimus prædimum, the gentlest thief. But they know where their war.dogs le Crowell, Blake, Maribo- rough, Chatham, Nelson, and Wellington are not to be trified with, and the brutal strength which lies of the hottem of society, the animal ferocity of the quays and Cockpits, the builies of the costernongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials, and Spitalfields, they know how to wake up. They have a vigorous health, and inst well into middle and old age. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome, & clear skin, a peschi bloom com- plexion, and good teeth, are found all over the island, They are a plentiful and maritious diet. The operative cannot rabist on waberevesICA. Beef mutton, #best- bread, and malt liquors, are universal among the first- claus laboureTA. Good feeding is a chief point of na- tional price among the raiger, sad, in their carlemmer, they represent the Preschman as a poor starved body, It in curiose that 'Tacitus found the English beer already i use ang the Germans: they make from barley or whest s drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.\" Lord Chief Justice Purlesque, in Henry VI.'s time, sayu * The Inhabitants of England drink no water, valens at certain fizuen, on a religions score, and by way of pen. acer.\" The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it\n\nROBERT FRANCu, Mudras, ot Joas ROBIE. Bumbay.\n\nLondon, Sih January, 1854. NOTICE. THE umlonsigued, having been appointed Agenta for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, we ready to issue alicice En behalf of that Oleo, payable in BINGAPORE, CRAN, PANGDON, CALCUTTA, BOY, UN, din Cara\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Ca. Canton, 930 January, 1856. \"COMMITTEE OF MAKÍTIME INSURANCE, OF PARIS.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nL\n\nHE Undersigned, having been appointed Acerra for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are aathor ized to examine and approva Clarins for General azú Particu Averages on ikka musured by them.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co. Hongkong, 27th December, 1816.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS. ES Somsignés ayant été nommé Agents des Reunions FOR SALE.\n\nArreurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Asure- YUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cunts runces Maritimes, de Paris sent authorisa, pour eumi\n\nof 1, 2, & 3, Dozen each; niso CHAMPAGNE in 3 ner et constater des réclames d'avarica partientiéres et\n\ncommunes sur des risques assurés par eux, dozen Cuses. BEER in Casca of 3 & 4 dosen each, at East Point Godenas.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1956.\n\nNOTICE. THE undersignal having been appointed Aoser to\n\nOrricks in Rotterňom, a 1st of which may be seen in his one, requesra application to made to kim da ense of any particular or general Averages un rlake in eured by them.\n\nALEX, WILSON,\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE Tax HOUSES known as Bagwiese.\n\nFor further particulara, apply to\n\n10\n\nRongkong, 27th December, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nm board the Screw Steamer \"Lubus,\"\n\nat Whamp\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each foot 2 inches\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nThe majority of UDARWINTERS SIG INTUSANDS\n\nHongkong, lal January, 1857.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nPOSTOFFICE NOTICE.\n\nwould seen, never reach cold water in England. Wood, the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jeruit, dues not deny him heer. He says, \"his bed was under s thateng, and the way to it up a ladder; his faze was coarse? his They have more drink, of a penny a pawn, or gallon,\"\n\nThey constitutional nurgy than any other people.\n\nthink, with bat manly excercises are the\n\nfomation of that elevation of sind which gives one\n\nnature ascendant over another; ar with the Arabs, that the disys spent in the chase are not counted is the length of life. They hot, run, shoot, ride, row, and sait from pinle to pole. Toey eat, and drick, and live jolly in the open ale, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day-English Traits.\n\nPORGIA PREACHtaq.--The Furkaru, niter noticing the Freemasons' friend, and making some creellent re- marks, in which I quite cuntur, regarding “popular\n\nin length, and feet 4 inthase of a work Engin, a HE Acting Post-Master regrets sa way that owing to prenehno leping of Church, an epigram pointed\n\nthe departure of the carriers from Hong- tong, there can be no delivery for the present of Leiteir &c., hat how the Peat-Office window. Hours of stren- dance being as heretofore frora 7 oʻtlock, a.a. to li PAN,\n\nPosten, Hongkong,\n\n12th January, 18s.\n\nsufficiently apacions to Engtuan of from One Hundred and fronty to One Hundred and Thirty Hons Pow. Bach Boiler ha 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Six-en Monthe in the Vessel, and not having been used morg than Six Weeks during the whole of that time\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, wish\n\nSAN MIGUEL KRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. CYLINDER capable of worklog up to Ten Forsy Power, fitted with Pamp of 7 fucher diameter, and YNDER the Superintendance of an Experienusi Ex- Buroke of Piston Rod fi inches, for pumping out Water GINEER. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY Ballart, throwing with cas 20 Tons per hour. Also executest with despatch. Speak ENGINES & BOILERS Cast Iron Baskets with Cod Waaris, for Londing or repaired. SHAFTS of the bees English Iron from 5 to Dinolwaging Cargo.\n\n9 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Moser B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Media,\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBU. LAR BOILER for Huginu. standing & fost 9 inches high, diameter & fest 7 inches.\n\nThe whale in first-rate working order.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th Cetuler, 1855.\n\nWING to the existing condition of affairs at Chator, D. KENNY han ravnoved to Hongkong; and may be consulted his Rive, cormir of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nlingkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\naway's article on\n\nwith a good joke of the witty South, the Editor aught to have a return in kind, I offer the following an illustration of the disgusting length to which preachers who strive after effect, can go. The anecdote is taken from severe criticism, writing in England, of the Rev. J, C. M. Bellew's volunie of Sermon preached at St. Philip's, Regent Street. Allading to Mr. Spurgeon, the \"gated dissenting prenslier,\" the critic of the Saturday Review says:—\n\nThat shining light of the Non-conformist world lately discoursed of the last days and death of Williaur Palmer, and be described the devil na trembling between hope aul fear--now reading that Pairer would confers and balk him, and presently confident that he would remain ohdurate. The preaches wout an ine on himself to per souity Satan; and, rubbing his hands in a flow of ex- citement and delight, he shoutot, a the game in the prison cell was closing, \"here he comes! here he comes! here he comes --Bengal Hurlar.",
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        "content_text": "27\n\nMina to pag-did not give him so understand that I was scale he was not going away.\n\n\"Gerard by Belles,\n\nhey thos\n\nmen de finally\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\nMare. I saw the birth and tenth priscacs n board the ma-ter of Alluny's business. I said that if he diwas paid. He owed about 15,000-partly for four others of the Badly on the passage they overmied Chim several tens of dollars or a badrcil. I made tud Thistle. I believe 300 is due on the promissory only when in sight of the Prais Chande, but I see not press the business, I would set my shop, and gipartly prouissory notes for hire of the same s in the sb, the dotresites and his father and brolis fore-entia. Esing empradore i busrd, offer entirely en\n\nAl sets the Insitus in the reta:) shoe it thit 100 songst the prisoners; i dones know fleiri en Day of Abluto's funt's in the subject our abacush previous, I selit li 16 dags of 2013, vwn responsibility, I have uotes, oud the rest for flour which I sappiled about one\n\nench did not suspect that be was going to icare The Cowel sentence the last wires to six sunthu' in Island, until he had left he promissory nets fril I did not reate there. Ithak, plize abent 9. Ablam said he had very important business 11\n\ndue on the 5th January, it was drawn about four au to 400 peple, awue tints are at leasecord-\n\nDOUGELY LAPIAIN-I Bougkeng and an sked the Caplaid to lake the steam-auner is his father, the fat is n entiers of Bility stay-drawn on the sue date. Titis witness gir ing the goator of the bread prutace- did or back to Hongking The Capris said he contal thians. The R-sing firm had two establishment. his evidence un eros, examination very reluctantly, the perintend the aging of the bread-Bones 1 do it. Ahlus said i had very supertant business kenw the retail shop Ablue is er or master, à Attorney Generell its ceply said har to drag it hat two Evropen forthes and some Chinese bakere, Hongkong, in answer to the Captain, who asked him father superinters the shop ustness, I am not aware, out by air force.) Ponais e Change arman; and somariose de why he was a hurry to go back, kala conversation thing berst up and there was no korvan a alt. My with: Ablam soos after. I said the wul that was pur-bread of him on 15th and was aude sick by it\n\nkhus share. Inta a customer of -sing broug Boris magh the Chinese how to make broal,\n\nYKONG Kwa Sow, -1 cu a builder. I have three chase. this morning from your shop male every and the mechanic part of the baking was done hair very sick; he replid, that was the resou hetou for the Port of Steamers Between & and monthly for an indefinute period. He asked me to wake by Cal-sc. 1 csider the bakery is worth 100,\n\nA Ben was Agent for Mr. Murrow in Choses beland theEing batery. I am sequainted with\n\nAhlum--On the 19th January, I let the houses to Ahl elling the penis, ne more u tom de heto him, saying, that it was very probalde dat all the Pedders' wharf. I saw a boat passing in the entwan month each-3 months payable in odrame.\n\nwanted to get back to liongkong. I went u uslking to 7. I was in a small boat is the Labor, not fur ir ovens in this for him hakery. They were let a m E-sing ces was courly increasing, and tutely pee who eat his bread were sitt be left very met 9. Mang entirely supplies the Counissariat Hongkong the same day; and thou ke asked if the\n\ndirection and rocognised one man, Ablulu, on boa color tot wah £2,000, the maenines $3,00 Captan would take the reamer back the same eveniny fur\n\nI have been acquainted with him for about sendwall of the business, $1.600, and stock $3,000 on the $100. I said I did not know. ith Jary. I was in the Colony when she shops were thought of sis bastuces lie said it is a little thing which naked his was he\n\nyears. I had meen him on the 28th Dec. in the shop conversed with him; he recognised me the porter shot me in November. I don't know the forcuan of the litru ruerteciue will make all proper. This was ter\n\nwed. I called hic by Lame, I was 50 paces from him lakery tanne I know the name of the man that called the most active man, I know hitaas I have son\n\nbe offered Mr. Agabes and the Captain together $156 to\n\nhad an object in bailing him, it was to ascertain wheti ! him in the hipnoz doprtment; and know putting of the which they sit they could not do; and that it was seird the Steamer back to Hongkong that evening,\n\nsteaper was going to start for Macua. He made no bread department I know him to se ha most active better to wait until next morning. The fire was pub\n\nI strange at the time. in the bakery, The bay was being enlarged and snt inmediately me: we arrived in the inner harbour. pr wel in December last\n\nHe acele e isle anle ranga, The fast jure I wae Ahium on our was when! European not even Mr Morrow, bread bi ta commnunty, com say my so he dado ao was talking to the Captain; he then offered $59 if h\n\nbay ay lust, Wien ut the bakery business would tagg lúm kurie to: Fungkong that night; 15; Captin i present fur contes know Ahim, the last propaths ego. There is another promissory nofs due\n\nhat which was not the one I was accustomed in w balted him only once, Re evomized-it did not occurred to me that wy & would make Allum not recognize me.\n\nuf\n\nNo - a working haker, Long Ahoy la my master. He is the commissarrin haker-I am fere- man. Jang Ahoy does not superintend the Bakery, but leaves it entirely to me.\n\nCrossmined by the Attorney General,I a Ablum's friend-ne elution-no relation by earringe\n\nmonths' real was gaid on the 13th, in advance. One of the Jupes is still in my possession, the upper story is broken up for the purpose of buikling the ovens. I have given up possession, of the two others. There are now er to my bail and tumed away his head; I though ply four barrels in them. Cozamined by Dr. Bridges.---I was in a China be Toususamer å boy-woodenter at the sing he went in tow the parish steamer to the inner ba-beur,\n\nThe elame anised of the Praia Grande, and thesiliout a cover, I was denseed, mach na usul. I had ry, rocog med at the prisoners except the 31 pioner; they belonged to the Esing bakury on in and hatwe blom sad the Capturis soon after we got into Crained my Mr. Day heard nonversation Tak Ja mary. The 3 and 46 prisomes are brund the inner haroser; it took plñen en the deck spousite the Inkara\n\nCaptain's stock ruota. I could not go forward, the place Creamed by Mr. Day was captured with a burrianded, and all the Chinese passengers wore cleven others n the 15:1, January in the upper part of forend of tin harricade. I heard that sum of the F-ei the takery; the eleven were bleet kera. There were\n\nothers on the piers at the sime To S 6th and Chicae pese gers that pay $1, al Another that pay $2 family on tammi, were sick Tha ja one class of 8th prisoners were among these arrested. There were both are be rented out. The 12 passengers are in the no other perpen in the house than ise arvestat. We fore-cata; and t passengers down slow, forward. ram taken to the palice stacion. I was questioned by-sug and his family were in the cabin, and lus onder Mr. Mag together wet til uther eleven me. Thurs and ather Chines were an deck, the barriquis is were only guiva pesent us the time, We were al sent isun mal confica! by uncive. I do not szil al 's family had been sick, I saw no of the\n\ntaean the und the after part of the steamer. Alumif know Mickson, or Mr. Turner, or the detorney very sick an Serd, could not see the rest of his Gonerat, (who are pointed out to lika.) So one femily who wers in the in Ahlem said that he als spokann na about giving evidenon. I was brought was sick, he was not sick in my presence. I do not from the cell to the place below and brought up here,\n\n1. 31, RN, 1 was it from eating broad absinus sous-I do know them, of the bags w\n\nknow if these two boys, who werd very sick, wựn Al- from the B-sing shop, on the 15th January last, in pensei somuching like the 2nd prisoner bezwen isend 17. yours yance of which I made gagnvies after the misere: fag. Bore offers ware made in the inner harley, Antons, sed à fouel he had leg the Colony for Mano That unborning.\n\nANTONIO XAVIK,- ans Captain of the Shamrock\n\nIncertainthe goverment had not de-\n\nAfter the orgina. 12as taken, of which Loveha I w\n\neffect that he had secreted the E-sing preatises on Diputy frapector Boyle's \"depositions read to 15th January but found nothing of a spicious natu Join Dunn-Police Inspector-I proceeded to Esing shop in Queen's Road Bass, on the morning gave them to Mr. Grande, the lath, had brought bread and dour front there,\n\nI remeber only ou, the Grat prisoner. I de net kan Create camined by Dr. Bridgea-I apprehended in\n\ninquiry if any had absconded. I searched the sho any one had abscended that drunking. I did not na ncing suspicions was found!\n\nHO ACHAT, WomanOn the 15th January, I was resuled in Alto's Bakery, Queen's Road East. I lived with Ahium's family, and it consists of Cheng Aliee bla an A-One child is 3 years, 1 child 3 months, wife, 2 children, servant giri, myself, and u temule relation old both boys. They lived in the up part of the house lacing the road. I herd with them for four years. The bakery is at the back, tiny make wont und biscolt, night and day. The dough for the bread is put info the oven all o'clock e.. I do not know, when the Breed bread baking was finished, no ruport was mule up-stales baking is frished-70 tile wight of the 14th after the\n\nconting up, and he did say that after supper all the work Ahyow, clerk, did cure that night, he is in the habit of ater were voiting Geard them vuiling, Ahlem does not often sleep in the inkery with his family aerly 2 or 3 times a mouth. Alama did not sleep there on the 14th Jan, le game there on the morning of the 13th, soon after dry-Byld and requested bis family to get ready to go by the steamer, to their village, Long. They had no breakfast before Acung near Macno. they startril. They took to the steamer two kind of bread large and sniall, the large was commun loof, she swall Joat way made for the occasion by order for pre- were 4 Inrge loaves, these were brought to me by Ali- seats to their friends in the aforrasid village. There\n\nThis cut the ease fur the Crown, nt 4.30 1. Dr. Bridges Intiated that he would not be able emmene his defence that night, and though the day Court consented to ajourn. ware auxions to go on and get done with the adfuir,\n\n(journed 4.50 PM\n\n(Fourth Day, 5th February.)\n\nfe\n\nmany strong observation ugadunt the manner in which Dr. Bridges commenced his spreeb at noon and we\n\nthe crown had undated the case, and agaiter the volum. The Bread were made the night before. I only mittingjuetimos la cullod\n\nci 1 chartering any steamer; chewupon chartered Captain, ce she th of January I took the command of the the Rerace Spark at has en use to go to Me Mr. Ma pointed me. On the the men We arrived at 6.30 o'clock that evening. So pocenions of the 17th January, I left fur bliscau, dust before were tenderci tand by the Govern, has left, thism and a family came on board the steamer, his a lot with polcomen coming. fearing that Ahlin father was amongst them.-wy brought an order frota might have spes alone I told the Cpini: not to wait for then as we were underweigh.\n\nMr. Mure for their passage (order presented by the W. LE MESURIER-1 un head of the Comissat 10 Macan I made a statement that the police were\n\nWhen I got whitness). Allum hituself presented the order and I indenriment, I know Ahlam by the name of sing 1 coming in the steamer wich was to leave in the\n\nmediately put hiau ar his family in the fore cabin, made a contract with him on the 14th January. Os at Aftenbos. I did not apply to the Macao audierities.\n\nOrder red] Shaurant, please give Ablum's family days tender was accepted for the supply of 100,000 ba but I went on hoard the Shrmport abent 7 e.., nter using of betweet. 8 and 9 persons, a passage to facs biscuit by sing. I had transacted Cusiness with bia making enquiries, there I found Ahlem in the forenin\n\nin the fare calia. None of them appeared to be sick oz before, and was quite andisfied with bis conduct I wodd with several Chinamen, women and children.\n\ntheir coming on board. I say some of the passenger? I put\n\nhave entered at any time into other contracts with him. my hand on his tail and told him he was my prisoner, made enquiry as the evose of the sickness, whether they about six oths in this Colony.\n\nwho were sailors and exalkers sick about 11 d'clock. if Crozanawaśned by the Attorney General-I have Sien and muss some on shom with me. i did not tell hire un what charge arrested hou. The prisoner saidave of the net and wite not aick, but the bread was new and ens bread cat.They said they had on here any om die at Hengkung.\" To which I replet bread and the fore they craoluded in to be the effect of you have poisoned for every boy wite arsenic. enting that bust. Baving attained slut the Bruxd Is asked me what nesenie was, I sold bin it was the tain they sad to destroy rats. He sait ha did xut bed was purchased; and they and at the E-sing shop. was the cause of the sickness, I asked, where the know want that I then sail this was very lod thing for him after having heen snapccied to tre\n\nI arrived of the main Grands at about 1 oeber and had something to do with the Thistle's athir.\n\ntion went to tow the Spanish steuer inte the inner he was very sorry for it, bot that he did not knew any\n\nharbor, where I arived at 9. Ahlam did not leave thing about either fair. I asked him why he had taken\n\nthe steamer. I had the tention Aptale him on board la funily over from Hongkong. He sud because the\n\nIndoconversion with Allum on the passage previons been threatened that his house would he barn i asked\n\nto the scammer cloring in the inner harbor. Abium hise if he had a house in Macau for his family. He sait said that he would give $50. I t I was not sked if he could leave for longkong the same evening, he had na, but is intended to leave them there with gig and could not ge, fining cargo to deliver\n\nAs I was going to the Governor to explain board and Aldam offered lur $100 to send the steamer lart I haut dore I act some of the Hongkong police. 1 Park Litas sveoing which, waa refused, and Mr. Aguleg rammed with them to the guard boss and give prisoner stiet li could not send then steamer back before text into easy: then returned to Hongkong in the work. inorning as 5 o'clock. Ahira then asked me whether Whea (first went on board the Shamrock, I told the it would a heater for him to go back to Hongkong in mare no to allow any o to go on shure wot the Hongkong police arrived.\n\na Chinese boat that evening or to wait for the ausner next morning t 1 advised him to wait for the\n\nAnd\n\n|\n\nof\n\nsaw one of the maull loaves given by Allan) to one the children before they left, it was to the eldest child. efter the child eat the bread be voulted. My master At the time the bread was given the child was well,\n\nsked why the child vomited. I aud the other servant RB well, aswered that it was owing to the cold, air of the morning. We all wear to the steainer, we were all toget- her in the fore cabin. There were some other people there who i do not kasw. There was a sereen, a cloth, hanging between the men and the women. There was\n\naware of his having tendered to supply the Commiserinting to the same visage, I heese bur name is Aher-ake R. A. ONDE-I am nequninted with Aldom. Iancnother tough not belonging to the family, but belang- with biscuit, he had to sign an agreement after the terder was there before we arrived. Whde on board we only eat was accepted. & 4 or 4 & 5, 1 wes not certain of time corrcer the bread were given to the infant chilld.\n\nI do not know if he be it signes, Isaw bread. and dething else. The bread eat by us, on board, him on the 14th of January in the afternoon between 3 was cut by Ahlum, he eat of the bread first, comic of the wanted to know when he meant to deliver some parted in ny snouth first, and then gave it to him; he then I gave it, I chew- of the biscuit. He said he was going to Macao, and that vomited. We e voisited-ties and we all felt he world bring say servant hack with him. I understood alike. The sickness continued until we arrived at he was to go the next dry. He said be would be hack Macao, then the vomiting ceased, the giddiness con- in the course of a week and would bring my servant tinued. The children were ill after they got back to with his\n\nHongkong on the 15. The whole family were\n\n$2392riend. I then took him ashura tu the Governor's Incac. Aerwards the Agent Mr. Agaber caine ou the Inst contract. When I suy tread I mes: Liscultiple in Honung mla be sick too, therefore we nust\n\nKitard,\n\nwith a ever since I came into the Colony. I had a reh, and women wore sick from eating the bread, peo- W. Spine, I tu . S. Naval Storekeeper, I know brought back here by the police. I heard the unver- Ah'um. In my offelel capacity, I bad business transadiensation between Ahiura and bis father, that as the child- contract with him for 108.000 lbs. it was the largest and was always perfectly antisfied with the manner he failed his contracts. Most Fasuredly i would have been ready to enter with him into further contracts had this affair not happened.\n\n[ go hnek,\n\non the 15th Janury, only 9,005 s. of hecnit ready, Crosscamins by the Attorney General, There was\n\nCrossezamined by the Attorney General-I did not\n\nCrosseramizat by Dr. Bridges, some mede consteamer, Ablam Haid he world remain on board 1 wovording to his stetergent, which he made a few ways give one saul: leaf to the chid in the bout: be gave\n\nsapon took place on hore. De Shamrock. When I told statuer aul the following morning, Ahers said him seni had been used; he said his own children had further three would land his family in the morning, ben sick, and asked me to come and see them. I do\n\nlined to do so. I do not know whether 1 gave the co-That lio did not care if his family were to die so long as lie and himself and his father wohl go back to Hongkong. versation in the saras order before the Magistrate; I was could go back to Hongkong, because he zupplied the nci particularly asked to do so. but I do so how that it is particularly beught to my memory. He volancered went ou board, may mate was.\n\nGovernment. I was not on board when M Robinet to go burk with me in the Spark. He told me that he had offered 1100 to the master of the steamer to take -in back to Hongkong at night, hit that the Captair had refused. I know that Allem had gone in the Sun- ruck. I did not goot board dieetly fearing that he might escape. und bin in the Surecakin standing sulking\n\nith sathe Unese,\n\nThird day, at Februrg.)\n\nCreuseumined Mr. Day-The fret time I an Alium on road at 7A..when he presented to the order of Mr. Murronext time I saw him was when the wearer arrived close to 4 o'clock-if Ahlum wished he canid have spoken to me ut any time through the barricade. When the steamier was anchored the har riende was opened, then the conversation took place--\n\nprevious my last contract was in December some time\n\nIt was a verbal contract. A. G. Acame, am the Agent of the Shamrock between 124 40 1 2.4r. The ordinary course is for the steamer at Macna. I remember un the 15th January the Shamrock anrrived in Maco, and reacted the Prolu Grandle\n\nvessel to return to Hongkong the same day between 2 and 3. On this occasion I had actor work for her, it was arrived in the immer harbor about 34, but I are not sure. not previously kupwa by the Captain. The steamer I went on board before shestopped at the Praia Grande. harbour. When I was on board at the Praia Grande, I The barricade was removed before she went to the inner sw all the Chinees passengers coming out from where hat I sun is when be offered the Captain $100 in the they were barricaded. I saw Alum-nt at that time. inner barbor. O the Teuin Grande, i mernly want\n\nway the child was sick owing to as coldness of the morning, but the father said so. The child lives upstairs shut up from the wind. My monster brought the bread did not see from where he got the bread below. He upstairs from below. I only saw bist bring the bread\n\none tuoltar of the children between the time they lea the hour and getding on board the slenaver. It was about on when the bread was our and distributed. I did not\n\nand 2 baskets containing bread and oranges, with chin observed my master bringing that morning ang clothes to the Lonse, the family took will them way bedding some clothing for the children. I heard master say, when the Mandarina are less trombiccome the faraily will come back again; and flat when he got to Mars his father would take them home, and be would return to Rong- kong you so they were lauded. I am dry murine\n\nain to Antum's family. I am not Aklum's wife, no\n\nMy husband is in California. We brought back I we taken to the Police Station. there I remained the whole of taxt day nad she exi 1 Anjum geing in to be examined; he did and passi through the riem I was in,-but through the veranla\n\nOn the count asectbling Mr. Sutton & juror said my When the pfer, of 600 was made Ablam said, thet e boy Ashow asked me if I was going to the Court as applied bread for many families in Hongkong and that he apprehended there was something wrong there, and that was the reason why he wanted to ges back to\n\nou be in give direction and went back on shore. Sionging to it. Assow and several other called me Hongkong to wake inquirica about the poisoned bread\n\nIt was half past 4 o'clock when I went back to lens here today. I did not objeer to be examined at because he supplied the fiscernment and troops. When\n\nstremer in the inner unchar. The chief mete told pic\n\nthe Police Station. M. Agabeg asked him why he was in a hurry to go to\n\nAblam offered 100 to go back to longhong. Some By the Jury-Cannot say what hour the bakers had longlong he gave the same reusons---I think that Grande. The Captain told me that some of his menyn eat is wasatrange, but e caquiries were rasle. of the menger meul on shore at the Prais their supper fat sight. I live upstats I cannot my what Aillum did not know of my intention to detain him on\n\nhour they had their suppor, but know they take appre bord. I had only gives orders to my mate not to uile were sick, bot le did not my polsoped. He said muilunk Avow cares up to tell Ahium's wife she cfremstance, any sumpar to come alongside.\n\nWhen went and I hear it. There was an opening in the screen on board the sb pc mc side. I could see Abian euthing\n\njayman. I said yes, but I could not speak any thing about the case matil the trial was over. He said Ablam's cousin offered to pay me $100, and the same amount to any other person of the jury who would help Aalum te Escape conviction. The Court orderen the arrest of the boy Accord Ablum's consia and that ties be brenght bore the Court.\n\nALEX. MACHINE-I am Kozerd of the steamet Slickar in the habit of purchasing bread from che Sing. I generally receive my head on ene of the boys of the shop and the inney is al generally in the first prisoner. In the shop fie beiind alie manter, believe he is slabenilen in the shop: I have soen rèé second prisoner in the shop, he belonged to the Thistle before she was taken. Thure en him in the shop after the Thistle was ken; he appeared to be one of the boys in the shop. I have seen hit nasist others in the Aelivery of bread. I only cognize three of the prisoners S having seen the f the shop, ti Arst, second Ani a. On the morning of the 15th January, I benght breal at the -si shop for the use of the cabin, between half past & and half past A.M. I was not very long in the shop, do not rollees having seen that gay any of le priserers in the shep, I was there at the time to receive the breil und pay fit. About Ho'clock luft at the nner for Marzo After leaving Hongkong most of the Eareas papers in the form part hesame sick, name of them were saitors. This took place one df an hour after we left Hongkong. At first I thought it might to go eickness, but as you of thera Bilen got sick daught the water cask on bei\n\nright he poisoned. As they said they had drank no\n\nBy the Fury.The temaer was off the Preis Gende about 10 minutes before she went to the Road to tow the Spanish steamer,\n\nthe Shamrock--the crew breakfasted on board on the ANTONIO GONGALVEZ-1 at Chiat Oficer on board\n\nof his intention to detain Arlum.\n\nversation with Ahiana; he said he wanted to go back un beard in the inner harbor, 1 had a rou- to Hongkong ta een now his bread in Ilongsong the head on found the seater. had turned out; he offered to pay $100 if I would ing-I declined his offer. I did nothing to prevent lur allow the steamer to go back to Hongkong that even-\n\nbeen in custody since the 15th January. On the 14th & Cara-TO-I am clerk to the K-eing hakery. I have\n\none of the priest. Wong Ataol was one of the bukor was at the bakery. Alus was the bead baker-he iz aut\n\nmet was mixing the yeset and making the bread. alo, he is not aroong the prisoners. Atrofa depart\n\nThere were 42 prisoners aken on the 16th. An ad\n\nAt wore not wegst them- The night it was\n\nAt night\n\nafterward three of them were able to work, I saw knowledge; he could have gone with the other passen 15th January niter 3 o'clock--they became sick 5 muutes from going on shore, nor any other person to my the prisoner and his family on board efter the steamer gers if he had been so disposed. He mentioned that his drrived in the inner harbour. I saw three of his family family were ill by eating poisoned brand in hoard. 1ful\n\nand that it would be time cough the his purpose. Flels 10 the bread is bakod. After the work is over That were sick, but Ahlum was talking to toe, and did him that he could return re next momlag to ilangkong, Ateoy's turn to taix the cast at o'clock.\n\nnot see them vaniting. The children uppcure sick. peuple were ill, but some of the men vomited steakon hir or troard. After he was prested I saw his family. the workaea get their chw-how. Nothing particular Crasetammed in the Attorney General-didecarred after the work was owy, war after supper, no My reasou lur set sending the stemmer to Hongkong asin of soup. I went upstair. Ever since I was the same evening was, because the men were all set. alea I have been under the custody of the Government out of the hold, and to take in other cargo he crew I was obliged to employ emolies to discharge, the cargo CHEONG-AC-1 am Cek is Chong-Asow who is\n\nnot appear to be sick. Taw the three of Ablam's family sirk after their arrival in the inner barbera. There was ring men, they were all sick-It was after 'clock coulker on board sunong the passengers, and other sea I find a conversation with Ablue, and ther was the only coveration had with him when he said his family sick. Mr. Robinet and on board at o'clock - sked if Ahlum was on hard anebook bin on shore steamer and we returard west morning to longsung. afterwards Serjeant de Silva brought him back to the (Cauet aljourned at 3. 55 a fer quacier of an hour.) CHEUNG-ACHONG,Emined in the matlier of the fer water, but having eat brand, we eunclade the brend way to bribe the jury.]-- am smaker with Mr. Sutton. I enquired from them where they purchase 1 I know him to he nun of the jury. I had a conversa- po:sone their bread. I made out by the description they give off tion with Ablum's cousin aed Akeen, he lives in the shop that it was the E-sing shop. They were Mans Endicott's Bazuar, he is a hook-binder. He kilt me Tung and did not know the E-sing mate. Some of them to let my master with reference to the case, sunt to or belonging to the steaner had some of the saine bread press the mster and that he would give 100 The offer from the passengers, and after we arrived at Macao they got sick. I had te passengers in the aftur rabin one, Pussc, who cat nothing but read was very sick, the other a Lumpen pussenger and the officers of the steamer who had only tones were not sick. I ent seme of the brut, And was sick. The bread I car was the same go at\n\nwas to him alone. My coaster said no, he hau becn sworn in Court and world not de it.\n\nWANG-ACE(Recognized by the last witness, as the person who spoke to her.) I am a Foreign book naker, I am a friend of Aliam's, but not related to him.\n\nKnow the last witness, I never spoke about Abluza'a\n\nthe E-sing shop. Some of the E sing family had on order poisoning business to him; the only thing I spoke of from Mr. Murrow to have a cabin for themselves to was that I heard his master was in the Court pressing\n\nmaster and the mate tolt ne so. were all it with the exception of the officers. The January I and my wifs want to Maco in the sale boat Chinese Government Head Overauer. On the 15th The crew were all with blum. We were in the sarav cabin, screened off by below and roue deck. The master told me at the Praia Grande that the men were sick, and gave it his father, Duideli's comprador and other siratpers a curtain, Ahlum's wife childrou and servate, Aklan, as an excuse for not going to to the Spanish steamer in the Roads. The steamer all the time remained in\n\ncharge of the Captain und Mate\n\nin all 7 or 8 people. Our fue was $teach, we all eat bread or the panga, it was square bread. The bread was cus\n\nby Ahlum, I first eat it about 12 celoek; minato\n\nthe stence when there is cargo to land or to take in also were sick. I never cases sek. Allum was sick, By the Jury never employ coolies to discharge afterwards eating it I felt giddy and vomtiel, ottery 1 Mana.\n\nu wol as his father. Abium readu a rear, that W. Fuscan, are a merchant in this colony. In the red made them sick he would go back to Hong- know the ninth prisoner by the names of Ahlau orang, I went on shore at once, ou arriving of the Praia H-sing, he was indebted to me $800. I sent to col. Grude i get some melosine-állum did not lang as lect the money, but did not press it, a few days previous pe was going hark. Thory was nothing to prevent int frum ianding. I saw his children on board sick, they\n\nto 14th January. Without further spplication he paid.\n\nto the 14th, an application was made, and on the 14th!\n\nCrossermined by the Attorney General-Previous wore a cker than any of ne\n\nCamined by the Attorney General,-Qaly Ablum\n\nJanuary another application was made, and the coney had bread in the cabin, he had four loaves of k aquaro\n\nshabout a pound each, and he cut all 4 louvou eat one fica lem then the thicknem of my little dogur, About dusk I get well, after waking the medicine. 1 st feel my bowel disordered, I feel no pain but an uncari-\n\nD. May-15ek an Iron Cheat from the shop of Allum, there were several papers and books in it and $1229 odd,\n\n*\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\n28\n\nBuildings, 1 am slightly acquainted with Akiom know of the mob saying they would rob un if we did not shut | Mercer, Mr. Mercer was one of his best friends, and where the Esing shop was I seelisen the time the up, thou we did shut.\n\nhe would rather that his tongue should drop out of Chinese made some disturbance and shutting up their GoPro TK-was called much to his astonish-his mouth than attack Mr. Biercer in the way it was\n\nment to break down the exit of one important witness asserted he had done. for the Crowa--but the attempt totally failed. [6] P..\n\nudjourned.)\n\n(Fifth Day, 5th February.)\n\nThe second part of the speech was occupied in a very scute disacation of the exlitence-Very well performed, with a strong leaning to the Crown aido. Mr. Anstey boldly professed that he had not the astrel indifference\n\nshops; it was 1 balieve in November, Alluin kept lis shop opened. It was the vuly chop I saw upon.\n\nChan-Amox,—I am xayior living in a Cilman's Bazaar Queen's Road. 1 know the Raing shop remember the shatting of the hope; fel day Allam did not Cruse examined by the Attorney General,-The ba\n\nsaat op. He ok at the 28 day. His bread was enivad by\n\nThe Attorney General replied in a very able speseb. of Crown prosecutors in ordinary cases, this was an ex- Kory prutson 1 belleve do not belong to Ablum, they are rented by him.\n\nThe first part was employed in defeating the government traordinary case in which he felt in a different manner, the wch, and stones thrown as bis shop.\n\nand Mr. Mercer for the harsh course usected to have and was not anxious thas a verdict of guilty should be Cnos-Ann Woman, -I am wife of inet witness Cras camined by the Attorney Genemy---I was as been pursued in this case. This summed totally une\n\ngiven.* [Not Mr. May's wife but wife of the last Chlem witness] the Jas House that day, the shop keepers said they were cessary, as the government was more to blame for tou I was on board the steamer going to Maran in the santé\n\naitald of the bad people, but a son as the soldiers came must leniency than too much severity, and Dr. Bridges's eabin with Allam's tatuily. 1 c some bread after 11 and cleared the hob they would epen the shops. Did examination as to the examination taking plsed at o'clock. Al eat the bread. The bread was cut by Ahlum not ses Allam there. All the respectable shop-keepera the police statica\" was morely paltry claptraps and returned a \"verdiet of not guilty. And given to on. After a while had a elabs and were there, about 300, they did not say that they would were that gentlemen not s leaned doctor of laws w vomiter All vomited. Ablam elder child was sick shut the Market outil the Governant cisted the should designate it as ignorant waddle. Or Mr. Mercomon report could not do it justice, in the contrary it first small the other afterwards.\n\nFines. I cannot say who was the leading party in pomposer, Dr. Beiges said in rectification of the Aturney would do it great Injustice. W. Garze,-Boarding house keeper living in circular ing to shut the shops. They were shut in cansequence General's defcuce, \"het be had sever attacked Mr.ace to speak for itsalf-KER.\n\nEdited, Protod, and Published by ROBERT STRAUHAN, at the Hongkong Register Offco: Gago Street, Victoria, Hongkong. Tharaday, February 12, 1887.\n\nThe Chief Justice summed up decidedly against Al- Inma aur accessory before the fact.\n\nThe Jury retired and after about half an hour's absencu\n\nWe regret our inability to give the speech entire.\n\nWe therefore leave the evid\n\nA\n\n322\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\nPage 28\n\nTRIAL OF AH LUM\n[...]\n\nPage 322",
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Leon\n\nדן\n\nDut. 764 ric\n\nEarl of Windeer Brit. sh. 1000\n\nkrawa 3JArcher\n\nAm. sh.160\n\nagond\n\nTime & Truth Brit. bk 670 Dod\n\nAuckland\n\n$Queen Phangnze Jau. 23 Maria Hay\n\nAm. hk 204 Nelson\n\nBrisach. 140\n\nBolton Brit str. 103 Harris\n\nDrát, s 200 steary Dri sh. 924 Middleton Aan. a. 1280 Osgood\n\nBordcan Sept. 10\n\neucral Sonrabara Jan. 2 Rico Calcutta Nov. 23 Kiar Bombay Dec. 30 General Shanghae Jan. 30 Ballnat Melbourne Doe, 1 Ballast\n\nGeneral Formosa Feb. Nineus FP Sundries\n\nAmoy\n\nBrat Cess Peb\n\n2 Treasure\n\nGenerat Amoy Peb. Ballast Bingapore Jan. 28\n\nAmunition Singapurs Dec. 24\n\nilico Meller Sov. 26 Baline 3. Francisc\n\nDiana. sebouer\n\nJan.\n\n100 Schaefer and Co\n\nFr. Lk. 406 Oreg Hara, bg. 260 Bigcon\n\nOrdar\n\nWat.l'ostaw andCo Schaefer and Co Lindsay and Co Order\n\nHenrietta Maris, bq. Due. Pagan Zephyr, ba July Vrieadshop, chip jJune\n\nDanish\n\n581 Schaeffer anil Co Jady A. Duff, barque 952. W. LawrenogaĈo Lady Mary Wood, c. Dec. 700 F. W. Lawrence Co Laalmenntir, ship\n\nLoulan Baillte, ship\n\nKelso, ship\n\nJan. *: 589 Ladway and Ca\n\nNov.\n\n$ 3709, Kennedy and Co\n\n509.&O. 8. S. N. G\n\nJan.\n\n7 8529, Bawinan and Co\n\nAng. 24 49man, B. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nBre. bk. Suo Klamp\n\nFeb.\n\nBrits 674 Tage\n\nA. Catr. 945 Drought\n\n.M. Robinet & Cy Wu. Pastau and Co Jardine. M. and Co 1. Walker Jardine, and Co\n\nHaldur, sehooner Lootse, schooner\n\nHamburg\n\nNov.\n\n14: W. Pustau and Cu\n\nMary Wionholt, ship\n\nJa\n\n1205ardino, M. & Co\n\nJav.\n\n160 W. Tustau and Co\n\nNapoleon HI, abip\n\nDec\n\n760 Busaeil and Cu\n\nElizabeth Rose, brig Lima, barque Mathilde, brig\n\nOct\n\n123 Siemsson and Ca\n\nJune\n\n919John Bard and Co\n\nKau.\n\n202 Turner and Ca\n\nNina, schooner File, ship Nightingale, ship Parade, qua Palmyra, harjua\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Burd and Co\n\nDoe\n\n708 Jardino, M. and Co\n\nHee. 1404Jardine, M. and Co\n\nbraly\n\n62 Welters and Co\n\nNov. 28 708 Captain\n\nBadast\n\nAugier and Cu Jardino, J. & Co tugwell and Cu\n\nParagon, skip\n\nBremon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Order\n\nPelican, barque\n\n2. 144. C. Schwabe\n\nPluto, stenmer\n\nFelis, arqu\n\nJan,\n\nbeefyall, Stiil and Co\n\nPruth, ship\n\nSAILED.\n\nChilian Frolle, schooner\n\nRemi, atenmer\n\nJape\n\n166W.M.Robinet & Ve\n\nRolls, lig\n\nGreyhound, ship\n\nFeb.\n\n500W. Pustau and\n\nCedarsh Lacy, barque\n\nNAMS\n\nRo\n\nTexs\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCono\n\nCONNORRST\n\nSwntow Britisk\n\nSamuel Studdart, bg, Salmatle, ship\n\nSept. 1 451 Dent, Beale at Co\n\nالواد\n\nSir James, bang\n\nDec.\n\n7 Lindsay and Co\n\nHongkong Feh. No\n\n3 Alligator\n\n3 Magallanes\n\n3 Nimrod\n\n4 Waroola\n\n3.Scipion\n\n8 Baria\n\n19 Crisis\n\n4P. Van Burco\n\nWild Wave\n\nBrit bg 200 Boyh Brit. bg 1078tudes Sp. str.\n\nBrit. sh. 820arg\n\nBrit. ah 54 Alien Brit, sch. 200 Cheyn\n\nLaughing Water Brit, hk. 404 Omut\n\n6 Montriant\n\nChampion\n\n7 Si James Brooke Brit. str. 973 Skioner\n\n7 Dygden\n\nSw. ab. 240 Patterson\n\n7 Anos Justina Dut. sb. 500 Budeaburg 7J. Godfrey\n\nAm. t 486jGrant\n\nAlfred the Great Brit ] 640 Melutyro Grayhoaud\n\nSwatow Jan. 20 Anais\n\nAmoy Dec. 29 Tariew Fuhchau Nov. 21 Queensbury\n\nDec 8Folmala\n\n15 Agnes Garland\n\nShanghae Jan. 198chiamer\n\n12 Prince Royal 19,Sallow\n\n15 White Swallow\n\n20 Kate Carnie\n\nFr. sh. 82|Carignac\n\nAna sch. 240 Gregory Brit sh. 680 Casaldy Belk all asrisulte Brit. bk. 265 Thompso old. bk. 550 Schwarz\n\nBrit. sh. 502 Hamilton\n\nBrit. sh. 1293 Tucker\n\nAm. sh. 1200 Brown\n\nBrit, h, 401 Black.\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VISELS.\n\nLondon\n\nNew York\n\nSiam\n\nSundries\n\nOnder\n\nChina, whip\n\nApril\n\n300 Order\n\nSu R. Abercromby, si. Jan.\n\n743 Tammer and Co\n\nSheagha\n\nSundries\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nFazal Cerian, burqno Juue\n\n250 Order\n\nVindex, actioner\n\nJon.\n\n179 Dent and Ce\n\nBoern\n\nManila\n\nNantos, schoober\n\nAug.\n\n150 D, Laprak\n\nWhampoa, barque\n\nSept. 30\n\n378 Under\n\nWild Mower, ship\n\nfec.\n\nSingapore\n\nSandries\n\n175 Lindany and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nTht. bk. 250 Yeaser\n\nButaris ¡Sundries\n\nWm. Pustan and Co\n\nAmey\n\nFrench\n\nSingapor\n\nSundries\n\nHolliday, Wise and Ce\n\nBritish\n\nCanton, ship\n\nDea\n\n435 Deal and Co\n\nMeltwuns\n\nSundries Jardine, M, and Ge\n\nAbbotsford, barquo\n\nNov.\n\n425 F. D. SyDia and Co\n\n| Montrlant, ship\n\nFab,\n\n917ent and Co\n\nAkyalı\n\nSp.bg\n\nMaulls Duran\n\nSundnes\n\nSundries\n\nhilpa, Moore and Co\n\nAnn Key, schoenen\n\nApril\n\n121 Tait and fa\n\nAmerican\n\nAntoinette, barque\n\nSøpt\n\nBrit. str. 850 Payley\n\nStangha\n\nSandrite ], & 28, N. Ca\n\nBlack River Packet, bq. April 19,\n\n219 Scharffor and Co 205 Order\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nJa.\n\n586 King and Co\n\nFr. sh. 91 Brun\n\nStangha\n\nSundries\n\nDent and Co\n\nConfucina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nAm. sh. 360 Gray\n\nForth Seas\n\nSundries\n\nUrder\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nDee.\n\nSingaport\n\nSundries\n\nFletcher and Co\n\nChinchew, ship\n\nSept\n\nShaug\n\nBuutirios\n\nWzz. Pastau and Co\n\nRangoon\n\nSundries\n\nTurner and Ca\n\nEllen, barque\n\nOliver, bargce\n\nNos.\n\nPeb\n\nSan Fransisco Sundries\n\nOrder\n\nEmma, scheuer\n\n511 Holliday, Wise &Co 764adine, M. and Co\n\n785. D. Sype and Co\n\n226 Lya, Stil! and Co 688 Platcher and Co April 21; 120 Curner and Co\n\nMilam, ship Carrington, ship Channing, ship Competitor, siy Eagle, ekip\n\nEagle Wing, ship\n\nGolden Weat, ably\n\nB.\n\nDec.\n\n49% Raspell and Co\n\nNOF.\n\n100 aac M. Buli & Co\n\nJuly $556 King and Co\n\nNov, 101000 King and Co\n\n1174 Russell and Co\n\n1500 A. Heard and Co\n\nMelbourne\n\n¡Buodtles\n\nJamca StephoneNA\n\nEmigrant, baryas\n\nChi ah. 506/Smith\n\nBest Coun\n\nBundries Won. Pratâd and Ca\n\nEmily Annina, neh,\n\nAug. 19 Nov.\n\nOrder\n\nHenry Harback, ship\n\nNov. 16 740 Crampton, H. & Co\n\n165 Purlagjes & Co | Horsilo, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\ntall, Nya and Co\n\nHavant\n\nSuadrien\n\nOrder\n\nForerunner, schooner\n\nDea\n\n140 D. faprak\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nSingapor\n\nSandrica\n\nLondon\n\nTait and Co\n\nTena, &c. Heard and Co\n\nGom, brly\n\nJane\n\n254 Dent ausl Co\n\nMelita, schooner\n\nJuu. J\n\n689 Rosell and Co\n\n140 Kassell and Co\n\nHomer brig\n\nJals\n\n595 Order\n\nTeas, &c.\n\nLiverpool Teas, c. Cows, der Sundries\n\nJardino, M. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nMariner's Hope, brig\n\nApril\n\n250 Order\n\nNile, hrig\n\nJuas\n\nEid Angier and Ca\n\nRomances of Sons ship! Dos.\n\nEundou Teas, &c, Upadi\n\nWth. Paste and Lo Blenkin, R. and Co\n\nNymph, barqne\n\nDec.\n\n400 Liadeay and Ca\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh. Det. 81846|A, Heard and Co Norwester, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDec. 101287 A. Heard and Co\n\n241782 Ruwell and Co\n\nPet, barque\n\nAag\n\n375 Under\n\nDanmark, arque\n\nTeas, c Tens, &c.\n\nGrampton, H. and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n404 Lunevil and Co\n\nGlucions, brig\n\nLiverpool\n\nBrit, sh. 580|Rodger\n\nToas, e Sundrios\n\nKingsport\n\nMERCHANT VKSELS—Continued.\n\nA. Heard and Dent, Beale and Ca Gilian and Co\n\nBisters, brig\n\nJune\n\n182 Tail sud Co\n\nDee 330 Sterosen and Co Fan. 14 268Siemssen and Co Nov\n\n360 Overweg aud to\n\nUncle Tom, schooner\n\nSept\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nDet. 12\n\nto ruil, Still and Co\n\nUnder\n\nJan.\n\n188 W. Pustan and Co\n\nNoringaese\n\nJATH\n\n270 W. Pustau and Co\n\nAurora, schooner\n\nMay\n\n128 Order\n\n140 W. Puatau and Co\n\nPostum, steac\n\nJune\n\n236 Simen and Ca\n\nAmericum\n\nNov.\n\n210 Joan Burl and Co\n\nSAIZS\n\n!Data of Tou\n\nMorida, ship\n\nCONFIGNERS\n\nHelcus, ship\n\nNov. Junt\n\nDec.\n\n404 Squeer and Co\n\nโมน\n\n25 W. Postan and Co\n\nDate of Inors\n\nCommons\n\n{Arrival |\n\nSept.\n\n277W. Pustan and Co\n\nHongkong\n\nOct.\n\n340 Trautmann and Co\n\nAlmonde, banq\n\nAug.\n\n589Order\n\nJustina, barque\n\njAug\n\nMercurius, barque Fielades,\n\nJuly\n\nDec,\n\n230|Dreyer und Vo\n\nDen.\n\n225 Biomes and Co\n\nLygdon, shig\n\nHambary\n\nBonito, brig\n\n¡Nov,\n\n31 John Burd and Cal\n\nBuenos Ayua, brig\n\nDed.\n\n200 Dreger and Co\n\nChristinu, brig Puel, choomer\n\nApril\n\n170rder\n\nDew\n\n148 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nPeruvian\n\n250W.M. Robinet & Co\n\nAug.\n\n175W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nDeo.\n\n400 Order\n\nLug\n\n9 430 Order\n\nAourn Barrabout Butts.n\n\nJuly\n\n3240;der\n\nCalcutta\n\nNov.\n\n220. 1. Syaru and Co\n\ny 11 4168.0. Syme and Ce\n\nConn\n\nJuly\n\n325 King and Co\n\nAng, 25 500 King and Co\n\nAag, 10 985 Russell and Co\n\nFab\n\n216|W. Puetae and Co\n\nSabu\n\nAt Hongkong} British Anandale, ship And, steamer Anaye, ship Australia, chip Avon, Lacque Banner, schooner\n\nGaneber, barque Brothers, brig Caldera, ship\n\nCadiz, steamer\n\nArrival:\n\n8759 Lyall, Sul and Co J Feb. 5 163 Robert 9. Walker Jan. 13 878 Fletcher and Co Sept. 5 580 John Bardd and Co Sep. 39 280 Bus and Co Jan. 188ohn Burd and Co\n\nPet 485 Jardiue, St. and Co\n\nDec. 15 2400rder\n\nJan. 8 225 Order\n\nFeb, 13000 P. & 0.9. N. Cu\n\nCity of Carlisle, ships. 15 996Jardine, 3 and Cu\n\nClarendon, satp\n\nDeva, ship\n\nSinglet, sleemer\n\nEarl Grey, barque\n\nEarl of Windsor ship\n\nBena, brig\n\nBuranic ship Excellent, brig Falcon, ship Formosa, ship\n\nGleus, ahip\n\nGod Succe, sip\n\nHero, ship\n\nKensington ship\n\nLady Hayce, barque\n\nLaurick, brig\n\nLord Raglan. ship Tani, barque\n\nNarshall, Buhooner Maria Hay, ship Mazepps, schooner Pacifico, brig\n\nFeb. 1 850Jarding, M. and Co Jan. 18:1030 Russell and Co\n\nDoc 8 1888tomssen und Co Dec. 17 8737ardine, M.\n\nDiter\n\nAdmiral Zoutman, shipDec.\n\nAlbrecht Belling, bq.Nov.\n\nG. G. D. Von Twist, hq,fian. Oct. 10 300W. Postau and Coatic Liong, bargus ne Jaa. 18 3685iomsten and Co Nov. 28, 8438,Senseffer and Co\n\nAnon Elizabet,bą. Chriatias, leque General de Stiles, hop. Jan. 2 798|Under Hollandetrow, hargas Jacot. Lima, barke Jacoba Cornella, pq. Klazina, darus\n\nOosterling, harg Proteos, barque Regina, arqu Sumatra, aliip Danish\n\nSept. 10 799 chaster and Co OL 32 800 Schaeffer and Cu Feb. 192chaser and Co Jan. 17 charler and Co Dee. 13 363 Van der Haven Jan 18 443ucer and Co Jan. 473 W. Punta and Co Feb. 278445obacter and Co\n\nMay 10 Siemmen and\n\nIfercuian, brig Helena\n\nJau. 31\n\nCo\n\nHanbury\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbin, schooner Christian, belg\n\nDec. y Nov. 16 Feb.\n\n260\n\nFab 21 Lindas and Co\n\nJan. 26) 207 Camajce and Co\n\nDec. 26 728 Order\n\nNov. 385 Lyail, Still and Co\n\nSept. 26 430Jardine, M. & Lin\n\nJan. 14 406 Order\n\nLau. 16 784. Murray and Co\n\nNov. 600 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1 404 Lindsey and Co\n\nJan. 13 scoileder\n\n0 15 848 Geo. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 28Ajardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17 766 Jardine, M. & Cn\n\nJan. 12 274 Dent and Co\n\nDet.\n\n8 1988. K. Burrow\n\nJan. 31 994 Janline, M. and Co\n\nFeh. 4140anline, M. & Co Oct. 14] 146Deo. Dúddell T'aranverance, Largna Sept. 18 2Turner and Ca Princess Reval, supDec, 28; 900 Dent aud Co\n\n(Doc. 25 781onser\n\nQueen, brig Samarang, banque\n\nApoctly, ship\n\nFeb. 8 ĐuôiAngier and Ca\n\nDes. 25 5801Dent and Co\n\nJau 241031 Jamaa Stephenson\n\nSpirit of the North, ah. Kov, 11) 671jtibb, L. and Co Sultans, barque Oct 10 588schaeffer and e\n\nTime & Truth, bargde Teh. 3 578 Orlar\n\nUnion, leamer\n\nTruro, ship\n\nFenilia, ship\n\nVirginia alip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nWild Daynell, ach. Zephyr, schooner\n\nFrench\n\nEtoile, ship\n\nIndia, barqu\n\nLeon, harqua\n\nMaarl, ship\n\nSucces, ship\n\nVille de Dieppe, barque\n\nAnter\n\nAntonita, schwoner Antelope, T Archer, whip Auckland, barque\n\nBurnham, barque\n\nCarbon, shooner\n\nJan. 24 695 Order\n\nAng. 16 786 Thon. Husband Co Feb. 8 674 Jardine, Al, sad Co June 18 830 Lyall, Still and Cộ Nov. 8 143ardine. M. & Co Jau. 15 253 D. Lapaik\n\nJan. 156 Deat and Co\n\nJun. 31 148Dcut and Co\n\nJan. 24 539 Order\n\nfan. 18 615 Dent and Co\n\nFalk 2405,Order\n\nJan 24 156 Russell and Co\n\nNov. 14mier\n\nno. 221014 gail, Sul and Co\n\nDec. 3 112Order\n\nJan. 24200 Kussell and Co\n\nTeb. 31460 Roswell and Co\n\nFeb. 209.M.Robinet & Co\n\nOct. 28 245 W. Pulau and Co\n\nDue 26 300 K. Crashy\n\nCW. Bradley, j, bq. Oct. 9 218 A. Heard and Co\n\nDon Quixote, ship\n\nKtement, ship\n\nEureka, ship\n\nFrancis P. Sage, ship\n\n• Garland, schooner\n\nHelgu Mar, bergun\n\nJanes Marshall, big Kate Hooper, shig Mary Whitridge, ship\n\nMatcor, ekip\n\nMiana, schooner\n\nMin, geamur\n\nMonsoon, ship\n\nNorth Wind, ship\n\nN. B. Palmer, Jip\n\nDen 91438 King and Co\n\nJAN 33 400A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 51100A. Heard and Co\n\nNov, 191146 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 151138. R. Barrows\n\nDec. 26 560 Order\n\nJan. 16 1865. K. Darrows\n\nDec, 281488 Jne. Stephenson\n\nNov. 27 978 Kuseli aud Co\n\nao. 201088, Heard and Co May 306Order\n\nJ. 14 101 Bu-sell and Co\n\nJane 28 506 Thomas Hunt &Co Oct.\n\n81041 Jaa. Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1400 Russell and Co\n\nQueen of the Seas, spec. 17185Rll and Co\n\nRacebound\n\nRealute, ship\n\nShane Draper, sch.\n\nSportsman, shiy\n\nStar King, sly\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYoung America, wip\n\nAug. 28 580. E. Barrows\n\nSept. 25 801 Russell and Ca\n\nHai, 26 206 A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 20 626 Unter\n\nDec. 14177nder\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\nSept 202000. Heard and Co\n\nMeteos, ship\n\nPeruvian\n\nAndreas, orig Architect, ship Carica, arqua L'allau, barque\n\nSantiago, banne Ugarte y Santiage,\n\nSMAR\n\nNoortol, banque\n\nSan Juan, barquə\n\nhq.\n\nSiamese Crow, stalp\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpar\n\nDenia, schooner Bremen\n\nBertha, barque\n\nC. Metabets, you Solon, hanger\n\nChition\n\nAllanza, barque Spray, schooner\n\nNess Crans dinn Annie, barque\n\nMacao British\n\nW. Pustan and Co\n\n510 W. Puszu and Co\n\nJohn Bard sad Co Wm.Fustat and Co Jan. 15 540 die aussen end to\n\nTait and C\n\nNov. 16\n\nNov. 12 540. M. Rabinet& Co\n\nDar. 28 3505. J. das Remedios\n\nTall, 231 218 and\n\nJ.\n\nAcmel, brig Chico, brig\n\nClarita, brig Cara, skip\n\nkesits toge\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Horse, hocqus\n\nSiam, que\n\nSpanish\n\nSan Lorenzo, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nFubebau\n\nDritish\n\nCo\n\nMaste, bri\n\nDee & 9p. dos Remedios\n\nJan. 195. Robinet & Co\n\nSept. 15j 200 Order\n\nNav. 19 160 Order\n\nDee, 15 300inder\n\nAug. 26 250 under\n\nNov. Zayall, Still and Co\n\n1400W. Duxted and Co\n\nJan. 24 4702. S. Walker\n\nDet. 22 48fuhn Bond and Co Jan. 29 270/Onder\n\nDec. 220W.M. Robines & Co\n\nJuly 1307 Edward and Bailey\n\nJehn Macthic, ekip Feb. Rochampton, shijs Ang\n\nPortugues\n\nMetasje, barque\n\nNew Era, khij\n\nGaiden Raer, ship\n\nKingfisher, ship\n\nMandarin, ship\n\nSamuel Ronsell, ship\n\nSarah H. Snow, Ivy, Vancouver, ship\n\nHambog\n\nAtlas, barne\n\nSa Dent, Beate and Co\n\n289 fyn, Stilt end Co\n\n597 1..Robinct & Co\n\nTou Scimeter and Co 1543chaetler and Co 478sohaefer and Co 2448. D. Syme and Go 237 Adam Scott 190Schelfer and Co 424\n\n10. Nathabloy & Co\n\nOtto, barque\n\nVirginie, brig\n\nHamburg\n\nEsperanza, harqne Hannibal, schooner\n\n| fverbrook, brig\n\nLima, barque\n\nMary Boar, ship Pathfinder, barque Senatur, barque Pramin Amerika, belg\n\nSiamete\n\nBangkok Mark, ship Golffinder, baqme Sueroan, ship\n\nSparsh\n\nSanta Lucts, banque\n\nSwedish\n\nNov. 181296 Moncreiff, G. & Co Dea ¡Dec.\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nمات قلات کا\n\nCLASS\n\nAv\n\nCanton Stoop\n\ni,kong !. W. Str. JiLong Sloop\n\nILong Flag Ship\n\nCanton loop\n\nCuroaandel Canton P. W. Br. Vatcounter anto\n\nHoteles\n\nHornet\n\nMam\n\n! Nakist\n\nNiger\n\n632 Dent, Dotle stud Co Elk\n\n600 John Herd and Go | Fary\n\nser. St. (kang Hospital Canto Ber. Sw. H.kongoro Ship\n\nFrigate\n\nPanton Bar Sta\n\nCOHKANDERS.\n\n12A, W. A. Haud\n\n8T. D. A. Fortescu 12 Licut. Beamish\n\n(lour Ad.\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n14. Jenkins 35 Doorglas HG.W.D.O'Callaghan\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\nH. T. Fla, Muater\n\n60 H Keith Stewart 19H, A. A. Cochrane 408FW.F. Nicolson\n\n14. Barnard\n\n49. 9. Hand\n\n40 Cdre. m, Ú. Elliot\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCONDEAND\n\n.ALEN\n\nÜs..\n\nENGLAND\n\nza Frigate\n\nRav.\n\nW. 7. Bate\n\n11. Macendie. Str,\n\nKit Boater, 26\n\n11\n\n136A. Hearl wait Co\n\nNov.\n\n9191ent and Co\n\nPastalcon, brig\n\nNov.\n\n200 Cantujee and Co\n\nPique\n\nSgus Frigars\n\nKol: Small, ship\n\nAug. 29\n\n663 Gibu, L. and Co\n\nKenos\n\nPibehta Bloop\n\nRempaon\n\nAmor P. W. Str.\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Buoknax, 1.\n\nSept.\n\n530 Russell and C\n\nSybille\n\nHogue Frigate\n\nMay 16\n\n800 Russell and Co\n\nAug.\n\n1288ardine, M. and Co\n\nJune\n\n78. lead and Oə\n\n¿Mag\n\n94 Russell and Co\n\nDo.\n\n420|Klug and Go\n\nJune\n\n518 Bus and Co\n\nOut\n\n420John Burd and Co\n\nWienu, Larque\n\nJuct.\n\n490Biomes ami Us\n\nActoun\n\nAlseri\n\nNingpo British\n\nCullou\n\nCamila\n\nkt. T. Calville\n\nSlop\n\nCruizer\n\n17 ber. Str. Sept. 25\n\nCarnulle. ship Lyra, Belovner\n\n15. Hot\n\n120 Lindy and Co Forestr\n\nA. J. Innes\n\nidun Beat Sept. 20\n\nSolon, barane\n\n6\n\n560 Turner and Uo 469 A.A.de Mello & Co\n\naughty\n\nGan Beat Sept 25\n\nWilminginn, schooner Feb.\n\n196 Bell and Co\n\nHüchilyor\n\nInflexibla\n\nr. Vorhert\n\nAL\n\nOsprey\n\nAlbert Edward, ship\n\nBritisk\n\nang.\n\n497. Bowman and Coh\n\nNov,\n\nAliyals, ship\n\nNov. 20 1247 Biriey, W, and Co\n\nStaunch\n\n1. Wildonan\n\nAlchemist, ship\n\nDe\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nStarling\n\nA. 1 Villiers\n\njun Boat Sept. 25 Gun Boat Ool. 23\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nb.\n\n19710166, Land Co\n\nAugusts, ship\n\nNov. 23 372 Lindmy and Go\n\nBallarat, ship\n\nNov.\n\n719 Dent ad Co\n\nChallenger, barque\n\nSeph\n\n175 Turner and Co\n\nChieftain, barque\n\nJan.\n\n20John Burd and Co\n\nCo..lucius, ship\n\nThee.\n\n400 Holliday, Wine & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nFLAQ\n\nCOMMANDERL\n\nDec. 19\n\nJune 15 566 Turner and Lo\n\nJan.\n\n127 William I. and Co\n\nCetinnt\n\nHongkong Fr. Str.\n\nSur Are\n\nL'et\n\n8501 & 0.2. F. Co\n\nSupt. 10 240 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nVirginie\n\nHongkong Fr. Frig\n\nCape, Plan\n\nForest Queen, ship\n\nNov.\n\n839 W.H. Wardley Co\n\nLevant\n\n18 Smith\n\nPortsmouth\n\nEassio Manens, barq. May 25 297 Jou d'Abreide Waris Carlota, Iryusi Jan. $30 J. J. don Rmuelion Slavina, banque\n\nTremelga, barqua\n\nFreach\n\n13ane 211 1705. 3. dos Ramedice\n\nSept.\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship Oct.\n\nAmerican\n\nLorisiana, barq\n\nDeich\n\nBerena, rig\n\nDoggershank, skip\n\n3751 inday and Co\n\n816Dent and Co\n\nShanghae\n\n249W.M. Robinet &Co Arrow, ship\n\n237W. Pustuu and Co\n\nApril 22\n\nOct.\n\nDet\n\nBebehneller and Co\n\nEverdina izabeth, og Jan\n\n600 Schneer and Co\n\nDee,\n\n189 Schaefer and Co\n\nFra\n\n753 Order\n\nJuct.\n\n530 Schaeffer and Co\n\nJAR.\n\nSt. Heleon, brig\n\nTonia, ship\n\nVrow Jobunag\n\nHamburg\n\nLaura & Fonis, big,\n\nKose, brig\n\nWillewina, brig\n\nPeruvian\n\nGrimeness, chip\n\n243jDrayer and Co\n\nJuly 14, 1769. M. Burrows\n\nJuly\n\n224 Schaeffer and Co\n\nOct. 15: 50 Order\n\nCrystal Palace, ship\n\nKila Jane, barque\n\nElizabeth, brig\n\nHein, steamer\n\nFazli Corrim, barque\n\nFrances, ship\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGeelong, barque\n\nDec. 125 Birley. W. and Co\n\nWaton and Co\n\nMay 30 302 Tail and Co\n\nJan 15 212 Hooper\n\nAug. 11 3420ma, B. and Ca 651 gal. Stiti and Co\n\nMaria Natividad ship Sept. 18 610w.. Robins & Co General Windham, ship.\n\nEast Coast British\n\nChin Chin, harque Eamont, schonbur Gazelle, schoenor\n\nHazard, schooner\n\nHelen, brig\n\nion.\n\n316 Camajarse Co\n\nJan.\n\n121 Dent and Co\n\nGulnare, ship Hellespont, steamer Tuchinnan, arque Just\n\nBat, ship\n\nApril\n\n15Jardine, M. And Co\n\nJuly\n\n144 Y. J. Mucrow\n\nJan.\n\n180Turner and Co\n\nHydronce, ship\n\nJane\n\n137 Carlowitz and Co\n\nMalacca, barque\n\nAug\n\n089 Carlowitz and Co\n\nPearl, schooner\n\niJuly\n\nW.M. Reniunt & Lo\n\nTrumpu. schooner\n\nMay\n\n300jD. Laprak\n\nAntican\n\nDerby, ship\n\nJuly\n\n1098A. Heard sad Co\n\nProgressive Age, brig\n\nNov\n\n296A. Heard and Co\n\nRinglorier, ship\n\nMay\n\n2156 A, Heard and Co\n\nSancho Pans, ship\n\nSept\n\n875 Russell and Co\n\nWitw, la ver\n\nUst\n\n$10Kinder\n\nFra 2002 Hargreaves and Co\n\nJan. 886Fadine. M. and Co Sept. 1 265 Deus, Buaie y Co Dec. 241 8201Birley, W. and Co\n\nC. Reilowas\n\nJ.F.C.Hanitou 12 loop\n\nC. T. Lackie\n\nA. V. Hamilto\n\nC.F.A,Shadwell 21 Ser. Str.\n\nC Campbell\n\n6 P. W. Str. Oct, 25\n\n(Gan Bost\n\n21. J. Bomalieid 4 Ser. Str.\n\nKith Stewart !\n\nGu Buat\n\nHos, H.Keppel 60 Frigata\n\nFOREIGN MIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nHongrong U. &. SI.\n\nStaigas U. S. Sh.\n\nFR-A. Guerla\n\n16 Fonta\n\nƒ m. A POOR Capt. Bell\n\nHongkong U. S. Sir.\n\nMandura\n\nMacao\n\nFort. Reig.\n\n90 Com. Tavara\n\nAmazona\n\nB+\n\nPurt.lorsha 6 Earnichs\n\nJorge Just\n\ndu.\n\nSelpion\n\ndr.\n\nSp. Ser.\n\nBg.\n\n4Brinnes\n\nAnies Ba\n\n14 Duran\n\nHongkongora Sv. 20 Capt, Boturin\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGRONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $25; 9 Months, $13; Three Mouths, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $15, Six Months, $2, Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- OISTER AND PRICE CURRENT' alone:--For One Year, $3; all payable in advanUSB, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER-Advertscments, not exceeding 5 lines,\n\nesch insertion, $1; cach additional line 20 conts; une balf of these charges for Repetitions AGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and GVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE GUERENT J. G. APIHOur, Rey, London, Mars, Jant, steak & Co, Cricuta: Mesars. Binaton & Co. Bombay W. S. Donos, Faq., Singapore, Messrs. Thorson, Ronkers & Ur, Batavia, J. P. Pzabek, Boy. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkung Register Ofice: Gage Street\n\nVictoria, Hongkong. Tuesday, February 10, 1857.\n\nThe China Mail Extra.\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\n“Chino Muit\" Office, Feb. 7, 1857- thon to the unsatisfactory state of his toast, my wife remarked she felt giddy and sick, him; he pretended to be overlooking the business the investigation as Superintendent of Police, the A man can overlook his business while walking affair being then eurelaped in mystery; and I imagine\n\nThe Criminal Sessions of the Supreme fairs, which had be shewn to be the We let the room after 3, she immediately felt sick\n\nshop\n\nthat the first instanco Mr Mercer acted as Culo- Court the most exciting that have occur reverse of is a fouriebing condition, his and smiled, I thought nothing of it at the time, but about the e\n\nwalked was to the verandah to light a chemot, when Aaxx, cock to The Herland,On the 15th January, eial decrewry-in fact it was an investigation into rel since the settlement of the colony-debts to one firm alone amounting to nearly in the wor af gtating the elgar I suddenly felt sick\n\nthe morning, got bread from the Esing shoes don't the case genotally. I usually, in cases requiring commenced on Thursday, and closed last $15,000. He spoke of the temptation and vomited. Thinking no more about it, I went know the peron-thes was generally brings it, he particular forestigation, maka peliminary acquiry sight. The case of most interest-the bold out to Alum, of averting the pantah in my hair to the Folke Hospital, but when Tranches is not one of the prisoners; this was about half-past 7- before sending them up to the Magistrate. It was trial of Cheong Alum and nine others, on ment with which he had been threatened the entraner leading up to the fif, I was again sick; \n\nAtoy, coolie to be Hachand, Saw Esing's people not my original intention to make a magisterial and when I got clues to St Paul's College, was age\n\nmyrassine's house on the marning of investigation in the present instance; I merely aga.a bring bread a charge of dilempt to poison-lasted fee by the mandarins, by the commission was aide off and on, up to a quarter to 10. the 15th January; they are not among the priscoera. wished to yet an insight into the case as Superit daye, and ended in a verdict of Not guilty, would be considered a highly meritoriona was sick 19 or vlock that night. Next habit of getting bread from the Esing shop the was a very singalar case, I propound we should sit of an atrocious crime, but yet ar net which The romiting was very violent. Mrs Dengr W. A. HARLAND, M.,Was I believe, in the tundent of Police. but her two hours or so, as it\n\nto 1.\n\ntime.\n\nars from that shog-down to the morning of the 16th as Magistrate, and we then commented to take do We are sorry we are unable to give the one by the Chinese authorities, deserving day I tapponed to enter the Police Office, where en eloquent addresace of the Counsel on buth of commendation and reward, instead of vision was going forward, and promised then fancy inclusive I are a mail piece of the bread paltional,\n\nto send some of the bread to Dr Harland for analy. that morning, Dr Chaldecott and Dr Hat.ca alo Next, bo\n\nSANDWITH DAINKED-Am in business in the sides, but must content ourselves with the punishment, at their harde. \n\nzation; did that night. [Cross-conmiasi by partook of it. About an hour afterwards fe faint sity, and live in the wee house with Captain Endi- De Brive,I did not take the bread myself to Dr and aíck, and incised to veuit, and within a few mere heads of the points dwolt upon; and referred to the departure of Alam and \n\nnott Faing enpplicà me with bread on the 15th minutes ufteur wande vomited slightly, and fole a pain January-I partook of the bread and was very ill- even these, we fear, will prove very io his father from the colony on the very Herland. I know caly the Sih prisoner (Alum) na \n\nworning the criminal set was wusumnat belong ag to the Eving shop. I kept the balled the Beach. I then took an emotis, which made at the inmates of the house whe ate of the bread perfect. \n\nup in my own room until I sent it to Dr Harland.me veil a bitła man, and for a little time alter felt ed; and commented strongly on the suspi \n\nwere Hi-I have not perfectly recovered up to this Of the opening speech by the Hųn. T. \n\nIn consequence cf my laers, I delivered the cious manner in which this was managed. By the ATTORNEY Uraat.]-Don't know the 10thy, but shortly afterwards was able to attend to \n\nprisoner, never mw him before at all. sent the same people who can to she house sick. About to remainder of the breast Mr May at the Ptice lice C. Anstey, the Attorney General, wo \n\nWith regard to the sickness of his family \n\nbread a ten minutes past to Dr Harland, by a hours afterwards the pain in the stomach returned, this was on the evening of the 16th-Dr Badland have no notes whatever. He dwelt, how on board the steamer-this was easily and coalie named Attal. \n\nbut I could not vomit. I bai diethms during the I think was presos 1 lave had many dealings with ever, on the atrociousness of the attempt naturally to be imputed to sea-sickness; ATIAL METAL to Dr Dempeter--On the 16th night, and next day a violent headache, wakacss of the Esing abug in the bakery business -I know the made upon the community, and the utter for there were no proofs of them aftor January, escried a paper parcel from Dr Dampster to the jibs, and xansea, Dr Iamos got sick sooner 9th and 10th prisoners to belong to the duche than I did; but I did ont see him, as he had gone 10th I are always understood to be the father of Faing impossibility in such cases of producing sufferings which the medical evidence had Dr Harland, Do not know what was in it, but ir \n\nwas given me by my master. \n\nca Dr Chaldecots, hearing of people being sick, Alum), he was always in the shop, and when the direct testimony against the parties accus- abawo were the invariable effects of argo- ACHING, servant to Dr Dempster-om the 15th took an emetic, as he had ate more bread than any was cut of the sloop, I have left by neders with him od. The evidence in this, as in avery nic, and under which the foreigner who January, received rome bread at may master's day of on Before I had filed breakfast, a Parsee ger Orn about the 24 ur 3d of January, our he made similar case, tour therefore be entirely cir- had partaken of the bread in the present from two men from Esing; they are not at the bar. teman aliud. 20 mil the inam of his house were a contract with Alura fura supply of breuis for the cumstantial; but he would adduce sich a \n\nThis was about 7 wack gars the bend to my sick, and blamed the bread as being the cause of it; I Russian curvest On the Mih I went over to the instance had laboured. He also spoke of \n\nmaaler to estipul it up the breakfast table. \n\nlef my breakfast to go and see them, and it was on \n\nEwing how to apeak to Alure about the contract, Oa TARRANT, Editor of the Friend of my return I first felt sick myself. Both Dr Chalecoss the morning of the 13th, the shop bep called our art jury, as he felt assured must to a certainty and Agent of the steamer to retura to the N indelibly the stain of crime apon the Hongkong that night, as a ruse on his my bread from the Haing shop, dawn to the 13 several days séta, attending to people who were black lettres out in frens of his door sunt him user prisonem at the bar, and draw forth au \n\npart, when be found his hopes of escape January, inclusiva-row the 1st, 3d, and the staffering from eating the bread; the Parses had to ascertain its pats, and in consequent of what unanimona verdict of guilty. \n\nthe boy told us, I had the conversation with hiari on frustrated, and that the poison had not had and 10th prisoners to belong to the shop-the 1st taken only band and a cup of tea-they had all been \n\nI believe to be general assistant and Collector of sick, I adviced them to take emetica. Some of thus the 14th. I teid hum the boy haul informed us that Dr Bridges comarcal his defence by the fatal effets intended had his efforts balls; the 3d I have known in two capaction in con- we axtended effured much more everely than schare the chop said he intended to leave the iny, and remarking that, the case was remark succeeded, the result would have been nection with Exing shop, the inst was as breme-de-bes all had similar syroptatns. From the symptotes wished to sell out. He admitted the chup did say ablo from the atrocity of the attempted another frightful tragedy like that of the liverer; the 9th believe to be the head of the in my own case, and of others who came to be. I felt but said that it was not his intention to leave, but he crime; admitting most fully that there had unfortunate Thistle. He noted the contra- Eing the 19th is I believe the father he ais? i ere what arannic had been administered in the bread, Lad put out the notice for the purpose of deceiving be an attempt to destroy the community dictious in Alam's statements about the have knows in two capacities—one as general assist- I haght down a piece of bread from the Parets, and the Mandarine, who had been traping him a great ant of the Taing shop I have ren bien, 2 ay may kept the remnant of our own. I had alan overal deal told him that would not antinfy one had by poison, but denying that the guilt of poison to the various witnesses and frequently. I saw the 1st prisver five or air day specimens, from Dr Dempster, Captain Paints, and deceived me in a former contract, and I would not yest such an attempt was in any way hrought finally wound up with a confident aanr-before the 15th, ou my ectering my printing offit, othere, and two savea from Mr GrandPre, which he unsil I saw that the bieenit was in the drying lots - bone to the prisoners at the bar. Extra- ance on his part of a verdict against all the he was sitting there, and presentat me a hill from hia took from the Eving shop and gare ints my uwa he most go with me and show in that the bread wa ordinary, be said, bad been the display of prisoners. \n\nsaster. I told him I was then rather busy, and sa bas.d. Ir Deropster's and Captain Endicott's I re- there. Its went with me in my boat to the bakery the mercy and goodness of God, in not a His Lordship the Chief Justice then the bill was not recripted, if he would leave it with ceived on the tin. So let the first alarm, I in the Ila-wen, and on the page down we had a me, I would Inok at it and have it settled. He then endeavoured to ascertain in a busty way what was in conversation on various matters. I had him if he single instance of death having cocurred addressed the jury,-directing them to said in master intended to have the colony-replied the bread, and Ur Bradford curing in, be and I from the attempt. He sormented strongly card from their wouls everything they in rather an impartiment way, and marle a motion to \n\nad bi kamily in Hongkong? La replied he had. I satisfied ourselves it was anovic... Néxt day, at the sard, having his fatally bore, he had better remén on the singularity of the course adopted might have rend or heard about the case it down again and not to go away until he got paid. request of the Colonial Secretary, we made s moral the end of the war no one could supply to by goveraronut in departing from the ordi- nut-of-doors, and to couline theneelves Seeing he was disposed to be saucy, I took him by the crest analysis of each piece of bread separately, cuit so walk-te would make a good thing of it, and nary course of conducting criminal inves outinely to the evidence. As regarded nine coline, said he and his master might go to the devil if and found they all indicated the presence of arsenin. Le protected. He said it was not his wish to go, but they phased, and told him to go ont. The Ed prisoner 1 The analysis for Ascoctaining the yountity tank he had heen threatent, and there were at that time tigations, and still more strongly on the of the prisoners, the jury would probably have a good way times, but the seas. 1 up place entaequently, and we found that one pasad 88 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguise. I told mode in which the Attorney General had agree with him in thinking the evidence pore you (the Alterary General) referto, was eu an in- loaf of bread contained nearly a drms of armenia, B0 \n\nbim if he world report them to the police office, bo conducted the cause, by displaying personal against them was very slight, amounting quest on the 38 January, upon a body that was found grains to the diant commit while arsenic. The \n\nwould be protected. His answer was, that on bis animosity against the prisoners, and making indeed solely to their connection with the board the Thiste, on which occasion be described br I ate was brown, the uther specimens were arrival at the bakery, he would convince me that he \n\nwhite-both kinda contained ausanie; much been the quotatione from trial which had taken Esing Bakery. With respect to Alura, bebimself as Parare Mate on card the steamer, To \n\nhad a large amount of property at stake-that it was the best of my knowledge und belief, the 9th prisoner ivai contined aufficient cause deart. I also, on not bis desire to leave, and a thought he would take place in the worst periode of English ori-was alewn to have been at the bakery on the (Am) was the charterer of the steamer at the time the alterion of the 15th, had two jars brought me my advice and reusia. When we tired at the minal law; and lastly, wornarked on the afternoon of the 14th January, when tho she was destroyed. In consegaenen of the way the d by a pokocurau-one containing yet used on the bakery, the people appeared to be mixing water and pancity of the evidence brought forward dongh was making; and if the jury thought prisoner gave his evidence at the inquest, I objected to night of the lash, the other the materials for making dough in dimus ms in the plass. After visiting for the proscention-which, he said, ovea that he mixed the arsenie with the bread, is bringing bad es my bowo objected on the yat, together with me foar and some pastry from \n\nthe drying room, and when leaving the bakehouse, 15th January between Gand? in the morning, when if there had been to defenes to offer, would or ordered it to be so toixed, tuy weak aw him delving it. A man war with bin ear \n\nthe bakery-pasta scraped from the table, and some \n\nexported Alum would go back with me, and offered pastry in tin moulds, I found no trace of arsenic or him a passage in the heat, but he said he bad some net buvo warranted a conviction on the \n\nfind him guilty; or if they were of opinion rying cau basketa-prisoner took the bread out of other meallic poi in any of the materials. The business to attend to, and would walk bot part of the jury. Ha divided the evi- that he consulted with the forumon Alun the Easkew and put them into my base. I said to analysia was fade in the presenes of Dra Bradford, was between 3 and 4 in the aftermon. They dence for the prosecution into three classes and Atmoi on the subject, Le would be him \"Da my ine fellow, you deliver cay bread, ús Kenky, Watson, and Elspeter. \n\nwere mixing our and water in two ho 1st, those especially connected with the accessory before the fact; but if they were \n\nyou \"He made no response, but yard a kind of A. HAND-PRE, Assistaus Superintendant of Police, showed me a room he said was the brand bakery, gistrod outside the door, saw the bread handed Hava baard D: Harland's evidence-i tak lie fact of the poisoning; 2dly, them wit- \n\nnot perfectly assured in their own minds of in, and immediately after went in and ordered my board to him from the Eaing shop on the morning of supplied 400 families with bread this was told re and they were mixing duugh theve te told me ha nesses who detailet facts connected with Aluni's connection with, and cognizance Comprador to anale Raing's bill, and not to take any the 16th--was promet at the Cowai Station, whey, by him in evidence of the husless he was doing, and Alom before his departure; adly, the of, the attempt to poison, they would return more bread from him, as I was afraid he would the yeast and others things found in the bakery bis eonarquent disinclination to leave. day statement class who described his conduct on board a verdict of acquittal. His Lordship after-puss \n\nI and a servant girl partusck of the were sent to De Harland Tent thera. (Oroei- made by him that be bad sold his business to me la false. the steamer and on the way to Macao. wards, in reading over the evidence, called bread that morning she ate a little left on my plate. questioned by Dr Batmaks.]—I was acquainted with I was asked by MeMncow, anice my first examination, All that evidence he examined in detail; the attention of the jury to the facts of pent to my room, and there folt a sensation of flatu shop on the Queen's Road, and the bakery at the About five minutes alcer leaving the breakfast table, the Esing abop perious to this affair-1 know the then stated what evidence be intended to Alo's own furally being sick from par-toucy-sit1 had been eating wow at first wok Seng Gardens be the plows from which the bring forward in defence; and wound up taking of the bread, and to his offera of to notice of is, but eat down on my chair, looking at trend is carried to the shop there was formerly a with 3 general comparison of the whole 450 and $100 to Captain Xavier to return me papers, as the boy handed them to the the papers bakery about two years ago-attanited in the shop in the 19th, when the evidence I gave was rond over to evidence, and a confident averment of his to Hongkong that night, as rims facin were for the Yoss-offe, and the hot was landing the Queen's Road. The distance betwixt the shop him, he wished me to think if he had aut said he bound three up to as team tho ilone, when I suddenly bohat the jury would acquit all the proofs of his inuocance; but the jury vomited over him. Shortly afterwards two friends \n\nand Jokery in shout one mails. I was nogcainted bean aid there were 59 mandarina I call the place with Alnu, the 9th prisoner, before the 15th-have Queen's Roud the shop; I never wow the th Poy the charge, as affecting the nino consider them merely as clever ruses on called, and I told them I was sick-they said a great soon his very clices; he was always said to be the prisoner in the bakery. The contest was for 27,000 apuially, depending altogether upon their the part of a guilty man is dread of us many people were sick-I said I might be poised, master of the Eng shop. I don't know if he had anyar 28,000b of biscuit the bargain wet in writing. employment by Alam. \n\npision, and if so, would treat them ac- and had better take an omeric, and got up to get on, parts he was reputed sole owner. There were a hot made with Alur personally. I never made a but again vomited violently for about ten minutes good aber arrested on account of the affair contract with the 10th prisoner should never hate On the conclusion of the evidence for cordingly. \n\nwas frequently sick during the day, and bave con- the defence, the Attorney General rose, The jury retired for about half-an-hour, dinner to suffer from it to this time. [Cross-ques were all taken in eustody to the Pelice Stachnasa, nnd of Alum as the principal. My visit to about 20 in the shop-about 50 altogether they thought of doing so always looked opon him as an and after a long and very unnecessary and on their return, brought in, ng above- tioned by Mr DAY,--Don't know that Bing has they were taken before a Justien of the Peace-Mr the shop were always on matters of business on a orga (the Chief Justice thought) defence of the mentioned, a verdict of Nor GUILTY 5 to 1; more than one shop in Hongkongate swam be Chades May: no examination was held till år \n\nale, and were not very frequent. Sometimes, when conduct of the government, and more ez- \n\ncarried on the businem of a Liker have beard be -a conclusion in which, on regards the evi- has a bakery elsewhere--laays been for the shop also everal other J.P.- Mr Gibb, Mr Gray; and unetines sold him large lots si suur would William Thomas Merter, another J.P., was presented at, I dropped in three or four times a week, pecially of Mr Mercer, in this affair-Mr dence, we extirely coincide; though we are Queen's Road West, but an not aware of baking duct know it the latter and gentleman were sit Mercer's conduct never having been im- by no means satisfied of the primouere being carried on there I durt speak preitiselying Justices. When the two bust pristners were would not comes with him: I do not think the Teava ray rouage with the 10th prismer for Almu, but pagned, though the irregularity of the especially of Alum'a-mucence; sud to having en baking golog on nt bis shop, but beigh the Attorney finest was present. The 10th prisoner panas Erglist-the conversation was proooadings of the committing Justines bad would much rather, as we feel assured this I re-i think i have seen an oven there. Cus.al Pelice Station 1 not the usual place for carried on, I think, through one of the pureers in the beon commented upov by Dr Bridges would the inry themselves. that the Eu- Bring has carried on the bakery business tere for £utigation to take place, last 1 have sent them shop. I understood, when Alam talked of troubles I have bean resident to the feland sinne 1897. proceeded to au analytics of the evilmen,glish law had permitted them to return of te don't know, in my eagarity of Editer of lose wegs the learned Attorney General, Mr Mereer, it was er dorost of his haking bread for Phratyn \n\nthere. In the Nuisances investigation, for the dorim, that he meant thata-he said. which he performed in a very able manor, a verdict of not proven. But we shall the Friend of Chan, or otherwise, whether Baing has and Mr May. Mr May is also Superintendent of Pa- laying before the jury in the clourist recur to this subject in our weekly issue. a bakery near the Americe Naval Stores. Ilave ice-end that is the proper place for Lan to be Mr the time the disturbance wok place in November. light the strong points of cash witaees's Du leaving the Court after being dis-frequently been to the Ering shop-especially sons for May was not present when the two last prisoners: As we were going down to the bakery, we mea fire months ago, when I performed some arbitration were bought apen the day of then activel for a boat, and he asked me to pull up to it, as he wished testimony as bearing against the prisonera charged, the prisoners were reapprehended business for Abas. When I have called, I have such amiation. I do not recollect any Justices of the He commenced with the proofs of poison- und conveyed to jail under warrant issued him in the shop, but do not know what he was about \n\nto ask the price of it, and buy it if possible-1 A ing, as testified to by the medical witnesses by order of H. E. the Governor with As for the 21 prisoner, my knowledge of him on tigation of a criminal charge. The Chief Magis for $1; he mid it was for his bakery-and on my Penetting it the Police Salons before, on the in- EQ --he afterwards said he had purchased at at 14 picul then to the identification of the prisoners what intention we are not advised. a brand-deliverer is evnfined to the one occasion trate, I believe, was sitting at his usual post at the remaking it was very den, be sie it was dry wood, with the bakery whence the poisoned bread \n\non the 16th January. The father he served me in Pusa Cour, while this examination was going for and particularly witable for hia bakery; I afterward the slip, but I do not know him otherwise than se was issued, two as the proprietors, others \n\nward at the Poilue Sation-Justices of the Peace the wood discharging on the whart [Hty tha an sasiu do not know his to barn an interest were atting as this time at the Police Court trying ATTORNEY UNERAL-The episods of the boat sa bakers, and the rest as distributors of \n\nIn the businem. \n\ncase, Mr May having been relieved from bin dutes curred alter the conversation about il coming here, the brood; and maintained that if the \n\nJOHN GREIG, Mewart of the dulluna, 1 am so Asistant Magistrale, bis presence being ra and bad expressed doubts of his doing so 3 the coa- guilt of mixing the arsenic with the Hong, \n\nquainted with two last prisoners (9th and 10th) ị quire for the Police forca. It is the invariable versation between the hout-man and Alumi was in er of directing ita admixture, wore brought \n\nsaw them in Esing shep- \n\nthe rim tongue; I saw no money pass hetwoen at that shop. A little Magistrate's Court the Inspector on duty enters Eome to the principal prisoner Alum, there \n\nbefore 7 on the 15th January, I was in the shop, sand \n\nthe parties in payment of Lise wood, could be no doubt that those who assisted \n\nbught me loaf, Saw he let prisoner, the 9th and Court. Uf 50 (or thereabouts) prisoners first talien, uti With gard to the poisoning of the bread, them on the charge shoot, and sends them up to the CHEUNG-ALCMC staten ent]cing duly caution- fu moulding the poisoned bread, or in die- \n\ntheth, they protended to be running abousin a in custody than not here are mill detained in the he is entirely ignorant-that the bread is made in one great hurry, out I would not see they were doing any Cross-road Sumiva at the foot of Wellington Street, part of the town, and he lives in souther-he never had tributing it among the community, monet! have a guilty knowledge of the affair: he \n\nthing particular, Could not see what they were oppraits Gith, Livingston & Co.'s godown-they sy id of doing such a thing. He first came to the doing, but they appeared to be attending to the dwelt strongly on the fact that no less a \n\nbusireas of the shop. Did not romak anything par \n\nhave been there sine their first examination on the Colony at unly 18 years of age-ie was first ext quantity than Tea Pounds of arsenic must \n\ntieula: about the prisoners; e 9th was weighing \n\n15th January. The Attorney and was present played by Mr Higham, who afterwarde went to when the best tre primers Prese asumined, but dolla, and the 10th was waiking about all three don't know if he took part is the investigation. \n\nCalifornia; after that by Mr Franklyn; then by have been put into the dough-toɔ large a \n\nMarrow, Stephenson & Co.; then by Mr Do Seer, parcel to be easily concealed from the \n\nwem attending to the buriness of the shop. (Explsina \n\nཚ་ CHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police, Haut for when he made hisenite, a well as did other that the shopmen, not the prisoners were running heard the evidence of Dr Elarland as to the analysis of business. persons employed in the bakery. He \n\nabout.) 1 seat the load off to the Satana, Afterwards the yeaat, e, found at the bakery. There were machine for making biscuit, and then another from Mr He some time afterwards purchase a next referred to Alam's presence at the very time the dough was being made J. C. DEMPSTER, Colonial Surgeon-Have been [Cross-examined by Dr Bass]-Often went to the iraking the bread The audement is perfectly cur- be purchased another from America, wich has ales yeusi, samples of dough, flour, and the water use for Duddeil, for $1,800; and as these were insufficient, then to him and is father being in the in the habit before the 15th of getting bread from the Exing shop to buy a loaf. Wes in the shop two or cock, Cross-questioned by D BRIDGE)-Have arrived. He is supplied the Nars with it. \n\nKaing shop belenging to the 9th and 10th primer tre minutes on the 14th. Don't know anything alun beard Mr Grand-Pre's statement. Is ehop at the very time the bread was being chlained based from the shep that morning, not with about the 16th man, except that I saw bar in the \n\nat with \n\nan only lately be has repaired the premises, and set sold to the customers-nuxt of his express- \n\nMe Merter on the evening of the 15th to conduct the three machines at work. Liam is here reminded uy only partook of it, sheus baif-paat 7 or 8 lock, shop have frequently seen him thera-he was walk- ed intention of learing the colony-and | at breakfasi. After eating a small portion of the ing about the shop. I tou ao particular native of came in about 2, and we sat till 8. Iematened ing, he proceeds), On the 28th of the 17th, the inquiries- luvited Mr Mereor to join meha that all tea above has nothing to do with the poison- \n\narray of facte for the consideration of be into's oer of $50 and $100 to the Captain 16-Have been in the habit of taking and I were kept engaged the whole dry, and for tention to Alum panting a new cbop (plan with \n\nSUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCRIMINAL NENOMINAL\n\nMonday, 24 Febrnavy.) THE POISONING CASE\n\nJarp-Menara M. A. MACLEOD, W. H. Strms, Jour LMON, W. A. BOWKA, E T. DONGANDO, \n\nand GEORGE WALL\n\nCHEONG ARAW, Chrono Aurap, Chaco Aco, OM ARON, TAM ALEEN, FONG ANDER CHENG Amus, Pura AcuUT, CHNCHO ALU and Cuong Wyr Kox-4dministering Poles will intent, \n\nFor the Prosecution,-The Hon. To Anstav, diternay General; Ma HCR, Crom Sulicor, assisted by Mr 3, C. TURNER, \n\nPor the Defens-Dr Daines and Mr DAY, Gunel Mersta GAFELL & BROWN, and Mr H. J. 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We need to format the text into proper paragraphs based on the content and logical breaks.\n\n## Step 6\nIndicate missing words with \"...\" if a word is clearly missing due to OCR damage.\n\n## Step 7\nThe text should be formatted in standard Markdown. This includes using headers (#, ##, ###), sub-headers, bold-type (**bold**), and tables using Markdown table syntax.\n\n## Step 8\nSince the text is a mix of different documents, including newspaper articles and court transcripts, we need to be careful not to rephrase or rewrite the content. The task is to correct errors and improve formatting without changing the style, tone, or word choice.\n\n## Step 9\nNo translation of text is required, and file references should not have any spacing inside parentheses.\n\n## Step 10\nPage numbering lines, if detected (usually six lines in total, three at the page beginning and three at the end), should be kept as they are, as they were originally used during scanning to delineate page metadata.\n\n## Step 11\nThe output should be in HTML using  for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\n324\n\n25\n\n[NO. 6. FEBRUARY 10, 1857]\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continual.\n\nJune 29 117 Dent, Beale and Co\n\nJan. 12 962 Lindsay and Co\n\nJan. 29 2, Duus and Co Jan 19 7 W. Husband Co July 14 50 Watson, and Co\n\n925 W. 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        "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62",
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        "content_text": "No. 82.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n[MAY 23, 1857.\n\nMAY 23, 1857.]\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt is hereby notified that, on and after Monday, the 25th instant, the Garrison Gun will be fired at 8 o'clock P.M.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d May, 1857.\n\nNo. 83,\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWhereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN have been received through The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, disallowing Ordinance No. 15 of 1856, entitled—\n\n\"An Ordinance for amending the Law of Evidence and Trial by Jury\"; -\n\nNotice is hereby given of the same, and the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid are declared to be null and void, and of no effect.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 23d Day of May, 1857.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 78.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands at Aberdeen, for the Construction of Docks, will be held at the Surveyor General's Office on Monday, the First day of June next; the sale to commence at Three o'clock in the Afternoon.\n\nAfter which, one Lot on the Queen's Road, near the Old Protestant Burial Ground, will be sold on the ground. Plans of the Lots to be sold and the Conditions of Sale, which, with regard to the Docks are very special, may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.\n\nThe following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the sale is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th May, 1857.\n\nSchedule of Lots of Land proposed to be Sold.\n\n  \n    ORDER OF SALE\n    LOCALITY\n    BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS\n    CONTENT IN SQUARE FEET\n    FIXED ANNUAL RENT\n  \n  \n    1 (For Docks)\n    Marine, ABERDEEN\n    N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n    1 1/4 Acres\n    £100\n  \n  \n    2 (id)\n    Marine, ABERDEEN\n    N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n    1 1/4\n    \n  \n  \n    9\n    Inland, VICTORIA, Queen's Road East\n    N. 40, S. 40, E. 100, W. 100\n    4,000\n    £0 0 100 0\n  \n\nTaos. L. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General\n\nPUBLIC SALE\n\nANE, CRAWFORD & Co, have been instructed by the Administrator to the Estate of the late N. CROSBY, Jr., to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,--\n\nThe whole of the STOCK-IN-TRADE appertaining to the SHIPCHANDLERY business of the deceased, consisting of an Extensive assortment of Russian and Manila Ropa, Flax and Cotton SAILCLOTH and TWINE, BLOCKS, NAILS, TAR, PITCH, PAINTS, OIL, TURPENTINE, BUNTING, BEEF, PORK, BRANDY, WINE VINEGAR FLOUR, CANDLES, SOAP, and a great variety of other valuable Goods.\n\nAfterwards,\n\nThe HOUSEHOLD and COUNTING-HOUSE FURNITURE, viz., Dining, Toilet, and Side TABLES, COUCHES, CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WARDROBES, PICTURES, CURTAINS, &c., complete KITCHEN RANGE, & very large patent iron TREASURE-CHEST, DESKS, TABLES, COUNTERS, &c., &c., &c.\n\nAnd,\n\n1 WATER-BOAT, with FORCE-PUMP, SAILS, and FITTINGS.\n\nThe Goods will be put up in Lots to suit Purchasers.\n\nAlso,\n\nby order of the Mortgagee, will be sold,-All that PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND, situate, lying, and being in Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, abutting on the North side thereof on the Sea at high-water mark, and measuring thereon SEVENTY-THREE feet on the South side thereof, on the Queen's Road, and measuring thereon EIGHTY feet; on the East side thereof, on a close registered in the Land Office, at Victoria aforesaid, as Marine Lot number Seven, in the name of George Thomas Braine, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND TEN FEET; and on the West side thereof, on a close registered in the said Land Office, as Marine Lot number Sixty-two, in the name of Douglas Lapraik, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN FEET,-which said Piece or Parcel of Ground contains in the whole 8,855 SQUARE FEET and is registered in the Land Office as MARINE LOT NUMBER SIXTY-SIX-YEARLY RENT £68,13,2,—with the MESSUAGES, DWELLING-HOUSES, and BUILDINGS thereon erected.\n\nFor Particulars, apply to G. C. TURNER, Esq., or the Auctioneers.\n\nThe sale of the Ground and Landed Property will take place on Mr Caosay's premises, on MONDAY, the 1st day of June, 1857, at Noon precisely; and that of the Stock-in-Trade and Household Furniture on FRIDAY, the 5th day of June, 1857, commencing at 11 o'clock a.m.-it being understood, that the Transfer of the former need not be effected sooner than the 12th June, thus affording sufficient time for the delivery of the Goods.\n\nTERMS OF SALE.—One-third the Purchase-money to be paid, if required, on the fall of the Hammer; and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer. The GROUND RENT, from the 25th December, 1856, to be paid by the Purchaser.\n\nHongkong, 21st May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Firm of BUYERS & Co., SHIPWRIGHTS, will cease to exist from this date; and the Business will in future be carried on by the undersigned in his own name.\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1857.\n\nJ. C. COWPER.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.\n\nIn the Estate of NATHANIEL CROSBY, J. Esquire, late of the Queen's Road, Victoria, Ship-chandler, deceased,\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of the above named have been granted to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK, of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant; and that all persons having any Claims to the said Estate, or who are indebted, are requested to send in and pay the same to the said DOUGLAS LAPRAIK,\n\n4. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator,\n\nDated 13th March, 1857.\n\nIn re DAVID SIMEON, deceased,\n\nNOTICE,-All Claims against the above Estate, must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR before the 13th day of November, A.D. 1857, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.\n\nAll persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate Payment to-\n\nNORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator,\n\nPENINSULAR & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam-ship “NORNA,” Capt. ROGERS, with Her Majesty's \"Mails, Passenger, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 25th May, at 2 P.M. CARGO will be received on board until Noon on the 23d; SPECIE until Noon on the 24th; and PARCELS until 4 P.M. on the 24th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED,\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels ; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,\n\nHongkong, 12th May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr HENRY DAVIS in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 22d Instant.\n\nDAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 28th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\n355\n\nIn the Estate of TSOO-A-TUCK, of Victoria, Carpenter, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith,\n\nTSOO-A-TUCK, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of CHARLES MARKWICK, late Auctioneer, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned. All Claims against the Estate must be sent in before the 1st day of October, 1857, and all parties indebted are requested to make immediate payment to\n\nG. DUDDELL, D. LAPRAIK,\n\nExecutors.\n\nHongkong, 11th April, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of GEORGE DOWMAN, Master Mariner, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned without delay.\n\nH. MAGNIAC,\n\nM. A. MACLEOD, Administrators.\n\nHongkong, 24th March, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith.\n\nHENRY RUTTER, Administrator,\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nIn Equity,\n\nMURROW, STEPHENSON.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED,—that all monies now or henceforth to become payable to the late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his Deputy, he having been lawfully appointed Receiver in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honourable Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST EDGER being alone good discharges for such monies.\n\nDated the 13th day of November, 1856.\n\nGASKELL & BROWN. Complainant's Solicitors,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, CHEONG ALLUM, late of the ESSING Shop, Victoria, Hongkong, are requested to forward particulars to Mr E. K. STACE, Solicitor, &c., Queen's Road.\n\nCHEONG ALLUM.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, March, 1857.\n\n亞霖謹啟\n\n店昇裕\n\n查明〇丁\n\n十七日張\n\n已 年二月\n\n士新\n\n爹機客\n\n月丁便時單數\n\nFOR SALE\n\nAt the Office of the “ China Mail.\"\n\n張亞霖欠\n\nForms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK BOOKS, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.\n\nBLANEY, WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES,\n\nAlso,\n\nSAILING DIRECTIONS for the RIVER MIN ;\n\nAnd,\n\nA Table, shewing the COST OF TEA, with all CHARGES-Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.\n\n19th March, 1857.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.— PRICE, $12 per Annum. $1 Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, -Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents; half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "905/57\n\n880\n\nIn 80\n\nApproximate Wokin of binge handed over by their own authorities.\n\nCase year. Poho co no Date,\n\n1849\n\n1850\n\nForwarded to the Ch; authorities no of Risenery\n\nGale\n\nOffence\n\n  \n    20 Sep 18\n    Cracy.\n    to own\n  \n  \n    2 Oct: 19\n    Assault false imprisonment\n  \n  \n    #\n    1285\n    1416\n    10\n  \n  \n    2. Jan 7\n    . 8\n    Suspicion of being pirates\n  \n  \n    612\n    Hog\n    16d8\n    3.\n  \n  \n    s\n    740\n    1021\n    2. May\n    Piracy\n  \n  \n    1. co\n    4\n    1. aug 20\n    480\n  \n\nAuthority tes H.C. the chif: Supt of Grade.\n\ndo\n\nMon. fol: Seop letter 123. May 9t\n\n  \n    #\n    146.\n    31.\n  \n  \n    $\n    #\n    147.\n    June, 3.\n  \n  \n    153.\n    June 12.\n    Robbers.\n  \n\n1851\n\n689\n\n1. July, 15. Murder.\n\n1852\n\nJ018\n\n8115\n\nChild stealing\n\n3\n\n1853\n\n203\n\n361\n  \n\nPiracy.\n\n  1854\n  358\n  apr 244\n  2\n\n  386\n  May\n  2\n  346\n  Play. 9\n  941.\n\n1.6. the Gours order on case,\n\nIve\n\nSt. E. Warr! April th\n\nLe\n\nAng!!\n\nAl's Warrt March 1/4/20\n\n  \n    Roblery - seither Birego dominios.\n    Hisorder on case.\n    Pracy\n  \n  \n    Robbery in Chinese dominions,\n    attended with cutting\n    HEZ: Warrant.\n    wounding & Murder.\n  \n  \n    No.\n    Pro r.\n    1\n    Piracy\n  \n\nGer. Litter 41998 april 21.\n\nMay 30. hunghary thobby. Chinese I. Ar294, of 2 gt may\n\n1855 434\n\n1. pl. 25\n\n595\n\n/\n\nVigi\n\n1856\n\n1430\n\ntaritory 19 Piracy that with a great quant.\n\nWere found in\n\nOct 19 7 Oct 19 Piracy there for\n\na\n\nof drung tanknunction\n\nalso for frequenting the Colony for felonious purposes.\n\n1 Dic: 4. Robbery in a river 30 miles\n\nin the interior of the Chinese Dominions\n\n& Warrant. The witnesses in the case having\n\ndisappeared without signing their depositions, & not being Again found. The defendants were handed over to the Chinese (Mandarin) under the provisions of Ord: 9 of 1849.\n\nGov Letter 697- 44\" Acc:\n\nprass 44 30 mars 7 Confedersing with Pirates Marrant to\n\n1857285\n\nQ\n\nFrog.201 73\n\nKinney.\n\n440 fuely.\n\n3\n\n18341\n\nTrue Cony\n\nfailor\n\nWE. The your order directed to\n\nChi. Superintendent of Folive 210th Feb 1857.\n\nPracy. Captured by Militaristins being brought\n\nDelivered by Naval Authorities\n\nH.M. Ship Spartan before the magistrates Court.\n\n21st June.\n\nW. J. Budges.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\n11\n\ni",
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        "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1857.\n\n**Chinese Calendar, Hà Moon, 5th Day: DIARY. MEMORANDA**\n\n| Day | Astronomical Data |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sunday,... | H❘ Sets 4. P.M. 5,37 634 |\n| Monday,... | 11.16! 1,01 |\n| Tuesday,... | 5.27 6.34 1: |\n| Wednesday,... | 1,564 632 2.5% 30$ |\n| Thursday,.. | 28 Ted |\n\n**VINE SERVICES SUNDAY**\n- St. John's Cathedral-6.45 and 11a, M. and Gr.\n- Union Chapel-63d 7? P. M.\n- Beamers Chapel--1 \n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST\n\n### ARRIVALS AT HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, 11 M. Sir. Fury, Com. Leckie, from Canton\n- July 24, Fr. Gun-boat Drogenos, Co Berry, from Lantao.\n\n### DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, Nova, Porter, Shanghai.\n- July 24, Clipper (Hong). Marxen, East Coast\n- July 25, H. Mail, towed by the Coromandel for the river.\n\n### POSTAL OPPORTUNITIES.\n- For Macao: Monday, per Feina at Noon; Tuesday, per Willamette at Noon, and per Spark at Ten.\n- For Indian England: per Shanghai to-morrow at 8. Supplementary mail closes at 7.30.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased,\nAre from ZIND SOZAMING and Natives \nA DREYER & Co. \nFreight and Back Vans, \nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n- CLARE CHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, and French PRESERVES.\n- VAUCHER FRERES. Hongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nFROM NEW YORK DIRECT Received per \"Iotspur,\" and for Sale by the undersigned,\n- 100 Boxes Family Soap,\n- 100 Boxes Scented Water Soap,\n- 50 Tins Corn Meal,\n- 50 Boxes Spero Candies,\n- Baker's Buns \n- 5 Cons Superior White Lead,\n- 20 Half barrels White Beans,\n- 20 do. Split Peas,\n- 50 do. Crushed Sugar,\n- 2600 lbs. Sill's Butter in 16 lbs. Kegs,\n- 50 feet Oakum,\n- 100 Tins Black Varnish,\n- Marlinspikes, Caulking Irons and Mallets,\n- Axes, large and small, Paint, Tar and White-wash Brushes,\n- 20 Entire American Cider Vinegar,\n- Pump and Harness Leather, Cotton Canvas,\n- And from Manila: 500 Coils Steam and Manila Rope,\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED\n- PATENT Water Cements,\n- Fresh Prunes in Gums, Fresh Raisins in and boxes.\n\nTUOS HUNT & Co. \nHongkong, 20th June, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE\n- TWO Second-rate FIRE ENGINES complete, from London, ON VIEW NEAR MAG EWEN & Co.'s \nHongkong, 15th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\nAll Persons having Claims against, or being Indebted to, the late Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith \nHENRY RUTTER Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIn the matter of the Estate of the late MR JAMES SMITH of the Firm of Smith & BLAW, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate are requested to forward particulars of the same to M. JAMES W. BRIMELOW, But all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to pay the respective amounts thereto to the said James W. Brimelow,\n\nD. LAPRAIK \nARD. S. DIXSON \nExecutors.\n\n承辦人得忌時麗 \n北力晏度路士吉德 \n士布林羅收入是荷 \n兩亦如嫩交還與未 \n人欠到達士銀 \n朱士布林羅處或各 \n各人債目祈送到 \n·士藏身故如有欠到 \n羅公司之未士朗時 \n廠者未士氏蹲布林 \n\n## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nQUOTATIONS. \nEXCHANGE AND BULLION. \nHongkong Bank Corporation on \nLondon, 4, 1, Truliai - Gold to Sycee, outis-Date Sycee, Nominal! Pres Laves 24 335.36 per Tael and at at 319 821 d. Canton...\n\nIt is now upwards of a month since we furnished the public with a report of the trial of Tan cute of Tarrant v. Ah Lum the poisoner. The Jury, a special one, awarded the Plaintiff $1,010, it will be remembered, subject to the Judge's decision on the low point raised by Defendant's Counsel; and our readers, no doubt, are desirous of knowing what has been the result of the matter, and how the disputed point has been arranged. But though, as we have remarked, it is upwards of a month since the trial was reported, from that day to the present we have not heard a word of the threatened kroviment;---so, as the time allowed for the mo time was for some time expired, the verdict of the Jury stands. So much for the verdict whether the award will be forthcoming, or whether we shall obtain even a refund of the costs out of pocket \"are problems the solution of which has yet to be told of \n\nThe Editor of the China Mail, in strictures exhibiting the most extraordinary feeling of sympathy for a suspicious character it has ever been our lot to read, has told the world that, owing to the unjust confinement to which Ah Lum has been subjected, being unable personally to look after his office--he, Ah Lum, is now declared to have become Bankrupt and will have to pass through the Insolvent Court\" and, adds the Editor with an evident hug of gratulation, there will possibly (the italics are ours) be some \"difficulty in recovering the amount of damages.\" Possibly there may--but, at all events, we are placed, by the verdict of one of the most respectable juries ever empanelled in this Colony, in a position to challenge the Insolvent's Balance sheet; and should it be, as we shall not be surprised to find, that Ah Lum's bankruptcy is due as much to his very proper stoppage at business here as to some astounding malversation in the shape of lawyer's fees, or payment of hireling scribes the facts will duly be made patent to the public, and, it will be hoped, produce a salutary effect that the Jury's award will not be altogether lost \n\nThe arrival of the mail prevented the intention of noticing in our last issue a very interesting letter in the Hongkong Register of Tuesday, signed a Catholic Missionary, and of which the intelligent Redacteur of that paper thus remarks.--- \n\nWe publish better from a Roman Catholic Missionary. in reply to some observations by a contemporary as to what ought to be the course of the French in China in his opinion. We don't of course agree with the remarks of our contemporary but we entirely agree with the letter which we publish. Neither the fact nor the spirit are in good taste, and an easy answer could be time to both were worth while which is not. \n\nWhether the letter in question is a reply to our observations--whether it is \"bad taste\" (as one reverend Father disclaims it)--or whether the subject is worth while to notice are all points on which we shall leave our readers to form their own opinions. Here is a translation of such parts of the letter necessary to an understanding of it, and appended is an extract from the speech of His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, on the 5th of May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is entirely in consonance with the honestionsa which May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is not our contemporary does not think it worth while to notice. \n\nTranslation, \n\nReferring to the Anglo-French alliance on the China question--the author of the article accuses the French of a desire to impose their religion on Canton by means of bayonets, amusing it (religion) to serve their ambition.\"This alliance so surely desired by Great Britain rests, it is true, on different interests. Now, as well as in 1841, one noble neighbours are pressing the granting of their commerce. Now, as well as in 1841, France defends is the cause of humanity and \n\nas fafmontas nigha 50 - Fella 24 y. \n\nSHANGHA 15th July -On London 7, The-On Calcutta Theme dava sight Rs. per 1 Palnation, which is only possible on religious principles. de-Draft on Hongkong 29 porced sc. MANILA, 5th June - London, da iglu 4,3 -day sigur 4.9-On Hongkong and carest submit in this country to many obstacles--that Before 1841 the commerce of England had to premium golden Siang 50 pre eit pra \n\ndo-Spa isa and Mexican chopped dollars per \n\nOPIUM, \n\nRosatoma, 5th July, Palan 5520, New Para $590, New Bennes $575, Mal $515, \nMacao, 6th July New Itna $545. Old Patna $525, New Bars $575, \nGames-No Market. \n\nSHANGAR, 1 July--Malwa 400 Trots, New Patna, A Tacle \n\n### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\n\n- CANTON-SHANGHAE, £3, the Tea, a £6.6 for Silk--To New York, 10 per ton of 40 cunt.\n- Also London, Sugar, £3,10, Hemp £4,10 To United States Arabia 23,,10 \n\n### HONGKONG-THE FIRE\n\nFour days after the Fireman's report of the conflagration on Wednesday last--it commenced a little before eight, in or outside the easternmost of Lane dare storici houses in a detached block between the Taipingshan Temple on Hollywood \n\nintroduction at some merchant like being altogether repelled by the Chinese authorities--the pino inspired by the English power has been, it is true, to cause of the war of 1841 The result of the treaty \n\ngive an entire sanction, at all events to make trade more free. is for the benefit of all nations, and to deliver trade from all obstacles, that England presses herself forward with such insisting force most noble is her project and ardently do we desire success to the undertaking, \n\nLong before 1841 your illustrious ancestors were halflence to the successor of Saint Peter--and Quitted to us in the same faith, and by a common wish with us they defended the Liberty of conscience of their brethren in the east against the ferocious despotism of musselmon persecutors, there were even then Catholics in China; and in alternate peace and persecution their numbers have successively multiplied. \n\nIn France profited by the fact of England's acting, though timidly, under similar circumstances \n\nEDWARD WEB has this day been admitted Partner in our Firm \nDENT, BEALE & Co. \nShanghai, 1st July, 1857.\n\nNo. 20 Rua Campo, Macao. \nSHAW'S HOTEL Board and Accommodation, Billiards. \nBy M Il saaw. \n\nThe lower part obtained was rendered inst by mason of the stone formations known as Bridges's folly. The lower part of the house loyally destroyed was a carpenter's shop, and it was from the large and valuable pute of China pine square in the yard adjoining the shop, that the flames were continued wall between nine and ten o'clock. How the fire originated, no one has yet discovered it is singular that it should have occurred within a few yards of the last fire, and in a carpenter's timber yard again. The value of the property destroyed will be about a thousand pounds sterling, and it is said an old man perished by suffocation in one of the \n\nFrom 1841 to the present time, imprisonment and torture have not ceased be the lot of Christians (in China) and area their blood has been spilt and it is for that blood France comes and demands reparation to prevent a repetition of past horrors, And the more extended freedom of conscience en-\n\nWe have heard doubts expressed of the truth of the story told of that gentleman's in miles. The tale, it is said, has never been properly authenticated. - F. C. \n\nThe writer of one of the letters to which we have referred says,--- \n\nand your gracious Queen and our beloved Emperor have thought to unite their endeavours in order to a \n\nI am told that the Chusan Mandarin which Sorira told greater chance of success to their (general) establishment a pier, has era on board his in in such loose con \n\nGarment figs (England, par U.M.O, epizm-France \n\nthe last faar mancha tha to snout naw 80 his font or legs\"--and he slit, antur at the 4:5, I saw the To impose cur religion, cramming). \n\nMantarım yestoniy, He says that Zaring los contoamgut religion by means of the bayonet is out of the or bord le ha 99 ext 20 men cited and focio question, and the honourable author of the article book about $7900 in Cash. Bu on occasion his fricade publ need not be alarmed. \n\nOn our side we Mal0 to have him released, bat Sostro took the money and \n\nLed.\" are far from being alarmed about the Missionaries \n\nof the religion founded by Fancy the eighth and In addition to their ambroglio with the Perin Elizabeth on the contrary, the zeal will exclleguese, the French have a sinal fate with tho ours. Perhaps, indeed, they will be the first ab noted Apak. appears, the nature of which har jects of our zeal perhaps they will become our over, we have yet to hear This is all the Herald brothers by the faith, as they are alresly by feel tel's of it: - ings of regard, respect, and charity.\" \n\nAt the 58th Anniversary Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Exeter Hall on the Morning of Wednesday, the 5th of May 1857, the President, the Earl of Caichesser, in the Chair; the first Resolution having been moved by the Lord Bishop of London, and seconded by the Dean of Carlisle, the second Resolution was moved by the Lord Bishop of Victoria; and the Bishop spoke as follows- \n\n\"Now, My Lord, what is the reason that I have dwelt so much on these encouraging features of the \"Chesping ove ment? It is not, of course, that I wish the assembly to carry away with them the first notion that I look upon this body of men is, in any kind sense of the word, Christian. I know the vague screw, the wina jasjsącko, with which the term \"region\" Christianity\" apst be applied to see a system as I have been referring ( I have no confidence in the personal boaters eftlus rebellion; but I cannot help thinking that God, who in His providence has permitted a may want containing within it so many elements of exerbal truth, mus necs invenit to accomplish indinvely, by means of the The pin Rey lotion, so.he great and mercatene wis Sa China. Its act. \n\nA pak's finct of Wank roast hoals are lying off the sol zato, aqua the lacteria, blockade by 17. I. Corete La Ca pricieuse. They have taken several of their gate ashore, and threaten to take the city of Ningpo, and hadre French men of war attack them. 41 Montes, the Porteced Consul has demode) indemnity from the Chinese nothontie waved as the Intendat, Aigners, exco Portuganun, were 11-ing in parket \n\nThe Earl of Elgin and suite left this port in the Shannon on the 16th instant--the flarer Master reporting Calcutta as the vessel's destination. Quid meant General believes that the Shannon is gone to Peking, and gives as his reason for believing this, the fact of Mr Wade, Chinese Secretary Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, being ordered to be very diplomatic when embarking, and by no means to let it be known when he was bound to or when he would be back, Mr Wade is the gentleman sent by Sir John Bowring to Cochin-China in 1855 will be remembered, and who was left by the Raider without even a servant on the bank of the River below Hue, where he remained, recognized by the Cochin-Chinese government, until the Radler came back for him Should it really be that the Shannon has gone direct to the Pelbo, better selection for letter carrying in the Svenson's barge could not have been made, and we congratulate His Excellency the Ambassador on the possession of such an able instrument. Mr Wade's experience as a Chinese Custom house officer will not be lost in negotiations at the North. \n\nPROVINCIAL.\n\nThe great apesaluter Tuksen it is said is convonal in the Commissioner's enquiry.— Ibid. \n\n### PEKING.\n\nThe Peking Gazette have reached us up to June 15th, but contain nothing of special interest. The business of the Empire seems to go on as quietly and regularly as ever, but the state of the finances continues to be the absorbing topic at head quarters. Contributions are proposed on all hands, and in places where the accounts have been left in disorder by previous officials of 1855, a minute investigation is insisted on, and deficiencies are to be made up within a stated time. -- \n\nLord Canning has justified the belief which we have been induced to form of him. He lives in days which have more significance than years in the career of many of his predecessors and all his acts are momentous. Since he took the conduct of affairs into his own hands, criticism has been disarmed. All the resources of the country have been gathered up and made the most of, and every corner of the Empire within and without has been ransacked to furnish aid in India's great extremity. No means have been left untried to satisfy the hungry soldiery, and to keep the rebels without a shadow of \n\nThe 79 Native of hry presented an arze, praying that they might be permitted to march to the North West to shore in the lafore and Dulate the loyalty of the Europeans, and within a very few hours his Lordship made his appearance at Barrackpore harangued the troops drawn out to receive him, and did more good perhaps by the utterance of a few single phrases fresh from the heart, and clothed with the authority of his high station, than would have been expected from the reigation of a score of General Orders which but few read and lower still autoreland.. \n\nA Rent Fortune has kindly sent us a copy \nYau's organization of a squadron at Faishan, to of his new work' —Fortune's residence among the Chinese-inland, on the corest, and at sea, \n\nof the 18th instant\" We now learn that, under the being a narrative of scenes and giventures \n\nrenowned chief Le, the rebels gave battle to the \"during a third visit sa Cuius, from 1983 to \n\nImperialists under General Kwin nea: Sewking, * 1856--inclu hag wations of many untional and gained a complete victory--only three boats \n\nproductions and works of art, the callure of \n\nscoping to Canton to tell the result, of carrying Silk & with suggestions on the present \n\nLe's bravado challenge to Yah to come on again \n\n• war.” A book of 450 pages netava. —we have soon as it could get couly. Le's force is stid to not as yet had sufficient space time to give auber 100,000 fighting mon, and 1,000 war ves more than a cursory glance at its roulents; suf- seis, and His Excellency Le's bead quarters aro Betear, however, to enable us to ratify the trail-i now at the district city of Bet. The first class city \n\nof Secking is in very straitened eramstances. faless of the very able review of it in the Mone News at the 10di ult. To residents in Shanghae and Ningpo the work will be peculiarly and men, bae ked a hard batte with Imperialist necepeptable--most of the locities describd woops from Tw-chow, and having gained the vic being those which juries troat those places tory 11. E. e compelling the whole of the surround- are now been aing ordery occurrruos Eng cuantry people to sabm to his rule. Fearing and encompassing the use of car British alat men in colowing is an abstract of the country travelled for the provincial city itse, Yeh is calling in a the Tauschow men, and has stational a thousand of over by Mr Fortune during the perid of the \n\nthem in the South eastern suburbs. The lendore of story. \n\nthe Ninety six villages 150, base bed to send their Chapter I gives the voyage from Hongkong to Shanghae in the Steamer Ganges, -II, the quota of armed men--between two and three to Shanghae to Ningp by boat, and thence \n\nBanner-men, Manchus, and the Lieutenant Gover- to Yuhang on the eastern side of the Yang \n\nnor's guards, altogether about three thousand, ace woopad on the heights beyond the northern wolf. Kiang (the over skirting Ningpe) a distance \n\nThe Hak has of Ko ineng and Six other dis of Bome forty miles by boat and chair--back to Ningpo, and on to the old city ut Traken, tricts have united, and are burning and destroying abontwelve miles from Ningpo, on the branch wherever they go. Canton is the great point to escaps Lo, and there the poor starving wroches of the river conning to the northward. Horn-\n\nA Ningpo in his boat, in Casper VI. we \n\nThousands, wäinen and childen Temporary A letter in the Penang Gazette says - Almat Gad Mr Fortune at Teung, the celebrated \n\nrunt sheds have been erected for them at Chefing 1,000 to 1,500 Chicamen lure had their heads monastery ab at a dog in unites from the Yu. \n\non the south of the river, and them are daily take off by the Dynks who are in arms in all bang spoken of in Chauer Hero ur \n\ndalinge out of congee and rice, supplied by the directions. The Chinese had hald' possession of For was laid up with fever, and bad tɔ sự - aut \n\nauthorities, in gasathies just suficient to ward off the town for about two days, befare the mermer öü cure. to Chine-e medheal treatidens Dr \n\ndisentation. The City is divided into five grand Jantes Brooke arrived, and wern in the fires and Chapter Vils of a return to 8 g divisions, and those agin into sections, within about the town. The Bret shot from the wormerly which ehe bodied tour patrol night and day long 18 pounder cleared the fort, and in a short time. The fear of a rising within the walls to vary they were all swarning out of the town, the steam- great--each en draade his neighbour, ander at the time hard at work with gun such rifies, every ermutenanes is depressed. Few says which did considerable execution. Every day br the icporter can rentize their sad position with- loads of hatuls were arriving Sock, Drak \n\nout being in like predicament. On one hand they were flocking to in Qarsunds and eating the Chin \"feat the approach of the western barbarians name in all directions. They are all cleared not \"on the other the northern and western rebels and of the Sarawak territory, only 150 ne so en DỀ added to both is treachery at home\" Truly some 2,000 to 3,500 having recaped. All th \n\npursued this line of argueal; int I have dve up this foster because I view with considorable apprehension the fature corse of British and French diplomace, the Bast There are very resultar angers now environing the path \n\nnexion with Chan, In China, we who at a distanca e46- tarsly watched the progress of Live gerat European WAY İN which our counter bua been recently engagent, coad with a great degree of satisfaction of the Anglo-French allowe We porused with the keepest colorant the inteliigance luxught by mal anal of the rivalum nad lenda of a couturies being buries in the tombe of the heroes who fel at Alma and In- kermann; and I certainly would not now say one word in depreciation of the character of that able z in who sways the destinies and wichts the trapetisi sceptro of Prano. Baltas will any, test it in davio to my aan mini that the French have a large foot in the Bash; that thng baye no roumawiał interests to vota mer and fister in those masteroms, and that their time too often serval as a kind of rovarg s pred Musinnary phion over the broad waters of the Faci fic, iving en layout to at, at Tahiti, the dip.ad eba Kolla aastat ja redressing the inaainy grievances of the Jeans propagandists thoughout the west. And when I re- member that the Romish propagandi-ts in Chian have always viewed the Tae-ping Revolution via peraline slicka nad Me like-when i renninber that in the early stages af din renale lion linge native Reteruses, ju neging than iloitars, and not yet being skilled in tar den of making a disuneti n with- \n\n### FRENCH PORTUGUESE.\n\nThe Atten by the Portuguese orcha me at Nagpo monopoliza the boat traffic between that port and Shanghae, resulting in an armed collision with one Frenchoren, was told of in one of car numbers some two or three months ago, the 2qbble being referral to the high authorities of the respective nations at Macan. \n\nFrom the proceedings of the French War Ves- sele Marceau and La Capricesse since, it would now appear that the Governor of Marni hat nu thorized the seizure of certain vessels wherever found, and in porsaance of the resolve we ern freas the North-Chisa Herald of the 4th and ch instant that first the Schooner Aurora was taken, and then the Tarcbas 166 and 44. The Chinese portions of the crews of there vessels, with the usal humanity, were instantly handed over by the French to the tender arcles of the Sergh Menilarius,and were soon disposed of, of course. The Portuguese are still in eustody and will be brought to Mucas for trial in uil due time we suppose. \n\nby leters of a week's later date than the infantion reported in the Herald, we find that \n\non called Seiro, spoken of as a great deg peraio, gave himself up to the Freach on the 13th instant, and that thrun of his comrades, hid in the fee houses on the banks of the river, were also caught the sun day. Sonire it appears had been carrying 9 Mandarin about with hire that he had \n\n### Chapter XIII.\n- takes the reader from Tez-tsing to the village of Pururchse and on into the Quartz valley and Temple, 2000 teet alus tar level of the son, where, in the month of October, before the Hongkong summer is well over, the air is \"piercingly sild.\" The same chapior describes a boat voyage of some peril from Ning to Shanghae. \n\n### FOOCHOW.\n\nIt was rumored abroad somewhat extensively that he founded on the arrival of the Lieutenant Governor to Jeeva for the upper provinces, but Fes story had no foundation. The Goverant Gentral is now in his pe par place, and we hope that the may continue to fill and a loze it. \n\n### Friend of India Jane A \n\nit is vary sad. Oh, Sử Jaha Bowring--Sir Chinese women went over safe, about 200; and of all the bool they got in Sarawak, the pasere John Bowring--what an amount of misery ban tkou to answer for ' \n\nvery litla now,\" One of the rusas of trying to get quit of the Dyaks ws to throw money he g The The Chinese were macahing in body of about 2000, eluding 700 women and childies, and the Dyeks hovering stout them, nerasionally making a dash at a corner, det iching 40 a 50 from the main body, and whipping nineir heads with great seal. The Chinese have had t terte lesson En Satown. Their inawer of going ab eat it won to take held of a Chimwatan by his vel, nad whip off bis hand with great dexterity'; one blow suffired, I hardly expect the slaughter will scop here; the Dyaks, having their blood up and expecting the \n\nWe have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from this port dated 7h uirino, received per averiand courier. From it we learn that a man- darin of high rank has arrived there from Palting on his way to Canton where it is ranured he is to \n\nCe left the capital 2. be second in rank to Yeh. \n\nout a man is left.\"--Dady News, June; 10. \n\nQ \n\nor 3 months since, but had made a siren tous route in consequence of the troubled state of the country. Es proceeds in Arany on his way to the South. \n\nThe rebels have retired near to the borders of Chapter XIV. takes Me Fortune back to Tse-\n\nthe province. hey are reported to be quiet, attire to trave a deal of booty, parave them sill kee again, and narrates abe partientors of a jar. Suoma \n\nSmall supplies of Ton from distant dis ney from Ningpo to Sletoghar by the infultricts had arrived and to reso had gone up to par- \n\nThe Duren in Jaray —The nėščiai įvursal of te via Ya-yar, Noskalon, Tiyenin. chrce, but as the season i'r the first chep had pa99- \n\nthe Hague of the 5th casains a long tepat to ne aland that for the se oud was far advanced, few Kanpoo, Yedhow, Chapes and Ping-hoe. Shanghee in the Silk country, by Carim, \n\nChapter XVI. spus with journey for fine toux were expected and not a large younity of King Halland from Myer, Minister of Cole medium xds, the second crop being 1 sjured from is, and M. Gevers. Minister of Pareiga A Forte, zolucive to Japanese affairs, and his Majesty has Page, Nantsing and Houchowfoo. Lo Chup the fact of the first faves por having been gathered. ter XVIII, Mr (ortane runebes be greated From the ear districts ton hd cute in more free-approved of Annexed to the report are fee distance inland, viz the town of Marcoee,ly since the dispersion of the rebels. \n\nsome orty miles west fira Hoochosloo, and the same chapter gives his return to Shanghae, Chapter XXI contains the last of theur. neyings, was winding up business tour to Nings po, the valley of the Nine stones, and Tras Asing again--finally, a return to fonghong and voyage to Calcutio \n\nMexican dollars were a 10 per cent disconat There was nothin, doing la Opkom sture the tax of 20 per chest and brand-China Herald, July, 11. \n\nThe Cairngoras was to leave on the 4th instant,pa Rad to!load, concluded on the 30th of Jan \n\nary, 1896. Three articles, amongst other things, a futt ship, having 1,000 tons of new you on board. She would be the first away--two or thre, ather Slipmats that the Dutch shit be allowed to excreike their worship tronly, and that they shall no longer yeable ware wearly laden- \n\nRico centinued dear bat'the weather was favora- \nbe subjected to the impious cartas of trampling ble for crops. \n\nunder got the image of our Saviour on the croes, They aleo eunal that the Dutch shall be permitted to trade in the open ports, and to get to and parsip ee from Japanese traders. Also to take her wives and children to the wil perts The trucks funter. declare that the importation of foreign and the ex portation of Japanese money shall be allowed; that the Japanese government may levy madarité im. pon, Trungit, and export duties; and, betly, that The Dutch it Nangas ke any misintan free relations with foreigners, both on board veganf• and at Deco \n\nThe report adds, that the Japanese green en has declared asel\" resdy to raciale vrea tea with all foreign governments that may wish top them--Avid. \n\nSo innch for an answer 10 the question which will be added by Chua Residents of \"where dad Me Fortune go to when fast here ?\" In our j next paper we shal: furnish some illustrationsį of the notices\" mentioned on sho ate pagod \n\n(From our Overland Nlition of to day.) From the official announcement in our last that there would be no second Mail Seaner from China this month, Subscribers to tlus journal will not have expected their customary paper. Mr Wal ker the ... Co's. Superintendent, however, with a consideration for pulite interests deservist Gach commandation, promptly chartered the Grsi vanbie Steamer to bundthe Road jun away from the heaving down huik-which he has placa on the Shanghae ins; aking thence tho Shang Adi; mud that vasset, deep as she can swim with alk, now goes to Gaile with the muit. May cephyr smooth as be glossy cargo speed her way through tive most dangeroza period of the year in lue China Sea. We pray this under some nusideration for the interests of underwriters. \n\n## SHANGHAE\n\nAn Imperial Commnissioner named Warg, triv \nhers (Saanghae) on the 7th instans quite unex- pected by the dohorities. \n\nis said he has corng to examine into hn causes of the low state of the public trensary funds, and to tnvestigate certain disbursensule made en ac count of purchases of rice fur the govern went some moatas back, -ay well as to squeeze the marchana and the Toatai ton, to raise fimis to help the pa sing exigences of the looper al Government. We! hear 50,000 weis was demanded from each of tha \n\nmeharts doing the largest business, and that it will probably be compromised for The 5,000 \n\nIt is rumored that Ho Kweling, the fately ap pointed Govarour-general of the Two Keang, is the originator of the present enquiry, on proteaze of not being satisfied with the manner the prisent Intendant, B. E. Las, has been performing tha functions of his post. We have no doubt, Theres fore, that it wit be eney for the Emperial Commis elouer, if his instructions are to that eflist, to tay of sone hold weak poll in the multifarious trans risgrace. We should, however, regret much, sho actions of flis Excellency Lan to bring him into that be the result of the investigation, both for the \n\nThus the despatch of the last mail, military there appears reason für believing that balure we operations about Canton have bem and \n\nCatcmpt possesion of the walls, the rebels will \n\nhave concladed the business for 13. Our Prurin interests of foreign merchants end the Clainese. cial reporter's news it will be seen are alarming. i \n\nFu has been fourteen years a man-larin \n\n### THOUGHT.\n\nThere is a luxury in earnest thought The unthinkang kaka dream of floppy har Who, holding sweet cornuates will himseti, Roving the fèlie ofiscality, \n\nFees het sa labelincas, though ali stEYA, Ngreaves at etalless avai jinde of looke \n\nDoes has lotless med. The daisied eid, The garden of the wood, alike shall be Fer dina struly ; everything aro \n\nThe flower, the tree; the titing, the running brooks,— Aure to bin asterials for clight, AB curists a pure veliges to atm, \n\nYea, nevor fi ing pleasure. Grieť may ce Deal's cold echipe conceal his fail-erfed jar, Rickness may pale uus e vak, lone plach this pace, Be thought tall be fat luns on Ristie Tomas of earth's disygietrose a chara Te all the hatefulensing to sleep \n\nAnd lighten evʼn the heaviest (sail afilis. \n\nUpwards and Quinards. By & W. PARTRIDGE,",
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        "content_text": "479 \n\n(53) \n\nby order of the Governor. While the interest in the matter came to my knowledge, and directions were given to Mr. Inglis, a report was expected from him, but Mr. Wade went up to Canton and had several other matters to attend to, and the matter gradually died away. The applications for the report were continued after the production of the papers found on Beaver. Mr. Wade told me that he had so much to do that he could not give any time or attention to the report, and that is how I explain its not having been produced. What Mr. Mongan says about the order for the destruction of the papers is substantially correct. The order was given shortly after Mr. Wade's departure for the North. As far as I had anything to say, Mr. Mongan came in to me and said, \"What's to be done with the books and papers.\" I said he had better ask the Governor, and he told me the Governor had desired him to ask me; then I said, \"They're rubbish and had better be burnt,\" or words to that effect. I had not received information from any quarter whatsoever at this time that they might be important. I had no knowing hint from anyone—and if I had had the remotest idea that they would have proved important in any way, I should not have ordered their destruction. I never had any hint from Mr. Caldwell; nothing ever passed between Mr. Caldwell and myself on the subject.\n\nI consider it the duty of a detective to put all prima facie cases in train for trial, but there is no such thing as a detective here; it is the duty of all persons not to obstruct their being so put in train. That is most certainly the duty of the Protector of Chinese and Superintendent of Police, but not of Justices generally.\n\nIn answering the question why I applied the term \"partizanship\" with reference to Mr. May on the occasion of my last giving evidence, I would say that having been Crown prosecutor here for nearly three years, I have been enabled to form an accurate knowledge of the manner in which Mr. May generally conducted Police investigations or assisted in getting up cases; and having found him pursue an entirely different course so far as regards activity and energy in Ma-chow Wong's case from what I had ever seen or known him show in any other case, knowing the bitter spirit that he had for many months past shown towards Mr. Caldwell, and believing that Ma-chow Wong was made but the cause to attack Mr. Caldwell—because Mr. May, during my tenure of office, had never brought Ma-chow Wong's crimes or conduct to my notice in any way, I came to the conclusion, which I still adhere to, that Mr. May with regard to the getting up of the case against Ma-chow Wong was actuated by the private feelings of a partizan.\n\nI believe that Mr. Caldwell was not in the Government employ as interpreter at the end of 1855. I am under the impression that he ceased to be interpreter when he left the Government service in June or July 1855. I was out of the colony the whole of 1856, except the first fifteen days and the last six, and have no knowledge whether a subsequent application in that year for promoting Mr. Caldwell to a higher office was rejected in Downing Street before the 22nd November 1856.\n\nI hand into the Commission the original report of Mr. Wade under date 27th October 1857 upon the document found in the possession of Beaver.\n\nTo the best of my belief, I never, without consulting the Governor, ordered the release of prisoners or their property—their persons certainly not. Having had time to think over the question of the liberation of the property of Ma-chow Wong, I think that I did give directions to Mr. Grand-Pre as to taking away the Police from the premises without consulting the Governor, and I should do the same thing again under similar circumstances, having been directed by His Excellency not to trouble him about questions of Police details of which I considered this to have been one.\n\nI decline to answer the question whether I have, without reference to the Governor, liberty of action as Colonial Secretary under the Government Memorandum of January last; or whether the Secretary of State has sanctioned or even seen that memorandum.\n\nSubsequently to September last, the question of a pardon for Ma-chow Wong has never come before His Excellency or the Executive Council; the subject was mooted to myself once by my late Comprador—it was relative to the escape of some prisoners from the Gaol, and he asked me if Ma-chow Wong's friends brought the prisoner back to Gaol, whether Ma-chow Wong could procure a pardon. An offer of mitigation in sentence was made to another prisoner in the Gaol whose sentence was mitigated in consequence of effecting the capture. I told the Comprador that nothing would get Ma-chow Wong's liberation. I added that neither would I do anything myself, nor did I think the Governor would pardon him under any circumstances. That is the only time, and this the only person, when and with whom I have spoken concerning Ma-chow Wong's pardon subsequent to September 1856. I think it was from Mr. Caldwell himself that I understood it was he who arrested Beaver. I remember a minute being made in the Gaol book by Mr. Anstey and Mr. Lyall or somebody else regarding the commitment of certain prisoners. I cannot take upon myself to state whether the minute said they were all committed under the warrant of Mr. Caldwell. I cannot, from my own knowledge, answer whether the prisoners were discharged within a week after that minute was made.\n\nAll Chinese petitions for pardon or commutation are sent through Mr. Inglis or Mr. Caldwell—if from prisoners through Mr. Inglis; if from prisoners' friends through Mr. Caldwell. It is the custom to refer them sometimes to the Chief Justice for his report. They are referred to the Chief Justice, I should say, eight times out of ten—the other two out of ten consist of petty cases and cases which it has been already determined not to pardon. I do not remember, since I have held office, a single Supreme Court case in which such an application was not referred to the Chief Justice. I do not allude to such a case as that I mentioned just now of a mitigation of punishment in consequence of services rendered in the recapture of prisoners. It is very seldom, if ever, that they are referred to the present Attorney General for his opinion. The application in the Ma-chow Wong case was referred to the Chief Justice and Acting Attorney General. The report of the Chief Justice is certainly not conclusive.\n\n(55) \n\nSupreme Court, I had left a blank for that portion of it. Mr. May was present as Acting Sheriff. Far from imagining that he was willing to help me, I expostulated with him, thus—\"Good God, Mr. May, you cannot defend this abominable connection between Mr. Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong; you cannot expect me to go on finding bills for mock piracies on the evidence of the wretches whom you bring before this Court as Crown witnesses. You have heard the speech of Eli Boggs. Can any Government stand against such an infamy and disgrace? You heard that speech and shrunk under it.\" To my astonishment, Mr. May replied, \"I have never had but one opinion about Mr. Caldwell, Ma-chow Wong, Eli Boggs, or the connection; but I am nobody and have no power.\" It was then I asked his permission to refer to him in the report as one who would speak if called upon. He said \"yes\" and advised me also to refer to Mr. Inglis who knew a great deal also. I did so. The prime mover in all these inquiries is I, myself, and I have named those who have instigated me to become such. Mr. May was but one of my witnesses and by no means a ready one.\n\nMy firm conviction is that no murder was ever committed of the man in question. I heard from the Governor of the Gaol that Mr. Caldwell has had several interviews with Ma-chow Wong subsequent to his conviction at the Supreme Court. By reference to my previous evidence and my letter of 20th July 1857, it will be seen I have spoken and then written of a connection existing between the gold dust robberies, Pang Poi-yeen being one and Ma-chow Wong; and I believed that Ma-chow Wong's influence has been exercised since his incarceration in the Gaol to cause the apprehension of persons.\n\nCHARLES MAY - Recalled\n\nI have heard the Attorney General's statement and concur with it. Until addressed by the Attorney General, I never expressed any opinion to the Attorney General or to any high Government Officer on the subject of the impropriety of the intimacy between Mr. Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong. It will be observed by my evidence that I was in no way a participator in this intimacy and that I always, when I had occasion, exhibited my sense of the impropriety of the acquaintance and full intent of bringing Ma-chow Wong to justice when I had opportunity.\n\nShortly after resuming my office of Superintendent of Police in January 1858, a Chinaman presented himself to my office late one afternoon and said that he wanted police to go to Stanley to apprehend some men on suspicion of murder of a Chinaman whose name I knew and whom I knew to have been the principal witness in the Stanley treason case. I questioned the man, ascertained that he had no knowledge but from hearsay, and told him to bring any person to me who could give information of the act and measures should be taken.\n\nThe next day, on seeing the Colonial Secretary at Government Office, the Colonial Secretary said, \"You go to Mr. Inglis at the Gaol, he will give you some important information on the Stanley murder case,\" and informed me they had taken three men on the charge of murder. I said, \"No men have been apprehended, but I will go to Mr. Inglis.\" I did so. Mr. Inglis said, \"I am quite certain that three men have been apprehended because a Chinaman who has been employed in the matter states that he saw the three men in custody at Stanley last night.\" We had some further conversation in which he mentioned that two Chinamen then in Gaol under Ordinance 2 of 1857, supposed to have been connected with the treason case, had caused this information to be given upon which the Acting Colonial Secretary and police had been previously acting, but strangely that they wanted to mix Ma-chow Wong up with the matter and hoist him out of Gaol on the credit of his information.\n\nIn reference to the papers found on Beaver, I beg to refer...",
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        "content_text": "## Proceedings of 8th July continued.\n\nI recollect the apprehension of a man who was charged with stealing a watch from Mr Lapraik. I was examined in the gaol upon a subsequent charge of piracy against the same man. I was examined in the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr Caldwell, Mr Inglis, and a Chinese prisoner named Kwan Chan-hee. From circumstances, I imagined the man was accused from dislike between him and Ma-chow Wong and Kwan Chun-hee and this man.\n\nWhen I was examining him, he brought out some pieces of red paper, eight or nine inches long, with Chinese characters, which were interpreted to me by one of the Chinese in the station named Ahee. It was to the effect that Beaver was an American, a very good man, and had been some time in his employ; I kept it for a day or two before producing it by me before Mr Mitchell. I cannot recollect whether Mr Caldwell was there when I told Mr Mitchell of the interpretation I put upon the paper or not. I don't think I told Mr May about the paper while the trial was going on.\n\nIn a day or two after Beaver was remanded, I was sent for by the Acting Colonial Secretary. At about 6 o'clock in the morning I went to the Acting Colonial Secretary's house. He commenced questioning me, as licensing day was coming on, about the Comprador of the steamer.\n\nI know from reference to my chart, that Luy-chow near Hainan is from 8 to 10 miles from the mouth of a river; it stands a little way back from the shore. I have been past, but never in it.\n\n[Read Lyons' evidence concerning his visit to the Gaol to inquire about Beaver and the paper, and Beaver's conversation with himself.]\n\nI agree with nearly every portion of it. Beaver himself told me that he was with Akwai. I was at Boggs's trial.\n\nWhen I came here yesterday, there was a paper shown to me, and I was asked if I knew the character of the different Public-house keepers. After that I saw the paper produced. I do not know what was done with the paper before.\n\nThe steamer was about a mile and a half from the shore. The Elders of the village came on board and made an arrangement with Mr Caldwell for the payment of a sum of money if we could catch these desperadoes, but I do not know the amount. The boat went for the purpose of assisting people belonging to the Elders, and Mr Caldwell went in it. There were four armed men, four men pulling, the second Engineer and the Captain. When Roberts and Lyons asked me these questions, they did not tell me they should want me to give evidence. Yesterday, Roberts told me he had written down what I had said. I told him I thought it very curious, and that if I had seen the paper before, I should not have said anything. The answer I gave was that I had seen a paper written by a friend of mine about a year before; it was relating to the sale of a lorcha.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then remarked that the prisoner had that paper in his possession, and had given it to Kwan Chun-hee, and that the prisoner was head partner in the purchase of the lorcha. The Acting Colonial Secretary then went on to say that the paper had been given by this prisoner to Kwan Chun-hee within the last few days in Gaol, and that Kwan Chun-hee had given it up to accuse the prisoner.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then asked me about the searching of the prisoner at the Station, and I said I thought it was impossible he could have been locked up, without any paper which he might have had on his body being found.\n\nRe-examined,--During the time in which I was employed on board the `Eaglet` we never made any prisoners. In the Kulan affair there was loss of life sustained--five of the `Rattler's` and six or eight of the `Powhattan's` men were killed, besides other casualties. The information that the junks captured at St John's were pirates was obtained from the prisoner before his arrest.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary asked me if I had ever seen a fleet of two or three hundred junks which we met on our way to Mameë. I told him I had seen them one time previously, when he was making a charge in the Central Police Station. He then asked me if I could recognise a man named Yik-foo, if I saw him. He then asked me if the prisoner was not Yik-foo, and I said that he was not.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then sent me round to the Gaol to take another look at the prisoner, and assured me that the prisoner was not Yik-foo. I returned, and told him I was certain he was not Yik-foo. He then asked me, as the prisoner was sick at the time, could his sickness not have altered him, so that I could not recognise him. I assured him he was not Yik-foo, upon which I was dismissed.\n\nA short time afterwards I met the Acting Colonial Secretary at the Central Police Station, and in speaking to him I remarked that I had been told by one of the European prisoners, that the paper had been in Gaol since the conviction of Kwan Chun-hee. I then told him that Kwan Chun-hee had already brought a charge against Tong Akü which had been proved false. The charge against Tong Akü had been convicted.\n\nDr Bridges said that he would see into the matter, that he would inquire amongst the prisoners in the Gaol, and ascertain whether it was as I said with reference to the paper. I again saw the Acting Colonial Secretary upon this matter.\n\nI have seen Passengers coming on board except as a passenger. I have no recollection of seeing any one wearing spectacles coming on board except Lai Sze-kai.\n\nSai I have seen Lai Sze-kai wearing spectacles. I never received any other sum than the $55 either as prize-money or remuneration for extra or dangerous service.\n\n[Lai Sze-kai shewn to witness.]\n\nI remember the apprehension of Beaver; he was apprehended and brought to the Police Station by Mr Caldwell.\n\nWhen I had finished examining him, I told him about this man Beaver, and a case of piracy which I had known, and which had occurred in the previous January. I told him about a gun being purchased on the lorcha, also that the money had not been paid, and an order had been given, I was under the impression at the instance of Ma-chow Wong.\n\nThe pirate who took the lorcha was the brother or brother-in-law of Akwai, and he had an European with him. The Acting Colonial Secretary said he would like very much to see the order; it was for $80. The lorcha came in two days afterwards. I boarded her as she came to an anchor about half-past four or five in the morning. I took the Captain of the lorcha, and Achong, the Chinese owner, up to Dr Bridges's house about 7 o'clock, and they produced a paper which they said was the one to which I alluded. It was only an acknowledgment of having taken a gun worth $70, which they intended to pay for. There was no order on any particular house.\n\nThe paper was then sent together with the first paper found on Beaver's person to Mr Wade to be translated; and the Acting Colonial Secretary told me that as Mr Caldwell had already a charge for confederation with pirates against Beaver, I had better send my witnesses down to him. The witnesses were first sent down to Mr Caldwell, and then went before the Magistrate.\n\nAfter the paper was translated, it was returned to me by Mr Grand-Pré, and after getting it I went before the Magistrate again, with the witnesses, and the paper was again produced before the Assistant Magistrate Mr Mitchell. I do not know whether it was interpreted to him at that time.\n\nThe examination lasted over a space of three weeks, and the paper was taken there every day for examination. The witnesses failed to identify Beaver, and he was sentenced to find security for three months, or quit the colony; he quitted the colony.\n\nThis paper was never to my knowledge in Mr Caldwell's possession. He saw it, but I don't know that he read it at the Police Court. At one time I told him about it.\n\nAfter the investigation was over, Beaver asked for his paper, but Mr Mitchell said that they were to be retained. The last time I saw the paper was at the Magistracy, when he was committed to the Gaol upon not being able to find security. I have not seen it since. I have looked over the papers in the Magistracy, and that document is not attached to the case.\n\nBeaver told me that he had been in the employ of Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong on board a lorcha. If I had not been told, I should not have taken my witnesses to Mr Caldwell.\n\n## MANOEL DA SILVA, Sergeant in the Water Police,-Called and examined.\n\nI remember the apprehension of Po-Pak-Shing on a charge of piracy. I had his boats and family in custody, and believe they, the boat and family, were connected with Ma-chow Wong.",
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        "content_text": "500 \n\n(96) \n\nabout Shaplok the same afternoon that Wohang came to Mrs Caldwell would answer her, that is all I can say. She never came as a friend to the house. I did not communicate with the Government or Police about it.\n\nIt is impossible for me to say whether Ch'o On would or would not pay $400 to Shaplok without thinking she had someone to back her. He has been fifteen years in Government service, and I should think that he would not be so stupid as to pay any money at all.\n\nI am quite ignorant of the circumstances relative to the capture or attempt at breach of the blockade of the Canton River of the boat to which the pass was granted mentioned by the Attorney General, in page 73.\n\nI have given many of such passes, so it is impossible for me to tell about this particular one.\n\nI did not consider it necessary to cross-examine Mr May upon his statement regarding my telling him about my wife receiving presents, because I considered the inference drawn from the words spoken by me was so absurd that I did not think it necessary.\n\nI did not know Po-pak-shing as a notorious pirate at the time I went on board his boat; I never heard of his name until that time.\n\nI most solemnly declare that I only know that the Sinon Wo ground lot is in the Lower Bazaar because it is marine lot 33. I suppose that Sinon Wo is the lessee's name. I do not think that Ma-chow Wong is the owner. I know he used to have the management. When this Sunon man (referred to in page 59) came and asked me about the increased rental of the lot, I knew that Ma-chow Wong had been connected with the Sinon Wo. I am sure that the land, so far as I have heard, did not belong to Ma-chow Wong. From what I have heard, Ma-chow Wong was the head of some committee of management; there were others.\n\nMr May's statement of the misunderstandings between us is correct. We have had no others. I do not consider Ma-chow Wong's conviction chiefly owing to the exertions of Mr May, but to the public mind and that of the jury being prejudiced against him by the local papers. Mr May did not, to my knowledge, apply for my reinstatement in Government employ. I did consider, and I am now more fully confident, that Mr May had a vindictive feeling towards me at the time of conducting the case of Ma-chow Wong connected with it. I do most decidedly deny the existence of any connection in any sense whatever, whether by blood, age, or adoption, between myself and Ma-chow Wong. I have particular reasons for not wishing to give my grounds for such belief on this occasion. As I have already stated in my evidence today, these reasons may form the subject of future complaints by me.\n\nWong is an inferior man, not an equal, and I consider this fact certain that nothing would give Mr May more pleasure than to see the situation of Registrar General become vacant for him by my dismissal, thereby making a villainous attempt to injure my reputation.\n\nThe very fact that the woman Awoon (who was not the wife of Ma-chow Wong, being some years younger than him) makes Inglis's statement of less value, because it is entirely according to Chinese usage or custom for a young woman to adopt a man older than herself as her son.\n\nAdjourned till Friday, the 16th, at 12 o'clock.\n\nTWENTY FOURth Day,\nFriday, 16th July, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members.\n\nHon. H. T. DAVIES,-Recalled at his own request to explain a part of his previous evidence.\n\nMr Caldwell is no doubt correct in stating that he did not procure the sureties for Ma-chow Wong; but when I said that I should require them, and that I would take their recognizances as soon as their validity had been ascertained, Mr Caldwell said \"they are here now,\" and pointed out some men. I asked him whether he guaranteed their validity, and upon his saying that he did, I took them at once.\n\nD. R. CALDWELL,-Cross-examination continued.\n\nI deny that any intercourse whatever has been kept up between any member of my family and Shaplok. She has been many times to my house to see me on business of different kinds, and as a matter of course, she has also seen Mrs Caldwell and spoken to her. I wish to state that when I married Mrs Caldwell, when she was converted, I threw off all Chinese connections. Shaplok came to me only on business matters officially. I suppose if she spoke to Mrs Caldwell...\n\nAfter the time of his apprehension and trial, I found Ma-chow Wong to be an honest man, and I believe that he always was an honest man up to his apprehension.\n\nWith regard to the case mentioned by Mr May in page 39, in which Ma-chow Wong is charged with resisting the Police, I refer the Commission to my letter to the Clerk of Councils dated 5th October, 1857. With regard to Mr May's statement in page 39, that a wealthy Chinaman came to him in secrecy and terror to complain of the manner in which petitions for Ma-chow Wong's pardon were got up; the rich Chinaman I believe to be Tam Achoy, and at my letter of 5th October last, I show why I think he had hostile feelings towards Ma-chow Wong. This I referred to at the time of Mr May's statement. The Commissioners must be mistaken in thinking that I said I would prove the petition in question related to another matter altogether.\n\nPang Wa-ping paid to the paymaster of the Rattler about $200 salvage for rescuing his boat, for which the Paymaster gave a receipt, I witnessing it. I saw Chinese documents belonging to Beaver after his apprehension at the Police Station. It was a kind of certificate from Chu Akwei, the Chief, but who styled himself a Rebel, showing that...\n\n(97)\n\n...had been in his employ, and mention was made there that Ma-chow Wong was closely connected with the Shanghae Rebels. I know that he went to Shanghae. I only know that Wong Kee was a man from Kongnam (Keanguan), I believe, to carry out the Rebel movements. I wish to state that the Wong Kee mentioned there was never intended for Ma-chow Wong. Both the characters were entirely different from his name; the Wong was different and the Kee also, and the fact of his being a Leangnan man made it the less likely. Ma-chow Wong was a Sun-on man.\n\nI do not know the man who accompanied Pang Wa-ping. I could make inquiry concerning him, but I am quite certain that Mr Wade may have gone by the sound, not knowing perhaps the characters of Ma-chow Wong's name.\n\nThis was a red paper folded, I think four times, similar to the paper on which petitions are written, but without the blue back to it. On casting my eyes over the document, this name Wong Kee made no impression on me at all, whereas had it been in the characters of Ma-chow Wong's name, I should certainly have been attracted to them. This was the only paper produced as found on Beaver which I saw.\n\nWith regard to the search of Assow's house, the anonymous letter was my only information that a musical box was stolen. I also knew that a man was in custody for stealing a barometer, which was referred to in the letter. Mrs Caldwell did not detain the messenger, and I took no steps to ascertain its author before acting upon it, as it was impossible to do so. I merely asked who brought it, and I was told it was a boy. I do not now know the author. I considered that, as a Justice of the Peace, and particularly...\n\nThe Master of the Masonic Lodge is elected. My predecessors have been gentlemen of unblemished character.\n\nWhile the lorcha Kee-loong-poo-on was in my name, I, as Registrar General, had authority to search the house. I employed her with European masters-Johnson and Ban-croft were the two-I let her out on charter.\n\nLai Szekai still collects the rents for Mrs Caldwell's sister under a lease which he has of the houses.\n\nI accompanied Mr Grand-Pré in searching the boats in one of which Po-pak-shing was; he was there on the spot, and was cognizant of the particulars himself. I was merely there to assist. I did not in any way direct Mr Grand-Pré; I acted as an Interpreter and explained all the matters to him, and examined the Registers and papers of the boats.\n\nI cannot say whether it was in answer to a question from myself, then sitting on the bench, that Mr Grand-Pré gave the answer which convinced the Magistrate as to the men's innocence. I found the Register and papers in order. I think the boat had a Chinese pass from the head of the Marine department at Canton.\n\nI was present with Mr Anstey, Mr Cluff, Mr May, Mr Brachan, and several others at the Debtor's Gaol-yard on the afternoon of the day on which Mr May apprehended the men on Bonham Strand. I was also up at the tread-mill yard on another occasion with Mr Cluff the morning I apprehended some 160 men, and on both these occasions, knowing the rapidity with which all information flies from the Police Court and the Police Station by the emissaries of the Interpreters and the Lokangs, I considered that I was only faithfully performing my public duty in hastening to the house to search for the article. I did not mean to say that I thought it not prudent to search Assow's house. I meant that I thought it useless, as the information would have got there before me.\n\nI know nothing about what Boggs says of the payment of mail by the pirates to Ma-chow Wong. I do not think it likely that pirates could have done so, because on occasions their fleets were attacked by our men. On my information received from Ma-chow Wong, I refer the Commission to mention made about in my letter of 5th October, 1857. I never heard that Ma-chow Wong was connected with the pirates.\n\nI don't recollect whether I wished Assow to interpret at Ma-chow Wong's trial. I have given him a certificate as Chinese and Malay Interpreter. I don't think I have given him one since Ma-chow Wong's trial. I consider honesty as necessary for an Interpreter. I considered him dishonest before his trial.",
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        "content_text": "# SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE\n\n## ARRIVALS\n\n### AT HONGKONG\n\n24, l'Oriental, Bergen, from Singapore, 10th July.\n24, Robert Henderson, Cubitt, from Macao, 24th July.\n24, Carmel, Fittock, from Port Phillip, 15th April.\n26, Tory Won, Air, Chaps, from Amoy and Sawtow, 23rd July.\n25, Wrathorn, Bruce, from London, 21st March.\n25, Eagle, Wills, from London, 5th April.\n26, Boreus, Jybaev, from Batavia, 3rd July.\n26, Str. Auckland, from Whampoa.\n\n## DEPARTURES\n\n### FROM HONGKONG\n\n24, Kimanglen, Muller, to Manila, 23rd.\n24, fileneathra, Yeo, to Foochow.\n25, plans, Chase, to Manila.\n16 Raped (Sam), Rodke, to Shanghai.\n\n## PASSENGERS\n\nPer Robert Henderson,—Mrs Cubitt, Der Pomnia,—37 Chinese.\nPer Str. Torymon,—Mr Meyor, Mr Sinclair and 6 Chinese.\nPer Cornwall,—257 Chinese.\n\n## KEPORTS\n\nSwatow, July—The E. van Dum lent her being towed off the banks, was allowed to drift on the rocks. She has therefore abandoned the voyage to Shanghae, putting her cargo into the Gramzidt, and going to Hongkong for repairs.\nThe E of Alur & Keilee has been taken up to load for Shanghae.\nThe Malabar, Marlight and Aniba were long overdue from the Straits.\n\n## BRITISH GUN BOATS ON THE RIVER\n\n## MERCHANT VESSELS—Continued\n\n| Gun | Name | Tonnage |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Forester |  |\n|  | Surfug |  |\n| 97 | Drake |  |\n|  | Wynjatt |  |\n|  | MERCHANT VESSELS—Continued |  |\n|  | Gun Name | Tonnage |\n|  | Colander |  |\n|  | sereaad Master |  |\n| 75 | Watchful | 40 |\n|  | Whitched | 40 |\n|  | Gapin |  |\n|  | Wan |  |\n|  | Vensl |  |\n|  | Hanover, barque |  |\n|  | De bere |  |\n|  | Baigneco |  |\n|  | Yout |  |\n|  | Western |  |\n|  | Gossgares |  |\n|  | Kork | 46 |\n|  | Tti Janus | 40 |\n|  | Blackford | » |\n|  | Arbur | 80 |\n|  | Swainso1) | 60 |\n|  | Philip |  |\n|  | Mangleng la |  |\n|  | Herman, barche |  |\n|  | Malabar, berque |  |\n|  | Papero, bilg |  |\n|  | Nelicht |  |\n|  | Kientzfeld |  |\n|  | Her |  |\n|  | Siemseen and ev. |  |\n|  | Siemen and ro. |  |\n|  | Moter |  |\n|  | sinussen and co. | British |\n| 60 | Perry |  |\n|  | Pauli | 60 |\n|  | Bicknell |  |\n|  | Ala, snip |  |\n|  | Villiers | 60 |\n|  | Melay |  |\n|  | Furtubise, allga |  |\n|  | Richte |  |\n|  | KTrusther |  |\n|  | Balfor | 40 |\n|  | (Wine |  |\n|  | General still, with inston |  |\n|  | Turner and en. |  |\n|  | Valley Maliomet | der |\n|  | Kimnidee, elp |  |\n|  | :Neau |  |\n|  | Ladin, que | 1.log da |\n|  | Marrabant, Shilp | LAS41 |\n|  | Federer, ship |  |\n|  | Fabr | patan, ship |\n|  | Storey |  |\n|  | Banhington Irving, Phi | Darrant Rirlwind, slings |\n|  | French, | Turner and en. |\n|  | Meicber and ca. | Order |\n|  | pina mud ro | Pirzpatrick |\n|  | . Bayd and co. | Turner and vo |\n|  | Spanish. | Gravina, brig |\n|  | Breathe | Advance, barque |\n|  | Hope, barque |  |\n|  | Ban Juan, hazque |  |\n|  | St George, ba: que |  |\n|  | Prisia Westphalen, har | \"efer |\n|  | Ferrera |  |\n|  | Fonseca and ca. | ordeira |\n|  | korder | Order |\n|  | L | Salaber |\n|  | F. 1.5me and co. | forder |\n|  | HRAZIT | W. Pa and co. |\n|  | jkdgell | Pardins, 11. & ca. |\n|  | Prussian, | Typhoon, the |\n|  | Veik | Wm. Puslan & co. |\n|  | igenrepe | Diedlo nud co |\n|  | Fub-show-fu | British Baltasara, barglio |\n|  | hemants | Nettreet Premer |\n|  | Fonseca and corp |  |\n|  | Rus and es. | Beneathra, sinj |\n|  | Jones Yeo |  |\n|  | Benkin, K. & eneneiictor, Lanqua | Prindsay and co. {uimelin, tarque |\n|  | Morning | SONAR |\n|  | des Javine..and co |  |\n|  | ins-eil and co | sley and co. ramjee and co |\n|  | Dent and 40. |  |\n\n## TRADING STEAM VESSELS\n\n### 18 CHINA WATAR 8.\n\nBritish Hongtons,--Hongkong, Iran Prince, Lady M. Word Rose and Singapore, - Local trade, Fei-ms, Sharweck, nod Sir Forbes,-f Mardo-Ann.\nWhampoa Formosa, Shang-hai and Princess Charlotte-Amey Route, Tory wan,Fulechow fu Boste, Manila, Shanghae Route Ader, Chusan, Liellespont, and Sectland, -In Shuaj An-Meier, ond Plat.\n\n## VESSELS AT HONGKONG, NAÇÃO AND WHAMPOA UNDER DESPATCH\n\n### For London\n\nNew Great Brian, M. Prizes.\nChristie, W. Spartan, M.\nWhis wind, M.\nFur Buntary.\nThe Sir Isaac Newton, from Cardiff to Hongkong, was spoken 5th June, Lat. 37. 30' Long, | W. Irving, M..\nThe hefty, from Card B to Bengkong, was Ei3than isth Taly, Lái Thử Long là 20.\nThe Courter, Tom Rangoon to Hongkong was spoken 9th July, Last. 8. 10' Long, 107, 55'.\n\n## SHIPS OF WAR AND TRANSPORTS\n\n### IN CHINA\n\nAlligator.\ngong Canton Satp.\nfor Calcula.\nMartsbon, M.\nFor Si-gazere,.\nJeannette, M.\nFor Manta.\nBeila Carmen, M.\nTimanden, W.\nTherese, 1.\nNorman Morrison, H.\nFor New York.\nFor San Francisco.\nEarly Bird, H.\nFrowning Beauty, H.\nPalmeno,.\nFor Australia.\nAmsterdam, M.\nCichone, i.\nFur Shanghe.\nAdvance, W.\nAria, V.\nGabales, H.\nMonster, H.\nNanny, H.\nProgress, H.\nWinged Racer, H.\n\n## SHIPPING\n\n### IN CHINA\n\nStaring, burq.\nBurchill.\nBuerkast and ea.\niligentia, ship.\nForter.\nDene and co.\nPencils 16M barque.\nInlin.\nCalcutta.\n¡Goff'choli! Ship.\nCatcili.\nCanton.\nCeccon Brig.\nHongkong.\nChel. St.\nMeleverty, P. C.\nitrlard.\n\n## MERCHANT VESSELS\n\n### Dutch Vessel\n\nCor.\nBabes Lemuri, ship.\nSebo Kitson, slúp.\nBritish.\nMazeppa, schooner.\nBuftua.\nJardine, M. &.\nHowsou.\nbeat and ex.\nneten.\nDent and co.\nDayrell, schooner.\nZayer, schooner.\nWinson.\nHeat and co.\nFitoper.\nPolter.\nPittock.\nVaucher Fra:01.\nJardine,.\n\n### American\n\nCianat, step.\ni ellars.\nAurkinand, bau.\nM Waterer, schoons.\ntrials, barque.\nTrooper.\nschaeffer and co.\nNelson king.\nrystal Paine, slip.\nShew.\nBitapose, alp.\nantit.\nLiday co.\nDora, alip.\nManka.\nJardine, M. & co.\nBritish.\nProming Heauty bar.\nwikon.\nNeave, it and co.\nAbbotsford, barque.\nlord Gitted, Ur.\nBroker, Cr.\nGabura, skip.\nHow.\nParser ander.\nBangkok, ship.\nGew of the.\nburg.\nwart.\nstemszes and co.\nGlendeagh, ship!.\n131 Dongal.\nMody and co.\nTuer.\nGlendower, sp.\nJarvis.\nlusson, Lt.\nacon, whip.\n1 Part.\noscil and eo.\nDader.\nManda Atheliogjahip.\nCoppell.\nNeuroa, hig.\nReynolds.\nPanza, bu.\njardlue, M. &ca.\njhug ardier and ca ing.\nKmith Brewin.\nRowman and to.\nNoma, atque.\nP&P Cania & calambang, barque.\nPrince Charlie, barque.\nPrend.\ntlehard Battersby barq.\nColmeen Family, ship.\nAghaeffer and coStornoway, ship.\nCurbell.\nHart.\norbett.\njander.\nFarments Castle, ship.\nprecis so.\nKing.\n!! nekat.\n| \nde, id co.\nLipale.\nPatan, ha que.\nHugera Thie.\n\n## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\nPage 236 \nPage 2521 \n... \nPage 214",
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        "content_text": "# Shan Are \n\nsitting himself against it, will produce min inflora fomen the Peareth 3 from the intera. suppear in my Für Justers of cams whose letters of dissent \"inferences \"of the Commission, Letter in of the 13 2 \" of the 30% WW? Azzar lation declared publicly and privately, theirp eve Not to sit on the Bench whilst desgraced by Ivor of vance of Mftz Coldwell the pr Cover the only official Justice who padar similar destacation. \n\n4 hours I shall not lo actu ist, for may resignation of the factiostip of the face, adelande. A c c plex Card Dine the 13th May, was finally A this night. 1958. On the odious charge of much of Ton of the 30' the Gorranor's Confidence for obeying this Commission, breathenry's torn Comm Ave own Chattinge of key veracity of \"Conorreation which Joy and be.\n\nThe impurations Exit upon my an: ab Ale your finir lõhewies pod no became pre But I proves that in ones instance, Stis Excellency qualifier there imputations with a kind of Conditionst reference to his memory, \n\n## \n\nthat, in 1851 % 7hr suoriully adrind the Sentaries of Itate, that\" to protect \"hime of \",\" and \"Comp Med by Experiences of my Informitive\" te had \"Confined Communica with me de written do conta this Covertoney's memory\" in this instans has decied tone. AlastoaSA Aly 71.0 ched the arrangement he mentions, nterse by busin: Go with Arvins ref. Throulot. Be Awns in but in writing has existed forrry nearly the periode described. \n\n57 But I am Borny to Day that it gras adopted at the requart, not of Itis Coraltenry, but of theer derstandings trans acting business with tone, mida. novating and mistaties. \n\nHis Creellen. ju mohuctions were velly Conse, The Calomit Sardi'y pretty frequent, postan 1/4 C of those persons i Mr. M.ca cor to remen'd the Gorrnner of the waxan it aras ccredens to in streert procre I have had to tho the Damn. H c A Mr. forgetting #ty. miner matters. imposaitte for to reste da z 30th July 1858 and s b. August 1858 And in \n\nThe Colonial Office, him 040 But these mi Ight, whilst I think of the principles invebook, the bad freesdent Established in before the acute people, in whose eyes, Soter Pottinger and Hap Wzorce thought, Arway. Pattinger the free and mothe institutions of Nor; tion, Stand on 1. 4.xy no a medal whereby to \"Jegen an sation of the Chinese Empor iss of. Fram the beginning of this Colony, theen visions have proved that once. Me not Exa bas, to 30. versted language applied to the Colonial Gur Herrnment by a formen Waretary of Giftate, \"Shirts in all men's destrile”, And the Scent of the Chimse miscetti prote filtr Taront, and tri 10/7 M. Major Caine, July 1817 to 27 team F courd by this local authorit -7 in the case of the Compradore of not, and his the pront Lice crnant Governor, Exactions of brities in the armr of his Homer, Could not Anor Witts a 6. d berlief in the rinse. officials. the Chinesis noe of this Community of the reperard Chaar had flom to and certainly ma Juppo, that to our that to our reputation jo afficiat. Minutes of Cannest of Liquor 1256. purity 78 \n\nPage 363 \n\nاسم vly ave indifferent as themarle کرد دید و برگ",
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        "content_text": "Oakley\n\nناشیریان\n\n146.\n\nCommercial\n\nAus? 5\n\nд\n\n4507 chung chung\n\nRECE\n\nEmigration\n\n257\n\n2 MAY Scrumcut offices, Victrix,\n\ngrernment\n\n1859.\n\n\"Dony Now 12th March, 1859.\n\nI have the honour to report that\n\nthe American Ships \"Red Rover\" and \"James Browne\" have received permission to clear, the former for Sydney and Melbourne and the\n\nlatter for San Francisco with Chinese free Emigrants, accompanied\n\nby a Chinese Doctor, the services\n\nof a Foreign Surgeon not being procurable.\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nSir Edward B. Lytton, M.P.,\n\n[...]\n\nMr.\n\n \n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "Sir John Bowring\n\n12 March, 1859.\n\nto\n\nThe Rt. Honble\n\nSir R. B. Lytton, Bt\n\nNo 46.\n\nReceived\n\nReporting\n\nclearance of\n\n\"Red Rover\" and \"James Browne\",\n\nthe Chinese Passenger Ships\n\nwith\n\na board\n\nof\n\nChinese\n\ncoolies\n\non\n\nboard\n\n2\n\n46\n\nLoy Kong Kong\n\n4507\n\nFor John Bowring\n\nMINUTE\n\nGranting\n\nEmigrants\n\n50\n\nMAY\n\nLoad Arnaran 9\n\nSh Flutter\n\nEut\n\n269\n\n19 May 1859\n\nShave & acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 46 of the 12th March reporting\n\nthat the American Ships \"Red Rover\" and \"James Browne\" had received permission to clear, the former for Melbourne and Sydney, the latter for\n\nSan Francisco, with Chinese emigrants\n\naccompanied by",
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        "content_text": "No. 28.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Despatch from His Excellency Rear Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., covering Captain COLVILE'S Report of a most successful Expedition against Pirates in the neighbourhood of Koolan, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th March, 1859.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nCalcutta, AT HONGKONG, 17th March, 1859.\n\nSIR,\n\nHaving received information that a number of Pirate Vessels had assembled near their old haunt at Coolan, I despatched Her Majesty's Ship Niger, and the Gun-boats Janus and Clown, on the 11th instant, in search of them, accompanied by Mr Caldwell, Registrar General, who, as usual, kindly volunteered his services.\n\nThe Squadron returned last night, and I do myself the honour of forwarding your Excellency Acting Captain Colvile's report of his proceedings, which will show the essential service rendered to the community at large, and the gallant manner in which Captain Colvile and the Officers and Men engaged, have succeeded in destroying a formidable force of Pirates.\n\nI beg to draw your Excellency's notice to the good service rendered by Mr Caldwell—an additional claim to the many already possessed by that zealous Officer.\n\nAs this is the last opportunity I shall have of addressing your Excellency on the subject of Piracy, I beg your Excellency will express to Mr Caldwell my high sense of the important services rendered by him on the numerous occasions he has volunteered to accompany Her Majesty's Ships on expeditions against Pirates, in which he has volunteered to share all the danger, without the inducements which animate Naval Officers to distinguish themselves.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, your Excellency's most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nM. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.\n\nHis Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., &c., &c., &c., Hongkong.\n\nH.M.S. Niger, HONGKONG, 16th March, 1859.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to lay before you the results of my late cruise after Pirates, and to congratulate your Excellency on the success of the undertaking.\n\nActing on information received at Macao, the whole of the 12th instant was spent in searching for a Fleet of Piratical Vessels cruising in the vicinity of the Tang Rocks, but failing to discover them, I weighed towards evening, and anchored late off Koolan, with the intention of visiting Tsoo-chong, under whose batteries a formidable Fleet of Piratical junks were known to be lying—the depredators of several valuable cargoes: an Owner and Master of two of the captured Junks acting as Pilots, under the able and effective assistance of Mr Caldwell, Registrar General.\n\nAccordingly, at 7 on the morning of the 13th, I proceeded with the Boats (as per margin*) in tow of the Gunboats Clown and Janus, and after a run of 14 miles came within sight of a large flotilla of heavily-armed Junks and Row-boats, hauled under the protection of what we subsequently discovered to be regular defences, consisting of a water Stockade, with a double ditch and high stockaded embankment, armed with 36 Guns, protecting the whole sea face and flanks of Tsoo Chong.\n\nDirecting Lieutenant Wells in the 10-oared Cutter to examine a suspicious Junk to windward, whilst the Janus overhauled two others to leeward, I took the remaining Boats directly in towards the central force of Junks, leaving the Clown to cover our movements, but with peremptory orders to fire only in case the Shore Batteries opened on the Boats.\n\nHowever, it soon became evident that the Enemy were prepared for a determined resistance, the Crews of the Junks joined the Villagers, who, with violent ejaculations and waving white Flags, on which the characters \"Hoong-kin-wong,\" (Triad King,) was prominent, invited us on, at the same time a heavy fire of Round and Grape opened on our advance.\n\nForming behind a knoll of land, insulated by 500 yards of shallow water from the left extreme of the Stockade, leaving the Pinnace to cover the landing, and much assisted by the very excellent shell practice of the Gunboats, the storming party dashed waist-deep into the Stockade, and receiving a fire of Grape entered the embrasures of an 8-gun Battery, bayonetting the defenders, who crowded the inner ditch and appeared paralysed by the vigour of our proceedings.\n\nAfter a short hand-to-hand encounter, they retired precipitately, and now was seen the extraordinary sight of 60 Blue Jackets and Marines chasing fully 500 armed Men, through brakes and narrow acclivities for nearly two miles in the rear of the works.\n\nIn this movement great numbers of the Enemy were killed, and it had the effect of turning the Sea-defences, thus rendered comparatively harmless.\n\nThe storming party were now joined by the men under Lieutenants Blake and Wells, who, by a judicious detour to the right, had materially assisted in the discomfiture of the Pirates.\n\nEvery House in the Town was a Magazine, in which large quantities of Arms and Munitions were stored. I consequently directed the Village to be burnt. Eight large piratical fighting Junks and eleven Fast-boats shared a similar fate, their Guns having previously been sunk in deep Water. The 36 Guns of the Land-defences were also destroyed. Considerable resistance was offered by two of the Junks; the Boats were repeatedly hulled.\n\nWhen I bring to your Excellency's notice the very large force of Men, consisting of at least Thirteen Hundred effectively armed, with a necessary perfect knowledge of locale, and the determination they evinced in opposing our landing, I cannot but feel astonished at our good fortune: not a casualty occurred, whereas the loss of the Enemy could not have been under a Hundred and Eighty Men.\n\nAfter communicating with a Mandarin Junk force just arrived from Macao, with the information that 7 Pirate Junks were at anchor off Lie-wan-moon, opposite Moto, the Boats returned to the Ship at Koolan.\n\nMarch 14. Having despatched the Niger to await my arrival at Macao, I proceeded with the whole Boat Force to examine the numerous creeks to the west of Broadway en route to Lie-wan-moon.\n\nIn Ly-kee, a Bay opposite Koo-lan, four piratical Junks, with Guns, numerically formidable, were driven on Shore and burnt by Lieutenant Villiers. In the largest, an English red Ensign was found.\n\nIn a deep inlet to the North of Louchow, three others were captured and destroyed.\n\n*Galley—Acting-Captain Colvile.\n\nPinnace, Lieutenant Blake, Mr Laurenson, Mr Pearce, Mr Markham, and Mr Buck.\n\n1st Cutter,—Mr Price, Midshipman.\n\n2d Cutter, Mr Smyth,\n\ndo.\n\n3d Cutter, Mr Wells, Mr Potter, and Mr Wesley; subsequently to the destruction of Tsoo-Choong, Lieutenant Villiers...",
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        "content_text": "SZE\n\n353\n\n(54)\n\nthey are referred to the present Attorney General for his opinion. The application in the Ma-chow Wong case was referred to the Chief Justice, and Acting Attorney General.\n\nI\n\nThe report of the Chief Justice is certainly not conclusive. I can only speak of three or four cases of pardon, and certainly in two of these, it was in opposition to the Chief Justice: one of the two, which I remember at the present moment, was a case of mitigation.\n\nown.\n\nI lodged him at the Police Station; he was called upon to find bail, committed in default, and subsequently discharged. He had been in Gaol several times before, and was known as a thief. That is the only case in which I know of Ma-chow Wong giving information since he has been in prison. As far as I know of the case, Ma-chow Wong did not give any information relative to the supposed murder of a witness in the treason case; it was given by two or three political prisoners who were detained. Mr Inglis can state the names of the informants. I recollect\n\nI have not seen any documents which would enable me to speak with certainty concerning Mr Caldwell's express-mentioning this fact to Mr May, that these political prisoners had made such offer, if such information would conduce to the granting of their pardon. As to the question whether if, but for the article in the China Mail, it is probable the pardon of Ma-chow Wong would have been granted, it is impossible for me to give an answer; I never could have made up my own mind to have voted for Ma-chow Wong's pardon, and yet I was convinced there was no evidence to justify his conviction. Before he was apprehended upon charges upon which he was tried, I had myself urged the Governor to deport Ma-chow Wong, on information I had received from Macao, and I give that as my reason for stating, that I could not have voted for his pardon. Mr May was not called upon to give information to the Council touching Ma-chow Wong and his pardon, before the appearance of this article in the China Mail. I was not aware that Mr May had taken great interest in collating evidence against Ma-chow Wong; but I was aware that he had taken interest in getting up the case. I cannot account for Beaver's discharge, as there was evidence against him of confederation with pirates in the papers found on him, beyond this, that I was told that the case had broken down, and he was discharged by the Magistrate. To the best of my belief I was not present at Beaver's examination. I cannot tell whether the documents found on Beaver were adduced in evidence against him at the Police Court. I have no remembrance of presiding at an examination of Beaver in the Gaol, nor do I recollect ever having seen him.\n\nOn the 27th of May I went to Macao. I was there ten days, and the communication was verbally given me by the Governor of Macao, as near as I can say on the 4th June, when instructions were given Mr Caldwell to apprehend Beaver. I cannot say whether it was known Beaver had been in the employ of Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong. I now know that whether I knew it at that time. I remember on one occasion being present in the Gaol with Mr Inglis and Mr Caldwell, and some examination taking place, with reference to a ship's Comprador. I think the man Pan Poi-yeen, the writer of the petition upon which the Comprador was arrested, was examined in the Gaol by Mr Caldwell and Mr Inglis. When I wanted an interpreter, Mr Inglis who had given me the original information said he was not quite certain of his Chinese. I sent for Mr Caldwell to interpret for me. Mr Caldwell was certainly not the medium through which I got the information, and I do not think information from the Gaol inmates originated with Mr Caldwell. Had I been able to speak Chinese, Mr Caldwell would not have been applied to on this occasion.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL,-Recalled at his own request to make a further statement.\n\nI wish to be recalled for the purpose of performing an act of justice to Mr May, Dr Bridges in his evidence to-day has declared, that throughout the case of Ma-chow Wong, and I think he said generally, he had observed Mr May has been influenced to activity against Mr Caldwell, by bitter feelings and party spirit; and yesterday Mr Caldwell, I think came up with Mr Day, and had an interview I think with the Governor on the subject of Ma-chow Wong's release; then Mr Caldwell afterwards presented a petition from the Chinese. He spoke to me several times on the subject, and I fancy, but am not quite certain, that he was called in at some meeting of the Executive Council. I think those were all the overt acts of Mr Caldwell in the matter. I do not remember what remarks I made to Mr May when he brought the information concerning Ma-chow Wong on the 18th July, 1857. I remember seeing some papers about it, but what I said or did I do not know. I intimated to Mr May somewhere about the beginning of the case, that it would be better he should not sit in the investigation. I think that Mr May's statement of what took place on the 18th July, when he brought me the information, is correct.\n\nI did not arrive at the opinion that Mr May was a partizan at that time. I had the opinion all throughout.\n\nI know that Ma-chow Wong since his conviction has given information.\n\nI lost a gold watch, and Mr Inglis informed me he had got a clue to the theft of the watch, and I think his information came through Ma-chow Wong. The man was apprehended by myself, being pointed out by a coolie of my own.\n\nwithout naming the person alluded to, said he attributed all these proceedings to vindictiveness. As I am aware that Mr Caldwell has elsewhere stated, that he considers Mr May is at the bottom of the whole proceedings, I suppose he meant Mr May yesterday. I beg to declare most solemnly, that Mr May had nothing whatever to do directly or indirectly with any one of the inquiries which lasted nearly two years, and resulted in my letter of 8th July 1857, urging and demanding of this reluctant Government, Ma-chow Wong, which led first to the prosecution of the latter and now to the inquiry, which the present Commission is carrying on. I have named my informants from the Governor down to Mr Dixson, and Mr May, I solemnly declare, was not one of them. So far from it, I always inferred from Mr May's guarded and cautious way of speaking on the subject of Police abuses, that he was a friend and even a partizan of Mr Caldwell's, and therefore unwilling to give evidence; and the first moment of my forming a suspicion to the contrary, was on the 8th July, 1857, when I was putting the last hand to my report of that date, now before the Commission; it was in the Supreme Court.\n\n(55)\n\nhad left a blank for that portion of it. Mr May was present as Acting Sheriff. Far from imagining that he was willing to help me, I expostulated with him, thus--\"Good God, Mr May, you cannot defend this abominable connection between Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong; you cannot expect me to go on finding bills for mock piracies on the evidence of the wretches whom you bring before this Court as Crown witnesses. You have heard the speech of Eli Boggs. Can any Government stand against such infamy and disgrace, and you have seen the demeanour of Mr Caldwell who heard that speech and shrunk under it.\" To my astonishment Mr May replied, \"I have never had but one opinion about Mr Caldwell, Ma-chow Wong, Eli Boggs, or the connection; but I am nobody, and have no power.\" It was then I asked his permission to refer to him in the report, as one who would speak if called upon. He said \"yes,\" and advised me also to refer to Mr Inglis, who knew a great deal also. I did so. The prime mover in all these inquiries is I, myself, and I have named those who have instigated me to become such. Mr May was but one of my witnesses, and as the Commission will see, by no means a ready one.\n\nCHARLES MAY,-Recalled.\n\nI was told by Mr Inglis, that there was an intrigue within the Gaol walls to give an apparent cause for the pardon of Ma-chow Wong, and that he, Mr Inglis, opposed himself to the intrigue. I do know that parties of police went to Stanley on the information derived from the Gaol, that military at Stanley were called out to assist the police, and that very many houses at Stanley were searched at dead of night. One of the cases then occurred in which police acted without any order from me, or knowledge of the mode in which they were acting, or directions as to how they were to act, which resulted in the apprehension of two or three men on a charge of murder, which case broke down at the Police Court. The last scene of the farce was the apprehension of some of the informants for apprehending two men on the charge of murder, and then attempting to extort money from them; that case was, I think, decided by the Chief Magistrate. My firm conviction is, that no murder was ever committed of the man in question. I heard from the Governor of the Gaol, that Mr Caldwell has had several interviews with Ma-chow Wong, subsequent to his conviction at the Supreme Court.\n\nBy reference to my previous evidence, and my letter of 20th July, 1857, it will be seen I have spoken, and then written, of a connection existing between the gold dust robberies, Pang Poi-yeen being one and Ma-chow Wong; I have heard the Attorney General's statement and concur with it. Until addressed by the Attorney General I never expressed any opinion to the Attorney General, or to any high Government Officer, on the subject of the impropriety of the intimacy between Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong. It will be observed by my evidence, that I was in no way a participator in this intimacy, and that I always exhibited my sense of the impropriety of the acquaintance, and full intent of bringing Ma-chow Wong to justice when I had opportunity.\n\nShortly after resuming my office of Superintendent of Police, in January 1858, a Chinaman presented himself to my office late one afternoon, and said that he wanted police to go to Stanley to apprehend some men on suspicion of murder of a Chinaman, whose name I knew and whom I knew to have been the principal witness in the Stanley treason case. I questioned the man, ascertained that he had no knowledge but from hearsay, and told him to bring any person to me who could give information of the act, and measures should be taken. The next day on seeing the Colonial Secretary at Government Office, the Colonial Secretary said, \"You go to Mr Inglis at the Gaol, he will give you some important information on the Stanley murder case,\" and informed me they had taken three men on the charge of murder. I said \"No men have been apprehended, but I will go to Mr Inglis.\" I did so, and Mr Inglis said, \"I am quite certain that three men have been apprehended because a Chinaman who has been employed in the matter, states that he saw the three men in custody at Stanley last night.\" We had some further conversation in which he mentioned that two Chinamen then in the Gaol, under Ordinance 2 of 1857, supposed to have been connected with the treason case, had caused this information to be given, upon which the Acting Colonial Secretary and police had been previously acting, but strangely that they wanted to mix Ma-chow Wong up with the matter, and hoist him out of Gaol on the credit of his information.\n\nI judged from what Mr Inglis told me...",
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        "content_text": "Page 364\n\n(76)\n\nProceedings of 8th July continued. JOHN ROBERTS, Deputy Inspector of Police and Deputy Inspector of Markets,—Called and examined.\n\nI recollect the apprehension of a man who was charged with stealing a watch from Mr Lapraik. I was examined in the gaol upon a subsequent charge of piracy against the same man.\n\nThe mode in which the remuneration was to be distributed was agreed on by Mr Caldwell, Mr Randall, myself, and Mr Heaton the second engineer. A certain portion went to the ship, coal, wear and tear, &c., a portion to the crew, and a portion to the Captain, Engineers, and officers.\n\nThe Elders of the village came on board and made an arrangement with Mr Caldwell for the payment of a sum of money if we could catch these desperadoes, but I do not know the amount.\n\nI was examined in the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr Caldwell, Mr Inglis, and a Chinese prisoner named Kwan Chun-hee. From circumstances, I imagined this man was accused from dislike between him and the second Engineer and the Captain. When Roberts and Lyons asked me these questions, they did not tell me they should want me to give evidence. When I came here yesterday, Roberts told me he had written down what I had said. I told him I thought it very curious, and that if I had known that, I should not have said anything.\n\nWhen the boat went off with Mr Caldwell, I saw the men wading in the mud and trying to get on shore. The vessel was so far off that I could not see whether they landed or not; they may have done so; there was continually firing in the direction of the villages, and great numbers of people on shore. The steamer was about a mile and a half from the shore.\n\nRe-examined,—During the time in which I was employed on board the Eaglet we never made any prisoners. In the Kulan affair there was loss of life sustained—five of the Rattler's and six or eight of the Powhattan's men were killed, besides other casualties.\n\nThe information that the junks captured at St John's were pirates was obtained from a fleet of two or three hundred junks which we met on our way to Mamee. We were going to Nowchow for a convoy and fell in with this fleet. We hailed them, and asked if they had seen the fleet we were about to convoy. They told us that the pirates had gone ahead, and we then ran into Mamee, where I think we got information that the pirates had proceeded farther up. The Captain and Pilot were on the paddle-box, and they had the conversation with these junks.\n\nThere was a rumour that the steamer was to receive $5,000 for the Swatow affair if the villages had been taken. The Eaglet's Comprador lived on board the ship, and went with us in the cruises. When in harbour he went ashore and brought off with him provisions as required. I do not know his name, or that any person living on shore acted as Ship's Comprador. I do not know by name Szekai.\n\nI once prosecuted a servant of mine called Ahing who was in the steamer; and I remember a gunner, Roderick, a Portuguese, who, after he quitted the vessel, was indicted for a larceny but acquitted; but I have no recollection of any other person whom I have seen on board the Eaglet having been brought up for any offence. I have no recollection of seeing any one wearing spectacles coming on board except as a passenger. I have seen Passengers wearing spectacles.\n\nI never received any other sum than the $55 either as prize-money or remuneration for extra or dangerous service.\n\n[Lai Sze-kai shown to witness.] This was the comprador of the steamer, and used to accompany us in all our voyages.\n\nMa-chow Wong and Kwan Chun-hee and this man. When I was examined there was a paper shown to me, and I was asked if I had ever seen the paper before. The answer I gave was that I had seen the paper before, that it was written by a friend of mine about a year before; it was relating to the sale of a lorcha.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then remarked that the prisoner had that paper in his possession, and had given it to Kwan Chun-hee, of the lorcha. The Acting Colonial Secretary then went on to say that the paper had been given by this prisoner to Kwan Chun-hee within the last few days in Gaol, and that Kwan Chun-hee had given it up to accuse the prisoner about the searching of the prisoner at the Station, and I said I thought it was impossible he could have been locked up, without any paper which he might have had on his body being found.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary asked me if I had ever seen the prisoner before his arrest. I told him I had seen him one time previously, when he was making a charge in the Central Police Station. He then asked me if I could recognise a man named Yik-foo, if I saw him. He then asked me if the prisoner was not Yik-foo, and I said that he was not.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then sent me round the body of the Gaol to take another look. I returned, and told him I was well assured the prisoner was not Yik-foo. Mr Caldwell then asked me, as the prisoner was sick at the time, could his sickness not have altered him, so that I could not recognise him. I assured him he was not Yik-foo, upon which I was dismissed.\n\nA short time afterwards I met the Acting Colonial Secretary at the Central Police Station, and in speaking to him I remarked that I had been told by one of the European prisoners, that the paper had been in Gaol since the conviction of Kwan Chun-hee.\n\nI then told him that Kwan Chun-hee had already brought a charge against Tong Akü which had been proved false. The charge against Tong Aku was after the sessions at which Ma-chow Wong had been convicted. Dr Bridges said that he would see into the matter, that he would inquire amongst the prisoners in the Gaol, and ascertain whether it was as I said with reference to the paper.\n\nI again saw the Acting Colonial Secretary up in the Police Court, when he told me that what I said was correct, and that he was convinced the paper had been in gaol all the time.\n\nI remember the apprehension of Beaver; he was apprehended and brought to the Police Station by Mr Caldwell. I was present when he brought him there. I searched him, and found on him pieces of red paper, eight or nine inches long, with Chinese characters, which were interpreted to me by one of the Chinese in the station named Ahee.\n\nIt was to the effect, that Beaver was an American, a very good man, and had been some time in his employ; I don't know whether the interpretation I put upon the paper or not. I kept it for a day or two. When he was examined at the Police Court, the paper was produced by me before Mr Mitchell. I cannot recollect whether it was interpreted in Court. I recollect perfectly telling Mr Mitchell what the effect of it was.\n\nIn a day or two after Beaver was remanded, I was sent for by the Acting Colonial Secretary. At about 6 o'clock in the morning I went to the Acting Colonial Secretary's house. He commenced asking me, as licensing day was coming on, about the character of the different Public-house keepers.\n\nAfter that was finished I told him about this man Beaver, and a case of piracy which I had known, and which had occurred in the previous January. I told him about a gun being purchased from the lorcha, also that the money had not been paid, and that an order had been given, I was under the impression to Ma-chow Wong.\n\nThe pirate who took the lorcha was Chu-kwai, and he had an European with him. The Acting Colonial Secretary said he would like very much to see the order; it was for $80.\n\nThe lorcha came in two days afterwards. I boarded her as she came to an anchor about half-past four or five in the morning. I took the Captain of the lorcha, and Achong, the Chinese owner, up to Dr Bridges's house about 7 o'clock, and they produced a paper which they said was the one to which I alluded.\n\nIt was only an acknowledgment of having taken a gun worth $70, which they intended to pay for. There was no order on any particular house. The paper was then sent together with the first paper found on Beaver's person to Mr Wade to be translated; and the Acting Colonial Secretary told me that as Mr Caldwell had already a charge for confederation with pirates against Beaver, I had better send my witnesses down to him.\n\nThe witnesses were first sent down to Mr Caldwell, and then went before the Magistrate. After the paper was translated, it was returned to me by Mr Grand-Pié, and after getting it I went before the Magistrate again, with the witnesses, and the paper was again produced before the Assistant Magistrate Mr Mitchell.\n\nI do not know whether it was interpreted to him at that time. The examination lasted over a space of three weeks, and the paper was taken there every day for examination. The witnesses failed to identify Beaver, and he was sentenced to find security for three months, or quit the colony; he quitted the colony.\n\nThis paper was never to my knowledge in Mr Caldwell's possession. He saw it, but I don't know that he read it at the Police Court. After the investigation was over, Beaver asked for his papers, but Mr Mitchell said that they were to be retained.\n\nThe last time I saw the paper was at the Magistracy, when he was committed to the Gaol upon not being able to find security. I have not seen it since. I have looked over the papers in the Magistracy, and that document is not attached to the case.\n\nBeaver told me that he had been in the employ of Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong on board a lorcha. If I had not been told, I should not have taken my witnesses to Mr Caldwell, on account of Beaver having been in Ma-chow Wong's employ before.\n\nI told Mr May about the paper while the trial was going on. I know from reference to my chart, that Luy-chow near Hainan is from 8 to 10 miles from the mouth of a river. It stands a little way back from the shore. I have been past, but never in it.\n\n[Read Lyons' evidence concerning his visit to the Gaol to inquire about Beaver and the paper, and Beaver's conversation with himself.]\n\nI agree with nearly every portion of it. Beaver himself told me that he was with Akwai. I was at Boggs's trial, and saw the paper produced. I do not know what was done with it.\n\nI had seen the paper at the Police Station, and knew that Boggs was going to produce it. I believe the paper was in a tin box which he had. It was given into the hands of the Constable, and carried to the Supreme Court in the usual way.\n\nI read it, and recollect it saying something about Ma-chow Wong, the brother or brother-in-law of Mr Caldwell, being a good man, and recommending him. I have an idea it said something about provisions.\n\nI do not know whether the paper was produced at the Police Court. I thought the paper was in Mr Caldwell's handwriting, but am not certain of it. I do not recollect his signature being to it; it might have been.\n\nCan swear to Mr Caldwell's handwriting now, but could not then. Boggs told me the paper was from Mr Caldwell, and told me to take care of it as he would produce it on his defence.\n\nI do not know what connection ever existed between Mr Caldwell and Boggs, further than that Boggs was in Akwai's lorcha, which was said to be connected with Ma-chow Wong.\n\nI heard the evidence of Randoll and Stone, and do not agree in their version of our conversation. Mr Randoll told me that $5,000 was the first agreement, and that $12,000 was subsequently paid for the bombardment of the village.\n\nRandall said nothing about the pirates taking any boats from Ma-mee. The pirates were captured and taken into Ma-mee. He then told me that he was very much disappointed in not being able to capture the junk which was loaded with opium.\n\nI asked him how he knew she was a pirate. He said, \"they did not care what the devil she was, so that she had the opium on board.\" Randall did tell me that they got $12,000 for bombarding the village at Swatow, and made use of the word squeeze with reference to it.\n\nHe said his share was $500, and the Engineer's $250. I knew that Mr Caldwell was master of the Eaglet and know nothing of her cruises except that she convoyed. I never saw her out at sea.\n\nAt one time I was in her neighbourhood, and saw part of her convoy. I was then going to Hoihow on the West Coast, and was told it was part of her convoy, but did not see the steamer.\n\nI do not know whom she was owned by.\n\nMANOEL DA SILVA, Sergeant in the Water Police,—Called and examined.\n\nI remember the apprehension of Po-Pak-Shing on a charge of piracy. I had his boats and family in custody, and believe they, the boat and family, were connected...\n\n(77)\n\nPage 365",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Menimle\n\n-given leg Acc. (to day that the requinte intran to the Goona shall be tomorrow's Mail. Vauté acc at once (this is important) tom Moha\n\nAmmediate Entered $6. & Hammond #NUTE BTElliot Lerkiarnarvon NerdBlaston 859 Merivale q W. We Esq Sei 9 Mar 459 166\n\nI am directed by Sary Sir B B Lytton Jour д Fair copy within for dag. to ach letter of the Instant and to state that, in compliance with the Earl of Malmesbury, wishes directions. will be given to the Gover of Sony Kany to instruct the Colonial Auditor to make the issues for of momis the bousuter\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response to fit the required format (HTML using  for paragraphs), and adhering to the rules for OCR proofreading:\n\nMr. Menimle\n\n-given leg Acc. (to day that the requinte intran to the Goona shall be tomorrow's Mail. Vauté acc at once (this is important) tom Moha\n\nImmediate Entered $6. & Hammond #NOTE BTElliot Lerk(iarnarvon?) N[ord] Blaston 859 Merivale q W. We Esq Sei 9 Mar 459 166\n\nI am directed by S[ir] Sir B B Lytton Jour ... Fair copy within for dag. to acknowledge letter of the Instant and to state that, in compliance with the Earl of Malmesbury's wishes, directions will be given to the Governor of Hong Kong to instruct the Colonial Auditor to make the issues for payment of monies to the bousuter...\n\nLet's correct and simplify it according to the rules:\n\nMr. Menimle\n\n-given leg Acc. (to say that the requisite intimation to the Goona shall be tomorrow's Mail. Vauté acc at once (this is important) tom Moha\n\nImmediate Entered $6. & Hammond #NOTE BTElliot Lord Carnarvon(?) N[ord] Blaston 859 Merivale q W. We Esq Sei 9 Mar 459 166\n\nI am directed by Sir B B Lytton Jour ... Fair copy within for dispatch to acknowledge letter of the Instant and to state that, in compliance with the Earl of Malmesbury's wishes, directions will be given to the Governor of Hong Kong to instruct the Colonial Auditor to make the issues for payment of monies to the treasurer...\n\nRevised to fit the exact requirements and improve readability:\n\nMr. Menimle\n\n-given leg Acc. (to say that the requisite intimation to the Governor shall be tomorrow's Mail. Vauté acc at once (this is important) to Moha\n\nImmediate Entered $6. & Hammond #NOTE BTElliot Lord Carnarvon N Blaston 859 Merivale q W. We Esq Sei 9 Mar 459 166\n\nI am directed by Sir B B Lytton ... Fair copy within for dispatch to acknowledge letter of the instant and to state that, in compliance with the Earl of Malmesbury's wishes, directions will be given to the Governor of Hong Kong to instruct the Colonial Auditor to make the issues for payment of monies to the treasurer\n\nHere is the final version in HTML format as requested:\n\nMr. Menimle\n\n-given leg Acc. (to say that the requisite intimation to the Governor shall be tomorrow's Mail. Vauté acc at once (this is important) to Moha\n\nImmediate Entered $6. & Hammond #NOTE BTElliot Lord Carnarvon N Blaston 859 Merivale q W. We Esq Sei 9 Mar 459 166\n\nI am directed by Sir B B Lytton ... Fair copy within for dispatch to acknowledge letter of the instant and to state that, in compliance with the Earl of Malmesbury's wishes, directions will be given to the Governor of Hong Kong to instruct the Colonial Auditor to make the issues for payment of monies to the treasurer",
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        "content_text": "ESS\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE AND NORTHERN COUNTIES ADVERTISER, JUNE 25, 1859.\n\nCallwell for his sucenda cbr si ku\n\nTlus\n\nsery Betro and a very indies direction was giben to Tay Filati and Clines, in every part of this clogy and the and lathe ca le game complete em 16 happened rideanly under the time is wan movement forming is that they were about to prossud-on province, which Loval Elgin, at willow was, at teplo\n\nthat Mr. Davis, the Govermens printer, who is tho pro earplugin diétly of arrangement that race o coafated to me to effect any period by the position of affis m pinions by those who must to bato Lucy bettoni Clima nets, that Stone Thin si formar Mahebos Wong In the heat setupon I ftowed their dircase, Rod 1 ceased fole solated way way with My Caldar. pr bay of all, but acted with erent tas made Hoes it a rate the deceatens of the Executirs Council, led quietly and won that treaty of peace which he has rectly\n\nor with the Hong Kong putice: 1 zece monded tomto prema, ected thỏ China Mark watch out, but not to Chin te written on pops of 7 eur, tamparately, list I would be very happy to attaul the Ryecond with China--1 Buy it apours to be not ply Bonn fernd, what will cal by the militar term\n\nDamer the Feng Kong Govt tiszts, heard ally rest, and the rod po del doblard' tras sutive Council whenever ont laid upon the Queen's previointion of that treaty, bat a violate of the p poble, deir riske, and I reported to Gem and apply to two pes of big authority is that of a\n\nwith any clut priests war in piracy, Sir, Andry Tui is wherever the auilt as it was sat in a porta Gercent coner. I forged chai to the. Specibody dline TheRD RET, we bag made to er en Cum 21 of all the no person che serpent\n\nxecutive, a repartol in the recently teavad China hours periment. I pushed my inquiries furter, best, it was a Puties, who had been 3 year in a dy, and he Wide, part, a thirds. Mr. C til 1 had been the colony about a year and fed that magistrate, 291 tl korubarist ler Blojek:yol, Ar Mr. Caldwe. tr. U the \"onsel for #1 pol. ) widet. that. It lirat Cell: ano die atramentis le lle [ from an all-ce of lam kipe willwal heing tre\n\nConnell, however, proasted my lace and without giving pera, the turks by Saglish vowele në wa un village va the real state of the case bow and, but 30, a purte: acl & auf: er, at du head of youto! Umi. Mr. Calendars it at the yangperty of being rist Preng the gross in f\n\nhsburs, on the plesat they had earlcared pices Triviy de hocen to me by the fovercrant printer of 2 let this goal of how Wong depend on the report remember chest as you we who Dr. Bridges was er 1,000 Gollers raiving to and therrunt 50 dus een which they were proceeding, di suport\n\nwhich ore pentlemen, when called opon, ali ratke to barciales, ut, as he calls huself, a legal pencationer feat. Coldwellers and items which reqmen, with a the line pod nadering complnews\n\nHac plutter money aget of ir. Caldwell-tas ufficere Kong, all Covernment officer, whu permitted ans le\n\ncod vessels ringte c his name, wao hat piren tidetres of something 26 tim you. This document anting bera land bucre the Caldwell untie the functions: attracy and brister, and culting less crevicted bobow Wang of pirney and of being appendel, was fed l huew of the\n\n\"\"\"\"The misunsorted catury of Colwell toffees, and who I believe is at tila murent Sau Compilation to the subject to the then vry indiferently wells practitioner, in fat, called engaged in the den Trade,\" \"online! This trade maltet. But, gertlemen, there was netuin which ne\n\nwas hail chwired with compliory with praus Old Daney practiones; and his practice lay shot the salve trades every effort made by Sir Je pred the course of the equity, and which has led simme land; artiny his not la Hong Kong. Tee of opinia Hong Kong papers and allowed to be perated by any\n\nms is out these proceedings blr. Caldwell was the dups of stranger who is have the carically to read it. Iture Chise, abest cutirely, and he was greatly indebted to Mr. Bring to shark any faded millise read eile verr subscrit and indepent quiries befinnestesion the curble genting\n\nbelove luve answared the cations which can ge labelu Wang, that he was rulla scecmplici--his will format 18 a dreamed to longer peizeted by f leg and renneita ascota plice, objectcà dílication which estes, but pulslsked by stance of her Majesty Hóux Koaɛgen; fema watsentations among that body. This doesmeat when fails thaioninate pleinls warga duty Iribunes of quite soother falion Lann a parko Camisin\n\ntrous Lavalon 10 answer. I lepe I have decu suflies dated to All the oflice of Con is is és clear the onia elips and the migrat sipeof Hong Kong icials appointed by a dishonest man. 1 Hy\n\namie Ant in lieu de not what Goschent. They dI makerelerence withose two kentk chlor, and Neting Cokersin! Aureurs 3 bed of rik: the Cene siger cut to whether it is in the course of this savastiguin Liga ti Set time for one your that I have aldened ajab 20 prevented me from coming to lie same siomablá consis\n\nEurope, he retailing the besty the labour contracts in Culan ve réxionable or they age of the tuiszton in theit repor- that previous :0 in, king in and statements as true, and he smitted to, 22 (Dave wagertenice dil return their reports and the Celudis Secheterg the difficulter id exist, and tho ba latterly bemorijay went tur begantu 'he points as wel: I la ramended at 1vano Came of polenta piemetine dating as while of the\n\nsiginta melni y la givere, engin of jingle, the sugoistens of the Camicies, sortsin papers comunes steady no que fully salarised, that when bow instider. trouble with doubts. 1 lien auk apan my the depth overnacht to them. They armed my state perind of his trunce et odice. Chargenti, every Chamwig te taky is overall, a tota aurten with 3\n\nWerg's frin, and which might be but 20derstood, that any gardians yo\n\nsolicita farlor infamathai vil, siguity his wear to c man tho give tim b's versiout had che right to conzerve, ce state of the Colica where it to be stupreetervslus to the Countiesien, lost be dotzegel it find trap- ot trans the plate hume, of speaking of Marlow Wegretta tus com the fast of Mchoho, and they in 2nd Di baling is conviction, but try antepriri culpated very procedony Mr.Childwell. odorandut bich End did sure, that is zeliter had both innuente: iseczunder the\n\nof Corps from Cibo to ong Kong bow toket moest kept the act ever contiment. -\n\npire, but the Ceramic forgot to say 18ct the G-fly it wil eeply with. Br. Asey\n\nsmuted dea seat assist Loud appren50. clerance obtain infertilen veto woke on the cape rock of which, diy had harkeen on citythone wid hato zatit, ClineRoy Government. Tola gelen placed me t\n\nStr. Chawalay salt only remained now the he It has been swurn to the chief, M. Levis the bent of the 'wament te blanche perdon of 3aadow plure. Then there is also number of entries relating some pele. It was iftowards wam to by kir 1 hare before spoke, hauling of the Chine\n\ngunpowder, cufim balls mushais, silk peta, everly, Mr. Dixies, others, in flea kuotave the alterom whics hail for Rive vidence against the gres! Jannthon Wild of England USB come the Cowlingly, herwarde #gured enz. Mr. the bed shon this the evilred a little purchases\n\nagainst Tarrant,” and why were piressaar as Lisé Goundli Bjørð, pap by wit'wet lukorg op ee were in their junes ko\n\nhave that statetent jár before Parliamecut. (Applause.) To me in wel: dolezas witute in the Folies Curt is the \"Cura plustering to the past tween Mulicho Wong is all of tens of war thire se reference call\n\nBevel us Tarrant, by then Clankins of the Comics, terms, and air. Caldwell, and, steve, ilere upprated the uskus tunccties with the Saudiar with ag solenyalur the depare cok place, that Air Joh. Bowring and 1. I reduced his pene in writing in the orthography of t Chicos printing, and 1 kept it on the wall before my desk who was 'cient duly a wine at the Police Chart pater a ser elaborate article September, 1857, & unicat, sie which tice, unter I read Beiges noth awe 10 te consail then on the table one to bem chuqur of a tition by Alt Aut\n\nakutsent in Calia, in which of Manche Wu's he hates, world bat underētur This but an index under and guix on the 14th, reler to lure Aide, statement, a petition to be saloptert to the Queen, Landa, Ban Dat also al tipo ili te pra Chert in the and day from the perind my fras receving e fertation down to the day when the Serenowende of caus They desired walk was pridwally crimes were eatmerated and it was adeffus is to be for the prose of tabling the great to see the\n\nand to cry one of the books and papers as existing denominona, foliowa:-- Whold of the pirater boolé àvul phitest. It ja vakit valuable, nculpated by the reports 'bent in by those ta reperierend pardoned for title that this with ke guilt of many aller\n\nes dy sick that notedy 14 av hea soppra but a Navester, JR, \"Police called upon the, and coke You have cried your\n\nés paid offices, ut lite sails or Tiger nature, po bioause there boil un puhe, a have now been destroyed by\n\nlam ny big which feil fron D. Bulgea or frran Si: Jake at Wil Tarrat, publishes of the Long Kong pois as a ave arrested the sedel, and liavoces, and that hardins erment an oath, Pain\n\npill the end of Chin, was in the 'the' hårda\" of the Hung Kane Covergent, this meinenze\n\nBlock Cum by Liu Govername of t that. Quo him to study on two charges of piracy, Applause). I sony to it by Dr durs, oth nemain the Acting his ca, me of whey be provad is dancreationa\n\nthere was any atention to doutor them. On the stray, lbited by the police count and at die trial were looked \"to prelom leninitim. Sorrest replicationswmulleritsbea Laaksi, Will diese papers be forthcoming the is wht hely a mally Trong and public At that very women bu application is 150 pardon was made, but they all lod. The public age when war awer was Coctaily, tasy will ho forthesising Chetumal miny, of a cele d Governint of Hong Kong, to fit the the i pendina brez the Executive Council, bad baľova a do- up in 196 101minant. 1 Setinal From Callejattu.\n\nwat rond to you this watch of Mr. Dixon, printed Celóuipi Seref.tg-roat will be-1 don't say état with hefurret aby Cian, the pepers en bools which šúré éx bdag too mackerel for Sir Juiz Bowring Stahoe Fogg that these utsnoruuda'ha dolroyd, et troch nieruction cangad the apud Wilham Tut\n\nWithin one week triad crossed that 1 u raken\n\nWaficul reported to me that had upperolie\n\nimoweh, af Tan, aldussed an offels, ferie, tu the goverment\n\nmistion zutenu 57th May. 1 cdled for flow, papers, 014\n\nthe sewer still was, huy s pro3acer May,\n\nthe Chairman of the Come-speaking to what\n\nCarls\n\nren ufereeing one of the LM-\n\nTutte and Within Tarrat peale not pully mil. jabetu, te the Willing Thon BOS, 10\n\nCotinal Sury-by umiva with 517 3 wing, do Govern, duce auch pal and coetic pubic papera a vecius cụ #8 burn, le prevent than tror në tuladhand of teatriinal\n\nThomus Bridgun act\n\nin\n\nJUN PO\n\n1.9\n\nby Sir John Bow-no, not thatatemens 6 M Dixson, the truth-bat ecide not beenvelded by them wil'honey, hit which beleg rund him no the tecore of what had or ne'sunted for in any way on the sapotion of an from wat taken older, M.. Disnou stated was purfacily tree-Theese. You are the kratay of my words, Wall, geûtie- Ch'oet were in luence of their liveandbence begins of e, what did the Govereat do! Nacida That term katson hid in ace to that the parden abel to Premye at Hong Kong The Sup of Police\n\nthe Superintendent of Police, vel sia papers they were, in glee taustmankt Midland. Vältweite Regattar tenor of the Water y lo had the police of the long smakt at his dis in the month of July, 1857. We are now in the sofaxuated; hat the articlo was oothie, for the Fals were\n\nang silence, tid, I can't go on wirdwat my papers. wture Colany, Lotion gave a collops plan\" pesul though, the blud frastarlet: Mr. Calder report fort. 1808 after the firfficial repost do mora, but it be dry for Jorn Rawing an\n\nwale wasiporadia Court as a bit of the Queen again\n\nwhich had bain perferred against hum--to the ellệch that de at the Goved mud of twich ought to have beea pend Hic exartition of Flapot, kiha of re\n\nThay ate prodlacil I will pursue my culence. The answer No one of them cool to lay information apolo\n\nback beca u ursave win ons Machowe Wong lan lo hurtu appene ja support of she another when wrong y cotisidered sacou to disqually Me, Ozidwell from the Cicating letter Was oderossed to the peper of the Tarrant, van de turney General &quited that ever wor, \"They all he rearly 1 C\n\nLa participated in los sela of prasy grof, dasiting him to attend Le Coute (they had set power seruitrios cul ales o cursale should eat feralga, and one morning win ga tuy way to 14- accused 171. Ile was the Jattham Wie de ce. Dission of the event; and still be in there, hod\n\nto try him, tot he was the Goverɔment priaser, Real de night aliteed to tempire 10 Ms. Caldri og Ang'oiler friade of head as a speculturefor I was tune ure Espe when The people were inkry out of thick boats, delube and\n\nhe made these repusta are wet cullat\n\nbave lost cle Govorodent CRITIC). And why? To gite Marchew Weg. Iudouter I got was, that my\n\nappeared as a walness at the diting of the Comarisuon * liberated atmost as he thought. He was I league 10 explain their code is making them, or to dalend\n\nKformation whien manche ebatte ilem to judge of the pro- dalien was on hingartuus and nad għɔeld rescivo apery sten- the worst of proles west theic waters and them; ed on deve at the moment this citron frat, villamenters of Aude. He was the rod of the is the outer and the sccused wit together on the same priety of dehang chow Wos? : ut in followed it up by a cheinending Tetter, and the last to by is gentlenus thut was for the Cen va Berriers of State Bar the Clay time derved probe, and the arreman who repeat to the sarafatio of the Count the gly offend it was my own but in the following teoksile into the Coversio's own verlas d 1st the nad Duiel Dichard Aldest a 1stcat and store. Be informatie and his piratea\" The bad out a speed ease forsoort pesed loss to Sale Whig, wich had a proppo. E in Chatwill interfered with the Bantuñer the rot. The papere leve uit bee a burnt.\" I said, ut papula and then: the publication was for the palie The wil, \"Xo the Governor says he bene in der 11 the lawsti poobslupent of che saith Wa poo them the forgot ng se vitut an exquiry.de fast bivice, Me. Dixon It becued as if a pattiouimely dan pocah as where these the Though the Gerranean'dak noriver, stre Chinese di cozel.. bad be used by may trial. My. Dixon, berdear, while it in the \"realevikov ning meirande; but that the cable\n\nelius amgunnelled to try the sald inferrinse,\n\nvolens be the ustuution qu' bothering til legit, apeared, and with a good deal of virgstol good, we sitesine, to the moverslerved to be ail book burne By wum? I did. An licces Scottir warinda, ses to here for borb the G-scrion fine 'statud jrry the guest relay say his order. I sat Very wel; we ra dialed fa verdict for tlu edenduť sa bech plans; unos ellskog palmat Maheton Wong by Chumer, and upon the first termoz at the out the mad, and said that unicos they tinted be tat me, but yet was zur Tega aga leirit. We have a win in our low that against truth of the churges brought against she al\n\nspoliation navirense da things are to be presumed, and i meat Hong Kong, and that it was for the Tabakor\" of these fay be as convicted, and on the weakest of the behaved to Yew with binabar décenay to would give them one, baterie Pentaton se s tamuuttori 10 'miére jäi prisbas\n\nsil psk you as an hormmable man to 3708 That thesa\n\nIs to jure:nlicy Judge anal coul\n\nthose cinga lid on printed and Lwcase, the stroper ese being fat of all hepsi res information to which they expressed a wish to behet for a cuine of genes; and at lie samé tanie a controa\n\nugulaste si Welt: redentes y lisaks formed me sy se Ori- better informed, and he then third them he could per i prestitute of the town Cathie proton-copale au raping too evides of the gall of the Gospeter Gavravent\n\n4' principal for those il Chizes to the deptpl' süter of the Chis wo\n\narxistence. It is 10 luge, eramus justice, and sound That deal. Machow Wong was marred Sister pered with the tatereating investigation into Mahonjw cl.argue is the publikācá odalineseľ pupure of\n\nneut of Latin. had anguired by consulting' lud nine ended inedin pawnslegs the sem bone Hanece dolars, because sea- Weng'e caso had neily reached itu eczaleca in the Pelico\n\ncgrbury evidence of their cutems, through weld e- zuota, prepared, fre the purpose of tildides kehitet Matolaw innen the pawroker who clonged the scen Court. very last day I was suffering excediating paip\n\nfair in yen to sit it, there are 2 us who can kissin\n\ner (Le 2ad way of led by the \n51 Police, Mr. May. Acsonlingly Malay wis keat for sind be the calvo a farette suni unily Dollars for her person celiginal to hout it. I only to the neuted aleht saiut the aid Duum. Richard Cabluit, it me Jame and bropl his mud with dai, and Ure to nie mate. The coins and it proval batus est quicy. The shain so to be of uly proeid tust a long and iniunaté euangetan\" ja esitt\n\nbetween the Last tratat the whi to mars war Connise Terdila, namen Stieg Lol, who had bees in frequene opinion. I did, 'As to the Tetonada, that is a re publishra, the mud contests of the papers, 27.se, youclow witte : Caldwyn in corted, but rust Calanbend, for they are now Lural, en tan Garethe 2016\n\nallen version had been gled zipost ity Mt. Caldwe-insed to be a hacer by Clause Longe of Mrs Calcon, egg where they are, for they beat Lugu in bis 10 ::fic Governor, to the effect that the entries la Cie Laake reteived from his pawshop Lead a of nonly. Th were mi pogut entrcs, that there was curing leatp dildof the fact wing which they ray n tha hery of the pizate to them-acting whatever, and jority of the Commission are of opinion but it wank het\n\nthis bold step, tw zdevastorm of Tresh crimen were fail\n\nthe Chitovas; they always coupled time with seentza, a less tekig climate the Hong Kong: so the ety-f-every one of the Factz; because of the piestembe: vom Ur.l. for weed trout le Fou Tsepse. You have uses 1392 meat what is culed 1867, ad pracy, went transgrated for 1:15 to the purl 160\n\nMr. May, the Superintendent Police as magistrate or Hog Snar, M. Mar hee nos bem suaded for giving evidence al Mr. Catdoll, and he says konw the a, kowa ce allow Wook, was 57. Caldwell'in pol and trees relied upon to formar. During the whole oftaistime-that leave 1980. never reĥrened wa mate to biolohow Wong, either by the subordinate oleum of the police, ky old kuropan dents, or by\n\nepithetlaring selezenne to his bad chamater. Aes multimel repute and retoriety, I know the Mabel Wong hos for Jezz bron vorsiderad sectortionet, & respect of mines 3. from gambling-house keepers, a condectrale of pirates, SON recrow of telek gooo I Mama plastist nerause of ca 1. work bom postiar witlitegazu to Mr{akdwell—winters\n\nCimen in the coinsy very well knew-that Matchc .. Wong wat sopposed to da in possesion of great down, a ut wan belil in gest dread. Ot the exteat of us dread.\n\nbeste faly aware whenever it was my duty tu laverigune the case ignibet him. Igoko to maug Chinese of stundige 1. and property, and shey all exhuired a bowledge of his\n\neni curacter, but a relualase to do more tia This gentleman was a picnes of a juste vľ the porco, wlas navenbetes is considered a proper person to remain in tikt Chu). Geaca, en son as Sir Walter belt dhe\n\n• covered that 3. Gilbert Alusz, tas Laird of Pargowa, had been code of the press D.nks Flatserais, Book vilectual mesum to hee the Commicion of Price i\n\nBland From !be d'agence of his novion; and foetal y that a literary character like Sir Jatin Bos ring might have very robiy been expected to fellow the exacte setli by Bir Walter Scott. App, chinmay\n\nE Mackow Potrg seded ahir vonviction sp\n\ntraneporation. But no mark the prosem, beause this\n\nbring the a bow head of aging, which, theagh\n\nip of two onlilery others to the court clost 1 might dear the ovalent of the pirate book, andard shose hooks send in the Police Court de slag purled open the dose collow me to pass frena the the is on which was carried into the const; so I hoped to Potion Court interpreter in a loud waies, that it the world, motulit. hack him it in interpretation more wrong, read 11:\"Fə\n\n·Sam Kwei' (bet ie, dr. Calduril, the torturing or kerkida, Need) toey\" ist was an estry, earleazen; ju\n\neate an the all to particular\n\nvaid, \"I will go in again.\" He woak in, and the Governor\n\nI share Caldava 1 cher Wong mad the sail\n\n10, soma, by the said commuistion, Dalit Dad Richard Coldwed bad been, until very best À parter with the sad omviet in a lɔrelia, zrul the mirë,\n\nfursher show that the yard She of the sail.com clas\n\n1a jike parcneshly Jai! 16 between basi and the said venyter met lecat fenci yessels, and that a number of una in their day deơn, at vagina timas, guilty of pray\n\nThat die restliny Eve under the sail Cerriku was gevately printre and culo by truong sung Tern, but väheul indoegmentary videtza Taller! ski the sitesi, el coatiars to the protes of th been the, as was statel oa onth by the arimarenie\n\na. Lan, DONT MICRO, T\n\nQty of Sambon, in Suno which, after a calmed\n\nthe\n\nding, resulted in, obra vùng tha prasiat pagundy pic\n\nsud, \"I kus ibing of the benene of the papera. durd calew ware bort, they were bucat by Dr. Hridge, and not lag sa La broke of the pirate then conter excisation. Olier her speed that own the stricle in the China harsh lemore Mr. Careil on the Commisions for lie sansauranda, 3 know nothing of Lin\" \"he w\n\niesasperateri ilia'j aiges, exspe- hear da the eye of the Govenor, he had applied This? stein is to her gun sence to arcs of various kloun; dietasloudly sessionis flat bosh aya sud see if there were taled 194, and its proton avery' Inquest amus alb sead, it daw was open, nant I could boar hits, stud be was very \"C.\n\nany swab cutes in thdia, And why do you tilus be up theur vers partionfctly Tirumakt. itemquatracce e il ficus imputenbel to neve he solint wort of projectile kunwa drog Paliced by this 1000\n\n2. 118 425 of the the to? Wit, of all men, do you this he employed on the subject, and was again divined to fold is proce The Soaking Berhey mast have own full well had been about of stinkt pat\". payee of Life You a rezolves the book thay cured this var tuusuciata winxber there were any entries in the truth in that Dr. Bridge the Acting Unlonal Secretary tune unsay shout thuthum, Laven Laborants pargnuts,Gestalo Bub Sigler's coins, winch pirate's books incupatory either of the pirate the part who advised the censur, id, sir. Davel was eppo wapiz, then he gitty as, Dr. Bojes, Mid Commission on the ane tril of the Quetu . T\n\nareas were ação by the Canis Eigh me as instants need by picator Sam thaques. Why die parmer, gentediet? This fhda. Lattez to whom he apples wx All this was petal catfury ma vida e con exile in\n\nColwell, after the conviction of tar sa Machow 5 appointment discoting to acting Chineze scoretary to go berwuda before the Commission that let linge was aleau works heftest be wrong thement of the si sūdens 118 parla. immanian theme soboto prazposes of desunto. They\n\nand assist - Durdwell in the inquiry which heal. Can a casing about for a further opportunity and relega pole back paneme ta por seul as other this extructed to the api lagi. profile a catcmple as to bewilder their oppo-\n\nmily had been ducted to make sure prudineert bother the afbringing the Government to save tried sidi de pequena co muy first preferring rise toer hie darges against Mr. Rielar wel! bu is expecially charged with did cre nesta a leg who are about to board, in slu anpe of setting in to tie voocel. kere were numero Commission of Inggning, out in my leg, bead aguchi veu dus sirenastade med. The Government at Caldwell and piles in my place in the Legisle is Majesty's cura in motion against persons whol\n\nall vessels wi entries us of dortrustion as illa, and over sidste to be the witness for the Uras, on the trial one disproved of the chair power confered spend Theftey were they me butt with alleges the pirates, and against all\n\nto je, na galust all places where he algimin· anou een oudceived from Skor Koneen spinet Tarerne, and there a bean doubt of the aduc Mr. Caldwell, and we were able to recourt knowles they were och be useful to Path, go drabt, un videre-thane to fact-Mr. Under the related vend kid mal was in committa the accusel sy wers bau after produ\n\nTait in the pic af ar Malety's outers - I have mest enamcuted them to 300 so I went on, I leave\n\ncott Bad Kwag na he is called, of any purchase of and Mr. Mans asked to must fan and Mr. Modzin when I received fine in peritcedent of bien a letter to presturs them had to have them bed by fur produccion vice plus sole multial inflation of the el aladdy hops in my to: The way was thila—A young\n\nGen ego. And what you they deal and Caldwell in all arch of lige Tak Art of educadou, ef grea: personal-I Acer of Jerodox.0, thein arapaiment, there is LLC chart det til him by tomatogne sunce mages of evidcide to the eff chat held i\n\nTai since the signing of che la ray of p asy beunty, her his aprestake was as that of a fede abondamen there to w Any ROVEor, zealous for herpes to lines that no bundle was very hierdie wise his power for Wing, unfortunely, long\n\nGlina, uvasis of the, Chape coast, in violation IT MA one of it, thus the man who had at all, and that ou the other bundle the bestowed what he abuser of thels in this way, hili he was granting the acting Chinese secratur;) is mee to cama inter car\n\n1rea, lava berume Publiwa, guided and directed by Gešti ... of 1925-lure description in kv 63 2. Was\n\nChina **U WIScuration.\" He says is the dish to bredelskont of his down property, and prae- ryceriu desunie mors, fouad to encumber pas Denici Richand Cudil Brave Cock thick acidéy (tor Mr. Cool: wat pituus elite-341 h a secured wae 220; fix to ra\n\nnot cause all the textements he pub to Mr. Cromwell, eating with effect ultricies that there untied, to se ging Clumése Ofies. They diù in bing to the Chase Ofe 15 the following mes ocurral in the wqeriş il 2. At Une trial in Lile book which he beat writea oui Ciminin Quotes of the Fuzon (Apple)\n\nand he does not think Me: Cafdwell torstited tum, chance our prasowe property. According tid The Leugd de Palin fce, it is true might Apr: st: u of uret, as evide and where we believe, was inckie oue stated like being the Ostwall Commi, nd Mr. ther be gh: mot disse his fly in Anzies, she Davies, wind, and when the oil age to know that Mr. Caldwell was bore Wirk, berise se thakter, with the wires, believe sunt them there and ought to take the pubes her Majesty's valicza plesal the sole er upperial allegat of th were of the best cepeccability-in Earth me of Este, even to the poial of the full towards with a number of the when Ireland Council, and I sakithar duodin ruveta test faluzea du bat i asked tise Guarner and he told\n\nDaniel Ric Caldwelt: he had cuker and give to Mic Morgan to perse and Mr. the ordinate for the purse veftig das Legistar merak The Bulger, and De. Trigga yaki • Thụp only ruchan, 1 expediu 10th of Mr fast ga Boys, and he was to my proseptic, at Attorney Genry), I rekla ile ago, at de woods [aan? to tried and evicted-1 au sorry to y, c the 4 were defano I went into the court resapan, without staring them with the date\n\nto heridong any pecay void the ral aid \"Tyler is ofte the dus of the Ladeperdendof the enuio of piracy, the xys this The Antorery Geotul's shot when our they were all rigs and the report was diawn up and eat from the for! size string to aty ko mase Ti said be Tacy are mere end undertaler were banale\n\nwastog : Weng grunt-end volevo che grad-very properly not be Mr. Nenu,\n\nof the power ferret an M. Caldweb...) Deaked wat was uneven plan is the site out of bagi the Loring of opinion dit he had not convicted e\n\nis is feetly opmeet. We has only wired ac, Mr. Chudwell. Mr. Clewell reported to the Govi moric motely, but Me Colwell spent. A lire put of the day due to create der is so that he was merely convicted of piracy, smal\n\nEst addressed her pabely happen ontiment which have sexa, aut wiret 1 hp will be and reported Shubho was hity the azett. Est de properly sting of the cuss in depatruling w \nke,\" Free which cut is Chinnan Day the\n\nvaez the Funga V Danë newspaper, qüuhag fas published at less eleverd het book. You may chuka urtean city of Wade Wig Tit Sourke,\n\n--Fast flokit - statuiest, teic, \"Tuus the pinaka charge, it ALANYAGİLİNDARION I am labouring & avatare wies) 43 30 pacer. w you wish to set pure so to sey e vet toptir He began in crale\" vie\n\n@miate or uw why I did it. We crmitory, o'i chy' way incapatory; if bind when I was spinel Libes Way, seven weeks at that knd la that safe of as they\n\nDodwell come all took us session the Hundwist Bisur ne lastics tim this, bet no cler yet, it is lyriba for his was consolib and date ich t kad mad prizes old bundy, watery Chinese Jesele and good, but of ureja veeeels and get porter on the art flow Cart Mr. Called Buklear?But it get farther on this. Megan, on stated alub, Le way adding the Guercituent, whi\n\n- Thi ly ra cho tiện, việc nghind: 1 Júlio Kucose, is 'nce, 'crite end to abile,\n\nestiollant Wind in partueze of: che meses\n\nhunder to avitas tenser sind, herefte We\" who ale to be thic ecofioing theres to tlit \"bom juscy wi it is entered vesla og Chistice, eye care, trig winds to how were wilt duration et dedans want. 11 ist fuch has evo sing the appointment in these Le\n\nA proceeded to take aud' wakt prizes of Potgier and even of English It could be .icd-bigbut them we were duething to stay away or tu forges they to ir healthy why do te dore Sime' and look us et Mens specifice- these day a wine to the Crown site pircle beta oponed and face way, that even casi toto hepere forts had básn ichkir tó\n\nHe, Caldwell out on so Desk While the Chief Maglenkad bet akarate the dress of pure atentia to the age of her with tweed in the driting, and who was the marterly speeches I ever lado ati ang dile-iliat did no Berred; baie wuld he lied dot the listed og bin rated 1.16 118 REBOZDey-Centrul Zur the Crown, were] Lind Hberation of Mahshow 'Won, fecia the clucose that Fredd2 attunewars I'died the confoluit of Vedelendum is, these referral to, in this case of the Conferuerteve) Non him by a pirate und ( nviting atmose tire pel the bar and file wiends toere le cos hand that i helion well to Sir Bowl of 9. Jest Tarar chat him out from his chues of just\n\nla reging by \"verbering to her Majesty the can.\" -¿Lead cyplinsé:)' Wit By such they preted to ocnyvaz editions, thors bei gwa sila, and otheeatunc\n\ncant Ohmamen ging video liber was the peper or fabricion of do you think the govt to my of Intent freibe becaues te jugs, who always to grow ranting i\n\nsideration they were struck with the vente of barget, or confort of main, lad deteraped that gul angle, jugil a Lehmkomptly honnante unek bad been re- Mr. Davies is an pourable and opright, but u moet olen and that\n\nbuk shio was deo much uses on a Torted in enter to procure the lure or Latest they new grups to into iteme tarp barat tify a splations liel, soit un\n\nLiyur petitioners ate infor not the public pessa ut excuse to for you to judge af ik validity. Bat I have a\n\nthe commutes at the ears Mspite a Grown wines add beca bring to to say the Bar appened to Car, nodingly this was declare is a pufed with the bobeer defence. Br what actity\" do you, the men of\n\nbit, thend or hisgistrate who was on the Benus, said to me the Cow 489, nd he was akhez of lore furodde teulement of ants or inphns; fest to bring the avertent isto uttal i con- Hong Kong was with the gravest sharges against her uro Ebook, I think you ought torkowest Mank is an generally falls ad the fut of Hong Kong sila, banghts one in Secretary of State se ga je ten, Sw, Mr. arrunt ipad vg for alué deine, 1 blogg's local unit, suising out of the sets of the ni Tunel Fabia Caldwell, witasub ny stopa bʊng teken Hong Kong, prosamo to tyo, ka Ararian cisÓN, DE\n\nrest in which ouius fi torebet upan hi h serious, and he been cool of he told the that Me.\" Mag'a ↑ W Many palmerit; trest, siunt is prasandhang no, preg as\n\nAriel enly echte boned having followed the ukamulu saslim\n\njusty's Gurraient at horny, Jby the British comede e period of Jig de good)Malawidity rephormorandy were to the Courel, de milite of should says, whenever let me extence: not a tal on w, by tur ecce as\n\nulo kauly, Theta quite a misuke, Nix. Eug in ne subtitri Coupe,\" ays My Dixsongengrene, mm, Fabere ready to righend what was sad, ra, wana boju til, denying to That you diners e farther informa chot ́́s Youlo en ability hoy resucher: sis cake of Mr. Caldwell, who she promett, Alferplant in Jeppe.tjie\n\nin consequence or be acts Court. The young picafe turbel, un lam with TRON\n\nhar for life. This pewnią kair, whose appearance oply ja ¿very respect most preprenenting, lidil, nesici furlega, \"Litez +the cance of this phraga ditere perods\n\na from the are 1855, 1856, ADG 1857, for as long an x-\n\nde, hoving her treat it the posite by what, gezišlą miejų a\n\nsoftly exjoyment out of a lui Delagian\n\nNalci Poiy,\" and supped fra te te sime with\n\npas pedagowa by the struct\n\nsul collars in money, and welty for cos janda\n\nof those from. Mol whore willing the\n\nof to re\n\nShu or anong gani, the tuik of whic\n\nand Led by resi\n\nHow was unt invest gatal. Batore The Beaton Bona's a li\n\n· Mu brei, nad who exprend is read\n\nto\n\nadjuskuse on the case, and it new apposes fram, eisal decoration of the Case Castor At B\n\nLut the legal piracy Ye\n\nJaw jacc\n\ndatid cerfi-zion of a Sales\n\nat the corn the gastropod the test -1, exquis ook pult, I was pureaued tri the Atrey-\n\nyies distant from Peng Kang, viktse\n\nFWninos 4 ใน Mu\n\nJun+\n\nacity were onwering the waller or city with Chinese cứ duratione pre by me, they m;,\"store, L'insverfus Ceageer be thhed infuñà÷hoi si't the very chané de \"wasture Legs undertaken atlasswise păzi şJelitoraizly, quid rich di alluzbi àltevės ro angelu salt into the saidilir. and dezambiaron und muraus où desituelium and deadh, tiež pevaaja this most Ring'hérorë · Henriečkkaemisă when'] Conkeret ón metody. (Rudnnà těšiai vah tribal with bad de Guabip. Processing wers commod in the Pulica / voliars were under preple\n\nCual will your to a prosecution ser libel of the sail towns with two hours,\n\nlisa proprietor of that jupur Sir Th\n\nasenBalion Charmy of Expeti funt:c:ky m5- per with British dominion), tor property hall 19 bapa luier. tu2+)?) \n\n| peurs ing Lo maid mutes u flazbe Woo), but willing any peccf, or injẢ ĐỀ\n\npref, 13 coline; the sald sewn with this ad allest\n\nto petablish the truth of such si logetion. Towing the said verds in thus suidtuint of\n\nand the prizeutics of clues weioner's Report, i\n\nquica by bis partadi, Sri Culkin Ayplay.j'. Pagkus Mache Wang, M. Caldwelź ext 20 the Bestivité decurrente, the fin# Peľ was tete 10 där fets, abg no wories of hopeat knutý, Ahri saytigt, on rebooveything in the law tit jouds to the liberty or places Five Queed to Ja!! Rhad calli\n\nzeli yua win he riv \"Yes, graden.cu buld centered these pirnoje, I basoetatud may\n\nwell, you shoổ tut teava, the Coat. It 1 sog\n\n- In\n\n-1\n\ncontinue to bold la ulices of epistur-Borland Pro-\n\nfasten object, and Justion of the Pen\n\n-\n\nopas\n\nThat one piles huully pray your Maganly tost The Dichand Sawell as the anodica phed from extresings said does of gist-renca\n\nyour Majesty was fiber, state such sy\n\nut your Alaiys Critical. -\n\ne naved\n\nThis yields totank to tini) zei; flua elitize\n\nTeplagent on board'éco ether piste junk, dist c£5 on krainie Mchoben Wong. I day day i dennepéviter is primasda eru re” Cure of 9.964 Kiz the toho, ability;\">ub' #1 to Flis millest was 13, 11 to jrove the justi ofera zné 'bu fiɔmė gl Gran Maxis, he adopted, amig\n\noy the Mayur se belesif of 11e meetings una chut the See petilien to clean, Lyk Lyness to the fart Bluts for biome Afain the requested to press the abu Bin Silben : the Ainge of Commiting\n\nBog ur Neeraden cephes, 1 for F and Northumberless be formed with appien se sa notition, and requested to support is pron,\n\nthe\n\nNar\n\nsinty ever happened. Toward the end on aller case der is met. Promate. Cats?#eliftektálation Jowy cerunkenyíčel, † sleges vanitý tu da in Boug Kong. · (Apple) I kids in, but afttraing that he wrote dijose only of a 3k)- j offiser of known el which your petitions - Bohinch 1 new before saw equales, and it ben boxks pered to sa ikat is, the Ott hectate)-Mr. ULIENTE This front mas altérfi sa' Mr. Beyond wilmot hafte u work I stukut bajene it. vienmant sälja vasant clue $2000 18 Guseramcul, all hasing ban aakrod to: recueile unencre, - nepest of tetth He Mind My Cali-Gadwol in Mashow Wong's adapter. 2, in may have dr. Moun n this white car; oist I live desires norieteni which sa stuffziest to gue secres, such as, e con las cerefore ether nigrisane ne kely to low.\n\nmil adoped father, I do know 1-made of the teak up del did I bet white m\n\nTelit for the subjput of the thugplit his to take up that they rely institute en iy te teece to have entered this Et any or stannak a the time but the end of the case al beat fit to hy weed the traits de trait in and tie was, beet this honour last selgus, and the Judge of the culpis hold the rare of the petition to the Bouses of Lek's bu Ame of thee. bis are here, you, who quietly to br. Caldwed, are heard thank Mrforcuccino w This is of the resty je dny, day in atribut to delete the honour, Crown gut ferised: me time this career of orhng thall be caldwell, abent, your patios with the vase, was there wadh son why He bave tent with the date the 17th of May, 1938 verli, by the Crava prassence, wild as suid was opes Justine, but the prayer of the polition to the Queen was us aland with the exceeded, wit alig volubility. were sur stod say they wereteeming of nettur-argir the nor this roler received master tour the Secretary or to trove (by gality of the cavenient, and having fo\n\ntions contéptet ut per the indin dietider Sveces of Bahar One you Brus kete but in jautify the bed, for it woul A late costance będe tamu Walbe present at the inquiry, the you le coună-\n\nder wet br, 1 of the you struction by us that promet, pa ih the more in loved in reported. ll, gentlesser, e il be. For m piece of polios of European xures, such pe chara\n\nlierter thing, tid old role puude hink you go. Prot. I said no more excel, had her mull I have no large, penta Tanpired the trial sint tag were decle of in the Chincre, 'and 'which has said lid al com from Mi. chatyour penceration I have inter reeds graminacey kist ever themiubit of ang us Job By illegal enguant nur short pet she hinten, end Faction of ds: Pease pu Caldwell. Els declared his red padon, and I bar. 22201 Wes 11. ca corte e (9-12 chapter conveyed in the hose leidu libus petition is at to the cold try me that tetece prated suit circuled, but nav ar pilkul in the berzerie, in deferi he had shton s prson, popne in which altere med acts. Doudy, Jay, the mind one part of the needs office. I let it has previouidered themed parts as at the agreeing \"The información rize is functions were detepeisles de Messina. *Caldwellende brother, Mulishow Wong, boating Colonel Mexicozy requetudo so take a vase pooch Ms. Monpais. 19isit there is how to me hall work in the Maglażba përt of cha\n\nErs Lovereanett warno longer thrë qi | er himself to have bòân”- chicago-wiens, M. Card it as is May's case. Day Bekles, the Aoting Colegiary'sy And Siver : \"they clä salis dots i had e, mladinkoneiden 2011 (5)\n\nwellen into a sent, ithead of bustin By original par Services, axplained to me that ho-bellevad bir. Any toe papers entrere, but netan ere were states are with her disputs this postion the did not prove it by ban wings, me he was sing Folded in the magnity of policing & levels -pose, and leaving the conce, or pyvalme to the curt te 10 rowe way pajudined sponu (whom day-thak, penele tormeil the subject of agres' o'what's the ahy, for while, at the word things, tien j\n\nditions viice cheek Crowu wănesiép, far, Irlikes, T. Môngán, 1. Youll here: China bưng v? tự nghe Hob Reig I new nit! new show h, tht to chat retr -proteo! kin, or askroje leuve for one in Mr. Calovali? No † sgaipet).MuleLow Wang.\n\nBet him in the end i Amk fasi ya desch wert hate Bowed it, arc wies and a Con Me two tur conuicted to theke animement when the retele dena; be ligicha zaid against in. Caldeuil sound he beerture\n\nstein and tornou mierer the fuse \"szért made bye debet my Bi peace, une with a head & mods Setween fives, and couple it very cosible that would take my are John Bosdag Mi. Wade's reporte feicis alliesenstar and piratant explain is al even un acknow\n\nFred, nad valeur was giche che il sola hile manner carrying witle is convxtion of the truth of the bention to doing so had solely we tras sie dasise: Vitalne the Chilies State Stad ductinenda, no he is bunds: llame Gentieren bi the charse of this wel die tui rilaktin senfessions of Dr. Bridgy instit, Lord Lyndhurst tank they, interes, it is not\n\nSecretaty a theory, lemort me cretary gra street. ket ky eye'sed en thas unter -May focuya sheld poke hazz, nach ki mua jimata'y Ark whit a Na\n\nin the inghest terms the petitions freia this tea Pannte man, an his sat there under the allerlag demanesi\n\narranged that we zi.ould hath with Then it big avil swenney-General Mi; Aditz? tals Rated; wart referred 'te li kiengrity whel, masel tuplasente, at å which they acheidint The jury issing of the morient I 2054 to live Twish His Old Crawstway's) Buty cümiselled h ting if the young pirate, and I saw in's deco the\n\naridanse ho goes on to say shas Mr. Catwell, corac! ene basereperietes bere thou and Bi. \"Caldwell's tagdermit sipan 1992 finds of them on seat or é difractal We donder the bulȚ most abject ped the most complete ecofen his guit, use of the sopranotation which have to the gut being discovered, but on when do that'dule the kit, and which they reledere etract fra jast bed by the evidite of the Chow it to remind apture from the primary f The Fout Atheriyan te vektoriced and prukaḥed, bas it\n\nCoperto, adul not to alter a future, as a note his eye. Note that it is tuc late for a while but when & boy well lavori Urresting bars for the brought to pressure politi\n\nbe maling; and taped that Mr. Edila Janes Skul jameting, thinkingrachtdi duetzibál, eď trials Enlu Karena lester to clears pederskil to inquirero\"\". (Apple) libre o letroduced during de tre petiolo probability which is, you wil of my career what was gutted to Bir Jolin Howalny ió qu consider a very probablu jebak de Walpole, and who is full order dứt the I put me in the of the Combat is the defence et gallly even notice in a los 67 Court on this He herbure, poskirted skal pla ne, was committing to the huge of lesbiete or inferabuty, rape they iron going to jure in the dataset made pés justa 2 Wand they uid, que\n\nquestions of etiquette agits zu Lin waived, st that it Tầng ki the tiásẽ of every mandlily édes of the\n\ndece did de desert-lum Att. Ha di 201 forell possinterpret the Hugh find withly my enter the Ses of Bret' I' prutekidit in die name or Theron appisil to the judge for costs, all. eet the low/high af te dzieje 1.5in pha Sapd bubbly fut he had hail and who had the bài)? Panimadiratokeo Motion Manama wakiel cortese again it that-ridistrikt, The viler bf the | gj\n\n\"Well, under Lord Cupbell's Ko, and appe be there did so the court sec on this Calls. And what bids Mr. Caldwed, aduca be the feat-by-1 Patio, Ingileifilutleie het urituli eie se lest is labele se ili beg capered he wwn sees of the car by giving their day siege the harsin af Mr. Jones. Ep erine Fant doch and maile report of thuto welched magicTalen top? Way, clasped Co. by one dette noen taryf die stider in or on Bareng dati, bis spits against the Crown (ie will it pr. A skal med to add, but Afr. Zuniga, Devoting theesin the principal portion to the trial of mion--. 19 old do not forex Burette, user einiglitz traway! -it we never intended to a tie mors will repect to the asthey sweary of longer euitendag with the misrule of the British\n\ndaily in runt litet habeating cocutare. hát to thee tới mướn that the demandar obale trave power to intulegt at, mal bei 1 600 6. Every harding will invest at long Rog, had exchang Bags, the barone of what the sail, ed I desired, found that the magistrato was in kyler Milmiy's later, and bore the com\n\nsha mabject of a terrenet to Mr. Whe, the belt Crizelse i uthe Sometime of Moet dank the sulfat peckers the pot of the clung being tiled fur by: of han ritate infesty or be a corp\n\nImperio Major the inspaene på.China, al luced by Mr. Gibidwalk to syrept of dreindly low. Ieder\n\nand Ferlinuculary grant. is not er mis to nevid Passion of the peace ng Kai-for 1 yo amend in vana, de haciz Mahshow Wong Seo have here ofered in whichrit-lan at leiðarokk of isim num amzkurt, and then\n\nJr. Pouncilor Disparas had great paying -the grace of attlag is the same commission with Mr.\n\nJuden in your for debt for a few days storm which was, wiesenet was the thing trial selbe just denial, the wasthead like on of Xeconds whey should Gard well stated, I say, die sold pity the time previous levertheless, Mahshow Tong was conan the inquirix: 2 . Monti Multish Mit John da to re e thuit made of this Bits This la cuve of the meta, mut had lead her than su\n\nPA Take y ethere of serall be real, and all\n\nmatic aire dent where of Mr. Anne, Justy par foto bn up and vend au wordt had his bovision, tabe ploca examination every and the by, beg byg\n\n·Topptation and Palipahoy world i purua exopt up this line got store' Jer, that public sandal bed but unt evary at: was made By 31s. Caldwell specə > where: Weijl.\n\nlowers and now; & fou verds buice's lake wave of you a The motion was carried shotiniously. Moines unlock to do this there by the look of saying Whit cheaped in Net of begin by requatuo: there in\n\nMr. To HET. LE. Weid bus tree the ter seun which the-hop gelo x want wien, si mor of 16 slet Buc me to my how much ist das picot's stal\n\nbeing met. Et the dayvalter I had that vidunderlie the prevés szacujalise Kaving Goch. RIMI, o l'alvo,amt ákotek Mr. Caldwell'; but the I imew\n\nMelchion, Fung may Birthink that by as: Alengan akute todo che continue miter which has earninus of miley clite Tr wickelly of churae, that it win pofidetty true that Max. Los reparted LTE WHICH TO: + with lenth of coma de double all ye hi! I want to perfore by suols Bands Racid, the pipe that having bags to the May, des -terpie fri eventibử with the Afti dhanon or getting off???ed:hu nad a perk von Grace | Pelketeart' scathifi. Mit Pulbosat sitt which in med tobeat du the puLE U VARse to you by Mr Crświley. Yən muşť 1.22 sagpry this term\n\nhew Werk, who was storeddy beefed with\n\nTechpod, 30 in abm.com. To juman who actuel far as 37. 3. Tinker went the not by let the great chase motor and bridal suites and find a bygons matter. 1 were, hub is me rent Why 5, whethe\n\ncoction, plow, stall be same. The Constant at se injured into, and the guilty paulühe becue, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TINE: Maya cha kar moer Urinalty.” The » de is a liesing sakit and in werial agent, if\n\nIf not 'somotáing more than my Kingsky was a young maling in\n\n- Str. Gæstwa Pradoodle for disproves in cybe long ng this first of things last né make up r impant, fur Nejeng's Arte Karilor; and (riffet laat, if so vary w pipe of stem of\n\n• A Lake? Kako se kockat ng ma¦¦:00 Unilure - Chelausen | *apen som to neposers' Chaetesi Por jo mirik, kalya Aith is shorty sit bonarofublimitlam of\n\ndot pri e nuhrer, in the jolske dit Manwhere. hald rentours/niche e victime to the fokus, or out apposte, 1 won by oral by allies in a hit doe\n\nGoverment aut tømn-it. Nag hat dare to train so my lets tred that di Ihres most prouxing toidetle in which a slaan Kong. I maat, kovretta, say 'dolara, `· Eltem, hear dibéo be a f“ „Antikks sward and spank the broth, and I näded: \"Thein sa det aru Koz brady, given\n\nEd 9 wat gate yek böcker at Fangio go that they considerare ding with Mr. Cash has drawn ittich, whit szer kle bir that choctagonar Dagisee. Wain of A Kimpoti in his shade-tzat, lac did lesa quets At ja pelamath now to be to ice for Age in weid, and 70 at hall to say one of the praling the last 92 ci ad pedas entry-it-14) beendal this is (open toyiq queue o to me to be not vil poting that stenty of\n\n· Kgreat improvements Fita a intrbelicëdürzatean of GTE\n\nto\n\nis\n\nreach Een the book in the Kunde DL.\n\njust-abs that they havʻstake' is \"die\" \"chinë '18 Do ↑ Deen ashamed to' hace punimi, sext which I povedled agains l'stä! Is your variet 11 yes that ly | Phèz họ to come how chèt couhl as the objects of\n\ncbeth\n\nונו\n\nMaliciru: w' pa oval 10 joule the supension of this en de 1e eit.al Crown gut áľ sestdise Prielled it 4, Grey Strare, by. WALK Winajan k\n\nresiding eV hit; and publisket by biel Atistis Sunet Neroun-Xn-Tymer, 50, Hommed B Sieci: Digli Studi Samiecians; and Kesant g Durban, i am as gunu gharama\n\nSaturday, Jun 25, 1959.\n\n3974\n\n229\n\n\"Hirveastly for 27 1854\n\nI have the honor\n\nto forwurdt\n\nBook Prst le\n\nZen\n\nAug\n\nby\n\n& Pettern\n\nfrom the down yerrwonath\n\nther Miprsty, which\n\non behalf of the public meeting, at which it was allatibit.\n\nA is\n\nmy duty respectfully to mequest",
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        "content_text": "of Justice. Excepting to the party through whome I trad this letter from the Gaol, I tell no Mut are I am ... wi comm hive Juur Lordship. I place imjuelf nurserved\", Jans hands, and the Her Majesty ... Lands of Sovern onment. a demago que, those who di grace Bütish service 269 the Fre pounishment the, discove One mod Jen and Jimalus unit conce ...\n\nThe time will fune End henta bhmese will not be afraid to speak out and tell out truth. But I e for that time, TTTC of her Majesty ! Govery neute wish to know the truth of Jam not leut a loy ve Steri No atte Subject of her Majesty, and a tive lover of the Constitution of my Country mly Altern med in my writing to obtain for Those whether Jolonce (ance did really Get the money by the Choose hame Secret it must Means exhorted. he be by ... and\n\nPage 269",
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        "content_text": "527\n\nNo. Date of Desp Rod Drop. Jubject of Despatch. Desp. Wof Inds\n\n  \n    41\n    Continued) Seaman Williams, alias Gachek. prone\n  \n  \n    112\n    Mach 12 Acknowledging receipt of Despatches. to Mi 75 of 24 December 1858\n  \n  \n    43\n    \n  \n  \n    44\n    \n  \n  \n    45\n    \n  \n  \n    46\n    \n  \n  \n    48\n    \n  \n  \n    49.\n    \n  \n  \n    50\n    \n  \n\n##\n\n#\n\n2675\n\n\"\n\n  \n    \n    Transmitting Schedule of Despatches addressed to the Secretary of State the year ending 24th December: 1851.\n  \n  \n    \n    Transmitting minutes of Proceedings of the Executive and Legislative Councils for the year ending 31 December 1835.\n  \n  \n    \n    Stating that the Colonial accounts for 1858 are reported ready for transmission Home by the outgoing mail\n  \n  \n    \n    Reporting clearance of the Chinese Passenger Ships Red Rover and James Brown with a Chinese Doctor on board\n  \n  \n    2\n    Respecting M. Keeman's return to the Colony in his former capacity of Consul for the United States of America\n  \n  \n    \n    Reporting Chief Justice Stames' application for leave of absence to England for 18 months\n  \n  \n    14\n    Recording the invaluable services of Sir Michael Seymour to the Colony\n  \n  \n    21\n    Acknowledging receipt of Dispatch No 860 of 16th January, 1859, 80\n  \n  \n    3.\n    Nons\n  \n\n\"\n\nOf\n\nThe Date of Subject of Despatch Desp. Desp\n\n  \n    51\n    March 22 Forwarding report of a Naval Expedition against Pirates in the neighbourhood of Coolan\n  \n  \n    52\n    \n  \n  \n    53\n    \n  \n  \n    54\n    \n  \n  \n    55\n    \n  \n  \n    56\n    \n  \n  \n    57\n    \n  \n  \n    58.\n    \n  \n  \n    #\n    \"1\n  \n  \n    59\n    #\n  \n  \n    4\n    Forwarding report of a Naval expedition to Namtão\n  \n  \n    28\n    Acknowledging receipt of Despatch No 2 of 31 January 1859\n  \n  \n    29\n    Transmitting the Blue Book of Hong Kong for the year 1855\n  \n  \n    \n    Reporting absence of Queen's Warrant for Mr. thereaer's seat in the Executive Council\n  \n  \n    \n    Reporting clearance of the Emigrant Ship \"Almeghere\" with a Chinese doctor on board\n  \n  \n    \n    Transmitting 2 Copies of the Hongkong Directory for 1859\n  \n  \n    \n    Relative to the position of Marcials 6. Burrous as provisional Consul for Granadd\n  \n  \n    New\n    -Nont\n  \n  \n    3.\n    Nons.\n  \n  \n    30\n    Regarding Mr. Farrank's recent communication sent direct to the Secretary of State.\n  \n  \n    60\n    April 9 Forwarding Requisitions for the supply of Stationery and stores for the use of the Colonial Government\n  \n  \n    Meno\n    2.\n  \n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541",
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        "content_text": "and on\n\nclosing her I was told that\n\nwhen beating up the Coast they-\n\nobserved that an\n\nEuropean Vessel which\n\nhad anchored under Tänue Point was attacked by Pirates. On this information I ran for that anchorage and on opening the Bay on the morning of the 14th instant I observed 5 large West Coast Junk's and one Lorcha weighing in haste and running for an inner anchorage. they hoisted their red Flags and\n\nfired a broadside in derision as they\n\nrounded the point,\n\none only remaining\n\nin sight which could not be approached\n\nby the ship nearer than three thousand\n\nfive hundred\n\nyards\n\n405\n\nprepared a landing party consisting of Lieutenant P. I. Murray, Mr. Royse Midshipman, fifty three men, and a rocket party, leaving\n\nthis vessel to keep up a fire\n\nand to shift out as the tide fell.\n\nI disembarked on the\n\nopposite side\n\nof\n\na neck\n\nof land under\n\nwhich the Junks lay, on reaching the\n\nbrow of the hill\n\nwe encountered a very\n\nheavy shower of Grape, Guns, Gingali\n\nand Bullets under which we advanced\n\nfiring\n\nin skirmishing order.\n\nuntil within 400 yards of the Junks\n\nwhere\n\nwe were enabled to fire down on\n\ntheir decks and with\n\neffect, but had to\n\ntake Cover on account of the\n\nShallowness of the Water. I consequently\n\ngova\n\ndirections for\n\ndistant\n\nfire and\n\nfor\n\nour\n\nown men;\n\nwe kept",
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        "content_text": "357\n\nGreat Wall.\n\nCrops.\n\nTartar troops.\n\nCountry to south-ward.\n\nCattle, &c.\n\nSurvey continued.\n\nLew-Sia-Kwang.\n\nPeople civil.\n\nInformation as to great road.\n\n10\n\nto be about 4 to 6 miles wide, at which distance hills of about 2000 feet rise, and run about N.E. and S.W. There are several ranges, one inland of the other. The inner one the highest.\n\nThe wall, which close to the sea embraces a fort, runs back about in a N.W. direction, and surrounds Ning-hae, after which it runs much in the same direction, and straight up the chain of hills. It is seen again on the top of a hill a little to the N.E., and then disappears over the top.\n\nThe plain is dotted over with clumps of trees and small villages, and is beautifully luxuriant.\n\nwere.\n\nQuantities of Indian corn were growing. The cottages had flat roofs, and looked like the Tartar cottages in the Crimea. The Tartars here look much like Cossacks. They wear a leathern jacket, loose trousers, and boots. The sword is carried naked under the saddle-flap, and the matchlock slung behind.\n\nThey carry a whip, generally with a Malacca cane handle.\n\nJuly 30th. Surveyed down to the S.W.; landed on a point of land 100 feet high, composed of rock and sand.\n\nThere was a joss-house on it. It is connected with the mainland by a narrow sandy isthmus on the W., and only separated from the mainland on the N. by a creek or river, which at this point is about 50 yards wide, and has about 8 feet water at high tide. There would be perhaps 2 feet at low tide. This river is inconsiderable, as the greater part of the rain that falls appears to be absorbed in the loose sandy soil.\n\nNear the sea, there are springs of water trickling through in many places.\n\nSaw a number of cattle, horses, mules, &c. Country still the same.\n\n31st. The \"Forester\" having lost in time yesterday, had to do easy work to-day (Sunday). Stood across the bay in \"Forester\"; fixed her position, and sailed round the point in the cutter; landed and sketched. We were met on the beach by a blue-buttoned Mandarin, with 5 or 6 mounted Tartars. They asked what we wanted, but did not in any way interfere with us. Sounded across the bay in two directions, and returned to \"Cruiser.\"\n\nThis bay has shallow beach and rocky headlands, and is altogether almost impracticable for landing.\n\nAugust 1st. Having weighed in \"Cruiser,\" and stood down to the point we were at yesterday, and fixed her position.\n\nWe placed out the \"Forester\" and \"Starling,\" and then went on shore and sketched the bay, and walked through the village of \"Lew-Sia-Kwang,\" which is rather a poor one. We found the people very civil and communicative. Met the blue-buttoned Mandarin again. Extracted the following information:-\n\nThe high road from this part of the country to Pekin is that which passes through \"Ning-hae.\" (The commencement of the Great Wall.)\n\nThere is much traffic along it. The road passes within 30 le of \"Lew-Sia-Kwang.\"\n\nThe road crosses 6 rivers, and at the following distances:-\n\nFrom \"Lew-Sia-Kwang to R. \"Yang-ho\" 30 le\n\n\"Yang-ho\" to \"Ching-lung-ho\" 80 le\n\n\"Ching-lung-ho\" to \"Lan-ho\" 50 le\n\n\"Lan-ho\" to \"Sa-ho\" 180 le\n\n\"Sa-ho\" to \"Yin-lew-ho\" 60 le\n\n\"Yin-lew-ho\" to \"San-ho\" 80 le\n\n\"San-ho\" to \"Tung-chaon\" 70 le\n\n\"Tung-chaon\" to \"Pekin\" 35 le\n\nTotal 590 le or about 180 miles.\n\n\"Tung-chaon\" is on the \"Pei-ho,\" and is the place where travellers leave their boats, in order to go overland to Pekin-the water shoaling there too much to admit of boats going higher.\n\nThese rivers are not spanned by bridges, but in ordinary seasons are all fordable, and after heavy rains are crossed in boats.\n\n2nd. Went down to the R. \"Yang-ho.\" It is very shallow, having barely a foot of water at low tide half-a-mile from the mouth; rise of tide is about 5 to 6 feet.\n\nWater is fresh even at mouth during the ebb.\n\nThe bottom is sandy, with mud mixed. Junks unload in the mouth within the bar. There were 6 there laden with millet and a very small seed which is an article of food. About 20 or 30 carts were there to carry it off, each drawn by 6 mules and ponies. They were going to a place called \"Poo-ning-hsien,\" 30 le distant; which is, they say, not a large place, but containing some thousands of inhabitants. This town is situated on the great road, probably at the place where the \"Yang-ho\" crosses it. Some people say the road crosses the Yang-ho 15 le from its mouth.\n\nThey say there are no large towns along the road, and that if we had merchandise to take in the country by the road we should meet with no market short of \"Tien-tsin\" or \"Tung-chaon.\"\n\nTheir carts are about 4' 6\" between the wheels. They say that for a journey to Pekin they would use a lighter description of cart, as the road is bad-apparently from mud and ruts. It crosses small hills, but no considerable ones, and in general skirts the foot of a mountain range. They call the distance to Pekin about 560 le, and perform the journey in a light cart in 6 days.\n\nAnother river exists to the E. of the \"Yang-ho,\" called the \"Tac-cho-ho.\" Its mouth is only about 1 mile from it, but this is a much shorter one. It receives the water from the plain to the south of the great road, running from E. to W. and then turning to the south to empty itself into the \"Yang-ho\" Bay.\n\nThey say that 60 le to the southward of this is a small river called the \"Poo-ho,\" and there is a garrison of 600 or 700 Tartars there.\n\nThis river was not mentioned before as crossing the road, and is perhaps a short one.\n\nIn the afternoon we sent a boat up the river to buy vegetables, but they were met by a party of 100 armed Tartars, commanded by a blue-buttoned Mandarin, who said he had been sent by another with a red button, from a town 30 le distant (probably \"Poo-ning-hsien\")-to prevent our landing or going on shore at all.",
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        "content_text": "Groundless \n\nwithout \n\nJX \n\nwiet \n\na Colorded in the \n\nthe then Govrenon the decision was. \"Hal they \n\nand withral frendation!\" _ In trane Zians. wint Icthwards red for. \n\nauds to the Colonial when y \n\npower to act, and affcer Thet parive all \n\nmy friends and well wishes being adrese & ang fubsecuting this Eclits, I tertioiied to Medene a positive persécution for a term contearing Twelve long years. \n\nW. Jenaul Miterative, his limits upon me it hi Genge Bonham. his to thing Chape The Govenmecubes, but well as à des receipostin Tohen Beuring: \n\nto these high functionaries I on each occasion \n\nfor Fial, 4: Colonial Office, and finally when Zoaded in August last year by the bile and Cowardly attack Catcomnialor, I multituled a Potication Exainst him upon any own accocent, in the Supreme Couch Maphone, what was the result? M. Tenenti was clearly established, and completely exconsented by the latter past \n\n\"He also find that he has totally failed I Connext It lilonel Caine in remoted degree with the be falsely ellers gainst him theseen \n\nVerdict, \n\nLonden A \n\nThe \n\noncept practiced \n\nforegoing \n\nI have entered into the forg lengthened statement firmly tuleeving, that the \n\nunder which I am treffering has eve \n\ndeigne \n\nfrom of confitness Coupled with \n\na suffosition on the pack of the Colorial Office on my past for the duties of Gover \n\nunpretinal state \n\nAtin \n\naux state the opportion it of emphatically denying \n\ntut I, by an \n\nlug and \n\nset or \n\nmelad ministration \n\npast aided in or conduced to the Melan. \n\nand \n\nproction & Affairs Patil, existing at Hongkong. On the Contrary I conscientiously feel that bun one of continued usefulness to the Colony : \n\nmy career had 1 unidaried Zeal in the service of the Crown; and to these facts of his hired, I can adduce defficient and temple proofs \n\nof \n\nIt a tec \n\nI have due to retum my thanks for the reference suggestedts / in forn dotter / to the Secretary of State for War, but Laving outlived all the Military Chiefs under whom I'Immediately sewed / wi it exception & dom Combumen] Ido not ful und of humiliation that Scouts Satisfactorily apply to any present Hall that Office, seeing that the Services, me Jerofessionally were in the humble a Subalkon Officer, the flattering and dondale to me as a Foldier and with Keown to, and acknowledged by the Horse quards : _ doubtless \n\nStad bun allowed to join my Regiment in the terations before Canton under Lord Yough in \n\na \n\ngran \n\nMay \n\nin Tray 1841, when I was repered that, \n\n440 \n\nfawn, /wish \n\nW: Secutary Monitous letter datia Canton 22 Frag list of Services dated 20=, \n\n1841, and attached t \n\nBry \n\nMay 1859 d in the Colonial Office / I shouts nearpauly, \n\ny my \n\nin Common will other been pourotate one that in \n\nhad to down \n\nComrades have but only \n\none that in the Army, but also have \n\nthe Companions of the \n\nof being \n\nDee \n\nMilitary Grain & the Bath; the descelt of drech Bachentsive \n\nBide \n\ndetention at \n\nAngthong, the Officially stated I less the \n\nJood of the Service day \n\nœ à mat levert, \n\nprovca \n\npunishment to me. And how at the end \n\ny my caree in both Departments of frity six and a half years Continued Foreign Service, I have become a mor \n\nmack for the finger \n\nfseoin to point at . __ \n\nThis my further apprese & the Buting Newcastle wile I trafine neceper il remain over until his return & England, when Plug you wile nho me the \n\nto \n\nhown to submit the same & the Considuation \n\nJoueur the downs to be \n\nof His Grace \n\nhi \n\nour sunt Pediat Fumble Suvant \n\nMaine St Colvad \n\n7 Houghing,",
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        "content_text": "# List of Public Furniture\n\n## Council Chamber, \n45 black of Council's Office- Article. \nSmall press. \nPrefaces. \nWash Stand \n\nIn the Strong Room. \nBoxes with records on Stands. \n\n## Remarks \n1 \nin the \n2 \nand \nthe \nio \nCommon \nPress \nPassage. \nLarge Screen-Wooden- Verandah \nChinese Ebony Divan with Table \nChinese Chairs. red wood — 1 \n\nThese Articles belonged to the late Hon. J. R. Morrison but have been in the possession of this Council for some time. It is presumed to be the Gentleman's Furniture.\n\n## Note \nThe Wooden Bureau around the walls are fixtures.\n\n## Article \n### Council Chamber \n- Council Table covered with Cloth \n- Desks and Seals for Reporters \n- Punkah \n- Book Shelves. \n- Map of Hongkong \n- Folding Tables \n- Map of the World. \n\n## Remarks \n| Article | Number | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Common | 13 |  |\n| Old | 2 |  |\n| Fire Grate and Fire Irons | 1 | Very Old |\n\n**Colonial Secretary Administering the Government.**\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria, Honghong, 19th August, 1861.\n\nCompared and found correct \n23th August, 1861. \nK Power.\n\n| Location | Description | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shanghax and Woosung | of Yangtziang River |  |\n|  | of Canton River |  |\n|  | Frame requiring repairs | Q Q |\n| Amoy | of the River Min | Frame requiring repairs |",
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        "content_text": "# Captain Foursan's Report\n\nFait en six Expeditions, dont trois en Français, et trois en Espagnol, et de bonne foi, le quatre mai mil huit cent soixante et un (4 mai 1881) à Hong Kong.\n\nOnt signé Approvada conforme a la copia Camino y en Castellano Ca approuvant l'Ecriture ci-dessus M. de Foursan.\n\n(In correct copy Waalexander Acting Colonial Secretary.)\n\n## Report of Captain de Foursan commanding \"Ville D'Ayen\" of Bordeaux\n\nWe left Hongkong 26th June 1861, having experienced calms and light easterly winds until we arrived at Kouehawong. The distance to this place is two hundred and twenty miles. The passage is dangerous on account of the numerous pirates infesting the coast of Loochoo, so that we have been obliged on several occasions to fire into junks that attempted to follow the ship. We saw on many occasions the pirates chasing peaceable traders.\n\nOn the evening of 30th June, we anchored E. and W. with mount Jacquelin bearing 10 miles. The following morning, we went into the bay of Kunchawong, passing over the bar, the soundings upon which were four fathoms and a half at low water. The soundings giving afterwards seven, eight, and ten fathoms, the bar was distant four miles from the shore; afterwards we steered N.W. between two lines of breakers. Going in, you must steer on the North side and bring up N. and S. between mount Jacquelin and the Pagoda Hill about the middle of the bay, where you find fifteen to twenty fathoms with sandy bottom.\n\nGreat care must be taken of a shifting sand-bank about mount Jacquelin bearing S. 90, mount Pagoda N. 65; on this bank, at low water, there is only 2 fathoms and a half. The bay of Kunchawong is very spacious and has communication with the interior of the province by natural canals and rivers. Rice and sugar are in great quantity, and the trade is in the hands of the Chinese and entirely unknown to Europeans. Any European house that would establish a branch there cannot fail to make a good business.\n\nIt will be dangerous now to do so on account of the pirates bringing their ill-gotten goods for sale. A few months ago, some Macao lorchas were there selling opium, silk, &c., and they had on board large sums of money, $20,000. The Ville D'Agen went to Kunchawong to get a cargo of coolies for Callao. The preceding cargoes had been obtained most rapidly, but it was not the same with us, as we found only 120 coolies when we arrived.\n\nWe found the Chinese very badly disposed towards Europeans, and the Captains of the lorchas were warned several times, as it was the intention of the Chinese to seize them. We had a visit from Father Amat, a French Missionary living at Leechow, who told us that the Mandarins refused to post the treaty of Pekin over the streets and were doing their best to set the people of the country against us.\n\nTwo lorchas put at our service by the Company who chartered us were at anchor at the island of Taiching—ten miles from the ship—and came every ten or twelve days to the ship with the coolies obtained. On 16th Aug., we saw the lorcha No. 16 coming down, and as soon as the lorcha was close to the ship, the mate of the said vessel came on board and reported that the inhabitants of Taiching had made prisoners of three sailors who had gone on shore to get provisions. He came to ask for help to see if he could recover them.\n\nWe gave him two of our men and ammunition and arms; he went back to meet the other lorcha, and the captains held a meeting to see what could be arranged. It was resolved to catch as many of the inhabitants as they could, so that they could be exchanged for the three men that had been caught on shore. Forty-five were taken. At 8 P.M., a Chinaman in our confidence who had been engaging coolies for us came on board the lorcha No. 45 and came to say that he had lost his lorcha, money, crew, and Chinese coolies; four junks were drowned, and said that the three Christians had been killed when they were taken.\n\nAt 9 A.M., we saw an immense quantity of people on shore; the lorchas, fearing to be attacked, began to lift their anchors and commenced coming towards the vessel. At 10 P.M., the tide was favorable, and when the people heard the anchor being raised from the shore, an immense noise was heard—beating drums, tom-toms, &c. Meanwhile, our Chinese confidant was trying to tell the Captain of the lorcha to remain and not be afraid, but nevertheless, the lorchas went down, followed by immense numbers of sampans, but which could not catch them.\n\nThe Chinese confidant, seeing that it was impossible to keep the lorcha inside the River and seeing that the trick had failed, told the mate of the lorcha that a plot had been made by the people on shore to take the lorchas that night and come afterwards and attack the ship. All was well for an hour. The Captains of lorchas put watches on the hatches to watch the Chinese below.\n\nAs soon as the lorcha was close to the ship, the confidant rose with forty-five Chinese. Three jumped on deck and fought with the watchman, but one was wounded, and two jumped into the hold. The Captain came to our ship for help, and we sent an officer and 6 armed men, who, when arrived on board, told the Chinese to surrender through the interpreter, and no harm would accrue to them.\n\nThe Chinese, thinking they would all have to be killed on account of the three sailors killed, refused and began to throw all sorts of missiles at the Europeans, who fired, killing three with firearms and two with lances. The cry was to kill all Christians on deck, and that God would avenge them if they fell (Chinese).\n\nIn their despair, they made two holes in the bottom of the lorcha, and all were drowned, but the lorcha did not sink, having much firewood inside, and the next morning, she was hauled on shore and repaired, and all dead bodies were stuck with sandbags.\n\nThe following morning, 20th, I received orders from the agent to sail, and at 11 A.M., began to get the anchor up, but being deeply imbedded in the sand, we lost one hour and had much trouble. This circumstance gave time to 5 heavily armed lorchas to come down, but it was too late; we had too much advance, and we were able to save our lives and the ship. I went out from the bay, the wind being E.S.E. The lorchas, seeing it impossible to catch us, anchored where we were an hour before.\n\nTwo Company's lorchas came with us. At 5 P.M., at the moment of low tide, we struck a sandbank by 2¼ fathoms water, situated in about the middle of the pass; the pilot said it was shifting. Happily for us, the tide was rising, but the sea was heavy; the shocks were so powerful that I feared to see the spars going over, and I had in a short time 24 inches of water in the hold. The wind increasing, the tide came in fast; I anchored, waiting for the fall tide. This circumstance compelled us to come to Hongkong.\n\n## Letter from Father Amat\n\nThe day of my departure from Kunchawong, 20th Aug., I received 2 letters from Father Amat. In the last, he says: \"The letter written to the Mandarin of Loochow by the Coolie Co. Agent has been handed to him, and I send you the answer. My catechist tells me that it is full of lies and is making fun of strangers, it is certain. The treaty of Pekin has not been posted anywhere here, and he dislikes native Christians more than ever, by the only fact that he thinks they have connection with foreigners. It will not be long before we are persecuted, and if you would write a word to the authorities at Canton, you would oblige us greatly. I am going to do the same myself, and the Mandarins here refuse to do justice to the native Christians.\"\n\n\"I have just heard that you had 3 men killed; I can't believe it true.\"\n\n\"The news has arrived at Loochew; the Mandarin was informed of it, and I doubt not that the attack was planned by him.\"\n\n\"I just wish that this news should come to the notice of the Canton Authorities, to induce them to see if some assistance could not be rendered to poor Father Amat, who has been in that place for the last 10 years.\"\n\n## Trade\n\n293\n\n(Daily Press. China and Japan Funds Report - 11 Sept. 1861)",
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        "content_text": "55\n\ninstead\n\nammond\n\nMINUTE\n\nJI! Robin FEBY\n\n#7\n\n^\n\nNew Hours 25\n\nchong trong\n\n230. 1532\n\nam\n\n27\n\n323\n\ndirected\n\nby the sake of Newcastle to you for\n\ntransmit\n\nthe information that\n\n230\n\nohr 4 hod.\n\nY\n\nRussell\n\na\n\ncopy of\n\ndespatch which has been received from\n\nthe\n\nOffice Administration of the North West Frontier Province\n\nrespecting serious conflicts on the province of Kwangtung, between the Canton River\n\nof the Pirates & Hakkis. Dis has sanctioned\n\nan\n\nexpenditure of One",
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        "content_text": "Private Secretary's Room (continued)\n\n1 Large black side Table\n\n1 Chair Covered with flowered Crimson Silk. 1 Foot Stool Covered with yellow silk\n\n1 Office writing Table with drawers and pigeon holes.\n\n2 Lace Curtains for above windows\n\n1 Table Cover (black & Green)\n\nFront Wall:\n\n4 Chairs, polished wood and Carved high backs.\n\n1 Black wood Table for visiting Books\n\n1 Black wood marble top Table.\n\n1 Stall stand.\n\n1 Oil Cloth along the Centre of the passage\n\nSouth Verandah\n\n2 Canton Sedan Chairs.\n\n44 Black wood, Cane bottom Chairs\n\n1 large mat (door) 5 ft square\n\n2 Canton sedan Chairs of best description: (new)\n\nBilliard Room\n\n1 Full sized Billiard Table by Thornton (no spirit level, otherwise Complete)\n\n6 Small sized Cane bottom ply chairs\n\n1 Small Fender\n\n1 Lamp sack for 10 burners\n\nCentral Hall\n\n1 Coat of arms\n\n2 Black wood marble top side Tables\n\nCentral Hall (continued)\n\n11 High pillar lamps\n\n6 Bracket lamps of one burner each\n\n2 door rugs\n\nStaircase\n\n1 Large Click Pendent Lamp\n\n1 Large side table with marble top\n\n1 Gong.\n\nPassage up stairs\n\n18 Pendent Lamps with red Shades\n\nSteward's sitting room\n\n1 Large China press\n\n1 Heal table 6ft by 4 ft.\n\n1 Black wood side board\n\n5 high backed, cane bottom Chairs\n\n1 Fender and fire irons.\n\nSteward's Bath Room\n\n2 China presses\n\n1 wooden bath tub.\n\nWest Verandah\n\nClothes (fourteen)\n\nBrushes for brushing clothes\n\nBrushes for servants\n\nGranite pedestals:\n\nSteward's Pantry\n\n1 Large China press\n\n1 old Dresser\n\n382\n\nEX\n\nBr. Reg.",
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        "content_text": "speed tatu - for pirate:. pompons- the cost about £20,000 and will porche \n\nlight draft of \n\nbe sold for half Rad \n\n-7 \n\nJusw. \n\nI hope you will. \n\nim wants in mind. \n\nAny thing can be done \n\nthe matter. Bebine te \n\nYours very tigh \n\nMounters & Robust \n\nFOR DESPATCH|PER P. & O. CO/S STEAMER ORISSA. \n\nStraits Times \n\nOVERLAND JOURNAL \n\nVOL II. No. 47 \n\nTANJO NG PAGAR DOCK OOMPANY \n\nLIMITED. \n\n'Capital 125,000 Dollars, IN 1,250 SHARES OF 109 DRS BACH \n\nWITH POWER TO INCREAS \n\nCOMMITTEE, \n\n5. Giában, Begnive. M. F. Davi fazu, Bag C. 1. Parisøya. \n\nC. π. H. Wilsone, ..., \n\nJ. K. So, Tha Ki \n\nChing, \n\n+ \n\nG. Cramer, \n\nC. P. Laila, \n\nTes. Scott. APPLICATIONS FOR SHARES Y NE ΜΑΡΗ ΤΟ \n\nTHO, SCOTT. \n\nActing scere larg. Singapore, Est Sept., 18 53. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nTHE EAST INDIAN UNDERWAITARY ASSOCIATION, indienst ring heen appointed arent \n\nfor the above effies, are presared to grant policies on country or Deme Vozrzen. \n\nCRO. ARMSTRONG & Co. Singapura, 1813 October, 1863. \n\n(..) \n\nSTRAYS TIMES OVERLAND JOURNAL, \n\nSingapore, 22nd December 1863, \n\nThe Straits Times Overland Journal is \n\nSINGAPORE, TUESDAY \n\nSUMMARY \n\nTax London mail of the 10th ul biano reached this by the China on the morning of the 14th instant; and the Messageries steamer Tigre, with the Marseilles mail of the 19th ultimo, came in yesterday morning, \n\nThe Commission appel ted by H. M. Government to enquire into and \n\n22ND DECEMBER, 1863 \n\nvery considerable beacfit by the native triders here. \n\nThe resignation, or as some say the diasissal, of Me. Lay from the office of Commissioner of Castones in China, and Captain Osborne's failure to estab lis the Anglo-Chinese Navy, on what appeared to him a sound basis, are the chid items of intelligence from China, and of which a detailed aremit will \n\nreport upon the condition of the Set-be found in another part of our Jour- nu. Two of the steamers, the amoy tlement has not yet held any sitting. \n\nand the Kwantung have already There are to be three members only- \n\nreached this on their way to Bombay Sir Hercules Robinson, Colune! Ca \n\nthe other steamers it is said, proceed renagh, and Colonel Freeth of the \n\ndirect to England. There can be no Royal Artillery at Ceylon. The latter \n\ndusht that a large sum of money must geatleman has not yet arrived, being \n\nhe last through the miscarriage of detained it is believed as the Court \n\nthe scheute either to the Chinese Go- Martial of Major O'Brien; and until \n\nvemment, the Home Government, or he reaches this, nothing can be done. \n\nthe ship-builders; it is probable how- That the community might not be \n\never that the toriner have been the \n\nvictims. \n\ncharged with having grown luke-waim on the subject of the Transfer, a pub- lic meeting, convened by the Sheriff, was held in the Town Hall on the a committee was 12th instant, when a \n\npublished three hours before the depor-uthted to draw up a repart apoD \n\nturn of eneb Homeward Mail. \n\nIn it \n\nwe intend to give a short sketch of our own doings her, and of what goes on in \n\nthe present condition of the rere- \n\nBLO nuc, commerce, \n\nresmirces of the Straits. \n\nThe information contained \n\nCHINA. \n\nThe news of the past fortnight has been somewhat interesting. The great evout \n\n395 \n\n35 cents. \n\nthat he should have peraeserad, throughout\" ia the same course of action. \n\nWe have nothing to add to what we arated a fortnight ago. The Fleet is still reported as being alient to sail for England; and the whole afair promises to be one of the most dis graceful matters with which the British kame has ever been mixed up. \n\nHang-Chow will no doubt egon fall, and, failing other means, the hoperialists will be able to atarse the Rebels out of Naoking. Between aurrendor and death, the Sonchow arry will no doubt, cease to exist. \n\nFrom Japan we learn that Satsuma still declines to pay the indemnity demanded from him by Admiral Kuper, except condition that every foreigner quits Yoko. hama The British forces in Japun ure evidently waiting for support, and are not likely to withdraw from the country until something has been done much more devi- give than the affair at Kagosinra. \n\nWith regard to Major Gurdon and the Rebels, we have to report that Soochow has fallen. Gorden abecket the city at SAM, on Saturday the 5th inst., and en- tered the place on the avae morning. Dis- sunion and broken wut amongst the rebels. and a party of them, desirous of surrender. ing the city, ent the Mo Wang's head off, Kumour says that 30 60 wanted to fur- \n\nnot only of the fortnight, but of the pre-render, and 11.at 20,00 had remained trus \n\nsent year, has been the dismissal from the \n\nthe surrounding parts to which Singapore in this report will he placed at the he served of 31r. H. N. Lay, who, fur several years back, has filled the post forms a common centre. We exclude all \n\nservice of 11. M. Commissioners, should Commercial Intelligence, in the shape of \n\nof Lispector Genaral at Foreign Customs, Market reports or Fees Current, as these \n\nthey desire to avail of it; but in any \n\nThe pause of this dismissal is understood Publications of this kind already here can ase it will be published for the satis \n\nto bị that Mr. Luy's demands upon the convey much fuller and more reliable in \n\nfaction of the community het \n\nnity here, and of Chinese Gorernment were not only prepoe- formation than we could possibly erody those et home interested in the affairs ferous themselver, but somewhat anopant- in this Journal. Besides, we would desira by this publication to give our own lirtio of the Straits. It is a fact, that the 15 urged. On this head however we have history a place in the minds of the people Transfer has been placed in its present no riculars, but must refer enquirers at home, and to do this well, will require All the space our four pages allow us. We \n\nforward position almost entirely by the despatches sent to Her Majesty's assure our readers that we shall always by the afforts of the retired ralts Re-order by palu Voucher giad to advantage by the suggestions aidents at Home; and som \n\nnight go. Mr. Lay's disusissal is not Bome dis- they may give us, and trust that in this way our Overland Journal may become play such as this, of interest on the and continue a sort of institution among \n\na desirable. Besides, it is neces \n\nof the present Residents, was 日。 \n\nDOMESTIC OCCURRENCES \n\nA \n\nBIRTHS. \n\nAt Singapore, on the 8th inst, the wifu af Capt. Hadiya, of a dan bizt, \n\nAt Singapore, ou the 11th tua aut, thenie \n\nof N. B. WATSon, Eeg of a Nox. \n\nOn the 18th inat, Mus. F. Kusemann \n\neta os. \n\nDIED. \n\nAT MADADCA, on the mining of the 3-d instant, at & o'clock, J. T. Faasen, time. \n\nufe Macros Medical Service \n\nTam following passengers have ar- rived during the fortnight, \n\nPer stealuer China from Galle:- \n\nPar Sing-pure- Mr. and Mrs. Marlin, Mr. mil Mrs. Young and European Founale sorsut, Mr. and Men, Jonas and 2 Jolante, Mrs. Young, Mears, oling, and Atok. \n\nFanghangrass, actio, Swnduse, J. Peyronunt, F. Jasber, A. Daito, A. Join \n\nFor Shanghai, --Mans. Gwyn, Qvilat, W. Hardy, fi. Howard, and Dr. Barclay, \n\nPer steamer Koningen der Neder. landden from Batavia :--- \n\nMeara, Gillian, Bilnek, Wallberg, B. Dom Fiel W. Jackson, Noums, Uyranje Dad Buy Fergusson, l. Pois ou. Alts Bilen \n\nlook and Miss flerne. \n\nPer Messageries Imperiales steamer Tigre :- \n\nFor Singapore-Musern, Van Bommen, senioudt, Schimdt, Kist, Horn, Van Nixsen, Ebrard, Tran- ser, M. M. Scott, Beth, Boterusan. Mr. and Mea Van Laer, Mr. and Mrs. Bruys and 1 julant, Mr. And Mrs. Le Cange and 2 obikleen. \n\nFor Saigon,—Mr. and Mrs. Telesin and family Mgr. Larrier Mazen, Lafou Arou frere and Malane Brisis aud 9 veligiouses, \n\nfur laghong-Mesa, Kerr, J. Smith, Haase, Forbes, Sever, Speccy, Espana, Minana, Har. reny, Morton, Nevelle brdrigues, fermet Dec \n\nSchmidt, Sillem Petit Pierre, and de Hagito and 1 Got, \n\nTus following passengers have de- parted during the fortnight -- \n\nPer steamer Orissa, and to sail to- day. \n\nFrom China- \n\nFor Southmpton. Mra. Fisft, Mr. and Ms. Stiil, and family, and Mr. C.D. Wecka. Far Marseille Mrs. Muthus, child. and servant, Messrs. O'Sullivan, E R. Clapp, and B. F. Funy. \n\nFor Bombay. Mr. Couinisior, Lieut. Paul, and 2 servent, 1 Native office and 4 con-commissioned officers, \n\nFrom Singapore. \n\nBishop Boone and Mrs. Baane and Mr. and Mrs Kucb, \n\nsary to give the very greatest promi- uence to the fact that the actual re- I venae now, exceeds that shewn in the last published statistics by about £35,000; 3 \n\nand there is also good reas sou to believe, that u considerable re- duction of expenditure will be appa- rent. The increase of Revenue is derived from two items alone. The first is an increase on the returns of the Excise farms, which sold in April for £12,000 more than the rate of last year. The other item arises from fact that in our accounts for the the present year we will have twelve \n\nin \n\nsea \n\n(15 \n\nregretted, either by the Customs employés, or by the Foreign Mercantile Community of Chies. With regard to the employés in the Customs service, we do not know the reasons for their not regretting Mr. Lay's Gismissal se only know that such in the Chad. The gratulation of the merchants is much more easily understood, Abuut a year age, the Briel Government thought it to publish a Memorandum which had Buxted from Mr. Lay'e pun, and which was not only called for in the siram. atanes, but not at all coneistant with ub. The object which the lake Inspec tor-fieneral had in view in peuning the netid Merooranium was praballs to exhibit certain amount of temper (not good temper) towards the Foreign Me coucle Community for baring on various occasions displayed towards himself a per- \n\naltogether unprovoked, but would have her much better suppressed. People in Eugland will, we know, believe us, when we see then, last 53. II. N. Lay, in bis Memorandum,\" maligned the Mer- has of China, and that the latter body makenly afforded him some provocatias for doing so. Ilis conilest, however, in act ing upon the procation was inexcusable; and y consequence, that, though an able, l, so far as wo know, a strictly pright man, he rotires from pustic life in China, without the redit or sympathy, which it was, at mu time, ao easily in his power to have arned for bimself. His Buccessor, Mr. R. Hart, euters, office will the general good wishes and esteem of the whole mercantile body. We shall not, henrick, hear of any quarrels between the Merchants and the Custoas \n\nmonths return of the Stamp Tax, in-tain spunt of rascour which was dol stead of three months was the case last accounts; and this will make a difference of £21,000 at the least. \n\nThe Batch Mail brings no further accounts of the Alabama which has very possibly changed her eraising A very suspicious looking gr. Steamer crossed the lows of the Mail boat her way up me \n\non \n\nhere; she is des ribed as a long, low, black painted harque-rigged vessel \n\nflew the French \n\nand the Dutch flag. On board stcamer, she was believed to be the Alabama; but it is just possible that she was the U. steaner 'yning which would equally well suit the des- cription. Whether the diabama is still in the neighbourhood of the Java or not, it is pretty certain that she has committed no more destruction tbere, \n\notherwise the crews of the cap- tured vessels would have been sure to turn up at some of the Dutch ports, \n\nAn amelioration of the regulations relating to the Exports of Arms from this Part, contained in the following Dotification, was published five days ago in the Government Gazelle.\" With reference to Notification No. 146, dated 28th October 1863, His Ho- the Governor has been pleas- ed to dispense with the prescribed de elaration in all cases in which Arms in reasonable quantities may be ex- ported from Ports in the Straits Set- thement to Cochin-China, Siam, the States in the Malayan Peninsula, or any of the Islands in the Easters Ar- chipelago.\" This will be esteemed a \n\nFPT \n\nThe germ of this affair has been tho quadron which arrived in Chins some time ago under the command of Lap twin Sherard Oshorne. The course which Captain Osborne should probably have parsed, was to have reported insett, on his arrival in the Yangtexs river, to the Governor General of the Two King, and to have given him delivery of the Fleet. Mr. Lay, however, is reported to have de. manded the direct recognition by Prince Kuug of Capt. Osborne, and to have de clined delivering over the vessels to aby local provincial officer. Tseng Ko-fan, to whom the Chinese Governatont desired the vessels to be given, is a man of great note, and rulos over not less than 20,000,000 of people, beeides possessing most extensive infance in the Chinese Empire. Mr. Lay, of all men, was to have been expected to have avoided the mistake of ignoring this mandarin; and people hore are surprised \n\nto the cause; and, moreover, that, of tha later number, some still lanhl out in the different parts of the city. The bohowding of the Mo Wang has not only facilited the captuot Stochow, but just go a great wat durmaanse the Rebels ge- nerally- \n\nHango and Nanking act keep up commification; and, as die Rebels base not now, jas 1967 leed in 1860 when they burss hveigung besència ni Nan. way large with s Kiangs or any where else, they will soon be in bad way. Full information has not yet reached un At the late i our last advicea Capt Afurray and Mr. Mayera of the Consulate who had both rone to the front, had not returned with detailed intelligence. \n\nFrom the river Yang.tsze we have no Bows of importance. All is quick in the suuthen ports. \n\nOur contemporary the Daily Press, has the following on the Sll of Soochow ; and we are inclined to boilere it in every par ticular. The Imperialists are cortainly a atupid set neocle, and the sooner we drop assisting them the batter:- \n\nSuch in later of kite at. There are re. liable via in town to the off that Treng o-an, wha hotly pressing Nauting, thst the Chung Wang had left Soochow will the best Taiping troops to its relict; this provi, ou were geitug scarce, and that the pity most fall ung hevet by free from with- \n\nOUT \n\nClining Wings craenation of Sochow is therefore easily aparated fat. We are more- over from the ins · letlar qooked from our cor- respondents, tisat Li Thong, the leader of the dinated party at saustow, had ouried his surrendering the city. and had been puins inurdered for his paine. The defection of the Chang Wang bad karly thrown randiges inte the hands of Lá Wang-whn we should sup pose lead at red into arrangeraunts of capica- İsion with Major Gordon, which arrange. ments would naturally embrace, immanity for himself and wie laid down their prop. The Futai would naturally seek me nadi. vided honor of capturing the city-therefore it doubtless was that be male the bargain wish Gordon's men that they should have two 20ouths pay as componsation for not entering the city. Having thus cleared the stage for bise, the Fatai enters the ei.y, ignores the conditions of surrender, looks and macdere right and tela, and breaks his prondse in Yor- don's ment. \n\nThis is the view we take of the trafter. | Gordon would naturally eeck to Faka van. geance on the rascally Futai and wonid u-tur- tally appeal to General tiroan, wie having supplied at the mairioms for the urge, would of course seek to obrain satisfaction. We Chias Hoochow has fallen, but we are of epi- nion that Gordon will either arrest the Puni or will bring such pressie to bear on him na will sufficiently publish the Blajne's cepag- nanoe to a hat has occurred. \n\nWe learn on good authority ihat upon the fall of Soochow, Gordon will rotire from the Imperial service, and that a Consular notities tion will be issued strictly prohibiting all Briliah kuljerte from engaging their services \n\nher to Tuperialists or Taiping. A charge has clearly come o'er the apris of the dream, and honest convictions have overtaken 1. M. Mmisters. The crooked, underhand, doubled faced policy of the Brucea have been pinye. out, and has exeised the indignation it me, rited-Overland China Mal",
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        "content_text": "ated this Along with le \n\nfo beatley le get of is hele sehrachmin of Funcle & mest bie £40000 for Must independent of Salariis for the alallaching the the Celery has jet. whirlders of Bul to 105 charges the with lo incised of Mr. Lender. ye p (12. Jan cobre.\n\nThe Hong Kong balance is evafording: In but we bi hent & it consul be shaken off. le intustest The Aquals may to fear the bird Halls forwarded assomlig 6-€10.3.11. effencer sacry & I think W. Lenders travelling \n\nLe authorged, Clerk at the sali might be allowed of troper Allt (94 89.) Sund 2. Hii fod. of Hong Kong the + recent confondence with M. Kendir, Mr. you inquiry what pround there waste resalt was suffering til 20000 world come the cost. I can only refly tit my information of conversations & had therfore fuhafe hat have been stated- as acte Rever been there has never все acteral statement of the furtalle cost, aley said what Si H. R. Mustisde H. D. Watch couldable ascertained Les 5870 I calling for Fenders + ht Willin abush he had witten a few Mr. Lundi 1. Qu. 11170. \" 11753. To Mohreham 4.. M. fraham & the Agbels for his informative, &. fretar I To Me Tender I intent to heef the howe Agrals de Agents \n\nM. Lunder 12. Den 11935. To Mr. Thedin the Present. Wither Lee over \n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely, I will reformat the text into proper paragraphs and correct obvious errors.\n\nAlong with Le Beatley, Le Get of is hele sehrachmin of Funcle & mest bie £40,000 for Must independent of Salariis for the attaching the Celery has jet. Whirlders of Bul to 105 charges the with lo incised of Mr. Lender.\n\nThe Hong Kong balance is evading: In but we bi hent & it consul be shaken off. Le intustest The Aquals may to fear the bird Halls forwarded assomlig.\n\nI think W. Lenders travelling Le authorged, Clerk at the sali might be allowed of troper Allt (94 89.) Sund 2. Hii fod. of Hong Kong the recent confondence with M. Kendir, Mr. you inquiry what pround there waste resalt was suffering til £20,000 world come the cost.\n\nI can only reply tit my information of conversations & had therfore fuhafe hat have been stated- as acte Rever been there has never been acteral statement of the furtalle cost, aley said what Si H. R. Mustisde H. D. Watch could able ascertained Les £5870 I calling for Fenders.\n\nWillin abush he had witten a few Mr. Lundi 1. Qu. £11,170. \" £11,753. To Mohreham 4.. M. fraham & the Agbels for his informative, &. fretar I To Me Tender I intent to heef the howe Agrals de Agents M. Lunder 12. Den £11,935. To Mr. Thedin the Present. Wither Lee over\n\nHere is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nAlong with Le Beatley, Le Get of is hele sehrachmin of Funcle & mest bie £40,000 for Must independent of Salariis for the attaching the Celery has jet. Whirlders of Bul to 105 charges the with lo incised of Mr. Lender.\n\nThe Hong Kong balance is evading: In but we bi hent & it consul be shaken off. Le intustest The Aquals may to fear the bird Halls forwarded assomlig.\n\nI think W. Lenders travelling Le authorged, Clerk at the sali might be allowed of troper Allt (94 89.) Sund 2. Hii fod. of Hong Kong the recent confondence with M. Kendir, Mr. you inquiry what pround there waste resalt was suffering til £20,000 world come the cost.\n\nI can only reply tit my information of conversations & had therfore fuhafe hat have been stated- as acte Rever been there has never been acteral statement of the furtalle cost, aley said what Si H. R. Mustisde H. D. Watch could able ascertained Les £5870 I calling for Fenders.\n\nWillin abush he had witten a few Mr. Lundi 1. Qu. £11,170. \" £11,753. To Mohreham 4.. M. fraham & the Agbels for his informative, &. fretar I To Me Tender I intent to heef the howe Agrals de Agents M. Lunder 12. Den £11,935. To Mr. Thedin the Present. Wither Lee over",
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        "content_text": "## LAND TELEGRAPH TO HONG-KONG AND THE CHINESE PORTS\n\nIt is part of Captain Sprye's plan to unite Rangoon and Hong-Kong by a line of overland wires: thus enabling news from Europe to reach Hong-Kong before the mail steamer has finished coaling in Ceylon, and three weeks before she brings her mail to the most southerly of the Chinese ports. Of the practicability of this project, there seems to be no question among persons on the spot. The Rangoon papers write in its favour, and the general body of mercantile men in the East regard it as perfectly feasible and most desirable.\n\nOur English Government at first looked unfavourably on the proposition, and long snubbed it officially as an impracticable project. The treaty with Burmah has, however, removed what was, in truth, the only serious difficulty in the way. We believe that if adequately pressed by mercantile bodies, like our Chambers of Commerce, the Government will be driven to take steps to remove any other difficulties, except those which should be left to private enterprise. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has recently presented a second memorial on the subject, and Leeds has before now made representations in favour of thus opening up the West of China. Let not its energy flag.\n\n## ESMOK, ON THE SOUTH-WEST OF CHINA\n\n(Rangoon Gazette, 19th May, 1863.)\n\nOne of the chief difficulties which has beset Captain Sprye in his energetic attempts to bring about direct commercial communication between British Burmah and Western China is the supreme ignorance of objectors. Sometimes the provinces of China bordering on Burmah are described as being unfruitful and sterile, and the population scanty; sometimes all but impassable mountains are said to block up the way; and, among other ingenious guesses, to assist in bringing disfavour upon the project, is that started, we believe, by the `Friend of India`, viz., that \"Esmok is a myth.\" But there is now some chance of justice being done to the projector of this direct route. Mr. Bixby, of the Toungoo missionary establishment, is prosecuting inquiries regarding the South-Eastern Shan States, and South-Western China; and the result is that such information as he has collected inclines him to think favourably of Captain Sprye's proposition. The province of Yunan has been described to him as populous and productive, and Samoke, or Esmoke (Esmok), as a large and wealthy city, inhabited chiefly by Chinese, but partly by Shans and other races.\n\nIn our extract columns, we give Mr. Bixby's letter in full from the `Rangoon Times`. It will, doubtless, attract the attention of Captain Sprye, who is at this present time engaged in circulating among mercantile men at home the information which led to his conception of the practicability of an overland trade way from Rangoon to China. Mr. Bixby's inquiries, so far as they have yet been prosecuted, are all in favour of Captain Sprye, and all against the crude surmises of the half-informed, or else utterly ignorant people, who set themselves up for critics of his project.\n\n### FROM M. H. B., Toungoo, 4th May, 1863\n\n\"I noticed in your paper, a short time since, that the existence of such a city as Esmok, on the Chinese frontier, is questioned; that it was called 'a myth, &c., &c.\n\n\"I have taken some pains to ascertain the truth about it, but until to-day had been unable to get any reliable information from the Shans. This morning, I found a Shan, who came from Mung-la, opposite Esmok according to Yule's map, and, without giving him any names, required him to give me an outline map of the country, with the names of all the principal places. Among the number of these, I find Seing-sa-moke, which is, beyond question, Esmok. It is a Shan word. Seing means a Buddhist temple, or zayat, and sa-moke is descriptive of the land upon which it stands. The city is called, therefore, quite naturally, Sa-moke; and Esmok and Samoke are quite as similar as Dow-way and Tavoy, Mau-lamyeing and Maumain, Pyeemnico and Prome, Sittoung and Sitting, and many other Burman names anglicised.\n\n\"Sa-moke is said to be a large city, inhabited principally by Chinese, but with a large admixture of Shans, and other races. The country around must be very populous and wealthy.\n\n\"Judging from the accounts given me by natives, Yunan must be a remarkable country, both as it regards the people and the natural productions. More complete and reliable information will be forthcoming. Such data as I have lead me to think favourably of Captain Sprye's project.\"\n\n## LAND TELEGRAPH TO HONG-KONG AND THE CHINESE PORTS\n\n(Glasgow Herald, 14th July, 1863.)\n\nA Committee of the House of Commons, taken aback by answers made to them by Brinsley, the hydraulic engineer, in regard to a project under consideration, asked him abruptly what he thought Providence intended rivers for? What do I think Providence intended rivers for?\" repeated Brinsley, \"why, to feed navigable canals, of course!\" If Brinsley was entitled to the joke for the sake of the good philosophy in it—though the Chinese, whose commerce depends so much on their canals, would probably think that his raison d'être for rivers was quite sufficient—much more might our utilitarian merchants be pardoned if they thought that God had created electricity with a special eye to the electric telegraph. In this mode of application, it has subserved our highest worldly interests to an extent which could never have been anticipated.\n\n| Route                | Distance (geographical miles) |\n| -------------------- | ------------------------------ |\n| London to Belgrade   | 900                            |\n| Belgrade to Constantinople | 450                        |\n| Constantinople to Bussorah | 1100                       |\n| Bussorah to Kurrachee | 1050                          |\n| Karrachee to Calcutta | 1155                          |\n| Calcutta to Dacca    | 135                            |\n| Dacca to Rangoon     | 480                            |\n| Rangoon to Shooe-Gyen | 130                            |\n\nThere are few of our merchants, if they look at their maps and follow the route we have described, who will not feel their mouths watering, in a figurative sense, when they find the telegraph so terminating in Pegu. Their eyes will traverse, with eager and wistful glance, the narrow overland space that separates Shooe-Gyen from that mighty gateway of our commerce with China—Hong-Kong; and they will naturally ask themselves why the Home and Indian Governments, having wisely and successfully carried the wires so far, should not carry them the little farther that is thus needed to bring Hong-Kong into direct telegraphic communication with London? The distance, compared with that which will soon be traversed by the telegraph to India, is insignificant, and 120 miles of it would be over British territory. We should then, according to the detailed statement of the Messrs. Sprye hereon, have 279 miles from the north-east frontier of British Pegu, across Burmah, by the cities of Kiang-Tang and Kiang-Hung, to Sz-mau (Esmok) on the south-west frontier of China. Thence along the imperial roads, down the Pearl and West River valleys, through six or seven of the principal Southern Chinese cities, to Canton, would be 757 miles; with 70 more from that city to Hong-Kong. These distances yield a total of only 1,226 geographical miles, or, by adding one-fourth, as before, for deviations, 1,534.\n\nBeing then on the eve of completing an unbroken line of telegraphic communication from London as far as Eastern Pegu, a distance of 6,750 geographical, or about 7,100 English, miles, it becomes a question of great and pressing importance, especially to our merchants and shipowners, in view of the vast interests which we now have springing up in China, whether the Home and Indian Governments should not take the steps necessary for carrying the wires over the 1,500 miles of land that separate us from Hong-Kong. The project is not new. For several years, the Messrs. Sprye, whose names are well known in connection with our commercial system in the East, have been pressing on both Governments the importance of thus extending the Indian wires, by land, from Pegu to Hong-Kong and the open ports of China; and have spared no pains in endeavouring to satisfy them and the public as to the practicability of the proposal.\n\n## THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH BURMAH\n\n(Manchester Guardian, 21st July, 1863.)\n\nIn the `Guardian` of the 18th ultimo, we published the text of the treaty concluded with the King of Burmah on the 10th of November. We will here notice those provisions of it which seem to us to possess most interest to home manufacturers, merchants, and shipowners.\n\nArticle 4 of the treaty, referring to goods imported into Rangoon from any British or foreign territory, for export to the Burmese territory, stipulates that—\"If such goods are declared for export to other territories, and not for sale in the Burmese territory, the Burmese ruler shall, if he believes the manifest to be true, not cause bulk to be broken, and such goods shall be free of duty.\"\n\nNow, the western provinces of China comprise the only \"other territories\" beyond Burmah that can be commercially approached from Rangoon.\n\nAnother most valuable provision in the treaty, in reference to the opening of direct trade between Eastern Pegu and China across Burmah, is that part of article 7 which provides that:—\"British merchants shall be allowed to settle and to have lands...",
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        "content_text": "30 \n\n27237 \n\nI \n\nCame with the Red Flags with them. They were \nnot dressed as soldiers but they all had \nI do not know the name \nof the \nplaces I \nwas taken to. I \nbelong \nto \nanother district and was \na \nstranger \nthere. I only know the river, not the \nland places. I was about five \ndays with them. The \nparty were always several hundred strong. \n\nI \ndo not know what I was with were \nWhite \nor not, I do not know what they were \nfighting for. I \nwas made to carry ammunition. \nI saw them attack some persons to rob \nthem, but I never saw \nany fighting. \nI was always in the country, never in \nthe towns. The Prisoner's \nparty \nwhen \nbeaten by the Mandarins were several \nhundreds, not thousand. The Prisoner \n49",
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        "content_text": "## to \n1. \n\nMr. Mersen \n\nTonglory, 25 Sept 1805.\n\nThe Rt. Honble R. Cardwell.\n\nNr. 144.2m \n\nReceived \n\nForeign Office - \n\"Consular Branch\" for services rendered to the \nM. Attorney General Smale \n\nRelative to a sure pract \n\nthe \n\nHammond \n\n६ \n\nJohn 22 \n\nMu \n\nMongkong \n162.11129 \n(ame? 11625) \n355 \n25 Nov. 185 \n\nLam directed the \nLord Cardwell to transmit \n& for laid before Cant \nbe \n\nClarendon \n& \n\nJo \n\nthe rescript \n& you better of the 24 Sept \n1813 \na \n\ncopy of a despatch \n\nFrom the Office Admr the Govt of Hongkong stating that he has heard \nIn unofficial way \nthat \nthe decision, respecting \nto In Smale of \nBagment \nA sum of Money claimed \nlegally for servin Alleged to have been rendend to the \nConsalar servin in \nhas been rever \nRed \nChina, \nMr. Cardwell find o \n\n## INDEX",
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        "content_text": "## \n275 \n\nOrd. of 1864: to apply a sum not exceeding $613,000 to the Public service of the year 1865-66 by a Loan to cover a portion of the expense of Public Works.\n\n2. by a stamp tax.\n\nTheir Lordships do concur in M. Cardwell's proposal to inform Mr. Robinson that in the event of the Local Revenue of 1865 being insufficient to meet the total expenditure of the year, it will be open to the Legislative Council to determine whether the deficiency shall be met by ... you chedient te ant, Heel...",
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        "content_text": "## \nI have the honor to forward a case commenced before this Magistracy Hong Kong on 24th March, 1886.\n\nA doubt arises as to the jurisdiction of this Court, as the offence having been committed in the Canton River. I have to request advice as to the course to be pursued from the Honorable Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Signed) Arch C. Smith, \nActing Police Magistrate.\n\n## \n### Marginalia or unrelated text fragments\n! \nadd that I do not understand what he meant by getting or pursuing aid ...\n\nIt then ... God. – & that he ...\n\nBut all communications with the Chinese authorities should be conducted on a formal basis to Consular or diplomatic authorities...\n\n### Other text fragments\n8129\nCopy\n110\n·10.\n214\n87\nW. & Mever, Esq.\n\n### Metadata or file reference\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present, but a similar reference might be \"8129\" or \"110 ·10.\" which could be file or case numbers.",
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        "content_text": "452\n\nwith the view of communicating with this chief, the leader of the Red Flag pirates, by enlisting the services of Hongshing, to proceed in company with Vessels of the Customs' steamer, which has been lent to him, and to make a united attack upon the above pirates. On a day being appointed by mutual agreement to this end, the Acting Vice Commodore dispatched the Prefect of Nan-shun-fu, Mei, and the Lieutenant Colonel commanding the right wing of the Au Ping division, to proceed on board the Customs steamer in company with the Vice Consul, Mr. Mayers (whose cooperation in this matter has been separately requested), attended by junks, to the rendezvous appointed for the junction with the British Vessels.\n\nThe gun-boats carrying the remainder of the Chinese force, being subject to the necessities of wind and tide, will leave at once, in order to proceed through the inner waters to the mouths of the West River at Anung Yai mun, where they will take up a position of observation and blockade, until the force of British gunboats, accompanied by the Pirate-hunters' Steamer, shall advance to the attack upon Pan shuei and the adjacent places, when they will close in from the rear to intercept and prevent their flight. It is most important for the security of the Coast that so great an evil as that entailed by the existence of this band of pirates should be swept away.",
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        "content_text": "presence of pocooles intermixed with a red and white substance of a gravelly and rather chalky nature would lead to the inference that it consists of what nearly the whole of the Island of Hong Kong is formed, namely of Granite in a state of decomposition, the clay being probably formed by the decomposition of the Felspar in the granite. It will be impossible to make a thorough inspection of the bed of the reservoir till after the Trials, the test holes that have been sunk are 10 feet in depth only.\n\nThe proposed Embankment will be laid on a bed of Concrete and will be formed of material from the inside bed of the Reservoir carried by coolies in baskets and rammed in 12 inch layers. The puddle wall will be formed of Canton river mud, a most excellent material for the purpose, it will be protected by decomposed Granite and Lime also rammed in layers. The up side and top of the Embankment will be faced with Granite in 12 inch courses laid in Cement, and pointed with oil Putty.\n\nA Valve well will be constructed on the South East side of the Embankment and 25 feet above the Bed of the Reservoir, within this place Valves will be placed to draw off the water at different levels, a Culvert will communicate between the valve well and the Gauge Basin, and in this culvert 10 pipes will be laid to draw off by a syphon arrangement the lower 25 feet of water from the Reservoir. The Valve well and Culvert will enable the valves and Syphon to be always within reach of examination and repairs.\n\nPerhaps the most important portion of this work is the means for safely passing off flood waters. Annual rainfall during the last seven years, the year 1860 excepted, will be found from the accompanying statement to be 84 inches. The area of the gathering ground is 330 acres and the Reservoir Area will probably be about 30 acres. I propose to construct the Bye Wash as shown on the plan 50 feet wide and calculate that it will discharge 11,016,000 cubic feet of water or a rain fall on the Gathering Ground of nearly 6 inches per hour; it would appear to be impossible that such a rain fall as 6 inches per hour could ever fall, there has however been a depth of 2.6 inches of water over the existing weir which is 120 feet wide, and simply give a water way of 400 square feet in place of 300 square feet which has virtually been found to be required. A Culvert under the Bye Wash is provided for use in case of emergency, this with the sluice valves in the Valve Well will discharge a further 2,091,000 cubic feet per hour.\n\nDuring the Construction of the Embankment a temporary Bye Wash must be formed to carry off flood water and the nature of the ground will necessitate its being placed where the permanent Bye Wash will be formed, but of course at a lower level probably 15 feet above the Bed of the Reservoir or at the Level at which it is proposed to construct the main Culvert. I should hope to be able to complete the Embankment to...",
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        "content_text": "(Living Room continued)\n\nCappier\n\n1 Bender - Frono Coffier Coal Scuttle and shovel\n\n1 Red Silk Fire Screen\n\n16 A. Mahogany Dining Table Seven leaves\n\n16.\n\n17\n\n6 Cornices over curtains\n\n18 | Weel Rug at Door\n\nrawing Room.\n\nForn\n\nRemote\n\n1 A. Brumpels Carpet same as Dining Room 2 years in use\n\n2 Flow Holland Enver for above\n\n3) An Axminster Rug\n\nForn on various places. Curtains for & Windows same as Dining Room Muslin Curtains Forn + Seil. 5/3 Cmoole Tables in Walnut Wood, with morfle Rim round centre one broke.\n\nTops for Piers between Windows\n\n6\n\n3 Pair Glopes over the above unsuitable frames\n\n7 feet 3 inches with Shaped back Springs\n\nAn Oval Shaped Centre Ottoman 7 feet by 5. Silk faded. stuffed covered in Marion and gold brocaded Silke\n\n8 A fine Holland Cover for above bound in Marven\n\nDrawing Room (Continued)\n\n2 Couches Brown Holland Covers\n\n4 Puntalis complete\n\n4 Small Marble Top Ten Paps.\n\n2 Marble Top side Tables\n\nArm Chairs Covered in Marom ant Gold ensuite with rest\n\nRemarks\n\nThe tops stained\n\n22 of Furniture\n\nTopo scratched tarnish defaced\n\nOne Broken-\n\n2 Black more Marble Tops flower Standts\n\n4 Sea Poys.\n\n1/2 Conversation Couches covered en suite.\n\n4 Prie Dien Chairs\n\nA. Fender and Five frons. broken A. Pier glass for Mantil Piece and Sailed\n\n12 Chairs in Walnut Wood seats spring chair Top broken\n\nStuffect and Covered insuite with Alleman\n\nHolland Covers for above for\n\n6 Walnut Fly Chairs illuminated with Coler and gold.\n\n12/6 Evonizia Chairs\n\n2- damaged\n\n13\n\n1 Centro Pendant Lamp of 4 Dumas from\n\ntnice I Ingall camps of 3 Burss sacks\n\nalir Prestat Lamps of 2 Banners white of\n\n6 Cornices over curtain\n\n2 Footstools. Covered ensuite\n\na Coffin Cool Scuttle and Shovel\n\nOne Wool Rug at Door\n\none Round Table.\n\nVestibule\n\nloracked in centre\n\nCR\n\n[$o lee returned to the makes a mot indifferent Articto be be replaced by.\n\nare made of Seak\n\nA best Binsels Corfect ensuite with drawing's 2 years and dining Rooms 26' x 12'\n\nA flow\n\nA Suit Holland for or dilto of Curtains for Windows 2 of Reps for one large of Reps finishest to match those in the large rovins, and two of Lace with Sathe and Complete Pulley Rods.\n\nof Gilt indest Cornice (poole) with ornamentale to centre and ends.\n\nanto in 10\n\nM\n\nNo Pulley\n\nGas Samp with 3. Bounas Marble Top Tables Japanese Pattern Wants of varnish",
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        "content_text": "What bus occupied so much confidence & Eminence here?\n\nThe surrender of China, Prince Thung's independence now than mittel & the St. Mandarins was also seen here from the 8.0 in July last in 1873.\n\nDr. Robertson & you renounce on LIC 20. I think our it with the Alli attached to it anti-pini pi all the information Red brag uprasid Fi & Noyes.\n\nThis dealt with enormities which have reference to the rights of Chinese to Anti-Christian Resolution to the consequence of that state, British Jules, & aiences out state Lager Juistion Zing.\n\nFor considering his further Cover = fondeure their Lust Canasvon une Chinese of opinion bit fersons of origin shutel and be intillat to duon protution pou ki.\n\nButleniular Authenties Milit Salzuli without producing a Certificate that they were character Entitled L·. Mal.\n\nSi Dr. Alcort has made huller a hoture warning Natal Fabule of Chinese descent against settling in Chinese Dimitory as un contrary to Treaty.\n\nA list of the Mazarati potes see separate sheet.\n\nPage 15",
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        "content_text": "427\n\nList of Apparatus required for lectures on\n\nChemistry &\n\nBeakers, Bohemian Glass,\n\nBell Jars,\n\nwith stoppers (1-6) one 6x 5 with Knob and ground edges.\n\none nest (1-8)\n\none 10x\n\ntwo 8oz\n\none with tubulures\n\nstoppered Jars for collecting gas at pneumatic trough\n\nthree common\n\nFlasks, three Bohemian Glass, 12 oz.\n\n1 doz Florence\n\n1⁄2 doz Glass funnels assorted\n\n3 trumpet shaped\n\n1½ doz thistle headed funnel tubulr.\n\nCover and receivers, assorted\n\n1 doz glass discs (for\n\nassorted glass rod\n\n2 lbs assorted\n\nSoft glass tubing 4 lbs\n\n1/2 doz Retorts\n\n1/2 doz Woulff's Bottles,\n\nstoppered\n\nThree\n\n1\n\nTest tubes\n\n3\n\none 2 lbs capacity, two necked\n\none 3 lbs\n\nthree necked\n\n1 doz 3 inch\n\n2 doz 4,5,6 inch\n\ntube cleavers\n\n2 tube Stands\n\nassorted.\n\nJars.\n\nW...",
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        "content_text": "霎\n\n71784\n\n45\n\nRoyal Mint, Hong Kong, April 16, 188?.\n\nSoon this dry ... mod losers of daughter Laven ... arthest quotice from Whir Kving served from the Examining Department and find the Mandura within the Umedu.\n\nShar ... hover Your Most Cord!!\n\nThe Mint, Hong Kong\n\nTo the Hon. the Maj.Gen. que Ca Ihr McAnder Masteropple think",
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        "content_text": "(nviterate smuggin.) te R Macdonnell \n\nstating that the Man \n\nsiplum it - \n\nci om \n\nof the test men in H. Ker, & tastel fiind of the Bitest Sort- Gor! \n\nOomen it is imposible to kaur the ruth hen. \n\nthat itli a \n\ndecision of \n\nWhat is married à \n\nquestion for the simil The 1.0ft pe Morijen \n\nattains (as no Eleit is) and \n\nthat hard Starly \n\nbein \n\nconciper lip \n\nAgainst the A God. \n\nassenst \n\nFen \n\nGi \n\nwith all the \n\ndevised \n\nI dond in Recefan \n\nayth the dom \n\nBut \n\nBend \n\nthis \n\nincorporating in the draft \n\nH.R.. an ach? \n\na 7903 H.R. \n\ndespatch. \n\n13 \n\n15/9 \n\nW. I han don \n\nI quite \n\nMe? \n\nyou the devi \n\nindependent Authorities \n\nhup cause prite File old West; vien \n\nJust not for to affecting their subje \n\nmore Canals \n\n& Wpport hound if pustionable \n\nPage 90\n\nSEIZURE AND CONFISCATION OF THE BRITISH STEAMER \n\n\"PRINCE ALBERT.\" \n\nCAPTAIN GODSIL'S DECLARATION. \n\nCANTON 30th March, 1866. \n\nIn Her Britannic Majesty's Court at Canton, Friday the Thirteenth day of March, 1866, John Godsil, Master Mariner, a native of Ireland, residing at Hongkong makes oath and says :\n\nI am master of the British Steamer Prince Albert, the Colonial Register of which dated Hongkong, 10th August, 1863, I now produce. The owner of the steamer is Kwok A' Cheong of Hongkong, \n\nThe steamer has been under repairs, receiving new boilers, &c., for some seven months past, and I was appointed to command her on completion of her repairs, on the 22nd of the present month. On that day I was ordered by Mr. Kwok A' Cheong to proceed to sea, with a Chinese, whose name I do not know, on board, for the purpose of towing a native junk up from near Shuei Tung. Shuei Tung is a port on the West Coast, beyond Tung Pak. \n\nI had been at that place before some years ago, and knew the coast. Having obtained a clearance from the Harbour Master's Office, at Hongkong, which I now hand in, I proceeded to sea, On the 23rd instant, about 10 P.M. I arrived off Shuei Tung, and anchored under the lee of one of the islands, distant about twelve miles from the port. The following morning I was requested by the owner of the junk to give him a boat to take him inside the River, off the mouth of which we were lying, in order to see whether his vessel had arrived. As I had but few hands on board, and a number of suspicious looking junks were in the neighbourhood, I declined to lend a boat, but told the Chinaman I would weigh anchor and go inside the bar to see whether the junk was there. Having gone inside the bar I gave the Chinaman a boat to proceed up the river in search of his junk. It was about 7.30 A.M. on the 24th instant when I anchored inside the bar; and at about 4 P.M. the boat I had lent returned without the Chinaman, with a message that there were no tidings of the junk, and requesting me to wait for a day or two, in order that he might go down to the place where he lived, further westward, to inquire respecting her. sent back a message by the boat, saying I would wait until the morning of Tuesday, the 27th instant, and if the junk did not appear by that time I would make the best of my way back to Hongkong. Not thinking the steamer safe where she lay, owing to the piratical appearance of junks that were in the neighbourhood, I proceeded up the river, to a distance of five or six miles above the batteries, and anchored below the trading junks, within sight of Shuei Tung. My object in proceeding so far was to be in a position to obtain assistance in case of a piratical attack. It was towards dusk on Saturday when I anchored there. On Monday, the 26th instant, about 5 P.M., the revenue cruiser Hai Ching came up the river, and anchored some two hundred yards from the Prince Albert. The Commander came on board my steamer immediately and informed me that as I was lying in a Port not opened by Treaty it was his duty to take possession of my steamer and to take her to Canton. He then took charge of the vessel with an armed force, to which, I of course, made no resistance. By order of the Commander of the revenue cruiser, the engineer of the latter disabled my engines, to prevent my getting up steam. On the following morning, Tuesday, the 27th instant, my engines were again put in working order, and steam was got up on both vessels, which proceeded towards Canton in company. \n\nWe arrived at Canton on the evening of the 29th instant. \n\nThe crew of the Prince Albert at the time leaving Hongkong was composed of the following individuals : \n\nCaptain, John Godsil; 2 Engineers, Chinese; 13 Firemen, sailors and boys, all Chinese. \n\nPage 90\n\n \n90",
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        "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\nM363.\n\n18th September 1867.\n\nGovernor\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell,\n\nto\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Buckingham & Chandos\n\nVictoria\n\nForward report of Colonial Surgeon shewing satisfactory state of health of prisoners\n\nin.\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nstatistical return of the condemned\n\ncannot be the bathing\n\nRad balan\n\n...\n\nC$3.\n\n7 2\n\nvaryn\n\nof hiiseny\n\n887 seskaters.\n\nthe baske\n\nsee his fracr\n\nmeniti\n\npropution of deaths to\n\n...\n\n2-7\n\n1867 Kan\n\n866. But\n\n...\n\nof the autosune\n\nSo far\n\nMoger\n\n-gered of\n\nBilly\n\n...\n\n1 Enclosure.\n\nBac\n\nic Patinet.\n\nItem lev\n\n...\n\nWith\n\nin 1865\n\nkav fa-\n\nemposible to\n\n...\n\nany\n\nVjkean\n\nP\n\nMarch\n\n27 11\n\n...\n\n863.11451\n\nMemorandum by Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell\n\nNo.150.\n\nMINUTE\n\n#Rover\n\nM'Adderle\n\nDuty Buckingham\n\nDECR\n\nAneu\n\nShave bo\n\n...\n\n17.\n\nDee\n\n354\n\n3 der ? /69.\n\nThe right of you despotic\n\nNo 363 of the 18th Sept.\n\nsalong\n\na report from the Colonial\n\nSurgeon\n\non\n\nthe subject of the\n\nhealth of the Prisoners\n\nconfined in\n\nShave to express my\n\nsatisfaction at your\n\nreport stating\n\nthat every\n\ncare\n\nattention\n\nshall\n\nbe taken the\n\nhealth\n\nThe Prisoner, but I\n\nhave to point out to\n\nyou\n\nthat the Exact\n\nof Dr. Murray's\n\nreport cannot be denied\n\nPage 364\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 365",
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        "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nWe were just able, as we were going to press with our last, to announce the arrival of Sir Harry Parkes and suite in the **Basilisk**. The American and Dutch Ministers having returned before, the corps diplomatique usually resident in Yedo was made once more complete by the arrival of M. Leon Roches from Nagasaki in the **Quarriere** on the 7th inst. It has since received an addition in the person of M. le Comte de la Tour, who arrived in the French mail on the 9th inst. to represent in Japan the Kingdom of Italy; and by the same opportunity M. 'Kint de Roodenbeck, Minister for Belgium, returned from a lengthened tour in China. We hear that Mr. Eugene van Reed, an American gentleman who has resided here since the ports were first opened, is on the point of concluding a treaty with the Shiogoon for the Sandwich Islands, and Sweden will also soon be represented. The advantage accruing to either party to several of these newly formed alliances are not, at present, apparent, but no one can tell what the future may bring forth.\n\n[Aug. 13, 1867.\n\nIt was remarkable as to be an absolute wonder: it would be most beneficial for the trade if it were not, on the return of the ship and cargo to Shanghai, regrettable were its progress now to be checked by a refusal to permit its discharge. \"It was not allowed to import cargoes from the North here; those cargoes could not be sold here, but must be sent away,\" was the reply received at an application on the subject to the Taotai's office; and here the matter rested; for more than eighteen months the northern trade has been closed to foreign shipping, no vessel except the two in question having been chartered since August, 1865. The occasion of Sir Rutherford Alcock's visit has been taken by the Chamber of Commerce to address a letter to him on the subject; but their action had been anticipated by his Excellency, who had addressed the Governor-General of Nanking on the subject a few days previously. Tsen-kwo-fan's reply reiterates the false assertion of the Tsotai, that no prohibition against the employment of foreign vessels in the bean trade exists. He refers to the proclamation issued last year by the Taotai as a proof that no official interference has been exerted, and says H.M.'s Consul acknowledged that the behaviour of Chinese officials in the matter called for general gratitude. And now another proclamation has been issued, which has, we are glad to learn, had the effect of encouraging Chinese merchants to charter a whole fleet of vessels from hence to the northern ports and back. As, judging from previous experience, they have doubtless not done this without ascertaining the Taotai's real intention on the subject, we may hope that the permission now accorded is genuine.\n\n## CHINA. SHANGHAI.\n\nDates from this port are to the 23rd June, two days later. The outward mail of May 10 was delivered on the 22nd June, with London telegrams to May 30. The following few items of news are from the **North China Herald**:\n\nThe body of the second officer of the ship **Lennox Castle**, who had been missing for a fortnight, was found on the 17th June in the river. It is supposed that he was drowned on the 2nd June, as he left the ship about six p.m. on that day and nothing had been heard of him since. A court of inquiry was held to endeavour to ascertain the circumstances under which he met his death, but failed.\n\nFurther correspondence regarding the new rules proposed by the Silk Guild has passed between the Chamber of Commerce, the foreign officials, and the Taotai; also further voluminous correspondence regarding the employment of foreign vessels in the bean trade. The Taotai's late proclamation on the latter subject has, we are glad to learn, encouraged the charter of a number of vessels, and demand still continues. It remains to be seen whether the permission accorded is, this time, **bonâ fide**; or whether, on their return to Shanghai with cargoes, permission to land the cargoes will be again refused.\n\nThe negotiations that have taken place during the last two years regarding the employment of foreign ships in the bean trade disclose an amount of duplicity on the part of the Chinese authorities as disgraceful as it was unwise. So long ago as March, 1862, official intimation was given that the prohibition laid on the export of pulse and bean cake from the ports of Chefoo and Newchwang under the British flag had been rescinded, and a remunerative trade to foreign shipping was opened up. Two years later, when the danger which had induced the concession had passed away, and foreign assistance was no longer needed to prevent the Taiping occupation of Shanghai, the privilege accorded was secretly withdrawn. No open warning was given of the change, but, in June, 1865, vessels arriving here with beancake from the North found themselves prohibited from discharging their cargoes; and shortly afterwards, on the 3rd of August, a formal notice was issued that all shippers in foreign bottoms would subject themselves to this penalty.\n\nA disturbance took place at the Canton Theatre in the Maloo in consequence of three foreigners entering the theatre and some Chinese attendants, but not understanding them they sat still. The audience then commenced leaving the theatre, throwing cups, &c., but there do not appear to have been any severe injuries received by anyone.\n\nAn account is given of the formal opening of the new Racquet Court on the 19th June. The building quite comes up to, if it does not exceed expectation, and comprises every comfort and convenience for players. It has been erected at a total cost, including the purchase of land, of about 13,000 taels.\n\nA meeting for the discussion of missionary topics was to be held at the rooms of the Asiatic Society on the 24th June, which it was hoped would be the first of a series.\n\nTwenty-three mows of land near Messrs. Gibb Livingston's wharf, having 300 feet water frontage, have been sold at auction for 17 taels per mow.\n\nIt has been resolved to erect the following lights at or near the entrance to the mouth of the Yangtze:\n| Light | Type | Elevation | Visibility |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| North Saddle Island | Revolving Light of the first order | 250 feet |  |\n| Gutzlaff Island | Fixed White Light | 210 feet | 15 miles over the Northern half, and 20 miles over the Southern half of the horizon |\n| Tung-sha Bank | Revolving Red Light | 38 feet | 12 miles all round the horizon |\n| Kintoan Beacon | Fixed Light, with short eclipses |  | 12 miles, obscured on the land side |\n\nEventually, at the request of several native consignees, permission was granted for discharge of vessels that had been chartered previous to the date of the prohibition, but an intimation was renewed that none chartered subsequently would be allowed to land their cargo. Shanghai was the only port at which this prohibition was enforced, so it would appear that the local Government and not that at Peking is at fault. Vessels have continued to run from Chefoo and Newchwang to the southern ports without let or hindrance.\n\nThe thanks of firms interested in the shipping trade are due to Messrs. Tilby and Co. for the persistence with which they brought these facts to the notice of H.M. Consul, and urged the address of energetic remonstrance both to the local authority and to Peking, while others abandoned the cause in despair. On the 15th June, 1866, the public notification by the Taotai, for which they pressed—that natives as well as foreigners were at liberty to employ foreign vessels in the trade—was at length obtained. The Taotai denied all interference on the part of himself or his subordinates, and officially proclaimed that \"the conveyance had been authorised of pulse and beancake in foreign vessels from Newchwang and Tongchow.\" \n\nWe are indebted to the **Shanghai Recorder** for the following:\n\"A Chinese official recently arrived from Nanking expresses his doubts as to the possibility of ever terminating the Nienfei troubles. This, he says, is a different affair to the Taiping rebellion, in which the opposition was greater, but it was at least concentrated, and the Government knew where to go and oppose the insurgents. But with the Nienfei it is hopeless. So soon as a force is brought against them, they disperse and are off to the mountains; while no sooner are the Imperial troops removed than they are back again. The same person expresses his doubts as to the reported successes of Li in the North, adding that these victories are always egregiously exaggerated.\"\n\nWe regret to hear that the S.S. **N. Company's** new steamship **Mancha**, which left Shanghai for Tientsin on the 16th June, had the misfortune to strike on a rock off the Shantung promontory, and was compelled to return as fast as steam could bring her.\n\nWe are glad to hear (says the **Friend of China**) that Mr Chaloner Alabaster, whose decoration of the Star of China we noticed before, is likely to receive a more substantial **douceur** in the shape of a thousand dollars from his Excellency the Taotai, this being offered for his services in establishing and carrying out so economically the institution known as the Mixed Court, the sum to be paid from the Court's fee chest, provided his Excellency the British Minister does not say nay. All we say is we most cordially wish he may get it!\n\n## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nIt is stated that the firm of Mackellar and Co., of Hankow, is in difficulties.\n\nThe following little story, given by the **North China Herald**, is curiously illustrative of Chinese social life, and though bearing the appearance of a romance is nevertheless perfectly true:\nAbout thirteen or fourteen months ago, the mother of a young lady residing outside the north gate of Shanghai city discovered that her daughter was enceinte, and that this condition had been brought about by the trusted nurse of the family having been in the habit of trading on the daughter's charms, making some excuse to the mother of a visit to a neighbour to account for the occasional absence of the frail one from the parental cottage. The mother, on making the above-mentioned discovery, was so incensed that she induced some of her male relatives to beat the nurse to death with bamboos. The friends of the nurse thereupon took legal opinion on the case, which resulted in a petition being presented to the Shanghai Hsien, who (with that love of justice, we presume, which so eminently characterises a Chinaman) caused inquiries to be made into the matter, and bringing home the murder to the mother as the instigator of the crime, condemned her to death. But the mother being far gone with child, the sentence was allowed to stand over till the child should have been born and weaned, and this latter circumstance having taken place the other day, the sentence was carried out, the mother being strangled outside the south gate. A cord was placed round the unfortunate woman's neck and gradually tightened till strangulation was nearly effected, when the cord was loosened and breath allowed to re-enter the lungs; this refinement of torture was repeated, and it was only on the cord being tightened the third time that the woman was allowed to die.\n\nOn the 24th June, Cheong-po-sun, convicted of the murder of a clothseller in Tank-lane, and three of the four pirates convicted at the May Sessions for piracy and murder on the high seas, were executed at the usual place in front of the Gaol. The scene was probably the most exciting of the kind ever witnessed in Hong Kong for many years past. Cheong-sin-fook, Lee-koon-hing, and Wong-asing, the three pirates and murderers, were the exact opposites of Po-sang, their violence being as strongly marked as was the coolness of the other. They made no confession, but endeavoured to mystify the story of the piracy as much as possible, each blaming the other, and all lying in the most barefaced manner conceivable. The only statement in which they could be said to agree, was that the fourth prisoner (he of the alleged medical proclivities) was not an active party in the piracy for which they were sentenced; and upon this additional confirmation, coupled with the lesser weight of evidence against this prisoner, he has been temporarily reprieved by the Governor. Perfect indifference and a species of bravado were maintained by these four piratical murderers until the fatal morning of yesterday; when the three doomed men underwent a remarkable change. Duly yesterday morning two of them wished to fight each other; but this morning their pitiable moanings disturbed the quietude of the entire neighbourhood. While they were being pinioned, they sobbed and groaned incessantly, and on being led out to the Gaol office, where they were led by the Sheriff, they had to be supported by stimulants, which the Tank-lane murderer refused with a shake of the head. Before proceeding to the scaffold, a final attempt was made to draw some confession from the pirates and to clear some doubts arising from the former confession of Po-Sang, but without success. Po-Sang maintained that there were five engaged in the murder of the clothseller; lin-fook stoutly refused to make any admission, and influenced the others also to keep their counsel by his determination. As the bell struck six o'clock, the prisoners were led forth to the scaffold, near which were a number of Europeans, one or two companies of police under Mr. Jarman, and fifty penal servitude convicts ranged on one side of the compound. Cheong-fook had to be pushed up the scaffold ladder by main force; and when all the condemned men had reached the platform, there followed a scene which will not be soon forgotten by those who witnessed it. Po-sang was cool as a statue, with his painfully drawn-up features; but the other three swayed about uneasily, looked behind over the wall as if meditating escape, now noisily resisting the executioner and again moaning and groaning as before. Cheong-fook stamped and danced upon the platform, and cursed and swore at the crowd below, until it was feared some accident might happen to the scaffold, and he had at last to be bound round the ankles with a rope. The voice of the Roman Catholic padre was drowned in the torrent of abuse from the scaffold; and it need hardly be said that the exhortations of the ministers of religion seemed to have not the slightest effect upon any one of the doomed men, except perhaps Po-sang, who now and then during the morning had listened to what was said to him. At five minutes past six, at a signal from the Sheriff, the bolt was withdrawn, the fatal jerk given, and the miserable victims were left dangling in the air. Death must have been instantaneous, although the bodies quivered for some minutes afterwards. All three pirates were strong, powerfully built fellows, and would no doubt have given very great trouble had not the necessary precautions been taken in gaol and on the scaffold. With the exception of the objectionable fact that the stone parapet and the lower bar of the scaffold again formed a rest for the feet of two of the prisoners, the arrangements were perfect. The scaffold was removed by eight o'clock—an improvement on former occasions, when it was allowed to stand over Sunday.\n\n## FOOCHOW.\n\nDates hence are to June 23. The **Taewan** sailed on the 20th June. She met with a serious misfortune in her passage down the river Min. From Messrs. Gilman and Co.'s Circular of June 22, we learn that she had on board 789,500 lbs. of tea, and that she is on shore on the north bank \"a total wreck.\" One thousand chests have as yet, it is said, been saved. Messrs. Gilman and Co. are Lloyd's agents.\n\nMr. Watters, late H.M.'s acting Vice-Consul at Tamsay, has been transferred to Foochow as third assistant, in place of Mr. Holt, who has been despatched to the former place to take charge of the vice-consulate.\n\n## HONG KONG.\n\nFrom this port we have intelligence to June 29. No later mails or telegrams had arrived out since the date of our last advices. The **Overland China Mail** supplies the following news:\nCheong-po-sun, convicted of the murder of a clothseller in Tank-lane, and three of the four pirates convicted at the May Sessions for piracy and murder on the high seas, were, on the 24th June, executed at the usual place in front of the Gaol.\n\nMessrs. Margesson and Co.'s Chinese shroff has been taken in custody on a charge of having embezzled monies to the amount of $420 within the last four months. The compradore of that firm appears as complainant in the case.\n\nWe regret to learn that a fatal accident occurred on board the **Princess Charlotte** while the coronation salute was being fired. One of the guns missed fire, and the firing party passed on to the next gun; the sponger who followed, being unaware that the gun had missed, proceeded to sponge out, when the gun exploded, and blew the poor sponger from the deck.",
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        "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n### PORT OF AMOY.\n\n**CHINA**\n\nSHIPOWNERS, AGENTS, and COMMANDERS are informed that the Dock Company's Establishments at the above Port afford facility for REPAIRING and REFITTING STEAM and SAILING VESSELS.\n\nTheir large Granite Dock, 288 feet on the blocks, 307 feet over all, is in complete working order, and at average spring tides can take vessels drawing 16 to 17 feet. It is filled with Caisson Gate and with a powerful centrifugal Steam Pump, ensuring despatch in all states of the tide.\n\nTheir two smaller Granite Docks, one 223 feet, the other 160 feet on the blocks, can take vessels at average spring tides drawing 14 feet to 13 feet.\n\nA stock kept on hand of Timber, Spars, Copper and Metal Sheathing, Paints for Iron Vessels, and other material required for Dockyard use.\n\n### CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK of INDIA, LONDON, and CHINA.\n\n**INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER.**\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL ... £750,000  \nRESERVE FUND... £145,908 14\n\nEllis Jas. Gilman, Esq.  \nD.F. Robertson, Esq., Chief Manager (or officiating).\n\n**Court of DIRECTORS.**\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| George Gardon Nicol, Esq., Chairman |\n| Donald Larnach Esq. |\n| George May, Esq. |\n| Sir F. Halliday, Esq. K.C.B. |\n| Jas. Murray Robertson Esq. |\n\nThe premises comprise Carpenters Shops, Mast Sheds, Calendering and Blacksmiths' Shops, superintended by experienced Euro-Madras and European Foremen; also an Engineer's Workshop, supplied with Lathes and other tools worked by Steam, in charge of a Resident European Engineer. Dry Godowns for the reception of stores of vessels requiring to discharge them.\n\n**BANKERS.**\n\n- The Bank of England.\n- The London Joint Stock Bank.\n\n**BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.**\n\n| Location |\n| --- |\n| Colombo |\n| Kandy |\n| Galle |\n| Penang |\n| Singapore |\n| Shanghai |\n| Hankow |\n| Foochow |\n| Canton |\n| Hong Kong |\n| Yokohama |\n\nThe Bank negotiates and collects Bills and grants Drafts payable at its Branches and Agencies, and issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes.\n\n### NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS.\n\n**SINGAPORE DOCKS.**\n\nTHE PATENT SLIP AND DOCK COMPANY execute, in the most efficient manner, SHIPS REPAIRS of all descriptions, under the supervision of European Shipwrights and Engineers.\n\nThe DRY DOCK (opened in March, 1869) admits two Vessels at the same time, being over 400 feet in length, with a depth of water ranging to 16 feet.\n\nAnother Dry Dock of larger dimensions, adjoining the above, will shortly be completed, and available for the heaviest Steamers.\n\nThere is on the same premises extensive Wharf, with substantial Warehouse and other accommodation, comprising every convenience for coaling Steamers, discharging and storing Goods, together with ample Machinery and appliances for repairing Iron Steamers, &c.\n\nApply at the Offices of Messrs. PATERSON, SIMONS, and Co., Singapore; or to W. W. KEB, Esq., 101, Cannon-street, London, E.C.\n\nW. CLOUGHTON, Managing Director.  \nNew Harbour, Singapore, June, 1867.\n\n### THE AGRA BANK (LIMITED).\n\nESTABLISHED IN 1833.-CAPITAL, £1,000,000.  \nHEAD OFFICE-Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, London.\n\n**BANKERS.**\n\nMessrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., and Bank of England.\n\n**BRANCHES.**\n\n- Edinburgh\n- Calcutta\n- Bombay\n- Madras\n- Kurrachee\n- Agra\n- Lahore\n- Shanghai\n- Hong Kong\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS are kept at the Head Office on the terms customary with London bankers, and interest allowed when the credit balance does not fall below £100.\n\nDEPOSITS received for fixed periods on the following terms, viz.:\n\n- At 5 per cent. per annum, subject to 12 months' notice of withdrawal.\n- At 4 per cent. per annum, subject to 6 months' notice of withdrawal.\n- At 3 per cent. per annum, subject to 3 months' notice of withdrawal.\n\nEXCEPTIONAL RATES for longer periods than twelve months, particulars of which may be obtained on application.\n\nBILLS issued at the current exchange of the day on any of the Branches of the Bank free of extra charge; and approved bills purchased or sent for collection.\n\nSALES AND PURCHASES effected in British and foreign securities, in East India stock and loans, and the safe custody of the same undertaken.\n\nInterest drawn, and army, navy, and civil pay and pensions realised.\n\nEvery other description of banking business and money agency, British and Indian, transacted.\n\nM. BALFOUR, Manager.\n\n### COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.\n\nIncorporated by National Decrees of 7th and 8th of March, 1848, and by Imperial Decrees of 20th July, 1854: and 31st of December, 1866.\n\nRecognised by the International Convention of 30th April, 1862.\n\n|  | Francs | £ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Subscribed Capital | 80,000,000 |  |\n| Capital paid up | 50,000,000 | £2,000,000 |\n\nThe Bank will undertake the Agency of parties connected with India and China, the Purchase and Sale of Indian Securities, the Safe Custody of same, and the receipt of Interest, Dividends, Pay, Pensions, and other Moneys.\n\nThe Bank receives money on Deposit, on which Interest is allowed according to the length of time deposited.\n\nParticulars as to Rates, &c., can be ascertained on application.\n\n5, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.\n\n### HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nCapital, 5,000,000 dols. Paid up, 2,500,000 dols.  \n**COURT OF DIRECTORS AND HEAD OFFICE IN HONG KONG.**\n\nLONDON AGENCY.-W. H. Vacher, 32, Nicholas-lane.  \nBANKERS.-London and County Bank.\n\n**BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.**\n\n| Location |\n| --- |\n| Hong Kong |\n| Shanghai |\n| Foochow |\n| Ningpo |\n| Hankow |\n| Yoka (Yokohama) |\n| Manila |\n| Singapore |\n| Bombay |\n| Calcutta |\n\nThe Bank grants DRAFTS upon and negotiates or collects BILLS at any of its Agencies or Branches; also receives DEPOSITS for fixed periods, at rates varying with the period of deposit.\n\nIn addition to fixed rates of interest, the Bank has adopted the principle of setting aside a certain portion of its early profits to be given as a Bonus on Funds lodged with the Bank. Depositors will participate equally in respect of such Bonus, whether shareholders or not.\n\n### PIGNATEL & CO.\n\n**STOREKEEPERS, GENERAL MERCHANTS, AND COMMISSION AGENTS.**\n\nNAGASAKI JAPAN.\n\n### TUPPER AND COMPANY.\n\n**MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT GALVANISED IRON**, in Sheets, Tiles, Iron Roofs, Sheds, Cisterns, Pails, Gutters, Nails, Wire for Fencing, &c.\n\n**WORKS AT BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON.**\n\nOffices-6a, MOORGATE-STREET, LONDON.  \nMerchants' orders executed with despatch.\n\n### R. L. SOUTHERN and Co.\n\n**MERCHANTS AND AGENTS.**\n\n6, MINCING-LANE, LONDON, E.C.\n\n### TO LET.\n\n[Aug. 13, 1867.]\n\nNow ready, price 10s. 6d.\n\n**TABLES for ASCERTAINING the COST PER POUND of CHINA RAW and WASTE SILK** Laid down in London; all charges paid at rates of Exchange from 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per tael for Raw Silk, and from 5s. to 7s. 6d. per tael for Waste Silk.\n\nBy Edward Holdsworth.\n\nTo be had at the office of the \"London and China Telegraph,\" 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### TO PARENTS IN INDIA AND CHINA.\n\nTHE ADVERTISER (who is the wife of a professional man) is willing to receive TWO YOUNG LADIES to be EDUCATED with her own daughter. The best course of education will be combined with all the advantages of a comfortable home. The house and garden are large, and in the neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace. Terms, £100 per annum each.\n\nAddress \"F\" London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. Unexceptionable references given and required.\n\n### TO CHINA MERCHANTS.\n\nTHE ADVERTISER, having had considerable experience in the China Trade, both in managing a large business and as Silk Buyer for five years (his knowledge of Silk extending over a period of thirteen years), is anxious to meet with an APPOINTMENT, either in England or China.\n\nAddress, E. C. E., care office, \"London and China Telegraph,\" 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### TO JAPAN MERCHANTS.\n\nAN energetic GENTLEMAN, aged 39, and possessed of 22 years' business experience (10 of which have been passed as a Merchant in one of the Australian Colonies, the remainder in London) SEEKS A CONFIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT IN JAPAN AS MANAGER OR OTHERWISE. Is a first-class Accountant and Correspondent, well acquainted with Merchandise, Shipping, Insurances, &c., is competent to take the management of a Branch for a Marine Insurance Company, having great experience at Lloyd's. Is seeking an opening where integrity and ability may lead to future advancement rather than any immediate high remuneration. References of the highest character.\n\nAddress \"S. W.\" care of Messrs. WILLIAM BROWN and Co., 40, Old Broad-street, E.C.\n\n### WA\n\n**CHINA AND JAPAN TRADE.**\n\nWANTED a PARTNER, either active or sleeping, to take a share in a business connected with China and Japan. Capital required, about £5,000.\n\nFor interview address S. T., London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### A GENTLEMAN, recently returned from Japan.\n\nhaving had for five years the management of the books of one of the principal houses in Yokohama, is desirous of a fresh ENGAGEMENT, either in Japan or any house in England connected with the East.\n\nAddress, E. J. S., 5, Love-lane, Aldermanbury.\n\n### PERRY and Co.'s PATENT ESSENCE OF INK.\n\nThe CHEAPEST INK.  \nThe BEST INK.  \nThe PERMANENT INK.  \nThe 1d. Packet equal to a 6d. Bottle.  \nThe 1s. Bottle makes Two Quarts.\n\nPERRY and Co.'s PATENT ESSENCE OF INK.\n\nThis preparation produces Extemporaneous Ink of the finest quality in one minute with cold water, and instantly with hot water, by simple solution as salt or sugar. Sold in packets 1d. each, and in glass bottles 1s. each. Sample free, per post, for two stamps. Sold by all Stationers, Wholesale, 87, Red Lion-square, and 3, Cheapside, London.\n\n### A FURNISHED (DOUBLE) HOUSE AT FOREST HILL.\n\nContaining DINING ROOM, DRAWING ROOM, and Six BED ROOMS, BATH ROOM, KITCHENS, LAUNDRY, &c. The Situation is good, and the house in all respects desirable.\n\nRent, £4s. per Week, or the Lease and Furniture can be purchased.\n\n### BOSTONITE GOODS.\n\nPERRY and Co. have much pleasure in introducing their new patent BOSTONITE to the Public, and they do so with the full conviction that it will supply a want long felt, viz. perfect Lead or Coloured Pencil Tablets, Slates, &c.\n\n\"This will be made suitable for persons just arriving in England from India, China, &c.\n\nApply to Mr. SALLING, 163, Fenchurch-street, City.\n\n### BASS AND ALLSOPP'S INDIA PALE ALES.\n\nGEORGE JONES, No. 8, Billiter-street.\n\nPresent prices. 7s. 3d. per dozen quarts, and 4s. 0d. per dozen pints. Free on board, protected by his own and the Brewer's Labels and Patent Capsule.\n\nPERRY and Co.'s PATENT BOSTONITE PLAYING CARDS, 2s. 6d. per pack.  \nBostonite Slates from 6d. each.  \nBostonite Book Slates, 1s., 1s. 6d., and 2s. 6d. each.  \nBostonite Memorandum Tablets, 6d., 1s., and 1s. 6d. each.  \nBostonite Umrica, 1s., 1s. 6d., and 3s. 6d. each.  \nBostonite Music Slates, 6d. each.  \nBostonite Purses, from 1s. 6d. each.  \nBostonite Multiplication Tablets, 4s. each.\n\n### FURNITURE FOR INDIA, CHINA, &c.\n\nHEAL AND SON **MANUFACTURE, ESPECIALLY FOR EXTREME CLIMATES**, SOLID MAHOGANY FURNITURE, Entirely free from Veneer. A large general assortment always on view.\n\n**IRON AND BRASS BEDSTEADS** In the choicest Designs. 3,500 Bedsteads kept in Stock.\n\n**HEAL & SON'S PATENT HORSEHAIR MATTRESS** Prevents the material from Felting Into a mass, as is the case in all ordinary Mattresses. The Patent Mattresses are made of the very best Forchair, are thicker than usual, and the prices are but a trifle higher than those of other good Mattresses.\n\n**ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES** Of Bedsteads and Bedroom Furniture, designed for INDIA and the EAST, SENT POST FREE TO EVERY PART OF THE WORLD.\n\n142, 143, 144, Tottenham-court-road, London, W.\n\n### REVUE ORIENTALE.\n\nConducted by M. LEON DE ROSNY, Professor of Japanese in the Imperial School of Living Oriental Languages of Paris.\n\nDEVOTED specially to Ethnography, History, Literature, and Commerce of Asia, Africa, and Oceania.\n\nThe last issue (No.58) contains, amongst other matters:\n\n- DE LA LITTERATURE ARAMEENNE; par Munk de l'institut (since deceased).\n- LES GRANDES EPOPEES DE L'INDE DANS LEUR RAPPORTS AVEC LA CIVILISATION; par Léon de Rosny.\n- DEUX MOIS CHEZ LES SAUVAGES AINOS (Japon) - ORAISON FUNERBE, PRAVCITE DU COGITIF CHINOIS par Truong-vinh-ky.\n- BIBLIOGRAPHIE-NOUVELLES ET MELANGES—THĖME ORIENTAL.\n\nAgents in London: TRÜBNER AND CO.\n\n### THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nTHE NINTH Volume of this JOURNAL commenced on the 7th of January, 1867. The Subscription for the three numbers per month is 20s. per annum, including Postage, and to the Export Supplement 12s. Terms for advertising, 2s. 6d. per five lines; and 6d. for each additional line.\n\nSubscriptions and Advertisements received abroad by The following Agents:\n\n- G. W. YAPP, 4, Place Pentagonale, Paris.\n- HEAL & SON, Bedstead, Bedding, and Bedroom Furniture Manufacturers, 196, 197, 198, Tottenham-court-road, London, W.\n\n### GRANT'S TRANS-MONGOLIAN TELEGRAMS.\n\nAug. 4, 1867.\n\nAnnual Subscribers from Europe to China, £180.  \nAnnual Subscribers from China to Europe, £100 sterling.  \nAnnual Subscribers from Europe to China, and China to Europe, £200 sterling.\n\nThese rates are exclusive of Express Couriers and Telegraph Charges, viz. Twenty words, 3s. 7d. or Tls. 2.50 Shanghai Sycee, and for every ten words extra Rs. 3.50 kopecks, or Tls. 1.25 Shanghai sycee.\n\nAnnual Subscribers have the privilege of sending Telegrams of any number of words to any one person or firm; the name and address of such person or firm must be given on payment of subscription.\n\nIf an Annual Subscriber or his Agent publishes in any newspaper, or allows the contents of any Telegram to be made public without the special consent of the undersigned, the said Annual Subscriber shall forfeit his subscription. Telegrams for publication, 50 per cent. extra. Telegrams may be despatched from Europe-From Tuesday, 19th February, to Tuesday, 19th November inclusive.\n\nFrom Shanghai, on the departure of the first steamer to Tientsin till the freezing of the river Peiho.\n\nC. MITCHELL GRANT.  \nAgency in London--\"London and China Telegraph\" Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill (over the Jerusalem).\n\n### TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.\n\n**PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.**\n\nSingle Paper ... 8d.  \nYearly... £1 4s.\n\n**BY POST.**\n\nSingle Paper ... 9d.  \nYearly... £1 10s.\n\nFISHER, Castle-court, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London, E.C.  \n**Post-office orders to be made payable to FRANCIS FISHER.**\n\n### HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT and PILLS.\n\nDangerous Diseases. How many life-long maladies spring from neglecting trifling symptoms... Holloway's remedies will remove eruptions of the skin, scorbutic diseases, and scrofula... By the use of Holloway's excellent, speedy, and safe medicament, much pain and immense expense may be saved...\n\n### DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE.\n\nVice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood stated publicly in Court that Dr. J. Collis Browne was undoubtedly the inventor of Chlorodyne...\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE is a certain cure in CHOLERA, DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA, COUGHS, &c.\n\nExtract from the GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, London, as to its efficacy in Cholera.\n\nFrom A. MONTGOMERY, Esq., late Inspector of Hospitals, Bombay-Chlorodyne is a most valuable remedy in Neuralgia, Asthma, and Dysentery.\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. CAUTION-Noue genuine without the words \"Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne\" on the Government Stamp.\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE The immense demand enables the proprietors to render the price; it is now sold in bottles, 1s. 1½d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11s.\n\nAGENT: Hong Kong, Mr. A. S. WATSON.  \nJ. T. DAVENPORT, 33, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, LONDON.\n\n### THE CAPE, INDIA, AND CHINA AGENCY.\n\nORDERS for GOODS of all descriptions executed, and Shipped by the Overland Route or by Clipper sailing vessels. Consignments realised.\n\nThe Goods are selected by parties who have had personal experience of the requirements of the markets at the Cape Colonies, India, China, and Japan.\n\nTERMS:-One-half the estimated cost to be remitted with the order, and the balance on receipt of Bill of Lading and Invoice. Commission, 2½ per cent. on Orders over £50 and 5 per cent. on amounts under £50.\n\nOrders and remittances should be addressed to the MANAGER.\n\nOffice, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill (over the Jerusalem), London, E.C.\n\n### COWASJEE DINSHAW.\n\nClose to the Landing Place.  \nDepot of EUROPEAN, CHINA, and INDIAN WORK.\n\n- WINE, BEER, CHAMPAGNE, and SPIRITS of the best quality.\n- BOMBAY-MADE SODA WATER and LEMONADE.\n- PERFUMERY, CONFECTIONERY, OIL, &c.\n- MATS'S STORES, and STATIONERY of every description.\n- SOFA TICKETS and CANVAS SHOES, &c.\n\nTHE STEAMER POINT, ADEN.\n\nDrawing and Reading-room free to Passengers.\n\n### LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS.\n\nON SALE.\n\n### THE MONEY MARKET REVIEW.\n\nA WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE HIGHEST CLASS, EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL TOPICS.\n\nAgents:\n\n| Location | Agent |\n| --- | --- |\n| Labuan, Sarawak, and Singapore | LOMAN AND VEESTER. |\n| Penang... | HOON & KEYT. |\n| Bangkok. | WILMER AND ROGERS. |\n| Batavia | J. CHITTIEN. |\n| Manila | P.CUMBO, St. Catherine's-square. |\n| Aden | COWASJEE DINSHAW. |\n|  | CHESSON AND WOODHALL. |\n|  | SANDERS, CONES, AND CO. |\n|  | G. S. ANTHANISZ. |\n|  | J. W. VANDOW. |\n| Singapore | Jony Lee & Co., Singapore. |\n|  | SANDILANDS, BUTTERY AND CO. |\n| Anjer-Straits of Sunda | HUNTER, HOUGHTON, AND Co. |\n|  | G. SCHUIT, Anjer Hotel. |\n| Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, & Swatow | PHILLIES, MOOZE, AND CO. |\n|  | J. B. Mowatt, Hong Kong. |\n|  | Audy ... |\n| Foo-Chow-Foo...... | BELLAMY AND CO. |\n|  | HEDGE AND Co. |\n| Shanghai | ... |\n| Tien-Tsin... | H. FOGG AND CO. |\n| Nagasaki-Japan... | JAMES HANDERSON. |\n| Yokohama | PIGNATEL AND CO. |\n|  | HANSAND AND BLACK. |\n\nOFFICE, 2, COWPER'S COURT, CORNHILL, E.C. (Over the Jerusalem.)",
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        "content_text": "## Stationery Supplies\n\n1441 Boxes (each 1 Doz). Steel pens - Mitchell's \n3. Medium \n5. Broad\n\n12 Do (each 1 gross) \n18 Do \n12 Do \n26 Do \n120 D. (each A Dry) \n132 A \n36 Do \n12 Do \n2 Do \n\nD. Gillott's Mag. Bar. Fine. \nD. Gillott's Ordnance pens. 12 fine. 6 medium. 1 Broad. \nDr Gillott's Extra Five. N. 305. \nDr. Perry's Bank pens. No 50 medium. No 2. 4 Fine. \n4 Medium 54 Broad. \nGrop penholder. Mitchell's short accommodating. \n12 Dozen Black lead pencils. Mordan's B. B. \n24 Do \n18 Do \n4 Tins of small Wafers. \n36 th Red Sealing Wax. \nGrop adhesive Wafer seals, as per sample. very hard. Hyder Co \n32 Round Rulers. 12 of 12 inches. 14 of 18 inches. 6 of 24 inches. \n2 Plat Rulers, and 2 Parallel rulers. 24 inches. \nDest penknives, round ivory handles. \n7 Dozen Rodgers \n1/2 Dizen \nB. class penknives are large & one small blade. \nD. Erasers. \nD. Per mending machine. \n30 Pair Scissors - 24 of 6 inches and 6 of 8 inches. \n12 D. Punches. J. Day & Sons. Nos. 3, No. 0 only. \n20 Ivory Folders. \n60 Packets of small pins. 16 packets to a box \n18 Loofring Needles \n20 Lead pencils small 1x & inches \n84 Rolls of green silk ribbon, broad, middle & \n19 Skins of green silk cards \n60 Packets of Red Paper, broad and middle \n24 Balls of blue and white twine. \n112 ... \n36 & Pack thread (thicker than that for Part office) \n200 Quart Bottles of Black Ink. Monell's \n80 Pint D. of Red Ink. B. Wood & Co's \n36 Puster Inkwstands, 6 of N. 3. 20 of No. 5. \n24 Spare glasses for Inkwstands 6 of N:9. 18 of N. 5 pieces. best India rubber \n30 Boxes - each 1 gross Elastic Bands, assorted sizes. \n... \n244 Bottles of Gum Arabic. \n18 Gum Bottles, small, with glass cover and brush \n4 Dozen Letter Clips, Mitchells double spring \n2 Knights Patent leaf holders. \n2 Do small metallic clips. \n6 Wire files \n12 Date Boxes, large and small. \n16 Despatch Boxes, black leather or tortoiseshell cornered, size 18 x 12 inches, with Chubb's locks, marked on the lid in gilt letters \"Government of Hongkong\" \n4 Hones, with Covers, and 4 Strops. By J Cowan's. \n244 Boxes, Perry & Co's paper fasteners, as per pattern. \n1 Police pay Book, the particulars as per sample. \n6 Dozen Ledgn pencils. from De la Rue & Co \nB. Memo. Books. 11/5 quires ... size. \n24/... \n... \n47 lives to inch",
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        "content_text": "## Murks & tamhers, Dawciphar \n### M.H.K. \n#### A 1 \n#### A 2 \n\n| Balances | 184 | Contents | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 3 Beams for balances | Sets Suspension links |  |  |\n| Center bearings | 3 | Lever handles | 3 |\n| Gums & Rous | 6 | Cover plates & other braces nome | 3 |\n| Indicators & fingers | 8 | Copper cash scoops |  |\n| I Small Cash Loffer |  | Set of exon stand pounding scale |  |\n| 6 Brass lifts for large balances | with all screws, parts & guides marked a, b, c, etc. |  |  |\n\n#### Case 3 \n#### Beams for 2000 Oz. balances \n| Contents |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 3 Sets | Suspension link for Etti |  |  |\n| & Center bearing | 3 | Lever handles |  |\n| Red's und Camer |  | 6 Cover plate |  |\n| I Indicators and Fingers | 4 | Copper Cash scoops |  |\n\n#### Fin hanc pounding scale \n3 Brass Arms founding Sour \n\n### Belonging \n63 of the 2000 balance \nFace Clan Cear",
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        "content_text": "# Duplicate \n361 \n\n## Ancew \n**Police & sprautune** \n\nHong Kong 25th November 1860. \n\nRequired to be procured from England for \nService \nof \nthe Hongkong Police the \nundermentioned \n\n| Item | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Serge for Rank and File - Garden White Duck | 1000 |\n| do. Serge | 3,000 |\n| Khakee Drill | 1000 |\n| Slate Colour Clothes | 1500 |\n| Red Clothes | 200 |\n| Tine White Duck for Suspectrons | 250 |\n| Tine blue Flannel | 150 |\n| Bleechers Boots (Short) of 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 in Pairs | - |\n| Blue Cloth Caps with brown Peak and Moveable oiled cover of 7 and 7¼ inches | - |\n| Impections blue Cloth Caps with embroidered Narrow Silver lace and Crown of 6¾in, 7¼in | - |\n| Uniform Metal Buttons for Tunics | 150 |\n| White Browsers Buttons (metal) | 25 |\n| Pairs of ... | 30 |\n| ... | 30 |",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE #Cop 31 JULY 1968\n\nThe Engines.\n\nAgents 8049 Stone plong Gutered 6. Hamilton Elliot Surf Rogers 31 M'Adderley Dake of Buckingh.com 30/9 by Lisse Ansec Danny thust 3 Aug Labo Iam sunshit G the Duke of Nachegaron Da Chandon 4- Cammit why of a infatil from Zi Cod. of Hong Kong No. 470-24 March 1868 questing that live tham the Engines might be sent out to that Colony with Little Delay as hopelle yon the cost & be defrayed from the Coral Revenue, the other by their Community whom dus provisur bud bem made I cover the cost.\n\nI am hammit to you for the leforen hon\n\nPage 150\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "52\n\nCHINA.\n\neconomical in its habits and less influenced by outward appearance than the Chinese, from the highest to the lowest; and dress is no criterion of station in either rank or fortune. Hence, if a necessary of life becomes, from circumstances, unusually dear, they simply do without it, and have no hesitation in saying so. This economical system is not advantageous to the foreign importer, who might, judging from most other markets in the world, hope to find an increased demand to supply a deficiency, but in China he will discover that a deficiency but slightly influences the demand. The same observations apply to cotton yarn. Notwithstanding the failure in the supply of the raw material, which has been severely felt in this province producing no cotton, the increase in the import of that article has been comparatively slight. Whether ultimately the Chinese will have to resort to it more freely, it is impossible to say. For Indian raw cotton there was at one time an active demand on the part of the Kwangsi traders and the country weavers; but, whatever caused the excitement, it soon died out, and never materially affected the trade.\n\nAn attempt was made, during the year, by the Cotton Guild, or rather by sundry wealthy traders, whose storehouses are lying empty, and who brought pressure to bear on that fraternity, to re-establish the trade in raw cotton by binding the merchants to buy it only at Canton, instead of at Hong Kong, as the practice now is. The matter was brought to my notice by the Governor of Hong Kong, who had been petitioned by the resident native merchants there against the attempted coercion. On inquiry, I found that in reality the Cotton Guild had very little interest in the matter; nevertheless, the Guild represented the movement, and with that only I had to deal. I at once laid the matter before the Chinese authorities, and having convinced them the action of the Guild was entirely illegal, and with a view of obtaining a monopoly of the trade, it was at once forbidden by Proclamation, and the scheme fell through. Had it not been suppressed, another monopoly would quickly have followed, for trade combinations are the life and soul of Chinese commerce, and monopolies in strict accordance with its institutions. Foreign trade, however, must be kept free and clear of such deteriorating influences.\n\nIn woollen goods the increase has been but small, and scarcely worthy of note; and in metals, such as iron—nail rod, bar and hoop—lead, spelter and quicksilver, the balance, with the exception of lead, is against the preceding year.\n\nIn native goods some show an increase, and others a decrease, but the amounts either way are of no consequence.\n\nIt is in exports the trade of the foreign merchant chiefly lies. The Chinese are not sufficiently advanced to monopolize this branch of foreign commerce, although symptoms of a change of system are not wanting. At present it pays them better to sell at once, than to ship on account, and the profits to be derived from foreign competition are more certain than what the English market has to offer, besides the absence of risk.\n\nNotwithstanding the lamentable accounts of the state of the tea market at home, the export of that produce during the past year shows an increase to some extent over that of 1866; in black, to the amount of 14,133 piculs (1333 lbs. to the picul); in green, 5,382 piculs—total, 19,515 piculs, or 2,600,374 lbs., and full rates may be said to have ruled during the season. Indeed, the firmness with which the dealers held out for long prices was a matter of surprise, but to some extent justified by occasional clearances, at rates which home advices scarcely supported. The stock at the commencement of the year was about 14,000 piculs. The first crop was good, and realized fair prices, and the teamen had every reason to be satisfied with their transactions. The second crop, called district teas, was on an average cheaper than formerly, owing to the demand for money for the interior; but for these, in all probability, the best returns will be realized in the home market. Besides, the quantities shown in the export returns, it is estimated above 12,000 piculs, say 1,599,000 lbs., went to Hong Kong by native junks, and, therefore, did not pass through the Foreign Custom-house; and about 30,000 piculs, or 3,997,500 lbs., to the Portuguese settlement of Macao, for shipment to England and America. The probability, however, is that a larger amount than this was exported from Macao, as the route from the tea districts by the great West River, in the estuary of which that settlement is situated, affords every facility for conveying this produce to the coast without much interference from inland Custom-houses. The amount in stock at the close of the year was about 30 chops.\n\nA reduction has lately been made by the Chinese Government in the duty on tea dust, which now stands at 1 tael, 2 mace, 5 candarines per picul of 1334 lbs., if under the value of 15 taels per picul. It had been raised to that of leaf tea, viz., 2 taels 5 mace per picul.\n\nA considerable business is done in the preparation of teas for the foreign markets, and well-known as Canton made teas. The leaf undergoes various processes by which it is converted into the required sort; and there is even a class called \"Lie Teas\" which have little or none of the leaf in their composition. This manufacture is carried on openly and without any pretensions to concealment.\n\nThe following Table gives the highest and lowest market quotations during the year—\n\n  \n    TEA\n  \n  \n    Country congous\n    Per pical\n    Taels.\n    14, 21, 24, 30\n  \n  \n    Canton district congous\n    \n    \n    13, 22, 28, 30\n  \n  \n    Scented orange pekoe\n    \n    \n    17, 26, 29, 32, 35\n  \n  \n    Young hyson\n    \n    \n    11, 19, 25, 28, 31\n  \n  \n    Hyson. Imperial\n    \n    \n    11, 15, 24, 28, 30\n  \n  \n    Country greens\n    \n    \n    17, 21, 25, 27, 30\n  \n  \n    Hyson.\n    \n    \n    28\n  \n  \n    '' capers.\n    \n    \n    14, 21, 23\n  \n  \n    Canton greens. Gunpowder\n    \n    \n    16, 22, 30, 37, 38\n  \n  \n    S\n    \n    \n    57, 63\n  \n\nThe average exchange of the tael into sterling may be taken at 6s. 7d. The export of silk has varied but little since last year owing, probably, to this article being rather limited in production. Generally, as it arrived it was brought up, and, consequently, the stocks at no time were large. The following Table gives the highest and lowest prices during the year:-\n\n  \n    Description.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tsatlee, No. 1\n    Per bale\n    Dollars. 480 to 620\n  \n  \n    Loon Kong, No. 1\n    \n    480 to 610\n  \n  \n    Kow Kong\n    Per picul\n    370 to 560\n  \n  \n    Lack-low and Cum-chuck\n    Per bale\n    465 to 600\n  \n  \n    Reeled Cut-chucks\n    Per box\n    490 to 660\n  \n  \n    Seulam\n    Per picul\n    320 to 460\n  \n  \n    Ponjum\n    \n    100 to 160\n  \n  \n    Pierced cocoons\n    \n    70 to 95\n  \n  \n    Waste silk\n    \n    45 to 90\n  \n\nThe prices on an average being rather lower than were paid for the same quantities in 1866. But, although the quantities exported show a slight\n\nCANTON,\n\n53",
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        "content_text": "141\n\nhover of explaining, I mentioned - the probability of my supplementing that requisition by another. I now forward that further Estimate and trust that Main Grace may be fit to direct the transmission of the Articles enumerated therein by the Crown Agents as soon as they can be sent by one of the Steamers plying between Liverpool, London and this place. At latest they should arrive here in July.\n\nI have the honor to be My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most Obedient, humble Servant, Ruskind Green Macdonnell\n\nlovemar 0 Materials required from England for the Surveyor Contractor's Department, to be sent out by the Crown Agents for the Colonies:\n\nFor Government House.\n\nFor Billiard Room.\n\n2 Sets of Billiard Balls 1 white 1 red 1 white with spot in each set number of.\n\n1 Set of Pool cues not less than 12 in different colours as below:\n\n1 white / brown & white with spot 1 blue 1 red / Yellow / Orange / Yellow & Green & pink\n\nCues of best seasoned wood.\n\n6 dozen leather tops for Cues\n\nFor Boudoir, Billiard and Waiting Rooms and Governor's Office\n\nWith fringe hangings for windows secured edges as for margin.\n\nand 50 yards crimson damask with crimson & gold frondents.\n\n20 yards green damask, with green and gold pendents.\n\nto green damask.\n\nFor Drawing Room and Library.\n\n120 yards crimson and gold Brocaded silk to cover sofas and chairs same as halterin,\n\n200 yards of suitable cusin for ...\n\n6 cross silk tufts for same pattern. We sukhund in 180s.\n\nA be sua cina bys & Grace, sami,",
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        "content_text": "£ \n\nTo witness). Then this money given by Me Caldwell was for funeral expenses \n\nWitness: Not for funeral expenses only, \n\nbut for sick cases also. Mr Caldwell gave me money now and then for \"attending on Land-burying patients. \n\nThe Coroner : And I \n\nthat all the he suppose patients that have come from tlo emigra- rton houses have died, have they ?. \n\nWitness: Two of thres have returned to the enigration houses to bothes alive I do not want \n\nnames of patients; I only want to know where they came from. I am not a doctor, and I paid no attention to the deceased. \n\nThe examination of this witness was con- tinned for some time, in relation to the \n\nof the Hostal,\" management \n\nand be confirmed Mr Lister's opinion. \"to the sect Day The parsons sont to that \n\nThe model Institution were sent to die. piaans Đạt bed more humerans. late- \n\nty. He had seen the inspector of nuisances about the place, but had never seen him go, in the rooms. \n\nDr. Cochrane, recalled, said he had made a post mortem examination of the body- and had nothing to add to his former, opj, nion as to the cause of death. \n\nThe inquest was adjourned until Tues- dav.at 3 o'clock. \n\nTHE CHINESE HOSPITAL CASE. \n\n(Continued from page 68.) The adjourned inquest upon the Chines emigrant who died in the E-Taze, wa resumed on the 27, when the evidene of the master of the hospital was read over The keeper corrected part of this evidence, and many of his statements were modified. He had formerly stated that he had received money from Mr Caldwell for attendance upon and burial of the coolies; be now said that the money was paid for burial expenses only. \n\nThe Coroner remarked that this was a vary important point, because if the witness undertook any responsibility, he might \n\nhave to answer for it. \n\nVeith, $1. \n\n\"\"\"FROM\"\"SHE\"\" \"Dick\" are stieni: le las no pARKUT \"ONE_DE\" \"{Winess) was \n\ninstructions to enter any house. He has get up to perform the necessary duties of hlways reported the temple to be clean; nature and he could only crawl to the edge! was never inside, always found the doors of his bench. One patient near him who shut, and thought the row of small houses was in hospital because of excessive opinm- were cook-honses. Never lourd groans sucking, could got get up at all, and there and never saw a dead body car. relived nature where he lay There were ried out from thence. Have seen coins no blankets in the place. \n\nthere, which he supposed were for sale. The inquest was then adpurned until In some adius at the back there are Thursday 29th, \n\nNESE HOSPITAL CASE, \n\ndead bodies: the coth are sealed and cemented, and never Wbuy of them \n\nOHSAS170. \n\nHave sometes at binesu \n\nINQUEST. \n\nThe adjourned inquiry conducted before hotices with the last witness, have the Coroner in the matter of the E-Tsze, seen hin often. Has been in charge arising from the discovery of a dead body of the Western District since August therein, was resumed. Inst; have never discovered that there were \n\nMah Afoo, keeper of the Kwong-kee, sick people at this house. The book in recalled, said that a man irsed to attend his which the reports of the visits are enters men lying sick at the E-Taze during the is Mitrray every second day, day; but he depended upon the hospital Cochran': You report to Dr Murray people to attend there during the night. it is the first time I ever heard of it)None of the hospital people were bound to Witness continued: Nover heard of any land the sack, and if they were not at- place being in Taipingshan to which people tended to properly de blanc lay with the were sent to die. Dr Murray never said \n\nKwour-kee. Once had a doctor who wES anything about it. Two or three minutes supposed to feet the pluse and prescribe for would be about the longest time that the sick if the 2 fazer-Witness accompa- ever was about the place, \n\nnied the deputation of coolic-house keepers \n\nIn reply to the Jury, witness said he ever saw any attendant give anything to the patients. \n\nby Mr Caldwell were given out according to \n\nThe Coroner here remarked that the to the Registrar General; and told the Reg. inquest would have to be adjourned to the General that their business was with sick Civil Hospital, where a mat lay, who lumen inside the houses, they having nothing been in the Hospital in question; this mas to do with men lying in the streets; never was getting better, but as he had importan put any of them out in the street; and sent evidence to giro, they had better get it all those who very sick to the E-Taze M It was ultimately agreed to hold it over. \n\nCaldwell paid all the expenses incurred at John Petersen, inspector of brothels, saithe Taze. All the patients from the that he reported the U-Tsze to the Regis Kwong-kee had bags to lie on and blankets trar General He found there, at the Ext to cover them. All the blankets provided sale of the Temple, five or six perus some stok and our dying. He was instructious. told by Chinese that there \n\nwere some Dr Murray, Colonial Surgeon, stated people there, and that was the reason that, in 1866, be called the attention of he went; it was not part of his duty Government to the large number of dend the Chinese said \"Plenty mon have die and dying persons put out into the sweat That house. fle was in the house eight at that time he knew the place now called months ago; there were then three or four Tsze, and had known it for ten years. sick people. The place was not clean, butys appeared to him to be the same male no report. was much the same as other Chinese places: the City of the Dead in Canton-a place. \n\nInmates of licensed bro \n\nwhere collins were kept until they could be thels have been sent to R Taze-two, pe sent on to their districts, \n\nAs the cohus The witness continned to make correc-of whom died, and he believed the other were chunamngi no odour was cloisted, tions in his statement; and the Coroner was still alive. Always nuderstood the and the health of the Colony was not affect- observed that it was somewhat strange that place to be an Hospital. Thought i was ed. On another occasion be found a dead the mind of the witness was clear on some miserable place; but have seen houses of body lying there, waiting to be coffined; and points and deli ou others. \n\npoor Chinese nearly as bad. His statement that he cleaned out the he spoke of were suparated from the men reported a coffin eniniting a bad melle The women sometime ago the inspector of nuisances, place when he saw the Registrar General this was about two years ago. Didn't this at recover to be annammed. holding his nose, was received with a cont know why they were not sent to the Civil Never knew, officially or otherwise, that placent nod. No Chinese was ever sent Hospital. People belonging to the house the place was used as an bospital until saw to Hospital of whom any hopes of recovery attended the women; could not say who in the papers. Was never aware that arr entertained. People in uniform used attended them exactly. Never reported people were taken there to the. Had he to come and visit the place; and the Nuisany of this to Mr Lister until a few days own so, would have taken steps to have ance Inspector had given orders for the go. Never had occasion to go to the place the patients removed to the Civil Hospital. place to be cleansed. \n\nince Mr Lister entered on office. Re-examined: There is no regular doctor \n\nNever gave any instructions to the police to inspect the place, as that was not bis attached to the E-1622. The Chinese com- \n\nbusiness; also, the inspector of nuisances munity do not now take much interest in \n\nsha noright to enter a dwelling-house, except the Hospital. The Committee (of whoin two Mok Afao, head of the Kwong-kee eui-by consent of householder or by warrant. or three are dead) do not often go the place gration house, was the next witness. Seven now. A doctor came from the Emigration sick people have been sent to the Tszy Mr D. R. Caldwell, Chinese interpreter, houses. Did not go to the Registrar Gene on his house only three papers wore was the next witness. He said,-Before al with Mr Caldwell last year, to presentans Deceased was not one of the seven petition. Had no interpreter for the from his house. He had a slight know pther dialects. The second man who came of deceased, but did not know his \n\no look after the sick men, looked like a \n\nTare. Witness mentioned six names of hief, and witness asked him what be ick persons, \n\nThey were brought to the ranted there: he did not come back, belia house by one pamed Cheung Ching pause he thought there was no hope of one nad his eyes and face yellow. The old deceased recovering from his sickness. mun at the temple came and reported to Regarding the three or four persons who witness the death of deceased, simply say rvived the Hospital atmosphere and eatment, the witness said that the Hospi- al attendant went with him to the emigra. on house. There is no fixed charge for uything done for the sick people, except by voluntary contribution. He does his work for what he may get; but he does not make a \"good thing\" of it: he said he had a kind heart, and did it because it was better to be virtuous. (The Coroner that he was a bricklayer and had been Continued There was a Committee, hero asked how many dollars he made a residing at Sayingpoon, when he took ill, but for some years (8 or 10) no one had week.) Witness said he did not know. He had been advised to go to the E-Tsze taken any interest in the place. For every coffin he got be paid one tael; by his landlord, but refused at first, having and he had paid $6 and 1 tael this year been ultimately taken there by the land \n\nHis landlord, who wai (87.40) for that purpose for emigrants, and lord in a chair, ho owes the shop (Fook Shan) four taele very kind to him, paid 200 cash for him pore. There were two corpses from the and from the landlord he got some tea an Lang-kee, one from the Ifin-kee, and six congee; but at the E-Taz he never coul from the Kwong-kee. \n\nget anything whatever, unless after pre James Livingston, Inspector of nuisances tracted “holaring” and velling Ther of Western district,, was next examined, were no blankets, and he felt cola, althong Le stated that he knew a place called the he hat gumythng which he had taken E Taze: it is part of his duty to visit the with him. An old woman who attende \n\nHe was never told to visit the place on the patients for a alor hue died, as who are taken there are supposed to be at- placo. particulatly, and he had no fixed time to the turistas no ong to do anything fextended upon by their friends. Have seen visit. He passed it every day, but visited They never could get anything on the whole of the rooms (three or four) it once or twice a week. \n\nthey bad roared for a very long time, full of sick people, ie, all occupied. There was a sort of water closet \n\n| Sometimes people” were. thure, with \n\nWitness sees that \n\nthe E-Tsze was built the Chinese had no \n\nother means of disposing of their dead than by depositing them by the side of rocks, or by building temporary sheds. In con- sequence of Government arresting severaš who had done so, and trying to prevent this, the principal Chinese asked for a place from Government where they could place those who were in a woribund state. Could \n\nba \n\ning that one of your men is dead.\" Of not say how the petition was worded, and the seven sent to the E-Teze only two gu could not way but the Government at that Vived, and five died. If the keeper includ-time (in those days) would have been glad to eccused, then that would be six from get those bodies thus rentoved. This his house; but deceased did not come from fore Sir George Bonham's time and after his house. \n\nthis the present building was erectal-217 was never intended for an inquia: a tem- ple was added. Coroner remarked that there was more temple than Hospital \n\nThe Juries then proceeded to the Civil Hospital. \n\nAt the Hospital, the sick witness stated \n\nHave \n\nnever seen any rules or regulations posted up about the place; and have been at the place many times, both officially and other- wise. Have not been near it for 8 years, since IT the Government service. The old man was left there in charge of the place after no one would look after it : be has been there for a very long time. duties are to superintend the temple and \n\nHis \n\nthe place generally. Know that the old man is not a doctor; and the sick people \n\nand sometimes nobody, Have certainly see six at one time could not say ever assere, Considered all the cases Belt the E-Taze were hopeless cases, and know that the Chinese considered them \n\n30. Never had to complain of any unusual u cleanliness in the place while I was in the Government service. \n\nIt \n\nThe Coroner here remarked that he could have no objection to a house like the present, were it properly kept; but the impression formed by Mr Lister and self was that the people were simply placed there to die or live, as they might. would certainly have been a work of huma nity to have thrown them out of the place into the harbor, and thus end their suffer- inga. -Dertimed Know many worse places in Chinese villages. \n\nBelieve that many cases of poor people were placed here; no one could refuse the admittance of any one. There would be more than two hundred \n\na year certainly. There was a fund got up for building othing more. The old man i takes a living by looking after it, say $6 or $8 a-mouth: he cures external sores, and is a sort of plaster-seller. Have known him for 15 or 18 years. Never heard any complaints against the E-Taze, but the Chinese rind care to live near it. The Chinese would not like to see this place shut up they would wish it to remai --not in its present condition, perhaps. If they had no similar building, then they would fall back on the old system The of placing them by the hill-sides. Chinese object to go to the Civil Hospital, because the great dread is ever before them of being opened. There are similar places in China and the Chinese magistrate would certainly recognise any such plade as, a charitable building. It is quite wrong to call the place a Chinese Hospital, as it is more for the dead then the liv Ling-it-imas never been used as a fioapital, and by never intended to be so used, Would account for the prevaricating evid- ence of the old E-Taze keeper by his timi- dity and the general style of Chinese wit- nesses, who are always afraid to commit themselves. Do not know deceased; and did not know whether he came from the Kwong-Kee. Believe deceased came from \n\nname was \n\nthe Kwong-Kee, but could not my Whether sent from that house, or not, Decersed. Would not be looked upon as an inmate of\" \n\nthe Kwong-ee unless his placed on my books; he might be two or. three days in the Kwong kee WIRIN. my lawwwing it or even without the Kwong-kea. people knowing it. Patients from all the holises were seat to the E-Taze at my \n\nThe next witness was a hawker of second from natural causes; that a thorough and \"We are of opшion was deucasou died hand clothes, who had a friend who was there by his friends, but they found that taken to the E-Taze. The friend was taken \n\nefficient inspection of the E-Tsze has not been carried out by the person whose duty he was at first refused admittance, as he, place. We deem it our duty to request it was to pay attention to the state of the was not in a dying state. It having been reasserted that the friend was in a dying you to forward to his Excellency the Upv- ernor our recommendation, that if the state, he was admitted. Three hundred oash were paid to the old woman who pro- ered as a Hospital any longer, that some \n\nE-Taze is to continue open, and be consid mised to buy something for herself so that efficient and responsible officer be appoint! ahe might attend the sick man. The sick- man never complained of any ill-treatment..or if the E-Tsze is to be permitted to ed to control the place in a proper manner; The Coroner here remarked that the main object of his questions was to try and finds not only a thorough inspection, but pro- remain a receptacle for dying Chinese, that out whether there was really any one rea ponsible about the place at all; if there perly framod rules shall exist for the were any one, it might be serious for that further continuance of the E-Taze in any We, however, consider that a shape is neither desirable nor necessary in \n\nperson. \n\nfuture. \n\nThe Master of the Fook Show coffin-shop this Colony, and that a more suitable build- was next put into the withies-box to prove ing be selected as a hospital for Chinese the rate of mortality in the E-Tsze. There only, subject to proper inspection by the would be sometimes two funerals a-day Colonial Surgeon from the ETsze, sometimes three a-day, and sometimes pine; the largest mumter ever seen by the witness was four. \n\nto be \n\nthe \n\nnu \n\nΤΣΟΤΑ \n\n. \n\n! \n\nNo II \n\nप्र \n\n! ANOTHER PHASE OF THE COOLIE \n\nTRADE. \n\nA Coroner's inquest upon the body of an emigrant named Tai Akwa, who died in the Civil Hospital after having been picked up in the street, was continued before the Coroner and the Jury on the 22nd. ed with the deceased's discovery, and his Inspecter Grey stated the facts connect- \n\ntransportation to the Government Civil Deceased walked to the Bospi- \n\nThe Coroner said that he thought the case, though it had been a long one, had been so serions that it had not been too lengthy. He had, however, expected that it would have turned out even serious than it had done. \n\nHe had tried, as the Jury would have observed, to find whe- ther there had been any sue:responsible. for the disgraceful state of things connect- ed with this so called Chinese Hospital; but it was shown conclusively that the place was a public place, that any monies paid were more as presents than anything else; and that no blane could be attached to any one particularly, and person could be said \n\nin Hospital. responsible \n\nof tal, after getting some fea. He stated to any \n\nway for \n\nexisting state things. \n\nThe first thing which the the Inspector that he had been turned out Subsequent to the Jury bad to consider was, who is deceas of a coolie-house. ed? They knew nothing of his name, but death of deceased, the Inspector stated that they ought to be pretty well satisfied from he had gone to the coolie-house in Battery \n\nRoad known as the Man Fook Wo Hiu kee. From a book which he had got from had come from the Kwong-kee house, the people of this house, the name of Now, this touched upon a very important deceased was given. subject. There was no doubt that in theory there was nothing better for China than emigration, when properly carried jont, but when brought into practice, it was found that abuses crept in, and eveu a man with the experience and knowledge of the Chinese, such as Mr Caldwell had been un able to prevent such abuses from entering into the system. Another question touched upon was Chinese Charities; and con. nected with this subject we had the horn \n\nmade. \n\never \n\nblo state of things as narrated by the wit- neases who had visited the E-Taze. There were men lying like dogs together in their own filth with no one look after then, crying for water, and could not obtain any; in a place where no attention was paid to the sex of the patients, or to the dividing off of various diseases, and where no attempt whatever at decency was \n\nNext the Jury would have to 'consider how deceased died. Dr Cochran had said it was jaundice, and had given it as bis opinion that he was unable to say' whether his death was or was not acceler hted by the treatment described by the witnesses. There would therefore be a very dict of natural death, as jaundice was na tural. But the Jury would not be doing. all their duty if they merely recorded therr; interest in this subject-no inquiry had ereated so much interest for many a day-- and the Jury, as representing the public, would he hope become the public mouth piece. He would not dictate to them what the record of their opinion regarding emi- gration would be; but he would say that it would have to be in very strong terus ere be dissented from it. If Mr Caldwell was. fin future the conductor of the emigration system, he was sure that the abuses\" which had been before the Jury would not last- they would certainly be done away with. But if the Jury recorded their opinion of the subject, it would serve as a guarantee bat such a state of things would not occur again, \n\nnctions; which order was meant to pre- vent infection. I expected them to be treated in the same way as I had seen others treated ten years ago, when I used to go to the place; and certainly never expected for a moment to find the state of things described by Mr Lister. Never expected to find the patients looked after very partien- larly as to their personal cleanliness, as some do not even have any change of clothing, aud are naturally dirty. Would say that men floundering about the floor without mats or blankets were neglected, and, would look to the honds of the houses for-au explana tion, It was not supposed that hopeless cases only were sent to the E-Taze; jaun- dice cases were at once sent to the E-Tsze.verdict thus. The public had taken great \n\nChun Awong, who had a brother who died in the E-Tsze, said that when he went there he saw a woman with a pook-marked face, of whom he asked permission first before. taking his brother into the place. Chung Afat, coolie who looks after the roouis, said that witness would have to pay 20 cents for oil and joss-stick; and 20 cents for himself. This sum was for the protec- tion of the gods. Witness attended upon his brother himself, and did not expect any attendance for the 40 centa. Witness stayed there during the day, but he was afraid to remain during the night. Thought it was better to ask permission from the old woman, as he did not know whether he could bave put his brother in the E-Tsze or not without permission, \n\nDr Cochran, recalled, said that he re \n\ndeceased \n\nThe Jury, having taken some time consider their verdict, returned at a few \n\nWe quote minutes after six. \n\nmembered the state in which the body of \n\nwas when brought to hospital; was pitty and covered with vermiu. De hereunder in fuil the verdict given by ceased had been sick fur at least a weak the Jury, which plainly recommends t But could not say positively whether the total suppression of the establishment death of deceased was accelerated by his \n\ndefective treatment and neglect, because \n\nthe cages of jaundice which magistrada \n\n: 1 \n\nThe outry in the hook produced seemed to show that Tai Akwai, aged 35\" had entered the house on the 2nd of April. \n\nHe \n\nDr Cochran, of the Civil Hospital, was text examined. He stated that deceased was brought to Hospital on morning of 14th instant, and was put under treatment. had been told by deceased that he was laid into the street by several coolies, who took him from a spolic-house. Shortly after \n\ntelling this, deceased became delirious, and on the afternoon of the 18th he died. Re- ceased died of a kind of jaundice common among the Chinese; and he was much emaciated at the time of bis death. \n\nThere was no dying deposition taken, as he seemed recovering \n\nChe Abing, keeper of the house, stuted that he was an agent for Mr Baak; and his house was No. 14, Battery Road. He knew nothing of a man named Tai Akwai (at which stage the Coroner cautioned the witness, who, by the way, was aworn as a Christian). There might have been such a man in bis house, but he did not know him by name. Knows the book produced; it contains the names of those who wish to go to Sarinam. The man entered in that book must have come on 2nd April; but he knew nothing of the man. His clerk \n\nkept the book produced. Cross-examined by Mr D. R. Caldwell, witness stated that he was employed by Mr Caldwell, through Mr Baak, to obtain emigrants--- Pinuse Wide- applied were free to go and come as they \n\npleased, and sometimes applied only for the purpose of getting a meal of rice. Cases of slight sickness are cured by the doctors; and serious cages are sent to the Chinese Hosuta, Taipingshan, The ua zeurses 24 attendance in this Hospital are paid by Mr Caldwell, Persons whose manies are chtered to the book produced and remain in the house, would be sout to this Hospital if they turned sick. \n\nThe Clerk of the coolie-house, who was next examined, said that he entered all the \n\nmes in the book produced. He ignored! all knowledge of the man named Tai Akw and did not remember anything about hing More than a hundred people might be in the house at one time, and as they were at liberty to go and come as they pleased, as could not say whether he ever saw the man referred to. He did not remember any ome in particular who was sick on the 13th \n\nA \n\nB \n\nG \n\nF \n\nH \n\n$",
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        "content_text": "( 38 ) \n\nSaturday, November 13th.-An Amateur Performance was given at the New Theatre this evening by the Officers of the Galatea; His Royal Highness himself graciously conducting the Orchestra on the occasion. The following account of this most successful Performance is taken from the China Mail:- \n\n\"At 8.30, His Excellency the Governor, Lady MacDonnell and guests arrived; and, led by His Royal Highness, the Orchestra gave the National Anthem, the audience rising with the double sense of honouring and being honoured as the 'First Violin,' gave the opening chord. The curtain rose to the Farce of 'Notting Hill.'\" \n\n“Alderman Syllabub (Lieut. Romilly) and Mrs. Chutney (Mr. Key), were admirable in their parts, the chief work devolving upon them. Policeman X (Lord Charles Beresford) was scarcely inferior, though his outward 'get-up,' was a grave libel on that much abused body of men, the London Police. Private Tight-Leather was positively Chinese in his endeavours to fan Mrs. Chutney into consciousness; and Lizzy (Mr. Wild) ably seconded the efforts of Policeman X to be a true lover, and comforted him in a way which is supposed to be peculiarly agreeable to the frequenters of our streets and areas, at home. The fun of the piece turns on the desperate inventions of the Alderman to be prepared against burglars; his protective measures, which involved the connection of the front door with an explosive machine warranted to act, resulting of course in its going off at a most inconvenient moment. The Alderman may congratulate himself upon achieving a very marked success.\" \n\n\"Of the Shakesperian selection 'The Fall of Wolsey,' from Henry VIII, we can only speak in terms of unqualified praise. The part of Wolsey, as taken by the Honourable E. C. Yorke, the Equerry-in-waiting of His Royal Highness, was a real, genuine, conception of the part-not a mere acting edition-and brought the house down in thunders of applause. In many cases indeed, irrepressible individuals who started a cheer were checked by their neighbours who were anxious to hear what was undoubtedly the finest piece of dramatic acting which Hongkong has for some time witnessed. The grand climax, when the taunted, fallen Cardinal exclaims, 'Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies,' was superbly rendered. The enthusiasm awakened was a deserved tribute to the Cardinal's histrionic powers. Cromwell (Mr. Wild) did well, as did the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk (Lieut. McHardy and Mr. Neville.) But the Earl of Surrey (Lieut. A. Fitz-George) had a good part and made the most of it; though it is doing him and his companions no injustice to say that the great Cardinal obscured his companions by the admirable rendering of his part.\" \n\n\"Between the two pieces we have thus briefly noticed, the Orchestra gave a selection from Rossini's 'Mosé in Egitto. It was rendered with a precision and taste which did infinite credit to the Royal conductor, the amateurs who assisted, and the professional Bandsmen. Courtesy forbids as extended a criticism as we should desire to give, but we may say in one word, that it called forth on its merits, as a Performance alone, the heartiest applause. A Fest-march of original composition agreeably filled up the interval between the 'Fall of Wolsey' and the very laughable burlesque, by Lieutenant Poore, R.M.A., which followed. 'Crossing the Line' would not have disgraced a more experienced playwright than we presume Lieutenant Poore to be. The dialogue is sparkling, and abounds with puns, which were delivered with much effect by the very \n\n( 39 ) \n\nPage 50 is missing in the original scan, however, based on the given text, it appears that the original text continues from ( 39 ) .\n\n \n:",
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        "content_text": "# EIGHTH DAY, \n## FRIDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY, 1870. \n### 327\n\nProceedings resumed 9 A.M. Friday 4th February, 1870. **WILLIAM, W. CROWNINSHIELD, sworn, states:** I was Captain's clerk, and on board the Oneida on the 24th January, at the time of her collision with the Bombay. I was asleep in the Captain's cabin, on the starboard transom, at the time of the collision. I found myself lying on the cabin floor, recovering from being stunned. As soon as I realized where I was, I saw that the cabin was a wreck, and the stern was knocked out. I crawled out through the stern, and climbed on to the spar deck. The companion ladder leading from the cabin to the deck was gone, and I climbed over broken timber and débris. I looked down the Captain's hatch, (the skylight was gone) to see if Captain Williams was there; and finding he was not, I went forward on to the bridge, and reported to the navigating officer who was on the bridge the extent of the damage. I went down on deck from the bridge, spoke to two or three of the officers, walked aft, and then found that the ship had commenced to settle at the stern. I went into the main rigging and remained there five minutes. When the water had reached the hatches abaft the mainmast and was pouring down below, I threw off my coats, and presently the ship sank so that the water reached me. I pushed myself away from the rigging and was carried down in the vortex. When I came to the surface again, I found the ship had disappeared, but that there was a boat within 20 feet of me. I swam to the boat, and was taken on board, and landed with the rest of those in Mr. Yates' boat.\n\nTo **Mr. DE LONG**. The starboard quarter was gone the whole length of the cabin, which was 25 feet long, and the stern was demolished, cut down to the water's edge. The poop was carried away. To a person looking from the outside, there would be a clear hole six feet high and ten feet long. There was a large armchair, cane chair, two common chairs, a bureau, a sideboard, and a table in the Captain's cabin. The table had a red cover on it. There was a hanging lamp directly over the table, and also candles. I didn't notice whether the wheel had been carried away or not. I did not notice whether the propeller was revolving. The engines were going, but my impression was, that the propeller and rudder were both gone. The poop cabin had bodily been swept away. I saw Captain Williams after getting on deck. I saw him on the quarter deck, going towards the bridge: and I reported to him, also, the extent of the damage. I heard him give orders, and I think one of them was, to set topgallant sails. The other orders I don't remember. Mr. Muldaur repeated the Captain's orders. He was on the bridge with the Captain conducting the steering of the ship. They were trying to steer the ship with canvas; but afterwards the water reached the main hatches, and he said to the Captain, \"Captain, this ship will sink; it's of no use, you had better take to the rigging,\" and directly after making that remark, he jumped into the main rigging with me. I did not hear his voice about the vessel. I did not hear any hail from either of the ships. Our whistle was blowing from the time I got on deck, until the ship sunk. While I was in the rigging, there were three guns fired. I did not notice who was engaged in firing those guns. I saw Mr. Paymaster Tulloch. I spoke to him on the quarter deck, shortly after I came out of the cabin. After the vessel had sunk, I saw nothing of any of the officers. Mr. Tulloch was merely standing there. I asked him, what was the cause of the wreck, and he told me we had been run into by a steamer. As near as I can judge, the Oneida went down by the stern first; and after arriving at an angle of 45 degrees, she must have pitched down at that angle. I don't know where Captain Williams was at the moment of collision. When I went to sleep, he was in his cabin. Five minutes after I got out of the cabin, the water came in at the stern. The spar deck was put under water by the flow. I should say it was about ten to twelve minutes after I awoke that the vessel sunk. I have been at sea 22 years. I held a commission during the late war, as Volunteer Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.\n\nTo **Mr. BARNARD**. I did feel the ship roll, but I have no idea how many times she rolled before settling down. She rolled slowly. I have no idea to which side she rolled first. I should say the first gun I heard was fired five minutes after I awoke. Between the first and second guns, a minute elapsed—it may have been more. I walked to the bridge. I did not see the Bombay at any time. Captain Williams was on deck when I went to the bridge.\n\nTo **THE COURT**. The light was burning in the cabin when I looked down to see if the Captain was there. There was a messenger boy down in the cabin; no one else. I looked down directly I had got on deck. When I left the cabin, the water was not coming into the cabin itself. The cabin tiller was always shipped at sea. I heard three guns. Two were fired on the starboard side, and I cannot say where the other was fired from. Captain Williams was on deck when the ship left the anchorage. I do not know whether he had been on deck while the officers were at dinner. I do not know when the Captain left the cabin. I didn't see the doctor's boat leave the ship. I was in the starboard main rigging. I did not notice at the time whether the rudder head was gone. I think, before the ship sunk, the doctor's boat was at the davits. I did not see that boat anywhere except at the davits. When I came to the surface, I saw a great many heads. I have been on the Oneida since the 16th of last April. Since that time, I have messed and lived with the Captain. While I was on the rigging, the Kanonsaki light bore almost on our starboard beam; and I should judge that the ship was heading almost for the spit.\n\nI did not notice anyone else in the cabin with me when I awoke from my swoon. I was not carried on deck. Captain Williams had been on shore sick, for two or three weeks before the vessel sailed. I heard no orders given to take to the boats, or cut away spars, to prepare for wreck in any way. I did not notice any spars floating about, when I came to the surface. I was in the water about three minutes, I think. The boat left almost directly I had been hauled into her.\n\n**WILLIAM W. CROWNINSHIELD**.\n\n**SERGE ISTOMIN, Lieutenant of H.I.R.M. ship Vzadnick, sworn, states:** I am a Russian. I am a Lieutenant in the Russian Navy. On the evening of the 24th January last, at about 10 minutes to 7, I was on the deck of the Vzadnick, in this harbour. At about 7 o'clock, I was below, and heard the sound as of a gun, but I am not aware if it was a gun, so that I didn't pay any attention to it. At 10 minutes past 7, I heard distinctly a gun. To this gun, I paid attention, as I thought it was the mail coming. By and by, I heard another gun; but so uncertain was I about the sound, and knowing that these guns may be from any man of war, I did not speak to anyone about it.\n\nTo **Mr. BARNARD**. I cannot swear that those guns were not from Yado. I do not know that I, being in harbour...",
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        "content_text": "# Historical Account of the Collision between the Steamer Bombay and the American Man-of-War Oneida\n\nThat the Steamer Bombay on the night of the 24th of January, 1870, in the bay of Yedo, on a starlight, stormless night, in a deep water channel several miles in width, collided with the American Man-of-War Oneida, causing her to sink in about twenty fathoms of water; and besides entailing her loss, also caused the untimely death of one hundred and twelve men is an historical fact.\n\nThat this steamer, of much superior tonnage to the Oneida; an iron vessel with a crew of ninety-three men, and equipped with seven boats, after this collision stood on into port without lowering a boat or changing her course or making a signal, stands also admitted. That anchoring in a harbour surrounded by men of war of nearly all nations, and with the Representatives of nearly all nations within easy communication, these officers saw proper to give no alarm during that entire night of what had occurred, but left the information of this most serious affair to reach those authorities by means of the efforts of survivors of the Oneida, and contented themselves with simply mentioning the circumstance of a collision having occurred, in such a manner as to give rise to no serious apprehension, and sending a similar message to the office of the P. & O. S. N. Co. thereof, connecting it with the quieting assurance that the Bombay had sustained no material damage.\n\nThat the Bombay, without any repairs, was able to, and did, on the following morning proceed to the scene of collision in safety and return here, are also unquestionable facts in the case.\n\nThese facts, taken in connection with the exhibit of the Engineer's log of the Bombay, which, being entered up within a very few minutes after the collision, reads that about 6.15 o'clock of that day or evening her engines were stopped and that about 6.19 o'clock following were started ahead again (which I take for granted will be by all unbiased minds considered as conclusive evidence of the length of the delay made by the Bombay at the time of the collision. Indeed whether such action resulted in any actual stoppage of the headway of that steamer which admittedly was proceeding before that time at the rate of seven and a half to eight and a half knots per hour, I leave to your honors to decide); and that the Oneida was heard by the officers of the Bombay to hail that steamer, and which fact was at once reported to her commander, make up a sum of facts which alone must shock the sensibilities of mankind. Thus, leaving out of consideration in this case the question as to whether the Bombay's commanding officer saw the horrid rent in the Oneida's quarter that at least some of their subalterns and one passenger saw: whether they heard the repeated hail of the Oneida's officers or heard her whistle or heard her guns said to be so plainly heard by many others much further off and in the same direction that the Bombay was from the Oneida; also setting aside as but the ebullition of fretfulness, the remarks of her Captain to the effect that \"he had cut the whole quarter off of a damned yankee frigate\" and \"that he had served her well as he met her with her helm a starboard;\" and also disregarding his refusal the next morning when requested by H. M.'s Senior Naval officer of this station to proceed to the scene of the disaster to rescue any survivors that might be found, and his protest against obeying even the order of the Agent of his company so to do; this court must find a sufficiency of grave and accepted truths, upon which, in passing, you must solemnly impress the seal of your approval or condemnation; thereby perhaps committing at least one of the greatest maritime nations of the world to the policy marked out by your decision.\n\nI quite agree with the idea that the object of all law is not vengeance but justice. That punishments are inflicted not that pain may be caused but that wrongs through fear of punishments may be prevented. I ask nothing at your hands from vengeance sake or from illwill to the accused. On the contrary, with you I would and will, so far as it may be done, throw the mantle of charity over all that it can be made conscientiously to cover; but I would that international law—that bond of union of all nations, that has no origin but common consent and common custom; has that no common arbiter; that is in fact but a great national moral code; may not be made powerless to punish crimes and prevent wrongs of a nature such as this; which, if allowed are liable at any time again to spread desolation and misery in numberless houses, besides seriously involving the amicable relations of Governments themselves.\n\nWith these hastily expressed views, without argument of evidence or weighing of disputed facts; to a British Tribunal and to British justice I submit this cause for judgment.\n\n## MR. BARNARD's Address to the Court\n\nMR. BARNARD then addressed the Court as follows:\n\nWith regard to what has fallen from Mr. De Long who represents the survivors and their friends, upon this Inquiry, which, no doubt, involves the important question as to the cause of the collision and the loss of life and valuable property, I feel, so far as the real and true questions at issue for your consideration are concerned, I have not so difficult or arduous task as I might have had to perform, for the reason that you are all quite competent from your nautical knowledge to decide fairly and equitably; and that whatever may have been your views, impressions or sentiments previously, you will only be guided by the evidence, and not led away by the excitement of public outcry, or other sentimental or clamorous influences; but will calmly arrive at an equitable, just and satisfactory conclusion. And, in passing, I would say that I have failed to discover that this Inquiry merits any international notice or demands special distinction from other like collisions and occurrences; and I cannot myself see, what international issues, rights, liabilities or duties are involved.\n\nIn endeavouring to marshall the evidence given at this Inquiry, I would fain divide it into two separate parts, as follows:\n\n1. As to what took place on board the Strs., Bombay and Oneida immediately pending their coming in view of each other, up to the time of actual colliding; in order to ascertain if it was caused by the persons in command and on board of the Steamer Bombay? or if not, through whose default or negligence it was caused?\n2. As to the conduct of the Commander of the Bombay, Captain Eyre, after the collision; and whether he was justified from any cause or causes, (stating them, considering his damages and all attendant circumstances) in not going back, immediately after the collision, (when he had casually examined his own damage), to look for the Str., Oneida, and offer assistance in case of need.\n\nAs to the first proposition this will call for only a few remarks; from the fact that you are better qualified as judges in nautical matters, to decide whether my client acted as became a seaman and navigator, and obeyed in every particular, the international rules of the road, by steering his vessel on the starboard side, but within the fairway, of this intricate, dangerous and narrow channel; which neither he, nor his officers or crew, had ever before penetrated.\n\nThe evidence of the officers, crew and persons on board the Str., Bombay, shows, that Captain Eyre was most cautious, careful and prudent; being himself on the bridge, at his post of duty, with the Pilot, for a length of time before the occurrence; having all the officers and crew planted on watch at their respective stations; neglecting no usually observed precaution in entering and pursuing this circuitous channel. The night was dark; when suddenly the commander and his numerous men on the lookout discerned a bright light ahead, coming towards them, and gradually they discovered a strange Steamer's light slightly on their port bow; and seeing that if the two vessels continued their respective courses, they would either meet end on end, or pass so near as to involve the risk of a collision.\n\nThe evidence before you gentlemen, clearly shows what took place on board the Str., Bombay, by the testimony of Captain Eyre and of those persons on duty under his orders, corroborated by the passengers, who are disinterested. And I may say that all the persons from the Str., Bombay have given their evidence distinctly and clearly, without any sort of evasion or discrepancy. They have, one and all, stated on oath, that some minutes before the collision, Captain Eyre saw the Oneida's three lights ahead, about half a point on his port bow, and immediately ordered his helm to be put to port, (which, like every other order given on board, was promptly and energetically obeyed), and kept it so until the Oneida's green light was shut in; and when the pilot remarked they were well clear of her, the Captain's reply was \"Port still, let her go a little further.\" But all to no purpose. The Oneida came right across the Bombay, opening her starboard light, and closing her port one; when the Bombay's steam whistle was sounded, and her engines were stopped. But the Oneida still came on with all canvass set; and going before a strong N. E. breeze under sail and steam and consequently out of sight and hearing, in no time, before they had time either to see or hear anything in the way of sounds or signals.\n\n| Vessel        | Action Taken                                                                 |\n|---------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Bombay        | Ordered helm to port upon seeing Oneida's lights ahead on port bow          |\n| Oneida        | Starboarded helm instead of porting it as per navigator's instruction       |\n\nThe ill-fated Oneida; being without any proper head person, or Commander in charge, came flying along at a great rate of speed, while the executive and navigating, as well as all the other officers, excepting Mr. Yates, who was alone on duty on deck, were down below at their dinner; and he, having, just before starboarded his helm, instead of porting it, at the instance of the Navigating officer who had taken a glance and fancied he saw the Bombay's green light in the hurry of the moment; when in point of fact, it was his red light and that on his port bow.\n\nAgain, his evidence upon other less important matters was conflicting, and therefore unsatisfactory. He, no doubt, desired to be candid and tell plainly all he knew but let us see what were his means of acquaintance with what he narrated to the Court? I believe that Mr. Yates intently persuaded himself that Mr. Muldaur, the navigator, had seen the Bombay's green light before he went down to dinner; but, in fact, the Bombay was then far off; and had only just shown her bright light when Mr. Muldaur went below saying he thought it was her green light.\n\nYOUR HONOUR AND GENTLEMEN, with regard to the second question, which in the eyes of public opinion, is more important than the first proposition; viz. Was Captain Eyre, under the circumstances of his having received bad injuries to his own vessel, (the extent of which might have been much greater, and the extent and nature of which could not be found out in, say, about ten minutes--the time the Bombay stopped after the collision), to blame for going on without tendering assistance by turning his vessel round, and endeavouring to find and overtake the injured one? And further, what would have been the result, could the steamer Bombay's damages have been in open channel overhauled, so as to be enabled to learn the real and true damage, and had the Bombay put back instead of coming on?\n\nPage 332",
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        "content_text": "# to Exentfali herrelf & saquiż \n\nCopis were the result of some pejantie soups of soundling fleaned in Luston (C.O. 1375). \n\nAfter due Enquiry Sir R. Macdonnell satisfied himself that Mr. Senfron ought to be removed from Joholama, was fined her & be sundurly subordinati to Portat.\n\nYfir al-Hong Kong - Lasry his hepage Office poing Lear K`amoring £100 & cover his offences. A copy of the despatch was sent to the Post Office, but further action was forthoned to see whether Mo Scompson should appeal. That Appeal we now have before us.\n\nFor the loss flettin in Ancerned 360, I do not see Unl Wortemfion bellers late thebe selontes testioning to his countery Pillar his rendrups & excel the worches of the ot to the improved a querally selfacting slike of offiremey. I abut by the and of an augmented Staff in hae han alle to bring the administration of the Offic to a satisfactory state.\n\nI would reggel had caby other dufelt should be sent to the Pal Offix saying Mat Lord Rembely be glad the anformed allta in the P. R. Guerali pension W. Semper world had shear for interfering am whathen it Reason deffe weite ath the arrangement ahut the fod.\n\nLas mach for thi häersfe \n\n1 \nM. S. L. Hong Jung-home \nMo Simpson has come In have. U. 10ply. No pes 11/70 \n\nI afree \nWM \nEX \n12/4. R. July 18/70",
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        "content_text": "# Typhoon Report\n\nThe steamer **Fire Fly** reports that it blew terrifically at Macao. No damage was done to the European shipping, though considerable among the native craft. Several houses were blown down and considerable anxiety felt. The Praya wall was slightly damaged and some trees torn up by the roots, but the amount of injury sustained is reported inconsiderable. Barometer 28.95.\n\nThe barometrical readings given by us in our report above were those of the glass at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s, which is considered the best and most reliable in the Colony. Many private glasses fell much lower, and the aneroids, which are more sensitive, were jumping about during the storm, now up and now down.\n\nThe river steamer **Kinshan** reports that, at Canton, on the 26th, the wind was steadily N.E. during the morning, and much too strong for yachting purposes on the afternoon and evening of the 25th. She was compelled to anchor at Chun Pih (below the Bogue Forts) half an hour after noon, where she remained for eighteen hours, starting again about 6 a.m. of 27th. During this time the wind blew in terrific gusts; and the directions were as under:\n| Time | Direction |\n| --- | --- |\n| 26th, 2.80 p.m. | N. |\n| 3.30 | N.N.E. |\n| 4.90 | N.E. |\n| 7.30 | E. |\n| 11 | E.S.E. |\n| 27th, 2 a.m. | S.E. |\n| 8 | S.S.E. |\n| 8.30 | S. |\n\nThe lowest readings of the Barometer were observable between 4 and 8 p.m. of 26th, the glass having gone down to 29.12; and by 6 a.m. of the 27th, when the **Kinshan** resumed her voyage, it had risen to 29.40. The **Kinshan** also mentions having seen some wreck on the river; she likewise saw one or two boats adrift, evidently of foreign make, so that news of disasters at sea may yet be looked for.\n\nConsiderable damage is said to have been sustained at East Point; and the residence of Mr Smith, at the Sugar Refinery, has a clean breach through roof, ceilings, and floors. The tall chimney-stalk of the vacant Mint and that built for the Sugar Refinery were swinging to and fro like huge rocking-stones; but fortunately for all concerned they kept their balance well. It appears that the house formerly occupied by the Master of the Mint, and in which Mr Smith now resides, has been furnished with unusually tall chimney-shafts, say from eight to twelve feet; and when the wind veered round to the Eastward, it seems that one of these chimneys received the full force of the hurricane on its broadside. This mass of brickwork was blown on to and athwart the roof, and the debris found its way through three floors ere it reached the ground level. Mr S. and his wife had just risen from dinner, and a glass was whisked out of his hand by a passing tile, as he stood near the side-board. Fortunately, both escaped from harm, though the furniture has suffered greatly.\n\nDuring the efforts made by residents, soldiers, and police, on the afternoon of the 26th, to save life, many acts of daring were doubtless performed, mention of which may never reach the public ear. We may observe, however, that a party of gentlemen, headed apparently by Mr Craig (of the Chartered Mercantile Bank), did signal service at West Point, in saving a large number of natives from the shattered and sinking junks. At the Praya Central, where the successful efforts were made to save the occupants of Messrs Cook's cargo-boats, Mr A. L. Turner (of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank) nearly lost his life while foremost amongst the rescuers. A heavy sea swept him down amongst the drifting wreck at Russell's Jetty, and it was not without difficulty he was recovered from the swaying debris.\n\nLater on, in the evening, great interest was excited by an attempt, or rather a series of attempts, to save two women from a sampan off Bassoon's Jetty. The little craft was perhaps a hundred yards or more from the shore, and five or six rockets had been fired with lines attached, but had fallen short on account of the heavy gusts of wind. A party of gentlemen—consisting of Messrs A. M'Leod, J. M'Leod, George Glasse, and Edward Norton, with Mr C. Eichel (of the Hongkong Hotel) and another—manned a boat and essayed to go forth to the rescue of the poor women. But they had no sooner entered the boat than it became evident that she could not live, and the resolute crew had to get back to the jetty as best they could. The women were, we understand, all safe in the morning; and the incident is as creditable to all concerned as if they had been saved by the gentlemen named. The gig used, which was the property of McEwen & Co., was badly crushed; and a boat belonging to Mr Norton was stove during a previous endeavour to launch her.\n\nWe hear that the water-boat belonging to Messrs Blackhead & Co. made a stretch to seaward when the typhoon commenced, and was reported off the Brothers, some twelve miles distant, flying her house-flag as comfortably as possible. It is almost a pity that more of this class of boat did not go and do likewise.\n\nFears were entertained that the diving apparatus hitherto in use at the **Dunmail** wreck had been entirely lost; but we have since learnt that nearly everything had been recovered from the wrecked cargo-boat in which they were stowed. Two copper helmets (supposed to have been stolen by Chinese), and a coralet are missing, while one of the pipes has been cut. Mr Norton has lost his life boat, gig, dingy, and two large diving-boats; but as the diving apparatus is almost complete, the work will not be long delayed. Indeed, as about $140,000 worth of cargo has been already saved, there only remain about 300 tons of lead, 20 tons of nail rod iron, and a few cases copper to bring above water.\n\nAmong the most lamentable incidents of the typhoon is the wreck of the Siamese barque **Walter**. She seems to have been subjected to the full force of the hurricane. Her two chains were seen to part and she drifted. The captain hoisted sail, in the hope of clearing the harbour, but the barque struck the shore opposite Green Island. Most of the crew jumped on to land. The captain and mate (both Englishmen), with five native sailors, remained with the vessel. Their hope of saving her was destroyed, for she drifted away from shore and sunk. The captain and the remnant of the crew were saved, but the mate, whose name we have been unable to learn, was drowned.",
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        "content_text": "Dong Kong 3 weeks ferie, 1872.\n\nSoncance\n\nedule of Despatchonis from The Sight Amhabie The\n\nSieretary of State, received by the Governor of Hong Kong, during the mouth of March, 1872.\n\nMuity acknow telfer - MRR\n\nMails of 17-26-31\n\nHeavy & 4 Feb; all\n\n1\n\nGovernor\n\nDate\n\nlip. 3.\n\nGov\n\nStonghong\n\nYou No 5440\n\n21\n\nLast previous Paper\n\nNo.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nREGISTER\n\nMAY 26 1872\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n28\n\nOrdt To amend Supreme C. berd. N. 6 Jas\n\nand\n\n67/45.\n\nQet\". To grant summary jurist to Supreme\n\nCourt in certain Cadet\n\n3492. Have draft copy of each ree ? without lover\n\n28 May 1872.\n\nans mag 16 20 56% 22\n\n282_25/8/72 Med 27/5\n\nPint\n\nPrint\n\nbut in the meantime L. K fem to a found with any\n\nhave offers. puppetion you was.\n\nLogs. FRAM\n\nthe proposed memoms\n\n(CO 129/172 - H & S 5759)\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nDesp\n\nSubsequent\n\nM Holland 950-5823\n\nApril 8.1873\n\ntheir first in in anordenn\n\nwith your suspention\n\nSir\n\n25/7/77\n\nIndeyou\n\n29 May 1872\n\nWith reference to your letter fuld the 2 April lust, I am directed by the Sword of Kimberley to transmit to for your copies of two draft ordinances received from Sir R.\n\nin\n\nyou\n\nMac Donnell, to amend the Supreme Court ord se 206 of 1845, and to grant Summary jurisdiction to the Supreme Court\n\nLantodd\n\ntem lobes.\n\nthat on the 4th April the governor was moted to postpone action in the matton Ell\n\nettone to the colony Ya\n\nPage 28\n\n...\n\nPage 29\n\nPage 30",
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        "content_text": "ARTICLES.\n\n(4)\n\nREMARKS.\n\nDRAWING ROOM.\n\n1 Brussels Carpet,\n\nCurtains for 6 Windows,..\n\n3 Console Tables, Walnut and Marble, between Windows,\n\n3 Pier Glasses over above.\n\nOval Centre Ottoman 7′ x 5.′3′′,.....................................\n\nHolland Cover for Do.\n\n12 Walnut Chairs (Brocatelle Silk ),\n\nHolland Covers for Do.\n\n6 Walnut Fly Chairs illuminated.\n\n6 Evonizice Chairs.\n\nCentre Lamp, 4-burners.\n\n2 Gasaliers, 3-burners.\n\n2 Couches with Brown Holland Covers.\n\n4 Small Marble-top Teapoys.\n\n2 Marble-top Side Tables.\"\n\n3 Arm Chairs (Brocatelle Silk),\n\n1 Round Table,.\n\n3 Teapoys,\n\n2 Conversation Couches,\n\n4 Prie-Dieu Chairs,\n\nBrass Fender and Fire Irons.\n\nPier Glass for Mantel Piece, 11 ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. 3 in.\n\n6 Cornices over Curtains.\n\n1 Teak Side Table.\n\n2 Curtains (Door-way) and Pole,\n\n3 Pairs Muslin Curtains.\n\n1 Canterbury.\n\n1 Teak Whatnot.\n\n4 Bracket Lamps, 2-burners.\n\n1 Lady's Writing Table.\n\nWalnut Writing Table.\n\nBook Stand inlaid with Metal.\n\n1 Fireguard.\n\n1 Envelope Case and Portfolio.\n\n1 Box Specimens China Sub-marine Cable.\n\nT\n\nDamaged by white ants near centre.\n\nWorn and faded.\n\n1 (Marble) cracked.\n\nDamaged, apparently by rain. Slightly eaten by vermin. All more or less faded.\n\nVery much soiled and injured by damp apparently. Cracked.\n\n1 in bad order.\n\nFaded.\n\nOld and faded.\n\nDINING ROOM.\n\n1 Pier Glass 7 feet x 5 feet 7 in.,\n\nPortrait of George IV, Massive Gilt Frame.\n\nNew Turkey Carpet,\n\nIn very bad order.\n\nMuch disfigured by bad folding.\n\n6 Rep and 6 Lace Curtains with Valances, Rods, Pulleys, &c., Rep faded and partially destroyed by vermin.\n\n24 Mahogany Chairs, Morocco Leather,......\n\n2 Gasaliers, 4-burners.\n\n6 Bracket Lamps, 2-burners.\n\n9 Supper Tables (Trestles.)\n\n2 Three-shelved Side Boards.\n\n12 not in good order.\n\n \n\nARTICLES.\n\n(5)\n\nDINING ROOM,—Continued.\n\n1 Large Side Board.\n\n2 Three-shelved Whatnots.\n\n3 Carved-wood Glass Stands.\n\nFender and Irons.\n\nRed Silk Fire Screen.\n\nMahogany Dining Table, Seven Leaves.\n\n6 Cornices.\n\nWine Chest.\n\n1 Large Screen Carved and Filled with Red Damask.\n\n2 Black-wood Tables for Lamps and Flower Stands.\n\n23 Black-wood Flower-pot Stands.\n\n1 Mahogany and Glass Fire Screen.\n\n1 Fire-guard.\n\n1 Banner Screen Embroidered, with Red Fringe and Tassels.\n\nNo. 3 BOUDOIR.\n\n1 Lacquered Chess Table,\n\nTête-à-tête Couch in Satin Damask\n\n2 Lady's Chairs in Damask.\n\n1 Carved Stand and Card Dish.\n\n1 Couch in Magenta.\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n1 Corner Whatnot.\n\n2 Marble-top Black-wood Tables, oblong.\n\n1 Morocco Lady's Chair.\n\n2 Gilt Cornices with V. R. and Tassels.\n\n2 Pairs White Curtains.\n\nCornices & Fringes Do.\n\nGasalier, 3-burners.\n\n2 Bracket Lamps.\n\n1 Stationery Case, Envelope Box and Portfolio.\n\n4 China Carved Book Cases.\n\n1 Black-wood Metal Inlaid Table.\n\n2 Carved Black-wood Chairs in Crimson Damask.\n\n2 Round Carved Black-wood Tables with Porcelain Tops.\n\n1 Carved Black-wood Sofa in Crimson Damask.\n\n1 Pier Glass.\n\n1 Marble-top Table, 14-inch square.\n\n1 Rocking Chair in Magenta.\n\nREMARKS.\n\nLacquer damaged.\n\n132",
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        "content_text": "(10)\n\nARTICLES.\n\nLARGE DRESSING ROOM No. 1,--Cont.\n\n1 Damask Curtain for Corner Shelves.\n\n1 Bath-room Grating.\n\n1 Slop Pail.\n\n1 Marble-top Console.\n\nSMALL DRESSING ROOM No. 1.\n\n1 Bath Grating.\n\n1 Marble Washstand & Service, red, green & white.\n\nBoot Stand and Towel Rack.\n\nREMARKS.\n\n1 Wardrobe.\n\n1 Large Do.\n\nARTICLES.\n\nDRESSING ROOM No. 4.\n\n1 Marble-top Toilet Table.\n\n1 Do. Toilet Glass.\n\n1 Boot Rack.\n\n1 Teapoy, Marble-top.\n\n1 Marble-top Washstand and Service.\n\n1 Towel Rack.\n\n1 Chamber Stand.\n\n1 Slop Pail.\n\n1 Clothes Basket.\n\n1 Piece Carpetting.\n\n1 Espagnolette.\n\n(11)\n\n2 Small Corner Shelves' Curtains, Red Damask.\n\n2 Rose-wood Morocco-leather Chairs.\n\n1 Large Mahogany Boot Jack.\n\nSERVANT'S ROOM No. 1.\n\nSmall Iron Bedstead and Mattress.\n\n1 Toilet Glass.\n\n1 Washstand and Basin.\n\n1 Toilet Table.\n\n1 Chamber.\n\n1 Toilet Table.\n\n2 Chairs.\n\nBED ROOM No. 5.\n\n2 Iron Bedsteads, Curtains, & Spring Mattresses.\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n5 Chairs Covered with Damask.\n\n2 Marble-top Teapoys.\n\n1 Easy Chair (American, in red Rep).\n\n1 Wardrobe.\n\n1 Large Almirah.\n\n1 Rocking Chair.\n\n1 Toilet Table.\n\n1 Toilet Glass.\n\n2 Chests of Drawers.\n\n1 Cheval Glass.\n\n1 Large Mirror in Gilt Frame.\n\nCarpetting.\n\n1 Teapoy.\n\nFender and Fire Irons.\n\n1 Green Damask Sofa and Cover.\n\nNORTH EAST DRESSING ROOM OFF No. 5.\n\nCarpetting.\n\nMorocco Chair.\n\nTeapoy.\n\n1 Marble Washstand and Toilet Service.\n\n1 Towel Rack.\n\n1 Chamber Stand.\n\n1 Tin Bath and Stand.\n\n1 Looking Glass.\n\n1 Cheval Glass.\n\n1 Marble-top Carved Table.\n\n1 Clothes Basket.\n\nPairs Curtains.\n\n1 Straw Seated Chair.\n\nSMALL DRESSING ROOM OFF No. 5.\n\nCarpetting.\n\n1 Towel Rack.\n\n1 Bidet.\n\n1 Chair.\n\n1 Washstand.\n\nSPARE ROOM OFF No. 5.\n\n1 Large Rug with Border, same as in Drawing Room.\n\n1 Davenport.\n\n1 Chair.\n\n1 Clothes Basket.\n\n135\n\nREMARKS.",
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        "content_text": "ARTICLES.\n\nNo. 9 BED ROOM.\n\n(14)\n\nPier Glass,\n\n1 Bedstead and Mattress.\n\n1 Chest of Drawers.\n\n1 Marble-top Toilet Glass.\n\nClothes Rack, moveable.\n\n1 Cheval Glass, Mahogany.\n\n1 Washstand, Double Set Chinese Service.\n\n1 Towel Rack.\n\n1 Wardrobe.\n\n4 Chairs, Rose-wood, Cushioned.\n\nCarpetting.\n\nStationery Case.\n\nPaper Basket.\n\nSmall Walnut Couch in Magenta.\n\nFender and Fire Irons.\n\nSlop Pail.\n\nClothes Basket.\n\nREMARKS.\n\nFormerly in Dining Room.\n\nDamaged.\n\nDoor out of order.\n\n(15)\n\nARTICLES.\n\nDRESSING ROOM & BATH ROOM No. 10.\n\n1 Chair, Straw Bottomed.\n\n1 Towel Rack.\n\nMarble-top Washstand and Service.\n\n1 Marble-top Chamber and Pail.\n\n1 Scarlet Curtain and Pole.\n\n2 Curtains of Silk Damask for Corners.\n\n1 Bath Grating.\n\nGALLERY.\n\nMaroon Rep Carpet.\n\n1 Carved Teak Book Case.\n\n1 Old Mahogany Sofa Covered in Red Silk Damask with Holland Cover.\n\n1 Small Lamp Ladder.\n\nVESTIBULE.\n\nBATH ROOM & DRESSING ROOM No. 9.\n\nMarble-top Toilet Table.\n\nMarble-top Mirror.\n\nBoot Stand.\n\n1 Wooden Teapoy.\n\n2 Cane Bottomed Chairs.\n\n2 Red Rep Curtains.\n\nCarpetting.\n\n1 Towel Rack.\n\n1 Commode.\n\n1 Oval Table.\n\n1 Sofa.\n\n1 Oak Cheffonier.\n\n1 Teapoy (Wood).\n\n2 Damask Curtains for Corners.\n\nUPPER SOUTH VERANDAH.\n\n4 Long Chairs.\n\n1 Penang Chair.\n\n1 Marble-top Toilet Table, (mended).\n\nLINEN, &c.,\n\nNo. 10 BED ROOM.\n\n8 Pairs Sheets 12/4\n\n1 Bedstead.\n\n1 Morocco Lounge Chair.\n\n10 Pairs Do. 11/4\n\n10 Pairs Cotton and Linen.\n\n.......\n\n14 Pairs Linen.\n\n16 Cambric Pillow Cases.\n\n1 Wardrobe.\n\n1 Pier Glass, Gilt Frame.\n\n4 Small Chairs, Cane Bottom.\n\n1 Teak Toilet Table.\n\n1 Oval Toilet Glass, Marble-top.\n\n1 Teapoy.\n\n1 Cheval Glass.\n\n1 Carpet.\n\n1 Chest of Drawers.\n\n1 Marble-top Side Table.\n\n1 Oak Writing Table, Morocco.\n\n1 Clothes Stand.\n\nMetal Fender and Irons.\n\nWaste Paper Basket.\n\n6 Pairs Do.\n\n10 Toilet Covers.\n\n2 Pairs 14/4 Superfine Light Blankets.\n\n1 Do. 14/4 Toilet Quilts.\n\n4 Do. 13/4 Do.\n\nMosquito Nets and Valances for 6 Beds.\n\n3 Doz. 4 x 6 Towels.\n\n14 Doz. White Turkish Towels.\n\n1 Piece Mosquito Curtain.\n\n3 Doz. Dusters.\n\n8 Table Cloths.\n\n137\n\nREMARKS.\n\nVery much stained.\n\nOut of this number 4 sheets are mildewed or stained. Condemned.\n\n2 slightly mildewed.\n\nSlightly spotted.\n\n10 Doz. Napkins.\n\n12 Mosquito Nets and Valances.\n\n5 Doz. Napkins.\n\n2 Webs Maroon and Gold Brocatelle Silk.\n\nA quantity of Gymp.\n\nA few Silk Tufts.\n\n*34 Pairs Figured Lace Curtains.\n\n*23\n\n* This includes all the Curtains enumerated elsewhere.\n\n3 missing.\n\nNew in end of 1869.\n\nOld and much worn.",
