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        "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]",
        "page_number": 77,
        "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "J\n\n74\n\nheld to have been satisfactorily settled by Your Lordship's Despatch W.. of the 18th of March 1868, N. 63, with Enclosure from the War Office,\n\nin the following year especially as in the the Commanding Royal Engineer Colonel de Tuti suggested that a stone laid at Rustam should form the point up to which the Military Reserves should go, and expressed concurrence when this was done.\n\nSince that time the Military Authorities have frequently suggested the commencement of the contemplated New Road with a view to a clear definition of the Colonial and Military Boundaries through its whole course, but no attempt whatsoever has until lately been made to unsettle the arrangement of 1868, by which clearly pointed out in Sir Richard G. MacDonnell's Despatches of 28th April and 29th May, 1866, Nr. 26 and 47, the Colonial Government did not in reality receive anything, but rather ceded considerable space of ground to the War Department.\n\nThe amicable arrangement made in 1868 was unfortunate",
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        "document_key": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]",
        "page_number": 177,
        "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "Adria & the Lacouture French,\n\nMat in the spoken condition & the Strain Restrict and with the heavy claims of the \n\nA \n\nof couch on Ochsen, who inspector in cost angles. For the render appointer, hesistant harbour Master Commander Rumors & 7-) was sorry on the ordinary discipline and discipline of the Colonial Service, Gibraltar, \n\nA \n\nlaunches with an \n\nview becoming in the aggregate to run from Christie to Caldecott Camp. V has consecrated \n\npontoon char looking to the \n\nPrivate ima \n\nFarbow Launches \n\nC.O.174 \n\n572 \n\nRECO \n\nREGE 13 JAN 35 \n\nin the Port of Hong Kong which covers ten square miles of water with a shipping exceeding that \n\nPots in Pacar Bustam \n\nor \n\nder \n\nthese team launches comes be \n\ndie \n\ns rrara or \n\nthan Gour Support in fact wash, A appears, therefore there there \n\nbe nearly enough work to occupy the terms of a separate Instructor. Presumably, me \n\nshown \n\nInstructor in a Colony arcunstance...cad \n\nStruggling. Her \n\nperson sender \"Thoval Discipline and serving in one of ver Majestip \n\non the whole it is believed \n\n...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]",
        "page_number": 492,
        "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "No. 1127\n\nDate. 21 JAN 1886\n\nPrevious Paper. 85-\n\n(Subject.) Forwards draft Ordinance.\n\nDOM80. 1127\n\nRE? VEG 21 JAN 66,\n\nadre auths.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Meade\n\nSend the draft ordinance to the Colony, and add the concluding para: of this letter to S. of the days.\n\n- *Why has the loan been reduced to $10000?\n\nCPD 21.\n\nBil ?\n\nThis was a mistake.\n\nSir Us Sergeant - AV\n\nquent Paper. has corrected it\n\n[The draft Ord has been altered by putting in the binding Fund payment as before - see draft dated on 21444]\n\nSur Zozean sury,\n\n \nItems with the Justam water works.\n\nThe\n\nA\n\n{\n\nfice or Individual,\n\nHow Bong\n\nGints Loave\n\nC.0.\n\nFooooo. londs",
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        "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "## \n\nIt is custam to alter daily lõ departmental business before seeing visitors, and it is well known that, except in urgent cases, I rarely can find time for interviews until 12.30 hour p.m., after which I am accessible to anyone, either officials or private individuals, on business. Without a system for seeing him, I should have done so at once. I do not remember the exact time, but I believe I saw Mr Wills about one o'clock and had a long conversation with him, giving him all the information and advice that I thought might be useful to a young man on his first arrival in a tropical country. It would be impossible for me to get through my daily duties if I were to spend time in this way. I was not aware that Mr Wills was waiting in the adjoining room. Had I been so informed and been asked to fix a time for his interview, I should have done so.\n\nI took early opportunity to show my friendliness to Mr Wills and went out of my way to treat him kindly, and I should not refer to these personal matters but for Mr Will's statement, which is absolutely unfounded.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]",
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        "content_text": "# Date \nHONGKONG. \n30th November 1894 \n\n## POLICE PENSIONER\nPC. 552 Rustam Khow \n\n| Category | Detail |\n| --- | --- |\n| Trade or calling | Armer |\n| Caste or Religion | Mahounidaw |\n| Read and write | yes |\n| Single or married | Married |\n| Number of children | Two Sons |\n| Descriptive List of nearest relative | Wife Chandos, P. 22 |\n\n## DATE\nNo. 335 PC. 552 Rustoun Khan Joined 1 June, 188...\n\n## EXTRACT FROM POLICE DEFAULTER'S BOOK\n\n| Date | Misconduct | C.O. | Decision of Superintendent |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1883, Oct 9 | Neglect of duty | 2511 | Cautioned |\n| 1884, March 24 | Absent from his beat |  | Fined $0.50 |\n| 1884, May 12 | Off his beat |  | Fined $2.50 |\n| 1884, May 23 | Sleeping on duty |  | 10 cuts + 3 days' C.P. |\n| 1885, Aug 13 | Allowing a dirty porch on parade |  | Fined $2 |\n| 1885, Nov 28 | Gossiping on duty |  | Fined $0.40 |\n| 1888, July | Neglect of duty |  | Fined $2 |\n| 1890, Sept | Allowing unnecessary violence to a prisoner |  | Fined $2 + $2 by Police Magistrate |\n| 1891, March 13 | Not patrolling his district |  | 4 days' C.P. |\n| 1891, March 26 | Absent from duty |  | Fined $0.50 |\n| 1892, Sept 4 | Assault |  | Fined $2 |\n| 1894, Oct 24 | Fighting in Barracks |  | Fined $2 |\n\nLeave: 19th October 1888 to 22nd April, 1889.\n\n## Service Record\nActual service: 11 years and 11 months, Marks \"Very fair?\"\n\nPension reduced 5% \n\nSt. Gov. Horspool. \nAct. Capt. Supt. of Police.\n\nPage 160.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906",
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        "document_key": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]",
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        "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924",
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        "content_text": "## \n622 'WMŠ KATAs' valinnoitah bneosi start” \n\nCarrot aescaratri baa Mä-nag rama navo moitaib-\" undið að stocata, dalaikā lo toany wet of molise done mt//32« wza yerlð miklu” As me batetansted nd Jad 5Labels motylvong ein!\" bemannen solžinočius met dinnətaqa di moltoida? \n\nmi aboðlaða minni gai: fedeosna så walw » Ad?w\" am pustam elit to usnan dara od brager el sõnavka” \n\ndors \n\nJam II. 9982 2082 SMRZAS *.7 yam ti vecina ya” meant ni adro neng daldiak to munaż wít od šautifo” Joat a2 el moltsalde ifana 1142 BřiA V SÍLU 401s \n\n«V^*** *2* ed Dougla 32 moltuak (mudan to atesliferay \n\nTOMOS,A MK meni nis qd bar terataves bra.gmole of to Tonrevod Istekel Barrel barnice Patvereki es erudintunaq mo.000 \n\nbeen draden at Dataran agnús ynoll,sitetəl „back XENO \n\nor Seda : fostdan dahion +dnega nolee! \n\n41, thar?, 24, anal 111 hangdon !tal VEDO MÊS ** alyven ze sa mbulon) de MEMI \n\nby entrant a bajatonin bengrab yn de Vakaninerng ni batute sa .2 \n\nPer no moquasq bellaames eld ni bedinnant *5) ali tebou an Iiew an dinl♬ vď \n\nthe tomà nug nokéqsasa wet #zastitans LEALS OUas a dana \n\nDar-uqqa DI Mpenzersy IVD methand -aluzet to stostene païet met « 256 996 MENcă alerei ni Jod \n\n**131*! made od vykssona bra brunað vinormes Pra afrəqəman \n\n## \n\n94 \n\nI beg to ask your instructions whether fresh passports (to replace those taken away by the Persian passport official at the Quraitu frontier) should be issued here, or at Bushire on the departure of Mesars Homazi, and also your opinion whether the footnote to Chapter XXVI paragraph 10(1) constitutes sufficient ground for the issue of passports in their case, bearing in mind that rights of extra-territorial jurisdiction - not specifically covered by the general tenor of the exception to issue of passports - exist in Persia, or whether the confiscation of their British passports at Quraitu should be construed a 'formal objection to the grant of British passports while they are within such (Persian) jurisdiction', making the issue of fresh passports undesirable.\n\nIf I may venture an observation, the confiscation of the previous British passports at Quraitu may not necessarily be regarded as a 'formal objection to the grant while they are 'within' Persian jurisdiction, but as the technical set and practice of Persian passport officials on the frontiers in order to recover the higher fees charged on the issue of new Persian passports : though no contentious matter has yet arisen at Bushire involving Mesars Hamazi, I doubt if the local government would raise objection to protection, or at least good offices, being given by the Consulate to them.\n\nI had better perhaps repeat that the application of Mesars Hamazi for the renewal of British passports was grounded, not on the need of such passports for purposes of residence, but for their return via India to Hongkong : and it would seem incongruous that a Justice of the Peace for that colony should have to return to it on a Persian passport.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble Servant,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