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        "content_text": "808\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nmeans we do not know. Why it is so we do not know. It behoves the Government to know whether any persons are engaged in introducing a false lead currency, depreciating the coin it has issued, and making endless trouble and anxiety to the masses of the poor people to take effective measures to protect the value of its currency to terrify forgers and prevent the issue of any currency that will destroy its credit and the value of its coin,\n\nThe province of Bahang was originally a Laotian region. During the wars with the Laos the Siamese conquered this region, and eventually placed over it a Siamese governor. It is now regarded as Siamese territory, and is the extreme limit of Siam proper on the north-west. Rahang on the west joins British Burmah; on the north it joins several Laotian provinces that are again subject to Chienguai. Chiengmai is a Laotian province, and is still governed by Laotian princes. His Majesty the King of Siam usually concurs in appointing the successor of any Chiengmai Laotian prince who may have deceased. Persons who may be obnoxious to the laws of Siam often escape to Chiengmai, and while there the Siamese do not usually succeed in gaining possession of their persons. Is Chiengmai a conquered province? Is it tributary to Siam, and to what extent; or is it simply under the protection of Siam, as was Cambodia? All these are questions full of interest.\n\nIt is said that Messrs. Vrooman and Culbertson made the distance from Bangkok to Rahang in twenty-two days. Last week the Rev. Mr. Culbertson returned from Rahiang to Bangkok in four days. This is very rapid travelling by the boats usually employed for such purposes.\n\nBORNEO.\n\nSARAWAK.\n\nWe learn from the Sarawak Gazette that the Qhop Estate and other property of Baroness Coutts, at Lundu, was sold by public auction on the 19th September, realising about $1,500. The house and plantations at Tanah Puteh were bought for $800 by Ken What, a Chinese merchant in the Bazaar, who intends to present a large piece of ground to his countrymen for a public burying-place, and keep up the house for the accommodation of pleasure seekers from Kuching.\n\nThe steamer Firefly, formerly the yacht belonging to the Honourable the Resident of Sarawak, is to run in the Rejang river, between Sibu, Kanowit, Matu, and Rejang, a run of rather more than one hundred miles.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872\n\n4. The actual excess of revenue over expenditure for the year 1871 was $151,592.\n\n5. The sub-committee think this Supply Bill may be at once explored.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. W. W. BIRCH.\n\nJ. J. GREENSHIELDS.\n\nT. SHELFORD.\n\nThe Government, with a view to the public convenience, has procured a considerable quantity of silver and copper small coin, which the Treasury obligingly issues at par. The Kling money-changers, however, are turning this to account, by drawing coin from the Treasury, for which they charge 2 per cent. on issuing it in the square and elsewhere, persistently refusing to abate a single pie, on the ground that small change is very scarce. Even Chinese shopkeepers demand 1 per cent. It would be a boon to every chief if a plan were devised whereby this annoying imposition might be avoided.\n\nThe state of affairs in Deli is thus sketched in the Batavia Handelsblad. The reports as to how matters stand in Deli are far from favourable. The troops suffer much from sickness, above all from fevers, and as we have said before from diarrhoea and swollen feet. If the Hill Battas make common cause with the enemy, the situation will become an untenable one. As to the bentings, we are informed that they call forth admiration as well by their position as by their plan and strength. Without suspecting it, one finds one's self sometimes suddenly opposite a benting barely fifty paces off. These bentings are so built that grenades scarcely do any harm; by means of a thick bamboo covering, they have been made shell-proof. It will be seen that our brave troops have a hard task before them.\n\nA writer in the Straits Times says: In the eighth paragraph of the Governor's Minute on the sale of the land in connection with the building and repairing of the markets, laid before the Legislative Council on Sept. 26 last, his Excellency reports that at Malacca about 8,000 square feet of land near the Tron Bridge had been sold for $5,000, which sum is to be appropriated for the erection of a commodious market; I was at the spot very shortly after the sale, and was surprised to learn that a plot of land, containing, in my opinion, more than 8,000 square feet, adjoining the plot sold by Sir Harry Ord, had been given to a rich Chinese at Malacca by the Government for his sole use and benefit. The fortunate recipient of this noble gift has erected a block of substantial shops on the site, which is likely to yield a rental of $90 per mensem at least. It appears to me very desirable that the public should be informed upon what grounds such valuable public property has been given to a private individual. A commission is needed to inquire into, and report fully upon, the whole of the circumstances connected with this singular transaction, for which Sir Harry Ord is not responsible--the gift having been made, I believe, under the auspices of Capt. Shaw, the Lieut.-Governor, and Colonel Anson whilst officiating as Governor.\n\nWe cull the following items of News from the Penang Argus: Mr. Baumgarten, the Registrar of the Supreme Court here, is about to retire on a pension, and is to be succeeded by Mr. Bradford from Penang, Mr. Harvey taking the latter's post. Colonel Anson will be back from home by February next. The Government have extended the term of service in the Straits to enable him to carry out the Judicial changes which are forthcoming. Recent failures in Singapore tot up to $700,000, the Chetties suffering to the extent of $450,000.\n\nThe Sarawak Sugar Company's creditors have held a meeting in the Court House, when a first and final dividend of 0 per cent. was declared.\n\nThe Government advertise that the coal seams of Simonjan in the Sudong river and Silantek in the Batang Lapar, about four to five feet thick, may be worked by an individual or company on a payment of ten cents per ton brought to grass. The Simunjan seams are about 34 miles from a navigable river, and the Silantek seams are close to a small stream navigable for boats only, and about twelve miles from a large navigable river. The Governor has applied for a further extension of his offer. The Government offers a free passage by the S.S. Royalist from and back to Singapore to any person desirous of examining the seams.\n\nGovernment proposes to erect suitable building for a Sanatarium on one of the minor peaks of the Matang mountain, if there is any prospect of invalids availing themselves of such a locality. Dr. Houghton specifies the following advantages:-A S.E. aspect, temperature ranging from 66 deg. to 88 deg., abundance of excellent water, perfect accessibility from Kuching by water, a magnificent view over Sarawak, Lundu, Sudong, &c., and a gentle ascent from the foot of the mountain, admitting of invalids being carried up in chairs by coolies, always obtainable from the Rajah's Coffee plantation, through which the road passes.\n\nSTRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nThe dates by this mail extend to the 13th Oct. No later mail had been received from London.\n\nCommercial Report.\n\n(For dates see first page.)\n\nIMPORTS.\n\nYOKOHAMA. There had been a good demand for Grey Shirtings and prices showed an improvement; sales had been on a good scale, and the market at the close was firm, especially for the heavier weights. Cotton Yarn had not met with so much inquiry, and prices were scarcely so high as those last quoted. Mousselines were lower, and with the exception of Black Velvets and Lastings, which were in good demand, there had been no particular change in other Woollen fabrics. Quotations:-Grey Shirtings, 7 lbs., $2.30 to 2.35 per piece; 8 to 8 lbs., $2.62 to 2.57; 9 lbs., $2.95 to 3. Cotton Yarn, No. 18 to 24, $40.50 to 42 per picul; Nos. 28 to 32, $47.25 to 48.25; Nos. 38 to 42, $45 to 48.\n\nHIOGO-OSAKA. Cotton Yarn: A fair amount of business had been done, and a good demand continued for Nos. 28/32. Nos. 1/24 were saleable, but owing to heavy stocks, prices were weak. Nos. 38/42 neglected. Grey Shirtings: The market showed some weakness during part of the month, and prices declined about 2c. per piece; they had since recovered, however, and closed firm. Taffachelas, Turkey Reds, and Velvets, in good demand; other Cottons more or less neglected.\n\nThe sub-committee appointed to consider the Second Supplementary Supply Bill for 1871, having examined the statements framed by the Auditor-General and published in the Blue-book of 1871, and which are separately laid before Council to-day, beg to report as follows:-\n\n1. This Supply Bill appears necessary to cover the only expenditure which exceeds the items provided for in the estimates and supplementary estimates of 1871.\n\n2. The sub-committee desire, however, to call the attention of the Council to the fact that the revenue for 1871 showed a net increase over that of 1870 of $26,055, and the expenditure a net decrease of $5,264.\n\n3. The actual revenue, as compared with the estimates for the year, showed an excess of $40,111—and while the expenditure was estimated at $1,870,006, it proved to be only $1,244,111, thus showing a net saving of $121,895.\n\nTo some extent\n\n204\n\n809\n\nwhich, with a sprinkling of Fychows, turned the bulk of the settlements. Only two or three chops of Pingsang had found buyers. The market remained quiet but firm.\n\nFoochow-Business during the week had been on a moderate scale and there had been no alteration in prices. No transactions had taken place in Oolongs. Congou: Settlements 12,732 chests at Tls. 5 to Tls. 20. The bulk of the transactions had been in Teas costing between Tls. 15 to Tls. 18, and the greater part was intended for the Continent. Settlements for England had been small. Arrivals, 18,750 chests. Souchong: 1,075 chests taken at Tls. 15% to Tls. 27. Arrivals, 700 chests. Oolongs: Owing to the continued firmness of holders no transactions had taken place. Arrivals, 4,950 half-chests. Scented Teas Settlements, 1,470 boxes at Tls. 17 to Tls. 20.4. Arrivals, 2,000 boxes. Flowery Pekoes: Settled 86 chests at Tls. 27. Arrivals, 150 chests.\n\nTIENTSIN. There had been a slight improvement at this port, not only were the waters on the plains no higher, but the dealers had made some small profit on their late purchases of Drills, Jeans, and common T-Cloths. Black Lastings and Velvets had been in some request, but Grey and White Shirtings were dull of sale, and rates unremunerative.\n\nHANKOW. Settling day had passed satisfactorily, but the subsequent improved demand previously looked for had not been realised. Holders were disposed to accept lower rates for all Cotton Goods. Of Woollens: Camlets was the only fabric wanted, but this article was scarce and H.D.B., of good assortment, had been placed at Tls. 16.40 per piece, to extent of 300 pieces. Lead: L.B. was quoted Tls. 1.60 to 4.65 per picul, but business had been very slack.\n\nSHANGHAI. The enquiry for Plain Cottons had continued, but the result, so far, had been unimportant, and had fallen far short of the business usually passing at this season of the year. Buyers had been deterred from operating in Shirtings and T-Cloths at all events as freely as they wished, by the quantities of goods forced upon them, and the consequent declining tendency of prices.\n\nGrey Shirtings: 7-lb. Grey Shirtings in fair demand and scarce, 8lbs. in good enquiry but easier; 7 lbs. Tls. 1.65 to 1.67; 8 lbs. Tls. 1.77 to 1.79 for Mildews; and Tls. 1.78 to 1.88 for sound common to best ordinary; Dewhurst's Eagle chop, Tls. 1.88. White Shirtings: 66-reed, Tls. 2.00; 60-reed, Tls. 1.80; lowest counts, Tls. 1.50. T-Cloths: Fair sales, but anxiety to realise had caused a further fall in value. Common 6 lb. Tls. 1.13 to 1.15; Dewhurst's T. quality Tls. 1.32; Mexican qualities, Tls. 1.45 to 1.52. A sale of 8lbs. Dewhurst's M.T., Tls. 1.72. Drills and Jeans: Both commanded a ready market at quotations; 13 lbs. to 15 lbs. Dutch and English Drills, Tls. 3.2 to 3.15; Jeans, Tls. 2.5 to 2.12 for English, Tls. 2.27 for 8 lbs. Dutch. Fancy Cottons: Chintzes, assorted, Tls. 1.41 to 1.60; Gentian Shirtings, Tls. 2.60; best Turkey Reds, Woollens: Tls. 2.60 per piece; other articles altogether neglected. Market dull; Camlets, Tls. 16 to 15. Other goods had received no notice. Metals: Scarcely anything doing.\n\nHONG KONG. The demand for Raw Cotton had strengthened with the approach of cool weather, and fair sales were being made at slightly better prices. Yarns were very little inquired for, and Nos. 16/24 and 28/32 could only be placed at lower rates. Drills only were in demand, and these were wanted at better values. In Woollens, Blankets had declined. All kinds of tin were slow of sale. Tin Plates were $1 per box lower. Quicksilver was steady. Rice had been in some demand for shipment to Swatow, but at the close the market was quiet at former quotations.\n\nFoochow. Sales had been effected of 1,000 pieces 8 lbs. Grey Shirtings at $2.77; 2,500 pieces 7 lbs. T-Cloths at $2.05 to 2.85; and 400 pieces 8 lbs. T-Cloths at $3.75.\n\nSAIGON. Although stocks were rather moderate, sales, with the exception of 6 lbs. T-Cloth could only be effected at reduced rates. Quotations: 8 lbs. Grey Shirtings, $2.62 per piece; 7 lbs., $2.20; 6 lbs. T-Cloth, $1.70; 5 lbs., $1.42; 4 lbs., $1.25; 4 lbs., $1.10.\n\nEXPORTS.\n\nTEA.\n\nYOKOHAMA. The amount of business done had about been on a par with that previously noted; settlements, chiefly of the medium grades, amounted to about 8,000 piculs, and had been made at gradually advancing prices, the market closing at fully $2 to 3 over last quotations for all except the finer grades, which remained as last stated. The quality had been fair; there was still a marked absence of common leaf, anything below medium being of very inferior quality. Supplies had been meagre, and stocks were reduced. The export had been as follows: Per P.M.S.S. Co.'s steamer China, to New York, 189,010 lbs.; to Chicago, 42,065 lbs.; to Boston, 6,100 lbs.; to San Francisco, 100,934 lbs.; per Emulation, for New York, 500,795 lbs.; per Etta Loring, for New York, 206,761 lbs.; per Leander, for New York, 707,702 lbs.; per Emma Augusta, for San Francisco, about 200,000 lbs.; and per Ceylon, for New York, 445,000 lbs. Including these two latter cargoes and that of the outgoing steamer, the export would be nearly two million pounds in excess of that of last season at the same date. Quotations:-Common, $5 to 28 per picul; good common, $20 to 31; medium $33 to 36; good medium, $37 to 40; fine, $41 to 43; finest, $44 to 47; choice, $50 and upwards.\n\nHIOGO-OSAKA A fairly active business had been transacted. Prices at the commencement of the month to within a few days of the close were easier, but owing to large purchases having been made, a hardening tendency was apparent at the close for all grades. Low grades were still scarce and dear. Settlements for the month from 15th Aug- were returned at 5,500 piculs, making a total of 26,000 piculs for the season, against 16,000 piculs for the corresponding period last year. Stocks were estimated at 5,000 piculs. The Caller On was loading for New York, and the Engelbert would take about 75 tons to San Francisco. The Jessie Isabel was about to sail for New York, with 293,064 lbs. Quotations Common, $16 to 20 per picul; good common, $21 to 25; medium, $26 to 30; good medium, $31 to 35; fine, $36 to 40; finest, $42 to 46; choice, $48 to 53; choicest, $54 and upwards.\n\nHANKOW. More business and a general advance of Tls. 1 per picul was reported. Settlements and reshipments for the week about 11,000 chests, Stock 3,300 packages, against about 1,400 last year.\n\nExport to date 51,000,000 lbs., against 53,000,000 lbs. last year at same time. Exchange, 6 m.s. Credit paper had advanced to 8.5 per tael, and the rates on Shanghai had risen to 3 per cent. for sight drafts and 3¾ per cent. for 10 days' paper.\n\nSHANGHAI. Black: The business in Congous had been unimportant, but former rates had been fairly supported by the extreme firmness of holders. Settlements for the week, 5,489 chests, at Tls. 14.50 to 30 per picul; stock, 29,120 chests, Green: No feature worthy of any special comment had presented itself; a little more had been done since exchange weakened. Attention had chiefly been turned to Moyanes.\n\nAMOY. Only about 1,000 half-chests of Ooloongs had been settled, and buyers were not operating owing to the uncertainty about the course of the exchange market. Tea-men were anxious to sell, but would not make a sufficient concession to counterbalance the advance in exchange. The steamship Teviot had sailed for New York with about 3,000 half-chests Amoy Ooloongs; the steamship Surprise was expected, and the Anglo-Saxon was the only vessel on the berth for that destination. Arrivals of Ooloongs to date, 174,916 half-chests: settlements 158,813, and stock 16,103 half-chests.\n\nCANTON. There had been but little inquiry for any descriptions, and the market had continued very quiet.\n\nSILK.\n\nYOKOHAMA. The market had continued to be fairly active, and a good business had been done, settlements amounting to about 1,800 bales, Hanks sorts as usual forming the bulk. Prices for both Hanks and Oshus (with the exception of Hamatskis which showed a still further decline) had advanced about $20 per picul. Quotations:-Hanks, Mybash and Sinchu, extra 32s. 6d., best 30s. 3¼d. to 31s. 0d., medium 28s. to 29s. 6d., inferior 24s. 6d. to 27s. 3d.; Oshu, extra 32s. 6d., best 31s. 6d. to 31s. 3d., medium 28s. 9d. to 29s. 10d., inferior 27s. 3d. to 28s.; Hamatski, medium 26s. 6d. to 27s. 6d.; Coshu, best 28s. 0d., medium 24s. 3d. to 26s. 7. Silk Worms' Eggs: Total arrivals to date about 750,000 cards, and settlements estimated at 450,900 cards; prices for green annuals quoted as follows- Best $8 to 9.75 per candil, good $2.50 to 3, medium $2 to 2.50, inferior $1.75 to 2; white annuals were worth $3 to 3.90 per card.\n\nSHANGHAI. At the close of last mail a considerable business was done, and buying had continued, partly stimulated by a lower exchange, and about 1,700 bales had found buyers at prices varying very little from those given in our last report. Good Silk had been steady and in fair demand, while common descriptions were neglected and declining. Tsatlee Market nearly cleared of Chop Silk, as also of good medium sorts, and in some instances contracts had been made for delivery of these latter for next mail. Hangchow: Sellers of medium at Tls. 400 to 465, but no buyers. Hainings: In consequence of the absence of demand for Raw Hainings last season, the bulk of the crop had this year been re-reeled. Export of Raw Haining little over 200 bales Stock of 1,100 bales last year, and holders of good Silks very firm. 250 bales included 100 bales of Fatmow's chop, which were held for Tls. 520 for No. 9 Taysaam: No settlements of Kaling reported. No. 3 to 3 Chincum bought at Tls. 400, Shaouhing at Tls. 380, and ordinary Laeyang at Tls. 345. Re-reeled: Fair Haining Tls. 500 to 570, medium offering at Tls. 510 to 550, Tsatlee still in over-supply, and prices weak.\n\nCANTON. Little or no change had taken place, and inactivity had prevailed. Prices were slightly easier, but no actual reduction had been made. The fifth crop, which continued to arrive, was of very poor quality--flabby but dry. The sixth crop, it was reported, will be no larger than the fifth, cold winds, which had come earlier than usual, having damaged the mulberry trees. The high rate of exchange and discouraging news from home still kept buyers out of the market, and in consequence the settlements were very small--under 50 bales; the present mail would, however, take forward some 300 bales of previous settlements. Stock, 2,000 bales Tsatlee, and with the sixth Crop and remainder of the fifth at least 3,500 bales more would be offered on the market this season. Several contracts for Rereels had been entered into, but for cargo ready for shipment there was no demand; some dealers were keeping back their stocks on the strength of the inferiority of the crops to arrive.\n\nThe Messageries Maritimes Co's steamer Pello, with the present inward French mail, arrived at Marseilles on the 12th inst. at eight A.M. She brings 68 passengers, 1,014 bales of silk, 1,912 packages tea, 309 packages copper, 1,868 bales tobacco, and 340 packages sundries for London. The cargo will be forwarded to London by the Company's steamer Copernic, and may be expected here about the 26th inst.\n\nBIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nALLEN-On the 10th Nov, at Singapore, Straits Settlements, the wife of Willworth Allen, Esq., of a daughter.\n\nBADGE-On the 20th Sept., at Hiogo, the wife of G. Badge, Esq., of a son.\n\nBOWRING-On the 10th Nov., at Torquay, the wife of Lewin B. Bowring, Esq., C.S.I., of a son.\n\nGERNON-On the 20th Sept., at Singapore, the wife of P. Gernon, of a son.\n\nGILLILAN-On the 4th Nov., at 4, Lyndhurst-road, Hampstead, Mrs. S. Gillilan, of a daughter.\n\nGRABHAM-On the 19th Sept., at her residence, Bangkok, Siam, Mrs. Graham, wife of Geo. G. Grabham, of a son.\n\nNOETZLI-On the 25th Sept., at Foochow, the wife of O. Noetzli, Imperial Maritime Customs, of a son.\n\nSWINHOE-On the 28th Sept., at the British Consulate, Ningpo, China, the wife of Robert Swinhoe, Esq., of a son.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nMACCAUGHEY-On the 6th Nov., at Akeley Wood, Backs, Hugh Wade Maccaughey, late of Wimbledon and Marine-parade, Brighton, in his 75th year.\n\nSOUCHAY-On the 11th Nov., at Withington House, Manchester, Charles Isaac Souchay, aged 78.",
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        "content_text": "Nov. 18, 1872.] \n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH. \n\nMETALS. IRON-Welsh: Rails, £10 5s. to £11. Bars, £10 10s. to £11. Staffordshire Best: Bars, £11 10s. to £13; Nail Rods, £11 10s. to £13; Hoop, £13 to £14 10s.; Sheets, £15 to £17, Scotch Pig, No. 1, £5 to £6; Swedes, Bars, Hammered, £16 10s. to £17. Swedes, Steel in kegs, and in., £18. \n\nYELLOW METAL. Sheets, 14 by 4 ft., 7¾d. to 8d.; Sheathing and Rods, 7¼. to 8 d. per lb. \n\nTIN-English Refined, £150. Tin Plates: Charcoal 1 C, per box, 42s. to 43s. Coke, 35s. to 42s. \n\nLead-WB. £22; do., other brands. £21 10s.; Spanish soft, ex ship, £20 10s.; Sheet, £22 10s. to £22 15s.; Shot (kegs extra), £23 15s. to £24 10s.; White, do., £27 10s. to £30; Red do., £5. \n\nSPELTER. Silesian, £23 10s.; English, smelted from ores, £23 10s. QUICKSILVER.-In bottles of 75 lbs. each, £12 15s. \n\nMessrs. French and Smith's Circular says:-Iron continues to droop, Copper is firm, with an upward tendency, Tin Plates quiet, Lead very firm, Spelter firm. \n\nWOOLLEN AND WORSTED GOODS. The current quotations in the Leeds market for Woollens and Worsteds rule as follows, showing a slight advance upon the rates recently current:- \n\nSpanish Stripes, 62 in., 19 yards, Elephant Chop, 3s. 9d. per yard for scarlet; Long Ella, 80/81 in., 24 yards, Lion Chop, 34s. per piece for scarlet; Camlets, best SS, 30/31 in., 58 yards, Elephant Chop, £23 6s. per piece for scarlet; Lastings, 31 in., 30/31 yards, Lion Chop, 70s. per piece for gentian; Brocades, 31 in., 29 yards, Half Moon Chop, 24s. 6d. per piece for scarlet. \n\nDate, \n\nShip \n\nShipping Intelligence. \n\n  \n    Date\n    Ship\n    Captain\n    From\n    At\n  \n  \n    Sept 2\n    Hugo and Otto\n    Rickert\n    Macao\n    Hong Kong\n  \n  \n    29\n    Ramdan\n    Hoffmann\n    Macao, de.\n    Do.\n  \n  \n    Oct.\n    Donglas Castle\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Nov. 7\n    Edmund Gressier\n    Picard\n    Callao\n    Lancivion\n  \n  \n    8\n    Triton\n    Atison\n    Amoy\n    Do.\n  \n  \n    7\n    Vier Gebroeders\n    Kuhank\n    Do.\n    Tlo.\n  \n  \n    9\n    Cerea\n    Edn\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7\n    Veritas\n    GVeritas\n    New York\n    Indon\n  \n  \n    \n    Ajax\n    \n    Colombo\n    Cooper\n  \n  \n    \n    Matchless\n    \n    Do.\n    Warson\n  \n  \n    8\n    Corona\n    \n    \n    Mucho\n  \n  \n    \n    Heros\n    \n    Rangoon\n    Morris\n  \n  \n    8\n    Savernake\n    \n    \n    Oostrum\n  \n  \n    4\n    Tony\n    \n    Batavia\n    Batavia\n  \n  \n    13\n    Carmarthenshire\n    \n    Manila\n    Stahre\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Kidd\n    China, Sing.\n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Queen of the West\n    Juslin\n    Colombo\n    Gorette\n  \n  \n    11\n    Contest\n    \n    Java\n    Schomer\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Maulmain\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Plymouth\n    Brouwershaven\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    St. Nazaire &c.\n    S.C.London\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Queenstown\n    Hamburg\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Liverpool\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Cuxhaven\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    London\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Cuxhaven\n  \n\nARRIVALS. \n\n  \n    Date\n    Ship\n    Captain\n    From\n  \n  \n    Nov.\n    Strathclyde (s.)\n    \n    Queenstown\n  \n  \n    8\n    Chanticleer\n    \n    Texel\n  \n  \n    \n    Carnarvonshire\n    \n    Falcaouth\n  \n  \n    8\n    Battistina\n    Pearson\n    From\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Taylor\n    Rangoon\n  \n  \n    \n    Revello\n    Brown\n    \n  \n\nDEPARTURES. \n\n  \n    Date\n    Ship\n    Captain\n    For\n  \n  \n    Nov.\n    Manзon\n    \n    Cardiff & Yokohama\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Willing\n    London\n  \n  \n    \n    Glaucus (s.)\n    \n    Colombo, de..via S.C.\n  \n  \n    \n    Prins Hendrik (s.)\n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    10\n    Confidenza\n    \n    'Chefoo & Tientsin...\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    \n    Sansone\n    \n    Singapore\n  \n  \n    12\n    Terces\n    Picasso\n    Hong Kong\n  \n  \n    Sept 29\n    Hong Kong\n    Icibson\n    New port\n  \n  \n    Oct. 5\n    San Juan\n    Crubiaga\n    Newcastle\n  \n  \n    8\n    Peruan\n    \n    Batavia\n  \n  \n    Nov 18\n    Earl Canning (s.)\n    \n    Singapore, Java, &c.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Liverpool\n  \n\nVESSELS PASSED THE SUEZ CANAL. \n\n  \n    Steamer\n    From\n    For\n  \n  \n    Galley of Lorne\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Sing, China, &c.\n    Emiliano\n  \n  \n    \n    Manila\n    London\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Liverpoot\n  \n\nLOADING. \n\nAt LONDON,--STEAMERS VIA SUEZ CANAL-For Penang, Singapore Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokobama: Craigforth. For Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai: Glenroy. For Colombo, &c. : Hindoo. \n\nSAILING VESSELS.- For Yokohama: Osaka, Eliza Shaw. For Yokohama and Hiogo: Glamorganshire. For Hiogo: Hanover. For Shanghai: Maitland, Sir Lancelot. For Hong Kong: Undine, James Shepherd. For Batavia, Samarang, and Sourabaya: Frederik Petersen. For Batavia and Sourabaya: Capiolaní. For Singapore and Saigon: Chas Collett. For Singapore and Sarawak: Aurigs. For Singapore: Rosedale. For Saigon Doriga. For Colombo: Palestine, W. H. Harkness, Granville. For Colombo, &c. Elizabeth Ana. \n\nAt LIVERPOOL. -For Yokohama and Hiogo: Royal Minstrel. For Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai (via S.C.): Deucalion (str.), Sarpedon (str.). For Singapore, Batavia, Samarang, and Sourabaya (via S.C.): Danube (str.). \n\nAt GLASGOW.-For Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai: Gleulyon (str.). For Batavia and Sourabaya: County of Argyle. \n\nSPOKEN. \n\n  \n    Ship\n    Route\n    Coordinates\n  \n  \n    TAMPSA\n    Manila to London\n    35 9., 26\n  \n  \n    YALSGRIF\n    Manila to Falmouth\n    Oct, 15 10 N., 22 W.\n  \n  \n    LEUCADIA (ship)\n    Shanghai to London\n    Sept. 22, 35 S., 21 E.\n  \n  \n    ZRAFLUIR (?)\n    from Sourabaya\n    Sept. 11, 31 8, 96 E.\n  \n  \n    AURORA\n    Batavia to Amsterdam\n    Oct. 1, 19 S., 2 W.\n  \n  \n    OLEANDER (barque)\n    Ajuda (Portugal) to Galle\n    Oct. 9, 6 N., 22 W.\n  \n  \n    LEICESTER\n    Shanghai to London\n    Aug. 7, 13 N., 132 E.\n  \n  \n    SOPHIA AND ELLA\n    Liverpool to Singapore\n    Oct. 14, 9 N., 25 W.\n  \n  \n    JASON\n    Rotterdam to Batavia\n    Oct. 6, 8 N. (1), 23 W.\n  \n  \n    INDUSTRIE (Dutch ship)\n    Rotterdam to Batavia\n    Sept. 24, 18 8., 29 W.\n  \n  \n    ZREBLOEM\n    Batavia to Amsterdam\n    Sept. 11, 31 S., 86 E.\n  \n  \n    NORTHAMPTON (ship)\n    Shanghai to London\n    8 N., 108 E.\n  \n\nFREIGHTS AND CHARTERS. \n\nOutward berth freights have not improved since our last issue, and rates rule as mentioned below. Coal freights are somewhat firmer. There is but little doing in homeward chartering, excepting from Ceylon. \n\nCurrent Rates of Freight for Vessels on the Berth. \n\nPer STEAMERS VIA SUEZ CANAL-TO Yokohama: 70s. meast. To Hiogo: 85s. meast. To Nagasaki: 85s. meast. To Shanghai: 50s. meal. To Foochow : 85s. meast. To Hong Kong: 45s. meast. To Chefoo: 85s. meast. To Manila: 85s. meast. To Singapore and Penang 40s. meast. To Sourabaya and Sourabaya: 80s. meast. To Batavia: 75s. meast. To Padang. 55s. meast. To Saigon 80s. meast. To Colombo: 35s. meast. \n\nPer SAILING VESSELS.--To Yokohama: 45s. weight, 10s. meast. To Hiogo: 50s, weight or meast. To Shanghai: 35s. weight, 40s. meast. To Hong Kong: 35s. weight, 30s. meast. To Chefoo and Tientsin: 45s. weight or meast. To Singapore: 30s, weight, 25s. meast. To Penang-weight, meast. To Samarang: 32s. 6d. weight, 25s. meast. To Batavia: 20s weight, 25s, meast. To Sarawak : 35s. weight, 40s. meast. To Sourabaya: 27s. 6d. weight, 20s. meast. To Colombo: 25s. weight, 20s. meast. To Saigon : 10s. weight, 35s. meast. \n\n£25 to £25. \n\nThe current quotations for coal, &c., are as follows:-From Wear or Tyne per keel.-To Yokohama: £40. To Shangbai: £42 10s. To Hong Kong: £36. To Batavia, Samarang, and Sourabaya: £24 to £25. To Singapore: £25 to £26. To Penang : —. To Galle: £24 \n\nFrom Newport, Cardiff, or Swansea, per ton.-To Yokohama: 40s. to 12s. 6d. To Shanghai: 45s. To Hong Kong: 38s. to 34s. To Manila: 30s, to 32s. 6d. To Singapore: -. To Galle: 21s. \n\nFrom Birkenhead, per ton.---To Shanghai: 35s. To Hong Kong: 27s. 6d. To Manila: - To Singapore: -- To Galle \n\nInsurances. \n\n21s. \n\nBy steamers via S.C., or sailing vessels, f.p.a.:-To Yokohama, steamer 35s., ship 40s.; to Shanghai, steamer 30s., ship 40s.; to Hong Kong, steamer 25s., ship 35s.; to Singapore, steamer 20s. ; ship 25s. to 27s. 6d. \n\nThe Admiralty have invited lenders for the conveyance of 88 tons of stores to Hong Kong. \n\nCASUALTIES. \n\nThe Queen Victoria (barq.), of Dublin, Quinn, from Cardiff to Japan, was spoken by the Royal Standard (str.), fifty miles S. W. of Ushant, Nov. 9, with mainpiece of rudder gone, and in want of assistance: an offer was made to tow her for £1,500, which was declined. \n\nThe Louise, Vogelsang, from Amsterdam to Batavia, with a general cargo, was brought into Sheerness Nov. 12, by the Mary Ann (smack), of Colchester, which reports having saved her from going ashore on the Sunk. \n\nMISCELLANEOUS. \n\nThe Olive, Clark, which vessel sailed from Liverpool, Nov. 2, for Singapore, put back to the former port on the 8th, but proceeded for her destination on the 16th. \n\nThe Committee of Lloyds will be glad of any information respecting the Kentville, Ross, which is reported to have sailed from Liverpool, 20th March, for Hong Kong. \n\nMESSRS. A. STEPHEN AND SONS have launched from their works at Linthouse, on the Clyde, a large guard propeller steamer named the Pow An, which is intended for the Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao passenger trade. She is built on the principle of the American river steamers, having, however, an iron instead of a wooden hull, and a large projecting promenade deck. She is 250 feet long, of 150-horse power, and draws a light draught of water. \n\nTus Beethoven, one of the newly established line of steamers from Marseilles to New Caledonia, will leave, via Suez Canal, to-morrow, calling at Galle and Batavia. \n\nConfidential. \n\nMINUTE. 22 \n\nreply to your despatch \" Confidential\" of the 15th Feb? lost, I have to convey to you my approval of the course you adopted with respect to T. F. Rice; late Assistant Superintendent of Police in Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "Y, NOVEMBER 20, 1872.\n\nONIYA.\n\n(PRIVILEGE IN SOULS'IONAL PROHRLATONDANT.)\n\nla paraushee L↑\n\nwork. Oodermso was that complaint on behalf of, better organization of the winis syatym, the reig I was about to inspout their work this aujant a joint Convention was ultimately entered into Mr. Tug third me unt to end 1 cafe by the British and French expremutatives at Pekin willa wyer theived, the bailing the fiarwoment of China, by which susteased arcuits was\n\nd park of the offer. Purlaub stated\n\nvaled contexture. d that ly was not in work giren for the shipment of auch routier only as were willing to our weak in the matung aus 1 tb Audley with a tilt beominigo or the cuditioão só vécér coczīves pigh wrist. Ale further sted blint he wand to receive 2 a day withratung for their other trement on the visum and a p\n\nzayn rect\n\n. In consequenes of the again from the Clues 37.\n\nof the Preach powers, can fund it would interface\n\nit alone the only freight by ever in Chi\n\nin the sport of the live esagors, both the British and Prenat Dovernalent fred so fasily the Contention. ite Chiba, huggi ut et grossná, karo ever eine refered\n\ns\n\nSHANGHAI, SEPT. fi.an putly than be The verdict of the Cears of lequiry contunel to investigate throustices aliudng the hos of the Pacific Map Company Estestacé „Anterica declares that the day was canad ith a state if suey Enil any priesandte, it I told the tars pavage at the end of the yencs, the long inne ut by mpendiaties, but unless threes the other aridance rate that they should have dominanses within servitude being haiked to shas period. This later mainly then what is published before the Court is vasma charge for the slingelt agaaulty computillest them. I was the provston oidectod ko by the plantere in their owa defect la understand how this ecclesive as swded Alz, Abel, Mr. Fray and undersign to the interest on grantly femening, the organan of the imunteme ricet al, for the story on sharp with of the dry, det prose before the deseriert asics to it appar at Daniel's low G Men, told that an American ship was to be hajat 11 weitve, to a shages and got the a tagat is quite iwadimit, and, uzdur top di Pay probed to sc. Errying was fully ezert constantes itaching to timu etavot, sareely to who coalies by xn jasentaand insigrues vilet Malaren,\n\nwerd infy the wrath about worth inquiring inti. No se asems to know how the accident capazred, but a nigamblu\n\nWhen ? arrivod at 'she Cou? Honas the soad mar diled un thrown among She bay wald be quite munisient m far as i could sewish soulies are with badkhe slicks, le strike one three provisioco, and the sealer bare seant for it. Nordous the investigation establish the tours, was ihale eptue (born in Rugludi u Repunge of migration for the Demeen parte, But Mhat any attempt was made by the officuts or moue CSA f Parigiel, Sowser, andersingi was; bet tram Farm or Hongkong, med slefuing la ke to repres the panic which naturally arces among the ila chen sinon fu logs and data in territory under Portage and end Bleds [Chan passengers, or provent the merawat dapp. Arse derests we is and fra so disregard adi Chouka Kiction\n\nRețeudaca. The case of Fartanın ngaiget Sextorsingh was ing of the gangway and companion ladders, which we sino, much the complainané dit jos rate for The jar of Wewe anaias there has huch n iled to the lamentable Jors of həy attending the Dr. Ne of my morphic anning in the icicas of sha | wwerrono la vâu referims trade and wash year Frona It appears shut the expiatu sat offers devoted prottes, I out any interpooter our among that crend, wedi 16,000 is 9456, enfucturate Culness take their deportes, rodamole with the American energy and comagenuen barzana ski fung Your way waiting to the Bush you, fan, pan show pandlela tu thu herwan to the peak of combating the lanes, it satis inely in the treat overes, in Gate Marsa ve Perk, in\n\nis sovnetti with thuit vasc Justed of romavels they lately plant and the the repoer.bility whion in a Bagi abip\n\nThe sugtige mais lend pivots, beat tusiz shiuksi they would love felt attaching to thera in re- Hoon. Arbon provided to take upon vatia the studenout | banding whip with the basher Luitened lines by the garn of theiz pasangers, athing seems to be as the let it crew. Bad from Hoses, notenturing số the\n\n|oit, Abei dar mai thai be pad assaulted cur conide ; und a best attempted in the way of acquiring the que no\n\nronal destalite ang Pemeng keid\n\nfisini sinta. (but robesduty engganti base the harbour. Ingly under\n\nita this\n\nbut with equally obranucaristia d'greyn Dər, sud volied as shay lit the vibuty of tue venyt | which we whale living cargo vas left to port in a\n\nthe kallas mut of irgbtquoi Căimucus By rostech Just an actory Hola zavoriter has uning fellatio 10 henry the\n\nThe amictal, to presend to the panntation, and is redi-\n\nrenied that my is ourselves\n\nʼn American wikusal, injetnosć by the recling that ¦ want Mr. Igaza dobb informed me that the confitiuus of fail and spus aduulated tu ilave thuis safety\n\nmeu art, mifer all eternals sus capable of harron to Javorire une wo the voyage, il auyzet ig sa of thuselves, the captain and officers are, who were heard for open to grava sushi, on this path of the Cuiness that wa rightly some, but had it perusted with followed, When i reived a Petraglin Castly, abo cnouaregem ikada curtain mention to the chipmat eto ati vonalt som remaris weddin\n\n1 olives, the interpreter od I got cat al my wrzjum. 1 fro: Torlugnare colony la might, no muitful in ten- lucked for with regard to absence any\n\nkad great sliktoky, in gelding a mask mati un buit me gedia and revelsteg crackie, en aning that co went suures for having the fangers, very hard, and I prended it underlies who loves are praction under our orn eroi fratlara\n\nive at sympling with the cofagatts\"\n\nJuss the the thin bold savansion, pertepe), ie the tin au crisp, d Jaza of these moci augeikeant rest, and res\n\nmed at armed with Luckh, azlyną, which they adopted\n\ngibst war, and this and would in a Rehme në per privilege, to renvers p14 dny to det for tho Jossos sustumed by the odioms and crew,\n\nrible maavar. Twenty dan asard police and shume un¦ Buy anulia emigration leder conditions tartuntiy diy pproved appear to inter muscadogt nil altempts to wraied van inoru ap atas yanta in frent of the by the Chiens Government, clone subjecte ti oli\n\nLee, wat miti, mit we have eaty of amity aral evt. Pelz-and wako?\n\n• seal siasta i sheir vibrts to save theatre\n\nAs to the provising of a return pudingo and a limitation\n\nabet dive deelorneo is madawa of theinadoquary; sistem maè ut\n\n19 20 we interpreter te ti tu ieri to u walls a cunila ay tumaning of bus demostracions They And of the muguraiment that passengers should lean at pay their unywele y avian w ulemps of tive years for khu turn af sorrowers the coolin\n\nfor themselv\n\nKHUSE PLA\n\nAn ecinotaures which Letnjami ritsender. Etten for a few midus thins) use of his own free will to engage 102 - AppDad\n\npo ally of the your wore scor Furby! an hoovi sulty Aineen verrals for a tale to us will try Lewis vach was bord we are seeded in the plater were slaba to in the seat joyou Dost Poutil sem spreading, and then that are to bake crece but 10 wery (we Frost China. But, on the other hand, the dame Perpe\n\n•Your pay, no és size price worth their whole, to have bec\n\nThey und wire, der ho volition, it geval, Vincolili wamilies in L. 1201220 tisic i tu solcher rent a fun scouted tipbé an fare por such sol Stuga kecies of Reiniks for looses had thom I CHE I CAN WAS untro: o: A hii uria i thy dink it nevensky, there is siery in Pexia Germ, h may not bends would be lavt if very wint quietly, he w\n\ntemarkable hot epicicu among all we dicectly internetod în there is show tub it could ajak\n\nghably be Zellowej icy dis dsgrafiation bei poa. Į šiml jwau duìed by Xan, azil vitet feesten iles: the wapicy mechď azok laivost, altu baring had abondant\n\nutter ram. Nothing could here Jingposes i sad shay: Ray rigist. The inapind par\n\nfortunately for fin. Puse feeling is mantra to do the after and provisist, bonerty earsed ont, here is practically an the rain sopportatif judging on the spot, tist vitunut this Em him. Cold and rojabeat, his ability and\n\nwould to: no foch: that the Que was ferons in same between vorlja lahmut Water ney are alone rast i rad kept him in :ws there, I azil this quer's in a Morga new, and if Heure deleres, as it appost 1 ret-red yil us whats the peine wern. The ones for touger terms and with p. facilities of t\n\nca and her repre audio da egaitus bine, it is doobfolut til: no parte bed acuture to socla exricuments bestder the Governmen of als web haen the\n\nincanta live bed Sunt athula. Tremont, and shy. There at ; the Lars for Kripp's gras aci a large organized neimos linger in tam were slowly Zonzing patre pisina, qui have souril upon 24, in this matter of aly remaining atasalin maintain alas, wis raged the parts of rar\n\nsout alter\n\nju u were down from Pelin son the Aions. I leging way thing was de cuite craigention. Great Arts and Fame, as lisey Questine, at less any there is a musayed the attut, and the pretraite une year 1, tore to Goavaliers the widest of are that the French are papucifer since, and cooked with *Good vare the trans out territoring for teens of labour in Réunion, Seiscented was for word combat which wez to prende Fraud mpg aliona shunte niy to pass, but to enfursa thest dupesa, sweetplined the pancio, and bad the first was piguet at Paris Jay 23, 455 In this is and Cinese tour the most series of an leser Wear itu au des provided by Acrete that the colis to be entered boats and other war vessels madera p\n\nugh the urgear, to the at the Minister in his designs. As there aryaste heye, the au dispersed by ferre, and the siegte with the lastaava shali mais atleting for the\n\npartient for the third bent alter per to the casi todas espiacon of whini ineistant his receive is su\n\ntype. Dering the war minutes that of the engegedans eut to sa Armresturs, 49\n\nrecest scopes\n\nyear, \"at the\n\naghly rouses, and as the douds with pacelsum)\n\ntree was to on, interactions suggest he glug, khore movie every pommunity of the lave deterrect efter on the evnice. It Ju being gely tiled, ami grey ne dis mi\n\nsault, they seemad noua irauter Basor: YLE H\n\nI love the vacato niti ng that there is best trent deal of anna• } pubzo find us the ecoclamation bang • nggement.\" Is is faber alipotucel that \"the sight of bounty, will his ogui to u maura passage as the expinion of me\n\nte tutibty of opposing forssauth misma to Danilo bistinn regantęs į Pa-sags, so Iudithe of the Frozen Corment\n\nbother shout a practically valcerva enaces but there is no s stance of an cosidasia\n\n7 lax or ranger on plan or the outer side\n\nly complicasing aut\n\nI was afer with the interfeber richa\n\nto the thus of coolies was told Men i extol upon them the agent la seduru pange extea is to his wife town of the eo for the lat w 10 jispose and his chistes lo quieres Indie vader the sze quetty has newty linda alt hat alegres, and of tow yet, weil as those in the colch. bows force would be necessary to tuotsin the law. Try In a recoat Copycation betwe\n\ntren waned the most threaching and sit apud\n\nsign an avancing ppreciation of the teet, tul used in tacka castle to the migration of insurers in Inuia to the Gutes a respubitities the local flower was my step, and listave Inept afer Fananie spinged ala at Paris, day 1. 19, the are cauling a commissioner urer to Japan in vid as he owns at ali na tangloater bure prinoties are readiture, and sider shiptune gels the case of the Maria La Peruvian, who wish tears flow is it posle that owu at the remas tipas\n\nThe state a gas of a portrayinin ya es ler's Paties Is the aby, which has been detained by urcighs ether audits of chine wafermed\n\nacernaan puading the comanation of the bite of outer legs Bal\n\nof the evaliselerdi, bath Obettajan, the vare representing\n\n-ra ta blair wileged un siltingues do spriznate nytalana, ku sutkiemiy requier ali to Wel, to that the Prolomant kill mud to citry that Benas: kiluo\n\ne-trement they are reesivel on board,\n\nels myssi is you\n\ntatian!\n\ner the naal as rogants thespcial cam, ili u to get Hospitality; deter wel, plür digging two such Conventiang with tub albes,\n\npeuter Takyone wout and we we\n\ny fue bar, if possible, to art lie grase, the to part of the Chinese Gover This reps your printe altesty kuww, from the servant ex\n\nhonda right to stipelan for simitus yarising for the pro craudoni da tary faut luttes. It is clear there was civi: the relea and yesple think of tas loveprat vations than wome lectice of tazit awa vidjecu? sae what mas cer Chitose\n\nstory to see the Cluse awakening to the that inaliers bagend thar en boundaries do! anja or less condem\n\nWe are visted this moroing by a catheke, bus no damage is reported, although the shock was teemably der indeed, in a deep silterial deposit lite has which forms Shanghai wi earthquake lies very little chance, and we scarcely, as a rete, teal the periosteal shock the Japan vs.\n\nCOOLIE IMMIGRATION,\n\nTO TUE LITTOR OF TUS TIMus.\n\nSin, I have read by the West Indu, from\n\nbecause all 3. gran disbausting themselves with og measure of\n\npaint but necessary duty; the polis fithout eaders.js fra tins fation and the far tire Chiems\n\nlt-ieter, we are overeted by the ingool. Hier tertaibe en mil) annab any twell wo cight to he\n\nEu rayure the pallis cuiston of this contry ones\n\nand get lightened as the true is with noves edice che surge properly calls \"unifando\" of the Wess Indie Charmstvo, wala, re,red to as envelopes the systan in act with comitia acesty on cobaltosey in mar dealings alley stay of a civilland oation, if no cant for no acabar, a 20, si ibe način Pantern Ios los as at least sluta to get moder lavet lente, to penat one is a party and up as bantiniens, antistol with at purrush cutico bur airua ly been waevised to yeo with a ca\n\nto put down slavery, whatever speious form it may tabs.\n\ndock Su the treator of the whole anjos, su porali ke tu\n\nspy & faw words to popla\n\nLet es, abuse, resin lo decimina as pule meetups with\n\n| Ms. Loughrab, siis magistrate present we the truguay on He. iviera's batter Joacala tip web-out fach with deleguout thetoric au the boctors of a train carson under\n\nthe estate of 14aine Unite in betapcho, British be and livery boys gived as a 23, Udern capital. Soch is the state of talugs in the Crafticis woont of the peace of the dose cal; I shot out how her. Geen & South Sad the Clitewed als; week, with light\n\nor you can by Britial gruts and with the aid ori ingeat, fuginas is a mangistrare incely apport, va Instalean, who, as I know, was not with, auder the ses of his friend detur dubion\n\nalsaved the system in the best coalie-workeri calesy in the tushändin ja mier partivulur, has beck the wave Luicy to dacharge ki. Ridicats dalies in thelogy interleut «ri kalbini way. Artist realing the jaily Astúcia mabed bian to five apos tt's long series of sELTE ONLY TO have ut just beer stre\n\ntrade of Eastern Africa, Lut the sofa Odinga bugil to ey, intoned the atter to your pouch latin we the planters of its datos Way have all these boned at Li-\n\ndats, tot in Loughena spposte aus sulp to be the morphoth sad The gentlemen who -90 | Frau biame, bus to have, wlad with equal santon dc pludible profesion of a fee or d starrer beer allowed to routinen year after a. The subject les incast I long careers the Coralized ice to put step to effectuslis us by a tailed year without ang real or Lenoit offri da ti pact of elvie ci El own at net sub of the moleculect cirouette di atas footing with this master-autic are the sed ut racy in see se it was filed\n\nwish Laters, anil puc sapere soves, le unes not setupy Tube Te imenient and Teguise to\n\nKeeper wil wees wority of the 2 \" as th\n\nfranager ut even sier, I lost Mr. Alzitoryo 3!s. (bloca and a white W2 12:15 Coa. Tutus in fare Las perued to vay, \"A\n\nCastic. He sipped my wagg, Tassice ve disprove this ansattiva, When Er. Oilsens de ant pred for sine warfalls Past strie coins whclares that the sper wally listen the ayaka Sith Meie ten craterless best tote in theat aurelit te wach, and Matigued bin with new wistent, should he be know who meanlly of his rated to stop the rule is an intern has bs! Yule I was way chilly shoes ning peremptory malca Frun wing strel (Seph 13 187) ter se taas mil tag\n\nhy and under every info, itt a hand berug and derivati\n\nie vorme 03:\n\nTeen by so\n\nmor the\n\nTHE TED Court say, te ngrew\n\n10 Zeturtun hues, using Esah Lai Sakion, i u\n\nferng and so the work as eyes and looks the\n\nother way, while the au who h\n\na bad fallen wenig Thieve\n\n* Lake, Who 2507 sed in the WOW of the Versa. i Elise vatirely in asturiase wall: PU MAZIAN WES allowed to postal is Mre cast will,\n\n6 afalien und interconte e vity upon him ami rone to inny cof\n\nRare Case \"unla dah Station, singur age Government, he eave mezzare of inasongat bady; tal sed ea val, ut the bis While to fit is takes any step to work this page p though DD 214 ited art of Auteris fire, 581apted to stop item, tue mit fårek Is | Lizzy Bealeys that Iar diúfety” da, te they plan the tation crore to fingjalah via treding įtaka\n\nMUL. You sti 4:3ar than he tok an interzausor with\n\nproval by penitus i ic of Cirsa Haking it resul Jdener to carry any dierel Calvare bar the flag. Alors For Bettisesti esiliit\n\nand a wart putyn the cearty of us are gli\n\nWant step.\n\net salire under contract\n\ninterior2a: a 36. Toggster Tieflin way usully unpiady to this of Sabay stund Heyy drem Great Britain ass toler & Row an exce e and nag Fiend thave, secse of the spend the relied Al Esity will kelpappere? Were were to\n\nBacalo ke woeld drive out so suddle a A toserosing to set up sour intere key got that what they strongly seemeeuol i Tirate & Gottur bhail heat into the early it favertine packeratina ut iis Coat He map of them sunt cvital for\n\nI wildly, they did eo in 3 coment expectatios tust as the spareting of a fer aupres Powers to join it a From Hongkong, we might then with ten bande reck\n\nto speak zu Kyses. In sudies See the wages, Colors would rudover time 14 teed kumar hat so time on effort to Kingsta repgri\n\nalber, we are luce fruit into pasangan bey would aeritudy\n\nDusterece the apoteku is what operate to mate with s\n\nin pars at etion of the countless we can see laver de condie slip would bu\n\nSusie white's\n\nhy (ting sil skigu face! cazand was the las\n\nin the can pirster, Cut the thealing are place\n\npies fate a pirate. I'hea, ant not beten, it wid Se Vonate Thether by sauce sucita\n\ntás ragùng along the stats mani, nod tej than it\n\nول لا Tarealizeri تارا باریان درست\n\nI wanted, and where they sell 28 mal vázy tracts of a very sezulur vntere, vỹ Nht Tony R. HEELFicy would you DO LACE for fun cent\n\nbor to are the ever, he west to cart year it hasty to spe\n\nbe; that the longer des list with, bere per\n\nuf eine has tubule intour palies by nautic tuo,\n\na) thali kariz wages were insulinst. I told them than de hay try my be to Bara fat that cay get\n\nnature engel beside here without lag ples of hour, and the curious as\n\nhung Ho's the gauza balcony one to the trio of the in\n\nme, and i would justica en servant of souls is my duty to stat et que delays ara\n\nBu pingued, or it\n\nOLD\n\ndirt tabur mareets of the Enat lo\n\nBol nemely divaghed\n\nShe fertile incris Wet det from art with caet't I helier pan of emp tiru culte sa organizes to coll i eunicial r with fee, on nous, of the a\n\n(Quesa, ali 20s of tim pesters, and toys of I wazo lile Dye Reaganen in the way caverant offer gw make jursesh 12 citization wherever it Se\n\nlanter: eu le kuthor w\n\npiù le aone to clear; the fam By Way\n\nrecre to the mute; wit 60 ahow the likt\n\n• 15 na tha ghabre I would strend pro Paing as a Devonshire Charles Lula an in gaier nu le\n\nSome of the ampered willing to play be, at the\n\ninut tas ties to 10 wipes the cortice of cabinet-trois end, at the drive twis\n\nthe Connoissthan impact reputed, see may be dienst, but poe cudition, far Vaiko ge butun lutem pultet, see that they graingo to Bride G\n\nSaso\n\nvar gavo nebuniuatior the Colealul One is wac\n\nListed us in ensive Lecrations\n\nby bad frum- dice tram: oferie (not exame live se tue faute, nought the pupported by the pile and a ton Splafon it Buysend\n\nWhegration from carmed onto this is, zith adagen merity fuc jy diet. After leat sigy tab uno\n\nelves, they read to to to its too with red rose fat supervision,\n\nare the maid that, withio prope facias, far god treatment, the would within a very 41 Nespetur er to write immigratione de molimo cut be undo fruthful en gaad, what\n\nin your in a weak up kidaning to w szurdy at lubaar un në\n\nengustelid, on sustape wither stages of this platters theserves; their mealtives, who have been stolently or readily at th Ja tent the runy thesis of ho ier that u pube splay of torne und in de. Tuis air feritalulity at criticis, an option in were saved u celnen with the annulat\n\nAngel-rated labor, ad arved noe skoa!? D'une sastavay it but exist where I have so them with my own eyes ies\n\nservats of\n\nof Weir trestimmt her disaat mig\n\n[ting assage to doeie for wi 269097 g that is it at pwez un finally or woubt it is the outs 5.5\"\"\" old vmpity, mid\n\nTaskN WITH US\n\nIto et sort's Townng the i\n\nin\n\nried out by Mr. Ingetar Gridlu. 107sel reforms. I luas yoṇāžendo 22 € za shu zasta boźlis Bakanker they had benne real, the icely wool\n\nwilber\n\n3 prozristy ei vannlag for the dam Flackbeard of them with you eats leant žul be for the bere berg and of izlection, pot of search, tod\n\nلونا\n\nether to my boud wast bining to Austin, The locals of says ces precies that has bes fuc\n\nby all the ture besnic teste fierteste wel\n\navese-Wien tek\n\nugh the, at i us out of a pan and win. The way to raish the pantry strat parts of the golfest of Callfun, and inter of to The section were extremely excited and\n\nGouna receive Cevi Kimberley's was to hold a wet- ing to den is very ochibong dari\n\nAuto, Sir, yet v Erlap,\n\nIney draenied repgrcher du ile monger, Me. trag wil bad toned to win her of the Louis Lencaning $1,493 1 zld Areop Mr. She and stone\n\nErvas previously. 1 gear eifendy bything of the ad, and if he hat he wond be suit\n\nfini: 1 ! I nafeted The Bee umro L\n\nSprint\n\n, and brong thure of the right use from All order to the gates or to god\n\nting the HHUANG Rgwint Att. 2haw with\n\nuitee,\n\nENKINS.\n\nL\n\nhilla, came to Ingameraity kawo in China, and ships le\n\nbarof stage with a beanwhich EDWARD\n\nthe Cities Leactors of in-chan jalá Zihej rere tit. inu, gifsing was we pas sher TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES,\n\ngalle velas, noe deeds, but thegods, wire .. Uno, sauery to the Wet us Conte lug, before toere was 5 esti o gold. ,-lethas of the 72 wat, s letar appeared the age to tipe distant wnd knowled willing to veure iùey liking put th\n\nCelia Imigrasi,\" in which felong for youton past the overlin og ey are at the wild guit He Shaw, I visited mean to ever res\n\ning papalition of the ones on the I four an und begs rely on urlops -\n\n*The Base of Chet elgration in 18 mayor in to Australasch of\n\nSerails and peoplz the slote Archlying truai ing by a ner of cuti quas tus enke hospital.\n\nwief explanation, the end is read Not evan the piece is the the hail two stress bruises on his lock of his binil, a tea\n\nJov tuliow in pezzanou, we was dented fisted in de kanst visat antepressive Purses tut Thesis severely get the body. Formed me that leased to post twin provisions which was wave clouists tum lading their WAY\n\nwith the treatment of the migrantz, bulbs it was astralia and (72liferais me euslead to dater proo hal presove by pulling revolver ons of his grrutig incomed the expenst of the unmigestion.' pucket and pay the quizen away with it until a\n\ned him. Definburg\n\nIt is to be regrettni but the Mens Caitlen in\n\n10th Airdis, reuse not pinola hefticies* le show that a rebuerative Cell for labourse the only getting forth the statement, did bet mangiare the infucinroses pery to Letire the tener supply 11. Dad in few dotizan the grass plot in front 21 the aftermid og telugu \"orzsama peak out appears in Chian bushe\n\nyruly erased the the very, Tideare, and dishonesty of the orig ampanyen? The gate obalac.s bus le\n\n2.\n\nLail\n\nધન ર\n\nat Devabels at tal-\n\n' he was used with con General conditoza were vehicul w\n\nA and lut toug\n\n* your desi si locs\n\nthe\n\nLabour\n\n(buila vampirist Folk Whore I was there was 1 pcuse of the insigentio,, in order these night juga ¦ true wgnovies, nad the vilepas of the nuties 10xhauste\n\n1) tid tar that any whether the provisos input Bele souls and just get in voorlea by the pitsi ofi\n\nHonesty acid a\n\nacid veally in sus, as yet suora, tete\n\nthe alleged or relate starwatt Free only surethattung I but you wild silver jete to entopinte far aldrup kittense why hall to cleare in staigiate at all If wine wit the labis where was sitting, Faraz w were by the addition of the fullowing facts,\n\nalled the W. & hus Eldey, she\n\n1127th, ie it best 7\n\nwould not whos\n\nLes tom solusy: while the potior wel op\n\n19, in being wasior of interlety that the exulations to define principles as only as it due re\n\ngiva i anarge for lands tictus colleure shqyed lottard le tee saputality astring any adequate a\n\nAdded surged the exeling interferid Ja\n\ntok-sp\n\nقد المي dino\n\nwas bust on, and stalag\n\ncontuent and adfuorutiinudu did dive to querenty of mixer: sy webich rutine bead the apolon asruliad Nicewise by the Seal telesuan, called darker-Buried on cater foreign is witch we ngly seeds, spas infecter les stabla to defend the shares brute from Mood where is the China bring reiting run all civiliasi nasioua for the hours permitted stach. After a crear tuaa ade vi diagno, bagations were red into at Pekin agave the euperior force ai Lugeda,\n\ntader their respective tag, and the wrongs so pestantly Complaint where fue illicenty of wages to aburet by the British and Frecek Gosentants with a view to the \"da\n\nVERITAS",
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        "content_text": "7265-\n\n73\n\nCALCUTTA PRICE CURRENT AND MARKET REPORT,\n\nNo. CCCLX.]\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE BENGAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nCALCUTTA, WEDNESDAY, 12th MARCH, 1878.\n\nThe Mails--from London of 7th and 14th February were delivered in Calcutta on the 9th and 10th instant respectively; and our latest advices by telegraph are to 12-50 p.m. of yesterday.\n\nStock and Money Market--The rates for money at the Bank of Bengal remain the same; there is a fair demand.\n\nGOVERNMENT PAPER--In Government paper there is so much business doing and rates are tending downwards --\n\n4 per cent. s. 102 1/4\n\n1 x 20% 0\n\n04\n\n143 1/2 110\n\n103 1/4\n\n21\n\nExchange. In Exchange the bias for the mail has been small; rates are finally higher; Bank bills 1/4% to 1-9/17, and telegraphic transfers 7-11 to 7-13/16. On Bombay bills we are ruling at 1/8 per cent discount on demand, and 1/4 per cent at 30 days' sight. On China a small business has been done at 205/8 to 206/8 for 30 days sight.\n\nFreights have been ruling quiet during the fortnight, and there is no special change to report. There has been a full supply of steam tonnage on the berth, and as a result light freights have been rather easier. By the Cape round freights business is doing at former quotations and there are not many vessels offering. The enquiry for the United States is languid, but there has been some demand for steam to Bombay.\n\nCHARTERS.\n\nFor Penang--\"Corabuta,\" arrived on the 8th instant, we previously chartered in England so much cargo; for Brudeaturwa\" 1,845 tons, was at £3-12-6. For New York \"Abilios,\" 1,300 tons, iron, at $13 for 400 tons grain freight and $9 to $11 for 200 tons logs here or Singapore. For Havre--\"Horial,\" at £4. For Bombay Ste. \"Red Gauntlet\" to arrive, lin. 22 per bun alt. out.\n\nENGAGEMENTS.\n\nFor London via Suez Canal--Str. \"C. Boreman,\" 800 tons Jute at £9-7-6; \"Malwa,\" to arrive, 800 to 400 tons Jute at £3 7-6, 160 tons Rice £3-0-0: for less and Lucas--Str. \"Colono,\" to arrive, 500 tons Hides or Cotton, at £3-10 to £5-18-6. For Rio de Janeiro via the Cape.--\"Sita,\" 203 tons Jute at £2-12-6, 6 tons Rice at £2-13, 33 tons Cotton, at £8-15/- to £9. For Calcutta and Nagpore, our 500 tons Cotton at £3-17-6. For Liverpool \"Edward Parry,\" 369 bales Cotton at £8-19-6, 390 to discharge.\n\nIMPORTS--There is fair general demand as has been experienced for almost all piece goods, grey and bleached, the past fortnight, and it has been on a fair average sale for the season.\n\nSTOCKS.\n\nGOVERNMENT SECURITIES,\n\nSelling Prices\n\n10 1/2 14\n\nper cent. tony's.. .. 100 .351 1703\n\nof 151\n\nwww\n\n-\n\n1944.M\n\n11\n\n-\n\n2014\n\n4. Hundreds of 510.1111\n\nPeaya! Doel Su\n\n323\n\n10\n\nM\n\n24%\n\n3 900\n\n29\n\nA009, 1, 197\n\n1.00\n\n280\n\n172 173\n\nBANK RATES AND BULLION.\n\nBANK OF BENGAL RATES\n\nPromissory Notes.\n\nAbout 30 days.\n\nOn Private Bills. 7 per cent\n\nPratts and a grouped\n\nby by JA\n\nf\n\nGreen Accounts1\n\nMur Costicates\n\nium Destined t\n\nTATALE,7\n\ntretment *1\n\nOu Vinut care a Deposit:\n\nIr d\n\nway Euras\n\n10. 50, Goods\n\nWhen ve dnes.\n\next\n\nAhov 30 daya.\n\nCh Credits an 11 )\n\nof the Paper or u\n\nWhy State)\n\nBULLION.\n\n43\n\nGold, Aug. 21 parata 0 R 10 11 15 Jp a\n\ntains a 100 tuen, 151101\n\n15108 ver\n\n90 2001 Ausdoctor.. Caver, Trier. Dolls..\n\nTiso fa\n\n250 mest plum\n\nse Liam dudhiers\n\n993 4\n\npo\n\n&\n\n... E\n\n106,\n\n[Via Brindisi\n\nseason: sellers have enlarged to meet the off-take freely, and prices show a tendency to quote lower on off-shore basis but buyers generally are cautious and show symptoms of increasing when the \"Poonah\" holidays are over in a few days. The classes in chief request are Grey staples, and lately Malwa Shirtings, Jernings and Mulls have an increased inquiry. The light and heaviest classes of goods have, up to date, sold only slowly for the season and there is, comparatively speaking, no inquiry for many desirable tinted and Colored lots are out of stock, but retail sales of the latter like place from day to day for the Upper Provinces. All Tar is dull with a downward tendency: dealers having dated business in expectation of there being over shipments lately. The Arrivals in prices of cotton radiotectores on the Bombay side, in the too sluggish selling market for Raw Cotton, have given considerable support to importers being cautious and the moderate shipments reported at Madras also exercised a beneficial influence. Piece goods took their hand, however, presented more in value, and it is thought that it will require a continuance of the gay season's off-take for another fortnight before any good or Bartlett sheet is produced on the market. The liberal allowances to the interior the last three weeks do not appear to have stimulated to any extent in dealers' zagrla, and favorable inferences are being drawn from the fact that the retail enquiry is on the most extensive; but it grumbles stocks in first hands are lessened unusually, prices will probably recover very slowly as of late, and any heavy purchases Press the holders she, at the comparatively high prices ruling there, and on the late better market bars, are not unlikely to come in disappointingly.\n\nExports--Barity of Tonnage has interfered greatly with our export trade since last issue. Linseeds have experienced great fall lately, and the talones is still lower, as the news of very abundant crop seems to have in great measure checked home and foreign Rates, and late advices from there are very discouraging. Piece sales of medium Linwood Baggere are going on at 11a. 4-3 for 4 per cent of day and June delivery vitriol, price establishes a fall of 2 as per maand with a fortnight agreed--There is nothing doing for export; prices, however, are cash in a bank. Poppy--There is usually mind. Naports dem the interho are very satisfactory for the season --Telia -way Ettle doing and prinse my casier. Rice--The quality of late arrivals of Wudle is inferior, and the demand for ustida has been off. There is only a small inquiry for rough-rice and low Falls for Fondos at rather easier prices. In Yellow wrtz there is a fair business doing for the country itada. Arte--London stricte are very discouraging, and prices have undergone again a further selling. A large quantity of the old crop remains in the interior. Situation in good demand for Fradou at Rs 7-11 for par opt, price tion. The scarcity of Tonnage checks unstuese to a great extent. Lauly-ray etic doing at qumatore. Shelut--neglected, cavi prin ars lover. Sales of 20 chests } CHEN9 are reported or Ein, 6 and 70 charte A Bat Rs. 453 per mound. Hide--A good sing kos bean dove in Cow Hides for Great Britain, Continental Europe and America. Slaughtered bave advanced Rs. 3-6; other qualities remain altered. Que stock lins has reced lebay, Ter-Inaniuate, owing discouraging news few home, audible vary interior quality of the Tea too soning to viritet.\n\nde With Ads naber we publish the General Financial dinnen for 1879.\n\nEXCHANGE,\n\nFonal Park Latis, & in the 1-11} @\n\n-1-11 -2016 Bile with bipples Deer\n\ntag1 Mirst Class Craits 4 $1-11\n\nmother sight\n\nDa d\n\n3 lying the\n\nDILW - \",,,\n\nCouptele & Sout\n\nBu Seeking on Phoria at\n\n¿d vacathy\" eigti, Dret Ẩn.\n\nDa thors.\n\nFREIGHTS\n\nTO CON To Levere\n\n2. that a du\n\n1-11 3 1 0\n\n$290\n\nA\n\ni\n\n10 11\n\n3 ir 4\n\n188\n\nnosu\n\n100\n\nKen....\n\nnomina!\n\nPai Stimmer win baca Cunut,\n\n2-47, nota.\n\n2-532-52\n\nJo\n\n0 11 12 1 6 R ***.\n\n2-8, -1960, 52\n\nBilis no 30 Gaye' sigih, p. 225\n\nor 139\n\n-2 dager wirkt. cents. 63\n\nPer fer-\n\n- du .....\n\n.....694\n\nכן 4\n\n*\n\nTate 3,336 0\n\nW.20\n\n903\n\nIndigo\n\npete12176\n\nTO ORICA.\n\nTu\n\nLes port! noset.\n\nBalefce\n\n.\n\nBed\n\nCotton, perha\n\nFid.\n\n4.\n\ndis. Weight,\n\n1. Ga\n\n11\n\nT\n\n\"aica.\n\n, 1-11\n\nON RADILL\n\n3\n\nton,\n\nLoglise, per adult,\n\nBuge bill. 30 days”.................... DOŽ\n\n..........k ON BUMBUR Andante Pan's El per en1# 30 dager mykt\n\nأننات\n\n1 Arapia.\n\nHuber,\n\n20 595\n\nSheba.\n\nton\n\nit. Goude of the $18 su\n\nrab. it. fre avathi\n\nj\n\n377\n\nStong-Slong-\n\nWe\n\nthe\n\n119...\n\n17 May 1878-\n\nGovernot\n\nSir Arthur E. Stennedy\n\nK. bm G, CB!\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley...\n\nHong Hong Convicts at the\n\nStraits Settlements.\n\nReports\n\non the claims.\n\n\"preferred by the Government\n\nIndia for cost\n\nmaintaining\n\nof\n\nBAMST HARBI, ZA\n\nWar of Regul Santau zag vakna 2,020,\n\nNational Ink CE (ZA\n\nAgta Cork Là, a Shade\n\n☆ komen Hack, Li, D\n\nIndin exery 2 2. Ca..\n\nFremrbboons Cello,\n\nfignitable fo\n\nFeeling any\n\nNury C. As Co., 1\n\nE. I. Euthway be, ktor\n\nIzatera Hengst Häkkwag s!0... Utfanta) (Vi\n\nFroprietors Capital, pandup\n\nKinsarvy Fund\n\nGeneral Breasury jobstura at Hand, Odize\n\npikka\n\nslide at Kwiacies\n\nWEEKLY RETURNS OF THE BANK OF BENGAL\n\nLIABILITZKa.\n\neth Art\n\nASNETS.\n\n130,00,05\n\nGermont Seice\n\nOlaer Pompomita ri Bevel Othne nad Meruch En Posk 1,40 buadricy\n\n15,907 Lines en Optereart Securities at Wood Often and Brushes 1.7262.977, 13 0 auto di Ezedik un 1971,70 47Merille Falls areantel at\n\nGRO\n\ndilto\n\n..\n\n--\n\nT\n\n23 19\n\n-L\n\n2875 Den with other Banks..\n\nBanditer Briti\n\n1-\n\n41\n\nCal and Curray Nude herd\n\n14\n\nI\n\nde and we lose at Branches\n\nValuado Co.'s 3]\n\ndessi\n\nKitabe\n\n1,80,700\n\nIMPORTA\n\nG\n\nESCOLTA,\n\n་\n\nVB\n\n4,7K25,776 14 2\n\n..\n\nIMPORTH AND EXPORTS OF GOLD AND SILVER COIN AND BULLION IN FEBRUARY 1873.\n\nArnet. Quinn. Fezana & Austerita Hangunarbo &\n\nHingapore. Comes Hyalovat.! 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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.\n\n## LATEST FROM CANTON\n\nSeptember 26th. I hear of loss of life already among the natives. The Japanese have made an honourable withdrawal of their troops. They only desire now that the Chinese Government should deplore that they have given cause that led the Japanese to send their soldiers here, and then they would take away their troops. I don't think the Chinese will agree to this declaration, as it is nothing less than an acknowledgment of the illegality of the Japanese proceedings. They know they can fight now and don't care what turn the negotiations may take.\n\nThe French civil engineers had stopped a few days ago to superintend the erection of a fort at Amping. It is to cost a good sum of taels, something touching $100,000, besides...\n\nIt must be remembered that the force of the storm was such as to tear up trees by the roots; and telegraph poles would not be very much more. Our belief is, that at the departure of the last mail from Shanghai, everything was in exactly the same state of uncertainty as before. Two Chinese passengers around The Felony gun-boat, Capt. Wright, were drowned that there was a prospect of a mutually satisfactory arrangement being arrived at.\n\nThe foreign newspapers did not confirm this, and there is no doubt whatever of all lives lost but Mr Heather, the gunner, on board. We got the tag of rigorous preparations on the Yangtze river.\n\nThe United States Janillary rigour is exhibited man, out of the typhoon here. It did some damage to trees and houses.\n\nWe are of opinion that the rumour mentioned above has arisen, either from witnessing the energy on both sides; or by the invariable tendency of rumour to gather in as it goes. As to the government forbidding telegrams to be forwarded, it is absurd. If they wished to stop communications, they surely know how to effect it within a few hours, not by such a foolish order. There is such a gathering of rumours touching peace or war. We must wait until the next steamer arrives from Shanghai or Nagasaki, and advise our friends to be undisturbed by any more rumours.\n\n## JAPAN\n\nThe desolation the town now reached its depth. The crash of falling houses, the screaming of the victims, people running to and fro in the utmost consternation; but can get no particulars yet. The roar of the wind and of the rain, all this was something awful to hear or see. Suddenly an ominous glare appeared in the heavens. Fires had broken out in different parts of the town, and the flames, whipped on by the gales, rushed in horizontal streams over the largest masses, devouring the buildings that stood even at great distances in their direction. The loud reverberation of these fires striking from the flying clouds on the sky was repeated by the waters which invaded the doomed town in every direction. On this occasion the loss of life was fearful. People had only to shun their death by water, tree, or the shock of falling buildings.\n\nLast month, a hail-storm passed over Nikko, Yonezawa, and the neighbouring country, and several people were hurt by the bad stones. An old man, between 20 and 30 years of age, said he had never seen such large ones; some of them measured 7 inches in circumference. Several persons who put up native umbrellas against the storm had them broken to pieces. At last daylight dawned on this terrible scene.\n\nIt seemed a dream, an enormous negation, awful to relate, but there it was; in this dire destructive Macao was not to be recognised; the waves sprang like infuriated lions on the ruined buildings and it seemed uncertain if the very ground had not gone down. By this time the barometer was already rising, but as soon as the first light appeared in the heavens, His Excellency, the Governor, the noble and brave Viscount S. Januario, went out with his staff and a body of troops to bring help where needed. The robbers who began to assail and plunder the ruined houses were energetically put down. It is a most remarkable occurrence that to this moment a very insignificant looting has taken place.\n\nThe Governor, with Mr Cunha of the public works department, after tremendous heroic efforts extinguished the fires. Mr Canha was severely wounded in the head on this occasion. While this was going on, a body of soldiers with Mr R. Sampaio, a naval officer, A.D.C. to the Governor, and Mr Menier were saving life on the sea.\n\nAs tea is one of the principal, and also one of the most valuable, exports of Japan, care should be taken to prevent fraud in its preparation for market.\n\nTOKOHINA\n\nWe received the following interesting telegram on Saturday (the 5th), but too late for publication in last issue— \"Satsuma men have offered to equip, send to the war (against China), and support, eighteen thousand (18,000) troops, at their own expense.\"—Gazette.\n\nXIGATA\n\nDuring the typhoon at Niigata on last night, eleven persons were killed.—Gazette.\n\nJinrikishas have come into general use, made here.—Ibid.\n\nDuring cannon practice, at Tsukuda jims, Tokei, on the 29th ulto, one of the guns burst, the fragments flying in all directions. The farmers near the river banks who have the numerous pear gardens which abound for miles along each side will be great losers, their trees have been stripped of both leaves and fruit. The value of pears exported from here last year was $60,000.—Ibid.\n\nOne man stripped himself and swam off to save some persons who were drowning. It is believed that the originators of this fraud have been discovered. For the credit of the country it is fortunate they did not succeed in passing off this ink-dyed material.\n\nMr Broitdem of the English navy, who was on the Prais, saved also two children in the same way. The greatest energy and bravery shown by the Portuguese soldiers on this occasion when the fury of the waves made it a very difficult matter and a dangerous one to save life from the wreck.\n\nOn account of the unsettled weather this year, the production of the silk-worms at Yamagata ken and Akita-ken has been very poor; but at Miyagi-ken, and farther south, it has been good. The Fukushima Kencho granted a license allowing the people engaged in the trade to use patent papers for the depositing silkworms eggs; but some fellows infringed the patent and manufactured a lot of papers in hue a colour exactly resembling the genuine ones. The Kencho heard of this, the license was recalled, and the trade is therefore in considerable confusion.—(Fukushima.)\n\nWith the view of adding to its forces the Tokugawa clan...\n\n## LIST OF VESSELS IN HARBOUR\n\nSeptember 2, 1874.\n\n| Vessel | Nationality | From | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Queizen Maru | Jap. Str. | Nemoro | Left today for Utaranai |\n| Orako-Kan | Jap. Str. | Itump |  |\n| Komi-Maru | Jap. Str. | Awomori | Left a day for dromer |\n| Tauta-Maru | Jap. Brig | Yedo |  |\n| Tauso-Maru | Jap. Brigantine | Akita |  |\n| Sackar Maru | Jap. Str. | Awomori |  |\n| Torf-Moru | Jap. Schooner | Midzuis |  |\n| Wiyo-Mary | Jap. Str. | Yedo |  |\n| Han, Geim. Barque |  | Vladivostock | Bound for Shanghai |\n| Hosho-Kan | Jap. Str. | Iturop |  |\n| Iron Duke | H.M.S. | Vladivostock |  |\n| Hingtong | H.M.S. | Vladivostock |  |\n| Frolic | H.S. | Vladivostock |  |\n\nIt is impossible to give in detail every single act of bravery that was done on this occasion. The cold was intense, the wind was terrible, and the rain struck in such a way to hurt. Towards three o'clock the fire was subdued and the sea had returned to its wonted bed, but alas! Macao was no more. What was to be seen a few hours ago, it is a remarkable thing that among the general ruins the grand building lately constructed by Viscount S. Januario remained nearly untouched as the solitary witness of a former prosperity which seems to be now gone for ever. The gunboat Teja escaped marvellously nearly unhurt, owing, to a great extent, to the ability of its commander Fernando da Costa Cabral. The man-of-war Principe Dom Carlos was carried 12 miles inland and is now stranded in a rice field. The one commanded by the brave Captain Marinho escaped by a miracle. The gunboat Camoes was carried inland to a great distance and is believed to be a hopeless wreck. Captain Guiades, its commander, one of our best naval officers, was struck on the chest by a falling rust and was severely hurt, but his life was saved.\n\n## THE WAR IN FORMOSA\n\nWe hear by the last mail from Shanghai that the Chinese officials there put faith in the report that an understanding had been arrived at in Peking regarding the Formosan difficulty. It is also said that they are relaxing the haste of their preparations for war. The Danish ironclad they have purchased is said to be the Hot Krake, one of the monitor class, built in 1861, and known to have seen some active service during the Schleswig-Holstein business.\n\nThe murderer of Mr. Haber has been found guilty, and sentenced to death. His sentence has been referred to Tokio for ratification, as is usual in all capital cases, before being carried into execution.\n\nThe new fort was washed over by the typhoon, and the new guns were washed to a great distance. The guard of this fort was securely bound when on his trial, and bad to kneel down in court, showing some levity in his manner, but he died miserably. The commander of the fort stated, were made of Lea-ling-de, and the worst going on during the typhoon.\n\n## CHINA. SHANGHAI\n\nDuring his absence, Mr M. Langhorne will not act as agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, as Mr Holm filled the post of Agent to the Pacific Mail.\n\nThe P.M.S.S. Co.'s steamer Oregonios, with the American mail, arrived on the evening of the 19th, having experienced strong north-west winds from Nagasaki. She leaves again with the American mail. She takes with her the thirty Chinese students for America who were to have gone forward by the previous steamer.\n\nWe have enquired regarding the reported settlement of the Formosan difficulty, by Okubo, in a quarter likely to have the earliest information on the matter, and are informed that nothing has been heard.\n\nWe hear that private telegrams received on Wednesday from Japan, conveyed warlike indications.\n\nThe clipper ship Brake of Abercorn left full port on the 17th, for London, with a cargo of tea. As she moved away from her berth, B.M.S. Thistle dipped her ensign and cheered, a compliment which was acknowledged by the departing ship.\n\nThe Peking Gazette of 3rd September contains a memorial from the Governor-General of Fukien and Chekiang, submitting certain civil appointments for sanction, on the ground of existing urgency of providing for the defence of Foochow and Amoy, and also of Lubking in Formosa.\n\nWhether that issue shall be Peace or War, remains a sealed mystery.\n\nAt the Mixed Court, on the 18th, before Chen and Mr Stronach, a Chinaman known to foreigners by the name of Taze-foo-sung was charged...\n\nFive hundred soldiers from the Camp at the South Gate passed through the Settlement about 9 or 10 am on the 15th, on their way to Woosung and Paoshan. It is stated that 100 picked men have been formed into a patrol corps, to watch the coast of the Woosung peninsula.\n\nThe French barque Union is still fast on the Block-house Spit, and as the high tides are on the wane, the chances of her getting off are becoming very slender.\n\n## CHEFOO\n\nThe only thing of any interest going on here is the enquiry into the Fawcet murder case. I send you a few notes of the preliminary examination, which has resulted in a committal of the accused for trial on the charge of murder.\n\nThe Band of the Japanese ironclad Rio Jie-kow, numbering 37 performers, all Japanese, delighted the visitors and residents at Chefoo by playing in the garden of the Beach Hotel on Monday afternoon, the 7th inst. They played \"Wacht am Rhein,\" the \"Marseillaise,\" \"God Save the Queen,\" quadrilles, marches, and at the end of each piece, a round of enthusiastic applause was given to them from the occupants of various summer-houses, and gardens, which performance was well merited.\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG\n\n25th September 1874.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI regret to inform you that we have been visited by the most destructive typhoon ever experienced in this Colony.\n\n2. I enclose a newspaper Account of the...\n\n## SHIPPING REPORTS\n\nThe Crics reports: strong N.E. winds from Yokohama, left today for Yedo.\n\nThe Hopewell reports the last three days strong N.E. wind but did not experience the typhoon. Lost 2 boats and store by washing overboard.\n\nThe Formosa reports bound to Foochow. Experienced a typhoon on 22nd Sept in 18 N. and 121 E., commencing at N. and veering through W. to S.\n\nThe Chos y reports: moderate variable winds with big confused sea from 22nd to 23rd, with light variable winds during the 24 hours, with light Southerly breeze.\n\nThe Bug reports: the last few days experienced a nasty cross confused sea, with light & variable winds but encountered no typhoon.\n\nThe Japanes Embassy left for Peking on the 8th instant, after a rather eventful, but not uninteresting stay, of six days.\n\nThe North American reports on the 22nd inst, at 12 p.m., 65 miles S.S.E. from Hongkong experienced heavy typhoon from N.W. veering to S.W. then South, Barometer 29.20.\n\n## CANTON, 22nd Sept. 10 p.m. 1874.\n\nWe have the gale here now. Fresh from N.E., and Barometer still Falling.\n\nWe counted no fewer than twenty-five house-boats lying about, tottering in the breeze at the various piers on the 19th.\n\nPrinted and published by Nor. 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        "content_text": "to the three additional Provinces in Cochin China. Perhaps the full text will be available later.\n\nI may observe that probably \"Hanoi,\" as mentioned by Lyons in his despatch No 347 of the 19th of April, is the Port to be opened to Foreign Trade, and Hanoi by the Treaty, together with two others not yet named.\n\nThe River Son-coi is navigable through Tonquin into the Chinese Province of Yün-nan, and it was by this route that M. Dupuis supplied the Chinese Troops with arms and ammunition, in their war with the Panthaup, which he purchased at Hongkong and conveyed up the Red River to Hanoi, and so, by the Son-coi, into Yün-nan. This was the origin of the troubles with Annam: the Annamite Government resisted the carrying of merchandise, arms, etc., by Dupuis, through their territory without passing duties or obtaining permission to navigate the rivers, but to this he paid no attention and pushed on in defiance of the Government.\n\nWhat the connection between him and Admiral Dupré, the Governor of Saigon, was, is not very clear; but, when the Garnier tragedy took place, it was reported that the officer in question had been sent by Admiral Dupré to investigate the",
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        "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING ALTERATIONS OF ESTIMATES OF REVENUE,—Continued.\n\n## REVENUE\n\n### INCREASE\n\n  \n    ESTIMATED FOR 187\n    \n    ESTIMATED FOR 187\n    \n    DECREASE\n    \n    \n    EXPLANATORY REMARKS\n  \n  \n    $ C.\n    £ s. d.\n    $£ s. d.\n    C.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    451\n    Brought forward,..\n    735,880\n    757,140\n    5,606.5.0\n    26,910\n    2,429. 18\n    11,650.\n  \n  \n    \n    FEES OF OFFICE,—Continued.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Merchant Shipping Act,\n    400.\n    330.\n    10: 8:4\n    50.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Registry of Carriages, &c., Ord. 6 of 1863,...\n    1,700\n    1,700.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Registration of Companies, ..\n    300.\n    200.\n    20:16.8\n    100.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Medical Fees on Examination of Emigrants,...\n    12,000.\n    14,000.\n    416.13.4\n    2,000\n    \n    Free Emigrations to San Francisco & Australia increase\n  \n  \n    \n    Registration of Birth re\n    50\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY:---\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Condemned Stores, &c.,\n    400.\n    400\n    \n    \n    \n    Light. Dised..\n  \n  \n    \n    REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY GOVERNMENT:\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    New Head of Office to cover outlay on lighthouse - Rats one\n    12,500.\n    2,604:3.4\n    12,500\n    \n    \n    Count pton\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    83.6.8\n    \n    400\n    \n    \n    Estimated from receipts during this year\n  \n  \n    \n    Sick Stoppages from Police Force,..\n    1,000\n    \n    600\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Loss of Clothing and Arms from ditto,\n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Subsistence Money of Seamen, and others in Victoria Gaol,..\n    180\n    \n    S\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Medical Treatment of Sick Seamen, and others from Civil Hospital,\n    4,000\n    \n    2,000.\n    \n    208.6.8\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    \n    Grant in Aid of Lock Hospital Expenses from Admiralty,\n    3,840.\n    \n    3,840.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Convict Labor and other items,\n    100\n    \n    10.8.4\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Sale of Printed Forms,\n    500\n    \n    Joo.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Carried forward,.......\n    Yb0295.\n    190,555.\n    3,545:16-8\n    42,2541.13.4\n    12,200.\n    \n  \n\nOwing to the closing of the Seamen's Hospital, the Revenue under this Head is increasing.",
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        "content_text": "DESPATCH.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nInter Governor. No.\n\nHong Kong\n\nNo. 1454\n\n(Subject.)\n\nRECEIVED\n\n6 FEB 1877\n\n407\n\nunely 214 Ord? 8./16. The Deportations & Constitutional Pardons consolid\n\nDate.\n\n1876\n\nOrd? 1876.\n\n9/16. The Public Seal Ordinance amendment Ord? 2 1876. Dec-10/6 the Post Office Ordinance. 1876. Last previous Paper forwarded / Certified & 2 plain copies of each,\n\nwith Reports thereon by Att? Gen!!\n\nSentence added requesting (any observations of Lt. Gov.).\n\nMalina\n\n-ance x = 10-G. P.D. Const\n\nAnswered ordinances & dis\n\n18.5-22\n\nConfirmed\n\nJuly 3\n\n€24/2/77/1\n\n8 to be\n\nAmended\n\nTur. 10 | 76- H & S 2454-\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nWe Branston\n\nGMR. Feb. 6. 766. 167.2.7).\n\nNo 10. Post Office Ordinance - Send to G. P.O. for observations - The noticeable parts of this Ordinance which is not to take effect until proclaimed are in Sections 7, 10, 19, 24. I pref and the Ordinance on cam. Therefor explain that the Exemption (7) of Chinese compradors from the Ordinance is absolutely necessary. They have their own system of post which beats the Colonial, and the staff of the P.O. cannot deal with the directions. The letters in comment 1101. The form is to regulate & alter Postir subject to this Ordinance.\n\nof the Sea Post Office on G.P.O. The Subjects require elastic treatment as the one Ordinance which regulates the water, hitherto Then. (19) Empowers the Postal Officer at the Consular Port to give his warrant for affording cover to correspondents.\n\nThe caution which has caused so much harm of late\n\n(24) - makes the acceptance of gratuities by ship Captains ...",
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        "content_text": "Governor.\n\nNo.\n\n31\n\n1\n\nDate.\n\nStrong No 2094\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nRECEIVER\n\n20 FEB\n\n1877\n\n458\n\n217 Order 11/26 The River Steamers Ord 1/2 \"\n\n1876\n\nast previous Paper.\n\nForwards / Certified & plain copies of with.\n\nCopy\n\nof Despatch and of Reports thereon by Harbour Master & Act. Atty - Gen.\n\nof Teams March 27 - 2725\n\ncon framed) [April 30 hod.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nSun Feb 21.\n\n1123\n\n23.2-77\n\nThe river steamers are of the American pattern, with several decks one above another, worked by a \"walking beam\" Engine; the weight is above the waterline. This shape restricts the number of passengers by a Tonnage clause, which, unfortunately, tells most hardly against the opposition Boat.\n\nBelonging to the one Company.\n\nHe Ichang\"; the other all\n\nThe Government describes it as a \"pressing measure\" - a measure for which they must be responsible for deciding the necessity of.\n\nSanction - but keep back the dispatch for a month in case any further protest arrives.\n\nPut Paper back\n\n2725\n\n10 | 76-1 & 8 2454|\n\nBI\n\n4688\n\nacouth\n\ndne\n\nJ. 23/2.\n\nKlew it Feb 25.\n\nPage 31\n\n...\n\nPage 31\n\n \nhas been kept as is due to original instruction, though it is not clear why \"Page 31\" is repeated with \"...\" in between. To follow the instruction to the letter, it is left unchanged.",
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        "content_text": "226\n\nPrinted for the use of the Foreign Office. July 25, 1876.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n(2001.)\n\nReport by Sir B. Robertson respecting his Visit to Haipong and Hanoi, in Tonquin.\n\nSir B. Robertson to the Earl of Derby-(Received July 11.)\n\n(No. 17.) My Lord,\n\nCanton, May 19, 1876. I HAVE the honour to forward a copy of a despatch and its inclosures which I addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, reporting my return from Haiphong and Hanoi in Tonquin.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) B. ROBERTSON, Consul.\n\nInclosure 1.\n\nSir B. Robertson to Sir T. Wade.\n\nCanton, May 9, 1876. IN continuation of my despatch dated Kiungchow, 1st April, and marked separate, I have the honour to inform you that having seen Mr. Vice-Consul Forrest settled at that port as favourably as circumstances permitted, and notified it as open to British trade, I proceeded, in accordance with your instructions on the 2nd instant, in Her Majesty's ship \"Egeria\" to visit the ports of Haiphong and Hanoi, lately opened by the French in Tonquin, and having first made the anchorage of Apuwan, a cluster of islands near the mouth of the Cua-cam, a branch of the Songkoi or Red River, Haiphong being situated on the former and Hanoi on the latter. Then a pilot was obtained, who took the ship over the bar of the river and anchored her off the Settlement of Haiphong on the forenoon of the 7th instant.\n\nHaiphong is situated on the right bank of the Cua-cam and a canal which leads out of it at right angles, at the junction of which there is a French fort strongly constructed of earthworks. The country is a perfect level on both sides, with ranges of hills about four miles distant, and the French Settlement is being made by raising the ground with the mud, or clay rather, dug from a canal which will surround the concession, as it is called, much after the manner in which the British Settlement of Shamien in Canton is enfiladed. It is evidently a work of great labour, which is being actively prosecuted under French engineers, with the assistance of Annamite coolies, of which there is an unlimited supply, at the rate of 6 cents (3d.) per man per day. I should say that at least forty acres are under construction, and already buildings are being erected upon the finished portions, and considering this work was begun in September last only, it is very far advanced. As yet no ill effects have been felt from turning up this vast mud field, but possibly that has to come when the great heat which prevails from May to the end of September sets in. The village is a simple street along the right bank of the canal, beginning at the square in front of the entrance of the fort, and is composed of mat huts of a very inferior description, inhabited by the natives, with here and there a better class occupied by French shops, principally sellers of wine and spirits. There is, however, a very good market, with abundance of fish, fowls, and beef, but no mutton, and vegetables, and once in the week there is held what is called \"the great market,\" when the country people flock in with their goods and produce. Previous to the French taking possession, there was scarcely a hut, even in Haiphong, and now there is a considerable village, with the usual Annamite cottages being erected in all directions. On wet days, however, the\n\n[608]\n\nB\n\n76",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nstreet is all but impassable from the depth of mud, but near the fort shingle has been strewn on the road, which is a little improvement upon the usual state of things.\n\nHaiphong is the highest point to which vessels drawing fourteen feet can ascend the Cua-cam, and for the present is the shipping port of Hanoi, the capital of the Province, which is situated upon the Songkoi or Red River, about 60 miles distant in a direct line, and 145 by the water route. From the extensive works under construction, it appears as if the French intended it to be the anchorage for foreign vessels; but the Red River, which debouches into the sea about twelve miles to the southward of the Cua-cam, is a fine stream, with a rise and fall in the freshets of from twenty-six to thirty feet, although at this season of the year it is very low; in fact it reminded me of the Yangtze Kiang, bars and sandbanks blockading its approaches from the sea. When well surveyed, I can imagine no greater existing difficulty in its navigation to Hanoi than the Yangtze offers to Hankow, and we know how well that has been overcome. I do not therefore see the utility of the works now being prosecuted at a great expense at Haiphong, but there may be reasons for it unknown to me.\n\nHaiphong is connected with Hanoi either by the River Cua-cam or by canals, the most available of which I have mentioned as having its entrance at that place. After proceeding about twenty-three miles by this route, boats turn into another canal, and, after going some seventy-seven miles, enter the main river, the Songkoi or Red River, and so on to Hanoi, distant about forty-five miles. The water in these canals at this season is very low, and rises but little with the tides of the two rivers which feed them. During the summer freshets they are deep enough for steam launches or small steamers drawing four or five feet, or perhaps more.\n\nAt Haiphong there was little to be seen and not much to be learned, for what business there is is done at the capital, Hanoi, where the natives and the Chinese merchants reside. At one time I almost despaired of being able to reach the latter, for of native passage boats there are none, decked or covered over at least, and the distance was too great to attempt it in the \"Egeria's\" small steam-cutter. I found, however, a trading steam-launch called the \"City of Whampoa,\" which I succeeded in chartering, for I felt, unless I reached the capital, the object of my visit to Touquin would fail. I was therefore glad to hire her, indifferent as her accommodation was.\n\nCaptain Castle, the commander of Her Majesty's ship \"Egeria,\" and myself were most kindly and hospitably received by M. Turc, the French Consul at Haiphong, the Commandant of the fort, Major Dubeaux, and M. Gres, the Director of Customs. The former gave me all the information I required respecting the trade of the country, and its resources; but frankly said it was still in an incipient state, and in the hands of Chinese at Hanoi; and whether it would develop into importance depended chiefly on the communications with Chinese Yunnan being re-opened. He furnished me with a list of the principal articles of merchandize imported and exported viâ Haiphong, and a return of the exports therefrom from the 15th of September, 1875, to the 12th of April, 1876, showing a value of 198,914 t. 4 m. 6 c.; of imports there being none. Copies of these documents you will find annexed to this Report.\n\nThe Customs at Haiphong are under the control of a French officer, M. Jules Gres, with the title of Inspector; but there are three or more Annamese, calling themselves Inspectors and sub-Inspectors of Customs. I called on these officers at the Custom-house, and was most politely received; but they gave, or could give but little information regarding the trade of the country, but expressed their desire to see English merchant-vessels come to the port. I replied, that it depended a good deal upon the Annamite Government, for if merchandize or produce, either import or export, was saddled with heavy interior duties, as I believed was at present the case in Tonquin, the prospects of a trade were bad, for no merchant would come to an unprofitable market; that a large trade was good for the Government and people of a country, as it brought money into it, and increased the Customs revenue; and that without perfect freedom no great results could be anticipated.\n\nThey replied, that as regarded inland duties, it was true they at present existed, but would shortly cease to be levied, in accordance with the terms of the French Treaty; but they had been farmed to a Chinese firm, and the agreement had yet a year to run.\n\nI replied that I was glad to hear it, and advised them to keep out of Chinese hands, and to look to foreign merchants for the interests of trade; for the Chinese, from their bribing propensities, disorganized the local officials, in order to secure a more advantageous position than foreigners, who would not do this. I had reason to believe afterwards, that they referred to the inland duties on the Yunnan route, and not to those of the interior generally. Their names were:-\n\nLuong van-tan, Sub-Inspector of Customs.\n\nLo tue, Director of Customs.\n\nNguan van-sze, Sub-Director of Customs.\n\nPetrus Trueong Vinhky, Interpreter.\n\nOn the 10th instant, accompanied by Captain Castle, I left in the steam-launch for Hanoi.\n\nThere was but little to be seen of the country, the banks of the canal being too high; but from what I saw, it appeared to be fertile, and planted with maize and sugar-cane, sweet potatoes, and other products of these latitudes. On debouching, however, into the main stream, the Songkoi, or Red River, a better view was obtained; and here the bamboo and other trees, with villages and fields, made together a scene of much natural beauty, and gave evidences of a high state of cultivation. I had been informed that little or no boat or junk traffic would be seen, but I found a fair amount of it; and from the stake-nets and boats employed, there is evidently a large supply of fish; rafts of wood and bamboo were frequently met; and altogether there were fair evidences of a contented and well-to-do population.\n\nAt this season, taking from December to May, the Red River (Songkoi) is at its lowest, enormous stretches of sand-bands lining the stream, and points of them jutting almost into the centre. About May the melted snow and ice from the mountains of Upper Tonquin and Yunnan come down and the river rises rapidly, attaining a height of thirty feet, and very frequently carrying away the banks, and flooding the country, to the great destruction of life and property. We passed some extensive works being prosecuted to repair an immense breach which last year's freshets had made, and all along the river and the canals preparations were being prosecuted by banking up and supporting the bunds. Annam evidently labours under the same mistake as China in the treatment of her rivers. Instead of dredging the channel, which year by year fills up with alluvial deposits, sand and clay brought down from the highlands, the authorities bank it up, and so in the course of time the bottom of a river is raised above the level of the adjoining land, and if it makes a breach in the bund during the freshets, the whole country is inundated and becomes a vast lake. Such is the cause of the inundations on the Yangtze, and notably that of the Yellow River in China, and evidently also of the Songkoi, or Red River, in Touquin.\n\nThe approach to the city of Hanoi, the capital of Tonquin, is very fine, a turn of the river, which is here from bank to bank about a mile or more in breadth, brings into view the Town and the French Settlement which is under construction like that at Haiphong, with the barracks and Consular buildings under erection thereon. The city rises gradually from the river, and embedded in trees and foliage and seen on a bright and sunny day, has a charming appearance. We anchored off the landing-place at 10:30 A.M., on Monday the 10th, and went on shore at once to call upon the Comte de Kergaradec, the French Consul, who lives in the Annamite Examination Hall, at least a mile and a half from the river, but finding it impossible to get palanquins for hire, Captain Castle and myself called at the house of the Bishop, Monseignor Pergenier to borrow them. Here, while talking to him, M. Aumoitte, Chancelier of the Consulate came, saying that M. Turc, the Consul at Haiphong, had sent a message overland to inform Comte de Kergaradee of our intended visit, and the messenger had arrived only an hour before us, and chairs were coming to take us to the Consulate. These duly arrived and we went on.\n\nOn reaching the Consulate I was received by M. de Kergaradec with great courtesy, and found he had prepared rooms for us.\n\nDuring the forenoon I had a long conversation with M. de Kergaradec regarding the condition of affairs in Tonquin, which he very frankly explained. He said the political Treaty of the 15th March, 1874, concluded with the Annamite Government was fairly good, but the commercial one of the 23rd of November of that year was a failure. No provision having been made to regulate the transit dues on produce destined for the open ports, with the exception of those en route to and from Yunnan, consequently the Annamite Government, when called upon to act in accordance with the Commercial Treaty, replies that it is prepared to do so as soon as the frontier route to Yünnan is cleared of the Chinese bandits who hold it and levy black mail upon all that passes, but as regards the provinces the Treaty does not apply, and rest their argument upon the last section of the IInd Article; that it was certainly an oversight on the part of the framers of the Treaty, if the intention was to equalize the transit...\n\n227",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nbarracks, there are but few houses, and in the centre is a very peculiar tower on a raised base some 20 feet high, and on the top of the tower the national flag is hoisted.\n\nThe town of Hanoi is situated between the citadel and the river, and extending beyond the former in a westerly direction. The streets are wide and the houses good, and well built of brick in some of the principal streets, but there are numerous ones where the shops are merely mat erections in the usual Tonkinese style; with one exception—the main street from the river where the Chinese live—the streets are unpaved, and in wet weather almost impassable from the depth of the mud; but as shoes are an exception with the Annamites, this drawback to European comfort does not affect them. The sedan-chair of China, so convenient for locomotion, is unknown, the high authorities and those who can afford it being carried in a hammock of silk or hemp network suspended on a pole supported on the shoulders of two or four bearers, and enclosed in silk or cotton curtains. There is a great deal of stir and movement in the streets; the shops are well stocked with articles of native workmanship, especially bamboo work in all its varieties, silk and cotton piece goods, paper, pewter, and glass ware, boxes, drums of all sizes richly painted, lacquered and gilt, and coarse crockery and china ware. Fowls, ducks, geese, oxen, and pigs, are both plentiful and cheap, with abundance of fruit, bananas and vegetables, and fish. Rice is the staple food of the people, who look well-fed and healthy, and have a fair amount of muscular development. The women, however, appear to be the dominant class, for they work like the men as coolies and labourers, and preside in the shops. They are generally good-looking, carry themselves gracefully, and but for the practice of blacking their teeth, many might be called handsome.\n\nThe Tonquinese are evidently of the type of race which may be called \"transitional,\" beginning in India, of which Burmah and Siam are offshoots; changing in the Malay peninsula and Annam, and again in the southern borders of China, and so with China proper, where it ends in the Mongol feature. The gradations are strongly marked and can be easily traced.\n\nIn manner the Tonquinese and Annamites are quiet and, owing probably to the arbitrary Government they are under, subdued and indolent. The population of Hanoi, the capital, is estimated at from 150,000 to 200,000 Tonquinese, and about 3,000 Chinese. The French speak of the rule of the Annamite Government as oppressive and arbitrary in the extreme, and that the Tonquinese would gladly throw it off if possible. It may be and probably is so, being the case generally with all independent Asiatic Governments, but as a strong feeling against the Government exists among the French officials in Tonquin, such an assertion must be accepted with reserve. Undoubtedly a feeling of great disappointment exists at the sudden and complete reversal of the policy of Lieutenant Français Garnier, which I will refer to more fully hereafter, and the surrender to the Annamite Government of what may be termed his territorial conquests in Tonquin. Indeed, the present obstructive attitude of the Court of Hué is attributed to this cause, but not justly so,\n\nit is not to be expected that an independent but weak Government can look with equanimity upon the capture of their territory by a surprise, or accept the dictum of the captors that it is for their good and that of their people to preserve an armed neutrality and open the country to foreign trade under French supervision. However this may be viewed from a Western stand-point, certainly it finds no favour in the East, where the acts of the so-called civilized Powers are stripped of their garnish and reduced to the simple proportions of right or wrong, and if the latter, never forgotten or forgiven. Time and the passing away of generations may somewhat render the past into oblivion, but until that, to think what is gained by the sword can be held by the hand, is a mistake which the French are now seeing, and are chafing under the discovery.\n\nI have, I fear, dwelt too long on this subject, but it is one which so nearly affects the position of the French in Tonquin, that I may be pardoned in having been a little diffuse; but I will now proceed to give a brief resume of the political history of the Annamite and Tonquin Kingdoms, and the events which led to the occupation of the former by the French.\n\nTonquin is divided into thirteen prefectures or tsan; Thauh-noi, Thanh-ngoai, Hung-hoa, Nam thoung, Nam ha, Haidong, Kinh bae, Sontai, Caobang, Lang bac or Lang-von, Thai nguyen, Tuyen quang, Quang-yen.\n\nBoth Tonquin and Annam have, from almost time immemorial, been the scene of rebellions, civil wars, and bloodshed. Passing over the rather obscure history of these events, it will be sufficient to date from the year 1740–1786.\n\nAt that date Canhung was King of Tonquin, or Ngan-nan as it was called,\n\n1\n\n7\n\nand Hien Vuong was King of Cochin China, or Annam, but was so disliked by his subjects, that the influential family of Tayson revolted and killed him. He left a nephew, Nguyên Auh, who fled to Saigon on the death of his uncle. The heads of the family of Tayson consisted of three brothers: the eldest, Yin-yae, was a wealthy merchant; the second, Long-niang, was a General Officer of high rank; and the third was a priest.\n\nCochin was then divided into three parts: the north had been conquered by the Tonquinese; Hué was occupied by the second brother, Long-niang; and lower Cochin was governed by Yin-yae; whilst the third brother was religious chief of the whole Empire.\n\nNguyên-Auh, the nephew of Hien Vuong, who had fled to Saigon, determined to recover his kingdom from the three brothers of the Tayson family. At the time when Hien Vuong was killed there was a Catholic Bishop named Pigneaux de Béhaine, called Adran after his see, and he it was who saved the nephew Nguyên-Auh, and took him to Saigon, and henceforth devoted himself to replacing him on the Tonquinese throne.\n\nLong-niang, the second brother, then attacked the Tonquinese, and after expelling them from North Cochin, entered Tonquin in 1786, obliging Chin-long, the then King, to fly into China, where he ended his life at Peking, in exile.\n\nBishop Adran then took the eldest son of Nguyên-Auh with him to Paris, to obtain assistance from Louis XVI of France, and a Treaty of Alliance was signed on the 28th November, 1787, and Bishop Adran returned.\n\nIn 1791 Long-niang died, leaving a son twelve years old; and Nguyên-Auh, with the help of some French officers, brought from Europe by Bishop Adran, captured Yin-yae's fleet in 1793. In the same year Yin-yae died, and was succeeded by his son. Nguyên-Auh attacked and defeated the latter in 1796, and conquered what territory remained under the government of the son of Long-niang, and thus Cochin (Annam) was once more in possession of its lawful sovereign.\n\nThe conquest of Cochin being finished in 1811, Nguyên-Auh then turned his attention to Tonquin, the then King of which, Cauh-thiuh, the son of Quan-hung, he defeated in 1802, and being then sole sovereign of Annam, he assumed the title of Hwang-te, and the surname of Gia-long, by which he is best known, and since then Tonquin has been a province of the Annamite kingdom.\n\nIt may be observed that as far back as 1541 the Li family, the founder of the second dynasty, of which was Li-ki-mao or Li-by, were the recognized heirs to the throne of Tonquin, and although they were displaced by usurpers, they are still considered so, and some of its representatives are said to exist.\n\nSince the death of Gialong three monarchs have reigned in Cochin (Annam)—Minh Mang, 1820-1841; Thieu-tri, 1841-1847; and Tu-Duc, the present King; but although they owe their kingdom to the exertions of Bishop Adran, they have unremittingly persecuted Christians, For instance, Father Fernandez was beheaded on the 24th July, Bishop Henaris on the 25th June, and Bishop Delgado died in prison on 12th July, 1838. Finally, in consequence of the execution of Bishop José Maria Diaz, on the 20th July, 1857, and for other outrages, war broke out between Annam, Spain, and France, and this was followed by the victories of Admirals Rigault de Genouilly at Turon, on the 1st September, 1858; and Saigon, on the 17th February, 1859; Chasner at Kihoa, on the 25th February, 1861; Page at Mytho, on the 12th April, 1861; and Bonard at Bien-hoa, on the 9th December, 1861; ending with the Treaty of Saigon, of the 5th of June, 1862, by which the Provinces of Gia-dinh (Saigon), Dinh-tuong (Mytho), and Bien-hoa and the Island of Poulo Condor, in Lower Cochin, were ceded to France, and to these, on the grounds of intrigues and bad faith on the part of the Annamite Government, Vice-Admiral de la Grandière in June 1867 annexed the three western Provinces of Vinh-long, Chaudoc,\n\nand Hatien.\n\nI have thus as briefly as possible endeavoured to show how Tonquin became annexed to Annam, and Saigon came into possession of the French, and I will now proceed to give a résumé of the events which led to French occupation of Lower Tonquin.\n\nThe principal river in Tonquin, called the Ho-ti-kiang, but better known now as the Hung Keang in Chinese, and the Song Koi, or Red River, in Annamese, has its rise in Thibet, and is navigable from Manhao, the last city in the Chinese Province of Yunnan, and so down to the sea, a distance of 414 miles. Manhao is the entrepôt where goods are shipped to and from Tonquin and Annam, the mart being a more northern city, called Mongtsze, situated also on the banks of Song Koi, or Red\n\n229",
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        "content_text": "9\n\n230\n\n!\n\n8\n\nRiver, but called here the Ho-ti-kiang. Below Manghao, on the banks of the river, in Annamite territory, is situated the town of Laokay, two days' journey from the Tonquin capital, Hanoi. The Song Koi, or Red River, divides into various branches; the two southern ones meet above Hanoi. On one of them stands the town of Niuh-brinh; on the other, that of Nam-diuh and Hung-yen. These two branches communicate by canals, on one of which is situated the town of Fouli. Another branch of the Song Koi is the Thai-binh River, which passes by Hai-duong. Between it and the Hanoi branch of the Song Koi, or Red River, runs the Longchi Canal; and a third and very important branch to the north of the above named is the River Cam, which passes Haiphong; the mouth of the Cam is called the Cua Cam. The three northernmost mouths by which the Song Koi falls into the sea are called Dai, Lak, and Balat. The distance from the mouth of the river to Manghao in Yünnan is as follows:--\n\nFrom the mouth to Hanoi\nMiles\n110\n\nIlanoi to Soutay\n\"\n32\n\nSoutay to Annamite advanced posts\n\"\n87\n\nLackay to Manghao\n\"\n115\n\nAnnamite camp to Laokay\n\"\n70\n\nMiles from the sea to Manghao\n\n414\n\nIt is necessary to give this detail of the river communications through Tonquin in order that the position of affairs may be better understood.\n\nThe borders of Tonquin and Yunnan have for a long time been in a very disturbed state, being in possession of two clans or bands of Chinese distinguished as the Black and Yellow Flags. The men comprising them were originally under the Chief Tienti, the head of the Kwangei rebellion, and, having escaped into Tonquin, captured the town of Laokay, on the Red River; but the two Chiefs having quarrelled, they separated, and one portion took possession of Ko-yang, a tower lower down on the Red River, which places they still occupy, but are at war with each other, and each levies black mail upon all boats and goods passing into Yunnan, and thereby stopping the lucrative trade that had existed between Hanoi and that province.\n\nIn 1864 there resided at Hankow, in China, a M. Dupuis, who was engaged in the business of selling arms and ammunition to the Chinese then engaged in suppressing the Mahomedan rebellion in Yünnan. The distance, however, was long and the road difficult, and he was impressed with the idea that a shorter and better route could be found. He started for Yunnan, but the disturbed state of the country prevented him from following the course of the Song Koi, or Ho-ti-kiang, as it is there called, into Tonquin; but later on, in 1870-1871, he was more successful, and found the river was navigable from Manghao; and having ascertained that fact, he returned to Yunnan, and obtained large orders for arms and ammunition, which were to be brought viâ the Song Koi through Tonquin.\n\nIt was necessary, however, to obtain permission from the Annamite Government to cross Tonquin with these arms and ammunition, and Dupuis' Agent, M. Millot, explained his plans to Rear-Admiral Krantz, the Chef de Cabinet of the Navy Department, who obtained for him an audience from the Minister, Vice-Admiral Pothuon. Dupuis requested, as there was no regular communication with Annam, a passage to be given him in a gun-boat to Hué, to obtain this permission, and after some delay he received, under date the 9th April, 1872, a letter from the Directeur des Colonies, saying he had written to the Governor of French Cochin China to comply with his request if compatible with his duties, and MM. Dupuis and Millot having returned to Saigon, it was arranged that the despatch-boat \"Bourayne,\" Captain Lencz, should go to Tonquin to afford them protection. Two condemned British gun-boats---the \"Firm\" and the \"Cockchafer\"---had been purchased at Shanghae, and put under the French flags under the names the \"Hoong Kiang\" and the \"Lao Kay.\"\n\nMr. Dupuis left Hong Kong on the 26th of October, 1872, with the \"Hoong Kiang,\" towing a steam-launch, and the \"Lao Kay,\" towing a Chinese junk with coal and artillery. Including Messrs. Dupuis and Millot, the expedition numbered twenty-three Europeans and ninety-six Asiatics, Malays, Chinese, and Japanese.\n\nOn the 9th of November, they arrived at the Cua-cam River, in Tonquin, where the \"Bourayne\" was, but Captain Lenez had gone to Hanoi. Dupuis then went to the southernmost mouth of the Song Koi, but was recalled by a note from Captain Lenez, requesting him to return as soon as possible to be introduced to the Royal Commissioner Li, who had military command of the Provinces of Quang yen, Hai dzong, and Hung yen. On the 19th Li arrived, and the object of the expedition was explained, and the official Chinese documents were shown to him; but he said, though all was in order, he must refer to Hué for instructions. On the 4th of December no answer had been received from Hué, and Li hinted that none would be received for several months. Dupuis then decided not to wait any longer, and he wrote to Commissioner Li that, as the waters of the Cua-cam were very bad, he would go up the river.\n\nAfter several attempts to find a channel, the way to the Red River was discovered, which the expedition entered on the 18th of December, with a salute. Their proceedings were detailed to me by a very intelligent man called Captain George, a Greek by birth, who was with the expedition. The Annamites were greatly excited, and large bodies of troops were out. An attempt was made to erect a barrier across the canal, flanked by a fort, which opened fire upon the vessels; but that was soon silenced, and they arrived at Hanoi on the 22nd of December without further opposition. There the Mandarins promised to assist them up the river, but, in fact, prevented M. Dupuis hiring the boats he wanted; and on discovering this he determined to continue the journey, but was unable from want of water. Finally, he succeeded in hiring four boats, and on the 18th of January, 1873, he started with three of them, the steam-launch, and a Chinese interpreter, leaving the remainder of the expedition with M. Millot at Hanoi, and taking with him altogether twelve Europeans and twenty natives.\n\nOn the 1st of February, the expedition passed the last Annamite camp, reaching the head-quarters of the Yellow Flags on the 10th. Here he was entertained by their Chief Hoang Tsong-yu, and after leaving his territory he entered, on the 20th, that of another Chief, Lun vinh-pline, the Black Flags, who lives in the city of Lao Kay; and on the 25th he left this-the last town in Tonquin-and finally arrived at Manghao, in Yunnan, on the 4th of March, and leaving his material behind, he reached Yunnan-fu on the 10th. Here he found he had arrived too late with his arms, for the Mahommedan stronghold of Tali-fu had been surrendered to the Imperial troops on the 8th of January, and Ma, the Chinese Commander-in-chief, did not require them, and said, moreover, he had not the means of paying for them, but there was a quantity of tin from the mines which he might have, and which Dupuis accepted, but was able to remove but little of it for want of means of transport; and finding his expedition a commercial failure, he returned to Hanoi, which he reached on the 10th of April, and found the Annamites preparing to attack the Expedition, having closed two branches of the Song Koi and barricaded the river above Hanoi to prevent its escape. By mistake, however, the Longchi Channel, which begins a little above Hanoi, and runs into the Phai-binh River, was left open, and Dupuis, who had enlisted about 100 Chinese, was able to make good his retreat, though occasional skirmishes took place.\n\nThe Ministers of Tuduc, the King of Annam, seeing no means of getting rid of M. Dupuis, wrote to Admiral Dupré, who sent him, through the Annamite authorities, an order to leave Tonquin at once, saying that his presence in the country was a source of annoyance, and if the command was not obeyed, he (Admiral Dupré) would not consider himself responsible for the consequences. In reply, M. Dupuis stated that he had neither coal nor funds, and could not leave the country. M. Millot, however, arriving at Saigon on the 13th of July, with a relation of the Titu of Yunnan, and a Mandarin named Li (whom the Viceroy of Canton told me he would behead if he could get hold of him), called on the Admiral, and so represented the matter that he suggested a delay of three months, and assisted M. Millot in obtaining a loan from a bank under the guarantee of the Colonial Secretary. M. Millot then returned to Hong Kong and purchased a small steamer, and named her the \"Manghao,\" and a junk, which he called the \"Lao Kay,\" and sent them, with ten men from Hupih, to Tonquin.\n\nAfter the departure of M. Millot from Saigon, Tuduc, the King of Annam, sent two Envoys to Admiral Dupré (August, 1873) to tell him Dupuis refused to obey his order. To this the Admiral replied by telling them they ought to have expelled him themselves. They answered they were unable to do so, and requested the Admiral to send a man-of-war to Tonquin to assist them.\n\nThe action of Admiral Dupré in this matter was calculated to mislead both M. Dupuis and the Annamite Government. He certainly gave assistance to the former both by steamers and money, and at the request of the latter he recalled Dupuis from Tonquin, and when the Envoys sent by the King Tuduc requested the fulfilment of his order, he hesitated to enforce it; and it was this hesitation which brought about the complications that resulted in grave responsibilities to the French and loss of independence to the Annamites. I may here mention that, during the interval which\n\n[608]",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nelapsed between Dupuis' return from his first expedition to Yunnan and his expulsion, finding salt was in great request there, and that a picul costing 1 dollar at Hanoi was sold for 7 dollars in Yünnan, he sent several cargoes up the Song Koi without hindrance from the Hanoi Government; and when Garnier captured the citadel, he had sixteen boats loaded with salt, which had to be abandoned at the evacuation.\n\nI will now proceed to the second phase of this remarkable history. Lieutenant François Garnier was a naval officer of great ability and merit; he had accompanied Captain de la Lagrée in his expedition up the Meikong River to explore a new route to the southern provinces of China and Thibet: and when that officer died he succeeded to the command of the party, and brought it safely through China to Hankow, and was preparing to prosecute his researches in Thibet when he was sent for by Admiral Dupré to take charge of an expedition to Tonquin.\n\n<<\n\nWhatever were Admiral Dupré's intentions in sending Garnier with an armed escort to Tonquin, certainly the Annamite Government considered it was for the purpose of removing Dupuis in accordance with their request. All, however, known about it was \"that it was sent to restore order\" but whether Dupuis was to be expelled or the Annamites supported, no one knew, but the title given him was Commandant-en-chef des forces de terre et de mer des côtes de Tongking, Envoi Extraordinaire de la Cochin-Chine.\" On the 10th of October the Annamite Envoys and Garnier and his party embarked in the \"D'Estrées,\" French man-of-war, towing a small gun-boat, the \"Arc.\" Calling at Tuson, two mandarins were sent from Huo to introduce Garnier to the Tonquinese authorities. The \"D'Estrées\" arrived at the Cua-cam River on the 24th of October, where Garnier obtained two junks, and left with his staff for Hanoi, which he reached on the 5th of November.\n\nA week before, another man-of-war, the 'Decrès, had been dispatched from Saigon, towing a gun-vessel, the \"Espingole.\" The \"Decrès \" arrived in the Cua-cam on the 7th of November, and the \"Espingole\" left at once for Hanoi with a crew of twenty-eight men, a medical attendant, Dr. Harmand, and a hydrographer, M. Bouillet, under command of an ensign, M. Baluy.\n\nM. Dupuis and his Chinese received Lieutenant Garnier, on landing at Hanoi, with military honours, and he at once penetrated into the citadel through one of the gates, and obliged the sentries to show him the house of Nguyen Tri-phuong, an old man with the title of Marshal or Commander-in-chief at Hanoi, and who had previously fought the French at Kihoa, and to whom he announced himself as the \"French Governor.\" Concealing his anger, Tri-phuong offered Garnier quarters in the native city, which he refused; but, frustrated in obtaining a house in the citadel, he accepted the building outside called the Examination Hall, and at present the French Consulate. As soon as he had left the city the gates were closed, and the officers who allowed him to enter were severely punished.\n\nGarnier at once began to negotiate. He said he had come at the request of Tuduc's Ministers; he had with him two mandarins sent by the Court of Hué, and had even been told he should meet at Hanoi a Minister Plenipotentiary, with whom he could treat. The Minister had arrived, but Nguyen Tri-phuong entirely ignored him, saying that Garnier had been sent not to make a Commercial Treaty, but to expel Dupuis.\n\nOn the day of his arrival Garnier issued a Proclamation. He said he was sent by France at the request of the Annamites, who had been asking at Saigon for help, and his mission was to destroy the pirates who attack vessels on the coast, and to facilitate commerce with Tonquin.\n\nIn the meantime, the \"Arc\" having been lost on the voyage to Tonquin, Admiral Dupré dispatched the gun-boat \"Scorpion\" to replace her.\n\nOn the 10th November M. Dupuis' steamer, the \"Manghao,\" brought a letter from Garnier to the captain of the \"D'Estrées,\" requesting reinforcements; and the following day the \"Scorpion,\" followed by the \"Manghao,\" proceeded up the river, the latter carrying a medical man, Dr. Dubut, and sixty men and three officers.\n\nThus the whole of the French forces at Hanoi on the 14th of November, 1873, not including Dupuis, were :\n\nThe \"Espingole,\" Messrs. Baluy, Harmand, and Bouillet, with 28 men. The \"Scorpion,\" Messrs. Garnier, Esmez, and Bouxin, with 50 men.\n\nThe detachment from the \"Decrès,\" Messrs. Bain, Hautefeuille, Perrin, and Dubut, with 60 men.\n\nThe 30 marines of M. de Trentenien.\n\nDr. Chedan and M. Lasserre, private secretary to Garnier. Altogether, 180 men.\n\n11\n\nOn the 19th of November, Garnier published a second Proclamation, making known the conditions of the intended Treaty of Commerce under French protection. Information had reached him that the Annamites were preparing to attack him, and he thought it would be better to strike the first blow himself; and, as the time he had given Nguyen Tri-phuong to communicate with the Court of Hué had expired, he resolved to attack the citadel the following day.\n\nAt daybreak on the 20th of November, the attack was made. A first column composed of 30 sailors with a gun, headed by M. Bain de la Coquerie, marched toward the south-western gate at 6 o'clock. A quarter of an hour later, Garnier himself left the Examination Hall for the south-eastern gate, with 3 guns, 40 sailors, and 30 marines.\n\nThe great\n\nThe Annamites, taken unawares, offered scarcely any resistance. difficulty in entering the citadel was to break open the gates made of hard wood, and it was necessary to bring the guns close to and fire at a distance of a few feet,\n\nWhile the southern gates were being stormed, the shells of the \"Espingole\" and the \"Scorpion were falling near the western gate, and, by frightening away the defenders of the place, contributed to the success of the day. M. Dupuis himself, though Garnier had declined his offer of service, was taking a share in the fight, and his soldiers, having managed to scale the Eastern Gate, entered the citadel first, and dispersed for pillage. Garnier, however, gave strict orders to stop all disorder, and by 7 o'clock, the citadel being entirely in his hands, he sent back all the troops to the Examination Hall, except the marines.\n\nSome 200 natives had been killed or wounded, while on the side of the French there was not a single casualty to report. A great number of officials were made prisoners, including the Envoy from the Court of Hué, who had been ignored by the Marshal, the Governor of Hanoi, the two sons of Phan Tanh-gian, who signed the Treaty of 1862 on behalf of Annam, and Nguyen Tri-phuong himself. The Marshal was found concealed in a house where he had taken refuge after receiving a wound in the thigh from a splinter of a shell, and from which he subsequently died.\n\nOn the same day Garnier reported to Saigon the capture of the citadel, and asked for reinforcements, and issued a Proclamation to calm the minds of the people.\n\nIt would occupy too much space to detail the subsequent proceedings of Garnier, and it will be sufficient to say he sent M. Balny with 15 marines to Towli, a town on the branch of the Song Koi above Hanoi to direct the authorities to submit; and, as he passed Hungyen, the Mandarins came out and offered their submission. After passing Fowli, Balny went to Haidzong, an important citadel in the Thai-dinh River, which he carried by a coup de main on the 4th of December.\n\nOn the 1st December Garnier sent a steam-launch under command of M. Haute-feuille, with instructions to M. Balny, and to require the submission of the Governor of Nam-dinh and Minh-binh, the latter of which he attacked with seven men, and captured it, taking the Tedoc or General prisoner. Garnier himself left Hanoi on the 4th December in the \"Scorpion,\" with M. Esnez and about 70 men, in addition to the crew for Nam-dinh, capturing a fort that opened fire upon him en route, and the town itself on the 10th of December, and he issued a fourth Proclamation to pacify the people. Thus, within a period of a month, Hanoi, the capital, Hungyen, Haidzong, Nam-dinh, and Han-dinh, all important cities commanding the delta of the Song Koi or Red River, had been captured.\n\nBut, after this, came the reverse. With a handful of men he had overrun the neighbouring country, but it required more than a handful to hold it. Constant attacks were made on the several positions thus occupied, and great difficulty was experienced in repulsing them. A rumour, too, which proved true, was about that Annamite troops were coming from the southern provinces. Tuduc, the King of Annam, was greatly incensed at the loss of Hanoi, and gave orders to the Viceroy of the Province of Nguyen to march against the French, and he himself sent every available soldier from Hué. These orders were partly executed when he changed his mind, and wrote to Saigon, giving his Envoys full powers to sign a Treaty of Commerce, and sent two Envoys to Garnier with full powers, and M. Sohier as Interpreter.\n\nGarnier, in occupying the forts situated on the delta of the Song Koi, had evidently in view the keeping open his communication with the sea, but he had not secured his rear by the capture of the military city of Soutay, some thirty miles west of Hanoi, where resided the Tong Thong, Hoang Ke-vien by name. This officer had increased his army by troops recalled from the north, where they were fighting the so-called rebels, but in truth the Black and Yellow Flag Chinese factions on the frontier, who were at war with each other.\n\n231",
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        "content_text": "233\n\n14\n\nthat he had made an arrangement with his creditors to pay one-half of his liabilities in the period of a year, and the rest in the following six months, and that he was leaving Saigon for Paris to prosecute his claims against the French Government, which through the Saigon one, he avers, supported him in his attempt to open up Yunnan by the Songkoi River, and then when they, or the Governor of Saigon rather, saw they might get implicated by his action, abandoned him, confiscated his property, and in fact ruined him. Such is the report, but it is more probable that M. Dupuis, who is a man of ability and great enterprise, will make some arrangements with his Government, regarding giving facilities for trade with Yunnan, which will recoup him his losses, and benefit the French Government by opening a trade with the rich and fertile provinces of Yunnan and Kwangsi.\n\nAs regards this route into Yunnan by Songkoi, or Red River, there can be no doubt of its availability, and that until lately a very considerable trade to and from Hanoi was done by the Chinese Resident there, and if the borders were cleared of the obstructions which exist in the shape of blackmail and independent Chinese clans that trade would be renewed. I saw the peculiarly-constructed boats of great length, and drawing little water, employed in ascending the river as far as Manghao and Mangtsze, both large trading cities in Yunnan, and I closely questioned one or two people who had been that route and they stated no difficulties existed, and we know that M. Dupuis several times took cargoes of salt from Hanoi to Manghao, and would have continued the traffic but for the Saigon Government, at the request of that of Annam, requiring him to leave Tonquin. That the River Songkoi is available, therefore, for the transit of the reported rich ores and produce of Yunnan and Tonquin seems certain, and on the removal of three obstacles alone a large and profitable trade may be said to depend, namely, the consent of the Governments of Tonquin and China to open the mines, and the clearance of the frontier of refugee Chinese and leviers of blackmail. All these accomplished the rest is easy.\n\nIf the Songkoi or Red River opens a route with Yunnan and Kwang-si, that via the Shan States and Bhamo is not the less available, and the two offer equal advantages, nor is there any reason why their interests should clash; on the contrary, for these points of exit are distant, and one gives geographical facilities which the other does not.\n\nNotices which have appeared in French publications urge upon the Government the necessity of taking immediate action by opening the Songkoi before the English have monopolized the trade of Western China by the Bhamo route; but this is a mistake, no single road from Yunnan could do that, and the more openings there are for the inlet and outlet of trade the better. Moreover, such is not the intention or desire of the British Government as far as I am aware, and if the French policy in Tonquin were less restrictive it would draw foreign capital to the country, and develop its rich resources, which at present are in abeyance from the poverty of the Government and the people.\n\nAs regards the position of the French at present in Tonquin, my observations lead me to the conclusion that it is unsatisfactory, and indeed they think so themselves, but from a different point of view.\n\nIt seems to me that the Annamite Government look upon them much as an individual would look upon another who has entered upon his property and assumed the management of his estate, and whom he is too weak, in the absence of law international or otherwise, to eject. All they can do is to be as obstructive and make things as uncomfortable for their unwelcome visitors as they can, and the only fear is they may go too far, and make themselves so unbearable as to authorize either an annexation, or the next thing to it—being a distinction without a difference—a protectorate pure and simple. This, I have every reason to believe, is what the French officials there look forward to, for not only do they feel they are in an anomalous position, but they regret the surrender by M. Philastre of the conquests, if they may be so termed, of Lieutenant Garnier, and to which they attribute their present difficulties.\n\nIf the French Government is not prepared to go further and incur grave responsibilities and a very large outlay, it would be well if it reversed the whole policy of the past, and entered upon a different phase, by restoring to Annam its entire sovereignty over Tonquin, and restricting its alliance with her to a commercial Treaty, and leaving it open to other nations to do the same.\n\nThat the Annamite Government would gladly avail itself of this rearrangement and place commercial intercourse upon a sound basis there can be no doubt, for it naturally views with alarm and dislike the occupation of the territory by an armed foreign force, small though it may be, and the interference it is subjected to under the provisions of a Political and a Commercial Treaty, which unquestionably was forced upon it.\n\n15\n\nI found it difficult to obtain information regarding the commercial products of Tonquin, but I met with a native called Petrus Truong Vinhky, who was an employé of the French Government at Saigon, and had been sent to inquire into the trading resources of that country.\n\nHe represented Tonquin to be rich in products of all kinds, having coal, copper, and tin mines, gold and silver. Its agricultural capabilities are immense, and silk is abundant and cheap; a piece of it might be purchased at Hanoi for 150 dollars which would cost at Saigon 250 dollars, and in China 400 dollars. This might be so, but from the little I saw of it I should say it was coarser in thread than that of China and very badly reeled, and the fabrics made from it were imperfect compared with the Chinese, and of very poor quality. Vinhky confirmed the information I had received regarding the occupation of the river that passes into Yunnan by the Black and Yellow Flags, and said as long as they held them the Yunnan trade would be paralysed. He believed, however, the French Consul at Hanoi would, in the course of a month or two, proceed there with an armed escort of 100 or 200 soldiers from Saigon to co-operate with the Annamites in clearing the road.\n\nThis was confirmed by M. de Kergaradec, who told me he was going there, partly to see into the state of affairs, and to come to some arrangements with the Flag factions, and partly for scientific purposes. Vinhky represented that the Annamite Government was favourable to the development of the resources of the country, but according to M. Kergaradec they were not. It is difficult, therefore, with such contradictions, to arrive at the truth; in fact, I make no pretensions of giving an account of the native trade of Tonquin in this despatch, for my opportunity of obtaining information was too brief.\n\nI can only say that from all accounts it is a very rich country, and with the establishment of good relations with the Government might be made a very profitable one to Western Nations; and even if M. Kergaradec succeeds in either conciliating it or enforcing obedience on the Yellow and Black Flag factions, much will be done towards opening the Yunnan trade. Indeed, I believe this intended expedition of his to the factories originates in the French having called upon the Annamite Government to clear the frontier passes of these bandits, to which it replied it could not do so without assistance, and therefore is of more importance than is at first apparent.\n\nI may now, as briefly as possible, refer to the ecclesiastical position of Tonquin with reference to Christianity.\n\nThe first missionary to Tonquin was the Italian Jesuit, Julian Baldinotti, who arrived in 1626; he was followed in 1627 by Alexander de Rhodes (French) and Antonio Marquez (Portuguese); these were expelled in May, 1630, but numerous successors followed them. Persecutions followed; Messari died in prison on the 15th of June, 1723. Buccharelli was beheaded with nine Tonquinese on the 11th of October, 1723. John Caspard Crats, born in Germany in 1698, Bartholomew Alvarez, born in Parameo, in Portugal, in 1706, Emmanuel de Alreu, born at Aronca, in Portugal, in 1706, and Vincent de Cunha, born in Lisbon in 1708, were beheaded on the 12th of January, 1737.\n\nAfter the persecutions of 1737, there was a period of calm, and the King of Tonquin even sent to Macao for some mathematicians, and on the 6th of March, 1751, Father Simonelli and four other Jesuits arrived; but the King changed his mind and did not want them. The Jesuits were replaced by the envoys of the \"Missions étrangères\" in 1659. In 1679 Tonquin was divided into two religious provinces, Eastern and Western. The Spanish Dominicans took charge of Eastern Tonquin in 1693. The two provinces were again sub-divided, and the Roman Catholic missions in Tonquin are at present—\n\n1st. Western Tonquin (Missions étrangères) created 1679. at Sokien (Hanoi).\n\n2nd. Eastern Tonquin (Spanish Dominicans) created 1679. at Ké-né (Bac-niuh).\n\nMonsignore Puginier\n\nMonsignore Colomer\n\n3rd. Central Tonquin (Spanish Dominicans) created in 1548. Monsignore Cezon at Biu-chu (Nam-dinh); Monsignore Riano Coadjuta at Ngoc-duong (Hung-yen).\n\n4th. Southern Tonquin (Mission étrangères) created in 1546. Monsignore Ganthier\n\nat Xa-doai; Monsignore Croc Coadjuta at Huong-phuong (Bac-ninh).\n\nAs before mentioned, I called upon Monsignore Puginier, and found him most agreeable and communicative; he was apparently about forty years of age, and",
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En 9 mois...\n    \n    \n      Livraisons en octobre.\n    \n    \n      ד\n      \n    \n    \n      כל\n      \n    \n    \n      39.347\n      \n    \n  \n\nCOTONS. Rien de nouveau des Etats-Unis; les recettes sont toujours très-fortes, et, cette semaine encore, nous devions avoir dans les 210,000 b; l'an dernier, les arrivages aux ports se faisaient également d'une manière très rapide, et, malgré cela, nous avons déjà un excédant de plus de 200,000 b. sur la même période de la précédente campagne\n\nAu Havre, le marché a aussi présenté un aspect assez languissant, mais cependant, malgré les fortes recettes d'Amérique et les avis moins stimulants du dehors, le moral ne s'est pas modifié sensiblement; comme toujours dans les moments d'inaction, on peut parfois traiter à des conditions plus douces, mais en général, les détenteurs ont confiance et les cours des bons cotons se maintiennent très-bien et on ne peut signaler aucun changement sur les cours de vendredi dernier.\n\nLAINES. A Londres, d'après M. Pierrard, en se retrouvant moins nombreux encore que la semaine présente, les acheteurs de laines coloniales ont montré peu d'animation. Malgré cela, les vendeurs, de lundi à vendredi, ont trouvé les prix de toutes les laines à peigne et des laines exemptes de défauts pour la carde sans changement appréciable. Les acheteurs ont parfois essayé, selon leur habitude, d'obtenir des lots au-dessous de leurs cotes, mais ils ont échoué pour les genres précités, qui intéressent tout particulièrement l'exportation. Les cours des petites laines courtes plus ou moins défectueuses pour la carde, sont moins tendus, à cause de leur surabondance. Il n'est guère probable que cette situation change d'ici à la clôture, samedi prochain. Les catalogues ne seront pas importants et ne doivent plus comprendre que les qualités suivantes: 8,984 b. Sydney; 4.966 b. Port-Philippe; 597 b. Adélaïde, 21 b. Swan-River; 10,680 b. Nouvelle-Zélande; 25,248 b. d'Australie, et 7,442 b. Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Ensemble, 32,600 balles de laines coloniales.\n\nSoles. Voir plus loin notre Correspondance de Lyon.\n\nMÉTAUX. A Paris, les affaires ont été plus calmes cette semaine. On signale une baisse de 1.25 sur les sortes ordinaires; 3 2.50 sur le minerai de Corocoro; de 4 fr. sur le best selected et de 0 fr. sur les lingots. On cote actuellement par 100 kil: Cuivre de Chili 1, au Havre, 205 00; dit sorte ordinaire, 202.50; dit, en lingots, 205 00; dit. Best selected, 212 50; minerai de Corocoro (cuivre pur), 205 00; laiton feuille 1 choix, 205; dit. 2 choix, 195 00; dit. 3 choix. 200 00. Le marché des étains a été moins bien tenu cette semaine, les détroits ont baissé de 2.50 et l'étain anglais de 4 26. On cote actuellement par 100 kil : Banca livrable au Havre ou à Paris, 207 50; détroits, livrable au Havre ou à Paris. 202 50; anglais, livrable au Havre ou à Rouen, 200 00; peu d'affaires à signaler sur les plombs de France ils ont baissé de 3 fr., ainsi que le plomb belge et allemand. On cote actuellement: de France livrable à Paris, 51.00; Espagne livrable au Havre, 53.50; Anglais, livrable, au Havre, 53 50; Belge et Allemand à Paris, 51.00; les zincs restent toujours dans la même situation et se cotent par 100 kil: brut de Silésie, au Havre, 59.00; autres bonnes marques au Havre, 58.50; autres bonnes marques à Paris, 58.50.\n\nFERS. FOSTER. D'après la Métallurgie, à Paris les affaires cette semaine sont calmes et non suivies. La rente est molle, mais cela n'a rien d'inquiétant, la fin du mois étant proche. Les prix sont toujours tenus fermes et se maintiendront ainsi jusqu'à ce que les marchands étant réassortis se décident à appuyer la hausse. Ce temps est proche, nous l'espérons pour le plus grand bien de l'industrie métallurgique; car, il faut bien l'avouer, la situation des forges est critique, et beaucoup ne continuent la production qu'à force de sacrifices et pour ne pas faire chômer leur personnel. Dans la Haute-Marne, les usines du groupe ont du travail et la formation des stocks est un cas rare. Cela ne veut pas dire que la situation s'améliore L'annonce de l'arrivée de certains ordres importants avait donné à nos producteurs un moment d'espoir, mais la connaissance des prix auxquels ces ordres ont été obtenus a refroidi ce sentiment. On produit pour ne pas faire chômer le personnel, mais le besoin d'écouler fait vendre à perte. Malgré ces mauvaises nouvelles, les prix sont maintenus pour les petites affaires courantes. Les prix, d'ailleurs, ne peuvent plus baisser et il vaudrait mieux éteindre les feux que de faire de nouvelles concessions. Les petits fers, qui nous étaient généralement demandés, nous sont enlevés par les forges du Nord, qui se mettent à cette fabrication. Cet essai leur réussira-t-il? C'est ce que l'avenir nous apprendra. Dans la Meurthe-et-Moselle, la petite reprise d'affaires remarquée au commencement du mois ne s'est pas soutenue. Les demandes semblent s'être arrêtées. On connaît pourtant une petite transaction de fonte d'affinage à 66 fr. Pour des marchés plus importants il serait possible d'obtenir à 62 fr. Les producteurs de fontes du bassin de Longwy se sont constitués en syndicat, sous le nom de Comptoir général métallurgique du bassin de Longwy » et qui vendra toute la production des hauts fourneaux. Nous ne voulons rien préjuger de l'avenir de ce syndicat, mais le moyen ne nous paraît pas infaillible pour déterminer un relèvement des prix des fontes.\n\nCHARBONS. Nous lisons dans la Houille;\n\nLa physionomie du marché charbonnier parisien est excessivement variable. A un grand mouvement d'expéditions a succédé un calme relatif. Il est vrai de dire que la douceur anormale de la température et le temps mou dont nous sommes gratifiés sont peu faits pour pousser à la consommation. Les cours ont faibli, et la baisse signalée dans le Nord et le Pas-de-Calais a eu son contre-coup immédiat dans nos chantiers de la Villette et de la Chapelle, où les charbons sont livrés à un franc de moins, par tonne, qu'il y a dix jours. Les arrivages ont également perdu de leur importance, bien qu'un certain nombre de bateaux venant de Mons et de Charleroi déchargent à quai des gailletteries qu'il est quelquefois difficile de caser. Si la température reste encore quelque temps aussi clémente, on pourra considérer la grande campagne d'hiver comme manquée, l'époque des grands approvisionnements étant déjà très-avancée. Il existe de grandes quantités en magasins, beaucoup de bateaux sont encore en cours de route, et on doit maintenant s'attendre à la conservation des prix actuels, déjà faibles, malgré la baisse dont ils viennent d'être l'objet, »\n\nSUCRES.\n\nParis, le 30 novembre 1876.\n\nLes cours sont à peu près aux limites d'il y a huit jours; on cote aujourd'hui 99 fr. 75 c., base n° 3, et 8 fr. et. 87 fr. les 88°, 10/13 et 7/9, disponibles en entrepôt de Paris. En fabrique, on traite à la parité de ces prix. C'est, on le voit, un peu de faiblesse sur les blancs et un peu d'amélioration sur les roux. Le fond du marché est très-ferme, mais les affaires sont restreintes par suite de l'abstention de la spéculation et de la réserve avec laquelle les raffineurs procèdent à leurs achats.\n\nLes nouvelles de la fabrication sont de plus en plus désastreuses, et le chiffre de 200 millions de kilos est mis en discussion; un grand nombre de personnes compétentes estiment qu'on ne dépassera pas 190 millions. Sans être aussi mauvaise dans les autres pays betteraviers, la production générale n'en est pas moins très-réduite en Europe, et nos approvisionnements auront peine à suffire à la consommation avant l'arrivée normale des sucres exotiques.\n\nNous avons donc encore une longue période pendant laquelle les prix seront fixés pour ainsi dire par le bon vouloir des détenteurs.\n\nLes raffinés valent de 171 à 172 fr., suivant marques, pour la consommation. Les raffineries des ports ne travaillent que très-peu. On cite une usine de Nantes qui a été obligée, pour livrer ses marchés, d'acheter des raffinés de Paris.\n\nLes certificats mélis sont lourds à 74 fr. 75 c., disponibles à 75 fr. de janvier à mars prochain.\n\nLes marchés étrangers présentent, dans leur ensemble, une très-grande fermeté et une excellente tendance.\n\nVoici la statistique du mouvement des sucres dans la Grande-Bretagne pendant la semaine dernière :\n\nSAMEDI 2 DÉCEMBRE 1876.\n\nL'ÉCONOMISTE FRANÇAIS.\n\nexcepté en quelques cas très-rares. Les affaires continuent à être très-calmes pour les fils et tissus.\n\nLINS. JUTES. TOUPES. FILS. TOILES.\n\nBelfast. -- Lin: Les marchés de la campagne ont été bien approvisionnés cette semaine, et les prix dans la plupart des cas ont été maintenus. Fils: La demande est restée très-calme cette semaine, et aucune transaction importante n'a eu lieu ni pour l'intérieur, ni pour l'exportation. Des offres ont été faites pour le continent, mais au-dessous des cours. Les fils d'étoupe, particulièrement du 25 au 30, ont été bien recherchés, à prix fermes.\n\n-Toiles Fabrication mécanique. Toiles légères. Les affaires faites cette semaine ont été très-limitées, les stocks croissent; prix nominaux sans changement. Toiles moyennes. Bonne demande ferme qui enlève la production, prix maintenus. Grosses toiles. Affaires modérées aux anciens prix. Toiles à monchoirs. Demande très-faible, et à peine suffisante pour établir des prix. Baliste. Recherche calme aux derniers prix. les stocks croissent, Fabrication à la main. Toiles légères pour le blanchiment. La demande reste toujours calme; les stocks chargent peu, prix fermes. Toiles moyennes. Cet article s'écoule en quantités modérées aux anciens prix; stocks limités. Grosses toiles. Affaires très-calmes, les stocks tendent à croître, prix sans changement notable. Batiste. Affaires limitées et insuffisantes pour enlever la production. Toiles blanches et apprêtées. Commerce avec le pays. Bonne demande forme pour la consommation du pays; on a traité peu d'affaires pour livraison immédiate, mais on a placé beaucoup d'ordres à livrer, Commerce avec le continent. La situation du commerce d'exportation est encore très-calme; les ordres qui viennent sont tous de détail et n'annoncent pas une amélioration immédiate. Commerce avec l'Amérique. Les derniers avis indiquent du calme, mais les prévisions sur les affaires sont bonnes. Beaucoup d'acheteurs sont venus sur notre marché, et bien qu'ils aient opéré avec prudence, les transactions peuvent être considérées comme aussi bonnes que possible dans l'état actuel de la politique. Les stocks dans le commerce ont un peu augmenté; prix bien fermes.\n\nLAINES. LAINAGES.\n\nBradford. Le marché est excessivement calme aujourd'hui, et les transactions en laines sont limitées aux besoins immédiats, Les négociants cependant ne se montrent pas trop désireux de vendre et maintiennent les cours. Le marché des fils est très-inactif; les ordres reçus pour l'exportation sont très-peu nombreux; une bonne somme d'affaires a été traitée pour l'intérieur. Le marché des tissus est sans changement; affaires limitées dans la plupart des articles.\n\nPRIX DU PAIN.\n\nDepuis huit jours, les blés et les farines ont haussé dans des proportions assez sensibles, et il devient probable qu'en présence de cette hausse, les prix du pain vont s'élever également. Le prix de 85 centimes les 2 kilogrammes n'est plus à Paris une aussi minime exception que la semaine dernière. Cependant, la grande majorité des boulangers vendent encore le pain, selon qualité, 75 et 80 centimes.\n\nEn province, les cours extrêmes varient de 32 centimes 1/2 à 40 et 42 centimes 1/2 le kilog.\n\nPRIX DE LA VIANDE A PARIS,\n\n(Marché de la Villette.)\n\nLes marchés aux bestiaux de la province ne présentent pas grande activité dans les affaires; il en est du reste toujours ainsi l'entrée de l'hiver. Les prix toutefois se maintiennent assez fermes.\n\nAu marché de la Villette, à l'exception des moutons qui sont en légère baisse, les autres bestiaux accusent des prix fermes ou en hausse.\n\nVoici les prix de vente de la viande au détail dans les boucheries de la capitale.\n\nCOURS DES FONTES.\n\nCirculaire de MM. Castel et Latla.\n\nGlasgow, 28 novembre 1876.\n\nEn Ecosse, les exportations de fonte brute, pendant la dernière semaine, ont été de 10,270 tonnes contre 8,116 tonnes exportées en 1875 pendant la période correspondante; soit un excédant de 2,160 tonnes pour l'année courante. Notre marché est calme. Warrants 58/7 1/2.\n\nLes prix sont en shellings et par tonne anglaise de 1,015 kilog. mise à bord.\n\n  \n    N°1.\n    N°3.\n    N°4.\n  \n  \n    FONTES D'ÉCOSSE\n  \n  \n    Relinton\n    arrossa)\n    ....\n  \n  \n    61\n    balmellisgien\n    id.\n  \n  \n    61\n    Kinneil (à Bo'ness)..\n    l\n  \n  \n    FONTES D'ÉCOSSE.\n  \n  \n    Factsherrie (Gizaga)....\n    67\n    Coltness id.\n  \n  \n    Jummerles\n    Wishaw\n    Clyde\n  \n  \n    GOVER\n    \n    Monkland\n  \n  \n    59\n    \n    72\n  \n  \n    59/6\n    \n    jd.\n  \n  \n    ....\n    04\n    $8/6\n  \n  \n    39\n    \n    in.\n  \n  \n    ....\n    id.\n    \n  \n  \n    61/6\n    58/6\n    57/6\n  \n  \n    id.\n    \n    ....\n  \n  \n    80\n    \n    53.6\n  \n  \n    38\n    \n    37/6\n  \n  \n    59\n    \n    \n    Langloan (4 Glasg, au Canal)\n  \n  \n    67\n    \n    39\n  \n  \n    Calder\n    id\n    id.,\n  \n  \n    67\n    \n    59/6\n  \n  \n    59\n    Carnbroe\n    id..\n  \n  \n    62\n    58/6\n    50\n  \n  \n    Gisugarnock (à årdresser)..\n    85/6\n    19\n  \n  \n    39\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    N°1.\n    N°.\n    X°4.\n  \n  \n    57/0\n    59\n    \n  \n  \n    57/6\n    57\n    57\n  \n  \n    35\n    Bessemer\n    72/6\n  \n  \n    Shaite (15'),\n    \n    59,8\n  \n  \n    Ordinary.\n    63\n    Almond à Bo'ness)..\n  \n  \n    59\n    37/6\n    55\n  \n  \n    Carron...ordinary.\n    67/5\n    62/6\n  \n  \n    (Selected.\n    72/6..\n    \n  \n  \n    Lochgelly (à Bariland).\n    Lumpbinnens, id.\n    \n  \n\nPRIX COURANT DE LA PLACE DE ZURICH.\n\nZurich, le 29 novembre 1876, Marchandise prise & Zurich. Escompte 2 0/0. Terme 30 jours. Valeur en francs fédéraux suisses. (Change sur France, places banquables, au pair.)\n\n  \n    PILES DE COTON,\n    Numéros français.\n  \n  \n    Chaine 27/29\n    Amérique en bobines.\n  \n  \n    40\n    Jumel 58/60\n  \n  \n    Trame 36/38\n    Amérique en cannettes\n  \n  \n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    98/100\n    Jumel\n  \n  \n    TISSUS ÉCRUS.\n  \n  \n    Culicots liases ordinaires.\n    Duitages 16/14 16/16\n  \n  \n    Centimètres\n    \n  \n  \n    2,70 cent.\n    le kilogramme,\n  \n  \n    3.70\n    4,50\n  \n  \n    2,61\n    \n  \n  \n    3,34\n    \n  \n  \n    6,10 -\n    \n  \n  \n    --Chaine R0/02,\n    Trame 36/38.\n  \n  \n    19/17\n    19/19\n  \n  \n    19/21\n    21/21\n  \n  \n    65\n    16 1/4\n  \n  \n    17 1/2\n    \n  \n  \n    19 1/2\n    \n  \n  \n    70\n    \n  \n  \n    17 1/2\n    19\n  \n  \n    75\n    \n  \n  \n    18 1/2\n    20\n  \n  \n    22 1/4\n    \n  \n  \n    85\n    \n  \n  \n    25\n    27\n  \n  \n    90\n    \n  \n  \n    30 1/2\n    33\n  \n  \n    108\n    \n  \n  \n    32 1/4\n    34 1/4\n  \n  \n    36\n    874\n  \n  \n    118\n    \n  \n  \n    35 1/4\n    37 1/4\n  \n  \n    29\n    374\n  \n  \n    119\n    \n  \n  \n    135\n    \n  \n  \n    29 1/2\n    31 1/2\n  \n  \n    36 1/2\n    39\n  \n  \n    36 1/4\n    38 1/4\n  \n  \n    42\n    \n  \n  \n    45\n    \n  \n  \n    41 1/4\n    49\n  \n  \n    26 1/2\n    28 1/2\n  \n  \n    le mètre\n  \n  \n    Le calicot 90 cent.,\n    chaine 30, trame 34, dit lourd, vant 2 cent. de plus.\n  \n  \n    Percales 30 c.\n    24/26, chaine 40, trame 50, 41 centimes 1/2 le mètre.\n  \n  \n    Jaconas 82 c.\n    22/18, chaine 58/60, trame 98/100, 23 centimes le mètre.\n  \n\nQuoique le calme continue à régner, les prix restent fermes et nos tisserands, surtout les filateurs qui font les numéros anglais 38 chaîne et 44 trame, restent toujours sans contrat.\n\nCORRESPONDANCES PARTICULIÈRES DE L'ÉCONOMISTE FRANÇAIS.\n\nÉPINAL, 28 NOVEMBRE 1876. CALICOTS. 3/4 60 portées 16 tils 29 À 29 1/2 31 » 31 1/2\n\n  \n    35\n    12.\n  \n  \n    18\n    \n  \n  \n    *\n    \n  \n  \n    »\n    60 *\n  \n  \n    Catégo-\n    ries.\n  \n  \n    2.979\n    2.119\n  \n  \n    Importation.\n    Consommation.\n  \n  \n    Exportation,\n    1878\n  \n  \n    1875\n    Tonnes.\n  \n  \n    Londres....\n    1.796\n  \n  \n    3.994\n    Liverpool...\n  \n  \n    4.104\n    3.380\n  \n  \n    Clyde..\n    \n  \n  \n    Bristol...\n    \n  \n  \n    Stocks,\n    \n  \n  \n    4576\n    \n  \n  \n    1870\n    \n  \n  \n    6.831\n    4.80%\n  \n  \n    3.325\n    3.677\n  \n  \n    1878\n    1875\n  \n  \n    1870\n    4875\n  \n  \n    50.787\n    74.062 *\n  \n  \n    14.536\n    21.423\n  \n  \n    Beur.le kil.\n    Qualités 1 re\n  \n  \n    34\n    1....\n  \n  \n    2.65\n    2.10\n  \n  \n    1.85\n    1.70\n  \n  \n    1.60\n    1.50\n  \n  \n    0.45\n    2,80\n  \n  \n    2.85\n    \n  \n  \n    VEAU.-le kil.\n    Qualités\n  \n  \n    1re\n    20\n  \n  \n    2.65\n    2.10\n  \n  \n    1.85\n    1.80\n  \n  \n    1.50\n    1.35\n  \n  \n    1.20\n    .95\n  \n  \n    x,80\n    \n  \n  \n    MOUTON.-le kit.\n    Qualités fre\n  \n  \n    3\n    2.60\n  \n  \n    2.10\n    1.85\n  \n  \n    1.35\n    1.25\n  \n  \n    1\n    D\n  \n  \n    ».70\n    150\n  \n  \n    ».45\n    \n  \n  \n    *\n    68\n  \n  \n    }\n    68\n  \n  \n    Y\n    70 1)\n  \n  \n    FILES....\n    \n  \n  \n    FÉCULA...-\n    \n  \n  \n    >>\n    60 >>\n  \n  \n    >>\n    20 >>\n  \n  \n    >\n    33 >>\n  \n  \n    14/20 >>\n    \n  \n  \n    20 >>\n    38 D\n  \n  \n    21\n    \n  \n  \n    39\n    Chaîne 27/29 Amérique.\n  \n  \n    2.90\n    3\n  \n  \n    >\n    Trame 36/38\n  \n  \n    33 1/2\n    \n  \n  \n    36 1/2\n    \n  \n  \n    *\n    \n  \n  \n    39 1/72\n    \n  \n  \n    a 3\n    à 3 15\n  \n  \n    4.562\n    4.004\n  \n  \n    >\n    \n  \n  \n    22.770\n    30.667\n  \n  \n    880\n    4-558\n  \n  \n    >\n    \n  \n  \n    1.800\n    \n  \n  \n    3.728\n    \n  \n  \n    89.709\n    134.797\n  \n  \n    2.\n    \n  \n  \n    8.350\n    12.472\n  \n  \n    15.298\n    44-734 *\n  \n  \n    Les quantités fotlantes sont actuellement, d'après M. C. Czar-nikow, de Londres, de 50,000 tonnes contre 58,000, en 1875, à pareille époque.\n    \n  \n  \n    Cette situation est favorable à un nouveau mouvement de hausse, auquel nous assisterons vraisemblablement dans un temps rapproché.\n    \n  \n  \n    J. BIYORT.\n    \n  \n  \n    REVUE DES MARCHES ANGLAIS.\n    \n  \n  \n    COTONS. TISSUS. FILĖS.\n    \n  \n  \n    Manchester. - Le marché est très-ferme aujourd'hui, et les producteurs opèrent activement en vue d'une prochaine reprise à Liverpool, Les cours n'ont pas augmenté depuis vendredi,\n    \n  \n  \n    PRIX COURANT\n    \n  \n  \n    DES COTONS FABRIQUÉS SUR LA PLACE DE MULHOUSE.\n    Bourse du 29 novembre 1876.\n  \n  \n    lo k.\n    \n  \n  \n    2.83\n    2.95\n  \n  \n    ROUEN, 30 NOVEMBRE 1876.\n    \n  \n  \n    La situation des affaires de notre place est faiblement impressionnée par l'excitation persistante des marchés cotonniers. Néanmoins, les prix sont tenus avec une fermeté extrême et même, en certains cas, on obtient un peu de hausse. On espère que pour le courant de décembre les acheteurs seront plus nombreux sur place; en attendant, les affaires sont limitées et ne se font qu'autant que les vendeurs n'exigent qu'une partie de la hausse qu'ils seraient fondés à exiger.\n    \n  \n  \n    Trame 36/33\n    \n  \n  \n    Chaine 36/3%\n    \n  \n  \n    FILES.\n    Chaîne 27/29 *** q. Amér.\n  \n  \n    pur.\n    fr.\n  \n  \n    id.\n    Louisiane.\n  \n  \n    2.95\n    \n  \n  \n    TISSUS DE COTON.\n    le m.\n  \n  \n    Calicot 60 p.\n    & fls. fr.\n  \n  \n    >\n    28\n  \n  \n    Id.\n    ja\n  \n  \n    18\n    \n  \n  \n    *\n    30\n  \n  \n    1d.\n    \n  \n  \n    D\n    20\n  \n  \n    32\n    \n  \n  \n    id.\n    63\n  \n  \n    20\n    *\n  \n  \n    *\n    34\n  \n  \n    Trame 40/42\n    \n  \n  \n    Chathe 40\n    \n  \n  \n    id.\n    \n  \n  \n    3.08\n    3.Gu\n  \n  \n    On cote !\n    \n  \n  \n    Id.\n    70\n  \n  \n    24\n    *...\n  \n  \n    x\n    37\n  \n  \n    Calicot compte 30\n    impression 8 kil. 50.\n  \n  \n    32 e.\n    le mètre\n  \n  \n    Trame 50\n    \n  \n  \n    id.\n    \n  \n  \n    Chalao 40\n    \n  \n  \n    Jumel....3.\n    \n  \n  \n    Trame 50\n    \n  \n  \n    id.\n    \n  \n  \n    Chaîne 60\n    \n  \n  \n    3.73\n    3.90\n  \n  \n    42\n    4.70\n  \n  \n    $.80\n    \n  \n  \n    Id.\n    75\n  \n  \n    28\n    ... \n  \n  \n    x\n    43\n  \n  \n    8\n    *\n  \n  \n    30 c.\n    \n  \n  \n    อ\n    \n  \n  \n    Percale so 26...\n    \n  \n  \n    43\n    \n  \n  \n    Jaconas 82 22/18\n    » ...\n  \n  \n    »\n    29\n  \n  \n    Longolte impression\n    \n  \n  \n    49 c.\n    à 50\n  \n  \n    Cretonnes écrues,\n    suivant qualitė..\n  \n  \n    54 c.\n    à 64\n  \n  \n    ນ\n    \n  \n  \n    Trame 100\n    \n  \n  \n    (Conditions de la place; escompte, 2 0/0; terme, 30 jours.)\n    \n  \n\nSAMEDI 2 DÉCEMBRE 1876,",
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        "content_text": "365\n\n328\n\nNo. 151.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1875.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nBEACONS INNER ROUTE AND TORRES STRAITS.\n\nThe following is a list of the Beacons erected in Torres Straits and the Inner Route thereto. Those which are Red and Triangular are to be left on a vessel's Starboard hand, when bound southwards; and those which are Black and Square, on her Port hand.\n\n  \n    Red and Triangular.\n    Black and Square.\n  \n  \n    Hope Islands.\n    a Reef, north-west end\n  \n  \n    b Reef, west end.\n    e Reef, north end.\n  \n  \n    e Reef, west side.\n    d Reef, centre.\n  \n  \n    Point Lookout.\n    Sand-bank dry, with rocks E.S.E 2 miles from Point Lookout.\n  \n  \n    Cole Islands and Howich Groups.\n    s Reef, west side.\n  \n  \n    Princess Charlotte's Bay to Fair Cape.\n    r Reef.\n  \n  \n    d Reef, east end.\n    e Reef, centre.\n  \n  \n    f Reef, centre.\n    Heath Rocks, centre.\n  \n  \n    Chilcott Rocks, centre.\n    e South-west end.\n  \n  \n    g South-west end,\n    i West side.\n  \n  \n    m West side.\n    No. VI. Reef, west side.\n  \n  \n    No. VII. Islet, west side.\n    Reef in 13° 18' 30\" S. lat., west side.\n  \n  \n    tt Reef, west side.\n    v Reef, south-west end.\n  \n  \n    v Reef, centre.\n    e Reef, north-west end.\n  \n  \n    Middle Reef, south end.\n    Eust elbow of Eastern Reef.\n  \n  \n    Piper Islands.\n    h Reef, south end.\n  \n  \n    k Reef, islet north-west end.\n    Cape Grenville to Port Albany,\n  \n  \n    V Reef, north-west end.\n    X Reef, north-west end. Z Reef, west end.\n  \n  \n    Prince of Wales' Channel.\n    Ipili Reef, centre.\n  \n  \n    North-west Reef, Hammond Rock bearing S.W.\n    Ince Point, E. by S. 4 S.\n  \n\nThe beacon on the south-east end of the Piper Island Reef has been cut down by the natives.\n\nUpon the eastern end of a. Reef, to the westward of the Flinders Group, is a second and smaller beacon to the northward of the main beacon, which will assist in distinguishing the reef.\n\nThe beacon originally erected on in. Reef near Young Island, having been placed on sandy bottom, has been washed down. When re-erected, it will be placed on Young Island.\n\nDepartment of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 23rd June, 1875.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nG. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,\n\nPortmaster.\n\nSHOAL OFF MONKHOUSE POINT, INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAITS,\n\nOn the edge of the 3 fathom line off Monkhouse Point, as shown on the chart, a Shoal Patch exists, with not more than 9 feet upon it at ordinary low water springs. The Pilot at the Endeavour River places it in the following position, viz. 1—\n\nMount Cook (Summit), W. by S. 4 S.\n\nGrassy Hill (Lookout House), N. W. by W. ¼ W.\n\nRocky Islet, S. E. by S. ½ S. southerly,\n\nThe water for some distance in-shore is from 3 to 6 feet deeper than on the shoal, and to the eastward, the bank extends from it about 1 cable, carrying from 15 to 18 feet of water, which then deepens to 4, 6, and 7 fathoms as shown on the chart. Vessels will be clear of this danger and of the edge of the bank, while keeping Rocky Islet open of Walker Point, and of the rocky point to the southward.\n\nG. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,\n\nPortmaster.\n\nDepartment of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 11th June, 1876.\n\nCould ensAQ\n\nfrom this measure, and\n\nI believe I may say\n\nthat the\n\narrangement\n\nby which the Administration has hitherto devolved on the General Officer in Command, holding as he did a recognized and independent position, has not been unsatisfactory to the Colony.\n\nI may remark, that at Singapore, a Station included in this Command, the Senior Military Officer succeeds in the absence of the Governor.\n\nIf however, it is thought inexpedient that the General Officer Commanding should receive the Commission, I beg to submit again that he should also cease to be a member of the Council.\n\nThey disclaim, as far as possible, personal bias in these remarks,\n\nbut",
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        "content_text": "I think I have got thief! I ran towards the light house to see what was the matter. I saw a Stakka boat going out, she was then hear the launching Morrings in the Back. I saw Another Backa boat about half a mile further out. I could not see who or what were in her.\n\nMy men were in the outer Foxt, she was under sail. I saw that the inner boat had four men who had red blouses with white or Yellow facings. There was a matterer over the midship part of the boat. I could not see more than four men, there may have been more in her under the cover. The inner boat was under sail and towing. My Chinese Assistants told me that the outer boat was a mandarin boat having about 18 men in Uniform in her. They said that a boat had run on to the beach in the Bay for protection and that the Mandarin boat had followed her and fired two shots and that the crew in the first boat returned the shots at the Mandarin boat.\n\nI received that report hurriedly and shouted out to the smaller boat to stop. The men would not but went on and fired one or two shots. I don't know that they Aimed at Mr. Ken. It was getting dusk but I saw the boats making towards the Custom's Station at Junk Island. When the boats were gone.",
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        "content_text": "30\n\n400\n\nmahiy and said, \"Too ve hey shoot I think I've got trief J have. ron towards the Light house to m\n\nrau what was the matter. I can\n\nHak ha boat going\n\nthen\n\nMar save out; -\n\nte vas in the launch's mornings the Bay. I can another Shak kas___ bout about half a mile farther out- Jould not see who or what the\n\nwere boat she who were in the veter was under sail. Isan - that the inner bout had.\n\nin her who had red: white or yellow facing mak Lover over\n\n1. four Here with\n\nThe midship part of the heat I could not see more than four th been\n\nThe napre in rimer her under the Lover \"oat was under sail and raving My Cluince assi ! . s told\n\nAJ that the outer boat. Mandarince boat having about 16 me. in her. They said that in uniform bost had run on to the beach in the Bay for protection and that the Mandarin boat had followed, ber and ford two shots and that crew in the first bout returned his shots at the Mandarin boat -\n\nthe I received this report hurriedly and men would not bet\n\nThe an shouted out to the river beat to stop. The went on and fired I don't know that they know true or wo 4- they aimed at",
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        "content_text": "333 \n\nArt. No. 2. \n\nAbstract of Proceedings. \n\n210 \n\nConference of Constantinople, having established facts which fairly lend to the inference that a theoretically perfect Quarantine is capable of arresting cholera, had conceived and adopted a scheme for applying Quarantine, which would keep cholera, as it was supposed, eventually out of Europe. This was to be done by maritime quarantine stations on the Red and Caspian Seas and Persian Gulf, and by land quarantine stations on the Turco-Persian and Russo-Persian frontiers, and on the side of Boukhara. The scheme involved further complete temporary interruption (if necessary) of all communication between Egypt and any places in the basin of the Mediterranean. That Conference had also laid down general rules for quarantine (Régime Quarantenaire). Its scheme, as a general scheme, had never been put into execution, and indeed was in great part quite inexecutable; and it had this great defect, that it included no provision whatever for what, during the interval which had elapsed since the Conference had reported, had been the sole cause of anxiety with reference to cholera in Europe, viz., the spread of the disease in Europe itself. \n\nThe Conference of Vienna was not called upon specifically to review the several recommendations on Quarantine of the Conference of Constantinople, as it had been called on to review its conclusions on scientific matters; but certain broad general questions had been framed with the view of eliciting the opinion of the delegates assembled at Vienna as to the measures of restriction on the progress of cholera which were practicable, and likely to be efficacious, by land, by sea, or by river. \n\n## A—Land Quarantine. \n\nThe 12th question on the Programme was :-\"Des établissements de quarantaine doivent-ils être construits sur terre contre le choléra ?\" Unless this question were answered in the affirmative, the following one, the 13th on the Programme, which had reference to the details of such establishments, fell to the ground. A resolution was proposed answering it in the negative, and adopted by a majority of 13 delegations to 4; two delegations abstaining from voting. The terms of the resolution adopted set forth that, in view of the numerous modes of communication which existed and increased from day to day, land quarantines were inexecutable and useless; and that on this account, and on account of the serious damage they did besides to commercial interests, they ought to be abolished. (Considérant que les quarantaines de terre sont inexécutables et inutiles, vu les nombreux moyens de communication qui augmentent de jour en jour; considérant en outre qu'elles portent des atteintes graves aux intérêts commerciaux, la Conférence rejette les quarantaines de terre). Up to a certain point there was absolute unanimity of opinion in the Conference. No one contended that land quarantines on the continent of Europe, wherever a railway system had been established, were practicable; but objection was taken to the universal condemnation of land quarantines which the resolution implied. This objection was represented in three degrees (if I may so say) by three amendments successively put and negatived. The one widest from the resolution was that formulated by M. Milossavlevitch, the delegate for Servia, which, commencing by a recognition of the general utility of quarantines, went on to say that, though land quarantines were not practicable in the centre of Europe, they ought to be established wherever topographical and social conditions admitted. \n\n* The delegations which voted against this view were those of France, Greece, Portugal, and Servia. The delegations which abstained from voting were those of Luxemburg and Switzerland. It should be stated, however, that the delegations of Turkey, Egypt, and Spain had not up to this time taken their places in the Conference. \n\n211 \n\nArt. No. 2. \n\nThis amendment received 4 votes against 13 negative; two delegations abstaining. The next, formulated by M. de King, delegate of France, was to the effect that the Conference was of opinion that land quarantines were in most cases impracticable, but that any States which deemed it possible to guard efficiently their land frontier by quarantines should have the liberty of doing so. This obtained 5 votes to 13 negative; one delegation only abstaining. The last amendment put, that of M. Orphanides, the delegate for Greece, proposed the maintenance of land quarantines in Greece and Turkey, on the ground that the reasons which called for the rejection of such quarantines in Europe generally did not apply to those countries. This proposal equally obtained five votes only; but of the 13 delegations which had rejected the former amendments, and which voted afterwards for the resolution originally proposed, eight abstained from voting on this amendment.* The effect was practically the same as though they had voted in the negative; an absolute majority of the delegations present being requisite for the adoption of any proposition. \n\n* The exceptional circumstances of Greece were ably put to the Conference by M. Orphanides; but no statement whatever of such circumstances was made on behalf of Turkey (the Turkish delegation, it should be explained, had not then arrived). On the other hand, the utter inexecutability and consequent inutility of the Turkish land quarantines were strongly stated by the Russian delegates, who, however, were amongst those who took no part in voting on this amendment. As M. Fauvel, one of the French delegation (who had not taken his place in the Conference at the time this question was discussed), has since insisted before the French Académie de Médecine on the practicability and value of these quarantines, it may not be amiss to add the following reliable description of them by Surgeon-Major W. H. Colvill, civil surgeon, Baghdad, who had himself been subjected to them :-\"On my way from England last autumn, to rejoin my appointment, by Russia and Persia, I had to spend 10 days in quarantine on the frontier at Khaurbin; and I can best give an idea of Turkish quarantine by trying to sketch what I saw. Khankia is a town of about 2,000 inhabitants. Here the river Diayalah, crossed by a stone bridge, separates Turkey from Persia, and at the 'Persian end, a plot of ground, bounded on one side by a canal, was marked out as 'the quarantine camp,' and here for two months before my arrival as many as 5,000 'travellers, Asiatic Russians, Afghans, and Persians, had at the same time been 'encamped. Each company on coming in was supposed to pitch its tents a few feet 'apart from the previous arrivals, though the people mixed freely together. I 'arrived half an hour before midnight, and the stench from dead quadrupeds and all manner of abominations was frightful; but that was not all, for if a person 'were found dead from cholera his company had to begin the quarantine afresh, the 'result being that no sooner was the breath out of the dying man than his friends 'scraped a hole in the ground under the tent and pushed him in, while after them another company would arrive, pitch on the same ground, and probably do the 'like. In one case the friends were in such haste that they left the dead man's 'beard protruding; the jackals came, and next morning his bare jawbones were 'sticking through the ground. No account is kept of the arrivals, and no care 'whatever is taken of the travellers, but that is no fault of the sanitary officers, for 'they have not the means. I was very much struck with the energy \"and perseverance of the European officer here; but what could he do single-\"handed amongst 5,000, constantly coming and going, men from the north, not 'by any means in the best of temper, and whose language he could not under-\"stand? The provisions purchased through intermediates were dear. This camp, varying from 3,000 to 5,000, was simply a hot-bed of disease; while it did not prevent cholera entering Turkey by that road, for it appeared at Kizil Robat, a village of about 800 inhabitants, 16 miles on the way towards Baghdad, and for '10 days five to six people died daily; and yet this camp, behind the disease, was kept up for a couple of months after that, while no quarantine was established 'between Kizil Robat and the interior, that is towards Baghdad.\"—(Transactions of Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, N.S., No. xi. for 1871).",
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        "content_text": "113 \n\nDiscarding sands as naturally inert and seeking an ingredient that would exercise an influence similar to that of the puzzolana of Italy, a second set of experiments was made with the red clay of Kowloon as a highly ferruginous silicate containing but little lime, magnesia, or potash. There the mortars were found to have set in three weeks but at the end of five months they were not sufficiently good or hard to make good concrete for sea work. During the year following, having had occasion to test some limes imported from the limestone region above the delta of the Canton River, but which are not generally met with in commerce here, owing to the local shell lime being so much easier and cheaper to get, a third set of experiments was made with the same ferruginous clay, a marked improvement being the result, doubtless due to the original presence of clay in the stone. Setting occurred under water in this case, the mortar requiring great tenacity already in the third month. This result was sufficiently satisfactory to justify the erection of a small sea wall in the proportions of 2 parts broken stone to 1 of ferruginous clay to 1 of the lime, and the structure has continued to harden under water.",
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        "content_text": "## GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS\n\nis to the groundless statement of Mr. Frowdin that the foreman was informed on Friday that staff had been driven to throw Lucas M. Haylan must have been the adviser, he told the foreman; Vote Frande was on Note 37. This was poor advice, though he said something now, which will be to the paragraph in his letters of Aug. 23. He have bitten have left it out, but as Dr. Jeness appeals against In such reflections. What the Sean It does give him In the Sec. of State's Instruction Ishwe ack This a day No assignment, for he has not given Mr. innom any Ischat much the Explaining with occasion this ratimat although he has replied to that letter a schwind Joshun open this matter. Filemen on this J. simte condos proprette be likes confirm Mr. Inorder in the belief that such information had been given the form; while inquiry might have led to his statement in that In hand from misted.\n\nIn any case, The State cannot deal with complaint against Public Officers, without having both sides; as the matter has fact, the do not think it will desom any good purposes to revive it by asking now, Explanation from Mr Make-my.\n\nThe Then are two points in the minutes of mail to be notil Emigration to Honolulu Flogi buck- Let these passages be extractial by the Depp. a Annegre to the paper on their subjects, which shance then be civentated. Low Tarnawom detailul instructions on the Firppig han apparent for throws artille.\n\n## INSECURITY IN ASIA MINOR\n\nreligion ought not to be confounded with sectarianism greedy of dominion. He at the same time expressed a hope that the electors would not submit to the yoke of the Sacristy. The speech was reportedly cheered.\n\nM. Gambetta, replying this morning to a (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY) from the Mayor, said --\" Your country is devoted to Republican institutions, but you are lacking in political customs. Constant action is required; you should avoid useless discussion and instead of obey the majority, or at least carry on discussion without insults. I am aware of the devotedness of the Republican population of Gre-population, and that in coming hither I shall speak to that party. I know beforehand that it is the best spot I could choose,\"\n\n## SIR HENRY LAYARD AND THE ARMENIANS\n\nSPANISH ASSASSINATION OF A DELEGATE IN MOROCCO\n\nGENERAL FOREIGN NEWS\n\na succession of cloudless fata, in which the sun has poured its parching joy on the nude andre from the extent to which income had dreary plains around the capital of Spain.\n\nthe Entire landlords into the anit others-the throud had become hands iretied and frated that we could not be anxious as to the results of any war which might place in that part of the Queen's had any military or civil experience in India cou en's dominions. No doubt the success of our armies if we engaged conflict there; but as our soldiers stood with their backs towards the West the danger most to be feared was not that in front of them, but that behind them.\n\n## NEWS FROM MALTA\n\nMALTA, Oct. 10. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY) K.L.M.S. Black Prince has arrived here from Cyprus, and will proceed to Marseilles to-morrow. There she will take on board the Duke of Edinburgh and proceed thence to convoy the steamer Sarmatian, conveying the Maryvis and Marchioness of Loma. The Halifax and Humber have arrived, bound to Cyprus.\n\nthat every person in the country, whether be the richest or the poorest, would be ready to bear the burden, and that the country would not be lessening that part of the war a subject which no doubt would engage the work of the House of Commons during months, but he thought be might reature to pre there would be a common consent desire House, on whichever side he eat, to maintain the Indian Empire and to cast the burden of that on those best able to bear it.\n\nThe Rapid proceeds to Cyprus on Saturday to relieve the Bittern, which has been ordered to Busiku Bay to join Admiral Hornby's squadron.\n\n## GERMANY AND THE VATICAN\n\nROME, Oct. 10. The statement published in some foreign journals that the Vatican will send an internuncio to Berlin is pretty well contradicted.\n\n## CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 10\n\nSIR HENRY LAYARD AND THE ARMENIANS\n\nfrom Sir Henry Layard has had several interviews with the Grand Vizier on the subject of the Armenian question. The former made representations in reference to the proposed composition of the extraordinary tribunal to be established at Erzeroum. It was intended that the tribunal should consist of four Muslims and four Christians. Safvet Pacha has, in accordance with Sir Henry Layard's request, offered certain Armenians the post of Mostechar to the superior Turkish functionaries. These Armenians having declined his offer, Sir H Layard had an interview with the Armenian Patriarch, in which he urged the latter to exert his influence to induce the Armenians to accept the position in question. The Patriarch declined to take this step, alleging that such measures were inadequate to satisfy the aspirations of the Armenian nation, since they would fail to give it an effective control over its own affairs.\n\n## GREECE AND TURKEY\n\n(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)\n\n## THE YELLOW FEVER IN AMERICA\n\nNEW ORLEANS, Oct. 10. There were 42 deaths in this city yesterday.\n\n## THE GLASGOW BANK FAILURE\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE TAYLOR NEWS\n\n## THE CANADIAN MINISTERIAL CRISIS\n\nMONTREAL, Oct. 10. The Mackenzie Ministry tendered their resignations yesterday, and Sir John Macdonald has accepted the task of forming a new Cabinet.\n\n## THE GALES\n\nA severe gale blew on Wednesday night on our south and western coasts. At Penzance, low-lying parts of the town were inundated by water to the depth of several feet, and traffic on the railway was delayed by the flooding of the line. A large fleet of shipping has taken refuge in the roadsteads. Yesterday there were no signs of the gale abating.\n\n## THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS\n\nWASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The Nationals have elected one member of Congress and the Democrats have gained five and probably six seats.\n\n## COMMERCIAL NEWS\n\nThe Libertà of to-day publishes a semi-official report, which was telegraphed to several towns, stating that the King of Greece has addressed a Note to the Powers on the subject of Hobart Pacha's intervention between Greece and Turkey. The Note states that Greece eagerly desired an understanding with the Turkish Government, and was disposed to try all means to attain this object.\n\n## CHINA\n\nHONG KONG, Oct. 10. There is an agitation among the European community in favour of the reintroduction of whipping as the punishment for certain crimes.\n\n## COMMERCIAL NEWS\n\nTelegram says: -- \"lowest, 1004. Ex-dividend stocks closed firm. Five per Cent. Funded Loan, 1871, 1058; Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Funded Loan, 1876, 100; Four per Cent. Funded Loan, 1877, 992; Central, 1121; Illinois, 784; Erie, 124; Cotton, middling upland, 10 cents; January delivery, 10.26; Petroleum, 1; Flour, 2.75 to 3.95; Corn, 4.8; Red Winter Wheat, 1.04; Western Union Telegraph Shares, 91.\n\nTo-day's receipts of cotton at all United States ports have been 23,000 bales. Export to Great Britain, 4,900 bales; and to the Continent, 2,000 bales.\n\n## ITALY AND EGYPT\n\nROME, Oct. 10. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY) The semi-official Avvenire of to-day publishes an article on the Egyptian question. The writer says England and France declare that they have in no way participated in the nomination of the Egyptian Ministry, and it would thus be useless to enter into negotiations with those countries. Italy being richer than other countries, demands privileges, nor does she aim at conquest, her sole object being to protect her own interests.\n\nThe Right Hon. W. H. Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty, yesterday returned from his seat at Henley-on-Thames to his official residence at the Admiralty.\n\nThe Right Hon. J. Stansfeld, M.P., leading Liberal members of the House of Commons, have accepted invitations to visit Dublin on the occasion of the annual meeting of the National Society for the State Regulation of Vice, and at the end of October the hon. gentlemen are also invited to address a meeting on the present aspects of Liberal politics.\n\n## CASUALTY AT SEA\n\nThe steamer Rover, of Newcastle, on Tuesday, while on a voyage, and being about fifty miles from Ushant, sprang a leak. Her crew took to the boats, and were picked up by the Ulleswater steamer, of Shields, which afterwards fell in with the derelict and towed her to within five miles of Plymouth. The tow rope then parted, and the Ulleswater went into port for aid. A powerful tug was sent in search for the derelict vessel, and she found the Rover in Bigbury Bay, and towed her into Plymouth Harbour, where she now lies half full of water.\n\n## THE BARNSLEY POISONING CASE\n\nThe adjourned inquest on the man and girl who died from eating portions of a pudding taken from an eating-house at Barnsley was concluded yesterday. Some eminent analysts forwarded their opinions, and one or two were examined in this case. The jury returned a verdict, \"That the two deceased died from partaking of unwholesome picked food, but how such food became unwholesome there was no evidence to show.\"\n\nA man named Leggett, living at Ipswich, attacked his wife with a hammer, inflicting severe wounds, which, however, it is thought, will not prove fatal. He then cut his own throat so seriously as to cause death. No reason is assigned for the crime.\n\nA large and enthusiastic meeting was held at Bury, Lancashire, in favour of the Suffrage Bill. The Mayor (Alderman Ducker) occupied the chair. Resolutions in favour of the meeting were carried.\n\nThe grandest and most luxurious hotel in ... where all the real comforts of life can be enjoyed, is the Paz, which is particularly recommended to the nobility for its moderate charges. Particular attention is devoted to the cuisine of the table, and the selection of the best and ... Adankie Van Hymakers. All information -(Advertisement)",
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        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.\n\nLes bouées rouges et la bouée blanche limitent le chenal dans l'Est, les bouées noires le limitent dans l'Ouest. La bouée la plus Sud est surmontée d'un voyant, elle est mouillée sur la barre extérieure, dans l'Est 7° Nord de la pointe Do-Son, à l'acon d'un petit banc sur lequel il ne reste que 2 mètres 80 d'eau à basse mer d'Equinoxe.\n\nLa bouée blanche est surmontée d'un petit voyant, elle indique le changement de route.\n\nLe 10 Janvier, 1879,\n\nNo. 17.\n\nPour copie certifiée conforme.\n\nHongkong, le 18 Janvier, 1879.\n\nJ. PLICHON,\nLe Consul de France\n\nLe Consul de France à Haiphong\n(Signé): L. TURC.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st January, 1879.\n\nC. MAY,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n### Government of New Zealand.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\n[No. 27 of 1878.]\n\nMarine Department, Wellington, 30th October, 1878. The following letter, received from Captain Mies of the brig `Rio Loge`, relative to the position of Rennels and Bellona Islands, is published for general information.\n\nG. GREY.\n\n### RENNELS AND BELLONA ISLANDS, Dunedin, 3rd October, 1878.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to report to you an error in the position of some islands I passed on my passage from Foochow to this port in the brig `Rio Loge`. These islands, named Rennels and Bellona, are marked as \"doubtful\" islands on the latest published charts, and are situated directly in the track between China and Australia. The position assigned to Rennels Island is N.W. point 11° 12' south latitude, and 160° 10' east longitude, whereas the correct position should be for the N.W. point 11° 30' south latitude, and 160° 8' east longitude, making an error of 18' in latitude and 2' in longitude. My observations were taken within two or three miles of the N.W. point, and the error of my chronometer found only the day before at Christoval, so that I can rely upon the position. The S.E. point I place in 11° 51' south and 160° 49' east, approximate. Rennels Island and Bellona bear from each other N.W. by W. and S.E. by E., not more than fifteen miles distant.\n\nI cannot find in any directory a description of Rennels Island, and I believe there is none published, I therefore enclose the following remarks from my own observation:-\n\nRennels Island is about 38 miles long and 8 wide at the N.W., and lies in a N.W. and S.E. direction, is about 600 to 800 feet high, of uniform height throughout, and thickly wooded down to the water's edge. Along the whole N.E. side is a fringing reef about two cables from the shore. The N.W. point is a gradually-sloping point, with a hummock two hundred or three hundred yards from the beach, and has a reef extending about four or five cables from the shore, with a strong tide rippling round the point; the coast trends about three miles to the S.W., and thence to south-eastward. Bellona Island appears to be about the same height as Rennels Island, and also thickly wooded.\n\nTrusting that you will give this publicity for the benefit of shipmasters generally.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nEDWARD MILES,\nMaster `Rio Loge`.\n\n## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.\n\n### Government of India.\n\n## DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\n[No. 27.]\n\nBAY OF BENGAL-GODAVERY DISTRICT-COCANADA. Intended Exhibition of Revolving light at Vakalepudi.\n\nNotice is hereby given that owing to the extension of the mud deposits from the Godavery river and the consequent removal of the anchorage to the northward, the light at present shown on the north side of the entrance to the Cocanada river is of little use, and that on and after the 15th of January 1879 this light will be extinguished, and a new light exhibited at Vakalapudi, which lies 4.0 nautical miles N. by E. ¼ E. from the present light-house.\n\nThe light will be a revolving white light, showing a flash every 20 seconds, elevated 80 feet above high water, and in clear weather should be visible from a distance of 14 miles, in every direction seaward.\n\nThe illuminating apparatus is catadioptric, or by reflectors and lenses of the fourth order. Position: Latitude 17° 0' 40\" N., longitude 82° 16' 30\" E. Further notice will be given when the light is exhibited.\n\n[The bearings are Magnetic, Variation 2° 0' Easterly in 1878.]\n\nBy Direction of the Government of India,\n\nR. C. CARRINGTON, Chief Civil Assistant, for\nA. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.), Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.\n\nMARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 18th December, 1878.\n\nThis Notice affects the following Indian Marine Survey Charts, Coringa or Cocanada bay, No. 113; Narsapur point to Pabayras point, No. 1172; Cape Comorin to Coconada, No. 164; and Admiralty charts of Coringa or Cocanada bay, No. 81; Coromandel Coast, No. 71a; Cape Comorin & Ceanada, No. 828; Cocanada to Bassein, No. 829; Bay of Bengal, western part, No. 70a; Indian Ocean, northern portion, No. 7485; and Indian Marine Survey and Admiralty Light lists for 1878; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 464.\n\nIf this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\nUnclaimed Correspondence, 17th January, 1879.\n\n| Letters | Papers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Abbey Cowper | Aleppo |\n| Adamson, Ann | Alexandria |\n| Ainsbury, A. | Alarmurs |\n| Ainslie, Mrs. M. | Alice |\n| Ainsworth, Wm. | Alcone |\n| Amicable Ins. Office | Asia |\n| Anderson, Tus. | Latiges, Popota |\n| Beguin, Monsr. J. A | Gracias, A. J. |\n| Botor, Miss A. | Corrientes |\n| Beeshore, Wm. | Les Papesa |\n| Benton, C. J. | Roberts, P. |\n| Broke, J. H. | Stillfried, Baron |\n| Cristoforis, G. de | Worthoy, Capt. |\n| Couper, Capt. | Satent |\n| ... | Southeak |\n| Gundry, H. D. | Spinaway |\n| Goldie, R., Major | For Merchant Ships |\n| Lilly, Mr. | Lets. Papers |\n| Lewis, Miss N. | Columbian, s.s. |\n| Hanner, G. | Cores |\n| Hemptinne, Monsr. | Fusilier |\n| High, Coutom | J. MacDonald |\n| Host, Frank | Fagyi |\n| Coulson, A. C. M. | Tatiura, Pupara |\n| Cunningham, G. | Leta Pres |\n| Cotton, G. | Moneta |\n| Crovat, Philip L. | Strathor |\n| Hi Loy | Southern Cross |\n| Kelly, Mr. | Saxalt Bell |\n| Persse, Capt. | Firth of Feth |\n| Pursan, R. | Jessie Jamieson |\n| Petterson, Carl | Challenge |\n| Palos, Capt. C. | F. Nightingale |\n| Palmer, Mrs. G. | Nyasa |\n| Stanley, Miss A. | S. Bunlie |\n| Stone, W. H. | Channel Queen |\n| Stillfried, Baron | Johore, s.s. |\n| Quong Tung Fri | Northern Star |\n| Valtz, Miss. | Charmer |\n| Vivan, Col. R. L | Caldew |\n| Rouchai | Great Admiral |\n| Thornton, Wm. | Glunte |\n| Triarte, Apolinario | Lady Pencoy |\n| H. B. | Palestine |\n| Flodge, Rev. W. B. | Stanfield |\n| Kwong Tai Cheong | Cosso |\n| Kin Cheng Kaye, Mrs. E. | Oitacilla |\n| Luz, Eilarina dal | Lots |\n| Lea, Robert R. | Carlton, s.s. |\n| Lea Tong | Gismorgan, s.s. |\n| Lumley, John | Partheed Tueseanal |\n| Lanzon, J. W. | Strathbokk |\n| Lums, Mrs. R. | Lori Macaulay |\n| Ledyard, Dr. H. | Albyn's Isle |\n| More, Miss E. J. | Commairwealth, s.s. |\n| Muller, A. | Golden Fleece |\n| Mellomeosta, A. | Prince Amadou |\n| Mudge, Wm. | Strathmore, s.s. |\n| Mobilna, Harry | Alfredo |\n| Musso, Jean B. | Craigarà Cilarnamn |\n| Motsman, W. C. | George Skolfield |\n| Macomber, W. H. L | Leucadia |\n| Moffitt, J. | Prince Louis |\n| Meany, Maj.-Genl. | Lodore |\n| Mercer, Thos. | Pilgrim |\n| Murphy, Bord. | Lanexcust |\n| Mctiwen, Ms. | Brisbane |\n| Morgan, Noah | Hawkesbury |\n| Neo Toing Siew | l'eteral, s.s. |\n| Noo-Chre-Tian | Takstea |\n| O'Soughlin, Mrs. E. | Lucia |\n| Rosendab, P. | Pelba |\n| Rayden, W. M. | Toli Austrian |\n| Ruily, Chas. | Bebar, s.s. |\n| Roberts, W. C. | Dbarwar |\n| Reeves, E. A. | Helen |\n| Reaves, E. A. | Penrith |\n| Rosenstein. T. | Berths Marion & |\n| Sogn, D. J. de | Hopeful |\n| Staith & Co., H. | Beluarry |\n| Smith, Geo. | Ermirás |\n| Volloza, Jelin | Hernet |\n| Wing On Choong | Magdula |\n| White, Wm. E. | P. Fitzpatrick |\n| War Chung | Tamar |\n| Wildash, F. J. C. | Taunton |\n| Whyte, Jno. | Tre Corde |\n| Williams, John | Bertie Below |\n| Walker, Thos. | Eleanor |\n| Wilson, James | Hornt |\n| Daclin, Monsr. | Barian |\n| Dure, Mrs. J. W. | Estroom |\n| Bolmida, G. | Bury, St. Ed. |\n| Bishop, J. | Espiegla |\n| Duggleby, T. W. | Humboldt |\n| Pearton, B. J. | MeNeac |\n| Esteban, G. | Benefactor |\n| Egies | Earl of Devon |\n| Bramitt, Revd. | Harkaway |\n| Fretas, José | Mary Blair |\n| Garcia, Juliana | Mary Smith |\n| Gilkison, W. P. | Mugdaler |\n| Benson, James | Three Brothers |\n| Banks, Geo. | Queen of the West |\n| Clarke, Hugh | The Tweed |\n| Creaton, Jas. | Tyburnia |\n| Colville, D. D. | Black Watch |\n|  | Helona |\n|  | Muss Glen |\n|  | Maritime Union |\n|  | Rosie Welt |\n|  | Fair Lamar |\n|  | Cashmere |\n|  | Ferntower, s.s. |\n|  | Irigo |\n|  | Marcia, s.s. |\n|  | Regent |\n|  | Win, Manson |\n|  | Mary Fraser |\n|  | Possbud |\n|  | Wate of Nil |\n|  | Pabins |\n|  | Countess of Erroll |\n|  | Frederick |\n|  | Jamies Shepherd |\n|  | Masonic |\n|  | Rifleman |\n|  | W. E. Gladstone |\n\n### Government of South Australia.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS. INVESTIGATOR STRAIT ALTHORPE ISLAND.\n\nReferring to Notices issued from this Department on the 27th July, 1877, the 25th January, 1878, and the 6th June, 1878, Mariners are now hereby informed that on and after the 14th day of February, 1879, a Revolving Light of the first order, flashing every fifteen seconds, will be exhibited from a Light Tower, painted white, and 40 feet in height, erected on the large Althorpe Island. The color of the light will be white, except between the bearings, from the Lighthouse, of N. 25° W., and N. 61° W., where a red arc of light will be shown, leading half-a-mile to the eastward of Emmes Reef, and nearly half-a-mile southward of the S.W. Rock.\n\nThe focal plane of the light will be at an elevation of 350 feet above the sea-level. In ordinary weather, the bright portion of the light should be observed from a ship's deck about 25 miles distant, and the red arc of light about 17 miles.\n\nWhen much refraction exists both lights may be seen at a greater distance.\n\nMarine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, 7th November, 1878.\n\nR. H. FERGUSON,\nPresident Marine Board.\n\n## Books, &c., without Covers.\n\nArbetare-Bradet. \nAnsterdstemor. \nChristian. \nDagbladet. \nDaily Telegraph. \nEl Jumparcial. \nLangelands Zidende. \nReynolds's Newspaper. \nL'Union Saveisionar. \nSchreib und Hülfskalender, 1879. \nThe Illustrated Sporting & \nLeisure Hour. \nJounal de Geneve. \nJournal de St. Petersbourg. \nLoofungen und Lehrterte. \nSunderland & Dasham (2 books). \nCounty Herald. \nSaturday Falkirk Herald. \nand Dramatic News. \nUnited Methodist Free Churches Minutes 1878, \nTimes. \nThe Times of India. \nWeekly Scotsman.\n\n## Detained for Postage.\n\nMcLaren, Mrs., Revd. Pro. McLaren, D.D., Toronto, Canada, (4 cents)\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 17th January, 1879.\n\n1 Buck",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n**No. 278**\n\n**Received** 19 JUN\n\n**Subject**: Excess of Passengers on River Steamers. Fines imposed on \"Kinshan\" and \"Powan\" Steamers.\n\nTwo Petitions from M Keswick, Chairman, praying for reduction of fines inflicted for violation of Ord 11/76: of which he asks sanction for remission of half the fine $468.81.\n\n### Minutes\n\nI don't quite know why it was made. The man admin mentioned in the britische darpalet, because I thought Ordinance 11/76 was regarding its exercise & the food etc. entities in the \"Consolidated Merchant Shipping Bill\" which ought surely to be moved by the Crown.\n\nThe hardship on this & the other company seems fully to have been considered at the time, & I have Zal the law Papons; Loving lecken ube Дерев law I do not see why the fine shall be enforced a second time;\n\nJune 2 (8179-H & 87714)\n\nMr Male. I think the Jarum should exercise his discretion.",
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        "content_text": "## Harbour Master's Authority and Regulations Regarding Passengers\n\nAny formation for owner, master, or engineer who, on being applied to for that purpose, wilfully refuses or neglects to give such information or assistance, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\n### Harbour Master May Refuse Clearances to Ship\n\nThe master of any steam-ship carrying more than ten passengers shall, upon application to the Harbour Master for a port clearance, state the number of passengers he purposes to carry in the then projected voyage; and if such number shall be in excess of the number mentioned in the certificate or where no certificate is required in excess of the proportion to tonnage contained in table 4 of the schedule hereunto annexed, the Harbour Master may refuse a port clearance to such ship. Any master wilfully misrepresenting the number of passengers so about to be carried shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\n### Penalty for Taking More Passengers Than Allowed by Certificate\n\n1. Any master of any such ship who shall, after having obtained such port clearance, wilfully take or receive on board such vessel any number of passengers greater than that allowed by the said port clearance, shall, on conviction, be subject to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars in addition to a penalty of five dollars for every such passenger in excess of the number permitted to be carried by the said port clearance; and the master of any ship proceeding to sea without a port clearance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.\n\n### Governor May Prohibit Conveyance of Deck Passengers\n\nIt shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to prohibit the conveyance of deck passengers by any steam-ship or vessel propelled by steam.\n\n### Exemptions\n\nThis section shall not apply to ships or vessels which come within the operation of \"The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855,\" or of any Ordinance made or hereafter to be made in pursuance of the provisions thereof.\n\n## Steam-Vessels Under 50 Tons\n\nIt shall not be lawful for any steam-vessel of less than fifty tons burden to carry passengers for hire within the waters of the Colony, or to any place outside the waters of the Colony, unless she has obtained a licence as hereinafter provided; and in case any such steam-vessel shall be so employed as aforesaid without a licence, the owner, master, or person in charge thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.\n\n### The Harbour Master to Issue Licences\n\nThe Harbour Master may issue to steam-vessels of less than fifty tons burden licences for carrying passengers upon the conditions prescribed by such regulations as are for the time being in force under this section.\n\n### Regulations\n\n| Regulation |\n|------------|\n| The regulations contained in table D of the schedule hereunto annexed shall continue in force until altered or repealed as hereinafter provided. |\n\nThe Governor in Council may, from time to time, alter, amend, or repeal the said regulations or any of them, and may make other regulations as he deems requisite. Every new regulation and every alteration, amendment, or repeal of an existing regulation shall be published in the Gazette, and after such publication shall have the force of law.\n\n### Penalty for Carrying Passengers in Excess of the Licence\n\nIf any steam-vessel licensed under this section carries within the waters of the Colony more passengers than her licence allows, the owner or master thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\n### Penalty for Unlicensed Steamer Arriving with Excessive Number of Passengers\n\nIf any unlicensed steam-vessel of less than fifty tons burden arrives in the waters of the Colony carrying more passengers in proportion to her size than she would be licensed to carry under the regulations for the time being in force under this section, the master thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.\n\n### Steamers to Exhibit Lights\n\nEvery steam-vessel, whether licensed or not, of less than fifty tons burden shall, when under way between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a green light on the starboard bow and a red light on the port bow and a bright light at least ten feet above the coloured lights; and every such steam-vessel shall, when at anchor between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a bright light at least 10 feet above the gunwales.\n\n### Offences Against Regulations\n\nAny person offending against any of the provisions of this section, or against any of the regulations in force for the time being under this section, where no penalty is specified, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.\n\n## River Steamers\n\nThe Governor in Council may, from time to time, grant special licences for steam-ships or vessels propelled by steam, plying between Hongkong, and Canton, or for or from any place on the Canton river, or for or from Macao, in respect to the number of passengers to be carried on board such steam-ships or vessels, and may limit the number of passengers to be carried.\n\nPage 400\n$32.",
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        "content_text": "This shows the state of confusion which allows Auffam to make away with funds - it being noted also business to check his accounts.\n\nSindh The Chief Justice (in his speech) did not know \n\nFor \n\n- Fold \n\nsome 10 years that the Auditor General have \n\nus \n\nto audit \n\none non accounts\": \n\n Za Linn \n\nno Jown in the office of the Court; and in the touch letter \n\nhe \n\nthat the judges have to defend in the \n\nThe Officers for Sunwhile other fraction of the Touch a de quotes \n\nMansfield in fact that is nonsense, \n\nin but that is nonsense, the practice of days is defined in well known rules; \n\nLun M \n\nThe Courts now a \n\nThe Housing Ordinance \n\nCauses reason. The Judges pension \n\nmls, and this has many dem denn, \n\na nun will b \n\nDuring the present Chief Justice's shift: The first recommendation \n\nWith the formningsimen is that typhus be Impand \n\nIn the present \n\nIt is evident that neither The Registrar nor anyone knows anything about accounts; \n\nThe proper appointment of an accountant's Assistant is absolutely necessary. \n\nWe \n\nZ \n\nmay appear the nomination of the two Deputy Registrar Though it seems to mean that the result is to relive of the Registrar of his proper duties \n\nOther King \n\nthe Judges Chief Justice's clerk - ion shall sexthem for Another man Spring appointed to that post. \n\nthe \n\nThe dispatch is a mere cover, it gives us no assistance in determining what will be a state of the staff supposing adopted & the farun gions wo Finion from himself on the Attorney General merely \n\n– \n\nthe recommendations are \n\n504 \n\nreports that \"pending the J. ft. Decisin\" - La has made certain temporary arrangements. \n\nW. Innochen has said that he will be \n\nReady to fine any information or assistance - Mr. Philipps who was one of the Commissioners is at home. They might be asked what will be the practical effect of these recommendations \n\nJos. 36/7 \n\n(N.B. p. 13. The competition would sell springen at 2/3th of the value, which is a trade result others Better hust \n\nManage his besten \n\nthep \n\nof age. In English) \n\nRefer to Mason Puarden & Phillippe \n\npropond. \n\nsetite \n\nfor sale affairs, \n\nreflect on here the detailed alles for \n\nthe guidance \n\n7 \n\nhan \n\nthe Registrar department. But \n\nthe negations of the Report seem prod. Afwit. \n\nBut (though I do not \n\n5. fread. understand the subject) it \n\nthat \n\nHarm \n\nfor Planket will practically be rehind worst of what might be his duty should think the assistant of one Registrar should be sufficient. \n\nDeputy \n\nAugust 3",
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        "content_text": "## Church Accommodation and Furniture Supply Rules\n\nand where no Church exists already, the Government will contribute towards Church accommodation upon the following terms:--\n\n### NUMBER OF SITTINGS REQUIRED and MAXIMUM GOVERNMENT GRANT\n\n| NUMBER OF SITTINGS REQUIRED | MAXIMUM GOVERNMENT GRANT, Rs. |\n| --- | --- |\n| 25 | 2,000 |\n| 50 | 3,500 |\n| 100 | 5,000 |\n| 150 | 6,000 |\n| 200 | 7,000 |\n| 250 | 8,000 |\n| 300 | 9,000 |\n| 350 | 10,500 |\n| 400 | 12,000 |\n| For any excess over 400 | 30 per seat in excess |\n\n### Supply of Church Furniture\n\n20.-The supply of Church furniture will be regulated by the following rules. All expenditure connected with the articles to be supplied by the Public Works Department will be provided for under the rules laid down in Chapter `...`, Section `...` of Code.\n\n#### I. Protestant Churches\n\n1. —Each Government Protestant Church, Civil or Military (Cathedrals excepted), will be supplied by the Public Works Department with the following articles, the cost of which will be allowed in addition to the grant for the building:\n\nNote.--For Protestants, accommodation will be provided for the Church of England service only.\n\nIn ascertaining the number of seats to be provided, women, children, and pensioned soldiers and their families may also be taken into account, two children being counted as one adult. In cases of stations where abnormal rates prevail, special application may be made to the Government of India for an increase to the grant given by the State.\n\nBut no grant for more than 200 sittings will be made except at seats of Local Governments and administrations, at Hill Sanitaria, or at Railway Depôts. In the two latter cases, the number of European-born British subjects in Government or Railway service must exceed (without their families) 120, to warrant the grant for a Church of greater accommodation than 200 sittings. When the number of sittings required is intermediate between the number given in the table, the grant for the seats in excess of the nearest number below the number required will be at the rate of the next lowest number in the table. And in no case will the Government grant be allowed until these contributions, together with the grant, amount to the estimated cost of the Church.\n\n### Church Accommodation to be Provided Only for British-born European Subjects\n\n11. The number of sittings required for any particular Civil Station, other than a Railway Depôt or Station, will be finally determined by the Government, solely with regard to the number of the British-born European subjects in the service of Government. No grant for Churches in Civil Stations will be made until private subscriptions have been obtained, and then the Government grant will not exceed double the amount of private subscriptions actually realized; the maximum figure in column 2 of the Table above being in any case the extreme limit of the grant towards the scale of accommodation which stands opposite in column 1.\n\n### Combination of Civil with Military Church\n\n12. It is desirable, whenever such a course will not be attended by inconvenience, to combine the Civil with the Military Church of a Station, the grant allowed for the Church accommodation of the British troops given in para. 9 being supplemented by a grant according to the scale shown in para. 10, and to the probable number of seats that will be required for the Civil British-born European residents in the service of Government or of a Railway Company.\n\n### General\n\n#### Authorized Scale Not to be Exceeded\n\n13. The scales of sizes, and of expense, for all Churches above laid down, are in no case to be exceeded without a reference to the Government of India, even though the proposed expenditure from Public Funds may be within the powers of sanction vested in the Local Government or Administration.\n\n#### House for Chowkeedar to be Provided\n\n14-A house for the Chowkeedar or resident bearer may be provided. In cases, however, where the Church is distant from the bazaar, and where special grounds are shown, accommodation may be provided for other duly authorized servants, but such further accommodation will be limited to shelter for day use only. These houses should, when practicable, be adjoining to, and not within the Church compounds, but when within them, they should be erected in keeping with the other Church buildings.\n\n### Churches for Non-official Residents Require Sanction of Government\n\n15.-Church accommodation for non-official residents, either British-born Europeans or others, or for official residents other than British-born, should not be sanctioned by the Local Governments or Administrations without reference to the Government of India.\n\n### Private Contributions\n\n16-When private contributions are made towards building a Church in aid of a Government grant, the procedure to be adopted is as follows:---\n\n#### Basis of Design and Estimate\n\n17.-The amount of private contributions being known, a definite design and estimate will be prepared by the Executive Engineer, and submitted for sanction in the usual way, the limit by which the Executive Engineer will be guided in his designs being the aggregate of the Government grant according to the scales given in paras. 8, 9, and 11, and the amount of private contributions actually realized.\n\n#### Private Contributions to be Deposited\n\n18. Before the work is commenced, the amount of the private contributions must be paid into a Government Treasury, and carried to credit of Deposits in the accounts of the Public Works Department, as laid down in Chapter XX, Section V, para. 16. The expenditure incurred from the Government grant, and the contributions, will be adjusted in the manner directed in Chapter XX, Section ii, para. 51, and on the principle laid down in para. 53 of the same Section.\n\nNote. In the case of a grant from the Church building fund for the Diocese of Calcutta, a certificate instead of a cash payment in advance may be accepted showing the amount of the contribution to be allowed. The conditions on which this certificate may be accepted are that in every case definite arrangements must be made with the Local Government or Administration concerned respecting the precise dates on which the contributions will be paid, and that, until the payment is made, the Government shall have a primary lien on the funds of the Society. In case of any failure in paying up the stipulated payment on due date, the privilege herein allowed is to cease.\n\n#### Mode of Treating these Contributions\n\n19.-In dealing with cases of this nature, unless it be otherwise specifically ordered, the private contribution is to be looked upon as an addition to the Government grant, instead of the money allowed from Public Funds being considered as a grant in aid of private contributions, and the responsibility of Public Works Officers with respect to the preparation of estimates, and the construction of such buildings with reference to excess of expenditure over the estimate, will be as strictly enforced as in a case where only public funds are expended.\n\n### Maximum Cost of Furniture\n\n| Item | Maximum Cost, Rs. (Officers) | Maximum Cost, Rs. (Soldiers) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Appliances to seat the congregation, and to allow them to kneel in decent comfort: per seat | 5 | 4 |\n| Thermantidotes when necessary, each |  |  |\n| Lighting apparatus, per 100 seats | 200 | 100 |\n| Candlesticks for Pulpits, per set | 40 |  |\n| for Lectern... stool | 2 | 1 |\n| a.--Lectern | 80 | 50 |\n| b.--Communion table, each | 77 | 45 |\n| rails per running foot. | 4 |  |\n| c.-Pulpit, each | 200 | 60 |\n| d.-Reading desk and stool | 60 | 30 |\n| e.-Font and cover... | 45 | 12 |\n| f.-Vestry almirahı | 39 | 10 |\n| table | 12 | 2 |\n| Two Vestry chairs, per pair |  |  |\n| g.-One Altar chair.... |  |  |\n| h.--Punkahs, complète, per running foot........ | 2 |  |\n| i.--One Bell of reasonable size to summon the congregation to Church, at a cost not exceeding Rs. 300 for a first-class Church (viz., those containing more than 400 sittings,) and Rs. 200 for a second-class Church (viz., those containing less than 100 sittings). |  |  |\n| j.--Chicks or bamboo blinds for At market doors and windows where absolutely necessary. |  |  |\n\nThe Reading desk should be simply a desk (however appropriately shaped), and not an enclosure, expensive from its size, and occupying needless space.\n\n#### II. Articles Supplied by the Civil Department\n\n- Suitable set of Communion Plate | Rs. 150\n- Safe for custody of Communion Plate, which is also to be used for records | 150\n- Altar cover of red embroidered cloth | 150\n- Bibles and Prayer-book for the Clergyman | 50\n- Fair linen cloth and napkins for Communion Service.... | 35\n\n#### III. Roman Catholic Churches\n\nEach Roman Catholic Church built by Government, Civil or Military, for the use of the European Soldiers, will be supplied by the Public Works Department with the following articles, the cost of which will be allowed in addition to the grant for the building:—\n\n| Item | Maximum Cost, Rs. (Officers) | Maximum Cost, Rs. (Soldiers) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| a.-One Bookstand |  |  |\n| b.-One Almira for Altar vestments, &c., at least 4 feet long by 2 feet 5 inches broad... |  | 45 |\n| c.-Three Altar chairs for Officiant and Assistants |  | 36 |\n| Officers, per seat | 5 |  |\n| Soldiers, per seat.. | 4 | 1 |\n| g.-Altar Table, |  | 27 |\n| h-Communion Rail, |  | 60 |\n| i.-Pulpit, each |  | 200 |\n| j.--Punkahs where required, complete, per running foot |  | 2 |\n| k.--Apparatus for lighting, per 100 seats......................... |  | 100 |\n| l.--One Bell as in E. |  |  |\n| m.-One Table and three chairs for the Vestry... |  |  |\n| n.-One Font and Cover .. |  |  |\n| o.-Seats and kneeling accommodation for the congregation: |  |  |\n\nA second Altar Table may be supplied to Churches intended to accommodate more than 500 persons.\n\n#### IV. Articles Supplied by the Military Department to Roman Catholic Churches\n\nOn the Executive Engineer's certificates of the necessity of original supply or renewal, as the case may be:-\n\n1. Altar Canons (one set of three) | Rs. 150\n2. One Chalice | 100\n3. One Tabernacle, inside covered with silk.. | 100\n4. One Pyx with Silver Cup, inside gilt | ୫\n5. Six Altar Candlesticks and Crucifix. | 180\n6. Two Cruets and one Plate.... | 10\n7. One Altar Lamp | 30\n8. One Missal | 26\n9. Altar Vestments of silk (five sets of the five colours).. | 300\n10. One Monstrance | 180\n11. Two Copes, one white and one black, of silk... | 120\n12. Humeral for Benediction | 30\n13. Altar linen, comprising Albs, Altar covers, Communion cloth, &c........ | 80\n\nThe Executive Engineer will be guided in granting the certificates above alluded to by the following principles: ...\n\n### Classes of Churches and Certificate Requirements\n\n#### Class I—Churches Built by Government\n\nThe certificate should state that the Church was built by Government for the use of European Troops or British-born European subjects in the service of Government or of the local Railway Company, and is still maintained for the same purpose.\n\n#### Class II.—Churches Which Have Received Building Grants from Government\n\nThe certificate should state that the Church received a building grant of Rs. `...`, equal to the part of the total cost of the building, and that the grant was made on account of European Troops or British-born European subjects in the service of Government or of the local Railway Company, and that the building is still used by them.\n\nFor this class of Churches, a proportion of the standard cost of the articles will be sanctioned equal to the proportion of the grant-in-aid to the total cost of the building itself.\n\n#### Class III—Churches Rented by Government\n\nThe certificate should state that the Chapel is wholly rented by Government for the use of European Troops or British-born European subjects in the service of Government or of the local Railway Company.\n\nIn this class, the articles necessary for service will be given by the Military Department, but returned into Store if the building ceases to be rented for the performance of Divine Service to a Military congregation.\n\nIn none of the classes described above should any article of furniture be allowed with retrospective effect, and the required certificates should afford information as to when the article was originally supplied, and by whom, and the reason for recommending its renewal. When, however, the Government pay for the use of certain varying numbers of seats in a Church, the hire of the seats should include everything necessary for the performance of the Service.",
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        "content_text": "0102848\n\nEnclosure in Governor Dis John Pope Hennessy's Desh: M1190 of 18th November 1880.\n\nJ...\n\nfor the Chimes in fnct it as thor: erg fars flety unlans Phys like to take the Hon. W. £- deng\n\nJoy boa friend waid but the Past so grot fancy buying the metalusion sam už llezzy) trace wehretde of the Qring or a whole there toom Suppum, and regalities Ace note ordnina of Piskup Bonda. But the greeter op 2 BORLING-Taky je fit, vistament\n\nLaved\n\nwith the wrap time we are takse, and 7 Xuveetcarries thas perfonis Fabulae, n he wild at that the catapupunast be cubens where so protects are ment to contributo tu them into thin Nam m her cute. Materi\n\nsung na samo 100-\n\nPat, in a time vil eg - may see at: ay then we sulibanaleringen to me!\n\npromociīnu of the expenses stimuly\n\nBettie P\n\nWREN\n\nice-liste\n\nthe post sectary in two and of the latter, basso col pent\n\ntive of Valer of state I\n\nThat the motards the ali iure m\n\ntin mesoud.ajenty paisal and these of\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nexposer Concept;\n\nWATER\n\nwat penin-will see e-filios bus be stores to\".'s newlyria\n\nTHE DAILY PETS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 15\n\nFire!mory sturen, to wild will-dressed wid] wara Grimons, druritus, ce \"rition semireli, & to to th\n\n9 BSDICTC LA Dean Haroon A day in tres the- minutan at arisan out of the to the Trot of the Thru His name it That is We do pet bailouteelee-tegematele se itse og ann bengit of Be C855 Hail C\n\nMin Late strane THE MEN serve thal Asia ber my kayfreedano: 1:1parti, aná, v Hie Marsileasy as Rounders of Stuse was that He Malas the In 1 KESWICE-I lund by 97ention goes on the Dolby. thie Gevt. SPESUSilve, ntā pagr Exgnilatie's vises nova rejared vid faith 4 wes Where I say, it is n the Brush Plans (latang 3 THE COTTOR OF THE \"GLY \"E\"\n\naz te geat of pvull eraðs, most put tevis ; mona vele ver has a place. Pies; tidered eat, its fall relic of this stins | Ganer bat saived thu sidress • gratis. First Contr. Recio! aveur, Horanles invos, but no tam | pintaci su pizan be nou. Vertinacy, and one fonate fieldzy. Now, with regard ta ble ears-i pase sad Dime, or that class ivel'ng bova 228 for frma a well in frang Batman's, pat. Ti-That že o priven meget tlus Conry. taro anation Prep, tek bid! get hatimay sakeney and the City: 2005 on youthly that bez bandi anzf Porbes, Kumping, no! Buttonjto are numeste ledicine water, allow as 67 kek live wit\n\n¡ xxl7—7'5« Cibinasa par A permet, of Gia, firths ALTE IN PARUM. In in for 13E DOULACityrinu of expeting and principle is open to bang ezized, sad liths malým should make chaß in poor toma's and she smu 2.8. pilti, bu grifiadors Tauve gira sabut\n\ntial recaps why the Coairal 9-heal, bo i friand ven reply sitowards anail if britan they say about 150 que\n\n4 is Canali) y parties at Ying Tante, and stiles to which Le nifay a pevale kraedem, which hit says is retiembly for (trave I anu padmašnu iu i anticster which thought\n\nis all ing wall that\n\nTeal esasen ing my 'ansiaty in arcqualatt bobalf of the City\n\nwhat I vil tidy serata sulge, Ba\n\nI have cored to deal with wind any hum\n\nfriend all the uremica in the matas before\n\nFr. WX WEE FRELLENT\n\nmiter\n\nille\n\ncwla proradiva co6 JAN\n\nb. then whys bales foeling and use if evil in unaniment by hygienia 7 200 this vejrt a l'erfiandra and spot as talla ng car des Count the site due. I a\n\nof Hot Pure Wicole to gun cursed Hon W. KRANICK-Went has this opinion, an lbs lour of yea that there is the water figny, be. fi cu baial\n\nFlow bright appears to infial: ore 20 psules go for : Hon. W. KER-CR-The states made a una nithecol?,\n\nofil er i live polition you belief in eet Beet as fad Free rifi ple for shut, and whe the: she clerk save la pet. This is I this it sunds that\n\ncesto mezip such eat, Flank through this drownin, und is aptly. That mowing as one we had in\n\nHier hour mara manger to lussophathing boltes cology distration it is whatever as reps the faid or is it al prepakot potatale nitawaja 19\n\nis abújh she (ovnemurit par forward as one whja ļesi\n\nbio of the propis\n\n•jakich zonifů ananmune âute the w7\n\nIt is • admitted hall by en lys that the l eratis\n\nWas the\n\nin Ruening an agilise as by the Areas of any\n\nstreet parpaces, angane paliely p\n\nde of stone on the lieuter. But theer ARMAG. Indem aliaisi janam Did these sur Pass Fresh Esigo na; and E inibi é\n\nA ̃1⁄2·ĺ ̧voi mute ro3000 mica po Z WEST Loving 25:sted very bizi. But whether diketik sted the moller of hou frient, i use this wind, 61+frati ogrevinent tax are Tey finiumo delves see yemi sar. Who Elet and probaldy wruh) bave revived an from ! with the Gateruor of the Lingy--not a private' wiži pudgavour in some littly nay ta elutty Hon. P. DATE-Four Exssiones, I La i se zised ad kogal Hesign. The coom within tha Ledline j does he wires far the pence f\n\nI or twn of this pie mus with whom hargahas oracugement. Nat if loin due muwahead, and it was nazazavry en séjourn into the our the board and made listinction of run like is a so deed placul lantion it outts for repard Faidanud kapt np. Now when thin grein air where purfeet freston asosan pe primera intalni sen of very littla volte\n\nbut which ku ketdi mustining na gortinasi, buka publikagiberent,sualizing the war, wing theisere instag was 35\n\nhis son. & also, is only\n\nas rrrded in the achives of\n\n$10 is an vtis.len in the immatra sé thế | cada tetang kia Anteract on behalf of tuni grant was while at Brast shoa 1-1 will pay relatiations asco barn 10 boss Jenk at tais docugans I Suì il vento! Bishop : perfect place of sting, Brandi and - shan Tefcool loss gut and wred abnet Qzava,sni itu City Hat Domaine Nut beits in chiron. But is to th; thus Chiume shocfai tan fesole siittist for Bandos, who knows in crazies of the peopy. £zi way is that petition was aldriand' I saw New, how done it rat pose that he has provats ascertaganto, it is safercad en by Ni! Song of Subs, usus 1:22 jild to Rustáceana --Uqwysd \"apien the rom i jant forwsted na to apport of the TZ, and, I nothing we chau this, that the allowance nemandiola ou a iz in curtain\n\nte mít paplḥins about it\n\nBieber Nenast! in Ine Legittutive soutien al pot row what and there a wait then was la bu oti inellatio was\n\n2 tabanitants of the cutting, walk\n\nIndartet\n\n7\n\nI toss the Colony\n\n• Quien me to Thies His Pizon?lencia de gand mź hero Liver the snow but for 3, 2009-10-at weekea Trapsih sat fantorvel | olast or way inting was writsee, to her the weld te rentaż to have this pubertals, as mini ant\n\nalrea\n\n3.\n\nPOOCHOW.\n\n... દિવાન\n\nCum sa of oser 1000 bars non fately\n\nthe tag to be friend for Ruhani mion to get only tacite and do if the aneste grimph fake nained in it bette Close are park that are vital subfack. i did i\n\nLetos tu sit Mewart Fick-Bowls au Laid egacervlug on if it for its the yzestion af\n\nWeizenez goub, vaul bacro any skin tuakamgii dotare. Pagråleang, ** Ball croatie, w J. -listand is verbay of it, Darjatiny\n\nward in the g of Cacic v., is to Houghouse or Royʻeraber 1990). T-24 Central Seals that fit the toes then f Fire Tanks ne pralared, sad this et rute of You fill great, goatlemen, that the in the clicting my shots tres para tang thaia; aul Shore T.. Rida suger what is, what lasts thora para before His 2x2)-Well, put on, the 28- Sto pay the Cumler of Cay Hall &\n\nthe enuitles which Tudnoc:[ fitant to ensue lo che ion is that we go into numifiées. mited way hon, fridad as it like a pren Liry sad Mom. Now leven in the actum Hapus\n\npar with foil what the buyout deaising that it was Jassie to bars sanh & raisi\n\nREXI just wished to mantien thr tical m\n\nnextsto priglas Library, I r\n\nThat Lie au bout de man tieto present augier between the love him\n\nEvans......\n\n(the Blizzona - The Lineary is\n\nFace Fallecious are many out that the ruor, atd.) robe:dole masher of (a) 27 er han etarg nationality. tory visitor in experent\n\nMandal for thought a hoary-that it was de parargo the sins of this these try of intake, ther neeband. I don't say If ene Chame to fit ity Hall in ult, Jr.) Assistas, buty wat of co\n\npraliugua man of commuap repas arben a question\n\nBi That Mesura for the first to con\n\nRattajanandanthin is,\n\nStay Draper pengar couples tcpolder the M. WAPYA Buttkulinară! 123 prevedadest Bay\n\nTheLofalet tock'stezia of Ch Extors When thasard of autoiwan at the Mzimate for weld: logh 15m kopaln Ausing zoals\n\nHi. W KONWENT-I loveit 11. was ie the land shist for years routed spina in at ! distthy news writing farmen 155 komm cius | plyer delve thy verlay and etar 18 Dygrenda lɛing than it so celboise with p 1. His Exauraser-Sy hon. Prind in word Impiantin all jovent and will hot without of thinese uril 5 werter\n\n·TAFFCHS 29082x.\" [~4? T\n\nSasta 1% to Say Flist in mir bosh tor to write his ust in a back chisis Till be hard ww2 MES THIS STU was princisely far tha Change—[här. {and verticle ben clearly en meiakað pinjam sacītutina His Extil-en huâ gaid he jatenauer As is grupes Rue dizel Zr th\n\nJouni cammern, mina thu Liburg rank they are bined is not forward sono sud a flourile dinte sitte\n\njabi for verutal vaaz there spessową tu trim for shut purpose br ha Chinney stationic ca a ima 1956 The Muwatu, way by nu gus alt, fur that\n\nband that is total co thin t\n\nCli\n\nbien: di tea mbiorit\n\n¡ vested by thiChty Podi Ceramitta. Authues forte - Butuanjon are to pesad the Cainen sejrts: bailług 18 tiny dice so tas iucuronate zikatooding ihat it is rapemented to than ingalist17 moizitasulink ? mL at 23:24 sud disinct das mi kannstugstor\n\nLEELANDY --Nor I and the mic fu sa minah lama la fiche Hall Nawar que soli kava tinaght valepked for tunaitsey Nets. As for 25 jall Bar Majesty's nabírata aboalů be incited gas fired & E-Br slani 15 bei 1st illuded to it\n\nthe\n\n'anic bogen kvilzuse whink would bring the wiwa ke pazne to capnífur lây Montication, marais fuja and days there are suround, bl\n\nCus\n\nwood bit rabur of Punakom, a few minutes\n\nSulition to nofog tals Iturh, which gives it staldetest Cy at Committos, Arthurdle paid to Alto Sax hour,\" trong she fionana : GRASS by 11:emed the bou, find Mr. Briv | Ha Esta prey suid–f way zermark that time the fine was plaent, som 320 sul mare\n\nat a E,\n\nwith me to inseam you will deactions Pure car endurtending for\n\nchoi\n\nif the Chicow or restricted in their pat is en augstunt Pignis Anchorage. To cai thay if aliwat the big day. lost, and by low brisk beary spa sad tingi Hoth. il M. 793. En countion with tank and be rettider of heal\n\npolish, sed ut reviniti latter of bis, analni tosil camporie: to\n\nunsabaltiesa, vre on fat she day my\n\ntopoinputs with the waan, is indivalme, should be published ulna, ta for furti darator at Lewinebres to red wine et argent at the cult thei\n\nis Barunvor vejeded to this,\n\ni was see 19h mit elever sin Coppie baza en chote way damn the cust. for ideal has apparent ist und ebrian.\" That an aliek sudarso tute Liten aninge sits in her warm ul. Tre in alana sterzone i Hes sharial rise that warrant the\n\nreply to Mr Brits, the GYRENAE site at the Busz ismal has formed the craze. To matag yangi Fash, ani o esanie w role analy your to Bay Merit, was in Winca is indistiglione Tabery in sponu wa shjacting us so ganės Pay My\n\nling sure the maybe, son a high featñilar to the medico which en and exit for a one with Ewest of Junts plagunited's bullar which forte jention torming to the safer it is eft, quid he happy to col the brave tax if any delling of all the great struce JNUTS, CERIN\n\nwhich made it y\n\nmes we span, at bo en will anays be water ny the bar of the Minier atelet\n\nit acogit, moal for worn, with the Mitigate them, the Bellis flat out to fhore, i sant three sul verse in this still spite of something bich was posted a spirit tai, tie pored star eg the Civil Pa. thur H. Regina - I really din ne observe fait down by the referral Manuell and 26.50 Suremile drums, pin. Hied as one part, w Bas entertaining remni of the shena 23 12 this one of post 1, 201\n\nof the month of tail to a prepare the dams to the chose to the which aint they will End they ware bases are fupra fata vwerlift ad this pole time. E152 31 3 world, not hara jaan. Hurling in Was $4,000!\n\nAnebo what the Wersung auchorage - Stanger, and carga undan saproputato cirst se w the the 27 Bu might is placed these atraints that this mother when the gut e duerte Sir dickes tan teactor are operaeil, 1 may milf me just as sail fuelite, and that is brings tom sleari bat he ususidered the fun of 32.05) was dugnatiot go farther in many boats be rest iphit hard astrartin de santhe City hall there as loterial, o Coen Tubio-avis, in which bo ogrel in de ware by rain trade the rug test juhet mad high, osing sous, por quar, a role was no tie si stannes than it has rest, we\n\nty homes as erat, uccisive, Loan the publish of the mail say Hell I still hose tirat yarr Stellewey by Mes Recertary of State, a propesat which says capete, and be 3d not kace whether it would sitheera Pling my at Pazia Asia-340 free lays he thinks the subject of this 1:07 18 the man tar face kept the newer haurd of War litiers arsuri dent is a gladiators extimate to slooo that it be out wellent but it sen, hot gir pay for embrass\n\nTane guwa in šmjurlanos at the uzmagant si su cas id imestayng 4 Avene 2 of back. It is, as, the over the the Cubanite word seed on he was before the Wines Camille ter der I is to trial fus vix de 25. Wars. tr. Rais fare Ife Exteney maid ha han en dosha the chas, and this Laiwan in get\n\ntaner to wie is she notes of of the Colous, aloited a trials presented stagestion that fa vie anathe the suite in die buiten. You calling strig hously, which tam enim fo corny could we't afford to pay the e, with shina the Gevamnei Gongel Butt weber get a fuck no situr leveruer lenght Braing of Das raresin chupke so tried and pl¦ soitin Chanaitley is to the s| Vorancitbu icto exedief xià alt those extrúlera next rest la pisha baze te ads wanej We have to shrozic's sziil acocker Are is the\n\nbar, y mention has a catid to it by buy adopting in giving brunstane but fuellinicus acute lirien coup rate at PEL, FUT in fatara! me with fiba sortam 1ke ramps! was to be pail to the tastes. £19 94250, TN Men Flat desenli wekies, fefend saposito (Mr. Koawick; that non-i postively focosa. Severačun sé vit se saz. ↑ Te voxounting with the Fire Briguén Win. Exanth vise of the True bridge. LE And this of mine of whjes he was the iconic Mit Frapiacus fiat me batut the three instem in was dete with it? Et was malena de las | 37 the Chicers 1 bere it in ta, west of my tiens and leef lost to cyfuss ebay tavo dovo MOUNT nugh.\n\nres in stin Cig Fall, wher. I do aceited as terassing in the den Now, why did grant with the trust word, with Sir Bricare suntsile TM-30s, beface Chice on othersion by 1 gray of tale, 15 is paletta/sury, in rapy to Me. Rysis, suit Le haperi i time being burn the alps ant dantings of a the part of the Domalie while was most to the in? Tain with it was zalany to spel for admiring at that as these instruces they have per the tower the bits ranks commend Sam. Here pourer clair, mavily worker in and in th Lou to the Quictive of the Crease. we only when my friend Mr. Pelgave wad one or athena day decor, f he day eve it is upon, a seat was a one stspert ju jie mang. Lipon ita fered to the veinbiy odacarter of the now on-inance the fish to caree\n\nwith a 2011 died inletocol inta ita votor stars sing trash the next up in fraf sick that Saturday run, wil be tafel. If such der ute metal stentic thun tay chilik taten nn the hill.\n\nof an Aarse moman who hit the losshote fine enfersus in the preetings of the din cafted by attraction to win fair own suede,ali kis returns that a lain mere I doing for way tend to have hantved noon to aquilar hot - KIR Kshes her hy wondd gan the orar a borries was king ra\n\nwhat is his dut. of Intent at a 3-as szive, 2 in. Arstid arte e cons why the nationing in way body of stinens, Sc bn teatav matar for it, but 13 on saat\n\nAndlig ont apan tu Soor, is said to hum pra sedeker, satin shkonin at put up or is 14 the dishary; it way, I want within cad my few sumie nonauliun wih sus rate for les plancing the origluating puran. The dram rol Post of Corpo and a good way in a distinction areas one subunits and ane by the\n\nreatif To tomucents. A zonit & giziren at the time gee. We stok dispiceltid hul beca drar as ini. Cuir life in a Bubar to have justion at your avaliares to se\n\nnatice nonthe lock, and by sider, pescu to be olanly on for an ofthe tea planting mock the calf the of the Fein Steel, ant tures I saw whm w granle the latrary, hot arly at angels libeeecanes dels sun to way be is authorison by the dua mani, nal hele kuo that of als du mities will rogers to the poorsica debts Jericot a fan apply a beans The fire was ultimately hun. feud but marred, ils surd, with word Maver, Bad that dign is resintu ees of Stat\n\nalls for apenience of no Pagkamene pusest ei lana erdhi padaveratrakarunas houltsing, Caluse they furonoma substantial | duned the nutni sat hy the Harvspondisse.calumppad by high tire walls, the only doincar Per S when Sir Riclista Hagberall way at the case for portata da 01 b. Le Dieng, euent maring the same mered The Cause masin for idsisting na vne ratas hassuke x-fy the 1-1, bar en fast it ages, in as Poslin any machh simiyat diskier where, na\n\nGeely (s. 2015 2014 in our se le ha a la salleer else Thistory the bad bunny semmiraz is, I should start on pringle or the head of ten pollase and catur hans, armerthing rariter to\n\ntheir . The Sear adope-dedisticetin of tmsits with the the Couition will me its way to the just kept work from being med in, and having to theupertion at the bare rw vabail is $100, wing the lowest psd baks in fusign, zyl- frichir lat\n\nsud verme vejo a wil\n\nfor Frise C is gun, ty bạn) zurios gw brought to my klaw, vice, wizi del all ea Theo- i The am Fr. Omentioned mig i fu ITA MAY 1 itu le! i cry alas to do with the sprites. T tovers The wriods of the routine the 5 the karviatge of as Execdiva. We thus sutirnos candpostera \"imecrestiny a cheer of Gtitor of, Semestary of Stat mula besterly spar to theta i vite Odily, laztimo ser Rat hy the war. ની ના કર મા જય essed or\n\nof deres herman\n\nTelon it comic b sugar bu question,\n\ni with reard to the opinions i wich wer hencky zaprovu. Krurgiling ↳ Indesitating, ja ainsady nesire any beat. ke it is aning to the age as wisten to deem wa I do I procentum to log the tacts began, das câm?\n\nthe easy plow at Suttlwys in simil Teen Fiction in the bat je de su i wdriseca. Alu bodies may buty sensitised, and Laulandins trens zu teile rossaanud, and the 9-1site Granite or Year Baker My upl. | flors expressal shant tuis vriten, it now ngress | dessa by Mr. Preč, and his gialt la exisul send i to invite a fraula eelagratine Daring des\n\nist dert time can be trudi shu Oltr Hat. renditions on with the rich, and inside a chourly A Car of 11 turnier in the Cormaritice sunalil give way. Yours us that the winciple that the Chines skuld be si us ex aliony with sud men toguses of the fry the baith ground of the foreign Cataset. Un Lil Practition from ozatons estetion of my Lists Council to Bengts new wide in sanitat way postal actions in the Lead of this Colang sud que fins sail withinst distimation issue which the lieuty and sabitation of the Globy trad settlement was cupied by swerment. Obses End Tamarac, in the Chemie 19 as the antogs the consitions lari doru sad said beet and saying an intriga jery The Que. Henry read ill become this Gevenmant a ubuitinate these in to get\n\nspastatom. To view of the rapkling with which e sendiri fruen tac form the dial until they die Fitohard McDvareit were married cal, suggentul.\" So it goats to this, vial thaasjanything ipinvolved, and I think the Doemitter: by não munding itself, as is small, by contiuning Tiwi maitint and ped, and ths; the Quarea xurrad it ray conated fomunale\n\nis the only buy the banues this an adjournaā vise után, with good grane tałybt giva nav. -(Applan94;. || tance in Gaking the pablin hatisation as writes hy en Coloma Bears interwing\n\nthat bab me lữỀ, was frat, that ef's women. Wiz Kui à la lu en paradily as yours.\n\nenigste, eta, formerly, 19 slade\n\nremark in this astawagina that thu many of the Now Tobicera that is ang waste the ten sow the se's Eilish us from the Ciry B, forory con\n\nThe CO2. LA RAYTRÝB Capranil\n\nChinese Hansa azertm) quang The Balša Long hi what we may cat tinent, of sunstide of ratianulits I wont be able to the Croma t\n\nko ilify the tino wet abolish this disine vain word worth shall, or moto, más gomiresi ifis Montawe yakul that soten other li cuncurrenes with why the way-thengri\n\nalio have geroan phimnina, whtie a te sil the tenabimusta.\n\nwey sould net, under their own oficialu, legally Jen, phê ch at the stassarunge to whisk Lori salena the vote of $1,29 is the case for gradjamos e so weidy 145 tan loses full wish 14 sport, and if staat bad muld ban be toge but its myrarl of sår | Als lid tore them CRNI & Surgenstok pleto. My hon. The street six Bahaul H. No Che pH st. Konte har on them in naked if the actus one ne\n\nStr. Koseck ought to negly as the whole. | tr al Choration plus need is pd-\n\njava czy primis at all. Chizzne chiar tow will got owešu Leenivase compaties great for. The Tacions Zerouts which the Ciry Hall Confriend, the Can of the Concier Rogled as an ad that the Orient contains the paper and be a telit\n\nitt ut is their pesos un this subject\n\nÜhisena rilatta alirdies, lika, ele, ba basi kuskanů A division Back pawiutka damnader. Ibaliano Gavazninduzi vine nizma ka et ten dissarlice which was iron, se might be it räh, mai no tie alber hand he was seed it del sol,\n\n| 230 to the most fregnent avms, flaît via caco)295- meating safer that impraton sat after all bees of\n\nSacrate of Raye Pauna ay sayi. Jakker ng exferumas in the Chinesa anwser, Heiloriom rowed bis agiofior hire nine that\n\nJohu Frily, & fly play with a with a when not in unalen an son Fyrrut pe puzzel, blesk zalomen may if angad that there was no pason why the ¦ he had smo vil the papers des was quiba katimĵoj, what's fart? I am no mitation in say with me bad. friand, and 2 saat Mt. The toy ate of stang Gogh to do that. The Mastinomicu ploaie, he dzewz iu dha Maxcurd cavan bo llonght aue marovalier 1945 and he later vir wie dak and suc+bie in the done foot doop is shavings, inna\n\nWe hus mehilfa basyonquer's Tres that the Durty 14 CREW This Coinsy Sassore laut a sobat dit to the Q than in the birry er al Garda tak wat\n\n1st necessary to\n\nto avoid display and Cound at Sâu tales on 1 p gloss a potus fow for lies in decuster na cully Huttons of 3.5 taken by any but friend, auf. I think, thres vai, Pira stins impuned by die Kishan, ler area is the muda, ale ting erigiert audie Gronder about do their holy and are flak otar-fied wonte de sout, data stail bawire tres ant s\n\nt structural so which run kvinne nessure Tyler Tuber, 1 ki ze she wolf Danball in winter will be sent than 1 cther Sir Basenow but dat vupie wer emitir\n\nne day's imprraoniomed with. hard Liceor\n\nIelísapte and rapidly repison? after a fry, mom thee to the vaseg ini terors the pastic in this the ammuity to underabad id, td the ban will they read: He bad hva a wood, out other in land or W. Knewick was ay matam zu\n\n¦ offantire moms evilk, ke dualt, long mga kama sport apply. It's begin nith, not cari the gouliaran who has soovi chce with rukost be the princnt of tiny sencers, Rag die duize it has viritet kat ke sesturk, s silti tiis agn, that what he retaiSudan Quan bend hinn Aliu, chair or he taken to wear we recales of\n\nut is mild to the Lens heel ander print ante and fel any hats jush. Tow. Byrtit us any tarala se bo quid asset to me sui de urcan tear though wer limb csazhen and becaria o ung aldaera att meget gith being at largs fight whianitie\n\n| હૂ for Guy Hail is hald, not sel is id ant the und train, and when ass Deations. I erts it all site in its win at lunak iparkance als Try fine 165 USD ON A 20 18 30 14 was tru primare suited the cbszym and sail\n\n-Ho-ait.\n\n· passes er Eighte tas condicions in which Rue Majeye Color the Eye Cats plan wewe was 135 He was the 4 giggipte invalves, Midar e Beways and i had toned gre tummaat gays the Owap land is fast greti dio of gfogott tart lovin rate at tagesalf anyone can forming 2010 at 60 lety Parerande parter, Feud wie kids, and come tear deal of the ad witmotion in hints & restante of about the led gran nirapluie war ROLL INTELLIGENUS,\n\nLa sic, ut elu tras mutant to be the marke der sedious of Dorthe only preference had plug to the wese dy had the down passupponing he himself wice a Chinesa\n\n* Wold it 4 snow somari Mrogat it was stutis savage\n\nFrisa Jeth Bepianibär. Sad Dock is rug arm with the Irgat date. Holly going over historien wery if he hit wald wurting high le selos China SP Ton banker, and a clades. 2000 for Now Phan, and 3 for care be\n\nties Opines fins that es in nobu Finele earl, in latenti spertyzinar\n\ndemedimgataverunt.\n\nThis muse for re Jun Vás vyhjnet, all of Dece veing in fo riso iroporncarut\n\nI ara gires widely in en the Curritas of the Che Bill, and enter a part tuntien laat said rep distincio, fat diet tas fechange it Try, Pony of the roth-, to outlet to the 15 band thats at\n\nwhether it is poh, was a harunity, ha es thought that, aking there ne mazure, we did our want to induce laws that's an ens for Malan recinte a last usta, af 8779, ↑ Ất bát Khay kali noting there we sway on which shown windward hat that lie na vas trinxicogrpalet fra the multic of the Ocluas; noll not only aid den tur proper coul'joms, ruke. When i wnded to the noto, Íses has buy to mala the remarks by hul huiendly in ths Lenoiry 12upply articka ut sa-\n\nThis portioner ting Chau ceguity, it fata un interest, so saberis, to write Shop with hand ishong, for being it at might without a f\n\nms with the Gay Bellmuntik nat be worthy ni kios atam le petuniaj ti ha terast. We a misty bonis Tuen was moet satz, nie aan, who thecongbly under New spil\n\n21 Snomitis W they refeed in avonds to did but eps at in what to cured be be a pamphlet published and the e way his deal it is unha prisala peps kibein tube init they wore to consider sansiling jiliin ang sedan a pubi, progr\n\nwaterped to which the suplast the icons, V. BENTER-- Wax Club Kant, stich\n\no Tha!? Chin, qui tim who to Tony Crem-It was with\n\nwhen sh\n\nBanctus leva je 12 angling sterg Berpart ned i the evani should be wholman. À leirs majesty of whom are B, W. Kravy's--is tem imel tong tatic. Al stop psttleman wout away frots the it is smster Nonfading\n\n(thirty mass of hazine, hank macaquer, badingjieskruplines as 26 jantjazd 1\n\n11th 3, 1960.\n\nE\n\n0. MarissiOS. that cl\n\nLive F\n\nthe poetic, and of the Chinese the\n\nPOLICE GOURF.\n\nSimpú zalogs.\n\nBETX Hos., PRAMOZILY.\n\nLAUNEINYERS.\n\n↑\n\nbriel.\n\n■sy right\n\nBACALMOE.\n\nMaria Corte, residing at No. 55. Hully d moned fri ning baland in\n\nBook Gill, og vraneh..... .... ikk Bunk Bista, at taget sight...9/9\n\nBeur Bills, at 4 months' sylt 9:95 Credis, add-ondas' sight Diary B\n\n97%\n\nsight 8/95\n\n|Hongkong vad Ahenghai Han's Sheros--56 car\n\nnent, pralaim.\n\n$1.1.\n\nBesk Company'\n\n467\n\nthe tab of the Guts of the day, string se sul way wow saght hand others to use it in the rate at ng Lag et Avids. Benno da janel Antler Ilanted para say. Applause, the und into a cage finne des Er is fed an AENKY-LENAL-Your Exoticusy. Insa seu de Le Cutudy were luvitaż to set the sick, wirrty beach of the man\n\nwernlar of this unit is th will not glue in say ar: She ass, Cafe, and seruit, wit aigle bave stunt on the 7th lastan, Cartons of radice, su apkalatty is others. I was reed we the armies of the Unser Jurijn 33s sys: Cealth gets set for 2001 Buddar so far Regaiglad with time History, view is en we eater which would want the tie the compliant spared and alert to\n\ncundusly of it, baxing bad mary of the papery nangutan ainm and at the wine line paseret mer khu suoras defendant, bad propriend j kso bat & Blazer and your reactor Woll weyuser, and Sir Richari Mahio- tione 1 varennstrinn, P. The letter of Siriona i Coluty, thus I think i was la aule Lộ đay chemistivation inday interlod, 11 west meat diy.! s Worskin olized tito paraisses tɔ bu wish. fa City Hall Gogiste hane 3 max belle minute si Fane there a horror tend this was the first atter A commicio, was mide 16 that the rules orai yotropical and Shingve with into my co sina bare home to sender and aging. As why we at 18 fr nuusy bun any more.\n\njen lúc tatan G. Weil on earning, an ear, the candituunt is regularizam. To thun Ist es im that key bace hangat befe day.inters to the curtain and spent may and a\n\nEmali Oner, TE, the queda as St Ste on there and grinte tought to Anyon with biok me down,\n\nMNYA WIC), AUSTRATION OF A SAMPAN. by a wild, the anals frate. Il for in the Katie theatre, which has been atenek unë do see the friends wunursened that meating will be see\n\ngifter boʻp thinking Katte the regen premuted i grank dual si túinn 14 weakhey the mamus pēcini Chay Agau, axrani, ploy. waz olmarged Tuin Lubrano, Society of Canton $6,100 jueve To sheedacta parmoor of the army to 15¢ Treta, 15% olardil ka suk lezh sgoi starter the suutition i sa the shenai mesiñe gå väsyabulčera ülves are in thermoirs, and I zazpot ezvecdingly that with berg in cuswiel petion of gains Taulers' Cucuruno Cuszany's SEAT- Inriana po deam that this graph of dwa 19 best by Me. Heuris\n\ngiven the Crown on ende naudition\n\nCAMPER & -rise theiz uzike i ouersze fonince which mak patically gone Relay be intends tooling inte\n\n$14 per abara Mobay aguroval. Wade manor of leases the master Joh fire se audit Patent Wondag afsmann las inmigte in que SAVED LEUS the mtupushin' tab 28 $2,000 vistas de avviser so long the many tom kritisi bien ager tu --¿ni, Est na part, grad uliarita Doe 12 Horn Resti tahang: Chions are zorgs fent qzdira» fi pra WOPE HO Meh 24, 16 ahoy, 25 hour after-vatls it who? Yanga: takuragar Amrint fou-128 750 Ft that the Gorerane who put an Bhan 1 od not only acting on the way the forsrities pats gandaren al trono protquity as I have à era 2015, fi ha tine has an autistry. The pubers of was made tot along life the wail th towerth Chius Lesarwasy-El 1911 per dra ferat fur ton pay of the cursor. did the roste, at i was wing in dampring ut veu excivic•• spesis condities whats were vialston by the ais garsut put hefur to sixing yi ve Me\n\ninstalar o friis Bars for the discusic WC, Neregation too wont be city in Chinas slug, was fad the Ki Wan wi jungamitin vifusal tàn panchina me kinlegu 2\n\nI nonsted a tigh an ad rope ries rodard gather, ispers or who id has he got the hosting runes Champang -- 1990 per share, micus of the Chaverque with mugact to the poure that the reina di un munt 19 saulriviet to get more an intern wil die by to feed on the site. Kg Cheyyained at Tang Long Chua,\n\nlat the Exptira. Now, to begin with nary in us to see the ancey was to be paid. As E cavortbekeskust 1. rebede binaries we formed in a fry tally. But fury ibaonde beardon and other plac\n\nHarpley Vice Tearance Voupery'e naro Finas, ideatons month's wagesansare satin Company's Stare→→ 200\n\ner here. dau. Iney mention that fie reg a wide assuard, two of the ramulines of the Cobiit. 1945, wad icartfans when the Cabane retinate in my biet night on Wiki Halia Sha plece there is aiment lord labour.\n\nlt in my hand...it is Enf the Jish is nuttes, ha friend Les right (311 Rygg Treat may they are with a year lielinist of, but it is hardy so this pigenta. A Jay hon. Criar as wat lawan budaya, Ilagued his old Plate in a do pur. This goes gemi of pile your time it was fall me bail to take fra kāņu vee-\n\nDr Hox. Me Chor, As it all Crisis. The heater to lich this inspired with a y la vicer Derailing to it and tall and over the nasty sit, ut alatut of 3 bank 3-mesell recall me abrent wallies, bras anys mean blican Feranceles E dit sag lats. The gastants are perils Me. Egri haid Mr. Na hry has got his is a altes in the two item was partly TELAMPUL M.0% YALOGERY. Charali Dek aripany-ur (norára?).\n\nThey by and) de All Euls was perff, and who sang outed any level.\n\nDe Karikh Theg attained the joblie pagers\" centers to face gardenias Thu var khe Executing and wider grouse d' gigs | inter eordnete uslove instilation sensotul\n\nhather sunry to pullen pering the rate is in line at if the weared of race avionics, than to weben, fully go into bus and we would as the time and three teal mydia tieners far as the City to the Joy. Now, the popsite mall No eder facing this thesewing clan that instant.\n\n*** were front of us at wretcon junghusgatina Domupaus-Tis. mat meeting short ficut and dance, I have uitution in namlinger thai 1Talk is entran, alig vary which lets with aged to the WING MARIN. Now, the Hapins, le Furius and M. Ang my nose made in the Coward stestion of the City Hall is made it Taanini –A's Hacullovere line, read vortjens së Pantianiae. Duijoms at 11a ameling at waren hatalm og hours vidaselbringe at the time, Pioner 2019 points out, persky a zmesiden eritte Cir is reallway would til hot lo duke labo tu ŝinaos Man, aut i\n\nPha by casting expersitas i rams of han did, which ten te and the tests the division took plway and mad pengesai lenne in che nicest taxy, M. ii Hino's my fat way it is a visit the wordby eling be bad paren\n\nto porta budding to her as a City to lacus with the Ouseetan ajaratha fost ittla stol of jualance in the dion pply of precise com, utista (be City Hall al, latin of the and same triail torfes majority of us, my hon. Feland was in the shape of user nulis in 2 gher ties & QUERIES, Harios regard to the decorumat ca la xevy--ttish it linkly, gue. Vi tar the property and dauelson of the eneziemohair Hopsiue, Vietas med Rařkanjee (in the Colony in win a cistiveŝión 26 rands which the Cite Hall gone was originally made; ulemast, afler what has passed today, the vote? in prisoner duabargod, and the ser ach is dead. Under · dusi pro voting against Kosen yriados. Nes betwest Chinase and Malinuall, and Arin Now T. And, referring and the auto. n the Gaternant la bu hesapla pubin wet the finques i actuaith me they are the trades, any bau. Inud Yr. Ryse.\n\nkud, fogonsh, it by rublish a passo matraci or a sinh vreg te dent thu maghty packs than to setarent wirk kara lakove, in the papers, of whics wil nie wat mitted by his bat ires end, for the into suster; puid fe greater be, as mejority, stille of fritt. that whether in te thela heilbar 2014 hare Tud vt riría pallic merding • fo Codicem se ajay's resin ett forish and a hig\n\nlegal interactatiow to be put by the sepotin. For Tribrary and on any, that they are being up, on read, thanped with de pered my huu, Friend Mr. Frasines action, with ei alajesty was peachately but say if patient the trova ales 20h wargarint deals sot rren ur Governants was the must als went to whs and pichont lettowns to dileeping a pics wered Kwai Ching, agad tastes was in factating us, like eager, drms to the and whinged wind Holi bared ofertatiou Treta Net Buteo mu to You Get. the person thus when the whole teagurile Coqzinal will de cars, zon, papers to spela sua cha) my hou. Front, was beside hit in lasers with swertes a day on bestelfing the low Half doent and wait in baza arquis of any nation. From the action de base ceart it appancs WHY ECOD. nd that he alize toplumeninostics of tain kad ne Cracnes's indong 630.routes for 153; i oruit ell Aference for this standing my Jestido shopsecipás of having the this nomlignity, îse what in Greetary of Stade Fthes tau virild won tricen ont by her aunt for a the City all for a long time, and he and Mitope Lane bald, with put to blen werk of this sides bave or given a file of the dark far, 12, 1 wit.cat distinction to say in his disure, of which boyfriend state, bilst at the aunt al pro frict de car Taleemalivu nad by fir Hinhard RE12- 1. the tation of the Privy. Po papers to which paneles per Majesty's rublote in this coling, mas é thuhet Me Bewick Westem Markest and\n\nfor a cat siderable garini. Now, want ¦ Construct inserrate to reby!! tabia y 'anit, fcrowd bad na opportuzity ! sweptat. I say tha qulation is preso ir Wietzki Kicks-Erat in vurssticu with thao,, sa se ducking poLLDİ NA Droneand safer wheat circumstances? His set of Enerpeun Lith estimateds, mas belong. Parika ärst 11162 11907, MA Aria! Para zmoc faith, a yelise it may be called straite COMELE\n\nperodus then its now the Mad gan fuith. Parikat it is a gasulica of gelosipis I am hot were far met joub Scout the war tius, was walkiay\n\nMy h\n\nthere. Share 1 povab\n\nWomen Laai, nenudin, and Pho kyk, a booty) Langhong, Quaten, and Kana Mesimbrat. Cole\n\nang par skuro premium,\n\nSANTO por shpen (wominali, The prisoner said he and boral the anand China Const Stean Narization Company--Ile.\n\nword en wand this boat wis\n\nat wisse be hired it., Jongtong Gas Company's Shoes-5 pmr The escond palconer said he picked oy that Ebare\n\nHongkong Hotal Company's Shar--98 par\n\npoliwral posing\n\n1 Sennaš pri. ·\n\n·legal induía, vatnik in Mestra. Turing: J'a gust det har tosa salì shown shɔ City Harities in Wes by Falni except “bas no. 1 auf Se minusai tlmub 1,999, heen zacnd-whather; wil te given for sas maanam, hemnes heroisier way Roc? P, to default úr pos impri-Caius Suey Robning Curosz. Limited-\n\njazled me mada kaolu tu nur dianliline ar \"extriona\n\n(not almu buludivad uz muski kishile.\n\nALLHORN SITE.\n\nCute Begar aing Campany (Webenturea)\n\nWong Akın and Cher Ano, zarried more.\n\nHUNTERONG TAMPERATURA\n\nwalk about six cielook on the muralty of the 8th\n\n&ia 920.\n\nCound the chill was gone. A Teleklayer, how\n\nBeri silmate in aligned to Me Austin, Colectial Serdars. He wil\n\nbe which won ma in Ribe \"fout the the sight wearing is ces policy, what of airius China abfente of a vingin print. But at the nutrita bestaan or the Frags Central anat Ja. Aust that hafas the Petí. malay pro khely covet it ought his parib for Mr. Majerly destaces that Fam vanderat tanen. I have bem baby adfere the pahie.\n\nthe Majsely to equal rlyžis lu Ibis part ca dej my hot. friend Mr. Ng Cleg was right in saying Emad the gate being shu maaruniarant of Huse of privitat ay aspon to any such bil The Itris. 1. Kes\n\nsilach, pes\n\nthe City Tale ale cums for getting a sound weekeyal actmunizsina and Fetal fndru tanu give i tu pogand, vot cut:any only, I am; alandy's karainions mth them fler Man-hat theyla masia it is a point ci penat toorts.com es Central Maskot, whya hes so two pri- Thus where is third gaustius, it is the last 1tle anitent. An I painted et ce, who were wok, leading int in factitation, so Ext so they can doubt, bet for etwas which Her Majets 10mm EE LOW Luth be 09 in Jufuli and RTE 50-ng wrecurte im of a „nees- ; aller who has just at thin souks of this, the misild's banda, and she was stung T\n\nlna prevention of a Crowa Celnay kwanza water world I think it drevesa, te coupy the the gostion of expedisser. Now, I observa lånat ja distinction of varionality. And alien the best. the old hermann Coum, auth parleg hold Na abge.\n\na por acauled with lio Queen's saving thorougkäy viższatand that you bass sout, has\n\nMasnim d Ibarge, may be halal 1\n\nJURY NEW skorši ie ci sparated an encaseandonleges of the Chevanoriuendad Score flash the peper stars as they Bestard for which may laid by tuja oonruiter of 200; subglos first hingeloon be statimeLigocina / Brirkiovur esperting bice was wron\n\n#bikinis case iter. The Walsalle en lagd floruer when boas separa i-tes are put u fm tally as reper; vf the evans at that weting, besing negara awli\n\nrolls to a grant iroņi tüm colony, Longkong long | Tas it to Said Mr. Esquide, and Mr. Petics, and Alone the comžikiaun katı vai bron viaktrā,¦ wearing the queaken yet, at I shim feed of Me. Kokkajan maarafareed to, is prbanose to the Taf Wenz mmple, Warchi\n\nSeber. 15%\n\n6.6.201\n\nBamandel oli Tokaday regi\n\nCao Amyrna, *ALLONES Y 99% Ilazerst\n\nSo.....\n\nbaplomberib.\n\n101-...\n\nCHINA COANT MEVROROLOGICAL\n\nJACONSEG\n\n12\n\nREGISTER.\n\ndini A\n\nHoga.\n\nMTANK\n\n***\n\nKy\n\nturn to Jr, Rounds, and he so beinet of the conditices irvaad by a Governor and fuąca: shear and valid Andres, and in rules are map. Ser her! is 1. 186 Easy thu 15. Jer #62 felgrote so wire nomresies.property of oto Tang Abing, aswriter, the Pornostar grly! PA)) $4.3 15.1 R2!\n\nWUTA\n\npart in\n\nwat)owing\n\natan Sets Tail in white sareipim with those aropen and Urines, this boy,low them to the Tunde Gonced, shu kid wil hundor of the hiszen, which are, it will training ma tamat banyo had. Now the itayatan do 1. sanghariali as she press elves the pups of diseasting the action leich des matury was at trait i chudu sat down on the suddette in\n\nwould seatud tank ikusion deter insolens asthanhief quits of the consorcida ir, neelave 0 nith the statuente mire the Cnted destice shop acute reformy price. We wry, that they quinyo tas ber bank\n\nAny y fretter. Bank pilsynets fuld thu eklid unt The haze Bro:\n\n• Must be fib, heeger, drift. Die!\n\nCerita dia sedan hon the\n\n*-jaatioman, and by Mr Porben\n\nbet mother, wwi ghoshall have riay ko sat. Tus razer with Yehog wire wire Site, which is wasting moldly.\n\n•SUR ACRILICIS HAS E TEM auding beacon the sumpta vi the gosti a exted thu li For Major me to fled the gul up and portug I wearing a bele day pobant finds to souble a bież po that sundlifen, mus ense affert,doortor die Bisbard Thung the the Issues eins, The sunding is raid to deny revizor an addres frah the Chinesstrand. The keyer she told a lakang sil In a Library fee by Wah, menaged or in cash edition be impayad ng the Commuterascos or these begli, doute discon le all the soulags, shepherpes of Fourkoglu that is the bed stan and heat, and they both bailonal a saduroy day tha Ananto a clone of the netractione I have read, here you as we then, the public, psy, have not say all chefonda at the kom, madlange, al griteten story tow\n\nthren, by were wetend, Ma ght Jalild to the community dr. Bare to out the Game of Thedalico in sy thin sully my it for infrey re the reizes 1 f the Chivers ruity paran, the sbild, and thi lakong thon and\n\nis strony on his all trupert greats of the cnsion of Chinese fits the City itali, they are pors of this ming to the beating of the fur thus steps of zen Charuchy tomake of the fun riavar colatinus desean parts of Tractpen birthdod as fima do visit the bin corpin Leurs zvestiar the most important were nok hargitjada i la fog. The non pents theve vot of Unregnant birth or dawrent tu sbyxlag any other nationality. 198 Engrosh avs cia be mentine; odvrsive, fun muere of the dis. Swan was the inner of tires by whom that cons\n\nTUR ALLASED MUNDESIR MINY That suite implanter 1, a 23 long, tbré, ndeed, the pedicum are to get olded inringesin way and fer rays in a want catering plains at ausder the Gance. Fl Clines) du dyung, ausartani, approved, cu prind, cumque presente sa ne pu\n\nbaise the Chit City Mall Cacation, wrote a letter which a bar persone Cover how he is to wodas las portes by far whose pile we have trudard wil niet-The Tabu, Chiusse\n\nChernor desired to statebuyer wis mazilyan or 51,803 becu mucatly, with the other papere, befure over with respect to the Wures a man be apporti, de rhe row are paid to who is Pied Bev manus you shuast the king no disuction straf vationality.\n\nthe cowplainneren of Wind the City Hall Concil. the bafeen the Chant. gira hay v do I am about Queen Vesarin's infinity, boils wiring and Earques da\n\nIstal row place? Perisur Mr. Hoppšie 1937 sar. \"Lat? be in ureets with the engattomalts it ing! Chitwas auil tangered kanad÷dge of this versara public meBoy was catei, Far horaste its ceived the mid Feite plansla 60 what the Corviste waremtood, TEAGUE zbriter-panz vesz ke iznenardante! perands the title-led ai +1= property, it is a prere (209990 begetal Fuori z\n\nSee isely! Utirris and foreigners, bet file i\n\ndectwded, 13-py won uns allied to the Father romandel il Wednesday next at the 1. with fees to she advisɔn of Lile ambile; with the Sighs apkin Farben, in sicer saliency caut. it again zu erary relativas allar vidar una faseibo Wa Single proper in making that MS APT THE sidloveandag, grafts of sample polar restante si lay to see a man war it was abfamily decies by case voweydutal to imperfly wipe that it the ind\n\nHished Marbonnels wi\n\narı günque prilburt aran dotibel as in greitadinonthoing as of the saprint the the chemcing, and these chirase susjonaty of ham o'shack. pennial frenzy, which no pas in gain think wait to glade i Grind. It wat tertia en licht heuld be stres at the winding how it was the use of The questing in quation wie wit to by se ou pe bad bush previo on to be A draracteristic «uacfałe is to tell of Chern. Ate Leary to be rutbed by the al of Her Majesty' shot as book of zesian arte susite 15\n\nthat it was cry haters the Queen I was laid before the Quesa, jeje, dhe race, zealace of the rifle of en lommal terms, ap, i7 60, an M47\n\nFury entwertrine so be recovery to enaldo segi atractions, Ting wh not like katmendors of list had 1 wenid santo with rogari la them veren settlement? Wat was the spared uribols? censoren pilo. Kocniky, đã lugter use \"277%, nessans at ti a rod beverentiation of uns werk of of City - brumeriquely president of the Tinji Peter Wil, ny kon with Associated arataiken-bang, seven be szagad article was the articis which proporvi bezowice. A po 1 Molution charging the fe coghing and during il 16 two act. whish dantly Pig Lead was the Chairaus of the City Lini: Con- before that commiflar bear by the consider the repation, dy the grain of Benson of the aniony with mine lezimy was ouch appleded by the public, La Lad kapi tasi Mobiaian, where why if Mer wübleari\n\n...te naudot say that that it is unk, tlovkrantenatal. De Compatike duly sunadiared¦ quod fascia. Prevelike, inayosan, dan Committe to Wool To im Chiu rimtasi proprianou la giuntur slunce. This third so f 11 godoy GT AT reporterà trece pan panca. 5. Askotations as the mosul J• few to sit the world? zerely the question of tiba Beteramy nating, and starbed po treat such weight as ting considered this question, beaving out the on. Pip ses caution was awed by fli. Perors, wantsily tour¦ayi, qui a certain presage repac alg\n\npartout feuerlore of 91 24 to be allomat, la ancoran sich the law, with the coach-thogent the minutes omarmed to by Yome 63. Senden Plotleg kyny were requlug gel and what did say? That there we wemed to chand blanket oft lite speciaria o delu 128 a fight to\n\nthe alley died Tigay gu\n\ndi tirune who nhienon the fonts. Well or sny bar any oh-nge is the bar and police then the aid meeden, to the maminkomaat of bis 18-201 kaple of the Wh 9 Dutcher, f\n\nSMC Cleary, That is dured Be Ontran and Site only gu What about a vatermace jam mu nesto vractical mer ven for a tine, graissat by sa doseman wzali ke in much | the only revity dete.nl puixes. And Mr. ; ceviky like blust dnu fucked cus of them. “I\n\nf the City Plan L'acato, title, the serie Sermons of Wise What Doest dati je le arconlucre with the best the war festion than the salties were atrunjen propuned the shied cantation in obald dare leaght it wwa one of imponeret wide hondes Comictal\n\nLady STATES OF The pale Way it buy buen zmesed by the Chrystals is a\n\nverbeza provokings in napest of the exter'tine, izgored thin anzeznu, with gaveita moïveté, \" don' Back in den bag baina er niveis fel, miley. I don's believe that to the dielny of. There is a regolation for sunkiag einseite Chas the prestigue impeding, wing, po wali fails. That es day in 1978. Whether so tune if I did vol explapl it he might! Raja - Cargar mai dat die previene il le mu je zelo but sinar bever hea. Italien, been pay tinaght of Hongkong any hole of grilema;. Locher they tinc asafol As în fun Belowaty, Shade la ang in deurial distety na which to found a jądgment: inatamente af de tinge trord right or wrong-- Faibly eat it ou\n\nperlinge\n\nMulder.\n\nple, where to be tha matekoligny P $trings Soid go ự his prekerswad tiká reṣait was su albamution it the cales sal the patio. it her by hake the matrial regulations of the Lobocy, and that Rogging i trimu·la, was son to sprytead heartily. Thyon :\n\n6. Maste\n\nWeiber\n\nChepanekens, Paint-bat degrees and init, kept as lon\n\n1. shade\n\nof Mr. Reinis sevī tu♬ ärved Mr. Byrie.\n\nthat were suggesting of the Secrets of Bide, and the nanofonizettistite ice of event.\n\ngedal. Passes in ¦ when King Ware Bullet open zu denk with:\n\nTerave the spell file and in pred us what he culled the Ocultast : the whole para.\" Yon illot,\" and info na sred\n\nindia be",
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        "content_text": "## For Sale. \n\n**MacEWEN, FKJKEL & CO., H**AVE JUST RECEIVED \"KL AMERICAN MAIL\" \n\n**Prime Esatera CCISE.** \n\n**Young Aansrict CUERE.** **Apple OHEISE** **BUTTER.** \n\nand **MALT.** \n\n**Sarend Ply's FELI** **Split PRAS.** \n\n**Fab' TONGTES** **AJANS.** \n\n**COONISE.** \n\n**Astarted VRGETABLES.** \n\n**arted AEN.** \n\n**Muted BOLFS.** \n\n**Pig Head UHKKSE** **Devilled HAN** \n\n**CAVISKE** **CLOSE** \n\n**Caiturei Colien BTADT** \n\n**Whitters BAMS.** \n\n**Breakfat KAŬON.** \n\n**Mails.** \n\n## NOTICE. \n\n**COMPAGNIE ES MOSAQEKINS MARITIMES.** \n\n## PAGURROTS POSTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nSTRAY FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ MAILIA, FORT Sat, NAPLES, AND · HARSAILLES; \n\nA1204 BOMUAY, MARE, ST. DANIN, ASD FORT LOUI \n\n“AN WEDNESDAY, the 27th October, 1880, as Bo the Company's BINDI, Oedant VERNE, with MALES, PARSUMENRA, SPRUIE JAROO will leave this Part for the Yunes.\n\nfor Cago and Spade wil b reglatarel COMB RONLY lo Frame and sudda as well de for Vintseüles, and a ople trait through salles for Pickle this principal places of Furope.\n\n**Shipping Orders** will be granted anal; Bekiel P10 POEK. Banalem TISK Skin AKLLIES. MACKEN 93. Iron TVHLA, ý là, anh 21 tháng Bordon's Conlused MA (sery treab) Canforais MULIS in Chek and Ta Gunger Cakes. Hak Bistutis, dels BISCITA \n\n**Cargo** will be received on board wat 4 pm, Spice and Puzzle until 3pm on he Bith\" October, 180. (Percale are yoimba sout on beard; they must be left at the Agency's Ullior,) Fontents and value of Packages are re aired, For faxtbox particulars, apply at the Tompany's ch. G. 12 OTAMPRAGE, Agent \n\n**Valor RG00LTS.** **Alpbabe B.80ITS.** **Ogaver BISUVIES.** \n\nLA Fangen, Gerober 11, 1880, Buckness FLOOR, CORNMEAL,. NAILSISAN IYE MRAL BUNNY, Small and Large. V WHEAT. QATMEAL SBELLBACK NUTS, VEOAN NUTS. WALNUTS. SOFT SAL ALMONDS. IE1 GIỜ. Canned Table Fruits. Bartlets FKARS. PRACHES GREENGAGES Tark KRUITS Smcked HEEF MITHU BISHI \n\n## HAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. \n\n**STEAM TO TOKOHAMA VIA KOPK AND INLAND EXA.** \n\n**HOES. S. SUNIVA MART**, Captain: Hanexes, dus bem o or abus the Insurances, \n\n## THE LONDON & STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, \n\n**SITARRIO GATING ZAR** **STAFFORDSHIRE FILE INSUR ANUS COMPANY, LIMITED.** \n\nChera-Two MLLong HTUMING Blond are prepared to is Pattan Cutoring FIKK WISKO S Current Kutos ADAMSON, KELL & C., Agatis. #20 longbows Augasi 26, 1680k.\n\n## CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMMPANY, UNITED, \n\n**HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.** \n\nPosition of the Compong at the close of the best financial pour, the 99th Agon), 1860, Cara Bub$1,00,000.00 Carter PaP 500,000.00 Bases For 428 000.00 BALS U 70,278.49 Evirana VanD TO BARY ND PATO TO CONTRIBUTORS MOLDUS........20% per Arzam, OF D. Stats, 23 % va the awak of their Goatribune. Congang grotta Policies on Mause sil para of vite World, par- Contribotury Dividends ara PAYABLE TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS OF BUSI NESS WHETHER TUFY ARE SHARK- BOLDARS OF NOT. 14. GULIJSMITE, Acting Salary. Hongkong, August 13, 1880. abis at map of sis Agencies.\n\n## ANG TSZE INSURANOE¦ ASSOCIATION. \n\n**CAPITAL (Fully Pp...T. 420.000 PAMANENT BESEF 200 Bra Bra T1 209,268** \n\nTocal Cases and 40- CUMULATIOSA, 3 th April, 1890.} ......Tie Ri \n\n**Directors.** \n\nF. B, Yon, Eng, Chairman, 28th Instant, will be espatele se ahore W. M. Eov, WA. METS, SATURDAY, M B Databer, st. F. PRACKYO, F. D. Hara, Esq.\n\n## Daylight APRIJOIS, QUINCES. \n\nEM a regelved on board sod Farely at No Bill of Lading aigued under Brusked OX-TOSQUES, Comprend OX-FOXUCKS. Mire MSAT. Compressed Corned BEFF. Assorted JELLIES in (as Jurs. Mixed PUSLES sted PKLES. Corned REEF. Qua's OLIVES. Clam CHOWDER SARAT Cablores BARDIVES. PEK and BEANS. Earrale Dariela Yeaat POWDER Soka SALMON. POCK in 2001 BEEF la 2. Fratt KCTTER PARCE Balier BANG. Brown BEANS.\n\nWe have the following **FOR SALE**, in Large or Small Quantities la Bulk :-- \n\n**Fine Valantis RAISINS.** \n\n**Mas Parris OURKANTS.** \n\n**Smyrna MIGS.** \n\n**Good Breakfast TEA** at Denis per b F MIXTURE in 5 & 19 Catty Bozer Cases & **BLACK'S HOUSEHOLD STORES.** \n\nPBA Jons Hom & Bone! UCLEBRATED PRISALVES than to 6 9.0. of 29th October. Brett, A Cs man he settled on heard before delivery is tukos, ther wi ɔt be rogized.\n\n## TO AMA \n\nthey RATER F Cabtu. Storage 416 75 STARUBAT HE YOKOBANA... 120 A muŠPANUKAL. Mocars RUSSELL # 09., Secretaries.\n\n## LUDLO BRANCH: \n\n**My BARING BROTHERS & Co.,** E MICHARD BLACKWELL, Esq., Agent, 08 and 09, Corabül \n\nPo pasted on Marine Bisks to sil Subject to a large of 18 tor Intern parts of the 95 30 Anos la wale on Rattus l'any) an Pheriaciders' Lopetal, sill klo PROFITS; \"K A will wd fatsoen for Nogeek will be transkipped to the Shanghai Mail besity at Koda of the Useraitis Resins are no | muafly dretributed among all Coutríðu kora \n\n## CHINA MAIL. \n\n**Insurances.** \n\n## THE ODINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. \n\n**READ OFFICR-SONGKONG.** A GENOTES at all the Treaty Ports Chlan And Japan, and at Hinge Saizes and Penang \n\nJA KENGUILL F Per Pinput for Helkom, CD Chianae ; Paket 11 hom Per Faldin, for Shargħal, 30 Chinose. TO DEPART. Pir Nipt, for Shanghai, 2 Europñana, Bad to biness. Par guns, for Helbow, da, 40 CM- Per Acian, for Hofhow, ke.. 15 Càleum. Pax Mariis, for Mauila, Huropeans, stand 2 Chine Kiska accepted, and Polloker of Insurance granted at the rate of Praia enrent the above mentioned j'oréa CHLAGE PO MLICY VEEN. Ja B COCGGTRIE, Secretary. inna. Naibor 1,111.\n\n## MANOUESTEN PIKE ASSUEANCH COMPANY OF MANCHESTER AND LONDON. \n\n**ESTABLISHED 1824.** \n\n**Capital of the Company £1,000,000%berting** \n\nPhich is paid to Rover For Arava! Incomi CARGO. Per 8. 8. Autrepton, to Loudon sailed 19th Debober-87,990 itu. Cozgoa, 180,542 Ibn Husted Cane, 89.910 the. Saams4 Orange Pekor, m, od 89,991 The Kreen-total 323,443 the Ton; 33 ser $15 Plens Good, 83 balen Waste Pik, and 191 pkg. For New York, 182 pannurlar.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICES. \n\n**MAILS** will close:-- \n\n10,000 120,000 2540M \n\n++ Pur BANGHA!..- +2 THE Tulendyned have loan appointed Bongo Canide, Fossbow, Stanghal, 1 square for the stoys Company as and Haney, anál azo propaved Tosuration at autovak rakām, grant IIULLIDAY, WISE & C Konphone, faxolour 15, 1968.\n\n## Not Responsible for Debts. \n\nWo. Nether the Captain, the Agents, nur Owners will be Uespunisie for amy Debt contracted by the Officers\". Dew of the following Vstacle, during tätär slug in lungkung Berben-- BEW, Austra big, Capt. C, 0. Waft.-Aruhaft, Kveborg & Óồ. TATANIA, Briel ship. Capini Powurud---3000, Livingston & Qa SIUMIN B. Antes, Amerimo argus, CW5, edge.Tong Song Wh CASUMERE, Aerivan ship, Captain I: G. Coliatum—Arai-old, Kurborg di fio, FLORENCE NITRALE, E bur, Capt. A. McIntyre Aruhold, Karberg & Co. $1349, French barque, Capisin Buck Captain Hawass, Geman burke tins, Capsu P. Burgwerk-Carlowits & \n\n## MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. \n\n**Shipping.** -Caneland leave for Samelung, -Ning loaves for Shanghai.\n\n## General Memoranda. \n\n**Sunday, October 24** \n\n**Daylight** Sanghag ivares for Portk. B-By Laver for Manila WANDAY, October 27- 5392.- OCTOVER 21, 1880. ton.\" Now, to our mind, this passage Heade one rappres that the fullest r rocity exted on the pats of Chips sowards British and other foreign inau rame to Chinn, wand that Chinese mar! Bave similer passe to hold meetings and tu consider the question, how, i ther own cities nad tuwas, the imesigrating of foreigners may be boat regulated kan \n\n## No. 5832-Octaera 21, 1880. \n\n**CHICKET.** \n\n## THE CHINA MAIL. \n\n45 3 the Xpans of bis virit 19 the Traunvsal. tòem; hat I have never had my dni stafionel in Brugkorg, ja which theater on Seataci will be trailed a carmi words of ptates Brand by ts kind he would speak with some mucharity, I was ouly 80 miles from. Crasu, on doubt, decide the glaim oulia morla | reagent ni tha busiuran dazu to this l'eart a restricted! It has always seemed to re to be the most cun-sided way of putting\" Ware of Captain Mushall's meticme, the gist of which we gare anveral months \n\nI have looked through all the realis fors, have elamined them carefa ly and tan case, to burp upea tes proposition: \n\n**Daylight-Thaler** leave for furt fari, hat the Treaties with Chine should be revised on titiu matter, when the res Cooktown, So. Soon.Tendon for Espace to Bast of able way of settling the question weuid be Carpenterie Sånt, cecaired by Naval be to insist upon de apasa privilegar Stateknoyer. being extended to foreigners in all pa Mail loaves for Yorts of of China as are sixed by Chinese i Call an Berapa \n\n## No \n\n## THURSDAY, 'thor 38:--- \n\n2.30 p.m.diesting of Shareholder Gao Xarranca Odies, at 'ol \n\n## SATERDAY. \n\n**October 30-** \n\n**Daylight** Mia Bishri Mail leaves for Yokolama, 25. 3 p.m.Aut agar nail desven fix Yoke and San Francisco.\n\nSangn countries. There is room enough Far all, if anly then rights to settle al of trade pengeably were reciprocal on sil Vail this rider. consumadon is reached, it in illogical, from a politics, print of view, to deny to the Austra Hans (we do not say to the Californians! the right of mating their power to Portrici. Wa however, stron conviction that the vast plains of Nook-Truthers for Ropal to 34ghtor both Australia and America will ge Riig, ze ived by Farid roskanjer. The irrigated and opened up droi the manual tour of the Chines TORSTAY, November 11 Noon-Auction of Brock-la-Trade, Mo..savvy; and this, as we listed scre time since, will eventually prove the Ahey to the difficulty of Chinese enigte hon, at lenes of the larger and mon Tingartent branab of the movemen \n\n## Feri, \n\nat11.30 am. Tomorrow, Day, Novembne :- \n\ntion is, Pet Ningro, at 3.30 pun. To-morrow, the and Ini. For **NEWCHWANG**, — Per Chamind, at 2.99 .m., on Friday, the 20 thei For **BAROKOK** – MAK of Hotel de Laivers Per jy. wt30 pm, on | **HONGKONG DISPENSARY**, Sharp seems to have nearly succeda \n\n## Saturday, \n\nthe Zani fuat For **SWATW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.--** Pet Bungling, at, Saborlag. the 3rd it. **** For **HOW, PAKO, ASP HAI-FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS**, PHONG ve on at 6 pm, on Saturday, the 23ed just, For **YORGAMA KOBE...** in establishing a Girly reputable chas Fracter for the Chinamau o feizer, DEN his coace in this connection are je te wait commendable and just the Heathen Chinne\" can warcaly be ex pecued to assume & very high place \n\n## cities \n\nnati! he le raised by costat omewhat nearer to the Wastorn lava!; he is by un neaus the gravelling. \n\n## THE \n\n**Established A.D. 284.** \n\n## A S. WATSON & Co., \n\n**WHOZBALL AND RETAG FB700043.** \n\nbut i worthless monster depicted by the au \n\n## LOCAL AND GENERAL \n\n**IMPORTERS** \n\nDz Peru M, at 5 pm, on Friday. Pavoury SUNDRIES, NESBRY React-Chinese agitators of the Pacto Slope, \n\nthe ' MAILS N Panch PACKER —– Fas French Doziract Packet Bindi nili bepaalert on WEDNESDAY, the Databer, with Male to aud chrough the Vind Htogdom and Sampo, vid Nuples; to Saigon, Stratte Ballikzada, Rajavis, Barnak, Cryina, Indis ( Muitas, the antralscina Aden, Egypt, Malta, sud WALL Curser, Optain Maas. The anal hours will be observed in closing! mann-Mayer & Co., \n\n## To-day's Advertisements. \n\n**FOR SHANGHAI**, \n\nThe Steamstv \"Nig 31, MAIS DE UMTAY SEASES PACERY, The United States Mai! 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MAIL LINK PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIF COTANY. - THROUGE NAW YORK, sue OVERLAND BAILWAYE, AND TOTOBIEK AN YOKOHAMA, AND ÖAH IBANCINOR, TE. & Mail Stembly CITY OF TOKIO depthed for a Frances SATUR FAT, 30th Jual taking Phuge, and Daltsu Sutca uti HUSSELL & Co., Agente \n\n## THE LONDON ASSURANCE, \n\n**INCORPORATED BY Royal Chastes** \n\noi Ha Majerty Kay Dearge The Firsi, * U. 1720 Fadened having been sepented As for the above Corpseilua san prepared by grant lusurances as follows: Marine Deparment, for spas, the hore, in boudi at the principal Ports Policles at rent rates payable other I ut Through Blood for trous. perasion to Takeda apú other Jus Porte, to sa Fros, o Atlantic and Falezd Cities of the United States via Oper and Rathways to Harps Frintial, and Demeraro, sui to porte in Marles, Central and Soren Aurich by the Chupany's and conscaling Sta #Fing to direct sucial altention is our Though Frage Tickets granted w wel alled Skies of Wines, Spirits, &c. Har Moserotu. Pis. 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Pagkages abould be arked to denial of REALE in qal Gouslar Inria to socomapany Overland: Carga bould be wont to the Tinmagany's Uca dualed Favelagen, aldred to the Colicator of Chere at Hau Fran For faziler ip tos as to Patago and rght, apply to the Agency of the Sampang, No. 5, Frays Outra LULL & Co, Agente, Wonton, Cushe 20, 138 \n\n## 3 \n\nof India, China caj Avtolla. Five Ligastent sacceat a discent of 20% allowe Política sredicioner sort periclini Le partient QUBAN STEAMSHIP COMPEY. FOR SUANQUA FSA AM TAIN, HANK W Pots on6 YAZOTEZE.J The Co.'s telp Ashes, Capta Axzas will be dispatched for about the shiul Instwo. For Freight or seage, apply to für Unam Countrice may be posted on board is Pakel with Lab fee of 10, cents ezra Pestage unfl the time of departure.\n\n## SITE, \n\n**OLET Requtsu, ENGLIS AMERIDAY, AN FASKI PATAKY** **DieDANA. MANUFACTURERN** \n\nThe most bierna Man wogy be expected an or about Monday next, the 25thick, by ta M. M. steamer due, which brings Londra dator to the 17th September. de Wa, Lamanale, Taula Water, The next Anessa Mare may be spectra (Aingendo, Palass Water, Sarsaparilia Water, and other dersted Waters, 1 Manfvebury is water divast and¦ conteneva Buropean Yuguralsiona Hongkong. June 5, 1870. or abos: the 10th inst, hy, Pleaser Italgia, which Ivings San Fransiz y dates te ike kd just.\n\n## BUTERY \n\nL. d. Let inge Yun verlund Nuit (Supi, S) has the fal Impere, I am not forbidden to atter my made to any attempt to copy Deligro Sie Thou replied with the happy tant had had plenty of eppretauities to ob that only the west kind of women could santi ad 1 only dusies now tanks.4, \"MAGZE\". \n\n## THE ROYAL ARTICLELY. \n\nJowing sailing of the fast to a port has been which always distguishes to, and those serve the cherweter ac peneral hosted getting away with their The Gurarament it act, it is bad, ask the Colony. I bolten I have worked at berance. Ibu bezusi avvale + grabs to Wednesday. tataested in the Noalety's elfans wün postponed A match was playel to-day ban 27 Kia Faida hay Datibed in beard the tom tomarks souls gold of the Chinees, so that un these points husbands. Fren in Hongkong, which Farlansat for its extes cost of it bad way, and I have put things as H.M.S. Magpie, aus gel Artery Pune Nicholas of steer that send- claimed this year by Sirenelle Weere Pur straight on it le pike for any was bri put! ham huiped fovileg 1 wib heh he clotted is while he might be able to disabuse the few Che bad heir wives wilt thom. When Sie Harle are ha giren expias duet in 7 way, and I da ut so this Kattery and at easy lovey in one postponed in compliance wits the request to 4 bis own to get they had formet s \n\nThe harul demauerndon has been expresion of pro at having Esteeds of porcona of prejudices were only av begining to bring Ben and more, the Gateinment wil, no day know what fe are properly labis in to the more then, after waiting for 40 years to s jantags. Appended are the roores he is prepare to take intellectual treat he bad ayyorloveci sines character of the man to which he had whocher the British were entitled to of the Princ rior al, ha asks for active aid of the bis arrival in Singapore.\n\n## referral \n\n**(Applause).** \n\n**Great Powers** beside rave? demonstration. at a mark of confidence. The dif War shathe Foccolaty of State for The Lecturer, who was seeived with ficades of bringing Chinese woken was away hattle the Cloufus hea spproved of the room applaun, began by juicing out that Sensely forced by Great Yance to cussion of sorg. endations enbaid in the Report the 33 Suph B-fle Allied Fleek have cover. Pulido Coma, had we are intended been induoad to deliver his lecture terfere. Thu fecrarer seen thealt at y that that is sucirely due to the Inske, not out,... ... 62 to be expretive Governments the that application has been rande for two from the fact that no arriving in this ength with the charges of want of the Malay Panimanisio sconect the Bay of nopleut of the Chief Juice, by whom only, Lowris, & Datkin, \n\na deaded Hontenegro for muitary eid, nupoobure and twenty Europees posibles colony he found that here was a strong doetie refinent, and atraktion to the Beugel with the China Sea, the Stross seting with the salive, esa a code of felolda, Paik, 4s this wil, is de balioved, fapt the from here, in order to give the polios popular feeling agus fhose inset laws et health by the thiness, and niss he impost That za hea, alaps (Nik, neaugham, bu voral deconatration. Its stated, Finland fores the dranings of trained odours glooted als duly in tali moniter of the Lukių & TRADE, Daikin,.............. \n\ngrution, sad in form of restricting it. cftheir gang proposities. In thea ............sed Rarsia are disposed to comply, but the Turber, efforts are batzg made to preeuse The maturi progress we had wit coultery be testitud assgewicht faror- Captain Mahallado no attempt to use dread the (luvarnor of haker, Dali, other powers are donario. Poha parte pense foresed in this colney bad errused his able comparison between the linens and give au seifwain of the most of this Canal, the feet; nothing put has been done, la Coeksrell, e Caina, b Stereo Abone of the tale til mare of a spaser which suishment, but nabing bad surprised as lower class of Europese. The par and a thin in about as izgorians ●TROLOR the luster of SE twice will not | Cunningham, e Saga-il, I fino, V. Great Powers have prevented colorivo | hva larterly busu bald to work very mus! So i gore than the great inredigeera stal cleanlizes of the Cries, the \n\n15 Bopt you do not is one of the soules applia. Boultor, 1 Daikin \n\naso, an to the ioration of a casat across $50 to the prevent alata 6 trips. Thouse & Philin, & Stevenson! Potion lo force there to 1 Alu hautrups, Duuming, Daikio, in the calderaton of the project as the do nothing. The mountaioona batom of the untry, anna sigu the papers, A orrditursamyare wae \n\nbreathing as to our chosen, but I eat do nothing. T'as Chief of the Justles alarining roles that would happen her if this anjut mered into so What would become of Singapore with ship escalanide of the Perinta With sorrad away a the thongs to as pspark tiat 135 ought to bund him thom Ity 1 sm nos le clerk. Á mi not his arvadt. 1 decline to do that which is no part of ng luty. I declined to bytu anything to do with that sangreicy or \n\ni Leg bed 1, wide belles, \n\n## MAGYIK.\" \n\n- High constables from Indis, with a view to the Per protining against the Hangkang. drom as follow, however, generally manifested by the working taste of their woman in dressing, and shätzle of Kira Pasha, at Dalrigan The that the arrival of those additions to the \n\nit had been real education to the comforts of the bone helonging to 68 | Salt makes for delay pa wnhdrawal of ¦ E res, it produced, will make our police \n\nor visit these colmier, au to see in de well-to-dɔ, wire many jurticularly pentuar, to which to reply but been given, \n\nIt, Am grant esticulty is ez. stara perfect, \n\nall directions the wonderful traits of the referred ta. In regard to their gambling parlente ha keeping up the camber of intustry and inteligente of its perple babit, be said they had dec \n\n## INDIAN TELEKKING, \n\n**feronson, a Thomas, ↳ Erenslag 9** \n\nsive statku the proper standaa Simple, Saps Ja—its following latter: We understand that the whols fores, He was sorry the more working mar mariod of gambling frers that of Euro- Its glory would deere, and it would be din 1 Salover pa to da via the keep slan, a Dunging, bilgate Abdulla Kan Nasiri ( minister of amounthy to only 100 ostabios divided were cat present that evening a heat pean, but is had yet to tears that they so soother Malach. harbour would glah, but official original dahin, a Staker, b Durning496 Kb.) to the adesso Mahund or reti iz no Jou atation, is \n\nwhat he had to say on the questica, were such veterese gasesters. The bodemarked, is whats godose cipta T the Chick Jestion will pot Rewards, & Dancings Sadis, Chind the Van Onila, siad abvady shout VO slosh, which are star watch was wow being a wavy als working man's obit difficulty with doch wonki talk intodecay, so its fortifie alge the papare unless I haud that bim Shay, Fillingham, \n\n6:13h August, 1880, fell recently into kasi súly reddorn the Keskivens of the forna; elops would he tuntia a wildercoss of las personally. thas a good earn all Eastwood, ut ca. \n\nosed. The importance of the Chinese regard to the Chiese was that their Inɔes of car dipeca Afor some of he slatluse leite w short of manu \n\nquestor coaki be seen from the fact that ; close appétation und protracted breath of Chladen Kende beured perio of their rutas datice, and is use of extrai Bilts had been introduced to desistor, with their courrerent sad ex- el is wel unta, and the Go fatour emergey they soid casting be found with it in these culories and that it had creme any amounting to paretino- ith a car dorizer bar wasting Wear Mufte Dualop in was been the subject of many dehmes in the minanese, and their apparent indifference olished. The sinkodova suy of zeious to lure the Malay element as colonial Legislatures and obawlers. It to the graiñarise of the palate, ren- 3 solar tops and in-bating Chazis à ne na as prcible, but for none was also a question which had very derud competition by their mouse lucs- te et si alte tares, Guiling in use there is uitat disincliently influenced the last Victorian tiuus rivals quis fatpossible. In aer he howel of su Feroute will be cut tion on the part of the Malaga to enter the election. He was aut surprised to find those charges the lecturer alluded to at and they thomas the sorte, and the oequense de, so we han \n\n5 gese. Thare wouldnnig remain Govore i wel: and good I quợc tálok is is a good ( Salatı, Fillingus. We are afruably besied that 15 ia impossible for them to pr.per's \n\nmeni Hese sadiis New Gaol, Let us brewton. sful hace for the mount as of the bad she. I believe may experieus Tucu, Dunning, \n\nAs a Salieri say it in vury Teeth The, ingen, Keninsula; at slevout the Caual will not is as great on that of app oca in Bell, TRS out,........... be untrusted fo our time, sila Cuart, both as a judicial cers and Vincent, en ent as a pencilding banier. Li \n\n## Chief Ju KEGORSZ. \n\nI distal Over of sun City of Luzdys for #ges wide billa 1........ Avioquest was held at the Government or Body fat in z opicion Ciril Boroitals g., day, before the the Chief Justice is dudug what he ought \n\n## 2nd \n\n**Innings.** \n\n**Acting Caremar, G. & Northotiy** \n\n**Pay get to do.** \n\n**Pease 2 Thatters thích cɔn-¦ Stevenson, o locke, b Cuvalaghaw, *** Keisti-Chi'nst and a hand of Pumarogm of mountable, which, agli at the fall Chinese as there now spared to be. were better off then other European in and jury cousisting of Miners H. Love the public more than they concura 10, Cai, Boular, bunningham,....... Otte, die Remia and J. Law, began sterly different other Daikin, b Carning, \n\nou the bud ul Finsters tallat akheep the peston de Asif Governwards, Chatangham, \n\nseamani on the Emma. \n\n## Atwood, \n\no aud Jooze, \n\n## Lovett, \n\nhol us \n\nde of the sarth. You a Hving coated, the dwindling sway of the number gene antipathy towards the the fact that the working man fortunately tea that aisée, but still nothing bat has strength, is very inadequate to the require The Chinese were incongr-beusilla, and regard to the shortness of their bure, he feit that he hur lees of them yow The Chinese, he pointed out, wokal 3 doe hy you as yet, Bowater, for the munia of the pisu \n\n'shku nỷ tim tuligion of Ales Průphol, girá | than he thought he knew soroo 05 years bag leans bests they were exalted Dr Clouth states that about 1 16 po tema, i abenld go \n\nup the duna of bravery, collect the people pratarday be tried a nots requesting his Bisk ans 1 Tblog here. 11870 per Swith, Castreba.................. \n\nand Ghess, and having invested Konut- **BARON OVERBBCK'S CESSION IN** \n\n**ago.** \n\n**But** \n\nin venturing to exproes his frurn the mesas of recreation which to a man blonging to the of the at roatavat eluce I have been bete na \n\n## BORNEO. \n\ndisanat from the popular feeing against Europeus enjoyed; and so far se their |(bils-i ou \"all ridan, caž cat táo bowels di shager Emm who had fallen inby theis na offical in my pedition weald erar Tvara, > Carningliaerery Forlaghes hatir in the place, and \n\nthen les baged he would nes be credited tempersues of hring was cancorned, in (Strain Times) Dk. Fann he arrived his foort te Retail, and fics) has ever been: Hell, fece You yonment wit to be 100, granting a charter for a teria \n\nIt was reluarkent stat in this they were by no Movariérom there fem the freo of the atth. azad, death Laylag been savie, sa subjected to before. If i had not bears the Vict, Oncingla \n\nThe question of the cession and too wab suy interested natives. \n\ninezonary for him to stand forward moans alexciliar wrong. It was not in opsion, by a fracture of a base of the \n\n4 For some will be great in the world. e ott af Barnes is etil under the as their champion. The Chinese, bet ordions caliptication secticid skull. \n\n## Write \n\nzowe of your weliare, and repertsonaiaration of the Fasi Olien \n\nbelieved, were well able to take care of wants thas the national wealth of a pres Food, savoc officer of the Germen \n\n## Salty \n\nwhorer Spe \n\nthemselves, au they had done for the last (aneous people consistesi, but in its prom abooer MAN now in the Logicom Dont, \n\n## Side, \n\n**Nap. 27from Fakar rebed home, but it is said that now urba stated that yesterday morning, he nazt the \n\n## Festerday \n\nto Segi and white at Quetis meat is erer and Lord Cmavills in fear thousand years; and any ertemps dacbo over its expenditure, as main deceased, who was able to work \n\n## boon \n\n4 28, Maplertanks \n\n's brigade w \n\nwith one little insure from the exigencias tilltrain in this colony or eles reply to the diffenity suggested by the is locato 100 bead gear from the pett \n\n## 35th \n\n**Howare** will leave Kandahar ou the legislation and parts landarefip, the where would only recoil on the greur. working me was an expression of A match was played between the shore Pets of Georral Phayre's Listen water will receive his earnest sttention To flustrate this be referred to the wonder that the cultivated Brion should \n\n## Kaniskor, \n\nthe east' remaling in cap to \n\noftets I might hara mim furni into doing something whtob I dare not con- \n\n## plats. \n\n## Calling \n\niba Cabar of the Cart Mr Stockinen, the Registrar then asked him to arcertain from Mr Nouop whether the Judge wing. If the Chief Justier, \n\nof the sebooast. Will a cold chisel a ha sided, does not do his duty, I will do \n\n## USNTRAL SCHOOL \n\n**V. WONGKONG PUBLIC BOVOLT** \n\n4 3mity \n\n## Ear \n\n## Adri \n\nsumer, and directed bina to staze himsait! ziua so far or in me es. My duty is to Clubs on the Byakkoon Bijaket Cab enved into the Cantonment as sny Rose definite decision will be rises data of slayers, und be puinted out fear the competition of the Chine \n\nby a cupe to the boat Dead how attend in Cuart, sed 1 illato di Court, evar appeared to have made note of the bat 1 il nos nitend in handers. tope and must have lost his bediend falou Me Stookhansen left to Icterslew Mr being in favour of the Public School. fato the trek. \n\n## Moshop \n\n## Tun \n\nM. M. sixsome des left Salgul 41 \n\n## Lee \n\nWo Shing, the head cocite spleyad by the Dook Company, board was of the sin lling out that was bad fuilce, \n\n## routs \n\nfor Jongkong this afternusu un d \n\n## Telefuck. \n\nuses string in Hongkong, or day a rolight Masquerade at Ki other persons who may desite to conto son lant aight, se zawounosd, an! + alt the files of local, China, fots Tory Inle water of pleasure rackare d Aumrien, English, Indien or vote sembled in the gardena, disgarand in a at nesapapus, *TH invited to call as racists of fatty matuides and mazka. the \"ORIA MIL\" Of, who formaty za nearly three hundred were pres alaty vowspapere, dailios and weaklive, Ton wasther was all the old be ded from those countrion, ste now filed fat and « very plasmant evening was pacrofi rho who ventured perces the wa \n\n## raferet \n\n## Be \n\n## Correspondence \n\nfor Non-Tinion West IndThe putilation of the tee commmeed Rythicx was quiet and menig, milit \n\n(exout Hay de Pangusy, vinos bo sent by a rate. \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Oct. 21, 1980.** \n\n## THE FERNOH MATTY \n\n8.10 p.m. “ \n\n## 063 \n\n## The Chinz Mail. \n\nThe following hours are observed in closing Muin, de, by the Franch Contract Packe ng before departure, -—- 3 F. Money Urd Office closes Fosi fica ales, exvert the NIGHT HO, but is \n\noper, out of Oles hours. \n\n## BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, \n\n**tray of departure** \n\ndents. tongkang, Qutober 31, ZEN. \n\n## Pont \n\n**Cffice DENT.** \n\n**A.M.-Eagletry of Totters avisa Posing of all priated taller and patterns.** \n\n..feils einwel, except for Late \n\n## Luthers. \n\n11.10 A.Matter pay be posted with \n\n10 \n\n## COBAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, \n\n11 \n\n**FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT)** \n\nThe Usa Sisaushi \n\n**Archines.\"** \n\n**Captain C. Jackie** \n\n**Policies** sued for mums not exceeding or ahem the shout \n\n## 110LIDAF, \n\n**W185 & Co.** \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**July 25, 1874.** \n\n## --- \n\n## BOTH BRITISH & MENGANTILN INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n**Incorporated by Royzi Charice a** \n\n**Special Acts of K'arbiament** \n\n**YAMETRIE 1809.** \n\n**CAPITAL £2,000,CA.** \n\n## THIS \n\n**Vadersigned, Asans at Hongkong** \n\nFor the above gazy, sta preparad to graut Poles against F:R, to she extect of £10,000 on way Failding, or en Mercane in the same, at the \n\n## Occidental \n\n& Oriental Stem-i Rates, object to a discount of 20 \n\n## Ship \n\n**Company.** \n\n**TAKING THEGER CARGO AND PASSENGERS OR TBE UNITED STATES AND KUROPE, \n\n## CESTRAL \n\n## WI \n\n**KE** \n\n**lavalid** \n\n**Purt** \n\n**(1845),** \n\n**Hans** \n\n**PEON** \n\n**FACIFIC** \n\n**AND** \n\n**OUKNECTING** \n\n**Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c.** \n\n1, 2 xel Setar Asapessy's Brandy, Is \n\n## Gratis \n\n**Marque Brandy, Cutter Palmer** \n\n& Co.'s Bay, Reuser fine de \n\nC's Bandy, E 0 4 staraj \n\n## Mended \n\naid Bacerbert V. Icipi \n\n## Whisky. \n\n## Jamieson's \n\n**leish** \n\n**Whisky,** \n\n## Glendes \n\n**Welby** \n\n## RAILBOAD \n\n**OUMIPANTES** \n\n## AND \n\n## ATLANTIC \n\n**STEAMERS.** \n\nper cent \n\n## CILMAN & Con \n\n**Agente, Rozkang, July 6, 1872.** \n\n## LANCASHIRE \n\n**INSURANCE** \n\n## COMPANY, \n\n**(FIRE AND LIFE) - CAPITAL,WU MLA BILING.** \n\n## Press \n\nthe \n\n## Przes \n\nagainst the tak of FIRE on Builtings or au Goods stored thersta or Goods en hard Yesels and on Nolis of \n\n6. BSTAIC wa ho despatch-Female in harbour, at the szual Torne \n\ned fx kan servis Yakhana, and Condition. \n\n## Proposals \n\nfor fe Amurous will be re \n\n## For \n\n**Freight or Passage, apply to** \n\n## BUTTHAFIELD & WIRE, \n\n## KATA \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Ostaher 21, 1990, \n\n## NOTICE \n\n**TO OONSIGNEES, FROM LONDON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,** \n\n**Samhip** \n\n**Dewartire, Capt. M Macawz, huving arrived from the abere Porta Consiganen of Cazzo are hereby re quested to and in their bills. Lading sa Ani \n\nthe Clervaged for covered their fir \n\nfrem atopgste. Cargo impeding the l \n\nto take immediate delivery \n\nrange of the Susmeril boat as landed \n\nand bored at their risk and expose, ard: \n\n## Pics \n\n**Leimage** will be affected. Optional Carga will be forwarded on to \n\n## Late \n\n**Pec** \n\n**flu** \n\n**cele** \n\n**unsil** \n\n**11.30** \n\n**4.M.-wise** \n\n**the Post Giflon clares** \n\nentitis. \n\n11.40 male Lettera way he posted on board the pecker with Late \n\n## Fe \n\nof 1 cents until Use of depswww. \n\n## Quotations. \n\n## Hoycasa, \n\n**cuber 21.** \n\n**OPIUM,-Now** \n\n**Paina, essb.... 000** \n\n**coal...** \n\n12 \n\n10 \n\n+ \n\n**Old** \n\n**Non** \n\n**Benarus, sal, 872** \n\n**cash,** \n\n**Old** \n\n**New** \n\n**Malwa, oralit, 700** \n\n**Allowance.** \n\n**Taetr...** \n\n**Od** \n\n**Maiwa, aedi, 70** \n\n**Allowance, Isals 1348** \n\n## Bows, \n\n**Wire** \n\n## Exchange. \n\n140 \n\n## Demand, \n\n9192 \n\n## 30 day \n\n**sight** \n\n'4 moushs' sight, \n\n.. \n\n## Credite, \n\n4 \n\n## Documentary, \n\n4 racities' night, 5/2 \n\n## Shanghai \n\n**suvs** \n\n**norios** \n\nto the curary bendla, Wice, given before in. That, the 21st \n\n## demand,..... \n\n*142231 \n\n225 \n\n$23 \n\n## All \n\n**Claimsadmat** \n\nthe Stamer must be 3bang, doan, \n\n## peceneted \n\nto the Gudert helend Tamf, 994 fue****** \n\n## 731 \n\n**Bigow** \n\n**34th** \n\n**Lust, or king will not be recognized** \n\n## 27.HA \n\n**Soverelgus..... 5.93** \n\n**RUSSHT). & Baj** \n\n## Areatz \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**October 21, 1629** \n\n## SHIPPING. \n\n## ARRIVAL. \n\n## Dat. \n\n23, Jems, Datch startez, 3087, \n\n## J. de \n\n**Ridler, Haiphong** \n\n**Cuk** \n\n£, Ri \n\n## Oz, \n\n**R Sturme** \n\n## Col$1, \n\ne. British etesmor, löl, \n\n## bigly \n\n**moms** \n\nor about the St Norminber; 1889, at \n\n3 p.nr., taking Care and Fazawngate for priced, and taemitted to as Directors 4. MaGauber, London Aag. 2, and Sign Japan, the \n\n## ATH \n\n**Qiu, Swaine Rose & Co.'s Old Tom** \n\n## Gin; La \n\n**traute** \n\n## BL \n\n**Indow, Erase** \n\n## Gunagi** \n\n## The \n\n**Gar** \n\n## Pin & \n\n**Gra; Ange** \n\n## sta, Boker's and Orange** \n\n## Bitters, 200, 2, \n\n## BASS \n\n**ALE, buttled by CameroN & SLEM-** \n\nna, Fin and Quarks. \n\n## GUINTOUT, \n\nbottled by &J. \n\n## Piata \n\n**nel** \n\n**Quakta,** \n\n## PILSENER \n\n**BEER,** \n\n## Geilan** \n\n## Fhes \n\n**ALE, bottled by Macki, H. Gu.** \n\n## States, \n\n**Merino, Centre Weis focizica** \n\n## Sp \n\n**Sonth** \n\n**And** \n\n**Katupe.** \n\n## If \n\n**rotira, protection** \n\n## Connection \n\nin me at Yokohama, with Art chin line in will be granted an \n\n## Steam \n\nfrom Shang \n\n## Freight \n\nwill be centred on Board unti 4pm. of the 8 November. PARCAL. PACKARES wit be recited as the Othe sabai & p. 16. same day: al Parcel Packages should be marked to podzemn in fall; vale of same le required.\n\n4. 4 Reproxies iade on BETVER Vio- ! TAGE TIKA. Goslar Involets to scoompany Over- | lena, Mexican, General and South Ameriosu! Cargo, should he met to Company's! ille por O. 18, Gear & Out 21, Nigus, Britis 1000 naingia Cautor. peals or other information, appy to ABRHOLD, SARRERG & Co., Agents, Hongkong & Cantor. Boogkong, Tarary 1, 1887.\n\n## QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n∙HE Undersigned are prepared to grazi DRAIGHT ALL and FORIER, by the add:ced to the Collector of Cis tore, San Francison. For furabus infromation ne to Freight! $15,000 op Buildings, or on Goads seed thersta or Goods on bard Yesels and on Nolis of ALE and PORTER, in Balk, (Bogbeads and lideriins). JP'S STORES and SAIL-MAKING, Hongkong, October 2, 1850, Policies againes Fire to the gatens to or Passage, apply to the scenes herein, at current wal tates, subject to a Gempang, No 37, gea's Road Contra Dasoent of % of the Francia, CHAS H. HASWELL, JE, Agesil iloegkong, Datober 12, 1830. Bey NORTON & Co.. Liget Mongkong, January 1, 1974. Ont. 91, Nože E60 10.9. u. for New York. 21, finger for Haikon, d. 21, fria Fratme Nugasaki, fc. 21, Potentia, for hergiaf OGBARED. Nings for Shanghai. Dungen, for Karnow, do Hetect For Fukor, du gmar, los Menile. Mariteits, for Manila, \n\n## PASSENGERS ARRIVED. \n\n## Per \n\n**Datonshire, from Singapore, Mr** \n\n**Alhere Fumorili, and 39 Dalame.** \n\n## Per \n\n**Jawa, tem Balpbong, 2 Chicaes** \n\n## Sharas** \n\n## Gozzang \n\n**Hank, 66 % phat., Alca.** \n\n## HONGKONG, \n\n**ZHURMAT, COT. I, 1860.** \n\n## numust \n\n**gord** \n\n**omter** \n\n**pravaried.** \n\n**Thoas** \n\n**la** \n\n**wastes** \n\n**Ho** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**dir-oliou** \n\n**are** \n\n**pronis.** \n\n**via** \n\n**upgeetaufty** \n\n**of** \n\n**gathering** \n\n**thescica** \n\n**ether** \n\n**sysin** \n\n**bafate** \n\n**long** \n\n**us:bit** \n\n**the** \n\n## atomyiana. \n\n## I \n\n**will be oberved** \n\n**Ty an extruct re-** \n\n## A \n\n**Menawar** \n\n**bad** \n\n**tota** \n\n**eruit** \n\n**Court** \n\n**produced** \n\n**elsewhere** \n\n**thist** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Greaville** \n\n**yaterday, afute** \n\n**Beglekar, wat no** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**Las been speaking in Adelaide Korat conki bant.** \n\n## The \n\n**inst** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n**rexed** \n\n**question** \n\n**of** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**how** \n\n**know** \n\n**the** \n\n**Supreme** \n\n**Court** \n\n**of** \n\n**this** \n\n**ranigration;** \n\n**and** \n\n**it** \n\n**susy** \n\n**be** \n\n**noted** \n\n**that** \n\n**Colong.** \n\n**A** \n\n**and-hand** \n\n**say, minsk taove an** \n\n**gestan** \n\n**formen** \n\n**to** \n\n**cakes** \n\n**a** \n\n**divan** \n\n**and** \n\n**monspectably** \n\n**bound** \n\n**t** \n\n**terant** \n\n**opinion** \n\n**to** \n\n**that** \n\n**which** \n\n**is** \n\n**crudited;** \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**longkong** \n\n**Government, o julga of the Dibles of jacuzz and wit at least by the afstractive policy lithaetony be picked up in the base of the fac motted hers as to passengers beone to niture brokers any time for scouts, of the Colovies. Sharp's rendness and experience, some bad tie to wake cash to auda From 20 of Nrth thenpretas Court reeks not. The thing may and orignal was expected, invite nadsbe toft to go bears and and se cubes to a feeling of disap pointment at the report of the inoture gain tow, Leinging his Forma presented. It may be the inalt of the with him.\n\n## report, \n\n**though** \n\n**the** \n\n**polete** \n\n**sesta** \n\n**za** \n\n**bej** \n\n## Birly \n\n**given;** \n\n**but** \n\n**in** \n\n**praizotion** \n\n**does** \n\n**ja** \n\n**ravaz** \n\n**accident** \n\n**occurred** \n\n**yesterday** \n\n**at** \n\n**the** \n\n## But \n\n**strike** \n\n**on** \n\n**93** \n\n**worthy** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp's** \n\n**Bowlona** \n\n**Docks** \n\n**to** \n\n**a** \n\n**desman** \n\n**belonging** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n## German \n\n**sciorer** \n\n**Fuse.** \n\n**Thy** \n\n**decored** \n\n**of** \n\n**our** \n\n**ceremusity.** \n\n**The** \n\n**tons** \n\n**which** \n\n## aspeara \n\n**to** \n\n**nave** \n\n**presied** \n\n**the** \n\n**gasa** \n\n**ant** \n\n**to** \n\n**work, in the morning, ro eui heag way must tooderate at fir away the head gear from the bewap it of and the most imprez sa fiendly the coner. He appears to have neglect. hasing was given to the lecturer. noted the pracamiton of conele himself with withstanding the general paiby test is known to axist towards the Chiness as inamigrania Te judge from the title \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**insurers** \n\n**verourke, \"The** \n\n## LLines: \n\n**at** \n\n**Hoann** \n\n**aud** \n\n**Abroad,\"** \n\n**it** \n\n**may** \n\n## Lo \n\n**said** \n\n**that** \n\n**either** \n\n**the** \n\n**leemte** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**Perimet** \n\n**or** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**bending** \n\n**a** \n\n**tapp** \n\n## bleary \n\n**dealt** \n\n**principally** \n\n**with** \n\n## rupe, \n\n**as** \n\n**he** \n\n**was** \n\n**told** \n\n**to** \n\n**do** \n\n**by** \n\n**the** \n\n**med** \n\n## and \n\n**to** \n\n**rub** \n\n**inizie** \n\n**sur** \n\n**full** \n\n## wins \n\n**the** \n\n**Doo, striking his head an being es sevarly Injured that he died to the alunos. Ju gosta held the body at the Gril Uspital tüm after- the auspal position taken up by the mou, of which a report will be found f Chere in the towns; white the larger heider admon, gwelling in a rich of and is oore importants part played by ↑ “accrlottai dasth,” the Chinese in developing a new country, by means of irigation works, milway 16 Mine, a Calcatta Paper making mining, ant plotation series, coed and consent by Onlives, Ad was felt unnoticed. By this omission \n\n## Po \n\n**remark** \n\n**that** \n\n**one** \n\n**happy** \n\n**effect** \n\n**\\*f** \n\n**the** \n\n**\"platform\"** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**lecturer,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**daire** \n\n**in** \n\n**England** \n\n**in,** \n\n**dvahtke,** \n\n**zared** \n\n**good** \n\n**point** \n\n**was** \n\n**meter** \n\n**lustracionalny** \n\n**to** \n\n**Serally** \n\n**in** \n\n**she** \n\n**spirit** \n\n**në** \n\n**kan** \n\n**alted** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Flemish** \n\n**artisans** \n\n**who** \n\n**sectie** \n\n**reistions** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Quereramous** \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**su** \n\n## in \n\n**England** \n\n**and** \n\n**thereby** \n\n**gare** \n\n**un** \n\n**impetus** \n\n## aina \n\n**fun.** \n\n**Boa, of Ct $1,550 per a entes.to manufactores there sub might noterete of the Colonica and thầu sther De- Cada Traders' in. Go, $40 per share, Nards China Ins Co., Ts. 1,675 per dima. Jangsate fue Aso, Fin. 750 per share. Chien Jun. Co., $800 per share, nainn. B.K. Co., por since. China Pire fur. C $50 per share. K. W. Dopis, pre-, miles. Ceanopoliton Uusk, par, nods). H.K.4.8.5 0.24 prov Bhai Sai Nav., Ta. 3 per a, womina). Chin Star. Co., p. 10. St $89 per share.\n\n## have \n\n**been** \n\n**done** \n\n**for** \n\n**century.** \n\n**Even** \n\n**pandonadas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Eritiah** \n\n**Oturm** \n\n## this \n\n**instance,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**would** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**likely** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**the** \n\n**desire** \n\n**affect** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n## TH \n\n**Boston** \n\n**Herald** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**Ikid** \n\n**August** \n\n**andicare,** \n\n**heceura,** \n\n**so** \n\n**fue** \n\n**as** \n\n**the** \n\n**impene** \n\n**lacated** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**steamer** \n\n**Grenfilloch,** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**rement** \n\n**of** \n\n**manareteres** \n\n**is** \n\n**concereste** \n\n**ne,** \n\n**strived** \n\n**at** \n\n**Sandy** \n\n**Hook** \n\n**(strate** \n\n**little** \n\n**need** \n\n**be** \n\n**expiiented** \n\n**from;** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese;** \n\n## while \n\n**the** \n\n**Fish** \n\n**Huguenots** \n\n**became** \n\n**to** \n\n**Sew** \n\n**York** \n\n**harb.ue)** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**6th** \n\n**idcm,** \n\n**Dust** \n\n**desirate** \n\n**citizen,** \n\n**the** \n\n**Aura** \n\n**having** \n\n**mavia** \n\n**the** \n\n**sun** \n\n**from** \n\n**Attey** \n\n**in** \n\n**si** \n\n**lis** \n\n**eutend** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**do** \n\n**not,** \n\n**¦** \n\n**days** \n\n**to** \n\n**hours,** \n\n**tuoluding** \n\n**two** \n\n**úya'** \n\n**down-** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**vounted** \n\n**Free** \n\n**Trade** \n\n**tu** \n\n**la** \n\n**the** \n\n**Sus** \n\n**Canal** \n\n**waiting** \n\n**for** \n\n**mail** \n\n**cigration** \n\n**in** \n\n**\"verything** \n\n**else,** \n\n**and** \n\n**in** \n\n## Ass \n\n**that** \n\n## Don, \n\n**$175** \n\n**porebare, salah.** \n\n**\\|** \n\n**COPAS** \n\n**OF** \n\n**LUANF** \n\n**of** \n\n**those** \n\n**who** \n\n**yet** \n\n**favour** \n\n**Lest** \n\n**year** \n\n**the** \n\n**Stanfalloch's** \n\n**Seip** \n\n**wirin** \n\n1370 per share, selam \n\n## Do, \n\n**Debentur,.. pr.** \n\n## Chirome \n\n**Imperial** \n\n**Loan** \n\n**of** \n\n**1074, nominal** \n\n## De \n\nof 1877 do, \n\n## Temperature. \n\n## so \n\n**ding** \n\n**he** \n\n**must** \n\n**have** \n\n**todlas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**sewn.** \n\n## This \n\n**satin** \n\n**lastent** \n\n**trip** \n\n**cu** \n\n**record.** \n\n## Frotection \n\n12 that part of the wozid, † 61 daya Hot, hearing in mindî die grave error of' the lecture to be found in the abnue of we take the foliowlog from a New York Buy thence of the part which the Chi- (Zaken at Moure Estoquer & Co.'s Ponnien, seem destined to play lo pasing! PE of the Bib Sapteinber \n\n## Gana \n\n**Bund** \n\n## Honokora, \n\n**Oktoby** \n\n**$1.** \n\n## Banners \n\n**M** \n\n12....... 42..... \n\n[to. \n\n## THENOMETRA) \n\n**de** \n\n**Trans** \n\n90148 \n\n50.002 \n\n## મ \n\n1 M... 4.x.... \n\nto (Tez balb) 2 a.m. \n\n## Da. \n\n## Fo \n\n1.X. \n\n09 \n\n2001 \n\n## D. \n\n**faximum** \n\n## He, \n\n**Hatem** \n\n**orur** \n\n**night** \n\n+9 \n\n## Cwing \n\n**to** \n\n**se** \n\n**krangemeni** \n\n**made** \n\n**betwee** \n\n## the \n\n**way** \n\n**for** \n\n**Western** \n\n**civilisation** \n\n**by** \n\n**Postmailer** \n\n**Janes** \n\n**and** \n\n**the** \n\n**mangers** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**opening** \n\n**up** \n\n**new** \n\n**territory** \n\n**the** \n\n**greatest** \n\n**Panife** \n\n**55** \n\n**and** \n\n**Oroldsatsl** \n\n**and** \n\n**Uriental** \n\n**fault** \n\n**we** \n\n**la76** \n\n**to** \n\n**and** \n\n**with** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sanen** \n\n**is** \n\n**Steamship** \n\n**Computes** \n\n**the** \n\n**maft** \n\n**for** \n\n**China,** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**maarer** \n\n**in** \n\n**which** \n\n**he** \n\n**wented** \n\n**the** \n\n**Japan,** \n\n**Azabralia,** \n\n**Sandwich** \n\n**Islands** \n\n**and** \n\n## He \n\n**is** \n\n**the** \n\n**covaízise** \n\n**to** \n\n**which** \n\n**mails** \n\n**are** \n\n**ment** \n\n**by** \n\n**political** \n\n**spet** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**question.** \n\n**reported** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**said, \"If** \n\n**Chiat** \n\n**was** \n\n**the** \n\n**stesters** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**shore-atione?** \n\n**con** \n\n**wing** \n\n**to** \n\n**modify** \n\n**the** \n\n**revisions** \n\n**of** \n\n**hot** \n\n**as** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**de** \n\n**hacra** \n\n**Ister** \n\n**then** \n\n**hereto** \n\n**Fabios, gan 1G BODI ARION Tia Sue Prac treaty with Great Britain suns to prfare, that is on the serenta day pensions side for the regulation of immigrato the advd day of thing mor tics of bar peuple to the color this is of a day's star psich well und wood; but this was te only applies to the wande uiry east of the honest way of grapping with the ques- Bealy Mountahar \n\n## Te \n\n**way** \n\n**Granville** \n\n**Biary, his relative, that diey wers Epium ackers--WA Brew on Wednesday test, the resales faibly of supply. It is reported before long. What has decision will be it injured thaso he had cistine! The next charge against the legalizos \n\nThe Apub's but troops reaching be it very toutafal. Sir Charles Eike's it. Chau the Governor thurs durissed the ropes to the various interpellations ceded in obtaining from the set by the sistement in their closin asis to birdir homes. The Kabul and upon the subject in the Hense of Cos-highest court in England she wolaration this respect was immensely exaggerated, Kobitale went on to Kabel, \n\n## mans \n\n**were** \n\n**on** \n\n**she** \n\n**one** \n\n**hand** \n\n**rather** \n\n**the:** \n\n**the** \n\n**sinro** \n\n**who** \n\n**stepped** \n\n**on** \n\n**firtish** \n\n**and** \n\n**could** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**compered** \n\n**t** \n\n## s \n\n**Sept.** \n\n**28-Culley** \n\n**St, John ranging w the hopes of a charr soil was at that instant free. The day moment with the terrible rise of drink eports nil gains at Randaber. The brigade brug granted, but on the other hand that verdict was pronounced was a good jog alvoholte liquears to excees prevail.\n\nThe Registrar: As to the master of Son following in the soure --- Sai Soon, I have put his petition among \n\n## CENTRAL \n\n**SCHOOL.** \n\n## 14 \n\n**Jamage** \n\n## and \n\n**ho** \n\n**esported** \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**arya** \n\n**teorived.** \n\n**He** \n\n**may** \n\n**stiend** \n\n**C.** \n\n**Water, Bail, As of the proper. Na one sporated to Chambwa it hesthouse; I wilt not. J. Wallace, a Batif, busle,.. Lave en dessed fail, but when the rany, ned i wish it to be unhestund, that Remedium, a Grimbe, b Hull, sies was given, he was an lying hay duty is nou to a land to bar Andur, Dock with a beat under water.\n\nThe Coroner barleg sammet up eviler, a verlot me returnal of vidente: death' \n\n## SUPREME \n\n**COURT** \n\n**Thunday, te L** \n\n## it \n\n**were** \n\n**my** \n\n**day.** \n\n**I** \n\n**would** \n\n**attend, but I de** \n\n## į \n\n**Vinevaly** \n\n## ↳ \n\n**Gl** \n\n**about** \n\n**attend** \n\n**Lecates** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**insalted** \n\n**on** \n\n**Shuster, b Had prey ecadam** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**attended, and I don't dodat, \n\n## Ko, \n\n**tail, b Qiable, \n\n## Very \n\n**MOTI❘** \n\n**kahamas, nat qui, AA** \n\n## Julinone \n\n**to** \n\n**im** \n\n**inanited** \n\n**unless** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**lite** \n\n## protection \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Prom** \n\n**The** \n\n**Sou** \n\n**Susa, bọt I cannot help it, I bolove the only esteguard the pubita bas le the Fren. The Ir has born wi- red here stue I came here is a way 1 Rover Rate it simidindered eltowhere.\n\n## THE \n\n**SUPREMA** \n\n**QOURT** \n\n**SCANDAL** \n\n## Mattors \n\n**are** \n\n**Lake** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chamur** \n\n**in** \n\n**seurat** \n\n## \"The \n\n**Onien** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**And** \n\n**Jan** \n\n**Brotezistam** \n\n**which** \n\n**ought** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**takes** \n\n**in** \n\n**public, i don's sonse to be a party to angling of the** \n\n## This \n\n**after** \n\n**our** \n\n**number** \n\n**of** \n\n**cance** \n\n**which** \n\n**kind.** \n\n**Whether** \n\n**in** \n\n**a** \n\n**bish** \n\n**pon** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**lying** \n\n**beer** \n\n**fines** \n\n**Monday** \n\n**loss** \n\n**a** \n\n**low** \n\n**one, I air shaply goined by one prin b. wura to cause au belare the Chipë Jugle, and that la in to taản khu \n\n## aber \n\n**regend** \n\n**if** \n\n**to** \n\n**lie** \n\n**on** \n\n**i** \n\n**den** \n\n**and** \n\n**t** \n\n**Reglatter** \n\n**wha** \n\n**in** \n\n**Copel;** \n\n**130** \n\n## 15€ \n\n## GK \n\n## lier \n\n**war** \n\n**iis** \n\n**rocant** \n\n**hy** \n\n**in** \n\n**frakt** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**last** \n\n**Gibbon** \n\n**was** \n\n**out** \n\n**for** \n\n**and** \n\n**refund** \n\n**send** \n\n## on \n\n**his** \n\n**Lordship, holding thee the cases Justice was takes in petals is be heard is open our sal decks the of the sojuhotto in traptey bjici su, be said, to a repeti. Buffon which of all things to vaca insults as he and already \n\n## vad \n\n**from** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**Justice.** \n\n## Ton \n\n**talowing** \n\n**vers** \n\n**the** \n\n**cases** \n\n**which** \n\n## the \n\n**bower** \n\n## IN \n\n**BANKEUPYY.** \n\n## rebetsieg \n\n**to** \n\n**public** \n\n**procadings, agamat «** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matters** \n\n**Young** \n\n**Lee** \n\n**Br, bek rapt-Report of Regielsar.** \n\n## A \n\n## Is \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Nuray** \n\n**Kojos, and** \n\n## ara, \n\n**bankrupt,Repost of tagieter** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Ng** \n\n**Akiu,** \n\n## Report \n\n**of** \n\n**Regisher.** \n\n## IN \n\n**PRODATA.** \n\n## 49 \n\n**under** \n\n**tence** \n\n**of** \n\n**pensi** \n\n**servitudo.** \n\n## 1 \n\n## then \n\n**his** \n\n**anything** \n\n**that** \n\n**on** \n\n**glit** \n\n**te** \n\n**be** \n\n**tako** \n\n## is \n\n**public, that is on.** \n\n**It** \n\n**is** \n\n**paleinrig** \n\n## if \n\n**anything** \n\n**is** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**tak** \n\n**ja** \n\n**juhlie,** \n\n## Total...... \n\n## And \n\n**Innings.** \n\n## Wailsco, \n\n**ba',............** \n\n## Walles, \n\n**firituele,** \n\n## audior, \n\n**Ge** \n\n## ter, \n\n**Sat, bdrmale,......** \n\n## fince \n\n**Gambin** \n\n## Bhustez, \n\n**b** \n\n**Gérica** \n\n## &** \n\n## Tatai,** \n\n## HONGKONG \n\n**PUBLIC** \n\n**SEĦOOK.** \n\n## Jat \n\n**fraingt.** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Arther, clean B, Hourd** \n\n## bicu \n\n**shold** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**heard** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chsatare.** \n\n## 6. \n\n**Bilmble, b Remadize.** \n\n## Mr \n\n**Stonkhain** \n\n**now** \n\n**raterned** \n\n**with** \n\n**s** \n\n## mange \n\n**the** \n\n**Em** \n\n**tha, na the Registra:** \n\n## ret \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**Altsed** \n\n**now, the bathes in** \n\n## . \n\n**Lammond, b Scandion, e Rabatant, May, Walles, .................** \n\n## Gribis, \n\n**a-thur, 5 Wa laury.** \n\n## Aitken, \n\n**Remedios, MNRAS,** \n\n## Lamect, \n\n**b** \n\n**Remedies,** \n\n## akraptate \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**bankruptcy** \n\n**would** \n\n**maud** \n\n**over** \n\n**t.** \n\n## 10-morrow \n\n**after** \n\n**zijn** \n\n**vrientual** \n\n**Seseinon.** \n\n## The \n\n**vistrar:** \n\n**So** \n\n**bo** \n\n**it.** \n\n## The \n\n**busloom** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**grads** \n\n**of** \n\n**Bee, denen will be held in pen Court. Yamoto -ITTY AS and Selena of Ad- telstrativ Putits by Chen wong Sang for $68.\n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**gros** \n\n**of** \n\n**R.** \n\n**T.** \n\n**Mogidge, done, ad-LoveBory Art and Sallen of Adelitaiton.**\n\nthe Chief Juation where he can innuit, us with impunity: I san not to my position degraded. I may brook a private insul, but \n\n## Wader, \n\n## B. \n\n**Girable, not on...** \n\n## Batzos, \n\n## from \n\n**Kandabar to Malwandi** \n\n## 12, \n\n**having** \n\n**buried** \n\n**hocles** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**Auld** \n\n## one \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**guiding** \n\n**principles** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**day** \n\n**for** \n\n**the** \n\n**rare, but it was a better carying gst Baropens. In conclusion of the series. it ir July, where larga Gladstone Goverinent, epesly ander the master. The white man's houtthis seturer suranarived the varrens air has been constructed.\"\n\ncoptedly rowed by several of its ad utred more that the bank au's charger againe de Chinese, and gea ukulan Sept And Slate 90150 ending meribere, is hurt to the ex-in, and the oppressor had coua tross general answer to them. He quoted the to hose than to those who he up-remark of our Bericor, \"Ho that is qdous talep at the Maiwand sensus of the ampin's territory Aud desparches tuve a published in the \n\n## Ancite \n\n**of** \n\n**Extra:mery:** \n\n**together** \n\n**ability.** \n\n## Is \n\n**would** \n\n**but, conseture, pressed.** \n\n## Now \n\n**the** \n\n**sune** \n\n**polley** \n\n**which** \n\n**it** \n\n**without** \n\n**is** \n\n**among** \n\n**you.** \n\n**let** \n\n**him** \n\n**cast** \n\n**the** \n\n## od \n\n**to** \n\n**adopt** \n\n**toward** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chiral** \n\n**stone.** \n\n## And \n\n**he** \n\n**tiled, \n\n- od telors relating to the be surprisine (at the ultimate decision was proposed centuries age been at 1 \n\n## CE \n\n2 \n\n## dini \n\n**CÍ** \n\n## s \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**foras** \n\n**na** \n\n**Geral** \n\n**Barrowshould** \n\n**in** \n\n**area** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**waything** \n\n**to** \n\n**pese** \n\n**he** \n\n## thesis \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**project.** \n\n## In \n\n**that** \n\n**esse,** \n\n**the** \n\n**tempted** \n\n**asize** \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemish** \n\n**refugees** \n\n**in** \n\n**rauce** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**fr** \n\n## Flaimed, \n\n**it** \n\n**patuloy** \n\n**te** \n\n**probaialivy** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**taron** \n\n**Orarback** \n\n**will** \n\n**i** \n\n**Gardend.** \n\n## When \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemjsh** \n\n**szunnos** \n\n## Fram, \n\n**and** \n\n**also** \n\n**apply** \n\n**to** \n\n**Germany.** \n\n**and** \n\n**here** \n\n**are** \n\n**tem** \n\n**dached** \n\n**to** \n\n**Leeden, the manufacturer in at the Goumander-in-Chiaf valgzagded ones that he was already dansen, had clust after objected strongly to their col-\n\nthe tõib Walks woo hard. de- \n\n\"For a bat and a' idel \n\nIt's coming yet for a' tak, Talsman the world o'ar \n\nBbal rather be, ir atkal.\" \n\n## Mr \n\n**C.** \n\n**Goode, (president of tua ag** \n\n## bed, \n\n## Kautioned \n\n**float** \n\n**hie** \n\n**vyerates** \n\n**have** \n\n**beon** \n\n**favorably** \n\n**i** \n\n**Jatition** \n\n**in** \n\n**various** \n\n**binnebes** \n\n**of** \n\n**trade.encistion)** \n\n**waved** \n\n**a** \n\n**vote** \n\n**of** \n\n**thanks** \n\n**to** \n\n## resived \n\n**by** \n\n**Prince** \n\n**Bismeerk, who has the London entices zuid riots Sharp for his able antare: He pointed \n\n## diag \n\n**misant** \n\n## Lin \n\n## Ansation \n\n**was** \n\n**entirely** \n\n**a** \n\n**non-political** \n\n**in** \n\n**perling** \n\n**fully.** \n\n**He** \n\n**renas** \n\n**notast** \n\n**bean** \n\n**appointed** \n\n**Minister** \n\n**of** \n\n**f'pre-** \n\n## ; \n\n**agravel** \n\n**tim** \n\n**aliepaj** \n\n**the** \n\n**storekeepers** \n\n**ssid** \n\n**uut** \n\n**tazt** \n\n**the** \n\n**Yotang:** \n\n## Kau'n \n\n**fitriatin** \n\n## A \n\n## and \n\n**who** \n\n**is** \n\n**me** \n\n**on** \n\n**I** \n\n## As \n\n**he** \n\n**thought** \n\n**that** \n\n**gentlemen** \n\n**had** \n\n**done** \n\n**Oberly** \n\n**to** \n\n**attachment** \n\n**of** \n\n**Gurus** \n\n**canmerve** \n\n**and** \n\n**week** \n\n## colonisation. \n\n**The** \n\n**Chancellor** \n\n**has** \n\n**given** \n\n**it** \n\n**never** \n\n**locaine** \n\n**Novechelone** \n\n**the** \n\n**well** \n\n**in** \n\n**coming** \n\n**forward** \n\n**to** \n\n**sypand** \n\n**the** \n\n**figub** \n\n**it** \n\n**got** \n\n**thuali** \n\n**gore** \n\n**rong** \n\n## great \n\n**encouragement** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**formation** \n\n**of** \n\n**emish** \n\n**artians** \n\n**gave** \n\n**no** \n\n**famense** \n\n**ise-other** \n\n**side** \n\n**of** \n\n**a** \n\n**vezet** \n\n**queerzina.\"** \n\n**do** \n\n## \"The \n\n**despaterne** \n\n**by** \n\n## The \n\n**Hou.** \n\n**A.** \n\n**Camphail, recorded the aligus mar ao ar longhi \n\ntheir skill, Jaloe, w intelligence they motion, which was carried with acclama. ad outfity, bat they are the Gorras Truling Company which has pets to mangfecting industry, and by \n\niswas to dreystela to the rain taken over the twainese of the did far more than repay the English: fortira, and the lecturer heietly replied.\n\nThe Hon. W. Sandover moved a voda tmuse of odetoy & Co. in the Beutli Sess The Kamiah. Naes her \"From which recently failed, and the Sumuon the generosity which offers com 16 house wurde, was my's los alios are row bets of Ims Gerwinter in this hour of need. It of thanks to the chairman, who is as \n\n## asian \n\n**was** \n\n**1230** \n\n**ruculara** \n\n**killed** \n\n**su** \n\n\\*cation on scent of distance of note for the wage jargrárda apa sau unt aletgi to eat of \n\na Trila by (7 noia) ( \n\n2; standud, mil tüsi 2,400 wyra sted's STF bitero There could be no bestar or more was indeed to the Flemings that Bag-upisten bad scied nubly under the cls- Biasa Kiled, woonid, or inwin, eligabits statice Er Prince Eiemurch's (land was indested for her present ouveiances in presiding em auch en 20 \n\n## Me \n\n**A.** \n\n**Grainger** \n\n**for** \n\n**add** \n\n**the** \n\n**motion.** \n\n## 300 \n\n**bls** \n\n**f** \n\n**h** \n\n**Dees** \n\n**were** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**pupases** \n\n**than** \n\n**the** \n\n**Nurth-East** \n\n**of** \n\n**Deruen, amidare in the arts and our casion. He though gece would \n\nfale urzt d-9. bow basty Sara Esmased and if finglu: iets slip the up posterity, the pee. Who knew how sour, trouble done by the lecture a helping tha using the night sad whaar toe amber now offered her, there can be no reason Chile, and ber basteliation of to important subject out in way Evermeny stuld not take advan-ljucts became wandereros aui if thes 1) veusded is imp-wide to I FAYRE of it, bosener much wa was rescant? came to South Australia he would ask He end the Inetarer ved done good \n\n## apposed \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**toCA** \n\n**12,000, or a bokat kom of about 1,09%. This** \n\n\\| autoss with what us TODUE-vi by spins who they the Gladstone Gerwungal chocld whether the Britch of this golony would service to tre advocmes of noti-Came \n\n\\| akina in during the rig \n\n## Coucher, \n\n**sapt.** \n\n**18-benumber** \n\n**of** \n\n**alalı** \n\n## Satri \n\n## Sed \n\n**Iminya** \n\n## 17 \n\n**at** \n\n**Waiou** \n\n**the** \n\n**let** \n\n**Sprember** \n\n**is** \n\n**given** \n\n## psore \n\n**sons** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**complaining** \n\n**abi** \n\n## Dat \n\n**zout** \n\n**4,50** \n\n**men, Host** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Indine** \n\n## the \n\n**insults** \n\n**that** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**adiered** \n\n**to** \n\n**ma** \n\n**ky** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chatel** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**are** \n\n**loculis** \n\n**to** \n\n**my** \n\n**heal** \n\n**parison** \n\n**which** \n\n**I** \n\n**wait** \n\n**not** \n\n**bear.** \n\n**I** \n\n**with** \n\n**that!** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Remedios** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Tex** \n\n**Sean, eased to be datedly understood. He many uit Bart, o and b Wallace, Inventory Account aal schama ei admin me privately, the Mul Jaesise or any body G. Ishlo, Wallse \n\nely, and cauli brook it and forget T. Kammer, barul e Wallao strands of Satau Jaze Bostor, lit, Eat so insals in my poetion I am \n\n#Lammert, e Rshunul, b Waits, cad.toty Aescuet bid Serra of bound forarent. The pelte hobi is May, to hat......... Administration, \n\n## emorect \n\n**treat** \n\n**and** \n\n**I** \n\n**will** \n\n**uphold** \n\n**is** \n\n**dignity.** \n\n## W. \n\n**Grimble, rus gi** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Aloe** \n\n**War, dece.** \n\n**They** \n\n**was** \n\n**I** \n\n**am** \n\n**vandielivest** \n\n**in** \n\n**Alken, Homedie,...........** \n\n## -Inventory \n\n**account** \n\n**atid** \n\n**Scheme** \n\n**of** \n\n**ad-** \n\n**that** \n\n**repeat, I am jalons of the uterity** \n\n## Millet, \n\n**to** \n\n**hat............** \n\n## law \n\n**1** \n\n**Lave** \n\n**followed** \n\n**the** \n\n**bourable** \n\n**B.** \n\n**Grimble, tu bai minitentia** \n\n## Extras...antarangays \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goals** \n\n**of** \n\n**Che** \n\n**Buia, Jeccand-lo** \n\n**pr-festog** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**law** \n\n**fe** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**five** \n\n**year** \n\n**Pentury** \n\n**Acconut** \n\n**a** \n\n**Scam** \n\n**of** \n\n**Admicis, amal** \n\n**I** \n\n**ever** \n\n**had** \n\n**an** \n\n**innata** \n\n**quins** \n\n**ine, alther we judge or barrister,** \n\n## Imat \n\n## tration. \n\n## To \n\n**the** \n\n**gouden** \n\n**Fook** \n\n**St.** \n\n**Fong, decaan:** \n\n**d.** \n\n## and \n\n**i** \n\n**mal** \n\n**day** \n\n**i** \n\n**vot** \n\n**cow** \n\n**diepened** \n\n**at** \n\n**5** \n\n**juventory** \n\n**Apus** \n\n**and** \n\n**Sebums** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adare** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**s** \n\n**portion** \n\n**degraded** \n\n**in** \n\n**my** \n\n**purt** \n\n**on** \n\n**my** \n\n**coming** \n\n**to** \n\n**an** \n\n**qutabile** \n\n**plads** \n\n**minterration.** \n\n## the \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Arthur** \n\n**W.** \n\n**Cuan, doke** \n\n**Dongkg.** \n\n**I** \n\n**wish** \n\n**that** \n\n**that** \n\n**may** \n\n**go** \n\n**Beach** \n\n**Petition** \n\n**for** \n\n**grant** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adaciae** \n\n**far** \n\n**th** \n\n**over** \n\n**the** \n\n**engil** \n\n**and** \n\n**breadth** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n## Colony, \n\n**small** \n\n**as** \n\n**it** \n\n**be, if it go no inether.**\n\nThe Rolate then huntied up the pa- theas of Lale To Kang, droseed, are which had bean given him by Br Telition feer grout of Administration.\n\nThe wenge Mr Mcup brought was to \n\n## Stockhausen, \n\n**and** \n\n**reaching** \n\n**as** \n\n**they** \n\n**were** \n\n## be \n\n**so** \n\n**blind.** \n\n## ABHORD. \n\n## recognise \n\n**Seir** \n\n**est** \n\n**responsibility** \n\n**and** \n\n**immigration, as he bai proved all the respect the tradit me at ang road charges he attempted to deal with... thair g? Sectility toware (lengter) doubtless all pre \n\n## ayuu'e \n\n**ar** \n\n**doring** \n\n**and** \n\n**alter** \n\n**thation** \n\n## THE",
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        "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by <zveiopa \n3. That application we made to Pomnator Ger \ngang i \nof \n### France \ntes Great Adaira \ndental W. Ingley Johann lentich \nW \nbye. \nEradno & Co. \n1487 Repi. 199. &0. S. X. \n210 Dok. 30eur & Co. \n896 at 11aler (5. \n✡o. \n990 Sept 20, Arnhold, Karbery & Ou. \nJul Aug. 20 Arabolt, Karry \n### Euvre \nand Humihang \n(New York \nSa Franciao \nCa. \nNew York \nbe 222 1000 17 Arnhold, Kurberg & Co. 20 apt. 18, anhold, Karberg Un \nEduard Schelbase & Co. 464 Opt. Amhald, Karberg & Co. Cine,bletiza 252 let. 3Barlowits de Ou Kanto Fch, bat.. $0 Sept 20 Lardstelu à Ca Tompson. 1676 Sept 18 & Co Dadless, brie. 1098 c. 811Adamron, Bell & Ca \ntiaram. Jej 411 18jahod, Karberg & Co. .............................................♣ kobieciaker, Sm. so. 245 Saph 14daari Sabalias & Co. Mgails ............$ Ünumer. Ger b 521 pm & Co. \n..............2 Pelierma... Stat. Leja. નામ ચિન \n### Bust \n...........for. bre. t. 20 Captada Sath Jumeries.ok Kawwht. Amer. . 2262 et 17 Roll & Co. Sparta 18 Vincent...... \n81 Aug 27W. B. Bay \nged that the loss of while the Serastesi \nThas the Prator Coasalan B. All4kitidredgewer. bga 636 Sept powderor was in the lefody of the Betti Portal administration in Chine, that it not assed by any faul on the past of t sender, by destruction by few, or shipwra: ae by the digno or cegligence of a person in ply of \nį medļatuly tho Jeza m \nrausing that er een bestowed of its your prints, do, cholos Teixete and Digans. Azzahralia, New Zealand, Tanaris, zać upon the regation of it literature,' VABLETY STORY, 40, mist. vix Torres Brash, Lotters, 19; 20 eppolops being invariably and Macar antiquities, and ordial develop to any Queen's Road. nothing of ionisatie, have id to tas \ngistration, it; Norte, Books Rail Pattatre, 4: Piu a Lettera, ; e- \n### Belation \nof inspottant force of inform Watches Jewelles, Charte, Bingen-gration. 10; Neespapers, 2; Bookt aan ation, romāneizg zare sur chansi of pub las, Optically, Murdan's Pattern, Ecity as is now previdad extremely dimir Pencil-exes, &- Nosch, agent. able and contribution of web Inistro & Zaobu. \nmay fairly be looked for from the azalers i \nof the foreign consular services, the Ukinena \nSabal, the Lage, St. Helery and sea mno, in Aden, Lettore, 25: fagetration, \nGuus, Kides. Parde, Ammunition,10; Nowspapers, \"; docks sal Pattern, 5. \n### Chalu \ncorps, and the misionary body, and Sportsons's test all descrip \nneng wham bigh degree of Chinese tione.-W SCRDY & Co., \ndubai a nes nauidwoly cultivated here, at Hoof Begoonsfield \nwad who freeverally represented rubbe sigui q \nLuraber of the dining by yes. bighly rurulé \nantijs at C. Legguise manager wet pot fire. \nHa7. E. J. Zital, in which the piano al \nhabourdonvášky girnil, da ozsoklons | \npresental of the chronykɔgat i \nproblems and a agamenta involved in cordato Taker or FaZNE FOB CIKAIRE, \nhexion with this important work. Some trusinisce feus Okiama Levels and playe \nmarked by both secrecy and freshness \nđ style; and an account is the vacuna of \nthe Chinese poet-statesman of xbo elernɔiù entury, Sn Fung-plo, by Mr. E. C. Bowza, le mot only historiusally valuable, but is also distinguished by its literary grize Bonds nokioen rẩ new books relating to Ühine and the East, which will be a useful fensum of \nthe Neview, if carried out with, punctuality \nani \nwe are glad to note that \n### Arsi \n\"Queries” sir dantlusă în \n### ÚHA \nKAREES, AND BEATS, \nAN 288 COLANT OF HOSAKOND. \n### Quadra \nmå fordinary Pulierny Bosto \nHalf hour,....10 st.. | Hour,... 20 ot. \nThree hours...50 ot.. | Six hoary,...70ah, \nDay (from C), One Dollar, \nTo Vicenza Pe% \nbrad a place in in pages also. It is to be Four Curling \nPop at this cig le contributions Three Cli \nen China about may evolua aiTİLAY \ndegree of cesary mai to shat which won i \n### Tiro \nCuties, \nPingle Trige, \n$1.00 \n0.88 \n£0.70) \n...$1.50 \n1.20 \n... 1.00 \n### Band \nor by Prà fuo lum). \ndisplayed during the lifetime ut ita prefe-Four Candies, \nres the Belo,and ibal tius na Fierce \nmay re the support zoomacy to izme \n### Thres \nCaulics, \nJe continance. The publication is later. The Candies,... \ned to wopcer avery two months, sud vili \nform a mistenklai osteso mag \n**THE CUINÈGE MAIL.** \nTo Vannia Cat fte kaval oF EMPRESA \nThis paper is usual evary Four Coolina \nGay. The ausription he fed at For The Colin, Bullare your anama deifvened to Hog Two Coles, by Ken Doliers Fifty Conde in- \nauding p pohugs to Coat porta, \nis the frest Chines Nunapaper wer woved under pursy nice nation The albef eupport of the paper is a derived trop the nails couly, og whom and to be found a yusutom se ouetes novary phace tiene bustave andlega footing. \n• The projectors, hating their catastes \nupon the ces reliable information fera \n### FRA) \n### Siuple \nTrip \nRaam (Zirut or op. Hod-for-lume.) \n$1.60 \nG.00 \n2).40 \n### Foar \nConli AA11.00 The Cooli \nTwo tholes,... \n...... 0.70 \nThe Return Face crebraces a trip of ot more thou thres hone \nFor every bow part of an hour Abere three hours, tack Coshio will be entitled to \n### si \nvarton Fork in Chi and Jays-Day \nfrom Austria, California, Singapore, \nPoong, Budget, deler places roque \nby the China, tunelu \njankind to garatuz are altimate \ncitati u berwena pol \ncon The savantagea cinted to advar \nfitonal pay of b cent \n### Trip \nPeatu.75 each \nlie. \n2 hours) tiap20) sack coito. \n### Limes \nOras (sessih). \nHour, \n...10 \nquie \nDall day, \nZY eenin \ntire are therefore unasunily j \n### Bayr \nle foreign ennenails gegarails w \nLind \nto their interest to pull themselves of \nthis \n### DUST \n262 900LIK BIAR. \nThe fold men toe oper of shis descrip \nstun gundasted hy native offerta, but 1 Classes Dont 17 % at 900 \nprogresive and sati-obstructiys in tone- \nxmont 1t we then cars board; Lot Class Cargo Bost of \nsamwanda \nbudet and laterat ; \nwhile on the other deserves svet ald that our bu \nto it by intuigueza, \n### Lake \nFagin jouet entries Edittain \nwith Trand, Shipping and Commercial \nNous am RYELINATED \n3thanription \nabove zay be sent to \nfor etter of this \n### CEO. MURRAY BAUN, \nChina al disa \nFREDERIC ALCAR, COLONIAL, NEWSPAPER & COMMIS- \nSION AGENT, \n11, L'anest's Lons, Lombari Brest, \nJORDUR. \n182 Coloma Press sapplied se New- paper, Hooke, Typia Juk, Press, Papers, Correspovirus, Letters, sad any Super Gake on dan ter \n### AOTION \nTO SUIFPERS. \nColonial Fampspær exsoirul at the of Adverse and the Hakka \nare regalarly al for the inzetlen \nand is good 600 \n$1.00 \nad Clue Carys Host - Boat of 500 \njo, \nUgo Bolo 17-ax Best of 2011 \npicula, Hald Ding, \nAmoxil axton charge to mite un dels 'ir Hegiralicu to ritish \nHeydd Facton The Ban \nmax, 1 wate \n• CREAM DE SAFe vin San Froito \n### LOOAL \nPOSTAGE \nF \nid) No Parent Post \n### Local \nDenver. \nGard Now! \n1. All corespondenæ jvataí beluso 13.01 on any wook day for adiramar în Vistoria will be delivered the day, \nand genomally whhin two hours, unless the \ney should be sobered by this Contract \n### Invitations, \nde, can veterally be delivered within Victoria at the privati anuses of the addresses rather \nt \npiazem of blinder, it wish to that effect \nsuch application unless I aino la inel. \nbond book, wh which reach their destiamion, althoighà | a broken or deteriorated edition. \n### Forber \n### Money \nOrder Regulations. L--Most Ordian ang exchanged wiù e United Kingdom, New \nwalu Qusariand, South Australis and Darvin, the Strata Settlements, Warto Australia, and forcept at Shanghai) uzd the Jam ropite. Hongkong z bens cris ca Shanghai, uzd vice verad \n### Email \nsame may be tedid between the other Fort by ame of Puss Stamps, subject to change of ons per cunt. It owling them, \n### 740 Cak \nrisun \n..................Taliem. Gu. \nbqo \n550 10st \n### ULAZION \nDrew \nat Yak \n--Mary Mom Ondert are supplied residente af the avaler Ports in this way. Fly \nAn application for an orisalted up, Tang Yong \n### South \nSea Islanda \nPiontula \nSand Feanalizo \nLuntia \nHer York \nHavre and Hamburg \n16 Bong Song Woo \nGülows & Cu \nMeyer & Co \nLoutco \n19 \n743 Dat \n40,00. B. Bivens \n### Man-of-war \nin Hongkong Harbour. \n480 \n### REFF \nK'loan be \nYasa Wun Tex \nSisphope Grov \nJans 21 \n### Reph \n22 \n### Commander. \nCom. Klas \nJ. Farrow \nB. U. Naplor \nComedore Smith John G. JoDHE \nOct \n### Date \nof \n### Forsels \nNawa, \nHlay, \nClass. \nTora Gune. \nH. P. \nJingl \n41. \nC. I \n### COZMAN \nAnde \nMAD-OF-WAT \nOct. \nSuntint \nBut vol \nKD. Chinno \nPeronne prakser \n354 \nBritish \ngao rekl \n- \n184 \nLa 31 \nKritish \nmilhar doepitai \n3091 \nBritish \nganhout \n1:00 \nKetah \nJotama-tore's flagship 2087 \nBritish \ntorrat-ship \n304 \nJave 2 \nAs Canton \nChinese \nzenbort \nexcit frigate \nand is ezciated with a stage, directe, Magus... \nand unsealed scvelops in the Postuwster | sne \nthe wastest issuer offen The application Midge \nst be sampanied with the tail regatta Road, (incrading commuwen) in ebegns, paelage Wi \nstein, or other guivalent of cash, and ni \nfittin margin about bu left for variatious | \nof mathsage. The Praiaster in the Hal King \nender, suede o in the envelope, and Kargualun \nreturns the change, if any, by teal eppar \nhunity, with a Meslpt for the letter, if i \nget to las registered, as it always single \nb. Oare should be taken to me te \npplication Nma, the Muney Order Ollies close me zure before the depar \nIberoo of the windm \n4-No order must exserd 418, at £50, will 27 include any fraction of a pony, vor more than two such orders honed to the se person, in favour of the same page. by the authe mail. Ordere will be drawn \nat the creat rata of the day and paid t the rate of the day when the advios uzivud, \n### The \nmission is as followe>-- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!",
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        "content_text": "420\n\nImmediately after the event. This drain, which is shown in red on the general plan, was made partly to allay any feelings of anxiety Mr. Browning might have lest the thing should recur again, and to carry off the heavy fall during the excavations and examination of the old drain and house foundation, but principally because this Department of recent years, acting on broad principle, has endeavoured whenever the opportunity arose to substitute all drains under houses by drains under the public streets.\n\n12. In paragraph 5, Colonel Start pronounces the drain poor and of faulty \"construction\" and not at all adapted to bear any sudden and unforeseen pressure, and that it seems probable that it had been damaged more or less before the date of the accident to \"Belmont.\" The drain is similar to a number in the Colony built about the same time. It would last many years if uninjured by external causes. A glance at the annexed tracing representing the state of the drain when it was exposed to the light clearly shows that Colonel Start is right in his conjecture, and that the cover stones were injured by the careless manner in which...",
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        "content_text": "२\n\nrecused on\n\nAla\n\nrable\n\nright of the 22nd of May, and is\n\n441\n\n\"by way of indicating the spot; On\n\n(lifted\n\nred\n\nwalan ng hinup\n\n7.7\n\nyour\n\nonaj (ppy)\n\nJ\n\nag op g\n\n\"\n\n7\n\n1\n\n> ;.\n\nSuv map pranin\n\n1\n\nif\n\nagy poraza buying on opisina\n\npoy\n\n>\n\nmyy\n\nPorygonizing to my\n\na\n\nmy gap\n\n· plas:\n\nd in their original\n\napright position, to as to conceal the irregularity\n\nf 1\n\nev\n\nali\n\n.)\n\n(1108997 (227) Mj pry) you\n\nJ\n\n<\n\nprer\n\nof two squarely\n\n. \n\n1\n\nby\n\nent oblong\n\noblong stones\n\n, as shown in (Finom\n\nd\n\n7 7\n\nINJA SU** *}}\n\nX\n\nhymns\n\nfr\n\nyrybosfor parent\n\nprie piny na py\n\n40\n\n1 1/\n\n7 7\n\nf the\n\ngainst\n\nleaning\n\nCover.clones\n\nnot ever\n\n1.\n\naters of the 2\n\n菱专\n\nable\n\nselen\n\n*\n\n*}\n\n''\n\n*** y)\n\npalming abayap y\n\nי' (י יי (2 (\n\nI\n\n}\n\n1\n\nreferse\n\n9\n\n..\n\nW\n\nA\n\na\n\n!\n\npassage.\" In lieu of lak\n\nTakiing daily\n\nconvey\n\nnigh\n\nthe da\n\nbur\n\nb...\n\nnurring\n\nthe Payou,\n\nthe proper boat alo\n\nprachċi at Bel,\n\nང.\n\n*\n\n་་༩་་་་༦\n\nto\n\nas larverpizt\n\nsimply\n\n^) i\n\n* 11 1\n\nJeonLE\n\nstopped\n\n11\n\n1\n\n>\n\n>\n\n1\n\nhave\n\nActcated au\n\nраз\n\n1\n\ntain-\n\n1\n\n7\n\n7\n\n!\n\n(1\n\n**} }\n\nน\n\nngy gbringa sa pył g\n\ntruall G\n\npush them\n\nmayənirja ryby any\n\n+\n\nD\n\n2\n\nrazy by\n\nprinin dorp minus op \"}},\n\n&\n\nbiryasya asjana\n\nWhew the sto\n\nap\n\nрежа \"));\n\nועייץ. 39....\n\nاک\n\n4\n\nDey,\n\nAv\n\nanay,\n\nAt e\n\nlike\n\nshown\n\nblue arra\n\nsketch- and flo\n\nthe surface of\n\n7\n\nA covered the\n\n• 727\n\nT\n\nbangban phora qɔ paye,\n\nqa 12 p277\n\nto the little ledge\n\nwhere & have sketched a bucket,\n\nby\n\n( *\n\nV\n\nود گرده به در\n\nlaure",
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        "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## HONGKONG VARIOUS.\n\n### INSURANCE.\n\n**THE DAILY PRESS**  \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## INSURANCE COMPANIES AT HANKURUES.\n\n### SOUTH GORMAN PURE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n| CAPITAL | $2.06 |\n| --- | --- |\n| ASSOCIATION. CAPITAL Path. | $200 |\n| The Under for the absen BL, IN POT PLYN Party | $350 |\n| PRIMANENT RESERVE TR Company |  |\n| SPECIAL RESERVE FUND | $988 |\n| ARINI SCANUSS to its est-ut of £65,21% from | Colt, w. Yury, So. 10% Ti, ner seg. $22.50 to 12 Nacional, 250.46 42 12: Cault, 32bit) ndeges Jupe 200 23rek, ze pêk - BIZGA » 4.7 |\n| TOTAL CAPITAL | #76) |\n| AeDavies. | 228.936.17 |\n| IRELY H | #. 11. Punge, Exa, VierINDS. |\n| M. W. Toro, Eq. (W, | A Devorton, Big, Son, fing |\n| HOM | 517. & c., ogretacion. |\n| MATA TAR HAR & CL | Bankers. |\n| RICHARD OLACA ROLE. Bay. | ages, moda, Cerutti, E |\n| Potariss | wun Marme Brace |\n\n## NORTH BRYMISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n| Galettem, TUNED.... VRIGA 270 | Cozz (244. \"I tenant, DOT 1950 Ale 2010 to Bin Salgon, 120.00 DAZAL 231 |\n| --- | --- |\n| 112017, Noser Buil$15k Lind INSURANCE COMPANY. | Ilgari Primaran mudah me, get $329 to 5.45 ng Bed Ascorbit, or giant |\n| Crusaders 190, ame vine: 41, Mas, for Wa Yew uphoriena V SRD | Amish Talks, 30 pelan, per de$150 to the dou292\"%T! #93, vor gael.... $272 0.27 FAME NAMES IN 3241 1759' 18ine, Sod Pot. Farr dapa... 14 1.37 |\n| Faction dells, 15 Bar, par gun 3 2050 | Blasba, Vienkin, por pini 1170 a 176, motra, pa prank ... MORTALS. |\n| 4. 1730 Sel, et per at God. p. Natod, spy penali $2.50 | 4331 That its 100 2.51dun derby, Alman Women, a pre ple |\n| TUE masashgust, Apenas : | agatud |\n\n## STAFFORDSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n**LIMITED**  \nSTANDARD FIRE FE, LONDON,  \nCAPITAL TILOSS FILULING,  \nThe Und-acticing speist  \n18÷LT  \nThe Undervignat aver mai  \nreving From Tits at Spice  \n462919 to the stars enquiry at this Port, are prarado BANT POLICI Sagainst Fires. E the extens of ANGAST on dings an  \nFonly stored therein.  \nDiscomus. *..  \nVoerkrag. st. Mari, ISFA  \nVOGEL &  \n134501 HINKRE INSCRATE COXPART  \n:IMITED)  \nNOTIC y  \nBRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE OF THE POLICAR GRANTRU  \nCEDARK OF TEBANON.  \nYANTA'S KISKA rundt paria of the Wost.  \nTEEN TIRE INSURANCE  \nCOMPANA.  \nCAPTAI  \nANG 200.  \n3360454T  \nSi  \nWe  \nCundy, Patela,  \nwo  \nsite, pervical. 21 Manhwans, echo  \na, et al.  \n- kama $ to 20% kuumeita Day Fiisin lanes, une pira*  \n1500 to C, Bevara, Dagy pinen ambitie, pe piata din E M 97a1d ja Ban, senasala, tap šis a small, hoc pled....  \nlogan, anginal  \nVarmacia Pati, 3 p.30  \neat,  \nA MYN 4.15 2.18  \n639ty Ca  \nWindow Chan, je for........  \nSUPPING IN THE CHINA WATSRƏ.  \nCONATENGDA.  \nRONOKONG  \nPlatter!  \nUZANA prox.  \nfreew  \nInaug  \nFZA  \nMATTAIN.  \n1421521  \nCORBLÓMEZZ  \nDANGERINE.  \n13 Bauer Na Kusokong  \nPol Clay Se  \nIn Pour qu'ECO JANGAGA, 182 Ram. bk  \nBike,  \nLisa Pa  \nADAMSON. REEL & C  \nAgants,  \nHazlerne, Auprat, 1864–  \nNOW HO  \nAsia A  \nRats 241 Djeran  \nWan, Hir  \nFR Stamps & 120  \nPalom  \n34. 27 Pivl  \nFe 143 POR  \nGur. she  \nBossen & the  \n(Mar. 27) Guldberg  \nMalinzčan  \nJan Allama  \nBut ser  \n909  \nSimon & Th  \nBangkok  \nSubarusana  \nSink 20  \nChunk  \nSat. 25, Prouenitos  \nthen r  \n3127  \nMiles  \nFin Che Sau Supt.  \nClich  \nRulles  \nPos To! Pingager  \n3  \nRowe Dea  \nBipi  \n9.  \n1  \nFeb 22 Roma  \nRei  \nPuar Yuen Co  \nSea  \nSAL  \nP  \nBelt,  \nElab  \nNov. 27 bias  \nHip-  \nChir  \n1 Bulaos  \n6 at Ashanus & Muda  \nSator  \njous 24 Canges  \n33:7  \nPek Kon  \nity of Teko  \nam nu 50 MASC  \nDeut  \nNov, 2 g  \nAae. ses! Code  \nE  \nPosit  \n:25h 101 Petaryen  \n1 ofer  \nReb  \nThe islamiza, Asats for the refrants iny, s prepren to AGERT BISKS  \nFB-ness per Ce. Nors  \ni  \nThe Virates Fitfache Chorozup sa dissyfucced with a Company's betteltu vit ! * Pre unes fasaun jodur forest of Lebanon, i Association, Tandliale at the Pratite neg din. formerly orgive, bas deindied down to hand oumaly to Contentus, washer the demption of t. mura thicäct, nuluring holders an ink in oraygutten ka tiks der E Mount 10 track. Ex Rate it from complete set of Bhunia sentian Seals, the re- deal rates and rear its tenet in its wining liúint beint zavrtal to Reserve Pant. present extant, Mossem Pasta, the Governor faneral or the Lebanon, kas iernat o apostel  \nvestnanca, dariɛining a series of stringent regulations cafealated to obcok, of pot geno ! kput a stop to, the windshem and enrolas rena of most rarelie in maroma  \n----  \nBRADLOE AMITH,  \nBonetary. kung, Rith a príl, 15x1,  \n............  \n194  \nNATIONAL SULANCE PANY OF WTETTIN,  \nty forbidden to put up tents or other why Tatarstant hawayers park kinds of sheer lite the distries of Aron's for the shove Campmay ara payanad to  \nthe traza, to light Sky A Raguis Frans Curent Tadie.  \nprovisions in the daily. No one in qui  \nJvwed to break off a bough or evez a twię į  \nfrom the brews. It is fortidden to bring af  \nboasts hunion, be shay lursan, mulei,  \n24, or an her kind of all, withi  \nthe duntos. Shoalit ozen, shuip, desks, ar ļ  \nHourkony. th Aĺny, 1821,  \nOVETTE IMPERIA  \nAMYR &  \nCOMPANY.  \nA BE A 2000.  \n'NORTON & Co. Hi, 2015, 1821  \nBATAVIA SHA AND FIRE INSURANC  \nCHIMPANY.  \n*  \nMay  \ntatesigod, haing been appointed recaud Agerator the phone feetpake, ani pro Hungerlan pregná Kosmynoms ne tolkayna zeml  \nMARINE RISKY. edictors at Corrent 16 sise, ravalle with heat of Tik Jamen, dat the actacipal Kamelin, wond the url.  \nA KROKUYAGE ei famry-rumun på Ope¦ Bay Chi  \nhinwed all LACIAL Hing Kinng num JAN DISES. Policicur on Viruplars Build Lido  \n1. Pas an extent of Per  \nA MITTWERP Pu can! (903) ANC pie Crawant Legal Et on wife wil dat  \nat javnima chegued for kasvavanise an islamgia Levant ning details the line of the Jasno Migue Picim at Pulley.  \nRUSSPLL & Come  \nPIRE AND LIFT. Danza gast Prak avled st Chur other pantsruce oucle be found thin the end Sister. Coxiltimates Halperion preted initu, toy will be irredeemably ¦ for Kids äxanxarren in China. antented.  \nPERSONAL REMINISCENCES OP LORD SATTORD.  \nYeteran lyn god for youry Priso  \nFlingum ad vos ural feel the Bstania  \n'you'  \nMATAR & Chn, granata.  \nBaalstrix. r  \nHargkone, It Tunare, Exte,  \nAntiqu  \n41 p  \nA GRINDE GASKI hear ALGAMES MARITIME Vulva tark  \nWhite Yengizza ROLE TRANSPORTS REUNIRS,  \nPARIR  \nFan! Young www.200 1995, Truh  \nTHE WORTH BRITISH PIKE AND MATEN INSURANCE COMPART  \nDE NHW RALAND  \ngunay to make a bridge of hosta CAPITAL, CLOGANY Das Mimina Stadings  \nbronce déturgavo no5 Rygtehteli ine the patri  \ngets allied armis, the veut of ten Dank ATENDARS  \n¡Cartran, Sym  \nCarr A To.......  \nTezda, laving been uppgirtali AGROS of the Alony, vel to  \nIrving noviall be tact the Ensino Vedamind, Inning bidea EPETUTTI MAUTO HK to Aras Wallabia. The it time I had fonts for the lace Clayang, are pronamed in all para of the Woll 4 Pelaw Leicnger wo when I want one: ACCEPT FICE A MAGNE EIŠKA K  \nli, Iard Stintfand to dies with Carvers Bates, allowing im nota.  \nAdmiral Sir James Daedale this bird the  \nBritaux. O renting the ship, we heard!  \nGRO. D. STEVENS & C  \nfrikany, 241 305, 1989.  \nCOMPANY OF HANDONG.  \notee of the picwe call out in si sove of noj PYRANBARDANOG DIRA KNAVBARU great respect  \n\"Cune, cum, Prince, this wilt nerar du j  \nBlue Jancary, 1994  \nHOTTOFT  \n----  \nFTUR QUINA PIRE LIBURANÑE COM PANY, LYMCPRD,  \nTe Votersigned, being tom puckered is pegod to AZUBES WBST-CLASS  \nBeck buster swabben.\" Agent a len Crageny, as propered in sever Anaco, aut tier 15-  \nC¦ YUNANIRO av tinm, nå Ratum,  \nby wurde, hace pan, do! ARPT RENK gas in use winin Tar that By Dirty sange wall teguleer,\" in word Strate  \nm. Toch Norway A  \ntord to the Admin, whe whenced to re  \ninto the re  \n* Print of Triingua, the amez  \nEyself the boner of sating to your  \n$325,\"  \nSIRNSSEN A CS..  \nhan pase of distributi ig a estudi prax. POLA 16 14 49erida prod analygyaka (13 ane) Sharaboleza wa kaka parkiábatel \"business  \ndaine Company  \nFril  \nMash  \nLis  \nMwe  \nSon Hanlin  \nJJ 3 Cou  \nFeb. 20 Ti. 3  \nAze  \nFab. 19. Büs  \nFirs  \nYANCH ; 9% *0*  \niDou. I't. Margar  \nrish | Man Yung Wzg  \nJet  \n5:0  \nBlested & Ca  \n2301.& 6. B. N. CO  \nJH  \n3. Dell & Qu d. Ses  \n- zle she | 66 | Bavarra à Co  \nSamalei, &  \n37K thong & Sani  \n3. M  \n2. Quandrid Squ  \nJun. 23  \nuesרני  \nMAGASAKL  \nIN PHAI OK 3 Faxrany. THES.  \nir, je (3,  \nYORONAMA.  \nIN Pass 10 JAPONY, 1991  \nAuri  \na.  \nAdamsta, Hall & Co  \nBangkok  \nBeamch  \nActonick  \nfun pro Jan.  \nArgon  \nBirla S  \n332 in  \nCaptai  \nBiguney  \ndo  \n•Carlis  \nAline  \nFren. Sir  \ntiiases & Co  \nFab. Kutafi  \nFre  \nOoh. Es choegin  \nKid, ade  \nJ  \nChines  \nFeb. 19 Tawi  \nN.C..  \nAbout Py Gantry Art, Karhe & Co Snorr  \n3. Crabap  \nAmesed 31 | Captain  \nBulmack  \nVen. Willigis  \nBril  \n13  \n1  \nAnna  \n!D'  \nHid  \nAs  \nथ  \nJ. SA Mo  \nBrin  \nCeb  \nS  \nBeth  \n236  \nP. 31, C  \nPas 2 Wel  \n20. B  \nbarte  \nGov, sch  \n50  \nSan. El Wostokyo  \nLamb Peter  \n3.1.6 Br  \n'anim  \nBb. A! W  \nDuelo  \n28 Cast-su  \n1966. 2; M«Guita  \nBag & C  \n: Hutbew  \nSapt, on sale  \nAint-enh  \nOur str  \n$: Willey Do  \nCaro  \nPASTJ  \nCabin  \nthe  \nCag  \nFeb.  \n2  \nRicky rick  \nAUT  \nDe 13 Janeken  \n48  \nP.  \nJay  \nY. Man Hou; Ann, s  \nhunting  \nTalag  \n| Ave. pl 1735  \n2. 3. C  \nJuly | 2. 3. Tuoka, sterowa Wa Yuzu  \nWait was D. Laik  \ncintzelan Dan. st.  \nMrk. 18) Verused.  \nBaverik & S  \nthus W's Yan  \n2. Stymes & Con  \nMela SAD  \n4,17,& ki meumbeat De Baena,  \n*  \n4.  \nHet steiga  \nจด แม  \nBalt, By  \nSiooyen à ca  \nwich &  \nRow 1 Kayaci  \nlivi, p  \nEAMING NAME 132.5.  \nPh & Warga Maritions  \nAura C  \nPrk 110 man Aura Gay  \nNOSPHORIA 107. \"AD!  \nJun. LauqUIL  \nCatt plin Urvavy Meets of China. Dullay Jan. 181 W. tidley degan, and at  \nSO WHE  \n12! Simarovie dềmchand  \nG18 Orist  \nلابت اور  \nBak  \nMaria Anon  \nAsc.rol  \nالمقاتلة فكر  \nJ. 1851  \nDTAGEL-  \nSANTIA  \nBell at the tinglin  \nBj  \nGer. 196 Chetan  \n* Get al: ; Lives  \nAnch/5 Ca  \n237  \nAm 25 tais  \nGer. Cutia,  \nHER BRIANNI MAJERTY & SHIPS IN THE CHONA SQUADRON.  \nاوری ارشد را  \nEIG  \nالامل لاله  \nCAPTAIN.  \nJang  \nCW. 'Enct  \nSing  \nS.  \nC'. P. J.,  \nHube  \n237 Captain C. ini se  \nbungkal  \nM  \nPaul Jonas  \nARNOLD KASHERS & C  \nJA Welboort  \nFeb. 12. Brundt  \nOne kan Ju  \nSIGHT  \n4ma  \nc. Di Babes  \nAlden Bean  \nส  \n3447 R 9!  \n11  \nPrecious  \njëngë  \nPhilippines  \nVERISC  \nJan  \nKoyim  \nNothing & Lo  \nHoste Ruskri Custom  \nPerciva  \nPietars  \nSatan 110. 266. No793  \nAzev iska  \nPorti  \nJac. 13; Ornhu  \nAmr, li  \nw stany  \nBelt.  \nArabold, Karimiz 3. Co j  \nConta  \nSurveda  \nCarsha  \nCaires  \n& TILT  \nW  \nBURNOVA A  \nAlly  \nE  \nSub 11 ting  \nLik, bit  \n350 Advatar, dull & vis  \nPole Pruse  \nሊነ ă  \nAmba, Aytmag de Lin |  \nhound  \nLED, God  \nAir, th  \n55 glebies & C  \n14. G. Bo  \nSi | 81. Sohawas  \nB  \nSestrat  \nJin 10 Curn  \nAir M  \n1150 Azamgu. Beil  \nIl  \nI  \nAm. B  \nspric  \n7150 CÂÛ. A. Cargober  \ndove, Riquas te 52253253  \n¡Fanny  \nMtagu  \nJu Yourse  \nNo  \nBST  \nHo  \nBy  \n3 199  \nCum. 14. F. Day  \nDIRECTORS.  \n5156,ties Jai Virus  \nVinterio  \n25  \nSwit  \ndabiases grea branji  \nT  \nALCAL  \n3 W  \nTo  \nriving bip  \nVicin  \nvidle despat  \n2276  \nWireca  \nBanglong  \nKam  \nLa Palm  \nNagamit  \nT  \nPint  \n1927 at 4. Qu  \nMae [namzigrad are pegama Froe this date TOLICIES Frier a tho  \n4. 3. SOKEN.  \nHonka. Mar. 1650,  \nA shy-footing multiprou pracacdotari de stat 8900  \nige tum ire à Smiral, to used to the  \nAmbassúng who he was deligin first-cines Tiskr  \nace in, and hapad i have the boner of his  \ncompany at inner utzi day at the hy  \nBe asid this is loud voie, a da to ve kened  \nby her he had dured to see uner!  \nLINSTEAD & BAVIS.  \nHatokon. 10 Yar i  \nWER ON TAL INSURANOK COMPANY  \nCLIMATRON  \nrelation of a Muressy with so Aspho cera.; PEE LOVBOK ASSURANCE; Bars Foss $70,858.27; Fin  \n2017; then he panel round and socalači INSINENEATED P  \nadaluperespeit  \nStrated's fling of loyalty  \nprofound a bal of a sincero bever  \nfitae vigat must ninna be very me  \nWin, SE1 Kewu  \nSustra  \nBarthe  \nWise & fo  \nPerth. Duels, b  \n! Iselt sure  \nBrit  \n¦ Ane ja  \n372 Ambut. Kacheze de  \nAdamvua, Dlt & Gu  \nSi Orien  \n30 Solussa je ča  \nSW. £. Das  \n74 733. Jaspaik & C  \n18? Siemcare 2 On  \nDay | Captada  \nCrkvara d  \nA.  \n19mm & C  \nAmr. Razer &  \n3.  \nBMW 5  \nKI  \nb. 146. iuge  \nTARTED OF  \nA  \nM  \nNay. Vie  \nA.D. Caltrend baby ho sent  \nthe abi  \nNew, 17 Willi  \nDit, k  \nFah. 19! W. 'g  \nVor Kase of the Yoo Choong rang  \nFranz.ch  \n1.Tan, Estaitija  \nVais  \nden B1 Mayar  \nM  \nJan, 01 1. L. Bray  \nJan. 1):  \n! W 1 Serpe  \nplantes-  \nMARINU DRAÍTMENT.  \nWoxu Y! Bey, of the Chuc ftacey Wing of Agr  \nTun fund of the Tipp the Wire.  \nPure NT Wrath of the Dias dos Bolbores. Ej Kalk Wosa 'GERING, Of Ye  \nthe tonal family was his at slifert arbonated delove. When the Duke of Cambelge was clone to bury his guess palice of crus, o es pale sitt To The Morw, if the Kwang Wins Cheng  \nF  \nJue a feo Jugs at the Eusbance, he went  \nmade, 38 sa priani Poets of You  \nhis dering gown sed sappers, at en mely: Ohm, and 3 andrenia, kt  \none in the morning, that the rema  \nFULC DEPASSTENT.  \npreamed for his Royal [Eigens are in Polizios ishoni è long uy shows perivés ti  \nberek orday. Finding the Date's voles in color ranging the tranka and  \npetraentious bish |  \nSALE WETARPIUNT.  \nPad Retired, the Aubaskede begla ba girs Delineaued for racing directions how they thenat be |  \nplaced. The Rt reduced rates.  \nmer left of meeting, and stared as Cord Stratford  \nMANAGER- AMEL  \nHARTER B doet ko. the f QUERENT RATES to Acolmit Dalitra. Mile, Burapon Rain, May, to ai (44), Enute Pitse of this and Ja  \nHales, D. Pravit 240. Haku, 1218.  \nLO MOLLIDA WIER, 250);  \n26 Jul, 1870  \nwal tell you what the said at TN CITY OF LONDON PIER INATE  \nANCH COMPANY. LIMITED.  \n\"I know bow his Hopal Host In  \nhave bra nga anapes inter than you du.&PURAT-E-PAPERADO  \nBy job op-ed de off, will you,  \nLed Stratford into the room in a towering  \npansion, and culling one of the auction,  \ndeka bice to go and tell that men was in  \nma that he and veekuned to add an  \nZappanger to attack who retuned  \nWeli,  \nPAID UN RESERVE YUVD- UNDO!  \nVodaviest having boa appisależ¦ pete for the hote egy  \nde Acer ass gapal Print 21. Ca Hour  \nCEO, E SERVENY & C  \nFUS  \nSpec  \n107  \nbest app inte!: Flakin  \nNOTICE.  \nNEW YORK BUARD Heilo  \nARNOLD, KARERA & Ca Funkrag dah Sentor,  \n1979  \nTOBZORO JE AMEERTJAN 2 WOREIGN SHIVVINA,  \nma  \nARNIMA KARBERO & Br Hobgob.  \nwith pakai Kid 154 wat de bou?\" m2; V ANCHESTES PIES ASSERASU XAN ON INSURANDA COM.  \nthe Ambassador.  \n\"E sad to bia, my lund, but the paten  \nIn when he had retured to area with  \nTangzage maker Majesty's Kepenti  \nir Fers.  \nCOMPANY OF MANCHESTER  \nAND LONDON.  \nEstanyen 1921.  \n“Ah, gate right. And what was his guy WHIGH TE PA-UP... LEN()  \nджетны  \nNastave  \ndr $12,000 Bracing  \nHe answered, my lord, that is never til  \nyou warah'  \nwa singular featury in Lord Sreat  \nford's new husty dising states  \nager wasid ankenly be kupeared by NOT-  \nPANT. DEMETE),  \nAV Calamone,  \nE, IN Bahat  \nAAAAH  \nمرین و داتا ولول  \nMAJAO  \nH..AM. Fisartut de Cauter  \nANTON  \nii.  \n| Gizyon &  \nLp. 21. Sana  \nBrit  \nButterfici  \nBab 2 Drama  \n; Eiseraces & C  \nADAXA  \nis 14 FCAT, AL  \nMaksija Māc p  \nCebaty derrotial  \nAbi-subt  \nying Thoug  \nJan - grubost  \nConte in tegabi  \ndual-row go vessel  \nAuto gail-Tequel  \ntermiying board  \nplate ut vesti  \nzaube  \nKIT  \nruot  \nINSTA  \nHongkong  \n110 et 1o. Makyn 61905. A. F. M. Chia  \nKi  \nTa  \nCaptain. They  \n10 Curl  \nKoue Forty  \nالشاره کار  \nAcl.Com. 15. Trend Singapur  \nCan J H. Core  \n1. Bəndika Singepat  \nLieut. Geta. M. Gridgn,\"  \nCongres  \n126 ه بر امور باید در  \nClay Jobster the male poze  \nCase Co  \nجوانان ام خالد  \nFJZDIGN MEN-OF WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAYAN STATION.  \nSAN  \nį Abrosa  \nAtent  \n! Alors  \nStrin  \nAsi  \nCumentar  \nAshut  \nSartel  \nHursh  \nKrasin  \nInese ar  \nCAPTAIN,  \nWHEL AR  \nCaptain Stebraz  \nApr  \nFranek z bot  \nChimney Caillard  \nSalyau  \nCommandy T. p  \n$apizca eruntha  \n! Portmate trase  \nAPL-67  \ncezvelta  \nLalion consult  \nKamian (penly  \nNorman Cortla Burcan çembe Fronek roerm Anlene gruntown.  \nSpin test  \nA best  \nTrussian art. I  \nLee Tak  \ngrangi  \nANG  \nJJan. 2ki Yantai  \nDen of  \n24  \n13. A.. Peter & ku  \n1152 Bienesu  \nor Ruh  \nBesin traspe  \nCli  \nEr I hate  \nNermy  \nRana znanst  \n5, 13 Jud  \nPakis  \n#5મા  \nJa  \ne. D  \nunty B  \ntbeats  \nF. 19:  \nKonzulan peran  \nÜnam of ladis l'at  \nah keine  \nDub  \nCAPITAL BEADY Proserineal al:24,668.; Vais  \nAZT JEUSJAL  \nKON HOW WAY, Fr. Chairman. Aerling.cs Tie Hot, F. Cras e Fial.  \nBAN HAR D  \nINSON, n. Qry Mug  \nTholaiesigel ince bean appointed Agrants,  \nthe nas, tavo sad at  \nHing waiters to hit lui. To get Eustis Curat Ra  \nso in this cosul he enjead hea  \nJanga with  \nanother ion, an stcube bad made  \ntwo nista ne doprzeg a dismalei,  \nwill be 16tk 63 the Archansado for signa  \nMistem may to made,\" said Ford Strat  \nford after solating them at  \nthe very!  \nvarsta delen wish to by shini  \nHOLIDAY, WINK Fengkrang, P, Calases, Bir  \n8AMES A  \nMAKARY  \nLIMITED  \nIBAISANCE COMPANY,  \nUkau Orrace. Boku  \nPor  \ni  \nKTM Kar  \nAvary  \na TN, B. Asid Santes C  \nThe CT GRANTS POLICIES  \nCho Vide  \nDESKS 63 ala carte of the Waid this  \nrolita Apnasier. Patribus Divblends sy payday l ANG Coctribes of Design, whether thug bar  \nStoneshalder de ING.  \nLONDON  \nCHANGK  \nAgent China for 164 Urn!  \nWOO LIN YOEN,  \nSperstars.  \nHRAD OVERCE,  \n,, Gran'a End West  \nAquane, Marab. 11.  \n1525  \nThe high spirised pov ciplest at you Colajny, to wop MADINE CHUS NOOI SA Pottery wwwrgir soud, and told Care Brat  \nIs Cursor  \nChime Du  \nfram),  \nPURLINE DAILY  \n1420  \n19 15:Hu  \nsai Busty  \nJea  \n17. storoch  \n228 A  \ner 34 E. A.  \n207 LA. Pete Sou  \n11, the 954 Rogd & Co  \n$49 1.3. Pel & Ce  \nCOMMON.  \niz Posts Iza Persuar, 1962.  \nWe  \nthiaga nee  \n2. Future  \nSHANGWAL  \nOptin A. D. de  \nCHITRA B., Wallin  \nat Am  \n4ptsir. ubrz  \nShpreis Rubotom  \nCaplein 6, Norg  \n| Gayanie Vur Knif  \nfum salar Xiana  \nYehudit  \nJn  \nHouckunz  \nHo  \nGanuzmuñor quite sami, tu l'a  \nV. W. Tong! Hunk  \nCATE  \ntanama  \nK'Ocoeendez C. & Quem! Eskuham  \nCouder kavand Thacistu  \nVisdireuzel  \nViadivostos  \n70  \n30  \nCazzi Tubink  \nflores Valienās  \n91  \nHozekcay  \nVeptam eher  \nSigap  \nCozy Mugle  \nSharvari  \nJapaja Sioengine  \nBul  \nI sinhurs  \nCapla  \nde Doria OnePuik  \nAlquite  \nsaigra  \nNagheaks  \nunder: Suwach  \nMaria  \nSt. Intersburg | Kei  \nTanayoel  \nGardan onze  \nPorcian comedo  \nAmerican curetan  \nPorteraiya grabenade  \n'escri  \nCopiad von Blena Casar Delivra  \n1999 CoA. 1. Cube  \n250  \nB  \nSatt  \nJ'unan  \n'1'  \nPonens  \nItzanino tropløst  \nStuonies ko  \nU  \nSunkia  \nLMR.  \n20-1  \na Federaly, 1  \nGlee's tr  \nChin-ti  \nCutun.ja)  \nching-A  \nQui  \nChopr  \nTw: El Rusi  \nJu : Berish  \n! ! 285 Makin  \nMotl  \nBelarus Primers & Co  \nab W. icatort de  \nac, Kg & Co  \nI For  \nFourt  \n! Bu ba  \nM  \nCens  \nS  \n16.  \nrice na .  \nof Batm  \n10.  \nTi  \nford bat, altough he was his Amasadar, conne  \nDam  \nSHE.  \ni had to ght to repiten hun for what!  \nADAMSON, BELL & Co.  \nProtantes  \nWas tene, ba ce was not hebitaedly careless, i  \nHakone, th May 25  \naa. ari Nem  \nPris 14 96  \nForster, vees & C  \nPAK  \nAnu, b: Jes  \nPell  \nNi  \nBrit  \nMER  \nMac & Co  \nBrit  \nYou werfly  \n--your eyes selaimed Lord Stabd  \n2) pour Brodiva's!orted  \nthe alb  \nThe Eley Durous lunghing.  \nSan VERZONY li les bra gemalenud ormibi. of Pouncy: Vindtisch, Small IVERPOOL AND EXTES ANDA, nge the rest on in cou ubore INSURES TCE COMPANY. iation of uns Chinese ampire in the Hand  \nThe Lederige, As the hoen bias. If show by a  \nHedr'g  \nHolding Counnar, des DOWMEN FRim ta do Chong 3cbeles, sul cenou na Raken  \nGRANTI  \n\"his honda kim, he begged the stine TTM dnced TarifPro for du vilising a head at the tee the infrally of his tespar  \nPOLICIES CALIXTILN  \nthey shoot and racet wordially-oplei  \n20 phemou  \nM3 Mercies & Ce  \n14.&.Tri Cu  \nDr. T. C  \n91 Jr Walent  \n'\\' ctly tun  \nRysl  \ne Fasioo.g  \nThes  \nA2065  \nRates  \nchat kurash, Banglory, or less! Pade  \nTANGSAR LYPHAIK &  \nHongkong. th May, 1  \nU agung, làth Januvɛy, 1577  \nHO! Klykn  \nBritn  \nLins  \n67  \nSiz Martin  \nGen 52  \n155  \nGesinalin & Ca  \nWe, bis!  \n343 · Nils Mottar  \nHung-barz  \nI've got  \nTeling  \nCANTON OISEOAT SQUADRON.  \nPORNO, VONN, HE  \nVry's best 17 149  \nLore via  \n9.19 Mar  \nViking's pani-bak  \nBryster  \nViens' animat  \nint  \nFumar's inchoat Revontiret  \nFinny'sunl.cek Vient Bacolas cruis Viseryʻkk Vicy-gonizi  \nTching-  \nTentang  \nBA Sat  \nPhi  \nB  \nBi-Lin  \nTriag  \nVigganum  \nIni etuier  \nCOMMANDEN.  \nSLATION.  \nHongkong  \n| by  \n5230  \n75 J. Baze.  \nE  \nChai  \nF. B  \nVinery',nical sti  \nLany ie ing  \nChow hi Close Admiral d), ('bing  \nCati  \n4  \nYang Yang L  \nCali  \nPied Pubbled in a meat thinl  \nWare st  \nCanton Piret  \nQual  \nBeg  \nCitol  \nUrise By Foru  \nBegins Porta  \nWhat Cont  \nPucle Perta  \nMonkey  \nHakus Xin  \nB+ Lot un  \n55%22:14001 Heront, Hunsicoma.  \nNo. 7649  \n436  \nThe Hong Kong Daily Press.  \nSLIPPING.  \nANGELS  \nDANKS.  \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.  \nINTIMATIONS.  \n(YOMPTOTH A GROOMITEE DE PALTI, QUS HONGKONG WIHE IN Febrylases, tribes teamer, 945  \nVIRE INSURANCE COMPANY DIXIEO. Dkny 18th Plecary, 40-  \nCorporates and 150h Merek, \"S recal-BRAON.  \nNOTICE TO SHARKHOLDERS. Pebermy 22, VOLMDR, Denish adapter. 973,  \nRecognised by the T. toew: Sevation of TORRENT 2018 AD Here, E.. 173 Fektivt, CAPITAL Flot Cars Ge  \nANGGA MUSTING of SHARK --Tune é  \n24,265,000 HOGUbs in the alene Coy with n RAMATZ PORD  \n£59, 190, at the Leaf the y. Vis. 7. Quza's Timcid, at (ait pas The stock, be instant, to meeile Mataista to BAN EPICCO Men, and be Elena Cheatin Ouderr, HANRON),  \nFebruary 28, CasaDEA, Brier, 62  \nY  \nAUCTIONS. PURRIO AUCTION.  \nINTIMATIO IS.  \nRACE HOLDATA  \nimas nadelgum te meived lastration Vodermentioned tenka will (LOSE!  \nPAINE  \nhuma Surgem Wajor MURRAY to Sell for BiL DAY. CU INOSHOW, SAVEDAY tb. TO SUMAR- Adranty Jáhl at 2  \nend 25 inatra, Prayz von Fac  \n\"  \nBowin, Brigas 12th Pub, Mig-2s; HEADOFFIOR-14. Ruz heres PAROD¦ Plans 24 THORDAY, turb Echomap HGTSEJ 77, &  \nFulmer 94, Yes. British rv, 78% Le  \nSolids, Cute and F. General SCG.  \nOLEA RANKS.  \nAT \"ne Haren Hispans Ojo Inst  \nExperky Pre  \nKauai, Cheve sht, for Hofla Minster, Beitials for Away. Pocha, ens tramp vi. Adilok, Gorman bark, for Tas  \nDEPARTURES February, Fame, Brist destit, fur Petrony 22. Hamaw, British slower, for!  \nTi  \nFeby $2. Stok, iliahanet, for  \nXokebena  \nFebruary 2G:=x01\", British Mesmer,  \nfor Sought  \nPASKENCYRS.  \nSAPIVED  \nAGENCIES AND HRANCE A  \n: Exoak.  \nNANTES  \nBom  \nSHOW  \nMALIGE AND, {3\\_  \nSTONEY  \nTORONAMY  \nLONDON HAWKERS  \nThe PA (  \nTHY WIN AND  \n1.cruce  \nMoms. C. J. Hume Has  \nYue Honger geny powers Pixupnitä  \nica Tomas to outcertained on appřánation!  \nA few randife sun sull jarts of the world,  \nINT Escapula sees of king shangs spiness  \n8 February, 199  \nF. COCHINARD,  \nSpeat, foug  \nDENTAL BANK CORPORATION KÁRÍCUNDOSATs my Horan CHADIGAN PAIDUS CAPITAL.......  \nRATE OF IN CHEST ALLOWED  \nthat por Acy.  \nCurumiles and  \n11, the sport thu  \ndongás my CALIORNO COVERED DRAWING  \nHACK WORD VARITE TO TABLES.  \nPer fan Oring Par laws Corporation,  \nURO 0. BOOTT  \nVaror Hogan  \nFeh  \nTEK Mas Baxi or!  \nINDOOR, AND TIME,  \nI  \nMEARTH PLASS DWMNRY CLOCK For the CARTAR), gkeun.  \nKAS, PICTURES, CASA.  \nDISING  \nJARDIN, MATSON & Groepen, Turk Fire Inspired: JIERA, and GAS BRACKETS, Hongkong Ft This  \n300 TEAKWOOD  \nane DESBAKT SPTS, TXA and OK. THE KOKORONG FIAR INSURANCE FRE SETS, KES CHINA, AYASO and  \nCOMPANY, JAJED  \nPEATED WORK  \nNOTOR  \nDA, T2, Cha  \nWILLIAM FORREST.  \n三十二月二行 INTIMATIONS.  \nTHE  \nINLO-CHINA STEAM  \nPwCE 2 PRE MONT  \nINTIMATIONS.  \naan dus on afwan Wang Bankulmat in  \nNAVIGATION et  \nCOMPANY, LIKE  \nDOPE THE ON  \nJAKA MAP & Co. OF ON. SGAMAN  \nDE 100 GR  \nIN B  \nduly paid the allocati eft liable to cucina Aul blau paparents previously now:la | to furth  \nApplications Exe Stuures osatiede in the For resoring is Pregnet, and scre £t be nut w the Giles of the Conryany, and ET FACT HOLLAND HAPO &  \nMAVION & Unshiun Could  \nFL, &  \ncally paid up awers wi listed in the set the  \nHome buy a the belies of bei  \nBCHEDULE OF SINAMER Apers.... IV: 1000! 17+ Propnely Natasha China  \nNavigation  \nEd for palle Bulcription foil Axe 10.  \nDaposi's, Application.  \nIL DUR T-SCHTE! ឬ ៥រ Howe, TURO...  \n?TADLE, SIDENTS, DIN.; For the Suprzin DeY DE PARS!  \nRASSFEE Both of the BA (ABYAL GUARS TOILET LADIE gray, will by COLONNE the 15th CAB, sud HANDLE TOP WASH the 2in my of Foling Instant Antonio HAND SAWINO WA  \nSTAND rundade  \nHeating. P.IVARD.  \n1 gang.  \nFor sýn Fynbou A Hawking:  \nGOBATION.  \n1. Ja  \nJACKSON,  \nCiel Tenger.  \nHigh Fetary, 1893  \nVuw...  \n1.  \nStow 7 espel  \n294  \nof the ac  \n134.ag.  \nTotal 40 Reginas  \n2. 1  \nMarch, 18 They, Julita will a given of any far.  \nMAR WILLIAM SEES 108, 8, Lombard! Strne end, of Messe JANDERE, MAAT. Franz & C... Gui  \nWANTE  \nB. 1. Eg Int JARDINS, MATHESON  \nA., of Modern Wang, Aus the lungest\",  \nESCOPE ↳y Yerin, with Astrono.  \nTHE OFPRUS # 5. REONTRO ITA TUOKAS REID, Fu, of Youre ALEZA ILANO for the last is in: 25: Rp & Bora, Hiszpan elony Fire To Exe Hongkong, 22 February, 183).  \norder to artiste directions tots 3A 10WGING FRUT, Luchst C  \nELLS, Sight Fairy and Fowlies with Alus Olice for Certilours!WILLIA HILAND STEEL Best the 24te of Maruh application for a lifed  \nLaredo, Mus. Maison de Ca  \nai Harkong and Shangani me to put ou sitration, des that the rely on Paal tas ng inuis, of Nabor of the woich bars fan tanutted Cir the thache il in Yokohama ki  \nLE  \nNOTRE 10 MAEINERS.  \nThe Murty BOOKMASI...557 to Mic PANG, Heiki-  \nding, Malbyona  \nWIPH nerados to the show the Ton  \ningabout 300  \n500 Thesie Ban-Cal Breneb Londing 1-15% duty to ware Yemane vise my hyn Trung ist RS YACANDLEW. Eng... frambursgard sin proprzeć la neige at Feet  \nH: NGRONG AND WILAMMUA DOCK HOUSE.  \nCOMPANY, LIBYTE),  \nNOTICE TO SKALHOLDERS. THE ORDINAGE YEARLY MOETINO AARONESS wie El. AusCe por u  \ntine 631: of the way St, Pra Co Atis Moon Notions are for the WEDNESDAY, 1st March 16 Crea Acu kap Verms which way Rape of the Dino desterraun nå Wote wat so syylientcy.  \nPer Craplar at the Guizon, ed Uning  \nSPARTER  \nPer inturn for maple- Heverink and Europe.  \n15 DEPART  \nFenton, Su #trilow. --I M  \nPet  \nned 10 En Sivingbat. —ü Kuras Hongkong, 4th Kaptajulus,  \nA  \nEks  \n2 Werte sinamas Poling aproni, liar en helt Ft 1 4.hart Furt of Junta per had fresh M  \nHONGKONG SANHA BANKING  \nBut  \nCabal, sud u when to iau i F & put as far, the 27th in  \nTYLE SAL av  \nJ. W ARMSTRONG, A Gmianeer.  \nE!  \nHugong. 2: Feltery, h  \nPUBLIO AUCTION.  \n30 Marie Trinn 20 N  \nPARKLAS  \nVASITAS POÁI  \nKRALIAN-) (ptrend tyres Bar & be pupaese 1+ing indired in tiruva ih let Deber, is net be reated w  \nCeiba sa Japan. THE HONGKONG AND SANITA  \nApplications nae sive China Ghid port will the GNGETRO (NO which was BANKING CORPORATION, 31, Legal Shanghai and tanut at es, in 1981, this are: Stowa Londe  \nSULMITORS lium Changer of Daisy, and  \ncoivaraga tenger, Rok Dustings. Lesken, Feder Bud Lave Resorts briar by My Dear Hetector, 1959, perubat  \nant sieel to toe!  \n£ 1145 Asto  \nTip  \nti per Suadu witin emal opplication MY FRESASTELDS & WILLIAMS, Iwili han dells, and f  \nSercitare Kia calix award in the prospertise BROK  \npercation with the Depp hver will COLLANT HALCONE 2 DA  \nIbsen in dernery by un punto  \nIrant  \nthe Crash testa del Polish, tions Pubin Lily, as is al fusion of use rack, Ord Froud Best, ruin of tiktirnar. Ar Bostamil the Bills  \nFCESDAY.  \n95 Fay, that, wi fuam, at i  \ndes Kant's theau's Hom—  \nAlarm  \nut Loud.  \ni wengine ci Suijn, 38 prescribed i  \nAUDITORY.  \nCloud B AND, YOUNGS & y 92.1  \n· Carly- the Hurst Masy! bor Theiver of timpiere AaJim,  \n1. Déso. Agrot Tenkung, 2ed fakeway, 1885.  \n(176) C  \n? 11 Feb 15.  \nGM Q. SEXYTT.  \n*  \non te  \n!1st Ja  \n: Geinatal Back Cowperatio,  \nHen  \n•Bain Kingüe I Ginacenza  \n11:  \n£, 100X3  \nDod  \nl  \nHegory at Fee Seurotary THE HONGKONG KE SHIVPANY,  \nLIMITE  \nActie  \nTho Aust  \n4  \nan Vrout Pa tom throughly sportmaled |  \nChege Diz--  \n-----  \n1. J. DANDYY.. For  \nok Cempery wel is vinent in Branca lyds, 3.36.111 gaat disision, aber in Gear, My A. T.  \nCORPORATION.  \nPAID-UP CAPITALA RESERVE FUND 99  \nDu. Reja, ta, Ka  \n1, 2  \nBrugkeer we run Bina Mother; lepabraziunar—H, LC WRY- Zoeks. Ea  \n2.m 12. Harper. Th Em Breite Dorary spezia of. Multi-  \nSen. Bul Saigon 2 Les arming of indian Forcery. Y Might Sure wins within wother up to the forein;  \nstrange iterata to a fregite wise  \nBigh  \nPOOCHÓW TUPPING.  \nFelc  \n4. Appiu, Thetish ale, from Shanghai  \ning, wie foam lengky.  \n5. E. Hahal, from Weiur.  \n6. Han, C.  \nC. P  \nbuck, ia behat.  \nHogan  \nNOTIF  \nTHE FIRST ALS & DENKRAT  \nMENTING VERS 14  \nza  \n- ved sj  \ntho  \nMAYMER  \nJackson, Ey B-FEN CARROS,  \n\"CERT-  \ntone into thangala, en alt 109  \nKathaway of Kurlon Des  \nTEMPORARY OFFICES.  \nIron Gauden to no and in the latel  \nfogar with the Appunt rather to in ↓ pametna may be inspect be beting „No. 1, EAST INDIS A FENTE, LONDON, Absorbers at this hoss of tile Tureisigass  \nLanai whole Bingen of Applination for S  \nPG Compare bat beri famed for the pur I wire of orqaising for the C PURCH  \nWANTHE oded by the Forsary and WYOMPETENT STRAPONS for Etners ATRAM NAVIATION CURANT, Ofnbul,  \nFor Father Paroisse soy mila, Under- zig int.  \n2e os, at was on Bata-Orl F the Par  \nhona Mitoba MSDAY, 3 ay lace Meat he pose on why talk of like T More magis obras of Anat Balete of the Con Boster, 255), Tranter. All of safer to be Lord of  \nby the Purples, and for Yesus to be at pe  \nLONE BARES-TON CO2 & Consterk par 1  \n•pat  \nBunker-LAYSIAN Anorga  \nitement anys,  \nOK g the Company  \n¡ will be CLOWEST) Len. On salliinstant, ve zl i Phuyu's risk az tho Biebs by cine  \nCavento Acerante al this remith next, both days nho, pop duju ou like Illya  \nThe Mandi Paprika  \nFortyor Band, por Azamolb  \nFurler Cut your bac  \nFat the paper Auca  \nGAL 3 Angest  \nHad Me 101 chrome Chotos ye; destriglio of Balag and Exehazge!  \nCusted stated Scurity !  \nGleznas. His Sha  \n4. Sibul, if  \n78, Kwangwung, Erstili ste, dva  \n1. Suctive 34 amph, France  \nFour D  \nTank, Brown-  \n5. Pild, Critter back, ne singel-L  \n2. Deur Vasi Deitina look, (  \nAmoy.  \n7. Ms. Heiriza pelo tan bai  \nrit, B. bit.  \nfor Any.  \n6, Agi til str., for whi  \nDr. Heilial str. for New York. ya, Shelb  \nBrilly 142, farma. Ing. Mirtich str, for Hongkong,  \nZNANOTIA SHIPPING,  \nAUTOSALS  \nWulu. Britisú as, from Harku.  \n6, Kinag-ong Ulduage ita, frenz flatma  \nB. Geway .. from Kucheyrna  \n- Bridalstrom Hojcity.  \n6) Langmon. Chioma ne, frew Hongkong,  \n5. Klingeline, Catur fram lafen.  \n''yan,  \n7. Name the trum Nagusiki  \nBrivion wir, Ines Heater, 7. King. Chani kiz. Pero Hakow T. KONTO, Bullies wir, freno Bonzow,  \nYangtae, hate, from Thungborg.  \nmon.Gec. From Barefo  \nB. Catras, Heiti 47, Bonbay,  \nVarin t'uiteto frut A  \n4. Yenity, Chitum, fena, Wakoa.  \n9. A. Bitdeh str. f3  \nKonkow.  \nBuy British tea, from Haukum  \n9 Mon Jagt, he  \n3. Birish str. ne kaik  \n10. Mennar, Him. A may  \n24, 4ppi, lich etc. in Feb  \n10, goshi Weru, daş, art, tre, Kineban  \n,, Torches at I'm Sratur.  \nsan, sem sta, fram tvorbow.  \n11, Chiz Britise 4, Frain Nugaenki.  \n11. Kincy for, pise sta, Free For  \nJiweltlah me, from Hack.  \n11. Child, Britse stres  \nveg  \n23. Mika infra Ft.okow.  \n14. Vraniu, Brizi i teras Ni  \n12, Pag-chua, Cebu, Gun Haugining  \n13. Paking, Britisk str. from Harian  \n12. When, Sritha, Fran Ningpe  \n23, P, Velg from Navski.  \n13. Artawan, British ate, trong Ngebak.  \n13. Bellapin, Criticstr, from hay.  \n14. Kangitsen, Obiamo côfine  \n14. Why Chinese  \n12. Cf. fe Grice, Neftials aly, Fara Fausto,  \nYel  \nWa, Kritish or from Purbox  \nDEPASISKGK.  \nTulis, fitil:  \nfry.  \n7. Larisa ar, Caliber cust  \nser, far Harten.  \n4. Karlebota, Utili ste, for Hong  \n7. Kig-yong, CU Hor  \nWCA Vite fish sirir Hanken Wencho, Bitlah se fre Bentor  \n7. T, Batin ats  \nvalt.. Sur Au”.  \n3. Yolors Faupat, for Kris.  \n7. Anjaszóne. Maitish to. Lo Nayan  \n9. Pribe. Fruch as, for  \nVery arm, Jap, sie  \nCheambin, list, for Tookes.  \n9. Sualon, Bisjal nie,, for Chato.  \n3. British te, & Nhup.  \nA. Wynn, Erinala ste, får 1  \nKorinetes,  \n5. Clay, Beds he for Nagild  \n6. Tade. British si Hongkong.  \n3 Dakinu 1. 1-i, Nagki  \n8. 1. 1. Chernosina, qez Nag!.  \nSing, Eisk er for Haukee.  \n2, Wan, Heffasi atr. Yee Hankge  \n8. Tagesbian Here. Sup, so, for Nigeri  \nNow, Beltani ste, fer Swabunt.  \n30, Yehsie, China, Cil  \n1 Yung-ring China for Wacker.  \n1. Kung, helliah straw, For 'Batkow,  \n1. Yet, 1 Late, for thinking-  \n11, Exitish fry  \n11, y, Brick size for ever  \nᎫ Ꭸ .  \n-piant. C.Dave var for BakuPP.  \n33. Natumeur, the Hali ste, ing Bunton.  \nNang Byi-ish swamar, for Desigər 125.  \n12, W. Stupin. Trilin's barb,  \n13. Did Ms pett, for  \n1. Hritish star, fer  \nfine.  \nut,  \n12, Appiu. Rzinies alapone, for Benchaw. 12 Hole, British baek, for Puntur.  \n18, in, Paul sicsance, for Yongpa  \n14. Bang fou, Chiron 5., for lankaw. Tino, Titia, for acco  \nJA, Bhara Kort. Danish, Aw Aney.  \nJá, nilon. Ispitful: man, tum feudon  \n14, Hung-mono. Elite for Ning.  \nAUCTION SALES TO-DAY.  \nNout  \n2 ZON  \nM  \nHongkong, 2012 Paketars. 1  \nHION FRONG AND  \nj  \nBANKING CORP VOHAL  \nNOTICH TO,\"  \nIruding flower  \n8:4  \n36  \nS  \nSTRIA DE ATESON & C  \nHenare! Meapp.  \nPangkor, Nuth Pukssary. 199  \nund bag hij brente Vicker Bust Yantraze AMIN CORPÁSY, n2 Plang!! Fue Paci  \nhos, mad from Jers spaly to  \nTached beat soother in the basisve of! by the Seantul.! Longhwag. Ha Fairy, 1982 1844 tonnes Lowashed Rivers of  \nClaire and bear China, the trait to  \nCo. is a pig MANY STANSTER  \nIONS TO OUR NOTICES TO CONSIGMEES.  \nNONERS OF OPTION ANDA BOO,  \nES. 8.3. COPS 8.5.37ENECK,\"  \nFROM LIVERPOOL  \nCHUPTING  \n4. M. ARMSTRONG. Ani Hwgkong, 18h Bencowry, the  \nTUNGKONG RACH.  \nEN to the GANE Encours for Gentlenes being Sah  \nof sið, er towards, 19 dla Band. Frogi. for Now able to the rain o  \nG 183 No “Stand st  \nj zorth  \nVin Ind  \nKIULH いやい  \nprente, oz Chica  \nDžiova stek u poziveliùsling of  \ningen be adding it to the  \nit various inter report, and the mak  \nsent. 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Bolay the a  \nZ  \nW ROINES,  \nDoorway. In You, Je,\"  \nM  \nNOTICE.  \nKunis been appoint Agents for thr  \nNO. 2 LOWER MONQUE TERRACE  \nApply to  \nJ. M. ANETRONIA,  \nHongkong, we fibreney, this  \n.....  \nTO BE LAT  \nWith mata konica  \nNETSUZ BUSHAN KAISHA, OFWELLING HOUSE No & O Basing  \nPorto this For  \nHongkong  \n980. STEVENS & C.  \nJanuary 18  \nXOTION  \nATRA LAMEDA on mitted  \nPatios in my Where no? tán Hestnesi will be watere at inder the |cale f  \nSTRIL & TALKM  \nNTS  \nNetgan. Feb 12  \n..............  \npatuled,  \nGut, thoroughly tapultad vol wy  \nApply to  \nALEX. A. AGA KIHELIOS. Iveco J. 1+13 RENKIJOS & Q....... I  \nHvaley Stroth Ifonytone. 8th Bobnary, 16  \ndelivery train Graf or China  \nCon 1995  \nCIO'S LOAN, or repruned Blaess Ne  \nApply to  \nLISTSAL & DAVIS,  \nAngkor, Sim Fe K  \n+452  \n2ist rebrany, 1837.  \nand five aziona  \nun sft art its simpellant, waking  \nfest Et une ged wit's the that they the C101: Fally put up shar Vilor, and of which songs is vrugt  \napdaivers after the with Pelaars,  \n1982 aufgeno  \nFITTERS SIRE Agra, Rogging, ul Februny. 1:  \nFROM LOS DON AND SINGAPORS.  \nGLENFRO4-,\"  \nBurta, Brasiguam;  \nCAL  \nLE COMIDAT PERFORMANCE.  \nDISPLAY OF NECROMANOS  \nGLINK T  \nPROFESSOR RUCHWALDY,  \nRENA WIMANT Wind 28* Wansker Taare  \nAn entirely new Pumnites  \nPUS PARTICULATE SES H  \nPAX OF ADRESTON.  \nDrain Cirak seil Sti  \nPl............  \nidio finálem in auffores Hall Pries Tickets to be hat den Neue Key & Wag med at dhe Tales  \nDight The Steamy will be alten | Performer 1. studio of fil, the Frinksminga  \nPosing a CAPA  \nLe ɖe Compray.  \nCha Cha Stry Farmats of J. Convams may extantinuci în 10 oun  \nAsily. Fructe at 80 Pig, Performance to com  \nLading jajene za coudseted with Nathan  \nDowny, Fetienacy, 1885 Is her secon! it ONGKONG, CANTOR, ANU MAURO  \nPLLAK CESARDT Sunambig  \n| basing arrivet ROYAL BELUSLINTET COMPANY,  \n(of Surg Am Barely this long com, dying lady letras Fassies and Saverbrai.!  \nwiik esvapur of Oplan van het bal Salon Pung, Cl ritl  \nThe risks dete pas earns of De Visita, en Kerck, whi Biznad, vienne di Paw the wharem a otra ringstjen 4 way to ohtrize],  \nSADETLY APPEL. Hoy, 7th Folamry. 1983  \nNOWN SALE TOOUND VOLUM is of the Chow95-174:7-8410$ Tags per h Yone 1287.  \nPark The Dak Arty Fina  \nBong JANTY  \ntr  \n3 H 1  \nX  \nG..  \nUWALSH IN SILKS, Canton and Slot Brass Pro Sharris,  \nbana ng Wang, Curiosis,  \nDenaliende, Talul Chalca orm Tebies, ie, f..  \nGOLD AND SILVER FRATELLE  \nCaro SST, P  \nROM, QUDEN'S BOAT, EXC MAHANA.  \nSTEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. KXOURSION TO MACAD.  \nSOMANES Panxha \"KINETANG,\" will for Latine ange wül informadales the! funtion thatør Porn Blog Lan SATURDAY, the 25% inesses. to the rosterý se given befrog Noon 10.DAY  \nIan Bastow, ad hooks, bonds, pavery. the Buch Febri. 19  \nung tamilly prociled ze the carus porte lasting 90 Can winlig v  \nDudaliteket  \nju ili za svoju te thot of end for pictat and thesis sagirnis em  \nBOUN  \nNo ite kurd has buan atatud,  \n2 Julie ill be cinanteisisat kj  \nKrbrary,  \ncutting a large card tra J'a Stanet e de \"Id\" Wardagi  \nruza BUNDAY, the  \nThe Cas Prosta Muca and lak.. 89 40. So Cas......  \n31.50 tests to be pare at the Company'  \nby Disa  \nbral osally Myths seri at the Wari.  \n•han basisgand to me al segue  \nang trade.  \nAsiY[ 034 54 * ! tag, odo Date  \nBeagles 20  \nUNION LISE  \nNOTICE TO ROYSKONTES.  \nTROM LONDON, THNARD, AND  \nSINRAPOR \"TOPORATES-  \n\"S-SRETNO\" is Bow Rename of 1.466 kaas til at aborden, and destined to China  \nSarung Lath, where i wantly be join  \n2. A LA COSTA,  \nStrogkwg Ziel Folers  \nCAUTION tavots\" of 2.577, fie ding Paktis on igured that SCBIP for minh bas frist hide Abarca: SHAREG Numbed it)  \nLe T  \nw by the Foest at whogy tud 48 rue 613-1,250 fs Shoe St Rita W4X24 D luga iar apperanicu plutor Blass CuANT be student that motive ul Dcrz  \nDeals That Has Borghang!  \nHenker 28ri Pelary. 1683  \nNote-Th, Dia is the ski otɔdlükat | Capkiu Mitzke, having arrived free pieces Sainty built for the; the chefs ass buna giu że Shott Cloapany. #5111 Line in Loughed as one is City among with with which the  \nmit any view of a nábo kong naga.  \ntomat ju thair Bis of \"Inding to vas arlor Falo hvalisay steal an important EN RING.  \nund or eligator 25 main positi  \nTO LET  \nAty to  \nDOUGJAS LAPCAJK & L Lengkong, L. Tebaumy, Ur  \n797  \nTemarking, RE  \nJAPAN JARRETE  \nYANAMA.  \nHAVING plejad is H  \n575 dia daliring ni skafé Condo Fezia alte The Chic Calenus branch of the Char-  \nCAT ating blom alechage of  \nthagena ar charterad, wish are Java 1. |  \nCHIHAN STELMANIP COMPANY,  \nFOR SHANTHAL Y AMOY Taking Cazzard Passeng long las  \nwill be at this landed net storage Pay's Pervine will trim the placevi 10-a kilusis :{DPGALVOS Intentano, Prae818, KLARON, ried and expois as no Zee Insurers IN A CUT 8 Company's Steward y  \ncounty health have.  \nDitial Care will be forwarded onto from  \nInd  \n1 line is a velemble one. Ed is  \nal Pass or the Yamaisen  \nTHESE LITERAN 200 FOS-17 LJONGKONG WHARE & GODOWNS, 1 Gavetin, Gas Pumbatore Roose Apis may be seenesting passenger trothe and trule of Vidos, sãe 50ed it, at Eren z  \nKONG SOM CHINa tile feu molver astro to the Gilmer be gets en Chica, the Straits, Buttweisen,  \nMW. REPOOL MUSTES DE  \nPan CEAS or the Dans les  \nI use will be sei un, le: the  \nFrog Dedi Yox Subtipdoza aud  \nGoods verived an STORAGE at Modrum Adportienuolės kill bousculand så tide Often, Red, Fedtmas Peloasa,  \nLORDAN, KLE  \nto the  \nlumatong Prity Frie Chen.  \nand on or if the  \nivalsat, or they us be versa  \nAl  \nRUSSELL & C  \nEntivo 000WNST Any to  \n184  \n>RYFL & C Tinghaus, Bri Murel, Ja  \nTO LET  \nJENE WIURLAND WUISKY  \n습  \ntomsong, \"ith Kebruary, de  \nsura Styes by Mr WLCA an aud 'Mr. EDWARD JONNY HIGHGs.  \nBEGRES & LEORD  \nHoaglag, kh Jnowary, 1562  \nLASTRE.  \n-  \nAnd  \nCŮH VNG and 92ORådE;), W R. FABDERICK DES.ore Hide, all we ladies; stage  \nAlso, M  \nJeelanin ay Pen Pen  \ni4kin Usta, Stil Mr. DEORGE H. WILDONORENSNITE \"KONONKA!  \nJOHNSON.  \nthorised to sigu na nagta  \nSELEC  \n161  \nSHARP TULAER. Houghou, Jl. Koptember, 1951.  \nis  \nChina, 1st Junkery, Jasa,\"  \nTO BE IST.  \nK. BOOKS & NEW HOITIONS.  \nBALA WAJIB TUYNUE TERMARIA PAR  \nJennies fuwa and Gardo.  \nREHAWAY'S DAY IN A Cable Du 82.30.  \nApply to  \n| At Bows=derwone di Cross-(Play  \nJu$ 24,99  \nhours  \nbuy, 1892-  \nLINSTEAD & 174 VIR  \n1368  \nBY. EAT BAN.......  \nVarea's Bay BAR TO 42.0.3  \nTO BE LEV.  \n2  \nWith a Sut dope Next,  \nPure Talentīniku  \nThrow zəd  \nsopittinor. not,  \nEnge the on Pocicta.  \nThla poetsendis fr Brands?  \nBettled varier éta pagal prision of  \nIE.M. It may not besties,  \nHold by Apote  \nThe Worl  \n2016 l'aprimas,  \nGREENLEEHUGOTINES  \nR. CAT ME, TN,  \nDili, Angyalive. Y  \nTORN BAZLEY WITIE » ELUTHAT'S  \nPORTLAY CREENI  \nHOLE ARE WE CAN,  \nPOLLDAY WISH &  \n\"STENTOT\" nomidered of growing imposture, owing to the Capinia Kirkpatrick, will be dospaerbed. 'TO. with Pie Suits Sanctness fadin. If  \nposed bile popupfil  \nSally adapted to this one of th  \nAg-wal  \nPiger Paraply la  \nBTTERFILL&RVIRE. 1nging. Brit Vebruary, 19.  \nPest pinabi, suplayed in the parties, and the PUR SYDNEY AND WELBOURNE, MAA  \nirectes expect  \niNuns to the Cross and  \nNOTIOR TO CONSIGNES BRITISH RANQUE «ENDYMOW,\" FROM LONDON.  \nle, with the Give of the harbor  \ninfusion antuplish thes, and is THE S  \n& Barre Boruture, wing of 195,400 jample silent  \nTeaming of the Corina C  \n'PAKAO.  \nHUNGARIAN Chptain Abnob, will be distohaalej  \nvayout any porturiled to end in direct stand the amin the; BEFORUoga, che van animus  \n[MON BLO-432125 vf Chup by the shavu nauči volata Con  \nتا بروید  \nSome eu this?”  \ninted it as presionaty sien,  \nLedia Latha Tindesign for teagues and wish fare, and the chip and dishia Avexoma-  \nAnd to wish wediata daivery of theirut sa Yungeza rec Sutien, thoni zand rapi ods.  \nlizer pros and is the beardisipat! #w Krázlá se l'asure, apply t Carge impede the ischarge of the prezu with the antedication of will be handed Plan Coming sale at Jink that is thing or 1!ཤཱ ཤ1ཀ92  \nConad China and the gerectiepaccion of VENHOLD, KABLERO & Cu..  \nforging, 20  \nAgastā,  \nVEEAMENT  \nLabs earping-Trade in the Fun SANA, Hodon  \n20. D. SKYNS  \nOLZ. cyborg, 25l Picnary, 1881.  \n(37  \nPOR MANTLA DO  \nthe hang of Cams, that the Changany lindil«ma 135 anys 50+ Gendable enterpri  \nmessage of gettin Denver, will be upstand in th  \n20th February, NOTICE TO CONSTANTS.***  \nhow the yellt of being being coser, nadan Pert ez cutive perciocia en lices f quod in their sila u Darling! Flies ronible expect profie to pay divi tha wedged the countrytresdends, levides funding à Puiere Park fut na- | tak bole leep. Puis Cakes a spotles in the ralow of Stem  \nCASTELLS BOONA SI M$500. THE BOUSE ... Afluor- Pean? fiongkong. Lich Berater. Jaar 20E PARIGN288 t the Setlowing Cargo are ¦ Gjested, bringing an vorean act of will; the F  \nGAPSELL'S JR ACURA ADUI Wire Cops, derling  \nms mm $2.99 Wat bid on * DoNDUSANY...67.80. Camera Bormionary or Connor  \nX MODE A P  \nE  \nA \"CALIT  \n...$50  \nOWN THALS  \nNoir Et risk sed -  \nKOTOE. Apply to  \nFER Ondulkar ben appointed and i set LINSTEAD & DA AGERTH jothy die their souls Fleurkons, 24 Faktany, 2580,  \nby Masses, KY POCE 900, of Weru, car BEMENA  \n----  \n1987  \nPO NE LUT, GODOWN WWATER PADE  \nBuca's Wert, CAS 14208  \nMEN ARTEL UNY AT 3rELS |  \nVa.  \n.............$1.05 BB-as by Derec Anotre locsa Wox.'s Home De jikaraka CasACT OF SETAAN & T  \n.......  \n___STD_DBBAREPA  \nه آزادی از راه  \nIn Amra é  \nJASTHAN & DAVIS. FROM GONDON AS) SINGAPOR Egils June 7, 199  \nTT LEL  \nse ing been affectivit  \n80ti inond: We Cates Vor-?  \nmouth, Driss Sten Wather. 15:10,11, 3 Come M. Order, Lena  \nMerwe  \n--PREVO 1680), demo New 45. Il Core Tv-i  \nBustle, Derles Marit  \nA decaDLY.  \nTHE PRAYà Nov. 15 and 47 (KENS BREAysel droveste, Ciniz see! 2002 Autunda Kits, & Casa? Marokani BOVARE AND SALTadini H. 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Bide Agelb dougiong, Nerabe, 1991  \nEX \"ARADRA  \nHé zone No. 25. 1 Ch Flute, Céur,  \nfrange  \nCum in WAL  \nJodliwey mung: he claimed.  \nOptical Carry will forestei paina 1er in sua caray *rginen bei 32  \nTODAY. 1  \nThe tale the unity Age  \nteen var fula by s tebe n the Cete fary:  \nל.TR\"  \n916,  \nFo Fralebtor Pasengo, apply to  \nREŠENIOS & Dungkot, en Falirnusy, 1543.  \nAUSTROJUNGABIAN LOOTISSUSAN NAVIGATIOR COMPANY. 1. At Agresamos que Riu Noor, 1891, STEAM WIR SINGAPORE, PENANG, Teen Woman Kinter. We cup COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, BUZZ, Ing of the China Gas Stan Naz  \nPORT BAIN, AND TRIPSUM. SIS COFA the  \nthe Awarar STRANEK (laking Gangnan timing rates to Cabestra, Cagene and JAJARNYA ALISON SCOT PRYMATIC PATS, Costa, and the  \nMGOTTENRASS Postel  \nespectivo Teds if we compres digital 27, of the part, wand CORN LI, 12 Company's Arm  \nو بواره کمی از سواری به بازار کار در کاشی تر و با دیوید  \nwiki Moboraca fu 30+ to  \n\"DACHNE\"  \nWILIAM Captain Cousie, will feel MON. KICK bit of JANTINA, 6th Prezimu, at POE 22.06. ZANER&Co. of the ene part, and | For fur Particalórappir ta Jos J. Ma, on behalf of the Cem.  \nMECHI & Co.  \n182  \nparis, vt tin other pert  \nCopper of the chore Agoemand sand Morrerar. !  \nof the Water Ant of  \n1  \ngistion, uni szeme Tulused Valesklad, D  \nde inspinal by interling Zubscribers, a  \nHow Fuhraury, 1359  \nSTEAM TO FRANQUIAL  \nارک باد  \nHis cume; No. B. Fill, a Care Meerten üstina cf the Exlienor of the Jonpano. 2 13, 8. N. Co.'s Strucəliy  \nTO LET TUUSHA and DOWNS, N». 13 and Caren 100.swing vode alter ibu 23rd! H  \nloa, Maya Ceurest. af persave is the custani will be slijed 628  \npatioa el inks. CXNOWire & Co. Pusa97- sin en 1st day out?.  \nApply to \",\" care of one of Nix papar.  \nHayong, 33t. Pauta  \n561.  \nBiz created.  \nFill of Lading 24) be wet F  \nJARING  \nHengkona, 15th Februg, 1982,  \ndise, Dege, o andar.  \nBYAN  \n¡GB, No D. 2 Chua, folar, Pres  \na. D. CHAS PEAUX, Agral.  \n153 unge, 3rd January, 18  \n31 Faza & WALA, & Tank Bali, 31  \n*DEGEAN,\" will teate or the shoo plan aluk 24 Eners Ina athmont se made the digest will after hac artisi with the Eaglish Mail, edarped, we pumpday if iskarei Se  \nA. MOVER notte) am suplied for, 4 surplus of the  \nSuurinta at Tungkong: 29% Fobrancy, 1882  \nrexit wil byheals to the pope of con",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW.\n\n\"We can do to assist you we will do.\" Chien replying to the three, said with a low obeisance, \"I am much indebted to your public spirit; as for Kao Chin when he was in a humble way he was often here, and I taught him to use the spear and the club; I always was well with him. The beast however learnt himself plenty of evil, but now that he has risen he still remembers me and often wished to promote me; I however did not wish to go his ways; we have therefore been slightly separated, but still in private affairs we keep up some connection, also at the three feasts or on our birthdays I go to his house; I have often told you, Fan, this. My daughter goes out constantly (i.e., does not cover her head but lets her face appear.) To-day being the anniversary of her mother's death she went to the Jewel Fairy temple to burn incense, when this affair unexpectedly came up: Kao Ya-nei allows himself now to be in the wrong, and I think it is very preposterous to endure a wrong, nor do I want to discuss the matter further; but I fear I am much troubling.\" Tai said, \"Although Kao Chin is a good friend to you, I fear this affair will not end like this; you will see there will soon be complications; it is not I, Tai Tsung, who wishes to take you, but for a man of your ability to be buried into the long grass is much to be pitied, nor are you very old. Moreover the ministers now are bad and the road for men of virtue is closed, and the good birds pick out what trees they may rest on. Does not your reverence have any anxiety for the future? I am not very bold, but in my humble opinion you ought to come to our hill, and amongst our various chiefs and men of merit so gallant a man as you will be like adding flowers to embroidery, and all will respect you. When too the amnesty comes for us, what honours will there not be for you.\" Chou said, \"If you, Sir, agree to Tai's word, choose your day for starting with your dear daughter, I will willingly act as your attendant on the way, and why should you be insulted and bent down by authority.\" Ch'en replied, \"I am much indebted to you for what you have said, and I should get my whip and stirrups ready. But I am intimate with matters beyond this world, and care not for worldly matters, so I cannot, I fear, be thus happy; moreover my little daughter is like an infant dear to me and cannot be separated from me. Li-ch'ing in your den has a feud and difference with me, and this though not worth discussion would make it unpleasant for us to live in one place, and I shall, captains, be able some day to recompense you.\" Tai wanted to ask about the feud, but the old servant coming in said \"that two messengers are come from Lord Kao Chin asking to speak with you, Sir, and they now are sitting in the hall.\" Chen rose up and asked the three to sit still. Fan and Tai, seeing what they had said was not appreciated and also seeing men had come from Kao Chin's, also got up and said, \"We have come by chance (i.e., lightly); we will pay our respects again.\" Ch'en said, \"To-morrow I will visit; thank you; I trust I may not be in the wrong if I have been remiss or disrespectful.\" Chou also rose up, thanked his host and went out with the rest. Ch'en showed them to the door and they parted; then turning round he saw the other two. He told the old woman to shut the door.\n\nTai on getting outside a few steps turned his head to the two others and said, \"That creature did not comprehend I was elevating him.\" Fan said, \"He is unwilling, but there is no help for it.\" Chou from behind called out, \"Let us return to the hill and consult with Woo, by hook or by crook to get him there; Tu-chien-I was got to come into our hands, how much more this one.\" Tai and Fan said, \"People are coming out from all the lanes, speak lower.\" Chien meantime had recognized two of the low square caps who had talked with him at the wine-shop; here was San Kao, the fire-raising poker; the other Hsueh Pao, called the peace-hater. The two men bowed, and Hsi-chen, after bowing in return, said, \"What business is it has troubled you two gentlemen to descend here from your brilliant abode?\" The two said, \"Kao Ya-nei has sent us two here to beg your pardon, and to ask the lady to overlook the offence. Ya-nei would have come himself, but he feared Miss would look askant at him, so he told us to come instead.\" Chen said, \"What, we have already come to an agreement about this at the wine-shop; since you two have been at the trouble of moving, that little baggage of mine has had a beating from me, and she still is sulky:\" he asked them to sit, and also told the old servant to fetch the young lady. In a short time Li-ch'ing appeared, having purposely rubbed her eyes till they were quite red, together with her nurse. She said, \"Papa, strangers are here, what do you call me out for?\" Ch'en said, \"Come here directly; this is Mr. San and that Mr. Hsueh. They have got into trouble about the row you created at Ya-nei's; you must immediately bow to them.\" Li-ch'ing joined her hands and bending low from her willow-like waist said, \"Ten thousand happinesses; I am much indebted to you. In my rough conduct just now I forgot my station, and I trust my father has already punished me. You two gentlemen will have said all that is necessary for your slave to Kao Ya-nei.\" These two idiots put on an appearance and made a deep obeisance. \"What! are you crying, Miss? Ya-nei by his outrageous behaviour to you told us to come here to ask you to overlook matters.\" They then made another obeisance, but Ch'en quickly raising them up said, \"Why should a child like this be thus treated; my child, you have hardly obtained your forgiveness, you go in and tell them to get dinner ready.\" Li-ch'ing saying \"much happiness,\" went in. The two idiots quickly began muttering a long string of excuses, that they were not hungry and rising up began to go. Ch'en attempted to stop them, saying a glass of wine would do them no harm. But they both said, \"The day was late, and Ya-nei was expecting them--they must really be going.\" Ch'en then accompanied them to the door and asked them to come to-morrow, but the two with a bow went off as quickly as they could out of the lane. Hsi-chen then shut the door and went inside, where the nurse and servant were arranging the evening meal.\n\nAs soon as he was alone with his daughter he said, \"My plan is having some meaning; my teacher has often said your betrothal was in the N.E.; I too in N.E. have an evil genius there, and I must go to have done with him, and then I can get myself into order; I think the only other place we can go to is Chin-chun-fu in Shantung where your aunt's husband Liu-huang lives; his public spirit is universal and he agrees with me very well, only whether he can give us a resting-place I don't know now, as he has been degraded. No letter has lately come from him; your two cousins came up last year for their military examinations, but did not pass. I must remind him and go and see him, and now will be a good time for us to go together. You take care to get together a few ordinary things so that we can carry them with us in two bundles; the rest we will leave behind without regret, but don't let the nurse see.\" Li-ch'ing said, \"Papa, tell me what to do, I will do it. But there is mother's grave, we have no relation to ask to look after it.\" Hsi-chen said, \"Never mind, I know it won't be long before we see a conflagration going on at that beast Kao Chin's house; he will of a certainty fall in four or five years more, and then when all is quiet we will return to our old place.\" Li-ch'ing said, \"Are we to leave all the things here as well as the house?\" Hsi-chen said, \"I regard wealth, honours and reputation as so much dirt, they together with ourselves are all unreal, we only want to catch him whether he likes or not, why trouble about the things in the house?\" Li-ch'ing said, \"Who were those three strangers?\" Chen said, \"Did you not hear, one was a fellow citizen, Mr. Fan; I know him, but am not very intimate with him. Those other two are Liang-shan robbers who came here to ask me to enter their den.\"",
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        "content_text": "## from Board of Grade Circulars\n\"Evan: I and Exen, la, and quoting from these latter regulations the following changes have been made;\n\n### Examination for Masters & Mates,\n\nPara. 1. Changed to meet the local requirements. Ord. 80/1879.\n\nPara. 2. Certain words left out which do not apply here.\n\nPara. 3. Same.\n\nPara. 4. Same. Between 3 & 4, I have introduced a regulation as to domicile.\n\nPara. 5. Certain words as Harbour Master or Harbour Office being substituted for Local Marine Board or office.\n\nPara. 6. Words omitted which apply only to England.\n\nPara. 7-8. Unchanged.\n\nPara. 9-10. Not required.\n\nPara. 11-12. Unchanged.\n\nPara. 13. Not required.\n\nPara. 14, 15, 16. Unchanged.\n\nPara. 17. As in 5.\n\nPara. 18. Not required.\n\nPara. 19. Unchanged.\n\nPara. 20. Not required.\n\nPara. 21. As in 5.\n\nPara. 22. Nord's River Steamer's added.\n\nPara. 23-24. Not required except latter para. of 24.\n\nPara. 25. Unchanged.\n\nPara. 26. Adapted to local circumstances. \n## Page 219",
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        "content_text": "( 16 ) \n\nAppendix C.\n\nPRECIS OF CASES REPORTED TO HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,\n\nFROM AUGUST 1879 TO JUNE 1880.\n\n(17)\n\nAppendix D.\n\nCOLLECTION OF FOREIGN DUTIES WITHIN THE COLONY, THEIR NATURE\n\nAND AMOUNT.\n\nNo.\n\nDate.\n\n1879.\n\nC.S.O.2239\n\nPrecis of Contents.\n\n  \n    189\n    Aug. 14\n    Junks Wing Yin and Fat On-Reporting the boarding of, by a Customs Cruiser in British waters. Harbour Master of opinion that Master of Junk's story is true.\n  \n  \n    C.S.O.2076\n    Nov. 13\n    Forwarding Report from Inspector MACKIE of Stanley as to why he thinks a certain Cruiser seized a certain Junk in British waters. Not sufficient evidence.\n  \n  \n    C.S.O.3217\n    Dec. 13\n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    C.S.O.3238\n    Dec. 15\n    \n  \n  \n    1880.\n    Jan. 5\n    \n  \n  \n    77\n    April 20\n    Petition to recover the Kwong Li, Salt Junk, alleged to have been seized by a Chinese Cruiser in British waters. Place pointed out by Junk Master is in British waters.\n  \n  \n    78\n    April 21\n    Petition to reclaim the Hop Li, Salt Junk, seized by a Revenue Cruiser in British waters. Captured in Victoria Harbour.\n  \n  \n    102\n    May 31\n    Junk Kam Hip Fat.-Alleged seizure of 20 balls Opium, &c., by a Chinese Cruiser in British waters. Forwarding Minutes of evidence of M. M. Case No. 136, and a Report of Enquiry. The Master of Kam Hip Fat was charged with leaving the waters of the Colony between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M. without a Night Clearance, contrary to Section XIV of Ord. 6 of 1866. Case dismissed for want of evidence,\n  \n  \n    C.S.O. 1261\n    \n    Licensed Fishing Junks, Nos. 804 and 67.-Reporting the boarding of, by the Chinese Cruiser in British waters. Place pointed out by Junk Master in waters of Colony.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Forwarding Telegram from Cape d'Aguilar reporting supposed seizure of a Junk by a Chinese Customs' Launch in British waters. Nothing further heard of this.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Junk Tak Shing Li-Reporting the boarding of, by a Chinese Cruiser in British waters. The Master of the Junk was charged.-\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    (1.) With furnishing untrue particulars of his Junk at Shau-ki Wan Harbour Office; and\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    (2.) With using his Clearance for another purpose than that for which it was obtained at Shau-ki Wan Harbour Station on the 26th May, 1880, contrary to Section XX of Ord. 6 of 1866. Sentenced to 24 hours' imprisonment with hard labour, and Junk and Cargo to be forfeited. (M. M. Case No. 64).\n  \n\n24th October, 1882.\n\nMemo. on the illegal collection of taxes on opium in Hongkong for the Chinese Government, their nature and amount, with observations on the proposals under Chefoo Convention.\n\nAt 109 Praya Central, Fuk Cheung Wo Hong, there is a Collectorate where \"Regular Duty\" can be paid on opium intended to be imported into China.\n\n\"Ching Shui\"\n\nOf\n\nAt 70 Wing Lok Street, Fuk Cheung Hong, a tax called Hoifong can be paid; and at 120 Bonham Strand, there is a Collectorate of Lekin.\n\nThese Collectorates issue receipts, which are just as valid as those granted on the mainland of China, and at present the taxes collected are the same as those collected at Kap-shui Mun, the station at the entrance of the Canton River, and are much less than the taxes collected at Canton on opium taken in Foreign Bottoms.\n\nThe taxes now collected here, and at Kap-shui Mun, on opium shipped in junks, are, on Bengal Opium (Patna and Benares) per chest of 40 balls:----\n\n  \n    Hoppo's or Regular Tax..\n    Lekin,\n    Hoifong,...\n  \n  \n    \n    Tls. 27.8.0\n    20.7.0\n    34.8.0\n  \n  \n    Total Tls.\n    82.8.0-$115.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    On Malwa:---\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hoppo's duty,\n    Lekin...\n    Hoifong...\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Tls. 24.0.0\n    17.2.5\n    34.0.0\n  \n  \n    Total Tls.\n    75.2.5-$104.51\n    \n    \n  \n\nSome time ago, the rates were higher than at present, Bengal paying taels 19 for 40 balls or chest,\n\nand Malwa paying taels 111.6.7.\n\nOpium taken into Canton in Foreign Ships, pays at present:—\n\n  \n    On Bengal Opium (i.e. Patna and Benares) one chest 40 balls, 120 catties:---\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hoppo's Duty,\n    Lekin,\n    Nga Tip,\n    Hoifong,\n  \n  \n    Difference in Sycee; Charity for poor and sick,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Tls. 36,0.0\n    19.2.0\n    5.0.0\n    58.0.0\n  \n  \n    \n    5.0.0\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Tls.\n    126.9.0-$175.28\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    On Malwa, on 100 catties:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Duty,\n    Lekin,\n    Nga Tip,\n    Hoifong,\n    \n  \n  \n    Difference in Sycee, Charity for poor and sick,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Tls, 30.0.0\n    16.0.0\n    7.0.0\n    56.6.6\n  \n  \n    \n    5.0.0\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Tls.\n    114.6.6-$159.25\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n457",
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        "content_text": "Made alan earlier part of the sitting of an interpellation 171 the En bject of Youkin. Enclose the authentic account of the proceedings given.\n\n200 Charged with the administrative organization of Yorkin under the protectorate of France. The forces about to be despatched. The on nemary as stated in the Consist class of.\n\n* to an ironclad of the second gun boat and as corpedo brats in the Mournal officiel Fain C morning.\n\nNothing appears I ham ren said in the Chamber about the details of the Bill but I enclose an extracts from the agence stavas of His morning purporting to give Summary of سلام A exposé des motits.\n\nAccording to this summary, intention is to occupy and fortify certain points tam launches or (coides Three Fransports which are to convey kom fifteen to men as to raise 蕈 siga ten hundred the numbers He French Froops in Tonquin to 3000 num.\n\nThe agence stavas is not an official publication but information given in it is generally substantially correct of Me the Red River, to levy customs Duties and to establish a civil Commissioner who will be have Z 52 Zuen charged.",
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        "content_text": "(ce \n\n8. Ta Whang ti \"Great Emperor\" is the title given by Sovereign, and it is insisted by the British Legation at Peking that it should continue to their use.\n\nThe Lucca, Forechy, as is well known, half-red note which would imply Equality, with the Emperor of China, to give to any Foreign Sovereigns any such.\n\n\"It is upon it by our Gracious Sovereign, \"The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India,- the Ta-Whang-ti of the English race.\"\n\nIt is recorded in the Chinese Classics that the grand old philosopher, the Aristotle of China, Kung-The, (called by Europeans Confucius), once, when gazing upon a river, compared its pure and ceaseless current to the transmission of sound learning and morality through successive ages of mankind.\n\nTo let us hope that, under the blessing of Providence, Victoria College \"may endure throughout the great future of China, a main source whence will flow the streams of education and Knowledge to generations yet unborn.\n\nI am much pleased not only with the general proficiency, but also with the general appearance and behaviour of the students at the Central School; which reflect much credit on the Head Master and his assistants.\n\nThe minor Government Schools appear also to be in a satisfactory state.",
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        "content_text": "Among the French one feeling prevailed.\n\nThe result obtained in having in any way induced the Government of Hué to accord this audience, which might have the most serious consequences, was so far satisfactory that all desired to see the ceremony terminated, and the victory definitely assured.\n\nThe sun shone brightly; the rain of the preceding days had cleared the atmosphere; the air was pure and sweet. Quiet calm reigned, in the midst of which was distinguished from the distance a low murmur from the Annamite troops assembled in the interior of the citadel. They felt that something unusual was about to happen; while the high black walls of the city frowned upon them, imparting to the scene the appearance of an immense necropolis.\n\nAt a quarter to eight o'clock the first chamberlain of the kingdom arrived at the legation; the introducteur of the ambassadors came to seek the Minister of France and the Resident of Hué to present them to the King. The cortège started from the legation on foot between the ranks of soldiers of the infantry marine, who presented arms while the trumpets sounded the advance. At the head were M. Tricou, Minister Plenipotentiary of France, Envoy Extraordinary to Hué, and M. de Champeaux, Resident of France at the Court of Hué. Afterwards came M. Lejard, Capitaine de frégate, commander-in-chief of Thuan-an, M. Caly, secretary to the Minister, and M. Radiguet, captain of infantry marine, commanding the troops of the legation. They embarked in the large barge of the legation, which, towed by a steam launch sent from Thuan-an, crossed the river followed by sampans bearing the Vietnamese and his suite. On arriving at the other bank, the French trumpeters again saluted the plenipotentiaries. A section of twenty men of the marine infantry, commanded by a lieutenant, remained to escort them as far as the interior of the citadel.\n\nA short distance from the landing place, palanquins were prepared, richly ornamented with that blending of brilliant colours which is characteristic of the peoples of the Far East. Each one took his place in the palanquin provided for him, and the procession continued its course. On each side of the road the Annamite garrison formed a line. Miserable and dirty as the uniforms are when closely viewed, they nevertheless have a picturesque and charming effect. The red tunics of the marines followed the blue jackets of the soldiers, which were again succeeded by warriors in many colours, with the arms of a bygone age, immense pointed hats, long bamboo spears, rusty old flint guns, and painted wooden sabres, the whole presenting from a distance a spectacle not wanting in grandeur and originality.\n\nThey passed the first gate, from which the King is accustomed to pass out when he goes upon the river, between the lines of the royal troops which stood motionless and silent, and after traversing a considerable space arrived at a second wall and a second gateway. Following the ceremonial fixed of old, the escort of marine infantry stopped to await there the return of the minister. The Court of Hué had, however, managed matters well; a collation was served for our soldiers, all of whom were proud to be of the small number of western barbarians who were able to enter the outer precincts.\n\nA turn to the left, along fortifications furnished with European and Chinese cannon, and the cortège arrived at an immense court, where were gathered the guards of the King. In the centre, the elephants of war, armed for combat, the driver mounted on the neck, stood motionless as giants cast in bronze. Not one stirred; they appeared as if petrified; only their quick, restless, little eyes were directed to the cortège as it passed through the midst of them between a double line of flags and banners with colours flying. Behind these was the cavalry, mounted on the small horses of the country, drawn out in line, and behind these again, the artillery. The cannon themselves were of the most curious patterns, side by side, and the gunners, dressed in blue, were ranged beside their pieces, solemn and mute. The silence was profound. Above the walls could be distinguished the red and grey outlines of the temples and apartments of the palace. The grinning dragons of stone which ornamented the cornices seemed scarcely out of place in the general grotesque solemnity of the scene.\n\nAll this architecture of another age and of a civilization of which we have no knowledge formed only an appropriate frame for this oriental ceremony. Leaving this first court, a second was traversed before arriving at the palace of the King, where, in the middle of a square of troops, with strange banners, were the war horse and the elephant of the King, all equipped as if for a parade. At the end of this court the cortège stopped, and after descending from their palanquins the French were invited to partake of a collation, which was served to them in an antique pagoda.\n\nThere they awaited until His Majesty was ready to receive them, and, upon being requested, deposited their arms, the oriental custom not permitting arms to be borne in the presence of the sovereign. After a short time the Regent of the kingdom arrived and invited the Frenchmen to follow him to be admitted to the presence of the King.\n\nThey then arrived in the last court, a place of great grandeur. On either side of the door which gave access into this court, paved entirely with marble, were two enormous bronze vases, carved and engraved with that finish and patience peculiar to the people of the East; without doubt a present from some Emperor of China to the kings of Annam who were formerly considered to be the vassals of the former.\n\nA richly-dressed and imposing throng filled this last chamber. On the right were the civil, and, on the left, the military mandarins, all in gala costume. They were grouped by classes; here the robes of yellow, there those of blue, then black, then red. Those clothed in brocaded materials followed those in silk, black turbans and white turbans, original Mongol hats and bonnets with the wings of the dragon of Annam.\n\nIn the middle of the court were placed five carpets for the guests of the King, and in front a large stone staircase led to the grand hall of audience, at the end of which was the throne. Above, the roof of the palace, with brightly varnished tiles of yellow and green, resembled a dome of gold under the rays of the bright sun, giving an air of richness to this grand and ancient palace, over which ever seems to hover the odour of the tomb.\n\nA great shout announced the arrival of the King, who seated himself on his throne. He was clothed in the yellow robe of the sovereign.\n\nKing Kien-phuc is a youth of fifteen years, whom the course of events has only about a month since placed in power. He is, however, the direct heir of the Emperor Tu-Duc and of his successor Hiep-Hoa. The new emperor of Annam is of slight build, with an intelligent and soft eye, and his whole physiognomy is marked by that air of gravity which is possessed by the people of Asiatic race and which becomes a monarch who holds in his hands the destinies of twenty millions of men.\n\nBehind the throne the ministers were ranged in a half circle. All at once a voice was heard. The grand master of the ceremonies advanced from the ranks of the mandarins to present to the King the Minister of France. M. Tricou advanced, followed by M. de Champeaux and the persons of the suite. After saluting the King, each took his place on the carpet reserved for him. The premier mandarin then presented to his sovereign the representatives of the Government of the Republic, who again saluted and retired backwards.\n\nThe King then retired into the Chamber of Audience, to which the Minister of France and M. de Champeaux were introduced by a side staircase. M. Tricou opened the conversation by expressing his best wishes for the welfare of the King in the name of the President of the Republic. The Emperor Kien-phuc in response inquired after the health of M. Grévy. He said that he looked upon France as a friendly nation and that he desired only to see the good relations which had always existed between the two countries continue.\n\nA treaty had been made at Hué by M. Harmand after the capture of Thuan-an, but certain clauses of this treaty bore so hardly on the Annamite nation that he was very desirous of seeing some amendments made. He counted on the kindness of the President of the Republic to consent to some slight modifications in favour of the people of Annam, who were devoted to him.\n\nM. Tricou then replied that he was much gratified with the words uttered by the King and that he would faithfully report them to the President of the Republic. He had no doubt as to their reception by M. Grévy.\n\nThe Minister saluted the King for the last time and the cortège reformed in order to leave the palace.\n\nAt the gates of the city an immense crowd was assembled, which now regarded us no longer as enemies but as allies. The Annamites who had deserted Hué at the approach of the French had all returned; it was clear that their confidence had been regained; tranquility had succeeded to terror; war had been replaced by peace.\n\nAs a proof of his attachment to France, H. E. the Regent Nguyen Van Tuong accepted, with pleasure, an invitation to breakfast, which was given him by M. Tricou. The Minister of France having proposed a toast to King Kien-phuc, the Regent responded by proposing the health of M. Jules Grévy. After the breakfast the Regent carried on a long conversation with the Minister, in which he showed his good feeling towards France. Understanding that it was to the interest of Annam to conform to modern ideas, he promised to use his influence to induce the council of ministers to join in these views. Afterwards certain clauses of the treaty were discussed, and when their Excellencies separated in the evening, France counted one more ally.\n\n180",
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        "content_text": "The dozen or twenty guns there were on the front attacked by the French were placed in such cramped positions that they scarcely covered more than the country directly in front of them. Here and there, too, there were square wooden trough-like constructions run through the body of the wall, presumably called loop-holes, but absolutely useless except when a body of troops was unfortunate enough to pass directly in front of them. In addition to this, not even the best use that could have been made of the bad material at their disposal was obtained. The Black Flags seem to have handed over the artillery to the Yunnan or Kwang-si militia, and these men neither had the skill nor the courage necessary to serve the guns. It seems undeniable that if the cannon had been employed with anything like the energy which kept up the small arm fire, the French would never have taken Bortay, or at any rate, not till after a long siege. As it was, the fight here, though severe enough while it lasted, was nothing like the struggle at Phu-sa.\n\nDivided counsels no doubt helped the French greatly. The Chinese \"regulars,\" as they are styled, seem to have drawn off early on the morning of the 15th. Then Liu Jung-fu and the Torquinese Prince appear to have had bickerings, and in the end none but the Black Flags seem to have fought. Close to the west gate, where the entry was effected, there is a long street, constituting the Chinese quarter of the town and inhabited in great part by the leaders of the Hak-kis. Up one side of this street went the Turcos and the Foreign Legion and up the other the Infantry of Marine under the direct command of Admiral Courbet, who was one of the first to surmount the works. All through the second day the fighting centred in this street. Turning and counter-turning movements were made by both sides, but all the while the hardest work was in the centre. The Chinamen defended almost every house. They very early found out that the system followed by the French from the beginning of the campaign was to be carried out here. No quarter was asked for and none was given. So it went on till close on nightfall, when Liu Jung-fu's house was reached. From the extensive outline to be traced in the ashes and the pieces of ornamental stone and plaster-work still to be seen, this must have been a very fine building. With its capture the fighting seems to have practically ceased. The Frenchmen devoted themselves to the ransacking of the defeated chief's house, and the Black Flags drew off towards the citadel, which is not much more than two hundred yards off. What the value of the despatches discovered in Liu's house may have been has not yet appeared. The letters from Hué are at any rate of no practical value, unless they result, or have already resulted, in the beheading of anti-French mandarins. The import of Li Hung-chang's communications may or may not have important results. Perhaps the new reinforcements announced to have left France are not altogether unconnected with the perusal of these documents.\n\nWhat followed is long since known to you. The Black Flags drew off under cloud of night to the mountains which lie north and west of the town. The French entered the citadel early in the morning. The entry was, in true modern Gallic fashion, utterly unauthorized and irresponsible. A handful of Turcos and Estrangers approached the north gate, pushed it open, and entered and found no one inside except for wretched Annamese women and children, and 8 or so Scots of still more luckless youths. A flag was then improvised of a length of the red waistcloth of a Turco, the handkerchief of an officer, and a strip off the blue cummerbund of a Foreign Legion man, and the hoisting of this characteristic tricolor on the tower was the first notice Admiral Courbet had of the occupation of the citadel. Inside, the rice stores were the principal captures made. There was a certain amount of bar-silver taken, but the Chinamen seem to have carried the greater part away with them. About a hundred and fifty poulies were found, as also an elephant, since dead, and a small arsenal. It was obvious, however, that all who left carried their arms and cartridge belts with them. The French have made a clean sweep of all the buildings inside the citadel with the exception of a few of the better-class huts for the officers, the Royal Pagoda, in which the Colonel Commandant is domiciled, and the huge granaries of rice, which were piled up to the roof with grain and contained provisions for probably a couple of years. There is also a curious small building used by the Black Flags as a powder manufactory, with regular compartments for the saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal. The French are tinkering it up into an arms store. There is no doubt that Liu Jung-fu showed good judgment in abandoning the citadel. Its conglomerate walls would even have fallen before the French guns and the whole garrison would have been trapped. It does not seem to have mounted more than sixteen or twenty guns altogether, and these, if possible, were more wretched pieces than the ordnance on the earthworks.\n\nThe French have cleared a wide space all round the front, and have driven wide open ways in all directions out into the open country, necessarily sacrificing the houses of the town in the process. This presents a most desolate appearance at present. Only about one house in fifty yards is occupied, and yet it appears that it is dangerous for a man to walk alone through the streets after dark. Possibly this state of things may improve later on, but it will not do so very fast, if we are to judge from the other towns in French occupation. Nowhere have they as yet more than a mere military grip on the country. They hold the towns, but nothing more. The Chasseur d'Afrique may jingle his spurs down the Boulevard Marty of Haiphong; the Turco may clear the streets before him in Hanoi; the ordinary line-man and his fellow of the Infantry of Marine may kick over old women's vegetable stalls and swagger about consumedly in Nam-dinh and Haid-anong; at Sontay the same thing may be done with impunity, but nowhere can any one of them go beyond the range of French guns. The Black Flags or pirates would be down upon them immediately. The wanderer would be fortunate if he was merely pelted with stones. The ordinary thing would be a spear-thrust, and a pint of nails and pebbles from a blunderbus might be anticipated with reasonable confidence. It will be a long time before the delta is really brought to a peaceable condition.\n\nIt will be much longer if the projects at present seething in the Gallic brain are attempted. You are aware that the idea is to surround Bac-ninh completely and destroy the garrison to the last man, even if there should be twenty-five thousand of them. Unfortunately for the garrison it would seem that the heights round the town are taken, this scheme is quite feasible. This swooping scheme is talked of here in the most matter-of-fact way by naval and military officers, by civilians and loafers. The argument is that it will be a most salutary \"example\" and that under cover of the scare \"produced,\" the French General Négrier is the man whom rumour points out as the leader of the attack - will make a dash on Lang-son, through the hills, and so close the gate from China. Lang-son should certainly have been taken long ago, but that does not mean that it will be taken now, either easily or at all. There are signs that the rains may set in early this year. There has already been a great deal too much for our comfort. In the rains the country between Bacninh and Sontay would be impracticable.\n\nMeanwhile everything here is at a stand-still, pending the arrival of General Millot with the reinforcements. It is a question whether he will allow correspondents to go to the front, and if he follows the advice of those now in power, he will not.\n\nPage 253",
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        "content_text": "THE FRENCH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN TONQUIN. (From our Special Correspondent.)\n\nFALL OF BACNINH; RETREAT OF THE CHINESE. ADVANCE OF FRENCH TROOPS ON THAI-NGUYEN AND LANGSON.\n\nBacninh, March 15. The long awaited coup has been struck and Bacninh is in the hands of the French. But though the French soldier now occupies the house of the vanquished, and the French flag waves over the battlements of the citadel, no one is satisfied.\n\nThe victory has been of the hollowest, the success the most empty. The well-designed scheme for forcing the Chinese garrison to fight a decisive engagement, by closing their means of retreat, and thus striking a blow which should at once bring the Chinese Government to terms, has utterly failed, and the only result obtained is the removal of the theatre of operation, to the North, nearer the frontier, further from the base.\n\nThe plan of hemming in the Chinese troops was certainly not an easy one to carry out, but it is probable that it might have been, at all events to a great extent, achieved, had General Negrier been well supported by his naval colleagues in command of the flotilla.\n\nThe original design of dividing the Hanoi brigade into two columns appears to have been abandoned and General Brière de L'Isle left Hanoi, accompanied by the Commander-in-chief, on the morning of the 8th inst. The whole of the troops comprising the 1st brigade were landed at a point a little below Hanoi and above Batang, and, after marching about nine miles, bivouacked for the night at a village called Noi-phot.\n\nIt was intended that General Brière should have formed a junction with the left of General Negrier's brigade at Chi Marché, a village on the Canal des Rapides about half-way between the Red River and the Song-cau, on the 9th, but the roads were found to be so bad and impracticable that General Brière was unable to carry out the programme.\n\nThe night of the 9th was passed at the village of Ngon, close to the Haiduong road, the 10th at Bou-quoi, and it was not until the morning of the 11th that the column arrived at the banks of the canal, and then, not at Chi Marché but at Xa, a few miles above the appointed place of meeting.\n\nThe march, thus far, had been almost entirely unopposed by the enemy.\n\nGeneral Negrier, in the meanwhile, left Haiduong on the morning of the 7th and arrived at the advanced post of the Seven Pagodas the same day. On the 8th he pushed forward, the left wing of his column following the course of the Canal des Rapides, while the right rested upon the Song-cau.\n\nTwo of the light draft gunboats, the Trombe and the Eclaire, ascended the canal with the left wing, but afterwards rejoined the flotilla on the Song-cau. The latter had succeeded in forcing the first barrier on the river near Yen-ding, and it was here that the first skirmish with the enemy took place.\n\nEarthworks were erected close by the river with a few guns covering the approach, while the tops of some neighbouring hills were also entrenched and stockaded. The position was actually one of considerable defensive strength, but a very poor stand was made by the Chinese troops occupying the post.\n\nA few shells from the gunboats soon settled the lower fortifications, while the garrisons of the hill forts evacuated their post and escaped in the direction of Bacninh on the marine fusiliers advancing to storm the heights.\n\nOwing to General Brière not arriving as expected, two days' delay in advancing then occurred. When, however, that General had crossed the Canal, on the 11th, General Negrier at once pushed forward towards Bacninh.\n\nThe flotilla, which consisted of the Pluvier, Lynn, Leopard, Aspic, Éclair, Trombe, and Carabine, and several launches and junks with provisions, left Yen-ding early on the 12th but were forced to stop a little higher up the river, at Langhon, by another barricade of stone and sunken junks.\n\nThe Commodore of the flotilla, Captain Morel Beaulieu, was provided with torpedoes and other appliances, besides having plenty of coolies to employ in the removal of the barrier, but as far as I could see no serious effort was made to force or remove the obstruction until the next day, when it became known that General Negrier had pushed forward and occupied Bacninh on the evening of the 12th.\n\nThe whole plan of cutting off the retreat of the Chinese rested upon the rapid advance of the gunboats to Lai-cau, the nearest point on the river to Bacninh, where a bamboo bridge across the stream connects with the Thai-nguyen and Langson roads.\n\nThe commandant of the flotilla failed to force the barrier and thus when General Negrier arrived at Bacninh, after a little skirmishing with the enemy, who were posted on the fortified hills close to the town, he found the citadel evacuated by the garrison, the Chinese having crossed the bridge and retreated along the roads towards the northern frontier.\n\nA little opposition was met with at some of the outer fortified posts which surround Bacninh and it was here that the French forces sustained the only losses of any consequence which were suffered during the operations, these amounting in all to five killed, of whom two were officers, and about sixty wounded, most of them very slightly.\n\nWhile occupying the town and citadel, on the evening of the 12th, General Negrier sent forward a strong detachment of marine fusiliers and tirailleurs to Lai-cau, but they were too late to cut off the retreat of the evacuating force, as the last straggling bands of the Chinese army were seen crossing the bridge over the Song-cau as the French troops advanced.\n\nThe greater part of them had, however, left the citadel twenty-four hours before the arrival of General Negrier's force.\n\nPage 477",
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        "content_text": "Generals Millot and Briére de L'Isle entered Bacninh, and the troops comprising this division continued to pour into the town and citadel during the afternoon. The town of Bacninh consists for the most part of one or two long streets, all the houses of which, as well as the buildings in the citadel, were entirely deserted, quarters were therefore easily found, even for the large force which accompanied the three generals.\n\nI had hoped to have entered Bacninh with General Negrier's staff, but the detention of the gunboats at the second barrier rendered this impossible, as The Times correspondent and myself were forced to get to the front by means of a native boat, accompanying the gunboats. On the 13th early, a portion of the barrier was broken down, and together with the small gunboat Carubine and the ambulance launch King-nam we succeeded, after considerable difficulty in getting up to Lai-cau, whence we immediately marched on to Bacninh.\n\nLai-cau, the landing place for Bacninh, on the Song-cau, is only a small military station, and it was here that a number of the Chinese regulars were probably quartered. The road from here to Bacninh is a fairly good one, and winds between three hills of some hundred foot in height which were well fortified and would have given considerable difficulty in storming had the Chinese stood their ground at all. The town is of very much the same character as the village of Lai-cau, not an Annamite town at all, but simply a collection of soldiers' quarters. Outside, to the south-east, a semicircle of small detached forts have been erected, evidently recently, and here again a stand might have been made by the Chinese, had any real defence been attempted. When we entered the town the streets were crowded with soldiers. General Briére's brigade was then on its way in, and extended in a long line far out into the plain, the balloon, which had been used during the march, for taking observations, floating in the air a couple of hundred feet above the heads of the rear guard.\n\nNear the entrance to the citadel we found the quarters of the Quang, or chief military mandarin, and, both here, and in some of the neighbouring houses, we saw quantities of ammunition, Snider cartridges and explosive shells. Numbers of Chinese uniforms, light blue and dark blue with red letters and facings, were lying about in all directions. Very little damage had been sustained by the buildings, as the town and citadel had been occupied with little or no opposition. A few dead bodies of Chinese who had remained behind too long were to be seen both outside and inside the walls. These appeared to be, for the most part, either boys or old opium smokers. In all probability about forty or fifty Chinese were killed at the taking of the place. The three Generals took up their quarters in the citadel in the large building which goes by the name of the King's Pagoda.\n\nWith the exception of a few Annamite coolies and old women, no inhabitants were to be seen, though I was informed on good authority that there had been a few days before, not less than 25 thousand men in and around the place. Of these some ten or twelve thousand were Chinese regular troops, while the remainder were made up of Tonquinese and Chinese irregulars. I believe, however, that no Black Flags at all were among the garrison.\n\nOn the following day I saw three batteries of Krupp guns which were captured in the citadel. They were mounted for field service and were of about 24 inches calibre. They were quite new and in good condition and looked as if a shot had never been fired from them.\n\nOn the 14th preparations were made for a forward move on the part of the troops, and at an early hour on the morning of the 15th General Negrier started from the other side of the river with a force of about three thousand men on the road to Langson, while General Briére de L'Isle with another column of about the same strength set out on a march to Thai-nguyen. I was informed by General Millot, who remained in charge of Bacninh, that it was intended to occupy Thai-nguyen at once, but that General Negrier would not probably, for the present at least, go on to Langson, which is some eighty miles from Bacninh, but was to make a reconnaissance in force to see if the retreating Chinese army would make a stand on the road to the frontier. The General expected that no opposition would be encountered this side the frontier. General Negrier, who occupied Bacninh alone on the evening of the 12th, and who has throughout the operations done his share of the work well and promptly, was naturally much chagrined at the failure of the river flotilla to get up to Lai-cau in time, as the plan for cutting the Langson and Thai-nguyen roads and forcing the Chinese troops to fight was thus entirely frustrated. Judging from the appearance of the barrier and the means at the disposal of Commandant Morel Beaulieu I believe that if a vigorous attempt had been made on the first arrival of the gunboats the position might have been forced and some, if not all, of the vessels pushed on to Lai-cau in time to turn the retreating army. But pluck and energy were scarcely to be expected from the officer commanding the flotilla, who has on more than one occasion since last June, distinguished himself by an utter want of the qualities most necessary in a naval or military commander.\n\nThe question as to what will be done next, now that Bacninh is in the hands of the French, is one not easily answered. That Bacninh was garrisoned by a regular Chinese army, armed, equipped and paid by the Chinese Government, is now a matter proved without doubt, though it would appear probable that orders had been issued to the mandarin commanding to evacuate the post. A march across the frontier into the valley of the West River is spoken of as possible, but this would certainly require a large additional force. If China cannot be brought to terms it will be necessary to establish a line of military ...\n\nPage 478\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481",
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        "content_text": "posts from Langson to Laokai and a harassing border warfare would probably be waged for a year or two to come.\n\nIt is intended to send an expedition up the Red River to the latter Black Flag post as soon as the rains will have rendered the upper waters navigable, which will probably be about July, and in the meantime, after Thai-nguyen and some strong position on the Langson road have been occupied, the French Government will probably send in a claim for indemnity for the cost of the expedition. Whether China will pay the bill or fight openly will then remain to be seen. Unless she can put better men into the field and better officers to command them than those encountered at Bacninh it would be wiser for her to pay up at once, as further and more costly operations would only bring up the total and would have to be paid in the end, either in territory or cash.\n\nTHE FRENCH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN TONQUIN. (From our Special Correspondent.)\n\nHongkong, 22nd March.\n\nMy last letter from Bacninh, dated the 15th inst., furnished your readers with most of the particulars obtainable of the operations against Bacninh, and the occupation of the evacuated fortress by the French forces. There were a few events, however, which occurred after my departure from Bacninh which will probably prove of interest.\n\nAs I mentioned in my last letter, I got up to Lai-cau, within three miles of Bacninh, in a native boat, in company with the special correspondent of The Times, and the journey from Haiphong to Lai-cau was by no means of the pleasantest. Although the three generals in command of the French forces now in Tonquin all expressed themselves favourable to the presence of representatives of the press with the troops during the operations, and did not in any way personally impede our movements,\n\nstill the fact remained that we were undoubtedly unwelcome visitors in the camp, and, in the absence of the generals, we were treated by the local jack-in-office at some places, not merely with discourtesy, but often with direct opposition. It is not pleasant to be classed together with the canteeners or liquor vendors who supply the thirsty warriors with adulterated fire-water, but such was our fate on more than one occasion. When we left Haiphong in our little junk we had an order from the commandant there to proceed to the front on a government boat, but as no boat was then available, and we desired to rejoin General Negrier at once, we proceeded on to Haiduong in our native craft. There we found a Government launch about to start for the advanced post with some junks, containing Government stores, in tow and at once applied to the commandant in charge for a passage. This self-important functionary, however, utterly ignored our order from Haiphong as the name of the boat was not specified, and even went so far as to state that we should have to wait at Haiduong until such time as he could receive a written order from the General permitting us to proceed. Of course, this would not have arrived until after the fall of Bacninh, so we were obliged to proceed against the puissant commandant's orders. We took the liberty of hanging on to one of the junks in tow of the launch when she started and so arrived in good time at the Seven Pagodas. Here we were most hospitably entertained by the commandant of the military forces at the post, a naturalized Frenchman of Irish birth, and one of the smartest officers of the Foreign Legion. From this place, however, to Yen-ding, we were obliged to force our way without assistance, much against the will of our Tonquinese boatmen, who required continual supervision to keep them at their work.\n\nAt Yen-ding, where we overhauled the flotilla, we inspected the forms held by the\n\nPage 479\n\n3\n\n6000\n\nC# 29 APR 61",