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        "content_text": "F.O. draft. telegram\n\n271\n\nSir R. Macleay,\n\nPeking.\n\n(Cypher)\n\nHOST SECRET\n\nURGENT\n\nThey live hemhang ting,t\n\nWhen substrate to power to they' Lond. Ditime Con you wood?\n\nbevlon ed bi\n\nof assinau du blvor ti „on nev:\n\nSeptember\n\nMUSTAMĀJAS DEAL rious to evae, and atsigrojnos,\n\nTo puno ni setanung vildi erow on vaslat\n\nYour telegram No. 314,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong's proposal as giv\n\n$18800.2\n\nodalment100\n\nin his telegram of September 13th amounts\n\nthe issue of an ultimatum to Canton Govern-\n\nArgs 100 abis n\n\nt\n\nJ\n\npaddi\n\nif necessary ↓ by a\n\nment, to be followed,\n\nKŻE MOTI\n\nlute no 1- naval blockade of ports of Canton and Swatow\n\nMON JA en\n\nلدتة\n\n1. Can the issue of such an ultimatum,\n\n.11\n\nbased merely on the failure of the Canton\n\nJdąła:\n\nTORE\n\nanottiħa oo \"stuisib to Jivner add an ato Government to give satisfactory replies to\n\n+ BOTA” J Brenan's two notes of September 10th and\n\nin the absence of\n\nfolio stinils-\n\nconcrete act of aggression or hostility on their part, be really\n\n*ɔt 9.\n\n+..\n\nJustified?\n\nexo motto. It might not unjustly be consid-\n\n370 LB\n\n13\n\nared not only by the Chinese Government but\n\nZOTI 10% begon 82 doa binos est\n\nby the other Powers as an attempt on our part\n\nnotion wwż PATA\n\nto force a quarrel for ulterior political\n\n(Mel - \"ATSH purposes.\n\nldador\n\nm pino nao +Iaso sqrel e no It is also possible that satis-\n\nLpow di mia Jand e\n\nfactory replies might be received, in which\n\ntr 10.1\n\ncase the ultimatum would not take effect and\n\nJudasitor A\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the given instructions, here is the corrected version in HTML format:\n\nF.O. draft telegram\n\n271\n\nSir R. Macleay,\n\nPeking.\n\n(Cypher)\n\nHOST SECRET\n\nURGENT\n\nYour telegram No. 314,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong's proposal as given in his telegram of September 13th amounts\n\nto the issue of an ultimatum to Canton Government, to be followed, if necessary, by a naval blockade of ports of Canton and Swatow.\n\n1. Can the issue of such an ultimatum, based merely on the failure of the Canton Government to give satisfactory replies to Brenan's two notes of September 10th and in the absence of concrete act of aggression or hostility on their part, be really justified?\n\nIt might not unjustly be considered not only by the Chinese Government but by the other Powers as an attempt on our part to force a quarrel for ulterior political purposes.\n\nIt is also possible that satisfactory replies might be received, in which case the ultimatum would not take effect and\n\nIt appears that the original text was heavily distorted due to OCR errors. I have corrected the text to the best of my abilities while following the given instructions. The corrected text is in HTML format using  for paragraphs. I have not included any markdown or code fences. The text has been corrected for spelling errors, spacing issues, and reordered to form coherent sentences. I have also removed any unnecessary characters and words. \n\nHowever, some parts of the original text were unintelligible due to severe OCR errors, and I was unable to correct them. The corrected text is based on the available information and may not be entirely accurate. \n\nHere is the corrected output:\n\nF.O. draft telegram\n\n271\n\nSir R. Macleay,\n\nPeking.\n\n(Cypher)\n\nHOST SECRET\n\nURGENT\n\nYour telegram No. 314,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong's proposal as given in his telegram of September 13th amounts\n\nto the issue of an ultimatum to Canton Government, to be followed, if necessary, by a naval blockade of ports of Canton and Swatow.\n\n1. Can the issue of such an ultimatum, based merely on the failure of the Canton Government to give satisfactory replies to Brenan's two notes of September 10th and in the absence of concrete act of aggression or hostility on their part, be really justified?\n\nIt might not unjustly be considered not only by the Chinese Government but by the other Powers as an attempt on our part to force a quarrel for ulterior political purposes.\n\nIt is also possible that satisfactory replies might be received, in which case the ultimatum would not take effect and",
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        "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933",
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        "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933",
        "content_text": "25A\n\nCapt Decobeer\n\nMajor Furse.\n\nSubject to anything that F.E. Department and Appointments may have to say, I propose, in reply to this letter below, merely to draw the Vice-Chancellor's attention to 4 and 5 on 82830 below. As the report has not yet apparently been adopted by the University, it seems unnecessary to cable.\n\nArth gw 8.8.32.\n\nI agree bulder her Mayhew 98-32 And 1.\n\nAtterboll 10.8.\n\nRustam 1610 25%. T½ Stronell.\n\n25th and 1078 7.9 25c. Stomell the Readersh\n\nА As thing · are now, temporarily should be regarded Obey ame",
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        "content_text": "## NO-JAP CONFLICT\n\n1. AK. Jel. 414 \n14.7.40 \nHas been informed that Japanese require reopening of Customs Stations on the frontier under their control. Oh feats instructions, I have sent a copy to Ashley Clarke (80) and to Ashley Marke (90). (1961) - compr-\n\n## Correspondence\n\n| Date | Ref | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 15/7/10 | 1577.40 |  |\n| 14/5a1= |  | J. AN.K. |\n| Jel. 440 | 20.7.40 | Proposes to present demand for surrender, on 25.7.40, of arms on Chinese Maritime Customs vessels in M. D. Harbour. |\n\n## Distribution\n\nI have sent a copy by hand to Ashley-Clarke (FO). Copies should also go by hand to Major Steel (W.J) (`10.2`) and to Cdr. Barry (N.R. 1. D. Admiralty) copying, telling each to let me have the papers straight back tomorrow.\n\n## Follow-up\n\n| Date | To | Ref |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 23.7.40 | Steel | (`1⁄2 3`) (fff.) |\n|  | Barry | `122/7` at 4 |",
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        "content_text": "## \n20 2.K. \nTel. 392 Sever. \n24.7.40 \n\n7 To Steel & To Barry \nG So Ashley. Clanke \n10. \n70. \n\n`(w/6) (wifi)` 25.7.40 \n7.3551/1/10 \nTel. 626 of 10.7.40 from Shanghai \n70. \nNo objection \n33. \n73551/1/10 \nBo \n2577.40 \n24.7.40. \n\nTo disarmament of the vessels on grounds of providing for defence of M.K. \n10. Purity \n11. \n\nThe Ashley Coote has now had a copy of 6, as it does not seem necessary to convey anything further to her in reply to 11.\n\nLittle \n27.7.40 \n\nLos Tama \n31/2ch",
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        "content_text": "## Cap Dof the amended \nD/ Mr Whittamm \n\nFo. 1/019. \n\nTo Mr Whittamore (w/ 18 as amended) compo \n\nas ame 11 Sept. 100. \n\nI asked the Foreign Office (Sir John Brenan) whether we might expect soon an answer to 20, and he tells me that he has advised as in the draft herewith, and that perhaps we could hasten the Foreign Office response by suggesting to the Far East Department that the Governor of Hong Kong should be informed in the terms of this draft.\n\nSerhant 17.9.40.\n\nTo Governor Hanything Tel 512. 19.9.40 \n\n22 Jo Whittamore (w/c 21) compo 21 Sept.40",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nI submit draft. Lt IWK based on the assumption that despite Japan's signature of the Pact with the Axis Powers it is two to one that Japan will not take any further steps if the Japanese persist in demanding a Japanese representative on the staff at this particular Customs office.\n\nIf action is taken, 27 JOHK. Il.532, 28: A.K. Tel. 602, 27 (26 Ashley Rd. A.K. Tel. 608, 28) will be the principal contacts.\n\n### Correspondence Details\n\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 19.9.40 | `70527/1/10` 2XL 70. |\n| 24.9.40 | `-74236/1/20 £4236/1/40` 119.40 |\n| 24.9.40 | `4-7.4236/1/40` |\n| 29/9/40 |  |\n| 27.9.40 |  |\n| 1.10.40 |  |\n| 2.10.40 |  |\n\n### Notes\n\n- Sir Frederic's message rather supports the view that the Japanese will not take action.\n- Su Maye's work is to threaten to close it.\n- WB4 Jann. 2819.\n- [1\" Ashley Clarke tells me that FO. Concur in the draft in 297 ? This may now issue Secheur. \n- 12, 18,244,28 are the principal het's \n- WBL Jann 9.10.",
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        "content_text": "## \nTo Governor Hong Kong bil. N.: 568-12/17 \n## \n32 To Ashley blaske (w/c 31) \n23. K. \nTel. 631 \nThis is pass on tree to 31 but \nCopy 8 \ncompo \n15 Oct. 40 \n11.10.40. \nagrees \nLath is \nin carved to Ashley Sinha FO 32 \nlash mom. 16/1000 \n## \n344 To Ashley blarke (u/c 33) \n(a/c 33) comps 17 Oct. 4o. \n73848/1/10 \nYou may like to like to Service four of will ne \n9.10.40. \nThis resume from the Custeres views of the \"Koolion\" question. You That the Japanese may be an and are trying inspired by politics mother co Hong Kong is by a mans of puting pressure on bing. \n? Party \nYou sh' sax. HK hey had a copy how Shanghai dures. 21/x \nIt an may \n## \nPage 9 \nPage 36. N.K. conf. 3pm with regard to End. 3 14.10.40. \nhi pay. in No. 33 that he was ter us addressing the local Commissione the lines suggested in para. 2 an of No. 26. \n? Better Coby h Fo sandtku shave furt by Sadelbeam 19/14/40 tomfon 1114aut 21 a a he \n? | To 30 (w/c 36) Bla \n## \n28.12.460 To From 1.0. i/e Hong Kong to C. in C. China \n39. N.X Tel. 838 \nJel. 01312 \n21.R.40. 23.12.40. \n4° Lo Parall (M-39) \n31.12.40 \n## \n41. Tel. from Adary. X. 11.0 ;/ Hong Kofy 1936 \n17.12.40",
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        "content_text": "## MESSAGE\n**SECRET**\n\nTo \nN.O.I.C. Hong Kong. 47\nC. in C. China. 929\n\n**DATE** 17.12.40\n**NAVAL CYPHER (X)**\n\nFrom Admiralty.\n\nYour `1031/30th October` approved for first six vessels mentioned in your `0913/9th August` to be requisitioned for hire now to enable them to be stiffened, pitched and armed. Vessels are to be retained for the present in Hong Kong territorial waters. Any necessary negotiations with Chinese Authorities about rates of hire should take place after requisitioning and should be reported to Admiralty with your comments before acceptance.\n\n`1936/17` for Head of M. `(808)`\n\n(Approved by Controller, A.C.N.S., V.C.N.S., A.C.N.S., F.D. of D.(3), D. of L.D.(2), O.D.(3), D. of P.(3), D. of S.T., D. of C., M.34. (M.020988/40), M.(2) and for F.O.)\n\nT/P for M.F. Bath. M.34.\n\n## ADDITIONAL CIRCULATION BY M.\nF.O.\nC.O. (S.I. James Esq.)",