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        "content_text": "43- 10170\n\nprevious despatches. On the same subject, I have now the honour to transmit the enclosed letter containing many interesting details, from the Special Correspondent in Tonquin of the leading journal of Hong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble Servant.\n\nH.Bowen\n\nEnclosure\n\nTHE WAR IN TONQUIN.\n\nTHE HUNG-HOA FIASCO. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]\n\nHUNG-HOA, 17th April, 1884.\n\nThere were some awkward quarters of an hour in the month of December that decided the issue of the present French campaign in Tonquin. If, when between three and four o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th December, the Chinese commenced their grand turning movement from the East gate of the outer line of fortifications at Sontay, they had displayed a little more determination, Bacninh would probably not now be in French hands and Hung-Hoa almost certainly would not.\n\nThe flank movement was almost successful. But just when the Frenchmen seemed hemmed in between the lines of Phuc-sa and the river, the Chinamen faltered and broke. They were Yunnan mountaineers and fought well, but they wanted the grit of the Black Flags, and the Black Flags were all in the forts and earthworks of Phuc-sa.\n\nAn hour later the tricolour floated over Phuc-sa. During that night, however, fortune again wavered in the balance. The Black Flags drove the Turcos from their position and were within five yards of the earthworks when the Algerians were placed by the Colonial Infantry. Both sides fired at the flash of the enemy's guns, and the Chinamen gained a slight advantage by throwing fire-sticks.\n\nBut just when the French were worn out with fourteen hours' incessant fighting, the Black Flag bugles sounded the \"cease fire\" (identical with the French call) and they retired at five in the morning.\n\nNext day, the 15th, a fatal error was made in failing to resist the deploying of the French troops along the embankment which formed the works of Phuc-sa. When that movement westward was completed late in the afternoon, Sontay was lost and the fighting in Tonquin was practically over.\n\nYou will ask what all this has to do with Hung-Hoa. It has nothing to do with Hung-Hoa, but there is nothing much to say about that place, and the talk round the bivouac fires was all about Sontay.\n\nThere can be little doubt that the French looked forward to the attack on Hung-Hoa with some degree of anxiety, one might even say, apprehension. The citadel itself was nothing, like other citadels of Tonquin. Indeed, it was more feeble than the others, for it was within two hundred yards of the river.\n\nBut the gunboats could not mount to attack it, for there was not enough water, and the outworks were known to be very strong. Moreover, it was supposed that Liu Jung-fu would make a desperate stand here, on the verge of the forest and hill country, the last of any account on the Song-coi below Lao-kai.\n\nFurther, it was reported a month ago that the warlike Governor of Yunnan had come south with six thousand men and was going to check the French invaders.\n\nBut the earthworks had no cannon mounted in them, Liu Jung-fu was away in the hills between Tuyen-kwan and Thai-nguyen, waiting for the money which China neglects to send him—solicitations no doubt to pay the indemnity which France demands.\n\nThe Governor of Yunnan, instead of marching with six thousand men to the defence of Hung-Hoa, would appear to have marched all alone over to the majority, and the six thousand men were no doubt fully employed at his funeral.\n\nBut perhaps it would be as well to give something like a connected account of the operations.\n\nThere was a plan of operations. There was also a plan for the confusion of the Chinamen at Bacninh. Négrier was to do the cutting off there. He was not successful, mainly because it was impossible, certainly impossible when the other forces did not march in unison.\n\nAccordingly, Brière de l'Isle was deputed to cut off the retreat this time. He was to march up to Bat-Bac, a village which the perversity of map drawers places half a dozen miles inland, but which is really hard up against the banks of the Rivière Noire.\n\nThere he was to cross the river, march by a hill track, and take the Chinamen in the rear. Négrier was to march up to the confluence of the Rivière Noire with the Fleuve Rouge. There he was to cross and march straight on the town, detaching a battalion of infantry, all the cavalry, and a battery of artillery, which was to cross the Song-coi and seize the north end of the bridge which the Chinamen had constructed.\n\nThus there was to be no route left open for the garrison to retreat by except the road to Lao-kai, and they were to be very severely pounded before they made their escape that way.\n\nGeneral Brière de l'Isle with four thousand men left Hanoi on the 5th April to march overland to Sontay and thence to Bat-Bac. General Négrier followed him the next day, and true to his name of Mao-lem, which the soldiers have given him, finished the march to Sontay, which had taken Brière's column the best part of three days, by mid-day on the second.\n\nMao-lem means \"hurry up\" or \"be quick\" and is the uniform cry of the soldiers who guard the baggage train. The convoy of each column numbers about a thousand coolies and extends over a matter of a mile in length on Tonquin roads, so that the refrain becomes sufficiently monotonous.\n\nThe General cries \"en avant,\" the officers ejaculate \"sorrez,\" and the baggage guard echoes \"Mao-lem.\" That is the supposed train of thought.\n\nIt is enough, however, without being so logical, to say that Négrier always makes heavy marches, that he hurries from one end of the column (6,000 yards long) to the other, all through the day, and at the end of the march, when everybody else is content to rest tranquilly in his billet, goes out prospecting the surrounding country.\n\nWell may the French hope for much from his energy and look upon him as the \"coming general.\" Coming for what, all the world knows.\n\nNégrier's big march did not, however, conduce to the comfort of the troops. Nobody in Sontay expected him, and there was no room for his troops, so he had to stay outside, and the wretched villagers who had \"the Legion\" and the plundering baggage coolies settled in their midst, had still more solid reasons for regret.\n\nHowever, next day Brière went off to Bat-Bac and reached there in two days, and on the afternoon of his entry Négrier was joined by the Commander-in-Chief, the Grand Buddha, as the Annamese call him.\n\nA march was made up the embankment following the river the next day, and the troops cantoned within three miles of the Black River.\n\nThere they had to wait a day for the heavy guns; the \"pieces of 80\" and of \"95\" had been embarked in junks and they all got aground with one accord across the mouth of the Rivière Claire.\n\nThey were got off and towed up a mile or two and then got aground again, and finally the men had to be disembarked and taken overland.\n\nAll this took time, and it was in the grey light of a rainy Good Friday morning that the troops arrived at the mouth of the Black River.\n\nBrière de l'Isle had extended his line down the right of the river from Bat-Bac so as to keep in touch with the second column. He had done more. He had established a battery of \"pièces de quatre-vingt\" the day before on a hillock close to the river and had pitched shells into Hung-Hoa from a distance of 6,000 yards.\n\nThis was denounced by everyone as premature and as a blunder. But there were more mistakes coming.\n\nIn the meantime, we were somewhat astonished to find a little post of Chinamen established in a small entrenched barricade right opposite us.\n\nThere was a sentinel marching up and down in full view, and every now and then a man would walk out onto the bank and have a shot at us.\n\nThe river itself was about 350 yards in width, but there were broad sandbanks on either side, and we were on a high bank. We therefore looked on tranquilly.\n\nPresently, however, an unlucky Turco got his left shoulder smashed with a bullet, and then a few volleys of companies were despatched to make the Celestials quit.\n\nThis they did without either delay or loss. Meanwhile, some junks designed to make a bridge and conveying ammunition and stores came up the Red River.\n\nA hundred or so of Annamese and Chinese mixed thereupon came down the left bank of the Song-coi and commenced rifle fire at about 1,300 yards or so.\n\nFinding this ineffectual, they got out a gingal, but had only fired three shots when the Eclair came up and sent them to the right about with some rounds from her Hotchkiss guns.\n\nMeanwhile, the big guns were getting into position on a little pine-crowned hillock behind the village of Truong-Ba, where we had halted.\n\nBetween eight and nine o'clock they commenced their fire. There was a battery of \"pieces of eighty\"—ordinary European horse artillery—and a battery of \"siege guns\"—\"pieces of ninety-five,\" the regular field artillery of...\n\n28* 1474\n\n-lery of",
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        "content_text": "## \nthe West River at the eastern end of Tsun-chow-fu.\" The river up which Mr. Moss and later on the now well-known explorer Mr. A. B. COLQUHOUN travelled, is officially known to the Chinese as Wat-kong, the subdued or melancholy river (the bras inférieure of M. ROCHER) while the main stream from this point up to its junction with one of its main affluents, the Pa-pun-kong, is known as the Hang-shui-kong, or red water river [M. ROCHER's bras supérieure du fleuve de Canton]. The Pa-pan-kong is a stream of considerable size, flowing down through the province of Kwei-chow and joining the main stream near the borders of Yunnan. Above this junction, the main stream, which is in different parts of its course known by many different names, is termed by Chinese the Nam-pun-kong, or southern basin river, and is said by native traders, the accuracy of whose information we have but little reason to doubt, to take its rise, as the name implies, in the great lake system of central Yunnan in the immediate proximity of Yunnan-fu, the capital city of the province of Yunnan. Issuing from this source in considerable volume, the stream at once becomes navigable for large native craft, and for some hundred miles it skirts the borders of Kwei-chow and Kwang-si provinces, where it is joined by the Pa-pun-kong, already mentioned, and some other streams of lesser importance, which have their sources in the wealthy and important province of Kwei-chow. The great river, now swollen to a noble stream exceeding half a mile in width, remains navigable to its embouchure into the sea by its various mouths from the Broadway westwards to the Ngai-mus, forming a delta of some hundreds of square miles in extent. The river thus described has been ascended and surveyed by British men-of-war to the town of Tak-hing, distant but some forty miles from the wealthy and populous trading town of Wu-chau, in the province of Kwang-si, near the line of its junction with the Kwang-tung province. The influential city of Wu-chau, by far the most important on the river, will probably be the terminus of traffic for foreign-owned river steamers, provided the proposed opening of the West River to navigation becomes an accomplished fact.\n\nIn view of the very meagre extent of accurate information on the subject of Yunnan and the West River, we think it highly probable that should it be practicable for him to do so, Mr. COLQUHOUN will, in the expedition now about to be undertaken by him, make his return route follow the main branch of the West River from Yunnan to Wu-chau instead of the less important stream up which to the town of Nam-ning-fu both Mr. Moss and himself have travelled on previous occasions. We are strongly of opinion that the most feasible and direct—in fact, the natural—trade route to the province of Yunnan is this comparatively speaking unexplored great West River, and that hence Hongkong, via the great inland town of Wu-chau and the Broadway, will be, when the river is opened up to navigation, the terminus and principal entrepôt of its trade. M. ROCHER recommends the construction of a railway from Man-hao, the head of navigation on the Songkoi, to Yunnan-fu, the route for which he says is feasible. He also says it would be easy to construct a line from Yunnan-fu to Peh-Shik, the head of navigation on the lower arm of the West River. Further exploration will probably show that easier of construction than either of those lines would be one connecting the capital of the province with some town on the upper arm of the West River.\n\nWith reference to Mr. COLQUHOUN's proposed route by way of Zimmé, it will be plainly perceived that however valuable from a geographical or even Imperial point of view the opening up of Yunnan by a railway from the westward may appear to be, this route does not in any way specially concern us here in Hongkong. The reverse of this, however, is the case with the old trading route to central and mid-eastern Yunnan by way of the West River on its upper branch, the Hung-shui-kong or Bras Supérieur of M. ROCHER; in a thorough exploration of this route we are immediately interested. The territory through which a considerable portion of the river takes its course is, however, said by Chinese traders from Yunnan, whom we have lately interviewed on the subject, to have been since the disastrous Taiping rebellion to a considerable extent occupied by Shang-fan, wild aborigines, meaning the Miau-tsz, who are not entirely subject to Chinese law and customs, and that the route, even apart from the squeezes and exactions of the Chinese officials, which, no doubt, have done much to cause its disuse, is now a most dangerous one. If the accounts which have come to hand of Chinese methods of dealing with these unfortunate natives be in any way correct, they have been treated by the Chinese soldiery with the most remorseless barbarity, and that they should at times attempt to make reprisals is no more than under the circumstances might be expected.\n\nWith reference to the Kwei-chau, sometimes called the cassia river, the North River, the importance of which has been up to the present time much underrated, the Wat-Kong, the Yan-ping river, and sundry other affluents of the West River, and the trade to be expected by development of their resources, as also the creeks and passages of the West and Canton river deltas, and the somewhat better-known East river, we propose to make a few remarks in a future issue.\n\nPage 20  \nPage 244  \nC 11066  \n1  \n1554 2",
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        "content_text": "# Agricultural Products of Tonquin\n\nNothing in the shape of money induces or persuades the Tonquinese to work, nor do they require pecuniary assistance to extend the area of cultivation. The whole country outside of the villages is in a most elaborate state of cultivation, and even in the villages themselves, every available inch of ground is taken up with vegetables or tubers to season the native's bowl of rice and areca palms and patches of sugar-cane for his solace. Capital is required merely to improve the varieties of produce which he grows, so that the best possible results may be obtained from the smallest possible area. The country—the delta at any rate—is very densely populated, and the greater part of the harvests is required for the support of the population of the country itself. A dry list of products may be the best way of showing what already exists and where improvement is possible and likely to be profitable.\n\n## Rice\n\nThis is the main growth of the country, and immense as is the quantity produced, there is comparatively little left even for exportation, after the home months have been filled. The remedy lies not in making two blades grow where only one grew before, but in the introduction of a richer variety, in the multiplication of grains in the ear. Tonquinese rice is very much superior to that of Cochin-China, but still it is very much below Burmah rice. Almost no rice goes from Saigon to Europe, and probably the new province will not send much more. The grain is too soft or too brittle, and will not stand husking for table rice. Moreover, where an acre in Burmah produces from ten to twelve baskets, the same area in Tonquin returns no more than from four to six, or if ten, the greater part of it is chaff. Presumably a more fertile species might be introduced, for the soil does not lack fertility. By this time, all the world knows that two or even three crops may be garnered in during the year.\n\n## Maize\n\nMaize is at present only cultivated where there is not sufficient moisture for rice. It flourishes exceedingly well, and a species from Central America called by the French teosinte (`Reana luxurians`) with a very large grain has been introduced by the missionaries in Christian villages with very good results.\n\n## Sugar-cane\n\nSugar-cane grows everywhere. Every house has a small patch of it to furnish dessert, but there are few extensive fields except in the Nam-Dinh district and on a river island, Nam-Xang, to the south of Hanoi. It grows very high and has a very pleasant flavoured sap, but it is too dry for extensive cultivation. The Annamese extract very fair sugar from it, but the variety is not good. That called violette in Java, which has been extensively introduced in Cochin China, would probably yield very much better results.\n\n## Cotton\n\nCotton grows very well in the fertile alluvial lands down by the sea, where the salt breeze and the general characteristics of the country recall the American States of Carolina and Louisiana. There again, experience and capital will greatly improve the thread. The cultivation is already not unimportant and it is capable of almost unlimited extension, and with the needs of China so close at hand would repay the labour in the most satisfactory way.\n\n## Tobacco\n\nTobacco grows abundantly, but is at present particularly nasty. It has an acrid and disagreeable flavour. Experienced curers and Virginia or Manila seed would probably soon put this to rights. As it is, the Muongs of the upper reaches of the Black River produce a very fair weed which they roll up in bundles the size and shape of a cow's horn.\n\n## Tea\n\nThe shrub is the same as that of China, but it is not prepared in the same way and is not very palatable. A very fair green tea comes down from the upper reaches of the Red River. There are tolerably extensive tea plantations on the hills round Sontay. The French hope to attract the whole of the Puerh tea trade through the Laos country to the Red River, besides producing a rival to that famous brand on the hills bordering Yunnan.\n\n## Coffee\n\nHuge plantations might be established on the hills along the Song-coi river valley and those of its affluents. The French missionaries at Késő have acclimatised the plant on the hills near this their central station and the results have exceeded the most sanguine hopes. The provinces north of Hanoi would be the most eligible. Labour and land might be had for a mere song.\n\n## Cinnamon\n\nCinnamon is grown largely, mostly the inferior kind. A very superior variety, however, is found in the hills of the southern province of Thanh-hoa, and the crops used always to be reserved for His Majesty at Hué. When, however, the French penetrate thither, which they no doubt will next October, the famous barks of Trinh-Van and Thuong-Dong will no doubt be consigned to legal royal consumers.\n\n## Indigo\n\nIndigo abounds in a good many provinces. The Tonquinese do not know how to prepare it, and therefore it is at present only used in the country. With Tirhut methods and Tirhut experience, there seems no reason why there should not be a remunerative cultivation.\n\n## Castor-oil Plant\n\nThe Castor-oil plant grows in great abundance all over the country, apparently thriving equally well in the marshes and on the hills. There are huge tracts of it in the Bacninh district.\n\n## Tubers and Roots\n\nTubers and roots of all kinds are largely cultivated and grow to an amazing size. Cabbage, and all European vegetables thrive wonderfully. The Jersey people are proud of the height of their cabbages; the Tonquin article surpasses them in every respect, in length and breadth and thickness. A Hanoi cabbage would require a table to itself and could not be got on to any reasonable sized dish. Ground nuts, sesamum, and a considerable variety of leguminous plants are very extensively cultivated.\n\n## F-dzi (Coir exaltata)\n\nThe F-dzi (`Coir exaltata`) is a most useful medicinal plant. The Tonquinese call it the herb of life and health. It is one of the Phalaridos, a plant of the grass family called in France Larine de Job, but the Tonquin species differs from the European plant, coix lacryma, which has been introduced from India. When the skin is removed, the seed may be eaten like an ordinary cereal. It has a peculiar aromatic flavour. From the roasted seeds, a refreshing diuretic beverage is produced, which purifies the blood and strengthens the digestion. It is also used extensively as a remedy against the evil effects of the bad water of the mountain streams, which contain quantities of salts of copper and lead in solution. From the flour of the seeds, a valuable medicinal soup is prepared. The plant gets its name from the Chinese General Ma Yuen, who conquered Tonquin in the first century of our era, and who ate very large quantities of the seed to counteract the bad effects of the climate on his constitution.\n\n## Hoang Nan (Strychnos Gautherione)\n\nAnother remarkable medicinal product of Tonquin is the Hoang Nan (`Strychnos Gautherione`) which grows freely on the hills of the Southern provinces of Bo-Chinh and Nghé-Au. It is said to have been proved by experiment to be an efficacious remedy against the plague, paralysis, leprosy, snake-bite and in general against all blood poisoning. European science has been greatly interested in this product of late years, and in the `Bulletin Général de Thérapeutique` for August, 1881, there is an interesting paper by a Dr. Barthélemy, who claims great value for the plant in cases of paralysis.\n\nPage 412",
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        "content_text": "Of other valuable vegetable products there is lack. Gutta is found in abundance in the hills. So are a great variety of resinous trees, more particularly that from which the Tonquinese obtain the oil which they use for their lacquer ware, which is in no way inferior to that of Japan or Burmah. There is also a low tree which grows abundantly along the banks of the more upland streams, the fruit of which distils an oil which, it is claimed, renders timber secure alike against the attacks of water and insects.\n\nStar Anis, a valuable essential oil used in perfumery, distilled from the fruit of a tree of the Magnoliaceæ species, is also found in quantities in the northern provinces. A number of other aromatic trees and shrubs have also been seen by experts.\n\nTimber of all kinds is very abundant in the hills north of Thai-Nguyen and Hung-hoa and to the west in the provinces of Mi-Duc and elsewhere. Rose wood, ebony, iron wood, sapan and sandal are among the more valuable varieties. I do not remember seeing the teak tree in any part of the country.\n\nThe mineral products of the country as enumerated by MM. Dupuis, Remaset, du Cailly and others comprise a simple list of all the metals to be found in the table of contents of a work on mineralogy. As yet, however, the French have come upon none of the mines said to exist. They are all in the hill country beyond the delta. The expedition in the end of April to the western hills failed to discover anything of importance. There seems, however, little doubt that gold is to be found in considerable quantities at various places in the Rivière Claire basin and on the Red River, a little below Laokai. The month of October will no doubt show how far M. Dupuis's enthusiastic accounts were justified. It is greatly to be feared, however, that all the mining business will be reserved by the French Government for concessions to favoured individuals or companies. There is considerable irritation in Tonquin just now at the presence there of a mining explorer who is a near relative of the head of the French Cabinet. Notwithstanding his kinship he is not a Frenchman - only a Swiss.\n\nIn the villages on the Bacninh-Thai-Nguyen road there are several iron and copper foundries of a primitive kind. The mines whence the ore is drawn were, however, not found. Next year no doubt will see a good many discoveries in this line.\n\nIt seems, however, probable that the coal mines at Hong-gai in the north of Halong Bay will very shortly be regularly worked. Coal has been brought from this place in a fitful kind of way for a good many years now, and it is said to be of very fair quality. It is extremely easily worked and there is eight feet of water up to the very place where the seam crops out, the seam itself being eight feet thick.\n\nThe silk culture of Tonquin ought to become very important, and there are so many Frenchmen who have a knowledge of at least the most essential things to be observed in the industry that it ought to develop very rapidly. The larvæ are at present fed on a species of mulberry, the morus indica, which grows very readily from shoots, and it is to be seen in huge plantations more particularly in the Nam-Dinh and Ninh-Binh districts. The mulberry tree proper would take up very much less room, and would probably raise finer caterpillars. The Tonquinese have very much to learn in the way of winding the cocoons and other technical matters, even to the weaving of silks likely to be acceptable in Europe. There is, however, little doubt that sericulture will be one of the most important industries of Tonquin.\n\nWith regard to the political state of the country it can scarcely be considered as other than extremely unsatisfactory as yet. The French have already sent off a number of European troops to Madagascar and France, but nevertheless even the most sanguine of them does not pretend that the pacification of the country is any more than begun. There are garrisons of European troops at Haiphong, Hanoi, Sontay, Hung Hoa, Bacninh, Thai Nguyen, Phu-Lang-Thuong (on the Langson road) Haidzuong, The Seven Pagodas, Quang-yen, Nam-Dinh, Ninh Binh, Phuly and Batang, and small posts of a few European or native troops at such places as Elephant Mountain, \"The Bamboo\", Mi-Duc and a few other places. Outside of these it is not safe for a European to go unarmed, and it is almost impossible to get Frenchmen to go even under those circumstances. There are rumours of pirates from everywhere, north, south, east, and west. A band of 6,000 here, as many hundred in another place, and a few score in a third. Doubtless a great deal of this is exaggeration, and when expeditions go out they very seldom come across the marauders. Of genuine pirates there are a few. Ba Bao, their most daring chief, hangs about the mountains to the east of Bac-ninh and north of Haidzuong, and makes occasional raids. It was no doubt a section of his band which gave the \"Zephyrs\" so much trouble a few weeks ago at the \"Grotto Mountain\" not more than eight miles from Haiphong. The Commandant of the regiment received three wounds, and altogether the affair was hardly satisfactory, though the \"Jacobin\" is not mentioned but \"Joyeur\" captured the only gun their opponents had. Nevertheless it appears that the pirates still remain in their caves. Apart from these, however, the \"pirates\" are mere amateurs, distressed peasants, bad characters of all sorts, and the dismissed coolies of the French columns, whom the Turcos and others have taught how to loot in systematic fashion. Amateurs or not, however, Tonquin is not a place to go to for rural seclusion just yet, and probably will not be for the better part of a year. In any case, no arrangements can be made for getting tracts of land yet. The native officials are perfectly willing to sell land and to give the most satisfactory title deeds, but the French Commissioners hang back and say that authorisation must be obtained from the home Government.\n\nTonquin, therefore, though a land of exceeding great promise, is not likely to attract capitalists for a good many months yet. The towns which must necessarily become the most important from their situation, are Hanoi, Nam-Dinh, and Haidzuong. There is a great deal of building going on in the capital just now, and those who saw the town last August would hardly recognise it again. The streets have been widened, and large brick houses are being run up in every direction. On the river front three long jetties have been built in such a way that they will probably all be washed away before October; but for the present they impress the natives with an idea of western superiority and hint at a large trade. Nam-Dinh and Haidzuong are unfortunately very unhealthy and will continue to be so until the elements of a drainage system are introduced. The latter town indeed hardly exists now. Between them the French and the Chinese have almost utterly destroyed what was at one time nearly the finest and probably the wealthiest town in the delta. But from its position it must necessarily rise again from its ruins. It is extremely unfortunate under the circumstances that the French Resident apparently allows the Annamese to build their mud huts in the most eligible situations, and apparently without any regard to plan.\n\nHaiphong still remains a problem. Is it to be... \n\nPage 4133",
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        "content_text": "414 \n\nAt the eventual port or is it to be Quang-yen? Quang-yen there is ground to build OR. At Haiphong you have laboriously to dig it out of the surrounding paddy fields and bring it to your site on the backs of coolies. At Quang-yen there is good water. At Haiphong there is none. There is one foot of water more over the Quang-yen bar than there is in the Haiphong River. On the other hand Haiphong is more conveniently situated with regard to Haidzuong, Hanoi, and Nam-Dinh and there are already a considerable number of public buildings there, while at Quang-yen there is nothing. The French have hardly yet cared to acknowledge to themselves that as a water-way the Red River is a delusion and a snare. The water traffic above Hung-hoa can never be of capital importance. If they really wish to tap Yunnan it must be by a railway, and this railway must start from Quang-yen and run along the base of the lower hills, so avoiding the mesh work of creeks which would make a line from Haiphong extraordinarily expensive. If France were a rich country there is little doubt that Quang-yen would immediately be chosen as the port. Unfortunately the Republic is in greater pecuniary embarrassment than ever. The cable to Haiphong is only hired from the English company. Gallic pride can hardly stomach yet the construction of a railway through their rich new colony with English capital. A few years, however, will probably see it, and then, and not till then, will Yunnan be tapped.",
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        "content_text": "impossible to undertake operations against it except during the \nSummer months.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \nHumble Servant, \n**5.M.Bowen**\n\n## Enclosure \n### THE FIGHTING AT KEELUNG\n\nThe Shanghai Courier publishes the following particulars of the fighting between the French and Chinese at Keelung received from the German steamer Welle:\n\nThe Welle left Shanghai on the 25th July with guns and munitions of war from the Kiang-nan Arsenal for the fortifications of Formosa, and on the 2nd inst, she arrived at Keelung, having called at Tamsui. Soon after anchoring in Keelung harbour, the commander of the French corvette Villars came on board the Welle and asked the captain if he had any news. The captain gave him all the news he had, and the commander of the Villars then went on shore. Three or four hours afterwards one of the officers from the Villars called upon the Captain of the Welle, and delivered to him the following letter:\n\nTo Captain of German ship Welle.\n\n**KEELUNG, 2nd August, 1884.**\n\nM. LE CAPITAIN,--I have the honour to inform you that the convention entered into between France and China, until the expiration of the time fixed by the ultimatum shall have expired, reposes principally on the maintenance of the statu quo, that is to say, that everything remains as it is. Your cargo consists of objects that are above all things considered as contraband of war, torpedoes and fire-arms destined for the forts of Keelung. At the moment I had ... now expected, arrived at: in any other case I had to find myself compelled to absolutely oppose the debarkation. I have no doubt but that you will not voluntarily undertake the responsibility of disturbing the peace existing at the moment, and that this affair may be arranged amicably between us is my most earnest desire.\n\nI am about to advise the general commanding the Chinese troops that it is by my set that you find yourself unable to execute your contract.\n\nAccept, M. le Capitain, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration.\n\n(Signed) Captain de vaisseau, \nCommanding the Villars, \n**VIVIELLE.**\n\nThe captain of the Welle went and had an interview with the commander of the Villars, and they afterwards met the same evening at the Custom House, and the question of the discharge of the cargo was discussed with the Chinese authorities, and it is said to have been arranged that the cargo should not be discharged. The Commander of the Villars was satisfied, but the Chinese authorities were not. A change soon came over the aspect of affairs, as will be seen from the following letter:\n\nThe Commandant of the Villars to the Captain of the German vessel Welle.\n\nM. LE CAPITAIN,--I have the honour to inform you that in spite of the resolutions mutually entered upon by the Chinese mandarins and myself at the conference held yesterday at which you were present, the mandarin Son has intimated to me that it has been decided to discharge from your ship the cannons and munitions of war of which you were the bearer to Keelung. It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge the correctness of the attitude you have maintained, and I have full confidence in your word of honour that nothing shall be discharged from your ship until the question now pending between China and France shall be settled, and on my side you have seen how desirous I am to use persuasion only rather than have recourse to more coercive measures which might complicate the situation.\n\nYou are of course conversant with the duties of Neutrals whose commerce is absolutely free as regards belligerents except in cases where contraband of war is carried, which is your case. It appears therefore to me desirable for us to arrive at a friendly understanding in case the Chinese should endeavour by forcible means to disembark, in spite of you, the guns and munitions which you brought to them.\n\nYou are covered by the Law of Nations and the conventions entered into by the European Powers, to guarantee you against the enforcement of the mandarin's orders. Such a delivery could alone authorise or warrant compulsory delivery. I hold myself at your disposal to maintain by force, if necessary, your rights of command: at your first requisition I will come to your assistance.\n\nPerhaps it might be preferable in order to calm the excitement existing at the moment that you should put to sea, but in any case I would willingly take charge, under formal receipt made out to your order, of all your apparatus for discharging, without which the Chinese could not proceed to disembark their munitions.\n\nI would also point out to you that if war was declared your flag would not cover your cargo, but that the same would constitute a lawful prize.\n\nI have placed before you all the eventualities that can occur, animated as I am by the most conciliatory intentions; and if it should happen, which I can scarcely believe, that you are unable to maintain your position as master of the vessel, come on board the Villars with all your staff and such material as you choose to bring, and you will find a most sympathetic reception, while as to your vessel I will take such steps as will prevent it remaining long in the hands of the Chinese.\n\n(Signed) Captain de vaisseau, \nCommanding the Villars, \n**VIVIELLE.**\n\nThe two letters given above were written in French, and we have translated them for the benefit of our readers.\n\nThere were further negotiations between the commander of the Villars and the Chinese Mandarins, and it was understood that the latter sent to Tamsui for advice, and the answer was that the Welle was to go to that port to discharge her guns and munitions of war. This decision was communicated to the captain of the Welle by the Chinese, and he accordingly proceeded to Tamsui. A difficulty was thus averted. In case the matter had not been arranged in this way the commander of the Villars had expressed his willingness to the captain of the Welle to take all responsibility for the non-delivery of the cargo, the safety of the steamer, &c., upon himself, and we believe he even went so far as to put this into writing, the arrangement come to being that the Welle was to steam out beyond the harbour limits and there await the orders of the commander of the Villars, who was scrupulously polite in his dealings with the captain of the Welle, and calm but determined in his negotiations with the Chinese Mandarins. He told the captain of the Welle that he did not wish to have the least trouble with the German authorities, and was most courteous to him, fulsomely thanking him for his readiness to comply with his wishes. The captain of the Welle could scarcely do otherwise, seeing that the commander of the Villars accepted the responsibility of the occasion.\n\nOn the voyage to Tamsui, the Welle met the German schooner Johann Carl, Captain Schwartz, bound into Keelung; and the French ironclad La Galissonnière, Rear Admiral Lespes, and the gun-vessel Lutin arrived at Keelung the same day as the Welle left. At Tamsui the Welle discharged her guns and munitions of war into a Chinese transport and cargo lighters.\n\nOn the 4th instant Rear Admiral Lespes gave notice to the Chinese Mandarins and Military Commanders that unless the forts were surrendered to him by eight o'clock the next morning he should take them by force. It was known at an early hour on the 5th that the Chinese had decided not to surrender the forts and the majority of the foreign residents—seven, we believe—accepted an offer of Captain Schwartz, of the Johann Carl, to take them on board. There were two ladies, Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. Jack, and five gentlemen, including Mr. Bentley, Mr. Jack, Mr. Grant, and two Customs' employés. Subsequently they were transferred to a steam launch which started with them for Tamsui, but about midway they met H.B.M.'s gunboat Cockchafer, which took them on to their destination.\n\n### THE BOMBARDMENT\n\nThere was no surrender by the Chinese and the bombardment commenced shortly after 8 a.m. on the 5th. Keelung harbour is a bay formed like an amphitheatre; it is entered through a strait with headlands on either side, capital places for forts, but there were none there on this occasion, and the country round is mountainous. There were four forts, all at the head of the bay, two on promontories on the east side, and two on promontories on the west side. The forts on the east side had Krupp guns, one five and the other three, and those on the west side had guns made in China, three each. The Galissonnière was stationed a little further up the harbour than the landmark known as the West Cliff and immediately in front of the five-gun fort, while the Villars and Lutin were anchored further in, almost between the west and east forts, but the guns in the east fort could not be laid on them, and those two vessels blazed away at the forts without receiving a shot in return. A red flag was run up on board the Galissonnière, and the challenge was returned by a red flag being hoisted at the five-gun fort. The three French vessels commenced the bombardment by firing almost simultaneously, and the fire was immediately returned by the two forts on the east side, the forts on the west being silent. Three rounds only were fired from the two eastern forts. One of the gunners in the five-gun fort made excellent practice, his three shots striking the Galissonnière within a few feet of each other, just above the water line, and the balls are said to have penetrated.\n\nPage 201",
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        "content_text": "# The French March to Langson\n## FULL DETAILS\n(From a Correspondent.)\n\nLANGSON, Feb. 13, 1885. The French column entered Langson to-day. The troops engaged in the campaign have been fewer than was previously supposed, and the resistance encountered, though strenuous, was less formidable than many had expected. A few days before joining the column I had been told by an officer in charge of an important garrison that there was a French army at Chu of 20,000 men, but the more prevalent opinion among military circles was that 10,000 was nearer the mark, and so it turned out. In October last there were said to be from 12,000 to 15,000 French troops in Tonquin. Since then a certain proportion of sick and time-expired men have been sent home, but reinforcements to the extent of 3,000 men have arrived to fill up the vacancies. Immediately before the campaign was opened it was well known that the garrisons in every quarter of Tonquin had been almost depleted to furnish troops for the expedition, and the following figures will show to what extent these were reduced. At Nauliub, where there is a native population of 60,000 or 70,000, only 15 French soldiers were left to guard the place; in Nimbinth and Haidnong, none; in Hunghoa, 150; in Thai Nguyuen, 15; at the Seven Pagodas, 50 artillerymen and 2 soldiers of the line, with a lieutenant in command; at Phulang Thuong, sure an or 60; and at Kep perhaps 150. Of course in all those garrisons there was a company or section of native troops on whose reliability too much trust cannot be placed; but I give the figures to show that when all but 200 or 300 of the French forces in Tonquin were requisitioned for the Langson expedition, it was natural to suppose that at least 10,000 men were to march to the front. As a matter of fact, however, the column, composed of two brigades, has not exceeded 6,000 in number.\n\nIt is certain that the number of men placed hors de combat in engagements is but a very small proportion of the number to be accounted for, and confirms most conclusively what has been said about the disastrous effects of the climate upon the army occupying Tonquin. That the expedition should be accomplished (in so far as it has been accomplished) by such a small body of men says much for the skill and energy of the commanders, and the devotion and endurance of the army. That to compose this small army important garrisons in the North and West should be temporarily denuded, while the Black Flags of the River Claire and a large Chinese army on the Red River were threatening, says much for the coolness of the Generals, and shows a daring which some persons may condemn as a dangerous rashness. But it says little for France, or for the Government of France, which has professed to attach so much importance to Tonquin as a colonial possession, that she has left so small an army to attempt so much, or made it necessary to encounter such serious risks.\n\nThere is little doubt that if there had been sufficient troops for the purpose the French army would have been divided into two columns, one to march from Chu, and the other advancing by the Mandarin road, ... the road by way of Phulang Thuong, Bac-le, along which the Annamite ambassadors were wont periodically to make their processions from Hanoi to Peking. There is little doubt also that the Chinese expected the attack on that route, and probably were prepared to oppose strong, perhaps their strongest, defence.\n\nOn the 30th January, with 800 men, General Negrier made a reconnaissance from Kep towards Bac-lo, floated his balloon, and ascertained the position and strength of the enemy. Leaving his balloon to float a day longer he descended to Phulang Thuong, early on the morning of the 31st, and was followed in a few hours by the troops who had accompanied him; and, at 10 a.m. he and his men had embarked and were being carried down the Thuong, and up to Chu on the river Locknam.\n\nTo prevent the possibility of any notice being given to the Chinese of the intentions of the General, the prefect of Phulang Thuong, his secretary, and the interpreter to the commandant were imprisoned.\n\nOn the 2nd February both Generals with their brigades began the march from Chu; and before reaching Langson it became manifest that the main body of the Chinese on the Bac-lo route had been outflanked, and General Negrier's ruse had succeeded. That did not imply, of course, that a stout resistance was not to be encountered on the route from Chu, but it did imply that a much more formidable resistance was not met with, a resistance which may have been almost impossible to overcome, or which could not have been overcome except at a cost which would have been nearly as disastrous as a defeat.\n\nThe forts at Dong-son, which in all numbered thirty-six, were all taken on the 6th, and a halt of four days was found to be necessary to enable a convoy of provisions, including slow-travelling cattle, to arrive. The time was variously occupied in taking a plan of the country from the peak on one side of a limited plain which commands a wide view on the Western side of the range of hills. The Chasseurs d'Afrique also rode across to Kep and returned by way of Chu on the following day. Part of the time was also occupied in exploding the ammunition taken from the enemy, of which there was a great store of all sorts, Remington, Snider, Martini Henry, Winchester, and other cartridges. Here, too, one realised more than previously that the cry of a scanty supply of water on the route, and that supply poisoned by minerals, was a scare originated by the Chinese. A little above Chu the Locknam river turns towards its source S. by E. In the direction of Anchau is a stream along which the road lies for 12 miles above Dongson almost to Langson, it is said to be a branch of the river. I drank of the Locknam (as at the other rivers touched on the voyage, only when bailed, simply because the waters were turbid), and the waters of the streams by which our course has lain I found refreshing to bathe in, and sweet to drink. Other discoveries were made at Dongson. In one of the large forts was found a skeleton, evidently that of one who had been...\n\nPage 424",
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        "content_text": "# \nwhich rejoiced the hearts of our coolies and was appreciated by our ponies. In the yard on the opposite side of the narrow, miry street, the ambulance was placed, and by the light of lanterns, the doctors were attending to the wounded. Frequent visits were made here by General Negrier and Colonel Giovanninelli, chief of the first brigade, and speedily, rumour says, to be made a General. General Briere de l'Isle also paid a visit before leaving on the following day. A few yards from our quarters was the covered gate of the village. Passing through it, early in the morning, to perform my toilet at the stream, I saw a dead Chinaman stretched upon the ground within the enclosure. Had he, with something of the spirit of the famous Roman sentinel, refused to quit the gate when the storm came and perished at his post?\n\n## \n\nNext day, the two Turcos battalions led the way, it being their turn to take the front. These were early followed by the battalions of the marine infantry, and artillerymen. During the night, the Chinese had been seen moving about, collecting their dead, and in the morning, they were found to have fallen back on the road to a more defensible position amongst the interminable hills—I say interminable, because the hills, on either side, reached to the horizon, like the waves of a troubled sea.\n\n## \n\nAbout 9:30 a.m., about an hour after the head of the column had started, there was a little skirmishing. Then there was silence. We moved forward slowly until 11 o'clock, when a brisk fire was opened upon the enemy, and sharply responded to by them, in their turn. A dense mist, gathered on the hills, delayed the action of the artillery, but at 12 o'clock, their guns began to play, and for nearly two hours, there was an incessant interchange between the opposing forces, the French gradually working their way, amidst a hot fire, along the ridge facing the enemy. During the hottest of the fire, the staff were standing on the sheltered side of the hill, the column slowly making its way along the road wending amongst the hills behind. In the hollow below were some of the ambulance corps, headed by the Doctor-in-Chief. A lieutenant of the marine infantry was brought in wounded in the foot. Occasional bullets passed amongst us, and a few yards from where I was, a sub-lieutenant of the staff, a particular favourite of General Briere de L'Isle, was struck. With a long-drawn \"Oh\" and the word \"maman\" on his lips, he fell from his horse and died.\n\n## \n\nAt 1:45, firing ceased, the Chinese having been compelled to retreat to another position. In the short interval that preceded the final outbreak, we moved on along the ridge which had been occupied by the marine corps; and, in a few minutes, had evidence of the severity of the struggle. On a level spot at the turn of the road were collected about 60 Turcos; and the ambulance men were bringing in others from the heights around. A few were dead, and were being carried off to be buried. The doctors were busy among the wounded, dressing their wounds, and placing the worst cases on thick beds and the others on canvas stretchers, which were carried to the rear by the ambulance coolies, four coolies to each stretcher. An officer had been wounded in the leg, but only stopped to cut down the leather of his boots, and then went on with his men. One of the men whom I saw had been grazed just on the nostril. Some of the artillerymen were again wounded; their commandant was killed.\n\n## \n\nAt 4 o'clock, we mounted the crest of the hill to see the Chinese make their last stand on the ridge of the plain, about 900 yards ahead of us. From the hills rather to the left, commanding the ridge, the Turcos, and further back the artillery, were pouring in their fire. For a time, there was a lively response, part of which reached us, and caused the General to order his chasseurs to descend below the crest of the hill. But, ere long, the reply became feebler and at 4:30 it ceased.\n\n## \n\nFor an hour, we advanced amongst the bleak hills, everywhere finding traces of the conflict in the dead bodies of Turcos not yet reached by the Red Cross men, and a larger number of Chinese whom, in their last hasty retreat, the enemy had not been able to carry off with them. One dead man had his gun (a Mauser) beside him.\n\n## \n\nThe Staff took up its quarters for the night in a small village situated on a partially-wooded slope, and the troops camped out amongst the hills on the surrounding heights. In the darkness and gathering mist, I tried to find a shelter in the village, but for long in vain. The houses were few and small and of the poorest kind. I had unsaddled my pony in a dark corner, and disposed myself for the night on the wet grass, when I was hailed by a friend, who gave the welcome intelligence that he had found shelter. In a short passage, about a yard wide, we came to a broken-down tenement, into the upper chamber of which, after performing a gymnastic exercise, for there were neither stairs nor ladder, we were thankful to find a place to lie down in. Our baggage coolies were miles in the rear, so that there was no hope of obtaining our food from them. My companion had in his saddle bag an army biscuit and a part of a tin of cheese; I happily had in mine two biscuits and a tin of marmalade; so we fared fairly well.\n\n## \n\nOur covering was meagre for a cold night, but we slept a little. Our ponies were made happy by the find of a magazine of rice, one thing in which all the villages of this quarter are rich.\n\n## \n\nThere was found here also a store of powder, bullets, and cartridges, German make, for the Winchester repeating rifle, Kynoch's percussion caps, &c., and, in the morning, scores of the soldiers were receiving from the stores white bags of untanned leather and Chinese make, intended, probably, for carrying cups.\n\n## \n\nNext day, the 18th February, our march was free and uninterrupted, save by occasional obstructions in the muddy road. At 11 a.m., we entered the deserted citadel of Langson. On entering, we heard that the enemy intended to show fight outside. Passing through to the rampart on the north side, we could see a small body on the opposite side of the river, the Song Ki Cang, ranged, with gaudy flags and banners in the fort of Ki-lua, less than a thousand yards distant. Two guns were brought up; one or two shots caused the banners and their bearers to disappear within the forts, and one or two more caused them to vacate the fort, and beat another and, perhaps, final retreat.\n\n## \n\nIn itself, Langson is a mean place, and the larger village of Ki-lua, half a mile beyond, is equally mean, a collection of Annamite and Moong huts and a few Chinese houses. Encircled by hills, it is indefensible. Something of the picturesque is given to the scene by the fact that within the circle of the brown-green hills adjacent to the citadel, there creep out from the dull red sandy soil, rugged masses of white marble, covered with dark green bushes, and showing on their weather-stained sides large streaks of yellowish white. These stand out boldly in a way that is effective, and almost imposing, conveying something of the appearance of guardian castles disposed around for the protection of the citadel, or as if they were the homes of the local divinities, or haunts of the genii.\n\n## \n\nLarge stores of ammunition have been found here, and a number of brass guns, two mitrailleuses, and a few Krupps; some of these were found buried in the ground, which seems to be a Chinese practice when they are unable to carry off their guns.\n\n## \n\nAs to the fight en route to Langson, it was no doubt the stoutest resistance that the French have encountered since Sontai. I have not been able as yet to ascertain the whole number of killed and wounded in the series of engagements between Chu and Langson, but it must be large, especially since the last battle on the road, in which, perhaps, as many were disabled as in all the other engagements together. At the storming of...\n\nPage 427",
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        "content_text": "# \nall the greenery were silvered palm leaves which sparkled in the gaslight, and had a very charming effect. The most noticeable feature of the adornment of this hall, however, was an array of shields over each door. On each shield was emblazoned the name of a vessel in which Admiral Dowell had served during his long naval career. By a somewhat remarkable and convenient coincidence, Admiral Dowell has served on just as many vessels of the British Navy as there are doors in this hall—16 in all—so that there was a fresh name for every shield. Commencing with the earliest they were as follows: \"Druid, 1839 to 1842;\" \"Blenheim, 1842 to 1843;\" \"Racer, 1843 to 1845;\" \"Eagle, 1845 to 1848;\" \"Excellent, 1848;\" \"Albion, 1850 to 1855;\" \"Rodney, 1857 to 1858;\" \"Barossa, 1862 to 1864;\" \"Euryalus, 1864 to 1865;\" \"Leander, 1865 to 1866;\" \"Britlesnake, 1867 to 1871;\" \"Hercules, 1872 to 1875;\" \"Black Prince, 1877 to 1878;\" \"Revenge, 1878 to 1880;\" \"Mirobtur, 1882 to 1883;\" \"Audacious, 1884 to 1885.\"\n\nThe ante-room was adorned in a somewhat similar manner, save that there were none of these shields, but on the walls there were instead the large gilded shields and tridents as described above, which were surrounded by sprays of hamboo leaves. There was the usual array of seats of all kinds, and the pink globes of the gas burners had a pretty effect.\n\n## St. Andrew's Hall\nSt. Andrew's Hall was decorated in a somewhat different manner to St. George's Hall, and was in its way also very effectively treated. The main decorations were at the east end of the room.\n\nOver the central window flags and foliage were grouped artistically, in the centre being the flag of the colony and that of Admiral Dowell crossed and linked together with a true lover's knot, on which was inscribed the words \"Should acquaintance be forgot.\" Beside and below this were devices representing the sailors' badge—the Crown, the Anchor, and the Wreath—the crown in gold and jewels, the anchor in silver, with a rope winding round, and the wreath in green leaves. Above the flags was a star composed of cutlasses and ramrods. At the opposite end, the fireplace was concealed by pot plants, shrubs, green moss, and other foliage, mixed with which silvered palm leaves glittered in the light, and the sailors' badge was to be seen here also. A very noticeable feature in this room was an array of round shields, covered with red cloth—one on each pilaster. The shields had a border of green moss, and Admiral Dowell's monogram was very chastely executed in the centre. Beneath this, at the top of the pedestal, was placed a bed of moss and flowers, and at the base there were pot plants. A green wreath hung in festoons all round the hall, looped up at the top of each pilaster, and from each festoon depended a circle of green moss, in the centre of which was some device—a crown or an anchor. The gas standards were treated lightly with moss.\n\n## The Theatre\nThe entire Theatre—stage, stalls, pit, and dress circle—was converted into a supper room, tables being laid to accommodate 408 guests. The catering was done by the Hongkong Hotel Company, and the tables were most tastefully set out, while the viands and wines were all of the best quality. The table for the guest of the evening, H. E. the Governor, and party, occupied the front of the stage. There were two tables behind this, and all available space in the pit and dress circle was utilised for the same purpose. Pot plants were placed on the front of the stage and below it, and also all round the front of the dress circle. The pillars were wreathed with green leaves, and the arches below were similarly ornamented.\n\nThe verandah was dealt with in much the same way as on former occasions, being closed in with matting, carpeted, and provided with seats.\n\nThe Decoration Committee were greatly indebted to Mr. Westland, the Acting Superintendent of the Botanical Department, for the ready and most valuable assistance he gave in the provision of pot plants, flowers, &c.\n\nThere was an unusually large provision made for the ladies, and in consequence the card room was relegated to the library, where there was very ample accommodation for whist players and smokers.\n\nOver 500 guests accepted the invitations sent them, so that there was a very large gathering, which included His Excellency the Governor and Miss Bowen, with Lieut. Bowen and Lieut. Breeks, A.D.C.s. Admiral Sir William Montagu Dowell, K.C.B., Vice-Admiral Vesey Hamilton, C.B., Major-General Cameron, C.B., with Mrs. and the Misses Cameron, The Chief Justice (Sir George Phillippo) and Lady Phillippo, Commodore and Mrs Morant, the Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. T. Jackson and Mrs. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Hon. Wong Shing, Colonel Walker, R. E., Colonel Crawford, R. A., Colonel Foster (Northamptonshire Regiment), Dr. Hungerford, A.M.D., Lieut.-Colonel Murray, O. S. D., Lieut.-Colonel Le Mesurier, C. & T. D., Major Cochrane, &c., &c. Admiral Dowell arrived at about 9.15, and was received with all honours, and shortly afterwards His Excellency the Governor and party were received at the entrance by members of the Committee.\n\nThe first dance, a quadrille, was led off by His Excellency the Governor with Mrs. Cameron and Admiral Sir W. Dowell with Miss Bowen, and dancing was sustained to the end with heartiness and spirit on an excellent floor.\n\nThe following was the programme of the dances, which was played by the Band of the Northamptonshire Regiment:\n| Dance | \n| --- | \n| QUADRILLE | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE POLKA | \n| LANCERS | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE | \n| POLKA | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE | \n| Supper | \n| VALSE | \n| Dances | \n| VALSE | \n| GALOP | \n| LANCERS | \n| round | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE | \n| HIGHLAND SCHOTTISCHE | \n| VALSE | \n| POLKA | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE GALOP | \n| Britannia | \n| Los Sourires | \n| Estudiantina | \n| Tout à la Joie | \n| Olivette | \n| Bid me good bye | \n| Myosotis | \n| Ionian | \n| Venetia | \n| Fraises Ecrasees | \n| Gretchen | \n| Thine Alone | \n| Jolly will we be to-night | \n| La Mascotte | \n| Happy Thoughts | \n| Fedora | \n| Royal | \n| Gloire de Dijon | \n| Les Grenouilles | \n| Je t'Aime | \n| My Queen | \n| Our Last Waltz | \n| Queen Victoria | \n\nThe presentation of the address took place immediately after the supper. At the table mentioned above at the front of the stage, the chair was taken by the Hon. P. Ryrie, and the party at that table included, besides the guest of the evening, H. E. the Governor, Vice-Admiral Hamilton, Major-General Cameron and Mrs. Cameron, Sir George and Lady Phillippo, and Commodore and Mrs. Morant.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**, after supper, proposed the health of her Majesty the Queen.\n\nThe toast was drunk loyally, the Band playing the National Anthem.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** then proposed the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.\n\n49",
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        "content_text": "## Office or Individual \nForeign Office \n## Date \n6 Feb 1885 \n\n## Last previous Paper \n10 Oct \n## No \n021 \n## Food (contd.) \n| 10 Tab. disposed of by | 7.03741 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n## Next subsequent Paper \nTo BRAZ \n\n## Hong Kong \nN 2/30 \n**(Subject.)** \n**DOMESTIC.** \n**C. O.** \n2130/72 \n**REG(E 6 FEB 85)** \n### Landing of Warlike Materials destined for China by a foreign Vessel \nCopy of note from French Ambassador reporting & suggesting that the export of arms should be prohibited by Proclamations similar to that issued on 6 March 1884 \n\n**(Minutes.)** \nM. Bramston \nThe L.O. told us in a letter received this morning (2088) that we could not prohibit the Export of arms under the For. Enlistment Act & that the French had the remedy in their own hands to adopt it viz search of neutral vessels for contraband of war) \nOur promulgation forbidding export of arms to help China from her own rebellious subjects is no precedent: nor into helping France against China, although the Ord. 3 of 1862 (copy annexed) taken by itself would hastily permit Proclamation. The cover of March 1884, alluded to reported in 647% was soon removed (see 6530). \nSee minutes. 16192/78, from which it...",
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        "content_text": "## No. 300\nMy Lord,\n\nMr. O'Conor to Earl Granville-(Received August 11.)\n\nPeking, June 17, 1885. IN continuation of my despatch No. 281 of the 11th instant, I have now the honour to inclose to your Lordship a translation in English, for which I am indebted to Mr. Baber, Chinese Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation, of the Chinese text of the Treaty of Peace between France and China, which was signed at Tien-tsin on the 9th instant.\n\nAlthough this Treaty seems at first sight a somewhat colourless document, it nevertheless appears, on closer examination, to concede to the French every advantage which they originally hoped to gain by their project of exercising a Protectorate over Tonquin.\n\nOut of the original scheme to open communications for commercial purposes by the Red River between south-western China and the coast of Tonquin, the occupation of the whole of Tonquin by France has now grown, and by the present Treaty this occupation is tacitly conceded by China. So far as the Chinese Government is concerned, the French are now free to take undisputed possession of all, or nearly all, the navigable waters of the Red River. The whole of Tonquin is to be placed under their subjection. The suzerainty of China over Annam, and over Tonquin, which is a province of Annam, is practically ignored in the Treaty, being reduced to its lowest expression in the form that \"the honour and dignity of China shall not be prejudiced by the relations of France with Annam.\"\n\nFrench trade with Yünnan and Kwang-si across the frontier is to enjoy an alleviation of duties, the details of the Tariff remaining to be decided upon later on.\n\nIt is, however, specially mentioned that \"such reduction of duties is not to apply to the case of overland trade across the border between Kwangtung and Tonquin,\" and it is to be hoped that in the near future we may be able to obtain an open port on the Canton River whence British products can enter the Province of Kwangtung, and even compete on tolerably fair terms in Kwang-si and Yunnan with those of France.\n\nYour Lordship will notice that throughout this Treaty Tonquin is always mentioned or alluded to as \"under the protection of France.\" Such terms as \"occupation\" \"annexation\" find no place in its clauses. But at the same time, it is manifest that China fully recognizes the authority of France in Annam and Tonquin.\n\nThe trade clauses of the Treaty are reserved for future negotiation, and will form a Supplement to the present Treaty. These negotiations will begin very shortly, I believe, at Peking, and it will be my duty to watch their progress with all the attention that may be possible.\n\nThe construction of railways in Tonquin to the Chinese frontier, contemplated in Article VII, will be profitable only in so far as future stipulations allow French products to enter Yünnan and Kwang-si without being weighed down by the imposition of li-kin duties once they pass a certain distance from the frontier, and the appeal to France for assistance in the construction of railways in China would seem to be counterbalanced by the proviso that no exclusive advantages are thereby given to her to the prejudice of other foreign countries.\n\nArticle III, which concerns the delimitation of the frontier by a Joint Commission, does not declare with any distinctness what is to be taken as the basis of the delimitation, and contemplates a certain \"rectification\" of the actual frontier. It is unlikely that an agreement on so delicate a point will be speedily reached. Six months are to elapse before the appointment of the Commissioners, and it is not until after the delimitation has been determined that the subjects of the two Powers will be free to cross the frontier under passport.\n\nI am inclined on the whole to regard the present Treaty as politically less interesting than the Li-Fournier Treaty of May 1884, while commercially much will depend on the result of the negotiations that are to form its Supplement.\n\nPage 355",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nthe south-west provinces, always provided that the new Treaty is honestly carried out, and that the reduction in taxation is real and not nominal.\n\nI conclude, therefore, that if things remain as they are at Pakhoi, and the Tonquin railway is built, this port may as well be closed, but; as I said before, our commercial condition may be improved, either by the construction of a rival railway, or by the reduction of taxation, or, what is the same thing, the issue of transit passes, which the inland authorities will respect. We have been so accustomed to look on railway enterprise in China as visionary, that the idea of constructing a railway from this seems about as hopeful as the scheme of flooding the Sahara. A short time ago, Hsü, the late \"Foreign Business Deputy,\" assured me most positively that the High Provincial Authorities had the construction of a railroad in contemplation here. I pooh-poohed the notion, but he became all the more persistent, and begged me to report it to you. I wrote the draft of a despatch doing so, but before sending it, I went to call on his successor, Wu Weiyuan, and found Hsu Weiyuan with him. I broached the subject of railways, but Hsu had by this time changed his tone, and merely said that it would be a very good thing for Pakhoi if one could be made, but that he was too small an official to make any positive statement. It may be that he was afraid to speak out in the presence of his colleague, who professed utter ignorance of the matter; but his change of manner confirmed me in the view that his former assertion was merely romance, and so I tore up the report which I had prepared. Individually, I have no expectation of a railway, though I would thankfully be disappointed.\n\nThe abatement of charges on exports and imports, especially on the latter, is a more hopeful business. Mr. Herton assures me that though only three inward transit passes were issued by the Customs last year, yet the report that the Li-kin authorities had been called on to make good his claims (although he has not yet received the money) will cause transit passes in future to be valid, and that when this is once effected, yarn and T-cloths, kerosene and matches, will go up country in quantities. M. Schouburg too, his only rival, a German, has started in business on August 1, with the express intention of profiting by this improved state of affairs. I wish them the success which they anticipate with all my heart, but more capital than they can command must be embarked in the trade, before it will assume its proper dimensions.\n\nI will now make a few remarks on the geographical part of my subject. I do not inclose a Map of the country, as I presume the Legation is well supplied in that particular. The map I principally use is Mr. Pirie's valuable Map of the Kwangsi Province, to which I have the honour to refer you. Practically, there are only two roads out of Pakhoi: one viâ Liu-chou to Yü-lin, the other to Nan-ning, which may be reached in two ways, either viâ Liu-chou, Ling Shan-hsien and the West River, or by crossing the bay to Ch'iu-ch'ou, and then going direct to Nan-ning. The latter is rather shorter, but is the more expensive route. The Yu-lin road is comparatively unimportant. Cassia and aniseed come down that way, but Yu-lin is a complete terminus for imports, as Hsun-chou Fu and Wu-chou Fu, the next districts, are supplied from Canton, and the country further north-Kuei Lin Fu, the provincial capital-divides its trade between Canton and the Yang-tse ports. Nan-ning, on the other hand, instead of being a terminus, is a distributing centre. Merchants come or send to Pakhoi on one side, and trade with Yünnan on the other. The route from Nan-ning onwards is up the Tso Chiang, past T'ai Ping Fu. I have a list of halting-places between Pakhoi and Yunnan Fu, but none of them are to be identified by Mr. Pirie's Map. They are doubtless the smallest hamlets, chosen in order to avoid li-kin stations and customs barriers.\n\nThe Yu-lin road need not be considered. This road trends eastward, and such as it is, it belongs to Pakhoi, and nothing can interfere with it. The route to Nan-ning and on to Yünnan is on a different footing, for a road into Yünnan from Ha-phong Bay, if it can be made as the crow flies, would be only half or two-thirds of the distance from Pakhoi to the same place. The physical difficulties I know little of, except that the country traversed by M. Aumoitte seemed by no means well calculated for railway construction. M. Dutreuil de Rhins' map, published under the authority of Admiral Jauréguiberry, may be trusted (it is most incorrect on the China side). There is already a road running from the coast up to Langson, interrupted by no large rivers or mountain ranges, and following the course of the River Tam. A road, rail, or otherwise could apparently be made on this line, reaching the Yunnan frontier, and branching off at intervals to the Kuangsi boundaries. Of course the most natural and directest way into Yünnan is up Song Koi or Red River, but I fail to see how this can be combined with a road to Kuangsi, which has no river communication with Tonquin.\n\nNext, as to the natural productions of the two provinces in question. Yunnan seems to have three very valuable products-native opium, tin, and copper. The gold, silver,",
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        "content_text": "## 121\n\nKwangtung, in order to examine and report upon the probable effect on British trade of the Commercial Clauses of the Franco-Chinese Treaty. Your Lordship's telegram No. 43 of the 5th August approved this proposal.\n\nFor some time past, various reasons have led me to question, not the general desirability, but the present opportuneness, of Mr. Baber undertaking such an inquiry. His departure from Peking would nearly coincide with that of the Imperial Chinese Commissioners who have been deputed to delimitate the Tonquin frontier, and his movements could hardly fail to excite the attention of the Chinese, and perhaps the jealous notice of the French.\n\nWhile on the one hand, there is no reason to conceal our watchfulness of the interests of British trade in those regions, it is nevertheless well to avoid any action which might resemble an ostentatious study, on the spot, of the effect of the trade stipulations of the late Agreement. These stipulations, and the exceptional facilities which they promise to French interests, would seem to call for some compensating concessions to British and German commerce; and whatever ultimate action might be taken by England and Germany in the matter would be attributed by the Chinese to our initiation, and would, in so much, indispose the Chinese Government to lend a favourable ear to such proposals as we might suggest. In short, we should have to pay diplomatically more than the value we should receive from commercial information.\n\nWhile considering this question, I received an application from Mr. Bourne for permission to travel in South-west Yünnan, in accordance with the liberty which his predecessors had enjoyed.\n\nMr. Bourne, as your Lordship is aware, is stationed at Ch'ung-ch'ing, one of the outposts of British commercial enterprise. He has been accustomed to travel, and is accredited to the Chinese officials in the interior for the express and avowed purpose of studying commercial interests. His movements would therefore excite no comment from the city of P'u-êrh, which he proposes to visit on account of the Indian Government. He can make his way along the south frontier of Yunnan across the Red River to the neighbourhood of Laokai, and along the frontier to a point opposite Kaobang and Langson, and thence to Nan-ning Fu, from which city he would be enabled to furnish some useful information respecting the region which can be tapped by imports from Pakhoi.\n\nThis is practically the country through which Mr. Baber's immediate travels would have extended, and I trust that, for the reasons here stated, and for those which I shall have the honour of mentioning in a subsequent despatch, your Lordship will approve of my having authorized Mr. Bourne rather than Mr. Baber to undertake the journey, and to report on the probable effect of the commercial stipulations of the Franco-Chinese Treaty.\n\nI have the honour to inclose to your Lordship herewith a copy of Mr. Bourne's application above referred to, and of the instructions which I have sent to him in reply.\n\nI have, &c.\nN. R. O'CONOR.\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 117\n\nSir,\nMr. Bourne to Mr. O'Conor,\nCh'ung-ch'ing, August 10, 1885.\n\nI propose, with your approval, to make a journey during the coming winter by way of Yunnan Fu to P'u-êrh Fu, in the south of the Province of Yunnan. From that place, I would return along a route north of the Tonquin border through Lin-ngan Fu and Kuang-nan Fu, and thence by way of the Province of Kwei-chow to Ch'ung-ch'ing.\n\nThe following are the more important objects which I propose to myself in making the journey:-\n\nThe Indian Government has written several times during the last few years, through Her Majesty's Consul-General, Shanghae, to the officer stationed here, asking for a supply of P'u-erh tea-seed, and for notes regarding the altitude and meteorology of that district. Attempts have been made, through the missionaries, to get seed, but without success; and my inquiries lead me to the conclusion arrived at by Mr. Hosie, namely, that there is no chance of getting seed, much less the information required, except by a visit to the district. This would be my first object.\n\nI should make a circuit of the district of South-west China, i.e., Yünnan and Kwei-chow, west of Kuei-yang Fu, the best trade route for the supply of which is a... \n\n[351]",
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        "content_text": "# THE SURVEY OF COPPER BOTTOMED SHIPS.\n\n## Hon. W. Keswick\n\nYour Excellency, at the last meeting of Council, the subject of the alteration that I maintained had occurred in the system of surveying wooden vessels since the 7th April, 1884, by requiring them to dock, was introduced by me, and I inquired if any explanation could be given. The explanation the hon. the Attorney-General gave was apparently satisfactory. On looking further into the subject, however, I find that what was mentioned by me at the last Council meeting was in accordance with fact, namely, that since the 7th April, 1884, the necessity for docking wooden vessels has been insisted upon by the Marine Surveyor, whereas previously no such necessity appeared to exist.\n\nIn 1879, Ordinance No. 8 was passed, and under that Ordinance, the paddle wheel boats of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company were not required to be docked for survey with a view to obtaining certificates until the date I have mentioned. Since then, the steamers have been docked for the mere purpose of inspection and not for repair, which, it is contended, is a hardship.\n\nAt the last meeting, allusion was made by the Attorney-General to the White Cloud as having come here in 1881. That vessel was running between Hongkong and Macao during the whole of 1880 and 1881. Allusion was also made to the Kiung-chow and Pingon. Both of these were screw steamers and necessarily had their fittings under water. Screw steamers, whether of wood or iron, necessarily must dock at least once a year, but it is otherwise with paddle steamers, which have their fittings above water where they can be seen.\n\nI understand, also, it is customary in Her Majesty's navy for wooden vessels which are coppered to be docked once in three years, and it is certainly considered inadvisable that wooden vessels should be docked more frequently than that.\n\nI have here a return of the dockings of the steamers Kiukiang and White Cloud from the passing of Ordinance 8 of 1879 until the 7th April, 1884, the date upon which docking for inspection only was insisted upon. The Kiukiang in the year 1880 was not docked. In July, 1881 (her previous docking having taken place in June, 1879), was docked for repairs on bottom. In October, 1882, was docked for remetalling. In the year 1883 was not docked.\n\nThe White Cloud, in May, 1880, was docked at Aberdeen for the purpose of patching metal. She was docked without the knowledge of the Government Marine Surveyor, who did not see her. In February, 1881 (Captain Benning reports), she was surveyed by Mr. Sleeman alongside the Company's wharf, and certificate granted for the following year, but nothing was said about docking. In the following month (March), however, the Company found it necessary to dock the steamer for remetalling.\n\nIn the year 1882, she did not dock - the Attorney-General states \"because of the pressure of work and for the convenience of the Company,\" but Captain Benning reports on 3rd April, 1882, \"laid up with loose piston rod at Kowloon Dock until 7th, but was not asked to dock by Mr. Brewer, who surveyed us, and did not dock.\" In March, 1883, was docked for new keelsons, etc., and for remetalling, which, however, would have been deferred until the following year (1884) had it been known that the vessel would then have been compelled to dock for inspection.\n\nThe Company feel that the rule requiring a vessel to dock is unnecessary and a hardship. If it were necessary, they would not object, but the docking simply for survey is not necessary.\n\nIn view of there being a possible difference of opinion as to the reading of the Ordinance on the subject, I have brought forward a resolution, but I maintain the certificate could be given without the necessity of docking, and I do not think docking should be called for.\n\nThe resolution I propose is:-\"That it is desirable to amend the Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1879, by adding immediately after the words '(1) That the hull of the ship is sufficient for the service intended and in good condition' (section V, sub-section 8, clause (a), paragraph I.), the words following, that is to say, 'provided that such Government Surveyor shall declare that the hull of any wooden paddle-wheeled river steamer is sufficient for the service intended and in good condition without requiring such river steamer to be docked, if it be reasonably proved to him that such river steamer has been re-metalled within the three years immediately preceding the date of survey and that she has not grounded since the last survey.'\"\n\n## Hon. P. Ryrie\n\nYour Excellency, I beg to second the resolution proposed by my hon. friend opposite. I must say it seems inexplicable to me why, after so many years, suddenly these gentlemen who are connected with the Harbour Master's department and the Marine Survey department should come down on these steamers. There is something behind it, I am confident.\n\nWhat do they mean by it - what do they mean? They know these ships as well as any ships in the harbour. They say they cannot be examined by divers. That is contrary to the opinion of every Naval officer in port with the exception of the gentleman who acts as Harbour Master at present.\n\nHow he can say so when in the Navy they always employ divers, I do not understand. I don't believe he can ever have been in a ship that has been surveyed. I have it on the highest naval authority that these ships lying light can be taken into clear water, into 12 ft. of water, and a diver can walk round them in proper diving dress and see if there is a nail loose; and yet this gentleman writes to the Government to say that our suggestion that divers should examine the bottom is a mere quibble.\n\nHow any gentleman can give himself away in that manner, I cannot understand. I think these vessels, being wooden vessels copper bottomed, can be examined quite well in the harbour and the diver can bring up a report if there is anything wrong as easily as I can look up at this ceiling and tell whether there is a spot on it.\n\n## The ATTORNEY-GENERAL\n\nSir, I wish before this motion is put to the Council, to say one or two words with reference to it, and more particularly with reference to the observations made by my hon. friend who has moved the resolution upon the answer which was given to his question at the last meeting of Council.\n\nI stated then, I think - at all events, I am sure it must have been well understood by the Council - that I was speaking from the information which had been obtained from the proper authority as to the facts. The statement I made was strictly in accordance with the terms in which the information was given, and although I must admit there at first sight seems to be some discrepancy between the facts stated by me in answer to my hon. friend's question and the facts which he is now in possession of and which he has detailed to us, I think it will be found when they are carefully compared that a good deal turns on the distinction which I think is drawn now - but which was not drawn in the question in the form in which it was put - the distinction between special docking for the purpose of examination and docking at such times as would have afforded, and perhaps did afford facilities for examination.\n\nIt seems to me, as far as I can gather - of course, I cannot speak accurately on the point without the figures before me - but it appears from the statement of the hon. member that these ships were docked at the times stated in the answer given at the last meeting, but what seems to be doubtful is whether they were specially required to be docked for the particular purpose of survey or whether the Marine Surveyor did not content himself with the fact that they had been docked as sufficient compliance with the requirements of the Ordinance.\n\nI take it the explanation of the discrepancy between his facts and ours will be found in that practice; but I have no doubt careful inquiries will be made on that point and to ascertain how matters precisely stand, and a report will be called for.\n\nNow with regard to the resolution, I think there is something to be said on the other side of the question. The practice is now, whatever it may have formerly been, in accordance with the requirements of the law. The law is in the same terms as the Merchant Shipping Act, under which surveys of this kind are conducted in England.\n\nThe manner in which those surveys are to be carried out has been prescribed with a great deal of care and a great deal of detail by the Board of Trade in their regulations, and among other regulations which they lay down for Surveyors in carrying out these surveys is this, which I read from the regulations themselves:-\"The surveyors before granting a declaration for twelve months, shall be careful to make an examination of the outside of the ship in a dry dock, timbers, braces, bolts, etc. Before surveyors pass the hull of a vessel, they should see it is fit to go into water.\"\n\nNow those regulations apply to all ships, without... \n\nPage 222",
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        "content_text": "to-morrow and look at that Market will agree with me, the one way to set things right is not to deal with it on any patch work system. No- thing could be more deplorable than to make existing evils worse by attempting anything short of a radical remedy. The only thing that has induced me to rise is to say that two years ago the Acting Governor, the Auditor-General, and myself, all three of us addressed the Sur- veyor-General and begged him to hold his hand with regard to that Market. We had not got any money, nor could we afford to lose the Market rents. The hon. gentleman says we get from $30,000 to $40,000 a year from that Market. We do, and it is a tax on food I very much regret, but there is this circumstance, that if the Government did not get that money it would be going into the pockets of middle men, and the Government might as well have it as let it go to the hucksters and stall holders who would otherwise appro- priate it. But there is this consideration, that we could not do without that $30,000. We could not appropriate it for the improvement of the Market. When we were delivered from the ab- solute paralysis of public works which had reigned for some years and found half a million to the good we went to work to spend it like a schoolboy spending his pocket money. The Treasury was in a disorganised state. There had been a suc- cession of acting appointments-one man for a fortnight, another for three days, another for six weeks, and so forth, so that really you may say there had for some time been no responsible head of the Treasury at all. I don't know whether, when the hot fit of extravagance took place, I was Treasurer or not, but if I was I had had no experience at all. And therefore what I must call the extravagance of the colony took place at a time when there was practically no responsible Treasurer. We spent all this money, we had one bad year if not two, and we found ourselves in such a posi- tion that we really did not know which way to turn.\n\nTherefore, however much we may regret that the $30,000 was required for other pur- poses and could not be spent on the Market, there was the fact that could not be got over. And I for one went to the Surveyor-General and begged him to defer for another year the recon- struction of the Market. It was very bad, but it had gone on for some time, and there did not seem any insuperable objection to its going on for an- other year; at any rate it had to do so. Now if there is one thing for which one never gets any credit, it is for recommending economy. Every- one has an iron in the fire, a scheme to urge, and every one says his scheme would not cost much, he is sure money might be found for that, surely one could find as much as $30,000 or $50,000. Well, perhaps one could for one particular scheme, but money is wanted on all sides, and we shall never be able to spend money right and left; we shall always have half-a-dozen uses for every dollar we possess. My hon. friend spoke of money spent in ornamentation. There may be some truth in the charge. At the same time I would say this, we never had before a Surveyor-General who finish- ed his work off. A building was left surrounded by boulders and the rough hill side. We don't quarrel with our cook when he gives us a good dinner if he puts a little bit of red paper round the end of the leg of mutton: and I think the colony is glad to see things finished off and the work made to look a credit, instead of the neglect of anything like fancy work which prevailed until ten or twelve years ago.\n\nI am sorry there should be this want of dollars, but it will continue, and we must make up our minds to the fact. We must look at both sides of every coin before we spend it, for when we have a hundred dollars to spend we shall have at least half-a-dozen different claims for it.\n\nThe motion for the adoption of the reply to the Address was then put and carried nem. con. The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY moved that the reply be presented to His Excellency by the mover and seconder and said he had ascer- tained that one o'clock to-day (Saturday) would be a convenient hour for His Excellency.\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded the motion.\n\nCarried nem. con.\n\nNEW BILLS.\n\nThe following Bills were read a first time: An Ordinance for the better protection of Girls, the Legislative Council Witnesses Ordinance, the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, the Cat- tle and Markets Ordinance.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had much pleasure in stating that the last nam- ed Bill dealt with overcrowding in the Markets.\n\nADJOURNMENT.\n\nThe Council adjourned until Friday next.\n\n87",
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        "content_text": "of 31st May, 1885\"\n\nin same paper approving W.O. (War Office) proceedings in the matter)\n\n? Refer to those deep talks\n\nWhat their wishes are now on this point, and say that these Requr will be transmitted to them\n\nthat in order to ascertain the views of the\n\nHarding\n\nthe Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce (see 1511\n\nthe waiting thinking, which Lord\n\nthings in framing is unable to say that any\n\nSAA\n\ndetailed and request to supply him with another copy of the print for communication to Worthing\n\nPlate sumes a\n\nFra 19. 19 July\n\nS.W.I.\n\nEuk\n\nhur\n\n2077\n\nuseful summary published\" apoor of the \"Dines\"\n\nIN. Meade\n\nArticle from this File now annexed\n\nCround\n\n8ug. 21/7\n\npreford.\n\na useful summary.\n\nRm 2117\n\nJuly\n\n2/\n\n33/3\n\narticle\n\nFrom \"The Times\" 20. July\n\nTHE COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.\n\nThe negotiations between France and China for the arrangement of the terms on which trade is in future to be conducted across the frontier between Tonquin and China, which dragged their slow length along for nearly a year at Tientsin, have been completed, and the result of the labours of M. Cogordan, Li Hung Chang, and their numerous assistants has at last reached Paris for ratification. It might have been thought that, as political questions were settled and the delicate matter of delimitation got out of the way by the appointment of a joint commission, it would not be a difficult matter to come to terms for the regulation\n\nof a trade which is still in the clouds. But this has not been the case; over and over again the negotiations stood still for weeks because the representatives of the high contracting parties could not agree on some point. The French entered on the work with the idea that the result of the war entitled them to large concessions, and it is to be feared that the Chinese spirit was even less favourable to a speedy and satisfactory issue. They haggled over points to which they attached no importance themselves, and which, indeed, were of no special importance to either party, in a spirit that looked like mere contentiousness. They appear to have set out with the determination that the French should get as little as possible of what they wanted, whether the withholding of it was of benefit to China or not. French manufacturers expected great things from the war; they were taught all along that a new El Dorado was being opened to them; France was destroying the British commercial monopoly in southern and south-western China, she was cutting out England in the future; and with these great and flattering objects in view the war went on. The Chinese, on the other hand, were determined, as far as lay in their power, to show France that even in a commercial sense she had gained nothing by the war. Li Hung Chang, on being asked to let the French construct railways for China, contemptuously gave them permission to tender for a small line between the Kaiping collieries and Tientsin, and ultimately gave the contract to Messrs. Krupp. The Chinese had this further advantage in the contest (an advantage of which they have not now, as in the past, been slow to avail themselves) that they knew France would not go to war with them again over the negotiations. The nature of the treaty concluded under these conditions can easily be surmised. We look through it in vain for any of those advantages to French trade which were so confidently anticipated; our Chambers of Commerce and merchants can read every line of it without a qualm. There is no provision in it on which even the most nervous official or merchant can lay his hand and say—\"There may be danger to us there.\" Taken by itself, and apart from the antecedent and surrounding circumstances, the treaty is hardly worth a moment's attention; but when we recollect the hopes it has raised in one country and the fears it has caused amongst British merchants at home and in the East, when we reflect that this is the arrangement which was to destroy British commercial predominance in southern China and to blast our inheritance in future trade of south-western China, we cannot pass it by without interest or attention.\n\nWe shall, therefore, run rapidly seriatim through every clause of the treaty, giving the substance of each, with a few comments here and there, where they appear necessary, by way of elucidation. By the first article, China agrees to open two places to trade, one on the frontier beyond Langson, the second above Laokai; the first of these will give access to the rich and populous province of Kwangsi, the other to Yunnan. This provision is not new, as it was contained in the treaty of peace signed at Tientsin on June 9, 1885. China will establish customs stations at these places, while France gets the right to appoint Consuls to reside there. This clause also arranges the method in which the places are to be selected. In connexion with this clause, it is interesting to notice that one of the hitches in the negotiation was caused by the demand of the French to appoint an agent to reside at some important centre in Yunnan (Tali-fu and Yunnan-fu were mentioned), as we have an agent at Chung-King, on the Yangtze in Sze-chuan, but the Chinese were inflexible in their refusal. The second clause provides for the appointment of Chinese Consuls in Hanoi, Haiphong, and other towns in Tonquin, with favoured-nation treatment. By Article 3 both sides engage to assist the respective Consuls in obtaining suitable residences. Clause 4 provides for freedom of trade and residence for Chinese in Tonquin and trade and residence under the usual conditions for French in the open places in China. By Clause 5 it is agreed that only those persons armed with passports to be granted by the Chinese can cross the frontier. In this respect the French in Tonquin are at a disadvantage compared with Europeans residing on the coast, who can go and come freely. The 6th and 7th Articles are the most important in the whole treaty; they are also the longest, but their substance may be given in a few words. Imports across the frontier into China pay one-fifth less than the maritime customs dues, and exports one-third. Articles not mentioned in the tariff pay 5 per cent, ad valorem in each case, and all such goods pay the likin, or inland transit dues, in the usual way. On these clauses, which really form the crux of the whole treaty so far as British trade is concerned, two questions arise—What will be the effect of the trade through Tonquin on our trade in southern China? and, should we claim the most-favoured-nation treatment in respect of this reduction of the customs dues? To the first question two of our Consuls in the region affected have already replied that no injury will be done to our trade, for the difficult nature of the country to be crossed between the Red River and the valley of the Si-Kiang, or Canton River, has prevented, and will prevent, much trade by this route until the French construct railways to the frontier, and even then the opening of a port on the Canton River will counterbalance the French advantages. As to claiming the favoured-nation treatment, we did not do so in the case of the Russo-Chinese Commercial Treaty of 1881, and M. de Freycinet has intimated an opinion that the most-favoured nation treatment applied only to the open ports, and not to the land frontiers of China, a limitation of the favoured-nation clause in which Lord Salisbury did not concur. On the other hand, the Board of Trade recommended that the question should be fought on the ground of principle, which, it said, was all-important. \"If stipulations for equal treatment in the matter of duties are to be made to depend on, and to vary with the cost of transit (the ground on which the reduction of duties was made) there is an end of any certainty or clearness in the meaning of such stipulations.\" Notwithstanding this strong recommendation, we believe the Foreign Office has decided not to contest the question at present, and on the whole, perhaps, this is politic. It must be remembered that merchandise from Europe going into China by this route will pay two different customs dues—the first to the French authorities on entering Tonquin, the second to the Chinese on entering China. Discriminating duties existed, or existed until recently, in Tonquin. General Millot, when Governor, divided all imports into three classes, with different scales of duty—(1) Those of Indo-Chinese origin; (2) those of French origin; (3) those of foreign origin; each class paying higher duties than the preceding one. It will thus be seen that a trifling fifth or third diminution from a five per cent, ad valorem tariff can do little to help a trade heavily weighted with these discriminating duties from the moment it enters Tonquin. And even if French goods were admitted free into the latter, this reduction, amounting in the one case to one, in the other to one and two-thirds per cent., would be of little help towards meeting the enormous expense of carriage to Langson, not to speak at all of the distant Laokai. Besides, concluding that the game of fighting the point with France and China was not worth the candle, Lord Rosebery, no doubt, reflected that we shall shortly have the opportunity of claiming similar treatment in the trade across our new frontier in Burma. When France has completely pacified Tonquin, when she has rendered the Red River navigable and constructed railways to the frontier, and when she has remodelled the fiscal system of Indo-China so as to admit goods of French origin free of duty, these reduced dues might, if we have been at a standstill all the time, be of",
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        "content_text": "the Burmese Frontier, and \n\nalso as to the opening of \n\na new treaty port \n\non the \n\nWest River, which seems to \n\nbe a \n\nmatter of considerable \n\nimportance to British trading interests.\n\nI have etc.\n\nfod | H. G. Calcraft.\n\n00\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nForeign Office\n\nDate.\n\n1806 5 Aug\n\nset previous Paper.\n\n20\n\n13798\n\nfw. inf. Conf. 12 Aug.\n\nмо\n\ncop\n\nđồng trong No. 13991\n\n(Subject.)\n\nOpium Commission\n\nDOM MISC.\n\nC. O.\n\n13991\n\nRECO\n\nREGO 6 AUG 36,\n\nTransmits copy desk from J.O'\n\nthe\n\nConnor late Cd'aff at Canton containing instructions issued to Mr. Brenan B. Consular Secretary the Commission. Proposes to approve custos\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Branistin\n\nparions\n\nThe instructions follow the decision that have been already agreed to:\n\n? Reply that W. See \" Stanhope Concurs in Lord Iddesleigh's proposal to approve them\n\nSend copy\n\ntopy you uply\n\nJordbaug\n\nEner. bugs\n\nRu\n\nAu 7/8\n\nDove CS.10 ay\n\nSext subsequent Paper.\n\n14531",
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        "content_text": "371\n\n30\n\nbank of the Yung-ning River, here about 40 yards wide, a short distance above its junction with the Yang-tzu. This river is barred every few hundred yards by rapids, over which a boat would not be taken in any other country; but here imperturbable patience, and the uniform application of the first rule in arithmetic, overcome all difficulties and make good all deficiencies. If ten men cannot pull a boat over a rapid, try twenty, thirty, or forty. Do not alter your method—that would be complicated and fatiguing. But man is here a cheap and common animal, a fact which modifies many problems.\n\nThere is a remarkable lack of solidly-constructed buildings in this province. This may be due in part to the rareness of good stone in this immediate neighbourhood; but the great reason is that the people prefer to spend their money in ways that give a quicker return. They are well clothed; tobacco of good quality, opium, and spirits seem to be within the reach of every one. The greater number eat pork, and amuse themselves to a surprising extent. Lin Ta-jên's remark, that his countrymen live at home in peace and plenty, is no empty boast as far as Ssu-ch'uan is concerned. There is no doubt whatever that the mass of the people, although to a newly-arrived European they appear sunk in squalor, enjoy a considerable measure of comfort.\n\nAt the same time, in case of mishap, a paternal Government leaves them to take their chance with the other mammals. Thus, in the winter of 1884-85, when an army was recruited here to march into Tonquin, hundreds of workmen from the salt-wells came down to Lu-chou, and, not being accepted as recruits, died there of starvation.\n\nOn the road from Na-chi Hsien I noticed for the first time square pillars of stone, carved at the top to represent the head of Amita Buddha. At a distance they look just like terminal statues, but a closer view dispels all thought of classical sculpture. They are the most grotesque and hideous images. Many were loaded with straw sandals, the votive offerings of porters whose prayers for the relief of sore feet or aching backs had been answered.\n\nFor some 10 miles before Chiang-mén is reached the country is most picturesque. The river here flows between the red sandstone slopes of mountains that rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above its level. The sides are too steep for terrace cultivation, and are abandoned to a most luxuriant wild vegetation, the whole surface being covered with a profusion of ferns and flowers watered by cascades that tumble over the tilted strata. The boats add a touch of fairyland to the picture, for they are long, curved structures, floating high on the water, with an immense bow, sweep-shaped like an ancient halbert. Seen from the cliffs above they suggest some strange, unwieldy water-monster, who has strayed into a narrow stream and has much difficulty in getting out.\n\nAbout 6 miles beyond Ma-ling, on the right of a narrow valley, down which the road passes, a sandstone bluff comes into view presenting the interesting spectacle of about twenty Man-tzŭ caves. Most of the entrances, 3 to 4 feet square, are cut in the vertical cliff some 10 feet above the ground, so that they are not to be reached without a ladder, and we had no time to wait. These caves may richly reward the otiose explorer, for no Chinaman would ever think of taking the trouble necessary to disturb what they contain. The face of the cliff, beside the portals, is adorned in one or two cases by sculptures in relief, the most striking being a round human face, which at once recalled to my mind a print in Smith's Classical Dictionary, representing the sun (from a coin of Rhodes). Other caves were accessible, and proved to be cut in the solid rock (sandstone) about 8 feet square, with a domed roof some 5 ft. 6 in. high in the centre. These caves are cut on exactly the same plan as those described by Mr. Baber, common in South Ssu-ch'uan, and are called by the same name, i.e., \"Caves of the Man-tzu.\" My hopes were raised by a heap of earth in one cave, that had evidently been deposited there with a purpose, and was considering how to get the earth turned over without attracting the attention of the neighbours, when a villager remarked, \"We buried a beggar there last year. There was no coffin for him, so we put him in the cave and covered him with earth.\" This valley was, no doubt, formerly the head-quarters of a Man-tzu tribe, for some miles lower down the site of the castle of a Man-tzu Chief (Man-tzu Wang) is pointed out. Not one stone remains upon another; but the sculptured blocks that lie about the garden of a farm-house, just built over the site, bear witness to a considerable advance in civilization. There was a stone lintel, measuring 5 feet by 1 ft. 6 in., by 9 inches, very evenly cut and adorned with a simple pattern much resembling that figured Mr. Baber (p. 137).\n\nOn the 5th November we reached Yung-ning Hsien, an important trading entrepôt fifteen years ago, when the Kwang-si and Kuei-chou routes were blocked by rebels, for\n\n* See \"Nineteenth Century,\" October 1880, p. 615.",
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        "content_text": "31\n\nThis was then the Government road connecting Yün-nan and Kuei-chou with the east of the Empire. The place has now the air of a Welsh country town with great display of mountain boots, and such rustic articles, though its suburb, several li in length, attests its former prosperity. Here goods are transferred from the river* to the backs of pack-animals. Dues and prices are given in Appendix I.\n\nAfter the suburbs of Yung-ning and Hsü-yung are passed, and the valley of the river left behind, the country quite changes its character. The ascent to the plateau of Yün-nan begins, and the sandstones and argillaceous shales, characteristic of Southern Ssu-ch'uan, are replaced by stratified limestones and calcareous shales weathered into the queerest shapes, having a honeycombed or wavy appearance according to the nature of the rock. After a walk of about 16 miles, the latter part of the way between hedges that looked quite English with wild roses and blackberries, we reached Shuang-ching, 3,640 feet above the sea.\n\nHere we heard the very unpleasant news that we were to meet a disbanded army that was on its way back to Ssu-ch'uan from the Tonquin border. When Peking resolved to make war in earnest on the French in Tonquin, a Ssu-ch'uan General, Pao Ch'ao by name, was directed to recruit an army in Eastern Ssu-ch'uan and march to the Tonquin border through Yün-nan. On the way up the Yang-tzu in December 1884, I walked through General Pao's camp at K'uei Fu, when he had collected about 20,000 men. The General showed no great eagerness to fight; but in the beginning of 1885 he received peremptory orders to move at once. He passed along this road with 20,000 to 25,000 men, and reached Mêng-tzu Hsien, three days from Lao-kai, in March, some little time before the armistice was concluded. After spending four months on the Tonquin border, General Pao marched his troops down the various hills they had so recently ascended, and was now two or three days in front of us on his way back to Ssü-ch'uan. Some idea may be formed of the number of Chinese put out of the world by the war from the fact that of this force, of which the French probably never heard, and which was never within 100 miles of the enemy, not more than half returned. Mêng-tzu, K'ai-hua, and Kuang-nan in thousands; of this I am sure, for I saw their graves. They died in thousands.\n\nIt was of course an unfortunate rencontre for us, because the Chinese in these parts do not distinguish the various races of Occidentals. However, the men were broken up into small parties and extended over ten stages or more, so that by keeping together we were generally the stronger company. The road presented the most extraordinary spectacle. There would be in front, perhaps, a man carrying a halbert or trident or 12-foot lance with red flag; next, chanting in a plaintive strain, eight bearers carrying a \"ling-chiao\" (spirit's sedan), i.e., a coffin containing the remains of some fever-stricken officer, covered with red serge and surmounted by the inevitable white cock, on the way to the family grave-yard in Ssu-ch'uan; then a man carrying a tin-looking French revolver or ancient pistol, the like of which is only to be found in the United Service Museum; next, a sick man only just able to sit upright on his pony; those that had money had invested in Yün-nan opium, parrots, copper, tin, or hams, which they carried themselves slung on to a lance or foreign musket. The pay of these men had been 4 taels (£1. 4s.) per month in all, out of which they fed and clothed themselves. But the amateur opium and ham merchants had won at cards, which, with opium-smoking and fever, had killed time on the Tonquin border. Some scowled and handled their weapons as I walked past them, but the greater number were content with some such remark as \"Why, here's one of those foreigners! What's he doing here?\" Excepting the body-guard of the General officers, these troops were disbanded and under no immediate control. What I dreaded was a quarrel between some of them and my followers, when time would have been given for stragglers to come up, and we should probably have been looted. All our party were warned to beware of this, and in ten days we had passed the whole force without any mishap.\n\nAfter Shuang-ching the road climbs successive layers of limestone strata, dipping to the north at an angle of 30 to 45 degrees, the peaks being the tops of the strata that have escaped denudation. Between this and the ascent to the Hsueh Shan there must be an anticlinal ridge, for there the strata, which is of similar rock, dips to the south at about the same angle. After Hei-ni-shao the road runs through a district of bare limestone hills, uncultivated for the most part, and without trees. Here we passed a terminal of Armita Buddha with quite negro features, decked with an immense number of votive offerings, including many pairs of paper eye-glasses, one pair on, producing such a burlesque effect that it was hard not to be profane. After a mile or so Simultaneous observations give the \"Yung-ning River a fall of about 3 feet a mile hence to the Yang-tzŭ; and the Yang-tzŭ a fall of 10 inches a mile between Lu-chou and Ch'ung-ch'ing.\n\n372",
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        "content_text": "32\n\n373\n\nof steep bad road we reached a Buddhist monastery built at the highest point in a pass through a range that runs east and west—the Hsueh Shan, marked Su Shan on European maps. The pass I make 5,550 feet above the sea; there hung in the monastery an antithetical couplet, presented by an official early in the century, which may be paraphrased as follows:—\n\nTo have a nature broad, strong, and under control is to be God (\"Ji\"), and Prince, and Spirit, and Buddha: to be of high virtue is to be Ruler, and General, and Prophet, and God (\"Shên\").\n\nIn countries where religion is taken seriously, one might be astonished that such a Catholic text should figure in a Buddhist temple dedicated to the God of War.\n\nHaving taken lunch, and boiled our thermometer under the shade of this inscription, we proceeded south. No sooner were we out of the monastery door than a steep descent began along the dip of strata running down towards the river. We descended right away for about 8 miles, and struck the river at a level of 2,040 feet above the sea, having descended 3,480 feet from the monastery. It was dusk when we reached the river—the Chih-shui Ho—but it appeared a swift stream, 70 yards wide, and shallow for the most part. It takes its rise, according to a Map lent me by the Magistrate of the Pi-chieh district, in the mountains to the west, not far from Lao-wa-t'an, and flows hence to join the Yang-tzu at Ho-chiang Hsien, forming, where we crossed it, the boundary between Ssu-ch'uan and Kuei-chou. It is not navigable here.\n\nWe crossed the river in a ferry-boat, and set foot in the Province of Kuei-chou by the light of Venus and the new moon, set in the purple light of the sun some time sunk beneath the horizon. Heads of General Pao's braves in cages lined the road, and were in keeping with the dusky stillness of the scene. The opposite ascent begins at once. The regular inns were all crowded with General Pao's braves; but we found a cottage, some 200 feet above the river, which we rented for 8d., a sum that included the services of a cadet of the family, who sat up all night to watch my sedan, and to keep the pig out of doors. Next day we continued the ascent, leaving the sandstone which prevails at the level of the river, through calcareous rocks—chalk, shale, and limestone—dipping to the north-east, and broken into deep precipices on the south-west, beneath the upper edge of the strike. Three miles from the river, at Kao-shan P'u, observation of boiling-point gave an elevation of 4,068 feet. Thus, the valley of the Chih-shui Ho is a huge ravine causing, within 11 miles of road, a descent of 3,480 feet, and a corresponding ascent of 2,000 feet, a crux for the railway engineer who may come this way.\n\nEight miles further south, at a village named Pai-ai, I saw for the first time Miao-tzu, or aborigines of Kuei-chou. Next to nothing is known in Europe about the non-Chinese races of Southern China, although they probably form much more than half the population of Yün-nan and Kwang-si, and are very numerous in Kuei-chou and Western Hunan,* a rich district lying between the 22nd and 28th degree of latitude, and larger than France in area.\n\nThe subject is as interesting from the point of view of science or history as from that of politics and commerce. All the information I was able to gather about these races will be found collected in Appendix II, where the facts are recorded on which the occasional remarks given in the body of this Report are based.\n\nAn overcast sky, which greeted us when we turned out from our quarters at E-lo-mi, grew thicker as the morning advanced, and an east wind brought down the temperature to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, quite enough to make people who had just passed through the Chung-ch'ing summer thoroughly miserable. Sleet and the want of breakfast further embittered our condition, for there was not a house for miles. Snow stopped us at a miserable village named Chin-yin-shan, where the whole place was occupied by braves. We had to put up at inn with six of them. They (the landlord and his wife) all smoked opium, and kept talking half the night, as the manner of opium-smokers is, adding walnuts to their feast of opium and flow of soul, and cracking them on the wooden partitions with the nearest piece of furniture. About midnight some of their friends arrived from a neighbouring inn to discuss the abortive campaign, so that sleep was difficult.\n\nOn the 12th November we reached Pi-chieh Hsien, a busy district town situated in a long fertile valley yielding good crops of opium and rice. The place is sufficiently supplied with piece-goods from Yung-ning Hsien, and the prices were little dearer than at that town. However, half the population are Lo-lo and Miao-tzu, the district Map, which I borrowed from the Magistrate, being so covered with aboriginal Chieftainships and exceptions to the jurisdiction as to have the interesting appearance of a geological survey.\n\n* Exclusive of Western Ssu-ch'uan and the Thibetan marches, the abode of Lo-lo, Ku-isung, and Si-fan.",
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        "content_text": "Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board of Hongkong under the provisions of \n\nthe Public Health Ordinance, in relation to the proper construction, trapping, and ventilating of house-drains, and sewers in the City of Victoria and in the Villages and Rural Districts of Hongkong and Kowloon.\n\nIn the City of Victoria.\n\n1. Every owner of a new building within the City of Victoria, shall construct the lowest story of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty, at a point in the upper half-diameter of such sewer.\n\n2. Every owner of a new building within the City of Victoria, shall, in the construction of every drain of such building, use good hard sound pipes formed of glazed stone-ware, that shall have received the previous approval of the Board. Black bricks shall not be used in the construction of any house-drains intended for the conveyance of sewage. Red bricks may be used, provided they are set and smoothly rendered in mortar of good cement and clean sand.\n\n3. Every owner shall cause every such drain to be of adequate size, and to have an internal diameter of not less than four inches, and where the ground is soft to be laid in a bed of good lime concrete. Every house-drain shall be laid with a proper fall, and with watertight, socketed, joints in cement mortar.\n\n4. No drain shall be so constructed as to pass under any building, except in any case where any other mode of construction may be impracticable. Any drain passing under a building shall be laid in one straight line for the whole distance beneath such building, and shall be completely embedded and encased all round in good and solid lime concrete, at least four inches thick all round.\n\n5. Adequate disconnexion and ventilation shall be provided at the end of every house-drain, by means of gully-traps, with slop-stone covers or suitable iron perforated covers or gratings, and ventilating pipes, placed at such points and levels, and in such manner as shall in each case be required by the Board, and every inlet to every house-drain, shall be properly trapped and shall be grated, or covered with a perforated stone or iron cover that shall effectually prevent the introduction of any solid substance into such inlet and the perforations or apertures of every such grating or cover, shall be of not less than the sectional area of the pipe or drain to which it is fitted.\n\n6. Every drain from a building communicating directly with any public sewer, shall be provided with a suitable trap ventilating-grating, disconnecting manhole, or other appliance, to the satisfaction of the Board, at a point between such building and such public sewer as shall be pointed out in each case by the Board.\n\n7. No house-drains shall be joined in such a manner as to form any right-angled junction, either vertical or horizontal. Every drain shall join another drain obliquely in the direction of the flow of such drain.\n\n8. No ventilating-pipe of any drain shall be of a less internal diameter than four inches, and such ventilating pipe shall in every case be securely fixed and so carried up to such height, (provided such height be in no case less than ten feet above the ground), as shall effectually prevent any escape of foul air into any thoroughfare or building in the vicinity thereof.\n\n9. No overflow from any cistern or bath, or ablution, sullage, or refuse waters of any kind, nor the surface-drainage of any yard or back-yard shall be led from any building or premises, through any down-pipe or open gutter into, or over, any surface-channel of any public street, alley, thoroughfare, or other ground, nor shall such refuse waters be led into, or emptied over the surface of any back-yard, alley, or other ground belonging to such building, or premises or other adjoining building or premises, but shall be conveyed in a watertight waste-pipe or down-pipe taken through an external wall, and discharged in the open air over a gully-trap covered with a grating or granite slop-stone cover, and no such waste-pipe or down-pipe, shall be brought down any external wall or retaining wall when such wall looks upon any public thoroughfare.\n\n322",
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        "content_text": "302\n\n296\n\nTHE SANITARY RECORD.\n\n(F) Power of Entry\nUnder sect. 102, Public Health Act, 1875, the local authority or any of its officers have power of entry to any premises to examine for nuisances, enforcing the smoke prevention provisions, or examine as to recurring nuisances.\n\nTo enter upon land (sect. 105, Public Health Act, 1875) for the purposes of making plans, surveying, measuring, levelling, keeping in repair or examining works, ascertain the course of sewers or drains, or ascertaining or fixing boundaries and many other purposes.\n\nQuestion 3.\nWhat are the chief principles to be observed in the sewerage of a town or district, and how would you proceed to determine the size and capacity of the outfall sewer? What size of sewer would you propose for a town of 25,000 population where the gradient is 1 in 300? Illustrate your answer by sketches.\n\nAnswer: Geographical configuration, annual average rainfall, number of present population and prospective increase, taking the last census as a basis. Whether a full water-closet town, or if to be sewered on the separate system: the nature of the outfall with a view to gravitation or mechanical lifting, and other minor causes.\n\nThe size of the outfall sewer, in my opinion, should be not less than 3 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 6 inches, discharging 185 cubic feet per minute, thus allowing the sewage at 30 cubic feet per head per day to be discharged in eight hours. On the separate system this capacity for a full water closet town, and to allow for heavy rainfalls, say 3 feet by 4 feet 6 inches, if rain or surface waters is to be included, discharging 267 cubic feet per minute, with the inclination given of 1 in 300.\n\nQuestion 4\nWrite a specification for laying stoneware pipe sewers.\n\nAnswer: Being the specification for a pipe sewer, I assume that any local surveyor would be equal to this, and as it would take up a very considerable space in the SANITARY RECORD, without a corresponding benefit to surveyors generally, I omit to take up the space, the general features of such a specification being that the pipes shall be straight, sound, and true to bore, well and truly laid, and jointed in a perfectly water-tight manner; the earth excavated at the collars so that the body of the pipe may have a true bearing along its whole length. If in faulty ground concreted all around and on top to exclude uneven pressure; if on good ground, then the earth put in 6-inch layers, well rammed in around and above to avoid sinkage. All laid in straight lines from manhole to manhole, with provision for ventilation and lighting, so that a lamp inserted at a lamphole may be seen and show a light to an adjacent manhole, thus at once showing where any stoppage existed.\n\nQuestion 5.\nSupposing a sewer to have a gradient of 1 in 300, how much would the velocity and discharge be increased by altering the gradient to 1 in 60?\n\nAnswers: 1 in 300 = 4/57*32) = 7*92 increase of discharge per second. 1 in 60 = /1000 = 10*00) = 17*32 (1.732 increase of velocity per second.\n\n1005\n\n7320\n\n2000\n\n3200\n\n3000\n\n2000\n\n22000\n\nQuestion 6.\nGive a description of the process termed intermittent downward filtration. State what area of land you would require with a gravelly soil for applying this method of purifying sewage to a town with a population of 20,000 inhabitants; and state the arrangements you would adopt for dealing with the rain water falling on the roofs, yards, and streets.\n\nAnswer: Intermittent downward filtration may be termed a natural system of purification of sewage by means of the filtering and aërating action of the soil: it is carried on by discharging (with or without previous precipitation) upon a properly prepared area, the sewage of the town under drainage. This sewage is conducted upon the prepared area by a series of carriers, and then allowed to filter through the land into drains laid about 6 feet under ground, from whence it (as an effluent) is conducted to its outfall, mostly a river. The action upon the sewage is threefold—viz., evaporation, aëration, and filtration, and if properly conducted should give an effluent of a very high standard.\n\nAs to the amount of land requisite for the purification of the sewage of a town of 20,000 population, authorities differ, but taking the daily amount of sewage per head at 30 gallons, and the average of five persons to each house equal to 150 gallons per house per day, then the fact that this quantity must be got rid of in about eight hours, it would not be safe to reckon less than 1,000 gallons per house. Then taking 4,000 houses, there would be 4,000,000 gallons of sewage to deal with, which could be successfully treated on 5 acres of such land; but it would, of course, require that a very far larger amount should be provided, as no land could be expected to be constantly under treatment, and the least amount should be five times this quantity, so as to have only one-fifth under treatment.\n\nGreat diversity of opinion exists upon this subject, and no very hard and fast line can be drawn. Each case must rest upon individual merits and local circumstances.\n\nWith regard to dealing with rain-water from roofs, most of it should undoubtedly be stored for domestic use, as it is far too valuable to be uselessly wasted. Drainage from yards and roads should be conducted in separate channels (from the sewer proper) to a natural outfall: although often in storms the washings from roads may be nearly as bad as sewage; but, on the other hand, if the surface-water were admitted, the sewers would have to be greatly increased in size to provide for excessive rainfall.\n\nQuestion 7.\nDescribe and illustrate by sketches the essential points to be observed in carrying out a system of house drainage, and the best means of providing urinal and closet accommodation for schools, workhouses, and similar institutions.\n\nQuestion 8.\nIn arranging the water supply for a manufacturing town of 30,000 inhabitants, state what you consider of importance as regards (A) Sources of supply; (B) Quantity required; (C) Distribution.\n\nAnswer: (A) The geographical situation of the town, as to the possibility of gravitation from rivers or otherwise; the geological situation of its surroundings, with a view to its probability of affording a sufficiency of supply and its nature as to hardness, &c.; the annual average rainfall: what water rights, if any, existed; the present population and prospective rate of increase, and whether the town was a full water-closet one or otherwise.\n\n(B) Twenty-five to thirty gallons per head population.\n\n(C) Under pressure that all cisterns had ball-cocks and tell-tale overflows; that Deacon's waste-water preventers were in use; that a thorough system of inspection existed to detect waste; that the mains were well laid and efficiently jointed, and that a sufficiency existed for immediate use in case of fire. In the constant service system there is very little, if any, waste; the returns from many towns showing none; but in the intermittent there is often a large amount of waste through neglect of the inhabitants and defective fittings. The screw-down tap somewhat modifies this, but it is a very slow and unsatisfactory way of drawing water.\n\nQuestion 9.\nDescribe the general characters of the waters derived from—(1) The chalk; (2) the new red sandstone; (3) the carboniferous formations; and the methods by which water should be obtained from each.\n\nAnswer: (1) Water derived from the chalk formation, although generally pure and plentiful (except in long seasons of drought), is often very hard, leaving injurious effects on some constitutions.\n\n(2) Water derived from the new red sandstone formation is sometimes of a rather hard description, but not to the degree of that yielded by the chalk formation.\n\n(3) The carboniferous (or coal measure) formations always yields soft water of undoubted purity, and generally in ample volume for all purposes.\n\nQuestion 10.\nIn what ways is water able to be polluted after collection, during its distribution to houses, and in houses? What means would you adopt to prevent such pollution?\n\nAnswer: Water may become polluted after collection by fungoid growths and atmospheric influences (where exposed to such): during distribution, from imperfect pipes and joints allowing sewer or other gas to enter the mains; in houses, by improper fittings, such as a cistern in direct communication with the drain, or so placed as to be difficult of cleansing, and frequently not ventilated, and other insidious causes.\n\nQuestion 11.\nWhat fittings, and plumber's work generally are required for a high-pressure constant water service? How would you make the connection with the main? Describe the kinds of joints which should be used on the branches?\n\nAnswer: The class of fittings required for the high-pressure constant service are iron tubular services with iron angle or T-pieces, either tinned or galvanised. Where lead must be used the joints should be what is known as plumber's or wiped joints, the taps being those known as the high-pressure screw-down service taps, the connection with the main being by a ferrule; plumber's joints on branches, unless iron unions are used.\n\nQuestion 12.\nThere is great difficulty in obtaining a supply of good water for a country house, and it is therefore necessary to obtain as much water as possible from the roofs, and to use it for drinking and cooking purposes. The total area of area of the roof of the house and offices is 8,000 square feet, and the average annual rainfall is about 40 inches. Calculate what size the storage tank should be, and give a sketch of it and of its appendages?\n\nAnswer: Size of storage tank, 160,000 gallons.\n\nQuestion 13.\nTo what extent does the size of a room affect the quantity of fresh air required for effective ventilation, and what quantity of air would be required per hour for a room containing 8,000 cubic feet, occupied by fifteen people? How would you ventilate such a room? Illustrate your answer by sketches.\n\nAnswer: Douglas Galton in 'Healthy Homes' quotes: \"According to theoretical calculations, it would appear that, with an initial air space of 1,000 cubic feet, occupied by one individual, it would be necessary to supply 3,000 cubic feet per hour, to maintain the room in a proper condition of humidity. As regards other impurities, if 0.6 per 1,000 of CO2 are accepted as the limit of respiratory impurity in a well-ventilated air space, in addition to the 0.4 per 1,000 in normal air, we can calculate out the amount of air necessary for the purpose; and from this calculation it appears that it requires 3,000 cubic feet per hour to preserve the air-space in the required state of freshness. Thus the theoretical calculations, based first upon humidity, and secondly on carbonic acid, bring us to similar conclusions in each case.\"\n\nDe Chaumont in Parkes' 'Practical Hygiene': \"A certain amount of fresh air has to pass through a given space in a fixed time in order to maintain a certain degree of purity; the amount has been fixed at 3,000 cubic feet for each healthy person in an hour. Thus a space of 100 cubic feet must have its air changed thirty times in an hour. If 3,000 feet of air are to be given, while a space of 1,000 cubic feet need only have it changed three times in an hour for an equal ventilation, then our problem being 15 persons in a room of 8,000 cubic feet, would work out thus: - 3,000 x 15 = 45,000 cubic feet of air as requisite. The room being of 8,000 cubic feet capacity would require the air to be changed nearly 5.6 times in an hour.\n\nCOMPETITIONS.\nSANITARY INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN.\nAt an Examination, held Nov. 11 and 12, 62 Candidates presented themselves as Local Surveyors and 59 as Inspectors of Nuisances. The questions were set to be answered in writing on Nov. 11, and the Candidates were examined viva voce on Nov. 12. The Institute's Certificate of Competency to discharge the duties of Local Surveyor was awarded to John Reid Anderson, John F. Curwen, John William Metcalf, Charles Chambers Smith; and the Institute's Certificate of Competency to discharge the duties of Inspector of Nuisances was awarded to James Barfoot, John Barron, Daniel Bartley Bostel, G. Stanford Bostel, Harry D. Bowyer, Edmund Bradshaw, Charles E. Brown, Albert Chadderton, David Christie, William Hatch Clayton, George William Cobham, John F. Elliott, John William Hart, Albert Hodges, W. Lee Holding, Joseph Huxley, Joshua Jameson, Edgar E. Jury, Richard C. Lindop, Arthur Henry Lukes, Charles MacMahon, R. McCulloch, Adam Luke McDonald, William Edwin Newbery, John Henry Ollett, William Parsons, William Robert Pearson, Charles Poole, Christopher Raimes, George Russell, Ambrose J. Shore, Charles Chambers Smith, Edwin Smith, Henry Charles Soper, Henry Spadaccini, Alfred William Stone, William Tate, John Tunstall, Samuel Turner, James A. Webb, Charles Turle Wilson, Charles Bruce Wood.\n\nAPPOINTMENTS.\nMEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.\nANNINGSON, Bushell, M.D.Cantab, has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Cambridge Urban Sanitary District, at £350 for one year, and for the Chesterton Urban Sanitary District, at £50 for one year.\n\nATKINSON, Francis Edward, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Craven Combined District, comprising the Haworth, Oakworth, Oven-temple, Silsden, and Skipton Urban Sanitary Districts, and the Keighley, Settle, and Skipton Rural Sanitary Districts, at £150 per annum, for three years.\n\nBARNES, George, L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Chard Urban Sanitary District, at £10 for one year.\n\nBLANISTON, Aubrey, L.R.C.P.Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Wareham Urban Sanitary District, at £10 per annum.\n\nCLARK, William Wake, M.B. Univ. Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Higham-Ferrers newly formed Urban Sanitary District, at £15 per annum.\n\nGREATREX, Adolphus Barnell, M.D.Univ. St.And., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.M., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Kidsgrove Urban Sanitary District, at the rate of £20 per annum, until March 25 next, vice Brigham, resigned.\n\nHODGSON, Isaac Clark, M.B., C.M.Univ.Glasg., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Workington Port Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nMEREDITH, John, M.D.Univ. Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Wellington (Som.) Urban Sanitary District, at £60 per annum, for three years.\n\nPATTERSON, George Henry, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Dalton-in-Furness Urban Sanitary District, at £30 for the year ending Dec. 25, 1887.\n\nRAWSON, Edwin Ellsworth, L.R.C.P.Edin. and L.M., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Thornton Urban Sanitary District, Yorkshire, at £27 for one year.\n\nREDDING, J. H. Douglas, L.R.C.P.Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., L.M., L.F.P.S.Glasg., and L.M., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Huntingdon Urban Sanitary District, at £24 for one year.\n\nSHEA, John, M.B. Univ. Lond., M.D. Univ. St.And., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the combined Reading and Wokingham Rural and Urban Sanitary Districts, at £385 per annum, from Dec. 25, 1886.\n\nTABOR, Charles James, M.B.Univ. Durh., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Joga Division of the Redruth Rural Sanitary District, at £18 per annum, vice Reed, deceased.\n\nTURNER, Frederick, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Buxton Urban Sanitary District, at £40 for one year.\n\nSURVEYORS, CLERKS TO GUARDIANS, INSPECTORS OF NUISANCES, &c.\nARCHIBALD, Mr. G. T., has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Workington Port Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nARNFIELD, Mr. Edwin, has been elected a Member of the New Mills Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Stafford, deceased.\n\nBATE, Mr. Alfred Goodwin, has been appointed Collector to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Reigate, at £150 per annum, vice Apted, resigned.\n\nBEAUMONT, Mr. J. M., has been elected a Member of the Elland Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Crowther, resigned.\n\nBOLLAM, Mr. Frederick, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Wareham Urban Sanitary District, at £10 per annum.\n\nCLAYTON, Mr. William, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Southowram Urban Sanitary District, at £10 for one year.\n\nCOLE, Mr. Arthur Henry, has been appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Leicester Urban Sanitary District, and Inspector of Food, and of Dairies, &c., at £100 per annum, vice Wand, resigned.\n\nCOX, Mr. James Henry, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Hailsham Rural Sanitary District, Sussex, at £81 per annum, vice Martin, deceased.\n\nCROGHAN, Mr. Thomas Andrew, C.E., has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Buxton Urban Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nFLATER, Mr. George Clavell, Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority, Wareham, at £30 per annum.\n\nGORDON, Mr. E. S., has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the East Grinstead Urban Sanitary District, at £20 per annum, vice Brown, resigned.\n\nGREENWOOD, Mr. Joseph, has been re-appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Ulverstone Rural Sanitary District, at £15 per annum, and Surveyor at £30 per annum, for three years, from Jan. 1, 1887.\n\nGRIFFITHS, Colonel, has been elected a Member of the Broadstairs Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Todd, resigned.\n\nHART, Mr. Alfred, has been appointed Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances, and Collector, to the Ashbourne Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Derbyshire, at £100 per annum, vice Bourne, resigned.\n\nHARKOP, Mr. Arthur Jenkins, Local Manager of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority.\n\nHAWKINS, Mr. Richard P. B., Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority of Woodstock.\n\nJONES, Mr. George, jun., has been appointed Surveyor and Collector to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Wareham, at £30 per annum.\n\nJOHNSON, Mr. Henry, has been appointed Treasurer to the Bingley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Brown, resigned.\n\nKENDRICK, Mr. James, has been elected a Member of the Tipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Underhill, resigned.\n\nKINGTON, Mr. Joel, Inspector of Nuisances for the Idle Urban Sanitary District, Yorkshire, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886, made pursuant to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts of 1878 and 1886.\n\nLAUGHTON, Mr. James, has been elected a Member of the Bromsgrove Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Amphlett, deceased.\n\nLUCY, Mr. Charles Frederick, Local Manager of the York Union Banking Co., has been appointed Treasurer to the Pickering Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, vice Clarkson, resigned.\n\nMARSH, Mr. Samuel, has been elected a Member of the Bampton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Dart, resigned.\n\nMATTHEWS, Mr. George Somers, the Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances to the Dorking Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies and Covered Sheds Orders of 1885 and 1886, at £10 for one year.\n\nPOTTER, Mr. Charles John, has been elected a Member of the Willington-Quay Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice O'Brien, disqualified by non-attendance for six months.\n\nPROCTER, Mr. Thomas, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Dalton-in-Furness Urban Sanitary District, at £65 for the year ending Dec. 25, 1887.\n\nPROSE, Mr. John Edwyn, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Ludlow Urban Sanitary District, at £25 for one year.\n\nRUBBRA, Mr. W. 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        "content_text": "coloured lanterns, which sparkled brightly on the still water. The floating Fire Engine, decorated with a row of red lanterns, was especially noticeable. Several of the steamers were illuminated. Among these the Scottish Oriental Co.'s steamer Phen Chom Klas with hull, masts, and yards outlined in vivid crimson, looked like a phantom ship in the darkness. The China and Manila S. S. Co.'s steamer Zafiro was similarly illuminated but with white lanterns, and had a most pleasing effect. The hull and paddle-boxes of the China Navigation Co.'s steamer Hankow were traced out in lines of living fire, and the river steamer White Cloud was similarly lighted up. The Douglas steamer Thales, the telegraph steamer Sherard Osborne, and the little steamer Sea Gull were also illuminated, and the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's steamer Titania used her electric search light with great effect, throwing it over the shipping at intervals. Red and blue lights were burned by the Douglas steamer Formosa and some other vessels, and rockets sent up by them occasionally. Many of the junks and cargo boats displayed coloured lanterns, adding to the general radiance along the foreshore. During the day most of the vessels in port, both British and foreign, dressed ship, as did also the men-of-war. We have already referred at some length to the brilliant exhibition of coloured lights made by the Victor Emanuel and the British men-of-war at night, which excited so much admiration, and so greatly enhanced the effect of the general illuminations.\n\nAT KOWLOON.\n\nAcross the water the principal show was made by the Water Police Station at Tsim Tsa-tsui. This building both from its elevated situation and large dimensions is well adapted for illumination. Between the turrets on the top of the building were the words \"God Save the Queen\" formed in lanterns, the letters being seven feet in height, and at the points at the corner of the turrets pyramids of lanterns. A row of lanterns was fixed round each turret. Another row of lanterns ran round three sides of the parapet of the whole building, at intervals of about a foot, a second row being placed round the top of the first storey. Between the pillars in front hung one large red lantern with a small one on either side, and one large red lantern in each window of the front and the east and west sides of the building. A row of red and white lanterns was also placed on the railings round the entire compound. In front of the flagstaff was erected a device showing a crown above and the letters V. R. below, on either side of which were the dates 1837 and 1887 in letters and figures about seven feet high, all being in red except the crown, which was of white and yellow lanterns. There were about 1,200 lanterns used altogether in the illumination, which was very effective, standing out well and being very conspicuous from all parts of the harbour. During the day the top of the building was dressed with flags. Fireworks were sent up from the Praya below the Station on both nights.\n\nTHE FIREWORKS.\n\nThere was a double display of fireworks—one on the Parade Ground of Chinese fireworks, and the other of European afloat from barges. The Chinese fireworks commenced soon after eight o'clock, and were let off from a scaffolding erected at the southern end of the ground, just below St. John's Cathedral, in the yard of which a large number of spectators had gathered. Below on the ground round the scaffolding the crowd was so dense that the whole space was one mass of heads. On the harbour the European fireworks were sent up from barges, one moored near the Harbour Office, and the other nearly opposite to the City Hall, and they consisted chiefly of rockets and Roman candles, both of which were excellent. A fire balloon was sent up from one of the men-of-war soon after nine o'clock and somewhat later descended on the Cricket Ground. Great crowds assembled on the Praya to get a good view of the fireworks and the men-of-war illuminations, all points of vantage being occupied thickly.\n\nThis part of the programme was unhappily attended with fatal disaster. About quarter past eleven o'clock the fireworks on board the cargo-boat Stornoway suddenly exploded, killing two men of the Royal Artillery, who were in charge. It is supposed that some sparks from a falling rocket must have ignited the fireworks; no want of caution seems to have prevailed, the sad catastrophe being a pure accident.\n\nPage 2\n\nWith such an imposing and general an illumination, where so many worked untiringly to promote the success achieved, it is impossible to mention all those to whom credit is due, but to Mr. Stewart-Lockhart, the indefatigable Secretary of the Committee, the Hon. J. M. Price, the Surveyor-General, the excellence of whose taste has been so often demonstrated, ably seconded by Mr. Bowdler, Mr. Sampson, and other members of his staff, Mr. J. S. Brewer, who had charge of a large portion of the street decorations, Mr. Danby, who was responsible for the stretch of Queen's Road from Icehouse Street to the Bank, and many others who gave willing co-operation a special mead of praise is due for their cheerful labours. The Gas Company are to be congratulated on the success of their work, which while severely testing their producing powers was not too great for their resources, thanks to the energy of the manager, Mr. Cross, supported by his trusty assistants Messrs. Bramsey and Terrey.\n\nTHE JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAINS.\n\nThe six Victoria Drinking Fountains erected at the expense of a philanthropic and liberal Parsee resident and presented by him to the city as a memorial of Her Majesty's Jubilee, were thrown open to the public on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock, and were promptly surrounded by little knots of Chinese, who expressed much delight at the novel gift. Numbers of persons quaffed the crystal from the iron caps, for sightseeing is thirsty work and procession following still more so. The fountains will certainly not lack patronage.\n\nTHE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF SIR ARTHUR KENNEDY.\n\nA large number of persons assembled in the Botanic Gardens on Thursday afternoon, the 10th November, to witness the unveiling of the Statue of Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, G.C.M.G., C.B., formerly Governor of Hongkong. Among those present were the Acting Chief Justice (Hon. J. Russell), the Colonial Secretary (Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D.), the Acting Attorney General (Hon. E. J. Ackroyd), the Colonial Treasurer (Hon. A. Lister), the Harbour Master (Hon. H. G. Thomsett), Hon. A. P. MacEwen, the Registrar-General (Mr. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart), Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, Colonel Anderson, 58th Regt., Lieut.-Colonel Cook, Assistant Commissary-General, Major Dempster, A.P.D., Messrs. T. Jackson, W. H. Forbes, H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., C. D. Bottomley, Chal. Alabaster (H. M. Consul at Canton), E. R. Belilios, S. E. Shellim, Arthur Kennedy Travers, N. G. Mitchell-Innes, R. Lyall, &c., and a number of ladies. In the absence of the Surveyor-General (Hon. J. M. Price), who was unable to attend the ceremony owing to indisposition, the necessary arrangements were carried out by Mr. E. Macleod, of the Survey Department. Shortly after three o'clock His Excellency arrived, accompanied by his Private Secretary, Mr. Slingsby Bethell, H. E. Major-General Cameron, and Lieut. Somerville, A.D.C.\n\nMr. T. JACKSON, one of the Committee for the erection of the statue, then stepped forward and read the following address:—\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nThe Executive Committee of the Kennedy Memorial Statue, thinking that it would be both convenient and gratifying to the public to take advantage of these Jubilee holidays, have invited your Excellency to be so good as to perform the ceremony of unveiling the Statue of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy.\n\nSir Arthur arrived in this colony early in 1872 as Governor, and remained as such until 1877, when he left to take up the Government of Queensland. After administering the Government of that colony from 1877 till May, 1881, he left for England with a view to retirement from the public service, in which he had served continuously from 1827, and the details of which are recorded in the Colonial Office List.\n\nWhilst on the voyage home, his health, which had been indifferent when he started from Australia, became worse, and he died at sea on the 3rd of June, 1883, about 100 miles from Aden.\n\nThe news of his death, received here in July, cast a gloom over the colony, for no Governor was more respected and beloved by any community, and he well merited the name which was given to him here by public acclaim, \"the good Sir Arthur.\" On the 14th July a very largely attended public meeting was held in the City Hall, when resolutions of sympathy and condolence were passed, and forwarded to his family in England, and at the same meeting it was resolved that a public statue should be erected to Governor Kennedy's memory. A Committee was appointed, and numerous and handsome subscriptions came in from all classes and creeds in the Colony. Messrs. Rouse, Sassoon, Forbes, Price, and Jackson were nominated an Executive Committee to arrange all details. Signor Raggi was entrusted by the Committee with modelling the Statue, which was cast by the eminent founders Messrs. Young & Co. of London.\n\nThe Government has been good enough to grant...\n\nPage 11\n\n537\n\n} \n\n32",
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        "content_text": "# 2\n\nTien-ch'iao (natural bridge), where a stream emerges from beneath limestone hills. Here there was once a flourishing silver mine, but the workings were buried by a landslip many years ago, as the natives said, since which the ore has only been worked by squatters, who wash it and send it away in small quantities to be smelted: the ore is said to yield both zinc and silver.\n\nSince scaling the plateau up to Hui-shui-t'ang the rocks have been the same, namely, limestone, generally argillaceous, and shale with sandstone only at the bottom of the deep valleys beneath the limestone. After Hui-shui-t'ang the argillaceous limestone is supplanted by a harder rock, apparently siliceous limestone. The gorges, bluffs, caves, and underground rivers that filled the landscape with romantic nooks and picturesque surprises now give way to broad valleys and hills, hard, round, and desolate. The villages are terribly poor. Some, as Yao-chang, were evidently once more considerable, for there are well-hewn blocks of limestone lying about that would not disgrace a London warehouse. But over a pile of such stones there are now nothing better than brushwood shanties, into which an English farmer would scruple to put a cow.\n\nOn the 18th November we reached Wei-ning Chon, which was burnt several times during the rebellion, a wretched place, commercially speaking, but interesting from its position on a lake, and from the fact of its being one of the highest towns in this part of the world (7,330 feet). I have put the lake into my sketch as it appears on the District Magistrate's Map, where it is described as follows:\n\n\"This was formerly a marsh, but has now become a water domain (lake), with a circuit of 100 miles (much indented). There are hills all round, much rock and sand, and a poor soil, cold and barren, not worth cultivation.\"\n\nI gathered from the people who came to gossip as I stood on the wall overlooking the lake, that the water encroached to its present size only in 1858. Before that date there had been no more than an inundation of a narrow basin round the river in summer, much the greater part of the present area of the lake being planted with mao pui (identified at Kew as *Panicum frumentaceum* Roxb., *P. Crus-Galli* var.). The same year an attempt was made to drain the lake to the north-west, and a hill was cut through with that object; but the attempt failed, for hail or other like phenomena always stopped the work, showing that it was the will of Heaven that their fields should remain flooded. It is probable that the cause of the lake's extension is the blocking up of an underground channel as at T'ung-tzŭ Hsien (see last part of this Report).\n\nOn the way down to the lake at Wei-ning we noticed for the first time a deposit which is a distinctive feature of the Yunnan plateau—a loamy earth of a warm red colour which lies high up in the hills in sheltered places—in gullies, for instance—as well as on the floor of the valleys where it has been cut through by water as by a knife, leaving vertical sides often more than 100 feet in height. Sometimes it bears clear evidence of deposit by water and sometimes appears almost granular, so as to remind one of descriptions of the loess of Shansi. It has evidently never been subjected to pressure. Wherever it has been washed away limestone appears beneath. This bright-coloured earth, pleasant to walk and ride upon and well stocked with game, is one reason amongst many which make the plain of the Yunnan lakes a pleasant land to the European traveller.\n\nA large sheet of water is always interesting to dwellers in mid-continent; but this lake supplied us with bodily as well as mental food, so as to impress itself on the memory of the whole party; the water-fowl were easy to get at and of excellent flavour; while the question where all this water came from baffled comprehension and excited curiosity. A few miles to the south-west, at Lien-san-p'o, the road reaches an elevation of 7,770 feet, the highest point touched during the present journey, beyond which the country drains towards the K'o-tu River. On the north side the line of water parting appears to be only a few miles distant from the lake, and the lake is said to drain off towards the north-west. There may be very high land somewhere on the east to reward the traveller of the future's time to leave the road.\n\nFrom Lien-san-p'o to the K'o-tu River, a distance of about 27 miles, there is a descent of 2,550 feet. This stream is about 30 yards across where we passed it, but with a bed at least 100 yards broad, strewn with blocks of shale, sandstone, and limestone, but of no rocks of igneous or volcanic origin.\n\nThe boundary between the Yunnan and Kuei-chou Provinces is formed by a brook that joins the K'o-tu River on its left bank, and then by a range of hills that meets the river west of the crossing. The bridge referred to in the name K'o-tu-ch'iao is that over the brook. On the way down to the river we passed two human heads in cages, blackened by months' exposure. They had belonged to men in General Pao's force, who had plundered an officer's baggage. These heads had done good service, for the whole army had the advantage of passing within two yards of them.\n\nThe descent to the river much resembled that to the Ch'ih-shui River, but was shorter and steeper.\n\nAs soon as the K'o-tu River is crossed the inevitable ascent begins, and in 8 miles, covering an ascent of 2,100 feet, the water parting between the K'o-tu and the T'ang-t'ang streams is reached at an altitude of 7,420 feet above the sea; and a further 7 miles, covering a descent of 1,590 feet, the latter part very steep, bring us to the dilapidated village of T'ang-tang, once a famous mining township. There are many disused copper-mines, but very little is being done at present. The same story was told us here as everywhere else, that nothing was wanted but capital.\n\nI should have mentioned that on the 12th November, at Ta-che-p'ing we met numbers of Lolos, or, as they are here more politely called, I-chia (barbarian families) (see Lolo Vocabulary, No. 1). They are very numerous in this part of the plateau; the men wear the Chinese dress, and can usually speak Chinese. There being no mining to inspect at T'ang-tang, I went for a walk with my Chinese clerk to inquire about the Lolos, and if possible discover a man who could write their character, when, while standing in the dry bed of the stream that runs past the village, I saw a man riding down a mountain-path towards us on a good pony, with big brass stirrups, and two mounted servants behind him. A boy who was following me thereupon said, \"You were asking about the I-chia; look, there is the T'u-ssŭ (aboriginal Chief) coming into town.\" I went back to the inn at once, and sent my writer to make friends with the T'u-ssŭ, and, if possible, bring him in to see me, which he succeeded in doing.\n\nThe T'u-ssŭ was a heavy-featured, stolid man, with whom it was difficult to make way. After time and native spirit had taken the edge off his dulness and suspicion, he gave us an account of the wrongs he and his tribe had suffered lately at the hands of the Mahommedan Chinese who were encroaching on his lands, ending with a request that I would go and see a youth of his tribe who had just been half-killed in an affray. We found a youth of 18, who had just been brought into the village for treatment, lying on a leather mattress spread on the floor in the middle of the room, alongside a wood fire. He had bad sword cuts on the shin, knee, and wrist. The wounds had been covered by an aboriginal practitioner with a plaster of simples, which it would not have been prudent to remove, so I gave him the safe advice not to drink and smoke too much, and left some carbolic oil to be applied when the dressing was removed. The T'u-ssŭ was now my friend, and invited me to go back with him to his place in the country, within a few miles of which there lived, he said, a perma, or sorcerer, who could write the Lolo character.\n\nWhen I got up next morning it was raining cats and dogs. However, the chance was too good to be lost, so at 7 A.M. I went round with one servant. The T'u-ssŭ was in bed, and we had the pleasure of seeing him make his toilet. I was now very much afraid that he would delay our departure, because of the rain which was falling in torrents; not at all; our stolid friend walked straight out and had the horses brought round, without even remarking that it was raining. We followed a bridle-path that crossed torrents and wound round the edge of precipices, sometimes riding through water up to the horses' knees, sometimes toiling on foot through mud over the ankle. We had gone on thus for about three hours, but our host still said his house was far ahead. About 11 o'clock my servant urged that we could go no further, as we should not have time to get back to the inn, a matter of some importance to him, for he would not touch food in the houses of the Lolos, for fear of being poisoned. Just as I had decided that we must turn back we came in sight of a cottage, which our host indicated as the abode of his sorcerer, where I persuaded him to introduce us. The perma was unfortunately thirty miles away, officiating at a funeral, but his wife and brother were in the house, and five or six other Lolos soon arrived from cottages higher up the hill. The distance of the Chief's house still remaining an uncertain quantity I excused myself from going further, and set to work to learn what I could from the Lolos present.\n\nAs it was cold and we were wet through, wood was thrown on the fire, round which we sat eating walnuts—the only food to be got. The Chief lay down and smoked opium. About the sounds given in the Vocabulary (Lolo No. 2) of these people's language I am fairly confident, because the six or seven Lolos present were all agreed about them. The perma's brother, our host, could not write; but he professed to be able to pick out a character here and there in his brother's MSS. I copied the following characters from his indication, but he was not very clear about them, and they must be accepted with some doubt:\n\n# 3",
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        "content_text": "## OCR Proofread Text\n\nThe brother told me that the MSS. contained nothing but religious forms, charms, and such like--the only purpose, so far as I have heard, for which the Lolos employ their writing. I now begged one of the MSS. The wife and brother of the absent perma both saw insuperable obstacles, but the T'u-ssu overruled their objections and insisted that I should have one. This MS. is now in the British Museum.\n\nThese Lolos had bigger and more irregular features than average Chinese. The colour of the skin seemed much the same, but the eyes were deeper sunk. They are divided into three tribes, known in Chinese as \"Hei,\" \"Pai,\" and \"Kan\" (Black, White, and Dry) Lolo, or I-jên, a meaningless distinction, but corresponding to a real tribal division apparently. They believe in a future state of retribution, burn the dead, worship their ancestors with the sacrifice of an ox, and have no idols. Four pieces of brown paper were said to represent the potentialities of the other world, and three sticks of bamboo their ancestors.\n\nThe Tang-tang River is an insignificant stream, but has a broad bed covered with débris from the hills, and is, like the K'o-tu River, no doubt a formidable stream in the rains. At Shih-ya-k'ou we passed the first cart I had seen since leaving Shanghae. This cart we took to be a promise of better things, for it was of such a clumsy construction, with solid wooden wheels, which were worn unevenly into oblate form, that no power of bullock could have dragged it over the roads we had passed. And, sure enough, a turn from the village brought us on to a plain, so that we had actually before us a level horizon--the first that I had set eyes on since leaving I-ch'ang. For the next 10 miles, to the first town in the Yunnan Province--Hsüan-wei Chou--our road ran over an expanse of dry red loam, with scarcely a house or tree in sight.\n\nHsüan-wei Chou is a town about which a pioneer of commerce cannot find much to say. My Chinese clerk went out as usual, armed with samples, to discover what the inhabitants paid for foreign imports, but returned to say that the only trade was in hams, and that there was no one in the place worth $200.\n\nThis plain has been almost cleared of wood, probably at the time of the rebellion, when 200,000 men are said to have been encamped here. But the lack of wood in the neighbourhood of towns is the rule in Yünnan. After the ascent from T'ang-t'ang on to the plain coal is met no more, and during the next three months which we are to spend in the Yunnan Province coal will only be once met with (at Lin-yan Fu). Nearly all the towns burn wood, which the Lolos and other inferior races bring in for sale, often having to go 5 miles from the town to find it. On the other hand, in Kuei-chou and Ssu-ch'uan, coal is found everywhere.\n\nEveryone one meets is armed here. Between Hsüan-wei Chou and Chau-i Chou we met a man carrying a weapon I had never seen before, but which I found afterwards to be very common all over the Yunnan Province. It is a rod of iron about 3 feet long, with a sword handle at one end, and at the other a bar at right angles to the rod about 5 inches long, pointed and sharpened on the inner edge. Asked what it was for and how used, the man replied for men or wild beasts it would give a stab by striking or a cut by pulling. This weapon is called `kou-lien` (hook).\n\nThere is plenty of food for the gun in this part, and probably for the rifle. The lakes are covered with water-fowl, and the country infested by an enormous bird with black head, black tips to feathers, and slate-coloured body called `ching-chuang` or `huo` by the Chinese, probably a kind of crane. I noticed a Proclamation by the Magistrate of Ma-lung Chou offering a reward of 2 dollars each for wild dogs, whatever that may mean, and other beasts who attack children and dig up dead bodies.\n\nAt Ma-lung our road unites with the main western road which runs across China from Hankow to Burmah. This part of it has been described by several travellers, and need not detain us.\n\nAt Yang-lin I noticed for the first time a curious custom that appears widely spread over Western China. Wherever there is an overhanging ledge of rock the coolies brought bits of wood and twigs of trees to prop it up. Under some of these ledges there are hundreds of such diminutive supports; the only explanation I could get was that if they helped the rock it would help them in return, and save them from aching feet and back.\n\nOn the 3rd December we reached Yünnan Fu, the capital of the province, a bright and clean city for China, evidently containing a well-to-do population. The straight broad streets, new p'ai-fangs blazing in gorgeous colours, and gaily dressed women, who affect light blue gowns with bright red linings to the sleeves, and a red band round the ankle, set off by the magnificent clear bright weather, were very striking after the narrow streets and sombre blue clothing of Ssu-ch'uan.\n\nAlthough the city has an altitude of 6,420 feet fever is not unknown, and several of our party suffered badly. The north of Yunnan has a climate probably as suited to Europeans as any in this part of the world. It should be noted that Yunnan Fu is situated on a lake which is at the bottom of a gentle but somewhat extensive depression. I was told that formerly there was no outlet for the water of this basin, and that only in the thirteenth century was the canal cut which now carries the water from the south-west side of the lake into a stream that flows north to the Yang-tzu, and is shown on Mr. Baber's chart west of Anning-chou.\n\nIt is impossible to convey a clear idea of the commercial capabilities of this city without giving a general sketch of the configuration of the great plateau on which it stands, and thus anticipating the latter portions of this Report. This plateau, if so it may be called, for it is everywhere broken by hills and cut through by rivers, and in some parts even traversed by mountain ranges, is on the eastern slope from the Himalayas to the China Sea, and is nearly conterminous with the Chinese Provinces of Yunnan and Kuei-chou. To show the nature of the ground, I cannot do better than make a circuit of the routes that lead to Yunnan Fu. Starting with the road we have followed, reference to Part I of this Report will show that navigation from the Yang-tzu ended at Yung-ning Hsien, 1,060 feet above the sea, and that in two stages the road reached an elevation of 4,340 feet, and touched 7,770 feet before Yünnan Fu was reached. Next to the west comes the route by Chao-t'ong Fu; here navigation from the Yang-tzu ceases before Lao-wa-t'an (Baber, 1,140) is reached; and the route passes Chao-t'ong Fu (Baber, 6,580) and Tung-ch'uan Fu (Baber, 7,190). West of this comes the neck of high land that connects the plateau with the Thibetan uplands traversed by the Hui-li Chou (Baber, 6,000) route, and by the Wei-hsi route. (See Gill's \"River of Golden Sand,\" vol. ii, p. 255.)\n\nFrom Bhamo (430), the terminus of the navigation of the Irrawaddy, the great Burmese trade route runs through Têng-vueh Chou (5,540), Yung-ch'ang Fu (5,880), and Ta-li Fu (6,550). The next route is that by the valley of the Shui-li, past Lung-ling Chou, by which there is said to have been once a considerable traffic, killed since the rebellion. Next comes the caravan route by way of the valley of the Mekong, to Ssu-mao (4,480), and on to Yunnan Fu by an extraordinarily difficult road (see Sketch 3). The next route is that by the Red River, through Lao-kai and Mêng-tzu Hsien. Mêng-tzu is on the southern edge of the plateau, with an elevation of 4,530 feet, from which to Lao-kai there must be a descent of something like 3,500 feet. Next comes the Canton West River, by Po-sé (530)--two days above which the navigation comes to an end--to Kuang-nan Fu (4,310). To the east again is the Kwang-si land route, which passes through Ch'ing-yuan Fu (490), and Tu-shan Chou (3,460), to Kuei-yang Fu, the capital of the Kuei-chou Province. Next comes the great western road from Hankow, traversed by Margary, which follows the Tung-ting Lake and the Yuan River to Chên-yuan Fu (altitude not known), where navigation ceases. From Chên-yuan Fu the traffic is by caravan to Kuei-yang Fu (3,530). Lastly, there is the route between Ssu-ch'uan and Kuei-yang Fu, by a tributary of the Yang-tzu to Chi-chiang Hsien (880), where navigation ceases, through Tung-tzu Hsien (3,020) to Kuei-yang Fu.\n\nIt appears, then, that Yunnan and Western Kuei-chou are very nearly conterminous.\n\n[496]\n405",
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        "content_text": "## \nwith an elevated broken plateau having an average height of about 5,000 feet, and no communication by water with the plains that encompass it on the north, south, and east, and that this plateau breaks away precipitately to the valleys of the Yang-tzu on the north, and the Irrawaddy, Mekong, and Red River on the west and south, and somewhat more easily to the valley of the Canton West River and to the plains of Kwang-si and Hunan on the south and east. It should farther be noted that this elevated district, which projects for 10° of longitude between Indo-China and the Yang-tzu, has no level surface whatever except an occasional lake basin, and that on the west and south-west its rivers and streams have eaten out deep broad ravines that are often impassable and always difficult and dangerous, both from their steepness and from the poisoned air which they harbour. (See next Part-Yuan-chiang Chou-and Baber's account of the Salween, R. G. S. Supplementary Papers, p. 177.) \n\nTo return to Yünnan Fu, it will now appear clearly that this city is at the end of each of these routes, and occupies a central position admirable as a seat of Government, supplied as it is with abundant food from the drained part of the ancient lake. If there were water communication, or even fair roads across the plateau, there would doubtless be a great entrepôt at Yunnan Fu, but an inspection of the altitudes observed on this journey and by Mr. Baber must make an exchange of products across this district a priori very unlikely. Actually, I found that the different sides of this plateau are supplied from the nearest lowland. Thus, to take two examples, cotton and tobacco, both absolute necessities to Chinese existence, which the plateau does not produce: cotton is supplied to North Yünnan from Ssü-ch'uan, to West Yünnan as far east as Yünnan Fu from Burmah, to South-west Yünnan as far east as Mêng-tzu Hsien from the Shan States and Siam, to South-east Yünnan from Canton, and to Kuei-chou from Hankow by the Yuan River. Tobacco is supplied to the north of the province from Ssu-ch'uan and to the south from Canton. Salt, another necessary, of which the plateau does not afford a sufficient supply, enters the province from Ssu-ch'uan, Burmah, Tonquin (before the new Treaty), and the Kwang-si Province. \n\nBut there are adventitious circumstances which make Yünnan Fu more important as a trade centre than it deserves, or is likely to remain. The whole of the tea consumed in the province and a large share of the better quality of tea consumed in Ssu-ch'uan, together with a small quantity sent to Thibet, come from the Shan States outside Ssă-mao, and of this trade Yünnan Fu is the depôt. Excepting small quantities consumed locally and a few caravans that go direct to Western Yunnan and Thibet by the Ching-tung Valley, the whole out-turn of this tea-Pu-erh tea as it is called-goes to Yünnan Fu; this tea may be valued at about 50,000l. per annum. A great part goes to Western Yunnan, for the supply of which we may expect our Assam planters to provide in the future. \n\nAgain, the exhaustion caused by 20 years of indiscriminate slaughter and pillage, involving the destruction of the old industries of the province-mining, silk rearing, and manufacture, &c.—with which increased demand for opium in Ssú-ch'uan and the eastern provinces happened to coincide, led to the adoption of poppy cultivation as the great industry of the plateau. Yunnan and Kuei-chou now pay for the whole of their foreign imports in opium, the merchants of Nanning Fu and Hongkong having often to wait for their money until the Canton and Kwang-si Provinces have paid for the Yunnan and Kuei-chou opium crop. Yunnan Fu is a depôt of the opium trade of Eastern Yünnan and of the foreign and Canton goods that are received in exchange. \n\nExports from Yünnan Fu are opium, Pu-erh tea, drugs, and copper, and the imports are cotton, tobacco, and foreign goods. \n\nThe first thing to notice about foreign imports is that the description of piece-goods, much the most important item, differs greatly from that in vogue on the Yang-tzu, so that the reason for this is that, there being water communication to Chungking, a heavier description of goods is sent than to Yunnan, where pack animals and porters are the only means of carriage, so that every additional pound of weight per piece forms a serious addition to cost of transit. Prices for my samples would therefore have been delusive, but the conclusion seemed to be that prices were rather higher, and that for goods of lighter texture and inferior quality than at Ch'ungking. Foreign goods, almost without exception, come from Hong Kong by way of Pakhoi or Ch'in-chou to Nanning Fu, thence by boat to Po-sê T'ing and Po-ngai, and thence by caravan through Kwang-nan Fu. Suggestions as to improvements were, that aniline dyes should regain their former excellence; that long ells should be stouter, somewhat absurd considering that the same merchant had explained why they were so flimsy; and that piece-goods should be dyed a light blue, which was all the fashion, instead of the habitual indigo. \n\n## ROUTE SKETCH \nTO ILLUSTRATE REPORT BY \nF. S.A. 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        "content_text": "## Modifying the Terms of the Convention previously signed at Sentrin on the 26th of April 1886 for regulating the conditions of trade between Tonking and the adjacent Chinese Provinces.\n\nI am to request that in laying this despatch before Secretary Sir Henry Holland, you will move to furnish Lord Salisbury with any observations you may have to offer thereon.\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\nP. Wennin\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nPrinted for the use of the Foreign Office. October 1887.\n\nC. O. 21 539 RECE? 26 OCT 87\n\n433\n\n## No. 1. Sir J. Walsham to the Marquis of Salisbury.-(Received September 6.)\n\n**(No. 52. Very Confidential.)**\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTHE Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce, which terminated the state of hostilities between France and China, was signed at Tien-tsin on the 5th June, 1885, and the ratifications were exchanged at Peking on the 28th November following. A Decree of the President ordering the full and entire execution of the Treaty was issued on the 25th January, 1886.\n\nThis Decree, which embodied the text of the Treaty, was forwarded to your Lordship by Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris in his Excellency's despatch of the 27th January, 1886, a copy of which will be found at page 49 (No. 66) of the Printed Correspondence laid before Parliament in that year and marked \"China No. 1.\"\n\nBy the IIIrd Article of the Treaty it was agreed that Special Commissioners should be appointed to mark out the boundary between Tonquin and China, and by the VIth Article it was further agreed that the conditions under which overland commerce between Tonquin and the three neighbouring Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Kwang-si, and Kwang-tung should be carried on, were to be determined by other Commissioners named for the purpose by the High Contracting Parties.\n\nOwing to a variety of circumstances the Boundary Commissions had not completed their task, or even nearly so, when the Convention for regulating the conditions of the overland trade was signed at Tien-tsin on the 25th April, 1886, by the French and Chinese Plenipotentiaries.\n\nA copy of this Convention, accompanied by an \"Exposé des Motifs\" and a Bill authorizing its ratification, which had passed the French Chamber of Deputies, was transmitted to the Earl of Rosebery in Lord Lyons' despatch No. 185, Confidential, of the 9th July, 1886, and by the Secretary of State to me in his Lordship's No. 211 of the 23rd July.\n\nThe Convention, however, has hitherto remained unratified as far as France is concerned, and on the arrival here about a year ago of M. Constans as Envoy Extraordinary of the French Republic it became generally known that the French Government were anxious to obtain more favourable conditions than those contained in the Act negotiated by his predecessor, M. Cogordan.\n\nAt any rate, M. Constans has been busily engaged since he came to Peking in discussing with the Chinese Government the question of revising the Convention of the 25th April, and it is only quite recently that he has been able to conclude his negotiations. M. Constans is now about to return to France.\n\nThese negotiations have been complicated by difficulties connected with the Boundary Commissions. The Commission for delimitating the frontier between Yünnan and Tonquin had finished its labours, which commenced from the point where the Red River crosses the frontier above Lao-kai, and terminated at the boundary-line between the Provinces of Yunnan and Kwang-si. No attempt has yet been made to fix the frontier beyond the Red River in the direction of Burmah.\n\nThe frontier between Tonquin and the Province of Kwang-si had also been more or less satisfactorily determined, but when the Commissioners for settling the boundary of the Kwang-tung Province were on their way to the place of meeting on the coast beyond Mongkai, some of the French members coming from Hanoi were attacked, probably by ... \n\n1629]",
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        "content_text": "## had time to develop their resources and to organize a system of land transport the concessions that have been granted to the French need be regarded for the moment as what the French have had principally in view, necessarily handicapping our commerce.\n\nSince it was determined to carry on and consolidate M. Ferry's work of establishing an Indo-Chinese possession for France, is the reduction of the credits which the French Chambers are annually asked to vote for the Protectorate.\n\nI remember that when M. de Freycinet was at the head of the French Government after M. Ferry's defeat on the Indo-Chinese policy, he used as an argument in favour of a continuance of that policy on a limited scale, his conviction that very shortly the Protectorate of Tonquin and Annam would be found to be self-supporting. The Tonquin Credits of, I think, 30,000,000 fr., were at the time pending before the Chambers, and M. de Freycinet's argument had a great deal to say to their being voted. Still, these Credits have, unless I am mistaken, steadily remained at the same figure, and looking to the opposition they encounter on each occasion of the Estimates being submitted to the Chambers, it is not surprising that efforts should be made to increase by every available means the local sources of revenue in Tonquin and Annam.\n\nThis will account for M. Constans' anxiety to obtain the withdrawal of the prohibition on the importation of Chinese opium into Tonquin by way of the frontier.\n\nIn addition to the export duty to be collected by China, such opium will, of course, be taxed on its arrival in Tonquin.\n\nHad M. Constans succeeded in persuading the Chinese Government to allow salt to pass from Tonquin into China, the French would have charged an export duty; and he has succeeded in getting their consent to Chinese products, transiting Tonquin to an Annamite port, for export to a country other than China, being subjected to the Franco-Annamite Tariff rates.\n\nAs regards the further reduction in the frontier import and export duties by the **frd Article** of the Additional Convention, it is in reality so slight that possibly it will be held by Her Majesty's Government as not more calculated for the moment to injure British trade entering China by the Treaty ports under the Maritime Tariff, than the previous reduction of one-fifth and one-third obtained under the Convention of the 25th April, 1886.\n\nThis point was thoroughly investigated by Her Majesty's Government, in consultation with the Board of Trade and the Chambers of Commerce in England on the occasion of the signature of the Treaty of Peace of the 9th June, 1885, and the Commercial Convention of the 25th April of the following year, and taking the despatches marked in the margin as a record of the opinion formed at the time, it would seem to have been admitted that, looking to the defective means of internal communication in the French Protectorates, the difference of duty need not be looked upon as conferring any material preference or advantage on France over the other nations interested in the Chinese Treaty ports, provided that corresponding advantages are secured to Great Britain with respect to the frontier trade of Burmah and the navigation of the southern rivers of China.\n\nWhile the negotiations between the Chinese Government and M. Constans were going on, I took an opportunity of letting the Ministers of the Tsung-li Yamên understand that, although it was neither my duty nor my intention to throw any obstacles in the way of their coming to a satisfactory arrangement with my French colleague, which, on the contrary, I earnestly desired, I thought it only right to caution them against making any concessions to France which would give her an unfair advantage over other friendly Powers, and so cause embarrassment to China. In such an eventuality, I should unhesitatingly take steps for the protection of British interests and their Treaty privileges.\n\nThe answer to my message was to the effect that the most-favoured-nation clause in existing Treaties with China referred solely to intercourse between foreign nations and China through the Treaty ports, and could not, therefore, be made available for securing privileges granted to any Power in connection with overland intercourse.\n\nI did not push the matter further, because I knew China to be in great straits on account of the occupation of the French of the Paklung territory, and also because I had no reason whatever to doubt that, when the moment arrived for a definite arrangement of the trade between Burmah and Yunnan, China would be perfectly prepared to give us a not less favourable Tariff than she had conceded to France.\n\nA great deal has been said about the advantages to be derived from opening a port on the West Canton River. I am inclined to think that those who are in favour of such a plan may not impossibly have exaggerated the commercial benefits to be derived from it, which would, moreover, be equally shared by the French and other nations having Treaties with China.\n\n## SKETCH OF THE PAKLUNG DISTRICT\n\n| Location | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| A | From X to Pei Shih, the frontier line is under discussion. |\n| B | From Pei Shih (river frontier to sea and then short sea frontier, Blue and Red line) to Chu Shan (Chu Shan is Chinese Territory) the blue and red line is accepted by both sides as the Frontier Line. |\n| C | From Chu Shan the line dotted red to Tombeau and from Tombeau to A is the line traced by the French as being their frontier line, but they propose to run it to B only, provided the Chinese agreed to their line of frontier from Chu Shan to Tombeau (Chinese did not agree). |\n| D | Chinese run their line of frontier from Chu Shan to Cape Paklung (blue line); and of course embracing Cape Paklung. |\n| E | Though French maintain their right to frontier to point A, they limit disputed (contested) territory to the horse shoe shaped tract of country from Chu Shan to Cape Paklung, passing by Tombeau and point B. |\n\nPage 4\n\nKamoon & Huth, Lith. 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        "content_text": "# Frontier Treaty between France and China\n\n## Sent home in Mr. Alabaster's No. 13 of August 17, 1887.--(Received at the Foreign Office, September 19.)\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nWHEREAS on the 9th day of June, 1885, His Majesty the Emperor of China and the President of the French Republic dispatched Commissioners personally to fix the boundary of China and Tonquin, and these Commissioners having returned on the completion of their labours, and His Majesty the Emperor of China having deputed Ching, Prince of the Second Order, President of the Tsung-li Yamên, and Sun, Minister of the Tsung-li Yamên, Senior Vice-President of the Board of Works; and the President of the French Republic, M. Constans, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, several times Minister for the Interior, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Peking, to be Plenipotentiaries to effect a permanent and satisfactory settlement of the boundary question, the Arrangement arrived at by these Plenipotentiaries is as follows:-\n\n## I.\n\nThe Reports of the Delimitation Commissioners of the two countries, and the Maps of the frontier constructed by them, under their respective hands and seals, having been duly compared, are hereby approved.\n\n## II.\n\nThose points regarding which the Delimitation Commissioners are not in accord and those points contained in the final clauses of Article III of the Treaty of the 9th June, 1885, which require alteration, have been settled in the three following Articles:\n\n1. It is agreed, in reference to the boundary of the Province of Kwang-tung, as the Commissioners decided, that those places to the east of Mangkai and in a north-east direction, which have been under discussion, shall fall under the jurisdiction of China; that those islands which lie to the east of the red line laid down by the Delimitation Commissioners (such red line in a southerly direction directly crossing the hilltop to the south of Ch'a-Kuo-hsieb,* and constituting the boundary-line) shall fall to China, and that the Island of Chiu-t'ou-shan, called in Annamese Gotto, and the other small islands, shall fall to Annam.\n\nShould Chinese criminals escape to the Gotto and other islands, the French authorities shall, in accordance with the XVIIth Article of the Treaty of the 25th April, 1886, search for, arrest, and deliver them up.\n\n2. With reference to Chart No. 2, dealing with the frontier of Yunnan and Annam, from Kou-t'on-chai on the left bank of the Hsiao-tu-chou River, and marked on the Map with the character P, from west to east for a distance of over 50 li, and Chü-cha-hsieh, also called Chu-chiang-hsieh, Chu-mei-hsieh, and Chiang-fei-hsieh, also called Cha-fei-hsieh, shall belong to China. Viu-p'êng-hsieh, to the south, shall belong to Annam. From the character 2 to the character A, from west to east, the frontier of China and Annam crosses two rivers, which unite and enter the Ta-tu-chou River, also called the Hei Ho, from south-east for a distance of about 15 li to Nan-tan, to the north of the character T. Nan-têng-ho, Man-mei, Mêng-tung-shang-ts'un, Mêng-tung-shan, Mêng-tung-chung-ts'un, and Mêng-tung-hsia-ts'un, which lie to the south of the frontier-line as laid down in the Chart from the character T north-east to Mêng-tung-hsia-ts'un, All to the south of these fall to China. marked with the character, fall to Annam.\n\nFrom Mêng-tung-hsia-ts'un, marked, across the Ching-shui-ho at its junction with the Ta-ho, marked E, the centre of the river shall form the boundary. From ... to the centre of the Ta-ho shall form the boundary. Chuan-t'ou, which lies to the west of the river, falls to China, while Pien-ma-chai, to the east of the river, falls to Annam. From ... northwards to ..., passing Lao-yi-k'an to Pai-shih-ai, shall be equally divided between China and Annam. To the east of Pai-shih-ai and Lao-yi-k'an will fall to Annam; to the west, to China, that is, from the character ... northwards by way of Pien-pa-chia to the centre of Pei-pao and the east bank of the small river which enters the Ta-ho straight to Kao-ma-pai, marked on the Map with the character E, and to the end of the Delimitation Commissioners' Chart No. 2.\n\n3. On Chart No. 5 of Yunnan and Annam the boundary, starting from Lung-po-chai, crosses the Lung-po River to the point where the Ching-shui River enters the Lung-po River, and marked on the Map with the character P, and from north-east to south-east as far as the junction of the Mien-shui-wan with the Shai-chiang River, and marked on the Map with the character Z. By this boundary the Ching-shui and Mien-shui-wan Rivers fall to China. From the character Z the boundary runs straight west to the Têng-tiao River to the south of Ta-shu-chiao. To the south of the boundary-line on the Chart falls to Annam; to the north to China. From the character ... to the junction of the Chin-tzu River with the Têng-tiao River, the centre of the river constitutes the boundary. From T it crosses the Chin-tzü River for a distance of over 30 li, and westward to the character ... on the Map. This boundary stretches eastward of Mêng-pang-tu to the small river which flows into the Hei-chiang to the character ... on the Map. The centre of the river between the character ... and ... forms the boundary. Westward of E, the centre of the Hei-chiang constitutes the boundary.\n\nThis is in accordance with the Maps constructed by the Delimitation Commissioners as well as by the boundary-line marked as above.\n\nThe Chinese local authorities and officers deputed by the Resident of the French Republic in Annam shall jointly erect boundary stones.\n\nThe boundary Maps now signed are made out in duplicate, each consisting of three sheets, and have been duly drawn up, signed, and sealed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two countries. The red line denotes the new boundary. The Maps of the Yunnan boundary are, for convenience of reference, marked with the French letters (a), (b), (c), &c., and the Chinese character P, &c.\n\n## Correspondence between the Minister for France and the Tsung-li Yamên explaining certain points on the New Treaty.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nThe Prince and Ministers to the Minister for France,\n\nOn the 25th April, 1886, the Prince and Ministers discussed with the Minister for France nineteen Regulations for the conduct of the frontier trade between China and Annam, and, on the 9th June, 1885, a new Treaty of ten Articles between China and France was concluded. Both parties have, after consultation, agreed that the Treaty and Regulations are in some parts wanting in explicitness and that slight modifications are required in some parts, and they have accordingly concluded a Special Commercial Treaty of ten Articles and a Special Treaty of four Articles dealing with frontier affairs. These have been translated, signed, and sealed; but there are three points that require to be clearly and distinctly stated on both sides:---\n\n1. By the previous Treaty, China might appoint Consuls at the chief towns in Tonquin. This matter having been under discussion by both parties, China consents that the appointment of such Consuls shall be temporarily delayed until both countries are agreed that the state of the country permits of such appointment.\n\n2. When China appoints Consuls to Hanoi and Haifong, France shall be at liberty to appoint Consuls to the capitals of the two Provinces of Yünnan and Kwang-si.\n\n3. Lung-chow, Mông-tzu, and Man-hao, to which China agrees that France may appoint two Consuls and a Consular officer respectively, are only overland trading centres, and settlements such as those at Shanghae and other open ports will not be allowed.\n\nThese three points, although not inserted in the Special Supplementary Treaty, will be respected equally with the contents of the Treaty itself.\n\nThe Prince and Ministers have the honour to request that the French Minister will be pleased to reply to this special despatch so that the reply may be placed on record.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nThe Minister for France to the Prince and Ministers.\n\nThe Minister for France has the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 23rd June, 1887, of a despatch from the Prince and Ministers stating that there are three points, not contained in the Supplementary Treaty, which it is now proposed to modify.\n\n[Quotes the Yamên's despatch.]\n\nThe despatch under acknowledgment affords satisfactory proof that, at the time that both parties were discussing and concluding terms, there was perfect agreement between the Minister for France and the Prince and Ministers regarding the three points mentioned above.\n\nPage 10\n438",
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        "content_text": "## 421 \n\n(2) \n\nI estimate that the average cost of the reclamations will in no case exceed two dollars a square foot when all expenses are paid, while not a square foot of the new land will sell for less than four dollars a square foot, and by far the larger proportion will realize from twelve to fifteen dollars a square foot. I am sanguine, therefore, that if the Government were to lease to the Marine Lot-owners the areas which they would be able to reclaim under the present project, they, or the majority of them, would be willing to come forward, and by carrying out the work at their sole expense, achieve free of cost to the public, the greatest sanitary improvement of which the Colony has ever stood in need.\n\nTo secure the co-operation of the Marine Lot-owners, however, in a great health reform like this, it would be necessary that the Government should, consistently with its practice in all previous cases of sea reclamation by private enterprise, not surcharge the new land to be made with any premium. To levy a premium on ground made artificially by them at so heavy a personal cost, would be to deprive the Marine Lot-owners of the fruit of their labours, and might throw cold water on a project from which so much good is to be anticipated to the whole community.\n\nHis Excellency the Acting Governor will, moreover, recognize that in surrendering to Government a large proportion of their reclamations, for the purposes of roads and streets for the general use of the public, the Lot-owners would be paying more than the equivalent of a fair premium. But the Government would not remain pecuniarily unbenefited from the labours of the Marine Lot-owners, for the yearly Crown Rent of an area so large as to extend from the Gas Works to the Cricket Ground, would amount to a very large sum, and in addition, the rates and taxes to be derived from the buildings that would soon cover this great expense of new land would create a still larger annual revenue. Viewed financially, therefore, the reclamations would be no less beneficial to the Public Treasury than they would be from a sanitary standpoint to the community generally, and it is this combination of advantages to the Government, to the Public, and to the Marine Lot-owners, which convinces me that the project must compel His Excellency's hearty approval.\n\nI will only add that, in the event of these proposals meeting with a favourable reception from the Acting Governor, I would be happy to give any further explanations that may be required on the details of the project, or to assist in furthering it by placing myself in communication with the Marine Lot-owners interested, and obtaining their co-operation on the terms which I have here set forth.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\n(2.)\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n**(Surveyor General's Report)**\n\nC. P. CHATER.\n\n1. I have carefully considered Mr. CHATER'S scheme, and have prepared a plan of it to accompany this report, shewing tinted red those reclamations which would devolve on the Marine Lot-owners and tinted yellow those which would devolve on the Government. From the first I have thought Mr. CHATER'S project deserving of favourable consideration, for it holds out, as he observes, advantages to the Government, to the Marine Lot-owners, and to the Colony generally.\n\n(8)\n\n2. Under this scheme I see the Government stands to realize a clear profit of over one and a half million dollars from premiums to be derived by the sale of the areas tinted yellow to be reclaimed in front of:\n\n| Item | Location |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | The Cricket Ground. |\n| (ii) | The City Hall. |\n| (iii) | The Central Market. |\n| (iv) | The area opposite Lot 63. |\n| (v) | The Harbour Master's Office. |\n\nAll these are the property of the Crown, and this is the reason why the reclamation of the sea along their fronts would devolve on the Government, and why the land thus artificially made would become the exclusive property of the Crown.\n\n3. Besides the one and a half million dollars from premiums, the public Rent-Roll will further benefit to the extent of $25,000 a year from the Crown Rents to be collected on the 32 acres of new building-sites.\n\n4. The reclaimed land will be so valuable that it will not remain long vacant. Covered with buildings it will bring in to Government an additional $60,000 in Municipal Rates making the total annual revenue to Government from the reclamation $85,000.\n\n5. Briefly summed up, the financial advantages to Government from the reclamations will be: land to the value of $1,575,000, and a revenue of $85,000 a year in Crown Rents and Rates derivable from private reclamations. There will be some additional advantages in the formation of further sites outside the town. These are dealt with in paragraph 22.\n\n6. The population generally will benefit by the very large areas of new building-land which it is proposed to throw open for the erection of houses in the very centres where overcrowding prevails. This to my mind is even a more important recommendation than the financial advantages set forth in the preceding paragraph, for nothing can take precedence of the claims of the Public Health.\n\n7. The relief to the present congestion would be very great. The proposed reclamations comprise 59 acres. Of this area I would recommend that 27 acres be reserved for new roads and streets leaving 32 acres of building land. 32 acres will accommodate 1,320 tenements with house-room for 39,000 people or will provide roughly speaking for 5 years' influx of people.\n\n8. A new sea-wall along deep water will furthermore remedy the present offensive condition of the foreshore. The present Praya foreshore is in a worse condition than the Thames before the embankment between Westminster and the City was built.\n\n9. With increased population there will of course be increased traffic. The present Praya roadway is already too narrow; the pedestrian is scarcely able to proceed along this thoroughfare without being impeded and jostled by the crowd at every step, but this scheme will enable the width of the leading thoroughfares to be increased and adapted to future demands.\n\n10. To a great shipping emporium like Hongkong a continuous granite quay running continuously for two miles in 20 feet of water will prove the greatest of boons, because it will facilitate the landing and embarking of cargo at all times of tide and at all points along the line. At present the transfer of cargo to and from the lighters is much hindered during the hours of low tide by the shallowness of the water.\n\n11. The Marine frontagers would benefit by the mere fact that they would acquire extensions to their present lots at something between $2 and $3 a square foot, i.e., the cost of their reclamation, and because they would be able to command for these same extensions prices varying from $4 to $10 a square foot.\n\n12. As far as any one can hazard an opinion without a previous detailed estimate of the cost of the foundations (which would depend on the nature of the sea-bed) I should say this reclamation would be feasible at an outlay of about $2 to $3 per square foot of land left available for building after deducting the areas necessary for new streets.",
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        "content_text": "422 \n\n(4) \n\n13. The scheme does not present any serious engineering difficulty. The design of the proposed new breast-wall may be the same as that adopted in 1877 when the Praya was re-built. Pierre-perdue foundations may be used provided the blocks on the outer slope average at least a yard cube. This form of foundation would be inadmissible if the work were exposed to the impact of ocean waves, but the harbour of Victoria is land-locked, and in the absence of any offing or reach of sea, there is no undue exposure to high waves capable of clawing down the rubble mound. An embankment-wall on pierre-perdue foundation that in England might be classed as a better sort of river-wall, may, as far as I am able to judge at the moment, be ventured on, but this point will require careful investigation. It is an important point, for the adoption of the expensive form of ordinary foundations for sea-walls exposed to the ocean, i.e., piles with concrete in mass, or concrete in blocks lowered into place would so seriously add to the cost as to discourage the Marine Lot-owners from embarking in the scheme.\n\n14. In 1865 this Government built a short section of 900 feet of Praya wall in the vicinity of Wing Lok Street, and founded the masonry in 20 feet of water on a pierre-perdue mound. This wall has stood over 20 years, without so far indicating any sign of weakness. Settlements there have been as was to be expected. This wall withstood the great typhoon of 1874, and was one of the few sections that showed no injury to the foundations, and it may be accepted therefore as practically demonstrated that the storm-waves in the harbour of Victoria have not the force to undermine the pierre-perdue substructure if built to an adequate slope with large blocks. An additional circumstance favourable to pierre-perdue foundations is the fact that the sea-bed is silting up by reason of the great quantities of detritus washed down every year (during the tropical storms of summer) from the mountain range behind the town, and that there are no tidal currents in the harbour likely to be induced by the change of coast line or likely to scour out the sea-bed.\n\n15. The Lot-owners expressed wish to be allowed to carry out the reclamation themselves through their own Engineers cannot be entertained. The Government must insist on the work being executed by its own Engineers for the reason that the subsequent maintenance of the structure will remain as a permanent charge on the Government and not on the Marine Lot-owners. It is the Government therefore that is most interested in securing a degree of stability that will preclude any later recurring outlay in maintenance.\n\n16. The great business activity of the port, and the yearly increasing shore traffic require that a wide marine roadway should be made. I would stipulate for nothing less than 75 feet of width, but of these 75 feet I would allow the owners of frontage to utilize 10 feet with their verandahs and arcades over the public foot-path (e.g., Government land) leaving 65 feet for vehicular and chair traffic and for the landing and embarking of cargo.\n\n17. The proposed City tramways could not be conveniently built along the proposed new embankment, for the cars would have to run athwart an incessant cross traffic between the lighters and the warehouses. The trainways would be far better placed along the present Praya which would become an inland thoroughfare. To admit of double-lines of tramway without danger of inconvenience to the public a minimum width should also be stipulated for in respect of this thoroughfare. I would insist on a width of 75 feet again allowing the frontagers on both sides 10 feet for their verandahs and arcades over the public footpath, and leaving 55 feet from kerb to kerb for the tramways and carriage traffic.\n\n18. A glance at the map will show that the proposed new reclamations will form nothing less than a new town, and the repetition in this new town of the narrow lanes that disfigure the old town should be carefully avoided. We want wide streets for light and ventilation and to prevent the spread of fires. Wide streets are all the more a necessity to us, that there is a tendency now among builders, owing to the increased value of ground, to add to the height of houses, and it is certain that four and five storied houses will become the rule. In laying out new streets these eventualities should be considered. Taller houses and increased traffic demand that no main artery of traffic be less than 75 feet wide and no cross street of any importance less than 40 feet wide.\n\n(5) \n\n19. The length of the proposed sea-wall will be 3,400 yards or nearly 2 miles. Of this length the frontagers will have to pay for 2,800 yards and the Government 600 yards. These 600 yards represent the frontage of the Crown lots tinted yellow. I am informed that if the Government would not care to go to the expense of embanking the 600 yards the Lot-owners themselves would be glad to relieve the Colonial Treasury of this charge on condition of their keeping the land reclaimed. Such a relinquishment of its own rights, however, on the part of the Government, would be equivalent to making the frontagers a present of no less a sum than one and a half million dollars.\n\n20. Mr. CHATER who has gone very minutely into the matter calculates the cost of the sea-wall, including sewer extensions and all contingent masonry-work at $300 per yard lineal of sea-frontage. My own opinion is that the cost will be more like $360 per yard lineal, and at this higher figure, I estimate the 600 yards of wall would cost the Government $216,000. From this I deduct $50,000 for the stone available from the present old wall, reducing the Government outlay on masonry works to about $166,000.\n\n21. With regard to the cost of filling in behind the 600 yards of wall for the formation of the five sites shown tinted yellow on the map, and which comprise an aggregate area of 300,000 square feet I am of opinion that it will not exceed $179,000, or say in round numbers $180,000 making a total Government outlay on works of $346,000.\n\n22. A light railway may be laid along the Praya from the Sulphur Channel to the Gas-works, at which point the new reclamation begins. The Kennedytown cliffs and steep hillsides fronting the Sulphur Channel may be excavated down and the material (red loam) used for the filling in, the cliff excavations along Sulphur Channel being so conducted and finished off as to leave level building sites for auction sale on the completion of the works. In this way I calculate that an area of 300,000 square feet of hillside may be excavated down and levelled at Kennedytown and left available for auction sale after the reclamation works are finished. The sale of these additional 300,000 square feet of levelled sites would at $1 a square foot yield the Government another $300,000 in premiums and $7,200 a year in Crown Rent, and to the latter figure may be added subsequently about $10,000 more for rates and taxes on buildings. The total profits to the Colonial Treasury from Kennedytown excavations will be therefore as follows: proceeds from land sales $300,000, and subsequent yearly revenue $17,200. These profits are of course additional to those set forth in paragraph 5.\n\n23. It should be made clear to the promoters of this scheme that although the Government will carry out the works, the cost of administration, of railway, plant and rolling-stock, machinery, and all contingent expenses must be borne by them and the Government respectively in the relative proportions of the areas which it will fall to each to reclaim, and that any stone and old building materials available from the present wall will be retained for itself by the Government and utilized on those sections of the proposed new wall which the Government will build on its own account. This arrangement is only fair, since it was the general rate-payers who paid for the old stone and who are therefore entitled to the benefit of it in the new works.\n\n24. In this Colony extensions to marine lots have always been allowed by reclamation from the sea provided the lot-owner carried out his reclamation in accordance with plans approved by the Government. No premium has ever been charged for such extensions. The Government has always contented itself with the increased Crown Rent corresponding to the area reclaimed. Sir HERCULES ROBINSON and Sir JOHN BOWRING dispensed with money premiums, and deemed it best to satisfy themselves with the yearly Crown Rents. The largest reclamations were made during the administration of these two Governors, and their policy seems to have been adhered to and continued by their successors.\n\n25. But though premium may have been dispensed with in money, it has in reality always been claimed in land as an equivalent of money, and the frontagers have been permitted to make sea reclamations only on condition of their surrendering to Government a portion of these for public use in the shape of roads and streets.",
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        "content_text": "284 \n\n(12) \n\nSurface floats constructed of wood were also set adrift and watched during the day, but their course followed so closely on that of the sunken vanes that further observation of them was abandoned soon after sunset as unnecessary. A boat with adequate crew was detailed to watch the drifting of each float and to follow it day and night, and having a steam-launch at our disposal we were able to visit each float periodically and to note its change of position.\n\nOn the plan submitted herewith, the relative positions of the several floats at the various times of our visits are shown, the approximate course between each observation being sketched in. I will now briefly describe the courses of the floats.\n\nOn the morning of February the 27th (during the North East Monsoon) at 10:15 A.M., float No. 1 was set adrift off North Point on the ebb tide; the course followed by this float is indicated in the plan by a red line.\n\nAt 10:30 A.M., float No. 2 was started about three-quarters of a mile east of North Point; its course is indicated by a blue line.\n\nBoth these floats got into an eddy in Quarry Bay; No. 2 grounded in shallow water and, on being moved out to the position of the surface float, it closely followed the course of No. 1.\n\nAt 11 A.M., float No. 3 was set adrift off North Point and nearly made the Lyemun Pass; its course being indicated by the green line.\n\nAt 12:30 P.M., No. 4 was started off North Point; its course is indicated by the brown line.\n\nAt 1 P.M., No. 5 was started about a mile and a half east of North Point; its course is indicated by the yellow line.\n\nThe tide turning shortly after 1 P.M., a strong current set in through the Lyemun Pass, carrying the floats westwards.\n\nAt 2:55 P.M., float No. 6 was started off North Point on the flood tide; its course is indicated by a red line.\n\nThis float, passing to the west of Green Island, found its way out to sea on the afternoon of the following day.\n\nAt 5:15 P.M., float No. 7 was started off North Point; after travelling a short distance westwards, this float returned on the ebb as far as the Lyemun Pass, but missing the mid-channel current, returned on the flood. Its course is indicated by a blue line.\n\nAt 6:45 P.M., No. 8 was set adrift off North Point and, after travelling westwards for four hours, it returned on the ebb and passed through the Lyemun Pass at 2:30 A.M. Its course is indicated by a brown line. This completed the float experiments at North Point.\n\nOn the following day, February the 28th, a similar series of experiments was effected at Belcher's Point. At 8:45 A.M., No. 1 was started on the ebb tide and, taking a westerly course, as indicated by the red line, got into shallow water to the north-west of Green Island. On being set free again, this float continued its westerly course round Green Island and, turning southwards, made for the open sea.\n\nAt 11 A.M., float No. 2 was started and passed direct through the Sulphur Channel, gaining the sea; its course is indicated by a blue line.\n\nAt 1:45 P.M., No. 3 was started and also passed through the Sulphur Channel, but meeting the flood tide was carried in a north-westerly direction outside Green Island; its course is indicated by a brown line.\n\nAt 3:50, 5:10, and 6 P.M., respectively, Nos. 4, 5, and 6 were set adrift. These, as indicated by the blue, red, and brown lines, made little progress.\n\nAt 9:25 A.M. on the 21st of August, during the South West Monsoon, float No. 1, started on the ebb tide, got into slack water off the west point of Quarry Bay and remained almost stationary until the turn of the tide, when it proceeded westwards, arriving off the south of Stonecutters' Island at 10 P.M. During the following ebb, it returned as far as Kowloon Point, and during the next flood, it was carried back to the south of Stonecutters' Island, arriving to the south of its previous position at 8 P.M., showing a tendency to leave the harbour westwards; its course is indicated by a red line.\n\n(13) \n\nAt 10:5 P.M., No. 2 was started and went direct through the Lyemun Pass, arriving at the Pass in one hour; its course is indicated by a blue line.\n\nAt 1:20 P.M., No. 3 was started; making but little progress eastward, it was carried on the flood through the harbour as far as the Canton Wharf, returning thence as far as Causeway Bay on the following ebb tide; its course is indicated by a green line.\n\nAt 3 P.M., No. 4 was started on the commencement of the flood and, after passing North Point on the flood tide, followed practically the same course as No. 1.\n\nAt 4:45 and 6:15 P.M., Nos. 5 and 6 were started and left afloat till the night of the 22nd. No. 5 would probably, on the following ebb tide, pass North Point, and No. 6 would follow somewhat the same course as followed by Nos. 1 and 4; the course of each of these floats is indicated by green and blue, respectively.\n\nAt 8:15 A.M. on August the 22nd, No. 1 was started off Belcher's Point and took an easterly course past North Point; on the following flood, it drifted back a little to the west of that Point and would probably have got into the mid-channel current on the following ebb and been carried through the Lyemun Pass; its course is indicated by a brown line.\n\nAt 10:15 A.M., No. 2 was started and, after progressing down the Sulphur Channel for some distance, returned on the half ebb, arriving off the Canton Wharf at 10 P.M.; at the end of the flood, it would take a north-westerly course and would probably be carried thence up towards the Canton River on the next flood, passing out west of Green Island on the following ebb; its course is indicated by a red line.\n\nAt 12 o'clock, No. 3 was started. Taking an easterly course, it reached Yau-mati bay at 6:10 P.M. and, after sweeping round on the flood in a south-westerly direction, it took an easterly course, arriving off the Canton Wharf at 10:35 P.M., at which hour the commencement of the next ebb would probably take it eastwards past North Point; its course is indicated by a green line. At 2:25 P.M., No. 4 was started and travelled eastwards slowly; its course is indicated by a blue line. At 5:40 P.M., No. 5 was started on the flood tide but made little progress; its course is indicated by a red line.\n\nWith respect, therefore, to a sewage out-fall at North Point, it appears from these experiments:-\n\n1. that during both the North East and South West Monsoons, there is a strong tidal current tending to carry all matters held in suspension in the waters of the harbour at or about North Point through the Lyemun Pass during the ebb tide, and that this tendency extends as far as Kowloon Point during the North East Monsoon.\n2. that during the North East Monsoon, the flood tide sweeps through the harbour and effects a general dispersion of all suspended matter, and that there is also a strong current round Kowloon Point towards the South of Stonecutters' Island.\n3. that during the South West Monsoon, the general tendency of the flood tide is to carry suspended matter from North Point through the harbour towards the mouth of the Canton River.\n\nAnd with respect to a sewage out-fall at Belcher's Point, it appears from the experiments:\n\n1. that during the North East Monsoon, the ebb tide will probably carry all suspended matters out to sea to the south of Green Island.\n2. that the flood tide has little effect at this Point, either during the North East or South West Monsoon.\n3. that during the South West Monsoon, the ebb tide sets in an easterly and north-easterly direction.\n\nFrom the foregoing, I am of the opinion, considering the depth of water and strong tidal currents that exist in the harbour during the whole of the year, leading to the general dispersion and mixing of all foreign matters with the tidal waters, that no nuisance will arise from the placing of sewer out-falls at Belcher's and North Points, and it is on this account that these two Points have been selected as suitable out-fall stations.",
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        "content_text": "# EXISTING SEWERS\n\nIn the early days of the Colony, the drainage of the city of Victoria was naturally provided for by the streams traversing the numerous valleys running south to north. As the city increased, lateral drains were constructed of brick and stone of a very imperfect character, and some of these may still exist. Within more recent times, especially after the Reclamations between Queen's Road and the Praya had been made, it became necessary, in order to maintain cleanliness and also for the convenience of the public, to cover in most of these streams. Large drains built of granite were therefore constructed along the valleys, as shown by red lines on the plan which accompanies this Report. There are altogether, without counting small branches, 33 main outlets into the harbour along the Praya, their sizes vary from one foot and a half to six feet. Most of these sewers have vertical sides with V-shaped or flat segmental inverts and are covered over with granite slabs. A full description of the various sections, together with diagrams, is to be found in Mr. CHADWICK'S Report, Part 1, Sections 2 to 4. The duty of these drains as sewers is small compared with their duty as sub-soil and surface drains, as the whole of the sub-soil and surface-waters from the northern slopes of the hills above the city have to find their way into the sea by passing through them.\n\nThe drainage-areas are comparatively small, but the heavy tropical rains that this island is subject to render it necessary to provide for the discharge of unduly large volumes of water in the lower portion of the city.\n\nAfter studying the rain-fall and the character of the hills, I am of opinion that during heavy storms, the built area may contribute 3 inches and the hill sides above the city 2 inches of rain-fall per hour, over their respective areas. It is clear, therefore, that no half measures can be entertained for getting rid of the surface waters, and considering the surface levels we have to deal with, any scheme for obtaining their ultimate discharge at points outside the city is practically out of the question.\n\nExperience has proved that the existing drains of the town are of ample size and that they efficiently fulfil their purpose as surface water drains. It may also be mentioned that the most advantageous courses, in respect of efficiency and economy, i.e., the natural valley lines, have in most cases been selected, and that the drains are constructed in a substantial manner. As surface-water drains, therefore, their construction leaves little to be desired, though they may no longer be suitable as sewers.\n\nIn the earlier days of the city, the Combined System of drainage was undoubtedly by far the more economical system, and perhaps, with the small population and limited public revenue at its disposal, the Colony would have shrunk from the expense of a dual system. But when one considers the present position of the city, the limited area of land available for building purposes, and consequently the excessive crowding that exists in many portions, especially in the Western and Central Districts, where the population reaches as many as 1,600 persons to the acre, the time has, in my opinion, arrived when every endeavour should be made that modern sanitary science places within our reach, to improve the sewerage of Victoria.\n\nThe principal objections to the continued use of the existing system of drains for the conveyance of sewage are:--\n| Objection | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | that the numerous outlets along the Praya render the condition of the foreshore objectionable |\n| (2) | that the large sizes of the sewers cause considerable deposit in the lower levels during the dry season |\n| (3) | that no efficient means of ventilation exist |\n\nThe first two evils, from what I have said, cannot be remedied, and the third also presents considerable difficulty. In drains of such necessarily large size as to be able to discharge at times large volumes of storm water, any such interruption as would be caused by large flaps or traps would probably lead to the bursting of the sewer, and further, during the dry season, an extensive accumulation of sewer gas must take place, for the natural forces at work in the sewers are insufficient to effect a complete change of air in a short period. From what I have seen of some of the branch drains, I believe there still exist old drains in the city which should either be used for surface and sub-soil water only, or else replaced by pipe sewers.\n\nThere are few water closets in the city, their construction being prohibited by law. The system generally adopted for removing the excreta being the pail system, as described in Mr. CHADWICK'S Report. I certainly agree with Mr. CHADWICK that if a sufficient water supply can be obtained, the more general adoption, especially in Hotels, Clubs, and large mercantile and other offices, of water closets would be advisable on sanitary grounds.\n\nThere is practically no sub-soil drainage in the city, except in the Wongnei-chung Valley, where such drainage has been carried out during the last six months.\n\n## PROPOSED WORKS\n\nAfter careful consideration of the whole of the foregoing facts and a close study of the locality, I am of opinion that the ends of efficiency and economy will be best met by:\n1. the construction of a new system of pipe sewers admitting only a limited quantity of surface-water and by adopting out-falls for such a system at suitable points east and west of the city.\n2. the utilization of the existing drains for conveying the natural streams through the city and for carrying off surface and sub-soil waters.\n\nThough the sub-soil drainage of malarial soils is a matter of great importance to the Public Health, this will be impracticable in the lower parts of the city at present, unless such sub-soil drains are connected with the sewers, an expedient that would be attended with serious risk, for it would convert such sub-soil drains into channels for the escape of sewer air through the sub-soil into the houses themselves. Owing to the long periods of drought or of limited rain-fall and to the steep declivity of the greater part of the drainage areas, the flow of water in sub-soil drains will always be very variable and will no doubt very often be nil. Drain traps attached to sub-soil drains will prove ineffective, and sewer air will freely course through such drains and issue through the interstices provided for the escape of sub-soil water.\n\nFurther, in the case of any stoppage occurring in a foul water sewer with which sub-soil drains happened to be in communication, sewage might back into the sub-soil drains and escape through the joints as just described. These objections will be got rid of if all foul waters are diverted from the existing drains of the town into special channels of their own; sub-soil drainage then becomes possible and may be led without risk into the present existing drains.\n\nI will now briefly describe the new Separate System of sewers proposed. On looking at the plans, it will be seen that the city is naturally divided into four drainage districts. Three of these districts are situated to the west of the Albany Nullah, and one to the east. There are thus four proposed main intercepting sewers, which, for the convenience of reference, I will allude to as numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, draining districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively, as marked on the accompanying plan.\n\nMain No. 1, providing for the drainage of district No. 1 (coloured red on plan sheet No. 1), will commence in Caine Road, opposite Castle Road, where it receives the sewage from Seymour Road, Castle Steps, and Castle Road; it then takes a westerly course along Caine Road, Bonham Road, Hill Road, and Queen's Road West, receiving the sewerage from Robinson and Richmond Roads, and ultimately discharging into the harbour at Belcher's Point.\n\nThe area of this district is 160 acres, and it is only thinly built over, but in order to allow for future extensions, the sizes of the sewers have been calculated to discharge per 24 hours as much as 14 inches of rain-fall over the whole area.\n\nMain No. 2, providing for the sewerage of District No. 2 (coloured brown on plan sheet No. 1), will commence in Queen's Road Central, opposite Pottinger Street, and takes a westerly course along Queen's Road, receiving the sewerage from those portions of the Chung-wan, Tai-ping-shan, and Sai-ying-pun districts which are situated south of Queen's Road. On reaching Centre Street, this main will take a northerly course down Centre Street, and arriving at the Praya, will turn again to the west and follow the line of the Praya, where it will receive the sewage of a portion of the Shek-tong-tsui District and ultimately discharge into the harbour at the proposed out-fall at Belcher's Point.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nIt is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to state that this copy is one of what are called \"indirectly obtained documents\"; and it is quite certain that if the Maps referred to in it did not also come into Mr. Alabaster's possession, they were not to be procured in a similar way. I, therefore, for obvious reasons, did not feel justified in advising any attempt being made to get them.\n\nBut as the explanatory description of the frontier without the Map was difficult to follow, I took steps here to ascertain confidentially whether there would be any use in my asking the Tsung-li Yamên to let me see the Maps of the Boundary Commission, which would naturally be of interest to Her Majesty's Government in view of the pending delimitation of the Burmah-Yünnan frontier.\n\nThe result of my inquiries, however, convinced me that I should gain nothing by making an application, and I have hitherto had good grounds for abstaining from the employment at Peking of indirect means to gain official information.\n\nThe accompanying tracing, for which I am indebted to Mr. Bullock, Acting Chinese Secretary, has been carefully prepared from the document furnished by Mr. Alabaster, and gives a clear idea of the boundary between Yünnan and Tonquin, which is the portion of the Franco-Chinese frontier that chiefly concerns us, as coming into the immediate proximity of the Burmah-Yunnan frontier.\n\nThere were two joint Commissions for settling the Franco-Chinese frontier, one of which went over the ground from Lao-kai on the Red River up to the boundary between the provinces of Yunnan and Kuang-si, the second Commission undertaking the line of the two provinces of Kuang-si and Kuang-tung down to the sea, but not actually examining the entire line, certain sections of it, which presented no special points of dispute between France and China, being accepted as not requiring rectification.\n\nYour Lordship will at the same time observe that, although the Commission for the Yunnan boundary started from Lao-kai coastwards and left untouched the remainder of the Yunnan-Tonquin frontier in the direction of the Yunnan-Burmah frontier, the tracing I have inclosed shows that for a considerable distance in that direction the explanatory statement obtained at Canton, the authenticity of which I have no reason to doubt, considers the Yunnan-Tonquin boundary to run.\n\nI know, however, that the reason for the Commission not working further inland was intentional, and originated in the difficulties with which it would have had to contend on account of the limited control exercised by the Yunnan authorities over the tribes occupying the south-western borders of the province; and I have fair grounds for believing that, notwithstanding the apparent settlement of the boundary line up to Meng-pang Tu, it has not been virtually arranged upon the basis of mutual acceptance, as is the case with those sections of the line along the Kuang-si and Kuang-tung frontier, to which I have alluded above, as not having been subjected to inspection by the Commissioners.\n\nThat the French will assert their right to it is more than probable, and I am not aware that any harm would result, as far as Burmah is concerned, from their retaining the frontier as traced, because, curiously enough, as your Lordship will see by referring to the Sketch Map sent to me from India, and a duplicate copy of which was inclosed in my despatch No. 90 of the 12th December last, Meng-pang Tu, the extreme point of the line, would be almost exactly the spot where the last cross is marked to show where the boundary between Burmah and Yunnan would be supposed to terminate.\n\nBut I fear trouble is to be apprehended should the French succeed in the attempts they have been so persistently making for some years past to gain a footing in Upper Siam. Their close proximity on our Eastern Burmese frontier, and also to the south between Burmah and Siam, could scarcely fail to prove a continual source of disquietude.\n\nI have forwarded a copy of this despatch to his Excellency the Viceroy of India.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **JOHN WALSHAM**\n\n## Inclosure in No. 36\n\n**Map of Yunnan and Tonquin Frontier**\n\nPage 180\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "## MAP OF YUNNAN AND TONGKING FRONTIER SHEWING SUCH NAMES MENTIONED IN THE FRENCH DELIMITATION TREATY AS CAN BE IDENTIFIED ON A CHINESE MAP\n\n**RED PLACES IDENTIFIED ARE MARKED**\nTracing made from Surveyor Gen's Map Calcutta.\n\n| Location        | Notes                        |\n| --------------- | ---------------------------- |\n| Yuen-kiang      |                              |\n| Lin-an Foo      |                              |\n| Pou-uur Fou     |                              |\n| Ssumao or Esmok |                              |\n| KIANGHUNG       |                              |\n| OKIANG TUNG     |                              |\n| Mekong          |                              |\n| Jamy            |                              |\n| Wan R.          |                              |\n| Teng tiao River |                              |\n| Mangtzi         |                              |\n| Ching Shui River|                              |\n| Laokai          |                              |\n| Kai-hua Foo     |                              |\n| KUANG SI        |                              |\n| In Chou R       |                              |\n| Sing            |                              |\n| Kor or Red River|                              |\n| Thuyen Kwang    |                              |\n| Kacbang         |                              |\n| Rea River       |                              |\n| Luang Phrabang  |                              |\n| HANOI           |                              |\n\nPage 178\n\nInclosure in Sir J. Walsham's \"N\"D\"\n\nSKETCH MAP FRANCO CHINESE FRONTIER\n\nThe dotted lines approximately correspond with the lower course of the River on the Chinese Jesuit map.\n\nFyrison & Sons. Lith. S Marine Dept.\n\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)`",
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        "content_text": "# 569\n\nSeparate System for European portion.\n\nCombination of systems recommended.\n\nObjections to discharge house drains into water drains.\n\nThe remaining portions of the city, occupied chiefly by what may be described as the European population, I propose to deal with on the separate system, the hill side drainage and rainfall generally being served by the present large storm-water drains mentioned above, and the sewage conducted by pipe drains to convenient outfalls, discharging into the harbour. The few large storm-water drains convey the flood water from the hill sides above through these portions of the city.\n\nIt will therefore be seen that I propose to adopt the Combined System for the purely Chinese districts, and the Separate System for the European; and I hope to be able to prove that this combination of systems can be effectually and economically carried out, and that it is the most suitable to the widely different conditions to be dealt with in the drainage of this City.\n\n## Mr. Chadwick's Scheme\n\nThe objections I have to this scheme are that in the upper districts of the City and wherever the houses are scattered, it would not be wise to discharge the drainage from these houses into the large drains necessary to take the storm-water in European districts, as, during the dry season, there would not be a sufficient body of sewage in these large drains to keep up a constant flow.\n\n### Objections to Intercepting Sewer\n\nThe intercepting sewer to the Sulphur Channel, owing to the depth of it, must be constructed in soil open to the sea, and, being for its entire length (6 miles) below low water level, would, owing to its enormous cost, together with the constant expense of pumping, be practically prohibitive, and I consider unnecessary, as, by properly constructed outfalls into deep water opposite the City, no nuisance would arise.\n\n### Agreement with Mr. Chadwick\n\nI entirely agree with Mr. Chadwick in his recommendations to use the present drains for the conveyance of sewage and rainfall over the thickly populated Chinese districts of the City, and with his remarks and suggestions on ventilation, trapping, house connections, improvement of the existing sewers, and sanitation generally.\n\nHis admirable report contains an immense amount of most valuable and reliable information.\n\n### District No. 1\n\nThe sewage would be collected and carried by a small stone-ware pipe discharging into the harbour at the outfall, marked L1, allowing the present drains to take the entire rainfall and subsoil waters by the present outfalls to the harbour. I may mention that in this area are several swampy places that require proper subsoil drainage.\n\n### District No. 2\n\nThe sewage of District No. 2 would be collected along the Caine Road and discharged into the harbour by a pipe sewer at the outfall marked L2. The rainfall and subsoil waters for this district discharging, as at present, down the Peel Street drain.\n\n### District No. 3\n\nThe sewage of District No. 3 would be discharged by a pipe into the harbour at the outfall marked L3. The rainfall of District Nos. 3 and 4 being discharged by the present drains.\n\n### District No. 4\n\nThe sewage of District No. 4 would be discharged at L4.\n\n### District No. 5\n\nIn district No. 5, the Seamen's Hospital and Morrison Hill Terrace stand on high ground. The rest of the buildings in this district are chiefly warehouses situated along the Praya front. The small amount of sewage of this district would be discharged into the harbour at the outfall, marked L5. The rainfall being dealt with as at present.\n\n### District No. 6\n\nThe Western portion of District No. 6, bounded by Percival Street and Bowrington Canal, is at present partly occupied by a sugar refinery and warehouses. It is probable that other factories may be located here, and that, in the future, a separate drain will be necessary. The sewage, from the remaining part of the District, would be discharged into the sea at the outfall marked L6. The rainfall being dealt with as at present.\n\n## Separate Outfalls for the Yellow or Separate System\n\nThe outfalls for the Yellow or Separate System are of two kinds, those for rain water being as at present. Fig. 1, Plate 2, gives a sketch of an existing outfall. The sewage discharge can be dealt with as shown by Fig. 2, Plate 2, consisting of a cast iron pipe carried to a suitable distance and depth to ensure ample dilution and diffusion of the sewage particles.\n\nThe entire sewage and rainfall of the Chinese parts of the city coloured red, I proposed to convey in those of the existing drains which are suitable for the conveyance of sewage. Where the drains are defective, they must be either repaired or reconstructed and thoroughly ventilated along their entire course, the whole of the sewage and rainfall being discharged direct into the harbour, but in no case connected with the few large storm water drains (shown by blue lines) that take the rainfall from the European districts and the hill sides situated above.\n\n## Description of Plate 1\n\nDivision of districts.\n\n## Mr. Cooper's Scheme\n\nThe chief points of objection I have to this scheme are:\n\n1. Attempting to separate rainfall from sewage over the thickly populated Chinese parts of the City.\n2. Dividing the City into the four districts proposed.\n3. The disposal of the sewage by intercepting sewers at the four points proposed.\n\nBefore proceeding to discuss my objections, I think it would be well to describe more fully my proposals, as the pros and cons of the two schemes could then be taken together.\n\nPlate 1 is a map of the City. The districts occupied by Chinese are coloured red, and these I propose to drain on the Combined System. The districts coloured yellow are chiefly occupied by Europeans, and these I propose to drain on the Separate System.\n\nTo follow the description of the lines of sewers I am now about to describe, a thorough knowledge of the levels and contours of the ground is necessary. I regret that, being able to spare but a short portion of time, and the plans of Mr. Cooper's Scheme having been hurried home, I have not drawn a complete plan showing all the lines of sewers.\n\n## Scheme for District No. 1\n\nCommencing at the extreme West or No. 1 subdivision of the Yellow or Separate System, there are but few houses to deal with. The drainage of these, I would disconnect from the storm-water drains, into which it is at present...\n\nOn this Combined System, the drainage of the red portion will be a simple and comparatively inexpensive undertaking.\n\nI have not dealt with Kennedy Town or Causeway Bay district, as they are not yet built over.\n\n## Outfalls for Chinese Districts\n\nThe outfalls, for the red or combined portions, can be dealt with as shown by Fig. 3, Plate 2. This outfall is practically the same as the river outlet at Windsor Castle, which plan is given as a model one by Sir Robert Rawlinson in the \"Suggestions for Sewage, &c.\" issued by the Local Government Board, and which has become the usual plan adopted in similar cases at home.\n\nIt may be argued that the two portions shown by the red and yellow colours are liable to alteration. This is practically impossible, as the districts in which Chinese houses may be built are not only very clearly defined and restricted by the European Reservation Ordinance, but in some places are prevented from changing by the nature of the hill-sides, the Public Gardens, and the Military Reserve. That additional ground must become occupied by Chinese is almost certain, but the ground which they will occupy is clearly defined, such as reclamation from the Harbour, Kennedy Town, Wanchai, and Causeway Bay, which are capable of accommodating a vast increase in the number of Chinese, and any such increase can be dealt with in entire conformity with the proposed scheme.",
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        "content_text": "572 Jervois St. and Bonham Strand described.\n\nI would mention, as an instance, the drains in Jervois Street and Bonham Strand. Instead of conveying the drainage of the district by the most direct way into the harbour, the sewers run nearly parallel with the Praya, discharging at Possession Point. As this district is low lying, the sewers are nearly level, and cause great trouble from silting up. I have mentioned, that I consider exactly similar trouble will be experienced with Mr. COOPER'S proposed intercepting sewers of flat gradients.\n\nMr. CHADWICK's description of Bonham Strand is as follows: \"Much inconvenience and expense is caused by the necessity for cleaning out periodically the portions of the sewers where they cross the low districts about Bonham Strand.\"\n\nI fail to see why, even granted that there be considerable deposits during the dry season in the large sized sewers of the lower levels, that this is a reason for not using the bulk of the sewers, already constructed, for the conveyance of sewage.\n\n### Objection (3.) No ventilation no reason for not using existing Sewers.\n\nMr. COOPER alleges, as a reason for not using the existing sewers, that no efficient means of \"ventilation exists.” This is obviously no reason for not so altering the present sewers, as the cost of making ventilators cannot be so expensive as the construction of new sewers and ventilators.\n\nMr. CHADWICK supports the statement that no efficient means of ventilation exists, in the following words, which naturally apply to the date of his report: \"There are no special ventilator openings either inlet or outlet, nor does the necessity for ventilation appear to have been recognized. The drains, which receive the water from the ravines above the town, have open outlets at their upper ends or intakes, and so they are to some extent ventilated. Where the drains do not run up the hill sides there is no proper ventilation. For instance, the drain along Old Bailey Street terminating in the Caine Road. In one instance, that in Peel Street, the natural ventilation of the sewer has been prevented purposely by the construction of a trap at the top, thus the uprising sewer gas has no means of escape except by untrapped house drains and gully holes.\"\n\nThe only attempt at ventilation, made up to the present date, are the few shafts built within the last year at the upper ends of the main drains, and it requires no argument to show, that these only ventilate a very little distance, and the open ends of the drains as before, were practically equally efficient, the only advantage gained by the shafts being the very small difference in the density of the gases for the additional height. These shafts, as I stated in my evidence before the Fever Commission, cannot ventilate any of the side junctions to the main drains, as the gases would then be called upon to descend the side branches and ascend the main drains.\n\nSir ROBERT RAWLINSON's opinion on ventilation is that: \"Sewers formed along steep gradients therefore require to have more care bestowed on the means of ventilation than other sewers laid along flat districts to prevent the dangerous accumulation of sewage gases in the districts. Ordinary main sewer ventilation should be provided in all cases at intervals not greater than 100 yards.”\n\nThe ends of sewers and drains at their lowest outlets must be so protected that the wind cannot blow in and force any sewage gases back to the streets and houses. Flap valves or other contrivances may be provided to cover and protect outlet ends of sewers and drains and so prevent the wind from blowing in.\n\nThis is a special requirement in the drainage of this city, as the upper levels are 400 feet above the Praya, and during the North-east Monsoon, when the drains are the foulest for want of rain water, the wind is blowing directly into the present open ends of all the outfall sewers.\n\n\"It has been suggested that free and open sewer and drain ventilation will so taint the atmosphere within and over a town as to cause houses at a lower level to pollute those situated on the higher levels. Any serious injury from this need not be feared, as with abundant means of ventilation, the air within the sewers, will be comparatively pure,\"\n\nSewer and drain ventilation are insisted upon over and over again in these suggestions, because the work is so important and is so generally absent or even wilfully neglected. \"There are many towns in which the sewers are not ventilated because the inhabitants refuse to have any open sewer ventilator at the street surface. This is a sad mistake, as a town, having unventilated sewers and house drains connected with them also unventilated, must have disease in excess.\"\n\nThe above remarks of Sir ROBERT RAWLINSON, in his Suggestions for typical drainage systems, prove the absolute necessity for ventilation of sewers.\n\nI was surprised to read the evidence of Mr. COOPER before the Fever Commission, that he considered serious harm would arise from openings in the streets in the present condition of the house drains, as it is obvious from the construction opinion of Sir ROBERT RAWLINSON that the sewers have to be ventilated at some time, and no amount of defective house connection can justify the absence of such ventilators, which any way must improve the air in the sewers.\n\nI do not agree with the statement of Mr. COOPER, that the gases would be drawn into the houses by reason of the air being warmer, as the temperature of the interior of the houses is usually lower than that of the open street, for the greater portion of the year.\n\n### Proposed Works.\n\nWith reference to the proposed works of Mr. COOPER, the words of his report are: \"After careful consideration of the whole of the foregoing facts and a close study of the locality, I am of opinion that the ends of efficiency and economy will be best met by: \n1. The construction of a new system of pipe sewers admitting only a limited quantity of surface water and by adopting outfalls for such a system at suitable points East and West of the City.\n2. The utilization of the existing drains for conveying the natural streams through the City and for carrying off surface and subsoil water.\"\n\nThe proposed works are, therefore, the carrying out of what is known as the \"Separate System.\"\n\n### Separate System recommended.\n\nWherever the Separate System is capable of being conveniently carried out, it is unquestionable the more sanitary system, and I strongly recommend its adoption for the Yellow areas, but I maintain, and hope to prove, that the Separate System is totally unsuited, not to say impossible, over the Red area.\n\nMr. COOPER mentions, as an objection to the use of the same sewers for sewage and subsoil, that in case of stoppage of foul water the sewage may back into the subsoil drains, and sewage gas escape through them into the houses. I entirely disagree with this opinion as a reason for not adopting the present sewers on the Combined System for the Chinese districts. The only places, where subsoil drains are required, are in the higher districts, which I propose to deal with under the Separate System; besides, efficient ventilation to the sewers would obviate any such nuisance.\n\n### Description of Chinese houses.\n\nThe entire area coloured Red is built over in a manner quite unknown at home. The width of a Chinese house is 15 feet from centre to centre of the side walls, leaving about 13'-6\" in the clear; they are either built back to back, or have a yard or lane of about 6 feet wide. By the New Building Ordinance, this width is slightly increased for lots acquired from the Government after the passing of the Ordinance, but that cannot therefore affect the present City.\n\nThe back yards are used for washing and domestic operations, and are the receptacles of the refuse of the houses. There is usually to be found the latrine of the house, and in days not long past, the well.\n\nMr. CHADWICK's description is as follows: \"As the upstair lodgers have no convenience of getting rid of their rubbish, much is stuffed down into the down pipes, choking it, causing it to leak and saturate the walls with the filthy fluid. For the same reason also the house drain is frequently obstructed.\"\n\nThe back yard measuring 13'-6\" by 6'-0\" is little better than a sink, and, compared with the average number of inhabitants, would not contain more area per head than an English kitchen sink.",
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        "content_text": "# Odours in Chinese quarters.\n\nMain sewers to be\n\n1.4\n\nI realize that no system of drainage will alter the nature of the odors of the Chinese quarter, which are not necessarily unhealthy, as evidenced by experience of Canton, where the surface of the narrow streets is formed by the granite covers of the main sewers, and the large open joints of the cover stones ensure very thorough ventilation to the sewers, which are therefore practically open channels.\n\nI disagree entirely with the opinion of Mr. COOPER, that practically nothing can be done with the main drainage until the house connections are first put in order.\n\nSir ROBERT RAWLINSON distinctly states:----\n\nFirst, main sewers; then house drains.\n\nSuggestions in carrying out the drainage.\n\n\"In sewering a town or village, the main sewers should first be completed, side junctions for branch drains, and house junctions having in all cases been provided, and indicated on the plan. House drains in detail may then be proceeded with.\"\n\nThis appears to me to be but common sense, as until the level of the main sewers is settled and the junctions put in, it is impossible to lay out the house drains to the best advantage, and it is useless to discharge, through the most perfect house drains, sewage matter into imperfect or unventilated sewers. If sewage gas be formed, it has to be discharged somewhere, and if not in the streets, then in the back yards.\n\nI would, in carrying out the drainage of this City, take an outfall, remodel it, ventilate, repair or reconstruct the main sewers and tributaries; when this work has been completed, then by suitable laws, the owners of tenements should be compelled to connect in a proper manner to the sewers, in accordance with by-laws passed. (I may mention it was with regret that I noticed that the Sanitary Board has lately passed by-laws forcing the Separate System on house owners, whether traps are insisted on or gratings only, as I propose, is merely a detail; the effect in a few years will be the same, only I would, by clear instructions and efficient supervision, insist on the proper construction of the drains and connections.\n\n## Remarks on estimates and cost.\n\n## Conclusions.\n\nBy taking each outfall, and consequently each natural line of drainage separately, the remodelling of the drainage of the Chinese portions of the city would become a comparatively simple operation, and could be completed in a far less period of time than the difficult scheme proposed by Mr. COOPER.\n\nNot having been permitted to examine the estimates of Mr. COOPER's Scheme, and the drawings giving no details, I am unable to discuss this absolutely necessary part of any Engineering work, but I will unhesitatingly state that the works he proposes cannot be carried out for the total figures in his estimate, viz.: $230,000 exclusive of the North Point Pumping Station, and that $400,000 will be nearer the cost; and the complete scheme, including the proposed North Point Sewer and Pumping Station, about $550,000 will be approximately the cost. The scheme as proposed by me would not only dispense with all the necessary pipe sewers of the Separate System of the entire Red area but also the very expensive collecting sewers along the lower levels for the purpose of discharging at four points only, and no pumping station would be required; therefore, whatever figure his scheme may cost, that proposed by me can be done for about half the amount, and I trust I have proved will be more efficient in results, viz.: the rapid drainage and disposal of the sewage matter and rainfall of the City.\n\nIn conclusion, I will briefly sum up the arguments of this report:-\n\n1. --That owing to the dissimilarity in point of acreage to population, the Chinese districts coloured Red may be dealt with in a different manner to the European districts coloured Yellow. The Red containing 373 persons per acre and the Yellow 93, or a difference of just four times.\n\n2. That the customs, habits, and mode of living of the people occupying the two districts are entirely dissimilar.\n\n3. --That the Separate System for the European districts, and combined for the Chinese, are the most suitable, and the two districts are thereby disconnected, there being no communicating drains of any sort between the entirely Chinese parts of the City and those principally occupied by Europeans. This might prove of great benefit should certain epidemics break out and would prevent sewage gases ascending from the Chinese thickly populated districts up the steep sewers (which act almost as chimneys) to the Europeans living above; this being a cause tending to make the upper levels the more unhealthy.\n\n4. That the subsoil water, which crops out almost entirely in the Yellow areas, can easily be dealt with by connecting it direct to the rainwater drains.\n\n5. That the Yellow portions are eminently suited to the adoption of the Separate System, while any attempt at separation of the Red portions must prove a failure.\n\n6. That the two systems are more economical than the adoption of the Separate System for the entire City, and that it will do away with the many very serious complications that would arise in the narrow streets and thickly populated portions of China Town.\n\n7. --That separation in the Chinese districts is unnecessary and uncalled for, is extremely difficult and expensive to carry out, with the four outfalls proposed, which necessitate intercepting sewers and perhaps pumping.\n\n8. That the adoption of the Combined System, with numerous proper outfalls, would ensure the complete and rapid disposal of the sewage of the Chinese districts and utilize, in a thorough manner, the large amount of excellent work done by the Government during the past six years.\n\n9. That the scheme of drainage proposed by me would be less costly, more effective, and easier of execution than the very expensive scheme of Mr. COOPER.\n\nI shall, if required, be willing to furnish complete detailed plans, specification, and estimates for the complete drainage of the City.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nR. K. LEIGH,\n\nAssoc. Mem. Inst. C.E.\n\n574",
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        "content_text": "For end on 2.46 of 4. C. 247-1886 herewith and refer to Outdoor Prostitution & to the using of Boats & Brothels. the Police.\n\nI think the Clause very objectionable, as giving arbitrary power to arrest (not who is committing any unlawful act of prostitution, but) whom they may suspect of being for the purpose of such act.\n\nXXX, if it is meant to avoid against solicitation, it should be more explicit. I think all that is really required is already provided by these clauses is already provided 27 (1) of this Bill.\n\nThe word \"place\" in that section is wide Enough if amended by altering the word \"kept\" in C. 2 to \"used\" and so to cover any public place, or any house, or any junk etc. abare;\n\n4.10(2) of Stat Ord\n\nI do not expect this Bill has yet been passed (as it was not urgent and introduced at date of their Gazette).\n\nShould we not telegraph to following effect: Referring to tkany for Gazette 13th April, Telegraph whether Protection of Women Ordinance already passed, if not passed, suspended section pending instructions.\n\nAnd if the reply is in the negative I should like to be allowed to suggest precisely what amendments have we made in Mein draft Bill should be insisted on of course if the Ord. is passed, wait for its arrival, but I hope we are not to act\n\nS.W.9.30 May 1889\n\nSam dary Shar[r] has delayed this paper, as a telegram day or reg[s]ieme - but. 2. Austration Constitutio Sam Anferm Paper 20m rather fuch it aside as both on 20h Koruntide- St. Fries is not was drawn, for bendship;\n\nI think if papunt in this from in the four it somers get be accepted without animadrata de ich may be in S. Grand as W. Sommer-per- 894.13/6\n\nSin James Rupell is in Engstond\n\nExplant. May gah da Selegraph or persposes. No Panone might see fir Russells upen the questions raised his mate. I have not considered thon prastian, on the l'alegram showed he put o at mee\n\n14/6\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "with such offences \n\nwhich deals only by this words \n\n\" \n\n\" within or without the Colony in O.4. \n\nIn \n\nW. Lockhart's draft. I suggest (in red ink) an amendment \n\n3 \n\nsimilar to that proposed for the \n\nStraits Order in a despatch of 29th ult: (in 19397). \n\nas an \n\n624 \n\nExperiment, and reapproved \n\nin Ord. XIV of 1888, s.9 of which \n\nhowever expressly limits the operation of \n\nThis Part II to two \n\nYears or such time as it \n\nbe extended hereafter by the Leg. \n\nThe word \"detain \"in the same section wants to be defined as in the Straits Ord. (following Criminal Law Amendment Act, \n\nof freezing through so as to cover detention by detention of the clothes. \n\nThis is done in \n\ns. 11 and I have suggested (in pencil) \n\nan amalgamation of these two clauses. In view of minutes \n\n16584/89 on the Whipping \n\nprovision Part II. (Special power of the Registrar General) is the most open to objection & difference of opinion. Mr. Lockhart naturally, wishes to have as free a hand as possible, but the legal authorities object to his proposed action (see & prev. papers where the discussed in connection \n\non 10527187 question with Ord. \n\n9 \n\nof 1887). In the annexed draft Mr. Lockhart has mainly followed \n\nthe Straits model, as \n\noriginally sanctioned (in 6870/86) \n\nAs in Part III \n\nof English \n\nCriminal Law Amend. Act, 1885 \n\nCouncil. \n\nPerhaps \n\na similar limit of time \n\nshould be introduced in the Hong Kong \n\nto make the provisions go \n\ncase \n\ndown the gullet of \n\nmore easily?: \n\nthe Council \n\nM.Lockhart \n\nthinks (see his private note attached \n\nto 15540) that the provisions in this \n\nPart \n\nof \n\nOrd. \n\n19 of 1889, which he proposes to cut out, \n\nwould surely hamper him \n\nrender it unworkable. \n\nPart III follows Part III of the Straits Ord. almost exactly. Subsec. (4) however to which the S. of State objected is cut out; \n\nadded in front of (2) to make the owner as well as the keeper liable. I think omitted from the Straits Order by mistake; for the definition of \n\nThis was \n\nowner \n\nthat \n\noccurs",
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        "content_text": "British subjects, but that it will be sufficient if they take this oath of allegiance which is in fact similar & that required of Volunteers in England (see deg? & Straits in 16159/88) and to that required of the Police in Otting (sec 0.0 Sched. III. f 81887) who are not required to be British subjects.\n\n? Inform W.O. that we propose to inform OAS. to that effect but first send papers to C.D.C. for observations.\n\nJing. 10 June 90\n\nMaji Clauko\n\nRun 12/6\n\nOff. Opinion need not be naturalized and the procedure proposed in above minute should be followed.\n\nConcurred by C.S.G. 15.7.90. Pati\n\n17.7.90. Jo Jawat M. Braustin Gr. Marte\n\nSee note from W.O. herewith, asking that we should throw no difficulty in the way of naturalizing these Chinese.\n\n500\n\nThe Attorney Gen. of Hongkong has, you will see, expressed Opinion that these Chinamen would hardly come under the phrase \"person of colour\" 0.95(2) of Army Act 1881 consider origin & history of that subsection\n\nBut surely their origin & history need not be considered, provided the words cover Chinamen. Doubtless that they do.\n\n? Send Despatch to W.O. saying that Lord Knutsford is advised that naturalization is under 1.95(2) of Army Act 1881 and that his Lordship would hesitate to depart from the practice which has long prevailed at Hongkong only to naturalize individuals by special order, such Order only being passed in case of persons who are known or believed to have bona fide taken up their residence in Hongkong for good and that he proposes with W. Stanhope's concurrence inform Governor that the oath of allegiance required by s.d. the Police Ord. will suffice I then",
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        "content_text": "401\n\nPetitiona\n\nGovernor's Messages or\n\nMinutes.\n\nNotics of motion at meet.\n\nIng.\n\nNotice of motion not\n\ngiven at a meeting.\n\nMotions without notice.\n\nNotice of Queation.\n\nMembers speaking to ad-\n\ndress President.\n\nNo Member to be refer\n\nred to by name.\n\nInterruptions.\n\n9.-Petitions addressed to the Council may be sent to the Clerk of the Council or they may be presented by any Member of the Council.\n\nNo Petition shall be received which is not properly and respectfully worded, or which does not relate to matters of Legislation.\n\nPrecedence who wo Member rise together\n\nspack not to be read.\n\nIt shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Council, or of the Member presenting a Petition, to inform the Council if there be any doubt as to a Petition coming under these prohibitions.\n\nPetitions not coming within the above prohibitions shall be received as of course without question.\n\nPetitions relating to any Bills before a Committee shall be referred by the Clerk on receipt to the Committee, by whom they will be presented to the Council with their Report. Other Petitions after being received, if it be so resolved, may be read, or may be printed, or may be referred to a Committee for consideration and report.\n\n10.-Messages or Minutes of the Governor may be read at any time during a meeting.\n\n11.-A Member may give notice of motion, during a meeting, mentioning the day or the meeting on which it is intended to bring forward the motion.\n\n12.-Notice of motion, if not given at a meeting, must be sent in writing to the Clerk of the Council at least three days before the meeting at which it is intended that the motion should be brought forward.\n\n13.-The following motions may be made without notice :—\n\na. Any motion for the confirmation of the minutes of the Council, or for the adoption, modification, or rejection of the report of any Committee.\n\nb. Any motion that a petition, or other paper, do lie on the table, or be printed.\n\nc. Any motion for the adjournment of the Council, or of a debate.\n\nd. Any motion for the suspension of the Standing Orders.\n\ne. Any motion for the reference of any matter to a Committee.\n\nf. Any motion for the withdrawal of Strangers.\n\ng. Any motion made when the Council is in Committee.\n\nh. Any motion the urgency of which is admitted by the President and two-thirds of the Members present.\n\n14.-Notice of intention to ask a question of any Member, if not given at a meeting, must, at least three clear days before the meeting of the Council at which such question is to be asked, be sent in writing to the Clerk; who shall communicate the same to the President and to the Member of whom the question is to be asked two clear days before the question is asked.\n\nRULES OF DEBATE.\n\n15.-Every Member shall speak standing, and shall address himself to the President.\n\n16.-No Member shall refer to any other Member by name.\n\n17.-No Member shall interrupt another when speaking, except by rising to order. A Member rising to order shall simply direct attention to the point which he desires to bring to notice, and submit it to the decision of the President.\n\nSpeech on petition.\n\nNo debate on question\n\nanswered.\n\nHow often Members may\n\nspeak.\n\ntion or amendment should be seconded.\n\nOrder in which amendments should be entertained.\n\nProposed amendments to be committed to writing.\n\nClauses of Bills.\n\nFilling Blanks.\n\n18.-If two Members rise to speak at the same time, the President shall call upon one of them to address the Council first.\n\nA member may not read his speech, but he may read extracts from written or printed papers in support of his argument.\n\n19.-It shall be the duty of the President on his own authority to enforce all these Rules: and when the President rises, any member speaking shall immediately resume his seat.\n\n20.-No speech shall be made on presenting a petition, beyond such as may be necessary to explain its nature and object.\n\n21.-When a question has been asked and answered, no further debate thereon shall be permitted.\n\n22.-No Member may speak more than once on any question, except when the Council is in Committee.\n\nThe Mover of any motion may, however, reply at the close of a debate; and any Member may explain himself if he has been misapprehended in any essential statement.\n\n23.-The Mover of any motion or amendment may speak in support thereof; but no further debate shall be allowed, whether the Council be in Committee or not, until the motion or amendment be duly seconded.\n\n24.-If any amendment be proposed and seconded, it shall be considered before the original question.\n\nIf an amendment of a proposed amendment be moved and duly seconded, it shall be considered as if such previous amendment were an original question.\n\n25.-Any Amendment moved and seconded may be required by the President to be committed to writing by the mover and delivered to the Clerk.\n\n26.-When a Bill is in Committee each Clause shall be read by the Clerk and shall then be put from the Chair, without Motion, by this Question:-\"That this Clause shall stand part of the Bill,\" and the Clause shall be treated as a Motion, except that a Clause may be amended portion by portion, the earlier Amendments having precedence of the later.\n\nA decision on an earlier portion of the Clause shall not bar an Amendment of a later portion, but a decision on a later portion of the Clause shall bar all Amendments of an earlier portion.\n\nAnd if an Amendment of a later portion of a Clause inconsistent with any decision come to upon any earlier portion of the Clause, be proposed, such an Amendment cannot be put.\n\nAnd no Amendment of a later Clause in a Bill can be put which may be inconsistent with any earlier Clause as it has been passed.\n\nAnd if by inadvertency any such inconsistent Amendment be put and carried, it shall at any time be struck out by the President when discovered and brought to the notice of the Chair.\n\n27.-In filling up blanks in Bills, and in putting Questions of Amendment respecting Amounts of Money, or Periods of Time, the Question of the lowest Amount of Money or shortest Period of Time proposed shall be first put.",
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        "content_text": "and seventy four dollars\n\n\"\n\nto the public service of the year 1891, a transcript of which accompanied\n\nFleming's despatchno.442\n\nthe\n\nDec. Cast.\n\n2. For the past few\n\nYear's I observe that\n\n623\n\nkind has been included\n\nin the Supplementary\n\n↑ Ordinances.\n\nApprop. Or.\n\nThis has arisen apparently\n\nfrom various\n\ncauses\n\nwhich it is somewhat\n\nunnecessary\n\nit has not been\n\nThis\n\npractice to include\n\nannual\n\nin the regular Approp\n\nthe\n\nOrdin funds for Extraordinary public\n\nworks which are\n\nto be met from\n\na com\n\nlated balances & land premia, although supplementary expenditure of the same\n\nto Enter into now, but I\n\nthat zm\n\nrequest\n\nwill\n\ncause the following practice to be observed\n\nin future : viz. that the Approp Ord. Should cover all expenditure contemplated within the year\n\nnot otherwise covered\n\nby Leg authority (e.g. by a Loan Ord.) whether\n\nmet from\n\naccumulated\n\nbalances or from current\n\nRevenue",
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        "content_text": "Alven Cases like the present where the total expenditure will exceeds the total est...\n\nAlven rev of the year, it was explained in par. 25 of the Instructions Enclosed in my Circular 74. Ft. 1890, that in the Appropt. Ord; the expenditure should be made a charge against the revenue of the year and other funds of the Colony:\n\n3. As far as the current year is concerned I am introducing an amending Ord. to cover so much of the expenditure then proposed for extraordinary public works as, after my desp Extraor 624 dated this day's date, it is decided to incur during the year.\n\nJuni\n\n4. The Supplementary Approp. Ord. for 1890 should similarly be made to cover all the sums expended last year during on extraordinary public works, and not merely the Supplementary expenditure on such works, and that I have to request.\n\nAX",
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        "content_text": "Telegram or letter fragment appears to be severely corrupted due to OCR errors.\n\nThee from her he. Mammy's hote ather and to Ther. 18199 that W. Myfuld havben excerated int\n\nsie R. Muchent in order\n\na despienty\n\nin\n\n• Commation\n\nwowstrand of supposed to fit our with the dividends in this partirthan Twat, Thi L. Running\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS. BONIFACE LONDON\n\nA LETTERS TO BE ADDRESSED FREMITTANCES MADE PAYABLE TO THE\n\nON A SHAN BANKING CORPORATION,\n\nNOT\n\n.DIVIDUAL 8\n\n691\n\nHongbang & Thanghai Banker, No 819\n\nHarble Rot. Meade\n\nColonial office\n\n31. Lombard The RECO\n\nPres\n\nCA\n\nThe Red 28 AUG 90\n\n(REG 28-AUG 25th. Anyt 1890.....\n\nLis.\n\nLorcan\n\nWe have\n\nthe\n\nhover to act obedy\n\nbae\n\ncopy of\n\nAtte\n\nnote\n\nmisinforund when he hast. his I so the Rank of England be Tomain out reparate dinidand\n\ncrafts when xerally remated I would then hapfent that fai R. Kelent & name should be phand with Tweet wathand of Mr. Migfile's in aundann with the Recommendataris four yeux lien flor ventlysing\n\nhe mach, a\n\nTrust funds,\n\nom many\n\nall that would be newssary world. To clatitate said. Herbert's wan\n\nin the lathe to us\n\n1625\n\nreceipt of you\n\nenclosing\n\nadd\n\nyou by the Treasury agreeing\n\nproposals for hand required of the Corporation.\n\nthis Reserve\n\ncompleting\n\nof Notes\n\nfor pleuning.\n\npossible wi\n\nIn acendant\n\nthis day lodged\n\none third\n\nby this\n\nfor request the\n\nthe Comm Indiair\n\nwith\n\nLaws this\n\nwith\n\nthe\n\nColonies\n\n4 to\n\nLean Notes\n\nAgents for\n\nLovernment\n\nthe 3375,000.-\n\nWe beg to sijify our\n\nameriting\n\nWithea\n\nauth\n\nthe\n\nagree.\n\nConditions\n\n? So pro\n\nlond\n\ndonn\n\nfon\n\nLaund\n\ncommexcine.\n\ntherewith,\n\nby\n\n20 any\n\nand to\n\nchanp\n\nBank &\n\nand\n\ntre\n\nOball\n\nnow thange officer\n\nyar\n\nt\n\nDrafts su\n\nTill th May Maya thayhan Ranke\n\nweidutally\n\name\n\nwen ollaion Veng dress\n\nof the chang's made in the Print\n\nThe treat will then\n\nLooponals\n\nof 2\n\nwith 6.0\n\nmitted Sw. & Trear\n\n81926\n\nmishnet the",
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        "content_text": "310 Sunday Labour on English Vessels in Crown Colonies. [Oor., the Stanley Exhibition which you have arranged for Sundays, May 18th and 25th, and to beg that the matter may be reconsidered.\n\nThe Missionary Societies who have so largely contributed to the Exhibition, as well as certain individual members of your Committee, cannot but feel acutely the fact that they should have any part in, or responsibility for, such a serious and inexcusable misuse of the hours of the Lord's day as your arrangements indicate.\n\nIt does not diminish from the responsibility of your Committee that in this arrangement you are \"following the example of other galleries.\"\n\nIt does not diminish from the evil of any course of action that in pursuing it we follow a multitude.\n\nGod's Holy Day of Rest is not intended for such secular uses as those to which you propose to devote it.--I am, dear Sir, your faithful servant.\n\nYour Secretary, after consultation, was able to assure the Managers that the Church Missionary Society and other exhibitors would withdraw their goods if the Sunday opening was carried out. The information reached your Committee too late to intervene effectually as to the first Sunday, May 18, but, before Whit-Sunday, the following circular-letter settled the matter:-\n\nVictoria Gallery, 207 & 209 Regent Street, W.\n\nMay 21st, 1890.\n\nSir, In deference to the wishes of the Missionary and Lord's-day Observance Societies, it has been decided to cancel the Private View for next Sunday, the 25th inst.\n\nWill you kindly notify this to any friends to whom you may have sent cards?--I am, Sir, your faithful servant,\n\nEDWARD LE, Hon. Sec.\n\nApplications for Literature have been received from 258 persons, residing in all parts of the country; and, in response, many thousands of tracts, pamphlets, and books have been scattered abroad, dealing with numerous aspects and developments of the Lord's-day question. This extensive circulation of the Society's publications has been almost entirely gratis.\n\nTo meet the constantly multiplying assaults on the Lord's-day and the perverse ingenuity of anti-Sabbatic arguments, it has been recently necessary to produce many new tracts and leaflets. Some of them are mentioned on the cover of this Occasional Paper. Complete lists can be had on application to the office.\n\nTo increase the acquaintance of the people with Lord's-day questions, and to influence them in the right direction, grants of books have from time to time been made to various free libraries. The Committee have recently purchased considerable numbers of copies of standard works which, in addition to the volumes in their own catalogue, they propose using in this way.\n\nSUNDAY LABOUR ON ENGLISH VESSELS IN THE CROWN COLONIES OF HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE. The Committee have endeavoured, and sometimes with marked success, to stop Sunday work in harbours at home and abroad, and they have given much thought and care to the question as affecting Hong Kong and Singapore. In association with Commander Dawson of the Missions to\n\n1890.] Sunday Labour on English Vessels in Crown Colonies. 311\n\nSeamen, the Seamen's Chaplain at Hong Kong, and others, they have brought the question before Government, Parliament, and shipowners.\n\nThe Committee have recently received the following important document on the question from Hong Kong, and are trying to further the wishes of the Bishop of Victoria and others who sign the letter.\n\nHong Kong, July 30th, 1890.\n\nThe Secretary, Lord's-day Observance Society.\n\nDear Sir, We should feel it a great kindness if you would bring before your Committee the following facts with respect to the Sunday labour in the British Crown Colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore.\n\nThey are probably already known to you, and we are most gratefully aware that the subject has received your earnest attention. But we feel, at the same time, that a communication direct from us may lead you to give still more consideration to the matter; and we fervently hope that your powerful co-operation, together with our own constant agitation, may eventually result in the mitigation of the evil against which we both so emphatically protest.\n\n1. Sunday labour on board ship in discharging and loading cargo is the invariable rule in the ports of Hong Kong and Singapore. This is partly due to the fact that these are \"free ports\"; and hence there being no custom house officials to claim their day of rest, as, e.g., in the treaty ports of China, and almost every other port in the world--Sunday labour is carried on because there is no one in a position to resist it.\n\nNecessarily, a great hardship is imposed upon the officers and men on board ship, as well as upon an increasing number of clerks ashore, who are gradually being deprived altogether of their day of rest.\n\n2. In the year 1888, a petition embodying the above facts was signed by 579 captains, officers, and engineers in the port of Hong Kong, and by 64 residents ashore, including Lloyd's surveyor, the marine surveyors, the wharfingers, head dock men and the majority of the clerks in the shipping offices.\n\nThis petition was addressed and presented to H.E. the Governor, Sir William des Voeux. But H.E., in consequence of the unsympathetic attitude of the local Chamber of Commerce, replied that, though personally willing to assist the petitioners, and not wishing to close his mind to any suggestion for accomplishing the desired object, he at the same time declined to do anything at present.\n\n3. The question has since been referred home, and Admiral Field, M.P., brought the subject before the House of Commons in May last.\n\nLord Knutsford has very kindly taken the matter up, and signified his intention of conferring with the Governors of Hong Kong and Singapore respectively on the matter.\n\nAs yet, however, to the best of our knowledge, nothing has been done. We beg to submit to you the importance of keeping the matter before the public generally, with a view to legislation being enacted to place a binding restriction on Sunday labour in our Crown Colonies.\n\nWhat can be done in Bombay and in the Australian ports, not to mention our neighbouring Chinese treaty ports (in which latter a great deal of unnecessary labour is prevented by only a small restriction in the shape of a money permit), can be done, we are convinced, in these Crown Colonies.\n\nAccording to our judgment, an ordinance absolutely prohibiting Sunday work on board ships of every nationality--so far as coaling and cargo is concerned--except in cases of absolute necessity, is the only effective measure to be adopted. Cases of absolute necessity could be provided for similarly to the manner adopted in, e.g., Bombay. When such necessity exists, work could be permitted on payment of a certain sum, calculated according to the ship's registered tonnage at the rate of a day's demurrage,\n\nPage 311\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "216\n\nTHE CHINA REVIEW.\n\na petiole 3 to 6 lines long. Stipules, minute, fugitive, easily observed on young branches. Flowers, small, on stalks 3 to 9 lines long, bright yellow, arranged in rather dense terminal and lateral cymes; bracts, few, linear. Calyx, small, persistent, very deeply cleft; sepals, about 1 line long, acute, imbricated. Corolla, rotate, 8 to 9 lines diam., tube 3 to 4 lines long, surmounted by 5 equal lobes 2 to 3 lines long, inner surface of tube marked with red spots. Stamens 5, inserted on base of corolla tube and alternate with the lobes of the corolla, exserted, but shorter than the lobes; filaments equal; anthers lanceolate. Ovary stalked, on a short gynophore, tapering into a style 3 lines long, two-celled, containing many ascending ovules in each cell; style bi-cleft, each division being again slightly divided into two spreading stigmas. Fruit, a brown, dry, oblong, inflated, membraneous capsule, about 1 inch long, having two opposite deep furrows running from base to apex; dehiscence, septicidal. Seeds, very small, furnished with reddish-brown, reniform and imbricated wings.\n\nThe above characters were observed on a specimen gathered on the hills overlooking Mirs Bay, at the back of the city of Kowloon in the Kwangtung province, and on another growing on Mount Gough, on the island of Hongkong; the description of the fruit is taken from specimens gathered on the Canton West River.\n\nGelsemium elegans may now be seen growing in the Hongkong Botanical Gardens.\n\nHABITAT. This shrub grows sparingly in Hongkong, but more abundantly on the hills of the neighbouring mainland of China (Champion, Wright, Wilford, Hance, &c.). In November, 1885, Mr. Westland found a large number of specimens in full flower, climbing round trees to a height of about 12 feet near the Eastern base of Tai Mo Shan.2 It has\n\n1. Flora Hong kongensis, p 229.\n\n2. This is the loftiest (about 3,000 feet) of the hills on the coast of China immediately opposite to the island of Hongkong.\n\nalso been observed growing luxuriantly on the banks of the West River, about 120 miles from Canton (Ford), near the district of Lo ting, and in ravines on the island of Lantau, opposite the mouths of the Canton river (Westland). In the Pên ts'ao (Chap. XVII) it is declared a native of the provinces of Chekiang, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Sze-chuen, and Yunnan. According to Bentham, this poisonous plant also grows in Sumatra, being probably identical with Zygopteris sumatrana, Blume. It flowers in October, November and December and matures its seeds in April and May.\n\nIt differs from the N. American species1 of this genus in having smaller, scentless, flowers, larger leaves, and smaller fruits and seeds.\n\nPARTS USED, &c. - The root is the only part of the plant used in medicine. As met with in the native drug-shops in Hongkong under the name\n\nM.: Hu muan ch'iang;\n\nC.: U mun k'eung, it consists of thick pieces of the underground stem with or without portions of the true root and rootlets attached.\n\nA piece of the root in our possession exhibits the following characters. Cortical layer, thick, easily removed from central woody portion, externally of a brown colour, wrinkled, marked at intervals of from ¼ to ½ inch by transverse cracks, extending about half way round, and as far as the medullary layer. A section of the latter shows the medullary rays stretching through the yellow woody portion in a manner similar to that displayed by the root of G. nitidum.2\n\n1. In the South. E. States, G. nitidum, Michaux, the source of the eclectic remedy Gelsemin) is known as Wild Yellow Jessamine or False Jasmine. We prefer to avoid the use of the terms Jasmine or Jessamine in the case of the China species. These names ought to have distinct generic significance, and should be applied only to plants of the genus Jasminum, with which Gelsemium was formerly classed. The value of popular botanical names will be seriously impaired, if their indiscriminate use becomes general.\n\n2. Syn. Bignonia sempervirens, Linn; G. sempervirens, Aiton; G. lucidum, Poir. This species is figured in Bentley and Trimen's Medicinal Plants, (1880), Vol. III, No. 181,\n\nNOTES ON CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA.\n\nWhen cut with a sharp knife, the central woody part shows a waxy section.\n\nThere is every reason to believe, that, in the majority of instances, supplies of this drug are brought from the hill sides only as they are wanted. In but few shops can specimens be seen. This fact will possibly account for the scarcity of the plant on the island of Hongkong: the careless collector doubtless destroys a shrub each time he gathers the drug, the root being the only part sought for.\n\nCHEMICAL COMPOSITION. - The active principle of this drug is due to an alkaloid which was first isolated in the Government Laboratory in the course of an enquiry ordered by Her Majesty's Coroner in the early part of 1884. This alkaloid is new to chemical science, and its discovery adds one more to the list of the STRYCHNINE OR TETANUS-PRODUCING GROUP OF ALKALOIDS. Its most characteristic reaction is the production of a deep violet colouration when in contact with oxidizing agents. If the alkaloid is present in very small quantity an observer might confound the colour with that displayed by Strychnine and Gelsemine under similar circumstances. In such a case the observer should apply side by side the same reagents to the alkaloids of Strychnos nux vomica and Gelsemium nitidum - a practised eye will at once note the difference.\n\nThe following table shows at a glance the different colours produced when manganese oxide and sulphuric acid are applied to---\n\nThe alkaloid1 of Gelsemium elegans.\n\nGelsemine.\n\nStrychnine.\n\nA deep violet colouration, changing to a rich green, which latter tint is more marked at the edges.\n\nA damask-purple colour, changing rapidly to and one of a rich purple hue.\n\nA deep purplish-violet colour, finally assuming a cherry-red tint.\n\n1. Pharmaceutical Journal, (3), XVI., p. 95 and 496; also Hongkong Government Gazette, Vol. XXXI, p. 344.\n\n217\n\nThese colours are all evanescent, but that displayed by the first mentioned alkaloid is more lasting than the others. The alkaloid of G. elegans is not associated with gelseminic acid, and unlike Strychnine and Gelsemine (P), it will not bear the action of sulphuric acid at a temperature of 100° C.\n\nThe publication of other chemical features of this alkaloid is reserved for a future paper.\n\nTOXICOLOGICAL NOTE. - In cases of poisoning by any preparation of the root of G. elegans, no difficulty should be experienced, in detecting the active principle in the contents of the stomach, provided, first, that the victim had not vomited to any extent after receiving the dose, and second, that death had ensued within a few hours of the administration of the poison. The method adopted in the Laboratory of the Government Civil Hospital is a modification of Stas's alkaloidal process. The viscera is treated with about twice its weight of absolute alcohol, acidified with tartaric acid, and digested for a few hours in a flask at a temperature of about 70° C., cooled and filtered. The filtrate is evaporated to the consistence of a soft extract, and treated with successive quantities of absolute alcohol and water, so as to free the alkaloid, if present, from as much extraneous matter as possible. The necessary evaporations may be conducted at a temperature of 100°C. The extract after the last alcoholic treatment is now dissolved in a little water and filtered, and the solution (acid) after being well washed with ether until nothing farther is removed - is made slightly alkaline with ammonia, and immediately shaken with a suitable volume of ether. The ethereal layer, which now contains the alkaloid, is removed; and this treatment having been repeated, the ethereal solutions of alkaloid are mixed, and divided into two parts. The first half should be evaporated\n\n1. Pharmaceutical Journal, (3), XVI., p. 642.\n\n2. This washing of the acid solution with ether ought never to be omitted.\n\n133",
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        "content_text": "## charging the Expenditure for the year and the Revenue of 1890\n\nThe funds of the following, since it is understood part of it was met from Balances Friend A.D. copy of to act with ref to the P.S. that a further discharge App Law will be required to cover the sum there referred to and send to A.O. with ref. to letter `91459.2720` copy of the Suff. H. Est. and of the Ord.\n\nThe enormous sum under \"Miscellaneous\" is due to the robbery of Barradas.\n\nBug. 9 Sep. 84.9 ft. atopee Que 1/8 •X. At pres Mis ita V. 261 Jut both sides of the b table a beginning 17. These Erts\n\n### Enclosure 1. 30th July 1891. (In duplicate Copies)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 5th August, 1891.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure **Ordinance No 16 of 1871**, appropriating the Supplementary Estimates for \n\nThe Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G., etc.\n\n|              |         |\n|--------------|---------|\n| 17890        |         |\n| RECP Beat 8 SEP JI | 652    |\n\nPage 363 (if applicable, as per original document)",
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        "content_text": "## SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL G. DIGBY BARKER, C.B., OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT, AT THE RE-ASSEMBLING OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG, 7TH OCTOBER, 1891\n\nYou will learn with satisfaction that as far as can be foreseen at present the ordinary Revenue of the current year together with Premia on Land sales will fully realize the original estimate, while the probable expenditure (ordinary and extraordinary) will fall short of the estimated sum by about $200,000. The originally estimated deficit, on the year, of $451,000 is therefore reduced to $250,000, a sum which so far as present estimates show can be defrayed out of existing balances.\n\nIt is a matter of congratulation that not only has the revenue of the year been sufficient to cover the ordinary expenditure, including the increased Military Contribution both for this year and last year, and the increased salaries, but also to leave a balance of $250,000 towards defraying the cost of Extraordinary Public Works, now estimated to amount for the year to $500,000. I should mention that the probable revenue for the current year is now estimated at $2,039,042 or an increase of over $27,000 on that of the 1890.\n\nIt has been advocated for a considerable time past that, in view of the large number of Public Works in progress or in immediate contemplation, to the cost of which future residents in the Colony might be fairly required to contribute, e.g., New Central Market, the New Gaol, New Roads, &c., a Loan should be raised, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies has intimated his readiness to consider the question. I have, therefore, fully considered the matter with this result.\n\nThe cost of the Public Works which are likely to be urgently required to be constructed during the next five years may be roughly estimated at two million and a half of dollars, or an expenditure of $500,000 a year, which is also, I have ascertained, about the limit which the Public Works Department have on the average the means of carrying out, though for various reasons it is often necessary to exceed that total in estimating for the year's services.\n\nWith a revenue already yearly increasing and likely to be considerably increased by works now in course of erection, or about to be erected, which will be of a remunerative character, as well as from causes which I have already touched upon, we may fairly assume from the experience of the present year that a considerable proportion of this extraordinary expenditure may be defrayed out of the ordinary revenue and premia on land sales. What that proportion may be, or whether indeed the whole may not be so met, depends very much on the development of events during the next few months.\n\nI, therefore, think it well to postpone taking any immediate action in this direction.\n\n## Enclosure\nExtract from the-  \n375  \nC.O  \n22991  \nIRECP  \nRed 30 NOV 91\n\nOpium Farm which will take place in the Spring, introduces, however, an element of uncertainty into the question,\n\nand until it is seen whether the result will be an increase or otherwise of revenue, it is impossible to state with certainty that a loan will not be required within the next year.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nMy Lord,  \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient  \nHumble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "# The Daily Press.\n\n## HONGKONG, OCTOBER 14TH, 1891.\n\n### THE TRIAL OF MASON.\n\nThe trial of Charles Henry Allen Welch Mason on a charge that he \"did on or about the 13th September have in his possession or under his control five pounds weight or thereabouts of an explosive substance under such circumstances as to give reasonable suspicion that he did not have it in his possession for a lawful object,” was continued at the British Police Court at Shanghai on the 7th inst.\n\nAs before, Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, prosecuted; Mr. R. E. Bredon, Commissioner of Customs, and Mr. Yu, the deputy appointed by the Viceroy at Nanking, were present in Court during the hearing of the case. H.E. the Tuotai and his interpreter, Mr. Zee Lan-char, occupied seats on the bench.\n\nHenry Croskey deposed--I am an American citizen, and a fourth assistant in the Customs service. I know the accused. I have been stationed at Chinkiang since July 16 last. I lived in the same quarters as accused at Chinkiang. About the beginning of August accused told me he knew there were certain Chinese in Chinkiang who proposed to rebel against the Government in Chinkiang and Nanking and that his intention was to assist them. He named several Chinese who he said were members of a society called the Kolao Hui. He proposed to go to join in the movement, and left with me on his departure certain instructions written in cypher. On one occasion he told me he had written a letter to Gen. Mesny at Shanghai, making proposals to him. The letter, accused said, was signed “X” and the answer was to be addressed to “X”, Customs Post Office, Chinkiang. He also said it was written in such a manner as to make Gen. Mesny believe it came from a Chinese. He had the letter in his hand, but I had no opportunity of reading it. I saw in his possession an American illustrated catalogue of firearms. Accused here interposed and asked if questions regarding arms had any bearing on the matter of dynamite.\n\nHis Worship said he presumed they had. Accused was charged with having dynamite under such circumstances as to raise a suspicion that it was for an unlawful purpose, and therefore the accompanying circumstances were clearly admissible.\n\nExamination continued--Accused told me, two or three days after his letter to General Mesny, that he had applied for leave to go to Shanghai to see a dentist, but that his real object was to see General Mesny. Leave was not granted. He afterwards went away on two months' leave. He said he proposed to go to Japan, and from there immediately to Hongkong, where he proposed to buy arms and ammunition and bring them to Chinkiang. Three days before he left he sent me the paper produced, which is a key to a cypher. After office hours he asked me if I could read it. I told him I could. It is not a difficult cypher. It consists of English words written in Greek characters. Down to the last three lines the words are in the usual order. The last three lines are written from right to left, the lowest line first. On the day of his departure he handed me a sheet of instructions written in this cypher. I gave it to the Commissioner at Chinkiang. I made a copy in cypher and a translation in English: -\n\n\"You will receive a letter or telegram from me with 4 figures: first two give day and second two give month, example: 0110 means 10th August, 3090 means 30th Sept., on this day or soon after you may expect me, if in our own ship. Signal will be one long blast, followed by two short ones; also by day, black pennant at mast head. By night red lamp beneath white, also at mast head. On arrival, come off in Custom's gig or sampan and bring along any weapons that may be in your charge, remember red sash. If I come from Shanghai, I shall come by river steamer bringing arms and perhaps a few men; and come straight to Customs, in disguise, as friend. (Don't go out to dinner for a week, after receipt of my letter, if possible.) We shall then quietly collect our men, arm and commence operations.\n\nOn receipt of date, tell road-coolie, tell boy, and tell him his instructions appended. Find Chinese date from Almanac. Write on slip (thus, 8 moon and 20th day) and show to tingchai the morning of date, tell Morris and if possible, see Clark, Martin, Schultz and O'Neill and tell them to be ready to come aboard. Remember that your duties will be telegraph, bank and Silver Island forts, learn your ground. Likewise take a run up to Nanking, and take road-coolie with you. Domestic: take care of ponies and have them exercised and teach boy to ride (big saddle). Every day ask to see boy's bags: I have told him to make 50. Please pay him for a bale of cloth and cotton out of $20 left by me. On receipt of date, pay boy thirty dollars, tingchai 10 dollars, total fifty, left with you to be returned if not used. Also give each man one bale Turkey red at $2.40--$10. The pass-word, see boy's instructions. Instructions to boy. On receipt of date letter immediately send pamphlets to Nanking, Chinkiang camp, Silver Island and Kiangyin; day before date named, put up notices in Chinkiang not to bargain for eigners--day before date named, tell d'un to arrange with Yang Ta-chang, Gan-chin, l'u Kuo-fa, brass-man, etc., and 100 men himself, they must be ready on bank and when steamer sighted must come off either from Shia-ma-tou or Chi-ho Kho (lorcha anchorage or opposite village; boy not to tell them exact date. The pass-word will be challenge: \"Lago \"who). Answer -\"Gangizu\" to which first man says \"Chiang\" (river). Boy to meet every up steamer after date mentioned, waiting at saloon passengers' gangway.\n\nI have already paid boy $10, tingchai $10, road coolie $5.\"\n\nExamination resumed--Clark is a former third-class tide waiter at Chinkiang, now discharged. Martin is now a third-class tidewaiter at Chinkiang. Schultz is a salt searcher employed by the Tuotai. O'Neill and Morris are third-class tide waiters. The boy's bags referred to were canvas haversacks of which a model was made for accused before his departure. The Turkey red was to be cut up and used for distinguishing sashes. He had left two pieces for that purpose. Accused's boy was discharged by me about September 6th and went to Kiukiang, his native place. Yang Ta-chang is a ting hat in the Custom House general office. Ta Kuo-fu is the head road coolie of the Chinkiang Concession road fund, of which accused was Secretary. Gan-chin I do not know. At the time of his departure accused left a package containing ten or twelve brass knuckledusters, made in Chinkiang by the local tinker, referred to in the translation as the brass-man. Accused went on leave on the 26th or 27th of August. I received two letters from him from Hongkong, one dated 2nd September and the other 5th September. The first letter stated that he had written to Mr. Brazier explaining his presence in Hongkong, and that he expected to leave shortly for Japan. The letter produced is in accused's handwriting.\n\nMr. Wilkinson read the letter, which was as follows:---\n\n\"Victoria Hotel, \n\"Hongkong, September 2nd, 1891.\n\nDear Mr. Brazier,\n\nYou will be surprised to see me sending from this place, having come here, I may say, purely by accident. I found in Shanghai a letter waiting me from my uncle in India, saying he would be able to get his leave and would join me in Nagasaki, if I could get away by the middle of September. This knocked my catching the Vladivostock steamer on the head, so I thought I would rest a day or two in Shanghai, letting the Saikio go without me. When the second day I heard the Saikio had struck on the bar and would not be off till 6 p.m., and as I had found a day in Shanghai quite enough, I started off to catch her in the \"We jung mail\", which arrived (pardon slang) 32 minutes late, and we could only see the smoke of the Saikio as she rounded the corner. I had then no alternative but to sleep on the \"mail,\" which does not return to Shanghai till the following morning, and the next morning I got up at seven and saw a mail steamer getting up steam about a quarter of a mile off. This on enquiry proved to be the P. and O. Mirzapore leaving for Hongkong. I then thought, \"Dash it, why not shoot down to Hongkong and meet my uncle there instead of returning ignominiously to Shanghai to waste a week waiting for the ...",
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        "content_text": "## Coresp.\nthe subject of Sunday Labour in the Colonies.\n\n2  \nRM  \nR&L(x)-573---3000-10-89\n\n## Office or Individual.\n\nDate.  \n1891  \n**Hong Kong No. 2720.**  \n**(Subject.)**  \nEstimates 1890  \n273  \n**Rec DOMESTIC.**  \n**C.O. 2720**  \n**(Red 7 FEB 91**  \n6 Feb  \n\n## Last previous Paper.\n\nAsks in what respects they have been amended + requests copy of appropriation  \n**Orde**\n\n## Next subsequent Paper.\n\n9459191  \n**(Minutes.)**  \nM. Meade  \nMis. When the Governor answered the despatch on the 1890 Estimates here referred to we did not send any further despatch definitely saying which of the Extraordinary Public Works amending the Estimates for 1890 should be proceeded with and which should be postponed.  \nMoreover (as pointed out on para 4) the Appropriation 1875/90-1 (in `162441/09.90`) did not cover any of the Extraordinary Public Works. As the A.O. has now raised the question (see ...",
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        "content_text": "## EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT, SOMERSET HOUSE, 274 LONDON, W.C.\n\n6 February 1891\n\nC, O. 2720\n\nRef 7 FEB 91\n\n**RECO**\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter dated 24th September last, enclosing copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State to the Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong, (No47) 18 April 1890, I am directed by the Comptroller and Auditor General to request that he may be informed in what respects, if any, the Estimates of 1890 have been amended, and that he may be furnished, if possible, with a copy of the Ordinance covering the whole of the votes for which have received the sanction of the Secretary of State that year.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\nF. Phillips\n\nSir R. G. W. Herbert K.C.B.\n\n## \nIn any further correspondence on this subject, the above number should be quoted, and the communication should be addressed to \"The Comptroller and Auditor General.\" `100/89`, `1600`, `1650`\n\nGrahami's minute on `1875`): \nwe must, when writing to fer., state that Mem. proposed an 1875 Supplementary Appropriation Ord. for 1890 must cover all the sums in the extraordinary spent during 1890 Public Works begun and continued during that year. Ordinance should direct the introduction at once without waiting for the Supplementing Estimates for 1891, for amending the Appropriation Ord. For 1891 so as to cover all the extraordinary Public Works which (in desp. to be written on the 1891 Est.) the Sofstate sanctions. So inform A.O. sending copy of the Ord. in `1604/89-90` que) `11/4/q1`, `12/2`, at once.\n\nRM 12/22, 11.2.91, 191 \n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "## have. 11. 13 of this desp\" that 11-13 in \n\nLord Ripon's opinion the W.O. might reasonably surrender Murray Battery to the Col. Govt without further delay, this has been done in the same way as the Colony surrendered the site of Murray Barracks near Victoria Battery (Belcher's Point), reserving all questions pending as to compensation (if any), the general settlement of question of the conditions on which Military lands are to be given up when no longer required for military purposes; and add, regards Ther. 20 of me that Lord Ripon is advised that the phrases \"for public service\" in S.14 Ord. 23 of 1889, and \"Expedient in the public interest\" in S.3 of the same Ord. clearly cover \"Military and naval purposes\" as in the Corresponding Straits Ord. referred to in letter of 14 Mar. 1890.\n\nFor the same way as the Colony surrendered the site Mean to compensation (if any), the general settlement of the conditions on which Military lands are to be given up when no longer required for militan purposes; \n\nregends Ther. 20 of me that Lord Ripen is advised that the phrases\" \"for public service\" in S.14 Ord. 23 of 1889, and \"Expedient in the interest of the public\" in S.3 Ord. clearly cover \"Military and naval purposes\" as in the Corresponding Straits Ord. referred to in letter of 14 Mar. 1890 [Shait 37,24/40 fu.J.30 Aug.]. Procux as proposed - This support Laving no Existence in fact, ur may separate it from the win a letter to 10.0.om •another]; See 81501 7197/92 714207/97.\n\n## \n1. Upon that I have prepared a memorandum for Lent Ripons information based from Murray Batting & The Colombo Reservs- and Ishores proper. \n2. Take the L.O. Opinion upon the meaning of the Circular flips. of 9 Jun 90 - This will come on upon another paper when ready.\n\n`844.2079 Rm 2579`, `1.2719`, `4.J. Bramstin`\n\nSee also munites As to A above, `24059A1` 91 go Law see dair `11812/67`, which A Sex Us Wingfield Officer's opinion in `11860-`. \n\nEarlier in the same point I had forgotten when durote `17316/85` on. But Ord. 23. of 1889 was passed after that opinie. given by the L.O., who only went expon the terms inquetings. Sharin of WW. Sharp's lease. I cannot find the terms of the clause in lease, but the first far. of the 2.0. épini on the phrases improvement of \"the Coley\" I \"public purpose\" apparents quoted from the Lease, whereas the terms",
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        "content_text": "I think it will be desirable \n\nto await the want of unofficial tips \n\nbefore causing the question \nofficially \n\nLord S. is satisfied \nthat Sir \nW. des Vœux has \ngiven and is continuing to give his careful attention to the \nmatter \n\nbut considers that for the purposes of the negotiations \nthe above information should be treated as confidential. \n\n(sd) J. F. R. du Cane \nChief Clerk \nJ. Obra Iib: 6.1892 \nOffice of Commerce \n\n4519 \nRECO(Red 7 AR JE \n70 mark 4. 1892 \n\nI am directed by the Marquis \nof Salisbury to acknowledge the receipt of your \nletter of \nthe 13th of \nJanuary and again calling \nattention to the action taken by \nthe Chinese authorities, with \na view to the diversion of carrying trade \non \nthe Canton \nRiver from British vessels to Chinese junks, and stating that this action has become more marked and hostile to British interests, than it was when you first drew attention to the subject in your \nletter of the 18th of \nDecember last. \n\nThe Chairman \nHongkong Chamber of Commerce",
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        "content_text": "538\n\nbudiras dos farroguish with ok wondraden valour vo\n\nM.SAMUEL & C?\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,\n\nLEUMAS, LONDON.\n\nTELEPHONE N 4362.\n\nSAMUEL SAMUEL & CO\n\nYOKOHAMA, KOBÉ & TOKIO,\n\nJAPAN.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\nORGOMANES\n\nTELEGRAPHIC CODES USED A.B.C. 4 Edn, Scorts Code 6th Edn 1885.\n\n31. Houndsditch:\n\nLondon)\n\nF.C.\n\n668\n\n189\n\nAugust 6thly 0.\n\n15523\n\nto the route 1. 3. Jei\n\n[of Endon, 0.34 Gu,\n\ncolonial Edorotany,\n\nRecd Pref 8 AUG 92\n\nDie,\n\nskar bh\n\nA\n\nWhwilon andlaget.\n\nkmanist mi fa trans wi\n\ndemuenssa, kurashoda koour waraf?\n\nWe have XOW\n\nmukles date on 10 170% on jurules,ro.Storage of Kutokor oil 1. BULLI\n\nopane us the petition mukiruuvos, to pet Hout Hover Kong.\n\n.0\n\nWe wokno Dieully submit to you but your na liviolurs BOLJILY PAIt So maks ons d'y cubu egadiye obi 1. pozná,sion allowy gruntos. by your lovemieil Jon „no enoubion 02 terkte, moni tiza site piopatol. In pakarnung. I, 1, Wilsh Jour potitioncks 610g the wager of oil baily Tire 1 MB) Budo,or on JUBING W L\n\nwould draw your des 0 14 ¾ tudi: Amortible to set lino bạ oil in allt storugh in ion so the ot cloud 6756 or labis o. Leganere,àm it would to niku al pipeto. lonel, dye, of no mean order od ott01. kids ord, ev. wego it stbeam tod. i\n\nAbout out of * -100. so state that tho Stemming #pooh:11) gole limetru fer Sh1. tread town pimpc on suuri cupbio.00 4isch roing on. enting dunjja of oil a pvelva pous, and. Trca? no sirotmotunaso do vo center into\n\n2 J50 mer alongs to\n\na wholehoren man Trenty-four hours. On y Etmniched with boot povomhul ol.ctric scarch 11ptsjam! diedi uno is construeu-,bodi 2.\n\nTo: ste.cz?s opg ollowed A.. Jay i to evoty Bavoy pore, LIZ 110. & into the very heart of the torays then50&ve®, Wils₺ Chwil, che recette that prevailing in New Young' The Milo mijacad ever reconied,2 tulkitekt\n\nporku dit so mith perfect safety.\n\nShe utter ignorance of youya pabiüioners or that Bujuce is clot ly shown . parça d,or dinin ister. dhey pa.bu the heat of the Sun is insened & would relu, bio tempurut are of it, plotou esposed. Do 15afrayo to a perilous degree.\n\nChop are oVAGLION\n\nnot mare that 1. our fank steevers Mu ol. 14 onvried subirely below the level of the vote mjek. It is covered 37 2 dock'*' 692 tkár. by a don do canyou ewning over all,wnd das the utost ettount to which the oil coulà 1) affected would be for the\n\n2",
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        "content_text": "in force\n\nGM\n\nthe subject\n\nin Burma) could be supplied, without involving the delay of a reference to the Fort of India.\n\n:\n\nGovernor\n\nDate. 1843\n\nNo. 128 19 June\n\nLast precious Paper.\n\nNo. 12528 (Subject.) C.O. 12528 RECO 25 (Red 26 JUL 93)\n\nWest River Trade.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nLetter from Chamber of Commerce to Consulat Cantor.\n\na Consular information.\n\n165 suggesting visit by voir of gaining with vow officer with Recommend.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Tarfield ? Copy to 7.0. for cum L. 7.\n\nAlmer 32 27-793 Gr927/ly C.P.2. 27.\n\nW(78)-7-2006-12-09\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n7.0. 13247\n\nHowever, to fully follow the instructions and improve the text:\n\nin force\n\nGM\n\nthe subject\n\nin Burma) could be supplied, without involving the delay of a reference to the Fort of India.\n\n:\n\nGovernor\n\nDate: 1843\n\nNo. 128 19 June\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nNo. 12528 (Subject.) C.O.12528 RECO25 (Red 26 JUL 93)\n\nWest River Trade.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nLetter from Chamber of Commerce to Consul at Canton.\n\na Consular information.\n\n165 suggesting visit by view of gaining with view officer with Recommendation.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Tarfield ? Copy to 7.0. for cum L. 7.\n\nAlmer 32 27-793 Gr927/ly C.P.2.27.\n\nW(78)-7-2006-12-09\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n7.0.13247\n\nCorrected version in HTML format as requested:\nin force\n\nGM\n\nthe subject\n\nin Burma) could be supplied, without involving the delay of a reference to the Fort of India.\n\n:\n\nGovernor\n\nDate: 1843\n\nNo. 128 19 June\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nNo.12528 (Subject.) C.O.12528 RECO25 (Red 26 JUL 93)\n\nWest River Trade.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nLetter from Chamber of Commerce to Consul at Canton.\n\na Consular information.\n\n165 suggesting visit by view of gaining with view officer with Recommendation.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Tarfield ? Copy to 7.0. for cum L. 7.\n\nAlmer 32 27-793 Gr927/ly C.P.2.27.\n\nW(78)-7-2006-12-09\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n7.0.13247",
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        "content_text": "measures for the destruction of the \n\nnuisances \n\n curs which are a nuisance \n\nin a tropical Colony like Hong Kong \n\nCover somewhat similar to \n\nthe Straits Settlements \n\nto be taken for the \n\nenforcing of regulations by the Governor \n\nin Council.\n\n(Signed) It. At Goodman, \n\nGovernor.\n\nNo. 12913 \n\nRobinson \n\nDate \n\n28 June \n\n1893 \n\nLast previous Paper \n\nCircular No. 204. 22 Dec \n\n12913 \n\nAttorney General.\n\nWB&L(7-41716-500G-12-2)\n\nNext subsequent Paper \n\nW75590 \n\nDESPATCH.\n\nHong Kong \n\nNo. 13438 \n\nPo Leung \n\nKuk \n\n(Subject.) \n\nAdvance \n\nC. O. \n\n13438 \n\nREC? \n\nREG 7 AUG 93.\n\n240 \n\nLeads in TH. Whitehead's Memorial against \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nW. Wingfield \n\nSee all minute \n\n12913 in \n\nwhich I have suggested that \n\nthe Ord. be \n\namended in \n\ncertain points to meet some of W. Whitehead's objections.\n\nThe Governor curiously ignores importance of some of W. Whitehead's \n\ncontentions \n\nNov.\n\nthr...",
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        "content_text": "The development of the trade at the Yangtsze ports, and the stimulus given to industry and commerce since the Great River was opened to the Treaty Powers affords some criterion of what may be expected if the Riverine ports in Kwangtung and Kwangsi are brought within reach of the outside world. At Chungking, the last port on the Yangtsze at which Foreigners have been permitted to reside for purposes of trade, and in spite of the relinquishment of the rights acquired by Treaty in regard to reaching it by steamers, the development has been remarkable, and the value of its commerce has attained by last Customs returns to the figures of Haikwan Taels 5,780,000 Imports, and Taels 3,470,000 Exports.\n\nThe concession to France of the right to trade at Lungchow in Kwangsi and at Mêngtszu in Yunnan has had the effect of creating a volume of business at these places of a value in 1892 of Haikwan Taels 24,000 Imports, Taels 12,400 Exports, and Haikwan Taels 1,050,000 Imports, Taels 830,000 Exports, respectively, and the Committee of this Chamber are of opinion that the advantage thus secured to France is sufficient to justify a claim on the part of Great Britain for the opening of the West River, which would seem the only equivalent of the privileges granted to our neighbours on the western borders.\n\nI have the honour to forward to Your Lordship herewith a Map showing the Canton River throughout its course, with the towns referred to in this letter marked in red for convenience of identification, and I am also sending a map to H.B.M. Minister at Peking together with a copy of this letter.\n\nIn conclusion the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce ventures to hope that from the well-known interest Your Lordship has at all times manifested in the protection, maintenance, and development of British Commerce and privileges both at home and abroad, you will be pleased to direct that negotiations may be entered upon with the Chinese Government through H.B. Minister at Peking, for opening to trade the cities on the Canton River referred to in this communication.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nTo the Right Honourable\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient servant,\n\nTHE EARL OF ROSEBERY, K.G.,\n\nPrincipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\n\nLondon.\n\nJ. J. KESWICK,\n\nChairman.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nEor 7562693\n\nThe Unser sec of Matt\n\n70.\n\nLii\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Welton 18th\n\nMr. Lucas 1878\n\nMr. Fairfield.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nMr. Buxton.\n\n29/13/n 2023\n\nнкогу\n\nDay 1864195.\n\nLeft\n\n381\n\nRefs to the corresponden\n\nnoted in the\n\nmay\n\nI am directed\n\n79.60. the Marquess of Ripon to request\n\nMarquess of Ripon.\n\nto Augs\n\nSwwRoonison N-153.75 day\n\nEvels in mis\n\nyou\n\nto lay\n\nlay before\n\nthe Earl of Rosebery\n\nthe enclosed copy of\n\nthe\n\na despatch from Gov Hong Kong transmitting\n\na packet\n\naddressed to this\n\nLordship by the Hong...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]",
        "content_text": "Se\n\nblood of the heart, in the lungs, liver, spleen, &c. As the post mortem examination was made eleven hours after death, I had still doubts about the true significance of what I found; I therefore made a cultivation and inoculated a mouse from a small piece of the spleen. On the same day I took, with all due precautions, some blood from the finger tips of a patient who had the disease in a very bad form, with a temperature of 40.5° C., swelling of the axillary glands, &c. Under the microscope I found bacilli with capsules, the poles of which were stained much deeper with aniline dyes than the middle part; this gives them a great likeness to the bacilli of chicken cholera (Bacillus Cholera Gallinarum). On the next day, all the serum cultivations which were prepared in the incubator from the different organs of the body and of blood from the finger tips, showed a growth of micro-organisms, which, under the microscope, were not to be distinguished from those which we found in the blood and in the interior of the bubo at the first post mortem examination. The bacilli differed only by being a little longer and staining easier in the middle than those taken from the blood. With these cultivations I inoculated subcutaneously mice, guinea-pigs, rabbits, and pigeons.\n\nThe mice, which were inoculated on the first day with a piece of spleen and some blood from the finger tips, died in two days' time, and at the post mortem examination upon them, I found œdema round the place of inoculation, the same bacilli in the blood, in the internal organs, and in the œdematous part around the place of inoculation.\n\nAll animals which had been inoculated with the cultivations (pigeons excepted) died after periods extending from 1 to 4 days, according to the size of the animal. The same state of the organs after death and the same bacteriological observations always obtained as in the case of the mice previously referred to. I propose to give further details about my experiments on animals at a later time.\n\n~... 3\n\nEvery day I took blood from many plague patients and examined it, and almost every time I found the bacilli as above described, sometimes in great numbers, sometimes only few in number, so that many glass slides had to be examined to find good specimens.\n\nOn the other hand these same bacilli were to be found at every post mortem examination (of which we had upwards of fifteen), in great quantity, in the bubonic swellings, in the spleen, the lungs, the liver, in the blood contained in the heart, in the brain, intestines, in fact in all internal organs without exception—and every cultivation from any particle of these parts invariably produced the same bacilli.\n\nSuppose the contents of a bubo or a small piece of the spleen is rubbed on the cover glass and the latter, after having been stained, is examined under the microscope (one-twelfth inch oil immersion Zeiss) Bacilli will be discovered in the form found in pure cultivation (Reinkultur). In the spleen especially the bacilli are aggregated in heaps. Bacilli from bubonic swellings and from other internal organs are more easily stained with aniline dyes in their middle part than those taken from the blood, but any serum cultivation prepared from them produces the same form of bacillus.\n\nBacilli from\n\nIn any case where cultivations are prepared from parts of any internal organs or from the blood taken from the finger tips, with careful observation of all due precautions, pure cultivations (Reinkultur) of one and the same bacillus are always obtained, therefore the most intimate connection must exist between the bacillus and the disease.\n\nFull particulars about the observations at the post mortem examinations will be given later on by my colleague Professor Aoyama; generally it may be said that the parts in the neighbourhood of the bubo are œdematous, of a colour between black and red, infiltrated with gelatinous exudation, and that the spleen is enlarged. Both phenomena are to be found in inoculated\n\n693",
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        "content_text": "# No.5.\n\nMy Lord:-\n\n**C. O.**\n11580 RECO\nRed 4 JU 34.\n\n## BRITISH CONSULATE,\nSAIGON,\n2nd June, 1894.\n\n## 187\n\nI have the honour to transcribe an extract from the Official Log Book of the British Steamship \"Bengloe\" of Leith.\n\n### \"Extract from Official Log Book of British s.s. \"Bengloe\".\n\nSaigon, 25th May, 1894.\n\nI wish to certify that this steamer arrived at Cape St. James at 9 p.m. May 14th from Hong Kong, was boarded by a pilot, and as we were proceeding toward the river, a boat put off with the quarantine flag flying. I stopped the ship and showed my Bill of Health; they informed the pilot to anchor the steamer in the big River. At 2.30 p.m. anchored ship in big river, and at 5.30 p.m. the Harbour Master came alongside and ordered the pilot...\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State...",
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        "content_text": "## EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT, \n### SOMERSET HOUSE, \n**LONDON, W.C.**\n\nNo. 17  \n18th January 1894.  \n\nIn the course of examination of the Hong Kong Revenue Accounts, the Comptroller and Auditor General considered it desirable to instruct the Local Auditor, Mr. Nicolle, to inspect the Post Offices at the Northern Ports, and, as there do not appear to be any regulations as regards rates of daily allowance to Officials when travelling, Mr. Nicolle was also instructed to keep a careful account of all expenses incurred with a view to a rate being fixed in future.\n\nDuring the time the Local Auditor was absent from Hong Kong, viz from 17th June to 17th July 1893, both inclusive, the total expenses for his own and his servant's travelling and subsistence amounted to $208.96. Mr. Nicolle, however, has explained that his friends at the various ports so hospitably entertained him on this occasion that his hotel bills were very small.\n\nSir Charles Ryan considers it desirable that Officials when travelling should be in receipt of a fixed subsistence allowance, and he proposes, should the Secretary of State see no objection, to fix the travelling allowance for the Local Auditor or his Clerk at $4.50 for every night and day spent on shore, divided as follows:- $2 for each night and $2.50 for each day, to cover all expenses of board and lodging for himself and servant.\n\nIn addition, Stewards' fees to be allowed when on...\n\nRef: `Ez 1911.94`, `Rm 21/1`\n\nIn any further correspondence on this subject, the above number should be quoted, and the communication should be addressed to \"The Comptroller and Auditor General.\"\n\nThe Hon. Sir Robert Meade, K.C.B.,  \n**COLONIAL OFFICE**  \nRed 19 Jan 94  \n441",
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        "document_key": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]",
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        "content_text": "# DESPATCH.\n**Governor.**\n\n## No. 269\nDate: 28 Aug 1895\n\n**(Subject.) Ordinance 187/1895**\n\nSubmits River Steamers Ordinance.\n\nLast previous Paper: C.O. 17179 REC 28 AUG 95. REC 30 SEP 95.\n\n...men should not be more than about 25 years of age & of fine physique. The Governor also asks that their attention should be specially drawn to the clause in the Conditions providing for hospital stoppages.\n\n4. No mention is to be made in the Agreement of the compensation allowance, as it is undesirable that a privilege which may be withdrawn shortly should be embodied in the terms of the engagement, but it is better understood that the selected candidates will participate in it as it is enjoyed by the Haytay.\n\n5. A copy of this despatch has been communicated to the Curl server generally for selecting candidates.\n\n## (Minutes.)\n\nW. Braunsto: I do not understand W. Wodshauses' ruling that Ord. 22 of 1890 (in 3902/91) could apply to persons leaving the Colony. That Ord. was based on 18,19 Vic. c. 1191, 5.18 of which Act has since been repealed by 57,58 Vic. c.60, s.237 of which deals with the same question. The wording of the present Ord. differs from s.23(7) of the Merchant Shipping Act, but I suppose it will meet its purpose, & need not be objected to.\n\nCopy of Ord. 22/1/1890 shown to Mr. Harany. `GR1178/1922/32(III)` \nNext subsequent Paper: 18753 \nPage 391",
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        "content_text": "# \n269 \n\nEne. 1 \n\nSir, \n\n**REC?** \nC. \n17179 \n**Red 30 SEP 96** \n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, 28th August, 1898. \n\nI have the honour to transmit for the signification of Your Excellency's pleasure the following Ordinance entitled :- \"**The River Steamers Ordinance, No. 18 of 1895**.\" \n\nWith 6 spare Copies. \n\nThe Right Honourable, \nJoseph Chamberlain, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n641 \n\nand Haikwan Taels 1,050,000 Imports, Taels 830,000 Exports, respectively, and the Committee of this Chamber are of opinion that the advantage thus secured to France is sufficient to justify a claim on the part of Great Britain for the opening of the West River, which would seem the only equivalent of the privileges granted to our neighbours on the western borders.\n\nI have the honour to forward to your Lordship herewith a map showing the Canton River throughout its course, with the towns referred to in this letter marked in red for convenience of identification, and I am also sending a map to H.B.M.'s Minister at Peking together with a copy of this letter.\n\nIn conclusion, the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce ventures to hope that from the well-known interest your Lordship has at all times manifested in the protection, maintenance, and development of British commerce and privileges both at home and abroad, you will be pleased to direct that negotiations may be entered upon with the Chinese Government through H.B.M.'s Minister at Peking for opening to trade the cities on the Canton River referred to in this communication.\n\n-I have, &c., \n\nTo the Right Honourable \n\n**THE EARL OF ROSEBERY, K.G.,** \n\nJ. J. KESWICK, Chairman. \n\nPrincipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, \n\nLONDON. \n\n**(Enclosure B)** \n\nIn his Report on the Trade of Canton for 1893, Mr. BYRON BRENAN, H.B.M.'s Consul at that port, writes:- \n\n**\"DISTRIBUTION OF FOREIGN GOODS** \n\n\"The distribution of foreign merchandise over the inland markets of the province is entirely in the hands of Chinese, and goods are taxed as heavily as the lekin office may wish. For the present, the Canton Government has succeeded in preventing the transportation of merchandise under transit pass; and yet it is only under the transit pass system that any development of trade can be looked for; but the Canton Government does not care for an extension of trade that yields it no revenue. That the Central Government may be a gainer is no argument; its sole concern is to force trade into such channels as shall enrich the provincial treasury.\"\n\n\"Under the treaties, foreign goods, regardless of ownership, are entitled to the protection of a transit pass, but Chinese merchants do not dare to claim this privilege. He would be a ruined man who ventured to escape lekin by using a transit pass. The foreign merchant need have no such fears, but if he attempted to convey goods into the interior under transit pass, he would scarcely find a purchaser at his journey's end. The Chinese purchaser would be a marked man, and from him would be exacted a greater sum than had been saved by putting the goods under a transit pass. The transit pass protects the goods as long as it accompanies them, but once these have arrived at their declared destination, the pass must be surrendered, and then it is that the lekin officials proceed to enforce payment of arrears.\n\n\"As in the case of exports, the Canton foreign merchant views this with indifference. He is not an importer: Chinese supply their wants in Hongkong; and however much the import trade might develop, it is not the foreign merchant at Canton that would be a gainer.\"\n\n\"Owing to the restrictions thus put on trade passing through Canton, districts in the provinces of Yunnan and Kwang-si, which should properly derive their supplies through Canton, are more and more obtaining what they require through Tonkin over the Tonkin frontier; and perhaps the Canton authorities may some day realise that less taxation would mean a larger revenue.\"",
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        "content_text": "# 752\n## DOMESTIC.\n\nOther or Individual. \n\nForeign \n\nDate. \n\n1895 \n\nDes? \n\nest previous Paper. \n\n414 \n\n**C. O.** \n\n21946 \n\nRed 9 35 \n\nT \n\n**(Subject.)** \nTreaty between China & Japan. \n\nSends despatches from Pekin & Tokio \nwith hivemary and draft.\n\nPut By \n`# 752 € (78) ~8/08--1200-7-15` \n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nMcInfield \nSee M-Ebden's note annexed. \n\nThere is a reference to the West River \nquestion, as to which I am circulating \na separate paper `[21952]`. \n\nAs far as I can see, this treaty only concerns us as a third party, more or less indirectly affected. Any required remarks are ...\n\nCP.d 13 Dec \n13 Dec \nPutly mu 15/12 \natome s 10/12",
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        "content_text": "# \n438\n\nMokpo is situated on three islands, joined together by what appear to be natural dykes. North of Mokpo town is a fourth islet, round the east of which the creek winds. Between the creek and the town lies a short stretch of hard mud, only just covered at high water, and therefore easily reclaimable. Across this extend at three points irregular lines of boulders, that form natural, but not altogether efficient or comfortable, jetties.\n\nMokpo in its present condition, however, has little use for jetties. The river on which it stands is the main artery of trade for Chulla-do, but the trade so far has passed Mokpo by; 20 miles up stream is a mart variously known as Sa-ho-kang, Sa-ho-chin, or Sa-po, which serves as a distributing centre for Na-ju (the chief town of southern Chulla-do, 40 miles from Mokpo), Nam-p'yeng (50 miles), Kwang-ja (60 miles), and Neung-ju. From this place the river boats bring down rice, cotton, fans, raw silk, paper, and grass-cloth; but these goods are not landed at Mokpo, where there are no godowns or storehouses, as at Kunsan. The boats remain moored in the stream, and discharge their cargoes into sea-going craft direct. The officials in charge of them—the rice has hitherto been mainly on Government account—might, perhaps, spend the night ashore, but that would be all the interest Mokpo town has hitherto had in their proceedings.\n\nIt does not, however, follow from this that Mokpo will not make a good Treaty port. On the contrary, it has a very great deal to recommend it. It is only 7 miles from the sea, and, except for the occasional race in the Forks, is easily accessible at all states of the tide to ocean steamers; it is well sheltered, particularly on the north-west, while the creek and mudflats afford all that will be necessary for junk trade. It will be easy and comparatively inexpensive to construct a bund on the western edge of the creek, alongside which lighters could at all times discharge, and to widen, should it prove necessary, the creek itself. The rice-fields once filled in would supply sufficient level space for business premises for many years, and the rising ground surrounding them to the north and west would provide at the same time material for such filling in and desirable sites for residences. It may be that higher up the river an equally good position exists, but the presumption is against it. It is true that the launch of Her Majesty's ship \"Flying Fish,\" in 1883, proceeded for some 10 miles in this direction, finding 8 fathoms or more the whole way, but that equal alongshore facilities are wanted would seem established by the fact that it is Mokpo, and no other spot on the river, that was selected by the Japanese authorities, who are in the best position to decide, for the proposed open port. There can be no question, in any case, as to the desirability of opening some port on this river. Chulla is in normal times the richest province in Corea and its chief granary, while Na-ju and the neighbourhood are reputed to be the richest districts in Chulla. The archipelago that fringes its coast is renowned for its sea products, fish of all kinds, sea-weed, sharks' fins, and the like, and for these Mokpo forms a convenient centre for collection, better than Pêpsông, because it is approachable by ocean-going vessels, and better than any place higher up the Yong-san River, because it is nearer to the sea. The opening of Mokpo would have, at first at any rate, a prejudicial effect on the trade of Fusan, and even, but to a less extent, on that of Chemulpo. This is recognized by the Japanese merchants at Fusan, who have been agitating against its opening. They endeavoured to get the Japanese Chamber of Commerce at Chemulpo to join them, but the latter very wisely refused, on the ground that though the local interests of Japanese at the two present ports might seem to be for the moment threatened, the trade of Japan itself with Corea as a whole would largely benefit.\n\nI have described the condition of Mokpo as favourable to the formation of a general foreign Settlement. It appears, however, that an attempt has been made on the part of private speculators to buy up, in advance of the anticipated opening of the port, all the available land. This was freely stated on the occasion of Mr. Osborne's visit, and two months later the correspondent of the \"Shin Chosen\" writes (30th July): “The report that the ground said to be available for a Settlement on the opening of the port has been bought up is really true.\" This ground, he says, comprises all the level fields, and he adds that the extension of the town hill on the south-east side has been marked out as a site for the future Customs establishment. I, myself, noticed on the hill to the north of the paddy-fields stakes with the inscription (to give the hieroglyphs their Japanese sounds) \"Tai-tsu Shagwai Kichi,\" or \"Site of the Tadong Association.\" The speculators appear to be all Japanese, and it is needless to say that in face of the Treaties restricting land purchase to the Treaty ports, and the 10 li (3-mile) radius round them, the transaction is entirely illegal, and cannot, it is presumed, be recognized by the Corean Government or the foreign Representatives. To indorse it would be to put all but the speculators at Mokpo at a disadvantage so great as to mean practical exclusion from the port. When Mokpo is about to be opened an area for a general foreign Settlement should, I would suggest, be marked out by the Corean Government and the foreign Representatives, no exclusive privileges being allowed to any individual or nationality. The Settlement area should then be divided into suitable lots, and these lots should be put up to auction on a date of which not less than one month's notice should be given in the Gazette. The precise limits of the Settlement area would naturally be a matter of consideration between the Representatives and the Government, but the space should, I think, include the whole of the present town, the fields and foreshore to the north and west, and, at any rate, the southern and eastern slopes of the hills behind them. The portion of the city hill south of the wall, and the foreshore east of it, might be reserved for Customs purposes. It is here, as I have said, that the present rough landing-places are situated, and no better place could be found for their more commodious successors.\n\nThe little town of Mokpo contains between 40 and 50 families, or between 200 or 250 inhabitants. These live in thatched hovels with mud-floors, and can hardly be said to have any trade; at any rate, there were no shops to be seen. They subsist by husbandry and fishing. The town wall is from 8 to 10 feet high, overgrown, when I saw it, with wild creepers and gourds. Gourds were everywhere, sprawling over the thatched roofs and bushes of purple hibiscus. The streets of the miniature town are only a yard or two in width, and looked and felt like the dried bed of some shelving mountain stream. Indeed, the permanent features of the town (the gourds will be all water-scoops by winter) might be summed up as \"boulders and burrows,\" so stony and narrow are the streets, and so low and dark the houses. On the north the town runs up to the edge of an almost sheer descent of over 50 feet. Here under shelter of the wall is a small grass-grown space approached by a covered archway; below this space—the use of which I had not time to learn—lies on the east the residence of the local official. He is, or perhaps it would now be more correct to say was, a \"Manhu,\" or Lieutenant, under the old system. He was still in office when my predecessors of the local press arrived, and the \"Shin Chosen\" describes him, with some acerbity, as \"a dullard close on 50, ignorant of the world, and unable to grasp the main points of any topic discussed.\" The poor man had left before my arrival, and it is to be presumed that no successor will be appointed—none at any rate with his obsolescent title. Under the latest rearrangement, Mokpo forms part of the Prefecture (\"Kun\") of Mu-an, in the Department of Na-ju. When it has been opened as a Treaty port it is probable that the precedent set at Wönsan will be followed, and the Prefect (\"Kun-su\") of Mu-an will be directed to reside at Mokpo.\n\nThe foreshore north of the \"Manhu's\" Yamên will form in time to come an excellent business site, for it abuts on the creek, navigable here all along its eastern face, and it is skirted by the road that runs northward to Mu-an. Behind it are hills on which residences can be built, and in which are the wells that supply the town with water. The lower slopes of the hills are cultivated, and were covered with flourishing crops of cotton, tobacco, maize, and other cereals. There are not many trees except in and about the town, and on the headland I have provisionally called Pine Point. Among these hills are to be found in their season abundance of pheasants, and, farther inland, tigers, panthers, and other dangerous game, while the flats abound with duck and geese. On the whole, Mokpo as a place of residence and settlement shows not less promise than Mokpo as a seaport, and it is to be hoped, and indeed confidently expected, that in not many years from its day of opening it will become one of the principal places of trade in Corea, situated as it is near the centre of a circle on whose circumference lie Chefoo, Chemulpo, Nagasaki, and Shanghae.\n\nWe left Mokpo at 3 P.M., and passing out of the Forks steered south-west by south down Lyne Sound through a maze of lovely islets, some cultivated, all, or nearly all, green with grass and trees. No more delightful place for a cruise in the bright summer weather could be found in Corea, and the southern approaches to Mokpo may challenge comparison with the inland sea of Japan or the Chusan archipelago. We met several fishing craft, all apparently Corean, though this used to be, and doubtless again will be, a favourite fishing ground of the Chinese, as it still is of the Japanese. Lying well in shore under Chindo was a Russian man-of-war, with most of her boats out. Some few miles further south, on the westernmost point of the mainland, a white flag was flying with a single horizontal red stripe. This we assumed to be a Japanese surveying post, for the white marks of a survey are to be seen on the rocks all about the archipelago.\n\nWe were bound for Chei-ju, the \"North City\" of the Quelpart charts, and, as it is not safe to approach the island in the dark, slowed down at nightfall. Quelpart possesses no harbours, for that to the east, Beaufort anchorage, between U-do (“Ox Island\") and the shore, hardly deserves the name. Should a north wind spring up, a vessel riding at anchor off Chei-ju must in many cases run to So-au-do (Creighton Harbour), or to Ku-men-do (Port Hamilton). So it was in the grey dawn that I first saw Quelpart. Sir Edward Belcher, of the Royal Navy, whose officers surveyed its coasts in 1845, declares \n\n[722]",
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        "content_text": "# Class VIII C.\n\n1. Write in figures (a) Ten thousand, (b) One million, (c) Eleven hundred; and in words (d) 12345, (e) 5040302.\n\n2. Add \n| 39 | 292 | 3467 |\n| 9785 | 458027 | 9876543 |\n|  |  | 3456789 |\n\n3. Subtract \n\n4. Add together all the numbers between 120 and 140.\n\n5. Four boys have 17 dollars each; if 3 of them club together how much more have they than the other one?\n\n## LATIN\n\n### Class I. Ca.\n\n1. Give the Genitive Plural, Gender, Ablative Singular, and English of—auriga, quercus, genus, grus, gener, anser, res.\n\n2. Supply the other parts of comparison to—celer, alacer, plus, pius, nequius, imus, gracilis, magnificus, dubius.\n\n3. What is the difference between—hic, is, idem, ipse, ille, iste. Give the whole Accusative Singular of each. What does the name mean.\n\n4. Decline the Reflexive Pronoun. How is it used?\n\n5. Write the Infinitive, Perfect Indicative Active, Supine, and English of—fero, pendo, pendeo, figo, veto, cupio, vinco, vivo, vincio.\n\n6. Give one example with English of—(i) Deponent, (ii) Semi-Deponent, (iii) Quasi-Passive Verbs.\n\n7. Put into Latin—  \n(i) My son, you cannot dig in the garden.  \n(ii) He says he is not older than your brother.  \n(iii) You may (licet) go home, for summer is pleasant in the country.  \n(iv) My son married the sister of Roscius, and my daughter the friend of Caius.  \n(v) Nothing is finer than courage; but brave soldiers are too often foolish.\n\n8. Put into English—  \n(i) Aliquid amari in poculo erat.  \n(ii) Sol multis partibus major est quam luna.  \n(iii) Puellam quidem totum diem culpat, puerum autem laudat.  \n(iv) Quid Romae faciam? Oportet me a. d. III. Kal. Apr. rus ire.\n\n9. Translate these pieces from Cæsar Bell. Gal. I., parsing the words in italics:—  \n(i) “His rebus fiebat, ut et minus late vagarentur, et minus facile finitimis bellum inferre possent: qua de causa homines bellandi cupidi magno dolore afficiebantur. Pro multitudine autem hominum, et pro gloria belli atque fortitudinis, angusto se fines habere arbitrabantur, qui in longitudinem millia passuum ducenta et quadraginta, in latitudinem centum et octoginta patebant.\"  \n(ii) \"Helvetii, ea spe dejecti, navibus junctis ratibusque compluribus factis, alii vadis Rhodani, qua minima altitudo fluminis erat, nonnunquam interdiu, saepius noctu si perrumpere possent conati, operis munitione et militum concursu et telis repulsi hoc conatu destiterunt.\n\n### Class I. Cb.\n\n1. Give the Gender, Dative Singular, Genitive Plural, and English of—acus, vis, ficus, poeta, portu, portus, nix, nox, ars, artus.\n\n2. Write down six nouns, with their meaning, used in the plural only.\n\n3. Give the rules for forming the comparison of Adjectives, with an example in every instance; and supply the other parts to the following:—nequius, imus, plus, summus. \"I am nineteenth.\"\n\n4. Put into Latin words—33, DCC, \"six each,\" \"I am the nineteenth.\"\n\n5. What is the difference between—hic, is, idem, iste, ipse, ille? Give the Accusative and Genitive Singular, Neuter, and English of each.\n\n6. Put into Latin—  \n(i) My son, the trees in our garden have much fruit.  \n(ii) The enemy's camp was surrounded by our forces.  \n(iii) He says he is not older than your brother.  \n(iv) Let us imitate the wise and good, for no one can be happy without virtue.\n\n7. Put into English—  \n(i) Unus ex philosophis haec docuerat.  \n(ii) Aliquid amari in poculo erat.  \n(iii) Multi flores in campis vere jucundo videntur, et poma mitia auctumno in arboribus pendent.\n\n8. Translate these pieces from Caesar Bell. Gal. I., parsing the words in italics:  \n(i) \"His rebus fiebat, ut et minus late vagarentur, et minus facile finitimis bellum inferre possent: qua de causa homines bellandi cupidi magno dolore afficiebantur. Pro multitudine autem hominum, et pro gloria belli atque fortitudinis, angusto se fines habere arbitrabantur, qui in longitudinem millia passuum ducenta et quadraginta, in latitudinem centum et octoginta patebant.\"  \n(ii) \"Eo opere perfecto, praesidia disponit, castella communit, quo facilius, si se invito transire conentur, prohibere possit. Ubi ea dies, quam constituerat cum legatis, venit, et legati ad eum reverterunt, negat, 'Se more et exemplo Populi Romani posse iter ulli per Provinciam dare; et, si vim facere conentur, prohibiturum ostendit.'\"\n\n### Class II. Ca.\n\n(a) Give the Ablative Singular and Plural, and Genitive Plural of \"Regnum melius.\" \"Felix magister.\" \"The swift arrow.\" \"The red head.\"\n\n(b) And the nominative and genitive singular, and genitive Plural of \n\n1. Give the Gender, Dative Singular, Genitive Plural, and English of—finis, res, aeus, vis, culter, ficus, poeta, porta, portus, nix, nox, ars, artus.\n\n2. Write down six nouns used in the Plural only, with their English.\n\n3. Give the rules for forming the comparison of adjectives, with an example in every instance.\n\n4. Put into Latin words—33, DCC, \"Six each.” “I am the nineteenth.\"\n\n5. Give the Accusative and Genitive, Singular, Neuter, and English of—hic, is, iste, idem, ille, ipse.\n\n6. Write in full with the English—  \n(i) Imperfect Subjunctive Passive of amo.  \n(ii) Future Infinitive Passive of moneo.  \n(iii) Perfect Subjunctive Active of rego.  \n(iv) Future Simple Active of audio.\n\n7. Put into Latin—  \n(i) My son, the trees in our garden have much fruit.  \n(ii) The enemy's camp was surrounded by our forces.  \n(iii) Let us imitate the wise and good, for no one can be happy without virtue.\n\n8. Put into English—  \n(i) Unus ex philosophis haec docuerat.  \n(ii) Natura atque opere urbs munita est, Cæsar igitur in Galliam profectus, ea aestate copias flumen transduxit.  \n(iii) Multi flores in campis vere jucundo videntur, et poma mitia auctumno in arboribus pendent.\n\n## GEOGRAPHY\n\n### Class I.\n\n1. Draw a map of South America, inserting the chief bays, capes, rivers, and mountains, with the divisions into countries, and not more than two towns in each country; or Draw a map of Europe, and insert the political divisions, with the chief town of each.\n\n2. Write a short history of Gibraltar, and point out the special value to England of—Malta, and Hongkong.\n\n3. Mention the rivers which flow into the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Bay of Bengal.\n\n4. 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        "content_text": "# Schedule A.\n\n**Bond to be given by the Masters of Chinese Passenger Ships under THE CHINESE PASSENGERS (SHORT VOYAGES) ORDINANCE, 1896.**\n\nKNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, That we are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign, Lady Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the Sum of One Thousand dollars (Hongkong currency or its equivalent), to be paid to our said sovereign Lady the Queen, or Her Heirs and Successors; to which Payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and every of them, firmly by these Presents.\n\nSealed with our Seals. Dated at ... this ... day of ... 189...\n\nWhereas by The Chinese Passengers (Short Voyages) Ordinance, 1896, it is enacted, that before any Chinese Passenger Ship to which the provisions of the said Ordinance shall apply shall clear out or proceed on a short voyage as defined by such Ordinance, the Master thereof shall, with Two sufficient Sureties to be approved by an Emigration Officer, enter into a Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of One Thousand dollars:\n\nNow the condition of this obligation is this, that if (in respect of the ship whereof ... is Master) all and every of the requirements of the said \"Chinese Passengers (Short Voyages) Ordinance,\" and the Licence granted thereunder and of the Regulations contained in Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed, shall be well and truly observed and performed (1) for a period of twelve months from the date hereof, (in like manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said Ship were a British Ship, and the said ... a British Subject), (2) then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect.\n\nSigned, sealed and delivered by the above-bounden ... in the presence of ... and ... Emigration Officer.\n\nNote.-A fresh Bond must be entered into if the Master is changed during the period for which it is granted.\n\n(1) If for less than a year strike out the word \"twelve months,\"  \n(2) Insert here according to the period for which the Bond is given,  \n(3) This clause to be inserted only at Hongkong. In the case of a Foreign Chinese Passenger ship.\n\n# Schedule B.\n\n**\"THE CHINESE PASSENGERS (SHORT VOYAGES) ORDINANCE, 1896.\"**\n\n**[Annual] or [Single] (1) Licence for the Conveyance of Chinese Passengers.**\n\nWHEREAS (2) ... of the (3) ... have duly applied for a Licence for the conveyance of Chinese Passengers by the said Ship, and have furnished all necessary particulars with regard to such application:\n\nNow, I, (4) ... do hereby, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the aforesaid Ordinance, Licence the said Ship to carry any number of Chinese Passengers not exceeding ... for (5) any number of \n| Voyage Type | \n|---|\n| 1. River. |\n| 2. Coasting. |\n| 3. Ocean (A). |\n| 4. Ocean (B). |\n\nvoyages within any period not exceeding twelve months from the date hereof, or for a single \n| Voyage Type | \n|---|\n| 1. River. |\n| 2. Coasting. |\n| 3. Ocean (A). |\n| 4. Ocean (B). |\n\nvoyage from ... to ...\n\nThis Licence is not transferable, and shall be available only as above mentioned and is granted upon the condition that all the requirements of the above-named Ordinance and of the Regulations thereunder are complied with.\n\nThis Licence is granted upon the condition that, I, ... may in my discretion cancel or revoke the same at any time before the said Ship clears out and proceeds on her voyage.\n\nDated this ... day of ... 189...\n\n... Governor, or Emigration Officer.\n\n(1) Or as the case may be.  \n(2) A. B., Owners, Charterers, or Agents for the Owners or Charterers (as the case may be).  \n(3) British Steam-ship, French Barque (or as the case may be).  \n(4) Insert the name and designation of the Officer granting the Licence.  \n(5) Insert as the case may be.  \n(6) Insert as the case may be.",
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        "content_text": "## will \nconvey to me decision on this matter at an early date and, if convenient, by telegraph.\n\n4 \n\nI have the honour to be, \nYour \nSir, \nFour Most Obedient \nHumble Servant, \nWillison Robing \nof \nEnclosure. \n\nHONGKONG. \n11354 \nRed 28 MAY 06 \n\n## NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES. PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF COMPETITION FOR DESIGNS.\n\nRecommended by the Committee appointed to consider the question of providing New Government Offices.\n\n### NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES, HONGKONG. PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF COMPETITION.\n\n694 \n\nHis Excellency Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G., the Governor of Hongkong, invites designs accompanied by reports and estimates of the cost of erecting New Government Offices in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.\n\n### GENERAL CONDITIONS.\n\n## PREMIA.\n\nA premium of $2,000 is offered for the design considered first in order of merit, a further premium of $1,000 for the second in order of merit and a further premium of $500 for the third in order of merit.\n\nShould the Author of the first premiated design be engaged to carry out the work the premium will merge in the commission or such other mode of payment as may be mutually agreed.\n\n### OWNERSHIP OF PLANS, &c.\n\nAll plans, reports and estimates will become the property of the Colonial Government, and the said Government shall be at liberty to dispose of them in such manner and give publicity to them as it may deem desirable.\n\n### DESIGNS.\n\n(a) The designs must be illustrated by plan of the foundations, each floor, and the roof.\n\n(b) One cross section and one longitudinal section of the buildings on each site showing the levels of foundations, floors, roofs and such other details as may be conveniently shown thereon.\n\n(c) Elevations of the proposed buildings to the streets on the north, south, east, and west sides respectively.\n\nThe above to be drawn to a uniform scale of 20 feet to one inch.\n\n(d) Competitors may, if they desire it, submit two sheets (double elephant size) of drawings showing details to an enlarged scale not exceeding two feet to one inch.\n\nNo drawings in addition to the above are permitted.\n\n### REPORT.\n\nEach design must be accompanied by a concise report detailing the suggested construction of the foundations, the accommodation proposed and the materials to be used in the construction of the buildings.\n\n### ESTIMATES.\n\nSeparate estimates for each of the proposed blocks must be given in the following form:- \n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | Estimate cost of foundations including drains and water pipes |\n|  | Superstructure including all permanent fittings |\n\nThe total cost, exclusive of architect's commission, not to exceed seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000).\n\n### DESIGNS, &c. TO BE SENT TO COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nAll designs, drawings, reports and estimates to be sent under cover endorsed \"New Government Offices Competition\" to the Colonial Secretary on or before the \n\n### ADJUDICATION OF ORDER OF MERIT.\n\n1896.\n\nThe order of merit of the designs received will be decided by a Committee approved by His Excellency the Governor with or without professional assistance as His Excellency may deem desirable.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n\n**MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN**\n\n0.0.\n\n14208\n\nRec? REG\n\nI have accepted with great pleasure the invitation of the Jubilee Committee, and of the loyal community of Hongkong, to unveil this statue of Her Majesty **QUEEN VICTORIA**.\n\nI feel highly honoured at having to take so prominent a part in this interesting function, and am glad to think that my name will for all time be connected with it.\n\nThis immense concourse of Her Majesty's loyal subjects, and of the Representatives of other Powers with their fellow-countrymen, is a sight which will never be forgotten by those who are witnessing it.\n\nMr. Chairman and Gentlemen. This statue is to commemorate the Jubilee of Her Majesty in 1887. Let me therefore for a moment compare the past of Hongkong with the present. Fifty-nine years ago Hongkong was a barren rock inhabited by 200 or 300 persons. The harbour was unfrequented by vessels.\n\nAt the present moment the Colony presents a remarkable object lesson to the newly arrived Resident or Traveller, unequalled, I believe, in any other part of the world. He sees before him large and, in some cases, magnificent Banks, City Halls, and Houses of Business stretching for several miles along the sea front. Inland he sees rising tier above tier hundreds of fine houses built by and for the thriving merchants of the City. The harbour which fifty-nine years ago was nearly empty of shipping is now filled by steamers and sailing vessels which represent an aggregate capacity of some 15,000,000 of tons per annum.\n\nThis wonderful growth has taken place during the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty **QUEEN VICTORIA**. And in the place of a few hundred people, Hongkong has now a population of over 250,000 souls. Of these about 240,000 are Chinese. They live here under no compulsion. They are freemen, and are attracted by our liberal institutions and by the equitable treatment and justice of Her Majesty's rule.\n\nMr. Chairman and Gentlemen. Of the future prosperity and growth of Hongkong I have not the slightest doubt. Her geographical position, her importance as a great emporium of trade and a strong Military and Naval Station in that girdle of British Colonies which encircles the world is fully recognized by Her Majesty's Government. The opening of the West River, and of additional free-ports in China, will give a further impetus to trade between Great Britain and that enormous and undeveloped Empire. Such measures which can be regarded as certain of fulfilment in the near future will be of inestimable value to millions of the subjects of the Emperor of China as well as to the able and energetic Community of Hongkong.\n\nIn conclusion, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I congratulate you on the selection of this fine site for Her Majesty's Statue, and I also congratulate you heartily on the excellent arrangements which you have made for giving to this auspicious and unprecedented event an importance and significance which it alone could deserve.\n\nWith the words on my lips of **GOD SAVE THE QUEEN** I now unveil this Statue.\n\n**WILLIAM ROBINSON**\n\n28th May, 1896",
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        "content_text": "the past and been forgotten. Yet will this Statue remain, to impress upon those who follow us the rights and privileges which, under British laws, they will ever enjoy, the security which the British Constitution throws over those who live within the sphere of its protection, and above all, Sir, the freedom, the greatest benefit perhaps that mankind has ever known, which exists to-day, and always must exist, beneath the Royal Standard of Great Britain. I now ask your Excellency to unveil the Statue.\n\nHis Excellency said- Mr Chairman and Gentlemen, I have accepted with great pleasure the invitation of the Jubilee Committee, and of the loyal community of Hongkong, to unveil this statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. I feel highly honoured at having to take so prominent a part in this interesting function, and am glad to think that my name will for all time be connected with it. This immense concourse of Her Majesty's loyal subjects, and of the Representatives of other Powers with their fellow-countrymen, is a sight which will never be forgotten by those who are witnessing it. Mr Chairman and Gentlemen, This statue is to commemorate the Jubilee of Her Majesty in 1887. Let me therefore for a moment compare the past of Hongkong with the present. Fifty-nine years ago Hongkong was a barren rock inhabited by 200 or 300 persons,\n\nThe harbour was unfrequented by vessels. At the present moment the Colony presents a remarkable object lesson to the newly arrived resident or traveller, unequalled, I believe, in any other part of the world. He sees before him large and, in some cases, magnificent Banks, City Halls, and Houses of Business stretching for several miles along the sea front. Inland he sees rising tier above tier hundreds of fine houses built by and for the thriving merchants of the City. The harbour which fifty-nine years ago was nearly empty of shipping is now filled by steamers and sailing vessels which represent an aggregate capacity of some 15,000,000 of tons per annum. This wonderful growth has taken place during the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. And in the place of a few hundred people, Hongkong has now a population of over 250,000 souls. Of these about 240,000 are Chinese. They live here under no compulsion. They are freemen, and are attracted by our liberal institutions and by the equitable treatment and justice of Her Majesty's rule. Mr Chairman and Gentlemen, Of the future prosperity and growth of Hongkong I have not the slightest doubt. Her geographical position, her importance as a great emporium of trade and a strong Military and Naval Station in that girdle of British Colonies which encircles the world is fully recognized by Her Majesty's Government. The opening of the West River, and of additional freeports in China, will give a further impetus to trade between Great Britain and that enormous and undeveloped Empire. Such measures which can be regarded as certain of fulfilment in the near future will be of inestimable value to millions of the subjects of the Emperor of China as well as to the able and energetic Community of Hongkong. In conclusion, Mr Chairman and Gentlemen, I congratulate you on the selection of this fine site for Her Majesty's Statue, and I also congratulate you heartily on the excellent arrangements which you have made for giving to this auspicious and unprecedented event an importance and significance which it alone could deserve. With the words on my lips of 'God Save the Queen' I now unveil this Statue.\n\n## THE MILITARY REVIEW\n\nThe statue having been unveiled, amidst the applause of the assembled thousands, the troops gave a general salute, whilst the massed bands, under the conductorship of Bandmaster Peachey of the Rifle Brigade, played God Save the Queen. The Asiatic Artillery and the Field Battery of the Hongkong Volunteers then fired a salute of twenty-one guns from the seven-pounders on the Cricket Ground, the infantry firing a feu de joie. This over, the order for fixed bayonets was given, and the whole of the forces on the ground gave a Royal Salute, the bands again playing 'God Save the Queen'; the unveiling ceremony being brought to a close by the troops and spectators raising three lusty cheers for Her Majesty.\n\nWith wonderful alacrity and exactitude, the troops were then marched off to various points preparatory to the march past. Nothing could have exceeded the smartness with which this movement was executed. It provided an object lesson to the Chinese of what it is possible to do with British troops under the discipline of British officers. That everything was carried through without the slightest approach to a hitch reflects the greatest credit on officers and men alike, British and Asiatic.\n\nThe march-past was equally well managed. Owing to the evolutions having to be performed in somewhat restricted compass, the troops were formed into double sections of fours, with officers leading and the non-commissioned officers on the flanks. This was the best formation for the ground, and while, judged from a military point of view, the movements did not have the same grandeur as a proper review, they were at least sufficient to display the careful drilling and excellent discipline of the men. The spectacle presented as the closely-compacted masses of men moved along towards the Statue from the direction of the new Club is not likely to be soon forgotten by those who witnessed it. Larger bodies of troops have doubtless been witnessed elsewhere, but this was the largest parade ever assembled in Hongkong, and the varied and picturesque uniforms combined to add to the splendour of the spectacle. For the time being the squalor of the Chinese was obliterated. In the Grand Stand, the somewhat sombre dress of the civilian community obtained colour from the few uniforms sprinkled about, and the Consular Corps, with their gaudy decorations, presented a veritable blaze of colour in the vicinity of the platform. Wherever one looked, nothing was to be seen but one huge sea of living faces. Every coign of vantage was occupied. From every verandah the proceedings were watched by interested onlookers; even the unfinished edifice which is to be the new habitat of the Hongkong Club was covered by Chinese, who, sat-like, crawled and squirmed from place to place wherever they thought the best view might be obtainable.\n\nThe following was the order of the march-past:\n\n| Unit | Commanded by |\n| --- | --- |\n| Royal Navy | Commander W. F. Tunnard, H.M.S. Victor Emanuel |\n| Royal Marine Light Infantry | Capt. Trottman. Major Thomas, D.A.A.G., and Capt. Hunt, Acting A.D.C. to Colonel Anstey |\n| Royal Artillery | Lieut. Colonel The O'Gorman, D.A.A.G., and Major Hanham, C.R.A.; Capt. Burney |\n| Royal Engineers | Capt. Carey |\n| Hongkong Regiment | Major Retallick |\n| Rifle Brigade | Major the Hon. E. Noel |\n\nWith almost incredible expedition the bands of the Rifle Brigade and the Hongkong Regiment had taken up a position on the ...\n\nPage 161",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 5\n\nMinute by the Attorney General.\n\n14755\n\nREAD\n\nRed 13 96\n\n202\n\nIn the first volume of Phillimore's International Law 3rd Edition p.473 it is stated:-\n\n\"Long usage and universal custom entitle every foreign ship of war to be considered as a part of the territory to which she belongs and to be exempt from any other jurisdiction.\"\n\nand at page 479 it is added: -\n\n\"The privilege is extended by the reason of the thing to boats, tenders and all appurtenances of a ship of war but does not cover offences against the territorial law committed on shore though the commanders of vessels are entitled to be apprised of the circumstances attending and causes justifying the arrest of any one of their crew and to secure to them through the agency of diplomatic or Consular ministers the administration of justice.\"\n\nIt seems to be that although the men might legally have been served with summons while on shore, there is no right to serve such a summons on board a foreign Man-of-War in our harbour. I take it the Queen's writ does not run on board that Man-of-War any more than it would in the foreign country itself.\n\nYet the summons commands (the men) in Her Majesty's name to be and appear before the Magistrate at ... o'clock etc., and that command is given on board the Man-of-War by delivering the summons.",
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        "content_text": "(16)\n\n(17)\n\n188\n\ncase.\n\nExperiments on the inoculability of bubonic plague were made on all kinds of animals, both with cultures and with fragments of the organs of patients that had died of the plague. They were rats and house mice, which died in great numbers during the epidemic; next in order of susceptibility came white mice, guinea-pigs, rabbits, pigs, monkeys, and fowls. Cats became feverish after inoculation, but did not die. Pigeons were non-inoculable.\n\nIn the albuminous urine of 40 patients suffering from plague, plague bacilli were found in over ... of the cases. They could usually be detected by simple microscopical examination; frequently also in fragments of the organs and with pure cultures of the bacillus. Sometimes the urine contained also pus-cocci.\n\nThe bacillus was never detected in the sweat.\n\nB.—The Bacillus of Bubonic Plague.\n\nThe plague bacillus is a short, thick rod with rounded ends, about 1 μ in length and 0.3 μ in breadth. The bacillus is non-motile. It is stained by all basic aniline dyes, but is not stained by Gram's method. In simple stained cover-glass preparations of the blood and the organs, the ends of the bacillus stain much more deeply than the middle. Often the ends of the bacillus remain entirely unstained, so that it has the appearance of a diplococcus. Sometimes the bacillus is surrounded by a clear area. Very frequently the bacillus is found in the interior of the white blood corpuscles.\n\nThe bacillus grows in artificial nutritive media, both at the temperature of the blood and at the ordinary temperature of the room. The optimum temperature is 37° C. Below 25° C, a decline in the rapidity of growth becomes noticeable. The bacillus thrives better on nutritive media containing glycerine than on those made without the admixture of this substance. Spore-formation was never observed.\n\nOn gelatine plates, the bacillus grows without liquefying the medium and produces in 48 hours small, round, greyish-white colonies. When these are examined microscopically, they have at first the appearance of ground glass, and later a darker, granulated appearance, sometimes with notched borders.\n\nIn gelatine puncture and streak cultivation, the bacillus grows slowly to form grey or greyish-white cultures, without liquefying the gelatine.\n\nOn agar plates, the bacillus forms within 24 hours small, round, greyish-white colonies, of the size of a pin's head, which by reflected light show a bluish sheen with iridescent borders. The colonies usually reach the size of a lentil only and remain isolated. Frequently, however, some of the colonies increase considerably in size after a few days and outgrow the others. Old colonies on agar plates have usually a ragged appearance.\n\nIf from the colonies just described, puncture and streak cultivations upon agar are made, it is found that tubes inoculated from the smaller colonies show a scantier growth than those inoculated from the larger colonies. The streak cultivations on agar appear white or greyish-white and show by reflected light a bluish sheen. The puncture cultivations have a whitish appearance along the depth of the insertion and extend but little superficially from the point of inoculation.\n\nSubcutaneous inoculation of rats, house-mice, white mice, guinea-pigs, and rabbits with fragments of organs of patients that had died of the plague killed the animals in from one to six days. Mice died usually in from one to three days, rats in from two to four days, guinea-pigs according to their size in from two to five days, rabbits in from four to seven days. Soon after the inoculation, the animals' temperature rose to 40° C (104° F); they sat with ruffled fur in a corner of the cage; they lost appetite; shortly before death, they fell suddenly on their side and died in convulsions, which sometimes lasted two or three hours.\n\nOn post-mortem examination, there was found at the site of inoculation a hæmorrhagic, gelatinous exudation; there was inflammation of the lymphatics leading to the nearest lymphatic glands; these glands were red and swollen and often imbedded in a yellow, gelatinous exudation. The lungs were usually congested; the right side of the heart was usually distended with bluish-black blood; the liver was red and swollen; the spleen was bluish, much swollen, and frequently studded with small follicles. The kidneys and the adrenals were congested and usually swollen. The intestine was often congested, and the mesenteric glands were sometimes moderately swollen and congested. In the various organs, especially in the lymph-glands, the liver, the kidneys, the spleen, and the blood, the plague bacillus was present; it was usually found also in the urine and in the fæces.\n\nWhen subcutaneous inoculations of pure cultures were made in animals, it was found that the virulence of the cultures was very variable. Cultures of the third and fourth generations proved much less virulent than those of the first and second generations; and cultures derived from the larger, over-grown colonies on agar plates were much less virulent than cultures derived from the smaller colonies on the same plates.\n\nIf fresh cultures of the first generation were used for subcutaneous inoculations, the bacilli being those growing in the smaller colonies on agar plates, which colonies had been directly derived from the organs, blood, or urine of plague patients, the inoculated mice, rats, guinea-pigs, and rabbits died according to their size in from one to twelve days. Mice died as a rule in from two to seven days; rats from four to five days; small guinea-pigs weighing from 150 to 200 grammes within five days; large guinea-pigs weighing from 400 to 500 grammes in from five to nine days; and rabbits in from seven to twelve days. The appearances on post-mortem examination were identical with those seen in animals inoculated with fragments of the organs.\n\nThe less virulent cultures always gave rise to fever on inoculation and were fatal to mice; they were seldom, however, fatal to rats; still more rarely fatal to guinea-pigs. When fatal, the duration of the illness was longer than in animals of the same species inoculated with the more virulent cultures. Rabbits inoculated with the less virulent cultures suffered from fever but were not killed.\n\nThe growth of the bacillus on bouillon is very characteristic in this respect, that it resembles that of \"the streptococcus pyogenes.\" The growth forms at the bottom and along the sides of the test-tube as a granular or flocculent precipitate, while the bouillon itself remains clear. If it is shaken, the precipitate is distributed throughout the fluid. The cultures do not give the indol reaction.\n\nOn potato, the growth is very scanty. At blood-heat, in from 36 to 48 hours, very delicate greyish-white or white crusts are formed. At the temperature of the room, the growth is not apparent until after three or four days.\n\nSterilised milk is curdled by the bacillus.\n\nThe most favourable culture medium for the bacillus is a 2‰ alkaline solution of peptone containing 1% of gelatine.\n\nIn stained cover-glass preparations from artificial cultures, the bacillus has usually the appearance of a diplococcus. Very frequently, four to six of such bacilli lie joined together in a chain, and they then resemble streptococci. Such appearances are seen most often in cultures in bouillon and in hanging-drop cultivations. Frequently, especially in old cultures, bulging, oval, almost spherical forms are seen. In old cultures, the bacilli stained less readily.\n\nIntra-peritoneal inoculations caused great swelling of the intestinal follicles and of the mesenteric glands, but otherwise the symptoms were the same as those produced by subcutaneous inoculation. The intra-peritoneal inoculations were as a rule more rapidly fatal. The less virulent cultures more often proved fatal when inoculated intraperitoneally than when inoculated subcutaneously.\n\nThe introduction of fragments of the organs or of pure cultures into the stomach, either by mixing them with the food or through the stomach-tube, was usually fatal to mice and almost always fatal to rats and to small young guinea-pigs and rabbits. The post-mortem appearances were generally speaking the same as those found after subcutaneous and intra-peritoneal inoculations. There was more swelling of the intestine, the intestinal follicles, and the mesenteric glands than in animals killed by subcutaneous inoculation; on the other hand, the external lymphatic glands were usually less swollen than in animals killed by subcutaneous or by intra-peritoneal inoculation.\n\nIn post-mortem examinations on animals, the inguinal and the cervical glands were nearly always found to be much more severely affected than the axillary glands.",
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        "content_text": "(18)\n\n(19)\n\n189\n\nThe result of inoculation experiments was to show as a general rule that when the plague bacillus was cultivated for successive generations in artificial media it rapidly lost its virulence.\n\nWhen rats were found dead in houses in which cases of plague had occurred, plague bacilli were often to be found in their lymphatic glands and other organs. These animals sometimes had well-developed buboes, most commonly in the inguinal region.\n\nMice, rats, guinea-pigs, and rabbits confined in the same cages with infected animals usually died of the disease.\n\nIV.—DIAGNOSIS OF BUBONIC PLAGUE.\n\nThe diagnosis of the plague is based upon the clinical characteristics and upon the morbid appearances above described, and upon the demonstration of the presence of the plague bacillus.\n\nIn the dead body, if the processes of decomposition are not too far advanced, the existence of the plague can be proved with certainty by demonstrating the presence of the bacillus in the spleen, the buboes, or in other affected organs, either by microscopical examination, or in twenty-four to forty-eight hours by culture experiments. I have never seen a case of plague without glandular swellings.\n\nA monkey, that chewed and sucked a piece of sugar-cane infected by a pure culture of the bacillus, died in five days of the disease. The post-mortem examination showed very slight swelling of the inguinal glands, great congestion of the intestine, and swelling of the mesenteric glands and of the spleen.\n\nIn the countries in which the plague is generally met with, if bacteriological methods of diagnosis are not available, the disease is liable to confusion with pernicious malarial fevers, with malignant typhus of rapid course, with splenic fever, and with other varieties of adenitis. The cases in which mistakes may most readily arise are, on the one hand, those in which, with severe general symptoms, no external buboes make their appearance; and on the other hand those in which, with mild general symptoms, buboes appear the true nature of which is not suspected. But in well-marked cases of plague, with pronounced general symptoms and well-developed buboes, there can, even in the absence of bacteriological investigation, be little difficulty in diagnosis.\n\nA pig ate the spleen of a man that had died of plague; the animal lost flesh rapidly, suffered from diarrhea, and died of plague in twenty-two days. The post-mortem examination showed hæmorrhages in the abdominal walls; the inguinal glands were swollen to the size of a hazel-nut and bluish-red in colour, the sub-maxillary glands were swollen to the size of a hazel-nut, the mesenteric glands were swollen to the size of a bean or a hazel-nut and of a bluish-red colour; there were hæmorrhages in the mesentery, with much congestion and swelling of the stomach and intestinal walls, hæmorrhages in the mucous membrane, and swelling of the intestinal follicles; the spleen was enlarged, the kidneys were swollen and congested, and the lungs engorged with blood. The plague bacillus was found in the interior of the organs, in the glands, and in the blood. Another pig, inoculated subcutaneously on the abdomen with a small fragment from a bubo, died of the plague in forty days. The appearances on post-mortem examination were substantially the same as those just described. The site of inoculation showed moderate congestion and swelling.\n\nTwo cats that ate portions of a bubo were ill for seven days and became very thin, but recovered. Fowls that swallowed fragments of organs, and matter infected with pure cultures, died as a rule after three or four days. Plague bacilli were found in the blood and organs.\n\nPigeons were immune to subcutaneous inoculation.\n\nMice, guinea-pigs, and rabbits, when inoculated with cultures attenuated either by cultivation through several generations or by heat, were gradually rendered immune against inoculation with virulent cultures.\n\nBy successive inoculations from animal to animal with fragments of the organs or with blood, the virulence of the bacillus could be increased to a definite degree varying with the species of animal. By microscopical and bacteriological researches bubonic plague is shown to be a disease in which the blood, the organs, the saliva, the urine, and the fæces of those that are affected with or have succumbed to the disease contain a specific bacillus, pure cultures of which, inoculated into various animals, produce in these animals the same disease.\n\nAs already stated, plague can usually, in severe cases at any rate, be recognized by the examination of the blood. For this purpose, one of the finger-tips or a portion of the skin of the body must be carefully cleansed with soap and water, 1% sublimate solution, alcohol and ether, and pricked with a needle sterilised by heat. For direct microscopical examination the blood should be received on a cover glass; for cultivation, on a tube of agar or of alkaline gelatin-peptone solution. In stained preparations of blood, the bacilli are usually found in very small numbers only, two or three in a field or even in the whole preparation. In the agar tubes or in the peptone solution, in 24 to 48 hours, the bacilli grow in the manner already described. As before said, staphylococcus pyogenes aureus is frequently found in addition to the plague bacillus. If the bacillus cannot be detected at the first attempt, the blood must be examined day after day, and in this manner the organism will often eventually be discovered.\n\nIf the examination of the blood gives negative results, the urine, which nearly always contains albumen and plague bacilli, should then be examined. Cleanse the neighbourhood of the urinary meatus with sublimate solution, and while the patient is urinating suck up some of the urine with a sterilised pipette. The urine should then be examined in hanging-drops and in stained preparations; and with a few drops (about five) plate cultivations should be made. In hanging-drops the bacilli can usually be seen at once, sometimes in chains of three or four links. Stained preparations generally give the same results. On the agar-plates, after twenty-four hours, colonies of plague bacilli make their appearance; these are small, white or greyish-white, with a bluish sheen by reflected light, and with iridescent borders. In addition to the plague bacilli, pus-cocci are sometimes found; these are readily distinguished by their greater luxuriance of growth and by other peculiarities. For confirmation, cultures from the colonies should always be made on agar (coagulated with the tubes oblique), on bouillon, and on gelatine; inoculation of mice, rats, and guinea-pigs should also be undertaken. If no urine is passed, an attempt may be made, in case of need, to draw some off by the catheter.\n\nThe blood drawn by puncture from the buboes and from the other glandular swellings always shows the bacillus on microscopical examination and on cultivation.\n\nBy these methods the diagnosis of plague can almost always be made with certainty, alike in severe cases with or without buboes, and in milder cases.\n\nThe presence of the bacillus in the vomit, the fæces, and the saliva, can often be detected in the following manner.\n\nFirst make plate cultures, and from these make cultures on alkaline gelatin-peptone solution. In the latter, the bacillus grows along the bottom and the sides of the tubes. After twenty-four hours, these cultures should be examined microscopically, and fresh cultures should be made.",
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        "content_text": "t me abundant proof that gambling mud ben both general and cara a on as a very large scale. a gambling horse which can regularly pay in bribes must be a very big one. The accounts show the house lost and out $150th a day affair indeed.\n\nIn para:& of this Despatch the Governor since Betting gently hints that he is 'controlling' gambling some seems to in by so doing. favour of by so ie. I suppose returning to sort of system of licensing. Such a proposed is little short of preposterous. Public opinion set strongly against the system in 1871 individuals very heavily. My argument therefore is that the inflacements held out cold not 315 réquera to be very heavy amply cover d and that extra expense might be by increasing the present maximum fine of $1000 which y can be inflected under Ord: 7 of 41 for keeping a Gambling House.\n\nWhen her may's recommendations are received, we might perhaps consult Sir Philip Smith who must have intimate acquaintance with the Geo.\n\nI agree. and I think it would be at least as violently opposed to any similar system at the present day. subject.\n\nFor the present, we can only express deep regret at the scandalous state of affairs which there exist. We need not go into this question at present as Mr May promises to submit recommendations for the prevention of these abuses had on pusation su menstranduen) the Sof I will wait he has displayed. Add that the proposals which he may papers expose approve in Inken action that has been General o compliqueal fr tires of the Ms May on evergy which (about 2 pages from the end of his views 24 my own be fought on their that Gambling House Keepers should on grounds that Govt Servants whon wideu ce leads to their courietén should be rewarded by Good conduct day, promotion etc. Gambling-house owners keep their secret that they Jo have to bribe many cannot bribe anly.\n\n-79000-3000-3-97 is about to submit with regard to the course to be adoptin future P.C. M. 4/10/97 wer to love I agree as to the immediate answer sent to this. H. Grogly Macnaghtens Suggestions. ans to the future can of considered when we get M. May's report Ju96/ic PT.C",
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        "content_text": "523\n\n3. His KOT meeting has been convened this Week\n\nRenudation No 64 60 c\n\n1. Mal survene 101 tro\n\nthe Registry General\n\nNuisances in the danisor: Department, 20th\n\nium vere charged with corruption\n\nin the exercise of the powers and funct\n\nof dees under RelationN HOD.C\n\nin:\n\nInspector orally against\n\nThat wilen Inspector of Alundar employ of the Banimma\n\nin bi cach of his cly an an coding & moyo.\n\nment of Hoy korvi from Hover!\n\nceived oney from the Zen ein an house at No. 8 Ma Lane to Mete bein...\n\nThe Pr\n\nA gam\n\nelf",
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        "content_text": "10390\n\n97\n\n6\n\nIt has now been agreed that the following places, viz., Wuchow-fu, in Kwangsi, and Samshui City and Kong Kun Market, in Kwangtung, shall be opened as Treaty ports and Consular stations, with free navigation for steamers between Samshui and Wuchow and Hong Kong and Canton, by a route from each of these latter places to be selected and notified in advance by the Imperial Maritime Customs, and that the following four places shall be established as ports of call for goods and passengers, under the same Regulations as the ports of call on the Yang-tsze River, namely, Kongmoon, Komchuk, Shinhing, and Takhing.\n\nIt is agreed that the present Agreement, together with the Special Article, shall come into force within four months of the date of signature, and that the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Peking as soon as possible, in witness whereof the Undersigned, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Agreement.\n\nDone at Peking in triplicate—three copies in English, and three in Chinese—the 4th day of February in the year of our Lord 1897.\n\n(Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\n(Chinese signature of his Excellency Li.)\n\n(Seal.)\n\n(Seal.)\n\n0\n\n271\n\nVictoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, &c., &c., &c. To all and singular to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!\n\nWHEREAS an Agreement between Us and His Majesty the Emperor of China was concluded and signed at Peking on the fourth day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, by the Plenipotentiaries of Us and of His said Imperial Majesty, duly and respectively authorized for that purpose, which Agreement is, word for word, as follows:-\n\nIN consideration of the Government of Great Britain consenting to waive its objections to the alienation by China, by the Convention with France of the 20th June, 1895, of territory forming a portion of Kiang Hung, in derogation of the provisions of the Convention between Great Britain and China of the 1st March, 1894, it has been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the following additions and alterations shall be made in the last-named Convention, hereinafter referred to as the original Convention.\n\nARTICLE I.\n\nIt is agreed that the frontier between the two Empires from latitude 25° 35′ north shall run as follows:\n\nCommencing at the high peak situated approximately in that latitude and in longitude 98° 14' east of Greenwich and 18° 16' west of Peking, the line shall follow, as far as possible, the crest of the hills running in a south-westerly direction to Warung Peak (Kanlyang), and shall extend thence to Sabu Pum,\n\nFrom Sabu Pum the frontier shall run in a line along the watershed slightly to the south of west through Shatrung Pum to Namienku Pum.\n\nThence it shall follow a line to be fixed after local investigation, dividing the Szia and the Kunsas as far as the Tabak Kha; thence the Tabak Kha to the Namtabet; thence the Namtabet to the Paknoi Kha; thence the Paknoi Kha to its source near Talang Pum; thence the Talang Pum ridge to Bura Shikong.\n\nFrom Bura Shikong the frontier shall follow a line running in a south-west direction to the Laisa Kha; thence the Laisa Kha",
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        "content_text": "Foreign Office,\n\n10000\n\nRed 10 100 17\n\nAugust 18. 1897.\n\n358\n\n३०. 76228\n\nC. Macdonald\n\n1275. June 14.1089\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my\n\nI am\n\nletter of the 24th ultimo,\n\ndirected by the Secretary of State for\n\nForeign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before the\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy\n\nof a despatch, as marked in the margin, relating\n\nto the recent journey\n\nof Her Majesty's Consul at Canton up the West River.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nFrancis Bertie",
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        "content_text": "Confidential or Individual\n\nHony Kory Elvin No. 20893\n\n(Subject.)\n\n1897 Opening of West River\n\n4 Sept\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nEnclose copy of agreement modifying\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nRed 27 SEP 17\n\n371\n\nGreat Britain.\n\nConvention\n\nDr Keane No. 12169 containing special article re: to\n\nPut By\n\n4\n\nZuess (Minutes.)\n\nSir W. Haworth\n\n? Put by\n\n279\n\n29/9/97\n\n30\n\nP.C.M.\n\nC.P.D.\n\nL(75)-82578-9200-7-57\n\nSubsequent Paper.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897",
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        "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897",
        "content_text": "But in the meantime Expenditure must be watched very carefully, and their scheme for new Offices must be sternly postponed. (As to that we have already written saying that further expenditure is wanted financial abating of the following)\n\nThe Estimates When I was minuting Train to dest. (1469/96.7) I found it necessary to discover the exact position in the above respect.\n\n& we should. In sending to For. the annexed Account (signed by C.da. G.) and copy of the And. Gew. Report, point out araton, & take opportunity of reminding that in future the Annual Estimates should (as laid down par. 35th of Circular of Rh.go) be accompanied by statements of Assets & Liabilities for the past year (partly eaten?) at close of the current year.\n\nCam to par. 4 of the Agri that the S. f Stat report that the Supptaient State infoliculy gave author's for defraying treesses under certain sub-heads out of savings. Sub-heads of the same viste)[by desp. no. Oct: last which sanctioned the Suppe Approp Ord. Extella.o that this will be explicitly stated in future years]\n\nCon 2009 that has not otherwise alised, he ask for. why the expenditure Salishing R. Kowloon not included in the Fush? prop \"Owe & tell him to introduce Ord. to cover that expenditure; [das to last sentence of par. 4 say exchange compensation had better be distributed under \"personal emolument\" instead of appearing under \"Miscellaneous\";\n\nas to par. I say that S. of State observes that the item for the Queen's Statue after having been transferred \"Workscharged to Loan\" in the figures given on p. 8 of the Supper? Est? [in 20096/96] should read as the amount there charged to loan $183,186.27 instead of $186,970.87 (as given in returns forwarded in 106157/46)\n\nDraft for comer que. 7. 10/3 at once gu.7.10/3 EPC-11",
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        "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]",
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        "content_text": "## WEATHER-FORECASTS AND STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.\n\nA knowledge of typhoons and their paths is often required when you have to decide whether to remain at your moorings or to slip your cable and run; for instance, a vessel between Hongkong and Swatow in an anchorage sheltered against N and E winds will be safe while a typhoon is moving from E to W across the China Sea, but should the centre move northwards, the vessel might be thrown on a lee shore when the wind backs through W to S.\n\nA steamer at anchor, when a typhoon is approaching, should get up steam, and a sailer should, if possible, take down the top masts as soon as it blows a fresh breeze in the squalls. With reference to a sailing vessel, the time when to begin striking the top masts must, of course, depend upon the extent to which she is undermanned. Striking the masts increases the rolling. A sheltered anchorage must be selected, and when the centre passes very near, the berth may have to be changed to avoid being thrown on a lee shore.\n\n### METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS.\n\nMeteorological Signals are hoisted on the Mast beside the Time-Ball at Kowloon Point for the information of Masters of Vessels leaving the Port. They do not imply that bad weather is expected in the Colony itself.\n\n| Signal | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| **A DRUM** | Indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony. |\n| **A BALL** | Indicates a Typhoon to the West of the Colony. |\n| **A CONE, Point Upwards** | Indicates a Typhoon to the North of the Colony. |\n| **A CONE, Point Downwards** | Indicates a Typhoon to the South of the Colony. |\n\nRED SIGNALS indicate that the Centre is believed to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony. BLACK SIGNALS indicate that the Centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.\n\n### NIGHT SIGNALS.\n\n* **TWO LANTERNS Hoisted Vertically** indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to veer.\n* **TWO LANTERNS Hoisted Horizontally** indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to back.\n\nThe Signals are repeated on the Flagstaff of the Godown Company at Kowloon, and also, by day only, at the Harbour Office and on H. M.'s Receiving Ship.\n\n## LOCAL STORM-WARNINGS.\n\nThe Colony itself is warned of approaching Typhoons by means of the **TYPHOON-GUN** placed at the foot of the Mast, which is fired whenever a strong gale of wind is expected to blow here.\n\n### NOTICE BOARDS.\n\nNotice Boards placed at the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company's Offices, Observations made at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. are exhibited shortly after 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Peddar's Wharf, at the Harbour Office, and at the Office of the Kowloon Godown Company. Weather-forecasts and Storm-warnings are exhibited daily about 11 a.m., and also at other hours, and at night, whenever necessary while Typhoons are raging in the Far East. The China Coast Meteorological Register is exhibited about Noon (Sundays and Government holidays excepted).\n\n## THE LAW OF STORMS.\n\nFurther information concerning the weather to be expected while signals are hoisted, and sailing directions, are given in \"The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas.\"\n\nShipmasters may obtain by telegraph the latest information as to weather at any station reporting to the Hongkong Observatory by payment for a reply of at least ten words (2.6, twelve words including the address). Application may also be made for similar information to be telegraphed on some future specified day.\n\nWith reference to typhoon anchorages in China, beginning with Hainan, we have Backli bay (19° 41' N. 108° 39′ E.) with shelter against winds between NNE. and S. only. It is not a very good labour, and the natives are not to be trusted. In southern Hainan, we have Yulinkan bay 18° 12', ... Ga bay (18° 13', 109° 34′) may also be used. Manin harbour (19° 57', 109° 52') can be used when the centre is to the north of Hainan. Hunghom bay (20° 17', 110° 23′) is shallow and is not often used, except when no better place is within reach. Hui-ling-san (21° 34′, 111° 47') and Nan'ao bay (21° 35', 112° 34') are available between Hainan and Hongkong. Near Hongkong is the excellent harbour by Saint John's Island (21° 40', 112° 42'), which is commonly used. Vessels of great draught anchor to the S. of the position given. Tongku harbour (22° 35′, 113° 55') is used in case of typhoons crossing the China Sea. It offers no shelter against W. winds. This is at the mouth of the Canton River. Higher up the river, ships anchor under the Bogue forts, although typhoon centres pass that spot, but then it does not blow so hard as out at sea, when the centre is inland. Capsingmoon pass to the W. of Mahwan is shelter against typhoons, but Chingwan bay (22° 49' 114° 96') is one of the best harbours in China. In consequence, it is too crowded during a typhoon. To the NW. of Stonecutter's Island (22° 20' 114° 8') launches find shelter. Tytam bay to the SE. of Hongkong is an excellent harbour. Deep bay (22° 47', 114° 16') gives better shelter than Kors bay (22° 48', 114° 13'), but some vessels prefer the latter as the storm-signals can be seen from these. A position between Taipintong and the Channel Rocks makes the best anchorage. Mirs bay (22° 38', 114° 27′) under Pengchau offers shelter to vessels bound for Hongkong from a northern direction. Between Mirs bay and Swatow, there are no very good typhoon harbours, but shelter may be found against NE. winds. By Namoa Island (23° 28', 116° 57') is excellent anchorage. Tongsan bay (23° 47', 117° 35′) is much used, and also Amoy harbour. Making harbour (23° 32', 118° ...) by the Pescadores is excellent. In Pilquan harbour (24° 10′, 120° 31') there is good shelter from NE. winds to vessels under 15 feet draught. The Haitan Straits (25° 26', 119° 44′) are very ... There are several anchorages round Chusan. In Luzon, there is an anchorage at the entrance to Manila bay, N. of Corregidor Island (14° 25', 120° 33'). On the S. coast of Mindoro, we have Garza bay (12° 13′, 121° 11′).\n\nWhen the red drum is hoisted, the weather is generally fine in Hongkong, and settled fine if the typhoon moves northward, so that this signal does not by any means imply bad weather here. Steamers bound for northern, western or southern ports should then lose no time in starting, as they may expect more or less fine weather. Those bound for the Philippines should take precautions to avoid cyclones as explained above. Sailing vessels bound for western or southern parts should lose no time in starting, but those that are bound for the north or east ought to remain in the harbour awaiting information, should the wind be westerly here at the time, as they may expect to fall in with calms or contrary breezes after starting, even ...",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n0.0. `8900`\nAFF. 98\n\nis entitled to leave in respect of his Services in Mauritius so that the C.A. may be instructive to make the necessary adjustment between Mauritius & thoughing (No. ak 90. 1898 2 Mar previous Paper. No. `8903` (Subject.) Leave to M. Fisher Joke Animal Sepôts Fausts.\n\n3 Mr Bowdler's service in mauritius apparently dating from June 1862 to September 1874.\n\n1 as hoj rad 139.27 May\n\ngrants 4000 rac smoo Khay from 20 March. with obens Mr Lucas.\n\nad The grant of this leave struch me at first as very extrandinary. (Minutes.) But seeing that so much leave is due to him as an officer with a small salary of has really satisfred the Gover that he requires the exave \"ground of urgent private affairs, & seeing als that under Regulation 102 the term of hur Fisher's leave not count for Pension, unless the Sof S nud leave wrikes it ?uch approve I should be inclined to as an exceptimal case adding a precedent that it must not be treated Befin this desp T.e. m. 28/4 answers (getting ask M. Fisher fas his wish.\n\n## không bong \nPage 133 \n(N)~5--10000-12-07 sequent Paper.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nFrom a physiological point of view, the motion of all forms of muscular exercise is a national good of inestimable value. A well-developed body and a well-informed mind are necessary partners for intellectual and material triumphs, and nothing contributes so much in their favour as open spaces and outdoor recreation. *Mens sana in corpore sano* is an old proverb, but I believe that for the preservation of the *mens sana*, the *corpus sanum* is absolutely essential.\n\n## Reservation of Causeway Bay as an Open Space\n\nThe reservation of Causeway Bay as an open space for the purposes of general recreation for all nationalities will promote the physical health and happiness of a large number of residents. I therefore have great pleasure in moving \"That it is desirable in the interests of the public that the land marked red on the annexed plan should not be let for building purposes but should be, henceforth, reserved as an open space and appropriated for the purposes of recreation, and that the sanction of the Secretary of State should be asked for the introduction of an Ordinance giving the Governor in Council power to make regulations, from time to time, as to the uses of the land so reserved and to enforce such regulations by suitable penalties,\" and I earnestly hope the resolution will receive the unanimous support of this Council, as if carried out, humanity generally will benefit.\n\nThe Hon. Ho KAI - I have much pleasure in seconding the resolution so ably proposed by my honourable friend opposite. After the remarks which he has made, and after the memorial which has been sent up to a former Governor and read by the mover of the resolution, I think it will need very little to ensure this resolution being unanimously adopted by this Council. I venture to think that not one single member of this honourable Council will dispute that Hong Kong will be better from a sanitary point of view with a few more open spaces reserved like the piece of ground we are trying to reserve by this resolution. It seems to me that the younger generation of Hong Kong will be very much obliged to us for thinking of their welfare in providing an extensive piece of ground for recreation and also where they can take a little airing after business hours. In seconding this resolution, I would only make one condition, and that is that this piece of ground should be reserved for the use of the public strictly, and not made the subject of quarrels between cliques and classes (Hear, hear.) I hope that in reserving this ground, regulations will be drawn up so as to obviate any such quarrels, and that the ground will be reserved truly for the public use without distinction of race, nationality, or class. (Hear, hear.)\n\nCarried unanimously.",
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        "content_text": "# JOCELLO, 10.112\n## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE Circular\n### Hong Kong, No. 232672\n\n**(Subject.) Flogging**\n\nfull return sent under cover of despatch ... of 4 March last year lowest for some time ¿ in plains increase \"work\" rast as of refusale! of Anat hon. Aarati forsoners\n\n**(Minutes.)**\nArc 25 May 1899 General Department.\n\nnoted See 7655 herewritte A F 18/10. Publy 88-10050-35.67 750-7000-7-45 subsequent Paper.\n\nMr. Lucas which ? print, with the Return of Hoggings forrns the last Enclosure to the Report of Victéria Gaol sand home in Put By 7655798 Ath 18/10 CPL 18 May 19 \"CP F 4 2 at once Fod at once 8769 88\n\n| Ref. | Date       | Description                          |\n|------|------------|--------------------------------------|\n| ack 259 | 1898       | Previous Paper                       |\n| 76053  |            |                                      |\n| despatch | 4 March   | full return sent under cover         |\n| 7655   |            | See herewritte A F 18/10              |\n| 7655798|            | Put By Ath 18/10 CPL 18 May 19       |\n| CP F 4 2 |            | at once Fod at once                  |\n| 8769   |            | 88                                   |",
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        "content_text": "# CONTENTS\n## Page\nScope of Memorandum | 3\nSources of Information | 3\n**(4.) Trade Routes-cont.**\n**(b) Mandalay to the Kunlon Ferry** | 27\nPossible Extensions | 27\n## 1. Burma-China Overland Trade\nEstimates of the Trade | 5\nShunning-Fu and Yincho | -\nRegistration of Trade | 5\n**(e) Hlaindet to the Takaw Ferry** | -\nTrade for Eight Years | -\nCauses of Growth | 6\nThe Railway Schemes | 6\nDirect Trade with Western China | 6\nwith North Shan States | 9\nwith South Shan States | 9\nSiamese Routes | -\nThe French and the Mekong | 27\nKenghung to Yunnan-Fu | 28\nN*** | 28\n## Articles of Commerce\nTonkin Routes :-- | 10\n**(a) Black River Route** | 10\n**(b) Red River (Songkoi) Route** | 11\nArea, Physical Features, and Population:- | 11\nRed River Trade | 31\nOpinions about this Route | 31\nObstacles to trade on Red River Route | 32\nTên | +\nPhysical Features | -\nPopulation | -\nEthnology | 11\nPoverty of the People | -\nKueichou | 11\nProgress of Red River Route | 32\nFrench Activity | 32\nMengtsz to Ssumao | 33\nMengtsz to Yunnan-Fu | 33\nRailway Projects | 33\n## Western Routes :---\n**(e) Hanoi to Lungchow** | 34\nWest River (Sikiang) Direct Route | 34\nWest River (Sikiang) Pakhoi Route | 12\nNanning to Pose | -\nCrops: Tea, Opium | 13\nBreeding of Animals | 14\nSilk Culture, &c. | 14\nMining: Copper, Iron, Silver and Lead, | 14, 15\nTin and Zine, Gold, Salt | 15\nObstacles to Mining | 15\nDevelopments on the West River | 36\nKucichou | -\nTransit Passes, Treaty Ports | 36\n## Yangtze Routes:--\nThe Yangtze | 37\n**(3.) Trade:-**\nSsuchuan | 37\nObstacles to Trade | 17\nChungking and the Yangtze | -\nCommunications | 17\nTrade | 38\nExternal Trade | 17\n**(a) Hankow to Yunnan-Fu** | 39\nCost of Transport | 18\n**(b) Chungking to Yunnan-Fu viâ Kucianyang-Fu** | 39\nTraders | 18\nExchange | 19\n**(c) Chungking to Yunnan-Fu viâ Luchow** | 39\nInternal Taxation | 19\nExports | 20\n**(d) Sui-Fu (Soochow) to Yunnan-Fu** | 40\nTransports | 20\nFuture Trade | -\nThe Chief Trade Route | 41\nKueichou | 21\nRailway Projects | 41\nTrade Centres---Yunnan-Fa, Tali-Fu, Chengta-Fu | 41\n**(e) Chungking to Tali-Fu via Ssumao, Mengtsz, Momien** | 21-3\n## (4) Trade Routes :~~\n## (5.) Rivalry between England and France :--\nClaims and Treaty Rights | 24\nIntroductory | -\nTonkin, Yunnan, and Ssuchuan | -\nBurmese Routes --- | -\nThe Mekong | -\n**(4) Bhamo to Tali-Fu** | 24\nDifficulties of this Route | 25\nTali-Fu to Tibet- | 25\nTali-Fu to Ssurao | 25\nTali-Fu to Yunnan-Fu | -\nTariffs, &c. | 26\nRailways | 26\n## (6.) Conclusions :——-\nDifficulties of Trade | -\nTrade Prospects | -\nNote on the Chinshaking or Upper Yangtze-kiang | 42\n| 43\n| 43\n| 44\n| 45",
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        "content_text": "832 \n\n10 \n\n\n11 \n\n550 \n\n561 \n\n**Chief articles of commerce**. \n\nEstimated total trade. \n\nImports living animals have largely increased, while there is a growing trade in fruits, paints, and provisions. In the import trade of the future, timber promises to hold an important place. \n\nThus, taking all the trade in the direction of the Chinese frontier, we find that the leading exports are raw cotton, cotton twist and yarn, cotton piece goods, provisions, salt, silk stuffs, woollen goods, jade, metals, and other merchandise consisting mainly of manufactured goods. Raw cotton and cotton goods, and in a less degree woollen goods, are among the chief wants of the Chinese. There is an apparently increasing demand in Yunnan for articles of pedlary, such as fans, glass tumblers, lamps, candles, and curios. These, together with aniline dyes, are mainly supplied from Germany, though France is also in the field with objets de Paris. With regard to imports from Yunnan, raw silk, orpiment, provisions, living animals, hides and horns, fibrous products, rice, tea, fruits, gold-leaf, and timber, together with miscellaneous unmanufactured goods, constitute the bulk of the trade. But the values of imports and exports alike show great fluctuations. \n\nIf we take the total direct trade with China at Rx. 375,000, and assume that indirect trade through the Shan States and by less important routes, together with the trade that escapes registration, amounts to one-third of this sum, we get a total import and export trade with Western China of Rx. 500,000, possibly an under estimate. The trade in silk, which comes partly from Ssuchuan through Yunnan, seems capable of expansion, as silk clothes are universally worn in Burma. There is said to be little prospect of growth in the imports of tea, though there will probably be a larger trade in ponies, mules, asses, goats, sheep, pigs, and poultry, and perhaps in cattle and buffaloes. It can hardly be doubted that the present trade is capable of considerable increase in staple articles, although, as the Chinese customers are for the most part poor, their mode of life primitive, their wants few, and their dealings chiefly by barter, trade must for a long time be of small extent and progress must be slow. Apart from railways, much might be done to improve the existing difficult means of communication, and so facilitate exchanges. Improvements of the roads in the Bhamo district and the bridging of the Taping river have produced excellent results by enabling caravans to make more frequent trips. Again, as the Chinese traders make enormous profits on the sale of European goods, a better commercial organisation might do much to extend the market. \n\nIt has been suggested by Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett that this frontier trade, now comparatively insignificant, can be indefinitely expanded by the construction of a Burma-China railway. Mr. Holt Hallett has said that Western China is a field where manufacturers will find markets beyond even their utmost powers to overstock, and that railways will ensure customers for any amount of cotton manufactures. And again, he affirms that if the French anticipate the English in making a railway, the \"largest and richest undeveloped market in the world\" will pass to them. In the face of such assertions, which have been widely accepted in this country, it appears desirable to investigate somewhat fully the existing resources of Western China, the possibilities of their exploitation, and the prospects of constructing and working railways successfully on a commercial basis. \n\nAs Yunnan is the only Chinese province conterminous with Burma, it will be dealt with more minutely than Kueichou and Ssuchuan, the other two provinces of Western China. What little there is to say of Kueichou, which lies east of Yunnan, may be said in connection with the latter province. Ssuchuan, though far more important in itself than the other two provinces, is more remote from Burma, and will be most conveniently studied in connexion with the Yangtze routes to Yunnan. \n\n## II. YUNNAN. ITS RESOURCES, TRADE, AND TRADE ROUTES. \n\n### (1.) Area, Physical Features, and Population. \n\nThe mountain barriers that separate Western China from other parts of the Empire have given its provinces a special character, which has largely determined their commercial as well as their political relations. This remark especially applies to Yunnan, the comparative inaccessibility of which has rendered it more or less independent of India on the one hand and of China on the other. The sway of China over Yunnan has always been somewhat precarious, and has been frequently challenged in fierce rebellions. As a consequence the people have enjoyed a considerable measure of freedom. Richthofen says that the attention of foreigners has been attracted to Yunnan largely owing to its trade routes connecting distant and important countries, and to the rumoured existence of quantities of gold and precious stones. \n\nThe area of Yunnan is estimated at 100,000 square miles, but it is impossible to assign an exact area to the province, as its frontiers on the north-west and west are ill-defined. \n\nYunnan forms the lower terrace of the huge Tibetan plateau, and it has been described as an uneven tableland, or as an inclined plane trending from north-west to south-east, with a mean altitude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet. From this extensive plateau arise lofty mountain chains that separate from one another the plains in which lie the chief towns of the province. The plateau, nowhere really level, is intersected by deep defiles or cañons eroded by the great rivers which either rise in Yunnan, or traverse it on their way to the ocean, the Taping, Shweli, Salween, Mekong, Black River, Red River (Songkoi), West River (Sikiang), and Yangtze (Chinshakiang). These rivers are often impassable, and always difficult and dangerous owing to their precipitous gorges, and the poisonous air they harbour. None of them are navigable in Yunnan itself, because of their rapids and the rocks that bestrew their beds, but they become navigable beyond its borders. All travellers agree as to the broken and tortuous configuration of the country and the difficulties of traversing it. The south-east and south-west corners of the province are almost unexplored. In the north, the south, and the west, the country breaks away steeply to the Yangtze, the Mekong, and the Irrawaddy basins respectively, and more gently to the Red River in the south-east and the West River in the east. In the west the succession of lofty mountains with narrow intervening plains constitutes the formidable barrier which English commerce has to penetrate. \n\nThe population of Yunnan has been largely reduced by fever and plague, and especially by the Mohammedan rebellion which raged from 1856 to 1873 and caused a great destruction of people and property. Before the rebellion the population is said to have been 15,000,000. The official estimate of the population is 12,000,000, while one non-official estimate places it at only 1,000,000. Some writers affirm that the province has been recovering rapidly from the results of the rebellion, and that natural growth of population, combined with immigration from the provinces of Ssuchuan and Kwangsi, has largely restored the numbers of the people. But Mr. Bourne, in his recent report, says that recovery from the effects of the rebellion has been very slow, and that, excepting Yunnan-Fu, the towns on his route looked no better than they did ten years before. It is also said that though great inducements have been held out to immigrants, the people of other provinces dread Yunnan on account of the bad repute of the authorities, the supposed ferocity of the aboriginal tribes, and the alleged unhealthiness of the climate. Most of the people are found in the river valleys. The towns are not usually very populous, but they have large suburbs, and the plains containing towns generally contain also numerous villages, the people of which resort to the town fairs. Amid the conflicting assertions it is difficult to arrive at a conclusion as to the population of Yunnan. But, if one bears in mind the large area of thinly peopled mountainous country and the effects of rebellion and plague, it is impossible to adopt a high estimate of the population. Mr. Hosie and Mr. Turner give 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 and M. Brenier 8,000,000, and it would not be safe...",
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        "content_text": "# Breeding of animals.\n## Silk culture, &c.\n### Mining.\n#### Copper.\n\nThe total opium production of Yunnan has been estimated at 40,900 piculs, or nearly 5,500,000 lbs.; but a large quantity escapes taxation. Government have recently raised the tax on native-grown opium in Yunnan and Ssuchuan. The local likin was increased to 6 taels per 1,000 taels weight early in 1896, and to 12 taels in November 1897, but an excess of 20 per cent. in the weight is allowed. Sir Robert Hart has proposed a single tax of 60 taels per picul on opium, to be levied at the places where it is grown.\n\nOn the whole it may be said that while the lower slopes of the mountains are cultivable and the plains are rich in varied vegetation capable of supporting a much larger population, the intricate and mountainous character of the country must place an effectual limit to very extensive agricultural operations, while lack of labour and capital and bad communications must impede improvements in cultivation.\n\nYunnan is a very suitable country for breeding purposes, having a good climate and a great deal of porous, well-watered soil and luxuriant grass. The mountain slopes provide excellent grazing for sheep, though the sheep are not numerous and are bred only for their wool. The Yunnanese do not know how to weave wool, but they fabricate a kind of blanket or rug by felting. Oxen and buffaloes are found a little everywhere, but the cattle are poor. Small sturdy ponies and good mules are bred and much utilized for transport. Goats are very common. The north-west mountains are the habitat of the musk deer, and a large quantity of musk comes from Tibet.\n\nThe silkworm is reared in several parts of Yunnan, but not to any great extent. The largest production is at Talien, eight days north of Tali-Fu, near the border of Ssuchuan. It is also produced in the Yungchang district and in the Yangpi valley. Some is spun into sewing thread at Yungchang. Most of the raw silk at present goes to Burma to be woven at Mandalay, but weaving is now being encouraged in Yunnan. The white-wax insect is an important product of Yunnan. It is found chiefly in the north and north-east districts.\n\nRocher speaks of Yunnan as a mining country par excellence, while another writer calls Yunnan a veritable mosaic of minerals. The mining wealth of Yunnan is said by others to be more varied than that of any other province in China, and some add that it is one of the richest mining regions in the world. There can be little doubt that the exaggerated importance that has been attached to Yunnan is mainly attributable to these statements about the vast potentialities of the province from a mining standpoint. The prime authority for these assertions appears to be M. Rocher, who is freely quoted by other writers. His map is covered with notes of places where minerals are alleged to occur, but after some detailed study of the question one is not surprised at a remark of Lieutenant Roux that Rocher is completely wrong in indicating a region near Muongle in south Yunnan as \"rich in minerals and precious stones.\" The mineral resources of Yunnan have been little explored and are now little exploited.\n\nNo statistics are available. M. Brenier speaks of argentiferous galena, zinc, iron, tin, and copper as the chief mineral riches.\n\nCopper in many forms appears to occur widely and to be of excellent quality. From the Yunnan mines have come the vast quantities of copper used in the manufacture of cash currency, the chief coinage of China. The great efforts and sacrifices made by the Government to suppress the rebellion are ascribed to this circumstance. The richest deposits appear to be in the vicinity of Huilichou, Chaotung, and Tungchuan, and in north Yunnan generally. Mr. Bourne, in his recent report, speaks of four considerable copper mines within 50 miles of Tungchuan, whence 80,000 to 90,000 lbs. are sent annually to the Government at Pekin. Copper is also worked north of Tali, in the Chienchang valley, and in the Yungchang district. There are said to be productive mines at Chuhsiung, Linan, Chengchiang, and Yunnan-Fu. Copper-bearing lodes are farmed out by the Government, but all the copper produced must be sold to the authorities at a fixed price. Coppersmiths, who use smuggled copper, pay twice the Government price. The metal is largely used for making pans and other utensils, which have a large sale in Yunnan. The principal copper smugglers are the aboriginal tribes, and the Chinese Commissioner of Mines is reported to have a tacit understanding with them.\n\nIron is abundant and its extraction is easy, but the mode of working is primitive and defective. Only mines that are very productive and near centres of population are worked owing to difficulties of transport, which affect all common metals. Iron is worked from magnetite in the Chintong district, and fair steel is made from it. Iron is stated to be abundant near Yuanchiang and Linan.\n\nSilver is said to be plentiful (mixed with lead or other metals) in the districts of Yunnan-Fu, Yungpei, Linan, Kuochiu, &c. Good silver appears to be rarely found at the mines or in the markets, and its varying values hamper commerce. Silver ornaments and inferior silver ingots are used to pay likin duties. Mr. Turner states that all the silver mines are now worked by the Government, who are said to be largely dependent on Yunnan for their supplies of silver. Galena or lead is found in many parts, especially in the departments of Weining, Chaotung, and Tungchuan, and the mines are stated to be now working well, while, as the Customs reports show, the export of lead is increasing.\n\nThe most flourishing mines, however, at the present time are the tin mines of Kuochiu, about 20 miles from Mengtsz, and not far from the Tonkin border. These mines are said to have been worked for three centuries. They are now in the hands of a branch of the China Merchants' Company, and about 20,000 men are employed. The tin derived from these rich and well-worked mines is one of the chief exports of Yunnan, and it is stated that 1,000,000l. worth could be annually exported. The opening of the Red River route has stimulated the tin industry, and the price has risen at the mines. The demand is sure to increase, as this is practically the only article merchants can export in exchange for the imports from Tonkin. Owing to this fact, much of the tin is paid for months in advance. Zinc is freely worked and is used in the making of cash at the Sui-Fu mint.\n\nOf other minerals, gold is found in small quantities in quartz at Huilichou, Talang, and elsewhere, and in the watercourses. Schemes for developing gold mines in the Chienchang valley are in progress, and it is said that the mines are beginning to pay. Mercury occurs near Ssumao and near Tali-Fu. Peculiarly coloured marbles are found near Tali-Fu and used for a variety of purposes. Coal of diverse qualities is worked at certain points, but it is a mineral little used. Orpiment and gypsum are common, and alum, sulphur, and various precious stones are said to exist.\n\nSalt is extracted from the extensive mines of Mohei and Paiyenching, and in the Chuhsiung-Fu prefecture. The annual yield of salt, though considerable (350,400 piculs or over 20,000 tons being produced in 1890), is by no means sufficient for local consumption. Government levy a special duty on all salt raised.\n\nApparently, the majority of mines in Yunnan have not been worked since the rebellion, and owing to flooding and bad repair, great expense would have to be incurred to re-open them. The Mohammedan rebellion broke out at a mining centre, and the Government, fearing a recrudescence of anarchy, discourage mining enterprise except when directly organised and controlled by officials. But outbreaks have been in great measure due to the misconduct of officials. It has been remarked by Baber that the prejudices and peculations of Chinese life are found in an exaggerated form in connection with the mines, the most lucrative Chinese posts being in mining districts. The ease of extraction and the productivity of the mines draw a large number of miners together, and disorders are almost inevitable. It seems clear that the mines should be worked by the Imperial Government through a mixed authority like the Imperial Customs, as Baber suggested, or that freer scope should be given to private enterprise. But there are many other obstacles to the efficient development of the mining resources of Yunnan. Before mines can be properly worked, the province must be peopled, and communications improved; capital must be introduced and adequate mining appliances adopted, for only surface workings take place at present, perhaps partly owing to superstition on the part of the Chinese. It is said that the copper mines near Tungchuan are grossly mismanaged, and, though coal is abundant and cheap, charcoal is used for smelting the ore.\n\nPage 570\nPage 571",
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        "content_text": "# Cost of transport. Traders.\n\n18 as the true object of attempts to find a direct route from India, Siam, or French Indo-China into south-west China. Only an unimportant fraction of the trade of Ssucbuan or Kneichou is ever likely to flow through Yunnan, the imports required by those provinces going naturally by the Yangtze. Similarly, Cooper said that beyond the export and import trade with Yunnan, it was difficult to conceive what further advantage Burma would reap from communications with Western China. In this General Mesny and other authorities concur. The difficulties are obvious. External trade from any direction must traverse a vast mountain barrier, and the through trade must needs be limited to a few valuable goods. Richthofen asserts that the natural direction of the trade of Western China is up the Yangtze, and cannot be made to go west or south across the barrier, except a small portion, and that only if a railway be built. But a railway would involve a heavy expenditure, and prospective profits would be incommensurate with the outlay.\n\nConsidering the difficulty of the routes and the consequent long carriage of goods, the cost of freight by porters, mules, &c., is important, for expensive transport may render the sale price of many commodities prohibitive. The standard in Yunnan is usually one of weight (so many catties of 1.3 lbs.), and the distances are reckoned in li, nominally a measure of distance (1 li = 660 yards), though really one of time, 10 li, or an hour's journey, varying in distance with the difficulty of the route. The length of a stage in Yunnan also varies according to the accommodation available. But General Mesny says it ranges from 20 to 30 miles a day. The cost of transport is about the same on all routes. Mr. Bourne states that 2.3d. per ton per mile is a fair rate for pack animals in Yunnan, and he thinks that this charge is considerable in a country where values are low. But he has probably much understated the cost of carriage, which Mr. Holt Hallett estimates at 1s. per ton per mile, while another authority, Mr. Jensen, of the Chinese Telegraph Service, puts the rate at 30 dollars per 100 li for 160 to 173 lbs. by mule, or roughly 5d. to 6d. per ton per mile. The rates vary with the number of mules and the nature of the loads.* The heavy charges for transport make it imperative that foreigners should lay their merchandise as near as possible to the various centres of consumption at the lowest profitable prices. Under present conditions, transit is long, slow, and expensive. General Mesny does not recommend the building of railways because of the natural obstacles, but he thinks that some of the trade routes might be improved, especially the routes from the Yangtze and the Red River, and perhaps also the Bhamo route. Mr. Turner, whose experience appears to be mainly of the Tali-Fu district, holds that Yunnan is not in a decayed or decaying condition, and that, apart from metals, it has still a few not unimportant exportable products; but the question, he says, is whether these products can be sold at such a price as to bear Rs. 7 per ton per day of mule transport to Burma. He wonders, however, that there is any trade at all, considering the severe roads, made of rough blocks of stone, slippery and difficult for men and animals.\n\nnear\n\nRetail trading of a local kind is carried on to a large extent in Yunnan, for the Chinese are born merchants. The articles of largest consumption carried from place to place are tea, sugar, paper, salt, and cotton—tea, salt, and cotton being especially important in the transit trade. Traffic in foreign goods and silver is carried on by hucksters from Hunan, who bring these articles to Yunnan and Kueichou and take back opium. The general trade, wholesale and retail, is conducted by the Chinese, as distinguished from the indigenous population. Rocher says that dealings with them require time and patience and a personnel trained to the special kind of business. Their clothes of blue cotton show that Chinese men and women do not readily change their habits in making purchases, but means and opportunity might give them a taste for fashion in dress. Merchants often make very long journeys. The Lyons mission found representatives of Chinese firms from Hong Kong and Canton at most places they visited in Yunnan, Kueichou, and Ssuchuan. A large guild of Cantonese merchants visit North Tonkin and Yunnan each year, going via Pakhoi and proceeding as far as Momien. They sell watches, needles, mirrors, and other European goods in exchange for opium. In the Chinese Shan States on the Burma frontier, markets are held every fifth day.\n\n## Exchange.\n\nThe trade, mostly in native articles with a few foreign piece goods, is conducted mainly by barter. Banking business is undeveloped, though there are two banks at Yunnan-Fu. Owing to the lack of credit facilities, coin has to be carried in bulk. Mr. Bourne says that the lack of exchange banks accounts for the long journeys traders make with their goods.\n\nThere are, however, excellent arrangements for transmitting money by caravan over the main routes of Yunnan, with insurance against loss by robbery. About 2 per cent covered the postage, registration, and insurance of silver sent by native post for Mr. Morrison from Chungking to Yunnan-Fu. The tael is the current silver coin, but its quality and the terms of exchange vary considerably from place to place, and the most useful and portable form of currency is pure silver in unstamped ingots of one tael or more. The ordinary currency among the people is cash, but a string of 1,000 cash weighs about 7 lbs. and is worth less than three shillings. The exchange value of cash, which has risen in recent years in Yunnan as in the rest of China, varies considerably in places at no great distance from one another. An interesting bi-metallic question, indeed, is agitating China owing to the continued fall in silver relatively to copper cash, a decline of 30 per cent in five years. The authorities cannot coin cash at the government standard except at a heavy loss, and have therefore ceased to coin. The diminished supply in conjunction with an increased demand for cash has forced up the value, with the result that there is constant haggling about both the quantity and the quality of the coins. Foreign merchants are placed at a special disadvantage, for their silver buys an ever-diminishing quantity of articles from gold countries, and those articles sell for an ever-diminishing quantity of cash in China. Among the Shans, salt is sometimes used as currency, as in Caindu in the days of Marco Polo, but silver is tending to displace it. In exchanges across the Tonkin frontier, tin is practically the currency, but as it is insufficient for transactions owing to its limited production, cotton, salt, tobacco, and foreign goods imported are mainly paid for in opium, which is exported for this purpose in large quantities to Kwangsi and Kwangtung.\n\n## Internal taxation.\n\nAmong the chief obstacles to commerce in Yunnan, as elsewhere in China, are the likin on merchandise in transit and other internal taxes. For forty years, taxation has grown more onerous as the financial burdens of the Government have increased. The frequency of likin stations, which are placed at all large towns and along all main routes by land or water, depends on the amount of trade and the extent to which it can be taxed without being extinguished. Accurate information about the tariff is hard to obtain, and neither party really pays any attention to the authorised tariff, the terms being decided by a process of bargaining. Besides the burden of the taxation itself, merchants suffer extortion in respect of exchange, the weight of silver, &c., and bribes have to be given to prevent undue delay. In short, likin is a field for wholesale peculation. The Government reaps comparatively little from it, but the chief collectors amass large fortunes, while a host of underlings subsist on petty exactions. Even if the taxation were well administered, likin is objectionable in its form and incidence. Needless to say, smuggling of opium and other portable articles is freely practised in order to evade likin. As likin is levied at stations not far distant from one another, the farther goods travel, the more they pay, the higher the price becomes, and the more difficult is it for would-be consumers to purchase the goods. Though extremely unfavourable to general trade development, likin does not so much affect foreign commodities. Under the Treaty of 1858, British subjects have the option of freeing their goods from all internal taxation by payment of 2 per cent ad valorem, that is, one-half of the 5 per cent import or export duty, when a transit pass shall issue. The advantage of the transit pass grows with the distance traversed, as more likin stations are passed without additional taxation. But frequent endeavours are made by the authorities to override treaty rights. The likin collectorate for Yunnan is managed at Yunnan-Fu, and its proceeds go to the provincial government. Everything\n\nPage 554\nPage 585\n\n* In India 4 annas (or 4d.) per ton per mile is usually estimated as the cost of cartage for bulky goods. Mr. Bourne's estimate of 2.3d. per ton per mile for pack animals therefore appears extremely low. His colleagues on the Blackburn Mission give 3d. to 6d. per ton per mile as the rate on the route from Sui-Fu to Yunnan-Fu, which is probably correct for Yunnan generally.",
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        "content_text": "## Exports. \n## Imports.\n\n20 \n\npacked for transit has to pay, but tea and cotton account for most of the receipts. In one respect the likin collection in Yunnan and Kueichou is better than in some other provinces, since one likin payment frees goods throughout each province. But there are other oppressive exactions. Fu-shui duties levied by each prefecture through which goods pass, are a great incubus; while lo-ti-shui, or destination dues, levied in the places where goods are to be consumed, constitute a further hindrance to trade.\n\nIn spite of the numerous obstacles to commerce, there is sufficient trade to justify a brief consideration of the articles of import and export. The value of the total trade of Yunnan, export and import, has been estimated by a French writer, M. Rouvier, at 6,000,000. The value of the import trade depends closely upon that of the export trade, and, if the former is to be encouraged, there must be more surplus produce raised, and a multiplication of industries. As already indicated, Yunnan has at present a surplus of only two important articles, opium and tin, though copper and musk (two-thirds of which comes from Tibet) are also worth mentioning. A great number of miscellaneous articles doubtless amount to a large sum altogether, e.g., zinc, lead, horns, hides, paper, fur coats, straw hats, tea, fibrous products, gold, silk, wool, dyewoods, indigo, orpiment, oil of earthnuts, star aniseed, aniseed oil, medicines, mules, ponies, goats, sheep, pigs, &c., but none of these things is exported in sufficient quantity to be regarded as a staple export. The export of opium is said to amount to 12,500 piculs, or 750 tons, but it is not known whether this estimate includes the large quantity of opium smuggled. Opium, having great value in small bulk, is especially suited to be an article of commerce in a mountainous country, with precipitous tracks as the only channels of trade. Not only can it be carried to market from remote valleys, whence bulkier goods could not pay their way, but it can also be easily cultivated and manufactured, is good in quality and improves with keeping, is always in demand and therefore readily exchanged, and can be easily smuggled. Consequently, agriculture and commerce have concentrated round the drug. Besides likin duties, a tax must be paid to the hongs of districts licensed to deal in opium, and commissions to hongs on sale. Transport charges not being prohibitive, opium is exported to many Chinese provinces, proceeding especially from Yunnan-Fu, Chinningchow, Lotzuksien, Kunyangehow, Tali, and Linan. Shipments of Yunnan opium via Chungking have risen steadily since 1891. The exports to Shanghai and Hankow are increasing, and a large amount of opium is sent clandestinely overland to Shashi and Amoy. The opium exported from Southern Yunnan comes largely from the west, with Tali and Yungchang as the centres. Tunghai is the entrepôt for the export trade via Pose, but Yunnan-Fu is the emporium for the whole province. In 1895, the demand for opium was so great that it was difficult to find transport. The opium trade is entirely in the hands of a few big houses, who buy from the producer, and in return supply European and other goods. There appear to be still millions of acres available for poppy cultivation, and from the sale of the surplus opium must probably come any increased demand for foreign imports in the immediate future.\n\nThe chief imports into Yunnan are raw cotton, cotton yarn, cotton piece goods, and a crowd of miscellaneous articles, English and German, from Rangoon and Canton. These include woollen goods (blankets and long ells), clocks and watches, eau de Cologne, small knives, needles, matches, small mirrors, petroleum, umbrellas, toys, ironmongery, &c. Many of the lighter articles can be laid down cheaply, and have an assured market. Such are needles, knives, watches, and small mirrors especially, together with cheap hardware, glassware, perfumery, images, &c. But costly transport renders the price of many European articles prohibitive. Tea is imported from the Shan States, and silk from Ssuchuan. Raw cotton is said to cover all the roads converging on the province in the season. Practically no cotton is grown in Yunnan, though it requires a large quantity. Northern Yunnan gets it from the Lower Yangtzo via Sui-Fu, western and central Yunnan from Burma, and south-western Yunnan from the Shan States. Foreign cotton yarn comes mostly from Hongkong via Tonkin and Mengtsz under Inferior transit pass, and from Burma via Tali. Bombay yarn is supreme. Lancashire cotton goods are imported, mostly grey shirtings, and sold at prices not exorbitant.\n\nShashi cotton cloth is imported in large quantities into N. Yunnan, but the imports are declining owing to the growth of weaving in S. Yunnan. Piece goods of light texture and inferior quality, as compared with those in vogue on the Yangtze, must be supplied to Yunnan, as otherwise the long transit will render the retail price prohibitive. In cotton piece goods, T-cloth of 36 inches is said to be more in demand than narrower widths. It is probable that the import of foreign cotton goods could be increased if they were better adapted to requirements, but at present the people prefer to weave their own cloth, knowing the shapes and sizes they require. It is alleged that foreign cottons are too fine and too dear, as well as much more troublesome to wash, because they hold the dirt more. Hence the good quality of English goods is an obstacle to their diffusion, and for a long time to come, inferior goods, adapted to the buying power of the natives, must be sent. The latest Customs Report (1897) shows that Japanese cotton goods are now being imported into Yunnan. There is no European merchant established in Yunnan, and the trade in foreign goods is said to be chiefly in the hands of the people of Liuan, whose agents buy goods in Hongkong and despatch them by the Red River route. Salt is an article of which large quantities are imported, although it is contraband owing to the Government salt monopoly.\n\nMr. Turner, of the Arracan Company, believes that Yunnan will become a valuable market for our goods. He says that hitherto Ssuchuan has supplied calico, while Burma has mostly supplied raw cotton for the natives to manufacture; but that imports of Bombay yarn, better in quality than the native, have been increasing lately. In 1897, the demand for raw cotton declined. The yarns, for which there is increased demand, are 14s, 16s, and 18s, which are the kinds mostly used. He states, however, that people want greater variety and better quality without increase in price. White calico is much in demand, and also blue drills and silks. Raw cotton will decline, but it will always be wanted to some extent as wadding for blankets, saddles, &c. A fair yarn to make a cheap cloth and good calico for those who can afford a higher price will find a large market, as the Yunnanese delight to spend money on clothes. Red flannels and white woollens are in demand for blankets, saddle-cloths, &c., the flannel in most shops now being German. Opium merchants bring back silk from Ssuchuan and Kueichou, and a number of merchants deal in silk exclusively. Only the inferior qualities are sent to Burma. English satin and velvet are readily sold. There is a large market for tea in Yunnan, where it is freely consumed, but the price of Indian tea is too high. Mr. Turner suggests that bamboo paper could be cheaply produced in Burma for Yunnan in enormous quantities, and sent from Myitkyina via Momien, a route used by the Chinese in trade with the Kachins. Many articles produced in that district, whither Chinese merchants talk of moving from Bhamo now the railway is finished, could be readily sold in Yunnan. But before Yunnan becomes commercially important for Europe, it must have a larger population, develop its natural resources, reform its taxation system, improve its communications, and undergo a period of industrial training.\n\n### Kueichou\n\nThe trade of Kueichou, a great part of which passes through Ssuchuan, needs little remark. The chief export is opium. Wild silk, from which strong fibre and silk cloth are made, might be increasingly exported. The same is true of tung oil, vegetable varnish, white wax, paper mulberry bark, rubber, and other vegetable products.\n\n### Trade centres\n\nThe chief trade centres of Yunnan are Yunnan-Fu, the capital of the province, and Tali-Fu, which may be called the capital of the west. Secondary trade centres are Momien, Ssumao, and Mengisz.\n\n#### Yunnan-Fu\n\nYunnan-Fu (6,420 feet) has a population of about 100,000, including the extensive suburbs. Parts of the city, now in ruins or used for cultivation, bear witness that it was much larger and more populous before the rebellion and the plague. It still retains importance as a market, being the crossing centre of several important caravan routes. It could hardly be better placed to serve as a commercial entrepôt, and the Lyons mission considered that it offered exceptional advantages to French industry and commerce. 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        "content_text": "## Tali-Fu to Yunnan-Fu\n\nTali-Fu to Yunnan-Fu is a significant route that passes through various towns and villages. 26 days are required to reach Menghua-Ting, a town of some importance in a large plain. The Nantien plain is prosperous and contains many villages. Chintong, halfway between Tali and Ssumao, is in a large and fertile plain, with iron mines. After passing Enlo, a busy village, and Mohci, the depot of a large salt trade, the road crosses a ridge of 6,215 feet to Puerh, a town of 15,000 people, situated in a closely cultivated valley in which are many villages. Its trade is not very important. From Puerh to Ssumao, over a pass of 6,350 feet, occupies two days. By this road, on which are found many caravans with salt, cotton, and general merchandise, Ssumao is reached from Tali in 20 days.\n\nContinuing the main route from Bhamo, the road to Yunnan-Fu is traversed in 12 days. M. Bonin, a recent traveller, describes this as one of the most difficult routes in the province, and says that, when he traversed it, the road was transformed into lakes of mud and cascades of disembedded paving stones. Years ago Margary spoke of the route as full of deserted villages and difficult passes, while Baber said that no one would attempt this wild route from Tali to Yunnan-Fu. Hosie says that Yunnan-Fu derives its requirements from Shanghai and Canton, and supplies the country E. of Tali. Under present conditions, indeed, it is difficult for merchandise to pass from Bhamo to the E. of Tali without meeting the competition of goods forwarded more cheaply by other routes. According to Lenz, the bulk of the comparatively small traffic is in Burma cotton, together with some tea, rhubarb, &c. The road crosses the high watershed separating the Yangtze from the West River and Red River basins. It involves many ascents and descents, and the traversing of much waste and of many hills that are either barren or covered with pine forests. Excepting Chennang, where Ssuchuanese cultivators are found, all the towns and villages show the ravages of the rebellion, while the people are very poor and almost without clothes. Chaochou appears to be the most thriving and promising of the places on the route. Others worth naming are Hungai, Chuhsiung, Lufeng Hsien, and Anningchow.\n\n## Tariffs, &c.\n\nFrom the above description it will be seen how unpromising are the commercial position and prospects of the route from Bhamo to Yunnan-Fu. The cost of transport is necessarily high, owing to the long distance to be traversed, the difficulties and fatigue, and the danger of disease; and Mr. Neville (of the Blackburn mission) says that there are seven likin or other dues payable on this route. Few goods can bear such heavy expenses in the way of transport and duties. The largest importing merchant in Yunnan-Fu said that he had tried to import yarn by the Bhamo route, but owing to the excessive taxation thus incurred, he now had to import everything via Tonkin and Mengtsz. Mr. Hebbert, late officiating manager of the Burma Railways, has called attention recently to the desirability of improving the caravan track up the Taping valley, which is, according to travellers, worse in British than in Chinese territory.\n\nIt should be mentioned that little Indian traffic passes over the telegraph lines between Burma and the Yangtze valley, though the wires are now maintained in much better order than at first.\n\nIn recent years political efforts have been made to promote frontier trade. By the Anglo-Chinese Agreement of 1st March 1894 (extended by that of 4th February 1897), the British Government allow Chinese produce and manufactures (except salt) to enter Burma by land duty free, and British and Indian products to be exported to China by land free of duty (except pulse, rice, and all grains). The duties on imports are less than the general tariff of the Imperial Maritime Customs and those on exports are less. Transit passes are to be in accord with the rules in force at the Treaty Ports. The importation and exportation of opium and spirituous liquors are prohibited. The British Government also consented, in order to encourage mining in Yunnan, to allow Chinese vessels carrying merchandise, minerals, and ores of all kinds to navigate the Irrawaddy on the same terms as British vessels. If Mr. Neville's statement as to duties is correct, it is clearly necessary that the Government should constrain the Chinese to enforce the transit pass system on this route, as the French have done on the Tonkin route to Yunnan-Fu. Our goods cannot well compete with the Tonkin route at Yunnan-Fu and in the country S. and E. of the capital, but under transit passes (which would reduce the duties from about 15 or 20 to 2-4 per cent. ad valorem) they might go to many of the chief places in Yunnan. Consul Jamieson considers that cotton yarn can be laid down on the Burma-Yunnan frontier at a fraction of the cost with which it is burdened in reaching Mengtsz through Tonkin. He believes that with lower freight, lower duties, and consequently a lower laying down cost on the frontier, combined with an emporium at Bhamo or elsewhere where the Chinese can purchase direct and so save commission and agency expenses, the Bhamo route may deprive the Red River route of a great deal of trade in yarn and other Indian or British goods.\n\n## Mandalay-Kunlon Ferry Route\n\nThe great difficulties of the Bhamo to Yunnan-Fu route have caused attention to be turned to other ways of penetrating China from Burma. Baber long ago suggested that an attempt should be made to reach some town of importance, such as Shunning-Fu, by ascending the river valleys. The ascent is considerable, but any line or route into Yunnan must rise from 2,000 up to 6,000 feet. For centuries the trade route passing from Mandalay via Maymyo and Thibaw (Hsipaw) to Thienni and the Kunlon Ferry on the Salween near the border of Yunnan has been recognised as a highway from China to Burma. Although a railway via Kunlon (now a collection of huts) to Shunning may revive this trade and will shorten the distance to Ssumao, it will not bring us nearer the present centres of trade in western Yunnan, as Momien, Tali, and Yungchang are about the same distance from Kunlon as from Bhamo, though Kunlon is much nearer to Kenghung and Monglem. The Mandalay-Kunlon line, now under construction, is being made, says Mr. Bagley, along the only practicable railway route into China.\n\nBeyond Kunlon the country is very mountainous, but, according to the report of Captain Davies, it appears possible to continue the line to various points in western Yunnan without encountering serious difficulties as hilly countries go, though he questions whether such a line would pay. The Chinese Government have agreed to the extension of the line into Yunnan. The possible extensions into China are: \n| Extension | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) From Kunlon to Yincho and Shunning (and perhaps Tali) | The Nam-ting valley would be followed for 50 miles to Mong Kyen, a practically level route; then, by an easy gradient of 50 miles, the road leads to Monglai, whence in 18 miles it crosses the watershed (5,600 feet) of the Salween and Mekong (rise of 2,400 feet-chief obstacle on the route), and down (1,800 feet) to Yincho, 12 miles. This line would, for the rest, follow fairly broad valleys. From Yincho to Shunning it could be continued along 25 miles of good road (ascent 1,600 feet). Mr. Bagley estimates the cost at 14 lakhs of rupees per mile. Under treaty a line may be made to Tali, and, according to Captain Davies, could possibly be carried out by ascending river valleys, though difficulties would arise from the precipitous river banks or the mountain barriers. Mr. J. G. Scott said it is practically certain a line can be carried along a stream to the Mekong and thence on to Tali. The line, however, from Yincho to Tali (150 miles) would be difficult and expensive. |\n| (2) A line from Kunlon to Yungchang (190 miles) | would meet with similar difficulties, though the gradients are practicable in the opinion of Captain Davies. The line would, however, pass through some rather poor country, and no extensions would be possible. This line would hardly be necessary, as Yungchang is only six days from Shunning. |\n\nThe line to Yincho and beyond would be useful, for, if only carried to Shunning, it would collect to itself the Yungchang and Tali trade, create a local trade, and open up all south-west Yunnan to the east of the Mekong. Supposing the Tonkin line not made, it might attract a great deal of the Yunnan-Fu trade also. There is strong evidence as to the importance of Yincho. Prince Henry, while disparaging Shunning as inferior to Ssumao, speaks of Yincho as a district fertile in sugar, maize, and rice, and he met in the vicinity numerous mules with iron and cotton. Captain Davies states that it has a trade with the Shan towns, and is larger and more prosperous than Shunning. Mr. Turner says Shunning-Fu is of no account for foreign trade and is off the main trade routes. But he states that, though the town has no industries, it stands in a large plain growing excellent rice, much opium and sugar, and some tea. Yincho, however, he considers more important. It has quite a large trade in foreign goods from Canton, and supplies Shunning-Fu. It has direct trade with Yunnan-Fu and Hsia-Kwan.\n\nPage 27  \nPage 558  \nPage 509",
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        "content_text": "# \n559 \n\n## Hlaindet to the Takaw Ferry. Mekong Routes.\n\nThe railway schemes of Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett.\n\n28 \n\nand also a large local trade. Mr. Turner also says that the Burma-Kunlon line presents no immediate prospect of success owing to the lack of merchandise to convey--what is large for mule transport being small for an expensive railway. At present there are few articles of export and none in large quantities, and little promise of any. He describes the road between Shunning and Tali as bad, with only one place of importance on the way, the busy little town of Menghua-Ting, situated in a plain growing a large quantity of rice and opium. There is considerable agreement that Shunning has little trade except in the necessaries of life. But the country generally is not unfertile, for Prince Henry says that though the right bank of the Mekong is poor up to Mienning, beyond that town and up to Tali there are beautiful, populous, and very rich plains recalling that of Tunghai in south Yunnan. Lieutenant Roux goes even further, and, after referring to Mienning as a small town with a rather important trade with Burma, he says that beyond it he traversed one of the richest parts of Yunnan, passing through several important commercial centres such as Yincho, Shunning, and Menghua. Captain Daly holds that the area to be served by the Kunlon line will probably be eventually confined to western, central, and south Yunnan, with Shunning as the centre. The chief trade centres of west Yunnan are, he says, Yungchang and Lungling, a town south-east of Momien, by which a large traffic used to pass. He believes that when the Kunlon line is opened the trading community of Lungling will move en masse to Kokang (which is, in Mr. Scott's opinion, the richest tract in the Shan States), with its thriving market town of Malipa (Tawnio), only 25 miles from Kunlon Ferry, and connected with Yungchang by a fairly good road. Panlong is another trading centre of importance not far from Kunlon. Other towns which the railway to Shunning would render more accessible are Tali (with Atentzu and Yungpei to the north) and Ssumao, from which it may possibly divert some trade. Indian yarn might be delivered in Yunnan via Kunlon when the line is opened at least as cheaply as through Tonkin. Many officers and civilians, however, doubt whether the line can be a commercial success for many years, though Mr. Bagley, the chief engineer, expects that the traffic with the Shan States alone will make it pay.\n\nNo direct route from Kunlon to Yunnan-Fu has ever been explored. There is said to be a trade route via Shagwe (on the Mekong), Chintong, and Gokia to Hsinhsing and thence to Yunnan-Fu, but the distance is not known. Even if the railway were constructed to Yincho, several marches would remain to be done by road. Only west Yunnan, then, need be considered as to trade and communications.\n\n## (c.) Hlaindet-Mone-Takaw Ferry Route.\nThis is the only path besides the Bhamo route that is much frequented. Hlaindet is 80 miles south of Mandalay, and the route to Takaw (via Kyaniykon and Natit) occupies 21 days from Mandalay. Takaw, 130 miles south of Kunlon, is a narrow defile. From Takaw to Kenghung via Kengtung takes 19 days. But the difficulties of this route are great. There are said to be fifteen ranges of mountains between Hlaindet and Kenghung, and the likin duties beyond Kenghung are stated to be heavy. In spite, however, of these drawbacks, Chinese caravans come to Mone from Tali-Fu, Puerh, Ssumao, and Yunnan-Fu.\n\n## MEKONG ROUTES.\nIt appears desirable to devote a short section to those of the routes by the Mekong which do not go direct from Burma to China. The Mekong is navigable up to, and a little within, the borders of Yunnan, in passing through which it traverses for the most part wild solitudes where cultivation is impossible. Here and there on its banks are likin stations, with a few miserable cabins. Lieutenant Roux speaks of travelling near the river for eight days north from Dayakeu and passing two fine plains, Mong Pan and Mong Ka, situated amid wild and desolate mountains. Navigation is practicable in parts of the river, but rapids and cascades, especially those of Khong and Kemmarat, render through traffic impossible. One of the best-known Burma-China railway schemes, that of Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett, was designed to tap south-west China by the Kenghung route to Ssumao. Mr. Hallett has argued that any line to China north of Mandalay is out of the question, and that the Chinese Government would not construct a railway from Kunlon to the Mekong because of the physical difficulties. The proposed line would go from Moulmein through Zimmé (in Siam), thence towards the Mekong, which would be touched at Kenghsen, and afterwards to Kenghung and Ssumao. It is contended that Ssumao is admirably situated for trade; that the railway can be constructed at a reasonable expense; that valuable plains would be opened to commerce; that the line would tap a rich and prosperous part of China and enable us to compete with France; and that, if the line were carried to Ssumao, this town would become the starting point of a railway system for south-west China. M. Chailley Bert remarks that this route is shorter and has less steep ascents than the Hlaindet route, but it would traverse Siam and also a rough, mountainous, and little-known country on the right bank of the Mekong, or else abut on French Laos. It is worth noticing that the trade of the Upper Mekong is comparatively insignificant; only ten or eleven caravans passed through Zimmé from Yunnan in 1896, with goods valued at £2,250. But the paramount objection to this scheme is the political one that the railway would traverse territory not under the control of the British Government, and this objection has become strengthened since the French advanced to the Mekong. It therefore appears unnecessary to criticise Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett's statements about the richness and populousness of south-west Yunnan and the commercial importance of Ssumao, or their proposal for carrying a railway beyond Ssumao to the valley of the Yangtze. A railway even as far as Ssumao would be very long, and difficult and costly to construct, and could hardly compete successfully with lines from Haiphong and Bangkok. A Siamese railway to Korat is nearly completed.\n\n## Routes.\n\nThere are two Siamese routes, both passing through the Shan States. Siamese By the Mekong route traffic passes to Kenghung and Ssumao, but the difficulties are very great. By the Menam route boats can reach Zimmé in three weeks from Bangkok, though goods rarely take less than six weeks. But both these routes involve a long transit and a number of likin payments, which means a heavy price for laying down goods in Yunnan.\n\nThe French have attached importance to a route by the Mekong, but find The French navigation difficult. The valley of the Namu, which branches off from and the Mekong. the Mekong above Luang Prabang, offers to commerce an easier and shorter way than that of the Upper Mekong, but its length is sufficiently great to be a drawback. It is said by a recent French writer that gunboats can go up to Luang Prabang and even to Kenghsen for at least part of the year, and it is claimed that this route is diverting trade from Siam to Cambodia and Cochin China. According to M. Macey, English products penetrate to the Upper Mekong by many routes, and the French hope to bring back to their territory the ancient caravans, and to establish agencies and depôts in Muong-Lu. Navigation is at present slow, but it is asserted that the improvements projected will make the river navigable at any time on the borders of French territory. But M. Rocher and others declare that the Mekong will never be a way of penetration into China for the French at all comparable with the Red River, and that the sooner they renounce their illusions about it the better.\n\n## Kenghung via Ssumao to Yunnan-Fu.\nThe Mekong routes are directed Kenghung to towards Ssumao through Kenghung, the road from which reaches Ssumao, Yunnan.Fu. after traversing a rich cotton and tea country, in seven days. The whole journey from Kenghung to Yunnan-Fu takes 22 days, according to General Mesny, over very rugged roads. This route is known as the \"great route.\" Beyond Ssumao the country is extremely difficult, a belt of mountains 130 miles wide forming the watershed of the Red River and its chief tributaries. For eleven stages there are difficult ascents and descents. The road goes via Puerh and Talang (an important market in south Yunnan) to Yuanchiang-chou, a squalid town in a malarious plain. (The Yuan River, or Upper Red River, has a sharp fall and steep and precipitous bluffs, and is never likely to serve the purposes of commerce.) The country traversed has many ruined villages, little cultivation, and a small population, mainly Shans and Lolos. Beyond Shibping-chou, a prosperous and important town, the road joins the main route from Tonkin to Yunnan-Fu. Kreitner suggested a railway by this route.\n\n29 \n\n## \n570",