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        "content_text": "**LETTER**\n\n**SENT**\n\n3/1.\n\n**DRAFT AND RECORD COPY**\n\n**REGISTERED No.** 53858756740.\n\n**DATE** 12\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nMR. Monson 8/16.\n\nMR... MR...\n\n**ENCLOSURES**\n\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n\nand Copies with copy much Knr Farrell Adding Dr Dachsion 17/Shift\n\nTo (39) (3) Dickingen Bo Farrell\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1. 3rd January, 1941.\n\nDear Ashley Clarke,\n\nI enclose a copy of a telegram from the Acting Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the requisitioning of Chinese customs vessels now lying in the Colony. The last correspondence about these vessels appears to be your letter No. `F.3551/1/40` of the 24th July.\n\nWe are not sure exactly what the Governor has in mind when he refers to \"the Colonial aspect\" of the question, but we presume that if a decision has been taken to requisition these vessels, full consideration has been given to the political implications of such a step, not only as regards Japan but also as regards the Chungking Government. If requisitioning of the vessels is to take place, we also think it would be useful if we could have a statement of the policy adopted.\n\nH. ASHLEY CLARKE, ESQ., Foreign Office.\n\n(6094) Wt. 25403-118 40,000 ea. 2 sorts 9/40 T",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nadopted which we could send to the Acting Governor to provide him with material for a reply to be made if he is approached either by the Japanese or the Chinese authorities.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nW.N.\n\nP.S. I am having copies of the latter sent to Fraser at Orday, & Dickinson.\n\n7/5.",
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        "content_text": "# SECRET\n\nFrom N.0.1/c Hong Kong\n\nCOPY\n\nWaldock Z mitel e fi\n\nC.H.M.\n\nY\n\n14\n\n38\n\nAddressed C.in C. China, Repeated Admiralty.\n\n-41\n\n**IMPORTANT**. Reference `0416/18` from Admiralty. In view of the fact that these vessels are owned by the Chinese Government it is considered essential that method of their requisition should be settled through British Ambassador Chungking before any local action is taken. Any part taken by local customs officials or their acquiescence in requisition and negotiations for hire might compromise status of this Quasi-International service elsewhere in occupied China.\n\nConsider it is understood when Japanese seized customs vessels at Shanghai at commencement of hostilities the fact that they were part of a Quasi-International service was used as an argument to induce Japanese to return these vessels.\n\nAlso essential that full text of announcement to Press should be available for issue concurrent with the acquisition and that British Ambassador Tokyo be informed in advance of date fixed for act.\n\nMr Pritchard informs me Japanese reaction may be considerable. Press statement must therefore conform to line of defence of our action which would be adopted towards Japanese protest.\n\nActing Governor concurs.\n\nNo action is being taken pending further instructions.\n\n`01312/21/12/40`\n\n*Requisition of certain vessels at Hong Kong.*\n\nT.W. Farrell Ban",
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        "content_text": "No. 838.\n\n**CYPHER TELEGRAM**\n**O.A.G.**\n**HONG KONG**\n\nD. 23rd December, 1940. R. 24th\n\n## 14.10 hrs.\n\nAddressed to S. of S. No. 838 repeated to Chungking No. 198 Tokio No. 144 C.-in-C. China Station.\n\n39:15\n\nI have seen Naval telegrams on the subject of requisitioning of the Chinese Customs Vessels now lying at Hong Kong ending with the Commodore's telegram No. `131Z` of 21st December addressed to C.-in-C. and repeated to the Admiralty. I would request full consideration be given to Colonial aspect of the question in case local Japanese Consulate enquires as to the position.\n\n(Delayed as message as originally received was indecipherable).",
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        "content_text": "## LETTER\n\n**DRAFT AND RECORD COPY**\n**REGISTERED No.** `4-016`\n**DATE**\n\nMR. James...\n\nMR.\n\nTo T.W. FARRELL, ESQ.\n\n**ENCLOSURES**\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n\nDear Farrell,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1. 31st December, 1940.\n\nHere is a copy of the telegram from Hong Kong about the requisitioning of Chinese Customs vessels.\n\nYou said you would be sending me a copy of the Admiralty telegram No. `0416/18` which apparently deals with the requisitioning of certain vessels in Hong Kong. When we have seen that telegram and any previous related correspondence on the subject, we will write to you again about the point made by the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nI am sending a copy of this letter and enclosure to Dickinson at the Ministry of Shipping.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(8004) Wt. 25403-113 40,000 ea. 2 sorts 9/40 T.8. 695",