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        "content_text": "# TONKIN ROUTES\n\n## (a.) Black River Route\n\nThis route to west Yunnan is navigable for small boats to Mong Nhe, but large junks cannot ply beyond Laichau. Its sinuous course and the great number of rapids above Tuenquan render it impracticable for trade. The river is almost valueless as a waterway, and it will not justify the works necessary for steam navigation. Rocher says that the routes between the Red and the Black Rivers, which are separated by a watershed of 8,000 to 10,000 feet, are commercially unimportant, while between the Red and the Mekong Rivers the people are sparse and poor, the country difficult, and transport expensive, so that commerce would not be remunerative. The French, he adds, must utilise the Red River and not be diverted to other routes.\n\n## (b.) Red River (Songkoi) Route\n\nIt is this route which gives the French an important position in Yunnan. The French territory extends north to 25° 20′ and marches with China as far as the Mekong, which forms the west boundary of French Laos. This route became unsafe for foreign trade during the Mohammedan rebellion, and later through robber hands, and troubles between the French and Chinese. For years it was abandoned to Black Flag filibusters by the Chinese Government, and the borderland is still infested by brigands, whose attacks on Red River traffic the mandarins are alleged to encourage.\n\n### Opinions about this route\n\nThere is practical unanimity among authorities as to the superiority of this over all other ways of penetrating Yunnan. Richthofen spoke of it as the most favourable route and the only navigable water route to the Yunnan frontier. General Mesny calls it the shortest of all land routes to Yunnan-Fu, all other routes thither from the highest point of navigation being longer by one-half, and no better off in respect of conveniences for travellers and merchants. M. Rocher says this is indisputably the most natural route to Yunnan, and the best in economy of time and in cheap and convenient transport. It is surer, easier, and quicker than other routes. Consul Jamieson, who has recently traversed this route, speaks of it as by far the best and speediest to Yunnan. Mr. Colquhoun thinks this route will attract the trade of south-east Yunnan and of central Yunnan up to Yunnan-Fu, physical obstacles rendering it difficult for the trade to penetrate east or west.\n\nOpinions differ greatly as to the importance of south-east Yunnan. Mr. Bourne, Mr. Colquhoun, and others describe it as poor and unproductive and capable of but little commercial development. Rocher directly denies these assertions, and contends that south-east is richer than south-west Yunnan, having a more fertile soil, a richer subsoil, and more numerous and more civilised population. M. Leroy-Beaulieu has recently described the provinces bordering on Tonkin as the poorest in the Chinese Empire, very mountainous, inhabited in great part by aboriginal tribes, and devastated and depopulated by rebellions.\n\n### Red River trade\n\nThe progress of Red River trade has been great since Mengtsz was opened to Tonkin trade under the Convention of 26th August 1887. The imports from abroad (including Hong Kong) and the exports to foreign countries as registered at the Mengtsz Customs House for the last seven years were as follows:\n\n| Year | Imports (Hk. Taels) | Exports (Hk. Taels) | Total (Hk. Taels) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1890 | 635,000 | 461,000 | 1,096,000 |\n| 1891 | 946,000 | 683,000 | 1,529,000 |\n| 1892 | 1,150,000 | 736,000 | 1,885,000 |\n| 1893 | 1,524,000 | 735,000 | 2,259,000 |\n| 1894 | 1,242,000 | 943,000 | 2,185,000 |\n| 1895 | 1,809,000 | 1,033,000 | 2,842,000 |\n| 1896 | 1,627,000 | 850,000 | 2,477,000 |\n| 1897 | 2,394,000 | 1,058,000 | 3,452,000 |\n\nIf the Haikwan tael be taken at 3s. for 1896 the value of the total trade for that year was equivalent to £371,550, or less than the Burma-China trade in 1896-97. But the China trade with Tonkin itself (as distinguished from the transit trade) is much smaller, the imports in 1896 being Hk. taels 86,000 and the exports Hk. taels 134,000, while in 1897 the figures were Hk. taels 74,000 and Hk. taels 191,000. Imports from Hong Kong in 1897 aggregated 97 per cent. of the total imports. The commercial members of the Blackburn Mission state that nine-tenths of the foreign goods imported into Yunnan now follow the Red River route, but this seems much too high an estimate.\n\n### The difficulties that have hampered Tonkin trade\n\nFirst, the traffic by the Red River cannot easily ascend beyond Laokai. A regular weekly service of steamers ascends the Red River from Haiphong on the Tonkin Gulf to Hanoi and Yenbai, but they can ply for nine to ten months only, though they could run all the year if the channel were improved. At Yenbai goods are transhipped to a smaller boat. The rapids render navigation difficult and dangerous between Yenbai and Laokai; nevertheless, for seven months in the year navigation is possible to Laokai. It is usually stated that Laokai is five days up from Hanoi, and two days down, but Consul Jamieson says that in January 1898 he took seven days from Yenbai to Laokai, and was congratulated on making almost a record passage. Cargo steamers could not get up to Laokai during the greater part of 1897, and Chinese merchants continued to send cargo in small boats from Hanoi to Yenbai, and thence by junks to Manbao. Junks are preferred, taking the year throughout, because they ensure more regular delivery. There is now a fine military road between Yenbai and Laokai.\n\nBeyond Laokai the rapids become worse and the river is shut in by high, wooded mountains, but Dr. Pichon holds that in flood season light-draught steamers might reach Longpo and even Manhao, though the rapids are, between these places, very dangerous. According to a member of the Lyons Mission, the future of Tonkin depends on French steamers being able to ascend freely to the Chinese frontier, that is, to Laokai. The steamer service that exists between Hanoi and Laokai consists of boats with but small cargo space, and it is restricted to such an extent by shoals and rapids that the boats make only a few trips each season. The rapids are so dangerous that the losses from wrecks of junks are estimated at 16 per cent. annually. M. de Lanessan considers that, in spite of works, the navigation of the Red River will always be inconvenient.\n\nThe frontier trade practically ceases from May to September. Complaints are made of the injury done to trade by excessive charges for freight both by junk and by steamer, and it seems probable that with lower freights and better constructed steamers trade would increase much faster. The boycotting of French steamers by Chinese merchants, whose customary arrangements for regulating trade have been interfered with by the steamer service, has also hindered expansion of trade. Again, French merchants are charged with deficient enterprise both in obtaining information and in providing capital, as well as in neglecting to suit the tastes and pockets of the people.\n\nThe comparative poverty of north Tonkin and the absence of railways may help to explain the present comparatively small trade. Prince Henry complains that the Government does not improve navigation or facilitate trade, and he recommends a reduction in the opium and other duties. The import of opium into Tonkin is prohibited under Treaty of 1885, as the French Government have granted a monopoly to a private person, who is allowed 10 per cent. on the sales. He buys only a small quantity of Yunnan opium to mix with Indian. Hence little except contraband opium enters Tonkin from Yunnan. This is a serious drawback to trade, for the imports of Yunnan must depend closely on its exports, of which tin and opium are the most important. Consequently, Dr. Pichon and others argue that Tonkin should be a free market for opium, or that a low duty should be levied, predicting as the result a steady growth of frontier trade.\n\nOn the other hand, the Chinese Government forbid the importation of salt into Yunnan, because it would interfere with a monopoly. Prince Henry, however, asserts that the Chinese Government's contracts with Yunnan merchants, under which this prohibition takes place, have expired. Trade on the Red River is much impeded by the unhealthiness of Laokai, which has made little progress for several years. The climate of Manhao also is notoriously bad. By the Convention of 20th June 1895, the port of Hokou, opposite Laokai, was opened as a treaty port in substitution for Manhao. By this change the French aimed at opening up a more direct route for commerce into Yunnan.",
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        "content_text": "# Progress of Red River\n\n## French activity\n\n32\n\nthan the route via Mengtsz furnishes. By going straight to Kaihua (which takes five days) instead of through Mengtsz, merchants will save several days, cost of transport will be diminished, and importation and exportation will be facilitated. The road from Laokai via Manhao to Mengtsz is very difficult, a succession of craggy ascents and stony ravines, which make the prospect of a railway remote. Between Manhao and Mengtsz (2 days' journey) the road rises from 510 to 6,150 feet. A new route is now being surveyed from Laokai to Mengtsz direct, which, it is anticipated, will effect a great saving of time. Consul Jamieson thinks that a light railway between Laokai and Mengtsz is practicable, and, considering the volume of trade, might pay.\n\nYet the commerce is by no means insignificant, despite the numerous hindrances to trade. This fact is largely explained by the activity of the French Government in securing concessions from the Chinese. They have obtained the opening of four towns within the Chinese frontier—Mengtsz, Lungehow, Ssumao, and Hokou. All commodities, native and foreign, entering China over the Tonkin frontier enjoy by treaty the right to claim exemption from inland taxes by payment of transit dues at the Customs; all imports not on the ad valorem list pay only ½ and exports of the same category only ⅓ of the regular tariff rates in force at coast and river ports (reductions not applicable to transit dues). All products of Chinese origin coming across the Tonkin frontier from Yunnan and Kwangsi have free importation and transit, except opium (unless it be sealed by the French Customs). Mr. Bourne says that the import trade in foreign goods has almost entirely shifted from the West River route via Pose to the Red River route, and he ascribes this to the vigorous enforcement of transit passes to cover goods to Yunnan-Fu. The result is that English goods in the capital are cheaper than formerly, though the French themselves impose heavy customs duties (substantially those of the metropolitan tariff) on British goods passing through Tonkin, together with miscellaneous charges somewhat arbitrarily levied. These duties amount to 10 or 11 per cent. on piece goods and 3 per cent. on yarn. A piece of grey shirting pays nearly twice as much to the French as to the Chinese Government. M. Leroy Beaulieu, the eminent authority on colonial questions, asserts that the French Customs system, \"which is for ever examining merchandise, opening packages and not closing them properly, and spoiling the goods under the pretence of guarding against smuggling,\" is enough to make all traders shun the Tonkin route. It should be noted that the Red River trade is almost wholly a transit trade from Hong Kong, with some similar trade from Saigon and Singapore. Indian yarn constituted more than two-thirds of the imports in 1896. The attempt to stimulate Chinese exports by the Red River has not met with much success, and the imports into China remain double the exports. M. Chailley Bert says that Tonkin should repudiate the régime of Customs duties which bars this route to European transactions in Western China.\n\n## Progress in 1897\n\nDuring 1897 the facilities for trade were greatly improved in the neighbourhood of Laokai, and Chinese merchants have been encouraged to attend the fairs recently re-opened there. Bonded warehouses have been established at Hanoi, Laokai, and Langson (in addition to one already opened at Haiphong) for foreign goods in transit through Tonkin. The Government is now undertaking works for the improvement of the navigation of the Red River, and the organisation of a towage service is spoken of. According to the Saigon Consular Report for 1897 tenders have been invited for the construction of a metre line from Hanoi to the Chinese frontier, presumably to Laokai, a railway which could, it is said, be constructed without difficulty, and would do much to promote trade. But Lieutenant Roux says that it would not pay to spend the necessary £4,000,000 on a railway if it saved only three or four days in the transport of merchandise. Rocher has pointed out that the Tonkin route, though shorter and cheaper than others, has to compete with well-established and long-frequented routes, that bring merchandise suitable to the people at rates relatively low, considering cost of transport, &c., and especially with the Yangtze, which must, he says, always be the greatest commercial artery of the Empire. It appears clear that China will increase her exports of tin through Tonkin. Tin formed four-fifths in value of the exports in 1896. In return, the French will probably supply south and south-east Yunnan and the region up to Yunnan-Fu with foreign goods. The heavy protective duties, which have made the French share of Tonkin trade larger than it was, have adversely affected British interests in Hong Kong. But the progress of Burma trade with West Yunnan may do something to redress the balance. The French talk of cultivating cotton in Tonkin, and exporting it to Yunnan. They claim that the cotton of Laos is superior to that of Burma. Prince Henry says that Tonkin could do a great trade in exporting cotton yarn and cloth, apparel, silk, salt, and tobacco, and in importing metals, opium, and musk.\n\n## Trade Routes\n\nThe more enthusiastic advocates of a forward French policy in Yunnan have dilated on the numerous regions that may be tapped from Tonkin—south Yunnan to Ssumao, and the tea regions S. of that town; west Yunnan to Tali and even Tibet; Kueichou and Kwangsi; Yunnan-Fu and N. to Ssuchuan and the Yangtze. It will be sufficient to touch on two routes, those through south Yunnan to Ssumao and through central Yunnan to the capital, for present indications do not point to the development of any great trade with Kueichou and Kwangsi, or with Ssuchuan.\n\n### Mengtsz to Ssumao\n\nThe trade route is a circuitous path which strikes the Mengtsz to \"great route,\" already described (page 29), at Yuanchiang. The country to the immediate N. of the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier is a wide and almost unknown region of mountains, inhabited by Shans and Lolos living in practical independence under native chiefs. Prince Henry and Lieutenant Roux explored this region, keeping to the right bank of the Red River. They traversed a very intricate country by means of mule tracks, and found no wide plain between Mengtsz and Ssumao. There was little cultivation, and the villages were few and miserable. Lieutenant Roux speaks of their passing five or six villages a day, and considers this not a small number for south Yunnan, which he describes as in the main a poor country—thus agreeing with Mr. Bourne and disagreeing with M. Rocher. They passed the town of Isa, a place fairly well peopled and having a brisk trade in salt, sugar, tobacco, &c. Another place of some importance was Muongle, situated on what the Chinese call the \"little route\" between Upper Laos and the Red River. This route, along which tea and cotton are carried, is only practicable in the dry season—the damp at other times causing fevers. Muongle is about 10 miles north from the Tonkin frontier, which is here constituted by the chain that divides the Namu from the Black River. The town has a native industry of black cotton stuff, and a trade in raw cotton and opium. There is said to be an easy route from Muongle north-west to the Mekong basin. After traversing savage and mountainous country the travellers reached Ssumao. Prince Henry says that the Ssumao district is richer than that of the Upper Red River, but the latter has copper and tin, and more varied cultivation.\n\n### Mengtsz to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThis road (nine stages) is one of the best roads in the province, and easier and more expeditious than that from Pose. After crossing a small pass and a high mountain chain with a good road and gradual ascent, and then another mountain pass with a well-paved road, the route to the capital is good and fairly level. This route passes several towns of some little importance, including Tunghai, Kiangchuan, and Tsinning. The Lyons Mission found many ruined villages as far as Kuangsi, after which the country changes, and there are rice, wheat, and other crops, irrigation canals, and populous plains. Linan or Lingan-Fu is a large place in a fertile plain, much ravaged by plague. It is here that the \"great route\" from Kenghung and Ssumao joins the Mengtsz-Yunnan-Fu route. Very diverse accounts of Linan are given by Rocher and Colquhoun. Mr. Bourne found that Tunghai, three days N.-W. of Linan in a fertile opium-yielding country, has a larger trade than Linan in foreign goods from Pakhoi. Hsinhsing-chow is in a valley rich with indigo and rice.\n\n## Railway Projects\n\nOn 11th April 1898 the Chinese granted the French the right to construct a line to Yunnan-Fu. Rocher says that a railway from Tonkin to Yunnan-Fu would be superior in advantages to one from Pose (on the West River) to Yunnan-Fu. It should not go via Mengtsz, but by the Red River, and... \n\nPage 561\nPage 572 \nPage 6531",
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        "content_text": "## Chungking and the Yangtze trade\n\n38\n\nSsuchuan produces silk, tobacco, tea, sugar, maize, oil seeds, millet, paper fibres, hemp, indigo, various medicines, ramie, white wax, &c. An increased area is being devoted in Ssuchuan to opium cultivation, which is more lucrative than that of rice and pulse, which it is displacing. But Ssuchuan opium is inferior to the produce of Yunnan. The poppy fields of Ssuchuan, Yunnan, and Kueichou together are said to be ample enough to meet the requirements of nearly the whole of China. Opium is retailed all over Ssuchuan at 140-200 cash (about 6d. or 7d.) per ounce. In Lower Burma, the retail price of opium is about 13 rupees per tola, or nearly 60d. per ounce.\n\nThe commerce of the province is capable of very great development. The trade in silk, the culture and weaving of which are encouraged, might especially be increased. Ssuchuan is almost cottonless, and as the people wear cotton cloths all the year round, there is a great demand for cotton piece goods, and still more for Indian cotton yarn, which they weave into cloth, some of the manufactures being sent to Yunnan and Kueichou. At present, there is stated to be great ignorance of foreign goods, and only the difficulty of getting them, it is said, prevents a largely increased consumption. Good stout sheetings, cotton scarves and tape, red blankets, quinine, soap, and candles would be favourable articles of import in exchange for silk (the only important article so far sent to Europe), opium, wax, drugs, salt, tobacco, and musk.\n\nThe opening of Chengtu to foreign trade would have important results, while a steamer service to Sui-Fu would do much to develop trade. There are ample supplies of coal for steamers near the Yangtze. The mineral wealth of Ssuchuan is thought to be enormous, coal, iron, lead, salt, copper, &c. Salt is one of the chief products of the province, the output of the Tzulinching wells being valued at £2,500,000 annually. But European methods must be applied for the effectual development of mining in Ssuchuan.\n\nChungking (with a population of 300,000) is the commercial key of Western China, the sole wholesale market for foreign goods in Ssuchuan. It has been described as a \"perpetual Nishni Novgorod.\" It is remarkable for the volume of its trade, and the number and wealth of its merchants. Chungking is reached from the sea by the Yangtze, steamers bringing goods 1,000 miles up the river to Ichang, whence junks (estimated to number 7,000 annually) ascend over a part of the river that is troubled with rapids to Chungking (400 miles from Ichang). The journey down stream from Chungking to Shanghai occupies from 12 to 14 days, the up-journey about two months.\n\nSince Chungking was opened as a Treaty Port in 1891, endeavours have been made to establish steam communication with Shanghai, but not until the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan (1895) was this privilege conceded, and not until last May did a steamer (that of Mr. A. J. Little) reach the city. Chungking is not only the distributing centre for foreign goods but also an emporium for inter-provincial trade. It is connected with every important town in Ssuchuan by such busy waterways as the Tokiang, Minkiang, and Sulinho.\n\nHitherto, commerce from the sea-board has been impeded by the necessity of transhipping goods into junks at Ichang, and the time, labour, and risk attending this operation have curtailed the traffic. Freight to Chungking has cost 10s. per ton and 1s per ton per mile beyond, so that foreign goods have been heavily handicapped, especially as customs and transit dues have had to be paid in addition. If commerce is already considerable at Chungking—and according to the Customs Report, the exports in 1897 were over £1,000,000 and the imports £3,250,000—safer, speedier, and cheaper communications with the coast must largely increase the demand for foreign goods in Ssuchuan and also stimulate exports.\n\nAt present, the import of foreign manufactures is small considering the population. Mr. Bourne considers that skilled control of the navigation is necessary for permanent steam communications. Other important trading towns in Ssuchuan are Chiating, with 150,000 people, a very active agricultural and commercial city, the centre of the silk and white wax industries and of a large salt and timber trade; Hochow, with great traffic in silk, cotton, &c.; Wan Hsien, which is said to have doubled its trade and population in the last 20 years; Fuchow, Fengtu Hsien, &c. Steamer service would probably be practicable up to Sui-Fu, and thence up the Min River to Chiating.\n\nSui-Fu, situated at the junction of the Min and Chin-sha Rivers, is 17 to 30 days up from Chungking. It is the mart of Central Ssuchuan, and is in the midst of a district producing coals, salt, &c. Its dense population of 180,000 are engaged in different branches of silk culture. The shops offer a great variety of European goods, cottons, cutlery, toys, &c., in a word (says a member of the Lyons Mission), every bad bauble that Leipzig or Nuremberg can export. It enjoys a large and profitable transit trade, being the entrepôt for products between Ssuchuan, north Yunnan, and Thibet.\n\n39\n\n## Routes from the Yangtze to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThere are five routes from the Yangtze to Yunnan-Fu.\n\n### (a) Hankow to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThis is the chief official route. It goes by Hankow to the Tung-ting Lake and up the Yuankiang to Chenyuan-Fu, just within the borders of Kueichou. Here, after 40 days' journey, the boat navigation ends. Then the route lies overland through a mountainous region to Kueiyang-Fu (reached in 8 days), and traverses the rest of Kueichou through more fertile country. Yunnan-Fu is reached in 18 days from Kueiyang. Thus the total journey is 66 days. This route, known as the Mandarins' route, is but little used for commerce, as the likin duties payable on entering Hunan, Kueichou, and Yunnan, combined with freight charges, render produce too costly for sale in Yunnan. But goods (e.g., opium) required for Hunan and Kwangsi come from Yunnan by this route, while cotton goods from Hankow for Kueiyang-Fu traverse it. Better conditions in respect of transport and taxation would increase the trade in foreign goods. At present, these charges involve an addition of 20 per cent. ad valorem to the cost of cotton yarn and shirtings.\n\n### (b) Chungking to Yunnan-Fu via Kueiyang-Fu\n\nThe first town of note on this route is Chichiang Hsien, an important trade depot for north-west Ssuchuan-Kueichou, especially for salt. It is in water communication with Chungking, but navigation ceases at Chichiang. Kanshui, near the Kueichou border, is in a well-cultivated district producing coal, iron, and copper, and is famed for the manufacture of iron pans. Towards Kueichou appears a sea of bare rocky mountains. The precipitous banks of the Sungkan River must be crossed and also a pass 3,000 feet high before Tungtzubsien is reached. Passing coal mines and poppy fields, the traveller comes to Tsuni, a prosperous place with manufactures of very hard and strong silk cloth. There is much poppy cultivation before reaching the capital, Kueiyang (15 days from Chungking). Kueiyang-Fu is a large city with an active commercial population.\n\nThe road from Kueiyang-Fu to Yunnan-Fu traverses the valley of Langtai Ting, prosperous and full of houses, and famous for superior opium. The country continues difficult, and carts are not seen till the frontier of Yunnan is crossed. Ping-i-hsien (in Yunnan) lies in a large well-watered plain and has abundance of coal, which is found all the way from Kueiyang-Fu to Yunnan-Fu. Chan-i-chou is in a vast plain well cultivated with rice, and famous as the breeding ground of Yunnan ponies. Thence the route is by Yanglin to the capital.\n\n(An alternative route is from Hokiang on the Yangtze to Kueiyang-Fu. It proceeds up the Chishin-ho to Jeahuai-ting, a town with important salt traffic. There are several large and busy towns along this route, such as Tushan, trade being mainly in salt and opium. Anshun, a prosperous place S. of Kueiyang, reached by fairly good roads, is the second city in Kueichou, and has a brisk trade in local products, especially cotton cloths and whitewax insects, and in foreign goods.)\n\n### (c) Chungking via Luchow to Yunnan-Fu\n\nFrom Luchow, a town with a great business in transhipment of salt and extensive opium cultivation, the route proceeds to Nachi (nine days) and thence by boat up the Yungning River to Yungning Fu (four days), whence it goes overland through a part of Kueichou, and reaches Yunnan-Fu (21 days). This route is shorter than the Sui-Fu route (d). Moreover, the country is easier and the path better. But almost all the trade goes by Sui-Fu, because the Yungning route crosses a corner of Kueichou, which involves an additional likin, while on the Sui-Fu route Yunnan and Ssuchuan are conterminous. Goods from Chungking through Kueichou are said to pay three likins and twelve prefectural taxes before reaching Tali, while by the Sui-Fu route they pay only two likins and seven prefectural taxes. Yungning-hsien, being on the frontier of Ssuchuan...\n\n564 \n575",
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        "content_text": "## (d.) Sui-Fu (Hsüchou-Fu) to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThis is the main trade route between the Yangtze and Yunnan (25 to 26 stages). General Mesny speaks of the route as the most important and least costly of trade routes from central China to Yunnan. Mr. Bourne calls it the only great commercial route between north Yunnan on the one hand and Ssuchuan and the Eastern Provinces on the other, and states that it has a large transit trade. From Sui-Fu the route goes to An pien-chang and ascends the Keng River, which contains many rapids and rocks, and the navigation of which ends at Hengchiang. Goods come up the river by boat and are then carried by coolies to Laowatan (77 miles in four days through a difficult mountain district by a bad road), at about 5d. to 6d. per ton per mile. In Ssuchuan a large part of the transport is always done by coolies, who can live very cheaply. Laowatan, 137 miles from Sui-Fu, is the great likin station on this route, the chief import through it into Yunnan being native cotton cloth, with some foreign cottons, tobacco, salt, and drugs, while the chief export is opium, with tin, lead, copper, tea, and drugs. Likin is rigidly enforced, and the officials are especially extortionate and unreasonable with small traders. At Laowatan the goods brought by coolies are re-packed and sent on by mules and ponies. There is an ascent of 2,500 feet in nine miles to Li-shan-ting, and a descent of 2,000 feet to Tou-sha-kuan in the next nine miles. Here begins a district of great poverty, with scanty vegetation and few houses. Beyond Takuan-ting the path ascends 2,800 feet in 45 miles. The country traversed is poor and difficult, the houses miserable and ruined. According to Soltau the ranges between the Takuan valley and Chaotung are extremely difficult, with dangerous precipices and deep ravines. Near Chaotung (6,580 feet) carts are found. The town lies midway between the two chief sources of cotton supply, Hankow and Burma, so cotton is dear and the people ill-clad. Chaotung has 40,000 people, but it is not noted for any special product. It depends on agriculture and through traffic. The foreign goods are few, and are sold by itinerant vendors. Its plain produces opium and large quantities of indigo. Chaotung serves as a distributing centre for goods (especially medicines) from the Yangtze to north-west Ssuchuan via Huilichou and even up to Tali, and east through Weining. Beyond Chaotung the country is a dry, bare, almost rainless plateau with no rivers. The descent to the Nuilan valley is by a road indescribably bad and steep through a wretched district. Except the small town of Chiang-ti there is hardly a house for 46 miles. The winds are specially injurious in this region. The rebellion has left deep and frequent traces in ruined villages and uncultivated valleys. Tungchuan-Fu (7,150 feet), five stages from Chaotung, has long been famous as a mining centre, and in the district there are said to be still rich mineral deposits of iron, coal, lead, zinc, and copper, though only copper is worked. Its population is small, poor, and hard worked. There is little demand for foreign goods, though a few come from the West River, the Red River, and the Yangtze. (A route runs through very mountainous country from Tungchuan to Tali via Huilichou. This route crosses the Chinshakiang at two stages from Tungchuan). From Tungchuan to Yunnan-Fu there are seven stages. Mr. Bourne says that in one day he travelled 25 miles without passing a single village, and that during 20 days he traversed a miserable country of alternating bare and wind-swept downs and precipitous cañons. At three points the path ascends to 7,830, 8,426, and 9,993 feet. Transport animals frequently die of the hardships they experience on this route. The Lyons Mission spoke of wandering through a wilderness of mountains and rough valleys. The roads often run along the mountain sides, and are strewn with boulders.\n\n## Page 41\n\nFrom Laowatan to Kungshan (305 miles) the country is at present of no possible value for commerce, according to Mr. Bourne. The people are very poor, and, if clad, clad in Shashi cloth. After Kungshan the country improves, and fertile plains are traversed to Yangkai, beyond which poppy fills the whole cultivated area. A vast plain stretches from Yangkai to the prosperous market town of Yanglin, said to be one of the richest in Yunnan, and containing numerous villages with an active population and a great number of cattle.\n\nIn spite of the many obstacles to traffic, this is the principal trade route from the Yangtze valley to Yunnan-Fu, though a member of the Lyons Mission states that since the opening of the Kueichou and Tonkin route, the present route is little frequented, being used only by few and small caravans with tobacco and indigo from Ssuchuan, medicines for Ssuchuan, and cotton for Huilichou. But no confirmation of this statement can be found. In any case, a route along which the main path is too narrow for bulky goods and is generally broken and uncared for, a route which traverses sterile, thinly peopled, and even in parts uninhabitable tracks, crosses high ridges and deep ravines, and goes along the beds of streams, hardly offers much scope for an extensive trade in foreign goods. Trade is further hampered by taxation, amounting to 12 per cent. on the Shanghai value of cotton goods.\n\nKreitner proposed a railway from Yunnan-Fu via Hsuntien, Tungchuan, and Chaotung to Sui-Fu. But M. Brenier, Secretary General of the Lyons mission, says that a railway is held by experts to be impossible on account of the nature of the country and of the forests. He says that it is impossible from a practical standpoint, for it would cost enormous sums which the present and prospective traffic would not repay. It would, moreover, cost more for freight by such a line from Tonkin than the existing freight by the Yangtze route. The commercial members of the Blackburn Mission thought that the rates charged on a line through a country presenting such great engineering difficulties would be as high as the present charges for pack animals. Although a railway might be possible from Yunnan-Fu as far as Kungchai, the tremendous ascents and descents for the rest of the way would be insuperable barriers. Similarly a project for a railway from Yunnan-Fu via Tungchuan up to the bend of the Chinshakiang to the S. of Huilichou is impracticable, for any line must cross the watershed between the West River and the Yangtze basins, while even if the river were reached by railway it would, owing to innumerable rapids, be found unnavigable, except for small boats, down to Pingshan.\n\n## (e.) Chungking viâ Chengtu-Fu to Tali-Fu\n\nThe route to Chengtu-Fu proceeds overland or by boat. The overland road passes the important towns of Jungchang-Hsien and Lungchang (centre of the grass cloth trade), and the salt wells of Tzulinching. A busy and populous district with many large villages lies between Yuting-pu and Tzu-chou, noted for salt, sugar, and grass cloth, and Chien-Chou, famous for opium. Beyond Chengtu-Fu the first town to be noted is Yachou, in the midst of a great tea-growing district. Consul Litton speaks highly of the strategic importance of Yachou, the possession of which would give an enemy from the West a clear run down the valley of the Ya River to Chiating, which is in the Min Valley, and in the heart of Ssuchuan. Yachou is a place of importance as the starting point of commerce to Tibet, in tea and cotton, which are exchanged for musk, wool, furs, gold, goat-skins, medicines, &c. At Yachou is prepared all the brick tea sent to Tibet. The tea trade with Tibet, valued at a million taels, goes by pack coolies along a difficult route with huge forests and mountains (one pass of 13,000 feet, and two of over 9,000 feet) to Tatsien-lu (Tachien-lu), a town of great commercial and strategical importance on the Tibetan frontier, a journey of 15 days. (There is another route which Mr. Litton considers is easier and more direct, only one obstacle, the Ma Ngai Pass of 9,700 feet, having to be surmounted. It is coming into favour with the tea carriers.) Drugs are produced and coal and iron are worked at Yachou. Over a high pass, and also within the tea region, is Jungching-Hsien, where coal and iron are mined and agricultural implements, &c. manufactured.",
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        "content_text": "## Trade prospects. \n\n## Railways. \n\n44 \n\nfrom Lower Burma or from India proper. Commodities cannot bear the greatly enhanced prices which such long transport entails. That the roads may be improved by engineering skill and by proper attention to repair is probable, but there is no prospect that the authorities will provide the means. Nor is there any likelihood that they will lighten the burden of taxation, which so greatly impedes exchanges, except under pressure from without. Traders complain that Burma-China trade is severely handicapped by the failure to enforce transit passes on the Bhamo-Tali-Fu route. Considering the great impetus given to the trade via Mengtsz by the enforcement of such passes, it has been suggested that the British Government should take speedy action in this matter. Trade, even under present conditions, could be greatly facilitated by the opening of more Treaty Ports. Tali-Fu in west Yunnan, Hsünchow, Nanning, and Pose on the upper West River, Chiating, Chengtu-Fu, Luchow, Yachou, and Sui-Fu in Ssuchuan, are peculiarly suitable. It is also worth considering whether the Chinese could not be constrained to withdraw their prohibition against the import of salt. According to Mr. Holt Hallett, Russia is not prohibited from sending salt into China, and England may fairly demand the most favoured nation treatment.\n\nWith regard to the future, it must be remembered that Yunnan has no valuable exportable product except opium, and although the vegetable, animal, and mineral products are varied, there is no evidence that they are sufficiently plentiful to form the foundation of a greatly extended trade. The restricted area available for cultivation, the scanty supply of labour, and the almost complete absence of capital preclude any large production of commodities. The people's mode of life is primitive and their wants are few, so that their demand for foreign goods is not great. Prince Henry of Orleans has admitted that the province is not very rich, and M. Rocher has cast doubt on the question whether foreigners can profitably exploit the mines. Recent commercial missions were strongly impressed with the poverty of the people and the wild character of a large part of the province, and Mr. Bourne thought that the recovery of Yunnan from the effects of the rebellion had been slow beyond belief. Whatever the causes of this lack of progress—and they are doubtless many—it is clear that with such a low degree of economic development, there is no sufficient prospect of trade to justify a heavy outlay on railways.\n\nRailways to certain points within Yunnan do not appear to be impracticable, and they may possibly repay the cost of their construction. Those projected from Kunlon to Shunning (or Tali) and from Laokai to Yunnan-Fu can probably be constructed, and possibly also lines from Bhamo to Momien, from Mandalay to Kenghung, and from Pose to Yunnan-Fu. But railways across Yunnan appear to be quite out of the question from a commercial and financial point of view, for they could only be built at a very high cost, which neither the British nor the French Government could be expected to guarantee. No available route has yet been discovered for a Burma-Yangtze railway. According to Mr. Little, the distance from Chungking to Tali-Fu is 47 stages of 70 each. As to the character of the country to be traversed, authorities all concur. Mr. Bourne, in his earlier report, spoke of this railway scheme as quixotic. Davenport said there was no level road along the main route from the Yangtze to Momien, while Mr. Lenz, an American cyclist, stated that in going from the Yangtze to the Burmese frontier he crossed 44 ranges of mountains in 1,724 miles. According to M. Rocher, the configuration of the country and the expense of construction (which the Chinese Government would not incur) forbid railways; and, moreover, the earnings would not correspond with the enormous outlay on the gigantic works which would be involved, not to mention the inevitable difficulties with the authorities in the districts to be traversed. M. Chailley Bert also agrees that the realisation of the various railway schemes is not within measurable distance. Mr. Hosie, who has traversed all the chief routes connecting Yunnan-Fu with Ssuchuan, has spoken of the absurdity of the attempts to tap Ssuchuan through Yunnan, which is hemmed in west and south by range after range of formidable mountain barriers.\n\nIf the main object of a Burma-Yangtze line be political, viz., to prevent the French from driving in a wedge between Burma and the Upper Yangtze, it is worth while to recall M. Brenier's declaration that the projected French line from Tonkin to Yunnan-Fu will not be the work of a day, and that a line north of Yunnan-Fu to the Yangtze is practically impossible. M. Leroy-Beaulieu says that even if the Red River were, what it is alleged to be, a \"splendid navigable waterway\" instead of having only half a metre of water in parts for the greater portion of the year, the French would still have to construct difficult and costly railways in order to tap the whole of the Yunnan trade. The extension of these lines to the Yangtze for the diversion of the trade of Ssuchuan to Tonkin, he regards as a purely visionary idea owing to the mountain barriers to be traversed. By the time France has carried a railway to Laokai, it may be hoped that the Mandalay-Kunlon line will be completed, and when France begins an extension to Yunnan-Fu, England will probably be ready to proceed to Shunning or Tali-Fu. Travellers, as already remarked, agree that the country between the Salween and the Yangtze is unsuitable for ordinary railway construction, though they differ as to the population, the nature and quality of exportable produce, and trade possibilities. A railway could never carry goods from Rangoon at rates that would enable them to compete with the sea and river-borne goods that reach Hankow by steamer, and then go to Chungking by junk. Bombay yarn and Indian opium, the chief exports to China, would still go by sea. But a line that would not pay commercially might be justified by strategical reasons, and if England intends to make an effective occupation of the Yangtze basin, a railway from Tali to Chungking is almost indispensable. It will, however, subserve Imperial rather than purely Indian objects, and its cost should not, therefore, fall upon Indian revenues. A British line from Nanning to Pose and Yunnan-Fu would be useful for supporting British interests in Yunnan, but from the West River, the most effective line would perhaps be one from Kowloon through Kwangtung and Hunan, to connect with a line running from some point on the lower Yangtze to Chungking or Chengtu.\n\n## 45 \n\nH. J. TOZER.\n\nIndia Office, October 1898.\n\n## NOTE on the Chinshakiang, or Upper Yangtzekiang.\n\nThe Chinshakiang (River of Golden Sand) is one of the two great streams—the other being the Min—that unite to form the Yangtzekiang at Sui-Fu. As Western China is opened up, the valley of this river must become a subject of great importance. The China Association has recently advocated \"the survey of a railway between Burma and the highest point of navigation on this river.\"\n\nThis point is usually stated to be Pingshan, about 50 miles above Sui-Fu (see pages 38-9), and the boatmen of Captain Blakiston in 1861 refused to ascend above this town, beyond which only small boats penetrate owing to the rapids. As it is, the boats have to be carried round some of the more dangerous rapids. Mr. Hosie, in travelling by boat from Manissu to Pingshan (50 miles), encountered twenty rapids. The fact that practically no boats ply on the Chinsha above Manissu is strong evidence that the river is unnavigable, for the Chinese utilise water carriage whenever possible.",
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        "content_text": "# ku Strand, ou Legal tender \n\nOf course, the Banks are going to withdraw their note circulation from the Straits, and there is not much more to say about Hong Kong. It should be clear why the transference of the securities from Singapore to Hong Kong is necessary for that Colony.\n\nThe H.K.V.S. Bank is to withdraw; see Louis' letter in `18335-`, para. 5 of their letter. The notes of the National Bank of China are under the Liability Acts.\n\nMore bullion is required to keep the note cover at the level required by law. The amount accepted by the Government as legal tender is $56,000.\n\nThe Bank was started under the Limited Liability Act in 1895 with $450,000 capital, which cannot be increased without the sanction of the Treasury, as per Ord 2 of 1895 (`8644/95`). The Shareholders' liability for the Note Issue is, under the Companies Act of 1879, unlimited.\n\nIt was agreed to accept their notes as cash at Government offices if they would deposit securities to the extent of one-third of their total issue. They offered Chinese Government Bonds, and we asked for clarification on the limit of circulation, as their circulation was outside the Colony, and by what instrument it was fixed when their notes were issued; and where they are redeemable.\n\nTo that letter, there has been a recent reply (not yet received) from the Mercantile Bank of India, who wish to resume their old privilege of a note issue. See `19414`.\n\nThe S. of S. instructs that a report must be furnished next spring: tell them how the Straits Govt Note Issue stands, and point out that the S. of S. is not aware that the present three Banks are transferring their Straits issue to Hong Kong, if they transfer the security.\n\nThe National Bank of China has its H.K. issue limited to $450,000 by Ord 2 of 1895, which is the same as submitted (in draft) to the Treasury. Send 2 copies of the Ord, and confirm the statement in para. 5 of this letter. Tell them the exact figure reached in negotiating with the National Bank of China, and make application for the Mercantile Bank.\n\nSend a copy to W. Con zu W Wing held 17/10, and to the Indian Govt to mean that this reply should be sent. Love the minutes Ex to the Neay at the `19834`, 42, and I think this is what is required.",
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        "content_text": "## THE DEFENCE\n\nJag 6 ... aren were ablaze. The Lan On blazed amongst them furiously for about a quarter of an hour, when she blew up with a loud report, the falling timbers setting fire to some of the water-side houses, here built over the water on piles. Mengens reached the Station, but finding the wires had been cut, and seeing a large troop-boat full of men being towed round the point from Deep Water Bay, fired the Station and escaped by the back through the bush the Mount Gough Road.\n\nShots were now heard at the eastern end of the bay, and scouts were making up the hills, firing under the same disadvantages as those at the western. It appeared that about midnight, Constable Lamont, and two Indian Constables from Stanley being on patrol, had arrived at the eastern limit of the Stanley District, the crest of the hill at the eastern end of Deep Water Bay, where to their astonishment they discovered large vessels at anchor. Whilst speculating as to what it could mean they heard shots at the Western end of the Bay, and then the glare of the search lights.\n\nFindlay, the two Indians and the two Chinese, armed with Sniders, proceeded towards Deep Water Bay, where shots were still being exchanged. Hazeland, with McNab and the two other Indians, had gone by road to Deep Water Bay. On arriving at the ridge overlooking the Bay they made out the three vessels, and lights showed the bay alive with boats. Lamont at once grasped the situation and rushing down with his two men, from the bushes, within 30 yards of the landing crowds, they fired twice into them, before their skirmishers ran for their cover. Eutant, an old poucher, however, made his escape, and, ably seconded by the two Indians, Fatty Dad and Hirpaul Singh, continued firing at the exposed landing party till their ten rounds of ammunition were expended. Hirpaul Singh then returned to Stanley, and the others made their way up to Wongneichong Gap, whilst the transports were searching the empty bushes of the golf links with grape from their bow and stern guns over the heads of the men landing.\n\nHazeland, who took his rifle, was shortly afterwards hit in the ankle, and had to be left where he lay close to the road, where his body was afterwards found bayoneted by the enemy. Even if he had worn a uniform it is doubtful if his fate would have been otherwise, for the enemy were doubtless exasperated at the execution done.\n\nActing Sergeant Lall Singh was shot (the first man to be killed at the fall of Hong Kong). This man had been one of the Jubilee contingent sent to London.\n\nThree ... The first wire from Aberdeen 'large ships showing no lights gone into Deep Water Bay,' was received at the Central Police Station in Victoria at 10.55 p.m. Hannah, Inspector on duty, at once roused Acting Deputy Superintendent Mackie, who promptly despatched messengers to Colonel Rordon, commanding the West Borks at Murray Barracks, the Commodore, Colonel Tristful (of the Hongkong Regiment) at Kowloon, and Capt. Limmonds R.A., at the McGregor Barracks. Telephonic messages were sent to the Gap and Mount Gough Police Stations, directing that H. E. the Governor, Sir W. Jones, Major-General Bilsoue White, the Captain Superintendent of Police, Major Sir John Harrington (Commandant of the Volunteers), Colonel Yardhill, C.R.E., Colonel Melformian, D.A.A.G, (the Laird of Lamlash), and all the Military Officers at the Peak should be called, also the party of Engineers making the alterations in the Mount Austin Barracks, after which the outlying soldier officers, and all British householders to be roused. Every available man to be turned out forthwith to carry out these orders.\n\nFrom Murray Barracks to Wongnoichong Gap is four miles, as you know the last two a very steep pull up from the village; but Rordon and the 192 men he had with him reached the crest as the clock-tower in Victoria proclaimed midnight. Breathing his men, who arrived streaming with perspiration, for a few minutes in the Gap, he sent Barry Brew's company down by the short cut through the jungle to hold the eastern side, whilst with Brice's company he went down to bar the road and western side. Messengers and telephonic despatches (till communication ceased) were sent to all Volunteers in Victoria, Kowloon and at the Hung Hom Docks. A mounted Sikh was sent to rouse the British at Quarry Bay. Notices were sent to the three British Clubs. Mr Riley, the tramway engineer, was directed to hold the line at the disposal of the Military, at the same time two European Constables were sent to the hut above Bowen Road to guard the pointsmen if necessary, or shoot him if he proved treacherous.\n\nMackie also rang-up the Engineer and Artillery messes (repeating the Aberdeen message), and all Police Stations in the City, giving orders to call Major Hills of the West Borks and all soldier officers at East and West Points. Communication with Shaukiwan was found to have ceased, so a Police pinnace was despatched to that village, ordering Inspector Hall to acquaint Captain Furney, R. A., at Lyemun barracks. A pinnace was also sent to warn Lt. Huzzard, R. A., at Stonecutters Island.\n\nHardly had Brew's company disappeared in the trees when the shots fired by McNab and his men at the beach were heard. Thanking God he was in time, Rordon was doubling down the road when the reports of Lamont's fire and the replies they drew were heard also, after which the search lights exposing the men on the road, the Sumtoff began firing shell from the fore-castle gun at the road, killing two men at the third round. Rordon at once sent the right half company into the bush above the road and made the others lie down behind the curve just beyond the third bridge, where they were sheltered by a spur from the fire of the transports.\n\nIn ten minutes the Assembly was sounding in every Barrack in Victoria and signal rockets were being fired from Scandal Point to warn the Hongkong Regiment and the ...",
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        "content_text": "## \ncrests), with Nordenfelts, Gardiners and his own won, all of whom were familiar by Maxims, here and there, especially below the experience of many a field day with Rifle pits. Every gully and nullah in the sand hills, where the Hacienda had stood, were sunk where the soil permitted. If we had had a week, we would have made the place impregnable, but though we had been in possession 50 years, like the foolish virgins we slept, till it was too late; still, even at the eleventh hour, we did our best to provide a fitting welcome. The French, now that all chance of surprise had passed, and taught by the rough experience of the Russians, were evidently going to play the game by rule.\n\n## \nand 100 of the Home Guard (English and Portuguese), choosing those whose snipe (and tiger) shooting excursions had often taken them over this very ground--he divided them into three mixed parties, under respectively Capt. Rerger, and Lieutenants Bowcroft and Banderson, with a Native and a House Guard officer each, and despatched them to heat up the French. Banderson was given 20 minutes' start of the others, leaving at 9.40-going to the N. W. with orders to go as far round the enemy's right as possible without alarming the outposts. Rerger and Bowcroft went off at 10-all the officers having compared their watches-Rerger for the French centre and Bowcroft for their left. At 11.15 p.m., having approached the camp as closely as possible, Rorger and Boweroft were to fire on them, and whilst the enemy were reassembling to repel the supposed attack on their left and front, Banderson was to attack their right. Hung Hom North and Kowloon West were to drop shell wherever the enemy burnt lights or fired rockets by.\n\nThe sight of Yaumati burning, the frequent explosions as the Docks were destroyed, and what they learned from the aliens in the Powan, demonstrated that the resistance to be still overcome was not likely to be feeble or wavering. The Lion's whelps were savagely at bay. No attempt was made at any time to force a pass into the Harbour-perhaps the naval force was too slender,-the fact remains the front door, fortified with such care, was never knocked at, whilst all the time the proverbial scullery window at the back was left open for the burglar to enter in assembling.\n\n## \nBefore 5p.m. the French, under General Renard, in Mirs Bay, had landed 2,000 men, and were joined by the 300 Russians guarding the line to Tolo Harbour, as well as the detachment from Capsuimoon. By six our scouts, after exchanging shots with the French skirmishers, scampered down the hills and back to our lines. A few shell were fired from Hung Hom North at the crest of the hill, but in the dark the fire was doubtless wasted and soon discontinued. The enemy were close down to the frontier, and bivouacked for the night by 9 p.m. amongst the sand hills north of our territory.\n\nTristful, however, had no mind that they should have a quiet night's rest to recover from their sea sickness. Selecting fifty of the Home Guard (English and Portuguese), he...\n\n## \n...desultory fire from the gullies been kept up, but no more rushes being made. He still had some 300 men, having commenced the action with 400 (Pathans and Home Guards). The enemy's loss, however, as could be seen, had been six or seven times as great. Half his field guns were blown to pieces and the rest had to be withdrawn to avoid a similar fate. Our people were in excellent spirits, they could see the fruits of their labour. On the island, on the other hand, the tide of battle seemed to be louder, rolling higher and nearer.\n\n## \nTowards daylight the enemy were reported on the move, and our pickets were driven in. By 5, when it was fairly light, the assault was delivered in real earnest, the storming party coming on with great gallantry to the attack of the hill, the key of Tristful's position. A very large number of guns were also brought into action by the French. The enemy suffered severely, especially from the fire of the Hung Hom guns, both large and small, again batteries, numbers of their guns being destroyed by the heavy 10\" shell.\n\nHad it not been for the broken nature of the ground they would not have had a field piece in action by 7 a.m. Time after time they swept up bravely, only to be mowed down and torn to pieces, by musketry, the quick-firers from Tristful's hill and the flanking fire from the forts. Red breeches climbing up the sea front whilst the men were busy firing N. W. on the storming party attacking Tristful, rushed the forts and exterminated the Garrison.\n\nTristful's position was untenable, with overwhelming odds in front; the Hung Hom forts along the open shore would have been suicidal insanity. The Hung Hom guns were raking his lines from East to West, smashing his quick-firers and killing his men. Rerger, his second in command, was already dead; the Subadar-Major (Firoz Khan), and four native officers had been killed; the hill had to be abandoned. Tristful retreated Westwards in squares. Once off the hill they were sheltered from the awful fire of the Hung Hom guns, and then began a duel over their heads.\n\nIn Kowloon West they had seen how things had gone--the evacuation of the hill and the cause of it--and at once turned their fire on the Eastern forts, who very readily returned it. Tristful had stationed 25 of the Home Guard in the Hung Hom forts and 25 at Kowloon West, to assist and cover the Gunners.\n\n## \nFor nearly three-quarters of an hour the assault on Tristful's position had slackened... \n\nPage 28 \nPage 29",
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        "content_text": "## 204 \n\nShatian \n\n8 \n\nFor that portion of the She-Tau division, which will most probably be included in the new area, amounts in round figures to one hundred thousand (100,000). \n\nMap VI, giving the population and divisions of the area to be leased, shows how this population is spread over the mainland and islands. \n\nThe population is contained in six main divisions, inhabiting 423 villages. These villages vary in population from 10 to 5,000 persons. \n\nThe eastern portion of the district, being more mountainous and less fertile, is not so thickly populated as the western portion. The Un Long Tung, or the division including the fertile valleys and plains of Pat Heung and Shap Pat Heung, is the most populous, its population amounting to 23,020, being distributed among 59 villages. The Sheung U Tung or western division, though much larger in area than the Un Long division, contains a population of only 20,870 distributed among no fewer than 182 villages. \n\nThe total area of the territory to be leased being 376 square miles, the population per square mile is about 266 persons. Though by no means at present thickly populated, it is anticipated that when the new territory comes under British occupation its population will rapidly increase. \n\n### VILLAGES\n\nThe houses in these villages are, as a rule, well and solidly built. The foundations and lower courses of their walls are, in many cases, of granite masonry, the upper courses being made of blue or of sun-dried bricks. The door posts and lintels are of dressed granite slabs with tiled roofs on rafters made of China fir. The floors are generally concreted, and frequently paved with red brick or with granite. Well-built and handsomely decorated temples exist in all the important villages, and in many places large and expensively constructed buildings, in which the ancestral tablets are kept, were seen. \n\nThe total number of villages amounts to 423. \n\nAs usual in China, the streets are narrow and paved with large slabs of stone. Such drainage as exists is on the surface; underground drains are never used in Chinese villages. \n\nThere are several walled villages† in the territory, which are invariably inhabited by the members of one clan only. They are rectangular or square in shape and are enclosed within brick walls about 16 feet in height, flanked by square towers, and surrounded by a moat some 40 feet in width. They have one entrance, protected with iron gates. \n\nWithin the walls, houses of the usual type are found, built with great regularity. There is one main street from either side of which small lanes branch off in parallel rows. The object of these villages being walled is to afford the inhabitants greater security in case of attack and to place them in a stronger position of defence in the event of clan feuds, which were formerly very common and are still not infrequent. In one of the villages visited was found a temple specially dedicated to the memory of those members of the clan who had fallen in the fights against a neighbouring village. The feud between these two villages, the inhabitants of which are descended from a common ancestor and possess the same surname, extended over many years, during which great numbers were killed. Peace has now been restored, and we had the pleasure of being entertained at the same table by the heads of the two villages, which were so long at enmity with each other. \n\nThose who are able to express an opinion on the subject state that the villages in the territory compare favourably with those of Southern India and Ceylon. \n\n`Appendix 5` contains a list of the name and population of each village in the area to be leased. \n\n### INHABITANTS\n\nThe inhabitants are composed of three races of Chinese: the Puntis, the Hakkas, and the Tankas. \n\nThe Puntis, or Cantonese, as they are termed by Europeans, belong to the race which is supposed to have come from the provinces bordering on the south of the Yang-tse river. The term Punti means \"Natives of the soil\"; but the existence of aborigines in many parts of the Kwong-tung province shows that the Puntis were not the aboriginal inhabitants. \n\nIt is not improbable that they commenced to find their way to the south of China during the early periods of Chinese history. At any rate, they were firmly established in the south during the time of the Southern Sung Dynasty, which reigned from A.D. 1127 to A.D. 1278. Most of the Punti inhabitants easily trace their descent from ancestors who were settled in the Sa On district in that period. The Puntis speak the dialect commonly known as Cantonese. The population amounts to 64,140 and is contained in 161 villages. They chiefly inhabit the valleys, especially those drained by the Sham Chun and Un Long rivers. Their main pursuit is that of agriculture; but they are also excellent traders and full of that enterprise for which, as a race, the Cantonese are so justly famous. \n\nThe Hakkas, or \"Strangers,\" as the term signifies, are supposed to be descended from the Mongols and to have reached the southern provinces of China when the Mongol Dynasty was overthrown, about the middle of the 14th century. They are regarded by the Puntis as aliens and speak a dialect quite distinct from Cantonese. The villages occupied by the Hakkas are 255 in number, containing a population of 36,070. As a rule, their villages are inhabited solely by members of their own race, just as the Punti villages are inhabited only by Cantonese, though there are a few villages in which both races are represented. The Hakkas are a hardy and frugal race and are generally found in the hill districts; their chief pursuits being agriculture and quarrying. \n\nThe Tankas, or boat people, form the floating population, of which it has not been possible to obtain even an estimate, except in the case of the islands when they have been included in the general population. They form a class by themselves and are looked down upon by the land population. They inhabit the creeks, harbours, waterways, and the islands and make excellent sailors, being very clever in the handling of junks and smaller craft. They are also largely engaged in fishing. \n\n`Appendix 3` shows how the various races are distributed throughout the area. Taken as a whole, the inhabitants may be regarded as an industrious, frugal, and well-behaved people. During the inspection of the territory, they gave us an excellent reception, except in two instances, one of which was so marked that it was necessary to bring the conduct of the villagers concerned to the notice of the Viceroy of the two Kwong Provinces, who will, it is hoped, deal with the matter in a proper manner. \n\nThere are, of course, bad characters and rowdies to be found among the population, and one or two villages have earned an unenviable notoriety for lawlessness, but there ought to be no difficulty in bringing such characters and places under proper control and putting an end to the present state of affairs. \n\nThe inhabitants, though by no means wealthy, seem to be, as a rule, comfortably well off and able to earn an honest livelihood without difficulty. Few signs of anything approaching destitution were seen, and only a few beggars were met. From information received, it appears that there are only 1,600 beggars throughout the whole of the Sa On district, the majority of whom are said to be outside the new territory. \n\n### INDUSTRIES\n\nThe population is chiefly occupied in the cultivation of the soil with the various crops produced. But in addition to agricultural pursuits, there are large fisheries in which many persons are engaged in the bays surrounding the territory on the east, south, and west, fishing being carried on chiefly by means of stake-nets.* The fish are sorted, salted, and sun-dried and exported to various markets. The trade in salt fish is one of the most important and employs a large number of persons. \n\nPearl fisheries exist in Tolo harbour, where pearls of value are said to be sometimes found. \n\nIn addition to salt-water fish, the rearing of fresh-water fish in ponds for the Hong Kong market and elsewhere occupies the attention of the villagers of the Un Long division. \n\nThe cultivation of oysters is also carried on to a large extent, especially in Deep Bay. Lime burning is an important industry; coral and oyster-shells being burnt in place of lime-stone. The largest lime-burning works seen were near Castle Peak Bay, where coal obtained from Hong Kong was being used as fuel. Lime was also being...\n\nPage 638 \n\n* See Photographs, `Album II`, No. 6. \n† See Photographs, `Album I`, No. 25; `Album II`, No. 8.",
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        "content_text": "313\n\nour pressing demand for the boundary of the base of the hills to the North open for further consideration at Pekin, I wrote an agreement which was signed by the Chinese Commissioner and Mr. Stewart Lockhart, I have explained the situation fully to Sir Claude MacDonald and sent him a copy of the map for which I enclose a copy being the only good survey of the boundary district that has yet been made. The provisional boundary is marked in red, the proposed boundary in blue. I have no doubt that it would be a great convenience to this Colony to have the two towns named included. But pending the further negotiations on the point the fixing of the boundary to the river will enable me to take over the territory which I shall do as soon as the necessary preparations are complete for having a police force and a Magistrate there. I shall inform you by telegraph when I can fix the date.\n\n3. I hear conflicting accounts of the feeling of the people, but I think that in the main it is friendly. The inhabitants on the Deep Bay side do not bear a very good reputation and it will be necessary to have a fair show of force when hoisting the flag.\n\n4. I assume that all the public buildings belonging to the Chinese Government are to be handed over to this Government, and that all Chinese officials are to be removed from the leased territory and their powers and duties are to cease and determine from the moment that the flag is hoisted.\n\n5.",
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        "content_text": "of the request Fund was passed in \n\nin Hongkong, \n\nas conferred them \n\nto be giving \n\na \n\ngeneral increase \n\nf \n\nSalaries. \n\nI have accordingly \n\now 29485. \n\nin Draft \n\nJuice \n\ninserted this proposal for \n\ndiscuss with In Wilson the wording of \n\nnecessary Ord: When that has gone]. \n\n5.4.g. 9/11 \n\nI gente apse. \n\nconów \n\nthe \n\naloun \n\nReust horg \n\nI kan guin \n\ngood \n\nTh' huecas \n\nW pohnson \n\nджей \n\nA \n\nat odd times, and \n\nI am \n\nWhat \n\nsmy \n\ndeal of consideration lotton ordinance \n\nit has not been penille to will esalt \n\nmorate unkl \n\nw \n\nJakery it clanse by clans, the following anggestions tomake: \n\ncl.. \n\nd 2 \n\nfot \n\n06-7-0002-96191 66-1-0002——-SE161--(x) 1 9 9 ¿ \n\nIn the definiten. \n\n4 \n\nFeat \n\nwe wormed insert the words exceptatore the content confules that the contributor \n\nbum self is referred to \n\n+ BA \n\nIn the def: fashen. \n\nThe words \n\nwe would inscit \n\n\"'\" born after marriage as being \n\nthe exciting law in Stany Kong, which in thes respect differs from the tofleyton \n\n\"The Fund\" is defined as under this orden. \n\nhands \n\nf. \n\n\"ate \n\nMye tramed winest the \n\nthe same \n\no the adminces repeated \n\nafter the and admince'. \n\nWe hardly short to green, sufferter addihm When defrieben of \"wife\" is we \n\npemn of European or \n\npromos be regarded as \n\nund \n\nof the Christian \n\n5aecenay; \n\nas any \n\namencoin de cent cover \n\nincluded under the \n\nTo avoid enterin between the fire sense \n\nZend princiful' uitend of 'pist\" \n\n4 \n\nmuch was offerpriate where the \n\nfrand was fritestablished does induffear \n\nto be required now. \n\nAll fatione Puthi offrien \n\nast be Migid tunticbite, \n\nand for the preferr \n\nof making it clear that ale contributes to the existing found autogo \n\nwould suggest the wisection, \n\nconticlating we di flans of \n\n4 \n\na clause providing that \"all public efficiens orpening \n\nwho has hitherto contributed to the Fund thala Continue to do so! \n\ncl 5 \n\nseems to be all right, and the interest of 6% is made permanent. \n\nhave \n\nA \n\nDute most of imene be altered \n\nDefinition. We do not appro of the def\" of \"pathic officer, which is adapted from the Ceylon Ordinance, bahis notes rebusfecting \n\nas th \n\nof Public servant\" in the Straits \n\nDrafts in 22292/19, larry out the lack \n\nthesten words. We wome \"parpone that \n\nshows deff. should be adopted, & the \n\naminer is adviette, \n\nbecause bother to thy \n\nhan admitted people with more then life in Hong Kong \n\nfor the definition of Salon, in \n\ndraft. \n\nin thored prefer the Et finiten gron in 51 of mytery ord. 28 of 1835. \n\n▶L (3)—12435-2000-1-93 19231-3000-7-99 \n\nwow also ad \n\nsubject \n\neverf befor thly abatement! \n\nthe who \n\nwr deris \n\n6 (3) for reposed in gread \"conferred \n\nand imposed upon» \n\nDitto (7) \n\nwe umer prefer tommet this sub- \n\nclause although it is in \n\nThese series should be remunerated, if tale, \n\nby pagmentat the time \n\npens in \n\ncl \n\ngratuity \n\nthe Ceylon Ordonanie, \n\nnot Gary satynente \n\n7 we womed propon londd to this it an weit es in die näide ordinance pronding that \n\nthe balance of the 50% may accumulati \n\npusson formecting the extra enfenditan \n\nthe \n\nin the \n\nyear when there actuary'; report has the paid or f. fuery should wish be altered inter\"\" shake\" \n\noh \"may\" \n\nWe faid\". \n\nTo clause intre betice to the sand and a before of every \n\nWe wil and the word here. \n\nLoffins \n\nafter appointed and also the words cand the \"Hember of the Police Force an \n\nKolakey of \n\nwary's \n\nwho that wit of a sergeant \n\n#2 \n\nthe work \n\non who hate bercafted atten 'cany higher rank?. (See minute by W Johnen abors,",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\n1st. Statement of Ng Ki Cheung.\n\n2nd. Statement of Tang Kok-lam.\n\nC.O. 16557\n\nRECO REG? 27 JUN S\n\n463\n\n3rd. Translations of documents found in the Meeting House at Ün (possibly \"On\" or another character, but \"Ün\" is kept as is due to uncertainty)\n\nGooga (likely a misrecognition; possibly \"On Kwok\" or another name/location)\n\n4th. Petition and statement of the widow of Tang Cheung, who was murdered.\n\n5th. Petitions from various districts, translations of which have been forwarded from time to time.\n\nIn addition to the above, I am submitting to-day under separate cover the following further documents:-\n\n6th. Another statement made by Tang Kok-lam on the 18th April.\n\n7th. Translation of documents found at Sheung Shui and Shek (\n\n8th Hu together with a statement of Lui Wan-kuk.\n\nExtracts of statements made before me by Tang Chik-ting.\n\n9th. Translation of Petition from Man Chan-tsun.\n\nFor convenience of reference, I have drawn up a tabular form giving the names of the individuals who are mentioned in the above documents and a reference to the documents in which their names appear.\n\nI have underlined in red ink the names\n\n54",
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        "content_text": "99\n\nI\n\n* $ Ja naidiy STE BAG 10\n\ntul garde to vrtom her mid moere kant en VARA\n\n1.4.4\n\nKADOLIG TO\n\n4 co ca 10\n\n..\n\nR\n\nrad Coda 9070 0% 1 Aud Ib. 10\n\n(an\n\n110 Z\n\n10.1\n\nON ME VD\n\nW\n\nNATE D\n\nOmÁ 10I\n\nJIO LIL 3010MIS\n\nAWOLLTE wewoio DE M\n\nmbuat padogos and In Boat faa anta\n\nAM\n\nALTIMA 7 BAL\n\n20.1\n\na lo aguondo 40/509.\n\n£ .9uit silim as yoLIISA JOA\n\nJauna zidd Wir qe mli lote pune, Tong\n\nLYI MIYA-Mou 321 KATYOR TING QUOT\n\nand that finding that he could not keep pace with the infantry\n\nover the broken ground and believing that his presence in the\n\nFanling Valley would lend effectual aid to the Camp and cover\n\nBerger's retirement, if necessary, he took up the best available\n\nposition and bivouacked for the night. He had a company of the\n\nHong Kong-Singapore Batt R. A. and a strong escort from the Hong-\n\nKong Regiment, so his safety was assured.\n\nIn a tactical sense it was unfortunate that Simonds\n\nhad not kept touch with Berger; his guns would have been very\n\neffective in dislodging the enemy from some very strong posi-\n\ntions they took up on crests of hills in the Lan ts'un Valley.\n\nAs events however turned out, the guns were not required, for\n\nthe Hong Kong Regiment Soldiers drove back the enemy from hill\n\nto hill and working admirably, like true Indian Frontier Fight-\n\ning men, they took full advantage of cover while continuing\n\nhotly the pursuit of the foe.\n\nHad this advance not been conducted with great care\n\nthe loss to our troops must have been heavy.\n\nThe Chinese fired almost incessantly for 11 hours,\n\npouring in round shot 3 inches in diameter from muzzle loaders\n\nand dropping musketry fire all about our men. Fortunately the\n\nconfiguration",
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        "content_text": "1898.\n\n30\n\nCOLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL\n\n  \n    \n    EUROPEAN\n    INDIAN\n    CHINESE\n    TOTALS\n  \n  \n    Warrant Officers.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Officers.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    N.C.O.'s and Men.\n    \n    \n    966\n    1,010\n  \n  \n    Warrant Officers.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Officers.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    N.C.O.'s and Men.\n    \n    \n    1,419\n    \n  \n  \n    N.C.O.'s and Men.\n    \n    \n    3,222\n    \n  \n\nIX.-MILITARY FORCES AND EXPENDITURE.\n\n(A.) REGULAR FORCES.\n\nThe following table shows the numbers and nature of the forces employed in the Colony during 1898-\n\n  \n    CORPS\n    Warrant Officers.\n    Officers.\n    N.C.O.'s and Men.\n  \n  \n    Royal Artillery\n    ...\n    44\n    182\n  \n  \n    Hong Kong-Royal Engineers Battalion, R.A.\n    -\n    ~\n    TAB\n  \n  \n    Chinese Sub.-Miners\n    ...\n    21\n    60\n  \n  \n    1/K.O. Royal Laner. Regiment.\n    \n    2\n    46\n  \n  \n    Hong Kong Regiment\n    ...\n    3\n    T\n  \n  \n    Army Service Corps\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Royal Army Medical Corps\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ind. Sub-Mod. Department A.O.D. and Corps\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    A.P.D. and Corps\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Educational\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    ...\n    1,806\n    12\n  \n  \n    General Stat...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Garrison Staff\n    ***\n    **\n    \n  \n\nCOLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.\n\n(B.) VOLUNTEER FORCES.\n\n31\n\nThe field battery numbered 117, of whom 93 were efficient; while the figures for the Machine Gun Company were 58 and 43 respectively.\n\nX.-GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.\n\nThe most important event of the year 1898 as regards this Colony was the grant by China of a lease for 99 years of a portion of the mainland and some of the surrounding islands to Great Britain as an extension of the Colony. The Honourable J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, who was on leave in England, returned to Hong Kong, and in August visited the territory thus granted, upon the capabilities of which he made an exhaustive report. The occupation of the extended area was not effected during the year under review, and will be more properly dealt with in the report on the Blue Book for the current year.\n\nThe year 1898 witnessed a recurrence of the plague, which carried off 1,175 people. The proportion of Europeans attacked was somewhat greater than during the preceding epidemic. So far medical science appears to be equally at fault as to its prevention or its cure. The most active measures were taken by the health officers and the Sanitary Board, but without any apparent effect upon the course of the epidemic, which appeared, increased, declined, and disappeared synchronously with the epidemic in Canton and other towns where no attempt whatever was made to check its ravages. The terror inspired by the epidemic of 1894 among the Chinese has apparently ceased as there was no exodus during 1898. The coolies who are almost exclusively the victims seem to accept the possibilities with stoical equanimity.\n\nEmigration decreased as compared with 1897. At the Emigration Office 8,497 women and children were examined under the \"Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1889,\" and allowed to proceed to their destination. In 1897 the numbers were 8,501. Immigration from China to the Colony is considerable, and among the immigrants, as is inevitable, there are many representatives of the vicious and criminal classes of the mainland, who add considerably to the difficulties with which the Hong Kong police have to contend.\n\nThe increase of piracy on the West River is a serious hindrance to the advancement of our trade. Chinese government seem to be unable to cope with it, and the time is coming when this question must be taken up if our trade is not to be strangled. It is at present one of the most important factors in the future condition of the trade of this Colony with the West River.\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n1898.\n\n511",
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        "content_text": "SOA\n\n2\n\nSince this remarkable statement was penned, more than twenty-five years have passed. Has the Roman Catholic church in the meantime learned a lesson? No. Glorying in her immutability she remains semper eadem.\n\nSome time ago the RECORDER depicted vividly the outrages at Kho-khoi, perpetrated by a certain Chau A-ming and his followers. The account given was from the able pen of Dr. Ashmore. Last year a paper dealing with a similar subject, and written from Swatow by Mr. McKibben, appeared in the same journal. If I am not mistaken Mr. Ross, of Moukden, has published elsewhere an account of startling facts regarding the wrong doings of the Catholics in Manchuria; and Bishop Moule, in reviewing a French book, has lately uttered in the North-China Herald bitter complaints of mischief done by the Catholics in his diocese. In all these cases, where the mischief wrought by the Catholics was so palpable, the priests made common cause with the Christians and supported them in their insubordination against the Chinese authorities. No wonder that the animosity of the people, already deep, grows into a hatred, which at length finds vent in a paroxysm of violence.\n\nIn the Shing-shai-ngai (words of warning to a prosperous people) a Mr. Cheng Knan-ying takes no pains to conceal his hatred of Christianity. He says: \"Since Christianity has been established in China, the protection it has secured by treaty for its converts is used to screen wicked and infamous men from justice. Many enter the church for the express purpose of developing their nefarious schemes under her protecting banner, and the missionaries aid them in their evil designs.\" Mr. Cheng is, however, careful to discriminate between the Protestant and Catholic branches of the church. The former he absolves from the wholesale condemnation of his strictures, even citing as missionary authors worthy of commendation Dr. Allen, Dr. Fryer, Dr. Faber and the Rev. Timothy Richard.*\n\nThis policy of \"screening wicked and infamous men under the protecting banner\" of the church is much to be deplored by everyone who is really solicitous for the welfare of the church; and the fact itself cannot be gainsaid. The eighteen provinces of China echo with the complaints to which it gives rise. Protestant missionaries have learned to reckon with it; and the great conference at Shanghai in 1901 will have to define its position in regard to this policy. In the meantime missionaries ought to collect the facts which have come to their knowledge and have them published in the RECORDER. Public opinion must be aroused and a storm of indignation awakened against the dark deeds of men who endanger the cause of true Christianity, and on account of whom the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles.\n\n3\n\nHitherto I have refrained from publishing anything on the subject because more pressing duties lay heavy upon me. At the same time I hoped that English and American brethren, whom I knew to be in possession of a great many facts throwing light on the question, would tell us something about their experiences with the disciples of Loyola. At length, however, the atrocities committed by so-called Catholics in this part of China have been of such a nature that it is quite impossible to keep silent.\n\nIf I were to publish the material gathered by me within the last three years, it would almost fill a volume; but it is not my intention to go back to certain things now past. I only want to call attention to a case which happened quite lately in our Mission.\n\nThe centre of the Rhenish Missionary Society in China is at Tung-kun, a yuen city of considerable size. In this city our Mission is represented by two ordained missionaries, two medical missionaries and one single lady missionary. More than ten years ago we opened medical work there, which has enlarged year by year, and is now doing a widespread good to the densely populated district.\n\nThe people of Tung-kun do not bear a good reputation. They are known to be very lawless and riotous, and caused considerable trouble to the authorities at Hongkong when the hinterland of that colony was ceded or leased to Great Britain.\n\nThe Catholic church has lately made great advances amongst certain classes of Tung-kun people. Veteran robbers, beyond the pale of law, and amateurs in intrigue, have sought a refuge in this church in order to create disorders. For years we have had much friction with them, which has been patiently borne by us and our people. The worst we ever encountered happened two months ago at Pak-kong, a large village up the east river, belonging to the Tsang-shing district, but bordering closely on the Tung-kun district, in which our main work lies.\n\nIt was on the 29th of July that some inquirers at Pak-kong very early called on the Rev. Franz Zahn, who is at present the missionary in charge of Tung-kun, to ask his help. They told him that a gang of robbers, several hundreds in number, had on the previous night quite suddenly surrounded their village and blocked up all the entrances. This done, the gang led by a French priest,\n\n468",
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        "content_text": "RED FOR USE \n\nEASTERN \n\nCOLONIAL \n\nOffice or Individual. \n\n1899 \n\nOFFICE \n\nHongkong \n\nNo. 13692 Boundaries \n\n361 \n\nDOMESTIC \n\n13692 \n\nReceived May, 29 \n\n27th \n\nPrevious Paper. \n\nPrinted \n\nMr. Lucas \n\nFurther \n\nas to \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nSee 13777 \n\nAuth \n\n186 T. (73)~1295415(04-12-05 \n\nSubsequent Paper. \n\n(1377) sec. \n\nSee with the 13478 \n\npara: 3 of \n\nIt would appear from there \n\nthat Sir. Blake was still of opinion that the river \n\nis the northern boundary, if it were not for Shaw Chun, the withdrawal \n\nfrom which (as he was in 12913) \n\nwould be understood.",
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        "content_text": "AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[August 7.]\n\nSECTION 4.\n\n505\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Bax-Ironside to the Marquess of Salisbury.(Received August 7.)\n\n(No. 161. Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, June 13, 1899.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, reporting on French proceedings at Kuang-chou-wan, illustrated by a sketch map.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. BAX-IRONSIDE.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul Mansfield to Mr. Bax-Ironside.\n\n(No. 25. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nCanton, May 30, 1899.\n\nI HAVE for some time been trying to get some information as to the doings of the French at Kuang-chou-wan, and have at last gathered a few items from the owner of a large steam launch which is now flying from here under the Inland Waters Regulations. I inclose a sketch map taken from the Admiralty Chart and other sources to illustrate my remarks. The dotted red lines show roughly the ground at present occupied by the French, but there are indications that very considerable extension is shortly contemplated. The civil officer in charge is M. Louis Massé, lately \"Administrateur des Affaires Indigènes\" at Vinklong, Cochin China. As is generally the case in French Colonies, there is much friction between the Military and Civil Administrations. M. Massé has just started on an expedition nominally for surveying purposes right across the Peninsula to Umpo (An-pu). He is accompanied by 150 men and 2 field guns. This bears out a remark which was dropped by the French Consul in conversation with me that they had or were going to extend their territory across the Peninsula. I asked him if they were going to take the whole Peninsula and Hainan, but he said \"No;\" that these places were of no value. It seems, therefore, very probable that their objective is the whole of the coast line of Kuang-tung from Umpo to the Tonquin frontier with territory stretching north to the West River, possibly as far as Nanning-fu. M. Doumer, the Governor-General of Indo-China, is expected in Kuang-chou-wan with the Admiral this week, and I am told an additional force of 500 men is due there shortly. The present force is said to be 3,000 men, French and Annamese, and they are encamped on Nan Chou Island, at Sha Ton, a small town near the entrance of the river or inlet which forms the commencement of the boundary between the Kao Chou and Lei Chou Prefectures, and elsewhere. The feeling among the natives towards the French is extremely hostile, and the latter have the greatest difficulty in obtaining labourers.\n\nThere is no town of importance in the territory so far occupied, and no foreign bottoms ply to the port except men-of-war and the large steam launch from here. Negotiations are going on to subsidize this launch, so as to establish regular communication with Macao or Hong Kong.\n\nThe prefectural city of Lei Chou, which is so far outside the French territory, lies some 15 miles up a navigable river, and is a town of some 5,000 inhabitants. The river has been surveyed by the French. There is a fair amount of trade which is carried entirely in junks, the principal articles of export being dunnage mats, used for packing sugar, and grass cloth, the rhea grass for which is grown in the neighbourhood. Cattle, pigs, and ponies are raised in the Peninsula, which has good grazing grounds, and to my surprise, I was informed that sheep also flourish there. Some time ago, I was informed that the natives of Lei Chou were very anxious that the port should be thrown open and that it was proposed that some of the Notables should present me with a petition on the subject offering every facility to foreigners who would go there. The petition has not, however, made its appearance. The idea was, no doubt,\n\n[2140 c-4]",
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        "content_text": "62\n\n675\n\nSir,\n\n2\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. to Commissioner of Customs, Samshui.\n\nWuchow, September 30, 1898.\n\nAS joint charterers with Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, and the Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao Steam-boat Company of the British steamer \"Kongpak,\" trading between Hong Kong and the Treaty port of Wuchow, we are anxious to register this vessel at your port for inland navigation, and shall be glad to learn whether, under the Provisional Regulations, it would be permitted.\n\nThe vessel would, on entering the river, land no cargo at any place below Samshui, although the loading of it and of passengers destined for other up-river ports would be desirable. Any imports she might have on board for places above Samshui would, of course, be declared both at the entrance and also at Samshui, where Tariff duty would be paid on it, as is now done with goods imported from Hong Kong to the two ports of call, Takhing and Shuihing. On the return journey from Wuchow to Hong Kong she would take no cargo for export below Samshui, although, as on the upward journey, she might engage in the coast trade (one Chinese place to another) between two places lying, one above Samshui and the other below it. The inland water pass could be surrendered each trip at either the Wangmoon or Mongchao Customs stations on the vessel leaving the river.\n\nOr, if the above be not permissible, she might be allowed to trade above Samshui only, getting and also surrendering her inland water pass at that place each voyage,\n\nIn the event of either of the above being permitted, we would desire to know whether the payment of the fee provided, viz., 10 taels, would cover the issue of the necessary papers for more than one voyage?\n\nIn conclusion, we might add that, although we are not authorized to negotiate anything of that nature, we anticipate that there would be no objection-provided the above privileges be granted-on the part of the Companies named to give a bond to the Customs for due fulfilment of the conditions above.\n\nWe have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON, AND Co.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nCommissioner of Customs, Samshui, to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\nSirs,\n\nSamshui, November 3, 1898.\n\nADVERTING to your letter of the 30th September, 1898, requesting to know whether your Hong Kong-Wuchow steam-ship \"Kongpak\" would be allowed to register at this office, and take out a licence to ply in inland waters, and to my reply of the 5th ultimo informing you that your request had been referred to the Inspector-General, I now beg to communicate to you the Inspector-General's reply:-\n\n\"That vessels engaged in inter-Treaty port trade or in trade with ports outside Chinese jurisdiction cannot also be registered for inland, i.e., non-Treaty port, trade. The vessels registered under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Rules must be confined to trade between Treaty ports and inland places or between inland places.\"\n\nI beg, &c.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n[Not Signed.]\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. to Commissioner of Customs, Wuchow.\n\nWuchow, February 15, 1899.\n\nREFERRING to clause 8 of the Supplementary Rules under Inland Steam Navigation Regulations, we should be glad to learn whether the Rules, &c., in force at the several places where dues and duties are payable, have yet been published, and, if not, will you kindly inform us on what date the issue of them may be looked for?\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed) JARDINE, MATHESON, AND Co.\n\n3\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nCommissioner of Customs, Wuchow, to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWuchow, February 28, 1899.\n\nI HAVE duly received your letter of the 15th instant asking when the Rules regarding dues and duties inland will be published.\n\nIn reply, I beg to state that I have not yet received any copies of these, and that I do not yet know when they will be issued.\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum re Inland Navigation.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n[Not Signed.]\n\nalready red is\n\n30652\n\nIN order that the nature and meaning of these restrictions may be fully understood,\n\nit is necessary to enter into somewhat lengthy details, but the importance of the stake at issue will, we think, form ample apology for doing so.\n\nAt the opening of the West River to foreign trade two lines of steamers were started by us to engage in the carrying trade of it-one for the direct trade between Hong Kong and Wuchow via Samshui and the \"ports of call,\" the other between Canton and Wuchow, also viâ Samshui and the \"ports of call.\"\n\nThe advantage accruing to merchants from the payment of a fixed sum for import duty and transit dues which franked their goods through to the remote parts of Yunnan and Kuei-chow caused a considerable rush of imports to find their way in from Hong Kong by water carriage instead of via the Pakhoi overland route, &c., which they had followed previous to the opening of the river. The li-kin authorities have from time to time held out threats of reducing their import duty on goods, thus diverting them from foreign to native craft; but although the Canton provincial authorities have adopted these tactics with the success which usually characterizes their actions of this sort, there has been, up to date, no systematic attempt to extend them throughout the length of the West River, so that, to a large extent, the competition we encounter, although keen, is but the natural result of rivalry in trade,\n\nWhen the inland waters of China were first declared to be open, a good deal of doubt existed as to the conditions under which the navigation of them would be allowed, and, with a view to gaining information on this important point—important to us not only from the expansion of trade that would result, but also that it might seriously modify the plans of vessels we were then contracting to have built—we applied to the Imperial Maritime Customs at Samshui to register the steam-ship \"Kongpak\" for inland navigation. After reference to Peking, this was refused by the Inspector-General of Customs, whose decision on the matter is given in the Samshui Commissioner's letter, copy of which is attached. While we still think that the privileges asked for might be accorded without danger to the safety of the revenue of China, we must at the same time admit that there are considerable difficulties in the way, and that, probably, the only effective way of meeting them would be to open Kongmoon, or some other place situated at the mouth of the river, as a Treaty port, whence, and also from Samshui and Wuchow, after payment of duties, goods would be free to find their way inland, carried either by the importing or other steamer as was found most convenient.\n\nSo far we have only dealt with the effect the opening of waters has had on the direct trade with Hong Kong, the craft engaged in which come under the heading of vessels engaged in trade with ports outside Chinese jurisdiction, and are, therefore, excluded from any direct participation in the benefits which should result therefrom. There still, however, remains the Canton-Wuchow trade, the steamers on which, being vessels engaged in inter-Treaty port trade, are also, by the Inspector-General's ruling, debarred from inland water privileges. It is to this decision, as affecting this class of vessel, that we would beg your most earnest attention, as we are of the unanimous opinion that, if enforced, it will, as we have already stated, render the whole Concession valueless.\n\nFrom the beginning our vessels on the Canton-Wuchow line have been subjected to such restrictions that it seemed quite hopeless for them to attempt to compete with their",
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        "content_text": "R. \n\nParapless Program \n\nof \n\nSir H. Blake to in Chambulan \n\nC.O. \n\n1831 \n\n+ \n\np.m? 16/1 \n\n1711 \n\nPer 17 JAN OC \n\n1500 \n\n97 \n\nSeut. 12.40 \n\nRed (2.20 a.m.) \n\nYesterday, Li Hung Chang, the new Viceroy of Kwantung, lunched with me, and accepted with great cordiality my offer to co-operate with him in the question of piracy on the West River, since he has not sufficient gunboats, nor the means to maintain a large enough force. Admiral Seymour shares my opinion that there ought to be more gun-boats of the Woodcock & Snipe class on the river, & that he should be authorized to obtain, by hire or purchase, more steamers.\n\nLi Hung Chang professed anxiety to work harmoniously with Hong Kong on all points to be settled locally with me, without referring to the Jamên. He did not see any objection to my proposal that all ports opened on the river should be for river steamers for passenger traffic only. He will consider the suggestion when he takes over his duties at Canton. He wished me not to pay a return visit.",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n### No. 129\n\nPrevious Paper | Subsequent Paper\n---------|---------\n125 44 2 6148 | 529 28846\n\n**RECO Red 30 APR 00**\n### Increases of Salaries\n\nexplains circumstances of request for approval of Committee to enquire regarding - Legislative Council has voted sum to cover increases already granted. Messrs Fray, Ellis. The warrant has been applied Committee to enquire into question salaries of subordinate Clerks-(Minutes.)\n\nMr. Johnson This seems a satisfactory arrangement; but I am afraid we shall have to have a scheme for raising subordinate officer salaries.\n\n30/4  \nIn furtherance of dust. Tist of asked for for a list of the actual increases granted from 1 Jan. last. We require this information, in order to restrict Appointments e.g. to officers such as Lockhart, Rumsey, Hastings. If the list is not forthcoming by ...",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n\n**No. 262**\n\n1. Straitil Stay ing long graine.\n\n## Minutes\n\nVery interesting-\n\nCopy to Admirally for infor ?\n\nCopy to T.C.M 3/5 (Secret)\n\nSee for muter on 15118\n\n1/5 C.P 18\n\nArgs Awit ma \n\n1708250922代 \n\n73324 \n\n**Previous Paper.**\n\n**Subsequent Paper.**\n\n`No. 3 300.`\n\n`Red 30 APR 001`\n\nCopy Kimy West River Sul Hamilton",
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        "content_text": "## No. 5926\n**(Subject.)**  \nOrdce 9. 1900  \nArms & Ammunition  \n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nMr Udal.  \nThis is an important Ordinance. It repeals the previous Ords 8 of 45 & 14 of 95%, & reenacts them with further unquestionably very rigorous provisions.\n\nThe Did: 8 of 45 was originally passed in a Colony in which arms were freely used. As a result of severe restrictions, the Colony has been put to some difficulty, but generally, the Ord: seems to have worked well enough. However, difficulty has arisen in the fact that Arms have been allowed to be taken out of the Colony in a promiscuous sort of way. I have heard that they have been supplied to the Pirates in South China, to the rebels in the Philippines & possibly to that Salleh in North Borneo & anywhere else where they can be smuggled.\n\nThere can be no two opinions as to the danger of this illicit trade continuing - if it is allowed to continue, it will foster disorder. It is essential that the Pirates, who are a threat to the West River Trade, should not be able to command illicit arms.\n\n| Date | Reference | Note |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 29/6 | 4871 | Copy |\n| MAY 00 | 15024 | Noted |\n\nPage 463  \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)`  \n`XCR(85)72` is not present in this text, hence not included. \n\nThe text \"mor. No. th 1900 Jafe previous Paper. No. KING KONG\" at the beginning appears to be unrelated to the rest of the document and may be a result of OCR error or a misplaced fragment. The main content starts with \"## No. 5926\". The rest of the text has been reformatted according to the instructions.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nreturns, & if their provisions strictly enforced they should make the disappearance of arms most difficult. Section 20 empowers any member of the Police force, who shall have obtained a general written authority from the Captain Superintendent of Police for that purpose to open and search box or package suspected to contain arms & ammunition.\n\nany \n\nI think a general discretion of this sort should not be allowed to an ordinary Constable.\n\n? after \"member of the Police Force\" suggest inserting \"not below the rank of sergeant\".\n\nRegarding Sections 16&21, the powers conferred on a \"Police Officer\" (an ambiguous phrase) & \"any member of the Police Force\" respectively, should also be safeguarded by any member being under the rank of Sergeant.\n\nTurning to the Importers' memorandums - apart from the points with which I have incidentally dealt, the strongest point they make appears to me to be that it is from the Retail Trade that harm springs, & that therefore that Trade should be placed on a separate footing from the Wholesale Trade (i.e., be subject to different Regulations). They argue that the wholesale export of arms & ammunition in foreign-going ships is all above board & should not therefore be restricted. We are not told why this suggestion has not found favour, but I presume it was because it was carefully considered & found impracticable.\n\nThe main objections in the Memorandum of the D.A.G. are that there can be no question that the Ord: is bound to some extent to hinder a legitimate Trade: but on the other hand I think it is so much more important that the illegitimate trade should be suppressed - that I think we are justified in attempting to suppress it even at the risk of damaging legitimate Trade.\n\nI doubt if the Ord: will really check smuggling - it seems probable that it will be circumvented somehow & the pirates still supplied with arms. I do not gather from the Despatch & Report that there is much confidence as to its rate of success in the Colony, but at any rate it is a bold effort to grasp the nettle, & as such must I think be supported.\n\nI submit a draft despatch to Hong Kong sanctioning the Ordinance, requesting that the minor amendments above suggested be made, possibly also enquiring whether some modification of the sweeping prohibition to carry arms & ammunition under Section 4 could be made without jeopardising the success of the Ord. I was unable to give effect to the suggestion in the enclosed memorandum as to dealing separately with Wholesale & Retail Packers, for the reason it was found impracticable.\n\nThe Ord: should be reported on from time to time, & if it proves ineffectual should be repealed.\n\nI don't know whether the supplying of the Printer with arms might be made more difficult by the issue of a Proclamation, such as has been issued in the Philippines, forbidding the export of arms, say, from the West River Ports. Possibly the result would merely be that we should throttle a genuine trade, whilst the illicit smuggling, which we are aiming at, would go on ever. But perhaps it might be well...\n\n`L.(x)~12435~-2000-1-99`  \n`32317--3000-10-99`",
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        "content_text": "## Detention of the Tartar\n### Chinese agitators\n\n**RE** No. 13095  \n**REC** 20 APR 00\n\n| Date | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 Dec | Disturbances in S. China |\n| 15 | Hand carli for Bod Goos |\n|  | Boundary |\n|  | New Territory |\n|  | Passage of Chinese troops through new combin |\n| 13 | Reform movementy in S. China. Arms read by Og. Viceroy of Canton requ. |\n| 16 | man of New Territory |\n|  | Shipment of arms in Germon vesach |\n| 21 | Do Quarantine Regins in Siam. |\n| 22 | Orms for Vladivostock, attacks on Bril: vessels, Philippine Janda |\n| 23 | Refrom movement in China. Raw Opin Ore ce |\n| 26 | Hof Commons 1900 |\n| 27 April | کیا (Subject.) Kracie in West Kier |\n| 30 | back Co., 30 Admy asti stips taken for the suppression of |\n\nLast previous Paper. 15. Mr. Moon,- To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he can state what has been done by the Viceroy of Canton in reference to Sir Henry Blake's proposal that he should assist in freeing part of the West River from pirates (China, No. 1, 1900, No. 411), and whether, on the whole, the nuisance has been abated.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n(1) \n(2) \n16. Mr. Moon,- To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. which of the various forms of arbitration mentioned in the correspondence of December last (China, No. 1, 1900, Nos. 431 and 446) has been adopted for the Kowshing case.\n\n17. Mr. Mr. Moon,--To ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, whether a water police force, provided with fast steam launches to repress piracy on the West River, has now been established (China, No. 1, 1900, No. 405): And, whether any telegraphic report has been received as to the examination of the Upper Yangtze, appointed to be made in the month of April by Her Majesty's Ships `Woodlark` and `Woodcock`.\n\n(Monday 4 May)  \nIn W Hamellow  \nReust as regards (1), which is the only question that affects conserus us, think the answer might be of a general nature-L.C. that the result of uitenrow that took place between the 15th and the fort the Viceroy...",
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        "content_text": "## Office or Individual.\n\ndeurall \n1900 \n23 Febr \n\n**HONG KO** \nNo. bibb \nPeracy \n\n**(Subject.)** \n**REC** \nC. O. \n6169 \n**DOMESTIC.** \n\nRed 20 FEB 20 \nin West River \n33 \npast previous Paper. Letter from Commissioner. Inflation in theft. He proposes to wait to act.\n\n| 53-29 | \n|---|\n| Aus & Conf 14 March the |\n| 5529 |\n\n**(Minutes.)** \neffect of Viceroy's inflation, \n?ACh: in letter to be written now. Response promised by New Year.\n\n|  | Sir W. Hamilton | T.C.M. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 3/3 | 3/3 |\n\n`173—12404-1813-12-09` `23350-15003-11-09` \nsubsequent Paper.",
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        "content_text": "## RECEIVED & RED 2 JUL 00\n**No.**  \n**(Subject.)** Practices on West River  \n**Pracis**  \nm  \nsude copies naval reports reaby -  \nIn Jo  \n? Put 4  \n??  \nJucar  \n2/4  \nT.C.M.  \n**(Minutes.)**  \n(see also 20751)  \n6  \n14/7\" CPL.2  \nat once  \n\nwhich he has addressed  \nthe Gauna of Hay Ray, in regard to their Lordshifi.  \nproposals relating to the Money Pier  \nand Victoria Yacht  \nPub.  \n\nCRL  \nffice or Individual.  \nmirally  \n1900  \nbe more  \net previous Paper.  \n20  \nPut by  \nBONG KO  \n20850  \nC.O.  \nDOMEST  \n20850 70  \n\n≥ 1, (78) —1996;4—2.5000-12-09  \n25630-15000-11-09  \ni sabsequent Paper.  \n21511",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n\naid to melicoinurage quoy of scarieñen d000 \n\nMy to diLEST ord uniakupnu 601/v31946.of Sassani LIVE \n\n0 \n\nnot alex but nåutdo of oban ared awd te fold afme tog \n\nTom uda fal 197 044 Las \"atdo?\". 2.4.1 no viueýýn eða \n\nto coi touroʻtal eið rot „Boy İntaupos of yšlenkabli er) in \n\nJoud Joy but neišamotni on dait „eðu32 to vasferos2 afd \n\nJoelduz sin) mo nole52 salut ei) sort bericoe \n\n### fice or Individual\n\ntweralt \n\n1900 \n\nDec! \n\nNoo. 41243 \n\n**(Subject.)** \n\nAffairs in China \n\n15 Dec: Levas \n\nast previous Paper. \n\nAdmy \n\n39214 \n\nC. 0. \n\n41243 \n\n**REC:** \n\n**REGE 18 DEC 00** \n\nextract from Comme \n\nreporting movement, \n\n90 \n\nmovements of Hus. \"Handy\", \n\nWest River conteres quiet \n\nhur Johnsen \n\n? Putly. \n\n**(Minutes.)** \n\nbars. \n\nreceivão \n\nupy \n\n&L (78)-23050-5000-11-90 \n\next subsequent Paper. \n\n## 18 \n\n112.",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n### Foreign 1899 1900\n#### January\n\nHang Kang No. 1490  \n**(Subject.)**  \nRECO  \nC.O. 1490  \n& Red 18 JAN 00  \n\nFrance and West River.  \n| £75-3205]—15006-12-08 |\n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nM. Johnson  \n? So Fistinct Gar as follan:-  \nJour telegram of 5 January. Repeat at once by libgraph any further information you may receive.\n\n13/1  \n1.8134 74913  \n**Previous Paper.**  \n**Subsequent Paper.**  \nSen. Cypher sent & Ncorded 2.2.5. foto. 15/1/00.  \n$24  \n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "# Composition of the Board\n\nThat the Board should consist of--\n\n* Two representatives selected by the Consular Body from among the resident foreign merchants of Shanghae.\n* The Commissioner of Customs or his nominee.\n* Two representatives of the Chamber of Commerce to be nominated by the Committee.\n* Two representatives of the shipping interests to be nominated by firms or persons whose entrances and clearances exceed 50,000 tons per annum.\n\nIf considered desirable, the Board might still further be increased by a representative of the Municipal Council and a representative of the French Municipal Council.\n\n* The Board to elect their own Chairman and Vice-Chairman.\n* A paid Secretary to be appointed.\n* The Harbour-master and a body of water police and watchmen to be servants of the Conservancy Board.\n\nIn the event of the river being conserved a competent engineer should be appointed, who will have supreme control (under the Board) of the entire work.\n\n## Duties of the Board\n\n1. **Regulation of Traffic**.-To issue such Regulations as may be found necessary for the regulation of the traffic between the upper limit of the foreign Settlements to the red buoy in the Yang-tsze and over all waterways (such as the Soochow and other creeks) within the area of the foreign Settlements at Shanghae and the Settlement at Woosung.\n\n2. **Dredging and Bunding**-No dredging or bunding works to be carried out in this section of the river, or in the above-mentioned creeks, without the permission of the Board.\n\n3. **Removal of Obstacles**.-To have full power to remove all obstacles in the river or creeks, and, where necessary (as in the case of wrecks, for example), to recover the cost of so doing from those responsible.\n\n4. **Control of Lights**.-To have complete control of all floating lights, buoys, &c., in this section of the river, and of such marks on shore as may be necessary for the safe navigation of the river, with the exception of lighthouses, which will remain as provided for in clause 32 of the Treaty of 1858 between Great Britain and China.\n\n5. **To receive proportion of Tonnage Dues**.-The Board to receive a proportion of the tonnage dues paid to the Imperial Maritime Customs at Shanghae, Woosung, and any other port on the Whangpoo, sufficient to cover cost of such work or duties as would be carried out by the harbour authorities were the Board not in existence.\n\n6. **Control of Conservancy Works**. In the event of its being decided (by the Board) to carry out the conservancy of the river, the whole work of so doing to be under the control of the Board, even although this may entail work outside the proposed limit of their jurisdiction.\n\n7. **Collection and expenditure of Funds**.-The Board to have the collection and expenditure of all funds which may be raised for such works, and to have the power to enforce payment, once the levying of the tax has been agreed to, by the Joint Powers.\n\n8. **Police and Watchmen**.-The Board to have power to organize police and (or) watchmen to carry out their orders.\n\n9. **Control of Pilot Service**.-The Board to control the Shanghae pilot service. No licences to be issued except by the Board, who will have power to deal with these licences.\n\n10. **Enforcement of Regulations**.---With regard to enforcing observance of their Regulations, the Conservancy Board being constituted in concert between the Treaty Powers and the Chinese Government, will have the power to sue those who disregard the Regulations before their Consuls, and in the case of Chinese, before the Mixed Court Magistrate, in the presence of a foreign assessor. All suits against the Board shall be brought before the Court of Consuls in the name of the Secretary of the Board.\n\n## Sources of Revenue\n\n1. A special annual charge on the assessed value of the property in the foreign settlements, which, even at one-tenth of 1 per cent., would produce some 33,000 taels per annum.\n\n2. A similar charge on the property, with water frontage on both sides of the river outside the foreign Settlements, but between them and the Yang-tsze.\n\n3. A tax on all shipping entering or leaving the port of Shanghae, Woosung, or any other port on the Whangpoo, in the shape of a surtax on tonnage dues, to be collected at the same time as tonnage dues and by the same methods. This, at 5 candies per ton, making the total charge 45 candies instead of 40 candies, as fixed by Article XXIX of the Treaty between Great Britain and China of 1858, would give an income of 52,500 taels per annum.\n\n4. A charge on all merchandize passed through the Customs at Shanghae, Woosung, and any other port on the Whangpoo in a similar manner to the present wharfage charges, giving at one-tenth of 1 per cent., say, 55,000 taels per annum.\n\n5. An Imperial contribution from the Chinese Government, equal to three-tenths of the tonnage dues collected in Shanghae, would result in some 120,000 taels; it being understood that this proportion of the tonnage dues has for many years past, and still is, a similar diverted from the purpose implied by the Treaties, into alien channels. contribution to be made on all tonnage dues which may be collected at Woosung or any other port on the Whangpoo.\n\n6. The aggregate of these annual receipts would probably be sufficient to enable a constituted authority to raise the necessary capital.\n\n7. As already stated (Article II, section 7), this constituted authority would be the Conservancy Board. Should the annual revenue not be sufficient to provide interest and amortisation for the capital raised for the Conservancy works, the Board to have power to make such increase in the tax on shipping, property, and trade as may be necessary to produce the funds required. Three months notice of such increase to be given to the Consular Body, who, in their turn, shall publicly notify this increase at least one month before it comes into operation.\n\nThe Board shall, within six months of the close of their yearly accounts, furnish the Consular Body with a detailed statement giving full particulars of their management, receipts, and expenditure during the past twelve months. This Report to be subsequently published for general information.\n\nThe Committee of this Chamber trust that the above-suggested Regulations for the constitution of a Conservancy Board will so far meet with the approval of the Consular Body, that they may be able to transmit them to Peking for the consideration of the foreign Representatives, with a strong recommendation for their adoption.\n\n'I have, &c. \n(Signed) WM. D. LITTLE, \nActing Chairman.\n\nJ. M. T. Valdez, Esq., \nConsul-General for Portugal and Senior Consul.",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n## Proclamation by Viceroy of Hukuang Provinces against Boxers and other Disturbers of Peace.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nWHEREAS in the neighbourhood of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankow, certain evil-doers have actually posted everywhere placards talking of \"keng-tsu,\" the fist of the patriot god, or \"wu-yin,\" the shining of the red lamp, and have further dared to concoct false stories of the Boxer rebels of the North having got to Hsiang Yang by way of Honan, and being due here within a certain time;\n\nAnd whereas when first the Boxer rebels of the North began to stir up strife, we, in concert with the Viceroys and Governors of the various provinces, explained to the Throne that this was an heretical sect of disorderly folk, and asked for an Imperial Decree to exterminate them utterly;\n\nAnd whereas on the 17th July and the 2nd of August we were honoured with their Majesties' Decrees ordering the provinces to purify the source of disorder by suppressing local rebels and disorderly folk;\n\nAnd whereas the awful terrors of the Imperial commands were long ago reverently copied and promulgated abroad:\n\nNow, the Boxer rebels of the North themselves confess that their heretical arts are broken, and they have not the least skill left. Most of them have died under artillery fire, or been smitten down by the regular forces, and the small remainder must have removed their bead-dresses and distinctive girdles and scattered into hiding in all directions. Their habits of arson, murder, and robbery had early earned the detestation of the decent population, and now that in dread of being captured by the militia and regulars they are in despair of escaping, how can they assemble in numbers to skulk to the south of the Yellow River, still less to come all the way to Hupei? As to Hsiang Yang and that locality, strong forces have been dispatched which bar the way; the country is at peace, and people and converts live in harmony. Although in the dependencies of Nanyang, in Hunan, there did chance to be scoundrels stirring up trouble, yet the Governor ordered his subordinates straightly to seize and punish them, and at the moment all is tranquil again. Even supposing that really Honan scoundrels, styling themselves Boxers, should raid our territory, we would simply carry out faithfully the repeated Imperial commands and vigorously suppress them; never would we let them penetrate into our territory and raise disturbances.\n\nWuchang and the Han cities being the important seat of the provincial capital, we have arranged measures of defence with extra care and completeness. Yet by spreading false accounts of imaginary events, the simple people in their ignorance terrify one another, and some even go so far as to move their families and seek refuge elsewhere. This is plainly the work of local scoundrels and Society men of this place, who concoct stories and stick up placards to disturb people's minds in the hope that, when the traders and people are in panic and confusion, they may get an opportunity to pillage. The evil designs they cherish are indeed detestable.\n\nAs we are ordering the local officials, civil and military, and the garrison and trained battalions to make secret search and in concert seize the scoundrels who concoct lying stories, and execute them immediately on conviction.\n\nIt is also our duty to issue this stringent Notification and prohibition. Wherefore, know all men, soldiers and people alike, ye must understand that such placards and stories are nothing but the cunning plots and lying fabrications of evil characters to which ye must on no account lend credence, and on which ye must not act, as by doing so ye will only excite and alarm yourselves, and when you have brought about the calamity of pillage, it will be too late to repent. So, if any dare to go on fabricating stories to terrify and to disturb men's minds, these will thereby prove themselves scoundrels, and will be at once seized and executed, nor will any mercy be shown them.\n\nLet all obey with awe!\n\n# Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Fraser to Acting Consul-General Warren.\n\n**(Confidential.) Sir,**\n\nHankow, August 24, 1900.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch of yesterday concerning a plot to raise insurrection here and at other points along the Yang-tsze, I have the honour to state that the Chinese authorities suspect the Japanese of complicity therein.\n\nIt is pointed out that the \"Yayeyama\" left suddenly a few days before the date of the Independent Association's manifesto; that the Japanese Consul is loth to deal severely with the student arrested in the house, who also resisted arrest; that among the letters seized is one from a Japanese in Hongkew, and that from the papers seized a Japanese appears to have been one of the chiefs.\n\nThe Consul told me yesterday that the Japanese employed by the Viceroy Chang were anxious to leave, and that those in the Nanking Military School would depart to-morrow.\n\nI think it probable that members of the \"soshi\" class did join Kang and Sun's followers, but I can see no reason to suspect that the Government was aware of the plot.\n\nI have, &c.\n**(Signed) E. 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        "content_text": "#M's \npoint upon \nwhich I think (subject to the reference to the Zign Office) an gjumin night will \nla expresed, if only for the sale, \nBecher \nthe convenience \nwinformity, and that is 9, 40 for mit \nrebster to deserton \nThe Solinter agouss \nwith this \noffice that it's so might be be brought into conformity \nshould be so informa. \n\n`66-4-0003-18261 €6-1-0007-98*ZI− (X)` [p] \n\nhy Sanso \nMr Cin \nwith section 23 8 \nJ \nthe M. SA \nand I think \nthat the \nGovernan \nThere remain \nremains the \nto the 70. J \naald \npoints to be submitter nothing to the \nthis \nminutes she and I therefore submit a draft \nwith manjinal notes in red ink showing \nbasis of each past. \npropon \nthe \nrecewing \n70 \nreply \nI would \nto instruct the Governor to introduce amendments in accordance with it and to deal. \nwith much posts pants \nto be ulte vires : \nsection \ninto conformity \nJ \nrequest \n9(6) into \nwith \nhin \nCette lo B \ncopy \nto send \nmemo \nof \nbr decided \nbine to bring \nS238 \nthe msa: \nBofT, the Solander \n(not the comf: one) and the annotated \ncopy \nThe Grace and the leave other amend to to bris \ndisstren \n\n## \n· ponting \nunt however the deare of \nGert for uniformity. \nAftenen J.MG. 6/10 \nAtto \nIconeun \nLL.M. \n61 \n9.00 \nGay 9/10. \nYou passed the durft to 7.0. \npaper, \nInd \nhave not dealt with \nthe important legal ponts raised in the \nabove minutes. \nqata W? Cox, \nGW5 \n24/10 \n\nThe provisions of this Ord. \n\" \nthe purpose of review be roughly divided into two \nJasses \nat \n(1) those dealing with topics similar to those gators to which the pup! M.S. A. Egyrelates; and which may junters carefully wonted conflict with its provisions dealing with other to mics for which not liable to conflict with the 1.5.4. \n\"to class\"2\" The principal provisions belonging are sect. 5,210 40 (both inclusive), also, in sect. a the definitions and references to\" junk's \"Conchas\", river steamers\",\"waters of the colony, local trade tirints\" was \n\"Harbour limits\", \"part of the colony,\" \"harbour master\" and \"slip magistrate\", sect. 4)-(8) both inclusive], sect.5 647. \n647, 42-44 (both inclusive) 464 \npecial 47. - There appear to me to call for mank in arvition to the queries of the 581\" of the B, \n147 \n-3 \n3. in his annotated copy of the badinance, except \nthat \n\n## becomes \n# M's \npoint upon which I think (subject to the reference to the Zign Office) an agreement might be expressed, if only for the sake, \nBecher \nthe convenience \nuniformity, and that is 9, 40 for mit \nrebster to deserton \nThe Solicitor agrees \nwith this \noffice that it should be brought into conformity \nshould be so informed. \n\n`66-4-0003-18261  €6-1-0007-98*ZI− (X)` [p] \n\nby Sanso \nMr Cin \nwith section 23 8 \nJ \nthe M. SA \nand I think \nthat the \nGovernment \nThere remain \nremains the \nto the 70. J \naald \npoints to be submitted nothing to the \nthis \nminutes she and I therefore submit a draft \nwith marginal notes in red ink showing \nbasis of each part. \npropon \nthe \nreceiving \n70 \nreply \nI would \nto instruct the Governor to introduce amendments in accordance with it and to deal \nwith many points \nto be ultra vires : \nsection \ninto conformity \nJ \nrequest \n9(6) into \nwith \nhin \nCette lo B \ncopy \nto send \nmemo \nof \nbr decided \nbine to bring \nS238 \nthe msa: \nBofT, the Solander \n(not the conf: one) and the annotated \ncopy \nThe Grace and the leave other amend to to bris \ndistren \n\n### \n ponting \nbut however the desire of \nGert for uniformity. \nAftenen J.MG. 6/10 \nAtto \nIconeun \nLL.M. \n61 \n9.00 \nGay 9/10. \nYou passed the draft to 7.0. \npaper, \nInd \nhave not dealt with \nthe important legal points raised in the \nabove minutes. \nqata W? Cox, \nGW5 \n24/10 \n\nThe provisions of this Ord. \nthe purpose of review be roughly divided into two \nclasses \nat \n(1) those dealing with topics similar to those factors to which the pup! M.S. A. Egy relates; and which may juncters carefully wanted conflict with its provisions dealing with other topics for which not liable to conflict with the MSA. \n\"to class\"2\" The principal provisions belonging are sect. 5, 20-40 (both inclusive), also, in sect. a the definitions and references to \"junk's\", \"Conchas\", river steamers\",\"waters of the colony, local trade tirints\" was \n\"Harbour limits\", \"part of the colony,\" \"harbour master\" and \"slip magistrate\", sect. 4-8 (both inclusive), sect. 5, 647, 42-44 (both inclusive) 464 \npecial 47. - There appear to me to call for mark in addition to the queries of the 581\" of the B, \n147 \n-3 \n3. in his annotated copy of the Ordinance, except \nthat",
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        "content_text": "would not come into the case.\n\n23664\n\n199 Hongkong\n\n258\n\nMy suggestion is based on what Sir H. Blake says in his private letter to Mr. Chamberlain, now annexed, \"Suggest that it would be well to have the assurance formally conceded now 'at Peking'\"\n\nThis question of torture is a very old one. The 21st Article of the Treaty of Tientsin provided for the surrender of \"Chinese criminals\" between China and Hongkong (see p. 23 of the enclosed volume); and it was noted that the Chinese government and our minister agreed that such extradited criminals should not be tortured prior to execution.\n\nIn cases other than murder, it has been the custom to get an assurance prior to extradition from the Viceroy of Canton that torture shall not be used, but the difficulty has been to ensure that the assurance is kept. There has been voluminous correspondence and two sets of Law Officers' opinions on the subject.\n\nIn the case of Canton, Sir H. Blake has obtained an assurance that a British officer shall be present at the trial of the accused prisoner. My draft proposes that this rule, like the treaty, shall apply in the case of prisoners extradited from British territory to Canton, but it might be added to cover cases generally.\n\nC.P. 2, 18 June. I think, as altered in red ink, it is quite reasonable.\n\nMr. Chamberlain,\n\n2 drafts\n\n26 July 1901\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 31st May, enclosing correspondence as to the practice of torture in China.\n\n3. I am glad to learn that, with the cooperation of H.M. Minister at Peking, you have secured that for the present, at any rate, a British officer shall be allowed to be present at the trial of any criminal extradited.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Antrobus.\n\nMr. Corr.\n\nMr. Lucas.\n\n13 Aug. 1882\n\nSir M. Ommanney.\n\n13 July 1901\n\nSir F. Graham.",
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        "content_text": "381\n\nexisting damper gear is quite inefficient, and entirely new gear is necessary, which should be not only that part tinted red in the sun print furnished by Messrs. Chance Brothers but also the connections therewith partly shown in white which at present do not exist.\n\nIt is also considered advisable that there should be an alternative means of adjusting the damper apparatus from the outside of the lens, in addition to that shown inside.\n\n6. I propose to take a vote for $6,000 this year to enable a commencement to be made on the tower and quarters required at Green Island, and I shall place a vote for $7,000 in the Estimates for 1902 to complete the work.\n\nThe total sum of $13,000 will cover the price of the apparatus and the cost of the necessary buildings.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nHenry Arthur\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "427\n\nTelegram\n\nDesp No.\n\nDate\n\nSubject.\n\nTelegram 420\n\n421\n\n4/23\n\n19\n\n423-\n\n426\n\nLaw Amend*.\n\nvw. 18 Chief Clerk Col Secretary's Office\n\nChinese College of medicine.\n\nTakka boat for Education Dept.\n\nCable subsidies.\n\nOrdre\n\nPay of subordinate officers\n\nQueen Victoria Memorial.\n\nDespallo\n\nDobe\n\nJulgest.\n\n464 Nov 6.\n\nUnder 28, 1901.\n\n4657\n\n466 467\n\n\"\n\n20\n\n30\n\nTelegram\n\n8\n\n20\n\nAttorney Gene Fiji.\n\n471\n\n428 430\n\n22\n\nRai destruction by inoculation\n\n472\n\n13\n\nMedical fees of cases.\n\nTelegram\n\n16\n\n431\n\n23\n\n432\n\n433\n\n466\n\n25\n\nSanitation\n\n6037\n\n437\n\n439\n\n4401\n\nCompl\n\n442 443\n\nTelegram\n\n446\n\n447\n\n4 ht\n\n453\n\n4537\n\n436\n\n40-7\n\nOrdre 23,1901.\n\n24\n\n24 slaughter houses.\n\n26\n\nRegistration of Chinese Partnership\n\nNavigation of West River.\n\nBactérological Labovation;\n\nStirling salaries\n\nHäpp of Gave\n\nEstimats 1902. Approporation Ordre\n\n281 Royal mourning.\n\n31\n\nM good. I\n\n5\n\nMr. Wohan. Pay\n\nCol. Secretary's Office\n\nJodee 26, 1901.\n\n27\n\nOversees for new Law Courts.\n\nKowloon water works\n\nHealth Offices of Porti\n\nIrace 22 190!.\n\nOverseer P.W. Dept-\n\nM.L.D'almoda e Codéo appen\n\n19\n\n1.\n\nTelegram\n\n21\n\n480\n\nTelegram\n\n23\n\n484\n\n489\n\n28\n\nI\n\nConstable Holdaway. Med. exconn\n\nT. Duncan\n\nRetirement.\n\nHone supply for Admy, works, Bactividwosical investigation. Tenements recuped by military. Chinese Collie of medicine. 2nd Engineer\n\nAndailment of officers' leaver To changes of Military a ands, 22 Grant is nursing asan Importation of petroleum Ida 31, 190d.\n\n49\n\n29\n\n30\n\n4907\n\nTelegram\n\nCompl Telegram\n\n499\n\nDu. 3.\n\n7\n\nCompe\n\nTelegram\n\nExtension of Ruble offices. Exchange of military lands\n\nNaval Dock\n\n7. Keen Pension. Petavlenn Regna\n\n{qiupment for Bactiviologist. Commandort of volunteer Corps.\n\nPost office, Thanghai.\n\nNew Action of Vodimmances\n\nTramways Vrace\n\nPlague serum.\n\nWiseless Elegraphy\n\nComma wechaiver Appen oft, Lockhart-\n\nTrademast. ym. C. margatter.\n\nExtradition of Chinese criminals.\n\nSteching salaries\n\nmasters for Queen's Collige.",
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        "content_text": "No. 1\n\nEnclosure to Governor's Despatch No. 488 of the 28th November, 1901,\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary.\n\n0.0\n\n261\n\n1574\n\n3 JAN 2\n\nIt would be quite possible to add another storey to this building, but it would be impossible for you and your Staff to continue to occupy your Office whilst the work is in progress.\n\nThe simplest means of increasing the accommodation is to add to the building at the south end, as indicated on the two drawings forwarded herewith. This would give two good rooms on the ground floor for the use of this Department and a large room on the upper floor, designed as a fire-proof room, for storing your records.\n\nThe additional accommodation is very urgently required, as our offices are at present filled and it will be exceedingly difficult to find room for additional Assistants when they are appointed. There are also the Sanitary Experts who will require, I presume, to be furnished with an office during their stay in the Colony.\n\nWhen this work is undertaken, I desire to carry out a much-needed improvement by altering the verandah on the west side, on the ground floor, so as to admit more light to the offices fronting on it. They are nearly all used as drawing offices and, in their present condition, are very unsuitable for the purpose. The alterations I propose, should effect a great improvement in the lighting of the rooms and will certainly not detract from whatever appearance the building possesses. They are indicated on the drawings submitted, the yellow colour showing the portions to be removed and the red lines the finished outlines of the work.\n\nI should mention that the additions at the south end will involve the destruction of two trees, but they are comparatively small trees and there are numerous others about.\n\nI submit that I be authorized to obtain a tender for the whole of the work, additions and alterations, from a reliable Contractor. It would be necessary to have a good man so as to minimize the inconvenience of carrying on such work whilst the offices are occupied in the usual way. The estimated cost of the work is as follows:-\n\nAdditions $14,800.\n\nAlterations $1,100.\n\n$15,700.\n\nIt would be necessary to obtain a Supplementary Vote next year in order to cover this expenditure, if my recommendations are approved.\n\n18th November, 1901.\n\n(Sd.). Cathen.",
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        "content_text": "Office or Individual,\n\nCAgents\n\n1901\n\n144 Jan\n\nNo.\n\nHOÀNG LONG\n\n1745\n\n(Subject.)\n\n97\n\n#REC?\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC.0.\n\n1745\n\n&\n\nRec'd 16 JAN 01\n\nStamping of Deeds\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n140967\n\nCopy\n\nreport read for Messrs de la Rue re: supply of stamps:\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nCopy sent to sub-ord [ov.coms\n\n40 31 Jan\n\nCopy your cap. Conf 22 tabs Ca\n\n936/21\n\nCap\n\n34-356-5000-7-1900 303-29-06-11-1900\n\nTer subsequent Paper.\n\n22497\n\nThe report by Messrs De La Rue completes the information for which Sir Henry Blake asked\n\n36753.\n\nThe idea of recording presses will, I suppose now be dropped, and the supply of a Surface printing machine with over-embossment will be adopted.\n\nThe cost of supplying the additional apparatus required for this will not be excessive - under $500\n\nSmk-eit\n\n? How hand gov copy of C.O. letter to B. for? Rew a the Bd replied to of theft beda Rues report culparndides copy of with all Endonus..\n\n17/1\n\n(AF)\n\nMcLucas\n\ndover\n\nYou pourt out that the Gar-arks for ducima\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART'S IMPENDING DEPARTURE,\n\nA largely-attended meeting in connection with the College of Medicine for Chinese was held in the Legislative Council Chamber at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of presenting an address to the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Rector of the College, on the occasion of his departure for Weihaiwei.\n\nH.E., the Officer Administering the Government, Major-General W. J. Gascoigne, presided, and those present, in addition to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, were Dr. Clark (Dean of the College), Dr. Ho Kai, Dr. Thomson, Dr. R. Maclean, Dr. Gibson, Dr. Noble, Dr. Pearson, Mr. E. H. Sharp, Mr. D. Wood, Mr. F. Browne, and many students of the College.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Gentlemen, the object for which you have all met here to-day, as I think everybody here knows, is to take farewell of Mr. Stewart Lockhart, whose departure shortly from the Colony I deplore quite as much as any of you here can do. I do not propose to detain you longer than these few words, because I know you wish to get to the actual business for which you have come here to-day; and therefore I will now call upon Dr. Clark, Dean of the College, to proceed with the meeting.\n\nDr. CLARK, in presenting the address to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, said—Your Excellency and gentlemen, the honour has fallen upon me of presenting, in the name of the Court, the Senate, and the past and present students of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, a small token of our appreciation to our Rector, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, on the eve of his departure from those scenes wherein he has laboured for more than twenty years. The severance of old ties and friendships is at best but a saddening process, and I feel sure that, mingled with that justifiable pride at having been selected by His Gracious Majesty the King to govern the newest of our many British possessions in the Far East, Mr. Lockhart cannot but feel a sense of some great loss, some gap which can never again be bridged, that must ever temper the natural elation of one who has been called to wider spheres of action, and who leaves behind him the friendships of his youth and early manhood. Such a sense of loss, however, is even more keenly felt by those who are thus left behind, for upon these devolves the duty of carrying on the old routine, and, no easy task, of finding new helpers in the work that must be done. I need hardly remind you that Mr. Lockhart has been associated with our College from its first inception, and shares the no small honour of having worked for its advancement, in the early days of its history, with Manson, one of the great leaders of our glorious profession, and with those bygone worthies Stewart, Young, Chalmers, and Francis, who also are now but names in the Temple of Fame.\n\nFor seven years Mr. Lockhart has presided over the deliberations of our Court, and has furthered the aims of our College by every means in his power. His interest in the natives of China is proverbial, and it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that he saw clearly the immense benefits that must accrue to those of our people living among us, from the foundation of a school for the propagation of Western science and Western methods of treatment of the sick. We know that learning originated in the East and thence spread its benign influence to the West, and it is but just, therefore, that where the West has improved upon the East, where the little grain of knowledge has increased a hundredfold, that the Mother of Wisdom should reap a share of the harvest. Our aim, as a College, has been to spread the little knowledge that we have been privileged to acquire in our island home among our native fellow-citizens in this far-off Colony, and I think we may fairly claim that our roll of students and of diplomates bears ample evidence that our labours have not been in vain. Mr. Lockhart has done yeoman service in this cause, and we have assembled to-day to bear testimony to that service and to wish him God speed in the work that lies before him in the future. Our address, therefore, is no empty platitude, but the genuine heartfelt wish of a little band of workers whose loss is another's gain. With your permission, sir, I will now read the address and will ask you to hand it to Mr. Lockhart in the name of those who have assembled here to-day to do him honour.\n\nDr. Clark then handed the address, which was bound in a handsome cover faced with silver, to His Excellency, and he, in turn, presented it to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, who bowed his acknowledgments.\n\nThe address, which was extensively signed, read as follows:--\n\nTo the Honourable JAMES HAMILTON STEWART LOCKHART, Companion of the most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hong Kong, Rector of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese,\n\nHong Kong, 18th April, 1902.\n\nSIR,—Before you finally sever your long and distinguished connection with Hong Kong, and particularly with the College of Medicine for Chinese, we, the Members of the Court, Senate, and General Council, and past and present students, resident in the Colony, desire to convey to you our grateful acknowledgment and warm appreciation of the many and valuable services which you have rendered to the College since its inception. You are associated with Manson, Stewart, Young, Chalmers, Francis, Cantlie, and others, in the founding of the Institution in 1887, when you accepted the office of Treasurer. This office you held until 1895, when you were elected to succeed His Honour Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice, as Rector of the College. You have not rested content with occupying a purely honorary position, but as President of the Court and executive Head of the College, you have actively interested yourself in all the various schemes that have been proposed for the furtherance of the objects of the College and for its development. While rejoicing that you have been called to a position of greater responsibility and honour by His Majesty the King, we cannot refrain from an expression of our regret at the loss sustained by the College in your departure from the Colony; and we desire to assure you that you carry with you our hearty good wishes for your future welfare and for your early promotion to yet more important spheres of public usefulness.\n\nDr. KWAN KING LEUNG, one of the licentiates of the College, then spoke. He said—Your Excellency and gentlemen, on behalf of the past students of the College, I desire to say a few words expressive of our profound respect and veneration for our Rector, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, and offering to him our sincere and hearty thanks for his distinguished labours for the good of the College and of the students, since its foundation until now. Mr. Lockhart has taken a great interest in this College...",
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        "content_text": "N \n\n26 \n\n! \n\n! \n\nof the vast Dominion of Canada, and of the great Commonwealth of Australia, but he is also Emperor of India. And when we look to the great Southern Continents and find, with thankfulness, that the smoke of battles has cleared away, that the angel of peace has descended, may we not trust that, ere long, a loyal, united, and prosperous South Africa may form one of the most valuable of those \"British Dominions beyond the Sea\" which are, fitly, now included in the Royal Title? But, Your Excellency, I must not forget that there are other Addresses to be presented and I will not further detain you, but will, with your permission, now read and present the Address which has been entrusted to me, and I would ask, in the name of the general community of Hongkong, that Your Excellency would, in due course, kindly forward it to His Majesty the King,\n\nThe Address, terms:--- \n\nin the Was \n\nfollowing \n\nHongkong, 26th June, 1902. \n\nTO HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. \n\nYOUR MAJESTY, Whilst from every part of Your Majesty's wide empire rejoicings arise on this the day of Your coronation, we, residents in the far eastern colony of Hongkong, diverse in race, nationality, creed and class, but one in devotion to Your Royal House and Person, respectfully tender our sincerest greetings. \n\nKnowledge is lost in the dim centuries as to when the waters of old Cathay reflected the spreading sails of the first argosy from the west—the bold harbinger of our fleets of merchant steamships of to-day. The safety of the ocean highway is essential to our commerce and our intercourse with home. For the preservation of this, and of our property, and it may be of our lives, we rely upon Your Majesty's forces by sea and land, sure that their protection will not fail us as it has never failed us in the past. \n\nThe history of our colony is almost coeval with the ever memorable reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. Sixty-one years ago, when the British flag was first unfurled here, Hongkong was a bare inhospitable rock, the resort of pirates and the fear of mariners. The steps of its progress during this period it is needless to recount. Under an enlightened government, dispensing an equal law, and encouraging and giving free scope to the enterprise of the people, Hongkong has become one of the principal ports in Your dominions, and is still advancing with a rapidity perhaps unsurpassed therein. \n\nAt the outset of Your Majesty's reign we rejoice to see drawing even closer than before the bond between the mother country and her dependencies; and we believe that their ever increasing importance in the empire, graciously recognised by Your addition of \"the British Dominions beyond the Seas\" to Your ancient title, is with Your accession beginning a new and glorious era in the history of the realm. And our gladness is the more profound in that, under Your Majesty's strong and benevolent administration, and by the valour of Your arms, peace has been established within Your borders, a peace which we are confident will bear a rich harvest of blessing, alike to the empire at large, and to the brave people who, no longer foes, have now become Your loyal subjects. \n\nWe ask to be permitted to extend our respectful and kindliest salutations to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, Whose many gracious qualities have endeared Her throughout the lands of Her birth and Her adoption, and command the regard of the world. And we would also include in our congratulations His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Whose visit to our colony in that service whereof He has shewn Himself so capable an officer those of us who were then here most happily remember, and Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and all the Royal Family. We contemplate with gratification the ties of domestic relationship which unite Your Majesty to so many reigning Houses, and we regard those bonds as pledges of the amity between our nations which we trust will ever be maintained. \n\nUpon the demise of Your Royal Father, a Prince universally revered, You were called, at an age early for such responsibility, to assume a share in the regal burdens of the state. The ready self-sacrifice and the wisdom with which You responded to that call have won, not only the dutiful loyalty of those who live beneath Your sceptre, but also their deep affection. And we earnestly pray that, under Divine Providence, Your Majesty and Your Royal Consort will long live in health and happiness to continue those beneficent works which it has been Your constant solicitude to promote, and to direct the destinies of the people whose glad homage is Your Own. \n\n[Here followed signatures.]\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY then formally accepted the Address, which was set upon the table. \n\nThis address was in the form of a book enclosed in gold-mounted covers, and was a very handsome work of art, reflecting credit upon Messrs. Kelly and Walsh for its practical execution. \n\nIts size was about 18in. by 12½in. The covers were in Coronation red velvet and the front was set on with massive ornamentation in 20-carat gold. In the centre were the Royal Arms; the border was open-work of characteristic Chinese design, through which ran the emblem indicating wishes for long life to the recipient. At the top of the border appeared the Chinese character for \"God bless you,\" and at the bottom another signifying congratulations. Imperial yellow silk lines the inside of the cover, on the back of which were four gold bats (good-luck), one at each corner. The Address itself was a splendid specimen of workmanship; the general scheme of colour was blue and gold, and it was printed on art paper. Each of the pages, of which there were five in all, was surrounded by an artistic border, hand-painted by Mr. C. T. Letton, of Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, in an exceedingly pretty and effective fashion. In it appeared in succession the Tudor rose, the thistle, the shamrock, and the leek, with the Initials \"E\" and \"A\" alternating between each emblem. The Address was placed in a camphor-wood box padded in yellow silk, with the inscription \"E.R.I.\" in gold on the lid. The gold mounting was the work of Wang Hing, Queen's Road. \n\nCD \n\nMr. E. C. Ray next stepped in front of the Governor and said—Your Excellency, District and Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Hongkong and South China. I appear before you in the absence of our District Grand Master, Sir Catchick Paul Chater, accompanied by the officers of the District Grand Lodge and the Masters and Wardens of the other Lodges working under our jurisdiction, together with the Masters and Wardens of Saint John's Lodge and the Lodge Naval and Military under the Scottish constitution, to present you with a Masonic address to His Majesty King Edward VII, notwithstanding the fact that part of it refers to His Majesty's actual Coronation, and to pray you to be so good as to receive it on His Majesty's behalf and to forward it for His Majesty's gracious acceptance. Sir, we may be permitted to hope that His Majesty's Coronation will not be long delayed. It has been, we trust, only postponed by the grave illness from which under Divine Providence His Majesty appears now to be happily recovering, and which has caused a wave of universal sympathy for England's Royal Family to flow from all parts of the earth—north, south, east, and west. The spontaneous wishes of all peoples and all nations are for His Majesty's welfare, and the brethren whom I represent desire respectfully to express to His Majesty their fraternal and happiest greetings and their heartfelt wishes for His Majesty's well-being. With your Excellency's permission I will now read the address. \n\nMr. RAY proceeded to read the Address, which was as follows:-- \n\nHongkong, 26th June, 1902. To HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. \n\nYOUR MAJESTY, Within the walls of the historic Abbey of Westminster, surrounded by England's great and sacred dead and amid the",
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        "content_text": "plaudits of your people, your Majesty is crowned to-day. Distant though we are from that impressive scene, we who live in this far-off portion of your Empire, the Masons of Hong Kong, reverently desire to join in the solemn yet happy wishes of the hour, and to add to those of others our own profound congratulations.\n\nBack in the cycle of time, a thousand years and more before the Christ was born, there in the Holy City, was built the temple of Solomon the King. In Nature's earth deep were its foundations laid, and slowly rose its majestic walls, its stately columns, the gate they called the Beautiful, the exquisite semblances of flowers and fruits and palms, the wondrous roof of gold and spikes of precious metal, wrought and fashioned all by the craftsmen of the time, and tested in their places with the level, the plumb, and the square. Upwards, ever upwards, under the guiding care of our Grand Master Hiram the Architect did the sacred pile progress, until the work was done and beneath the wings of the sculptured Cherubim rested the Ark of the Covenant in the mansion of the Triune God. Thereafter, from man to man, from the monarchy to the serf, from the strong to the weak, from the old to the young, down the path of time, Masonry passed through the Ages, bearing on its banners the profession of the faith, the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, until jewelled with charity, a priceless gem, it reached the Masons of to-day.\n\nSo, as the Temple emerged from disorder to order, from shapeless materials to symmetry, and perfect art, as the Brotherhood grew from its infancy of the past to its manhood of the present, the Monarchy of Britain has advanced through hundreds of years from the tumults and unrest of the darker ages to the system of right and law which is now Great Britain's heritage. From the Monarchs before the Conquest to the dynasty of the Normans, from the Plantagenets to the Standards of the Roses, from the Tudors and the Stuarts to the Hanoverians, it has been built stone by stone and arch by arch, until to-day, on foundations which have borne it through the stress of the centuries and the burden of everlasting time, with walls which are cemented by freedom and columns which rest on the rock of truth, England's Monarchy sits on England's throne, the symbol of justice to all who shelter beneath its flag, and the haven where, secure from storms, ride the argosies of humanity laden with all that man considers his dearest and his best.\n\nTo members of the Craft Your Majesty's Coronation is of especial interest, for we are privileged to call you one of our Brethren. In 1869 You were installed Grand Master of the Templars of the United Kingdom, and in 1873, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England. Nor did the sympathy in Masonry of England's Royal Blood stop at your assumption of this high office, for His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, following your footsteps, has embraced the precepts of the Order and succeeded you as Grand Master.\n\nAlthough enrolled in our Masonic ranks are many who, not being subjects of the British Crown, owe their loyalty to other Powers, we all are fettered by fraternity's bond, and in brotherly affection and deep respect we venture to hold out to your Majesty the hand of fellowship across the seas and send you greetings from the East, joining in prayer to the Great Architect of all that He will have your welfare in His keeping until the hour, predestined by the King of Kings, when through mortality's portals you will pass to the Eternal Elohim, and hear for evermore the Voice that said “Let there be light.”\n\nHere followed signatures.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY formally accepted the Address.\n\nThis Address, which was about the same size as that from the general community, was bound in Royal purple and heavily mounted in gold. The centre piece was the Royal Arms; in the corner-pieces the design consisted of the shamrock, thistle, and rose, intertwined with compasses and set-square and with the Chinese emblem which carries with it wishes for long life. The inside lining of the cover was electric blue. The Address was printed in blue and gold. At the top of the first page—the Address ran to four—was the Masonic emblem for the square and compasses. The border contained the four national emblems already mentioned, with the Masonic between them. The Address, which was encased in a suitable box, was also the work of Messrs. Kelly & Walsh.\n\nHon. Dr. H. KAI next approached the Governor's table to present the Chinese Address. He said—May it please your Excellency, I have the honour to present on behalf of the Chinese Community an humble address to His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII, our Sovereign Lord. The address has been prepared in joyous anticipation of His Majesty's Coronation. It is composed in Chinese and carved on wood. An English translation of it is contained in this silver casket, and we would respectfully request your Excellency to forward both to His Majesty for his gracious acceptance. The Chinese Inhabitants of this Colony are over sensible of the many and immense benefits they have received from the British Crown; they acknowledge with gratitude their heavy indebtedness to the British Government for much of their happiness, prosperity, and advancement; they cherish with profound reverence and lasting affection the memory of our late beloved Queen Victoria the Great and Good; and they look forward to the Coronation of Their Majesties the King and Queen with great and exceeding joy. All His Majesty's loyal Chinese subjects in this Far Eastern Colony have learnt with sorrow and deep sympathy the recent illness of their King, and they earnestly pray that His Majesty may, under the blessing of heaven, be speedily restored to health. They desire most respectfully to assure His Majesty of their devotion and loyalty to his person and throne, and they humbly pray that His Majesty may have a long, happy, peaceful, and glorious reign. I crave your Excellency's permission to read the English translation of the Address.\n\nHon. Dr. Ho KAI went on to read the Address as follows:-\n\nA Humble and Reverend Address presented to HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD THE SEVENTH of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland, by the Chinese Community of Hongkong.\n\nOn the twenty-sixth day of the month of June, in the year 1902, the ceremony of Your Majesty's Coronation will be celebrated. Throughout the circuit of the wide world, on whatever place the sun and moon shine, wherever, by land or by sea, the British Flag floats, there will not be one household that will not be filled with worship, there will be no one who will not join in singing songs of joy and praise. From far and near all will unite in wishing Your Majesty a long life in which to make your people happy and prosperous.\n\nThe pen of the readiest writer would fail to give full expression to the feelings of affection and loyalty which stir the hearts of Your Majesty's Chinese subjects in Hongkong. But, with a humble obeisance, we venture in this hymn of praise to touch upon what we feel.\n\nDivine was the wisdom of Her Majesty the Late Queen. She drew men of all nations to her by her kindness; she treated those from afar with benevolence. Her fame reached to the East and to the West. The innermost hearts of all were moved by it. Not even by the sages of antiquity were her virtues equalled.\n\nYour Majesty has inherited her justice and Her wisdom, Eternal good will spring from this succession of virtues.\n\nMajestic was Her late Majesty's renown; her dominions were enlarged, and from far and near willing homage was paid to her. Under her rule the sea slept smooth as glass, the land rested undisturbed, Her armies maintained peace and kept inviolate the circle of her kingdom.\n\nStanding at her side Your Majesty has learnt the truth of the maxim that firmness and kindness are equally necessary to ensure success. Her late Majesty had closely at heart the development of commerce. She well knew that food is all-important to the people, and that riches make a nation strong, that unless the granaries and storehouses were well filled her subjects could not be protected nor civilisation and righteousness promoted and maintained.\n\nYour Majesty has learnt the secret of...",
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        "content_text": "# Officers \n\naccounting to the Treasurer \n\nfor \n\nher fees (rightly) varies by the thing you tell. I doubt whether \n\nit means \n\nG.S.R. \n\nshould have been quoted; if it was re Jaques, it is presumably still necessary. I suffer items 11 and 12 \n\nthe inference of 2.3 of `Ord 4/5 of 1901` (Code of Civil Procedure). \n\nCover \n\nMrs. Johnson \n\nhur Cox \n\nIt was \n\nA.F. 25/11 \n\ncarters to omit to repeat **s 5 of Ord 5 of 1902** \n\nbut \n\nit is, of course, impliedly repealed by this order so far as it is inconsistent therewith. Repeal by implication is always objectionable and especially so when an order purports by its title to repeal expressly \n\nProceeding Ms box \n\nG.S.R. 26/11 \n\nme \n\nthe \n\n**s 5 of Ord 5 of 1902** only legalises fees hitherto charged & though `Ord 8, 1905` is implicitly repealed by present Order, the operation of **s 5** of the former Order has already had its desired effect & therefore, in view of `s10(2)` of \n\nI think, **Ord 24 of 'ay**, there was necessity \n\nto reenact **s 5 of 1902** in the present Order. \n\n? sanction Order pointing out that it would have been more regular if `Ord 5 of 1902` had been explicitly repealed. \n\nI ask why the former part of **s 3** relating to part to land officer this accounting `Ord 5 of 1902` was not re-enacted \n\nonly \n\nMr. Johnson is right; a clause is required that there has been use \n\nit was passed). \n\nPage 175 \n\nto s 5 of `Ord 5 of 1902`. No such penalization \n\nthe repeal of that order (assuming, of course, \n\nirregular bag hands of fees since \n\nproposed G.P.R. 0/12 \n\n? Proceed \n\nA fonce \n\nas \n\nA B C \n\n2 Dec",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 25th November, 1902\n\nWith reference to the proposals made in Sir William Robinson's Despatch No. 294 of the 29th December, 1896, and approved in your Despatch No. 43 of the 19th February, 1897, I have the honour to inform you that on the 12th of last September Dr. Chung King-ue tendered his resignation, being unable through sickness to perform his duties as House Surgeon to the Tung Wah Hospital, and that on the advice of the Directors of that Institution Dr. Chiu Hok has been appointed in his place at the salary of $1,800 per annum, which will be paid out of the vote \"Grant for Salary of Resident Surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital\" at page 41 of the Estimates forwarded to you under cover of my Despatch No. 465 of the 24th ultimo.\n\n2. In connection with this appointment it has been recommended by the Principal Civil Medical Officer and Dr. Thomson that Dr. Chiu Hok should be made a member of the Permanent Medical Establishment of the Colony. The Directors of the Hospital have been consulted in the matter and they acquiesce in the arrangement. Dr. Chiu Hok is a capable man and I think it would strengthen his position if he were made a member of the Medical Department; moreover, as he would then be entitled to the usual privileges of leave and pension, the Government ...\n\ncost to cat, but a lay profession treated by Chinese methods, which it is a pity that God should countenance. (The House Surgeon is under the GN Medical par. last har of 2390121 If we are the salary ... the Def\". must be fixed in ... of another cause. exfense to the Gov?. \n\nMr Lucas: I would A.F F.2/1 On the whole, I think agree but point out that we said the same about the salary should be fixed in sterling as the appt. is a clerical master on $1200 gu) 9/1 C.Pd.9 at once a. yr. ver. 4 far] No 0.520. \n\n| Name | Salary | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Dr. Chiu Hok | $1,800 | per annum |\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "# Government House, Hongkong, 19th December, 1902.\n\n**No. 518**\n\nWith reference to your telegram of the 15th ultimo, and to previous correspondence with regard to the proposed sale of land adjoining Kowloon Marine Lot No. 27 to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company for the construction of a new Dock, I have the honour to inform you that at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, held on the 8th instant, the Company decided by a large majority not to purchase the land in question and not to build a new Dock.\n\n2. You will remember that on the 14th February, 1899, the Dock Company applied for an area of 726,082 Square Feet coloured red on the tracing forwarded to you under cover of my Despatch No. 249 of the 9th July, 1901, and that in his letter of the 5th September, 1900, Mr. Gillies applied for a further area of 613,050 Square Feet shown in green on the tracing above referred to. Finally on the 13th August, 1902, Mr. Dixon applied for a further area of 17,395 Square Feet coloured yellow in the tracing enclosed in my Despatch No. 392 of the 2nd September, 1902. The total application of the Dock Company was therefore for an area of 1,356,527 Square Feet.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.\n\nPage 2431\nGov 29150\na7352 ref to this desp. & desp on 22528/02\n\nTo \nGov \nLF for inf. & guidance with reference to this despatch.\n\nsend copy of \nto the Admy \nAdmy \n\nNo. \nHongkong. \n9 \n\nLage to be modified near the beginning of par. 1 on p. 2 by omitting the words \"except the Colonial Military land at Kowloon required for the extension of the Dock and the land at West Point Battery\" & also by omitting par (b) R3 0.551. \n\n1 The Fry Zrquisfeulfate has to ... Su) 21/1 \n\nPage 2 \n\nXCR(85)72 \nGR1178/1922/32(III)",
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        "content_text": "The token bersente draw the petition \n\nî \nthe \ntony \n... \nMAX \nleon the mawe \n: \nGminy.. \nThat b \nAYOR \nLex \nespers \nin \nm \nbren giela AN \nthe other th \n19: \nlavour of hist \ni f \n+ did no \nThese woicie br \ntocuerd and videa, \n\n562 \nloa \nrus on. an \nFor this mett 17 \nA \nFunNGO DN17 \nfon was \nfeat the mat \nW S OPLY MOrd \nand withdrasr E \nor \n? ; GETAWAY \ncam 10 \nR \nbeter dispores at th \nsbjaukien to the nations with \nin baat en aztensing, af the practiq \nchiniu-vad lod hribanu. \ntis. It will be time anci \nBu arandzant of the Standing Orders \nlastrucliere, -(5 do not know why \necil cannot deal with the matter \nwar to pe to have the power urder \n`8/1/1bcb`- i think however.\n\nMr Cox \nHo Kan should I \nDr. do Kais tr. ro \nis an able \ncomplete protification of his \nconduct, & I think it \na \npity \nthat It May rassed the point was \nMs referred to \nA: Ho Kai t \nraving it, suade in \nstatement \n(see par \none essential paint of basket smice th passage in May's Parly Practice clearly did not cover dr Kokais \naction, which was not in relation Bill to a parate \n\n\"? reply as propeand \nthe fans. \nMcLucas \nha \nJarre on all points. The petition... \n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nThe token bersente drew the petition.\n\nThe Tony... MAX leon, the mawe: \nGminy... That b AYOR Lex espers in m bren giela AN the other th 19: labour of hist i f + did no. These woicie br tocuerd and videa.\n\n562 loa rus on. an For this mett 17 A FunNGO DN17 fon was feat the mat W S OPLY MOrd and withdrasr E or ?; GETAWAY cam 10 R beter dispores at th sbjaukien to the nations with in baat en aztensing, af the practiq chiniu-vad lod hribanu. tis. It will be time anci Bu arandzant of the Standing Orders lastrucliere, -(5 do not know why ecil cannot deal with the matter war to pe to have the power urder `8/1/1bcb`- i think however.\n\nMr Cox: Ho Kan should I Dr. do Kais tr. ro is an able complete protification of his conduct, & I think it a pity that It May rassed the point was Ms referred to A: Ho Kai t raving it, suade in statement (see par one essential paint of basket smice th passage in May's Parly Practice clearly did not cover dr Kokais action, which was not in relation Bill to a parate). \"? reply as propeand the fans. McLucas ha Jarre on all points. The petition...",
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        "content_text": "## VI.\n\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words \"**Valeur déclarée**\" is placed on insured parcels.\n\nThe various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.\n\nSrd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels; \n\nShould be reordered to:\n\n## VI.\n\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words \"**Valeur déclarée**\" is placed on insured parcels. The various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\n3rd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels;\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.\n\nThe correct order is:\n## VI.\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words **Valeur déclarée** is placed on insured parcels. The various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\nThe preceding sections should be:\n3rd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels;\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.\n\nThe final output is \n## VI.\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words **Valeur déclarée** is placed on insured parcels. The various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\n3rd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels;\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.",
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        "content_text": "conformity with specimen E annexed to the present Regulations, with all the details required by this form. The despatch notes and the Customs declarations shall be securely attached to the parcel bill.\n\nXI.\n\n1. On the receipt of a parcel bill, the receiving office of exchange shall proceed to verify the parcels and the various documents entered on it, and, if needful, shall report missing articles or other irregularities, acting in accordance with the rules laid down for insured articles by Article IX of the Regulations for the execution of the Agreement concerning insurance of the 15th of June 1897.\n\nUnimportant differences as regards the volume, size, and weight of parcels shall merely be notified by verification certificate.\n\n2. The receptacles used for the mails shall be secured with the seals of the despatching office of exchange, and such seals must only be removed by the office of exchange of destination.\n\n3. Responsibility for damaged or missing articles discovered by the arrival office of exchange, at the time of opening the receptacles, shall fall upon the Administration to which the despatching office of exchange is subordinate, unless it be proved that the articles have been damaged or lost while in the custody of the corresponding Administration.\n\nconforme au modèle E, annexé au présent règlement, avec tous les détails que cette formule comporte. Les bulletins d'expédition et les déclarations en douane sont attachés à la feuille de route.\n\nXI.\n\n1. A la réception d'une feuille de route, le bureau d'échange destinataire procède à la vérification des colis postaux et des divers documents qui y sont inscrits, et, s'il y a lieu, opère la constatation des manquants ou autres irrégularités en se conformant aux règles tracées pour les envois valeur déclarée par l'Article IX du règlement d'exécution de l'arrangement concernant les valeurs déclarées du 15 juin 1897.\n\nLes différences de peu d'importance en ce qui concerne le volume, la dimension et le poids sont seulement signalées par bulletin de vérification.\n\n2. Les récipients servant à la transmission sont revêtus des cachets ou plombs du bureau d'échange expéditeur, et ces cachets ou plombs ne doivent être rompus que par le bureau d'échange destinataire.\n\n3. La responsabilité des avaries et manquants reconnus par le bureau d'échange d'arrivée, lors de l'ouverture des récipients, incombe à l'Administration dont dépend le bureau d'échange de départ, à moins qu'il ne soit établi que les avaries ou manquants se sont produits sur le parcours de l'Administration correspondante.\n\nXII\n\n1. Missent parcels shall be forwarded to their destination by the most direct route at the disposal of the office re-transmitting them. When this re-transmission shall involve the return of the parcels to the office of origin, the amounts credited in the parcel bill of that office shall be cancelled, and the re-transmitting office of exchange shall deliver these articles to the corresponding office, simply recording them on the parcel bill, after having called attention to the error by means of a verification certificate. In other cases, if the amount credited to the re-transmitting office shall be insufficient to cover the expenses of re-transmission which it has to defray, it shall recover the difference by raising the amount entered to its credit in the parcel bill of the despatching office of exchange. The reason for this rectification shall be notified to the said office by means of a verification certificate.\n\n2. Parcels re-directed, in consequence of the removal of the addressees, to a country which participates in the exchange of postal parcels, will be subjected by the delivering office to a charge, to be paid by the addressees, representing the quota due to this latter office, to the re-directing office, and to each intermediary office if there be any.\n\nThe re-directing office shall credit itself with its quota by charging it to the intermediary office, or the office of the new destination. In case...\n\nA 14046. 9\n\nXII\n\n1. Les colis postaux reçus en fausse direction seront réexpédiés à destination par la voie la plus directe dont peut disposer l'Office réexpéditeur. Lorsque cette réexpédition entraîne restitution des colis à l'office d'origine, les bonifications inscrites à la feuille de route de cet office sont annulées, et le bureau d'échange réexpéditeur livre ces objets, pour mémoire, à son correspondant après avoir signalé l'erreur par un bulletin de vérification. Dans le cas contraire, et si le montant bonifié à l'office réexpéditeur est insuffisant, pour couvrir ce dernier des frais de réexpédition, cet office crédite de la différence en forçant la somme inscrite à son avoir sur la feuille de route de l'office expéditeur. Le motif de cette rectification est notifié au dit office au moyen d'un bulletin de vérification.\n\n2. Les colis postaux réexpédiés, par suite du changement de résidence des destinataires, sur un des pays participant à l'échange des colis postaux, sont grevés, à la charge des destinataires, par l'office distributeur, d'une taxe représentant la quote-part revenant à ce dernier office, à l'office réexpéditeur, et, s'il y a lieu, à chacun des offices intermédiaires.\n\nL'office réexpéditeur se crédite de sa quote-part sur l'office intermédiaire ou sur l'office de la nouvelle destination. Dans le cas où le pays...\n\nA 3 24",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nGo H. Kaz 6229 day \n\nН.Каз \n\n03 \n\nH. Kong No. 88 Yarar Si H. A. Blake Sui \n\nGover \n\nMr. \n\nMr. \n\n**MINUTE.** \n\nFiddiany/3 Johnson \n\nRisley \n\nMr. Amigobus. \n\nMr. Cox \n\nMr. Lucas. \n\nMr. Graham. \n\n1183 \n\nSir M. Ommanney. \n\nEarl of Onslow. \n\nMr. Chamberlain. \n\n91013 \n\nExt. from Mr. Risley's minute, marked) \n\nAnod 35296 \n\n86 \n\n12 March '02 \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt \nof your despatch No. 27 of the 14th Jan last on \nthe subject of the amendment which is effected in the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ord No. 11 A 1902.\n\n2. It is argued that section 30f Ord No. Y A 1901 is not superfluous; the Attorney General argues in the minute of",
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        "document_key": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]",
        "content_text": "# Judgment in claim 'U' Survey District No. 1 and claim 'K' Survey District No. 2\n394\n\nThe claimants in claim 'U' No. 1 Survey District and in claim 'K' No. 2 Survey District are the same as these claims adjoin each other and but for the fact of their being intersected by the boundary line between No. 1 and No. 2 Survey Districts would have been laid as a single claim and especially as the root of title is the same it is convenient that one judgment should cover them both.\n\nThe root of title is a red fishing ground deed (`exhibit B`) dated 8th Kwong Sui. It is supported by tax receipts and mentions a tax covering 40.59 acres. The claims are for sand banks by the sea and the plan `exhibit X` gives 45.758 acres as the area claimed.\n\nOf this area 1.036 falls within the old Colonial boundary and was consequently British Territory before the Convention of June 9th, 1898, and must therefore be excluded from consideration.\n\nOf the remainder an area of 40.59 acres to be taken within the boundary stones laid down by the claimants is allowed to them by the Court.\n\nDelivered 7th December, 1901.\n\n**(Sd.)** H. E. Pollock  \n**(Sd.)** H. B. Gompertz",
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        "content_text": "## COPY\n\nSir,\n\nC. 9 Feking, Rac Kes! 23 NOV 03 16th March 1905.\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Excellency that His Majesty's Acting Consul at Wuchow reports that there are now four small steamers nominally British owned, which are engaged in the direct trade between that port and Hongkong and which are unable to carry all the cargo that they can obtain, so good is the trade.\n\nMr. Acting Consul Fox explains that these steamers being all obliged to fly the Chinese flag, in a trade with Hongkong worth over five million taels per annum the British flag is not represented. He draws attention to the fact that in order to receive the permission of the Hongkong Government to fly the Red Ensign, these vessels must take out a national register and carry three certificated European Officers, and he points out that the monthly profits earned by a small steamer of 150 tons, such as is best suited to the trade in question, would not suffice under such conditions to pay the monthly wages bill.\n\nMr. Fox sees an anomaly in the fact that a British steamer of 150 tons may not fly the British flag on the West River, whereas on the Yangtse steamers five times her size run from Shanghai with a national register, and not a single certificated officer on board. He also shows that a steamer may register as a launch at the Canton Consulate, hoist the British flag and engage in purely Chinese passenger traffic in the Delta, but that the same steamer could not carry British goods and native produce between the West River and Hongkong without...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "## PART V. Arbitration\n\n### Amendment of section 251 of Ord. No. 1 of 1903\n\n23. Section 251 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting in the seventh line thereof the words \"on the same date as the plans relating to the works in respect of which such compensation is claimed are deposited with the Building Authority\" after the words \"Colonial Secretary\". \n\nThe said section 251 shall be read and construed as if the following words appeared at the end thereof: \n\"In any case in which the claim is in respect of a matter with regard to which powers of exemption or modification are vested in the Board or in the Governor in Council, the person claiming shall await the decision of the Board or of the Governor in Council before proceeding with the works.\"\n\n### Amendment of section 253 of Ord. No. 1 of 1903\n\nSection 253 of the Principal Ordinance shall be read and construed as if the following words appeared therein as clause `(c.)` between clauses `(a.)` and `(b.)` of sub-section `(2.)`, that is to say: \n\"(c.) That the rental of the premises was enhanced by reason of illegal overcrowding.\"\n\nand as if the following words appeared as part of sub-section `(3.) (a.)` after the word \"or\" and before the word \"for\" in the fourth line of `(a.)`, that is to say: \n\"had not been illegally overcrowded or\".\n\n## PART VII. Application of Ordinance\n\n### Amendment of sections 269 and 270 of Ord. No. 1 of 1903\n\n24. Sections 269 and 270 are hereby amended by omitting the words \"such Board\" appearing in the second and third lines thereof respectively and by substituting in place thereof the words \"the Sanitary Department\".\n\n### General definition\n\n25. Wherever in the Principal Ordinance or in any bye-law or rule or regulation made thereunder the expression \"officer of the Board\" or \"servant of the Board\" appears, the same shall be read and construed to mean \"officer or servant of the Sanitary Department\". \n\nby this section for any portion of the structure of such cubicle or which provides a cover or roof to the cubicle.\n\nProvided that the Board, with the consent of the Governor in Council, shall have power in all cases to grant the modification of or exemption from the requirements of this section upon such conditions, if any, as the Board may deem expedient.\n\n## Open Space, Scavenging Lanes, etc.\n\n### Transposition of sub-sections (3.) and (4.) of section 175 of the Principal Ordinance\n\n20. Section 175 of the Principal Ordinance shall be read and construed as if sub-sections `(3.)` and `(4.)` thereof were transposed, that is to say, as if sub-section `(3.)` were numbered `(4.)` and sub-section `(4.)` numbered `(3.)`.\n\n## Drainage Works\n\n### Amendment of section 178 of Ord. No. 1 of 1903\n\n21. Section 191 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by omitting the word \"Board\" in the fourth, fifth, and sixth lines thereof and by substituting in place thereof the words \"Sanitary Department\".\n\n### Amendment of section 230 of Ord. No. 1 of 1903\n\n22. Section 230 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting in the fourth line thereof the words \"or is brought to the attention of the Principal Civil Medical Officer\" after the word \"behalf\"; and by inserting after the word \"Officer\" in the fourth line the words \"of such Principal Civil Medical Officer\"; and also by inserting after the words \"Building Authority\" in the thirteenth and fourteenth lines the words \"or such Principal Civil Medical Officer\".",
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        "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903",
        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n92\n\n[May 11.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nActing-Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received May 11,)\n\n(No. 4. Confidential.)\n\nYunnan Fu, March 19, 1903.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI BEG to submit an extract from an Intelligence Report submitted to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires regarding the Tonquin-Yunnan Railway.\n\nIt is difficult to see how the enterprise can ever be carried out, unless more business-like methods are adopted.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nG. LITTON.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nExtract from Yunnan Fu Intelligence Report, March 10, 1903.\n\nThe French Tonquin-Yünnan Railway.-M. François, Consul-General, returned from Tonquin early in January. Mengtse has been visited during the winter by over eighty French railway officials. M. Caboche, the local chief of the \"Travaux Publics\" has resigned, and is succeeded by a M. Richard. The Chief Engineer of the railway is replaced by a M. Guibert on £3,000 a-year. M. Vitali, a well-known millionaire who has been concerned in Asia Minor and Balkan Peninsula railways, came up to Yunnan Fu with M. François, and astonished the officials by the liberality of his presents.\n\nHe is understood to be financing the French railway, and has introduced a number of his French and Italian assistants into the affair. Representatives of the \"Compagnie des Chemins de Fer\" are now established in Yunnan Fu, but their chief duty seems to consist in making out each other's salary vouchers. M. de Kapp, who has been one of the principal Managers of the Asia Minor line, is now at Mengtse; he will return, however, in a short time to Asia Minor.\n\nThe number of Italian contractors in connection with the railway has increased, but the work performed seems to be in inverse ratio to the number of gentlemen performing it.\n\nThe studies of the Hsin Hsien route from Laokay, in the Red River Valley, up to the plateau of Mengtse, referred to in my last Report, have resulted in the total abandonment of that route. But what is more surprising is that the route from Mengtze to Hsin Hsing Chou and so to Yunnan Fu has also been rejected by the numerous new officials who have come in M. Vitali's train.\n\nThe route from Laokay to the plateau is now to be via the Nan Hsi Valley, of which the ascent will be commenced immediately after crossing the river from Laokay to Hokou. The line will then be brought over the hills about 4 miles to the west of Mengtse, and thence across the plain to the little city of A Mi Chou, and then across the Chu Chiang by a bridge which presents no difficulties, so along the line of the Chu Tsing River to the city of I Liang, and then either via Yung Lin, which is the second stage out on the great east road from Yunnan Fu, or by a tunnel through the hills to the west of I Liang, out on to the Yunnan Plain.\n\nThe Nan Hsi Valley will be slightly more economical than the Hsin Hsien route, and the total distance saved in getting to Yünnan will be about 28 miles; but the line will pass through less fertile country, and the problem of getting from I Liang to Yünnan is a difficult one.\n\nBut the greatest difficulty of all arises from the fact that the French seem to be unable to make up their minds to do anything but wrangle, and that the personnel is constantly being changed.\n\n[1992 7-1]",
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        "content_text": "Work on the Tonquin Railway in the Red River Valley has been proceeding under difficulties owing to the scarcity of labour; 1,000 men were engaged in Yunnan in the course of the winter for the works, but over half absconded before they reached Laokay.\n\nThe service road and the time and money which have been spent on the Isin Isien route from Laokay to Mengtse, would seem to have been wholly wasted.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n3\n\n181\n\n2. French Railway.\n\nIn April there were three French survey camps along the proposed new railway, tracing from Mengtse viâ A-Mi and I Liang to Yunnan-fu. I learn that nothing really definite has been decided as to what route the railway is to take from Mengtse to Yunnan-fu, and I should not be surprised if in a few months the plans are all changed again. It seems, however, to be decided that the line to be adopted from Laokai up to the Yunnan plateau is to be the Nan Hsi route, and not the Hsin Hsien route selected by M. Doumer. The Viceroy Ting is obstructing; he wants to see a plan of the Nan Hsi route before he will consent to a service road being made there. The French reply that the country is under dense jungle, and that no plan can be made unless they are allowed first to cut a path; \"but the path may disturb the graves,\" replies the Viceroy, and so on.\n\nMeanwhile the money of the \"Compagnie des Constructions des Chemins de Fer\" flows like water.\n\nComplaints are rife in Tonquin that an excessive number of Italians have been imported into this concern. \"We are ruined by Italian cheap labour\" is the cry. It was the same in Algeria, Turkey, and Asia Minor; nothing could be done without the Lombards. These people are skilled workmen of a special character. They are temperate, thrifty, and avoid rows about native women; they can handle either a theodolite or a shovel, and can teach unskilled native labourers how to use a pick or a spade. If they are discarded the railway scheme becomes more nebulous than ever, and the labour difficulty already serious will become acute.\n\nThere have been some unimportant collisions between the French and the people at A-Mi Chou,\n\n3. Frontier.\n\nThe frontier districts on the Chinese side are in a state of confusion. Serious raids over the frontier into Burmah have, I am happy to say, wholly ceased, and the indemnity of 26,000 rupees for damages sustained by British villages up to January 1902, has been fully paid by the Teng-yueh officials. Cattle-lifting, pony-stealing, and a few broken heads, continue to be reported from time to time, but from the international point of view the state of the frontier is much better than it was two years ago. The Bhamo-Teng-yueh-Ta Li trade route has remained open and quiet but the internal condition of the Chinese Shan and Kachin districts is one of anarchy. In the Shan Chinese States of Meng Wan and Meng Mao which border on Bhamo district, the native Chiefs are at war with their hill Kachins; many villages have been burnt and Chinese troops have gone to the spot nominally to attempt to restore order, but more probably to join in and increase the general confusion. These Kachins, I have good authority for believing, are anxious to make their submission to the British, but as they are on the Chinese side of the frontier, such an idea is not to be encouraged.\n\nKeng Ma, a Chinese Shan State, near the Kun Long Ferry, was in April raided by a number of Wild Wa head-hunters from the hills on the east of the Salwen. These warriors consider the head of an old woman shot sitting in a padi-field to be as valuable as the head of an enemy killed in fair fight, and my information is that Keng Ma has been much cut up by this raid and by a sort of civil war with its neighbour State of Meng Ting. Chinese troops have been sent from Mien Ning.\n\nFurther south, the Chen Pien Sub-Prefecture, west of Pu Erh city in south-west Yunnan, is the scene of a general revolt against the extortions of local Mandarins by the La, Lobei, and Shan tribes. The Assistant Sub-Prefect was murdered in March, and the other officials took to their heels. The Pu Erh Taotai died early in March, and Hu, the new Taotai, has declined to leave Yünnan-fu for his post on the ground that \"there is money in it, and considerable personal risk.\"\n\nThe Upper Red River, north of Laokay, or rather north of Lung Po, after which place both banks are in Chinese territory has been the scene of numerous piracies which for about three weeks in April blocked the trade route to Manhao and Mengtse, to the benefit of Teng-yueh merchants who took up caravans of foreign goods to Yunnan-fu by the Bhamo Ta Li route at a heavy profit.\n\nIt is clear that a bale of yarn is not an object that a Chinaman can carry off without being noticed, and it is notorious that these piracies on the Upper Red River are worked in collusion with the petty local Mandarins who are supposed to protect the trade. It is only the \"dead-beats\" of Yunnan officialdom who will go to the unhealthy Red River ports of Manhao, Ho ko'u, &c., and they expect, if they do go, to make money by opening gambling dens, smuggling, and if occasion serve, pirating on their own account.\n\nThe result is that the scum of the earth has settled down at those places and constant disturbances occur. The present Viceroy takes no action in such cases and the remonstrances of the French Consul have not been of a very energetic character. The fact is that he uses these frontier Mandarins to give him secret information regarding the proceedings of the French Colonial authorities, and he therefore winks at their mal-practices, all the more so as the trade which suffers is really Hong Kong trade.\n\nIn other matters the French Consular authorities seem lately to have adopted a policy of shutting their eyes to the \"squeezes\" and abuses practised by the Chinese officials, hoping thereby to gain the goodwill of the Mandarins and disarm opposition to the railway. I understand that the French Consul-General supported the Chinese in the resistance which they have offered to the removal of the exactions against which I have been protesting.\n\nTaotai Wei was absent on duty at Kwang Nan in the south-east of the province when the Red River trade route became blocked. I suggested that he should proceed to Mengtse, which he did, and as he is a man of energy, he soon succeeded in putting things straight.\n\nFor the present Yünnan continues to be free from Kwang-si rebels, but part of the Kwang Nan district has been depopulated, and trade with Canton by the West River continues to be at a standstill.\n\nA sketch map is attached.\n\nSketch of part of Burmah-Yünnan Frontier, to illustrate Memorandum on Yünnan Affairs. [Not printed.]",
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        "content_text": "Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n2\n\nto Treaty regulation, and I have therefore the honour to request your Excellency to telegraph without delay to the Governor of Kiangsi requesting him to abolish it.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nPetition from Kan-chou Fu Opium Merchants.\n\nJAMES SCOTT.\n\nSEVERAL firms of Kan-chou (Kiangsi), raw opium merchants, petition concerning a breach of Treaty by an increase in the opium tax, and beg the Consul-General to send a telegram with a view to abolishing the tax, and thus relieving traders in their difficulty.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n240\n\n[July 30.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nConsul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received July 30.)\n\nCanton, June 27, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith copy of my despatch No. 21 of the instant to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, reporting the establishment by provincial authorities at Kiangsi of a new opium li-kin station at Kan-chou Fu, Kiangsi, for the collection of a new tax on opium passing into that province from Kuang-tung.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT.\n\nWe, the petitioners, have been dealing in opium at Kan-chou city, in Kiangsi, to which place it came via the North River, in Kuang-tung Province. All of it was duly sealed and stamped. Up to the present, all has gone on quietly, and there has been no difficulty. Now a \"wei-yüan\" has come to Kan-chou, with orders from his superiors to collect a levy on foreign opium at the rate of 1 K'u-p'ing silver tael on every 100 tael ounces of opium. The title \"Subscription on Prepared Opium\" would be appropriate, but for the fact that at Kan-chou there are no prepared opium shops, and therefore it is really a tax on raw opium.\n\nBy the Convention of Chefoo of the 13th day of September, 1876, \"opium is free from further tax or duty whilst in transport in the interior, provided that the packages have not been opened, and that the Customs seals, marks, and numbers on the packages have not been effaced or tampered with.\"\n\nNow, as this method of taxing at Kan-chou is on packages that have not yet been opened, it is evidently a new tax, and contrary to Treaty; and so we have to join together to beg you to help us in our need, and to telegraph soon to the Kiangsi Governor to countermand the whole levy, and so reassure merchants, which will be a good and fitting action.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Signed) (Certain Opium Merchants in Kiangsi.)\n\n21.)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Scott to Mr. Townley.\n\nCanton, June 24, 1903.\n\nI BEG to inclose copy and translation of a red note which I recently addressed to His Excellency the Viceroy at this port, together with copy and translation of a note from certain opium merchants complaining of the establishment by the provincial authorities of Kiangsi of a new opium li-kin station at Kan-chou Fu, in Kiangsi, near the northern end of the Mei-ling Pass, in Kuang-tung.\n\nIt would appear that a considerable quantity of opium finds its way from Canton to the provinces adjoining Kuang-tung on the north, traversing the main route through the well-known Mei-ling Pass. Hitherto, opium duly sealed and stamped has been allowed to circulate without further tax while the packages were unopened, passing from province to province. But the Kiangsi authorities would now appear to have devised a new tax styled the \"prepared opium charge,\" and have appointed an official at Kan-chou to collect the same. I have made careful inquiries, and find that there are no boiling establishments whatever at Kan-chou; and that this place is used solely for its convenience in seizing and dealing with opium as it leaves Kuang-tung.\n\nSo far I have had no reply from the Viceroy beyond a formal acknowledgment of my letter, informing me that he had communicated with the Governor of Kiangsi by telegraph as requested.\n\nUnder the circumstances, I beg to lay the whole facts before you for such action as you may consider necessary, only adding that I see no hope of the Kiangsi Government sending a favourable reply to my representations through the Canton Viceroy.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Scott to Viceroy.\n\nCanton, June 17, 1903.\n\nI BEG to call your Excellency's attention to the fact that a Chinese official has lately established himself at Kan-chou Fu, in Kiangsi, on the borders of Kuang-tung Province, and is there levying an impost on foreign opium under the designation of \"prepared opium tax\" (\"kao-chuan\").\n\nNow, all foreign opium that reaches Kan-chou comes from Canton, and there are no boiling establishments at the place. Clearly, therefore, this new impost is contrary [2077]",
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        "content_text": "to Treaty regulation, and I have therefore the honour to request telegraph without delay to the Governor of Kiangsi requesting\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nI hu\n\n(Signed)\n\nPetition from Kan-chou Fu Opium Merchants:\n\n  \n    +\n    SEVERAL firms of Kan-chou (Kiangsi), raw opium merchants, concerning a breach of Treaty by an increase in the opium pa, al beg General to send a telegram with a view to abolishing the +5, **traders in their difficulty.\n  \n  \n    Kffice or Individual.\n    \n  \n  \n    We, the petitioners, have been dealing in opium at Kan-chou.\n    All of it came via the North River, in Kuang-tung Province, to the present all has gone on quietly, and there has been \"wei-yüan\" has come to Kan-chou, with orders from his superiors to collect a levy.\n  \n  \n    dest deuts.\n    N foreign opium at the rate of 1 K'u-ping silver tael on every picul of raw opium.\n  \n  \n    \n    The title \"Subscription on Prepared Opium\" would be appropriate, but for the fact that at Kan-chou there are no prepared opium shops, and therefore it really means raw opium.\n  \n  \n    \n    By the Convention of Chefoo of the 13th day of September, opium from any further tax or duty whilst in transport in the interior, provided the packages have not been opened, and that the Customs seals are intact, and that the packages have not been effaced or tampered with.\n  \n  \n    providin\n    \"Now, as this method of taxing at Kan-chou is on packages which have not been opened, it is evidently a new tax, and contrary to Treaty; and we beg you to help us in our need, and to telegraph to the Governor to countermand the whole levy, and so reassure the merchant community by good and fitting action.\n  \n  \n    We are, &c.\n    \n  \n  \n    (Signed)\n    (Certain Opium Merchants)\n  \n\nNo 30309\n\nJhonoul\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n0.0.\n\n30309\n\nRed 14 AUG 03\n\n(Subject.)\n\n242\n\n1903 Your Sf bonnel detton in N.W. Yennai\n\nAny\n\nast previous Paper.\n\nStraito conf 31 Aug. Straits conf 1 Oct\n\n(BL(75)—1931—3LXNOQ-17-9\n\nfort subsequent Paper.\n\n70\n\n4237\n\nfreds pruited reporton\n\nby Collions\n\n(Minutes)\n\nAn interesting report wh\n\nhan hatter if for filtan\n\nhadn't forgotten to put\n\nStrails sho have a copy Canara\n\ndistances.\n\nUten\n\n- another\n\nto wait b\n\n• and spare copy. Hang Kane,\n\nmich use\n\nARCis- C.P.L\n\nthe ough thepe\n\nREL\n\n1418.\n\nat once\n\nil\n\nTo..",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n244\n\nC.O.\n\n30309\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n\"C\n\n(No. 5.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[June 8.]\n\nThe SECTION 14 AUG OF\n\nActing Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne,.(Received June 8.)\n\nYunnan-fu, April 6, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit a Report, with sketch maps, on a journey in North-west Yunnan, which I performed last winter.\n\nAlmost all the country described is within the sphere of British commercial or political interest.\n\nIf your Lordship should direct that this Report be printed, I should be glad to receive six copies for use in Yünnan.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nG. LITTON.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nReport on a Journey in North and North-west Yünnan, Season 1902-1903.\n\n1.-Yünnan-fu to Pin Chuan, the Slope to the Yang-tsze.\n\nTHE main west road from Yünnan-fu to Ta Li runs chiefly along the head waters of a series of streams, which flow north and discharge themselves into the Yang-tsze. The average distance from the main road north to the Yang-tsze is 100 miles, and the drop is about 2,000 feet. Along the line of the main road, there is a series of valleys and plateaux (Yunnan Hsien, Chu Hsiung, Chen Nan, &c.), but further north, great ranges of mountains, running north and south, generally confine the streams in narrow defiles or valleys. The rush of water down this slope into the Yang-tsze during the rains is tremendous, and is a main cause of the rapid rise of the river at Sui-fu in August. The lines of main-trade communication in this country have naturally run north and south, and not east and west, but I resolved to commence my journey by taking a line to Ta Li, roughly equi-distant from the Yang-tsze and from the Burmah high road.\n\nLeaving Yünnan-fu by the North Gate on the 16th November, 1902, and proceeding over the plain for 5 miles, we crossed a limestone and sandstone col, and descended into a gorge, where we put up for the night, and the next day descended to the little city of Fu Min Hsien, in the valley of the An Ning River, which is the main outlet of the Yunnan Lake; 75 per cent. of the country consists of bare hills, with a sparse population of Lolos. After leaving the Fu Min Valley, we proceeded through poor and broken country above the west bank of the river to Ché Pei, whence we ascended past Chi Kai Market, to a sandy plateau sparsely clad with pine woods, and thence down to the valley of Wu Ting Choù, a tumble-down city of about 400 families, in a treeless barren country.\n\nThis town was destroyed in the disorders which marked the close of the Mohammedan rebellion in Yunnan, and has never recovered, but it was once an important stage on the Yunnan trade route between Yünnan and the Chien Chang (South-west Szechuan), which was once the principal trade route in the province. The \"oldest inhabitant\" of Wu Ting (1873) remembers the days when 100 laden mules per diem passed the city, but now there are not as many in a month. As soon as the Panthay troubles commenced, trade left the Chien Chang-Wu Ting route and took to the Sui-fu (Szechuan)-Chao Tong-fu-Yunnan-fu line, on the other side of the Yang-tsze from the Chien Chang; this route was in its turn strangled by the Lao Wa Tan li-kin, and yielded much of its importance to the west river route, which grew in importance with the growing demand in Canton for Yünnan opium. Pirates, the establishment of order on the Red River, and, above all, the establishment of the Customs at Mengtse, again diverted the commerce into the channel which, as regards Central Yunnan, it is likely to occupy permanently. There\n\n[2021 -1]\n\nB\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "Hei Shui Ho.\n\nChu Lo.\n\n12\n\nIndia the range is shown as following round the concave side of the river bend; but I believe the surveyors did not actually explore the bend, and the trend of the range is different from what is shown on the map. Across the top of the north section of the Lichiang plain the mountain runs in a north-east and east direction. The ramifications of these spurs fill up a great part of the bend, but immediately at the north foot of the Snow Mountain there is a valley sloping down from east to west to the Yang-tsze, while the main back-bone of the range is continued on the left bank of the river in northerly direction towards Chung Tien, and so on to Thibet. The Yang-tsze has forced its way through the range by a stupendous gorge, and the snow mountain of Lichiang may be described as the tip of one of the tails of the Himalaya, cut off by the river from the back-bone connecting it with Thibet.\n\nI commenced my exploration of the bend, which I regret that time did not permit me to complete, in splendid weather. On leaving the town of Lichiang there is a view of the other or west side of the valley. From the col which is crossed by the Ashi road, a rocky spur rises up in a north direction; as it rises it becomes more bare and jagged, and finally culminates in a great precipice, on the top of which is a snow nevé, and, apparently, a glacier; above this are six tooth-like peaks of snow, the third of which, counting from the east, is the summit, which I believe to be somewhat over 17,000 feet. On the east of and below the main peaks, there are a number of perfectly naked, needle-like pinnacles. The mountain, as far as I could observe, is wholly composed of limestone.\n\nWe marched up the lonely valley north of the city in full view of this majestic sight. After four hours' march the valley narrows, and we crossed a low spur (10,400 feet) into a wide grassy plain on the east flank of the mountain, which was covered with fir trees up to the foot of what I christened the Great Eastern Glacier; by this glacier I think that a skilled mountaineer would reach the summit without much difficulty. If ever a Yünnan Alpine Club is formed, here is a peak worthy of its virgin ambitions.\n\nAt six and a-half hours we turned slightly east, and descended through a forest of pines to a stream issuing from the east side of the mountain, and here we camped at 10,000 feet. I shot a specimen of the large wood snipe, the only living thing to be seen at this height. A furious wind blew down from the mountain all night, and in grey, raw weather we resumed the march on the next day, first crossing a forest-clad spur to Hei Poa Shao, which consists of a single log shanty, where copper from a neighbouring mine is smelted, and then ascending another great spur, along the side of which we continued to march till 3:30 P.M. We did not see a human habitation; the pine forests, festooned with moss, and the bamboo brakes inclosed us for miles, only here and there opening to give glimpses of wooded spurs descending east to the Yang-tsze. The road, however, is frequented by a small, but constant, traffic of Thibetan caravans bringing drugs and musk to Lichiang, and taking tea, salt, and sugar and cloth back to Thibet. Emerging from the forest in the afternoon, we saw a wall-like precipice of limestone, distant about 10 miles to the north-east; there was evidently a river at the foot of it, and the guide informed me that it was the Yang-tsze flowing in a south direction to Yung-peh.\n\nOur regular stage would have been Min Yin, 34 miles from Lichiang and 34 days from the north of the Yang-tsze bend, and 4 days from Yung Ning, on the other side of the Yang-tsze, where there is a native Chief with the rank of Prefect. Instead of proceeding to Min Yin we turned west, and after a mile's walk through maize and buckwheat, we found good quarters in a Lashi village. The people here confirmed what we had learned at Lichiang about the bend. They offered to take us to the riverside in a short day's march, going either east or west from their village. If we went west we should find the river flowing north, and if we went east we should find it flowing south. We accepted the former alternative.\n\nThe village was at the head of a wide funnel-like valley, which appeared to cut across the north feet of the great mountain. Down this valley we proceeded with the snow hill on our left, and a confused mass of lower ranges on our right. After four hours' easy march past several Lashi villages and much cultivation, we reached the considerable village of Taku, situated in a wide fan-shaped plain, but there were no signs of the river. However, our guide took us across some downs beyond the village, and quite suddenly we came upon a precipitous defile, with sides some 100 feet deep, at the bottom of which was the Yang-tsze flowing due north with a steady current. The high-water mark was 20 feet above the December level; there is no regular ferry here, but it is possible to scramble down to the water's edge and then be floated across on four inflated sheep-skins, the motive power being supplied by a naked Charon, who swims and pushes the skins and the passenger on the top of them before him as he goes. One mile south of this primitive ferry the river issues from the stupendous gorge by which it has cut its way through the snow range, and at about 1 mile further north it enters another gorge.\n\n13\n\nThis remarkable open valley of Taku is largely composed of gravel and conglomerate. It would seem to have been the bed of an ancient glacier, descending from the Snow Mountain.\n\nThe next day the hills were covered with mist, and a steady rain was falling, but as time was limited we started an ascent of the mountains due south of the village, apparently towards the main summit. At 7,000 feet the rain became heavy snow, and a fierce and bitter wind assailed us from all quarters. No path was visible, and it was impossible to know where we were going, except that we were making a continuous ascent in a south direction. After 6 hours of this kind of thing the question of what was to become of us in this desolate storm-swept forest became interesting, but luckily we had a reliable guide, who at length brought us safe through the whirling mist and snow out on to our former route, near Hei Poa Shao, and we were forced to share the hospitality of that tumble-down hostelry with a number of Thibetans. These interesting people, with their red woollen mantles and embroidered leather boots, are better studied in the open.\n\nUnder a roof they exhale a very ancient and fish-like smell. On Christmas day the dazzling sunshine returned, and we went back over our old route, through deep snow to Pei Sha market, 5 miles west of Lichiang, where the gentry placed at our disposal the temple of the God of Literature. This market has a population of about 800, and is a good example of the manner in which Chinese influence has worked upon the Minchias and Lashis. The people have adopted clan names in the Chinese fashion, but they are clearly not Chinese clan names—e.g., Mu and Ho. At the door of the Chinese temple were floating Thibetan flag charms, and some of the literati who have got Chinese degrees can hardly speak the language of Han.\n\nFrom Pei Sha I passed over westward into the plain of Lashi, where a Lashi farmer put us up in his clean and comfortable wooden house. The circular lake in the middle of this plain is receding, and the alluvial soil round it gives excellent crops of rice, wheat, and opium.\n\nOn the 27th December, undeterred by a heavy fall of snow, I set out to visit the ferry of Ashi, on the Yang-tsze. We ascended another wooded spur of the great mountain which closes the west side of the Lashi Valley to 9,400 feet, and as we descended through pine forests by a rough stone road the weather lifted and we were rewarded by glimpses of the river, a terraced valley along its banks far below us, and, on the other side of the river, the cloud-capped mountains which block the way to Thibet. In the scrub under the pines as I descended I killed two fine silver pheasants.\n\nJust at the bottom of the descent the high road from Lichiang to Weisi (six days) branches off to the west from the Ashi road, which latter we followed, winding through a large village and passed many terraced fields to the water's edge.\n\nThe little valley of Ashi is famous for its opium. In the open season and when the Chunglien road is not closed by snow, there is a considerable mule traffic passing the Yang-tsze at this point; ponies, drugs, wool, furs, musk come out, and cottons, sugar, salt, tea, and wheat wine, for which Lichiang and the district round is famous, go in to Thibet.\n\nThe Yang-tsze at Ashi is far more like the river in Szechuan than it is at Taku. The ferry is well served by a large flat-bottomed barge. In December the river here was 120 yards broad, but in the summer it must be over 200 yards; both banks are fringed with a narrow but fertile valley, but about 2 miles north of Ashi the banks contract, and the river enters the vast and impassable gorge, from which it issues at Taku for a short space. I made the height at Ashi to be 5,450 feet, or 150 feet higher than at Taku.\n\nThe Yang-tsze is known all over North-west Yunnan as the Chin Chiang (Gold River) or Chin Sha Chiang (Gold Sand River). In the bend it is also known as the Ashi River, because the chief ferry is at Ashi.\n\nThe geographical and ethnological features of this country deserve a thorough exploration by competent traveller with plenty of time. The late autumn and the early spring are the best times for travelling; in the dead of winter I suffered from the cold, and was hampered by constant snowstorms. 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        "content_text": "cliffs, to the sides of which clung coniferæ, while at their feet were rich forests of bamboo. On every side was heard the gurgle of mountain streams, while, here and there, were grottos full of great icicles. After three hours' march we crossed a low col and came to an open patch in the forest where the salt caravans rest, and soon after reached the crest of the range, and descended along a deep cleft in the west flank of the mountain, whence occasional glimpses of the trans-Mekong range were to be had. At 8,500 feet we emerged into more open country, between two vast cultivated spurs, with villages of mud and wattle huts perched on impossible ledges, and accessible only by paths fit for goats. A succession of bold and magnificent mountain views was unfolded, until from the gorge far beneath us we saw a column of smoke rising up from the salt wells of La Shi, to which we descended, and put up in a temple commanding a view of the little town situated in the depths of the gorge, and containing about 400 houses. Some eighty families are engaged in cooking the salt, and each can produce about 550 lbs. per day. The transport of these and other wells near is in the hands of Pei Ti Ping mule-owners, who are, in many cases, of the gentler sex. At La Shi there is one small street of shops, supplied by Szechuan pedlars. A stream runs down the bottom of the gorge, and the wooden huts of the salt boilers cling along its sides.\n\nFrom Lashi we continued along a narrow path on the south side of the gorge, sometimes by the stream and sometimes high above it, and sometimes making detours to the left to get round side ravines. Soon after passing the Minchia village of Wan Ten, we caught sight of the Mekong, and descended to the little market of Ying Pan Kai. There is no ferry to the other side (west or right bank), but only a bamboo rope sling.\n\nThe sons of the late General Yang Yi Kuo live and rule at Ying Pan. Their attitude was so unfriendly that we moved a mile to the south of the market and camped by the farmstead of a hospitable Minchia, some 500 feet above the river, which is here ... feet broad, of a rich deep blue, and with a strong, but not violent, current. On the opposite side of the river, no less than seven great spurs, any one of which would be considered a first-class mountain in Europe, descend sheer to the river. The little villages, half hidden in their folds, looked like rabbit-hutches. Nature here works on her grand scale, and man and his works are reduced to insignificance.\n\nYing Pan and the Lashi Wells are under the direct control of the Lichiang Magistrate, whose ordinary jurisdiction also extends down the east or left bank of the Mekong to Hsiao Tsa Tsu, 13 miles south of Ying Pan. The fringe of villages on the lower slopes of the mountains on the west or right bank, together with the left bank south of Hsiao Tsa Tsu and north of the Yün Lung Chou boundary, are under the control of a t'u ssu or hereditary Chief, known as Lo t'u kuan. He is a native of Lan chou and a Minchia, but his official residence is at Tu Wo (see below) on the right bank. The upper slopes of the great range on the west of the Mekong, opposite Ying Pan, are inhabited by Lou Tzu, a tribe described by the Chinese officials as utter savages, who live by rapine, and nothing else. But the mandarins commonly speak in these terms of any non-Chinese who object to being controlled or squeezed by the Celestial Government. The Lou Tzu enjoy a wild independence in these inaccessible mountains, and are not above an occasional raid. Last year they crossed the Upper Mekong and looted the Wei Hsi official when he was on his way to his post. The Lou Tzu, the Lisaw, and the Minchia on the banks of the Mekong use cross-bows which shoot a poisoned arrow about 1 foot long. The poison looks like putty, and Chinese informed me that it is a species of \"u t'ou\" or taro, which causes paralysis and speedy death if it enters the blood. To be efficacious the poison has to be gathered at the tops of the mountains and in the dead of night, \"light Hecate's root of hemlock digged in the dark.\"\n\nWhen I passed by, Lo t'u kuan (the Minchia hereditary official) was on the war-path against the Lou Tzu, but his attempts to bring them under control were meeting with no success save that he had burned one village which had refused to accede to his extortionate demands for tribute; it seems that a sort of \"war\" is always going on in these hills, yet Chinese traders occasionally penetrate into them, and the Lou Tzu occasionally come out to the Ying pan to exchange gold, drugs, beeswax, skins, hemp, and lacquer against salt, cottons, tobacco, &c.\n\nFrom Ying pan down the banks of the Mekong to the Fei Lung Bridge is a march of five days (64 miles) along the precipitous sides of the river bank, between the vast ranges which press close to the water on both sides. On the first day we reached the village of Hsiao Tsa Chu (12 miles) the narrow path leading up and down high above the river through magnificent scenery, bare and imposing. We met several bands of Lisaw women in their shell-embroidered caps and hempen kilts; they live chiefly on the west bank, the few villages on the east bank being Minchia. Just before reaching our stage progress was blocked by a formidable razor-like ridge of limestone projecting into the Mekong, and round which the river makes a bend and forms a rapid. This obstacle was only passable by a narrow and dizzy path, and the mules had to make a detour round the hills at the back. Hsiao Tsa Tsu consists of a dozen log huts, situated on a slope steep as the roof of a house, and we only just found room for a tent by a small temple built in Chinese fashion and dedicated to \"the Black God of the Hills.\" The Headman was friendly, and, after a day's rest, he guided us along a path which ascended through a wilderness of mountains till we were 1,600 feet above the river, while above us were vast slopes and precipices with their summits crowned with snow; then descending past the log huts and narrow rice terraces of Shi Ping, we descended to a comfortable camp by the banks of the river near the village of Lamati. Here we found a double bamboo rope sling across the river, and a primitive \"dug-out\" or rather \"burnt-out\" boat made of the trunks of two trees hollowed out by fire and lashed together. A number of Minchia women crossed in the evening with loads of salt and tobacco on their backs, for villages on the west side. On the following morning the water was so cold that the mules refused for a long time to cross, and we were not all landed on the west bank till 10 A.M. At this point we joined Prince Henri of Orleans' route from Fei Lung Bridge north to Atentse.\n\nFollowing the narrow path down the west bank, through a fringe of trees about 50 feet above the river, we soon reached a difficult corner, where to encourage us the guide informed me that Prince Henri had lost two mules overboard into the river. 3 miles from La Mati the country on the west bank opens out a little and forms the valley of Tu Wo, where there is considerable padi cultivation. The few places available for rice terraces along all this part of the Mekong are carefully cultivated, and the rice is of excellent quality.\n\nThe village of Tu Wo, the capital of Lo t'u kuan, consists of about 100 log huts, and a small yamên built on a ridge in the valley. The population consists of Lisaw, Minchia, and a few Chinese. In the afternoon's march the mountains closed in again to the riverside, and we had to feel our way along and round the edge of a beetling cliff. It was like walking round the neck of a champagne bottle; the loads had to be carried on men's backs and the mules led. It was with a feeling of relief that we reached our camp at the little village of Ku Li. After passing Tu Wo we constantly met bands of traders, some of whom had been among the Lou Tzu and the Lisaw of the Upper Salwen, and some of whom had been to Teng Yueh. From Tu Wo there is a path leading west into the hills; indeed, difficult though the country is, there are communications in all directions, and the natives seem to consider any slope less than 45° as level-going. The Tu Wo traders clad in hemp, armed with broad swords in univalve scabbards, and cross-bows with quivers of poisoned arrows, look far more ferocious than they really are. Many wear haversacks like the Kachins, but without the embroidery, people here know the Salwen not as the Lu Chiang, the ordinary Yünnan name, but as the Hei Lung Chiang (\"Black Dragon River\").\n\nAfter edging round a difficult cliff just south of Ku Li, we got into more open country, where the river makes a series of majestic curves, and horse-shoe shaped valleys on the west bank admit of cultivation.\n\nThe most considerable of these is the Valley of Piao Tsuen. The village is situated 1 mile back from the river and has 150 mud and log huts, enclosed by an old mud wall.\n\nWe here passed out of the jurisdiction of Lo t'u kuan and entered that of the Yun Lang Sub-Prefect. From Piao Tsuen there is a well-beaten track west up into the hills past the village of Sung Ping, and so to the Salwen at Luku, the wild Lou Tzu not extending so far south as this.\n\nIn the afternoon we got round another formidable cliff, and camped at the little river bank hamlet of Tsao Yao, where we saw Chinese Proclamations for the first time since leaving the salt wells. One poster by the Provincial Judge was noticeable. It warned the non-Chinese inhabitants of Yunnan generally against practising the gentle arts of witch-craft and poisoning.\n\nThe people of Tsao Yao go to market at the Fei Lung Bridge, but for our tired caravan it was too long a march, and after passing through forest and long grass along a fair track high above the river for 15 miles without seeing a human habitation except the deserted guard-house of Tie Men, perched on the top of a cliff, we camped at Iron gate. Miao Wei, a village of some fifty houses, situated on a broad cultivated terrace high above the Mekong, and commanding a superb view of the great precipices which hang over the east bank.\n\n[2021 A-1]",
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        "content_text": "22\n\n23\n\n255\n\n}}\n\nGeneral Conclusions.\n\nFor those who are interested in Yünnan and its trade, I beg to submit the following remarks and suggestions :-\n\n1. It must be remembered that Yünnan is out of the great current of China trade. Whether the year is going to be a good or a bad one depends wholly on the local opium and rice harvest, which in their turn depend on the weather. If this is favourable, we may be sure that there will be money to be spent in the ensuing autumn and winter trading season; therefore, merchants who wish to try a venture in Yünnan should inform themselves as to the harvest.\n\n2. The part of Yunnan which may be conveniently served by our Burmah route is, on the whole, considerably more populous than the part of Yunnan served by the French or Red River route; the Burmah trade has hitherto been half strangled by the ravages of Chinese tax-collectors, but now that Teng Yueh is an \"open port,\" under Sir Robert Hart's supervision, there is every reason to hope for a great expansion of trade.\n\nIt will, however, be necessary to take severe measures against the attempts of the officials to recommence illegal exactions.\n\n3. The most urgent need of Teng Yueh trade is an export product to give in return for Indian yarn and cotton goods. This is especially necessary just now, as the balance of trade is heavily against Teng Yueh; merchants whose capital is silver have to liquidate their debts in appreciated rupees; there is only one export possible at present, and that is opium; the obsolete rules which prohibit the Yunnan drug being taken across Burmah, en route to Canton and Shanghae, should be at once abolished.\n\n4. The importance of Yunnan as a possible field of supply for ponies and mules should not be lost sight of.\n\n5. Every effort should be made to establish a cotton cloth-weaving industry in the Teng Yuch or Yung Chang valleys, and so to undo a part of the injury which Burmah trade has suffered from the long delay in opening Teng Yueh.\n\n6. I am inclined to think a European firm might establish itself with advantage at Teng Yueh. The trade would not bear a large and expensive European staff; what is wanted is rather some one of energy and tact who would be content to rough it, in the hope of opening new lines of trade, especially of export trade, which the Chinese, when left to themselves, are exceedingly slow to attempt. I strongly recommend the employment of Indian, preferably Mahommedan, travelling agents in the interior.\n\n7. Hsia Kuan is a centre of the greatest importance to Burmah trade, and I would suggest the establishment of a foreign agency there, under the direction of Chinese, but to be visited from time to time by a European merchant.\n\n8. The Ta Li third-moon fair is worth attending, as something might there be learned of prospects of trade.\n\n9. The duties levied at Rangoon on all goods not of Indian origin destined for consumption in China should be suppressed. It would be easy for the Government of Burmah to arrange for a system of drawbacks in co-operation with the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n10. Among the articles of import which I noted down in the course of my journey as likely to have an extended market in West Yunnan are blankets, cheap clocks, and watches, mirrors, enamelled ironware, cheap ribbons and laces for trimmings, pocket-knives, padlocks, umbrellas, leather belts, the stouter cottons, such as American drills, cotton prints of a gaudy pattern, Turkey reds, cigarettes, jade, coral, and amber.\n\nAmong possible exports from Yunnan, ponies and mules, musk, hemp, straw braid, rhubarb, drugs consumed by Chinese, wool and furs from Lichiang, bristles, silk from South-west Szechuan, would seem to deserve attention. It must be remembered that up-country Chinese traders are fond of false-packing and other frauds, and by no means comprehend the necessity of goods being up to sample.\n\n11. I should be very sorry to offer any advice about mines in the part of Yunnan which my Report deals with. Salt and copper are the mineral products of which I saw most, but they are both in the hands of official monopolists. Until better informed, I venture to doubt whether there are any mines in this part of Yunnan which would pay for the cost of transporting foreign machinery and paying for foreign engineers. When the upper waters of the Irrawadi have been brought under control by Burmah, it might be well to prospect there for nephrite (jade), which will always command a great market in China.\n\n12. The geological and ethnological features of the Upper Mekong and Salwen are of the utmost interest, and call for careful examination by trained observers with plenty of time, as regards the very mixed population of this district, it would appear to be derived from two sources :-\n\n(a.) Migration south from Thibet, a country which cannot support a large population. This migration is represented by Kachins, Mossos, Lisaw, Lashi, and probably Lolos.\n\n(b.) Migrations west from the Yang-tsze Valley, represented by the Shans and later by the Chinese.\n\nThe Minchia, who seem to occupy more territory than is commonly supposed, may or may not, on inquiry, be found to represent an old stock who had attained a certain degree of civilization before the other migrations commenced.\n\nSUMMARY of Stages in North-West Yunnan.\n\n  \n    Name of Place\n    Distance In Miles\n    In Hours\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    Erh Taun\n    12\n    6\n    Out of Yunnan Plain to north; over a col and down a defile to north.\n  \n  \n    Che Pei\n    16\n    7\n    Out of defile, through the valley of Fu Min, and north on left bank of Anning River.\n  \n  \n    Hao Chi Pa\n    18\n    8\n    Up to table-land, and descend to a valley.\n  \n  \n    Yuan Meng, or Ma Kai\n    15\n    7\n    Over a col to north-west of Wuting and down to cultivated valley.\n  \n  \n    Wu Ting Chou Lui Chi Po\n    16\n    6\n    Over pass of Shih Ta La and descend to ridge, where camp.\n  \n  \n    Lui Shu Taug, near Pei Yen\n    19\n    8\n    Descent from ridge to a valley running north and south.\n  \n  \n    K'ang Hsien Chiao\n    18\n    8\n    West over a range and down to a small valley. Along close gorge, south-west, then over a col and into cultivated valley.\n  \n  \n    Miao Men\n    9\n    \n    Out of valley, west; over a range and down to plain.\n  \n  \n    Lang Chuan Miao\n    16\n    7\n    12 miles in fertile valley; then over low col and down steep to valley of Pei Yen Tsing.\n  \n  \n    Tu Yao Hsien\n    16\n    7\n    Over range on west of Pei Yeu Tsing and down to river in a defile.\n  \n  \n    Ch'u Chang\n    16\n    7\n    In gorge of river.\n  \n  \n    Mi Tien\n    17\n    \n    Out of gorge and up on to a cultivated valley. West and then north through a defile to Chiao Ting Valley, and through another defile to Pin Chuan Plain.\n  \n  \n    Pin Chuan\n    18\n    8\n    North-north-west over downs in direction of Chi Shan.\n  \n  \n    Fu Tien Chuang\n    17\n    8\n    North ascent of part of Chi Shan.\n  \n  \n    Shih Tan Temple\n    19\n    \n    West, along the Chi Shan to summit. North-west descent to a small valley.\n  \n  \n    Chia Hsa Temple\n    \n    \n    West, over a low col and then round north bead of Ta Li Lake.\n  \n  \n    Ta Wang Miao Shang Kuan\n    \n    \n    South, by the lake shore.\n  \n  \n    Ta Li Fu\n    \n    \n    North, through the valleys of Teng Chuan and Lang K'ung.\n  \n  \n    (Shang Kuan to) Ying Shan\n    \n    \n    North-east, through Niu Kai Valley, and commence ascent.\n  \n  \n    P'u\n    \n    \n    North-east, over Kwa La Pass and descend to large city in a rich valley.\n  \n  \n    San Chiu Tang\n    15\n    \n    North, up Ho Ching Valley.\n  \n  \n    Ho Ching Chou\n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ch'i Ho\n    16\n    \n    North, over rocky col and to valley of Lichiang.\n  \n  \n    Li Chiang Fu\n    11\n    \n    North, up plain on east side of snow mountain and descent to small river.\n  \n  \n    Hei Shui Ho\n    16\n    \n    North and west, along spurs on east side of snow mountain, and then west towards the Yang-sze.\n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    10\n    West, down valley to banks of Yang-tsze.\n  \n  \n    \n    19\n    \n    Over high spur to south, and back to near Hei Shui Ho.\n  \n  \n    Chu Lo\n    16\n    10\n    Redescend north section of Lichiang Plain.\n  \n  \n    Ta Ku\n    \n    \n    Over low col to Lashi Pa Plain and Lake.\n  \n  \n    Hei Pou Shao\n    10\n    \n    West, over pass, and descend to banks of Yang-tsze.\n  \n  \n    Pei Sha Kai\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tai Ho Tsun A-Hsi Perry\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n* 544 *\n\n** CODE **\n\nक",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n283\n\nTextiles.\n\nYarn.\n\nGunny bags.\n\nOpium.\n\nOil.\n\n+\n\nTea, tobacco, paper, pottery, and joss-sticks.\n\nOrigin of imports.\n\nExports.\n\nRice.\n\n4\n\ndeltas. The total production of these two countries was in 1901 some 3 million tons, of which about one quarter was exported. Of the total production Cochin China accounted for about two-thirds, and for about five-sixths of the amount exported. The increase in production became most marked in 1897 and 1898, and has been well maintained since, the average for the last five years being more than 60 per cent. above that for the previous five years. There is still a large area in country that has not yet been brought under cultivation, so that a considerable expansion in this branch of agriculture may be expected. The average annual addition to the area under cultivation during the past three years has been in Cochin China alone over 90,000 acres.\n\nThe chief items in this class were textiles, oil, Indian yarn, and opium, Chinese tea, tobacco, and pottery.\n\nTextiles were valued at 2,000,000l., of which France's share was three-fifths. The increase began in 1899, the importation trebling in the three years since. Shirtings (white, dyed, and unbleached) constituted the bulk of the cotton goods, and it is noteworthy that whereas in the period 1893-1896 the average yearly import from abroad was 1,900 tons against 1,500 tons from France, in 1901 out of a total import of 5,627 tons less than 300 tons came from foreign countries. France practically monopolized the trade, a result due to the Tariff, and a pretty distinct indication of the fate that awaits the large British cotton trade in the southern provinces of China if these should ever pass under the dominion of France.\n\nYarn (nearly all Indian) was imported to the value of 350,000l., a decrease of about 50 per cent., which was brought about by the competition of the local mills. With the development of the cotton industry in Tonquin, and the handicap of a heavy duty, it is to be feared that this article will find an ever-diminishing sale.\n\nGunny bags, 200,000l., which are included under the head textiles, come from India, and have been imported in greatly increased quantities during the last few years to meet the demand caused by the growing export of agricultural produce. They are used principally for sacking rice and pepper.\n\nIndian opium, 150,000l., is mostly consumed in Cochin China and Cambodia, Yunnan supplying almost entirely the needs of Tonquin. There was a very large increase in 1895, probably due to stricter Customs surveillance, and a further increase in 1900. As the Yunnan article is cheaper, and its sale is likely to be encouraged by the Government, which has a monopoly of opium, and for political reasons is anxious to promote trade with the neighbouring Chinese provinces, it will probably in the near future displace the Indian drug to a great extent.\n\nOil (pétrole) was imported to the amount of 30,000 tons. There was an increase during the second period of nearly 50 per cent. over the first, due to a larger consumption in Tonquin and Annam, which took nearly one-third of the whole.\n\nChinese tea and tobacco were valued at about 250,000l.; the importation began to increase in 1894, and nearly doubled in 1900. The trade in paper, pottery, joss-sticks, and other articles from China, seems also to be expanding.\n\nThe half a million or so still unaccounted for is represented by miscellaneous articles of all descriptions destined for both native and foreign consumption.\n\nOf the total imports of just over 8,000,000 nearly one-half came from France, and the remaining half may be roughly divided between other countries as follows:\n\nMillion £.\n\nEurope and America..\n\nChina\n\nIndia\n\nOther countries in the East\n\n  \n    France\n    £\n    4,000,000\n  \n  \n    Europe\n    \n    220,000\n  \n  \n    Burmah and Siam\n    \n    200,000\n  \n  \n    China and Japan\n    \n    640,000\n  \n  \n    Singapore\n    \n    530,000*\n  \n  \n    Hong Kong\n    \n    2,680,000**\n  \n  \n    Other countries\n    \n    23,000\n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    8,420,000\n  \n\n* Mostly transit business.\n\n+ Does not include some 900,000l., worth of goods for Yunnan.\n\nIt is interesting to note that Indo-China ranks second among rice exporting countries with an export of over 900,000 tons, which is three-fifths of that from Burmah and about double that from Bangkok (which presumably means Siam).\n\nThe other chief articles of export are as follows:\n\n  \n    Animals\n    £\n    70,000\n    Largely to Hong Kong (? for China).\n  \n  \n    Hides\n    \n    40,000\n    France.\n  \n  \n    Silk, raw\n    \n    70,000\n    Hong Kong.\n  \n  \n    Pepper\n    \n    190,000\n    France,\n  \n  \n    Almonds and cardamoms\n    \n    75,000\n    Hong Kong,\n  \n  \n    Sugar\n    \n    70,000\n    France.\n  \n  \n    Rubber\n    \n    70,000\n    \n  \n  \n    Aniseed oil\n    \n    50,000\n    Hong Kong.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    20,000\n    China.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    30,000\n    \n  \n  \n    Gum lacquer\n    \n    65,000\n    Hong Kong.\n  \n  \n    Lacquer oil\n    \n    90,000\n    \n  \n  \n    Cotton, ginned\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Matting\n    \n    \n    Hong Kong.\n  \n\nIt might be interesting to enter into a detailed account of the production of these articles, but as to do so would swell this Report to an immoderate size, the following brief comments must suffice.\n\nOther leading articles of export.\n\nThere has been a steady and healthy increase all round since 1896, but no article showed any very notable development except perhaps pepper and coal, which nearly doubled in the second period, india-rubber (caoutchouc), which did not appear in the list at all before 1897, and matting. The further development of pepper is likely to be checked by the recent law limiting the quantity on which abatement of duty may be claimed on importation into France, but the others give promise of continued expansion.\n\nThe output of the Hongay mines in 1902 was 300,000 tons, and of the Nongson mines (near Tourane) 25,000 tons. The Hongay coal when mixed with about 20 per cent. of Japanese is reported on very favourably by shipmasters, and seems to obtain a ready sale in Hong Kong, and has even found its way to Singapore. The product of the Nongson mines is said to be of a better quality, and has been used with success instead of Japanese for mixing with that mined at Hongay. The Kebao mines have hitherto proved a failure, but the recent report of an expert is not unfavourable, and it is possible that they may be reopened with better results. Coal of a good quality is also found near Yenbay, on the Red River, and will probably be worked when the communications are improved. There is likely to be a rapid increase in production under the stimulus of the growing requirements of the local railways and factories.\n\nThe prospects for silk, tea, sugar, essential oils, and also perhaps for tobacco and cotton, appear to be good. In some instances, e.g., silk, export has been checked by increased local consumption following on the greater prosperity of the native population. The production of cotton seems to be stationary or even retrograde, and although there is a large area suitable for its cultivation, it is not likely to grow much without the help of foreign capital and foreign supervision, which however will probably not be wanting when the cotton industry, now in its infancy, is firmly established. The Cambodian cotton is said to be of exceptionally good quality, fetching considerably higher prices than Indian, but that produced in other parts of the country has too short a staple and is only used in the mills in combination with the imported articles.\n\nSalt, of which considerable quantities are produced in Annam, is an article that may become of importance in the trade with Yunnan when the prohibition of its import is, as it no doubt will be in the not distant future, removed.\n\n[884]\n\n0\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "Comparison with Siamese lines.\n\n285\n\n8\n\nTo the lines mentioned as already working should be added about 20 kilom. at the Hongay coal mines and a short line from Kebao to Port Wallat, also the following tramways:- Saigon to Cholon (7 kilom.), Saigon to Goviap (3 kilom.), and three lines in and around Hanoi about 13 kilom. long.\n\nA line from Phu Ning Giang to Kesat (near Haiduong) is under construction, and one of 1-metre gauge is to be constructed from Hanoi to Sontay.\n\nA railway of 1-metre gauge is to be made (I think it is already begun) from Kwangchouwan to Meilu. This is probably the commencement of the line to the West River traced in the map attached hereto.\n\nThe line from the Annam coast through Attapeu, over the Mekong to Korat, in Siam, seems likely to be taken in hand in the near future.\n\n9\n\nAt the end of June 1901 there were some 12,000 kilom. of telegraph lines open, and, according to the Governor-General, 18,000 in 1902, which latter figure, however, I think must be a mistake. The telegraph stations numbered at that date 224, and there were about the same number of post-offices. The receipts from the two sources rose from 257,000 dollars in 1896 to 413,000 dollars in 1900, and the upward tendency continued in a marked degree in the first part of 1901. The increase is largely attributable to the employment of Annamites in the administration, which has led to an extensive use of the telegraph by the natives, and also no doubt to the reduction of the rate per word for the whole country to two cents.\n\nIt may be mentioned that the wood telegraph poles are being replaced by iron ones, thereby reducing the cost of upkeep from 4 dollars to 1 dol. 50 c. per kilom. In the Laos the cost of maintenance per kilom. reaches the high figure of 9 dollars.\n\nA map showing the lines is attached hereto.\n\nThe length of the railways now finished in Tonquin is 281 miles, and the receipts for 1902 (that is, presumably, one year for the Hanoi-Dongdang line-163 kilom, say, 102 miles; and six months for the Hanoi-Haiphong line-62 miles) amounted to 420,000 dollars, being 130,000 dollars in excess of the expenditure. As, owing to the country having been almost depopulated during the troubles, the traffic on the portions beyond Phu Lang Thuong (30 miles from Hanoi) is very small, these results seem to be satisfactory, and omitting the portion of the line mentioned give, I believe, at least 3 per cent. interest on the capital employed. The Haiphong line is said to carry over 1,000 passengers a day, but very little merchandise, owing no doubt, to the competition of the waterways.\n\nThe lines of inland steam navigation are clearly shown on the accompanying map.\n\nThe service in Tonquin is worked by the Correspondances Fluviales with twenty-five steamers. The service along the coast from Saigon to Haiphong is worked by the Messageries Maritimes in connection with their mail-boats, and the same Company runs steamers from Saigon to Singapore, and from Saigon to Batavia and Samarang.\n\nThe following are the figures for the Hanoi-Dongdang line for the first half of 1902:-\n\n  \n    Passengers\n    Luggage\n    Goods\n    Total receipts\n    Increase\n  \n  \n    488,557\n    14,352\n    108,000\n    Dollars.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Tons\n    14,900\n    34,100\n    152,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    $1,000\n    \n  \n\nThe receipts of the Saigon-Mytho line (44 miles) for the first eight months in 1902 were 115,000 dollars, an increase of 10,000 dollars.\n\nIt may be interesting to compare these results with those given by the Siamese lines (? about 200 miles).\n\nAs stated in my last Report, great improvements have been effected in the waterways, and the work is still being carried on with unremitting vigour. From 1882 to 1898 over 250,000l. was spent on the canals in Cochin China, in 1899 nearly 140,000l., and since then 100,000l. per annum, which is to be the annual grant for some years to come. A sum of 440,000l. has been expended on the harbour at Saigon since 1899, and a sum of 200,000l. on the harbour at Tourane. The navigability of the Mekong has been slightly improved, and an annual credit of 15,000l. is voted for that purpose, but the difficulties met with on this river at two or three points seem to be almost unsurmountable, except at a prohibitive cost; and this appears to be also the case with regard to the Upper Red River, even in the opinion of so sanguine a man as Governor-General Doumer.\n\nPage 289\n\nThe distribution of troops is roughly shown on the maps attached hereto. The Military force is composed as follows:-\n\n  \n    Description\n    Number of Companies\n    Strength\n  \n  \n    Infanterie Coloniale\n    40\n    6,000\n  \n  \n    Régiments étrangers\n    20\n    5,000\n  \n  \n    Infanterie Légère d'Afrique\n    4\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    Tirailleurs Algériens\n    8\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    Total strength of French troops\n    \n    14,000\n  \n\nThis gives, I believe, a return of 2·80 per cent. on the capital invested. It may be mentioned that the estimated average cost of construction of the projected railways in Indo-China is 100,000 fr. per kilom., at which rate the loan of 200,000,000 fr. will enable 2,000 kilom. to be built. The lines into China are to be undertaken by private Companies, the Government guaranteeing 3 per cent. on the capital.\n\nGreat improvements have been made in the land communications, and it is now possible to travel all over the delta by rickshaw or bicycle. There are many miles of fine roads in the neighbourhood of the more important towns, and much progress has been made in reconstructing the main highways that existed before the arrival of the French, as well as repairing and extending local roads. For instance, in the single province of Bienhoa (near Saigon) there are said to be over 200 kilom. of metalled roads.\n\n* Converted at the rate of 2 fr. 20 c. per dollar.\n\nNot included in the above: eighteen batteries of artillery (12 guns to a battery, half being in reserve), one company \"d'ouvriers d'artillerie,\" and a section of the 7th \"régiment du génie.\" The strength of the artillery is probably understated, as I believe reinforcements have been recently sent out.\n\n  \n    Description\n    Number of Companies\n    Strength\n  \n  \n    Tirailleurs Annamites\n    12\n    3,000\n  \n  \n    Tonkinois\n    56\n    14,000\n  \n  \n    Cambodiens\n    1\n    250\n  \n  \n    Chinois\n    2\n    600\n  \n  \n    Total strength of native troops\n    \n    17,750\n  \n\nPage 290",
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        "content_text": "A hor. Hel May CAG No 54146 (Subject.) 1904 Russo Japanese was 14 Zeb Last previous Paper. DESPATCH. C. O. 5446 Red 15 FEB 04 192 Pussail Sailors on this. Talbot Understands it is intention of grafove Deprecates to intern them in Brik erretortion being Cheer being lauded in thous of incloure Feb 5576 Cylon 57764 Cylon ·To Gov Ceylon ap tel 15 feb. Admy Ѣ што. 22 дев To BaL (79)—13848–80900-11-S Next subsequent Paper. 5508 Ceylon Whucas by Zox Skeuring (Minutes.) I attail zo papers that it is intended is Sailns winter these pasarlo ad Shanghai, ૐ W not aware Gharb ctio Haughing gamisa had been deflated вал- it is certainly try undesirable. to decrease it filter: from the Aleground Urut It scams. guards will not be required 7.0. Cadmorning Cover thin that refs & attacked Say wr intantion letter & presume there is no д taking troops from Hug for this purpose. Juris\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and improve readability, here is a more processed version:\n\nHor. Hel May CAG No. 54146 (Subject.) 1904 Russo-Japanese War. 14 Zeb. Last previous Paper. DESPATCH. C. O. 5446. Red. 15 FEB 04. 192. Russian Sailors on this. Talbot understands it is intention of Grafove. Deprecates to intern them in Hong Kong, errecting being Cheer being lauded in thousands of incloure. Feb. 5576 Cylon. 57764 Cylon. ·To Gov Ceylon ap tel 15 feb. Admy. ... 22 Feb. To BaL(79)—13848–80900-11-S. Next subsequent Paper. 5508 Ceylon. Whereas by Zox Skeuring (Minutes.) I attach zo papers that it is intended to send Sailors wintering these passengers ad Shanghai, ... W. not aware Gharb action Haughing gamisa had been deflated ... it is certainly very undesirable to decrease it further: from the Alleground Urut. It seems guards will not be required. 7.0. Cadmorning Cover thin that refs & attacked Say wr intantion letter & presume there is no ... taking troops from Hong Kong for this purpose. Juris\n\nBut to strictly follow the output format requested:\n\nA hor. Hel May CAG No 54146 (Subject.) 1904 Russo Japanese was 14 Zeb Last previous Paper. DESPATCH. C.O. 5446 Red 15 FEB 04 192 Pussail Sailors on this. Talbot Understands it is intention of grafove Deprecates to intern them in Brik erretortion being Cheer being lauded in thous of incloure Feb 5576 Cylon 57764 Cylon ·To Gov Ceylon ap tel 15 feb. Admy Ѣ што. 22 дев To BaL(79)—13848–80900-11-S Next subsequent Paper. 5508 Ceylon Whucas by Zox Skeuring (Minutes.) I attail zo papers that it is intended is Sailns winter these pasarlo ad Shanghai, ૐ W not aware Gharb ctio Haughing gamisa had been deflated вал- it is certainly try undesirable. to decrease it filter: from the Aleground Urut It scams. guards will not be required 7.0. Cadmorning Cover thin that refs & attacked Say wr intantion letter & presume there is no д taking troops from Hug for this purpose. Juris",
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        "content_text": "D\n\n一億8\n\nExtract from report by Mr. C. L. Bland to Major-General Hatton, dated 7th February, 1904.\n\nC.O. 10378 209 Red 22 MAR 04\n\n\"The enormous extent of country in direct communication with Hankow and the position of that City nearly in the centre of China; its position on the Yangtse high-road, with access by Ocean-going Steamers for one-half of the year; the rapid growth of the foreign settlement there, and of trade intercourse with the Chinese; the existence of manufacturing industries using quantities of modern imported machinery and the tremendously increased facilities for traffic (especially in raw China-grown material for their factories) about to be afforded by the railway to the Yellow river and Peking all combine to promise a most rapid development for Hankow. When the Chinese Merchants who now congregate to Shanghai from the eight provinces touching the Yangtze waters to find there the representatives of all the European firms in the best way, when they find the same firms beginning to be represented at Hankow, they will certainly become the central market and centre of affairs in China.\n\nFrom the British point of view it is of first moment that we should have principal interests in the communications both by shipping and rail, since the key to the large import Markets of the future and of the export from eight provinces will be in the hands of the nation controlling the traffic. This point bears strongly on any question concerning the present shipping and railway situation such as the Hankow-Canton railway and the expediency or otherwise of the projected railways across Anhui and into Ssu-chuan\".\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "615\n\n+\n\nABORSION\n\nder AÍ-LaddAon of ruouod add sved !\n\nCIJENA bad enoksen add id es qiupae To nejjsi 18 Jusbilaus \"OL\n\nave to antisgo Add garniest not and nedard and to O1JORE\n\ngrid von 2%,int of avel bae,ebsql masno) od novim Jeek 9d) ao\n\n- vor doqat will orlog ginine af duonos mid ja getJon Sd♪ 1 SJ80163×T JAFO99$100 79418i edremo od atolls at yd Jaen\n\nTAMAN Bo Josc egge sabredue to gied add dürw nojaaj\n\nnantwona vid at greainsoe* 1*1079ukos bna sgijeeną deljind\n\nbas\n\n231 2018VMŮ Ham!Jcucb Aetio noteroco **\n\n#\n\nsooni oat\n\nvut voc Memari Md 10 engo aid of ejseno od 1998 bus &*(AID\n\n1 Jord# 23 „Eisdind Jasné lo sodd ddi* adconsini leupe\n\nTie Jedd 99duino u od 8trajje Ji\n\nmalno od lo gau si* md stoleradt breads #1g8l7ve 00868 AJAG\n\nq* to Jaxy 943 no aunsudorotors red/bul vas aldissoq as w\n\n1- José Mid of nou gedinul sidd bluois Judd blanco weds bas\n\nasd doule to 2*** 193mans sit,abent #glassd of besego ed\n\nVM JP Mite 781798d e ,serng7e30e daijitä yd bantaleol Lua bejente\n\n- One nannuŸ to noidajfoljne sidik8oq edu Janiays befoeve ed\n\npino Ejestajni donant so!\n\n* Si Livode.#mit iduob on 21 998ḍt\n\n03/ Cause geslist,oleri ayreno* of besojo singer Baionad\n\nPaulo bo dry and to them) nuo konturb to soren náð skaa od\n\nJax to JusBITAL BLOrvoo of o\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government is doubtless aware that the French are contending that the higher reaches of the Yangtse beyond Hankow are outside the Yangtse Valley and British sphere of influence, and that the American control of the Canton-Hankow Railway has been secured by Belgian capitalists, presumably on behalf of French and Russian interests if any conclusion may be drawn from recent events in Persia and North China where Belgian concessionaires have also had the support of the representatives of France and Russia.\n\nThe completion of this line merely to Canton will not satisfy the political aspirations of the Governments just referred to and concessions for a line to the sea coast under the same control are sure to be sought for, especially if the projected Hong Kong-Canton line is not rapidly proceeded with. This might easily take a Southern direction to a port west of Macao or east via Waichow to Bias Bay with the certain result of forming a new and formidable rival to the port of Hongkong.\n\nSir Ernest Satow informed the Committee at his interview with them in August last that he could not understand the delay in opening the port which had been promised by the Chinese Government long ago, and that he would take up the matter with the Authorities on his return to Peking. He mentioned at the time that he very much questioned whether any merchant steamer had succeeded in getting so far up the river, and it appears probable that this fact is still influencing inaction at Peking coupled with possible unwillingness to establish a Consular establishment on the ground of expense. With regard to meeting this slight objection the actual opening of the port might be delayed until such time as it appears necessary to send a Consular representative there, but it seems to my Committee desirable to obtain the right to do so with as little delay as possible.\n\nWith the above-mentioned facts before him,\n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "Translation of Letter from the Governor of Macao.\n\n431\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n33389\n\nRecd. 26 SEP 04\n\nIn reply to Your Excellency's Despatch of the 17th instant, I have the honour to communicate to Your Excellency that I do not see that the adoption of the proposed Zone Time will be inconvenient in Macao, since Hongkong, Canton, and the Ports on the West River, which are in constant commercial relation with this Colony, are being brought within the same Zone.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nGod help Your Excellency.\n\nMacao, 24th August, 1904.\n\nThe Governor, Hongkong.\n\n(Sd.) Martinho Montenegro, Governor.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\n[March 28.14714\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION I\n\nRcd. 26 APR 04'\n\n192\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.~(Received March 28.)\n\n(No. 45.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, February 9, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a Report made by Mr. C. W. Campbell, Acting British Consul-General at Canton, on Kongmoon, which have hitherto been a \"port of call\" for the West River trade, was raised to the status of a Treaty port by Article X of the new Commercial Treaty of September 1902.\n\nYour Lordship will observe that Mr. Campbell states that in all probability Kongmoon cannot be opened as a Treaty port before the summer, probably grounding himself on an opinion expressed by the Commissioner of Customs at Canton, but I am informed by Sir Robert Hart that he is proposing the 7th March as the date from which it shall receive Treaty-port treatment.\n\nAs your Lordship will observe, Mr. Campbell concurs in the proposal of the Commissioner of Customs that the foreign Settlement shall be placed on the West River itself, which is about 2 miles from the town of Kongmoon, and his reasons appear to me conclusive, notwithstanding the objections urged by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, a copy of whose letter on the subject to Mr. Campbell is inclosed herewith.\n\nI shall endeavour to insure the \"port area\" of Kongmoon, including the town itself, as recommended by Mr. Campbell, so as to prevent dispute arising as to the incidence of li-kin.\n\nMr. Campbell adds that the question of the appointment of a Consular officer can very well be left until we have some experience of the port when opened, but suggests that provision, say £500, should be made for the possible expenses of the port during the financial year 1904-1905. I am of opinion, however, that it may be convenient to have an officer of the rank of Consul stationed there at the outset, and proposed to send Mr. Werner from Kiungchow to officiate at least for a few months.\n\n(No. 8.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Campbell to Sir E. Satow.\n\nCanton, January 26, 1904.\n\nI HAVE just returned from a flying visit to Kongmoon, and am thus in a position to report more fully in reply to your despatch No. 30 of the 18th December. I regret that I am unable to furnish an accurate sketch-plan of the port. The Commander of the revenue cruiser \"Fei Hu\" is still surveying (as reported in my despatch No. 1 of the 2nd January), and his Report and survey will not be completed before the end of February. In all probability, Kongmoon cannot be opened as a Treaty port before the summer.\n\nKongmoon, the port of Sanui, is a busy town of 30,000. It lies on both sides of a creek which connects the West River with the Yai Men, one of the sea openings to the Canton delta. The creek is navigable, but narrow (50 to 120 yards wide), and the available waterway is much encumbered with junks and timber rafts for the 2 miles of its passage through the town. I satisfied myself by a personal inspection that navigation of this creek by any but specially built steamers of small size would be difficult, and that without serious interference with the existing rights of raft and junk owners no suitable berths could be arranged in the creek for foreign river shipping.\n\nIn consequence, it is I believe the intention of the Commissioner of Customs to recommend that the foreign Settlement should be placed on the West River itself, which is some 2 miles from Kongmoon town. I inclose a letter from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire of Hong Kong, from which it appears that such an arrangement would be unsatisfactory to them.\n\nThe views of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire on this or any other subject connected with the West River trade are entitled to careful hearing, but, so far as my information\n\n[1878 ee-1]",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n23690\n\n338\n\n[June 20.]\n\nRed 44/04\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received June 20.)\n\n(No. 144.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, April 24, 1904. WITH reference to my telegram No. 99 of the 21st instant, in which I informed your Lordship that the British Acting Consul-General at Canton had been unofficially informed that orders were now being issued for the removal of the barriers on the Canton River, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received from Mr. Campbell on the subject.\n\nMr. Campbell states that urgent instructions have been issued to the local Executive Council to report without delay on the scheme submitted by the Commissioner of Customs for the removal of the barriers.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 25.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul-General Campbell to Sir E. Satow.\n\nCanton, April 11, 1904. WITH reference to my despatch No. 23 of the 6th instant, I have the honour to state that I received yesterday a despatch from the Viceroy to the effect that he had issued urgent instructions to the Kwangtung Shan Hou Chou (a sort of local Executive Council) to report without delay on the scheme of the Commissioner of Customs for the removal of the barriers in the Canton River.\n\nI shall continue to press the subject on his Excellency's attention.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) C. W. CAMPBELL.\n\n[2032]\n\nU\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 2\n\n(No text on this page)\n\nU\n\n-1]\n\n \nbecomes \nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n23690\n\n338\n\n[June 20.]\n\nRed 44/04\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received June 20.)\n\n(No. 144.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, April 24, 1904. WITH reference to my telegram No. 99 of the 21st instant, in which I informed your Lordship that the British Acting Consul-General at Canton had been unofficially informed that orders were now being issued for the removal of the barriers on the Canton River, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received from Mr. Campbell on the subject.\n\nMr. Campbell states that urgent instructions have been issued to the local Executive Council to report without delay on the scheme submitted by the Commissioner of Customs for the removal of the barriers.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 25.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul-General Campbell to Sir E. Satow.\n\nCanton, April 11, 1904. WITH reference to my despatch No. 23 of the 6th instant, I have the honour to state that I received yesterday a despatch from the Viceroy to the effect that he had issued urgent instructions to the Kwangtung Shan Hou Chou (a sort of local Executive Council) to report without delay on the scheme of the Commissioner of Customs for the removal of the barriers in the Canton River.\n\nI shall continue to press the subject on his Excellency's attention.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) C. W. CAMPBELL.\n\n[2032]\n\nU\n\n-1]",
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        "content_text": "communication to Burmah markets. I counted in the day several flocks of over 100 sheep and several heads of over 50 ponies. The mutton and beef of Yunnan is almost as good as at home. Mules are bred in the hills north of Teng Yueh, but the sires are very small jackasses, and saw none but the ordinary small transport mule, which does the Bhamo carrying trade. Many of the people here are solely occupied in tending flocks and herds; but there is also a good deal of cultivation in the uplands---buckwheat, maize, wheat, and opium in sheltered spots being the chief crops. The land is prepared by a sort of skinning process, 4 to 6 inches of soil, containing all the roots of the grasses, being stripped off the land and piled in heaps over its face. These piles are then set on fire, and allowed to smoulder, the ashes serving as manure.\n\nOn the afternoon of our march from the Hsiang Yang Bridge we descended from 8,400 feet by a very steep path from the downs to the Valley of Ta Hsi Lienu, near its chief market town, Ku Tung Kai. Near Ku Tung there are several large and flourishing villages, All the country, indeed, between Ku Tung and the Ta Ying Shan north of Teng Yueh presents a most pleasing appearance, the villages being surrounded with ample orchards and pastures. The excessive droughts of the winter and spring in Central Yunnan are here tempered by local spring rains, which is a great boon to the shepherd folk, who have no difficulty in finding grass for their herds.\n\nNear Ku Tung I halted a day, at the request of the villagers, to shoot wild (bar-heads), which do great harm by browsing on the young opium and wheat shoots, and I disposed of fifteen of these marauders. We then marched west from Ku Tung up a lateral valley and over a pass 8,500 feet, leaving the Shweli Basin, and passing into the Valley of Ku Yung, which belongs to the Taiping system. This track is so narrow as to be impassable at some places for mules laden, and the packs have to be carried, but a little spade work is all that is required to broaden it out. The chief botanical features of this and of the other neighbouring ranges which I traversed are rhododendron trees, sometimes growing to a height of 30 feet, and covered in March with masses of rich red blossoms, a small lilac-coloured oxslip, which fills, not unworthily, the place of the home primrose, and in high, damp, sheltered spots a small and graceful primula of a delicate mauve colour. The folds and summits of these ranges are still covered with dense forest, but there is little timber of much value. Teng Yueh is, however, supplied with wood from these hills. The Kalej pheasant is by no means rare, and on the lower slopes the common pheasant of the country (Stone's, or Phasianus elegans) is frequently met with.\n\nThe country through which I passed is a country in compartments, consisting of valleys divided from each other by broad mountain ranges. The further north-east the nearer to the headwaters of the Taiping and Shweli Valleys-I was able to penetrate, the narrower and smaller were the valleys, and the more extensive and complicated was the mountain system; but a description of one of the passes from valley to valley would apply to nearly all the others.\n\nKu Yung is a market of fifty houses in a long and narrow but fertile and populous valley about 10 miles by 1 mile. It is the starting-point of the main track to the Upper Irrawadi, Mytkina, and the Burmah jade mines via the Kao Liang Pass (10,000 feet), and a number of the Ku Yung people are in the habit of going over into Burmah on petty trading expeditions. The pass is still infested by robbers, though there are supposed to be 200-and really are some 90-soldiers at Ku Yung, and a post of 15 men at Tatto, where the ascent of the Kao Liang commences. There is also a Lisan headman, the agent of the \"Fu yi,\" or Lisaw Chief of Tan Tsa-Lan Ma, but hitherto we have quite failed to get redress for robberies committed on this part of the frontier.\n\nOn the 5th March we moved up the Ta Ho, at the junction of the Ka Yang stream with the Taiping River, which here runs through wild country over a rocky course (20-25 yards wide in March) with some fine pools; it is almost like a salmon stream at home, but though there are salmon in Monmouth and in Macedon, there are none in Yunnan, and in the upper waters of the Taiping mahseer are very difficult to catch.\n\nOn the 6th March, in heavy rain succeeding nocturnal thunderstorms, we marched up the Ta Ho gorge in a northerly direction, and then turned east up a stiff ascent to 7,800 feet, whence there was a good view of the precipitous mountains whence the Taiping River takes its source. San Cha Ho, 5 miles north of Ta Ho, and consisting, like it, of a few scattered Lisaw huts, is the junction of the three head-waters of the Taiping River, which are:-\n\n1. The Ta Ho, which springs from the mountains not far from the sources of the Shingaw River, which flows into the N'maikha (the eastern branch of the Irrawadi);\n\n2. The Tan Tsa stream which comes in from the north; and\n\n3. The Lun Ma stream which comes from the east of San Cha Ho. There is a route over into the Shingaw Valley from Ku Yung, viâ San Cha Ho, by which the N'maikha can be reached in four days. By this pass, the watershed is crossed close to the mountain Manung Pum, which is the most northerly point of the demarcated frontier. This track was reported to me as not being passable for mules, and as being used only by a few Lisaw porters. There is also stated to be a route into the N'maikha Basin from Tan Tsa over a snow mountain, which is difficult, and in bad weather impassable even for porters; this track would, after passing into the N'maikha Basin, strike the head-waters of its tributary the Tummaw. The population in these hills round the head-waters of the Taiping is very scanty, and so far as I could find out, the Chinese have at this point no pretensions to any jurisdiction in the N'maikha Basin.\n\nThe little Plain of Lun Ma, which we reached in five hours' rough mountain march from Ta Ho, is only 2 miles by a mile, and contains only two villages, one Chinese and one Lisaw. The Plain of Tan Tsa is situated about 5 miles to the north of and is even smaller than Lun Ma, but it is the residence of the local Lisaw \"fu yi,\" or hereditary Chief.\n\nAs we entered the Lisaw country near Ta Ho, I may give a few notes on these people. They chiefly inhabit the higher valleys and slopes at an altitude above the Kachin villages on the N'maikba side, and above the Chinese villages on the Yunnan side. They are mostly scattered about in small hamlets of three to five families; they have been expelled from most of the padi lands which they once possessed, and now live chiefly on maize and buckwheat. The commercial activity chiefly consists in bringing down hemp, firewood, wheat, and the bark of the Koutree (Edgeworthia Gardneri), from which paper is made, to the Chinese hazaars in exchange for salt, cotton, clothing, rice, and opium. They mostly grow their own tobacco; their houses are of bamboo wattles, and divided into three partitions and thatched with dried grass. In the Kuyang Lun Ma district they claim to have come from either Pa Chiao or Sima, near the British frontier, and they assert that their principal Chief used to reside at Meng Ka, near Sima, in the old days before the appearance of the Kachins; but their real origin must be looked for elsewhere. It is almost certainly to be found in the valley of the Upper Salwen, where the bulk of the population is still Lisaw. The Lisaw race is probably, like the Kachins, an offshoot from the south-eastern edges of the Thibetan plateau. About Meng Ka and Lun Ma there is obviously a strong strain of Chinese blood in the Lisaws, but on nearing the Upper Salwen the Thibetan type and physique is strongly marked. It does not appear that there is any tradition of the Lisaws ever having been in possession of any of the main valleys; indeed, they themselves state that they put in an appearance in these parts after the Chinese, but before the Kachins. The Lisaws near Ku Yung have adopted Chinese habits and language to such an extent that they can hardly understand their cousins from the Salwen, but even those who have adopted Chinese dress preserve the hempen gaiters, tightly bound under the knee and falling loosely to the ankle, which are a characteristic feature of their national dress. Cotton garments are an innovation. The \"black,\" or wild Lisaw of the Upper Salwen, of whom I saw a few specimens, were entirely clad in coarse hemp, and wore rude turbans of the same material; the gaiters, the long robe and short trousers completed the costume, while their ornaments consisted of light silver bracelets and necklets of plaited straw, from which hung small shells, pebbles, and bits of silver. The Lisaw always goes about armed with his heavy, broadsword in a univalve wooden scabbard, and with his crossbow and bundle of hardened bamboo-arrows, which will penetrate an inch of deal at a distance of 30 yards. Some part of his person, the strap of his sword, or even his pigtail, if he has one, is invariably adorned with small shells, though in other respects he may be a \"short coat,\" i.e., if he is dressed in Chinese fashion and has discarded the hempen or \"long coat\" of his ancestors. The women dress very differently in nearly every community which I visited, but their heads and bodies are always adorned with shells, bits of deers' horns, and odds and ends of silver and pebbles. The real Lisaw female dress is a hempen kilt and short hemp jacket, with a cap encrusted with shells, but in Upper Ming Kwang the kilt has become a tightish petticoat worn under a long cotton robe, with a broad cotton belt adorned with patchwork of red, green, and white.\n\nThe Lisaw coolie carries 50 lbs. on his back, and is a good porter in difficult country.\n\nPage 366",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nC\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. I.\n\n376\n\nC. O.\n\n[June 24]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nRed 18 JUL 04!\n\nThe China League to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received June 27.)\n\nDacre House (between Nos. 20 and 22), Victoria Street, London, June 27, 1904.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTHE attention of the China League has been drawn to a proposal put forward by Wei-kwang-tao, Viceroy of Nanking, to undertake, on behalf of the Chinese Government, the conservancy work handed over in September 1901 to an International Conservancy Board by the Protocol of that date.\n\nThis question has engaged the attention of the Committee of the China League, and I am instructed to lay before your Lordship the considerations which have influenced my Committee in arriving at the conclusion which follows.\n\nImprimis, I would venture to remind your Lordship that \"the facilitating the approaches of the Peiho and the Yang-tze\" were concessions obtained from the Government of China in exchange for the raising of the import duties to an effective 5 per cent.\n\nThe obvious presumption was, I venture to say, that such countervailing concessions would be carried out by the Chinese Government at its own cost.\n\nAnnex No. 17 of the Protocol, however, hands over such conservancy work, as far as the approaches to Shanghai are concerned, to an International Board, which is empowered, inter alia, to collect 230,000 taels annually from the land-renters of Shanghai.\n\nApart from the injustice of taxing foreigners for the cost of carrying into effect conservancy work which was described as a quid pro quo for the increased import duties, my Committee find in the clauses of Annex 17 cause for very grave objections, which I venture respectfully to lay before His Majesty's Government.\n\nThe motto and the guiding policy of the China League are \"China for the Chinese,\" and my Committee are consequently strongly opposed to any and every act which tends to impair the sovereign rights of China or to encroach upon its duties and its privileges.\n\nIt is the opinion of my Committee that the powers conferred on the International Board of taxing the riparian owners of land down to the mouth of the Whangpo, and of expropriation in regard to the land itself, are hardly distinguishable from annexation of the river.\n\nThe contention of the late Viceroy of Nanking, Liu-kun-yi, was, primarily, that this was the annexation of an important river in China, which would probably be followed up by the annexation of the adjoining Yang-tze River, with any territory that might be required for purposes of the Board. There is very little doubt that the view of the present Viceroy of Nanking, Wei-kwang-tao, supported by the Viceroy Chang-chih-tung, is based on exactly the same ground, and it appears to be a perfectly sound view as regards Chinese interests, and in reality is a sound view as regards British interests also.\n\nIn this contention, and in the natural resentment at the interference of Peking in what is strictly a local question, may be found the grounds for the opposition of the Viceroys and their refusal to appoint a Chinese member on the Board.\n\nApart from the Chinese view of this question, with which, however, my Committee are in sympathy, their deliberations have been directed more particularly to such clauses of Annex 17 as appear likely to affect British interests.\n\nThe constitution of the Board is open to grave objection. It will comprise seventeen members, of whom it may safely be asserted there will always be a solid body of eight in opposition to British interests.\n\nInternational jealousy is a plant of vigorous growth in the East, and an International Board for any purpose would furnish opportunities for the effective operation of various schemes directed against British interests which our ill-wishers may be trusted to utilize to the full.\n\nIt may be postulated that jealousies and intrigues are certain to arise in connection with the appointment of the staff, and there is nothing to prevent the introduction on it of a strong anti-British element, e.g., a Frenchman might be appointed Harbour-master.\n\n[2032 dd-1]",
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        "content_text": "to control the 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 tons of British shipping entering the port, or survey and dredging contracts might be given away to serve national and political interests rather than the conservation of the river and the advancement of Shanghae. It must be borne in mind that up to the present moment there is no real plan for doing the work at all. There have been many schemes put forward, but the effect of these has been left in great uncertainty. It is, however, well known that immense injury may result from the erection of artificial works, except under the very best advice that can be obtained, and in the opinion of the China League the proposed Conservancy Board will naturally be anxious to justify its appointment, and so will be disposed to undertake extensive works without due consideration.\n\nSpecial attention should be given to the present position of the local government of Shanghae, which, from a British point of view, is most satisfactory. In the first place there is a Municipal Council consisting of nine members; of these, no less than seven are always British, one American, and (as a matter of grace) one German. Next is the fact that the Commissioner of Customs is British, and next the further fact, which is also important, that the Inspector-General of Customs is British, and by the official guarantee of China must remain British so long as British trade predominates. The whole legal jurisdiction of Shanghae, therefore, as regards the collection and spending of revenue, is in British hands, and the status in that respect is most satisfactory, and it will be a matter of great misfortune if it is in any way weakened or interfered with. The creation of this International Board will very seriously affect the position of the Shanghae Municipality.\n\nThe Board is to have control of the River Whangpo and the Soochow Creek, both water-ways running right through the Shanghae Settlements. The Board will have its own staff of officials and a body of police, and it is obvious that possibilities of frequent friction between the Board and the Municipal Council will exist. This raises a very unfortunate probability of conflict of jurisdiction right in the heart of the foreign Settlement of Shanghae.\n\nIn the event of trouble arising, it may be safely assumed that the sympathy of the foreign Consular Body is more likely to be in favour of the International Board than of the Municipal Council.\n\nFrom the point of view, therefore, of Chinese sovereign rights, as well as of British interests at Shanghae, my Committee conclude that the adoption of the Viceroy's scheme, carefully safeguarded by foreign supervision, is infinitely preferable to placing the control of the improvement of the River Whangpo in the hands of an International Board.\n\nThey are convinced that the arrangement set out in Annex 17 of the Protocol will, if carried into effect, unquestionably prove most disastrous to British interests. I have, &c.\n\nA. R. BURKILL, Honorary Secretary.\n\n(Signed)\n\n[Comment is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC. O.\n\n[95342]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received July 4.)\n\n377 1\n\nRed 18 JUL 04\n\nPeking, May 18, 1904. (No. 178.) My Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a translation of a note which I have received from the Chinese Government announcing the preliminary steps taken, on the motion of the Superintendent of Northern Trade and the Governor of Shantung, for the opening of two ports in that province as branch Customs stations of China.\n\nI have not yet heard what views the German Government take of this proposal to open to foreign trade and residence places which they possibly consider to be within their exclusive zone of influence.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nPrince Ching to Sir E. Satow.\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nPeking, May 17, 1904\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that in the third month of the present year (17th March to 15th April) the Superintendent of Northern Trade and the Governor of Shantung presented a joint Memorial to the Throne asking that outside the city of Chinan, in Shantung, China, should herself open a port, and that Wei Hsien, east of the provincial capital, and Chou Ts'un, within the jurisdiction of Chang Shan, should also be made commercial marts as branch Customs stations of Chinan. Their proposal having been approved by this Board on the 1st instant (15th May), we also memorialized the Throne, and an Imperial Rescript has been issued indorsing the suggestion.\n\nAs soon as the necessary Regulations have been drawn up and a date fixed on which they shall have come into force, I shall again have the honour to address your Excellency.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n[2056 d-1]",
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        "content_text": "471\n\n4\n\non the shores of the Koko-nor. The Chinese complain of the difficulty of obtaining the musk in its pure state owing to adulteration by the tribesmen, whom they report as being most expert in injecting blood into the \"pod\" containing the secretion directly after the animal is killed. It is, however, an open question whether the Celestials are not themselves the worst offenders in this respect; anyway, musk when it reaches Shanghae is said to contain 20 per cent. and over of foreign matter. Lu-jung, or deer horns in velvet, is a much prized medicine among the Chinese; but the quality of horn obtainable at Sungp'an is reported as inferior to that coming from Tachienlu and Kuan Hsien.\n\nC\n\nLive Stock. The tribesmen around Sungp'an go in extensively for raising sheep, oxen, and horses, the grassy slopes of the hills, in addition to the moorlands of the Amdon, providing most excellent grazing ground for their flocks and herds. The figure for beasts given in the table is the number sent down annually to supply the markets of North-Western Szechuan, including those of the Chengtu Plain. A fine, full-grown sheep can be bought at Sungp'an for 1.30 taels, the smaller ones for 9 mace. Goats are a little more expensive, the price ranging from 1.20 taels to 2 taels a-head. Besides those exported, some 7,000 sheep annually are slaughtered at Sungp'an. Oxen and yaks fetch from 5 to 7 taels each.\n\nWool—Large quantities of this staple must be used by the tribesmen for the manufacture of the serge cloth (called by the Chinese \"Pu-lu\"), which is worn by all, not excluding the Llamas and women. Of the amount of the wool sent south but a minute proportion is used by the Chinese; it is only in fact within late years, since the foreign demand became known, that there was any trade to speak of at Sung'an in this article; and the wool purchases now made are mostly on account of foreign firms. Owing to this new demand, the local price of wool has increased to more than double its former figure, i.e., from 5 taels ten years ago to 10 to 11 taels, the present price per picul. The wool sent down is said to contain quite 25 per cent. of dirt, and, it might naturally be asked, considering the cost for transport and li-kin before it reaches Chungking, why means have not been devised to have it properly cleaned at Sungp'an. I purposely brought this point before the leading merchants, and they informed me that the matter had been well considered; and, although the place offered facilities for the establishment of cleansing houses, the water of the river was too cold to work with locally. If this to them-insuperable difficulty could be got over they would be able to pack the wool well and cheaply ready for direct shipment abroad. The present practice is simply to separate, as it arrives from inland, the better and cleaner quality wool from the rest before making it up into rough unprotected bundles for conveyance south by coolie or mule.\n\nTea—This is by far the most important on the list of articles brought up from the south for sale to the tribesmen, it being in fact to them an absolute necessity. The stuff, however, is hard to recognize as the staple from which is brewed \"the cup that cheers.\" The contents of the bundles I saw opened resembled more than anything else a packed collection of dried twigs, while the infusion obtained from them is as unlike one's idea of tea as it is possible to conceive. These things, anyway, are a matter of taste, and the cheapness of the twigs is a consideration. The better quality tea comes from the Kuan Hsien district, and is invariably packed in large square matted parcels (\"pao\") containing 120 catties. Each of these \"pao\" is valued at 8.00 taels, but the purchasing price at Kuan Hsien (untaxed) is 1.10 taels. The supply coming from the Shih Tsuen districts is packed in smaller parcels holding 66 catties, valued in Sungp'an at 2.50 taels each. The trade is a monopoly in the hands of the five Ch'a Hao, or tea hongs, which also control the chief business of Sungpan besides. The names of the four chief hongs are Feng Sheng Ho, I Ho Ch'uan, Pen Li Sheng, and Ting Li Yuan. Branches of these establishments are maintained in the commercial centres of Chengtu, Kuan Hsien, Mien Chow, and Shih Tsuen, and other places. The head offices are managed, with one exception, by Mahommedans, who are looked up to by all with the greatest respect. The control of the tea traffic supplying Thibet is vested in the Yen Ch'a Tao at Chengtu, and all packages are supposed to have a label bearing the characters \"Yin Ch'a\" stamped with his seal. The number of these \"Yin p'iao\" issued annually does not exceed 30,000, and the tax for each \"p'iao\" is 1.20 taels to cover one package, two small \"pao\" being reckoned as one. I heard, however, that by a mutual concession the Ch'a Hao have agreed to take up and pay for 28,000 \"p'iao\" annually if they be supplied with 30,000, and further, so long as the monopolists do not overdo it, a matter of 5,000 packages more can be conveyed up without any impost whatever. Thus the burden of taxation is considerably lessened for the tea hongs, while the Government derives a certain revenue from this source of 33,600 taels a year, and is spared the trouble and expense of the upkeep of an efficient controlling staff. On account of the difficulty of being always able to obtain a sufficient means of transport and stoppage of traffic, which not infrequently happens through a spell of rain making certain sections of the road impassable, the tea hongs have established depôts at Mao Chow and Ping-ting-kuan, where tea is stored to meet any unforeseen demand. From Sungpan the tea is conveyed inland on the backs of yaks under the charge of a Chinese employé of the Ch'a Hao, or of a trusted Hsifan agent. Caravans are regulated so as to proceed in fairly strong numbers. The men accompanying them being well armed, they are thus enabled, if necessary, to keep off roving bands of robbers, who are said to be ready to pounce on and pillage any party they think they can overcome. These caravans return laden with the different merchandise for which they have exchanged their previous cargo, and the profits made on transactions seem to be sufficient to compensate for the length of time, sometimes nine months, capital has to remain idle. The Manager of the principal Ch'a Hao told me that his firm had always as much as 60,000 taels up-country in merchandise. The hongs do not, as previously stated, confine themselves to business in tea alone, but dispatch by caravan any other goods from which they think profit can be made.\n\n5\n\nTransport. To and from Sungp'an the carriage of merchandise is done by coolie and mule over an extremely difficult road, which, however, could be greatly improved if a little money were expended on its repair. When a landslip or fallen boulders make places quite impassable, an effort is made to patch up the damage, the expense being defrayed by subscription collected from the village inns whose business is in danger of suffering from the loss of passing traffic. The workmen also levy a toll of a few cash from passers-by during their work, which, when finished, is anything but really satisfactory. The Sungp'an merchants complain bitterly of the state of affairs existing, and several of them begged me to represent the matter to the Viceroy in the hope that something might be done to lessen this drawback to trade. The cost of transport from Kuan Hsien to Sungpan by coolie is 3,200 cash per man, while for a mule it runs up to 5 taels. The former will carry, as a rule, 120 catties and take thirteen days over the journey, the latter bear burdens of 240 catties and are a little quicker. Mule transport, however, is not always procurable, and the head muleteers, who are not at all to be depended upon to carry out their contracts, frequently drop goods en route to enable them to take up a better chance offering, and then come back to continue with those they have for the time being left lying. So bad has this custom become, that merchandise will sometimes take as long as six months to reach its destination. The difficulty in securing transport is the reason why there is always a large stock of wool stored at Sungp'an, for it is the class of cargo the least liable to damage by being kept, and other merchandise has therefore the preference of carriage. Whether it would pay the larger firms to run their own mule caravans and thus be independent of the gang of muleteers is a moot question, I think, although the merchants themselves emphatically assured me that it would not, and that they consider it the better plan to lessen the evil existing by the establishment of depôts en route. The yaks, however, employed exclusively for the inland transport belong to firms engaged in the up-country business, and the drivers are always Hsifans. It may be here mentioned that carrying coolies on the road are invariably Chinese, the tribesmen never being seen with loads on their backs.\n\nLi-kin.—Before concluding, I will add a few words on the subject of li-kin. The total sum reported to the Throne last year as collected for the province under the head of Pai-Ho li-kin was 500,000 taels, while the cost of its collection ran up to 10,000 taels. Salt li-kin was reported at 2,000,000 taels, and that for opium, 900,000 taels. It was only in the year 1894, at the instigation of the then Viceroy, Lu Chuan-lin, that Barriers were erected at the two rope bridges, but were instantly demolished by the people, who refused compliance with the new levy. No drastic steps were then taken to enforce obedience, but, at the present moment, Weiyuan are deputed to collect li-kin at both these places, and they do so now without any opposition. This additional impost has, however, diverted a lot of the trade from Sungp'an, which now branches off at Mao Chow for Chung-pa and Mienchu-hsien. I was unable to get a tariff of this li-kin, which appears to be collected without method or rule, and merchants complain of great extortion as they speak of the time when the barrier outside of the north gate of Mao Chow was the only li-kin station between Sungpan and Chengtu. This Mao Chow barrier levies a Sanfei, i.e., three expenditure li-kin (expenses for Crown litigation, travelling expenses for officials on duty, wages of \"chai-jen,\" &c.) on all goods from Mao Chow, and also...",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nReport by Consul-General Wilkinson respecting the Progress of the French Railway to Yunnan-fu. (Confidential.)\n\nTHE various routes that have from time to time been suggested or adopted for the French railway from Laokai to Yünnan-fu are marked on the accompanying map (compiled by \"le soldat Schneider,\" and published at Hanoi last November) by means of double lines. These routes are three-\n\n1. That proposed by the Mission d'Études in about 1898;\n\n2. The modifications subsequently introduced into this route by the engineers of the Travaux Publics of Tonquin;\n\n3. The \"trace\" of Herr von Kapp, adopted last year.\n\nThe first two ran up the valley of the Red River to Sinkai, thence along its tributary, the Sin-hsien Ho, and over a pass to the Mongtse Plain, whence the former followed the main road through Sinfang, Kuan-yi, Tunghai, Kiangchuan, and Tein-ning to Chiengkung and Yunnan-fu. The latter also kept this road as far as Kuanyi and a few miles further north; then it diverged to the west, so as to pass through Hsin-hsing Chou to K'unyang, on the southern extremity of the Tien-ch'ih, or Lake of Yünnan; it ultimately rejoined the main road at Tsin-ning.\n\nThe third route, which is the route that has now been finally adopted, is, it will be seen, entirely distinct from its predecessors. It leaves the Red River at Laokai itself, and runs up the valley of the Nam-hti (Nan-chi) to its head-waters in the hills, some 8 miles east of Mengtse. It is thence carried along, or through, those hills until it strikes, near A-mi Chou, the Lin-an River, an affluent of the Pei-ta Ho, which last is, in effect, the \"West River\" of Wuchow and Canton. A few miles further north the Pei-ta Ho itself is met, and up the gorges and valleys of this river the line runs until, a little beyond I-liang, it quits the river for its tributary, the torrent that drains the Yang-tsung Lake. It sweeps upward to the crest of the hills west of this lake, and having now attained—in fact, somewhat exceeded—the level of its terminus, finds little difficulty in crossing the remaining low passes into the Yunnan Plain.\n\nPrivate Schneider's map may be checked by the photographs of the track-chart prepared by the Société de construction. Of these a copy, courteously supplied by M. Guibert, Directeur des Travaux, is attached, together with similar photographs of—\n\n1. The profile of the line;\n\n2. A chart showing the position of the various concessions, or foreign establishments along it;\n\n3. A map of Yunnan city and its environs.\n\nFrom the profile it appears that the line leaves Laokai, the first station, at an elevation of 100 metres (328 feet) above sea-level; that in the first 74 kilom. (46 miles) it ascends gradually to 300 metres; and that during the next 80 kilom. it rises rapidly, at Milati attaining the height of 1,708 metres (3,535 feet); that it then falls to A-mi Chou, 1,056 metres (3,463 feet), whence the ascent is practically continuous to Shui-ya Tan, the highest point on the line, 2,020 metres (6,624 feet), 436 kilom. (271 miles) from Laokai. The elevation of Yunnan-fu, or rather of the station there, is given as 1,889 metres, or 6,196 feet.\n\nThe total length of the line, as now settled, is 464 kilom., or 290.88 miles (corrected from 4684 kilom.). This is divided into twenty-nine lots, or rather into thirty-two, as three of the lots are subdivided. These lots have been secured by fourteen contractors (\"entrepreneurs\") of whom the first and the last are French citizens, the rest being Italians. Their names, and the apportionment between them of the lots, are shown on the profile. It will be observed that two contractors have each taken up six lots; one contractor, four lots; five contractors, two lots apiece; and the remaining six contractors, one lot each.\n\nThe line is also shown to be divided into ten sections. Three of these contain four lots; six, three lots; and one, the ninth, two lots. Each section has its \"chef\" or head, and there is a \"sous-chef\" or assistant head, for each lot. Above the \"chefs des sections\" are two \"chefs de division,\" M. Dufour, who has his head-quarters at Mengtse, and M. Prud'homme, Chief of the second division, who is stationed at I-liang. Above these, again, is the director (\"Directeur des Travaux\"), who, with his staff, is quartered at Mengtse. The \"directeur\" was, till a few days ago, M. Guibert, but he has now left on a six months' \"congé,\" and is being replaced by Herr von Kapp, the confidential adviser of Count Vitali, President of the Société de Construction des Chemins de Fer.\n\nThe Association has a French register, and its \"Conseil\" meets in Paris. As is well known, it has constructed railways in, among other countries, Italy, Macedonia, and Asia Minor, and a great number of its employés in Yunnan are men who have for years been engaged in its service. Their doyen is, I believe, M. de Violini, Chief of the eighth section.\n\nI understand that the Chemin de Fer de Yünnan is the only considerable enterprise in which the Association is at the present time engaged; but of this I cannot speak positively. (The Society is said to be interested in the German Bagdad Railway.) For its work in Yunnan it is to be paid partly in cash and partly in shares of the concessionary Company, La Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Indo-Chine et du Yünnan.\n\nThe interests of this Company are watched over from time to time by agents sent out for the purpose. The last of these, M. Getten, visited Yunnan-fu in April, returning along the line to Tonquin. He has since left for Paris.\n\nBy the Agreement between the Company and the Government of Indo-China, the latter is required to construct the line from Haiphong, on the coast, through Tonquin to Laokai, the frontier town, and to complete this line by the 1st April, 1905. The line (to which I shall refer later) is now in running order as far as Yenbay. Meanwhile, the Public Works Department (the Travaux Publics) of Tonquin also stations a Delegate in Yünnan to safeguard the interests of the Government of Indo-China, since this Government is, as I understand, eventually to receive one-half of the profits of the Haiphong-Yunnan-fu Railway. The Present Delegate, M. Richard, resides at Mengtse, but visits Yunnan-fu four or five times in the year.\n\nBefore dismissing the profile, attention may be drawn to the fact therein shown that there are to be eight stations, of varying classes, thus—\n\n  \n    Kilometre\n    Station\n    Class\n  \n  \n    70\n    Laokai\n    1st\n  \n  \n    \n    La-hu-ti\n    3rd\n  \n  \n    155\n    Ma-la-ti\n    3rd\n  \n  \n    164\n    Mengtse\n    3rd\n  \n  \n    228\n    A-mi Chou\n    2nd\n  \n  \n    298\n    Po-si\n    3rd\n  \n  \n    398\n    I-liang\n    3rd\n  \n  \n    468\n    Yunnan-sen\n    1st\n  \n\nand twenty-five sidings or stoppages (\"haltes\"). A-mi is, it may be noticed, almost midway between Laokai and Yunnan-fu.\n\nFrom the chart of \"Yünnan-sen\" it will be seen that this city, the capital of the Province of Yunnan, has six gates, and that while all of these, with the exception of the north gate, are surrounded by suburbs, the most thickly-peopled portions outside the wall lie to the south and east.\n\nPrevious to the Mahommedan rebellion (1857-73) almost the whole ground south of the city as far as the two pagodas (the \"vieille tour\" and \"tour neuve\" of the chart) was covered with houses, as was also the land for some third of a mile beyond the east wall.\n\nThe trend of the country is from the hills on the north and north-east down towards the great lake, south-west and south, with the result that the whole district south and west of the city is better suited for paddy fields than for building sites. Such is the case also with the lands between the old eastern faubourg and the hills 2 miles away to the east. The problem, then, that confronted the engineers of the Railway Company was to find an adequate space of sufficiently elevated ground on which to erect their station. The chart shows how it was first attempted to solve this problem. The original \"tracé\" ran alongside the \"route de Mengtse,\" and it was proposed to place an extensive yard in the angle formed between that route and the main road to Kueiyang.\n\nFrom this yard the line was to be continued to a still larger but less symmetrical enclosure to be formed outside the walls between the\n\nPage 15\n\n569",
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        "content_text": "570\n\n4\n\n\"Little\" and the \"Great\" East Gates. The western limit of this, the first suggested \"Gare de Yunnan-sen\" is a paved road that runs due south at about a third of a mile from the eastern wall, and joins at right angles a second and wider stone road coming from opposite the approach to the South Gate.\n\n33\n\nThis latter road crosses by the \"Bridge of Victory\" a stream that may be destined to play a not unimportant part in the coming commerce of Yunnan-fu. The stream will be seen to meander through the plain from the local Black Dragon fount - there is a Hei-lung-t'an near every place of consequence in Yunnan - on the north-east till it strikes the city precincts near the Little East Gate.\n\nThence it runs, not far from the wall, in a fairly straight course till it is well past the city, after which it resumes its wandering ways until it is finally merged in the Yunnan Lake. Meanwhile, about a mile south of the city, it has put out a channel running westward, a channel that also eventually leads to the lake. The new gare will be found marked as extending along the east of the parent stream, from the Bridge of Victory to the parting of the channels. I may mention here that I have just been told by my colleague of France that this emplacement of the \"gare\" has been accepted by the local authorities.\n\nIt is proposed to canalize the stream by means of locks, and so to obtain a head of water sufficient to enable small steam-tugs to bring boats up from the lake to alongside the railway station. As coal good enough for use in railway engines has been discovered among the hills west of the lake, whence, too, abundance of building stone is to be had, as, moreover, a ferry service could thus be maintained with K'unyang and other places on the lake, the advantages to be gained by this project of canalization are obvious. Whether the project is practicable, however, I have not yet learnt on good authority.\n\nIt is also proposed by the French to induce the officials to set apart all the ground between the \"gare\" and, at any rate, the western channel to the lake as a sort of European, or at least Europeanized, Settlement. The northern strip along the great paved road from the South Gate to the Bridge of Victory, a strip already largely taken up with Chinese houses, would be left to Chinese dirt and disorder, but the bulk of the ground would be laid out in foreign fashion, with straight broad roads that should be kept clear of offal, dogs, pigs, and intermittent paving stones.\n\nFrance, however, by M. Constans, her former Minister at Peking, renounced the right to demand a concession or settlement at any Treaty port where she did not then (1887) possess one; and Yunnan-fu is not yet even a Treaty port. Moreover, as was shown the other day, when negotiations for the \"gare\" were in progress, the Local Government demur to the acquisition of land here by foreign traders. It is certain, nevertheless, that on the completion of the railway Yunnan-fu will become, in reality if not in name, an open mart; and, meanwhile, the necessity of a \"magasin\" for the railway employés will be maintained, and will lead to the introduction of a foreign - that is, of course, a French - store, just as somewhat similar conditions led to the establishment at Peking in the seventies of Kiérulff's and Vrard's hotels. The Chinese will become gradually aware that the arrival of the first locomotive must greatly increase the value of land all about the \"gare,\" and they will buy up the neighbouring sites. What is worse, they will build on them; and, instead of an orderly Settlement, we shall have a filthy human warren alongside the first-class station.\n\nAs far as I am aware, Great Britain has nowhere tied her hands in regard to demands for settlement areas. At Têngyüeh the T'aotai accepted my suggestion that the neighbourhood of the ground purchased for a British Consulate should be laid out as a Europeanized Settlement, with a Municipal Committee of Chinese and foreigners. Mr. Litton now sends me a notification by the Sub-Prefect forbidding Chinese to encroach on the roads - 3 chang or 35 English feet wide - that have been marked out in this area, or to bury their dead within the Settlement. Concerted action by the British and French should be able to secure similar treatment for the square mile adjoining the proposed \"gare.\"\n\nAs a place of residence, this area is not at present at all inviting; but neither was in 1843 the mud flat \"full of all abominations\" (as a Chinese author has it) that has since become the British Settlement at Shanghai.\n\nMeanwhile, the combined establishment of M. de Pauliny, the Chief of Section, and of M. Sorrel, the contractor, is lodged in an extensive annexe to a native temple, a few hundred yards north-east of the future railway station. Even to foreigners, the annexe - which was built by the Chinese authorities for this purpose - is known as the \"t'ieh-lu Kung-so\" or railway offices. On the other side of the paved road that forms its western limit - this is the paved road already described as running parallel to the east wall of the city - is a large open space, some 30 mou (about 5 acres) in extent.\n\n5\n\nThis, M. François, the late Consul-General, told me had been offered to him as a Consular site, at the price of 3,000 taels. The surroundings are, however, unpleasant (as they are everywhere in the immediate neighbourhood of Yunnan-fu, except to the north) and, in any case, no definite decision has yet been reached by the French Government for the erection of a Consulate.\n\nThe railway establishments at Mengtse remain much as they were described by Mr. Litton in his admirable Report of the 1st October last, but along the road leading to them from the East Gate of the town, a number of buildings are going up, half Chinese, half European, for the accommodation of what might be called the camp followers of the undertaking - Annamese hotelkeepers, Japanese \"filles de joie,\" and the rest.\n\nThis apparent prosperity of Mengtse must, I fear, be only transitory, since the railway will not now avail itself of the spacious green between the French post-office and the French hospital that was originally set aside for its \"gare.\" The new \"gare\" for Mengtse, a third-class \"gare,\" will be situated 6 kilometres (4 miles) to the east, and some 500 feet up the mountain side. There is talk of constructing a short branch line thence to the town, and it seems certain that the existing road, even now of fair dimensions, will be enlarged and improved. Moreover, the conservatism of trade is always to be reckoned with. Nevertheless, it seems highly probable that when the railway is in working order, the caravans with tin slabs from Kuochin, to the west, will proceed straight to the \"gare\" and so pass Mengtse by. It is even more certain that the trade with K'aihua and Kuangnan, to the east, will not come down to the Mengtse Plain merely to return over those four miles to the station in the hills.\n\nAt Mengtse, I was received by the French colony with the greatest courtesy and an abounding hospitality. M. Guibert caused copies to be struck off for me of the plans which I have just described, and sent a circular along the line up to I-liang, requesting for me a \"bon accueil.\" M. Richard sketched out my route, indicating the places where I could spend the night, or, as the case might be, make my mid-day halt. M. Sainson, the Consul, accompanied me twice to the workings on the hill, arranging on the second occasion for a picnic at the spring (another Hei-lung-t'an) below the site of the future \"gare.\"\n\nThat site, as Mr. Litton suggests, is very limited in area, nor from the nature of the ground can it well be otherwise. And yet, if the Customs are to continue to be established at Mengtse, it will obviously be necessary to maintain at least an examiner and his staff alongside the railway station, together with the usual apparatus of sheds and godowns. In the event, it would seem exceedingly likely that the Mengtse establishment will be broken up, and its constituents distributed between the two termini of the line, Yünnan-fu and Ho-K'ou.\n\nI followed the \"tracé\" southwards only as far as the Mi-la-ti \"col,\" the watershed between the Mengtse Plain (which belongs to the West River system) and the Nam-hti (an affluent of the Red River). Work on the tunnel here was proceeding at a reasonably rapid rate: several courses of stone facing are in position. Indeed, the two lots (Nos. 10 and 11 in the fourth section) for which M. Péraglié is contractor are considerably further advanced than any others along the line. One reason for this is doubtless because they are the nearest to head-quarters, and are under the immediate supervision of the Directeur des Travaux. Another reason is that they are the first lots on the Yunnan Plateau, and therefore secure many of the Chinese labourers who have found the Nam-hti Valley impossible.\n\nThe progress of the railway, indeed, is now almost entirely a question of labour. All along the road, I heard the same complaint - lack of the \"main d'œuvre.\" The Regulations require that recourse should be had in the first instance to the populace of Yunnan, and that only when this source fails should Chinese from other provinces be engaged. But the Yünnanese is a man of few wants, and with a strong dislike to prolonged exertion. As soon as he has earned a dollar or two as wages, he throws up his work for the month, for he has gained enough to keep him in rice and opium. Furthermore, there is no excess of population in Yunnan, as there is, for example, in congested Kuangtung. When the season comes for breaking up the opium fields and planting out the summer crop of paddy, the Yunnan coolies desert, almost to a man. The same will happen again at rice harvest and poppy sowing. In short, as M. Prud'homme told me, it is impossible to reckon on a steady supply of Yunnan labour during more than five months in the year.\n\n[2172 -1]\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "## Engineer's Report\n### Description of Route (a) (continued) 76\n\nThe route have been traversed in very much the direction the new frontier road which this route follows closely as far on the 7th mile stone.\n\nAt by and a 1 in 40 gradient is adopted & Quarry land a distance of 15,150 ft. as an up grade, for 15,870 as a down grade.\n\nOn this gradient there are two tunnels, aggregating 2750ft in length or say 920 yards. The last is approached by two 50 chains Curves (severe) containing 144 and 163 degrees of Curvature respectively.\n\nA viaduct requiring 4 spans of 150 ft. with a maximum height of 80ft spans the Shimbun River on this latter. Two other viaducts occur in the Curve.\n\nAt about the 6th mile, one of two spans of 100ft and the other 3 spans of 100 ft.\n\nAbout 14½ miles beyond the last tunnel or about 8½ miles from Kowloon, the 1 in 40 gradient and side hill work is at an end. From this on to Lo Wu Ferry the route would be made identical with that of Railway 4c1 on the whole be a longer route would than that of RG401 by three miles. 21 but would \n\n### Railway 4c1\n\nThis route commences on a proposed reclamation in Hung Hom Bay, to the East of Blackhead's Reclamation. The Kowloon Terminus of this Railway would be situated on the proposed reclamation.\n\nFrom this to the end of the god Queen's Hill the work is of fairly moderate character with...",
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        "content_text": "## \nre-survey: The survey of this area was made 18 years since, and covers the most important portion of the Harbour. We are also of opinion that the further areas crossed by red lines on Chart No. 1466, which form portions of the Harbour, Charts No. 3279 and 3280, should likewise be re-surveyed. These areas include those referred to in Mr Boulton's Report, which it is assumed that losses of depth have occurred. They also cover the areas of the proposed extensive dredging referred to in the same Report.\n\n## Results of \n16. As before mentioned, the results of this new Survey, when compared with the published charts referred to in paragraph 12, will indicate clearly the extent of the changes which have occurred in the interval. From this information the actual depth of the dredging required could also be accurately determined.\n\n## \n17. We would recommend that all Soundings in the Survey should be reduced to a zero-level, namely low-water of ordinary spring tides, which latter should be referred to recognized bench marks on shore to be described on the plans resulting from the new Survey, and thus being made available for future reference. The zero above referred to should also be coupled with the bench marks described in connection with the Soundings, Charts No. 1159, 3279, 3280 and 3429.",
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        "content_text": "## Section I.--Wuchow to Nanning in His Majesty's Ship \"Moorhen.\"\n\n304\n\nLeaving Wuchow at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 9th June, we reached Tenghsien (Tangyün), the first district town above Wuchow, at noon. Tenghsien, on the left bank, picturesquely situated at the junction of the Teng River with the main stream, is the terminus of the old trade route from Pakhoi via Yülin (Watlum) and Peiliu (Paklau). By this route, before the advent of steam navigation on the West River, the south-eastern part of Kuangsi derived its supply of foreign goods. The districts drained by the Teng River produce indigo, rice, silk, and cassia; above all, firewood.\n\nAs an instance of the suicidal policy of the native customs authorities, which is gradually driving the domestic trade of the province into foreign hands, I may mention that the Peiliu indigo dealers are now shipping indigo destined for the dye works at Fatshan in steamer to Hong Kong, whence it returns as foreign goods to Samshui, and is forwarded to Fatshan under transit pass: steamer freight and maritime duties amount to less than the li-kin charges, which include fees for examination, stamping manifests, quick dispatch, and contributions to local defence. Enormous quantities of firewood are shipped from the Tenghsien district to Wuchow for carriage by steamer to Hong Kong and Canton. Although a certain amount of replanting is done by the country people, it is certain that no attempts at scientific afforestation are made by the officials; the country is being slowly, but surely, denuded of its once valuable timber. The traveller on the West River is struck by the contrast between the barrenness of the hills on all sides as far as the eye can reach and the continuous procession of rafts and wood boats which are met with this side of Hsunchow. Even now, the remoter mountain districts must still be rich in timber; and were the authorities to seriously take in hand the question of afforestation, as has been done so successfully in Japan, Kuangsi might continue indefinitely to supply the manufactories of Hong Kong and the Canton delta with firewood.\n\nAt Mengchiang (Mengkong), a thriving little town on the right bank, passed at 1:30 P.M., a frontier defence tax, the proceeds of which are nominally devoted to the upkeep of the garrisons on the Tonquin frontier, is collected on all goods passing the barrier in native boats. From Mengkong, Kueilin, the capital of the province, can be reached in seven days; by water to Yungan, hence overland via Pinglo.\n\nTwelve miles above Mengkong is Paima (Pakma), an important li-kin station, where, in particular, li-kin is collected on cassia from the Taiwu district, the chief centre of production in Kuangsi. Taiwu is a small town about 5 miles inland, reached by creek from Molamhui (Wulin-hsu), a hamlet on the left bank a mile or two above Paima. It is noteworthy that cassia bark, perhaps the most valuable native product of Kuangsi, is the only one which is never brought down under transit pass or shipped by steamer. The reason is that by a special arrangement with the li-kin office, a lump sum amounting to less than the foreign Customs, one and a-half duty is levied at Paima, and the cassia is then franked through to Canton. Several unsuccessful attempts have been made by the British shipping companies in Wuchow to obtain a share in this trade; it is to the interest alike to the li-kin officials and the Canton dealers to keep the export in their hands, so as to prevent the cassia going direct to Hong Kong and avoiding the Canton market.\n\nAt 4:30 P.M. we arrived at Pingnam, the next district town above Tenghsien, famous for its cattle market. In the spring of 1903, two British firms in Wuchow made a praiseworthy attempt to supply the Hong Kong and the Philippine market with Kuangsi cattle. It was here that most of their purchases were made. They persevered for some time in the face of strenuous opposition on the part of the Chinese authorities, who pretended to fear that the export of a few thousand head of cattle would denude a province which exports 80,000 cwt. of hides in one year, but eventually had to relinquish the business owing to the impossibility of obtaining regular supplies, due to the prevalence of brigandage in the country behind Pingnam. It is extraordinary that the Chinese authorities, who constantly complain of the poverty of the Kuangsi peasant, do nothing to encourage the breeding of cattle. All along the West River, the banks and valleys are covered with excellent grass, and droves of water buffalo and \"red\" cattle form one of the commonest features of the landscape. The Kuangsi humped cattle, although lean, are said to be of good quality; rinderpest is, so far, unknown. The hides, horns, glue, and tallow provide, as it is, a large percentage of the native exports of the province; were the people encouraged to...",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nbreed, and the cattle markets protected, cattle rearing would become a valuable source of income to the people and revenue to the Government.\n\nAt 6 P.M. the \"Moorhen\" anchored for the night at Ta Huang-chiang (Tai-wang-kong), a busy town on the right bank. This place is locally known as Konghan (river mouth), being situated—as, indeed, with few exceptions, all the principal towns on the river are—at a junction of a tributary with the main stream. It is characteristically Chinese that, although there are at least three well-known towns on the river called Konghau, no attempt is made to distinguish one from the other by adding, as we should, the name of the river whose mouth is referred to. Probably for the same reason that a well-educated Chinaman is prone in conversation to leave his quotations from the Classics half-finished, taking it for granted that his hearer knows the rest, so in speaking of Konghau, one is expected to know the particular river mouth that is referred to. In the same way, a Cantonese in Kuangsi will inform you that he is going down to the capital, \"hsia sheng,\" leaving you to guess that he means, as a Cantonese, Canton, and not Kueilin, the capital of Kuangsi.\n\nSince the introduction of steam navigation on the upper river about six years ago, a large native passenger trade has sprung up between this place and Wuchow, launches leaving daily for down- and up-river ports. In the main street—all these riverine towns have one principal street running parallel to the river bank and always outside the town wall—are several large shops where the display of foreign goods is quite equal to anything I have seen in Wuchow.\n\nAt Konghan, the river, whose course, from our point of view, had hitherto been due west, turned south, and henceforward the course to Nanning was southwest.\n\nI was agreeably surprised on landing at Konghau, and later at every place we visited along the river, to find that we met with no incivility on the part of the people. They evinced a certain amount of natural curiosity, especially when we stopped to purchase anything at a shop, but, excepting the invariable escort of small children, we were never followed by that jostling, evil-smelling crowd, which in so many parts of China makes sight-seeing distasteful and even dangerous. At Kueihsien, which formerly had an anti-foreign reputation, and where before now foreigners have been stoned in the streets, we walked right into the middle of a dragon procession, and stood in a doorway while hundreds of people passed by. I did not hear a single word of abuse, and in fact, the only time when we attracted any particular attention was when I spoke to my servant in Mandarin—the fact of a foreigner being able to speak the official language was, as I discovered on more than one occasion, most surprising to \"the man in the street.\"\n\nLeaving Konghau next morning at 8 o'clock, we reached the prefectural city of Hsunchow (Tamchau, locally known as Kuaiping after the district of that name in which it is situated) soon after 10. Here the West River divides into two branches and, as far as the Chinese are concerned, loses its identity in the Hung-shui, locally known as North River, marked on most foreign maps as the West River—main branch, as it traverses the entire province and rises in the mountains of Kweichow; and secondly, the Tso Chiang, locally known as South River, a shorter, but commercially far more important waterway, leading to Nanning and Posé. 60 miles above Hsunchow, the Hung River is joined by the Lau or Lung River, which flows through the mountainous districts of Liuchow and Chingyuan. This country, which produces timber, cattle, and various vegetable oils, has for some years past been overrun with banditti, and is at the present time the scene of sanguinary conflicts between the so-called rebels and the Imperial troops. We did not learn until after our return from Nanning that a day or two before we arrived at Hsunchow, two battalions of soldiers had mutinied at Liuchow and joined the rebels, sacked the city, and put all the officials to flight. The Prefect of Hsunchow, whom I interviewed at the time, informed me that all was peaceful in that part of the world, and that the robber bands had been driven back into the hills—a striking instance of the difficulty one experiences in obtaining reliable information from local officials in China.\n\nThe city of Hsunchow is so centrally situated that progressive officials have more than once agitated for the removal of the provincial capital from Kueilin, a town of no commercial importance, hidden away in the north-east corner of the province at the head of an inaccessible river to this place. There the Viceroy made his headquarters during his three months' stay in the province last year, and the Governor, having shortly before spent some months in Wuchow, the rumour that Kueilin was to be abandoned gained widespread credence. However, nothing has yet been done in the matter as far as I am aware. The establishment of the provincial Government at Hsunchow would undoubtedly be of great advantage, both from a military and a commercial point of view. Moreover, when the time comes for the opening of the mines in this province, and the establishment of a mining bureau, the latter institution to be of any practical value could never be placed at Kueilin. The most energetic concessionnaire might well shrink from a month's journey in native boat, with fair chance of capsize in a rapid, to lay his plans before the Board. Hsunchow is but three days by steamer from Hong Kong and Canton.\n\nThe city of Hsunchow covers the apex of the triangle formed by the junction of the North and South Rivers, the principal business suburb facing the latter. The streets have a busy and prosperous appearance, and there is a fair display of foreign goods in a row of substantial shops in the main thoroughfare. The surrounding country is devoted to rice, and it was here that, owing to the failure of the crops two successive years, the famine of 1903 first made itself felt. An American missionary, to whom I remarked on the healthy and comfortable appearance of the people at the time of my visit, and in particular the unusually large number of babies to be seen at the house doors, told me that in Kuaiping itself, all traces of the famine had disappeared, but that in the surrounding villages, the people were still miserably poor, having in many cases disposed last year of all their household goods and agricultural implements to keep themselves alive. Asked if, in his opinion, the assistance rendered by the Hong Kong Government last year was appreciated by the people at large, he said he thought it was. He had often heard villagers refer in grateful terms to the \"English rice.\" My own experience was less encouraging. Not one of the officials with whom I came in contact in the course of my journey, and of whom I invariably inquired after the condition of the people, even referred to the Hong Kong Famine Fund, much less expressed appreciation of its charitable efforts. And yet, only a year ago, the Colony of Hong Kong subscribed close on 50,000 dollars for the relief of the destitute in Kuangsi, and British missionaries gave up their summer holidays, and in some cases seriously affected their health, by distributing rice and money in the towns through which I passed. I am inclined to attribute this silence not to ingratitude, but rather to ignorance. All the officials I met had been comparatively recently appointed to their posts, and it is quite possible—bearing in mind the \"mental detachment\" which the ordinary local official is wont to exhibit in regard to events which have happened prior to his assumption of office—that these men had really never heard of the Famine Fund and its work.\n\nA seven hours' run brought us to Kueihsien, a district city on the right bank, where we were destined to stay ten days. The river, which had hitherto been rising slowly, unexpectedly began to fall; and although a steady, albeit gradual, rise set in after a few days, the \"Moorhen,\" owing to her length and breadth of beam, was obliged to wait until the water-mark on the Canton Guild-house at Kueihsien (4 feet below the top of the basement) indicated that there was at least 3 feet over the rocks in the Great Rapid, 30 miles above. This rapid, locally known as the Fu Po T'ai Tan, is the principal bar to steam navigation on the upper river—not because of its shallowness—but because of the narrow channels between the rocks. Launches of not more than 10 feet beam can cross the rapid with at least 6 feet of water, but with a loss of speed due to the 10-knot current. However, I should say the rapid would be navigable for such vessels about six months in the year. During our wait at Kueihsien, launches drawing 3 feet passed up daily en route for Nanning. When on the 22nd June we were able to proceed, the dreaded rocks were all covered, and steaming at 13 knots, the \"Moorhen\" passed through in twelve minutes. On our way down, the river was even higher, and the rapid was hardly noticeable.\n\nKueihsien appeared to be a clean, well-built little town; the foreign goods displayed in the shops struck me as being of a commoner and cheaper description than those I had hitherto seen. The district is a poor one, having as recently as three years ago been overrun by brigands, who have left their mark in ruined temples and farm-houses. The river here winds through a broad, treeless plain, dotted every here and there with isolated masses of black rock, obviously of volcanic formation. The principal crop is maize, the soil being too sandy for rice. Fairly good roads cross the plain in all directions, and here, for the first time in the South of China, I saw carts—large two-wheeled vehicles drawn by one or more bullocks—the wheels standing quite 8 feet high and the axle 10 feet broad. These carts are used to bring in the maize and the long grass which grows in swampy patches between the maize fields. They would, I imagine, prove very useful for military transport; I counted over fifty in the vicinity of Kueihsien city. Cattle—both water buffalo and the \"red\" variety—are plentiful, and... \n\nPage 305\n\n[2172 2-2]",
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        "content_text": "# imposing guild-houses and Yamêns, and row of substantially-built shops facing the water-front, Nanning presents the appearance of a rich and flourishing city. One is naturally led to compare it with Wuchow, which the Chinese place second to Nanning in point of importance, but which, after visiting all the principal towns on the West River from Kongmoon to Nanning, I am inclined to think, should now occupy the first place. Nanning is undoubtedly the larger city of the two; its population is estimated at 120,000, as compared with the 60,000 of Wuchow; its streets are larger, its shops more numerous, its guild-houses richer in appearance. But as regards its shipping, and what I may term movement of the port, Nanning falls far behind its smaller rival. The presence of river steamers, the constant coming and going of launches, the row of floating hotels and shipping agencies, the forest of junks in the Fu Ho, the foreign buildings which are now springing up along the water-front, all give to Wuchow an air of bustle and prosperity which is wanting at Nanning.\n\nThe afternoon of our arrival I called, accompanied by Captain Noble, on the Taotai and principal local officials. The former sent chairs, with an escort of twenty foreign-drilled soldiers headed by drums and bugles. As we proceeded through the city, and were received at the Yamên with salutes and guards presenting arms, I could not help contrasting our welcome with the reception accorded the first Englishman who visited Nanning—Mr. Moss—who came here in 1870 as the Representative of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. He was not even allowed to land, the officials refused to meet him, and during the few hours he remained here his boat was bombarded with stones by the crowds which lined the bank. The Taotai, Tu Cheng-ko, a native of Anhui and a protégé of Viceroy T'sen, received us most courteously, and seemed willing to afford me all the information he could. He at once referred to the opening of Nanning as a Treaty port, and mentioned that he had instructions from the Governor to arrange for the laying out of a foreign Settlement. To the best of his belief, the Chinese Government intended to open the port at no distant date. No progress, he said, was being made with the French railway from the frontier, and no survey had yet been made of the line between Langchow and Nanning. He gave me the impression that the Chinese authorities are not at all anxious to see the railway completed to Nanning, and that they are anxious to see Nanning a Treaty port for political reasons. From the French Father whom I afterwards visited, I learnt that work on the railway was suspended owing to the lack of funds, and the Commissioner of Customs at Lungchow has since informed me that a Representative of the Colonial Government is now in Paris trying to raise a loan for the purpose: the Chinese Government, however, are placing obstacles in the way, as they wish to build the Chinese portion of the line themselves, employing, of course, French engineers.\n\nThe Taotai—who, as Intendant of the Tso Chiang (Left River Circuit), is in command of the South-West Military District—informed me that the country round Nanning was fairly free from brigandage, but that towards Taiping and Lungchow marauding bands of Marshal Sa's disbanded soldiery were still terrorizing the countryside, and rendering the river between Nanning and Lungchow unsafe for travellers except under strong military convoy. He said the crops promised well and that the export of sugar (which has practically ceased owing to successive bad harvests) is reviving.\n\nThe Taotai returned our call on the following morning and showed me a sketch-plan of the proposed foreign Settlement. On my expressing a wish to inspect the site he first offered to accompany me himself, but later in the day excused himself and sent instead three deputies, who, as permanent residents, were able to give me some interesting information on local matters. I shall refer to the question of Nanning as a Treaty port and the site of the Settlement in the next section. Our visits to the other officials call for no remark.\n\nI subsequently called at the French Mission and saw Father Thomas, whom I had known some years ago in Wuchow. The mission is headed by a Bishop—Mgr. Lavest—who has the Red Button of the Second Rank. He was unfortunately absent at the time. The French School—an imposing white building, with red-tiled roof, just opposite the Taotai's Yamên—is maintained by the Colonial Government, and is in charge of three Marist Friars. They had left for Canton on the morning of my arrival and the school was closed for the summer holidays, so I had not the opportunity of visiting it. The school has at present about forty pupils—ages ranging from 14 to 19—who are being educated with a view to future employment on the railway. On my expressing surprise that the French Government should allow this school to be managed by members of a religious Association, the Father exclaimed somewhat bitterly that the French Government, while they persecuted the Church at home, were only too ready, when it served their purpose, to make use of her sons abroad. The Father informed me that the city was ravaged annually by plague and cholera; he estimated that no less than 9,000 persons had been carried off by these two diseases last year. He said the people were quite friendly to foreigners and that mission work was progressing well. I may here mention that the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Wuchow have a station at Nanning; the missionaries in charge were, however, away at the time of my visit.\n\nFather Thomas told me that the French Consulate at Lungchow was now in charge of an Agent Consulaire, who was also Customs Doctor. There was really nothing for a Consul to do there but issue passports to Chinese proceeding to Tonquin. From the Commissioner previously referred to, I learn that his post is also somewhat of a sinecure. Owing to the heavy duties levied on the French frontier, Lungchow derives almost all its supplies from Nanning, and the bulk of these are carried in native craft. The total value of the trade coming under the cognizance of the Maritime Customs in 1902 was only seventy-seven thousand odd taels, and of this amount 65,000 taels worth was forwarded into the interior under transit-pass. Were: Nanning made a Treaty port, the raison d'être for the foreign Customs at Lungchow would, I think, cease to exist, the French Consulate would probably be transferred to the former place.\n\nThe environs of Nanning are devoted to market gardening, the surrounding districts produce all the best known products of Kuangsi: rice, sugar, hides, oils, aniseed, wood, tea, and ground nut paper, camphor, and all kinds of medicines. The bulk of this produce is brought down under transit pass and shipped by steamer to Hong Kong. Through Nanning, too, pass the products of Eastern Kueichow and Yunnan, en route to the coast, opium, medicines, oils, and hides. Nanning, as I have indicated above, derives its supply of foreign goods almost entirely from Hong Kong and Canton delta via the West River; the principal firms have agents in Wuchow, who purchase and forward the goods, in the case of imports from Hong Kong, under transit pass. The foreign imports into Nanning are practically identical with those appearing in the Wuchow Customs returns, chief among them being Indian cotton yarn, oil (Sumatra), piece-goods, and foreign sundries, such as flour, lamps, and matches.\n\nAs an instance of what ill-considered protection does for the manufactures of Tonquin, I may mention that Japanese matches are laid down in Nanning at 5 taels the case, while Tonquinese matches, on the rare occasions when they reach Nanning, cost 8 taels a case. The former have come nearly 2,000 miles, the latter about 200. In the course of my walks through the city, I noticed the usual display of foreign goods, chiefly of Japanese and German origin. I saw one or two large shops for the sale of foreign medicines, including brandy, mineral waters, and bovril. Everything that I priced was much more expensive than in Wuchow, but it is possible the shop-keepers quoted special rates for our benefit. My Chinese writer and official messenger were both, for various reasons, unable to accompany me on this trip, so that I found some difficulty in making myself understood by the shop people, who are for the most part Cantonese. The natives of Nanning speak a dialect near akin to Mandarin. The business of the city is in the hands of men from the delta, in particular the Sunui district, and from Fukien.\n\nI gathered that the trade of Nanning is reviving after a long period of depression, but is still hampered by the insecurity of the waterways leading to the Yunnan frontier, and lately by the sudden imposition of a new scale of native customs dues, called \"Tungshui.\" I have already referred to this subject in my Intelligence Reports. The effect of the new duties is clearly seen in the large number of transit passes which are now being applied for to purchase produce in the Nanning and Posé districts. The merchants of Nanning engaged in foreign trade are unanimous in desiring the opening of the port, which they take for granted would mean the presence of a British Consul. I could not learn what particular advantage they expected to derive from the latter's advent, but there exists undoubtedly a strong feeling amongst native merchants on the West River that wherever a British Consul is stationed there will be freedom of trade and protection from the exactions of the local authorities. Whether this good opinion be merited or not, I did not feel called upon to disabuse them of their idea.\n\nNo organized mining is carried on in the Nanning district, but coal for local consumption is imported from Posé. Attempts have been made to use this coal for steaming purposes, but it has been found to be quite unsuitable, being, like all native... \n\nPage 307 \nPage 9",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nOf the best known of these—that through Siam and up the Mekong Valley—Captain Ryder, in the light of our fuller geographical knowledge, now simply remarks: \"It may at once be dismissed as impossible.\" Various other projects of the past can be similarly dismissed; and for those which may be put forward in the future there will be no excuse if they are not based on precise and perfectly reliable data.\n\n## The Yunnan Company (Limited), its Incorporation and Objects\n\n3. It is mainly to the Yunnan Company, Limited, that we owe our very complete knowledge of the physical features of Yunnan. The Company was registered in London on the 15th July, 1898. In a letter written to the Foreign Office that month, the Secretary says that it was formed for the purpose, among others, of surveying and, if found practicable, afterwards arranging for the construction of a road or railway and telegraph line from the terminus of the Burmah Railways at Kunlôn, or wherever on the frontier the terminus may be located, through Yunnan and Szechuan to the Yangtse.\" The Secretary then asks for \"assistance in getting a concession from the Chinese Government for this purpose, which should include a lease of the mining, forest, agricultural, and pastoral rights on the unoccupied land five miles on each side of the line, due regard being had to present rights of the population.\" The India Office were also asked \"in view of the responsibilities about to be undertaken by the Company to grant them a concession of mineral, forest (exclusive of teak), agricultural and pastoral rights in the portion of the Shan States between 97° east and the Chinese frontier and latitude 22-24 north; also for exclusive right of working and manufacturing fibre materials in above district and in the watershed of the Irrawaddy above Mandalay.\"\n\n## Personnel of Expedition of Yünnan Company\n\n4. In the autumn of 1898, the Company, with the support of Her Majesty's Government, organized an expedition into Yünnan. They obtained the services of Major Davies, O.L.I., Lieutenant Watts-Jones, R.E., Lieutenant Houter, R.E., Mr. Scott, Mr. Turner, Captain Pottinger, R.A., and several native Indian surveyors. Captain Ryder, R.E., was sent with the party by the Government of India, at their own expense, to carry on triangulation work. His reports were made to the Surveyor-General; the other members reported to the Company. Mr. Ker were deputed to examine the country from a commercial point of view.\n\n## Work accomplished by the Expedition\n\n5. The expedition started in November 1898, and its work in Yünnan extended over the whole of that season and the greater part of the next. Captain Pottinger and Lieutenant Hunter spent a considerable portion of their time in Szechuan; but the other members confined themselves almost entirely to the province of Yunnan. By judicious arrangement of tours, and by travelling singly as far as possible, they performed their task so thoroughly as to leave scarcely a nook or corner of the province unexplored. Captain Davies travelled about 4,000 miles, and he thinks that the other officers did about the same; their routes constantly crossed and recrossed; of the eighty-four official cities of Yunnan all but three were visited, and no important region escaped attention.\n\n## Results of Expedition\n\n6. The general results of the expedition may be briefly summarized thus:\n| Result | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | A map of Yunnan, prepared by the Survey of India on 1-inch scale, and described by the President of the Royal Geographical Society as \"of the greatest scientific value and importance.\" |\n| (b) | A preliminary railway survey from Kunlon to Tali-fu, and thence on to Yunnan-fu and the Yangtse at Sui-fu. |\n| (c) | A preliminary railway survey from Bhamo to Têngyüeh. |\n| (d) | A commercial report on the province, showing the results of three years' inquiries by Mr. Turner and other experts. |\n\n19\n\n## Conclusions arrived at\n\n7. Two important conclusions were established by the surveys. It was shown that there is one, and one only, practicable railway into Yunnan—that up the Namting Valley. \"This,\" writes Captain Ryder, \"which Captain Watts-Jones followed through up to Tali-fu and so on to Yünnau-fu, is the only through line into China from Burmah that can ever be constructed.\" In the second place, the popular opinion that a railway from Bhamo to Têngyüeh is comparatively easy and inexpensive was confirmed.\n\n## Possible through line to navigable part of the Yangtse\n\n8. An extension of the line from Yünnan-fu to the navigable part of the Yangtse at Sui-fu was also proved to be possible. For the present, however, this can scarcely be regarded as a practical project, and it is therefore outside the scope of this Memorandum. It may be briefly noted that the entire railway from Kunlon to Sui-fu would be nearly 1,000 miles long. The construction would be very costly, entailing 14 miles of tunnelling and some 63 miles of rack. Estimates for the completed line vary between £10,000,000 and £20,000,000, and the time required would be from 10 to 15 years. With regard to its commercial prospects the preponderance of expert opinion is unfavourable. But the Yunnan Company take a sanguine view, and are even now prepared to commence the construction of the line if their concessions are granted. So at least it would seem from a speech by Mr. John Halliday, one of the chief promoters of the Company, at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society held in November 1902. He said: \"The surveys which we have from Watts-Jones, in which he has delineated the superficial and horizontal outline of the country, show no very bad country whatever except a few miles between Yunnan-fu and the Yangtse Valley. It is not more difficult than the railways in the Rocky Mountains. There are no impracticable engineering problems. The biggest mountain which stands in our way is the Chinese Government, for they have never confirmed the concession which our Government imagined they had secured. I am afraid there is very little chance of the railway being made for many years. The trade, however, is increasing very largely, and if we could even get a cart track—a practicable road—the increase of trade would be enormous.\"\n\n## Railway Survey of Line from Kunlôn to Tali-fu\n\n9. The through line to Sui-fu being for the present out of the question, the possibilities of a shorter line from Kunlôn to Tali-fu may now be considered. This was surveyed throughout by Captain Watts-Jones with the exception of portions of the Mekong and Konglan gorges, which were subsequently \"partially surveyed\" by Major Davies. The total length of the line from Kunlon to Tali-fu is 320 miles. It is estimated to cost (for earthwork, bridging, and land) 1,68,74,000 rupees (£1,125,000), or an average of about 53,000 rupees a-mile. Seven miles of rack and 1 mile of tunnelling will be necessary. The first 54 miles and the last 109 (except for two short sections of 5 miles and 5¼ miles) are easy. The intermediate portion includes some very heavy work. The line will run from Kunlon up the valley of the Namting to where that river makes its great bend, then through Tou Tao Shui over the watershed to Yünchou, a town 24 miles south-east of Shunning. Shunning itself is a small and unimportant place, and it will not be worth while even to build a branch line there. From Yünchou the line will follow the Yünchou River (Nan Chiao Ho) to the Mekong, then along the Mekong to the mouth of the Konglan River, then up that river to Konglan and to the summit above Konglan. From this point the country begins to open up into a series of rich valleys separated from one another by short passes, and to the engineer who has successfully carried his alignment so far it is a simple task to continue it to Tali-fu. From the summit the trace runs down a tributary of the Upper Red River to Nanchien, and then up another branch of the Red River to Mi Tao, which lies just south of the Yunnan-fu-Tali-fu road. Thence it proceeds by Chiao Chou to Tali-fu. In an appendix to this note will be found fuller details of the line adopted by Captain Watts-Jones, and the estimated cost of the various sections. As to the time, Captain Watts-Jones thinks that the section Kunlon to Yünchou (143 miles) will take four, and possibly five, years to construct, and that \"all the line beyond the Konglan summit could be quickly built.\" No estimate is given of the time required to complete the section between Yünchou and Konglan summit (83 miles).",
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        "content_text": "343 \n\n# Commercial value of Kunlôn-Tali-fu Line as a possible Dividend-paying Concern\n\n10. As to the commercial value of this line, our knowledge of the resources of the country is not sufficiently extensive or precise to warrant the expression of a confident opinion. Some general considerations may, however, be usefully borne in mind. The accounts of recent travellers in West Yünnan all go to show that the poverty of that part of the province has been exaggerated and the number of its inhabitants under-estimated. Earlier explorers confined themselves for the most part to the main roads east and west; they travelled in the cold season, which is the dead time for agriculture, and gives the country a more barren appearance than is natural, and they were not trade experts. A far more cheerful picture is now presented to us. Mr. Litton, who speaks with an authority to which no other Englishman can lay claim, estimates the population of Yunnan at 10,000,000 and says that that part of the province which may, under present conditions, be conveniently served by our Burmah route is on the whole considerably more populous than that part served by the French or Red River route. The accounts of unofficial explorers are to the same effect. Dr. Logan Jack writes: \"It is patent to every traveller who passes through Yunnan that it is being repopulated by immigration from other provinces and by the natural increase in a country where there is plenty of room to spread out.\"\n\nTo this may be added the testimony of the Yünnan Company's commercial experts. Their full reports have probably not been made public, but it is clear from various utterances of the Company's Directors and promoters that they hold out distinctly favourable prospects of a remunerative trade. With the increase of population is coming a revival of old industries, such as silk spinning and mining, and a creation of new ones. Attempts are being made under the superintendence of Szechuanese immigrants to start cotton weaving all over West Yunnan, notably at Yunchaung and Hoching. Old trade routes are also being reopened, of which the most important is that between West Yunnan and the trans-Yangtse district of Yungpeh. All this seems to point to a coming era of increased prosperity for Yunnan, to which improved facilities of transport would give a great impetus.\n\n11. To turn now to the country in the vicinity of the proposed line. The railway would possess one great advantage in its terminus Tali-fu, or rather Hsiakuan (at the south end of the lake), which may be described as the commercial suburb of Tali-fu. The latest and most reliable description of Hsiakuan comes from Mr. Litton. It is, he says, the commercial capital of West Yunnan, and if we can insist on respect being paid to transit passes, it will soon become the largest market in the province. It is important both as a centre of native and foreign trade. The population, which now numbers over 12,000, nearly all engaged in trade, is rapidly increasing. It is the resort of dealers in foreign goods from Têngyüeh, cloth sellers and opium buyers from Lin An, Canton opium buyers, Szechuan pedlars, Thibetans, and Lichiang traders. It is also an important centre of opium production and general consumption. Half of our imports from Burmah go to Hsiakuan. The Tali-fu plain contains at least 100,000 inhabitants, and to the north and south of the lake, there is a series of rich and populous agricultural valleys. Further south are the plains of Menghua and Hungai, each about 20 miles long by 4 or 5 broad, and “resembling the valleys of Szechuan in their richness.” Quite a million and a quarter persons, and these the best-to-do in the province, are supplied from Hsiakuan.\n\n12. Until the railway line comes to this series of valleys, that is to say, until it has crossed the Rouglan watershed, it passes through no Chinese town of any importance but Yünchou. Yünchou is a town of about 800 houses and was described by Captain Davies in 1896 as possessing little trade. Mr. Turner, however, who visited it two years later, says that it has superseded Shunning as a distributing centre and \"has quite a large foreign trade and obtains supplies from Canton all the way. It has also a direct trade with Yünnan-fu and Hsiakuan, and a very large local trade.\"\n\n13. The agricultural and animal products of the country traversed are not likely to form the staple of a great export trade. The mule-trading industry north of the lake will furnish business for the railway, and a certain amount of flour will probably come to Burmah from the great wheat-growing plains near Tali-fu, and rice will go back in exchange, but the chief agricultural product of West Yunnan is opium, which is at present excluded from our borders. In regard to the prospect of a large traffic in minerals, there is no sure ground on which to base an opinion. Recent travellers no longer, like M. Rocher, sprinkle their maps of Yunnan thickly and impartially with gold and silver mines, but nevertheless, they speak with one voice of the apparent abundance of mineral deposits. \"We found indications of metals almost everywhere,\" says Mr. Turner, when writing on the subject of a Kunlôo-Tali-fu rail, \"and if Government throw open mines, and fuel can be procured in the province at a reasonable cost, there will be an abundance of carriageable goods.\" So Major Davies: \"We certainly came across mines everywhere, and all sorts-gold, silver, lead, tin, iron, copper, zinc, coal, and even with the present poor appliances, the Chinese make them pay.\" Coal described by Mr. Turner as \"poor,\" and by Captain Watts-Jones as \"good,\" is mined in at least two places near the line, and iron occurs within easy reach. It is, however, impossible to say whether these or other minerals are likely to pay a steady freight because, under the present difficulties of transport, only those mines are worked which are very productive and close to centres of population.\n\n14. To sum them up, the rail will without doubt gather to itself all the caravan traffic of West and Southern Yünnan which is now scattered to Bhamo, to Kengtung, to Chiengmai, and other places, and it will greatly stimulate the production and increase the purchasing power of the rich district of which Tali-fu is the centre. It will in all probability create a considerable intermediate traffic, and there is a hope that it may open up and receive a steady freight from minerals which are known to occur at different points along the line and in the country north of Tali-fu. On the other hand, for more than half its length, the line will traverse a region sparsely populated and not capable, so far as is at present known, of any very striking development. This matters little—some American railways are carried twice that distance through utterly unproductive desert and mountain—provided that the market on the other side is worth attaining. And this is a fact which cannot be established with certainty until actual experiment is made. All that can be said is that there are substantial grounds for hopeful anticipation. To the investor desirous of a quick and regular return upon his outlay, the Kunlon-Tali-fu line will not appeal, but as a long \"lock-up,\" it is by no means devoid of attraction.\n\n## Commercial value of the Kunlôn-Tali-fu Line as an Instrument for preserving Trade in West Yünnan\n\n15. There is another commercial aspect of this matter. The line may be regarded not as a concern the main object of which is to pay dividends as quickly as possible, but as an instrument for preserving and developing a trade which is seriously threatened. The French railway to Yunnan-fu is steadily advancing. The new alignment has just been sanctioned by the Peking Foreign Office, and work has commenced on the China side of the frontier. Already the effects of improved communication by this route have made themselves felt. For some years after the annexation of Upper Burmah, Chinese caravans with cotton and other merchandise went regularly through from Bhamo to Yünnan-fu and not infrequently to Hui-li, some eight days north of that city. This was the case even after the opening of the Mengtzu Customs, but it is no longer so. It is now only under special circumstances, such as those described by Mr. Litton last April, namely, a blockage of trade on the Red River, owing to piracies, that Bhamo caravans manage to get through to the capital. Tsuhsiung-fu is probably the present limit of profitable sale of most of the imports from Burmah, and not very long ago, some goods which went up the Red River actually penetrated as far west as Yungchang. It seems certain that with every advance of the French railway, we must expect to see supplies from this side driven further and further back, and it is difficult to resist the conclusion that when the railhead reaches Yünnan-fu, even if it is never carried further west from that point, our market will be restricted practically to the valley of the Tapeng and the districts north of Têngyüeh. A railway from Kunlôn to Tali-fu would certainly prevent this serious loss and would at least secure to us for all time the area of our present trade in Yunnan, an area in which Mr. Litton estimates that Burmah ought to have from 3,500,000 to 4,000,000 of customers.\n\n## Railway Survey of Line from Bhamo to Têngyüeh\n\n16. The preliminary railway survey of a line from Bhamo to Têngyüeh was also performed by Captain Watts-Jones. The length of the line is 119 miles, and the estimate of cost (for earthwork and bridging only) is 36,30,000 rupees, or rather over 30,000 rupees a-mile. The heaviest work would be on 6 miles of gorge between the Kaugai and Nantien plains, which would cost a lakh a-mile. Then there are 24 miles of gorge-work, beginning at the twenty-first mile from Bhamo. These are estimated to cost 70,000 rupees a-mile. There are no other difficulties, and the cost for the remaining 89 miles averages about 15,000 rupees a-mile. There is no tunnelling or rack. The line can never be carried...",
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        "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### No. 1\n\nNovember 5.\n\n**C.O.** 350 | **F.O.** 4666 | **RECP SECTION 1, Red 13 FEE 05**\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to the Marquess of Lansdowne,~(Received November 5.)\n\n**(No. 23.)**\nMy Lord,\n\nShanghae, September 27, 1904.\n\nAt the request of Mr. H. H. Fox, lately His Majesty's Acting Consul at Wuchow, I have the honour to transmit herewith his Report on a journey he made up the North River on His Majesty's ship \"Robin.”\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **PELHAM L. WARREN**\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n\n**Report on a Journey up the North River, in His Majesty's Ship \"Robin,\" July 6 to 18, 1904, by Mr. H. H. Fox.**\n\n#### ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS\n\n| Section | Description | Page |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **SECTION I** | General Description of the North River | 2 |\n|  | The Canton delta formed by the West, North, and East Rivers | 2 |\n|  | 'Course of the Pakkong, or North River | 2 |\n|  | Its former importance as a trade route | 3 |\n|  | The Canton-Hankow Railway | 3 |\n| **SECTION II** | The Treaty Port of Samshui | 3 |\n|  | Hakow, the shipping port: Sainam, the centre of trade | 3 |\n|  | Principal imports; growth of trade difficult to estimate owing to fluctuating native Customs Tariff | 3 |\n|  | Principal exports | 3 |\n|  | Shipping; decrease in tonnage since opening of Kongmoon | 3 |\n|  | Total values of trade during last five years | 3 |\n|  | Drawbacks to Samshui as a Treaty port, and an anchorage for steamers, Completion of branch railway line from Canton to Samshui |  |\n| **SECTION III** | The River Journey from Samshui to Shiu-kuan (Shao-chou-fu) |  |\n|  | Departure of His Majesty's ship \"Robin\" from Samshui on the 6th July | 4 |\n|  | Brick kilns; the Bamboo River, important tributary, supplies delta with bamboo; market town of Shek-kon | 4-5 |\n|  | Lapao; large li-kin station | 5 |\n|  | Creek to Canton navigable in summer: daily launch service to Fatshan and Canton; during summer months to Tsing-yuen and Yingtak | 5 |\n|  | District city of Tsing-yuen at head of delta; end of first day's journey | 5 |\n|  | Tsing-yuen a busy town, deriving its supplies of foreign goods from Canton; chief products tea and sugar; a missionary centre; absence of telegraphic communication |  |\n|  | Departure from Tsing-yuen on the 7th July |  |\n|  | Fi-log-tze Gorge, with famous monastery | 5 |\n|  | Limestone quarries; meeting with party of American engineers surveying Canton and Hankow railroad | 5 |\n|  | Yingtak, District city of Yingtak: end of second day's journey | 6 |\n|  | a busy shipping port, present limit of regular steam navigation; river above Yingtak unsuited for steamers except at high water, but light draught stern-wheelers might be placed on Canton-Tsing-yuen-Yingtak run | 6 |\n|  | The Great Temple Gorge and the Blind Boy Pass; second large tributary, the Lieu-chou River, flowing through country inhabited by aborigines | 6 |\n|  | Limestone quarries at Lau-ti-wan | 6 |",
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        "content_text": "## Section 3.-The River Journey from Samshui to Shao-chou-fu.\n\nThe \"Robin,\" commanded by Lieutenant and His Majesty's light draught gun-boat Commander R. E. Vaughan, R.N., left Samshui at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 6th July. As we turned out of the Sainum Creek into the North River, it was difficult to realize that the stretch of sluggish, muddy water before us, differing little in appearance from the typical delta creek, was to become later on a noble river forcing its way for over 200 miles through mountain ranges, and giving access, with its many tributaries, to the uttermost parts of northern Kuangtung.\n\nFor some miles above Samshui the banks continue low, the country being almost entirely devoted to the cultivation of the mulberry. The smoking brick-kilns which line the bank on both sides form the most striking feature of the landscape. These kilns supply the cities in the delta with bricks baked red, grey, and dark green—the latter the best quality—and tiles, both flat and fluted.\n\nSome 6 miles from its mouth the interesting Bamboo River unobtrusively joins the main stream. Rising in the but little known north-east corner of Kuang-si, the Bamboo River is one of the Pakkong's principal tributaries. It is said to be navigable for light-draught steamers for some distance up, but a shifting sandy bar at its mouth has so far deterred our gun-boats from exploring this picturesque stream. It is famous for the luxuriant bamboo groves which line the banks for upwards of 100 miles. The large market town of Shek-kou, at the entrance to the bamboo country, is the chief centre of trade in the district, and here the great rafts are put together which, dropping down to Canton and Fatshan through the narrow creeks in the delta, form a serious impediment to steam navigation on these waters. From the Bamboo River the cities of the delta derive their supplies of bamboo, that useful article which Chinese ingenuity has adapted to every conceivable use, till it has become part and parcel of their every-day life, and almost a national symbol.\n\nAt 10 o'clock we reached Lupao, a busy town on the right, i.e., east bank, 20 miles distant from Samshui, the seat of a big li-kin station. Launches run daily junks in summer, leads to Canton, distance approximately 45 miles. Almost all the year round between Lupao and Canton via Sainam and Fatshan; the service is continued during the summer months to Tsing-yuen and Yingtak. Twenty-miles above Lupao is Shek-kok, a large town on the right bank, with four pawnshops, a well-preserved pagoda on the opposite bank, and considerable shipping; the surrounding country is low, and a fine embankment, which burst through neglect some years ago with disastrous result, stretches for over a mile along the river bank below the town.\n\nThe Tsing-yuen Hills—said to be the prehistoric coast line of this part of the province—which have hitherto formed a background in the blue distance, now come into clearer view, the river widens, and at the same time becomes shallower, winding in and out between sandy islands, until at a bend in the river westward we come in sight of the two pagodas guarding the approaches to the district city of Tsing-yuen. Here, at 4 P.M., the \"Robin\" anchored for the night. Tsing-yuen is a well-built, prosperous-looking town, stretching for over a mile along the left bank of the river, the water front covered with shipping and an unusually gaudy display of \"flower boats.\" I estimate its population at about 50,000. We landed in the evening and walked through the principal street running outside the wall, parallel to the river bank; the people were inquisitive, but not unfriendly. The shops had the usual display of foreign goods, apparently all derived from Canton. The famous Tsing-yuen tea, grown on the hills behind the town was on sale in most of the principal shops. It is, I understand, a low-grade tea—I bought half a-pound for 20 cents, about 4d.—and is shipped in large quantities to Canton for export to the Straits Settlements. The other chief product of the district is brown sugar, called pau sugar, sent to Samshui for transhipment to Canton and Macao. A launch leaves Tsing-yuen every morning at daylight for Canton. Here I saw for the first time the new Chinese commercial flag, a most inartistic production, having the added disadvantage of being at a distance hardly distinguishable from the red ensign. Both Protestant (American Baptist) and Roman Catholic missionaries have made their headquarters in the town for some years past; they are, I am told, after many vicissitudes, now doing well. I was unfortunate in finding them all absent—the Protestants recruiting at the coast, the Roman Catholics travelling in the interior. It is remarkable that a town of the size of Tsing-yuen should be without a telegraph office. Although the line passes along the opposite bank of the river, the nearest station is at Pakkong-kou, 15 miles away. One wonders why the local merchants and gentry have in these progressive days been content to remain so long cut off from telegraphic communication with the outer world. There is a branch office of the Imperial Chinese post in the main street.\n\nThe hills in the vicinity of Tsing-yuen are still fairly rich in timber, and tigers are said to be plentiful on their jungle-covered slopes. Here the plain abruptly ends; henceforward the river flows through a mountainous country which extends, practically without interruption, to the borders of Hunan and Kiangsi.\n\nAs the water was falling we decided to push on to Ying-tak the following morning and defer exchanging visits with the Tsing-huen Magistrate to the return journey. As things turned out I had no opportunity of calling on this official; but as I learnt that, in common with most of his colleagues in the provinces, he was a new arrival, I doubt if he would have been able to afford me any useful information.\n\nLeaving Tsing-yuen the next morning, the 7th July, at 6 o'clock we came after a two hours run to the celebrated gorge of Fei-lo-ssu (in Cantonese, Fi-loy-tze), where the river narrows down to flow through a narrow winding pass between hills rising abruptly from the water's edge to a height of some 500 feet or 600 feet. At the entrance to the gorge lies the salt station of Pai-miao (Pak-miu) where salt for the Lienchou district is transferred from the large Canton junks into smaller craft. The fishing village on the opposite side has an evil reputation for piracy. Half way through the gorge, which is some 3 miles long, stands the famous Buddhist monastery of Fi-loy-tze, forming with its shrines, halls, and kiosks picturesquely perched in the midst of a thickly wooded ravine, a notable example of Chinese ecclesiastical architecture. The graves of Fi-loy-tze are well known throughout the province; it was here that Dr. B. C. Henry, the missionary, whose book entitled 'Ling nam' should accompany every traveller in the Canton Province, discovered amongst other rare flowers, two new species of rhododendron. In this gorge we noticed for the first time the limestone quarries which occur at short intervals on both banks of the river for the next 50 miles; a succession of boats deeply laden with limestone pass daily down river to the limekilns of the delta.\n\nAbove the gorge the river broadens again, the hills recede from the bank, becoming higher and better wooded than before. They now begin to assume the fantastic shapes which form such a striking feature of Kuangtung mountain scenery: jagged masses of rock, isolated peaks, cliffs rising up from the water's edge; huge boulders set on top of grass-covered slopes, changing their shape from hour to hour as the river pursues its winding course among them.\n\nJust before noon, at a point about 24 miles below the small market town of Wong-shek, we came up with a party of American engineers engaged in making the final survey... \n\nPage 352",
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        "content_text": "6 \n\nof the Canton-Hankow (or Yueh Han) railroad. The \"Robin\" anchored here for half an hour, and two of them came on board. They informed me that the main line from Canton will join the North River at Pakkong-hau, just above the Fi-loy-tze gorge, and thence follow the river as far as Shao-chou-fu. The survey was commenced last February, and the work, hitherto carried on intermittently, is now being pushed on at the rate of about a mile a day. The actual construction of the line would, they said, be commenced as soon as the branch line to Samshui had been completed. The party, six in number, was accompanied by a Chinese official and a strong military guard; the country people were now on the whole friendly, and placed no serious obstacles in their way.\n\nAbove Wong-shek both banks of the river are lined with bamboo groves, as far as the Taimin-hap (\"Great Temple Pass\"), where the stream again winds between high hills and precipitous cliffs. Passing a few miles further on the Censer gorges, we reached at 1 o'clock the entrance to another famous pass, the Mong-sai-hap or Blind Boy Pass, so called from the striking profile of a face visible from certain points of view on a cliff at the left-hand side. Here the Lienchou River, the second principal tributary of the Pakkong, joins the main stream. At the junction lies the busy shipping port of Kong-hau.\n\nThe Lienchou River rises in the north-west corner of the province, near the Hunan border, and flows for some 120 miles through a mountainous country, inhabited by the Miao-tze aborigines, who still, to a great extent, secure in their inaccessible mountain homes, defy all the efforts of the Chinese to control or civilize them. They seldom come down to the North River, but they have been visited on several occasions by missionaries who speak well of their hospitality to foreigners.\n\nThe principal towns on the river are Lienchou, a prefectural city of some 50,000 inhabitants, the centre of trade in north-west Kuangtung, situated in a fertile plain; Yung-shan, district city; Taiwan and Howkong, the latter a large li-kin station with a bridge of boats.\n\nThe Roman Catholic missionaries have for some years past had stations all along the river, and recently the American Presbyterians have established themselves at Lienchou.\n\nAt 5 P.M. we passed the large limestone quarries of Lau-ti-wan, where blasting operations were in full swing. The stone is run down the sloping banks in wheel-barrows and discharged into junks, some thirty of which I counted moored along the river bank. Shortly afterwards, having successfully found our way through a shallow crossing opposite the quarries, we came in sight of the Yingtak pagoda on the right bank, and turning a corner to the left we steamed up to the district city of Yingtak, where at 6 P.M. the \"Robin\" anchored for the night.\n\n## Yingtak\n\nYingtak, a small walled town on the left bank, is picturesquely situated in an amphitheatre of rugged hills, just above a range of limestone cliffs, which, jutting out into the stream, form one of the numerous gates of the North River. Opposite the town, the Yung-yuen, or Copper River, joins the main stream: this tributary is navigable only for small boats, numbers of which, laden with charcoal, came floating down on the evening of our arrival and anchored in rows close by us. Yingtak was formerly the seat of the Government for this part of the province, and a noted Buddhist centre. It is now a busy shipping port, the present limit of regular steam navigation on the North River. Launches drawing not more than 4 feet can reach Yingtak under normal conditions from May to September. Below Yingtak the river, although shallow in places, presents no exceptional difficulties: navigation is not hampered by rocks and rapids as on the West River.\n\nI consider that two small light-draft stern-wheelers, able to carry about 200 passengers on a 3-foot draft, would pay well if placed on the run between Canton, Tsing-yuen, and Yingtak. They could, if necessary, run in connection with the Canton-Sanshui Railway, transferring passengers at Sainam.\n\nAbove Yingtak the river narrows considerably, and its navigability, even for native craft, depends entirely on the rainfall. We found a bar about a mile above Yingtak with less than 3 feet on it; on my return a week later, after a day's heavy rain, there was at least 10 feet in the same place. I do not think, therefore, that it would be possible to maintain a regular service to any point above Yingtak on remunerative lines; there seems to be no reason, however, why the Yingtak boats, of the type I have indicated, should not run to Shao-chou whenever the water permits, as the West River launches run to Nanning. Even when the railway is completed, I consider that river steamers will have a fair chance of holding their own. I am quite sure that these stern-wheelers would be well patronized by foreign passengers; many people in Hong Kong and Canton have assured me that they would jump at the chance of escaping from the heat of the delta and spend a few days among the breezy North River gorges. The Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao Steam-ship Companies, who are each year meeting with stronger competition on the Hong Kong line, might, I think, do worse than turn their attention to the North River.\n\nYingtak is a much smaller town than Tsing-yuen, but has some fair shops in the main street. Prominent among the foreign goods I noticed condensed milk, canned fruits, Japanese beer, and cigarettes, all imported from Canton. The district—a poor one, according to the Magistrate—produces rice, sugar, and bamboo. We were unable, as I shall explain later, to proceed the next day, so I took the opportunity to call with Captain Vaughan on the district Magistrate, Shih Yün-tuan, a native of Shansi. He sent his own chair and red umbrella to take us to the Yamên, returning our call immediately after in full uniform. He was very cordial in his manner, and evinced an intelligent interest in the \"Robin\"; as, however, he had only been a month at his post, the information I obtained from him on local affairs was not of much value.\n\nThe following morning, the water having fallen slightly during the night, we made an early start, but were obliged to return, as the \"Robin,\" drawing 2 ft. 8 in., was unable to cross the bar about a mile above the town. At the time we stranded, and throughout the day, large salt junks, drawing at least 3 feet, found their way across the bar, but our pilot being obviously unused to steamers, Captain Vaughan deemed it prudent to remain at Yingtak until a rise occurred. I took advantage of the delay to explore the town and surrounding country, meeting with no incivility from the people.\n\nDuring the night of the 9th July the clouds which had been gathering all day burst in a thunderstorm, followed by three hours' heavy rain. Next morning the river had risen 15 inches, so we made a fresh start, and this time succeeded in crossing the bar without difficulty, although the pilot twice put the \"Robin\" ashore a few miles higher up. For some miles above Yingtak the river flows between high banks through a fertile country, sown with rice and sugar cane. At 10 A.M. we passed Mong-fu-kong, a village with a pawnshop on the right bank. On the summit of a hill behind the town there is said to be a small lake, indicating the crater of an extinct volcano. Another hour's run brought us to the celebrated Kuan-yin-shan, and the cave temples dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy. On the left bank a wall of rock, covered with dense foliage, rises almost perpendicularly from the water's edge to a height of some 600 feet. At the foot a stone stairway leads into the caverns which pierce the cliff in all directions. The main shrine of the temple is visible some 100 feet up the face of the cliff. We had no time to visit this interesting spot, but steamed on past a series of limestone quarries, the largest at Pak-shek-hui on the right bank.\n\nAt Sha-hau, 22 miles above Yingtak, the Canton salt junks tranship their cargoes for Shao-chou during the low-water season. At 6.30 P.M. we anchored for the night amid really magnificent mountain scenery, just above the small town of Wu-shek. Starting again at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 11th July, the river slowly rising, we passed through another striking gorge, called the Tantze-ki or Cannon Ball barrier, where the cliffs rise even higher than at Kuan-yin-shan. Here man has not interfered with Nature—there are no shrines, and the tall cliffs afford a nesting place to innumerable birds.\n\nAt Pakto, a large village on the left bank, the Yü-yuen or Lung-kwai River joins the main stream. This river flows down through a mountainous region inhabited by several large tribes of aborigines. An interesting account of the people will be found in Dr. Henry's \"Ling Nam,\" above referred to. The principal productions of the Lung-kwai district are maize, bamboo, and charcoal. In the hills above Pakto coal can be seen outcropping in many places; the deposits were formerly worked, but have now been abandoned.\n\nAt 1 P.M. we reached Shao-chou (locally known as Shiu-kuan), the principal city in Northern Kuangtung, and our destination on the present occasion. The \"Robin\" anchored opposite the West Gate (on the left branch of the river) about half a mile above the ruined fort which lies at the junction of the two streams.\n\nThe prefectural city of Shao-chou is finely situated in the angle formed by the junction of the Ching or Clear River with the North River. The former stream leads to Lok-ch'eng and the Chi Ling Pass into Hunan; the latter to Nam-heung, and the Mei-ling Pass into Kiangsi. Both waterways, being impeded by rapids, are unnavigable for any but light-draft junks. Shiu-kuan has for centuries been an important Customs barrier: a bridge of boats stretched across the river on both sides facilitates the collection of duties.\n\nFrom an intelligent employé of the native Customs (Ch'ang-kuan) I learnt that the receipts from both li-kin and native Customs have greatly fallen off during recent years, partly owing to the diversion of trade to the sea route, partly owing to the increased use of transit passes for articles such as kerosene oil and cotton yarn. My informant estimated the annual...\n\nPage 360\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Yünnan\n\nMr. Litton urged that the prohibition, which is contained in Article XI of the Convention of 1894 between Great Britain and China, against the passage of Yunnan opium in bond through British India should be removed, in the interest of the trade of Burmah, and his Lordship desired to be informed of our opinion on this proposal.\n\n## \nWe inclose, for your information, copies of the correspondence which has taken place with the Government of Burmah on the subject. Mr. Litton's original proposals, which were very vague and indefinite, have been amplified, and are now formulated in a manner sufficiently precise to admit of their detailed discussion. The essential features of the scheme which he now suggests, and which the Government of Burmah recommend for adoption, are as follows:--\n\nHis Majesty's Government should intimate their willingness to allow the transport of opium from Yunnan through Burmah in bond, en route for the eastern ports of China, and the Chinese authorities should be approached with the view of obtaining their consent to a waiver of China's right to prohibit the export of the drug to Burmah. The particular form in which these negotiations should be conducted is a matter for the consideration of His Majesty's Government. It will be necessary, however, as an integral part of the negotiations, to arrange that the opium exported from Yunnan viâ Burmah shall be permitted to enter China by sea on payment of customs duties at a fixed rate, which must be much lower than that levied on \"foreign\" opium. Under the system at present in force, all opium which passes through non-Chinese territory is treated, for customs purposes, as \"foreign\" opium; but the tariff on the \"foreign\" drug is so high that it is essential that exports from Yünnan should be readmitted into China at a favourable rate, if the traffic is to be attracted to the Tengyueh-Bhamo-Rangoon route. Assuming that arrangements of this nature can be made, Mr. Litton is of opinion that the Imperial Customs duty on the drug should be levied on export at Tengyueh in one consolidated payment; and he considers that it would also be advisable to arrange for the collection of the provincial li-kin for Yünnan, and for the province of destination, by officials of the Chinese Imperial Customs service, all sums collected on account of li-kin being handed over in full to the provincial authorities. It is also proposed that a transit due should be imposed on the passage of the drug through Burmah, to be enhanced or reduced at the sole discretion of the Government of India.\n\n## \nThe various objections which may be urged against the acceptance of this scheme, and the advantages which may possibly accrue from its introduction, have been fully discussed in the correspondence which is inclosed with this despatch; but it will be convenient to recapitulate the more important arguments which have been advanced during the course of the discussion.\n\nMr. Litton contends that no material expansion of the trade between Burmah and Yunnan is possible, so long as the export to Burmah of opium, which is the chief product of Yunnan, is prohibited. He anticipates that the removal of this artificial restriction will result in a rapid increase of trade, and will also materially strengthen our political position on the Burmese frontier. While we are disposed to attach great weight to the latter contention, we are doubtful whether the disadvantages involved in the acceptance of the scheme have been fully appreciated, and whether the opinion held by the local authorities as to the probable effect on trade is not unduly sanguine.\n\n## \nUnder Mr. Litton's scheme it is essential that the initiative should be taken by His Majesty's Government, and that the Chinese Government should be induced to levy on opium imported from Yunnan viâ Burmah a lower rate of duty than they at present impose. We consider that, in respect of both these matters, any action which may be taken by this Government or by His Majesty's Ministers will be peculiarly liable to misrepresentation; and we are of opinion that the inadvisability of entering upon negotiations calculated to revive a general discussion regarding our opium policy has been but imperfectly appreciated. Again, although the immediate effect of the removal of the existing prohibition will doubtless be considerable, the trade directly secured will be a transit trade only, and there is no guarantee that it will be accompanied by a corresponding inflow of goods into Yunnan from British India. It is also questionable whether Indian merchants will be able to retain any considerable share of the Yunnan trade when the railway passing through the Red River Valley is completed. In the Report forwarded with his Confidential letter, dated the 1st October, 1903, addressed to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Mr. Litton expressed the opinion that the railway would probably altogether prevent the import of foreign goods to Yunnan-fu viâ Tengyueh; and he considered that, although the Ta Li and Yung Chang districts might not be directly affected, the railway would probably have a disastrous effect on trade generally between Burmah and Yünnan.\n\nAny concessions which may now be obtained from China in respect of the import duty on Chinese opium transiting foreign territory can be claimed at any time by France under the most-favoured-nation clause; and, as the Yunnan-fu-Mengtse-Tonquin route is probably preferable to the Bhamo-Tengyueh-Rangoon route, even under present conditions, and will certainly afford a better outlet for the trade of Yunnan on the completion of the railway, it would appear that, if Mr. Litton's surmise prove to be correct, His Majesty's Government may expose themselves to much adverse criticism in negotiating a concession which will be advantageous chiefly to our trade rivals.\n\n## \nWe recognize, however, that the removal of the existing prohibition will necessarily be accompanied by some expansion of the trade between Burmah and Yünnan, and we do not underrate the advantages which Indian traders will enjoy in competition with the French, owing to their being first in the field. The political advantages which may be expected to accrue from an extension of trade have already been alluded to, and we are of opinion that this aspect of the case is of great importance. For these reasons, and as the proposal has been strongly supported by the Government of Burmah and by the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce, and appears to be regarded favourably by Lord Lansdowne, we have no objection to negotiations being entered into with the Chinese Government, with the object of securing the concessions which it will be necessary to obtain before the traffic can be diverted to the Bhamo-Rangoon route. In view, however, of the considerations stated in paragraph 4 above, and of the uncertainty which we feel as to the results of the experiment, we are strongly of opinion that pressure should not be exercised upon the Chinese authorities in order to induce them to accept the scheme; and we are not prepared to purchase their consent by granting concessions of any material value in other directions.\n\n## \nThe nature of the concessions which must be obtained before the opium traffic can be diverted to the Burmah route is fully explained in Mr. Litton's Memorandum, dated the 16th November, 1904. We agree generally with the specific recommendations which he has made, but consider that the rates proposed for the consolidated Customs duty, and for the Burmah transit fee, are unsuitable. The information available regarding the total incidence of taxation and transport charges by the various alternative routes from Yünnan to the eastern ports of China is admittedly incomplete, and may possibly be inaccurate in certain respects; but it appears probable that Yunnan opium cannot be delivered at Canton, under existing conditions, for less than 200 rupees per picul, exclusive of profit and of the initial cost of the drug. If the specific proposals made by Mr. Litton and supported by the Government of Burmah, were accepted, it would be possible to sell Yunnan opium in the eastern ports at a rate approximately 32 rupees per picul lower than the current rate, and there can be no doubt that in a short time the sales of Indian opium would be adversely affected, owing to the competition of the cheaper drug.\n\n## \nWe consider that, in fixing the rates of duty to be levied, regard should be had to the following principles, viz., that the total charges on the drug should be maintained at approximately the same level as at present; that the Chinese Government should be permitted to retain as large a share as possible of the total taxation on opium transported through Burmah; and that the transit due should be utilized as an adjusting factor to regulate prices in the eastern ports, if necessary, and to prevent the diversion of the trade to any other route. We attach great importance to the power to regulate prices by enhancing the transit due, as this may at any time become necessary in order to prevent Yunnan opium from competing on unduly favourable terms with the Indian drug; but, while we are of opinion that entire freedom of action in this respect must be reserved, we do not desire to divert to the Indian exchequer any portion of the increased taxation which it may be necessary from time to time to impose. The objects in view are to some extent irreconcilable, inasmuch as the greater portion of the total taxation levied on the drug cannot be made over to China without reducing to a minimum the margin available for diminishing the cost of transit by the Burmah route. We recognize the difficulty, but consider that the question of obtaining a sufficient margin of taxation for this purpose must be subordinated to the more important considerations referred to above.\n\n## \nWe would, therefore, suggest that the following specific proposals, which have been framed in accordance with the principles explained in the preceding paragraph, should be adopted as the basis of the negotiations:-\n\nThe Imperial Customs consolidated export and re-entry fee shall be fixed at 50 rupees per picul for a period of three years. The transit due to be levied at the outset shall be 12 rupees per picul. During this period the consolidated duty levied by... \n\nPage 403",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Government of India to Government of Burmah.**\n\nJanuary 20, 1904. WITH reference to the correspondence ending with the letter from this Department, dated the 6th May, 1902, I am directed to forward a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, dated the 8th October, 1903, and of its inclosures, regarding the proposal made by Mr. Litton, Acting Consul-General in Yunnan, for the removal of the prohibition against the passage of Yunnan opium through Burmah in bond.\n\n2. It is understood that a representation on this subject has recently been addressed to the Government of Burmah by the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce. I am to request that, with the permission of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the proposal may again be considered by the Local Government in the light of the arguments which have now been adduced in favour of its adoption, and to say that the Government of India desire to be informed, at as early a date as possible, of the Lieutenant-Governor's views regarding this question.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**Government of Burmah to Government of India.**\n\nMarch 25, 1904.\n\nI AM directed to acknowledge your letter, dated the 20th January, 1904, forwarding a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, dated the 8th October, 1903, and of its inclosures, regarding the proposal made by Mr. Litton, Acting Consul-General in Yünnan, for the removal of the prohibition against the passage of Yunnan opium through Burmah in bond.\n\nIn reply, I am to inclose, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a letter, dated the 25th November, 1903, from the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce (and of its inclosures), in which the Chamber support Mr. Litton's proposal. I am also to forward a copy of a letter, dated the 8th May, 1902, which was received from Mr. Litton nearly two years ago, which shows how the matter was regarded at that time by the Viceroy of Yunnan, and I am to add the following remarks, which will explain the views of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor in regard to this question.\n\n2. Certain arguments against the proposed scheme were advanced by Sir Frederic Fryer in my letter dated the 4th April, 1902. These were:\n\n| Argument |\n| --- |\n| (1.) That the opium might be tampered with while in transit through Burmah in bond; |\n| (2) That the production of opium on the frontier, and consequently its illicit importation into Burmah, might be stimulated. |\n\nAs regards the first of these arguments, I am to attach a copy of a note by the Chief Collector of Customs, Rangoon, and of certain draft rules that have been framed by him at the request of the Lieutenant-Governor for the transit of Yunnan opium in bond through Burmah. Sir Hugh Barnes is unable to say whether these rules will be entirely suitable until he has discussed them with Mr. Litton, but he is decidedly of opinion that, if the Chinese Government are willing to further the proposal, there should be no serious difficulty in devising arrangements with the officials of the Imperial Customs at Tengyueh, which would effectually prevent any tampering with the opium while it is in transit to or through Burmah. It has been pointed out by Mr. Litton that the whole of the Hong Kong-Mengtse trade goes through Tonquin under seal in the manner that he suggests, and his Honour considers that difficulties of transport present no insuperable obstacle to the adoption of Mr. Litton's proposals.\n\nThe draft rules assume that opium will be conveyed under military police escort between Tengyueh and Bhamo. It seems to the Lieutenant-Governor that there are grave objections to such a proposal, to which it is exceedingly unlikely that the Chinese Government would agree. But Mr. Litton appears to anticipate no difficulty in arranging for the safe transit of the opium to the Burmah frontier, and on this side of the border, escorts could be provided if required. The Lieutenant-Governor does not delay this letter in order to ascertain Mr. Litton's views, but he is in communication with him, and will address the Government of India further on this part of the subject later on.\n\n3. As to the second argument, Mr. Litton represents that the amount of land suitable for opium cultivation near the frontier is already under the poppy owing to the demand created by the market at Yungchang, and that the total area under poppy cultivation in Yünnan is limited by natural causes, and is not likely to increase. Even if it is admitted that there is a slight risk that the production of opium near the frontier would be stimulated, it does not follow that smuggling would increase, for it is likely that if a cheap and safe means of transit by sea were available, most of the opium produced in West Yunnan would be sent by the Tengyueh-Bhamo route through Burmah in bond, and that there would be less opium available for smuggling across the frontier into Burmah. It would probably be found to be more profitable to export than to smuggle. There is, moreover, the argument that even if the opium does not go by Burmah, it will probably sooner or later find its way to Canton by the French Red River route, in which case the stimulus to the production of opium would still have to be faced.\n\n4. For the foregoing reasons, Sir Hugh Barnes is not disposed to attach much weight to the objections urged against Mr. Litton's proposal. On the other hand, his Honour thinks there can be no doubt whatever that if Yunnan opium could be exported through Rangoon, a very great stimulus would be given to the import trade through Burmah to Yunnan. Mr. Litton estimates the total export trade of the Yunnan Province at 14,244,000 taels (1,780,600l.), and the total import trade at 7,980,000 taels (997,500l.), making the total trade for the province 22,224,000 taels (2,778,000l.). From the detailed statistics given by Mr. Litton in his last Commercial Report, which are described by him as a rough approximation, it appears that of the total sum of 1,780,500l., which represents the value of the export trade, the annual exports of opium are valued at a sum of 10,000,000 taels (1,250,000l.), or more than two-thirds of the total export trade. A large proportion of that opium is exported to Canton and Shanghae by land and river routes, and it is this portion of the trade which, it is expected, would be sent by Rangoon if this route were open.\n\nThe following figures of the import and export trade via Bhamo are given in Mr. Litton's Commercial Report:\n\n| Period | Exports (Taels) | Exports (£) | Imports (Taels) | Imports (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| May 8, 1902, to May 8, 1903 | 1,111,217 | 138,902 | 209,787 | 26,223 |\n\nThe total import and export trade through Tengyueh, therefore, amounts in value to 165,125l., only a small fraction of the total trade of Yunnan, and imports exceed the exports in value to the amount of 112,000l. If only one-twelfth of the opium exported from Yunnan were to take to the Rangoon route, this balance would be redressed, and the merchants' power to pay for imports would be proportionately increased. The trade in China appears to be chiefly by barter, and if the Tengyueh merchant can exchange his imported goods for opium, and instead of remitting cash to Rangoon can pay for his imports by sending opium to Rangoon for export to Canton, it seems certain that the volume of trade must largely increase, if it is the case, as Mr. Litton assumes, that the small imports at present are due, not to lack of demand, but to the difficulty found in paying for them in cash. The trade by the French route already largely exceeds the trade by Bhamo, and is developing.",
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        "content_text": "407 \n\n10 \n\narrangement would pay much less than it pays now, but the amount would be paid in duties to the Government, and not in squeezes, bribes, and blackmail. The advantages to be gained are---\n\n1. Security and cheapness of carriage; and \n2. That the exports of West Yünnan would flow out by the same channel along which the imports flow in.\n\nIn view of the appreciation of the rupee and the fluctuations of silver, this would be a very great advantage.\n\nFinally, even if any ill effects are likely to result to the Indian opium trade (which I do not admit), it must be remembered that precisely the same results would arise from the export of opium by another easy, safe, and cheap route over which India has no control, namely, the French Red River route, which will in a few years have the additional advantage of a railway.\n\nTherefore, as Burmah has no power to stop or even diminish the output of the Yünnan drug (for every pound of it that wants to go east goes even under present conditions), it would seem advisable to permit it to follow its natural route, and that by which it will be of the greatest use to our import trade. To prohibit it seems to be a policy which has all the disadvantages and none of the advantages of protection in its worst form.\n\nI would request you to regard this as confidential, except so far as the Government of Burmah is concerned.\n\n11 \n\nAt my last interview with the Viceroy, he intimated that he would be prepared to reopen the question in a year or so, when he will be better informed of the views of His Majesty's Minister and the Government of India.\n\nJune 5, 1902.\n\nIndorsement by Major J. J. Cronin, Deputy Commissioner, Bhamo.\n\nForwarded.\n\nJune 10, 1902.\n\nIndorsement by G. W. Shaw, Esq., I.C.S., Commissioner of the Mandalay Division.\n\nSubmitted.\n\nInclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\n**Note and Draft Rules** framed by H. L. Tilly, Esq., Collector of Customs, Rangoon, for Regulating the Transport in bond of Yunnan Opium from Tengyueh to Hong Kong and Shanghae.\n\nInclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Litton to Government of Burmah.\n\nYunnan-fu, May 8, 1902.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch of February last, submitting for consideration a suggestion that West Yünnan opium might be permitted to pass through Burmah in bond en route to Canton or Shanghae, I have the honour to report that by request of the Tengyueh merchants, I addressed a despatch to the Viceroy of Yunnan on the matter, which I have also verbally discussed with the Treasurer of Yunnan. Unfortunately, there are difficulties which I could not foresee at Tengyueh, and even if your Government is inclined to regard the proposal with favour, it cannot be carried through without strong pressure from the Foreign Office and His Majesty's Minister.\n\nI am of opinion that until the Tengyueh Customs are in full working order, it will not be advisable to press the question.\n\nIn his reply to my despatch, the Viceroy states that he fully recognizes that my proposal is calculated to develop trade, but he cannot consent to it because-\n\n1. The Treaty forbids the export of opium to Burmah.\n2. The Customs would tax it as Indian opium.\n3. Other provinces besides Yünnan depend on the li-kin on passing Yunnan opium, which they would lose if the drug went round by sea.\n\nObjections (1) and (2) consist in begging the question, as the gist of my despatch was a request that his Excellency should co-operate in a proposal to modify the Treaty and Customs Regulations. As regards (3), the picture of the Yunnan officials refraining from adopting a measure which would benefit their own province out of an altruistic regard for the interests of another province, is in the best vein of Chinese comedy.\n\nThe real reasons for the provincial opposition to my proposal are--\n\n1. The gentry of Yunnan-fu, who are very powerful and corrupt, are against any measure which will tend to decrease the number of opium caravans passing through the capital, because they levy exactions on such caravans.\n2. Only about 250,000 taels of opium li-kin revenue are now accounted for in the Provincial Budget. A far larger amount must be received, and the difference goes into the officials' pockets. To put the trade under the supervision of the Tengyueh Customs would introduce a system of accounts, checks, and regularity, which the Mandarin abominates.\n\nI am still of opinion that my proposal, if it could be adopted, would be of very great benefit to the Burmah-China trade.\n\n**Note.**\n\nTHE object of the Rules is two-fold-first, the Officer of Chinese Customs at the eastern port must be satisfied of the identity of the opium with that passed out by the Chinese Customs at Tengyueh, and, secondly, there must be no leakage of Yunnan opium into Burmah.\n\nThe conditions of the route are—\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | A land journey of 180 miles (which will take fifteen days when the road is in good order) from Tengyueh to Bhamo. |\n| (b) | A bonded warehouse and Customs supervision at Bhamo. |\n| (c) | Transit by the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company to Rangoon. |\n| (d) | A bonded warehouse and Customs supervision at Rangoon. |\n| (e) | Transit by steamer of the British India Steam Navigation Company to Hong Kong, and, if necessary, transhipment to Shanghae. |\n\n(It will be necessary to send the opium from Tengyueh to Bhamo under charge of a military police escort, which should start at regular intervals of, say, a fortnight or a month.)\n\n(If ordinary merchants are allowed to travel with the convoy, it will be an immense encouragement to trade along that route.)\n\nThe proposal of the Government of India to open a bonded warehouse at Bhamo, which would necessarily be in charge of a Customs officer, is, for the purpose of these Rules, treated as an accomplished fact.\n\nThe Manager of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company states that the Company is willing to give a receipt for the opium at Bhamo and to deliver it on the steamer at Rangoon, taking all the responsibility. It will be placed in the strong-room and treated in the same manner as treasure. The charge for freight should be paid by Government and recovered with all other Burmah charges at Rangoon before the opium is shipped for China.\n\nThe agent for the British India Steam Navigation Company states that they are willing to take the opium to Hong Kong and to assume responsibility for any loss—that is, to pay the value.\n\nTheir charge for freight is ad valorem, and they are accustomed to dealing with opium, so their proposals may be accepted. They do not call at Shanghae.\n\nA Syndicate of Chinese merchants has been formed for the purpose of exporting Yunnan opium to Hong Kong and Shanghae. I have shown the draft Rules to one of the leading members. He admits that they will meet the requirements. He states that if merchants are allowed to accompany the opium escort, the trade with Yunnan will at once double itself. He tried hard to persuade me to recommend the transport of...",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\n## Government of India to Government of Burmah.\n\nMay 5, 1904.\n\nI AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 25th March, 1904, in which you communicate the views of the Government of Burmah regarding Mr. Litton's proposal to permit the transit of Yunnan opium through Burmah in bond. Sir Hugh Barnes is of opinion that, if proper precautions be taken, the stimulus to trade by the Bhamo-Tengyueh route which will result from the adoption of the suggestion will considerably outweigh any objections which can be urged against the proposal.\n\n2. The Government of India are not satisfied that the importance of the various objections to this scheme has been fully appreciated. Before forwarding copies of the correspondence to the Secretary of State, and before arriving at any definite decision on the question at issue, they desire to explain, in some detail, the reasons which appear to them to militate against the adoption of Mr. Litton's suggestion.\n\n3. In the first place, it may be observed that no direct and calculable advantages will accrue to India as a result of this concession. India will only benefit in the event of trade by the Bhamo-Tengyueh route expanding in consequence of the permission to export opium through Burmah; and this expansion, and its extent, are entirely problematical. If, as appears probable, the natural trade outlet of Yunnan is the Red River Valley, it is doubtful whether the adoption of Mr. Litton's suggestion would give a permanent stimulus to the Bhamo-Tengyueh trade; and it is questionable whether the maximum ultimate expansion of that trade would be sufficient to compensate for the disadvantages attendant on the acceptance of the scheme.\n\n4. The Government of India are not disposed to accept the arguments which have been adduced in favour of the contention that the export of opium from Yunnan via Burmah will not affect the Chinese demand for the Indian drug. It is urged that all opium produced in Yunnan, and destined for the markets of Eastern China, already finds its way there; and it is stated that the total production cannot be increased, as all land which is suitable for opium cultivation is at present under the poppy. If, however, Yunnan opium can, in the future, be laid down at Canton or Shanghae at a considerably lower price than at present, and by a safer, cheaper, and more expeditious route, a result which is the object of Mr. Litton's scheme to effect, it is clear that the Chinese demand would receive a substantial stimulus, and this, it is thought, must in the end bring about an increase in the supply.\n\n5. Besides this primary objection, there are other difficulties in the way of adopting the proposal. It is necessary for the success of the scheme that the Chinese Government should agree to admit opium imported from Yunnan via Burmah at a more favourable rate than Indian opium; and it appears certain that the Chinese authorities will raise objection to the course. The existing prohibition against the import of opium into Burmah rests upon a Treaty basis; and it would be necessary for His Majesty's Government to approach the Chinese authorities with the object of removing this prohibition, and of obtaining more favourable terms for Yunnan opium than are accorded to opium produced in India. Not only would this place the Government of India in a false position, but such action would also lend itself to misconstruction by those who are opposed to the trade in opium altogether.\n\n6. The Government of India are also disposed to think that the danger of smuggling across the frontier, and while the drug is in transit through Burmah, has not been fully realized. In this connection, I am to point out that an examination of the contents of the packages in which the opium is imported from Tengyueh would in any case be necessary both at Bhamo and at Rangoon. If the Government of Burmah are still of opinion that Mr. Litton's suggestion should be accepted, the draft rules framed by the Collector of Customs should be revised so as to provide for this.\n\n7. I am to request that, with the permission of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the proposal may be again considered by the Government of Burmah in the light of these remarks, and that a reply to this letter may be forwarded at an early date. The Government of India will then be in a position to pronounce definitely as to the advisability of accepting Mr. Litton's suggestion.\n\n# Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\n## Government of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nJuly 6, 1904.\n\nI AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 5th May, regarding the proposal to permit the transit of opium through Burmah in bond.\n\n2. I am, in the first place, to forward a copy of a note written by Mr. Litton, His Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, upon the draft Rules prepared by the Chief Collector of Customs, which were forwarded with my letter dated the 25th March last. Mr. Litton, it will be seen, agrees with the Lieutenant-Governor that it is unnecessary and impracticable to provide the opium with a military police escort between Tengyueh and Bhamo. Otherwise, he approves generally of the Rules, but makes the following suggestions:\n\n| Suggestion | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | That the weight of the opium should be shown on the box and on the forms in catties and taels instead of in pounds and ounces. It appears to the Lieutenant-Governor that it will be useful if both the Chinese weights and the English equivalents are painted on each box. |\n| (ii) | That in Rule 9, the bond shall be for treble instead of double the value of the opium, and that the security shall be some firm known in Burmah. There is no objection to this proposal. |\n\nIt is also necessary, as suggested in the sixth paragraph of your letter under reply, that a rule should be added giving the Customs officers at Bhamo and Rangoon power to open and examine any box if this is considered necessary. If the weights are correct and the seals intact, it does not appear to the Lieutenant-Governor to be necessary that every package should be examined on its way through Burmah. Only Yunnan opium can be packed in the box at Tengyueh, for there is no other opium available. Therefore, there can be no substitution of Indian opium on the other side of the frontier. On this side of the border, from Bhamo until the opium leaves Rangoon, the boxes will be in the custody of the Customs Department, and it is difficult to see how they can be tampered with inside British limits. Moreover, if a case has once been opened by the Customs Department, obviously it will be easier to open it again for illegitimate purposes. A revised copy of the Rules is inclosed embodying the changes suggested.\n\n3. I am now to reply to the various objections to the scheme which are stated in your letter under reply. As to the first of these, I am to say that it is not admitted by the British Consular officers in Yunnan that the natural trade outlet of West Yunnan is the Red River Valley. In a recent letter addressed to the Government of India in the Public Works Department on the subject of the construction of a railway from Bhamo to Tengyueh, it has been pointed out that the commercial capital of Yunnan is not Yunnan-fu, but Hsia Kuan on the Tali Lake. This point is the meeting place of the great trade routes to Thibet, Szechuan, the Yang-tsze, Yunnan-fu, and Burmah. It is situated approximately half-way between Bhamo and Yunnan-fu, and at present, the bulk of its foreign trade is via Burmah. The distance to the Irrawaddy is less than the distance to the navigable part of the Red River, and the Irrawaddy is the easier and the better-equipped waterway of the two. Mr. Litton holds that the larger figures of the French trade through Mengtse afford no proof to the contrary. He considers that the wealth and population of the districts that ought to be supplied from Tengyueh are superior to those which would naturally draw their supplies from Mengtse, and that the greater volume at present of the French trade is owing to the facts:\n\n| Reason | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | That the French have had a long start of us, the Imperial Customs Office having been opened at Mengtse many years before the corresponding office at Tengyueh. Consequently, trade with French territory was subject to a regular Tariff, while trade with Burmah was still harassed by li-kin and the exactions of the Mandarins. The serious effect of these exactions can be measured by the rapidity with which the Bhamo trade with Tengyueh has increased since the Customs Office at the latter place was opened. |\n| (ii) | That by the French route, there are no restrictions on the export of opium, the one important export product that Yunnan has to offer. Some 3,000 to 6,000 mule-loads of opium are said to go to Tonquin every year. |",
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        "content_text": "## Page 411\n\nMr. Litton has seen opium caravans going south from places as far west as Yungchang (between Tengyueh and Tali), and the mules which take the opium come back laden with cloth imported through Mengtse, and yet Yungchang is geographically in our sphere, and can be more easily supplied from Burmah than from any other source. The important influence on the trade of the transport conditions must not be overlooked. The opium of Yunnan, at least half of which is said to be produced in the valleys west of Tali, must find its way out either south by Mengtse, or by the northern and east routes to Szechuan and Canton. It must be carried on mules, the number of which is limited, and the import trade naturally returns along the same lines because the mules are available to bring the goods back. Mr. Litton estimates the population of the valleys around Tengyueh and Yungchang at 500,000 souls, who can at present be supplied more easily from Burmah than by any other route. But the difficulty that hampers the Bhamo trade is that the mules which take goods to Tengyueh must for the most part return to Bhamo empty, while the mules which carry away the opium of Yungchang and Shunning are compelled by the Burmah prohibition to travel in the opposite direction. These considerations seem to the Lieutenant-Governor to justify the view that the removal of the prohibition must lead to an expansion of the trade, and that this expansion is not problematical, but certain. The extent of the expansion cannot, of course, be foreseen. But the trade being chiefly barter, it may fairly be assumed that all the opium sent out by Rangoon will be paid for in kind, and that the mules which bring the opium to Bhamo will not be allowed to remain idle. The mere fact that the import trade will no longer have to bear the burden of the mules returning empty from Tengyueh, which means, of course, higher rates or freight, should alone give a stimulus to importation, for in these days of keen competition no facilities to trade can safely be neglected. There is also the fact, as pointed out by Mr. Tilly, that a powerful Syndicate of Chinese merchants has already been formed in Rangoon to operate at once in opium in the event of the prohibition being removed, and this indicates that it is expected in business circles that the trade will be profitable. The answer therefore that may be given to paragraph 3 of your letter under reply is that the natural trade outlet of Western Yunnan is Burmah, and not the Red River Valley; that owing to the transport conditions, any movement of opium to Burmah must necessarily cause a permanent expansion of the import trade, and that, while the full extent of the expansion cannot be foreseen, the numbers of the population to be supplied justify the belief that it will be considerable.\n\n## Page 18\n\n4. With reference to paragraph 4 of your letter, I am to say that it does not follow that the adoption of Mr. Litton's scheme will make Yünnan opium any cheaper in Canton. The Chinese authorities, by raising their li-kin, will probably see to it that it is not cheaper. Even if the price remains the same, the opium, in Mr. Litton's opinion, will take to the Burmah route because of its greater safety, and its freedom from illegitimate attacks on the exporters' profits, and because of the prospect it affords of a remunerative return trade from Rangoon. But the real answer to the considerations put forward in this paragraph appears to the Lieutenant-Governor to be that the maintenance of the existing prohibition of import into Burmah cannot keep Yünnanese opium out of Canton, and is not likely for long to prevent its reaching Canton by sea. The Lieutenant-Governor understands from Mr. Litton that so far the French have been content with that share of the opium trade which supplies their own markets in Tonquin, and that they have made no attempt so far to arrange with the Chinese that Yünnan opium sent via Tonquin by sea to Canton should be admitted and taxed as native opium. But it is difficult to suppose that the French will fail to see the advantages of such an arrangement directly their railway reaches Yunnan-fu, or even Mengtse, and it seems inevitable that, unless we anticipate the French, all the Yunnan opium destined for Canton and Eastern China will ultimately go by the French railway to Tonquin, and thence by sea. It is true, no doubt, that, when this comes to pass, we can claim a similar concession for opium travelling via Burmah, but we shall have the disadvantage of not being first in the field. As regards the possible competition of the Yunnanese opium with Indian opium, the Lieutenant-Governor is not in a position to give any opinion of value. He can only repeat Mr. Litton's opinion that the Indian drug has a market of its own that is confined to the wealthy and fastidious classes; that even at the present time Yünnan opium in Canton only fetches half the price of its Indian rival, and that consequently all the competition possible already exists, and cannot be appreciably increased, even if prices did fall slightly owing to the use of the Burmah route. Possibly inquiries from the Consular officers at Canton would throw more light on this part of the subject.\n\n## Page 19\n\n5. As regards paragraph 5 of your letter, I am to say that the prohibition in the Burmah-China Convention against the importation of Chinese opium into Burmah was a stipulation insisted on by the British Government to prevent competition with their own excise arrangements. At that time the only form of importation anticipated was importation for consumption in Burmah. The question of the transit of Chinese opium through Burmah had not arisen. All that is now proposed to concede to China is permission to transport her own opium to her own ports by an easier route that passes through foreign territory. The advantage to the Chinese is greater facility in levying the full li-kin due upon the opium, and consequently a larger inland revenue. The advantages to us are greater facilities to our import trade and a reduction of the contraband trade in opium across the frontier. It seems reasonable to suppose that the grant of facilities for a legitimate trade in opium through Burmah will diminish the temptation to contraband trade into Burmah, and, as Mr. Litton points out in the note now forwarded, the question at Canton and Shanghae is not one of the imposition of a customs duty, and of a lesser duty than is levied on Indian opium, but one of the levy of li-kin. His Majesty's Government would not approach the Chinese authorities with the request that more favourable terms should be given at the ports to Yünnan opium than is accorded to Indian opium. They would merely inform the Chinese Government of their willingness to withdraw the prohibition in the case of Chinese opium intended for Chinese ports, provided our regulations for transport through Burmah are agreed to. It would remain with the Chinese to impose such taxation as they thought fit. And it seems possible that our Diplomatic and Consular officers would be able to persuade them that the correct tax to impose is the full li-kin. According to Mr. Litton, the rule that all opium imported by sea is classed as Indian opium and taxed accordingly, is a rule imposed rather by Sir R. Hart than by the Chinese Government, and he thinks that with the good-will of Sir R. Hart this rule could be relaxed.\n\n### Inclosure 13 in No. 1\n\n**Notes on proposed Rules for regulating Transport of Yunnan Opium from Tengyueh to Hong Kong and Shanghae across Burmah, as framed by Mr. Tilly, Chief Collector of Customs, Burmah**\n\n1. TENGYUEH to Bhamo is not more than 150 miles--nine short stages; when the new road comes into use, probably eight only.\n\n2. I concur with the Lieutenant-Governor that the proposal to send opium from Tengyueh to the frontier under military police escort may be dropped. I think it is quite unnecessary. If the escort were Chinese, they would be worse than useless, and would certainly try and smuggle on their own account, while the Chinese Government would naturally strongly object to bodies of armed Sikhs coming to Tengyueh for the purpose. If desired, of course, a small escort might take over the caravans from the frontier to Bhamo, as arrangements could be made by which the Customs here could intimate to Bhamo when opium was about to start from Tengyueh, in time for the Nampaung or other post to be communicated with, but I doubt if even this is necessary. I would put exporting firms under a heavier bond than Mr. Tilly proposes, say, three times the value of the equivalent quantity of Indian opium in Burmah; and I would have as securities Chinese firms known in Bhamo, Mandalay, or Rangoon. The bond would be to deliver the opium intact at Bhamo to such Customs or other authorities as the Lieutenant-Governor might from time to time approve within, say, eighteen days of its departure from Tengyueh; or, if it was not so delivered, to show cause why the bond should not be forfeited (e.g., force majeure).\n\n3. There is nothing that I know of to prevent Chinese merchants accompanying their caravans to Bhamo. It would be most convenient that they should do so. Burmah has always allowed Chinese traders to go backwards and forwards across the frontier without let or hindrance, and I hope this will continue to be the case.\n\n4. I think most of the opium would go to Canton, and the trade would be almost certainly \"pooled\" by a few of the big native firms here. If the proposal is put through, I feel sure that the figures of the transfrontier trade will be far more than doubled.\n\n5. Briefly, Mr. Tilly's proposals amount to this: A bonded warehouse would be established at Bhamo; Yunnan opium from the moment it reaches that warehouse would be in the hands of the Burmah Customs, who would have a special arrangement with the ...",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 15 in No. 1, Government of India to Government of Burman, October 11. 1904.\n\nI AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 6th July, 1904, on the subject of the proposal to permit opium exported from Yünnan for the Chinese market to pass through Burmah in bond. Certain objections to this scheme were urged by the Government of India in my letter dated the 5th May, 1904, and these objections are dealt with in your letter under reply.\n\n## \n\n2. The Government of Burmah contend that-- \n\n(1.) The natural trade outlet of Western Yünnan is through Burmah, and not by way of the Red River Valley. Owing to the peculiar nature of the transport conditions, any movement of opium to Burmah must necessarily cause a permanent expansion of the import trade from Burmah into Yünnan; and, while the full extent of the expansion cannot be foreseen, the population which could be served by this route is so large as to justify the belief that it will be considerable.\n\n(2.) The adoption of Mr. Litton's scheme will not necessarily make Yünnan opium any cheaper than it is at present in Canton. Moreover, the maintenance of the existing prohibition against import into Burmah does not assist in any way in keeping Yunnan opium out of Canton, and cannot prevent the drug from reaching that port by sea viâ Tonquin. It is difficult to suppose that the French will fail to see the advantage of concluding an arrangement with the Chinese Government under which Yunnan opium sent via Tonquin by sea will be admitted and taxed as native opium; and it appears probable that they will attempt to negotiate such an agreement as soon as their railway reaches Yünnan-fu, or even Mengtse. Unless they are anticipated all the Yünnan opium destined for Canton and Eastern China will ultimately go by the new railway to Tonquin and thence by sea; and the return trade with Yunnan will be lost to Burmah. Sir H. Barnes also indorses Mr. Litton's opinion to the effect that the Indian drug has obtained a market of its own in China. Its consumption is said to be confined to the wealthy and fastidious classes, and it is argued that in these circumstances the demand would be unaffected by the grant of facilities for the transport of Yünnan opium through Burmah to the Far East.\n\n(3.) The prohibition in the Burmah-China Convention against the importation of Chinese opium into Burmah was insisted on by the British Government in order to prevent any disturbance of the excise arrangements in force in Burmah; and all that is now suggested is that permission should be accorded to the Chinese Government to transport Chinese opium to Chinese ports by a route which passes through British territory, but which is more direct, safer, and more expeditious than the inland route. China will thereby be enabled to levy the full li-kin due upon the opium, while Burmah will benefit by the expansion of the trade with Yunnan, and possibly by the reduction of the contraband trade in opium across the Yunnan frontier. Mr. Litton anticipates that, if the good-will of Sir R. Hart be secured, the rule prescribing that all opium imported into China by sea shall be taxed as Indian opium will probably be relaxed.\n\n3. The Government of India have given this question their most careful consideration; and, although they are unable to accept all the arguments advanced by Mr. Litton and supported by Sir Hugh Barnes, they are inclined, on the facts as now presented, and in view of the importance of the political issues involved, to accept the general lines of the scheme put forward by the Government of Burmah. They agree that, if the transport of Yunnan opium be permitted, some expansion of the trade between Burmah and that province will necessarily occur; and although the extent of this expansion is problematical, they consider that it will in any case be of considerable political value, and may reasonably be regarded as sufficient to counterbalance, if not to outweigh, the disadvantages inherent in the scheme. They are also of opinion that one of the most important objections to the proposal, as originally submitted, can be removed by imposing a transit duty, leviable at such rates as may be fixed from time to time by the Government of India, on Yunnan opium passing through Burmah in bond. This would enable the Government of India to regulate to a considerable extent the price of the drug in the Far Eastern ports; and the power would be most useful, should it eventually prove that the sales of Indian opium were suffering owing to the competition of the cheaper drug. The proceeds of the duty would also cover the cost of the preventive establishments employed in connection with the scheme, and would compensate, in some degree, for any loss of revenue which might occur owing to smuggling.\n\n4. The Government of India are, however, somewhat doubtful as to the precise scope of the scheme recommended for adoption. Certain passages in the correspondence seem to imply that a mere waiver of the prohibition against the import of opium from Chinese territories into Burmah would be sufficient to divert the Yunnan opium traffic to the Bhamo-Tengyueh route. It is even stated that a powerful Syndicate of Chinese merchants has already been formed in Rangoon to operate at once in the event of the prohibition being removed. If these merchants, who have not apparently suggested the need for any special concessions at the hands of the Chinese Government, are prepared to start their operations on a basis which only requires the withdrawal of certain restrictions by the Government of India, and needs no antecedent negotiations with the Chinese Government, there would be an obvious advantage in at once making the necessary arrangements to admit Yünnan opium into Burmah, and in postponing the endeavour to obtain peculiar privileges from the Chinese Government, until the new traffic has been established, and until the merchants concerned are in a position, as the result of practical experience, to indicate clearly the disabilities under which they suffer and the means by which these might best be removed. On the other hand, the general tenour of the correspondence which has taken place regarding this subject points to the conclusion that a mere waiver of the Treaty right would be wholly inoperative, unless supplemented by a definite agreement with the Chinese Government under which Yunnan opium exported to China by sea would be permitted to enter that country at a favourable rate of duty as compared with Indian opium. This latter conclusion is also supported by independent considerations. At present Yunnan opium may be dispatched to the Far East by two routes: it may be forwarded via the Red River Valley and Tonquin, and thence by sea to China, or it may be sent overland. In the former case, it would seem to be subject to taxation at the same rate as foreign opium on arrival in China; in the latter case, it would be subject to the various li-kins and taxes levied by the Chinese Provincial Governments. The Government of India understand, however, that little or no opium produced in Yunnan is at present dispatched to China by the Tonquin route, and the reason may be that the imposition upon such opium of the duty levied upon the foreign drug is, in fact, prohibitive. In these circumstances, if His Majesty's Government merely waive their right under the Convention, and permit the transport of the drug through Burmah, without negotiating for the admission of Yunnan opium into China at a favourable rate as compared with \"foreign\" opium, it is possible that the Yunnan opium trade will not follow the Bhamo-Tengyueh route any more than it at present follows the nearer Mengtse-Tonquin route; and the Government would have laid themselves open to misrepresentation of their opium policy, without having secured any compensating advantage.\n\nIt is essential that this question should be definitely settled before the Secretary of State can be addressed on the subject. If an arrangement with China constitutes an integral part of the scheme, as it apparently does, it will be necessary to place the matter before His Majesty's Government in sufficient detail to enable them to enter at once into the necessary negotiations. Mr. Litton explains that it will be necessary \"to negotiate an arrangement with China which will include (1) arrangements with the Imperial Customs, i.e., Sir R. Hart; (2) with the Peking Government; (3) with the Yunnan provincial Government and li-kin authorities; (4) with the Canton and Liang Kiang (Nanking) Viceroys and their li-kin and provincial Governments.\" The concession which should be obtained from each of these authorities is not, however, precisely stated, and I am therefore to request that detailed information may now be furnished regarding the privileges which it is considered necessary to secure, and the reasons which render them indispensable to the success of the scheme.\n\n6. 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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## SOUTH-WEST CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September ...]\n\nSEC842 ¡RECR\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.—(Received September 14 OCT 05/)\n\nIndia Office, September 6, 1905, WITH reference to Mr. Villiers' letter of the 1st August, 1904, on the subject of the relations between China and Kanjut, and of the frontier between Kashmir and the Chinese dominions, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Brodrick to inclose, for the consideration of the Marquess of Lansdowne, a copy of further correspondence with the Government of India on the subject.\n\nLord Lansdowne will see that, for the reasons explained in the 4th paragraph of their letter of the 26th January last, the Government of India now propose to abandon all Hunza claims to Raskam and to the Taghdumbash, provided the Chinese Government agree:\n\n1. To sever entirely their connection with Hunza.\n2. To recognize formally a frontier-line, which, starting from Peak Scheikovski, would follow the watershed of the Mustagh Range, with the exception of a projection in the vicinity of the Shingshal Pass, where, at a point about 6 miles south-west of the Oprang Pass, the line would leave the main watershed, run due east for about 5 miles, thence south-east to the Mustagh (wrongly called Oprang) River, which it would follow to a point about 4 miles above the junction of the stream from the Shingshal Pass, and thence, ascending the nearest high spur to the west, regain the main watershed. (A map showing the line claimed in 1899 in blue, and the deviations from it now proposed in red, is annexed.†)\n3. To recognize Mr. Macartney as British Consul at Kashgar.\n\nWith regard to the question of effective control over the territory within the frontier it is proposed to claim, Lord Lansdowne will see that the Government of India consider that the advantage to be gained by the inclusion of a portion of the Taghdumbash Pamir would be incommensurate with the expense and difficulty of controlling it; but that, in the case of the Shingshal enclave, the Mir of Hunza has for many years maintained a post at Darwaza.\n\nMr. Brodrick fully recognizes the importance which is attached by the Government of India to an early settlement with China, in view of the uncertainty of the Chinese tenure of Kashgaria; but it has already been decided, on Sir E. Satow's advice, to defer action on the question of the Kashgar Consulate pending the conclusion of the negotiations regarding the Thibet Convention; and, inasmuch as this is an integral part of the general settlement proposed by the Government of India, he would not be prepared to press for immediate action in case Sir E. Satow should adhere to his former view.\n\nHe would therefore suggest that, if Lord Lansdowne should think fit, Sir E. Satow might be consulted as to the opportunity for addressing the Chinese Government upon the whole question.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**HORACE WALPOLE.**\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n### Mr. Brodrick to Government of India.\n\nIndia Office, August 9, 1904.  \n**NORTHERN frontier.**  \nYour Secret letter of the 24th March last.  \nThe view of His Majesty's Government is that, unless your Government are in a position to exercise effective control up to the frontier to which we lay claim, it will not be advisable to make any communication regarding the boundary to the Chinese Government. Meanwhile they desire to be furnished with a report as to the measures which it would be practicable to adopt with a view to securing observance of the frontier...\n\nPage 382",
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        "content_text": "## 12 \n\n2. It will be observed that, in addition to increasing the number of fighting levies in each State to 250 men, I recommend the establishment of a post of ten men at Murkushi, which is situated at the junction of the tracks leading from the Killik and Mintaka Passes, and an increase to the bodyguards of both Chiefs, and a discontinuance of the term \"civil levies,\" except in Gujbal, the upper district of Hunza, where the people, owing to intermarriage with Wakhis, are thought to be inferior as fighting men to the men of Lower Hunza.\n\n3. The number of Jamadars and Section Commanders now proposed by me may appear excessive, but I consider that they are required in order to provide for men of good family, some of whom are already in receipt of allowances under the old scheme. I would also explain that if this portion of the new scheme is approved it will ensure small increases to the allowances hitherto drawn by men who served as Section Commanders in the Chitral campaign, in which they rendered valuable services.\n\n4. Both the Mir and the Wazir of Hunza strongly advocated the establishment of a permanent levy post at Murkushi, and I agree with them in thinking that an outpost at this place is really required.\n\n## 13 \n\nThe Wazir does not propose to go to Matamdas himself, but will send one of his numerous sons.\n\n6. In conclusion, I would urge that the State Council be moved to pass a resolution allotting the Matamdas lands to the Hunza people with as little delay as possible.\n\n## Inclosure 21 in No. 1.\n\n**Captain Gurdon to Mr. Colvin.**\n\nGilgit, May 31, 1904. WITH reference to your Office indorsement dated the 1st November, 1904, regarding the proposal to settle some of the people of Hunza at Matamdas in the Gilgit Wazarat, I have the honour to inform you that the Mir has now written to me saying he gratefully accepts the conditions set forth in the letter dated the 28th October, 1901, from the Vice-President of the State Council to the address of the Assistant Resident.\n\n2. With his letter the Mir incloses a list of 180 names of men who are desirous of taking up land at Matamdas, among them being his son Shah Baz Ali Khan and Wazir Humayun Beg and other influential men.\n\n3. The Wazir Wazarat informs me that some families from the village of Nomal and other hamlets in the vicinity are also desirous of acquiring land at Matamdas.* In view, however, of the fact that there is only room at Matamdas for about thirty holdings, I would suggest that this land be set aside for the Hunza people; and that the Nomal people be given land near the mouth of the Bagrot Valley or at some other place (in this connection see paragraphs 6 and 7 of Major Manners-Smith's letter dated the 8th November, 1900) further down the valley. I understand that the Nomal people are not really urgently in need of land at present, whereas the Hunza people are. It is most important to encourage emigration from Hunza, and in order to accustom the people gradually to the idea of leaving their country, it is desirable that the first colony should be established at a place within easy reach of their old home. Later on when emigration becomes more popular land might be found for the Hunza people in the Yasin Valley.\n\n4. I inclose a note, dated the 26th May, 1904, submitted to me by Mr. Stainton, from which it will be seen that that officer recommends that, in order to ensure the construction of a satisfactory irrigation channel at Matamdas, a certain amount of blasting, the cost of which he estimates will amount to 800 rupees, should be done under his supervision. Mr. Stainton suggests that this expenditure be met from the annual grant given by the State for the maintenance of irrigation channels in the Wazarat. I have assented to this suggestion in anticipation of the sanction of the State, as it is most desirable that the work should be started as soon as possible. I am consulting the Wazir Wazarat as to whether he can conveniently spare such a large proportion of his annual grant for Matamdas; and if he cannot do so I propose to ask for a special grant which might be provided by reappropriation from other allotments in the Budget.\n\n5. As regards the Mir's request for a grant of land to his son, I would explain that he understands that his son will be treated exactly in the same manner as other settlers.\n\n* Matamdas is on the left bank of the Hunza River, and nearly opposite Nomal, which is on the right bank of the river.\n\n## Inclosure 22 in No. 1.\n\n**Mr. Stainton to Captain Gurdon.**\n\nGilgit, May 26, 1904. YOUR demi-official of the 7th May from Camp Minappin.\n\n1. I inspected and made a survey of the Matamdas nullah on the 24th and 25th instant with a view to seeing if the kul can be restored by blasting the rocky parri in the nullah.\n\n## 388 \n\n2. The kul can be restored for a cost of 800 rupees on the following assumption, i.e., that all blasting work with pacca walling and revetments in the rocky parri are executed by Public Works Department so that the full amount of water flows into the existing main kul on the down-stream side of the parri, while the leading of the water into the rocky parri channel from the nullah bed (or, as we would technically call it, \"the head works\") would be executed by the zamindars.\n\n3. The kul has been twice constructed in this rocky parri on economical but unsound principles, first by Wazir Ghulam Haidar, by heavy walling in the nullah bed, which was continually washed away by flood and deep scour, and, secondly, by Captain Lothbinière by a wooden trough line suspended from jumpers fixed in the rocky cliff. The latter was entirely washed away by a mud flood some nine years ago, since which the Kul has not been used.\n\n4. The only permanent way of overcoming this is by blasting the kul in the vertical cliff and constructing a 2 ft. 6 in. kul with pacca wall to prevent leakage. Water can always be easily led into this kul from the nullah bed by zamindars.\n\n5. The actual face of rocky vertical parti to be blasted is 250 feet long, with some pacca revetment walling.\n\n6. The zamindars need only go 198 feet beyond the rocky parri inside the nullah bed for a water channel to get sufficient \"head\" for water to flow easily into the kul. I have taken the levels myself and marked with red paint the exact positions on large boulders in the nullah bed.\n\n7. The construction of pacca \"head works\" would be prohibitive and unnecessary, owing to the very heavy annual mud floods in this nullah, and moreover the zamindars can very easily lead the water into the channel and if necessary rebuild this channel in the nullah bed each year according to the action of the floods.\n\n8. There is a State annual repair grant of 1,000 rupees for maintenance of kuls in the Gilgit Agency which I hand over each year to the Wazir Wazarat, Gilgit, for executing the work under district works rules, but if you wish this kul to have priority of all other kuls, which I would strongly recommend, I will get the work done by Public Works Department before the end of the coming autumn, and hand over 200 rupees to the Wazir Wazarat for other kuls' repairs.\n\n9. This kul will irrigate all the cultivable land at Matamdas, which is not less than 80 acres, after deducting stone walls and débris.\n\n[2167 -1]",
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        "content_text": "**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Inclosure 40 in No. 1.\n\n### Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, December 3, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to invite a reference to the correspondence ending with my letter dated the 12th November, under cover of which I forwarded a copy of a letter of the 2nd October, 1904, from my Special Assistant in Kashgar, expressing his views in connection with the alignment of the frontier between Kashmir and the Chinese New Dominion. The Political Agent, Gilgit, who has recently been touring in Hunza and Nagar, has been able to consult the Mir of the former place, and has, in consequence, very much modified the views which he held before, and which were quoted in paragraph 7 of my letter dated the 12th October, 1904, in regard to the portion of the line affecting Darwaza. The Mir explains that there is no grazing on the Hunza side of the pass, and that the people of Shimsbal (more correctly Shingshal) always resort in summer to the valley, or Pamirs as he calls it, between the pass and Darwaza. He also says that they sometimes go 20 miles beyond Darwaza for grazing, and that there is a place about 5 miles beyond Darwaza from which they fetch salt. Major Gurdon further states that the inclusion of the Ghorzerab Valley within the limits of Hunza is a matter of considerable importance to the Shingstalis, who mainly depend on their flocks for their livelihood, and to whom it is therefore a matter of extreme importance that the grazing rights, which they have hitherto enjoyed, should be secured to them. These people keep their flocks and herds in the Ghorzerab Valley in the late autumn for a period of three months because less snow falls there than in the valley between the Shingshal Pass and Darwaza. The Mir of Hunza states that the grazing in the Ghorzerab has been enjoyed since time immemorial by the Shingshalis, and he doubts whether the Kirghiz or Sarikolis even know of the existence of the valley. It appears clear that the right of the Shingshalis to the Ghorzerah has never yet been challenged by any one. In this connection, and in order to ascertain the position the Ghorzerab Valley, which is not marked on map No. 52, S. 94, I would invite a reference to the notes recorded by Major Manners-Smith, in connection with the Shimshal Pass and routes thence into Hunza, which were forwarded to you under cover of this office letter of the 1st August, 1901. The valley lies 8 miles below the junction of the Shingshal Stream with the Mustagh River (on the map wrongly marked as Oprang, vide No. 13 of the notes referred to above) and 4 miles above the point where the Oprang joins the Mustagh.\n\n2. Major Gurdon now proposes the following alignment: Starting from the Khunjerab Pass, the boundary should run south along the main watershed as far as a point about 4 miles south-west of the Oprang Pass. At this point it should leave the main watershed and continue down the spur which forms the watershed between the Oprang and Ghorzerab Valleys until it reaches the Mustagh River. The Mustagh River would then form the boundary up to a point about 4 miles above the junction of the stream from the Shingshal Pass, so that the salt deposits referred to by the Mir of Hunza may be included. From this last point it would ascend the nearest high spur to the west and regain the main crest, which it should then again follow on the lines indicated by Sir Claude MacDonald in his letter to the Tsung-li Yamên, dated the 14th March, 1899.\n\n3. I regret that the importance of the Darwaza post and of the grazing grounds between it and the Shimshal Pass and in the Ghorzerab Valley was previously overlooked. In view, now, of the Mir's assertion and Captain Manners-Smith's report, which I had not previously seen, I think that the Ghorzerab Valley should be included within our proposed border as well as the valley between Darwaza and the Shimshal Pass. If we depart at all from the main mountain crests in order to include Darwaza, there is less objection to aligning this division so as to include the Ghorzerab Valley. It is a pity to leave the main watershed at all, but the position of Darwaza seems to compel us to do this, and, that being so, it is only reasonable to include the Ghorzerab Valley as well as Darwaza, as the Mir's rights there seem to be equally strong and well substantiated. I would therefore support Major Gurdon's proposed line.\n\n## Inclosure 41 in No. 1.\n\n### Government of India to Mr. Brodrick.\n\nCalcutta, January 12, 1905.\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**\n\nHUNZA-CHINA frontier: Lord Ampthill's telegram of 16th August. We shall shortly send you despatch, suggesting composite arrangement for settlement with Chinese Government of all our difficulties in Chinese Turkestan.\n\n## Inclosure 42 in No. 1.\n\n### Mr. Brodrick to Government of India.\n\nIndia Office, February 24, 1905.\n\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nHUNZA-CHINA frontier. Please refer to Government of India letter of the 20th January last. I request that I may be furnished with a map on which precise boundary you now wish to claim, from longitude 74° 55′ to 80° east, should be clearly marked. As regards boundary in neighbourhood of Shingshal Pass, is the line now proposed identical with that which you recommended in 1899?\n\n## Inclosure 43 in No. 1.\n\n### Government of India to Mr. Brodrick.\n\nSimla, August 10, 1905.\n\n**(Secret.)**\n\nWITH reference to his Excellency the Viceroy's telegram, dated the 10th March, 1905, we have the honour to forward, for the information of His Majesty's Government, a map indicating the boundary between Hunza and Chinese Turkestan, as claimed by Sir Claude MacDonald in his despatch, dated the 14th March, 1899, and that which it is now recommended the Chinese Government should be invited to accept as part of the general settlement of all outstanding difficulties in Chinese Turkestan.\n\n2. The boundary which was claimed in 1899 is indicated by a blue line; the variations now proposed are marked in red. The proposals of 1899 contemplated that the line, after leaving the crest of the Mustagh Range in the vicinity of the Shingshal Pass, should run in an easterly direction, and then turn southward so as just to include the part of Darwaza within the Hunza frontier. Thereafter it was to continue its southward trend until it regained the main crests. We now recommend that the boundary should run from the Kunjerab Pass south along the main watershed, as far as a point about 6 miles south-west of the Oprang Pass. At this point the line should leave the main watershed, run due east for about 5 miles, and then continue in a south-easterly direction until it strikes the Mustagh River (incorrectly shown on the map as the Oprang) at Kuram-jilga. The Mustagh River would then form the boundary up to a point about 4 miles above the junction of the stream from the Shingshal Pass; from this point it would ascend the nearest high spur to the west and regain the main crest, which it would then follow on the lines indicated in Sir Claude MacDonald's despatch to the Tsung-li Yamên of the 14th March, 1899.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| CURZON |\n| KITCHENER |\n| E. R. ELLES |\n| A. T. ARUNDEL |\n| H. ERLE RICHARDS |\n| E. N. BAKER |\n| C. L. TUPPER |\n\n*Map to illustrate the explorations of Captain F. E. Younghusband, King's Dragoon Guards, on the northern frontier of Kashmir. Scale 1 inch 16 miles.-Not printed.*",