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        "content_text": "**C.S.O.**\nM.F. 268.\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\nFF No.(`113/1680/31c.`)\n53838/56/40 36\n\nCopied to H.I. Ambassador, Shanghai (114) B.E. Chungking, (105)\n\n**Officer Administering the Government** 17\n\nThe Right Honourable,\nThe Governor of Hong Kong presents his compliments to The Secretary of State for the Colonies,\nand has the honour to forward the documents detailed hereunder.\n\nGOVERNMENT House,\nHONG KONG.\n14th October, 1940.\n\n**RECEIVED**\n16 DEC 1940\nHONG KONG. C. O. FEGY\n33\n\nReference to previous correspondence :-\nTelegram from Acting Governor, Hong Kong to Secretary of State (631) Repeated to H.M. Ambassador, Shanghai (209) and B.E. Chungking (141) dated 11th October, 1940;\n\n## ENCLOSURES\n\n| No. of COPIES | DESCRIPTION | SUBJECT |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Two | 1. Confidential letter of 3.9.40 from Colonial Secretary to Commissioner, Chinese Maritime Customs, Hong Kong. | Chinese Maritime Customs |\n|  | 2. Confidential letter of 9.10.40 from Colonial Secretary to Commissioner, Chinese Maritime Customs, Hong Kong. |  |\n|  | 3. Confidential letter of 12.3.40 from Commissioner, Chinese Maritime Customs to Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong. |  |",
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        "content_text": "# Confidential\n\nMy dear Smith,\n\nOffice of Chinese Maritime Customs for Kowloon and District, 4th floor, Marina House, 15-19 Queen's Road C., Hong Kong.\n12th August, 1940.\n\nYou may remember that in December 1938, during the first Japanese occupation of the frontier districts, I approached you informally to enquire whether, if it became necessary, the Hongkong Government would raise any objection to the appointment by the Inspector General of Customs of a Japanese to the Customs Head Office in Hongkong. Nothing went on record at the time, but I think that I am right in saying that, following discussion at your office at which Mr. King, the Commissioner of Police, was present, it was intimated that no objection to such an appointment would be raised.\n\nAs you are aware, the Japanese have renewed their demands on the Kowloon Customs to submit to Japanese control on somewhat similar lines to that exercised in occupied ports in China, and as a result of discussions that have taken place at Shanghai, the Inspector General has intimated to the Japanese Authorities that, in view of the changed conditions on the Frontier and on the understanding that the Japanese military authorities remain in permanent occupation of Frontier Customs stations, he is prepared to consider favourably the question of appointing a liaison officer of Japanese nationality to the Head Office here. He has instructed me, therefore, to approach the Hongkong Government and ascertain their views on the proposal as soon as possible. I may add that the Japanese request was for an Administrative Commissioner (under myself) or an Administrative Deputy Commissioner of Japanese nationality, but that the Inspector General pointed out that, owing to our understanding with the Hongkong Government, such an appointment would not be possible. It is probable, however, that the liaison officer would be of Deputy Commissioner's rank.\n\nI have thought it wiser to approach you confidentially in this matter, but if you prefer it, I will address you officially of course. The question is of some urgency, however, and I would be grateful if the Hongkong Government's views could be communicated to me at the earliest possible moment.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**(Signed) Edwin A. Pritchard.**\n\nHonourable Mr. N.L. Smith, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, HONG KONG.",
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        "content_text": "# S:FF\n\nCopy.\n\n`C.S.O. 113/1680/31`\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nMy dear Pritchard,\n\n3rd September, 1940.\n\nI am sorry for the delay in replying to your letter of 12th August but the questions which it raises are of some complexity.\n\nI do not recollect the question of a Japanese Assistant in your office having been raised previously except as a hypothetical case in the course of conversation, but as you know it has always been understood here that the Senior Staff and the office non-Chinese Staff in this Colony should be chosen from the British members of the Customs Service. This does not seem to be in writing anywhere, though as you are aware the British nationality of the Senior Staff formed an integral part of the draft Customs Agreement which has not yet been signed. I am afraid therefore that this Government cannot accept the proposal made without very full consideration here and in London. Such consideration is being given and I shall let you know of the result as soon as possible.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nE.A. Pritchard, Esq.,\nCommissioner,\nChinese Maritime Customs Office,\nHONG KONG.\n\n(sd) N.L. Smith.",
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        "content_text": "**C.S.O.113/1680/31**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nLes parez of such wi No.26\n\nCopy\n\nMy dear Pritchard,\n\n9th October, 1940.\n\n20\n\nIn continuation of my letter of 3rd September regarding the proposal to appoint a liaison officer of Japanese nationality to the Kowloon Customs Head Office in Hong Kong I write to say that, while no decision has yet been reached, the Hong Kong Government are aware that the question of control of the Kowloon Customs frontier station, with which the proposal of course is inter-related, may develop into a controversial issue; it seems desirable, therefore, to point out that if the question of the Kowloon Customs Head Office were to develop in such a manner as to embarrass the Hong Kong Government, this Government might be compelled to request the Customs to withdraw that office from British territory for the duration of the present Sino-Japanese hostilities.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**(sd) N.L.Smith**\n\nE.A.Pritchard, Esq.\nCommissioner Chinese Maritime Customs,\nHONG KONG.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "F3848/1/10.\n\nNo. 600 (9/63B2/1940)\n\nColonid quis\n\n**BY SAFE HAND**\n\n538\n35\n21\n\nHis Majesty's Ambassador, Shanghai, presents his compliments to\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits\nherewith three copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\n31st July 1940\nShanghai.\n\nReference to previous despatch:\nTelegram No. 649 of the 30th July 1940 to the Foreign Office\n\n| Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Letter from the Inspector-General of Customs | dated the 26th July 1940 and relevant map | KOWLOON CUSTOMS QUESTION |\n\nCopies sent to:\nH.M. Diplomatic Mission Chungking No. 511. Hong Kong No. 71. Tokyo No. 406. Washington.",
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        "content_text": "## 22\n\nShanghai Office of the Inspectorate General of Customs,\n421, Hart Road,\n**CONFIDENTIAL**.\nShanghai.\n26th July, 1940.\n\nDear Sir Archibald,\n\nWith reference to our conversation on the 24th instant, regarding the Kowloon Customs question, I now attach hereto for your Excellency's information a copy of a precis on the subject, drawn up by Mr. Campbell.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**(SIGNED) F. W. MAZE**.\n\nHis Excellency,\nSir Archibald Clark Kerr, K.C.M.G.,\nETC.\nETC.\nETC.\n\nSHANGHAI.",
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        "content_text": "# KOWLOON CUSTOMS QUESTION\n## POSITION IN AUTUMN OF 1939\n\nOn 2nd October, 1939, the Japanese Consul-General at Hongkong presented the Kowloon Commissioner with the following demands:-\n\n(1) Kowloon Customs and all its branches to be put under the control and supervision of the Japanese Army Authorities in Kwangtung;\n(2) Occupied Area tariffs to be enforced;\n(3) Revenue collection to be deposited in Yokohama Specie Bank; and\n(4) No withdrawal to be made from Yokohama Specie Bank except to meet local administrative expenses, which amount to be agreed upon by Consul General.\n\nThe Japanese Consul-General maintained that as it was possible to enforce submission under force majeure at the Stations situated in Chinese territory (the real Kowloon District) it should also be accepted as applicable to the Head Office situated in the Colony of Hongkong, and that refusal to comply with demands would endanger the integrity of the Customs Service as a whole.\n\nThe attitude adopted by the Hongkong Government in this connection was that they were not directly concerned, but that they were naturally interested in anything indirectly affecting the interests of the Colony.\n\nThe Inspector General's attitude was that as only a part of the Frontier was occupied (Namtao to Shatowkok - excluding Mirs Bay, which was not occupied) the question should be held in abeyance and re-considered at a later date in the event of the Japanese Authorities being in permanent occupation of the whole Frontier, when it would be within their competence to re-open the Frontier Stations and impose their authority through an occupied port.\n\nThe Japanese Consul-General dissented, and evidently desired control over the Head Office in Hongkong rather than the actual Frontier Stations as a matter of \"face\" and window-dressing for home consumption in Tokyo.\n\nThe Inspector General pointed out that while they could compel him to place the revenue collection in an occupied port or area in the Yokohama Specie Bank on threat of seizure, they could not properly do so in a foreign colony; nor was he prepared to surrender the control of unoccupied Customs establishments situated in Free China to alien Authorities.\n\nA deadlock was thus reached, but the question became acute, the Japanese presumably being unwilling to risk incurring the displeasure and possible action of Great Britain and the Interested Powers; and, moreover, the whole Frontier was not permanently occupied by the Japanese military forces.",