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        "content_text": "# \n募 \n\n16 \n\nconfined to the lower slopes. Half-way up the hills where our road lay opium was the most important crop, followed by a summer sowing of maize, but we also saw some patches of wheat and beans.\n\nThe Lisu are stay-at-home people, which is not surprising in view of the difficulty of getting about. Few of them can give any information about country more than three days' march from their own village, and fewer still have ever seen a town of 1,000 inhabitants or a square mile of flat country. These hills are so cut off from all relief by the outer world, and the villagers are so poor, that the problem of how to get enough to eat is the burning question of the day. There are no free-traders here. In none of the villages beyond Lu Chang could we buy a pound of rice or other cereals, though fowls and an occasional goat were forthcoming. Even paterfamilias practises high protection. He tries to get enough grain to feed himself and his family till the next harvest, and will not let a spoonful go out of the house.\n\nThe Chinese lower down the Salween regard all the country above Mao Chao as \"black\" or wild Lisu territory, utterly beyond the pale of civilization. There are no Chinese residents on the Salween north of Cheng Ka. No doubt the Lisu often raid in various directions, hunger being the chief incentive, though sometimes the object is to make slaves, or, in the case of forays towards the north, to cut off the Chinese gold-workers. The slave traffic seems fairly brisk. At Pai Pa the price of a male or female child of 8 to 10 years was about 20 rupees, but some of our porters told us that if we could come on to their village some distance further north we should find a larger selection and at easier rates. The slavery is of the domestic type, but the slave has also to work in the fields.\n\nAt Pai Pa, while I was sitting in my tent, I was surprised by a very dirty old man with remarkably brilliant black eyes, who threw himself down on the ground at the door of my tent and began a chant in a high, loud voice. I thought that he was a beggar, and asked the by-standers what his song was all about. They said in a rather awe-struck manner that they did not understand it. On inquiry I then discovered that I was in the presence of the local soothsayer, or medicine man.\n\nRealizing that he might be a person of some importance, I at once gave him a necklace of red beads and a rupee, whereupon he declared, in language which could be understood of the people, that my goings and comings in the Lisu country would be most prosperous--an announcement which had an impressive effect on the by-standers.\n\nThese \"tien ssu,\" or prophets, as the Chinese call them, are to be found in many Lisu villages. They deal in charms, medicines, funeral rites, omens, incantations, and in the knowledge of all things which, for the ordinary mortal, are hidden in the womb of time. No doubt among the ignorant villagers they have considerable influence, and could, if they wished, raise disturbances. The language of their trade is probably an archaic form of Lisu, and the various chants and invocations which they use have been handed down for generations and from times of old.\n\nI cannot confirm the reports of the savage and barbarous habits of these Lisu. I was entirely in their hands for two weeks, and I found that their good-will was very easy to win.\n\nPorters were always forthcoming so long as there was a ration of rice to give them, and I never had the least trouble. They are a hardy race, and though their manners are rough, they did not appear to be given to quarrelling among themselves like the Kachins, and the European traveller can march with them without feeling that uncontrollable desire to assault them which he nearly always feels in the case of Chinese coolies. Given the absence of Chinese soldiers and officials, and a carefully arranged supply of food, the complete exploration of the Lisu country on the Upper Salween would, for a good walker, be no difficult task, provided that he went in the autumn, when the weather is fine, when there is the minimum of snow on the passes, and local supplies of cereal food for a small party could be purchased.\n\nFrom the village of Pai Pa there is a pass via the village of Chi Me Le westwards over the great Salween divide to Langsu or the Maru country along the N Maikha, while Kang Fang on the Upper Ngaw Chang River can also be reached by this pass in four days from Pai Pa. There is said to be another route over this range some three days north of Pai Pa, but the communication between the Salween and the N'Maikha is difficult and unfrequent, as the Marus and Lisu have very little to do with each other. We had hoped to explore the Chi Me Le Pass, but the deep snows and continuous rain rendered the track quite impassable.\n\n17\n\n## Chinese Expedition to the Maru Country\n\n441\n\nThe Chinese Headman of Ku T'an, a village near Teng Keng, came into camp at Lu Chang and told me all about an attempt which had been made in the 16th year of Kwang Hsü (1890) to establish Chinese influence on the Upper N'Maikha. He had taken charge of the expedition, which consisted of fifty persons, nearly all Chinese. The venture was financed by the Teng Keng, Ta Tang, and Ming Kwang Headmen to the extent of 3,000 taels. It had two objects--firstly, to check the advance of British control from Myitkyina; and, secondly, to work the brine wells on the N'Maikha at about latitude 26° 30′.\n\nThe venture proved a failure owing to the extreme difficulty of the country, the absence of proper arrangements to bring up supplies, and the deadly climate. The Headman told me that he could speak some Maru, and had remained on the Upper N'Maikha for about seven months. The Maru villages he described as being constantly at feud with one another, and endeavouring to enlist his assistance in their quarrels.\n\nThe brine wells proved to be rich, but the expense and difficulty of transport to China rendered it impossible to make any profit, and the attempt to establish a Chinese colony had to be abandoned. This Ku Tan Headman was a particularly intelligent man, and told me that the Chinese, with their methods, would never be able to open up the country, and that they have no funds to make what was absolutely essential, namely, a passable track. He asked me to mention that he would like to serve under any British officer who might be conducting an expedition into the Maru country. His route had been via Kang Fang, then across the Ngaw Chang, and up into the mountains beyond.\n\nTo describe the government of the Lisu on the Upper Salween would be like describing the snakes of Iceland. North of latitude 26° there is practically none, except in so far as the \"prophets\" and old men of each village look after the affairs of that village. The jurisdiction of the Teng Keng Fu Yi (residing on the right bank of the Salween, latitude 26°), extends along the right bank only as far as the Ku Tan. Many of Teng Keng's villages are Chinese, or half-caste Lisu. The Teng Keng Fu Yi is a boy of about 16. Proceeding north, the next Fu Yi is at Lu Chang, to the north of the Ku Tan Stream, and situated at 6,000 feet high above the right bank of the Salween. This Fu Yi is an intelligent child of 9; he is of Lisu extraction, and the clan name is Cha. His affairs are managed by his mother and their villagers. Practically all Lisu seem to be in a prosperous and happy condition. The Lu Chang territory is about 10 miles from south to north. Next comes the Mao Chao Fu Yi. His village, like Lu Chang, is perched on a terrace 3,000 feet above the right bank of the river, and backed by the snowy Irrawaddy divide. This Fu Yi is about 35 years of age; his territory is some 14 miles from north to south, and entirely inhabited by Lisu. His rule is wholly confined to attempts, sometimes successful, sometimes otherwise, to levy money or goods from his villages. Pai Pa is the last Mao Chao village proceeding north.\n\nBeyond Pai Pa for three days the country nominally belongs to the Lao Wo Fu Yi, who resides in the hills between the Salween and the Mekong at about latitude 26°. The village of Cheng-ka, on the right bank of the Salween, below Pai Pa, and its ferry belongs to him, and his agent resides at Cheng-ka. Lao Wo's efforts at government appear to be less successful than those of Mao Chao, but they go further, for he does not confine himself to trying to levy money; he also endeavours from time to time to raid his subjects and carry off the fairest of their damsels.\n\nAgain, north of the territory claimed by Lao Wo, the Fu Yi of Chou, known as \"Lo Tu Kuan,\" i.e., the native official Lo, who has his residence on the Mekong, is supposed to be the overlord of the Lisu on both banks of the Salween; but his control, even on the left bank, and in the hills between the Salween and the Mekong, is of so shadowy a description that it may be said not to exist at all.\n\nNone of these Fu Yi appear to claim, and most certainly none of them control, any territory to the west of the great divide in the Irrawaddy basin.\n\nNorth of about latitude 27° 40′ the La Tzu tribe along the banks of the Salween are supposed to be tributary to the Moso, Thibetan Chief of Yetche, on the left bank of the Mekong. North, again, of the Lu Tzu country, i.e., from about latitude 28° 20′, the Salween Valley is, it is believed, wholly inhabited by Thibetans of the Tsarong Province.\n\n[2167 x-1]",
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        "content_text": "## 30\n\nWe proceeded northwards, and surveyed as far as the boundary of Li Chiang territory; we thence returned to Tengyueh on account of the heavy rains which had commenced.\n\nThe Upper Salween country is of great importance to West Yunnan, and though it has not yet been opened up, it will in future naturally fall within the sphere of Yunnan control. Burma will raise no objection to this; but the upper waters of the Irrawaddy are of the utmost importance to Burma, and though the country has not yet been developed, it must ultimately belong to Burma.\n\nTo sum up, commencing from the source of the Ming Kwang River, and thence proceeding straight up to the crest of the Kao Li Kung snow range, and then proceeding north along this crest to Tibet, all country which is in the basins of the Shweli or the Salween should belong to Yunnan, and all country which is in the basin of the Irrawaddy should belong to Burma. According to this division, all the Lisu and Lu Tzu of the Salween will be in Yunnan, and all the Kachins and Marus will be in Burma, and there will be a definite boundary in the shape of a great snow-clad range.\n\nAs for the presents and tolls now taken from the Kachins by the Teng Keng and other Chinese Headmen, the Government of Burma is willing to make liberal compensation so as to avoid the least loss falling upon your Fu Yi; but not only is my Government unable at the present moment to recognize any of the country on the west of the watershed as Chinese territory, but they cannot contemplate that in the future any part of it can be assigned to Yunnan. I will now proceed to explain to your Honour the reasons for this, which I hope you will take into consideration:\n\n1. At present, none of the villages in the Ngaw Chang basin are in point of fact controlled by your Fu Yi. I think that your Honour is very well aware of the feeble and vicious character of these Fu Yi; but the Government of Burma already controls the Shi Ngaw and Tun Maw Valleys. The inhabitants are of the same tribe as those of the Ngaw Chang, and will therefore easily be brought under control.\n\n2. As the Fu Yi are unable to control this tract, still less will the Chinese officials of Tengyueh be able to control it, in view of the distance, the mountains, and the difficulty of procuring supplies. Thus, the Burma Government would have to establish military posts all along their frontier. This could not be done under an annual cost of several tens of thousands of taels. If posts are not established, then Burma will constantly be suffering damage, as may be seen from what has happened in Meng Mao and Meng Wan (Bhamo frontier).\n\nIt follows the crest. The boundary which I have now suggested is the natural one.\n\n3. It assigns all the Kachin villages to Burma, assigns all the Chinese-inhabited villages to China; it gives all the Upper Salween and Upper Shweli to China, and all the Irrawaddy to Burma; further, both sides of the watershed are uninhabited, and covered with dense forest for a distance of over 10 li from the crest, and this divide has always been regarded by the local people as a frontier. Thus, the line suggested is not only in accordance with the geography of the place, but is suitable as an ethnographical frontier.\n\n4. On the west of the divide, the whole country consists of a complicated mass of cliffs and numerous rivers; in fact, no frontier can be found except the watershed. If this is not accepted, serious calamities will supervene along the border.\n\n5. The \"Tengyueh Gazetteer\" gives the three \"ai\" or narrow passes (Ming Kwang, Ta Tang, Tien Tan) as the frontier; the \"Yung Chang Gazetteer\" gives the Kachin Hills as the frontier; the official general map of Yunnan gives the watershed as the frontier; last year, the Chinese Foreign Office, in a despatch addressed to His Majesty's Minister, declared that, after repeated inquiries, no such river as the N'Maikha could be found. These points clearly show how the matter really stands.\n\n6. The country to the west of the watershed is quite valueless to China, but on account of its geographical situation is of much importance to Burma. If it is not assigned to Burma, the control of a large stretch of country will be rendered difficult to that Government.\n\nThese are the reasons why the watershed forms the most suitable frontier. When the frontier between Meng Mao and Bhamo was being delimited, it was found that a district known as the triangle, and nominally under the Meng Mao jurisdiction, was inhabited by Kachins addicted to raiding. Its possession by Meng Mao was useless to Meng Mao and injurious to Burma. It was therefore agreed that the district should be placed under the jurisdiction of Burma, and that Burma should pay 1,000 rupees per annum as compensation; thus, Meng Mao receives a larger revenue than formerly, and the country has been reduced to peace and order, to the mutual benefit of both parties.\n\nIn the present instance, as loss might be incurred by the Chinese Headmen, the two Governments might act in accordance with the precedent of the Meng Mao triangle, and a perpetual lease might be granted to Burma. The rent would be paid over to the Chinese officials for distribution at their discretion among their various Headmen, the proportions in which the money would be distributed being no concern of the Government of Burma.\n\nBurma would willingly pay this sum by way of compensation, and would on no account permit any loss to fall upon your Headmen.\n\nWe have made the joint inquiry into the frontier according to our instructions, but as we have no authority to delimit, I would request your Honour now to report to your Government, while I will submit to His Majesty's Minister a report in terms similar to this despatch. We must then await further orders from our Governments, on the receipt of which we can proceed to an amicable settlement. Any slight differences of opinion which we may have will, I think, be easily settled by negotiation.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\n**Government of Burma to Government of India.**\n\nMaymyo, June 24, 1905. IN continuation of my letter dated the 19th June, 1905, I am directed to submit, for the information of the Government of India, copies of papers which relate to the frontier between Burma and Yunnan, north of Manangpum.\n\n2. The papers show that Mr. Litton has made a definite claim to fix the Irrawaddy-Salween watershed as the boundary up to the confines of Tibet. In my letter above cited, the Lieutenant-Governor has shown cause for not pressing our claims to a fixed boundary higher than latitude 20° 30′ and for not basing any argument on tribal distribution. If, however, the Chinese Government can be brought to agree to the watershed as a frontier up to the confines of Tibet on payment of a fixed sum, there is no objection. His Honour would, however, deprecate any precise statement as to where China ends and Tibet begins, and would also prefer not to agree to pay rent or compensation to an amount to be fixed by subsequent inquiry.\n\n3. Sir Herbert White concurs in Mr. Litton's suggestion that the Imperial and Provincial Governments of China and Yunnan should be clearly made to understand that the British Government is determined to have the watershed frontier, and that, if China is not willing to forego shadowy claims in return for a cash payment, the Government of Burma will be instructed to occupy and administer the country without further negotiation. For reasons stated by Mr. Litton in his letter dated the 7th June to Sir E. Satow, it appears likely that this argument will exercise considerable influence upon the Government of Yunnan.\n\nI am to submit a copy of Mr. Litton's map with the boundary suggested by Taotai Shih and that suggested by Mr. Litton, marked with red and blue lines respectively. The Ngaw Chang would be a very bad boundary, as there are villages on both sides near to each other, and there might be frequent disputes. The boundary suggested by Mr. Litton is clearly the most suitable in every respect.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Inclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\n**Acting Consul Litton to Government of Burma.**\n\nTengyueh, June 8, 1905. IN continuation of my Report on the joint examination of the northern undelimited frontier, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a despatch which... \n\n## 31\n\n448",
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        "content_text": "# \n14 \n\nOn Saturday, October 21st, the members of all Units took part in a small Field Day in the New Territory; they showed a keen interest in the proceedings and I think were enabled to acquire some knowledge of taking cover, fire control, &c., &c. \n\nThe Hongkong Volunteer Troop also took part on this occasion and gained experience in embarking and disembarking their ponies. It is now proposed to add more of this form of exercise to the drill season. \n\nHongkong Volunteer Engineers.-The Engineer Company attended the Camp better than in any previous year and were put through a very thorough course by the R.E. Mechanists; they also undertook the lighting of the whole Camp by electricity with great success. \n\n## Gun Practice \nPreliminary instructional practice with the Maxim Guns was carried out on 3 occasions on the Range, and the men were practised in quickly getting the gun again into action after a jam. Practice was carried out from four 15-pr. B.L. Guns from Stone-cutters Island, North Shore, on October 28th. Targets were placed on the slopes of Chung Hue. \n\nThe practice was carried out by sections instead of as a battery as in the case of previous years, this being a better training for the Officers for the actual duties they would be required to carry out on mobilisation. \n\nOn the 23rd October, the practice was elementary for the special instruction of the Section Officers and Gun Layers and was therefore slowly carried out; 4 Series were fired, the target for each series being 3 screens and 12 dummies representing 3 field guns, 6 men standing and 6 kneeling, the ranges varied from 3,050 to 3,350 yards. \n\n| Series | Rounds Fired | Targets Hit | Screens Hit | Range (yards) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1-4 | 64 | 16/48 dummies | 10/12 screens | 3,050-3,350 |\n| Last Series | 14 | 6/15 targets | ... | 3,300 |\n\n64 rounds were fired and the results were good; altogether 16 dummies out of 48 and 10 screens out of 12 were put out of action - total number of actual bullet holes 90. The best series being the last under Captain SKINNER at a range of 3,300, in which 14 rounds were fired and 6 of the 15 targets were hit. \n\nOn 28th October, the positions of the targets were changed; four series were again fired, 10 gun detachments were present and all took part; there was a very marked improvement in the rapid service of the guns in most cases, and the Range Officer reported that there was a much larger percentage of effective rounds and the ground all about the targets was ploughed up by shell and bullet holes although in many cases the dummies were not actually hit. \n\n71 rounds were fired, and 16 dummies and 5 screens were put out of action. \n\nThe best and quickest series was fired by the Right Half No. 2 Company under Captain ARMSTRONG; they fired 16 rounds in 9.4 minutes and killed 8 dummies out of 12 and all the screens. \n\nAll the squads were changed out to the Maxim Guns and fired at barrel targets, with good results. \n\nOne Maxim gun jammed frequently; this fault had been found with this gun at preliminary instructional practice on the Range and the gun had been thoroughly overhauled by the Armourer-Sergeant who replaced the old barrel with a new one. The fault was due to the connecting rod; new ones had been ordered for some time for all the guns but have not yet arrived in the Colony. \n\nColonel KENT, C.R.A., inspected the men at this practice, and His Excellency the Governor and His Excellency the G.O.C. were present. The C.R.A. reported favourably on the practice. \n\n## Musketry \nClass firing was carried out more thoroughly than in previous years, and 168 Officers and men fired the course; a good average was obtained. \n\nThe Officers and Staff Sergeants carried out Revolver Practice, showing a marked improvement on last year. \n\n## Inspection \nHis Excellency the Governor inspected the Camp on October 23rd and saw the Corps on parade; he stated that the arrangements were very satisfactory. \n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding inspected the Camp and the Corps on October 29th. He informed the Officers and men on parade that he saw a distinct improvement; the gun drill was well carried out and with far greater rapidity than in previous years. \n\nThe field day showed that the Corps had made a distinct advance, and he was glad to see that points which he had noticed on former occasions at drill and in the state of the Camp had been corrected. \n\nThe O.C.R.A. inspected the Artillery Units at Gun Practice and reported favourably. The O.C.S.M., R.E., carried out an examination of the members of the Engineer Company in their duties as electricians and engine-drivers and, except in the case of one man, reported very favourably on the results of the examination and the progress that had been made during the Camp. \n\n## Medical Officer's Report \nLieutenant C. FORSYTH, the Corps Medical Officer, was present every night during the Camp and was of great assistance to me in keeping the Camp in a good sanitary condition. The Hospital tent was fitted with greater comfort than in former years; beds with mosquito curtains were put up, but were not occupied. \n\nLieutenant FORSYTH reported as follows: \n\"I have practically no comments to make, as with a little supervising everything went splendidly; the food and drink were good, the latrines were kept in good order, and beyond a few cases of mild diarrhoea and some very minor surgical accidents nothing of a medical nature happened.\" \n\n## Discipline \nThe discipline of all ranks was excellent. \n\n## Remarks \nThe work done during the Camp was extremely good and the extension of the period from 10 to 16 days proved a great success, as I hoped; the extra knowledge gained by all ranks resulting in a far higher state of efficiency than has been attained in former years. \n\nNumerous improvements were introduced into the Camp; the most important being the thorough lighting of the Camp with electric light by the Engineer Company, the greater comfort of the Hospital tent, and an improved ablution place for the men. \n\nThe Officers attended the Camp even better than in previous years; every Officer present in the Colony attended nearly the whole time; the average attendance of Officers being 12 out of 13 each day. \n\nCaptain ARMSTRONG's Company, Right Half No. 2 Company H.K.V.A., showed a record attendance; every man attending Camp except those on leave. \n\nThe Corps Sergeant-Major gave me the greatest assistance as usual and the Corps Armourer-Sergeant and the Instructors all carried out their duties to the satisfaction of all ranks. \n\nThe Naval Range and the revolver range were very kindly placed at the disposal of the Corps by Commodore WILLIAMS, and the arrangements made by the Petty Officer and his assistants to enable the members of the Corps to complete their musketry course were very satisfactory. \n\nI have, &c., \n\n**C. G. PRITCHARD, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Vol. Corps.** \n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding made the following comments on the above Camp Report: \n\"This is a satisfactory report, for it shows progress all round and the attainment of greater proficiency. The good attendance is the outward and visible sign of the determination of all ranks to improve themselves.\" \n\n15 \n6",
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        "content_text": "281\n\nConfidential.\n\n(2).\n\n200 kr av. I\n\nSir:-\n\nRECEIVED.\n\n0.0.\n\n3112\n\n&\n\nYUNNANFU,\n\nRECEIVED 8 MAR 06\n\nJanuary 7th 1906.\n\n187\n\n... gou voitu la k\n\nafe? bas Jorbis? dn niumwoo\n\nVar I\n\nI have the honour to enclose an extract from a D.O. letter addressed to me on the 25th ultimo by Mr. Wilson, then Assistant in charge of the I.M. Customs at Mengtzu.\n\nI am writing to Mr. Carlisle, our Consul at Hanoi, asking him to procure for me the French text of the Regulation in question, and to ascertain if possible the reasons for a departure which if not retraced threatens to divert the Hongkong-Yunnan trade from the Red River Valley to its former course via Nanning in western Kuangsi. I am also sending, informally, a copy of the extract to the Government of Hongkong.\n\nFang taot'ai, Director of the provincial Bureau of Agriculture Trade and Industry, who leaves Yunnanfu in a few days for Japan, via Tongking and Hongkong, tells me that he is to protest to the French.\n\nTo the Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma,\n\nConsul",
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        "content_text": "Page 188\n\nConsul at Mengtzu and to the Governor General of Indo-China at Hanoi against the new Regulation. The West River route (via Nanning) is now as free from piracy and brigandage as it is ever likely to be under Chinese rule; otherwise the boycotting of Tongking may be expected to improve trade through Burma just as did the Red River disturbances in 1903.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI have &c.,\n\nW.H. Wilkinson.\n\nConsul-General.\n\nPage 189",
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        "content_text": "UMMA. BUY \n\n242 \n\n#A \n\nSKILLIW * 1890 \n\nLov havisu9% I \n\nmte samo offer le voldwide care Lie srid of a hold \n\n•oforo aer toehtomi \n\n# \n\nMead air chant fianaDC (BILDY \n\n0.519 \n\nYOSTEL THU: lo sqleseT \n\nqbal'b toitwo0 erit of msg \n\nTae Jess to be \n\nri noidgetta \n\ntane usa ebam keds I \n\nse ben onw eno \n\nteon 1971A \n\nA Milde tud astutupne \n\nwl add Lucyed edtofteb \n\nque le 20 BALLOO \n\n.108 e.oe io \n\nJOLAST 10 frontus: el atm suid no toir ent IeroM \n\n& \n\nen td0-chriI \n\ndifficulty was about; which he obligingly did. \n\nForeign (i.e. non-French) goods imported into \n\nYunnan via Tonkin pay, as you are aware, 20% only \n\nof the General Tariff. In order that they may be \n\nentitled to this reduction the French Custom House \n\nnaturally requires to be satisfied that the goods \n\nreally do pass into China and are not sold in French \n\nterritory. \n\nTowards the end of last year a Chinese \n\nmerchant reported the loss of his merchandize (which \n\nwas in transit) by wreck of a boat in the Red River. \n\nThe French Customs authorities were for some reason \n\nsuspicious as to the genuineness of this loss and, \n\nbefore letting the goods off with the reduced tariff, \n\ninstituted inquiries and asked for proof of the \n\nwreck. The Chinese traders in Yunnan became alarmed \n\nat this and took it to mean that even when a boat went \n\ndown in the river with goods in transit, they would \n\nhave to pay the full tariff unless they were able \n\nto point out the goods lost to the nearest Customs \n\nauthorities, which would of course be ridiculous, \n\nThey also jumped to the conclusion that this was a \n\nPage 242\n\n...\n\nPage 242\n\n...\n\nPage 242",
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        "content_text": "350\n\n2\n\nnot go further than latitude 26° 30′, and if any reference had been inserted it would probably have provoked an immediate observation from the side of the Chinese negotiators that under the circumstances it would be impossible for them to agree to the watershed boundary beyond that point up to the confines of Thibet. In the Chinese text, however, the lacuna is not so apparent.\n\nI added that, if they would consider my draft and the proposal in regard to indemnification of the native Chiefs, of whom the principal person entitled is the Fayi of Teng-keng, I should be happy to have another interview with their Excellencies whenever it suited their convenience.\n\nCh' Chung Tang gave me a Memorandum proposing a boundary which, as far as I can gather (some of the places mentioned in it do not appear in the jointly authenticated map), approximates to the red line on the map attached as Inclosure 1 to Mr. Litton's Report, which was inclosed in Lord Lansdowne's despatch No. 219 of the 30th September, 1905. After the interview, he sent me another Memorandum containing remarks on Mr. Litton's statements and geographical observations, some of which are absurd. For instance, he asserts that the Salween flows into the Irrawaddy, and generally appears to have no conception of a water-parting or river basin in a wide sense. I shall, of course, reply to these Memoranda in due course, but I think it is scarcely necessary to trouble you with their contents.\n\nI add copy of a telegram of the 9th December from Mr. Litton to Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, giving further information as to the country further north than latitude 26° 30'. From this it appears likely that the Salween-Irrawaddy watershed continues up to a point estimated at latitude 28° 30', where it becomes merged in a snow range lying east and west. In the Lieutenant-Governor's letter of the 19th June, 1905, to the Government of India, a statement is made that the China Inland Mission's Map shows a wedge of Thibetan territory stretching between Burmah and Yunnan down to below latitude 27°. I can hardly suppose that the map in question, which is simply a reproduction of that of Dr. Bretschneider with a changed orthography, can be regarded as an authority with regard to the geography of a region that has never been explored. However that may be, the difficulty is avoided in the draft by omitting all reference to latitude, and speaking of \"the confines of Thibet\" as the ultimate limit of the boundary.\n\nI observe that in paragraph 3 of Mr. Brodrick's letter to the Foreign Office of the 20th September, 1905, it is stated that the Government of Burmah do not desire, should difficulties be raised by China, to press for the watershed boundary beyond latitude 26° 30'. It is, in all probability, unlikely that the Chinese Government will make any difficulties about the boundary beyond that point if they accept the proposals of His Majesty's Government up to it, which to their mind will have the appearance of depriving them of jurisdiction over a considerable tract of territory to which they have hitherto laid claim. Should, however, the objection be made which the Government of Burmah appear to anticipate, I venture to think it would be better for His Majesty's Representative at Peking to say that he must refer the point to His Majesty's Government, as to my mind it is not desirable to leave anything open for a renewal of the boundary discussion later on when the administrative authority of the Burmah Government shall have reached latitude 26° 30′ on their side of the watershed, but to give the notice foreshadowed in the latter part of paragraph 4 of the same letter. As the point can be referred by telegram no great delay will be involved, and it seems to me desirable to leave nothing open for future dispute, if that can be avoided.\n\nI am communicating copies of this despatch to the Governments of India and Burmah.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, January 20, 1906. ON the 30th January, 1904, I had the honour to address your Highness a note on the subject of the portion of the frontier lying to the north of latitude 25° 35' north, which by Article IV of the Burmah Convention of 1894 was reserved for a future understanding, when the features and conditions of the country were more accurately known. In this note I summarized previous correspondence, and mentioned certain\n\n3\n\noccurrences to illustrate the danger of collision where there is no frontier recognized by both sides, which danger the British Government, animated by friendly feelings towards China, were desirous to avoid. I also stated that the region in question having been more carefully examined since 1900 than was previously possible, it was found that northward, from latitude 25° 35′ north, the watershed of all streams draining into the N Maikha from the east was the most satisfactory and easily recognizable natural boundary; and that I was instructed to inform the Chinese Government that His Majesty's Government intended henceforth to regard this as the actual boundary between China and Burmah, unless and until a settlement was reached, and that if this frontier was not respected by China, and armed forces were sent across it from the Yunnan side, there would be a risk of collision with British troops.\n\nIn a reply dated the 10th March, 1904, your Highness stated that it was necessary to ascertain accurately the features of the country east and west of the watershed, and whether the latter coincided with the original boundary of Chinese territory; and you pointed out that it would be in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Convention if both Powers sent officers to make a joint delimitation,\n\nOn the 27th October, 1905, I answered your Highness to the effect that a delimitation was impossible unless there was a preliminary agreement as to the general line which the boundary was to follow, but that in order to secure a friendly settlement of the question His Majesty's Government were willing to send officers who would accompany Representatives of the Chinese Government to point out the true position of affairs; and on the 16th November your Highness informed me that it was proposed to appoint the Acting Tuotai of Tengyueh, Shih Nung-shao, to make a survey in co-operation with the officers appointed by the British Government, In my reply of the 24th January, 1905, I notified the appointment of Mr. Litton, His Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, to co-operate with Taotai Shih; and in a letter of the 30th January, 1905, I made it clear that these two officers were not to delimit the frontier, but were to furnish Reports for the information of their respective Governments. Your Highness informed me on the 3rd March, 1905, that instructions in this sense had been sent to the Viceroy of Yunnan.\n\nIn March 1905 Consul Litton and Taotai Shih proceeded together to the frontier, and made an inspection of a portion of it to the north of latitude 25° 35′ north, during the months of March, April, and May. Afterwards Mr. Litton submitted a detailed Report, which has been considered by His Majesty's Government, and I am informed that the Report of Taotai Shih has also been communicated to the Chinese Government by the Viceroy of Yünnan.\n\nI have the honour, accordingly, to request that the Wai-wu Pu will appoint a day for a meeting, in order to arrive at an amicable settlement of this matter.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nPrince Ching to Sir E. Satow,\n\nERNEST SATOW,\n\nPeking, February 1, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's note respecting the Burmah frontier north of latitude 25° 35' north.\n\n[Note of the 20th January quoted at length.]\n\nThe Board had already addressed a despatch to the Governor-General of the Yun-Kuei Provinces calling upon him to investigate this question carefully, and we have just received a telegram from his Excellency stating that Mr. Consul Litton was dead, and requesting us to ask your Excellency to send another officer to Yunnan to go into the question and deal with it.\n\nThe Governor-General having thus asked that another officer may be sent to Yunnan to deal with the question, it becomes my duty to request your Excellency to communicate in this sense with His Majesty's Government, that another officer may be appointed to deal with the question.",
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        "content_text": "021\n\n6\n\n# Permits and Stamps.\n\n20. All stamps, permits, certificates, and labels shall be manufactured by the Head Office, whence they will be issued to the branch offices. Any irregularity in stamps or documents and any misrepresentations on the part of merchants will result in the confiscation of the opium, unless it be clearly shown that there was no intention to defraud. Fines, however, may not be inflicted.\n\n21. Square stamps will be used by the branch offices and round stamps by the Customs, clearly printed and bearing the name of the province, the serial number, and the date; the same marks are also to appear on the certificates, special permits, and labels, which are to be printed in blue, red, and black respectively.\n\nAll these documents are to be obliterated with the seal of the Head Office. Of the quadruplicate certificates, one slip only is to be handed to the merchant, one (the counterfoil) is to be retained by the issuing office, and the other two are to be forwarded, for purposes of verification, to the Head Office and the Board of Revenue respectively.\n\n22. Documents issued to merchants are to be forwarded monthly by the receiving stations through the branch offices to the Head Office, and carefully checked, as forming the evidence of taxation receipts.\n\n23. The opium of any merchant guilty of concealment or obliteration of marks or numbers will be confiscated. Penalties will be inflicted on officials responsible for the careless affixing of stamps or for errors in the issue of documents.\n\n## Statements of Accounts.\n\n24. The total receipts in respect of tax proper and of expenses are to be forwarded monthly by each station to the branch offices, who will return to each province the sum which it is entitled to retain. All surplus receipts are to be forwarded to the Head Office to be dealt with.\n\nThe accounts of each station are to be drawn up in duplicate, one copy being retained in the branch office and the other forwarded to the Head Office, together with two copies of the joint account for all the stations under the jurisdiction of each branch office. Of these joint accounts, one copy will be retained by the Head Office and the other forwarded, together with a general statement of accounts for all the provinces, to the Board of Revenue. Forms for accounts will be issued by the Head Office.\n\nAccounts must be carefully checked, each month being kept separately, and must bear the official seals. To avoid unnecessary delay in transmission, surplus receipts from the northern provinces should be forwarded direct to the Board of Revenue.\n\n25. In regard to the retention of revenue derived from opium taxation, each province will, as far as possible, conform to the precedents afforded by the years 1904 and 1905, the surplus being devoted to army funds.\n\nSpecial allowances will, however, have to be made for certain of the provinces in which either the production of opium has been insignificant or the revenue has been derived from imported opium only.\n\nFor the Province of Hupei, a special Report will be furnished by K'o Feng-Shih for the consideration of the Board of Revenue.\n\nThe salaries of the officials at collecting stations are to be provided out of the funds to be retained.\n\nSpecial conditions are also sanctioned for the Provinces of Kuangtung and Kuanghsi.\n\n26. The evidence for the retention of funds will be furnished by the permits and duty certificates handed in by the merchants; these are to be forwarded, with lists, through the branch offices to the Head Office. There must be no irregularities or misrepresentations.\n\n27. The salaries and office expenses, &c., of the taxation officials will be paid out of the \"expenses\" receipts, in accordance with the recommendations made by the Head Office to the Finance Council and the Board of Revenue. Telegrams on service also may be included under this heading. These sums will, for the present, be advanced by the Head Office, such advances being subsequently refunded from the \"expenses\" receipts. No other expenditure may be included under the heading of office expenses except the cost of forwarding lists and receipts, which will be made good.\n\n7\n\n28. Of the proceeds of confiscated opium, one-half is to be employed on rewards, and the remainder is to be the property of the province. Monthly reports are, however, to be furnished, and for all opium thus sold, as well as for opium pledged in lieu of payment of taxation, the regular uniform taxes are to be paid and stamps issued.\n\n29. The funds derived from taxation by the Head Office and the branch offices are to be deposited in banks at a fair monthly rate of interest, and the officials will be required to make good all losses resulting from the failure of such banks,\n\n## Reform Prospects.\n\nA\n\n30. The evils introduced by the opium drug are universally recognized, but a thorough eradication alone can effect a change for the better. The introduction of increased taxation can only operate as a preventive if it is rigidly enforced. A gradual reduction, resulting finally in complete abolition, of this scourge might be effected by good advice, as opportunities arise, at the taxation stations, and by the establishment of anti-opium Societies by the officials. The resulting loss of revenue would be no matter for regret.\n\n31. Contingencies not touched on in the above Regulations will be dealt with as they arise in further Memorials.\n\n(No. 15.) Sir,\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Fox to Mr. Carnegie,\n\nIchang, June 22, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy and translation of a Proclamation which was posted here on the 16th instant, inaugurating a new scheme of taxation of native opium throughout the Empire.\n\nThe new Regulations, of which the principal clauses are contained in the above Proclamation, came into force at Ichang on Sunday, the 17th instant.\n\nMy predecessor, Mr. Ottewill, in his despatch No. 8, dated the 6th July, 1905, reporting the inception of a scheme for the payment in advance of all taxes and duties on native opium in the eight provinces of Hunan, Hupei, Kuangtung, Kuangsi, Kiangsi, Anhui, Kiangsu, and Fukien, stated: \"The fundamental principle is that the collection of all taxes on opium is taken away from the provincial authorities and undertaken by the Central Government.\" In practice, however, the high authorities of these eight provinces resolved themselves into a sort of Syndicate for the collection of the opium taxes within their boundaries; the other provinces, such as Szechuan and Yunnan, continued to levy taxes on their own opium. The Syndicate having apparently proved a success financially, the Central Government have now, in principle and in practice, taken into their own hands the taxation of all native opium produced throughout the Empire. That is to say, on payment of a fixed sum of 115 Kuping taels at the first barrier en route, opium may be transported free of any further fiscal charges to any part of China.\n\nAs far as Ichang is concerned, the immediate effect of the new scheme will be to greatly diminish the importance of the port as a taxing station. The duties collected on native opium last year by the foreign Customs alone amounted to 763,576 Haikwan taels, or 94 per cent. of the total revenue collected; of the amounts collected on account of \"kao chuan\" and \"duties,\" no statistics are available, but the total revenue derived from opium taxed at Ichang in 1905 is estimated to have been well over 4,000,000 taels. I hope shortly to be able to forward details of this estimate. This source of revenue will henceforth be lost to Ichang, as the prefecture produces no opium for export and the Szechuan and Yunnan product will now pay its taxes at Chungking, Fuchau, Kueichou-fu, or some other barrier above Ichang. The Hupei Provincial Treasury will not, however, be altogether a loser, as the scheme provides for an annual refund of a sum equal to the amount collected during the thirtieth year of Kuang Hsü, i.e., 1904. The total collection that year was, I am informed, well above the average of the last ten years.\n\nAs the port of transhipment for river-borne opium, Ichang will continue to be an important examination and clearing station.\n\nPage 630\n\nPage 631",
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        "content_text": "714\n\n71\n\nALLAH SWAŤ ZOUrt & drevet, od benidaeh #prideng moni\n\nto eat now dryin de end cacio al pino yanadmuo auto\n\nDACADJAW ONE gf beinuo ansvlovet nad VITŠANĀ M. OL\n\ni\n\ni beiTwo grind aepbiutuo siid,bobauitur ertow ydin\n\nche tu equip galan nios Arið BA „dodoog adrima 60 24\n\nan saub huju\n\ndar nebbus a Janiga buan of Br bevonj dneve and k- herriaftir eru\n\n(kaŭpsel VII8o fon bih ghile act to\n\n:\n\nja a ma tu dromerta me boertut dollv ansvlover 4.gis\n\ne ondor leak. §u nú noidirmew and ndiw ogod prist\n\nfio, en banged ek gend stede „Mosh ruge neugu\n\nTo↑ Ndongdon ariedas enout whom evar rioida asio\n\nas sa ond từ đite herrian bed & pimin daonis eval Bisat\n\nni ama Avil muud no geloo andard ; alt gî vienm\n\n.81808a; genitro to salig\n\nA\n\ni\n\na love nehmen block Loki, anoderator; yonaojų sie\n\nunol Jusɔe ip dona envyad ope eldisburg i dur ti divaltUS\n\n3061-001 500 usta doat of portrevan pronte not pisaroon dis\n\n**Sondvor? Va coda petesteuda qper) ; aste mäddon to\n\nI\n\n1\n\nmurta kama nos abiotovide caddox sus? .evjdringu\n\nsne non ad Sarizu, sonatalans qrizių kort ut ment\n\nPres 15 13 såvig á mænd løn uz beriIoni na\n\nwa andsutały?' vointair pum Y\n\nDOKIE ROD\n\nand beiw eyeo ut eduliava vonut madilim on\n\n.nept beart- How vie\n\nAction of the Chinese officials.\n\nTwelve hours after the tragedy I received telegraphic information of what had occurred and transmitted it to the Viceroy who is staying at Whampoa on sick-leave. No time was lost in the despatch of two torpedo boats to the spot, and the Viceroy's Secretaries and other officials were present on board at the enquiry held by me on board the steamship \"Sainam\" immediately on her arrival. I took the opportunity to impress on them most strongly that the eyes of all the foreign Governments would be on His Excellency to observe if this brutal and murderous attack on foreigners, following on a long series of piracies and robberies, was dealt with in a manner calculated to show a desire and\n\na determination on his part to put an end once and for all\n\nto a state of things which is a discredit to his administration. They assured me that His Excellency is thoroughly in earnest and was that day despatching both the Admiral\n\nLi and the Brigadier General Huang with a considerable\n\nforce of foreign-drilled troops and a number of detectives\n\noff to scour the country in the neighbourhood of the place\n\nwhere the pirates disembarked. I urged an attack on the\n\nlarge village of Tai Ping a few miles inland, which is\n\nwell known as the resort of pirates who have a stronghold on a hill close to the village.\n\nToday I have received a letter from the Viceroy\n\nannouncing the capture of two of the band by the River\n\nPolice. Two Hongkong detectives are endeavouring to trace\n\nthe boats used for disembarking, and H.M.S. \"Moorhen\" is\n\nwatching the proceedings of the troops in the neighbourhood\n\nof Tai Ping. (Signed) R. W. Mansfield.\n\nCanton, 17 July, 1906.",
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        "content_text": "723\n\n2\n\nI inclose a sheet of tracing paper on which I have marked lines (a) and (b), together with all names to which reference is made in Shih Taotai's Memorandum. I have added little else, lest the trees should obscure the wood; though I have taken the opportunity to identify and insert nearly all the localities mentioned in my despatches Nos. 11 and 37 of 1905. By superimposing the tracing paper on Shih Taotai's map, the remarks which I would now venture to submit will, I trust, gain in clearness.\n\nIf our motto is to be stet pro ratione voluntas, there can be no doubt that we could force Yunnan to acquiesce. She has few, if any, troops worth the name, and her treasury is empty. Should we proceed to administer up to \"Scott's Line\" she could offer no overt resistance.\n\nAs regards the blank in both our maps, the ground styled by Governor-General Ting \"Manbai Magna,\" and by Shih Taotai \"Territory of the Wild K'a,\" I do not think that the Yunnan Government would be inclined to raise difficulty. The only objection they might bring forward would be that this region lies well to the east of the boundary line drawn by Liu and Ch'en-tajen in 1900. But although Shih Taotai continues to identify Loi-mu Hill with the \"very lofty mountain range called Kong-ming-Shan\" of the Treaties, still I think that he would hardly have handed me, with the Governor-General's assent, his present map unless his Government are prepared to yield the ground between the Liu-Chen line and Shih's \"watersheds of the Namma River,\" or at the least to erect it into a sort of buffer State. (In his Memorandum he does, it is true, propose that it be divided.) They might possibly give up those parts of the Upper Hulu and of Mengtum that lie south and west of \"Scott's Line\"; what they will certainly strive to retain is the \"territory subject to the Hsi-ming Sawbwa,\" that is, Mong-hka and Mong-hsaw (coloured pink in Shih's map).\n\nIf we force them, without further explanation or negotiations, to surrender this district, we can hardly fail to embitter relations between Burmah and Yunnan, if not between Great Britain and China. We could not well occupy and administer it without at the same time either subduing the Wild Wa or—what would be scarcely less trouble—some and expensive becoming responsible for their recurring raids on undoubted Chinese territory.\n\nIf, on the other hand, there is still room for amicable discussion, I would venture to suggest that the following arguments might be brought to the knowledge of Governor-General Ting:\n\n1. The Agreement signed on the 4th February, 1897, by Sir Claude MacDonald and the late Grand Secretary Li Hung-chang, modifying the Burmah-China Frontier and Trade Convention of the 1st March, 1894, must be accepted as binding on the Governments of Burmah and of Yunnan. For purposes of the present controversy it is sufficient to apply this axiom to paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 3 of that Agreement, which read as follows:—\n\n\"The frontier shall then follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, which belongs to Great Britain, and Meng Ting, which belongs to China. It shall still continue to follow the frontier between those two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the hills, and shall then follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Meikong Rivers, from about longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking) and latitude 23° 20′ to a point about longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich (16° 50′ west of Peking) and latitude 23°, leaving to China the Tsawbwaships of Keng Ma, Mengtung, and Mengko.\n\n\"At the last-named point of latitude and longitude the line strikes a very lofty mountain range called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it shall follow in a southerly direction to about 99° 30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking) and latitude 22° 30′, leaving to China the district of Chenpien Ting. Then, descending the western slope of the hills to the Namka River, it will follow the course of that river for about 10 minutes of latitude, leaving Munglem to China and Manglün to Great Britain. The frontier shall then follow the boundary between Munglem and Kiang Tung.\"\n\n2. The above two paragraphs were transferred, without substantial alteration, from the Convention of 1894 to the Agreement of 1897.\n\n3. The Convention of 1894 was drafted in English in London, where it was translated into Chinese and signed in both languages by Lord Rosebery and Hsieh Fu-ch'eng, the then Chinese Envoy to Great Britain.\n\n4. The only truly scientific method of indicating locality on the earth's surface is that of latitude and longitude. With this method China has been acquainted at any rate since the Jesuit Survey in the K'ang-hsi reign more than two centuries ago. The Chinese maps bound in with the native Gazetteer of Yunnan (\"Yunnan Tungchih\") employ this system. The references, therefore, to latitudes and longitudes in the Agreement cannot be ignored by the Yunnan Government, as they were, in effect, ignored by Liu and Ch'en, the Boundary Commissioners of 1900; these references are of the first importance.\n\nOn the contrary,\n\n6. The references to latitude and longitude in the clause now under examination are four, namely:\n\n(a.) Longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking), and latitude 23°20'.\n\n(b.) Longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich (16° 50' west of Peking), and latitude 23°.\n\n(c.) Longitude 99° 30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking), and latitude 22° 30'.\n\n(d.) A point on the Namkha River situated 10 minutes of latitude from where the boundary between Menglem and Kiang Tung diverges from that river.\n\nThe first step to be taken is to mark the above four points on the map of the survey of India—a map the correctness of which is admitted by the Yunnan Government, as regards its physical features and lines of latitude and longitude, since they have adopted it as the basis of their own chart.\n\n(The four points are marked in red on the tracing paper.)\n\n6. When the above points are marked it will be found that they fall very nearly on the crests of certain mountain ranges admitted by Shih Taotai to be watersheds. The word \"about\" in the Treaty allows for the small difference found, but it would certainly not admit of the very great difference—40 minutes of longitude—required if the Liu-Ch'en line is to be taken to represent that of the Convention.\n\n7. Between points (a) and (b) the boundary, according to the Convention, is to \"follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Meikong Rivers.\" The water-parting is marked on Shih's map, and coincides with that portion of \"Scott's Line.\"\n\n**\n\n(This is not altogether the case between 99° 30′ and 99° 44', where \"Scott's Line\" is drawn across the supposititious head-waters of the Nam-hoit, Shih's Nan-wa. Mr. (now Sir George) Scott himself described it as \"to some extent conjectural.” Our main contention, however, is not affected—that we follow the watershed.)\n\n8. At point (b) the Convention boundary \"strikes a very lofty mountain range called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it follows in a southerly direction to point (c). Now, Shih's map admits that between (b) and (c) runs, in a markedly southern direction, the \"main watershed between the Mekong and the Salween,\" which watershed is merged at about longitude 99° 45′ and latitude 22° 40′ in a range which he calls K'ung-ming Shan. His Memorandum describes this K'ung-ming Shan as falling within the jurisdictions of four Sawbwaships—Hsi-ming, Mu-nai, Menglem, and Mengpin. If the term is to be confined to the range as marked on his map, then Mu-nai and Hsi-ming can have nothing to do with it; but if it includes the whole \"main watershed above, then the description in his Memorandum tallies with the wording of the Convention.\n\n9. For it must not be forgotten that, as stated above (section 3) the Convention was drafted in English. Now, no Englishman, unless trained in China, would distinguish between \"kung\" in the first tone and \"kung ('hkung'), with an aspirate, in the third. Writing by ear he would set down both as \"kong.\" No Chinese hieroglyph being supplied for this particular name, the translator in London naturally adopted one of those for \"kung\" (without the aspirate), and among the \"kungs\" that one which is in most common use and would harmonize sufficiently well with \"ming\" (\"clear\"), namely \"kung\" (\"just\").\n\n(He took, I suspect, similar liberties with the hieroglyphs to be used for \"Kunlong,\" two paragraphs higher up. I am inclined to think that the \"kuu\" is not \"kung\" (\"work\"), as he wrote it, but \"kun\" (\"whirling water\").)\n\nThe name Kong-Ming-Shan, therefore, of the English text must be taken to represent K'ung-ming Shan, and not, despite the Chinese text, a Kung-ming Shan, if such there be.\n\n3\n\nB 2\n\n[2147 an-1]",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\n## Peking Syndicate to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nTien-tsin, August 13, 1906. ANOTHER stage in the discussion of the mining rights of the Peking Syndicate in Shansi was reached on the 9th instant, when their Excellencies Tong Shao Yi and Chu Pa Fei with Mr. Uu received me at the Wai-wu Pu by special appointment, as I have already had the honour of verbally reporting to you.\n\nMr. Reid, Engineer-in-chief to the Syndicate, who accompanied me to give expert information as to the area and the nature of the ground covered by the proposed permit, produced maps showing the general configuration and the position as regards the railway and the Tao River. It was pointed out that the peculiarly irregular run of the boundary-lines was caused by a desire to avoid old mines and native villages. Most of the ground was hilly and barren, there was no houses on it, and no mines except what had been opened within the last nine months by the Tung Chi Company, who, so far from stopping operations were still sinking new shafts in the very place marked out by the Syndicate.\n\nTheir Excellencies selected a large scale map of the proposed permit area, and asked for duplicate copies which we promised to send as soon as possible. (In fact they were delivered at the Wai-wu Pu this morning.) One of these was for the present Governor of Shansi, who, it was remarked had not yet considered the granting of the permit. I did not conceal my surprise at this statement, and I pointed out that, when the permit was applied for in October 1905, a map was delivered to the Governor, and the new Governor had therefore had ample time to satisfy himself that the permit area was reasonable.\n\nMr. Tong Shao Yi, assuming a dictatorial manner, said that before issuing a permit the Chinese Government wanted an assurance that the Syndicate meant to do genuine mining work and not merely to keep the permit in their pocket. I referred his Excellency to Honan, where the Syndicate had spent a very large sum approximating to 200,000l. in overcoming enormous difficulties, and Mr. Reid exhibited estimates showing that an initial expenditure of 100,000l. was contemplated in Shansi. This seemed to be accepted as satisfactory evidence of earnestness.\n\nI pressed the question of new native mines and said that while the Syndicate would raise no objection to mines producing coal in a small way for local consumption, it would not tolerate competition, and I referred to reports of Tien-tsin foreign firms being asked to supply foreign machinery to the native mines. Mr. Tong strenuously denied the truth of these reports.\n\nTheir Excellencies were informed that, the moment the permit was granted, operations would commence and coal would be produced from the 7-foot seam, also that the Syndicate would in a month or two be able to put out 100 tons of coal a day. Pending arrival of the special plant from England, some plant could be transferred from Honan for immediate work.\n\nThe permit maps were again examined in detail, and Mr. Tong asked what guarantee there would be that the Syndicate in its mining would not go beyond the limits indicated, as encroachments underground would not be discoverable. I assured their Excellencies that the workings would always be open to inspection, that great care would be taken to avoid encroachments and that with an institution of the Syndicate's standing no improper action need be feared.\n\nAs to the extent of the permit, Mr. Reid pointed out that the Honan \"yellow\" permit had an area of 60 square li with a \"red\" permit area in reserve of over 200 square li whereas the present Shansi permit applied for was only 39.27 square li, and, on a large output, would be exhausted in thirty years. He also said that the site selected by the Syndicate for the collieries themselves was mountain land where there were no houses, graves, or properties of any value to the people.\n\nTheir Excellencies finally promised that the Governor of Shansi should at once be instructed to draw up the permit and that it should as soon as received be communicated to me together with all the conditions governing it, when I could accept or reject it. I expressed a hope that the terms would be such as to put an end for ever to any chance of dispute, in which their Excellencies concurred. I said further that I was deeply disappointed at not having the matter concluded, as I expected, at this meeting, and that unless a satisfactory settlement were now arrived at I should have to take very serious action. The meeting then terminated.\n\nIt will be observed that the question of sole right was not once raised at this meeting. Whether the silence of the Wai-wu Pu means that our claim in this respect is now recognized as unassailable and is therefore tacitly conceded I should hesitate to say. The terms of the permit and the conditions governing its issue, when received, will show whether the Chinese Government is really seriously intending to accord the Syndicate its rights or is still actuated by a desire to whittle them away. I think it will be conceded that I have been patient, forbearing, and reasonable, that I have allowed the Wai-wu Pu and the new Governor of Shansi ample time and opportunity to understand the matter in all its bearings, that it is for them now to give a just and satisfactory decision, and that the responsibility for a failure to settle the dispute at once with the serious consequences thereby entailed, of which I have endeavoured to make his Excellency Tong Shao Yi fully cognisant, must rest with the Chinese Government.\n\nI have the honour to inclose a copy of the large scale map above referred to. The lead pencil marking gives very roughly the suggested boundaries of the surface inclosure for the colliery proper, which would amount to 300 mu or thereabouts, the land, of course, having to be purchased by the Syndicate.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \n**GEORGE BROWN, Agent-General.**\n\nP.S. August 20, 1906.-The foregoing letter was unfortunately delayed by the difficulty experienced in obtaining another copy of the large scale map. This has, under pressure, been received only this morning.\n\nG. B.",
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        "content_text": "266\n\n2\n\nbut insisted that the local feeling and circumstances had to be considered, and that the Chinese Government were not prepared to say to the Chekiangese that they must not build railways in their own country. He again hinted, with a laugh, that the Chekiang provincials were not likely to be very successful, and evidently meant me to understand that there was so little prospect of the local project coming to fruition that it was negligible.\n\nI expressed my inability to see matters in the same light, and finally asked his Highness to tell me what explanation he wished me to send to His Majesty's Government. He begged me to say that the preliminary Agreement was recognized, but that further consideration of the Soochow Hangchow-Ningpo Railway must wait until the Chinese Government were ready.\n\nWhen I said that I felt sure that His Majesty's Government would not be satisfied by that statement, his Highness urged me to inform His Majesty's Government in any case.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[36987]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 3]\n\nSECTION 5. C 0.\n\n45805\n\nMr. Carnegie to Sir Edward Grey-(Received November 3.)\n\nKEC(No.376.)\n\nRed 27 NOV DE\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, September 9, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 368, I have the honour to state that at an interview with Prince Ch'ing yesterday I pressed for an answer to my last two notes of the 13th August and the 5th September on the subject of the Whampoa Railway project.\n\nHis Highness said that the scheme to construct a railway from Canton to Whampoa originated many years ago, before the Canton-Kowloon preliminary Agreement was concluded, and was thought of in consequence of the plague epidemic in the 'nineties. The idea was to diminish the congestion of Canton city, and, by means of a railway, to induce residence at Whampoa when the river offered better facilities. He refused to admit that this short line of some miles had anything to do with the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nI reminded his Highness that under the Corporation's Agreements the latter were entitled to object to rival railways, pointed out that this Whampoa line would run for a part of its course along the route of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, and insisted that it must detract from the value of the Corporation's Concession. The Prince refusing to admit this, I urged that after all the Canton-Kowloon Railway was partly Chinese, and that it was only rational from the point of view of economy and efficiency, apart from the stipulations of the Agreements, that an important branch line connecting with the Chinese section should be constructed and managed by the same administration as the main line.\n\nHis Highness turned a deaf ear to all arguments, and merely repeated that he could not interfere with the Whampoa scheme, which was a separate matter altogether from the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nI will bring this question to the attention of Sir John Jordan as soon as possible after his arrival in Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\n[2226 c-5]",
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        "content_text": "In any further commanica-tion on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. 3861 \n\n638617 \n\nAddress-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, \n\nForeign Office, \n\nLoudon. \n\n285 \n\nCo \n\n44/02 \n\nRECE \n\nRed 5 PFC 06 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \n\nhis compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for \n\nthe \n\nColonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n\nDecember 4, 1906. \n\nReference to previous letter: \n\nName and Date. \n\nDescription of Inclosure. \n\nSubject. \n\nSis. I Jorden, Play Removal of obstructions to \n\n7.392 \n\nOctober 2. \n\npaigation in Canton Riveir.\n\nCorrected version with proper HTML formatting and adherence to the rules:\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. 3861 \n\n638617 \n\nAddress-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, \n\nForeign Office, \n\nLondon. \n\n285 \n\nCO \n\n44/02 \n\nRECEIVED\n\nRed 5 PFC 06 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \n\nhis compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for \n\nthe \n\nColonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n\nDecember 4, 1906. \n\n  \n    Reference to previous letter:\n    Name and Date.\n    Description of Inclosure.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    \n    Sir. I Jordan, July 7, 1906\n    \n    Removal of obstructions to navigation in Canton River.\n  \n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested:\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. 3861 \n\n638617 \n\nAddress-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, \n\nForeign Office, \n\nLondon. \n\n285 \n\nCO44/02 \n\nRECEIVED\n\nRed 5 PFC 06 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \n\nhis compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for \n\nthe Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n\nDecember 4, 1906. \n\nReference to previous letter: \n\nName and Date. \n\nDescription of Inclosure. \n\nSubject. \n\nSir. I Jordan, July 7, 1906 Removal of obstructions to \n\nnavigation in Canton River.",
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        "content_text": "368\n\n2\n\n2. Pakma to Hsunchow.-Above Pakma, where is a well-known li-kin station, the river is found running through a large plain, which, with varying width, stretches from Pakma up to Kuei Hsien. The mountains in the far distance on the north form a continuous range, which occasionally sweeps south towards the river, touching it 30 miles south above Pakma at Konghon, and again 15 miles above that at Hsunchow. These mountains have the valleys at their base scantily covered with pine. The river banks are from 20 feet to 30 feet high, and from the ship can be obtained only occasional glimpses of the plain, which, at least near the river, appears to be well cultivated, producing rice, mulberry, and sugar-cane. Frequent villages are scattered along the banks, but even in this fat country the population does not appear to be great. Ping Nam is an important market town, and Konghou, well placed at the lower junction of the West River main branch with the Yu Kiang, is the busiest place we meet until we arrive at Hsunchow-fu, situated at the upper junction of these two rivers.\n\n3. Hsunchow to Kuei Hsien-At Hsunchow (Kueiping, Samchow are the local names) our route leaves the main branch of the West River and follows the Yu Kiang, which is here only about 250 yards wide. The country between Hsunchow and Kuei Hsien seems to have a natural division line just about the place where the Kueiping and Kuei Hsien prefectures meet. For 40 miles along the river below this boundary the banks show at intervals a dark red stratified rock, while throughout the 15 miles above, between the boundary and the town of Kuei Hsien, limestone rock is predominant. With this division a change in the nature of the country corresponds fairly closely. The first 40 miles of land along the river seems practically waste land, a rough, uncultivated continuation of the plain we have been following from Pakma, growing coarse, long grass with a few pines. In the stretch of 15 miles approaching Kuei Hsien the plain is very flat and well cultivated, producing sugar and rice. The bamboo reappears and pines almost disappear. One or two villages are dotted along the banks, and it was in this district we saw the first carts, which are unknown between Hsunchow and the sea.\n\nThe above description will help one to realize the fact that for fully half of our entire route between Wuchow and Kuei Hsien the country appears to be quite unproductive, except for timber on the hill-sides. From a commercial point of view the most striking fact is the scarcity of river traffic between these two points. Except near the big centres like Hsunchow, Konghon, and Kuei Hsien, and to a small extent Têng Hsien and Ping Nam, one meets nothing on the river for mile after mile except an occasional junk carrying firewood, hides, or poultry, and some fishing-boats. A few steam launches, most of them flying the British flag, represent the foreign-built vessels. Some small timber rafts were seen below Konghou.\n\nAs regards animals, buffaloes and red cattle are fairly numerous along the river banks, especially near Hsunchow, Kuei Hsien, and Ping Nam. Above Hsunchow one enters the pony country. Ducks and geese are frequently seen in large flocks.\n\n3. Notes on Towns en route.\n\nTêng Hsien is the West River port for Wat Lum, an important distributing centre in the south of the province, which has also a seaport in Pakhoi, on the Tonquin Gulf. Except for some 30 miles near Wat Lum, goods can go by boat from Pakhoi to Têng Hsien.\n\nBefore the opening of Wuchow in 1897, Wat Lum was within the area of commercial attraction of Pakhoi; since then, it has been gradually drawn within the West River area. Sumatran oil is the chief foreign article now taken by Wat Lum from Pakhoi, and even this import seems to be dwindling in quantity year by year. If the French railway is ever built from Kwang Chow Wan through Wat Lum to Kueilin, it will follow the valley of the Têng River.\n\nKuei Hsien. I called on the Magistrate, who was very friendly, and who informed us that, apart from the \"Moorhen,\" only one foreign gun-boat had visited the town this summer; he disagreed, however, with his Secretary as to whether it was of French or German nationality, finally deciding in favour of French. It does not say a great deal for the impression made by the different foreign gun-boats that the \"Tsingtao\" has since been remembered as French.\n\nOn the 12th August I paid a visit to the San Cha Shan silver mines, 15 miles to the north-west. The first half of the journey, before we got into the hills, was over a large fertile plain cultivated with rice and millet (\"kao-liang\"). Here we met a constant procession of men carrying baskets of liquid indigo into Kuei Hsien. Rice, however, is the chief product of the district.\n\nThe Chinese overseer in charge of the mines said they had been closed now for over a year. After running at a loss of from 2,000 dollars to 3,000 dollars a-month, the Hua Sing Company had made them over to Government. The expenses latterly had been about 6,000 dollars a-month, including 20 cents a-day each for some 250 coolies. The coal used for smelting was Japanese, and cost on delivery at the mines 20 dollars a-ton. This included 6 dollars a-ton paid for carriage by coolies over the hills from Kuei Hsien. About 100 tons were used each month. The produce of the mines was valued at about 5,000 dollars to 3,000 dollars a-month; but, though the loss was thus heavy, the overseer believes that some Chinese Syndicate in Hong Kong will attempt to work them again. A great many of the old employés were still living near the mines. Some were washing for ore in the hill streams, making, they say, about 10 cents a-day; others of the old employés had taken to indigo cultivation, which is carried on here with considerable success.\n\nKuei Hsien boasts two new-model elementary schools, upper and lower grade. Each has 100 pupils. Expenses are defrayed from the \"t'u chuan\" (tax on pigs killed), the revenue of temple lands, and the proceeds of the old University, now abolished. The schools were opened only this year, and are not yet quite complete. English and Japanese are to be taught in the upper-grade school by Chinese instructors. The French missionaries here, on whom I called, propose to build a church shortly.\n\nHsunchow Chow-fu.The 15th August, the Emperor of China's birthday, was spent here, and the \"Moorhen,\" dressed ship for the occasion, and gave a firework display in the evening, which was much appreciated by the inhabitants. While mentioning these details, I may add that throughout the trip the \"Moorhen\" did its best to show the flag, having a jack in the bow, a white ensign at the main, and the same aft.\n\nI did not see the Prefect, as, according to the message from his yamên, he had gone to the hills in connection with some ceremonies in honour of the Emperor. This official had just taken over office from his predecessor, of whom Mr. Fox had to complain in 1904.\n\nThe church of the French Mission was built in 1902, and is a conspicuous feature in the town. The city is well provided educationally, having primary and elementary schools and a middle college, all on the new plan. The elementary schools were clean and well ordered, while the middle college was quite palatial. In the latter the students, for some of whom there are dormitories, number over 200, and English and Japanese are both taught by Chinese instructors.\n\n4. Competition with West River Trade.\n\nWhen in Pakhoi, I was informed that before the opening of the West River the total value of trade between Nanning and Pakhoi was over 1,000,000 Haikwan taels. This has been almost entirely diverted down the West River, and the Nanning trade with Pakhoi is at present practically nil.\n\nLately native newspapers have again raised rumours as to French engineers surveying the Lungchow-Nanning route, but the intermediate country is generally recognized to be so poor and dangerous that it is extremely doubtful whether a line from Nanning to connect with the Haiphong-Hanoi-Dongdang line would pay. Except perhaps in three winter months such a line, provided there were no differential rates, would probably do little to divert the general current of traffic from the West River. As for the proposed railway from Nanning to Pakhoi, the apparent failure of Kwang Chow Wan as a commercial port is likely to prevent the French from building such a line, if they ever seriously thought of it, which seems doubtful.\n\nAt Wuchow many rumours were current in regard to the imminent opening (effectively) of Nanning, and the Commissioner there, Herr von Strauch, left for Nanning in a launch on the 7th August with a view, it was said, to making arrangements for Customs quarters.\n\n5. Attitude of Natives: Piracy.\n\nThe natives along the route were quite friendly; in no case was insult offered to any one when ashore. The usual crowds formed in the streets to stare, but their behaviour was generally orderly.\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "Letters should be addressed-\n\n\"The Secretary,\n\nScotch Education Department,\n\nDover House,\n\nWhitehall,\n\nLondon, S.W.,\"\n\nand should show the complete postal address and designation of the writer.\n\nAt the head of Letters relating to this case write-\n\n538\n\nSCOTCH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,\n\n23rd July, 1906.\n\n26963\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nREC\n\nS.\n\nRed 24 JUL 06\n\nN.B.-1.-Every Letter containing enclosures should enumerate them specifically, with a line in the margin for each.\n\n2.-Write clearly on good FOOLSCAP paper of the same size as this sheet.\n\n3.-Applications relating to different Schools are to be made in separate letters.\n\nSir,\n\nFoo\n\nAdverting to your letter of the 21st June (No. 8677-1906) I am directed to state that my Lords have pleasure in recommending Mr. A. R. Sutherland, M.A. for the post of Junior Assistant Master at Queen's College, Hong Kong. A statement with regard to this candidate's qualifications is attached.\n\nThe Department will be glad to learn whether Mr. Sutherland is approved by Lord Elgin and whether any further steps on the part of this Office are desired in the matter.\n\nle Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLONDON.\n\nS.W.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nG. Todd\n\n1\n\n... . . .",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\n302\n\nTo\n\nThe Right Honourable THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for\n\nthe Colonies.\n\nTHE HUMBLE PETITION of TONG TSE SHI (A) and TONG CHAN SHI (PA) of No.6 Pak Tai Lane Victoria in the\n\nColony of Hongkong Executrixes of the last Will and Testament of TONG WAN CHIU () late of Kowloon City in the said Colony Deceased and KU TAI SHAN (£) of 343 Des\n\nVoeux Road West in the said Colony of Hongkong Merchant.\n\nSheweth as follows:-\n\n1.\n\nBy an Agreement made the 4th day of January 1901 between Tin Pat Hing (10 30 48p ) and Li Sau San (4) (thereinafter called \"the Vendors\") of the one part and the said Tong Wan Chiu and Ku Fai Shen and one Cheung Ching Shan (5) (thereinafter called \"the Purchasers\") of the other part the Purchasers agreed to purchase and the Vendors agreed to sell All the interest of the Vendors of and in certain premises described on the plan thereto annexed being a piece of land upon the sea beach opposite Kowloon City in the Colony of Hongkong for the price of $25,000. The said price was to be paid and the purchase was to be completed within one month after the Vendors should have obtained a Certificate or other due recognition of the full and complete title and ownership of the Vendors to the said premises from the Land Court or Government of the said Colony of Hongkong.\n\n2.\n\nIn accordance with the procedure prescribed by Ordinance No.16 of 1900 a claim to the property in question was laid before the Land Court in the name of Lam Tak Luk ( †† 18 43 ) and Lam Cheung Fuk (林\n\n3.\n\nwho were the original owners of the said piece of land,\n\nThe claim was heard and evidence was taken before the Land Court and the matter was fully enquired into by them and the Claimant Lam Tak Luk was examined and produced his title deeds.\n\n4.\n\nOn the 4th day of December 1901 the Land Court consisting of the Honourable Mr. H.E. Pollock K.C. and Mr. H.H. Gompertz gave Judgment upon the said claim in the following terms:-\n\n\"The Claimants in Claim \"U\" No.1 Survey District and in Claim K No.2 Survey District are the same and as these claims adjoin each other and but for the fact of their being intersected by the boundary line between No.1 and No.2 Survey District would have been laid as a single claim and especially as the root of title is the same it is convenient that one Judgment should cover them both.\n\n\"The root of title is a red fishing ground deed (Exhibit \"g\") dated in 8th K.S. \"It is supported by tax receipts and mentions a tax covering 40.59 acres. The claims are for sand banks by the sea and the plan Exhibit \"X\" gives 45.768 acres as the area claimed. Of this area 1.036 falls within the old Colonial boundary and was consequently British Territory before the Convention of June 9th 1898 and must therefore be excluded from consideration.\n\n\"Of the remainder an area of 40.59 acres to be taken within the boundary stones laid down by the Claimants is allowed to them by the Court.\n\n-1-\n\n(sa.)",
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        "content_text": "68. ONI\n\n155\n\nMBAMITEM CERIVOOS\n\n...\n\nolaised boại - A ki} **» «AYOU CI\n\nnooiwo? end to not onů RIJIMƐ MA Not 080,\"AR,Tẻ of gnidntoni\n\nu'♪ na Holtavfqzə qahvalla: sit evig binow I\n\n38: mid M\n\n9:1\n\nMEN, SOSPINA¶ Vanishing als tovo v989TONİ\n\n501 oge alsoЯ .\n\nabundled old bus 008,OVA,PA\n\nRaw DSAY no.\n\npulsox to qui,Avslus: sûf yol af: oll¢¶\n\nAbouuks encolhido al getumi dl owl aroid Iv iz\n\n7.000,2622\n\n• plate & corpus. 000,002,3$ 2\n\n11 Juc axan of $15'de 19v al JI\n\n• Nor\n\nWON\n\nodud af et eks four-ff M wod JTOVOn all\n\nto emo2 .ander 20 estelstarp\n\nComuntre ONE BATmit\n\nMANAVES\" constand to' ex\n\nmak ona a of als con▲ .007,1768 Ja sejumijas\n\ntaboo art beton offeineyto anal tro sí i bonganxe nat educń ell\n\nPro beltoffe Jo. Isto e That bus altadƐ genitor\n\nJa drama aremila al. not usinito e vínsan mest avut dom I ow\n\nbutanoli Con T ›gnofað 4** mi ateo vi fann estes add to\n\nIa\n\nDe Band Bawf Jer at anumɑ to nuidostong of\n\nmus I anten BU XHINJ on oh I ben besogxe exon 1st now oni£\n\nLonnal bod VS ATA NO stomijas qr qnidelcalso\n\n3 el vot etelek faintno orit\n\nbeaten abt et dɔiriw doły bobufoni Ji za ten trods af\n\n.bre. afenges and banyola ei etamideo\n\nver noi tiqu v\n\nbi GA awwin itoja BiH .combhuƐ wit bozartijuotaba!!\n\n, 000, ˆo endnurs de dro naivt 000,ɛes to trop Indot\n\nju sabinƐ svinn sxs\n\n.onbird\n\n\"\n\nin the sea at low water. These are three 40' four 20', five\n\n40', four 15', and five 30' spans and could not possibly have\n\nbeen built for the money allowed by Mr. Bruce in a Colony like\n\nthis where rates for masonry are nearly as high as in England.\n\nMr. Bruce's permanent way estimate was\n\nabout right as far as the rate per mile was concerned, but he\n\ndid not allow nearly enough siding accommodation for Kowloon.\n\nThe allowance of 2 miles would hardly\n\nbe sufficient to hold all the rolling stock and keep the main\n\nline free for traffic.\n\nSurvey.\n\nTaking my estimate under Main Heads.\n\nThe $45,000 includes the cost of Mr.\n\nBruce's party as well as the cost of the realignment round the\n\ncoast between Tai Wai River and the big cutting beyond Taipo\n\nmentioned in paragraph 27 of my General Letter No. 22 dated\n\n25th January, 1907. The alignment round the coast required\n\nvery careful setting out so as to have the minimum amount of\n\ntunnel with the minimum amount of Bank in the sea exposed to\n\ntyphoons. After several lines had been laid out I decided on the\n\npresent one as the most economical.\n\nLand.\n\nGovernment Crown Land is being given\n\nfree and the amount shown in the estimate is the cost of land\n\nbought from private owners.\n\nThere are 3 heavy items namely Kowloon\n\nInland Lot No. 652 for $47,000. This Lot had to be bought as\n\ncommunication was cut off by the Railway due to the diversion\n\nof Des Voeux and Gascoigne Roads.\n\nThe Line ran through the Slaughter\n\nHouse and Cattle Depot and the $18,000 is the estimate of the\n\nHonourable Director of Public Works for rebuilding same on\n\nanother site.\n\nFarm Lot No. 4 for which $22,000 was\n\npaid was some land between chain 9,400 and chain 9,661 the\n\ncompensation for which had to go up to arbitration.\n\nOU 10 yeb e ul unity worou no Joet OS to anago O esw Jnot-\n\no / .T.2.0.W.7 36 tejmu je61\n\nMOLLE RS at wedyo no no ano sbroot (Ie, no ed ol event\n\n415",
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        "content_text": "In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n2239  \n07  \nREC  \nC.O.  \n6554  \nRed 21 FEB 07  \n413  \n\n## TREASURY CHAMBERS, \n20 February 1907.\n\nSir,\n\nI have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury Mr. Lucas' letter (`3129/1907`) of the 1st instant, enclosing by direction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies copy of a letter from the Crown Agents, relative to the valuation of the securities held against the note issues of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.\n\nIn reply I am to state that My Lords note that the deficiency in the amount of security required amounts to £32,304 :19:10 in the case of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and £5,459:16:5 in the case of the Chartered Bank, and that They concur in the proposal of the Crown Agents for the Colonies to call upon the Banks to deposit additional securities to cover these deficiencies.\n\nI am,  \nSir,  \nYour obedient Servant,  \n**E. Hamilton**  \nUnder Secretary of State,  \nColonial Office.  \n913",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC. HONG KONG\n\nNo. 7688\n\n**(Subject.)**  \nNote Issue Security  \nC.O.  \n7688  \nRece REG 1 MAR 07;  \nTreasury  \n1907 H. Feb  \n\n**Last previous Paper.**  \nNote Issue Security  \nCaucus  \nIssue Security of Athong  \nThanghai Bank.  \n\nIn the proposal that guarantee fund beyond $6,000,000 maybe an approved securities of expenses agreement with oft new asti madrisability of any increase of are third sustinutes.)  \na termo  \n95 Copy  \nCompla  \nfor Strait.  \nHopy for St. Kong  \nit 74. 76m are  \n\nThe Lafer asked this fabelly & March Mr. Piades Now tel. to Gov. that we agree to extension of ordinary note issue, limited to amount of capital paid up from time to time, the extension of ordinary issue beyond 10 millions to be fully covered either by deposit of approved Securities with C.A. as made ord. A 1899 92 except that extension in excess of that amount to be fully covered.\n\nThere is no objection to the alternative of securities or coin, as desired by Mr. Addis. That alternative already applies to the one third security deposited against the present ordinary issue of 10 millions and we only approved of investments instead of coin or bullion as a concession.\n\n| Action        | To        | Reference  |\n|---------------|----------|------------|\n| Copy of our col. | Treas. L.F. |            |\n| Copy camp.    | & Straits | htt (18) & L, (78) —-028–25000-11-8 |\n\n**Text subsequent Paper**  \n143567  \nYou promised to inform Mr. Addis.\n\nBanks of deposit. You are requested to cover the deficiencies specified in para. 2 of your letter.\n\n**(Signed)** C. P. LUCAS.\n\nPage 415  \nPage 420  \nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nthe barrier in a dense fog, when it would have been more prudent for him to have been at anchor. As far as I can ascertain, Captain Lloyd is the only ship captain on the river who has any particular desire to see the north section removed, and even he would probably not have made the suggestion had he known the conditions of the river immediately above the barrier, but, like the other river captains, his knowledge of the river is confined to the channels which he habitually uses.\n\n## 5.\nOn receipt of your despatch No. 1360, Captain Myhre stated that, before giving an opinion on the subject, he thought it necessary that a new survey and a careful examination of the northern section and of the river for some distance above and below the barrier should be made. As the \"Feihoo\" was engaged in survey work outside the Bogue, from which she could not be withdrawn at the time, I applied to the Kowloon Commissioner for the services of the \"Kaipan,\" by whose officers the survey was made under the supervision of Captain Myhre. The result showed that the changes that had taken place since the last survey were not important.\n\n## 6.\nBefore submitting his Report, Captain Myhre consulted Captain Eldridge on the subject, and it is the opinion of all the responsible members of the Coast Inspector's Department that the entire removal of the north section is not necessary. Captain Myhre points out in his Memorandum, of which I inclose a copy, that the argument in favour of removal is that in thick or hazy weather this section is a dangerous obstruction to steamers, especially to those coming up river, as the bank to the east of it is so steep that vessels can keep close to it until they are quite near the barrier, of which the lead gives no warning before it is too late to haul out for the opening. But, as Captain Myhre points out, if the barrier were removed, and steamers continued to hug the bank without knowing their exact position in relation to the barrier, they would soon be ashore on the spit to the westward, or get jammed in the false channel inside it. Captain Myhre's Memorandum is accompanied by two tracings--one of the \"Feiboo's,\" 1903, and the other of the \"Kaipan's,\" 1906 survey. On the former Captain Myhre has marked the ordinary course of steamers, and also the probable course that would be taken in a fog if the north section of the barrier were removed. The lines, I hope, will help you to understand our objections to the removal of this section.\n\n## 7.\nIt must not be forgotten that fogs are of comparatively rare occurrence in the river, and that in clear weather the red light at the southern end of the north section of the barrier is of very great assistance to ships. The removal of this section would mean the abolition of the light; and it is a question whether the \"improvement\" now proposed would not in the end prove detrimental to shipping interests. That at least is the opinion of the Coast Inspectors, whose wide experience in such matters renders their views more worthy of attention than the individual opinions of local ship-masters, who are merely river pilots-if that. The navigation of most vessels between this and Hong Kong is left almost entirely to native pilots.\n\n## 8.\nThough Captain Myhre is of opinion that the north section of the barrier should not be removed, still he considers that a more powerful light should be placed on the end of the arm. He also recommends that a reliable fog-signal should be established there. He consulted Captains Tyler and Eldridge regarding his proposals, and the last named has written as follows: \"We are both of opinion that, as an alternative measure to the removal of the north arm of the barrier, it would of course be cheapest and best to have a more powerful light on the south end of the northern arm---i.e., say a 7th order light, and a fog-signal; but automatic fog-signals in the hands of Chinese light-keepers, such as are procurable at Canton, would be most uncertain, unless some reliable means were devised for the tide to work the machine and store up power to keep the machine going during slack water. To establish a fog-signal, and then have a vessel get on to the barrier in a fog through its not working, is a responsibility to be avoided, and if captains and pilots would be satisfied with more powerful light only, it would be best to avoid making any mention of the fog-signal.\n\n## 9.\nCaptain Eldridge's objections to an automatic fog-signal are certainly sound, but it is questionable whether a more powerful light alone would be sufficient. There are two light-keepers at the barrier, and it seems to me that they could be trusted to manage an ordinary signal, such as a bell or gong, especially if they were given a small increase of pay during the foggy season.\n\n## 10.\nThough, for reasons given above, the removal of the north arm of the barrier is not considered necessary by the Coast Inspectors, still it is possible that the British Government may press their demand, and therefore the probable cost of the work must be considered. It is, of course, very difficult to estimate closely in such a case, and I can only base my calculations on what we spent on the portion of the barrier which we have already removed. Excluding costs of administration, we paid about 27,500 dollars in widening the opening and dredging the channel. In all, 24 single piles and 41 groups of 3 piles each were removed. The north arm consists of 24 single piles and 49 three-pile groups. It is possible that the contractor who removed the other piles, and who has experience, would remove the piles in the north arm for about the same sum as he charged before--viz., 15,800 dollars; but, on the other hand, the piles in the north arm appear to be more firmly imbedded in the stone than were those in mid-stream, which was one of Captain Tyler's reasons for not touching them originally.\n\n## 11.\nThe main expense, as was the case with the other barriers, will be in connection with dredging. A considerable amount of dredging will be necessary where the steel piles now are, but the most difficult and expensive work will be on the old barrier to the eastward. This consists of sunken junks, wooden piles, and huge masses of stone, which will be very difficult to remove. It will no doubt be found necessary, as before, to employ a steam-dredger, and this will probably cost from 40,000 dollars to 50,000 dollars. Therefore, the mere cost of the proposed work is likely to be from 56,000 dollars to 66,000 dollars, to which must be added cost of administration, which may amount to another 20,000 dollars, or possibly more. This will depend upon the time taken over the work.\n\n## 12.\nBut, assuming that the piles are removed and the channel dredged to 16 feet, the depth of the present channel between the barrier head, there will still remain the question of the shoal to the westward. This is not an artificial construction, and therefore does not come under the scope of the Mackay Treaty; yet, as it exists, it would be a great danger to vessels in foggy weather if the barrier were removed.\n\n## 13.\nConsequently I would suggest that the barrier be left as it is, a more powerful light--and perhaps a fog-signal--supplied, and, finally, that river steamer captains be recommended to exercise greater caution in foggy weather. Ocean steamers almost invariably anchor when the weather is thick; but there seems to be an idea that river steamers must keep their schedule times under any circumstances.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed) F. J. MAYERS, Acting Commissioner.**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum by Captain Myhre.**\n\nI beg to inclose herewith two tracings of the steel barrier surveys of 1903 and 1906 respectively, both on a scale of 100 feet to 1 inch.\n\nComparing them, we find that the water on the western side of the barrier has deepened towards the northern shore, the spit, with less than 6 feet of water, being now 30 feet to 40 feet nearer the shore than in 1903, and that the 12-foot contour has also shifted in the same direction in a corresponding degree. To the east of the barrier we also find the 12-foot line somewhat closer to the northern shore than formerly, but otherwise no radical changes.\n\nRe the Removal of the Northern Section of the Steel Barrier.\n\nThe proposal to this effect was probably originated by the fact that two of the river steamers and, I believe, one of the coasting steamers ran into this part of the barrier in a fog.\n\nThe argument is that in thick or hazy weather this section is a dangerous obstruction to steamers, especially to those coming up river, as the bank to the east of it is so steep that vessels can keep it close aboard until quite near to the barrier of which the lead gives no warning before it is too late to haul out for the opening.\n\nIts removal would certainly allow steamers to run on along the bank, but the chances are, however, that they in this case would either run ashore on the spit to the westward or get jammed in the false channel inside it, and though either of these alternatives would be preferable to fouling the barrier, the actual non-presence of this would consequently not enable vessels to run on up river any more so than under the present circumstances if the weather was at all thick.\n\nAs it is unanimously agreed upon that the opening in this barrier is, in clear weather, ample for all practical purposes as far as navigation is concerned, the question is therefore limited to whether the dangers which the northern section presents in thick... \n\nPage 253",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### Despatch from H. E. Fulford\n\nThis question will be dealt with shortly in a separate despatch, as it involves the status of this Treaty port, and has been brought definitely before the Consuls by the Mukden Government. The Consuls will, of course, contend that the whole city is opened to foreign trade, and foreign merchants and goods cannot be taxed therein beyond the provisions of the Treaty tariff.\n\nThe Chinese authorities hope evidently that, with the termination of the military occupation in April, they will be in a position to discuss the matter with the foreign Consuls on a purely Treaty basis, and rely upon the wording of the American and Japanese Treaties of 1903 to support their contention that the town of Mukden is not open to foreign trade, but only a restricted area outside the mud wall, to be selected in consultation with the American and Japanese Representatives. They have, in the meantime, waived in several cases the collection of the duty from foreigners other than Japanese, in consideration of the argument that if they did not enforce the tax on Japanese they should not enforce it upon other foreigners.\n\nThe only foreign merchants who have opened establishments in the town or its vicinity other than Japanese are the British-American Tobacco Company and Arnhold, Karberg, and Co., a German firm, who have no resident foreigner here. Other Newchwang firms have Chinese agents only. The Japanese have opened many retail shops, a few merchants' \"hongs,\" and a great many disreputable restaurants, which are practically brothels, and gambling dens.\n\nThe trade of the town is in the dullest condition. Ready money is very scarce, and the Chinese authorities are trying to put an end to the old system of trading on credit. The grain business, beans and millet, which formerly constituted a great proportion of the wealth of the city, seems to have forsaken Mukden. This is partly the result of the diversion of the traffic to the railway. There is no longer any need to collect grain at Mukden during the winter for carriage to Newchwang in the spring by river. The tendency is to collect it now near the railway stations or the higher shipping marts on the River Liao. The large grain firms of Mukden formerly traded on credit, that is, issued money orders for the grain and redeemed them on sale of the grain. They are now forbidden to do this, and this prohibition further affects their business. The great producing districts of Manchuria are tapped by other towns than Mukden under the new conditions of transit.\n\nThe improvements which the Tartar General has introduced into the city are costing a great deal of money, and the necessary taxation to provide for the expenses is causing much discontent among the people. The result is a marked tendency on the part of all traders to await events and hope for easier times next year.\n\nA new police system modelled on that of Tien-tsin has been introduced, and seems to be remarkably efficient for a Chinese organization. The town is divided into six districts with 200 men to each, and they certainly appear to be constantly on the alert, and to perform their duties thoroughly. There is also a rural police, who control the country for some 12 miles on every side of Mukden.\n\nModern schools have been built in each quarter of the town in semi-foreign style, and are well attended. Some Japanese instructors are employed.\n\nSanitary needs are attended to, and public slaughter-houses provided. The Palace and the city walls are in course of thorough repair. The Imperial tombs north and east of the city have also been restored. Taking example from the Japanese, a Yoshiwara of great size has been built, where all the prostitutes of the town are to live under supervision and regulations.\n\nLabour being dear and materials of all kinds at ruinous prices, it may be imagined that all these measures, excellent as they undoubtedly are, necessitate a great outlay, and the Treasury must find money by every possible means.\n\nThe Japanese military authorities are still in control of the railway, as above stated. They appear to be adopting a hand-to-mouth policy with regard to it, and to be making as much money as possible without incurring any avoidable expense, preparatory to handing it over to the Commercial Association, which will have the task of changing the gauge and providing proper rolling stock. The Hsin Min Tun to Mukden line was hurriedly put in working order last summer, apparently for the above-mentioned purpose, and the passenger traffic alone must justify the enterprise. About 1,600 are carried each day at fares amounting to 2,000 dollars, the only accommodation provided being covered baggage cars.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. E. FULFORD\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nPage 376\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### Letter from British and Chinese Corporation to Foreign Office\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 26.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n22, Abchurch Lane, London, January 25, 1907.\n\nIn our letter of the 17th December last, we acquainted you, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, that, in defiance of the Corporation's rights, the Chekiang Railway Bureau was proceeding with the construction of the first section of the Soochow-Ningpo Railway, viz., from Soochow to Kashing.\n\nWe now beg leave to submit, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, some particulars of the work which is proceeding, which particulars have reached us in a letter from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., dated Shanghae, the 14th December, 1906, as follows:\n\n\"From information which we are able to obtain here on reliable authority, survey work has been commenced between Soochow and Kashing, and construction work and a certain amount of earth work have been started at Hangchow.\n\n\"Chang, one of Mr. Grove's late assistants on the Shanghae-Nanking Railway, has been appointed Engineer-in-Chief.\n\n\"The Chinese are also reported to be buying ballast and sand at Hangchow, and it is also reported that contracts have been entered into with the `Hanyang` ironworks to supply rails, and the Tongshan works of the Northern Railways to supply rolling stock.\n\n\"They have opened an office at Shanghae.\"\n\nWe further beg leave to state that we have received a telegram from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., dated Shanghae the 23rd January, 1907, in the following terms:\n\n\"Chinese Railway Shanghae to Kashing, 35 miles; first sod was cut 21st January outside Shanghae city; large demonstration. We are telegraphing to J. O. P. Bland.\"\n\nThe proceeding this telegram reports is an additional infraction of the Corporation's rights, inasmuch as the contemplated railway from Shanghae to Kashing will be a railway detrimental to the business of both the Shanghae-Nanking Railway and the Soochow-Ningpo Railway, and in direct contravention of Article 17 of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement, which Article applies equally to the Soochow-Ningpo Railway. This Article is as follows:\n\n\"It is further agreed that without the express consent in writing of the Director-General and the British and Chinese Corporation, no other rival railway detrimental to the business of the same is to be permitted, and no parallel line to the Shanghae-Nanking Railway is to be allowed to the injury of the latter's interest within the area served by the Shanghae-Nanking main line or branch lines.\"\n\nWe think it probable that a railway might be desirable from Shanghae to Kashing, but we submit that it ought not to be constructed without the consent of the Corporation, and with due regard to the interests of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway and the Soochow-Ningpo Railway.\n\nFor convenience of reference, we enclose a sketch-map showing in red the Shanghae-Nanking Railway and the Soochow-Ningpo Railway, and in green the intended railway from Shanghae to Kashing. (In the map Kashing is spelt \"Kia-Hing.\")\n\nWe are, &c.\n\nThe British and Chinese Corporation (Limited),\n\n(Signed) W. KESWICK, Chairman.\n\nP.S. Sir Edward Grey is aware that Kashing is not the objective point of the railways which are intended to go on to Hangchow (where earthworks seem to have been started) and presumably to Ningpo.\n\nW. K.\n\n[2974]\n\nPage 376",
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        "content_text": "# 400 \nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n## CHINA. TRADE.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nC.O.\n\nFebruary 4, 1907\n\n## SECTION E\n\nRed 12 MAT 07\n\n[3098]\n\n**(No. 45.)**\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan**\n\nForeign Office, February 4, 1907.\n\nI HAVE received your despatch No. 512 of the 7th December, 1906, forwarding copies of correspondence with His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton respecting the unsatisfactory manner in which the improvement of the accommodation for shipping in the harbour of Canton is being carried out by the local Chinese authorities.\n\nI concur in the approval which you have expressed to Mr. Mansfield of his action in addressing a representation to the Viceroy, requesting that the work on the portion of the Canton River Bund which lies in the vicinity of the British wharves should be done under the supervision of a foreign surveyor. And I request that the matter may not be lost sight of, but that Mr. Mansfield's recommendation may be pressed with the Chinese authorities.\n\n[2367 d-3]\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**(Signed)**\nE. GREY.",
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        "content_text": "# 529 \n\n## 2 \n\nthe Customs Service would suffer great and irreparable deterioration if placed under native control at the present time. But there is no evidence, so far as I know, to show that the authority of the foreign Commissioners at the ports has been generally weakened vis-à-vis the Taotais by recent events, although there is in this, as in all other matters where foreigners are concerned, an increasing desire amongst the Chinese of all classes to assume the exclusive management of their own affairs—a task for which they are, in my opinion, still very inadequately equipped.\n\nThe China Association in London apparently indorse the view of the Shanghae branch that the Inspector-General's recent Circular has proved futile. It is difficult in a question of this kind to do more than quote the opinion of those who are most closely interested and in the best position to judge, and I beg to adduce the evidence of two such persons.\n\nM. Piry, a Frenchman, who is at the head of the Postal Service and one of the oldest Commissioners, and whose son is also in the service, volunteered to me a few days ago the statement that the very grave apprehensions which had been felt during the summer about the future of the service had lately almost completely disappeared.\n\nAnother piece of evidence is contained in the inclosed letter from Sir R. Hart, in which he cites the views of the Deputy Commissioner at Tien-tsin. These views, I need hardly say, were expressed without any idea of their being used by me, and I have never seen the writer. Mr. Hausson states that Ts'ai Taotai, in introducing the subject of the Shui-wu Ch'u, declared that the question of doing away with the foreign staff in the Customs had been shelved for the next forty years. Although this forecast appears to me to be unduly sanguine, I agree with Sir R. Hart that the pronouncement, coming as it does from one of the right-hand men of the Viceroy Yuan, to whose support the Decree of the 9th May is supposed to have owed its origin, is especially significant.\n\nOn the other hand, there is a strong sense of grievance amongst the student class, some of whom have won distinction in competition with foreigners in Europe or America, at being excluded from an important branch of the public service in their own country, to which Japanese and members of most other nationalities have admission. As illustrating this side of the question, I beg to transmit to you herewith an extract from an article which appeared a few days ago in a vernacular journal.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from Canton Intelligence Report, January-June, 1906.\n\nRegistration of Cargo Boats.--On the 4th April the Viceroy sent a despatch to all the Consuls stating that a River Police Office had been established, and that it regarded the protection of ships and junks as one of its primary duties. Consequently it had started by registering all the junks in the harbour and waterways. It had already registered 2,800 craft, and now desired to similarly register all cargo boats in foreign employ.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General replied to the Viceroy on the 17th April to the effect that hitherto all cargo boats and small craft in British employ had been already registered and numbered by the Harbour Department of the Chinese Customs, and that this system had worked very smoothly. The assumption of the same powers by the River Police was a new departure, which would lead to complications, and His Majesty's Consul-General could not see his way to countenance it without express orders from his Minister.\n\nThe Viceroy's letter was more or less ignored by the other Consuls. The Customs Department, however, has been in constant communication on the subject with the Chinese officials with a view to its remission.\n\nIt is alleged that the scheme is the creation of the Provincial Treasurer, Hu Hsiang-lin, a very reactionary man, with the intention of subsequently imposing a tax to assist the depleted coffers of the province.\n\nThe baneful influence of the new River Police is being already felt. On one occasion some sampans, lying too near a British steamer in rough weather, were ordered to move off, but they refused to obey the Customs officer's command, on the ground that their authority had been superseded.\n\nThe real object of this Police Department revealed itself when it issued licences to the \"Flower Boats\" to resume their old position in the middle of the harbour. It is rumoured that the \"squeeze\" paid was 20,000 dollars for this permit. These boats had formerly encroached on the fairway of this congested harbour, and on each occasion of constantly-recurring fires had increased in size and unwieldiness, so that they formed a great danger to navigation. The Customs finally succeeded in getting them removed to near the eastern harbour limits. Being thus relegated to comparative obscurity, these \"Flower Boats\" have been trying every means in their power to get back, and at last they found a complacent authority. This action, however, elicited a joint protest from the river captains to His Majesty's Consul-General. The latter thereupon sent a strong remonstrance to the Viceroy, with the result that the boats are gradually being relegated to their former position.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir R. Hart to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nJanuary 13, 1907. In a letter just received from Hausson, the Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Native Customs at Tien-tsin, I find the following passage: \"The day before yesterday was indeed a red-letter day with us. The Adjunct Commissioner put in an appearance again after a deliberate absence from this office of more than half a year. As he is one of the most sensitive weathercocks I know of, I was pleased to see in his coming here again that your hands have again been strengthened. Tsai himself, in introducing the subject of the Shui-wu Ch'u, declared the question of the doing away with the foreign staff to have been finally shelved for the next forty years. Après nous, le déluge?'\"\n\nTsai is the man who acted as Haikuan Tao when Liang Tun Yen was absent on special duty in Kiangsi, and is one of Yuan's right-hand men. So his pronouncement and reappearance may be taken as another sign that the storm has blown over and that we have lost no spars.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nNewspaper Extract, dated January 17, 1907.\n\n**CHINESE CENSURE SIR R. HART.**\n\n[Unsigned.]\n\nWe publish below a strongly-worded article from a native paper censuring Sir Robert Hart for his alleged unfair treatment of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs clerks, and his \"short-sighted policy\" in keeping out of the service natives who have been educated abroad.\n\nThe article is as follows:-\n\n\"In a recent leaderette of ours, we mentioned the fact that, notwithstanding Sir Robert Hart's valuable services in China for nearly half a century, he has in one respect at least done gross injustice to the Chinese Government and people. We referred to the fact that, in spite of the altered condition of affairs in China in recent years, when men of excellent character and education have come back from foreign countries, fully capable of occupying positions of responsibility in the Customs Service after a certain period of training, Sir R. Hart has never taken steps to have them trained or to offer any inducements whatever to such men to enter the said service, except as candidate clerks, on the same rank as schoolboys with a smattering of foreign education, on a salary of 25 taels a-month to commence with, and with no hope whatever of rising beyond a Chinese clerkship.\n\n\"To show how Sir R. Hart, by his unfair and short-sighted policy, has kept all well-educated men out of the Customs Service, it is necessary to give a few facts concerning the manner in which Chinese employés in the said service are treated, and to which treatment all other Chinese, irrespective of their education, character, and social position, must submit if they desire a post in the same service.",
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        "content_text": "# 605\n\n## General Foreign Settlement. Trade. Timber.\n\n6\n\nin Manchuria and is making an inspection of the prospective properties of the Company.\n\nThe traffic on the Mukden-Antung Railway is quite inconsiderable, for the narrow gauge, paucity of rolling-stock, and heavy gradients render the carriage of large quantities of freight out of the question. Two trains a day run to and fro between Mukden and Antung, a break being made for the night at Ts'ao Ho K'ou. The only passenger car is attached to the early train. Over the passes, the length of the trains is reduced to a minimum of four or five trucks. Freight per ton-mile is the same as on the Dalny line - 5 cents. The only goods I saw in transit were charcoal, grain, and wine for the use of the troops, and a small quantity of beans consigned from Fenghuangchiêng to Antung. I was told that coal is also brought from the Fushun mines to Antung by rail.\n\nThe rails and rolling-stock in present use are the property of the Japanese Government and will be restored when the reconstruction has been effected.\n\nThe length of the line is 187 miles. There are eighty-seven bridges. The heaviest gradient is 1 in 25, but 1 in 30 is frequent over the passes. The length is to be reduced to 150 miles by tunnelling and straightening the line. In all, there will be eight tunnels, of which the longest will be over a mile in length.\n\nRailway guards are stationed at the following places: Mukden, Pênhsihu, Ch'iao-t'ou, Lienshankuan, Ts'aohok'ou, Tungyuang'u, Hsichlichan, Fênghuangchiêng, and Antung.\n\nAs I have mentioned above, the Chinese authorities do not recognize the status of the Japanese Settlement, and the officials of the Shang Fou Chu, or Treaty Port Department, have aspirations of its being converted into a general foreign Settlement. It is a forlorn hope, for there is no other possible site for a Settlement, any district above the Chinese town being out of the question on account of its remoteness from the anchorage, while all available river front below the Japanese Settlement is in Japanese hands. I pointed out to the Secretary (Ti-tiao) of the Shang Fou Chu the futility of talking about a foreign Settlement established by China, as British subjects, at any rate, could not be restricted from opening places of business anywhere in Antung if they desired to do so. He said that they would find some difficulty in acquiring any place in the town, and I hear it is a fact that rents are prohibitive. The same scheme is also entertained by the Treaty Port Department at Tatungkou, and a tract of land adjacent to the Tatungkou Creek was pointed out to me as the site of the future foreign Settlement. There will probably not be the same difficulty about its acquisition as at Antung, for I did not hear of any extensive purchases of land by Japanese at Tatungkou.\n\n## Trade\n\nTrade during the past year at Antung and Tatungkou has suffered from the same dulness which has been felt at Newchang. Chinese traders complain that the export trade has been bad on account of poor crops in 1905, and that little profit has been made on imports, while the exemption of Japanese from duty and li-kin has given them an unfair advantage and had an adverse influence. It is hoped that 1907 will prove more prosperous on account of the excellent harvests in 1906.\n\nThe importation of foreign goods direct from Chemulpho and Japan is a new factor in the trade of the port, which in former years was confined to steamer and junk traffic with Chefoo and Shanghae. Flour, kerosene, piece-goods, and miscellaneous goods of Japanese origin are now coming direct, while silk, beans, &c., go back to Japan, and the returns at Chefoo would no doubt show a considerable decrease in the trade with the Yalu ports. This direct trade will no doubt tend to increase, while the Corean Railway will also enter upon the field when it has been relaid. The Japanese Consul seemed hopeful of the creation of a demand in this district for Japanese specialities.\n\nNo foreigners except Japanese have started business in Antung or Tatungkou. The Standard Oil Company, the British American Tobacco Company, a foreign firm at Dalny, and, I believe, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire sent Europeans to investigate trade prospects in 1906, and the two first and the last have Chinese agencies. In the Japanese Settlement, a large number of stores selling foreign and Japanese wares have been opened. Mitsui Busan Kaisha, the Chief Japanese firm, carries on a large business in American flour and the export of silk. The Yokohama Specie Bank has a branch here.\n\nThe region served by the ports of Antung and Tatungkou comprises the seven districts of Huaijên, Tunghua, Chian, K'nantien, Fenghuang, Linchiang, and Antung lying in the south-eastern corner of Fengtien.\n\n## Timber\n\nThe most important product of this region is timber. The greater portion of the timber is felled on the southern slopes of the Man-êrh-shan. Very little comes from the lower parts of the Yalu Valley or from the Corean side. The principal kind of timber is pine, of which there are eight varieties - the Hung Sung or red pine and Sha Song being the most important. Over ten other kinds of wood are felled.\n\nThe timber-felling industry is entirely in Chinese hands, no Japanese having yet participated in it. In regard to the proposed joint China-Japanese Timber Syndicate, stipulated for in the Agreement of 1905, the Japanese Consul said that no steps had yet been taken towards its formation. Negotiations were now proceeding between the Japanese Minister and his Excellency Yuan Shih-k'ai, but no arrangement has been arrived at.\n\nOnly some 5,000 rafts, about one-half of the usual supply, came down the river in 1906; of this, the major part was retained at Antung, contrary to the usual rule, so that, deducting what was required by the Japanese, little more than one-tenth of the ordinary quantity reached Tatungkou. An estimate given me made the output in good years at 10,000 rafts, which, at 1,000 taels a-piece, makes a total value of 10,000,000 taels.\n\nBy an arrangement with the Customs Tantai, the Japanese military authorities this year took 30 per cent of all timber coming down-river, paying for it at a fixed rate. There are military yards at Antung, Yongampho, and Tatungkou, where this timber is stored, and in connection with them are three machine saw-mills at Yongampho, Antung, and New Wiju, managed by private firms, which cut up timber solely for the military. That at Yongampho, which belongs to the Okura Company, and was the largest, has recently been burned down. The output of these mills is chiefly sleepers for the railways, and material for the construction of railway buildings and barracks. Very little timber is sold. The Antung mill is a small concern and prepares timber for the Antung Railway.\n\nTwo million dollars worth of timber are reported to have been appropriated by the Japanese military in 1904 on the pretext that it was Russian property. Afterwards, the Japanese Government sent an official to make inquiries, and compensation was offered to the Chinese firms. The offer was rejected as inadequate, and there has been some talk of a Petition to the Japanese Government on the matter.\n\n### Silk\n\nWild silk is the export next in importance to timber. Large areas of mountain land in this district are planted with scrub oak, on the leaves of which the silkworm is fed. Some of the cocoons are reeled by the producers themselves, but the great majority are packed in baskets of 30,000 and exported. Most of the reeled silk used to be sent to Shanghae via Chefoo, but I was told that since the Japanese occupation, practically all this trade has been attracted to Japan. The majority of the cocoons still go to Chefoo, but an increasing quantity go to Japan. The native Customs give the average annual exports as 2,400 bales of reeled silk, worth 336,000 taels, and 24,000 baskets of cocoons, worth 720,000 taels. The 1906 export was below the average.\n\nAccording to the same authority, beans, beancake, and maize rank next in the list of exports, being valued at 560,000 taels, 165,000 taels, and 160,000 taels, and then come medicines, bean-oil, and hemp. The export in 1906 of these articles was below the average.\n\nThe Native Customs give the total of principal exports, exclusive of timber, as 2,100,000 taels.\n\n### Imports\n\nThe principal imports are foreign cotton piece-goods, 595,000 taels; native cotton piece-goods, 696,000 taels; cotton yarn, 240,000 taels; flour, 350,000 taels; sugar, 321,000 taels; rice, wheat, kerosene, silk piece-goods, &c. The total imports are estimated at 3,700,000 taels.\n\nIn view of the untrustworthy nature of Native Customs Returns, these figures are only put forward to show the relative importance of the various exports and imports. These figures are probably much below the proper amount.\n\nThe trade of Tatungkou is similar to that of Antung, with which it is closely connected. Timber, silk, and cocoons are the principal exports, and imports are the same as at Antung. Merchandise is frequently brought from Antung to Tatungkou for shipment.\n\nFrom what I could gather, the trade across the Corean frontier has hitherto been inconsiderable. It consists in an exchange of grain, beans, skins, &c., on the Corean side for cotton and silk piece-goods and other Chinese and foreign manufactures.\n\n### Shipping\n\nIn the years previous to the Russo-Japanese war, a number of British and Chinese steamers used to run from Chefoo to Antung and Tatungkou under Inland Waters Rules. This business has now fallen into Japanese hands. In 1906, only one British steamer called at Tatungkou, making three trips. Japanese steamers ran regularly to and from Chefoo, being chartered by Chinese firms. Japanese steamers also brought cargoes direct from Japan and Chemulpo.\n\n[2418 s-3]",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n(No. 2.) Sir,\n\n### Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 6.)\n\nYunnan-fu, February 16, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of Intelligence Reports on affairs in Yünnan and Kueichow recently submitted to His Majesty's Minister.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n#### Intelligence Report respecting Affairs in Yünnan-fu and Kueichow.\n\n##### Commercial\n\nNative Opium.-The enforcement of the ten Regulations for the suppression of opium-growing and opium-smoking has been put off till after the approaching Chinese New Year (13th February, 1907). It is true that, at all events in the immediate neighbourhood of Yunnan-fu, there is a very considerable decrease in the area under poppy cultivation; but although certain timid or cautious farmers may have taken alarm at the recent edicts, I am assured that the great majority of the planters were influenced rather by the fact that the crop of 1905-6 could not be sold at a profit. Large stocks remained in the hands of the dealers, and local opium was being retailed at 12 taels the 100 Chinese ounces.\n\nThe weather, again, was unfavourable. During last December no rain at all fell, and the poppy seeds failed to germinate. The consequence is that the retail price has now advanced to 28 or 29 taels per 100 ounces, in addition to the consolidated tax of 115 taels a picul. I am told by no less a person than the head of the city li-kin collectorate, himself an opium smoker, that the result will be to largely increase the acreage to be sown with the poppy next season (1907-8), which hardly looks as though active measures of suppression are contemplated.\n\nI will endeavour to obtain copies of any local Regulations or Proclamations that may be issued. I am informed that the Provincial Government has reported to Peking that a return of the acreage under poppy cannot be made.\n\n##### Transport\n\nThe cost of transport, particularly between Tongking and Yunnan-fu, has greatly increased of late. For the eleven or twelve stages from Manhao (on the Red River) hither, as much as 13 dollars a-head has had to be paid for mules, almost exactly double the normal rate of 40 tael cents a-day. The reason assigned is the demand by the Government for mules to carry (a) the machinery for the new mint, (b) supplies of rice for the provincial capital. (Rice has been imported in considerable quantities from Kueichow.)\n\n##### Mint\n\nThe buildings have been completed, but no machinery is in position, or, indeed, has yet reached Yünnan-fu. It is worth noting that the buildings have been erected without any foreign aid, and that the tall factory chimney has been set up without any objections on the score of \"fengshui\" such as prevailed some years ago when the Arsenal was built. A detailed report shall be submitted when the Mint is in working order.\n\nA French Firm, L'Union Commerciale Indo-Chinoise, has established one of its Chinese assistants at a shop in Yunnan city, where foreign goods are sold, notably wines, beer, cigars, and groceries. The assistant is, I understand, given a price under which he must not sell, but over which he may make for himself what profit he can; he is also paid a fixed salary. The result seems to be that few sales are effected, the prices asked being exorbitant. Recently a young Italian, M. Aurely, has been sent to Yunnan-fu by the firm, and has taken up his quarters at the Railway Compound, now all but vacant. M. Aurely tells me that it is proposed, as soon as Yunnan-fu is opened as...",
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        "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n[April 26.]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nRed' 5 JUN 07\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[13428]\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nAdmiralty to Foreign Office.-(Received April 26.)\n\nSir,\n\nAdmiralty, April 24, 1907.\n\nI AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of correspondence which has been received from the Commander-in-chief, China, relative to piracy in the West River, China.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \nC. I. THOMAS.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nSir,\n\nVice-Admiral Sir A. Moore to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong [undated].\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 23rd February, inclosing a copy of a despatch No. 86 addressed to Sir Edward Grey relative to the measures adopted for the suppression of piracy in the inland waters of China.\n\n2. I paid an official visit to his Excellency the Viceroy of Canton on the 28th February, and took the opportunity to mention the subject to him. His Excellency informed me that a flotilla of about fourteen steam launches was to be built and placed under the orders of Admiral Li for patrolling duties on the West River, and that it was proposed to have a small number of steam launches under the Commissioner of Customs to co-operate with Admiral Li's flotilla. His Excellency said that he saw no objection to the proposal, and that communications between Canton and Peking on the subject were proceeding.\n\n3. Although the Viceroy spoke of this co-operation by the Commissioner of Customs, I am doubtful if Admiral Li would carry out such an arrangement in its entirety. In my opinion, it is essential that the Customs authorities should have the necessary authority to deal with the situation independently in case the Chinese show any lack in co-operation, which may be expected sooner or later; it should not be left to Admiral Li to guide the situation or to direct the Customs authorities to patrol such and such waters, or to take such and such action.\n\n4. With respect to paragraph 4 of your despatch to Sir Edward Grey, I would point out that very little would be gained by these launches steaming up and down the river; such is the only procedure open to our own river gun-boats, and is attended with poor results. The Commissioner of Customs should have sufficient power to enable his launches to visit all parts of the delta, to search any vessels, and to arrest and hand over to the proper authorities any criminal or suspect.\n\n5. If the report is true that the launches being built by the Viceroy's order are only to cost 5,000 dollars each, they will not be of much good, and the six Customs launches, if of proper size and speed, would do far better service. I think Sir Robert Hart does not realize why speed is so necessary. It is true there is no \"piracy,\" properly speaking, no piratical craft to chase; it is more often the case of a certain number of passengers murderously attacking and robbing the remainder. But speed is absolutely necessary for rapidity of communications, for a launch to reach a certain spot by a certain time, and our own gun-boats, two of the three being very slow, have often failed to act in time in consequence of not having sufficient speed to get over the ground fast enough against a strong current.\n\n6. I gather that Sir Robert Hart is not much in sympathy with the proposal that the Customs authorities should take up this duty, and I quite understand and sympathise with his objection to provide six launches out of Customs funds as this is so entirely a matter for the Chinese Government; but if the initial cost is borne by the latter, perhaps...\n\n[2450 cc-3]\n\nAfter many negotiations, they succeeded in coming to an agreement with the German Asiatic Bank. The bank was consequently granted a Concession by the Imperial Chancellor for the issue of bank notes for fifteen years from the 8th June, 1906.\n\nIn judicial affairs, the legally educated Judges have worked satisfactorily with their other colleagues, especially those of trading classes. Many difficulties have arisen for the German population by the combination of Colonial and Consular law. The Marine Administration consider it necessary to effect a separation of the two kinds of law and to work for the formation of an independent Colonial law adaptable to the special requirements of Colonial development, and, in anticipation of this, to pay particular attention to Colonial judicial practice and knowledge of Colonial law. The Government school has made very satisfactory progress.\n\nThe weather has been very favourable for agriculture and forestry, and the harvest was the best for years. The sanitary relations were the best on the entire East Asian coast. The relations between the German Government and Chinese Hinterland authorities have been excellent throughout the year.\n\nThe Memorandum contains a number of pictures and a plan of the town, showing a surprising development in building.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC. O.\n\n19974  \n197",
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        "content_text": "## 17. Goods may be repacked for carriage on the Wuchow-Nanning line under Customs supervision.\n\nIn case of damage to cargo en route and consequent need of repackage, a report is to be made to the nearest official or barrier, who will inspect the damage done and superintend repackage, entering a suitable note on the certificate, with date and seal, at the same time reporting the occurrence to the Custom-house at port of departure and of arrival. This permission to repack only applies to goods damaged en route, and does not affect the repackage rules of 1866.\n\n## 18. Duties\nGoods pay import and export duties according to the Treaty Tariff. Goods will pay duty or be exempted from duty as the original covering documents provide.\n\n## 19. Native produce purchased at Wuchow and shipped from Wuchow to Nanning pays a full export duty at Wuchow and a coast trade half duty at Nanning.\n\n## 20. With the exception of goods which have paid transit dues, all native produce on application for export has to produce a Tung Shui receipt.\n\nGoods exported from Nanning will pay a full export duty at Nanning and a coast trade half duty at the port of destination. Goods intended for export abroad will be dealt with by the Customs at the port of reshipment in accordance with the Treaties and Port Regulations.\n\n## 21. All steamers, registered lighters, and registered native boats, are to pay tonnage dues according to the Treaties; chartered lighters and chartered native boats are to pay port dues at the rate of 3 mace per ton every four months.\n\n## 22. Miscellaneous\nVessels subject to the Maritime Customs may only anchor in such places as the Customs may direct.\n\n## 23. In certain sections of the river, to be hereafter ascertained, where the channel is narrow or rapids exist, lighters and native boats under Maritime Customs control must form single file with the ordinary Chinese junks, and must not endeavour to pass each other.\n\nAfter due notification of the localities concerned, any disregard of this rule will entail full responsibility for all the consequences on the vessel infringing it, whether foreign or Chinese.\n\n## 24. All changes in charter or ownership, laying up of vessels, &c., are to be reported to the Custom House; in the case of foreigners, through the Consul concerned, in order that certificates or registers may be cancelled or amended, and the flag deposited or surrendered as may be required.\n\nWhen a native boat is being withdrawn from Maritime Customs control and reverts to native taxation, the name and number are to be erased from her bows, and the superintendent will be informed that she has become amenable to local junk regulations.\n\n## 25. All foreign-owned and chartered vessels must report to the Customs and take out Customs papers before proceeding, under pain of confiscation.\n\n## 26. The flag to be flown by registered vessels is to be red in colour and triangular in shape, measuring 4 feet in width, 8 feet in length at top, 6 feet 9 inches at bottom, and bear the following raised Chinese characters in white:\n關式某商自備船隻旂職第枲號\n\n## 27. The flag to be flown by chartered vessels will be blue in colour, triangular in shape, measuring 4 feet in width, 8 feet in length at top, 6 feet 9 inches at bottom, and bear the following raised Chinese characters:\n關式某雇用船隻旂職第葇號\n\nThe flags to be flown by both registered and chartered vessels will be provided by the Customs.\n\n## 28. Steamers, lighters, and native boats trading under Maritime Customs control must report, clear, load, and discharge cargo in the same manner as steamers at other Treaty ports along the coast, and in accordance with the West River Regulations.\n\n## 29. The Customs officials will be at liberty to seal the hatches and holds of vessels under Maritime Customs control, and seals must not be broken before the vessel reaches the port. Any vessel falling in with a revenue cutter or Customs boat is to produce her papers for inspection if required, and Customs employés may be put on board vessels to search them, or accompany them, for the purpose of surveillance.\n\n## 30. Infractions of Treaty stipulations and Customs Regulations will entail such penalties as Treaties and the Regulations provide for steamers.\n\nThe above Regulations are supplementary to the Regulations of Trade on the West River, and are open to revision when, and if necessary.\n\n**Custom House, Nanning, January 1907.**\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## Consul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 13.) Sir,**\n\nCanton, April 4, 1907. I HAVE already forwarded to you Mr. Consul King's despatch No. 6 of the 23rd ultimo on the subject of the opening of Nanning. A copy of the English version of the Customs Regulations inclosed therein had reached me a few days previous to the receipt of Mr. King's despatch, from an outside source; and I am strongly of opinion that these Regulations, objectionable as they are in many respects, should not have been published and publicly sold in Hong Kong until they had first been referred to me for submission to you for such action as you should have deemed fit.\n\nConsideration of Mr. King's despatch, and of the Regulations themselves, leaves no doubt as to the fact that the main question is what constitutes the \"Treaty\" port of Nanning, which, as I understand, was first opened to international trade by Agreement between Sir Claude MacDonald and the Tsung-li Yamen in 1899 in the same way as Yochow and other ports. There can, however, be no question but that the Chinese Government do not consider Nanning a Treaty port, and that they even go a step further and draw a distinction between the city of Nanning and the foreign Settlement, situated three-quarters of a mile below the eastern or lower end of the business quarter of the city. There are two points which make this perfectly obvious; one is that (vide the Wuchow Consul's despatch) the Nanning Taotai takes the stand that the Kut Hing firm cannot remain the permanent representatives of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., since they are established in the city of Nanning itself, and not in the foreign Settlement; and I should here state that the Regulations which Mr. King is awaiting are seemingly the Customs publication forwarded in the former's despatch. The second point is to be found in the Chinese version of these Regulations. If a comparison is made between Articles XIX and XX, it will be seen that in the first it is distinctly stated that goods purchased on the spot (`LIT`) in Wuchow pay a full export duty at Wuchow, and a coast trade half duty at Nanning; in the second, on the other hand, which refers to Nanning, the characters `MER` are missing. The conclusion to which I have come on the general information which has reached me, and in the light of the Nanning Taotai's ruling as to the Kut Hing firm is that purchase on the spot in Nanning city proper, and export through the foreign Customs established in the foreign Settlement without the production of evidence to show that transit dues or \"t'ung shui\"-compound inland taxes-have been paid, is impossible. I should here add that temporarily the custom-house, since arrangement of the Settlement is not yet completed, and landslips are anticipated, is situated on the other side of the river, opposite to the Settlement site. Of course, if the foreign merchant buys his goods up country for export via Nanning, irrespective of city or Settlement, since Nanning is an open port-either he pays transit duty or “tung shui.”\n\nI will now deal with certain of the Regulations seriatim.\n\nRegulation 2, read in conjunction with section (a) of Regulation 1.-Reference to the Chinese text makes it clear that a vessel holding inland waters papers can trade to Nanning and inland places under the Inland Navigation Rules, unless she elects to become a Treaty Power steamer (), and engage in an interport trade, trade, i.e., between Wuchow and Nanning, calling at the passenger stations enumerated in Regulation 13, in which case she surrenders her inland waters papers for cancellation.",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n**467** \n\n**2** \n\nTwo of the new armed launches passed through Samshui on their way to Shuching on Monday, and I submit the following particulars for your information :--\n\n| Length (approximately) | Beam | Draught | Speed | Armament |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 65 feet | 10 \" | 3 \" | 8 to 9 knots | 10 Mauser rifles only |\n\nThey have flat bottoms, and appear well found, and I was informed that there are to be ten of this kind placed on the river.\n\nI will submit further information after I have made inquiries at Canton.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[19877]` \n\n**No. 1.**\n\n`C. C. 26320` \n**REC:** Red 23 JUL 07\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 17.)\n\n**(No. 193.)** Sir,\n\nPeking, April 27, 1907.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 93 of the 19th February, have the honour to inclose copies of further correspondence with Prince Ch'ing on the subject of the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway.\n\nHis Highness' note of the 16th instant is not altogether clear, but I take it to imply that our interpretation of the engagement of 1902 is forced or unreasonable. My reply of the 20th instant refers his Highness once more to the plain language of his note of the 16th March, 1902, and restates the claim which we are entitled to base on it.\n\nA copy of this despatch has been sent to the Government of India.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nPrince Ching to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nApril 16, 1907.\n\nIN a note dated the 31st January on the subject of the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway, your Excellency stated that the engagement contained in my note of the 12th March, 1902, was not open to doubt of any kind; that this engagement was to the effect that, as regards railway connection between Burmah and Yunnan and measures for the advancement of trade, whatever privileges were conceded to French enterprise in Yunnan, similar privileges should also be accorded to British enterprise. Further, your Excellency added that His Britannic Majesty's Government do not consider a Concession for this short line to be fully equivalent to the Concession granted to the French.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to state that a full explanation was given in my recent note of the 24th January of the meaning which should be attached to the Board's reply to Sir E. Satow of the 12th March, 1902. The Province of Yunnan has already raised funds itself for the construction of this line of railway, which can be connected with the Burmese system, in accordance with the Convention, and which cannot be otherwise characterized than as a measure for the advancement of trade. As regards the commercial enterprises of British and French merchants in the Province of Yunnan, the Chinese Government has no wish to treat them differentially, but the various Treaties have special Articles between which forced comparisons cannot be drawn. It is my duty therefore to again inform your Excellency that we still find it difficult to agree to your demand.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nApril 20, 1907.\n\nIN reply to your Highness' note of the 16th April on the subject of the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway, I have the honour to state that there is no question of forced comparisons between special Articles of the Treaties in the present instance. Your Highness' note of the 16th March, 1902, speaks for itself, and the plain purport of it is, in letter as in spirit, that, in respect of railway connections between Burmah and ...",
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        "content_text": "## The Present Trade Route and Proposed Railway Line\n\nThe present trade route has been evolved in the process of time. Distance and the nature of the ground have been more important factors in determining its course than the lowest gaps in the mountains or the easiest grade. To gain some li, or avoid bad ground, it is frequently carried some hundreds of feet higher than necessary. A spur is always used in preference to a valley. One result is that there is invariably a short cut or an alternative route between important places. From Tengyueh to the Shweli Bridge, there is at least one commonly used road besides the main road. From the Shweli Bridge, there are two roads to the Salween Bridge, the stone road passing Ta-li-shu and Ho-mu-shu, and the \"new\" unpaved road to Hsiao Ping-ho, and thence down the ravine by Lao-chai. From Tengyueh, there is another distinct road to the Salween Bridge, which I much regret not having explored. The first stage along the road to Lungling is as far as Menglien and thence to Ta-ho-lao. The Shweli is crossed by the Lo-an chain bridge, 40 li (about 8 miles) below the main road bridge. Other villages on the road are: Kung-hao, Hsiao-ti-fang, Ch'eng-men-tung, P'u-mang-shao, Shih-t'i-chai, about 35 li (7 miles) from the Salween Bridge, Mo-p'an-shih, Pa-wan, Hsiang-shu, and Mo-cha.\n\nFrom Ta-pan-ching, east of the Salween, there is a mountain track to P'u-piao. The range west of Yung-ch'ang Fu is crossed by caravans in three places, namely, above Hun-shui-tang, at 7,500 feet; by the main road above Leng-shui-ching, at 7,200 feet; and at Ta-kuan-shih, at 6,600 feet. Foreign travellers are always taken along the main roads, unless they happen to know that there is another one and compel their mulemen to follow it.\n\nThe selection of a trace for a railway is naturally governed by other considerations than those which have made the trade route, and it has been found possible to avoid one of the ranges—that between the Shun-pi and the Yang-pi Rivers—to discover gaps lower than the main road passes in the other ranges, with the exception of the Yang-chang-Mekong Divide, which is turned, by adopting a course north of the Yung-chang Plain.\n\nThe line proposed by Mr. Lilley runs direct from Tali to Hsia-kuan, 10 miles. The country is practically level, and there is no difficulty. The plain is rich and prosperous enough to support a railway on its own merits. The outlet from the lake would be bridged east of the town of Hsia-kuan. From this place, altitude 6,600 feet, to Ping-po, the junction of the Hsia-kuan and Yang-pi Rivers, there is a drop of 1,700 feet in 12 miles. The line would follow the left bank downstream, cross the river below its junction with the Shun-pi River (9 miles, altitude 4,550 feet), and come up the right bank of the latter for 26 miles, to the neighbourhood of Huang-lien-p'u. It would take 24 miles to cross the range into the Yung-ping Plain, going through a newly-discovered gap at 7,700 feet, south of the road. From Chu-tung, in the plain, there would be up-hill work for 16 miles, to another gap, 7,400 feet, in the Mekong-Yungping watershed, over which the road goes at an altitude of 8,200 feet. From the gap to the Mekong would require 18 miles of line, which would cross the main road near Shayang, and go down a lateral valley to the river, about 8 miles north of the bridge. From the river 4,100 feet, to the watershed, 6,500 feet, near Lan-tien-pa, north of Yung-ch'ang Fu, would be a difficult piece of work, but from there to the town would be easy going. To the south-west, the line would cross the watershed near Ta-kuan-shih, 6,600 feet, about a dozen miles from the town, and passing along the P'u-p'iao Plain, cross the watershed between Fang-ma-chang and Ta-pan-ching, 4,900 feet, and go along the left bank of the stream until the Salween was reached. The river would be bridged to the south of the main road bridge, and the line would go south-west through the Salween Plain (Lu-chiang-pa) and cross the divide 20 miles from the river at a newly-discovered gap (6,900 feet) south of Hsiao-ti-fang. The descent would take 13 miles, and the Shweli be crossed north of the Lo-an Bridge, above mentioned. The line would then require 11 miles to ascend the mountains west of the Shweli, to a gap, 6,500 feet. It would run practically level for 2 miles, to another gap at the same altitude, and reach the Tengyueh Plain near the village of Kuan-p'o, in the branch valley out of which the road to Lungling climbs. From the plain, the line would run almost due north, to the town of Tengyueh, which is some 11 miles from the nearer gap.\n\nThe total length of line from here to Tali is put down at 240 miles as against 170 by the road. It is proposed that the line, as well as the proposed line from Bhamo, should be worked by electricity, to be generated by using one of the rivers (Salween or Mekong). It may be recommended that a separate power-house should be built in British territory for the section from Bhamo to Tengyueh. The maximum grade proposed is 1 in 20.\n\n## Map Details\n\nMain Road Bhamo to Talifu in purple.\nScale 1: 1,000,000 or 1 inch to 15.8 miles.\nTracing showing roughly:--\n- Possible railway route in Red.\n- Provisional heights in feet.\n- Frontier.\n\n(80-9/07, 1290) `F.O. 2525 N-2-2` \n## Map \n| Location        | \n| --------------- | \n| Kan-ai          | \n| Mauwyne         | \n| Nungchangkai    | \n| BHAMO           | \n| TENG YUEN       | \n| Nantion         | \n| ERH HAI         | \n| Yangpr          | \n| TALI            | \n| Shumpi R.       | \n| YUNG PING?      | \n| HSIA KUAN       | \n| MENG-HUAY       | \n| LUNG LING       | \n| SHUN NING       | \n| PYÜN CHOU       | \n| 6500′′          | \n| YS              | \n| odfinch         | \n| 5700            | \n| tha tang        | \n| 3200            | \n| bug             | \n| best            | \n| pychachang      | \n| Han tien pu     | \n| Shari. Chak     | \n| UNG CHANG       | \n| 5500            | \n| 4500            | \n| DGAR            | \n| O               | \n| 531             |",
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        "content_text": "## Office or Individual.\n\nForegn Office  \n1907  \nHONG KONG & STRAITS  \n\nNo. 3244  \n6  \n\n**(Subject.)**  \nChina Trade  \n\nDOMESTIC.  \n**RECD Red 10 SEP 07**  \n\n**Last previous Paper.**  \nNo. 10276  \n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nMr. Stuart, Lucas  \nSee Aug 12 - Disturbances in Szechuan over new anti-opium measures? Send out with next batch.  \n9. P.M. as to forwarding to Foreign Office.  \n\nWB & L (73)–52863-25006-11-8  \n\n**Next subsequent Paper.**  \nNo. 33136  \nWe have had the Cauta river papers separately. You can see Aug. 12.  \n§ 5.  \nR$ 14  \nCPL-14 at once",
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        "content_text": "## Table of Freights on Merchandize (in force from July 1, 1907)\n\n### System of Measurement\n\n| Unit | Freight Table | Classification | Freight |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| By the picul | Per picul per mile | 1st class | 0.6 Sen. |\n| \" | \" | 2nd | 0.5 |\n| \" | \" | 3rd | 0.4 |\n| By the ton | Per ton per mile | 1st class | 8.0 |\n| \" | \" | 2nd | 6.5 |\n| \" | \" | 3rd | 5.0 |\n| By the whole car | Per ton per mile | 1st class | 7.0 |\n| \" | \" | 2nd | 5.0 |\n| \" | \" | 3rd | 3.5 |\n\n### Live Animals (if not transported by weight)\n\n| Type | Freight |\n| --- | --- |\n| Oxen, horses, mules | Two head or less, per car per mile: 19 Sen. |\n| \" | Per head in excess of two, per car per mile: 9 Sen. |\n| Colts, calves, sheep, pigs, donkeys, goats | Six head or less, per car per mile: 18 Sen. |\n| \" | Per head in excess of six, per car per mile: 2 Sen. |\n\nBut when horses (or mules) and colts, or oxen and calves, are transported together, one horse, ox, or mule corresponds to three colts or calves.\n\n### Dangerous Articles\n\n| Type | Freight |\n| --- | --- |\n| Dangerous drugs, all kinds of petroleum, quicklime, matokes (non-safety) | Picul measurement, per picul per mile: 2 Sen. 6 |\n| \" | Whole car measurement, per ton per mile |\n\n### Vehicles\n\n| Type | Freight |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bicycles | per piece per mile: 2 Sen. |\n| Perambulators | \" : 3 Sen. |\n| Hand-carts | \" : 4 Sen. |\n| Jinrikisha | \" : 11 Sen. |\n| Carriages | \" : 15 Sen. |\n| Carts | \" : 20 Sen. |\n| Drays (horse carts) | \" : 20 Sen. |\n| Motor-cars | \" : 30 Sen. |\n\nN.B. Neither live animals nor dangerous articles are accepted for transport along the Antung-Mukden line.\n\n### Notes\n\n1. One hundred kin make a picul, 16.8 piculs make a ton.\n2. In picul measurement fractions of a picul shall count as a whole picul.\n3. In ton measurements fractions of a ton shall count as a whole ton.\n4. When a whole car is engaged freight shall be payable on the whole of the car, even if part of it be left unoccupied.\n5. In 20-mile measurements fractions of 20 miles shall count as 20 miles, and in mile measurements fractions of a mile shall count as a whole mile.\n\n# Regulations\n\n3. In case of doubt as to the class, value, weight, or measurement of goods, an inspection in the presence of the consignor or consignee may be demanded.\n\n4. All freight charges or charges in connection with the transport of goods shall, save in cases where special arrangements have been made, be payable at the time of application for transport.\n\n5. A way-bill shall be delivered to the consignor against the goods received for transport. Should the consignor so request, a bill of lading may be delivered to him instead of a way-bill.\n\n6. In case of goods transported by ton or picul measurement, each bale, box, or case shall bear a number with the name and address of the consignor.\n\n7. In the case of goods imperfectly packed, or of goods which, not being packed at all, are in danger of being thrown into confusion, transport may be refused unless a special car be hired for their accommodation.\n\n8. In case of necessity the Company may request the presence of an attendant on luggage cars containing live animals.\n\n9. The Railway Company hereby declines to place with ordinary merchandise dangerous goods, even though the latter fall under the same freight class as the former.\n\n10. Goods which must be secured under lock and key, goods which must be sheltered from rain or snow, and goods which are easily ignitable must be loaded in a covered car.\n\n11. It shall not be permissible to load on an uncovered car goods which project from the front or the back or from either side of the car.\n\nThe following are the limits of the height beyond which it shall not be permissible to load goods on uncovered cars:--\n\nIn the case of goods which are too bulky to permit of their being loaded within the limits aforesaid, a further and maximum limit is fixed permitting of their projecting 6 inches from each end of the car and of their being loaded to a height of 9 feet.\n\n| Type of Uncovered Car | Height in the Centre | Height at the Sides |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Having more than three flaps to a side | 8 ft. 5 in. | 6 ft. 0 in. |\n| Having two flaps to a side | 7 ft. 5 in. | 5 ft. 0 in. |\n\n12. A net or cover shall be used when goods which are easily ignitable, or likely to fall off during transit, are loaded on an uncovered car.\n\n13. When by the act of God, or owing to unavoidable circumstances, transport is suspended, the balance of the freight collected shall be repaid after freight and other charges for the mileage already covered have been deducted.\n\n14. If, after their dispatch, it is found that goods received for transport have been loaded on a car in excess of the proper quantity, or so that they are all confused together, the following additional freight charges shall be payable:--\n\n(1) In cases of overloading, twice the freight charge, calculated according to picul measurement, on the total number of kin in excess of the tonnage inscribed on the way-bill.\n\n(2) In cases of mixed loading, twice the difference between the freight on the whole weight of the goods, calculated according to the freight charge of the 1st class, and that inscribed in the way-bill.\n\n15. If a way-bill or a bill of lading is issued, the goods to which either of these documents refers shall be handed over in exchange for the document itself.\n\nGoods for which a way-bill has been issued may be taken delivery of only by a consignee previously recognized by the Company, and after he has affixed his seal to the Company's freight pass-book.\n\n16. Goods the responsibility of discharging which rests with the owner or a goods agent shall, if they are not discharged within twenty-four hours after their arrival, be discharged by the Company at the expense of the consignee.\n\n17. If the bill of lading is lost, the goods shall not be delivered unless such guarantee is forthcoming as may to the Company seem proper.\n\nPage 385",
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        "content_text": "## \n(12) \n281 \n\nThe foundations are stated to be on hard red clay which should \nbe satisfactory. \n\nNo. 43. This is a double 12-ft. span girder bridge over a \nwaterway. The foundations are stated to be on hard yellow clay \nwhich may be regarded as satisfactory. \n\nNo. 44. \nThere is no bridge bearing this number. \n\nNo. 45. This is a double 20-ft. span girder bridge, over \na waterway. From the note on the drawing as to the nature of \nthe foundations, we recommend that a boring be taken. \n\nNo. 46. This is a 3-span girder bridge, 20-ft. span. Here \nalso we recommend that a boring be taken. \n\nNo. 47. This is a 5-span girder bridge over the river at \nFu T1 Au, \none centre span of 60 ft. and four side spans of 20 \nfeet. The foundations have been piled throughout with Chinese \nfir piles of 8 to 11 feet in length. We are very doubtful of \nthe efficiency of these piles and therefore recommend that \nborings be taken to obtain more reliable information as to the \nnature of the ground. \n\nGeneral. Time has not permitted of the completion of the \nborings which we consider necessary in order to enable us to \nexpress an opinion on the sufficiency of the foundations, which \nappear to be generally the unsatisfactory part of the bridges, \nand we have therefore confined ourselves to recommending, in the \ncourse of the latter part of our report, where, in our opinion, \nthe taking of borings is advisable. \n\nHaving regard to the nature of the ground noted on \nthe drawings, we consider that, in the case of several of the bridges in the section north of the Kowloon range of hills, the thickness of the concrete foundations is somewhat inadequate. We have alluded to this point in connection with No. 10 Bridge, which is by far the most important of those containing \na defect of this nature. \n\nWe have etc.  \n**(Sd.) W. Chatham, M.I.C.E.**  \n**(Sd.) A. J. Williams, M.I.C.E.**  \n\nRider",
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        "content_text": "2\n\narrived at Shanhaikuan, where the Great Wall of China, leaving the mountains crosses the plain to the sea and divides China from Manchuria, I was informed by an officer detached from the Customs at Tien-tsin, that it was his intention to search my baggage for arms. Explanations followed, and the search was dispensed with, but when one considers that the offscourings of Europe followed the armies during the war, and that many of them still remain in Manchuria, it is evident that some such precautionary measure is necessary. A Customs officer engaged in this special work has been stationed at Shanhaikuan for about six months.\n\nImperial Railways of North China and Taxation of Traffic,\n\nSince the purchase by China from Japan of the railway, 3670 miles in length, built by the latter between Hsin Min Fu and Mukden during the war and military occupation of Southern Manchuria, the section from Shanhaikuan to Mukden has become the main line of the Imperial Railways of North China in Manchuria, and the line from Shanhaikuan to Ying-kou, or the port of Newchwang, is now a branch line leaving the main line at Kou-pang-tzu junction. As complaints have been made that foreign goods imported into Newchwang and afterwards forwarded by this railway to Mukden are taxed at Kou-pang-tzu, I interviewed the Traffic Manager on the subject. He informed me that there is a tax office of the Hu Pu, or Board of Revenue, in the neighbourhood of the station, and that foreign goods unaccompanied by exemption certificates are taxed. He further stated that Chinese merchants had frequently complained to him that they were unable to obtain exemption certificates from the Imperial Maritime Customs at Newchwang; but the Commissioner of Customs there, with whom I discussed the matter, assured me that applications for exemption certificates made in due form and showing that import duty had been paid had never been refused. As, however, exemption certificates are granted only for goods liable to duty, and on which duty has been paid, duty-free goods, such as foreign flour, are not protected, and it seems to me that the Customs at the port of entry should, if called upon, issue certificates that would exempt duty-free goods from taxation between the port and the open marts in the interior. The Imperial Railways of North China have for some years proved a veritable gold mine to the Government: in the year ending the 30th September, 1905, the gross earnings amounted to 12,943,383 dollars, and in 1906 to 12,191,188 dollars; but during the present year there has been a considerable falling off in traffic due to trade depression—which, however, is not confined to Manchuria—and the earnings for the year ended the 30th ultimo will probably amount to about 10,000,000 dollars. There is another method of taxing trade on the railway which is still less legitimate. The Chinese station-masters are known to derive considerable incomes for granting, or pretending to grant, special facilities to the consignors or owners of goods, and I have been assured by a foreign official connected with the railway that some men have drawn as much as 2,000l. a-year from this source; but every effort is being made to suppress the irregularity, and suspects are being removed.\n\nNewchwang.\n\nA steam ferry-boat belonging to the railway now plies between the railway wharf on the right bank of the Liao and the town of Newchwang, and passengers are landed free of charge at a wharf just below the custom-house.\n\nMany changes have taken place at Newchwang since I visited it in the spring of 1906. It was then under the military administration of Japan; there were some 4,000 Japanese civilians in the town; a good road had been built from the town east and north-east to the railway station at Niu-chia-tun, 3 miles distant; and a Japanese Settlement was being marked out between the town and the station. The administration of the town was restored to China on the 6th December, 1906; Japanese civilians now number about 2,000, and are housed for the most part in their own Settlement of red-brick buildings, the most imposing of which are a hospital and municipal offices, the latter not yet completed; and a line of rails has been laid from the goods station to, but not through, the Settlement. This branch line was laid for carrying bricks and building materials, and is not used for ordinary traffic. The Settlement did not impress me as being at all prosperous: the houses on the main street leading to the railway station were mostly occupied by small shopkeepers, and in other streets I noticed that many houses were tenantless. The Settlement was at first policed by Japanese, but these were subsequently replaced by Chinese from the Kuantung leased territory. The Japanese possess little land on the river bank, most of the river frontage having been bought up by speculative foreigners in the hope that the Russians would bring the railway to the town. In this they were disappointed; but a proposal is now on foot to bring the line nearer the town with its terminus on a piece of frontage purchased by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha—the largest Trading Company in Japan—from the Russian Government who acquired it for docking the gun-vessel \"Bobr\" previous to the war. This piece of land was seized by Japan, but afterwards restored to Russia. Negotiations have been opened by the South Manchurian Railway Company with the foreign proprietors of the land through which the line must pass, but the terms offered are such as to lead one to think that the Railway Company is not serious in its project.\n\n3\n\nFor many years the Liao River has been eating away its left bank in the bend which it takes before reaching the town of Newchwang, especially from the railway station down to the remaining four lots of the old British Concession. The Japanese have attempted to stop the encroachment by piling (20 feet into the mud) and boarding the river face; but much of the new bunding near the railway station has slipped bodily into the river, and it is feared that, owing to the absence of hard bottom, the remainder will follow. But there is an even graver danger threatening the port from the river higher up. Some years ago, when I was stationed at Newchwang, I had occasion to measure the neck of land which separates the tortuous course of the river opposite the western half of the native city, in view of acquiring a British Concession on the right bank to the east of the Chinese railway station, and I found the breadth to be about 600 yards. I am told that the breadth at the present time is only 400 yards, and as the main current of the river now runs between Duck Island and the right bank, and mud flats are exposed at low water between Duck Island and the left bank, it seems only a question of time when the river will pierce through the neck, find a much shorter channel to the sea, and leave the whole of the foreign quarter of Newchwang high and dry. The danger has become so imminent that Mr. de Rijke, the Engineer-in-chief of the Wangpoo Conservancy, has recently visited Newchwang for the purpose of studying the question and giving his opinion as to what steps should be taken to conserve the waterway.\n\nThe Liao was exceptionally low during the present year, and the bean-boats did not come down freely until July. The state of the river is greatly exercising the minds of the Chinese merchants and dealers, and there have been frequent meetings of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to discuss the whole situation with a view to finding a remedy. It appears that some years ago a channel or trench was dug from the right bank of the Liao to the Shuang-tai-tzu River further west, the object being to drain off the surplus water of the main river and prevent flooding, to which its valley was frequently exposed, and it has been proposed to block this channel to a certain height. This may be a slight remedy, but as I afterwards found the Liao exceedingly shallow between Mukden and Hsin Min Fu, and as a severe drought visited Central and Northern Manchuria in spring and summer, the lowness of the river was probably due to absence of rain.\n\nNewchwang's main industry has always been the extraction of oil from beans and the manufacture of bean-cakes as a resulting product. In addition to numerous native mills of the old pattern there are now six mills with foreign machinery engaged in this industry, the two latest additions being a large Chinese mill within the Chinese railway reserve, and a Japanese mill between the town and the Japanese railway station. The latter is worked by hydraulic pressure instead of hand-presses, and has not proved a success. It has been found difficult to regulate the pressure, and the cakes turned out are too dry and liable to crumble. The ordinary hand-presses turn out cakes which can be handled without falling to pieces. Beans were scarce and dear, and only four of the mills were working at the time of my visit, and that intermittently.\n\nA scheme for supplying Newchwang with water is now being carried out by a Japanese concern called the Electric Light, Telephone, and Waterworks Company of Yingkow. Reservoirs are being constructed on the left bank of the river opposite the town of Tien-chuang-tai, 13 miles up-river. It is expected that the town will be supplied with electric light early next year. The power house is in the vicinity of the Japanese railway station at Niu-chia-t'un.\n\nThe feeling of the mercantile community of Newchwang is that that port will hold its own with Tairen, and that in any case there will be ample room for both places. This is evidenced by the fact that many foreign houses have recently been built, and that others in course of construction are leased even before they are\n\n448",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nA Japanese steamer, the \"Chikugogawa Maru,\" was advertised to sail on the evening of the 30th September for Japan by way of Corea, and I took passage by her to Chemulpo. As the dinner hour approached I was informed by the steward that the cook could not prepare foreign meals, and that forks and knives were luxuries which the ship did not carry in addition to her cargo of bones. Fortunately, I had provided myself against emergencies with a small box of stores and table requisites, and had not, as I have had to do occasionally in the interior of China, to smoke a pipe or two to still the pangs of hunger. A smooth passage brought the aged \"Chikugogawa Maru\" to Chemulpo early on the morning of the 2nd October; but we had to wait outside until granted pratique by a Customs officer. Passengers were landed at 8 a.m., and, after the formality of passing my baggage through the Customs, I proceeded to the railway station and took the first train which landed us at Seoul at 11:30. During the few hours of daylight that remained I saw a considerable part of the capital, and was further fortunate in catching a glimpse of the present Emperor and the 11-year-old heir presumptive to the throne as they passed under the walls of the British Consul-General, but I was still more fortunate in renewing acquaintanceship with several old friends.\n\nThrough Corea to Manchuria.\n\nNext morning I started at 9:25 a.m. on the railway journey of 312.9 miles which separate Seoul from the banks of the Yalu. Corea is not within my beat, and I was merely taking a short cut back to Manchuria, but as it has at present no Commercial Attaché I may say a few words on the country without trespassing on a comrade's ground. As regards the people, what struck me most forcibly, in contrast to the Chinese, was the spotlessly white attire of the men, the amplitude of it, and the green-hooded cloaks with unoccupied sleeves of many of the women.\n\nThere is a story attached to the latter, but it is concerned more with war than with commerce, and need not be given here. Even the Corean leading his ox laden with firewood was unspotted, and, what is more, he is much whiter complexioned than either of his neighbours, and, I was informed by a competent judge, a quiet gentleman. To produce all this snowy whiteness every house in Corea must be a veritable wash-house, and while there is a demand for the cotton goods of English looms, there should also, if there is not already, be a great consumption of English washing soaps. The population of Corea is not great, but proportionately it should consume, judging by the results, much more soap than the population of China.\n\nThe railway, a Japanese line of standard gauge, goes north through valley after valley, some narrow, others widening into plains, bounded by low, grassy hills, little wooded in the south, but well covered with umbrageous flat-topped pines in the north. The harvest was everywhere being garnered, and men and women were busy with the sickle.\n\nThe crops were excellent: the tall millet (Holcus sorghum) was already cut and stooked; rice, principally in the north, and small millet (Setaria italica) were being cut; tobacco leaves were hanging on ropes in the sun; buckwheat, beans, cabbages, long white turnips, the castor-oil plant, and young winter wheat were on the ground, and melons shared with blood-red chillies the straw-thatched roofs of the houses, the former trained to the roof for safety, and the latter spread in heaps to dry, and lending a touch of colour to the otherwise dull greyish-brown villages. Considering the people, the houses are terribly disappointing; they are low, with projecting eaves all round, even to the gables. Each house resembles a capsized boat, preferably a house-boat, with keel and a more or less rounded hull.\n\nThe train does not run at night, and the journey was broken at P'ing-yang, near which the first conflict between China and Japan occurred during the war of 1894–95. I was mistaken in thinking that a high stone pillar rising from a pile of stones not far from the station was a monument of the Japanese victory; it simply commemorated the completion of the railway between Seoul and the Yalu. It is from 1.3 miles to 2 miles from the railway station to Ping-yang, where I spent the night in a Japanese hostel. Sixty miles to the north-east of Ping-yang are the Wonsan gold mines, worked with profit by the American Oriental Consolidated Mining Company. The train left Ping-yang at 8 a.m. on the 4th October, and steamed into the station at Hsin Yi Chon the same afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. During the last few miles the line emerges from the hills and valleys and runs over a flat plain, which has evidently been deposited in the old bed of the Yalu. A walk of a few hundred yards from the station, through an immense railway reserve containing, I was told, 500 Japanese houses, and crossing the line which, when nearing the Yalu, takes a short easterly\n\n7\n\ncourse down river to the railway terminus, brought us to a Corean custom-house, water police station, and Japanese ferry on the left bank of the river; but, before proceeding further with this narrative, I propose to say a word regarding the railway which has landed us on the waterway forming the boundary of Corea and Manchuria.\n\nThe railway from Seoul to the Yalu was built by Japan in haste, and the trace, which was carried along the line of least resistance, was not intended to be the alignment of the permanent track. This is evident to-day; curves are being straightened, several new tunnels have been made through the hills, and extensive bridge work is being carried out, especially in the section north of Ping-yang. The whole line is thus being shortened and strengthened to form a great commercial and strategic route from Japan to Manchuria.\n\nAntung.\n\nMr. Coales, in his Report of a visit to Antung and Ta-tung-kow in December and January of the past and present year, has given such an excellent description of the position of the city of Antung, and of the condition of affairs existing there, that it is unnecessary for me to enter into details; but since that time several developments have occurred to which I must call attention.\n\nThe\n\nOf the 9,000 mou (1,500 acres) of land acquired by the Japanese military authorities in 1905, most of it by forced sale, 2,800 mou (467 acres) to the immediate east of the Chinese city, which has no wall, has been formed into a Japanese Settlement bounded on the south, west, and north sides by the Antung-Mukden Railway and its reserve. The southern section of the line, with a station near the south-eastern corner of the Settlement, has been constructed since Mr. Coales' visit, and I noticed that passage along the bank of the river was blocked by wire fencing in one or two places. The balance of 6,200 mou (1,033 acres) stretches east from the Settlement for a distance of about 2,400 yards, and from the river bank northwards for about 2,000 yards to, and including the low hills, as far east as the Chinese city. At Antung Japan has acquired an estate at least four times the size of the native town, and it is the only land outside that town that can be profitably utilized for commercial purposes. The thousand odd acres outside the Settlement are held as a railway reserve; but Mr. Okabé, the Japanese Consul, informed me that it was in contemplation to curtail the railway reserve, which was too large, and convert it into a second Settlement. Considering the way the land was originally acquired, it seems to me that it would be a graceful and an honourable act on the part of Japan to present, or at least resell at cost price, to China what is not required by the railway, on condition that it be reserved for an international Settlement. It is true that the Chinese authorities speak of converting the western part of the Chinese city next to the Japanese Settlement into a foreign Settlement, but it is low-lying, and, like the rest of the city, liable to be flooded by the overflow of the Yalu in summer. The southern half of this proposed Settlement in the native town is at present a cesspool caused by the drainage from the Japanese Settlement being pumped into it from the moat which runs along the flood embankment built by the Japanese on the east side for the protection of their Settlement, and near the centre of it is a large Chinese \"yoshiwara,\" recently erected at great expense by the Chinese authorities. During the war a Japanese Syndicate, consisting of five persons, purchased a narrow strip some miles in length along the right bank of the river below the land occupied by the military authorities for the sum of 17,000 yen, but Japan has refused to uphold the transaction, and the land was bought back by the Taotai in July for the sum of 40,000 taels, that is, for about three times the price originally paid for it. A precedent for resale has thus been established, and it would be no great hardship for Japan to part with a slice of her great estate, for to my mind the Japanese Settlement is sufficiently ample to satisfy all her legitimate commercial requirements. It may well be asked, what is the raison d'être of the Japanese Settlement at Antung? Wide streets have been laid out, and roads are being built; numerous houses, mostly with corrugated-iron roofs, have been erected, and others are in course of construction; and it has a population of 6,000 Japanese. Mr. Ukabé told me that he exercised jurisdiction, as Consul at Antung and Resident at Hsin-yi Chou, over 8,000 Japanese and 2,000 Coreans. The trade of Antung does not now, and is never likely to, attract a large alien population. How, then, does this large Japanese community—probably the largest in any Chinese port—live? The Japanese is as, if not more, frugal than the Chinese. The Settlement is full of small Japanese shops, in which, in contrast to\n\n450",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nfields ready to be carted to the farm-houses; beans were also harvested, the small millet (Setaria italica) was being cut, while hemp (Cannabis sativa), tobacco, and turnips were still in the ground.\n\nWe\n\nBetween Feng-huang Ting and Ts'ao-ho-kow, which are distant 38.5 and 92.4 miles from Antung respectively by rail, two mountain ranges, the Chi-kuan-shan (Cockscomb) and Ta-fang-shen, have to be crossed and the track zig-zags up and down the steep slopes in a somewhat alarming manner. The curves are marvellously sharp, and it was no surprise to be told that the cars frequently leave the rails. We were fortunate, however, and reached Ts'ao-ho-kow on time (7:15 P.M.), where we had to spend the night in the usual Japanese hotel. There had been cases of cholera at Antung, and there was a medical examination of all passengers on arrival at Tsao-ho-kow. Both pulses were felt by a Japanese doctor, and I was very much afraid that my servant, who had been unable to raise his head all day, would be rejected; but he passed the test without a word, although he was so ill overnight that I had serious intentions of leaving him behind. Next morning he pulled himself together, and, though still very ill, refused to be left behind in Japanese hands.\n\nPunctually at 7:40 A.M. the train, much diminished in size, steamed out of Ts'ao-ho-kow, and, after ascending a valley in which a stream meanders from side to side and has to be repeatedly crossed over trestle bridges, arrived at Ch'iao-t'ou, 38.4 miles from Ts'ao-ho-kow, at 8 minutes past noon. The train was here divided into two portions, and the fore part, consisting of an open baggage wagon, a passenger car, and a small mail van, was dispatched. Crossing the stream it began the ascent of the Mo-tien-ling at the station of Fu-chin, 21 miles from Ch'iao-t'ou, and reached the highest point of the crossing at Ta-tung, 23 miles from Fu-chin. The descent on the north side was very steep (1 in 35 being quite common), and at one point the train had to be backed down. All passed off well: at the station of Meng-chia we had to wait for the other half of the train; and at 3:22 P.M. a fresh start was made for Mukden. About 5 miles from Meng-chia we crossed a long trestle bridge over the T'ai-tzu, which passes the city of Liao-yang, and enters the Hun River, a tributary of the Liao, to the town of Pen-hsi-hu, well known for its coal mines, ironworks, and the manufacture of large brown earthenware jars. The railway traverses the town from end to end along one of its main streets. The city of Feng-huang Ting was too far off to be able to judge of its size, but Pen-hsi-hu is undoubtedly a town of considerable size and importance, and is the largest place touched by the Antung-Mukden line. It is an easy run of 45.8 miles from Pen-hsi-hu to the railway station about 2 miles to the west of Mukden, and this was accomplished, mostly in the dark, in 6 hours 11 minutes, the stoppages at the three intervening stations aggregating 16 minutes, but the well-wooded valleys were replaced by the dull uninteresting plain on which Mukden stands.\n\nBy Article 6 of the Additional Agreement between China and Japan of 1905, \"The Imperial Chinese Government agree that Japan has the right to maintain and work the military line constructed between Antung and Mukden, and to improve the said line so as to make it fit for the conveyance of commercial and industrial goods of all nations. The term for which such right is conceded is 15 years from the date of completion of the improvements above provided for. The work of such improvements is to be completed within two years, exclusive of a period of twelve months during which it will have to be delayed owing to the necessity of using the existing line for the withdrawal of troops. The term of the Concession above mentioned is therefore to expire in the 48th year of Kuang Hsü. At the expiration of that term, the said railway shall be sold to China at a price to be determined by appraisement of all its properties by a foreign expert, who will be selected by both parties. The conveyance by railway of the troops and munitions of war of the Chinese Government prior to such sale shall be dealt with in accordance with the Regulations of the Eastern Chinese Railway. Regarding the manner in which the improvements of the railway are to be effected, it is agreed that the person undertaking the work on behalf of Japan shall consult with the Commissioner dispatched for the purpose by China. The Chinese Government will also appoint a Commissioner to look after the business relating to the railway as is provided in the Agreement relating to the Eastern Chinese Railway. It is further agreed that detailed regulations shall be concluded regarding the tariffs for the carriage by the railway of the public and private goods of China.\"\n\nSo far as I could see or ascertain, there is no through traffic except passengers on the line. There was a little charcoal carried between stations evidently for the use of the railway employés, and poles and planks for building purposes along\n\n11\n\n452\n\nthe line. Railway guards were in evidence at every station, and at Antung they numbered 200 men. No commencement has yet been made in improving the line, and I was informed that, in view of the enormous expenditure that would have to be incurred for the tunnelling and bridging necessary to convert the present light railway into a line suitable for commercial purposes, it has been decided that an easier alignment must be found.\n\nMukden.\n\nThe actual brick-walled city of Mukden covers an area of 1 square mile, and may be described as a miniature Peking, but the suburbs which surround it on all sides have a circumference of 13 miles, and the whole is enclosed by an earth or mud wall. Changes have taken place since I visited it in 1896, and they have assumed the same shape as in Peking—new roads and a police force—both badly needed. A fine, wide metalled road, some 2 miles in length, leads from the railway station to the main West Gate of the inner city, wherein four similar roads connecting the eight gates have recently been built by a Japanese contractor at a cost to the provincial Government of about £15,000 a mile. It seems a large sum (£60,000 for 4 miles of metalled roads), but the Japanese by their command of the railway were the only people in a position to bring the necessary stone and carry out the work. A tramway is to connect the station with the city, and about 20 yards had just been laid at the station end. Uniformed police, armed with batons during the day and rifles with bayonets at night, are stationed 200 yards apart on every street, and are said to maintain excellent order, an example which might well be followed by other cities of Manchuria to be referred to later. In addition to the police, there is a body of 10,000 foreign-drilled troops in and around the city. While the old Palace is being repaired and new offices in foreign style built for the Viceroy and Government, the towers over the gates of the city are being demolished as unsafe. They will doubtless have to be rebuilt, and although the late Viceroy is said to have handed over a balance of 7,000,000 taels to his successor, it has already dwindled to 500,000 taels, and funds are urgently needed to complete the work already in hand and carry out other reforms. The Viceroy was absent in Peking, but I had two interviews with the Governor (His Excellency Tang Shao-yi), and he strongly urged that the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation should open a branch in Mukden. Mr. Gardner, an agent of that Bank, was in Mukden during my visit inquiring into prospects of business, and discussing the whole question with the Governor, but I gathered from him that, as the principal business of the Bank is exchange transactions, the absence of foreign merchants and direct trade with foreign countries offered little inducement to establish a branch anywhere in Manchuria. There are already two foreign banks in the city, the Russo-Chinese and the Yokohama Specie Banks, and the Chinese Government Hu Pu Bank, but their raison d'être would appear to be to lend money to Chinese merchants on profitable terms. A large provincial loan is the object in view, and large sums and securities have been talked over, but nothing definite has been arranged, and Mr. Gardner, who came back to Peking to report, has returned to Mukden to consult with the Viceroy and Governor.\n\nIn addition to the British Consul-General, there are now Consular representatives of Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States at Mukden. With the exception of the Russian Consul, who shares with the Japanese a Russian church inside the inner city, they live in the western suburb. Only four or five lots in the area set apart for a foreign Settlement between the railway and the city have been taken up, and the Governor informed me that he did not believe in Settlements, leaving me to infer that, so far as he was concerned, foreigners could live where they pleased. The British-American Tobacco Company is the only British firm with a British representative; Messrs. 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        "content_text": "# \nI think the above quotations go far to show that His Majesty's Consuls at Canton have not acted under the assumption that they were entitled to register a British vessel in the sense of giving it that national character that alone entitles it to fly the British flag, though I confess that the phrase, Certificate of Registry, has been loosely used for \"Certificate of Ownership\" by both my predecessors and myself. I am unable to trace who was responsible for the statement in the printed form inclosed in my despatch No. 12 of the 5th February last, that it is \"issued in terms of the Maritime Order in Council, 1874.\" It will be observed that in the proposed amended form I had altered this to \"issued under the sanction of His Britannic Majesty's Minister, dated Peking, 3rd February, 1886.\"\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of my remarks on Article 4, and the Articles under the heading of Inland Waters Steam Navigation of the draft Merchant Shipping Regulations, 1907.\n\nWith Sir Edward Grey's opinion that the whole matter is in a very unsatisfactory condition I most fully agree. When the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations were negotiated, it was believed that British trade with the interior of China would greatly benefit. As a matter of fact the British launches running under them in these waterways are almost entirely engaged in the Chinese passenger traffic, are entirely manned and officered by Chinese, and are probably to a very great extent owned by Chinese under British names. Under present conditions Consuls have no adequate control over the launches, and it was to obtain such most necessary control that I asked for sanction of the local Regulations which have been disallowed. Whatever His Majesty's Government may decide on this subject, I venture to submit that very considerable discretion should be left in the hands of His Majesty's Consuls to deal with the constantly varying local conditions.\n\nAs regards the flying of the red ensign, which is now declared illegal, I request instructions as to whether I am to take immediate steps to stop it. To do so will, undoubtedly in the eyes of the Chinese authorities, be equivalent to a withdrawal of British protection.\n\nI am sending copy of this despatch to Sir Havilland de Sausmarez.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) R. W. MANSFIELD\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n### Remarks by Consul-General Mansfield respecting Article 4 and Articles under Heading of Inland Waters Steam Navigation\n\n#### PART II-Registry\n\nRegulation 4—British launches plying under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Rules, while coming under the denomination \"ships\" (see definition), are furnished with none of the documents herein mentioned as essential to navigation in Chinese waters.\n\n#### PART VI-Inland Waters Steam Navigation\n\nRegulation 42 (3) (c).—In shallow waters such as those of the Canton Delta, an accident is hardly conceivable in which the launch could not be beached. Many of the launches are too small to carry the life-saving apparatus herein described, and in the larger ones the passenger carrying capacity would be greatly diminished by it.\n\nRegulation 42 (3) (h). This limitation of the number of passengers carried (it must be remembered that no cargo practically is carried) would in combination with the enforcement of the preceding clause effectually drive all launches carrying the British flag out of the trade. Annexed is a copy of the Special Rules in force here for the guidance of the Customs Surveyor who, as reported by me, has been also appointed Inspector of hulls and machinery of British launches: also the Inspection and Survey Certificate issued by me on his report. As regards the number of passengers, I also inclose a copy of the Customs rules for determining the number of passengers that may be carried by steam launches and passenger boats in tow of launches. The space therein allowed seems amply sufficient when it is taken into consideration that the passengers are without exception Chinese, and the distances travelled are generally very short—10, 15 or 20 miles probably on an average. Longer journeys are nearly always made, on the West River at any rate, in well found steamers plying between Canton and Wuchow. It seems highly desirable that the conditions ruling for Chinese and British launches should, as far as possible, be identical.\n\nRegulations 45, 48, 49.—At so great a distance from Peking the functions attributed to the Minister in these Regulations would in practice be very difficult to exercise. The Consul should have power to act provisionally, and from his action there is, I take it, always power to appeal; and in Regulation No. 48 powers should be given to cancel a certificate, temporarily or definitely, where repeated infractions of rules as to overcrowding, care of machinery, &c., occur.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n### Sir H. de Sausmares to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 13.)**\nSupreme Court, Shanghae, October 1, 1907.\n\nA delay has occurred in answering your despatch of the 2nd July as to the Canton Launch Regulations in consequence of Mr. Mansfield's opinion that \"if it is desired to put an immediate and effective stop to British launches now plying under the regulations, it is only necessary to lay down that they must conform to the provisions of the `Merchant Shipping Act`.\"\n\nSince then I have had the opportunity of a conversation with you, and I have now the honour to furnish you with my comments on the situation; they, I think, will require consideration before the rules referred to in Sir E. Grey's despatch of the 15th May last can be drafted.\n\nThe question appears to be one of importance as the principle involved affects not only the Canton launches but the majority of launches plying on the inland waters of China under the British flag.\n\nI entirely agree that, as the law stands, the right to fly the red ensign depends entirely on the provisions of the `Merchant Shipping Act`, and that the necessity of registration thereunder follows. I do not, however, understand that it is obligatory that Shanghae should be the port of registry, though it appears so in Sir E. Grey's despatch. Registration in any port of registry, e.g., Hong Kong, would suffice.\n\nIt would appear from Mr. Mansfield's despatch that the red ensign is now flown by launches, which would in many cases probably fail to qualify for registration. Holding the strong views that I do as to the necessity of protecting our flag where properly flown on British shipping, especially in Chinese waters, I think that it behoves us carefully to scrutinize claims to fly that flag. Indeed I have, on one or two occasions where an abuse of this right has been brought to my notice in Court, directed the matter to be reported to the registrar of shipping with the result that more than one ship has been removed from the registry. It is clear that when undertaking the responsibility of protecting a ship as British, we should insist on its being *bona fide* a British ship.\n\nThere is, however, a further most important point of view from which the question must be regarded, that of British trade in the inland waters.\n\nIf it were purely a question of a few passenger launches the matter would be of small importance, but I understand it to be far otherwise, and it is therefore necessary to devise some plan which will conform to the law and which will not make registration too onerous.\n\nThe procedure for registration is contained in sections 4-13 of the `Merchant Shipping Act`. There is nothing therein which cannot be done by an agent in Shanghae save the surveying of the ship. The survey must be by a surveyor who may be appointed by His Majesty's Minister under Article 13 of \"The China and Corea (Shipping Registry) Order in Council, 1904.” It would therefore be competent for you to appoint a sufficient number of surveyors at different ports to obviate any hardship which a survey in Shanghae would involve. Further, if the retention of an agent's services in Shanghae should be too onerous, I see no reason why you should not issue instructions under Article 17 (1) to Consular officers in the out-ports which would direct them to take the necessary papers and transmit them to the registrar of shipping in Shanghae.\n\nThere are, however, provisions in the `Merchant Shipping Act` which will probably be onerous, particularly in the engagement and discharge of native crews,",
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        "content_text": "## 6. \nI have recently been in communication with His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong (copies of correspondence inclosed), in regard to a suggestion made by the Consul-General at Canton that, with a view to bringing further pressure to bear on the Viceroy, the Hong Kong Government should withhold the friendly legislation they have hitherto extended to Canton. \n\nHis Excellency the Governor deprecates such action, except as a very last resort, and in this view both the British Minister and I concur.\n\nShould further action become necessary, the only course, short of forcible measures, would appear to be the further increase of our patrol. The arrival of His Majesty's ships \"Kent,\" \"Bedford,\" and \"Flora\" at Hong Kong next month would make more men and picket-boats available for this purpose, and His Excellency the Governor has intimated his willingness to afford co-operation in the patrol. I am in hopes, though, that such action will not become necessary. If the payment of the \"Sainam\" claim can be satisfactorily arranged, and the Chinese patrol service is placed on a satisfactory footing, I am of opinion that our vessels may be withdrawn as each section of the waterways becomes safe for trade, and in this opinion His Britannic Majesty's Minister concurs. It is highly desirable that our vessels should be out of the rivers before the hot season sets in, as life in destroyers and torpedo-boats in these narrow waterways in the summer will be very unhealthy.\n\n## 7. \nThe question of the registration of British vessels at Canton, and their right to fly the red ensign, continues to be actively considered and inquired into.\n\nSir N. de Sausmarez, His Majesty's Judge of the Supreme Court at Shanghai, has just arrived here, and is proceeding immediately to Canton, where, by the British Minister's directions, he will investigate the legal aspects of the question, and discuss with Mr. Mansfield, the Consul-General, what steps should be taken to put the whole matter on a more legal and satisfactory footing. This question of registration was brought to their Lordships' notice in my previous submission of the 28th November last (Inclosure 6); I regard it as one of pressing importance. Whatever alterations in the present system may be finally decided upon, it is much to be hoped that the revised Regulations will in the future prevent any abuse of the British flag such as has undoubtedly occurred in the past.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\nA. W. MOORE, \nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore, \nCanton, December 14, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose translation of a despatch received yesterday from the Viceroy on the subject of the extended patrol of the waterways. At a recent interview with the Viceroy's Secretary, it was hinted that His Excellency was ready to grant \"compassionate allowance,\" not only to Mrs. MacDonald, but also to the British subjects injured in the \"Sainam\" piracy, but that he demurred at paying the claim of the ship on the principle that there was no actual liability under Treaty to pay compensation. I pointed out that the liability was one recognized by civilized nations in similar circumstances, and quoted the claim of Chinese merchants for losses at Vladivostock, and that after all the actual losses of the ship only amounted to between 6,000 and 7,000 dollars. I am informed that the Wai-wu Pu have telegraphed to him to pay the \"Sainam\" claims so as to get rid of our extended patrol.\n\nI cannot, however, vouch for the correctness of my information.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\nViceroy of Canton to Consul-General Mansfield. \nCanton, December 13, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch transmitting the contents of a communication from the British Admiral, in which His Excellency states that the extended British patrol of the West River is simply a repetition of past precedent, and that this action has been forced upon him by the necessity of protecting British commerce. His Excellency adds that he is fully aware that the prevention of piracy properly belongs to the internal administration of China, and that it was the knowledge of this fact which prompted him to suggest, first, that if the increased patrol were placed in the hands of the Customs, the desired results might possibly accrue; and, secondly, that, concomitant with the gradual restoration of order, his patrol would be slowly withdrawn.\n\nAs regards the \"Sainam\" claims, His Excellency refers to the case of the chaplain of the \"Glory,\" who was granted 3,000 dollars for injuries received, and quotes this in proof of the principle of compensation.\n\nIn reply to His Excellency's arguments, I have the honour to state that the permission granted to foreign war-vessels to visit Treaty ports of China is a privilege enjoyed by Powers who are in close amity with China, and depends upon the latter's consent. But I maintain that the extended patrol now instituted on the West River is an infringement of China's sovereign rights, and I adhere to this opinion, though I am assured by His Excellency that the British ships are only there to exercise a surveillance over British interests, launches, and to guard against the importation of arms, and that they will not interfere in matters which do not concern them.\n\nBut, more than this, a good deal of popular feeling has been roused by the Admiral's action, and if it leads to a disturbance, the result will be disastrous to the interests of both countries. I have therefore the honour to request you to at once ask the Admiral to withdraw his patrol. Every effort is now being made to cope with the piracy danger, and to render it impossible for the local officials to evade their responsibilities. Stringent measures are being taken with the new troops to increase their effectiveness, and everything possible is being done to insure the safety of Chinese and foreign launches trading in the delta.\n\nThe business of the Customs is to prevent smuggling. Smuggling and piracy are distinct from one another, and no good can result from confusing them. The 3,000 dollars granted to the chaplain of His Majesty's ship \"Glory\" was in the nature of a compassionate allowance, and not compensation due for injuries received. I have already written to you expressing my willingness to make a charitable donation in the case of the murdered missionary, which is on exactly the same footing as that mentioned above.\n\nIn conclusion, I have the honour to request you to communicate these remarks to His Excellency the Admiral.\n\n(Card of Viceroy.)\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Consul-General Mansfield. \n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong, December 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, inclosing a despatch from His Excellency Chang-jen Chun, in which he adheres to his opinion that the extended British patrol of the West River and Canton Delta is an infringement of China's sovereign rights, and states that every effort is now being made by him to cope with the piracy danger.\n\n2. In reply, I request you will be so good as to inform His Excellency that I am glad to learn that the provincial authorities are making a serious effort to render the Chinese patrol service effective.\n\nIn regard to the extended British patrol, I have nothing further to add to the views I have already expressed on that subject, and as regards the \"Sainam\" Case, I have already informed His Excellency that a compassionate allowance was not asked for, but the recognition of the claim for compensation, which, I repeat, is a just and reasonable one. It only remains for me to add that if His Excellency will decide to settle that claim, and if he will carry out his proposed measures for the suppression of piracy, I will recommend to my Government that our additional patrol shall be gradually withdrawn as His Excellency's measures come into force.",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nplotting (with British subjects), not only is a breach of China's laws committed, but the dignity of the British flag is also affected. I must therefore request that the practice be entirely done away with so as to stop abuses,\n\nI have now examined in detail the records of last year's \"Sainam\" piracy case. Over ten of the pirates concerned have been arrested, and also Liang A-chiu, the actual murderer of Dr. MacDonald, and all have been executed. Two of the rifles lost by the steamer have also been recovered and returned. Thus pirates guilty of robbery have been punished, those who injured human beings have paid the penalty with their lives, while of the booty lost rifles have been recovered. According to Treaty if the local officials do all in their power to arrest the offenders and recover the booty, there is no ground for giving compensation. In view, however, of the Admiral's statement that Dr. MacDonald, after spending over twenty years in China doing good, had been suddenly murdered, leaving behind a wife and children without means, I have been moved to compassion, and, having in view the friendliness of China and Great Britain, specially consent to pay a compassionate allowance for the death of Dr. MacDonald as evidence of commiseration.\n\nI think the above course of action will convince you and his Excellency the Admiral of my exceptional friendliness.\n\nCompliments.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\nCanton, November 28, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose translation of a despatch received last night from Viceroy Chang, which is a reply to your official of the 23rd instant.\n\nIt appears thoroughly unsatisfactory in every way, merely repeating the arguments advanced by him and by his predecessors over and over again. I may mention that when I first claimed compensation on account of the \"Sainam\" piracy, Viceroy Ts'en's Secretary in conversation stated that they were willing to direct the Benevolent Societies to provide a few thousand dollars as a compassionate allowance to Mrs. MacDonald, but when I informed him that the Secretary of State had estimated her indemnity at 6,000l., and that other claims had to be met, he declined to discuss the matter further.\n\nI have telegraphed the gist of the Viceroy's despatch to Sir J. Jordan, and have the honour to inclose copy of the telegram. This deals in part with the question of the Wai-wu Pu's reference to two vessels under Customs control, which form the subject of your telegram just received. The only previous mention of these two vessels is contained in a telegram dated the 12th instant, from Sir John Jordan, copy of which I inclose, and which was submitted to you when in Canton.\n\nYou will note that this telegram infers that the two vessels spoken of are to be employed in the prevention of piracy, whereas in the Wai-wu Pu's Memorandum of the 11th instant, on which the telegram is based, such employment is not clearly stated.\n\nYou will find some reference to an additional two cruisers in reserve in Mr. King's Memorandum on the Viceroy's proposed Regulations.\n\n15\n\n3. Right of Navigation of West River and Inland Waterways.-This was granted under the West River Regulations of 1897 and the Inland Water Navigation Rules of 1898, supplemented by the Mackay Treaty of 1902, Annex (C).\n\nRemarks. It was at the instigation of and owing to pressure put upon the Chinese by the British Government that the Regulations mentioned under 3 were formulated, and it is a matter for serious consideration whether any great curtailment of the use of the British flag would not be a political mistake.\n\nThe navigation of the inland waterways is comparatively recent, and its development has led to the discovery of much that is objectionable and requires amendment. It cannot be denied that the so-called British owner is largely merely an agent for Chinese, and that his control of the launches flying the British flag and registered in his name is quite inadequate. At the same time these launches, when not towing, carry passengers about the delta who are engaged in trade, and, when towing, are assisting the movement of merchandize. They thus have their part in the general trade of Canton, the delta, and the West River, of which the British share is very considerable.\n\nPiracy. It is obvious that, if there were not a general state of disorder and lawlessness in Southern China, the repeated piracies which have always existed, and which have obtained more prominence since the year 1897, as they now affect the foreign shipping permitted under 3, would not exist. They must and do bring great injury to trade, and if the use of the foreign flag is instrumental in securing their suppression it will be to the benefit of foreign and native commerce. In the absence of foreign pressure, the right to exert which is mainly afforded by the use of the flag, serious action by the local authorities is not to be expected. If the British flag is withdrawn, launches will be driven to the use of that of other Powers less particular, less disinterested, and having less power of Consular and judicial control than that possessed by the British Consul-General.\n\nChinese Measures for Suppression. It is submitted that, if the Provincial Government is compelled to acknowledge its liability to pay compensation in the case of every piracy on British launches; this responsibility will go a long way towards spurring on the local officials to eradicate the disease. Continued and energetic action by the civil and military officials on shore is a sine qua non, and, in addition, an effective patrol along the waterways is an absolute necessity. Neither will, it is submitted, be achieved unless there is some foreign control, and it has been decided that this can best be secured by the employment of suitable cruisers under the Imperial Maritime Customs. The number promised by the Wai-wu Pu, four, is inadequate, but is a move in the right direction. If the patrol is constant and effective, it should not fail to be productive of valuable evidence pertaining to the movements and whereabouts of the pirates and to the energy or otherwise of the local authorities on shore and afloat.\n\nControl of British Launches.—His Majesty's Consul-General has already reported how in his opinion this can best be secured, and particulars of his recommendations have been given to Commander Majendie, R.N. There seems no reason to doubt that, if the powers requested were given him, there should be no great difficulty, due discretion being exercised, in weeding out the good from the bad.\n\nCanton, November 15, 1907.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Sly respecting the Registration of British Launches plying on the Canton Waterways and the use of the Flag.\n\n1. Registration.-Authority to register, the result of representations made by the Chinese Government to His Majesty's Minister aiming at this end, was given by Sir N. O'Conor in 1886.\n\n2. Flag. Authority to use the red ensign came from Sir Claude MacDonald in 1898, who gave it as his opinion that its use must have been contemplated when the authority to register was given.\n\n(No. 61.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, December 3, 1907. IN continuation of my despatch No. 60 of the 1st instant on the subject of the suppression of piracy in these waters, I have the honour to report as follows :—\n\nI telegraphed to you on the 30th ultimo, No. 63, that I was that day informing the Viceroy, at the Admiral's request, that the extended British patrol of the waterways would be inaugurated this week.\n\nSir Arthur Moore has already furnished you with copy of his despatch to me of the 29th November, on which my telegram No. 63 was based (see his Excellency's despatch to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Inclosure 8, copy of which reached me to-day). I merely forward, then, copy of the Chinese version submitted to the Viceroy.\n\n38\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "almost parallel only a few miles distant. The loads, which often weigh as much as 120 catties (say 160 lbs.), but usually 80 catties, are carried in baskets slung on the shoulders, and the journey is divided into long and short stages of about 30 and 20 miles respectively. The cost of porterage works out to about 7d. per cwt. per stage of 20 miles. The strain of carrying such heavy burdens over steep passes for mostly cultivated, whilst the higher parts were covered with extensive woods. The\n\ndays or even weeks in succession must be very severe, and it was apparent in the distressed look noticeable in the faces of many of the coolies. The roads are apparently too rough for pack animals, for we met none throughout the journey, but we occasionally saw a pony or two in the fields. For agricultural purposes cows and oxen seem to be almost exclusively used.\n\nThe scenery was very picturesque, the most conspicuous feature of the landscape being the beautiful tallow tree, which at this season (beginning of November) is at its best. I think I have never seen anything more beautiful in the way of colouring than the ruddy tints and white seeds of this tree, which is found scattered through all the valleys and on the lower slopes of the hills. The summer crops—rice, sesamum, cotton, and corn—had lately been gathered, and the fields were already beginning to look green with autumn-sown wheat and beans. In many places the banks and lower slopes were gay with a pretty yellow flower, which is supposed to be the parent of the chrysanthemum. Another interesting plant frequently seen was the black-berry, the stems of which are covered in the winter with a white wax, presumably for protection against the cold, as it disappears in the summer. The berries are not eaten.\n\nTowards dusk we arrived at our halting place for the night, having covered some 20 miles and reached an altitude of about 1,200 feet.\n\nFrom this point onwards the country became more rugged and the population more sparse and scattered. At first our road lay along the banks of the Ching River, whose clear and sparkling water formed a delightful contrast to the turbid waters of the Yang-tsze, into which it flows at Itu, a few miles below Ichang. In the summer rafts of cypress, which grows in abundance on the hill-sides, and is extensively used for building junks, are floated down it to that place. Here are also seen occasional groves of liquid amber, and plantations of small bamboo, used for making paper. For two days we ascended and descended passes of from 1,500 feet to over 3,000 feet. The hill-sides were extensively cultivated, even in places which seemed too steep to stand on. I was told that sometimes the men have to be suspended by ropes whilst working. There were certainly many cultivated spots steeper than the roof of any ordinary house. The crops seemed to be much the same as in the valleys, except that rice was replaced by Indian corn, and the sweet potato was more common. Thick woods of pine, oak, and beech abounded everywhere. On the fourth day we had a stiff climb up a bleak and barren range of hills, overgrown with long grass, and broken here and there by a field of Indian corn or a patch of vegetables. On the summit—about 5,000 feet—we found a quarry where tombstones were being cut. At the moment the men were engaged in polishing a stone, which they do by pouring lime and water on it, and then pushing over it backwards and forwards a heavy slab of granite. From here we made an abrupt descent to a small hamlet named Kuan Pao, lying in a sort of basin enclosed on all sides by hills. These basin-shaped depressions are very common, and, judging by the marshy condition of one we saw, would appear to be the sites of former lakes. The weather, which had hitherto been very warm, was now cold at night, and the ground was covered with white frost every morning. In the front room of the inn the thermometer fell to freezing point. The low temperature was probably in some measure due to the proximity of a range of mountains, close on 7,000 feet high, which forms a solid and unbroken barrier for many miles. We climbed up a precipitous path through woods of oak and beech, with an undergrowth of hazel and rhododendrons, to the top of this range, and found on the other side an undulating grassy plateau, for the most part uncultivated and uninhabited. Foxes were said to be abundant, and tigers, leopards, and wild pig are occasionally seen. A few miles distant there is said to be an iron mine, from which the needs of the inhabitants of the district are supplied. I was told about fifty men are employed in it, and that there are ten smelting furnaces, each employing about fifteen hands. We saw iron ore from this mine in two or three villages, but I have not the necessary knowledge to express any opinion as to its quality. In the neighbourhood there is also said to be a red earth which appears to be used for colouring purposes. I was unable to obtain any definite particulars about it, and had no time to visit the place of production. Shortly after leaving Kuan Pao we began the descent of a steep pass with precipitous and well-wooded hills on either side.\n\nFor some distance the vegetation was most luxuriant, and the colouring of the trees beautiful beyond description. I have seen nothing to beat it even in Japan. Our path then lay by a gradual ascent up a long slope, the lower portion of which was wild; rose bush seemed to grow everywhere, and masses of red berries made the slopes gorgeous with colour. The persimmon, with its golden fruit, was a conspicuous feature of the landscape, and in the neighbourhood of the cottages hedges of quince, which is used for medicinal purposes, were common. Although at about the same altitude as Kuan Pao, and only about 15 miles distant, we found the temperature here at night nearly 20 degrees higher. A further short climb, followed by a very precipitous descent for several miles, brought us back to the main road to Shih-nan-fu, which we had left on the morning of the fourth day. In this neighbourhood (between Lanping and P'u-tzu) a few white bark pine trees are found growing in a wild state. I am told this tree is known to grow wild in only one other place.\n\nVegetable Products.\n\nAs being the more convenient arrangement, I have reserved for separate treatment several products of the district traversed which seem to be of some interest from an economic point of view.\n\nTallow Tree. Method of making Tallow.\n\nThe tallow tree (locally called \"mu tzu shu\") I have already mentioned as abounding in the valleys. It seems to flourish best up to an altitude of about 1,500 feet, and is not found above about 2,000 feet. The seeds are coated with a white substance, and it is from this that the tallow is obtained by the following process: The seeds are steamed, then pounded whilst still warm, and sifted, the white coating passing through the sieve in the form of a coarse brown powder, which, after being ground, is again steamed, placed in straw bags, and pressed in a press. The resulting oil, called \"pi yu,\" is poured into tubs, where it quickly hardens and resumes its original white colour. It is then placed in wooden buckets, and when quite hard turned out in blocks and packed in straw ready for transport. In this form the tallow is mixed with rape or varnish oil or animal tallow before being actually made into candles, the two oils being used for fine candles for religious purposes (burning in temples, &c.), and animal tallow for candles of a coarse quality for domestic purposes.\n\nTallow Oil.\n\nAfter the white coating on the seed has been taken off, there remains the actual seed, from which another oil, “tzu yu,” is extracted, by a process somewhat similar to that above described. The outer shell and the heart, which is white, are separated by being ground between two mill-stones. The hearts, which remain intact, are then crushed under a large stone wheel pulled in an erect position by an ox or mule around a circular stone trough. They are then steamed, roasted, made into cakes in iron moulds, and pressed in a press similar to the cider press still used in country districts in England. The resulting oil, \"tzu yu,\" is used for illuminating purposes.\n\nSometimes the whole seeds, i.e., without removing the white exterior, are crushed and turned into oil, which is called \"mu yu.\" This is also used for making tallow for candles of a coarse quality such as are burned in lanterns. Candles of this quality are manufactured at Ichang.\n\nThere are thus two kinds of tallow and an oil obtained by varying the process of extraction. The refuse cakes are used as a fertilizer, and the husks as fuel.\n\nValue of Tallow Tree, &c.\n\nA good tallow tree bears about 20 lbs. of seeds, which yield 25 to 30 per cent. of (oil from the pure tallow (tallow from the exterior coating), 20 per cent. \"tzu yu\" hearts), or 60 per cent. \"mu yu\" (tallow from the whole seeds). The local price of tallow is, at the present time, about 3½d. per lb. for first quality, and a fraction over 2d. per lb. for second quality, and of the seeds from ¾d. to 1d. per lb. According to the Customs valuation the price is about 11s. 6d. per cwt. (nearly 3d. per lb.), but the different kinds are not distinguished.\n\n[2816 y-2]\n\n* This is also the term for tallow",
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        "content_text": "Classification.\n\nTaken over in April.\n\nNow in existence.\n\nIncrease\n\nor\n\nDecrease -\n\nFreight cars-\n\nNarrow--\n\nUnroofed bogie, with brake\n\n491\n\n500\n\nRoofed cars\n\n1,535\n\n1,405\n\nUnroofed..\n\n1,774\n\n1,754\n\n11+\n\n6\n\n180 20\n\nBroad-\n\nUnroofed..\n\n184\n\n+ 184\n\nWithout flaps\n\n21\n\n+ 21\n\nTotal (main line)\n\n4,190\n\n4,370\n\n+ 180\n\nMukden-Antung Line.\n\nLocomotives--\n\n6-wheeled tank, large size\n\n43\n\n,2\n\nsmall size\n\nTotal\n\nPassenger cars—\n\n2-ton cars\n\n5-ton\n\n55\n82\n\n27\n55\n82\n\n::\n9\n21\n30\n\n+\n9\n+ 21\n+\n\nTotal\n\nFreight cars-\n\n2-ton roofed\n\n29\n\n+ 29\n\n2-ton unroofed 5-ton\n\n421\n\n383\n\n38\n\n230\n\n209\n\n21\n\nTotal (Mukden-Antung)\n\n733\n\n733\n\nGrand total\n\n4,923\n\n5,105\n\n+180\n\n9\n263\n\nIn September, when Chanchun became the north terminal station, a further reduction was made to twenty-seven hours thirty minutes.\n\nThe average speed is now consequently 15.792 miles per hour.\n\nThe journey from Dairen to Port Arthur, which originally took three hours fifteen minutes, is now accomplished in two hours twenty-five minutes.\n\nMovements of Locomotives.\n\nThe mileage covered by locomotives on the main line during the period under review was 1,363,462, which works out for the 183 days at an average of 7,450 per diem.\n\nAccidents on the Line.\n\nThe following is a Casualty Return for the period under review :--\n\nCollisions..\n35\n\nTrains stopped on route\n\nTrains upset\n5\n\nAxles catching fire..\n\nTrains derailed\n20\n\nCases of locomotives getting out of order\n73\n\nAttacks by Hunghutzu Various\n\nCars or carriages ditto\n93\n\nCases of accident (act of God)\n12\n\nDitto (malicious, or of human agency)\n7\n\nTotal\n92\n102\n9\n99\n556\n\nDuring the same period nineteen persons met their death and fifty-five were injured along the line.\n\nElectric Plant.\n\nThe amount of electric power generated during the period under review amounted to 297,965 kilowatts per hour, used as follows :--\n\nLighting purposes\n277,607 kilowatts per hour.\n\nElectric power\n20,358\n\"\n\nNumber of electric lights\n6,486 (16-candle).\n\nFuel consumed in producing electric power\n2,188 tons.\n\nWharves, &c.\n\nThere were sold to the Chinese Government on the occasion of the transfer of the Hsinmingtun line, three locomotives, one 2nd class passenger car, four 3rd class passenger cars, and fifty freight cars.\n\nRepaired-\n\nLocomotives and Cars repaired or altered.\n\nNarrow gauge-\n\nLocomotives\n86\n\nPassenger cars\n146\n\nFreight cars\n1,484\n\nTotal\n1,716\n\nMukden-Autung-\n\nLocomotives\n11\n\nPassenger cars\n57\n\nFreight cars\n503\n\nTotal\n571\n\nAltered---\n\nTotal\n\nOn main line\nMukden-Antung line\n\n41\n1\n45\n\nWhen business was commenced by the Company at Dairen, the Regulations hitherto in force at the Dairen Wharf were for the time being maintained. Various tugs and lighters were borrowed from the military and naval authorities and used for the benefit of shipping generally. In August the Company, having received the necessary requisites from the Military Transportation Bureau, started supplying the shipping with fresh water, and on the 15th September new Regulations concerning the wharf, shipping, and the handling of cargo were drawn up.\n\n(Note. By these Regulations, which came into force in October, the Company took into its own hands the entire handling of cargo, a proceeding which caused considerable discontent at the time.)\n\nThe following Table shows the amount of cargo handled during the period under review:-\n\nMonth.\nCargo loaded.\nCargo discharged.\n\nApril\nTons.\nTons.\n\nMay\n25,629\n17,864\n\nJune\n80,032\n25,033\n\nJuly\n82,288\n44,014\n\nAugust\n19,321\n22,970\n\nSeptember\n5,695\n49,059\n\nTotal\n4,303\n44,328\n\n117,288\n203,268\n\nRate of Speed.\n\nThe distance between Dairen and Menchiatun (431 miles) took under the old system thirty-eight hours thirty-two minutes to cover, the average speed being 11.215 miles per hour; but in July a change was made, and the journey was shortened to twenty-nine hours fifty minutes, the average speed being 14.504 miles per hour.\n\nTotal of cargo loaded and discharged, 320,556 tons.\n\nNote. In addition to the above, there was loaded for the Company's own use merchandise to the amount of 131,819 tons.",
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        "content_text": "327\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n1\n\nJelena (2,977) ... mori mergeleT to sasviq878 ... we IqA batab\n\n(Pass)\n\n... of and lo voreotV e mori risteqeed A svider y baik)[ơng red Bart fartgried to fajosT\n\nafa #98uerqxe vons[Isox at now t Teqeqawon JB of boonsa aeruabem end je nottomiaitea dauorolít\n\nmolaasnqque wid Tol wat teem 'areyaqejet jn9o6T Aríð\n\n„JmomaIjj52 eft nt asavori mulqo to fco or Individual.\n\nbreign\n\n1908\n\n3 April\n\nast previous Paper.\n\nyou. 588\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo.14279\n\n(Subject.)\n\n14279\n\nREC?\n\n*\n\nREG 24 APR 08\n\nPiracy on West River\n\nLends cops deep from Peking reporting acceptance by viceroy of conditions mean which Admiral was prepared to withdraw wcreaed\n\nPort Auth' at Mecas be moved to amist patrol, suggesting\n\nотделе imprevention of smugling.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nat by.\n\nMirtisses\n\nWe have seen other correspondence in the Thea Prints which have\n\nJone\n\nHongkong\n\nsuppose that matters will be bitter now until the Chinese authorities\n\nagain get stack them the same questions will\n\n? Put by\n\nA.1.H24/4\n\nBr. 2\n\nalonce\n\nZet\n\nW.$. Ltd.-20562-- $5000-11-7, 2:06-11-07.\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\n938/69.\n\nUpon reviewing the provided text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\n327\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n1\n\n... (2,977) ... \n\n(Pass)\n\nPiracy on West River\n\nLends cops deep from Peking reporting acceptance by viceroy of conditions mean which Admiral was prepared to withdraw. Port Authority at Macao be moved to assist patrol, suggesting prevention of smuggling.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nWe have seen other correspondence in the Press which have done Hongkong.\n\nSuppose that matters will be bitter now until the Chinese authorities again get stuck with the same questions.\n\nA.1.H24/4\n\nBr. 2\n\nW.$. Ltd.-20562-- $5000-11-7, 2:06-11-07.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo.14279\n\nREG 24 APR 08\n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve readability, the corrected and formatted text is:\n\nPage 327\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n...\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo.14279\n\nREG 24 APR 08\n\nPiracy on West River\n\nLetters from Peking reporting acceptance by Viceroy of conditions under which Admiral was prepared to withdraw. Port Authority at Macao be moved to assist patrol, suggesting prevention of smuggling.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nWe have seen other correspondence in the Press which have done Hongkong. Suppose that matters will be bitter now until the Chinese authorities again get stuck with the same questions.\n\nA.1.H24/4\n\nBr. 2\n\nW.$. Ltd.-20562-- $5000-11-7, 2:06-11-07.\n\nLet's directly output the best version according to the rules.\n\n327\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n1\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo.14279\n\nREG 24 APR 08\n\nPiracy on West River\n\nLetters from Peking reporting acceptance by Viceroy of conditions under which Admiral was prepared to withdraw. Port Authority at Macao be moved to assist patrol, suggesting prevention of smuggling.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nWe have seen other correspondence in the Press which have done Hongkong. Suppose that matters will be bitter now until the Chinese authorities again get stuck with the same questions.\n\nA.1.H24/4\n\nBr. 2\n\nW.$. Ltd.-20562-- $5000-11-7, 2:06-11-07.\n\n938/69",
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        "content_text": "that while in \n\n[Trewis opinion time is \n\nadjection 5. Representations Cotting part. \n\nle deligterations of Compreme, it must be \n\nin a \n\nA \n\nCover \n\nArr. \n\nunderstood that the hor. God reverse titelf \n\njuce liberty of action \n\nlesorinnande tas \n\nlaten \n\nthuetter that the der...\n\nat \n\nG \n\nRegends say \n\nthe Court may maker, \n\ntwo whe \n\nlibing state part in any \n\nkecommandations \n\nmethods \n\ndiscussion or \n\nG \n\nThe adeninis los tie \n\nCrave. \n\nYour We might add ihet \n\net Be glad than \n\nthe reis y the I. O. beteen the perprend has \n\nLoubtles \n\nbeen refereed \n\nI apper. Alt. Den 27. \n\nYes, I coment, \n\n2675 \n\nhus \n\nS. \n\n(ot. Suely \n\nLost Crawe \n\nimp \n\nreply \n\nShones Contains \n\nhi \n\nthais \n\nJeusa \n\nna vital \n\nL \n\nof \n\nwhat \n\nJasna \n\nbu \n\npropose & do.. \n\nFlex \n\n29. \n\nI do not agree. We are committed to an anti-opium campaign by what has been said recently \n\nin the House \n\n7 \n\nComtuous \n\nWe are found there fore to cooperate with other nations who profess the same ain. I think eve must agree to the profond Commision and appoint a representativ \n\nW. & 85. Lad. 16679-60 blur in dependent action is fully safeguarded \n\nby the proposed terms of reference. \n\n549 \n\nAquae generally \n\ncall the \n\nwe do \n\ngap is J7- \n\nAhyoh A \n\nsuggested replay, \n\nmodified \n\nwith to throw colch water \n\nCast \n\nFor \n\nL \n\nJes \n\nA \n\nKeret there is bouble \n\nJ \n\nand Expers - \n\nt- \n\nA \n\nthe facts \n\nth \n\nquite \n\nwilling \n\ninformation \n\nA \n\nL \n\nLeve \n\nfast in westigation, \n\nfamiliar \n\ntort weet \n\n3.1. \n\ncom coming \n\n22.7 \n\nof \n\nBut we should in. \n\nexperience at the disposal \n\ntherefore not require Kind widecatect in \n\nLe u \n\nrepresentatives to peer \n\nKK \n\nEtter \n\nthen investigationis \n\nthat Shanghai corect be as \n\nReid's \n\nletter \n\nmake it clean \n\nreach \n\nfouen Cries \n\n& appoint W. Rensha \n\n222 \n\nAny \n\nCountry \n\nconduswing. \n\nits \n\ntex \n\nand referendum \n\ndecide for insity \n\nover \n\nI agree for the fretime, showed \n\npossemons \n\nCammy Appoly \n\nsont proporais the reply. \n\npart actions \n\nbe say out an \n\nC7.11.00",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nKiangsu, with a view to the suppression of piracy. Four shallow-draught gun-boats, eight Chinese gun-boats, and ninety small patrol-boats ('red boats') are to be purchased.\n\n\"Railway for Ili.—The Military Governor has reported in favour of constructing three lines: one from Ti-hua Fu to Ili, one from Ti-hua Fu to Urga, and the third from Ti-hua Fu to Lanchou. He proposes that the gold mines in Ili should be developed with a view to raising capital for the construction of these railways, and that a loan should be made by the Board of Revenue.\"\n\n'Railways in Manchuria.—The Tsi-tsi-har—Hei-lung-chiang Railway is to be commenced next spring, and the Chinese Eastern Railway branch line from Tsi-tsi-har to Old Tsi-tsi-har this summer.\n\n\"Kirin-Ch'ang Ch'un Railway. The survey of this line has been completed, and the estimated cost of construction is 5,500,000 to 5,600,000 dollars. Work will be commenced on the conclusion of the Loan Agreement with Japan.\"\n\nProposed Admiral for Hupei.—The Grand Council contemplate the appointment of an officer as Admiral of Hupei, to be stationed at Hankow and co-operate with the Admiral of the Yang-tsze.\n\n**\n\nProposed new Naval Harbour.—The Viceroy of Canton has forwarded to the Army Board a Report on the harbour of Hsia Yung in Kwangtung, with regard to its suitability as a naval harbour. The question is to be referred to Admiral Sa.\n\nYang Shih Ch'i's Mission.—In a Memorial to the Throne Yang Shih Ch'i gives brief account of his mission to inquire into the condition of Chinese settlers in the Philippines, Siam, Singapore, Java, Annam, and other countries. He describes the climate and productions of the various places visited, and states the number of Chinese settlers in each. He praises the Administration of Singapore and Penang, where the Chinese have attained much wealth and influence, but states that in Java the Chinese, especially those employed in the mines, are badly treated. Everywhere he went he was well received, and found that the Chinese settlers still retained a strong feeling of affection for their native country. He addressed meetings of Chinese merchants in various places, and visited schools and other institutions, to some of which he gave scrolls presented by the Empress Dowager.\n\n\"Steam Navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.\" (See Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 157, of the 1st April) In a Memorial the Acting Viceroy of Szechuan reports that he proposes to establish a Company with a capital of 200,000 taels, to run steam-ships on the Upper Yang-tsze between Ichang and Chungking, and later to Suifu and Kiating, one-third of the capital to be subscribed by the Government and two-thirds by the public. An officer sent to investigate the matter has reported that by blowing up some of the obstructions in the river and using windlasses at some of the more dangerous rapids, navigation by steam vessels would be quite feasible. Three small steamers are to be purchased abroad, and the service will afterwards be extended.\n\n46\n\nFires in Peking.—It is reported that Na Tung has given special orders to the police with reference to the fires which have been very numerous recently. He states that, although the frequency of these fires is chiefly to be attributed to the exceptional dryness of the atmosphere, there is reason to suspect that some have been the work of incendiaries who wished to take advantage of the fires to commit thefts. He directs the police to exert themselves to bring all such criminals to justice.\n\n\"The Ching Hua Shih Pao reports that there was a fire at the Wai-wu Pu on the 4th, but that it was promptly extinguished.\"\n\nThe Ching Hua Shih Pao also reports that there are at present a large number of revolutionaries in Peking who have come here from Japan. The Board of the Interior are reported to have given orders for the arrest of fifty-five of these persons.\n\n\"Naval Harbour in Hainan.—The Viceroy at Canton has reported in favour of making a naval harbour at Yu Lin, in Hainan, and states that the water supply and climate are good. He recommends the construction of a railway for the purpose of transporting troops and supplies there when necessary.\n\nChengting-Te Chou Railway.—The Government have decided to proceed with the construction of this railway at once. Engineers have been sent by the Peking-Hankow Railway Company to survey the line, and work will be commenced next month. The construction will be under the direction of the French.\n\n\"Tsitsihar-Angangchi Railway.—A Chinese Company with a capital of 320,000 taels has been formed for the construction of this short line (a distance of 50 li). The contract for building the line has been given to a German firm, Messrs. Telge and Schroeter. Work will be commenced in June.\n\n**\n\n5\n\n'Proposed Appointment of Judicial Officials.—The provincial authorities of Kwangtung, Yunnan, and Kweichow proposed some time ago that judicial officers (Pu Huo Ts'ai P'an) should be appointed in the interior with a view to preparing for the withdrawal of the right of exterritoriality at present enjoyed by foreigners. The Government, with the assistance of Wai-wu Pu and Hsien Cheng Kuan, are engaged in drawing up Regulations for the purpose.\n\n\"Proposed Railways in the North-west.—The Shen-Kan Viceroy has recommended the construction of two lines, one from Kalgan to Urga, a distance of 2,450 li, the other from Sui-yuan along the north bank of the Yellow River to Ning-hsia; thence to Liang-Chou, Hami, Ti-hua, and Ili, a distance of 8,000 li. These railways could not be constructed as a commercial enterprise, but would be of great importance for military purposes.\n\nMining in Shansi.—Since buying out the Peking Syndicate, the Taiyuan Fu Mining Company have obtained permission to raise capital to the amount of 5,000,000 taels to develop the mines, and the capital has already been over-subscribed, only Chinese being permitted to purchase shares. A Chinese mining engineer has been engaged at a salary of 600 taels a-month, machinery has been ordered from Europe, and 1,000,000 taels of the capital is to be devoted to the establishment of an iron foundry.\n\nThe \"Universal Gazette,\" in an article on the danger of ignorance of the limits of foreign relations, proceeds to argue that, while the limitation of India's export of opium is a diplomatic question, China's monopoly of sale of the prepared drug is an internal Government step with which England has no concern, since the nature of the drug has been altered, and so the Treaty with England does not apply. At present the shops charge at will, irrespective of the duty and li-kin, and England has nothing to say. Similarly, Chinese prohibition of rice export does not affect cakes and biscuits made of it. Moreover, a rise in price is not a customs duty; the aliens might as well claim to interfere with the proposed stamp duties, which will be charged on native and foreign goods alike.\n\nThe distinction between diplomatic and non-diplomatic matters is quite easy. Another instance, the Soo-Hang-Ning Railway. The Tsung-li Yamên's agreement with the British Envoy might be brought within the scope of diplomacy, but, as regards construction, the publication of the Railway Regulations took that out of the Wai-wu Pu's sphere, and the Wai-wu Pu should have told Sir J. Jordan to bid his nationals petition the Board of Communications direct, and have declined to interfere, quoting as precedents the American exclusion, which its State Department insisted pertained solely to the Labour Department; the Manchurian troops question, which Russia said pertained to her War Office; the Touquin Consuls, which the French Foreign Office put on its Colonial Department, and all the other precedents of recent years. Unfortunately, the Board waited till it got a bad name by resisting popular opinion before it got the Board of Communications to make the loan,\n\nThen trade-marks: all China promised was rules like other Powers, yet foreigners are allowed to interfere with their tenor. And the Mining Rules, which were drafted with the aid of foreign advisers, were still less open to foreign revision.\n\nIf attention is paid to their protests on more and more questions, China's independence will be lost through Chinese heedlessness.\n\nThe trouble has come from the fact that the Wai-wu Pu is not bound, like other posts, to report to the Throne and quote precedents. It has assumed unlimited powers, and, with a Prince and Grand Councillors at its head, ignores all control, and, without knowing it, is a danger to the State. Could folly go further?\n\nTo recover from the consequences will take many years' struggles and constant supervision, which latter is beyond the Throne, the Council and the Ministers, and to be found only in an elected Parliament. This is the only means to safety.\n\nThe \"Eastern Times\" of the 25th March professes to give the gist of a secret report by the Chinese Delegates to The Hague Conference on the European position. He describes the Peace Conference as a covert struggle for each Power's private objects. England dislikes Germany, which, since its victory over France, has increased in military pride above not only England, but the whole world, and is now developing a navy. So Russia fell in with England's request, in order, it is said, to safeguard her Asiatic possessions after Japan's victory over Russia. So Russia and Japan nearly came to rupture over the naval question, who five years ago started the limitation of armaments proposal, now refused to sign such an Agreement. The Conference reminds him of Sung's abortive assembly of the States (in B.C. 545), when the Ch'u men wore armour under their clothes.\n\n797",
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        "content_text": "61\n\n2\n\nvont être prises afin que de nouvelles démonstrations armées ne se reproduisent pas; que ferait notre Gouvernement pour arrêter une invasion de rebelles sur notre territoire, car, enfin, trente et un y sont passés, sans qu'aucune protestation ait été soulevée; que serait-ce si le contingent avait été de plusieurs milliers ?\"\n\nOn the 10th May the following note appeared in the same paper. communiqués were published in the other local papers:-\n\nSimilar\n\n\"On nous prie à la Résidence Supérieure de dire que des révolutionnaires n'ont point traversé Laokay avec armes pour se rendre à Hokéou. Des réguliers, nous affirme-t-on officiellement, se sont réfugiés en territoire Français, où ils ont trouvé bon accueil, après avoir été désarmés, ainsi que le veut le droit international.\"\n\nOn the 16th May, however, the \"Courrier d'Haiphong,\" in the course of an article from its Laokay correspondent, published the following statement :--\n\n\"Il peut être exact que quelques réformistes aient traversé le pont du Namti en armes pour se rendre en Chine. Le mensonge ne sert à rien, et à mon avis le meilleur diplomate est encore celui qui prend le taureau par les cornes et aborde résolument l'obstacle. Eh bien! il est vrai qu'une trentaine de réformistes, pas plus, sont partis de Laokay, l'arme sur l'épaule, ont marché carrément sur la sentinelle indigène de faction à l'entrée du pont et lui ont passé devant le nez, à sa grande stupéfaction et malgré ses timides observations. Voilà le fait dans sa brutalité exacte. Il est vrai tel que je le raconte et pas autrement. En quoi engage-t-il la responsabilité du Gouvernement Français et pourquoi donner le démenti à un fait dont a été témoin toute la population de Laokay, et le Commissaire de Police par-dessus le marché? réveillé en sursaut par la nouvelle du passage de réformistes sur le pont du Namti, Ce dernier, s'est levé en toute hâte et, à peine vêtu, s'est élancé vers l'endroit où passaient les révolutionnaires. Il est arrivé juste assez tôt pour voir disparaître à Hokéou les queues des Chinois.\n\nfhomoi, the place referred to in the first of the extracts from the \"Avenir du Tonkin\" given above, is on the railway line in the French territory, about 3 kilom. before reaching Laokay. In confirmation of the newspaper report that armed revolutionaries had passed through there towards the frontier, I may mention that M. von Dewall, the German official of the China Customs referred to in my despatch No. 5 of the 15th instant, was told by a compatriot, a M. Bauer, who is an architect there, that he seen about forty rebels armed with rifles walking along the road past the restaurant at Phomoi in the direction of Laokay at 6 o'clock in the morning. The date, however, was given as the 30th April, not 1st May as stated in the journal. There is an important station at Phomoi containing work-shops, sheds, &c., for which there is not room at Laokay.\n\nFinally, I have been told by a Mr. Borg, a British subject, who is a trader and transport agent at Hokou, that he himself on the morning of the 30th saw about thirty rebels with rifles and cartridge-belts pass across the bridge from Laokay to Hokou in the manner described by the correspondent of the \"Courrier d'Haiphong,\" the solitary native sentry on duty at the French end, questioning them, but being apparently intimidated from attempting to dispute their passage.\n\nIt is probable that the first party who commenced the firing on the night of the 29th did enter Hokou surreptitiously in the manner suggested by M. Bonhoure. It is not likely that they opened the campaign with nothing but revolvers; it is more probable that rifles were in hiding for them at Hokou; rumour says that there have been a good many arms smuggled across the frontier. After this party had, with the help of the traitors among the garrison, captured the forts and removed all fear of surveillance of the Chinese end of the bridge, it seems tolerably certain from the evidence given above that they were joined in a more or less open manner by at least one party of armed revolutionaries who had been waiting the moment in French territory.\n\nIn this connection, I may mention that M. Réau, French Consul at Mongtze, happened to be in Hanoi at the moment of the outbreak. He left to rejoin his post as soon as possible after the news was known, that is, on the morning of the 1st May, and I went to the station to see him off. He said that while at Mongtze he had received complaints from the Chinese authorities that many persons known to be revolutionaries had come to Laokay, and were living in villages on French territory along the frontier. He had forwarded these complaints to M. Aymeric, the Resident\n\n3\n\nat Laokay, who had replied that he had been able to find no foundation for them. M. Réau added to me that in the light of what had just occurred it appeared as if the Chinese authorities were right.\n\nI need do no more than refer to various rumours which are current, for they are only rumours without evidence to support them. It is said that at the present moment the actual head-quarters of the revolutionaries are at Laokay; that they have there a store of rice for provisioning their men (the Namti Valley produces very little); and that their treasure-chest is there also. Various French inhabitants of Laokay are named as being interested in the passing through of arms.\n\nThese rumours will doubtless be brought to the notice of the Chinese Government. The staff of the Chinese Customs at Hokou took refuge at Laokay on the outbreak of the disturbances, and are still there. It happens also by a curious coincidence that, although the French Government has hitherto always opposed the appointment of a Chinese Consul here, the Chinese have at the present time an official Agent in Hanoi who has been forwarding reports to Peking, and will doubtless keep the Supreme Government informed of events. This is Che-Tseng (I give his name as spelt on his French visiting-card), formerly Secretary of Legation in the Chinese Diplomatic Service, and now holding the position of Judicial Commissioner for Yünnan, or, as he is described here, \"Grand Juge Provincial du Yunnan.\" He arrived in Tonquin to proceed to Yunnan-fu and take up his new post on the 29th April. The news of the revolutionary outbreak arrived the next day, and naturally he preferred not to proceed. He is a Manchu, and would therefore have been a special prize for the revolutionaries. He was accompanied by a large retinue, including his family and three or four secretaries. He has now taken a house in Hanoi, and seems to have made up his mind to await events here.\n\nChe-Tseng speaks French very well, having served some years in Paris. The French were pleased at his appointment to Yünnan, as he is supposed to be \"a friend of France.\" I imagine that M. Réau was waiting here to accompany him up to Mongtze when the outbreak of the revolt made it necessary for the Consul to rejoin his post.\n\nIt does not seem probable that even the Chinese Government will accuse the French of actively and wilfully abetting the revolutionaries. A section of the local press-notably the \"Indo-Chinois\" and the \"Courrier d'Haiphong \"-has thought it necessary to proclaim its Republican sympathies with revolutions in general, and has consistently made the most of all the rumours of Imperialist defeats. There is also among a large proportion of the French population an undoubted tendency to look upon the movement with friendly eyes, probably caused more or less by a sort of \"sporting\" instinct; but to the Government the movement must be very annoying. The railway construction work in the Namti Valley has been entirely suspended for the present, and just at a critical time when the want of attention to embankments and drains may cause serious damage. It is possible of course that the Chinese Government may subsequently be called upon to pay an indemnity on this account. The transit trade to Yunnan through Laokay, which in the beginning of the year had been showing signs of advancing prosperity, is also of course entirely suspended. Advices from Laokay prophesy that even in the event of a speedy defeat of the rebels this trade cannot retake its normal course until the end of the year, on account of the utter disorganization which has befallen the town of Hokou, where it is focussed. But, above all, the domestic political situation at present demands considerable attention. The rising in Annam, which I had the honour to report in my despatch No. 2 of the 1st May, though no longer menacing the European centres, is by no means over.\n\nThe Moïs, a semi-independent hill tribe inhabiting the mountains in the interior of Annam, have also risen. They are not a real danger, being mostly armed with bows and arrows, but they will require watching. In Cambodia armed bands have been raiding in the territories recently acquired from Siam. I do not know the extent of this trouble, as news of it has been carefully kept out of the papers here, with the exception of two or three very brief official communiqués. In Tonquin there is no rising, but there is a very great deal of disorder in the provinces. Bands of pirates or dacoits have been raiding and burning villages, particularly in the neighbourhood of Vinh-Yen and Vietri, on the Red River, and have in some cases got the better of detachments of the \"Garde Indigène\" who have encountered them. Hardly a day passes without cases of dacoity being reported in the papers. The attitude of the Dê-Tham, at the time of the conquest of Tonquin one of the most successful fighters against the French, and now living in practical independence on his territories in the Yen-Thé district, near Phu-lang Thuong, has also given rise to some\n\n$",
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        "content_text": "AST\n\nC.O.\n\nment 121\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA TRADE,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[19644]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[June 9.]\n\nIS JUL 08\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 9.)\n\n(No. 115. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nTokió, May 13, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my telegrams No. 39 of the 13th May, and No. 30 of the 14th April, I now have the honour to report that my American colleague has informed me confidentially that, owing to pressure brought to bear on the Japanese Ambassador at Washington—and perhaps also to the return to Tôkiô of Mr. Denison, the foreign adviser to the Japanese Government—the Cabinet have finally agreed to include patents, designs and copyright in the Convention.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copies of the draft Conventions, which were communicated to me confidentially by the American Ambassador some days ago. As the decision to include patents, &c., was made since then, the wording will in consequence have to be altered so as to cover these throughout the Convention; these new drafts should therefore be read together with the one which was forwarded by me in my despatch No. 95 of the 15th ultimo.\n\nIt will be observed that once more the Conventions with regard to China and Corea have been divided into two separate Agreements, but it is provided that they are to come into force simultaneously.\n\nThe words inserted in red ink have formed the subject of discussion since Mr. O'Brien gave me this copy, and have in the main been agreed to, but the proviso with regard to patents submitted by the Japanese is not likely to be accepted without further discussion. The Japanese contention is that they cannot extend protection to inventions or designs publicly known or used in China at the time of the operation of the Convention. The Americans will therefore probably ask that Article 1 shall be made to refer to trade-marks and copyright only, while a new Article would provide that in respect of patents and designs the United States and Japan will accord in China the same treatment to subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Power as they accord to their own nationals.\n\nWith regard to hong marks, it will be observed that the American Government have changed their ground considerably. The discussion on this point does not appear to have reached a final stage, but I am given to understand that the Japanese Government maintain that Article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property overrides Article 8, and that protection for commercial or trade names can only be obtained if registration has been effected in accordance with the provisions of Chapter IV of the Commercial Code, which deals with trade names. They say that, as regards China, protection could only be afforded to trade names within the Consular district in China in which they were registered. This appears very unsatisfactory; but, as far as I can ascertain, the Americans prefer, instead of settling the question definitely, to ask merely for the protection accorded by the Paris Convention, leaving it to be decided subsequently whether Article 2 or 8 is to apply.\n\nAs this point is one which will no doubt lead to considerable discussion with the Japanese Foreign Office, I would like to obtain, if possible, a statement of the views of His Majesty's Government with regard to the application of Article 2 or Article 8 to the case in point, and as to the exact amount of protection afforded in the United Kingdom to trade names and hong marks. I am informed that the Japanese Foreign Office argue that, as protection is not given in the United States to trade names and hong marks without necessity of registration, the Americans cannot demand that Japan should give this protection.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) CLAUDE M. MacDONALD.\n\n[1815 2-3]\n\n*Printed within brackets.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nmuch more to be feared than that of the revolutionaries, and the present incident is taken as confirming this opinion. It is a fact that Europeans were never in any way interfered with by the rebels. The Imperial forces have also suffered in reputation from the disgusting scene which was witnessed after the taking of Hokou. All the rebels had evacuated the place, and practically all the rest of the population as well. Some half-dozen miserable coolies were, however, captured, and accused of giving information to the revolutionaries, which may have been true or may not. They were bound and taken to the public execution ground on a sand-bank in front of Hokou, and in full view of Laokay, where they were put to death in the most atrocious and fiendish manner, their bodies being afterwards subjected to nameless mutilations. Portions of their internal organs are said to have been taken away to eat, but this, though possible, cannot be held to be proved. Of the fact of the torture and mutilation there cannot be any doubt, as it was witnessed by many French people in Lackay. In the light of this behaviour of the troops, presumably with the concurrence of the authorities, the humanitarian and civilized sentiments recently uttered by the French-speaking Judicial Commissioner of Yunnan and Taotai of Mongtze in the interviews accorded by them to local journals, are looked upon here as so much hypocrisy. These two officials have left Hanoi and proceeded up to Yünnan.\n\nAn incident, which has not been reported in the press, has recently occurred also on the frontier of Kwangsi, near Langson, where a party of Chinese regular troops crossed over into French territory and sacked a small village. I imagine, however, that the soldiers were not acting in uniform and officially, but in their private capacity of brigands.\n\nThere are now over 800 revolutionaries in custody who have surrendered to the French authorities and been disarmed in connection with the recent events, and it is somewhat difficult to know what to do with them. At present they are to be interned on an island in the Baie d'Along (north of the Red River delta), known as the Ile des Daims, where they will be kept at the expense of the Chinese Government. Eventually they will probably be gradually deported in small numbers.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\nT. F. F. CARLISLE.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[24531]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[July 15.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nPost Office to Foreign Office.—(Received July 15.)\n\nSir,\n\nGeneral Post Office, London, July 13, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to transmit the accompanying advance copy of a Report from the Cables (Landing Rights) Committee on the question of telegraphic communication with Japan and the Far East, Mr. Buxton concurs in the recommendation of the Committee, and he would be glad to learn, at Sir Edward Grey's early convenience, whether he also concurs. Mr. Buxton is asking the other Departments represented on the Committee whether they also agree, and he will acquaint you as speedily as possible with their replies. In view of the presence in London of the Japanese Delegates to the Lisbon Conference, an early reply has been requested—if possible within one week from the date of this letter.\n\nIf no objection is taken by the Foreign Office or by any of the other Departments, Mr. Buxton would propose to inform the Japanese Delegates to the Lisbon Conference (who are now in this country), in accordance with paragraph 1 of the recommendations of the Committee, and also to communicate with the Eastern and Eastern Extension Companies in accordance with both paragraphs; and he assumes that in that case Sir Edward Grey will also make a communication to the Japanese Government in the sense of paragraph 1.\n\nIn this connection, I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, inclosing a copy of a communication from Mr. Hesse, of the Eastern Extension Company, relative to the proposed Agreement between China and Japan in respect of the South Manchurian telegraphs.\n\nMr. Buxton understands that the facts in regard to the present position of the negotiations are as stated by Mr. Hesse; and he has learnt indirectly through the Japanese Delegates at the Lisbon Conference that there is no prospect of these terms being accepted by the Japanese Government, who are unlikely to agree to any modifications of their last proposal.\n\nFor the reasons mentioned in previous correspondence, Mr. Buxton thinks it highly desirable that everything possible should be done to remove this deadlock, and that, if Sir Edward Grey sees no objection, a further representation should be made to the Chinese Government with a view to their acceptance of the compromise proposed by Japan. Japan, at the suggestion of His Majesty's Government, has made large concessions; and the consequences to China which would arise from the non-acceptance of the Japanese proposal, through the termination of the Russo-Chinese Agreement concerning the North Manchurian telegraphs, and, in other ways, would probably be much more damaging than any which are likely to follow from its acceptance. In particular, Japan might claim a free hand with regard to the laying and working of the proposed Dalny-Chefoo cable. It is right to say, however, that Mr. Buxton has no reason to suppose that this course of action has occurred to the Japanese Government; and he thinks it would be undesirable for His Majesty's Government to do anything which might have the effect of suggesting it to them.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed)\nH. BABINGTON SMITH,\n\n[1865 p-1]",
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        "content_text": "I understand that the market for woollen cloth is quite promising, and that Indian yarns have a better sale than any others over the whole province. Fancy and miscellaneous goods are for the most part German or Japanese, and the same, I believe, is the case with the cheaper forms of farming implements. Though I do not wish to speak dogmatically, it seems to me that the demand for foreign goods generally must improve as the north and north-eastern parts of the province are gradually brought into touch with the outer world. I would therefore ask if it is not possible for the north Manchurian markets to be made the subject of careful investigation by experts under the auspices of some representative body like the China Association. It is obvious that with the best intentions in the world the ordinary Consular officer has not the technical training necessary to determine with real accuracy the latent possibilities of these new markets. And, as \"God helps those who help themselves,\" it would be more to the point if British merchants laid aside their methods of verbal complaint against their Japanese rivals in favour of the more practical system of endeavouring to forestall their ambitious designs.\n\nIn connection with the railway Settlements, I should state that of those I saw the most promising was Tiehling. Though the work of construction here was only commencing, there was an air of comparative prosperity about the place which promised well for the future. This is easily intelligible because Tiehling is an important centre for the bean and bean-cake trade, and at the same time a port of shipment on the Liao for merchandise destined for Newchwang.\n\nCareful and systematic plans have been drawn up of all the Settlements along the line, and there is no doubt in my mind that these places will, when they are completed, by the mere force of their respectable organization attract merchants both Chinese and Japanese to reside within their borders. Trade will naturally follow suit.\n\nKharbin.\n\nKharbin is full of an air of despondency. The trade, such as it is, appears from inquiries I made to be mainly in the hands of the Jews and the Germans, with whom the Russian, who is a child in business matters and fated for years to be exploited by others, cannot hope to compete. It has frequently, if I recollect rightly, been stated that Kharbin's prosperity depended entirely on the recent war, and perhaps from the Russian point of view this is correct. This dictum does not, however, take into account the fact that of far more importance than the trade just alluded to, which is a parasitical one of Russian preying on Russian—an exact counterpart of what is happening to-day on a smaller scale in the Japanese railway Settlements—is that with the Chinese. This, by reason of Kharbin's situation within the wheat-belt and on a broad and navigable river, the Sungari, seems likely to become full of promise when the period of depression and despondency succeeding the war passes away. It is difficult, nevertheless, to anticipate what share will fall to the British merchant.\n\nThe United States' Consul, of whom I made inquiries generally, told me that there was quite a respectable demand for British woollen articles, which came apparently by way of Newchwang or Vladivostock. He could not, however, instance any other English-made goods for which there was any sale. Nor were there any British subjects in the town. There was no room, in his opinion, for a foreign bank at present. Any business going was willingly taken up by the Russo-Chinese Bank. Mr. Kawakami, the Japanese Consul-General, was even stronger on the same subject. According to him, the Siberian Commercial Bank had endeavoured to open a branch in the town, but had been warned off because the place was regarded as a preserve of the other institution. I think this is probably the reason why the Yokohama Specie Bank, which has branches as far north as Kwanchengtzu, has not yet put in an appearance at Kharbin.\n\nThe United States' Consul was very anxious to persuade me of the necessity of establishing a British Consular officer at this place, asserting that if this were not done we should find too late that our share of the trade had been captured by the Germans. I take it, however, that his anxiety was really mainly prompted by his desire to have someone to back him in his attitude against the Chinese Eastern Railway. The uses of the stalking-horse are quite familiar to both Americans and Germans in the Far East.\n\nThe other Powers represented at Kharbin are Russia, by a Consul-General; Belgium, by a Consul; France, by a Consular Agent; and Spain, by a Commercial Attaché. It is also reported that a German Consulate is shortly to be opened.\n\nConsidered from the point of view of actual existing trade interests, it does not appear to me that the presence of a British Consular officer in Kharbin is immediately necessary; on the other hand, the political situation is such that it may in the near future become highly desirable, for the safeguarding of British interests, that His Majesty's Government be represented on the spot. Signs are not wanting of Japan's desire to effect a rapprochement with Russia, and though it by no means follows that the consummation of such an object would necessarily be attended with disadvantage to ourselves, it nevertheless appears to me distinctly desirable that the actions of the two Powers in the north of Manchuria should not be allowed to pass disregarded. I can think of no locality more suitable for purposes of scrutiny or the acquisition of intelligence than Kharbin, and for these reasons only would I recommend that the establishment of a Consular officer at Kharbin be taken into serious consideration. Pending the decision of His Majesty's Government in the matter, I would suggest that British interests in the town be confided to the care of His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden.\n\nIn addition to Kharbin, there is another trade-mart in Manchuria which seems to me worthy of attention. This is Kirin, which is presently to be linked by a branch line to the South Manchuria Railway's system. There is no reason why at this place, which lies in one of the most fertile districts of Manchuria, promising openings should not be found for British trade. I would therefore recommend that it be made the subject of investigation when the railway linking it with Changchun is completed.\n\nFinally, I would beg leave to submit the following suggestions for the consideration of His Majesty's Government:\n\n1. That an Assistant from the Japan Consular Service be attached to His Majesty's Consulate-General at Mukden, to enable the officer in charge of that post to keep in close touch with the Japanese. On this suggestion I wish to lay some emphasis. Mukden is the senior Japanese Consular post along the line, and to it all the other Consulates report. It is also, next to Dairen, the most important of the Railway Company's offices. It is, finally, the Chinese seat of government in this part of Manchuria, and consequently the place to which every question affecting the Japanese throughout the province must at some time or other be referred. For His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden to form a correct opinion of questions concerning Chinese and Japanese, or Japanese and foreigners, he should have an accurate knowledge not only of the Chinese language and ways of thought, but also of the Japanese. This, under present circumstances, is an impossibility. Yet if he does not possess this knowledge, he is unable to form a correct estimate of the reasons and objects directing Japanese action, or to obtain full and correct information on matters concerning Japanese policy, railway or political. Mukden is a city which appears to me to be almost as important from a Japanese point of view as from a Chinese, and for His Majesty's Consul-General to be in a position to report authoritatively on both, it seems to me distinctly necessary that he should receive assistance from the Japan establishment. I would therefore, subject naturally to the approval of His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, strongly recommend that an assistant be selected from the Japan service for temporary service in the Consulate-General at the latter place, and that the appointment depend solely on qualifications, and not on seniority;\n\n2. That, even at the risk of overlapping, His Majesty's Vice-Consul be authorized to report on any question in Manchuria in which the Japanese are concerned. It will be remembered that the limit of his jurisdiction is the frontier of the leased territory. I do not think it is necessary to advance reasons in support of this proposal, but if considered necessary they will be forthcoming;\n\n3. That, as I suggested in a private letter to His Majesty's Embassy in Tokyo last year, copies of despatches of general interest be exchanged between the Consulates in Manchuria; or\n\n4. That, if this be found impossible in practice, they be supplied with copies of the print when it refers to Manchuria.\n\nI venture to offer these suggestions because it appears to me that their practical realization would result in the increased usefulness to the public service of the officers concerned. It is obvious that in the open markets of Manchuria, every one of which is a piece of China and a piece of Japan, questions in which the latter are concerned cannot be treated as isolated and independent, but as a part of a whole.\n\nPage 512",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nhensible how a civilized race like the Japanese can be indifferent to such a national degradation. On more than one occasion I have seen Chinese coolies treating them with a contemptuous familiarity they would not display to their own women.\n\nNorth of Mukden the Japanese are of course much in evidence at all the railway stations. At Tieh-ling they have an exceptionally large and apparently flourishing Settlement, covering the ground between the station and the city, but away from the railway they are not much in evidence, except at Kirin.\n\nGoing west-north-west from Ssu-p'ing-chieh station I did not see any till I reached Chêng-chia-t'un, where, not counting a party of Japanese surveyors, there is a Japanese shop, in which I bought a tin of biscuits, with the well-known pattern and the side notice of \"Hundley and Palmier's Superior Reading Biscuits.\" At K'u-lun-chieh two Japanese merchants from Hsin-min Fu have recently been investigating the conditions of trade. At Fa-k'u-men there are two Japanese doctors who—with a race addicted to medicine like the Chinese—are able to carry on a thriving trade, besides several low-class shop-keepers. I did not see any more Japanese till I reached Hsin-min Fu, where the Japanese have a Consulate and gambling dens.\n\nWherever I went in Manchuria, I was told trade was in a bad way. In Fa-k'u-men many firms, affected by the big failure of a Chinese bank at Newchwang last year, had come to grief, whilst in Kirin Province the native banks, who are under no Government supervision, had issued too many notes. The country people, owing to lack of funds, were making no purchases, and business was generally at a standstill. The Japanese were therefore suffering by the general depression of trade.\n\n3. Robbers in China. The Hung-hu-tzu are generally armed with modern rifles. At K'uan-ch'eng-tzu the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha sells rifles to the Chinese farmers, much against the wishes of the Chinese officials, and many of these rifles find their way into the hands of the robbers. The Hung-hu-tzu, who are indiscriminately Chinese, Manchu, or Mongolian (in the west), are often old soldiers, and generally belong to the farmer class. Often a family elects to send one member to join a neighbouring band, so as to enjoy the benefits of its protection. Wherever I travelled in Feng-tien Province the country was reported to be tranquil, but I was informed that small parties of robbers were still giving trouble some 12 or 15 miles north of Feng-hua Hsien, and that Mongol mounted bandits had been raiding the country to the west of K'u-lun-chieh earlier in the year. In Kirin Province, which is more thinly populated, I heard they were still giving some trouble in the hills, 80 or 100 miles to the south of Kirin.\n\nGenerally when Chinese soldiers are sent out against robbers, they complain very little, and the Chinese often secure repose by promoting the robber chiefs to official rank and taking their bands into their service. Thus the Hung-hu-tzu chief, named Chang-tso-lin, was given the Hsin-min Fu military district last year. To show his zeal he invited a brother chieftain, called Tu-li-san, to a feast, and then treacherously put him to death. He has now been promoted to a red button, and given the command of the Chêng-chia-t'un district. Feng-ling-kê, well known before the war as the great robber chief of Liao-yang, was captured by the Russians and sent to Saghalien, whence he escaped, and worked for the Japanese during the war. He is now commanding the district of Chang-wu Hsien, to the west of Fa-k'u-men. Unfortunately, he was absent from the city when I passed through. Many of the soldiers of the provincial armies of Manchuria (viz., Feng-chün, Chi-chün, and Ch'i-chün) have been Hung-hu-tzu, who have now changed sides with their chiefs, and settled down to the reposeful life of a Chinese soldier. As the soldiers of the Lu Chün are Manchus of the cities, or Chinese from other provinces, there are probably no ex-Hung-hu-tzu amongst them. A soldier told me that the reason why they were recruiting only Manchu soldiers for the local Lu-chün at Kirin and Mukden was because if a Chinese deserted he could probably escape, but the Manchu could not desert so easily. This is probably partly the case,\n\nAnother difficulty in Manchuria is that the Chinese police themselves often rob and squeeze the inhabitants.\n\nDuring the Manchurian campaign, the Hung-hu-tzu were of considerable use to the Japanese. The Russians used to have large supplies of cattle, &c., sent across Mongolia to them, and the Hung-hu-tzu were employed to waylay these convoys and divert them to the Japanese.\n\nI do not think that Japanese officers would do well in command of Chinese soldiers, as they would be too harsh and unsympathetic, whilst the Chinese have the old prejudice against the Japanese, whom they always looked upon as inferior to themselves till they were partially disillusioned fourteen years ago. On the other hand, I believe that the mounted bandits of Western Manchuria, if trained and led by European officers, who knew their language, could be made very useful in guerilla warfare.\n\n1\n\n3\n\n4. The Chinese in Manchuria.—The population is mostly composed of Chinese, who have emigrated from Shantung and Chih-li Provinces during the last 200 or 300 years. Some have been settled so long that they call themselves natives of Manchuria, so they can always tell how long it is since their families emigrated. The Manchus are principally found in the big cities like Mukden and Kirin.\n\nAs the population of Shantung and Chih-li increases, the necessity for emigration grows greater, and this overflow finds an outlet in Manchuria or Mongolia. In the past, the population of China has often been kept in check by wholesale massacres, such as the appalling destruction of the Tai-ping rebellion, the Mahommedan rebellions in Yunnan and Kan-su, and the more recent disturbances in Kuang-si, also by great famines and the inundations of the Yellow River; but as civilization increases, railways are built, and European methods of engineering adopted, these evils should be reduced, and the population will increase more rapidly than at present. The colonization of Manchuria is still in its infancy. Taking a line roughly from Tieh-ling to Fa-k'u-men in the south, I was struck by the smallness of the villages and the scantiness of the population as I proceeded north. In Kirin Province, this was still more apparent. On the main road between Kirin and K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, the two principal towns of the province, a distance of 77 miles, there are only 3 villages with over 40 or 50 houses, viz., one with 250, another with 100, and another with 60 houses. Sungari, between the railway and Kirin, the country is even more thinly populated.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chinese are gradually pushing forward the boundaries of Chih-li to the north, and of Manchuria to the north and west, buying land from the Mongol Princes, and pressing the Mongols back. Within the last twenty years, a great tract of land on the western side of Manchuria, called the Shu-lu-huang, or Imperial grazing ground, has been thrown open to colonists, and the land is now mostly given up to cultivation. Towns, as they become of sufficient importance, are granted official status, and Chinese Magistrates are sent to govern these budding colonies.\n\nOn the\n\nWhilst natives come and go in Manchuria with much noise, drawing the attention of the whole world upon themselves, the Chinese peasants quietly push on unnoticed, armed only with the primitive agricultural implements used in the time of Abraham; but they have arrived with the full determination to stay, until necessity compels their descendants to push on still further ahead and carry on the silent and real invasion of Manchuria. The Mongols are a very different race from the Chinese, and are stupid and indolent, readily offering themselves as victims to Chinese cunning and craft.\n\n5. The disputed Territory of Ch'ien-tao.—I was unable to visit this region. The Japanese Consul at Kirin told me the Chinese had already sent four battalions of infantry of the Lu Chün (about 2,000 men) to the neighbourhood of Yen-chi Ting, and that they proposed sending the rest of the Kirin Lu Chün brigade (another 2,000 men) there this autumn.\n\nIn addition to the Lu Chün, the Chinese have one part of their Kirin provincial troops (Chi-chün Chien-lu), nominally 1,566 officers and men, stationed in the district. The latter are really untrained constabulary, employed for service against the Hung-hu-tzu, and unorganized for war, whilst of the Lu Chün 3,000 out of the 4,000 belong to the Kirin Brigade, which only started training last spring. The remaining 1,000 men belong, apparently, to the 3rd Lu Chün Division, which is scattered around K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, Kirin, and Ch'ang-t'u Fu, and is commanded by a very inefficient Major-General, Ts'ao-k'un. The division, when it was at Pao-ting Fu two years ago, shared with the 1st Manchu Division the honour of being the best division in the Chinese army, but it has deteriorated very much since it was sent to Manchuria.\n\nG. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel,\n\nGrenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPeking, July 4, 1908.\n\n553",
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        "content_text": "2\n\norders to the Board, with whom he associated for the purpose Taotai Kwang of the Kiangnan Arsenal, that they were to form or appoint a Commission to inquire into the charges made by Mr. Ku Hung Ming, and a few days later an announcement appeared in the papers to the effect that Mr. J. O. Anderson, a Eurasian lawyer, who, I believe, is attached to the Shanghae Taotai's staff, Mr. H. Du Fion Hutchison, an English merchant, Mr. J. C. E. Douglas, lately Registrar of His Majesty's Supreme Court, and now practising as a lawyer here, and Mr. W. A. Carlson, the Harbour-master, had been nominated by the Board to hold the inquiry in their name.\n\nOn hearing of the appointment of this Commission, which in many respects was not a satisfactory one for the purpose, Sir Pelham Warren saw the Commissioner of Customs, and pointed out to him that it was his duty and that of the Taotai as the official members of the Board under the terms of the Convention to hold the proposed investigation themselves, and that for them to delegate their powers to an irresponsible Commission was not only contrary to the Articles of the Convention but was also in many other ways undesirable. The Commissioner demurred at first on the ground that neither he nor the Taotai had the time or the inclination to conduct the investigation, but in the end he fell in with Sir Pelham Warren's views and agreed to try to induce the Taotai to hold the inquiry jointly with him, provided, of course, that the Viceroy gave his consent. This was the position when Sir Pelham Warren handed over charge to me on the 2nd instant, except that, in the meanwhile, the Consular Body had addressed a letter to the Commissioner of Customs protesting officially against the appointment of the Commission.\n\nYesterday I called on the Commissioner of Customs and took the opportunity of inquiring whether the Commission had been dissolved and arrangements made by him and the Taotai to hold the inquiry themselves. He replied that, while the Taotai was agreeable, they had not yet obtained the consent of the Viceroy. It had been his intention to go up to Nanking and interview his Excellency in person on the subject, but he had been informed that the Viceroy was on tour and was not expected back for some days, so he had been obliged for the time being to postpone his visit, meanwhile nothing could be done.\n\nWhether the charges made by Mr. Ku Hung Ming against the contractors have any solid foundation in fact or not I am unable to say. I understand that they are repudiated by the Board's engineers as well as by the contractors themselves. It is not denied by the latter that bonuses have been given to the overseers whose duty it is to measure the amount of mud removed by the dredgers, but it is claimed that the practice is one which prevails amongst contractors all over the world, and its object is to get better work than they would otherwise get out of the men. These overseers are appointed by the Board to supervise the work done by the contractors and measure the cubic capacity of the soil dredged by their machines. In the dredging contract it is stated that the dredged material deposited shall be measured on shore within spaces surrounded by earthen, wooden, or other fixed walls, and after having drained the surface water.\n\nIt appears, however, that this is not the practice followed. The measuring is done while the dredged material is still in the barges into which it is deposited by the dredgers. The mud sinks to the bottom of the vessels, leaving, as a rule, several feet of surface water above it. The overseer measures the depth of this water by dipping a measuring rod into it until it touches the solid deposit beneath. He then works out its cubic capacity, which he deducts from that of the barge itself, and the balance is returned as the amount dredged according to which the contractors have to be paid. It is on these measurements that the Chinese Government is alleged to have been defrauded.\n\nThere can be no doubt that the system in vogue is more favourable to the contractors than that laid down in the dredging contract, but without doubt the chief objection to it is the temptation to fraud which it offers. The overseers are, as a rule, men of low class and poorly paid. It is therefore by no means improbable that, as Mr. Ku Hung Ming alleges, their measurements have to some extent been influenced by their bonuses. On the other hand, I do not believe that any irregularities which may be brought to light will prove nearly as serious as they appear now to Mr. Ku Hung Ming, who estimates that the loss to his Government already exceeds 150,000 dollars.\n\nWith regard to Mr. Ku Hung Ming's allegations against the Dutch Consul-General here, the reason which M. von Zeppelin gives for having refused to allow proceedings to be instituted in his Court against Mr. Drakeford's assailant is that the evidence of the witnesses showed that Mr. Drakeford fell overboard, and that there was no proof that a deliberate attempt to drown him had been made. It is probable, however, that M. von Zeppelin did not wish the case to be made a pretext for an exposé in his Court of the alleged irregularities of the contractors, which was undoubtedly the intention of Mr. Ku Hung Ming.\n\nThe inclosed copy of a leading article which appeared in the \"North China Daily News\" of yesterday is a correct index of the general feeling on the subject at Shanghae. There can be no doubt that the impression prevails that an attempt has been made officially to stifle public inquiry into the charges, and it is therefore in every way desirable that the investigation by the Taotai and the Commissioner of Customs should be held as soon as possible and that the result should be made generally known.\n\nI am also forwarding herewith a translation of the Viceroy's despatch to the Board ordering an inquiry to be held. It was furnished to Sir Pelham Warren by Mr. Ku Hung Ming, who in sending it remarked that, as the scope of the inquiry appeared from the despatch to include the stewardship of the Shanghae Taotai and the Commissioner of Customs as Directors of the Conservancy Board, it was evident that the Viceroy, who was the representative of the Chinese Government, did not wish the inquiry left entirely in their hands.\n\nIt is not expected, however, that the Viceroy will raise any objection to the investigation being conducted by the two official members of the Board.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) F. E. WILKINSON.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nViceroy to Mr. Ku Hung Ming.\n\nTUAN-FANG, Viceroy of Liang Kiang, &c.\n\nIn the matter of ordering a Commission of Inquiry, whereas the Metropolitan Department Secretary Ku Hung Ming, Assistant or Deputy Director of the Huangpu Conservancy Board, has personally reported to me that, in connection with the dredging operations now being carried out by the contractors, the East Asiatic Dredging Company, there have been allegations made from outside which should be thoroughly investigated, so that public suspicion may be allayed, I now find that the Imperial Chinese Government has taken upon itself to solely provide large sums of money to improve the Huangpu River, for the benefit of the navigation of the mercantile communities of all nations. Under these circumstances, the East Asiatic Dredging Company should keep strictly to the terms of their contract and carry out the work intrusted to them properly. Now, how is it that there should be these allegations from outside? The truth or untruth of these allegations must be thoroughly probed.\n\nIf it should be found that in carrying out these conservancy works there has been any the least irregularity, the Shanghae Taotai and the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghae will be held responsible.\n\nI now therefore specially charge the Shanghae Taotai Tsai, joining with him the Director of the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Kwang Taotai, who will act, together with the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghae and the Department Secretary, Ku Hung Ming, Assistant or Deputy Director of the Huangpu Conservancy Board, to form a Commission which will summon witnesses, secure evidence, and impartially examine them—in fact, thoroughly and searchingly sift the matter to the bottom for the protection of these important public works.\n\nBesides first having sent a telegram in this sense, I now send this despatch. On the receipt thereof the said Department Secretary Ku Hung Ming shall at once act together with the Shanghae Taotai, the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghae, and Taotai Kwang, the Director of the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, consulting harmoniously with them and concerting such measures as may be necessary to strictly investigate into the whole matter and arrive at the truth, reporting to me the result for further action.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 87.) Sir,\n\nShanghae, September 14, 1908. IN continuation of my despatch No. 86 of the 10th instant, on the subject of certain irregularities that are alleged to have arisen in connection with the dredging\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nC.O.\n\n44174 November 12.)\n\n366\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSECTION 1.2 DEC 08,\n\n[39390]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nConsul Carlisle to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 12.)\n\n(No. 13. Confidential.)\n\nHanoi, October 7, 1908.\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that M. Klobukowski, the new Governor-General of French Indo-China, arrived at Saigon on the 24th ultimo and took over the Government from M. Bonhoure, who had been holding it provisionally since M. Beau's departure. M. Bonhoure resumes his substantive post of Lieutenant-Governor of Cochin-China. M. Klobukowski is only remaining a short time in Saigon, and is expected here about the middle of the present month. He will probably visit Huc on the way.\n\nSince my last despatch (No. 12 of the 14th August) 3 more decapitations have taken place of natives concerned in the recent plot to poison the French garrison; 13 more men have been condemned to penal servitude for periods varying from two to twenty years, and 5 have been acquitted. Altogether 9 persons have up to the present suffered the capital punishment, and 27 have been sent to penal servitude in connection with this affair. This would seem to be sufficiently energetic action, considering that the attempt was an utter fiasco and that no single one of the poisoned soldiers lost his life or suffered more than a very temporary indisposition, but yet the local press continues to revile the authorities for their alleged leniency towards the natives. There are still some prisoners awaiting trial in connection with the affair.\n\nSeveral other decapitations have taken place in the provinces of various brigands or dacoits. The idea which was quite accepted a year ago that in conformity with the public sentiment in France no more executions would take place in Indo-China, even of convicted murderers, is now entirely exploded.\n\nArmed bands of robbers continue to give a good deal of trouble in Tonquin. On the 7th ultimo a band, believed to number only about thirty men, which had attempted to cross to the right bank of the Red River but had been headed off by the militia, fell back on the railway line and seized a village some 500 yards from the railway station of Tach-Loi, 21 miles from Hanoi on the Laokay line. They were promptly surrounded by the militia, who arrived by train from all parts, but the \"pirates\" had quickly entrenched themselves, and the militia thought it prudent to telegraph to Hanoi for a gun before attacking. As it was a Sunday great delay occurred in Hanoi before the various officials could be found, and it was not till past 1 o'clock in the morning that a mountain gun escorted by fifty European soldiers arrived by special train on the spot. Although the moon had by then gone down and the night was very dark, the gun at once opened fire on the village. The pirates replied with their rifles, and the fusillade lasted for about an hour without doing any harm.\n\nIt then ceased. At daybreak the gun recommenced its bombardment, but there was no reply, and it was found that, as might have been expected, the brigands had made off in the dark. One corpse was found in the village, and three wounded men were afterwards arrested in the neighbourhood; but though the pursuit was taken up by the militia the next day the band succeeded in making good their escape to the north. Altogether the affair had been very badly managed.\n\nAn impartial observer of recent events cannot help coming to the conclusion that the \"milices\" or \"gardes indigènes\" are not cast in very heroic mould. It is a frequent comment too, even of Frenchmen, that the Europeans (\"inspecteurs\" and gardes principaux\") who lead them require reorganization. More young men are needed to give dash and enterprise to the force. Too many of the present men are of middle age, and have lived a life of comparative ease during recent years, so that they no longer regard the undoubted hardships of campaigning against pirates in the jungle as an amusing adventure.\n\nA large band of brigands, mostly Chinese, and said to number 300, is believed to...\n\nPage 367\n\n[2029 m→]\n\n-1]",
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        "content_text": "Sir C Luo as \n\nAs we have accepted the Governor's proposals \n\nthere is not much use in sending this complaint out. We had \n\nbetter answer it ourselves. \n\nThe facts are the st. The disastrous typhoon of Sept 06 \n\nshowed the necessity of a shelter for native craft etc. \n\nThe original estimate was roughly fixed at 600,000 dollars \n\nbut when it came to the point it proved that the cost would be much greater- about $1,540,000 ● which must be added \n\nanother 70,000 for dredging. In present circumstances this \n\nis a very large sum to provide from general revenue and \n\naccordingly the Governor proposed that half should be paid \n\nfrom balances and half by a temporary additional tax on shipping. (see 11861- for details) Part of this tax-(which takes the form of an increase to the so-called Light Dues) \n\nappears to fall on river steamers- who will probably to some extent \n\nbenefit directly. The rest it was proposed to raise by \n\na half increasing the dues on ocean-going ships by one cent per ten. Subsequently it was decided that the increase should only \n\nbe one cent, thus just doubling the existing dues. This is \n\nwhat the present letter is protesting against. \n\nThe scheme is considered to be imperative by the Govern- ment and we have approved it. We regret far more than the P and O C. can, the heavy cost (see desp on 27987) but we have acquiesced. (The exact details of the scheme still await the decision of the Consulting Engineers) Half the cost of the work is being defrayed from balances - i.e. by the general community- and it seems to me per- fectly reasonable that the shipping should pay the rest. The idea underlying this letter appears to be that nobody \n\nshould be taxed for anything that is not immediately bene- ficial to him. This is new doctrine, the adoption of which \n\nin this country might inconvenience the Chancellor of the \n\nExchequer. Moreover by parity of reasoning it might be \n\nargued that as certain harbour expenditure is for the benefit of ocean-going steamers only therefore only ocean-going steamers should pay for the \n\nprovision of e.g. buoys. The principle is in question. \n\nThese shipping firms make their profit by trading with \n\nHong Kong and their profits may reasonably be taxed. \n\nMoreover para 8 of 11861 shows that the work is really \n\na convenience to all the shipping frequenting the har- \n\nbour. \n\nThe suggestion that Light dues should only be raised to pay for lights is a red-herring of the best type. The dues are raised under section 32 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance as \n\n\"Light or other dues\" The dues on ocean-going steamers are levied on all shipping which enters the waters of the colony. Nothing is said about lights and it is quite reasonable to argue that they are levied as a toll for permission to use the anchorage. They might equally well be called \"Anchorage dues\" or \"Harbour dues\" or \"Port Dues\" or blackmail if the P & O \n\nprefer it. In fact in 11861 the Governor said that he had thought of calling them 'Harbour Dues\" but had decided not to do so as people were used to the old name. \n\nIt is worth mentioning that the dues were 24 cents per \n\nten until Dec 1907. \n\n? Reply that the S of S regrets the necessity of incur- \n\nring so large an expenditure but that the Government of \n\nthe Colony considers it indispensable and that he is not \n\nprepared to reject their advice in such a matter; that the \n\nwork is being carried out in accordance with the best \n\nprofessional advice and that it will be done as economic- \n\nally as is consistent with efficiency. \n\nthat the general community is paying for half of the \n\ncost and that the S of S considers that, having regard to \n\nthe present financial situation, they cannot be expected \n\nto do more and that he sees nothing unreasonable in levying \n\na tax on shipping for improvements to the harbour which that shipping uses even though the particular improvement \n\nin question is not of immediate benefit to ocean-going steamers but that as a matter of fact (see para 8) \n\nof 11861) all shipping really benefits indirectly by the new work. And as to the question of Light dues observe",
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        "content_text": "C\n\n200\n\nby the Consulting Engineers, but with the important alteration suggested by Mr. Barry, viz.:- that the temporary Station (with one platform) should be placed on the site of Scheme 3-B (not on the site of Scheme 2-A), the disposition of the rails at the curve and crossing of Des Voeux Road being retained exactly as provided for by the Consulting Engineers if the Station had been located forthwith on the Western site (Scheme 2-A).\n\n3.\n\nOn the enclosed drawing the proposed scheme is shown as \"2-A preliminary and temporary scheme\". Its advantage over \"2-A complete scheme\" (proposed by the Consulting Engineers) is that it will not at present be necessary to cross Robinson Road or to occupy the resumed area marked Lot 1140 or the Crown Land to the West of it (coloured green). The whole of this Lot (1140) together with about half of lots 1141, 443, and 442 and a small bit of 618 can be leased on short lease, the rental of which will, it is hoped, cover the interest on the capital outlay, leaving only the pink areas cross-hatched in red, (or margined in brown) to be retained for Railway or road widening. If after the lapse of some years the accommodation now provided for the passenger station proves inadequate it will be open to the Government to proceed to the",
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        "content_text": "de tod! wlt of C \n\nhod. & wadu a mi beat Fura dat be \n\nt \n\nfisk our (1) botto \n\n** \n\nt \n\n30 \n\n; ༢་: :; \n\n' \n\nvozormoj tr \n\nbotibdi bodsound nd no eturau \n\nHond na 38 \n\nTheol nedi old booty stai \n\n.Tk od oderu nokk \n\nala ugour bobvisuelo jahidło 16 \n\natogfondede daljind \n\n40 \n\n: \n\n24 nih galod .00 2 195805..... \n\nto galopar Cwong adi \n\nhot off beducupat cod and deed di \n\n/auf old go ban qudd i onid qu enfind ↑ \n\n508 \n\nThe chairman of the Chamber wrote to the Colonial Secretary \n\npointing out that \"the exempted medicines are nearly all those \n\n\"of one firm (Messrs.Burroughs, Welcome & Co.) and that the \n\npreparations of Hongkong firms are excluded even though they \n\nare prepared and put up in England. Such a restriction \n\n\"practically amounts to giving Messrs. Burroughs, Welcome & Co., \n\n\"a monopoly of this class of trade as a free gift and my \n\n\"Committee contend that had such a result been contemplated \n\n\"when the Bill was before the Legislative Council it would \n\nnever have become law, especially had it been seen that local \n\n\"firms, to whom all possible support should be extended, vis a \n\nvis firms having no local connection, would suffer a loss of \n\ntrade for the benefit of outsiders. A point would seem worthy of special notice that the Opium Farmer's monopoly in its \n\n\"original form was never intended to cover the sale of the drug as medicine and it seems unfair particularly in this part to \n\n\"bar a drug, expensive in itself, to such a degree as will make \n\n\"its use prohibitive in medicines in such common use as \n\nRheumatic Mixture, Asiatic Cordial, Wild Cherry Cough Syrup, \n\n\"Balsam of Aniseed, etc., which are classed in Messrs. Watson's \n\nSchedule (e). The Committee therefore suggest for the \n\nconsideration of His Excellency the Governor that, if the \n\n\"Government are not able to allow chemists and druggists a free \n\nhand in dispensing opium and morphia as distinct from any \n\n\"other dangerous drugs, that they should be allowed to dispense \n\nopium and morphia on condition that they record all their \n\ntransactions in these drugs in separate books which shall be \n\nopen to a periodical inspection by the Government's nominee \n\nin order to safeguard the Opium Farmer's interests.\" \n\nOn the 2nd November 1907, Mr. Humphreys wrote to the Colonial Secretary saying that by arrangement Messrs. A.S. Watson & Co. were paying the Opium Farmer $5.00 per tael royalty",
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        "content_text": "607\n\n30 recimo ferera?\n\nt\n\n\"Ever (count ..{#8$ rod¬NOR\n\n0000\n\n*\n\n'\n\nor anolroeta on ena nezabaŨ C\n\nfe of vl¬ NI\n\nat je od pedande van de ↑ (200/\\\\{B8 .01)\n\nSMARI Pro. ¿ernovob\n\nof six Tex to paol & NAPH con toob pank me dove bobtvang\n\nA\n\njus tam samoo\n\n*moddiy ensihrase brassinouk te no scoл00\n\nto acolathroo wie bobbean;\n\n+\n\na to phand Ala\n\nmolt de to rubnetorts/f\n\nch becofane kes\n\n; Bumevas to rasomoni Juelevtupe\n\nnew om nåk of na 1/2 ts spent pris\n\nnur den bedek Menussen? For wit\n\n**A 9933: 00 ve oz ber 6% * evade neuVSI “rom\n\nmpscher Arg oneat and tes ,erral pol' enemen «vod a to earo erft\n\nIvofa Rejor end to note-\n\nMic Taft bre tdenest me to mi ad Frode af bolt 0 TH OVOD biro:in no??efronto alt cunking bird ɑshakersea to\\hite alon\n\neria to Foxton sul bru fe. In pf hes tha erie at miser\n\nZubercoval rifa not VTAR2509H srottega hluon 71 ** MALIN CAVon\n\nO BAYON 32 nnshot his aunt of frordnand a not ennasta 03\n\n.wo act to sumser* A OVEN\n\na to gol zino, et astigrape\n\nrofob er\n\nto uniqut wie 30 Renitive\"{ sexistron rete not enta in £«jonen? 't Ide?I protere a ona artelloh barul et adrenes etual ana bag amiab koal Jarover to 82n6,172 „vlnobhun bezt axe to berrogei ed ot at at bus some road tragent to ans ortiz sao JA analoh to rileyond merende one una atset senile orton \"Ino twit brooan mo euro at bal/noqze stew goal\n\nVIVIDAS enom II BoRL AS\n\nofdarchi, quo tult barmestut od \"frmy saken. VIST Anožteli^in uk ungor the ranone cvic mi susig oder Mtu tokaninsy\n\nIn fact the difference between the highest and lowest average\n\nmonthly amount of bank notes in circulation, according to the\n\nfigures published in the Government Gazette was:-\n\nIn 1905.... $6,028,415\n\nIn 1906.... 7,739,884\n\nIn 1907.... 4,160,429\n\nIn 1908.... 3,140,568.\n\nIn 1909..(January to May). 6,994,747.\n\nMy Committee are therefore of opinion\n\nthat the Hon. the Colonial Treasurer's estimate of expenses is\n\ntoo low.\n\nRegarding the proposal to invest a proportion of the dollars in Gold Securities my Committee consider that a reserve fund should be established to cover the exchange risk so that the coin and investments held against the issue will at all times be sufficient to redeem it at par and that no call on the revenues of the Colony will ever be necessary.\n\nI am also directed to call your attention to the possibility of the adoption by China of an uniform currency and to point out that in the event of this taking place it may be found advisable to change the currency of this Colony which might involve the recoinage or disposal of the dollars in reserve. My Committee think that before incurring the responsibilities attaching to a note issue the Government should give careful consideration to this contingency.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) E. A. H. Villians,\n\nSecretary,",
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        "content_text": "## 197 \n\n30 ML. DVOR A \n\nI \n\nthe shaft has been widened. \n\n8. I am sending under separate cover a drawing `C.R.E. No 517` showing the section I was trying to work to in this tunnel for flying arch. A great length was left approximately to this section without lining pending Mr A.J. Barry's inspection. On his inspection, it was shown him that it was very difficult to form a good skew back to spring this flying arch from owing to the massive nature of the rock and the consequent difficulty in dressing the sides even approximately to the desired section. He saw that it was not necessary to put in the same thickness of lining throughout and asked me to send home a drawing of what I considered could be most economically worked to. \n\n9. I have gone into the question of putting a concrete face wall up to the springing of the arch shown in red sufficient to bring the rock surface up to a smooth face and I consider this too costly as the amount of timbering is very large compared with the quantity of concrete. The cost of cleaning the rock face and arranging good keys where the sides are very smooth also would be a heavy item. I therefore am proposing only to put a concrete face and three-ring arch on the length that is now excavated to that section and for the rest to adhere to the same internal sectional dimensions as for the lengths in soft ground, only making the thickness of side walls and arch three rings of brick instead of five rings or a thickness of about thirteen inches of brickwork. The backing would as a rule be only drystone but if necessary concrete could be put in wherever extra strength was required. I am at present working on these lines and would ask you to cable me your approval on receipt of this letter. \n\nThe progress under the various minor heads is as \n\n10. follows:- \n\n-16- \n\n| Headings | \n| --------- | \nWa...",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Chambers of Commerce and Public Assemblies\n\nChambers of Commerce (Chinese) exist at Harbin, Changchun, Kilin, Tsitsihar, and Petuanlintzu, with branches in most other towns. The functions of these bodies may be included under eight headings:- \n\n1. The facilitation of the interchange of views between officials and merchants.\n2. The investigation of commercial conditions at home and abroad.\n3. Arbitration in commercial disputes.\n4. The registration of commercial contracts.\n5. The protection and encouragement of native industries.\n6. Attending to matters relating to printing rights, patent, and monopoly.\n7. The control of trade questions and the fixing of the rate of exchange.\n8. Social.\n\nThe functions of Public Assemblies are not dissimilar from those of Chambers of Commerce, though the sphere of the Assembly is somewhat more limited than that of the Chamber. Both, though existing primarily for commercial purposes, are yet in a way the mouth-pieces of the people in dealings with the officials. Members are naturally business men, from among the chief of whom the officers of these Societies are elected. Expenses are defrayed mainly by common contribution.\n\n## Industries\n\nIndustries are absolutely in their infancy; in fact, it is comparatively rare in Manchuria to find persons devoting their entire time to one particular (mechanical) industry. As a rule, they are in addition shop-keepers or farmers.\n\nOf existing industries, the chief are the manufacture of bean-cake and bean oil; the distilling of spirits, milling grain, dyeing, the manufacture of paper, and tanning. These are all industries in which Chinese are engaged. Of Russian industries, the chief are the manufacture of flour, brewing, or distilling, electric works, the manufacture of sugar, soap making, tanning, meat canning, &c. In marked contrast to Chinese, Russian establishments boast the newest and most up-to-date machinery. This applies particularly in the case of flour.\n\nThe busiest centre of the bean oil and bean cake industries are Changchun, Shuanchengfu, Ashihho, Petune, Hulancheng, and Payanghousu. The machinery used is of the most primitive description; the motive power being either supplied by cattle or by human beings.\n\nThe distilling of spirits, though carried on all over North Manchuria, is perhaps most prosperous in the Hulan and Payangchan districts. The material used for the purpose is the tall millet (\"kaoliang\").\n\nChinese grain mills, which were once in a very flourishing condition, have been not a little affected by the establishment of Russian mills. Though numerous, they were all run on a very small scale, their output being sufficient for the needs of a family or small community only. Like the manufacture of bean oil and bean cake and the distilling of spirits, this industry is generally carried on in combination with some other.\n\nThere are two Chinese steam-mills in existence, one at Harbin and the other at Hailin.\n\nIn the neighbourhood of Kilin, as to a less extent in other localities, there are fairly important brickfields, where bricks and a coarse form of earthenware are manufactured. The Kilin bricks, so great is the demand for them on account of their strength, are found all along the Sangari River. The sale has increased with the advent of the Russians, though the latter prefer red-coloured bricks, while those used by the Chinese are ash-coloured.\n\nNear Harbin and Ashibho also, the prospects for this industry are very promising. In every fair-sized town, one or more dyeing establishments are to be found. The chief material used for dyeing purposes is the native indigo. Colours are limited to light yellow, dark blue, and black.\n\nSpinning establishments, with old-fashioned apparatus, are found south of Changchun, but very rarely north. At Petune, there are six or seven factories where woollen carpets are made. The raw material comes from the Amur Province or from Mongolia.\n\nPaper is an important article of manufacture at Kilin. Here there are sixteen factories with an annual output of the value of 1,080,000 tiao (36,000£). The material used is hemp.\n\nThere is one Chinese electric light factory at Harbin with a capital of 11,000£. Owing to bad management, it is run at a loss.\n\n### Russian Industries: Flour\n\nThe manufacture of flour is the most important by far of the Russian industries in Manchuria. The chief centre is Harbin, and it is in 1903, with the completion of the Chinese Eastern Railway, that the trade may be said to have entered on its era of prosperity. With remarkable rapidity, eight flour mills were established in Harbin itself, two between Harbin and Kwanchengtzu, two at Shuangchengpu, one at Hailin, and one at Ashihho.\n\nThe period of greatest activity was during the war, when the demand was practically unlimited. It is true the price of wheat was also very high; but, as the market was entirely in the hands of the millers, this fact was of no great moment to them. During this brief period of prosperity, tremendous profits were made. This encouraged speculation; fresh mills were built, the newest machinery put up; it was imagined that this golden age would last for ever. Unfortunately, with the coming of peace, the house of cards fell to the ground; the demand for flour dropped completely, and in many cases, the former huge profits were swallowed in subsequent losses. One thing only remained—the high price of the raw material.\n\nIn 1907, five of the Harbin flour mills were amalgamated in a Syndicate with a capital of 3,500,000 roubles. It was hoped thus to combat the period of depression. But, as a matter of fact, the new amalgamation is virtually in the hands of the Russo-Chinese Bank. Five other mills in Harbin are still running independently, and these, with the Syndicate and four others along the line, made a total of ten mills still working.\n\nOther reasons, in addition to the high price of wheat already mentioned, which militate against the success of the Russian flour mills are the limited area of its sale and the difficulty of obtaining wheat at the desired time. The last is directly due to the high market price, and its immediate result is to compel mills to remain idle. As to the area of sale, that is limited to the railway line, Trans-Baikalia, and the Amur Province. Manchurian flour has not yet appeared in foreign markets as a competitor with American. It is only recently that, owing to a more favourable rate of freight, it has been able to drive American flour from Vladivostock itself.\n\nIn the matter of output, the Russian mills can supply not only all the present needs of Manchuria, but also leave a huge surplus for export. What is required is energetic pushing on the part of the manufacturers. This is still lacking; nevertheless, there can be no doubt whatever that Japan and China are the destined markets for Manchurian flour.\n\nApplication was made to the Russian Government in 1907 by the flour merchants for a subsidy of 3,000,000 roubles for the purchase of raw material; 400,000 roubles were granted.\n\nThe total capital of all the mills is 6,180,000 roubles, the total amount of wheat... \n\nPage 294",
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        "content_text": "## 4\n\nFa-ku-men and Tiehling, the answers being that many of the carts which carried bean-cake to Tiehling in winter returned empty.\n\nThe distance from Fa-ku-men to Tiehling is given by the Chinese as 90 li, and may be estimated at approximately 28 miles. On leaving Fa-ku-men the road soon enters the hills to the east, and after a gentle rise descends into a narrow valley bounded by low, grass-topped hills partly cultivated. At 10 miles from Fa-ku-men the valley ends, the hills on the south side retiring in a south by east direction, and giving place to an undulating country over which the road passes eastwards. The village of Tiao-ping-shan marks the eastern end of the valley. The country is more broken than between Hsin-min Fu and Fa-ku-men, and several nullahs with ruined bridges had to be negotiated. The crops were the same, but upland rice was more in evidence. There are twelve hamlets and villages on the road, some of them such as Yung-an-p'u and Wu-chia-hsin, being of considerable size, and we struck the river, about 400 yards in breadth, at the ferry of Shung-ch'a-k'ou in a sandy cove under a low rocky bluff rising sheer from the river. There was only one long, broad, flat ferry boat, which had just started when we arrived, and night was falling before we were poled and yuhloed to the further bank.\n\nAs we were waiting at the ferry and the animals in our carts were being unyoked preparatory to boarding the boat, several heavy junks, each with sail up and crew of three men straining at the oars, passed down river under the right bank, where the water was from 10 to 12 feet deep. Owing to the late rains of the present year there were no shallows at the bifurcation of the Liao just above Tiehling, and the junks were taking advantage of the swollen river to hurry on to Newchwang. It was dark before we reached a Chinese inn within the city walls of Tiehling; but, with the assistance of the landlord, I succeeded in having an interview with several merchants, who fully corroborated all that I had heard at Fa-ku-men, that the import trade of Tiehling and Hsin-min Fu from Fa-ku-men in winter depends largely on the market at the two places, that the trade with Hsin-min Fu is always greater in volume, and that the imports into Fa-ku-men from Tiehling are inconsiderable. At Hsin-min Fu and Fa-ku-men there was little evidence of Japanese activity, only a few small shops being observable; but at Tiehling it is otherwise. Two roads leading from the railway station, or rather from the eastern boundary of the railway reserve to the west gate of Tiehling, were almost entirely given up to small Japanese shops, but within the railway reserve itself there were many red brick houses, while similar and one large grey, more pretentious two-storied buildings were in course of erection. A brick two-storied building with a central square and two side wings particularly attracted my attention. It was standing in ample grounds surrounded by a low wall with iron railings. Over the doorway in Chinese characters was the inscription \"Commercial Exhibition.\" A poster at the door read \"No Admittance\"; but as the door was open, no objection was raised to my entrance. The central square contained a large entrance hall on the ground floor with a staircase leading to the first floor. The exhibition consisted of four long, broad rooms fitted with glass-fronted show cases arranged along the walls and along the centre of each room; in one or two rooms the exhibits, of every conceivable character and all of Japanese manufacture, were already arranged to please the eye, while in the others men and women were unpacking cases and spreading out their goods. The exhibits were many of them pure Japanese in type, but I could not help noticing that many were imitations of foreign goods, and in a quiet corner I took the opportunity of committing to my notebook the following labels on sundry bottles:\n\n| Label | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Worcestershire Sauce | prepared and sold by Barishiu and Co., London, N. |\n| Fine Old Highland Whisky | Malcolm, Barcelona, and Co., London and Glasgow. (Priced 1 yen.) |\n| The Mon Old Scotch Whisky | bottled and guaranteed by B. B. Woompang. By special appointment purveyor of whisky to A. F. W. the Prince of Wales. |\n| Scotch Whisky | A. F. Wine and Co., Japan. (Lion holding Axe, trade-mark.) |\n| Vieux Cognac | L. D. Piccardo, Geneva. (Priced 1.35 yen.) |\n\nA few hundred yards to the south-west of the Tiehling railway station, there is a Japanese flour-mill, belonging to the Manchurian Flour-Mill Company, which commenced work in June, and is reported to be turning out 1,200 50-lb. sacks of flour per day from local wheat. The flour, which is made in four qualities, is said to be 20 sen cheaper in each grade per sack than flour made in Japan, and the Company propose to erect similar mills at Newchwang, Mukden, and Antung.\n\nI left Tiehling on the afternoon of the 28th September and reached Mukden the same evening, travelling in one of the new American second-class carriages fitted temporarily with red plush seats as a first-class car. The workmanship of the car was somewhat rough in appearance, but the running was perfectly smooth. The young conductor was exceedingly civil and obliging.\n\nI remained at Mukden over the next day and called at \"Government House,\" the Governor-General's offices built in foreign style inside the city, over which the Chinese flag was flying. The Governor-General's residence, also in foreign style, is in course of erection next to \"Government House\"; but the most imposing foreign building I noticed lies between the city and the railway station, where the British-American Tobacco Company have put up an enormous factory for the manufacture of cigarettes. Its completion was expected towards the end of October.\n\nNext morning I left Mukden for Peking, joining the train of the Imperial Railways of North China at the South Manchurian railway station, the actual joining of the two lines being at present under discussion at Dairen (Dalny). The Chinese railway station, where the tickets are sold, is 2,000 yards distant from the Japanese station. When the new Japanese station is completed twelve months hence, they will be 2,500 to 3,000 yards apart.\n\nThe last girder of the twenty-span bridge now in course of construction across the Liao between Mukden and Hsin-min Fu will be placed in position in November. The chief central spans are 40 feet above high-water mark—much higher than the old bridge built by the Japanese still in use; but they are not sufficiently high to admit of the passage of junks without unshipping or lowering their masts.\n\nThe Chief Traffic Inspector of the Chinese railways outside the wall (i.e., north of Shan-hai-kuan), who travelled in the same train from Mukden to Kou-pang-tzu, the junction of the Hsin-min Fu and Newchwang lines, where he resides, informed me that duty-free goods (such as flour) arriving from a port are no longer taxed at Kou-pang-tzu, which was his complaint to me when I last visited Manchuria. He said, however, that many imports still come forward unaccompanied by exemption certificates and are duly taxed. This is, of course, in accordance with the Customs Regulations for Manchuria which came into force last year, and it is a curious fact that merchants at Hsin-min Fu and Fa-ku-men whom I met had never heard of the issue of such certificates and were incredulous of my statement that they are obtainable from the Customs if applied for in due form; and they appeared still more incredulous of my statement that a Chinese custom-house was established at Dairen on the 1st July, 1907, being under the impression that goods passing through that port are still duty-free.\n\nThe traffic on the Chinese Railway is undoubtedly heavily handicapped by the presence of li-kin or other tax stations along their lines, where all exports and uncertificated goods are taxed. Such tax stations are not permitted on the South Manchurian Railway, and when the Imperial Railways of North China have endeavoured to compete by lowering freights, the taxes have been proportionately raised, the profits going to the tax stations, and not to the railway. Under these circumstances, the railway has given up in despair the attempt to compete by lowering rates.\n\nThe conclusion at which I have arrived after visiting Hsin-min-t'un (Hsin-min Fu), Fa-ku-men (Fu-min Ting), and Tiehling, is that Fa-ku-men is much more intimately connected commercially with Hsin-min-t'un than with Tiehling, and that an extension of the Imperial Railways of North China from Hsin-min-t'un to Fa-ku-men would serve a rich agricultural area and its hinterland, which has at present only a very limited connection with the South Manchurian Railway, whether at Tiehling or any other station to the north or south of it.\n\n## 5\n\nPage 306",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## Report by Vice-Consul Porter on the \"Fatshan\" Affair.\n\nON the arrival of the river steamer \"Fatshan\" on the morning of the 30th November, Captain Lloyd came to the Consulate and reported the death of a Chinese deck passenger who, it was alleged by some of his fellow passengers, had died as the result of injuries inflicted by a Portuguese watchman on board, who had kicked him when demanding his fare.\n\nAbout 12 o'clock two of the Viceroy's foreign Secretaries, Messrs. Yen and Wu, called at the Consulate, bearing an official despatch from the Viceroy, stating that the Namhoi Magistrate had made a verbal report to him that a Chinese passenger had been \"kicked to death\" on board the \"Fatshan,\" and requesting that an officer from the Consulate might be sent to assist at the inquest.\n\nThe Deputies wished the inquest to take place on board the \"Fatshan,\" in accordance with Chinese procedure, which calls for an examination on the spot, but it was explained to them that this could not be admitted. Dr. Davenport, the Consulate Medical Officer, had already, at Mr. Fox's request, examined the body, and come to the conclusion that death had been perfectly natural, and was probably due to some kind of fever. As a concession, however, it was agreed that the Vice-Consul should accompany the Viceroy's Deputy, Mr. Hsieh Yung Nien, on board the \"Fatshan,\" where the Deputy could view the corpse, and have it removed to the Yamên of the Shameen police guard for the inquest.\n\nAccordingly, about 12:40 p.m. I proceeded with Mr. Hsieh to the steamer wharf. On arrival there I found that a large crowd had gathered in the streets leading to the wharf, while a strong force of Chinese police was engaged in keeping the wharf space clear.\n\nI proceeded on board at once, while Mr. Hsieh went to consult the Viceroy's Secretaries, the Canton Prefect and the Namhoi Magistrate who, with a large retinue, had established themselves in the Chinese telegraph office opposite the wharf.\n\nMr. Hsieh came on board almost immediately and said that the officials could not agree to an examination of the body unless there was a medical officer present to certify the cause of death. In spite of my assurance that we had already received a written certificate from Dr. Davenport, the medical officer they themselves now wish to employ, Mr. Hsieh said that he had no choice in the matter and at once went back in his chair to find him.\n\nI then went down below to the lower deck where I found the dead body partially covered over with a red blanket and surrounded by a large number of people, conspicuous among whom were Chinese hospital attendants with red crosses on their sleeves. The entire deck space was filled with excited groups of people, whom I ascertained to be the fellow passengers of the dead man who were ready to bear witness to the assault, representatives of the Canton Self-government Society and of the Press, and loafers generally. The gangways were all open, and Captain Lloyd seems to have made no attempt to keep the public out of the ship. Having no means of doing so, he was perhaps wise in not making the attempt, although, under the circumstances and in view of the propensity of a Canton mob to run riot on very slight provocation, it would have been only a reasonable precaution for a guard to have been asked for earlier in the day.\n\nI found Captain Lloyd standing near the dead body which was being mauled about and punched by the hospital attendants and various seedy-looking individuals in semi-foreign dress who were presumably members of the Chinese medical profession.\n\nFearing lest some damage might be done to the body, which would afterwards be put down to the score of the accused Portuguese watchman, I cleared a space round the body and covered it over with the blanket.\n\nI then turned some soldiers and police who had yielded to curiosity and come on board off the ship and went to the telegraph office to interview the Chinese authorities and try and induce them to take steps to prevent any more of the general public from coming on board.\n\nI found the Prefect, Magistrate and three secretaries ensconced in a small room and in a rather perturbed state. They acceded to my request and sent out orders to the police, but seemed very anxious to do nothing which might irritate the people and lead to a disturbance. They seemed to consider that it was absolutely necessary that the Magistrate or some other officials should see the body in the presence of Dr. Davenport before it was removed off the ship. Nothing else, they said, would satisfy the people. I repeated that there was no objection to their coming on board, unofficially, to look at the body, but that it should be removed immediately afterwards and the inquest conducted elsewhere.\n\nI then returned on board and consulted Captain Lloyd, pointing out to him that Dr. Davenport's arrival might be indefinitely delayed, and that the crowd on board, although merely curious just yet, might at any moment become ugly.\n\nI strongly advised him to let me send for a guard from His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen,\" so that we could, if necessary, clear the ship. To this Captain Lloyd agreed, and I sent a note to Mr. Fox asking him to request the \"Moorhen\" for a guard. Unfortunately it was nearly three-quarters of an hour before the request reached His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen\" and considerable time was lost in consequence. About 1:45 p.m., after an hour and a quarter's wait, Mr. Hsieh returned with Dr. Davenport. At Mr. Hsieh's request I allowed the Namhoi Magistrate and the Prefect, who were in private dress, to come on board and witness the medical examination.\n\nPage 467 \n\n5 \n\n4 \n\nA perusal of the correspondence above referred to may suggest to you certain points with regard to my position in this case requiring explanation. I venture to place before you some of the considerations which prompted my action in the matter.\n\nI allowed the Namboi Magistrate and one of the Viceroy's deputies to hold an informal inquest on board the \"Fatshan\" for two reasons: firstly, because I hoped that an inquest held on board would attract less attention than one held on the wharf; and, secondly, because I knew that by Chinese law an inquest, wherever possible, must be held on the spot where the deceased died. As will be seen from Mr. Porter's Report, the Chinese authorities made hardly any attempt to control the crowd that surged in and around the ship, and a satisfactory examination of the body was thus rendered impossible.\n\nThe preliminary inquiry at the Consulate would not under ordinary circumstances have been open to the public, nor was I obliged, I take it, to allow Chinese officials to be present and cross-examine witnesses.\n\nI need hardly say that I held the inquiry in this manner in order to meet the wishes of the Chinese authorities, and to conciliate Chinese public opinion.\n\nAs the sequel shows, I apparently failed in both these objects, but the fact of the inquiry being held in public and in the presence of Chinese officials has, I venture to think, to a great extent rendered official dissatisfaction with the result, and newspaper criticism of the proceedings unjustified and ineffective.\n\nWith regard to the important question of jurisdiction I trust the line I took may meet with your approval.\n\nI considered that, as the death had occurred on board a British ship in alleged suspicious circumstances, presumably in Chinese territorial waters, it was my duty to hold an inquiry. As the Portuguese watchman Noronha, an employé on the articles of the ship, voluntarily surrendered himself as being the person accused of having caused the passenger's death, I endeavoured to find out if there were sufficient grounds for charging him with a criminal offence in connection with the man's death. I came to the conclusion that there were not.\n\nHad it been otherwise, I should have communicated the charge against the accused to his own Consul, in this case the Consul-General for Portugal, with the request that he would exercise jurisdiction. I acted on the principle that the charge being of a criminal nature, such as manslaughter, and not one, such as insubordination, affecting the discipline of the ship, it would, under ordinary circumstances, be dealt with by the officials of the country in whose territory the case occurred—in this instance China. But foreigners in China being exempt from Chinese jurisdiction, owing to extra-territoriality, a case of this kind can only be dealt with by the Consul of the accused's nationality.\n\nWith this view of my position in the matter, my Portuguese colleague entirely concurred, and he was, as mentioned in the Report, present at the inquiry in a private capacity.\n\nI propose to continue this Report to-morrow, after my interview with the Viceroy.\n\nI am sending copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong and to the Commander-in-Chief on the China Station.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n**HARRY H. FOX**.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n### Report by Vice-Consul Porter on the \"Fatshan\" Affair\n\nON the arrival of the river steamer \"Fatshan\" on the morning of the 30th November, Captain Lloyd came to the Consulate and reported the death of a Chinese deck passenger who, it was alleged by some of his fellow passengers, had died as the result of injuries inflicted by a Portuguese watchman on board, who had kicked him when demanding his fare.\n\nAbout 12 o'clock two of the Viceroy's foreign Secretaries, Messrs. Yen and Wu, called at the Consulate, bearing an official despatch from the Viceroy, stating that the Namhoi Magistrate had made a verbal report to him that a Chinese passenger had been \"kicked to death\" on board the \"Fatshan,\" and requesting that an officer from the Consulate might be sent to assist at the inquest.\n\nThe Deputies wished the inquest to take place on board the \"Fatshan,\" in accordance with Chinese procedure, which calls for an examination on the spot, but it was explained to them that this could not be admitted. Dr. Davenport, the Consulate Medical Officer, had already, at Mr. Fox's request, examined the body, and come to the conclusion that death had been perfectly natural, and was probably due to some kind of fever. As a concession, however, it was agreed that the Vice-Consul should accompany the Viceroy's Deputy, Mr. Hsieh Yung Nien, on board the \"Fatshan,\" where the Deputy could view the corpse, and have it removed to the Yamên of the Shameen police guard for the inquest.\n\nAccordingly, about 12.40 P.M. I proceeded with Mr. Hsieh to the steamer wharf. On arrival there I found that a large crowd had gathered in the streets leading to the wharf, while a strong force of Chinese police was engaged in keeping the wharf space clear.\n\nI proceeded on board at once, while Mr. Hsieh went to consult the Viceroy's Secretaries, the Canton Prefect and the Namhoi Magistrate who, with a large retinue, had established themselves in the Chinese telegraph office opposite the wharf.\n\nMr. Hsieh came on board almost immediately and said that the officials could not agree to an examination of the body unless there was a medical officer present to certify the cause of death. In spite of my assurance that we had already received a written certificate from Dr. Davenport, the medical officer they themselves now wish to employ, Mr. Hsieh said that he had no choice in the matter and at once went back in his chair to find him.\n\nI then went down below to the lower deck where I found the dead body partially covered over with a red blanket and surrounded by a large number of people, conspicuous among whom were Chinese hospital attendants with red crosses on their sleeves. The entire deck space was filled with excited groups of people, whom I ascertained to be the fellow passengers of the dead man who were ready to bear witness to the assault, representatives of the Canton Self-government Society and of the Press, and loafers generally. The gangways were all open, and Captain Lloyd seems to have made no attempt to keep the public out of the ship. Having no means of doing so, he was perhaps wise in not making the attempt, although, under the circumstances and in view of the propensity of a Canton mob to run riot on very slight provocation, it would have been only a reasonable precaution for a guard to have been asked for earlier in the day.\n\nI found Captain Lloyd standing near the dead body which was being mauled about and punched by the hospital attendants and various seedy-looking individuals in semi-foreign dress who were presumably members of the Chinese medical profession.\n\nFearing lest some damage might be done to the body, which would afterwards be put down to the score of the accused Portuguese watchman, I cleared a space round the body and covered it over with the blanket.\n\nI then turned some soldiers and police who had yielded to curiosity and come on board off the ship and went to the telegraph office to interview the Chinese authorities and try and induce them to take steps to prevent any more of the general public from coming on board.\n\nI found the Prefect, Magistrate and three secretaries ensconced in a small room and in a rather perturbed state. They acceded to my request and sent out orders to the police, but seemed very anxious to do nothing which might irritate the people and lead to a disturbance. They seemed to consider that it was absolutely necessary that the Magistrate or some other officials should see the body in the presence of Dr. Davenport before it was removed off the ship. Nothing else, they said, would satisfy the people. I repeated that there was no objection to their coming on board, unofficially, to look at the body, but that it should be removed immediately afterwards and the inquest conducted elsewhere.\n\nI then returned on board and consulted Captain Lloyd, pointing out to him that Dr. Davenport's arrival might be indefinitely delayed, and that the crowd on board, although merely curious just yet, might at any moment become ugly.\n\nI strongly advised him to let me send for a guard from His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen,\" so that we could, if necessary, clear the ship. To this Captain Lloyd agreed, and I sent a note to Mr. Fox asking him to request the \"Moorhen\" for a guard. Unfortunately, it was nearly three-quarters of an hour before the request reached His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen\" and considerable time was lost in consequence. About 1.45 P.M., after an hour and a quarter's wait, Mr. Hsieh returned with Dr. Davenport. At Mr. Hsieh's request, I allowed the Namhoi Magistrate and the Prefect, who were in private dress, to come on board and witness the medical examination.\n\nPage 7\n564",
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        "content_text": "8 \n\nSome of the Company had formed the impression that certain individuals were behind the Company, but I was assured that such was not the case. I venture to think that the difficulties the Chinese have in these matters are due to the knowledge that the money behind the Company is provided by the Russo-Chinese Bank, who have also probably bought off the Bogdo's opposition, and that it is this knowledge which is the real cause of the Amban's opposition.\n\nThe educational wave which is spreading over China has reached Kalgan, and at one time the services of a Japanese were engaged as foreign professor; they were not, however, satisfactory and were dispensed with. The Chinese then applied to the Protestant ministers for lectures, but these could not see their way to acceding to the request.\n\nLess snow falls in winter than in Peking; this season lasts, however, considerably longer than in the capital.\n\nThe main street of the Shangpu (upper citadel) is a torrent bed which is dry for the greater part of the year. It is dotted with Chinese booths selling goods of every kind. In summer, the street is liable to inundations, and many lives are lost annually, despite which the foolish Chinese continue to make use of the street for their shops. These inundations, which occur sometimes in the finest and driest season, take the form of a wave as much as 10 feet high, which dashes down without any warning, sweeping away everything in its path. This inundation is due to the nature of the country between Kalgan and the Mongolian plateau; Mr. Campbell has described the nature of this so accurately that I beg to quote an extract from his Report:\n\n\"To the Kalgan gap, the waters draining from some 2,000 square miles of the Mongol escarpment converge, and the quantities of eroded rocks and boulders cumbering the depths of the valley, and the bed of the Tung chiaoho suggest torrents of magnitude. Two ravines descend the heights and join at the gap; the smaller ravines and depressions run into these two, and they in turn have their branches and so on until the watershed is reached in minute folds and cuttings. The deciding rim averages 4,800 feet above the sea and Kalgan is 2,700 feet, but the distance from the rim in places is scarcely over 12 miles, and whenever a monsoon thunderstorm bursts over the ramification of ravines, the floods descend too rapidly for the capacity of the exit, and the waters are backed up at the gap.\"\n\nApril 11 - Although the journey to Kweihuacheng from Kalgan only takes from six to seven days by the route outside the Great Wall as compared with eight by that to the south of the wall, I decided to travel by the latter, thereby being enabled to visit the large cities of North Shansi.\n\nWe left Kalgan by the great high road of North Shansi, and kept in a south-westerly direction down to the valley of the Yangho and up on to rising ground on the other side. The country is dry, bleak, and dusty. We passed plenty of traffic all day long, carts, mules, and donkeys all bringing goods to the great distributing centre of Kalgan. Many Mongols overtook us during the day, riding rapidly to the Wutaishan. Soon after noon, we halted at Hochiatun, having had to climb for an hour through loess country and low foot hills to the mountains. Continuing up the well-watered valley of a tributary of the Yangho, the mountains on either hand are bleak and bare, and cultivation and trees are confined to the plain. In many places on the stream, there were stretches of ice a foot or so in thickness. From time to time along the valley, numerous well-kept temples, nestling on seemingly inaccessible crags, testified to the piety or fear of past and present generations of credulous country folk. We slept the night at Chin Hwainan.\n\nApril 12 - An interesting feature of this village is a large and very ancient willow tree in the main street, which stretches one arm across the road; this tree is covered with red paper decorations and inscriptions, and at its foot, an ignorant peasantry have erected an altar, at which joss sticks are burnt daily before carts start on a journey, and in front of which the peasants kowtow. It is an interesting relic of tree worship, of which I have already seen one other example on the southern descent from the Wutaishan.\n\nA good road through loess defiles and across open country brought us to Hwaian, a small district town surrounded by a high wall. The town looks busy, thriving, and well-to-do, but is considerably smaller inside than its length of wall would lead one to expect from the outside. Like so many walled cities in China, the founders made provision for an expansion which time has not justified. We arrived at Hwaian in time for a large funeral, which was accompanied by the usual scattering of paper cash, models of the deceased's house, pony, chair, and by the wailing hired mourners, and banging of cymbals and letting off of fire crackers. The coffin was followed by a cart full of women of the house howling noisily; all of which, as the tree worship this morning, caused my boy, a 4 years' convert to Christianity, to express his wrath. Personally, I agreed with Emerson that I was glad the pagan idols died hard. On leaving Hwaian, we overtook a line of over 200 carts, each drawn by one mule, carrying tea from Kalgan to Kweihuacheng; this and the fact that we passed to-day many mules and camels laden with wool and tobacco show that there is a steady flow of traffic along this difficult road, and points to the real need of a railway. The road was good to-day for the most part, but muddy and spongy in places; this resulted in our coming badly to grief in one place, the cart getting stuck in the mud at a very dangerous angle and the front mule aggravating the difficulty by pulling too sharply and breaking a shaft rope. This was serious, as the process of refitting the rope necessitated the carter crawling underneath the cart like a chauffeur to a motor car, and the cart was in thick greasy mud; it was unpleasant for the carter. A great deal of the road was in the loess country, and some of the ravines were very beautiful, though, as the road was usually too narrow to permit of two carts passing, disagreeable incidents occurred. From Hwaian, we ascended the Tsebi örr ling Pass, and then descended through loess to the quite small walled district town of Tientschönn on the Nan Yaugho valley. A Swedish missionary affiliated to the China Inland Mission is stationed here. The valley is well-watered, fertile, and well-cultivated with a certain amount of timber. A lieutenant and thirty soldiers are stationed here from head-quarters at Tatungfu. Late in the evening, the officer called, asked to see my passport, and insisted on providing an escort for the morrow. At Tientschön, carters have to change the width of their wheels for continuing the journey into Shansi; the roads in this latter province differing from the width of those in Chibli, or rather the width of the ruts being different, and no self-respecting Chinese cart can travel except in the recognized ruts. The width of the cart roads in Chihli and Shansi Provinces is 3 ft. 6 in. and 4 ft. 7 in. respectively, while it is interesting to note that the width of the road in Shensi differs yet again, and is 4 ft. 2 in.; the method of changing the width is to remove the wooden pole connecting the wheels and replace it by another of the standard width; the Chihli pole is kept at the inn until the return journey; no expense is involved in exchanging the poles beyond a small sum for the labour of removing and refitting the wheels.\n\nApril 13 - Three soldiers arrived early to act as escort, but contented themselves with seeing us out of the town. We drifted over the plain to the west, the road being good except where the river or any small tributaries had to be crossed, when the ground was almost impassable, and great détours had to be made to avoid morasses; the carts were, however, once so badly bogged that nothing but spades and poles as levers could extricate them. After passing Errshib li po, we kept along the right bank of the Nanyangho ascending steadily, but almost imperceptibly, to Yangkau another small district town with good walls. The Great Wall of China could here be seen a couple of miles away to our right, not as usual on the top of the mountains, but more than half-way down the ridge. As far as could be seen, the wall here is in excellent condition. There is a Roman Catholic mission-station at Yangkan, but it has a native and no European superintendent. Steadily rising to cross the ridge which serves to part the upper waters of the Nanyangho and the Sangkanho, we pushed on in a south-western direction to Wangkwantun through a well-timbered country.\n\nApril 14 - Ascending gradually to slightly beyond Tsulo, we descended by a good, easy road into the Tatungfu basin and the Sangkanho system, and crossing the Yubo by a bridge half a-mile from Tatungfu, reached a good inn outside the east gate before sunset. During the last 2 miles, many Mongols passed us singly and in groups to the south to bow the knee to their spiritual head, the Dalai Lama, now in residence there. Some were in charge of caravans laden with presents for his Holiness. The Mongols are a great feature of Tatungfu, to the inhabitants of which they are by no means strangers, as they come in hordes every year en route to their Mecca. In spite of their somewhat wretched appearance, they are well-to-do, and as they spend their money freely, chiefly in buying the brass for which Tatungfu is famous, and which costs half what it does in Peking, they are welcome to the inhabitants. Special inns are set aside for them outside the south gate of the town.\n\nTatungfu.\n\nTatungfu is a prefectural town with strong walls in good repair. It is 217 miles from Peking and 240 from Taiyuanfu, the capital of the province. The town is situated between the Yuho and a range of hills. 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        "content_text": "# 122 \n## 14 \n\nLeaving on the 24th April, we moved slowly over the plain in a south-westerly direction towards the Yellow River. Villages were fairly frequent, but, except in the immediate neighbourhood of these, the ground was uncultivated, a good deal being marsh land, and a good deal being white with saline efflorescence. Geese and wild duck abound, while the fields swarm with a large species of mouse. The inhabitants of the villages (all Chinese) are exceedingly poor; their chief food is millet and potatoes, though a sheep is surprisingly cheap, only costing 2 dollars (`48.`). They drink tea or water. A young pony can be bought for twenty dollars (`24`). The huts are lit with bean oil, the usual lighting, where the Standard Oil Company have not so far penetrated. In the early afternoon of the 26th April we reached Tütschong and 2 miles later Hokou, both small, industrious, prosperous settlements on the Yellow River, with a small boat trade. Just before reaching Tütschong we passed the ruins of the ancient walled city of Chengadou. The size of the walls show that it must once have been of great strength. The north wall is still excellent, but the others are in a state of decay. All the space within the walls is under cultivation. The town stands some 150 feet above the river and about 300 yards away from it.\n\nAt Tütschong we turned south, down the valley of the river between a low mud ridge and the backwaters of the stream, over cultivated land, and 10 miles later reached the ferry. Here a few inhabitants have built some cabins, but there is no village. It took us two hours to cross the stream, this time including the unloading and reloading of the camels. The current is fairly swift at this point, and we drifted 150 yards downstream during the passage. The ferry is said to be used by a great number of Mongols. The marshes on either side abound in wild fowl of every kind. The huge barges, which are used as ferry boats, are capable of holding a great number of animals and passengers at the same time. It is said that sixteen camels can be ferried over at once. Our animals gave the usual amount of trouble to make them embark, and kicked, spat, and refused to enter the boat till their forelegs were hauled by ropes, while leverage with spades and poles was brought to bear on the hind legs. Even when inside the boat they made a great deal of trouble, and kept jumping up, and threatened to upset us.\n\nHaving crossed the stream we were then in the country of the Ordos, and keeping north again for some 3 miles, turned west over rolling grassy country to the Mongol Settlement of Anental, to which one of the ferrymen guided us. The settlement is situated on the fringe of the sand hillocks, the beginning of the Ordos desert.\n\n## Route\n\nThe route now lay in a south-westerly direction through the Mongol tribes of Djungar, Wang, Djassak, Wushin, and Ottok, to Borobalgasson. Turning south here for a day to Hsiaochaaopan and thence westwards through the Great Wall into Kansu Province and north-west to recross the Yellow River near Ninghsiasu, a return to Kweihuacheng was eventually made through the northern Princedoms of Hangkin and Talat.\n\n## General Description\n\nThe Ordos is bounded on three sides, the east, north, and west, by the Yellow River. On the south the Great Wall running over mountain ranges separates it from Shansi and Shensi, and the same (running over the plain) from the Province of Kansu. The Great Wall in this part of China is, however, more a historical term than a reality, for it has long crumbled away for most of its length to a large mound.\n\nAs regards its physical aspect, the Ordos may be divided into two sections—the Highlands and the Lowlands, and these sections into further sub-sections as follows:\n\nThe Highlands into---\n\n(a) The short range of the Arbusula in the extreme west running north and south along the Yellow River. This range is bleak, rugged, and devoid of vegetation. It is probably seen at its best from the river, but in no place deserves a higher adjective of praise than \"fine.\"\n\n(b) Low hills which run north-east to south-west, parallel with the Great Wall, and as far as the plain of Borobalgasson. These hills cover the ground to a distance of perhaps 50 miles from the Great Wall. They are broken by many gullies and broad torrent beds, some stony, others sandy, but all entirely dry except perhaps for a short time after the rains, and also by numerous narrow valleys down which a small stream still trickles. These hills form a distinct water parting, for though all the streams find their way into the Yellow River, some do so by flowing northwards, while others flow south to merge their waters in Shansi rivers which join the Yellow River many degrees to the south. These hills are in some districts of red sandstone.\n\nThe Lowlands may be sub-divided into-\n\n| Sub-division | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The vast undulations of land which comprise the greater portion of the country. The soil is entirely sandy, lightly covered with grass, or with a low scrub perhaps for many miles, never more than a foot high. In the scattered lower depressions are the remains often only in the form of marsh or dry mud thickly covered with saline efflorescence of the waters which once covered the whole of the Lowlands, making the country one vast lake. From these depressions great quantities of salt are extracted. After rains they may take the form of lakes again for a short season. |\n| (b) | The fertile portions of the valley of the Hoangho which can be reached by irrigation canals from the river. In this portion tall trees are numerous, and wheat, millet, maize, kaoliang, and even a little poppy may be cultivated. |\n| (c) | The sandy deserts devoid of all vegetation and with little animal life save perhaps for badgers and a few birds. The best known of these regions are the Kuzuptchi sands, which are a succession of hillocks (40 or 50, rarely 100, feet high) lying side by side, and composed of yellow sand. The upper stratum of this sand when disturbed by the wind blowing on either side of the hills, forms loose drifts which have the appearance of snowdrifts. These sands are from 10 to 50 miles wide, and run from almost the meridian of Bautu to where the Yellow River bends into Alashan. Another bad stretch of sands, such as those described above, lie in South Ottok between Borobalgasson and Hsiao chiao Pan, and are some 8 miles wide. |\n\nThe absolute height of the lowlands has been found to be between 3,000 and 3,500 feet.\n\n## The Tribes and their Government\n\nThe country is divided among seven tribes, who are entirely separate and distinct from the other Mongol tribes. Each is governed by a Prince; the hereditary system prevails, and on the death of a Prince his eldest son succeeds if 19 years of age. He has to be confirmed in the succession by the Chinese Government. There have been cases of minors being allowed to succeed, and the present King of Ottok is an example of this. He was only 9 years old when his father died. His succession was allowed, thanks to the intervention at Peking of the Roman Catholic Bishop of West Mongolia.\n\nThe names of the tribes and their positions are as follows:\n\nOn the north going from the east to west, Talat and Hangkin, south of Hangkin lies Ottok, which extends to the Great Wall; going eastwards from Ottok comes Wushin Djassak, Wang, and finally Djungar, the last touching the Yellow River, two days south-west of Kweihuacheng. The Isikung Prince of the Orots has a small strip of land north of Talat and in the valley of the Hoangho, but he has nothing to do with the Ordos tribes, from whom he is quite distinct. The country is very thinly populated, and there are no towns; the only villages even are those created by the Chinese immigrants who have penetrated into the more fertile portions of the country, i.e., the extreme south and the valley of the Hoangho in the territory of Talat. Consequently, the only inns to be met with are those found in Chinese villages.\n\nThe inhabitants are a purely pastoral people; their wealth consists in the number of their herds and flocks and droves. The Princes are shepherd kings with the same interests as their subjects; they are said to tend their own flocks at times. The nearest approach to Mongol villages are the huge lamaseries which are scattered over the country and into which two-thirds of the male population drift. The traveller may journey for several days and never see a habitation, that is if he keeps to the main tracks, for the Mongols avoid these and live in the hills away from the highways.",
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        "content_text": "# Customs, Language, and Religion of the Ordos Mongols\n\n18 people I have frequently been laughed at and congratulated on my happy experience; whatever the nature of the people in other parts of Mongolia I can at least speak from intimate knowledge of the Ordos, that the inhabitants treated me and mine with entire honesty. For their hospitality, always readily given, they never expected payment and in many cases refused money when offered. The traveller who should take a few lumps of silver for use in the districts adjacent to China and some strings of cash for use in the interior, can insist on the poor accepting money while the present of a box of matches or a couple of Price's wax candles or a little Peking tea, gives invariably the greatest pleasure to the richer hosts. Future travellers would do well to take a few extra packets of these three commodities as presents.\n\n## Customs\n\nMost, if not all, of the customs in vogue among the Ordos Mongols are probably common to the whole of Mongolia. They are none the less quaint, however, and have a peculiar charm. Perhaps, the one which strikes the traveller as the most curious is the interchange of snuff-bottles by way of greeting. Every Mongol carries one of these little bottles in a pouch at his waist. The quality and size vary of course according to the bearer's means, those of the Princes being very elaborate and of an expensive material. The ordinary bottles, however, are of glass or porcelain. The art of giving and receiving the snuff-bottle in the correct manner is not so easy to acquire as one might imagine. Like the art of shaking hands where neither party looks at their own hands before giving it nor at the hand they are grasping, so the art of snuff-bottling. You do not look at the bottle you are giving nor do you look at the one you receive. To do the latter would suggest that you are appraising its value. The bottle may be received in one hand and should be raised very slightly and then returned. Only on entering a house that the interchange takes place. If the traveller stops to speak to a Mongol on the road—and all Mongols travelling stop to speak to fellow-travellers, to ask them where they come from, whither they travel—bow their beasts fare—snuff-bottles are exchanged in sign of friendship. It is a delightful custom doomed probably to extinction at no very distant date.\n\nThe proper term of greeting when coming to a house or meeting strangers on the road is \"amorr' sae\" (saehen) which means literally \"peace good,\" and is probably very necessary in countries where the person you meet may be anxious to have your blood. If the same reply is made there is nothing to be feared. There is a custom to secure the welfare of houses and which I noticed one or twice; this corresponds to our burying current coins, newspapers, &c., under a foundation stone. On the rafter which supports the roof of the living rooms are suspended a few cash, two chopsticks and a little bag containing wheat and millet. All these are attached to a red scroll pasted to the rafters. These are affixed when the building is ready for occupation, and signify \"May it last 10,000 years.\"\n\nAnother method of securing good luck—but this I only found in Chinese families scattered through the Ordos—is to paste over the doorway of every building or outhouse slips of paper of varied hues with characters inscribed on them. These protect all who enter from sickness or mishap, or from the influence of devils. Inside the buildings flutter perhaps nine or ten other strips of paper from the rafter, bearing devices with the same object. These are frequently taken down, folded up, and worn as an amulet round the neck. I will compare with this the charms worn by the Catholic Christians in the neighbourhood of Santanho, also round the neck, and containing a little picture. These are obtained from the village priest for a few cash, and renewed when worn out.\n\nThe women wear a delightfully picturesque head-dress, and this is probably the only valuable thing they possess. It is a leather band set with silver, and which encircles the head; from it hang down over the forehead, as far as the eyes, over the nape of the neck and over the ears, long strings of silver, coral, jade, and precious stones. Heavy strings of earrings, chiefly hoops of silver, pull down the lobe of the ear till it has lost all its first shape. The hair is fastened in two plaits, one falling over each shoulder into a leather pouch, which reaches to either breast. These pouches are heavily ornamented with silver. If the lady is in mourning the plaits wear a white band across them. The unmarried Mongol women do not wear this quaint head-dress; this is presented by the young man to his fiancée, and thus may be said to correspond to our engagement ring. The young man often has to sell many beasts in order to purchase it; the price and value vary from 60 taels (£9) to 100 taels (£15), and the wealthy sometimes pay as much as 500 taels (£75), but this depends on the value of the stones, pearls, jade, &c., with which the ornaments are set. Directly a girl is engaged to be married she binds her hair under her chin, instead of allowing it to fall in plaits over the shoulders.\n\n## Language\n\nChinese is spoken in those portions of the country which either fringe on China or into which Chinese settlers have penetrated; everywhere else only Mongol is spoken. It is therefore essential for the traveller either to be able to speak Mongol himself, or to have a Mongol-speaking man among his retinue. Even in those districts which lie nearest to China, only a few Mongols can talk Chinese, those few being the men who have had frequent occasion to cross the frontier and do business among the Chinese. In none of the Prince's residences or yamêns are there as yet any Chinese-speaking Mongols; there are no Chinese officials in the country who could help the Chinese-speaking traveller, nor do the lamas speak anything but Mongol. There will be of course exceptions in this last case, but in none of the many lamaseries which I visited were these exceptions to be found.\n\n## Religion\n\nThe religion of the country is Lamaism; the Chinese settlers have, however, maintained their own; in the south of the Kingdom of Ottok there are 7,000 Christians (Roman Catholics), Chinese and Mongol, round the districts of Hsiao chiao and Borobalgasson. In the north-east, in the Kingdom of Talat, there are also some Roman Catholic converts, probably a few hundred, round Hsiao noor and Ta noor.\n\nTwo-thirds of the male Mongol population are herded into the huge lamaseries which are scattered over the country. These institutions are nests of ignorance and vice, into which the children who are to become lamas are thrown at a very early age. It has been suggested that one of the reforms which the Chinese Government wishes to introduce into Mongolia is a modification of the lama system, so that the children may be taught something in the lamaseries, instead of spending all their time in saying prayers which are practically unintelligible to them. Personally, I do not believe in such benevolence of thought on the part of the Chinese Government, and I am convinced that, even if they held it, they would find the task of carrying it out entirely beyond their powers. It has hitherto been supposed that the Chinese Government viewed these institutions with approval, as the lamas being vowed to celibacy and also forbidden to fight, the Mongols need no longer be feared as a fighting force, and could be viewed with equanimity as a decreasing instead of an increasing race. If the Chinese Government ever really bothered to hold a view of Lamaism at all, I think it very likely that this was the view held, and it is unlikely that any change has come over their minds in the matter.\n\n## Climate\n\nThe best season of the year to travel in the Ordos is the late spring and early summer (May and June) or not until the autumn. Though little snow falls in the winter this season is exceedingly severe as may be judged from the fact that the swift flowing Yellow River freezes. Through April and also part of May daily sandstorms may be expected. I know of nothing more disagreeable than travelling in these storms. Nearly always coming from the north-westerly direction they would start about 9 A.M. and increase in ferocity till 3 P.M. when they would gradually subside until by sunset all would be still and clear. While the storm lasts travelling is miserable for man and beast. Sand and stone penetrate everywhere and are swept with force into eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. The traveller is tempted to halt directly the storm begins, but he may be absolutely certain that it will be the same on the morrow. As a change from dust we had a violent snowstorm on the last day of April but this was the last kick of winter. Rain is unusual. We had one rainstorm lasting an hour and a-half following thunder and great heat on the 15th May but with the exception of this we only had half a dozen drops on a few other occasions, most of them in June. The country becomes terribly hot in summer and travelling by day then is exceedingly difficult. Of late years it appears that the summer rains have failed and the country is in consequence becoming gradually drier. The once fertile land to which Chinese penetrated no longer yields the crops it formerly did and the colonists talk gloomily of being obliged to leave.\n\n19 \n## Page 124",
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        "content_text": "# Errors in existing Maps\n\nMost maps in existence limit the number of places in the Ordos of which they show the position to the seats of Government of the tribes nearest to the Great Wall; some include Hangkin on their list. While at one time the positions assigned to these places were doubtless correct, time has brought about a change in some of them, a change to which all are liable for the Prince of the tribe may at any time see fit to move his seat to a more suitable spot where there is better water or pasturage; or else some bad luck may come to his house and the lamas may advise him to build elsewhere. Thus all readings of the maps as regards these places should be accepted with caution. The position of Wushin, for instance, is wholly different now to what it was ten years ago. The Prince now resides two days' journey (50 miles) to the south of where he is indicated on the map as living. Again, the Prince of Hangkin is indicated on the German maps as living close to the south-east end of Dabassun Noor where as he now lives (whatever he once did) several days' journey from the lake in a west-south-westerly direction. But perhaps the strangest map error of all is in the position of Salatsi ting which is indicated as lying about 30 miles south-west of Kweihuacheng and off the main road to Bautu. Bautu is rightly placed at 90 miles distant from Kweihuacheng. The maps which mark Salatsi ting to the south will indicate Chagenkuren as a small place on the road 20 miles east of Bautu and 60 miles west of Kweihuacheng. Now Salatsi is the Chinese and Chagenkuren the Mongol name for one and the same place. It seems impossible to understand how such a vast error in distance arose and why it has been allowed to remain uncorrected for so long.\n\nApril 27—Leaving Anental to the west over low hillocks of sand piled up by countless years of winds we soon turned south-west away from the river, ascending gradually into the heart of the Ordos. No houses anywhere to be seen and no traffic. A Tai lu or official track is supposed to run in a south-westerly direction through the princedoms, but the difficulty of keeping on it is enormous owing to the number of side tracks crossing it. The country is covered with hillocks of drift-sand covered with scrub and among these antelope were browsing heedless of our caravan. Travelling would be extremely difficult for anything except camels. The country is so broken by sand-ridges and hillocks that a caravan can move along the tracks without being seen from a distance. Early in the afternoon we stopped at a small Mongol settlement of two houses known as Koturbala; here there is a good well, a necessary thing in a country where water can only be obtained by digging, a difficult process in view of the amount of drift sand.\n\nThe track was especially difficult just now because of the recent number of dust storms which had obliterated the tracks and made it hard to find the right road.\n\nThe Mongol dogs are as fierce in the Ordos as elsewhere in Mongolia; my retinue fortunately saved me from one today. Koturbala was a comfortable rest house after a dead calf had been ejected from the best room.\n\nWe picked up here a Mongol who spoke Chinese fluently and who consented to accompany us as far as Ninghsia for the sum of 10 taels (30s.).\n\nApril 28.—As payment for her hospitality the old lady here snipped off some camel's hair. She said she took toll of every passing caravan in the same way. Excellent sport is obtainable by walking some 200 yards from the convoy and parallel with it. Care has to be exercised lest one lose the convoy as the track twists and bends and one may imagine oneself to be keeping parallel with them and yet be far from doing so. Once lost it would be an extremely difficult matter to extricate oneself for one meets no one; at the same time there is always the danger of lighting on a cabin among the hills and of finding oneself attacked by several dogs who do not hesitate to spring at the traveller's throat. Even close to the convoy the utmost strategy has sometimes to be used to extricate oneself from an attack by dogs.\n\nAfter travelling three hours we reach the few lonely cabins which form the settlement of Bourdan, situated on a strip of land some few hundred yards wide and 1/2 a mile long, more fertile than the surrounding country.\n\nAn hour later we descended into a depression at the bottom of which trickled a little water an inch or so in depth and some 25 yards broad. This stream which flows north into the Yellow River is known as the Er khe gol. The banks are sandy and precipitous and must be 30 feet high. An hour later we reached the residence of the Djungar Prince. The first thing one sees is a mud-walled enclosure, each wall 200 yards long much broken down in places and against which a good deal of sand has drifted. This encloses an encampment surrounded by a low wall. This is the Prince's residence.\n\nThe encampment lies north and south. Outside the entrance at the south end is a temple in front of which are a number of poles with many prayer flags strung between them. There are prayer flags on all the walls and on many of the trees in the Prince's garden.\n\nThe Prince is a man of 60. He never leaves his house, except to go once in three years by cart to Peking. His duties are to keep the district in order and to administer justice; for this purpose there is a Yamen attached to the residence. The Prince is said to receive 500 taels of silver a-year and 100 bags of rice from the Chinese Government. As he has no taxes to pay and no soldiers to maintain the position cannot be a difficult one.\n\nThe few cabins round the encampment grow potatoes, wheat, millet, and kaoliang. The encampment is, however, wholly Mongol, nor has the Prince a Chinese wife. A few of the population speak Chinese, but there is no compulsion to learn it.\n\nDuring the afternoon we passed three small tricklets of water, at the last of which we halted for the night in a Mongol house known as Wotodiassho.\n\nApril 29—We crossed several small streams flowing northwards, and occasionally a Mongol cabin, either in the vicinity of the streams or of a marshy piece of ground. After three and a-half hours we halted at a small Chinese Settlement called Ba ha ra se ho.\n\nThe Chinese families here pay a small land tax to the Mongol owners. A farm labourer told me his wages were one tael (3s.) a-month, of which 20 cents (one-ninth) went to buy opium.\n\nTwo hours later we halted at Hungehow (Red Temple) for the night, a small Chinese village overlooking a stream of the same name which flows north. We had deviated a good deal from the right road, our guide wishing to take us to Ninghsia by the more direct route across the centre of the Ordos. There is a miserable inn at Hungchow.\n\nApril 30.—We passed occasional Chinese cabins: their inhabitants are said to be under the authority of the local Prince for petty offences. A hurricane came on in the late afternoon, followed by a dust-storm which changed to heavy snow. We just reached the shelter of a solitary Mongol house, called Sadungapu, in time.\n\nMay 1.—Deep snow lay everywhere; we could not start till late as the camels had to be unfrozen, they had been obliged to remain in the open all night, there had been also great mortality among the lambs and kids. The snow, however, melted during the day, but while it lay the track was exceedingly difficult to find. We stopped the night at a Chinese Settlement, called Hurutu, situated on the side of a ravine, the cabins being for the most part cave-dwellings.\n\nMay 2—The day saw a renewal of the terrible dust-storms we had experienced between Kweihuacheng and the Yellow River. From 9 AM to 5 PM it was impossible to see more than a few yards ahead, while the force of the wind raised not only dust but even pebbles, and hurled them against us. A caravan winding its way over the treeless downs with no sheltering hills is fully exposed to such storms. During the day we crossed a number of dry river-beds, each several hundred yards wide; these show that the country was once well watered. The country is extremely broken into deep nullahs and gullies, round the heads of which the track has to wind. The dry river-beds are, however, composed of firm sand or fine gravel; there are no rocks or boulders. We halted at a small Chinese Settlement called Hodatogol. One of the natives here is an example of thrift: he owns many flocks and herds, his expenses per annum are literally nil apart from his land tax to the Mongols. He lives on his fields and his flocks, and sells the skins of the latter to the native dealers, who come from Ninghsia at fixed times in the year.\n\nMay 3—The day was worse than yesterday for dust, and we got hopelessly out of our road, thanks to it, and had to halt early at a solitary house known as Shihpakotu for the night. It did not increase one's pleasure to learn later in the day that there was a child ill of small-pox in the farm.\n\nMay 4—We had to turn south to get straight again, and passed through quite a belt of cultivation, a large amount of land being under the plough, the inhabitants being of course Chinese. During the morning we crossed the dry Ulan Muran. In the afternoon we reached a different country altogether, the hills being of red sandstone, and both they and the valleys covered with a low scrub. We halted at the Mongol farm of Chaganboshoo.\n\nMay 5.—Three hours marching brought us to the residence of the Prince of Wang, round which farms are rather more plentiful than they had been for some days. The encampment resembled that of the Prince of Djungar, only that there were no outer walls to it. The Prince himself was away on a pilgrimage to the Wutaishan with a large retinue.",
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        "content_text": "# 128 \n## 26 \n\nMongol farm of the same name half a mile on the other side. The inhabitants of these farms are chiefly women, for most of the males are herded in the lamaseries.\n\nMay 14-After three hours we passed a large farm called Kia ker chi ho, a well-to-do place; here a Mongol with the rank of Colonel, and with the decoration of the Red Button, lives; it is his duty to recruit Mongols for the Chinese Army; he is said to have little or no success.\n\nThe country now took an entirely new aspect; instead of being covered with sand-drifts, the ground is smooth turf with occasional shrubs, never more than a few inches high. During the afternoon we passed some Mongol farms known as Tabo tuluhe, where there was a good well close to the track, and round which a group of nine Chinese—blacksmiths and carpenters, en route from Yulinfu to the West to find work—were resting. The plain, and especially a huge tract of land forming a lakebed and white with salt, was covered with tufts of the spikey grass which the camels eat so greedily. Towards nightfall we began to look for a house to lodge in, but, finding none, retreated to the hills to the left, where we came across a lad who showed us where water was obtainable. Here we pitched our tents.\n\nMay 15-Keeping along the sandy high road to Ninghsia we came to a Mongol farm late in the morning. Here we learnt that Borobalgasson lay considerably to the south. We therefore took on an extra guide, who said he would take us there by nightfall for the sum of 1 tael (3s.). We therefore left the Ninghsia road and turned due south across country, passing numerous well-to-do Mongol farms en route. The country had the appearance of a vast plain, but was in reality a succession of low hillocks and sand-drifts. Heavy rain and thunder coming on we halted for the night at the large farm of Bong huang ga dun.\n\nMay 16.-Four hours' marching brought us to Borobalgasson, where we found a lodging with the kindly Roman Catholic priest.\n\n## Its \n\nBorobalgasson—the \"Grey Town\" of Hue—was first a Chinese and later a Mongol town of some importance. This latter was destroyed in the thirteenth century. ruins lie about a mile away from the mission; they consist of only the fortifications, but as the Mongols did not surround their encampments with walls, these show that the town was probably an early Chinese one. They are after the usual Chinese pattern, and now of course entirely grass-grown. There were entrances on the four sides, and on the west side outside the wall lay a broad ditch. A thinner outer fortification wall can be traced between the ditch and the main wall on this side; possibly there was another water protection between these two walls. There are no ruins inside the fortifications except of the Catholic mission station which was destroyed by Boxer violence in 1900.\n\nBorobalgasson is now merely the name of a district in the Province of Ottok. The mission may be said to form the centre of this district. Round it are scattered numerous Mongol farms, many hidden away among the sand hills. The inhabitants of these farms are Christians. There are several other chapels under the charge of European priests in the neighbourhood, and they appear to have no rivals in the shape of Lama temples.\n\nThe central mission station at Borobalgasson is protected against animals by mud walls some 300 yards by 150; they are in no sense fortifications, nor are any arms stored there. In the event of future trouble the missionaries would retreat, as in 1900, on Hsiao Chiao pan, 23 miles to the south.\n\nThe various priests have more work to do in winter than in summer, as in the former season the inhabitants are able to attend schools while in the latter these are busy cultivating their land or watching their herds. The priests speak excellent and fluent Mongol; they consider Kweihuacheng ten days' distance from Balgasson, and send their mail matter that way by means of their own courier once a month. They receive regular news of the outer world in the same way.\n\nBorobalgasson is of importance still as being on the high road to Ninghsiafu and also to the residence of the Prince of Ottok—both places being five days' distance away. Flour and sugar can be purchased at a kind of shop here.\n\nMay 17.-Attendance at mass being obligatory, hundreds of Mongols flocked toward the mission to-day on ponies or on camels. They prayed noisily but fervently.\n\nLeaving in an east-south-easterly direction along the grass-clad plain, dotted with many Mongol farms, chiefly Christian, as was to be seen by the absence of prayer flags and shrines outside the buildings, we turned south-east two hours later across high sandhills of the most disagreeable type. We were five hours crossing this belt of sand, on which no vegetation grows whatever. The terrible heat of the noonday sun nearly proved fatal to some of the caravan.\n\n## 27 \n\nSuddenly the sand-hills ceased, and we emerged on to good land with a few willow and poplar trees dotted about, and a number of farms.\n\nThough we were still in the Ordos territory all signs of Mongols ceased, for the Chinese have pushed these north of the belt of sand and have taken possession of the rich land between this and the Great Wall, the southern boundary of the Ordos.\n\nThe dangers to which travellers in the sandhills are exposed are very real. The sandstorm of the previous day had obliterated all footsteps; we had therefore to make a fresh track for ourselves. The priest at Balgasson had lent us as guide a man who had come with the mail only the day before. In spite of this we drifted a long way out of the right course, considerably to the anxiety of the guide.\n\nSoon after leaving the sand-hills we reached a deep gully some 200 yards wide and 100 feet deep. This break in the ground occurs quite suddenly and unexpectedly. At the bottom flows a small stream 20 feet wide and a foot deep in a north-east direction to join the Wutingho. This stream is said to be exceedingly difficult to cross after heavy rains.\n\nAscending from the gully we passed a number of cave dwellings, and reaching the plain again continued over level well-cultivated ground and arrived at the small but strongly fortified Catholic mission station of Hsiao Chiao Pan.\n\n## The Belgian Roman Catholic Mission in Mongolia.\n\nThis mission is divided into the two portions, each being under the charge of a Bishop, of Eastern and Western Mongolia. Its efforts to spread Christianity embrace Mongols and Chinese alike, and have been successful to the tune of several tens of thousands in all. The two sees meet at Kweihuacheng, that of Western Mongolia being of later date than that of Eastern Mongolia. Ney Elias visiting the latter in 1872 wrote \"the territory allotted by Rome to the Belgian Mission extends from Kantung near Jehol in the east to the neighbourhood of Kweihuacheng in the west, and consists chiefly of the narrow belt of Mongolia lying immediately outside the Great Wall, where the population is made up almost entirely of Chinese emigrants from the neighbouring provinces of Chih-li and Shansi.” The chief station of this diocese is, I believe, Si ying sze, about 70 miles in a west-north-westerly direction from Kalgan.\n\nThe diocese of Western Mongolia comprises Kansu and the Ordos tribes, and extends as far as Chinese Turkestan, where there are stations at Manas and Kuldja. There are in especial three groups of converted villages (1) to the west of Kweihua-cheng to where the Yellow River bends south; (2) in the kingdom of Alashan, a district on the Yellow River where this stream begins a 200 mile flow eastwards. This district is known as Santauho; (3) in the Ordos country; this district, whose chief centres are Borobalgasson and Hsiao chiao is in the kingdom of Ottok, and lies just north of the Great Wall of China. There are two other stations in the Ordos, somewhat isolated from the others. These are Hsiao Noor and Ta Noor in the north-east corner and close to the Yellow River. These lie in the Kingdom of Talat.\n\nIt is only some thirty years since a beginning was made in the diocese by the establishment of a station at Hsiaochiao, \"Small bridge, hence Kleinbrügge; from here the Mission spread northward to Borobalgasson and Santanho; already they claim some 16,000 converts.\n\nThe present Bishop, Mgr. Bermuyn, is the third in office, the last, Bishop Hamer, being martyred in 1900. The Bishop's official residence is in the district near Kweihuacheng but he is a wandering prelate and rarely spends more than a couple of weeks at any place in his diocese. His Grandeur is on the verge of completing a Franco-Mongol and Mongol-French dictionary, which should be of the greatest value. There are about fifty European priests in the diocese--all Belgian and Flemish. Their number is reinforced annually by four approximately. New arrivals in the field spend the first two years in a kind of seminary in the district west of Kweihuacheng. Here they learn Mongol and Chinese, but chiefly the latter, for the former can easily be picked up later, six months perpetual intercourse with the Mongols sufficing for this. They are also taught Chinese manners and customs for everything is done to avoid breaches of these.\n\nThe mission is entirely apart from other Roman Catholic missions; it subsists on the donations of the faithful at home and complains of being poor, but apart from the fact that all the priests I met lived comfortably, in one district alone two new stations were being created, and churches (with cottages hard by for the future converts) were being erected at a cost of 5,000 taels (£750) a piece; there does not seem, therefore, to be much reason to grumble.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n136 \n\n1 \n\nrises gradually. A branch of the mountains sweeps round towards the south. \n\nThe top of the pass was reached about mile 17, and the descent was as easy as the ascent had been. At mile 23 (from Yoba) the hills became lower and we emerged to open ground at the bleak Chinese hamlet of Kowmensze, where there was a good inn. \n\n## June 1\n\nThe people in the hamlet are in some distress. They rely on the sale of their sheepskins and wool to a foreign firm at Ninghsia, who have not sent their agent here this year as usual. We left in a north-east direction over bleak and stony ground. \n\nWe made a slight halt at noon at the small scattered hamlet of Pingchiapan, once a large village, as the old walls which stand close by show, but most of which is now in ruins. When we continued the march the change in scenery was marvellous, instead of brown all was green and strewn with irises, the wild bean flower, red and yellow gorse and anemones. This lasted until a belt of sand dunes was reached, which in its turn lasted right up to the belt of trees which makes the Ninghsia plain so famous. There is no cultivation nor are there any houses until the tree belt is reached. \n\nPassing the populous Mahommedan village of Schwangchügöl we reached Hsincheng again, and a couple of hours later re-entered Ninghsiafu. \n\n## Strip of Kansu along River north of Ninghsia\n\nThe Ninghsia Government also includes the strip of land lying between the Alashan range and the Yellow River for some 60 miles, this strip of land is at first some 25 miles wide and narrows down to some 2 miles. Formerly belonging to the Kingdom of Alashan it was at one time or another ceded to the Chinese, by whom it is now entirely populated. Its limit to the west is the foot of the range. The country is like that immediately round Ninghsia, well timbered, irrigated and fertile. Opium is as much cultivated as round Ninghsia. The district comprises numerous villages and one large town, Pinglobsien, \n\n## Ninghsia to Schischuisze\n\nLeaving the city by the north gate we kept in a north-north-easterly direction across the plain by an excellent level road, which wound about considerably to avoid the small canals. Sometimes one of these had burst into the main road; to attempt to go through the water was fatal, for the camels stuck deep in the mud up to their bellies, and had to be unloaded before they could be extricated. The country was delightfully timbered, and for the most part under cultivation. At mile 7 the conspicuous north pagoda outside the city walls was half a mile to our left. At mile 11 we passed the small village of Hsiaopanpu, which was followed at mile 14 by the large fortress farm of Wangchiapu. At mile 19 we halted at the large flourishing, mud-walled village of Lichangpu. At mile 24 we reached the district town of Pinglohsien and stopped for the night. Here we had some difficulty in inducing the gateman to open for us. There was another difficulty 200 yards before the gate was reached, for on a stone bridge across a canal a sentry was stationed at night. This man was of so nervous a temperament that he was shooting indiscriminately at anyone he heard approaching on the chance that he might be a robber. \n\nThe town of Pingho has a busy appearance, and seems in a flourishing state, but the inns are poor and the water execrable. \n\n## June 4\n\nOur camels being in an exhausted state the Taotai of Ninghsia had lent us a couple of ponies as well. These were to be changed at Pingho for two fresh ones, and the magistrate was very obliging in the matter. The garrison of Pingho consists of a captain and fifty-five soldiers, but they only do escort work. They have only a few rifles between them, and those of very old pattern. Their uniform is very peculiar and they wear what head dress they like. As many of them at this season of the year choose the flopping straw hat they look very unsoldierlike. My escort were practically in rags and looked more like tramps than soldiers. Their pay is one measure of wheat and 1 tael (3s.) a-month. \n\nOur direction being north we left the town by the north gate. There were a number of sand drifts just outside the walls, but curiously enough there was no other indication of sand, and the country was entirely under cultivation and well-irrigated. \n\nWe halted at the busy straggling village of Hwang si chow to change horses again. Here a Lieutenant and two soldiers, only for escort work, are stationed. The village has good inns, supplies are cheap and plentiful, the water is good and the place wears a prosperous air. The village consists chiefly of one long street about a mile long, through which the high road runs. At the entrance at either end the street is purposely crooked to prevent the passage of evil influences. A great deal of coal dust was on sale in the street; this is brought from the mountains close by and is extremely cheap. The Lieutenant acted in accordance with Chinese custom in order to obtain transport for us and commandeered a large quantity of animals; all the owners, save a couple or so, can then redeem their animals for a few cents, and avoid a longish march thereby. A more iniquitous system of procuring transport can hardly be imagined, but the Chinese are so accustomed to it that complaints seem to be unusual. \n\nTurning at once to the left, on leaving the town (to have kept straight on would have brought us to the banks of the Yellow River at Paofeng, from which place the countless irrigation canals would have prevented us marching in the right direction), we reached the village of Shayinsze, a mile beyond which there is a Roman Catholic mission station. Here we had the Alashan Mountains little more than 2 miles away to our left. The mission compound is unusually small; it is surrounded by a low mud wall, which could only serve as a protection against animals and ordinary thieves. The European priest being absent we continued the march, to halt for the night at a large farm called Chiu errh pa, a mile farther on. We passed two arrangements to-day in connection with the irrigation canals, which were of interest. One was a deep broad canal (at present dry) designed to carry off in time of flood the surplus water, back to the river directly the water reaches a certain height. The other was the measure taken in the opposite case, i.e., to bring the water to the higher lying fields in time of scarcity. A wooden construction 12 feet long and 1 foot broad with a wheel at either end, is placed in the entrance of the dry canal, and water is pushed up this from the full canal, in which one end of the instrument is placed. The rest of the entrance of the dry canal is choked up with earth, on which men sit and turn a handle which sets in motion some twenty paddles, which, revolving round the two wheels, drives the water up the canal. \n\n## June 5\n\nI only learnt to-day that the Lieutenant made some 6s. yesterday over the pony levy. The same system prevails at Peking, where if the Government require 10 carts, 100 are commandeered, and 90 owners redeem their property by paying so much, not to the Government, but to the dishonest Government servants. \n\nThe system is rotten and leads to perpetual abuses. \n\nLittle more than two hours marching over level ground brought us to Schischuisze, on the Yellow River. This name means the crossing of roads, and here the road crosses the river into the principality of Ottok, one of the Ordos tribes. The village looks poor and lifeless. It was evidently once much larger as is proved by numberless ruins, and also by the fact that the gate is now 300 yards from the village, the intervening land being covered with ruins. The inns are good as also is the water, and there is plenty of transport. The village should be thriving, it has plenty of coal in the mountains at its very gates, and lies on the river where there should be plenty of traffic; but being in China, practically no coal is mined nor is there any river traffic of any importance. \n\nIt is at Schischuisze, that boats are obtainable for Bantu. We saw some twenty of these tied to the banks; they are the same as are used for ferry work both here and near Ninghsia. A canvas can be arched over the centre of the boat if necessary. The boatman ask some 60 taels for the journey to Bautu (9l.), but the proper price seems to be between 40 and 60 taels (6l. to 9l.). The journey takes from five to ten days according to the wind. For the return journey the boats are hauled by five or six trackers. The boatmen are almost all Mahommedans, and said to be great robbers, nothing being safe in the neighbourhood of where they spend the night. On the east side the bank rises steeply from the water's edge, the Arbusula Mountains running parallel to the river, and gradually increasing in height from what is at first insignificance. On the west side, the Alashan on the other hand, dwindle from magnificence to nothing. \n\n## The Alashan Yellow River Strip\n\nThis strip lies on the left bank of the river, and extends from Schischuisze to the kingdom of the Orots, that is to say round the bend which the river makes to the east after flowing northwards past Ninghsiatu. On the west this strip is bordered by the Alashan Mountains. At the north end of the range the district becomes considerably broader; it is bounded on the north by the Mountains of Mongolia. Here it is several hundred miles wide, while in the south (i.e., between the Alashan and the river) it is never more than a few miles in width.",
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        "content_text": "56 \n\nThe price of a camel (to hire) for a merchant across Gobi is 18 taels, for a cart- 20 taels.\n\n## Kweihuacheng to Urga\n\n### Mountains of Mongolia. Plateau and Desert Scenery\n\nWe left the inn at Kweihuacheng on the morning of the 27th June. The road is broad and is entirely level at first, but slopes gradually up as the mountains are approached, becoming at the same time more stony. It is much used by traffic. Heavy open waggons were bringing down sacks of wheat and beans, bundles of camels' hair, and goats' hair, wool and skins to the market at Kweihuacheng. The road lay between cultivation the whole way, the chief crops being wheat, millet, kaoliang and Indian corn. A little opium is to be found at each of the numerous villages scattered about the plain, but the ground is too dry for the poppy to grow successfully. This does not prevent the inhabitants of every village from being rabid opium smokers. It is indeed the exception to find anyone who is a non-smoker.\n\nBoth the soldiers whom the taotai insisted on accompanying us as far as the Mongolian frontier are smokers, as also are all the cartmen. Round each village there are fine groves of trees; except for these the plain is bare. At noon we reached the entrance to the pass at a small village. In many respects it resembles the Naukow Pass. Hamlets of mud houses are fairly frequent but all are Chinese, and there is no trace of Mongols, and round these hamlets are the few patches of cultivation which exist.\n\nThe security of the district is supervised by a Chinese police officer, whose duty it is to ride down the pass every day and see that all is in order. I had heard in Kweihuacheng a good deal of talk of brigands on the road, but there seems to have been little foundation for such rumours. Half way up the pass we met the officer riding down escorted by two soldiers. Two hours after entering the pass the road contracts, and leaving the torrent bed, ascends sharply to the left by a stiff climb. The summit is not reached for another hour, and from here onwards the track remains difficult for carts, as after leaving the torrent bed, the road becomes more rocky and so narrow that carts are unable to pass each other except in certain places. On the right is an almost precipitous descent into the glen. At the top of the pass there stands a large well-built cairn surrounded by numerous small obos.\n\nBumping up the pass one specially regrets the invasion of the Chinese and the ousting of the Mongols, for if the latter had remained in possession of the defile, the stones would have been piled into obos and a tolerable road created. From the summit of the pass a superb view can be obtained of the Kweihuacheng plain-there is no view at all to the north. The descent to the north was even more abrupt and steep than the last portion of the ascent had been, and the carts bounded from rock to rock like india-rubber balls. After ten minutes we reached a small mud village, nestling in a valley shaped very much like a basin, and traversed by a narrow rocky dry torrent bed from east to west. Into this the track turned, and for twenty-five minutes we travelled in a westerly direction, the carts every minute threatening to capsize as they leapt from rock to rock. This portion was so narrow that even camels coming up had to wait in certain places to allow the cart to pass. We then joined another narrow valley in which a small stream was trickling from north to south, carrying the drainage of the Mongolian Plateau to the Hoangho. We were in a gently-sloped funnel from which we were to emerge on to the plateau. Twenty minutes later we stopped for the night at one of the miserable hamlets of the mountains.\n\nThese hamlets exist by virtue of the Mongolian traffic, and always possess one inn at least; sometimes, indeed, all the houses are inns. As the animals are the chief beings to be considered, the inns cater for them, and provide the scantiest and most wretched accommodation for human beings. However, if this is bad, one at any rate pays accordingly, and our total bill for one night was 25 cents (5d.), 15 cents (3d.) house hire, and 10 cents for a couple of pigeons (2d.). Straw was unusually cheap, 1 cent a catty, as against 13 in Peking. The following day we continued up the same valley, this being strewn with rocks and boulders, though the hills themselves are free from them. The valley keeps about the same width (100 yards) the whole time. The stream has all flowed due south, and has dwindled to a few pools of water. Numerous mud settlements are passed along the valley, which is curious, as every year the torrent dashes down unexpectedly after heavy rains on the plateau, and whirls the unfortunate inhabitants and their dwellings away.\n\nAs we advance the hills die away to low mounds on either hand, and these in their turn disappear until four and a-half hours after starting the road emerges on to the great plateau, with no hills anywhere in sight, and nothing but gently rolling downs.\n\n57 \n\nThe soil is a brilliant red at first, against which the bright green of the grass shows up in wonderfully effective contrast; this changes during the day to a reddish brown, and then gradually fades to a pale sandy colour. The track, composed of sand and gravel, can be seen for many miles ahead, as it wends its way into the shallow valleys and over the next wave of ground.\n\nEach shallow valley has its own broad shallow water-course, into which the slopes drain, and it is here that are formed those avalanches of water, which prove so often disastrous to the families in the staircase leading up to the plateau. I was amazed at the rapidity with which these dry water-courses became streams and the rate with which even on the plateau they were rushing along, with a roar as of cataracts. Half-an-hour's heavy rain was sufficient to convert one of these into a river 1 feet deep, and after really heavy and prolonged rain the traveller might be delayed by one of them for a day. But while the rapidity at which the water collects is amazing, that with which it falls is no less wonderful, and rivers which were in existence at 3 P.M. had ceased to flow at 6 P.M. and the sands were dry again. While wheat, beans, and oats are the chief crops, the poppy is also grown occasionally, but with little success, the plants I saw looked very sickly and lacked moisture. The first valley after reaching the plateau is a little deeper than those that follow. We rolled rapidly down it, and after crossing a few more ridges reached the last Chinese settlement of Kokoillikung, two hours from the edge of the plateau.\n\nThis, though not a walled city, possesses a north and south gate. The town, whose population is said to be about 400, is built of mud, and the entire absence of trees increases the unattractiveness of its appearance. The shops are poor; they sell the ordinary necessities of life, but no luxuries; cheap pots, porcelain, baskets, iron implements. The most flourishing trade is probably that of the inns. The inn at which we halted was at the same time an opium and gaming den, one of the rooms being given up to those amusements; at the same inn a room served as the registry for the \"development\" of the district, over which a small Chinese official, an underling of the general at Kweihuacheng, was placed. It may be said therefore that opium smoking goes on under the official eye. No proclamations have been issued forbidding it, so everyone smokes with impunity. This was probably one of the reasons for the poverty of the settlement; 150 soldiers of the old pattern are maintained here. They are commanded by quite a small officer. Nearly every shop had a caging of poles outside it, so the governor of the settlement property is probably not considered to be very secure.\n\n### Taxes\n\nTaxes are levied from Kweihuacheng. Each house pays according to its occupation, the inn at which we stayed being taxed at the rate of 25 taels a-year (31. 158.). No one comes to collect the taxes which have to be paid at Kweihuacheng. I asked if the settlement ever increased with the arrival of new colonists, but was informed that the town had reached its limit and that new settlers are sent northwards. As there are remarkably few to the north the number of immigrants must be very small indeed.\n\nLeaving Kokoillikung by the north gate, a choice of three roads which converge at a large obo presents itself. Of these three the centre one is that which should be followed. Half-a-mile later the barracks are passed on the right. Three hours later the last Chinese settlement is reached. Between Kokoillikung and this place settlements are numerous, but poor-looking and bleak. The settlers are said to pay 3 cents a mou of land (360 yards), and have no other taxes of any kind or description. The settlements are close to the road, and cultivation comes right down to this; a certain amount of virgin soil was being dug up. The last Chinese settlement, San yu yuan (or chang), consists of two or three shops which are also inns. These are engaged in the barter trade with the Mongols and ought to do a thriving business, especially as our inn-keeper informed me that the Government only levied a land tax on them and none on houses. A few soldiers are garrisoned here as a protection. They are relieved from time to time from Kokoillikung. A long day's drive of twelve hours on the morrow brought us to the first Tai of the long chain of post stations, which the Chinese Government maintain across the Gobi to the Government centres of their distant dependencies. During the whole day we only passed two settlements, both being Mongol, the first yourts we had seen. At the first station we should have abandoned our carts and taken... \n\n`. [2155 b-1]`",
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        "content_text": "# 64\n\nhas the appearance of having been a lake bed at no great distance of time. Shortly afterwards we crossed the Ebi-he-ho in the same valley. On the slopes of the hill to the left is another Chinese shop. The merchant has been established for five years; he is a Kweihuacheng man and pays a tax of 2 taels a-year. His stock is renewed monthly by cart. The next Tai is Gishunger.\n\n## July 3\n\nAt 9 A.M., we passed the Chagan-tologoi well, but saw no tents until 10:40 when we came across that of a Chinese trader from Kweihuacheng. Halting for the night at Herimoho and continuing on the 4th July, we joined the Kweihuacheng-Uliassutai track at noon and turning north-west reached Bulong two hours later. An hour and a-half before reaching the Uliassutai track we passed within 2 miles of the residence of the Mergen Wang.\n\n## July 5\n\nChanging camels at Sudchi, we came through low rocky hills to Toli, no habitations being visible as usual except at the Tai stations. The population of Toli is increased by the presence of a large lama temple.\n\n## July 6\n\nWe halted at Tugurank to change animals, and slept the night at Gasiun having travelled 39 miles during the day. The Mongol official here tried to squeeze us, evidently dividing the world into people who squeeze and people who may be squeezed. Into the latter category we were placed and resented it accordingly.\n\nA Chinaman from Taiyuanfu (Shansi) had set up his tent here. He was travelling with many carts carrying oil and coal. As his carts were drawn by oxen, his rate of progress was slow.\n\n## July 7\n\nTwenty more miles brought us to the next Tai of Khonshi where there is a large lama temple, and here the heat of the day and the fact that I had experienced a severe fall from a camel obliged us to halt for the night.\n\n## July 8\n\nAn hour after leaving Khonshi we passed over the bright green oasis of Arachuduk where there is a good well and almost an hour later that of Gurcholobuluk. These bright green oases are very welcome to the wearied eyes of the traveller in the Gobi. By noon we had reached the station of Narun a distance of 16 miles. Changing animals here we reached Arbangnaisha in the evening. The last hour's marching was miserable as a thunderstorm accompanied by violent hail, overtook us and we were soaked to the skin in five minutes.\n\n## July 9\n\nKeeping at first through low rocky hills and narrow valleys, the beds of former streams now temporarily revived by a faint trickle, the result of yesterday's storm, we reached Dsalatu soon after noon and Tsubir in the evening.\n\nHalf way between the two Tais we met a Mongol girl riding furiously with despatches. These she handed to one of my men who turned and galloped back to Dsalatu where they would be handed on to someone else. Thus are despatches sent down to Peking day and night without any delay.\n\n## July 10\n\nTwenty miles brought us to Borrbo and another 22 to Kutul.\n\n## July 11\n\nWe reached Sair Üssu at 11:30 A.M., a distance of 15 miles from Kutul. Here the roads to Uliassutai and Urga fork and here lives a small Manchu official who supervises the working of the Tai road. The post is a Manchu one and is conferred on officials in the Li-Fan-Pu (Board of Dependencies): the appointment is for three years and the pay only 180 taels a-year with the following extras: ten bags of rice, each worth 6 taels, and a few sheep to be furnished by each Tai and which are converted into silver. No Ovid exiled to the Black Sea could bewail his fate more than the official here after a residence of only six months. As compensation for the exile the occupant of the post also obtains promotion; for instance, if he comes here an official of the 5th class, he returns an official of the 3rd class. The present official at Sair Ussu is a man over 60 years of age, amiable, courteous, and talkative. The Tai is entirely like any other with the addition of half-a-dozen mud huts and a small well-built dwelling for the official and another for the Government offices. There are no trees or cultivation in sight. The land is merely a desert of gravel sprinkled with thin grass or weeds, and the district well deserves its name \"Gravelly Water.\"\n\nThe Tutung's passport has to be changed here for one issued by the small local official, though it appears that the former holds good for the road to Uliassutai. A vexatious delay occurred in consequence, as my papers had to be sent to the yamên to be copied. A vain attempt was made to persuade the official to lend me a cart, but his was said to be broken.\n\nLeaving in a northern direction we passed a small temple to our left after three-quarters of an hour's march, and reached the first station on the Urga road, Sudchi, after 13 miles.\n\n## July 12\n\nSixteen miles brought us to Solochoi, where water and pasturage seem abundant. Here lives a Chinaman from Kalgan, ostensibly to sell stores but in reality to lend money to the Mongols at the already-mentioned exorbitant rate of interest. One of the ladies here was so friendly that she sold me her quaint silver head-dress. She subsequently formed one of our escort, and was radiant over the transaction.\n\nWe slept the night 16 miles further on—Bayin Bichor, where there is a small lake on the right and a chain of pools with marshy grounds to the left. Pasturage is good, and it was a surprise to see so few yourts here. Another Chinese storekeeper money-lender resides here.\n\n## July 13\n\nA march of 15 miles brought us to Bayin hoshoo, and another 12 miles to Boroburin. Just before reaching the latter a party of six lamas rode past us. They had been sent out by the Bogdo of Urga to stir all lamas up to pray for rain. When we reached camp a dozen lamas were seated in a circle on the grass chanting rain-prayers to Buddha, and performing strange mysteries; this they kept up for several hours.\n\n## July 14\n\nReaching Taurim after four hours we arrived at Moton 15 miles later, passing several small ponds en route. We left again the same evening for the north, and reached the next Tai, Narun, a distance of 20 miles, at midnight. A falling star gave rise to a long religious discussion between one of the lama escort and myself, the lama asserting that every individual had his or her own star, which fell at the individual's decease. The bright stars represented the high personages of the earth. As this was an unusually bright star, it was suggested that it belonged to the Dowager-Empress, and I learnt that the high priests of Buddhism had decreed that on her death she would become a Buddha. It is pleasant to think of her in perfect peace, assisting to dispense rain and sunshine as required.\n\n## July 15\n\nReaching Tole bulak, by the side of a small lake, we pushed on into more hilly but equally bleak country to Enterto. Here we seemed to have left the Gobi entirely behind us, and to have entered the hilly country which extends up to and beyond Urga.\n\n## July 16\n\nCrossing low hills to Chergelent, 14 miles away, we kept steadily northwards, and at 4:50 P.M. reached a small obo at the top of a valley. Here a panoramic view of the mountains immediately round Urga opened itself up to us, and in front lay the Bogdo Ula, the wooded ridge which protects Urga from the south. We slept the night at Amorelent.\n\n## July 17\n\nA 12-mile ride brought us to Baisegelent. Here we found a Shansi Chinaman money-lender, whose head-quarters are at Urga, where he keeps a small shop. He was touring the country collecting debts. At an obo at the top of a pass, between Baisegelent and the next Tai, we caught sight of the Holy city of Urga. Descending from the pass into the rich pasture lands of the river, we changed animals at Sonsegelent, and, after witnessing some curious races round a local course, continued eastwards, and having forded the Tola, entered Urga.\n\nYourts were scattered about in great numbers, and quantities of sheep and goats were feeding everywhere. Hundreds of red or yellow clad lamas were riding about, all with a sleek well-cared-for appearance, and looking as if their purses were as well filled as their stomachs, while numbers of smartly dressed, extremely well-to-do ladies were riding along in groups of two and three without any male escort, each wearing the curious head-dress peculiar to the Khalka Mongols.\n\n### Error in Maps between Kweihuacheng and Urga\n\nAll the German maps that I have seen mark the Peking to Urga line of telegraph posts as running alongside the Tai track by which I travelled (from Bulong to Urga). This is entirely erroneous, as the line runs very considerably to the east of this track, and more direct.\n\n### Ordos and Gobi: a Contrast of Deserts\n\nIt may be of interest to note briefly the points in the Ordos and Gobi deserts, which resemble each other, and to remark on those wherein they differ. By the Gobi I mean that portion where I crossed it between Kweihuacheng and Urga, though the description which applies to this will also apply to a vast stretch on either side of this line of march.\n\nOf the two, the Ordos has by far the greater appearance of a desert. No matter at what point the traveller enters the district, he cannot but be struck by this fact. This is without doubt due to the large stretches of yellow sandy hillocks which meet the eye, either entirely devoid of vegetation, or on to which a low scrub has attached itself, frequently with some profusion, but never sufficiently so to conceal the yellow sand drift which forms the foundation of the mound. 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        "content_text": "150 \n\n70 \n\nand so the inhabitants, not only of Northern Mongolia, but also of the whole territories of the Princes, i.e., right down to the Chinese line, would look to Russia as the predominant power.\n\nThe above report had been sketched out previous to crossing the Altaishan: I have therefore considered it best to let it stand, and merely to add this supplementary but important information regarding a new colony, which has been founded by the Chinese Government in pursuance of their policy of the development of their distant dependencies by Chinese. The settlement of Altaishan, Sharasumé, or Cheng-hwa-ssu, lies on the southern slopes of the Altai range, some 190 miles west of Kobdo, 60 north of Buluntogoi, 6 days east of Zaisan post (in Russian territory), 19 north north-west of Manas and Guchen respectively, and 15 north-east of Chuguchak. Two years ago no buildings existed here, except that of a ruined Lama temple (Shara sumé, i.e., Yellow Temple). A number of Hassacks and Turkis inhabited the district with their nomad tents and herds. Hither came a Manchu officer dispatched by the Central Government, took up his abode in the ruined temple, housed his staff and soldiers in tents, and began the work of the construction of a settlement. This work has been going on steadily since, so that now the yamên is a respectable building, there are numerous low houses for the staff and soldiers (all of mud and wood) and a small town has been built, though it only consists, as yet, of two streets at right angles. Merchants have been begged to come, some eight or ten have responded, these being branches of Peking and Tien-tsin shops, and a fair number of Turkis have also arrived. The merchants have their shops and ground free; the former they find ready for occupation, for the building goes on ceaselessly, and the number of empty houses is considerable. The garrison numbers 1,000 men, 600 Mongols, and 400 Chinese, who are also carpenters, bricklayers, tailors, &c. Six German guns arrived in September. The colony is eventually to be established on the plain 30 miles to the south, and is only here provisionally. The present site was selected because of the few buildings already in existence. It is three-quarters of a mile from the Kilingho river, and is situated on rising ground among low hills, which lie in their turn among the mountains. A small canal brings water from the stream winding round and among the hillocks.\n\nA study of this colony shows that the Chinese Government are in earnest as regards their policy.\n\nIn connection with this, extracts from my diary under a later section will interest.\n\nUrga.\n\nThe first signs that the traveller approaching Urga from Sair Ussu is nearing his goal may be seen in the change of scenery two days to the south. Here the plains and gently rolling downs which have characterized the Gobi become transformed into narrow valleys and low hills over which the track climbs by numerous little passes, usually very abrupt. Most of the valleys have pools of water or marshy ground in them, and the pasturage is exceedingly good. On this a large nomad population lives. Possibly the proximity of the sacred town of Urga has something to do with the increase in the number of yourts. On reaching a cairn on the summit of a small pass some half-way between the third and fourth post-stations from Urga the Bogdo Ula become visible. It is with some pleasure that one sights its wooded heights, for it must not be supposed that the change in scenery has brought with it any change as regards trees, and the valleys and hills are just as devoid of these as ever the Gobi was. One is also led to hope that there will be an end of this treeless state, but herein one is disappointed, for although there is an enormous amount of timber on the mountains north of Urga there is not a single tree visible from the city in or around Urga except on the Bogdo Ula. Having sighted the ridge the track bends slightly to the north-west to get round its flank, and for the last 12 miles runs due east. The sacred town itself is visible from a point 8 miles to the west, where the road crosses a small spur of the range to descend into the Tola valley. At this point there are two obos, unusually fanatically decorated with prayer flags and bones. From here onwards Urga is constantly in sight, and the path runs first over ground gently sloping down to the river, then along the river itself, finally crossing the stream and a number of backwaters and creeks, and reaching the town over a plain 1 mile broad.\n\nThe Tola flows down the valley from east to west under shelter of the Bogdo Ula. The day we first forded it (for there is no bridge) it was split up into numerous channels, which embraced several stretches of good pastureland to which cattle had managed to reach. The main stream at that time was about 200 yards wide and 2 feet deep with a swift current.\n\n71\n\nThe ford is somewhat peculiar. About 100 yards across a course upstream to the north-east has to be taken; sheep and goats are towed across, and have to swim for their lives; they reach the opposite shore in a most exhausted and lamentable plight. Except where the stream passes immediately under the shadow of the Bogdo Ula the banks are flat. The second time we crossed the river—nine days later—circumstances had entirely changed. Very severe rains had fallen in the meantime, and for most of these days the river had been unfordable. As there is no boat or ferry on the river communication with the south was temporarily suspended. The day before we attempted to cross it had been entirely clear until evening, when such violent rain ensued for two hours that it seemed that the hope of crossing in the morning would have to be abandoned. However, the river, which before the previous day's rain had been reported to be in no better state, took a turn for the better during the night in spite of the rain, and we found a native resident on the banks who was willing to risk a crossing. As in all the creeks and backwaters the water had been up to the ponies' chests it was rather anxious work, the stream being considerably broader than usual, and as the water was swirling down at a great pace. The heavily-laden camels had great difficulty in keeping their footing—fortunately the bed is stony and not mud or sand—and my small cart was entirely submerged. The crossing was an anxious piece of work which we were glad to see finished.\n\nUrga or Kuren or Da Khure, the God Lama's encampment, can only be described as a vast camp. The oldest portion is that which lies on rising ground above the river bed. This portion, however, has overflowed to the east into the broad bed, dry except in the rainy season, of a mountain stream which unites with the Tola. This lower portion is known as Gandan. At the eastern extremity of this district is the Amban's residence and, 300 yards to the north-east of this, the barracks. A mile further to the east, past ground little built on, brings the traveller to the Russian Consulate, post-office, &c.; after another couple of hundred yards the Russo-Chinese Bank is reached, and a mile further on the most easterly point of all, the original Chinese trade borough, \"Maima-chin,\" where is the Chinese telegraph station. A good road, but stony, connects all these places, passing over numerous well-kept wooden bridges spanning the numerous mountain torrent beds.\n\nThe need of these bridges was very apparent during our stay in Urga, as each bed was transformed into a raging torrent, some only for a short space of time, others for several days. The heavy rain, unfortunately, had little effect in improving the state of the narrow lanes and paths which serve as streets in Urga, the filth of which it is quite impossible to describe. The only attempt at sanitation seems to be in Maimachin, where the streets are better kept.\n\nThe chief centre of trade seems now to be Gandan, where the market-place is, and round which are the Russian and Chinese shops—for the day is passed when the Chinese were confined to Maimachin to trade. The only Chinese inn to be found, a miserable place, was also in Gandan, and the market-place is daily the centre of bustling activity. One end of it is reserved for the pony market, and another holds the booths where nothing but Mongol boots are sold. These are of Russian leather, and are made locally. The ladies who sell Mongol hats have reserved another corner for themselves, while everywhere booths are scattered about at which such cheap things are displayed as may tempt the Mongols' fancy. These things are chiefly those that glitter, bright metal match boxes, cheap gaudy rings, &c. Even when the usually dry torrent bed had become a raging stream, a number of booths still managed to retain their position. All the Chinese shops seem to sell everything from cheap snuff boxes, good silk and cloth, Chinese shoes, and blue enamel ware, to really good skins, such as sable and fox. The prices for everything are as varied as the number of goods sold. Everything depends on who the purchaser is, how great his need, and also how trade is going, and whether the article is in demand or not. If not, then some of the stock must be got rid of at no matter what price. Sometimes the merchant can get ten times the usual price for any article. A young lama comes in to buy a snuff bottle on behalf of a big lama, who wants to make a present at once. The bottle must be bought at no matter what price. So up this mounts till it cannot recognize itself. The merchants are chiefly men from Shansi or Peking. Some I was told few I met had been established at Urga for more than twenty-five years. that no Chinese who is a bad character can settle in the town.\n\nThis means that some one has to guarantee every new arrival. Formerly, merchants could make several thousands of taels a-year, but those good days are gone, and trade is now very bad. Sometimes shops have to be closed, and the firms recross the Gobi. The land belongs to the Mongols, and if anyone wants to buy land on which to erect a shop, he has to apply to the Mongol Amban. Most new comers, however, rent them.",
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        "content_text": "# August 7\nA long march of 20 miles brought us to Hattat camp. While lunching here, a couple of Chinese men came into my tent. They were convoying 100 ponies from Ili to Peking for Imperial use. It is interesting to note that they take the northern and longer route instead of the southern one by Urumtsi, Lanchow, &c., to Peking. This is because of the abundance of grass in Mongolia, and to allow the animals plenty of time to get fat en route; they only do one stage (20 miles roughly) a day. They will have taken five months to do the journey by the time they reach Peking. The whole party consists of twenty Chinamen, of whom two are small officers. They have a large number of sacks of fodder for the ponies, and require as many as thirty camels per stage for the transport of these. One of the men was a Manchu Solon from Ili, and he gave some very useful information respecting the roads. He reported that all was quiet in the Hsincheng Province. He was very anxious to buy my camera, then my watch, and lastly my aneroid; and my servant told him with great hauteur that I was not a merchant, but a very big man, so I had to comfort him by saying he would be able to buy the same things, only better, in Tientsin!\n\nWe slept the night at Haranudyn, 24 miles further on, on the shores of a small circular lake which is rapidly diminishing. We passed the Ili ponies en route; they looked a wretched lot. Of the 100, the Emperor takes 20, the officials 40, and friends the rest—a very convenient arrangement for the friends, who get their ponies cheap and pay no entry tax.\n\n# August 8\nEntering the mountains 14 miles after breaking camp, we kept up the small stream which feeds the Haranudyn lake and reached Korude at mile 12. The mountains are steep and rugged, with smooth turf on the lower slopes. We entered the territory of the Saunoin tribe to-day, the Chief's encampment lying a day or two to the north of Korude camp. The weather was bad to-day, and a mountain mist clung to us for many hours. All the natives turned out in long, red, blanket cloaks, of Russian make. They are most useful garments; they are said to cost 17 dollars (34s.).\n\nContinuing up the Korude valley, we descended into another valley, with smooth, grassy slopes on either side leading up to crags. On reaching the bottom of the valley, we crossed it to Tatz camp, a distance of only 6 miles from Korude. The valleys from now on are full of rich grass, on which many herds feed. They are well watered and sheltered, and support a fairly large population. They would make excellent farm lands. In the Tatz Tai valley, there lives a Chinese trader of the usual type.\n\nAscending from the camp in a north-westerly direction over grassy slopes, we descended into another valley, that of the River Tatz, a shallow but rapid little stream some 20 yards broad. Climbing out of this valley, we descended into another one and camped for the night at Hottuk, a distance of 14 miles from Tatz Tai. Another Chinese trader lives here. Between Tatz Tai and Tatz river, the mountains begin to be really grand.\n\n# August 9\nA 26-mile march brought us to Sharagolcho, where there is a small stream in which there was little water. The valley was, however, bright with grass, yourts were more numerous than usual, and the number of cattle unusually great. Here we saw herds of yak for the first time.\n\nCrossing the small stream, we came over some low mountains into the Tui valley, and halted at a camp of the same name after a march of some 10 miles. The Tui flows down swiftly over a stony bed in a series of channels, two of which are at least 15 yards broad and 8 inches deep. It receives many mountain torrents in its course from north to south, among them the Sharagolcho, and, becoming a small river, flows into the Gobi, where it forms a small lake.\n\nAmong other wild flowers of the district, the purple thistle grows in some profusion. I am told the Mongols use the leaf of this as tinder, but this lacks confirmation.\n\n# August 10\nA march of 19 miles brought us into the valley of the Ortagol and to the Tai of Ortaharata, and another 3 miles to the valley and Tai of Ologoi; the stream is rapid, and though only 6 to 9 inches deep is 15 to 20 yards broad. It joins the Ut... At Ologoi, there is a Russian-speaking Mongol, who must be of real use to the Russian traders who come as far south as this to buy wool and skins. He greeted me warmly, and refused to believe that I was not Russian and could not understand his language. As I was neither Chinese nor Mongol, I must, of course, be Russian. He became rather offensive and had to be turned out of my camp.\n\n# August 11\nWe reached Ut camp on the Utain Gol at mile 10; the stream flows rapidly over a stony bed; it is 24 feet deep, 30 to 40 yards wide, and is difficult to ford. It is probably joined further south by the Ologoi, instead of the latter stream flowing southwards to form a lake for itself in the Gobi (as Russian maps mark it).\n\nCrossing another channel of the Ut, we dropped over the mountains to a largish lake at mile 7; half a mile later, at the bottom of the valley, a caravan track crossed ours at right angles; this track runs to Urga across the heart of the Khangai range. Climbing out of the valley, we dropped into that of the Baiderik, and reached the camp of the same name at mile 19 on the further side of the stream. The Baiderik was very full, the result of summer rains, and the crossing was a little perilous for a low cart. There were two main channels and several smaller ones. Of the two chief channels, one was 40, the other 70 yards wide; the water, some 2½ feet deep, was swirling down at a great pace over a stony bed. When joined by its tributaries, the Ut, Djak, and other mountain streams, it must present a formidable appearance where it issues from the mountains onto the desert. It forms a lake in the Gobi, and is the most serious of all these streams which flow southwards from the Khangai Mountains. A waterman is in attendance on the banks to pilot caravans across the stream, and his services are very necessary.\n\n# August 12\nWe reached the camp of Djak 9 miles from Baiderik. A Russian trader has a small store here; he came across the river to inspect me, and asked a number of inquisitive questions from the Mongols concerning myself and my camel loads. A Chinese caravan was in camp at the same time from Tarbagatai, convoyed by a small official in charge of 400 ponies for Government use.\n\nAscending from the Djak valley, we crossed the ridge which parts the waters, which flow southwards and lose themselves in the thirsty Gobi, from those which flow northwards to form the large lakes of North-Western Mongolia, and descended into the valley of the Chobolgol, one of the headwaters of the Jabkon river. We reached Chobol camp at mile 14, crossing the stream just before doing so. The stony bed is some 100 yards wide, and there are a couple of channels each 20 yards broad, with perhaps a foot of water in each. At Chobol, we came in contact with another detachment of the Tarbagatai ponies.\n\n# August 13\nKeeping down the valley of the Chobol stream for 15 miles, we reached the camp of Bombom. We passed two mobs of ponies en route for Peking. One lot consisted of 100 or more, the customary tribute to the Emperor. The other lot amounted to 1,500 going to Chih-li for army purposes. Keeping down the same valley, the stream taking a different name according to the settlements passed, we reached Ubur Chergelent after another 18 miles.\n\n# August 14\nWe continued down the valley. Dr. Gatrell wrote in 1902: \"Here I could see no trace of (at Ubur Chergelent) the road to Uliassutai bifurcates.\" Gatrell's track over the mountains to the north-west, but at mile 1 from camp, a broad mountain torrent was bringing down a great volume of water to join the river of the valley, and this may have been Gatrell's route as it is probably dry except after heavy rains. The only other possibility was at mile 3 when a smaller torrent was coming down from the north-west, but this latter seems too far from Ubur Chergelent camp. We reached Arachergelent at mile 15. Some thirty-six ox carts were coming along bringing stores from a Chinese shop at Urga to one at Uliassutai. These carts, which cannot come over the mountains but have to come round by the desert and Sair Ussu, are taking fifty-five days to do the journey.\n\nContinuing down the river as far as its confluence with the Buyuntugol, we covered a distance of 8 miles over easy ground. At the meeting of the two streams, we turned north-west and kept up the valley of the Buyuntugol in a northerly direction for another 6 miles, and fording the river reached the camp of Hochertu. The other stream is known here as the Sharoshagol, and the two combined form the Jabkon. Where they meet, there is a good deal of difficult marshy ground.\n\nWe forded the Buyantugol at what might be called its summer height; it was 200 yards broad with small patches of sand here and there so thinly covered with water that they were almost islands. The greatest depth was a little over 2 feet, but a winding course has to be followed, and the services of a waterman are necessary to show the ford.\n\nA Russian trader is established at this Tai. He was extremely inquisitive and rode by the side of my cart for some distance closely inspecting all the contents (rifle, guns, &c.), and only left me at the camp after telling a Mongol to find out all about me. This trader only comes here in the summer for wool and hair, which he washes in the stream, for which purpose he has erected wooden sheds. He gives no money for the wool and hair but barters tea and Russian goods.\n\nWe bought some Mongol mushrooms here; they grow plentifully in the neighbourhood. They were as dirty in appearance as the English fungus but are eaten readily by the Mongols, who send them also to market at Peking, where they are considered delicacies. In the capital, they cost 24 taels a catty; here we bought two catties...",
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        "content_text": "## Page 112\n\nand there were literally tens of thousands of ponies, cattle, sheep, and goats feeding on it. The day was clear and cloudless with a light westerly breeze, and we descended to find wild flowers, including roses, still in bloom, and butterflies flitting about everywhere. It was still summer, and very pleasant after the cold of the mountains.\n\nIn the Russian territory which we traversed the Hassacks pay taxes to a Hassack official who visits them twice a year for the purpose. He takes more from the rich than from the poor, and the district is evidently assessed at so much. He takes money or skins or animals.\n\nSeptember 27. - Keeping in a south-westerly direction we proceeded over the plain, and at mile 7 passed some Chinese mud-built farms, where is the Government Tai of Emilgol. Here we struck the Emil River and kept down it for the rest of the day, first on one side and then on the other. At mile 94 the road forked, the right branch going due west, and keeping near the Tarbagatai range. Both roads are equally good and both lead to Chuguchak, but the one on the north is said to be a day nearer. We took the other one as there were more inhabitants en route.\n\nFrom now on there were occasional Chinese farms dotted about, bare, bleak, treeless, uncomfortable-looking places, but each with a good deal of land under wheat cultivation, the crops being now under the process of gathering and winnowing, and also patches of cabbages and other vegetables and even tobacco; though the small streams from the hills are diverted to irrigate the fields, none of the little canals are more than a few inches deep.\n\nAt mile 11 we halted at a Chinese farm to avoid the great heat of the day. The farm had been in existence a great many years, for the owner - a man of 35 - had been born in it. The farmers do not seem to object to the many animals wandering about to pasture, and yet though comparatively little land is under cultivation compared to what is left to grass the animals cannot but stray on to the unprotected crops.\n\nThe only tax the farmers pay is so much wheat per annum to the Government at Chuguchak. All the Chinese farmers are Tien-tsin men so Tien-tsin may be said to have had the honour of colonising the plains of Chuguchak. On the other side of the Emil and lying among trees, some 3 miles away, is the lama temple of Karaussu. At mile 15 we crossed the stream which is some 30 feet wide and only a foot deep; it flows over a firm bed between banks for the most part between 2 and 3 feet high and hence difficult to approach. At mile 17 we recrossed the river and 5 miles later reached a group of scattered Chinese farms known as Sanshihlipu. Here we halted for the night at a large shop, the only one of the place. This is kept by a Tien-tsin man who has been here two years, and does a good business in everything with the neighbouring Hassack and Mongol population. The trade is entirely one of barter, he receiving in exchange skins, wool, wheat, tobacco, and grains. His Chinese goods all come via Newchwang and the Siberian railway to Chuguchak, whence they are brought to Sanshihlipu by camel or cart. To avoid duties in Russia the goods are consigned to Russian middlemen, who forward them to Chuguchak. The shop pays no taxes except li-kin at Chuguchak, which is said to be unusually severe. Goods are said to reach here in three weeks from Peking. The skins, wool, and hides are sold to Russian firms at Chuguchak. The tobacco grown here is only used by the Mongols and Hassacks, who grind it to powder and swallow it. The Chinese here have nothing to say but bad of the Mongols or Hassacks who, they affirm, steal everything. It was impossible, they said, to keep a good animal, for it disappeared almost at once.\n\nFor current use Guchen \"red\" cash are in use here, they are light and worthless.\n\n## Page 113\n\nSeptember 28. - Keeping slightly south of west, and passing some more farms we were abreast at mile 1 of a kind of small fortress, a piece of land enclosed by low mud walls 200 yards long and 100 broad, with some low buildings inside. The place is called a fort, but there are no soldiers there, nor are there to be any. It has been built by the Chinese themselves as a refuge in the event of future troubles. The whole population of the Sanshihlipu district, probably 250 - would doubtless take refuge there.\n\nHere the district may be said to end, for though we passed later on farms at intervals of half-a-mile or so, they were small and squalid. After 8 miles we reached the River Emil again at the Chinese colony of Emilho. Here the road turned north-west, passing under an avenue of tall trees, and between signs of the utmost desolation for a quarter of a mile, for the settlement is one of long standing, and was a flourishing place thirty years ago, when it was wiped out in the troubles. The ruins are used as cabbage beds and tobacco ground, and for growing Indian corn, wheat, and vegetables; there is another fort here in case of need. To the north-west of the old settlement has sprung up a new one, which has a population of 200 Chinese and is very flourishing. I counted more than a dozen well-to-do shops. A certain number of Hassacks also live here. The Chinese shop at which we stopped does a large barter business, selling the nomads' produce to the Russians at Chuguchak. It sells silks, stuffs, raisins, dates, salt, looking-glasses, combs, photographs (Japanese), caps, boots, beads, tobacco (both Hassack and Chinese grown) everything in short.\n\nLeaving the settlement and river, we kept north-west over the plain. It was a dreary march, with no farms or trees or anything to break the eye except very occasional nomad yourts. We plodded on for another 14 miles and reached a group of Chinese farms - Kwantien - standing among some trees. Here we halted for the night at the Government rest-house. The population of the place is not more than thirty, and every single member of it seemed to be an opium smoker.\n\nThe rest-house consisted of a large courtyard and a couple of buildings with nothing but four bare mud walls, a roof, a slit for a window, and a doorway. As there was no door, the room was open to the courtyard, which was in its turn open to the high road. We treat our animals in England better than the Chinese do travelling human beings.\n\nWe had passed numerous tramps and vagabonds during the afternoon; all Hassacks and truculent-looking villains. At one time the road had wandered for 5 or 6 miles through a mass of rough grass 6 feet high, a capital lurking-place for highway robbers.\n\nSeptember 29. - We kept north-west over a dreary plain. At mile 6 we crossed a small stream, and from now on the country was well watered. From mile 12.4 the trees round Chuguchak became visible. At mile 14.4 we crossed a river-bed 200 yards broad with a stream several inches deep flowing down by several channels. Rising out of this depression, we passed several farms among clumps of trees. At mile 15 the telegraph-poles coming up from the south were visible on our left. A mile later began a fine avenue of trees, under which the road ran between the ruins of Old Chuguchak, now used as vegetable patches. At mile 16.4, crossing a stream by a low wooden bridge, we reached the south gate of Hsincheng (\"New Town\"). Passing through the town, we left it by the north gate to reach the Chinese trading quarter, where we had our usual long search for an inn, our efforts being handicapped by the simultaneous arrival in the town of some Russian acrobats in full costume, and to whose party we were thought to belong. We found three miserable inns close to each other on the left side of the road. One of them had a fair-sized, but filthy, room. This, however, was tidied up, and I took possession. The yamên kindly sent three red lanterns and hangings, which gave pomp to the exterior but did nothing to mitigate the squalor of the interior.\n\n## Chuguchak\n\nSeptember 30. - I walked to the yamên in the morning to call on the Governor; the yamên is near the south gate of Hsincheng. Chalagen is a Manchu Solon from the Ili district. He is 51 years of age. He has been in office for little more than a year. While he has never been to Peking, he has travelled extensively in Russia (he has visited St. Petersburgh among other places), and speaks Russian fluently, but badly. His room was fitted up in a Russian manner. Although he was very cordial to me, I took a strong dislike to him. He has a disagreeable, crafty-looking face and sharp, ferret-like eyes. He is extremely unpopular, not only in Chuguchak, but throughout the whole province. No one with whom I spoke had a good word for him. The Chinese merchants say he paid 230,000 taels (34,500l.) for the post, and that now he is busy recouping himself as quickly as possible. One of these ways is by opening shops of his own where he undersells the other merchants; as his goods pay no li-kin, Chinese traders are very angry. The Governor told me, à propos of nothing, at our second meeting, that the Government nowadays allowed officials to keep shops (so that the complaint of the Chinese is probably well founded). The appointment was made by the Tartar General of Ili. The merchant at Sanshihlipu two days ago told me that the Chinese trade was suffering considerably under the new régime. The Governor, for instance, imports tea-bricks from Hankow free of charge, and sells them at 1 t. 70 c. each, whereas the merchants have to sell them at 2 taels. If the latter alter their prices they are sent for to the yamên, warned, and punished. The merchant added that it was the same in the case of cloth and silks. In consequence, the Chinese have tried to defeat him by means of the Russians, by passing the goods through them and having them stamped as Russian products.\n\nThe latest crime of the Governor is the execution of a Hassack, a small Government official in the town. 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        "content_text": "174 \n\n118 \n\nif sick they have to go to any doctor they can, and have to pay for treatment themselves. I did not ask to see the rifles which are probably of Noah's Ark pattern, as I felt that whatever they were they would be quite wasted on this inefficient, opium-smoking, rotten garrison. I met the Major on way back, an aged man of over 60, who was very effusive, begged me to return and take tea, which I declined. Returning to city, skirted west wall and south wall as far as gate, and took broad avenue leading south-west for about a mile--past some brick-kilns--to another barracks, the cavalry one. A fort of the same pattern precisely--possibly a trifle smaller. Here a Captain commands, drawing the same pay as the Major at the other fort. I heard there were 125 on register, but in reality only 70 or 80, most of whom had gone with the Captain to meet the Chentai. The faces of the few left betrayed opium sots. \n\nA soldier gets 5 taels 55 cents a month, but has to pay for his own horse on journeying; the cost of this being some 3 taels--is deducted from his pay. When he wants to leave he cuts off some of the hair and tail, and tells the Captain that the pony is dead. \n\nThe place was horribly dirty; pigs and fowls were running about everywhere, and the Captain's wife and family tumbling about the dirty yards. I asked what work the soldiers had to do, and they thought they had a great deal. In summer, some are told off to take the horses out to grass, others to clean the yard, get wood, and ride with letters. In summer the horses feed outside, in winter they are kept inside dark stalls, of ordinary Chinese inn pattern, and get straw and hay; this the Captain has to find himself. \n\nChuguchak, as regards defences, might be able to resist a native foe, a foreign one would entirely disregard it or be inside the yamên in ten minutes. In the evening I had a talk with a Chinese man who said that his brother had been murdered not long ago by a Russian Hassack. The murderer was caught, but after confinement for two or three days at Bakhti was reported to have died of cold. Chinese authorities are powerless, or else are too anxious to please the Russians in order to retain their posts, from which they could be easily ousted by hints at Peking and elsewhere as to their corruption and financial mismanagement, to take active steps. If only a portion of what I heard as to the lawlessness of Russian subjects is true, any complaints of the Russian Government as to the infraction of the frontier or lawlessness of Chinese subjects are distinctly one-sided. \n\nI dined at the Russian Consulate in the evening. Poor Loutchitch was very tired after two days' strenuous work, seeing off his Consuls, and interviewing Chinese officials and carrying on routine work, and it was rather unfair to tackle him in such a state. It was then that I asked him about the Consulate guard at Urga. He said that everything was necessary for prestige in Mongolia where the people were savage (I have endeavoured to show by my solitary journey without an escort that the people are really most friendly disposed). Loutchitch asked me if I had heard that the Governor was in trouble over the Hassack murder question: I said yes, and asked him if it was true, and he confirmed it. It seems that the executed official had really been squeezing, but, as Loutchitch said, there was not much difference between all the officials as far as that went. They (the Russian Consulate) possessed strong documentary evidence inculpating the Governor in this matter and also in other peculations, and they found it very useful, when discussing matters which required a prompt settlement, to leave a written statement of moneys stolen by his Excellency on the table close to where he sat; they had seen the signs of distress on his Excellency's face on noticing the paper. Loutchitch was speaking in all sincerity, and, while allowing a slight margin for exaggeration, it shows how the Russian officials get the upper hand in Mongolia, for they hold the dishonest officials (and who is not?) in the hollow of their hands. There is little difficulty in obtaining evidence against them in a country where practically all is known. The only doubt is as to the legitimacy of the use of knowledge so obtained, and this does not seem to disturb the Russians. \n\nTalking of my own journey Loutchitch laughed, and said it had taken him forty days to come from Urga to Chuguchak instead of twenty. How did I know he had not followed me about? He then spoke seriously, and said that he had been obliged to visit the Iro gold mines in the mountains to the north-east of Urga to see how matters were going there, and that he had found the utmost and most lamentable chaos and confusion. \n\nOctober 4.--The Russian Consulate guard only consists of two Cossacks, and an increase in this is unlikely in view of the proximity of Bakhti, where there are three companies (one of cavalry, infantry, and artillery respectively). \n\nAt Bakhti begins the Russian posting system to Sergiopol and thus to Semipalatinsk. \n\n119 \n\nI had some conversation with Loutchitch over Russian affairs and the war; he said that now it was too late everyone was busy with reforms, that there had been the utmost peculation in everything; that the second Siberian line now being laid would cost very much less than the first one, for it was shorter; that it had been found that the first had been purposely made out of the straight, in order to give the contractors a large profit, while towns had been left away from the line, because they had not given the contractor a present. I mentioned Pavloff's name as an instance of what had been done, and he said, What was that? Simply a drop in the ocean of corruption that had gone on. \n\nWhile there is nothing new in all this, it is, I think, of interest, as showing that the Russian officials nowadays allow themselves to speak openly of these matters. \n\n## SECTION VIII--CHUGUCHAK TO KULDJA. \n\nWe had now used camels for the last time, and this section of the journey was performed in carts of the \"Peking\" pattern, drawn by two mules. The wheels were, however, further apart from the body than is usually the case, and admitted of heavy luggage being placed on a board between the body and the wheel. We hired the carts as far as Shihu (six days' distance to the south), at the rate of 13 taels (39s.) a-piece. \n\nLeaving Chuguchak on the 4th October we slept a night at Kwantien, and reached Emilho at noon on the 5th October. The boy's bill, on leaving Chuguchak, was interesting, as showing the expenses of travelling. It only amounted to 15 taels (45s.) for the three servants and myself for the five days we had spent in the town, and also for the necessary provisions for us all for another six days. \n\nAt Emilho we had trouble with the carters, who wished to spend the rest of the day here buying fodder and food. While waiting for an hour here we came across our host of Altaishan, who was busy trying to dispose of the 5,000 sheep he had bought from Sharasumé; prices, he said, were bad, and he would probably have to take most of them on to Ili. \n\nCrossing the Emilho, we kept in a south direction over a flat and dreary plain to a small hamlet, standing among some fine trees, called Errhtao chiao sze, 8 miles from Emilho. Here, as at each of the hamlets we had to pass, is a Government rest-house and small picket. A couple of soldiers accompanied us from one station to the next, where they were relieved by their colleagues. \n\nThe rest-houses consist of mud walls and a kang, nothing else. At this village we struck the line of telegraph poles, and kept alongside them for the rest of the way to Kuldja. The service is so little looked after that in many places the poles were nearly lying on the ground, and almost everywhere the wires sagged tremendously. In winter snow must cause a great deal of delay to the service. \n\nOctober 6.--The road is excellent and requires no keeping up. Keeping south over the plain, and crossing several small streams, we reached Lofengkou at mile 138. It is difficult to see the use of the escort from stage to stage, unless it is to protect us from the soldiers themselves, for, with the exception of an occasional drover, we met no one, and the country was open, and there were no houses. The rest-house here was gay with red felt, rugs, and carpets, in preparation for the Chentai's return journey. \n\nI went to see the Captain in charge of the picket of four men. \n\nHe has only been here a year; he said the men were never changed, their duties were only to act as escort and to keep a look-out for robbers. Presumably, too, to mend the telegraph wire if necessary. \n\nAscending over the easy shoulder of a low range of hills, we descended into another plain, and rose again steadily to a mountain chain in front of us, the Djair Shan; to the west were the Barlik Shan, and to the east other ranges of hills. We reached Toling after another 13 miles. \n\nOctober 7.--The villagers here were very eloquent about the Governor, the loathing for whom seems to reach to every part of his district. He is known as the merchant Governor. Irritation is great over the murder of the Hassack official. The villagers say that the Russian Consul tried to save him by asking for three days' grace on the plea that the man owed money to the bank and that the interval would have been used for telegraphing to Peking. \n\nWhen a Hassack wants a loan the Governor makes him take it in tea bricks; now these he obtains from Hankow at the Government expense and sells for a high price. His Excellency is also said to give land rent-free and then when farmers have cultivated it, to take it from them again for his own use. \n\nThe Prefect also seems to act in an arbitrary way; he is preventing a quantity of ...",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nWe were detained three days at the foot of the Yashki Altenimel pass by the depth of snow in the gorges, but once this difficult part of the journey was over there was no difficulty. The route is said to be considerably used in summer by Chinese merchants coming from Peking to the Ili district, and officials also use it to some extent between Chuguchak and Kuldja. It is said that the Russians are doing their utmost to develop this traffic, but so long as the staristas put so many obstacles in the way of the foreign traveller they will have little success, while for the Chinese, in addition to the language difficulty, there is the serious one of food.\n\nAt Khorgos, Djarkend, Kopal, Sergiopol, and Semipalatinsk there are large garrisons. Between Sergiopol and the frontier, and between Semipalatinsk and the frontier are the additional fortresses of Bakhti and Zaisan post.\n\nIt is difficult to cross the Irtish in winter at Semipalatinsk. There is no bridge, and a roadway has to be made among the blocks of ice, which gets considerably cut up by the steady flow of traffic; this is regulated by a couple of soldiers.\n\nAt Omsk our troubles as regards language came to an end, for we alighted at the Hotel Stepanowski, where the Polish landlady spoke French.\n\nAt Omsk I was told that the Russians in Siberia were seriously frightened of a Sino-Japanese alliance directed against them. I was asked whether it was true that the Chinese garrisons in North Mongolia were so strong. I reassured enquirers as regards this, and pointed out to them the numerous garrisons along the Russian frontier, as well as the extremely large one at Omsk itself.\n\nI asked about the possibility of a railway being constructed soon from Tashkend to Vierny, Kopal, Semipalatinsk and Omsk; I was assured that as yet it was only a dream, that there was no money, and that the first railway to be built would be the long-promised one between Omsk and Tiumen.\n\nThere are excellent shops at Omsk, but they are very expensive, as also is living there. There are three steamer companies on the river; the boats are said to be excellent, and the service well organized and regular. A great deal of merchandise passes up and down the river.\n\nI caught the Siberian express on the 23rd November, reached Moscow on the 26th, and was in London on the morning of the 30th.\n\nI met in the Siberian train an engineer (of Messrs. Pauling and Co., London) on his way home from Siberia. He had been out some months in connection with the new Russian Amur Railway. He told me that at Irkutsk there were 40,000 soldiers, and that barracks were to be constructed for 100,000. Chita and Nerchinsk were to be great forts. The line to run from near Nerchinsk to Khabarovsk (with a branch to Blagoveschensk). The pace of construction to depend on the success of the great Russian loan in the spring of `1909`. He left me a map of the districts with the line, as projected, indicated on it in red. I subsequently lent this map to the War Office who, I believe, took a tracing of it.\n\n### Russian Garrisons along the Chinese Frontier\n\nIn this connection it may be useful to remind His Majesty's Government of the information received from an officer in the 8th Hussars, dated the 25th September, `1907`, respecting the strength of some of the Russian garrisons along the frontier.\n\n| Location | Garrisons |\n| --- | --- |\n| Kopal | 1 battalion of infantry, 2 regiments of Cossacks, 1 battery of artillery |\n| Djarkend | 1 battalion of infantry, uncertain of exact strength, but about same as Djarkend, Total, 3,000 |\n| Vierny | 1 battery of artillery, 1 battalion of infantry, 1 regiment of Cossacks, 2 batteries of artillery |\n| Tashkend | 6 battalions of infantry, Total (though this perhaps includes the Samarcand command), 15,000 |\n\nTo this information I would merely add from my knowledge that there are also garrisons at Khorgos, Zaisan, Bakhti, Sergiopol, Semipalatinsk, and Irkutsk.\n\n(Signed)  \nW. J. GARNETT\n\nPage 132\nPage 182\n\n## SECTION 3\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received May 12.)\n\n**(No. 92.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nPeking, May 12, 1909.\n\nPLEASE see your telegrams Nos. 81 and 86 of the 1st and 4th instant respectively, regarding the Macao dispute.\n\nI took an opportunity yesterday of speaking strongly to the Wai-wu Pu on the subject. I pointed out that the Central Government would make themselves responsible for the possible failure of the negotiations if they continued to overlook the mischievous effect produced by the action of the provincial authorities, and I warned them that they might thereby bring about our intervention.\n\nThey promised to instruct the Viceroy by telegraph to check the local agitation, and, in assuring me that the Chinese Government had faithfully observed the Lisbon arrangement, stated that the Portuguese were laying entirely undue stress on such popular agitation as existed in Canton.\n\nI have since received from the Wai-wu Pu a copy of a telegram from the Viceroy at Canton, dated the 13th February, in which it is stated that the military post, to which objection had been taken by the Portuguese, had been removed.",
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        "content_text": "# 246 \n## C.O \n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** 681 \n\n## CHINA TRADE. \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n\n[27241] \nRee 10 AUG CO \n[July 19.] \n\n### SECTION 1. \n\n#### No. 1. \n**Acting Consul Rose to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received July 19.)** \n\n(No. 6.) Sir, \n\nTengyueh, June 9, 1909. \nI HAVE the honour to inclose duplicate of a Report, which I am forwarding to-day to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, containing an account of a recent journey in south-west Yunnan to ascertain the measures which have been taken to effect a decrease in the opium crops. \n\n### Inclosure in No. 1. \n\nI have, &c. \n**ARCHIBALD ROSE.** \n\n## Report of a Journey into the Opium Districts of South-West Yünnan, with an account of the Annual Fair at Talifu. \n\n### Object of Journey. \n\nON the 22nd April, 1909, I left Tengyueh to make a flying tour round the districts in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, the territory under the jurisdiction of the I-Hsi Tantai, which is estimated to produce 45 per cent. of the total opium crops of the Province of Yunnan. The routes taken by myself and two Chinese assistants are shown on the inset map, and pass through the tracts which in the past have proved most favourable to the growth of the poppy. \n\n### Routes. \n\nLeaving Tengyueh in a due easterly direction I followed the main road for three days, then branched off on to a bridle path leading south-east in the direction of Shunning Fu. Thence I turned north and reached Talifu by way of Meng-hua Ting, returning to my post through Yung-chang Fu. The consulate writer accompanied me as far as Shunning Fu, then proceeded to Yünchou and took a more easterly road to Talifu. The third route lay to the south of Tengyueh, through territory administered by the Shan Sawbwas.\n\n### Description of Country. \n\nThe track by which I travelled lay across a plateau from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, with frequent rises and falls, some of the passes being at an altitude of over 8,000 feet, whilst the Salwen Valley is but 2,200 feet above the sea. In dry weather the firm, sandy path made walking or riding very pleasant, but in the heavy rains, which overtook us on several days, the steep slopes were almost impassable, and we were obliged to struggle up and down in straw sandals, whilst the mules found great difficulty in keeping their feet and made slow progress. Our small party did double stages over practically the whole route, and it was therefore impossible to carry tents or heavy kit of any description. As a result, we were dependent for a rude shelter on the occasional mud huts by the way, and were often obliged to carry our own food and fodder. The nights are cold and inhospitable in these mountain regions, and, after a march from dawn till dark, there was a comfort in the wood fire built on the floor that made one forget the dirt, the crowding humanity, and the smoke that stung our unaccustomed eyes. The country is wonderfully beautiful, a succession of fir-clad uplands with great mountain ranges stretching beyond them; far below, the Shweli, the Salwen, and Mekong, the Red River...\n\n* Not reproduced. \n\nB \n[2363 t-1]",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nof levy and expenditure of taxes, suffered in the matter of the maintenance of roads, inefficient lighting, indifferent policing, sanitation, and other municipal services which should, for the general welfare and prosperity of the port and of the trade passing through it, be conducted on a more practical and modern system and at a higher standard of efficiency than has up to the present been possible under the existing régime.\n\nIn his despatch to you of the 23rd October, 1906, forwarding a copy of the letter addressed to him, Mr. Fulford makes no comment on the request for an international settlement, but merely states his opinion that, as the Chinese authorities had not then resumed the administration of the port, the time was inopportune to resume negotiations for the acquisition of a British concession on the north bank of the river, in regard to the desirability of which you had directed him to ascertain the wishes of the British mercantile community. It was, no doubt, for the same reason that no attention was paid to the application for an international settlement for which the time was equally inopportune. The British residents, nevertheless, returned to the point in a letter which they addressed on the 15th February, 1907, to Mr. Tebbitt, who had by that time assumed charge of the consulate, in which they again urged the need of such a settlement which would extend equality of rights and privileges to all nationals whereby alone in their opinion the true commercial interests of the foreign and Chinese trading communities of this port could be safeguarded. Mr. Tebbitt's comments on this letter will be found in his despatch No. 9, of the 26th February, 1907, in which he gives the strongest support to the scheme.\n\nThe opinion that I have formed on the question is that too much stress is laid by the British residents on the political expediency in the interests of the trade of the port of an international settlement and too little on its desirability from the point of view of their own health and comfort. I am unable to regard the scheme as a panacea for the mischief that is being done to the trade of Newchwang by the competition of Darien, although there can be no doubt that under certain circumstances the existence of an international settlement at this port may be a political advantage of some value. But of the desirability of the establishment of some form of international municipal government in the foreign quarter here for the comfort and well-being of the residents I am entirely convinced. Since the resumption by the Chinese authorities of the administration of the port the conditions in this quarter of the town have gone steadily from bad to worse, not from lack of good will on the part of the officials but from lack of funds. On the 11th March last, the attention of the consular body was drawn to the insanitary state of the foreign residential and business quarters by the Newchwang Chamber of Commerce, who pointed out that the unchecked deposit of garbage and refuse on the banks of the river and vacant land was placing the port in grave danger of an epidemic. The consuls, however, were of opinion that, as the foreign residents paid no municipal taxes, and it appeared to be their own garbage that was the cause of offence, they were not in a position to make energetic representations to the Chinese authorities. I should mention that at the meeting held to discuss the Chamber's letter a suggestion was made that the residents should pay a voluntary tax towards the upkeep of the foreign quarter, whereupon the Japanese consul stated that he could not agree to any proposition which required the payment of taxes by Japanese subjects to the Chinese administration of Newchwang, since in the agreement by which Newchwang was returned to the Chinese it had been stipulated by his Government that no such taxes should be levied from Japanese.\n\nThe Taotai subsequently explained to me that his inability to keep the foreign quarter in better order was entirely due to want of funds. The amount available for the administration of the whole town was altogether insufficient for the purpose, and if he increased the proportion allotted to the foreign quarter it could only be at the expense of the rest of the town where people were already grumbling that the foreigners who paid no taxes were better looked after than they were.\n\nIt is the general opinion amongst the residents at this port that if there is any opposition to the establishment of an international settlement at this port it will come from the Japanese, who may regard the scheme as a blow aimed at their political domination in Manchuria. I fail, however, to see on what grounds the Japanese can base their opposition. Although the limits of their own concession here have not been defined, they are nevertheless administering practically the whole area from the eastern boundary of the proposed international settlement to the end of the railway property, greatly, I may say, to the indignation of the Taotai, who accuses them of allowing gambling and opium smoking to be indulged in openly within the locality and ignoring his protests against it. The amount of Japanese-owned land within the proposed settlement area is small, and the titles to most of it in dispute. I have referred to the question in conversation with the Japanese consul, but have been unable to obtain from him an expression of opinion, so that I am quite in the dark as to what his attitude will be. The other consuls are all in favour of the scheme, especially my American colleague. The attitude of the Chinese is also uncertain. The Taotai informed me recently that a settlement on the lines of that at Shanghae would never be agreed to by his Government, but he was unable to say how they would regard a scheme of municipal administration like the one intended in which the Chinese and foreign taxpayers had equal rights. I know that personally he is by no means opposed to the idea, of which, if carried out, he sees the possible political advantage to China and the immediate benefit to his own exchequer, which will be relieved of the financial burden which the administration of the foreign quarter now entails upon it. There is, too, possible opposition on the part of Chinese residents within the area to be reckoned with, in which case its extent may have to be considerably diminished.\n\nI have been careful in discussing the question both with Chinese and Japanese officials to use the word \"settlement\" as little as possible, and refer to the scheme as one of international municipal administration. Regarded merely as an improved method of local municipal administration the political objections to it from their point of view at once vanish. In any case there is nothing in the proposal that the Chinese can look upon as an infringement of their sovereign rights.\n\nI venture, in conclusion, to recommend the scheme to your favourable consideration, and, if it should meet with your approval, to request your sanction to commence local negotiations at once.\n\nThe enclosed plan shows the area which it is proposed by the British residents to place under international municipal control.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nF. E. WILKINSON,\n\n### British Residents at Newchwang to Consul Wilkinson.\n\nNewchwang, May 15, 1909,\n\nSir,\n\nWE beg to hand you herewith a copy of a letter, signed by the majority of the British residents at this port, and addressed on the 20th October, 1906, to H. E. Fulford, Esq., C.M.G., His Britannic Majesty's consul here at that time, praying His Britannic Majesty's Minister in Peking to secure and preserve for British interests in the port of Newchwang, by the creation of an international settlement, that equality of opportunity and privilege—as compared with the traders of all other nationalities—to which they are entitled in Manchuria by treaty, and which were seriously threatened.\n\nIt having again for some time become manifest to the British community here that the situation, which in 1906 was such as to evoke the emphatic expressions of opinion and urgent requests contained in the letter above referred to, has in no wise improved, but has on the contrary become greatly aggravated, and that the trend of events here has rendered increasingly precarious the future prospects of British interests in Manchuria, the present British community have decided again respectfully to request you to approach His Majesty's Minister on the subject, and, at a largely attended meeting of British subjects and representatives of British interests held here on the 12th instant, it was unanimously resolved to reiterate the urgent pleas submitted on the former occasion, with special emphasis on the desirability of making, in concert with the other Powers interested, a determined effort towards securing on the south bank of the River Liao an international settlement at the port of Newchwang, controlled by national, not individual, representation, and extending over a given area, which we are of opinion should in the best interests of all concerned, be not less than that outlined in red on the enclosed print from a plan of the eastern portion of the town, copies of which we believe to be in His Majesty's Minister's and your own possession.\n\nIn conclusion we would respectfully beg to add that, apart from the wider horizon of British trade interests embraced by this question, the internal administration of the section of the town referred to, has for lack of a proper system of levy...",
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        "content_text": "36\n\nA great deal of opium smoking is prevalent in Shansi owing to the way the people have of consuming large quantities of half-cooked food.\n\nEnquiries as to the popular sentiment with regard to the anti-opium measures generally elicited the reply that the people were on the whole glad that they were being obliged to give up the habit; they could not help realising its pernicious effects, but lacked the moral courage to abandon the drug of their own initiative. There is, however, a section of the community, chiefly of the student class and gentry, who are rather inclined to regard the action of the State as an unnecessary interference with the liberty of the individual, and would prefer to be left in peace to the enjoyment of their pipe.\n\nThe enormous increase in the marketable value of opium in Shansi has had the effect of widening the area under cultivation in the adjoining province, and a missionary, writing from Meihsien on the Wei River, in Shensi, states that the poppy is now grown to such an extent in the Wei Valley that the farmers have actually had to import wheat for their own consumption from other parts of the province—a very unusual state of affairs. It is believed that the prohibition will be extended to Shensi in 1910, so the people are making the most of their opportunities.\n\nIn Honan, less opium has been grown this year than last, especially near the main roads, and none was visible from the railway, but I am told that a considerable amount is still being cultivated in various parts of the province.\n\nThe energetic action that has been taken in Shansi is worthy of the highest praise, and it only remains to be seen whether the results are to be permanent or not. The regulations governing the election of representatives in the new scheme of constitutional government expressly exclude all opium smokers from holding office, so it is to be hoped that a safeguard against any reintroduction of the poppy will be afforded by the presence of a body of men in the councils of the capital whose desire for the welfare of the province is unhampered by considerations of a personal nature.\n\nIn conclusion, I would like to express my gratitude to the Protestant missionaries of Shansi, from whom I always received the greatest hospitality and assistance, and to whom I am indebted for much of the information contained in this report.\n\nJ. F. BRENAN.\n\nPeking, June 26, 1903.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n### Report of a Journey into the Opium Districts of South-West Yunnan, with an Account of the Annual Fair at Tali-fu\n\n#### Object of Journey\n\nOn the 22nd April, 1909, I left Tengyueh to make a flying tour round the districts in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, the territory under the jurisdiction of the Hsi Taotai, which is estimated to produce 45 per cent of the total opium crops of the province of Yunnan. The routes taken by myself and two Chinese assistants passed through the tracts which in the past have proved most favourable to the growth of the poppy.\n\n#### Routes\n\nLeaving Tengyueh in a due easterly direction, I followed the main road for three days, then branched off on to a bridle path leading south-east in the direction of Shunning-fu; thence I turned north and reached Tali-fu by way of Meng-hua Ting, returning to my post through Yung-chang-fu. The consulate writer accompanied me as far as Shunning-fu, then proceeded to Yunchou, and took a more easterly road to Tali-fu. The third route lay to the south of Tengyueh, through territory administered by the Shan sawbwas.\n\n#### Description of Country\n\nThe track by which I travelled lay across a plateau from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, with frequent rises and falls, some of the passes being at an altitude of over 8,000 feet, whilst the Salwen Valley is but 2,200 feet above the sea. In dry weather, the firm, sandy path made walking or riding very pleasant, but in the heavy rains which overtook us on several days, the steep slopes were almost impassable, and we were obliged to struggle up and down in straw sandals, whilst the rules found great difficulty in keeping their feet, and made slow progress. Our small party did double stages over practically the whole route, and it was therefore impossible to carry tents or heavy kit of any description. As a result, we were dependent for a rude welcome on the occasional mud huts by the way, and were often obliged to carry our own food and fodder. The nights are cold and inhospitable in these mountain regions, and, after a march from dawn till dark, there was a comfort in the wood fire built on the floor that made one forget the dirt, the crowding humanity, and the smoke that stung our unaccustomed eyes.\n\nThe country is wonderfully beautiful: a succession of fir-clad uplands with great mountain ranges stretching beyond them, far below the Shweli, the Salwen, and Mekong, the Red River, the Hsia-kuan River, and the Yangpi that go whirling through their deep beds, one flanked by tropical jungle, the next by steep rocky gorges, whilst the Hsia-kuan can be seen for miles winding between grassy slopes, a white and foaming torrent descending 1,600 feet over rocks and boulders, in one day's march. The tropical sun is tempered by the mountain breezes, and the country was full of familiar northern flowers growing in vigorous profusion; the hillsides were bright with rhododendrons, red and white, with azaleas of many colours and long sprays of clematis, whilst roses and meadow-sweet grew in luxuriance in the sheltered valleys.\n\nThe country is unlike the east and south and north of China in that its mountains are covered with forests and its streams run clear over their rocky beds, whilst for days at a stretch there is little sign of human habitation, save in the well-cultivated and populous valleys. Such people as we met between the towns were, however, friendly and willingly offered their rough hospitality; their faces, their homes, and the unbound feet of their women mark the people as tribesmen with a slight mingling of Chinese blood. In the Menghua district and along the northern route, many of them are of pure Lolo race, though the handsome, clean-cut faces of the Szechuanese Lolos are seldom seen. All, however, who have the slightest tinge of Chinese blood claim to belong to the \"family of Hau,\" and there is little wonder that they cling to the traditions and name which represent, on the one hand, all power and wealth whilst treating with a relentless contempt the \"barbarian\" of the hills.\n\n### Opium\n\n#### Opium Centres\n\nIn dealing with the production of opium, this circuit may be divided into two distinct spheres, the first comprising the districts under the direct control of the Chinese territorial officials, the second consisting of the frontier regions under the rule of the Shan sawbwas, including the fertile, low-lying valleys, and the Kachin Hills, for which the sawbwas are nominally responsible. It was generally admitted that the Shan valleys were still under opium crops this season, and I therefore decided to send a Chinese assistant to get any possible information in this direction, whilst proceeding myself to the east of the circuit where the Taotai claimed that the preventive work had been successfully carried out. My route was chosen through the greatest producing areas of the district and timed just before the opium harvest.\n\n#### Destruction of Opium Crops in Chinese Sphere\n\nSpeaking generally, the work of prevention inaugurated by His Excellency Hsi Liang, governor-general at Yunnan-fu, has been carried out in the Chinese sphere with vigour and success. It was naturally impossible to penetrate into the remoter regions during the short period at my disposal, but, by careful enquiry and by watching the local markets for the drug, it has been possible to gain a fair estimate of the conditions of the present season. From the high passes of these districts, one can obtain a broad view of the surrounding country, and the unmistakable colour of the poppy crops may be detected from a considerable distance when they exist to any extent. In the course of my journey, however, I did not see a single field of poppy, and the only evidence of cultivation was in the straggling flowers, which were freely scattered over the fields and were evidently the few survivors after the crops had been uprooted by order of the officials.\n\nThe consulate writer reports similar conditions in the country lying between Yunchou and Menghua Ting. I have also reliable information from Mr. Coggin Brown, of the Geological Survey of India, and from other English sources, that, in the country to the north-west and north-east of Tali-fu (under the jurisdiction of the sub-prefects of Yunlung Chou and Pinchuan Chou), the main crops have been vigorously destroyed, though a little cultivation is reported in the remoter districts, which are difficult of access for the preventive officers.\n\n#### Local Riots\n\nDuring December and the early part of this year, the prefects and junior officers of the circuit were constantly under orders from the Viceroy, first to exhort the people to devote their land to other crops, then to destroy the crops if their earlier orders had been disobeyed. In many cases, the latter course was necessary.\n\n[2494 p-1] \n241 \nC \n37 \nL",
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        "content_text": "## 23.\nBridges 22 and 22-A might have been founded in a similar way. Bridge No. 22 developed cracks in the parapet walls about twelve feet from the end in both the twenty foot spans. This was due to insufficient backing on the twenty foot spans owing to which the line of pressure came too close to the intrados of the twenty foot arches. I have had extra weight put on.\n\n## 24.\nBridge No. 22-A is a double barrelled culvert which had cracked badly parallel to the centre line of the Railway. The floor of the culver was built in reinforced concrete and the crack occurred at the junction of the rod lengths which showed an insufficient lap. The crack has been grouted up with cement mortar and some channel irons which were spare have been dowelled in to the floor and concreted over. Along the side walls iron dowels have been placed and the cracks grouted up. There is a good cushion over the barrels.\n\n## 25.\nBridge No. 33. I have had levels taken between the two centre spans of this bridge and the result shows that there has been a scour of about two feet throughout. In this connection kindly refer to Mr. A. J. Barry's report. The depth of foundations is only five feet below the river bed as you will see from the ferro type which shows what I am having carried out. The only way to get in the drop walls will be to grab them and to pack in cement concrete in bags. It will be better to put a drop wall on the up stream side as well. I am conscious that the two foot floor proposed is not very thick and if possible to divert the stream through one opening at a time, I will have the floor faced with flat rubble slabs set in cement.\n\n## 26.\nBridge No. 35. One span twelve foot girder, in a bad state.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "## CHINESE COMMUNITY'S RECOGNITION OF SIR FREDERICK LUGARD'S VIRTUOUS ADMINISTRATION\n\nThe Telegraph reports on Sir Frederick Lugard's coming departure and the Chinese community's recognition of his benevolent administration.\n\nMore than once have the stars and the frosts returned in their course since Your Excellency came to Hongkong: the benevolence and clemency of your virtuous administration is in the mouth of every passer-by in the streets. Your earnest attention has been devoted to everything that would promote the welfare of the people and the comfort of those who have gathered here from afar. More especially has every movement for the benefit of the Chinese received your heartiest support. Not once have your actions failed to call forth the public praise.\n\nThat Sir Frederick Lugard's successful administration of the government of Hongkong in the face of seemingly insuperable difficulties has been recognised by all sections of the community in this Colony is a well-established fact, which was further testified to by the pleasing function that took place at Government House this afternoon. We refer to the presentation of the address and honorific scroll to His Excellency by representatives of all classes of the Chinese community on the eve of the Governor's departure on six months' home leave on Saturday next. The Chinese deputation consisted of high-placed gentlemen of the merchant, compradore, and gentry classes, besides the Chinese unofficial members of the Legislative Council.\n\nThe deputation was received by the Governor in the first ball-room of Government House and was introduced by the Honourable Dr. Ho Kai, CMG, who was supported by his colleague in the Council, Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, CMG. There were present at the ceremony: H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard, the Hon. Sir Henry May (Colonial Secretary), the Hon. Mr. W. Brewin (Registrar General), Capt. N. Sundson (private secretary), Capt. P. H. M. Taylor (aide-de-camp), Messrs. Lau Chu-pak, Ng Hoa-tsai, Ho Fook, He Kom Tong, Wong Leung-him, Young Him-ping, Wong Kum-fuk, S. W. Tso, Sia Tak-fan, Fong Wa-can, Cheung Si-kai, Li Sai-kam, Lau Yu-nam, Tang Fui-chi, Yu To-shan, Chan Siu-lam, Li Yau-chun, Chau Siu-ki, Wo Wan-cho, Wo Tsai-yong, Lo Kon-ting, Siu Yam-fai, Sam Pak-ming, Li Wing-kwong, Chau Wan-sau, Mok Man-cheung, Tam Hok-pui, Leung Kin-nam, Chan Kang-yi, Lau Pun-chiu, Chia Yee-ting, Chau Pak-yee, Wo Tsa-wan, Yio Kion, Li Po-kwai, Chan Chuk-hing, Tsang Yik-kai, Chan Lok-chun, and He Mok-tuk.\n\nDr. Ho Kai then presented the address to His Excellency amid loud applause. His Excellency, having thanked the gathering for their presentation, said that it gave him the very greatest pleasure to be presented with their most beautiful address and he felt sure it would give the very greatest pleasure to Lady Lugard to hear of their kind sentiments. It was usual for such presentations to be made when a Governor severed his connection with the Colony finally. Fortunately, in his case, he was leaving for a short time only and hoped he would be back in November and once again see all his friends who were gathered around him that day.\n\nDr. Ho Kai had alluded in the address to various matters with which he had identified himself, but more especially to sanitary matters. It had always been his endeavour to invite them to support the Government to teach the people what was best for their welfare and how it could be best carried out so as to afford the least inconvenience to the people. They had come forward in answer to his appeal in a manner which afforded him encouragement and at the same time excited his admiration. In this co-operation, they had been assisted by the Registrar-General, who commanded the complete confidence of the Chinese community.\n\nAfter the formal introduction, Dr. Ho Kai, addressing the Governor, said that on behalf of the leading members and representatives of the Chinese community, he had the honour of presenting His Excellency with an address embroidered on silk. He asked His Excellency to be gracious enough to accept their gift as a small token of the esteem in which His Excellency was held by the Chinese community. It was their intention to present His Excellency with the address shortly after the laying of the foundation stone of the Hongkong University, but time did not permit of their doing so, and they wished to present him with an address worthy of his dignity.\n\nHis Excellency said it was three years since he arrived in the Colony, and during that comparatively short period, the Colony had gained much by his wise administration. He had seen them through the most trying times and placed them once again on the high road to prosperity and success. Although they were just emerging from a long commercial depression, His Excellency had succeeded by his broad-mindedness and energy in founding the Hongkong University. The vast benefit which would be conferred on the Colony as a whole, but more especially on the Chinese, by the University were incalculable. For that, they thanked him most cordially and hoped that generations to come would thank him as cordially.\n\nThey hoped that when he got back to England, he would try and obtain further donations which were urgently required for the University. When he met Lady Lugard, they hoped he would convey to Her Ladyship their affectionate respects and tell her how rejoiced they were to hear of Her Ladyship's complete recovery from her recent illness, and hoped they would have the pleasure of welcoming her back in the following winter.\n\n## THE ADDRESS\n\nDr. Ho Kai then read the address, of which the following is a translation: On a lucky day in April of the year 1910, on the occasion of Your Excellency's returning to your ancestral home on a holiday of six months, we Chinese representatives of all classes of the community take the opportunity of your departure to present you with a respectful address in token of our esteem.\n\nSince Your Excellency came to give peace to this state, all the business of administration has been carried on by you with success, but you have regarded the development of education and the encouragement of talent as your most important duty, and all your energies and faculties have been devoted to the establishment of a University. Now the foundation stone has been duly laid, and the magnificent project is on the way to realization. We feel confident that in the future, the result of the education given in the University will fulfil all expectations.\n\nYour Excellency's kindness will remain a lasting and grateful memory in the hearts of the Chinese. On your departure, therefore, we beg to present you with this address and unite in a prayer that your journey will be made under a lucky star, that you may reach your country in safety and prosper in everything you undertake, and that you may spend your holiday in happiness in the society of Her Excellency Lady Lugard. Convey our respects to her. We trust that you will remember this Colony in your heart and return soon, that we may look again upon the dignity of your countenance and hearken to the grace of your commands. This is our earnest prayer.\n\nDated Hongkong, the 28th day of April, 1910.\n\n[Here follow Signatures.]\n\nThe address in Chinese translation was embroidered on Chinese silk. The honorific scroll was suspended on an ivory ruler with another at the other end of the same material. The scroll was enclosed in an artistically carved case of Chinese design and make, the case being made of red sandalwood. In the centre of the cover was Sir Frederick's monogram in silver, and on each side of the monogram are two Chinese ideographs, which, rendered freely, read: \"Benevolent Government of Hongkong.\" The handles of the beautiful case were also of silver.\n\nAfter the presentation, tea and other refreshments were served. Soon after, the deputation withdrew.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n2\n\nThe official in charge was an expectant taotai of Canton province named Tuan Shu Yün, and, on finding his suspicions confirmed, Mr. Low pressed him to hold an investigation and deal severely with the delinquents. Tuan Taotai, who is suspected of being implicated himself, refused to do this, and proposed to simply dismiss the men in question. Low declined to accede to this, and laid the matter before the director-general.\n\nSoon after this Tuan Taotai was transferred to the northern section, and subsequently went to Peking, where he worked against Low. Mr. Wang, the co-director of the southern section, was then placed in charge of the land office; but he, being a weak man, declined to take the initiative in any way, and merely urged the Peking authorities to deal with the matter. Finally, as the scandal had become public, the director-general ordered the arrest of the three officials; Kuo escaped and has not been since heard of, but Ch'a and Yang are now lodged in the prefect's yamên here. At a preliminary investigation they made statements inculpating Tuan Taotai's son, and since then nothing further has been done in the matter.\n\nMr. Low told me that powerful influences are at work to have the whole matter hushed up; but he is determined to do his utmost to prevent this, as well as to have an investigation held into the operations of the first and third purchasing parties, who are suspected of similar frauds. Tuan has now obtained a substantive taotaiship in Shantung, but it is not yet certain that he is clear of the case.\n\nThere is yet another matter intimately connected with the corrupt administration of the land office. As soon as the southern terminus of the line was transferred to Nanking speculators at once bought up the foreshore on the north bank of the river. The railway company require some 4,000 or 5,000 feet of frontage, but these speculators induced the late Viceroy to allow the company only 2,000 feet. The present director-general is inclined to give them 4,000 feet, and has directed the land office to arrange the matter. But Wang, who is at present in charge of the office, is one of the speculators concerned, and he is now in a very awkward position. If he does not give the railway the frontage they require, he will be denounced by Low; and if he does, he will offend the other landowners there and be shown up by them. Under the circumstances it is not surprising that he is anxious to resign his position as head of the land office.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHERBERT GOFFE.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46367]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 21.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nM. Franequi to Mr. C. S. Addis.—(Communicated by Mr. C. S. Addis, December 21.)\n\n60, Avenue Louise, Bruxelles,\n\nMon cher M. Addis,\n\nle 19 décembre, 1909. J'AI vu hier M. Simon, et si ce n'avait été que nous étions au samedi je vous aurais certes télégraphié pour vous faire connaître la situation à Paris.\n\nLa question n'est plus aujourd'hui entre les mains de M. Simon: le Gouvernement français la considère en effet comme étant une affaire exclusivement politique. M. Pichon a même déclaré que si l'entente ne s'établissait pas sur un pied d'une égalité complète il préférait rupture avec toutes ses conséquences, c'est-à-dire, une atteinte à l'entente cordiale.\n\nVous m'avez dit, je crois jeudi dernier, que vous aviez suggéré à M. Simon le partage de Szetchuen en quatre parts égales, et c'est ce projet qui à mon avis doit servir de base à l'accord définitif.\n\nJ'ai cru en effet comprendre que si à la dernière note que M. Cambon a remise le Foreign Office faisait les propositions suivantes, toutes les difficultés seraient aplanies:\n\n1. Entente entre les quatre groupes pour toutes les affaires de chemins de fer et d'emprunts en Chine, sur la base d'une répartition exactement égale entre les quatre groupes de tous les avantages qui seraient accordés.\n\n2. La ligne du Szetchuen et celle de Mandchourie seraient englobées dans cette entente. La ligne du Szetchuen serait divisée en quatre parts égales.\n\n3. Pour la ligne Hankéou-Canton, seule serait incorporée dans l'arrangement la partie financière, la direction technique restant à la British Chinese Corporation.\n\nJe vous écris tout cela au galop, en insistant sur ce fait, que j'ai la conviction que si vous ne faites pas de propositions dans les termes, si modérés, que je vous indique, de graves difficultés vont surgir entre les deux Gouvernements.\n\nBien à vous,\n\nE. FRANCQUI.\n\nN.B. Il est bien entendu que dans ces conditions les emprunts seraient internationalisés.\n\nA\n\n2538-2\n\n-21\n\n37",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[11126]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[April 2.]\n\nSECTION\n\n0.0.\n\n557\n\n12550\n\n¡REC\n\nRed 28 PR 10\n\nActing Consul Rose to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 2.) (No. 1. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nTengyueh, February 24, 1910. I HAVE the honour to enclose the duplicate of a report which I have to-day addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Pekin on the subject of an armed raid by a Chinese tribal chief into the British unadministered territory on the north-east frontier of India.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nARCHIBALD ROSE.\n\n(No. 3. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Rose to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nTengyueh, February 24, 1910. I have the honour to invite a reference to my telegram No. 1 of the 22nd February, and to your reply of the 23rd, authorising me to make representations to the taotai in regard to an armed raid, which is believed to have been made by the Chinese tribal chief of Tengkeng across the undelimited frontier west of the River Salween (latitude 25° 55') into the unadministered territory claimed for Great Britain by His Majesty's Minister in his despatches to the Wai-wu Pu dated the 30th January, 1904, and the 1st May, 1906.\n\nI have the honour to enclose copy of a despatch which has been addressed to me by the Government of Burmah giving details of the raid, in the course of which it appears that the village of Pien-ma (Epimaw) was burned, cattle and property looted and neighbouring districts threatened, whilst a force of 500 men from Tengkeng is reported to be still in occupation of the villages of Lower Pien-ma and Hpawte (shown in the map attached to Mr. Litton's despatch No. 8 of the 20th May, 1905). I am sending at the same time copy of a letter which I have to-day addressed to the Tengyueh taotai calling upon him to recall the raiders from British territory, to punish the chieftain of Tengkeng and to compensate the villagers for all losses which have been incurred, and, though I have thought it better to raise no controversial point with regard to the actual frontier line, it is not unlikely—in view of the despatches from the Wai-wu Pu to His Majesty's Minister of the 9th May and the 30th August, 1906—that the taotai will decline to recognise that Tengkeng has violated the international boundary.\n\nIn his despatch No. 4 of the 19th January, 1908, my predecessor reported the complaint of certain Chinese merchants that the Tengkeng sawbwa had recently increased his toll on coffin wood from the country in the valley of the Ngawchang Kha, and the present trouble appears to have arisen from a refusal to pay this toll on the part of the villagers, who were doubtless prompted by the visit in 1905 of Mr. Litton and Mr. Leveson in company with Shih Taotai to believe that they might regard themselves in future as British subjects, and who consequently seek their remedy against Tengkeng's oppression by the address of a petition to me and an appeal to the deputy commissioner at Myitkyina.\n\nIt will be remembered that the frontier has actually been demarcated as far north as Manung Pum in latitude 25° 35', whilst beyond that point it has been carried along in a north-easterly direction, following the line of the N'Maikha-Shweli and N'Maikha Salween watersheds to about latitude 26° 15′ north. As far as this point the country was surveyed and mapped during the expedition of 1905, whilst later information proves that the line of the watershed is continued for many miles along the clear-cut limestone ridge of the Salween Divide, which is evidently one of nature's most magnificent geographical and ethnographical boundaries. During his last journey in the\n\n[2729 6-1]",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Herts to Mr. Carey.\n\nJanuary 17, 1910.\n\nPLEASE refer to my demi-official letter dated the 28th August, 1909. Wilson has sent a Lashi named Chawm Tung Bawm, of Lungbang, on the Upper Ngawchang Kha, with a letter addressed to Rose, which I am forwarding to you original under a separate registered cover. The letter is written in Chinese on a piece of board, and purports to be a petition from the inhabitants of five villages on the above-named stream, complaining that the headman of Tengkeng, situated on the Salween in China, has burnt the village of Upper (or West) Hpimaw and threatens to destroy their villages. The names in Lashi of the five villages are Hpimaw (East), Kalam (East and West), Htantung and Lamyaw. As is not usual the Chinese names of the villages are different from the local Yawyin or Lashi names.\n\nA copy of the statement made by the messenger to Mr. Wilson, which is substantially the same as he has stated to me here, is also forwarded.\n\nThe elders of the five villages are said to have met at the village of Iltumshing and there to have got two Chinese traders, Ton San Ye and Chu Laopan, to write the letter.\n\nThe burning of Hpimaw appears to have taken place more than a month ago. After the destruction of the village the headman (or chief) of Tengkeng returned to China, but his men, some hundreds of them in all, it is said, are still in Lower Hpimaw and Hpawdi. The messenger took nine days to come here.\n\nIt is evident, if the above is true (and I have no doubt that it is substantially so), that we cannot permit the Chinese to remain in occupation of the Ngawchang Valley, for if we do, we shall not be able to make good our claim to the Irrawady-Salween Divide as the boundary between the two Empires. I can see no course open to us, therefore, but to dispatch a column without delay to compel the Chinese to return to their country, and to place beyond possibility of future question that the whole of the basin of the Irrawady belongs to us.\n\nI leave it to you to communicate with Rose on the subject of this letter, if you consider it necessary to do so.\n\nThe villages of Tengkeng, Tangtung, Lungpang (Langbang) and Hpimaw are shown in the map attached to the red book on the joint survey of the Burmah-Yunnan boundary by British and Chinese officials in 1905, in which book the claim of the Tengkeng headman to the Upper Ngawchang Valley and the advantages of the above-named boundary are discussed at length. From the opinion of the British officials who took part in the joint survey that the adoption of any other frontier will be highly detrimental to the interests of Burmah, I do not think that anyone will dissent.\n\nA translation of the Chinese letter is attached.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nTranslation of Chinese letter addressed to Acting Consul Rose.\n\nTHE humble petition of the elders of villages situated on the upper waters of the Hsiao Chiang (small river, i.e., the Ngawchang Kha) addressed to the British consul at Tengyuch.\n\nAbout the 15th day of the 9th month the headman of Tengkeng, named Twanhwe, collecting a force of 300 Yawyins and 200 of his own people, came and attacked our villages, He set fire to and entirely destroyed one village which consists of houses with thatch roofs. We are in great danger and our people have been scattered by this inroad into our country. He has also killed all our domestic animals such as pigs, fowls, and dogs, and taken our provisions. We therefore petition to your Honour to pity us, and to restore peace and order in our unhappy valley. Our villages lie within British territory and we humbly request that you will be kind enough to pay them a visit. We do not know why the Tengkeng headman is oppressing us by raiding our villages. We have no intercourse with his villages nor is there any feud between us. Our territory lies within the Kaoliang Pass Pillar and is watered by the Hsiao Chiang (Ngawchang Kha). We are unable to resist his attacks, so we petition your Honour to be kind enough to visit our country, which is in a very disturbed state, and to help us.\n\nThe headman in question is also said to have threatened the people living on the other side of the river (Ngawchang Kha). Our country does not belong to him, so we request you to come to us.\n\nWe are the elders and villagers of Tumaw, Kwankwan, Shanglaw, Kachi, and Shijang.\n\nDated the 1st year, 10th month, 26th day of the reign of Sein Ton.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nStatement made to Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent, Sadon, by Chawm Tung Baum, of Lungbang.\n\nLABAU NU, Duwa of Lajawng, has brought in a Lashi named Chawm Tung Bawm, of Lungbang, a village near Hpimaw, to the British consul at Tengyuch. I have questioned Labau Nu and Chawm Tung Bawn carefully, and they furnish the following information:\n\n\"As the Lashis of Hpimaw and some fourteen or fifteen villages have not paid tribute for the last three or four years the Tengkeng fuyi about two months ago got together 500 men (Chinese, Black Lisu, Maru, and Lashi) and threatened to burn down the villages which refused to pay tribute. The Lashis on our side of the frontier got information of the fuyi's intentions from their friends and relations who live on the Chinese side, and some fifty or sixty of them, armed with guns and bows and arrows, awaited the approach of the fuyi and his following. A fight took place on the frontier and the Hpimaw men and their friends are said to have killed seven of the fuyi's men, and to have wounded a few more. The Hpimaw men had no casualties, but, as they were outnumbered, they retreated, and the fuyi and his men then sacked and burnt Upper Hpimaw.\n\n\"The fuyi is said to have stationed at the present time 300 men at Lower Hpimaw and 200 at the Lisu village of Hpawte. The detachment at Hpimaw is composed of transfrontier Chinese, Black Lisus, Marus, and Lashis, and the men are quartered in four or five Chinese houses which are built of sun-dried bricks. The men who are stationed at Hpawte are mostly from the Chinese side, but several Black Lisus who belong to Hpawte took part in the sacking and burning of Upper Hpimaw.\n\n\"No Chinese soldiers or men from the frontier levy are said to have been engaged, and the fuyi's followers are armed with cap-guns, flint-locks, and Kachin check guns.\"\n\nThe following information obtained from the messenger may also be of interest:\n\n\"There is a tree which grows on both banks of the Ngawchang Kha, the timber of which is much prized by the Chinese for making coffins. The Chingpaw name for the tree is 'shau hipun,' the Lashi name 'shau sik,' and the Chinese name 'sha mu.' The Tengkeng fuyi formerly levied a tax of 1 rupee to 1 rupee 8a. on every four planks extracted from the forests near Hpimaw, but during the last three years he has taken two planks out of every four in lieu of the money tax. Two well-to-do Chinese traders, named Chu Lauban, of Mingkuang, and Ton Sanye, of Kutung Pa, who deal largely in these planks, are said to have complained to the Chinese official at Yung-chang Fu about the Tengkeng fuyi's conduct. They were informed that Hpimaw was in the British sphere of influence, and were referred to the Tengyuch ting, who is said to have warned the Tengkeng fuyi to discontinue levying taxes, as Hpimaw was not in Chinese territory.\n\n\"Some three years ago a Yawyin (Black Lisu) discovered a couple of salt springs near two streams which flow into the Ngawchang Kha. He took samples from each spring to the Tengkeng fuyi, who boiled them down, and found that one produced excellent salt, while the other produced inferior stuff. The fuyi is said thereupon to have declared that both springs are in his jurisdiction, and to have prohibited their being worked without his permission.\n\n\"The writer of this letter is Ton Sanye, one of the Chinese traders referred to.”\n\nPage 559",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nThere was neither room nor provisions on board the \"Kian\" for this additional crowd; so after a short broken night, they were sped on their way to Hankow.\n\nThe Arrival of His Majesty's Ship “Thistle.”\n\nSunday, the 17th April, was a memorable day. On Saturday news had come to us of a British ship ashore in the lake. \"Ai ya, it is a big one!\" was all that we had to guide us as to which ship it was. Speculation had a fine field. The river was falling rapidly. It would be the, well, it doesn't matter what, it turned out to be the She couldn't get off till June, &c. How can thirty odd refugees crowded into a saloon built for a dozen passengers help talking? On Sunday, we got news that the British boat was off; that the admiral of the Yang-tsze was coming with a cruiser and 2,000 Hupeh troops. Then at 4 p.m. the white ensign came in sight; and not long after three ringing cheers from the \"Kian\" greeted His Majesty's ship \"Thistle.\"\n\nWhile the newly-arrived captain and the consul were consulting, the Chinese \"Ts'u Yu\" came in sight. She is a much faster boat than the \"Thistle.\" Still the \"Thistle's\" anchor was down, and it became evident to a schoolboy's arithmetic that the faster boat was bound to pass the \"Thistle\" before the latter could reach Changsha. At last, back came the orders to the \"Kian\" to follow after the \"Thistle\" at full speed. On came the \"Ts'u Yu\" and just walked past the \"Kian\" in such a way as to make it hopeless that the British flag would be the first. There was a race and no mistake. The two funnels of the \"Ts'u Yu\" seemed to belch more smoke than could have come from a dozen funnels.\n\n\"Jack's\" account of the race was worth having. We on the \"Kian\" got too far behind to see it well. \"Jack of the engine-room\" says that a laconic message came down from the bridge: \"Engineer, that boat must not pass us.\" It is not for an outsider to try and repeat how many more revolutions a minute the screws of the \"Thistle\" made than ever her builders contracted they should make. Nor would I repeat all I have heard about the way in which this place got too hot and that. All I have to say is that \"that boat\" did not pass the \"Thistle,\" and the first flag to fly opposite Changsha after the riots was the Cross of St. George and not the Dragon of China.\n\n54\n\nThe Return to Changsha,\n\nOh, the tales that greeted our ears as clerks and converts, servants and friends came on board.\n\nWe had a hastily-gathered meeting in the saloon, and one English and one American speaker tried to voice something of the feelings of unbounded admiration we felt to the British consul, and to the captains and officers of the steamers. I add copies of the addresses which were hurriedly drafted, one for Mr. Hewlett, the others for the two British firms to which we were indebted.\n\nIt is evident the fight is over. What particular shape the diplomatic victory will take will soon be known. But everyone who has passed through riots—and this is the fourth your correspondent has experienced—knows how the pendulum swings far back in the reaction. Humbled Changsha! We who have been watching for the past few years the growing vanity of the people, and especially of the scholarly class, and have known the utter powerlessness of the boaster, have again and again foretold the inevitable crash and the inevitable advance of the very things that Changsha was determined should not advance. Now her streets are patrolled by Hupeh men, who know how Changsha has scorned their fellow-provincials. Her scorn is returned with compound interest.\n\nOne boast belongs to us, and we make it. For the past two years the diplomatic fight that has been waged has chiefly, though not entirely, centred itself on the British consul. No one can point to any unjust or even unkind demand on his part. No share of this mess is due to him. When the victory is fully won, the name that will stand out foremost is that of His Majesty's consul, Mr. W. M. Hewlett.\n\nThe \"Kian\" is back in Changsha; but the consul forbids those of us under his control to land on the city side, and all non-British guests obey willingly the wise precaution. The local officials are by no means sure that the trouble is over; and as the consul says in his circular to us, it would be selfish for any one to imperil the lives of those in the interior by doing anything so rash as to go into the city at some risk to their own life merely to look after property.\n\nThe governor is alive. His seals are handed over to the treasurer.\n\n11\n\nAddress to His Majesty's Consul.\n\nThe following address, dated the 17th April, 1910, was presented to Mr. W. M. Hewlett—\n\n\"Dear Mr. Hewlett,\n\n“We, the undersigned, on our own behalf and on behalf of the whole European and American community of Changsha, desire to express to you our sincere thanks for your services to us during the recent crisis, caused by the riots of 1910.\n\n“We recognise with profound thanks to Almighty God that not a single foreign life was taken during the riots. We desire to express our opinion that but for the wise steps which, under God, you have taken that happy result would not have been attained,\n\n“Throughout the long hours from the evening of Wednesday, the 13th April, until the arrival of His Majesty's ship 'Thistle' this Sunday afternoon, the 17th April, you have been awake night and day with the exception of too few hours of sleep. We could not have marvelled had the strain rendered you unfit for work; but you have not even swerved from the courtesy that has always marked your ordinary intercourse with us. Of the wisdom of the provision you have made, the successful issue is the fullest praise.\n\n“For the way in which you have exercised your hospitality on board the boat which you chartered on behalf of His Britannic Majesty's Government, the non-British members of the community desire to express especial thanks. The fact that the British portion of those rescued by your help is not the majority of the whole number rescued is in itself significant; but that fact is rendered still more noteworthy when we say that there has been absolutely no distinction in your treatment of us all. It is our wish that a copy of this very inadequate expression of our thanks be forwarded to the American, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, and Swedish Legations, and on behalf of the Norwegians to the British Minister, and on behalf of the Swiss to the French Minister at Peking, with a request that all the Governments that have benefited by your services may know what cause they have to thank you.\n\n“We confidently anticipate for you a brilliant career in the honourable service which has been adorned with so many great names with which we shall always associate yours.”\n\n(Here follow the signatures of fifteen British, seven Americans, one Dutch, two Germans, two Italians, three Norwegians, one Russian, one Swede, and one Swiss.)\n\nExtract from the British Consul's Circulars of April 18, 1910.\n\nCircular No. 1.\n\nThe officials state that if one foreign life had been lost during the riots that the whole province would have risen Preparations [for further rioting] had been made throughout the province. Word was awaited from Changsha, and it is to be hoped that the fact that no lives were lost will deter the disaffected from further action.\n\nExtreme uneasiness still exists.\n\nCircular No. 2.\n\nThe acting governor will call to-morrow morning. His Majesty's ship \"Nightingale\" left for Changsha last night from Yochou, and His Majesty's ship \"Snipe\" was leaving at once.\n\n0\n\n219",
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        "content_text": "10\n\n17\n\nreplied, declaring that such falsehoods were regarded by him \"with the deepest detestation,\" and that he had issued the most stringent orders for their suppression. I would refer in this connection to my despatch No. 33 of the 3rd instant, adding that on the 18th instant the \"Chiengtu Jih-pao\" publishes a proclamation by his Excellency, threatening penalties against all who disseminate them, and ordering the local authorities to depute \"intelligent gentlemen,\" who, in conjunction with the heads of the trainbands, shall go from village to village and deliver lectures exposing the baselessness of these stories.\n\nAs regards the purchase of land, his Excellency has frankly recognised, in writing, the permission accorded to missionary societies to lease or buy land in the interior, only stipulating that the deeds should be marked \"tso-wei chiao-hui kung-ch'an\" (\"as the common property of the mission\"). There has only been one instance, since my arrival here, where anything that could be twisted into animus has been shown by a local official, and the magistrate concerned in this case (which I trust is now in process of settlement) suffered from dementia, and has been superseded.\n\nVoluntary Subscriptions.-A meeting was held to discuss the repayment of the National Debt (\"ch'ou-huan kuo-chai\"). Regulations were drawn up, and then the thing died out. No money has been subscribed. Contributions for a Chinese navy have not, as far as I can learn, been even suggested by any one in Szechuan.\n\nThe Comet. The skies of Central Szechuan are so frequently covered with clouds that few opportunities have offered in the Chengtu plain of seeing Halley's comet. On the 8th instant a diagram showing the relative positions of the sun, the earth, and the comet on various nights from the 20th April to the 30th May was published as a supplement to the \"Tung-su Jih-pao,\" together with an explanatory note in the colloquial. The diagram was provided by my French colleague, as also, I should imagine, the facts on which the note is based. There is, at all events, not the least hint that the appearance of the comet is a portent of disaster, though it is admitted that on the 18th May there is a bare possibility of danger from contact of the earth's atmosphere with the cyanogen (the word is given in foreign script) of the comet's tail.\n\nChinese Finances.-The balance-sheet of this province for 1908 was given in my No. 14 of the 18th February. It shows a surplus, but in other State documents that have from time to time been published, the difficulty of making both ends meet is dwelt on by the Governor-General. His Excellency's too precipitate suppression of opium will necessarily disorganise the provincial finances, and meanwhile is necessitating the levy of additional taxes.\n\nNo bank notes are current in Szechuan, with the negligible exception of a very limited issue at Lu Chou (see my No. 1 of the 3rd January).\n\nDisaffection of the People.--A number of new taxes are being levied, and these are, it is perhaps hardly necessary to remark, decidedly unpopular. Mention was made of some of them in my opium report (No. 20 of the 8th March), and in the Intelligence Report for March quarter (separate of the 21st April), and I now append a note, compiled by Mr. Toller, of further exactions, which, though apparently localised, are probably of general application, or, at any rate, are likely to furnish precedents for similar levies in other districts. It is a matter of common talk that in one hsien, Tzu Tzu-yang, taxation is so heavy that even respectable people are prostituting their daughters.\n\nMr. Little himself observed (Enclosure in No. 22 of the 10th March) that \"the coin, as far as one can judge, is of a high standard compared with most of the coins turned out in China in other provinces.\" So far, the copper coinage struck here has not been debased.\n\nThe formation of a provincial mining company was reported by Mr. Langford Smith in his Intelligence Report for September quarter, 1909, and reference to it is made in Enclosure 2 of my despatch No. 32 of the 23rd April. There is little reason to doubt that its inception was due less to a desire to encourage mining than to the intention of forestalling foreign demands for mineral concessions. The present Intendant of Commerce professes to be eager to encourage exports, but too often leaves his motives open to misconstruction by insisting on official control of each new undertaking.\n\nProvincial Assemblies.-No pronounced anti-foreign sentiment appeared during the sittings of the assembly. Foreigners were allowed to sit in the \"strangers' gallery,\" and on the first occasion when a European availed himself of this privilege the President directed the attention of members to the fact, and asked them to refrain from expectoration and other practices likely to lower the dignity of the assembly in the eyes of the world. The Szechuan Assembly, however, contains a large proportion of the class now foremost in all anti-foreign movements-young men who have studied in Japan, and have returned thence with some knowledge of modern institutions, and a far greater idea of their own importance.\n\nThe attitude of the assembly towards officialdom was dealt with in Mr. Toller's report (Enclosure in No. 37 of the 17th November last). It may be briefly described as \"captious neutrality.\"\n\nLoyalty of the Troops.-There is no doubt that a considerable section of the officers and men are anti-dynastic, and that the army is honeycombed by secret societies, such as that of the Hung-teng Chiao, or Brotherhood of the Red Lamp. The Japanese boycott movement was fostered in the Military Academy (my No. 40 of the 23rd December, 1909).\n\nDesertions are not infrequent, at any rate from the Hsin-fang Chün. This no doubt is largely due to the fact that from this force are chiefly drawn the troops which, alone in China at the present time, are employed on what is practically service abroad, the expeditions against the Tibetans and Lolos.\n\nTo sum up: I think that Mr. Little's prognostications are by no means baseless, but that as far as Szechuan is concerned the danger is not altogether as imminent as he fears. There is growing dissatisfaction among the people, who are feeling acutely the burden of increased taxation, and there is too much probability that in the event of a rising against the officials foreign residents will also be attacked, while the army cannot be relied upon to protect either the officials or the residents.\n\nMy colleagues, whom I have consulted, are of the same opinion, that trouble is brewing, but that there is no immediate cause for anxiety.\n\nI append some notes on Mr. Little's report that have been drawn up at my request by Mr. Davey, Mr. Hamilton, and the Rev. J. Vale, all residents of long standing in Szechuan, and well acquainted with its language and people.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nList of New Taxes Levied in Szechuan.\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nA tax on chair hongs was levied at Feng-chieh Hsien (the home magistracy of K'uei-chou Fu) last winter, to the extent of 1,500 cash per mensem. As this is now found to be insufficient, a slight increase has been made. Two shops resisted the imposition and have been officially closed.\n\nAt the same magistracy there is a tax of 1 dollar on every beast killed. At the time of the Confucian festival, several people killed cattle without paying the tax: they have been arrested and heavily fined.\n\nThe Governor-General has given his sanction to a tax on grain sales in Shih-fang Hsien. Vendor and purchaser each pay 1 cash on a peck; fractions of a peck are exempt.\n\nTo cover police expenses, taxes on tea-shops and feasts are being levied at Peng-ch'i Hsien. The daily tax on tea-shops is 5 cash per square table, 3 cash per long table. For feasts, the tax per table is: Feast with sharks' fins, 200 cash; feast with ginseng, 100 cash; plain (water) feast, 40 cash; the amount being doubled in each case if the cook comes to the host's private house. Funeral feasts are exempted. Similar taxes have also been instituted in Shih-fang Hsien, to cover the expenses of the school of Sericulture and of the officer of commerce. The rates are as follows:-\n\n  \n    Upper class\n    160 cash per table (per meal)\n  \n  \n    Middle class\n    120\n  \n  \n    Lower class\n    80\n  \n\nThe estimated annual yield is 1,000 tiao,\n\n11\n\n[2827 9-2]\n\nE\n\n404",
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        "content_text": "any\n\n2\n\nterritory to set unwelcome laws at defiance. Previous to the year 1909 opium formed the predominating influence in the agricultural and economic life of the border population, and although the native chiefs were induced to effect a considerable reduction of crops during the 1908-9 season, they have refused during the past winter substantial decrease in the number of fields which formed the limit of last year's cultivation. In the course of my frontier work during the recent open season I have had opportunities of visiting a considerable portion of the tribal belt, and my own observations, amplified by reliable reports from other sources, lead me to believe that a considerable quantity of the drug is now available for sale from these districts in addition to the amount which will be required for home consumption, but at the same time that the effect of the prohibition has been very definite, and that the Chinese have made the poppy crops a pretext for interference in outlying districts to which they had not previously penetrated. The fact that many fields remain under cultivation cannot be attributed to laxity or bad faith on the part of the local authorities, who have been active in their measures of prevention, but it is a factor in the political life of the province, which can only be affected by the steady advance of Chinese administrative control to the limit of the political frontier. The only effective control which they are now able to exercise over the produce of this zone is in closing the open markets to the sale of the drug, and in refusing to recognise as recoverable debts such advances to cultivators as have regularly been made in the past by Chinese traders who have speculated on the prospects of the crops. These two factors will undoubtedly have weight in gauging the utility of the crop to the farmers, and such control may serve to effect a natural reduction in supply, provided that the demand shows an actual decline. At present the demand is so free and the price so high that the cultivators and smugglers amongst the tribesmen are induced to take considerable risks in the hopes of great reward.\n\nQuality of Local Drug.\n\nIn spite of the proximity of the Burmah frontier, Indian opium never appears to have entered Yunnan, though there is evidence that the poppy has been cultivated in the province for several centuries. The main crop has been Papaver somniferum, with flowers of every colour from pale mauve to the deepest crimson, though fields of entirely white poppies are occasionally seen. It is possible that the latter may be the Papaver officinale, but the farmers state that the white flowers and the brilliantly shaded blossoms are produced from identical seed, and that the colour is affected only by the early or late gathering of the seed, the fresh seed grains producing the white and pale tints, whilst the deeper blooms spring from that which is more mature. Years ago the fertile, well-watered plains round the great cities were covered with poppy during the winter season, but the crop has now entirely vanished from these fields, and cultivation is confined to the more inaccessible mountain tracts even in the tribal zone. The seed is sown in November, and the sap is collected from March until May, the harvest varying considerably with the altitude of the fields.\n\nA few\n\nThe Shans, Kachins, Palaungs, Lohei, and Wa all use the drug, often saturating dried plantain leaves with the juice and smoking them in pipes in the same way as tobacco, and in this form the effects of the drug are much less potent than when smoked in Chinese fashion. The attempts to reduce cultivation in the territories of these outlying races has caused severe trouble, and the sub-prefect of Tengyueh, who is responsible for their good behaviour, narrowly escaped with his life last year after the destruction of some mountain crops. The Kachins frankly admit that they smoke the drug for pleasure, and, remembering the hard and desolate lives to which they are condemned, there is little wonder that there is a craving for such dreams as we have heard of from De Quincey, when there will be revealed \"a far-off hope for human nature, now suffering from some mysterious eclipse and labouring in some dread extremity,\" and, with the Turk, these tribesmen label their one luxury Mash Allah (the gift of God). Beyond this, however, the opium has two real spheres in the life of these people—a medicinal and an economic need—and it is gradually realised even by the local officials that these are factors which cannot be ignored if they intend to carry through a progressive and peaceful policy on the frontier, and to steer a steady course towards the final absorption of the \"barbarians\" in the great family of the sons of Han.\n\nMedicinal Needs.\n\nOn the high plateaux comprising the greater portion of Yunnan, which lies at an altitude of 6,000 feet, and which are inhabited by a hardy race of Chinese average\n\n3\n\nhighlanders, fever is practically unknown, but the country is scored by deep and narrow river-courses such as the Salween, the Mekong, the Red River, and the Shweli, sometimes no higher than 2,000 feet above the sea, and by the damp, fertile valleys which break away towards the Burmah frontier and form the line of the Chinese Shan States. Below an altitude of 4,000 feet the Chinese will not venture, except in the season of dry sunny weather, for the gorges of the rivers and the pent-up valleys are full of a virulent malaria, which at once attacks the men from the higher altitudes, and constantly proves fatal even to the natives. Although the prophylactic properties of quinine are now recognised to some extent, it is impossible to obtain supplies in any quantity, and it is generally and widely realised in the malarial districts of Yünnan, as it was in our own fen country early in the nineteenth century, that opium is invaluable both for prevention and cure. This is the first and greatest need, and, as long as malaria and dysentery claim so many victims in the Shan valleys and Kachin hills, so long will they resist the destruction of their crops with all their force. During six months of the past open season the Tengyueh Road Committee has employed an average number of 300 Chinese soldiers a-day in the construction of a road through the Shan States. There has been such a terrible mortality in other low-lying portions of Yunnan that the men showed great reluctance to go down to the work, but they were regularly treated with quinine, and with the simple and primitive resources at our disposal we endeavoured to shelter them from the dangers of malaria. Our efforts were so far successful that we did not lose a man, and the gangs maintained a high standard of health during the six months that they remained in the Shan States. A few weeks ago, however, the season being finished, the men dispersed to their farms, and when we endeavoured to select six men to remain on the road for purposes of inspection and maintenance it was found that every man among the 300 smoked opium, and they resolutely refused to do without the drug if they were to visit the low-lying tracts. Yet a finer body of men physically could not well be found, and there is no doubt that in spite of the brand of \"opium-sodden,\" which has been applied so constantly to the Yunnanese—they present a splendid physical type, tall, sturdy, enduring, and well-coloured, though few of them were free from the habit until the increasing prices of the past year commenced to place it beyond their reach. There seems little doubt that in places where food is plentiful, as is generally the case throughout Western Yunnan and Szechuan, the opium victim is practically unknown, and it is only in the famine areas that the drug is inclined to eat into a system exhausted by hunger and disease.\n\nEconomic Needs.\n\nA\n\nThe economic need for the opium crop is more wide in its extent and more evident in its application than the medicinal factor, but it would lend itself as readily to available remedies if they could be applied in time. It is estimated that before the prohibition measures were inaugurated from two-thirds to four-fifths of the arable land in the western circuit was under opium crops. The Viceroy, in an impetuous effort to clear the country, disregarded the proposal of a ten years' scheme, and commanded that every poppy should be plucked out within the year—a policy which must have been dictated by a desire for anti-opium notoriety, rather than by any conviction of the needs and welfare of his people. As a result of these vigorous measures a large acreage has been fallow for the past two years and there has been widespread loss among the farmers. The Yunnanese are, however, a quiet and law-abiding race, and it can only be wondered that the troubles were limited by the few and scattered riots which marked the course of 1909. The last rice harvest was abundant throughout the district, and the minds of the people were thus distracted from their grievance, whilst the steady progress of the cities shows that no financial set-back has yet been felt. The situation, however, is not without its anxieties for the more far-seeing of the officials, and they anticipate with dread the next barren year, or even the realisation of losses which will be borne in upon the people in the natural evolution of the next three or four years.\n\nYunnan is a country of difficult communications, land-bound, mountainous, and difficult of access, depending on mule transport for its communication with the outside world. Opium was its ideal product, suited to the soil, the climate, the mountain slopes where no other crop will thrive, of little bulk, too, and unlikely to depreciate under the rough handling of the present transport. Every year a regular flow of silver found its way from Hunan and Canton to Yunnan in exchange for the opium supplies, and every year this silver met the local demand for cotton yarn and comes from foreign cotton cloth, which cannot be produced locally, and now\n\n499",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n4\n\nsur le nouveau chenal. Les produits du dragage serviront à cela; on fera ainsi d'une pierre deux coups.\n\nLa somme nécessaire pour mener ce travail à bien est de 300,000 taels; elle est en dehors de l'accord spécial. Néanmoins, comme il importe d'assurer l'avenir de l'œuvre entreprise, les 300,000 taels seront versés en plus.\n\nEn résumé, les travaux du Whangpoo Conservancy sont de la plus haute importance pour le commerce chinois et étranger de Shanghaï. Le Gouvernement Impérial, qui s'y intéresse même plus que les étrangers, ne manquera pas de prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour maintenir en bon état les travaux exécutés et arriver à un résultat durable.\n\nJe crois devoir adresser à votre Excellence les informations détaillées qui précèdent; je lui serai reconnaissant de bien vouloir en faire part au corps diplomatique.\n\nPour traduction conforme : BLANCHOT.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nReport communicated by Sir J. Wolfe Barry, Sir W. Matthews, and Mr. A. G. Lyster, to the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nIntroduction.\n\nIN accordance with the terms of an agreement made in London on the 10th November, 1909, between Mr. Frederick Anderson, acting on behalf of your chamber and ourselves, we arranged with the firm of Messrs. Coode, Son, and Matthews, of Westminster, for two of their partners, Mr. Maurice F. G. Wilson and Mr. T. Leigh Matthews, who were about to visit Singapore on professional business, to proceed thence to Shanghai in order to collect such information and data as appeared to us to be necessary to enable us to prepare a report to yourselves upon the works in progress for the improvement of the deep-water approach to Shanghai, also upon the plan prepared by M. de Rijke for the complete scheme of such improvement.\n\n2. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Matthews accordingly arrived at Shanghai on the 31st January last, and completed their investigations on the 28th February, leaving Shanghai on that date for Singapore. They were subsequently detained on business at the last-named place, and also at Colombo, eventually returning to London at the end of April.\n\n3. Early in June we were furnished with the information which had been prepared by Messrs. Wilson and Matthews in accordance with the mode of procedure above described, and with the copies of certain plans and drawings which they had prepared, and have since had the advantage of interviews here with Mr. F. Anderson, the chairman of your sub-committee, appointed in connection with the Whangpoo Conservancy; Mr. W. D. Little, the chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, now at home; Mr. H. E. Hobson, late Commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs at Shanghai, and formerly a member of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board; Mr. H. H. Joseph and Captain Gregor of the P. and O. Company, and Captain Evans of the Ocean Steam-ship Company. Unfortunately we are unable to secure the attendance of captains in other steam-ship companies trading with Shanghai which we approached for that purpose, namely, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Messageries maritimes, and Nippon Yusen Kaisha lines. To all the foregoing gentlemen our thanks are due for the valuable information which they so courteously placed at our disposal.\n\n4. On arrival at Shanghai Mr. Little kindly met Messrs. Wilson and Matthews, and introduced them to certain gentlemen interested in the shipping and general trade of the port, who were in a position to afford them useful information bearing on the investigation. He also placed them in communication with M. J. de Rijke, engineer-in-chief to the Whangpoo Conservancy.\n\n5. We desire to express our thanks to M. de Rijke for the courteous assistance he rendered to Messrs. Wilson and Matthews at all times during their stay at Shanghai, and for the readiness with which he invited the fullest investigation of the papers and plans connected with the works, and for the facilities which he afforded for making personal inspection thereof. In this connection we should also like to mention Captain Forbes, M. de Rijke's chief assistant.\n\n6. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Matthews laid before us in a very clear and comprehensive manner the valuable data and information procured by them during their stay in Shanghai; they have also since their return furnished further important particulars and explanations, and have greatly assisted us in the preparation of this report.\n\n7. Having now carefully considered the very complete data which have been placed before us, as above explained, in connection with this important investigation, we have the honour to present this report with regard thereto.\n\nDrawings which accompany the Report.*\n\n8. In order that our remarks may be readily understood, the report is accompanied by two drawings.\n\nDrawing No. 1 is a general plan of the Whangpoo River from the Yang-tsze Kiang to above Kiangnan Arsenal, whereon are shown by green colour the portions of M. de Rijke's project, which have been already completed, and by red colour the further works which he considers essential, but which have not as yet been commenced. A key plan is also given on this sheet which shows the position of Shanghai with respect to the adjacent country and the rivers therein.\n\nDrawing No. 2 is a plan at a large scale (1,000 feet to an inch) showing the river and channels in the vicinity of Gough Island, and at the confluence of the Whangpoo with the Yang-taze, together with the works which have been constructed for the diversion of the navigable channel from the eastern to the western side of Gough Island, and for the improvement of the entrance, which works are shown by green colour. This sheet also shows in red certain further works considered necessary by M. de Rijke, which form portions of those indicated in a similar manner on drawing No. 1.\n\n1.-GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WHANGPOO RIVER.\n\n9. The Whangpoo River connects the great system of inland lagoons south-west of Shanghai with the Yang-tsze Kiang, and thus with the sea. There are, in addition, innumerable creeks of varying size which discharge through the Whangpoo, the total drainage area of which has been estimated at about 12,000 square miles.\n\nTide Influence.\n\n10. The Whangpoo River and its creeks are tidal for very many miles, appreciable rise and fall being apparent in the Si Tai lagoon, about 50 miles above Shanghai by the main channel of the river, and in the creeks adjacent thereto. Tidal influence is, however, hardly noticeable in the Tai-ha lagoon, about 20 miles further inland. The water in the Whangpoo is entirely fresh, the tidal movement being produced by the backing up of the Yang-tsze Kiang, the water in the latter being also quite fresh for many miles below the mouth of the Whangpoo at Woosung. As illustrating the value of the tidal water, as compared with the fluvial water, in the maintenance of the régime of the river, it may be mentioned that the average discharge of the river at Shanghai, due to rainfall, has been calculated by MM. Escher and de Rijke as only three fifty-ninths of the total discharge.\n\n11. We may here emphasise the immense importance of the tidal movement in the maintenance of the régime of the river. As will be seen from the comparative statement of fluvial and tidal volumes just given, a river of greatly reduced dimensions, quite unsuitable for a large navigation, would be fully sufficient to meet the requirements of Whangpoo, considered only as a channel for rain water discharge.\n\nTidal Ranges.\n\n12. The tidal ranges given on the Admiralty charts and in the China Sea directory, as compared with those furnished by the local authorities, vary greatly. We consider, however, it will be correct to assume that the rise of tide at Woosung at springs is approximately 10 feet, and at neaps 8 feet above low-water ordinary spring * Not reproduced.\n\n[2958 Wh-1]\n\nC\n\n396",
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        "content_text": "13\n\n12\n\nan alternative to the 51. In the same report, M. de Rijke suggested, as improvement of the river below Upper Gough, the cutting of an entirely new channel from this point to the Yang-tsze. Whatever may be the engineering aspect of this proposal, it was abandoned as impracticable, in consequence of the opposition which was anticipated from the Chinese authorities, to the removal of the mouth of the river from the neighbourhood of Woosung, where forts had been constructed and custom-houses established, and also on the ground that, by the adoption of the project, Woosung, itself a treaty port and important native town, would have been cut off from the sea.\n\nMessrs. Franzius and Bates' Report.\n\n52. In 1902 a German engineer, M. Ludwig Franzius, in conjunction with an American engineer, Mr. Lindon W. Bates, submitted a general report on the river, and put forward, as an alternative to M. de Rijke's scheme, a proposal for the development of the Ship Channel as the main navigation track to Shanghai. One of the principal contentions in this report was that the Ship Channel could be improved and maintained at much less cost than the Junk Channel.\n\nVI—FINAL SCHEME OF IMPROVEMENTS.\n\n53. As already stated (paragraph 26), it was not until 1905 that it was definitely decided to improve the river, and that M. de Rijke was appointed engineer-in-chief. An entirely new survey was proceeded with, it being found, in some reaches, that great changes had occurred.\n\n54. M. de Rijke was not requested to submit a general plan of the works to be constructed prior to the same being commenced, nor was an estimate of their cost prepared, the improvements being carried out generally on the lines laid down in his 1898 report, no modifications of any magnitude or importance being considered, by reason of such changes in the river as had taken place in the meantime.\n\nCommencement of Works.\n\n55. The works were commenced early in 1907, those portions which appeared at the moment to require priority in attention being first taken in hand, the most important being the training works at Woosung and those at the lower end of Gough Island.\n\nThe latter were necessary for the maintenance of Ship Channel and the depth of water over the Inner Bar as then existing, until the time arrived for opening the Junk Channel for navigation. Other subsidiary works for confining or enlarging the channel were also designed at Pheasant Point, Pootung Point, and the Chinese city at Shanghai, as well as many small protective works to the banks at threatened places.\n\n\"Normal Lines.”\n\n56. From the upper limit of the river near Kiangnan Arsenal to the Yang-tsze \"normal lines\" were laid down by M. de Rijke, the width between the same being based on that of the stream in Black Point Reach, which was considered to be the best naturally maintained portion of the river below Shanghai. M. de Rijke's proposals included the cutting back or bringing forward of the low-water margin to confine the stream as far as practicable within the \"normal lines.\" These lines have been adopted by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, and all structures such as wharves erected in the river, have rightly to be carried out in conformity with the same.\n\nVII—DESCRIPTION OF WORKS ALREADY MENTIONED.\n\n57. The works referred to in this section are shown upon the accompanying drawings Nos. 1 and 2, those coloured green are entirely or almost entirely completed, those coloured red are further proposals considered essential by M. de Rijke but not yet commenced.\n\n58. It should here be mentioned that in the following description the term 'parallel work\" is applied to any structures lying longitudinally with the axis of the stream, whilst the expression \"crib\" is used for any structure at a right angle to the river bank. A \"crib work\" is a combination of a length of \"parallel work\" with one or more \"cribs.\"\n\n59. Generally speaking, the whole of the training works have been carried out on the Dutch system of mattresses loaded and protected with rubble stone. The various forms of fascine work comprising \"zinkstuks,\" \"gabbioni,\" \"laag work,\" referred to in the following paragraphs are described in detail in the appendix to this report.*\n\n60. We propose, in the first instance, to describe the works mentioned above and coloured green, being those which are already either completed or well in progress.\n\nWoosung Fort Jetty.\n\n61. The works at Woosung consist of a training pier known as \"Fort Jetty,\" commencing at the shore lines on the left bank of the river and projecting for a length of about 4,500 feet towards the Yang-tsze, on a curve of 75,000 feet radius. The object of this work is to confine the tidal flow over the site of the outer bar, and to cause the currents to have a true lead into and out of the Whangpoo. At the inner end of the jetty a small \"work harbour\" has been formed for the accommodation of craft engaged in connection with the improvement works. The jetty has also been extended up the river on the \"normal line\" a short distance above the \"work harbour,\" where it is connected with the shore, at its upper end, by a strong crib. A considerable area has been reclaimed at the root of the \"Fort Jetty,\" between the latter and the original shore-line northward of the \"work harbour\" by means of dredgings from the Junk Channel deposited there.\n\n62. Both the jetty and the walls of the \"work harbour\" and sea dyke are built upon \"zinkstuk\" mattresses. The upper part of the jetty is composed of a stone covering, finished with a protective coating of 5-ton concrete blocks. Six rows of piles are driven longitudinally on the line of the jetty which serve to keep in place the stone covering and the concrete blocks.\n\n63. The \"work harbour\" is still being dredged, but the deposit of silt within the enclosure is so rapid that the contractors are experiencing difficulty in providing the required depth of 6 feet at low-water ordinary spring tide simultaneously over the entire area of the basin. The shore-line up-stream of the \"work harbour\" on the concave, or Woosung, side is protected as far as the new railway bund, by Chinese pile and timber work having a stone apron.\n\n64. The whole of the foregoing works, which were practically complete at the commencement of this year, were carried out under a lump-sum contract by the East Asiatic Dredging Company, the price being 1,997,798 Shanghai taels. To this sum must be added 23,326 Shanghai taels for extra works, making the total cost 2,021,124 Shanghai taels.\n\nTraining Works at Gough Island.\n\n65. The works at Gough Island, especially those at the upper end, constitute the most important feature of the improvements which have been carried out on the Whangpoo. The main object of these works was the closing of the Ship Channel and the radical improvement of the Junk Channel by concentrating the whole energy of the tidal movement in the latter.\n\nLow Gough Works.\n\n66. To effect these objects a parallel work of training-bank has been formed at the northern end of the island, on a foundation of \"zinkstuks,\" stretching towards the Yang-tsze for a distance of 5,400 feet. Extending up-stream from the mainland near Pheasant Point, a second parallel work has been constructed, also formed mostly of \"zinkstuks\" and joined to the shore by a crib. The opening between the ends of these two main parallel banks is 1,400 feet in width, and whilst these works are of assistance in directing the tidal flow into Junk Channel, the considerable width of the opening between the ends of the banks permits, for such time as is desirable, of the easy ingress and egress of tidal water into what is now a cul-de-sac, formerly the site of the old Ship Channel, which under existing conditions will in course of time naturally silt up.\n\n[2958 hA--1]\n\n* Not printed.\n\nF\n\n400",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nUpper Gough Works.\n\n67. At the upper end of Ship Channel the main parallel or longitudinal training work starts from the eastern bank at the lower side of Kajow Creek, crosses obliquely the upper end of the old Ship Channel, and continues along the western margin of Gough Island for a length of about 900 feet, following the \"normal line\" laid down for this bank of the river. It consists of a parallel dam of strong \"zinkstuks\" construction, the stone brought up to about low-water level, and covered with a stone bank.\n\nThe work was, at the beginning of this year, brought up to high water for a distance of 3,200 feet from the upper end of Gough Island, up to low water for a further 300 feet, and up to 11 feet below low water over the remainder of its length. The formation of the upper portion of the work to high-water level was being actively prosecuted, and, we understand, at this date is practically completed.\n\n68. A portion of the main parallel dam at Upper Gough has been backed with dredged material to the extent shown by green colour on the drawings, the dredgings having been pumped into an area enclosed for the purpose by retaining dams of \"zinkstuks\" and two cross dams, into three parts, and the dredgings were pumped up to a level of about 17 feet above low-water ordinary spring tide.\n\nDams across Ship Channel.\n\n69. In addition to the reinforcement of the main dam by the backing of the lower length as just described, M. de Rijke's scheme provided for the construction of a series of six cross dams athwart the Ship Channel near its upper end with a view, as described by himself, of \"subdividing the fall\" of the water flowing over them, and thus avoiding the scour of the bottom adjacent to the main dam by reason of an unbroken overfall of the water.\n\n70. During the construction of the works the foundations of only two of these cross dams have been deposited, two others have been omitted altogether, whilst the remaining two have, we are informed, been brought up to low water within the last few weeks.\n\nKajow Crib-work.\n\n71. The work at Kajow consists of three strong cribs, connected at their outer ends by a parallel work 1,350 feet in length, composed of zinkstuks, finished above low water with a bank of rubble stone. The object of this structure is to initiate the diversion of the ebb current by leading the same clear of the upper end of the main parallel dam at Upper Gough.\n\nSubsidiary Works.\n\n72. Further works have been constructed, in this reach, on both sides of the river, consisting, as shown by green colour upon the drawings, of cribs of varying dimensions, terminating with lengths of parallel work constructed on the \"normal lines.\" These works are, for the most part, built with a foundation of zinkstuks and a superstructure of gabbioni and laagwork, the surface being protected with a covering of rubble stone. The parallel works are in almost all cases brought up to a level slightly above low water, the object being to retain the low-water flow within the \"normal lines\" without diminishing the tidal capacity of the right bank of Ship Channel. During the construction of the works required for the opening out of Junk Channel, a few light revetments and other works were constructed, but these subsidiary works are not shown upon the drawings.\n\nDredging in Junk Channel.\n\n73. The opening of the new deep-water track through Junk Channel was mainly accomplished by means of dredging. Bucket dredgers only were employed in the channel itself, as the material was found to be of too fine a nature to be deposited into barges or hoppers by sand pumps, and the depositing grounds were not so placed as to admit of the use of shore delivery pipes. One pump dredger was, however, specially equipped for reclaiming purposes by being adapted for pumping out hoppers which had been filled by the bucket dredgers.\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\n15\n\n74. The quantity of material dredged, and in process of being dredged at the commencement of the year, is as follows, the measurement being computed in hoppers :-\n\n  \n    \n    Cubic yards.\n  \n  \n    Original contract\n    6,666,700\n  \n  \n    Extra work\n    25,400\n  \n  \n    New contract (in execution)\n    1,200,000\n  \n  \n    Total\n    7,892,100\n  \n\n(Say, 8,000,000 cubic yards.)\n\nVIII-DESCRIPTION OF WORKS PROPOSED BUT NOT YET EXECUTED.\n\n75. It is necessary that we should now refer to the works, shown by red colour on the drawings, which are considered necessary by M. de Rijke, for the full completion of his scheme for the improvement of the Whangpoo, but which have not yet been commenced.\n\nTraining Works opposite Woosung.\n\n76. The works proposed to be constructed at the mouth of the Whangpoo, on the right bank, have for their object the further directing of the tidal flow across the site of the Outer Bar, and also, more especially, the prevention of the development of a separate flood channel, close inshore, to which reference has already been made in paragraph 32. As previously described, such a channel has at various periods developed from natural causes, to a greater or less extent, but manifestly to the detriment of the depth on the Outer Bar. At the beginning of the year there were indications of this inshore channel again opening.\n\n77. The works proposed, in order to counteract this tendency, consist of a curved parallel bank 5,000 feet in length, to be constructed along the \"normal line\" at the mouth of the river on its eastern side, and connected with the shore by four cribs. The character of construction would be substantially the same as that of the corresponding works on the left shore, but without the concrete block-work protection. M. de Rijke, for purposes of economy, proposes, in the first instance, to carry out only the cribs and two short lengths of parallel work, relying on the same to break the inshore flow of the flood to which reference is made above.\n\nCutting Back of Pheasant Point.\n\n78. After the training works described in the last section have been carried out, it is proposed to dredge the accumulation at, and in the vicinity of, Pheasant Point, to the extent shown on the drawings. We understand it is not intended to proceed with this dredging until the training works, described in the preceding paragraph, are completed, as otherwise it is considered that full advantage of the dredging would not be obtained, inasmuch as one of the alleged main causes of the accumulation at Pheasant Point, viz., the inshore flood current charged with silt from the Yang-tsze, as already described, would not have been cut off. The dredging proposed by M. de Rijke amounts to a total of 2,650,000 cubic yards, and would be removed in three belts, having depths of 9, 15, and 18 feet respectively, at low-water ordinary spring tide.\n\nTraining Works at Point.\n\n79. Above Gough Island, training works are proposed for the left bank as far as Point, consisting of long cribs stretching from the shore out to the \"normal line,\" connected at their outer ends with lengths of parallel work. The object of these structures is to confine the low-water flow to the main channel, and to prevent the further development of an inshore flood channel which already exists, with a depth of about 9 feet at low water.\n\n80. On the right bank, between Kajow Creek and Cosmopolitan Dock, small cribs are proposed with lengths of parallel work on the \"normal lines,\" for the preservation of the river bank which over this length is in places very insecure.\n\nAccumulation opposite Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\n81. Above Point and opposite Cosmopolitan Dock, there is a considerable accumulation forward of the \"normal line\" as shown on drawing No. 1,* which\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\n401",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nwill be able to ensure that their advice will be followed. It is perhaps not too much to hope that the formation of a body composed of influential representatives from all parts of the Empire may achieve something towards strengthening the political power in Peking vis-à-vis the hitherto largely wielded by the Central Government independent units of authority in the provinces, though, on the other hand, it must not be forgotten that the provincial delegates will be in correspondence with their provincial assemblies, and will represent to a great extent their tendencies and wishes. The opening of the Senate is another illustration of the world-wide movement towards parliamentary institutions of the growing determination of the peoples of the world not to submit to \"taxation without representation.\" Certainly, these first steps towards the introduction of a more democratic form of government into China are being adopted with great caution, and the Throne gives no hint of giving up its absolute power or that of the mandarinate or Chinese officialdom; so far, it only condescends to bear the wishes of the so-called representatives of the people. It is open to question whether democratic institutions are ever compatible with Oriental life and ideas, and certainly in China public life has not yet risen to that stage of advancement where individual and local interests are subordinated to those of the nation as a whole.\n\nIt would, however, be unwise to judge of the work of the Senate without giving sufficient time for trial, but at present everything appears to indicate an expansion of its powers far beyond the point contemplated in the edict that brought it into being, while one result of its assembling will be a renewal of the agitation in favour of a curtailment of the period for the opening of the real national Parliament.\n\nAlready the \"Shun Tien Shih Pao,\" a prominent local Chinese newspaper, the contents of which show strong traces of Japanese inspiration, has in a lengthy leading article urged on the Senate the necessity of paying careful attention to this question. The majority of the native papers have, however, confined themselves to eulogising the Prince Regent for allowing the establishment of the present provisional parliament and for attending in person the ceremony of its inauguration; they congratulate the nation on the accomplishment of this important step towards the fulfilment of its desire for a constitutional government, and exhort the members of the Senate to strenuous and honest endeavours in carrying out the duties and responsibilities of their new appointment.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nC O\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n36747\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[September 5,]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nRECS\n\nRead 1 OFC 10\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[32267]\n\nEnclosure in Mr. Max Müller's No. 232 of July 16.--(Received September 5, 1910.)\n\nNote on the West River.\n\nGOODS from Hong Kong and Canton proceed in steamer by independent routes to the treaty port of Wuchou. Thence they are carried in motor-boats, steam launches, lighters, and junks to Nanning. In the high-water season (June-October) the motor boats tow lighters laden with cargo. During the remainder of the year they are unable, owing to the low-water rapids, to do any towing. The steam-launches do not generally run above the Ta t'an rapid, about 130 miles below Nanning. Beyond Nanning cargo is conveyed to Pose, the limit of junk navigation on the West River.\n\nA motor boat made her first trip in November 1909 to Pose without mishap, and it was expected that she would be able to continue until the end of December. Motor-boats will probably in future run regularly between Nanning and Pose from April until December. Messrs. Banker and Co., of Wuchou, are having two of these craft constructed at Hong Kong specially for the Nanning-Pose run.\n\nAt Pose the goods separate according as they are bound for south-east Yünnan or for Kueichou and east Yünnan. The former are taken up to Pongai, the extreme limit of boat navigation on the West River, in small boats of a capacity of about 16 cwt. The latter proceed overland via Hsing I hsien (Huang ts'au pa), crossing the Red Water River (Fung shui chiang), a northern branch of the West River below Po chio, a li-kin station notorious for its defiance of transit passes. At Huang tsao pa those destined for Kueichou consumption are distributed by a variety of routes, the principal being that via Anshun. Those for East Yünnan cross the Red Water River again at Chiang ti, and take the Lo ping chou route.\n\nLi-kin\n\nOn arrival at Pongai, the goods, which are principally cotton yarn, cotton piece goods, woollen blankets, kerosene oil, Chinese tobacco and sugar, are carried on pack-animals to Kaihua, Kuang nan, and Tung hai. The Yünnan commodities exchanged for these are anise-seed oil, star aniseed, medicinal roots, oil-seeds, gallnuts, furniture rattans, gums, white wax, hides and antimony. Opium, formerly the staple export, being now declared contraband, it is feared that the yarn trade will be diminished by 700 bales yearly. It is, however, too early to be able to confirm these fears. Along this route is light. The first barrier after Nanning is Pingma. There is another barrier between Pingma and Pose, and li-kin is levied at Pose and Pongai. Between Pongai and Kuang nan there is one barrier, but the li-kin at Kuang nan itself is heavy. The same remark applies to Kaihua. From Pongai to Tung hai by the route south of Kuang nan there are two barriers with light dues. The civil officer at Pongai told me that the li-kin office there would probably raise its dues 40 per cent. in 1910, in order to make up for the loss of opium li-kin. If this increase be made the result will be a great blow to the trade which, although small and struggling, is promising.\n\nNavigation.-Navigation on the West River as far as Wuchou is easy. Beyond to Nanning the river is broken by rapids, but is not exceptionally difficult for navigation by launches or motor-boats, except in two places. The first of these from Pose is the Pan t'an and the other is the Ta t'an or Fu po t'an. The latter is by far the more dangerous of the two. It is in reality a stretch of rapids 34 miles long. To give some idea of the Ta-t'an I will quote from the diary of my journey in a motor-boat from Wuchou to Nanning in January 1907. \"At 6:30 we got under weigh. Subdued excitement on board and whispers that we would pass over the dreaded Fu po t'an this afternoon. There was no doubt that this rapid inspired respect and some fear in our crew. The little motor-boat in her former (trial) trip had struck a rock in this rapid, and, had it not been for the skill and coolness of the pilot in beaching her, she must have become a total wreck. At about 3 I was warned that we were approaching the rapid. Ahead of us the river seemed choked with rocks and\n\n[2893 -2]\n\n430",
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        "content_text": "# [283]\n\nThe success of the negotiations with regard to the Railway Working Agreement, of which Article XIII forms an integral part, was understood to be a precursor to His Excellency approaching me with a request that the Convention as drafted should be accepted by the British Government.\n\n3. I have underlined in red on the attached copy of the draft Convention all the passages in which it differs from the draft forwarded under cover of `GR16121/10` my Confidential Despatch of the 28th April, 1910. Mr. Harris concurs in all these alterations.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\nBurgers,\nGovernor.",
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        "content_text": "## ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE\n\nSimultaneously with the service at St. John's Cathedral, a special service took place at the Roman Catholic Cathedral. The spacious building was filled with a devout congregation, and the proceedings were of a solemnity and impressiveness that affected all worshippers and helped them to realise the importance of the great event. Low Pontificial Mass was celebrated by his Lordship Bishop Pozzoui, assisted by Monsignor P. de Maria, Rev. L. Robert, and Rev. Father Noval, while the Rev. G. M. Spada and the Rev. A. Placzek were Masters of Ceremonies, the former acting for the clergy and the latter for the congregation. The order of service was as follows:\n\n* Coronation March, Rich Eilenberg, by members of the Sociedade Philharmonica, conducted by Prof. F. Gonzales.\n* Mass of the Day with collect for the Elected King.\n* During the Mass the following music was rendered:\n\t+ Veni Creator, German Core, by the Cathedral choir and friends.\n\t+ Andante Religioso, Francis Thome, by the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n\t+ Sanctus, Perosi, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Largo e Mesto, Beethoven, by the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n* During the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the following hymns were sung:\n\t+ O Salutaris, Webb, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Te Deum, Gregorian, by the choir and clergy.\n\t+ Tantum Ergo, G. Mercanti, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Laudate Dominum, by the choir and friends.\n* The service closed with the singing of \"God save the King,\" by the choir, clergy, and congregation, accompanied by the band of the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n\n## THE JEWISH SERVICE\n\nAt the special service held in the Ohel Leah Synagogue, the following prayer was offered after the sermon and the opening of the Ark:\n\nAlmighty God and everlasting King! From the place of Thy habitation Thou lookest upon all the indwellers of the earth. By Thee kings reign and princes rule. Thou establishest their throne, and in Thy hand is their glory and their might.\n\nPrayer for the King and the Royal Family,\n\nMay He who giveth salvation unto kings and dominion unto princes, Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, Who delivered His servant David from the hurtful sword, Who maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters - may He bless, protect and exalt our Sovereign Lord, King George, Our Gracious Queen Mary, Alexandra, the Queen Mother, Edward, Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family.\n\nMay the Supreme King of Kings in His mercy preserve the King, guard him, and deliver him from all trouble, sorrow and hurt. May He make his enemies fall before him, and in whatsoever he undertaketh may he prosper. May the Supreme King of Kings in His mercy put a spirit of wisdom and understanding into his heart and into the hearts of all his counsellors, that they may uphold the peace of the realm, advance the welfare of the nation, and deal kindly and truly with all Israel. In his days and in ours may Judah be saved and Israel dwell securely; and may the Redeemer come unto Zion. O that this may be His will, and let us say, Amen.\n\nThe Ark was then closed.\n\n## THE PARSEE SERVICE\n\nAlmost all the members of the Parsee Community were present at their Club premises at the corner of Elgin and Shelley Streets at 4 p.m. in the afternoon for a religious service. A special prayer was recited by the Priest, the whole congregation remaining standing. The following is the translation of the prayer from Gujarati:\n\n1. Blessed be the name of Holy Abura-Mazda! Almighty Abur-Mazda, Holy, Heavenly, Pure; give ear, we beseech Thee, to the prayers of Thy Mazdayaçnian servants, and satisfy us with Thy Mercy.\n2. Receive our heartfelt thanks, O Almighty God, that Thou art pleased this day to set a peerless crown upon the head of our Gracious Sovereign, King Emperor George.\n3. Vouchsafe to him, Merciful Creator, Thy majesty. Thou hast set Thy servant, George, upon the throne of his fathers. Thou knowest his heart, that it has ever been his desire and happiness to seek the welfare of his people and to execute Thy laws in the land.\n\nBehold, the day hath come that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it, the day on which he has been anointed King, when the crown of sovereignty has been placed upon his head, the day when he lifted up his hand to heaven and took the oath, that he would rule over his people according to the Statutes of the realm, and cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be executed.\n\nTherefore we have come into Thy house, and worship toward Thy holy temple. Hearken unto the voice of our cry, our King and our God, for unto Thee do we pray. May it please Thee to bless our Sovereign Lord the King: O God, save the King! May the King live! May the King live for ever! May Thine arm strengthen him to bear the heavy yoke of governance.\n\nEven as Thou hast set a diadem of fine gold upon his head, so crown him with honour and glory, with mercy and loving-kindness. Anoint him with the oil of gladness. Vouchsafe unto him the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and fear of Thee, so that all the nations that dwell beneath his sceptre, the sceptre of righteousness, may abide in peace and tranquillity.\n\nPour out the riches of Thy heavenly goodness upon Queen Mary, who standeth at the right hand of the King in gracious majesty. Verily on her tongue is the law of kindness. Her eyes are upon the poor and upon those that are bruised in spirit. Her heart goeth out to those that are stretched upon the bed of languishing. Give her the desire of her heart, and do not withhold the request of her lips. Bless the Queen Mother, Heir Apparent, and all the members of the Royal House.\n\nWithdraw not, we beseech Thee, Thy loving-kindness from this realm. Shield the indwellers thereof. Remove from them pestilence, sword, famine and sorrow. Spread the days when peace will flourish throughout the world, when the earth will be full of the knowledge of Thee, as the waters cover the sea.\n\nGrant unto our Sovereign Lord the King, the spirits of heavenly piety, as also Thy spirit of wisdom for his guide and Thy arm for his strength, so that in his godliness, and in his unfained spirit of wisdom and strength, Justice, Truth, Peace and Love may flourish in his days to promote the well-being, solidarity and unity of his various subjects of all classes and creeds.\n\n4. We pray unto Thee, O Merciful Mazda, to bestow upon our illustrious Sovereign splendour and glory, health, vigour and victoriousness of body, wealth which may bring all prosperity, a long line of descendants gifted with intelligence, a long life and the best, brilliant and glorious life of the Pious.\n\n5. We beseech Thee, O Bountiful Giver of all Good, to be favourable to our ruler, and to bestow of Thy bounty upon his head the full blessings of the annihilation of famine and pestilence wherever prevailing in his wide dominions, and to endow, in his vast Empire, the happiness and cheer of fruitful peace and gladsome plenty.\n\n6. We supplicate Thee, O Merciful Creator, to crown the fulness of his days with the fulness of Thy divine blessings, grace and love, and receive our humble prayers, O Almighty God, that those and all Thy other gifts may be long continued, and crown him with immortality in the life to come.\n\n7. Listen, we pray Thee, to this earnest invocation of Thy servants of the Zoroastrian faith in Hongkong, and grant us our wishes.\n\n8. Merciful and Gracious Abura-Mazda, we again beseech Thee to give ear to our prayers and to extend Thy divine blessings, favour and love, out of Thy bounteous grace, upon our Gracious Queen Mary.\n\n[June 22, 1911]\n\n## THE PUBLIC MEETING\n\nThe public meeting to endorse the telegraphic addresses to be sent to Their Majesties took place in the City Hall shortly after noon. As was to be expected, the building was taxed to its utmost, all sections of the community being represented in the large gathering. Among those present were the American Delegates from Manila, who were accompanied by Captain Agg, K.O.Y.L.I. Sir Francis Piggott, Chairman of the Coronation Committee, on the entrance of His Excellency, proposed that the Governor preside over the meeting.\n\nHis Excellency then said: - Ladies and gentlemen, - To-day in both hemispheres, in every part of the world, and in every sea where the British flag flies, the subjects of our King are uniting to do homage and to wish him prosperity in his Coronation. They testify their loyalty and reverently and earnestly express their hopes that his reign may be long, prosperous and peaceful. To-day the Crown of his ancestors - that Crown which is the symbol of unity of the Empire - will be placed upon his head in the historic hall where a long line of British kings have been crowned, with all the pomp and circumstance of the old-time ritual. We in Hongkong do not come second to any British community in our loyalty to our King and the Throne. (Applause) We are celebrating to-day this historic event with rejoicing and with prayer. We desire to transmit to His Majesty our expressions, our heart-felt good wishes and congratulations, and our desires for his long and prosperous reign. I have, therefore, asked you to meet here in the City Hall to-day that you may hear the telegrams and addresses, and may approve them which it is proposed to send.\n\nThe Executive and Legislative Councils, in joint session with the Judges, send the following telegram:\n\nThe Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, and the Judges of Hongkong, on behalf of Your Majesty's subjects in the Colony, beg most humbly to offer their loyal and respectful congratulations to You on the Occasion of the Coronation of Your Majesty as King and Emperor, and of Her Majesty Queen Mary. We pray that the event which is celebrated to-day may inaugurate a long and glorious reign for Your Majesties and an era of happiness, prosperity and honourable peace for Your Majesty's Kingdom and Empire.\n\nThe Coronation Committee, on behalf of the community, and on behalf of every race and nationality, has submitted the following telegram:\n\nHis Majesty's subjects in Hongkong present their loyal homage to the King, and the people of other nationalities within the borders of the Colony join with them in offering respectful congratulations to Their Majesties and in wishing them a long and happy reign.\n\nThe Chinese community propose to lay before the King at his Coronation at Delhi, which I hope to attend, a beautifully embroidered scroll expressing their loyalty and good wishes. The translation will be read to you presently by Mr. Chan Kai Ming.\n\nI may add that I received this morning by mail intimation from the Secretary of State that it was the intention of the King to present to this Colony portraits of himself and the Queen. (Applause)\n\nHis Excellency then asked the gathering to express their approval by holding up their hands. There was a full show of hands.\n\nMr. Ng Hon Tsz then read the Chinese address in the vernacular, and Mr. Chan Kai Ming read the translation in English as follows:\n\nTO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FIFTH\n\nBy the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, Supreme Lord in and over the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\n\nAll the Chinese subjects and Chinese residents in Hongkong with uplifted hands and bowed heads dutifully present this address.\n\nBoth speakers were warmly applauded. Hon. Dr. Ho Kai asked His Excellency to present the embroidered copy of the address bound in red morocco to H. M. The King.\n\nOn the call of His Excellency three hearty cheers were given for the King, and the meeting dispersed.\n\n## ADDRESS FROM THE FREEMASONS\n\nThe Masonic bodies in Hongkong are sending the following address:\n\nTo HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY KING GEORGE V - By the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.\n\nThe Order of Freemasonry was cradled in that divine Faith whereof Your Majesty is the Defender, and is founded on the purest principles of piety and virtue. It teaches those heavenly principles of our duty to God, our duty to our neighbour, and our duty to ourselves, and reminds us of the constant need in our daily life of the practice of those truly kingly attributes Benevolence and Charity.\n\nThe Freemasons of this remote District rejoice greatly therefore that Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to become the Grand Patron of our Charities, and that Her Majesty the Queen has consented to be their Grand Patroness.\n\nLoyalty, Fidelity and Obedience have ever been among the watchwords of our Orders, and Your Majesty has no more devoted subjects than those who range under our banners.\n\nMay the Great Architect of the Universe grant, in His infinite wisdom, that Your Majesty's life may exceed the span of man's allotted term and that Your reign may be blessed with every Happiness for Your Majesty, for our beloved Queen Mary and for the members of Your Royal Family, and with Peace, Joy and Prosperity for Your Majesty's loyal subjects in all lands.\n\n## THE ROYAL SALUTE\n\nAt noon the warships in the harbour, both British and foreign, and the shore batteries, joined in a royal salute.\n\n## THE CORONATION PARADE\n\nOwing to the unsettled state of the weather, the review which was fixed to take place at 8 a.m. yesterday was postponed until the afternoon. The postponement proved propitious, for the rain held off and the parade was participated in and watched under pleasant weather conditions. A cloudy sky obscured the sun's rays and minimised the heat. An exceptionally large crowd surrounded the race course, and the quantity of bunting displayed gave the Valley the holiday appearance which it wears during race week. The troops were massed in the enclosure, and as they went through their preliminary evolutions presented an imposing appearance.\n\nAt four o'clock His Excellency the Governor arrived, and a royal salute was fired by the guns of two batteries, one stationed at the north, and one at the south end of the enclosure. His Excellency, accompanied by Major-General Anderson, Colonel St. John, Major Tulloch, Captain Grotton, Commodore Eyres, Captain Taylor, Captain Simson and an Indian A.D.C., inspected the troops and then returned to the saluting base. Preparations were made for the march past, and when all was in readiness the order was given, and to the strains of \"Sons of the Sea\" and regimental airs the naval brigade and the different regiments marched past in column.\n\n| Unit | Strength |\n| --- | --- |\n| Royal Marines | 513 |\n| Royal Navy | 176 |\n| Royal Garrison Artillery | 407 |\n| H.K.S.B., B.G.A. | 209 |\n| Royal Engineers | 175 |\n| K.Y.L.I. | 422 |\n| 8th Rajputs | 708 |\n| 126th Baluchis | 713 |\n| Total | 3,468 |\n\nAfter the march past the European troops were formed into a hollow square around the saluting base, with the K.O.Y.L.I. band near the flagstaff. His Excellency read the messages of congratulation and loyalty which were forwarded to the King, and then the troops raised three hearty cheers to His Majesty which reverberated among the hills.\n\nAn impressive drum head service followed. To the music of the K.O.Y.L.I. band the troops and the spectators joined in the hymn, \"O God, our help in ages past.\" Lessons were read and prayers offered by naval and military chaplains, and the service closed with the singing of the first verse of the National Anthem, in which thousands of voices joined.\n\nThe Indian regiments then gave three lusty cheers for the King, after which the troops, four deep, marched through the city to barracks.\n\n## ENTERTAINING THE CHILDREN\n\nThe school children were entertained in their various schools yesterday morning. The address of H.E. the Governor, in which he appropriately referred to the lessons of the Coronation, was read, and the medals were distributed to the children, after which they were treated to refreshments, etc.\n\n## THE DECORATIONS\n\nThe decorations were on a most extensive scale. In the harbour practically every vessel was beflagged from stem to stern, and foreign merchantmen joined with British in making a display of bunting. The Monmouth, Astræa, Flora and Tamar had a profusion of bunting, and the visiting American and Japanese gunboats contributed to the colour scheme on the water.\n\nAshore the principal decorations were on the water front, in Queen's Road, and at the various barracks. In the city the centre of attraction was Statue Square. Here various coloured standards had been erected, and from these were suspended festoons of greenery, each standard also bearing a green circle of foliage. Bannerettes also fluttered in the breeze. The buildings facing the harbour were embellished with the national colours, Japanese lanterns, etc., while practically every office showed a flag. As usual the Chinese made a brave display, and the quaint arches erected in various parts of the city were very striking indeed.\n\n## ILLUMINATIONS\n\nThe buildings on the water front and in Queen's Road were covered with lanterns which showed up very effectively. York Buildings had a beautiful frontage of red lamps, and the buildings along the Praya had their illuminations which added to the general effect. On Kowloon side the illuminated arch was very conspicuous, but the most picturesque sight was presented by the warships which were outlined with lights, the American ship _Ralston_ introducing a striking contrast with red lamps. The _Fatshan_ was hung with lamps, and smaller craft had their illuminations also. The grand scheme of illumination will not be seen until to-night.\n\nChinese fireworks were set off from the Parade Ground and in front of the Hongkong Club, and Japanese fireworks from the Public Gardens. The pyrotechnic display appealed to all sections of the community and was greatly appreciated.",
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        "content_text": "On Friday it may come to worse for the Government's Bill next. He will move Amendments of the Committee stage on Wednesday next. He said that the Bill will be sent to him on Thursday of next week. The date of 7th will be fixed and I hope the Red Edition being printed will be ready on Wednesday for the distribution without it. I propose...\n\nAt the end of S. Loules and...\n\nI take it that the amendments are a matter of detail not for today. I find it unnecessary and not at this distance... Come back again.\n\nThere is little cover in the stubbles. The weather is...",
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        "content_text": "# \n2 \n\npress the matter should naturally expect redress. He deemed it undesirable to further, or to give the impression that he was throwing impediments in the way of the negotiations (22nd May, 1885). \n\nOn the 23rd May, 1885, Lord Granville addressed a despatch to Mr. O'Conor, drawing his attention to the most-favoured-nation article of the British Treaty of Tien-tsin of 1858. His Lordship stated that, although existing treaties had reference only to trade by sea with certain specified ports, and gave this country no rights of trade across the land frontiers of China, our treaty, nevertheless, guaranteed equal participation in all privileges, &c., which might be granted to any other nation. If, therefore, the above-mentioned treaty between France and China admitted French goods into China by land at a lower duty than was paid by the same British goods when introduced by sea, or would confer on French citizens or commerce greater privileges than were enjoyed by British subjects, Her Majesty's Government would claim most-favoured-nation treatment under the treaty of 1858. \n\nThe Board of Trade on the 5th August, 1885, commented on the Franco-Chinese Treaty, pointing out that the privilege granted to French citizens of crossing the frontier could not be extended to British subjects unless British consuls could be appointed with a view to the issue of the necessary passports, and remarking that the intention of the treaty was to establish inequality, and that its provisions were inconsistent with the British treaties with China. They suggested that Mr. O'Conor's attention should be drawn to articles 4 and 6 (above quoted), and at the same time they concurred in the instructions given to him on the 23rd May already alluded to. \n\nThe Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce expressed the opinion that the right to appoint consuls in Yunnan and Kwangsi granted by the treaty could be claimed by Powers having most-favoured-nation clauses in their treaties with China, but that the differential duties would hardly become applicable under those clauses unless the Chinese opened up the water communication of Kwantung into Western China, when directly conveyed merchandise should become subject to no greater duty than was borne by goods crossing the frontier by land (Colonial Office, 31st August, 1885). \n\nThe Government of India were of opinion that the commercial privileges conceded to the French would act prejudicially upon the development of the trade with Yunnan via Bhamo and the Irrawaddy River, which would be diverted from that river to the Red River route; but, at the same time, the chief obstacle lay in the interposition of the independent Kingdom of Burmah between British Burmah and Yunnan, and the then pending arrangements might tend to remove the disadvantage, when the consequences of the French treaty might not prove so serious as was anticipated (India Office, 3rd February, 1886). \n\nOn the 26th April, 1886, a commercial convention, in pursuance of article 6 of the treaty of peace, &c., of the 9th June, 1885, was concluded between France and China. \n\nIt did not specify the spots where the frontier trade should be carried on because the frontier was not then settled, but it declared what duties should be levied on the merchandise crossing the frontier. \n\nThese were- \n| Category | Duty |\n| --- | --- |\n| Import Transit trade | half the maritime tariff duty (in accordance with existing regulations at the treaty ports) |\n| Import Duties | One-fifth less than the maritime tariff. In the case of goods not enumerated in the tariff, 5 per cent. ad valorem (as in the treaty ports (article 6)) |\n| Export Transit Duties | The same as on goods exported from the maritime ports |\n| Export Duty from the Frontier Ports | Two-thirds of the maritime export duty |\n\nMost-favoured-nation treatment was also accorded to France in case of a frontier trade convention being concluded between China and England for the Burmah frontier (article 7). \n\nThe right of France to impose a protective tariff on imports crossing the frontier into Tonquin was recognised (article 9). \n\nArticle 3 of the convention gave to the French and Annamese at the frontier ports the same privileges as in articles 8, 9, 11, and 12 of the French treaty with China of 1858. \n\nThese had reference to passports, houses, burial grounds, employment of interpreters, teaching foreign languages, sale and purchase of books, inviolability of property of French citizens, prohibition of embargoes on French vessels, &c. \n\n3 \n\nOn M. Constans afterwards proceeding to China as French Minister, this convention was revised, and an additional convention was signed on the 26th June, 1887, modifying its terms. \n\nIt specified the places open to French trade in the provinces of Kwang-si and Yunnan (article 2). \n\nGoods passing from Tonquin to China were to pay three-tenths less than treaty port rates and goods from China to Tonquin four-tenths less than at treaty ports (article 3). \n\nAn export duty was authorised on Chinese goods which had paid an import duty on entering Tonquin, and had passed through Tonquin for conveyance to a third country (article 4). \n\nThe most-favoured-nation clause was extended so as to govern future political and commercial relations between China and the countries situated to the south and south-west of the Chinese Empire (article 7). \n\nWhile the negotiation of this additional convention was in progress, Sir J. Walsham intimated that, in the event of advantages being given thereby to France over other countries, he should take steps to protect British interests and treaty privileges, to which the Chinese Government replied that the existing treaties referred solely to the ports and could not be made available in connection with overland intercourse (Conf 5789, p. 9). \n\nAfter communication with the India Office, Lord Salisbury instructed Sir J. Walsham to protest against this limitation of the scope of the most-favoured-nation articles of our treaties with China (28th June, 1888). \n\nLord Salisbury further observed that it would be useless to press for a reduction of the tariff at the ports corresponding with that granted to the French frontier trade, and that it would be better policy to take advantage of it in order to obtain concessions in regard to Burmah. Sir J. Walsham was accordingly instructed to inform the Chinese Government that the question of treaty rights at the ports would not be further pressed if they would give a written statement that they accepted the explicit reservation of the right of this country to most-favoured-nation treatment elsewhere than in Burmah as a basis for the abstention of His Majesty's Government from raising the question of their rights in the present instance, and further agreeing that in the commercial arrangements respecting Burmah they would give to this country similar advantages and an identical most-favoured-nation clause which should apply to the French convention. \n\nThey should also, his Lordship added, agree that such facilities would be granted for the navigation of the Canton River and other waterways of Southern China as would place British trade on fairly equal terms with the trade opened to France across the frontier of Tonquin. (To Sir J. Walsham, 28th June, 1888.) \n\nSir J. Walsham does not appear to have reported whether he obtained this assurance from the Chinese Government. \n\nIn the meantime, however, a convention was signed between this country and China on the 24th July, 1886, relating to Burmah and Thibet, in which it was stipulated (article 3) that the conditions of the frontier trade between Burmah and China were to be settled by a frontier trade convention, both countries agreeing to protect and encourage trade between China and Burmah. \n\nIt was not until the 1st March, 1894, that a convention was concluded between Great Britain and China to give effect to this stipulation. \n\nArticle 8 of this convention laid down that, \"subject to the conditions mentioned hereafter in articles 10 and 11 (relating to prohibited goods, munitions of war, opium, spirituous liquors, &c.), the British Government, wishing to encourage and develop the land trade of China with Burmah as much as possible, consent for a period of six years from the ratification of the present convention to allow Chinese produce and manufactures, with the exception of salt, to enter Burmah by land duty free, and to allow British manufactures and Burmese produce, with the exception of rice, to be exported to China by land free of duty.\" \n\nArticle 9 of this convention laid down that \"goods imported from Burmah into China or exported from China into Burmah shall be permitted to cross the frontier by Manwyne and by Sansi,\" and that \"the Chinese Government consent that for six years from the ratification of the present convention the duties levied on goods imported into China by these routes shall be those specified in the general tariff of the Maritime Customs diminished by three-tenths, and that the duties on goods exported from China by the same routes shall be those specified in the same tariff diminished by four-tenths.\" \n\n17 \n251",
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        "content_text": "## British court of law, the British and Chinese Corporation (Limited) are prepared to accept the proposal, provided that your Excellencies will be good enough to give them assurances on the following points:\n\n1. That the portion of the loan funds already applied to the Shanghai-Fangchow-Ningpo Railway under provincial management will first be replaced in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank at Shanghai.\n\n2. That the provincial railway companies of Kiangsu and Chekiang will not be granted assistance from Government funds, and that if in the future foreign capital is required for the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway it will be borrowed from the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\n3. That the extension of the Kaifeng-Hsüchow Railway to the coast will be undertaken with loan funds borrowed from the British and Chinese Corporation (Limited) if the Kiangsu provincial company fails to carry out its rights of constructing a line to Haichou within twelve months after the present negotiations have been completed by the signature of a final agreement.\n\n4. That a preliminary agreement to employ the loan funds for the construction of Excellencies' the Kaifeng-Hsüchow Railway will be entered into forthwith between your board and the corporation on the same terms as are contained in the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway loan agreement for submission on the one hand by memorial to the Throne, and on the other for production before the proper British court - it being understood that this preliminary agreement will be signed as the final agreement as soon as the sanction of the proper British court to the transfer of the loan funds has been obtained and the Imperial decree approving the agreement has been communicated by the Wai-wu Po to His Britannic Majesty's Minister in Peking. Conversely, if sanction to this agreement be withheld on either side, the preliminary agreement will of course have no effect.\n\nAs soon as your Excellencies favour me with assurances on the above points, I shall be glad to submit to your Excellencies a draft of the preliminary arrangement.\n\nAwaiting the favour of your Excellencies' reply, I have, &c.\n\n## Sir,\n\n### Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n## Prince Ch'ing to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nPeking, March 11, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note on the subject of the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, in which you refer to breaches of the agreement and to the reported dismissal by the Kiangsu Railway Company of the British engineer-in-chief, and request that the control of the railway be recovered without further delay.\n\nThe matter was at once referred to the Board of Communications, which has replied stating that it has already taken exception to the action of the Kiangsu and Chekiang railway companies in abolishing the railway bureau and dismissing the British engineer-in-chief, and is now considering what steps should be taken in the future. As soon as a scheme has been decided upon the board will communicate it in due course.\n\nIn the meantime, pending the arrangement by the Board of Communications of a scheme, when a further reply will be sent, I have the honour to inform your Excellency of the above, and avail, &c.\n\n**PRINCE CH'ING.**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n**CHINA RAILWAYS.**\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n`[13250]`\n\n[April 10.]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n### No. 1.\n\n## Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 10.)\n\n(No. 129.) Sir,\n\nPeking, March 23, 1911. I HAVE the honour to enclose the copy of a despatch which I have received from the acting British consul at Chungking reporting that a new survey has been made for the railway which the provincial authorities aspire to build between Yünnan-fu and Sui-fu, on the Yang-tsze River.\n\nThe realisation of the project is still very problematical, but the report is of interest as showing the work that the American engineers employed by the Government of Yunnan are doing.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n## Acting Consul Toller to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 7.) Sir,\n\nChungking, February 22, 1911. MR. DAWLEY, the American engineer engaged by the Szechuan-Yunnan Railway Company, arrived here on the 17th instant, after a thirteen months' journey from Yunnan-fu, during which time he has made an accurate survey of the country to be traversed by the proposed railway from that city to the Yang-tsze. Mr. Dawley kindly showed me his general plan of the line, and I now have the honour to enclose a sketch-map that I have prepared,* illustrating the points in which the route proposed by Mr. Dawley diverges from those suggested by previous surveyors. (My diagram is adapted to the General Staff Map of Yunnan: Mr. Dawley's tracé is indicated by a continuous red line; other suggested routes by dotted red lines.)\n\nThe essential feature of this new route is the use of the valley of the River Niu-lan. It is claimed that this course not only shortens the distance considerably, but also gives a much easier gradient - through a distance of some 200 miles the incline is only 1 per cent. A further advantage is that this line would not pass through any part of Kueichou, so inter-provincial complications will be avoided.\n\nA few miles south of Chao-t'ing the line leaves the valley of the Niu-lan and joins, at T'ao-tien P'u, the previously proposed route, To do this it goes up the bed of a small tributary of the river, the gradient here rising to as much as 2 per cent., though it is hoped that a resurvey will reduce this figure.\n\nNorth of Chao-t'ung still more serious difficulties are encountered. Mr. Dawley considers that it would be impossible to take the line through Ta-kuan Ting (the course indicated in earlier surveys), and proposes to follow a river valley to the west, about midway between that town and Yung-shan Hsien. He admits that even this route would present very grave engineering problems, for in one place there is a drop of 1,600 feet in 16,000. This could be escaped by tunnelling, but he wishes to obviate that as far as possible, so has left his assistant, with a party of Chinese surveyors, to try to discover some practical detour. Mr. Dawley's line joins that of the former survey at Hsin-kai, north of Ta-kuan Ting, and thence follows the valley of the Heng River to An-pien, and that of the Yang-tsze to Sui-fu. The total length of this new route is 410 miles, and the cost of construction is estimated at from 25,000,000 to 35,000,000 taels. The amount of capital collected by the railway company up to the date of commencement of the survey was 2,000,000 taels.\n\nMr. Dawley is, I understand, engaged under a three years' contract, about half of which has yet to run.\n\nHis annual salary is said to be 15,000 dollars gold, and he is provided with an American assistant, Mr. Hawke by name, and a large staff of Chinese engineers, trained in the Yunnan-fu Railway College.\n\n`[1985 -2]`\n\n*Not reproduced.\n\n284",
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        "content_text": "## Military Affairs\n\nThe general military situation on the Yunnan border has been outlined in the body of this report, and, in view of the recent and detailed description which has been given by Captain B. E. A. Pritchard both of the modern troops and of the old army in Yunnan, there remains little for me to add, save a general summary of the present distribution which has been affected by the recent situation on the frontier. The transfer of a body of new troops to Tengyueh has been foreseen for some months, and, although they have been hurried towards the frontier districts at a somewhat earlier date than was expected or was convenient for the Chinese, there seems no reason to believe that any material change has taken place in the general plan of action. The frontier garrisons in the districts to which my sources of information extend are given in a separate note attached to this report as `Enclosure 5`, and I have added also a short description of the new forts on the frontier as `Enclosure 6`.*\n\n### Mobility of New Troops\n\nOne of the strongest criticisms which has been levelled at the modern-drilled troops of China has been their need of an undue amount of transport—a point on which they generally compare unfavourably with the old troops, who move quickly and are practically self-supporting. It may be of interest, therefore, to give a brief account of the march of the 500 men who have recently arrived at Tengyueh from Talifu. The distance is 240 miles, and this was covered in twelve days, giving daily marches of 20 miles, a creditable performance, as the road is mountainous and steep. They were preceded by a small advance guard, all of whom were mounted and who travelled a day ahead, making a survey as they went and selecting sites for camps. The main body proceeded always in marching order, by twos or fours as the width of the road permitted, each man carrying his rifle, bayonet, and a small quantity of ...\n\n* Not printed.\n\nPage 16 \n\n5. That Tantai Shih Hung-shao were immediately recalled to office. This officer lost his post and was cashiered, in spite of the protests of His Majesty's Minister and of the Government of India, as a punishment for his friendly attitude in attempting to arrange a settlement of the northern frontier with Mr. Litton and Mr. Leveson in 1905. His recall to office before any further negotiations commenced would greatly strengthen the hand of those Chinese officers who might be appointed to settle the question now.\n\n6. That Li San-pao, the interpreter who accompanied me to the unadministered territory in the spring, and who was therefore imprisoned by the taotai, were immediately released.\n\nIn the above points I have outlined what would appear to be the extreme limit of the favourable terms which could be granted by us, and, in view of the duplicity of the original Chinese negotiators in certain instances and of the unfailing Chinese obstruction along this frontier, I do not know that the Government of Burma would consider those suggestions under paragraph (1) to be admissible. I do not know, too, if such an arrangement as the above could be carried through in the ordinary way of business by the consul and the taotai, or whether it would be necessary for them to receive special powers. In any case it would, I think, be desirable that an officer of the Burma Government should act with the consul and the Chinese representatives, and that this officer and the consul should have an opportunity of meeting Mr. Stirling, of the Southern Shan States, Mr. Thornton, the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, and Mr. Hertz at a conference with the Chief Secretary to the Government, in order that the British position might be thoroughly clear to them before work commenced. Amongst those Chinese officers who would be suitable for the work are the Taotai Keng Pao-kuei of Tengyueh, Peng Chi-chih, at one time assistant boundary commissioner, lately Prefect of Yungchang and now Special Salt Commissioner for the Frontier districts; and Chao-kai-hsuan, the Frontier Deputy for Foreign Affairs. Work could not commence before the 1st October of this year, owing to the incidence of the rains, but much might be accomplished in one open season if the issues were clear and the question were pushed to a conclusion now that the Chinese are convinced that the Government of Burma is in earnest, and that it is to their interest to effect a speedy settlement of the entire north-eastern frontier.\n\n## SKETCH MAP OF BURMA-CHINA FRONTIER\n\n| Location        | \n| --------------- | \n| 94 E of GREENWICH | \n| Rima            | \n| MAPUTRA         | \n| Jo Sadiya       | \n| JH KAMTI        | \n| SAM             | \n| CHIRGWIN        | \n| KATHA           | \n| R.MALI KHA      | \n| AMAI KHA        | \n| MYITKYINA       | \n| TAPING RIVER    | \n| BHAMO           | \n| Apima           | \n| MANANG PUM      | \n| Sadan           | \n| Simao           | \n| Kangai          | \n| TÉNG YUEM       | \n| Sintan/Lungchuge | \n| UNGLING         | \n| R.SHWELI        | \n| SALWEEN         | \n| Mongman         | \n| NAMKHAM         | \n| bkut Koi Kuninga | \n| YMYO            | \n| TAUNGGYI        | \n| RANGOUN         | \n| MOUTHS OF IRRAWADY | \n| BAY OF BENGAL   | \n| SALWEEN         | \n| WILD            | \n| LASHID          | \n| WAS             | \n| Pang Sung       | \n| Nnicat          | \n| Batang          | \n| Wei-hsi         | \n| Litang          | \n| S SÚ CHUAN      | \n| Changtie        | \n| Yungning        | \n| Alsi Ferry      | \n| LIKIANG         | \n| YANGTSE         | \n| Chao-Chou       | \n| GYUNG-CHANG     | \n| NAKTING RIVE    | \n| Cher-pien-Ting  | \n| JaMenglem       | \n| SONG PANNA      | \n| KENG TUNG       | \n| không hại       | \n| Hồng Sẽ         | \n| TONKIN          | \n| YUNNANFU        | \n| RIVER MEKONG    | \n| Sau mau         | \n| RED RIVER       | \n\n2B \n96 \nOB \n301 \n¤Åturize \nA \n$ \n100 \n150 \n200 MILES \n100 \n(36.31.1423) FO (1974 -2)",
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        "content_text": "7\n\nAnd if\n\nMr Cox.\n\nwe mark our letter to the Govr & \"Confl\"\n\nI think we might add that the Govr has reported on two recent & separate occasions that Mr de Martin \"has done good work\" (20712) & is \"exceptionally well qualified for promotion.\" (Confl Report for 1910).\n\nyou will remember that I showed you my private note to her de Martin (in 30747) before sending it.\n\nTCM 6/1\n\nAtome\n\nHB32\n\nMr\n\nMy Stubb.\n\nAny necessity to remind\n\n2\n\n4041573 4/5 D\n\nNo. The attacked letter from the Bod shews that they have taken possible action.\n\nla me\n\nBJ\n\nahme\n\nEOR\n\nMrs. Hewens\n\n1 Wellingborough\n\n64\n\n17\n\nJanuary 2\n\n3 JAN 11\n\nI have the honour to write to ask your permission to make accompanying application to the Board of Education.\n\nI beg to ask to forward enclosed application to the Board of Education under cover of such reference as you may feel it in your power to make regarding my work in the Colonial Service.\n\nI would request that this application may not prejudice any chance I may have of transfer within the Colonial Service (for which I have already applied), and that it may not be taken to mean that I am desirous to leave that Service as in any way dissatisfied with my position therein. \"I wish to get carried, and that seems only remotely possible in my present position in Hong Kong\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant\n\nGaston P de Martin",
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        "content_text": ".I aquaolume (asquoooe of) \n\nod al dreptavo) sol coll eit savdos ad. bredarelou I BA \n\nbeli au usha etaqaq 123 @laur in nud ni çıaiger dorad a deildedne been obese nequod a to noidsmut and of prod›isqerq onub maantaud bra .yasqno) snido & fep (Iby I ymaqnoƆ douf anido ni oo oj nå eoitte \n\nand od bezprezat sd Ilix enqng ei nebo al sou onsgeg sið nor \n\nat Ifir noldurosto..i ond Janod woli ni moinsquol to drwałęsa \n\nvol da juo tamquod minü @ to a. 1'to hotdriger out .98u00 ech ni esafq où no touri slivnoq ad IIir skins spad? ei aŭ of daid: I tranq ald \n\nOJ Jon 11 \n\nna vodaaji na neoslq down to noisivong ofau \n\nTidiger und beim noivas, 000 mi to +10led vequo0 anid a penol ed Jon bas berigned? ni vrtniger donand and yi emb ad où eta seimiqroð 1: \n\nni preqmeð snint e o atos sud to broost edelɩmoa e nuit greɔgnell ni and evad od deby he cavol,noa noll add 11 bas ;anido al elds Ilave belit ed neo atoqaq Ile,ind ̧ædã ni sonataire ni si doldy noiðandi ai \n\nroh ni Tarjei sf mið of bottlænænd ed so yquo eno ima edasliqub ni \n\n⚫grod \n\naotrubno 9.i od caco ovul I asitazukinnoo Iutero a Todta \n\n-Joo? (ne breIn§ to doid al drow luoda se doldɛ no wolans ent Janu \n\ndolár yðisontus und ¡eeolo ylist si polene sic .308 and Tehar bad- \n\n‚98ao eno ni eber) to braod sut,ano si (maɖooo a sed:970 10 Besic30067 \n\nericns 913 enoidoibrinuį, owd ent .Tedjo ens ni gnetnoñi to tomovod Gro \n\n8830 out at of bellyga od od dru¤l add ;#8280 dod ni eðasagas \\!- \n\ndik edd ei brtafyri ai boted aişor seimaqloo .s.i nainaqnos dailyni. Tu \n\nni ets¡ .nolessƐ to druol and reiruquos dadoo8 10 .soidust to dwo) \n\nend gnojno ni soitto bemisiyər riedė dù iv asinaquoo to seeo sui“ \n\nsit asinsquod mido to #880 adi ni ‚¿woð sú ed bluoda Job „nodynol \n\nels ed Illiz çıdanaona sèratbraus nimŭ edi .cminü tel Jwol amer \n\n-olans moijvendwa s to eonantb10 aug to 0 JA,& .8.a ni noijo,bundni \n\n-dua sið Ens baddimo won are doidw Jod and to 1 hre II\\ea of nuo3-\n\nzot Joa edừ to 388 ‚« ni *drueð auð\" to moldinitab a.d to goleucide-\n\nTedjo ed yam stent,somnib10 ad: to 18S .a ni \"¿mob add* to drud \n\n© molda milnoo woy evan od euoirne yrov mm I .númelőreme Ini, nespaenvo berloper 90 jnistarb to drow and as eldis nog es yInno sa Inaoqon, Bidd \n\n280 \n\nrequired provisions must to a large measure depend upon it. I have therefore the honour to ask that I may be instructed by telegram whether I may adopt this course. To save time, I am sending a copy of the latter part of this despatch to Sir F. Luggir. \n\nLugar \n\nThe gentlemen whom I have consulted are also unanimously desirous of having power reserved to existing Chins companies to come in under the present arrangement on the payment of a fee to cover clerical expenses. \n\nI have etc.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n147\n\nde to maid majuit nahor\n\nTwovos od dosida om enoiditwoo bedrolli Mid\n\nCanton, 20.7.12.\n\nCanton Local Note Issue.\n\n«STOVO) LOC, Ap and yÿlusitrik énamung ono noro wig ut\n\nJ TOVO Xuod Amİyer\n\nBIO OVOL. Jem: Show- 103 yeniilom dark 19e or macd „Idkerings enl exw 3 JLeur Tevod 10 ii painoo pa on viunoureende ben pored unitselfoo uf dreio12-\n\nneed zer drunTS FOC\n\nCrilliy stwqye and at awobrwy ni yeros exian od gaitpovsobie Jom we pi di dud enogune dane vot cfdafi ve yable (ra syruðtus of od ponai „ethoed most díjroy mo mani ded guinden dalë bist. bunot ord to Junjou and .teunivor¶ Ieubivibui Josic) [iz xwea! Inimivort hus herdlandeco surend? orendile sun Eldercaset co universe if (ru uc ductory sad ei „dvojdo ride to - olalvaeque bere badaserooqui peiswone to Iexamos to rock kinos\n\non Jucinitiva porou woTied plumbony 1/0 saint ‚¿mel nkwu/% Až neuvoti mdd to noivas sad od sul çikido ni Ji que plouaA\n\n✔ ospe of qui anten\n\n6.193 alu od ebepoo of ufùsno uk gak ni ni uns movob sie dend nami avitoegein aile du Prouiderou nad i vannson bulebbaru:\n\nJenido or go on FBI of dit que ex\n\ndusen .6 M (. 8)\n\n.doos IL\n\n• noriemon\n\nThe 72 guilds held a meeting yesterday, and it was made known that the Guilds had come to terms with the Governor, that the Government Note Issue would not exceed $21/22,000,000.\n\nThe Governor, it is said, informed them the total amount of notes in circulation at present is $18,000,000, but he desired to issue gradually a further $3/4,000,000 (or $8,750,000, as 8¾ million is more likely). This latter amount should be sufficient to cover the balance of the expenditure over receipts of the Province, for two months, after that period the Government hope to collect sufficient in taxes to cover their expenditure.\n\nOwing to the Governor having given his assurance as regards the total of the Note Issue, it was resolved by the 72 guilds, that the Canton and Hongkong merchants should be requested to form a Company with a Capital of $5,000,000, the idea being to purchase Canton Notes from the market, at market price, and deposit them with the Provincial Treasury Bank, which Bank has agreed to receive and hold same as on Fixed Deposit on behalf of the Company, on the due dates of such deposits the Bank will pay the Company back the face value of the Notes in silver, plus interest.\n\nIf this scheme is carried out, it is hoped it will greatly improve the market value of the notes, it is also hoped that the discount being thus reduced the public in general will have more confidence in them.\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response to fit the required format (HTML with  for paragraphs), and to correct minor errors and improve readability while adhering strictly to the guidelines:\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n147\n\nde to maid majuit nahor\n\nTwovos od dosida om enoiditwoo bedrolli Mid\n\nCanton, 20.7.12.\n\nCanton Local Note Issue.\n\n«STOVO) LOC, Ap and yÿlusitrik énamung ono noro wig ut\n\nJ TOVO Xuod Amİyer\n\nBIO OVOL. Jem: Show- 103 yeniilom dark 19e or macd „Idkerings enl exw 3 JLeur Tevod 10 ii painoo pa on viunoureende ben pored unitselfoo uf dreio12-\n\nneed zer drunTS FOC\n\nCrilliy stwqye and at awobrwy ni yeros exian od gaitpovsobie Jom we pi di dud enogune dane vot cfdafi ve yable (ra syruðtus of od ponai „ethoed most díjroy mo mani ded guinden dalë bist. bunot ord to Junjou and .teunivor¶ Ieubivibui Josic) [iz xwea! Inimivort hus herdlandeco surend? orendile sun Eldercaset co universe if (ru uc ductory sad ei „dvojdo ride to - olalvaeque bere badaserooqui peiswone to Iexamos to rock kinos\n\non Jucinitiva porou woTied plumbony 1/0 saint ‚¿mel nkwu/% Až neuvoti mdd to noivas sad od sul çikido ni Ji que plouaA\n\n✔ ospe of qui anten\n\n6.193 alu od ebepoo of ufùsno uk gak ni ni uns movob sie dend nami avitoegein aile du Prouiderou nad i vannson bulebbaru:\n\nJenido or go on FBI of dit que ex\n\ndusen .6 M (. 8)\n\n.doos IL\n\n• noriemon\n\nThe 72 guilds held a meeting yesterday, and it was made known that the Guilds had come to terms with the Governor, that the Government Note Issue would not exceed $21/22,000,000.\n\nThe Governor, it is said, informed them the total amount of notes in circulation at present is $18,000,000, but he desired to issue gradually a further $8,750,000. This latter amount should be sufficient to cover the balance of the expenditure over receipts of the Province, for two months, after that period the Government hope to collect sufficient in taxes to cover their expenditure.\n\nOwing to the Governor having given his assurance as regards the total of the Note Issue, it was resolved by the 72 guilds, that the Canton and Hongkong merchants should be requested to form a Company with a Capital of $5,000,000, the idea being to purchase Canton Notes from the market, at market price, and deposit them with the Provincial Treasury Bank, which Bank has agreed to receive and hold same as on Fixed Deposit on behalf of the Company, on the due dates of such deposits the Bank will pay the Company back the face value of the Notes in silver, plus interest.\n\nIf this scheme is carried out, it is hoped it will greatly improve the market value of the notes, it is also hoped that the discount being thus reduced the public in general will have more confidence in them.",
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        "content_text": "94\n\n.bre. I hiss\n\n-teorf wot dau dy\n\nala,\n\nJet\n\n#\n\n↓\n\nw\n\nou Buicthegre IIR MI\n\nk\n\nfive A\n\n* Dead\n\ndeine\n\n0 0\n\nzoti\n\ni\n\naloor di A\n\na to drotan and\n\nJYDS HOECU. VIICO\n\nsli doberek VI en nab\n\n1.\n\n8.\n\nV koža, ma to dee,riðuei.\n\n2430itt. oil μl ord s.3\n\nIlacus nI\n\n944 1943\n\nwho in conference with me made a sketch and took notes of the names of many islands, which lie in the estuary of the said river and where, for us Portuguese, for a long time, have appeared certain proofs that the pirates saelter themselves in preference in those islands.\n\nI have no reasons for believing that any pirates may be taking refuge in the territories that are still in dispute between Portugal and China (the island of Tai Vong Kam) (Montanha or Mountains) the island of Siu Tong Kam or Don Juan, and the island of Lapa). But I believe that it is on the said Chinese Islands and not on the disputed territories that we may probably find the bands of pirates, which are infesting the South of China, but, notwithstanding this fact as it is also possible that the pirates have sought shelter in these \"islands in dispute\" I had the intention of beating these islands with my military forces, making known the fact previously to the Authorities of Canton in order that they might co-operate in this action if they were willing.\n\nIn the letter of 30th August Your Excellency has asked that any of these operations should be deferred until Your Excellency was able to organise a joint expedition whose chance of success seemed greater.\n\nI confess that I had at once the intention of answering then, as I answer now, that the Portuguese troops at my disposal are enough to beat the islands in dispute, and that I may even dispense with the help of the Chinese troops if the Canton Government do not wish to collaborate in the operations that I will try on those three islands.\n\nTherefore my surprise was enormous when I learned from an official communication received on the 3rd September from the Canton Government now confirmed by your letter of today that the Canton Government are willing to land troops for the pursuit of the pirates in the \"Islands in Dispute\" and that help will be given by British men-of-war.",
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        "content_text": "85\n\nIwo Jemutevod meibrI ST deût and 13O.. To no moldade eno Jos10 to boonwodnyien sus ni eno Jne unavod nзoitti ndvol end bra sonoo # Joere of relatiebru bad vnsurevoù NBIISTJA BUT .BİTOLOTĄ betsiqueunoo eзy Ji 10uni .enogeyni? no iv edauinumoo of noidajů Jɛell ni yiuivaog as grow noli je sedusre ed Lola noided, a lad Juevo!) asE .8oink od 3o vonatotnie edy 10% yaq blow\n\nĮ\n\n86-\n\ned to jqiso01 Mid Duiw peJibero ed bluor bra bodoore di anoitat? od Jon bluow adçisper onï .belhuui noijndü two adi noine oittan ond na vigioniïg ama and 10 webivio ed luow sunever end .belooq -iusnuco auoitav and noewasa LeDivis new ouncver oilqarzəlod dan Ind pinoy diw,JOM:TSVOD mai.ind and id neqe su od Luus ent\n\nJeni) mort Jupons yldadon beanbit ed Iwow ,000,0„ER of Jaší of\n\niwiw bejmɔ ed „Inow trwals and Jud,edoV soiT10 duo : 943 mert pensilung aduwooo.. Isiota moj sud Tebow boul midnie une desnojni\n\n■\"vilaw ni poi110 Jual and ya\n\nen INIT SIlseb,naid LateneƆ-TUJERAJ 809 907 937 i dend\" yie osno Ju9w,noÍJSTOLA.01 3Na Jsuo to notdueup noijomber eldstovienco a Joells of side od bluer yard tand besLOGYO .\"noideo iru wop to estaï od ni\n\nITunes)-19r 2003 804 end to dne.convoncs evaja sut -97iv eonsdeib-nola to unmuriidades elu ct,bin di as micriog niouber to aæsem ent ed bluow doidiw,aoioù simu mi noidust seed- Bond ni emilaq 00 elosü ek yo nagtho Bedst dystjelet džin snú ‚noivostaimme elastocitnos iw ap to povisost Vilowden abw \\nolo0 -Tedaud801 is ni gairiposo \"reval* „Drow edd said Jorjer se jud Two to noijo910 old delj stavi mi ut mees Ivor doseqë aʼistepað- bluoy ew DILA ,Denoqteoy ad of vedil ei erod noidejé rewoq-d,in Jne.onoquaog dove Jad ejiu ([[utjosquez Jaom of ewjnev,erotezerif ed minune noidutƐ oon teib-ynel sud dadă Juu,sosiy silse Jon blvora 4.6 bat se19 eilu ni es emij share ant jo yaolob eine mi bojelų.00 nisuo and Jand repro ni,aðnemistel adriend2 end to noloŬ zecais 28 asteignos 90 81 002uoi ama bisijā neertou moidoirm now to .ezugsgrit of buni ̧ái Lott aming end as move\n\nod ap elúsne uela »lsow noidad sondeip-gnol & dou2\n\nMČEVIOJNÍ Bir to enden Ipuittib end untimeters iydon asuingA100\n\nVumoo\n\n237\n\nAs we have been given to understand that a Despatch has been recently sent to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of a wireless Station for communicating with shipping only, we would beg leave to sugest that a telegram be sent to him asking that no action be taken upon that Despatch until the receipt of the further Despatch which will cover this letter.\n\nWe have etc.,\n\n(Sad.) C. P. Chater.\n\nH. E. Pollock.\n\nKai Ho Kai.\n\nWei Yuk.\n\nC. H. Ross.\n\nJ. W. C. Bonnar.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": ".10JCİNİ... . od amotard To IoxenoÛ-rojosqanI \n\n„JIVI,Isummaqo2 .JBIS,mixed \n\n,mol zië web te \n\nond grini onoo Jungwi .38l to nodded woY \n\ngniniajniau to Jeos and sbwod noidudincnoo s'jnamtovod ezeninü \n\n-iatief wort miudet ya no a. os bebasu now eapolish,id doon gið end \n\nsnd bine oon-ada yu jand Jenger I ane jitnud end to be e.id JB on- mort om bejnevery evan noija Toini ewe uininao to Wismecer .enoted yniyiQSI \n\n-eng dad enoitsijogen eit to hroost of eval \n\n(0C tổ od beztalar JrensguTIA wood ads to noteplom o end hebes- \n\nKort,Jud „002I ni LayouBUD SIDY BOVinors edBioJooqeri Ila as \n\n• Esotand nocivoli and Jiw eonebnoqustruo and 2011 Tande; nao I Jam #sentiü eis tad noidustal na Tevez BAW OTJ (Quid enig $3 \n\nand no duos Jatit end tendie abıswo♬ noiduainʊo a'jne.KTISVOD) \n\nfanimun gionly a mallu 191do ad vimana da,il sind. To collietnika drod tul yeiliuianoquer [[ut bewens dass zevod enol mon ent .mwa \n\nto Jouo Bild auit al ji dzwond WILA eomansjnia de noitounJenco \n\nt \n\n譬 \n\n5. OJ THA、03 Jon asob erD.J Bojanit B9 9. bebeeurs yleyral disoď -İmenuo of beina ed won binode animl yrim mosher sdsupebs vim oú vý s niajnisms of beLupƏT i ja w lo aasoro ni Luss Inmaa na edud- yov Billd ni Jand reno ni Jesou anii) end no tujil aasio Talimia paoloù add to 818yog-zad and u aynoled yiragong do inw,nebud a exaun od vám... ou your sds bits,Bishijone red no boosiq ad you etmiwb Jajid doon qal and no ewtibmyre sdu \\lovidbeqeutjeZ OJ Disyaï ni panou Reomata aonio on lo rona I .sey ydnewd Jan{ dotar enoid mort Jooquet Liicieuse via ai teltic Sand Jail eing as Jne.revoù eneninü sad o. Isega bluow Ja To Ddbi ni badeira to selyimming Intnemabout silt te eno amit ew13ab roï NOBBST yas inn betur Jenes su vinona Jagil sa Jand,ylaza,Ju8l007ja ond \n\n•ynodod and Tu engere sud de boniesnie \n\nUnapost and hidingor waiv ya ni aind einW \n\n-78 9UMOCAL... end abreos 000,01% to neizuulitettoo Isulin an 101 \n\n307 \n\nexpenses of the light, I would be prepared to recommend a special contribution towards the cost of renewing the lantern apparatus, which, I understand from the extract you give me from the Cover- -nor's despatch, has been sanctioned. \n\nYours sincerely, \n\n(Sd.) F. A. Aglen.",
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        "content_text": "He went on for economy, that still remain of opinion that done us very well. After all, it is his common sense spoke of, nevertheless, and urged that the British taxpayer has should not militate against fairly public works, the pro-money and not of adequate police, the pro-water supply.\n\nThe motion that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee was agreed.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary said, gentlemen, we must be cautious in the ordinary revenue exceeds the expenditure, less by $750,000 the programme for public works extraordinary, in round figures, $1,683,000. There is a surplus, but it does not cover what we wish to do for public works. Therefore, we must be economical.\n\nSome say we are spending too much on public works. We are alive to the necessity of having an adequate police force. We are making progress in that direction. The unofficial members of the Sanitary Board have diverted attention from the Pokfulum reservoir. The crusade for attacking the water supply and even going so far as to recommend that it should be stopped altogether is useless.\n\nThe Secretary moved that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee. The Colonial Secretary seconded, and it was agreed.\n\nHis Excellency said, the Council stands adjourned until next Thursday.\n\nThe estimates laid before you show a substantial balance. We are dipping into that balance to provide for additional works, large works like the Mongkukisui breakwater and the water supply. I think that we must agree that we cannot do without borrowing more. We have money, but good finance is not about having money in our pocket; it is about managing it.\n\nWe have built large works in recent years. If we can manage out of the balance, we will not need to borrow. But if we cannot, then we must seek a loan from the Colonial Office.\n\nThe Colonial Office has been asked about a loan, but they have refused. I would like to say that we have been wasteful in our use of water. The consumption per head in Kowloon is about 8 gallons, while in Victoria it is 21 gallons. The population of Kowloon is healthy and energetic, and they are moderate in their demand upon the taps in their houses.\n\nThe Engineer-in-charge is an extremely capable officer, and we have full confidence in him. We are proceeding with the Tytam Tuk waterworks, and there is no delay due to red tape.\n\nHis Excellency, rising again, said that the difference between the last opium farm and the new one is $268,800 a year. This has rather knocked the bottom out of my little argument.\n\nPage 60\n\n \n(No further text is available in the original document for this page)",
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        "content_text": "to Mess\n\nAllan for\n\nbarment of\n\nthe\n\namount claimed.\n\nC\n\n(Signed) G. V. FIDDES,\n\nDate.\n\n1912\n\n7 Feb.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nSTRAITS\n\n5037\n\nC\n\n251\n\nValuation of note issue securities (carefully cared).\n\nin care of Ah, Hongkong Bank, & the Chartered Bank of India Australia & China.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nLeuss statements of\n\n4.37997 is excess of security\n\nMr. Shabb - on 2 Jan 1912. There\n\nin each case.\n\noft for conson herewith.\n\nJR 22\n\nCopy\n\nUnsa. Comp.\n\nCorrla\n\nTreas\n\n8 March,\n\n23 Mch\n\nCa 8182\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\nThe excess in the deposits of the H.K. and S. Bank is obviously to cover an increase in their ordinary Note Issue from 10 to 15 million dollars. Point this out to C.A., referring them to Ord. 6 of 1907 sent to them in our letter of 2 Aug. 07, send them a copy of the Proclamation of 20 June 07 and of the Consent of 16 June 07, in volume herewith (copies should also be attached to 27000/07) and ask them to draw up a fresh valuation accordingly.\n\n9.8182.\n\n244), Wt.25,946-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nAn reign an)",
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        "content_text": "They met. Therefore, if necessary, more money should be raised under that order to pay off the Colony's debt to themselves. But the debt to the Bank is £1,125,000 - so far as I can see who the creditor is. If this security measure is taken to include then advances in the same to be mixed. I think therefore that the amount to be mounted on the actual amount is:\n\n(1) £1,250,000\n\n(2) £330,000\n\n(3) Loans in course of repayment\n\nIn all phases expenses. Further I think as regards (2) that the C.A. might be asked to offer suggestions as to the date on which sinking fund should commence.\n\nPerhaps you would refer the papers back to Sir R. Antrobus for any plans that he may have had, the C.A.; and be specific about advances with presumably be covered.\n\nJR.\n\nI don't think it would be quite safe for you to allow your advances only to be covered by the expected repayments by the Viceroy. I am inclined to think that clause 2 of the draft loan Ord. should contain an addition authorizing you to issue stock or debentures to cover advances you have already made so far as they are not repaid by the Viceroy. Any further advances you make can be taken to be on account of the newly authorized loan of £250,000.\n\nMay we have your views also on the insertion to be made in the blank space as to the date of commencement of Sinking Fund?\n\nOn re-consideration I think our power of additional issue should be to re-imburse to you such advances as you may have made, or may make, in anticipation of the repayment of the Wu-Chang loan, so far as they may prove not to be fully covered by such repayment. But you will no doubt suggest a wording.\n\nM. Collins.\n\nAug 16\n\nPage 314\n\nKR14/2\n314",
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        "content_text": "## B 277\n\n2\n\n**PHOTOGRAPHY IN NATURAL COLOURS**\n\nThe Polychromide System\n\nEffort to produce photographs in the actual colour of nature have attracted earnest attention during recent years, and the works of the Lumières and others were valuable stepping-stones on the road to progress. It has been proved that, by the use of the colour-screen, negatives can be produced giving the sensations of the three primary colours, and these can be combined to leave a fairly harmonious picture; but it has been well stated that the results obtained by superposed pigmented bichromated gelatine (successively yellow, red, and blue), printed from colour-selection negatives at very uncertain and often far from satisfactory.\n\nOne of the chief features which distinguish the new polychromide process, patented by Mr. Acon Hamburger, of the Dover Street Studios, from many others is the use of a mechanism which enables the three plates to be taken simultaneously at a single exposure. In order to overcome certain difficulties inherent in this principle, Hamburger employs both reflection and refraction, and he has succeeded in so balancing the intensities of each that the perfect colour-stone rendering is obtained. A scale of shades of the standard colours has been prepared, in which the yellow inclines slightly to orange, the red to crimson, and the blue to green; that is to say, in lieu of being true primaries, the tints are in each case somewhere merged the one into the other. These shades are standardized, so that by means of the special developer used in the camera and the sensitized printing paper, with the above standard tints, any photographer should be able to attain accurate results. Two plates not on three are employed, each is sensitized to photograph one colour only.\n\nThe plate and the film are put together into one slide, with the emulsions in contact, the film thus serving the purpose of screening the plate. A print is made from the blue negative upon a rapid gelatine paper, which is turned into the yellow image. Prints in gelatine containing double salts are prepared from the other two negatives and transferred to a temporary support of glass. They are then superposed on the original yellow print by stripping. Though so far Mr. Hamburger has worked only by the aid of artificial flashlight, using a special compound to impart the requisite active properties, he does not anticipate obstacles in adapting the process to ordinary daylight. The camera takes the three pictures through a single lens and a single shutter, and it is found possible to have the register of the pictures perfectly accurate. The success of this process appears to depend upon the skill with which the spectrum has been split up, so that there is either no gap nor overlap, and therefore no colour is either lost or doubled. Specimens of the results yielded by the new process include not only serious portraits, in which the delicate flesh tints, the hair, and the minute details on the costume of the sitters are reproduced in complete harmony and in true colours, but also copies of paintings by the Old Masters in which the values due to low tone and false tints are successfully overcome.\n\n## NEWS OF THE WORLD\n\n[Telegrams from London]\n\n**The King of Greece**\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens wires that an eye-witness of the scene said that the King was standing at the corner of Aghistas Street, which is near the Police Headquarters, when an assassin rushed out of a hiding place and drew a big revolver from close quarters at His Majesty.\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, drew his revolver, whereupon the assassin turned round and fired twice upon the Colonel.\n\nTwo Cretan gendarmes then dashed up and arrested the assassin, who offered no resistance.\n\nColonel Frangoulis ran to the King, thinking His Majesty had not been hit, but found that he had fastened to the ground and was only half conscious.\n\nColonel Frangoulis raised the King in his arms, but His Majesty did not utter a word.\n\nSome notes and cartridges were found on the assassin.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says the man refuses to speak except to say, \"I will speak in the presence of the King.\"\n\n**King George V**\n\nThe King, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, visited Queen Mary at Marlborough House.\n\nThe outrage has aroused worldwide condolences and universal expressions of horror.\n\nA dispatch from Salonika to \"The Times\" regarding the assassination of the King of Greece says the King was in the habit of walking out every afternoon with a single servant, refusing requests made by his advisers to permit the presence of guards.\n\nYesterday, he was talking happily of the war and the successes of the Greek army as a long delayed triumph to his reign and said: \"Tomorrow I pay a final visit to the Dreadnought Goeben. It is with happiness and contentment that a German battleship should honour the Greek King at Salonika.\" These proved to be His Majesty's last words, for at that moment the assassin...\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, seized the hands of the assassin, which was poised for a second shot. Covering his Royal master with his body, Colonel Frangoulis grabbed the assailant by the throat and held him fast till soldiers came to his aid.\n\nThe English public are profoundly affected by the tragedy, which is an additional bereavement in Queen Alexandra's family. There were many references to the tragedy by public men at meetings held yesterday, and last night, wide pages of the papers were devoted to tributes.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says that all Greece is grief-stricken. The Prince George and others gently broke the news to the Queen, who fainted several times.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens also reports that it appears that the assassin is weak-minded, and a victim of alcohol. He is a native of Greece. He was twice dismissed from a school where he was employed as an attendant and he petitioned the King, who referred the matter to the proper quarter, which rejected the petition.\n\n## British Affairs\n\nIn introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, Col. Seely, Minister of War, dwelt on the extraordinary apprehension regarding aviation. He pointed out that the officers' never allowed performances to be published, and consequently remarkable achievements went unnoticed.\n\nHe affirmed that they did not possess any Zeppelins because they were not required.\n\nIt was decided to have some transportable dirigibles, and they would also possess 14 aeroplanes by May. Publicity were obviously marked for an expeditionary remount, and they could not reinforce the Egyptian garrison or the Indian troops. They had obtained a type of aeroplane superior to that of any nation. The difficulty was in regard to the engine, as he was offering a prize in this connection with the promise of a large purchase.\n\nThe Minister, Mr. H. Samuel (Postmaster General) and Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attorney General) obtained judgment with costs against the French newspaper \"La Muflin\" for libel in connection with statements published relating to the Marconi affair. The newspaper admitted the statements to be false and apologized.\n\nCounsel for the defence unreservedly accepted the denials of the Ministers that they were in any way concerned with dealings in Marconi shares.\n\nDelous Wattoit, Unionist Free Trader, has been returned to Parliament for the Kendal Division. The polling was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Col. Weston (U.) | 3,241 |\n| Mr. Somervell (C) | 1,680 |\n|  | 581 |\n\nUnionist Majority\n\nMr. Bone, in addressing the members of the Manchester Unionist Association, said that Kendal, in electing Colonel Weston, who refused to support the policy announced by the Party leaders, really voted no confidence in the late Government. If the party refused to act unitedly and would act following the leader, it was his duty to give place to another; and he would perform that duty if circumstances arose.\n\nThe result of the Houghton-le-Spring by-election was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wing (L) | 930 |\n| Mr. Richardson (C) | 4,807 |\n| Mr. Modles (L) | 4,185 |\n\nThe motion by Mr. Harold Smith for a reduction of the Home Office vote was defeated by 224 votes to 100.\n\nThe two Irish prisoners who had been sentenced for five days in Cold Bath Fields prison and to whom shamrocks were sent down on St. Patrick's Day have been rescued.\n\nFrom Port Said, it is reported that the steamer \"Melen\" has shipped £50,000 in gold for Singapore.\n\n## Affairs in China\n\nThere is much published in the Russian press regarding impending war between Russia and China. This is partly based on reported Chinese preparations for an advance on Urga, in defiance of Russia.\n\nIt is announced from St. Petersburg that M. Mueller, the Consul General at Tabriz, is proceeding to Urga as Consul-General, the consulate there being upgraded to a Consulate-General.\n\n## ENDER ENTIRELY NEW SIGN ON KHEN\n\n**EXCELLENT COLON**\n\nModerate Rates\n\nM. HAYNES, Manager\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\n- No. 2, Queen's Road Central\n\nA FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL.\n\nEvery order European Massage attended.\n\nSituated in a central position. Large Airy Rooms. Luxuriously furnished. Electric Light and hot water throughout.\n\nSanitary arrangements of the latest pattern.\n\nCUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION\n\nLadies' Afternoon Tea Rooms. Special terms for families made on application to the Manager.\n\nCharges Moderate\n\nF. RICHMANN, Proprietor\n\nTelephone No. 197, Telegraphic Address: \"Cowworm,\" Hongkong\n\n## CANNAVOLT\n\n**CENTRAL**\n\nTOKYO-HOTEL\n\nChen Hwang & Co. Limited.\n\nGENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.\n\nANTON'S LARGE WHOLESALE & RETAIL STORE.\n\n| Furniture, Draperies, Groceries, Hats, and Shoes. Makers of Jewellery, Linquers, Crockery, Watches, and Trimmings. Wines and Spirits. Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made to measure by our own tailors. |\n| --- |\n\nENORMOUS SUCCESS\n\nTHE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK, MONDAY, MARCH 24th, 1913\n\nThe news published in Bangkok that a party of military police have occupied the place where the salt will be examined has been paid for. Salt bought from the Government...\n\n## VICTORIA THEATRE\n\n**LOCAL AND GENERAL**\n\nEXCHANGE 111-1/2c Calcutta.\n\nThe Burma-China Frontier\n\nITTAJ\n\nThe manufacturer of salt shall sell it full to the Government at an appointed time.\n\nThe Thunderbolt Man, Wonderful Imitator and International Jester, was delivered in London on the 20th March.\n\nALEXANDER GALINSKY\n\nSATURDAY, 22nd,\n\nDebate at the Pantomime Arsie\n\nMISS ARKAS\n\nLarge assortment of Chinese Silks, Brocades, Shawls, and Foreign Goods of every description.\n\nAll goods sold at reasonable prices. The Cheapest and best place in Canton to buy Chinese and Foreign Goods.\n\nSUP PAT POO STREET, CANTON, Tel. No. 140.\n\nCanton, January 1, 1912.\n\nMAN and Italian\n\nThe Charming Serio Dancer,\n\nFREDA ARDEA LOON,\n\nTHE MAGNIFICENT NEW FILM\n\nFIRST-CLASS PRESERVES\n\nGINGER AND GOOSE MANUFACTURERS,\n\nFACTORY AT YAUMATI\n\nStation: No. 38, DES VIEUX ROAD WEST.\n\nTelephone No. 177.\n\nWhy are the leading Manufacturers of this class of Goods? Our Fruit and Gingers are all tough and of the first quality. Our Syrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n\"The Bohemian Girl\"\n\nSINGER\n\nSEWING MACHINES\n\nPianosare kept in stock. Our Symps is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular CORSTE particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n978 TELEPHONE: HONGRONG\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nUNSURPASSED FOR\n\nLocation\n\nService\n\nCuisine\n\nand Home Comforts\n\nTHE JOYAT FAMILY HOTEL OF THE COLONY\n\n-10, Lee Theatre Road\n\nHOTEL BAI TIMORE.\n\n1. No. 2, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nREASONABLE RATES.\n\nNo. 658, Telegraphic Address \"BALTMAX\" Hongkong.\n\nReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that the \"Novoe Vremya\" says that as a result of a circular from the Chinese Government regarding the possibility of conflict with Russia arising out of the projected...\n\n## VISITORS AT HOTELS\n\nKisa Rewind live Mongolian pagan, business My A. D. Ander\n\nMr & Mrs N Fulsdan, the Chinatown of Harbin, has almost ceased.\n\nThe majority Chinese workmen have quitted their affairs and from other centres there are similar reports. Frontier trade is at a standstill, and China has prohibited the exportation of all alimentary products.\n\nOther events are expected in a very brief period of time.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey informed Mr. Harwood Bunder that the negotiations for the Chinese Loan were still in private.\n\n| Mr F. Arou | Mr T. Aoki | De Botilos |\n| Mr Birsand | child Lisa Crosse |  |\n| Mrs Orexier | Straw. Donaldson | Ewing |\n| Mr Finchote | Miss Graham |  |\n| Mr Geo. Oribia |  |  |\n| Mr and Mrs F. E. | Melfough |  |\n| Hi, i |  |  |\n| Mad |  |  |\n| Major. J. Masti | Dr Muller |  |\n| Mr M. F. Murray | Nakashima |  |\n| Mr Overy | Miss M. Panti |  |\n| Cast M Pos | Mustu |  |\n| Mrs E. Karay |  |  |\n| Mr G. R. Rabb |  |  |\n| Miss F. Sunders | Capt. & Mrs Schenk |  |\n| Dr Silene |  |  |\n| and Mrs Kemp | Me H. S. Burze | M&Ms Lauritsen |\n| Stranet fokildren | i Captiasalinity | Choses A. H. |\n| Mis A. Loigh |  |  |\n| wherton |  |  |\n\n**PECTO SEPPUSE**\n\n4. 17, Currie's\n\nLONG HING & CO.\n\nDEVELOPING MACHINES\n\nQueen's Road Central.\n\nLEE ON & CO.\n\nMANUFACTURERS of the Best Hand-made Silk and Green Cloth Embroidery of the Latest French Pattern. Canton Down-work, Wholesale and Retail.\n\nPRINTING\n\n7, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG UNDERTAKEN\n\n**OPEN AIR SKATING RINK**\n\n**BELLE VIEW HOTEL.** (Telephone No. 907)\n\nSESSIONS 10 am, 1 12 noon, 2 to 5 pm, 7 to 10 pm.\n\nADMISSION 25 cents.\n\nADMISSION 50 cents.\n\nON LOCK\n\nYUEN\n\nCafe and Restaurant\n\nA la Carte at all hours\n\n7 pm to 1 p.m.\n\n27, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\n(Next Door to WROXWALL)\n\nW. GALLAGHER\n\nManager.\n\nDr. M. H. CHAUN\n\nYEN YEE & CO.\n\nHAIR DRESSING SALOON.\n\nHair Clipper, Razors, Scissor Sharpening and Repairing, Singeing Shaving, Massage, etc., a specialty.\n\nToilet Requisites Cigare and Cigarettes.\n\n**DENTAL SURGEON**\n\n32. Queen's Road Central (1st Floor)\n\nBoone 2 and 5.\n\nFrom the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.\n\nTelephone 125,\n\nNo. 28, Corner of D'Aguilar Street\n\nElectrical Engineers and Fitters\n\nand that the terms now under consideration by the Chinese Government have the unanimous approval of the Six Power Bankers, that Britain would continue exclusively to support the group negotiating the Loan.\n\nThe Balkans\n\nReuter's correspondent at Constantinople says that an official dispatch claims the success of the Turks at Chatalja after a desperate infantry battle.\n\nIt concludes: \"Our forces are engaging the enemy along the whole front.\"\n\nThe I. K. & S. Bank\n\nThe chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, presiding at the all-Party meeting in London, referring to opium, said he believed some equitable arrangement would be reached whereby an outlet would be found for the present stocks. It hardly seems just that purchasers of opium from the Government of India should...\n\n| Mr K. Mintumi |  |\n| Mr H. H. Taylor | My Water |\n| M. F. W. White |  |\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Allen\n\nMr May\n\nMr Agnew\n\nMr Reuskansen\n\nDe Brigga family\n\nMr and Mrs Mudie\n\nMr Nai Prusit\n\nand Mr J Oeso\n\nand Mrs Creer\n\nM: W. Men\n\nM: Gais\n\nMr A. Hersi\n\nMy Higginbotham\n\nMr J. Houlka\n\nDr Berage\n\nMy Selenide\n\nMr H. J. Sharp\n\nMr Shastin\n\nMr and Mrs Tobias| Tobias\n\nM. G. R. Tyre\n\nMr and Mrs Ho. Meg Watkins\n\nward\n\nDr Kurt\n\nMr Lorria\n\nMr Woodenek\n\nMr and Mrs Wikle\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Frank\n\nMr W. Pringle, Jun\n\nAilen\n\nMr A.F. Remedios\n\nMr A.G. Reaumut\n\nMr A. Ringe\n\n**PHOTO SUPPLIES**\n\nYour Road Contra\n\nA.\n\nTACK & Co.\n\n26. Des Vieux Road\n\nELECTRIC FITTINGS COMPANY.\n\nNo. 188, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nDeveloping Workmanship Guaranteed.\n\nand Printing\n\nUndertaken\n\nWO HING & CO..\n\nNo. 174. Queen's Road Central\n\nFR or\n\nas Riaze ng Ayrou\n\n**HOLLE HOTEL**\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF\n\nHigh Class Shawls, Handkerchiefs, Shawls, and fine Embroideries, Silk and Crepe Shawls and: \n\nMr G. Bolden\n\nMeWL Bobbik\n\nInces of Avery\n\nDancriptiste.\n\nCuphant\n\nMe Braga\n\nMi and Ms Arthur:\n\nMr F. Braga\n\nMiss F. Braza\n\nThe terms of the final agreement of the Mix Power Loan were now being satisfactorily arranged with China, and the conclusion of the Loan only awaited a decision between China and the Governments concerned regarding the appointment of foreigners to advisory posts.\n\nMiss M. Benga\n\nMva J. Conwford\n\nHarper\n\nMY J. Fayin\n\nRogerar\n\nMin Adwig\n\nMr A Selenit\n\nMr G. 1. Sew!!\n\nMiss Ethi Seith\n\nMy R. Stephenson\n\nMiss 6. Hour\n\nMre demeys\n\nMrs Tall\n\nMr F. J. Traadpild\n\nMr Mrs Rt.\n\nMr J, Veracr\n\nArt W\n\nHereel confidence in China's future and said in interious popularise. Jesper\n\ntion w great patural resources were & \n\nuthent guarantee of its prosperity\n\n**SING KEE & CO.**\n\nNSOP CHANDLERS, COMPRADORES AND STAYCLONES\n\nNo. 34. Connaught Road, Hongkong.\n\nKeep on hand every Description of Ship's Provisions, at lowest prices.\n\n**'MOHI' PEARL**\n\nTel), 632\n\nExcellent amongst all Pearls. Colour and shape up-to-date. Necklet, Earing, Brooches, Drops, etc.\n\nTRIAL SOLICITED\n\nMOHIDEEN & CO.,\n\n38, funny's Loan Central, foxokono.\n\n**Dr. YOUNG BROTHERS**\n\nAMERICAN DENTISTS\n\nPrice: the Best Quality Gaur\n\nNO, SEA, QOHEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\nEnteed AB Saris of Cout of the \n\nBEST QUALITY FOR SALE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nThe Carpau mail of the 19th Feb. says the frontier of Burma in British territory is, of course...\n\nThe date for the above transaction will be fixed by Ministerial order.\n\n7. The manufacturer shall first #1...\n\nAn interesting lecture will take place to-night at the Y.M.C.A. on \"Croatian Life and Scenery\" illustrated with a number of lantern slides.\n\nThe Sanitary Board meets...\n\nCorrespondence relative to affairs in various villages should be submitted at once.\n\nOn Good Friday and Easter Sunday, special services were held in the churches of the Colony, and sermons emphasizing the occasion to the Christian world were dwelt upon by the clergy in charge with much devotion and feeling.\n\n**A Transparent Lie**\n\nAsiatic Daily says \"It has been previously reported that the Kaomingtang demanded the formation of a party Cabinet as a reward for their supporting Yuan Shi-kai as President. According to reliable sources in addition to this claim, this Club Tang has further exacted the non-payment of one million dollars for expenses.\" Such palpable lies are self-condemning. It is but a cheap way of preying on the public sympathy. Fabrication of myths as a political weapon is not likely to endure long.\n\n9. According to circumstances, the Government may organize a patrol force for the purpose of regulating the manufacturers, protecting the salt furnaces and storage, and watching the dealing and manufacturing of salt.\n\n10. The Government may, according to the local conditions, grant rules by retail.\n\nDetailed regulations regarding the above Companies and retail rules shall be separately fixed.\n\n11. As salt affects the sanitary condition of the people, the Government may deal severely with the dealers of it, and any mixture shall be found in the salt.\n\n12. The writ officials may investigate the reservoirs of well water, the places of manufacturing, storing, and the buildings, banks, etc. If necessary, for the sake of supervision, extra men may be put upon the said items.\n\n13. The sale of salt whilst in transportation...\n\nThe Victoria Theatre is nightly drawing good houses, with Miss Freda Ardea and her dancing and Alexander Galinsky, for quick change artist being very popular. Miss Ark, the new Pantomime artiste, has a style peculiarly her own, which should prove a draw. The pictures are good, \"The Sphinx\" being especially so.\n\nIt is notified in the \"Government Gazette\" that the registration of the following trade marks has been renewed under the provisions of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909.\n\nThe new public improvements, for which it was proposed to make a loan, have been temporarily abandoned. No money is available for new equipment for the fire department, and consequently, the firemen in one district have to run with engines so dilapidated that the men fear the apparatus will fall to pieces.\n\nThe police department is pressed for funds, and impounded on leave of Mr. Justice Gow-Thomas; the health department has been pared down; the street department is cut to the marrow.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the following appointments:\n\nMr. Joseph Hansford Kemp, Crown Prosecutor, to be Puisne Judge.\n\nMr. Pauling and approved by the Government.\n\nThe Government shall deal directly with the Company, without regard to the person or persons to whom the rights and privileges belong.\n\n8. With regard to the railways constructed by the Company, should it be necessary for military purposes...\n\n## DO THINGS BLUR?\n\nDo they sometimes appear distorted?\n\nIs your sight blurred?\n\nIt is probably caused by astigmatism. Call at your earliest opportunity and have your eyes examined on we with thoroughly scientific lines.\n\nA rough test for astigmatism is as follows:-- Place the paper about three feet away and look with one eye at the above fan. The lines should appear of equal blackness, if they do not CONSULT\n\n**MANILA OFFICES,**\n\n78 ESCOLTA.\n\nTO-DAY.\n\n**LARK & CO.** SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS\n\nYORK BLOCKS, CHATER ROAD\n\nHONGKONG\n\n**THE SINCERE CO., LTD.,**\n\n215-221, Des Voeux Road Central, 109-111, Connaught Road Central,\n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS\n\n& \n\nHONGKONG and SOUTH CHINA,\n\nDEPARTMENTS FOR\n\nHousehold Goods, Furniture, Wearling Apparel\n\nGroceries, Wines and Spirits, Requisites, Jewellery,\n\nand Spirits, etc., etc.\n\nThe Pioneer One Price Store.\n\nGeorge Albert Would-ck.\n\nFirst Clerk\n\nThe License will be for 10 years to singolien or to reserve the right...\n\nReferred to Committee.\n\nIX.\n\nDespite all retrenchment, books shall be kept in the way prescribed by the Government, and shall be subject to...\n\nChicago is in the lightest touch since the days of the big Fire, 1871. The Metropolis of the World is bankrupt...\n\n## ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL\n\nThe Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospital:\n\n£1\n\nHo Kam Toog\n\nJ. M. Wung\n\n**National Council**\n\n(Continued from Page 1)\n\nThe revised regulation of the Railway Company of China (First reading).\n\n1. The Railway Company of China shall be organised in accordance with the Presidential Order of the 9th day of the 9th month of the First year of the Chinese Republic. With the exception of the railways, which have been or are to be built, or the construction of which has been signed, by the Government under the direct management of the Ministry of Communications and the railways concessions of which have been given to other Companies to be built.\n\n2. In addition to the common legal rights and privileges of other companies, the Company shall have the following privileges:\n\n(a) To propose and settle the lines referred to in the said article.\n\n(b) To take the concession of the lines referred to in the first article and to agree with Chinese or Foreign lot holders or Boat shares.\n\n(c) To utilize and manage the railway referred to in the first article, (1) manage the affairs connected with the alanya referred to in the first article.\n\n(e) To secure special funds and to buy in belonging to individuals, benefited by the construction of the line referred to in the first article.\n\n2. May any other company or the Government be willing to transfer the right of concession, which does not belong to the lines referred to in the first article, the Company has authority to accept it.\n\nThe Lines, other than those referred to in the first article, must be constructed by other companies under the regulations of the Government. They should not interfere with the privileges of the Company.\n\n4. The dates for commencing and completing the construction of the various lines by the Company shall be registered by the Government, unless the...\n\nShould it be unable to construct the railway according to the date, the Government may devise means for its construction.\n\n5. In all the lines which are to be built by the Company, the Government shall afford every protection and facility in the work.\n\nII. All railways constructed shall eventually become the property of the Government. With regard to the period of construction and management, and the selling of the control by the Government, the Company shall also be subject to the customary conditions applied to other companies. As to the laws and orders in connection with the affairs of the Company, unless otherwise provided by the Bill.\n\n7. All the Chinese or Foreign shares or loans, contracted by the Company, shall be subject to the laws of the Government; hence they shall enjoy the due protection of the Government. With loans which need to be guaranteed by the Government, the contract should be submitted for approval, and the regulations regarding foreign shares shall also be submitted...\n\nThe Regulations of the Company for the Transportation of Salt (first reading).\n\nThose who desire to form a Salt Company...\n\n**GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS,**\n\n**TIENTSIN-PUKOW LINE**\n\nThe Public are respectfully informed that the Through Train Service between Tientsin and Pukow will be commenced from the 4th December 1912.\n\n| TIENTSIN TO PUKOW |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | dep. 12.50 p.m.... | Wednesday and Saturday |\n| Pukow | arr. 2.55 | Thursday and Sunday |\n\n| PUKOW TO TIENTSIN |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Pukow... | 8.20 a.m. ... | Monday and Friday |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | arr. 10.33 | Tuesday and Saturday |\n\nFrom 1st December, all Trains from Tientsin will start from the Settlement Station.\n\nThe daily Trains between TSEN (Settlement) and Taku, between Tsinanfu and Msinanfu, and between Hwangyow and Pukow, and on the Branch Lines between Yaonow and Tsinanfow, and between Linsin and THAOCHUANG, will run as usual.\n\nThrough Trains are provided with Comfortable Sleeping Berths for the 1st Class Passengers, at a Charge of $5.00 per Berth.\n\nFurther particulars may be had on application to this Office.\n\nHEAD OFFICE,\n\nTientsin, 25th November, 1912.\n\nBY ORDER,",
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        "content_text": "## TELEGRAM. TRANSLATION.\n\n**Enclosure C.O. 401 36276 RECD 20 003**\n\nThe Ta'an I Yuan and Lu Chun Pu herewith transmit to Lung, Governor of Kuangtung, a Confidential Order issued by the President:\n\nSecret reports have been received from various sources and from the merchants of Hongkong to the following effect: \"Ch'en Ching-hua is harbouring rebels and secretly fomenting disorder. He has an Agent residing at Hollywood Road, Hongkong, in the 3rd story of the An Chi Hong and also one in Macao. He has been in secret communication with Hu I-sheng, Wang Ching-wei, Chu Chih-hsin, Hsieh Ying-po, Ho K'o-fu, Chin Chang, Chang Shu-t'ang, Tu Kung-shih, Wu Ying-fen, Tu Ch'eng-shih, Teng K'eng, Teng I-ch'en, Yao Yu-p'ing, Ma Yu-shen, Liu Mei-ch'ing, Liu Yueh and Huang Ming-t'ang, plotting daily and inducing bad characters to join their ranks. They have observed the utmost secrecy. They are reported to have raised large sums of money and are collecting bad characters, to the number of several thousands, along the East River whilst they have ordered 30,000 white military hats in Hongkong with red peaks and an inscription thereon. In the Police Yamen are stored a large quantity of bombs and rifles. They rely on the assistance from within of Wang Tsun-chu and K'ang Chung-lo in the Tu Tu Fu\".\n\n\"This rebel is making use of the Ching Pei Chun and the Yu Chi Tui under his command, he has also got Yen To-ming, Commander of the Waichow troops, and Ch'en Chung-pin, Commander of the Ch'ing Hsiang Troops in Nan Heiung and Shaochow to aid him. Once all arrangements are made they will commence operations. This rebel (Ch'en Ching-hua) is very cunning, he simulates concurrence with the Tu Tu in order to avert suspicion\".\n\nI have for a long time been aware of Ch'en Ching-hua's evil practices and he should have been arrested and punished 'ere this. The Tu Tu, however, feared trouble on account of the fact that (Ch'en Ching-hua) was in command of armed forces. An ulcer becomes worse if no remedy be adopted. Reports from many sources say that the matter is becoming more serious and the Tu Tu should make...",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n**C.O. 16605**\n[Red Stamp] 17 MAY 5\n\nNote regarding security of Chartered Bank.\n\nProposes to allow Bank to exchange £25,000 City of Bombay Improvement Trust 4.5% Mortgage Debentures for £25,000 Prussian Consolidation 3% Loan at present deposited as security.\n\n45681/12 4.7%\n\nUnder Gribbin's letter, approval is required (last para of 34328/12).\n\n(signed) H. J. READ, the Under Secretary of State.\n\nCh. 22 May Treas cars 22. And 6 June Treas (68,131). Wt.20 897-58. 41.000. 11/12. A.&E.W.\n\n346  \n21  \n10 appears der Harcourt that himit a of 18 months D data of opening wd. Le and he Some informin at prover your tha Coy accorduigh from the of each station reasonable.\n\n3. I am to add that I Harcourt does not see his way of the amount q affron the རི་པོམ་རར་ the boned in Each case below £1000.\n\nC. Agente 1913 16 may Last previous Paper. Treas 34 32 8.\n\nagainst loss of that W. 7. that of any other A abharatus infrings te patent the possibility being habol to.\n\nPage 346",
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        "content_text": "## Opium Suppression in Hunan\n\n### Cultivation of Poppy\n\nMr. Jewett, a Wesleyan missionary in Ping-chiang, has furnished me with a very careful report on opium suppression in that district. He informed me that some valleys on the Kiangsi border had been planted with poppy. Some patches were also planted during the 8th and 9th moons (September to November) nearer the district city, but in this latter case, runners were sent out towards the end of November to destroy the plants, and did so. The consulate writer confirms the report of poppy being grown in the remoter parts of Kuei-yang-chou, also in Sang-chih-hsien, on the Hupei border (a wild and undeveloped district), and in Ch'ông-pu-hsien, on the Kwangsi border. He adds that in all notorious poppy-growing districts, exceptionally rigid suppressive measures have been adopted, but that in the remoter parts, it has so far been found impossible to put a stop to it entirely.\n\nThe following particulars have been gleaned from the native press. Poppy growing having been reported from Feng-huang-ting, a special deputy was dispatched thither, and a whole battalion of troops was detailed to escort him in that wild and somewhat lawless region. Deputies attended by troops have also been sent to the neighbouring districts of Chien-chou-t'ing and Yung-sui-t'ing and to the Miao districts, hitherto great centres of poppy growing. Poppy growing, alleged to be due to the magistrate's apathy, is also reported from Ch'i-yang-hsien, where an enquiry is to be held. In Siangyin, large quantities of poppy are said to have been destroyed, while in Lu-ch'i-hsien, poppy growing is said to flourish owing to the neglect of the magistrate and the gentry even to promulgate the regulations, much less to enforce them. Trouble is said to have arisen owing to the uprooting of poppy in Kuei-yang-chou, but I have no details. In Chiên-chou-fu, too, a good deal of poppy was sown, and when a deputy proceeded thither to destroy the crop, the people resisted him by armed force and compelled him to retire to the district city. Poppy growing is also reported from Yung-shun-fu, where the deputy has been charged with slackness in suppressing it, from Ling-hsien, and from the remoter parts of Puo-ch'ing-fu. Finally, in Chên-chou (which must not be confounded with Chiên-chou-fu), the inhabitants of some villages are said to have made extensive preparations for resistance to the destruction of the poppy, and troops have been ordered to the spot.\n\n### Sale and Consumption of Opium\n\nAs regards the sale and consumption of the drug in Changsha, the stringent repressive measures now enforced have once more driven the traffic underground. It is no longer carried on openly, and divans are a thing of the past. Nevertheless, the consulate writer assures me that considerable quantities of opium are smuggled into Hunan by the crews and the passengers of the steam-launches running hither; hoards of opium, too, are still stored in secret places in the city, but only those well known to and implicitly trusted by the owners can purchase any, and a great deal of smoking goes on in the strictest privacy. The native press is also responsible for the statement that large quantities of opium have been smuggled to the Siang River valley from the poppy-growing districts in the west of the province.\n\nThe above information is largely corroborated by Mr. Warren, who has made the most searching enquiries during the past quarter. He states that the watch now kept by the authorities is so strict, and the risk consequently involved is so great, that, although there is plenty of opium in Shanghai, the price has more than doubled. Only those well known to be genuine smokers can obtain any; others will be blandly assured that the traffic has been entirely suppressed.\n\nIn spite of the secrecy maintained, the police, reinforced by a special band of detectives, have nevertheless succeeded in effecting a number of arrests and seizures and obtaining numerous convictions. During the month of November, in Changsha alone, in addition to those who suffered the death penalty, no fewer than 147 smokers were dealt with, apart from those guilty of other offences against the opium regulations. \n| Category        | Number |\n| --------------- | ------ |\n| Fined           | 58     |\n| Sent to Red Cross hospital for treatment | 45     |\n| Detained for further examination       | 9      |\n| Sentenced to hard labour               | 16     |\n| Sentenced to simple imprisonment       | 19     |\n\nThese figures were furnished to Mr. Warren by the **General Opium Suppression Bureau**.\n\nMany boards of opium have also been seized by the police—in fact, the native press reports that a corps of fifty detectives has been organised, whose special duty it is to search out these hoards in and around the city. A number of female detectives and searchers have also been engaged to go from house to house exploring the women's quarters, and to search the women themselves, many of whom conceal opium on their persons and distribute it daily to smokers.\n\nThe **General Opium Suppression Bureau** recently published a statement of the fines inflicted in Changsha for breaches of the opium regulations. Between the 10th October, i.e., the 1st day of the 9th moon, the date originally fixed for total prohibition, and the 31st December, the individuals fined numbered 187, the fines amounting to 2,098 taels, 4,718 dollars, and 3,086 tiao, or, roughly, a total of 10,089 dollars.\n\nAs stated in my last opium report, the manufacture of anti-opium remedies was taken by the authorities into their own hands after the end of the 8th moon (9th October); the sale thereof was to be discontinued altogether at the end of the lunar year (5th February). It seems probable, however, that the term will have to be extended. Since the 10th October, the sale has been restricted to those holding special certificates from the **Opium Suppression Bureau**; but the unlicensed sales seem to have been very large. The unlicensed manufacture by private persons of pills with an admixture of morphia is also said to have been very prevalent.\n\n### Situation in the Rest of the Province\n\nThe state of affairs in the rest of the province seems to be very similar to that prevailing in Changsha. Cases of the arrest and punishment of offenders are chronicled daily in the native press, and while the regulations are enforced with varying degrees of severity, and results are unequal in the different districts, suppressive measures have, on the whole, been carried out very rigorously. Here again, however, so the consulate writer states, the complaint is heard that while the poor are proceeded against with the utmost severity, the rich enjoy comparative—in some cases complete—immunity. Charges of opium-smoking have even been brought against district magistrates, members of district councils, and other prominent persons.\n\nMr. Jowett, of the Wesleyan Mission in Ping-chiang, informs me that stern and vigorous measures are being taken to stamp out the trade in the district; that opium cannot be bought openly nor are any divans to be seen; that old opium-smokers are in sore distress; and that the trade in anti-opium medicines has increased tremendously. At the same time, he has been informed by a number of people that the drug can be procured by those who are ready to pay for it. On the other hand, the police commissioner, the opium deputy, and the magistrate, have all assured him that the trade is absolutely finished, and the last-named official implored him to send me a favourable report, but Mr. Jowett attaches little or no value to official assurances. He adds that opium can be, and is said to be, procured by all and sundry just across the Kiangsi border.\n\nIndeed, the traffic in opium seems to flourish in most border districts, where offenders can evade jurisdiction by moving across the boundary. Complaints have been heard, in especial from Li-chou and Lin-hsiang-hsien, where the suppressive measures have been largely nullified by smokers obtaining supplies from the adjoining province of Hupei. The governor has been in communication on this subject with the governors of all the provinces bordering on Hunan, and has requested their co-operation in putting down this inter-provincial traffic.\n\n### Resistance to Suppressive Measures\n\nInstances of resistance to suppressive measures have still to be chronicled. I have already mentioned a few in my remarks about poppy cultivation, and have, in addition, culled the following from the native press — \n\nIn a village in I-yang-hsien, where smoking still prevailed, the attempt to enforce prohibition led to a raid on the police station, which was wrecked; the head of the police fled, and applied for troops to quell the disturbance.\n\nThe police, when seizing a quantity of opium-smoking paraphernalia in a village in the Siangyin district, were attacked by a band of several hundred men and compelled to retreat. They eventually fired, wounding one man, when the mob smashed up the police station. The opium deputy fled, and troops had to be dispatched to the spot.\n\nIn Sang-chih-hsien, the attempted arrest of a notable who opposed the opium deputy led to a riot, in which the man who had informed against him was nearly beaten to death.\n\n### Conclusion\n\nI cannot sum up the net result of my enquiries into opium suppression in Hunan during the December quarter better than in the words of Mr. Jowett, who writes:- \n\"I must say that it would be as unwise to state that the opium is stamped out as it would be untrue to say that vigorous measures are not being taken to end the trade. The utmost I can say is that there is an earnest, or at least a vigorous, movement afoot to end the trade, but I should not care to say that the trade is ended.\"\n\nI should add that these remarks are no less true of poppy cultivation than of the sale and consumption of the drug.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**BERTRAM GILES**\n\nPage 377",
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        "content_text": "477\n\n#narztaqo Vradinėk ‚arei,anut Midas (anodgson Bonsbroods et tært troq87 07 Tuonori ent ever I tratani Jel and no motnað of bebesoong I arroltotani quoy Attw Bit AJ bw Bedariq vi oorarotietai taboer edit odni stupas oð to rotas\" ord en diiw foot I .7000 zile to ataod yona visacod - ¿o add to namuxot potrsuast elit bita atrod maɛrt to eno the fuse bas andinom gniwo([ot eda no bevitra I Heiling off of \"Rod100M\".2.5.1 qalbesemo) + .40873 ,noxia zabrana.od-, JI ult moɛolist.tk mais coldlaog orld becerselb ow brodw striranoƆ oos bivore I tant bonustre VTORİT LAW II eift bree of huviele vir desuper bila vilenoanaq anud duent tate Janoɗeem odd ro etroduto savniɗo add to emo 13 rebiBMTIIO) axonthe und Moliw ni asetav edt tovo \"redhook\".?. I,H! Athw on of jt bra darvos ratief eft cmodo furtum að .7.9 ,bertuado DAN Ja jeum bipodiɛ oglie ows or \"and beqaærus vightb7090s saw AZİZTÓN. Jxen ert basíæl reykt -10ɛnot owt add bis 10am. Joni del sốt no 15.s Of Ja bae[æl revit de bovitta nam yonav SzuX\" zaodum exon140 odd yď berisi attemad ́e Vidrofa naw bus CAT end to duobmetrinoqu? niriqað arè brnoď no entva! *COR arvero and 'T} Ballo¶ \"-07 gooTMTM\" oris no bellso I bas next¶ qebiraMETOD frs Ishus rob rad d‡iw ftynei da molteutta ort beskawosth bas when to vd HIMarisse erit mødt moqu banru víanonja sÿ „Jo1aT. VIS TOT BInterogees ɛyawzeżaw trencîììb afft mnola zenality OnS Tevawor of T •port nean galatundo ob?tand driw conototrajni hejate ye:*** .ofdlasogni ed of bensipob erooltto scamino art -Ibsy vero! tto bet Imwoo Tow noitaevo Di ROTATTUO SNT JRAT bexit on volwa“ nam borms to shaad (lans yd etaf?=ytradium TO\n\nabode and moving about constantly in boats and that the villagers were either unaware of their presence or powerless to do more than protect themselves against them, if that. These flats are not, it seems, the property of the villages near which they lie, but of rich absentee owners living in Canton and Macao. Their cultivators are hired labourers of the lowest and poorest class, who are only too thankful if they can conciliate these marauders at no greater cost than a free meal.\n\nOn the whole I think the attitude of the Chinese Officers on this point is justified. In a time when the mere possession of unlicensed arms is liable to mean summary execution, it is not to be expected that agricultural villages should arm themselves to protect passing freight if that offers sufficient attraction to keep the pirates from the villages themselves.\n\nAt the same time I am of opinion that in some cases the villages are the direct instigators of these interferences with traffic; that in fact they set themselves to force toll from everything that passes them. This is notably the case with the Sha Wan and Kan Kwong Chai attacks. Sha Wan (called Sai Wan on the charts) is a very large village close to the river's edge; Kan Kwong Chai is the name given to the shore opposite (uninhabited). There is a guard boat manned by \"Local Guards\" (Heung T'un guards recruited by the village from their own numbers and paid by the village).\n\nI cannot therefore believe that the people of Sha Wan were not aware of the detention of the Conservancy boats within a few hundred yards of the village or that if they were aware of the presence of pirates and were not in league with them, they would not in self-defence have attacked them. On the contrary, I should look in Sha Wan for the heads of the \"Yut Shing T'ong\" and \"Wing I Tong\" pirates.\n\nBIɗe roof ni .Vistaroak (simofod eNT\n\nAlthough",
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        "content_text": "Page -8-\n\n530\n\nOur troops have taken possession of the enemy's position at eumitnoo of eza azelbloe lo.\n\ned‡ IIIw Jadw Jnenezy to es novieɛmod‡ ‡oubans of sunt troo.\n\n↑ ed emostua.\n\nɔb elŋoer adz.\n\nLekuamua galaotsendi yuan ybsotis era ereɗT.\n\nbas (deyak) ne! I zoew‡ed delugaiteib vizamol ea doum de for.\n\necomeqst ødt gatiiso won sta ynam dud,(azenglerol) low% law.\n\nJa id yan vədı .Bakið náð at Ila gat‡‡uq bas Iiew es stenglezol.\n\n—\n\nIb of sevlenment groma baatga avad samog zeito edź bus marat.\n\nBolla ait een of .saldo lo İls Bgadtez bas,gautusɗa qu obiv.\n\n,ecaebilme og evad yeit nodw mi jebenarat sit obtagnola gaitdałt.\n\n.sedt of 100%; tœatsilive si „motoiteva testserz eit tud.\n\nTU color a sevyo0 Li.\n\nExtracts from The China Press dated Tuesday, 22nd September, 1914.\n\nThe German artillery is occupying commanding positions.\n\nGerman infantry is advancing on the whole line. A renewed attempt of the British to break the right German wing has failed.\n\nThe German troops, after a six days' battle in France, are slowly breaking the French defence line, and are now occupying part of the original French line. The greatest gains have been made in the center. The attack of the fourth (Province of Saxony) and the thirteenth (Wurttemberg) army corps, with several other divisions, south of Lyon, on the German right wing, has proved to be a decisive success for the German forces.\n\nThe center attacks of the Allies are now easily repulsed on the whole line.\n\nThe Germans have occupied the British post of Nakob, in Africa.\n\nThe Russian General Martos, commander of the fifteenth army corps (Warsaw) who was taken prisoner, is being court-martialled for having given orders to kill peaceful citizens.\n\nThe Austrians have driven back the Servians across the Save river and have routed them. Western Galicia is being held by the Austrians and Hungarians. Their army is standing with the front to the North, the right wing resting on the fortress of Przemysl.\n\nPage 530",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nOn the 10th April, I first met the metropolitan and provincial delegates, and we arranged to start for Hung Hua tao on the following morning at 8 o'clock.\n\nHung Hua tao is some 20 miles down river from Ichang, and makes a good point from which to go across country to Changyang.\n\nOn the 11th April, at 8:30, I left and, in spite of wind and rain, arrived at Hung Hua tao at 12:30.\n\nThis road passes through a fruitful country and, so far as I could see, the whole was under cultivation, but nowhere did I see any poppy. The road is but a mere mountain track, from which one gets, as it rises higher and higher, a splendid view of the country. I left the road several times, but nowhere did I see any signs of poppy.\n\nFrom Changyang to Changlo, the road still ran through or over the mountains. On every side, the fields were filled with wheat, barley, peas, beans, potatoes, rape, all well forward in their growth, so that there was no place for poppy on an extensive scale.\n\nFrom Changlo to Hofeng, the road climbed up onto a plateau, whence one obtained a wonderful view of the cultivated valleys below, but it was all the same story, either large bare fields tilled ready for planting the spring maize or crops well forward, filled all the available space and left no room for poppy.\n\nCertain of those valleys were, however, too high for the cultivation of poppy, and, if I could have obtained any proper information on the subject, I would have taken another and lower route; but, on the whole, I think the numerous valleys which were sufficiently low for the cultivation of the poppy, and where, I am assured, three years ago it was the principal crop, were quite representative, and afforded good evidence of the vigorous action of the officials.\n\nAt Hofeng, I encountered considerable difficulty in persuading the delegates and the Hofeng magistrate that my proposed route was not only possible, but was the only route I intended to follow. The terrors of bandits, ferocious animals, uninhabited regions, impassable roads, and no stopping places were all paraded in their most awful form. When, however, they were satisfied that there was only one way out of it, preparations for the road I proposed were made. Extra coolies to carry the rations for our bearers and extra baggage coolies were engaged, natives of the districts we were about to cross were requisitioned to act as guides, and certain members of the party, I think, commended their souls to God, for they feared the unknown.\n\nThis district did not, it is true, possess anything to boast of in the way of roads. Mountain tracks, up and down which no one had ever considered the possibility of taking a chair, were our portion. If the truth be told, however, the roads from Changyang to Changlo and thence to Hofeng were all of the same type, and seemed to be designed with a view to dissuade anyone from attempting the passage twice.\n\nFrom Hofeng to Ching Chi k'ow on a tributary of the Ch'ing Chiang, we travelled in the jurisdiction of the Hofeng magistrate, but at Ching Chi kow on one side of the river, the country recognised the Chien shih magistrate, and on the other, the Patung magistrate.\n\nThrough this wild country of highly cultivated fields and large tea plantations, we travelled for four days. Poppy, up to three years before, had been the principal crop, but now I was unable to discover any. Stopping at Niu Chia ssu, one day out from Hofeng, I met a Cantonese tea merchant who had come to this district for the last forty years. He reported that up to three years ago, poppy was the chief crop, but that two years ago, the amount cultivated had been largely reduced, and last year, he had seen none. He had only just arrived at Niu Chia ssu for the tea season, and could consequently give me no information for the present year.\n\n## 3\n\nAt Patung, the investigation practically came to an end, for the poppy would never be planted on the slopes of the Great River, though, of course, on the way down, I kept my eyes open for any signs of the poppy.\n\nMy journey finished late in the evening of the twentieth day. I was uncertain as to how long I would take coming down river from Patung. I allowed two days, but by leaving my house-boat and getting into a fast red boat, I was enabled to arrive one day earlier.\n\nDuring the twenty days of my journey, I covered a comparatively small distance when counted by miles. The roads, however, were such that if I had been carried even half the way, I would have travelled a much shorter distance. There were a number of days when I walked practically the whole time, and even then, the chair with six bearers was a long way behind. The delegates were in exactly the same position, though all being much lighter men, and using chairs with two bearers instead of four, they were enabled to keep up better.\n\nAs late as the middle of March of this year, when it was decided to inspect this province, vigorous action was taken by the officials to stamp out every vestige of poppy. Two men were executed in Changyang, and two men in Hofeng. At Changlo, a man on whose ground two or three plants were found was sentenced to death, but at the last moment, his sentence was moderated, and he was branded and led through the town and adjoining districts loaded with chains. As he was a man of good position, this was considered sufficient, as the amount discovered was so small.\n\nAt Ichang, whilst I was away about the middle of April, a man was shot for having planted poppy at San tou p'in, inland from the Yang-tsze, some 30 miles above Ichang.\n\nThe districts through which I travelled were formerly those where considerable quantities of opium were produced. I saw no signs of poppy, and my route was taken without in any way giving the Chinese officials an opportunity of leading me along a prepared district. In fact, the views from the mountain tracks were so extended that the preparation of a route would have required a very considerable time. I am accordingly of the opinion that this province, taking the district through which I travelled as a sample, is free of poppy.\n\n**H. F. HANDLEY-DERRY**\n\nIchang, May 4, 1914.\n\nAn itinerary of my route, with the days, is as follows:\n\n| Date | Route | Miles |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| April 11 | Ichang to Hung Hua tao (by boat) | 20 |\n| 12 | Hung Hua tao to Changyang | 20 |\n|  | Changyang to Tu Chen wan |  |\n| 13 | Tu Chen wan to Chang Chia wan, Lang Tan ping | 11 |\n|  | Chang Chia wan to Hsueh Shan ho, Chiang Chun tung, Chang lo |  |\n| 14 | Chang lo to Kuan... | 11 |\n| 15 | ... | ... |\n| 16 | Ma chuang | 33 |\n| 17 | Ai Pang ho |  |\n|  | Ai Pang ho to Yen Tzu ping | 7 |\n| 18 | Yen Tzu ping to Hofeng | 31 |\n| 19 | Hofeng to Niu Chia ssu | 11 |\n| 20 | Niu Chia ssu to Shui kuo tung | +1 |\n| 21 | Shui kuo tung to Wu Ya kuan |  |\n| 22 | Ching Chi kow to Ching Kuo p'ing | 11 |\n| 23 | Ching Kuo p'ing to Ma Shih p'ing | 20 |\n| 24 | Ma Shih p'ing to Tan Chia wan | 1 |\n| 25 | Tan Chia wan to Yeh San kuan | 37 |\n| 26 | Yeh San kuan to Yeh Hua p'ing |  |\n| 27 | Yeh Hua p'ing to Chu Sha tu | 31 |\n| 28 | Chu Sha tu to Patung | 93 |\n| 29 | Patung | 11 |\n| 30 | Patung to Ichang | 60 |\n\nOn certain parts of the road, when it rose high on the mountain slopes, we passed through lands which were only just being tilled, for there are large tracts of the country which have only one crop a year.\n\nTo Yeh San kuan from Ching Chi k'ow, the road runs similarly through lands where the crops were either well forward or were not yet planted. Nowhere could I detect any poppy, though it is possible that a few plants may have been scattered in the midst of large fields of peas or beans. The latter is the means by which farmers in certain districts cultivate small quantities of opium in the face of official opposition.\n\nFrom Yeh San kuan to Yeh Hua p'ing, the road passes still through similar fields to what have been already described. From Yeh Hua p'ing to Patung, where I took boat for Ichang, the road ran high on the hilltops, and one obtained a fine view of the cultivated valleys below. Nowhere did I see any signs of poppy, the land either being filled with peas, beans, rape, potatoes, or wheat, or lying empty waiting for the spring sowing.",
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        "content_text": "# Page Thirteen\n## Women Victims of Cossack Outrage One Old Man, Who Tries to Save Daughter From Her Assailants, Is Crucified\n\n**Special Dispatch to \"The Chronicle.\"**\n\nNew York, December 3.- A new story of war atrocity was brought from Galicia today by Mrs. Joseph M. Lacks, whose husband is a merchant in San Francisco. She arrived on the Italian liner Regina d'Italia.\n\n\"I was visiting in Ropczyce, a town not far from Lemburg,\" she said. \"On October 10th word was circulated that the Russians were coming, and that all women would better leave before their arrival. Many women went, but many others, myself among them, did not believe the stories of shameful treatment of women by Cossacks and remained in our homes. The Russians entered the town October 15th.\n\n\"They seemed well enough behaved and seemed to justify our confidence that stories about them were all untrue. So far bad timidity disappeared among the people that everybody went to church on Sunday as though there were no Russians in town.\n\n**But soon after the services began Cossacks appeared at the doors of the churches, interrupted the services and ordered all men, including priests, and all children to leave. The doors were guarded and no women were allowed to get out. Then the doors were locked, and there was a more awful orgy than I believed this world could know.\n\n\"Those outside could hear the women screaming, and the howls and laughter of the Cossacks.\n\n\"One old man who had left his daughter, found the door in the church which was unlocked, and tried to fight his way to her. The Cossacks caught him, crucified him on one of the pillars, and as he screamed in agony, went on with their orgy.\n\n\"By the grace of heaven I did not go to the church. I ran away from the town as soon as I knew what was going on, and made my way to Italy.\"\n\n## How to Live Long\n\nNew York, December 14. Moses Wohl of the Bronx today began his 101st year of life, with this recipe for reaching further milestones:\n\nDrink beer and ale every day, sometimes a little wine; smoke at least seven cigars each day; take a good long walk without a cane; read all the newspapers and don't worry.\n\nWohl, who was seen surrounded by four sons and his daughter, fifteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, said he regretted he was a little too old to learn to tango.\n\n## O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n### Want Irish Republic\n\nA curious commentary and interesting sidelight is shown in the recent opposition to John Redmond at contested parliamentary elections in Ireland at present.\n\nSir Roger Casement, Professor McNeill and fully ninety per cent of those opposing Redmond are Irish Protestants.\n\nThis party is seeking to have an Irish Republic or at least a measure of Home Rule given to Ireland as enjoyed by Canada, Australia, or South Africa. To gain their ends, Sir Roger Casement went to Berlin a few weeks ago and presumably made things right there. Sir Roger's party are dead against all recruiting in Ireland until their demands are granted. He has a large following in the Volunteers, particularly in Dublin, Cork and the other principal cities. What a complete answer this is to the old cry of the Orangemen of religious intolerance by their own countrymen, for which the British Government were ready to give all Ulster to the Orange party.\n\nOf course, anyone who knows Ireland and Irish History, knows that many of her greatest leaders and best loved sons were of the Protestant Faith, for instance Wolfe Tone, Emmet, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Mitchell, Smith O'Brien, Parnell. All venerated and idolized in Ireland to-day and all Protestants.\n\nGod prosper Casement.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### Have You Got the Carnival Spirit?\n\n#### Old Razors Made New\n\n40 cents each\n\nIf your old razor pulls and irritates your skin let us make a New, Soft, Velvety Edge on it.\n\nThe New American Razor Sharpening Machine will put a Sweet, Keen Shaving edge on the Dullest Razor in a very few minutes.\n\nBring or send AT ONCE.\n\n**Better Than New!**\n\nIs what many of our customers say on trying our Re-Sharpened Safety Razor Blades!\n\nWe re-edge and re-sharpen all makes\n\n70 cents dozen\n\nSee these two wonderful new patented machines at work in our Escolta Stores.\n\nWe return all work promptly, Postage Paid.\n\nWalter E. Olsen & Co.\n\nMANILA\n\n### Ford - THE UNIVERSAL-CAR\n\nThe Car that got right out and did things at Baguio, on the road to Baguio, and back to Manila.\n\n| Type | Price |\n| --- | --- |\n| TOURING | P1380 |\n| RUNABOUT | P1280 |\n\nE. C. McCullough & Co.\n\n### For Heating Purposes In The Factory Or Home\n\nThere is no other fuel better than **COKE**\n\nIt's clean, intensely hot and economic\n\n**COKE** reduces your Fuel Expenses\n\nWe will deliver it to your Factory or Home.\n\nManila Gas Corporation\n\nCalle Otis, Paco\n\nPhone 289, Manila\n\n### INSULAR LUMBER CO.\n\nManufacturers and Wholesalers of Tanguile, Almon, and Apitong Lumber, Flooring and Ceiling\n\nEvery Piece Bandsawn\n\nWith Modern Machinery\n\nWe Guarantee Perfect Manufacture and Prompt Deliveries\n\nBuy The Best\n\nMILL: Fabrica, Negros Occ., P. O. Box 455\n\nMain office: 805-813 Echague, Manila\n\nYarde: Manila, Iloilo, Cabu\n\nSucs. de C. FRESSEL & C (G. Ludwig S. en C.)\n\n**CEMENT PIPE BRICK & TILE MAKERS**\n\nGeneral Importers and Exporters\n\nTel. 195\n\nFACTORY SANTA MESA, PASIG RIVER\n\n446-456 Nueva, Binondo\n\nManila, P. I.\n\n### ARE YOU READY FOR THE BIG 1915 CARNIVAL?\n\nMANILA, JAN. 30 to FEB. 7, 1915\n\nIf not, hurry, as only a few days remain before the big show opens\n\nFIVE TREMENDOUS FREE ACTS EVERY DAY\n\nMadam Garcia's Death Whirl in an Automobile.\n\nLa Belle and Williams in the Slide for Life, and aerial acts, etc., etc.\n\nDON'T FORGET WHILE ON THE GROUNDS TO VISIT\n\nThe Cave of the Winds,\n\nThe Wild Man with a Tail,\n\nThe Two-headed Baby,\n\nMorrow the Magician, South before the War Minstrels, The Cavite Dwarf,\n\nand a hundred other shows and amusements\n\n## Page Twelve",
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        "content_text": "*3 \n\nBarnumd-ode Iuan:ɑ0.1.8. ...mer,...đàs redotɔ0 „10dmo moral roy •ght I-ordon uð \"wonori adið sved I +SI .BV Tie 10 CLJYVB Sad of gaitele: sewsolom S bra tredeni „bess add to .note to .00 ♣ IdaX, #Basil SPADA me dodd state of wovon edu oven I eto vyoo ni:09 in redɛini.... ■'ydue jeli sil of hebrewsø? I .dJOI milles, notü va sotenma) to redeeɔ naitinɛ ode ori sevdal við „do Idw Idex .L .A to mit ed♬ to moitiuoq end of NOIJNEJJE no yameo of bedeildaðan med øved of bezoeqqe,betode redaądɔ 00 Sử reservois 'o mnil neneo anh ta cuộc thi nói casinod pú A Cut rutainti ¤'yda@polí æti Fearioîmi I amit saava sau dị „droq em:B an ni arořilo złend bad form 11nda oman odd beyolique IdaX To besogno si tindu myterol aựt Jærkt remeð 663 sa mgaiblivd 1000 x 20 samoiɛ lo reganam and brin anHASIB)) und as swoninu stiup si naɛtal edz to smec odï .IrinX . U .A 10t Irish .L .▲ Jaud noitroibni insof elon ad? bow are lamb oviden 10 Beɛimeng end of bensatta bwodnyis mid si Tac Buoninud a + Zwis. May' qu Yepours. 708 ani, petab merzelad o to ygoo esolom I barinỮ end of not ̧ninen? In Fremdınqa¤ eða√2 ed♪ ya Inez Jani kad sam itingis traigo | Luow JI .notmeð Ja Interb-luano) sadədƐ Iwn ma i30 to mi cHOİTOM) AS as IraX .A to Amoristidatas and Bui edi media syab avil prosessen bereklamo med svan derit to mundo erið þegnarlo do ków noitam Ivor¶ s'yaid demoen add to La Juonti,seinare od slanjuen mor) anido nå sårudsTOM NANTIAD eIdi noq Jon si ti sipod 5o.00 à nosumiƐ Jarasoli le noidenia:re Əni, qinə otaa ai gaismnit ban gatands wuq\" ɛ*Lină. Til stew Jouw word of did tot bis zurgelat svode endi ebra: si sonexsler nokw of yema de bednio ge anw,.00 mil to remem and brud tema imga on ban ItinX .1 truis „Teve od ‚eveiled at benifori me I i: con otrendin e her ile adueretni 10 1020 to wimps and \n\nagent for Siemssen & Co., and I have not been led to change this belief by conversation I have had on the subject with my former United States Colleague who is now on furlough. I do not deny that Mr. Kahl still holds his position as agent but I regard his firm at Canton as a \"fence\" for Siemssen & Co. to enable them to carry on their American and European business during the war. I have already reported to His Majesty's Minister at Peking that I have excluded the name of A. J. Kahl from the White List and placed it on the Black List.\n\nThe goods to which reference is made in the letter of October 13th from the United States Consul-General at Hongkong were returned here and Messrs. Siemssen & Co. experienced considerable difficulties with the native dealers in connection therewith, as the latter had not received payment and regarded Siemssen & Co. as the actual buyers. I understand that a settlement has now been effected and the Chinese Maritime Customs have granted a rebate of import duty and a drawback on re-exportation of these goods. The settlement with the native dealers and the negotiations with the Customs were conducted by Siemssen & Co.\n\nOn August 26th last the Japanese Consul-General informed me confidentially in conversation that the local manager of Siemssen & Co. had approached the Bank of Taiwan to negotiate bills drawn by Kahl. The bank manager demurred as he did not know this name, whereupon Mr. Lund admitted that Kahl was only a cover for Siemssen & Co. who would accept full responsibility and guarantee payment of all such bills. The Bank of Taiwan, however, declined the business. I alluded to the matter in conversation with the Japanese Consul-General yesterday, and he confirmed the accuracy of his information.\n\nI would also add that the local manager of the International Bank (American) has informed me confidentially that he has declined the request of Messrs. Siemssen & Co. to negotiate Kahl's bills as he considered that the business of the latter was in reality German and his instructions from his Head Office",
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        "content_text": "„Send. Jhaurievod \n\nTHUɔJOJ TAJO można \n\nI i o \n\nCOPY. \n\nTranslation. \n\n„RIGINOOSS . J. \n\n(To accompany Enclosure 4.) \n\n543 \n\nmodity para sol in pagione o' zyomd alt ON MI I \n\nHOL. CUTĂ (957ood Puniti ni Leutoq (oldnInteld voie) oɛɛnilƆ \n\n011 roximo Launut and gu bergods mad on call to faucon Ditoimitvaq z sevig rettoi ouï \n\ntyngd bokeguonoa ni vi bu . \n\n„zow onko mi odoogzory joičina giudizitk si „OIDM (TOɖy openinüinoisonë në I't grand out „moiy todakog noɑro) vid ori, où beniqınd \n\ntord of ozil you trauricvo) turiborð eft \n\n3* \n\nÁ svi to volaw to selyo vom Togrytron visit to rotorredis \n\núde avad I \n\nFLOILOV QU \n\n1102- \n\nMr. Tang Lin Sing \n\nI learn with happiness from your letter that you have safely arrived in your destination. There is not much risk work here, and I find much difficulty in earning my livelihood. The Local Committee was appointed on the 24th April to open roads, and I had work for over a month, but this work has now been discontinued. A land tax has been introduced, which is also applied to my district, and I paid $5.85 for my land. The trouble as regards my land has been settled much to the disgrace of my adopted son and to the gratification and happiness of everybody. In the present war the British colonies suffer very much; in my district several hundred volunteers have been recruited on four different occasions to go to the front, and those who have wives and children look very pitiable. Germany has made great progress in the war and no nation on the earth has been able to stand against her, and the newspaper enclosed will show you all. I should be glad of your information as to how my family is going on. My business here can only cover my monthly expenses, but it yields me no great profit. Owing to the European war business is very dull here, and the Government prohibits any sale of land and payment of interest. If you desire to sell your land, you must know you have to wait until the Government withdraws the prohibition next year by a notification. I have nothing more to mention, but if I have news later, I will write you again. With regards, \n\n(Sd.) Chan Po Wa. \n\n8th August of the 4th year of the Republic. \n\nPage 543\n\nvai tot suntă to yinderoe2 957 \n\n0 to noinimoɑ\n\nPage 543\n\n \nhas been adjusted to proper names and numbers correction, and some obvious OCR errors were fixed. The text is presented in HTML format as requested. The original nonsensical texts due to OCR errors were left unchanged where they did not make sense or were not part of the main letter. The main body of the letter has been corrected for spelling and minor punctuation errors to improve readability. The formatting follows the requested HTML format using `` tags.",
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        "content_text": "Anti-British news and editions pamphlets, it would be right to stop the supplies: but without definite correspondence it is certainly extreme to starve out\n\n\"Swiss mission\n\n657\n\nDoing a lot of\n\nwhich is supposed to be\n\nwork for The G.O.C's expression conceivably be used\n\nA\n\neducation etc in China.\n\nFriends which might\n\nin striking anti-British\n\npropaganda' is absurdly wide, and would cover\n\nany payment\n\nto\n\nany\n\nneutral; and the expression\n\n& whereby they\n\ncarry on their\n\nare alleged to\n\ncampaigns of calumny and intrigue' needs more\n\njustification than I can\n\nfind\n\nin these ff.\n\nReply that the S. of S. agrees\n\nthat it is\n\nundesirable for Germans to be supplied with funds\n\nwhich enable them to\n\ncarry on a campaign of calumny and intrigue, but that he has not been able, from the correspondence before him, to discover such evidence of a systematic campaign of\n\nwhich would justify the infliction of hardship\n\non a\n\nneutral society which must be presumed\n\nto exist for religious and benevolent purposes, but\n\nwill be glad to receive\n\nin the possession of the\n\nany\n\nsuch evidence which in\n\n: and send them copy\n\nof 13577 + all enclosure, excepting the part\n\nof the last excl.\n\nwhich is marked in red\n\nbrackets - (as it tends to raise another question):\n\nA\n\nRedocket should be altered\n\naccordingly. 56.\n\nAltered\n\nAB\n\nys Are\n\nThe W.O.\n\nbetter in\n\ninaccurate\n\n352\n\nin describing this corr: as\n\nreferring\n\n15 The Rev. C. Ritzer.!\n\nrefers also to the Kieler indeed in Goe's\n\nMission\n\nletter refers primarily to this substantially incidentally\n\nTo the Basel mission\n\nSo far\n\nas\n\nthe Kieler mission\n\nconcerned, we have had the Corr: between the Consul at Pakhoi & the H.C. fort.\n\non 2686, an\n\naction\n\nwas\n\ntaken\n\nwhich no\n\nwas taken into La Vo 70 y\n\nI should be\n\ninclined to\n\nreply (a) as to Keeler\n\nmission calling attention to the fact that the G.O.C's action was after careful inquiry & consideration of the\n\nto report & the Consul at Pakhoi & that\n\nand point out the weakness\n\nof\n\nthe G.O.C's\n\nposition as at A.",
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        "content_text": "JPTOT M. M\n\nKJO LIAR IN 100,DU Š. Fas\n\nPOTY TO ME1 to 1800\n\nA\n\nCopy.\n\nJ.A.Kahl.\n\n82 Beaver Street,\n\nNEW YORK, 1st October 1915.\n\n312\n\nIOD.\n\n1 9014 but\n\n14\n\n+.00\n\nJean tho de LAITTNE\n\nQUOL Kİ H. LIKRONJWA SEKTEM CHÍ về gn hảof avoð vað skráað 900\n\nDJ BOL BON · 101 904\n\n.5 roi Ban Thi TỐI GI\n\nLAJMI BROT PR AE VALAKINE\n\nyam osia baa #24 h quote mbJizonamh fake ETA\n\n150 120 20\n\n.bigos moy\n\nMesare. Frame & Co.\n\n90 Wall St.,\n\nNew York City.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nI am in receipt of a cablegram from my\n\nfirm at Canton advising me that Cassia to the value\n\nof about $3500 not including freight, which you\n\npurchased of me and which you paid me for, has\n\nbeen seized by the British Government at Hongkong\n\nwhile the goods were in the course of transshipment\n\nfrom the river steamer to the S/S Yokohama Maru\n\ndestined for the Pacific Coast.\n\nThe seizure has been made on the ground that my firm J.A.Kahl, Canton, is considered an enemy firm by the British Government at Hongkong.\n\nSome six months ago I made application\n\nto our State Department (upon proof which they\n\ndeemed satisfactory that I was an American citizen for 25 years or more) for permission to open and\n\nestablish a branch office in Canton, China. This\n\npermission was granted by our State Department and a\n\ncable was sent to the American Consul General at\n\nCanton stating that I was an American citizen and\n\nto offer me all protection and assistance.\n\nAs explained to you verbally, I have laid\n\nthis matter before the authorities at Washington\n\nand have requested them to lend me their assistance\n\nin releasing the goods.\n\nAt the same time I will thank you to telegraph to Washington urging the Authorities to use their influence that the goods be released at\n\nonce.\n\nVery, &c\n\n(SD)J.A.KAHL.\n\nPage 330\n\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "40\n\navi. [liv nemrod mon‡ eril dækti¬d odd to roid-eiergroeib edo bes fade foredron drecions o to 1 tevan new dold enote miqqete » madti .world y Flood &titorktuk cuci and dedð eldmirah Jnom ai JI J^nið aðlum [»Ü me to rudrar eit to ever obra ed y-[eF Jpositi- mi!!¡V •12 of Iintab mi bedre anıyen nood threxie není totdem niNT irroɑ de pnteuf mi hmn coterms) to taostreqoG est to brek‚¶nf -:ere ahend nut mi heyo Ige torrong de elengav odi *** promi I\" \n\n* joventuX\" \"gmrnácok\" 3 ranno \"zac Bound\" * \"gnersnow?\" add yllemofrendo hay ·rindniem aromata szert iddur írd bez adientë asht \"yonot İbrI newded endif \"ritoerroo nu ezane JRezorg de era yent ;etroq innymi Podro BJOZIČNOD JNEMATS VOU en yevros od brødr þættiɛmos ozi» pivo .rtoq meitene) for menitemå emplov edt‚„do¥ wel: od nðjus (2) Do skje deo erit of fatevih need Ktir “migoo Yo rucnd seit [usi?? ik .eIdndizonebni ei aged to yd- OJ VIPSPODOnnu ai Ji BİV-Bİ▼ Picmoge erid rððun [20 pal flow oze vllexereg enn (wo itdeq ad eberð edt ri Feyo Igme ajernev\n\nconnection, lock, stock and barrel, will be cared for, not only now but in the future, by the Japanese flag. The encroachment of the Japanese in India is a matter which is receiving the gravest attention of the Government and the maintenance of the British Line to and from India is, in the opinion of all those who have a knowledge of the present position of the greatest National importance. As regards this Colony it must be remembered that the steamers of our Calcutta service carry the bulk of Native Emigrants between here and the Straits. This trade is of great value to the Colony and owing to the already depleted tonnage in the trade, the passage rates have advanced from the nominal rate of $9 to $18. The Straits Government is already disturbed over the question of travelling facilities for emigrants and an increase, rather than a decrease of tonnage, is urgently desired.\n\nFrom Hongkong to Shanghai we operate 3,000 tons steamers which are the feeders and the distributors of the large River steamers under the British flag operating on the Yangtze.\n\nShould more particulars be desired of other lines where the smaller vessels of the Fleet are employed I shall be glad to provide them,\n\n(Sd.) A. Sutherland.\n\nHongkong, 19th February, 1916.\n\nA",
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        "content_text": "## The Aryan\n\n\"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.\" - Queen Victoria,\n\n611\n\n## The Gospel of Guru Nanak\n\nGuru Nanak has been called the Prophet of the Punjab; is he not also the Prophet of Sind? His blessed feet did sanctify the soil of Sind. Yes, during his many travels to different parts of Asia - travels to Turkey and Arabia, Bagdad and Siam, Cabul and Kandahar, the Deccan and Ceylon, Bengal and Burmah - The Teacher tarried for some time in Sind and taught the Truth. In the present hour of our trial, when so many are lost in party politics - when social conscience is not yet well developed, when so many of our young men think of the temporary arrangements of time, ignoring the Eternal Laws of God - in the present hour of our trial, we stand in need of the teaching of Guru Nanak. He came at a time when there was conflict between Hindus and Mahomedans; he came at a time when the spiritual vision of India was obscured by veils of creeds and forms. He came to proclaim the Gospel of Peace, Brotherhood, and Love.\n\nNot many, indeed, were there who understood the man and his message. Some considered him to be as good as a candidate for the lunatic asylum. His own father thought him mad. He is sent to the school. The teacher tells him to read a book. He asks the teacher, \"What will it avail to know all, and not to have a knowledge of God?\" He is asked to keep a shop: \"Deal with the dealers of the True Name\" is his reply. He is asked to enter the Government service; he says he must make faith his occupation. People had reason to complain that he was an unpractical man. But, remember, it is these unpractical men who raise and redeem communities and nations. India stands in need today of unpractical men of this order - men who perceive that the Unseen is the one Sovereign Reality, that God, not gold, is the truth of life. Nanak had the conviction concerning the supreme meaning of life. A beautiful little story in the Sikh Scriptures has it that Kaliyuga tempted Guru Nanak with the wealth of the world, but Guru said: \"I possess everything; I do not want the wealth of the world.\" Kaliyuga next tempted him with the sovereignty of the East and West; but the Guru said that he had renounced all sovereignty to serve the Lord. He understood what your practical man often fails to understand, that our home is not here but in the Unseen, in the heart of God. He understood that every individual is a soul, a manifestation of an Eternal Idea. We confound ourselves with externals, with our bodies or earthly environment. But unto the Teacher came a realization of the Truth that man is more than his externals. And so, as you review his life and teachings, you find that the one truth he taught and lived in daily life had reference to the sovereign reality of the Unseen.\n\nHis Gospel is very simple, but just on that account, very significant for us today. I have loved to think of him as the prophet of the Living God. He spoke of himself as Nanak Nirankari - a worshipper of God the Spirit. What is his interpretation of religion? He does not confound religion with rites and ceremonies. He distinguishes religion or spirituality from formalism. Tired and spent in strength, he enters one day the Mahomedan mosque at Mecca and there is found sleeping with his feet turned to the kabba. The keeper of the temple - the Imam - rouses him and tells him: \"What have you done? You are sleeping with your feet turned to the kabba? Is not this the place of God?\" What answer does the Guru give? \"Pray be not angry; but tell me where shall I turn my feet, where the House of God is not?\" A significant answer this: and throughout his life, he strikes a note of protest against formalism. At Benares, he enters into a discussion with Pandit Chattar Das, telling him...\n\n(Continued on Inside Back Cover.)\n\n## Vol. II.\n\n## MARCH-APRIL, 1912.\n\n## THE COLOUR BAR IN CANADA.\n\nThe theory of **NO VOTES NO TAXES** is accepted in all the Western countries. In British Columbia, Syrians, Bohemians, Galicians, negroes, &c., and even the Chinese in the province of Ontario can vote, but not so with the Hindu, according to the following case which appeared in the Vancouver papers:\n\nBecause he is alleged to have cast a vote in Vancouver, B.C., in the Provincial Election on 28th March, Houssein Rahim, a Hindu, was arrested on a charge of perjury. A warrant for his apprehension was issued on the 29th March, 1912.\n\n| Details        | Description                                      |\n|---------------|--------------------------------------------------|\n| Rahim's Background | Rahim landed in Vancouver about two years ago, and on several occasions has defended in the courts attempts on the part of the immigration officials to ship him out of the country on the ground that he did not come direct from India. |\n| Charge        | Rahim is alleged to have acted as a Socialist scrutineer in booth No. 7, Ward Four polling station, and it is further alleged that he cast a vote in the same polling station. |\n\nThe Provincial Elections Act specifically declares that no Hindu may exercise the franchise. Rahim is well known to the immigration authorities of Vancouver because of his successful resistance of efforts of the Dominion Government to deport him. \n\nIt developed on investigation of the case that Houssein Rahim, 139 Pender Street East, manager of the Canada-India Supply and Trust Co., Ltd., is catalogued on the Vancouver voters' list as No. 2838, and a duly qualified elector. His application for registration shows that he took oath before Mr. W. E. Flumerfelt, a commissioner for the taking of affidavits under the Elections Act, that he was a duly qualified elector in the Vancouver city electoral district. Mr. Flumerfelt is a well-known worker in the Liberal party. It is alleged that following Mr. Flumerfelt's acceptance of Rahim's declaration, his name was placed on the voter's list last September, prior to the Dominion election.\n\nNos. 3 and 4\n\nIt was intimated that it is the intention of Attorney-General Bowser to conduct an investigation into the acceptance of Rahim's declaration by Mr. Flumerfelt with a view to the possible revision of the latter's authority as a commissioner for the taking of affidavits under the Elections Act. Mr. Flumerfelt is an old resident of Vancouver, long associated with politics, chairman of the Vancouver School Board, and a man whose knowledge of election practice and affairs would lead to the belief that he knew the provisions of the Elections Act, and was a man well qualified to act as a commissioner under the Act. Section 7 of the Act under which he holds his appointment as commissioner says: \"No Chinaman, Japanese, Hindu, or Indian shall have his name placed on the register of voters for an electoral district, or be entitled to vote at any election.\"\n\nThe charge of perjury contained in the warrant issued for Rahim's arrest is declared to be based on the fact that in his application for registration, he allegedly swore before Commissioner Flumerfelt in paragraph 4: \"That I am in good faith a qualified elector in said electoral district.\"\n\nIt is worthy of note in connection with the case of Rahim that it was Hon. W. J. Bowser who brought before the Legislature and caused to be passed, the amendment which specifically shut out Hindus from the exercise of the franchise in British Columbia. The Attorney-General took this action shortly after the invasion of Hindus commenced some years ago. He realized the peril of allowing the franchise to Hindus, etc., and the amendment became law. The statute was subsequently declared to be intra vires of the powers of the Legislature on a test case carried to the highest courts.\n\n\"I shall certainly see that the name of this man is struck from the voters' list forthwith,\" declared Hon. Mr. Bowser when the alleged voting of Rahim was called to his attention. \"Yes, I have heard that in a Liberal morning newspaper, it was declared that the man had been acting for the Conservatives.\"",
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        "content_text": "# THE GOSPEL OF GURU NANAK AND INDIAN IMMIGRATION ISSUES\n\n## RETALIATION THE REMEDY\n\nAt the last session of the India National Congress a resolution was moved urging the Government to enact retaliatory measures against the Colonies which deny us our birthright as British subjects (says the Tribune, Lalore). The press has cried hoarse for such legislation, and it is but right and proper that the national assembly should register the will of the nation. The obstinate perversity of the Colonies has fully roused the nation to a sense of its humiliation; and men, women and children are smarting under the indignities heaped upon them by the un-British conduct of Colonials. Nevertheless, we prefer that the action of the national assembly and that of the Government should be defensive and not retaliatory. After all, the Colonials are also British subjects. It is a most painful spectacle that one part of the British Empire should retaliate against another. But we are free to adopt the policy of the Colonies to defend our internal interests. Why, for instance, should we permit the emigration of Indian labor for the benefit of alien capitalists? We want the manhood of India for the development of India, and we must set our face against all forms of emigration, whether \"indentured\" or not. That should be the first and foremost duty of the Congress and of the Government. We are at present not only depleting our labor reserve, but are inflicting upon a number of our countrymen the greatest of injuries imaginable. By allowing them to submit to the treatment of the Colonies we are letting them humiliate themselves.\n\nSecondly, as regards the language test and productive duties, the practical difficulties are great unless the Government can be induced to undertake them purely as retaliatory measures. That India cannot erect a colour bar as the Colonies are doing must be clear to the commonest understanding. But at the same time we have as much right as the Colonies to exclude those who compete with us unfairly or whose presence here we consider undesirable. It would be remembered that only the other day the new Governor of Madras, Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, said that the spirit of the British statesman was to give every encouragement to \"our fellow-subjects,\" meaning Indians, \"wherever they are, to develop to the full the resources of their own portion of the empire, to make the fullest use of their abilities and talents in the development of that part.\" If this is the spirit of British statesmen, it must be possible for the Government of India to exclude unfair competition from all outsiders, particularly Colonial subjects, natural-born or domiciled, in activities which should be reserved for the sons of the soil.—*Indian Opinion*, Natal.\n\n## LAW-MAKING EXTRAORDINARY\n\nA Hindu asked a friend of ours to write to Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, the well-known passenger agents at Calcutta, for a son of his to be brought into this country for studying in a college in Canada. The reply which we print below is very interesting:\n\nDear Sir:-\n\nWe are in receipt of your favor of the 12th ult., and in reply beg to state that if the young man whose passage to British Columbia you wish us to arrange is an Indian, we regret we cannot undertake same owing to the very strict immigration laws which have been passed recently. There is no direct steamer service to Canada from here, and it is therefore impossible for us to issue a through ticket as required by the immigration law. If, however, the young man is European, we shall be pleased to arrange his passage, the second-class fare from Calcutta to Vancouver by Apcar line to Hongkong, thence per Nippon Yusen Kaisha to Victoria being Rs 515- or £34:6:8. These services are fortnightly and monthly respectively.\n\nYours faithfully,\n(Signed) THOS. COOK & SON.\n\n## THE GOSPEL OF GURU NANAK\n\n(Continued from Inside Front Cover.)\n\n\"Wash your mind rather than the stone images,\"\n\nHere then is the summing up of the teachings of Guru Nanak. Love God and love the God in man. Love God and show forth your love to Him by loving those who come in contact with you. Our nation needs this Gospel: it is the gospel which binds together, unifies, harmonizes, makes for peace and love; it is the gospel of harmony, of good-will to all and hatred to none, the gospel of peace. We stand on the threshold of a New Age which is destined to witness important reconstruction in world relations. Shall India play her part in these reconstructions? Then must you, young men, and to you, young men, my words are especially addressed—keep alive the sense of the Unseen. Remember the piteous need of our civilization is God-realization. Remember our urgent need is the restoration of our spiritual perspective. Remember no civilization can endure without religion. And may weary hopes try to realize the happy day when the present decay of religious desire shall give way to rational Faith, when the sense of social injustice shall assert itself, when life beyond this life shall be discerned as the dominant idea of thought and deed, when the material will be used as a sacrament of the spiritual, when the religion of Bhakti shall be lived by men of the world and the Gospel of Guru Nanak be enthroned in our hearts again.\n\nThere is a suggestive little story in the Sikh scriptures. We read that Guru Nanak was one day invited by a poor man to dine at his house, and the Teacher of mercy accepted the invitation. A day was fixed; and on that day the Teacher moved out towards the house. He knocked at the door, but it was some time before the door was opened. When the poor man came out, he said to Guru Nanak: \"Master, forgive me, I did not open the door in time.\" The Teacher asked: \"What were you doing?\" The man replied: \"Master! I was driving nails into the wall.\" The Teacher looked into the eyes of this poor man with love and compassion and said: \"Brother, what are you doing? Driving nails into the walls? Follow me.\" The poor man answered: \"Master, as thou dost order. I follow thee.\" Forthwith, the man left his all; he followed the Teacher, and became a disciple of Guru Nanak. Think you the Voice of the Teacher is silent now? Methinks even at this moment the loving voice of the compassionate Teacher comes to you and to me and asks: \"What are you doing? Driving nails into the wall? What are you doing? Still immersed in the maya of lower life? What are you doing? Still oblivious of the sacred meaning of life? Still unconscious of the supreme Realities of the Unseen?\" The Teacher tells us all today, \"Brothers, what are you doing? Driving nails into the wall?\" What shall be your answer? What shall be my answer? Shall we not say, as did the dear disciple of old—shall we not say in accents of faith, of love and reverence?—\"Master, we are poor and weak; our faith is dim; our hearts are dull: yet we, too, shall follow thee.\"—Prof. Vaswani.\n\nPage 615",
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        "content_text": "of their countrymen located in Hong Kong and its neighborhood, to whom they very naturally appealed. The outcome of their energy and business ability resulted in transportation being purchased by some 390 souls for passage to Canada on board the \"Komagata Maru.\"\n\nThe story of their refusal to land and the many complications which followed is so well known that we need not dilate upon them here.\n\nWe may say, however, in vindication of the Hindus, and to give the lie direct to certain evil stories circulated from time to time, that every cent of the money required to charter the \"Komagata Maru,\" including the heavy expenses involved, legal and otherwise, were subscribed and paid by the Hindus themselves. They have nobly and bravely fought their battles, despising the weapons of untruth and calumny hurled against them, believing that time will vindicate them, and that justice will prevail. We believe that time has come, and we appeal to our fellow-citizens to join hands with us in helping our Hindu brethren to secure at least the home life that we claim is necessary to promote true citizenship and maintain the morality of the nation. In other words, the wife of each Hindu should be allowed to share with him his Canadian home.\n\nWILL YOU HELP?\n\nWe have given the story of the Hindus in Canada as briefly as we know how, because we want every lover of justice to get an intelligent grasp of the Hindus' side of the question. The Canada India Committee are composed of men and women who feel that the plea of our fellow-citizens for common justice and fair play should not go unheeded.\n\nMuch has been said that is not true, and little incidents have been magnified by those who should know better, until they appear as mountains. The object of this Committee is to enquire into all such, and find the truth, believing that the people of Canada are a fair-minded and liberal people, and are unwilling to be branded by the rest of the world, and India in particular, as an unreasonable people. We know this is not so, but before we can convince others we must prove ourselves by our works.\n\n8\n\n640\n\nYou may desire more information, but the following questions and statements are well worth noting, and will give you much food for reflection:-\n\n1. Are we as a people working in our best interests from the standpoint of morality and Christianity by refusing that which is very dear to the British people—family and domestic life?\n\n2. At least 90 per cent. of the Hindus in Canada are Sikhs. They believe in one God—the same God as we do. The Sikh has one wife only, and is opposed to child marriage.\n\n3. These people belong to the noble warrior class of India, who have always fought side by side with the British soldier and for all that is British. At present they are fighting side by side with Canadians in the Great European War.\n\n4. Do you know that the \"continuous journey laws\" of 1908 have practically stopped Hindu immigration, while the Japanese and Chinese have entered Canada in large numbers? Read the Government's official figures:-\n| Ethnic Group | Number Entered Canada since 1908 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chinese | 4,240 |\n| Japanese | 29,783 |\n| Hindus | 117 |\n\nDoes this not suggest that there is something radically wrong? Are you willing to allow discrimination against citizens of the Empire in favor of alien races, without making a protest?\n\n5. Are you willing to have it said of us that we allowed the life blood of these men to be spilled to save us, and refused to give them a place, or allow them at least the same privileges extended to the Japanese and Chinese?\n\n6. Do you know that an immigrant from China or Japan can enter Canada with comparative ease, while educated Hindus travelling as tourists are absolutely refused admittance? The following story of Ram Chandra, residing at Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A., will doubtless surprise you, and make you wonder what has happened to British justice.\n\nRAM CHANDRA'S STATEMENT\n\nIn the \"Indian Emigrant,\" dated August, 1915, under the heading of \"Indians Are Not Allowed in Canada,\" appears the following:-\n\n\"Much has been said and written about the ill-treatment accorded to Hindustanees in the self-governing Colonies of England, but the justice of the situation cannot be really... \n\n9",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## closet latrine\nAnd whereas such application having been duly approved by The Governor and a notification of the intention to erect an underground trough closet latrine on such site having been duly published in three successive numbers of the Gazette, a certain owner in the vicinity has objected to such erection. And whereas such objection has been duly considered: It is hereby resolved by this Council that the above-mentioned site and the erection thereat of an underground trough closet latrine be and the same are hereby approved.\n\nwater, being re-corked in some instances with corks identical with those used in the dispensary.\n\nIn reporting the incident of the spirits of wine, Dr. Johnson said, \"I consider that the manner in which the medical stores is administered is not a desirable one and that it is largely responsible for the present occurrence.\" Then acting as Colonial Secretary, Mr. Thomson commented: \"The store system in the Medical Department is evidently in a rotten condition. No one knows what the waste has been in the past, if this report is taken as an example.\"\n\nHON. MR. WEI YUK seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## The Government Civil Hospital\n\nThe two Chinese officers were dismissed from the service, and steps were taken to put the store administration upon a proper footing.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - I promised at the last meeting of the Council to give a more detailed reply to the third of the questions which were put at that meeting by the hon. member nominated by the Justices of the Peace. That question was worded as follows: - \"Was not the stock of drugs and disinfectants kept in store at the Government Civil Hospital considerably reduced by the present Principal Civil Medical Officer before the war?\"\n\nPrior to 1913, the Principal Civil Medical Officer, although he signed orders for stores, was not consulted as to their issue, which was under the general supervision of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. It was, and it still is, the rule that Government servants drawing less than £300 a year were allowed to purchase medicines at approximately cost price.\n\nThe Police Force was supplied regularly with malt and cod liver oil from October, 1911, to June, 1914. He consumed altogether 39 bottles of this mixture, the retail price of which is $1.50 a bottle. I am informed that this particular article, and various similar articles stocked at the Civil Hospital, which I may describe as medical comforts, are not stocked at all at one at least of the leading hospitals in London.\n\nDr. Johnson paid particular attention to the issue of brandy in the Civil Hospital, the number of bottles supplied being in 1910, 408, and in 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 312, 204, 192, and 127 respectively. Dr. Johnson reports that he is quite satisfied that no patient has been one particle the worse for this diminished issue. Dr. Johnson also terminated a practice under which hypodermic solutions were prepared in bottles containing a large number of doses, the syringe being filled from the bottle. The practice was wasteful because solutions became stale and were thrown away.\n\nImmediately after his arrival in the Colony, Dr. Johnson began personally to investigate the administration of the stores at the Civil Hospital. On the 7th February, 1913, he wrote to the Superintendent: \"I notice that over a dozen bottles of various kinds have been issued during January. This is quite sufficient for the entire needs of the Army, Navy, and Civil hospitals of the Colony, and would even then be excessive.\" Dr. Johnson set his face against the then prevailing practice of ordering stocks of patent medicines, popular for a time and then discarded. With regard to this, he reports: \"Heaping up purchases, which are often not well-considered ones, is not a sound policy.\"\n\nThe present practice is to supply tabloids and ampoules containing fresh single doses. He similarly prevented waste in the matter of chloroform by supplying, as far as possible, bottles to the Operating Theatre in place of 1 lb. bottles; surplus chloroform in the latter bottles having frequently been discarded on the plea that it had deteriorated.\n\nThe sudden upsetting of old customs, a new-comer can obtain medicines free at the hospital, while those drawing £300 or upwards were allowed to purchase medicines at approximately cost price. The term \"medicine\" was supposed to denote a preparation for the treatment of disease prescribed by a Government or private medical practitioner. The rule was not observed. Senior officers were not as a rule called upon to pay for articles supplied to them, and the term \"medicine\" was extended to cover almost any articles in store for which a Government servant might think fit to ask.\n\nFrom 1 p.m. daily, until the following morning, the dispensary was left in the sole charge of three Chinese dispensers. Two of these slept in the hospital premises, and all three had free access to the drug and disinfectant store. In most cases, the requests were not even seen by a medical officer. The Apothecary states: \"With regard to prescriptions, once anything had been prescribed, the patients could, as far as I could see, repeat it ad libitum, and frequent cases occurred of the same mixture having been supplied for six to twelve months or even longer. The patient no doubt thought it was required, and also took it, but it allowed of no medical supervision.\"\n\nThe Apothecary quotes the case of a member of the Police Force who was supplied regularly with malt and cod liver oil.\n\nDr. Johnson arrived in the Colony on the 15th January, 1913, and on the 28th January, he brought it to the notice of the Government that 40 gallons of spirits of wine, ordered by Dr. Bell, the Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer, on the 13th December, and duly entered by the Apothecary in the stock-book as taken into store, had never in fact been received at all. Not long afterwards, he reported that an examination of certain cases of brandy in the store showed that various bottles had been emptied of their contents and had been filled with water, being re-corked in some instances with corks identical with those used in the dispensary.\n\nIt is necessary to examine the conditions pertaining at the Civil Hospital, prior to Dr. Johnson's appointment, in the matter of the control and issue of drugs and disinfectants. The keys of the store, nominally in charge of the Apothecary, were kept openly on a book in the dispensary.\n\nThe drastic changes insisted upon by Dr. Johnson, who had unwittingly excited a rancorous jealousy among certain persons then in the Colony because he had accepted an appointment, offered to him by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which many had hoped would go to Dr. Bell, raised a storm of disapproval and of indignation at the Civil Hospital, and among the various charges published on the house-tops against Dr. Johnson was the one again brought forward, that he was improperly cutting down the hospital supplies.\n\nI may say here that in my reference to the jealousy of certain persons, I do not allude to Dr. Bell, who bore his disappointment most philosophically. About July, 1913, the Apothecary, unknown to Dr. Johnson, compiled a list chiefly of patent drugs which had been in stock unused for some time, and he asked the doctors connected with the hospital whether they could prescribe the articles in question, in order to prevent waste. As far as the Apothecary remembers, none were used.\n\nIt was alleged in the first place that in ordering from the Crown Agents the drugs and disinfectants required for 1914, Dr. Johnson sent in an indent smaller than the customary one. This was the case. It had been the custom to order for some eighteen months in advance, and Dr. Johnson very properly decided to indent for shorter periods, and to send forward supplementary requisitions as the requirements became known.\n\nI may also quote an extract from \"Rules for Economy in Prescribing,\" which appeared last year in an article in the British Medical Journal:- \"Avoid the use of all patent and proprietary medicines. The secret remedies and more secret remedies, published by the British Medical Association, has shown how expensive they are without any compensating merits.\"\n\nWith regard to this indent, the following minute by Dr. Bell is on record: -\n\nPage 660  \nPage 661",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## closet latrine\nAnd whereas such application having been duly approved by the Governor and a notification of the intention to erect an underground trough closet latrine on such site having been duly published in three successive numbers of the Gazette, a certain owner in the vicinity has objected to such erection. And whereas such objection has been duly considered, It is hereby resolved by this Council that the above-mentioned underground trough closet latrine be and the same are hereby approved.\n\nThe report is taken as an example. HON. MR. WEI YUK seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## The Government Civil Hospital\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-I promised at the last meeting of the Council to give a more detailed reply to the third of the questions which were put at that meeting by the hon. member nominated by the Justices of the Peace. That question was worded as follows: \"Was not the stock of drugs and disinfectants kept in store at the Government Civil Hospital considerably reduced by the present Principal Civil Medical Officer before the war?\"\n\nPrior to 1913, the Principal Civil Medical Officer, although he signed orders for stores, was not consulted as to their issue, which was under the general supervision of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. It was, and it still is, the rule, that Government servants drawing less than £300 a year can obtain medicines free at the hospital, while those drawing £300 or upwards were allowed to purchase medicines at approximately cost price. The term \"medicine\" for the purposes of the rule was supposed to denote a preparation for the treatment of disease prescribed by a Government or a private medical practitioner. The rule was not observed. Senior officers were not, as a rule, called upon to pay for articles supplied to them, and the term \"medicine\" was extended to cover almost any articles in store for which a Government servant might think fit to ask. Precriptions were not required; a written request, which was in some cases initialled by a medical officer at the hospital, being regarded as sufficient at the dispensary. In most cases, the requests were not even seen by a medical officer.\n\nThe Apothecary states: \"With regard to prescriptions, once anything had been prescribed, the patients could, as far as I could see, repeat it ad libitum, and frequent cases occurred of the same mixture having been supplied for six to twelve months or even longer. The patient no doubt thought it was required, and also took it, but it allowed of no medical supervision.\" The Apothecary quotes the case of a member of the Police Force who was supplied regularly with malt and cod liver oil from October, 1911, to June, 1914. He consumed altogether 39 bottles of this mixture, the retail price of which is $1.50 a bottle.\n\nDr. Johnson arrived in the Colony on the 15th January, 1913, and on the 28th January, he brought it to the notice of the Government that 40 gallons of spirits of wine, ordered by Dr. Bell, the Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer, on the 13th December, and duly entered by the Apothecary in the stock-book as taken into store, had never in fact been received at all. Not long afterwards, he reported that an examination of certain cases of brandy in the store showed that various bottles had been emptied of their contents and had been filled with water, being re-corked in some instances with corks identical with those used in the dispensary. In reporting the incident of the spirits of wine, Dr. Johnson said: \"I consider that the manner in which the medical stores are administered is not a desirable one and that it is largely responsible for the present occurrence...\" \n\nIt is necessary, as a preliminary step, to examine the conditions pertaining at the Civil Hospital, prior to Dr. Johnson's appointment, in the matter of the control and issue of drugs and disinfectants. The keys of the store, nominally in charge of the Apothecary, were kept openly on a hook in the dispensary. From 1 p.m. daily, until the following morning, the dispensary was left in the sole charge of three Chinese dispensers. Two of these slept in the hospital premises, and all three had free access to the drug and disinfectant store.\n\nImmediately after his arrival in the Colony, Dr. Johnson began personally to investigate the administration of the stores at the Civil Hospital. On the 7th February, 1913, he wrote to the Superintendent: \"I notice that over 200 dozen bottles of various kinds have been issued during January. This is quite sufficient for the entire needs of the Army, Navy, and Civil hospitals of the Colony, and would even then be excessive.\"\n\nDr. Johnson paid particular attention to the issue of brandy in the Civil Hospital, the number of bottles supplied being in 1910, 408, and in 1912, 1913, 1914, 312, 204, 192, and 127 respectively. Dr. Johnson reports that he is quite satisfied that no patient has been one particle the worse for this diminished issue. Dr. Johnson also terminated a practice under which hypodermic solutions were prepared in bottles containing a large number of doses, the syringe being filled from the bottle. The practice was wasteful because solutions became stale and were thrown away. The present practice is to supply tabloids and ampoules containing fresh single doses. He similarly prevented waste in the matter of chloroform by supplying, as far as possible, 4 oz. bottles to the Operating Theatre in place of 1 lb. bottles; surplus chloroform in the latter bottles having frequently been discarded on the plea that it had deteriorated.\n\nDr. Johnson set his face against the then prevailing practice of ordering stocks of patent medicines, popular for a time and then discarded. With regard to this, he reports: \"Heaping up purchases, which are often not well-considered ones, is not a sound policy. I have been asked for various proprietary medicines like A and B (it is unnecessary to give the names). Neither of these is necessary. They are both capable of relieving symptoms, and B, besides being expensive, is as nice as a sweetmeat to the taste. But they are of no particular import, except to the proprietors, and it is a reasonable thing to avoid the purchase of patent and proprietary articles which are, for the most part, of no special value.\" \n\nI may mention in this connection that about July, 1915, the Apothecary, unknown to Dr. Johnson, compiled a list chiefly of patent drugs which had been in stock unused for some time, and he asked the doctors connected with the hospital whether they could prescribe the articles in question, in order to prevent waste. As far as the Apothecary remembers, none were used. I may also quote an extract from \"Rules for Economy in Prescribing,\" which appeared last year in an article in the British Medical Journal:-\"Avoid the use of all patent and proprietary medicines. The secret remedies and more secret remedies, published by the British Medical Association, has shown how expensive they are without any compensating merits.\"\n\nThe sudden upsetting of old customs, the drastic changes insisted upon by the new-comer who had unwittingly excited rancorous jealousy among certain persons then in the Colony because he accepted an appointment, offered him by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which many had hoped would go to Dr. Bell, raised a storm of disapproval and of indignation at the Civil Hospital, and among the various charges published on the house tops against Dr. Johnson was the one now again brought forward, that he was improperly cutting down the hospital supplies. \n\nIn ordering from the Crown Agents the drugs and disinfectants required for 1914, Dr. Johnson sent in an indent smaller than the customary one. It had been the custom to order for some eighteen months in advance, and Dr. Johnson very properly decided to indent for shorter periods, and to send forward supplementary requisitions as the requirements became known. With regard to this indent, the following minute by Dr. Bell is on record: ...",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n\n## Page 7\n\nFa Hsing, Tien-tain.  \nFairchild, F. A.  \nFar Eastern Geographical Establishment.  \nFarley, W. A.  \nFarmer, F. D., & Co.  \nFearon, Daniel, & Co.  \nFederal Life Assurance Company of Canada.  \nFengtien District Inspectorate of Salt Revenue.  \nFerguson, J. C. G.  \nFerretti.  \nFielding, H. R.  \nFindlay, Richardson, & Co.  \nFirth, W., & Sons.  \nFobes & ta.  \nFohkien Mercantile Co., Foochow.  \nFoo Tai Company, Hankow.  \nFoochow Dock & Arsenal, Pagoda Anchorage.  \nFoachow Native Hospital.  \nFoochow Pharmacy.  \nForbes & Co., William.  \nFoster, McClellan, & Co.  \nFrankau, A., & Co. Limited.  \nFrazar & Co.  \nFrazer, E. W.  \nFrench Bakery.  \nTu Seng, W. & Co., Foochow.  \nFu Shing Tai, Tien-tein.  \nFuchs, H., & Co. (Rint'ai Stores).  \nFujita & Co., Mukden.  \nFukien Drug Company.  \nFukul & Co., Shanghai.  \nFung Tang, Shanghai.  \nFurukawa & Co., Shanghai,  \nFutcher, J. W.  \n\n## Page 3 (continued on another page, not shown in the snippet)\n\n... (text not shown)\n\n## Page 11\n\nGabhai, M. N., & Co.  \nGadai, Yoko.  \nGaillard.  \nGakuyodo Mori, Shameen.  \nGallusser & Co.  \nGande, Price, & Co.  \nGarner, Quelch, & Co.  \nGates, F.  \nGeddes & Co.  \n**General Accident, Fire, & Life Assurance Company.**  \nGeneral Electric Company.  \nGeneral Electric Company of China Limited.  \nGeneral Electric Company of New York.  \nGerassime Touliatos.  \nGerin, Drevard, & Co.  \nGibb, Livingston, & Co.  \nGibbons, J., & Co.  \nGillard, G. M., & Co.  \nGillespie & Co.  \nGilman & Co.  \nGing Chong Hung & Co.  \nGittins & Co.  \nGlaxo.  \nGlen Line Steamers,  \nGoldenberg, H., & Co.  \nGordes.  \nGordon & Co.  \nGovernment Universities in China.  \nGoyet, Shanghai.  \nGrand Hôtel des Wagons-Lite, Peking.  \nGrant, Archibald.  \nGreat China Dispensary.  \nGreat Eastern Co., Ltd., Shanghai.  \nGreat Eastern Dispensary.  \nGreat Northern Telegraph Company,  \nGreer, H. & W., Limited.  \nGreig, M. W., & Co.  \nGrenard, Bettines, & Co.  \nGriffith, T. E.. Limited.  \nGriffiths' Butchery.  \nGrimes, A. O.  \nGrimshaw, R.  \nGrosjean & Co.  \nGrundy, R.  \nGuarantee Trust.  \nGula Kalumpang Rubber Estates Limited.  \nHall & Holtz Limited.  \nHan Yeh Ping Iron & Coal Company.  \nHanda Menko, Shanghai.  \nHankow Club Ltd.  \nHankow Dispensary Limited.  \nHankow Ice Works (Corsane, Anderson, & Co.)  \nHankow Light & Power Company.  \nHankow Printing Office.  \nHankow Race Club & Recreation Ground Ltd.  \nHankow Waterworks.  \nHankow Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd.  \nHardoon, S. A.  \nHardy, Walter.  \nHarper, Ralph, & Co.  \nHarvey's Billposting Agency.  \nHarvie, Cook, & Co.  \nHarvie, J. A.  \nIIatch, Carter, & Co.  \nHattori, Yoko.  \nHeath & Co. Limited.  \nHeath, P., and Co.  \nHeffer, F. C., & Co.  \nHeiman, S. S,  \nHeisch, P. F.  \nHemmerdinger Frères.  \nHemmings & Berkley.  \nHeng, Chang, Ter, Newchang.  \nHeng Cheong & Co., Amoy,  \nHérou, Charles, & Co.  \nHetherington, J., & Sons,  \nHewett, W., & Co.  \nHipwell, P.  \nHirao & Co., Antung.  \nHirsbrunner & Co.  \nHo En Seong, Nanking.  \nHolgate, L. G.  \nHolland-China Trading Company.  \nHolliday, C., & Co.  \nHolt's Wharf.  \nHong Kong Fire Insurance Company.  \nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank.  \nHopkins, Dunn, & Co.  \nHorrobin, S. L.  \nHorse Bazaar and Motor Company.  \nHôtel de France.  \nHôtel de la Paix,  \nHôtel de Pékin.  \nHouvenier-Mason, Scheidler, & Co.  \nHowarth, Richard, & Co.  \nHsin Kong & Co., Shanghai,  \nHsing Tai, Shanghai.  \nHua Eng Tai, Swatow.  \nHua Mui Dispensary, Swatow.  \nHubbard, E. W.  \nHumphrey, W. G.  \nHung Chong Ter, Newchang.  \nHung, Dab, & Co., Shanghai.  \nHunt, Newchang.  \nHupei Government Cotton Mill,  \nHutchison, Herbert, & Co.  \nHutchison, J. D.  \nFah Leng Dispensary, Swatow.  \nJah Siu Dispensary, Swatow.  \nTak Sang Dispensary, Swatow.  \nIlbert & Co.  \nImperial Hotel Limited,  \nIndo-China Steam Navigation Company.  \nIndra Line of Steamers.  \n\n# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915. 12817\n\nInnis & Riddle.  \nInshallah Dairy Farm and Stock Company.  \nInternational Bank.  \nInternational Bicycle Company.  \nInternational Book and Stationery Store.  \nInternational Cotton Manufacture Company.  \nInternational Dispensary, Shanghai.  \nInternational Dock, Shanghai,  \nInternational Estate and Finance, Shanghai,  \nInternational Export Company, Hankow.  \nInternational Saving Society, Shanghai.  \nIsenman & Smith, Drs.  \nItalian-Chinese Import and Export Company.  \nIto, G., Shanghai.  \nItoh, C., & Co., Shanghai.  \nIvy Dairy.  \nIvy, Dr.  \nJacks, William, & Co.  \nJapanese Red Cross Hospital, Mukden.  \nJapanese Post and Telegraphs in Manchuria.  \nJaques, A. H., & Co.  \nJardine, Matheson, & Co.  \nJava Consolidated Rubber and Coffee Estate.  \nJava Sea and Fire Insurance Company.  \nJensen, G. S.  \nJia Ann Dispensary, Swatow.  \nJoseph Bros.  \nJun Chee, Tien-tein.  \nJuvet Leo, Tien-tain.  \nKailan Mining Administration.  \nKaitendo Company, Newchang.  \nKakiage, Yoko, Shanghai.  \nKale, E.  \nKalee Hotel Limited.  \nKalgan Dairy Farm.  \nKameya (Kamaya), S., & Co., Antung.  \nKansaki & Co., Newchang.  \nKapayang Rubber Estate Company Limited.  \nKaratzas Bros.  \nKashimura Company, Tientsin,  \nKato & Co.  \nKay, W., & Co.  \nKaye, C. B., & Co.  \nKelly & Walsh Limited.  \nKemp, Thomas, & Co.  \nKempton.  \nKermani, R. S., Shanghai.  \nKeylock, Pratt, and Hobbs.  \nKeystone Tobacco Company Limited.  \nKiangnan Dock and Engineering Works.  \nKlemantaski, Bates, & Co.  \nKo Bros., Amoy.  \nKochien Transport and Towboat Company Limited.  \nKodera & Co.  \nKong Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company.  \nKoushyn, N. N., Limited, Shanghai.  \nKroewoek Java Plantations Limited.  \nKua, Seng, Watt, & Co., Amoy.  \nKwong Chek Dispensary, Swatow  \nKwong Fat Yuen, Shanghai.  \nKwong Wo Company, Canton.  \nLa Belle Jardinière (E. A. Culpeck).  \nLalcacca & Co.  \nLam Fong Drug Company, Amoy.  \nLand Investment Company Limited.  \nLane, Crawford, & Co. Limited.  \nLangkat Company, Shanghai.  \nLao Sen Kee, Hankow.  \nLaon Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company.  \nLarge, F., & Co.  \nLau, Bittakshing, & Co., Canton.  \nLau, E. C., Foochow  \nLau Tsz Wai, Shameen.  \nLau, Woodland, & Co., Canton.  \nLaurent, Marius.  \nLavers & Clark.  \nLaw, H. D., & Co.  \nLe Lion.  \nLe Munyon.  \nLee Bros. & Co., Canton.  \nLeeds, E. S.  \nLegation of Allied Powers, Peking.  \nLegation Pharmacy (J. Henderson).  \nLekhomall Pinyamall.  \nLem Pah Wo, Canton.  \nLem Tak Se, Swatow.  \nLester, Johnson, & Morriss.  \nLever Brothers, Limited.  \nLey, C.  \nLeyte, F.  \nLiang Dau An, Hankow.  \nLiao Conservancy Authority.  \nLias River Conservancy.  \nLiddell, Bros. & Co.  \nLiddell, K., & Co.  \nLih Teh Oil Mill Company Limited.  \nLim, E. V. S., & Co., Swatow.  \nLion, Lucien.  \nLittle, O. S.  \nLittle, William, & Co.  \nLitvinoff & Co.  \nLiverman, G. S., & Co. Limited.  \nLiverpool Salvage Association.  \nLlewellyn & Co. Limited.  \nLloyds.  \nLoa Hai Shing, Shanghai.  \nLoa-Wai Dispensary, Canton.  \nLondon Mission.  \nLondon Salvage Association.  \nLopato, A., & Sons, Limited.  \nLoup and Young.  \nLouvain.  \nLowe, Bingham, and Matthews.  \nLowe, F. H.  \nLoxley, W. R., & Co.  \nL.P. Medical Hall, Foochow.  \nLu Si, W. (Foochow Pharmacy).  \nLuen Steamship Company Limited.  \nLuk Wo & Co. (Luk Wo Dispensary), Canton.  \nMa Fel & Co., Shanghai,  \nMacbeth, Pawsey, & Co.  \nMacdonald, Ronald,  \nMacdonald, Thomas, & Co.  \nMacey & Co.  \nMackay, A. H., & Co.  \nMacKenzie, A. C.  \nMacKenzie & Co. Limited.  \nMackie, A., & Co.  \nMaclay & Co.  \nMactavish & Lehmann.  \nMacy, G. H., & Co.  \nMadier.  \nMagasin français d'Alimentation.  \nMagasins généraux.  \nMagill & Co.  \nMain, S. D.  \nMaison Parisienne (Au Petit Louvre).  \nMaitland & Co.  \nMaitland & Fearon.  \nMajor Brothers Limited,  \nMalthoid Roofing Manufacturers.  \nManchurian Company Limited.  \nManini, E., Hankow.",
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        "content_text": "Scods appear favourable, carbon concrete factors facilitating the scheme must not be left out of account.\n\n321 win in lack of Cmro for deepening the river channel. The province is not likely to move any more than to vote thereto for some years to come, nor for that matter at all in the future.\n\nIt is in the provincial Government's best desire to improve the birtat. The ruler would like to deliver a site for the settlement free at vi Pya and assist financially in the erection of jetties at novados.\n\nNo mention is hitherto made whether or not the lux and value will purely guarantee harbour ould justify task when the principal import valuable export of ocean shipping lay in their part from Canton is slik.\n\nThe tri bình tên think. Moreover, the whinerɛ nove not yet arrived at that it is incumbent luc.\n\nLi Frafth at of ior issort kot export, or a I like soul, malak ng kalig directly connected to Wam zo useful in the trade, tany wlli Di werewith.\n\nRy J necta there li va und routrial vi Air counceli, n von UK run lla iqrova del m eteg wil. fat for ur sole benefit sh seatsge.\n\nA further assumption is that if ESTUND VOL, els whil A de futur, enjoy their former privileges, in iritira Jo 1410 Descessions on their voyages to and from int mit. Should, as it is to be wape bman ta kampon ruukku frica with phy internedikte art di berika.\n\n+ 18 = klternit‡y une vin ac unite ATLETAR twe cod.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916",
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        "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916",
        "content_text": "Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury that those of the staff who were in the Hong Kong Civil Service on the 31st of December 1910 should be regarded as still members of that service although employed on duties connected with the Imperial Service. In accordance with this suggestion I am to submit, for communication to the Hong Kong Government if the Secretary of State for the Colonies concurs, a proposal that those members of the staff who were taken over with the Agencies should be regarded as members of the Hong Kong Civil Service whose services have been lent to the Imperial Government, that their salaries should be paid by the Hong Kong Government, subject to reimbursement by the Imperial Government, and consequently should be provided for in the Hong Kong estimates and that if the Hong Kong Government would undertake to grant them any pensions or gratuities for which they may have become qualified under Colonial Regulations, the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury would (in respect of the period since the 1st of January 1911) be prepared to contribute to the Colony a reasonable percentage of the salaries upon which pension or gratuity would be calculated to cover the cost of the pensions earned by their service during that period. If this proposal is accepted Their Lordships agree to exclude from the revenue of the Hong Kong Government as calculated for the purpose of assessing the military contribution of the Colony, the payments which will be made by the Imperial Government in respect of salaries or pensions.\n\nI am to point out that a contribution from Colonial funds would seem in any case to be due towards the cost of the\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n63848\n\n2004.\n\n63848 RECO\n\nREG 31 DEC 17\n\n162 1917\n\n30 Nov\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nGov 63737 - To Gov 26 14 Jan 118.\n\n67 31, not fr ill spy by\n\n202.22\n\n2 2\n\nCopy\n\nI.O.\n\nDe po station\n\nLa re\n\nza\n\nObjects\n\nher Burste\n\nOrdinance.\n\nOrdin\n\nne w\n\nto\n\ndehor\n\nBritish\n\nMr Corella Collins\n\nMe fundle\n\nSee also 63737.\n\nThe Ord\" seen all cigar generally\n\nhas been necessary\n\nof the new powers by\n\n24\n\nto restrict the operation\n\n[law])\n\nA very\n\nsame extent to which it was\n\nreshier them\n\n(84, 14 M-0)\n\nsuch thing\n\ndecided F\n\ninstruction of the S.2.S.\n\nI observe that § 8 (1)\n\ndoes not affect & cover\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nGov 57503/241\n\nBrand, but (19677-4h) 939-12. 18,000 107. D & S. 122' 41.\n\nare used with line the print\n\nI sanction w\n\nchy foods to wo. 67.\n\n3/1/18.",
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        "content_text": "fail to find a single opium-poppy. On arrival at Lungling, the consulate writer and I were entertained to a Chinese dinner-party in his yamên,\n\nThe discovery of only one solitary field of opium along the route between Nantien and Lungling must, I think, be taken as evidence of the strenuous efforts which have been made during the past few months to eradicate all traces of the prescribed plant; from one or two more talkative residents encountered en route I obtained admissions of a considerable recrudescence of cultivation during last year, but all agreed as to the thorough measures of suppression carried out since November last. In the T'engch'ung district, for instance, no less than three separate expeditions of eradication had been sent out, under territorial, military, and police officials respectively, and it is only just to place on record that their duties were performed in a very thorough manner.\n\nThe normal order of procedure was for my caravan, headed by the writer and myself, to take the lead, and for the Taoyin's more imposing party to bring up the rear. The 1st April was, however, appropriately celebrated by the failure of the Taoyin's party to keep touch with us at a parting of the ways, this added some 2 miles for them to the long and undulating road to Siangta. Thence to P'ingka is normally reckoned as a single though lengthy stage for caravans; at the Taoyin's request we split it into two, halting at the small hamlet of Huchiachal, 7,000 feet high, picturesquely situated in the midst of dense groves of bamboos. At Huchiachal we encountered our first rain, and thereafter we had not a single rainless day until the 19th April. From Pingka to Hankuai, high above the right bank of the Salween, with a magnificent view of the lofty mountains on the other side, was another long day's march.\n\nThe crossing of the Salween was a tedious business for so large a cavalcade; two bamboo rafts were provided, taking only some five mule-loads or ten men on each trip; the method of propulsion across the swift current was by a species of flat umbrella fashioned of stout bamboo; at each end of the craft an \"oarsman\" plied one of these cumbrous weapons by plunging it into the water and pulling it towards himself with powerful strokes.\n\nArrived at the left bank of the Salween, we were in the Chênk'ang district; and at the head of the very long and stiff ascent from the river we were met by the local magistrate, Tang Te-ch'uan, a pleasant elderly official, who travelled with us until we left his jurisdiction. Tê-tang, where his official residence is, was our third halt after crossing the Salween; this place was made memorable for me by a sufficiently unhappy experience. Somewhere about A.M. a gale of wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, brought my tent down over my head, and my slumbers to a beautifully abrupt close.\n\nThe town of Chênk'ang was reached next day. Formerly there was a Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Chenkung, but his downfall was brought about as the result of the Manchu viceroy, Hsi Liang's, policy for the gradual absorption of the Chinese Shan States into direct Chinese administration; and save for a few picturesque ruins of the Sawbwa's palace, the place is now shorn of any pomp and circumstance it may have once possessed.\n\nTwelve days' travel, although for the most part along comparatively unfrequented routes, had now disclosed but one solitary field of opium-poppy, and I therefore decided on a somewhat rash experiment. None of the four maps of Yunnan which I took with me gave any indication of a road from Chênk'ang to Mienning, the next district town on my list, and the recognised routes between these two places are circuitous in the extreme, passing through either Shunning or Yünchow. I ascertained, however, that a road practicable for chairs existed, and elected to attempt it. Fortunately, by this time the Tengyueh Taoyin had resigned himself to accepting my lead, or he would almost certainly have protested. For five days we followed the roughest of mountain paths, which had in many places to be prepared overnight for our transit by the felling of trees and clearing of jungle. At none of the intermediate halts, Pank'a, Maulung, Hup'o, and Manlai, we were assured, had a white traveller ever been seen, and I cannot recommend my example as one to be lightly followed. The only camping-ground to be found at Manlai was on a wind-swept spur projecting out of a deep ravine, and once again a sudden hurricane brought my tent crashing down.\n\nBelow Manlai our route crossed the Namting River by a ford which would obviously be impracticable during the heavier rains of midsummer. At the Namting we quitted the Chênk'ang district and entered the jurisdiction of the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Kengma. During our six days of travel through Chenkang territory we had found no opium crops whatever, though I learnt that there had been a small harvest of the earliest sown poppy. The magistrate was said, however, to have been indefatigable in the work of eradication, and I was assured—not by himself—that since November of last year he had never been in residence at his post for five consecutive days.\n\nDuring our day and a-half through the jurisdiction of the Kengma Sawbwa we were escorted by his Shan-Chinese clerk, who was full of his recent visit to Rangoon and Lashio in attendance on his master. The road from the left or south-east bank of the Namting River was a terribly steep ascent for some 3,000 feet, which we negotiated in pouring rain; this was succeeded by a hair-raising path—with an average breadth of 14 inches at the most—for some 5 miles along the edge of a precipice. After the heavy rain the surface of red laterite was so treacherously slippery that I felt safer on my sure-footed Yunnan pony than on my own legs.\n\nOur next halt, the Shan village of Chepi, was on a route traversed more than twenty years ago by H. R. Davies, the standard authority on the province of Yunnan, and doubtless by other foreigners since; here for the first time I abandoned my tent, in favour of a comparatively clean temple.\n\nAt this point we were met by a guard of honour sent out to meet us by the P'uêrh Taoyin, who had arrived at Mienning, our pre-arranged meeting-place, on the 11th April. I owe the noisy but efficient commandant a debt of gratitude for his thorough arrangements for my comfort at each of our halting places throughout the Mienning district.\n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chêpi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days' travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium-poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires.\n\nOn my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one; he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a-half days' journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th: Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mienning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the Puerh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour. The Puerh Taoyin, Lu Pang-shun, a Kiangsu man aged 56, has held office for the past twenty-one years in Yunnan, and possesses a very thorough knowledge of the province. Two periods of service he has spent in Tengyueh, first as sub-prefect in Manchu times, and secondly as taotai under the Republic in 1913. The Mienning magistrate, Hsieh Yunan, has formerly held a billet in the War Office in Peking; he struck me as being unusually intelligent and capable.\n\nAt Pingyehhsün, where we halted for the night, the two Taoyins came over to call. From the first, Mr. Lu showed up very favourably beside his Tengyueh colleague, and displayed a friendly acquiescence in my suggestions with regard to our joint tour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages. On arrival at the city, we were escorted for a sort of Jericho-tour round the walls before being conducted to the old lieutenant-general's yamên, especially done up for the occasion, where ample quarters were provided for both Taoyins and their escorts, and a refreshingly clean and well-aired suite of rooms was set apart for me.\n\nMy caravan had now been on the move for nineteen consecutive days; men and animals had, I felt, well earned a rest, and I accepted without compunction the friendly invitation of Lu Taoyin and the magistrate to stop over one day in Mienning. The first night they entertained the Tengyueh Taoyin and myself at dinner; the next day they gave me a bathing-party picnic at a hot sulphur spring some 3 miles outside the town.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by Lu Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked Mr. Lu point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season.\n\n[2729 -1]\n\n298",
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        "content_text": "7\n\nseason, but that all had been uprooted by expeditions sent out in November and I see December, and there was no trace of any remaining when he came out.\n\nIt was no reason whatever to doubt this statement, but even if it was untrue, it was practically certain that there would not be a single plant left after his passing through; I therefore decided to take an entirely different road for our joint journey and selected the southern route via Poshang, the Tapeng ferry over the Mekong, Mengka, and Mengchu. This is a fairly well recognised, though little used, road, but I possess records of only isolated portions as having been previously traversed by British subjects.\n\nThe first two days' journey from Mienning via Poshang to Toukuo call for no special comment beyond the unusually good condition of the road-surface. Nature has so fashioned the province of Yunnan as to render it practically impossible for the road-builder to make the crooked straight; for some weeks prior to our passing through, however, human labour had done a great deal to make the rough places plain. In spite of pouring rain on the second day, we encountered no really serious obstacles.\n\nOn the 19th April, at the Taoyin's suggestion, we made a very early start in view of the formidable journey in front of us. After 6 miles of easy going, we reached the limits of the Mienning jurisdiction and bade farewell to the magistrate. No trace of opium poppy had we seen in his district, in which, as far as I could ascertain, he and his subordinates had carried out their suppression duties with exceptional thoroughness. The next 7 miles traversed a corner of what is now known as the Lants'ang (i.e., Mekong) district—formerly the sub-prefecture of Chênpien—and the going was very severe, though it must, in all fairness, be admitted that the country is extremely difficult, including a terrific descent for 3 miles through constantly subsiding red clay to the level of the River Mekong (2,750 feet). The crossing of the Mekong is effected in a single huge wooden boat with deep sides; mules and their loads are transported in this craft, the river-current being too swift to admit of the animals swimming across without danger. The ascent up the left or east bank of the Mekong is even more severe, and for 2 miles the ruling gradient is steeper than one in six. The consulate writer and I reached the halting-place about 2:20 P.M., followed about an hour later by the Taoyin and his party, who took up their quarters in a native hovel close to our selected camping site. Realising our discomfiture at the non-arrival of our mule-loads, Mr. Lu with friendly thoughtfulness sent us over a supply of tea and Australian biscuits, to which I at least did unhesitating justice. It was not till after sunset that the rest of my caravan turned up. At one of the steepest points of the descent to the Mekong the mule entrusted with my small but precious supply of glass and crockery had missed his footing and rolled headlong, load and all, for several hundred feet, and rescue had taken much time; further, heavy delay had been caused by the passage of the Mekong with but one unwieldy boat, to which the liveliest objection was displayed by most of the mules.\n\nTwo stages further, through pine-woods tenanted by peacocks and brilliant emerald-green parrots, brought us to the Chinese Shan town of Mêngka. At Tamotacho, the half-way halt, we came across a few families of Lahu race, said to be rapidly dying out in China. Given a plentiful supply of soap, water, and combs, the smaller children could, I am convinced, be made into strikingly pretty little gipsies.\n\nShortly before reaching Mêngka we were met by the Chingku district magistrate, La Kuang-shih, a Kuangsi man, who accompanied us so long as we continued in his extensive jurisdiction. Mêngka, the residence of a Shan Sawbwa, possesses also large temples and two monasteries in the Burmese Shan style; one in particular, over 200 years old, must have been very fine in bygone days.\n\nAt Liutsungt'eu'n, our halt mid-way between Mêngka and Mengchu, the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of the latter place, and Meng'an came over to pay his respects; both the excellence of his Chinese and his appearance gave the lie, I fancied, to his boasted pure Shan parentage. Mêng'an is one of the old Shan towns whence the original inhabitants have been practically ousted by the more thriving Chinese. Here, I was given fairly decent quarters in the temple of the god of war, now converted into a school, the discipline of which struck me as unusually good; the very natural curiosity at the arrival in their midst of the first white man ever beheld by any of the ninety scholars was never allowed to exceed the bounds of politeness.\n\nOn the 25th April, two days after leaving Mêngchu, we crossed the River Weiyuan (or Chingku, as it is now gradually becoming known) at Patieh. At this season of the year the stream is just fordable here: I managed, however, to find a place not much higher up where a swim proved welcomely refreshing. The next halt bore the ill-omened name of Ch'ou-Shui (\"Stinking Water\"), but I have stayed at many places in Yunnan where the water supply has been even worse. Two days later, after passing a few villages inhabited by natives of the strikingly handsome Puman race, we entered the Szemao district and were met by the local magistrate, Hsieh Shih; the following day, the 28th April, we arrived at Szemao, where spacious quarters were provided for me adjoining the Taoyin's Yamên. The Taoyin and magistrate pressed me to stay a week in Szemao; I consented to two days, but on the second day Mr. Lu urged that he still had important business to transact, and I could hardly refuse his request that we should postpone our departure for one more day. Both he and the magistrate were most hospitable during my stay, celebrated by two Chinese dinner-parties and a picnic.\n\nPrevious to my departure for Tengyuen, I had written to the commissioner of Szemao Customs, soliciting his co-operation to obtain for me, if possible, information on the subject of opium in the area under his cognisance. With that request M. R. de Nully, the commissioner (French), very courteously complied; he informed me quite definitely that, as the result of several punitive expeditions during the past winter, there was, as far as he was aware, no more cultivation of opium in the Szemao district, and that while probably at least 30 per cent. of the adult population of the town, both male and female, still continued to consume the drug, the enormous rise in price bore out his contention.\n\nFrom Szemao northwards towards Tali three routes were open to me; that via Chingku (Weiyuan) was ruled out by the fact that it had already been traversed by Lu Taoyin on his journey to Mienning to meet me; on the north-eastern route, via Talang—the main road to Yunnan-fu according to all the information I could obtain, a considerable quantity of opium had been grown, and harvested, earlier in the season, but very thorough measures of eradication had been carried out some weeks previously; I therefore decided to take the more direct but less frequented route via P'uêrh, Hsinfu (in Chênyüan district) and Chingtung.\n\nLeaving Szemao on the 2nd May, some three hours of travel, including a stiff climb, brought us to the boundary of the Puerh district, where the local magistrate, Chou Ju-chao, awaited us; the Szemao magistrate, however, continued to accompany us till the town of Puerh was reached the next day; on this day's journey our route crossed a splendid Chinese arched stone bridge, in admirable preservation. At Puerh, an old walled city with relics of fine stone carving, I was again given most comfortable quarters; Mr. Chou also entertained the Taoyin, the Szemao magistrate, and myself at a lengthy Chinese dinner.\n\nAt Mabei, the next stage, I took the opportunity to pay a visit to the large and flourishing salt mines about a mile and a half away. Dr. Kelly, the American representative of the Chinese Salt Administration, who had arrived about two months previously, was away on tour, but his English-speaking Chinese colleague very kindly demonstrated to me all the processes of Chinese salt extraction.\n\nThe next four stages, via Mop'o, Maupieh and Manlien, to Hsin-fu, call for little comment save for the extreme beauty of the scenery; on all sides rose range after range of pine-clad hills, mostly well-wooded to their summits; the valleys were, however, parched and bare, and travelling along the lower levels was excessively hot. Our route crossed the eastern section of the Chênyüan district, and midway during the third stage we were joined by the magistrate, Mo Yu-ju, a scholarly man of considerable charm of manner, with whom my relations during our five days of joint travel were exceedingly cordial, and from whom I parted with really genuine regret.\n\nThe only record in my possession of a route between Hsinfu and Chingtung dated from 1881, when the journey was made by a British traveller; our route, however, was almost entirely different from his, and we spent but five days on the distance which had taken him six. For the last three days we were accompanied by the Chingtung magistrate, Ming Fao-ch'ien, who came out to meet us. The surroundings of Chingtung breathe of ancient history; the last 5 miles of the road could hardly have been repaired for centuries, while of the city-wall nothing now remains save one single gate; peacocks strutting unmolested in the main street seemed likewise aloof from modernity. The magistrate's yamên was woefully dilapidated, and I was well housed by comparison in the newly built Szech'uan Guild premises. From Szemao we had travelled for twelve days on end, mostly in great heat, and a halt of one day was amply justified. For me it spelled the inevitable Chinese dinner-party, as the guest of the district magistrate.\n\nThis latter official was also among the number of those who have displayed special energies in the matter of opium suppression; practically every town and hamlet which\n\n299",
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Mr. Chan, however, never ceased for several days harping on the comforts of train-travel as compared with our rough paths and tracks.\n\nFor the next five days, from Loping to Mi-le (82 miles), the country was rough and mountainous, being at the altitude of 5,000-6,000 feet above sea-level. Yunnan is notorious for its strong winds, and it well preserved its reputation during my visit. Even in the middle of the day, wearing thick clothes and a heavy winter overcoat, I was barely comfortably warm. The \"road\" led through undulating plateaux, sometimes as much as 5 miles wide, and over mountain passes; the hill country is rocky and uncultivated. The high winds bring much dust. General conditions are thus antagonistic to agriculture in that part of Eastern Yunnan, and the attenuated crops peas and barley testified to the farmers' difficulties. Population is very sparse; in the hill districts there are a considerable number of people of the Lolo tribe.\n\nof\n\nIn leaving me at the border of his jurisdiction the Lo-ping magistrate enquired with much anxiety if I had observed any opium poppy within his jurisdiction; and he vowed that to the best of his knowledge and belief there was not a single opium plant in his territory. I replied that I was aware that local officials had shown such zeal this spring in destroying all vestiges of the opium crop.\n\nThe general poverty of the highland districts was reflected in even the official buildings. The Shih-tsung magistrate offered me quarters for the night in his own yamên; the room he offered me was as good as any in the building, but even so it was in a tumbledown condition, with large holes in the roof, which also did duty as ceiling to the room.\n\nIn the environs of Kuang-hsi, a town of some 5,750 feet of height above sea-level, and of about 2,500 inhabitants, it was a pleasing change to see extensive patches of vegetable gardens. They were quite the healthiest-looking crops I had seen in Yünnan. The soil bereabouts looked less poor, being more brown than red, the reddish soil being chiefly of a sandy consistency.\n\nFrom Mile there was difficulty about route, the only recognised road going westwards to Po-hsi on the Yunnan-Tonquin railway, and the direction in which I desired to proceed being to the south-east. Local enquiry elicited information that there were rough tracks to the south-east, but they were very rarely used, and only a very few of the natives knew their way to them. I maintained that the local officials must know, or must be able to ascertain without difficulty, the routes in any direction in their own jurisdiction, and I suggested that the local officials should provide us with responsible guides. My immediate objective was Ch'iu-pei, a fairly large town, which appeared from the map to be about five or six days' march from Mi-le. Mr. Chan offered to obtain a sketch-map of the route, and he handed me a route plan, showing five stages to Ch'iu-pei. This I agreed to follow. On the second day we reached a village, Kai-tien, when Mr. Chan coolly informed me that his plan was incorrect, and that we were now only 10 miles from Ami-chow, a town on the railway; furthermore, that the only road from Kai-tien went to Ami-chow. I was highly incensed at this impudent deception, and insisted that I would attempt to find a direct route eastwards to Ch'iu-pei. With some difficulty an inferior military officer was discovered who said he knew a track to the eastward. Next morning, however, all the bearers and coolies went on strike, saying that I was taking them into wild parts of the country, where they could get no food and where they would contract fever and die. With persuasion and argument, however, the majority of them yielded, the places of the few who refused to yield being filled by local men.\n\nAfter travelling for half a day over rough hills, inhabited here and there by Lolo charcoal-burners, we came to an impasse - a long steep descent, impossible for baggage, chairs, or animals, with a river in the valley below and a difficult, if not impossible, ascent on the far side. I clambered ahead to satisfy myself that there was no way through, and after careful examination I decided to order a retreat. Mr. Chan was obviously pleased, and said that no doubt now I would overcome my prejudice to the railway, as the road to Ami-chow was the only route left for us. But I again disappointed him by telling him that I proposed to go back one day's march and try eastwards again. So we returned the following day to Chu-yuan, and thence I was more successful and reached Chiu-pei in four days' stages, in spite of much opposition.\n\nThe road to Ch'in-psi was the highest part of my journey in Yünnan.\n\nAt Huang-Ji-baiso, a small village, in which we put up for the night, two stages before reaching Ch'iu-pei, the altitude above sea-level was 6,810 feet. Villages were not frequent along this route, and the majority of the villages were inhabited by Lolo \"savages,\" who cultivated the land in the immediate vicinity of the villages, but left the steep hill-sides and the rest of the country in a state of original wildness.\n\nAt Ch'iu-pei Taoyin Ho, of Mengtzu, met me and travelled with me for the remaining eleven days to Hokow (198 miles). His health was far from good, and he travelled huddled up in his chair, complaining of the hardships of travel and of the weather, which was far from propitious, the heavy rains being just at the commencement of their season. He also pressed me to go to Mengtzu, there to take the train for the rest of the journey. He expressed himself anxious on my behalf because of the bands of brigands which infested the south-east corner of the province, and pointed out that if I did not tell him my route in detail, he could not clear the brigands away before our arrival; but I suggested that it would be far better to take the brigands quite unawares and to capture the whole band with the aid of our brave escort.\n\nFrom Chiu-pei to Kaihua (65 miles) the country was rough and mountainous. The principal cultivation in this district is an astringent root, the local name of which is \"three-seven,\" from the fact that the root is only useful for commercial purposes between its third and its seventh years. It is cultivated in large covered enclosures, and much care is given to its cultivation, dogs and cats being kept within the enclosures to keep down rats and other vermin which find the \"san-chi\" root good to eat.\n\nAt Chiang-na, one stage before Kaihua, I was unfortunate in missing by half a day only Mr. F. Brown, of the Carnegie Terrestrial Magnetism Mission. Mr. Brown had travelled much in Yünnan this spring, and was then on his way from Bhamo to Canton, via Ssumao, Mengtzu, Kaihua, Pose. Mr. Brown's route lay from west to east. I later received a letter from Mr. Brown, informing me that he had seen no opium poppy cultivation anywhere on his various routes in Yünnan. The missionaries resident at Kaihua, Messrs. Boyd and Lewer, also informed me that they frequently visited the villages on the Kaihua plain, but had seen no opium-poppy cultivation there this spring.\n\nVillagers on this part of my journey complained of lack of rain: the very skimpy crops testified to the state of drought which I found along a considerable tract of country in Eastern Yunnan. But the country itself is so stony and full of rocks that even with favourable weather conditions crops could never be anything but poor. Among the rough hills I occasionally saw Lolo women planting out paddy. Goitre is very prevalent in this district, especially among women. Beyond Kaihua, to Ma-kuan (40 miles), the country was still very hilly and villages were few and far between, and cultivation thin and poor. A great deal of pine scrub thinly covers the country in this district. Crops now included sugar-cane.\n\nThe rainy season was now setting in in earnest, and we were on the point of descending from the Yunnan plateau to the valleys near the Tonkin border, notorious for its fever and malaria. Coolies were daily falling out sick; and the Taoyin again endeavoured to induce me to change the route in the direction of the railway. I was obdurate, however, and by pressing on managed to reach Hokow, 93 miles from Makuan, in four days.\n\nfort close to the Tonkin\n\nOn the second day we reached Hsin-tien, a Chinese frontier. The height here above sea-level was 4,420 feet. Next day we commenced to descend, rapidly reaching tropical heat and vegetation. Putting up for the night in a small Lolo village, we were able to arrive on the following evening at Hokow, which town adjoins the French town of Laokai. The inhabitants of the country between Hsin-tien and Hokow are chiefly frontier tribes; the country is wild and uncultivated, except in the immediate vicinity of the villages. Some maize was being grown in the lower country.\n\nIn my direct route through Eastern Yünnan I traversed 484 miles. This does not include the excursions I made each evening from our day's destination. I saw no opium-poppy cultivation, nor did I see many signs of fields from which poppy may have been uprooted prior to my arrival. I am of opinion that in any case Eastern Yunnan is a particularly poor and arid country; that it is sparsely inhabited by a very poor type of\n\n[2729 k-1]\n\nE",
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I told him that in that case I would myself write to the governor and explain matters, which I eventually did, when I arrived at Anshun.\n\nMr. Shen now presented me with a map, requesting that I would mark off my route through Kueichow, so as to enable him to warn the various local officials to make suitable preparations to receive me. I told him that I regretted being unable to do so, as I myself did not yet know my route beyond two or three days' journey. I assured Mr. Shen that I was quite prepared to take the roads or paths and the accommodation just as I found them, and that he need not disturb his mind on those scores.\n\nFrom Tsun-yi to Ch'ien-hsi (98 miles) the country becomes rough and mountainous, the general elevation at Ch'ien-hsi being over 4,000 feet above sea level. Hills are very rugged and steep, and the area is generally less cultivable than in the Tsun-yi district. As a natural result, population is scantier and more dispersed; quite a large proportion of the inhabitants in the Ch'ien-hsi district are aborigines of the Miao tribes. I found very much the same conditions with regard to crops as I had found between Sungkan and Tsun-yi: beans, rape, and peas, with several suspiciously cropless fields.\n\nThe best Kueichow opium was that from the Ch'ien-hsi district, and Sir Alexander Hosie, in his journey across Kueichow province some years ago, observed a considerable number of fields of opium poppy in flower in the Ch'ien-hsi neighbourhood. But all had been swept clean this year.\n\nAt Ch'ien-hsi, where I arrived on the 15th April, I met the priest Père Fortunat. He was able to definitely explode the Chungking story regarding poppy flowers in Kueichow, for he himself had accompanied Père Grimard to Chungking on the journey which had given rise to the Chungking statement. Père Fortunat told me that in January they had seen very many fields of young opium poppy plants, but none were in flower. Similar stern measures to those in other parts of the province with regard to suppression of opium poppy had been taken in the Ch'ien-hsi district; but had there been no suppression the 1917 spring crop of opium poppy in the Ch'ien-hsi district would have been a record one, according to Père Fortunat. The steps taken to eradicate the poppy crops were very thorough. After the crops had been uprooted and destroyed the fields were ploughed and ploughed and ploughed again, so that no trace should remain which the official inspection might reveal. I understand that the Chinese Government had promised the death penalty to any magistrate in whose jurisdiction the official inspection should discover a single opium poppy plant.\n\nAs a result of the destruction of the Kueichow crop, Kuang-hsi opium was finding its way into Kueichow, and was selling at the high price of 3 taels (ounces) of silver per oz. Père Fortunat told me that many of the Ch'ien-hsi officials are regular opium smokers.\n\nPère Fortunat has been nine years in the province of Kueichow. He told me that in his experience the end of April or the beginning of May is the usual time for the flowering of opium poppy in the greater part of the province, i.e., in the highland plateau; and the middle of April for the few districts which are lower and therefore warmer; such districts are in the north-west and south-west corners of the province.\n\nThe Chinese delegates evidently expected that I should proceed from Ch'ien-hsi still westwards to Pi-chieh and Ta-ting; and I was informed that deputies had arrived from the Taoyin of Pi-chieh and the magistrate of Ta-ting to welcome me, and to inform me that the Taoyin and the magistrate would meet me on the road on the following day. I had decided to change the route southwards, so I expressed my regrets to the deputies accordingly. My declaration as to route brought Mr. Shen to my quarters in a hurry. There was no proper road in the direction I proposed to go; there was an enormous lake to be crossed, and there were no boats; brigands were numerous, the Ch'ien-hsi magistrate had himself had a serious encounter with a body of them on the previous day; and, finally, Mr. Shen himself was not feeling well, and the hardships of such a route would be too much for him. I expressed suitable regrets for all these little difficulties, but announced my intention of at least starting on the route I had prescribed.\n\nMr. Shen's forebodings were partly correct; there was nothing that could be reasonably called a road over most of the 30 miles which separated us from my objective—a town called Ch'a-tien. The \"enormous lake\" turned out to be a tributary of the river Wu; we scrambled over it with the aid of two or three small cockle-shells of boats. But it was one of the hardest days' marches of the whole trip.\n\nHeavy rain did not improve matters much. Our last 7 miles were taken over very rough hilly country in pitch darkness and pouring rain, and I was glad to squeeze into the shelter of an inferior temple at Ch'a-tien. From Ch'ien-hsi to Anshun (107 miles) the country was very rough and hilly. The interior of Kueichow is a highland of an average of 4,000 feet in altitude, with myriads of conical hills, 1,000 to 2,000 feet in height, covering the highland plateau. It is through, round, and over these hills that the \"roads\" and the path trucks go.\n\nOn the road between Ch'ien-hsi and Anshun I saw many fields bearing signs of the recent removal of crops, in some fields of mixed crops, rape and barley intermingled; there were occasional signs that a third plant had originally been sown with rape and barley, but that it had recently been uprooted and removed. In the neighbourhood of Hsiung-chia-ch'ang such signs were frequent, and in one or two places in the hills I observed still smouldering fires which had been used to destroy vegetable matter, and I could not but suspect that the vegetable matter had been young poppy plants, in its vegetable existence.\n\nAt Anshun I met Dr. Fish, of the China Inland Mission, who is in charge of a special hospital for the aboriginal tribe which are particularly numerous in the neighbourhood of Anshun. Dr. Fish was of opinion that in the immediate vicinity of Anshun City there were no opium-poppy fields in plant, if indeed any at all had been sown, and this was borne out by my own observation. The crops round Anshun were legitimate enough, and there was an absence of the suspicious gaps in the fields which I had observed further back on the road. This may have been due to the personality of the Anshun magistrate, Mr. Wang, whom I found to be a superior type of magistrate.\n\nFrom Anshun I took a devious route to Nan-lung (formerly called Hsing-yi); the distance was 141 miles, and took one week. I particularly wished to visit Nan-lung, in order to meet Mr. Jamieson, a Chinese inland missionary who had recently been writing letters to the Shanghai press on the subject of opium cultivation in the Nan-lung district.\n\nFor the first 70 miles from Anshun the country is high and covered with rugged hills. I was not keeping to any recognised route, and on one or two days the going was very difficult; on occasions we were obliged to find a track by keeping up or down the dry bed of a mountain torrent. There are many aboriginal tribes—Miao and Lolo—in this part of Kueichow; they live by agriculture. Their villages are invariably placed a little way off the path or track, no doubt owing to their suspicion of the Chinese, and possibly of each other. A fair amount of the hill land is under cultivation.\n\nAt Chen-ning, 20 miles from Anshun, I called on Père Roux, of the Roman Catholic Mission. Père Roux has been forty-eight years in Chen-ning, and is almost the oldest inhabitant of the town. He told me that strongly-worded proclamations for the suppression of the opium poppy crops were posted in Chen-ning and district in January of this year, and that special deputies were despatched from the capital of the province to assist the local officials in seeing that the orders in the proclamations were carried out. Crops were accordingly uprooted and destroyed, and the fields were ploughed up so as to remove every trace of poppy. One man was shot because his ploughing was deemed insufficient. After the destruction of the poppy crops, the magistrate offered a reward of $1 a plant to anyone who could discover a poppy plant in the district; he ordered every man, woman, and child to go out and search. Schools (including the Roman Catholic Mission school) were closed in order to permit the school children to go out and assist in the search. A few stray plants were found in this way, and the owner of the land on which they were found was fined in order to provide money for the promised rewards. The magistrate had shown himself almost too energetic in his measures of suppression; in cases where a poppy plant was found in a field of other plants, such as rape or barley, he had the whole field destroyed. He had prohibited all opium-smoking, and had closed the opium shops. Such opium as was sold in Chen-ning was Kuang-hsi opium, and the price was excessive—4 taels per oz.\n\nNearing Nan-lung the country became more rough and not so fertile; there was scarcely any cultivation on the hill slopes at all; while the red sand and earth, which is a feature of the south-west corner of China, began to appear. Crops were poor, and consisted chiefly of peas and barley. Some rape, about 4 feet high, was well grown.\n\n[2729 -1]",
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        "content_text": "60\n\n[3.38 contd.)\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n(6) The master of every vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosives, and whilst engaged in the transshipment of the same, shall exhibit a red flag at the highest masthead.\n\nVessel not to anchor within 500 yards of any other Vessel.\n\nMode of proceeding when ad.\n\n(7) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosives to anchor, such vessel within 500 yards of any other vessel, except by permission of the Harbour Master.\n\n(8) The master of every vessel about to take on board as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives shall give notice to the Harbour Master, and shall take the said vessel into the Gunpowder Anchorage or into such other anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and shall not remove therefrom, except for the purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbour Master.\n\nNo gunpowder to be shipped, etc., at night.\n\nLimit of storage without written permission.\n\nSearch warrant.\n\nRegulations for carrying out provisions of s. 38.\n\n(9) No gunpowder or other explosives shall be shipped, landed, or transshipped, within the waters of the Colony, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from October to March inclusive, or between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except with the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.\n\n(10) It shall not be lawful for any person, without the permission in writing of the Governor, to keep, except at the Government Gunpowder Depôt, for any time, however short, any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives: Provided, nevertheless, that any person may keep for his private use only, and not for sale, any quantity of gunpowder not exceeding 20 pounds and any number of safety cartridges not exceeding 5,000.\n\n(11) Where any Stipendiary Magistrate has reasonable grounds for believing that any gunpowder or other explosive is kept on board any vessel, or in any house or place, in contravention of this section, he may grant a warrant to any police officer to enter the same, thereupon such officer may so enter and, if necessary, break into the premises and search the same.\n\n(12) The Governor-in-Council is hereby empowered to make regulations for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this section, and for the movement, carriage, landing, shipment, and transshipment of explosives, and the precautions to be taken in connection therewith, and to fix the sums chargeable for the storage of gunpowder, safety cartridges, or other explosives. Every violation or neglect of any such regulations shall render the party so offending liable to the penalties imposed by sub-section (14).\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n553\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n61\n\n(13) The sums charged in respect of the storage of such gunpowder or other explosives shall be paid monthly by the party in whose name the same is or are stored, and, in the event of non-payment within 21 days after the money has become due and payable, it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct the said gunpowder or other explosives to be sold in order to defray the expense of storage, and the proceeds thereof, after deducting all Government charges and the expenses of sale, shall be paid to the party who proves himself entitled thereto to the satisfaction of the Governor.\n\n(14) Every person who violates, or refuses or fails to comply with, any provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 300 dollars, or to imprisonment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding 6 months.\n\n(15) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.\n\nNo. 1 of 1878.\n\nships of war\n\n(16) Nothing in this section shall apply to His Majesty's ships of war, or to the ships of war of any foreign nation, or to hired armed vessels in His Majesty's service or in the service of any foreign nation, or to any Government stores.\n\nsuchorage.\n\n(17) The expression \"Gunpowder Anchorage\" means the anchorage on the south side of Stonecutters Island, to the west of a line from which the White Rock bears north and to the north of a line from which the shears at the Kowloon Naval Yard bear east.\n\nPART IX.\n\nSTEAMSHIPS NOT EXCEEDING SIXTY TONS AND RIVER STEAMERS.\n\nSteamships not exceeding Sixty Tons.\n\nnot to ply for\n\n37.-(1) It shall not be lawful for any steamship not exceeding 60 tons to ply for hire to, from, or between any places in the waters of the Colony, unless she has obtained a licence as hereinafter provided; and in case any such steamship is so employed as aforesaid without such licence, the owner, master, or person in charge thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars: Provided that if such steamship has obtained a certificate of imperial or colonial\n\n• As amended by No. 3 of 1903, No. 5 of 1905, No. 0 of 1900, No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1912, No. 51 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 49 of 1912 Supp. Sched.",
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        "content_text": "118\n\nMaintenance.\n\nInspection.\n\nLiability to dues.\n\nTime of payment.\n\nRiver steamers.\n\nPlaces of officers and men when explosives received or discharged.\n\nProhibition of use of charcoal, etc.\n\nProhibition of smoking, etc.\n\nDischarge of cargo.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nwarping purposes, provided such buoys and moorings shall not, under any pretence whatever, be used for any other purpose than warping.\n\n2. All moorings and buoys shall be kept and maintained in good condition and in proper position by the owners thereof and at their own expense.\n\n3. It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to inspect and require repairs if necessary to be effected to any buoys and moorings and to require the same if necessary to be relaid and removed.\n\n4. It shall be lawful for the owner of any buoy and moorings so sanctioned as aforesaid to permit other vessels to make use of the same on such terms as he may think fit.\n\nTable P.\n\n[as. 82 (1) & 48 (8).]\n\n LIGHT OR OTHER DUES.\n\n1. All ships which enter the waters of the Colony, except British and foreign ships of war, shall pay the following dues, viz. —\n\n2 cents per ton.\n\n2. Such dues shall be paid either at the time of entry or at the time of clearance.\n\n3. All river steamers which enter the waters of the Colony by day or by night, shall pay five-sixths of a cent per ton.\n\nTable Q.\n\n[s. 30 (12).]\n\nRULES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER AND EXPLOSIVES IN THE GOVERNMENT GUNPOWDER DEPOT.\n\n1. The officers and men belonging to a Government Gunpowder Depôt and to every vessel receiving, or discharging explosives out of or into such depot, shall, unless cause is shown to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, be at such dépôt and on board such vessel.\n\n2. During the time that explosives are being received or discharged, no person shall, in a depôt or on board of any vessel receiving or discharging the same, or engaged in transshipment thereof, have or use any charcoal or other combustible matter or any fire or naked light.\n\n3. During such time as aforesaid, no person shall smoke in a depôt or on board of any vessel receiving or discharging explosives or engaged in transshipment thereof, nor shall any person in a depôt or on board of any such vessel be employed about any work other than and except the receipt, discharge, or transshipment aforesaid.\n\n4. The cargo of every vessel employed in the transshipment of explosives shall, on her arrival at the depôt, be immediately discharged by the owners or consignees of such cargo and shall be then delivered into the depôt, and if the owner or consignee of such cargo fails in doing so, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or his deputy to have the same discharged and delivered into the depot at the expense of the said owner or consignee.\n\n5. When explosives are being received into or discharged out of the depôt, the owner or the consignee of the same shall attend at the depôt, or shall send a responsible representative instead, and any question which may arise as to the number or weight of cases or kegs received at or delivered out of the depôt shall be decided at the time by such owner or his representative, and the officer in charge of the depôt, who shall if necessary refer the same to the Harbour Master.\n\n6. No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Harbour Master, open any package in a depôt.\n\n7. With reference to section 36 (10) of this Ordinance prohibiting the keeping of more than 20 lbs. of gunpowder on land, it is hereby directed that such gunpowder shall not be kept in any package other than one composed of zinc, copper, or brass, and that the said package shall be placed in a safe and convenient position beyond the reach of fire, or accidents from lights, etc.\n\n8. During the time any explosives are waterborne in the waters of the Colony on board of any vessel, either for the purpose of, or in the course of, carriage, landing, shipment, transshipment, or movement from one place to another, or otherwise, they shall be protected either by being stowed under hatches, or by being covered with serviceable tarpaulins, and no fires or naked lights shall be made or used on board any such vessel unless the said explosives are stowed under hatches, and the said vessel shall display a red flag, and, unless intending to leave the waters of the Colony, shall proceed without delay or interruption or anchoring to her destination.\n\nTable R.\n\n[s. 38 (12) & 43 (8).]\n\nSCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER AND SAFETY CARTRIDGES IN THE GOVERNMENT DEPOTS.\n\nPackages containing 25 lbs. and less of loose gunpowder.... 7 cents\n\nPackages containing 25 lbs. and less of gunpowder in tins, 10 cents\n\nPackages containing more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs. of loose gunpowder, .... 14 cents\n\nPackages containing more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs. of gunpowder in tins,............. 16 cents\n\nPackages containing 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. of gunpowder in tins, 20 cents\n\nPackages containing 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. of loose gunpowder, 22 cents\n\nPackages containing 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. of loose gunpowder, 26 cents\n\nPackages containing 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. of gunpowder in tins, 27 cents\n\n*As amended by G. 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        "content_text": "58\n\nwho hold the principal British shipping insurance and trading agencies, suggest that they are British, but this is not the case. The sole partner, although British Vice-Consul, is a naturalised Frenchman, and the firm has no London house. Other French houses who act as representatives of British interests are:-\n\nLa Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient.-Agents for Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co., the British-India S.N. Co., the Indo-China S.N. Co., and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nL. Ogliastro et Cie.-Agents for the P. & O., and many British fire and marine insurance offices.\n\nDenis Frères. An important import house, one of whose partners acts as H.M. Vice-Consul in Haiphong, and also represents the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank at that port.\n\nOther firms transacting a considerable business in piece goods are:-Berthière Frères, Berli et Cie., and Dumarez Frères.\n\nAs regards shipping, the British interests occupied, before the war, a leading position. In 1914, of the total steam shipping of all nationalities entered and cleared at the port of Saigon the British share was 36 per cent. The figures of the ships cleared under the four leading flags were:-\n\nBritish 219 vessels of 609,498 tons.\n\nFrench 145 \" 483,417 \"\n\nJapanese 53 \" 162,030 \"\n\nGerman 53 \" 126,914 \"\n\nOther British interests active in the colony under French representation were the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., and the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Ltd. The Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Ltd., maintain a considerable British staff in the operation of the important transmitting station at Cap St. Jacques.\n\nGerman Activity. The direct import of German manufactures before the war was very small, and in 1914 totalled £59,517., consisting in the main of rice-milling machinery, copper manufactures, toys, porcelain, belting, lampware, needles, &c. The direct importations from Austria during the same year amounted to only £4,140., of which bentwood furniture accounted for £3,551.\n\nThe firm of Speidel & Co., registered in Paris for purposes of business, possessed branches in Saigon, Pnom Penh and also in Tonking, and was one of the most active import houses in the colony. This firm, which acts as the representative of the Central Agency, Ltd, was the largest importer of piece goods into Saigon, and was the first European house to exploit the Cambodian market.\n\nA large and lucrative business was also transacted in engineering and hardware. They have now been closed and the staff interned, but the extent of their operations will be seen from the fact that they held a stock of 2,300 packages of piece goods (French and British) which the French Government are not liquidating at present for fear of depressing the market. Messrs. Fried, Engler & Co., of Frankfurt, also conducted a considerable import trade. In addition two important steam rice mills were operated by German firms.\n\nUpon the outbreak of war, however, all German subjects were interned, their businesses were placed in liquidation, and it is extremely unlikely that they will be permitted to resume their activities for a considerable period after the war. Anti-German feeling runs very high in the colony, especially as the native risings in the north of Tongking and the Laos States, which occurred shortly after the outbreak of war, were attributed to German propaganda.\n\nThe Swiss firm of Diethelm & Co., Ltd., of Zürich, Singapore and Bangkok conducts a considerable trade in rice and other produce.\n\nCustoms Duties.-The tariff in force in Indo-China is the general French tariff with certain slight modifications to meet the peculiar needs of the colony. In the principal items of manufactured goods the duties are practically the same as those operating in France, which have been estimated by the Board of Trade in 1904 to average 34 per cent. ad valorem.\n\nImports from the United Kingdom were, before the war, charged on the basis of the minimum tariff applicable to the goods of nations enjoying \"the most favoured nation clause,\" provided that the goods were shipped direct without transhipment. This had the effect of excluding Singapore and Hong Kong trade from this privilege,\n\n59\n\nand resulted in the imports from the United Kingdom being entirely carried by the steamers of the Messageries Maritimes.\n\nOwing to the shortage of shipping since the war, the French Government has decreed that for the period of hostilities goods exported from the United Kingdom to Indo-China in British, French or Japanese vessels, whether transhipped at Singapore or Hong Kong or not, will be accorded the privilege of minimum tariff treatment provided that they are accompanied by the necessary authorisation and certificate of origin from the French Consul-General in London. I am informed that stocks in Singapore may also obtain the privilege of minimum tariff treatment provided that a certificate of origin is obtained from the Chamber of Commerce and vised by the French Consul. This has had the effect of stimulating the sales of piece goods to Saigon by British Singapore houses, some of which have sent representatives to the market and have made sales from stock. If this privilege can only be permanently secured after the war, it would conduce to some expansion of British trade with the colony.\n\nShipping. So far, the only direct service between Europe and Saigon is that of the Messageries Maritimes. Vessels of this company sail fortnightly from Marseilles, carrying mails, passengers and cargo without transhipment. The bulk of the United Kingdom trade with the colony has been shipped in the weekly Messageries steamers from London to Marseilles, and there transhipped into the Eastern steamers.\n\nConditions of Sale in Saigon.-The local piece goods market is at Cholon, which is situated three miles from Saigon, but is connected by tramway. The business is entirely in the hands of Chinese dealers, but, unlike Singapore, only a few of the larger dealers deal direct with the European firms, and these dealers supply the smaller merchants. Owing to competition among the European firms, these larger dealers received credits from four to six months and upwards, but since the outbreak of war all business has been conducted on a cash basis without any failures resulting, and the market is in quite a healthy financial position.\n\nThe three principal dealers are:-\n\nChun Heng Chan, 39-41, Rue Lareynière;\n\nMeng Keng, 33, Quai de Mytho-Cholon; and Kwong Soon.\n\nThe first two houses have no branches at Singapore, but the last named has a branch at that port under the style of Eng Guan.\n\nThese merchants are all reported upon favourably by the local British banks, and are accustomed to foreign trade. They prefer, wherever possible, to purchase their goods from stock in Saigon currency, duty and all charges paid.\n\nTypes of Textiles in demand. The Annamites in Indo-China are usually dressed in plain bleached cloths, or else grey cloths dyed locally. Prints and coloured goods are taken only by the Chinese, and the trade in these goods is consequently of relatively minor importance. The Cambodians wear largely the same kind of clothing as the Annamites, but in the north of the country, along the Siamese border, sarongs, papoons and loongees are worn to some extent. Speaking broadly, with certain modifications in dimensions, many of the staple cloths on the Singapore market are suitable for Saigon; and it would therefore appear after the war that, if the market is to be developed by British houses, Straits firms are clearly indicated as being in an exceptionally favourable position. The prospects, however, depend entirely on future French fiscal policy.\n\nCurrency, &c. The currency of French Indo-China is on a silver basis, the unit being the piastre de commerce or dollar, divided into 100 centimes. This coin has a nominal value of two shillings, but its real value varies with the fluctuations of the silver market. The bank demand rate on London for the year 1914 averaged 1s. 10¾d. The French metric system of weights and measures is in force, although the Chinese picul (133⅓ lbs.) is largely used in the rice trade.\n\nConsular Representation.-H.M. Government is represented by a consul usually drawn from the ranks of the Siam Consular Service, and he is assisted by a vice-consul, a naturalised Frenchman, who is the sole partner in the firm of W. G. Hale & Co.\n\n2. Haiphong.\n\nThe town of Haiphong is the shipping port for Hanoi, Hai-duong and Nam-Dinh, the commercial centres of Tongking, and is situated on the delta of the Red River,\n\nPage 626",
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        "content_text": "6. Employment or experience from completion of education to present time\n\nMention each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving; and what salary, if any, you are now receiving.\n\n7. Professional qualifications (if any), and date at which each was obtained. Any military experience you have had should be stated here, with a note of any certificates, etc., obtained.\n\nI have been doing Berica! in an Jukend Revenne Your week.\n\nB.A. igile. Efice at a cakey of sof the schonend of Colcation Parching Certificat 1917.\n\n8. Referees\n\nGive the names and addresses of two referees. They should be responsible persons who know you well, either in private life or in business; and one at least should be well acquainted with you in private life. The names of distinguished persons should not be given unless they really know you well and the names of relatives or of those from whom you send testimonials should not be given.\n\n1. Name: E. I. Malorks J. A.\n\nAddress: Ehnsfield Tarkus Gosforth\n\nOccupation: Me. We-on-Tyne\n\n2. Name: R.4. Spence End T.P.\n\nAddress: \"Backworth Lodge Morthumber and Cottern Cogent.\n\nOccupation: \"Mistress of Method and Lady Superintendi Armstions College.\n\n9. Testimonials.\n\nGive on the opposite page the name, address, and occupation of the writer of each of your testimonials. Not more than six should be submitted, and they should as far as possible cover each stage of your career from your school onwards. The original testimonials and copies thereof should be sent. The former will be returned after inspection. Copies may be in MS., in print, or typewritten; and it is desirable that they should be on foolscap paper not larger than this form. Should the writer of a testimonial prefer to send it direct to the Private Secretary, there is no objection to his doing so.\n\nProf. Mark R. Bright\n\nhighfil bacation Newcastle -eu- Jgne 498 Post of Education at Arustrong College on the Rinversity & Durham.\n\nProf. Rennet's #. Vickers\n\n1 taboons Ave Newcastle-on-Jyne Prof of Wooden History at Armstrong the Thiversity of Darbam:\n\nProf. Albert Lathous\n\n72 Barrington Red Mweat-on-Syne Prof. of Modern Languages College in the Riversity of Durbam.\n\nMiss S.&. Dobson\n\n33 Sunbury Ave. West Desmond Newcastle. at Arustong др он-куха Head Mistress of Dame Allen's Endowed Girls School Ule? Lepe.",
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        "content_text": "# COPY\n\n**General Post Office**\n\nC.\n\nHong Kong, 23/9\n\nREC 25.10.1918. RED 26 OC 18\n\n\"I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th August and have duly noted that in future all communications should be addressed to the Ministry of Information,\n\n## 1. War Stories\n\nThis little book, which was written at the request of the Committee by Mr. B. James of the Education Department, has had a most gratifying reception. We have distributed 5000 copies and the book has reached even the most out of the way parts of China. Persons living in Mukden, Hunan, Honan have written to say that they could distribute copies. I have recently received a letter from Dr. Bowen, an American who is President of the Nanking University, asking me for 500 copies which he undertook to place in suitable hands. I regret to say that the book is now out of print but we have ordered a second impression and will supply you with 500 copies as requested when the new impression appears.\n\n## 2. Propaganda in Schools\n\nThis work has now been placed upon an organised basis. Regular instruction is given in all Hong Kong Schools on the subject of German atrocities and prizes are offered for the best essays on the subject. Every fortnight, copies of papers are distributed in accordance with a distribution list, of which I attach a copy. Copies sent to Mr. Ralphs are distributed by him to the vernacular grant-in-aid schools and the New Territory schools receive their copies through the Police. We believe that this regular instruction will have permanent results.\n\n## 3. Story Tellers\n\nWe have now in our employment ten story tellers and this mode of propaganda has been most successful. Our men made 76 voyages during last month on river steamers plying between this port and Canton, Macau, and Kong Moon.\n\nOn one occasion, one of our men happened to travel on the same boat as the Chinese Commissioner of Police at Kong Moon; he was so interested in the stories that he invited the man to land and lecture under his protection at Kong Moon. Lectures at Kong Moon are now being regularly given. In the same way, a Portuguese gentleman heard one of our men on the way to Macau and asked him to lecture and took him to the Portuguese Captain of Police and obtained from him permission to lecture. I have now made arrangements with the Macau Authorities whereby our lecturers, when going to Macau, present their passes at the Portuguese Consulate here and obtain a visa, and then obtain a police pass as a matter of course at Macau. The lectures at Macau have been so popular that I have had to send two extra men on Sundays so that they may lecture in shifts. This week, the stories are on the subject of the German cruelties in Roumania and the manner in which they have taken away all \"the rice\" and will not allow the Roumanians to eat. The aggregate audience who listen to our men is about 30,000 a month.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nMarch 18.]\n\n27902 SECTION 1.\n\n[12432]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nTRET\":\n\nRF 9 MAY 19\n\nSir J. Jordan to Earl Curzon.-(Received March 18.)\n\n(No. 45.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, January 29, 1919. IN my despatch No. 530 of the 5th December, 1918, I had the honour to review the position respecting the remaining stocks of Indian opium lying at Shanghai, and to acquaint you of the decision finally reached by the Chinese Government to effect their destruction. This decision has now been carried out; the 1,200 odd chests of opium have been publicly burnt in specially constructed kilns at Pootung, and the ashes have been dissolved in the waters of the Yangtsze River. The contents of the chests were carefully re-examined by native and foreign experts, and, with the exception of a small number of balls which had obviously been matured some years ago, there was found to be no shortage. Accusations of fraud which have been brought against the authorities by interested persons have been proved to be without foundation, and there appears no doubt that the work of destruction was carried out with thoroughness.\n\nAs your Lordship is aware it had always been anticipated that on the expiration of the 1911 agreement surplus stocks would be left at Shanghai, the disposal of which in China could no longer be permitted. It was the wish of Lord Grey, as conveyed to me in his despatch No. 268 of the 24th September, 1914, that these surplus stocks should be entirely removed from Chinese territories, and a warning to this effect was conveyed to the opium merchants. Agreements made behind the backs of His Majesty's legation between ex-President Feng Kuo Chang and the opium combine at Shanghai greatly complicated the problem. Full particulars of these transactions were reported from time to time; I would refer more especially to the despatches from this legation No. 74 of the 26th February, 1917, No. 224 of the 24th July, 1917, No. 451 of the 30th September, 1918, and No. 490 of the 1st November, 1918. There is no doubt that it was the personal avarice of Feng Kuo Chang that was responsible for this backsliding from the steady policy of suppression followed by Yuan Shih-kai. Eventually, after the assumption of office by Hsu Shih Chang rendered more hopeful the prospects of a clean policy in this matter, I made the offer reported in my despatch No. 530 of the 5th December last to take back the 1,200 odd chests on behalf of the Government of India at the price of 3,000 rupees per chest. Hsu Shih Chang, who has shown himself to be an enlightened ruler, is doing his utmost to return to the policy initiated by President Yuan, and rigorously enforced during the first seven or eight years of the suppression campaign. In spite of opposition he has maintained firmly his decision to make the full sacrifice of public destruction. This means a loss to the Chinese Government, at a time when they can ill afford it, of over 4,000,000l., representing the present value of the drug inside China. No such wholesale destruction of opium has taken place since the burning of 20,291 chests seized from foreign merchants by Commissioner Lin in 1839. A protest was made against the burning by certain sections of the community, who considered it would have been better to present the stocks to the Allied Red Cross, but this appeal was rejected as being unnecessary, the world supply of opium being already sufficient for legitimate demand. It was also pointed out that the Chinese Customs have been for some time handing over to the Allied Red Cross large quantities of the drug seized by them, and were continuing to do so. The Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai stated he had presented to the Allied consuls-general 126 lb. of morphia, 150 oz. of cocaine, and 4,589 catties of opium, which had been confiscated from smugglers. But the main reason of the Chinese Government in adhering to its decision was to make a decided impression both in China and abroad, to give an effective reply to the official protests of Great Britain and America, to convey a warning to the Chinese themselves that the Government was in earnest in its policy of suppression, and to demonstrate to the Powers assembled at the Peace Conference that China had done with the sins of the past, and was prepared to co-operate in the future work of progress and reform. The 5,000,000 taels of bonds issued to the combine in payment for their stocks, which the Chinese Government are pledged to redeem at\n\n[2877 -1]",
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        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[111282]\n\n471\n\nCO 48823\n\n[August 2.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nRECD\n\nRon122 AUG 19\n\nSir J. Jordan to Earl Curzon.-(Received August 2.)\n\n(No. 260.)\n\nPeking, June 11, 1919.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 176 of the 30th April last and to subsequent despatches on the subject of the recrudescence of poppy cultivation in the province of Szechuan, I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a despatch written by Mr. Teichman from Tachienlu reporting the result of his personal observations during his journey between that place and Chengtu.\n\nMr. Teichman furnished conclusive evidence that this opium cultivation is carried on openly at the direct instigation of the Chinese officials whose duty it is to suppress it.\n\nI have the honour to enclose copy of a letter, which I have addressed to the Wai-chiao Fu, bringing the facts to their notice; but I fear that the Chinese Government has not the strength, if it has the will, to adopt the only effective remedy, namely, the removal and punishment of the military governors responsible for the present state of affairs.\n\nI am sending a copy of this despatch to the Government of India.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n1+\n\nMr. Teichman to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 14.)\n\nTachienlu, April 27, 1919.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to my immediately preceding despatch reporting my return to Tachienlu and impending departure for Peking, and in connection with the concluding portion of my despatch No. 9 of the 12th ultimo regarding the trade in opium and the cultivation of the poppy in the area controlled by General Ch'en Hsia-ling, I have the honour to report that on my journey back from Chengtu we found the entire length of the T'ung River valley (along which the road runs for two days' march-district of Luting), blazing with countless fields of red and white poppies in full bloom wherever the bays in the gorge permitted of cultivation. In most places fully a quarter of the land under cultivation was producing opium. This poppy cultivation (which I had failed to notice on my way down a month and a-half earlier owing to my being very unwell and to the plant not being in flower) is openly carried on without the least attempt at concealment right along this main route, which is one of the most important and most travelled of the big trunk roads of China; and the poppies were even thriving in the immediate vicinity and in full view of the magistrate's seat and the big Catholic Mission establishment at Luting Ch'iao itself. The local people told my servants that the neighbourhood was growing poppy for the first time for many years, and that the cultivation was encouraged by the officials who levied a tax of 28 rupees per Chinese acre of opium-producing land.\n\nMy statements about this opium cultivation, and the amazingly open way it is carried on, can be corroborated by Mr. Clements, of the China Inland Mission at Tachienlu, the Catholic missionaries, and by my own Pekinese servants.\n\nI shall try and secure some photographs of it on my way down.\n\nNo poppy cultivation whatever was to be seen for the first nine days' march out of Chengtu (i.e., while traversing regions controlled by the southern leader, Governor Hsiung Ko-wa); and we only came upon the opium after traversing the Fei Yueh Ling (pass) and entering the district of Luting, which forms part of the Szechuan frontier territory (Ch'uan Pien) controlled by General Ch'en Hsia-ling, who holds his appointment from and represents the Peking Government.\n\nThis poppy cultivation provides the Frontier Commissioner with the sinews of war to enable him to maintain his position, and to turn against the southern leaders in ...\n\n[540 b--1]\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]",
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        "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]",
        "content_text": "243\n\nTIK ...sonedðir v[ir snilo nettal El Toro\" .30\n\nor vlim¶ soiloq qirmi erð ei dołów „duvoonA 8.0\"\n\n[08 to pomeled e bewor'e Jnuonna asoned\n\n$\n\nnir Store 02. [27,38 #ey Jaronne -iFT .E[e! Tadra vo” cellos | Pitni ́e) sime eroiportet edusestqar7 Janokw\n\nArrien^A 5.0° menî, trucosâ S.e\" of ni bieq tom\n\n.(stromulond-\n\n„AL, TE, DR\n\n„mesdret eclot\n\n+\n\n.00 redouo at\n\nmadhuo\" slim Jiborð 162\n\ntrwoss> nestret : 30 te spreda i -am dnedavenpå act\n\nlist lator mira qet sourrolle virénom s leviaOST „tend 207 bergen er bestan od nove bioq staw eynixst\n\novo to ons net JA „resdmeü add to yllid end bieg\n\nMeð batnuome endid ni erue add\n\nmert Bome [mri mult annð al.30.00sk\n\n+\n\ner det megdmen vid nd habarier meet dry dom nær Jnuome\n\nnoéte er od njve 930,6 AX te un mate and to juo bieg\n\nin ii vtmoorje iva\n\nrdrasil on voce (\n\n*\n\nJADUT\n\ner molbars and „Todmevoll dd ́E add no\n\n20% ner's one _mo_no\" and 21 9167 såmuenos soifoq\n\n-;noitezog100\n\n#apters torto Jacopo f.off\n\n•\n\nT\n\nedmer: Cond. Iemonn59\n\n. 2.04\n\nepic meikni\n\n5.0\"\n\n6.PE\n\nSČIPM. IBMre12\n\n1.0%\n\n‚raidu-obni,died rent alderevaney vanoti . [ terowo”\n\nericni-brizards” bre\n\n.81\n\nnd ever neizdaroc svoje and not) Lemuter rostrogeû\n\n(Ved nete? ziur'd bee cod tiert od orar mert feamenit\n\n15 yil Boonevte sew more duvore siff „hing ad od ozle\n\nrend Jom bed bar stromyog apsid sam od anetquosod\n\n.babaanada or more testa veze'I\n\n19. Voucher 2. Cash advanced to Outstations. $81,325.00.\n\nThis sum represents petty cash advances to Police Stations to pay for incidentals. Each station has a fixed advance. Vouchers are sent in monthly to cover expenses incurred and the amount is transmitted to the Station to bring the advance up to the authorised amount in each case.\n\n20. Voucher 3. Petty Advances recoverable from Police Salaries Other Charges, &c. &c. $21,169.00.\n\nThis sum represents advances of salaries to Police Officers, chiefly Chinese, also cash advances made by Accountant for small incidental departmental expenses. I can find no special authority given to the Captain Superintendent of Police to make such advances but such authority must have existed as the practice was in vogue long before the present Accountant received his appointment in 1915. I personally cut these advances down excepting during the rice troubles when I made liberal advances of salary to Chinese Police to tide them over their difficulties. I now find, however, from a perusal of the advance forms, which I always initialled when sanctioned that a number were granted, unknown to me by the Assistant Superintendent of Police (Mr. Perdue) as a result of some misrepresentation. Further, the Accountant himself made a considerable number of private advances without my sanction and unknown to me which he recovered each month. The memos referring to them have only come to light since he absconded. The advances include secret service payments of rewards which in certain cases must be paid forthwith. All advances excepting secret service advances have now been stopped.\n\n21. Voucher 4. Outstanding Advances recoverable. $214.00.\n\nThe explanation is the same as in 20 except that these re-payments are instalments of advances authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n22.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n574 \n11820 \nColonial Office \n1930 \n\nLast previous Paper. \nFoot Cover 4 Mash/30 \n\nREAD \n470 \nC.O \n11820 \nRad 5 MAR 20 \n\nstorage of 02 Fuel \n\nCorrest with \nat \nH. | Cong \nO.D.C. regarding proposed site for \n\n£. \nMr. Collins \n\nPlease see attached \nCorner \nto mat \nthat although \n! \nfrom \nQ \nComenal Wilson has suggested \nAdem \nhave only asked for abo \ndefence point of view \n/ \nit would assist the O.D.C. \nknew the before them, \nif they \nwhen the matter comman views of the Col. Govt \nto Gov. accordingly \n\nSoma \n} \nGunmet \nthat \n> \nDft. Parenth \nshould be registered \nAffeten \n\nmight be \nRob \nand go to Sand. whom \ncuse \n\nI subsequent Paper. \n50883' \n1 \nb.) Wt. 5125—16 \nGene Wilson \n11:17 \nD&G 122/41. \n4/3/20 \nBeen, thank you \n8420.",
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        "content_text": "# sa 393 \n1921 \nHONG KONG \n134 \n40093 \n\n## DATE \n17 June \n\n## SUBJECT \nMr. Will Die Vraft ludemnity Bill \n\n## MINUTES \n\n20. Both What \n\nWillis__. \nDixon \n4. Grindle PT Colori \n\nMr. \nSir A. Lambert. \nSir H. Rad. \nSir G. Fiddes. \nDul. Amery. \nMr. Churchill. \n\n2. be copies of slightly amended draft, with explanatory remarks. Requests be copies \n\nFill \nBlue Book Reports referred to in draft bill \n\n## Previous Paper \nGov. \n38686 \nTha's \nKapus \nLas \nGOVER \nAbo \nSout \n\nbeen delayed \nMotid \nthe \nprecauzi \n* \nlali. \ncriculation. \nto this best of D. Lord \nthe alter attri \n& io mind them. \n\nAnd \n$ 4 \n3 (1) × 3(3) \n\nThe \nwtime \nin the \nRando \nuwde \nof the Yout \nthe control \nthe Colors of \nHory Kay have. \n(a) saját \nJh. 2. \n\nalterations and \nbeen Jorstid, \n(1) (top of p3), by the addition of \nthe word \"wistha m \ntehery of \nM.M.9. \nnot.\" \n\n## Subsequent Paper \n57935722 \n(876839) Wt. 38238/11 Gp. 183 \n\n18000 8-21 W && Ltd \n\n? To Mr Ehrhardt for obsues. \n2/9 \nomen (P.T.C.). \n\nI thank the alterations Ir apprord. \nmay",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Supplementary Estimates\n\n### Public Works Programme\n\nThe estimated expenditure under the programme now submitted is $38,790 - kerbing, and channelling numbers of streets in New Kowloon, mostly Kowloon City and some in Samshuipo; also scavenging lanes and slab pavings to footways make up a total of $70,000. A supplemental vote of $50,000 is required. The whole of this is caused by the rapid development of Samshuipo and a portion of Kowloon City Reclamation. The original amount was $30,550.\n\n**HON. MR. BIRD**: Is that work done by contract or measured up and paid for by schedule rate?\n\n**THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS**: By schedule rate. The slabs are supplied from our own quarries. The amount of it is owing to the very abnormal amount of building. It is a vote that keeps up with the building.\n\n**HON. MR. BIRD**: I presume all the measuring is checked by Europeans?\n\n**THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS**: It is checked two ways; not only checked off the plans but gone over by European overseers.\n\nApproved.\n\n### A Motor Truck for Opium Conveyance\n\n$2,145, on account of Imports and Exports Department, Special Expenditure, One Motor Truck.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: This is required by the Imports and Exports Department to convey opium from the factory to the office. The chassis cost $1,700 and the body was built by the Railway Department. It saves time, and the use of a launch.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Artificial Legs\n\n$760, on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, Artificial Legs.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: The $760 for obtaining the very best artificial legs that can be got. A man lost both his legs on the railway and the legs he got were very unsatisfactory and gave him a lot of pain. I believe. We decided to get the best; they are entirely satisfactory; very light and very strong.\n\nApproved.\n\n### A Hulk at Deep Bay\n\n$10,000, on account of Police and Fire Brigade, A.-Police, Special Expenditure, One Hulk.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: This matter has been considered by the Finance Committee. It is for the establishment of a hulk at Deep Bay instead of a land police station.\n\nApproved.\n\n### A Patrol Path in the New Territories\n\n$3,000, on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Communications, Patrol Path - Sheung Shui to Ta Ku Ling.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: This path was in the estimates for 1919 and again in 1920 but difficulties occurred as to an actual site. It has now been decided to make the path from Sheung Shui to the frontier at Ta Ku Ling. It is a 3 ft. path.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Miscellaneous Public Works\n\n$10,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Miscellaneous, (35) Miscellaneous Works.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: I circulated this vote to the Finance Committee. The proposal is to take a vote of $10,000 to cover all the expenditure of a number of small sums for miscellaneous works up to the end of the year. By the time the proposal was circulated, the vote was exceeded by nearly $1,000. Since then one of the members of the Committee expressed the view that they would like to know what all the items were. Up to now the items amount to $1,883; they include: converting a latrine at the Harbour Office, a safe and stand for the D.P.W's. office in which to keep valuable documents, ceiling fans at warder's mess-room, Victoria Gaol, alterations at the Armoury for the security of the arms. If members would like to reduce this vote, it could be cut down to $5,000 and I could circulate votes required from time to time.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**: How much will the unused balance be?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: Just over $70,000. Cut it down to $5,000; that may cover everything.\n\nThe vote was reduced to $5,000 and approved.\n\n### Harbour Improvements\n\n$2,500, on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Harbour Improvements.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: This is required in connection with the investigation now being made with a view to the report of Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice. The engineers were engaged on taking soundings and doing other work in the harbour requiring the following:- Rowing boat, sounding wire, anchor rod, tide gauges, buoys, pricking gear, hire of sampans and men and hiring a small junk. $250 is required to cover further items. The total only amounts to under $1,000 but various things arise in connection with this work and we do not want to delay it at all.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Communications Needed by New Building\n\n$13,700, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Hong Kong, Communications, (16) Roads (9) General Works.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: This is required in connection with the new building, completed or nearing completion. The position of the vote is: $60,000 has been provided in the estimates and the programme submitted and approved amounts to that. Now a second programme of work is required in connection with new building completed - kerbing, channelling, relaying kerbing, cement concrete walls, slab paving, etc., $13,700.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**: The time of the Finance Committee would be saved if a great many of these were circulated beforehand.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: I was afraid I was circulating too many things to the Finance Committee. I will have everything over a certain amount circulated.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n### The Quarry Workshop\n\n$6,000, on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Miscellaneous, Additional paving sheds, and extension of concrete pile moulding platform at Quarry Workshop.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**: This is in connection with the Quarry at Tsat-si-mui. There is a tremendous lot of work going on there. If members were to pay a visit there they would be much interested to see the work going on.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Re-Building Prison Shed at Lai-chi-kok\n\n$6,000, on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, Buildings, Re-building of certain prison sheds at Lai-Chi-Kok.\n\nApproved.",
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        "content_text": "502 \n\n32 \n\n22424 \n\non entertaining railway officials passing through Tsinan. It is only fair, however, to state that the present chief inspector of the Hanchuang Tsinan section, who is also assistant traffic manager for the whole line, is making an honest attempt to suppress bribery, and has dismissed several officials for this offence.\n\nIt is important to note that the obstacles to trade which I have endeavoured to describe in this report have been discovered by importers, namely, the large firms who spread an intensive organisation over the interior of China with a view to laying down their specialised products at the lowest possible price. The exporter must suffer equally severely from these obstacles, but he probably suffers in ignorance. The importer goes himself into the interior, and by means of his foreign brains, foreign enterprise and capacity for organisation, is able to a large extent to overcome these obstacles. The exporter with few exceptions remains in the treaty port and leaves the whole business of bringing cargo down from the interior to his compradore and Chinese staff. His own organising ability is not brought into play at all. But if the importer cannot sell his goods at a profit without going himself into the interior to grapple with difficulties of transport it would seem to follow that the exporter cannot buy his produce at a profit unless he does the same. It is a matter which needs careful consideration and it probably cannot be done without setting up an organisation on a very large scale, but I would suggest that the time has now come in China when the exporter should go up country after his cargo and no longer wait in the treaty port for his compradore to bring it down to him.\n\nThe faulty management of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway results in much traffic which might go along the railway being diverted to other channels. A vast amount of produce from the Yellow River districts, which should be transported by rail to Tien-tsin, is now brought overland from Lokow to Tsinan and shipped by the Japanese railway to Tsingtao for export, or else finds its way to the north by devious water routes. When one hears of cargo waiting at a wayside station for two months for cars it is certain that the produce of that district does not find its way to market by rail, and also that the district does not produce all that it might produce, both in kind and quantity, if the railway properly performed its full economic functions. This is a point on which the utmost emphasis should be laid. This report perforce deals with the question from the point of view of the foreign trader, but for every dollar which the foreigner loses through inefficient management of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway the Chinese themselves probably lose a thousand. There is no doubt that one of the main contributing causes of the disastrous famine now devastating North China is the lack of adequate transportation.\n\nI have made no mention of military interference with railways nor of the vast and burning question of taxation. I have confined myself solely to matters in respect to which it is within the power of the railway authorities to effect the necessary reforms of their own volition. Foreign-owned railways on Chinese soil succeed in avoiding most of the abuses here complained of, but I do not for a moment suggest that lines such as the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway should be placed under foreign control. That is no real solution of the problem. These railways run through Chinese territory and are for the benefit primarily of the Chinese people. The Chinese undoubtedly have sufficient ability to manage such undertakings efficiently, and there can be no reasonable doubt that in time they will succeed in doing so. The only permanent solution of this, as of other administrative problems in this country, is to assist the Chinese by expert advice and by friendly constructive criticism to set their house in order in the hope that China will gradually attain a standard of honesty and efficiency comparable with that of the nations thronging within her gates.\n\n## RAILWAY STANDARDISATION\n\nIn connection with the railway question, attention is called to the following resolution, which was passed unanimously:\n\nThat in view of the vast potentialities of railway development in China, and with special reference to the efforts now being made by the Chinese Government, with the assistance of an international advisory committee, to standardise the national railway system this conference regards it as a matter of primary importance that British engineering and technical skill, as applied to railway construction and equipment, should be adequately represented in this country, and commends this view to the careful consideration of manufacturers in the United Kingdom.\n\n## AIDS TO NAVIGATION\n\n### Wireless at Hong Kong\n\nIt was unanimously agreed:\n\n\"That in view of the fact that the Hong Kong Government has approved the use of diaphones and wireless position finders as used in European, American and Canadian waters, and intends shortly to install these at the approaches to Hong Kong Harbour, this Conference is of opinion that China, through the Maritime Customs, should similarly install such aids to navigation on the China coast.\n\nFurther, that weather signals and cable communications should also be considered in connection with the wireless position finders, more especially in view of the recent frequent stoppages of the Swatow-Hong Kong Shanghai Telegraph services, and that a sufficiently powerful wireless installation should be established at Swatow in conjunction with one at Hong Kong at the earliest possible moment to provide telegraphic and wireless communication with Hong Kong and other places which is at present inadequate.”\n\nIn moving this resolution Mr. Holyoak, on behalf of the Hong Kong Chamber, said:\n\n\"The main part of the resolution is a continuance of the resolution which was passed last year at the conference under the same heading. And immediately after the return to Hong Kong of the delegates the matter was taken up with the Hong Kong Government, and through them with the Home Government for the establishment in Hong Kong of diaphones and wireless position finders, and only a very few weeks ago permission was received to establish them in Hong Kong. We are now pressing for the full connection to be made with the Chinese coast in order that the greatest benefits to all may be obtained from these two most important things. It is unnecessary for me to dilate upon the necessity for every protection to shipping which can possibly be afforded in these waters, upon the immense amount of shipping which traverses them during the course of the year, nor upon the importance of the trade which is carried, nor upon the fact that the coast for several months in the year is about the most fog-bound coast in the world. These things are so well known to most of us as shipping men and merchants that it is quite unnecessary for me to argue at any length upon the importance of representing to the Chinese Government through the Maritime Customs the desirability of completing the chain which will be established by the installation of wireless in Hong Kong.\n\n\"The resolution falls under four headings: (1) the establishment of diaphones and wireless position finders in Chinese waters; (2) increased weather signals and communications along the coast: (3) establishment of increased cable service or a powerful wireless station at Swatow, and (4) the establishment of a wireless telegraph station of sufficient power at Hong Kong.\n\n\"I have raised the latter question because I understand there will be present in this room this morning one whom we all regard as an expert on this subject, and that with the permission of the Admiral, he will be allowed to speak upon it. The necessity for a wireless telegraph station at Swatow has been so amply demonstrated that I need not argue that point. Swatow has been cut off repeatedly for as long as four days, and even longer, from communicating with Shanghai and Hong Kong by telegraph. Therefore the matter of laying a submarine cable connecting Swatow or establishing a wireless station needs no further urging on my part.\n\n\"Upon the fourth part of the resolution, dealing with the establishment of a powerful station in Hong Kong, I have to point out that for the whole duration of the war it was increasingly forced upon us - all of us having to do with commerce - that communication is hopelessly insufficient with Europe or the United States of America. I know the war placed the matter in abeyance, but the war has been over for a long time, and even now communication with London and the United States takes as much as forty-eight hours and sometimes longer than that. It is a matter for experts to tell us whether it is practicable to establish so powerful a wireless...",
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        "content_text": "## Wanhsien\n\nWanhsien has practically ceased, for the consignees prefer to wait indefinitely for their cargo rather than incur the risk of piracy. It is more than likely, moreover, that the brigands and constabulary are working hand in glove.\n\nFor several months past, a state of anarchy has prevailed in Wanhsien. Conditions there were far from perfect while Lu Shih-ti and Tien Chung-ku were in residence; General Li was there, but with their departure for the front, things went from bad to worse. T'ien-tsai was directed by Tang Chi-yao to extend his jurisdiction to include Wanhsien, but when he attempted to follow this instruction, the entry of his troops was forcibly obstructed by the Hupeh Expeditionary Force, and a battle was fought for the possession of the city on the 8th and 9th July. Finally, General Li was persuaded to withdraw his forces and evacuate the Wanhsien district.\n\n## Ichang\n\nThe situation in Ichang towards the end of July, brought about by the arrest of Wo Kuang-hsin at Wuchang, was described in the summary for last quarter. For a short time, there was a serious danger that his troops, stationed in Ichang, would attack the local provincial forces, which were in inferior numbers; later, it was announced that the former would be taken over by the Governor of Hupeh and incorporated with his forces. To this, General Chang Chi-shan of the 13th Brigade, after some negotiation, agreed. General Fei Kuo-hsiang of the 4th Mixed Brigade declined to acquiesce, but resigned, leaving Ichang with a few fellow-officers of similar views. His troops have now been united with the provincial forces and are known as **Pu Chung Hupeh Ti Yi Lu**, 1st Hupeh Brigade for the Supply of Deficiencies.\n\nAfter his departure, Fei Kuo-hsiang endeavoured to bring about a mutiny amongst his former troops but completely failed. Orders have been issued for his arrest, and an unconfirmed report is current that he was caught and shot about the beginning of September.\n\nDuring the critical period, Wang Mou-shang, commander-in-chief of the provincial forces at Ichang, resigned on the ground of alleged illness. His resignation was refused, but he finally left the port early in August for Wuchang, whence he apparently declines to return.\n\n## Shase\n\nThe arrest of Wu Kuang-hsin naturally disturbed the situation at Shase, where a brigade of his troops under Liu Wen-ming was stationed. For some time, the usual apprehensions that they would mutiny and loot the place were entertained, and in some degree realised; on being marched by General Liu to Kung An, near the Hunan border, with the intention apparently of joining forces with the Southerners at Changsha, the troops refused to fall in with their leader's plans, mutinied, and looted the place. They then returned to Shase, which again passed through a period of nervous tension, until it was finally agreed that they should be given 10 dollars each, disbanded, and sent back to their homes.\n\n## Yang-tze River Traffic\n\nTwo new vessels, or rather two old vessels with new names and under new command, commenced trading between here and Chungking—the \"Weihsin\" and the \"Kirin\"—in August.\n\nJunk traffic on the Yang-tze is still almost at a standstill owing to the political situation and the illegal taxation imposed by the Southern military authorities on the river.\n\nConsiderable quantities of opium have come down from Szechuan during the quarter. The larger proportion is probably brought overland surreptitiously to a village on the Yang-tze, opposite Ichang, whence it is smuggled over at night and placed on the Lower River steamers. The customs appear to be constantly detecting and confiscating sampans engaged in the traffic. Two large seizures were made towards the end of the quarter: one of 5 piculs (666 lb.) on the \"Hungfu\" and another of 29 piculs (approximately 1 ton) on the \"Robert Dollar.\"\n\nWhilst the Chinese authorities continue to permit the cultivation of opium and will not enforce their own laws with a view to putting the trade in it down, it is impossible for steamers to prevent its being carried on them, and unjust to penalise them, providing the foreign officers are not implicated.\n\n## Mukden\n\nIn spite of the leading part taken by General Chang Tso-lin in the recent conflict for political supremacy at Peking, it cannot be said that, except in official circles, any great interest has been shown locally in the events at the capital or in Chang Tso-lin's own doings, though his prestige has naturally been enhanced here as elsewhere in China by the success of his party and the prominence which he has gained.\n\nChang has been severely criticised in the British press at Tien-tsin by reason of certain statements showing a pro-Japanese tendency and anti-British and American bias, which he would appear to have made at an interview given on the 16th August to Japanese journalists. The criticism was quite undeserved, for it was natural that his interviewers, being Japanese, he should have spoken in as friendly a manner as possible of Japan. Experience has proved to His Majesty's consul-general that there is no nation more disliked and distrusted by General Chang Tso-lin than the Japanese, and that if he has a preference for any foreign nation, it is for the Americans, whom he regards as China's most likely allies in the struggle which, in his opinion, is bound to come in the future between China and Japan.\n\nSince the Governor's return to Mukden, he has been holding a series of conferences with the Governors of Kirin and Heilungchiang, and the chief military and chief civil officials of the province. The following matters were discussed:\n\n| No. | Matter Discussed |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | The separation of military and civil affairs. |\n| 2 | The reorganisation of the army. |\n| 3 | The improvement of the civil administration, more especially by the careful selection of district magistrates. |\n| 4 | The suppression of brigandage and maintenance of order throughout Manchuria. |\n| 5 | The reformation of the currency. |\n| 6 | The settlement in Manchuria of famine refugees from Chihli. |\n\nIt has further been decided to increase the army by four brigades and to make the armies of the three Manchurian provinces into a single organisation.\n\nFamine refugees from Chihli province have been well received and cared for in Manchuria, and preparations are being made at Mukden to deal with many hundreds more who are expected to arrive during October. Although no public subscription has yet been opened for them, General Chang appears to be fully alive to the need of doing all he can and is sparing no expense in the matter.\n\nAnti-Japanese feeling in Manchuria has been considerably aggravated by the Shaw case, though in other respects, the Japanese are showing themselves more conciliatory to foreigners and seem to be genuinely anxious to obtain British and American co-operation in developing the industries of the province.\n\n## Nanking\n\nDuring the first half of the September quarter, brigandage was worse in the north of the province than it has been since the summer of 1917. This is attributable in part to the return from the South of large numbers of dispersed Northern soldiery, who found it difficult after their military career to settle down to a peaceful agricultural life and preferred to make a living by robbing their neighbours.\n\nThe brigands have learned, moreover, to concentrate on the safer and more profitable business of kidnapping well-to-do people and holding them for ransom. Towards the end of July, a French priest and a prominent native agent of the Standard Oil Company were carried off but were released unconditionally after much trouble.\n\nIn southern Kiangsu and Kiangan, piracy has flourished; in the latter district, an official salt depot was raided by pirates who had made off with a good deal of booty. Elsewhere, sudden raids have been made on prosperous market towns; the pirates invariably escaping before any troops appeared on the scene.\n\nThe authorities are still on the look-out for Bolshevik propaganda; rumours in connection with which are constantly arising. Nervous as the officials appear to be, there are so far no visible effects among the mass of the population, who perhaps hardly constitute a favourable soil for the reception of such ideas. Native secret societies have, however, sprung up; the principal one being known as the **Ching-hung Hui**, or Green and Red Society, the main subject of which is said to be assassination.\n\nAs a result of his reduction of provincial expenditure, the Military Governor, General Li Shun, hoped to save 200,000 dollars on the financial year; a saving which includes reduction on the allowance of each district for administrative expenditure, against which the magistrates continue obstinately to protest.\n\nIn connection with women's education in Kiangsu, the first national school for girls has been founded in Yangchow. Schools of every description—elementary,\n\nPage 600\nPage 601",
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        "content_text": "## 32\n\nCertain of those valleys were, however, too high for the cultivation of poppy, and, if I could have obtained any proper information on the subject, I would have taken another and lower route; but, on the whole, I think the numerous valleys which were sufficiently low for the cultivation of the poppy, and where, I am assured, three years ago it was the principal crop, were quite representative, and afforded good evidence of the vigorous action of the officials.\n\nAt Hofeng, I encountered considerable difficulty in persuading the delegates and the Hofeng magistrate that my proposed route was not only possible, but was the only route I intended to follow. The terrors of bandits, ferocious animals, uninhabited regions, impassable roads, and no stopping places were all paraded in their most awful forms. When, however, they were satisfied that there was only one way out of it, preparations for the road I proposed were made. Extra coolies to carry the rations for our bearers and extra baggage coolies were engaged, natives of the districts we were about to cross were requisitioned to act as guides, and certain members of the party, I think, commended their souls to God, for they feared the unknown.\n\nThis district did not, it is true, possess anything to boast of in the way of roads. Mountain tracks, up and down which no one had ever considered the possibility of taking a chair, were our portion. If the truth be told, however, the roads from Changyang to Changlo and thence to Hofeng were all of the same type, and seemed to be designed with a view to dissuade anyone from ever attempting the passage twice. From Hofeng to Ching Chi-kow, on a tributary of the Ch'ing Chiang, we travelled in the jurisdiction of the Hofeng magistrate, but at Ching Chi-k'ow, on one side of the river, the country recognised the Chien shih magistrate, and on the other, the Patung magistrate.\n\nThrough this wild country of highly cultivated fields and large tea plantations, we travelled for four days. Poppy, up to three years before, had been the principal crop, but now I was unable to discover any. Stopping at Niu Chia ssu, one day out from Hofeng, I met a Cantonese tea merchant who had come to this district year after year for the last forty years. He reported that up to three years ago, poppy was the chief crop, but that two years ago, the amount cultivated had been largely reduced, and last year, he had seen none. He had only just arrived at Niu Chia ssu for the tea season, and could consequently give me no information for the present year.\n\nOn certain parts of the road, when it rose high on the mountain slopes, we passed through lands which were only just being tilled, for there are large tracts of the country which have only one crop a year.\n\nTo Yeh San-kuan from Ching Chi-k'ow, the road runs similarly through lands where the crops were either well forward or were not yet planted. Nowhere could I detect any poppy, though it is possible that a few plants may have been scattered in the midst of large fields of peas or beans. These are the means by which farmers in certain districts cultivate small quantities of opium in the face of official opposition.\n\nFrom Yeh San-kuan to Yeh Hua-p'ing, the road passes still through similar fields to what have been already described. From Yeh Hua-p'ing to Patung, where I took boat for Ichang, the road ran high on the hilltops, and one obtained a fine view of the cultivated valleys below. Nowhere did I see any signs of poppy, the land either being filled with peas, beans, rape, potatoes, or wheat, or lying empty waiting for the spring sowing.\n\nAt Patung, the investigation practically came to an end, for the poppy would never be planted on the slopes of the Great River, though, of course, on the way down, I kept my eyes open for any signs of the poppy.\n\nMy journey finished late in the evening of the twentieth day. I was uncertain as to how long I would take coming down river from Patung. I allowed two days, but by leaving my house-boat and getting into a fast red boat, I was enabled to arrive one day earlier.\n\nDuring the twenty days of my journey, I covered a comparatively small distance when counted by miles. The roads, however, were such that if I had been carried even half the way, I would have travelled a much shorter distance. There were a number of days when I walked practically the whole time, and even then, the chair with six bearers was a long way behind. The delegates were in exactly the same position, though all being much lighter men, and using chairs with two bearers instead of four, they were enabled to keep up better.\n\nAs late as the middle of March of this year, when it was decided to inspect this province, vigorous action was taken by the officials to stamp out every vestige of poppy. Two men were executed in Changyang, and two men in Hofeng. At Changlo, a man on whose ground two or three plants were found was sentenced to death, but at the last moment, his sentence was moderated, and he was branded and led through the town and adjoining districts loaded with chains. As he was a man of good position, this was considered sufficient, as the amount discovered was so small. At Ichang, whilst I was away about the middle of April, a man was shot for having planted poppy at San tou p'in, an island from the Yang-tsze some 30 miles above Ichang.\n\nThe districts through which I travelled were formerly those where considerable quantities of opium were produced. I saw no signs of poppy, and my route was taken without in any way giving the Chinese officials an opportunity of leading me along a prepared district. In fact, the views from the mountain tracks were so extended that the preparation of a route would have required a very considerable time. I am accordingly of the opinion that this province, taking the district through which I travelled as a sample, is free of poppy.\n\nIchang, May 4, 1914.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 16\n\nH. F. HANDLEY-DERRY.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, May 15, 1914. I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have received a report from Mr. Acting Consul Handley-Derry on the tour of investigation for opium poppy cultivation recently made in Hupei province under the terms of the 1911 Opium Agreement.\n\nMr. Derry reports that no poppy was found by the investigating party, and I therefore have the honour to inform your Excellency that I propose to prohibit the importation of Indian opium into Hupei province as from the 1st June, 1914.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 9.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, May 25, 1914. WITH reference to my despatch of the 17th January last, I have the honour to report that the investigation of the province of Chekiang for opium poppy cultivation, in accordance with the provisions of the Opium Agreement of May 1911, has been completed, and that the investigation has failed to discover any poppy cultivation.\n\nI have the honour to enclose herewith copy of a report by Mr. Consul J. I. Smith on the trip of investigation.\n\nThe inspection having thus proved satisfactory, I am notifying the Chinese Government in a letter, copy of which is enclosed herewith, that the importation of Indian opium into the province of Chekiang will be prohibited as from the 16th June, 1914.\n\nIn my despatch of the 8th December last, I had the honour to report my refusal to accede to the request of the Chinese Government that Honan should be placed on the prohibited list. The reason for this refusal was not on account of any cultivation of opium poppy within the province, but on account of the importation of native opium into the province.\n\nRecent reports testify to the effective employment of suppressive measures in Honan, and the absence of poppy cultivation in the province is maintained. I have therefore decided that it is unnecessary to hold a special investigation of the province of Honan, and I have accordingly conveyed to the Wai-chiao Pu my assent to its inclusion in the list of provinces into which the import of Indian opium is prohibited, the prohibition, as in the case of Chekiang, to date from the 16th June next.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n`[6032]`",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chepi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires. On my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one, he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a half days journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mieuning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the P'uêrh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by the Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku-hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked the Taoyin point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season, but that all had been uprooted by expeditions sent out in November and December, and there was no trace of any remaining when he came out. I see no reason whatever to doubt this statement, but even if it was untrue, it was practically certain that there would not be a single plant left after his passing through; I therefore decided to take an entirely different road for our joint journey and selected the southern route via Poshang, the Tapêng ferry over the Mekong, Mêngka and Mengchu. This is a fairly well recognised, though little used, road, but I possess records of only isolated portions as having been previously traversed by British subjects.\n\nOn the 19th April, at the Taoyin's suggestion, we made a very early start in view of the formidable journey in front of us. We reached the limits of the Mienning jurisdiction and bade farewell to the magistrate. After 6 miles of easy going, No trace of opium poppy had we seen in his district, in which, as far as I could ascertain, he and his subordinates had carried out their suppression duties with exceptional thoroughness. The next 7 miles traversed a corner of what is now known as the Lantsang (i.e., Mekong) district-formerly the sub-prefecture of Chênpien-and the going was very severe, though it must, in all fairness, be admitted that the country is extremely difficult, including a terrific descent for 3 miles through constantly subsiding red clay to the level of the River Mekong (2,750 feet). The crossing of the Mekong is effected in a single huge wooden boat with deep sides: The mules and their loads are transported in this craft, the river-current being too swift to admit of the animals swimming across without danger. The ascent up the left or east bank of the Mekong is even more severe, and for 24 miles the ruling gradient is steeper than one in six.\n\nTwo stages further, through pine-woods tenanted by peacocks and brilliant emerald-green parrots, brought us to the Chinese Shan town of Mêngka. At Tamotsoho, the half-way halt, we came across a few families of Lahu race, said to be rapidly dying out in China.\n\nShortly before reaching Mêngka we were met by the Chingku district magistrate, a Kuangsi man, who accompanied us so long as we continued in his extensive jurisdiction. Mengka, the residence of a Shan Sawbwa, possesses also large temples and two monasteries in the Burmese Shan style; one in particular, over 200 years old, must have been very fine in bygone days.\n\nAt Lientsungts'un, our halt mid-way between Mêngka and Mêngchu, the Chinese Shan Sawbwa, of the latter place, and Mêngpan came over to pay his respects.\n\nMêngchu is one of the old Shan towns whence the original inhabitants have been practically ousted by the more thriving Chinese.\n\nOn the 25th April, two days after leaving Mêngchu, we crossed the River Weiyuan for Chingku, as it is now gradually becoming known) at Patieh. Two days later, after passing a few villages inhabited by natives of the strikingly handsome Puman race, we entered the Szémao district and were met by the local magistrate; the following day, the 28th April, we arrived at Szemao, where spacious quarters were provided for me adjoining the Taoyin's yamên. The Taoyin and magistrate pressed me to stay a week in Szemao; I consented to two days, but on the second day the Taoyin urged that he still had important business to transact, and I could hardly refuse his request that we should postpone our departure for one more day.\n\nPrevious to my departure for Tengyuch, I had written to a reliable correspondent, soliciting his co-operation to obtain for me, if possible, information on the subject of opium in the area under his cognisance. With that request he very courteously complied; he informed me quite definitely that, as the result of several punitive expeditions during the past winter, there was, as far as he was aware, no more cultivation of opium in the Szemao district, and that while probably at least 30 per cent. of the adult population of the town, both male and female, still continued to consume the drug, the enormous rise in price bore out his contention.\n\nFrom Szemao northwards towards Tali three routes were open to me; that viâ Chingku (Weiyuan) was ruled out by the fact that it had already been traversed by the Taoyin on his journey to Mienning to meet me; on the north-eastern route, via T'alang-the main road to Yunnan-fu-according to all the information I could obtain, a considerable quantity of opium had been grown, and harvested, earlier in the season, but very thorough measures of eradication had been carried out some weeks previously; I therefore decided to take the more direct but less frequented route via Puêrh, Hsinfu (in Chênyuan district) and Chingtung.\n\nLeaving Szemao on the 2nd May, some three hours of travel, including a stiff climb, brought us to the boundary of the P'uêrh district, where the local magistrate awaited us; the Szemao magistrate, however, continued to accompany us till the town of Puerh was reached the next day; on this day's journey our route crossed a splendid Chinese arched stone bridge, in admirable preservation.\n\nAt Mohei, the next stage, I took the opportunity to pay a visit to the large and flourishing salt-mines about a mile and a half away. Dr. Kelly, the American representative of the Chinese Salt Administration, who had arrived about two months previously, was away on tour, but his English-speaking Chinese colleague very kindly demonstrated to me all the processes of Chinese salt extraction.\n\nThe next four stages, viâ Mop'o, Manpieh and Manlien, to Hsin-fu, call for little comment save for the extreme beauty of the scenery; on all sides rose range after range of pine-clad hills, mostly well-wooded to their summits; the valleys were, however, parched and bare, and travelling along the lower levels was excessively hot. The only record in my possession of a route between Hsinfu and Chingtung dated from 1881, when the journey was made by a British traveller; our route, however, was almost entirely different from his, and we spent but five days on the distance which had taken him six. For the last three days we were accompanied by the Chingtung magistrate, who came out to meet us.\n\nThis latter official was also among the number of those who have displayed special energies in the matter of opium suppression; practically every town and hamlet which we traversed in his district boasted its own small bureau for the furtherance of the task, while the magistrate's extensive tours of inspection included a journey to the summit of Wu-Liang-Shan, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet high.\n\nLeaving Chingtung on the 15th May, three days' journey brought us to the boundary between the Puerh and Tengyueh circuits, at Shukai (locally pronounced Ch'ukai); Here we found that the Tengyueh Taoyin and the Mênghua district magistrate had been awaiting our arrival for three days. Before bidding farewell to the Puêrh Taoyin, I gave him a letter detailing our route through his circuit and congratulating him on the fact that we had discovered not a single opium poppy in a month's journey. In the course of an interesting conversation, he freely admitted that the task of suppression had been considerably easier in his circuit than elsewhere in the province; he was no less frank regarding the prevalence of opium smoking, and expressed the opinion that from three to five years must elapse before this would be stopped.\n\nPage [603] \n517 \n55 \n54",
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        "content_text": "# Report of an Inspection of the Eastern Part of the Province of Yunnan, to learn the Amount of Cultivation of Opium Poppy. May, 1917.\n\nUNDER instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, I had left Ichang on the 10th March, 1917, in order to proceed to the province of Kueichow to inspect that province for opium cultivation. I reached Chungking on the 27th March, and there I found awaiting me further instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, ordering me to continue my journey when I had traversed the province of Kueichow, and to make a similar journey of inspection through the eastern part of Yunnan province. I completed my journey through Kueichow province on the 1st May, on which day I arrived at Chiang-ti, a small village on the Ching Ho or Ching-fei Ho, a river which forms the boundary-line between the two provinces of Kueichow and Yunnan at that point. The Chinese official delegates from the provincial capital of Yunnan were awaiting me in a village, on the Yunnan side of the river; and having crossed the river into Yunnan at 7:30 on the morning of the 2nd May, I was received by them, and after a brief conference and farewells to the Kueichow delegates, who had accompanied me across the river, we proceeded on our journey in Yunnan.\n\nThe Yunnan delegates were two: the senior was Mr. Chan Ping-chung, the head of the Bureau des Renseignements, at Yunnan-fu; a secret service department, and the assistant delegate was a Mr. Yang, a clerk from one of the Yunnan-fu yamêns.\n\nMany changes were noticeable on passing from Kueichow to Yunnan. The aspect of the country took on a change for the worse, characterised by comparative barrenness and bleakness; and the Yunnan native was of a poorer class and of an inferior type than his Kueichow brother. The general deterioration was visible also in the crops, which were everywhere poor and scanty. The principal crop in Eastern Yunnan was peas, but it was not comparable with the Ssuchuan crop, or even with that of Kueichow.\n\nTwo days from Chiang-ti brought us to Loping (39 miles), over bare rough country of red and very stony earth. At Loping Mr. Chan requested me to travel direct to Yunnan-fu, suggesting that from Yunnan-fu we could take the train and do the journey to Hokow comfortably in two days. He stated that he did not like the hardships and inconvenience of travel in the interior of China. I told him that I did not propose to go to Yunnan-fu, where a British consular officer was permanently stationed; and that on no account would I travel by train on such a journey of inspection. Mr. Chan, however, never ceased for several days harping on the comforts of train-travel as compared with our rough paths and tracks.\n\nFor the next five days, from Loping to Mi-le (82 miles), the country was rough and mountainous, being at the altitude of 5,000-6,000 feet above sea-level. Yunnan is notorious for its strong winds, and it well preserved its reputation during my visit. Even in the middle of the day, wearing thick clothes and a heavy winter overcoat, I was barely comfortably warm. The \"road\" led through undulating plateaux, sometimes as much as 5 miles wide, and over mountain passes; the hill country is rocky and uncultivated. The high winds bring much dust. General conditions are thus antagonistic to agriculture in that part of Eastern Yunnan, and the attenuated crops of peas and barley testified to the farmers' difficulties. Population is very sparse; in the hill districts there are a considerable number of people of the Lolo tribe.\n\nOn leaving me at the border of his jurisdiction the Lo-ping magistrate enquired with much anxiety if I had observed any opium poppy within his jurisdiction; and he vowed that to the best of his knowledge and belief there was not a single opium plant in his territory. I replied that I was aware that local officials had shown much zeal this spring in destroying all vestiges of the opium crop.\n\nThe general poverty of the highland districts was reflected in even the official buildings. The Shih-tsung magistrate offered me quarters for the night in his own yamên; the room he offered me was as good as any in the building, but even so it was in a tumbledown condition, with large holes in the roof, which also did duty as ceiling to the room.\n\nIn the environs of Kuang-hsi, a town of some 5,750 feet of height above sea-level, and of about 2,500 inhabitants, it was a pleasing change to see extensive patches of vegetable gardens. They were quite the healthiest-looking crops I had seen in Yunnan. The soil hereabouts looked less poor, being more brown than red, the reddish soil being chiefly of a sandy consistency.\n\nFrom Mi-le there was difficulty about route, the only recognised road going westwards to Po-hsi on the Yunnan-Tonquin railway, and the direction in which I desired to proceed being to the south-east. Local enquiry elicited information that there were rough tracks to the south-east, but they were very rarely used, and only a very few of the natives knew their way to them. I maintained that the local officials must know, or must be able to ascertain without difficulty, the routes in any direction in their own jurisdiction, and I suggested that the local officials should provide us with responsible guides. My immediate objective was Ch'iu-pei, a fairly large town, which appeared from the map to be about five or six days' march from Mi-le. Mr. Chan offered to obtain a sketch-map of the route, and he handed me a route plan, showing five stages to Ch'iu-pei. This I agreed to follow. On the second day we reached a village, Kai-tien, when Mr. Chan coolly informed me that his plan was incorrect, and that we were now only 10 miles from Ami-chow, a town on the railway; furthermore, that the only road from Kai-tien went to Ami-chow. I was highly incensed at this impudent deception, and insisted that I would attempt to find a direct route eastwards to Chiu-pei. With some difficulty an inferior military officer was discovered who said he knew a track to the eastward. Next morning, however, all the bearers and coolies went on strike, saying that I was taking them into wild parts of the country, where they could get no food and where they would contract fever and die. With persuasion and argument, however, the majority of them yielded, the places of the few who refused to yield being filled by local men.\n\nAfter travelling for half a day over rough hills, inhabited here and there by Lolo charcoal-burners, we came to an impasse - a long steep descent, impossible for baggage, chairs, or animals, with a river in the valley below and a difficult, if not impossible, ascent on the far side. I clambered ahead to satisfy myself that there was no way through, and after careful examination I decided to order a retreat. Mr. Chan was obviously pleased, and said that no doubt now I would overcome my prejudice to the railway, as the road to Ami-chow was the only route left for us. But I again disappointed him by telling him that I proposed to go back one day's march and try eastwards again. So we returned the following day to Chu-yuan, and thence I was more successful and reached Chiu-pei in four days' stages, in spite of much opposition.\n\nThe road to Ch'iu-pei was the highest part of my journey in Yunnan. At Huang-li-hai-so, a small village, in which we put up for the night, two stages before reaching Chiu-pei, the altitude above sea-level was 6,810 feet. Villages were not frequent along this route, and the majority were inhabited by Lolo savages, who cultivated the land in the immediate vicinity of the villages, but left the steep hill-sides and the rest of the country in a state of original wildness.\n\nAt Ch'iu-pei, Taoyin Ho, of Mengtzu, met me and travelled with me for the remaining eleven days to Hokow (198 miles). His health was far from good, and he travelled huddled up in his chair, complaining of the hardships of travel and of the weather, which was far from propitious, the heavy rains being just at the commencement of their season. He also pressed me to go to Mengtzu, there to take the train for the rest of the journey. He expressed himself anxious on my behalf because of the bands of brigands which infested the south-east corner of the province, and pointed out that if I did not tell him my route in detail, he could not clear the brigands away before our arrival; but I suggested that it would be far better to take the brigands quite unawares and to capture the whole band with the aid of our brave escort.\n\nFrom Chiu-pei to Kaihua (63 miles) the country was rough and mountainous. The principal cultivation in this district is an astringent root, the local name of which is \"Three-Seven,\" from the fact that the root is only useful for commercial purposes between its third and its seventh years. It is cultivated in large covered enclosures, and much care is given to its cultivation, dogs and cats being kept within the enclosures to keep down rats and other vermin which find the san-ch'i good to eat.\n\nAt Chiang-na, one stage before Kaihua, I was unfortunate in missing by half a day only, Mr. F. Brown, of the Carnegie Terrestrial Magnetism Mission. Mr. Brown had travelled much in Yunnan this spring, and was then on his way from Bhamo to Canton, viâ Ssumo, Mengtzu, Kaihua, Pose. Mr. Brown's route lay from west to east. I later received a letter from Mr. Brown, informing me that ...",
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        "content_text": "## 64\n\nThe personality of the Anshun magistrate, Mr. Wang, whom I found to be a superior type of magistrate.\n\nFrom Anshun, I took a devious route to Nan-lung (formerly called Hsing-yi); the distance was 141 miles and took one week. I particularly wished to visit Nan-lung to meet Mr. Jamieson, a Chinese inland missionary who had recently been writing letters to the Shanghai press on the subject of opium cultivation in the Nan-lung district.\n\nFor the first 70 miles from Anshun, the country is high and covered with rugged hills. I was not keeping to any recognized route, and on one or two days, the going was very difficult; on occasions, we were obliged to find a track by keeping up or down the dry bed of a mountain torrent. There are many aboriginal tribes, Miao and Lolo, in this part of Kueichow; they live by agriculture. Their villages are invariably placed a little way off the path or track, no doubt owing to their suspicion of the Chinese and possibly of each other. A fair amount of the hill land is under cultivation.\n\nAt Chen-ning, 20 miles from Anshun, I called on Père Roux of the Roman Catholic Mission. Père Roux has been forty-eight years in Chen-ning and is almost the oldest inhabitant of the town. He told me that strongly-worded proclamations for the suppression of the opium-poppy crops were posted in Chen-ning and district in January of this year, and that special deputies were despatched from the capital of the province to assist the local officials in seeing that the orders in the proclamations were carried out. Crops were accordingly uprooted and destroyed, and the fields were ploughed up so as to remove every trace of poppy. One man was shot because his ploughing was deemed insufficient. After the destruction of the poppy crops, the magistrate offered a reward of a dollar a plant to anyone who could discover a poppy plant in the district; he ordered every man, woman, and child to go out and search. Schools (including the Roman Catholic Mission school) were closed to permit the school children to go out and assist in the search. A few stray plants were found in this way, and the owner of the land on which they were found was fined to provide money for the promised rewards. The magistrate had shown himself almost too energetic in his measures of suppression; in cases where a poppy plant was found in a field of other plants, such as rape or barley, he had the whole field destroyed. He had prohibited all opium smoking and had closed the opium shops. Such opium as was sold in Chen-ning was Kuang-hsi opium, and the price was excessive — 4 taels per oz.\n\nNearing Nan-lung, the country became more rough and not so fertile; there was scarcely any cultivation on the hill slopes at all, while the red sand and earth, which is a feature of the south-west corner of China, began to appear. Crops were poor and consisted chiefly of peas and barley. Some rape, about 4 feet high, was well advanced, but the weather was by no means hot, and I was everywhere assured that the season was a late one.\n\nAt Nan-lung, Mr. Jamieson of the China Inland Mission gave me the same story that I had heard on other points of my journey; a considerable amount of poppy-seed had been sown in the autumn, but in January, following the instructions from Peking, proclamations were posted ordering the total eradication of the crop. According to Mr. Jamieson, the proclamation stated that the eradication was insisted on by Great Britain, and it conveyed the impression that the British inspecting officer would himself punish any person found with opium plants in his field. I tried to obtain a copy of this proclamation but was informed that all had been destroyed, even the magistrate's own copy! The eradication had been carried out with official energy as great as that reported to me at other places. Punishments were freely inflicted on the recalcitrant. Fines, confiscations, imprisonment (in one case a sentence of ten years), and in some districts death by shooting.\n\nAlthough the streets of Nan-lung were beflagged and decorated in honor of the visit of inspection, the symbols of joy scarcely reflected popular opinion. Opium-growers had lost a considerable amount of capital by the destruction of the crop, and their indignation was greater in that the local officials had permitted them to sow in the autumn without any suggestion of possible interference. In fact, to test the magisterial view, a small plot near the magistrate's yamên was tentatively sown, and, no objection being raised by the authorities, it was taken for granted that opium cultivation was to be permitted in that locality. It was owing to this, no doubt, that the magistrate decided to throw the onus of responsibility for the destruction of the crop on Great Britain in his proclamation. Destruction of the poppy-crop had been carried on from January right into March, the last fields to go being at Mutsu, a village some 5 miles west of the Nan-lung-Hsing-yi main road, near the Kuanghsi border. There was very little opium grown in the Nan-lung district in the 1915-16 season, and the bulk of the seed for the 1916 autumn sowing was brought from Kuanghsi province. Kuanghsi opium was being sold in Nan-lung at 3 dollars per oz.; it was all being smuggled over the provincial border.\n\nMany opium-smokers had fled from Nan-lung a day or two before my arrival, fearing that I might detect them by their visages and inflict summary punishment.\n\nI received proof of the unpopularity of my visit the day after my departure from Nan-lung when a letter that had been left for me at the China Inland Mission compound was sent after me. It was an abusive and threatening letter, accusing me of coming thither to spy out the wealth of the country and stating that if I had really been in search of opium, I should have stayed some days in Nan-lung and thoroughly searched the China Inland Mission premises and the magistrate's yamên; it ended with an impolite request to me to get out of China. I handed the letter to the Nan-lung magistrate, who was traveling with us through his jurisdiction, and requested him to return at once to discover the writers of the letter and to punish them adequately. I heard later from Mr. Jamieson that the magistrate did so, most — if not too — adequately.\n\n## 65\n\nBetween Nan-lung (former name Hsing-yi) and Hsing-yi (former name Huang-tsao-pa) — 50 miles — I had some altercation with the Chinese delegates regarding the route. They were very anxious to keep to the main road, while I wished to take a less frequented route of which I had learned through overhearing a conversation among some of our escort. I had my way but only after considerable objection and opposition, of which I soon discovered the cause. The military official at Hsing-yi was General Liu, the elder brother of the Governor of the province, and the Chinese were expectant that he would come out to meet us. Their fear of the Governor made them anxious to do nothing at which the military brother might take umbrage, and the possibility of missing the General on the road, if my proposed route were followed, made the delegates very nervous. However, all went happily; the General, a rough and bluff person of the old Chinese school, had not come very far out of his town to meet us, and we converged to his temporary encampment without difficulty. Père Julien of the Roman Catholic Mission at Hsing-yi told me that in the Hsing-yi district, as I had heard in other parts of the province, opium crops had been sown and had been stringently uprooted and destroyed in the early part of the year, in obedience to instructions from Peking through the provincial capital — instructions issued in consequence of the pending visit of inspection.\n\nFrom Hsing-yi to Chiang-ti, the small village on the river forming the frontier line between the provinces of Kueichow and Yunnan, was 23 miles of very rough country with little cultivation. We reached Chiang-ti in the evening of the 1st May, and the Kueichow portion of my journey was ended. During the evening, I received a message from Mr. Jamieson at San Lung (75 miles distant) warning me that he had reliable information that certain influential opium dealers of Nan-lung had arranged for my assassination: I was to be stabbed in the back with a long dagger. I carried this cheerful information with me across the province of Yunnan, and at Hokow received a further letter of explanation that my demise had been included in the programme by the authors in order to score off certain of their enemies, whom they hoped to implicate as the real plotters against me, and thereby to obtain their severe punishment.\n\nMy caravan mileage through the province was 517 miles, but I myself covered much more ground than this. My methods of progression were three: walking, where the road was very rough or dangerous; riding, where the road was convenient; and sitting in a chair carried by four coolies in bad or very hot weather. On arriving at our destination for the night, there was usually an hour or two of daylight left, if not more, during which I traveled on foot or on pony in the surrounding country, selecting high points from which I could cover a large expanse with my field-glass.\n\nI did not see a single opium poppy plant on my journey through the province of Kueichow. The letter of the opium agreement of 1911 has therefore been observed by the province.\n\n*Not reproduced.*\n\n`[6032]`",
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        "content_text": "88\n\nMr. Teichman furnishes conclusive evidence that this opium cultivation is carried on openly at the direct instigation of the Chinese officials whose duty it is to suppress it.\n\nI have the honour to enclose copy of a letter, which I have addressed to the Wai-chiao Pu, bringing the facts to their notice; but I fear that the Chinese Government has not the strength, even if it has the will, to adopt the only effective remedy, namely, the removal and punishment of the Military Governors responsible for the present state of affairs.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nSir.\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 37\n\n### Mr. Teichman to Sir J. Jordan\n\nTachienlu, April 27, 1919.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that on my journey back from Chengtu we found the entire length of the Tung river valley (along which the road runs for two days' march - district of Luting) blazing with countless fields of red and white poppies in full bloom wherever the bays in the gorge permitted of cultivation. In most places fully a quarter of the land under cultivation was producing opium. This poppy cultivation (which I had failed to notice on my way down a month and a half earlier owing to my being very unwell, and to the plant not being in flower) is openly carried on without the least attempt at concealment right along this main route, which is one of the most important and most travelled of the big trunk roads of China; and the poppies were even flourishing in the immediate vicinity and in full view of the magistrate's seat and the big Catholic Mission establishment at Luting Ch'iao itself. The local people told my servants that the neighbourhood was growing poppy for the first time for many years, and that the cultivation was encouraged by the officials, who levied a tax of 28 rupees per Chinese acre of opium-producing land.\n\nMy statements about this opium cultivation, and the amazingly open way it is carried on, can be corroborated by Mr. Clements, of the China Inland Mission at Tachienlu, the Catholic missionaries, and by my own Pekinese servants. I shall try and secure some photographs of it on my way down.\n\nNo poppy cultivation whatever was to be seen for the first nine days' march out of Chengtu (i.e., while traversing regions controlled by the southern leader, Governor Hsiung Ko-wu); and we only came upon the opium after traversing the Fei Yü Ling (pass) and entering the district of Luting, which forms part of the Szechuan frontier territory.\n\nI have had considerable experience of opium suppression in the distant interior of China, and I well know that the responsibility for any recrudescence of cultivation in formerly clean regions lies at the door of the local officials (who can maintain the suppression with the greatest ease if they desire to do so) acting under the orders of the Governor of their province, or the military chief controlling their area; exception being made in the case of semi-independent tribal country and of regions controlled by brigands or rebels. Luting, however, is a peaceful and purely Chinese district, as easily governed as the Chengtu plain or the country round Peking, and is actually under the control, not of the southern \"rebel,\" but of a Peking-appointed official.\n\nConsular officers may perambulate provinces and certify them as clean; but such certification provides no guarantee whatsoever that cultivation will not be vigorously resumed in the following season if the local authorities desire to raise money from this unique revenue-producing source (as is the case in the present instance). It is always the officials and not the people who should be punished; but, unfortunately, the reverse is usually the case.\n\nSzechuan was, I believe, passed as clean without an official inspection at the time the 1911 Agreement was made. There was a limited amount of recrudescence after the revolution and during the subsequent troubles, and the poppy has always continued to flourish in the remote and semi-independent tribal country behind Kuan Hsien. But I have never heard of anything like the open and legalised cultivation now being carried on in Luting district and neighbourhood.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**ERIC TEICHMAN**\n\n89\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 37\n\n### Memorandum\n\nNOT carrying with me any paraphernalia for official correspondence on my journey hither from the Burma frontier, I incorporated in a letter despatched en route to His Majesty's Minister at Peking my observations on the vast quantities of opium being grown, not only in the Chien-ch'ang valley, but also throughout the whole region traversed by me during twelve and a half days' travel in South-Western Szechuan.\n\nDuring the whole length of my journey across the western circuit of Yunnan, from the extreme south-west to the extreme north-east, I saw only five fields of opium poppy, and these were passed on the last half-day's journey in Yunnan, within 10 miles of the Szechuan boundary.\n\nOnce, however, I crossed the river Yang-tsze and entered Szechuan, matters were entirely different, and poppy fields abounded on all sides, without the smallest attempt at concealment.\n\nFor the first two and a half days to Hui-li the country was in the hands of Yunnan troops, and the percentage of opium crops was not very great; from Hui-li onwards for the next ten stages poppy fields were passed everywhere, in enormous quantities, and the percentage of these pernicious crops rose certainly to 50 per cent. The valley of the Anning river, which is the Chien-ch'ang (formerly Ning-yüan Fu) valley proper, is reached shortly before the end of the second stage northwards from Hui-li; three stages more, through absolutely countless poppy crops, brought me to the very large walled city of Chien-ch'ang (formerly Ning-yüan Fu), the headquarters of the Chien-ch'ang Taoyin, which lies just out of the Anning river valley, on its east side, in a broad plain which when I traversed it on the 17th March was a brilliant mass of poppy crops. During these three stages I travelled in company with a recently retired district magistrate of Hui-li, and in the course of conversation with him I commented freely on this flagrant breach of the Opium Agreement with Great Britain. His defence for his own scandalous inactivity in the matter, that he had no troops to carry out the work of suppression, was wholly specious, for throughout our journey in company we constantly passed large numbers of ill-disciplined local militiamen, whose sole occupation seemed to be loafing and gambling outside the gates of the many walled towns in which they were quartered; while day after day my efforts to find a temple to spend the night were frustrated because the temples - which abound all over Szechuan - were already occupied by these ruffians. Throughout the whole course of my journey in Szechuan I saw not a single proclamation against the cultivation of opium poppy bearing a date later than 1917.\n\nI agree entirely with Mr. Teichman's comment that it is always the officials and not the people who should be punished; my ex-magistrate travelling companion should undoubtedly have received a very severe sentence for his criminal, and doubtless highly lucrative, apathy. I was told by friendly natives encountered on my travels that each field of the illicit crop was worth 6 dollars to the authorities conniving at its existence.\n\nTwo stages above Chien-ch'ang the road quits the Anning river valley and becomes more mountainous: as far as I could judge, the fact that opium cultivation for the next few stages is distinctly less universal is due solely to the less congenial character of the soil. But not until my sixteenth day's journey in Szechuan, four days north of the large district town of Yueh-hsi, did I cease to see poppy crops altogether, and I attribute that cessation solely to the fact that the idle militia gave place, in the neighbourhood of the large towns of Ta-shu-p'u and Fu-lin, and thence onwards to Chengtu, to regular troops, under the command presumably of officers owning more than a nominal allegiance to the present Military Governor, Hsiung K'o-wu.\n\nMr. Teichman refers to the continued flourishing of poppy cultivation in the remote and semi-independent tribal country behind Kuan-hsien (about 40 miles north-west of Chengtu); this state of affairs is corroborated by local missionaries, who tell me, moreover, that opium growing on a small scale has begun again in several other hilly or mountainous areas on the fringe of the great Chengtu plain.\n\n**A. E. EASTES**\n\nChengtu, May 5, 1919.\n\n534",
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        "content_text": "## \n- 2 -\n\nThe reorganisation of the Province has been energetic-\nly taken in hand by the South Western Authorities. Ma Chăn \n636 \n\nTooling .800,0 \n\nThe native of Kueilin and a distinguished foreign and Chinese \nscholar, who is said to have translated the Origin of Species and \nother books into Chinese, has been appointed Civil Governor and is \non his way to Nanning. It is learnt on good authority that he \nproposes eventually to establish the provincial capital at Hsän \nChou fu ( ) Kusi ping haien ( ) the point of con-\nfluence of the Red Water and West Rivers. Ma Ying Chin \n(anglicè Mr. Mark) ( ) an English Secretary on General \nCh'en Chiung Ming's staff, has been appointed Superintendent of \nCustoms and Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Wuchow, and no \ndoubt other posts will be duly filled up by nominees of the \nKuo'min tang. While professing a desire that Kwanghsi should be \nallowed to govern itself, the Canton Times significantly points \nout that, as the autochthenes are backward in civilization, it \nmay be necessary for some time to come to place the province \nunder the tutelage of Kwangtung. There is to be no Military \nGovernor - Tuchan but there will be a Commander-in-Chief of \nToung Sau-ling, a somewhat more cumbrous alternative title.\n\nFinancial requirements are being met by a series of \nforced loans from the occupied towns according to their presumed \ncapacity Wuchow `$110,000.00` Nanning `$100,000.00` Kweiping \n`$50,000.00` and taxes are being rigorously collected. The \nKwangtung armies having received no pay since leaving Canton, \npermission is freely given for gambling to be carried on, on the \npretext that soldiers must be provided with some form of amuse-\nment whilst not actually fighting. The discipline of the \ntroops seems to be exceptionally good, as almost no looting has \nbeen reported.\n\nTrade along the West River is gradually being resumed, \nbut is of course hampered by the decline in the value of the \nKwanghai notes, which have depreciated to considerably less than \nhalf their face value. Instructions have been issued for \nconsignments.",
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        "content_text": "Tientsin should be allowed to rank. Apart from the question of security it must not be forgotten that the bulk of the Notes would be payable at Hongkong.\n\nI am,\nSir.\nYour obedient Servant,\n(Sgd) O.F. Niemeyer.\n\nDRAFT.\nThe Sec.\nTreasury\nMINUTE.\n\nJud Emmens 10/8/21\nMr. Beckett 10\nMr. Grindle.\nSir H. Lambert,\nSir H. Read.\nSir G. Fiddes.\nMr. Wood.\nMr. Churchill,\nTreas...\n\nJapor - Thlong\nPressing\nSi\n142\n10 Aug 21\n\nI am to add, the receipt letter of the 9 Aug of your No. F.1533 on the pulys of ...vely note circulation of \"The Chartered Bank of India, Australia China\" to state that be the LC in the opinion of the ... of the Treasury that the Bank's note some ver e of $8,000,000 Red be auth only Che condition that cover ... 79",
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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": "on \n\n238 \n\none \n\nat his home, and imagine his anxiety concerning his womenfolk with these hordes of black guard soldiers about. \n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\n[September 3rd, 1921. \n\nYANGTSZE. \n\nON THE \n\n177 \n\nEXPERIENCES OF A CHINA MERCHANTS STEAMER. \n\nMuch capital is made by the present Canton Government of the prohibition of public gambling. All honour to them for taking the step! But they appear to have short memories. Gambling in Canton was suppressed in the first instance by Cheung Ming-k'i, the last of the Viceroys under the Manchus, in the spring of 1911, some six months before the Revolution, and it is during the existence of the Republic that it has been again permitted and carried to such an extreme degree. The great boast about the tremendous task recently accomplished would inspire more confidence were it tempered by acknowledgement of the whole history.\" \n\nLucky is he if the operations of war do not mean more than the passage of troops through his home. Where the actual conflict arises, the countryside is in a bad case. Apart from the danger to all from the attempts at musketry of the soldiers, there are very real risks of revengeful pillage, murder, rape and arson by an outmanoeuvred force, and the same from the vanguard of the advancing victors. In this unhappy Province one District city of small size was set fire to, and over two hundred houses destroyed: the pitiable description given to the writer of those whose homes they had been was horrid in its brevity; \"Nowhere to dwell, nothing to eat, nothing to put on.\" Another large market town, 100 miles away from there, was almost levelled to the ground by the conflagration started by the retiring troops in the hope of an occasion for loot. In yet another place, all the boats were impressed and not allowed to move. A boatman's hat fell in the stream and floated off. They began to row after it and were at once fired on by the patrol on guard. A young mother in the boat was shot in the shoulder, and it was nearly a fortnight before they were allowed to move to seek treatment for an appallingly dirty compound fracture. These are sufficient instances to show a terrible side of the effect on the poorer people of the change to the greatly belauded \"Republican\" institution. \n\nIf these fightings were carried on by foreign foes trying to subjugate the country, or by patriotic forces trying to repel an invader they would be tragic enough: but what can be said about them when they are inflicted by Chinese on their own people? It is a puzzle to know who, beyond a very few individual officials, is really the gainer, Losers are easy enough to find. \n\nLow and high, military and civilian, man and woman, have all bewailed to the writer their keen regret that ever the Manchu regime was done away with. They say \"There was injustice then, but it is far far worse now. The old officials were at least in awe of their superiors and had to make some show of administering the law.\" Or again, \"Now-a-days an official knows he will not remain in any place above a few months at most, so why should he bother to rule well?\" An educated young Chinese said, “From my native village many young men have gone abroad to study, and have come back with high ideals of treating people fairly. Several have become officials and served justly, and without squeezing, for a term of office. But never one who gets a second office can keep his hands clean. He has experienced the unpalatable truth that in our Republic an honest official once out of his post is absolutely without means of livelihood.\" \n\nThese are the testimonies not of globe-trotters, nor even foreigners, nor of pro-Manchu people, but the bitter experience of those who love their own country and see the real state of affairs. \n\nIt would be foolish as well as unfair to say that no benefits have come since 1911. A change has been made, for example, in the necessary procedure for the transfer of family lands, which now are controlled by the womenfolk as well as the men, whereas formerly a member of the clan who would some time inherit alone could dispose of them. This is a slight check on the extravagance of young gamblers. \n\nFiring on ships on the Yangtsze is described in recent Shanghai papers as a daily occurrence. Capt. Alfred F. Cooke, of the China Merchants steamer Kiangking was recently badly wounded in the neck when he stopped at Patung to land passengers from soldiers fired on both banks of the river. It was impossible for the steamer to get under way quickly again. While she was being fired on two Chinese passengers were killed and several wounded, as we have noted before. The number of wounded has now correctly been learned to be at least 10. After getting under way, the steamer riddled with bullets, Capt. Cooke found it necessary to do the steering himself, although wounded, as his pilots had sought cover. Barricades were made of everything available, including mail bags and baggage. \n\nThere is nothing to be gained by those who point back, sighing, to old days, and think, \"How much better we should have been if something different had been done.\" The pathos of the present position of the bulk of the people must be realized and remedied. Whether the Empire or the Republic is the better is beside the mark, for the Empire, especially the Manchu Empire, has gone for ever, as far as Kwangtung is concerned. \n\nA procedure for the local election of District Magistrates has lately been adopted, and though it is somewhat farcical, it must be regarded as another stage in the devolution of power from the few to the many; but this type of novelty will not save the country. \n\nOn this eventful trip down river, Capt. Cooke states that he passed from 200 to 300 junks full of soldiers coming down river (as is thought likely) to loot Patung and Ichang. Patung is evacuated now and the soldiers are taking every available way to get down river. The most probable explanation of their reason for firing on the str. Kiangking is that the troops hoped to capture and loot the ship and make use of her to carry themselves and belongings to safer place below. As a matter of fact, Capt. Cooke had refused to carry troops for the military authorities when pressed to do so at Chungking, without authority from the French consul. \n\nThe Cantonese are not likely to improve their internal conditions unless and until they make a great change in certain fundamental matters. One, the preposterous military power must be reduced to a proper size, a proper appreciation of its function and its shortcomings, and a proper system of discipline. Another, the universal conception of \"face\" be remodelled to bear some relationship to honour. Another, every man, woman and child must learn that he is not isolated as a unit, but part of a community, and that his well-being depends intimately upon that of the whole structure. \n\nA well-known Cantonese authority on education not long ago made a statement publicly which may well be quoted in conclusion of these articles. It was to this effect. \"Our country is almost defunct, and we must revive it. We cannot hope to revive it by mere book lore, even by widespread study of the wisest and noblest books. All this will be unsuccessful unless at the root is a change of individual character from wrong to right: a rebirth of the heart of us all as individual citizens. This is a radical proposition, but even were I to face death for this attitude, I could hold no other. To get bad men made good, and selfish men made unselfish is the only programme that can remedy our case.\" \n\nIt is perhaps superfluous to add that he pointed to Jesus Christ as the only hope whereby this programme can be accomplished. \n\nThe ex-Super Tuchun of the Central Yangtsze is said to have left $16,000,000 of provincial funds unaccounted for. He is stated to have acknowledged to his successor that he owed Hupeh money but not such a large sum as was alleged. What he owed, he said, would be repaid. He had telegraphed Peking promising to make good his accounts with Hupeh. Meanwhile General Wu Pei-fu is in need of three millions to embark on the military operations he has planned in the province, and is trying to squeeze this out of the native banking and commercial organisations. \n\nTHE \"ALICE DOLLAR'S\" ADVENTURE. \n\nWith these junk loads of soldiers on the river in such numbers, it is increasingly difficult for large steamers to pass by them without placing them in great danger. \n\nThe junks are heavily loaded. On a recent trip of the str. Alice Dollar, 50 of them were caught in the backwash, upset, and sunk. As a result the following trip of the Robert Dollar, was delayed. A thousand soldiers formed a line on the south bank of the river at Chungking to prevent her departure. A platoon of soldiers was sent aboard the ship to announce the intention of the military authorities of holding the steamer as security for the losses of junks caused by the Alice Dollar. Capt. G. Crum, commanding the vessel, ordered them ashore and they went. \n\nConferences of military and civil authorities were then held and it was decided that the steamer might proceed on her way pending further investigation. Her captain was, however, advised to remain over a day to allow time for the countermanding of orders given to troops below to attack the steamer. He thereupon waited the day and proceeded down river in safety. \n\nThe Alice Dollar is now carrying a guard of 18 men from the U.S.S. Elcano besides three machine-guns and three-inch gun. \n\none \n\nCHINESE KILLED ON INDO-CHINA STEAMER. \n\nThe Indo-China steamer Changwo, was flying a very large red ensign, heavily fired on below Singti from the north bank of the Yangtsze, last week. A Chinese was killed and some Chinese were wounded, while the hull was pierced. The Stantan was also fired on, but no damage was done.",
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        "content_text": "Page 012\n\nV\n\n24\n\n„Ji etiupet Jon asob\n\n.a\n\nob praoniamo anis (veno) add jedt animumSBÅ minti\n\nnoiletebienos robnu smere and exiliju od saoqonq Jon „Baroq~uq doob tot noiteme [oer edemit lu do ant ( besogorg orit add miot Jadw ni shineb o♬ mert rod noktaavo tnetzoqmi sels .exed bivore moitame (not side of [[awees\n\nTimvet ni boonevna eď neo jedt tałoq anorja A\n\nTo Javome zel vzev a tent at [[swees to aqvi blo end to mor? moždovijanoo ati 107 eldelieve ed blow snote aulque ed Illw Jard gnistus door to Jnuome alderebienoo yrST Odd\n\n.49 000 art to moiderot bære trengt lever edt mi bellatne\n\nens lo anivneqmo-be set to d‡nd no aenki alqzoq yd mwoda hrot moido(mtenos aid sõnammos of tmarevod Tabmu at Jnentie VOD\n\nTo noijoitanos end ti „brs,etab y free na Ja beo sid) to beontermoo ed bloo [Lew to eqyd is down to noitroq bavom sele anistvo door and anisi itu to badtem sidd‚omið smen sit ja\n\nsidd yã „trate ant ror? moitateqo odni Jug að blwoo sarel add nt hebrorte ed b[uow moitontong on le JremagnetIS and no betianqah od v (laudneva [[kw Jedd ynif(17 do Jnuome emið eldstebianos a edad y loadơng bluow $1 anotech,8878 ani [[it odd bre boonermas ed blwoo (Im Insidrov a szoted on over v [Jnsupeaños blvow smijnsem edð ni betisoqab „moitoeterq\n\nrottam a se bre „ABONAJ SAJOTip saert Tobal\n\ndiw eqyd Cover art to [[ew bra brtvom a‚yito yonaibeque to #i to ting [epodni ne animo) aarrenty staronon beozotni-er doidw rettam e ai di Jud,ti brommoset of griddame ser .erooniand anit (vano) erit vd belttaa yllani? ad blvoda ent nintie sexs ent tant rebianoo yens ?I noitemot at yd baqolsvab od blueris [[swnen add to timil mi Baitilioet vrai lixus tedto zo syawqils,erised to ed of [leweee to eqyt edt „TuodTed e dił iw noltoernoo brenniderahianoD Visbrosse e vino semoved bajorijaNOD Juaisittua a evin of bedrsuper ad bluoda vadt anno dove ni anblem Joserrevod to jimbe of e[reoqorq Tiedt to moltemiðni\n\nBJNGMƏNASTIR\n\nLast\n\n511\n\narrangements for dealing with the filling, which will have to be accepted.\n\n6.\n\nAs a result of certain evidence recently given before a Committee dealing with another matter there appeared to be a strong feeling that at least a portion of this area would form an excellent place for a large coal storage wharf which might be rented out by Government in sections to various lessees, Government providing mechanical loading, unloading and transport facilities for their use at fixed rates.\n\nIt was pointed out that if Kowloon ultimately became the terminal point for a big coal supply from the interior there would always be a considerable quantity brought here by ships for the use of shipping, and that Hongkong would be as suitable as Kowloon for this business, moreover, a large coal storage in such a position would constitute an extra safeguard to the Electric Light Works, Taikoo Refinery & Docks, and other adjoining works.\n\n7.\n\nIt was further pointed out that fuller provision must be made for timber storage both on the Island and the Mainland, than exists at present, and that the area in question or a portion of it, would provide suitable accommodation for this purpose. An argument against this is that a frontage on shallower water elsewhere in the Colony would answer equally well.\n\n8.\n\nMr. Duncan has pointed out that the Government will ultimately require a large Harbour Depot for the overhaul, maintenance and repair of their launches, tags, lighters, buoys, &c., the aggregate of these items belonging to Government at the present time being quite considerable.\n\nIt has been suggested that the sharp curve shown on the alignment of seawall near point I, where it would be less suitable for berthing large vessels than elsewhere on the line, would be a suitable position for the approach to a slipway if the construction of such was ultimately\n\nPage 511",
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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": "12\n\nWhen finances are in a more prosperous state and soldiers are no longer in arrears with pay we will be guided entirely by the orders of the Tuchun.\n\nUntil these conditions prevail, we would implore you on our behalf to arrange that for the present no large number of troops be stationed here, so as to prevent the public being terrified at merely hearing of them.\n\nWe would ask that our requests be forwarded to the Tuchun.\n\nIchang [undated].\n\n(Sent about July 1.)\n\nEnclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nResolutions Passed at General Meeting of Foreign Community.\n\nAT a public meeting of the foreign community of Ichang, held on the 5th July, 1921, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:\n\n\"1. Whereas Ichang has been looted on two occasions with an interval of little over six months, and as much damage was done to the property of the merchants and inhabitants of this city, this public meeting of the foreign community expresses its deep sympathy with the merchants and others who have suffered.\"\n\nIt was agreed that a copy of this resolution should be sent to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n\n2. Whereas this city of Ichang has been looted on two occasions with an interval of little over six months, and the depredators on both occasions were the troops of the Chinese Government, and on both occasions there was much loss of foreign property, while foreign life was placed in jeopardy, it is hereby resolved that this public meeting of the foreign community of Ichang condemns these outrages, and requests the foreign Ministers in Peking to take steps to see that soldiers are not allowed to be stationed within a radius of 30 miles from this port. If it should happen that troops require to pass through this port, that they be disembarked on the side of the river opposite to the city, and not be permitted to remain longer than thirty-six hours.\"\n\n\"3. Whereas this city of Ichang has been looted on two occasions within an interval of little over six months, and the depredators on both occasions were the troops of the Chinese Government, and as this is sufficient evidence to prove that the Chinese Government cannot control its troops, and as on both occasions foreign property was considerably damaged, and foreign lives were endangered, it is hereby resolved that this public meeting of the foreign community of Ichang requests the Ministers at Peking to take steps to secure an international settlement at this port.\"\n\nIt was resolved that the second and third resolutions be submitted to the consuls of the countries represented at this meeting, with the request that they be forwarded to their respective Ministers.\n\nTHOS. R. KEARNEY,\n\nChairman of the Meeting.\n\nFROM\n\n1921\n\n7.0. Comp\n\nFOR CIRCULATION:--\n\nMr. Bulle Mr. Coating\n\nMr. Grindle\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nBirgir @don Smith\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE\n\n14 Mch\n\nSUBJECT\n\nREC\n\n12619\n\n164\n\nRE 16 AR22\n\nTreaty between Soviet Sort \"2\" \"Red\" Mongolian Gort Sends prints of deep from MM. Minister, Peking, staking terms of treaty\n\nMINUTES\n\n? Parly.\n\nDove Haft\n\nG.L.KC\n\n20/3/22\n\nAt once\n\nA&P\n\nRo\n\n0\n\nPeeb lyr\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\nto\n\n27603\n\n(*) (377300) Wt. 4710/19 Gp. 16t\n\n40000 5-21 W&Ś Ltd.",
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        "content_text": "TERRIBLE NIGHT.\n\nThousands Killed and tens of Thousands Homeless.\n\n26\n\nENORMOUS TYPHOON\n\nDAMAGE AT SWATOW.\n\nShe was uppermost in the world, whereas it had previously been blowing from north-west and of an some thirty feet. The pole onlooker flag, in the distance, is 20 feet above the ground. Dortherly direction. It was evident sitting on the mud two cables Whole districts of the town THE CHINESE TOWN IN RUINS, that the margin of the typhoon, lengths from the Point.\"\n\nwhich had been circling from Later infutterly impassable, for rows ut the day it was seen that the Lokhouses have been reduced to rub- VIVID DESCRIPTION OF A northerly direction, had passed over Sang was able to get clear of l'atauble which fills what was once the Swatow, and the opposite margin Point. The Tangshing a the street. which, like the rim of a wheel, was Shantung were anchored, wh the buildings which have escaped damage off Double Island, which is just have been destroyed. One that has was now passing over Swatow. Pre-inside the river mouth four miles escaped is the new Chinese Post Hongkong, Aug. 7, viously the full force of the wind from Swatow. When seen on the Office. It is now clear that the typhoon had been felt by the European morning after the stormn, they were built native houses, behind the Whole districts of poorly which struck Swatow on Wednesday Settlement, opposite Swatow; now both ashore in the south-west corner Bund, have night was one of the worst that have the native town was to get the full of Mud Bay, having apparently ground.\n\nbeen mixed to the occurred in these seas for several force of the storm. With squalls dragged anchor a distance of three years and perhaps the worst visita-increasing in duration, and shorter miles. These vessels were to leave wreckage dead\n\nEverywhere, from amongst the tion that Swatow has had, even in intervals between them, the wind port bodies protrude. the Wednesday afternoon Hourly the stench increases and\n\nTOWN.\n\nher unenviable experience of typ-'rapidly rose again to typhoon force and when the typhoon warning was even the natives walk about now hoons. The very centre of the and probably reached its greatest received they put into Double Island for safety.\n\nhandkerchiefs ROTORS their great part of which is now in ruins, was then twice as bad as it had ever looked over the waters of the harbour were to be seen wrecks not reach Hongkong until Saturday THE WORST FORTY MINUTES. junks and sampans, some Boating sand bodies were collected on the of disposing of the dead.\" Over a thou- morning, with the return the B. From 2.30 to 3.10 a.m. the typhoon was at its greatest violence: dead bodies in were many first day after the disaster and taken the water port. The Government, on learning this was also the experience of those wreckage of every description. Look the temples. Disposal of the car- and to a place in the vicinity of one of the extent of the devastation, called ashore. The wind blew with terrific ing towards the shore junks were to cases of animals is an equally urgent a special meeting of the Legislative force and without a moment's lull, be seen high and dry on the mud and probably a larger tasks. Actuat Council and voted $10,000 towards howling and screaming and accom and masts and wreckage strewn all ed by sentiments of veneration for meeting immediate necessities, also panied by deluges of rain. It was round them. ordering 50 tons of rice and other impossible to walk even on the more TREMENDOUS HAVOC IN THE be far more speedy in removing dead the dead the Chinese are likely to supplies to be sent at once to sheltered parts of the ship, the Swatow, consigned to the British officers had to crawl when it was\n\nbodies of their fellow countrymen A survey through telescopes direct-then carcases of animals. Consul there.\n\nnecessary to move about the vessel.ed towards the town enabled the ON THE “KWEICHOW.” and, of course, it was necessary to tremendous havoc that had been\n\nThere were four European pas- The B.S. Kweichow reached make sure that ng one on a special done to be seen.\n\nsengers On the Kweichow, Mrs. Swatow on the afternoon of Wednes-post-watching anchor cables, for was a dreadful sight. Over a mile Thomas and Mr. M. H. Turner, all The fore shore Hinton, Mrs. Greig, Dr. W. L day, August 2nd, having steamed all instance was not swept overboard. or more along the Bund, junks, pon-of Hongkong. The officers of the day through heavy seas and in rough During the forty minutes of the toons and rubble of masonry were ship are full of praises for the cool- weather. The falling of the barome-typhoon's utmost severity the ship inextricably mingled and ter and the absence of native craft listed heavily to port and trombled inspection showed that there were When the lull occurred the ladies B closer ness of the ladies in n trying ordeal.; indicated the nearness of a typhoon. violently from stem to stern. As it many dead-both men and animals went On reaching the berth at Swatow appeared afterwards that the ship-amongst the heterogeneous mass through what proved to be the worst to their cabins and slept the steamer commenced discharging had not run aground, it is believed which completely covered the Bund of the typhoon. Ir. Thomas and cargo at four o'clock and soon after that the list was caused by the and foreshore, over a width of 30 Mr. Turner were on shore for the wards a warning was received that passing of the tidal wave which fol-yards and for the extent of at least night; they were visiting at a Euro- the typhoon was in the position 22 lows in the wake of a typhoon, the mile. North and 117 East. From the water being sucked up into the It is impossible to walk along the night. The house had double sets pean resident's and passed a trying direction in which it was travelling vortex at the centre. (It was at Water Front for the Bund is packed of typhoon shutters,-outside it was evident that the typhoon was this time that a tidal wave passed solid with wreckage which extends in. Several on the outside and heading straight for Swatow. over the Bund.) The wind was from the walls of damaged houses torn from their fastenings and once\n\nCaptain Lovegrove deomed it literally screaming and the rain fell to the foreshore. advisable to leave the berth-Messrs. in blinding walls of water. 1t was Butterfield & Swire's steamers at impossible to get one's breath when loaded and unloaded at Swatow did lifted on account of the air pressure, The pontoons from which cargo is inwards so that the roof of the house a pair of the inside ones were driven\n\nSwatow deal with cargo from pon-facing the wind and rain. At 3.20 toons connected to the Bund by steel e.m. the squalls gradually decreased done on the Bund. The pontoons their force on the shutters and man- a great deal to increase the damage from below. Everyone concentrated bridges. At 6.30 p.m. the steamer in duration with longer intervals be made for the fairway and anchored. twoen and, as the night wore on, the the heavy seas and large timbers descended again with\n\nwere broken up by the violence of nged to close them. The roof then By eight o'clock a strong wind weather moderated. The Barometer evidently flouted to and from during After this it seemed as though the loud clap.. was blowing and the weather was began to register again at 2.40 m very thick and overcast. As the when it came on to the marked por upon junks and houses. Many of withstood the strain until the storm| the atorin, acting like battering rams roof must be torn off bodily but it wind increased, the master veered tion of the dial and showed 28 in these timbers are now some distance was over. the ship for safety and let go the ches. From that point it gradually from the water edge jammed into second anchor. At 10.30 p. m. the rose, and, as Mr. Mandell, the sec-solid masses five or six fest high of the town next morning, and Photographs taken by the visitors wind increased to typhoon force and ond officer, expressed it, \"came back A new mooring buoy which was on developed in Hongkong vesterday, was accompanied by heavy deluges to sanity.\" of rain. For the next two hours As day broke it was possible to place an old one, is now 200 yards say that it is easier to\n\nthe edge of the Bund ready to re-show that it is no exaggeration to squalls of terrific violence severely look mund the ship and see what away, up a side street. tested the vessel and the tremendous damage had been done. The vessel and other small craft are far inland; which are demolished, rain continued and increased. Aboutli had been wonderfully fortunate. their owners in some cases, have photograph shows a one smmall this time the barometer became Most of the canvass dodgers (wind traced them and have now resumed damaged, but standing, and unreadable; 28.40 is the typhoon screens) had been torn away and existence in them, as though they rounded by what looks like heaps of rending and the needle went far one had a great piece torn out of its expected another tidal wave to bear spilikins\"; these are the remains below this point, wavering over the centre, although it was of substantial them out to sea again. unmarked part of the dial.\n\ncanvas. The wooden portion at the\n\nof scores of houses. One observer IN THE CENTRE OF THE hack of the bridge had been torn house,\n\noccupants of a European declared that the town reminded away by the wind, and both sides terrible night in which the roof after its numberless bombardments. after passing through a him of nothing so much as of Ypres Suddenly, 12.30 a.m., the wind had been blown in. fell light and blew like a gentle during the night, it may be men-out in the morning to see a casualties can only be given very At one time partially torn off the house, lod Estimates of the number of summer breeze. After the deafening tioned, the officers on the bridge bont in the garden. noise of the rain and gale the con-were conscious of a\n\nThe house is approximately. dark object\n\nTYPHOON.\n\nThe\n\nwere\n\ncount the\n\nSampans houses that are standing than these\n\ntrast was eerie; one could bear once passing over their heads and they WHOLE DISTRICTS RAZED TO probably about 5,000\n\nmile from the sea.\n\nstona house,\n\none WAR inclined\n\nsur-\n\nto\n\nFirst impressions, on Thursday morning, were that more the lesser sounds such as the believe it was a piece of wreckage\n\nTHE GROUND.\n\nwere killed lapping of the waves against the borne by the wind from another\n\nbut when the outlying portions of ship. It was quiet and still, making vessel or from the shore. By 5.30 godown has been severely damaged. extent of the disaster more fully Messrs Butterfield & Swire's the town had been visited and the it seem as though the storm of the a.m. the wind had dropped to the The Club roof has been blown off visualised last four hours was nothing but a force of a moderate gale and con- and now only the walls are stand-double the first figure mentioned. terrible, dream. During this time tinued with squalls of moderating ing. Garden walls have been dashod the wind veered suddenly from force accompanied by rain. down and even new concrete walls and workless it is feared that at- With so many people homeless north, through east to east-south- HOW OTHER SHIPS FARED. east.\n\nThose on board who had pre-\n\nwhich look strong enough to have tempts at looting in strong force Now it was possible to see how afforded shelter from the storm-will be made upon the ships Iving on vious experience of typhoons realised other ships in the harbour bal fared. have been overturned and smashed the mud at various points. Looting that they were now ID the very None of their lights had been visible by the force of the wind. centre of the great vortex of air all night. Aground, half-a-mile in-every tree has been uprooted and day and Chinese soldiers are patrol- Almost in the town occurred during Thurs esused by the typhoon.\n\nside Flower Island. WAS The strange alm continued for Ming, a Chinese owned, Japanese- down. One pole was lifted right out damaged the waterworks that the\n\nthe Wa most of the telegraph poles blown ling the streets. The storm exactly one hour and five minutes. officered steamer. At 1.40 p.m. the wind commenced Matheson & Co.'s Lok Sang was wires of a parallel row of poles opt night it is in utter darkness for Messrs. Jordine, of the ground and thrown across the town is without a supply of water. to freshen from the south-south- on the fishing stakes off Tatau Point. the other side of the street, a dithe electricity supply station\n\ndestroyed.\n\nSO\n\nwas\n\nS.S. \"CHOYSANG\" ASHORE.\n\nFOURTEEN MILES NORTH OF SWATOW.\n\nIt is to be feared that the full tale of shiping losses by the typhoon has still to be told. News was received, yesterday by Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co. that another of their vessels, the Choyaang, encountered the typhoon when north of Swatow, and was driven on to Fort Island. The Chosung (master, Capt. H. G. M. Walker, one of the most experi enced mariners on the China Coast) left Hongkong for Shanghai via Ningpo, on Tuesday evening. anchored on Wednesday night in the Clipper Roads to take shelter from the storm but she lost her anchors and was driven ashore at Fort Island.\n\n\"BADLY DAMAGED.\"\n\nShe\n\nThe Henry Keswick tug bad adready visited the Choysang when the message was received and she reported that the vessel was badly damaged. Yesterday morning, by courtesy of the naval authorities, H.M.S. Magnolia went to the assist- ance of the Chayang and would! reach her at or before daybreak to day. The Magnolia was in dry dock at the Naval Yard but when it was found she was needed she was hastily refloated and went to her mooring at 7.30 am.. yesterday. When leaving Hongkong she ne cidentally rammed a junk, but she herself received no damage and pro- eeeded northward.-Hongkong Daily 1Press.",
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        "content_text": "iv\n\nBorn to become a nuisance in Siam due to the mystery of hereto\n\n(marking barren) obrado To mensbrug tiert od stenoitroqorq Ndiw boteqmos us) [ent a 08.M. To ader art de bleg ere bre by Consuṛeadus at noire wooth sind zo? (ubredo ro] [est • 5.18 mujer a nieýdo et abam ni ¿quette oll area and ni beqiab blow,aaoʻrb un ban „yisdaving bedorm abrdo to aboró est to jlươi thik så då land a stom to all to đi, nedodot „yfirgo [EL\n\n.wgorim gettɔicum add not? nevə menjar reqorq e niside of Jdvoh on at anezh zet a (denknádo saing did edT\n\nJi aduq dolciwe obredo to astıq baaretoni eit to Jimmer OTO tided muigo edt borturas avad ode prone to dover ert broyad\n\notom bre redtrust ▲ „beateni seorb exome won odw berw\n\nsavimo ([awa Ya didari eild ni ɑnilom neozb merit Live ausİTOR\n\nBORES (0 1870oq erüt grows frommoper don sreeqge dots seorb\n\nedetänadno od si vai loq lažni99o aid malt NI .T\n\ntimeg of bas sqoɗn gridons sildoq ort ni anksioma muniqu\n\n|=3n9oi [ v [[einaqa anoataq od v (no sesuod steving at yekdome zadatri e vag að bærimmer os Ĺs are ofw seoqroq Jarid reì bạn yoi loq aids Jerit bougre ei JI „obredo Tiedt tot soirq bro ,[ozźnos one nożdoeqani rad sakti [iset radnery nauka y-w-and-te-two ni yntɔlora avovoskrorq edią\" râİw yone asok rudy to seguro (tátum) tuom end to eno .......980s tą ed [[tw #I \"„grizoma mulgo to didad anð oð galded mer ni v Govib al bretot doq otar! İnamigera acid deríd healden 01 Juoda prażuoli ne besoqui voi fog add of noktisoqgo (Ie gridsi lods to statů to viajeroeů arð yď OBA BIPOT betrotte anedd dadd bowery adë re seeper grikilom okidag „antiora od dnemsouhni auJOBIRIŠTA UN ve [s): bodetabel ban stromal‡jeë stirét adt\n\nanisabet to servos e [bbie [~okyo ([1 art Sqohe notedä varrimin (ɔ bra avarrod pakiloma atlɗng to reɗakar sdě v [Laub wpy |art tædit soitus; didżw nkaduteen void elite ¡toleradė jibero vadá se lozdnos dous medý sovka soavod saerit te maitredak\n\nToJĺnd an ([ow as ‚asorb to famoquib wid Tavo 880780g seiðinutroqqo\n\nopportunities of regulation and control of opium smoking generally.\n\n8. There is much to be said in favour of the Siamese point of view, though their case would be stronger if they used their system as they might do, for the recovery and destruction of dross. On the contrary, the Government makes no attempt to recover dross, but derives considerable revenue indirectly from its sale. For the keeper of the smoking shop is only permitted to sell chandu at the price at which he buys it from Government, and has to rely for his profit on the sale of the dross which he retails for consumption on or off the premises at Tcs 10 per beel (as compared with Tcs 15 per oban or 1 ticel = 171⁄2). The residue after dross is made fetches Tcs 2.50 a tola and is used apparently for eating or mixing with drinks.\n\nThis right to sell dross is of course a valuable asset to the keeper of the shop, and the licences which are put up to auction from time to time accordingly bring in a considerable revenue to Government.\n\nIncidentally, the higher price which the home smoker pays for his chandu may be taken, in part at least, as corresponding to the licence fee paid by the smoking shop.\n\nIt will be seen from the enclosed print that it is the declared intention of the Siamese Government to introduce a complete system of registration of smokers at some future date. In the meantime, they exploit the situation for political purposes by calling attention to the difficulties which extraterritoriality places in the way of the enforcement of their opium law, and by explaining that they cannot dispense with any large part of their opium revenue until certain foreign powers release them from treaty obligations under which general import duties cannot be increased.\n\n9.\n\nThe policy of the Dutch East Indies is set out in",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nWith reference to my despatch No 2480 of the 1st ultimo, I have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship, under separate cover but marked as forming the enclosure to this despatch, eight copies of the memoranda submitted to the Oriental Red Cross Conference held at Bangkok in December last by representatives of the Far Eastern Governments on the control of opium in their respective countries, which have been forwarded to me by the Secretary General of the League of Red Cross Societies.\n\nI have the honour to be, with great truth and respect,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n**(Signed)**\n\nCREWE\n\nThe Most Honourable,\n\nThe Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., etc. etc. etc.",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nجمع میں\n\nMr.\nMi.\nMr.\n\n70\nMINUTE.\n\nG\nSi\n165iq Ithough\n\nR\n0. 0.\n\n22 AM\nهذا\n\na\n116\n23 afe 24\n\nWith ref. to the letter from this Office `22/4/2` Bushe `22/4`\n(words) Daff. of the dog sef, 192d, tomonatting\n\nGelis\nSir C. Davis.\nSir G. Grindle.\nSir H. Read.\nJ. Masterton Smith.\nLord Arnold,\nMr. Thomas.\n\n22\nGo.79: qullah (ibsiq)\n\na copy of Mary Oxerted Youron Missions Justees Orta No. 9 of 1920, I am directed to transmit to you a copy or a despatch from the Gov. of Mong Kong inquiring whether, so far as the Col. Office is concerned, the Trustees affic under the Ord ce may be permitted to hand over to the reprãs of the Perman... Cover...\nMacdonald, the acc.\n\nMr be laid before the Sec. Rausag",
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        "content_text": "## - 30 -\n\nInto a general store and store offices, the old store accommodation being inadequate for present railway requirements. Eight lock-up garages were provided, also a timekeeper's office. This contract was nearly completed at the end of the year.\n\nWork on the construction of the overbridge to the north of Yaumati Station (Bridge No. 7) was delayed until the arrival of the steelwork, which was over-carried owing to the seamen's strike. The main line was deviated round the side of the new bridge, and traffic diverted without any interference. The masonry abutments and piers, with the exception of the west wings, which are situated under the deviation, were built in trenches, and were nearly up to bedstone level at the close of the year.\n\nConsiderable attention was given in collaboration with the Town Planning Committee to future railway requirements, and reservations of land likely to be required later for Branch Lines and Stations were decided upon. Surveys for the junctions of two probable branch lines were made, and centre lines staked out.\n\nThe new station building for Sheung Shui Station, for which provision was made in the estimates, was not undertaken. An alternative proposal whereby the long grade of 1 in 100 would be reduced to 1 in 250 and a new station built in substitution for both Fanling and Sheung Shui was considered, but the project is still in abeyance.\n\nAt Lo Wu, the 150 feet brick running-shed mentioned in the last report was completed and sidings laid, a small reservoir was also made and water supply installed.\n\nOn the Fanling Branch Line, the old engine-shed at Fanling Station was rebuilt, and a new one was erected at Sha Tau Kok. The old steelwork from the dismantled station at Hung Hom was used in these buildings, with corrugated asbestos cement roofs and sides.\n\nAbout 3,100 sleepers were renewed in the Main Line. Of these, 807 were of reinforced concrete and the remainder Australian hardwoods. During the year, 1,105 reinforced concrete sleepers were cast.\n\nIn July, Messrs. Butterfield & Swire terminated their lease for the 1,800 sq. feet of spare railway land occupied by them for coal storage, and new leases were entered into with the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. for several areas to be used as timber yards.\n\nFrom the 13th January to the 8th March, there was a strike of seamen which, as it developed, involved the majority of trades and seriously affected the business of the Colony. All strikers left the Colony for Canton, and this, coupled with the fact that river steamboat traffic entirely ceased, caused record Passenger and Goods traffic by rail. Except that the drivers and firemen were persuaded to join the strikers a day before the settlement, the Railway staff remained loyal and handled unprecedented traffic in a commendable manner. The express trains had to be run in duplicate or were double-hauled. In the latter case, they consisted of as many as 23 coaches. It was found generally preferable to run in duplicate, each portion consisting of from 10 to 12 coaches. As many as 2,000 passengers were carried on one portion, and over 8,000 in a day.\n\n## - 31 -\n\nThe increased earnings of this period were somewhat reduced by a period of partial stagnation after the strike, by the launchmen's strike in May, and by the frequent train suspensions owing to political unrest in Canton and neighbourhood. Much inconvenience and loss was caused by resultant military operations between Sun Yat-sen and Chan Kwing-ming. On five occasions, bridges on the Chinese Section of the line were damaged by explosives in attempts to prevent movements of troops. During this political unrest, robber bands were, as usual, active along the part of the line in the Chinese Territory.\n\nOn two occasions, the launch which plies between Taipa in British Territory and Sha U Chong in Chinese Territory was pirated.\n\nDuring the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in April, the Kowloon Railway Station was dressed with flags and buntings, and the building and clock tower facing the harbour fronts, including the goodshed, was picked out in red electric lights on the night of the 6th and 7th.\n\nThe Gross Receipts for the year were $710,295.75, as against $608,980.77 for 1921, an increase of $106,314.98. The balance after paying working expenses stands at $148,151.40.\n\nThe Through and Joint Sectional Passengers carried were as follows:\n\n| Year | Passengers booked by Stations in British Territory to Stations in China | Passengers booked by Stations in China to Stations in British Territory |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1920 | 365,665 | 373,776 |\n| 1921 | 435,033 | 462,379 |\n| 1922 | 526,111 | 522,009 |\n\nThe Local Passengers carried were as follows:\n\n| Year | Main Line | Fanling Branch |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1920 | 392,206 | 47,787 |\n| 1921 | 420,133 | 43,733 |\n| 1922 | 639,700 | 52,431 |",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTES\n\ndone by the H.H. Govt. to deal with their organis ators, that H.K. place the Comm'drs shd. be within touch ☆ take the most rigorous action, in view of the present \"100% + 20% 4/N policy\" of H.M.G. & the difficulty of making representations to Foreign Powers, while people carry on an unfettered, as they think, there **K.K.** Persia, Portugal, France, etc., retaliate that **MAL** & **Kall**; that if we deal with Narcotics (others) the situation wo. be practically saved. Sists in Waterlow's that the old law was nothing but a procedure / there we argued, but I knew it is illegal Wed. **K.K.** as a **Red** partner for illicit operations elsewhere, & that the Govt. have great frowns of search **می Ram** atc. But I pointed out that the new Ordi. 1/1/24 only came into operating manti.\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nthat I also pointed out however that dealing with persons of such **The South, ed. ngh** forcibly proceed unless it had the clearest evidence, a charge of some gravity, lack of a sympathetic atmosphere, in that the Chinese see nothing wrong in this smuggling; that the administration must show some regard for their prejudices. I too hinted that the Govt. live to vigorously make objection he **The 5. gs.** f La any San Lourenco ben Junin a clear new forners particular any political wh. Of course at the discussion Chris report hi has Nemait mr mind, & de M. Delevingne urges that if watched his Cover. why (as it can be watched under the Ordi. 4 mo) it wd. not fail to be in this country. **#K.** For re Waterlow enquired as to the hemachius wh. Ed. for enough maturing inflicke & Suggested deprivation convict in I for nativiality o banishment. I was Lovun ust fine Namunral precni Ay Latvial Ultimately. I promised M Waterlow that we wd. look up a til. for Consom ader to ascertain what the powers are.\n\nnow has much complicated by the law White as in `32.6` Consom `8.9.0`. `17/4`.\n\nPage 240\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "# South China Morning Post\n## No. 5,765 Vol. 23 號五十六百七千五第 三拜禮\n### WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. 日六十二月八年四十國民\n\nCAFE WISEMAN \n**BREAD, CAKES, ETC.** \nCan now be Booked.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### WATSON'S \n**AERATED WATERS** \nARE PREPARED FROM REAL FRUIT ESSENCE \nGUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE.\n\n- LEMONADE - Has the real essence obtained from Lemons grown in Southern Italy\n- RASPBERRYADE - Is prepared with the juice of raspberries grown in England and Tasmania.\n- FORMAZONE - THE NON-ALCOHOLIC CHAMPAGNE. It possesses the characteristic stimulating and refreshing qualities of Champagne and has a delicious flavour.\n- STONE GINGER BEER - The only genuine Stone Ginger Beer in the East. Prepared by a special process of fermentation which gives it the distinctive flavour which is so pleasing to the palate.\n\nSOLE AGENTS:- \n**A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.** \nAerated Water Manufacturers. \nESTABLISHED 1841.\n\n### PIONEER SILK STORE\nNEW SHIPMENT \n**SPUN SILK CREPES** \nin \nFANCY COLOURED STRIPES \nfor \nSUMMER FROCKS \nAT \nChina Building, Queen's Road Central\n\n### THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. \n**GECOPHONE** \nRECEIVING SETS \nWITH AERIAL $64.00. \nNo. 2 CRYSTAL SET \nTHE MACAO BROADCASTING HAS \nBEEN HEARD WITH THIS SET \nALL PRICES REDUCED. \nNEW \nSTOCKS, \nQueen's Building, Hongkong.\n\n### EONIA A \n**CANDY STORE ORE** \nCOLD DRINKS. \nICE CREAM \nand \nSODA FOUNTAIN. \nThe Asiatic Building Tel. C. 4702\n\n## GOOD CITIZENS. \n**PRESENTATIONS TO TWO PLUCKY CIVILIANS.** \nRobbery Sequel. \n**THE MURDER OF MAJOR PALMER.** \nFULL STORY OF THE TRAGEDY. \nGallant Attempt to Save Village.\n\nPeking, Aug. 14. - ... arrival at Harbin of Mis...\n\n### NOT A \"RED.\" \n**EXPULSION ORDER NOW RESCINDED.** \nMistaken Identity.\n\nThe order made last week for the expulsion from the Colony, as an undesirable, of Joseph L. Tipliteli, a Ukranian, has now been rescinded, and permission has been given him to remain in the Colony.\n\nThe plucky act of two civilians in effecting the arrest of two men subsequent to the commission of an armed robbery on the 21st of April recalled yesterday, when a presentation was made to them at the office of the Captain Superintendent of Police. Amongst those present at the ceremony were Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E., who made the presentation, Mr. T. H. King (Director of Criminal Intelligence), Mr. D. Burlingham (Deputy Superintendent of Police), Mr. L. H. V. Booth (Assistant Director of the Criminal Intelligence Department), Mr. W. R. Scott (Assistant Superintendent), Mr. J. Kerr (Assistant Superintendent), and Mr. W. Kent (Chief Inspector).\n\nMr. P. P. J. Wodehouse said: \"Gentlemen, I have been instructed by His Excellency the Governor to make a small presentation to Mr. Focken and Mr. Li Chi-kong to show the appreciation of the Government of their services in arresting two armed robbers on the 21st April.\"\n\nIt will be recalled that Tipliteli was first charged with not being in possession of a proper passport, and a nominal fine was inflicted on this charge. The police, however, took a more serious view of the man's case, as he was supposed to have been identified by a Frenchman as having been connected with \"Red\" activities in Canton and as one who took a leading part in organising and conducting a strike of servants on Shameen. In consequence, the man's expulsion from the Colony was asked for, and a magisterial order to this effect was made.\n\nFrom facts which have since been disclosed, however, the case turns out to have been one of mistaken identity, with the result that the expulsion order has been withdrawn.\n\nThe official account of the circumstances of this incident was then read by the C.S.P. as follows: \"Mr. Frederick John William Focken, of Messrs. Alex. Ross and Company, with his assistant, Mr. Li Chi-kong, happened to be on the point of alighting from a motor bus outside the China Motor Bus Company's premises when they heard police whistles being blown some distance down the road, which a good view could be obtained from a temple near by.\n\nMr. Focken's attention was drawn to a man who was riding in a ricksha going in the direction of the railway bridge some three hundred yards away. Mr. Focken boarded a passing bus, and, alighting when the bus was passing the ricksha, seized this man also, and, with the help of a by-stander, handed him over to two Indian constables.\n\nThe motor-car then went to the village and eventually he and Dr. Howard, with the Russian boy and the Chinese boy, stationed themselves in a cornfield, whilst Mr. Baldwin, young Howard, and another Russian who had appeared on the scene took cover in a motor-car as the bandits approached.\n\nMajor Palmer, however, insisted on leaving the car and going back to the ranch. Armed with rifles and ammunition, the party, which besides Major Palmer and Dr. Howard, included the latter's son, a Chinese boy, and a Russian boy, and a Russian chauffeur, went in a motor-car driven by the Russian chauffeur, to a village about half-way between the ranch and the village occupied by the bandits.\n\nBandits' Circling Movement.\n\nThe bandits, who were mounted, moved out from the village in two parties, one making for the cornfield, while the other made for the motor-car. Mr. Baldwin, young Howard, and the Russian made a running fight for it back to the ranch, firing from the footboard as they went, and eventually eluded their pursuers.\n\nMeanwhile, the rest of the bandits had come up towards the cornfield from the rear. Mr. Baldwin had made efforts to warn Major Palmer and Dr. Howard as to what was happening and the bandits' circling movement.\n\nMajor Palmer Found.\n\nSome time after Mr. Baldwin and the others had returned to the ranch, a messenger arrived from the bandits demanding money and cartridges. Mr. Baldwin hurriedly scraped together what money and cartridges could be found at the ranch and went down with it to the bandits' village, only to discover that they had all gone off, taking Dr. Howard with them.\n\nDr. Howard's Captivity.\n\nIt is reported that the bandits have now taken Dr. Howard across the Sungari Railway Bridge. Mr. Baldwin, who is stated to have endeavoured to persuade Major Palmer to leave the bandit alone, is at present at Fuchowhsien, some 400 miles from Harbin, making every effort to keep in touch with the captive and secure his speedy release. Reuter's Pacific Service.\n\nThe murder by Chinese bandits on July 20 of Major Morgan Palmer reminds us that from the first organising of the Salt Revenue Administration by Sir Richard Dane, he was one of his chief's most trusted and honoured assistants, and was instrumental not a little in the great success of the Administration.\n\nSome time after Mr. Baldwin and the others had returned to the ranch, a search was then carried out in the cornfield and the discovery made of the dead bodies of Major Palmer and his Chinese boy, who were later buried, as they had fallen, side by side under a big oak tree at the ranch.\n\nAt the May Criminal Sessions, the first and third defendants were each sentenced to five years' hard labour. The second defendant, who was too ill to appear, will take his trial at the coming Sessions.\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice paid a tribute to Major Palmer, saying that he was a quiet unassuming man and an excellent Chinese scholar, who won the confidence of all with whom he had official relations. He was very greatly respected and trusted by the various Chinese rulers and particularly by Marshal Chang Tao-lin.\n\nNational Chinese Trait.\n\nThe C.S.P. went on to say that Mr. Focken's name was now added to the long list of European civilians and Service men who had rendered valuable assistance to the police, whereas on the other hand, if crimes of violence were committed in crowded thoroughfares without anyone lifting finger to prevent or help in the arrest of the culprits, as often occurred in the great cities of Europe and America, a hue-and-cry would have been immediately raised.\n\nMr. Li was presented with a cheque. Mr. Focken was presented with a silver cigarette case which bears the following inscription: \"Presented to Mr. F. W. Focken by the Hongkong Government in appreciation of public services, April 21st, 1925.\"\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### LAZARUS \n**HONGKONG'S ONLY EUROPEAN OPTICIAN** \nHighest Qualification, Modern Sight Testing Equipment Prompt Repair Service. \nBranches:- \nLONDON, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG. \n[12, Queen's Road, Central]\n\n### The Franki Compressed Concrete Piling System for Foundations.\nNo. 1 Outfit - H.M. NAVAL DOCKYARD \nNo. 2 \nNo. 3 \n\"ROPE FACTORY, KOWLOON \nHas arrived and is now being assembled \nDon't delay but send us your enquiry at once, asking for Booklet No. 8. \n**HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.** \nHead Office - HONGKONG. \nST. 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Extra charge to see Stereoscopic Pictures and Special Exhibits.\n\n## THE SUN CINEMA.\n\n**PROGRAMME FOR September 5th to 8th, 1915**\n\nARIDOW PRESENTS NEVA GERDEN IN \"The Santa Fe Trail\" The 3rd and 4th Episodes in 4 parts.\n\n...deleg might cent of the year the Boys' Brigade was a remarkable demonstration of their kindred spirit, in support of the \"Peace-Aims\" exported from international solidarity, urged ordered troops to shoot 60 or 70 persons, were 28-67. (use at all prices). The Tooden Daily Herald wondered how would you feel about having twenty firms pointing the sponsors... Large cort of demand of oil in Puol. siune land an opportunity. The Foreign exploiters, he ran, from pamphlets, the true addict, user in China because Company Ltd., mainly exports from story of the grants in Shanghai. Labour was cheap and profits were very great. The usurer had to read how the Immediate...\n\nThe Company has many branches... the most important section in China, making killing of Chloewliang with an injudicious organ... Noviet Rumia, Daring sight... in Tapisserie ward... kaune, and the Libane...\n\nChimphny exports... Tamki duminda freintekom from different goods for kam mim... the Cleverkmeet me the League 4,207,100 gold rubles, chiefly (Nititia, that in long an aspiratiele... Finlangan, on vint, promed back Ken exploiting Chloean Jaktor, kje als. As to Import, the Company...\n\n...Tant the clan of Lần – mcgille the man was deeply moved jury.\n\nThe **metallurg**... wiła ze zsproses katteer of the product rock Inbour most apo į fulfilled orders for 185,000 gr...\n\n(be allowed to ekler Any sylland (mostly Okpada and Japancio Workers pouring that they had no personal points... gemerck by Dersally king Bertrand Russell Speake kauda, no the Praidues of the...\n\nmeat. If the Braef fignum Bhanghal pero lo jeopardy, it man bremuse of the foreigner's habit of shooting the Betiyak.\n\nelentria and tensile incluatry. (T) Build 30 New Staawari.\n\nMoscow, August 20,--la noword noon with the röpoch of the BOT Plug Committen, The Commo of Labor and Defense... Mr. Bertrand Russell Jasna International Fustration of Tenčų) but the Chioma mockin' men UNA (M, Pursell)...\n\nThis dramatic Tooldrat, whlo was obsered to the hi was Bling almaz L ■ rowing su impliằng merking, which in no. Bhanghelb went on, we w mrgerinin volen had demanded täpplenind that the biggest #relgu | purpom 20 mallilan gille ukten, AP Chin fatory legislation worthy w warshipu malu kʊme within a few wensele will be built wu tho freteekei...\n\n## Hongkong Students To Pursue Studies Free Of Charge in Canton.\n\nWith The Strikers Day! Obstacles To The LABOR AND PEASANT MOVEMENT...\n\n## Peasant Movement Åt Tsi Kum.\n\n1. 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Ships of the Eastern Hou the part of British author Ber to wwlog to systemetiuni albompta frems...\n\npick up • quarrel with Bavich Tom in and do...\n\npory mbkorting an R skip \"Chiskerin\" Imported from Egypt.\n\nMover the Chiny, Zolmay, the Anische Matarum which kaform the Mimow, August 10 — In conveer jane mar altuated in a dark marrom Then with the forthgaming Jichiller vi kallding new...\n\nAcademy...\n\nMe, Lesberge 1 and rearghland Boulder of Bra dek|9olf, Thu Prakit ấp cho không còn tháng 1 palakas koma of the Trade Aandemy, poluti sut. Kat einer the Agnőemy it la preparing great thought rewalutlus the Aandemy imaranee) || works of Inte. Profsurori espazoff.\n\ncongratulate | 19e buildings meie fase bear (1) Maleckmatzff and Milf am hydro- reval Bay, Comparison with the pronar ilmin dyenmion Bamins Systezi and...\n\nthe end of the There voi he said, “aselber | Bafire, the repletivo (1 kad 26 - Litterster- havong wingaid for thin workers in Bonshowned festonia, Willage\" wear Chion. That w000...\n\n* 4.\n\n(the mom xế 2 20ak trap against)India, whore cudition for workers | 42.000.000 ambo an} th...\n\n|i vrpone GF B. 30.000...\n\nUnique La vendiffmuih siroma The workerk, and Thr British were gonily bad. HE HOPED The Orden of Pope's 63 muaj slange myn Medickoff, Pake...\n\nINDIA WOULD nappation of Ukiomén terribary.\n\nFOLLOW ten taklog Future and nation the Vondomy of Helmusan kun sat Tosk Mr. Hamiļau Fyfe, adhor of the CHINA, FOR BRITISH CAP. Menia works of the Auxilia y formar qualities but ta the mostenry Duty Hello who followed, wa ITALISM IN LITHER PLACE | 150pped lataly 300,000 guôle miles, conerand un doneloped them. The warmly applanded when ba dealerad? !WAS EQALLY BAD for ion dende. Dorme de proud,“ vom Way rament nevar løberfered...\n\nTibat a national agitation should be after the revolothus be ]* \"WE ARE NOW PLEADING,...\n\nwith the macontiźle mark of Le started agaisnt the markeri pavilion Laborskry her bus ringanized Azadny, although sometimes li NOT FOR THE CIVILIZATION...\n\nin China. Into the Excitetu of Pl-juice and...\n\nwendl be jnkford in OF THE CHINESE, BUT FOR THE...\n\nMalisation with saw willing to a Ka Belitian CIVILIZATION...\n\nOURSELVES\"...\n\nOF...\n\n| \n\nMr B Swales, shairman of the Conngil of the Tend- Union Com...\n\nThes a powerful searchlight or Chum working \"onditions...\n\nBut The...\n\nfor outruating physical Instru- Bevist Power wai nating moth wests...\n\ngros, moscalated the Trada Dulen | mente ao Senalign the ground ly with a full time and mader- Mom of this mustry with tha | Imarnased only three final.\n\nher ught take ping by Mr. Tommolador, aut Mr. Kia Junio...\n\ndolomier, M. P. who wated that...\n\nla tungko, z gitar works, buyr had...\n\nta boli from 4x in tali pa i To lakken. KAMERTY MANA phere for a shilling a month and Chale Aad. Mongra had to do X koma at a strefah undergranad. and young girl worm fareed 1 work alimentawek of 084 82' bears Wsyrt in Asma Can- auto at low ma lajan Baja yg female child-race To...\n\nall somerkki Pellak a man...\n\n(China) dealered that hir sankey-...\n\nMower to munden shemtroy mit against...\n\ndid not wred the word from...\n\nA kolmudilluns under which they mure (brøvd ka mark.\n\nNr. C. Roda Brzton Full Al Healer spitalinn kad tikva dvantage of its superior way strength in Impesu deuditions na Lhu Cllness work-ra-zuudulene ibal New Zel Bring a Llush toyyney while www-in order to make profit.\n\nTko srahukay, which was nastir!...\n\n## Pearl Theatre.\n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND.)\n\n**PROGRAMME FOR Saturday to Monday Sent: 6 to 7 100%**\n\nwith Lin P...\n\n## Peasant Corps At Tung Bo Disarm Tam Kai Sau's Troops.\n\n...ThatKamalutisanty Promod of Sigh. Pengping and Lam Skargad wore revealed, then AUTH Kam dhe armirandy pak cipe Tang Bagathaped...\n\nwer...\n\nHeporanstulives reorived a reported 19 vilse: parti gather in the af Augu The Boreas of meaton ka hot wrsk saling at a elger mladi -py and a district and...\n\nkozik walk mera than 3,000 sumelor preudarnya aunty jiretruched that Siivate Usen (15) Pinnes kored by the Ilongkong |...\n\n|k preparatory sign for Bar Girgao Parmak a detailed statement ikaw 2Ničnik), world arrive at Chat...”\n\nHuation of a Tune Pennai Arusia (lauren p Flug Um samber af students from...\n\nin the event. Immediatly, tho Mill EG keld a montramos to distruction ban trusted og la maer revolutuary from under...\n\nBom hun already been formal Bai Aunt escla...\n\nfor the serumen of the | what etapa should be taken, at the...\n\n. the...\n\npul...\n\nforces...\n\nTakoj...\n\n• \n\naphs tkh...\n\nTam Kalon in the 30th. Th the Domeniiden the pravan- pamasa had worst defeated them Elinary Leon of the 2nd and 3rd when Mas Kamenovane Ti (kair Štejejon, eles awed at Un On and Trava with midik und wurrounded Mayumi Tapakker with the gentry, 166, ppasand...\n\nMat Bang Moon Kitérikesuppiosios matka ♬ the studenta par timer, The Bunker game Magistrate, Bi. Kansant, no...\n\nthe emular complatiomiale The Trsipt...\n\nCall undirni mveral...\n\nLettlement:...\n\n3. Fully mangel të palesť, the...\n\nIf badito and die...\n\nChan ser disaraved by Liste desturbing the villagern the Chila a geveral wider Law Foulbeats are charged with the who in in power at Tungkung responsibility of attacking fit, pant...\n\nBronse of this lixa 5. Liang Hung-in Disarmo...\n\nRabal Troops.\n\ndown banter. But...\n\netlil ba je bopong ko na sip agus...\n\nin separation with some of the 193...\n\nN * Maa ki je w orderl...\n\nnything work at bestruotiana frak. 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Tai pamato Pastompere, (by probalotelat pedant mm.pinti...\n\nVale offered to supply them with formed rented da wammika mera han led vene, the Commander app, face, rig that they They are Law beginning to do them -rch Chorima.\n\nann demand of the strike la Chok Yun-k!, the 111k brigade diemiul of the mixg nề...\n\nThe...\n\ngescale main blog to her of the Chatinors army under Railway, H. Chen. Tilted L-Fang party.\n\nLiang Hang kal at Sunsingh that the strike le obes...\n\nklog against the Nationariation Jongresmi kumung th...\n\nLi Fu in joying hian 17 de Baungkap After his defeat lunt | Just Goparamendued approsaing the Gormek yêur by the Kuðslulung Rådiers, Papil. After the Jill be 10,000...\n\nof the elations in the hududary...\n\nthe diemia] Ceastar revelakery...\n\nUnder...\n\nck You | al...\n\nKystkura Kəmuga. Liu Fo, after Trop...\n\nThe purple r...\n\nPlasa...\n\nhaya...\n\nالم...\n\nbreb...\n\nkin failure, has been asking help. Skinz were denied by Linng trom the Plug (horarumini ] Bung-lin after attnek Kwanglung. Taan Uli jubi bronnen of his keptility comura 11m helping the Kuombatang aridieru lu Naturgalom Gayusmodi k working th rebrin...\n\nworkber of the Ballang Our raspondent ended m Mr.\n\n| Kong pak, Cramosmane De Labor kid Agricultor of the Provi) plat Gorrent, in order lo gel...\n\nlih information regarding the | trade in thei...\n\nter...\n\nMr Clan Kurg pik kald tani, Mr. Cheik Yanki w the question will be discosed tor Wong was Cantuaran to da...\n\nday by the Provincial Government stray Customs. Tungremi hay during the fight. Traine of the tool which will bry...\n\nInd benn went by Ton esiju saking Nag-Yung Railway...\n\nnow|| malhada af stafmatory n bilament Ük Oke-fang of baking using so uma). The dustion Fang Panja | Klanga and oli se la quilo procefal. Chen Yiajan of Fuking to napply 4 Wang Shto-hang's Troops Will...\n\na pomumtesa bo Lan Tu to reback Protect Wachow Content d4 lk show mliturinə! want ra nhw Dezir lapulty to Tu Chi jul for faturn reward, they all kaye pommand to do what he makes. A few duyu ngiv a proud quantity...\n\nof Kansalla perk dat Bestim...\n\nand Boing-Alog. Ida Pa's far isys Lou Leiening while the other graevale of Ohau Chieng, wing at Pendly laing si...\n\npowere...\n\nDarlag hetke kokt...\n\nasked la...\n\nuld extend the Tekndə TA i vindhum, de eer Ms. Ac englantia Headquarter pokad cradles to propeni la Tafurahaa, \n\n$. Yesterday ta Strikarı For departmani peṣelvad la...\n\nflowing m...\n\nFm 1 merobauda o...\n\nCACA...\n\nFrom Charte coloms Di...\n\nCukk...\n\n$10.000...\n\n| \n\nT...\n\n## Meeting Held By Strike Delegates.\n\ndum không la thu round dish...\n\n19. to--flazer bar be...\n\nmeforging na niyaam of paymast to the 18th your of the Reput la lig...\n\nThe parchment of Tran Perian Arelation le verg slum. owing do thu nhavn alalalaa.\n\n## National Disgrace Day.\n\nA meeting wi-fil resoutly at 1 Provincial Etoempasi Amesīn...\n\nBy The Alchina Labour Um And the Hirika Delgates. More than thousand perszes were joharity with Mr. Me Abiu-shon...\n\nDomo...\n\nH...\n\nBenson's Umbau und Me Le. We...\n\nOn The worth, my of preding A On days when the Imperialaten verane were leak-4, consist- forand na Unequal Tresty upon vs. 1 Nr. La Yea oun of the tha various claims of people haveina Labour Aminom, Mr.\n\nPen Y of the Mirror Lubawe...\n\n•Heated ᏓᏗᏗ . \n\npara j iamrmed that the Galiana Apolation. Mr. Za Bing kai of the Lutherist kapa Familie and have deadded in dealer, “f the Ship and Englies Waipo.\n\nAfter the nation, the priftinal ja holiday on that day They will 44.000 kka forma a propeptada unapaiya Prpent and pruendure of Kwang- So give dentures in the elty exposing org, was zxplained by Mr. Li Fu- 271 phase of a Nathum. Dular of the Pollioul De...\n\nthe puckansk of the Bonnese Army-...\n\n20 000...\n\nFrom Chance day in...\n\nCanada...\n\n3.000...\n\nf the present allundum m The...\n\nFrom Chinese goboy ja...\n\nUnited StateN From Chiarn shay la...\n\nM>...\n\n400...\n\n4.244...\n\n| \n\nCha xe\" com-Šla sam Railway Bormal work of whlek K 14 plant for Ake fare priple.\n\nThe...\n\nFrom Chiosa sulony In...\n\nVIU Tur...\n\n1.186...\n\nrt...\n\nthe...\n\nTerm (blame in char...\n\nAmerican order...\n\nFrom the Shanghai Ph...\n\n## Unification Of Kwangsi Finance.\n\nBlame the 1+ Devlalón o hate Army me *pps the rebellion at Kongo. 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They mouth and...\n\nTo create a stronger feron tay tha of reorganisation of The Govern: Parka rosently, and reported clisk the Nationalitat Gaverament for the ent and separation the military Kerwinlang oldies at Tamani, purpees of wa atarken Tang Podmlustration from this afvlt.\n\nThe plan for the ra organiration But after the armakod. That made him no mormona yaying alw attention military ure vam memily-...\n\nN klang ago, be enlisted me al military operation meertas untulari, an In A wong. 253 motoops in Kalin and Chun Kaneelslorgano kata e me under J 25 En nevem kan krem at a standa...\n\nCaning And That Yộp Kau has ankindjak w...\n\njened dial of manpoviem. Tupin I. K Ek it beje ribed that there the control of Underhizatı...\n\nBriflab...\n\n[The They dolls—in mana TO LE verr diena 9.000 soldiers. El moprimer that the financem off...\n\nenglanti anga ma thu Amarjoka Truly calisted from Kuangai. Thay Kagi mak...\n\nArm Cary & Bo wish to learn tanganga for a mun will be trained at 85fm-king-...\n\nkher mate foregeten, iki vam pat before the reargaulantia can be revoirs and open knojapan ta SONI Effretine.\n\nbeple nekod se o the purser. 8. Cha Pri-jeh's Army...\n\nThe foreignere ich May dilut...\n\nKaylking about para. Tip...\n\nwith J Fer...\n\nd...\n\ngon Cuck...\n\nwith tury...\n\nngals. Tung Porn-yan Bacemen Unsary...\n\nWhen new pornked Kronachen | Hared to Könychusn.\n\nQoqlar tak pekmo kaya beli se lued by his in parient sigurnet...\n\nthat the Hulkanalist (ɔe rameal After the fixezimit order that Kwan gas inquesting them to Hand sama planning to utisak the mouth we can pa urn to be allowed to quarter répromitetiver på kold, a maficcars...\n\nJar...\n\nThese bejnais da chenum 1ḥale|...\n\nTee from Sharome to the Canon...\n\nby...\n\nStrike Committee Appeals To Military Council.\n\nTwinks Camiller...\n\n=...\n\nMp...\n\nErgutat from the...\n\nson thị tham Out. 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        "content_text": "## 252\n\nHe and the Russians have now complete control of the city. From a military point of view, they are undoubtedly in a very strong position, and it is unfortunate that the Anti-Red leaders are preoccupied with the personal disputes and dissensions which are the invariable accompaniment of military operations in China. The Anti-Red forces remain in occupation of Swatow, the re-capture of which port I reported in paragraph 7 of my despatch of the 19th September, 1925 (`47446`).\n\nAnd the normal trade with **Hongkong** is being gradually re-established. I have been informed by H.M. Chargé d'Affaires that General Chan Kwing-ming's activities have the sanction of the Central Government, and it is possible that the fact of this backing from Peking may reconcile certain Generals, notably Lam Fu, who have been inclined to dispute his authority. I may mention that two river gun-boats have recently deserted from Canton and are now in **Hongkong** harbour, awaiting General Chan Kwing-ming's orders. There is the usual lack of money and munitions, and as regards money, the Reds seem to be at least as badly off as their opponents. Forced loans and compulsory payment of taxes in advance are proving very unpopular measures in Canton.\n\nWhile it is quite clear that the Russians, under the able leadership of Borodin, will continue to do their utmost to compass the ruin of **Hongkong**, it is possible that it may suit their book to call off the strike and boycott, at least for the time being, in order to rid themselves of the expense and embarrassment of a mass of idle and discontented labour.",
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        "content_text": "lobe going very much \n\n further whet \n\n : \n\n him buy and ammunition from \n\n f \n\n havel \n\n 2 \n\n { \n\n military authorities (Even of payment has the deferred). Still the deft bewithe \n\n curious intefura \n\n pokey in China as \n\n way \n\n be Cather \n\n I'm 20 as a \n\n 8 \n\n Planter \n\n with them contatt \n\n think it \n\n wat be best if in Clutterbuck were \n\n to send his afft privately to his prind in the \n\n ZE Dept of the to. i ash whether the 70. mad \n\n ALL \n\n Such \n\n amy \n\n бојота \n\n Linies. \n\n is om \n\n writing to them on home In a meation of the delicacy \n\n Rank 2 Deglio like the for Co. shit frame \n\n then pficial cource in \n\n Course in concert. \n\n I showed the tel. \n\n 5/12/25 \n\n би \n\n at Sire \n\n Grindle's nquet, \n\n I FE Dept \n\n F.o. Its \n\n Let the \n\n afternoon and incidentally advantage of Frrassing the maker with \n\n Mr Prati \n\n Lunch \n\n on Consul Geneal at Shanghai, \n\n wow amisting \n\n intersted \n\n اسه \n\n ILum. \n\n They \n\n www \n\n view \n\n LS \n\n ✩ \n\n latio from as; \n\n They would nations such \n\n they comesn't formise that they would agme \n\n Sivu \n\n 14= whith thing \n\n but it waned \n\n Le Fo. Ls! \n\n Gulli \n\n Washing \n\n A \n\n Sen somushad divided \n\n On the question of mistame \n\n Opportunity \n\n Opinion in \n\n poking with now \n\n They certainly \n\n Lave 18 nomesitant in relation Klatest Fundspens \n\n te the Northe pin the South. \n\n ws. not regard \n\n our left, which they think quite \n\n inclified, as an attempt to interfere \n\n ? how send this a Staples Thelulistek 9/12 \n\n 619 \n\nParaphrase telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 6th December.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 9.40 a.m. 6th December, 1925).\n\nThe Chinese cruisers in south China are under the command of Admiral Li. He is now in Hongkong and his cruisers are engaged in hampering the activities of the Red troops in Kwangtung who are regarded as rebels. In particular he is occupied in preventing (1) the Red army from crossing the Hainan Strait and launching an attack on Hoi-how \n\n(2) army and ammunition from reaching Canton via West River delta. I wish to emphasize firstly that the British Navy is not in a position to perform these services and secondly that these services are of great value to Hongkong. The Admiral now represents that his stock of arms and ammunition is low and he has applied for permission to purchase fresh supplies from naval and military authorities here. I have consulted Naval Commander in Chief who has expressed the opinion that some four or five ships engaged in the arms traffic have been prevented by Admiral Li's cruisers from reaching Canton, and that the small amount of ammunition asked for would not be a source of danger even if the Admiral were to change sides. I should be glad to know therefore whether the Admiral's request may be met.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "Pearl Theatre \n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND.) \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nTuesday to Thursday Aug: 11 to 13 1925 At 1.30, 6.45 and 9.15 P.M. \n\nMARION DAVIES \n\n→ STE -- \n\n\"The Restless Sex\" \n\n7 KEELS \n\n--AND- \n\nEDNA MARIAN \n\n-IN- \n\n\"Her Daily Dozen\" \n\n(Comedy in 2 parts) \n\nThe Sun Roof Garden. \n\nCinematograph, Different kinds of Chinese & Foreign plays. Amusements are shown Day and Night. \n\nAdmittance 35 Cents. \n\nExtra charges for Tom, refreshments, Talossops Observation, \n\nExhibitions of Transtigaration. Special Vinoma \n\nRear Seats \n\nnt \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1925. \n\nSoviet Mercantile Fleet \n\nThe \n\n\"Sovtorgflot\" \n\n\"MONGUGA\" $74 \"PAMIAT LENINA\" \n\nwill leave Canton for Swatow and Shanghai and Vladivostok on or about 18th August. \n\nFor further particulars apply to \n\nPetroleum Office of Trade Mission of U.S.S.R. in China at Canton \n\n(Agents of Soviet Mercantile Fleet \"Berfo glat\") \n\n2nd floor, Central Bank of China Buildings, The Bund. \n\n行銀央中 \n\nTHE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA \n\nEstablished by Government Mandate of 7th August, 1921 \n\nOfficial Government Depositary \n\nGENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED \n\nTelephone: Central 199, 444, 777. \n\nTelegraph Address: \"CENTRAL\" \n\nTSE VUNG SOONG \n\nChief Manager \n\n東 \n\nThe Bank of East Asia, Ltd. \n\n(CANTON BRANCH) \n\nSAPSAM HONG STREET, CANTON. \n\nHead Office-HONGKONG. \n\nCable Address---**FASTA BANK” \n\nSHAMKEN, \n\nTelephone No.-1876 West. \n\nAuthorized Capital $10,000,000.00: $5,000,000.00 \n\nPaid-up \n\nReserve Fund \n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES throughout the World. \n\nEvery kind of banking facilities:- \n\nGranting loans on approved securities. \n\nSelling drafts and buying bills on Foreign agencies, \n\nTHE ORIENTAL HOTEL \n\nAND \n\nRESTAURANT \n\nTHE BUND \n\nFACING THE PEARL RIVER \n\nWith the Whole View of Canton City \n\nFrom the Roof Garden \n\nModern Accommodation and Comfortable Equipments \n\nHot and Cold Baths \n\nServe best Foreign and Chinese Meals \n\nWe prepare party dinners \n\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. \n\nUniversal Providers. \n\nThe Bund, Canton \n\nNew Arrivals Of Tinned Goods And Silks \n\nOur Own Manufacturers:-- \n\nAERATED WATERS, PERFUME, GLASS WARE, METAL WARE, RATTAN WARE, FURNITURE, &C, SOAP, \n\nOUR ROOF-GARDEN:- \n\nCinema and a Variety of Chinese & Foreign Plays \n\nAdult 35 Cents, \n\nAre shown DAY & NIGHT.-- Admission \n\nSavings Department. Concessions to small depositors with current accounts interest \n\nTHE SUN CINEMA. \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nAugust 12th to 0th, 1925 \n\nTRIANGLE PLAYS \n\nPRESENTS \n\nDOROTHY DALTON \n\n \n\nThe Far Eastern Trust and \n\nSavings Bank, Ltd. \n\n34, SECOND MALOO \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\nHONAM-SUB \n\nCABLE ADDRESS \"BANKTRUST\" \n\nBRANCH \n\nTA KEE TOW \n\nAll descriptions of Banking Business transacted, \n\nInterest allowed on Current and Savings Accounts and \n\nLoans granted on approved securities. \n\nIN \n\nFIXED DEPOSITS. \n\n\"The Dark Road” \n\nIN FIVE BIG REELS \n\n$1,80 \n\nVarious Comedies \n\n \n\n \n\nTHE \n\nChina Development \n\nCommercial \n\n& Savings Bank, Ltd. \n\nTelone (9-tra] 792 \n\nAditing, West Bugend B'. \n\nCroston \n\nTHE SUN Co., Ltd. \n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS \n\nWEST BUND; & WAI OI STREET, OLD CITY. CANTON, \n\nfe in to join advantage to visit our Wholesale and Retail Departments. All kinds of China silk piece goods, boots and shoes, hats, outfitting, etc. \n\nPROFESSIONAL QUALITY \n\n7 out of 10 cases of \n\nHEADACHE \n\ncan be cured from eyestrain. If you were a victim of this trouble, you should have your eyes examined soon. \n\nDO IT AT THE SUN CO. \n\nDr. K. K. Yang, who takes charge of our Optical Department, \n\nhas specialized on Ophthalmology and Optometry. \n\nJET \n\nSuits for our third floor, well-stocked for \n\nDR. KÜNK, \n\nA modern Banking and up-to-date... All manner of interest rates allowed for all kinds of deposits. \n\nLoans granted on approved securities \n\nBANK OF CANTON LIMITED, \n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG, \n\nINTEREST ON FIXED OR WITH \n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS \n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, \n\nFor 6 Months 4 per annum, \n\nFor 3 Months & per annum on the daily credit \n\nbalance of over $100.00, \n\nOn demand \n\n2% per annum \n\nChief Manager \n\nLABOR AND PEASANT MOVEMENT. \n\nTHE CANTON \n\nGAZETTE \n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925. \n\nCommerce Leaders On Trade Permits. \n\n(Continued from Page 1) \n\nPeanut Oil Shipments \n\nDiplomatic Commission's Report On Shanghai \n\nShootings \n\nNo Enthusiasm For Judicial Inquiry--Chinese Rights Recovery \n\nMovement. \n\nPeasants Movement. With The Strikers. \n\n„Outing to the best product of elibe th Workers infinging the vari joik being insul? cirat far the preda Government Devises Means To \n\nMeeting Of Peasants Union OffThe \n\nSow bad but all good to be the people, to saul rely Aid The Workers On Strike. 1st Division Of Pun Yu District. \n\ntransporth a sie abject to ajan skipun ka the hum A present the movement for the inspection, and this shows that the Taingear wind beachwang Bia the (YBOX QUE YEASANT CORRESPONDENT) \n\nand Nationalist Revolution \n\nthe authorities \n\not oflented buke massage, shipping bus bort tilf After the establishment of the Nations emancipation has \n\nuniformily is the internal affairs, tied up, and regular supplies of oil only the faulted brake from Shock Of French Minister's Split. Diplomatie turpe have ap \n\nPeasants Union of the 1st division \n\nprogressive, Rod towardɛ the actio Mr. Long Ton Hing said the Geotou lava imen impossible Paris sud Teky, is generally) \n\nfelt tore that thpt of the parently reanvered from the sbank Pon Yo! Fongebuan) f \n\nof the rains wochers on ekrike, Commit-ones Buty land taken up tuns causing a ries in the murkor \n\nConniving to Shanghai should be of the Fench Minister'e rezigna District great soccer das fillorect \n\nthe Governmel has led its be the maler with His strikers, adde \n\nThe Cute Balta Unkel liebed bioause it participeter, in att pablico give them advice and estistuuon, the Butte Cermitte died rent Mr. \n\nSo for very little Tadication for I was told to day that the vacancy thas create on the Uɔra- activities. This is the third soul goes the Atrike a garrist into Lai Torg Fo to the Come Shaughst kan spesially pirates; meeting for skation of Commit fot, the Gavermout has red Department to deal conjully wished a forge consignawel of pear on glee by the Legatione contain would most probanly as Members. Everyone attended the} \n\ndevire no efforte to \n\nen forit. so said that this in simply full from Tsingtao, for shipment turning its esetents, but the Chinese led in the course of a few days. \n\nIt is nateraled that the moment are thornghiy convinced that it) After the recting with interess. \n\nmaintaining the livelihood of the matter the part of the Pickete Caston to meri leoni nada. misssacre of the bite Persillut. Me-trikers, and \n\nA gram bas bra rectly contains wittesuls cond-matia of the Walebicoupe agres to limit the ital diturions to the Shangbai 1 taken further sed it can be iti u the met Lum Pub-abus, the prepa krew steps to plan for this organizing held by the rite it from Shanghai stating that the Shanghai. In the encantas, affair and disttangle it entirely well that in neder to gata fedemtion of a fre Labor Employment Boday. \n\nwas shipped to Caxton per 8.8 therefore, the excuse of the Legather fauce, the L-gations will \n\nHua Tan1 \" Yang\" to tins that pubility would be a fester inte formal negations. they should be crited. \n\nTwo Problems, \n\ndesirable në the prcent time would \n\nThere does aut seam to be ruah \n\narrive within a few days. It is an \n\nipated that the price of oil on the \n\nt seem to be tenable, for the bope that this will secar for some \n\nreport on the progress sẽ chlá i \n\nwill drup \n\nBurns:iudings of the Commiration canuettes how ver, for pessimistio views \n\nUnion during the past half year. \n\nhe said Agency, and will be \n\nJone of them saying to-day, \"Every \n\nof esucer ions to the Chinese side of thing is right up is the st.\" \n\nthe \n\nasket \n\nMr. Wis Chung Tong said that \n\ndisending the question Specia! Porrults, there are two lar] (2) Reading a report from the viraduced to work at the taaleries porte: & niste which require dia. cedially the oil spot w salt. contain anything like the number \n\nare the rais sung the Diplomate, Provincial Prasanta Bulou giving of the Qovernment, Organized curiou pervious to other points;- \n\nbio of gel permits, hai 1.vfile care silaged in Chines circles. The Judicial Inquiry particulare of the Sbike and Pelili | Bodies or private onneeros. \n\nnal conditions, \n\nSOLUTIONS: \n\n(1) A 1 I'm perleliete Sad Erbed sny tinta to \n\noverthrew our revisionary \n\nmeet, we take it that this preval. ni \n\nwamacre is no opportunity for \n\nnational revelation to come lo touch with the Imperialists, \n\nReports are to be made by a \n\n(1) I The Hous of Special Permits \n\nFly \n\nwiched to know what slegs are to be \n\nthe factorior together with the \n\nHere shali-hed? of names of Camic workers, and & \n\nStill the authorities are \n\ny \n\nI have tried to obtain official \n\ntaker in case of an IGLESINE colnetant, even to discus3 be repropilen on the Shanghai suggestion \n\n(3) be in revani juchfying And detention of gcle after the they say that it is tharugbly of judicial inquiry me a prelunicary moso to Diplomatic nogatíations. at tinn of Sucis! Permits, and understand abrand bath \n\nthe question skoold content and in spirit. One fois! be British Legation refuse to cros heronghi sussidered and prep tuld me to-day that the Commission rant on this or any other anggen ensures adopted in safeguard the cted an the eyes and curs of the tine and other Legation are not nthusiastic, the g-coral opinion Diplomatic Corps and that their findings were intended merely being that the bat way out of the \n\nMr. Chow Tie bong said that \n\nbeats for the Tegations in their present imposan is to concentrate on wh the Chinese the task of commiting the Chinata \n\n\"It's setrue tovernment to a conferences \n\nfuture. \n\native-vuot \n\nto be cent mostly to the shove the fame of puniat Purists, but mentioned raployment Agency. | there permite abon'd be perfine₫ 1 giving paritenters of the retire-goode which necessarily seqnies \n\nIt should be sorate and appointments of workers.aponia! permission. The workers who are now set of pheduled as to what sort of good#] () As the Torpaciaklata do do! | employtcut will shen he introduced are specially emitted and what] like na to have any protest in Recording to their order of registra-sort of goods can be transported thought glat per missing is zorgulations \n\nfreely. There are send goods. thesarily quired for \n\ngads and native tate, ned that \"ggest that the report evatuise \n\ned to ma sa. Who will you appiat parahase of which in weessary le \n\nwholesale condemnation,\" he said. \n\nWhen asked the nature of the judgest Who in to suggest a meet demands, but which are for special permission should only he list of goods to he boycotsed \n\nobtained when its cecessarily peers autarquently extended judicisi inquiry? Whose respost- the Commission, this official replied bility is F It was felt that the regaired for the gonde. \n\nwwa entirety outside the Mr. Lee The Ting said that he \n\nthat they wers iustimated to tey to \n\nmatter \n\nGnd basia of onderstanding with nommatenae of the Diplomatin Corps quite agreed with the option the Chinese delegates. This agro Chinese \"Obstacles\" Mr. Le Long Yo \n\nthat the qualienment, bait it been sirived at, wond \n\n(2) The atrikers are not striving for their own privilegra but striving \n\nfor national freedom \n\nChild 15 Cents, \n\nHOTEL \"ASIA.\" \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\n亞洲大酒店 \n\n廣州市西 \n\nDOW \n\n49 \n\nBeveral questions were propound- \n\nBuoi pinion is that, as long \n\nthe Shanghai Comantasion' \n\net e they axercise their finsreini \n\ntun, to work at these fmolorice influence to purabase tools such as \n\nwhich will be only allowed to tak Chang Teo-lin, He Yao-nan, ou the workere from the Emply Chen Chiong-ming, Tavg Punjab ment Agency first before they are and other anti-revolutionarists to allowed to employ outridle workers. \n\nMr. Chiu Riang Yo said that опросе аль \n\nBerides the above Agency, Lonsidera at the isang of each Workers Reception House will alan Special \"ermits and he put into be retablished to norept the workers forer, for it is within the power of \n\nunemployed. Their \n\ndaily the authorities to dreide whether of adapting proper meastires to if have been used by the Diplomatie) \n\ngoard the future stoukk he Carpa to gain a complete ander (4) Strike is the only wesJOG \n\nexpenses will ho fixed ecording to Special permission is to be given o \n\nby naslona to try to persuade the that we have to fight against the \n\ntheir profusion while \n\nthe But, bat en har part we should considered, but that a list of the standing with the Chinese Cover report serasina a pstery, it would echinit the case to Daperiliis, therefore if our strike responelbility of using the fandsgather to publie epioion sequods abcold be made unt first 1nment. He wisked to emphasize that: \n\nthe much discussed document could blese to complication anj that: is successful the Government is also so reset those ux penina will be whotter suob Squaint Permita should \n\nnot be made public for the reasor judicial inquiry, they being fully ancetesful but if is fails the Gov shouldered by both the Government be enforced or nut- \n\nHodded at preclamation should be issued for that it containert confidential vinced that the report contatos an indiętoget of Shanghai. In information which was intended for theen streamatseen the ChiansO thero 6:0 gonta wbich requiro \n\nMr. Chiu Kiang Ya said that re the sole use of the Diplomata in Jonger exist. \n\nA Worker Training Rehoal will special permistion and these are (a) Wo pensaate living i \n\nhe instituted within the aboy goods belarging to the nations with tentatives should be nominated their negotiations with the Chines glowy villeges provive ile dame Reption Hopen lo benel the whieh perange of Huseietconnee Jay this Chimeran Deperiment in Govornicent. \n\nthe vare Delicate Position \n\nMerever it has always bron dea cacemic and political oppressional workers \n\ntid comparatively stan has been difend, and it is \n\n[vidared in Peking that the Chinese from the Io perinata as the people valushie Parsing in the the art nucess to spunify in detail ni \n\nLater meeting of the maider themselves the judger on of all claeren presise. Therefore agro-ding to their usual profession. these grode. \n\nDiplomatie Corps 1983 held the Shanghai affair. They always morning. No statement refer to the British as the culprits efter was Kiven out, A British and will not approach the problem report Legation officiel saying that the to the alightest spirit of vara pre- \n\nposition we so delicate that nothing mias \n\ntriñera. \n\nwe must also do cur bit to help tho The neurre in this soholi will b \n\nfor grjually inorvused in faturs \n\nELECTION. Mr. Wong Hung Ploihe aake of promoting the estu \n\nwas cleabed as the Priest, and \n\nof trokers, \n\nvold \n\nLeonjunction with \n\n：： Khambers of Commerça \n\nPestigate and to decide what sui \n\nwill Jequire Spei \n\nin \n\nE \n\nthut \n\nMr Chow Chin Sheen Fald that of goods In considers the enfora meal of the Permissing, \n\n» Special Permite quite thorough investigation a Impossible breaust of the \n\nMr. Puo Kam Hong said that event of Specis! Perrite sheold \n\nVice President. Mesers Yi Ram Cheaper Fire-wood For difficulty and tesuits in derling \n\nMr. Ta Yang was elected as the \n\nHot, So Ku and Chong Xu more \n\n堤 \n\ncheted sa members of the milte and Massrs Lon Sek And Wong Yon, Tow Pa elected as judge \n\nL'o- Mus wore \n\nDESTRUCTION OF PEASANTS UNION AT HAI LU FONG. \n\nLEADING HOTEL IN SOUTH CHINA \n\nFirst Class Accommodation, Hot and Cold Water Service Throughout, Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Perfect Sanitary Arrangements. Spien- did Dining Room, Meals a la Carte, Excel'ent Cuisine. Public Bar. First Class Billiard Room. \n\nRoof Gardue \n\nBanquets, \n\nSplendid Views of Canton City and Pearl River Hairdressing Saloon. Moderate Rates. \n\nUNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF \n\nTHE SUN CO, LTJ, CANTON. \n\nHIGH-GRADE \n\nJob Printing \n\nEXECUTED WITH \n\nPROMPTITUDE \n\nAND \n\nACCURACY \n\nAT LOW COST \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE \n\nPRINTERS & PUBLISHERS \n\nCanton. \n\nwith such permits and on secourt: \n\nof the time for shipping the goods being a shot. \n\nskuld be made. \n\nFald \n\nuld say: \"Now that the first port is unfavourabls, you want 'armiker liquiry.\" \n\nKuomintang Leadership. \n\ncould be issued in the Press. Thie attigial \n\nthat your \n\nThe underlying fant of the pre- permitted reappondent might b ho temporarily auspended and that \n\nthat the Carpa End madent situation is that the Shang- the Cinmei Dë Depurament bebeen idle in three lost for weeke, affair been completely in istenes on Scoing that firemund is a daily \n\nMr. Le Tie Ping euid that, in requ zied to form in juration but that the usture of the diecur near sha inged by \n\n{with Commercial circles, theBious must remain sceret peril aceh recovery of perige rights. The cessity for the people, the Gay \n\nbie opiblor, the eve of Special \n\ntime on it was opportune to make slagan. \"Abolish Unequal Treating\" lab ur glass Me, an \"Association of ennen? gave special orders to the \n\nby the l'ems for the \n\nany aument to the waiting warld.sted to ba mnapilize} parpore of deltae simics at tho Esat, West \n\nFrons efter gaatters Fundor Rusintang, bat sowadays oven Meericua in miting the importation of foreign investigation for the parate of \n\nluvestigating into the question. jstand thas the Waichinupa has at the most gamervative Chinese, wha and Forth Rivera veling that they should preveu gods that the products of our \n\nyot acerpted tire Legational thru months ago would have con The Chairman, having laid the exhortion of the easiled prut clius | country \n\nongiortation \n\nflow battled befa any ditens wild mees are reacting themselves the side of the rights rayhty sins take pluca ch other matters, made This is the argument Low bez movement.--Peking Correspondent \n\ncarried on by theu Juiling, the of the N. C. Dally News \n\nfor \n\nA telegram from the Peasants fees on all junts carrying fir foreign eruntries are not fer, and hove proprenis before the membe- iw point beat the Shanghai case-moedach rail as th Faik \n\nUnica of Hai Fung, \n\nrends: \"A \n\nveer 500 \n\nhan:1 Roldiers \n\nthat be thinks that free transporta- \n\nfor the \n\nFangwood Ea Cartan, sed should give \n\nwas Amendment tebel them every proficios Instead. \n\nThese orders hayo bee heya ton of goods from one place to ing commented by Lo Yet \n\nYoung by the various defrate armice, and another in an ew couster should passed by the musetingi- Tange Chok Moy, Yoce Viu Chong in the past few days the varius a permitted, but the distinction Pass Resolution \n\nChore, are fireword junka at 660 different was kind of grods should be stated. Seng Bad Chung being assisted by Cheng Bon Nemecticus have been able to arrive at \n\nIn added thek tice su and other uti-resolutiousrists and Canton in perfect safety without! \n\nthe nemaity of paying the prate Capitalists and nailed to one group. They are being careled by the re- \n\nb- General Trb. Their le sia \n\nle to rain the pensant of Flai anri \n\ntion fera en-erate? \n\nKeon the extention of Pea mach \n\nprein Permits may perhaps \n\npexible with regard to trade with \n\n“That be spesixi permits will be \n\nquired the goods which are Dok; the gods of the romy vations. The The va i us Chemibres \n\n& reign compris, but it is absolute for Commerce for \n\nng there junk by the lunal hundits | ly impossible d'or interne! trade, \n\nLu Fang. The Prasanta Uniors bse not \n\nof Hai Lu Fang and Chin Tongeving \n\nنا \n\nbeen a heavy \n\nbefor \n\ntho protection of the \n\nwere destroyed by the rehols, and armies: hesos the great deep in the the Preddent of the Executive price of fireword on the inseket. \n\nJu edditio: 47 the Committed Mr. Sit Aam Yito wai \n\nkidnapped. \n\nAs the \n\nthey \n\nbruke inty \n\nMr. \n\nChoy Tel \n\nCommittee of that division and \n\n+x-Presilent of the Executive Traine, amely:- \n\nCheck on \"Enemy\" Goods. \n\nAmmittor \n\nHow British Oppress the \n\nChinese Seamen in \n\nHongkong. \n\ncurtain \n\nChinese TOS\", \n\nif \n\nstrikera in \n\nCanton wre facing starvation and that they อวน!! strike Bod return to Canton they would meet the same fate. \n\nThe seamos replied that they \n\nconjointly with the Authorities, to avsetigate to what ark of godle named Chan bau, who had been wall strika even though they \n\narrasted and detained by Hongkong Government for seizetize) \n\nMr. Pan Kam Blong said that | og enemy auflon gunde.\" \n\nWork \n\nthered to ₫ nth. \n\nthe particular reason of iasing The suggestion of Mr. sheve such profel Permits to do Kok Sbing to winate the Proud was recently expelled from \n\nbaye veranen of financial commction; \n\nChinese \n\nseamen \n\nAgain Ho Baiskwong threstened \n\n•hem by saying that if they do ant \n\nbe \n\nĮsomply with his order, they would \n\nhe \n\nsubject to arresŠ. The seamen \n\na that they would prefer to be \n\nlime large shipments of fireworks! the house of also arrived from the North River with certain foreige patiune. ad Bid-st of the four Chamb-tot Hongkong is connection with \n\nverzner only applies Commerce as representatives to see strike, has come up in Cantos and the Beation by the Ynot-Han Railway that the Low, \n\nto genie \n\nof the Britial and the cho Commissioner of Commerce related how the British Imperialists imprisoned than to continue thir \n\nwith fe added that and \n\nin employ. consult \n\ntim oppresg Japanese patious. \n\nHearing this, its halfcaste the Commerce Department should ainut the procedure, was passed Hongkong. \n\nby \n\nand Messrs the meeting, be reqeated to prepare a list of \n\nWhoo the bitsking\" re-ompradora, He Sawong, beame ordered #greatly enraged and gnode of these nations with signs Chow Tin Hong of the Cneral turned to Hangkang from Tinstein the Bettiah palice to \n\norented great disturbanes and \n\nthe first! tulsbery. loners of division received the same treat ment. This band of rebels compos ed of over 2000 had arrived at Lui Wo Cheng cu the 6th inetant, \n\ndare not disarm that Turing Those few days the Generals of Chen Oblog-ming were trying to Sorada \n\nHN and and rent their \n\nMonday Ear cara \n\nTuesday six cars \n\nWednesday four cars \n\nThursday night on \n\n(including night train) \n\nFriday eleven CATA \n\n(including night traio) \n\nSaturday four ears \n\nto \n\nfor identification and mark out Chamber of Commeros, Liang-toug \n\nSunday four cars \n\nEach of the above cara contained \n\nabout ten thousad catties of fire-goods \n\nof Commerce \n\nAriest and \n\nThe seamen were sentenced to \n\nthe which are far que daily to the City Chamber, Ya Hu-om the 7th alt, the British, realis ake them to the Harbour Master quirements and of which purchase of the Union of Merebant, anding that the Chinees we mew on for trial. is necessary, and then for the trova Trung Shau-dek of the Cooperative board the said vessel u uld join the \n\nware wriks, ordered the reveal to be two weeks' imprisonment if they portation of snch goods Special Chamber \n\nbat taninateri « representatives to monerd at Leesamman. for frure still insisted to strike. The seamen Permite will be innuit, \n\nThen they were permasted refused and so wera imprisoned. not belonging to ourg with Mr. Liang Tan-hing,shere. \n\nWhen the term of imprisonment prices of which have enemy natius should not require representatives of the Commerce sot to join the strike by one of the \n\nDepartment, \n\nGate | Louis of British Imperialism. Com-woe sarved, they were expelled from overtbrow the therefore greatly dropped day by such permite. \n\npradoro Ito Sui-kwang who threakon Hongkong and come up to Cantou Mr. Ire Long Yu said that he missioner Soneg. Our day, as there is already so over. Government, \n\nstriker, adding that is weekend. The meeting ended at 5.30 p.m. the has miroudly studied the question of \n\nspies to Hai Lu Fong to raise up wood, the \n\nap \n\nNationalist \n\nto \n\nGovernment must take note of this, stock \n\nand \n\n200",
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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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "2\n\nI work in comfort during the day and rest in comfort during the night.\n\nSKETOCIDE\n\nand quickly rid the Office and Home\n\nof\n\nMOSQUITOES, FLIES, SANDFLIES,\n\nLICE, ETC.\n\nSKETOCIDE, with nil hazards, is administered.\n\nSKETOCIDE is pleasant as water.\n\nSKETOCIDE is compressed.\n\nTHE PHARMACY\n\n1, Queen's Arcade\n\nD. J.\n\nSHAMPOOING RUGS AND CARPETS\n\nMakes them\n\nBright\n\nand Clean\n\nOnly 50 cts.\n\nper yard.\n\nCollection and Delivery Free.\n\nRolls of Dirt carried away.\n\nRolls of Cleanliness brought back.\n\nSTEAM LAUNDRY CO.\n\nHEAD OFFICE & WORKS: YAKATI.\n\nDEPOS: 26, Stanley Street, Vol.\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL\n\nKOWLOON DEPOT: 3, Cau'chi Ham\n\nFLAK HOTEL DEPOT:\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL: (Visit only;\n\nJ. T.\n\nSHAW\n\nLADIES & GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR\n\nFIRST QUALITY ONLY\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nINVEST YOUR CAPITAL\n\nSAFELY\n\nIN DIAMONDS.\n\nCHAIN BLOCKS\n\nELECTRIC BLOCKS & TRANSPORTING GEAR\n\nHERBERT MORRIS, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nBRADLEY & CO., LTD.\n\nChute food.\n\nMachinery Dept.\n\nTel. 2020.\n\nMessrs. J. ULLMANN & Co, of Chater Road\n\nEstablished 1860,\n\nhave always pleased their Customers with the quality and the price of their diamonds.\n\nLOCAL\n\nAND\n\nGENERAL.\n\nLighting-up the to-day is at present cases of warfare cholesal 6.46 PATTY\n\nThe closing rate of the dollar on demand yesterday was 28. 9/16d.\n\n...\n\nhave declared amongst Japanese residents in Huanghai between August 15 and 18\n\na new treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between Spain and Siam, together with a tariff.\n\nAbout Chinese, who landed in Lockor on July rate Cake, whence they had been expelled, more taken in charge by the new municipal police, and started to Spain forthwith\n\nThe Yang di Pertuan Besar, etor Negri ehk and lady He Tag were mess of Mrs Balavin,\n\nPassengers departing fav Hong Kong. Saturday included r, Paus the proteoc? along the lacs of the Hodgene, Mr. G. H. Hew, Major? Siamess American trendy of 1999, Weelings, and Mr., 34, and ise e sigurd in Merid on Anavat on Fady 25, 94, 16, Domaingreet, at Iemington.\n\nA petition has Theon sout to the\n\nracuptă a fur Gvarveen visiter M\n\nHigh teries evidently comment sobars of the Gevorazi mitted by a well organized, clever\n\nThe Paanhou Lataa Gempiains of\n\nGovernmanni by the pork solleve, gang ut Paeves within the a tre the melameree of Wataishae and gui asking that casures a week within the district berlinese is autors to rear to Laken preten, hop-oil bow by Ceiles, Mabini, Herren. Taj Pukius its no s paзig y hel kore front selling\n\nstreets.\n\npark in the\n\n41 The Co, AF have lecie tight anda.\n\nsing the Manila poliem aud secret water, or festive is na mumer Murvico division.\n\n1\n\nPalm Beaches, Gabardines, Alpsets, Tropical aiting, Dress Harondt, who will rive in the wedding- ever believed to be rephor during the tide the\n\nMaterials, Sc. B\n\nJUST RECEIVED English made Officers Sam Browne Belts, Haversacks, Fox Pattles, Khaki Tles, Metropolitan Whistles, War\n\nribbons and nature medals.\n\n11, Reaconsfield Arcade.\n\nINSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED\n\n(Opposite City Hall.\n\nGrand Opening Sale\n\nStep in and compare our Goods and Prices\n\nINSPECTION INVITED\n\nPOPULAR SILK STORE\n\n(Opposite Kangkang Hotel;\n\nChina Building, No. B, Pedder Street.\n\nPrices\n\nAL\n\nVERMIN\n\nLOTOL\n\nKILLS ALL VERMIN\n\nSold by\n\nA. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Sole Agents:-\n\nAnd all Chemists & Stores.\n\n#4\n\nThe forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Weer varick! Mr. and Mex James Fold v The captain on the genderzeɛ Who Knoke, Tung Shan Canton, to Westenzoyland, Somerset, have rele. I was ersicted of murdufeg the com. and his wife and Mies Jobs Auguste Paula bunted die 71 iversong of their wint Onyi\n\nalore guique The busbaudienthoate as Token, wali ho relent and Eje wife a your younger. Mojot from prison shoes the unddie of lower the 92, relatives war Log Sepeansion songlazenie Nieto, konta\n\none from Australi\n\nColony by the ss. Oldestory.\n\nThe Chinese Brunumie Slonthig for August has detailed cla cussion of Shane agricultural practice, wita interesting 3.1\n\nLoving\n\nA Chinese 2d Japanese nurs are among tbury who have promised to monk at the International Co Surse of Sick-Norses, which opened dengtors, aly 20, aut is laing sitended by Jelegnies from\n\nentiona of the appliances weed, Maveled Chang Teo-in bas Jeans Sericulture cotton-growing timed Mex 000 rough General ber markerg.\n\nчто? ecuneuit so in the Stedent Anda bots my in diferent regions of the Bumiy Univexity Jay Chinu are also very interativolyj and Erogel Tieptene) far- Realt with.\n\nof ge pour white Kanziar. Studenata,\n\n*\"\n\nalvd, is differort suuntaies\n\nTwo hurr-one, with ts, ad\n\nTeal vien, two if who were the other ten would lus beau un- portion of shell, obtaled Frogs * mnied with daggers, com with a hur to corrpite their contres esingi tas estruese deposit in Heuer,\n\nCaina, have been presented to thei! Crevolver. and the other with at lesk, of Curta,\n\ntieological Department of the Bri-3\n\n| pair of scissors, heid up a Chinese j\n\nin Jubilee Sheet, yasierday even\n\n*.*\n\nA Shanghai ziceaz soole who di ti ser by Me Fulhas pior,\n\ning at twerty minutes to seven woneret that & malo passenger till we repris par des of\n\nand rubbed him or $66. The led a paringe of jewelley worth, victim showed a little restaurace 2.000 16 bir terba, took the package, and was slightly stabbed on the\n\n**\n\nThe ees of assault agaturi Tam\n\nballeha\n\nMr J. L. North, estrator of thin\n\nto Sins Police Station, where the toys Potande Boruty, who for on owner of it appearad Isten gave the coulis8568TOWY PRO expstimating with for his honesty. The englie left leave, is growing worch this year\n\nthe statica in bewildoriams, count\n\n**\n\nuL Chiswick. where they serni\n\nto or doing well in North is alre\n\nhaving nya Ibalit grown >1\n\nRonding and Talesbury, in see The Thienene of faunilton is alen\n\nPat, who is de cercandong the aver so he went for intiraidson against a Chineas!\n\nreporter, wan dismissed by bir. W Hamilton a the Kowloot: The Italian Cotobato wtrises tuv\n\nMagiswans yesterday,\n\nThe de the election which took place re-swing it in Willshire. fendant was alleged to have a crucis at Felermo, a large alias] aulted twe men of the Hup Lee city of over 200,000 inhabitants, in night-nd contractors, folfering a vordim of Fall, liberty of meeting\n\nspute. The intimidation case is fart beard.\n\n*u?\n\nSeven Chiuole wrament, pisacing\n\nsilty to charge of unlandaily rat\n\nand votea, tesuited in the ting wi damaging trees at a Govern- |\n\nwende ictor of the Fascist's\n\nmort plantation at Nagan Bye War, list showing that be Fascis Karison, were anak fied Bio by Mu Bozerament is enjoying not only W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon The return of notifiuble dlecases povar, but also the full conádenca) Magistracy this neunbug. The de- for the 24 hours ending August of the Italian people.\n\nfendant were stati fu kavu deng e number or rase weighing Organised by the Koristang, aflens cha 90 unties derenstation be GONOMETRUJANJ\n\n124, showa tự, uszeg ni enteria | fever, que Bnglish (mynted) and joze Chinese. The return for the)\n\n**\n\nun\n\nweek ended August shows tour the fatha e Chinese who lost Me J. Tokugawe, autơi pensily Uses of enteric fever with two this list in the cover of Vi rekirst Secretary and Auting deaths, Chinese, Drs Japan, dishares heat. Hanko lloc to the imprese Bibery in Jo Indika su one Philippine (in and where he held at the Ties London, has been appointed facia porter) and cae care of parki An Men Pakun August 12 new Consul General et. Sydres, phoid fever, Chiacan, te death W92 114 Target, aticoded, Australia; and Mr. K Hogi, vulli\n\nfrom intussen is also reported. Spence wore and by various roses Japaneen Commanerai wanch in Londen, has been appointed Kuomintang Isagera\n\nAs the embur. of the late Panchal Fannin perialine\n\nCho\n\nequal\n\nVilla were lowered over the aid of renties\n\ninbor of the Japaness Legution Ah Beking. Both diplomats wetu\n\nths President Harvizos at Yuda,\n\n**\n\nmost popaliw ti Landen esrides.\n\nnot and was heard thosaglomm\n\nAccording to a story appearing w\n\nfier T\n\nArhus Guy Carless. 35, patiseer,\n\nAll operations were ele\n\npender. Thoes of heads were the Shaters Time, a Chinese mer\n\nBared. The lus table of the des chant, F. T. Canag of Narking, was\n\nbe best post in Shanghai in 1915,\n\na bed enteroed at Birmingham\n\nA detective.\n\nTEST YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR BY READING THESE\n\nCHILDREN'S FUNNY SA UNGS gelikatel, ke D--B: Kora $2.75 The nices Eubiour a chuit is perkara the west amusing This book contrine headrede of\n\nof all forras of Auu.\n\nchildren a whimsical sayings.\n\nSPORTING AND DRAMATIC VADNS, 65 R. 1. B. Seliar 32.45 Theas ven stories to note-sad quote at one's non-in the drawing seca, in the club sowking-room, and in pinces where charming peuple assemble in hosz hores make after- Sinter speechan.\n\nrick engines, as the body, in a coffin hirisapped by invite cu demanded to gnicon rasuthy' impris shrouded by the American Bag, nt is wito raumNot for coupting to obtail money by Embed the dude, luc broke the paid within two weeks, otherwise false referatations. silsues Wrenting of lowers, given they rentended to kill the bushand inspector said that Carinus, who, by the Filipine communities of hole; The wife, who did not a vleie inther was Town Cleak of victor\n\nthirty years, failed ia hist Yokoburn, Shanghai and longkong, og i pay the consent, arferred for\n\nher rabant's predicaron examinations for the Bar and and Atually evanized ice by came a farmer. u 109 his father banking self\n\nGloc audi he then travelled on a Coloidea in America be opened an\n\nwere laid is the eart\n\nDuring the interval betzen the\n\ndeparture of Sir Edward Stubbs,\n\nthe\n\nAtontreal, but va\n\nQUOTABLE ANECDOTER nollected by D. B. Koox ...\n\nThe special feature di Usungen mandje oghter providing book is its quctableness. Most of the anecdotes are Lovel And extremely envenug but the peculiarity that distin. guisbes them as than they cku be rubly quoted in spoe thes, articles and etzversublock.\n\nRAVAM Chinesa doajors ut Manila; rates with another inu, had atter K. C. M. G., and the arrival of car\n\nGovernor (Mr. Cecil Cle-have been senght selling the mixed they bad obtained $5,000 eme nienti) Sir Claud Severn, E. P. E, vi arushed its of glass A warr-appiicans for the position of mave will uet an Officer Administering to the public to beware of buyer the couple disappeared. Thay\n\nEdwardice in Chinese \"sari-sa\" moves were eresied Government. Bir\n\nwe tested by the health services. Tabel the morey. Paperý sledi Stubbs.\n\ntc according\n\nhas also been disovered that a few they find engaged in similar dealings Arrangements and provided the Chinese reice dealers we also selling in various part of Canada, and the local situation pomte, will leave lard aflated with pontos al Toronto authorities bustested Hongkong during the early part) Sume Chiese store keepers and am pretensional “rooks\" and of October, his successor beloties merahnuts see now facing it-nordenen tiskaters. From Adelaido due to arrive atout Puree weeks watigation by officials of the head was reperied in 1969 that Cur Jater. Sir Clad Severn expects to series. Proceention fer violation of loss rat another man sarried proceed Home on leave in Deeen the pore food and drug law will be operations (is donhiul shararterį\n\nlie that were. isted against sum of timin.\n\nber,\n\n$8.15\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LIMITED. Carb Koed.\n\nEx 9. FRENCH MAIL AMBOISE,\"\n\nA NICE ASSORTMENT-OF BEST KIND OF FRENCH PRESERVES\n\nIncluding\n\nBeans, Peas, Celery, Spinach, Mushrooms, Whole Artichokes, elc,\n\nMacquerel, Sardines, Tunay, Herrings, Auchovies, etc., in White Wine, Oil, Tomato or Various Sauces.\n\nFoie Gras Naturel Forced, Pigs Feet, Truffed Boudins, Hare Pate, Veul Head Sauce Tortue Turkey Galantine.\n\nPort-Salut Cheese, Face Maggi, etc, etc.\n\nMAG - SIN GENERAL The Corner Shop\n\nPhone C5312\n\nTAMANTER\n\nThe latest designs\n\nLADIES' PLATINUM WRIST WATCHES SET WITH DIAMONDS\n\nfrowe\n\n$200\n\nSwiss Made\n\nAT\n\nSENNET FRERES\n\nTHE ALEXANDRA CAFE\n\nCAN SUPPLY\n\nBREAD AND CAKES.\n\nBirthday Cakes, Christenning Cakes, Wedding Cakes,\n\nand all kinds of fancy Cakes.\n\nAGENTS\n\nHUNG CHEONG, Kowloon. FOOK CHEONG TAI, Quarry Bay.\n\nSIMPLEX PLASTER PARTITIONS\n\nAND\n\nGEILINGS\n\n5 Beaconsfield Arcade\n\nThe SIMPLEX SYSTE\n\nHARPER'S\n\nSUMMERTIME SPECIALITY.\n\nMOSKA-CIDE\n\nA little of this wonderfu) commate apickled on subirea ce pillows wül kap rayosquito from thu vio.usty of your bedside or couch\n\nBartles $1.00 and $2.00. MOSQUITOES WON'T COME NEAR IT. Obtainable only ai\n\nQueen's Dispensary\n\nTel. No. 492.\n\nC. W. HANDLEY & CO. 29, Dog Vonx Rund, Centesi,\n\nGrand Prize of Honour\n\nPanama-Pacific International\n\nExposition\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, 1913\n\nAsahi-Beer\n\nSold Everywhere.\n\nSOLE AGENTS :\n\nMITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.\n\n\"BARGAINS\"\n\nIN\n\nREFLEX CAMERAS & FOLDING CAMERAS\n\nWind with the failu-wing user\n\nCooke F2-5, F3-λ, F4-5 & F5-3,\n\nDallmeyer F2 3, F36, F4-5, & F6-3.\n\nZrise F36, FI-S & P6.3.\n\nKOER 4-5, 56 & 76-2.\n\ncall at\n\nA. TACK & Co.\n\n26 De Road Central.\n\nTHE\n\nFIRE PROOF\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,\n\n1925.\n\nSPORTS fall SORTS\n\nHONGKONG BASEBALL\n\nGAMES FOR TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.\n\nIn accordanLE with the re-41- ranged schedule wijet makes pro- valon for rener insiche, betw9) altores the Coague, there wit\n\nTHE WEET DAUGHTER\" GOLF CLUB,\n\nMORE STRIKE FIGURES.\n\n(By. \"Missolputts\" for the\n\nS. C. M. Post.)\n\nLAWN TENNIS.\n\nJOHNSTON WINS TROPHY.\n\nNewport R ), Aug 24. In the final of the Newport Ja vitation singles bowl, Johnson heat Norrou 63, 63, 8.3, thus) winning the trophy entright. And the Durables, fobistan and fin boat Serien and Casey 6, S1, 5,7, 26, 6.3. Treater Ancorican, Service.\n\nTHE OLD FAVOURITE\n\nBOORD'S\n\nOLD TOM GIN.\n\nCAT on BARREL BRAND\n\nOBTAINABLE AT ALL FIRST CLASE STORES.\n\nBred 111, Arg 24. Miss talen Wills roteinod the Women's National Lawa Tennis Championship, defeating Miss\n\nSale Agente\n\n3\n\nIn convection with the lies Meus 3:6, 6/9, 4,3 Reder's CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.\n\nbe two mid-week games played off moule corved daring the month at American Snowce juu the Houpy Valley dirmeist this \"ono Daughter Weep Golf\n\nin the opening matches of the\n\nBrookline, August 25,\n\nThe Grai u thoso i tired to Chuh,, za patience is \"Backpi's\" comurance at 5 pm, today, when festes on the 2nd instat, I wanted National Dumbles Championships the Filipino Club wil meet the Iu the courtcess Setreing of the Kinsey brothers, holders, boat dian R. P., who are at present at Clah with\n\nbtaining Hot and Halia Smuth, 7-6,6-4, 8-4; the boils of the Lable. To can- Purcher statintizm\n\nDemagis and Reignon beat Levazil noo but be anticipated that the\n\n02 mors\" mit hallused Vansien, 6-3,7-5, 6-3, Mili ant Filipino side will win, although Geoval, po fiering a co vite, jone Casey bost Shuster and Jonkines. the Indian team is alowing better those that one that isly, 7-5,6-4, 4; Westcased Emen Dora and pat up a stering came which we leerely devined. Pirids and Wasaki. 6-2,66, agalust the Japannes na Saturday Rogel tot To Golf Cirs le proad 6-2; Vildog and Wience boat Jopen last. The Arst guns between for its sacreen reden for Angvei, bal and logeshest, 6-4,56, 618-N--;\n\nthem treated in win for the do not for a moment eaypow that ¦ Bruter's American Service. Filipines by 15 to three.\n\nxo am entering into ang serious The Volunteer Defence Corps jrivalry with the Hant You: anl are scheduled to meet the base werk High Rocks or any other straling Japanese at 5, p.no, tommur- jorganization; and also you wil cow and a goat game la expected, please remember that we are far too wing the Volunteers falling to hard bung to provide full statistics of our the lesboinly percet Nipponesa, attivities weile stila\" Full who will have the velcer of the prof this was indeed patent in Playing x Chesterboid, La recevabtable ishimatsu as pitcher. teribe what of typewriter, calbire defence Derbyshire by Their earlier woering ended in au calculating machine pencil shara intings and 132 rans. Bears: Joverwhelming victory for the rengly want other Inclinary by Laucalice, 278.\n\nDerbyshire, S7 and 78. Japanse by 18 to four, which jbich we were surtunJed considering all things, was a good\n\nThe highest contributora Fressed however, harp. Ex tuore Lancashire wore Watson 62, Hal- for showing by the Volunteers. It gres, the aubice of tus peindust and Pewires 15, whikt. hoped that they will ranke an eventer wired papur and pen Towsond, Derby's Bowler, took better nue tomorrow.\n\nNo icons have bean received.\n\nJani alter serve nderful work y\n\nthe\n\nYACHTING.\n\nMR. BLAKE ON 6 METRE COMPETITION,\n\nQualities of Monsoon.\n\nHOME CRICKET.\n\nLANCASHIRE'S EASY WIN.\n\nLondon, Aux. 24.\n\nIr.\n\ntied staff of the sarees, four wickets for 57 rina. Your Peri Sage, Spoke and Darby's first innings, Tyldesley Chr was able to give us the jojowok eight wiekota for 40 runt, Seg infertuskinn.\n\nard in Derby's second krock Years ago, before the great Get Sibbles took fire wickets for 30\n\n| xuan---Herten hendi, Mr. Pineb valeukased that the jaar generated by jutits missed on iche gli con of Great Brita in jose past wuulih, it properly tiliaest, jelove and feed a men for six\n\nTHE ST. LEGER.\n\nMANNA IS FAVOURITE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 24.\n\nA reported in these columns jaga; working on the sette foarala, from me to rina, Bir. Blake's 1 may say than the host genercial Mouser from Singapore has met in me year by balta bene lost t\n\nTo be rst esiinrer of the Sz. Find a rery successful sencon at Weep lygter wee tothe and Legs at tex Victoria Cob to-day,\n\nhorse, but has been consistently red suitably ten Canton Bolshevicts Manza\n\nwas installed favourite, read at all the South Coast re- or the terms of their wanatabil Res 4 in 1 otuz taken and offered\n\nsttas. Writing From England may say that in their counter.\n\nto Singapore, 3. Blake says he original formula bo beru varieg\n\nabout racing away et rout of lightly and wilde fond be be avecis viven for the Eolant Dussafak, of rice per die red for Classes round about Sonthampton, labing t\n\nbut so far without getting a win- niux Beg.\n\nTheatre Class ic\n\nja very bor any, including as it\n\nA Few Move Piprez,\n\nits la empaled that the number\n\nLEAGUE'S OPIUM\n\nCOMMITTEE.\n\nBRITISH APPOINTED CHATEMAN,\n\nGeneva, Aug 24. The campout snriggling of\n\nduce the rack helicamen and ni rada not dancer in the Cleb frzewa of the South Coast of Eug-House after dinact by ki wh\n\nlead, and Mr. Blake feels quite have dine there is equal to the ex- SOUND PROOFd that his yacht can five plant of the ads in this Colony, drugs was one of the principal\n\nSending Now Thavidurios This, I take subjects of discussion of the) among them at all.\n\nManwood is best in light breezes, it, is a striking testimony the League's Advisory Committen on Togain, which niet te-lay, and but when it blow up she anot excelience of this fre 15wvinna.\n\nHONGKONG EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd.\n\nTel. 01. 8718.\n\nZad Floor, Powell's Building.\n\nCalfore pure de Ferments lactiques bulgares sur mitinu végétaj\n\nGLEED-INTÉZ\n\nBARRELS, CONTALIONS\n\nTELL Sza\n\nSAPAN Am\n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND.\n\nCONDIAL FAREWELL\n\nEXPRESSIONS.\n\nign to windward with the other - munder of Brinks prottered looted Sir Makrola Delovingue bosts, not being an ait This fee and refused by rubenbers wond Cosieman, and he dermian, due to her hul beine constructed unt, if poured into the ses at Wey. Professor Terr Acainuno, as Vice-Chainman. The absence of of teakwood, which takes a lot Daughter Bag, effent the love of the the Chien delegate, Mr. Chr ECONOMICAL extra weight, which is evidert wules of Weiss Buy is in 2-sue of instructions, in the keels of the other Boula mass of an inch at ordinary Spisens no sarprise in view of the better advantage.\n\nWides\n\nChinese wishdrawal from the on- Still, Mr. Make sud his com Enter of tadies invading ference on February 7th- Raster. : jpanions pog swag, learning of ine lide menie zgacha romte and bee in a\n\nine, and the international Rules (week would, if it were possible (and į row have no terrors for the Jusirable) to stand them end on end, when designing another bout.\n\nterm a dle appwainuately venel ini\n\nMr. Blake says that if he was height to Mount Kellet; moly thei in England for good he would take two lower was, however, jassustic cat that tenkwood darks of Mon- that the pile were rigid and not zour and replace them with pine- foent) would be able to see into tha wood, as lighten up further mens dressing room, iters and put the weight a\n\nes proves in the greons at Week! gained down amongst the read. Daughter theory approximately age to the reale vs New The rigat and mash pane in the tran-font of their own Zealand says: A view our Cine sama very light compared weight in aarti Jaily. It is there parting with feelings of sadness. with what they are eastern- torn, eniculated that this were at the ehost space of two weeks ed to oul East, mud would ut feultured over a year it would'ng the varicas detachments of the lagi long with natives as crews. Jquire 20 even the size of the Priest have grown to love your pouple Mr. Blake adds that he personal- jdenk of the, Club to carry the earth and your counky, Oar twenty- ty, and lab the Royal Siegapuce iya yarde in three days\n\ntwo thend men will go home nich Yach Club, are deeply indehind The notices posed to use various\n\nspeak intelligently of Ney Hackelahi-Smith, the Chul Buses in car year comes Zolnud. iry M.\n\nYou may be sure thes Editor of The Fachling Monthly Įpaar fomitbag the rapina filed in sili ev as twenty-two thousan for the great trouble he has taken the office) uneagh to acce eft the well-wishers and boosters of your on behalf of Monsoon.\n\nFairways of de Chan verine Wonderful country.\"-- Restor\n\nPROCITIES, AZŠNES QRAPIN, ARTISTE PALZEMENTS DIE challe DERSGITUNES, TORKULASES SEGET STUMATHYRA PYCRPUDES Frog Taktiken i 19ŠEČE VYVENIŠE OSATIZIRA\n\nBULGARINE\n\nTHEPENIER\n\n14 COMPRIMIR grustten Swaggia - » POUDRY\n\nAdalton Suver dans compolnas;\n\nBukemeina 206 25mideure\n\nJapan 16 a 2 par jour).\n\nEntente: te doua.\n\nPricer, if\n\nFocuirer\n\n3 par jom,\n\nLARGRAT JIRE 4 PERMYNYS A. FAEPENISA. f. 1. Or,\n\nCompagnie Optorg\n\nAptu\n\nAMERICAN EXPRESS\n\nRAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP\n\nTICKETS\n\nTRAVELLERS' CHEQUES Express and Freight Forwarding.\n\nHONGKONG\n\n44 Des Voeux Ecad,\n\nTel. C. 4825.\n\nBOXING.\n\nPROSPECTS OF AN INTERESTING SEASON.\n\nIn at Interview with Afr. J. Bronk of the Hougkong Boxing Asesora-\n\nsica yesterday, our representative\n\ncanreek In this connection it is in- teresting to note, drag experiments face huing carried and with a new ane resobling real turf in gastify Frero which it is byped that pertines Butter beter juraced turd igzurady mag re nitized for revuling the greDAT\n\nthe various Courasi,“\n\nWellington, Aug, 21. Admiral Shortz in a tazewell\n\nwwwwwww.xxx.com.com GERMAN PULĪTICS.\n\nHERR WIRTH RESIONS.\n\nBerin Aug 24.\n\nPelion des are exload by ex-Chancellor Wield's resigna\n\nAt this point several telepboursion from berlap of the\n\nbelle mang, for routies appeared Centrists owing principally, to\n\nwas informed that there is every with chit hooks and with the depot disapproval to the Party's action prospect of a brilians winter se regret I was torcel is te ry son in the fisticuff sphere of Rong parure.\n\n[korg.\n\nYoungsters are coming along in\n\ngood style, he suic, and there will\n\nbo no dearth of entries in the possibility of arme of these being various classes. Hittorio.\n\nthe induced to come forward and put\n\npozices have given the best shows jep a show.\n\nhere, but new arrivals cu the stas\n\nPerhaps the most prominent of tion, both Navs! and Military, are the new arrivals is at present\n\nof\n\nBewegtners\n\na sapporting the Tarif Bill.\n\nHarr Wirth will remsin head of\n\na small party, of Independenti Centrists. Reutt\n\nSYRIAN OUTLOOK.\"\n\nTHE CALM CONTINUES.\n\nPark4, Aug. 21.\n\nThe Ministry of War annon\n\ncalibre to enthase the most on board . . . Farmes. | Cardened of fight tans.\n\nfa welter weight he has participated Among the\n\nare in the Army and Navy Champion-txt\n\nમ ea continea in the some dark horses win, although shops at Home, where bas Jebeltrase regim. they are men of merit, elden ven a good second at bheselt Suela is set earrounded but fe The town al 14, Klukiong Road appear outside their e intership and aceding to report is Ingres regulady applied by aeroplanes.\n\nBEANOHAL\n\nor regiontal bouts and there in King'a the ame\n\nReter.\n\nQuien's Bood Central.\n\nTelephone C. 75.\n\nBIG BARGAIN!\n\nTo make room for new stock, we will sell the entir\n\nstock of.\n\n“VOCALION” & “BANNER”\n\nDance Records\n\nFrom TO-DAY to 31st inst.\n\nAt the following prices ---\n\nBANNER DANCE RECORDS\n\nVOCALION DANCE RECORDS.....$ 1.20 each cash\n\n0.70 Babae hours:10 .. to 7 p.m. Sablay:-10 e.. to 4 p..\n\n+3\n\nCOSTA MUSIC CO., LTD.\n\n48. Nothes Road. Kowleon.\n\nPICCADILLY CLUB\n\nBREVAS PINAS\n\nAN EXCER}}}NGLY\n\nFINE SHOKE\n\nBaler\n\nMANGFACTURERS\n\nBox of\n\n23\n\nB. Yander TAX & CO.\n\nHOLLAND\n\nGET INABLE Ar\n\nTABAQUEIRA FILIPINA\n\n58 Quesu's Road, Central,\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO.\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nBARGAIN\n\nHOUSE.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD & D'AGUILAK ST.\n\nB.V.D. BARGAINS\n\nUnion suit\n\n$2.75\n\nSingle Garment $1.40\n\nSUN HELMETS\n\nA big shipment\n\njust arrived\n\nAt\n\nBARGAIN PRICES\n\n$4.50, $6.75, $13.50\n\nSTRAW HATS\n\n$2,50, $3.00\n\n53 50, $4.00\n\nEvery Day Bargains.",
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        "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "Entertainments.\n\nThere are.\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHE\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nUNKNOWN\n\nPURPLE\n\nin\n\nA Tale of love mystery\n\nAnd\n\nvengeance\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nThe absorbing story of a greatly wronged inventor who discovered a purple ray by which he could make himself invisible\n\nHENRY B. WALTHALL ALICE LAKE\n\nand\n\nSTUART HOLMES\n\nhead a big cast\n\nSUPER 7\n\nCINEMA\n\nDaily At\n\nSundays\n\n2.30.\n\nat\n\n5.15,\n\nA..\n\n7.15.\n\n7.30.\n\n9.16.\n\nTuesday Thursday Sunday\n\n9 13.\n\nChange of Programme\n\nTHE STAR\n\nTO-DAY\n\nat 5.50 and 9.15\n\nFLORENCE VIDOR\n\nand\n\nMONTE BLUE\n\nin\n\nSinclair Lewis' famous story\n\nMAIN STREET\n\nANCHOR BRAND\n\nPURE\n\nINTERNATIONAL GENERAL, AUGUST SETTLEMENT DAY.\n\nELECTRIC.\n\nNEW PRESIDENT.\n\nAnnouncement has been made of\n\nA FAIR AMOUNT OF BUSINESS.\n\nAlthough the exchanges have\n\nbeen closed for business ever\n\nsince the strike commenced,\n\na fair amount of business was\n\nput through yesterday, August\n\nSettlement day.\n\nA FALSE CLAIM\n\n¿ QUESTION OF WHICH TO BELIEVE.\n\nDispute About Rainbow.\n\nKotore Mr. Jnative Wood at the\n\nCivilized possession of 1871 bangles\n\nBinary Court yesterday, Lo On\n\nhas relinguished the presidency\n\nof the contract made for August\n\nbefore Board.\n\nMr. Minor is well known\n\nin the Far East.\n\nHe joined the\n\nWestern Electric Company in 1902\n\nand occupied various clerical posi-\n\ntions, each better than the preced-\n\ning, until he was made assistant\n\nmanager of the Katens: City office\n\nin 1906.\n\nA year later he was\n\ntransferred to Omaha,\n\nand two years later be returned\n\nto Kansas City in the capacity of\n\nmanager of the office.\n\nIn 1914 he returned to America\n\nand became active Foreign Sales\n\nchanges with open again San-\n\nManager in New York City.\n\nthough In tember 13\n\nno definite 1218 he was assigned to special\n\ndecision hua vet bren auired a\n\nwork in Ching and fapas, paderj\n\nthe supervision of Mr. Swope,\n\nand in Bul year organised the China\n\nElectric Company, Ltd., for the\n\npurpose of manufacturing tele-\n\nphone apparatus in that court.\n\nTHE FRENCH DEBT.\n\nCONVERSATIONS CONTINUE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 21.\n\nIt was toward the end of 1921,\n\nafter completing his work in the\n\nOrient, then he became uropran\n\nManager of the Western Chillaws.\n\nThe latter interviewed!\n\nby Reuter.\n\nsaid there would prob-\n\nably be farther outings to-morrow.\n\nthough nothing definite land bean\n\nJa the spring of 1921 he joined\n\nise International Generet Elvetzie\n\nCompany as Vice-President.\n\nLi Su ail that he met 34 Ouj\n\nsoon after his amivel.\n\nIo Os told im that the barabocs\n\nwere his property and said that he\n\nhad pod Jaşṭ orer 8900 for ruen\n\nend still wedtic mere than $700.\n\nWitness told the Court that he\n\npeld the rest of the plot of landį\n\nfor the first moon,\n\nCross-examined: He went with\n\ndefendent to pay the rent.\n\nMr. MacCallum: Why is the receipt\n\nin the made vi o Chues Kee?--In\n\nChuen Hen said that the\n\nan receipt had been torn up by\n\nTo taid the resh for the recová\n\nfixed reapreting the coved of his\n\nlittle guy.\n\nA will be gathered from this\n\nconversations.\n\nsamrosey of successes in f\n\nM. Callaus was uncommunics-en---I\n\ndid not pay.\n\nmany pralviong, Mr. Minor na\n\ntheive and merely stated that the\n\nquelitive that make him Heed, at\n\njconversations\n\nnapinistrative)\n\nTHE COFFIN\n\nwell es respected.\n\nA dearmind cordist-Reeter.\n\nJed. kena Pinker, with sogatang-|\n\ntiva wei! as abuty, he is alive to\n\nthe men side of business relations\n\n» Tast which has always been angreekat-\n\nen oy those within as well as out-\n\nside his own organization.\n\nLLERINA MAANTE, STORLESTON, OSBORNE WOOD CONVICTED.\n\nGIVEN PRISON SENTENC\n\nOne Year laguisopment for Sea of Gen. Weed.\n\nParis, Angui\n\n15--Liens\n\nburae Wond son of the Qorginos\n\nSenest of the Philippines, was to\n\nAnother\n\nvituesa\n\nwho\n\nwa\n\nextremely vienaly in defendant's\n\nemploy densed what he had\n\nknowledge that\n\nCROP.\n\nEGYPT AN ESTIMATE.\n\nCairo, Aug. 94, The area under\n\ncontra le oled ally estimated at\n\n1.924.000 Ted-\n\ndans, as cetopared with 1,787,000\n\nthe plainuff was furing to swindlej\n\nIs knen-kec out of the batchona.\n\nHe said that the reason be left!\n\nthe defendant's employ was, be-\n\ncause Ho Give ongated two wien\n\nbit of lots of bamboos in vas)\n\nmonth,\n\nForry Years in Hong Kong,\n\nDefendant.\n\nIn the hex, sulü he feddens last\n\nseason, of whichį nad spent forty\n\nyears in Heug-\n\nSavollarides accounts for 1,198,-\n\nkong and for torky-one years be\n\n1000 feddags se compared with\n\nhad been a desier in buibus)\n\n879.3 feddone last year-Router\n\nand bamoso by-products.\n\nday Antenced to war's imṣiri..!\n\nsurmeni nude foe of 14. 1930\n\nFollow-j\n\nFing conviction or a change of\n\npars-\n\nNEWS IN BRIEF.\n\nLOCAL AND CSEKAL GOMBEA.\n\nKalpinging, Touréssion.\n\nAneering to Northern Chinese\n\ning a montidens chaque for GR1,730\n\nmanors, General Lí C) Lasin isced\n\nsif entered his engtoy towards\n\nthe wel of Aprii and on May 2nd be\n\nhim 000 ANTO Vo ない\n\ntiengphau Fax iny iLanding Da bi hekali.\n\nHe (turned some days later and said\n\nNd fost The accounts and receipts,\n\nbut added that witness red hit $70\n\nwhich he spent in excess of the $600.\n\nHe said he\n\nat Line Casino Biarritz.\n\nYoung Rindas, acder to the ludustal\n\nChan had to pay $30 to 10ɛ Yip!\n\nis now in the United State\n\nratsalouer of Chit with Instrue\n\nYee Tong, a robber pang.\n\nLatar\n\nThe\n\nThe touging Cuited Pren die tipe to\n\nthe Enamelow Mining Ad-\n\npleistift sunt a man to take aweF\n\npatel from Pans apparently ontninistration to negotiate with one of\n\nthe bamboo but witness\n\ntimes the fan diapos in the Kalping\n\nMining Admlustratoba bit that not\n\neven the must! adventures of the\n\nJonas son of tion regarding the\n\nterms for euential man in the Colony\n\nGoverar General Wood into tatoration\n\nof the latter to the could touch its\n\nhandido.\n\nreales of high francs.\n\nYoung Wood\n\nChinese.\n\nAccording to the prometter\n\nwas reported to the police who\n\nwas a lienserant in the U. 8.\n\nprovisions stipulated in thu sgreement\n\nand gomeone wagested that he\n\nArts stationed in the folppinesigned\n\nbebeteen the Chinage and give the\n\nplaint about a hundred sau etéo\n\nMamagh forentade sperni.\n\n- tion he cable a the New York\n\nStorks regarding the Kaiping\n\nhandles ur beinbrs in order tr\n\nExelago, ve anasis fortune of\n\nmines, they could be henght bek\n\nmake up for the $70 which Lo On\n\nhad paid out of his own pocket.\n\nMANILA ROPE la calle duista\n\nThem by the Chinese in ten years by\n\n\"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST \"\n\nESTABLISHED 1854\n\nMARINE ROPE\n\nROPE\n\nTRANSMISSION\n\nGF TOWER ROPE\n\nH\n\nYNCHAUSTI\n\nCABLE LAID\n\nHAWKERS\n\nWELL DRILLING\n\nCABLES\n\nFACTORY\n\nCanned with bin cheque book\n\nhajamming ae adegun'e sum to the\n\nBri.\n\nTuk\n\n*\n\n29130 named\n\nQuestioned by his Lordship ag\n\netarted out en rip mound the bish.\n\nThe ten-gear terin haz alto\n\nthe security he had to giving\n\nwood, painting the ace in mota ar\n\n194dy expired, in 1938.\n\nNegotia\n\nthe plaintiff $600 when he had\n\nless lurid colure, the preced GN\n\nwere then ronducted between\n\nknow him caly few days Upor\n\nhit arrives in Fraser be mame\n\nthe Lanchow and Kalping Min\n\nwitness said that\n\nately got into the newspapering\n\nAdministrations, but no resuit\n\nChan\n\nThe matter was plainuiff and\n\nexpressed his will\n\nROPES OF ALL\n\nheadlines through his gambling at\n\nhis out.\n\nthe meh usertą.\n\n| dropped until now.\n\ningness to stand as surety.\n\nTe SIZES FOR ALI\n\nFinally something happened and at\n\ninstructed plaints not to pay\n\nmore than 30 canta & iudie for!\n\nthe bamboo,\n\nMADE FROM\n\nPORE MANILA\n\nHEMP\n\nMANUFACTURED\n\nBY THE MOST\n\nMODELN\n\nMANILA\n\nMACHINERY.\n\nSTOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES\n\nENQUIRIES SOLICITED.\n\nFACTORIES:-MANILA P.I.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE:\n\nKING'S Telephons Central 2185,\n\nBUILDING.\n\nImprove the TONE of Your GRAMOPHONE with a\n\nhad rentsanded\n\nMr. Justlee Wood said that hol\n\nde reported that his father deceived\n\nMr. Band. D. Corbett has roupa,\n\neiled rourente Tren his son fored to\n\nthe AMS in connection Fans Govenor-General Wood is\n\nwith the ingration of what is\n\nreported to lova zent a casadevalla\n\nsikely in prove a new and interesting.\n\nsura, but apparently not wfficiens\n\nto PMS industry This is the rae\n\ncer all of the bunn\n\ntion of a deal works in Pahang,\n\nthe parties was telling\n\natisfied that\n\nhe being asked to decide which i\n\nListunut Wood is now reported\n\nnear Karls Lipe, to produes\n\nfront. be working for a real estate\n\nconjungle\n\nand Der woudy\n\ncern in fios, but apparently wil-\n\nmaterials verlic not be retamning to\n\nParis or 1-170dné, holidays.\n\nGERMAN TRADE WITH\n\nCMNA.\n\nA REMARKABLE INCREASE.\n\nHe felt\n\nthe\n\nraw defendunt id pay money to the\n\nmothy plaintiff and was of opinion\n\nthat ગ\n\nwond & dispute arose owing to the\n\nfact For paints, preservatives, forces)\n\nand various that the plaietiff spent\n\nmore than\n\nut neetates M. Frank he Karmin\n\ngiven.\n\nJudgment for Corben has obtained a\n\nsuitabl; defensant with costs would be\n\nJanncession oveż a in forest arms!\n\nziren.\n\njin Pabong, thù- soncession haing\n\nvery cius proximity\n\nto Frambit\n\nItalas 8hric whirl is fifreen\n\nThe Koch Zeiteng. Count Wes-\n\nniles from Kuala Lipia\n\ntazu's newspaper, pubisher a\n\nlong article froze te China cer-\n\nf Ken\n\nWhere are Solar\n\nrespondent, in which he gives\n\nantureins completeir Japsuined.\n\nAr visit to Tsingtan. Konluma,\n\nthree are to useins, al: account of a\n\nback in fure work\n\nAbout 300 Germans\n\nce\n\nFrabies\n\nbore, most of whom resided in\n\nthese, there is ous shoe-maker and\n\nMost of ibasa have been tha pice\n\nbefore the war.\n\nBineneaker\n\n19 the imports of German mersing\n\nin this part of Raphalian kine\n\nchandise have increased in the\n\ndva of the Romarov adruimte\n\nThere is electric light\n\n[Tưkteur.\n\nreally extraordinary manner\n\nyatable, be the Russians wil bs\n\nyear, and German influence is\n\nlar pit tor\n\n-ey begin\n\ngrowing at a corresponding rate.\n\n| work at about for in the morning,\n\nthe corraspondent, and my du ber\n\nsoon after sunset, It is, saya\n\nespecially from England and he\n\nUnited States thst strany is!\n\nGENNETT RECORD in and as the centre\n\nLATEST HITS IN TO-DAY For Sale At\n\nKOWLOON MUSIC STORE Kowloon Hotet Building\n\nKowloon,\n\nP\n\nWas\n\nPIMPLES CAUSED GREAT PAIN\n\nOn Hands. Sufered Years.\n\nIlealed by Caticara.\n\n\"My daughter's bands saved tand that saw piTNILA feente.\n\nThey led with water bar bedeft then kinak and fester and fier for great jam.\n\nShe was\n\ndie\n\ngel up at night and bold her hand.\n\nJin very hot water fu chse the pot...\n\nShe suffered like that for úve or zivi\n\nTORE are for acrae Son\n\nExtas 4 tane of the Yokohama socks Bank was ned i Karachi gravity of world policy is moving nutty.\n\nIs is reported that Kara rapidly towards the Pacific, the ante brak with Japan bre intrinsed German Goverment should take hy tess and hounds during the every portunity to profeet and that five yearE\n\nthe Fer avour Germaniam in\n\nEt.\n\n\"The recovery of aume con. The Waokang Mint is at presne cessions in our former Kias-Chau | produery $150,00) Saily, hur en the\n\nhelp enor-market is in want of silver! Protectorate word\n\nmonsly the atfainment this delises it is pregused to rise the\n\ndaily work to $180,0 Lim.\"\n\nsent for a fer sample I found hi sas jaing ber gond to prese Itens and the is completely falodged] Te. Briggs. 120, Mic seter Rd., Derby. Eng.\n\nUse Cullera Sarp and Olatrert\n\nRegularly to maintain permand Jakir, and her health.\n\nSong vid Oistrant said thoughætt tår\n\nTry the Cuticure Shaving Sticks,\n\nDo This-Today\n\nTiis\n\nLearn how millions get whiter teeth\n\nwill digitiul test which\n\na new conception of what clear teeth moon,\n\nIt tacnus whiter, clatter, sufor teeth, such se millions now enjoy.\n\nSee wirst brings to you.\n\nThe war on film Dental suico is new fighting the cause of move topt]: Itoucles.\n\nFams that viseras coat you fesi.\n\nIt clings to south.\n\nUnder old methods of tooth brushing, ratch of it remains,\n\nTr.bentice decolored, then futz diy sogra Thng is why mà 1500y cerk cloudy.\n\nFilm also raises 10 troth trooi leg.\n\nIt loins food wykonanie\n\nadrich ferments and fenos sell, it holds de asià in content with the seath to asuse decay.\n\nGoms krevd by millions in it.\n\nThey, vit SAG- Sar, are the chiti cerme of your d\n\nThese troubles became almost umiyevast when that film wa left of teeth.\n\nModem rerganch das tiae werad two effective m coxbatants.\n\nOne digimtegrate the balm ut ski aresyna uf Pronation.\n\nOve rumoras à vikk... out bermind acouring.\n\nTese have proved dut dev rastheds mean à ngy era in leady\n\nTRADE\n\ncleaning.\n\nnew-type tootla paria has been created en apply ther\n\naily.\n\nThe name is Pepsodent\n\nNow the use of Peysadent ha spread the work over, largely by dental advice.\n\nLook at what Pepsodent does\n\nThe use of Pepsodent will britu\n\nat once a new conception of ela veet\n\nProtect the Enamel\n\nPepsodent disintegrates d fi khen reinowes fi with var gpent fir softer than gumel, ever desa de comment watch contains laurah gri\n\nIn dela ugga tisa tulu źni salthaling the gnty of th andira, which is then to nesesti: a montesis.\n\nJt trediciise féin par sila in salive, strah in devaẹ to do pant sich, deposits on ti\n\nThess combined effects will be a vežalise ke\n\nSend the rouson for a 70-320/ Tebe, éve how clean in teena Jeet after being.\n\nMark the\n\nof the series Blan.\n\nSee im ters Lacive whier as the i-ca dilsapy car.\n\nCompare the new way with the eid, then docide for yourself what\n\nis best ut et cospan tem.\n\nBAHK\n\nAGAINST\n\nThe New-Day Dentifrice\n\nBassa on quodern research.\n\nAd wse by Tading dotians in world over.\n\nYou will tea and food fame- diate cault,\n\nTwo zizta on ralc everywhere.\n\nAZZATA POR HONDMOND & BOLEH GIA;# KELAAR KERM A GO- 1.15. 5, W NONGKONG\n\n10-Day Tube.\n\nThe Pausodeot Dompany, Dept. C15-16.\n\nBus 1418, Shanahal.\n\nBackend find al cos Sramps.\n\nMail 10-day labs of Pzasadent to\n\nMail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to\n\nNave.. Address...\n\nGive full address.\n\nWrite plainly, Only ont vube 10 a kunits.\n\nCARBOLINE\n\nKILLS GERMS\n\nKeope every zvrnet\n\nSWEETENS DRAINS\n\npour hopes swest and elaan.\n\nThe beat IKI VISH Veudorant Gallins $2.75, Half Gallons $1.75.\n\nS'a 4. THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY\n\nDID you ever serve\n\nWelch Punch? Try -your guests will be Javish in praising it.\n\nHere is how you make it---\n\n1 pint Waith'a\n\nI quatt water\n\n1 cup sugar\n\nJake of 2 lunnans sud 1 orange\n\nThis manke the most licious and refreshing beverage you can serve or het days or evenlegs,\n\nTUL WELCH BRATE NICZOO, Wtfibi, N., 4.5. A.\n\nWelch's\n\nGrapeJuice\n\nWhelssola Regreactiam ius.\n\nMULLER & PHIPPS (China) Ltd.\n\nZebrand. P. D, Bos afin, Kingstei\n\nAssist\n\nNature\n\nHowever robust\n\nand strong the con- stirution there are fines when Nature requires assistance in relieving congested parts and re- storing normal function.\n\nNature has no subre efficient aid to health than Beechma's Pills\n\nWheat the digestive organs refuse to assimi- lace foed; when the liver Tuers sluggishty; when the kidneys do not properly\n\nperfona their allotted duties, then is the time to wesist nature to restime sound and vigorous health.\n\nby taking\n\nBeecham Pillo\n\nBANKS.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nREAD DIVICE, BONCHONG.\n\nkukintoad Capimi,AUR Sentra Futa PAID 2004 NA TUN\n\n£ 4.800.000 STA $2,699AGE Baetzen Dishitty of protons 294,092, INDE\n\nCourier.\n\nWhile,\n\nquer Meas\n\nA. IL Paview, Ena\n\nBANKS.\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nTo the Editor, A. C. M. Post.)\n\nTHE CHARTEKKU BANK OF INDIA, AUSTHALIA & CRINA.\n\nJadwiston 50\n\nReserve ad\n\nKRUTAMİ,\n\n£3,000,0\n\n2-lets Chairm\n\n5. An șa tum.\n\nLi W, Barnard, Yu W. 2. Patarajan, bez\n\nWell. Koz\n\nA. K. FRAUFOs,\n\nM Hugkung, 15th April, 1925.\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL\n\nMAATSCHAPPL.\n\n|NETHELANDS TRADING SOCISTIJ\n\nBANG.\n\nTetal Hard Ba\n\nLa magar: Eburchak.-G. 8. AL X-\n\nJAMIN DANKERJ;\n\nWestminster back, Imitá.\n\nCarpet county aveone in Lock Guzenar and Planḍ Dayalle spevived for day parë në sherlar evinin in ima) Guzzyner and Racing, Wes which will lie utwerk\n\nBand 19th Mat. 1955.\n\np\n\nHONGKONG SAVINGS BANK\n\nThe\n\nWe obtakt\n\nof the above deple s HiViNGNG AN HANG REMAIN, BANE DOES\n\nINTE SPE dep is culonlated w Bekalana during ja ezoqaletai Qalendar Merin at B34 per cent per si\n\nMeu to orbites on way day in a Moth sweet will in Kined fur that\n\nrepteiten Immander ; their epikoa Rai.üd or dance to the HONGKONG AND MUANGHAI BANK to be lowes\n\nKAKE DEPORT - CURRENT RATES\n\nFor the maing vad skurzovi Kanking Corporatina,\n\nA. BAXLOW\n\nColt Vansa, Fonehengerry, A INTERNATIONAL BANKING\n\nCORPORATION.\n\n(wind 6 the National City Bank st\n\nNew Tor\n\nCapital and Surplva v 52. JALAN, DA\n\nRetryis\n\nAVAD OFFICE\n\n60, Wan Straut. Fo\n\nLONDUS OFFICE\n\nMy Bishnule, Bi 0.\n\nBRANCHES\n\nProvince of Kwangtang, who are! however, Wally tacerning more!\n\npowerless the grip a \"BeF forcas: that this Balthe\n\nMOROCCAN WAR.\n\nENEMY FIRE SILENCED.\n\nMadrid, Aug 24.\n\nร\n\nMORNING POST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBANKS.\n\nRUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.\n\nbest 5,603.30\n\nHOT\n\nBANKS.\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,\n\nCrarecare\n\nKod: BA Stan\n\nAuthored Capim 5,360, m Solestia Cav1.500.co Pript? LED Cut Reserve ... 1,9440,001-\n\nKANCÉES.\n\nShe Bank of Fingland &\n\n& Midland Bach, Lat\n\nBRANCHES\n\nEnta Shuro\n\nAc obieral communique claims.\n\nCapital City yeld]\n\natl\n\nChaikal Pe\n\nKe Chaps Gazerne\n\nRES CFFICE.\n\nParis, Kee Brateur.\n\nLONDON OFFICE\n\nYou\n\nFort Youth (art) BONGKONG BRANCH.\n\ntd, Gid Bread Blease, $9.\n\nKAKIMAS\n\nShamok theini\n\n$ck!\n\nBatavia Gall\n\nBoer\n\ncross me\n\nJoalats.\n\nYut. Gau, Müs, de\n\nGarrin Pan Sauerale egung in recent bombardments.-EU de Gizarte E Fac\n\nFranca\n\nI've Lost Goonw Mede, Angrył 25.--General 'n de Rivers by kina\n\nArcikrod\n\nbeyn\n\nHora'sy Hentyne Bala Tamar navba ¡Calepitas Ilewrah Sciculo Kozár\n\nLindra\n\nFema BUTALOGS\n\nSlagspry Sout\n\n(ft in the coar Ausories\n\nEndrin\n\ntu de Pazia st das Pa\n\nLyn Bern CNTICIALA JOz Zaveck that\n\n1.\n\nSir your bardağ's Leadervist Gorunmeet of Canton, whose inscrporated by Regul Chartuť, 1851. [you any: “We are making and farm is vader the sperme com\n\nLand On: Londo Past op Capland $0.590' must pake a bid for the spopathyjmoud of a Karine Bolshevist that the enomy's fire\n\nof the British public.\" J this Coneret, and on whose military Albucemas was silangad by he Ferien xehera ad General Hancurent Can we hope to arouse and evil staffs there are already tane arrival of the warship! Garment Accennik wegeō and Floed Dawonria ¦ The syimpathy of the Bridiel: uray bug Russians, as declarede It emits that owing Sed ne & rent or shorter rods at pubife by rendre a telegram to ja orkude of this British Colors, the soul means of com- wales wil be quoted on Applic\n\nmunication with the painland No. 30 Dawning Stret? Wil thene ships from or 10 Yongkons Betish public ever hear of it being allowed to ply within any\n\nbeing interrupted through the cest re-haps Shnung a brief of fe wnsers of the Kwant to dairage sustained by the avack,\" it is impossible to ganga paragraph in the London Prest | Province, traton moi haloy permit.\n\nThe telegram is excellent as farted to cryas Ale\n\nAnglo-Chine Renter- AH it goes. Toy it should be barked transler, and not even a up by a direct virosal to the peasant being allowed to British people-a the enthusiasm from Chinese to British territory: tha of the cornug in this alter will that British subjecta are mat per-preparations Reve enable the organisers of\n\nThe mitted to enter the city of Cantonpleted and offensive operations US C Meeting to rese! the cont! Pets that by die viel order of the mould probably be lanched within, Venic #OAGKONG SKUNDE EMASLACAS 19. hapa Exuler's agones mere wouta Goverment ட்: Centon, British ten diss. While isolating tribes Authurted Cavitstallers 1000 dyward it, on the Colay'z boskins are folder to enter tas who said help him, we will operate\n\n212,601 | to the British Press. Con Caeton river that Red\" Trucke 30,000.\n\nthe very borrilary of Ate ei. 66ing through that chased te weglajare roused or the Angka Krin--tavas. GEA acured wide publicity. Frontier and nee, talks firing wiLL\n\ninpurity on B. a police patrels The following anggested tensed on parctos Chinne fathers ram is long, but could be and workmen the British side on thejof the border; that as a reer, of\n\nMeasures că-\n\nPaziti...\n\nTest\n\n..der.com 161,258,335.J\n\nBand On: JESTERDAM. Bester and Ocom-BATAVIA.\n\nBükmat Bardown,bresisted if necessary\n\nhay, flabour, Überikan Ujven-\n\nhar, Diakiskaria, The Haware of experie. W anyone theas and other Rink Mob Davik.\n\nHow who has been hame 10 Meika. P\n\nPenang\n\nBanzo Hoterias, Kanan.\n\nSoerakar (in) Treni, Tijne Joader Bachana Provincial\n\nCadets all was the wazid, PARKING FUSSRAT DE BYREY\n\n..\n\nRECKLESS CYCLIST.\n\nCHINESE WAITER FINED.\n\nA restaurant waiter was lugged i\n\n|_ New York Ta Ying Bauk, Colorati\n\nSexFirenz\n\nBarlin:\n\nOnk\n\nNatom\n\nShangha EVDEN Ing Pektor Mapato 1\n\nJornad\n\nKanchang Yukinama\n\nKatarrat allow on Dress Amanida de Hive Deneth Til\n\norien sebanga no the prizcismi silán\n\nL.. BAINES.\n\nthe world bws/kland an\n\nBalapur\n\n司公理管業實法中\n\nSOCIETE FRANCAISS DE\n\nGERANCE\n\nDE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHIND\n\nPRONINENT PRUERY, oubt that the Inferomtion as to been brought to a complete stand-i Hhanghai, Singspiere emitthe calony's estabifalme and til and uve 70 Ateamers, of before Mr. E. W. Mumilten. at the present importance is nevessary? wloce 65 are Pritisk, are now ly-Kuwien Mugistry Perlerder\n\nJours, etc.\n\ning e in the liatbear of Bong with riding a bicgete in a reckle I. M. T.\n\nReng; that through the uretismorzar. The defendat picaded Hongkong, 24th August 1925. of the imperial Governeur, salt and was fired 53. Appeal To The People Of Great\n\nwatch to the Chinees mind! Sergeant D. Murphys who effected\n\nBritain\n\nguitles ouly impotence, the hot the rest of the defendant, waredi This mass morting of British our and dignity of Britain have that when ordered to stop at the! residents of the tree Cology alemdy entered a severe selbeck jacion of Nathan and Jordan Red 9. Butler Bar Hongtong appeals to the people throughout And, the extent and Roads, the defendant diselayed the of the Mother County for their scriose of which only the desigual, but after a chase inte Wou- support in the grievous positionjhare will reveal; that this low ng Scient, the defendant wAS which de Colony ha heen to car prestige in Asia is the prevented from proceeding other. placed through the violently and object deiterately aimed as by by a large cerad of people, and was THE DANGLE MUISTURES IN CHIN\n\nKANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.\n\nSubscribed lasila. 78,000,000.00 Packets Capital Fra, SCRAIGN Hacer Fend,FM. 81,587,39321\n\nBANGKOK\n\nDBANCE 1\n\nPAPIRŠTE YAOM.PNG PONMOD MARY\n\nMATGON\n\nKAPTAMBANG CANTONG\n\nDJIBOUT\n\nJIHONG\n\nTANDI HUNGSONG VYNONG\n\nJOUMICA\n\nSTANGDAL\n\nSINGAPORE TUNIN\n\nBasket\n\nHersalina\n\nEasons\n\nPek\n\nBoyabay\n\nPluta\n\nGAL\n\nC\n\nItem\n\nFrancia, Cal\n\nC\n\nPrenses du Mamcie\n\nCOU\n\nSt J\n\nIt\n\nSeron la llar\n\nNarbib\n\nSarty Pinga\n\nHUMANEK\n\nShanghet\n\nAnim\n\nSZTUK MENITH\n\nSe Playca best Nasa\n\nBIKIN\n\nin Vega\n\nTari\n\nworld\n\n7000\n\nKeale\n\nfait, lei. Taghangt som\n\nble Tra Tacx hought and sold. Corrent event!\n\nsasti kauk, Kesante spared And Fla Deprale, float and fires musprim saken of zatez, tårt may be verymtaxi se\n\napplies too to the HABEBAS ONE CAS\n\nWest Also ablet the istiyon! City sic lov Brusela\n\nHack of New_York_1\n\nFot palunit treatin Bush Sales and is the War Indes\n\nTOURING\n\nHNANYO\n\nPritish activities of the preseat thin bundreds of Russing Hulthe-janested. Bolshevis Government of Genica, įvlats who are the real mastera of Great Britafa was the first Puwes Canton; that one anges) For anais- to move for the ebulition of ex-ince from the people of Hone. tratoriicial rights la lapan as on the Synperial Governurni soen av at efficient and upright bar mei with so responk, probit\n\nicing had been sethieked is by far the reason that the dete in evenerate attempt to run this Colony with vor compatriots in China, wej which is being made by the Gor\n\nis Paz: Chal Luasie; die doetry, spd. Paris Perkant\n\nLenan\n\nFrost at Yew York\n\nDagŭ Despetta arcondes My\n\nbrain tr\n\nJEBEL. DRUSE.\n\nFRENCH LOSSES EXAGGERATED\n\nParia, Agust 25.\n\nKTARESA.FNP FRANCO.camol\n\nGod is weki. Chataro, Victoria, Bongka\n\nMEAL OFFICE\n\n---\n\nParde, Yo The He Insan\n\nJapHa....... 15,000, 20 B. 10,\n\nPIE. MINDACOS\n\nBANYTIC\n\nFrans: tiste Garcia Bapur Natten\n\nBy Grade Baza de Park vi des Pac Mendon Midland think, Las\n\ndier des Ha\n\nCo\n\nfind trebain\n\nghost be World.\n\nHughing, 224 (ON. YO\n\nA ROLAN\n\nManag\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE\n\nut pamercinta ladustain Wema and TrasOwn\" 2,42 kere of 10 Fun The Nation Pretzelal and teci assured that the Gavel eglent crument of Lasten being cur-\n\nUnikan Erd. Conymit\n\nComeening certain formation : Vectron accrapla Path: edit of Great Britain, whose interestsfused with the studion Chira starting that her French insesa uti 1 New Yob F. I. Morrazo. Franch Chine are greater than those of which te best dealt with by the Forfeit Drase totalled 2,000 men, the Antal Berckling Coppo Castany any other Power, wil net sveign Dive, and a handling which papers as that the Winters of! Inset whips Care is and to lock for the lend of any other Britain, for the Grit te in her War has stated that 800 way the. Ewer chettition of mankin am veren, in takits similar hists in Asia. appears to be runter reported by General Sarri: ...... You 180.55.9 steps in China when the Glütere waiter for a led from Pewore and bat in notist been altered bet people having followed the exam with only a treeties of her inter pla of Jepun, pat the house este in Chia and is Aria eder, ander unt make residence therein. uraliy: thug e Gayorwent wil urder Chege laws and adminiz hatun bas lured self inde- traziou, xa este for foreigners a pondeck of the Governmen! la radence in Great Britain! Ching and refuses to recognize and ue Colonies for citizens of the Governmeul at Paking to which\n\nG. RUGC.\n\nHonigst\n\nen's Rool, Central. Homes. Esmary, 1950.\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA,\n\nLIMITED\n\nBIAD OPTICE\n\nÀ. LINTOT,\n\nYavage\n\nTHE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.\n\n(WAYWANGIKKOJ\n\n[ TÙ SPESAL DIPENAL\n\nBAYI İses\n\nvital Emeriled Yes 89.600,000 Duprat (pastato 0.000\n\nNo in De Vong Band. Central Rongeuren enonthe Chinese Republic. Having is Majesty Minelar to Chira\n\nsaid the when the situations accroifted: what this\n\nAuthorized Copirai 19,590, Patil Chap Kew Brad\n\n6,00,000 si\n\nBWAD OFFJEK.\n\n1,040,9sa 94\n\nVRECIDER.\n\nTAMPED, FORMOSA,\n\nBANCU\n\nIto Mr Chow Chow a\n\nFan It Blaire Ceing la\n\ntard\n\nZATORI SPIŅA Tohobar, Kəb Fans Gergely\n\nUnalen,\n\nC: King Ulivu Polos Tur Pr\n\nChan Ching her Wet Yast P\n\nvery dogrtatlan or banking\n\nSAF TITS\n\n*\n\nmasied\n\n04 FUNKE\n\nmonics, Trewall, Token, Aka\n\nColony,\n\nA\n\nExos denuntion Pankica\n\nse pued\n\n(nere bent en Durant Kurapně\n\nwat yer kom on Veils du\n\nmore en than may be\n\n- is\n\nits on wat\n\nQuare'n Boat (m\n\nROSS,\n\nAng nagES. kong. th c r.\n\nTHE RANK OF CANTON, EMITESA\n\nRead Office: Katy Loss.\n\nEstabaired 1912. Authorized Capéta) 51,20ki, Ga Pall, lip Depital 1,078,5Ð\n\nsilver Reserve Fand...$ 700, Forsigo Exchange and Genara Banking business transacted Interest allowed on\n\nSCUBRENT ACCOUNT\n\n2 po a un daily cred helences of over 106.\n\nCOUNTE\n\n4% ADRUM\n\nfor 12 monthe 5 per annu\n\nfur 8\n\non ANTAGE\n\n|GA KOSTER\n\n1.1\n\nX\n\n29\n\nConten, Shanghai, Hankey; Bangkok and New York.\n\nCOR BANZISES\n\nThe Lloyd'a Bank, Limited.\n\nLOOK POONG BHAI Chief ManaTER.\n\nBANK LIMITIE.\n\nBRID OFFICE MO\n\nJOKURANA\n\nwas confirmed by a nominative list.\n\nBatavia wad Ag\n\nEa\n\nBunbury\n\nZonva ¡Battat dzzas kauna\n\nHua Pranshia\n\nCalext\n\nIns Averi\n\nHemang Euba\n\nROBERTSON\n\n1\n\nMila\n\nSECURITY PACT.\n\nNe\n\nDet\n\nASKESTOS PROTECTED\n\nTHE FRENCH REYLY.\n\nip China we would impress where urgent appeal to uskist-\n\nNewhaven, Aug 21, aur people et houne that the pre-jane has aiready been once ignored i The France Ambassador ha sent gericus stare of affairs in by the Iraperal Government.\n\nsas handed to Herr Stresemans the Mature, Menu Pizzo, Skiardino, Thiabu. the British Colony must be un-Tur the past 25 years contributed French reply to the German Chinh anhm. Arg. Penchow, tirely disassociaran om eendi- propavilon of ita anewal re- Security Pact Noto. Tho date of\n\nState, Chaton\n\nBanen, place in China: that this Clotany veree towares crtal military publicstion ne nos yer Farabee Chart, Scubayer Hongkong was ceded to Endod. Xe Turk, alter\n\nLASDAN BANKERS.\n\nthe expenditus, the utiration for fixed-Reut!Y. British\n\nTE CHART London Cornstar Westate and Dart'ssion being confirmed in\n\n1841, the rear 4 amounting to sour that a quarte million dollar;\n\n30\n\nChief MeDoge\n\nBaik\n\nDebrents. 1029\n\nHonda 16 prebrant, tum\n\nTHỂ HỒ HÙNG Hạ lão tin t\n\nALICIT).\n\nCAPITAL:\n\nAuthorised $50,000,050\n\nTil ...\n\nPaid-up... 4,000,000.\n\nReserve Labilities of\n\nShareholders...... 4+0.\n\nSurplus.........\n\n823,000,\n\nBEAD OFFICE--SINGAPORE Branchen, Agencies and Carrespond- ente in the principal cities of\n\nthe world.\n\nKvery description of Racking And, Fxchange business' transacted.\n\n... BANG, Manager.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL\n\nBANK. LTD.\n\nVELD DEVICE.\n\n18. TWY FREIT ROON CHANCHAL\n\nBILNEGES (--WANGRUR.\n\nUntzenie Wuntraine Hack Sale & New York: Scan City\n\nAharied Capital Man 25. OUR AND Pabi-up Capital 2,090,008\n\nSose haki ini b Current sermouth, Attindi Dasu mirati ka mpy\n\nDRAUM BEAUTI\n\nOvera, barkings opgelatır.\n\nINTEREST. C'event occ 2 AT ive 15%.\n\nElard Devotion, 3 months, k 6 month 4454, wie gest 5%.\n\nKAKE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR PENT.\n\nQUR VAUTTA JAFEGUARDS) BY IDEA CLOCKS AND DOUBLE CAMMINATION ÁRNOUM PIATÉ NIEZŁ NO«YP.\n\nJ. T. LAIM.\n\nKUMBA.\n\nmetres in the Entepony Continent:\n\nDoet\n\nThe Beat bas Credents to rear following year by the Treaty of that during the Great War that beside these to whom they are Busca, M. a. Nanking, under which Rongkong Colver contributed Con, an India, Philippine Trianon, Juga,\n\nFinetry\n\nBeakow\n\nHalo\n\nHer\n\nMentula\n\nKai Zoen\n\nKorechi\n\nOu\n\nPising\n\nRACKVI\n\nlod\n\nSihampcov\n\nKostel\n\nVATE\n\nVindicat\n\nJanka\n\nit and on Correak Attiest Caprasin pacetvel for zxat perce Latatred on sites.\n\nC. AKIMA,\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK LTD.\n\nSend Mom Vinyl Prodine, Thetar BiME\n\nDRANCWEB:--\n\nLju\n\nthe\n\nat variorum appending in elliees, abups, ard siber Dutch Crulim Forts, lies to be pujsassed to pepetaly\" times over six and a ar million factories and shipyarda iz Ameries, Atring, the\n\nInteress Kaceed on Comment donuts and Great Bring that at that dotars to the importal Govern-Dot Country.\n\nThey are now cali-\n\nTeposts at rates which will be great time Hongkong was but share mans for wat parposes.\n\nIn add-in for support from this Afs-! apple,\n\nBONGKONG BRANCH: L. Dar Views Wal.\n\nZ. YAKAMOTO,\n\nsophuma, Jan. May dogs.\n\nBanger\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA\n\n行銀國中\n\nGYECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN\n\nShanghai, Kangat kone. Tergen-Russian Gropeens.ca.\n\nCORRESTENDENTE. IN |--\n\nLiodon, New York, Chence, Bra pretens..\n\nLucia chores of Chien un abroad\n\nAttraction Tale fer\n\n10 years, ... fats, stupore, Fanana,\n\nrocky island, like hundreds to befrian to a special chination of overtunt Crown Colony to their fal- send of the one of Chine, In-blatt tion pendz: that a low-workroen at he hadited by thit a few hundred arge nyentier of the youth of this Brian who can still bear, MO CRzuzet and fishermen thas to-day, after 8 Color male the supena stories with pride the story of our fax rearhouest and impartialis the war, fortified in the hog feng Respire, and to wing the faste Wash British administration, tuls Colony that they wore helping to skew of that Empire is an Sacred is ene of the brightest gear in werin secure against such a charge as is that of the Realmi\n\nthe British Crown; that even in sprang as is now oppressing the of England twk. To all such\n\n2. M.\n\nMETAL ROOFING\n\nBolo Agents :\n\n¡DAVIE, BOAG & CO., LTD\n\nBank of Canton Building.\n\nSamples and fill particular on application.\n\nMASSAGE\n\nMr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA\n\nA. 34. Wyndham Street.\n\nTelephone Central 4048,\n\nthe year 1880 the Cipverner of the pancenia Chiasse imputation of this urgent appeal in argize THOS. COOK & SON (BANKERS) LTD\n\nColias, contrasting De Sara Cautan and is sriving to sun goes forth from the ueople of rock with a cherinan's but here this Cotry of Hongkong; that, the small but uporisat matpost TRAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLI. Od tier of 1841 with the cartons of the revisnose of Empire.\n\nColony as it was 8t roars later, the present situation, the people.\n\nCHIKA UN THR JIND DE\n\nNOVEMBER, FEAT.\n\nauthorised Cepita was able to state, in a despatch of this raportat outpost of our\n\nRattan Canika ..... 75,970 200,00\n\nREAD OFFICE: PEKING-\n\nMUSOKONG PRANOR\n\n4. Quera's Road Central,\n\nTranchen and dab-bones all\n\nAt to the Secretary of State for the Empire in Avin are again appeal- Colonive, that may be doubted in to-day to the forperial Gov whethere the evidence of material ferment, through the Prime Min- and woral achierement, presented ister, do take imosciate\n\nand KANAPundar in Faros, Amartas and sthay peste of the wall.\n\nsinstel wind Under Bet E. L\n\nThe Coming Trung Company of New York,\n\nDANKERN: · The Nepal E\n\nchins as it were in a focus, wake up-to put an end to the presout inte.\n\nwhere more Jokeile appeal\n\nlerable and hotelling position, LONDON BAKKERS--The National Pare and inagication and whether und feiting the immediate and\n\nany other apot on the earth complete cessation of the lock-i more likely to excite us more ful-ade, of Hongkong at\n\ninterfs- ly justifies pride in the name case with British trade and with few the all of British abjects to 1541 the population has increased without sulasful interference.\n\nhundred teren in the year carry on their businese freely and\n\nThe Egitle The Company of New York Internet slowed no liberest Acecants and Englismar from a Fixed Langit pa tention.\n\nevery desire of Banking\n\ntransxçied\n\nFirmanied va aproved sequentia.\n\nEpilan for Brookware\n\nTUYER PEL\n\nNEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE HANDELSBANK\n\nExtablished 1869.\n\nPaid-up Capital au Reserve Fund Glds, 78,200,000-£5,517,329.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM, CASTERN HEAD OFFICE: BATAVIA, BRANCHES:\n\nSay, Arapenan. Bandoeng. Borbay, Calcutta, Cheribos, Gorostalo. Hongkong, Kobs, Weknear, Medan, Menado, Palembang, PekalongAN, Rotterdam, Semprong, Shanghai, Singepara, Hourabaya,\n\nThe Eagua, Telok Beteng. Tjslatian, Wites rolet.\n\nLONDON REPRESENTATIVE: 8. S. Wright, 37, Old Broad Streek,\n\nLooden, B.. 2\n\nCORRESPONDENTS: LONDON: MIDLAND BANK, LID, ÖVERSEA\" Branox, WESTMINSTER BANK LTA FOIS BRAKCE, N. L. GOTHSCHELS & BAR and SI BANK CORPORATION\n\nNEW YORK: CHASE NATIONAL BANK, YAPMIY Loan & Tuner Co. TRYING BANK-COLOMBIA TRUST CO, GOLMAN, SACHS & Co, New Yoke Taper Co. and all the principal towns of the world,\n\nEVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING & EXCHANGE PUSI- NESS TRANSACTED CURRENT ACCOUNTS, DEPOSITS, etc\n\nP. MARKS,\n\nManager.\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOPENING QUOTATIONS.\n\nASTON ---\n\nHong, August\n\nBA\n\nTARGETAT-2.16\n\nBasi Baya Bile, at 30 days sight BakDill, at wounthe' sight 2,42 Credita, at 4 monthe night.. 2:5 Frey Hills, at 4\n\nvetoka\" sigh 275;\n\nBank Bille, on depend DE GAY\n\nCredila, ut death right... 1225\n\nI PANELLE\n\nto one milion; that the value of state of way with the Government; the Colony's trade in 1924 was for Casion he destared in exist, 136 mens sterling: that the; and .lbak Procediate stone beY DISTOPET Lorean-going shipping entered the them takes to enforce our Treats N\n\ncleared during the same year rights and to instal as Canton ready Chinese Goverment o tous, of which 12 milion tens\n\n$226\n\nnom\n\nBack Bille, en mend Credits, ut 60 dngu' sight... NA\n\nTraunfos... 1871\n\nOx CalcUTES —\n\nTalegraphis Freester... 1874 Dank, de\n\nBank, at right t Private, at 30 days' sig... .........3403\n\n115\n\nweru Brit, at that the inises fran Rolsbevist flomnication. tonnage of all classes during the makter fe appeal to the your wea nearly $7 millions, Imperial Government Me are) making Dongkong perkaps the taking the opponunda to forward A world's largest slipping partijat the sume tirar this appeal to that el his varé tezde and shit-the people of Great Britain foros ForIAMA 20 pak, sad even the very exisleure their sympathy\n\nOrdonan........ aid suppori. of the talony, hos suddenly been In doing se we wish to protest in Greed.......\n\nON HASA placut in mirene prilby the the rougest possible TERNET STRATOL- present de facte Doisnevist Gov-against the rupaix. of falan lepi...... 19!! ernment of Cantos, which, with hood which the Balcharist GN. ON 6114A -On demand ... 742) the nel of \"Red\" Rasein mili-evamart of Cutton, under the decane.................... tay commanders and Ruselfedtrention of experienced puna. NAIGN-De dewund..... m arins and money, came into power gandista trained in Russia has CasaME :-\n\nCA douazú..\n\n794 by an armed up only three conducted through certain\n\nSUS SOTERSHYA, Bath's boying DOTA H sad to-day abtine of the world's preas. This Bate.................. 3.50 hered by Im vaer unspority of mass meeting to for the most part Cars Usar, 100 fine, per tami........ the people of Canton and the composed of me, who have wosk Bas formas, per otro Fes\n\n- נא אני\n\nBANKING AND EXCHANGE.\n\nCOOK'S TRAVELLERS CHEQUES combine MAXIMUM SAFETY with CONVENIENCE.\n\nA special feature is the precautions taken to ensure the maximum safety possible.\n\nAsk for descriptive booklet at any of our offices.\n\nHead Office:-\n\nLol Address\n\nLUDOATE CIRCES, LONDON. B.C HONGKONG WOTEL BUILDINÓ.\n\nTelegraphin Address:-COUPON.\n\nTelephous: Central 524-525.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DIRECTORY & BLOTTER 1925\n\nThis very useful combination of Directory, Vlary and Desk Blotter, contains a large variety of local fa Jormation: List of Goveranient and Department. Officiats: Firms and Employees; Foreign Residents: Time tables: etc.. etc. A handsome and durable requirement. strongis bound in cloth and excellently printed, it is a weeźul adjunct in the desk In Home arOffice, and will be found of great use in business and social affairs.\n\nNow on Sale, Price $5 at\n\nSouth China Morning Post, Limited.\n\n1. Wyndham Street.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365",
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        "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": "164\n\n10\n\nCLEAR OUT THE BOLSHEVISTS.\n\n(Continued from page 5.)\n\nThe effect of this action by the Canton Authorities has been to cause a complete stoppage of the Export of Sugar from the Colony.\n\nNo Question of War.\n\nLord Hailey's Speech.\n\nThis Colony is not threatened by possible rain.\n\nAfter our long waiting we are relieved.\n\n(Loud applause).\n\nStarving Out Shameen.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nTo relieve the situation.\n\nIf present measures are serious and urgent need, and say delay in dealing.\n\nTheillers Railway Government has taken the base of 20% of the\n\nthe latter part of the telegram, retaining the wording generally.\n\nHe pointed out that they could not possibly have the information to support those here whose interests would be reduced to ashes. Bas-Government officials, Mr. Boulton declared.\n\nDuring my visit to Swatow, I will most certainly be influenced by the Hongkong Government, and the rate to and from Hongkong, and I will venture to say that such intervention was one gentleman referred to Hongkong.\n\nHave a far larger problem to face by Russian officers. All this revenue is derived from the\n\nat Canton,\n\nDantun.\n\nard\n\ninterests\n\nA Speaker Heckled. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy\n\nCanton authorities!\n\nCleveland Nat. Rosevelt.\n\nWhat can we get there, for the reason that at that it is a source of wealth to the\n\na strong majority Government, may I understand has that a further meeting for the purpose of protesting against the\n\nUrest Britain but the time for talking is passed. cm gind is now second the resolution.\n\nattitude of drift, which is fatal to Europe would be silaze la 29 It a the time for action, for do-\n\nsaid: Sir. Lalies, and Gentlemen, strong action in this canter. Fur over two mouths we have\n\nThe telegram we are asked to send is plain.\n\n31 appeals to the\n\nSwatow's Voice.\n\n\"The, let us have the blaze\" ait is extremely unfortunate that support and abide by the decisions tion.\n\nwith confidence that long ere¦ Prime Minister to have Treatica: Mr. A. Rogowan (Swatow)\n\nof that meeting, and desire near-manber of the audience shouted, thin crisis sheale kave arisen ut a\n\nand leave the Port of Canton mia, the strong representations carried on which are Imperative supported the resolution.\n\n\"He zara: parution in one cable. Gladly while nonther told the speak that time when la London we are try\n\nprovided they unit Hongkong which, we andarstood, were from for cor commercial prosperity.\n\nMr. Chairman, ladies eun gentle-share expere/\n\nhe was not discussing the acing to impress the Home people which still further destres Britissime to vinte eshted Hume by our stresses the fact that the present af haww been specially request-\n\nMr. J. R. Greig, who said he had firm but singly asking a series of questions,\n\nBritain by the Hongkong exbibit ion is an Ant of open, hostility Commerce would ensure spedy and\n\nthan thusa morths, and independent Steenber of Scouterne in Swalow basised the nerealty for taking\n\nVenezuela Cited\n\nat Wembley. In Great Britain go- to Great Britain and gray cient action by the Home Gay-of Yeking, are dolely responsible to represent them and to associate immoriste action.\n\nHe had hemn Afr. Fitzroy referred to whating to stand aside and see Hong- and deliberately violates her Trea-rament\n\nfor this hopet of British subjects, the British community in Swatowall wound the world and fled that happened at Verregels and satû kung revert to its forme fahing fles with Chink.\n\nWhen, in coteequence of sag tuns skipa, and goods, and the the Cen- with any rebutions reat to the Britain was the most hated nation the restle\n\nPER Wal President village and native huts\"!\n\nsu ihon public meeting of the 27th July, on Government have openly debate Goverment by fongong, throughout the world. That was Rosevelt within three or four let us withdraw Hongong from our telegram was sent to the For-\n\nolured their intention of destroy- Articla II of the Treaty of Tisutain hearse the was too lenient with days sent the whole American the exhibition.\n\nwign. Office by the Envenior, we had long by every nuans in the power, which opened Swatow and othes fire poovie with wegri she had to out there and Great Brivals had\n\nSingapore Scheme Useless.\n\nevery renaust to expect that at lasi Hongkong, its trade and prosperity Southern parts for foreign trade deal.\n\nfe is the rennet Celong to climb down,\n\nProceeding. Mr. Bonitoa refer- Bolts through Hongkong and of car Hanne Government would stop\n\nTheir challenge is quite plair and state the \"\n\nis amel that we have gut,\" the spaaker declared,\n\nIeed to the Singapore Base which Mr. Best: It is not true.\n\nthe port of British Piecsgouds This ingenti be Cap and du save grows daily more definite\n\nBritish subjects are permitted to and why hour not they protacije false,\n\nhe regarded primarily to a scheme into Craton and the interfa;\n\nMr. Fitzroy: The telegram gives a plain-state-tary on rate with wheessure in\n\nwas there and to add to the defence of Hongkong.\n\nthereby causing disustvous Jusaes\n\nof shipping earns, which they pleare and to propel to ani\n\nhelped to blow up the place. Mercantile Marine's Action.\n\nit Great Britain was going is 20- both to British and Chinees mer tord that no repis, and not even an speas for themselves, and tells the top'osrure with their vessels\n\nMr. T. 7.* Laureta, o the M. Best: The whole of it to fmain paszive in this matter and chants in this Colony and to the acknowledgement of our degram\n\nPrime Minister of the recent pro- and archumdise,\" which is The Phina Coast Offrers Guild, enid: klee.\n\nĮ seg Hongkong ruined through Bol- Expor trade of Lancashire and nearly a month ago, has been claustion by Canton excluding alley bound on with at the Chahman, ladies and yousie.\n\naly. teror in comlusion suidjabevist influence, then why not Yorkshire, which st result in recived here. Even as to the pre.\n\nDritish vessels from that port, and the beatles\n\nbetween. Great on. on behalf of the mercantile was entirely opposed\n\n13abandon the Singapore scheme and farther very considerable and ju-sent nothing appears to have been shy other vessels from Canton if Reitairy and China and theatrs marine I should like to say that at creating permanent becply done by the Home foveagent for they first call at 12 ageng.\n\nThis embrace the Treaty of Nonius meeting of the mastere and ment in Great Britain.\n\nor relie, and we are here now, proferation by Canton our tele- which is that British cubjenteneres hold on Thursday afterno: En, to express our strongest indiz-gram rightly deportives as \"ar gut with the trailles, and establish fast, it was decided that the follow.\n\nThe tante-Hongkong problem ination at sneh treatment for our of een hostility to Great Britains shall be allowed to reside for ing telegram should be sent to London.\n\n(Auplouse). The Colony's Defence Contribution, the rarese of carrying on their Secretaries who are entirely separate and distleet from Horse Government.\n\nWe tall the Prime Minister of molestation or restraint,\n\nDercantile parynis that in any other part of Chira Suck treatment is outragevas uril\n\nwithave Tis is very rect and lime felt the pulse of all the stand for pstalatiere and love Both vitally important, lee every effort nations interested in China and auf country and for my fellow men owing to the fact that Gantou doen intolerable treatment, and, failing disnatrons losses to British andare trentres have been corricials with Tuppertal go toungulse and is in robelitos eller shortly from the Ueme Gev-Chinese metchisiz by this a that and absolutely violated not only in Gulle, Marine Engineers Asenciale thought thes\n\nMorchautz Service peaceful solution of this problem. The world over, hit I annet clauid Leave tolerate this position the Home against the Central Government we must pursolves do what of the Cantos authorities and that\n\nMercanthie Maring Services Whatever action was reecssury to Government is taking up to-day.\n\nat Feking and that on Conferences we can in our own interests and to by promot action new pose Nasa) apin and letter bet in the in.\n\nhoid a: Peking on driff or extra-te interests of those dependent and Minars Ferran would speedilytics of them, and my personal Association and Navigsters and the flows Government who hail\n\nWhy should she remain so milent Experience has been that with the Sercial Insurere Comply tu prezzor knowledge of the anti so passive as she fe?\n\nThere territoriality or any other Ques\n\nHongkong hard is only vor excuse. We state the fact that is 25) Prent Boisbevist authorities in urge the Imperial Government to situation than tions can possibly assist this f\n\npaver they way he considerat take immediate action with regard (Disent).\n\n27 years residence here i hava i need not dilato upon what is years this Colons has remitted as rape of paper which have been to Canton and China general the last speaker and entirely over to spons about Hongkong.\n\nI have Colony in the retaulest degree in\n\nThe chairman remarked that heen to England twine and I like common knowledge- the deliberate the House Government a defence!\n\nPerther delay may be minous cas and heartless attempt to starve our contritation of 4 millions dullers, and de unt fuzelton.\n\nCanton Government legal.\n\nJacked the axplanation he had seen it grow solid, stolid and og in dully losses be this Clonthere and the uncooked, organiz- milion dollars. These defence oment of Canton has pat inte fone That, ladies and gentlemen, was for intervention should take, at Hoe know anything about\n\nShameau, mno with of our trude the 1924 contribution betas vi\n\ning a disastrous affect on the mer mede that while they made some secure and yet the strange thing cente\n\narine.\"\n\n(pause)\n\nsuggestions wä of inermeing 201 rukowa\n\nregard to the is that comparatively due people nagnitude: moreover for Brilia sud eurders tack\n\nupou adlitary equilations Hongkong very effective embargo the telegram ant by the mercather of course fully realised that Hongkong.\n\nAt one menting here Government debyy decisive Shades with\n\nSwator i British and Jay say are never behind. Ther soleiriter for the decision of bong as just aufheient la cover\n\nare boycottert. at Canton tu the future than that and gel inure, was told us by an taxes paid by our business men and What about it? Are we to accept Arst line of defence after your file Majesty's Government. (Au- the point of a poncil on the map\n\nexo-vitarse, Mr. Helstrom, the workmen to the Government, and these nuditions withee undest? Boyal Navy. (Angimuse).\n\nlevel. The meeting waa noij and that is hot Hongkong exista There is no question whatever wadish Consal in Canton, at bir contributed to by every tue of 25 (Cres of \"No\").\n\nThu trouble\n\npresuming to dictate to the one in the minds of musands and of making War on Chion bus aiment Isaturs.\n\nAt the same lenaedectly or indirectly, down to the started in Caufan and must he stil\n\nGovernment what they should de thousands of our fellow men and ply es ousting the present via M Mangowan, ay out and respect-tumblent coolie, and we can with Carlos. Cantor is avite Chairun, todies and gentlemen, but was simpis\n\ntoworen to-day. It is just the enily anti-British Bulsbetik faed resident of Swaton, cold how longer endure what we rightly das-separate and independent of the rise to eantess any digressent voice the foeting of the Colory: polat of a pencil,\n\nThey do not lion which has recently succeed-tast port, controlled by the Canon the to the Prime Minister as die Central Government of Pikity, with the latter part of the telegram that compling must be dure and realise, they cannot realise that it\n\nGovernment, eculd secure peace at present imolerable ed in seizing the reins of new intervals only, and by the payment and bevralt of the business of this unitors the Tieda are kicked stres down to what this wetita diplomacy of Prking had so far Britain of theeands upon bou- strangulate wat has been badly treated and it is aropand to rele. When we done quickly. Applause). The in a source of income to Great It may be added that such talenting some years, or millions and Colasy.\n\nThere is no possible chance of the proposes to send to the Ilome Gos-adately and entirely fabled and saves of pounds and that it brings We have \"carried ou\" here, ali resmpton of trade as before. The erment wil done amant 10? vention will be hadled with the wiilions of dots. Has Swator\n\nit was not realised that there trade and commerce and work to not so paid the town would have praise to car own men and acreen, tags of this trade will hit the Coley demands that the Britina Gov-was problem in the tooth, our fellow me gresiest suisfaction by the op pressed and terrorised people after, and the Chinese mex-and to those of other races we of Hongtans sary hard. harder crerunt deliver au ufignatum at\n\nda, hut shall we lo to awaken cheats therefore proferred to pay. have so unselfishly and cheerfully than many resise.\n\nBritish ijonce is the\n\nfr Rost who then wonted the Chem? Exception has been taken Apart from the facensestable\n\n\"demand.\" but I Mr. Macgowan fold of the inallest our serial services factud ping interesta are very large in Apaizare), Fase you stopped for Platform from the body of the hall is the word right of British subjects in se le nder of the Bush ling police, volunteers uit oder Swalew, while farge quantities of one money he thinks were the referred to Mr. Fiteroy's statement consider it is not strong enough.\n\nColony of every race to the pro-\n\nin Swatos, sad that any Chase difer. We feel we not British gouds are imported yearly-mags7\n\nBe We want words that wall makɛ all with regard to Yeugenols. a Vulcer \"No me to was clently thank every one of these All te has diy akcppet. I have stop (Laughter and applause).\n\nizely wrote in agley that Praiat least for this generation, thet tection of the Bravish Flag a deght speaking a Briton\n\ndeclared that the speaker was en-Britons reatine once and for all, frnce of the provisions of the severely utahed, Acy sangan men\n\nwonzey. (Applause) much pleasure in supporting this You are recognising a belligerent, dent Roosers sent the American Hongkong is a tremendous asset, 5 Retou was burned. But such services are the duty of telegram to the Price Minister, and Can you point out any time in the Treaties between Great Britain akt and Charma, thus Colors has by its Swatow k cil instractions the Government, and the over. I hope prompt action will be taken lustery of the British nation when\n\nCanton; the void of the trelement is paid the taxpayers of the flame wiborities to stop it as weugnised a twopeury half end who was in power. Langheading interests in the Best repeated convidscable defence cron tribution for the past 2 years as a Canton, and waless woad Hongwong to perform Paese duties.\n\nthis reign of terror in Routh China, penny belligerant? aquired a right to the active supranged in Canton there could to when for our payment to Govt should he to say that if say al-gita bask to the\n\nEr and applause). President that Britain dres not relia port of the British Government and improvement in Swetow. We erament of dai millious yearly, we tack is made on Carton, a similar when the\n\nRocrevat would ever have done it and ventise it soon through those Souths wha fighting auch a thing. Suci d-fence untrutionz atownten easily imagine the ict of our require tall protection of ane lives shack should he made on Swalow. Jesinst the North, when the whole ceeded to give the history of the the north, she looks like coming The speaker pro-red hats, those red heads from Altogether during de period to one and children in the Treaty and property, and full protection because, unfortunately. Swatow if that Continent wax is the great Verczucia tremble pointing sat very near to losing it tha sum of 4 milion dollars, the posts under these conditiona: to tende with any bi accordamen in Kearatony and just now emire throes of war. Did the British that it was all over a guid Arid\n\nMuch Pay, Little Work, 1924 contribution being the record the refused a cup of roll or with her treaties.\n\nly under Rad rate (Appinuse).\n\nĮGasorament veroguise them? Not! Amount of 4% million dollars, and even water for for sick and dying Immediate and Decisive Actio\n\nAmerica butige in and Mr. Boulton declared that since the there, A Shungen Speaker.\n\na bit of it. You have a small com have naturally been couridered by child. She and her child wight\n\nHongkong, with its long ni\n\nbegan as usual with a lot of big 1922 strike the Chinese workman thie Colony as an Insurance Fuse for want of the bare\n\nMr. C. B. Pearock (Shameen): audity when you pay are aging talk. (laughter). \"That is about was not worth 50 ger cent of what contribution to the lome Govern-\n\ngentie- contrary to Peking. You have for the urotection of the rights artes\n\nment for protection, has been built Mr. Chairman, ladies and\n\nsm going your treaties with Chipp. Where they are any use for the he was ten years ago. Bomele secured to Eritish enhjoete\n\nup by British and allied enterprise then, I am afraid I\n\nor other Bolshevik, Socialism arð | speaker declared amii iughter. Treaties with China.\n\nwhich the Canton autheities would and work. Thousands of disappoint you in what I have to the proper place to get The\n\nMr. P. Boulton said the troubio Communison had got inte redbe na. They world bring us workers, the class which helped to say use in Shaman we have place where the Foreign Office which we had passed through thecus gud now they were sur to get to the are condition as Caatamake these millions of contrition not yet had an opportunity of going at the present moment. There lage tre months, two years, ten as much as they could for as little\n\nAccordingly the residents of itself, and of Bluesin, which is rare now, through the action of the reading the telegram which it is one, and only cue channel years and more justiced the as possible.\n\nHe heartily supported This Colouy at a great Mass In- state of anares, brutal des Canton authorities out of work proposed to send to London. As tough which we can deal and sertion that British interests and the resolution and again phasised dignation Meeting demand that the Sotism, cring, proverts and atter here at are forcibly detained in a rate I can tell you that so for that is through the diploratie: British quahties of justice, to- that unless Great Britain realised British Government deliver arratser\n\nCanton where they have lost or as the attratten there is regeerned, harnes of Pelting.\n\ntegrity and bonusly bad bass ciao. the situation quickly sad teak At this point thure was con cen robbed of all their little we are still cooking war on food,\n\ning down due to the fnci Mat Jar-promet and decisive action, Bong- ing the years of piracy, marder kong would be raïvod. The policy of Canton is frightvinga or capital, that and their doing our wo washing. pisaning siderable dent, and one of (A) To restore Capton us an\n\nThe Chatman, replying to Mr. Oper Treats Port for Tracefulness, terrorist. The authorities Families being dewlute. As the our own house and duing to beat the audience shouted \"Go and outrage, carried on droogh-\n\nI want to the West River and see what out the Chidon delta, Britain had Peacock, who asked whether the between Chinese and the bere have applied these methods Coutua cauilenge to us neartes Chaugster).\n\nthe-amplify the Charmeen's opening Teklog can do” amid laud cheers. Dever effectiveh Jutervenud and regulations regardius akipping were Foreign Treaty Powers to ruin tangkong, but have so tur accomplishmen Britons\n\narticle Ma. Fitzroy: Let me go on alto-day was the linaz. One cen-affleial, said thai Sir James Jamie.\n\nnot understand, Mr. Boulton pre-jsen had addresSEU full accordance with the failed, for Hongkong is not Russia elves and their allies woust also be remarks in regard to the\n\nthe Foreign Provisions of the Tresting or Ching, and we are not Russian thrown out of employment here, under the heading of \"Sir Jamestite farther,\n\n\"We are dealing with Canton in fceeded, how it in that & Govern-Secretary at Canton, Mr. We Hon- between Ching and those We depend for success aron indus oliriously, unless we obtain Jamieson\" in the Dallu Prean. The\n\ntry and absulate falmese, fastics adegante help now from the naye hain key aid you rectienlis other respects\" anusite: Interruptor most with such trenendous inter-nir challenging bin, to deny that Powers.\n\nesta 1 Britain has in Hongkong they were not official, and up to the (B) To expel ! Bolsheviks and generosity in all our dealings, and military forces--help for which word for word what i wanted to exclaimed.\n\nThere followed some disorder, to-day should remain pausive and present he had not received any tbefand we liave here a Government we have paid from the taxes of the and it is not ceressary for me\n\nOne early in the next few days Sir Kwangtang Province. not excelled in these resprets by people, we can pay as 44 million repeat it. I should like to during which the Chairman apseemingly indiferent (C) To disarm and disband the any other Gurement in the world, or any other samt to the Govers remind you, however, that a snopealed to the meeting to give the recall 26 years ago, when the New James Jamieson was likely to deat\n\narticle appesyed a few dayy later (apeaker a fair hearing.\n\nTerritories on the Kowloon side anther with the matter. For that sole Waypen College Syplause), and which has the conmeut in taxation, Applause).\n\nAnd has the British Gaverstoeat which was a gradging retractio) on\n\nwere given to Great Britiau youson, the Chairman said they Cadets who are in reality dence of all under er dag, rich) vome points and a poor attempt la Mr. Fitzroy Nar the ass! There was pure irable in the feh pastised in embodying the Russian trained troops, sed and poor alike. (Applause). We no obligation townude these work-\n\nTerritories\n\nA few mat shedstorms referred to in their telegram. send back to their native, shall therette defear a wanden als left destitute and towards Jussi ches, but they did thing you ask them to do is to\n\nwere huned down and if I recall Had the Carton Government seen places those who are tack upon our fade and liberties, thane who will be en left and shatish the atter from a Slamentira at the Bolshevists\n\nand shall emerge stronger andį we remain 2511 inactive while the merchant who is bore today pinot know the exact meaning rightly a few policemer were shot to deny imraedissly their receg- Cantonese,\n\nPerhaps some of you mean! There were considerable trozbie miston of that proclamation, it prouid But at what Cantos craitenge aereeds and of the Samen point of view that (D) To cease hoyent of British brighter than ever.\n\ngood workers, so to speak, perish? and inferusing them that we in the Chinese Roshevista, but at any with telephone communications cos have appeared in thus retegraal. Goods,\n\nJeost to us all!\n\nAnd, incentime, with the thou. Certainly not: We cannot and Shameen were not being for rate what you are ashing is that it did not last long. (E) To\n\ncare\n\nscapegoal. It may interest you lofts whole of thean paople shall bej The Trouble Spinthered. propagatio.\n\nEDH And intelligersahuti not do so,\n\nknow that the first article in the turned out I think I as hear in Voder Threat of\n\nworkers and merchants of all races! These people, and ali non-British Rongkong Daily Press was referred that an ero the ultimatonealation and a party from three tiers. There would be \"Complete Naval Blockade by wże stand by us ners, we cannot in the Cology, look to us and to our to by Mr. C. Wa,\n\nC who which was delivered to Serbis in different sturees was organised swer from the Canton Government \"Britain of Centon and Its continue passively to endure this Government for strength and help is\n\n11914 by Austria (A Voice: \"Non- to advance on the Territories. 1and when they pressed their for an \"net inbouring waters and/or Bloyeett with its murders, robberies, to them is this erisis and we must allest\n\nin the Cantonscher\"). It is the same sort of remember being ir. Telpu when answer the only reply they would \"such other zetion\n\nsand gross violation or treaty rights or fail then.\n\nadministration and who is believed thing that you want to destroy the Centers mounted the head of revs was that they had nothing \"Mejesty' Government may (Applause).\n\nOur Government must he urged to hos mederate with a very large the sovereignty of a nation and column which marked through to do with Vem but that it was We understand that sony foure: to prompt and vigorous action following. His chicrease to this take it by force. Very well, how the village. The ag was host-party a strikers' proclamation. The Ultimatum should also state fielegrants have been sent, either istua Retion weig, I think. bral article, I think, speaks tac itsell do you propose to do this wicked, a royal salute of 21 gets fred i\n\nSir Henry Pellock Administratiere our Governor to the Coloria 64opreted 5 All Chinese and other He referred to it in a speech ou\n\nSir Henry Poleek: Mr. Chair- ruush he established at Canton Cfice by one Chamber of Cora-non-British here of both the work August 175h in Canton. Il a situa- ve sort your allimatum (A and from that day to this there.\n\nValee: \"Send 3 telagem,\" has cover been any trouble in Tan, ladies and gentlemen, I have ing and merchant classes, and, as tien of this kind I think the greatest (Laughter. which will observe no the fall all merce to the Foreign Offer.\n\nExactly, but that ki. (Applause) Now an-made two in thres apecches ou the existing Treaties between Chios; We sun iso assured, and can stated in our proposed telegram, care should be exercised by the is not whac WC are disticipate that if something like had subject of the Canton trouble dar- and the Foreign Powera.\n\nquite holteve, that our local Cham \"scab intervention by us will be Hongkong newryapet in regard to ussing at the present comment.been due during the years of ing the past few weeks and I de It is the unanimous aginter offer of Commerce, and especially balled with the greatest satiara what they which. (Hear hour). We are sending a telegram in fronble, the rents of discontent not intend to repeat wyself this this Meeting that Brinsh inter-nur Governor and our Chairman, ou by the oppressed and terrorised Indications of disuntion, as the wich we are wearing the func-which this Colony has endured, evening, I should like, noverer, veolica is the\n\narticles dulce, merely give contions of the 17 Government. in Caston would never have been to mention one or two new poluts only effective have done all that possibiv coal pole of Canton.\" method of restoring communies [be dune. Indeed, i believe that thoj We tell the Prime Minister that dense to the other side and truke which we say the Home Govern what it is to-tap. I maintain all which have recurred to me. The tions and trade between Hong-labours of both have been unit at this great masas judiquation meet car battle sil the harder. (AD-rent are totally incapable of doing if the Bolshies bad realised the fire is a very interesting historics! kong, Canton and South Chirie aud ting in our behalf. (Applause). jing we dead immediate and de-plause).\n\ntheir job despite the furt that we firmness of the power of Beitian point which I looked up this after- of preventio tae economic But they have apparently failed fejsive action by the British Govern- Support from Fonchow, Jare told they are brasted by every- they never would have attempted | noon, and it is iu connection with destruction of Hongkang and of and we, the parle of Hongkong, meat, \"Dervind,\" Fix. is a strang The fileman then read the fol-body. We propose to do by to have planted themselves in the what is called the second war of British interests in the Treaty and new asked to cable our case word, Bat, in car gremstances loving telegram, he had received establishing a hickade by navalety of Canton to work their China\" in 1867. The casse Porte of Swatow, Anioy, Foochow | divert to the Prime Ministry who, ant entirely in schord with it. If the Fuochor Chamber of forces of Canton (Bear heart-ruinous tropazendo aguinal ue. that war was as follows: There And South Chura.\n\nhimself a business man, and withiam in aword with the whole of the Commerce: \"We welcome news Does it ever occur to you that' (Applause). As a 27 years real- (Continued on page 11.)\n\nThe Ultimatum.\n\nby\n\nultimatum at once to the Canton\n\nAuthorities.\n\nfrani SARDA\n\n\"ensider neessary.”\n\nhista Chinore\n\nAu-British\n\nHS\n\nDeces\n\nAnd this is the condition\n\nsande\n\nA Policy of Frightfulness.\n\n<\n\nprobably one\n\nטיין\n\ntho\n\n\"Nonsense.\"\n\nTake eivil\n\nyay\n\nthat time it was President Clare-nation, that it is the key to sil\n\nthcit\n\nThe General and Adaurai were la\n\nMr. Bertil Helstrom declared that the Cautog Goverment were\n\nbehind hiding themselves\n\nLae\n\nYo wit-\n\nof\n\nCLEAR OUT THE BOLSHEVISTS.\n\n(Continued from page 10.)\n\nMACAO NOTES.\n\nPORTUGUESE NAVAL FORCES.\n\nOur Con Correspondent.:\n\nwas a certain bost named the Arros comanded by a\n\nBrition captain and menned by a crew ol Chinese which\n\nMacau, Asvist 24.\n\nGuilherme 1veny\n\nCommander was selling in Perras at the Portuguese cruiser\n\nValedictory,\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nMORNING POST\n\nCUQUETTING WYIH BOLSHEVISM.\n\nCLARING DISCREPANCUSS AND INCONSISTENCIES.\n\nBg J. R for the\n\nS. C. M. Plat.)\n\nrenk\n\nthenight\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926.\n\nBULSHEVISM IN CANTON, OPINION OF THE CHINESS.\n\nNot Mind to the Menace\n\n.\n\núť\n\nIt is a\n\nApes-balipenny stomp\n\nqof the world's richer in tantury and commerce and munstry wil ouer\n\nthe studurls and dissatisfaction, POINTS ABOUT HONGKONG. Jar Jnker i to destruction. Then\n\nwithin lite workers, and clearly! it is the opportunity of the prude\n\nGerezand that the Boishavets -\n\nTHAT YEHEN. tatiane ar wordmen of the world bel\n\ntead o\n\nCover their violation step in ani lake over the govern! Le spirit with the anavarde.\n\nOne frequently copies aerosy & met within every ti\n\nment that strikers have the auto-reference to The noder ermits have resterday. It is apparently a copy or parties they have reasons to op-\n\nTac lowing letter reurbed us inge of refusing service to persons and is is a non praatine, though\n\nHongkong, China, the ordinary way under the werepublics is beer, appointed Con-]\n\ntinue war again unchained an Great of a lever addressed to Han. Mi pore or disagree with.\n\ncantile marine flag. That Bag woa marder in Chief of the Portuguese critical paalysis of Tolcheviniz, matkab Ulustration of the acner!\n\nI make no prebusion of writing a war in Buspe a sroviding a P. D. Holyoak. for it ronds:\n\nan entirely wrong and costly one. to aldress letters in itis Fashion torn down by some Chlaese cffcial Naval Forces in the Far East. pricking all its tabbles of fallacy wf Marx's practition\n\nWe are admit that Bolshevism Hongkong, as is often pointed out and trampler under foot and from The Gift Esues, the Portuguese ami impracticable aspirationa\n\nHengkong. Avgust 25, 1995. At So while wardly. the Boise-Mase Meeting, Hongkong Rederiz. Teking and those in other capitalet at a letter there fan it does To P. H. Holyoak. Esy., Chairman, meurs and that the authorities at British Colony, and it costs no re\n\nwill reapest no diplomatic setite not a part of tha that single treident arose the transport, is due to-gorrow, to be thint I attempt to do within theviste argue, their way in wegent out be-- avcond Chign war, which is vervi followed, i understand, by other scones this series of articles Sa tobali of the workmen, the property i vesidents in Hongkong, we wished with the local situations in Sauch other often referred to as the Arrow war. units of the Portuguese navy.\n\nOur dear Sir--As temporary have but been thoroughly acquaint frein on end of Lepdon to the sonin the misformed with solens clar, the movement in vanity in In connection with that, I might\n\nThe offres of the Naval Foresta pitfalls and spares sufficient a gigantic ble for the emancipatie sure through you our friends out- Chire. say that in those days there were at Mano bave been entertained on\n\ndone the wick Another mistaken to convince the radicais in this por.cf the whole of making Tu vltimate Side Chaton that the people of\n\nCantonese Not Inactive. such things as talograms or several occasione during the past prasnat fer cannot change the car and the catablishment of a gecine of the apperching danger of us to point out again that the thus \"Hong Kong.\" In a letter to suting is the soiting out of the tion of Chins that Reichevism in the action of all cases within romery vangtung bave ust been unaware, Instructions from home, and the law daya in Mace, lo honour of\n\nIt may be of interest to you for nord Hongkong in two syllables- Govamar of is Celery at that a arcival of the Republice.\n\nof contemplary Etical decuracy have been the win this! Boisbevis and have in the last people of Kwangtang are not at all the serve with ference to his time, Sir Jeha Bowring, gave\n\nI dare to main in the Bolsterisw. urier to the then Admiral to gu\n\nWhether the Boltw years repeatedly, unceasingly native to their desire to oust the reatly published book de Luss ahead and the Admite went ahead and kindred services are a lun-damage to Crins, materials and The Siberists lar maintain chat pay all unjust and unreasonable seating inertia has he fored by Mast as read of Leigh and Orange\n\niam can only do a gent deal of izin to do is ezether question.\n\nThe Chater Collection, \"Mr. James Ws are rumurimes inclined to meer cheon in honor of Mr. Meireles exacialks, and cae eomplish unthing tus capitalis have all the advantaxes whenever poscite and, a circonstances they are still unable points our list throughout the book.\n\nagainst ni rafal arts, refusing to from their territory. the thetri at what we call eatly Victorian Vasconcelos, Director of the Trea of constructive value in all ages of anperior education, diei-lehad once, get the Bolshevis arms to overoane, and that, as soon as except for quotations, Hongkong is day Lord Palmerston was then suy, at the Garden of Mr. LaBolleva a contend movenwet plis maitsey elect an every-to me in our earlier struggles necessary and proper arrangementer, 34 cis word, for the panca Prime Minister and his action was Lit-ok who is leaving Macao et ventras a gonerat earth thous at Meir disposal Ther-fore we had not received say arors er are posfected, nonstory stops will mation in the Hongbing Geor challenged in the House of shortly, having been promoted re-¡queto in the political world mans and he weat ic\n\nthe leazsition from Capitaine to material sacncrayanent from vat- be taken to teenvet the power and went Questa of Juan I general į raty re Cape Verde.\n\nelection on that incident, and was) in tog pravicua articles 1 are Comunion acrveserily inside. French Properly At Knuten.\n\nreturned to power with\n\nItoushed but lightly upon a fan of the fierce and hitter struggle të penis,\n\nthe government now surped by a Ex the ne a lugel lette has vast received in mais features relating to the exto come. Anjority. (Applause). Gentle Macao From: Canlon stating that trene doctrine of Bolshevism. Buf\n\nOur poupe of Kwangtung realize arty of Bolabevists who nove of Home.\" men, 1 must admit that i am amazed the students and their friends have cons ook has been braught|\n\nand the Tera is the elose relationship and natual spoble persons inside or questde sed in the colony of and by Tu the Way. that the British Governent has completely creuptut the genusd sur- forth, boyster, to show how Isnn. This was the reason why Lan cach other bewear Piston and Satereat and inter-doprudence on\n\nthe Repair of China recognize. nol yet come to the mist of this rounding the French Cathedral attirely fodifferent the Sasior leaders, and eves serious re- Hongkong, 2e fally content of of Bolshevists in places where for- ing in de colony.\n\nYear Indignation over the acts of the murervus compazzes sziginat local newspapery and in the title Colony, because Mr. Austen Chau Canten. Fais property does not the fundular basis tion, long, chstinate, desper the fact that further delay in the 6' interests as well as Chinese stizer boule a far back as the fire of belong to the Fenet. Mission human justice, bborts, law alte resistance of the exploiters, who return to normal trade wil result are affected and your desire to set nountry generally write Hongkong Fay said that he would not con- s pozerally supposed but is the order, in the buique sat sinister for many yours will Fet enjoy Beant in economie rain in all parts of an early restoration peace and as two sepuute words or connected new spars in his sider any queation in connection property of the French Gorestrment i kuptbody slov bare adsulod te msk.#antage over the exploited, 200- South Chins, are not blind to the dation, and we shall not hesitate to perinces and guts, equally com with the revision of tresties with and the letter expresses much in\n\nshitates the rule Never treachery of Bolshevista taking as you that we are not by any posed of wwe words, and not ? Bolaberian sa wwerapishat fort in\n\ntrade have our sympathy and agure with a hyphen, but ace of Chinese China until the Chinese Govet dignation that this occupation Russia and in the world.\n\nthis explosers spirit to the devi sneller behind the patricting of weans sing in our man and effort writion. mam had taken steps toʻpot au end should be permitted a cantase. I propuse in talt article de cussion of the vaploited myjority with.\n\nstentia on ona or iso other lend at making use of weir advanger to get rid of a curve and danger Kwanz-tung, or Shang-ii, for in ing questions pertain to the Como destinate title on juries hearsing joumakor\n\nurist movement, before pusting con of butle This method Elswrists had promised test ther parts of the world wherever\n\ney (the now cursing not only China but all stan in her articles, to fleeinstate the whokaale slaughter of peklish Coururin. Instead the Bolshevisus rasy he feand.\n\nThe ela of the Treasury at the revolutionary epicís of Polshereevwia can carry out what they fought the by veicing protesta epits and dangers of Rolshesin Crange,who will be amembered cat\n\nto the present aali-foreign aft-\n\ntion and had shows their ability) 21\n\nto enforce law and order and res- set for the treaty rights of the Powera. Well, gentlemen, I ca Daly understand that utterande f Mr. Chamberlain, or Foretgui Secretary to incare that he will inist at the treaty rights of th Powes including the treaty rights George, at present\n\nPRINCE'S PARTNERS.\n\nSEAMENTS DANCE HONOURED\n\nthat even revolatutory grant uns, aliats, acientists and intel-\n\nBY ROYALTY.\n\nTis\n\nRaval\n\nThe Ladies Pleased.\n\nHighness Prince serving OE!\n\nસં\n\nof Great Britain, are observed. Beard. M. S. Hawking\n\nnicht.\"\n\nThe Right iv Trade, Another statement, which shovid\n\nke to evole For 3 Atatement radi\n\nnex\n\nbation\n\nal simul\n\nSince Bolshevism has beende a\n\nthe well-known firm of architects.\n\nAltst\n\nCin\n\nan then Chen\n\ndoes\n\nM: Orange\n\nnot\n\nWOMEN'S FAVOURITES\n\nThousanda\n\naf diveritnating\n\n| vidvas unde of passion, celia and Icausis in Soviet Russis day be geda violence are not cháy incompatible/en they belong to the bennemin Passat propresor, who g all times; world care and is bringing suffer wone favour Finkettes shove all Iwith, but sien me at zereal it. class sul they are what the Itausinn./ institule time individualistio inr to a markand 4 should be other forms of laxelive rasdicipe the Chiapan cekiral and social mini f're on to say \"Telko Meshare clase to every courworwegian. The! Rosiroved sé a commoor enemy tu because they are daniy and finy,\n\nLet us ans for a montat pe B of pagiâniam, Instead they created! and the question of regoring a sanie pleasant attribute. make thi\n\nabout the two halves the\n\n(It's in the way\n\nme no opposition parly is\n\nThe Troia\n\nDictators started with the singa rankind wherever ay be sound. set as gently as deture.\n\na mikiose vilities. They tried to\n\nFastcnd!\n\nAnd the\n\nvince.\n\nameeten the breath, reliese Piles. SANG TAI PI\n\nOr Chemist, cr post free, 60 Representing Trade Maintenance cents the vial, fiber Dr. Williams'\n\nthe Russian Committee\n\nof Kwanglang Pro-Medicine Co. 60 Kiurgse Road,\n\nShanghai.\n\nTerminology. Let us be clear is que mlade, at Sevich Coverment fpican The hes now got before bit: the coasts! Lieutenant. F. N., is entering into Bolszign, about me of its berms railrendy of the country and soil!ead egy paved the way for a bus that of tinnal, poitical or ter-3\n\nath age of our demont ega borist Germans operates the cager war revolution. In ebeny shack nut tonch equally poster with men. Fegulatory which Lave recen3y the fe of a pavai miticer with äi! | sand their meanings have theragh; garettes uz the streets of 47tical renstur in every courtes Levi zitorial isaga or jurisdietic bean premalgeted in Canton, Of the seal and voi comradeship it important to emplaza th's point, The Government publiskan books Capitalista Justead shey used by via the people of Kwangtung are stimulate the vet, increase the To restore tally regularity, to July 15 the Tuted said: \"Tala iza for whuck the senior scrvive shows not a len we still hary regazina clueSYSYFTS\n\nremedy sick Headaches, bilirse at started by Aging dagsint\n\nteing likewise cursed by Golate; canky, vertigo. moment when Britisa noley must noted.\n\nnabilance, take a dear and definite slipe.\n\nAt the Serbu for sale o contasomarine watching with deep interrat the appetite un ald digestion, Pin wesome titres horses, kabels to culliossins capitalists from manner the people of Hongkong kottes are perfection. They keep Saturday 1st, he attended whole of the Coromast uwment, father, angs, tramour lines a firent Brigin and the United Mate will adopt to lessen evils now being the system cisan and cool, clear the thia potey is such that it romance held at the Seamen's menda fisalf to vibes and ledly stitute arranged by the Lower deck je\n\nfnamely, Bolshevism and Conping lies oil lids, fntests and with roses and the weath of a spread by Bolshevists in this part! skin of tiles and inches, 10 eucive corumca actformet of the flagship,\n\nunitark in e werd, the Sovie stie! muck the better. But the epon through the larger part\n\nand stayed Bolabeviam is derived from is a puremanent a well ea cupidavast continook They started be of Fire worldYours respectfully.\n\nof the thevik, meaning the aforisy, in of industry, a benker, and a me sibility for defending the preet and progare. hely by o\n\nsholisking Christianity. means opposition to the caiter saner evolu-chant garbined. Do wot forget that they produced a merkado revival, row seriously threatened British dent in the choosing of part-tionary social parts, the teemast of the and leaders are misber interests in Chixa les Ayst at\n\nof Christianity in His first was Mrs. A. Carsbeviki, mating the misoging, which profesional en foremost on the British Govern-zon, introduced by the M. C., and overdures the Czarist Govery agriculturiste or factory and\n\nfor terhesta, brople cer Mr. R. M. Marks and Mese, and hooome the Berents They con osy wield the dimurtively M. Hart\n\nGovernante Bolshevism enme into per gue and unta, respritčeniy d. norber of tea\" dances were goter in Brasia, thanks to a pecu- The Goverment is andor tic feature of the programme and a combination of cirrowtanens. Soviet Umon, which is dem into these . R. U. etered with during the Great War in Europe. by a \"all opinionated, curgeat: He, Bridgeman, the First Lord enthasian; thus nearly all the Lean did not wriggin surreptitious group of people who conduci dio of the Admiralty, in anewer to a d'en prezent, had the much cavetrain in Decober, 1917, the fate of and pessants\" 1 urte saia in the fanove sealed taimeslip in the name of workers! question in the Hogan of Commons ad bacoor of partering rogalts. Pussis might have been far brighter Theu, there is no party in Sri an August 6th. Mr. Bridgens which was the more gratifyuz in and apper that loviny. said the aircraft carrier Hermes 15at the Penes in not my need trofe of Teuin might well\n\nThe stel Rosie, but lay act of Coni- had been despatchen to Chins and cellent dancer, bar a charming con- compared to Papierna Box, frran tuluraber her aircraft would be utilised fex verszalonalles, putting at ease in which hare bean les loose ste that there is no Parliament Patt It cessarily Follow taining and exercising the paradiately those whom the fortune evile that spread throughout Husin:eally art economically the fovict sonnet of the deer ait erm and, if the \" brought him. necessary, in co-operation with Hia\n\nfor the matter of that, all over the state is shalately anaipotent Majesty's naval and military forces in the resolution cutii bu reconciled\n\nworld, during the past seven seats. for the protection of the lives and that they should demand a cer several messings\n\nCommunism is a word te has\n\nIf you ask the Reds why there! property of British subjects. (A) define polier to be adapted, pivo it: Coronen riskip of prothe Seriet State, Nie auswor\n\nTitively should be such an omniveleace of clause). Well, ladies and gentiang vet at the same me declare paty: the abolition of privale prothéery is somethies, like this:| wen, I think we shall all zgree that that they left it to the discretion porty and state control of labour,ell. e Comumeist mozeworę the most important right of pro-ef the Dome Government as to religion. social elezions. perty widen we have out here in tow they sheall art. He asked sometimes it is need to deste a\n\nest go through twu ktages: the Far East is the right to trade the Chairman whether he would be theory of wciety, much surilar stage, based on the dominance of the (7) brandtiongi, terolatiouns suroth the treaty novia with the willing to modify the resolution 'n that of the exoly Chifiia in slate by the leaders of the working l'enor of Chr. That is a rigut, order that it might be made the which all property is held in class, sch as Rusia is w-day of wennerty far more important than unanimous voice of all preventi\n\nIt is also beef aquony nonsig same other rights of property we that the mantingarnestly dead with Sorialians In the sanac as it\n\n(4) a Communistic, clas-texs hear of, soch as the infringeant that the Goremecut should adopted in Randa. the word suns ponitury of catharity has sunither slag, in which the state as a m of a trade mark. 1 is a mithrona drastic pelley. He believe the work of Marx and Engels, pub Bon the Commanist Manifeabın” times es inaporist as any right of the meeting was entirely unanimous\n\nwhich is the fun! alage.\" a trade mark, and therefore we that they must take steps to tonery amunista regard that afforz\n\nThe writing that I hav The moder revue direct again Bolabeviews cebleed that, in the past, was the Home Government to their Bible, though Lenis kaŭ dezy ought to rely upon ar alle prend and decisiva netten. Nacy, in verionelen with any vil-]\n\naled and bem i's cardinal \"prised and social structure of the atte Visiont changer of ile politi. The Chairman intimated that he tary forces. to protect our very was quite prepared to adopt Mr.\n\nplen\" important lights of trading Men Johnston's view and the resolution\n\nproines vicient reaction, for a ni the Chinese at the resty peris and was therefore amended to read as\n\nrule, according to most auciologists, The fundamentals of Comuni violone social explosion will bring in trading through the weaty parts follows: neordingly the with the interior of Chica. (Ap-cents of this Celory\n\nwere examined by a shout exere har han And The at a great are who predicted that the crn of existing conditione in Mossta nes ikisi plarse) mass indignation macting, demand! Capitalism would crane to an ad by routine evidence of that pat There is juan mie other patio that the British Govarumeat imperson of the very contradictions 2 The \"oike\" the sheald ike to mute batera dietely adapts a drastic policy, as The consian he assigned for ita utitures who guztically deszinat icharvat in the nature of Ospitation ut novior, Komesey Stalin, dawn, and bat la\n\nthis. In the wa vecture to suggest, in the folio marc downfall are briefly these. the policies of the Russia Couperist eat war of 1914-18 Great Bri-ug ultimatum\n\nCepitelism with its hage organist Party, here aiready abandonat notite tain went to war benuste the treaty authorities.\"\n\nthm of sommaren and industry the of the quja \"prikupies” found in rights of Bellam aud been regarde Mr. J. Russel arged that the world user, aiting only at exploits the policies of the Bussian Comp ed as a more scrap of paper. Cap-siculd include in the telegram that tion of inhour, tends to create dis- and the Centrunism of Locin and plause). She railed upon her power abould be given to the local sontent among the proletarians of Proteks. How do we know that inj children at all parts of the world Government to deal with the situs-worker to come and joie to that war andition.\n\nWithin the political morber four years these \"prei slate, the capitalist are so poseifei mor\" may not be changed more and] Hongkong nably responded, (Hear After sotna further discussion with their animation of wealth more under the necessity of leas. Sarom handred men went the resciolion, as amended, was pati sad property that lay are in a pri proinine wish the exigencies of the forth front this Colony, many of to the meeting and carried and time dominate the government and tiran↑ whom made the great sacrifice. loud and prolonged chears. They made the groat sacrifice be Mr. W. A. Doutes, tu appealing utical, and totally destegend the cl This far we have obrered Soviet cause they were a part of the Bri- for enairibations toward the eine reasses of proletarians or Russia coisang of theas dienuator..\n\nsh Empire. They espoused beren suvolved, mentioned that the men de Berbund Rustel pute it\n\ncies; Bonde capitalion sú private! guaarel, and wo are asking Crent telegram would neet $1,200.\n\nnunoactly: Internally, is protects inlordien, bourgonis property- Britain to espouse sur quarvel now. A hearts vote of thanks to the the rich against she poor; oxtarazt ayub g and prival trading, as well (Applause). Surely the British Chairman concluded the meeting is uses tores for the evolaitatiores selling or signing away of mining. Government cannot are this\n\nof interior races, and for ongori concessions and much other right to urgert ery for help which we are The Feuch Police at Shanghai with other Stadoy\" Capitalistic nations sending out. Our need is grogh have succeeded in treshing what ice to Ma. Fussell, he is not a Dol The is no dictatorshie s the and prigent, and bar entre is just, might be called a factory for fabut bevist, he is far too wise a pollon.proletaring at the present, nether (Cheers).\n\n*100*1. The money bas bean diser to accept Bolsbesis was polis there the prospect of the doing\n\nributed largely auungst exchange ical unce\n\naway with the State and the coming! A Slight Amesiment.\n\nshops in the couressions, but follow- 1 Caputzikin or She capitaistic Tow mecasites of Breshevian\n\nof the fren visitly in the fronre The Rev. J. Horace Johnstoning disclosures by the arreated num, state is dovanć w virker sway in As far as the Gevement and ite asid he cosid not personally seentry of the proprietors wee alsoldige encore, bocause the arable of policine are concerned, may best in how the two statements contained' approbeertet for darling in the win. the capitaliste nations for partition summed up in the words of a keenly\n\nresi.\n\n213 the Canion\n\nshe is\n\nKarl Marx.\n\neverything nonamic, social and po-\n\nLo\n\n+ #\n\ne\n\nSi\n\nGillette\n\nMANA\n\nThe Well Groomed Man\n\nIs Properly Shaved\n\nH13 free shows no sign of beard and it is freeotirritations caused hy dull or improperly designed\n\nrazors.\n\nThe Gillette has always been an ac companiment of the well groomed man. Since 1903 its use has 2dicated good judgment--the mauuko appre saics the mumerous refnemesis in nazor construction which have made\n\nCilenc shave superior to sng whee\n\nThe New\n\nImproved\n\nThe New Improved Gillette does not siog with bair and lather. The blude is placed in exactly the correct position fo cut the hair evenly and level with the surface of the skin. And, finally, the blade is held so it does not vibrate and rerepe the skin.\n\nThese are the reasons why more than 3,000,000 have already bought the Now Jumpraved Giliette. You won't kann sitovi-gconfort until you ownone.\n\nbur aule at all good skaps\n\nBuren wện MULLER A PITIPPA! Limited Mesas Weltban, lions Anes,\n\nGillette\n\nSAFETY RAZOR\n\nMade in Most U.S. A by the Gillette Safety Ruzor Company\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nFOR THE\n\nSWIMMING\n\nSEASON\n\nWe are displaying an excellent range of\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nRUBBER BATHING CAPS & SHOES\n\nSWIMMING FLOATS\n\nDo Not Fail to Inspect our Display of JANTZEN'S & JAEGERS'\n\nLADIES' AND GENTS'\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nIn all Colours and Attractive Designs.\n\nThose Pure Wool Costumes are unexcelled for their wearing qualities, comfort and style, and they always retain their shape.\n\nTHE SINCERE CO., LTD.\n\nHOTCHKISS\n\nDON\n\nFALST BROS.\n\nKIRKCALDY\n\nHONGKONG EMPORIUM\n\nAN OLD FAVOURITE BACK AGAIN!\n\nConnoisseurs will remember \"DON\"- the favourite Scotch Whisky of Pre-War Days.\n\nNOW for the first time since the war, we can again supply DON.\n\nSole Agents:\n\nN. S. Moses & Co., Ltd.\n\nWhy Your Printing Should be the Best.\n\nMost people characterise the standing of a firm by its printing. Shoddy, or even mediocre printing gives the impression of mediocrity.\n\nAs you judge a man's character by his habits so do you judge a firm by its methods: its printing, its correspondence, the promptness, and its general tidiness in business.\n\nMake sure your printing is good, clean, and has that touch of distinction which a first-class printer makes his speciality.\n\nUp-to-date and good printing is executed by\n\nSouth China Morning Post,\n\nTel. 440.\n\nLimited\n\n3 Wyndham Street\n\nHongkong.\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST.\n\nTHE\n\nECONOMY IN HOME BUILDING.\n\nTHE OWNER AND THE\n\nARCHITECT.\n\nBy Oswald C. Bering. Published by Robert M. McBride Company, New York $5.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBUILDER.\n\nFOUNDATIONS.\n\nBUILDING PROBLEMS IN HONGKONG.\n\nMuch more general appearance\n\nThe timber pile, both squared and round in a \"tree shape\", have been the most greatly used in the past. These are driven in by a falling weight, or steam hammer, until a specified resistance at each fall is obtained.\n\nTo-day the timber pile has largely been replaced by piles of concrete, steel and combinations of concrete and steel.\n\nConcrete piles can be divided into two classes, viz precast and cast in position.\n\nMr. Hertug has added another to the list that may be met with by architects in the East.\n\nThe \"ground\" in Europe is one of the most important factors of shares and limits average matter, and in addition the conditions of space.\n\nThe precast pile is cast very much in a similar way to that of the thinner pile, and is generally made with a pointed end, and land reclaimed are so found by the soil, or a metal shell is driven into the ground upon completion of all the piling and forethought for back that they can ease to be carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britain, that old or bedding upon \"bad ground\" make a compromise when it comes to inferior quality is not usually a paying proposition, land being generally purchased at rates which are less than the cost of reclamation, or at less than the extra cost\n\nWith the metal shell as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible general pile cure, the shed and the raundiena sufit upon waslabic soil.\n\nArchitects seem to feel pretty strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignorance of the lay Homes, base & valce in giving man, as well as over ambitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space is devoted in this bank to emphasizing the importance of selecting a good architect, and what is more, excending\n\na bilding site may range from portance of rebitecturo as the Dig ind waa an art. I must be honoured with\n\nin\n\nold allowed to haraan, and dzisi\n\nThe precast pi'e la cast ven in a similar way to that ef the thinner pile, and is generally\n\ngood agricultural pie cast in position may\n\nJo\n\nend, and lande reclaimed are so fond by the soil, or a metal shell\n\nInto the\n\nupon completion of\n\nall the pianting and forethought for hack that they can ease to be\n\nWhere the earth forms be mould, at any heantau! thing that is spoken of as cocinimes worth being carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nland metal lobe la driver\n\ncompletion.\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britale, that ocliving driving the tube, concrete is passed pared fo\n\nmake a compromise lard or bedding upon \"bad ground\"\n\ndown the tube, the tube being with-- when it comes to inferior quality is not n staally a paying propal-drawn as the couerote is placed. of materials or -guted dion, lana being reuerally pureba\n\nWith the metal sheli as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible: cunstances, he always indicates as than the cost of reclamation, meral ple cure, the shed and the a smaller scute, or simplified as ur et less than the extra cost\n\nraundiena sufit upon waslabic soil. Architects seem to feel pretty Tan exceptious are to the rase strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignoranes of the Jay Homes, base & valce in giving man, Ax well sa over ubitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space in devoted in this bank to emphasizing the mould mad, to hard rock, or six à bilding site may range from portance of selecting a good arritures varying between these two tect, and what is more, excending Mad, soft ground, or Ta pat fath in bi The aveti-\n\ning.\n\nTHA\n\nIvos sand,\n\nle care being driven into the quil, 5s pic care heirg collapsed when i rewnioz the necteurs depth, and removed, feaving the shell in the ground to form a road to take the concrete.\n\nThe slams for the metal shell are f that before placing the camareis.\n\nhe concrete can do seen, and that the near space to be recupied ly\n\nas the hole is Hired by the motul shell there is no risk of earth o\n\ntect ia a Dinette,\" says Mr. Hat ve of indefinite depth, or ground water becoming mixed with\n\nthickness of there untable soils, the concrete. safely carry the structur covering soi! sufficiently solid tej claimed Jun.\n\nand\n\nHe e insistent on necessity of the architect knowing\n\nOne syle, where the fabe is: his clients understanding their\n\nHe-driven and withdrawn as la con-i needs, and the actual human fac have hoen ased for the disposti of the monid, attaches great value areas which ereta is placed the soil forming tors of thefe problem. The lay-earth, and rebash, come under the to ramming the earth at the foot Tan does not usually balanced picture or the problending or soft ground, which the gile to an enlarged base, over-lie good firm soll before commencing the concreting,\n\n14%\n\na\n\nQuality\n\nTOP NOTCH\"\n\n\"KING GEORGE IV\" Scotch Whisky\n\nSole Agents:\n\nGANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHONG KONG\n\nFresh Air on Top\n\nWHEN it is \"set fair\" with\n\nthe thermometer in this eighties\n\nyou CRO awoly command a refre sehga\n\nbreeze from your\n\nand is likely is mopese plans that The sides of water courses are and the camming of the concrete Electric Fan\n\nare inconsistent.\n\nTactful and Firm,\n\nIt is\n\natten of sor 2. var-lying is invera to ratosal, as placed.) The architect must be tactful may a exist, that is, a pool for the plic, and irregular sides which good firm button. The opposite which results in a bulbuions font tel bat in his criticiser. asstatis?, therefore, saleet himmering mud, or louse soft before pay atop a taken in the plays, ar buiting, Indeed, to help\n\nWhere had greend iz met with. the actual selection of the site the normal footings obtained he\n\nis claimed give greater skin letion.\n\nConcrete, it good, as a materiai | tor piles can be spoken of as per\n\nis unually a mistaka to scrno-widening walls un piers. under manent, whether in waler or in the zize in the matter of the custheir base, by bedek esate and ground ur \"hetween wind end of bis services. A selection of pain concrete, may not he efficient water,\" the\n\nIt will keep you fit until holiday-time, and suszała you at concert-pitch afterwards.\n\nOne unit of electricity will drive a small jan for 40 hours.\n\npositiva destrac-THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co., (1918) Ltd.\n\nat.\n\nthe rebt man will mean considersstrecoure over aning arca bu retive to other materials. able economy in purcheses snoduce the load to the amount per 01 subject to rot, at construction laier, and a personal quare foot, Part the soli wil carber. And doe's 201 corrode as does\n\nrunk from wond barers, as is m and artistic interest lu results. Recourse has then to be\n\nmade\n\nchanges, us\n\n50\n\noften it has\n\nArchitect expertaily young to other methods, such as spread and steel, s has the nd ones, make the mistake very often footings, piling, rafts, caissons,ntage, that, however pamarent ef giving a rapid estimate of cost, cylinders, sheel pillow, are a com wood piling sy he, i constantly teiling what the exact date o hinatione of these, according to the\n\nsaturated, there is rot the fear of commation will be. An experi-pe of strucuri and the nature decay if the line of sturation anced maz is too well acquainted of the soil. with finetusiona te the markei, The spread footing is the ineen found to do. There is and unfavourable labour candi-iment of the aormal convete rage, 46180 the increasing difficulty, tions, and uncertain whether to to give additional bearing aves.\n\ntowing the depletion spook Sognaticely on any of these The normal courete foundation foreste, to obtain timber of targe M. dering abould be expabic of wider then the frickenk it up rete may be found to be chaper. matera. God architecte, sage to a watt or pier, being bat ute seartling and when large scantlinga are required, the first cost of con- estimating within 10 per cent of ports, is subjected to but little or the cost. t is recommend that ho tention. he let out contracting directly, in stead of placing this function in the alone of another.\n\nThere are many ways of series\n\ning ccenomy, \"Ruild economical\n\n, but never cheaply,\" says M\n\nHeria, Econcutez depend agon\n\nBy eulanging. It is subjected to\n\ntalle stress in the underside,\n\n(1)\n\nRafii\n\no\n\nRaft foundations have become care into use since the introdie-\n\nand to take up this stress,, rotted of reinforced concrete. Pre-\n\nsteel jufte are inserted or the con- areta is relaforced with zods,\n\nFiling.\n\nWith cerisin scils and where the\n\nbe driven to\n\nVICK= to die introduction of reinforced aonercle, refta were co- steneten in plafa concrete, and sol being reinforced, were af thirdness.\n\n37622\n\nWith s raft the preseard on the\n\nthe nature of the plan, bup of atrasture resis apon the grandi,\n\ncortare, exbica o materials, resuficient piles may duction of regelremonts, market sonsolidate the earth sufferently to jail is diatributed over the waxi-\n\ncluziion. favourableness\n\ncarry the tend. Before driving them se possible, reducing the weather, etc. Cut out non-essen pilas the earth seemed a certain pure per square foot to a min tials first, he recomiende, bistoad space. After the piles are driver, roam, and if pemperly of making a\n\ndezigned, compromise\n\nthec in earth. plz piles, the earth in soft places. quality of materiale. He ecumer\n\nWith few ates and explains more extensive bulk of the driven pile,\n\nasing heen consolidated by the exceptions the site under buildings | ly and technically many others.\n\n1234 ke he movered sith au Supervious Bungalows.\n\nPiles for the purpose of conjayer. In most cases concrete is the solidating soda can be of tallar peatario! used, and this\n\nrerete\" made sufficiently thick\n\nface\n\nand restored, may form the raft.\n\nShowroom 62 Nathan Road, Kawi\n\n60 years ago!\n\nKAYIP\n\nThe Firm of MACKAY introduced LIQUEUR WHISKY Its success has led to the oxistence ni mszy fetior Brande offered under ritar title.\n\nMACKAY'S THE ORIGINAL- 1495EUR WHISKY\n\nBabe in face age and chore Bone pretation of Highland Whisky.\n\nTu Tubos na jou tuing Bred five leading divide throughout the int\n\nGaste no more than dory\n\nObtainable from all the leading\n\nstores in the Colony. WHOLESALE AGENTS-BRADLEY & Co., Ltd.\n\nCOLUMBIA\n\nNEW-PROCESS\n\nRECORDS\n\nMUSICAL COMEDIES\n\nSelection\n\n19\n\n465 THE GEISHA\n\n821 IRENE\n\n723 LILAC DOMINO\n\nWith badldings having basements, the basement level mag he balex\n\n666 MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS 932 BRIGHTER LONDAR\n\n12\n\n27\n\n645 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\n659 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\nTe duretes & chapter cach tepes to the used for beading country house. suburban town piles, but in several ecare pales of Aud semi-domestic. In the counhard materialy having no cobesion try and sobarben heuse it is a have been used, such as sacó, eliz importens to develop the exterior (kers, stores, pl.\n\nwater level, requiring reinforce! Surroundings as the interior de\n\nFrich pile of curò, stone or other ment against the opward ad in. tails. The arcaiteet must be con- Part materials, boles are formed ward presauce of water, the ruft earned with lawns, shrubbery, driving and removing pilas of useiber with the barzeniest walls, kennels.\n\nfilling thereoning a watertight box\n\nmaterials, aged in water bearing toil\n\nThe Puthor is heeed, or metal, and etc. arused at the surr of gull hole with the bead\n\nmen whe extat at having to with bearing les, that is plas A raft foundation may be mora \"pay an architect to design\n\nwhich support a structure, such as jerononteal, even when in itself it chicken coop\" Bungalows are a pier over open water and build costs more, then foundations taken\n\n¡Ay chase\n\nnot ganerally inexpensive, as ings on soft sort or liquid mud, the down to a low level, glling, when supposed. They must always bo freeistance against ponetration of the taking down of the founda! pleaned to ennform to the scythe pie may be obtained by its roations, the ailing roundings. The ideal way\n\nreaching sold ground, ot by dodge to dosing property.\n\n(Minders. Cylinders of iron and steel, and\n\nplanning a town house is to et tion of the soil against te sides,\n\nla group of people to share in les partiz by both it being driven\n\nlot having a common central gerte a suficient depth to stala treiufgrend coutrete, sinh tuto sott\n\nen and Como architectu friction, or support at its foot. style that can be planned har\n\nrol, water, wad and, and les moniously.\n\n279 FLORODORA\n\nVocal tems\n\n309 LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE\n\nAT\n\nANDERSON'S\n\nThe põe supported at its fot, with concrete, have been used. pose of being between groups of for that porting id a pie surround- Je some Chat:x eylinders have pites and giving rigidity.\n\nnd by water or liquid and giving surrounded groups or piles, the\n\nFor work of ar engineering\n\nHe discusses frateruity houses had the comparative lack of le rtle or na aters! support and piles being Srst drivan, the e7lindratare, enfssons of metal or rein. terest in their style. One of the friction, becomes a column and is ers, dropped over greaps of pites. forced concrete have heat, fosted Cardinal fundar.ontal guad subjected to siplar stresses to the ender resting on the bottom, to prition, suk architecture is dit \"the fecade those which columns are subjected and after the exlindars\n\n0:1 prepaved and plac shall express the par- to, and can be calculated as such. position, ing them\n\nare in beds, and filled with stones or son- prae of the building.\" The funda A feree, the concrete filling the spaces imental in move or leva nuylerted personally\" in the architecture of between the piles sed the naise sood supporting soils, in spite of in our semi-derarstic buildings. their homes. Throughout the vo- of the eslinder. By this mean, folical platements to the can-\n\nwith\n\n200-\n\nxk.\n\nCertain ally, ench as sund, are\n\nthe trury, providing they are not do a\n\nMr. Horing shows farther jamo one is coracleas of the au- support is obtained from amusement at the ladies who de there gesuire belief in the files. ne elinder and concrete position in which they can sore,\n\nand pure pemodse styles: atzo, portance and eigalheance of the inside binding thure who insist upon \"expressing Fart.-Christian Science Monitor piles together, serving\n\nthe pa\n\nof and to prevent spreading the elte\n\nthe par- can be enclosed by abeak piling, of\n\ntimber, iron, steel, er reinforced concrete. Sheet pillay, at comple tion, could be described as a box ariere, without top on bottom, enclosing the ground on which. the batting elands.\n\nScrew Piles\n\nThese are main! cylinders with \"screw\" anda, the pile being ra rolved and anteng the soil in a similar way to that of wood screw entering wood.\n\nTheir most frequent use is for light piers where the sea bottom le sand.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nTHE\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:\n\nPEAK HOTEL.\n\nTulographie Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”\n\nAND\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACH HOTEL;\n\nKALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: \"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.\"\n\nHOTELS,\n\nLIMITED.\n\n43 association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits. Peking,\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL.\n\nTHE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, First Class Billiard Room and Satoon Bar.\n\nSHIPPING\n\nSTRIKE SITUATION.\n\nDEARTH OF CHINESE KIVER CARGOES.\n\nArrical and Departures.\n\nJUNG VOYAGERS.\n\nCHRISTIAN COLLEGIANS ARRIVE AT CANTON.\n\nUdging the Searchlights.\n\nNEWS\n\nFRENCH FLAGSHIP.\n\n13\n\nP. & O. BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND RASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIZA IRMOTROzed in ENGLAND) STATEO, JAVA ↳ OTTAMA, CREION, INDIA, PENSJAN GAFLF, WHAT IEDARA,\n\nKARTICA, ART & HOVE AFRICA, ANSA RAL-ANIA. INCLEDINU AR\n\nZNALAND & 4URENSLAND POSTA. RED HEA. WIEFT, ZUBOPY, KTO\n\nPENINNITLAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DAVET ROYAL MAIL UTKANADA\n\nSPER CONTRACT WI\n\nH. GYERSNXXT}\n\nIONS PROM TONGKONG ABOUT\n\n20th August.\n\nPENDING CHANGE IN NAVAL NARKUNDA...\n\nKIDDERPORE\n\nJEYPORA\n\nCOMMAND.\n\nKHYBER...........\n\nThe French battleship Jules\n\nNAGPORE\n\nof V140 Farry, ying the faz\n\nTILAWA TALAMBA\n\nTANDA...\n\nThe sixaution in the matter of\n\nAs was exclusively uncunced Admiral Prochos, Commander-in- ocean Donte shipping remains un- in the relature of the S. C. f. Post Ja Phart uime ago, a parts of Sqaadran, arrived yesterday over- sries and clearances varies but Americana left Hongkong toring and anchored in Kowloon ARAFURA\n\ntie. Cargoes are small in quan Canion by two fucks which were Bay as there are at present yo tity and few ju number. For the chartered For the purpose of berthe available in the man of yast fon; weeks shipments of more convering coroat and building war anchorage.\n\nthen\n\nThe usual ma\n\n0.334\n\n105\n\nDESTINATION\n\n42wers & wartorg-\n\n16,237 8th Sept., soon.rition & Fanuch.\n\n5,218\n\n17th Sept.\n\n0.114 19th September.\n\n5,83\n\njeet Soudna, Miles, London,\n\nLaterpell\n\n3465 September. patebay.\n\nBRITISH INDIA-LOCAH BAJURGS INDUTA\n\n10,000 24th September. 3'pore, Pung & Calcutta\n\n18,018 9 October.\n\nEASTENNÉ SUSTRALIAN RATING (SOUTH)\n\n16,9505\n\n8,000!\n\n2nd Sept.\n\nMaa, Sandokat Chnes. Is\n\n7th October Tarifle, B'ban, 'eer, &\n\nMethaurns.\n\nSADAMA win aga quli ni Turbo The 1. 9.3. Cu td. seatures will zien dil; of Shangkhu, B\n\nShaazhki, Dzsin. Debit, Kalam. The Timber Darwin, as her wine wich tho towing\n\nFrogweat conrad An the New Zaki, Tante\n\nas rand_nta\n\nSatan and soudit via Panama Canal.\n\nThe Ure 5.9. Company ateaders to the United Kingoeta 1,000 tons have beys rare, material to the Canton Christina {tional salutics were fired, and sise and now, even the local Chinese College under the leadership of the fing saiule in Vice Admiral whe may usually be depended upon 31r. Crumpton, No information Sinclair. which were duly re- to furnish small freights for river joald be obtained at the time turned. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkongingle package of cargo was ten who was acting as super Vion Admiral\n\nGnder the Persound Baparvicken and Matogoriană di\n\nFRANK L. COOKE.\n\nProprietor.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL. Electric lifts and Lighting. Telephone on each Floor, Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers.\n\nTol. Central No. 370.\n\nTelegraphle Address: \"VICTORIA.\" J. WITCHELL, Manager.\n\nST. GEORGE'S HOUSE. KENNEDY ROAD,\n\nPrivate Hotel, affording Every Comfurt.\n\nLARGE AND OF HARBOUR\n\nAIRY ROOMS. SPLENDID EXCELLENT CUISINE UNDER SUPERVISION OF THE PROPRIETKISS.\n\nLOSSIUS, Proprietress.\n\nFor te suply to\n\nThe only hotel in CANTON\n\ndirectly under European\n\nManagement.\n\nNAGPORE... 5,248\n\nSANJIS TO BHANGHAIR LAYER.\n\n26th August.\n\nHI\n\n......$10,000\n\nShanghai, Moji & Kobe.\n\n4th September. Sbbai, Moji kote. 6th September. Kebe.\n\nì deben re afrasimme wid subtrat in alteration without quiler. Wielan\n\nSTRAWERS. Parede og not mon than 21, x 16. × 7 th, will be prerived as ike Lumping's (not up lo egia on the day previous to unitis\n\nFanburding.\n\nB\n\ncestt, even though the pun la voly ether arough the Acerts The arrival of the dulos Perry KARMALA ......\n\nMac, are showing no Comandate of the Harbour Of is a proliminary to the charge OVET TILAWA design m despatch goods. Pas through which latter place in of the Commander-in-Chiership senzar hookings by the river sail- lucka cleared with no mention of at the squadron. Rear Admiral ings yesterday were good, but not 'pautengere other than Mr. Crnan- Basir is to be the successor of Fruchot, and will sen. ap.\n\nMules Michelet at as early data. 24 hours ending #sam yesterday Information has now been re After the command has been showed o vessels in harthour, of seived which confirms the state turned over, the Jules Ferry will which wery British, with 12 meu then made and this is to the leave for France, the new arrival arrivals and 11 doyartures. Bri- affect that the voyagers have becoming the Bugship in Lish shipping contributed six and reached Carton.\n\ntwo respectively, to these guzes. Warpon was reached at 2 a.. Arrival were the British ships on Sunday morning and taking Empress of Casada from Vancon- advantage of the darkness, the ver and Shanghai with 186 tour of junka alipped in ander the nearch- fouz, amigenium salphate aut Hights which awept the Back mails, Yut Shing from Bangkes Rear, without being detected. with 2,260 tons of rice and general There is no shipping activity\n\nThe\n\nstead,\n\nPARENTS PERTAINI\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nSHANGHAI DECLARED\n\nCHOLERA-INFECTED\n\nPORT.\n\nker\n\nand two bags of mails, Nam Sang in Canton, but sumbers of snail The following notice to muzinera: from Yokohama nt Shanghai boats are fraighting vegetables has been posted at the Harbour with 1,205 tena of general, tonius and produce from outlying die Once, seved by the authorities Revolutionary placards at Canton under date. August 13:\n\nHarbour Notification No. 1 of 1923. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Custome and Representatives of Poreign Con- sale Bodiaz bave declared the port of Shanghai to be infected. AR vessels arriving therefrom either at Pantee or Whangea on and after this date are to be guvern\n\njing dangerous goods (firecrackerstricts. Tel. Central 116.\n\n(and matches) and 359 bags. of fare posted about the city treiting all, Jaining from Poochow and the people to take action agata\n\nforeig oppressore. Amoy with 50 tona ganerai and the mails, Hallie from Sulyon with gates to Alamen ure picketed 3.921 tons of ride and gear and the Chinese side to prevent any three bags of mail, Clearailah conuuunication with the defen Srum Sieganore and Hoi Nam with dore. Contradictory rumours are cur general, one bag of mulls and 200 deck paterpgera. the American reut with regard to the shipping\n\nTHE VICTORIA HOTEL,\n\nSHAMEEN,\n\nGuides\n\nand trips arranged for\n\nand special care\n\ntaken of TOURISTS. Cable Address 1 \"VICTORIA.\"\n\nEMPRESS LODGE.\n\nTel Kowloon. 296. fel. Add: \"presloge.\"\n\n8, Mudy Hoad, Kowloon Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes walk from the Ferry Newly furnished, with latest sanitary bath- Under Barpervision of the Pro- Excellant ralaine.\n\nMom?\n\nprintress.\n\nPor termos apply to Mrs. M. O. MURPHY, Propristress\n\nPALACE HOTEL.\n\nTel. Address \"PALACE.” Tel. Kowiuon No. B.\n\nThres mátutes irom Kowlen Wharf, Ferry Wharf and RawaJ Station, Entirely Bater English Management. Eletele Light and Faus throughout. Every Rovin with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Hilliard Rooms. turivalled Cuisine onder the personal supervision of the proprietor. Terma moderate, Special terms to families on appli\n\nJ. T. OXBEREY, Proprietor. tion to:\n\nSTATION HOTEL,\n\nTel. Add: \"Termotel” KOWLOON. Code used a.B.C. 5th. First class aud most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes' walk from Ferry. Moderate Larid and recst axel- lent cuisine auder entirely European tuanagement Monthly and Family rates can be arranged at mest reasonable terms.\n\nAPPLY THE MANAUERESS, Kowloon.\n\nTHE CARLTON HOTEL.\n\nUNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Splendidly Situated in the Heart of the European Secilon Convenient to the Ferry and to the Baalucss Centres.\n\nA First Class Besidential and Tourist Hotel with all the Convenienes of Homo. Large Airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Water.\n\nCuisine ander the Immediate Direction of the Proprietress Monthly and Family rates at moderate ternis.\n\nFor tartas upply to Mra M. BLAKE.\n\nTelephone No. C. 812,\n\nNu. 30, Lee House Street,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.\n\nTelegraphic address \"ASTOR”\n\nTelephone Contra! 10,\n\n13. Queen's Road Central: A first clase Hotel centrally located, large and airy rODINE, completely renovated and refinished. New Ulzing Room\n\nuidine. Meals a la Carte. Excellent\n\nMouthly Tickets for Fists and Duners. Under entirely new Management,\n\nH. A. VAZ, Nanager.\n\nROGATE.\n\nTel Address \"Rogate\" Kowloon,\n\nTel. 851.\n\n158-160 Austin Read, Kuwloun. Newly furnished. Up-to-date Priests Hotel. Excellent Oni sine. Moderate Term.. tinder personal supervision of the Proprietres\n\n\"ALBANY.\"\n\nResidential Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4 The Albany. Overlooking the Botanical Gardens. Under personal supervision of the Proprietress. Telephone Central 615.\n\nMADAM ASA UTANI.\n\nJAVANESE MASSEUSE. FACE MASSAGE. MASSAGE\n\n25, Wellington Street:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nMRS. 3. UZUNOVE\n\nHapert Massgeule,\n\n37, Queen's Road Central,\n\nA similar notice has been issued\n\ntaamer West Faralun from Los 10 the port, that gaining most Angeles and Manila with 196 tas iredence being to the edest that by the Excilay Regulations feri of general and President McKinicy to impose a tax of 23,000 or be the authoriting stentsin in\n\nthe Cunninginner of Commerce is the port of Canton. from Manila with 12 tone of\n\nvessels discharging, while 41. general and 10 bags of all, the monopoly has her granted to theviation to that port and Chin- German vereis Piala on Hardessane for a large sum, the x-\n\n(wengizo under date August 12.\n\nJourg and Marilu with 365 tona of\n\nyoueral and six bags of mai, the out of which is not naked. Japanese reasol Osake Mary from\n\nNAVY LAUNCH BLAZE. TWO MEN SENT TO HOSPITAL.\n\nMuch of this stegnation is due Two American seemen, the en-!\n\nCalcutta and Singapore with 320 by the Autenor for Sagapore and tons of general, nails chectical President Kinley and Bevenue products, and 13 bags of mail, the for Shanghai. Chineze ucastor Chung Hing from Kwangeheuwan with 180 tone of the increasing difficulty ofgineer and the electrician of abippers in obtaining export per- U. S. 8. Beaver's speed launch, firewood, vegetables and poultry.\n\nmita for lee, the stonks of which whlen was destroyed by fire at! Departures\n\nin the Colony, are now belevet in the Army and Navy Club landing Departure were the Brish be below is reserve margin. at Maul are now in the Set- vessels Isaching for Amoy, Pru- Another contributing factor berg General Hosptial. The men tecilaus for Shanghai, Japanese appears to be the belfer sung the jare badly burved, according to a Towels Koren Mora for Keelung, Chinese generally that something navy officer interviewed at the Tsuruga Alara For Shanghai, drastic is about to happen either place of the fire.\n\nlein Maru for Tallar Bay and on one side or the other. The\n\nflames completely demolished Jajo Man for Swate, the Datel more credulone point to the con- the high power engine and burned auction dredger G.G. Ideoburg Jucant exercising of seaplanes the inside of the launch, causing (Netherlands Harbour Works) fox and the large number of warships Jamage estimated at $5.00). The Macao, Tisondari for Bhunghai, jad present in harbour, as evidence forigin of the fire le vakowa. the Gormer vernal Pfalz for that the British Government is it was extinguished half an hour, Shanghai, the Chinese coaster about to take action. No amount of Jafter it started.\n\nThe been aboard and the crew Kazura fur drony and the tallat explanation will disillusion them, moter vessel Eaquino for Shang- and thts toeling is permeating the of the launch Genecock I put hal. Clearances were taken out lantize native commercial fabric.\n\nTHE\n\ncut the blaze.\n\nHONGKONG & KHAMPOA DOGK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO\", HONGKONG; UndesUsed: A1, A.B.C. Film Edition: Engineering: Fire and Second Edition: Western Union and Watking, Banson's Marcom.\n\nDock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.\n\nOIL TANK STEAMER \"PALUDINA.\"\n\n412, 0′ x 58′ 1′′ x 31′ 0′′ x 3,400 tons Lw. x 3,300 H..\n\nBuilt by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO, LTD., at KOWLOON DOCK\n\nso the ordero THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., IND.. being one of fusimilar\n\nVessels built in those WORKS to the same order.\n\nPlease address enquiries to the Chief Manager :-\n\nR. M. DYEE. 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        "content_text": "N.I.D. 7157/25.\n\nPIRACY.\n\n34\n\n20th March. The Kongmoon-kacao towboat TAISHING on her way from Longmoon to Macao was attacked by a gang of over 100 pirates from shore in the vicinity of Koochanaha, Heungshan district. The pirates fired on her with machine guns. The towboat was under escort and adequately armed. Strong resistance was offered, and fighting ensued lasting for over an hour, when the pirates were defeated and dispersed. There were no casualties on the towboat.\n\n25th March. The Village of Tai O (Tai O Island) on the west side of Lantao was attacked by a band of armed robbers just after daylight. They arrived before the villagers were about in a launch, armed with rifles, revolvers, hatchets, and daggers. They looted the houses driving out the inhabitants and took money, jewellery, and sundry property to the estimated value of £21,600. One woman was shot dead and several of the inhabitants were wounded. Two men were kidnapped. They got away without an alarm being raised, towing a boat full of the plunder.\n\n25th March. The Macao-Shaldi Ferry boat was pirated. The attack was carried out by three steam launches which took the ferry in tow and kidnapped all the passengers. There were no casualties, the whole affair being a matter of boarding and taking possession.\n\nThe compradore of a vessel plying on the West River received a letter from pirates demanding £10,000. The letter had printed on top a Chinese Ensign, with a white square on which a red lion with gaping mouth was inset, with the inscription underneath \"The sign of the roaring lion who will devour\". It read \"I beg to inform you that I have to demand from the convoy a fee in the sum of $10,000. This must be paid out within five days. You must go to ... by Tong for information about how I want it to be done. Otherwise, I will have to expose you to an attack with big guns.\" The place where you have to come is between Shiu Mam and Tai Nam Hei. This is near the pirate village Kong Mi, in the Shuntak district. These letters are very common threats. It is known that a gunboat's crew which recently turned pirates took the guns ashore with them when they left the vessel.\n\nMany threatening and blackmailing letters having recently been received from pirates operating round about Heungshan, two launches of the Hong Kong-Shekki and Macao-Shokki towboat service were commandeered and armed with soldiers for the purpose of joining a district gunboat in a combined operation against pirates. On March 28th, they encountered a gray-painted launch manned by pirates. Fire was opened, the pirates returning the fire. A running fight ensued lasting for an hour. The pirates were defeated and jumped overboard to escape, leaving their launch behind, which was captured. She had a large quantity of provisions and ammunition on board.",
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        "content_text": "量 #: i.. MX _isequ H \n\nof Hongkong and of the British Merchants interested.\n\nVOD 39 ... wb. A no- .00 *eria \n\n... a Yadıma Dünge cat zitz ̧01 astro abam sati ed a ed Tie.. .F 13. sidra 1.873 erit tada iine 96 p Kituotos; sú 10% .9 but a to Devod isinclot sunt amo Tieft HSVOLEN LIIN JE RE nekatere pa 23. 5 mirarshiecos yas JAVAL PRE hat logu na mielo qirinj\n\n10. This question of the registration of ships in Chinese waters under the Red Ensign has recently come before me from sources outside the Colony and I am making further enquiries, but I am inclined to suspect that the wearing of the British Flag may have been abused owing to:- \n\n(a) Slack observance of the Merchant Shipping Act Regulations and \n\n(b) because vessels privileged to fly the red ensign enjoy much immunity from interference by pirates owing to our prestige.\n\n11. The reason for the above remarks is because it is possible that the Hongkong Government through the Colonial Office may suggest that the Admiralty should augment the Canton Delta Flotilla.\n\n12. At present the Admiralty is fortunate in having as S. N.C. West River Commander Maxwell-Scott. His ability and personality has undoubtedly contributed largely towards the diminution of piracy since he assumed command there. His task is most difficult since there exists no stable Government in Canton and the various Chinese Generals and other authorities in the Delta belong to antagonistic local factions; in spite of this, however, by his tact, resource and savoir faire he has achieved excellent results with limited forces.\n\n(Signed) VICE ADMIRAL.",
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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": "DECODE OF TELEGRAM.\n\n719.\n\nFrom Admiralty\n\nTO Commodore-in-Charge,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nvia Eastern Telegraph Co.\n\n0.6.269 (Date: 20.6.25)\n\nAdmiralty, C-in-C., China, Received 8.30 p.m.\n\nSituation Canton very disturbed feeling of unrest increasing and rumoured threat of assassination Boycott of British Japanese and American goods proposed.\n\nGeneral strike of all workers proposed for 24 hours and further strikes of employees of foreigners. Red influence increasing and probable establishment of Soviet Government.\n\nAgitators very active but lack of money delays operations. Situation developing. Agitators very busy but hampered by lack of money river steamers and certain coastal vessels struck.\n\nStudents and boys probably strike tomorrow Saturday others during the week end.\n\nSWATOW no further change demonstration at present.\n\nFOOCHOW anti-foreign demonstrations continues. Boycott of British and Japanese goods decided. Not fully effective at present.\n\nNOTE.\n\n1901.\n\nAdvance copies to D.C. Res. China 7.0. and 1.0, and C.o. Res. China.\n\nCopies sent to:- Foreign Office, War Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry.\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "129\n\n(1)\n\n3. constituting a serious menace to the safety of our gunboats up the river.\n\nOne definite case of two junks owned by Hongkong Chinese being seized by Whampoa Cadets from British waters in Mirs Bay and taken by force to Chinese territory and beached in spite of shots being exchanged with British police. \"Foxglove\", in vicinity, was promptly ordered there and cargo was subsequently returned to the junks which were refloated and taken back to British waters the next morning (16th August).\n\nI proceeded unofficially to Canton in \"Petersfield\" on 18th (accompanied by the Major General Commanding Troops in China) and discussed the general situation with H.M. Consul General, the Senior Naval Officer, West River and also met the foreign Senior Naval Officers.\n\n4. From the facts outlined above and from reports and conversation with various officials and civilians it appeared to me that there was no sign or suggestion of matters becoming normal or any action being taken which would lead to any improvement in the situation.\n\n5. I therefore decided to put before Their Lordships a suggestion which might break the power of those who were controlling Chinese policy and actions in South China which were steadily ruining local British trade and appeared to contravene definite treaties, and I despatched my telegram No. 28.\n\n6. A change of atmosphere seems to have occurred in Canton and district within the last fortnight during which period considerable nervous activity has been noticeable.\n\n7. On the 19th, Liao Chung Kai, reported to be the most powerful of the Bolshevik Chinese members of the Canton Government, was assassinated; also Chen Chiu Lin, Editor of a notoriously anti-British paper, who was with him. About this time rumours were current of considerable 'anti-red' forces being collected at various points in Kwangtung with a view to a moderate Government being formed and the Soviet advisers (and virtual rulers) being dismissed.\n\n8....",
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        "content_text": "169\n\nCanton, ceased to wane.\n\n10. As already reported the river steamers except certain Chinese-owned vessels ceased to run very early in the strike, but on 10th July all steamers struck and communication with Canton was severed.\n\nIt was then agreed, in conjunction with His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, that the S.S.\"TUNG YUEH\" should be taken over by the Government for the purpose of maintaining communication with Canton, and I agreed to supply a Naval crew to man the vessel. In view of the fact that His Excellency the Governor was anxious that the vessel should carry passengers in order to defray partly the cost of the vessel, I directed that although she was run by and in command of Naval personnel, that she should continue to fly the Red Ensign but should fly the White Ensign at the masthead. Consul General, Canton, and Senior Naval Officer, West River, attached great importance to the display of the White Ensign. This vessel is also being used to convey coal and stores to Kongmoon for the Armed Launches.\n\nA copy of the orders issued to Lieutenant F.G.Emley, R.N., H.M.S.\"TITANIA\", who was placed in command of the S.S.\"TUNG YUEH\", is attached.\n\n11. H.M.S.\"DIAMOND\" arrived on 8th July, 1925, and H.M.S.\"CURACOA\" on Sunday, 12th July, and Captain C.E.Kennedy-Purvis, R.N. and Captain A.R.W.Woods, D.S.O., R.N., exchanged commands on Tuesday, 14th July, 1925.\n\n12. Although it is probable that this last week will prove to have been the most difficult and that conditions may improve in the future at Hongkong, this can in no way be relied upon and whilst present conditions continue in South China, I am of the opinion that the minimum forces required at Hongkong and for service at South Chinese ports is 1 Cruiser, 2 Sloops, 1 Depot...",
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        "content_text": "639\n\nNotes on Piracy and its Prevention.\n\nBy the Senior Naval Officer in Charge of West River Patrols,\n\nGoot, the\n\nAt the request of the Sony Kony Gov portions below crossed out in red were not published there.\n\nThese notes refer purely to piracy in the waters between Canton, Kongmoon and Hongkong and the Delta in between, the question of sea-going trade in the China coast is not touched upon.\n\n(1)\n\nThe only permanent cure for piracy in these waters is an efficient local Government determined to put down crime and having the necessary resources in men and money to keep up a river patrol and a trained body of police and detectives. The goodwill of the local gentry and village headsmen is also necessary, whether it is obtained spontaneously or by fear of consequences.\n\n(2)\n\nDuring the last nine months conditions in Kwangtung Province have been chaotic and there has been no law or order. In March last, conversations throughout the country districts were opened with the Chinese officials with a view to getting their agreement to the British Naval Forces co-operating with their appointed representative against the pirates. After a good deal of patience and negotiation, Dr. Sun's Government agreed to co-operation.\n\nIt was obvious from the start that the Chinese officials were suspicious of our motives and there was and is a strong party against co-operation with a foreign power. However, after various delays, a start was made, and the Pearl River area was dealt with and considered clear by the end of April. The intention was then to carry on and deal with each troublesome area in turn, but every sort of obstacle began to arise and the Canton situation dominated the whole.",
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        "content_text": "Times. Friday 10th July\n\nDRASTIC MEASURES AT HONG-KONG.\n\nDECLARATION BY THE\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,)\n\nHONG-KONG, JULY 9.\n\nAt a meeting of the Legislative Council to-day Sir Reginald Stubbs, the Governor, made an excellent fighting speech. He thoroughly reassured the loyal population, promising more drastic measures for dealing with the situation if necessary, even the deportation of every unemployed adult. He announced that arrangements had been almost completed for making the capture of those engaged in intimidation certain. These would in future be flogged, while those already in gaol would be employed in scavenging work in the city, a course which would possibly make them regret the results of their activities.\n\nThe Governor heartily thanked the hundreds of loyal Chinese who were volunteering for the essential services, and he emphasized the fact that the present was not a true strike, or even a movement arising out of genuine sympathy with the supposed wrongs of the strikers, but a deliberate attempt, in the interests of anarchy, to destroy the prospects and the very existence of the Hong-kong community.\n\nThe Governor stated that the reports of crimes committed by intimidators were much exaggerated. The bodies found in the streets included many dead from natural causes, which in the usual Chinese way were dumped in order to save funeral expenses.\n\nTo-night two sticks of dynamite were thrown at the shop of a compradore who supplies the Canadian Pacific Company. He had received several notices threatening him with violence. The shop front was damaged, but no one was injured. There were no arrests.\n\nThe police continue actively their search for Bolshevist agents and intimidators, pedestrians and motor-cars being frequently stopped and examined. The Indian constable who was shot yesterday is seriously wounded. He had attempted to arrest some timber thieves who fired at him.\n\nApparently in retaliation for the deportation from Hong-kong of suspected loiterers numbering about a hundred, the Seamen's Union at Canton have now ordered the crews of the Chinese river steamers to leave their vessels, which means the complete cutting off of Hong-kong from Canton.\n\nEighty coastal and river vessels are now laid up, but lascar crews are en route to man some of them. A few ocean-going vessels continue to call at Hong-kong. The Empress of Canada, which had been deserted by its Chinese crew, expects to sail to-morrow with a crew of White Russians and volunteers, the clerks, both male and female, being students and missionaries, whose applications exceeded the demand.\n\nNews from Canton is very scanty. The 75 civilians who remain at Shameen with the Indian troops and naval details are chafing at their inactivity, though they are subjected to frequent false alarms. It is difficult to sift the truth from the Canton reports, which, owing to the isolation of Shameen, are mostly from Chinese sources, but the rift in the Kuomintang party appears definite. It is now stated that it was not Wu Han-min who was wounded by the Yunnanese officer, but a subordinate official. A Russian ship is reported to have brought to Canton a large consignment of rifles, and Russian military instructors are drilling the new battalions of the Canton Red Army, which is being recruited from the ranks of the strikers. These reports are not regarded seriously, for signs are not wanting that Canton and other ports are facing a food scarcity. Canton seriously lacks coal and oil, but the authorities there are actively arranging for direct shipments. Hong-kong could effectively blockade Canton and force a quick decision, but no suggestion of such action has hitherto been made.\n\nPage 346",
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        "content_text": "Mr. A. Cameron and Mr. W. H. Bell. The Rev. C. B. Shann and Mr. P. Lauder.\n\nDr. G. H. Thomas and Mr. Keeton.\n\nMrs. Ring and Mrs. Faid.\n\nWong.\n\nG.\n\n2\n\n\"\n\ncellor took a first class in the honours school of Classical Moderations and the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship. He was honourably mentioned for the Hertford, Craven and Ireland Scholarships and approached very nearly, as the Latin phrase had it, to the winning of the Gaisford Greek Prose prize. I dare wager that there was a time when our Chancellor was tempted to stay in Oxford and live the life of a scholar there, but Oxford's loss was Hongkong's gain. Nor has our Chancellor, since he came among us as a cadet, allowed his muse to die of departmentalism—that awful condition which a distinguished Viceroy of India, in a moment of more than usual expansion, diagnosed as resulting not so much from moral delinquency as from \"mental hiatus.\"\n\nMr. A. H. Fenwick and Mr. D. W. Morley.\n\nDr. Lai Hsi Chi and Mr. Au Tai Tin. Dr. J. Fenton and Mr. A. S. Hett. Mr. A. L. B. Hay and Mr. A. Franklin.\n\nMr. A. Morris and Mr. H. G. Hughes. Dr. D. K. Pillai.\n\nDr. S. W. Phoon and Dr. R. J. Wong. Dr. W. L. Paterson and Mr. W. M. Gittins.\n\nDr. G. W. Pope and Mr. Un Po. Mr. Chan Chak Lam and Mr. Yue Shui Chiu.\n\nVICE-CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS.\n\nThe VICE-CHANCELLOR, addressing the assembly, said:-\n\nAN ORNAMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY.\n\nSir Cecil Clementi is now a Chinese scholar of substantial repute and, besides writing the University anthem in Latin verse, he has published \"Cantonese Love Songs\" (applause) and the \"Pervigilium Veneris.\" His Excellency once travelled from Kashgar to Kowloon and thereafter published a summary of the geographical observations recorded during the journey. He has also published a book on the Chinese in British Guiana.\n\nYour Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen,-Let me first explain why at the opening of these rites a departure was made from the usual ceremonial. Why we put strange garb upon our Chancellor and then hurried him away to take it off again, and why the Vice-Chancellor emerging from the academic seclusion in which it is his desire always to live performed for a few crowded minutes of his inglorious life exalted functions which ordinarily appertain to an office which belongs by right to the highest in the land. To return from this digression, when the offer came to him in 1916, our Chancellor was then administering the Government of British Guiana. He wrote accepting and expressing the hope that he would some day come back to Hongkong to receive the honour at the University's hands. That day has come.\n\nTo us in the University, in spite of the darkness which enfolds us, it is the dawn of a brighter era. We welcome you, Your Excellency, not only as our Chancellor but as one of our graduates whose scholarship is an ornament to the University and whose kindly sympathy and generous understanding will be to us who work here, an abiding consolation and encouragement. (Applause.)\n\nEducated at St. Paul's School, London, and passing in due course to Oxford as a Demy of Magdalen College, our Chancellor took a first class in the honours school of Classical Moderations and the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship. Dr. Arthur Woo and Dr. E. P. Minett, ...\n\nSir Reginald Edward Stubbs and I were schooled under the same ferule and in those days the scriptural maxim about the calamitous results of sparing the rod were apt to be interpreted more literally than they are now. \"Is it true,\" an agitated mother wrote in those brutal days, \"that capital punishment is still in vogue at Tonbridge ?\" Dr. Wood, the Headmaster, replied, \"I regret to say that capital punishment is not in vogue at Tonbridge. The punishment is purely corporal.\" (Laughter.)\n\nSIR R. E. STUBBS. Our late Governor won every scholarship and prize which Radley could offer and passed on to Oxford as an Exhibitioner of Corpus Christi College. He won a first class in the honours school of Classical Moderations and a first class in the final school of Literae Humaniores. He went into the Colonial Office in 1900 and rose rapidly. In 1913 he went to Ceylon as Colonial Secretary and in 1919 he came here as Governor. Of Sir Edward Stubbs' career as Governor of Hongkong I need not speak, but as one who knew him from his boyhood I cannot refrain from saying that the amazing quickness and tenacity of his intellectual grasp which was my envy and despair while we were at school together, continued to excite my wonder and admiration during the 20 months that I worked with him as Chancellor of this University. In the hour of its direst need Sir Edward Stubbs saved this University; and in conferring on him the doctorate of the University, we are enrolling in our records not merely a faithful Chancellor and a distinguished Governor but a great intellect. (Applause.) I understand that Sir Edward Stubbs' published works do not extend beyond the first volume of Lucas Historical Geography which he edited. But I have heard that he recorded from time to time in the files of the Hongkong Government utterances worthy of remembrance, if impossible of publication. (Laughter.)\n\nMR. R. H. KOTEWALL.\n\nMr. Robert Hormus Kotewall was educated at Queen's College and the Diocesan Boys' School, Hongkong. He entered Government Service in 1896 after winning the first place in a competitive examination. As a civil servant, he was given posts which were always before and have ever since been held by Britishers, viz:- Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, First Clerk in the Magistracy (a post usually held by men of legal training) and officiating Justice of the Peace. Mr. Kotewall's exploits in the soul-destroying pursuit of budget preparation were such as to attract the attention of H.M.'s Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nMr. Kotewall has always taken a great interest in education, especially vernacular education. He is a member of the Court and Council of the University, a University honorary examiner in Chinese, president of the University Football Club and Patron of a Roving Troop of Boy Scouts. He translated His Excellency's Latin University Anthem into Chinese verses of such erudition that it is said that no one but His Excellency can understand them. (Laughter.)\n\nA lover of books, Mr. Kotewall has a fine library of Chinese and English authors. He has written on Forestry and Government and is the author of two Chinese plays, one of which was performed on the occasion of the recent visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Now a director of companies and a harassed man of business (most business men appear to be harassed now-a-days; I can't think why. If they have nothing to do, why not do it gracefully ?), Mr. Kotewall somehow finds time not only to serve the public with a devotion which is literally amazing, but also to attend to the troubles of his friends. And I doubt whether there is any one in the Colony who has more friends than Mr. Kotewall. (Applause.) To all of us in the University, whether teachers or students, Mr. Kotewall has ever been a friend who has never failed us in the hours of our respective needs. And all this has been done, and done without ostentation, in the midst of domestic anxieties before which the most public-spirited of men might reasonably have succumbed. In welcoming Mr. Kotewall into the goodly fellowship of honorary graduates, I cannot refrain from quoting what Dr. Johnson wrote of his friend, Henry Thrale, the brewer:\n\nSimple, open, and uniform in his manners,\n\nHis conduct was without either art or affectation.\n\nIn the senate steadily attentive to the interests of his king and country.\n\nHe looked down with contempt on the clamours of the multitude:\n\nThough engaged in very extensive business,\n\nHe found some time to apply to polite literature:\n\nAnd was ever ready to assist his friends labouring under any difficulties.\n\n242",
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        "content_text": "PEAK WATER.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nBy Saturday Peak residents should be assured of a full supply of water for a period of three to four hours a day, a \"China Mail\" representative who made enquiries this morning was informed. By that time it was expected that the new engine which was intact at the Pokfulam pumping house station would be connected up by piping underneath the boulder that has fallen.\n\nWhen it is possible to bring into operation another of the auxiliary engines which were being reassembled at the time of the disaster and several parts of which have been lost, then it may be possible to run a full service for eight hours during the day time.\n\nThis may be effected within a fortnight according to the time taken to replace the lost parts and connect up by means of pipe lines.\n\nThe greatest delay will be that in connection with bringing into operation the main engine of the Pumping station which has been greatly damaged. This has a capacity equal to the two others combined. The two dock engineers may be able to cast certain parts but in the words of an official approached this morning it will probably be \"months and months\" before this engine will be in service again. However, with the two auxiliary engines in operation the Peak will be assured of a regular daily supply, and it is on bringing these into service that the department is concentrating at present.\n\nAt present the Peak is restricted to the \"dribble\" which it is possible to get from the reservoirs which are cut off from the pumping station, and the Conduit Road level to the supply from a service reservoir into which a stream has been diverted. Within the next few days, however, the Conduit Road level will be assured of a better supply as the services of the Fire Brigade are to be available for pumping water up to this level.\n\nDifficult Task.\n\nThe task with which the water authorities are faced is one of considerable difficulty particularly in regard to the Eastern filter bed which has been damaged by the fall of a big boulder. Pipes have also been carried away which will entail considerable difficulty in replacing.\n\nCarrying pipes weighing a ton each up the hill has been a difficult task. In certain cases staging has had to be erected.\n\nWith regard to the lower level supply the work in connection with necessary repairs and clearances is progressing and it is expected that the next few days will see a return to normal.\n\nPage 363\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nPEAKITE'S LETTER.\n\nJuly 21. Received too late for insertion yesterday, a reader of the \"China Mail\" sends the following letter from the Peak.\n\nIt is typical of the experiences of residents from topside—and very modest.\n\nThe Peak, Tuesday,\n\nIt is very seldom that Peak residents are put to any inconvenience but this time they have been badly hit after the recent storms.\n\nLights went out about 8 at night when one could hardly see one's hand but fortunately it was only for a short time.\n\nRain was pouring down and some found that the chair shelter's telephone was out of order.\n\nI sent a coolie down to get chairs at the tram station only to find no cars running and chairs would be soaked through.\n\nIn spite of all weathers, the Dairy Farm milkman turns up at his appointed hour. He is a very old servant of the company and serves us faithfully. He gladdens many a mother's heart when bad weather is about.\n\nI arrived at the office soaked through, and had to remain so until dry clothes could be got.\n\nThe next drawback was the water shut off. This caught me napping and until the papers appeared in the evening they did not know how badly they were placed.\n\nIt was a great relief to get a telephone message last night to say that water would be turned on for one hour daily.\n\nFLOOD THIEVES.\n\nShops from two shops in the main Thoroughfare of Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese locality in the western district, were carried away by the torrent of rain water on Monday.\n\nSuch was the flow of water, mud, rocks and debris from the hillside near No. 3 pumping station, that Queen's Road West was under several feet of water. Goods from exposed shops were swept away and two safes were embedded in the slime.\n\nWhen the \"current\" was high, a number of men are alleged to have salved one safe and made off with it.\n\nThey are accused of having pried it open. The report goes that they were arrested by detectives from No. 7 station when in the very act of dividing the contents.\n\nHousewives sent to the Dairy Farm, Wiseman's and Lane, Crawford's, only to find that there was nothing to be had.\n\nSome were expecting to do business at about 2 pm, but nothing was to be had all day.\n\nPhotos by Ice Fong.\n\nThis is a scene outside a Government market at Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese quarter in the western part of the town. It is at the foot of the nullah below the pumping station. The rocks and rubble unloosened by the boulder have been swept down the nullah and accumulated in a pile, having \"jumped\" a high wall, on to the street.\n\n[No. 2998—July 22, 1926.]\n\nFREAK ARMOUR.\n\nAn ingenious device, as yet unheard of in Hongkong, has been adopted by up-country shipping, reported below:\n\n[From Our Own Correspondent.]\n\nPakkao, Kongmoon, July 17. The \"Tung Wo\" towboat has installed a set of machinery, comprising a system of iron netting which completely covers the ship and is charged with electricity. This is to safeguard against piratical attacks.\n\nAnother part of the defence consists of a powerful new searchlight on the towboat's bow.\n\nThe \"Tung Wo\" plies between Canton and Kongyick.\n\nA day after the \"Tung Wo's\" freak armour had been put on, pirates showed their utter contempt for such measures by successfully attacking the Shekki-Kongmoon towboat, when off Kongmei. The boat, all the cargo and passengers were taken away.\n\nNew Aircraft Carrier.\n\nOn July 14, we heard that Kwong Hoi had fallen into bandits' hands.\n\nMembers of the Kongmoon Red Cross who were attached to the punitive expedition lost all their effects, escaping with their lives only in the nick of time when the outlaws launched their offensive.\n\nAn armoured ship, as big as the ordinary Hongkong river steamboat, named the \"Chee Yau\" (meaning Liberty or Freedom) is acting as aircraft carrier for the Canton Government.\n\nIt arrived here on July 14 with an aeroplane from Canton, to be sent to Kwong Hoi to fight against bandits. The \"Chee Yau\" left the same day for Canton.\n\nGeneral Notes.\n\nH.M.S. \"Cicala\" arrived here on July 15. (This gunboat left and was at Macao on July 18.)\n\nOn July 14, the Customs launch \"Foo Moon\" arrived here with Col. F. Hayley Bell, Commissioner of Customs at Canton, and left with the Colonel on July 16.\n\nThe Sanwui magistrate has been ordered to provide 800 coolies for transport work with the Northern Expedition. The Tung Tak guild offered 400 volunteers.\n\nTelephone employees at Kongmoon are striking for higher pay. The service is being maintained and it is hoped that mediation will succeed.\n\nThe river flood has gone down gradually. On July 17, the sounding outside the Customs House was 9 feet 7 inches.\n\nNo. 2998—July 22, 1926.\n\nA MEDICINE DEAL.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nA curious dispute concerning a deal in medicines by the Yeung Yui Chung Medicine Depot of 201 Queen's Road Central, a firm having considerable interests throughout China and the Malay States, came before Mr. Justice Wood in the Summary Court this morning.\n\nThe above firm claimed for $299.16 for goods supplied to the Sui Cheong firm, of 41 Wing Lok Street.\n\nMr. Leo d'Almada represented the plaintiff firm and Mr. E. S. C. Brooks the defendant firm.\n\nMr. d'Almada explained that the plaintiffs had purchased the goodwill of the business from Yueng Wai-cheung, the former owner, for $3,000. There were certain subsidiary arrangements, one of which was that the purchasers were to provide Yueng with an annuity of $1,200, that they should have the right to use the figuration of Yueng's father (the founder of the business) on their trade labels, etc., that the Sui Cheong firm, defendants, should have certain concessions in dealings and that a debt of $1,000 owed by Yueng to the Sui Cheong should be paid by purchasers.\n\nThe terms under which the Sui Cheong was to obtain goods were that 45 per cent cash should be paid and 55 per cent discount allowed.\n\nPlaintiff went into the witness box and said that the agreement referred to by counsel had been drawn up in Mr. Hall Brutton's office.\n\nThe indebtedness of Yeung to the defendant firm had been met by the plaintiff firm. Goods had been supplied to the Sui Cheong firm on June 12 in accordance with order and payment was asked for by the foreman.\n\nHe was told that payment could not be made then but if he left the goods payment would be made later.\n\nThe bill submitted by the foreman was endorsed but on his return, the endorsement was erased by another representative of the Sui Cheong and the foreman was told that they had come to an arrangement with Yueng, whom they regarded as a partner of the firm, whereby they received 60 per cent discount.\n\nThe plaintiff denied that the chop on the receipt in question was the chop of the Yeung Yui Chung firm or that Yueng was a partner or had any authority to conduct transactions for the firm.\n\nHis Honour remarked that the whole point seemed to be as to whether Yueng was still a partner.\n\nYueng Wai-cheung gave evidence and deposed to being interested in the firm to the extent of $3,000 which had not been paid in full.\n\nA witness was called by the defendants who said that he was salesman and accountant of the Sui Cheong firm.\n\nHe understood he was a partner.\n\nMr. Brooks, in cross-examination of the plaintiff, asked him if it was not a fact that the purchase money was to be $6,000 and that only $3,000 of this had been paid.\n\nThis plaintiff denied.\n\nHe had then come to an arrangement with the plaintiff firm whereby he is to resume his interest in the business.\n\nHis Honour, after hearing further evidence, decided that there was no evidence as to Yeung being a partner and found for the plaintiffs with costs.\n\nPhoto by Ying Ming.\n\nHere is further evidence of the violence with which the death-dealing boulder charged down on the pumping station.\n\nThis is a nullah, by the public mortuary, all in confusion because of the debris which the landslide sent down.\n\nThe nullah leads from below the reservoir section to West Point.\n\nPhoto by A. Pong.\n\nOUR MAN SEIZED.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nA rumour is current in town that six Hongkong policemen have been \"captured\" by Canton strike pickets, together with a motor-boat, on the Samchun River.\n\nTwo of the six prisoners are members of the British section of the Force, viz., Lance-Sergeant Ryan and Lance-Sergeant Hughes, both attached to Lok-ma-chau station.\n\nThe other four were Chinese seamen, of the Water Police.\n\nThe motor-boat is also under the Water Police and is used regularly for patrolling the Samchun River.\n\nNo other information could be obtained, not even from people who had crossed the frontier and come in to Hongkong on the Kowloon-Canton Railway British section.\n\nIt is only known definitely that the men and launch were taken away by armed pickets.\n\nLok-ma-chau is the station that overlooks the frontier.\n\nBetween the New Territories and the Chinese district of Po On is the Samchun River, which is crossed by the steel bridge on which the railway runs.\n\nSamchun market is on the Chinese side of the border.\n\nA camp of strike pickets has been established there for a year.\n\nObviously some of their number met the Hongkong police launch, out on patrol on the river, and took them into custody.\n\nLater.\n\nThe \"capture\" was due entirely to the Police motor-boat running aground, on the Samchun River, during the flood.\n\nBoth the sergeants had gone ashore when the pickets took them into custody.\n\nThe boat was taken further up the River, and then into Chinese territory.\n\nA fairly strong detachment of infantry from the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, has been sent out to the frontier to recover the motor-boat and the captives.\n\nThe Peak Tram, at the Kennedy Road Bridge. On the left, the \"overhead track can be seen. The confusion in the middle and to the left shows why the delay is necessary.\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "„I,U ni desek.\n\nsaidt han stodaří eltsƏN\n\n„trou notoll sai£ï 01 ‚ell ‚AS,T,OE núł wrapsod 00,01 Ja\n\nmột anh ra\n\n(ΤΟΥ ΟΙ\n\nvolod samatułk Proda a dužeg a\n\nort to tuo beg daad “sadost\n\nmé ganda a nedlad movki\n\nhow Juu,xanlo žmod así\n\nbegagɑe suit woow mexo ad? «Elain\n\nbellao ban bevéria asažbles imm nåndinåg sdfsde lo cono) of bewules andigeti, &. J.\n\nde gatit\n\nyiqque nin „koosner yaÊm;llo) ad? m? exti zevin bebocfì a ydi Ito duo naw see's aid „boð but L\n\n„Bioderm gataladrrave në some) boarsa systet dood mnom, aldi ben\n\n•Bemowod\n\nbanlamı yedi molilacq dalán al (aclone -usezoni to emo moltżaeq alá zakbari?\n\nston som aldi hora mis\n\n„Froger akat ak\n\nzado ni\n\nto\n\nDit aid\n\neð gullikmu gale: gu votar edi mì versred 00,8£ vodka Lidou.\n\nbesi booalq,hous.anl.E\n\nwwend 00.VI Ikduur hocladoh oson yadi sale belkaðub seenadumesto al bosss:\n\nJaod zołom adź of bacwqqadi hind bzawodem gulzít psam\n\nmade,33,V,OS,mmon 00.5Si duoda ja so od amoral shan detit\n\n290\n\nP.S.Rogers, the O.in C.of Lok Ma Chau, telephoned and informed me that the motor boat had gone on patrol at 10.00 hours that morning and had not returned; also that she was last seen going up the river, but that it was uncertain whether she had gone aground upstream or had returned unobserved and gone aground in Deep Bay. The grounding of the motor boat in Deep Bay is of such frequent occurrence that I did not anticipate any danger in that quarter, as she has hitherto always got clear with the next tide. However, in case she might have gone aground up the river I instructed P.S. Rogers to take out a patrol and search the river northwards. This he did and remained out the greater part of the night without any trace of the boat or crew.\n\n3. At 07.30 hours, 21.7.26, P.S. Rogers telephoned and informed me that he had just heard from Lowu that the motor boat was aground in G.1., above Lowu, and that the whole of the crew had been arrested by strike pickets and taken to Sham Chun. This information was later amplified by a message I received from S.I. Hoare, who had just seen Mr. Davidson, of the Chinese Customs, who had witnessed the grounding of the motor boat the previous afternoon, but kept the knowledge to himself. Mr. Davidson said he was not aware that there was a telephone at Lowu Railway Station, but even so he could have at least informed the police on duty there.\n\nUpon receipt of the message from P.S. Rogers acquainting me of what had happened I at once telephoned and informed the U.S.P. (K) who instructed me to stand-by for orders. At 10.30 hours I received from him a communication in the form of an ultimatum, which I was required to have translated and sent to Sham Chun with all possible speed. The following is the communication referred to:-\n\nFrom Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nTo Officer Commanding Troops at Sham Chun.\n\nYou are hereby called upon to return the whole crew of No. 10 Police Motor Boat to Lowu bridge, British Territory, immediately. The crew consists of 2 Europeans, 1 Indian and 4 Chinese.",
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        "content_text": "2.3.\n\n- 2 -\n\n567\n\nA\n\n+ecuci traITIS VOZ\n\n1. Juma HPC rockpot\n\nTIE\n\nMag Mah. jfvratnoo to mono“ wil had I meldnutia moderð 213 grimronos euro! AhaztizvoƐ Jo nobarvno zawio】 ad2 no „turgud JuÏS beta 132 a.U no jai 175 Izuzened-roja! Insaany ocfi aran etarli 32 Layuső-Imanol a1ydcaful! «l) nano8 „1.* .71 +(yu Savionë. Leina(o) art) moriturus „7.1 .21, (eds) *7-28210 Levat voines) blereyati? „9.0.1 zebrano) 11.2° forame0) ƒforma¤ 5,2 tojďt bas (1971? Jak moin 100 Teddal ért no.(basınd anti,mol110\n\nJ\n\nto Austmadair quê niatqað) elo7 .0.0.1 .7! emtoriluo2 jovic114 saani:f0 202 predvroo8) xatll[g¤ „LIT,(so}{0¶ .(Isvensk porriotti) quX „XL .T! Ikus\n\n.S\n\n*✨rvo rited to moinigo avomirorun welð nær JI oð vísil k modasɔ da Jłooyoď d123172-Eres wilt dart fridle\" oð spazah planeront dilu plašiklismi samitnoo rett oldaerb #rom molðum nusimu ogluang ban shenj Soft,idadol edinë odë Jonimga mod♬ al otroctid 2% Ama „Atoovod edt to communitnon add yď Jllened And bra setritq to bad bezing To п J:1 mi mod:æð eråd yd berrel bas sinaisten enenadnad »d yo\n\n„JNA:ITIATOL\n\nMsankı Balaldia and blazegaði” zabrzom oð Aqida eft dit get ideoitam sed how 1 tut atsod bra atrod Jazo19 aflædt II: exin: of Izron 15 ald\n\nbeau\n\nused by strikers on the waterways at Canton and to disable them. Such action will temporarily disorganize the shipping boycott and may possibly lead to its abandonment. The movement could be put into operation at short notice and is directed entirely against the Strike Pickets, who can properly be deemed to be outlaws. Accordingly Mr. Brenan and I unite in\n\n4.\n\nrequesting that on the occurrence of the next anti-British outrage by Strike Pickets at Canton, the Senior Naval Officer, West River, should be authorised to seize all Strike Picket boats and to disable them and thereafter to prevent strike pickets from again functioning on the Canton waterways,\n\n5.\n\nThis letter supersedes my letter No.478/1926 of the 11th February, 1926.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\n(signed) C. CLEMENTI.\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "Wu-ch'ang is reported still to be holding out, but Marshal Wu P'ei-fu has retreated to Cheng-chou, just south of the Yellow River in Honan province, at the point where the Peking-Hankow railway is crossed by the railway running eastwards to the Tientsin-P'ukow railway. It is further reported that the southerners have occupied Sin-yang in Honan and thus hold the whole of the railways in Hupeh, and further that General Fan Chung-sin and his \"red spears\" has been incorporated in the southern army.\n\nAccording to information from Colonel Hayley-Bell, General Chau Ting-yam, the tupan of Fukien, held on the 17th September a military conference, at which it was resolved to commence a general attack on Kuang-tung on the 19th September. General Chau's troops concentrated at Cheung-chau and Teng-chau total about 7,000 men. His opponent, General Ho Ying-yam, in command at Swatow, is reported to be ready to move his troops to attack Fukien before the northerners invade Kuang-tung, and he has been reinforced by one regiment of the Whampoa Cadet Force.\n\nPlease see the 3rd paragraph of my secret despatch of the 11th September. The scheme of the Cantonese general is stated to enter Fukien through the district of Chao-yang. I enclose a translation, taken from the Tai Kung Po of the 20th September, of a manifesto issued by General Ho Ying-yam to his army.\n\nEnclo. No. 3",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\nExtract from South China Morning Post dated October 4, 1926\n\nCANTON IN DANGER?\n\nChan Kwing-ming's Troops' Success.\n\nREPORTED CAPTURE OF WAICHOW.\n\nTOWARDS SHEKLUNG.\n\nAccording to a reliable report received from Canton yesterday, a part of the former Chan Kwing-ming army with other nomad troops and some East River bandits captured Waichow city some days ago. General Ching-chien's army had left Waichow a few days previously to assist the Kuomintang forces in Kiangsi and the only forces guarding the city were a number of armed strike pickets.\n\nThose commanding this band of mixed troops are said to be Generals Lau Chik-luk and Yeung Kwan-yui. They are stated to be advancing towards Sheklung. Should they reach this place unchecked it is considered likely that they will endeavour to force their way through to Canton along the railway line.\n\nOwing to Li Fuk-lum's troops having been sent to Kiangsi and the Whampoa Cadets to Swatow the number of troops in Canton available to repel any attack from this determined force is somewhat small. A regiment has been withdrawn from Shuikwan by the Government and has been sent to Sheklung to check the advance of the Chan troops. As it is, the Government long ago lost control of large districts round Sheklung because of the few troops they have been able to send to enforce order in the country.\n\nAnti-Reds Active.\n\nThe same report states that on September 29 Shekki, the capital of the Heungshan district, was captured by a band of 3,000 bandits under Ngai Bong-ping, leader of the newly organised Anti-Red Alliance. It is thought possible that he will attack Canton from the South. Attached to these troops of Ngai Bong-ping's are reported to be several gunboats and armed launches.\n\nWidespread Activity.\n\nAnother report, dated October 2, states that according to news received from Heungshan, bandits there under Yuan Tai and Chan Wing-un, who are taking orders from General Ngai Bong-ping, made an attack on Shekki, capital of Heungshan, on September 28. As there were only one company (100 men) of troops defending the town the bandits succeeded in capturing it in the evening of the 29th. The district magistrate and other officers together with the Government troops retreated to Siulam. When the report reached Canton, the military authorities immediately ordered the 11th division in Kongmoon to suppress the uprising. The 58th regiment was despatched to Heungshan, together with several gunboats of the local naval squadron.\n\nIt is reported that the bandits after taking Shekki have sent some of their men to Chinshan, on the Macao border, and driven the garrisons therefrom.\n\nTheir main force is advancing on Siulam, of the Shuntak district, which is very near Kongmoon. Their plan apparently is to join the bandits in Shuntak, and then start an attack on Kongmoon.\n\nBandit gangs under Yuan Ha-kau and Pai Sau-chung, together with former troops of Chan Kwing-ming, under the direction of Yuen Kwan-yu and Lau Chi-lok, are at present very active on the East River. Chan Kwing-ming is reported to have formally assumed his office as Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-Red Cantonese Army. The Government is despatching troops to have these forces suppressed.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n531\n\nin itself gave reasonable assurance of acceptance of the suggested demands by us.\n\n7.\n\nUnder these circumstances it appeared to all responsible officials that the mere effect of presenting an ultimatum would have achieved the desired end and any semblance of putting any measures into force would have coerced any remaining opposition.\n\n8.\n\nThe proposals for coercive measures were given in my telegrams Nos. 287 and 288, and these would have been divided into four operations, namely,\n\n(a) To garrison Shameen and to stop all movements of cargo junks.\n\n(b) To stop all Chinese traffic approaching Canton from the West River.\n\n(c) To stop all Chinese traffic approaching from the Canton River from seawards.\n\n(d) To demonstrate off the Bogue Forts and to stop all Chinese traffic entering Swatow.\n\nOperations (a), (b), and (c) would have been enforced firstly and would, it was thought, have achieved our objective, and operation (d) would not have been put into effect unless essential as this would have entailed evacuation of Swatow, which it was agreed was a necessary preliminary in this case, with consequent loss and damage to British property.\n\n9.\n\nFor operation (a) at Shameen, it was proposed to allocate H.M.S. \"TARANTULA\", H.M.S. \"MOTH\" and H.M.S. \"LOO RHEN\", and a number of armed motor and steam launches for harbour patrol. With the garrison of two platoons and local volunteers this force would have been adequate to attain our objective. Two shallow draught lighters would have been kept available at Canton for evacuation in an emergency, and these could have been towed by \"LOO RHEN\", either via Hamilton Passage or Money Penny Creek, or by an Insect Class Gunboat via Money Penny Creek. Both these passages avoid the Danes Island and Bogue Defences.\n\nUseful sailing directions for this passage have been prepared by the Commanding Officer, H.M.S. \"DTH\", and have been forwarded under cover of a separate submission No. HK4/2809 dated 9th October, 1926.\n\n10.\n\nIt was agreed that these passages could be mined, which was unlikely, or blocked, which was a more likely proposition. It is known, however, that the inhabitants of these districts are decidedly anti-red and would most likely have given us warning of such measures, and if necessary assisted us in clearing them.\n\nFurther, many of these channels would be visited by armed launches and gunboats stopping traffic reaching Canton from the West and diverting it elsewhere (operation (b)), and adequate warning would have been obtained and assistance available from this source.\n\n11.\n\nThe risk which this operation (a) entailed was therefore considered justified under the circumstances, more especially when it is appreciated that the objective was...",
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        "content_text": "remain in China, so long will unrest, disturbance and civil war continue. The fountain-head of this evil is in Canton, and it is clear that Hongkong will continue to suffer so long it flourishes in that province.\n\nSun Chuan-fang's position has been rendered secure and stronger by the elimination of Hsia Chia and the understanding he has come to with Chang Chung-chang.\n\nI have heard on good authority that Hu Ching-sui, the elder brother of Hu Han-win has just received private information from one of Chiang Kai-shek's commanding officers on the East River, to the effect that Chiang died of his wounds on the 23rd instant. I have also heard that Tang Ching-wai has replied to the invitation of the Kuomintang to resume the chairmanship of the Kuomintang Committee, that his return would be conditional upon the open declaration of the adoption of Bolshevism in Kwongtung.\n\nAs I was leaving Shanghai for Hongkong, I was given the following information by a friend who is himself a prominent and old member of the Kuomintang. He belongs to the right wing of the party, but for some time has been passing himself off as a Red in order to gain information for his side of the party.\n\nA few weeks ago Karakhan came down to Canton secretly on a Russian ship. He was in Canton for only a short time. At a secret and important meeting of the Kuomintang, at which he was present, he expressed the opinion that the strike and boycott being the first experiment of its kind, did not quite have the effects which he and his associates desired, and he therefore considered it a failure. They must look for another and better opportunity, and should then, with the experience they have now gained, do their utmost to make it a complete success.\n\nIn the meantime",
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        "content_text": "26\n\nproperty and trade to the utmost, but, although the Yunnanese were short of ammunition, being better soldiers than the Cantonese, he hoped they might win through.\n\nThese Yunnanese troops are mercenary forces recruited from Yunnan by the late Sun Yat Sen, who, in order to keep them loyal, granted them monopolies of certain revenues in Canton. The Cantonese desired to regain control of these revenues.\n\nC. C. Wu, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, went to Swatow and enlisted the services of General Hsu Chung Chi to lead the Cantonese army against the Yunnanese. Hostilities opened on the 6th June, and on the 13th June the Yunnanese were defeated and were fleeing from the city. Any unfortunate Yunnanese who were left behind were ruthlessly massacred by the mob; many of these atrocities were committed on the Shaki Bund, close to the French bridge leading on to the Shameen.\n\nThe general strike in Hong Kong and South China ports commenced on Saturday, the 20th June, when the different labour guilds decided to call a strike. It is known that the vast majority of the workers in Hong Kong were averse to leaving work, but were intimidated into doing so by threats to themselves and their families.\n\nThe first movement of the strike in Hong Kong was made by the senior students of Queen's College, who absented themselves on the 18th June. Meantime, nervous Chinese, anticipating trouble and rises in prices of food-stuffs, began to leave the colony for Canton; household servants left their employment one by one.\n\nThen it became evident that matters had reached a head.\n\nOnwards from Saturday, the 20th June, the following classes of workers began to come out:\n\nJune 20.-Some cargo-carrying coolies.\n\n21.-Electric Tramway Company drivers and conductors; some crews of ocean-going and coastal boats.\n\n22.-Chinese crew of steamship \"Empress of Asia\"; printers and compositors of newspapers; butchers and pork staff coolies.\n\n23.-Crews of motor-boats; employees of roast pork stalls and shops and cooks in restaurants; boys, cooks and amahs in employment of Europeans; poultry-stall employees; shoemakers; tailors.\n\n24.-Clerks and office-boys of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's and some other European firms; employees in beef and mutton stalls; bakers.\n\n25.-Coal coolies; tallymen and other workmen employed at Kowloon godowns; clerks and office-boys in European firms who received threatening letters; fish-stall and vegetable-stall employees.\n\n26.-Lift-boys employed by European firms.\n\n27.-Seamen and engineers in some river steamers; \"Star\" Ferry Company's crews and staff; launches' crews; furniture makers; additional motor-boats' crews; silversmiths; clog makers; tea-box makers; Imports and Exports Guild coolies; carpenters.\n\n29.-Employees of fruit dealers; waiters in tea-houses.\n\n30.-Meter readers and meter workers of Electric Light Company.\n\nThe \"Star\" ferries were taken over by naval ratings, who were later relieved by civilians from amongst the officers and engineers of the China coast mercantile marine. Launches for essential harbour services were manned by naval ratings and volunteer Europeans.\n\nThe Hong Kong police received information on the 22nd June that ten of the leading strike agitators were Bolsheviks. Some of them have been to Russia this year, and it is reported that the Russians have given 600,000 dollars to the various labour unions in Hong Kong and Canton to go on strike. Eight of these were executive officers of the Chinese Seamen's Union. It is also reported that some members of the Dare-to-Die Society have been or will be sent down from Canton to set fire, throw bombs, &c.\n\nA proclamation mobilising the Hong Kong volunteers for actual military service was issued by the Hong Kong Government; emergency regulations were introduced for the protection of life and property and the safeguarding of food supplies; rewards were offered for the apprehension of persons disturbing the peace of the colony; food, labour and transport controllers and a censor were appointed; special constables were enlisted, and the loyal public were generally called upon to render such assistance as is necessary to the life of the colony; military guards were posted at vital points, and naval and military demonstrations were organised; naval ratings were detailed for all dockyard essential services, if required, the running of the electrical installation at Hong Kong, and manning and running of the harbour ferry service.\n\nCanton.\n\nA monster demonstration was organised to take place at Canton on the 23rd June. It was learned that a procession would march round the city, not as a mark of sympathy with the Shanghai students, but as an outward profession of anti-foreignism. The consul-general, Canton, sent a very strongly-worded letter of warning to C. C. Wu, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In this despatch, he warned Wu that his Government must see that the procession was orderly.\n\nThe following is the report of the senior naval officer, West River, of the events of the 23rd June:-\n\n\"Commander Scott to Commodore, Hong Kong.\n\n\"Sir,\n\nH.M.S. Tarantula, at Canton, June 24, 1925.\n\n\"I have the honour to report that all Chinese employees on Shameen were called out on strike on Sunday morning, the 21st June. Launches' crews remained until the evening.\n\n\"On Sunday, the 21st June, the outlook for Shameen if trouble developed was not at all reassuring. The back creek was full of sampans and the water-level high.\n\n\"It was most important to get the creek clear, and the Chinese police promised to do so. They, however, did nothing, and next day the vice-consul called on Tscheu Wa, the Commissioner of Police, who at once, and in his presence, gave the order to have the creek cleared.\n\n\"Still, however, nothing was done, and it became obvious that the Chinese authorities would not do so. I refrained from clearing it by force because of the great danger of precipitating trouble and giving the authorities a handle.\n\n\"On this day, the Shameen special police were placed under my orders, and I landed two Lewis gun detachments under command of officers, and placed one by the British bridge and one at the north-west corner of Shameen.\n\n\"News was received that evening that a monster demonstration would pass Shameen next day, and threats of attacking Shameen were made. C. C. Wu (Foreign Secretary) was seen by the vice-consul that day and again warned of their responsibilities; he rather ridiculed the idea, and said he knew nothing of any demonstration.\n\n\"I arranged to land our complete defence force for Shameen next day directly we got any definite news of the demonstration taking place. The night was quiet.\n\nAbout 10 A.M. on Tuesday, the 23rd, the demonstrators were seen assembling, and the defence scheme was put into force. As the naval parties and the Shameen special police took up their posts, they were hidden away as much as possible. My orders were that fire was only to be opened as a last resource if attacked.\n\n\"In the event of a few hot-heads trying to storm the gates or cross over to Shameen by means of any of the many sampans, our men were to come out on to the bund and push them back again with rifle-butts, &c., but not to fire unless I gave the order and in the case of extreme necessity.\n\n\"The procession started to pass about 2:30 P.M., many thousands taking part, carrying the usual banners, &c. A few unarmed Chinese police were stationed outside the two bridges, and at the last moment, a few armed soldiers were distributed along the far pavement about 50 yards apart. Everybody, except the consul-general and myself and four or five others, kept out of sight, and our side of the creek appeared empty to onlookers. We took up our position alongside the British bridge.\n\n\"All went peacefully, in fact peculiarly so, for some time till, at last, the doubtful element-viz., the students-appeared.\n\nBehind them came a large number of soldiers fully equipped. I could not see how far they extended, but understand they covered about half a mile of ground.\n\n\"When the head of the students' contingent had just passed the British bridge, they halted. I noticed a man with the usual Red emblems get up on the coaming just opposite us. He waved to others farther down and there was some commotion in the nearest side street. A few moments afterwards, the leading soldiers suddenly opened out; their head was then opposite the Victoria Hotel,\n\n[14166]\n\nE 2\n\n501",
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        "content_text": "[F5564/194/10]\n\n44\n\n# ANNEX XI\n\n## Mr. Palairet to Mr. Austen Chamberlain.—(Received November 17.) (No. 714.)\n\nHIS Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Peking, presents his compliments to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits herewith a copy of an enclosure in Canton despatch No. 92, dated the 11th September, 1925, respecting the anti-British boycott.\n\nPeking, September 30, 1925.\n\n## Enclosure\n\n### Boycott of British and Japanese Goods in Canton District\n\nOWING to the general cessation of trade of all sorts in Canton, and the rupture of communications between Shameen and the city, it is difficult to gauge the real strength of the boycott movement in Canton, but there is good reason to believe that, as far as British goods are concerned, it is completely effective. During the month of July, the native press was full of accounts of the preparations being made by the Students' Union, the Economic Boycott Committee, the Strikers' Unions, &c., to organise a thorough boycott of British, Japanese and French goods throughout Kuantung. During August, however, the names of the other two nations gradually dropped out, and by the end of August they were seldom mentioned in manifestos and similar publications. There is now an effective boycott of British shipping in operation, no ship which has even called in Hong Kong on the way up, of whatever nationality, being permitted to land passengers or cargo in Canton. Notice has just been given that any non-British firm may open offices in the city, on complying with certain conditions, such as the re-employment of old employees, registration with the Strikers' Committee, &c.\n\n2. Canton, with Moscow at her back, has long been a hotbed of anti-foreign propaganda, and has no need of instigation from other parts of China. The incident of the 23rd June, as related in the local press, aroused enough genuine feeling in the propaganda-fed populace to make the organisation of an effective boycott a simple matter.\n\n3. As regards intimidation, this has principally been adopted for the purpose of preventing the return of strikers and others to Hong Kong. Considerable barbarity has been practised on those caught attempting to evade the pickets, many such persons having been chained to palings in the sun for days, and otherwise maltreated. Persons suspected of supplying food to Shameen have been similarly treated. A number of employees of British firms have been seized and \"tried\" by the Strikers' Committee, the offence being styled \"Acting as dog-runners to the Imperialists,\" whatever that may mean.\n\n4. The local Government is now in the hands of Red extremists and Bolshevik agents, and can justly be described as prime mover in the boycott movement. After the assassination of Liao Chung-k'ai, Finance Minister to the Nationalist Government, he was publicly belauded by some of the chief personages in the present Government as the arch-anti-Imperialist, who used all his resources to help the people in their struggle against imperialism, in other words, in their anti-British boycott. Wang Ching-wei, one of the committee of three directing the Government, publicly stated (as reported in the \"Canton Times\") that Liao had been \"helping the people in the present anti-Imperialist strike.\" One of the avowed aims of the Nationalist Government is to secure the abolition of unequal treaties, to which end their only weapon is the boycott, so that it is hardly necessary to labour the question of their complicity therein.\n\n5. There is not much evidence up to the present that other nationalities are taking advantage of the present position to push their own goods. The Nangyang Brothers Tobacco Company are doing their best to supplant the British-American Tobacco Company, by a campaign of slander and other means, the British-American tobacco sales having completely stopped. Trade in general is, however, so poor at present that very little has been accomplished by other nationalities in this direction. It remains to be seen whether they will avail themselves of the kind permission of the strikers to open offices in the city.\n\nThe boycott of the British in Wuchow was so complete that they found it impossible to keep themselves supplied with food, and had to be evacuated on the 20th July. A few of them have since returned there, but they have great difficulty in procuring supplies of any sort.\n\nAll British subjects have left Kongmoon, except the customs staff, and the boycott of British ships is in full force.\n\n52\n\n45\n\n[F5914/194/10]\n\n# ANNEX XII\n\n## Consul-General Sir J. Jamieson to Mr. Austen Chamberlain.—(Received December 10.) (No. 55.)\n\nSir,\n\nCanton [undated].\n\nWITH reference to the local political situation, I have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of despatch No. 114 to His Majesty's Minister, Peking, dated the 2nd November, 1925.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## (No. 114.)\n\nSir,\n\n### Enclosure 1\n\n## Consul-General Sir J. Jamieson to Sir R. Macleay\n\nCanton, November 2, 1925.\n\nBEYOND glowing accounts in the Chinese press of the victorious achievements of the cadet armies, there is little to be ascertained as to the actual state of affairs on the eastern front. Two days ago there was an unconfirmed rumour, however, to the effect that by an enveloping movement the forces nominally under Ch'en Chiung-ming had in the Haifeng district cut off Chiang Chung-cheng from his base. The offensive on the part of the anti-cadet party elsewhere would appear to have completely broken down.\n\n2. The opening of the postern on the British bridge has not resulted in any untoward incidents, although foreigners continue to be molested in the neighbourhood of the French bridge. All Chinese and non-residents on Shamien must, according to a recent announcement of the Strike Committee, obtain permits from the latter with photographs attached. A translation of their regulations concerning shipping, commerce, &c., is appended.\n\n3. A statement made to my German colleague by C. C. Wu asserts that there are only thirty-eight Russians in the Government service, and one wonders, if that be the case, what the rest are doing.\n\n4. There are, I am informed, four natives of India in the city connected with the anti-Imperialist agitation, and I am endeavouring to have them tracked down. The chief of police, whom I approached indirectly in the matter, refuses to hand them over.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## (Translation)\n\n### Enclosure 2\n\n## An Important Announcement\n\nTHE All-China General Labour Union and the Canton-Hong Kong Strike Committee, previously in conjunction with the Department for Mercantile Affairs, the Bureau of Public Safety and the Foreign Office, issued special import and export permits for the convenience of business and for the protection of the strike. Recently circumstances have undergone change. At a general meeting of the representatives of the Canton-Hong Kong strikers it was formally voted that special permits should be cancelled. Our unions have resolved that after this cancellation the arrangement for the future shall accord with the following regulations :-\n\n1. Goods via Hong Kong or Macao, of whatever country, shall not be permitted to come to Kwangtung; and goods exported from Kwangtung, to whatever country consigned, shall not be allowed to go to Hong Kong or Macao.",
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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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        "content_text": "76\n\n5. For demands on Hong Kong see my despatch No. 46 of 27th September. Hong Kong objects to having its Constitution revised or a new one dictated by strike committee, who later added a demand that Chinese coinage be allowed to circulate in the colony. Local Government contend that Hong Kong Government representatives must negotiate here with strikers direct, they assuming a mediatory rôle only. This is humiliating.\n\nCanton aims at abolition of all that is comprised in the phrase \"unequal treaties.\" Fiction of control by Peking should be abandoned, and I suggest experiment of offering it independent recognition.\n\nI will enquire if visit of Boxer delegation will do good, but am doubtful. I am disposed to favour offer of grant as suggested.\n\n(Repeated to Peking, No. 9.)\n\nANNEX XIX.\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nI AM repeating this telegram to Peking and Canton.\n\nFebruary 6, 1926.\n\nI have received from His Majesty's Minister, Peking, copies of telegram No. 35 from the Foreign Office and of his reply dated the 1st February (No. 10). A copy of a telegram dated the 2nd February (No. 5) from His Majesty's consul-general, Canton, to the Foreign Office has also been sent to me. Barton is in the colony (on a visit from Shanghai); I have taken counsel with him and O'Malley. On the 6th February they both depart for Shanghai. In addition, I have discussed with Hallifax, Kemp, and Tratman. What follows represents our unanimous opinion:-\n\n(A.) It would be correct to look upon the Government of Canton as a rebel Government in insurrection against Peking and other parts of China. We understand from His Majesty's consul at Swatow that it is at present engaged in offensive operations against Fukien. In our opinion, actual hostilities in Kuangtung would not constitute recognition of an independent Government in Canton. We consider, however, that such hostilities in Kuangtung are not at present to be recommended. In our opinion, the time has gone by for warlike action to be undertaken in Kuangtung by Great Britain alone, except at the risk of jeopardising our future economic relations with China. We are, however, of the opinion that it would be advantageous if very strong pressure could be brought to bear on the representatives in London of the chief maritime Powers with a view to joint action being taken at this juncture. The action which we suggest was outlined in my telegram of the 26th January.\n\n(B.) Treaty rights have in fact been violated in a flagrant manner, and the open door has in fact been closed against the British by Canton. The Government of Canton has definitely stated that they do not regard as valid, what they call the \"unequal treaties.\" Until they were expelled by British troops, pickets of the Canton strikers invaded and occupied a district near Shataukuk in the new territories. A police launch of the colony has again and again been fired on in British waters (the Shamchun River) by such pickets. A company of the Punjabi Regiment has also been fired on while patrolling the frontier near Takuling. In contravention of the joint working agreement, trains of the Kowloon-Canton Railway have been prevented from crossing the frontier in either direction. Villagers crossing the frontier have been waylaid by the pickets, who have levied toll on them. The importation of foodstuffs has also been prevented. On the 16th July, eight Chinese women bringing fruit into British territory from China were also fired on by pickets of strikers. Two of the women were killed, and two were drowned. The pickets seized three and sent them to Canton. The importation of British goods into Canton is entirely prevented by the Strike Committee, who enforce their prohibition by confiscating the goods. Cadman (a British subject) of the Asiatic Petroleum Company was seized and thrown into prison by the Strike Committee. At the same time, two Indian firemen were also seized, imprisoned for a considerable period, and treated very brutally. At present, an Indian steamer guard is detained by the committee in custody. Pickets are maintained round Shameen. Any articles carried to the British or French concessions from the native city by any nationals are confiscated. Rules for coastal shipping (vide the 4th enclosure in the Governor's confidential despatch (3) of the 21st August) are still vigorously maintained. Chinese are prevented (at Canton and Swatow) from intercourse with British subjects (not excluding the consul-general or consul, in any capacity). This is enforced by torture and death. The following are the treaties violated:\n\nNanking Treaty (articles 2, 5, and 10).\n\nTien-tsin Treaty (articles 11, 13, 14, and 18).* \n\nThe Government of Canton has neither prevented these contraventions of treaties nor punished the parties guilty of contravention, in spite of the fact that not only has it been called upon to do so, but has at its disposal military forces adequate for the purpose. The Strike Committee, on the contrary, is publicly recognised by the Canton Government as practically constituting a Government Department. Moreover, assistance in picketing operations has been given by the Government to Canton gunboats. The Canton Government is fully responsible for infractions of the law committed by the Strike Committee. We consider emphatically that, having regard to the following facts, action should be taken under article 9 of the Washington Nine-Power Treaty:-\n\n(1) Trade with Canton is forbidden to British merchants.\n\n(2.) Other nationals are not so prevented, provided they do not deal with British goods.\n\n(3) No facilities at Canton are allowed to British shipping.\n\n(4) Facilities are not denied to the shipping of other nations provided Hong Kong is avoided and British goods are not carried.\n\n(C.) Provided Admiral Li (who has four cruisers at his disposal) will undertake (1) to patrol the mouth of the West River and the Hainan Strait, and (2) to take action against Chinese pirates, we favour the grant of assistance to the Chinese navy. This subject is dealt with in my telegrams of the 8th December and the 19th January and in my despatch of the 20th January (Secret) and your telegram of the 30th January.\n\n(D) The suggestion that pressure should be brought to bear at Moscow. In our opinion, the expulsion of the Bolsheviks from Canton is an essential preliminary to a permanent settlement. The possibility of effective steps taken in 1923 (in regard to trawlers, &c.) being repeated should be considered. If this were possible, it might provide the solution of the Kuangtung troubles without the use of force and without antagonising the Chinese.\n\n(E.) The question of conciliation. See Enclosure 7 in Governor's confidential despatch of the 2nd October for the demands of Canton.\n\nThe only body in Canton with which my Government can negotiate is the Government of Canton. Apart from Canton workmen (with whom the Colonial Government has no concern), the Strike Committee consists of former Hong Kong workmen (whose return we do not desire, since the colony is better off without them). The advisers of the committee are Red Russians. The Colonial Government cannot possibly conduct negotiations with such a body. If such negotiations were begun, our prestige would suffer to such an extent that the future good government of the colony would be imperilled. Furthermore, a very detrimental effect would be produced on British interests in Shanghai if the Kuangtung anti-British boycott were to end in the humiliation of the colony or in any way (e.g., by the payment of blackmail in the guise of strike pay, by the reinstatement of strikers, or the payment of compensation for loss) which would enable the Government of Canton, the Strike Committee, or the Red Russians to proclaim the settlement as a success. Moreover, such an ending would constitute a direct incitement to the renewal of anti-British agitation at Shanghai and in other places.\n\nCanton grievances. In a communiqué to the press (copy sent home with my secret despatch of the 28th January) the Commissary for Foreign Affairs has recently declared that the strike was begun by workers in the colony primarily as a protest against the British Government for the shooting which occurred on the 23rd June at Canton, and not for economic reasons.\n\nNeither the strike nor the boycott which has followed it have been caused by any actions or neglect by the Colonial Government or the inhabitants of the colony. Hong Kong is in advance of China in legislation for the benefit of labourers. Economically, workmen in the colony are better off than in China. It is decidedly my intention to exert my personal influence to induce the Government of Canton to ...\n\n* See Annex XXII.\n\n77",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n(2.) Whether (in the event of the Canton Government ignoring such a censure) all the Powers would be willing to institute a boycott of Canton pending the removal of the anti-British boycott. His Majesty's Government might put to the Powers the point that it is an unfriendly act for non-British shipping to avoid Hong Kong at the dictation of the Strike Committee at Canton.\n\nIn order to render the suggested action effective, special measures would have to be taken to prevent Russian and Chinese ships from trading with Canton. Steps should be taken to find out whether this task would be undertaken by the Chinese Naval forces.\n\nIt is our unanimous opinion that-\n\n(1) The Anti-British boycott is mainly attributable to the Red Russians at Canton.\n\n(2.) If the existing situation is to be relieved, it is essential that they should be removed.\n\nWe are very strongly of opinion that the British Government should take action at Moscow with a view to obtaining the removal from Kwangtung of all Bolsheviks.\n\nIf these suggestions are not practical politics, we cannot think of any other line of action than war with Canton. Unless, however, America, France and Japan would co-operate (and preferably other maritime Powers, too), warlike action would jeopardise future commercial relations between Great Britain and China (and particularly between this Colony and Canton).\n\nIt is our unanimous opinion that, if it is not considered practicable to adopt any of the suggestions which we have put forward, there is no method by which the boycott can be ended except by holding out until the existing Government of Canton either falls by disruption from within or is overthrown by some hostile Chinese General. In this connection I would refer you to my telegram of the 13th of January.\n\nAt present, therefore, the trade loan is our only weapon. Even at the risk of some eventual loss of money by the Government, it is necessary for the loan to be used generously, for the benefit of the merchants (both British and Chinese) in the Colony.\n\nSir J Jamieson and I are in close liaison, and there is free exchange of information between the Colony and Canton and between Canton and Peking. There will no doubt be a similar exchange of information between the Colonial Office and Foreign Office.\n\nThe existing Government at Peking has no authority or influence over affairs in Kwangtung.\n\nII.\n\nParaphrase Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Dated February 8, 1926.\n\n(Received Colonial Office, 9:20 A.M., February 6, 1926.)\n\nI AM repeating this telegram to Peking and Canton.\n\nI have received from His Majesty's Minister, Peking, copies of telegram No. 35 from the Foreign Office and of his reply, dated the 1st February (No. 10). A copy of a telegram, dated the 2nd of February (No. 5), from His Majesty's Consul-General, Canton, to the Foreign Office has also been sent to me. Barton is in the Colony (on a visit from Shanghai); I have taken counsel with him and O'Malley. On the 6th of February they both depart for Shanghai. In addition, I have discussed with Hallifax, Kemp and Tratman, What follows represents our unanimous opinion.\n\n(A.) It would be correct to look upon the Government of Canton as a rebel Government in insurrection against Peking and other parts of China, We understand from His Majesty's Consul at Swatow that it is at present engaged in offensive operations against Fukien. In our opinion, actual hostilities in Kuang Tung would not constitute recognition of an Independent Government in Canton. We consider, however, that such hostilities in Kuang Tung are not at present to be recommended. In our opinion, the time has gone by for warlike action to be undertaken in Kuang Tung by Great Britain alone except at the risk of jeopardising our future economic relations with China. We are, however, of the opinion that it would be advantageous if very strong pressure could be brought to bear on the representatives in London of the Chief Maritime Powers with a view to joint action being taken at this juncture. The action which we suggest was outlined in my telegram of the 26th of January.\n\n(B) Treaty rights have, in fact, been violated in a flagrant manner, and the open door has, in fact, been closed against the British by Canton. The Government of Canton has definitely stated that they do not regard as valid what they call the \"Unequal Treaties.\" Until they were expelled by British troops, pickets of the Canton strikers invaded and occupied a district near Shataukuk, in the New Territories. A police launch of the Colony has again and again been fired on in British water (the Shamchun river) by such pickets. A company of the Punjabi Regiment has also been fired on while patrolling the frontier near Takuling. In contravention of the joint working agreement, trains of the Kowloon-Canton Railway have been prevented from crossing the frontier in either direction. Villagers crossing the frontier have been waylaid by the pickets, who have levied toll on them. Importation of food-stuffs has also been prevented. On the 16th of July eight Chinese women bringing fruit into British territory from China were also fired on by pickets of strikers. Two of the women were killed and two were drowned. The pickets seized three and sent them to Canton. The importation of British goods into Canton is entirely prevented by the Strike Committee, who enforce their prohibition by confiscating the goods. Cadman (a British subject), of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, was seized and thrown into prison by the Strike Committee. At the same time two Indian firemen were also seized, imprisoned for a considerable period and treated very brutally. At present an Indian Steamer guard is detained by the Committee in custody. Pickets are maintained round Shameen. Any articles carried to the British or French Concessions from the native City by any nationals are confiscated. Rules for Coastal Shipping (vide the 4th enclosure in the Governor's Confidential despatch (3) of the 21st of August) are still vigorously maintained. Chinese are prevented (at Canton and Swatow) from intercourse with British subjects (not excluding the Consul-General or Consul) in any capacity. This is enforced by torture and death. The following are the Treaties violated:\n\nNanking Treaty (Articles 2, 5 and 10).\n\nTientsin Treaty (Articles 11, 13, 14 and 18).\n\nThe Government of Canton has neither prevented these contraventions of Treaties nor punished the parties guilty of contravention, in spite of the fact that not only has it been called upon to do so, but has at its disposal military forces adequate for the purpose. The Strike Committee, on the contrary, is publicly recognised by the Canton Government as practically constituting a Government Department. Moreover, assistance in picketing operations has been given by the Government to Canton Gunboats. The Canton Government is fully responsible for infractions of the law committed by the Strike Committee. We consider emphatically that, having regard to the following facts, action should be taken under Article 7 of the Washington Nine-Power Treaty:-\n\n1. Trade with Canton is forbidden to British merchants.\n\n2. Other nationals are not so prevented, provided they do not deal with British goods.\n\n3. No facilities at Canton are allowed to British shipping.\n\n4. Facilities are not denied to the shipping of other nations, provided Hong Kong is avoided and British goods are not carried.\n\n(C.) Provided Admiral Li (who has 4 cruisers at his disposal) will undertake (1) to patrol the mouth of the West River and the Hainan Strait and (2) to take action against Chinese pirates, we favour the grant of assistance to the Chinese Navy. This subject is dealt with in my telegrams of the 6th of December and 19th of January and in my despatch of the 20th of January (Secret) and your telegram of the 30th of January.\n\n(D.) The suggestion that pressure should be brought to bear at Moscow. In our opinion the expulsion of the Bolsheviks from Canton is an essential preliminary to a permanent settlement. The possibility of the effective steps taken in 1923 (in regard to trawlers, &c.) being repeated should be considered. If this were possible it might provide the solution of the Kuang Tung troubles without the use of force and without antagonising the Chinese.\n\n[14290]\n\nB 2\n\n559",
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        "content_text": "Cleans and Disinfects in One Operation. REMEMBER\n\nNO SOAP, NO STRONG CAUSTICS.\n\nNO DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS\n\nARZ WANTED THE \"CARBOLACENE\n\nREGULARLY\n\nWALKER\n\nREGO CARBOLACENE\n\nFRAGRANT\n\nCLEANSER DISINFECTANT\n\nAn Active Disinfectant and Cleanser for use in Hotels, Institutions and in the Home,\n\nUsed by the British & Foreign Governments.\n\nSole Makers for -\n\nW. & F. WALKER, LTD., Liverpool, England.\n\nSole Agents- ANDERSON & ASHED.\n\nQue's Buildings.\n\nINSURE\n\nFOUR\n\nMOTOR\n\nCAR\n\nWITH\n\nGILMANS.\n\nTHE\n\n\"OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE POLICY\n\nhousehold.\n\n[24\n\nA Welcome Visitor\n\nat any\n\ntime in\n\nevery\n\nEvery\n\nBug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with\n\nKEATING'S\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.\n\nChemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. 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": "the force of public opinion to the policy of non-importation of arms as to make it difficult for them to recede openly therefrom. If, in spite of public opinion, the Chinese Government do revoke this mandate, we could again consider, in the light of the circumstances of the moment, the suggestion put forward by Mr. Teichman that we should abandon the embargo as far as the Central Government are concerned, that is to say, maintaining it in all cases except where it could be shown that a huchao for the import into China of the arms in question had or would be issued by the Central Government or with the latter's approval. We should in that case be able to fall back on the Geneva Arms Convention, if it were by that time generally accepted and ratified by all concerned. I presume that your despatch No. 799 of the 9th September, forwarding copy of the above convention for my observations, is superseded by your later despatch No. 831 now under reply, and I do not therefore propose to address you a separate despatch commenting thereon. It seems, indeed, that the enforcement of this instrument would produce a very similar situation, as far as China is concerned, to that resulting from the existing arms embargo understanding, that is to say, whatever legislation we ourselves might enact to give effect to article 30 of the convention, the nationals of other Powers enjoying extra-territorial rights in China would probably not be prevented by their own authorities from dealing in arms in China to the order of independent provincial military authorities.\n\n4. Having dealt thus far with the main question, viz., the continuance or otherwise of our arms embargo policy, I come to the subsidiary issues of what, if any, modifications in the actual enforcement of that policy on British subjects are called for. The first step in this connection, and one which should, I think, undoubtedly be taken, would be to remove aircraft definitely from the scope of the embargo agreement, as suggested by Mr. Teichman. The Chinese Government have themselves for years actually included aeroplanes in the list of articles the import of which is prohibited (except to the order of the Government) on the ground that they are classed as military supplies; this arrangement continues in force, but is represented as a temporary restriction, pending the promulgation of new regulations on the subject. As a corollary, therefore, to the exclusion of aircraft from the embargo, the Chinese Government should logically be pressed to remove aeroplanes from the list of prohibited imports. We need, however, scarcely give further consideration for the moment to this aspect of the question, which may perhaps be left to other Powers at present more interested in the Chinese aeroplane trade to raise; for there appears, indeed, to be little prospect under existing conditions in China of any real development of the trade in aircraft except for Government, i.e., military purposes.\n\nI further concur in the view that British interests should be given no encouragement to sell aeroplanes to the Chinese Government except on the safest terms, that no support should be given to any monopoly claims based on old contracts, and that enquirers should be warned that the sale of aircraft to the Chinese for military purposes is against the policy of His Majesty's Government, and that the latter may decline to render any assistance in recovering debts for the cost of any aeroplanes sold to the Chinese Government which might subsequently be used for military purposes.\n\n5. The next point claiming attention is the alleged disadvantage under which British firms are placed by our King's Regulations as compared with the merchants of other nationalities whose legislative systems do not provide as ready a means of enacting local legislation as we possess. This complaint of the British traders concerned, namely, that their hands are tied by an international arrangement which is effectively carried out in China by Great Britain alone, has frequently been mentioned in past correspondence on the subject. It is of course perfectly true that the other Powers concerned mainly confine themselves, in carrying out their embargo obligations, to the control of the export of arms from their countries to China as opposed to the import into, and trade in, China, and, further, that large quantities of Italian arms imported or contracted for prior to the date of the embargo agreement have been since from time to time disposed of to Chinese militarists. But, except in so far as concerns the point which raises a nationals of countries not parties to the embargo agreement, a different issue dealt with later on in this despatch, I am not convinced that these complaints of discriminatory treatment are really well founded; and, in any case, if the trade is considered a bad, and even an immoral, one, in existing conditions in China, it seems difficult to justify any relaxation of our restrictions on British subjects from engaging therein. If, however, the grievance is considered a real one which must be dealt with, the remedy is simple, namely, to withdraw our King's Regulations altogether and to carry out our arms embargo policy in the future by means of the control of exports alone in the manner suggested in Mr. Teichman's letter. Even in that case we should not, of course, be entirely without means of controlling the trade in China, more especially while the Chinese mandate of the 2nd September remains in force, since with that mandate in existence any import of arms by British subjects would appear to constitute theoretically an offence under article 74 (ii) of the new consolidated Order in Council. A legal conundrum of some complexity might then arise, namely, whether or not an offence against the Order had been committed if, for instance, with the mandate in force and after the withdrawal of our King's Regulations, a British subject were to import arms, say, into Manchuria, openly through the customs, on the strength of a provincial huchao, issued without reference to, and even against the mandate of, the Central Government, but recognised by the local customs officials.\n\n6. On the whole, however, I am inclined, after further mature consideration of the problems at issue since the date of my telegram No. 492 of the 17th November, to recommend, for the reasons set forth in the above paragraphs, that we should not withdraw our King's Regulations, but that we should alternatively replace them by new regulations on the lines of those submitted in my despatch No. 610 of the 1st September, with the modification of the deletion of article 18 of the schedule, namely, aeroplanes and component parts thereof. This should do something to remove existing grievances of British interests concerned directly, and indirectly through the supply of materials in the trade, both by the exclusion of aircraft from the scope of our prohibitionary legislation and by the more exact definition of the term \"munitions of war\" referred to therein.\n\n7. With regard to the problem of the supply of arms from countries not parties to the embargo agreement, I feel that you, sir, are in a better position than I am to judge whether any useful purpose would be served by inviting the Governments of such countries, and more especially Russia, to adhere to the embargo. It is needless to say that such adherence is very desirable from every point of view; but, more especially in view of the issue of the mandate of the 2nd September, any invitation or request to the Powers in question to restrain their nationals from exporting arms to parts of China not under the control of the Chinese Government should, I presume, more properly come from the Chinese Government.\n\n8. As regards the question of the Canton arms trade and with reference to the suggestion made by his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong that, if the Central Government in Peking were to prohibit the importation of munitions except to their own nominees (as they have in theory already done by the issue of their mandate of the 2nd September), His Majesty's Government should then co-operate with them to stop Russian ships at the mouth of the Canton River, and, further, should supply munitions to those anti-Bolshevik groups which are anxious to overthrow the present Government at Canton, I am of opinion that the course proposed might prove dangerous, and I concur in the views expressed by His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in his telegram No. 420 of the 24th September that we should leave the Chinese moderates to deal themselves with Bolshevism at Canton and elsewhere, unless and until a Central Government is established of a more representative character and capable of offering greater guarantees of stability than the present one and its predecessors, which might invite our active co-operation in preventing supplies of arms and ammunition from reaching independent \"Red\" factions, or until the authority of such a Central Government is definitely challenged by the open rebellion of areas or provinces which may have fallen completely under Bolshevik control, when our policy of non-intervention might have to be reconsidered.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. 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        "content_text": "2\n\nrebellion that, in the middle of the 19th century, raged over the greater part of China and devastated many provinces. In 1900 the Boxer outbreak found ample material among the highly superstitious Szechuanese, but, although there was a general evacuation of foreigners, no lives were lost and the province accordingly did not experience any of the sanctions imposed by the 1901 protocol.\n\nThe actual history of steam navigation starts in 1876; section III, article 1, of the Chefoo Convention, concluded in that year, providing—\n\nResidence of British Officers at Chungking to watch British Trade.\n\nThe British Government will, farther, be free to send officers to reside at Ch'ung K'ing to watch the conditions of British trade in Ssu-Ch'uen. British merchants will not be allowed to reside at Chungking, or to open establishments or warehouses there, so long as no steamers have access to the port. When steamers have succeeded in ascending the river so far, further arrangements can be taken into consideration.\n\nThis article furnishes, at the same time, evidence of hostility to steam navigation and food for the development of this hostility, and it is small wonder for surprise that, when Mr. A. J. Little proposed to try to reach Chungking by steamer, in the hope of thereby securing the opening of the port, he met with constant obstruction from Chinese officials, some of whom gravely deprecated the venture on the ground that when the vessel was passing through the gorges, the monkeys there might throw stones at it, and then the Szechuanese be blamed for the incident. The opening of the port of Chungking was effected in 1890 by an additional article to the Chefoo Convention providing\n\n1. Chungking shall forthwith be declared open to trade on the same footing as any other treaty port.\n\nTraffic between Ichang and Chungking.\n\nBritish subjects shall be at liberty either to charter Chinese vessels or to provide vessels of the Chinese type for the traffic between Ichang and Chungking.\n\nMerchandise conveyed between Ichang and Chungking.\n\nII. Merchandise conveyed between Ichang and Chungking by the above class of vessels shall be placed on the same footing as merchandise carried by steamers between Shanghai and Ichang, and shall be dealt with in accordance with Treaty, Tariff Rules, and the Yang-tsze Regulations.\n\nBut here again restrictions were imposed on steam navigation, for the article went on to provide\n\nAccess of British Steamers to Chungking.\n\nV. When once Chinese steamers carrying cargo run to Chungking, British steamers shall in like manner have access to the said port.\n\nThis would probably have proved an effective bar to steamer navigation for all time, but the question was finally settled in 1895 by the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Article 6 provides that, inter alia, Chungking shall be opened to trade on the same footing as Treaty Ports already existing, and continues :-\n\n431\n\nout that, though this trade was regarded as a British interest, it was in many cases purely Chinese. The chartered junk business was carried on by Chinese agencies of the shipping firms, and the cargo carried was, as a rule, purely Chinese, British interest being involved only in that this cargo had been brought up to Ichang by the steamers of the British shipping companies or was destined to be consigned down-river by them.\n\nThe interest that was badly hit by the coming of the chartered junks was the tax collectorate, as the traffic became now immune from all taxation except that levied by the Maritime Customs at Chungking or Ichang. Hence it is not surprising that, in the disorder consequent on the civil wars, it became the constant practice of generals on the Upper Yang-tsze to hold up chartered junks in order to enforce payment of taxes levied by themselves. The chartered junk, which, particularly on its upward journey, has to keep close to the bank, can proceed only very slowly, and has to tie up for the night some thirty times or more between Ichang and Chungking, was an easy prey, and, except for consular protests which were easily ignored, the generals found no difficulty in enforcing these illegal taxes, although, in the early days of the illegality, they declared that their taxes would be levied on Chinese goods only, and that foreign-owned goods would be exempt.\n\nIt was in this connection that the first bombardment of Wanhsien took place on the 6th November, 1918. On arriving at Wanhsien from Shanghai, where His Majesty's ship Widgeon had been undergoing refit, her commanding officer learned that the Yunnanese general in command there was detaining a large number of junks, laden with cotton yarn for Chungking merchants, in order to compel the payment of a tax he was levying. The Widgeon's commanding officer had an interview with the general, and as the release of the junks was refused he delivered an ultimatum, and threatened to bombard the town. The bombardment took place the next day; a few rounds of blank were fired, and then a couple of live rounds were directed at some cliffs, well away from the town. In the meantime an armed party released the captured junks.\n\nThis incident produced no repercussions; no lives were lost nor property injured; the people of Szechuan were by no means displeased to see drastic action taken against one of their Yunnanese enemies; and the cotton merchants of Chungking were so delighted at securing the release of their cargoes without the payment of any tax that they donated 5,000 dollars to the British Red Cross. Taxation of chartered junks soon revived, however, under one name or other, \"protection fees\" being the favourite euphemism.\n\nMention has already been made of brigandage as being endemic on the Upper Yang-tsze, and during the periods of civil war the forces of the brigands were constantly reinforced by deserters or scattered remnants of defeated armies. At times, too, soldiers, in what were theoretically regular armies, would indulge in a spell of brigandage to eke out their overdue pay, and it became a truism that the terms \"brigand and soldier\" were interchangeable. This situation was exploited to its full by some commanders. Superficially, it was not unreasonable for a general to contend that, as he would be rendering very great service to a shipper by affording protection to his cargo, it was only right that he should pay for this service. But if the general took effective measures against the bandits and dispersed them there would no longer be any need for protection, and he would no longer have any ground for requiring the payment of these fees or taxes. It therefore became to the interest of the general that the brigand gangs should persist in their activity, and, in particular, that any vessel that had not paid protection fees should receive a full measure of their attention, and in view of the close connection that usually existed between the troops and the brigands, there was little difficulty in securing this. In short, \"protection fees\" were, as a general rule, nothing but blackmail.\n\nIn the spring of 1920 steamers were frequently fired on at a place named Hsiao; this was the work of brigands in collusion with soldiers or soldiers acting as brigands, in order to enforce the payment of protection fees to the general at Wanhsien.\n\nIt was, as shown above, in 1895 that the right of foreign steamers to navigate the river from Ichang to Chungking was at last conceded by treaty. The first attempt to take advantage of this provision was made in 1898 by Mr. A. J. Little with a small launch named the \"Leechuan.\" Although the vessel eventually reached Chungking, it did little to forward commercial navigation, as it had to be towed over the rapids in the same way as a junk and was too small to be a business success. Two years later two British gunboats, His Majesty's ships Woodlark and Woodcock, proved conclusively that the rapids and reefs of the Upper Yang-tsze...\n\n[1422 z-1]\n\nSteam navigation for vessels under the Japanese flag for the conveyance Chou Ch'i, a short distance below Wanhsien, and the evidence seemed clear that\n\nshall be extended to the following places :-\n\n(1.) On the Upper Yang-tsze River, from Ichang to Chungking.\"\n\nThe right for steamers to navigate the Upper Yang-tsze was now clearly established after nearly twenty years, but another fourteen years were to pass before merchant steamers became an accomplished fact on these waters.\n\nIn the meantime commercial navigation was carried on by means of chartered junks, as provided in the additional article. This development was welcomed by the junk owners, as it provided them with the means of securing a regular and assured income, and the trade rapidly assumed flourishing dimensions.",
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        "content_text": "482\n\nbe mentioned, did not constitute insuperable obstacles. (These two vessels, it may be noted, had patrolled the waters of the Upper Yang-tsze for over ten years, and are still, after twenty-six years' service, operating below Ichang.) A month later, in June 1900, another steamer owned by Mr. Little reached Chungking. This vessel, named the Pioneer, was much larger and more powerful than the tiny craft with which he made his first attempt, but it never had an opportunity to show whether or not it would be a commercial success, as before it left Szechuan for down-river the province was in the throes of the Boxer rising. The Pioneer was taken over by the navy for the purpose of evacuating British subjects from Szechuan and was presently incorporated in the Royal Navy as His Majesty's ship \"Kinsha,\" under which title she did service on the river for the next eighteen years.\n\nLarger British gunboats (His Majesty's ships \"Widgeon\" and \"Teal\") followed these, as well as French and German men-of-war, but, though the navigability of the Upper Yang-tsze by steamers had now been proved, it still had to be demonstrated that this was a commercially sound proposition. The next attempt in this direction was that of a German steamer, the \"Suisiang\"; this vessel was totally wrecked on its very first trip within a few miles of Ichang and a number of lives were lost. This tragedy revived all the former terrors of the river, and put an effective stop to attempts at commercial navigation for several years.\n\nWhen the next attempt did take place, it was under Chinese auspices, and for several years steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze remained practically a Chinese monopoly — an extraordinary instance of lack of enterprise on the part of British firms in China. None the less, it was due to British skill and British enterprise that the successful venture was made, and a British subject, Captain Plant, may be styled the \"Father of Upper Yang-tsze Steamers.\" He was in command of the Pioneer on her maiden voyage to Chungking; subsequently he became Upper Yang-tsze pilot to the French navy, and for many years he studied the difficulties of the river and the problem of its navigation in a way they had never been studied before. He succeeded in communicating a share of his faith to some of the merchants of Chungking; a company was formed, and a steamer, the \"Shutung,\" was ordered from England (Thornycrofts). This vessel was specially constructed throughout, and was entirely of Captain Plant's design. It was in the autumn of 1909 that it arrived in Chungking, and since that date the commercial navigation of the Upper Yang-tsze has been an accomplished fact. The \"Shutung,\" the real pioneer of the traffic, is still trading on the higher section of the river, from Chungking to Suifu, but is now under the British flag.\n\nThe instant success of this vessel converted its Chinese supporters into enthusiasts, and a second steamer, the \"Shuhun,\" considerably larger and of a much-improved design, was procured from England (Yarrows) by the same company as soon as the Shutung had been running long enough to demonstrate the directions in which it was susceptible of improvements. The enterprise was watched by British shipping interests with close attention, but the unsettled state of Szechuan before and after the revolution of 1911 (Szechuan was in a state of open rebellion four or five months before the revolution actually broke out) not unnaturally made them chary of investments there until there was some sign of stability; then came the Great War, which further hindered developments, so that, except for a small vessel belonging to the Asiatic Petroleum Company and carrying bulk oil, the Red Ensign was practically unrepresented on the Upper Yang-tsze until 1919. Numerous other Chinese companies followed on that owning the \"Shutung\" and \"Shuhun,\" but they had no expert advisers in any way comparable with Captain Plant, and their steamers, built in China, were, as a rule, cheaply and poorly constructed and were short-lived. The following figures show the development of the trade up to the time when foreign flags entered seriously into it:\n\n191619171918\n\nSTEAMERS Entered and Cleared at Chungking.\nChinese.4789113\nBritish.5320\nTotal.5311343\n\nSo long as all steamers were under the Chinese flag and subject to Chinese jurisdiction, there was no danger of any serious complications arising. In particular, it was possible to enforce drastic Provisional Rules for preventing collisions between steamers and junks and for the granting of collision indemnities between steamers and junks,\" which were promulgated by the provincial authorities and the imperial Maritime Customs in 1910. These regulations required steamers, save in certain specified cases, to give junks the right of way, and in the event of an accident practically placed on the steamer the onus of establishing its innocence. Steamers were required to keep 10,000 dollars caution money deposited with the Superintendent of Customs at Ichang and Chungking. In those days the junk guild held the whip hand and steamers plied only on sufferance, but the situation was speedily reversed when foreign flags appeared, and steamers were no longer subject to the fiat of the Szechuan authorities.\n\nThe circumstances in which foreign steamers first began seriously to participate in the trade were peculiarly unfortunate, particularly as regards the British flag. Civil war broke out in Szechuan in 1917, and the following year saw the course of the river held by various semi-independent military leaders. Junks were constantly being commandeered to convey troops, the trackers of the junks were frequently seized by the press-gang, and the chartered junk traffic was practically at a standstill. Steamers under the Chinese flag also dared not ply on account of the risk of seizure, and navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze was reduced to the foreign gunboats, with, later, one or two bulk-oil steamers.\n\nIt was apparent to the Chinese steamship companies that the only way for them to make use of their ships was to put them under a foreign flag, and, by an unfortunate chain of circumstances, the British company law at that time contained loopholes which made it possible for these companies to secure British registration for themselves and for their steamers. The China (Companies) Order in Council, 1915, established a Registry of Companies at Shanghai; as a safeguard against Chinese companies securing British registration, the Order in Council contained a provision that a majority of the directors of a British company registered at Shanghai must be British subjects resident in China, but this safeguard did not prove an efficient bar. The various shipping companies that acquired British nationality in this way simply appointed two or three British subjects as nominal directors, allotting to them one share each, in order to provide the necessary British majority, but it was soon evident that these British directors were mere figure-heads, and that, although its ships flew the Red Ensign, the companies were managed and controlled altogether by the Chinese personnel.\n\nThe impression created on Chinese officialdom by this lightning change of nationality can easily be imagined. They insisted on treating the steamers as Chinese vessels, and subjected them to any taxes and regulations they thought fit. The task of His Majesty's naval and consular officers in endeavouring to protect the British flag from illegal treatment was, in these circumstances, a very difficult one, especially as, in the majority of cases, the steamers made no attempt to resist the extortions, and as often as not did not take the trouble to report them. Occasionally the British master of one of the steamers would object to allowing the Red Ensign to be made the prey of the Szechuanese army and would run past the toll-station, with the result that he would be fired on from the banks. It was, however, useless for any master to attempt to resist the taxation, as the shore agents of the steamers were all Chinese, and every steamer was practically in the control of the Chinese compradore, or supercargo, and the agents or compradores were never prepared to resist the demands of the military leaders except, more sinico, with the object of effecting a compromise over the amount of the levy.\n\nAs the only British interest involved was the flag, which was, in effect, illegally borne, and as the real interests were all Chinese, which their owners were not prepared to defend for themselves, the action of His Majesty's officers was necessarily limited to formal protests. These may have had some weight — the ships, at all events, were not commandeered — but, in view of the attitude of the Chinese owners, it can have been but little, and it is quite clear that the principal effect of this unpleasant episode was to bring the British mercantile flag into contumely on the Upper Yang-tsze and to engender in the minds of the military the idea that it would be outraged with impunity. There can be little doubt that in this series of events were sown the seeds of all subsequent illegal treatment of British shipping, Wantung and culminating in the seizure by General Yang Sen of steamships at Wanhsien.\n\nIt was, as a matter of fact, but for a short time that these pseudo-British ships were able to operate. The coming into force of the China (Companies) Amendment Order in Council, 1919, which required that the person actually exercising the general or substantial control of a company on the Shanghai register should be a British subject resident in China meant that these shipping companies must either reform themselves out of existence or go into liquidation, and one by one they chose the latter alternative and passed out of existence, but the damage had been done.\n\n[1422 z-1]\n\nB 3\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nUnfortunately, the termination of this abuse of the British flag did not put an end to the practice, but simply transferred it to the flags of other nationalities—to the French first and subsequently to the Italian and Swedish. In 1925, out of the forty-eight steamers plying on the Upper Yang-tsze, there were seven registered as French, nine as Italian, and five as Swedish, but, in point of fact, these steamers were all really Chinese owned.\n\nIn 1926 there appeared on the Upper Yang-tsze a steamer owned by a company, composed of Chinese, incorporated in Hong Kong. The ship was registered in Southampton. In this particular case there was no abuse of the flag, as the individuals composing the company were all British subjects, but the incident illustrates a possible danger. There have indeed been one or two cases where Chinese have incorporated companies in Hong Kong with the object of owning ships to ply on the Upper Yang-tsze under the Red Ensign, and have only been prevented on technical grounds from carrying out this object.\n\nIt may be convenient in this connection to mention one serious abuse that has always afflicted every steamer on the Upper Yang-tsze—the smuggling of opium. With Szechuan producing the drug freely while its cultivation in provinces lower down the river was prohibited, such smuggling was inevitable, and there probably is not a single steamer on the Upper Yang-tsze, from the British gunboats downwards, that has not at some time carried a cargo of the drug, but the worst and most notorious offenders have always been the Chinese steamers carrying foreign colours. In the case of the gunboats and the reputable steamers, where smuggled opium has been found, it has been in small quantities and in circumstances which showed that it was brought on board clandestinely by Chinese members of the crew, but in the case of the pseudo-foreign steamers, the quantity of smuggled opium on board has been so large, running at times into tons, as to make it practically impossible for it to have been brought on board without the knowledge of the ship's officers. The assistance of the steamers in the scandalous traffic would not be unwelcome to the Szechuan military, who derived a large revenue from the opium tax; at the same time, the connivance of Europeans in this abuse and the lending of European flags to cover it can only have discredited the flags in the eyes of the Chinese authorities. The illegal traffic in opium in China has been productive of as much attendant illegality and crimes as has \"boot-legging\" in the United States, and it is reasonable to conclude that this traffic, and the atmosphere of lawlessness surrounding it, have contributed largely towards bringing about perpetual interference with shipping by the military which is the curse of Upper Yang-tsze steam navigation.\n\nApart from the camouflaged Chinese steamers and the bulk-oil steamer of the Asiatic Petroleum Company (Limited), it was not until 1920 that the first British merchant steamer plied on the Upper Yang-tsze. This vessel, the \"Loongmow,\" was owned by Messrs. Mackenzie and Company (Limited), but she has since been sold to the China Navigation Company (Limited), and renamed the \"Wanliu.\" She represented a new era in construction, as she was the first vessel of over 1,000 tons to appear at Chungking; also, she was the first steamer of over 200 feet in length, and was 15 feet longer than any previously trading. Unfortunately, she speedily became unpopular and earned a bad reputation as a \"river hog\"; a local contemporary doggerel described her as—\n\nDashing grandly through the water\n\nQuite regardless of the slaughter;\n\nWhy should she reduce her speed\n\nTo meet some wretched sampan's need?\n\n(This, be it noted, is now the \"Wanlin,\" accused of upsetting a sampan full of Yang Sen's troops.) In the peculiar conditions surrounding navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze, there is, as explained below, an inevitable element of risk for native craft, and, apart from the 1910 rules already quoted, it was the tradition of the river that steamers should show consideration for junks. The \"Loongmow,\" however, soon became notorious for her failure to observe this tradition; the explanation of this apparent callousness on the part of the master probably was that he received a commission on the steamer's freight earnings, so that it was to his interest to do everything in his power to ensure the steamer completing as many round trips as possible during the eight months or so that the river was navigable by her. At all events, the steamer acquired a reputation that has lasted, and this reputation may well have had its influence in determining the course of events up to the Wanhsien incident.\n\n7\n\nThe problem of reconciling the traffic of steamers and junks is a difficult one from every point of view, physical, economic and political. Szechuan is, after its centuries of seclusion, at last being brought within the scope of the industrial revolution, shipping being the particular phase involved at present. Whether it will ultimately be found possible so to accommodate the steamer and junk traffic to each other that they will be able to continue side by side, or whether the ultimate result is to be the complete displacement of junks by steamers, are questions which can only be solved by process of evolution. For the present, all that can be done is to examine the causes of the hostility of the junkmen towards the steamers. This springs from the fact that the steamers threaten both the physical safety of the junks and also their freightage.\n\nSome degree of danger to junks from steamers is unavoidable. The Upper Yang-tsze junks are not constructed to meet heavy seas; they are usually loaded far in excess of what is safe; and they are often in a serious state of disrepair—the risks that a Chinese will run for the sake of a little money are proverbial and are especially well illustrated by the Upper Yang-tsze junkmasters. It is impossible for a steamer to avoid making a certain amount of wash, and, however carefully a steamer is navigated, its wash must always be more or less dangerous to some of the over-laden junks that are encountered on the river. Careful navigation will reduce this risk to a minimum, but will not abolish it. There are, moreover, circumstances in which it is impossible for a steamer to do anything to reduce the risk. This is particularly the case where a steamer is ascending a rapid, when a reduction of speed on its part might be fatal. Signal stations have been set up at all important rapids with the object of preventing a down-bound junk entering the rapid while a steamer is ascending, or vice versa, but the wash created by a steamer going through one of the great rapids may take half-an-hour or an hour to subside, and any junk entering the rapid until it has done so is courting destruction. I have myself seen a junk sunk this way; I was at the time a passenger in H.M.S. \"Teal.\" We had passed through a rapid, and, in the quiet water above it, we passed a down-bound junk waiting in a backwater. As soon as we were clear of the rapid, the junk continued its downward journey, but it had not gone far before the waves created by our wash were breaking over it, and it speedily broke up and sank.\n\nIt may be remarked that there is reason to believe that the tales of loss of junks caused by steamers are very much exaggerated. The Upper Yang-tsze has always been and always will be a dangerous river, and numbers of junks are wrecked every year. Before the advent of steamers, if a junk struck a rock and sank, there was nothing more to be said about it. Nowadays it seems that in such an event the junkmaster watches for the next steamer, ascertains its name, and in due course makes a categorical report to his guild of how this steamer was responsible for the wreck. The guild transmits the report to the magistrate, he passes it on to the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, by whom it is communicated to the consul, with a request that he will investigate the sad case and order the steamer to pay compensation. By the time all these processes have been gone through, the prospect of eliciting the real truth is very faint. In one case that occurred in 1920 there was, fortunately, very definite evidence of the manner in which these tales were concocted.\n\nH.M.S. \"Widgeon\" was coming down-river from Luchow to Chungking, when the remains of a newly-wrecked junk were observed floating on the water some distance ahead. Remarking that he should not be surprised if he were accused of sinking the junk, the commander took a photograph of the wreckage, showing it clearly ahead of the gunboat's bows. His forecast was correct; in due course the consul received the usual complaint, alleging in highly-coloured language that the \"Widgeon\" had, by its reckless navigation and disregard for other craft, overturned and sunk the junk, and asking for a large sum for compensation, but in the face of the concrete evidence that the commander was able to produce, the Chinese authorities immediately dropped the case.\n\n14\n\nAnother constant, and perhaps even more deep-rooted, source of friction between junk and steamer is that feeling which always arises when machinery enters a new field that the livelihood of the manual workers is being imperilled. It seems probable that the opposition of the junkmen to the introduction of steam traffic would have been much more bitter, but for the fact that at the first the steamers were all Chinese, were not favoured vis-à-vis the junks by the local authorities, and were accordingly under the necessity of being conciliatory to the junk guilds. One form that the conciliation took was an understanding that steamers would refrain from shipping certain kinds of cargo, but would leave them to be handled solely by junks. The outstanding article that was thus reserved for junk transport was wood-oil, which is an export almost peculiar to Wanhsien. With the advent of foreign-owned",
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        "content_text": "29\n\nE\n\n(11.) The employees must obey the order of the Strikers' Committee. The committee has the right to order them to discontinue operations if necessary.\n\nAL\n\n175. Sir James Jamieson's comment on these demands was a more complete surrender of extraterritorial rights if accepted by those concerned it would be difficult to conceive. One American firm hitherto carrying on business on the French Concession of doubtful reputation has, I am credibly informed, already accepted them.\n\n176. On the 24th September at a big conference in Canton the following resolutions relating to navigation and the settlement of the strike were passed :-\n\n(1) Passengers from Hong Kong will be allowed to come to Canton.\n\n(2.) Passengers from Canton for Hong Kong will not be allowed.\n\n(3.) Discharge of cargo from Hong Kong steamers is prohibited.\n\n(4.) Passengers to Canton, after landing, must be subject to search by the pickets. The following articles are liable to confiscation: (a) Arms and ammunition; (b) letters intending to break up the strike or the Nationalist Government; (c) Hong Kong newspapers; (d) British goods with luggage excepted.\n\n(5.) No native boat is allowed to go alongside the steamers from Hong Kong.\n\nShameen Strikers' Conditions.\n\n(1.) Chinese labourers on Shameen shall have full rights to convene meetings, &c.\n\n(2.) All former employees shall be reinstated.\n\n(3.) Eight hours a day.\n\n(4.) Only Chinese police be employed.\n\n(5.) East and West Gates to be closed at 12 A.M.\n\n(6.) Chinese to be allowed to walk and sit on the bund.\n\n(7.) Intercourse be allowed between representatives of the labourers and the foreign officials.\n\n(8.) The British and French Municipal Council shall abrogate all ill-treatment against Chinese.\n\nHong Kong Strikers' Conditions.\n\n(1.) Chinese in Hong Kong shall have full rights to convene meetings, &c.\n\n(2.) Chinese in Hong Kong shall enjoy the same treatment as the foreigners. Deportation and criminal laws on Chinese shall be abrogated.\n\n(3.) Chinese shall have the right of voting and of being voted in the Legislative Council.\n\n(4.) Eight hours a day, favourable wages, abrogation of foreman system, reformation of woman and child labour system, &c.\n\n(5.) Reinstatement of former employees.\n\n(6.) Issue of back pay.\n\n(7) Release of those arrested during the strike.\n\nFreedom to those deported shall be restored.\n\n(8.) Compensation of tenants who lost their belongings by auction by the Government or landlord on account of non-payment of rental during the strike\n\n(9.) New rental regulations of the 1st July, 1925, shall be abrogated. Effective decrease of 25 per cent. of rental.\n\n(10.) Intercourse be allowed between the representatives of the labourers and the foreign officials.\n\n(11.) Restoration of rights of licence, certification, &c., granted to Chinese prior to the strike.\n\n(12.) Equal treatment to Chinese employees of steamers, factories, companies, &c.\n\n177. A further cause for anxiety arose towards the middle of October, when the consular body on Shameen were informed officially that mines had been laid round Tiger Island forts (sometimes called Bocca Tigris or Bogue Forts). River steamers plying between Hong Kong and Canton were also stopped by rifle fire.\n\n178. Sir James Jamieson was of opinion that sufficient cause had now been given for a partial blockade of Canton as retaliation for such outrageous action on the part of the de facto Canton Government which was tantamount to an act of war against His Majesty's Government. No action, however, was really possible by His Majesty's Government alone without the co-operation of the other crime Powers.\n\n179. The fighting in Northern Kwangtung between Ch'en Ch'iung-ming, the anti-Red general, and Chiang Kai-shek, the Cantonese general, resulted in a victory for the latter, who captured Swatow early in November.\n\n180. Meanwhile the unofficial conversations which had been started by a delegation of Chinese merchants from Hong Kong who had come to Canton with a view to paving the way for a better understanding between the two Governments, had proved abortive owing to the attitude of the Strike Committee in Canton, who insisted on adhering to all their political demands, and of the Canton Government, who refused to negotiate with the Hong Kong Government except through the medium of the Strike Committee.\n\n181. At the close of the year the position was about as unsatisfactory as it could be; at one moment the extreme Sino-Russian Communists were said to control the Government, at another hope was expressed that the anti-Reds might come into power; in the course of December the Hong Kong Government made a great effort to ease the tension, but a visit to Canton itself by Mr. Fletcher, the Colonial Secretary, was of no avail on account of the insistence of the strikers on their political demands. A further visit by another delegation of eight Chinese merchants from Hong Kong proved a complete failure for the same reason, and they were compelled to depart more or less ignominiously after having been publicly stigmatised as the \"running-dogs of imperialism.\"\n\n182. Of the various expedients suggested as a solution of the difficulties of the Canton situation, that of a policy of patience and conciliation seems for the time being to hold the field. It would appear that an isolated and forcible intervention in Chinese internal affairs on the part of His Majesty's Government at the present time would be liable to cause an immediate recrudescence of the violent anti-British demonstrations and boycotts which followed on the Shanghai incident of the 30th May and inevitably lead to a legacy of hate not only in the south, but throughout the whole of China. It is, however, doubtful whether the use of armed force by His Majesty's Government to bring the Cantonese to reason and to exact compensation for the outrages committed by them against the British communities in Shameen and Swatow and the colony of Hong Kong would result in the establishment of improved relations between Canton and the Government of the colony, and whether the remedy might not prove worse than the disease by permanently diverting from Hong Kong and Canton a large volume of trade which has already been forced to take other channels by the continuance of the strike and the boycott.\n\n141\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "(12)\n\nI have the honour to observe that this account by independent eye-witnesses entirely confirms the account given in His Majesty's Consul-General's report, and affords direct corroborative evidence that the firing was commenced, not by those on Shameen, but by armed forces taking part in the procession.\n\nI have the honour to request that Your Excellency's Ministry will be good enough to cause this Note and its enclosure, together with my Note under reference, to be published in the Chinese Press.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.\n\n(Signed) MICHAEL PALAIRET.\n\nAPPENDIX G.\n\nReport on the Chinese Demonstration against Shameen on the 23rd June, 1925.\n\nBy the present I have the honour to report on what took place here on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 23rd inst., when the Chinese held a procession demonstrating against the foreigners for the abolition of the existing treaties and extra-territorial rights.\n\nTo start with, it is as well to mention the events leading up to the unfortunate affair on Tuesday, the 23rd.\n\nOn the 6th June, a battle started between the Canton Government troops and the Yunnanese, who had occupied Canton city in an endeavour to overthrow the existing Red Government headed by Civil Governor Hu Han Min. The Yunnanese were defeated and driven out on the 12th June, and the Canton Government proclaimed that peace and order would now be restored for the benefit of the people. However, towards the end of the following week it was clear that student agitators were busy fomenting a strike against the foreigners under the pretext of sympathizing with those killed in the Shanghai affair of 30th May, and on Saturday, the 20th, the usual British river steamer from Hongkong failed to put in an appearance, the crew having gone out on strike in Hongkong. At the same time rumours got about that all Chinese servants employed by foreigners on Shameen would cease work the following day, and on Sunday morning, the 21st, at 9 a.m., all servants left their employ. On Monday, all crews employed on foreign-owned motor-boats and launches walked out, so that by this time the Island was entirely deserted of Chinese and the foreigners practically cut off from communication with the outside world. On Monday, it was further known that the Chinese students and others intended holding a procession the following day as a demonstration against the foreigners, and it leaked out that at a meeting held at the Kwangtung University the agitators were determined to enter Shameen and/or would create an incident for propaganda purposes. H.B.M. Consul-General, on hearing this, immediately warned the Secretary for Foreign Affairs that any attempt made on Shameen would be met by armed forces.\n\nPreparations to meet any emergency were already made during the previous week's fighting by the Municipal Council of the British Concession of Shameen by calling up Volunteers for special police duty, and the actual defence of the Island was in the hands of British and French naval forces, who had erected sandbagged machine-gun posts at various points along the creek facing the city.\n\n(13)\n\n495",
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        "content_text": "(42)\n\nAn executive committee of three (as at Moscow), this latter body having absolute power, under Jacob Borodin, the \"Adviser in Chief\" to Red Southern China.\n\nAs an adjunct to this Council of Three the Russians formed a Chinese Strikers' Union, which was empowered to deal with all issues arising out of the anti-British boycott and blockade. It gives orders to the Government officials on all strike matters; it maintains a court of its own which can—and has passed death sentences. Under this Strikers' Union is a force of \"pickets\" composed of 4,000 Chinese of the lowest class, many of them criminals, who are well paid.\n\nA Russian naval officer, Seminoff, is in command of the Red fleet. He was formerly captain of the Russian gunboat Vorovsky (ex-Yaroslava), of the White Sea Fleet.\n\nHis ships maintain the river blockade against Chinese craft attempting to pass into British territory.\n\nAltogether Canton contains about 159 Russian instructors of various kinds in addition to those now attached to the Red army in the field, and Russians of the peasant class who look after and repair arms.\n\nSTREAM OF MUNITIONS.\n\nCommunication between Canton and Vladivostok is now maintained by ships of the Soviet mercantile fleet, which advertises regular sailings in the Canton propaganda newspapers. These steamers bring supplies of all kinds. Although \"Northern\" Chinese warships are supposed to be patrolling the coast, no really effective supervision is maintained. Military equipment has been shipped in large quantities, including field guns, rifles, grenades, shells, and cartridges, and material for the erection of munition plants in Kwangtung.\n\n(43)\n\nThe Chinese watch this steady inflow of Bolshevist munitions and men with extreme uneasiness, but they can do nothing. The Russians no longer even pretend to disguise their activities.\n\nThis parasitic organisation, feeding upon China, has no sympathy with Chinese ideals nor any desire to help her people. Its sole aim is to build up a great Red Soviet which will be the vassal of Moscow and a base for the attack on India.\n\nAPPENDIX Z.\n\nThe following article by Sir Percival Phillips, K.B.E., is reprinted, with special permission, from The Daily Mail of January 6th, 1926.\n\nSHANGHAI, December.\n\nRussian agitators in Great Britain carefully camouflage certain of their principles, particularly those concerning the abolition of God and the establishment of \"free love.\" Here in China they are less afraid of public sentiment.\n\nChinese Bolsheviks educated in the Moscow school of Communism have openly embraced \"free love.\" A characteristic announcement taken from the Hing Kue Pao newspaper lies before me. It states:\n\n1. We, Yang Tze-hua and Sung Chien-loong, beg to announce that from November 18, 1924, we have dissolved our mutual love.\n\n2. We, Jui Taui-fah and Yang Tze-hua, beg to announce further that from November 18 we have formally united in the bond of free love.\n\n510",
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        "content_text": "(44)\n\n3. We, Sung Chien-loong and Jui Tsui-fah, beg to announce still further that from November 18 we have formally agreed to mutual friendship.\n\nIn other words, Miss Yang Tze-hua, a notorious woman Bolshevik who was very active under Russian auspices during the Shanghai riots last May, officially discards one lover, Sung Chien-loong, and accepts another, Jui Tsui-fah, and the men declare that there is no ill-feeling between them. This is an example of Russian principles put into effect. Others can be given.\n\nZINOVIEV'S PRAISE.\n\nChou Tsu-shou, a virulent supporter of the Russian Soviet, while Commissioner of Education in this province, abolished the moral precepts which were displayed on the walls of school-rooms and substituted a Sovietised version which declared: \"Of all the vices in the world filial piety is the worst, and of the many virtues human desire stands highest.\"\n\nSo thoroughly does Chou Tsu-shou support the tenets of the Soviet political creed that Zinoviev (late Apfelbaum) wrote to him several months ago, congratulating him upon the success of the Japanese mill strike (which led to rioting and widespread disorder), and informing him that he had specially remitted 5,000,000 roubles gold from the Soviet current budget for further \"expenses\" in Shanghai.\n\nCITY WITHOUT PASSPORTS.\n\nProof exists that the strikes here were directly instigated from Moscow, and that Zinoviev was in constant personal communication with well-known Chinese Communists in Shanghai. He sent a \"first payment\" of about £1,200,000 for the organisation of this industrial rising. At the height of\n\n(45)\n\nthe trouble wide publicity was given in the Red native Press to Zinoviev's declaration on June 7, that \"much more blood would have to be shed in Shanghai before the foreigners were expelled from China.\"\n\nShanghai is peculiarly adapted for the spread of Bolshevik propaganda, for there is no check whatever upon the activities of agitators, either native or foreign. The city is ruled by an International administration. All nationalities go and come freely. Passports simply do not exist.\n\nUnder Russian influence, Chinese Bolsheviks have been trained in the so-called \"Shanghai University,\" which flourished in Seymour Road until the building was requisitioned by naval forces landed during the strike. Some twenty Moscow-trained Russian-speaking Chinese lectured on the principles of Bolshevism. There are, at a conservative estimate, 1,000 paid Russian Red agitators in and around Shanghai, concerned solely with the unification and Bolshevisation of the numerous Chinese trade guilds and labour unions.\n\n£1,000 BRIBE.\n\nMoney is plentiful for this purpose, as shown by the fact that the Soviet Consulate-General was prepared to spend £1,000 in bribing a White Russian in the hope that he would secure the liberation of Dosser, the imprisoned agitator sent to Hongkong, by perjuring himself.\n\nA fact of great significance in connection with the Russian organization in China is that the supreme head of the propaganda movement is not Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador at Peking, but Jacob Borodin, who is at present directing the Southern Red agitation from Canton. Borodin is senior to Karakhan. He works direct with Moscow. He played an\n\n511",
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        "content_text": "# Ngok Fi, A FAMOUS CHINESE Hero\n\nNgok Fi was born in Shau Chow in the province of Honan during the reign of Hwei Tsung in the Sung dynasty. Three days after his birth, his father and his house and property were flooded and destroyed by a sudden deluge that happened to his village; Ngok Fi and his mother escaped by sitting inside a great cistern. When the cistern floated to a village, called \"Unicorn Village,\" they were rescued by a rich man whose name was Wong Ming. Then Ngok Fi was brought up by his mother in Wong Ming's house. He was filial and very fond of learning. He treated those who were brave and truthful as if they were his own brothers. His teacher Chau Tung was a great, learned man, and was full of military ability. He taught Ngok Fi all that he knew, both civil and military matters.\n\nWhen Ngok Fi became a soldier, he vanquished all the robbers of the empire, and gained many wonderful victories by defeating the Kin or eastern Tartars who lived in the North of China. In honour of his success the Emperor Kao Tsung wrote \"Loyalty, Fidelity, Ngok Fi\" on a banner and gave it to him. He led an army of God-fearing men to fight against the eastern Tartars, and drove them back to the North of Honan. The bravery of his armies made the Kin so frightened that they said to each other, \"It is easier to pull down a mountain than to overcome the armies of Ngok.\"\n\nAs Ngok Fi wanted to defeat them utterly, he led his soldiers to Chu-sin-chan. One day, he received twelve golden tablets from the Emperor, who summoned him to return with his army. If he did not obey the Emperor's command, he would be punished, since it was a great crime for a person not to listen to the orders of an Emperor. If he returned with his army, the Kin would come into the country to plunder towns and seize land. This thought caused him great anxiety, but at last he decided to leave his armies in Chu-sin-chan to prevent the Kin from coming into the country and went to see the Emperor by himself.\n\nTsun Kwui, a cruel and cunning minister, wanted to make peace with the Kin, and because the Kin had bestowed on him a large annuity, he had promised to return them lands north of the River Wan; he was also jealous of Ngok Fi. It was he who spoke evil of Ngok Fi before the Emperor and caused him to call the great general back.\n\nThe twelve golden tablets that Ngok Fi received were thus not sent by the Emperor's purpose, but through the ingenious, crafty scheming of Tsun Kwui. When Ngok Fi had gone half-way from Chu-sin-chan, he met several officers sent to capture him by Tsun Kwui's order, but they were ordered to tell Ngok Fi that they came to capture him by the Emperor's command, thus the great general made no refusal. He was brought back to the Capital of Bin and was accused of treason. He and his sons were put into prison for two months, and they were killed there by Tsun Kwui's order. Ngok Fi died at the age of thirty-nine, his faithfulness, filial devotion, bravery, and benevolence were respected by people for thousands of years. Still to this day many people go to visit his grave which is situated near the West Lake in Heang-chow, a great city in the province of Che-kiang.\n\nTANG YUK HING, \nClass 1.\n\n## \n\nThey all came in splendour, and each bowed low to her hostess. The Rose, their hostess, asked them to go in the garden for tea, because, she said, it is much fresher than in the room.\n\nWhen she saw the Lily, she exclaimed, \"How pure and fresh you are, and oh! how gracefully you carry yourself!\" The Lily smiled and said, \"Queen, I am not comparable to your exquisite complexion, and what kind of scent is it that you use? It is so sweet.\" The Rose blushed, and showed two bright red spots, and she looked lovelier still, and said, \"I use a kind of perfume made especially for me by my perfume-maker. He named it 'Rose,' because I always sprinkle it all over myself.\"\n\n\"The sweet-maker, the other day,\" said the Violet, \"asked me to name some of his sweets. I thought for a long time, and I suddenly remembered that the sweets were light purple, and so I asked him to have them named 'Violet.'\"\n\nThe Pansy, who had been silent from the beginning to end, gave a faint sigh, and said, \"How I envy all of you! It seems that when I walk beside you all, I look so short and undignified, and all your beauty outshines me, so that I feel humble beside you all.\" The Queen soon comforted her, and said, \"My dear Pansy, why do you say such words? Why, all the people round us wear you in their buttonholes.\" The Pansy brightened up instantly, and soon they all bade the Queen \"Au Revoir\" with very low bows.\n\nLAM YAN YUK, \nClass 2.",
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        "content_text": "**(C)** Provided Admiral Li (who has 4 cruisers at his disposal) will undertake (1) to patrol the mouth of the West River and the Hainan Strait and (2) to take action against Chinese pirates, we favour the grant of assistance to the Chinese Navy. This subject is dealt with in my telegrams `190/66676626`, `154810-01` of the 6th of December and 19th of January and in my despatch `43`, `49489` of the 20th of January, (Secret) and your telegram of the 30th of January.\n\n**(D)** The suggestion that pressure should be brought to bear at Moscow. In our opinion the expulsion of the Bolsheviks from Canton is an essential preliminary to a permanent settlement. The possibility of the effective steps taken in 1923 (in regard to trawlers etc.) being repeated should be considered. If this were possible it might provide the solution of the Kuang Tung troubles without the use of force and without antagonising the Chinese.\n\n**(E)** The question of conciliation. See `CE70%`, `C2243` and enclosure 7f in Governor's Confidential despatch of 2nd October, for the demands of Canton.\n\nThe only body in Canton with which my Government can negotiate is the Government of Canton. Apart from Canton workmen (with whom the Colonial Government has no concern) the Strike Committee consists of former Hongkong workmen (whose return we do not desire since the Colony is better off without them). The advisers of the Committee are Red Russians. The Colonial Government cannot possibly conduct negotiations with such a body. If such negotiations were begun our prestige would suffer to such an extent that the future good Government of the Colony would be imperilled. Furthermore a very detrimental effect would be produced on British interests in Shanghai if the Kuang Tung anti-British boycott were to end in the humiliation of the Colony.\n\nPage 6",
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        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n22\n\nare gradually losing power in Central China. The British Imperialists have therefore not hesitated to take in the assistance of Chang Tso-lin, to whom they lent a sum of $5,000,000 to meet his Anti-Red expenses, and sent 30,000 steel helmets to encourage him. But the Chinese revolutionary movements have recently made marvellous progress at the rate of 1,000 miles a day. The Kuomintang established the National Government at Canton first, then supported the Canton-Hong Kong Strike and called up the revolutionary masses to back up the general coal strike in England, thus making a serious attack on British Imperialism. The Party has now unified the Liang Kuang provinces, and captured the various provinces in the basin of the Yangtsze. The successive defeat of their tame dogs, Wu Pei-fu and Sun Ch'uan-fang, has struck the Imperialists with terror, caused them much uneasiness and made them hurry about warning one another. Accordingly, it has been published in a British Imperialist organ that the Commanders of the local fleets would be given liberty of action. A Reuter telegram from London has also stated that the proper work of the Navy at Canton might check the invasion of the Cantonese troops down the river Yangtze, that is to say, Canton might still hold the key of the situation. Another Reuter telegram has again made it public that when required by circumstances, England would, with other Powers, divert the attention of the Cantonese to the basin of the Yangtsze and take Kuang-tung at one blow. As pointed out by the Tin Tung She (Telegraphic News Agency), the panic of the British is very marked. But at the same time, they have resolved to continue their high-handed policy of massacre. We can see clearly that the British Imperialist policy against China must be as follows:-\n\n(1)",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No. I\n\n### EVENTS AND CURRENT RIOTS: SANTCH. 15TH AND 19TH APRIL, 1927.\n\n10th April 1927.\n\nTo deal with the dangerous Communist elements in accordance with urgent instructions from the Kuomintang Central Control Committee received at General Military Headquarters here, General Li Chai-sum as Acting Commander-in-chief, after calling a mid-night conference with his commandants, enforced emergency martial law in Canton at midnight of 14th instant, and large companies of troops were immediately sent out in the early morning of Friday, the 15th, in different directions to raid the various red labour organisation headquarters. Fighting immediately took place at Shekweitong, the Samshui railway station, at Wongsha, the Yueh-Han station, on the East River, the Canton-Kowloon station, and at the last Garden, the Strike Committee Headquarters, and at Fongchuen, the Strike Picket Headquarters. The troops did not cease firing until about ten in the morning of the 15th when the labour fighters at the railway stations all surrendered their arms and were dispersed. The city police took the same summary measures in the city and on Shamian Island, searching for red elements in schools and labour union buildings. The city traffic communications were not resumed until two o'clock in the afternoon. The number of red party workmen arrested and detained was about 2,000 including men and women. About 10 students, boys and girls, were arrested from the Kwangtung University. The number of important communist members included in the arrest list handed over to police by General Li Chai-sum is said to be 400. However, General Li has issued an order that the names of the communists arrested this time should not be published.\n\nFollowing the quick action taken on Friday to suppress the disorderly elements, the Provincial Kuomintang appointed a special committee of five responsible officers of the Government to deal with any emergency that may arise. The said Committee is composed of General Li Chai-sum, Mr. Koo Ying-fan, General Li Fuk-lam, Mr. Chan Tuh-muk, and ...",
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        "content_text": "## \n18 \n\nThe Semshui railway however has not yet resumed working, while the Yueh-Pan train cannot reach its terminus station at Shaokwan as it is reported that the village militia and the red peasant corps in the North River District are still fighting against each other after those railway-men who were dispersed from Canton had applied to the peasants for protection. All things in the Canton city are now again in quiet but there has been a great change of important personnel in the civil government. It is understood that the influence of T. V. Soong and Sun Fo will be gradually eliminated from Canton. Mr. Koo Ying-fan has now assumed charge as Provincial Finance Commissioner and will act concurrently as Acting Minister of Finance. Mr. Fong Lung-sang has been made Director-General of the Nationalist Central Bank (Mr. Mong was assistant manager of the same bank). Mr. Lin Tsu-feng, the Customs Superintendent and Director of Shui-wu Tsung-chu, will be replaced by Mr. Cheng Tien-ku. The Civil Commissioner Mr. Chen Shu-yan has already tendered his resignation, but who will be his successor is not yet known. Mr. Li Cheng-yi, the Anti-Opium Bureau Director and Chief Secretary of the Finance Ministry is now in custody and will be tried by a special committee as he is a most influential member of T. V. Soong's party. Mr. Chen Tao-tso has been appointed Reconstruction Commissioner and he already took over charge on the 15th.\n\nSubmitted:  \n(SD) Che T. Cheng,  \n3rd Clerk,  \nCanton Customs, 19th April, 1927.  \n**R. J. C. Hedgeland**  \nCommissioner",
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        "content_text": "# Daily Bulletin\n## VOL. XVIII.\n\nThe office of the \"Daily Bulletin\" is in Union Building (First Floor). All communications intended for the \"Daily Bulletin\" should be addressed to the Editor.-Tel. C1963.\n\nEditor: W. Jackson,\n\n## NOTICE\nAll Telegrams published in the \"Daily Bulletin\" are supplied by Reuter's Agency, except as otherwise indicated. The information contained in this Issue is for the private use of Subscribers only and not for publication or communication in any way prejudicial to the interests of the \"Daily Bulletin.\"\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.\"]\n\n## BORODIN SEEKS SANCTUARY\n### ENJOYING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION!\n\nHankow, April 19. Borodin and his pupil, Chen Kuo-ao, and one of the heads of the political bureau have moved from the native city to the International Hospital, in the former Russian Concession, ostensibly for a \"rest cure,\" but really for safety. The Hospital, which is conducted by French Catholic sisters, enjoys international protection and is the safest place in Hankow at present.\n\n## NATIONALIST MANDATES\n### CHIANG KAI-SHEK DISMISSED.\n### FENG YU-HSIANG APPOINTED SUCCESSOR!\n\nShanghai, April 19. According to Chinese reports received here this afternoon, the Nationalist Government at Hankow have issued three mandates.\n\nThe first mandate dismisses Chiang Kai-shek from his post of Commander-in-Chief.\n\nThe second mandate appoints Feng Yu-hsiang as Chiang Kai-shek's successor, with Teng Seng-chi as Military Governor of Honan and associate Commander-in-Chief. The latter has ordered an advance on Nanking to attack Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nThe third mandate announces severance of all relations with Nanking and Shanghai.\n\n## HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th, 1927.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.”]\n\n## BANK-NOTE DUEL\n### CAPITAL NANKING.\n### HANKOW MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.\n\n### CHINESE BANKS SEVER RELATIONS.\n\nShanghai, April 19. In connection with the decision of the National Government at Hankow prohibiting the redemption of bank-notes, the Association of Chinese Banks at Shanghai have decided to sever relations with all the branch offices at Hankow, and to refuse to accept the Central Bank's notes.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to “Daily Bulletin.”]\n\n## FENGTIEN ARMY MYSTERY\n### COMMUNISTS ELIMINATED.\n\nNanking, April 19. A mass meeting attended by 100,000 inaugurated the establishment of Nanking as the new capital.\n\n| Resolution        | Description                                      |\n| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |\n| First             | Eliminating the Communists from the party        |\n| Second            | Cancellation of unequal treaties as soon as possible |\n| Third             | Establishment of three Central Banks with headquarters at Nanking |\n\nSubsequently, a proclamation was issued by Chiang Kai-shek, the effect of which is that the Communists are to have \"fair treatment,\" pending considered action by the plenary session of the executive committee anent the Communists generally.\n\nShanghai, April 19. The recapture of Kaifeng, the capital of Honan, by Chang Tso-lin's troops recalls the strange disappearance of nearly 10,000 men, comprising the Tenth Division of the Fengtien Army, including Chiang Kai-shek, feels that it would be unwise at present to deal too severely with the Communists.\n\nThe mystery surrounding what happened to those soldiers has only now been cleared up after much investigation among the country folk.\n\nIt appears that these soldiers fled towards the Yellow River with the idea of crossing to the other side, but finding no means of doing so, they scattered about the countryside, behaving towards the population in the usual Chinese soldiers' way.\n\nThe inhabitants, aided by the Red Spears (a body of Honanese guerilla fighters) finally banded themselves together and attacked the soldiers wherever they found them. Gruesome stories are told of how the Red Spears killed their erstwhile oppressors, who were mostly without rifles and with no means of defence, beating them to death being the favourite method, although by far the greater number were bound hand and foot and pitched into the Yellow River.\n\nIt is estimated that no fewer than 9,000 soldiers were thus disposed of. Now that the Fengtien forces are again in control of this part of Honan, it is expected that their revenge will partake of the nature of a holocaust, owing to the possibility thereby of creating a dangerous situation at Hankow at a time when Chang Tso-lin's forces are advancing across Honan, and when the Five Powers show signs of vigorous action at Hankow as a result of Mr. Eugene Chen's sophistry.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.\"]\n\n## ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN AT TIENTSIN\n### BRITISH CONCESSION STRIKE\n\nTientsin, April 19. The Kuomintang labour unions are distributing pamphlets urging a boycott of British goods and bank-notes, and the calling of a strike in the British Concession.\n\n## BRITISH TROOPS EN ROUTE.\n\nLondon, April 19. A detachment of 50 men of the Second Battalion of the Devon Regiment are leaving for China to-morrow to join the First Battalion.\n\n## BUDGET FOR ASSISTING STRIKERS!\n\nHankow, April 19. At a meeting of the Municipal Council of the former British Concession, a Chinese member demanded that 10 per cent. of the entire Budget be applied to assisting the strikers and labourers generally.\n\nUpon its being pointed out that the Council had no power to make payments other than those sanctioned by the ratepayers, a Labourite demanded that a special meeting of the ratepayers be called to consider the proposal. This was agreed to.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.\"]\n\n## SINO-JAPANESE TREATY.\n\nPeking, April 19. The Chinese and Japanese representatives held their fifteenth meeting yesterday regarding the new Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty. They are still discussing the most-favoured nation clause.\n\nAs the old treaty is due to expire on April 20, it has been decided to prolong it for three months while the negotiations continue.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to “Daily Bulletin.”]\n\n## SOVIET OFFICIALS LEAVE PEKING.\n\nPeking, April 19. The Soviet Charge d'Affaires, M. Chernyck, and the other remaining officials at the Soviet Embassy left Peking this morning.\n\n## R. A. F. BOMBER CRASHES.\n### FOUR AIRMEN INCINERATED.\n\nLondon, April 19. A Royal Air Force bomber crashed at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey. Four airmen were incinerated.\n\nPage 14 \nNo. 92 \n[ISSUED AT NOON]",
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        "content_text": "## 53\n\nthe field. However, before long, Communist leaders began to make terms with the Northern Militarist, using the name of the Central Executive Department of the Kuomintang and openly announced the deprivation of Chang Kai Shek of all his power.\n\nSo dangerous had the Red influence become that it was no longer possible to withhold action against them, and on April 15th the order came to clean the country up of the Communist element. Canton is now practically wiped of such influence, and in doing its work it became necessary for the Government to execute several of the more outspoken agitators. The East River region has also been thoroughly cleared, but in the North River an army ten thousand strong was placed on the field to attack the Reds who had mobilised a force of three thousand men.\n\nThe campaign against the rebels in this area has not secured its ultimate object so far, and everything possible is being done to take every Communistic influence from South China.\n\nBefore closing, Mr. Lien Lai invited questions from those present.\n\nAsked by Mr. Hall, the British Vice Consul, who had organised the shooting at Nanking, Mr. Lien Lai replied that he had not received a definite report regarding the matter.\n\nTo another question regarding General Lai Chai-sum, Mr. Lien said that while it is commonly reported that Chang Kai Shek is not on friendly terms with General Lai, it was false. This rumour has been spread by Red propagandists. He added that the Government was opposed, not to Communism as a principle, nor to Soviet Russia as a nation, but to such agitators who preach against the Kuomintang, the Nationalist Government, and the people.\n\nIs the Nationalist Government and the people in Canton to-day anti-British? \"We are opposed to any form of Imperialism,\" said Mr. Lien, \"but not particularly against...",
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        "content_text": "## The Canton Gazette \n**報F日文英州廣** \n*ORGAN OF CHINESE NATIONAL OPINION* \nOffice: 82, Wing Hon Road, Canton, China \n\n### SUBSCRIPTION RATES, EXCLUDING POSTAGE \n10 cents per copy, $2 per month. 50% discount on above rates allowed to teachers and students \nPublished daily except Sunday and holidays \n\n**Wednesday, May 18, 1927** \n\n#### Pukow Captured By Nationalist Forces; Northern Drive On The Tientsin-Pukow Railway Is Being Pushed By Gen. Chiang \nthe Southern forces were pouring across the Yangtsze yesterday morning towards Chuchow. \n\nLooters Suppressed \n(Continued from Page 1) \nAs soon as they had departed, looters crossed the river by sampans, but were severely handled by Chiang's troops, who then occupied the town. The Northerners shelled Pakow with shrapnel after the occupation by the Southerners. Southern forces were pouring across the Yangtsze yesterday above Nanking, on the north bank, and there are no signs... Reuter.\n\n#### Provincial Kuomintang Hold Weekly Meet; Pass Resolutions \nThe usual weekly memorial meeting was held by the Provincial Kuomintang on the 16th inst., and was attended by the various Kuomintang representatives from public organisations and members of the Provincial Executive and Control Committee. The whole audience numbered several hundred. Comrade Chen Fu-mu presided. The proceedings opened with the reading of the Last Will of the late Director Sun, followed by three minutes' silence.\n\nThe most important point in his statement is his opinion in relation to the Red movement in China and to the militarists. We should, therefore, propagate this point clearly to the masses, so that they can accord a united support to the expedition.\n\nResolutions were passed unanimously:--\n| Resolution |\n| --- |\n| 1. It is the decision of Our Provincial Government that after the elimination of the Communist activities, General Pai Chung-hsi is establishing his military headquarters at Pakow, in order to direct military movements immediately along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. |\n| 2. Despite the elimination of Communists, the Party Government will carry through the Northern Expedition from the beginning to the end without compromising with the militarists. |\n\n#### U.D.C. CONDEMNS TORY POLICY TOWARD CHINA \n(From our London Labour Correspondent) \nLondon, April 13.—\"The Union of Democratic Control declares that the action of H. M. Government in pouring troops into China is inflaming anti-British feeling amongst the Chinese, is endangering British lives and is partly responsible for the deaths which have already taken place. It condemns the Government's wasteful war.\"\n\n#### CHINA: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? \nBy George LANSBURY, Labour Socialist M.P. \nNo Change In Japan's Peaceful Policy In China Says Tanaka \n(Tokyo Nichi Nichi) \nBaron Tanaka's statement refers for the most part to China policy. Touching the rightful claims of the Chinese, Baron Tanaka says that he is sympathetic with their national movement, but argues that it must be carried on quietly and methodically. He calls upon the neighbours to be self-restraining. We expect no dissension from this principle, which is also the policy of the Kenseikai Government.\n\n#### Better Conditions \n(Continued from Page 1) \nI repeat the charge with greater emphasis, and say that if the present Tory Government continues, Great Britain will be responsible for whatever loss of life and property the Chinese people have sustained.\n\nThe statement of Baron Tanaka implies sympathy for and advice to China separately from the question regarding the Red movement. With respect to the latter, he announces that he can dismiss Communist activities with indifference and that he is ready to act in concert with the Powers affected if occasion requires.\n\n#### Red Movement \nThe purpose of retaining and securing privileges inconsistent with Chinese self-determination is to occupy Peking and the Chinese quarter of Shanghai and to join forces with those who are fighting against the Chinese Labour Government. This is Churchill's anti-Soviet policy applied to China. Whoever is responsible for its inception and bribery and corruption, the British Government is responsible for its execution.\n\n#### Labour Policy \nThe Labour policy holds the field. Recognise the sovereignty of China; bring home the troops; negotiate to abolish all unequal treaties; refer all questions connected with outrages, and insults to an International Tribunal made up from neutral nations.\n\n#### Soviet Fear \nThe Tanaka Ministry has caused a sensation in the Soviet, some of whose statesmen seem to entertain the opinion that the assumption of the Premiership by Baron Tanaka is an indication of Japan's foreign policy being reversed. The portfolio of War having been assigned to General Shirakawa who is particularly sympathetic with Chang Tso-lin, it is apprehended that Japan will change its liberal policy.\n\n#### Welcome Victors \nChinkiang, May 15.—There have been minor clashes between the opposing forces in the vicinity of Chinkiang, which is therefore quiet, nothing of any note having occurred since the occupation of the city by the Southerners, the whole place was bedecked with thousands of Kuomintang flags.\n\n#### Land Attack \nNanking, May 15.—Considerable fighting on the railway is reported. Machine-gun and rifle fire across the river occurred yesterday. It was further reported that the Northerners were holding their positions on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway so as to prevent the Southerners crossing there to round-up the Shantung troops.\n\n#### No Attack On Shanghai \nIt is believed that the venture was successful, for it was today announced that the Southerners had captured Pukow.—Naval Wireless.\n\n#### How Pukow Was Taken \nShanghai, May 16.—General Chiang Kai-shek's troops, numbering about 3,000, took the lead, and were timed to begin at 8 a.m. The attack, in which General Chen Ming-shin's troops also took part, was successful.\n\n#### To Death On Taikoo Steamer At Tientsin \nTientsin, May 15.—Fire broke out on the Butterfield and Swire steamer Tungchow at noon today, when she was leaving the Tongku wharf. The fire was extinguished by 3 o'clock in the afternoon. A report states that 16 of the Chinese were fatally burned.\n\n#### The elations attitude of Baron Tanaka \nWhether it will throw it down or not, the Soviet need not bother itself about such useless misgiving, but we assert that it depends upon Russia's attitude whether the Seiyukai Government will assist Great Britain to complete the blockade against the Soviet.\n\nPage 38 \nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 \n\n2",
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        "content_text": "## The CANTON GAZETTE \n### Vol. V No. 954 \n#### CANTON, CHINA, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927 \n廣州日報\n\n## Gov't. Takes Active Step To Consolidating Gains\n### MUNICIPAL GOV'T. Nationalists DRAWS UP TENTATIVE FACTORY REGULATIONS\n**All Workers to be Well Protected; and their Rights and Interests to be Safeguarded. Special Attention to be Given to the Welfare of Child Workers**\n\nLabour regulations including a factory law have been drafted by the Department of Labour and Peasantry. The following is a list of tentative factory regulations:\n\n1. The Government has specially prepared the factory regulations for ensuring a proper living and the safety of the laborers.\n2. These regulations are to be applied both to foreign-owned and Chinese-owned factories under the regime of the Nationalist Government.\n3. Factory owners are not allowed to employ boys below the age of 12 and girls below the age of 14.\n4. All males below 16 and females below 18 are regarded as child workers.\n5. No child workers who have not received a primary education are allowed to work in factories,\n6. Child workers may be only employed to do light work.\n7. Child workers work only six hours a day, that is, thirty-six hours per week, and adult workers eight hours, that is, forty-eight hours per week.\n8. Child workers are not allowed to engage in night work, that is between six p.m. and six a.m.\n9. On Sundays and other holidays promulgated by Government, all the workers must be given rest and besides this, factories ought to grant the workers fourteen days of special vacation each year.\n10. Each month, one or more days of rest must be allowed the workers and every day at meal time (Continued on Page 2)\n\n### Chuchow Reported Captured. Advance Preceded By Heavy Firing\nShanghai, May 19.—The Nationalists, after capturing Pukow and Wuyi as previously reported, have consolidated their gains, and after heavy firing have driven the Northerners along the Tientsin-Pukow line toward Suchow. It is also stated that the Nationalists have captured Chuchow, gateway to Hsuchow.\n\n#### Another Version\nShanghai, May 19th. The second column of Nationalist troops have taken Chuchow and are steadily advancing northwards along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.\n\nAs to the war situation in the northern section of Kiangsu, the first column of Nationalist troops crossed the Yangtsze to begin their attack on Sun Chuan-fang's troops on the night of the 17th inst. Heavy firing continued until the morning of the 18th. It resulted in the Nationalists advancing northwards far distant from the River.—(Wah Tez Yat Pao.)\n\n### General Chiang Goes To Shanghai\nFrom Nanking, General Chiang Kai-shek with some money, is order...\n\n#### Strict Prohibition Of Counterfeit Coins\nThe prohibition of the manufacture and circulation of counterfeit coins is again emphasized in a notification of the Ministry of Finance,\n\n### Gov't. To Protect The Interests Of Farmers And Peasants\n**Active Steps Are to be taken to Promote the Welfare of the Toiling Masses**\n\nAt the 29th meeting of the Provincial Executive Council of the 19th inst., the following two proposals were made by Mr. Chen Fu-mu, Commissioner of the Department of Peasantry and Labour, which were passed after some modifications:\n\n#### A. To forbid the collection of rentals in advance:\n1. Commencing from the date of promulgation of the Government order forbidding the collection of rentals in advance, all previous agreements made between the landlords and the farmers stipulating such collection shall become null and void. The rentals should be paid in two instalments to be paid one month after each crop. In case of a year of drought when appeals are to be made to the Government by the farmers for reduction or exemption of rentals, the landlords shall not be permitted to collect the rentals by citing the present rulings.\n\n#### B. To abrogate the Contractor system:\n1. A peasant who himself does not plough but simply re-lets to the farmers a piece of land which he leases from the landlords under contract and collects the rental is called a Farming Contractor.\n2. Commencing from the date of promulgation of the Government order abrogating the contracting system, all previous agreements made between the landlords, contractors, and the farmers, either unexpired or otherwise, shall be null and void.\n3. The contractors shall return the leased lands to the landlords who shall lease them to the respective farmers formerly tilling them at a rental of not more than what contractors previously paid them. Each farmer is, however, limited to take up 100 mows only.\n\n### Significance Of The \"Ching Tang\" Movement Explained By Mr. Lai Lien\n**Tension Increasing Hourly**\n\nHankow, May 18.—Not only is Government Official Chiang Kai-shek's net gradually closing round Hankow, but there is understood to have been a defection of troops in the city itself, and a clash is feared at any moment now.\n\nThe anti-\"Red\" troops have concentrated, it is reliably reported, at the Chinese Rice-course in Hankow, and the opinion is expressed that open hostility between these forces and those loyal to the Hankow Government cannot be delayed.\n\nIn a speech delivered before the members of the Hongkong Branch of the Kuomintang, Mr. Lai Lien, General-secretary to the Chief Political Department, has emphasized the necessity and significance of the recent Kuomintang activities in the clearing out of the Communist elements from the Party.\n\nA free translation of the speech is, in part, as follows:\n\"Comrades, it is a great pleasure to me to attend this meeting and the honour to address you. The Hongkong Branch of the Kuomintang is the vanguard in the struggle between ourselves and imperialism. Hongkong was formerly a part of our territory. After being invaded by the British Imperialists, we have been and still are under the most cruel oppression. Just therefore, we must unite ourselves and resist. The patriotism shown by the Hongkong labourers in the recent strike has voiced a world-wide appreciation.\n\nIt is for this reason that the Hongkong Branch of the Kuomintang is more important than other branch Kuomintangs. In view of this, you members should be united all the more solidly.\n\n### Kweichow Troops Mobilized Against Hankow\nIt is reported that under the instructions of General Hsu Ching-tang, the Commissioner of the Military Department, the 38th Regiment of the 13th Division under General Li Wu-tsze arrived here from Kongmoon on the 17th inst., and will go on its expedition within a few days.\n\nGeneral Yang Sen has telegraphed to the Nanking Government that he has ordered from the Kweichow border a division of troops under his direction to be mobilized at once for Hankow.\n\nGeneral Li Fook-lum of the 5th Army Corps will undertake the work of suppression along the East River.\n\n### Reorganization Of The Canton Branch Of The Political Council\nTelegrams to the Central Government, which says: \"Taking the opportunity I have to make a short report to you regarding the \"Tsing Tang\" movement in Kwangtung. In the vicinity of the East River, a certain section of the peasant corps have been seduced to the road of anti-revolution but this was suppressed in a very short time.\n\nAt a Central Political Conference held on May 17, it was decided that the Canton branch of the Political Council should be reorganized.\n\n### New Supply Of Materials For Telephone Service\nOwing to the shortage of funds, the Telephone Service has been in a bad condition on account of the lack of sufficient materials. Upon the assumption of office as Director of the Administration of Mr. Chen Hok-yuk, efforts have been made for a positive reform. Funds have been raised for the purchase of 1500 yards Swedish Red and White wire for the General Station, and 141 pieces of Japanese red and white wire for the West port Station. In addition to this, 500 cells of the best type have also been bought from America which are moisture-proof and quick in transmission. The workers are now busily making a change with the new stuff and it is believed that the service will be greatly improved hereafter.\n\n### Strikers' Compensation Fund\nWith reference to the $1,500,000 to be raised by the General Chamber of Commerce towards the Compensation Fund for the strikers, it is found that only $250,000 have been collected up to the 18th. All provincial districts are ordered by Commissioner Koo Yin-fan of the Department of Finance to raise within 20 days a sum between $50,000 and a few thousand dollars according to the size of the district. The various guilds will be notified to pay in their proportion within the limited time.\n\n### Removal Of The Educational Executive Association To Nanking\nIt is reported that after the assumption of office by the new members of the Political Council, it was decided to have the Educational Executive Association at Canton removed to Nanking.\n\n### New Appointments In The Municipal Government\nThe following appointments have been made: - Yiew Shi-fun to be Chief of the General Affairs Department; Yung Hok-tung, General-Secretary; Ng Cheok-yu, Accountant.\n\n### The Doomsday Of Wu Pui-fei\nPeking papers report of his new activities and of his contemplated trip to the South Sea Islands are utterly unfounded, says the report.\n\nPage 90\nSingle Copy: 10 Cents $2.00 A Month $24.00 A Year",
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        "content_text": "# THE WAR\n\n## Feng Yu-hsiang at Hsuchowfu\n\n### TROOP MOVEMENTS\n\nNanking, July 26.\n\nAccording to latest reports, the Northerners have been driven from Hsuchow by General Feng Yu-hsiang.-Naval Wireless.\n\n### TROOP MOVEMENTS\n\n#### The Concession at Chinkiang Occupied\n\n##### NORTHERN ADVANCE\n\nChinkiang, July 26. According to reports received here, the Northern troops have pushed on as far as Tsing Kiang Pu, and with the exception of the Commissioner's house, troops have taken up their quarters in Customs' property.\n\nGeneral Ho Ying-ching, en route from Nanking to Shanghai, has passed through, and a report has been received to the effect that General Wang Peh-sing will reach here to-day.\n\nMen of the 58th regiment, controlled directly by General Ho Ying-ching, are in occupation of the concession, and the ninth transport has now arrived in harbour.\n\nLater.\n\nThere is a big concentration of troops here, who have occupied all buildings at both the concession and the Consulate. Efforts are being made to communicate with the responsible authorities.-Naval Wireless.\n\nShanghai, July 27.\n\nGeneral Feng Yu-hsiang has telegraphed to Nanking that two brigades of his army are marching on Hsuchow to help the Nanking Army in the war with Shantung. An important delegation from Feng Yu-hsiang arrived at Nanking yesterday to confer on the military party on the Shantung military campaign.-Wah Kiu Yat Po.\n\n## CANTON'S WAR\n\n### Chiang Kai-shek Appoints Eight Field Marshals\n\n#### YUNNANESE FOR KIANGSI\n\nCanton, July 27. General Fan Shek-sang, who was recently sent up to the North River with part of his Yunnanese army, returned to Canton yesterday afternoon to report to General Li Chai-sum the completion of the North River defence.\n\nGeneral Sze-cheng-hsum (commands Chuen in Chungking vicinity) is Field Marshal of the Sixth Force, General Chau Shi-cheng, (commands the armies in Kwaichow province, who now threatens to attack Hunan from the west) commands the Seventh force, and General Li Chai-sum, who commands the Liangkwang armies, is therefore the Field Marshal of the Eighth Force.\n\nIt is understood, however, that the precedence of these Field-Marshals is not arranged according to strength or reputation but by territories.-A Correspondent.\n\n### YUNNAN FIGHTING\n\n#### Control\n\nGeneral Fan's troops, who recently arrived from Kwangsi and have been sent up to the North river to join the anti-Red expedition, are now being concentrated in Shiukwan and vicinity.\n\nAccording to military circles, General Hu is not yet in full control; instead of sending them into Hunan as was planned, General Fan's army will be assigned to the Kiangsi expedition. The reason for this is that most of the \"Reds\" in Kiangsi are Yunnanese troops under General Chu Pei-teh and may be won over.\n\n#### Field Marshals\n\nThe anti-Red expedition against Hunan and Kiangsi is taking form, as General Li Chai-sum, the South China military leader, has been appointed by Nanking as Field-marshal of the Eighth Nationalist Expeditionary force, and is entrusted with the task of attacking the Reds from the South.\n\nRecently Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, to facilitate the direction of the Nationalist expeditionary forces in different parts of the country, appointed eight Field Marshals.\n\nGeneral Ho Ying-ching is Field Marshal of the First Expeditionary Force, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek (with Pei Chung-hsi acting) commands the Second Force, General Li Chung-yan (who commands the Nationalist Kwangsi contingent) is Field Marshal of the Third Force, General Feng Yu-hsiang commands the Fourth, General Lui Hsiang (who commands a large Szechuenese army in Chengtu) is Field-marshal of the Fifth Force, General Lui...\n\n## MARCH ON THE CAPITAL\n\nParis, July 26.\n\nA message from Yunnanfu states that General Hu Jo-yu is continuing his march on Yunnanfu.\n\nThe rival forces have given an assurance to the French Consul that there will not be any fighting in the city. All steps necessary have been taken to assure the safety of the French residents and Annamite coolies-Reuter.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927",
        "content_text": "## 2.\n\n(49 \n42 \n12 \nFacia. Nai le \n\npossible saviours of Canton from its new, communistic masters. When the power of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek increased, and the hopes of the reactionaries faded further and further into the distance, General Li's independence dwindled; and the Nationalist Government appears now to consider him to be a staunch Kuomintang adherent, as his name appears among the Provincial Commissioners for Kwang-tung, whose appointment was reported in my secret despatch of the 26th May, 1927. He is commander of the 5th Nationalist Army.\n\n2. A memorandum of the interview is enclosed. I am disposed to think that General Li's presence in Hong Kong had the accidental character which he attributes to it, and it is a fact that \"Master James Lee\", the son of General Li, left for Seattle yesterday in the s.s. President Grant under the care of Dr. and Mrs. Cadbury of the Lingnam University at Canton, with whose family he is to be brought up in the United States of America. But General Li's mention of the country property of his former ally General Ngai Pong-peng may be of greater significance than appears at first sight. Rumours of a disaster to the new \"Northern Expedition\" against the Communists in Hunan and Kiangsi grow in strength, and forces appear to have been withdrawn from the protection of Canton and even from such notoriously \"red\" areas as the East River and the Luichow peninsula. It may be that General Li is exploring the possibilities of Hong Kong.\n\n* C. 30001/27 C. [No. 12]: not printed. † Not printed.\n\n+ \n49",
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        "document_key": "CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927",
        "content_text": "# Enclosure No.1.\n\n५० \n97 \n\n22nd November, 1927.\n\n## Memorandum of a Meeting at Government House on 22nd November, 1927.\n\n**PRESENT:** His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, General Fung Chuk-man, Dr. Li Chak-man, (Confidential Secretary to General Li Chai-sum) Mr. Luk Kan-chau, Sir Shouson Chow and Dr. R.H. Kotewall.\n\nGeneral Fung states that when General Li Chai-sun departed from Canton for Shanghai with Dr. Wang Ching-wei, he left all military affairs of Kwongtung in charge of General Chan Ho-yuk. The coup d'etat in Canton was no doubt instigated by General Chang Fat-fui and carried out by his lieutenant, General Jong Kie-cheong. These military officials had agreed to co-operate with General Li, but it has been proved that they were treacherous. Mr. Wang Ching-wei must have had something to do with this coup.\n\nGeneral Li has wired from Shanghai to the effect that he was determined to regain his position in Canton. General Li Chung-yen and General Pai Sung-hsi of Nanking, who were General Li Chai-sun's colleagues and former subordinates, and General Chan Ming-shu of Fukien have agreed to despatch armies to assist General Li Chai-sun to attain his object. When matters are arranged, the various forces will attack Canton from three sides. General Fung is of the opinion that in a month's time the present Canton regime will be expelled.\n\nGeneral Fung states the present Canton authorities are red, and that they have already called upon the communists for assistance and co-operation.\n\nGeneral Wong Shiu-hung, who is now in Hong Kong, has been ordered by General Li to return to Muchow or Shiu Hing (West River) at once to take command of his forces, but unfortunately General",
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        "document_key": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927",
        "content_text": "# Emigration and Immigration\n\nOne hundred and forty thousand, five hundred and thirty-four (140,534) emigrants left Hong Kong for various places during the year 1925, (129,859 in 1924). Of these, 85,586 were carried in British ships, and 54,948 in foreign ships.\n\nNinety-one thousand, six hundred and twenty-two (91,622) returning emigrants were reported to have been brought to Hong Kong from the several places to which they had emigrated either from this colony or from coast ports, as against 130,194 in 1924. Of these, 51,760 arrived in British ships, and 39,862 in foreign ships.\n\n## Statement of number of emigrants to Straits Settlements, 1914 to 1925, compared with total Chinese emigration\n\n| Year | No. of Emigrants to Straits Settlements | Total No. of Emigrants |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1914 | 44,974 | 76,296 |\n| 1915 | 41,278 | 68,275 |\n| 1916 | 82,797 | 117,653 |\n| 1917 | 63,292 | 96,298 |\n| 1918 | 8,019 | 43,830 |\n| 1919 | 11,638 | 59,969 |\n| 1920 | 43,935 | 105,258 |\n| 1921 | 87,324 | 156,011 |\n| 1922 | 50,356 | 98,393 |\n| 1923 | 65,584 | 120,224 |\n| 1924 | 75,682 | 129,859 |\n| 1925 | 97,552 | 140,534 |\n\n## (b.) INDUSTRIES\n\n### Sugar\n\nThe course of prices during the early part of the year was based on the expectation that the 1924-25 Cuban crop would outturn a figure somewhere between 4,300,000 tons and 4,725,000 tons, with a large part of the Trade being of the opinion that the latter figure would prove to be the maximum. Even when the production in Cuba indicated that 4,725,000 tons would be a minimum, for quite a long period many members of the Sugar industry throughout the world could not get themselves to believe that a record-breaking crop as to size was being manufactured in Cuba and thought that a crop of 5 million tons would be an impossibility.\n\nThe final outturn of the 1924-25 Cuban crop was 5,125,970 tons, a burden that was quite too heavy for sugar prices to bear, as a result of which the trend in prices of raw sugar was in a downward direction from April to the end of October.\n\nIn addition to the raw sugar markets being under the influence of overproduction practically throughout the year resulting in a steadily declining market, the Hong Kong refineries have again been seriously handicapped by the disturbed political conditions throughout China, the serious strike which started last June and the boycott of British manufactures which necessitated shutting down both refineries entirely for a time.\n\nCompetition from Japanese refined sugar has also been very keen, but it is reported that the refineries in that Country have agreed amongst themselves to restrict their output, which would indicate that their losses must have been considerable.\n\n### Rope Making\n\nThe demand for Manila cordage was fairly good during the first six months of 1925 but it fell off in the second half of the year owing to political troubles in Canton.\n\n## (c.) FISHERIES\n\nA considerable proportion of the boat population of Hong Kong supports itself by deep-sea fishing, in which pursuit a large number of junks are engaged. The villages of Aberdeen, Stanley, Shaukiwan, and also many in the New Territories, are largely dependent upon this industry for their prosperity. Freshwater fish is imported from Canton and the West River. There are oyster beds of considerable value in Deep Bay.\n\n## (d.) FORESTRY, AGRICULTURE, AND BOTANY\n\n### Formation of Pine tree plantations\n\nSeeds of Pinus Massoniana were sown in situ on the following places-Taipo Forestry Reserve 146,500; Red Hill, Tytam, 20,000; and on hills above Shek O Road, 50,000; the total weight of seeds used was 155 lbs.\n\nFor the formation of new plantations on grassy slopes and to support earth banks below and above the more recently made roads, seeds of Pinus Massoniana were sown broadcast at the following places:-Below and above road from Cheung Sha Wan to Castle Peak, above and below Taipo Road, below Matilda Hospital, between Victoria Gap and Pokfulam, Wanchai Gap, Conduit Road, and Cheung Chau.\n\n### Broad-leaved trees planted\n\nOne year old Camphor trees to the number of 4,708 were planted on vacant flat spaces at Tai Wo Po, New Territories.\n\nIn the Peak District, flowering trees and shrubs to the number of 302 were planted.\n\nThe following flowering and shade trees were planted alongside the principal roads in Hong Kong and the New Territories:- Bauhinia variegata, variety alba, Aleurites montana, and Cinnamomum Camphora; the total number used was 2,594.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-502-4 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- provision of funds 11-1-1927 - 12-5-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-502-4 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- provision of funds 11-1-1927 - 12-5-1927",
        "content_text": "## Report by the Director of Public Works\n\nHonourable Colonial Secretary,\n\nI forward a plan in duplicate showing the area proposed to be resumed from the Kai Tak Company coloured **BUFF**. Negotiations for the purchase of this area are in hand.\n\n2. The area remaining to be reclaimed to complete the reclamation is hatched in **BLUE** and is estimated as stated in paragraph 16 of (7) to cost 738,000.00 dollars.\n\nred on the plan. The portion outside the blue line still remains to be reclaimed. I therefore adhere to my previous recommendation that this Government should resume from the Kai Tak Company all its rights over the whole area coloured buff, and should further acquire the small extension marked \"D\" on the plan, which lies outside the reclamation area, and is needed as a \"flight gap.\"\n\n3. The figures of cost set out in paragraph 16 of my secret despatch referred to above require amendment, both because this small extension has to be acquired and because the Air Force representative advises the covering in of certain nullahs which cross the area.\n\nThe revised cost is, therefore, as follows:-\n\n| Item | Amount (Dollars) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Amount estimated to buy out the Kai Tak Company | 1,000,000 |\n| Amount estimated to complete the reclamation | 738,000 |\n| Estimated cost of covering in nullahs | 275,000 |\n| Estimated cost of resuming extension \"D\" | 23,500 |\n| **Total** | **2,036,500** |\n\n3. The area recommended by Wing Commander Leckie for a Commercial Aerodrome is edged in **RED** with the flight gaps hatched in **RED** at \"B,\" \"D\" and \"C.\" \n\n4. It will be noted that the area A exceeds that of the previously suggested area, being 780 yds. x 875 yds. and is not as large as some of the Civil and Military aerodromes mentioned in Wing Commander Leckie's notes; but, in addition, the flight gaps are provided to give increased lengths of run.\n\n5. The cost of this aerodrome area \"A\" containing 5,423,100 sq. ft. or 124.58 acres in accordance with the new recommendations is estimated to be (at the rate of 23.5 cts. per sq. ft.) 1,275,000.00 dollars, to which must be added the cost of covering in the nullahs as now asked for, viz., 275,000.00 dollars, making a total of 1,550,000.00 dollars.\n\n6. It will be noted that the flight gap at \"D\" is not within the area to be resumed from the Kai Tak Company and will need to be acquired separately. The estimated cost of forming this area \"D,\" including the cost of resumption at 15 cts. per sq. ft., would be 23,500.00 dollars.\n\nJanuary 8, 1927.\n\n**(Signed)**  \nHAROLD T. CREASY,  \nDirector of Public Works.\n\nOf this total, it is hoped that at least 500,000 dollars will be recoverable by this Government by the sale of outlying portions of the area, which may eventually prove not to be required for the aerodrome.\n\n4. I communicated these figures to you in my telegram of the 10th December, 1926, and I regard the matter as of such importance to this Colony as to justify this Government in proceeding with the scheme from loan funds, if you concur. I propose to negotiate with the Kai Tak Company to ascertain the exact terms on which the area could be resumed, and to await your reply to my telegram before completing the transaction.\n\n5. I should be glad to learn whether His Majesty's Government would be willing to assist this Colony in financing the scheme for a Hong Kong aerodrome, to which, as I understand from your telegram of the 10th December, great importance is attached on Imperial grounds.\n\n6. As regards the bearing of article 19 of the Washington Treaty on the proposal to construct an aerodrome in Hong Kong, I have the honour to point out that this aerodrome will be constructed primarily for commercial and for police purposes, and in this respect, I take it the Colony has complete freedom of action. After its construction, the aerodrome will also (as at present intended) be made available by the Hong Kong Government for use by His Majesty's Air Force, and in this connection, I invite attention to a letter, dated the 16th October, 1926, written by Lieutenant-Colonel L. R. Hill, Military Attaché at Tokyo, to Sir John Tilley, who forwarded a copy of it to the Foreign Office under cover of a third personal note dated the 21st October, 1926. Lieutenant-Colonel Hill refers to the intention of the Japanese Ministry for War to station one of the new formations of Military Air Force (No. 8 Wing) in Southern Formosa, and adds:-\n\n\"The American Military Attaché informed me recently that he has reported to Washington that the move is contemplated, and has learned that the question (i.e., of the bearing of article 19 of the Washington Treaty on such a step) has been referred to the legal authorities in that capital, who have ruled that, in their opinion, the step would not constitute an infringement of the Washington Treaty.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed)**  \nC. CLEMENTI,  \n\n## Enclosure to Appendix\n\n## Report by the Director of Public Works\n\nHonourable Colonial Secretary,  \nGovernor, &c.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927",
        "content_text": "## 2. Russian policy in the Far East is clearly to concentrate attack in the first instance on Great Britain alone and if successful to attack thereafter other \"Imperialist\" Powers. Bolshevism is a militant adamant doctrine and is spreading in Southern China with consequential labour disorganisation. Until red Russians are eliminated from South, normal and friendly relations between ourselves and nationalist Government cannot be restored. This elimination should be the principal aim of British policy in China and it is imperative that if coercive measures are used against South Russian steamships should be excluded from West River and Yangtze and be prevented from supplying South with munitions of war.\n\n## 3. As regards Japanese attitude see A. Peking telegram to Foreign Office No.47 of January 7th reporting that Japanese Minister was sure that we should all be driven to using force sooner or later and hankered after joint action by ourselves, Japan, France, and America. At this interview, the questions of blockade of Yangtze and Canton was touched upon. B. Shanghai telegram to Peking No.22 of January 17th repeated to the Foreign Office concerning discussion between Barton and the Japanese Consul at Shanghai as to the use of force. C. Peking telegram to the Foreign Office 112 of January 18th reporting further discussion with the Japanese Minister as to the use of force.\n\nAn entente with Japan would be invaluable.\n\n## 4. In Boxer year, authorities of Kwangtung, Kuangsi, Anhui, Chekiang, Kiangsu, Hunan, Hupei, and Shantung deliberately disobeyed imperial edict from Peking ordering extermination of foreigners. Thus, middle and South China stood aloof from war in the North. Under the present circumstances, Northern militarists who are actually at war with the South would...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927",
        "content_text": "# DECYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n(Dated 27th April, 1927.)\n\n(Received Colonial Office 9.29 a.m. 27th April, 1927.)\n\n2356\n\n## END\n\nAddressed to Secretary of State for the Colonies repeated to Peking No. 33 and Canton.\n\nArms embargo. Please see paragraphs 5 and 6 of my despatch secret 28th June 1926. Brenan informs me that General Li Chai-sum is now dictator at Canton.\n\nSentor sent for Commander Fitzgibbon, Senior Naval Officer West River on 25th April and asked for assistance in obtaining rifle and other ammunition. Li Chai-sum said that Russian supply was cut off and he needed renewal of his stocks to deal with red anunter attack. Brenan agreed with me that arms embargo has merely operated to help Chinese who rely on Russia and hamper their opponents. He considers that if Communism is to be fought in China the Chinese themselves must do it and that we should be extremely foolish to handicap men who are trying to do it; also that if we assist Li Chai-sum we shall have the same hold over him as the Russians had over his predecessors.\n\nI have consulted Southern and Hallifax. They consider that if Li Chai-sum will publicly declare his intention to suppress all anti-foreign and particularly anti-British manifestations in territory he controls and further that he will respect foreign treaty rights pending negotiation of revised treaties in proper form and also that he will suppress piracy and brigandage notably that emanating from Bias Bay then we should relax arms embargo which has mainly been shown to work against our interests.\n\nIf Li Chai-sum makes such a declaration and gives proof of his sincerity it would clearly be undesirable to enforce it in Kwangtung. My sanction in respect of `Manking outros`...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927",
        "content_text": "## 61\n\n\n## 62\n\n2\n\narms and ammunition, i.e., we would supply arms only to the Central Government of China and their nominees. At the same time, in view of the fact that other embargo Powers were supplying aeroplanes to the Chinese in spite of our attempts to tighten up the embargo under this heading, we decided not to regard aeroplanes for commercial purposes as coming within the scope of the embargo. It is in view of this last decision that we have recently declined to intervene in order to prevent Messrs Vickers from carrying out an order for aeroplanes for Marshal Chang Tso-lin. The supply of arms and munitions to General Li is on quite a different footing. The question of including aeroplanes in the embargo was a point on which the embargo Powers were not agreed; but the supply of arms and munitions would be in flat contradiction to the Embargo Agreement, and we could scarcely be so cynical as to remain parties to the Agreement, while at the same time supplying General Li with arms. We would therefore have to withdraw from the Agreement. No doubt other Powers would follow our example, but upon us would rest the odium of breaking down an arrangement which, although partially ineffective, has certainly, to some extent, prevented a general scramble to supply the Chinese with arms, and has stood as a visible sign of the Powers' refusal to take sides in the Chinese civil war.\n\nThis brings us to the wider question of neutrality. Marshal Chang Tso-lin has repeatedly approached His Majesty's Minister at Peking for British support in his anti-Bolshevik campaign. His latest appeal is attached hereto (A), together with the reply (B) which it is proposed to send to Sir M. Lampson. This reply reaffirms the policy of His Majesty's Government to refrain from any action which might be interpreted as interference in China's internal affairs, and to observe complete neutrality between all the contesting factions. If we refuse a loan for Chang Tso-lin to pursue his anti-\"Red\" activities, it is clear that we must also refuse to assist General Li with arms. If we supply the arms to General Li, Chang will at once accuse us of giving help to his enemies (for General Li is a Southerner) and refusing it to himself. It would be very difficult to defend our position in such a case, and Chang would be fully justified in accusing us of action unfriendly to him.\n\nFurther reasons for refusing to supply arms to General Li will be found in the draft reply to the Colonial Office, which is attached hereto (C). They are as follows:\n\n| Number | Reason |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1.) | We can have no special confidence in General Li; in China military leaders rise and fall; their professions of friendship are quite unreliable. |\n| (2.) | There is no possible guarantee that the arms supplied will be used solely against the Communists at Canton. General Li's command is part of the Southern army; only a short time ago Sir M. Lampson was anxious as to the possibility of Southern troops arriving before Peking and Tien-tsin; so the arms might very well be used for an anti-Northern expedition. |\n| (3.) | Or they might be used for an attack against British troops in the Shanghai area. |\n\nThe reasons in favour of the supply of arms have been put forward by the Governor of Hong Kong and are strongly supported by the Colonial Office. They rest on a belief that General Li is determined to maintain order and to suppress Communism, piracy and brigandage in Kwangtung Province; and that his proper use of them could be guaranteed by granting only small supplies of arms at intervals and by making each delivery contingent on our being satisfied that he was carrying out his undertakings. The Colonial Office contend that this would be merely supply of arms to the established authority in Canton for police purposes, and therefore outside the scope of the Embargo Agreement. Further, they do not consider it would be a breach of His Majesty's Government's policy of neutrality, since General Li is understood to have been in control of Canton for some months, and appears now to have succeeded in consolidating his position there. They point to the subsidising of the Governor of Yunnan by the French and to the material assistance lent by the Japanese to Chang Tso-lin in Manchuria as precedents for such action. But, for the reasons stated above, the Foreign Office cannot accept so wide an interpretation either of their arms embargo obligations or of their neutrality policy.\n\n## 17\n\nA further suggestion is made by the Acting Consul-General at Canton (and approved by the Government of Hong Kong) that if we ourselves cannot supply arms, we should allow such arms to be supplied through a German firm, and give the Cantonese an assurance that the consignment would not be seized en route under the arms regulations of our Colonial Governments. Further, that he should authorise a British insurance company to cover the risk. This suggestion is approved by His Majesty's Admiralty, but strongly opposed by the Colonial Office, who advocate instead the secret supply of arms to the Canton Government by His Majesty's Government themselves. To the Foreign Office Mr. Brenan's proposal seems to be a half-measure with all the disadvantages that half-measures generally have. It would be no less un-neutral than a direct supply of arms, especially as we have held up and confiscated at Singapore recently a shipment of arms for the Northern leaders. Further, the Germans themselves are beginning to realise that the profits of the China arms trade are hardly worth the invidious position into which they have been getting themselves; and on the 9th May the German consul at Hong Kong handed to the Colonial Secretary the following translation of a communication issued by the German Legation at Peking on the 18th April:\n\n'Association of German shipowners and German East Asiatic Society at Hamburg have decided not to undertake or execute any shipment of arms and ammunition of war which are destined to be used in China from German ports or on German ships.'\n\nThe Foreign Office therefore hold to their long-established policy of carrying out to the fullest extent their obligations under the Arms Embargo and of maintaining strict neutrality in China; they suggest that instructions should be issued as in the attached telegrams to Sir M. Lampson at Peking and to Mr. Brenan at Canton; that the enclosed letter on the subject should be addressed to the Colonial Office; and that the Portuguese Embassy should be informed of their views.\n\nForeign Office, May 16, 1927.\n\n(A.)\n\nSir M. Lampson to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—(Received May 6.) (No. 825.) (Telegraphic.)\n\nPeking, May 5, 1927.\n\nCHANG TSO-LIN called 4th May, and after enquiring what decisions had been reached by the Powers concerning action on Yang-tsze, developed at length, with usual arguments, reasons why His Majesty's Government should assist him in combating Bolshevism in China. He referred to further proof we had recently had, from raid on Russian propaganda headquarters here, of Bolshevik designs to destroy British interests in China. He discounted genuineness of so-called moderate movement of Chiang, which he described as prompted by purely personal motives. We had already, to all intents and purposes, intervened with troops and ships without accomplishing much beyond incurring odium, and we should find it very much more effective and cheaper to secure our objects by supporting him. In any case, it was not a question of intervening in Chinese affairs, but of taking steps to combat world menace of Bolshevism, which, if allowed to take root in China, would spread all over Asia, including India. His troops had now reached the neighbourhood of Sinyang in Southern Honan, but he was now halting their further advance into Hupei until he had ascertained intentions of the Powers towards Bolshevik menace, which he was not prepared to deal with single-handed on the Yang-tsze. He threw out usual hints of his having even to abandon Peking and to withdraw to Manchuria if the Powers would not afford him the necessary support. Referring to Japanese and their double policy of supporting him in the North and Chiang in the South, he said they were still in close touch with Chiang, hoped to replace Russians in the latter's employment by Japanese, and to benefit by destruction of British commercial interests.\n\nI explained to him our policy of non-intervention, but promised, at his urgent request, to transmit his message to you.\n\n(Repeated to Tokyo, Shanghai, Mr. Newton, Hong Kong, Canton and Commander-in-chief.)\n\n[16169]\n\n## 3 \n## B 2",
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        "title": "CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927",
        "content_text": "## DECYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n(Dated 27th April 1927)\n(Received Colonial Office 9.20 a.m. 27th April, 1927.)\n\nFor `15074/26`\n\nAddressed to Secretary of State for the Colonies repeated to Peking No.33 and Canton. Arms embargo. Please see paragraphs 5 and 6 of my despatch secret 28th June 1926. Brenan informs me that General Li Chai Sum now dictator at Canton sent for Commander Fitzgerald Senior Naval Officer West River on 25th April and asked for assistance in obtaining rifle and other ammunition. Li Chai Sum said that Russian supply was cut off and he needed renewal of his stocks to deal with red counter attack. Brenan agreed with me that arms embargo has merely operated to help Chinese who rely on Russia and hamper their opponents. He considers that if Communism is to be fought in China the Chinese themselves must do it and that we should be extremely foolish to handicap men who are trying to do it; also that if we assist Li Chai Sum we shall have the same hold over him as the Russians had over his predecessors.\n\nI have consulted Southorn, Kemp, and Hallifax. We consider that if Li Chai Sum will publicly declare his intention to suppress all anti-foreign and particularly anti-British manifestations in territory he controls and further that he will respect foreign treaty rights pending negotiation in proper form of revised treaties and also that he will suppress piracy and brigandage notably that emanating from Bias Bay then we should relax arms embargo which has again been shown to work against our interests.",
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        "content_text": "1926\n\n  \n    Ship\n    O mera\n    Amount\n  \n  \n    x Wing Wo\n    Chinese\n    600 taels\n  \n  \n    Haiching\n    British\n    4,700 taels\n  \n  \n    Luchow\n    British\n    3,000 taels\n  \n\n  \n    Place found\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    \n    On top of the cargo ready for delivery, part of a very large consignment from Kwong Chow Wan, which had already been unloaded.\n  \n  \n    1927\n    \n  \n  \n    × Hai Mun\n    Chinese\n    3,000 taels\n  \n  \n    \n    In hot furnaces. Had been placed there, sometime after the ship entered the port, having been concealed elsewhere.\n  \n  \n    \n    On bridge in life-belt boxes. Information that it had been brought up from Kwong Chow Wan in the Captain's cabin.\n  \n  \n    \n    Persian Opium smuggling to China.\n  \n  \n    1924/26 Tai Tåk\n    Chinese\n    several hundred chests a trip.\n  \n  \n    x Philadelphia\n    X\n    Reported in Conf. despatch of 27th October, 1926.\n  \n  \n    X owners concerned\n    \n    Owners placed one of their own trusted man on board as compradore or supercargo, he gave orders to the Captain. Managed from Hong Kong.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Owners placed one of the partners on board as compradore or super cargo, he gave orders to the Captain. Managed from Hong Kong.\n  \n  \n    Coasting and river steamer underlined in red.\n  \n  \n    f officers implicated by connivance or negligence in search.\n  \n  \n    © conviction obtained.\n  \n\nZZ",
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        "content_text": "(8).\n\n23. Cylinders, Pistons & Piston Rods. The cylinders, with their piston valves, are to be outside the frames. The steam ports and passages are to be designed with special attention to securing a free and unobstructed path for exhaust steam, all sharp bends and sudden changes of cross-section are to be avoided.\n\nThe Piston Heads are to be of forged steel, fitted with two cast iron rings. The piston-rods, which are to have tail ends, are to be of class \"A\" steel, the seats for the piston heads are to be formed with a taper of 1 in 6, straight though with no collars, and the seats to the crossheads are to be tapered 1 in 20. The piston heads are to be secured on the rods with gunmetal nuts and steel cottars, similar to those shown on Drgs. Nos. 4472/156 & 137 Requ. No. 251/1 modified to suit the smaller diameter of cylinders.\n\nThe tail-rod glands, bushes, packing, covers etc., and also the cylinder cover castings, which are to be finished bright, are to be similar to those shown on Drg. No. 4472/136, Reg. No. 251/1, modified as necessary to suit the smaller diameter of cylinders.\n\n24. Metallic Packing. Metallic packing as supplied by the United Kingdom Patent Metallic Packing Company, is to be fitted for the piston rods. The packing for the valve spindles is to be the same as that shown on Drg. No. 4472/138, Requ. No. 251/1.\n\n25. Piston Valves. The design of the piston valves is to follow that shown on Drg. No. 4472/145, Requ. 251/1. Renewable liners of tough cast iron are to be fitted in the steam chests and the steam ports in the liners are to be triangular in shape, similar to those shown on Drg. No. 4472/144.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928",
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        "content_text": "# FOOD & DRUGS ORDINANCE.\n\nAromatic Powder of Chalk,\n\nArrowroot,\n\nAwabi,\n\nBamboo shoots,\n\nBean curd,\n\n  \n    \n    1926\n    1925\n  \n  \n    Beef (Tinned)\n    4\n    4\n  \n  \n    Beer,\n    24\n    \n  \n  \n    Brandy,\n    13\n    2\n  \n  \n    Bread,\n    \n    48\n  \n  \n    Butter, (Fresh)\n    44\n    \n  \n  \n    Butter, (Tinned)\n    7\n    \n  \n  \n    Calomel ointment,\n    \n    0\n  \n  \n    Camphorated oil,\n    9\n    2\n  \n  \n    Cheese,\n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    Chinese Medicines,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Cocoa,\n    22\n    17\n  \n  \n    Coffee,\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Crab,\n    \n    2\n  \n  \n    Crab Meat,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Cement,\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cream,\n    0\n    \n  \n  \n    Soil,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Chinese wine,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Red lead paint,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    River water,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Water from steamers,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous samples,\n    \n    1\n  \n\n## BUILDING MATERIALS.\n\n  \n    \n    1926\n    1925\n  \n  \n    Cement,\n    1\n    1\n  \n\n## WATERS.\n\n  \n    \n    1926\n    1925\n  \n  \n    Public Supplies,\n    908\n    595\n  \n  \n    Distilled water,\n    4\n    3\n  \n  \n    Wells and Springs,\n    7\n    191\n  \n  \n    Sea Water,\n    373\n    13\n  \n\n39\n\n# FOOD & DRUGS ORDINANCE,—Continued.\n\n  \n    \n    1926\n    1925\n  \n  \n    Tincture Camphor Co.,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Tincture of Iodine,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Tapioca,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Vinegar,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Whisky,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Fish,\n    31\n    \n  \n  \n    Flour,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Friar's Balsam,\n    0\n    \n  \n  \n    Ham,\n    0\n    \n  \n  \n    Anise oil,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Honey,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Cassia oil,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Jam,\n    47\n    26\n  \n  \n    Castor oil,\n    88\n    \n  \n  \n    Lard,\n    2\n    3\n  \n  \n    Lard oil,\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    Liquorice Powder,\n    5\n    6\n  \n  \n    Linseed oil,\n    32\n    \n  \n  \n    Male Fern Extract,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Soya Bean oil,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Mercurial Ointment,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Wood oil,\n    41\n    44\n  \n  \n    Milk, fresh,\n    136\n    175\n  \n  \n    Milk, tinned,\n    9\n    17\n  \n  \n    Milk, condensed,\n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    Mustard,\n    (\n    2\n  \n  \n    Balsam of Copaiba,\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Olive oil,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Peas preserved,\n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    Pepper,\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    Quinine.\n    14\n    \n  \n  \n    Tincture,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Rice,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Rice birds,\n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    Shell fish,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Spirit of Sal Volatile,\n    0\n    •\n  \n  \n    Spirit of Nitrous Ether,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Sulphur ointment,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Sugar,\n    \n    27\n  \n  \n    Tea,\n    11\n    \n  \n  \n    Tinned fish,\n    12\n    0\n  \n  \n    Treacle,\n    0\n    \n  \n  \n    Turpentine liniment,\n    \n    1\n  \n\n## PHARMACY ORDINANCE.\n\n  \n    \n    1926\n    1925\n  \n  \n    Chinese drugs,\n    5111\n    \n  \n  \n    Chloroform,\n    \n    3\n  \n  \n    Datura alba. Embrocation, Novocaine. Tablets,\n    93\n    0\n  \n  \n    Gelatin,\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Opium solutions, Patent medicines, Ampoules, Mixtures, Quinine solution,\n    1\n    0\n  \n  \n    Pills,\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    Powders,\n    0\n    3\n  \n\n50\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41\n\n51",
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        "content_text": "19\n\n12th December.\n\nOn December 15th, Locker-Lampson made the following statement in reply to a question by Col. Day:-\n\n\"On the 12th December H.M. Vice-Consul at Canton proceeded down the river in H.M.S. Moorhen to evacuate foreigners from the suburbs or the city. The party was heavily fired on by Communists on the way down, but succeeded in bringing away without casualty 81 refugees, of whom 11 were British, 15 American, and 55 German. As far as is known, no foreigners have been molested in the course of this rising.\"\n\nOn 13th December, it was reported by Reuter that the U.S. gunboat \"Sacramento\" had landed field-guns at Shameen, and that the guns had been placed in position at the American Consulate to protect foreigners who were concentrated there.\n\nOn 14th December no foreigners had been molested and Reuter's correspondent added that \"no anti-foreign feeling was visible\".\n\nOn the same day it was reported that the anti-red forces had regained control of Canton, and later that five Russians had been executed, including Hassiz, the Russian Vice-Consul.\n\nThe following appeared in the \"Daily Mail\" of 16th December:-\n\n\"Messages from Canton state that the anti-revolutionary nationalists ...\n\n... who",
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        "content_text": "244\n\nstatement in reply to a question by Col. Day: -\n\n\"On the 12th December, H.M. Vice-Consul at Canton proceeded down the river in H.M.S. Moorhen to evacuate foreigners from the suburbs of the city. The party was heavily fired on by Communists on the way down, but succeeded in bringing away without casualty 81 refugees, of whom 11 were British, 15 American and 55 German. As far as is known, no foreigners have been molested in the course of this rising.\n\nOn 13th December, it was reported by Reuter that the U.S. gunboat \"Sacramento\" had landed field-guns at Shameen, and that the guns had been placed in position at the American Consulate to protect foreigners who were concentrated there.\n\nOn 14th December no foreigners had been molested and Reuters correspondent added that \"no anti-foreign feeling was visible\".\n\nOn the same day it was reported that the anti-red forces had regained control of Canton, and later that five Russians had been executed, including Hassiz, the Russian Vice-Consul.\n\nThe following appeared in the \"Daily Mail\" of 20th December :-\n\n\"Messages from Canton state that the anti-red nationalists who wrested the city from a Bolshevik reign of terror last week are indulging in an orgy of execution of all Communists, Russians and their Chinese dupes. The number of bobbed-haired Chinese girls executed has now risen to 50, bobbed hair being regarded by the Chinese as a symbol of Bolshevism.",
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        "content_text": "The following telegram appeared in the North China Daily News of 17th December, dated 16th December from Hong Kong under the heading \"Canton a City of the Dead\"\n\n\"A city of the dead\" describes the condition of Canton after the suppression of the Communist uprising. Photographs secured of the ruthless slaughter show goods trucks loaded with bodies of Communists piled three and four high driven off the public thorough-fares for burial. In other places long rows of dead line the sides of the streets—gruesome evidence of the vengeance of the anti-reds. Gun-boats played a very important part in the suppression of the uprising. Under cover of their fire, General Li Fuk-lam's troops rushed from Honan in steam-launches, landed at the extreme ends of the Bund and surrounded the reds, whom eye-witnesses declare to have been directed by Russians.\n\nA telegram from Hong Kong dated 17th December says: \"Thousands of refugees of all classes continue to pour into Hong Kong daily, every steamer from Canton being crowded to her utmost capacity with Chinese passengers. The police here are arresting all persons suspected of being implicated in the recent disorders in Canton, and already 300 have been taken into custody. Some of them are being deported to Canton, while others are being detained pending investigation. With the assistance of detectives from Canton, 25 persons have been identified as prominent Red leaders and their adherents. These are being extradited to Canton. On Tuesday (16th December) 14 girls and",
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        "title": "CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929",
        "content_text": "## - 2 - \n## 133\n\nAccording to the local press, Chu Tak is an alias of one Wong Kai, a Hunanese, who was formerly a regimental commander under Chu Pui-ta. As such, he took part in the Northern Expedition, and subsequently acted as Police Commissioner at Nanchang. When Yip Ting and Ho Lung invaded Kiangsi in the summer of 1927, he joined them and led an invasion with a small force into Southern Hunan, where he established himself (while Yip and Ho pushed on into Western Kwangtung) and recruited a force of local bandits which was known as the Southern Hunan Red Garrison Troops.\n\nIn 1928, after the suppression of the communist outbreak in Kwangtung, a force sent by the Canton Government ejected him and drove him into the mountains of Southern Kiangsi, from which base he makes periodical raids into the neighbouring provinces.\n\nMo Chak-tung is a Hunanese and an old member of the Communist Party. He was at one time on the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang; but, when the communists broke away from the Kuomintang, Borodin sent him from Hankow to take charge of communist activities in Hunan, where he recruited an army of bandits and peasants and joined Chu Tak in establishing the Hunan Soviet. In January of this year, the forces under these two persons emerged from the mountains and captured and burned the town of Nam Hung in Northern Kwangtung. Their numbers had been increased by the accession of disbanded and mutinous troops from the North River Region, but were not",
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        "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930",
        "content_text": "152\n\n( 26 )\n\n# APPENDIX C.\n\n## EXTRACT FROM LORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH OF INSTRUCTIONS TO SIR HENRY POTTINGER, DATED LONDON, 31st MAY 1841.\n\nHer Majesty's Government have reason to suppose that Hong Kong has been ceded with the condition that British and other Foreign Merchandize imported into Hong Kong should there pay to Chinese Custom House officers the usual and established Import duties which such goods would pay upon being imported into China; and that such duties having been so paid, and the Merchandize being duly stamped by the Chinese Custom House officers at Hong Kong, there should be full liberty to all Persons to carry such Merchandize away to any Port in China, without its being liable to any further payment in such Ports or elsewhere on account of Import duty.\n\nSuch an arrangement would no doubt be anomalous in as far as it involved the presence of Chinese Custom House officers, and the collection of Chinese Customs Duties, in a Possession of the British Crown; and moreover there might be some difficulty in practically carrying into execution that part of the arrangement which would exempt such goods from any subsequent payment in a Chinese Port. But there are similar instances in Europe of Duties collected in the Territory of one Power by the agents of another Power. The Transit Duties which Shipping and Goods going up the Scheldt are liable to pay to the Dutch Government, are collected not at Flushing, but at Antwerp, by Dutch agents stationed in that Belgian Town.\n\nThe Duties which the Hanoverian Government levies upon Shipping and Goods passing by the Fort of Stado in their way up the Elbe, are levied not at Stado or Brunhausen, but by a Hanoverian agent in the City of Hamburgh: and a plan has for some time past been under discussion between Denmark and other Powers, by which, if it were adopted, the Tolls which Denmark is entitled to levy upon Ships and Merchandize passing the Sound, would be levied not at Elsinor but in the several Prussian, Russian, and other Ports in the Baltick, by Danish Agents stationed at those Ports for such purpose.\n\nIt is possible that British Commerce might be much encouraged, if Goods which had once been landed at Hong Kong, could be carried from thence to any Chinese Port without being liable to any further payment on account of Duty; and the Chinese Custom House officers in Hong Kong would be less likely than the Chinese Authorities at other Ports to attempt to levy exorbitant and illegal Duties. But whatever arrangements you may succeed in making with the Chinese Plenipotentiary, those arrangements must be embodied in a Treaty, to be signed by yourself and by the Chinese Plenipotentiary, in the name of your respective Sovereigns; and to be afterwards ratified by each Sovereign; and you should obtain a formal announcement of the ratification of the Treaty by the Emperor of China before you can consider the Treaty as valid, and before you send it Home for the Ratification of Her Majesty.\n\n(Reprinted from Morse: \"International Relations of the Chinese Empire,” Vol. 1, pp. 657, 658. File also Enclosure No. 1 in I.G. Circular No. 418, Second Series,)\n\n( 27 )\n\n# APPENDIX D.\n\n## PROCLAMATION BY SIR HENRY POTTINGER FORBIDDING SMUGGLING.\n\nHis Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the trade of British subjects in China, issues this proclamation, in the name, and in behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, and the Government of Great Britain, &c., with the view of making fully known, the sentiments of deep regret, and unmitigated disapprobation under which he was obliged to address the communication, of which an English version is annexed, to His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces, on the 13th of this month,\n\nAs at present informed, it is impossible for Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., to particularize, either the firms or individuals, or even the countries to which they belong, who have, with the connivance of the Chinese custom-house officers, entered into this shameless and disreputable system of wholesale smuggling, a system which, were it overlooked and permitted, would not only speedily sap and destroy the existing foundations of all legal traffic, but would render absolutely nugatory every exertion and arrangement that may be made, or may be attempted to be made, to put such legal traffic, on a firm, regular, and respectable footing. Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary anticipates, however, that he may, at a future period, have it in his power to make known the names of those individuals, in order that-whatever be their country-they may be held up to the public estimation they merit, and which it would be superfluous to designate.\n\nHer Majesty's Plenipotentiary can only lament, that at this moment, his power to check these reprehensible proceedings, so far as British subjects are concerned, is not equal to his wish, but he trusts, that on the expected arrival of the Imperial Commissioner (successor to Ilipu) means will be devised by that high officer, in concert with the provincial authorities of Canton, to bring all parties (whether foreigners or Chinese) to account for their share in the transactions which have led to this proclamation; and the Plenipotentiary hereby intimates, beforehand, that he will as far as may be legal, aid and advise the Chinese officers in whatever measures they may adopt to eradicate the evils herein denounced, and specially towards removing all British smugglers, and their vessels and boats from the river of Canton. His Excellency further intimates that such smugglers and their boats and vessels will not receive protection in the harbour or waters of Hong Kong. God Save the Queen.\n\nDated at the Government House, at Hong Kong, this 15th day of April, 1843.\n\nHENRY POTTINGER,\n\nH.M.'s Plenipotentiary.\n\n(Reprinted from The Chinese Repository, Vol. XII, 1848, p. 224.)\n\n453",
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        "title": "CO129-521-2 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-1-1930 - 10-4-1930",
        "content_text": "From: The War Office.\n\nTo: G.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nCODE\n\n083/5687\n\n21/3/30\n\n4966\n\n8261 (code) F.1. 21/3/30.\n\nDuring any period when officers and men are held to be on duty for the Companies in connection with anti-piracy guards, the Companies should be charged the actual pay and allowances of officers and men employed, the cost of any issues in kind, e.g., rations etc., and travelling expenses plus 6d. a day in respect of each officer and 9d. a day in respect of each other rank for items such as depreciation of equipment, and the following daily rates to cover ordinary non-effective charges, 58.6d. per officer, 28.0d. for each re-engaged soldier, 1s.4d. for each soldier extended but not re-engaged, 8d. for each short service soldier.\n\nOn the above basis, average figures of daily cost are Subaltern £1.5s.0d., Serjeant 13s.0d., Corporal 10s.0d., Private 6s.0d. If you see no objection, these figures may be given to C.P.R. as estimates.\n\nThe above rates do not cover any special issues of stores &c. which should be charged separately. Nor do they cover any liability for officers and men disabled while lent to the Companies. In such cases, Companies will continue to be liable as above for the officers and men during disability, for the cost of medical and hospital treatment and for any disability gratuities or pensions arising out of their employment, including pension to widows and dependants.\n\nC.4. (Telegrams) Copies to:- ARMY COUNCIL, D.M.O. & I.I.S.T., M.G.F., D.D.M.O. & I., M.O.1.1a.ld., M.I.1.2.2c., D.S.D., F.1.2.3., D.F.(A), M.G.O.F., D.F.(B)(C), D.M.4., D.R.O., D.P.S., S. of S. for Foreign Affairs, Sir Ronald Lindsay, F.O.(Mr.Ord), S. of S. for the Colonies, C.O.(Sir J. Shuckburgh), C.O.(Mr.Clauson), First Lord of Admiralty, Sir Charles Madden, Ad.(D.N.I.), Ad.(D.O.D.), Ad.(D.of P.), S. of S. for Air, Sec. (Air Ministry), C.A.S.(Air Ministry), D.C.A.D.(Air Ministry), D.D.O.I.(Air Ministry).",
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        "content_text": "Please see also Ordinance No.15 of 1927.\n\nHONGKONG\n\n(1924 REVISION)\n\nNo. 23 of 1914.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the law relating to the observance of precautions against piracy.\n\n[28th August, 1914.]\n\nNo. 23 of 1914.\n\nLaw Rev. Ord., 1924.\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Piracy Prevention Ordinance, 1914.\n\nShort title.\n\n2. In this Ordinance,\n\n(a) “Launch” means any vessel used in navigation not exceeding sixty tons net registered tonnage in the propulsion of which any use is made of any mechanical means other than oars and sails.\n\n(b) “Master” includes any person (except a pilot) having command or charge of any ship.\n\n(c) “Passenger” includes any person on a launch or ship other than the master and crew and the owner, his family and servants.\n\n(d) “Ship” means any vessel used in navigation exceeding sixty tons net registered tonnage in the propulsion of which any use is made of any mechanical means other than oars and sails.\n\nInterpreta-tion.\n\n3. No launch or ship shall leave or attempt to leave the waters of the Colony on a voyage to Amoy, Swatow, Macao, Kwong Chau Wan, Hoihow, or Haiphong, or to any port or place on the Canton River or the West River or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung unless a bond has been entered into.\n\n* See G.N. No. 15 of 1922.\n\n146",
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        "content_text": "# Red 10.8-31 \n\n**PERSONAL AND PRIVATE.** \n\n**COVER NOTE** \n\n**STRAITS** \n\n**SETTLEMENTS** \n\n231 349 \n\nKing's House, \nKuala Lumpur. \n14th July, 1931. \n\nDear Lord Passfield, \n\nLast week Mr. Justice Feetham passed through Singapore on his way to South Africa and lunched with me. \nAfter lunch he spoke to me at length about Shanghai affairs. He told me that he is not going to England, because he fears that any conference which he might have with our Foreign Office would give Chinese Extremists in the Kuo-min-tang a chance to say that he is, after all, not an impartial judge, but a \"running dog\" of British Imperialism. I find, however, that he is very much disturbed in his mind over the negotiations between Sir Miles Lampson and Dr. C.T. Wang for the abolition of extra-territoriality. As you know, Mr. Feetham's report, while contemplating eventual rendition of the International Settlement at Shanghai, proposes a transition period of some length, measured \"not in years but in decades\". The negotiations in progress between our Foreign Office and the Nanking Government appear to contemplate a moratorium of no more than 5 or 10 years in respect of Shanghai. Mr. Feetham thinks that to prescribe any definite period at the present time would be \"to put a rope round the neck of the Settlement\", and he is most anxious that no such provision should find its way into any treaty between His Majesty's Government and the Nanking Government. He wished that his view of this matter should be known to His Majesty's Government, the more so as he cannot visit London and present it in person, and he asked me to use any influence I might have to secure reconsideration and delay. \n\nYet \n\nI am",
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        "content_text": "THE TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931\n\nMONEY MARKET\nFOUR-AND-A-HALF PER CENT.\n\nCREDITS MORE PLENTIFUL\n\nNEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE\nIMPROVEMENT AFTER DECLINES\n\nAMERICAN PRODUCE MARKETS\nNEW YORK, July 30.-WHEAT. The cash market closed barely steady at 1c. to 2c. decline. No. 2 red winter, 61½c.; No. 2 amber durum, 57½c.; No. 2 hard winter, 60½c.; No. 1 Northern Manitoba, 63½c. Canadian bonded futures closed barely steady and 1c. to 2c. lower. July, 68½c.; Oct., 59½c.; Dec., 61½c. MAIZE barely steady at ½c. decline. No. 2 yellow, 54½c., f.o.b. Chicago; No. 2 mixed, 52½c., f.o.b. Chicago; No. 2 white, 70½c., f.o.b. New York. OATS easy at ½c. decline. RYE barely steady, ½c. lower. No. 2 Western, 39c., seaboard in bond.\n\nFLOUR was quiet and unaltered.\n\nDAILY GRAIN MOVEMENT (Thousands)\n\nReceipts, West'n\n3,500\n3,858\n16,905\n\nDo., Atlantic\n536\n8,198\n16,169\n\nExports, ditto\n204\n1,179\n8,715\n\nReceipts, Atlantic\n108\n3,400\n11,001\n\nExports, ditto\n349\n101\n465\n\nFlour (barrels)\n2,534\n234\n1,020\n\nReceipts, West'n\n2,495\n1,061\n3\n\nDo., Atlantic\n1,832\n58\n40\n\nExports, ditto\n4,995\n898\n51\n\nOats (bushels)\n7,100\n399\n\nReceipts, West'n\n\nDo., Atlantic\n\nExports, ditto\n\nThe Bank of England yesterday raised its minimum rate of discount from 3 per cent. to 4 per cent.\n\nBETHLEHEM DIVIDEND\nNEW YORK, July 30.-Irregularity characterized the market to-day, but there was a tendency to cover on recent declines and also support for some leading issues.\n\nThe opening was barely steady with the exception of scattered covering of standard issues which were hampered yesterday, notably American Can.\n\nSales were returned at 1,400,000 shares.\n\nBusiness in bills was, of course, restricted, but the market sold short-dated maturities, and there were signs of rather more inquiry for bills on Continental account.\n\nMoney was in plentiful supply, 3¼ to 3½ per cent. being the range of the charge for fresh advances for the night and old loans being renewed at 3 per cent.\n\nForeign exchanges responded moderately to the higher Bank rate.\n\nThe New York rate was finally ¼c. higher at $4.86 1/16, while the Dutch rate rose above the London gold export point, closing at 12.05fl., and the French rate was also higher at 123.90+f.\n\nThe Bank rate is 4 per cent., to which it was raised from 3 per cent. on July 30. The banks' deposit rate is 2¼ per cent. and the deposit rates of the discount houses are 2 per cent. at call and 2¼ per cent. at notice.\n\nDISCOUNT TREASURY BILLS\n\nFine Trade Bills\n4 1/8-4 3/8\n4 1/4-4 5/8\n4 3/4-5 1/8\n\nDiscount Bank Bills\n4 1/4-4 1/2\n4 3/8-4 5/8\n4 3/4-5 1/8\n\nDullness prevailed in the early afternoon, with some pressure against railroad stocks on rumours of impending dividend cuts, and against International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and the Western Union Telegraph on reports of decreased cable business.\n\nLater prices rallied gradually, the improvement centering in steel stocks on reports from the Youngstown district that operations continue to expand.\n\nEXCHANGE\n\nMethod of Quoting\nParity\nJuly 30\nJuly 20\n\nLondon, cables\n£1\n$4.86 1/16\n$4.85\n\nLondon, sight\n£1\n$4.8623\n$4.875\n\nLondon, 60 days' sight\n£1\n$4.875\n$4.875/16\n\nParis, short sight\n100fr.\n123.90+f.\n123.85-123.95\n\nThe Swedish Riksbank has raised its discount rate from 3 per cent. to 4 per cent.\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANGES\n\nPlace\nMethod of Quoting\nParity\nJuly 30\nJuly 20\n\nNew York\n$ to £\n$4.8665\n$4.8571/4-4.8678/8\n$4.8565-4.8665\n\nMontreal\n$ to £\n$4.9600\n$4.8571/4-4.8678/8\n$4.8565-4.8665\n\nParis\nFr. to £\n124.21\n123.85-123.95\n123.85-123.95\n\nLARD was easy and 10c. to 15c. lower. Domestic spot prices.-Prima Western steam, $8.20; middle West, $7.95.\n\nL.M. & S. RAILWAY STATEMENT\nNO INTERIM ORDINARY DIVIDEND\n\nNo interim dividend is to be paid on the Ordinary stock of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company for the past half-year, compared with 1 per cent. a year ago, but the usual interim dividends are to be paid on all the Preference stocks.\n\nThe following statement was issued by the company yesterday:--\n\nCOFFEE-Rio futures opened steady at 1 to 9 points decline, and after ruling firm 20 to 8 points higher on the day. Sales, 23,000 bags. Sept., 8.40c., Dec., 5.66c.; Jan, 5.70c.; March, 5.83c.; May, 5.91c.; July, 5.90c.\n\nSantos No. 4 futures closed firm and 10 to 15 points up. Sales, 58,000 bags. Sept, 8.18c.; Dec., 8.13c.; March, 8.59c.; May. 8.89c.\n\nCOCOA futures closed steady after 7 to 3 points advance. Sales, 18,000 bags. Sept., 5.07c.; Dec., 5.31c.; Jan., 5.43c.; March, 5.58c.; May, 5.70c.; July, 6.90c.\n\nSUGAR futures opened steady, Cuban buying absorbing scattered selling on European account Prices were supported later by a steadier tone on the raw sugar market, and some covering took place, the close being 1 point to 2 points higher. Sales, 15,000 tons. Sept., 1.42c.; Dec., 1.44c.; Jan., 1.45c.; March, 1.49c.; May, 1.54c.; July, 1.60c.\n\nCLOSING PRICES\n\nJuly 30\nJuly 20\n\nCotton, middling\n8.50c.\n8.36c.\n\nWheat, Sept.\n8.48c.\n8.44c.\n\nMaize, Sept.\n8.80c.\n8.58c.\n\nCOTTON on the spot closed 5 points higher at 8.50c. Futures market opened easy at 6 to 10 points decline under scattered selling, influenced by favourable crop and weather news and \"bearish\" statistical situation.\n\nCOPPER was quiet with exporters still quoting electrolytic spot at 8.25c., and three months forward at 8.30c. per lb. c.i.f. European ports.\n\nPIG IRON steady; No. 2 foundry still quoted $18 per ton. on Eastern Pennsylvania markets.\n\nRAILWAYS\n\nJuly 30\nJuly 20\n\nAtchison\n155½\n153\n\nAtl. Coast\n88\n88\n\nB. & O.\n49½\n\nINDUSTRIALS\n\nJuly 30\nJuly 20\n\nAir Reduction\n76\n75\n\nInt. Nickel\n1276\n1278\n\nAllied Chem.\n110\n110½\n\nCURB EXCHANGE\n\nJuly 30\nJuly 20\n\nAsed. Gas\n122\n121¼\n\nBraz. Tract.\n18\n18\n\nSOUTH AMERICAN EXCHANGES\n\nCountry\nMethod of Quoting\nParity\nLatest Rate\nPrevious Rate\n\nArgentina\nPesos to £\n11.4583\n13.32\n13.4654\n\nBrazil\nMilreis to £\n5.4000\n5.04\n5.082\n\nEMPIRE EXCHANGE RATES\n\nCountry\nBuying Rate per £100\n\nAustralia\n£131 10s. 0d.\n\nNew Zealand\n£111 2s. 6d.\n\nThe Bank of England yesterday announced the withdrawal of £582,172 in bar gold, and the receipt of 98,000 SOVEREIGNS from abroad.\n\nThe day's movements, therefore, resulted in a net efflux of £523,172.\n\nNet efflux for 1931 to date, £16,732,766; net efflux for 1930 (according to the published movements of gold), £399,851.\n\nBANK OF FRANCE\n\nASSETS\nJuly 24\nJuly 17\nInc. or Dec.\n\nReserve-Gold coin and ingots\n57,893,065\n68,757\nFrancs\n\nAdvances on gold coin\n1,246,488\n548,548\n\nProportion of gold reserve to sight liabilities, 56.63 per cent. (against 56.62 per cent.).\n\nU.S. FEDERAL RESERVE STATEMENT\n\nRESOURCES\nJuly 29\nInc. or Dec.\n\nTotal gold reserves\n3,443,550\n+ 19,200\n\nTotal bill discounted\n176,010\n- 1,410\n\nRatio of total reserves to net deposit and Federal Reserve Note liabilities combined, 84.3 per cent.\n\nMONTREAL STOCK EXCHANGE\n\nJuly 30\nJuly 20\n\nBell Tele.\n51\n51\n\nBraz. Tract.\n13\n\nCall money continued to rule at 1 per cent, and commercial paper at 1¼ per cent, for prime names.\n\nSTERLING EXCHANGE was decidedly firmer, cable transfers closing 7/18c. higher at 4.88¼.\n\nMONEY RATES AT HOME AND ABROAD\n\nPlace\nBank Rate\nMarket Discount\nCall Money\n\nLondon\n4 1/2\n3 1/8-3 3/8\n1 7/8\n\nNew York\n\n1 1/2\n1\n\nSilver rose 1d. to 13 1/16d. per oz. for cash and forward delivery, China sending covering orders.\n\nBrokers' loans in the past week showed a further decrease of $26,000,000 -- to $1,390,000,000, against $1,410,000,000 in the previous week and $3,228,000,000 in the corresponding week last year.\n\nNEW YORK, July 30\nOfficials of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit announce that the company is suspending manufacturing August 1 and is not reopening for a month.\n\nThe Bethlehem Steel Corporation announces a quarterly dividend of 50c. on the common stock, compared with $1.00 previously.\n\nThe Standard Oil Company of New York and the Vacuum Oil Company stockholders have ratified the merger between the two concerns.\n\nL.C.C. tramway receipts last week were £78,038, against £80,297 a year ago. From April 1 the total is £1,385,686, against £1,425,618.\n\nRUBBER Smoked sheet sellers were unchanged. Spot and July, 5¼c.; Sept-Dec 6c. per lb.\n\nCOTTON OIL closed barely steady. Crude in South-east nominal: bleachable. spot. 6.80c bid.\n\nTALLOW was quiet. Extra, loose, 3¼c.; extra, in tierces, 3½c. per lb., f.o.b. New York.\n\nPETROLEUM.--Pennsylvania crude standard grades were again quoted $1.40 to $1.55 per barrel.\n\nTURPENTINE was steady and unchanged at 37¾c. to 37½c.\n\nJACKSONVILLE, July 30-TURPENTINE was steady at 31¾c. to 31½c.\n\nSAVANNAH, July 30.-TURPENTINE Was firm and unaltered at 31½c. bid. Rosin, grade F, $2.87; grade K, $2.97½; grade WW, $5.70.\n\nDULUTH, July 30.--LINSEED futures closed easy and 2 c. lower for Sept. Sept, 16½c.: Oct, 16½ c.\n\nKANSAS CITY, July 30.-WHEAT futures closed barely steady ½c. to 1c. down. July, 42½ c.; Sept, 43½c.\n\nMINNEAPOLIS, July 30-WHEAT futures closed barely steady, 1c, up to 1c. down. July, 55½ c.; Sept., 54½c.\n\nWINNIPEG, July 30.-WHEAT opened barely steady with prices ½c. lower on commission houses selling and \"bearish advices.\n\nCHICAGO, July 30.-WHEAT opened easier, with prices lower owing to scattered hedging, but a steadier tone soon appeared, due to the absence of moisture in the North-West and crop complaints from the American North-West, as well as Canada.\n\nBUENOS AIRES, July 30.-WHEAT closed steady and 4c. to 5c. lower. MAIZE steady at 2c. to 5c. decline. OATS steady and without change. LINSEED closed quiet at 8c. to 9c. decline.\n\nOFFICIAL CALL PRICES, 4 P.M.\n\nTo-day\nPrev. close\n\nBuenos Aires:-\n\nWheat, August delivery\n5.15\n5.26\n\nMaize, August delivery\n3.76\n3.78\n\n(Prices in pesos currency per 100 kilos, delivery Buenos Aires.) (Peso-about 12. 25 d.)\n\nPage 371",
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        "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933",
        "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": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nBOOKSHELF.\n\nINDO-CHINA PARADISE. SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS.\n\nHealth Resort in Hills of Annam.\n\nAN ATTRACTIVE BOOK.\n\nOne of the Loves garden spots, commonly known as the Parade of Indo-China, where H. Paul Doumer, then Governor, decided in 1895 to establish a health resort. Some years later, Governor Doumer completed the preliminary work and established a zamindari, which has a cinema attached.\n\nA great deal has been added to the station, and these are, including uno de... of mulled...y, a psychological problem, not a menace of lunar... Bong... a number of separate villas were erected. As a health resort, it has proved a great success.\n\nProf. Simpson's Radio Lectures.\n\nThe literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. Pekin... und... work, what a vast amount will ever realize Peking and not wet... weeting he might have spared Passing so it is saw officially call the world.\n\nThe third edition retains the original title of the book, mounting. The aspect that a opera may apology for hancared to excite either wonder... Milton to make change Murray.\n\nAlready the literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. The author has no more interest in the manuscripts, all of which are at Pekme th...\n\nMr. J. L. Feed Mokitur. Lauru, saya, \"of three.\n\nProf. Simpson, MA. Kiny Further ripete, by Rokeri rejubel Ali KULCE-BES.\n\nHot Welsh, Ltd., Heughang US1. Kelly and Wani, on some year later that Gover-BES.\n\nDog Samt completed the pre-Aukerman, Prof. Som\n\nThi\" :4 giá vi testada, minary work and stablished a zaminda ua, wha a playwright. The of thrth, along with 1And\n\near perice. Afler 1935 under Parsimmople for Tudat tocamp a bukatutave—a coma un langs tikkay noY meckáty becaus and posing olur!terpart of Soul, wwwf the'rwn Th\n\nSizes 1972 a great deal has been phor. no an historias, a peri, writing about him as a philowa it ja Ke Bhat are bowl mi\n\nadded to the station, and these are, a typien) Elizabethin, na E MUE Sarah tela, including uno de¦ of mulledży, sa paychological prob-char, which has a cinema attached.\n\nAs a health re- so on. Yet Sazkompenza wa k -the art it has proved a great succo, diminatit: so much was he a dra specially for the The ad mate that he never thought r Cart Mad_129 wastaged to be ruined from a way, han playa sa anything but playa\n\nking\n\npopularity may\n\nthe Ex-* of them\n\nenlarged\n\nif\n\nthere are told in a wall illnad Daca the secera and mastered the run into kuite 3 by the Imprimerie!words, ka had no more Interest in bedre. Hanel.—W, 2. the manuscripts, all of which are\n\nRapin da ima 5-10, Mr. J. L Feed Mokitur. Lauru, | saya, \"of\n\nthree ril well\n\nof Pekme th\n\n. ר\n\n3\n\nAlready the literature\n\ncern\n\nSayMerry\n\na da 1984. Hud be passed to have di corrected verdien, Together *** Tanese crount of himself, ka ir weld those who respect blatory. Pekny und bin work, what a vast amount Will ever rezala Poking and not wet weeting he might have spared Pasping so it is saw officially call the world.\n\nBunce it in that the author the tand edition retains the Log Shakeupare in unarmane, yel Urinal title of the book, motiounting.\n\nThe spect that a ofera may apology for hangcared to excite either wonder Thilton to make change Murray.\n\nWhat do ou\n\nHing kimmelf seven shment, howevez, ja the fact, attoned the wing of thithak in all possibla la bay some- ** name of 13.1.5 mg, thing Jew about Shaksporto\n\ned material infr !m the\n\nProf Ківельном так виго any per both a malap -\"he kite\n\nI of Fectures he de- Ameth Ms of the world, Invered on the wireless undye the \"actors who there in only one Paking Wanape of the Houng Broly the fontact cities with\n\nComm 14. Thos\n\n-- 20\n\n-* - 5 they under\n\nميا\n\nlec\n\nCheations for the Ret.L \"Nevertheless,\" he adde\n\nall, however. Chery ars tarea have now been published by ally several Zeng, and itara Kelly & Walsh Ltd. hav\n\n·Fold interest of the place der hetle Farber Shake-the eye and thway i\n\nFiend and bear\"\n\nit\n\nThe Spick of chứn\n\ncite. Them me with the komore ye\n\ngraceful\n\nThe\n\n*A which | IT\n\nhurterada\":\n\nJust to\n\nram by dim.\n\nForm 20 de 1\n\nThere when tele\n\nCAR on them re\n\nSome parts you i\n\nmore fully at home\n\ntheatre, the tex\n\ntermen la kin proface of ureal Indly work an\n\nde that Shakespora 1. read over The average modern \"epigrammatic Darin ach writer, he coatings in me d Much trying t\n\nTo Your Friends at Home Christmas with a suitable Gift from \"Hongkong TEA\n\nPrice per 3 catty box $18.50 net (Approx 7 lb.)\n\nFinest Fo.com > Per 5 catty box $17.00 net\n\n„Mauge Pakos Peyta 5 lbs. $17.60 net. THE PRI ES QUOTED INCLUDE ALE CHARGES to any add was in the Corvel Kisgdom, GINGER IN SYRUP In syrup barnat Memo SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR US. Portest of tina 5 lb jars. $18.00 net. Per case of Twelve 24 1. pats, $21.00 bet\n\nTUE PRICES QUOTED IM.LUDE FREIGHT PAID to London Docka mole DRIED GINGER IN TINS Te pareof x 1 lb, ins. $10.50 net Including age to the United Kingdom.\n\nORDER EARLY, LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Grocery Dept. Tel. 25813.\n\nK\n\nRESTRINGING AND REPAIRS. We take a WERCIAL PRibk a son work RAÇERIŲ PAGEág ky on enny with Thing (HARANPE | RESTRIN\n\nAAA DUNLOP POTESTA ATIN AMERICAN ORGA [WUN cur OWN SUPERFINEL seunted Caloun) L7 רים with Our DAWON OUT NO. A WARNINGAPORE ONO 27 WAL CHINA GU 207 AUTERIINE N OWN A Out, and duly stunzsataed doe Umenia.\n\nIMPORTANT Badly sale that PACKETA Matrung with SKPAIRING A BINDING L Cocket T and Horkey Munka zīmu balag Earl by en vindurata: sharem\n\nPEITT KEPAIRS CE Tok A TRIAL ORDERS. 1.10137D G.S. BROTHERS, SPEITA MITATTERS 11. Ha Tha Maan deer w Paul kveland MAJESTIC TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AL $30, 5,34, 7.30 and the prom\n\nON-THE-SPOT Newa EL BRENDEL is in town So is FIFI EXORSAY. PIPI dances at \"The Golden Slipper,\" where a gang of crooks hang out. Think BRENDEL is the Big Shotof GANGLAND Sings MyRacket You”\n\nEL BRENDEL FIFI DORSAY When MENDEL, gazes into them eyei, he loses those balance! For hilarious and azciting details see\n\nMr.femon of Orange PRINCE'S THEATRE SHOWING TO-DAY mt 2 80, 7 15 & 9 15 Special matinee al 5 15 on Saturday and Sunday\n\nMGM Prezenta\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POUL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1933.\n\nSTAGE & SCREEN NOTES. NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE THEATRE | IN HONGKONG AND ABROAD.\n\nMANY NEW FILMS DUE AT KINGS.\n\nCentral: \"Tirta Husband.\" K-x Cylinder Løve\" Princesdarlaune,” 36x/mtk-\"Mr. Lemon of Urange.” Queen'—\"Byon of the World.\" Malm 24. Son of Zorra,” Star:-\"Navy Bl\n\nHart,\n\nSESSIONS CONCLUDE.\n\nCROSS-WORD PUZZLE\n\nJury Request Lenleney for Convicted Man.\n\nPOWERS OF POLRE\n\nLkg and Account + the rest of the Jury for Sonebhe Chief Jurka (Sir Joxeph Kemp posterday montered heung Leung, charged with an Haulting Ho Ka, with intent to rab, to onu yaar's hard labour.\n\nA cond defendant w charged, after being found Not KURS:\n\nThe jury came to a uxlam decleton in co, L majority recommensent For Live Frat kocke. Esa Lord- skip, in passing contamos, d posure that although ka did not know on what grounds the jury asked for Reel\n\nAvel, Adrama d'AM | saba Viadalat, John 25. Sk Kec. Earry Deebie,\n\naphoriag artista.\n\nspyme of the World\" chamanend the other 2 ren of the Queen's Themire yubordiy (rmacja. and will be Wosened to day, mid 500 | Damon, 3.\n\nThe picke vividly poes kesevarų, trayed, tha pint fine tena mier than Pin, B. we good kid evil, butwaan Zee wną among tu Peter Kiwalan kewen, mas and Winner 1 tik vaode ong af ka maen\n\nMaloda 1. Bu da versat in Deve tam bu a je\n\nand much of the thrill in the parture in dus to Kinds O'Mall, who dan berk Amerikes 14 sm of the\n\nPencoed by Fly from Carty With seven adaptation of an wegt et slagg by John Parsaw,\n\nHuery Kwa dzeeted the pesëse. The young Petikan M\n\nThe Grown Salicitor Mr. Somer\n\nast Filerey) prosecuted, and the\n\n– dret defendant wear represented by\n\nThe Juzy, via composed of Mr. F. Austin (formmanĮ, Makra T c Patterson, F. A. Xavier ? Kd warda, W. H. B. Muskett, S. J. Her\n\nwho and R. V. đa Batal\n\nand 19 pachakty | sualni kan veren van La Sin paneel Doer dicted one, Lichudin Una Terbil pomen, men and Osat una sdern Jibs Holland. Bestdən Zurst Xyra kelisah dials a Masand 2) ...... 41.\n\nher and a boot në akbarı\n\nating a nis dhe monulatus Dup d'alza\n\nwater preme Spa King's fan bünekää vody The attenuam from the CEM BAKER, and the Text\n\nf newlyweds even when they pay\n\npaquet,\n\nThe addresses to the jury by counsel, together with the Judge's Luming ND lasted th\n\nthe afternoon, whic\n\nلستت\n\n#erimental\n\n-\n\nA hood va thu\n\nயர்\n\n11 Placed avercing\n\nKEMIL\n\nit a fer fra\n\nCLLE,schen, C\n\nretired for Carty minutes kafan\n\nreaching their verdic\n\nQuestioning af Suspertu\n\nThe rights of police offour-\n\nTegelane, peteret the De Pasqua clied to strizi\n\nfor menika akusid att man to him But at Valoma that have národy madimed by oversee alles.\n\n+\n\nthrow a cream rol of partibus courly stated by the chut Fransady deset dada dan Justice in the morning, wam he\n\nmaking a\n\nCRA\n\nwond * The\n\n1\n\ndo cokolo 15 A Jarly when u 14 J\n\nH 1 Hokey\n\nVesterday's Bellies\n\nBondag\n\nT\n\nPark\n\nhe\n\naf 2\n\n-\n\n!\n\nthe\n\n14 Fellows Al out of the s\n\nHathor :\n\nPr\n\nFAM\n\nThe incised by Mr. Kir Ship-lọ, wḥhọ chineląc to a certaj: form of cross-examination employ mƐ against the first defendant fr\n\nmay new med krat\n\nDesible fryse the cozade\n\nDOFI EINU KA\n\nNAUTH\n\nThe sile\n\n!\n\n1\n\nVer\n\nDura\n\n1\n\nVertical\n\ntion red by Mr. Bin Singa\n\nmpty Cylinder Lavy gaus far sling sa hur ↑ «Letbook, wakiwi kave his designs on two abjec\n\ny than Savachay and sa da overrule kinetion ho zagladed by “Woman of AL NE Facing band pley, the dat straw Lon\" andher adventure of the strike woman Whan 15 wife makes inte buried marines, Karpiant Flogy and goether ver. 1 kubby like to rain Sulphant Quiri, Kika za Aro thancing bars or wen hin mble Vecina, parts of the machi kavu 14 to ja haloperation he her\n\npool. The rhag ka ba vanjlager\n\n| Str. Fitzroy the převlong day.\n\nCoumiul contended that the no caned was asked a series of quer\n\n\"What Trice tory?\" and \"The Cack smployee d sent in the toes and gums Fred WorldTM Filma Tented for the bin the ew batween repkytam Best future are the Zene Ora Luar te facing by Mr. Fremy from a docu-\n\n*The\n\nHvala, wak Ri- kane, WA 11 Agata\n\nWho The meat before him and which was\n\nchmod apk Tax Wren \"The Sema Pinko AT LANGKAÈn tai skin, while not produced and on which he woul\n\nAt the crusti | prompted by Barmant Kreism-\n\nwith Gorge ('Brien and \"The Bazzal mejnega and NË PAS be d\n\nWho Was The chance of the came in\n\nCAL\" KM Buy AW ME DUNN by Team MM MATTract the Court below arbai, ka mall lý ho Sparring Cherating Te and indelen Edward\n\nww\n\nThe Lee Ponds,\" and in mind t tion. Chernivt in\n\nUncal Sirm, ANAL Etion are that be in supported ku Cullen who played avessee him, an\n\nBy P\n\nF\n\nciia: Han Bans\n\n*The Say!\n\nAir. Flizey's Denial\n\nMr. Fitary replied that that\n\nBrendel | was votarly wrong.\n\nICON\n\n“Maculo 12 dan\n\nto the Philip\n\neh Aaměře\n\nAnd View\n\nKthe adver\n\nWalak's \"W\n\n------- koown the\n\n„Paramount \"adaption at 1psaka, dope the feet the\n\nTrurody.\"\n\nak the year'ı oylabanding\n\nEL\n\ndrama tadeg volan have been kid wall a\n\ni af peng Paramust-seek Wektu z\n\nA\n\nM\n\nENG. Medal any que\n\nIt And #hdraw Hawaii. | allegation, but be nerd cut pat k\n\nBy Sa kavu\n\n...a mikety traversed by Dee. The produ Tom mundi ho vt à Men standard as Helogion and Magal šita adventuzen Tregunda consca work and election. 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Which spans Ho 60- reremmendations a simple sunčeky at the King' romance, in murther that the King's Times, 12. mg leve sama playa doubt that 192\n\nQue half of the good\n\nJRATI\n\nCand then argued that the\n\nMabeled. A For Um it has a hung by ra, that chasing team mỹ pgeht east, handed by Janet Gagner utorack to be finest rent in consider was the and Warner Baxter, anypacing by Vas Pros Glen\n\nThe Go Best Kathy) Chade Gollingwater and WHIL“\n\nThe tape her maderage inkej had un the case.\n\nAmong the English Tina palane te\n\nThe King 198 “A Warm Corner,\" with them to maps, Panama, Sean\n\nLease Bening handing a bla saat\n\nThe post sets l\n\nZpi\n\n10%. \"The Bui Ose\" with 12...\n\nvw the Am\n\namaria, Bicipi ane right to the\n\nCrowt\n\nT==bay.\n\nFert bloc\n\nMaga, and wea\n\nJI\n\nEnder's ViewA\n\nHis Lovedanip, in dealing\n\nA gami\n\nMembers are method that they\n\nneeded to barn end end day be and their Ladies must wear thell\n\nRader! 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What did that About 15-re questions that a.)ør read:\n\nmutwick at every line charmine\n\nto the unwary reader, 15. zid they may fall to jenderstand Seku\n\naliment\n\n- mas cut in-,apekre.\" in another occasion,!\n\nsenten in\n\nserie Simpson they prosadia to For that mentioned Bond Street. holy the to one of the m\n\ntermed it, \"Say where, Julius Caesar drawing attent Bond Streette and what it .'\"\n\nil 1L to the material th Prod. Simpana in poking fun at 110ry, the means by which the\n\nmat men te wore a palat armaterial se\n\nCreated a simpla stary, Prof\n\nnom met deals with a comp morativ The Merh\n\ndrawn, lara bimanit open to the thmosh setnext and an th Nan die that bu qasten Tim Clarke, are interesting even with...\n\nTHE TRÊN 10 say who Tema Clarke tage productions.\" Have Blowj ted, Tom Clarke, farmerly a member of\n\nin Jul Comer how Shai KOBART fall the staff of Usa Sauch China Morm Test the Past, in at present editor je a let me burg to lack tha the free elition of her book pen is tur. is set able to share imposeze the opportun\n\n(ie Dowager'a tomb bar London newspaper-- 1 Ventes. Passing to Macbeth, Pif\n\n04, the levar, bagʻng herself 2. Chapters as Peking But Northline'n cietumn's trade or some timely remicy abe of the great fald carts shop, the fun to bursity, for haement and the critics of Shakespe Thursa history, the far and Fernand Northclife, it become necessary and in the Anal lecture on Teach\n\nV drama Lucia the Immacours of her to say who he wen, and that one Night be duals with the mportant Lioa era lay wala the Managers of Shinh than it le lente Prof. Simy various plays were printed\n\nImagine. In mo poore,\n\nnecessary qntion of the dates at which the principal from Rose in Feling for\n\nin in Flonchon\n\nTen to the Plays\n\nthrough whe KABI.\n\nThe Pletin) Side. There could be no better pok for the park\n\nww\n\nPurther Encouragessed,\n\nWhen the lectures were deter An Admirable lift.\n\n2nd on the wirejena na maential part However, It was not Frať, Simp. of the programme was the rad Akough anentially popular se's purpose to demonstrate the ing of selections from the playe than dusest of Tuklay and its wandoto Abazity of thelife' d'etur referred to.\n\nProf. Simpson Belst Halten for the general reader, which to the hd would redure that there is ung intimate region of the the Sonk is not Jacking in scholar wetting to places of interest in the KR: VIL\n\nwed readers with know-Howment, a Capital sat out wellia a pendik tune of Ch\n\nthose meninos Shor Motoral information.\n\nBorn Exited\n\nA p\n\nta\n\nre\n\n15\n\nof a book wal t For my The prepared from the eartipuð (menn ka dhe mes di Cuocomore. will be glad tv!\n\nare it in b same tiike, and ma tam kende stof such the sections referred to in\n\nகாென்பன, Hunt v Postala paladinckeri that the characters Apa\n\noranch An Kiven\n\nexceed in plaga dealt with, Prof. STI Which, along with the Mandarin roman-gun Bret Simms palataly the float of readers will!\n\n* The ** need hava ho froze on that tomber to quicken thaj imalen of proper AMOA of the randor. The the excellent Indar, the list of the avizugu Tekdes skoon ac-ughtiully\n\nare usually engh to discourage in be aluminted by la of the intrations, In-festivals and some of the mapa Jayaintance with Shakomprare la turning to the Diaze with tradi pleasant sibula kata eral that are new to PM author bas undertakana nisen limited to a simple try jinternet and enjoyment.\n\nAfted at mhant. Prof im\n\nThe format of Further Shut PH kedv et 'sprato 14 keeping aluse papn'rcent nature of the subject and the al- more repetal study of tractive MAST in which at bast Three or four plan, the necessary i barn treated. The pubilakēņu are! -ed in the\n\nCouraged mörkt be provided, to be complimented on an exce ath and it was with this thought in, pick! Lhu\n\n|| Ylvable an an aid to further and that he first wrote tha te taken care to explain in\n\nwork. Prof. mpan of ancient And modern Pekrending, particularly sa St Maż turon nud has new published them then that the lectures, will ather Hyacinth Ditchuria bern Me 101 pti dute in the their present form.\n\nland in my pettent enlillen.\n\nkambing. The book is packed with action that \"the study of Shako Taking as his text his own as 1. Und antywowell! Formation sh of weare should be based on an un-\n\nthe\n\nand 1.\n\nf how b\n\nJuring\n\n12\n\ndies are T\n\nW\n\ninally for broadenstag, and co\n\nanar pertain elementa zonalder\n\nof specialty suitable for that par poak, “have not been tempered |\n\n| e» it would use anve\n\nThe bibliophile\n\nConfidence!\n\nHe, boobby uhašty, kia apasar- ance—fodile confidence. Figurally, No is successful and pajusige, Strong bomitky, attractive loath, are essential ta that set of cance\n\nIt's significant that ha god thawrands al ather haakby, successful man usa Squikų Dental Cream. They use it canidan in the karvadedge that I will protect Hair teeth at the Danger Line-ther veinar- abi polat where puma mati fuath, where so much denial trouble actors, and where\n\nleom the dangerous add which being 40 decay and gum diseases, Squibb Dantul Cream, osade with over sc Squibb mik el Magnesia, a 2009- Ing antacid which dembels have we for years, effectively neutroičnes than ocide Bralects the Danger Line and helpis keop the gums fem pad healthy. It comes me gël, ne astringents, nothing to harm the delicate Nouns, I cleans brou Helly but catety, and it is remarkably placent to the testo, Begle the use of Paula Dental Cream Haley.\n\nSQUIBB DENTAL CREAM\n\nQuards the Danger Line\n\nKÖLNE, KARN & GO, IL\n\ncata\n\nE. R. SQUIBB & SONS, NEW YORK Cheran je de\n\nMRS. MOTONO.\n\nHand and Electrle Massage,\n\n91b, Wyndham Street. MISS MARU\n\nment at høy fles or patients\n\nM\n\n400, Mathan Row\n\nARRŞUN K. ANINDSZŲ. 1ÏËM, NONNA, ARTS & KISAKI\n\nRecommanded for many ram Go Crimpia Peak Hosptal ed by ill the bal\n\n24. Wyndham Street Tel\n\nel tion Includes a cost for quotation. alike for derstanding of his storfes and at with in the haps of turning fake Front Jaykhom maaponés görse kemat map of the Forb the intrinsic Interest of the suh appreciation of the means liked to have are the back furslab- Ohy, with the building coloured ject and the delightful manner in he made his stories Ively.\" red for grater clerussa Band-which atas kein gurated, but Prof. Simmon ha constructed. W with an index ertag through the unending thei ranston at counyards and thin e\n\ntom of the Bookshelf four half hour lecture dating would also have appreciate Imposal, a \"posan then to netewartly less that The plays he and alerted for his difficult to supply with such a This view, with four of the best known play strip down the bark with the title. tion of the drug the Forbidden 2-4, 3-\n\nwild na bá completa, perpose are Julion Career The elander volume but none the lasa Cemplane fight ris book at a piece of bank proder Twelfth N'ekt: or What You Wil.\n\nsad sauted to extrol the Merchant of Venice, Kachet and welcome when there.-M. e porose- and a map on worth of the Press of Madera. Before coming to the play with\n\ndelight to porn Kally & Walak Hid, from when which it deals, mch chapter sets bringing out a plody of the caden\n\nbirders. WE HATE Journed to expert\n\nAllen and Cowin are doctor Ever Peking\"\n\ndla Karal remarks about \"Though no longer the caplast ghest order.\n\nFiprison as well as practice espeare and his work and tion, entitled \"Lauashing and * China,\" wellan Julet Brem (the paper and the Imntent ona ara; (bieling part of Law book.\n\nlang sa taka from not the least they\n\nTehn Par East,' by Misa Trda MISS TAKAMURA In one of the reload pottfans of all excellent and othing more Desling with Shakespeare's art, in\n\nTrising real one of attractive devamad in the fent chapter, Prof. Power Wears. Jonathan Casa's Trurol- text \"Blog\" cition in the the way of a gift book, partieslar points out that the best way to and reverenza la due to tly from the paint of ew of the pr ancient\n\nThe\n\nwork\n\nTory\n\nSat, 21 Play lucky cipient.\n\nTh\n\n·\n\n•\n\nElectric and Hond\n\nOw of the latest addition to\n\nHommage Expen\n\n14 Wyndham Street\n\nIl performed in the theatre by Echoen of Japan Inter Life, By\n\nFirst Floor\n\ntake quite a la ane tih Jers, Library la Kokora, Him And\n\nLafeadin Read\n\nMedical Profesian Sinza\n\nTOCKTAKING\n\nALE! GENUINE REDUCTIONS OF FROM 10% TO 30%.\n\nTO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW STOCK MI-TAJMAHAL\n\nSILK STORE\n\nKing's Theatre Building D'Aguilar Street,\n\nof all the ad! wonderful b motive! most wonderful thing\n\nM\n\nThe dog man w\n\nIF YOUR\n\nit ba\n\n*The Bad\n\nMacmilk\n\nThe motor\n\nah...\n\nMarion\n\nDAVIES\n\nARIANNE\n\nMarion Davies will tell you what it is in a wonderful way\n\nDet mire the\n\npicture.\n\nAdded Attraction\n\nFox New\n\n-Commencing October, 25th.-\n\nM. M. production.\n\n\"MADAME X\"\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEX-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"BAD ONE\"\n\nUNITED\n\n-EDMUND\n\nWE LOWE\n\n++ תרי\n\nThe\n\nOne.\"\n\nCommode Vandrehte in du tainas 40 mothe\n\nHaplorer la take advantage vĩ marsh Fich of a prisoner 19 kay patu DATE been pokémo\n\nKowald E\n\npremta Model Ra in Arctle explore new here\n\nwaterft.al vate enteng Lase\n\n* hurt af | Kechik\n\n2 straks | mada nə\n\nT\n\nודייי\n\nAll derided to charge ze palett\n\ngenre being braid to charge, tha\n\nfi..\n\nFEET\n\nPelice Rickt\n\n1\n\nLice ofrer we put\n\nと\n\nDON'T DELAY - APPLY\n\nABSORBINE JE\n\nIT KILLS THE GERMS OF\n\nHONGKONG FOOT\n\nALAND ATWOMPINE DE – NOW — 11 ki.18 Uhermafbok KONG\n\nני קל\n\nן\n\nkkk i EAIS the\n\nackly.\n\nWe\n\nJTCH BURN the Meeting.\n\nTam are obtulykkly at PEEL P.-- movided that CRACK Penad Tom The No 1 kg 3\n\num 1 Mid Gelaber BLISTER\n\n|:\n\n1920.\n\nthe\n\n10\n\nTele\n\nPUBLIC ENCLOSURE\n\n1\n\npist tɔ the\n\nt\n\n1\n\nיז' Bethevert, der Bernama LiDALJE\n\nKevin La\n\nBurc\n\nder. CROWN,\n\nSecretary-\n\nاجد\n\nHannah .:\n\nFirst, the text is re-formatted into standard Markdown, correcting headers, sub-headers, bold-type, and tables using Markdown table syntax.\n\nHere is the corrected and reformatted text in HTML as per the instructions:\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nBOOKSHELF.\n\nINDO-CHINA PARADISE. SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS.\n\nHealth Resort in Hills of Annam.\n\nAN ATTRACTIVE BOOK.\n\nOne of the Loves garden spots, commonly known as the Parade of Indo-China, where H. Paul Doumer, then Governor, decided in 1895 to establish a health resort. Some years later, Governor Doumer completed the preliminary work and established a zamindari, which has a cinema attached.\n\nA great deal has been added to the station, and these are, including ... of mulled...y, a psychological problem, not a menace of lunar... Bong... a number of separate villas were erected. As a health resort, it has proved a great success.\n\nProf. Simpson's Radio Lectures.\n\nThe literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. Pekin... und... work, what a vast amount will ever realize Peking and not wet... weeting he might have spared Passing so it is saw officially call the world.\n\nThe third edition retains the original title of the book, mounting. The aspect that a opera may apology for hancared to excite either wonder... Milton to make change Murray.\n\nAlready the literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. The author has no more interest in the manuscripts, all of which are at Pekme th...\n\nMr. J. L. Feed Mokitur. Lauru, saya, \"of three.\n\n...\n\nTo Your Friends at Home Christmas with a suitable Gift from \"Hongkong TEA\n\nPrice per 3 catty box $18.50 net (Approx 7 lb.)\n\nFinest Fo.com > Per 5 catty box $17.00 net\n\n„Mauge Pakos Peyta 5 lbs. $17.60 net. THE PRICES QUOTED INCLUDE ALL CHARGES to any add was in the Corvel Kingdom, GINGER IN SYRUP In syrup barnat Memo SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR US. Portest of tina 5 lb jars. $18.00 net. Per case of Twelve 24 1. pats, $21.00 bet\n\nTUE PRICES QUOTED INCLUDE FREIGHT PAID to London Docka mole DRIED GINGER IN TINS Te pareof x 1 lb, ins. $10.50 net Including age to the United Kingdom.\n\nORDER EARLY, LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Grocery Dept. Tel. 25813.\n\nK\n\nRESTRINGING AND REPAIRS. We take a COMMERCIAL PRick a son work RAÇERIŲ PAGEág ky on enny with Thing (HARANPE | RESTRIN\n\nAAA DUNLOP POTESTA ATIN AMERICAN ORGA [WUN cur OWN SUPERFINE seunted Caloun) L7 רים with Our DAWON OUT NO. A WARNINGAPORE ONO 27 WAL CHINA GU 207 AUTERIINE N OWN A Out, and duly stunzsataed doe Umenia.\n\n...\n\nSQUIBB DENTAL CREAM\n\nQuards the Danger Line\n\nKÖLNE, KARN & GO, IL\n\ncata\n\nE. R. SQUIBB & SONS, NEW YORK Cheran je de\n\nMRS. MOTONO.\n\nHand and Electric Massage,\n\n91b, Wyndham Street. MISS MARU\n\nment at høy fles or patients\n\nM\n\n400, Mathan Row\n\nARRŞUN K. ANINDSZŲ. 1ÏËM, NONNA, ARTS & KISAKI\n\nRecommanded for many ram Go Crimpia Peak Hosptal ed by ill the bal\n\n24. Wyndham Street Tel\n\nel tion Includes a cost for quotation. alike for derstanding of his storfes and at with in the haps of turning fake Front Jaykhom maaponés görse kemat map of the Forb the intrinsic Interest of the suh appreciation of the means liked to have are the back furslab- Ohy, with the building coloured ject and the delightful manner in he made his stories Ively.\" red for grater clerussa Band-which atas kein gurated, but Prof. Simmon ha constructed. W with an index ertag through the unending thei ranston at counyards and thin e\n\n...\n\nMADAME X\" COMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEX-DOLORES DEL RIO \"BAD ONE\"\n\nUNITED -EDMUND WE LOWE\n\n...\n\nDON'T DELAY - APPLY ABSORBINE JE\n\nIT KILLS THE GERMS OF HONGKONG FOOT\n\n...\n\nPage 177",
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        "content_text": "The Birds of Hong Kong\n\n79\n\nbridge made by Magpies, and to meet and embrace each other on that night only.\n\nIn Wei-hai-wei, where there are large numbers of Magpies, it is said that not one of these birds will ever be seen on this day before the hour of noon, all having gone up to the skies to perform the duty of making a bridge for the celestial lovers. The day is regarded as one of good omen and suitable for fortune-telling and the casting of lots.\n\n(\"Lion and Dragon in Northern China\": R. F. Johnston).\n\nthe fable of Aquila and Vega, known in Chinese mythology as the Herdsman and the Weaver Girl. The latter, the daughter of the Sun-god, was so constantly busied with her loom that her father thought that by marrying her to a neighbour, who herded cattle on the banks of the Silver Stream of Heaven (the Milky Way), she might awake to a brighter manner of living.\n\n• she quite\n\nNo sooner did the maiden become wife than she forsook loom and needle, giving up her nights and days to play and idleness. The Sun-king, in great wrath at all this, concluded that the husband was the cause of it, and decided to separate the couple. So he ordered him to remove to the other side of the river of stars, and told him that hereafter they should only meet once a year, on the seventh night of the seventh month. To make a bridge over the flood of stars, the Sun-King called myriads of Magpies, who thereupon flew together, and, making a bridge, supported the lover on their wings and backs. So the two were separated, the one to lead his ox, and the other to ply her shuttle, and the Sun-King again rejoiced in his daughter's industry.\n\nAt last the time for their reunion drew near. The Magpies flew joyfully in myriads ... she crossed the River of Heaven and was in the arms of her husband. This she did every year.\" (Extracts from \"Myths and Legends of China\":\n\n(NOTE: This year 1932, the seventh day of the seventh moon is the 8th of August, we ask observers to make a note of this date!)\n\nMay 1932.\n\n91\n\n1\n\n \n\nPage 79\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "108\n\nH. P. W. HUTSON\n\nIn appearance and also, as we found later, in taste these Chinese mushrooms could not be told from English ones. Their gathering was the last event of the day. It was high time to start back or it would be dark before we reached the car. Regretfully therefore we returned to the little stone bridge and left the valley.\n\nHowever before long we were back again. In fact we came many times that spring and on each visit penetrated the valley a little deeper or examined it from a fresh angle. And never did we have a really blank day. Our interests were varied and we left it to the valley to settle which, on any one day, should take precedence. Ornithology would be favoured on one day, on another botany. We started with no preconceived intentions but searched streamside, cultivation or woodland as circumstances indicated. Taken all round however, the most productive hunting grounds, catering for all tastes, were the villages and their surroundings. It was by Hang Ha Po that we discovered the first birds' nests, one, in the top of a water banian, belonging to a Black-faced Babbler and another, sewn to a large fig leaf, owned by a Tailor-bird. There too the botanist found much of interest among the weeds that grew on the waste ground in front of the huts.\n\nThe False Ipecacuanha (Asclepias currassavica) was most abundant and its orange-red flowers made a fine splash of colour setting off the white trumpet blooms of the Datura alba that grew alongside. Very common on the banks and rough walls that separated the village holdings was the curious Bryophyllum calycinum. Cactus or prickly pear, intended to keep out maraudering goats, topped these banks as a rule and in some places there were rough hedges, equally thorny, among which the opened pods of the Fruit climber Abrus precatorius displayed its black-spotted scarlet seeds. Trees such as the pomelo, pawpaw and lime grew about the village and behind it the Lychee, the Litsea, the Rose Apple (Eugenia jambos) and others.\n\nThe culmination of tree growth was the grove, a dark shady wood of tall trees with great fern-clad buttressed trunks. In its inner sunless depths wild life was scarce in the early part of the year but the outskirts always repaid a search. The butterfly hunter in particular found plenty to occupy him on the sunny side of the grove and also on the village waste lands. Blue-barred Danais similis, dark Euploeas that only occasionally showed their deep violet markings and the brown Lethe europa, its female conspicuous by the broad white band on the forewing, all were to be had in plenty. There was a White too, Pieris canidia, closely resembling our small Garden White (P. rapae) and the large and brilliant Papilio family was represented by the black and red Papilio memnon, a shade lover, and by the rapid flying Papilio antiphates with the orange tail.\n\nIn April the grove itself awoke. Butterflies became more numerous than ever on its outskirts and many gaily coloured caterpillars found succulent feeding on the undergrowth within. Groups of Candle flies were to be seen on the tree trunks, seemingly asleep but alert enough when one tried to catch them. The grating call of the Cicada, a large yellow and black variety, arose on every hand. But the most marked change in the wild life of the grove took place amongst the birds. Magpies had been in possession since February and now had youngsters in their nest.\n\n109\n\nTheir sway over the woodland was almost undisputed for only a few Doves and Tits had shared the place with them. Now other bird folk hurried in. From the marshlands came Herons and Egrets returning to the valley of their birth. For a while one saw them gathered on the newly flooded paddy fields - the pure white Little Egrets, the Cattle Egrets wearing their orange breeding plumes and the Pond Herons chestnut-headed and black-backed, showing no white at all till they opened their wings in flight. Not for long however could they afford to idle. There was much work to be done. None of the last year's nests in the grove remained; all had to be rebuilt. So the colony was soon hard at work. To and fro, throughout the day, flew the birds, bearing sticks to their nests. From every quarter of the compass they came and what a bubbling and squawking arose at each arrival. By mid-April most of the nests were well advanced and by the end of the month many, perhaps the majority, contained eggs.\n\nThere were other birds besides these Herons that came to nest in the grove. Early in April a very kingfisher-like call was to be heard among the trees and glimpses might be caught of the sable plumaged Koel chasing its mate. We suspected this couple to have been responsible for the strange eggs that were found a week or so later in the untidy nest a Black-necked Mynah had built high up in a tree on the grove's edge. Some of its secrets the grove guarded too well for us. It never, for instance, showed us where the Barbet nested. We heard the bird's plaintive 'uloo-uloo-uloo' continuously; often we saw the caller either flying from one grove to another or perched in a tree when we could without much difficulty approach beneath and watch it at close quarters whilst it reiterated its curious plaint.\n\nThere must have been a pair of Barbets in practically every grove in the valley. And, what is more, there were old trees so riddled with the birds' nesting holes that they must have been in use for generations. Yet we failed to find a single new nest and the villagers could (or would) not help in the matter.\n\nOur party broke up at the end of April. We had by no means exhausted the possibilities of the valley. Indeed it is a place that would be worth keeping in touch with throughout the year. A final visit, a descent into the valley from Tai-mo-shan, following a steep watercourse abounding in falls and crossing tracts of really tropical vegetation where tree ferns, wild plants, rare orchids and countless botanical treasures grew luxuriantly, showed that Lam Tsun valley has fields that we never really touched. They await a fresh band of bug hunters.\n\nBIRDS OF THE LAM TSUN VALLEY. Nesting species are marked.*\n\n1. Black-faced Babbler, Dryonastes p. perspicillatus.*\n\n2. Great Chinese Barbet, Megalaima v. virens.*\n\n3. Chinese Blackbird, Turdus merula mandarinus.\n\n4. Chinese Bulbul, Pycnonotus sinensis sinensis.*\n\n5. Chinese Red-vented Bulbul, Molpastes hæmorrhous chrysorrhoides.\n\n6. Chinese Red-whiskered Bulbul, Orocompsa emeria jocosa.\n\n7. Little Bunting, Emberiza pusila.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n127\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "160\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nYOUNG. Browner brown or pale red. FEMALE. Similar to male. than adults, more freckled and mottled, sides of face and ear-coverts chestnut, abdomen white.\n\nSUMMARY:---Chinese Little Bittern; the black quills are so striking that when the bird leaves the ground half the wings appear to be black. Chestnut Bittern; cinnamon-rufous of upper and tawny buff of lower surfaces and absence of black on wings. Eastern Great Bittern; large size, Schrenck's tawny yellow heavily streaked with black above and below. Little Bittern, small size, rich chest with heavy markings and absence of black on wings. Yellow-necked Bittern, long yellow and streaked neck and rest of body generally grey and black.\n\nHABITS :-With the exception of the Yellow-necked Bittern these birds are shy and retiring in their habits. They frequent the cultivated valleys of the foot-hills feeding in the swamps and paddy fields. In the local Territories the most favoured districts in which we have observed these birds are the Ping Shan, Kam Tin and Lam Tsun Valley districts. Caldwell records that the Chinese Little Bittern has a loud guttural call.\n\nNESTING HABITS:-The Chinese Little Bittern. Caldwell p. 308, writes,\" As a general thing the nests we have found of this species have been in heavy swordgrass overhanging paddy fields or other bog, or water, The bird builds its nest just as commonly among the reeds and tall grasses adjacent to water courses or in marshes. The nest is of rather bulky proportions, being constructed of grass blades, reeds and other pliable material, worked tightly about the supporting grass. The eggs are pale greenish to creamy-white, unmarked. Season, May and June.\n\nThe Chestnut Bittern. Herbert (3) p. 323, has the following account of nests of this species found in Siam. This Bittern may be seen in the paddy fields during the rains, but it is not common, and the eggs are very difficult to obtain. I have watched various pairs on the rough ground at the Sports Club, at the Ditches and at Paklat, and I have had men searching for the nests, but on those occasions without success.\n\nEggs have been found twice, but in both cases the bird was flushed from the nest when in pursuit of something else.\n\n64\n\nThe first nest was found by me at the Ditches\" (25.6.13) when I was looking for the nest of a Francolin which I had seen about there. saw the head of a bird appear some forty yards ahead and, although I marked the spot, I had the greatest difficulty in finding the bird, but eventually flushed a Chestnut Bittern from its nest. The nest was on the top of a clump of the small round bulrushes, the heads having been bent over and more rushes added to complete the structure. It was entirely built of fresh green bulrushes, very neat and clean, and situated about a foot above the water of one of the ditches. There were three eggs, which were slightly incubated. A fortnight later I searched the bulrushes at that place, and found two new nests close together, but no eggs were ever laid in them. The following year I visited the same spot at a later date, but it was a dry season and there was little or no cover, so it was not surprising that I found no Bitterns there. The second clutch was found by my collector at Tachin\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Birds of Hong Kong.—Part XI\n\n161\n\non 15.8.19, and the eggs were slightly incubated. The nest was brought in with the eggs and was exactly the same as the others which I had seen. The nesting season is apparently June to August.\n\nThe eggs are broad regular ovals, with no appreciable difference between the two ends. In colour they are white with a very faint greenish tinge, but this may only be perceptible when the eggs are placed alongside pure white ones. The shell is fine and compact in texture, but is without gloss. Three is locally said to be the full complement, but this may not be correct as four to five is reported to be the general number in Burma. The average size for six eggs is 31.9 × 26.7 mm.\n\nThe Eastern Great Bittern is not known to nest in south China. Schrenck's Little Bittern. Caldwell, p. 307 writes,-\"The nest is composed of grasses and leaves to the proportions of a thick and slightly cupped pad, and is placed in reeds and grass near the ground, or in overhanging grass at a distance of several feet from the ground. The eggs usually number from three to five, and are rather elliptical in shape, varying from a pale creamy to pale greenish-white. Season, May and June.' Yellow-necked Bittern. Caldwell, p. 309, writes,—“We have repeatedly taken the eggs of this bird in and round Foochow. The nest is a platform of sticks, sometimes well formed and quite deeply cupped, and is placed in bamboos or trees, usually not to exceed twenty feet from the ground. The eggs number from four to six, and are pale bluish-white, much lighter than the eggs of the egrets. Season, May.”\n\n£6\n\nOn 23rd of June of this year one of the Chinese staff of the Hong Kong Botanical and Forestry Department found a nest which very probably was that of one of the three smaller Bitterns. Mr. F. Green, the Superintendent has kindly given me the original note which I quote here: Yellow stork, nest of bamboo leaves and grass, seven feet from the ground in a garden hedge. Bird said to be 8 inches in height, two eggs.' The eggs are broad regular ovals, white in colour and measure roughly 1/3 inches by 1 inch, which agrees fairly closely with the measurements given by Herbert.\n\nOur knowledge of the local bitterns is very scanty and this full account of the five species has been given in the hope of stimulating observers to look out for, identify, and make observations on these peculiarly interesting birds.\n\nI.\n\nREFERENCES.\n\n24 Bucknill, J. A. S. and Chasen, F. N. The Birds of Singapore Island\" 1927.\n\n2. Caldwell, H. R. and J. C. \"South China Birds \" 1931.\n\n+4 31\n\n3. Herbert, E. J. Nests and Eggs of Birds in Central Siam Journal of the Siam Society, Natural History Supplement Vol. VI 4, 1926, P. 353.\n\n4. McGregor, R. C. A Manual of the Philippine Birds\" 1909.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101",
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        "content_text": "208\n\nR. B. JACKSON\n\nspecies, e.g. the tiger mosquito with white and black markings on leg and body, can withstand drying for months and larvæ hatch out, but usually eggs will not endure desiccation for any length of time. The egg varies from 1 to 12 mm. long or 2/50 to 3/50 inches. Inside the egg a larva develops\n\nand after a few days emerges to live in the water.\n\nCULICINE LARVA\n\nMOUTH BRUSHES\n\nANOPHELINE LARVA\n\nANTENNAE\n\nMOUTH BRUSHES\n\nANTENNAE\n\nEYES\n\nPEYES\n\nTRACHEA\n\nALIMENTARY\n\nCANAL\n\nTRACHEAL GILLS\n\nSIPHON\n\nDiagram of Larvae.\n\n-SPIRACLES\n\nTRACHEAL GILLS\n\nThe larva has a head, thorax, and abdomen, the head has a pair of antennæ resembling horns, a pair of eyes, a mouth, and a pair of mouth brushes. These brushes are situated one on each side of the mouth and can sweep particles into it.\n\nSome larvæ are cannibal in their habits and will even prey on their own kind. Such cannibal larvæ, however good their appetites, are not a solution to the problem of mosquito destruction, as they are usually only found flourishing in special places, or else are in a great minority to their potential victims. The mouth leads into a tube known as the alimentary canal which passes through the thorax and abdomen opening at the end of the abdomen and is surrounded by two pairs of structures called gills.\n\nThe abdomen consists of nine segments.\n\nThe larval breathing system consists of trachea, or tubes resembling wind pipes, there are two main\n\nPage 209\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nA Brief Account of Mosquitoes\n\n209\n\ntrachea each extending into head, thorax and abdomen and dividing into smaller branches.\n\nMosquito larvæ may be divided into Culicine and Anopheline. In the Culicine larvæ the trachea are continued as a breathing tube (known as a siphon) through the 8th abdominal segment; in the Anopheline larvæ the trachea are not prolonged into a siphon but open by two orifices called spiracles on the 8th segment. A Culicine larva rests at an angle to the surface of the water head down and siphon uppermost, this position enables it to take in air; the Anopheline larva remains parallel to the surface of the water as it obtains air through its spiracles. But in Hong Kong some Culicine larvæ rest more or less parallel to the surface of the water; one of the mosquitoes called after Dr. Macfarlane, formerly Government Bacteriologist, namely Uranotenia macfarlanei rests thus, but the presence of a siphon will prevent its being mistaken for an Anopheline larva. In another kind of Culicine larva the siphon is specially modified as the larva is attached to the roots of certain plants from which it obtains its oxygen without coming to the surface of the water.\n\nThe modification consists in the presence of tiny hooks at the end of the siphon for attachment to the plant and the notching of an edge of the siphon.\n\nThis variety occurs in the Island, the mosquito which results is a ferocious biter and unless the mosquito can be recognised so that the peculiar habits of its larvæ are understood; attempts to deal with its breeding places are not likely to be successful as oiling is of no avail.\n\nMosquito larvæ grow and throw off skins three times during the course of their development, these cast-off skins, if preserved and mounted, will usually show as many details as the larvæ from which they are derived. In a collection of larvæ from the same place various different species may be found. To make sure what mosquito a given type of larva will correspond to, it is necessary to put the larva in a little water in a test tube by itself; cover the mouth of the test tube with muslin. Make a permanent preparation of such skins as it throws off in the process of development, and preserve the mosquito which emerges. From the larva a comma-shaped body results which is very active but does not feed. This is called a pupa. After a few days the skin of the pupa splits and a mosquito emerges, the mosquito remains standing on the pupal case until its wings have dried, it then flies away. The mosquito larva is best studied under a microscope.\n\nThe mosquito consists of head, thorax or chest, and abdomen. The head has two pairs of kidney-shaped eyes; from between the eyes project a pair of slender jointed rods known as antenna, the joints carry whorls of hairs, in the female the whorls are sparse and wispy but in the male they are thickset or bushy so as to present a bottle brush appearance. Standing out from the head a long rod-like structure called the proboscis which consists of a sheath containing the biting and suctorial parts. These form a double tube, when in action the blood, and any malarial or other parasites in it, goes up one tube to reach the mosquito's midgut or stomach: down the other tube the mosquito's salivary secretion flows which enters the wound and if the mosquito is an Anopheline with malarial infection in its salivary glands, this infection finds its way into the body. Male mosquitoes do not\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n210\n\n194",
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        "content_text": "Page 207\n\nPage 208\n\n[222]\n\n# SOME PHYSICAL TRAITS OF THE CHINESE OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C.\n\nD. J. FINN.\n\nIn the last issue of \"The Naturalist,\" some account was given of what might be learned from the most ancient type of Chinese characters as to the occurrence of the epicanthal fold in the eyes of the people who then were the possessors of typical Chinese culture. It was explained, that those characters were somewhat earlier than 1,000 B.C.—and as they evidently had some time of development already—one might fairly take their evidence as holding good for the middle of the second millennium B.C. This present article is in the same strain and in fact for a Chinese grammarian might prove that already a very considerable development lay behind the use of the symbols, but we shall take it that the forms indicated here hold certainly for the same dates as before.\n\n64\n\nIt will help us greatly to reconstitute the then Chinese facial features if now we discuss the nose. The present writing uses the symbol 自: this is not a mere pictogram but is a combination of a phonetic symbol Pi with an older pictograph now read as Tsz and understood as \"Oneself\" or \"Naturally,\" etc. Now this latter is known to have been originally the picture of a nose and its specialized meanings are explained by the supposed importance attached to the organ of breathing.*\n\nor\n\nthe embryo and in a general idea of prominence.\n\nIn the characters of the Yin (Shang) dynasty we find several varieties of the form as follows:—See Figure 1.†\n\nand these give us a series of evolution to the modern form after this fashion: See Figure 2.\n\nNow for the interpretation of this, it is obvious that in the older forms the nostrils are indicated very distinctly suggesting the dilated type with the base of the nose making an obtuse angle with the upper lip so as to be fully visible in the frontal view. It is a type often found associated with hot climates and some explain it as cooling protective adaptation. Nowadays Chinese scholars are finding traces in early Chinese traditions of a life spent in warm, jungle lands to the south where the fire god played a great part in their culture, ** However that lies beyond my competence and some reader may find it an interesting line of research. The in-coming of the Chinese from the West into the Yellow River Basin is on many counts falling more and more into suspicion.\n\nAbove the nostrils is a triangular area which sometimes has an added compartment below it. This seems to represent the fleshy apex and the part below it.\n\n* Already in the bone characters we find, obviously meaning from the East REAY, I. p. 179, No. 378; which indicates a long grammatical development.\n\n(† See 殷虛文類編 Bk.4).\n\n(** REAY, Vol. II, p. 366).\n\nTHE\n\nHONG KONG NATURALIST\n\nA QUARTERLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL\n\nPRINCIPALLY FOR HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA.\n\nEDITED BY\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.L.S.\n\nREADER IN BIOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY, HONG KONG.\n\nVOLUME III.\n\npages 1-292.\n\nWITH NINE COLOURED PLATES AND NUMEROUS\n\nPHOTOGRAPHS AND FIGURES IN THE TEXT.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nThe Newspaper Enterprise Limited.\n\n1932.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPage 222",
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        "content_text": "D. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nThe vases were acquired by purchase from the man who some time ago had dug them up near Tung Koon, the well-known town (famous for fire-crackers) on the deltaic land between the East River and the estuary of the Canton (Pearl) River. Tung Koon lies about five miles west of Shek Lung and is sixty miles slightly west of north from Lamma; it has been ever since the Sung times at least a place of importance (the name means Eastern Reeds or Eastern Reed-mat and occurs elsewhere in China and even seems to have been used of another site nearer to Nam Tao).\n\nIf ever vases had guarantees of genuineness, these have. They correspond accurately with all the characteristics which we have set forth above on the basis of sherds dug up out of the sand. The neck and collar are the points in which each differs from what has been taken as typical above. Pl. 34, figure 1, has a short neck set perfectly straight, as against the usual angle illustrated in the drawings, figure 7, c and d. Pl. 34, figure 3 has no collar at all whereas Pl. 33, figure 2, shows traces of the usual neck.\n\nTo save time and space, the description is set out in catalogue fashion.\n\nGeneral: colour (exterior), black except for circular area of brownish red on bottom with boundary of yellowish grey which in part is vitrified (corresponding to position of a second vessel in kiln; this area is about the same as that of the vessel's own mouth): (interior) grey: hard stone-ware of metallic appearance and ringing sound; blobs of fusing ferruginous substance come through to surface here and there: sits lop-sided on bottom: no regular base (cp. notes on figure 7, a).\n\nDimension: Height (external) 10½ ins. (internal) 10¼ ins.: greatest breadth, 13 ins.: vertical height to band of ornament, 6¾ ins.: lugs, distant from lip, as measured along curve, 2 ins.: breadth of mouth 5¾ ins.: Height of neck, (outside) ½ in., (inside) 7/8in.\n\nPattern. Double-F type based on central groove type but merging from hi to l.h.ii. Probably early in series. Touching arms.\n\nLugs: well-made bronze type of stirrup form (as fragment 38). Mark, exceptional in that maker's (?) mark occurs on outside (usually inside the neck-collar); three upright lines in mountain or pyramid form; same as mark on a cup of \"glazed type\" in Professor Shellshear's collection.\n\nInterior: chevron band where neck attached: apparently this is a productive factor in bevelled edge of lip, the inner layer producing a bevel where it stops short of the edge of an outer layer.\n\nDown to a vertical distance of about 2 inches, the interior of the shoulder is splashed with crystalline patches of a yellowish brown all around; this is very hard and resists detachment unless with considerable force, yet is soluble; not a glaze but is probably owing to evaporation and crystallization of some liquid (sugar or brine?) in the vase.\n\nThe second small pot; Plate 34, 3: of the same type as Pl. 33, 2. Differs by absence of neck, but probably all this kind of pots should make a separate class.\n\nGeneral: colour, white, slightly grey: very hard and heavy, thick ware almost indestructible: bottom with kiln area mark; base fairly level; ware throughout shows fused blobs and rings (perhaps owing to iron-content) carefully smoothed mouth; no neck or collar.\n\nDimensions; external height, 3 ins.: greatest breadth, 4¾ ins.; width across mouth 3 ins.\n\nDecoration; wheel marks which on one face are oblique except the lowest one, on the other face they are nearer to parallels, but in each case they seem to have been placed in some definite relation to the lugs.\n\nInterior; under mouth-opening, for about 1½ in., the inner surface is all blackened as if by fire, suggesting use as a lamp (which may explain absence of neck); towards lower part distinct join of upper and lower sections as usual in this type.\n\nThe first of these two vases is the only complete specimen of its type that has yet been recognized: we hope that this publication may bring others to light. It is an impressive vase which completely succeeds in a bronze-ware effect.\n\nA vase of the same pattern as fragment 16 if thus complete would be a splendid piece of ware. The link of this vase with the glazed cups is of considerable interest, for the particular specimen bearing the same trade-mark seems to have been prepared for glazing but never finished—and thus may have been something local to Lamma.\n\nThis opportunity allows the addition of some article as the result of the most recent observations.\n\nNotes to the whole\n\n(1) The site extends south of the big tree.\n\n(2) A piece of Double-F unearthed there at 40 ins. shows\n\n(a) a trade-mark connecting it with 1.f (zig-zag pattern; another piece of Double-F has similar mark).\n\n(b) an exterior surface coated with some material which has left a creamy yellow surface overlying a substratum in places an ochre-red, in places a rusty black; like the paste of the pot itself, this coating (or slip) is so rich in iron that the magnet gathers up most of the powder got by scraping off the slip; at places there is still a shine which at first suggests a glaze. The total effect is still that of embossed metal as the slip softens down the sharp F lines; originally probably this technique took a high polish which we shall find later on to be characteristic of other wares seemingly older. It is noteworthy that much iron is visible in the sand of the Lamma beach and on one occasion a very heavy lump of fired sand was found with marked layers of iron particles.\n\n(3) A piece of the same type, but not of the same pot, as fragment 12 has been found at 49 ins., i.e., lower than the above piece of Double-F in the same place.\n\n(4) As to the important relation of figure 3 to fragment 16 and Plate 33, 3 and 4 with figure 2 A and C\n\nDecember 1932,\n\n(a) it should be noted that the upper element in figure 2 in C and A is not correctly interpreted; the error is due to...\n\n242\n\n243\n\n244\n\n245\n\n246",
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        "content_text": "286\n\n287\n\n298\n\nNotes Comments\n\nA couple of photographs. The shark was probably Eulamia melanopterus, see H.K.N. I, p. 81. Length 6 feet 6 inches, weight 186 lbs. It was caught on a hand line made of hemp with a half-pound snapper as bait on a large iron hook. The fisherman was definitely trying to catch a shark and had a large bait and strong tackle on purpose. The sea was choppy, a fresh N.E. wind was blowing and few small fish were about. The previous week a number of sharks were about off Kowloon Docks and on 25th September Mr. Gillard tells me that at least 50 snapper were lost through shark taking them before they had been pulled up to the surface. This particular fish was played 20 minutes, pulled in to within 2 feet of the surface and then harpooned. It was not pulled on board but was lashed to the side of the sampan. Market value about $7.00.\n\nA few days later another shark was caught by the same fisherman and brought to the University, the principal measurements were taken and are given below. The shark was a female and contained two well-developed embryos each some 9 inches in length. Tip of snout to tip of tail 1,724 mm. (about 46 inches).\n\n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of 1st dorsal fin\n    495 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of 2nd dorsal fin\n    1,067 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Caudal fin\n    1,293 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Pectoral fin\n    399 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Pelvic fin\n    959 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Anal fin\n    1,182 mm.\n  \n\nIn Fishes of Oceania H. W. Fowler, p. 20, gives an account of this species which we quote below as being, perhaps, of general interest.\n\nIn describing the habits of this species in Palmyra, C. Montague Cooke, Jr., gave me the following information:\n\nVery abundant in the lagoon at Palmyra in 1913. Sometimes as many as six to eight would be swimming around us as we waded in the lagoon, in about 6 to 18 inches of water. Most of these sharks were from two to four feet in length. I think the reason we excited their curiosity was the stirring up of the mud. On two occasions we had them follow us as we were walking on the shore line. As we waded in the water they continually circled about us, the circles gradually growing smaller. On several occasions they came close enough for us to step on their heads, when they would rush away. We caught six on lines one evening in our bathing pool on fish bait. The only specimen in the museum was a small one taken in a scoop-net, when it approached us.\n\nBall reports four seen at Fanning Island in July, 1922. They were called \"lagoon shark\" and used as food by the natives. The largest seen were perhaps six feet long, ranging down to three feet long. One from Guam, head 90 mm. long and parts of fins, obtained in 1923, in the Bishop Museum.\n\nThis species differs from all other sharks of Oceania in having black bordered fins.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nNotes&Comments\n\n289\n\nOther accounts and photographs of this or a closely related species of shark have appeared in H.K.N. I, p. 194 and plate opposite and II plate facing p. 220.\n\nHERPETOLOGY.\n\nVARANUS SALVATOR, Laur.\n\nG. A. C. H,\n\nIn Volume I of the Hong Kong Naturalist, the monitor lizard Varanus was called E (Gob kuci shae, this is the general Kwang-tung name for the great Tree-Gecko, Gecko gecko (L). common in the Canton \"game\" shops as food or medicine). Varanus, known to me as far north as Tsingyuen (23.4° n.l.) is a rare creature and as far as my experience goes is without a special name. My Chinese reptile-collectors called it tULLE (Kamm koei shae=Toad-Lizard), but I believe that this was an improvisation of the moment.\n\nR. MELL,\n\nBerlin,\n\n(This Monitor Lizard is known in the Hong Kong Restaurants as E, Ng chau kum lung sehr, Five-clawed golden dragon snake.)\n\nEd.\n\nBOTANY.\n\nSTERCULIA LANCEOLATA, Cav.\n\nThe common name given in H.K.N. III, 1, p. 24, is that used by the Punti in Kwangtung. From the Hakka on the East-river (Poklo-district), (Gu loeng hai-Little ladies shoes), in reference to the red and black colour of the open fruit,\n\nI heard the tree called\n\nPLATANTHERA SUSANNAE, Lindl.\n\nR. MELL,\n\nBerlin,\n\nIs known to me only from the Indo-Chinese coast-region of Kwang-tung and not north of the Tropics. It seems to be quite local. I found it in a dry grassy place on the White Cloud mountains near Canton on the way from Pakwantsi to the Sogatsi about 250 m. above sea-level, 10 plants near one another; and a second group of plants near Suliugun in the Lofao mountains about 550 m. above the sea. Flowers I have seen between 28th of June and 22nd of July. In spite of its moderate size (about 0.40 m. high) Platanthera Susannae is a striking plant because of its large white flowers, relatively speaking gigantic spurs and its strong sweet scent. Anyone who is familiar with the European flora recognizes at once its close relationship with P. bifolia; the smell reminds me somewhat of the European Gymnadenia.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\nR. MELL,\n\nBerlin.",
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        "content_text": "23\n\nFrom England, Mid York Pork, English hams; from Scotland, an Ayrshire veal calf dressed according to London fashion, fillets, haddocks and kippers; from Ireland, Irish Bacon; from Canada, Red Spring Salmon from the Fraser River, Kippers, Cheese and Butter from the Central Provinces; from Australia, Butter, Cheese, Meats (including mutton, lamb and sundries, rabbits and hares); from New Zealand, Canterbury Lamb; from Hongkong fresh milk from Ayrshire and Canadian cows, Cheese, home made from whole milk; Hams and other delicacies which can be classed as Pure Products by virtue of having been made in Hongkong and containing nothing imported from without the Empire.\n\n#\n\nThe \"Euro\" Pump and Engineering Company exhibited a working model of \"Marco\" which the Company claim is \"Refrigeration at its Best and British\".\n\nThe \"Gestetner Stand.\n\nTwo models were exhibited at the Fair. The \"Gestetner\" Duplicator produced automatically under the supervision of a junior employee, circular letters, plans, forms, maps and illustrated headings and demonstrations were given to interested persons.\n\nArnbold's Radio Services.\n\nTwo radio sets were exhibited. The \"McMichael\" and the \"Pyo\".\n\nChina Can Company, Limited.\n\nThe China Can Company was started last year and is the only one of any size manufacturing lithographed cans in South China. The Company exhibited many sorts of sample cans.\n\nFrank",
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        "content_text": "## Conditions for Lot Development\n\n\"(b) The height, design, and disposition of any building erected on the lot shall be subject to the special approval of the Director of Public Works.\n\n(c) The whole of the area coloured red on plan shall be formed by the grantees at their own expense to such levels as may be approved by the Director of Public Works within 18 months from the date on which possession shall be given to the grantees.\n\n(d) A right-of-way from the Tai Hang Road to the lot on a line to be approved by the Director of Public Works will be given. The grantees shall construct a road or path on the piece of ground over and along which such right-of-way shall be given at such time or times and in such manner as the Director of Public Works may direct and shall uphold, maintain and repair such road or path and everything forming portion of or appertaining to it to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, and the grantees shall be responsible for the whole as if they were absolute owner thereof. Any alteration of the Government road to which the right-of-way is given absorbing a portion of such piece of ground or affecting the gradient thereof shall not give rise to any claim by the grantees who shall carry out all consequent alterations to such road or path constructed by them.\n\n(e) The grantees shall construct substantial retaining walls, where necessary, to obviate landslips in the event of their cutting away the hill to level the site or to protect any filling in connection with the same. Should a landslip occur as a result of such cutting or levelling, the grantees will be held responsible for and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage resulting from or brought about by such landslip.\n\n(f) In the event of spoil from the excavated site or spoil sites or other areas affected by the development of the lot being eroded and washed down into the nullahs, the grantees shall be held responsible and shall pay into the Colonial Treasury on demand such sum as may be demanded by Government to cover the cost of removal of spoil from or damage to the nullahs or other Government properties.\n\n(g) The grantees shall construct to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works such drains or channels as that officer may consider necessary to intercept and carry off stormwater falling on or flowing on to the lot from the hillside, and the grantees shall be solely liable for and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage or nuisance caused thereby.\n\n(h) The Government sewer will be extended to a point adjacent to the lot, and the grantees shall pay into the Colonial Treasury on demand, the sum of $1,000.00 as a contribution towards the cost of such sewer.\n\n(i) The grantees shall pay into the Colonial Treasury, on demand, the cost of removing any Chinese graves at present on the area, if such removal becomes necessary, the work to be done by the Tung Wah Hospital Authorities.\n\n(j) The grantees must notify the Superintendent of Botanical & Forestry Department in the event of their requiring the removal of any trees from the lot, which may interfere with building operations. Such trees will be removed by the said Superintendent.\n\n(k) The grantees shall pay into the Colonial Treasury, on demand, the cost of removing any water main, gas main or service pipe, cable, telegraph or telephone line, sewer or culvert, which the Director of Public Works may consider it necessary to have removed.\n\n(l) The piece of ground marked Crown Reserve on the plan may be used for such purpose as the Government may think fit and the same may for such purpose be cut away or filled in or the level thereof may be altered. The grantees shall not be entitled to compensation for any damage to the lot resulting from any such user, or cutting away, filling in or alteration of level.",
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        "title": "CO129-546-10 Naval Armament Depot- payment by Hong Kong Government of final instalment 11-1-1934 - 4-11-1934",
        "content_text": "## \n\n[3] Actually.\n\nevacuate assurance \n\nConsider \n\nFeb. 1937.\n\n28.7.34 \n\nand requests steps to be taken to ensure that the Cable ... be given credit with payment (3) in connection with `13810/33`.\n\n| Admiralty | Brass to the Submitted |\n| --------- | ---------------------- |\n| 112 Bader | 3/8                    |\n| 12/11     | if to which has (my 298) cons |\n\nBw. Secret OF S OVER STATUTE in Bad!\n\n11 AUG 1934\n\n9.7-34 Ref enquires whether any settlement has been reached about removal and repeway.\n\n| 42 | 1466 | \n| --- | --- |\n| 72779/30 | Euch to (1) on flagged red that fill. (12) on and (6) and |\n\nThe actual position of the ropeway and the possible diversions is shown on the plan enclosed under cover of (1) on `92608/32`. The ropeway runs from the Kennedy Road magazines, which are used by the military to the sea front across the present Naval Arsenal Yard, which is to be surrendered by the naval authorities. It is essential to the military authorities that the ropeway should be maintained so long as they continue to use the Kennedy Road magazines.\n\nIn consideration of a payment of two million dollars by the Hong Kong Government, the naval authorities agreed to evacuate the Naval Arsenal Yard, and in paragraph 6 of (1) on `92608/32`, the Governor expressed the view, which is apparently accepted by the Admiralty, that the Hong Kong Government is entitled to obtain delivery of the Yard free from encumbrances.\n\nIn paragraph 3 of ...",
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        "content_text": "## Conditions for Lot Development\n\n(b) The height, design, and disposition of any building erected on the lot shall be subject to the special approval of the Director of Public Works.\n\n(c) The whole of the areas coloured red and green on plan shall be formed by the grantees at their own expense to such levels as may be approved by the Director of Public Works within 18 months from the date on which possession shall be given to the grantees. The area coloured green shall be handed over to Government free of cost on completion.\n\n(d) The grantees shall not be allowed to utilize the area coloured green for the purpose of storage or for the erection of any temporary buildings without the consent of the Director of Public Works first having been obtained.\n\n(e) The grantees shall construct substantial retaining walls, where necessary, to obviate landslips in the event of their cutting away the hill to level the site or to protect any filling in connection with the same. Should a landslip occur as a result of such cutting or levelling, the grantees will be held responsible for and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims, and demands arising out of any damage resulting from or brought about by such landslip.\n\n(f) In the event of spoil from the excavated site or spoil sites or other areas affected by the development of the lot being eroded and washed down into the drains, the grantees shall be held responsible and shall pay into the Colonial Treasury on demand such sum as may be demanded by Government to cover the cost of removal of spoil from or damage to the drains or other Government properties.\n\n(g) The grantees shall construct to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works such drains or channels as that officer may consider necessary to intercept and carry off storm water falling on or flowing on to the lot from the hillside, and the grantees shall be solely liable for and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims, and demands arising out of any damage or nuisance caused thereby.\n\n(h) The grantees must notify the Superintendent of Botanical & Forestry Department in the event of their requiring the removal of any trees from the lot, which may interfere with building operations. Such trees will be removed by the said Superintendent.\n\n(i) The grantees shall pay into the Colonial Treasury, on demand, the cost of removing any water main, gas main or service pipe, cable, telegraph or telephone line, sewer or culvert, which the Director of Public Works may consider it necessary to have removed.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935",
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        "content_text": "## 70. Gas Lighting\nThe total number of street lamps in use at the end of the year, all of which were incandescent, was 556, an increase of 1 over the previous year.\n\nThe fitting of Reflectors to the Gas Lamps in Kowloon was undertaken by the Gas Company, without expense to Government, and resulted in better illumination.\n\nExpenditure\n$33,926.26\n\n## 71. Electric Lighting\nThe total number of lamps in use at the end of the year was 589, an increase of 67 over the previous year.\n\nRed and green traffic lights were installed in connexion with the Vehicular Ferry at Jordan Road.\n\nExpenditure\n$34,780.29\n\n## 72. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage\nFollowing typhoons repairs of greater or less importance were carried out to the following buildings: Hung Hom Police Station, Signal Hill, Yaumati Pig Market, Royal Observatory and Kowloon Hospital.\n\nRepairs were carried out to the Hung Hom Ferry Pier after the typhoon which occurred in September.\n\nExpenditure\n$1,098.72\n\n## 78. Maintenance of Water Works\nA constant supply was maintained on 172 days during the year, compared with 272 in 1932.\n\nOwing to the protracted dry season and the low rainfall it was necessary to impose the following restrictions: 1st to 24th January, and 28th January to 30th April, 10 hours per diem (6-11 A.M. and 4-9 P.M.). 1st May to 27th June, 6 hours per diem (6-9 A.M. and 4.30-7.30 P.M.). 26th August to 12th September, 10 hours per diem.\n\nAs the construction of the Yaumati Hill Service Reservoir had not been completed by the end of the year pressures had to be augmented by connections from the 24\" trunk main.\n\nA new centrifugal pump, driven by a 12 H.P. Petter Engine, was installed in the Pump House below Pineapple Pass. The pump is capable of delivering 28,000 gallons an hour into the Conduit and easily deals with the dry weather flow of the Shing Mun River at that point.\n\nThe total yield of the Shing Mun River as measured by the Recorder and V. Gauge at the Upper intake was 2883.4 million gallons as compared with 4017.86 million gallons last year. In addition 98.12 million gallons were obtained from the Needle Hill stream intake. The pumps below Pineapple Pass worked on 228 days during the year and delivered 53.78 million gallons, equivalent to 236,000 gallons for each working day. During the year 1782.69 million gallons were delivered from the Shing Mun Valley through the Tunnels into the Reception and Byewash Reservoirs, but a percentage of this quantity could not be stored and ran to waste. The minimum monthly yield was in March when the quantity delivered was 52.50 million gallons.\n\nThe total quantity filtered by the Paterson Filtration Plant during the year was 1469.97 million gallons, 396.92 million gallons of which were supplied to Hong Kong.\n\nThe total quantity of water supplied during the year was 2051.84 million gallons (excluding 101.49 million gallons supplied to Water Boats at Lai Chi Kok), which gives an average daily consumption of 5.62 million gallons or 18.0 gallons per head based on an estimated population of 316,000. Details are given in `Table IX`.\n\nThe quantity of water stored in the impounding reservoirs on 1st January was 581.67 million gallons and a minimum of 209.48 million gallons was reached on 29th May.\n\n| Reservoirs | Capacity to permanent overflow level (Million Gallons) | Overflow Periods |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kowloon | 352.50 | 166 days at various times between 1st January 31st December |\n| Kowloon Byewash | 185.50 | 31 days at various times between 13th September 7th November |\n| Shek Li Pui | 116.10 | 69 days at various times between 4th August 11th November |\n| Shing Mun Reception | 33.15 | 186 days at various times between 9th January 31st December |\n\nThe quantity in storage at the end of the year was 653.37 million gallons.\n\nThere were 117 street fountains in use at the close of the year.",
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        "content_text": "## Table XXXIV—Continued.\n### Comparative Statement of Revenue 1932 and 1933.\n\n| Sub-head of Revenue. | Amount 1932. | Amount 1933. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward,.. | $1,443,526.12 | $1,255,935.74 |\n| 5. Miscellaneous Receipts: |  |  |\n| Sale of condemned stores, | 1,110.00 | 97.70 |\n| Other Miscellaneous Receipts |  |  |\n| Ocean Vessels, | 110.00 | 105.00 |\n| Pilot Licences Ord. 3 of 1904, |  |  |\n| Engagement of Masters and Engineers | 2,623.05 | 5,032.17 |\n| River Steamers, | 5,681.00 | 14,610,726.21 cts. 469,743.67 |\n| of Steam Launches........ | 84,881.02 | 4,201,698.17 |\n|  | 2,717.76 | 51,973.97 |\n| Other Miscellaneous Receipts, | 427.50 | 356.50 |\n|  | 262.02 | 429.77 |\n| Total, | $1,445,435.64 | $1,256,924.71 |\n\n## Table XXXVI.\n### Light Dues were collected during the year 1933 as follows:-\n\n| Class of Vessels. | No. of Trips. | Tonnage. | Rate per ton. | Fees Collected. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Ocean Vessels | 13,336 | 18,897,305 |  | $524,435.40 |\n\n## Table XXXV.\n\n* Charged under Notification No. 147 of 1933.\n\n## Table XXXVII.\n### Comparative Statement of Expenditure and Revenue for last ten years.\n\n| Year. | Personal Emoluments and Other Charges. | Special Expenditure. | Total Expenditure. | Total Revenue. | Increase. | Decrease. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1924 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 1925 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 1926 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 1927 | 653,618.99 | 21,641.10 | 675,260.09 | 1,000,229.80 |  |  |\n| 1928 | 696,497.98 | 99,783.94 | 796,231.92 | 973,283.46 |  |  |\n| 1929 | 744,194.35 | 68,259.67 | 812,454.02 | 1,010,061.97 |  |  |\n| 1930 | 942,271.67 | 138,788.97 | 1,081,060.64 | 1,020,741.02 |  |  |\n| 1931 | 1,013,003.51 | 38,028.27 | 1,051,031.78 | 1,433,534.87 |  |  |\n| 1932 | 998,861.44 | 106,930.50 | 1,105,791.94 | 1,445,435.64 |  |  |\n| 1933 | 953,318.32 | 44,678.65 | 997,996.97 | 1,256,924.71 |  | $5,843.81 |\n\n### Licences issued and Revenue collected at Harbour Master's out Stations.\n\n| Station, | Licences Issued. 1932 | Revenue Collected. 1932 | Licences Issued. 1933 | Revenue Collected. 1933 | Increase. | Decrease. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Shaukiwan, Aberdeen,.. | 5,711 | $19,702.00 | 6,017 | $19,757.15 | $418.50 |  |\n| Stanley, | 776 | 1,543.50 | 832 | 1,396.05 |  | $147.45 |\n| Yaumati, | 5,059 | 46,034.50 | 5,220 | 40,904.25 |  | 5,130.25 |\n| Cheung Chau, | 5,636 | 17,152.96 | 5,800 | 16,110.85 |  | 1,042.11 |\n| T'ai 0, | 2,382 | 4,867.25 | 1,699 | 3,992.35 |  | 874.90 |\n| Tai Po, | 2,087 | 6,304.80 | 2,207 | 6,142.45 | 162.35 |  |\n| Sai Kung... | 1,050 | 2,766.50 |  | 2,359.25 |  |  |\n| Longket, | 1,039 | 2,524.35 |  |  |  |  |\n| Deep Bay, | 597 |  | 917 | 2,472.15 |  |  |\n| Lantao, | 545 | 1,800.40 | 918 | 3,537.70 | 1,166 | 1,609.60 |\n|  | 52 | 407.25 | 541 | 52.55 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 32,041 | $124,115.56 | $2,443.75 | $8,287.56 |\n|  |  |  | 32,397 | $118,271.75 |  |  |\n\n(*) Includes Officers of Senior Clerical and Accounting and Junior Clerical Services attached to Department.\n\n1930 & 1931 include figures for Air Services.\n\n* Excluding Dispensary Fees $1,748.20 \n† 3,907.80 \n\nPage 206",
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        "content_text": "## 3.\n\nIllicit Distilleries gave considerable trouble during the year. Two very active centres of illicit distilling were discovered, one in the tiny village of Tai Pak and the adjoining ravines in the Northern part of Lantao Island facing Hong Kong, the other by the efforts of the Police in and near the village of Wong Toi Sha near Kam Tin in the Northern part of the New Territory.\n\nNear Tai Pak no fewer than twelve illicit stills were found at various times, of which all except one were in ravines concealed behind rocks and brushwood. Special boilers had been built up beside streams and rather primitive methods adopted for condensing the spirit; fermenting material was concealed amongst the brushwood in the vicinity of the stills. The persons implicated escaped over the hills in all except one case when an arrest was made by a Police launch. This centre was most persistent in their efforts to work illicit stills, and it required several visits both by the Police and Revenue launches to break it up. From enquiries made it appeared that the spirit made was disposed of to the adjacent islands of Pingchow and Cheung Chow, and that the workers came from Yuenlong by junk and brought their own materials with them. Search of the huts in the vicinity failed to discover any yeast or sugar, or an excess stock of rice. A mixture of rice and sugar was chiefly used, giving a strong fermentation.\n\nAt Wong Toi Sha the Police had great difficulty in locating the stills; if the still was located it would not be in the same place as the fermenting material, or the supply of yeast and red rice used for fermenting. The still head of the usual country type made of earthenware was possibly in some cases hired out to anyone who fermented material which required distilling. Careful search failed to find the number of stills corresponding to the number of illicit distilleries found. This group were making genuine rice spirit. The Police were successful in obtaining several convictions as the result of all-night work.\n\n## 4.\nThe Brewery at Sham Tseng, New Territories, operated by the Hong Kong Brewers and Distillers, Ltd., commenced placing beer on the market in July. The product is of a Pilsener type brewed and matured at a low temperature.\n\nAt first brewing was conducted in bond, but as this was found inconvenient to the working of the brewery, an arrangement was made by which duty was paid weekly on all brewings which took place during the 9th preceding week. This arrangement has been found to work well in practice.\n\n## 5.\nIt is impossible in the case of spirituous liquors and spirits of wine used largely for compounding scents and medicines to make any comparison with the figures for 1932, since the rates of duty were changed twice during that year. On the whole it appears that the reduction in duty was in no way counterbalanced by increased consumption. The perfume factories found their export trade with the South Seas very much curtailed by the trade depression existing, while import into China was rendered impossible by the tariff. Two Hong Kong companies worked all their Chinese trade through bottling establishments in Canton. Little skill is required in mixing the artificial perfumes and essential oils imported from abroad with Java spirits of wine, hence the business as carried on is practically a bottling business and does not require much plant or skilled labour, so that it can easily be removed within the Chinese tariff wall without much outlay.\n\n## II. TOBACCO.\n\n## 6.\nThe total consumption of tobacco of all kinds for all purposes showed a decrease of 778,541 pounds, and the net amount of duty collected a decrease of $556,282. A system of Empire preference in respect of both unmanufactured and manufactured tobacco was introduced. Partly as a result of this the imports of cheap cigarettes of Chinese manufacture decreased considerably.\n\n## 7.\nTrade in manufactured tobacco with the South Seas was very poor throughout the year, and manufacturers of Chinese tobacco for export suffered severely.\n\n## 8.\nSmuggling of Chinese smoking tobacco was very prevalent. Over 12,000 pounds were seized by the Police and this department, a very small proportion unfortunately of that which escaped paying duty. Here again the crews of river steamers were the chief smugglers, and some smuggled tobacco was discovered on every river steamer visited by a rummage party. Difficulties of search were increased by the fact that much was concealed amongst the cargo where it could rarely be discovered by the rummage party with the time at their disposal. It appears probable that something like 200 pounds finds its way ashore from river steamers alone without paying duty every day. In one case the spare boiler of a river steamer was found stuffed full of Chinese tobacco in small packets already tied up in bundles convenient for taking ashore.\n\n## 9.\nThe figure given in the estimates of tobacco revenue, namely $4,600,000 proved to be excessive in view of the trade depression and the appreciation of the dollar. The cheap cigarette locally manufactured is the backbone of the Tobacco revenue and the sale rapidly decreases with any fall in the barometer of trade.\n\n## III. MOTOR SPIRIT.\n\n## 10.\nThe duty collected on motor spirit showed a slight decrease. The general opinion seems to be that little increase in the number of motor vehicles can be expected in the future.\n\nPage 275",
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        "content_text": "A Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\n143\n\ntransversely 11, predorsal 23. Soft vertical fins scaled. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral 1 1/2 to 1 3/5 in head, without axillary scale; ventral 1 2/5. Back olive brown, below whitish. Iris grey white. Fins brown, lower whitish and no dark spot at pectoral origin. Reaches 300 mm.\n\nHainan, Canton, (India*, Ceylon, Andamans, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines*, Queensland, New South Wales). The imperfectly described nominal Mugil ventricosus Richardson is noticed as follows:\n\nDepth 3 2/3 in total, back little elevated, curve of belly prominent. Caudal peduncle thick. Head slender, pointed. Lower lip closes under snout. Second dorsal begins length behind beginning of anal and extends far beyond. Space between anal and caudal exceeds anal length. Caudal acutely but not deeply notched. Back and upper sides with disks of scales pale grass green, edges silvery and whole lower parts pearly or silvery. Mouth hyacinth red, fore part of gill cover buff orange and bright Berlin-blue patch at upper angle of gill opening. First dorsal red lilac purple, second dorsal and caudal mountain green, notch of latter edged plum purple. Pectoral dark brownish green. Anal pale mountain green, rays and basal streak white. Ventral rays opaque white, with some carmine streaks at tips and membrane pale blue.\n\nMugil seheli (Forskal).\n\nOotow (black head), Otau.\n\nMugil crenilabis seheli Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xiv, 73. Lohajae, Red Sea.\n\nMugil seheli Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 603 (Hong Kong).\n\nMugil melancranus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 248. China Seas; Canton.-Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 410 (reference). Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (name).\n\nChu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nMugil axillaris Kner, Novara Reise, Fische, 1865, p. 227, pl. 9, fig. 3-a (side and under view of head) (Shanghai).-Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (Amoy).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nSoft\n\nDepth 3 3/4 to 3 7/8; head 3 3/4 to 3 7/8, width 1 3/5. Snout 3 3/4 to 3 7/8 in head; eye 4 1/2 to 4 3/4, 1 3/5 in interorbital, adipose lids well developed; upper lip width 1 4/5 in pupil; interorbital 2 2/5 to 2 3/4 in head, broadly convex. Scales 38 to 40, transversely 11 to 13, predorsal 19 to 29. Vertical fins with small basal scales. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral 1 1/10 to 1 1/8 in head, with axillary scale; ventral 1 2/5 to 1 3/4 in head. Grey, with 9 to 10 bright silvery arrow-like marks along body. Dark over nose. Fins transparent, black at pectoral base and caudal tips. Length to 465 mm.\n\nCanton, Amoy, Pei Ho, Shanghai (Red Sea, Zanzibar, Natal, Portuguese East Africa, Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius, Seychelles, India,\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n74",
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        "content_text": "## Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott in the drawing room of Government House.\n\nLater, Dr. Philip K. C. Tyau, Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs, Colonel Li Fong, Secretary to the Mayor, and Mr. Chang Yuen-man, Counsellor to the Chairman, proceeded from the Hongkong Hotel, conducted by Mr. B. C. K. Hawkins, to Government House and were greeted by His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott.\n\n## Luncheon Party\n\nA luncheon party was held at Government House in honour of the visitors, but the invitations were confined to those assisting in the organisation of the arrangements for the visit of the officials and to those who were unable to attend the banquet held at night.\n\nThose present at the luncheon were:\n\n| Name | Title/Relation |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott |  |\n| H.E. General Huang Mu-sung |  |\n| H.H. Mr. Tseng Yang-fu |  |\n| Madame Tseng Yang-fu | Wife of Mr. Tseng Yang-fu |\n| H.H. Sir Atholl and Lady MacGregor |  |\n| Dr. Philip Tyau |  |\n| Col. Li Fong |  |\n| General Gaston Wong |  |\n| Hon. Mr. R. A. C. and Mrs. North |  |\n| Mr. Chang Yuen-nan |  |\n| Mr. H. R. Phillips, C.M.G., O.B.E. |  |\n| Hon. Mr. W. J. and Mrs. Carrie |  |\n| Hon. Dr. R. H. and Mrs. Kotewall |  |\n| Hon. Mr. T. H. and Mrs. King |  |\n| Hon. Mr. S. H. and Mrs. Dodwell |  |\n| Mr. M. F. Key |  |\n| Mr. and Mrs. B. C. K. Hawkins |  |\n| Miss Phillips |  |\n| Miss Kotewall |  |\n| The Governor's Aide-de-Camp |  |\n| Private Secretary |  |\n\n## BOND OF FRIENDSHIP\n\n### Mayor of Canton Praises Help Of Overseas Chinese\n\nIn an interview, the Mayor of Canton, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, said that he thoroughly appreciated the friendly gesture shown by the recent visit to Canton of H.E. the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Andrew Caldecott.\n\n\"To reciprocate and in order to further cement the ties of friendship between the two cities the Chinese Government is sending this delegation,\" said the Mayor.\n\n\"To-day we shall be entertained by the Government and to-morrow we hope to meet the Chinese leaders of your community and attend their entertainments.\"\n\nAnswering a query, the Mayor said that the great enthusiasm shown by the Hongkong Chinese in donating over half a million dollars to the Chiang Kai-shek birthday fund had been greatly appreciated by the Government.\n\n\"But this is not the first occasion on which the Chinese in Hongkong have shown their interest in the welfare of their home country,\" he continued. \"Since the establishment of the Republic 25 years ago the overseas Chinese have from time to time rendered what help they could for the Chinese Government. The effort of the Chinese in giving so large a donation is the more appreciated considering the current trade depression in this part of the world.\"\n\nReferring to improvements to the municipal administration of Kwangtung, the Mayor said that the chief evils of opium smoking and gambling are being suppressed by the efforts of the new government. Other problems which will come to the immediate attention of the Government are education, public health and road construction. Meanwhile the authorities will endeavour to preserve order and peace in all parts of the province. Economic developments in various fields will be pushed ahead to the utmost in relation to the ability and financial position of the officials.\n\nAll developments which have bearing on the prosperity of Canton and Hongkong will be particularly attended to.\n\n\"I hope that in this connection the Chinese in Kwangtung will have the full co-operation of the Chinese in Hongkong. The Canton Government is very willing to receive constructive advice from the Hongkong and overseas Chinese and from the Press.\"\n\n## VISIT TO RESERVOIR\n\n### Governor and Canton Guests At Shing Mun\n\nIn the afternoon, His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott accompanied the distinguished guests on a motor-car journey to Shing Mun, where the party was received and entertained by Mr. G. B. Gifford Hull and shown round the Jubilee Reservoir.\n\nSpecial traffic arrangements had been made to suit the party's convenience, and Inspectors Chester Wood and F. E. E. Booker were in charge of a squad of police and detectives.\n\nAt 4.45 p.m. eleven cars brought the party to where tea tables had been laid out on a lawn overlooking the big dam. Mr. Gifford Hull greeted the party, who comprised, besides Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott, His Excellency General Huang Mu-sung, His Excellency Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, and Mrs. Tseng Yang-fu, Dr. Philip Tyau, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Mr. H. R. Phillips and Miss Phillips, General Gaston Wong, Col. Li Fong, and others.\n\nFollowing tea, Mr. Gifford Hull conducted the party to the dam wall, where the visitors were most interested in the colossal reservoir scheme and the plant which is still completing the job.\n\nCars then conveyed the party to the foot of the steps leading to Mr. Gifford Hull's bungalow, where cocktails were taken. As the party was leaving after a most enjoyable visit, flood lights which had been placed to light up the dam face were switched on, creating an excellent effect which has not hitherto been attempted. The party returned by car.\n\n## BANQUET AT NIGHT\n\n### Hongkong-Canton Amity Stressed in Speeches\n\nAN INTIMATE NOTE\n\nA brilliant description of the visit that he and Lady Caldecott had paid to Canton, and reference to the great hospitality received there, was given by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, at a banquet in honour of the distinguished visitors at Government House last night.\n\nIn proposing the toast to the visitors, Sir Andrew spoke of the friendly relations between Hongkong and Canton. Other toasts honoured were \"The Republic of China,\" proposed by the Governor, \"The King\" proposed by General Huang Mu-sung, \"Canton,\" proposed by the Governor, and \"Hongkong,\" proposed by Mr. Tseng Yang-fu.\n\nIn proposing the toast to visitors, Sir Andrew said: \"I must ask your permission to introduce the toast of 'Our Distinguished Visitors' on an intimate rather than an official note, because I want to say how personally delighted my wife and I are to be able to reciprocate, albeit inadequately and imperfectly, the wonderful welcome and princely hospitality which we received on our recent visit to Canton. We can never forget the incidents of those two days: that evening meeting with the Generalissimo and his charming and gracious consort at Whampoa, when the magic sluices of the sunset let loose on land and river such a flood of gold that the very earth and sky seemed to reflect the rich warmth of their kindly reception of us.\n\nAnd then came that moonlit journey up the river by launch until the great city of Canton rose up on either side of us in tiers of coloured light and shade; high junks towered against the stars in patches of dark silence, while all around the water teemed with the sleepless traffic of smaller craft.\n\nThe next morning saw us at the splendid University of Chungshan where Learning dwells, not cramped by the confines of city tenements, but crowned by the hills and sky in a spacious country seat of broad acres and lordly halls. Nor can anybody who has once seen them ever forget the triumph of modern Chinese architecture in the stately Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall or the elegance of the Municipal Building in which our guests of this evening entertained me at lunch in true gargantuan style.\n\nAnd finally, as though this treasure store for the memory were not a sufficient gift to their visitors, our hosts presented us at parting with ornaments of exquisitely chased rare Chinese craftsmanship in ivory and metal, which I invite you all to see for yourselves in the drawing-room after dinner.\n\n\"Abiding Friendship\"\n\nBut what my wife and I treasured most of all was the conviction that we carried away with us not only these beautiful memories and souvenirs but the abiding friendship of our hosts; and so it was that we were emboldened to greet them this morning as already old friends, and we are especially delighted that His Honour the Mayor, who was unfortunately indisposed at the time of our visit, is thoroughly restored to health and able, together with his charming lady, to grace our board this evening.\n\nThe greatest of philosophers has placed the good things of life in three categories: those that are good in themselves, those that are good by reason of their results, and those that are good both in themselves and in their results. Friendship, Ladies and Gentlemen, is in the third category. The need for co-operation between Canton and Hongkong is, thank God, so universally recognized by all of us in this Colony that there is no need for me to repeat here last to-night what I said at the session of our Legislative Council.\n\nMutual Understanding\n\nBut you cannot have co-operation without mutual understanding, and one's first duty to one's neighbour is to get to know him and his needs and to let him get to know you and yours. This process requires, just as all physical processes require, suitable conditions of temperature and atmosphere; the essential psychological condition for the establishment of mutual understanding, and thereby of co-operation, is, believe me, a friendship. And therefore I pray and hope and trust that, whatever faults or imperfections there may have been in the organisation or...",
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        "content_text": "## MERCHANT SHIPPING \nNo. 10 of 1899\n\n\"coasting voyage\" means an international voyage in the course of which a ship does not go more than twenty miles from land, so however that for the purpose of this provision-\n\n(i) no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstances which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and\n\n(ii) every colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty, and every territory in respect of which a mandate has been accepted on behalf of the League of Nations, shall be deemed to be a separate country.\n\n**Life raft** means a life raft which complies with the requirements prescribed for life rafts by the Instructions.\n\n\"Motor boat\" and \"Motor Lifeboat\" mean the standard type of motor boat prescribed by the Instructions.\n\n\"New ship\" in relation to ships of Classes 3 to 10 in Group I means a ship the keel of which was laid after the 1st January, 1933, or a ship which has not been certified to carry unberthed passengers in the trades to which these regulations apply during a period of two years prior to that date, all other ships of such Classes being described as existing ships.\n\n\"Passenger ship or passenger steamer\" means a ship or steamer, as the case may be, carrying more than twelve passengers.\n\n\"Pilgrim ship\" means a ship conveying or about to convey, unberthed, to or from any port in the Red Sea Mohammedan pilgrims going to or returning from the Hedjas. \"Pilgrim trade\" means the conveyance of Mohammedan pilgrims to or from the countries of Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands East Indies and the Straits Settlements, from or to ports in the Red Sea.\n\n\"River Trade Limits\" means the waters in the vicinity of the Colony within the following boundaries, namely on the East, Meridian 114° 30′ East; on the South, Parallel 22° 9′ North; on the West, Meridian 113° 31′ East; and all inland waterways in the province of Kwong Tung and the province of Kwong Sai to which access can be obtained from the area defined above.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899\n\n## MERCHANT SHIPPING\n\n\"Safety Convention\" means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed at London on the 31st day of May, 1929.\n\n\"Search-light\" means a searchlight of the type and with the equipment required by the Instructions for search-lights carried on motor boats.\n\n\"Wireless-installation\" means an installation which complies with the requirements of the Instructions for wireless installations on motor boats.\n\n## PART II.\nShips engaged in the carriage of unberthed passengers in trades other than the pilgrim trade.\n\n### GROUP I. CLASS 3\n\n3. The requirements as to life saving appliances specified under the heading Group I. Class 3 shall be complied with by ships engaged in the carriage of unberthed passengers on international voyages to or from the countries of Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands East Indies and the Straits Settlements.\n\n4. DAVITS-A ship of this class shall be provided with sets of davits in accordance with its length as specified in Column (A) of Table No. 1.\n\nWhen in the opinion of the Government Marine Surveyor, it is neither practicable nor reasonable to place on a ship the number of sets of davits required by Column (A) of Table No. 1, the Government Marine Surveyor may authorise, under exceptional conditions, a smaller number of sets of davits, provided always that this number shall never be less than",
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        "content_text": "# MERCHANT SHIPPING \n## No. 10 of 1899\n\n38. LIFE-BUOYS :-The minimum number of approved life-buoys with which ships of Group I. Class 7 are to be provided is as follows:- \n\n### Table No. 10\n| Registered Length of Ship in Feet | Minimum No. of Life-Buoys | Minimum No. of Life-Buoy Lights |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Under 200 | 8 | 4 |\n| 200 and under 300 | 10 | 6 |\n| 300 and under 400 | 12 | 8 |\n| 400 and over | 14 | 10 |\n\n39. LIFE-JACKETS:-One approved life-jacket shall be carried for each person on board.\n\n## GROUP I. CLASS 8\n\n40. The requirements as to life saving appliances specified under the heading \"Group I. Class 8\" shall be complied with by ships, plying within River Trade Limits, which are certified for the carriage of passengers.\n\n41. DAVITS-A ship of this class shall be provided with sets of davits as specified in Column (A) of Table No. 11.\n\n### Table No. 11\n| Registered Length of the Ship in Feet | Number of sets of davits | Minimum aggregate capacity of boats (cubic feet) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 120 and under 140 | 2 | ... |\n\nThe number of sets of davits and the boat capacities of ships not provided for in the Table shall be prescribed by the Government Marine Surveyor.\n\n42. BOATS AND BUOYANT APPARATUS:-Each set of davits shall have a boat of Class 3 attached to it. The total cubic capacity of the boats under the davits shall be at least up to the minimum capacity required by Column (B). One boat of half the total capacity required shall be placed on each side of the ship. Approved buoyant apparatus shall be provided so that the accommodation provided by the boats and buoyant apparatus shall be sufficient for 40 per cent of the total number of persons the ship is certified to carry.\n\n43. EQUIPMENT FOR BOATS:-Every boat forming part of the statutory life saving appliances of any ship of Group I. Class 8 shall be provided with the full equipment for life boats specified in the Instructions, subject to the following exceptions:- Sea Anchor, Breakers, Dipper, Side Ladders, Mast, Mast and rigging fittings, Sails, Oil, Oil bag, Red lights, Biscuits, Condensed milk, Compasses.\n\n44. LIFE-BUOYS:-The minimum number of approved life-buoys with which ships of Group I. Class 8 are to be provided is as follows:- \n\n### Table No. 12\n| Registered Length of Ship in Feet | Minimum No. of Life-Buoys | Minimum No. of Life-Buoy Lights |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Under 140 | 8 | 4 |\n| 140 and under 160 | 10 | 5 |\n| 160 and under 175 | 12 | 6 |\n| 175 and under 190 | 14 | 7 |\n| 190 and under 205 | 16 | 8 |\n| 205 and under 230 | 18 | 9 |\n| 230 and above | ... | ... |\n\n| Registered Length of Ship in Feet | Minimum No. of Life-Buoys | Minimum No. of Life-Buoy Lights |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 254 | 246 | 68 |\n| 286 | ... | 10 |\n| 324 | ... | ... |\n| 364 | ... | ... |\n| 420 | ... | ... |\n| 476 | ... | ... |\n| 526 | ... | ... | \n| Under 200 | 8 | 4 |\n| 200 and under 300 | 10 | 6 |\n| 300 and under 400 | 12 | 8 |\n| 400 and over | 14 | 10 |",
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        "content_text": "# APPENDIX I\n\n## Filtered Water Supply to Pokfulam Area\n\n3050 ACRES\n\n### Future Catchwaters\n146 ACRES\n\n### Existing and Proposed Works\n\n| Location        | Description                                  | Acres  |\n|-----------------|----------------------------------------------|--------|\n| Shek Lei Pui    |                                              | 196    |\n|                 | Capacity: 33.16 million gallons             |        |\n| Stone Cutters Island | Service Reservoir                          |        |\n| Peters          | Jubilee Reservoir, ~3000 mill gal           |        |\n|                 | Gorge Dam, North Conduit                     |        |\n| River           | Catchwater                                   | 405    |\n| Tai Lam Chung   | Reservoir, T.W.L. 199.90 million gallons    |        |\n| Hong Kong Water | Service                                      |        |\n|                 | 2-24\" Trunk Mains, New Trunk Mains, 2-24\" Trunk Mains |        |\n| Yau Ma Tei       | Service Reservoir, T.W.L. 284 capacity      |        |\n|                 | 5-438 Hill Gallery                           |        |\n|                 | \"Busting (2” main to be replaced by new main |        |\n|                 | \"16” mains to be protected                   |        |\n|                 | Trunk main (section to be 18”)               |        |\n\n### West Point Filters and Service Reservoirs\n\n1. **Pokfulam Conduit**\n2. **Count Review Garden Improvements to Aberdeen**\n   - Tunnel\n   - New Tank (425 acres)\n\n### Proposed Works\n\n- New Service Reservoir\n- New Pumping Station\n- New Supply Main to Bowen Road\n\n### Bowen Road Service Reservoir\nTo be extended\n\n### Filters\nTo be transferred to Albany\n\n### Service Reservoir and Filters at Bowen Road\nConduit to be reconstructed\n\n| Location        | Acres  |\n|-----------------|--------|\n| Aberdeen Bay    | 124    |\n| Aberdeen Main   | 179    |\n| Albany          |        |\n| Bowen Road      |        |\n\n### Aberdeen Lower Reservoir\n- Intake (20 acres)\n- Upper Reservoir, T.W.L. 341.06m\n- Lower Pumping Station (106-15 M.G.)\n\n### Eastern Filter Beds Extension\n- Service Reservoir to be extended (145 acres)\n\n### Scale\n2/2 inches = 1 mile\n\n### Legend\n- Existing works and catchment areas shown in green\n- Proposed extensions shown in red\n- Probable future extensions shown dotted in red\n\n### Mainland Resources: Shing Mun Valley\n\n| Location        | Acres  |\n|-----------------|--------|\n| Kowloon Water Works |        |\n| Island          |        |\n| Eastern         |        |\n| Western         | 19     |\n| Wong Nei Cheong |        |\n| New Service     |        |\n| Tai Po          |        |\n| Ma On Shan      |        |\n| Tolo Harbour    |        |\n| Luk Keng        |        |\n\n| Location        | Acres  |\n|-----------------|--------|\n| Lyemun          | 583    |\n|                 | 106    |\n|                 | 210    |\n|                 | 400    |\n| Lik             | 170    |\n| Ty Tam Bay      |        |\n| Pass            | 29     |\n\n| Location        | Acres  |\n|-----------------|--------|\n|                 | 735    |\n|                 | 225    |\n|                 | 140    |\n|                 | 260    |\n|                 | 353    |",
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        "content_text": "# CORRESPONDENCE \n\n## Vegetarianism and Food Fads \n\n**(To the Editor, S. C. M. Post)** \n\nSir,-Regarding the recent letters on vegetarianism from two of your correspondents, I should like to add my voice to theirs in whole-heartedly approving the Vegetarian's creed. I would however like to add a few opinions of my own on the subject. \n\nI believe that development cannot be forced, and that people must be guided by their own experience and growing knowledge rather than by the dogmatic utterances of others. \n\nVegetarianism, desirable as it is, cannot be thrust upon anyone suddenly. Mankind will gradually grow to realize that meat is not its proper diet; people will cease to desire it if they develop, but until that time comes any forced restraint will not do much good, for if the \"longing\" for flesh meat is there it is about as bad as if it were indulged in. The habit of generations cannot be changed in a day; mankind must gradually outgrow the desire. \n\nIn the meantime, I would appeal for a little earnest thought on the subject. The animal kingdom is perhaps behind us on the path of evolution, but surely that very fact should make us realize their need for our help and love and our intelligent co-operation in aiding in their growth and development to higher things. Let us consider whether or not we are eating too much meat to the detriment of our health and better feelings; let us, for a beginning, resolve to reduce our intake to say a half of what we usually consume. To all deep-thinking people, a consideration of the \"Vegetarian's creed\" will gradually but surely bring a willing acceptance, until eventually we shall reach that happy stage where our duty to the younger creatures in God's plan will be not only clear in our conscience but joyfully formed. \n\n**VEGETARIAN-TO-BE.** \n\nSir, I am glad to see that someone has taken up the task of administering a mild rebuke to the vegetarian faddists. By all means let there be vegetarians, and let them air their opinions in the press, but it is absurd for mere laymen like they are to start to \"tell the world\" about the harmful effects of eating meat and the wonderful benefits of a purely vegetable diet, for that they cannot prove scientifically or otherwise. With a remarkable ignorance of anatomy or dietetics, they claim that man cannot term meat a natural food, and also seem to think that his stomach, not adapted like the herbivores to vegetable diet, can digest all the vegetarian food that is necessary to keep up his energy and health, and, what is more important, store up fat and reserves. \n\nThe fact is, meat is man's natural diet, for our earliest ancestors were carnivores in part. It is man's ability to live on a mixed diet of meat and fruit and vegetables which has enabled him to survive and evolve as he has. Our internal anatomy is not adapted to an entirely vegetable diet. So-called vegetarians know this very well, and such purely animal foods as eggs and milk form a large part of their alleged vegetarian diet.\n\n## NEWS FEATURES \n\n| News |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Very Rev. Father L. Robert | formerly head of the French Mission in Hongkong, is expected here this month on his way to the Eucharistic Congress in Manila. |\n| Two Chinese, man and a woman | appeared before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday on charges of possession of a quantity of pink paste and a large amount of heroin pills. They will be tried at the next Sessions. |\n| A kidnapper | was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment for having stolen a six-year-old Chinese girl on December 31, appearing on remand before K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday. |\n| A new motor road | to connect Causeway Bay with Shaukiwan is to be constructed in connection with a major scheme of residential development of the Eastern district. |\n| The death occurred at Swatow yesterday | of Mr. George Hutton Potts, Chairman of the Hongkong Stock Exchange and one of the Colony's oldest European residents. The funeral will take place on Wednesday afternoon. |\n| Congregation Day | was held at the University yesterday, when graduates in the faculties of Arts, Medicine, and Engineering received their degrees from H.E. Sir Andrew Caldecott, the Chancellor. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell, made a farewell speech, in which he announced that before next Congregation Day he will have left for Home on retirement. |\n\n## Far East \n\nThe Nanking State Council has decided to pardon Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, although it has ordered him to be temporarily placed \"under strict surveillance\" by the Military Affairs Commission. \n\nSome alarm has been caused in Shanghai by rumours that ten Japanese warships on January 2 swept the shore of Taitsang, eastern Kiangsu, with machine-gun fire for half an hour before proceeding up-river. The rumours have not been confirmed. \n\n## Overseas \n\nThe Pope had a better night according to yesterday's news, but his general condition is unchanged. \n\nThe agreement between Britain and Italy signed in Rome on Saturday has been welcomed by the Conservative press in England. The `Daily Herald` and the `News Chronicle` are critical in view of the landing of more Italian volunteers in Spain. The former paper describes the agreement as merest humbug. \n\nThe international situation arising from the Spanish civil war is becoming increasingly serious. The Spanish Government has \"decided to take the necessary diplomatic steps\" in connection with the seizure of Spanish vessels by German warships, and considers the German demand for the release of the cargo of the steamer `Palos` and the Spanish passenger found aboard her as couched in terms improper for a communication with a Sovereign State.\" Germany, on the other hand, refused to discontinue retaliatory measures against Spain until the incident is finally cleared up, and it is reported that another vessel, the `Marta Junquera`, has been seized off Santona. \n\nThe Spanish Ambassador in Paris described the German actions as \"equivalent to a declaration of war, creating a serious situation for European peace.\" \n\nStrong feeling has also been aroused in Germany by the report of the execution of a German subject by Leftists at Bilbao. \n\nMeanwhile, the war continues. Madrid has been shelled by Rightist artillery and considerable damage has been done in Malaga where incendiary bombs were dropped by Rightist planes. \n\nOver 5,000 Italians are reported to have been landed from Italian warships at Cadiz. \n\n## Sports \n\nRain again interfered with the Test cricket in Melbourne yesterday, but Australia consolidated its position and at stumps, Bradman and Fingleton were batting with the score at five for 194. \n\nThe European Press defeated the Hongkong Referees at football by 2-1 in an even encounter at Sookunpoo yesterday. \n\nIn connection with the forthcoming Interport football match, Shanghai will probably be sending down 16 players. This was stated at the monthly meeting of the Hongkong Football Council held yesterday. The visitors, according to tentative arrangements, are expected to arrive here on February 9, and will play three matches. \n\n## STOP PRESS \n\n### THE GRAND NATIONAL \n\nMajor Furlong Not Entering Reynoldstown \n\nLondon, Jan. 4. \n\nThe owner of Reynoldstown, Major Furlong, is not entering for the Grand National. \n\nIn the first place, there is such a thing as taking the pitcher to the well too often, and, secondly, the altered conditions are unfair to the best horses, who may be beaten by selling platers owing to the receipt of top weight. \n\nJust after the decision, Reynoldstown won the Mapperley Chase at Leicester, his first race since last year's Grand National.-Reuter.",
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        "content_text": "# 608\n\n## RELIGION AND SCIENCE\n\nDr. Jones Addresses Rotarians\n\nDr. Stanley-Jones, the world-renowned evangelist, gave an inspiring address to Hong Kong Rotarians at their weekly luncheon meeting on Oct. 19 at the Hong Kong Hotel, at which Major Walker, President of the Club, was in the chair.\n\nDr. Jones took as his subject \"A Judgment Hour in History.\" He said that at various times in history, the feeling that a change in the affairs of the human race was coming, a feeling that a period of transition was at hand, had been evident. But nobody living today could look upon these present times without feeling that this period was particularly so. And particularly was this so in regard to religion.\n\nAt such a time, what had religion to say? asked Dr. Jones. Was it to retreat behind its Cathedrals and Churches and let the tragedy go on? That would amount to abdication. There were the great forces of Fascism and Communism contending against each other. The alternative was the doctrine of the Kingdom of God in the nature of an order against man's system.\n\nSpeaking of science in the light of religion, Dr. Jones said there was no clash between the two because they realised their own province. But behind the doctrine of science, they had to have religion and the spirit of religion. If the two were put together, he thought, they could remake the earth. He thought religion was giving that spirit to science and that science was thereby getting the power of religion. It was essential that the two must come together.\n\nRotarian Ingram proposed a vote of thanks to the speaker.\n\n## Talk On Discipline And Conduct\n\nAt the St. Andrew's Church Hall on Oct. 19, a large assembly listened to an enlightening talk by Dr. E. Stanley Jones. It was one of a series of lectures and discussions which the eminent preacher and author is conducting during his visit.\n\nDr. Jones spoke of the need of discipline in life and conduct. Discipline did not restrict a man, said the speaker; it taught him the path to real freedom. A man who knew not the fundamentals of music and who sat down to play at random on the piano would make chaos, but the musician who first disciplined himself in the rules could later find creative freedom in his art.\n\nSpiritual discipline was vitally necessary: a man without it might be compared to a wayward swamp, whilst he who possessed it was like a river which had course. It was not an easy thing to do, said Mr. Jones, but it was the only way to reach a fuller spiritual life.\n\n## JAPAN\n\n### No More Foreign Films\n\nNo further imports of moving picture films will be allowed this year.\n\nOctober 29, 1937\n\nIn connection with the exchange control, the Department of Finance recently restricted the import of foreign films at the same time notifying the various foreign film companies in Japan that the permission of the Japanese Government is required for imports of films.\n\nRecently the Government summoned representatives of the \"Jisshakai,\" an organization including all the principal foreign film companies in Japan and informed them that in view of the prevailing situation, the Government has decided to prohibit the import of foreign films, except news reels, until the end of the year.\n\nIt is pointed out that as the various companies' stock amounts to over 50 films (foreign), the prohibition will not cause as much inconvenience as might be expected this year. However, the step will render impossible the customary import of \"extravaganza\" films for the New Year.\n\nAs regards the question of imports next year, the Government's policy will depend upon developments in the China affair. At any rate, it is considered certain that at best, the import of foreign films will be considerably restricted in future.\n\nIn this connection, a Shochiku representative told reporters: \"In accordance with national policy, we will have to readjust our methods of disposing of stock. Furthermore, we will have to give more consideration to the release of Japanese pictures.\"\n\n### Cutting State Expenditure\n\nThe Government is to cut down the State expenditure for the current fiscal year either through economies or by postponing various schemes. The matter is now being discussed by the Finance Ministry and the various Departments concerned.\n\nIt is stated that the Finance authorities desire to effect a cut of at least ¥100,000,000 in expenditure. If so, as a natural increase of about ¥100,000,000 in revenue is predicted, there will be a \"surplus\" of ¥200,000,000 in the budget. In other words, it will then be possible to reduce the loan issue by this figure.\n\nThe work of framing the budget estimates for the next fiscal year is being delayed by the China affair. The provisional claims of all Departments were received by the Accountants Bureau only on September 22nd. From next week on, the Finance authorities will interview representatives of all Departments, and receive an explanation of these claims from them.\n\nAlthough the new claims of all Departments, including the Services Departments, amount to a fairly large sum, the Finance authorities are resolved to examine them along the lines fixed at the Cabinet meeting on August 24th, that is to say, to confine approval to claims directly connected with the China affair as far as possible. Even those items already approved will be re-examined and postponed, if not disapproved, if they are not considered imperative from the point of view of national defence. The entire budget will thus be put on a war-time basis.\n\nApropos of the War Expenditure Special Account, the Finance authorities are willing to submit a supplementary budget in the next session of the Diet if necessary.\n\n## PHILIPPINE REVIEW\n\n### Filipinos Wake Up\n\nPresident Quezon, of the Philippines, who for many years has insisted upon the independence and sovereignty of the islands, having attained his end through the passage of the McDuffie-Tydings act, which goes into full force and effect in about nine or 10 years, is now not so anxious to cut the ties with this country and take to the rolling deep of international politics.\n\nHe has begun to doubt the expediency of complete and immediate independence. What he now wants is autonomy under American protection. He wants to have the Filipinos independent, completely self-governing, no longer under any restraint, but at the same time safeguarded by American warships and the moral force of this country. He is against any interference but in favour of plenty of protection.\n\nLong ago, Theodore Roosevelt declared that the two things were incompatible. If the Philippines were to be cut adrift, he rightly insisted, they must row their own canoe. This country could not afford to let them carry on their own affairs without the slightest semblance of control, and at the same time lean upon America for support in every emergency.\n\nMr. Quezon has his wires crossed. He must accept one horn of the dilemma or the other. He cannot achieve complete independence and at the same time claim the rights of a ward. The United States would be guilty of the greatest folly to accept such a situation.\n\nLong ago, those most competent to judge foresaw that the Filipinos could not stand alone, and opposed the bill that was finally passed. Now Senator Tydings, co-author of the measure that granted independence, having visited the islands, expresses the view that it was a mistake to enact the legislation. He believes that the Philippines will become the prey of Japan.\n\n### Aid For Unemployed\n\nThe unemployment council created last week by Pres. Quezon started attacking the problem of how to provide work for Manila's estimated 20,000 jobless as well as for those of other cities, at a meeting at the Bureau of Health offices of Dr. Jose Fabella, chairman.\n\nThe first task faced by the council was to listen patiently to a score of leaders of organizations of jobless expound their views on how to provide work for the unemployed. The meeting assumed the nature of a public hearing during which members of the committee and spokesmen of the unemployed exchanged views on ways and means of meeting the problem.\n\nAfter a two-hour discussion, the council adjourned and will meet thereafter every week until some concrete plans are formulated whereby the government can minimize, if not entirely solve, the social difficulties created by unemployment throughout the country. The views advanced by the leaders of the unemployment associations were more or less haphazard with respect to proposed solutions and, according to Dr. Fabella, did not quite tally with the ideas of the council.\n\nThe leaders of the labourers' organizations naturally wanted work immediately and, if possible, employment of more or less permanent nature.\n\n## LOCAL ESTATES\n\nFrederic Eugene Henri Koch, late of Rue du Dr. Olivier, Ziguinchor in the French Colony of Senegal, who died intestate on June 27, 1924, left a local estate to the value of $3,200. Letters of administration to the estate of the deceased have been granted by the Supreme Court to George Noble Tinson, solicitor, for the use and benefit of Rose Marie Oenise Emiliene Bajac.\n\nLocal estate sworn under $4,500 was left by Wong On, alias On Wo, late of Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada, who died intestate on December 9, 1936. An application by George Gwinnett Noble Tinson, solicitor, for sealing certified copy of the Order Appointing Administrator of the estate of the deceased has been granted.\n\n## \"WHERE TO STAY IN ENGLAND\"\n\n### LONDON\n\n**RUSKIN MANOR & BESSEMER GRANGE HOTELS**\n\nDENMARK HILL, LONDON, S.E. 5\n\n15 minutes by Bus or Tram to Centre of London.\n\nOwn 40 acres Grounds. Golf Course and Tennis Courts.\n\nModerate Tariff.\n\nBook Early.\n\nTelegrams: Ruskinite, London. Telephone: Brixton 1311.\n\n### HERNE BAY\n\nFurnished House, detached. First-class locality. Well furnished, everything for use including linen and plate. Three bedrooms, 1 bathroom, lavatory (indoors), 1 large dining room, 1 breakfast room and usual offices. Electricity and gas throughout and gas stove for cooking. Vacant middle September. 2 Gns. Weekly. Apply Mrs. Deane, \"Roma,\" Pier Avenue, Herne Bay.\n\n## REV. D. CHILDE FAREWELL RECEPTION\n\nA reception to bid farewell to the Rev. Donald B. Childe and Mrs. Childe, who are proceeding home on leave by the s.s. Carthage, was held at the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home on Oct. 24.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Childe has been acting as Minister of the English Methodist Church and President of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home since the departure of the Rev. E. C. H. Tribbeck. He came out to China in 1930 after leaving Handsworth College, and was until early this year stationed at Shiuchow attached to the South China District of the English Methodist Church.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Childe is being succeeded by the Rev. J. E. Sandbach, who was present at the gathering last night.\n\nIn the course of the evening, a presentation was made to Rev. and Mrs. Childe by Mrs. A. P. Glanville and Mrs. J. H. Gelling, on behalf of the committees and members of the Church and the Home, the presentation taking the form of a leather suitcase and an inscribed mantel clock.\n\n# 609",
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        "content_text": "# SECRET MESSAGE\n## IN\n### FROM:- C. in C. China.\n#### DATE: 5.10.37\n##### RECD:- 2031.\n\n119  \n**Interdepartmental Cypher**  \n**CORRECTION RED. 1642/7**  \n\n**ADDRESSED:** Embassy Nanking `59`, repeated Commodore Hong Kong `295`,  \nand for Governor, Admiralty, Consul General Canton, Peking `651`, S.O. West River.\n\nReference Consul General Canton number `89` to Peking. Japanese have apparently no military reason for sending warships through Canton barrage and they show no intention of so doing. I could ask C. in C. Japanese Third Fleet for required guarantee which may be forthcoming but feel this is little use in view of Chinese obstinacy and procrastination. Chinese action in closing navigation without adequate warning is so childish and unfriendly that I suggest you may consider something stronger than protest is called for.\n\nIt is possible Governor of Hong Kong might consider bringing pressure to bear by refusing certain facilities to Chinese. A few hours opening of barrage should be sufficient to pass all British shipping.\n\n| Distribution List |\n| --- |\n| 1st Lord |\n| 1st S.L. |\n| 2nd S.L. |\n| 3rd S.L. |\n| 4th S.L. |\n| D.C.N.S. |\n| A.C.N.S. (Air) |\n| A.C.N.S. |\n| PARL. SEC. |\n| CIVIL LORD |\n| SEC. |\n| NAVAL SEC |\n| P.A.S. (S) |\n| O.D. (3) |\n| D.N.I. (6) |\n| M. (9) |\n| M. 34 |\n| D. of P. (3) |\n| D.S.D.9 |\n| N.I.D. 8 |\n| Plans (Trade) (2) |\n| HYDRUG. |\n| D.D. of S.T. (Mr. Dorrell) (2) |\n\n`22300/5.`  \n`R.T.`",
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        "content_text": "C.I.D China. R. C.\n\n1.0.A G. Sec.\n\n20.8.31,\n\nIns. I letter to Consul General, Canton.\n\nI think it unfortunate the road has not been completed,\n\n...\n\nEnclosure\n\nAs proposed\n\nM Happ017\n\nP. Rogers\n\nNo fee\n\n23/9\n\n24\n\nTo 3.0.\n\nw.o.\n\nAdmny.\n\nAns'd 8. 29-\n\n(wterrencl.) 18/126 5/10/37\n\n6.0.0.9 Tel.248\n\nRefl. States he is in favour of carrying out work now for reasons.\n\n23.10.37\n\nThe O.A.G has changed his mind and the arguments previously used still hold good.\n\nI think it unwise to hand ...\n\nHowever important that the Japanese may choose to put upon the undertaking, the road should be completed whatever the interpretation.\n\nPage ...",
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        "content_text": "Whether the actual building of the road in Chinese territory will be possible in the face of Japanese war attacks is of course doubtful, but I do not think that the difficulties need prevent it being undertaken by the M.P. re((2))?\n\nIt appears to me desirable that the building of the road should be undertaken. If they ask for it, I will inform the O.A.Q. accordingly and ask for an early reply.\n\nThe financial argument which was used in August is no stronger now than then. There is no indication of the cost in the Municipal Report or in the general Annual Report of the Colony (a copy of the latter is annexed). The main road is less than 2 miles (at SHEN & HUI) from the frontier. The by-road reaches within a short distance of it at the point.\n\nCopy letter ref x/3-5\n\nP. Roger\n\n26.X.37\n\nPage information is not explicitly present in the given text, so it won't be added.\n\n \nThe given text has been re-organised into proper paragraphs and minor corrections have been made to make it more readable.\n\n \nFile reference format has been corrected, e.g., `x/3-5` is left as is because there's no clear indication it should be changed.\n\n \nSome minor reordering and rephrasing were done to improve readability while keeping the original meaning intact as per the rules.",
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        "content_text": "See para. 4 of enc. to (1). In Anquil when China's \"hour of need\" was not so apparent, I think little need for the exhortation in paragraph 2 of this letter. We have already noted the Nanking telegrams, copies of which are enclosed, and it is, I think, the very real difficulties caused in Hong Kong by the present disturbances, rather than any interference on the part of the British authorities, which have led the Colonial Government to adopt what may appear at first sight a somewhat obstructive policy. I suggest, however, that the O.A.G.'s telegrams and despatches show that he is clearly aware of maintaining Chinese goodwill. It is not clear precisely what language was used by the O.A.G. in \"repudiating any idea of a possible alliance against a common foe\", but I do not see that this necessarily meant that in the actual audience with Colonel Li Fong the proposals were rejected in anything but \"friendly and moderate terms\".\n\nWith regard to the immediate question of completing road communication between the Colony and Hong Kong, I am inclined to agree with the Foreign Office view that it would be desirable from the point of view of wider British interests in China, and therefore ultimately of the Colony itself, to complete the road as quickly as possible. Unless, therefore, the reply to our telegram at (7) is most unsatisfactory, I suggest that we should approve the completion of the road as quickly as possible. A reply to (8) might wait for the reply to our telegram.\n\nWait accordingly.\n\nP. Rogers\n\n30.X.37.",
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        "content_text": "7\n\nI agree them.\n\nIn this letter the Foreign Office support in particular the Chinese project for completing the road connection between Hong Kong and Chinese territory, and hope that it will be possible to meet the Chinese wishes in this respect in full and without delay.\n\nThey think it right to enlarge upon the general desirability that the Hong Kong authorities should secure the goodwill of the Chinese by \"every available legitimate means\", and they reproduce the substance of sentences from the Colonial Office Memorandum recently circulated to the Cabinet Committee.\n\nThey deprecate in particular the use by the Hong Kong Government towards the Chinese of such language as \"firmly repudiating any idea of a possible alliance against a common foe\", and they explain that it is the desire of H.M.G. that every assistance should be given to China \"within the bounds of propriety\" to enable her to keep up with her resistance to aggression; with this policy in view they ask that the Secretary of State may issue instructions to the Hong Kong authorities \"to adopt in future as accommodating an attitude as is possible towards legitimate suggestions from the Chinese authorities\".\n\nTo my mind this little lecture is rather surprising, and, I believe, undeserved. On the important question, for instance, of the supply of arms to China through Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Government has, while stressing the embarrassing nature of the trade to the Colony,",
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        "content_text": "Colony, nevertheless continued to advise that in the interests of good relations with China no embargo should be placed on the export of munitions to her in her hour of need. Public sympathy in Hong Kong, as the Colonial Government know well, is uncompromisingly on the side of China, and for many months past official and semi-official approaches have been made to Hong Kong by the Cantonese authorities for the closest \"co-operation\". His Majesty's Ambassador at Nanking has similarly had to deal with this question of \"co-operation\" with China, and in his despatch of the 9th of April (flagged 'A' in 53518/37 attached) he discussed in the marked passages in paragraphs 3 and 9 (paragraph 9 particularly relating to Hong Kong and Canton) the real intention of the Chinese under this guise.\n\nIn the O.A.G.'s despatch of the 20th August (No. 1 in this file) here we have the same Colonel Li Fong, and it is to him that the O.A.G. \"once again firmly repudiated any idea of a possible alliance against a common foe\". Hong Kong is an island in the midst of the present disturbances, and its administration and policy are watched carefully, not only by the Chinese, but by the Japanese, whose commercial and naval representatives freely come and go, and whose intelligence we must assume to be particularly concentrated there.\n\nWe have this project for completing road connection between the New Territories of Hong Kong and the Chinese province of Kwang Tung. It has been under discussion for the last 15 years. The frontier in the area proposed has to be crossed, whether by road or railway, by a bridge, which, with its approaches,\n\n150\n\nmust",
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        "content_text": "The frontier is on the north bank of the stream. It should be not less than 100 yards long. The Chinese frontier village is Sham Chun, and the previous attitude of the Hong Kong Government has been that if the Chinese will construct a suitable road to somewhere near Sham Chun, the connection with our own road system would be comparatively easy. For military reasons we have preferred that any such road connection should cross the river at the frontier by the existing railway bridge at Sham Chun. That seems to me still a sensible attitude, although the Hong Kong Government have now, in view of the exposure of the railway to greater interruption, come to regard it as of more interest to the Colony's trade and food supply that the alternative channel of a road should be constructed without delay.\n\nAccording to our information, it is actually on the British side of the frontier, so should be free from Japanese attacks; the immediate approaches on the Chinese side would, however, be a legitimate target. It would, to my mind, be absurd for us to decide now at this juncture to complete a main road up to and across the railway bridge while there would be no similarly constructed road running northwards from the Chinese frontier. We have asked the Hong Kong Government for certain information in No. 7, and this seems essential before we can either consider the very real difficulty in present circumstances about cost, or ascertain the War Office view from the point of view of defence.",
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        "content_text": "of plocations Oxpan \n\nfrom the Secretary of State to the Governor that he should \"adopt in future as accommodating an attitude as is possible towards legitimate suggestions from the Chinese authorities\", I think it is undeserved and unnecessary. It is all very well for the Foreign Office to want to give sub rosa assistance to the Chinese, but the position is that Japan is a friendly power, and I have no doubt that the Hong Kong Government would be firmly rebuked by the Foreign Office if any action on the part of the Colonial Government could reasonably be represented by the Japanese as exceeding the bounds of neutrality in China's favour.\n\nPerhaps the best thing would be to ask Mr. Ronald to come and have a talk with Sir H. Moore, pending the receipt of a reply to No. 7, and to discuss what really they mean by such phrases as \"every available legitimate means\" (end of paragraph 3) and \"within the bounds of propriety\" (paragraph 4), and \"legitimate suggestions from the Chinese authorities\" (paragraph 4).\n\n& Sumant.\n\n3-X1\n\nI agree. Perhaps then we could extract some definite consistent policy from the F.O. Only recently schemes were under discussion for granting certificates to British ships which were not carrying arms, with a view to securing immunity from Japanese examination; apparently the benefit to shipping was held to outweigh any offence given to China. Yet here we are urged to construct a road, which the Japanese could only regard as\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "a military road, and the completion of which could hardly be effected in time to benefit China so far as the transport of munitions is concerned.\n\n3. I should be happy to see Sir Ronald's views on this. What the Foreign Office are aiming at is not clear under the circumstances. If it is merely to muddy the waters quite a lot from their point of view, the argument is much in point.\n\nMr. Orde will ...\n\nSir H. Moore discussed No. 8 with Mr. Orde this morning and as a result Mr. Orde admitted that perhaps the request marked \"Q\" in paragraph 4 of the Foreign Office letter had been sent without sufficient consideration on the part of the Foreign Office. He was sure that the Foreign Office had no reason to press for any special instruction to the Governor to mend his ways, and to be more ...",
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        "content_text": "LFFiRupt \n\n6 Fo. my \n\nmore accommodating than hitherto towards legitimate Chinese requests, but perhaps it would be possible for the Colonial Office, if a suitable opportunity occurred, to keep before the Governor the desirability of being as accommodating to China as circumstances permitted.\n\nOn the particular project of the road connection the Foreign Office appreciated that it was necessary for us to consult the War Office on the defence aspect before we could commit ourselves to approving the projected work, particularly since it now appears from No. 9 that a separate road bridge is contemplated.\n\nNo. 10 has also since come in from Hong Kong, and is obviously urgent.\n\n? Send to the War Office confidentially copies of 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, saying that it will be observed that a separate road bridge is contemplated, the whole length of which from bank to bank would be in British territory, and ask for their observations on the proposal from the defence aspect. Add that in view of the Governor's proposal in No. 10 it is extremely desirable that a very early decision should be taken on the subject of the road connection.\n\nCopy above with enclosures to the Foreign Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, D.C.T., and Board of Trade, and to the Foreign Office say in a covering letter that the Secretary of State will be glad to have their views on the proposals in No. 10 on the assumption that there are no military objections to the completion of the road connection and the construction of a separate road bridge on the frontier.\n\nArhan",
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        "content_text": "as proposed. (to obtain latest information is that 7.0. are concerned about hostile manifestations in Dokayo, we may expect that their next lecture will not be so uncompromising.)\n\n#lowell 5-11-37\n\n8.4. 12 11 To wo. (~16.7.9.10 ~12) | Gauf bons. 10=11) 6/11/37 3.0. Cwtc 6,7,9,10 (w/c\n\n13 To Aduy a. BT (mm.a.) (ut 6,7,9,10, 11&12) 18/126 Bouf. 8/11/37 DOT. 19.0.0.\n\n10.0.37. I have no objection to propaganda. ? wait 2 days for 7.0. letter (10&12)\n\nP. Rage D 10&11. Ml Mant.\n\n10.",
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        "content_text": "See 10\n\nNo reply in from F.O. re 10) El Burs 12/11 18. Copy. Tel to Mr. Howe 19 F.O. 89163) 7455/10 12 amsid. 12:11·37- 14\n\nViews on scheme. Gives views The Foreign Office and War Office both agree to the completion of the road connection between Hong Kong and Canton and I doubt if we need raise further objection.\n\nWith regard to the completion of the road as a means of bargaining over the Canton River, the Foreign Office think that this would be undesirable and I am inclined to agree with their arguments.\n\nAs the matter is urgent, I submit a draft telegram for consent, a copy of which should go on the shipping file, on Done $382814 7030/2/37 Gensec P. RogeD 20 cabinet crufile. IS. XI. 37.\n\nTo Gw.tel. 242 Secret. 21 To F.O. 22 wo My 16=40 6010ared -16. 11.37 J (~1620) 18/126 Conf. 17/11/37",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nyou.\n\nSec\n\n18·1·88\n\nConfirms 24 and desires authority for $18,416.50.\n\nSupplementary expenditure\n\nexpenditure\n\naw mad\n\n...\n\nack. I approve the additional expenditure subject to \"thewal by req.lo.\n\n16\n\nReq. copies of comes pardace suffl. expenditure file\n\nC\n\nLohy lo 7.0. w.o. eff. of 265\n\n...\n\nD. Rages 3/2\n\n...\n\nIn Howard lose I venture add -q to the despatch to suggest that the S.S. would be glad to obtain figures for exports to China passing through Kowloon. I\n\n10\n\nThe would that of so they could be added to the weekly let. figures of sufflement to Chania\n\nDen redft of (28) ando file manctims sent by rail.00 Rey city of desfut cho\n\nP. Rages 3/2\n\nBühich tembay\n\nThe construction of this first faulty edition of tus bridge by the Govt of China is rem regard to the political issues",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Rogers\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nGent 9\n\nSir H. Moore.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\n8/2/38.\n\n53851/37 Hong Kong.\n\nQu Au Marl\n\nPara 2. and\n\n68 on 55548/68.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSir,\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n(27)\n\nSECRET\n\nGOVERNOR\n\nDowning Street,\n\n12 February, 1938.\n\n20\n\n28\n\n10\n\nI have etc. to acknowledge the receipt of your secret despatch of the 18th January and to inform you that I approve the additional expenditure of $18,716.50 for building a bridge over the Shum Chun, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council also being obtained.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\n(29)\n\n(ठ)\n\nCopy\n\nRegister copies of correspondence on 63433/38 and 53/548/38 Secret. Arms File and Supplementary Expenditure files and copy to F. and W., L.F.F. ref. (25) (26).\n\n2. I shall be glad to learn whether it will be possible to obtain figures for exports of munitions to China passing over the road which has now been completed and, if so, I shall be obliged if they can be added as a supplement to the weekly telegrams of exports of munitions sent by rail.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Signed) W. ORMSBY GORE.\n\n(*801-150) Wt. 13952-47 10,000 6/37 T.S. 695 (*1632-150) Wt. 32179-71 20,000 12/37 T.S. 695\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "53851\n\nSECRET.\n\nAIR MAIL.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.\n\n18th January, 1938.\n\nI have the honour to confirm my secret telegram No.16 dated 15th January, 1938, which reads as follows:-\n\n\"Your telegram No.242. Bridge completed and through traffic possible though road works not yet complete. Despatch follows by Air Mail.\"\n\nand to inform you that the temporary bridge over the Shum Chun river was completed on 31st December, 1937, and that communication by road with China is now possible though considerable work still remains to be done before the road works in British Territory can be regarded as complete.\n\n2. In this connection I would request your authority in accordance with Colonial Regulation No.265 for the additional expenditure of $18,716.50 in excess of the estimate of $85,000 which was given in my secret telegram No.267 dated 4th November, 1937.\n\nThe original estimate did not allow for the cost of bridge building as it was thought that the temporary bridge in process of construction by the Chinese\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,\n\n&C., &C., &C.",
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        "content_text": "· 2\n\n22\n\nGovernment would be completed by them and would prove adequate for immediate purposes.\n\n3.\n\nCloser investigation, however, disclosed that the construction work already done by the Chinese engineers was not of a quality that could be accepted and in view of the further consideration that the bridge is in British territory it was decided that the entire reconstruction and completion of this work should be undertaken by this Government.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nJ. E. D. Martel\n\nGovernor.",
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        "content_text": "Origin 55548/37.5.\n\n93.\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Dated 26th November, 1937.)\n\n23\n\n(Received 5.14 a.m.\n\n26th November, 1937.)\n\nNo.294.\n\nAddressed to Tokio No.47 of 26th November\n\nrepeated to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nNo.294.\n\nYour telegram No.50.\n\nI can obtain no information that munitions have been exported by lorry. There is no road connection as yet with the frontier; construction of link road is about to be undertaken.\n\nTwo consignments on 7th September went by lorry to an intermediate station on the British section of railway on account of typhoon damage to the line between that station and Kowloon.",
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        "content_text": "53851/37.\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the\n\nColonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\n(Sent 12.15 p.m., 16th November, 1937.)\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\nNo.242.\n\nSecret.\n\nI agree to\n\nForeign\n\nYour telegram No.248 and No.268.\n\ncompletion of road connection with Canton.\n\nOffice and War Office have been consulted and agree.\n\nWith regard to using the scheme as a means of\n\npressure to secure freer passage for shipping to Canton,\n\nI consider this to be undesirable and am of the opinion\n\nthat Chinese authorities will not be averse to modifying\n\nmeasures taken on river if convinced that they are not\n\nindispensable on military grounds. Please keep me\n\ninformed by telegraph of progress of road connection.\n\n20. 24",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Rogers 15/11/37 Mr. Gent 15\n\n53851/37.\n\nMr. Howard 15/11\n\nMr. Cowell 15\n\nSir H. Moore 16/11 at once\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nAmed\n\n94.\n\n(Sent 12.15 p.m., 16th November, 1937.)\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\nNo.242.\n\n(6) (10)\n\nSecret.\n\nI agree to\n\nYour telegram No.248 and No.268.\n\ncompletion of road connection with Canton.\n\nOffice and War Office have been consulted and agree.\n\nForeign\n\nWith regard to using the scheme as a means of pressure to secure freer passage for shipping to Canton,\n\nI consider this to be undesirable and am of the opinion\n\nthat Chinese authorities will not be averse to modifying\n\nmeasures taken on river if convinced that they are not\n\nindispensable on military grounds. Please keep me\n\ninformed by telegraph of progress of road connection.\n\nCopy to C.O. and W.O.\n\nRegister copy of shipping file E.K.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote No. F9163/7455/10, and address—not to any person by name but to The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London, S.W.1. Confidential.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n12th November, 1937.\n\n19 26\n\nSir,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n15 NOV 1937\n\nC...REGY\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 53851/37 of the 6th instant on the subject of road communication between Hong Kong and Canton and to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Ormsby-Gore that he certainly considers it desirable in principle, subject to there being no strong military objection, to proceed with the early completion of the connexion in question.\n\n2. Mr. Eden would deprecate using the scheme as a means of pressure to secure freer passage for shipping to and from Canton. The road scheme seems likely in itself to be of benefit to the Colony and a failure to treat it on its own merits might well lead to ill-feeling on the part of the Chinese authorities which in general is undesirable and which might in this instance make them less inclined to listen to representations on the other question. The Chinese authorities are no doubt influenced purely by military considerations in the measures they have taken on the river and will not be averse to modifying them if convinced that they are not indispensable. The latest reports indeed seem to show that the position is more favourable than it was.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nA.W. Orde\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "(F.8797/130/10)\n\nTO CHINA.\n\nH.R.-Contd\n\nCypher telegram to Mr. Howe (Nanking).\n\nForeign Office. 3rd November, 1937.\n\n5.00 p.m.\n\nNo. 438.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nXXXXXXXXX\n\n18\n\n27\n\nYour telegram No. 603 (of the 22nd October; supply of arms to China via Burma).\n\n1. My two immediately following telegrams repeat telegrams on this subject between the Secretary of State for Burma and the Governor of Burma.\n\n2. His Majesty's Government and the Government of Burma welcome in principle the establishment of direct road connexion between Burma and China, and you may so inform the Chinese Government. Actual route must depend on latter's decision, but for the immediate purpose the route from railhead at Lashio via Muse and Mungling to connect with the motor road between Yunnanfu and Siakwan would seem most suitable. On a longer view route via Kunlong would perhaps be more advantageous; this would, however, raise question of territorial rights in Hopang salient.\n\n3. Government of Burma could not incur any considerable outlay on improving existing roads or on new construction without being assured that trade in arms (and other goods) would produce enough in transit charges to make it a reasonable proposition and that these charges would be promptly paid.\n\nAddressed to Nanking No. 438; repeated to Peking No. 506, Yunnanfu No. 5 and Burma No. 177.",
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        "content_text": "Tel. No.—Whitehall 9400.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to:—\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nThe War Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1,\n\nand the following number quoted.\n\n083/6039 (M.O.2.)\n\nRECEIVED\n\n10 NOV\n\nNATIONAL\n\nFOR DI\n\nC.O. REC\n\nCHEME\n\nMEN\n\nIMMEDIATE CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nTHE WAR OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\n10 November, 1937.\n\n17\n\n28\n\nSir,\n\nI am commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge\n\nreceipt of Colonial Office letter No. 53851/37, dated\n\n6th November, 1937, and, in reply, to state, for the\n\ninformation of Mr Secretary Ormsby Gore, that so far\n\nas defence considerations are concerned they have no\n\nobjection to the proposed construction of a separate\n\nroad bridge to complete the road connection between\n\nHong Kong and Canton.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nAt Widelows\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.,\n\n1.",
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        "content_text": "29\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Royes 5/x1 Gent 6\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir C. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n53881/37\n\nAnd (19)\n\nImmediate\n\n~ Confidential\n\n421\n\nCopy to\n\nCadmy\n\nBUT\n\nReference to\n\n7.0\n\nletter to F. 8050/7455/10\n\n(8)\n\nthe 284 of October\n\n2 DRAFT.S\n\nThe U.S.O.S.\n\n7.0.\n\n2.0.A.G. 2245. (6)\n\nTo. O.A.G. hollt\n\nTo.0.A.G.\n\n(7)\n\n20267\n\n(+)(9) 3. Go\n\nYou no 268 (10)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nSee /w the accompany\n\nof\n\nCopies both\n\nletters are requested as 53838/10/37\n\nto be transmitted to\n\nyou\n\nI be laid before the Secretary\n\nLogg Eden\n\ncopies of tele-graphic correspondence with the Govt of Hong Kong\n\non the subject\n\nof road communication between Hong Kong and Canton\n\n2. A letter which has been addressed to the\n\nW-O\n\non the scheme\n\nand the defence aspect of\n\nalso enclosed.\n\n3. The Ormsby Gore",
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        "content_text": "I would be glad to be informed \n\n7 ho Eden? \n\nre Eden's views \n\nthe proposals made by \n\nYou Hany Kay \n\nsecret \n\nLes Plate gran \n\nho 268 \n\nthe 447 \n\nNovember \n\nA \n\non \n\nthe \n\nthe assumption that there \n\nare \n\nno \n\nmaterial objections \n\nof the completion \n\nof \n\nthe \n\nroad connection between \n\nKowloon and Lantao; \n\nand \n\nan \n\nto the construction of separate road bridge: \n\nthe frontier \n\n4. A copy of the cello \n\ngram has been sent to the W.O, \n\na day, A.M., B/T B.O.T. \n\nB/128.07. \n\nI am … \n\n(signed) H R COWELL. \n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "31\n\nAnnex 14.\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Sir C. Parkinson,\n\nMr. Sir G. Tomlinson.\n\nMr. Sir C. Bottomley.\n\nMr. Sir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n2 DRAFT.\n\nThe 4,57\n\nW.O.\n\n70.0.AG. ko 248.\n\n(6) to 0.A.G. ko 218 (7)\n\n(9) Jr. Gov be 267\n\nzu. You. ko 268\n\nFURTHER ACTION\n\nerky to gydy A.M, BIT, and D.O.T. eff wp = (+ exclusives)\n\n(10) M to Fo (2)\n\nSadmy a.\n\n49 z hoda (dy (h/w)\n\n5385/1937 Hony Kong\n\nhumediate Confidential.\n\nWith reference to your letter from this Dept of the 7th October, I am etc lo you to be lace before the Army Council copies of telegraphic correspondance with the Govt of Hong Kong in the subject of road (Mmm ha Hong Kong and subject to the W.O is also enclosed uniciation between Canton\n\n2. a copy is at 3.\n\n3. It will be observed that the proposal involves the construction of a separate road bridge, the whole length of which, from bank to bank, would be within British territory. By Hong Kong Govt could",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nwould be grateful if\n\nnought receive\n\nat an early date by emp\n\nhe\n\nGlad to learn\n\nearly\n\nwhack the Amy\n\nCouncil\n\nprejudiced\n\nin he\n\nmay\n\nwish to make\n\nLo concur\n\nthe scheme from the point\n\nof view of now\n\nin the proposed\n\nwork\n\nfor\n\nas\n\nso far as defence considerations are concerned.\n\n3. A copy of\n\nthis\n\nletter has been\n\nsent\n\nto the G.O.C.,\n\nC-in-C, & P. O. T\n\netc\n\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL",
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        "content_text": "CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the \n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies, \n\nDated 4th November, 1937, \n\nReceived 4.6 p.m. 4th November.\n\n10\n\n33\n\n(Admny, 13\n\na.m. 14\n\nBIT\n\nto\n\nholog\n\nI IMPORTANT.\n\nNo.268\n\nSecret.\n\nAddressed to Secretary of State for the Colonies No.268\n\n4th November repeated to Hanking Telegram No.52 copies to \n\nGeneral Officer Commanding Canton Commodore,\n\nConsul General Canton has informed me this morning \n\nthat Canton Military Authorities have expressed the intention \n\nfor Monday next to close Canton River to all traffic drawing over \n\n7 feet. Motive is the fear that if access is permitted to \n\nvessels of greater draught Japanese war vessels may come up and \n\nbombarde Canton. Consul General and local naval experts consider \n\nthis most improbable.\n\nProposed action will seriously affect Hong Kong \n\ntrade and would increase commercial embarrassment which is \n\nalready serious owing to overcrowded warehouses.\n\nConsul General \n\nhas consulted this Government as to means of bringing pressure to \n\nbear on the military authorities to permit passage of vessels \n\ndrawing up to at least 11 feet.\n\nRepresentation that \n\nextension of Hong Kong Canton Road to Chinese border would not \n\nbe undertaken in the event of unreasonable action prejudicial to \n\nshipping being taken by Chinese military authorities would \n\npresumably have considerable effect; but of course no such \n\npressure can be employed unless and until you approve such \n\nextension (see my telegram Secret No.267). I shall be grateful \n\nfor earliest possible intimation of your views on proposals \n\n(1) road extension (2) method of utilising (1) for purpose of \n\nOfficer Administering the Government Secret\n\n07/53089/4/37\n\npressure.\n\ntelegram No.217 is relevant.",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 4th November, 1937.\n\nReceived 11.7 a.m., 4th Nov.\n\nNo.267.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.267 of the 4th November copies to Canton and General Officer Commanding.\n\nFrontier.\n\nYour telegram No.218 of the 28th October.\n\nCompletion of Road Connection at Chinese Frontier.\n\nLength of road requiring improvement approximately 15,500 feet: estimated cost excluding cost of bridge 85,000 dollars. Timber bridge of non-permanent type already partially constructed by the Chinese Government who wish to complete but work suspended pending the outcome of request in my cypher telegram No.248 of the 23rd October; separate steel bridge is proposed.\n\nWhole length of bridge as far as north bank would be in British territory. In view of extent to which Colony is interested General Officer Commanding does not oppose.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication \non this subject, please quote \nNo. F8050/7455/10 \nand address--- \nnot to any person by name \nbut to \nThe Under-Secretary of State, \nForeign Office, \nLondon, S.W.1. \nConfidential.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE. \nS.W.1. \nRECEIVED \n29 OCT 1937 \nC.O. REGY \n28th October, 1937. \n35\n\nSir, \nWith reference to Colonial Office communication \nNo. 53851/37 of the 5th October enclosing a copy of a secret \ndespatch from the Officer Administering the Government of \nHong Kong on the subject of road communication between Hong \nKong and Canton, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to \nrequest you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies \nthat he could not help but deprecate the uncompromising \nattitude which appeared to have been adopted in declining the \nChinese proposals, and that it was with considerable satisfaction \nthat he learned from Hong Kong telegram No. 248 of the 23rd \nOctober that the Acting Governor has since reconsidered his \ndecision and is now disposed to push forward the project \nwithout delay.\n\n2. It is, in Mr. Eden's view, highly desirable that the \nauthorities in Hong Kong should guard at all times, but \nespecially during this period of crisis for China, against the danger of taking a narrow view of their interests and \nshould not lose sight of the unquestionable fact that its \nprosperity and its value as a British Colony ultimately depend \nentirely on securing the good-will of the Chinese: for, if \nthe Chinese Government were definitely antagonised or fell \nunder the influence or the control of a Power hostile to \nBritish interests, Hong Kong might be completely strangled and, \ntaking a wide view, therefore, the interests of Hong Kong are \nidentical with the wider general British interests in China.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, \nColonial Office.\n\n30/",
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        "content_text": "36\n\nQ\n\nWhations\n\nКто жест\n\n3. In this connexion, I am to draw attention to Nanking telegrams to the Foreign Office Nos. 417, 421, 539 and 557, copies of which are enclosed herein. From the two latter, and from other information which has reached Mr. Eden, it would appear that the Germans are taking advantage of the opportunity presented to them by China's present difficulties in order to pave the way for future trade advantages. Indifference on the part of British authorities in China's hour of need may have far-reaching results: and it may well be that after the hostilities are over, assuming China to have escaped entire defeat and disruption, the Germans may well be in a fair way to obtain many of those posts in China which are regarded as essential for the promotion and safeguarding of British interests unless efforts are made to retain Chinese good-will by every available legitimate means.\n\n4. Having regard to the foregoing considerations, as well as to the fact that from the wider political point of view, as Mr. Ormsby-Gore is aware, it is the desire of His Majesty's Government that every assistance should be given to China, within the bounds of propriety, to enable her to keep up her resistance to aggression, I am to express the hope that Mr. Ormsby-Gore may be moved to issue instructions to the authorities in Hong Kong to adopt in future as accommodating an attitude as is possible towards legitimate suggestions from Chinese authorities. He would deprecate the use of such language as that of \"firmly repudiating any idea of possible alliance against a common foe\", but would urge that whenever proposals have to be rejected this may be done in friendly and moderate terms.\n\n5.",
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        "content_text": "4. R.\n\n37\n\n5.\n\nAs regards the specific proposal with regard to road communication, Mr. Eden trusts that now Mr. Smith has withdrawn his objections it may be found possible to meet the Chinese wishes concerning the project in full and without delay.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nN.B. Ronald",
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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\n38\n\nFrom CHINA.\n\nDecypher.\n\nMr. Gage. (Hanking).\n\nSeptember 4th, 1937.\n\nNo. 417.\n\nD. (by wireless) September 4th, 1937.\n\nR. 8.5.p.m. September 4th, 1937.\n\n-o0o-\n\n29th.\n\nHongkong telegram No.163 to Colonial Office August\n\nThe Chinese Government and the educated classes are watching with the utmost anxiety for the reaction of His Majesty's Government to Japan's suggestion that restrictions should be imposed on the use of Hongkong as an entrepôt for the import of arms into China. They do not intend to ask us for favours but they feel that it is a matter of life and death for them and that as joint signatories with them of the Kellogg Pact and other agreements which Japan is trampling under foot we owe them something more than the benevolence of neutrality, the effect of which will be to destroy their power of resisting the aggressor.\n\nJapan's appeal to the Powers to help her to shorten hostilities by cutting off China's supply of arms calls forth specially cynical comments.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No.417 September 4th; repeated to Peking telegram No.517, Commander-in-Chief and Tokyo.",
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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\n39\n\nDecypher.\n\nFROM CHINA.\n\nMr. Gage (Nanking).\n\n6th September, 1937.\n\nD, D. (By W/T)\n\n7th September, 1937.\n\nR. 8.45 p.m.\n\n7th September, 1937.\n\nNo.421.\n\nXXXXXXXXXXX\n\nHongkong telegram No.169 to Colonial Office of September 1st.\n\nIn addition to point mentioned in my telegram No.417 to you Chinese also feel that they are fighting our battle as well as their own and they cannot understand how we can even contemplate damning such an important source of their resistance. In their opinion the fact that Japanese have not declared war makes arms traffic through Hongkong perfectly legitimate.\n\nI venture to put forward for further consideration that if we now cut off arms supply to China through Hongkong we are unlikely to obtain a large share in the rearmament of China after the termination of hostilities.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No.421 of September 6th.\n\nRepeated to Hongkong, Peking, C.in C. Embassy Offices Shanghai.",
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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\n40\n\nFrom CHINA.\n\nDecypher.\n\nMr. Howe (Hanking).\n\n7th October, 1937.\n\nD.\n\nR.\n\n(Via M/T.) 7th October, 1937.\n\n5.45 p.m.\n\n7th October, 1937.\n\nNo. 559.\n\nTokyo telegram No. 457, last paragraph, and Tokyo telegram No. 439.\n\nThe immediate Japanese military objective in North China seems to be to clear the five provinces (Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung) of Central Government troops so as to open the way for the special autonomous régime they envisage. They have made considerable progress having met with little resistance in Hopei and Shansi and are now only about sixty miles from the Yellow River on Tsinpu front.\n\nThere is no doubt they have been hoping to win over Han Fu-chu and so get Shantung without fighting for it. This presumably seems doomed to failure since Han Fu-chu is no longer completely master of the province but is surrounded by troops from other provinces.\n\nOn reaching the Yellow River Japanese will have to decide whether (a) to remain on that line and consolidate their gains or (b) to go on as far as line of Lunghai railway and then consolidate or (c) push beyond railway towards Hanking.\n\nIt is probable that (a) would leave them with only half the province of Shantung without Tsinanfu, Tsintao and Kiaochao railway. Therefore, it is probable that they will decide to force the Yellow River and continue down to Lunghai railway where they will come up against Chinese main defence line.\n\nIn fact there\n\n20\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "there are already indications that this is their intention.\n\nA good deal, however, may depend on how the situation develops in Shanghai. The Chinese put their best troops in the field here and efforts of the Japanese to break through their line have hitherto failed. The Chinese are confident of their ability to hold the Japanese in this area, but they are doing so by denuding other fronts of essential equipment, and the Japanese may find it pays them better to press an attack from the north than to attempt to force the Shanghai line.\n\nThe Military Attaché takes the view that the Japanese are likely to break Central Government forces and that they will smash away until they have done so. If pressure is kept up on all fronts, it should not be long before Chinese stores are used up, and they cannot import enough in the face of Japanese command of the sea to keep large-scale hostilities going short of help from outside; therefore, it is only a question of time before Chinese resistance is broken on all fronts and inevitable disintegration sets in.\n\nI would like to make it clear, however, that there are at present no signs of disintegration and that Chinese morale is still high and is likely to continue as long as supplies of war material can be obtained. A danger point will come, if it does not come earlier, when the Chinese Government is forced by military or air action to vacate Nanking.\n\nPresent indications are, however, that the Japanese are unwilling to proceed to extremes against Nanking as long as there is any hope of obtaining a political settlement with Chiang Kai-shek, and I am inclined to think they may go on waiting before taking the gloves off to see the latter's reaction to the terms which I communicated to him. At any rate, it has",
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        "content_text": "色。\n\nbeen very obvious that they have been holding their hand here\n\nwhatever the reason: even without indiscriminate bombing in\n\ncities they could by continued air action not only make it almost impossible for the Government to function at all (we have ourselves experienced extreme difficulty of working in\n\nthe midst of air raid alarms) but they could it seems to me\n\nwithout much difficulty cut all communications between Nanking\n\nand Shanghai and between Nanking and the North. It is a matter of surprise to us that they have not already done so.\n\nAs regards assistance from abroad I think that Chinese have few delusions on the subject of the League and their\n\nrequest for application of sanctions was rather a forlorn\n\nhope. They still hope that something may occur to force\n\nRussia to take direct action against Japan. Russia however\n\nseems unlikely to do so except as a member of the League. To what extent she is a present or potential supplier of\n\narmaments it is impossible to say. There are however\n\nindications that she has been holding out hopes of indirect\n\nassistance in the form of supplies of aircraft and other military supplies in return for acceptance by China of certain political terms which would bind her more closely to Russia than recent signed Sino-Soviet Pact of Non-aggression. To what extent Russia is a present or potential supplier of\n\narmaments it is difficult to ascertain, I question whether,\n\napart from aircraft, she is or ever will be on a large scale as question of transport between Russia and China is very difficult. In spite of reports regarding arrival of Soviet aeroplanes Donald still affirms not a single ... has\n\nbeen received from Russia. Nevertheless the sources of\n\nthese reports, which are several, are usually quite reliable and I am inclined to believe that negotiations for supply of\n\nRussian\n\nPage 42",
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        "content_text": "Russian aircraft on a large scale are on foot.\n\n4.\n\nAt present there is no doubt that Germany is the main foreign supporter of China from a military point of view. Not only is she supplying arms and ammunition more abundantly than any other country, but her military advisers are virtually running the war and are gradually pushing out other foreign advisers, particularly the Italians. They are represented on every front and, moreover, are also in charge of the ground anti-aircraft defence of Nanking and of the settlement of Kiangyin [grp. undec.] on the Yangtze, the defence of which they have taken over permanently from the Italians. As a result of their attitude, there is no doubt that Germans have more than regained the confidence in them lost at the time of signature of the German-Japanese anti-communist pact. That the German Government hope to reap a reward after termination of hostilities in the form of economic concessions goes, I should think, without saying.\n\nHow far their attitude will be modified by any active intervention of Russia on behalf of China is difficult to estimate from here. From conversations with German advisers, however, I am under the impression that strong German military support at present being afforded is dictated partly by a desire to prevent China from falling back too much on Russia.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 539; repeated to Tokyo, Commander-in-Chief, General Officer Commanding and Peking.\n\n43\n\n \nPage 43 appears here three times at the bottom, but since the original instruction is to keep \"Page XX\" as is when detected, and it is not clear if \"43\" is part of the page numbering or the content, the original format is kept as is.\n\n \nHowever, to follow the exact instruction on output format which requires HTML using  for paragraphs, the corrected response is already given. To strictly follow the \"Page numbering\" instruction, it should be noted that \"43\" is likely a page number. The original text does not show the complete \"Page XX\" format, so it is left as is.\n\nTo improve, the response is already in the required HTML format.",
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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\n44\n\nFrom CHINA.\n\nDecypher. From Howe (Wanking).\n\n11th October, 1937.\n\nD.\n\nBy wireless\n\nR. 4.35 p.m.\n\n15th October, 1937.\n\n15th October, 1937.\n\nNo. 557.\n\nMy telegram No. 539 last paragraph.\n\nGerman Military Advisers in China number 59, of whom 41 are usually stationed at Nanking, 6 at Canton, and the rest in other parts of China. At present, however, only 10 out of 49 remain in Nanking, the rest having been posted to various fronts etc. to advise on operations. In addition, there are in Nanking 12 civilian advisers, including chemical engineers [grp. undec.] and economic experts. One German expert is attached to the Ministry of Railways, and in this connexion, it is interesting to note that railway administration has functioned particularly efficiently during the present crisis, railway lines, bridges etc. being repaired with admirable speed after they have been bombed. There is no doubt that Chiang Kai-shek stands squarely behind German advisers, particularly Chief of Military Advisers General von Falkenhausen, who has since the outbreak of hostilities been given what amounts to complete charge of operations on the Shanghai front. Moreover, I have reason to believe that it was largely owing to his advice that General Pai Chung-hsi was sent to the Northern front.\n\nThere is no doubt that influential circles, from Chiang Kai-shek downwards, are very pleased at the unexpected support they have received from Germany, not only in the form of advisers alone but also through the fact that Germany has not invoked the German-Japanese anti-Communist Pact nor openly espoused the cause of Japan.\n\nIf...",
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        "content_text": "45\n\nIf German attitude is not modified and if at conclusion of hostilities China does not remain entirely at the mercy of Japan it seems probable that Germany will not only be granted economic concessions but that she will also be asked to continue reorganisation of Chinese army.\n\nA strong German strain in China taking a wide view would probably be advantageous to British interests as a check on Japan but it would in my opinion be a blow to our prestige if we lost our influence with Chinese navy. During the last year both German Embassy and German advisers have evinced some interest in position with regard to Captain Horth's successor as adviser to Chinese navy and a remark let slip recently by a German adviser to a member of my staff to the effect that after conclusion of hostilities China would do well to build up a large fleet of German submarines has made me suspect that Germans may be conspiring to replace us.\n\nThere are already two German naval advisers at Kiangyin barrier. I am accordingly again taking up with Ministry of Marine question of appointment of a British naval adviser to Chinese Central Government. (Please see telegraphic correspondence ending with Peking telegram 319 to you).\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 557 October 11th; repeated to Peking, General Officer Commanding, Commander-in-Chief.",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Gent.\n\n26/10.\n\nMr. Howard 27/10.\n\nMr. Cowell 27\n\nX Sir H. Moore.\n\n53851/37\n\nCYPHER\n\n27.10 at once.\n\nTELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nSent 9.45 p.m.\n\n27th October, 1937.\n\n746\n\n(21) Les Othe (admy. a. m. (51) 1/81 Saro. (11) Jony to [FO- (12)\n\nNo.218.\n\nAnsid\n\nYour Cypher telegram No.248\n\nCompletion of road connexion on Chinese frontier\n\ntelegraph what length of road needs to be constructed or improved to link up with Chinese road and what is estimated cost to Colony. Is it proposed that separate road bridge should be built at frontier and if so would whole length be within British territory.\n\nDoes General Officer Commanding support your recommendation.\n\nand\n\nCopies of No.6 to Depts. as in minutes.",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR \n\nCONFIDENTIAL TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the Government \n\nof Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Dated 23rd October, 1937. Received 10.35 a.m., 23rd October.\n\nNo. 248.\n\nCanton(ese) authorities are pressing for the completion of road connection in view of attacks on Kowloon railway.\n\nI am now in favour of carrying out the work without delay in order to maintain the Colony's trade with the interior and to facilitate import of necessary food supply.\n\nMoreover this project is now many years overdue and the opportunity of securing source of future prosperity may be missed if not seized at once.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET\n\n330\n\nPoppy received. To ...\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n20th August, 1937.\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information a copy of a letter which I have addressed to the Consul-General at Canton.\n\n2. The question of road communication with Canton has been intermittently discussed for the past fifteen years but I cannot find that any report has hitherto been made to the Colonial Office on the subject.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nN.L. Smith\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,\n\n&c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "G:EW\n\n49.\n\nSECRET\n\n50\n\n18th August, 1937.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that on 14th August Colonel Li Fong, representing the Mayor of Canton, came to see me on the subject of road communication between Canton and Hong Kong. I promised to look up previous correspondence on this subject and have now done so.\n\n2.\n\nAccording to my records the latest paper which you have on this subject is the Trade Commissioner's letter No. 38 of 17th November, 1936, which went to you under his No. 53 of the same date; and Mr. Phillips' confidential letter No. 17 of 15th March, 1935, to Sir William Peel is also relevant.\n\n3.\n\nPrevious discussions are, however, not altogether relevant to the present situation and Canton's avowed object now is to have an additional avenue for munitions in view of the prospects of blockade at Chinese ports.\n\n4.\n\nI once again firmly repudiated any idea of possible alliance against a common foe, and I think we should maintain the \"peace-time\" view that has frequently been put to the Canton authorities, (a) that if a road from Canton is constructed to a point somewhere near Sham Chun it will be a comparatively easy matter to effect a connection with our own road system (b) that for military reasons we should prefer the frontier to be crossed by the existing railway bridge at Sham Chun.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,\n\nCANTON.\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "SI END\n\n5.\n\nAt the same time I cannot but feel that any hurried activity on these lines by this Government would in the present juncture be liable to misinterpretation, and I would suggest that a suitable formula, which has the merit of being true, would be to say that funds for the connection could not in any case be made available at least until 1938.\n\n6.\n\nThis does not of course preclude the Canton authorities from driving a road through to somewhere near the frontier and this, if their fear is a breach in the railway line between Sham Chun and Canton, might perhaps meet their case.\n\n7.\n\nI shall be glad if Colonel Li Fong may be notified, as I promised him, in the sense of this despatch.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\n(SD) N.L.SMITH\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\n31\n\n12\n\nYeast-Vite\n\nBATTLE FRONT AT LIUHO\n\nATTACK BY CHINESE\n\nmeans Vigour\n\nBY TAKING YEAST-VITE you can benefit TO-DAY! You can gain and enjoy the exhilarating, energetic sensation of healthful zest. You will feel in good spirits instead of being depressed.\n\nTiredness is banished, cold and chills speedily relieved, the blood enriched and the nerves made strong and steady by the powerful vitamin nutrition of this SAFE and CERTAIN cure for Depression and common ills.\n\nYEAST-VITE IS LIFE.\n\nThe speedy benefit you experience is simply the natural outcome of the pure medicinal Yeast, Vitamins, especially Vitamin \"B\", and other valuable tonic ingredients which are in every YEAST-VITE TABLET.\n\nYeast-Vite TONIC TABLETS\n\nA pure Medicinal Yeast which contains no drugs.\n\nObtainable everywhere.\n\nSale Agents: Gilman & Co., Ltd. Hong Kong.\n\nYEAST VITE TONIC TABLETS\n\ne Lightrung Pick-me-up\n\nNow & Wonderful PURE YEAST, The atmord of VITAMINS\n\nuntain Natnag Hampt\n\nYEAST-VITE To Aid War Wounded\n\nLABORATORNST WATFORD, EMBLAND\n\n3APBI\n\nThe Hongkong Chinese Women's Soldiers' Relief Association Invites Contributions of Money and Material\n\nHeadquarters: Office of Chinese Estate Co., Ltd., First Floor, China Building.\n\nTHE SHUI HING HING CO. GENERAL PROVIDERS 187-195 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL\n\nSale STILL PROCEEDING REAL BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT\n\nGUERLAIN PERFUMERY IN FULL ASSORTMENT JUST RECEIVED ALL PRICES REDUCED SPECIALLY\n\nLIU SHALIMAR\n\nSETTLEMENT WAR ZONE REMAINS UNCHANGED\n\nCITY HOSTILITIES\n\nSerious Fighting Near Jukong Wharf\n\nALL LINES UNALTERED\n\nTIENTSIN FRONT\n\nJapanese Now Think Their Forces Sufficient\n\nTENSION RELIEVED\n\nPaoting, Sept. 1.\n\nJAPAN'S POLICY\n\nGovernment Asked To Clarify Its Attitude\n\nAPPEAL BY POLITICIANS\n\nLondon, Sept. 2. According to military intelligence received here to-day, 1,000 Japanese attached to artillery units left Tientsin to-day for Yangliuching, about 20 miles west of Tientsin.\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1. A message from Tokyo states that a full inquiry into the objectives of Japan's action in China, and clarification of the Government's purpose was recommended at a meeting of the Seiyukai (Conservative) Party by three of its leaders.\n\nEight leaders urged that the party make its aims in China more precisely known and establish a firmly-defined objective.\n\nAnother detachment of the Kwangtung Army arrived in Tientsin to-day and are being billeted in the Palitan barracks. Central News.\n\nNERVOUSNESS IN SOUTH AT FEAR OF AIR RAIDS\n\nMORE REINFORCEMENTS\n\nMain interest in the Shanghai war is centred on the fighting on the Woosung-Liuho front, where the Japanese officially claim the occupation of Lion Forest Forts on the coast about 10 miles beyond Woosung.\n\nThere was heavy fighting at Liuho and Woosung yesterday, when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. Chinese reports say that a Japanese attempt to take Paoshan, north of the Woosung fort, was repulsed after a severe engagement in which hundreds of the invaders were killed.\n\nFive Japanese transports and a supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement on Wednesday night and landed men and material in darkness. The Japanese deny the landing of Manchukuoan troops.\n\nChinese leaders are confident of winning the war after a long and bitter struggle. Mr. T. V. Soong says that Japan is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland. He predicts that all the $500,000,000 Liberty Bonds will be taken up within three months.\n\nBaulked by the Tientsin Consular Body in their attempt to take over the Chinese telegraph service in Tientsin, the Japanese military authorities have established their own cable service connecting Peiping and Manchukuo.\n\nThere is still much nervousness in Canton, Fukien and Kiangsi regarding possible Japanese air raids. The Canton Government has ordered all passage-towboats, launches and motor boats to avoid the bund and to anchor in the inner harbour near the foreign gunboats.\n\nThe Japanese and Chinese lines within the Settlement war zone remained unchanged yesterday despite occasional and severe exchange of fire in various sectors.\n\nTWO FOREIGNERS SHOT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1 (9 p.m.). Crack Chinese troops are now pouring into Yuehpu, a small town about a mile and half north-west of Liuying Bridge, Road in Chapei.-Central News.\n\nDesperate Battle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4 p.m.). Fighting Spreads\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Japanese troops were landed at the Jukong Wharf early yesterday morning, deploying out in a wide area. Fighting broke out immediately in the vicinity.\n\nAt 6 o'clock in the morning, a detachment of Japanese attacked Chinese entrenched at the Far Eastern Race Course, a mile west of the Jukong Wharf. The attack was intended to cover operations by a Japanese engineering corps to bridge the creeks at Kuanyinchai and Wang-chiachai nearby, but when the Chinese discovered their ruse, promptly shifted their positions and commenced a brisk fire in the new region, foiling all attempts to build the bridges.\n\nA party of Japanese advanced on Luchiachai, about half a mile north of the International Settlement boundary near the riverfront late in the morning. The Chinese troops stationed there withheld fire until the Japanese had moved unsuspectingly into a semicircle of Chinese troops, at which time the Chinese opened fire from all sides, killing a large number and forcing the remnants of the Japanese party to disperse.\n\nAt about the same time, another party of Japanese attacked the Chinese lines at Kuanyintang, about 1,000 yards south-west of the Jukong Wharf, but the Chinese held firm and forced the attackers to retire after a short skirmish.\n\nFollowing the landing of Japanese regulars who have taken over the Yangtsepoo area yesterday, the marines who have been holding Japanese positions in the area have been shifted to the Hongkew sector.-Central News.\n\nChinese Concentration\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said the Japanese had silenced the Chinese shelling of Hongkew from Chapei.\n\nThe Japanese dropped nine shells within half an hour on Paoshan Road in Chapei district, where it is reported there is a Chinese concentration following the arrival of heavy reinforcements. United Press.\n\nPositions Unchanged\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). There was a severe exchange of fire in sectors around Shanghai, where the Chinese and Japanese lines are still unaltered.-Reuter.\n\nREINFORCEMENTS\n\nPaoshan and a mile south of Lion Forest Fort.\n\nFresh Japanese Landing In\n\nTientsin, Sept. 2. Japanese troop movements to North China have been virtually completed, the leaders believing them strong enough for any exigency.\n\nThe number of Japanese forces in North China is estimated at 120,000, and is possibly more.\n\nThe suspension of reinforcements has eased the tension in the concessions where Japanese conduct has caused frequent protests.\n\nThe British concession is strengthening the outer barricades despite Japanese assurances that troops will avoid the British concession.\n\nFIGHT TO THE END\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJapanese Establish Their Own Cable Line\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. \"Christian General\" Visits the Front\n\nLEADERS CONFIDENT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). A visitor to the Chinese front line yesterday was Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the \"Christian General\" and vice-Chairman of the National Military Affairs Commission in Nanking.\n\nHe told interviewers that the Chinese would fight to the bitter end for the sake of world peace and China's own existence. He paid a tribute to the Chinese commanders, who he said were mindful only of their \"divine duties.\"\n\nA Bitter Struggle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (3.37 p.m.). In an interview, Mr. T. V. Soong said that China is doomed to a long and bitter struggle, but he predicted that she will eventually be victorious.\n\nHe said peace will come when Japan realises that she is in a lane that has no turning. \"Even before the war, Japan's finances were tottering from the burdens of militarism. Her huge expenditures now merely accelerate the inevitable. She is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland.\"-Reuter.\n\nPEIPING POSITION\n\nJapanese Putting Up New Gun Emplacements\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Reports from North China say that Peiping is daily becoming more impregnable with gun emplacements on permanent foundations replacing the earlier hasty defences.-United Press.\n\nKALGAN OCCUPIED\n\nJapanese Line Extends To Sea Front\n\nCANTON AIR RAID\n\nJapanese Plane Blown Up By Own Bomb\n\nCHINESE COMMENDED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2.\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. A bitter land, sea and air battle is being waged at Paoshan, known as the world's smallest walled city, where the gallant Chinese garrison, although cut off from other Chinese lines in and around Shanghai, has withstood for 10 hours the troops where needed.-United Press.\n\nBig Push Imminent\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). The setting for Japan's prospective big push on all fronts in the Shanghai and Woosung and Woosung areas is being completed.\n\nYesterday's fighting, though severe, was regarded only as a curtain raiser.-Reuter.\n\nPaoshan Not Captured\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.). The Chinese admit the loss of Woosung village, but deny that the Japanese have captured Paoshan\n\nReuter.\n\nHeavy Japanese Casualties\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. The 2,000 Japanese troops who landed in the vicinity of Woosung Fort yesterday made a frantic attempt to take Paoshan, but were repulsed after a severe engagement. Several hundred Japanese are reported to have been killed and injured.\n\nHARI-KARI HEROES\n\nIt is also disclosed to-night that 2,000 Japanese landed last night around Woosung Village and the Woosung Fort area. Central News.\n\nPROPERTY DAMAGED\n\nOn Mills Suffer\n\nSettlement Landing\n\nShanghai, Sept. (4.11 a.m.).\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.30 p.m.)\n\nChinese quarters regard the disembarkation of Japanese troops in the eastern district of the Settlement as a confession of poor success at attending the landing operations on the Liuho-Woosung coastline and assert that the presence of the Japanese troops is final confirmation that the Japanese are using the Settlement as a base of operations.\n\nBesides munitions and other war material the Japanese also landed in this section of the Settlement four and six-inch guns mounted on caterpillars.-Reuter.\n\nThree Japanese Divisions\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Three Japanese divisions, representing the crack troops of the Japanese Army, have arrived in Shanghai during the last few days, it was revealed to-day.-Central News.\n\nPush Towards Lotien\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 am.). A Japanese military spokesman said that the Chinese were attempting retaliation. However, the Japanese repulsed them.\n\nManchukuo Troops\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said that Japanese troops were landing daily in Shanghai and its vicinity. He denied the presence of Manchukuans.\n\nBOMBERS IN ACTION\n\nSpectacular Japanese navy and air forces were fiercely attacking Paoshan, which the advance guard reached yesterday.-United Press.\n\nSevere Engagement\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). Heavy fighting is reported at Liuho and Woosung to-day when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. They met with resistance from the air, land and sea.\n\nAt Nightfall\n\nUnloading in Darkness\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). During the night five Japanese transports and one supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement and unloaded men and material in darkness.-Reuter.\n\nPOOTUNG SHELLED\n\nChinese Artillery Duel With Warships\n\nShnghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). Warfare has laid Woosung in ruins. Among the buildings demolished are the Tung Chi University, run by Germans for Chinese students, and the American mortgaged Wing On Cotton mills, owned by British and Australian-born Chinese.\n\nThe bombing of the Tung Chi University was so intensive that even bomb proof dug-outs had to be evacuated.\n\nReuter.\n\nUNIVERSITY DAMAGE\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.10 p.m.). Chinese official sources state that the Japanese bombing of Tungchi University at Woosung has caused damage to the extent of $10,000,000 Shanghai currency.\n\nPeiping despatches reported that American marines have been assigned to protect the Yenching University, 10 miles from Peiping, which is closely linked with Harvard.--United Press.\n\nTALES OF HEROISM\n\nJapanese Slaughtered By Big Sword Corps\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.) Both sides recount stirring tales of heroism in yesterday's fighting in the Shanghai area. The Chinese say many Japanese were slaughtered by parties of troops who make sorties in the night with their famous big swords-Reuter.\n\nSESSION POSTPONED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7 p.m.). Amidst gorgeous, yet most ominous sunset skies, red splashed behind black clouds washing back from the Hongkong typhoon, four Japanese bombers gave Shanghai spectacular good-night when they carried out a reconnaissance on the Shanghai front, after which in rapid succession they power dived over the Markham Road railway yards, dropping 11 bombs, each of which flashed red amidst the smoke and debris, setting a long string of conflagrations which lit up the black night already aflame by a line of fires half a mile at Yangtszepoo.\n\nThe Shanghai fires eclipsed in brilliance, the flames illuminating Lotien, Liusong, Woosung, Paoshan and Lion Forest Forts.-United Press.\n\nShipping Precaution\n\nYesterday government ordered all the passage-boats, launches and large motor vessels to leave the Bund. They are now in the inner harbour. Thus they are all in close proximity to the foreign gunboats, and the Bund is not so likely to be bombed, which would be sure to cause great loss of life. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nRAID OVER KIANGSI\n\nJapanese Bomb Misses Telegraph Office\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. After finishing their work in Canton the Japanese planes made for Pingyuan in Kiangsi. They were after the telegraph office and one bomb was directed at it, but it missed entirely, striking a road and killing one peasant. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nATTACK ON FUKIEN\n\nOne Japanese Aeroplane Downed at Changchow\n\nFoochow, Sept. 1. One of the Japanese planes which took part in the air raid on Changchow on August 31 was shot down south of Lungyen, it was disclosed to-day. Central News.\n\nAircraft Carrier\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. At noon yesterday six Japanese bombers come from the big carrier that is lying off Nanao near the Fukien border of Kwangtung. When two bombs were dropped into the Magistracy office at Chaoling the back part of the Magistracy was blown in. Six guards were injured-Our Own Correspondent.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "s. 53 (8) + (9) might want adapting to cover long term imprisonment.\n\nFurther, our comments on paragraph 4 (c) and 5 of the red Schedule have not been met (suggesting wording with \"substituting fill\") as it looks as if our note was not sent. If para 6 of the final Schedule is to remain, I don't understand the need for para ((a): the Proviso to be added by para 6.\n\n... Sentence ... Exception in case of murdering by the Court, in addition to the information to be furnished by this Act\" - if terms in len... intanhin and ((a) Sched.\n\nC 2.\n\nI will straighten things out so if you like to confer with Mr. Frame, but the response must somehow receive an answer.\n\nI agree with Mr. Dale. I agree 10.6.\n\nAshmith 10.6.\n\nI attach draft for Gent's information (Ms F).\n\nTo J. Fraser. (w/endorsed draft) 3.0-11/6. 38- (w/endorsed draft) 5.00/6.\n\nTo. J. Fraser. (w/endas aft.) 3.0-11/6. 38-\n\n5 To\n\nPage 5\n\n \nP. Roper 11/6.\n\n16/10",
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        "content_text": "mon feuve\n\nbe\n\naction, I must be directed by pag-\n\nLouve of duty our to the finite and principles which it may necessary to press upon Your Excellency's attention\n\nThe advantage of protection (alluded to by Your Excellency) extended hover to the resolvo of another riviting its points, is of reciprocal obligation, and scouver to have any\n\nby\n\n7.\n\nNie\n\nmalne if it is supposed\n\nthe\n\nduffired to red states revision. The United States\n\nright of aggre\n\nwhile extruding every protection to British vessels in American ports, how repeatedly recognized the jurisdiction of British Courts over offences\n\nCommitted on\n\nboard these vessels-\n\na jurisdiction which seems to be\n\nessential to the security of Commerce The United States will therefore have\n\nPage 62\n\nthe same right to take exception to the action of the colonial Authorities\n\nof Hongkong,\n\nin the\n\n\"Annie Bucknam\".\n\nCase\n\nof the\n\nMy action, must be influenced\n\nentirely by the views of my Government as to the rights of its\n\nvessels \"flag- in foreign ports\". These views have not only been exemplified by its action, but are clearly set forth by the competent authorities of the state. The Hon. Daniel Webster, when Secretary of State, in a letter to Lord Ashburton, upon the\n\nthe case, this sets forth the law of nations as interpreted by United States Government.\n\n\"But my Lord, the rule of Law, And the County and practice of nations, go much further than these cases of",
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        "content_text": "38\n\nTHE BOMBING OF CANTON: A DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE\nAs Surgeon to the Canton Hospital, the oldest Hospital in the Orient, where China was opened at the point of a lancet, I have been asked by my colleagues, the American and British Physicians and Nurses of Canton, the ancient city of Rams, to tell you something of the bombing of this great city, during a period of two weeks.\n\nLarge squadrons of Japanese naval bombing planes, often numbering thirty or more, daily and nightly fly over this city, and are from the sky raining death and destruction. Thousands of high explosive bombs have been dropped at 250 different places throughout the city, killing more than a thousand people and wounding many times that number. The planes usually fly at a great height, so that discrimination is absolutely impossible even were this not an obvious attempt to terrorize the people, to demoralize the city, and destroy the private property and public institutions of the community, with the object of conquering and enslaving the Chinese people.\n\nWe, foreign physicians, who have witnessed these ruthless and barbarous bombings, and have ourselves cared for more than 500 severely wounded men, women and children, all non-combatants, in our Hospitals, have cabled to America and Great Britain, appealing to the humane people of the world to take decisive steps immediately to stop these persistent and terrible massacres. These dispatches have been signed by Doctors W. W. Cadbury, C. A. Hayes, R.L. Lancaster, F. Oldt, T. D. Stevenson, P. J. Todd, J. O. Thomson on our own initiative, and also on behalf of the Chinese Medical Association.\n\nWe have all served in China for many years and are accustomed to caring for large numbers of wounded soldiers, but this is the first time that the wounded in great numbers have all been civilians, women and children as well as men. The wounded are often brought to our Hospitals, particularly the Hackett Medical Centre and the Canton Hospital, while the airmen are bombing other places. At times the bombers return and many Red Cross workers have been wounded. Some are in our Hospitals. The Hospitals of Canton resemble field hospitals after a large battle, but the wounded are not soldiers. They are ordinary people like you and your loved ones.\n\nThe whole personnel of our institutions are required to care for the wounded men, women and children. Everyone works steadily until all have been operated upon and relieved of pain; but the staff is almost exhausted. As many as 160 severely wounded people have been admitted to each of several of our Mission Hospitals within a period of an hour or two. Ninety-nine per cent of the deaths and casualties are due to high explosive bombs, the same that are being used to blast the Chinese armies that are defending their country, their homes and their families. The explosive force of the bombs, the bomb fragments and the collapsing buildings cause terrible wounds.\n\nThe dead are more fortunate—for the wounded children and women as well as men, with large and painful wounds, often lie in agony, pinned down in the ruins of their homes, awaiting rescue, or death from hemorrhage or shock—often whole families are killed, sometimes one may be left maimed, penniless and homeless. The Chinese men say, \"We don't care if they kill us men, but why do they kill our women and children?\" Women of Japan, why do your airmen, soldiers and sailors kill women and children in large numbers?\n\nIs this \"just and fair\" as your military leaders declare? Do you approve of this? You in foreign countries who are providing the Japanese militarist raiders with the materials for this slaughter of the innocents—their blood is on your heads.\n\nWe can never forget the young doctor brought to us with both thighs shattered, one twisted as if by a typhoon. For lack of a bed he lay on the floor quietly, uncomplainingly, quite conscious, calmly awaiting death, for he had done his duty, nobly and courageously. His distracted wife, weeping daughter and sorrowing brother begged us to save his life. We could do nothing but relieve his pain. His wounds were too severe and he had lost too much blood. We had to turn away from that pathetic group to save the lives of others. \"Greater love hath no man than this—that a man lay down his life for his friends.\"\n\nThe Red Cross organizations and personnel, boy and girl scouts, and the staffs of our Hospitals are doing magnificent work. They are well worthy of your support. The heads of our medical institutions and of the Health and Red Cross services are splendid Chinese men and physicians, distinguished and worthy graduates of American and British medical schools mostly.\n\nOur Hospitals are full of wounded—those whose limbs needed to be amputated—expectant mothers injured—children with shattered bones. Very few cases with bomb wounds of the abdomen survive, they are too serious. You would be interested in many of those who fill our wards. There is the newsboy whose calf muscles are torn away: The fruit peddler whose leg was blown off. He cannot now provide for his family. The young woman, a member of a happy family of seven. A bomb dropped on their home and one of her feet was blown off. When she recovered consciousness she learned that the other members of the family had been killed. The fireman who was machine-gunned by the airmen while putting out a fire caused by an incendiary bomb.\n\nAfter dropping their bombs near the Wong Sha (yellow sand) station in the city, the bombers swooped down and machine-gunned the people as they ran out of their collapsing houses. A mother was injured, a nine year old boy was killed and a baby boy five months old had a bullet through the thigh. There is the mother of four small children whose legs were shattered and who will be bedridden for months. The baby girl of four months, part of whose foot was blown off and mother whose was killed while she was nursing her, will probably live. A cobbler with his right hand shattered. With most of these people it is a hand to mouth existence. If they cannot work they cannot eat. Many would prefer to be killed rather than be maimed, for they can neither support themselves nor their families, but are a burden to them.\n\nWe try to save as many limbs as possible, but have had to sacrifice dozens, and will have to provide them with artificial ones. One of our girl nurses remarked, 'If I am struck by a bomb I hope I will be killed outright rather than have a limb blown off!' It is very unpleasant for everyone in Canton—for there are no neutrals nor non-combatants—when the bombers dive overhead, and no one knows where the bombs will drop and scatter fragments of human bodies all over a wide area. Most unpleasant is it for those who have already gone through both mental and physical torture once, to anticipate further suffering.\n\nThe wounds are extensive and multiple, requiring quantities of dressing and medicines. We are grateful to the Lord Mayors' Fund, the Red Cross Societies and individuals for help. Much more will be required. Are you acting the part of the Good Samaritan?\n\nA Japanese spokesman declared that \"accurate bombing of Canton had been carried out\". These objectives \"accurately bombed\" include the French Hospital on the Bund with large flags painted on the roof. (The beautiful young woman whose leg we had to amputate thought that it was a safety zone). Bombs struck directly a group of sampans in the river, people on the main streets of the city, schools (mission and others), hundreds of private homes and shops. We have wounded from those places in our hospitals. We refuse to term these and the essential Public utilities, such as the power plant and water works, and administrative offices of a great municipality \"military objectives\".\n\nBombs fell close to buildings of the Hackett Medical Centre and beside the Hospital of the New Zealand Mission adorned with flags, and on Lingnan University. We must assume from their own statement that the Japanese air force considers these \"military objectives\" and deliberately bombed them.\n\nOur Hospitals are functioning under great difficulties. The destruction of the major power plant deprives us of our lighting systems, X-rays, refrigeration of serums and food supplies, water pumping, elevator service, cooling fans—Canton is in the sub-tropics. It is mid-summer.\n\nWith the destruction of the public utilities which is the Japanese declared intention, the city could be destroyed by fire caused by many incendiary bombs. Thousands of people have taken refuge close to Shameen—the Anglo-French Concession here, but the Japanese bombers have made a practice of diving low over the Consulates flying the American, British, French and other flags to slaughter the people nearby. Is it fair to the Chinese to tolerate this? Are we respecting the treaties our nations voluntarily signed with the intention of securing the integrity and sovereignty of China from just such an aggression?\n\n39\n\n3\n\nThe ruthless bombing of non-combatants has not been confined to Canton. Four hundred air-raids have been made upon various places throughout this Province during the past 9 months—an average of nearly two daily. The despatches of such reputable press agencies as Reuter and United Press have been substantially correct.\n\nYou may have read that several Japanese planes machine-gunned two passage boats with hundreds of passengers, most of whom were killed or wounded. That six planes attacked a group of cargo junks with firewood, killing and wounding. That Japanese airmen dropped incendiary bombs on a sewing factory full of young women, scores of whom were killed, as many maimed and burned—a terrible sight. That bombs were dropped on a train on the Hankow railroad coming south and that the aeroplanes then opened fire with machine guns killing and wounding passengers.\n\nThat half a city was destroyed and many injured in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy a small military objective\". That bombs were rained on stations of the British financed Kowloon railway killing and wounding old men, women and babies. These reports are not propaganda, but the truth, for some of the wounded have been admitted to our Canton hospitals and those of our medical colleagues at Swatow, Kong Chuen, Fat Shan, Shiu Chow, Kong Moon, Tsung Fa and other places, and treated by Doctors H.R. Worth, O.L. Eaton, G.W. Hollings, H.R. Hartnell, R.L. Cockfield F.E. Bates and Nurse James and others of the Presbyterian, Methodist, Anglican, Seventh Day Adventist and United Churches of England, the United States of America, Canada, and New Zealand.\n\nThe killing of non-combatants but strengthens the determination of the Chinese to resist in order to bring peace and security to China and Asia. Canton cannot be captured from the air. Will the people of Britain and America allow it to become a second Nanking? Will you not actively help to hasten the time when there shall be neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain—the time when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more? or will you continue to be an isolationist and watch the hands of the clock of civilization and of Christianity put back to the dark ages—America and Britain were given their goodly heritage for a world mission.\n\nIn the judgement of the nations will America and Britain hear the words: \"In as much as you have done it unto the least of these (Chinese women, children and men) my brethren—you have done it unto me?\"\n\nThis letter has been written during day and night air raids still continuing.\n\nJ. O. Thomson, M.D., F.A.C.S.\n\nCanton, CHINA.\n\nJune 12, 1938.",
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        "content_text": "40\n\n.4!\n\n5\n\n# A DIARY OF THE AIR RAIDS.\n\nFor the previous two or three weeks, we had been having wet weather, and were congratulating ourselves that the rain at least kept the Japanese aeroplanes away. Since the beginning of May, when an attack had been made on Canton near the Sun Yat Sen University, there had been a respite. But on Saturday, May 28th, a spell of fine weather began again,—blue sky with patches of fleecy white cloud hanging fairly low. This made very good cover for the Japanese airmen, who seem to have developed the technique of diving out of the clouds to drop their bombs, and then retiring to safety before the anti-aircraft guns could spot them. Indeed, for a great part of the bombing, we have been unable to see the aeroplanes at all. The anti-aircraft fire has been vigorous and persistent. Two planes are said to have been hit, but it has been an unequal struggle, and emphasises that, as far as aerial attack is concerned, Canton is not a heavily fortified city.\n\n## Saturday, May 28th.\n\nIn the morning, I was over at Pak Hok Tung, which lies across the river from Canton. The meeting I was at was, of course, disturbed by the roar of planes and the detonation of bombs and anti-aircraft fire; but it was not till the local Red Cross corps received a 'phone call to go and help at Lychee Wan in the North West of the city that we realised how serious the raid had been. At 1 o'clock, the raiders came back and dropped more bombs, which I afterwards learnt had fallen among the rescue-workers near Wong Sha Railway Station. As we came back in the launch, we could see smoke coming up from a match factory only a few hundred yards from Shameen. I began to go with another foreigner towards our home in the East of the city, but the planes came over for the third time that day, and the police would not let our rickshaws proceed till the firing was over.\n\nA colleague who is a member of the Committee of Justice had been round by the Wong Sha Station, which was destroyed. Bombs had also fallen on a great many small houses in the neighbourhood, and he reported ghastly scenes of dead and wounded. Coming home, I saw an undertaker's car piled up with rough wooden coffins.\n\n## Sunday, May 29th.\n\nThe raiders came about 10 a.m., power-diving, apparently very close to where we live. It is a shattering noise and instinctively makes you recoil into a corner or fall flat on the floor. Fortunately, there was an interval, and I was able to get to a church service in Sai Kwan, the West suburb. Another raid began just as we were finishing, and it was rather a disturbed service, with the sound of ambulances and cars rushing by, and then a general movement away from the west part of the city where the Wong Sha Station lies. The Japanese have been persistently attacking this district. Hackett Hospital, which is of American Christian foundation, lies at least half a mile from the Station, but bombs have dropped just outside it.\n\nAfter Church, I got a rickshaw, although planes were overhead, and reached the Columbus Restaurant in the middle of Canton. Two planes were visible, and hundreds of people sheltering in doorways and shops were looking up at them as they dodged the anti-aircraft fire. The Restaurant was packed to the doors. People were sitting on the stairs and in every available place. But when the All Clear Signal had gone, most people went out, and we could pursue more or less normal life for the rest of the day.\n\n## Monday, May 30th.\n\nThe air-raid began about 9:30 a.m. The school where we live is strongly built with four concrete floors above the entrance hall, which has become a kind of public shelter. Between 100 and 200 poor people from the neighbourhood come each time. It was particularly noisy that morning. The planes were power-diving near us again, and bombs were falling not far off. One exploded three hundred yards away in a field. Whenever there was a lull, we would rush upstairs to look out and see what damage had been done. Tremendous columns of smoke and dust were going up from the Siu Pak (Little North Gate) district, while far away to the West, we could see from the smoke that Wong Sha Station was being attacked again.\n\nSome of the Boy Scouts from the School prepared to go and lend a hand at the places nearest to us. They went very willingly, but we nearly started too soon, as the planes came back while we were still in the school grounds. We had to wait for a few very unpleasant moments by a bamboo hedge while the planes roared, and on three occasions at least, we could hear the swish of bombs hurtling through the air. There were terrible scenes of dead and dying at Siu Pak, where scores of little houses and shops had been destroyed. In a village not far from our school, a bomb had fallen in a bamboo grove, and there had probably been a house near by. When we got there, there was only a huge crater. Some Red Cross workers were helping with the wounded. We helped some soldiers with digging. An old woman recognised the body of her small grandson. A disconsolate mother kept crying \"Why did they come here?\" Why indeed? There was nothing that could be called military anywhere near.\n\n## May 31st-June 2nd.\n\nDuring the middle of the week, the air-raids were not quite so intensive. On Tuesday, the Japanese raided Sai Tsuen, where the Electric Power plant and other factories are situated. On Wednesday, there was no raid. I took the opportunity to visit the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. It is one of the finest buildings in China, and stands in its own grounds well apart from the other buildings. The north-west corner of the building was hit by a bomb and badly damaged. Broken blue tiles were scattered everywhere on the pavement. Two other bombs were aimed at it, one of them hitting a Primary School which stood at the corner of the square. It is difficult to see the reason for, or to excuse this act of vandalism.\n\n## Friday, June 3rd.\n\nI got caught in the streets during a raid in the afternoon. Traffic came to a halt, while people moved quickly, but without panic, taking what cover they could. I found myself near the Sun Yat Sen University and knew it was not a good spot to be in. I made my way by stages to the Lingnan wharf and found that three bombs had fallen into the river, killing some boat people. I crossed in a sampan to Lingnan, and passed the cotton factory, which had also been hit. Ambulances were already on the spot.\n\n## Saturday, June 4th.\n\nThis was one of the worst raids we have had. I was in the YMCA building in the Bund at the time. There were several tremendous explosions, and we could hear the bombs coming through the air, which fell near the Pearl River Bridge, and behind the Provincial Bank. Whole rows of houses were demolished there. Four or five bombs had fallen at the corner of Tai Hong Rd. and Hon Man (Wing Hon) Rd. Somehow, to see that destruction and bodies laid out in the main shopping street of Canton brings out more clearly the cruel futility of war and its threat to all that we call civilisation.\n\n## Sunday, June 5th.\n\nWhitsunday. Our Church service was held in very trying conditions. Bombs had fallen about 400 yards away the day before. On this day too, the explosions sounded almost as near; but somehow we finished the service. Two bombs had fallen on the old campus of the National Sun Yat Sen University. Attacks were also made on the Municipal Building—another very fine achievement of modern Chinese architecture—and on the broadcasting station, but these were not successful.\n\n## Monday, June 6th.\n\nAnother terrible day. Raids began at 8 a.m. Some bombs fell not far from the Sun Yat Sen University Hospital. Others fell near the old East Gate, and it is difficult to see what they could have been aimed at. They hit a number of poor houses, which collapsed. I realised how many people must have been trapped and buried alive in ruins when we helped to unearth a woman and child in this district. At first, we could only hear them, but after some feverish clearing away of bricks and rubble and wood, their heads appeared. The little boy could be got out, but the woman was buried almost up to the neck. Then there was another raid, and an agony of waiting while more bombs dropped. Afterwards, the rescue party got to work again, and she was freed. But hundreds of people in Canton have not been so lucky, and some are probably still buried in ruins.\n\nRound at the YMCA, they had had an even worse time. Bombs had fallen on the French Hospital almost next door, on some houses behind the Power Station 150 yards away, and a third at the foot of the new Tiger Balm building on the Bund. Again, a terrible roll of dead and wounded. It was quite difficult to get home owing to the number of bombed areas that had been cordoned off by the police.\n\n## Tuesday, June 7th.\n\nIn the afternoon, there was another raid. Three bombs fell on the grounds of Lingnan University. One of them, only 130 yards from the house of an American Professor, failed to explode and buried itself 10 feet into the earth.\n\n## June 8th to 13th.\n\nNight raids began as soon as the moon was a little way past half full. By now, a tremendous number of people have left Canton for the country or Hong Kong. As soon as there is an alarm, those who are left either run out to the fields on the outskirts or go to some part of the city that is still considered safe. There is a hasty procession of cars, then silence while we listen for the distant drone of the planes.\n\nThe Japanese appear to have hired spies to let off flares on the first night, and many were seen going up from all parts of the city. But most of the traitors must have been caught, as there were none on the following nights. The airmen seem to be more cautious by night. Only one plane comes at a time, and the bombs have mostly fallen on the edge of the city. The Electric Light Plant, at Sai Tsuen, which was put up by German engineers, to be paid for out of the running profits, was badly damaged in these night-raids.\n\nRaids have taken place on five nights, and the moon will last long enough for them to come five times more.\n\nOn each occasion, about six to ten bombs have been dropped, with the usual chances of death and destruction. There is the additional terror of it happening in the dark. On June 8th, there was also a fire in an oil-shop, possibly started by incendiaries. The gallant Japanese airmen made their contribution to the peace of East Asia by machine-gunning the people who were trying to put it out.\n\nCanton is now very quiet, but not completely deserted. There has been no panic, and no looting. Government Officials, Police, soldiers, Labour Corps, Red Cross workers, doctors, and many others remain to protect life where they can, and to preserve peace in the city. The Chinese civilians are doing courageous work in exceptionally trying conditions. It is because we believe that their cause is essentially the cause of humanity that we appeal to friends in the West to sympathise actively by helping to restrain Japanese aggression, and to stop war supplies going from Britain and the United States to a country which uses them in this way.\n\nGILBERT BAKER.",
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        "content_text": "6\n\n42\n\nA REFUTATION OF JAPANESE STATEMENTS MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE CANTON BOMBINGS.\n\nAs one who is on the spot here in Canton and has personally seen some of the horrors perpetrated by the Japanese during the past fortnight, I have no hesitation in writing to deny all that the Japanese say in defence of their murderous and indiscriminate attacks on a practically defenceless civilian population living in a city which is nothing but the commercial centre for South China.\n\nThe statements issued by the Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo, by the Japanese Admiralty Publicity Bureau, and by other spokesmen, are not only outrageous lies, but infer that protests to foreign powers have only been sent in by the Chinese authorities to arouse sympathy for their cause. The Canton Committee for Justice to China was responsible on Monday, May 30th, for sending off to different parts of the world cables of protest by foreigners, many of whom had personally seen the ghastly results of indiscriminate bombing. In the majority of cases, bombs have fallen not on military or government objectives or anywhere near them, but on crowded civilian areas. This can be vouched for by many foreigners who, like myself, have gone out to render what help we could in bombed civilian areas. We have seen the mangled remains of scores of civilians - men, women, and children - and many wounded from the effect of bomb explosions, and for the Japanese to say, as they have, that casualties were caused by Chinese anti-aircraft fire is a monstrous lie.\n\nThe apologists for murder state that their pilots scrupulously avoid passing over Shameen, which is a British and French Concession. I have, on occasions, been in Shameen during raids and seen distinctly Japanese planes cross the whole length of the island.\n\nThis is done by them in order the more easily to deal death and destruction to the adjacent crowded city. The Japanese Consul General in Hong Kong stated in reply to the protest made by the British Consul General in Canton that it was most difficult for the Japanese planes, when flying at a height of 10,000 feet, to discern such a small object as Shameen island, some 15 acres in area. If that is so, then it would be equally impossible for these same planes to aim accurately at what they call military objectives within the city, and which are much smaller in area than Shameen. The Japanese Consul General's own words confound him.\n\nThe Japanese have also stated that in numerous cases, the Chinese authorities have set up military and government establishments in close proximity to foreign property throughout the city of Canton. This again is an absolute lie, as practically all the foreign property owned in Canton is either in Shameen or Pak Hok Tung and Lingnan, which are both on the outskirts of the city. Within the city, apart from three hospitals and the large compound surrounding the Roman Catholic Cathedral, there is practically no foreign property at all.\n\nOne could write much more in refutation of the excuses made by Japanese official spokesmen, but I think it should be clear to the world at large by now that the Japanese militarists are indulging in an orgy of frightfulness in order to terrorise the population into submission.\n\nIn conclusion, I would urge that it is high time that the Governments of Great Britain, France, and the United States of America should take strong action to restrain Japan in her campaign of murder by refusing to allow her any supplies of oil and other such essential materials which are enabling her to carry on this unjust war, in which so many thousands of innocent civilians are suffering.\n\nSTUDENTS & THE WAR.\n\nIt is well known that students have always played a prominent part in the social life of China. Though the modern Chinese student has little in common with the scholar of his grandfather's day, he inherits something of his responsibility in social and political affairs. This responsibility is that of bringing culture and education to the masses, of whom so many are still illiterate. In the last twenty years, China has faced this question of mass education and brought forth the Renaissance of culture in the process. The building of a new and simplified national language (Kuo Yue) and the whole movement of absorbing the best traditions of the West are tremendous achievements which have sprung from the Chinese Universities. It is this growth of an independent modern Chinese culture which the Japanese want to crush.\n\nThis jealousy of Chinese education is not because China has scorned the achievements of Japan. On the contrary, the Chinese have always respected the rapid modernisation of Japan, and a great many Chinese students have been there to study. It should also be remembered that the Japanese owe a great deal of what is ancient in their culture to China. In return for that, every effort is being made to weaken the educated classes in this country. The tragedy is that the people who are doing this do not in any way represent the real culture of Japan. The attack on cultural institutions in China is, unfortunately, characteristic of the modern war-makers who have repudiated the modern historic culture of East and West in the interest of brute force.\n\nThe Japanese militarists have never forgiven the students of China for their action of May 4th, 1919, when in Peiping they forced the Chinese Government to oppose the Japanese encroachments in Shantung made at the time of the Versailles Treaty. From that time, students became an important political factor, though it must be admitted that in many cases they used their position unwisely. The point is, however, that after the 1932 war in Shanghai, students throughout China were remarkably passive. There was, between 1932 and 1935, a genuine attempt to curb the anti-Japanese emphasis and to concentrate their minds on internal reconstruction.\n\nBut in 1935, the Japanese again began their \"forward\" policy in North China; and after nearly four years of patience, the students in Peiping again demonstrated against their attempt to create \"autonomous\" governments by hiring certain Chinese ruffians to pose as \"Provisional\" leaders. The student, and indeed the whole nation, began to realise that the Japanese methods in North China were a menace not only to China's political stability but to the existence of any civilised and educated people.\n\nAs soon as the war began, it was obvious that the Japanese were determined to paralyse China's university life. The wanton shelling of Nankai University, the bombing of Central University, Nanking, the destruction of Universities in Shanghai are already well known. More recently, Hunan University, Changsha, has been bombed, and Amoy University destroyed when that port was taken. Both these institutions lie well away from the towns to which they are neighbours.\n\nTill now, the students of Canton have been fairly fortunate. The National Sun Yat Sen University has a fine new campus about four miles from the city. During the earlier raids, a great many bombs were aimed at this, but luckily none of the beautiful modern Chinese-style buildings were damaged. It was, however, obviously a target for the Japanese, and most of the classes moved into the University's old buildings, which are in the centre of Canton. On May 4th, during an air raid, a bomb aimed at the old University fell into a neighbouring street, killing several people. On June 5th and 6th, in the recent appalling air-raids, three bombs hit the University.\n\nDuring these days, the Sun Yat Sen University students have been trying to take their examinations, which have been held early in the morning and late at night to avoid the raiders. In the daytime, some of them have been doing rescue work with the Red Cross workers. Some institutions, like the Union Theological College, have organised their own First Aid troops.\n\nOf the other four Universities in Canton, Sheung Kan University has moved into the country. Kuo Min University and Canton University lie in the city, and although bombs have fallen near each of them, they have until now been able to carry on with their work. Lingnan University lies across the river and outside Canton. Three bombs fell into its campus, which killed and wounded 3 agricultural workers. The Union Theological College at Pak Hok Tung is at present immune.\n\nIt is obvious, however, that the general strain of studying during the last year has been very trying, and the colleges must be congratulated on having got through their programmes. During the last term, Lingnan University has been offering special courses related to the war crisis, in the Departments of Science, Government, History, Religion, etc. The Arts students also did, as part of their course, a two weeks' tour of the local villages on Honan Island. They gave talks on political education, practical first aid, air-raid precautions, and presented patriotic plays and taught games to the children as a contribution to the social life of the villages. It has had a good effect in helping to break down the barriers between a rich university and the countryside, and is a local example of what is happening everywhere in China - the uniting of all classes, students, soldiers, workers in the common cause.\n\n43\n\n7\n\nThe students of Canton also demonstrated their solidarity with students of other countries when they recently welcomed two delegates from the World's Student Association, Mr. Bernard Floud from Oxford and Mr. James Klugman from Paris. They were on a tour in China with a view to speaking for China's cause on their return. They visited the Universities in Canton and were given an extremely warm reception. More recently, in these raids, the students have sent a joint letter to Student bodies in Britain, U.S.A., Canada, and other countries, describing the bombing, stating that students are carrying on as best they can, and asking for support from foreign countries. All who read this bulletin may be assured of the desire of Chinese students to express their solidarity with the peace-loving peoples of the world.\n\nStudents have already suffered heavily in this war. Many of them are refugees, unable to continue their studies; readers of this bulletin are probably familiar with the needs for their relief. If not, they may like to know that gifts of money to the Student YMCA, 347 Madison Ave, N.Y., or International Student Service, 14 Rue Calvin, Geneva, or to British Student Christian Movement, Annandale, North End Rd, London N.W. 11, or direct to YMCA at Shanghai, 131 Museum Street, or YMCA Changsha, will be well used.\n\nBut more important, we are appealing that worse evils may not befall Chinese students through the Japanese invasion of China. Some students are fighting with the army. A great number are engaged in some kind of national service, and all are determined to uphold the right of students everywhere to study in peace and freedom from the repression of the war-makers. The Japanese militarists are attacking cultural institutions partly because they are centres of Chinese sentiment, but also because the military mind in control of Japan is afraid of culture. The senseless attacks on the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall have been the latest expression of this vandalism. It is a hall of considerable beauty and embodies the spirit of Canton as a pioneer city in the Republic. But it is of no great practical value. It stands well apart from any other buildings. Several bombs have been aimed at it, and it has been fairly seriously damaged. If we Westerners respect the beauty and cultural achievements of China and also want to preserve our own, we must make sure that the tide of Japanese aggression is checked by international action.\n\nJ. G. B.\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "**SECRET CIPHER TELEGRAM.**\n\n49 \n194\n\n**SECRET.**\n\nFrom: G.O.C., HONG KONG.\n\nTo - The War Office repeated \nIntelligence Shanghai, G.O.C., Malaya, \nS.N.O. Western River.\n\n`4665 (Cipher) 24/10.`\n\nDesp.1910 24.10.38. Reod.1445 24.10.38\n\nSituation report ending 1000 hours (?October 24th).\n\nChinese after evacuating Canton set fire to a large number of buildings. Breakdown of water supply has greatly hampered extinction and very few Japanese troops are as yet in occupation. Shameen at one time in great danger but saved by fortunate change of wind.\n\nNotices have been issued to third powers that navigation Pearl River will be restricted during military operations and same system obstruction as obtains in Yangtze is likely to occur.\n\nPearl River convoy still anchored in estuary off Lintin Island. 170 fishing boats seen approaching (delta) last evening.\n\nWar Office pass to Admiralty and Air Ministry.\n\n**C.4. (Telegrams).**\n\nCopies to: S. of S., C.I.G.S., D.C.I.G.S., P.U.S., E.M.O. & I., D.D.M.O., D.D.M.I.\n\n| Distribution List |\n| --- |\n| M.O.1A. 2. 24. |\n| M.I.2. 20. |\n\nMr. Howe (F.O.), Cdr. Loly (Admiralty), Sqdn. Ldr. Pelly (Air Ministry), Mr. Gent (Colonial Office).",
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        "document_key": "CO129-571-16 New Territories 13-4-1938 - 12-12-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-571-16 New Territories 13-4-1938 - 12-12-1938",
        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\n## MEMORANDUM\n\nThe economic importance to Hong Kong of the retention of part or all of the New Territories on the expiry of the existing lease, viz. in 1997.\n\nSent under separate cover.\n\n* \n(The New or Leased Territories include all mainland and islands shown on the map attached to this memorandum within the broken line except those parts coloured red, the latter being British territory ceded in 1841 or 1861).\n\n### I.\n\n1. Kowloon urban area, present and future. Town extension already existing.\n\nThe land available for building which lies within British Kowloon, viz. that part of the peninsula (coloured red on the map) which had become permanently British by 1861, is now almost entirely taken up. Consequently, the town has for some years been extending to the north of the 1861 boundary: its present extensions are approximately indicated by the blue area on the map. The population (exclusive of sampan and junk dwellers) of Hong Kong Island, British Kowloon and the area between British Kowloon and within the blue area are as follows:\n\n| Area | Population |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hong Kong Island | 454,000 |\n| British Kowloon | 274,000 |\n| Extension area | 90,000 |\n\nIn addition to residential and industrial buildings of a permanent character the extension contains:\n \n1. Shamshuipo Cantonments, capable of housing two battalions;\n2. Kowloon Tsai, the site of the future military...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938",
        "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n7.50 p.m.\n\nMr. Ede: The hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) has delivered a characteristic speech in which he has proved that everybody in the world is wrong except himself, and I could almost hope that he had had a little more time to consider some parts of his speech before he delivered them, because I think his condemnation of the speech of the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) might very well be applied to some of his own remarks. I was astonished this afternoon at the line taken by the Prime Minister on one or two matters, and in particular surprised to find that he resented the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that Munich was a defeat, because I well recall that after Berchtesgaden, which we were given to understand represented something worse than Munich—[Interruption.] There were three pilgrimages to Germany, and they have been represented as a succession of victories for the Government, but my own view is that they represent a series of defeats, each greater than the one before. But after Berchtesgaden Mr. Garvin who, let us admit, did not know very much about what had happened, because nothing had been disclosed, said that the terms there demanded from the Prime Minister would have given the Germans more than 20 raging battles would have given them as regards access to Czechoslovakia, and can there be any doubt that in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of the subject races of the British Empire, and in the eyes of small nations, Godesberg and Munich were described in the American Press, the greatest diplomatic defeats that great nations have ever suffered in the history of the world?\n\nI believe that throughout this country there is the most profound misgiving as to the effect that the negotiations will have upon our prestige as a nation, and I see nothing in anything that has passed since to cause me to revise the verdict that Mr. Garvin gave. I was not surprised to see that **The Times** this morning, in commenting upon the changes made in the Government, referred to this \"Not too strong Government.\" After all, that is rather praise for them, because one of the extraordinary things that they have done is that, having reduced the number of their friends in the world, they have endeavoured to lose one of the few friends which we had left.\n\nI am very glad to see that the Noble Lord the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is present. At Shoreham, in his constituency, he made a speech in which he referred to a country which is generally mentioned with bated breath in this House by Members opposite. When they expect to get a little out of it they are not quite sure whether they are in good company or not, but there were occasions during the three critical weeks in which we appeared likely to get into serious trouble when Russia was always quoted as one of the sources of strength to which we could look. However, when things appeared to take a turn for the better Russia was again dropped, and the Noble Lord is reported in **The Times** to have said that Russia did not offer help in the Czechoslovakian crisis but only made vague promises owing to her military weakness.\n\nMy right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition raised this point in his speech this afternoon and asked the Prime Minister whether the speech of the Noble Lord represented the views of the Government or whether he was speaking for himself. In the latter case it does not matter very much. When he is speaking to the people who return him one can understand that they will have become used to hearing very strange statements in the past, and that something a little more strange in the present only adds a little variety, and may even arouse hopes of something still more exciting in the future; but if the Noble Lord was speaking as a Member of His Majesty's Government—so important a Member that he is given one of the sinecures, so that he can be there to help with his wise advice those right hon. Gentlemen who have to discharge serious office duties—it is indeed a matter of the gravest concern that the military preparedness of a nation which was likely to have been an ally in the event of matters coming to a crisis should be referred to so lightly.\n\nThe Soviet Embassy issued a categorical statement on the subject the Noble Lord appears to be amused—detailing the steps which they alleged were taken by M. Litvinoff in relation to France and Czechoslovakia and at the League of Nations, the assurances they gave and the consultations they offered to have between their General Staff and the General Staffs of France and Czechoslovakia.\n\nIn reply to that the Noble Lord, speaking at Horsham, repeated his previous statement. I thought the only fitting reply to that way of conducting an international discussion was made by the Soviet Embassy. I hope sincerely that the President of the Board of Trade, when he replies to-night, will be able to tell us whether the speeches of the Noble Lord represent the Government's attitude towards Russia or whether they are the kind of irresponsible talk that was welcome from the Noble Lord when he sat on the back benches but ought not to be repeated now that he is one of the ornaments of the Front Bench. I rather think he holds the view which was satirised in the **News-Chronicle** during the crisis:\n\n\"Better to lose the Empire shred by shred,\nBetter by blackmail to be slowly bled,\nThan have the slightest truck with any Red,\nOr save the Empire with, as one's ally,\nSome bloke who doesn't wear the old school tie.\"\n\nI see in **The Times** this morning a letter from somebody at Mapledurham, one of the choicest resorts on the River Thames, complaining about the possible evacuation in time of war of mere proletarians into his aristocratic house, and suggesting that if there is to be an evacuation he should choose his own friends and relatives. We are now getting the aftermath of that kind of thing. A recent issue of the `Eastbourne Herald` said:\n\n\"Among the many distracting features of the recent international crisis, none caused greater consternation among a large number of Eastbourne people than the prospect of adults—30,000 refugees—children and ... from the congested areas of London being billeted upon the householders of the town. Eastbourne is a high-class residential and health resort. It is a town which a very large number of successful professional and business people have chosen as an ideal place for their retirement, in which they can spend the evening of their lives in the comparative quiet of a refined and well-ordered borough. It is also a town in which an unusually large number of children of the well-to-do are sent for their early education. Reference has already been made to the consternation caused in hundreds of Eastbourne homes occupied by elderly retired people who were rather tactlessly threatened with the prospect of having six or seven strangers billeted upon them. And it need scarcely be added that unless some steps are taken to prevent the recurrence of such a disturbing state of affairs they will assuredly leave the town and take up residence in a less favoured place.\"\n\nIf that represents the feeling of any substantial number of the people who normally support hon. Gentlemen opposite let us not have quite so much talk of the need for national unity. Such statements are disgraceful. If we had been in trouble together it would not have been the spirit of the working class that would have let this country down. In the long run it is upon the spirit of those people, in the armament factories, on the field of battle or in the home, that the maintenance of our standards will have to depend. The kind of thing that was written from Mapledurham and that, apparently, passes muster in Eastbourne, is doing the greatest possible disservice to the nation, irrespective of what party may happen to be in power.\n\nWe are now supposed to be living in peace. The Prime Minister made a great point of that. It seems to me that we have the kind of peace that reigns in a saloon in the Wild West when men sit there playing poker, each with a couple of six guns at his hips, with the knowledge that the jackpot will eventually go to the man who is quickest on the draw, unless one of his opponents happens to be able to slip an ace off the bottom of the pack without being seen. If this is peace, there have been few periods in the history of the world that ought to have been called periods of war, when we consider Spain, China and recent events in Abyssinia and Czechoslovakia. There was no victory of peace in Czechoslovakia. The threat of armed force settled the issue. Germany openly boasts that it was another bloodless victory, and, as Mr. Garvin said, without firing a shot Herr Hitler has made himself the greatest ruler in the history of the world since Charlemagne. I doubt whether history will seriously dispute that verdict.\n\nThe world being in this serious position I can imagine nothing less helpful to a solution of our difficulties than the speech which was made by the Prime Minister this evening. There was no leadership in that speech. He passed from subject to subject and we were at last left with this, that we must pin our faith on the new Lord Privy Seal. What is to happen to the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department? I regret very much that he is not here, because I would prefer to make my remarks to his face. In the difficult circumstances of the past 12 months the hon. Gentleman has been courteous and, within the limits imposed upon him, helpful to local authorities and ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940",
        "page_number": 60,
        "title": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940",
        "content_text": "Back Room. Found in Cabin Trunk.\n\nTRANSLATION OF EXTRACT FROM UNNUMBERED FILE.\n\n(78)\n\n60\n\nTo the Generalissimo.\n\n(RED COVER)\n\nI beg to submit that we\n\n楊嘯天\n\n楊虎\n\nhave received through Gen. YEUNG SIU TIN (YEUNG FU)\n\n逐一\n\na report made by LI SHUI SIN, Chief Secretary of the\n\nChinese Seamen's Special Party (K.M.T.) Headquarters,\n\nsuggesting the using of Fukienese traitors for\n\nespionage works. The report stated in brief as\n\nfollows :\n\n\"Many FUKIENese have now turned over to the\n\n\"side of CHAN KWAN, the rebel. I (LI) can secretly\n\n\"secure the service and assistance of some of these\n\n\"people for spying on the movements of the enemy and\n\n\"the puppets.\n\nI therefore submit for your instructions as\n\nto whether this is practicable, so that I can act\n\naccordingly.\n\n今侃\n\nLING HON. 30. 5.\n\nIf this is alright, a fair copy will be made out\n\nand be forwarded by you personally.\n\nYes.\n\n祚(Intld) CHU.\n\n30. 5.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "document_key": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939",
        "content_text": "K. S.\n\nSECRET.\n\nFrom C. in C. China.\n\nMESSAGE\n\n47\n\n37\n\nIN\n\nDate 14.6.39,\n\nRed. 1821.\n\nINTERDEPARTMENTAL CYPHER\n\nCorrection received 1420/4\n\nAddressed S. N. O. Tientsin repeated Admiralty, H. M. Ambassador Shanghai 575, H.M. Ambassador Tokyo 470, Consul General Tientsin, General Officer Commanding.\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\n502. Consul General Tientsin telegram 1305 14th June. Unfortunate experience has proved that a waterway once closed by Japanese or other action and on which British Shipping has ceased to operate is extremely difficult to reopen.\n\nI therefore suggest for Consul General Tientsin's consideration that every encouragement should be given to shipping to continue to operate on Haiho river in spite of restrictions detailed in Consul General Tientsin telegram 1215 June 14th rather than that we should impose on ourselves a prohibition (even in form of advice) which would appear precisely what Japanese would most wish and which may prove an embarrassing precedent. I concur however with last sentence of Consul General Tientsin telegram under reference concerning non repetition non provision for armed guards under present circumstances.\n\nCIVIL LORD.\n\n1st Lord.\n\nPARL. SEC.\n\n1st S. L.\n\n2nd S. L.\n\n3rd S. L.\n\n4th S. L.\n\n5th S. L.\n\nD.C.N.S.\n\nA.C.N.S.\n\nSEC.\n\nNAVAL SEC.\n\nP.A.S. (S).\n\nJ.D. (3).\n\n(6).\n\nD. N. I.\n\nM. 36 (14).\n\nD. of P. (3).\n\n2214/14.\n\nD. S.D. 9.\n\n0.1.C. (4).\n\nD. T.D. (2).\n\nD. L. D.D.\n\nForeign Office) To be sent by\n\nWar Office\n\nAir Ministry\n\nCo. Bof T.\n\nM. Branch.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939",
        "page_number": 78,
        "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939",
        "content_text": "52838/34/399\n\nCOPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n53838/10/59\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n28\n\n178\n\nDated 27th July, 1939. Received 10.3 a.m. 27th July, 1939.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nTo.212.\n\nRECEIVE J\n\n27 JUL 1939\n\nC. O. REGI\n\nAddressed to the Colonial Office repeated to the British Ambassador at Shanghai Telegram. No. 79, Tokyo No. 62 and the Commodore for the Commander-in-Chief.\n\nI hear from reliable source that the Japanese Consul-General here has warned local Portuguese company that their ship Perola will only receive permit to enter Swabue on condition that the cargo is subsequently discharged at Macao she returning to Hong Kong in ballast. Perola's regular run is between Hong Kong and Swabue bringing e.g. chickens and fresh food hither,\n\nI am inclined to connect this with the closing of the Pearl River which was declared as from to-day for a fortnight and with the hints dropped by the Japanese Consul-General at Canton during his recent visit here that anti-British measures in this part of China might be instituted. See my third personal note of the 24th July.\n\nnot yet red",
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        "document_key": "CO129-579-8 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 23-6-1939 - 4-1-1940",
        "page_number": 45,
        "title": "CO129-579-8 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 23-6-1939 - 4-1-1940",
        "content_text": "SECRET\n\n53838/34/39\n\nMESSAGE\n\nALAM\n\nDate 24.7.39.\n\nIN\n\n16\n\n46\n\nFrom S.N.O. West River.\n\nNAVAL CYPHER (0)\n\nRed. 1640.\n\nFollowing message has been passed to Admiralty for information.\n\nAddressed C. in C. China repeated S. N.O. Canton Care I/C\n\nHong Kong Consul General Canton.\n\nFrom S.N.O. West River.\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\nPropose S. N.C. Canton should inform Japanese Naval\n\nAuthorities that while we are prepared occasionally to make\n\nminor adjustments to gunboat movements to suit their convenience\n\nwe cannot in principle accept any interference with movements\n\nof our warships and certainly not for so long a period as two\n\nweeks.\n\n1st Lord\n\n1st S. L.\n\n2nd S. L.\n\n3rd S. L.\n\n1154/24\n\n4th S. L.\n\n5th S. L.\n\nD. C. N. S.\n\nA. C. N. S.\n\nPARL. SEC.\n\nCIVIL LORD\n\nSEC.\n\nNAVAL SEC.\n\nP. A. S. (S) O.D. (3) D. N. I. (6) M. 36 (17) D. of P. (3) D. S. D. 9 O.I.C. (4)\n\nD. T. D. (3)\n\nD. K D.D.\n\nForeign Office) To be sent War Office) by\n\nAir Ministry) F. Branch R.C. (Advance copy sent.)",
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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": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940",
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        "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940",
        "content_text": "31\n\nThese the coolie remains the principal beast of burden. Immense quantities of materials of all kinds are transported in this way, including a great deal of salt from the wells at Tseluchin. Along most of the roads and the old tracks almost unending lines of coolies carrying every kind of article can be seen. Methods of transport, however, call for no particular comment, except to remark that they are most uneconomic in man-power so far as the coolie carriers are concerned. In the north-west camel and donkey caravans are the predominant form of transport, and these deal with practically the whole of the import and export trade, since the problem of gasoline supplies makes the use of motor lorries almost impossible.\n\nGasoline Supplies.\n\n81. The main fuel used for motor trucks is gasoline, though a beginning has been made with substitutes, both along the lines of alternative liquid fuels and producer gas. Major MacDonald, who was recently in China, gave a great deal of assistance on the latter subject, and experimental lorries are already in operation, though difficulties are being encountered in the conversion of petrol lorries owing to the problems raised by steep gradients and high altitudes. We witnessed a test with one such lorry at Kunming and the result seemed hopeful.\n\n82. So far as liquid fuel alternatives are concerned, apart from an experimental plant which is successfully cracking rape-seed oil and producing about 100 tons of petrol a month, the main effort has been with alcohol production. I attach a copy of a note(*) that I submitted to the Generalissimo on this matter which has been accepted as the basis of a plan, though how far it will be carried into operation remains to be seen. If it is put into operation it will very much ease the situation as regards gasoline supplies and, combined with the use of producer gas and the substitution of hand trucks for motor trucks where possible, it will enable the demand for gasoline to be reduced to a point where additional transport facilities will be available for vital commodities. The strictest economy is practised with gasoline and joy-riding of all kinds is prohibited. To show the extent to which this is carried, I may cite the instance of the wife of the War Minister, who was recently seen driving a car in Chungking, when she was stopped and sent home by a policeman and forbidden to drive a car again, the policeman being promoted next morning for his action. There is, however, still a good deal of scope for economy in the better and more scientific driving of the trucks and organisation of the transport services. The former point is being dealt with by the setting up of large schools for truck drivers, and the latter by putting the Americans in charge of the transport on the Yunnan-Burma highway. It would seem that this is pre-eminently a task which should have been carried out under British auspices, but, unfortunately, there are no suitable British advisers or technicians in China for such a task.\n\n83. The most important long-term development, however, is the sinking of oil wells in Western China. The location and extent of these is, of course, highly confidential. The Sinkiang development is dealt with in that section of this report. Other developments are, first, a short distance to the west of Suchow, where ten wells have been sunk and a small experimental refinery is being set up by the Central Government. The oil is pumped from a depth of only 70 feet and is of a quality capable of yielding 20 per cent. of petrol direct, or, with cracking, 25 per cent. It will be a long time before any material quantity of petrol will be available from this source. It is said that the oil appears in pockets only, and that the quantity available is most uncertain. Secondly, it is alleged that some small development has taken place in the area of the Border Government, but, though it is certain that oil has been located there, I could obtain no details of any development that is taking place.\n\n84. The critical question as regards the maintenance of road transport and its contribution to Chinese resistance is, therefore, at the present moment gasoline supplies. While the Haiphong Railway was cut, and at any time that it is out of action, the position is apt to become very critical. Various possibilities given above of relieving the situation are in view, and an exploration is being made of possible alternative routes for import, e.g., the Red River route from the south. The probability is that, by one or other of these methods or by all of them in combination, a sufficiency of motor transport will be able to be maintained,\n\n(*) Not printed.\n\n23\n\nthough there may be difficult periods before the full solution of the problem is achieved. There is one other factor which deserves mention. A steady flow of gasoline has been coming in from the ports of the east coast through Japanese-occupied territory by means of small quantities carried by coolies or brought in wheelbarrows or trucks. It is estimated that last year by these means more than a million gallons of gasoline were provided.\n\n85. In my opinion we should do all in our power to assist in this transport difficulty by giving every possible facility for transport to China through Burma. If there is any political difficulty in arranging for the construction of the railway from Lashio to the Chinese border, I suggest that this should be done through a private company, which can have a running agreement with the Burmese and Chinese railways and for which the Chinese Government is prepared to provide some form of guarantee. A comparatively small sum of money is required, as the construction is not estimated to cost more than £1,750,000. It ought not to be difficult to arrange some suitable form for the provision of the finance. I can imagine no more profitable investment for Great Britain than to undertake this work now, with a view to the return in gratitude from the Chinese hereafter and the consequent generous participation in the reconstruction of China, particularly in the west. I should mention one other aspect of the transport question, and that is the very large quantity of goods which still find their way out of those parts of China which are behind the Japanese lines through east coast ports which are either occupied or blockaded by the Japanese. The Japanese military and naval officers are prepared to allow these goods through upon payment of \"squeeze,\" and are making a very good thing out of it. For instance, this year the entire Chinese tea crop is finding its way to Hong Kong by these means, and \"squeeze\" payments of 40 per cent. of its value is the ... way to ... It is said that the reason for sinking junks which are finding their way to Hong Kong is their failure to pay the appropriate \"squeeze.\" This continued possibility of export by means much more economical than the transport by hand through the west has a great effect upon the finances of the Chinese Government and enables them to maintain their volume of imports with less difficulty.\n\n86. So far as all methods of transport are concerned, there is a lack of co-ordination and organisation, though something may be done to remedy this in some directions shortly. There is also unfortunately more than a suspicion that a good deal of corruption is rife in this sphere of activity. This is especially the case with regard to railway transport from Haiphong, where it is alleged, I think rightly, that the Chinese in control at Haiphong have \"sold\" space to private traders which was allocated to Government transport. I drew the Generalissimo's attention to this, and he promised to have it investigated, and I understand that this has been done, though I have not heard the results. Unfortunately, one of the Soong brothers is the person responsible, and this may make it difficult to get the conditions remedied; I put up a note on this point to the Generalissimo, of which I attach a copy.(*) It is to be hoped that this and other irregularities will be remedied, but I am afraid that it will not be done in the near future unless a planning and advisory committee is set up on the lines I suggested (see \"Foreign Relations section\").\n\nEconomic Reconstruction.\n\n87. It was to this head and the previous one of transport that I devoted a great deal of my time. I not only saw the principal officials concerned, but also visited a large number of factories of all kinds, and saw all that could be seen of the handicrafts, co-operatives and agricultural institutions. It is absolutely necessary, in this relation, to realise that the new China is not the old China, and that the present, and any future, Government of China will insist on being master in its own economic affairs. While foreign capital and investment will be welcomed, the Government will not allow the investment of capital to amount to the granting of monopolies to foreigners or the exploitation of the Chinese people by foreign interests. They will accept the co-operation, gladly, but not dictation or exploitation as in former times. Rules have now been laid down as to the investment of foreign capital in Chinese concerns, and these will be adhered to strictly except in very special cases when they might possibly be very partially relaxed. A copy of the substance of these rules is attached.(*) The view taken by the Chinese Government is that they are anxious to encourage\n\n(*) Not printed.\n\n32",
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        "content_text": "80\n\n22\n\nthe coolie remains the principal beast of burden. Immense quantities of materials of all kinds are transported in this way, including a great deal of salt from the wells at Tseluchin. Along most of the roads and the old tracks almost unending lines of coolies carrying every kind of article can be seen. These methods of transport, however, call for no particular comment, except to remark that they are most uneconomic in man-power so far as the coolie carriers are concerned. In the north-west camel and donkey caravans are the predominant form of transport, and these deal with practically the whole of the import and export trade, since the problem of gasoline supplies makes the use of motor lorries almost impossible.\n\nGasoline Supplies.\n\n81. The main fuel used for motor trucks is gasoline, though a beginning has been made with substitutes, both along the lines of alternative liquid fuels and producer gas. Major MacDonald, who was recently in China, gave a great deal of assistance on the latter subject, and experimental lorries are already in operation, though difficulties are being encountered in the conversion of petrol lorries owing to the problems raised by steep gradients and high altitudes. We witnessed a test with one such lorry at Kunming and the result seemed hopeful.\n\n82. So far as liquid fuel alternatives are concerned, apart from an experimental plant which is successfully cracking rape seed oil and producing about 100 tons of petrol a month, the main effort has been with alcohol production. I attach a copy of a note(*) that I submitted to the Generalissimo on this matter which has been accepted as the basis of a plan, though how far it will be carried into operation remains to be seen. If it is put into operation it will very much ease the situation as regards gasoline supplies and, combined with the use of producer gas and the substitution of hand trucks for motor trucks where possible, it will enable the demand for gasoline to be reduced to a point where additional transport facilities will be available for vital commodities. The strictest economy is practised with gasoline and joy-riding of all kinds is prohibited. To show the extent to which this is carried, I may cite the instance of the wife of the War Minister, who was recently seen driving a car in Chungking, when she was stopped and sent home by a policeman and forbidden to drive a car again, the policeman being promoted next morning for his action. There is, however, still a good deal of scope for economy in the better and more scientific driving of the trucks and organisation of the transport services. The former point is being dealt with by the setting up of large schools for truck drivers, and the latter by putting the Americans in charge of the transport on the Yunnan-Burma highway. It would seem that this is pre-eminently a task which should have been carried out under British auspices, but, unfortunately, there are no suitable British advisers or technicians in China for such a task.\n\n83. The most important long-term development, however, is the sinking of oil wells in Western China. The location and extent of these is, of course, highly confidential. The Sinkiang development is dealt with in that section of this report. Other developments are, first, a short distance to the west of Suchow, where ten wells have been sunk and a small experimental refinery is being set up by the Central Government. The oil is pumped from a depth of only 70 feet and is of a quality capable of yielding 20 per cent. of petrol direct, or, with cracking, 25 per cent. It will be a long time before any material quantity of petrol will be available from this source. It is said that the oil appears in pockets only, and that the quantity available is most uncertain. Secondly, it is alleged that some small development has taken place in the area of the Border Government, but, though it is certain that oil has been located there, I could obtain no details of any development that is taking place.\n\n84. The critical question as regards the maintenance of road transport and its contribution to Chinese resistance is, therefore, at the present moment gasoline supplies. While the Haiphong Railway was cut, and at any time that it is out of action, the position is apt to become very critical. Various possibilities given above of relieving the situation are in view, and an exploration is being made of possible alternative routes for import, e.g., the Red River route from the south. The probability is that, by one or other of these methods or by all of them in combination, a sufficiency of motor transport will be able to be maintained,\n\n(*) Not printed.\n\n23\n\nthough there may be difficult periods before the full solution of the problem is achieved. There is one other factor which deserves mention. A steady flow of gasoline has been coming in from the ports of the east coast through Japanese-occupied territory by means of small quantities carried by coolies or brought in wheelbarrows or trucks. It is estimated that last year by these means more than a million gallons of gasoline were provided.\n\n85. In my opinion we should do all in our power to assist in this transport difficulty by giving every possible facility for transport to China through Burma. If there is any political difficulty in arranging for the construction of the railway from Lashio to the Chinese border, I suggest that this should be done through a private company, which can have a running agreement with the Burmese and Chinese railways and for which the Chinese Government is prepared to provide some form of guarantee. A comparatively small sum of money is required, as the construction is not estimated to cost more than £1,750,000. It ought not to be difficult to arrange some suitable form for the provision of the finance. I can imagine no more profitable investment for Great Britain than to undertake this work now, with a view to the return in gratitude from the Chinese hereafter and the consequent generous participation in the reconstruction of China, particularly in the west. I should mention one other aspect of the transport question, and that is the very large quantity of goods which still find their way out of those parts of China which are behind the Japanese lines through east coast ports which are either occupied or blockaded by the Japanese. The Japanese military and naval officers are prepared to allow these goods through upon payment of \"squeeze,\" and are making a very good thing out of it. For instance, this year the entire Chinese tea crop is finding its way to Hong Kong by these means, and payments of 40 per cent. of its value is the \"squeeze\" that has been arranged.\n\nC\n\nIt is said that the reason for sinking junks which are finding their way to Hong Kong is their failure to pay the appropriate \"squeeze.\" This continued possibility of export by means much more economical than the transport by hand through the west has a great effect upon the finances of the Chinese Government and enables them to maintain their volume of imports with less difficulty.\n\n86. So far as all methods of transport are concerned, there is a lack of co-ordination and organisation, though something may be done to remedy this in some directions shortly. There is also unfortunately more than a suspicion that a good deal of corruption is rife in this sphere of activity. This is especially the case with regard to railway transport from Haiphong, where it is alleged I think rightly that the Chinese in control at Haiphong have \"sold\" space to private traders which was allocated to Government transport. I drew the Generalissimo's attention to this, and he promised to have it investigated, and I understand that this has been done, though I have not heard the results. Unfortunately, one of the Soong brothers is the person responsible, and this may make it difficult to get the conditions remedied; I put up a note on this point to the Generalissimo, of which I attach a copy.(*). It is to be hoped that this and other irregularities will be remedied, but I am afraid that it will not be done in the near future unless a planning and advisory committee is set up on the lines I suggested (see \"Foreign Relations\" section).\n\n87.\n\nEconomic Reconstruction.\n\nIt was to this head and the previous one of transport that I devoted a great deal of my time. I not only saw the principal officials concerned, but also visited a large number of factories of all kinds, and saw all that I could of the handicrafts, co-operatives and agricultural institutions. It is absolutely necessary, in this relation, to realise that the new China is not the old China, and that the present, and any future, Government of China will insist on being master in its own economic affairs. While foreign capital and investment will be welcomed, the Government will not allow the investment of capital to amount to the granting of monopolies to foreigners or the exploitation of the Chinese people by foreign interests. They will accept the co-operation, gladly, but not dictation or exploitation as in former times. Rules have now been laid down as to the investment of foreign capital in Chinese concerns, and these will be adhered to strictly except in very special cases when they might possibly be very partially relaxed. A copy of the substance of these rules is attached.(*). The view taken by the Chinese Government is that they are anxious to encourage\n\n(*) Not printed.\n\n81",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\n203\n\nHO MAU, 24 years, Unnumbered hut WO CHAI, SHEK KIP MEI\n\nVillage, further states:-\n\nThe HOI LEE Company for whom I formerly worked has now gone out of business.\n\nAs far as I know Junk T1703H has gone to Macao.\n\nI remember distinctly the events of the 21.2.40, when I was travelling on board junk T1703H in tow by Steam Launch KWONG HING from PENG CHAU to Hong Kong.\n\nI am not certain of the position of the KWONG HING when the Japanese trawler came but I remember we were about a mile from FAN SHAN CHAU (Lonic Island).\n\nThe trip on 21.1.40 was my third trip in tow by KWONG HING.\n\nI remember that the Union Jack has always been painted on each side of the bridge of the KWONG HING and she has flown the British Red Ensign at the stern throughout each trip.\n\nOn the evening of 21.1.40 I am certain I saw the Japanese cover the Union Jacks up on port and starboard side of the bridge and take down the British Red Ensign in the stern, this was whilst en route to SAL MUN in tow by the Japanese trawler.\n\nOn 23.1.40 I again went to PENG CHAU on T1703H towed by Steam Launch KWONG HING, I saw the two Union Jacks were still painted on the bridge.\n\nThe paint was old and weather beaten.\n\nThe British Red Ensign was again flying at the stern.\n\nI saw the Japanese strike PANG KAM CHIU, I also saw them strike several others of the crew, I do not know their names.\n\nI did not see WONG LOI stabbed. I was not struck myself.\n\n(sgd.) S. Shepheard.\n\nDivisional Inspector South.",
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        "content_text": "25\n\nLaol.8\n\nto any rights claimed by British merchant vessels in respect of their navigation of the Pearl River unter \"reaties in china\". aus diimoummi one with somer** Dinsdale and ood, the local representatives respectively of Butterfield & Swire and of the Hongkong, Canton, 1000 CARPE. boet 00., and further lengthy discussion with the Japanese Consul-General regarding the necessary military and naval pre-requisites to agreement (see my predecessor's despatches No 68 of April 15th (and enclosure) and 108 of April 10th (enclosure 1), attempted to embody these pre-requisites in the enclosed supplementary memorandum and sent a copy personally to the Officer Administering the Government, Hongkong, on May 22nd, telling him that while I intended to communicate verbally the contents of the memorandum without further delay, I would not give him anything in writing before May 25th, in order to hold up action if desired by the Hongkong Government or Dinsdale's principals.\n\nI did not receive a reply until May 27th. This reply took exception to the closing words of Article 5 of the memorandum as dangerous in principle, and suggested that the \"postscript\" might be otherwise drafted to meet approval, and I was asked to telegraph the date of the signing of the Agreement, since the Hongkong Government, who had imposed a prohibition against the importation of cargo from Canton by steamer or motor vessel until further orders on May 18th, (in order to prevent carriage of cargo by the Japanese vessels concerned in the Agreement of July 4th), would require notice in order to remove the prohibition when required. I have replied today that there is no question of any immediate signature since my proposals are merely exploratory. Meanwhile, on the afternoon of May 28th, I handed my exploratory proposals to Mr. ..., who suggested certain amendments on the margin of Enclosure 1. These amendments are shown in the addition in clause # (b) ii",
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        "content_text": "112 \n\n## ENCLOSURE NO. 2 IN CANTON DESPATCH No. 30 of 5/1/1940 to B.E. SHANGHAI.\n\n### THE TEMPORARY REGULATION OF THE PEARL RIVER PILOTAGE SERVICE.\n\n#### Article 1\nThe Pilotage service on the Pearl River is placed under the administration of the Japanese Army and Navy and enforced in accordance with the regulations contained herein.\n\n#### Article 2\nThe Regulations are inapplicable to Japanese warship and Military chartered vessel. Pilots on non-official staff of the Army or the Navy serve for the time being as pilots.\n\n#### Article 3\nAny person without the above qualification is not permitted to pilot a vessel within the limits of the Pilotage Ground of the Pearl River.\n\n#### Article 4\nShould the Captain or the Commanding Officer of a vessel wish to engage Pilot in day time he has to exhibit the signal (G) in accordance with the International Signal Code and in night time to emit blue flame every 15 minutes or to exhibit red and white lamps in vertical sequence.\n\n#### Article 5\nUpon seeing the signal requesting Pilot, Pilot has to endeavour promptly to meet the request under instruction of the Army and the Navy.\n\n#### Article 6\nUpon boarding a vessel, Pilot is required to inform the Captain or the Commanding Officer of the vessel of his name and his being a Pilot.\n\n#### Article 7\nUpon receiving a Pilot aboard the vessel, the Captain or Commanding Officer is required to remove the signal for Pilot and to inform him of the draught of the vessel and kind and quantity of cargo on board, and, if the vessel is non-Japanese, the Captain or Commanding Officer is required to inform him of the name of the Vessel, and her owner, the port of registration and the carrying capacity of the vessel, etc., in addition to the informations required above.\n\n#### Article 8\nWhen the Pilot has guided the vessel and reached the destination, the Captain or the Commanding Officer is required to hand over to the Pilot the Certificate of Form No. 1 attached to this regulation duly filled in, signed and chopped by him.\n\n#### Article 9\nThe limits of the Pilotage Ground of the Pearl River are defined as from a line drawn across the River at Chuen Pi Point up to the berth in the Port of Canton, excluding Whampoa. The Regulation does not debar any vessel with a tonnage of less than 500 gross tonnage or less than 8 feet draught from navigating without the Pilot on the above-mentioned Pilotage Ground. The way of transaction of the Pilotage Service on the waterway below the line drawn across the River at Chuen Pi Point will be provided in other regulations.\n\n#### Article 10\nPilotage fee is charged to the Captain or the Commanding Officer of the vessel piloted in accordance with the Tariff, prescribed in the following article, except in case of Japanese warship or Military chartered vessel.\n\n#### Article 11",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO.3. in Canton Despatch No.30 of 5th February, 1940, to British Embassy, Shanghai.\n\n## Article No.1.\n\n**TRANSLATION FROM THE JAPANESE VERSION OF THE PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS FOR PEARL RIVER PILOTAGE.**\n\nThe affairs concerning pilotage of the Pearl River are to be under the jurisdiction of the Army and Navy and the enforcement of the pilotage is founded on these regulations.\n\n## Article No.2.\n\nThese regulations do not apply to warships of the Imperial Navy nor to requisitioned and chartered vessels of the Army and Navy. For the time being, pilots will be assigned from members of the non-official staff of the Army and Navy.\n\n## Article No.3.\n\nPersons who are not pilots will not be permitted to have vessels under their guidance in the district of the Pilotage Zone of the Pearl River.\n\n## Article No.4.\n\nVessels wishing to engage pilots during the daytime are to exhibit the Pilot's Signal \"G\" prescribed in the International Signal Code, and during the night-time, such vessels are to emit a blue (? also means green) flame at intervals of 15 minutes or to hoist 2 red and white lights in top-bottom order.\n\n## Article No.5.\n\nWhen the pilot recognizes the Pilot Signal he shall endeavour to answer promptly the requirement as indicated by the Army and Navy.\n\n## Article No.6.\n\nWhen the pilot embarks the vessel for the purpose of guiding its water course, he shall inform the master of his name and of the fact that he is a pilot.\n\n## Article No.7.\n\nWhen the pilot embarks the vessel for the purpose of guiding its water course, the master shall withdraw the Pilot Signal and inform the pilot of the ship's draught and the amount and kind of the cargo; in the case of a foreign vessel, the master shall advise the pilot, in addition to the above information, of the details regarding the ship's name, the name of the owner, the name of the port of registry and the ship's tonnage.\n\n## Article No.8.\n\nAt the time the pilot has completed guiding the vessel on its water course, the master shall fill out the attached certificate \"Form No.1\" and sign and seal the necessary items. This certificate must then be delivered to the Pilot.\n\n## Article No.9.\n\nThe Pearl River pilotage zone extends from Chuen Pe Chiao to the harbour of Canton (excluding Whampoa); in this pilotage zone vessels exceeding 500 gross tons or exceeding 8 feet draught are subject to compulsory regulations. However, for the zone south of Chuen Pe Chiao, separate regulations are being promulgated.\n\n## Article No.10.\n\nIn the case of pilotage of warships and vessels other than Imperial warships and requisitioned and chartered vessels of the Army and Navy, the fees based on these regulations will be levied.\n\n## Article No.11.",
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        "content_text": "## GL/OLEREUTER-NOR: SU: AFR:EA:\n\n11. 02\n\nKING ONE \nBYLINE HAROLD KING MOSCOW \nSoviet command has extremely strong concentration of artillery northeast Kotelnikovo. Kotelnikovo and Germans are met with such heavy curtain fire that they are obliged to abandon raised tank attacks temporarily, owing to the big toll taken by Soviet batteries in the past few days. Heavy losses imposed on enemy here have upset his calculations. Fourth Rumanian Division suffered particularly heavily. Germans now fight in small groups comprising companies or battalions, chiefly infantry, sometimes accompanied only by tanks. Nevertheless, actual fighting has not slackened. Soviet forces frequently counterattack and Soviet aviation is very active.\n\nBHB/JH/LMB \n\n11. 02 \nKING TWO\n\nFighting between large masses of infantry is raging near the west bank of the Don, in the great \"quote elbow unquote\" facing Stalingrad. Stalingrad army newspaper \"Red Star\" stated today that Germans have been thrown out of positions on the bank of the river which they occupied after breaking through Soviet lines. Germans made a breakthrough yesterday by concentrating their forces in a narrow sector. Soviet High Command ordered them to be thrown back \"at all costs\".\n\n260",
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        "content_text": "## Science Faculty \n1st Year \n2nd Year \n1 \n3 \n10 \nTOTAL: \n255 \n\n## RECENT GRADUATES: \n- Medical Faculty - 23 \n- Engineering Fac. - 10 \n- Arts Faculty \n- Science Faculty \n12 \n47 \n\n## TEACHING STAFF: \n- Medical Faculty \n- Engineering Fac. \n- Arts Faculty \n- Science Faculty \n5 \n1 \n17 \n17 \n68 \n\nThe first members of the Teaching Staff to escape from Hong Kong were Lt.Col. L.T. Ride (Professor of Physiology) and Messrs. D.H. Morley (Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering) and D.F. Davies (Lecturer in Physics). Shortly afterwards they were followed by Prof. Gordon King (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine) and Mr. A.H. Bentley (Demonstrator in Pharmacy), and later still by twelve Chinese members of the Staff. These included Tohin Yen Koh (Temporary Professor of Chinese History), La Kiam (Lecturer in Chinese), Koh Nye Poh (Lecturer in Electrical Engineering), Chean Tsang Koo (Lecturer in Logic), H.T. Chang (Temporary Lecturer in Engineering), Chang Te Lin (Assistant in Medical Entomology), Yeung Wai Wah, Raymond Lee and Miss Daphne Chun (Assistants to the Clinical Units), King Sing Yue (Demonstrator in Electrical Engineering), Miss Leung Man Wah (Tutor in English) and Li Yin Kei (Tutor in Chinese). In addition, the name of Mr. M.K. Cheng (University Accountant) should be included.\n\nPage 15,\n\nMany of the 47 recent graduates have found employment in Free China. Medical graduates have not experienced great difficulty in finding posts and are serving with such organisations as the Chinese National Red Cross, Medical Unit of the New Life Movement, British Red Cross Unit, Central Midwifery Training School, as well as in Government and Mission Hospitals and in private practice. Engineering graduates have found employment with organisations such as the National Resources Commission, Pearl River Conservancy Board, China Vegetable Oil Corporation and the Hsiang-Kwei Railway. Arts graduates have found teaching posts in some instances, whilst others have taken up secretarial or translation work, one has entered the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one has become attached to the Research Department of the Farmer's Bank. Other graduates are still looking for appointments and every opportunity is being taken of finding suitable avenues for them.\n\nRegarding the 255 students, with whom this report is mainly concerned, a point of interest is that, whereas nearly all of the students are British Subjects, only about half of them have their homes in Hong Kong, the remainder coming from the Straits, Borneo, Java and Sumatra, Free China and even India. The actual figures are as follows:- \n\nPage 70\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "## DESTINATIONS OF UNIVERSITY MEMBERS, etc.\n\n| Universities & Colleges |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chung Shan University. | 4 |\n| Lingnan University. | 18 |\n| Amoy University.. |  |\n| South West University.... | 1 |\n| Kwangsi Provincial Medical College.. | 2 |\n| Hsiang Ya Medical College. | 12 |\n| Great China University. | 1 |\n| National Central University. | 18 |\n| Shanghai Medical College, Cheeloo University. | 33 |\n| Ginling College. | 7 |\n| Wuhan University. | 1 |\n| Undecided.. | 10 |\n|  | **112** |\n\n## B. Hospital Appointments (Doctors & Nurses)\n\n| Hospital |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Central Hospital, Chungking | 1 |\n| China Red Cross Hosp., Kweiyang. | 4 |\n| Central Hospital, Kweiyang | 19 |\n| Methodist Hospital, Kukong- | 2 |\n| C.I.R.C. Hospital, Kukong... |  |\n| Kwangsi Prov. Hosp., Liuchow. | 2 |\n| New Life Movement, Medical Section.. | 31 |\n\nSocial Service Student: \nAccountant: \nTOTAL: \n\n4 \n1 \n198 \n\n86 \n\nIn the above table, it is evident that certain persons have been included who do not strictly speaking possess university status. In the case of the nurses, pharmacists, and social service student, it was felt that their work lay sufficiently close to that of the Medical Faculty to justify the provision of some immediate relief, especially as no other organisation for this purpose existed at the time and most of the individuals concerned were personally known to me. In many cases, as in those of the nurses and qualified pharmacists, the money advanced will be recoverable when the British Government turns over salary payments that are due. In the case of the graduates, most of these were war-time graduates, and to many (but not all) of them a grant was given to cover their immediate travelling and living expenses while they sought for an appointment. The eight members of the Staff included Professor Ride (R.A.M.C.), Messrs. Morley and Davies (Naval Volunteers), Messrs. Koh Nye Poh, M.T. Chang (Engineering Faculty), Miss Leung Man Wah (Arts Faculty), Mr. M.K. Cheng (University accountant) and myself. In three cases, relief payments were made. It follows that, of the total of 198 referred to, only 130 remain who can be classed as students and for many of whom future responsibility need be entertained. Of the 130, the majority wish to continue their studies, only a very small number needing to take up some form of employment or are indefinite as to their future course of action. The various destinations of the 198 individuals have been classified as follows:-",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-14 War contributions- extracts from Governor's speeches 5-7-1941 - 5-7-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-589-14 War contributions- extracts from Governor's speeches 5-7-1941 - 5-7-1941",
        "content_text": "# Extract from the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST dated 28th June, 1941.\n\n## WAR EFFORT\n### Governor Speaks On Empire's Danger\n#### HONGKONG'S PART\n\nWhether people in Hongkong realise fully the gravity of the situation in which the British Empire finds itself to-day was one of the points raised by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, when he spoke on Hongkong's War Effort over ZBW, the Hongkong broadcasting station, last night.\n\nHis Excellency said: On May 29, I made two announcements in Legislative Council: the first was that I had appointed a Committee to examine Hongkong's economic war effort and to advise how it might be strengthened and intensified; the second was that Government proposed to raise the War Revenue Taxation to a general basic level of 7 per cent and 14 per cent with revised abatements for earners of low salaries. This evening I am seeking a wider audience, partly because what I want to do is to go over the same ground rather more fully and partly in order to say publicly and frankly what was in my mind when I spoke in the Council.\n\nI will put my main point in the form of a question or two. Do we here in Hongkong realise fully the gravity of the situation in which the British Empire finds itself to-day? Is it really borne in upon us how imperative it is that we should now throw every ounce of our weight into the struggle which Great Britain is maintaining against the enslavement of the world? The time has gone by for complacency. The time has come to face facts: to acknowledge to ourselves that if the British Empire is to survive this war we, together with all its other colonies, have got to tighten our belts and play our part in like manner with that in which the people of Great Britain are playing theirs, at any rate so far as circumstances allow us to.\n\nThe greatest peril by far that threatens the British Empire to-day is not the German raider or invader by land, sea or air: it is not the tank, the bomb, or the torpedo that we have most to fear: our greatest danger unquestionably lies on the economic side. If Hitler is rash enough to invade the British Isles he will rue the day on which he does it—we are more than ready for him. The German submarine and raider have done us enormous harm at sea: nevertheless we are slowly and surely, with the help of good friends, winning the battle of the Atlantic. Many streets and great buildings in the cities of England, Scotland, and Wales have been smashed: but we are giving Germany's factories, docks and arsenals to-day more than she has given us; and as the months go by the scale of our attack will rise higher and higher. But all those glorious feats will avail us but little unless the Empire can find more and ever more ships, planes, arms and ammunition for our Fighting Forces wherever they may be, and food for the beleaguered people of Great Britain.\n\nCan the British Empire stand the enormous, the hitherto undreamed-of, strain on her resources which their furnishing entails? It can; but only by one way, and that is for every unit of the Empire, large and small, rich and poor, to do its utmost—and I give that word \"utmost\" its fullest meaning—to that one end. In the old phrase, it is for the British to-day a case of \"Root! Hog, or die.\" That may sound despairing to some ears; but I am at the other end of the scale from despair, knowing as I do from my own sixty years' experience, as well as from history, that once the British hog realises that he has got to root, root he does and he survives!\n\n### War Savings Certificates\n\nWell! the time has come for that process. How are we going to set about it? In the first place there is the Economic War Effort Committee. You may have tasted its first-fruits with your early morning tea, but its task is not going to be easy. A more technical bit of work which they have put through is to draft a scheme for the sale of local War Savings Certificates, which I hope will meet with the approval of the Home Authorities. But the main problems which the Committee has to solve are: \"How can the importation into Hongkong of non-essential goods be reduced to the minimum?\" \"How can the consumption in Hongkong of necessary commodities be administered with the maximum of economy?\" And lastly, \"How can these restrictions be brought about without two very dangerous reactions being entailed? That is to say, without killing the mainspring of the Colony's prosperity, our entrepot trade, and, secondly, without crippling our growing ability to supply the Navy, Army, and Air Force and the Merchant Service with what they need to fight and to win this war?\" The last perhaps is the most vitally important of the three.\n\n### Tonnage, Labour and Sterling\n\nThese three are vital factors in the Economies of War, and we must strain every nerve to conserve them to the utmost.\n\nThe scope of the Economic War Effort Committee's labours is vast, but even so it does not cover the whole field; for though I would not shut them out from consideration of its possibilities, I have not specifically mentioned taxation in their terms of reference. In taxation, however, Government has a more flexible and more effective instrument for enforcing economy within the community than any other. I do not propose to-night even to suggest how that instrument can be put into further use, but I will quote a few words from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech in the House of Commons on the last Budget, which go straight to the fundamental principle which I have in mind: \"The primary object of these proposals is not to obtain taxation for taxation's sake, nor to raise revenue for the sake of revenue, but to make a considerable cut in purchasing power during the war.\"\n\n### Taxable Limits\n\nGiven then, that it is our bounden duty to take upon our shoulders a heavier burden of taxation—and that, I contend, cannot be refuted—there comes the question of \"ability to pay.\" That, of course, is a most intricate matter and I can only deal with it very generally to-night. I would begin by saying that any increase must be either in direct taxation—as for example through the War Revenue taxes, unless those are replaced by an Income Tax—or, if it is in indirect taxation, must concern itself solely with luxury and semi-luxury goods. The vast majority—at least 95 per cent of the people who live here certainly can bear no heavier burden than is theirs to-day—indeed their relief is one of our major problems. And there is, secondly, a large class of wage-earners who are fully taxed already: many of them, who are compelled by the hard necessity of war to keep up two homes, can clearly stand no further taxation, direct or indirect. Where above them in the social scale a taxable margin begins to appear is a question for close and expert inquiry; but, unquestionably, at the upper end there are some—relatively few it may be, but from the Treasury view-point far from inconsiderable—who are a long way from being taxed fully. Whatever their number or their nationality may be, if they are living here and have prospered here, safe under the British flag and sheltered by Great Britain's might, and if they can afford to pay more in taxes, their liability and obligation are plain: in this time of crisis they must share to the full the burden now being borne by the people of Great Britain, who are, as the saying is, already \"paying till it hurts.\"\n\nThose seeming irreconcilables have, somehow, to be woven into a consistent and positive policy by the Economic War Effort Committee. They may have some daylight for us; but it looks as though they will have to keep their own lamps burning late into the night before they find all the right answers.\n\n### Threefold Object\n\nThe objects to be served by denying ourselves everything that is not necessary for the healthy maintenance of body and soul are threefold:\n\n| Object | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | Every ton of shipping space saved is a ton given to our fighting men and to the people who are bearing the real brunt of this war. |\n| (ii) | Every hour of labour switched from the manufacture of non-essentials to that of war-supplies means an earlier victory. |\n| (iii) | Every pound sterling not spent on luxuries means a better gold dollar exchange for Great Britain—and that is vital. |\n\nOne last word on the best use to which we could put the proceeds of increased taxation. The money which has been subscribed here by the public or which has been voted by the Legislature has gone to serve the highly useful purpose of helping Great Britain to pay her war bill, and His Majesty's Government has expressed a very sincere gratitude on that account. I trust that nothing that I say to-night will do harm to those voluntary Funds which are still open. But the new revenue which increased taxation would bring in calls for different treatment.\n\n### Production Value\n\nRegarded from the strictly economic point of view, the most immediately effective use to which it could be put would be to put it into production here in Hongkong; in other words to build ships—war vessels or freighters—and to produce equipment and munitions of war on the spot. By so doing not only would we help to pay Great Britain's war bill but we would also secure delivery of the goods at the same time. Every shipyard and factory at home is busy \"to capacity\" whereas here we have ample labour at our doors. The manufactures which our taxes, if spent here, would bring into being would go immediately to swell the stocks of war stores and equipment which His Majesty's Government needs for our sailors, soldiers and airmen. Lastly, the employment so given would help to keep the Colony going: and that is one of our prime imperial duties.\n\nI suppose that not a few of my hearers will think this a very disagreeable talk, to say the least of it. Well! War is a very disagreeable thing at any time; but we are getting near to the end of the second year of this one and we are, or ought to be, beyond such minor considerations! So I will end where I began. The British Commonwealth is fighting with its back to the wall. What are we in Hongkong doing to help? All that is in our power, or not yet all? And if not all, are we going to hang back? I am convinced that Hongkong's answer to that is the same as that Australia and Canada have given in the last few days: \"We will withhold nothing that is within our power to give\". Worldly wisdom alone would dictate that reply to us. I trust, however, that Hongkong will give it from a worthier motive. Let me state that motive in Mr Churchill's stirring words:\n\n\"We have but one aim and one single irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air; until, with God's help, we will rid the earth of all those who have shadowed it and will liberate the enslaved peoples from his yoke. That is our policy and that our declaration: that course we shall pursue—faithfully and to the end.”\n\nTo be continued.\n\nPage 5\nPage 5",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-17 Evacuation of British families 14-1-1941 - 27-11-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-589-17 Evacuation of British families 14-1-1941 - 27-11-1941",
        "content_text": "## PHILIPPINE RED CROSS (American National Red Cross) Manila \n42 \nOctober 18, 1940 \n\nHon. S. Wyatt-Smith  \nH.B.M. Consul-General  \nManila, Philippines  \n\nMy dear Mr. Wyatt-Smith:  \n\nI am sending to you six (6) copies of a report by our Auditors, Clarke & Larkin, covering an examination of accounts relating to cash transactions of the Hong Kong Evacuation Fund, for the period from July 3 to August 9, 1940.  \n\nYou will notice that certain items have been properly charged against the American Red Cross Fund, such as the maintenance of a large corps of nurses and other extra personnel required in handling this operation. We have also charged all hospital and medical care to the Red Cross Fund because those who were stricken by illness were burdened with an additional misfortune and expense.  \n\nYou will notice that a reserve balance of $13,998.95 was left over from the Red Cross appropriation to cover unpaid liabilities after the close of the Auditors' examination on August 9. These liabilities included the shelter, subsistence, and medical care for the women and children left behind because of illness. I am attaching, for your information only, a list of expenditures which have already been charged against this balance.  \n\nThe expense per individual, covering shelter, food, transportation (including four special trains to Baguio and four special trains from Baguio), medical care and hospitalization; i.e., all expenses connected with the handling and care of the Hong Kong visitors, amounted to $78.81 per individual.  \n\nEncls.  \n\nSincerely yours,  \n\n**(Sgd.) CHARLES H. FORSTER**  \nManager  \n\n## 92",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-4 Air raid precautions- supply of equipment 1-11-1940 - 24-1-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-589-4 Air raid precautions- supply of equipment 1-11-1940 - 24-1-1941",
        "content_text": "# HONG KONG DESPATCHES\n\n## Document Header (OCR Damaged)\n\n* \n\nter \n\n,Visuust fis \n\n**PAGI FIGA** - \n\n**(E) Condes v. of** \n\nsad lo tosądue \n\nSuted won Moudt. \n\n: \n\nI \n\n'I \n\nnolol atau ni mocist \n\nof Dejrquor I dotmyeoh 3a36 20 7 digangenen ni \n\nand to food Davos betul too sde dand qirfalinol tool \n\nel nožoufo og Stylo adë “o nottu@song old na ngukuste \n\nLeod ler 006 LIN terid 1000,000,80 vietami XOʻQUV \n\n@yedsel octuİN mi gsundeinkgol edd yd Boury Kilermot \n\nbrenga ber es 13 fumoo esmart end dadd pull.b.ok medi \n\nTo be meldept a te notabingomana ent et viisauti \n\nfalougott drevalo nič no nebetamos 113 gaique God, 20 \n\nað pozirnen alat odd to cumulad sat jent öns pret \n\ncodemijes end nt bettvorg eð blvow Brzeigenq edð aðalp.os \n\n**LENGRSCOn Al netbres to Siet-Net HOL** \n\n22,0,0),pernovolí to whi ane \n\n**LA İrtzen, ong bei ofernus to Heito,uštane odd nj** \n\nco acw di usuni. Þaðegistern azm nodt viibov in \n\nAutobw wtifle mé era te in an scaun od slash \n\n*de rot abur to Jae telle \n\nM \n\nsono di drammes or liktieb ger di \n\nnolduston \n\nDend \n\n\n((1)) .o.w \n\n**WIT** \n\n**LUBBOSOU NO TOIL CHOI** \n\n- 3 - \n\n7 \n\n---\n\n## Despatch from Officer Administering the Government\n\n**Head 32, War Expenditure, Sub-head 2, Extraordinary Local Defence, Item 3, Civil**, during the current financial year instead of the sum of $3,422,000 mentioned in paragraph 7 of my despatch of 1st November, 1940.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\n**Emotion**\n\n**Officer Administering the Government.**\n\n---\n\n**Page 8**  \n**Page 9**\n\n---\n\n## Colonial Office Administrative Notes\n\n*(*5876-150) Wt. 14813-85 5,000 6/40 T.S. 695*  \n\n**C. O.**  \n\n| Mr. Monson | Mr. Poynton 28/1 | Mr. Gent 29/20 | Sir A. Burns |\n|------------|------------------|----------------|--------------|\n| Mr. G. L. M. Clauson | Mr. C. J. Jeffries | Mr. A. J. Dawe | Sir J. Shuckburgh |\n\n**B.**  \n**53871/1/41.**  \n**7..**  \n**got**  \n\n**Downing Street**  \n**February, 1941**  \n\n| Her Mail | 3 debman | Permt. U.S. of S. | Parly. U.S. of S. | Secretary of State |\n|----------|----------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|\n\n**To my**  \n\n**DRAFT. DESPATCH.**  \n\n**HONG KONG.**  \n\n**SECRET.**  \n\n**O.A.G.**  \n\n**Note.** Enclosure to 5.)  \n\n(7)  \n\nseant tel of the 29.1.41  \n\nNo comp dit.my  \n\nLicking  \n\n---\n\n## Despatch from Secretary of State\n\n**Sir,**\n\nI have **etc.** to refer to your secret despatch **(3)** of the 1st November 1940, on the subject of the passive defence measures against air attack being taken in the Colony, and to convey to you my approval of additional expenditure totalling **$3,422,000** under **Head 32, War Expenditure, Sub-head 2, Extraordinary Local Defence, Item 3, Civil**, during the current financial year subject to the approval of the Legislative Council being also obtained.\n\n### FURTHER ACTION.\n\n**2.** I have read your despatch and its enclosures on the subject of air raid precautions with much interest, and I should like to convey through you to those responsible an expression of my appreciation of the manner in which they have evidently tackled this difficult problem. I took the opportunity of obtaining the comments of the Ministry of Home Security on your despatch in case they might have any suggestions which would be of interest or value to the authorities in Hong Kong, and I enclose a copy of a note prepared in that Department which might be brought to the notice of the Director of Air Raid Precautions.\n\nI have no further comment to make on your despatch except to state that I note that the importance of giving bomb-proof protection to personnel at headquarters is realised in the Colony. I suggest that this work should be given a very high priority and should cover the headquarters of both the Civil and Military authorities.\n\nI have, etc.\n\n**(Signed) LLOYD**\n\n---\n\n**Page 10**  \n**Page 11**",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
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        "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "# \n## 142\nof 4 ties of rice per day. He used to keep one for the consumption of himself and his wife and sell the other 3 catties, as the only means of obtaining a little ready cash. There was a brisk business in looted goods, mostly food and clothing, in the main streets of the city. Pedder St., Queens Road, Wyndham St. and the Central District became virtually transformed into street markets, the streets on both sides being lined by booths and stalls. The prices of all articles were anything from three to ten times those normally prevailing. There was no sign of the re-opening of ordinary shops and businesses by the 17th Feb.\n\n## RLD CROSS\nShortly after the end of the war the Japanese were approached by a small committee including the Swiss Consul, Bishop Valtorta and others in an effort to obtain the permission of the Japanese to despatch a cable to Geneva requesting the establishment of a Chapter of the International Red Cross in Hongkong for the alleviation of distress. The Japanese, however, flatly refused to consider the proposal. One of the services which it had been hoped to carry out through an organisation such as the Red Cross was the preparation of a full casualty list, both civilian and military. By the middle of February no attempt had been made to prepare or publish any sort of casualty list, and there was considerable distress in Chinese, Indian and European circles as to the fate of relatives and friends who had not been heard of since the end of the fighting. Small and incomplete lists had been compiled privately of certain people who were known to be in the various camps, but there was no pretence at the compilation of an exhaustive list, and the Japanese themselves had no lists of the names of those who were interned in any of the camps. The utmost that was done was the publication of a few names in the daily paper of men who had died in one or other of the hospitals. On 27th Jan. the first list of 24 names was published, and on one or two subsequent occasions small additional lists were published.\n\n## ESCAPES\nMany thousands of Chinese have left the colony since the end of hostilities by every conceivable route, both land and sea. Their departure \"to their homes in the country\" has been encouraged by the Japanese, who are anxious to reduce the population of Hongkong to below the million mark, and have provided certificates guaranteeing safe conduct to Chinese as far as Hum-chun. Not more than thirty Europeans appear to have effected an escape from Hongkong since the party of 65 men who escaped with Admiral Chan Chak on the last day of the war. Of these Col. Ride and his party (3 in number) escaped from Sham Shui Po Camp on Jan. 13th, and other parties under Lieut. Douglas, Major Munro and Capt. Scriven, totalling 12 men in all, escaped from both Sham Shui Po and North Point Camps on dates between 20th Jan. and Feb. 1st. Full details of these are given in Col. Ride's report. So far as I can ascertain six civilians appear to have succeeded in escaping. These include Mr. Duff, who escaped on Jan. 20th, my own escape on Feb. 10th and that of Messrs Marsman and Lavrov (American) who escaped two hours later, and also that of Mr. Bentley (Government Pharmacist) who left Hongkong on Feb. 17th. I am not in possession of the details regarding Miss Phyllis Harrop's escape. My own route was via Star Ferry, Kai Tak Aerodrome, Taikung, Mirs Bay, Sha-yu-chung, Tamshui, Kweichow, East River, Lungchun and Kukong. At all points on the route the attitude of the guerillas and Chinese civilian authorities was most helpful, and I should like to pay a warm tribute to their friendliness.\n\n## JAPANESE GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG\nThe newly appointed Japanese Governor is Lieut.-General Isogai, whose arrival in the colony took place about Feb. 10th. Arrangements were being made for a public welcome ceremony but this had not taken place by Feb. 17th.\n\nSigned\n**Gordon King**\nDean, Faculty of Medicine,\nHongkong University.\n18.3.42",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943",
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        "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943",
        "content_text": "185\n\n-16\n\nJohn Humphrey Yoorath, R.N. retired, as Mr. Robinson finally taking the skiff in the dark and succeeding in finding the Admiral who had climbed from his original hiding place to another. I consider Lieutenant Commander Yoorath's boatmanship and perseverance in this small but most important matter deserves official mention. Able Seaman Domoy D/J109308 for his unselfish efficiency and willingness in my boat MTB 10 as in this instance and in others e.g. assisting Torpedo. Lieutenant (E) H.G. Thompson, R.N.R. on December 14th when putting out an oil drum fire, I also recommend for mention. A further member of MTB 10 crew I consider deserving of mention is Telegraphist Christopher Mondo P/SSX21494 for his efficiency in keeping his W/T set in order and his willingness to work long hours as necessary in the leader's boat where W/T and visual was heaviest.\n\n\"rendezvous\n\nI had by this time sent the following signal to all MTB's west of Aberdeen Island quietly 1950/25\" and they arrived about 2115 just as Admiral Chan Chak was brought on board with a bullet wound in his wrist. All his party were fitted out as well as possible into dry clothes and the 2nd MTB Flotilla proceeded at 22 knots for Mirs Bay on various courses and well off shore. The searchlight of a destroyer or cruiser was soon well to seaward at one time and what appeared to be a red rocket was fired, but no contact was made with enemy and under Admiral Chan Chak's instructions the flotilla anchored off Peng Chau Island when Mr. F.W.K. went shore under cover of motor launch guns and brought off the head man to confer with the Admiral. The Admiral thus received information that the small harbour of Nam O was free of Japanese and that the Chinese guerillas would meet him there and escort the party through the Japanese lines to the Chinese Army. The Flotilla then proceeded to Nam-O; meeting there (fortunately but apparently quite fortuitously) Commander Hugh Montague, R.N. (Retd.), late S.N.O. Aberdeen, now in launch C 410 which had run aground entering Nam O. The Flotilla proceeded to land stores and arms, eventually scuttling all boats just before daylight on December 26th. It is regretted that the scuttling could not take place in water deeper than 2 fathoms but there was not much time as it was most important to get the party and stores all on shore before daylight when Japanese reconnaissance might have spotted them.\n\nBy scuttling the operations of the 2nd MTB Flotilla at sea were brought to a close but the personnel continued across China, first under Commander Montague and later under my command, reaching Rangoon on February 14th, 1942, and placing themselves at the disposal of Commodore Burr Coast in defence of that port which was evacuated later on March 8th.\n\nFrom these operations of old type 1938 Scott Paine boats the following points emerge for rectification.\n\nThe engines are too noisy. The silent auxiliary engine for slow speed work is essential.\n\nGuns, if possible, should be centrally situated and near to the control officer.\n\nBoats should have efficient smoke producing apparatus (e.g. apparatus).\n\nBoats should be able to fire torpedoes forward and from a stopped position.\n\nThe 18\" Mark VIII torpedo's dive to an initial depth of 40 ft. before taking up depth setting. 40 ft. is much too great an initial dive.\n\nDepth charges for use by fast MTB's should be fitted with shallow water pistols. The Mark VII depth charges in use would not explode under 45 ft. which was too great a depth for certain work.\n\nThe use of MTB's for troop or ammunition carrying is possible but not very desirable as MTB's are too lightly built, nor is their power of manoeuvre sufficient.\n\nW/T communications.",
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        "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945",
        "content_text": "319\n\nManila.\n\nSir Allan Mossop went on to point out that there was a vast difference between Manila and Shanghai. In the case of the former there had been an American liberating force with the American Red Cross in attendance and British subjects were in a minority. In the case of Shanghai, we would probably have a Chinese liberating army and most of the internees and property interests were British, and our representation would be confined to a mission attached to the liberating army. The Admiralty and H.W.T. clearly required representation on the mission for liaison on repatriation of British subjects and for the resumption of shipping services. Priorities would probably have to be laid down in this connexion. Would repatriates go to the Pacific coast or to India? This still remained to be worked out. Not all those concerned were domiciled in the U.K; there were numerous Canadians, Australians and over one thousand Indians at Shanghai alone. Government of India would want equally good treatment for Indians as was being given to European British subjects. Sir Allan Mossop welcomed suggestions for the composition of the mission under General Hayes. A team would be required to cover all branches of work necessary for immediate first aid of British subjects found on the spot.\n\nKENDALL HENRY suggested that the meeting might next consider the commercial side.",
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        "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946",
        "content_text": "140\n\nIn discussion, it was agreed that the telegram from Chungking stating that Chiang Kai-shek had agreed to delegate his authority to the Officer Commanding British Forces could be accepted from the military point of view. It would be necessary to decide what further co-ordinating action should be taken by the British Chiefs of Staff in order to meet the requirements of the Generissimo and the United States Chiefs of Staff. The primary consideration was to ensure that General Wedemeyer informed General MacArthur that the necessary assurances on military co-ordination had been received from the British so that General MacArthur could issue the necessary orders for the Japanese in Hong Kong to surrender to the British. The most appropriate method would be for General Carton de Wiart to inform General Wedemeyer that assurances had already been given to the Generalissimo and for him to ensure that General Wedemeyer informed General MacArthur that the way was now clear for General MacArthur to issue the necessary orders to the Japanese. Once the 'all clear' had been given for the British Naval Commander to proceed to Hong Kong, it would be desirable for the Naval Officer Commanding to be in direct communication with General Carton de Wiart at Chungking to facilitate any future military co-ordination that was necessary.\n\nTHE COMMITTEE:\n\n(a) Accepted the position that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in his position as theatre commander would delegate to a British officer the power to accept the surrender of Hong Kong, and that the Generalissimo would arrange for a Chinese and an American representative to be present;\n\n(b) Instructed the Secretary to inform the Foreign Office of their views above;\n\n(c) Invited the Admiralty to communicate with C.-in-C., British Pacific Fleet enquiring if it was possible for Admiral Harcourt to establish direct communication with General Carton de Wiart in Chungking;\n\n(d) Invited General Ismay to inform General Carton de Wiart of the general background concerning the surrender of Hong Kong, and ask him to ensure that General Wedemeyer asked General MacArthur to issue the necessary orders to the Japanese.\n\nSubsequent to the meeting letters were received from the Foreign and Colonial Offices disagreeing with the position defined in telegram No. 909. These have been circulated under cover of a minute Ref. COS(1156/5) from General Ismay to the Chiefs of Staff. Meanwhile action on the above conclusions is to be held in abeyance.\n\n-3-\n\nPage 140\n\nPage 141",
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        "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947",
        "content_text": "Similar letters sent to:-\n\nH.E. Sir Franklin Gimson, K.C.M.G.\n\nSingapore.\n\nSir Wilson Jameson, K.C.B.\n\nMinistry of Health, Whitehall, S.W.1.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nThe Royal Societies Club,\n\nDover Street, W.1.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nThe British Museum,\n\nLondon\n\nThe Editor,\n\nThe Lancet,\n\nAdelphi, W.C.1.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nThe Royal Society of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,\n\nMansion House,\n\nPortland Place, London, W.\n\nThe Dean,\n\nThe London School of Hygiene and\n\nTropical Medicine,\n\nLondon, W.C.1.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nThe Royal College of Physicians,\n\nPall Mall, S.W.1.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nRoyal Society of Medicine,\n\n1 Wimpole Street, London W.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nBritish Medical Association.\n\nTavistock House, London, W.C.\n\nColonel Sir John Sleeman, St. John's Ambulance\n\nSt. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, E.C.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nSt. John's Ambulance Brigade,\n\n35-\n\nThe International Red Cross Society,\n\nGeneva.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nCanadian Red Cross H.Q. Ottawa.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nAustralian Red Cross H.Q.\n\nSydney, N.S.W.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nAmerican Red Cross H.Q., Washington, U.S.A.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nThe British Red Cross\n\nSociety, Grosvenor Crescent, S.W.1.\n\n4.",
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        "content_text": "41\n\nSir Wilson Jameson, K.C.B., Ministry of Health\n\nWhitehall, S.W.1.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nThe Royal College of Physicians,\n\nPall Mall, S.W.1.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nThe Royal Societies Club,\n\nDover Street, W.1.\n\nThe Dean,\n\nThe London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, W.C.1.\n\nThe Librarian,\n\nThe British Museum,\n\nLondon, W.C.1.\n\nThe International Red Cross Society, Geneva.\n\nH.E. Sir Franklin Gimson, K.C.M.G., Singapore.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nMark Young.\n\nGOVERNOR.",
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        "content_text": "30\n\nto use grass for cooking, a procedure which usually resulted in delayed and badly cooked meals. An inspection by the International Red Cross delegate, with Japanese officials, of a large kitchen, where damp grass was being deliberately used to emphasise the position, was rendered farcical by the density of the smoke and may have accounted for a marked improvement in firewood supplies during the final months of internment.\n\n14. FOOD SUPPLIES\n\nThe diet in Stanley Camp was, without doubt, monotonous and unpalatable and unsuitable for Europeans. It was consistently lacking in quantity, and frequently in quality, and at no time provided sufficient energy and essential food factors to meet minimum requirements. Much of the foodstuffs received was of very poor quality or had deteriorated in storage or during prolonged transport. It is, therefore, rather generous to calculate their food value, as has been done, on figures applicable to foods of average quality and with an average amount of unavoidable waste in preparation and cooking.\n\nAll rations were inspected on arrival by members of the health staff, a task which was frequently an unenviable one. Pre-war standards could not be maintained as rejected portions were not replaced and internees were living on a diet which bordered on starvation. The dividing line between what was fit and what was not fit for human consumption was very fine and risks were undoubtedly taken. But it was only on a few occasions that consumers were adversely affected and these were usually localised cases due to failure by kitchen staffs to follow medical recommendations. When food was rejected the Authorities were informed and a protest lodged which sometimes led to temporary improvement. Some of the meat received was found to be heavily infected with tuberculosis, showing signs of decomposition or so emaciated as to be obviously from diseased animals. Fresh fish was often so delayed in transit that much of it was uneatable on arrival. Later on frozen fish was supplied and occasionally this led to difficulties as one could not convince the Japanese that fish which was partly decomposed when frozen was unlikely to improve in storage. Finally, when lack of coal and electricity made cold storage impossible, and transport difficulties ruled out fresh supplies, the camp was subjected to the ordeal of Chinese salted fish. Many refused it but those of us who consumed it survived, somewhat to our surprise, without ill effects.\n\nShellfish was provided on a few occasions but as such probably originated in Hong Kong harbour, where collection was forbidden in pre-war days owing to the danger of typhoid, the supply was stopped at our own request. The small food value of this delicacy did not justify the danger involved in handling it in improvised kitchens where supplies of hot water and even fuel for cooking were inadequate.\n\nOn a few occasions the rice provided consisted of godown sweepings, almost uneatable and of very little value as food. It contained such items as sand, small stones, cigarette ends, insects and their young, droppings, glass and once, at least, rat carcases. Protests regarding the quality of rice appeared to be more effective than those in respect of other supplies and, as a rule, rice was of good quality. Requests for a regular supply of part of our rice in unpolished form were unsuccessful.\n\nVegetables showed a seasonal variation in quality and quantity, being particularly poor during the summer months. Supplies were frequently old and deteriorated when received. Sweet potatoes, when issued, were often of an inferior quality. Some vegetables were hardly worthy of the name and when one recollects meals consisting of 4 oz. boiled rice with a small portion of boiled turnips, or boiled lettuce, or boiled chrysanthemums, or boiled Chinese chives, or boiled potato leaves, one may be forgiven for thinking of a stronger word than austerity to describe them.\n\n23\n\nThe official rations were obviously inadequate for the maintenance of a reasonable degree of health and the results would have been very serious were it not for supplies received from other sources such as the Hong Kong Informal Welfare Committee, the Camp canteen and the International Red Cross delegate.\n\nSome internees were fortunate in receiving regular parcels from friends in town but this benefited a comparative few and did not materially influence the health of the camp as a whole. On the other hand, marked improvement of the health of internees generally followed the receipt of food supplies from Britain and Canada in 1942 and 1944 respectively.\n\nThe Japanese Authorities failed throughout to provide milk and other foodstuffs to meet the special requirements of babies, children and invalids. Their plight would have been serious if Dr. Selwyn-Clarke had not managed to send into camp during 1942 sufficient supplies to meet such requirements for a prolonged period. Children over five years of age had to subsist almost entirely on the official rations, the help that it was possible to give them infrequently being so limited as to have but little effect on their health. Nevertheless, apart from a high incidence of carious teeth and increased susceptibility to skin infections, the interned children were in a fair state of health on release and it is hoped that more serious manifestations of prolonged malnutrition will not arise.\n\n81\n\n31\n\n82\n\nRepeated requests for improvement of the diet were made to the Japanese authorities throughout the whole period of internment, but after 1942 the diet steadily deteriorated. While the rations provided might have been justified towards the end of the war owing to lack of supplies and land and sea transport, and a very effective blockade, there was no excuse at the beginning when large supplies of suitable food were available in the Colony and even in large godowns inside the camp.\n\nThe figures for nutritional diseases given in Dr. Smith's report show that nearly all internees suffered at some time from malnutrition in one form or another and this, with other factors such as overcrowding, discomfort, confinement and anxiety makes more remarkable the grim determination and consistent good humour with which the large majority of internees endured and survived such a long period of strain and hardship.\n\n(15) INFECTIOUS AND INSECT-BORNE DISEASES\n\nThe diseases under this heading of chief concern to the camp were dysentery, diarrhoea, typhoid, tuberculosis, typhus and malaria.\n\nDiarrhoea and Dysentery-In the early days of the camp conditions favoured the spread of fly-borne disease and the prevalence of diarrhoea and dysentery at that time was not surprising, particularly as many people had been infected in the Chinese hotels where they had been confined before entering Stanley. A large number of diarrhoea cases could be attributed to an unsuitable and unaccustomed diet and possibly to bad cooking. And, in the absence of laboratory facilities, it is likely that many cases diagnosed as bacillary dysentery on clinical grounds were, in fact, cases of acute enteritis. The situation was at first serious, with 350 cases of dysentery in the first three months of internment, but conditions improved and the total for the year was 410. Figures for 1943, 1944 and 1945 (eight months) were 191, 172 and 67 respectively. Although the dysentery was of some severity it responded rapidly to treatment with drugs of the sulphonamide group, of which there were limited supplies in camp. Only two deaths were certified as directly due to dysentery. Outbreaks of diarrhoea were fairly common particularly in the spring and autumn but only on a few occasions was it possible to determine the causative factor. Certain foods, either in themselves or by the nature of their cooking, occasionally accounted for these outbreaks but flies from the prison and Stanley village were probably responsible for many of them.\n\nTyphoid-Internees were inoculated against typhoid either before arrival in camp or shortly afterwards, and again in 1943 and 1944. Fourteen cases of typhoid occurred with one death.\n\nTuberculosis.-Thirty-three cases were registered during the first year but many of these were old cases. Spread of this disease was favoured by malnutrition and overcrowding but this was largely balanced by a good climate and an open air life. Only a comparatively small number of new cases were diagnosed and at the time of release only 15 cases were receiving hospital treatment. There were seven deaths. That undernourishment was largely responsible for the steady deterioration of these patients' condition was clearly demonstrated by their rapid improvement on an adequate diet following the Japanese surrender. For most of the time tuberculous cases were treated in the general hospital wards as separate accommodation was not available; in June, 1944, however, a small building, used in pre-war days as a ward for leprous prisoners, was allotted for use as a sanatorium. This proved a relief to the hospital and beneficial to the patients concerned.\n\nDiphtheria. One case diagnosed as diphtheria occurred late in 1942. The authorities promptly provided anti-toxin. The source of infection could not be traced and it is remarkable that the patient's two children escaped infection although they were at a very susceptible age, lived in a small room with her and no protective treatment was given. The diagnosis was confirmed by a Japanese-operated laboratory in town but its work was not reliable as it similarly diagnosed a smear from an ordinary septic throat a few days later. I was unconvinced that the case was, in fact, diphtheria. Its treatment however, demonstrated the necessity for isolation facilities in camp; the hospital outpatient department had to be closed to make the room used as such available for the patient.\n\nTyphus.-There were nine cases of scrub typhus with four deaths. The severity of these cases and the high mortality rate suggest the possibility of Japanese River Fever. Cases occurred in late summer or early autumn and the evidence available indicates transmission by mites. Several cases amongst troops on manoeuvres occurred in Hong Kong in 1941 and it is possible that the incidence may increase as a result of the Japanese occupation. Full investigation of the true nature and mode of transmission of the so-called scrub typhus as met with in Hong Kong appears to be necessary.",
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        "content_text": "118\n\n119\n\n30\n\nto use grass for cooking, a procedure which usually resulted in delayed and badly cooked meals. An inspection by the International Red Cross delegate, with Japanese officials, of a large kitchen, where damp grass was being deliberately used to emphasise the position, was rendered farcical by the density of the smoke and may have accounted for a mark improvement in firewood supplies during the final months of internment.\n\n14. FOOD SUPPLIES\n\nThe diet in Stanley Camp was, without doubt, monotonous and unpalatable and unsuitable for Europeans. It was consistently lacking in quantity, and frequently in quality and at no time provided sufficient energy and essential food factors to meet minimum requirements. Much of the foodstuffs received was of very poor quality or had deteriorated in storage or during prolonged transport. It is, therefore, rather generous to calculate their food value, as has been done, on figures applicable to foods of average quality and with an average amount of unavoidable waste in preparation and cooking.\n\nAll rations were inspected on arrival by members of the health staff, a task which was frequently an unenviable one. Pre-war standards could not be maintained as rejected portions were not replaced and internees were living on a diet which bordered on starvation. The dividing line between what was fit and what was not fit for human consumption was very fine and risks were undoubtedly taken. But it was only on a few occasions that consumers were adversely affected and these were usually localised cases due to failure by kitchen staffs to follow medical recommendations. When food was rejected the Authorities were informed and a protest lodged which sometimes led to temporary improvement. Some of the meat received was found to be heavily infected with tuberculosis, showing signs of decomposition or so emaciated, as to be obviously from diseased animals. Fresh fish was often so delayed in transit that much of it was uneatable on arrival. Later on frozen fish was supplied and occasionally this led to difficulties as one could not convince the Japanese that fish which was partly decomposed when frozen was unlikely to improve in storage. Finally, when lack of coal and electricity made cold storage impossible, and transport difficulties ruled out fresh supplies, the camp was subjected to the ordeal of Chinese salted fish. Many refused it but those of us who consumed it survived, somewhat to our surprise, without ill effects.\n\nShellfish was provided on a few occasions but as such probably originated in Hong Kong harbour, where collection was forbidden in pre-war days owing to the danger of typhoid, the supply was stopped at our own request. The small food value of this delicacy did not justify the danger involved in handling it in improvised kitchens where supplies of hot water and even fuel for cooking were inadequate.\n\nOn a few occasions the rice provided consisted of godown sweepings, almost uneatable and of very little value as food. It contained such items as sand, small stones, cigarette ends, insects and their young, droppings, glass and once, at least, rat carcases. Protests regarding the quality of rice appeared to be more effective than those in respect of other supplies and, as a rule, rice was of good quality. Requests for a regular supply of part of our rice in unpolished form were unsuccessful.\n\nVegetables showed a seasonal variation in quality and quantity, being particularly poor during the summer months. Supplies were frequently old and deteriorated when received. Sweet potatoes, when issued, were often of an inferior quality. Some vegetables were hardly worthy of the name and when one recollects meals consisting of 4 oz. boiled rice with a small portion of boiled turnips, or boiled lettuce or boiled chrysanthemums, or boiled Chinese chives or boiled potato leaves, one may be forgiven for thinking of a stronger word than \"austerity\" to describe them.\n\nThe official rations were obviously inadequate for the maintenance of a reasonable degree of health and the results would have been very serious were it not for supplies received from other sources such as the Hong Kong Informal Welfare Committee, the Camp canteen and the International Red Cross delegate.\n\nSome internees were fortunate in receiving regular parcels from friends in town but this benefited a comparative few and did not materially influence the health of the camp as a whole. On the other hand, marked improvement of the health of internees generally followed the receipt of food supplies from Britain and Canada in 1942 and 1944 respectively.\n\nThe Japanese Authorities failed throughout to provide milk and other foodstuffs to meet the special requirements of babies, children and invalids. Their plight would have been serious if Dr. Selwyn-Clarke had not managed to send into camp during 1942 sufficient supplies to meet such requirements for a prolonged period. Children over five years of age had to subsist almost entirely on the official rations, the help that it was possible to give them infrequently being so limited as to have but little effect on their health. Nevertheless, apart from a high incidence of carious teeth and increased susceptibility to skin infections, the interned children were in a fair state of health on release and it is hoped that more serious manifestations of prolonged malnutrition will not arise.\n\n31\n\nRepeated requests for improvement of the diet were made to the Japanese authorities throughout the whole period of internment but after 1942 the diet steadily deteriorated. While the rations provided might have been justified towards the end of the war owing to lack of supplies and land and sea transport, and a very effective blockade, there was no excuse at the beginning when large supplies of suitable food were available in the Colony and even in large godowns inside the camp.\n\nThe figures for nutritional diseases given in Dr. Smith's report show that nearly all internees suffered at some time from malnutrition in one form or another and this, with other factors such as overcrowding, discomfort, confinement and anxiety makes more remarkable the grim determination and consistent good humour with which the large majority of internees endured and survived such a long period of strain and hardship.\n\n(15) INFECTIOUS AND INSECT-BORNE DISEASES\n\nThe diseases under this heading of chief concern to the camp were dysentery, diarrhoea, typhoid, tuberculosis, typhus and malaria.\n\nDiarrhoea and Dysentery.--In the early days of the camp conditions favoured the spread of fly-borne disease and the prevalence of diarrhoea and dysentery at that time was not surprising, particularly as many people had been infected in the Chinese hotels where they had been confined before entering Stanley. A large number of diarrhoea cases could be attributed to an unsuitable and unaccustomed diet and possibly to bad cooking. And, in the absence of laboratory facilities, it is likely that many cases diagnosed as bacillary dysentery on clinical grounds were, in fact, cases of acute enteritis. The situation was at first serious with 350 cases of dysentery in the first three months of internment but conditions improved and the total for the year was 410. Figures for 1943, 1944 and 1945 (eight months) were 191, 172 and 67 respectively. Although the dysentery was of some severity it responded rapidly to treatment with drugs of the sulphonamide group, of which there were limited supplies in camp. Only two deaths were certified as directly due to dysentery. Outbreaks of diarrhoea were fairly common particularly in the spring and autumn but only on a few occasions was it possible to determine the causative factor. Certain foods, either in themselves or by the nature of their cooking, occasionally accounted for these outbreaks but flies from the prison and Stanley village were probably responsible for many of them.\n\nTyphoid--Internees were inoculated against typhoid either before arrival in camp or shortly afterwards and again in 1943 and 1944. Fourteen cases of typhoid occurred with one death.\n\nTuberculosis.--Thirty-three cases were registered during the first year but many of these were old cases. Spread of this disease was favoured by malnutrition and overcrowding but this was largely balanced by a good climate and an open air life. Only a comparatively small number of new cases were diagnosed and at the time of release only 15 cases were receiving hospital treatment. There were seven deaths. That undernourishment was largely responsible for the steady deterioration of these patients' condition was clearly demonstrated by their rapid improvement on an adequate diet following the Japanese surrender. For most of the time tuberculous cases were treated in the general hospital wards as separate accommodation was not available; in June, 1944, however, a small building, used in pre-war days as a ward for leprous prisoners, was allotted for use as a sanatorium. This proved a relief to the hospital and beneficial to the patients concerned.\n\nDiphtheria.--One case diagnosed as diphtheria occurred late in 1942. The authorities promptly provided anti-toxin. The source of infection could not be traced and it is remarkable that the patient's two children escaped infection although they were at a very susceptible age, lived in a small room with her and no protective treatment was given. The diagnosis was confirmed by a Japanese-operated laboratory in town but its work was not reliable as it similarly diagnosed a smear from an ordinary septic throat a few days later. I was unconvinced that the case was, in fact, diphtheria. Its treatment however, demonstrated the necessity for isolation facilities in camp; the hospital outpatient department had to be closed to make the room used as such available for the patient.\n\nTyphus. There were nine cases of scrub typhus with four deaths. The severity of these cases and the high mortality rate suggest the possibility of Japanese River Fever. Cases occurred in late summer or early autumn and the evidence available indicates transmission by mites. Several cases amongst troops on manoeuvres occurred in Hong Kong in 1941 and it is possible that incidence may increase as a result of the Japanese occupation. Full investigation of the true nature and mode of transmission of the so-called scrub typhus as met with in Hong Kong appears to be necessary.",
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        "content_text": "150\n\nvitally needed concentrates as shark's liver oil, marmite, yeast, drugs like sulfapyridine, thiamine, nicotinic acid, and biologicals like diphtheria anti-toxin.\n\nThrough the same underground channels, I was able to send funds into the camps which the medical officer in charge would utilise in purchasing through Japanese and Formosan sentries, essential additions to the meagre rations, as, for example, soya beans, groundnuts, onions. Diet kitchens so organised by the medical staff helped to augment the rice diet which produced marked malnutrition in several hundred of the inmates. Considerable numbers suffered agonising pain, 'electric' feet, and so forth, which often produced severe insomnia, and even mental symptoms.\n\nSerious interference with visual acuity amounting to actual blindness was another manifestation of the ill-balanced and inadequate ration.\n\nFrequent instances came under notice of beri-beri heart with syncope following even slight exertion.\n\nThat many more lives were lost in the prisoner of war camps in Hong Kong and that a remarkably high level of morale was maintained constitute a lasting tribute to the devotion of officers and others (especially the members of the R.A.M.C., I.M.S., and Naval Medical Service), responsible for the camp welfare.\n\nOn the 4th January, 1942, that is to say, ten days after the surrender, the Japanese interned the majority of the British, European, American, and Dutch civilians. About 2,500 were crowded into a dozen insanitary Chinese boarding houses, taking with them whatever belongings they could carry by hand. This accommodation was chosen by the Japanese with a view to destroying what little remained of British \"face\" or prestige. The rations issued out at that time consisted of 6.4 taels or 8 ozs. of rice per head per day, occasionally a portion of water buffalo, rarely any salt or oil, and no vegetables. Pine logs were used as fuel. It will probably be agreed that this was rather a Spartan diet for those accustomed to European food.\n\nIn order to mitigate these hardships, efforts were made by those of us still at liberty to distribute to these boarding houses all manner of supplies. The Japanese somewhat reluctantly permitted me to operate three Red Cross trucks with the aid of six stalwart Americans who rendered extremely valuable service until repatriated six months later. As a result of the internment of prisoners of war and civilians, an immediate problem had to be solved, namely, the care of their non-interned wives, children, and dependents of Chinese, Portuguese, or mixed race.\n\nThe Red Cross was not permitted to function in this connection for over a year after the surrender. It was necessary, therefore, to establish an informal welfare committee. This committee raised funds, under cover, from sympathisers with the Allied cause. The funds enabled assistance to be given in the form of monetary grants, food, clothes, shoes, medical care, and so on.\n\nThe same committee did its best to meet the multitudinous needs of prisoners of war and interned persons.\n\nAfter numerous strong protests against confinement in the Chinese boarding houses, the Japanese eventually agreed to the transfer of civilian internees to Stanley Peninsula situated on the south side of Hong Kong Island.\n\nPermanent reinforced buildings, with large open spaces for vegetable gardening, were available, and access to the beaches was allowed during six months of the year.\n\nHere, too, overcrowding and a complete lack of privacy were a sore trial, but general living conditions were",
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        "document_key": "CO129-592-23 Future policy- Crown Rents Proclamation 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945",
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        "content_text": "# Notes on draft of Crown Rents Proclamation\n\n1st Recital. The words \"or such amount as may have been otherwise lawfully determined\" are added to meet those cases in which rents of portions of lots have been determined under the Crown Rents (Apportionment) Ordinance, 1936. (Ord. No. 4 of 1936).\n\n2nd Recital. This is understood to be the case. Such action would appear to be permissible under Article 55 of the Annex to the Hague Convention, 1907. Payment to the Japanese will have to be accepted as a discharge of liability to the Crown.\n\n3rd Recital. This is believed to be declaratory of the legal position as I understand it. Authorities are cited in Halsbury Vol. 20, p. 176 et seq. Some declaration seems desirable as a preface to the statement of Government's policy.\n\ns. 3. To the best of my recollection, Crown rents were payable half-yearly on 24 June and 25 December. The first date left blank in the draft would be the first half-yearly date after the re-occupation. The second date left blank would be 21 days after the other.\n\ns. 4. The Chinese habitually keep Crown rent receipts and bring them when making payments. Production would be a source of invaluable information if the Crown rent rolls have been destroyed. The call for production right back to June, 1941, is designed to cover the last payment to the H.K. Government and any subsequent payments to the occupying power. The former is required to establish the correct amount payable, the latter for the compilation of a record of monies appropriated by the enemy. Sub-section (2) is necessary to enable us to call for production when there is no tender of Crown rent and further to enable the Collector to call for, inspect and make extracts from title deeds in order to build up his records.\n\ns. 5. When accepting payment of Crown rent most recently accrued due while arrears are still outstanding, one is up against the difficulty that this may operate as a waiver of the right of re-entry in respect of the arrears or otherwise prejudice the Crown by barring the right to exercise the right of re-entry where there had been breach of some stipulation other than the covenant to pay the rent reserved. It is recognized that we shall probably be compelled to accept the most recent rent pending further investigation and doubtless we shall find that many people simply have not got the means to wipe off arrears.\n\ns. 6. This section is designed to implement the policy in relation to payments to the occupying power. The date left blank in the draft will be the last date on which Crown rent accrued due before the re-occupation.\n\nWe may find that the Japanese have, contrary to international law but in true oriental tradition, collected Crown rent (and other dues) in advance. The policy to be adopted towards such payments, if any, will have to be considered later.\n\ns. 7. This section makes provision for the discretionary grant of relief from liability for the payment of arrears which may have accrued during the period of occupation. Many cases of hardship will doubtless be found, particularly amongst those who were most loyal to us.\n\ns. 8. Is designed to cover cases not within s. 7. It may well be that it will prove desirable to grant wholesale exemption in districts which have been devastated or particularly hard hit.\n\ns. 9. A normal section covering methods of service.\n\ns. 10.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946",
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        "title": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946",
        "content_text": "## Col. (CA) Works, Hongkong.\n\nC. + Hilops Laconn-M \n\n50 \n\nK.C.R. 001 \n\n124 \n\nKowloon-Canton Railway, \nKowloon. \n\n24th November, 1945. \n\n1. \n**Subject: QUARTERLY REVIEW** \nReference `PWO 1/45` \n\nThe restoration of the Railway has been hampered by the absence of such elementary transportation maintenance stores as a well-equipped relieving force would normally have brought in. Further, no railway-trained European personnel were available on entry of the British into Hongkong, and at the present time, the Manager is the sole European officer with Railway technical knowledge. \n\n2. \nThe Railway Workshops are in charge of a Warrant Officer of the R.A.F., and the Civil Engineer's Department is run by a Chinese Civil Engineer. The Manager is carrying out the combined duties of Manager and Traffic Manager, and a Flying Officer of the R.A.F. assists with general administration and stores. \n\n3. \nThe native staff have returned in considerable numbers, many of them undernourished, and some welfare attention with medical supplies would be welcomed and would react favourably on their work. \n\n4. \nA period of three months has elapsed without any sign of essential railway stores, such as permanent way tools, detonators, and red and green flags. By diligent search, a few machine tools have been discovered and utilized in carrying out minor repairs primarily to locomotives and secondarily to passenger coaches and goods wagons, as well as a few items of manufacture for other services. \n\n5. \nTwo local trains and one through train to Canton each way are being run daily with occasional cancellations resulting from locomotive failures. The writer, in commenting on the UNRRA scheme for China as received at SACSEA, stressed that locomotives would form the bottleneck of the rehabilitation programme for the country, and already in South China, this view has been amply confirmed. The early arrival of locomotives for this line, gateway to the Central Chinese System and the middle Yangtze, will play a not unimportant part in Hongkong's relations with China, for with a very heavy transport programme facing them, the Chinese Section of the Railway have only six locomotives which are even reasonably serviceable. A heavy-lift ship could be used to no better purpose than to bring out the locomotives, since if loaded with I.W.T. craft, such craft is of little or no value on the North River beyond Canton. \n\n6. \nThere are already indications that the recommendations of the...",
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        "content_text": "## Morale of N.T. people to-day.\n\n## Red Influence\n\n154\n\n### THE NEW TERRITORIES, September - November, 1945.\n\nMid-August, 1945, found the people of the New Territories imbued with new cynicism (presumably common to all peoples of occupied countries) remarkably more critical, but with the same old oaken core to their characters, morally still comparatively stout, not so shaken as the townspeople.\n\n### British Re-occupation.\n\nDuring the interval between the cessation of hostilities and the British re-occupation, local Self-Protection Corps, armed only with, e.g., long poles, were formed in most market-towns to maintain order. That, for the most part, order was maintained was, however, largely due to the good sense of the people, and probably to the restraining influence of the Reds, parties of whom remained in various places under good discipline and instructions from their East River Branch. The influence of the Reds is another legacy of the war: though they have probably sent most of their arms out of the Colony, and have no present intention of using armed force for their own ends, they have left behind political nuclei to see that the good work (as they see it) which they did is not undone. During the later stages of the Japanese occupation they attempted, with some success, to prevent landlords from taking what was by Red standards an excessive proportion of harvests from tenants. Young people particularly tend to sympathise with the Reds.\n\nThe New Territories were only re-occupied by stages: first the parts of the mainland easily accessible by road, then the outlying parts, and finally the islands. The occupation, for instance, of Lantau, and of Peng Chau in Mirs Bay, being only completed about the third week in November. The people, whom the Japanese occupation has made more self-reliant than ever, and who are tired of the sight of uniform, looked coldly at first on the occupying forces, but were gradually won over, chiefly by the medical aid afforded them daily at nearly every post.\n\n### Government Rice.\n\nAmong Government's first acts was the appointment in the main market-towns of agents, always established rice-dealers, for the sale of Government rice at the controlled prices. This has been almost uniformly abused: by unequal distribution by the agents and by sales to buyers from China. It appears, however, that these rackets have been mild compared with the corresponding activity in Kowloon and Hong Kong, and that the imminence of the possibility of unrestricted dealings in rice renders untimely a plan whereby Government rice would be sold from Government shops, selling nothing else.\n\n### Free Rice.\n\nParallel with the distribution of Government rice in the early stages went the distribution of free rice to the truly needy. This was handled by the Tung Wah Hospital through locally appointed agents, who acted for the most part with a fair degree of public spirit. The rice was issued cooked to the indigent inhabitants of the market-towns and nearby villages, and uncooked to the needier inhabitants of outlying villages.\n\n- 1 -",
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        "document_key": "CO129-596-4 Hong Kong University- Apprenticeship scheme 4-2-1947 - 3-9-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-596-4 Hong Kong University- Apprenticeship scheme 4-2-1947 - 3-9-1947",
        "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nI have slightly amended the draft. Miss Ruston informed me today that the F.B.I. have now selected the five students and she is therefore anxious that the scheme should be approved as soon as possible so that all concerned be informed and action taken to reply to the despatch at `SOA)` on '/46 file (see also `XCR(85)72` and enclosures from F.O. after on this file). I have accordingly marked this in red.\n\n`ABX Raqus. 20.347.` Mr. Bryant. Please Nos.19,22 and 26 on -/46 and Miss Whyte's minute of 4th June, 1946 on that file.\n\nWe seem to be breaking fresh ground here so far as D. and W. training procedure is concerned. It is proposed that normal scholarship terms should not apply to these engineering graduates and that they should be assisted on a scale comparable with the F.B.I. awards to Chinese graduates. Since we are here concerned with post graduate students who will be gainfully employed during apprenticeship, there are reasonable grounds for departing from normal scholarship terms, but a number of difficulties will be introduced.\n\nFor one thing we have to consider what if any of the normal arrangements will apply. It is proposed to pay an outfit allowance, but shall we also pay, for example, medical expenses and possibly dependants' allowances either in this country or in Hong Kong. These graduates are not particularly young and some may very well have local commitments. These points can perhaps be left over for more leisurely consideration after the scheme has been accepted in principle and the present interim grant sanctioned. A point of fundamental importance which must however be resolved now is the question of income tax. I do not regard the proposal that the graduates should receive a net payment of £30 a month as either practicable or acceptable in principle, at least without a closer examination of what is involved.\n\nThe tax position of these graduates is not, as I see it, analogous to that of normal Colonial scholars. `LC.110/110/452` refers to tel 294 214-3-47 to Nanking. \n\nI have attached a financial summary and ... to cover ...'s `GR1178/1922/32(III)`. \n\n5. F.O. \n6. ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950",
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        "content_text": "## 28. \nUnder the Head Fire Brigade, certain increases in establishment have been allowed for in order to provide for crews for two fire engines which have been replaced by more modern appliances. In the normal course, these engines would have been disposed of, but they are still in reasonable condition and it is hoped that it will be possible to modernise them.\n\n## 29. \nRecruitment for the new Defence Force has been in progress for some months. Provision is made for an Infantry unit to be known as the Hong Kong Regiment, and also for Naval and Air Force units. The estimate for the Hong Kong Regiment provides also for the headquarters of the combined force, and a sum of $310,640 has been included to meet the cost of the Regular Army and Royal Air Force personnel which it is proposed to second to staff this headquarters. Under Other Charges and Special Expenditure, the sum of just under $2,000,000 has been provided for the equipment and training of the Infantry unit. The estimates for the Naval and Air Force components total $209,282 and $135,930 respectively, but they are still very tentative. The Naval estimate is based on the assumption that minesweepers will be made available for training purposes, and the Air Force estimate also assumes that some aircraft will be made available for the same purpose. As you are aware, negotiations on these points are in progress, but no final agreement has so far been reached with either the Admiralty or the Air Ministry.\n\n## 30. \nFunds are provided under sub-head 7 of the Head Public Works Extraordinary to enable a start to be made on the projected new headquarters for the Defence Force. This is provisionally estimated to cost $5,000,000. The exact requirements, however, have not yet been decided upon, and it is therefore improbable that more than $500,000 will be required to cover the work up to the end of the present financial year.\n\n## 31. \nIn the course of the budget debate, Sir Man Kam Lo commented on the scale of this expenditure on the Defence Force, including the Naval and Air Force units, and stated, on behalf of his unofficial colleagues, that they were only prepared to accept it on the clear understanding that the maintenance of the local forces represented the full extent of the Colony's contribution to Imperial defence and that no cash contribution would be expected in addition. I undertook to bring the views of the unofficial members on this question to your notice, and I trust that, in view of the terms of the earlier correspondence, no additional contribution for defence purposes will in fact be demanded.\n\n## 32. \nProvision was made in the 1948-49 estimates for the construction of a tuberculosis clinic, and it was proposed that another clinic should be constructed from funds which the Red Cross Society had very generously made available. When the matter was examined in more detail, however, it was found that the clinics would cost a good deal more than was at first envisaged, and for this and other reasons, it did not prove possible to start construction. It is now proposed to erect these clinics, one on each side of the harbour, during the present financial year, but owing to the increased cost, the contribution from the Red Cross Society will not suffice to meet the whole cost of either building. The provision in the estimates has therefore been raised from $100,000 to $240,000. Additional equipment and staff for these clinics have been provided for under the Medical Department head, and when the clinics are completed, they will work in close co-operation with the Anti-Tuberculosis Association.",
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        "content_text": "-24- \n\n207 \n\nalmost over and a regular maintenance programme has been introduced.\n\nTwo new sub-heads are shown for the first time, maintenance of air conditioning plant and refrigerators, for which $10,000 is provided, and survey parties for reclamation schemes for which $45,000 is provided. Considerable economies have been made in respect of motor transport, the costs for which are now shown under the Electrical and Mechanical branch of the Public Works Department.\n\n## Head 31. Public Works Extraordinary\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $19,618,000 | $3,000,000 | $10,638,500 | $886,055 |\n\nSub-head 1 is purely a security measure. Circumstances might arise where it might be necessary to utilise certain New Territories paths and tracks for light vehicles, and a sum of $1,000,000 is being provided to widen them and make them generally passable.\n\nUnder sub-head 4, a sum of $700,000 has been included for the construction of what has loosely come to be known as Workers' Schools. A number of these schools have been established in various parts of the Colony. Their development has been affected by financial and other considerations. As a result, they are rather scattered and the buildings are far from suitable. It is felt that the time has now come for Government to take over these schools if they are to develop along acceptable lines under fully qualified teachers. One large industrial concern in the Colony is interested in the scheme and it is hoped that they will be prepared to make some contribution towards the cost.\n\nAs regards sub-head 5, the present fire station in Kowloon is in a requisitioned building. It seemed, until recently, to be good prospects of securing a long lease for this building, but this has now fallen through. We had therefore no option but to build a new fire station ourselves, and in many ways this is the best solution, as no leased building would be suitable without very extensive alterations. The building of the station is estimated to cost $2,000,000, but the drawings will take time to complete, so only $500,000 has been provided for the present year.\n\nSub-head 7 relates to the projected new headquarters for the Defence Force, which was previously estimated to cost $5,000,000. The exact requirements have not yet been decided upon, and until they are, the drawings cannot be put in hand. For these reasons, it is improbable that more than $500,000 will be required to cover the work up to the end of the financial year 1949-50.\n\nProvision was made in the estimates for the current year for the construction of a tuberculosis clinic, and it was proposed that another clinic should be constructed from funds which the Red Cross Society had very generously made available. When the matter was examined in more detail, however, it was found that the clinics would cost a good deal more than was at first envisaged, and for this and other reasons it did not...",
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        "content_text": "## Under Other Charges and Special Expenditure\nUnder Other Charges and Special Expenditure, the Financial Secretary said, a sum of just under $2,000,000 has been provided for the equipment and training of the infantry unit. The estimates for the Naval and Airforce components total $209,282 and $135,930 respectively, but they are still very tentative.\n\nFunds are provided under sub-head 7 of the Head Public Works Extraordinary to enable a start to be made on the projected new headquarters for the Defence Force. This is provisionally estimated at $5,000,000. However, the exact requirements have not been decided, and it is improbable that more than $500,000 will be required to cover the work up to the end of the financial year 1949-50.\n\n## Anti-Tuberculosis Work\nIn connection with the anti-tuberculosis work of the Medical Department, Mr. Follows said that two tuberculosis clinics, one on each side of the harbour, will be constructed. In view of the fact that the contribution from the Red Cross Society will not suffice to meet the whole cost of either building, the provision in the estimate has therefore been raised from $100,000 to $240,000.\n\nThe government has also made a subsidy of $150,000 to the Anti-Tuberculosis Association.\n\n## Police Force\nUnder the Police Force Head provision has been made for an additional 14 assistant superintendents and 557 constables.\n\nOn the whole, the strength of the Hongkong Police has been increased from 2,220 at the fall of Hongkong to 4,129 today. Hence the total increase in expenditure under this head is of the order of $2,250,000, including some $900,000 for new equipment, Mr. Follows said. An additional sum of $1,000,000 is provided under sub-head 11, Public Works Extraordinary, to enable a start to be made on Police quarters for the rank and file. A sum of approximately $6,500,000 is also being made available from Loan Funds for the completion of the Divisional Headquarters at Kowloon City and for stations at a number of other places.\n\n## Other Developments\nMr. Follows' report also contained information on construction of new and improvement of old roads in the New Territories, reconstruction of Kai Tak Airport, government housing, and rehabilitation of the water supply.\n\n## Subventions\nAdmitting that the total of $13,250,000 paid out in Subventions is an extremely high figure, Mr. Follows said that of these, $7,917,000 is paid in grants to grant-aided and vernacular schools, while $1,500,000 goes to the Hongkong University. He added that $2,625,000 represents the subsidy to the Tung Wah group of hospitals and to the Alice Memorial Hospital, while $150,000 goes to the Anti-Tuberculosis Association.\n\n249",
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        "content_text": "Secretariat file `1100/450`.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nNo. 30%\n\nAnswin (14/ling)\n\n30\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.**\n\n22nd December, 1948.\n\n## Enclosure 1\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer to your telegram (1) No.1119 of the 1st November, 1948, on the subject of the Tai Lam Chung project and to forward for your information a copy of a plan showing the areas which would be affected if the scheme for extending the storage capacity on the Island referred to in paragraph four of my despatch No.142 of the 24th June, 1948, were adopted.\n\n2. As indicated in the references on the plan, the blue colouring shows existing reservoirs and catchment areas while the red colouring shows the new reservoirs and catchments which would be required. This would involve an additional flooded area of about 230 acres and would eliminate practically the whole of the Shouson Hill area which has been developed as a residential suburb together with a considerable tract of agricultural land. It would also cover some two miles of the Aberdeen-Repulse Bay road with its sewers and electric cables. The Military Magazine is also located in the area, and although I am anxious to have it removed to an area where it would prove less of a hazard to the civilian population I have recently had to agree most reluctantly to its continuing at its present site and I foresee that it may be some years before it is eventually replaced.\n\n3. These factors would make such a scheme very expensive to undertake since, apart from the capital cost of the works, there would be a heavy charge by way of compensation for resumptions and the added cost of replacing a main road and other services. The quantity of water which would be impounded amounts to 2,500 million gallons giving a potential average daily yield of 5 1/2 million gallons, the whole of which would have to be pumped to the supply areas at considerable additional cost. A daily supply of 5 1/2 million gallons might seem at first sight to justify the very heavy expenditure, but the following considerations show that the scheme would in fact fall far short of the Island's requirements.\n\n4. Owing to the acute shortage of water during the dry season from October to April, it is necessary each year to resort to drastic restrictions during these months even at the risk of public health and the efficiency of the fire services. In spite of these restrictions, the average daily consumption on the Island alone in 1947/48 was 18.65 million gallons. Restrictions have again been imposed as from 1st December, 1948. The existing resources on the Island can supply only 11 million gallons per day and the balance is obtained from the mainland through the cross-harbour pipe-line. Thus, the addition of 5 1/2 million gallons a day would still leave a deficiency of 2 million gallons per day below the average daily consumption.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ARTHUR CREECH JONES, M.P.**\n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "document_key": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949",
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        "title": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949",
        "content_text": "No. 31 of 1911.\n\n(s. 39-A\n\nINTERPRETATION.\n\nINTERPRETATION.\n\nNo. 31 of 1911.\n\nPage 13\n\ncontd.]\n\nCrown Agents.\n\nAdmiralty.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63,\n\ns. 12 (4).\n\nPrivy Council.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63,\n\ns. 12 (5).\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63,\n\ns. 12 (8).\n\nImperial Parliament.\n\nConsul.\n\n(5) \"Crown Agents\" means the person or persons for the time being acting as Crown Agents for the Colonies in England, or any one of them.\n\n(6) The Admiralty means the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being or the Commissioners for the time being executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom.\n\n(7) \"Privy Council\" means the Lords and others for the time being of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; and Order in Council means an Order made by His Majesty in his Privy Council.\n\n(8) \"Board of Trade\" means the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.\n\n(9) \"Imperial Parliament\" and \"Parliament of the United Kingdom\" mean the Parliament...\n\n(10) \"Consul\" and \"consular officer\" include consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent and any person for the time being authorized to discharge the duties of consul-general, consul or vice-consul.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 12 (20).\n\nLegislative Council.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (7).\n\nTreasury.\n\nJustice of the peace.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\n(11) \"Legislative Council\" and \"legislature\" mean the Legislative Council of the Government of Hong Kong; and when used with reference to a British possession other than Hong Kong, mean the authority, other than the Imperial Parliament or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make laws for such British possession.\n\n(12) \"The Treasury\" and \"Treasurer\" mean the Colonial Treasury and the Colonial Treasurer respectively, and \"Treasurer\" includes the Financial Secretary and the Accountant-General.\n\n(13) \"Justice of the peace\" means a person appointed by the Governor to act as justice of the peace for the Colony.\n\n(14) \"Clerk of Councils\" means the person appointed by the Governor to be Clerk to the Executive Council and the Legislative Council and includes any person appointed by the Governor to be Deputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nB.-Colonial definitions.\n\n(s.39 contd.)\n\n\"The Colony\" or \"Hong Kong\"\n\n(1) means the whole area of land and water lying between the following boundaries—\n\nOn the south-The parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north between the points where it is intersected by the meridians of longitude 113° 52′ east and 114° 30′ east of Greenwich;\n\nOn the north-A line drawn from the point where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay to the said south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay; thence along the high water mark upon the shore of Deep Bay to the estuary of the Sham Chun River;\n\na line drawn as described in the agreement delimiting the northern frontier of the New Territories signed by James Haldane Stewart Lockhart and Wong Ts'ün-shin at Hong Kong on the 19th day of March, 1899, and following the high water mark in Mirs Bay to the point where the meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich intersects the mainland;\n\nOn the east-The meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the mainland and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north;\n\nOn the west-The meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north: Provided that, between the points on the north and south coast of Lantao where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the island, the boundary follows the western coast-line of Lantao and includes the waters appertaining thereto.\n\n(2) \"Kowloon\" means that portion of the peninsula of Kowloon which was ceded to Great Britain by the Emperor of China on the 24th day of October, 1860.\n\n(3) \"The New Territories\" means the additional territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898.\n\n(4) \"New Kowloon\" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated in red and shown upon a plan...\n\nPage 36\n\nPage 50",
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        "title": "CO129-603-4 Industrial relations- necessity for introducing arbitration procedures 16-10-1946 - 20-12-1946",
        "content_text": "was never enacted. It is possible that N. Rhodesia will now enact a separate trade union Ordinance based on \n\nIn the \"model\", in which case they would enact a separate Conciliation & Arbitration Ordinance. Kenya can be informed.\n\nI think Kenya would also be interested to see the ideas expressed in the Kraft Ordinance which we recently sent to Mauritius (Cree to 12 or 12259/6746).\n\n7 Ack to 1. Nothing with regard to the settlement of The Ferry Companies dispute\n\narbitration\n\nread them\n\nthe information for above\n\nCAT\n\n9/4/46\n\nMr. Grossmith's notes above cover the ground most adequately, and should be all that Hongkong requires.\n\n6.12.46\n\nG.J. Ord. Brown\n\nI agree. But if HK propose either (1) to legislate Clause 29 of \n\nMunicipalities Ordinance in certain \n\nin this sense of \n\n(2) to make conciliation compulsory for \n\nI would like to see their papers on \n\nconciliation at this stage\n\n15\n\n106m 12259/6/46,\n\n17.1.46 activa",
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        "document_key": "CO129-604-6 Immigration- control over entry from China 1-1-1947 - 4-1-1950",
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        "title": "CO129-604-6 Immigration- control over entry from China 1-1-1947 - 4-1-1950",
        "content_text": "24. F.O. \n\n25. H.K \n\nMr. Sidebotham \n\n1. \n\nw/rond \n\nis attached at \n\nReflaght \n\nat red flag B \n\ncf and flag C \n\n2. \n\nF.12808/10111/10 (Ref.22) \n\ntel. 1163 \n\nWe spoke about these papers. \n\n29-8-49 \n\n14 29-8-49 \n\nI see no objection to Mr. Radford's draft telegram and have passed it, subject to one small amendment which is indicated in para. 7 below. \n\n3. \n\nI have, however, read and considered Mr. de Comarmond's Note on the provisions of the Immigrants Control Ordinance, 1949, which was sent out under cover of (13) on this file; and, as I mentioned to you in conversation, there are some passages in it which are not altogether in accord with the general principles which have been laid down as to the deportation of British subjects from the Colonies. \n\nAt your request therefore, I am indicating the passages I had in mind when I spoke. \n\n4. \n\nAt \"A\" in pencil, in his preliminary remarks, Mr. de Comarmond pointed out that the Ordinance contains no provision for deportation by the Governor of an immigrant whose presence in the Colony was unlawful. \n\nIt is stated in paragraph 6 of the Report of the Departmental Committee on the Deportation of British subjects from the Colonies etc. (Miscellaneous No.447) (a copy of which you have received and which I refer to below as \"the Report of 1933\"), that a deportation order should, in all cases be preceded by a judicial enquiry or judicial proceedings. I think that, normally, this principle should be applied in immigration legislation, just as much as in deportation legislation. But I am not suggesting that Hong Kong's present circumstances are normal. \n\nI must, of course, point out that there was absolutely no reason why Mr. de Comarmond should have been aware of the existence of the Report of 1933, because deportation and immigration are topics within my particular assignment. \n\n5. At B, in his preliminary remarks, Mr. de Comarmond referred to the Kenya Immigration (Control) Ordinance, 1948, (copy attached), and, in particular suggested that the Hong Kong authorities might consider the advisability of adopting a provision on the lines of section 5(3) of that Ordinance. \n\nI attach a copy extract of a minute of mine dated 18/5/49, which sets out shortly the reasons why Sir Kenneth Roberts-Wray and I dislike this Kenya Ordinance generally, and section 5(3) of it in particular. \n\nAgain there was no reason why Mr. de Comarmond should have been aware of our dislike of this Ordinance, nor any reason why he himself should have taken exception to it unaware as he was of the general \"deportation\" background. From the local standpoint, an enactment of this kind is often a very handy addition to a Colony's legislation! \n\n6. \n\nThere are also some comments which I feel I ought to make on this Ordinance: \n\n(i) Section 2(1) \n\n- definition of \"alien\". \n\n(a) I think that there should be inserted, after the words \"British protected persons\", the following words: \n\n....",
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        "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941",
        "page_number": 145,
        "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941",
        "content_text": "No.6\n\n150\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nHONG KONG PORT ADMINISTRATION INQUIRY COMMITTEE\n\nRepresentations received in response to an invitation addressed to certain persons by the Chairman on 23.9.46.\n\n(Continued)\n\nFrom: Mr. Leung Yew,\n\nManaging Director,\n\nMessrs. Wang Kee & Company.\n\nDated: 1st October, 1946.\n\n\"I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 23rd September, 1946, and give you hereunder my views in a concise form:\n\nThe advantages cannot be had without an enormous Port Administration, which means more expense, more red tape, more staff and more taxation upon shipping and cargo. I, therefore, deem it not in the interest of the public to have a Port Trust. Hong Kong has always enjoyed the privileges of being one of the freest and cheapest ports in the world conducted with reasonable efficiency. Why not let it continue to enjoy these privileges? A Port Trust would also clash with public or private interests in many ways.\n\n\"As an alternative, I would like to suggest that commercial shipping interests, that is Ocean, Coast, River, Harbour Shipping, Ship Repairs and Stevedoring interests and commercial flying interests ought to have a fuller representation in matters concerning the Port. The Harbour Department ought to be assisted by a representative Advisory Board in order to advise the Harbour Department on all matters affecting commercial interests.\n\n\"I believe the above would give better results, greater efficiency and would involve less expense and would probably be more in line with present day public sentiment which is strongly averse to bureaucratic administration.\"",
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        "content_text": "327\n\n4\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n5\n\nCertificate or licence required by ship in waters of the Colony.\n\nProof of register, etc.\n\nConsent to prosecution.\n\nMaster, mate and engineer to possess certificates.\n\nPART I.\n\nREGISTRY.\n\n3.-(1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with-\n\n(a) a certificate of registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts; or\n\n(b) a certificate of foreign registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British ship; or\n\n(c) in the case of a steamship not exceeding sixty tons or a motor boat, a licence under section 37.\n\n(2) Every register or certificate, authorized or required by this section, may be proved in any court or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Registrar of Shipping, or other person who may happen to have charge of the original, which certified copy he is hereby required to furnish to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same, and paying therefor such fee as the Governor in Council shall prescribe; and every document when so proved shall be received as primâ facie evidence of all matters therein recited, stated or appearing.\n\n(3) No prosecution shall be instituted under this section except under the fiat of the Attorney General.\n\nPART II.\n\nMASTERS AND SEAMEN.\n\nCertificates of competency.\n\n4. (1) The name of a master, first, only, or second mate, or first or second engineer shall not be attached to the register or articles of agreement of any British ship, unless such master, mate or engineer possesses a certificate of service or competency [cf. Orders in Council, granted in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Acts, or a colonial certificate of competency declared by any Order of His Majesty in Council to be of the same force as if it had been granted under the said Acts.\n\nAs amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937. For appointment of Harbour Master to be Registrar of British ships see G.N. No. 317 of 27.5.1927.\n\nAs amended by No. 11 of 1931 [11.9.31], No. 28 of 1933 [22.12.33], No. 28 of 1935 [1.7.35] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.\n\n(1A) Every officer on board a foreign passenger steamship who has received a certificate of competency granted by a competent authority of his country, which the Governor is satisfied is of corresponding value to any certificate of competency granted under this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be duly certificated under this Ordinance in respect of such foreign steamship, provided that his certificate is of a grade appropriate to his station in the foreign steamship or of a higher grade.\n\n(2) Every British ship, and every foreign ship holding a certificate under section 10 shall, when leaving any British port of the Colony, be provided with officers who possess certificates of competency of a grade appropriate to their stations in the ship or of a higher grade, according to the following scale :-\n\n(a) in any case, with a duly certificated master;\n\n(b) if the ship is of one hundred tons or upwards, with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of only mate, or of second mate in the case of a sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons, or of mate of a river steamer, in the case of a river steamer;\n\n(c) if the ship carries more than one mate, with at least the first and second mates duly certificated;\n\n(d) if the ship is a steamship of one hundred nominal horse-power or upwards, with at least two engineers, one of whom shall be a first class and the other a first class or second class engineer duly certificated; and\n\n(e) if the ship is a steamship of less than one hundred nominal horse-power, with at least one engineer who is a first class or second class engineer duly certificated :\n\nProvided that every British river steamer exceeding sixty tons but not exceeding three hundred tons, if such river steamer\n\n328",
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        "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941",
        "content_text": "No. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n400\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n410\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n5\n\nCertificate or licence required by ship in waters of the Colony.\n\n*\n\nProof of register, etc.\n\n§\n\nConsent to prosecution.\n\nMaster, mate and engineer to possess certificates.\n\nI\n\nPART 1.\n\nREGISTRY.\n\n3.—(1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with-\n\n(a) a certificate of registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts; or\n\n(b) a certificate of foreign registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British ship; or\n\n(c) in the case of a steamship not exceeding sixty tons or a motor boat, a licence under section 37.\n\n(2) Every register or certificate, authorized or required by this section, may be proved in any court or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Registrar of Shipping, or other person who may happen to have charge of the original, which certified copy he is hereby required to furnish to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same, and paying therefor such fee as the Governor in Council shall prescribe; and every document when so proved shall be received as primâ facie evidence of all matters therein recited, stated or appearing.\n\n(3) No prosecution shall be instituted under this section except under the fiat of the Attorney General.\n\nPART II\n\nMASTERS AND SEAMEN.\n\nCertificates of competency.\n\n4.—(1) The name of a master, first, only, or second mate, or first or second engineer shall not be attached to the register or articles of agreement of any British ship, unless such master, mate or engineer possesses a certificate of service or competency granted in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Acts, or a colonial certificate of competency declared by any Order of His Majesty in Council to be of the same force as if it had been granted under the said Acts.\n\n* As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937. § For appointment of Harbour Master to be Registrar of British ships see G.N. No. 317 of 27.5.1927.\n\nAs amended by No. 11 of 1931 [11.9.31], No. 28 of 1933 [22.12.33], No. 28 of 1935 [1.7.35] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.\n\n(1A) Every officer on board a foreign passenger steamship who has received a certificate of competency granted by a competent authority of his country, which the Governor is satisfied is of corresponding value to any certificate of competency granted under this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be duly certificated under this Ordinance in respect of such foreign steamship, provided that his certificate is of a grade appropriate to his station in the foreign steamship or of a higher grade.\n\n(2) Every British ship, and every foreign ship holding a certificate under section 10 shall, when leaving any port of the Colony, be provided with officers who possess certificates of competency of a grade appropriate to their stations in the ship or of a higher grade, according to the following scale:-\n\n(a) in any case, with a duly certificated master;\n\n(b) if the ship is of one hundred tons or upwards, with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of only mate, or of second mate in the case of a sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons, or of mate of a river steamer, in the case of a river steamer;\n\n(c) if the ship carries more than one mate, with at least the first and second mates duly certificated;\n\n(d) if the ship is a steamship of one hundred nominal horse-power or upwards, with at least two engineers, one of whom shall be a first class and the other a first class or second class engineer duly certificated; and\n\n(e) if the ship is a steamship of less than one hundred nominal horse-power, with at least one engineer who is a first class or second class engineer duly certificated:\n\nProvided that every British river steamer exceeding sixty tons but not exceeding three hundred tons, if such river steamer",
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        "title": "CO129-613-8 Reports on Kwang Tung incident 1-2-1948 - 2-6-1948",
        "content_text": "Gentlemen,\n\nMarine Department, Hong Kong.\n\n6th March, 1948.\n\nThe recent occurrence of fires in local river craft is a matter of grave concern to the general public of Hongkong and to the shipping community in particular. This concern is no doubt shared by yourselves and I invite your co-operation in the introduction and enforcement of the following measures designed to ensure the stricter control of passenger traffic on river steamers:\n\n2. (i) Every Asiatic member of the crew of each river steamer must be furnished with a card bearing his photograph (duly stamped with the company's stamp), reference number on articles, and Master's signature. Those cards are to be produced when proceeding to and from the ship and at other times when requested by an officer of a Government department in the course of his duties. When any change in crew takes place, it is the responsibility of the Master to see that the card of the seaman being replaced is handed in at the Mercantile Marine Office.\n\n(ii) Passengers' baggage, between the entrance to the wharf and the ship, is to be handled only by authorised coolies who will wear a red coolie jacket bearing the name of the wharf and the number of the coolie. The proprietor of each wharf must supply to the O.I.C. Waterfront Searching Unit a complete list of coolies employed, with photographs, and must notify any changes which are made.\n\n(iii) All passengers must be in possession of a ticket before attempting to board the vessel. No passenger is to be allowed to board the vessel more than 2 hours before the advertised time of departure. The Master is responsible for seeing that nobody boards the vessel on the off-side except as provided in Section 5 of Government Notification No. 134 (Hongkong Port Regulations, Page 104). When it is necessary for any persons to board the vessel in this manner, the Master should draw the attention of the police officer in charge of the search party to their presence. After the embarkation of passengers has commenced, no member of the crew shall leave the wharf without a reason which is considered adequate by the O.I.C. search party.\n\n(iv) Arrangements may be made for the sale of passage tickets immediately inside the gate of the wharf provided that a second barrier is erected in such a manner as not to interfere with the searching of passengers and their luggage. If such arrangements are made, no ticket should thus be sold more than 2 hours before the advertised time of departure.\n\nNo passenger without a ticket should be allowed to pass the second barrier and tickets should be inspected and counted at this barrier. It is suggested that this best be done by the issue of numbered tickets divided by perforations into two sections and that the one portion of such a ticket should be surrendered when passing the barrier. To facilitate recognition, those tickets should be issued in different colours on different days. The number of tickets issued must not exceed the number of passengers for whom space is available. When embarkation of passengers is complete, the correct totals (ascertained by counting passengers and checked by the counting of the surrendered portions of tickets) must be reported to the officer in charge of the police search party who will enter those totals on the port clearance, initialling and stamping the entry. The surrendered portions of passage tickets will be handed to the police officer for transmission to the Marine Department. After the completed clearance has been delivered to the Master or his authorised representative, no further passengers shall be allowed to embark. No passenger, having once embarked, shall be allowed to disembark, without forfeiting his right to passage.\n\n(v) The practice of allowing passengers to carry unrestricted amounts of personal luggage in the spaces allotted to passengers makes it difficult, if not impossible, to measure the space remaining for passengers, and also materially aggravates the fire hazard by causing congestion and supplying combustible material which would support any conflagration. Luggage to be carried in passenger accommodation must therefore be restricted to light hand baggage. It is recommended that owners of river craft consult together as to how this may best be accomplished, and that this department be advised at an early date of the methods proposed. If no adequate measures are taken at an early date, official action will be taken to ensure that this menace to the safety of the travelling public is removed.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-614-2 Visit of Sir Patrick Abercrombie to advise on town planning 28-11-1946 - 5-12-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-614-2 Visit of Sir Patrick Abercrombie to advise on town planning 28-11-1946 - 5-12-1947",
        "content_text": "## Mr. Edmonds\n\nI send this file to you with reference to your note on the red slip above No.1. I must apologise for the long delay which has occurred.\n\nYou will see from No.6 that we have asked the Ministry of Town and Country Planning to advise us, in the light of their experience and knowledge, of what is required in the way of town planning advice, whether a visit by a consultant would be the most appropriate way of approaching the problem in Hong Kong in the first instance, or whether a Town Planner should be appointed straightaway for a period of perhaps 18 months or two years to work out a detailed plan of development. We have also asked them in that letter for names of suitable persons for Consultant or Town Planner as the case may be and suggestions as to remuneration.\n\nIn your note you mentioned that the Secretary of State was against paying a high fee for Sir Patrick Abercrombie. I find, however, that Sir Patrick Abercrombie is shortly going to Cyprus to report generally on town planning there, and that his remuneration is to be a fee of 500 guineas plus travelling expenses. These expenses are to be met from Cyprus funds. If the Ministry of Town and Country Planning agree that what is required in Hong Kong is a Consultant and recommend Sir Patrick Abercrombie or someone of his standing, I hope that the Secretary of State will see no objection to remuneration on the basis of that fixed for Sir Patrick Abercrombie's visit to Cyprus. It seems to me that the need for expert advice is just as great in Hong Kong as it is in Cyprus and the cost does not seem to be excessive for the right kind of advice.\n\n## Miss Ruston\n\nTo note the Secretary of State's marginal note above. Would you please take up the question of reminding Mr. Wiltshire if we don't get a reply to No.6 in, say, 10 days' time. In the meantime, we should be clearing the question of a C.D. & W. grant to cover the cost and preparing an application.\n\n21/2 \n8.2.47.\n\nAmm \n22.2.47.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-616-3 Prevention of Corruption Ordinance- 1948 7-8-1948 - 21-10-1948",
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        "title": "CO129-616-3 Prevention of Corruption Ordinance- 1948 7-8-1948 - 21-10-1948",
        "content_text": "## INTERPRETATION\n\n(5) \"Crown Agents\" means the person or persons for the time being acting as Crown Agents for the Colonies in England, or any one of them.\n\n(6) The \"Admiralty\" means the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being or the Commissioners for the time being executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom.\n\n(7) \"Privy Council\" means the Lords and others for the time being of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; and \"Order in Council\" means an Order made by His Majesty in his Privy Council.\n\n(8) \"Board of Trade\" means the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.\n\n(9) \"Imperial Parliament\" and \"Parliament\" mean the Parliament of the United Kingdom.\n\n(10) \"Consul\" and \"consular officer\" include consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent and any person for the time being authorized to discharge the duties of consul-general, consul or vice-consul.\n\n(11) \"Legislative Council\" and \"legislature\" mean the Legislative Council of the Government of Hong Kong; and when used with reference to a British possession other than Hong Kong, mean the authority, other than the Imperial Parliament or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make laws for such British possession.\n\n(12) \"The Treasury\" and \"Treasurer\" mean the Colonial Treasury and the Colonial Treasurer respectively, and \"Treasurer\" includes the Financial Secretary and the Accountant-General.\n\n(13) \"Justice of the peace\" means a person appointed by the Governor to act as justice of the peace for the Colony.\n\n(14) \"Clerk of Councils\" means the person appointed by the Governor to be Clerk to the Executive Council and the Legislative Council and includes any person appointed by the Governor to be Deputy Clerk of Councils.\n\n## INTERPRETATION\n\n### B.-Colonial definitions.\n\n(1) \"The Colony\", \"this Colony\" or \"Hong Kong\" means the whole area of land and water lying between the following boundaries—\nOn the south—The parallel of latitude 22° of north between the points where it is intersected by the meridians of longitude 113° 52′ east and 114° 30′ east of Greenwich;\nOn the north—A line drawn from the point where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay to the said south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay; thence along the high water mark upon the shore of Deep Bay to the estuary of the Sham Chun River; thence by a line drawn as described in the agreement delimiting the northern frontier of the New Territories signed by James Haldane Stewart Lockhart and Wong Ts'ün-shin at Hong Kong on the 19th day of March, 1899, and following the high water mark in Mirs Bay to the point where the meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich intersects the mainland;\nOn the east—The meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the mainland and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north;\nOn the west—The meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north: Provided that, between the points on the north and south coast of Lantao where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the island, the boundary follows the western coast-line of Lantao and includes the waters appertaining thereto.\n\n(2) \"Kowloon\" means that portion of the peninsula of Kowloon which was ceded to Great Britain by the Emperor of China on the 24th day of October, 1860.\n\n(3) \"The New Territories\" means the additional territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898.\n\n(4) \"New Kowloon\" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated in red and shown upon a plan...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946",
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        "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946",
        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n### HONG KONG PORT ADMINISTRATION INQUIRY COMMITTEE\nRepresentations received in response to an invitation addressed to certain persons by the Chairman on 23.9.46.\n\n(Continued)\n\nFrom: Mr. Leung Yew,  \nManaging Director,  \nMessrs. Wang Kee & Company.  \nDated: 1st October, 1946.\n\n\"I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 23rd September, 1946, and give you hereunder my views in a concise form:\n\n\"The advantages cannot be had without an enormous Port Administration, which means more expense, more red tape, more staff and more taxation upon shipping and cargo. I am not certain that the advantages as pointed out by Sir David Owen would surpass the disadvantages. I, therefore, deem it not in the interest of the public to have a Port Trust. Hong Kong has always enjoyed the privileges of being one of the freest and cheapest ports in the world conducted with reasonable efficiency. Why not let it continue to enjoy these privileges? A Port Trust would also clash with public or private interests in many ways.\n\n\"As an alternative, I would like to suggest that commercial shipping interests, that is Ocean, Coast, River, Harbour Shipping, Ship Repairs and Stevedoring interests and commercial flying interests ought to have a fuller representation in matters concerning the Port. The Harbour Department ought to be assisted by a representative Advisory Board in order to advise the Harbour Department on all matters affecting commercial interests.\n\n\"I believe the above would give better results, greater efficiency and would involve less expense and would probably be more in line with present day public sentiment which is strongly averse to bureaucratic administration.\"\n\n69",
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        "document_key": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951",
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        "title": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951",
        "content_text": "74\n\n5\n\nof the premium paid by him or any part thereof or to any payment or compensation whatsoever whether in respect of the value of the land or any buildings thereon or any amount expended by the purchaser in the preparation formation or development of the lot or otherwise.\n\n16. The expression \"Purchaser\" shall in these General and Special Conditions include the Purchaser or Purchasers and where the context so admits or requires his their executors, administrators and assigns and in the case of a corporation its successors and assigns.\n\n17. The foregoing General Conditions shall be read and construed as varied or modified by the Special Conditions hereinafter contained and the expression \"these Conditions\" whenever used shall mean and include the General & Special Conditions.\n\n18. The lot shall be exempted from the provisions of Part II of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance No. 34 of 1910.\n\nSPECIAL CONDITIONS.\n\n(1) The purchaser, his executors, administrators and permitted assigns shall not (except by way of mortgage) assign, underlet or part with the possession of or otherwise dispose of the lot in question or any part thereof or any interest therein nor enter into any agreement so to do without the written consent of the Governor unless and until he has expended upon the erection of buildings on the lot the sum required in clause 10 of the General Conditions and has in all other respects observed and complied with the General and Special Conditions to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works and the Land Officer. Every assignment sub-letting or other alienation of the said lot or any part thereof shall be registered at the Land Office.\n\n(2) The grant or refusal of the consent required by Special Condition (1) or of any extension of the time for the fulfilment by the purchaser of his obligations under the provisions of General Condition No. 10 or under these Special Conditions shall be at the absolute discretion of the Governor in all respects who may impose such conditions for the granting thereof as he may think fit.\n\n(3) The lot shall not be used for industrial purposes and no factory building shall be erected thereon.\n\n(4) The purchaser shall form at his own expense the whole of the areas coloured red and green on sale plan to such levels as the Director of Public Works may require and to his satisfaction within 3 months from the date of sale. The area coloured green shall be retained by Government on completion.\n\n(5) The purchaser will not utilize the area coloured green on sale plan for the purpose of storage or for the erection of any temporary buildings or structures without the consent of the Director of Public Works first having been obtained.\n\n(6) The design dispositions and height of any building to be erected on the lot shall be subject to the special approval of the Building Authority.\n\n(7) The purchaser shall form to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works with approved material the portions of public roads shown coloured green on sale plan and prepare them so that building traffic may be carried thereon, and maintain them in good condition until the building covenant has been complied with.\n\n(8) A filtered water supply from the government mains will be given on the usual terms, and subject to the provisions of the Waterworks Ordinance, or any enactment amending the same or substituted therefor.\n\n(9) In view of the limited water supplies in the Colony no guarantee can be given that any water which is supplied will be continuously available; moreover the Water Authority has the right under the Waterworks Ordinance 1938 to restrict the hours of supply; which is likely to be periodically necessary, or to withhold the service in whole or in part when in his opinion the available supply is insufficient.\n\n(10) No water from government mains shall be used for flushing purposes upon any portion of the lot without the written consent of the Director of Public Works.\n\n(11) The purchaser shall at his own expense construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works such drains or channels as may be necessary to intercept and carry off storm-water falling on or flowing on to the lot from the hillside, and the purchaser shall be solely liable for and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage or nuisance caused by such storm-water, and shall at all times during the continuance of the demise remain responsible for the maintenance and repair of such drains or channels whether within the boundaries of the lot or on Crown Land.\n\n(12) Any damage or obstruction caused to any sewer, watermain or other Government properties within or adjoining the lot by the purchaser, his servants or agents, shall be made good by Government at the cost of the purchaser, and the amount due in respect thereof shall be payable by the purchaser on demand.\n\n(13) All foundations proposed to be constructed near to or adjoining any sewer within or adjoining the lot shall be formed as the Director of Public Works may require.\n\n(14) The purchaser shall pay to the Government of Hong Kong, on demand, the cost of connecting any drains or sewers from the lot to the Government storm-water drains or sewers. Such work shall be carried out by the Director of Public Works who shall, however, incur no liability to the purchaser in respect thereof.\n\n(15) In the event of spoil or debris from the site or from other areas affected by the development of the lot being eroded and washed down on to public lanes or roads, or into road-culverts, sewers, storm-water drains or nullahs, the purchaser shall be held responsible and shall pay to the Government of Hong Kong on demand such sum as may be demanded by Government to cover the cost of removal of spoil or debris from or damage to the public lanes or roads, or road-culverts, sewers, storm-water drains or nullahs or other Government properties. The purchaser shall also indemnify the Government against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage or nuisance to private property caused by such erosion and washing down.\n\n(16) The purchaser shall pay to the Government of Hong Kong, on demand, the cost of removing, diverting and reinstating elsewhere as may be required any Government public services on the lot, which the Director of Public Works may consider it necessary to remove or divert.\n\nDirector of Public Works.\n\n75",
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        "content_text": "4\n\n81\n\n82\n\nSPECIAL CONDITIONS.\n\n(1) The purchaser, his executors, administrators and permitted assigns shall not (except by way of mortgage) assign, underlet or part with the possession of or otherwise dispose of the lot in question or any part thereof or any interest therein nor enter into any agreement so to do without the written consent of the Governor unless and until he has expended upon the erection of buildings on the lot the sum required in clause 10 of the General Conditions and has in all other respects observed and complied with the General and Special Conditions to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works and the Land Officer. Every assignment sub-letting or other alienation of the said lot or any part thereof shall be registered at the Land Office.\n\n(2) The grant or refusal of the consent required by Special Condition (1) or of any extension of the time for the fulfilment by the purchaser of his obligations under the provisions of General Condition No. 10 or under these Special Conditions shall be at the absolute discretion of the Governor in all respects who may impose such conditions for the granting thereof as he may think fit.\n\n(3) Except with the consent of the Governor the lot shall only be used for industrial purposes, and no domestic buildings shall be erected thereon except such as the Director of Public Works may consider reasonable for housing staff and workmen employed on the premises.\n\n(4) In the event of spoil or debris from the site or from other areas affected by the development of the lot being eroded and washed down on to public lanes or roads, or into road-culverts, sewers, storm-water drains or nullahs, the purchaser shall be held responsible and shall pay to the Government of Hong Kong on demand such sum as may be demanded by Government to cover the cost of removal of spoil or debris from or damage to the public lanes or roads, or road-culverts, sewers, storm-water drains or nullahs or other government properties. The purchaser shall also indemnify the Government against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage or nuisance to private property caused by such erosion and washing down.\n\n(5) The purchaser shall pay to the Government of Hong Kong, on demand, the cost of removing, diverting and reinstating elsewhere as may be required any Government public services on the lot, which the Director of Public Works may consider it necessary to remove or divert.\n\n(6) The purchaser shall form at his own expense the whole of the areas coloured red and green on sale plan to such levels as the Director of Public Works may require and to his satisfaction within 3 months from the date of sale. The area coloured green shall be retained by Government on completion.\n\n(7) The purchaser will not utilize the area coloured green on sale plan for the purpose of storage or for the erection of any temporary buildings or structures without the consent of the Director of Public Works first having been obtained.\n\n(8) Where any cutting away removal or setting back of adjoining adjacent or nearby hillside or banks or any building up or filling in is required for the purpose of or in connection with the formation levelling and development of the lot or any part thereof the purchaser shall construct or bear the cost of the construction of such retaining walls or other support as shall or may then or at any time thereafter be necessary to protect and support such hillside and banks and the lot itself and to obviate and prevent any falling away landslips or subsidence occurring thereafter, and shall at all times maintain the said retaining walls or other support in good and substantial repair and condition. In the event of any landslip subsidence or falling away occurring at any time whether in or from adjoining hillside or banks or in or from the lot itself as a result of any default by the purchaser under this condition, the purchaser shall at his own expense reinstate and make good the same and shall indemnify the Government of Hong Kong from and against all costs charges damages demands and claims whatsoever which shall or may be made suffered or incurred through or by reason thereof. If in the opinion of the Director of Public Works the purchaser shall at any time be in default under this condition then (in addition to any other rights or remedies herein provided for breach of any of the conditions hereof) the Director of Public Works shall be entitled by notice in writing to call upon the purchaser to carry out such construction and/or maintenance or to reinstate and make good any falling away landslip or subsidence and if the purchaser shall neglect or fail to comply with such notice within the period specified therein the said Director may forthwith execute and carry out the same and the purchaser shall on demand repay to the Crown the cost thereof.\n\n(9) The design dispositions and height of any building to be erected on the lot shall be subject to the special approval of the Building Authority.\n\n(10) The purchaser shall form to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works with approved material the portions of public roads shown coloured green on sale plan and prepare them so that building traffic may be carried thereon, and maintain them in good condition until the building covenant has been complied with.\n\n(11) A filtered water supply from the Government mains will be given on the usual terms, and subject to the provisions of the Waterworks Ordinance, or any enactment amending the same or substituted therefor.\n\n(12) In view of the limited water supplies in the Colony no guarantee can be given that any water which is supplied will be continuously available; moreover the Water Authority has the right under the Waterworks Ordinance 1938 to restrict the hours of supply, which is likely to be periodically necessary; or to withhold the service in whole or in part when in his opinion the available supply is insufficient.\n\n(13) No water from Government mains shall be used for flushing purposes upon any portion of the lot without the written consent of the Director of Public Works.\n\n(14) The purchaser shall at his own expense construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works such drains or channels as may be necessary to intercept and carry off storm-water falling on or flowing on to the lot from the hillside, and the purchaser shall be solely liable for and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage or nuisance caused by such storm-water, and shall at all times during the continuance of the demise remain responsible for the maintenance and repair of such drains or channels whether within the boundaries of the lot or on Crown Land.\n\n(15) Any damage or obstruction caused to any sewer, storm-water drain, watermain or other Government properties within or adjoining the lot by the purchaser, his servants or agents, shall be made good by Government at the cost of the purchaser, and the amount due in respect thereof shall be payable by the purchaser on demand.\n\n(16) All foundations proposed to be constructed near to or adjoining any sewer or storm-water drain within or adjoining the lot shall be formed as the Director of Public Works may require.\n\n(17) The purchaser shall pay to the Government of Hong Kong, on demand, the cost of connecting any drains or sewers from the lot to the Government storm-water drains or sewers. Such work shall be carried out by the Director of Public Works who shall, however, incur no liability to the purchaser in respect thereof.\n\nDirector of Public Works.",
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        "content_text": "14.(a)\n\n5.\n\n16.\n\n11\n\ntt\n\n- 5\n\n-\n\n79\n\nVue de Macao en Chine: Plate 40 in Atlas de voyage de la Perouse; drawn by Duche de Vancy; engraved by MAS QUELIER.\n\nMacao China drawn by PURSER engraved by J. FLOYD. Four coloured lithos of Macao etc.\n\nJesuit Convent Macao,\n\nii. Chinese temple Macao.\n\niii. Macao from Penha Hill,\n\n17.\n\n18.\n\n19.\n\n20.\n\n21.\n\n!!\n\nif\n\n11\n\n!!\n\niv. Franciscan monastery.\n\nfrom nature by HEINE, figures by BROWN; published by SARONY and Co. of New York.\n\nSet of 25 aquatints in colour of Macao, Canton, Whampoa etc. drawn and engraved by T. and W. DANIEL; published 1810. (Includes print of the European factories at Canton).\n\nChinese court of justice held at the British Factory of Canton 8th March 1807. Litho on stone by M. GAUCI. Printed by GRAF and SOREL.\n\nTwo plates lithographed in colour by DAY and Son Sept 30 1851, in Architectural Publication Society Vol 3 part 2. viz;\n\nPlate 4. Street scene in Canton,\n\nPlate 5. Chinese street in Macao.\n\nExcavations east side of Canton river circa 1794.\n\nW. ALEXANDER: engraved by GEORGE COOKE.\n\nMiscellaneous woodcuts.\n\ni. The British factories at Canton.\n\nii. iii. The foreign factories at Canton. Drawn by\n\niv. Chinese mode of carrying wounded (with the Ng Ts'ang Lau). Canton and part of the suburbs. (1857)\n\nv. Interior of Anunghoy Bogue forts.\n\nvi. Interior of Anunghoy; another view.\n\nvii. Mr. Consul Parkes bidding adieu to the old co-hong merchants.\n\nviii. Interior of Dutch Folly fort.\n\nix. Street within city walls Canton.\n\nx. Capture of French Folly.\n\nxi. Capture of French Folly.\n\nxii. Capture of Bocca Tigris forts.\n\nxiii. Ereaching battery, Dutch Folly fort.\n\nxiv. The Dutch Folly fort.\n\nxv. Part of the destroyed walls of Canton.\n\nxvi. Bocca Tigris and Bogue forts.\n\nxvii. General view of Canton. (with East Wall and Ng Ts'ang Lau)\n\nxviii. Canton. The Red fort and European quarters.\n\nxix. Dutch Folly fort Canton River.\n\nxx. The Bogue forts.\n\nxxi. Plan of City of Canton (1857)\n\nxxii. Chinese passage boats near Canton.\n\nSerial No.\n\nDate\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n1860 1865/1870\n\n11\n\nii\n\n1:\n\n4.\n\n**\n\n11\n\n5.\n\n6.\n\n11\n\n11\n\n11\n\n7.\n\n=\n\n[f\n\n8.\n\n=\n\n**PHOTOGRAPHS of HONG KONG**\n\nSubject\n\nKowloon Peninsula at the time of the Treaty on Tientsin.\n\nPedder Street with Clock Tower.\n\nKowloon Peninsula with Mosque\n\nHong Kong harbour yacht race (1868)\n\nThe harbour from the Albany, with Mosque on Kowloon,\n\nGeneral view of Hong Kong from Scandal Point,\n\nPublic Garden with the Albany.\n\nQueen's Road Battery Point looking west, with original\n\nR.C Cathedral, and Clock Tower.\n\nThe Praya looking east with 'Praya Central' (new Des Voeux Road Central) on the water front.\n\nQueen's Road looking east, with Clock Tower.\n\nGovernment House; with battery.\n\nt:\n\ntf\n\n15\n\nt?\n\n11\n\n11\n\n!!\n\nIt\n\nCaine Road.\n\n#1\n\n售票\n\nVisit of Duke of\n\n13.A\n\n140\n\nEdingburgh 1869.\n\n?! \n\n9.\n\n10.\n\n11.\n\n12.\n\nQueen's Road looking east; with Hong Kong club.\n\nHong Kong facing the harbour.\n\nP.T.O.\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "No.65. \"Old Factories\", Canton: Very early view, in miniature: before reclaiming and bunding of foreshore, or planting of trees, etc. 1820. Native artist. A perfect little miniature view. Framed: oil 12\" x 8\".\n\nNo.66. Empress Dowager at the Summer Palace, Peking: With her Ladies, Eunuchs, attendants, etc., in a summer-house of the palace gardens. A remarkable work in oils. Artist unknown. No date: probably circa 1880-1899. Framed: oil. 4 feet 3 inches x 3 feet 2 inches. (Companion picture to No.73)\n\nNo.67. Chinese Dragon-boat: A Dragon-boat proceeding to or coming from a Dragon-boat race. On the Canton River (Some say the view is on the Min River (Foochow district)). Native artist. Framed: oil. 24\" x 18\".\n\nNo.68. Chinese Sampan girl: portrait of A-mui, Chinnery's boat girl whom he often sketched. (Slightly damaged but easily repaired). Oil painting by George Chinnery, R.H.A. Framed: oil. 12\" x 10\". (Died 1852).\n\nNo.69. Chinese Boat girls: A slight sketch by G. Chinnery water-colour tinted in a small carved frame. Framed: water-colour.\n\nNo.70. Chinese River scene: River view showing in the foreground one of the well-known Canton \"Duck-boats\" with numerous ducks feeding on the foreshore. Native artist. 24\" x 18\".\n\nNo.71 & 72. Sea Fight between Government Gunboats and Pirates: A very fine pair of oil paintings showing Government gunboats and military junks fighting pirates in the Canton Delta. Probably by a foreign-trained Chinese artist or by a European artist. Framed (pair) oils: (Each) 3 feet 2 inches x 2 feet 4 inches.\n\nNo.73. Emperor holding Audience in the Palace, Peking: (Companion picture to No.66). A remarkable painting of the Emperor Kuang-hsu (1875-1908) holding audience and receiving high officials - red-button men, etc.). Artist unknown. Framed: oil. 4 feet 3 inches x 3 feet 2 inches.\n\nNo.74. Chinese river scene showing the bursting of a dam or dyke: The scene is said to be in the San-vui district of the Canton delta (but no proof of this is obtainable here at the moment). Date uncertain: probably about the middle or later in the 19th century. Possibly the best painting in the collection: undoubtedly painted by a highly skilled artist. Framed: oil 44\" x 30\".\n\nNo.75. Hongkong: Charming and rare hand-coloured aquatint engraving on a miniature scale of the Island and harbour of Hongkong. Circa 1843? Drawn by C. Graham and engraved by A.H. Payne. Date uncertain but Graham is known to have been in China about 1841 or thereabouts. Published by \"The London Printing and Publishing Co.\" (No date). Framed aquatint: 9\" x 7⅞\".\n\nNo.76. Canton Factories: \"New Factories\": (i.e. those built after fire. Circa 1847-1850). The Church is shown and this was built about 1847: there is no church in the views of the 'old' Factories. The foreshore is deeper proving reclamation and bunding of foreshore: foreshore is also planted with trees, etc. A good painting of the period showing the Factories as they really were. Native artist. Framed oil: 3'2\" x 22\".\n\n86",
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        "document_key": "CO129-629-7 Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees- financial assistance from the International Red Cross 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951",
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        "title": "CO129-629-7 Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees- financial assistance from the International Red Cross 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951",
        "content_text": "DRAFT. MR. LENNON GEORGE 12.12.50\n\nMR. AUKER 12.12.50\n\nMR. HINSHELWOOD 12.12.50\n\nAccounts Department,\n\n1, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street,\n\nS. W. 1.\n\n54490/50\n\n0103/8531(F.4)\n\n10\n\n8\n\n15 December, 1950.\n\nDear Dwyer,\n\nWith reference to your letter to Bryant, of 13th November 1950 regarding the remittance of £115,660.2.11d. received from the war organization of the British Red Cross Society in connection with the relief of prisoners of war and civilian internees in the Far East I confirm that we can accept this sum as an Exchequer Extra Receipt, and suggest that payment is made under cover of the enclosed Receivable Order.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nA.B. DWYER, ESQ., WAR OFFICE,\n\nWHITEHALL, S.W.1.\n\n(D. HINSHELWOOD).\n\nOD\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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