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        "content_text": "## 2. \n\nIt may be incidentally mentioned here that when the Inspector General met Mr. T.V. Soong in Hongkong in November last year, he (Mr. Soong) expressed his earnest desire that the Customs Frontier Stations should not be re-opened as an \"occupied port\" - no matter what the consequences might be, and pointed out that such a step could but incur adverse criticism and possible serious consequences from Chungking.\n\nThe Japanese Military authorities, however, withdrew their forces from the Kowloon Frontier in December, 1939, and the question thus solved itself for the time being.\n\n## SITUATION IN JULY, 1940\n\nThe Kowloon Frontier was again occupied last month by Japanese Military forces, and on this occasion the occupation was gradually extended (for a brief period) to include Mirs Bay, where the Customs establishment at Shauchung, the main trade route between the Colony and free China, was burnt. Within a few days, however, the Japanese withdrew from the Mirs Bay District, but maintained their occupation of the Frontier area from Namtao to Shatowkok only, and the Customs are again operating at Shauchung in Mirs Bay as elsewhere in free China.\n\nOn 15th July, 1940, the Japanese Consul-General in Hongkong renewed his \"request\" to the Kowloon Commissioner to administer the Kowloon Customs District - including the Head Office in Hongkong and the (unoccupied) Mirs Bay Frontier Stations - as an \"occupied port\". The requirements were identical with those of last October, and were accompanied with the same threat that failure to comply would necessitate the Japanese re-opening the Frontier Stations under an independent regime, thus jeopardizing the integrity of the Customs administration (vide Kowloon Commissioner's telegram No. 818 to the Inspector General, copy of which was forwarded to H.M. Ambassador under cover of the Inspector General's letter of 16th July, 1940).\n\nThe Inspector General stated that he was not in a position to acquiesce in administrative changes unless effected by actual force majeure pressed locally upon the Commissioner; and that in the case of the Head Office, situated in Hongkong, it was difficult for him to understand how effective force majeure could be exercised.\n\n## REVIEW\n\nThe Kowloon Commissioner endeavoured to work on the lines of the instructions issued to him in the autumn of 1939, i.e., that the question should remain in abeyance for the present and receive further consideration if, and when, the Japanese were in permanent control of the whole Frontier. He further pointed out that it was within the competence of the Japanese Authorities to force the re-opening of such Customs Stations as were located in occupied territory by placing them under the control of some other \"occupied\" port, e.g., Canton, to which the revenue collection could be remitted and banked with the Yokohama Specie Bank; but that he (the Kowloon Commissioner in Hongkong) could not properly be compelled to deposit revenue in the Yokohama Specie Bank which had been collected at Customs Frontier Stations in the unoccupied Mirs Bay area. (The present revenue collection at the unoccupied Mirs Bay Stations is estimated at about $100,000 a month, while, except on the Canton-Kowloon Railway which is not...",
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        "content_text": "## 3.\n\n25 \n\nThe Customs is functioning at present - the revenue collection at the Customs Stations in the now \"occupied\" area of Namtao to Shatowkok is nil for the time being (they are merely preventive Stations).\n\nThe Japanese Consul-General at Hongkong, however, refused categorically to entertain the Commissioner's proposals; challenged what he termed his reluctance to assume responsibility; and informed him that in the event of his acceptance of the Japanese demands to hand over control of the Head Office, etc., resulting in his dismissal by the Chungking Government, far from being unemployed, he might rest assured of \"a larger post\" but, he added, failure to comply would have serious consequences.\n\nThe actual Customs position to-day, therefore, is identical to that of October, 1939. But the gravity of the situation is considerably increased by the worsened political situation in Europe and the Far East. The Japanese are chiefly concerned not with the actual re-opening of the Customs Stations on the Frontier, but in obtaining effective control over the Head Office in Hongkong, and in this they are apparently determined to gain their end, or, failing to do so, to disrupt the entire Customs Service. They are aware that it is not within their competence to apply force in the Colony or to bring the Mirs Bay Customs stations under their control by force without permanently occupying that area - an expensive undertaking requiring the maintenance of a considerable force (to deal with the numerous Guerilla hordes in the neighbourhood) which they appear anxious to avoid; but they are equally well aware that it is possible to make the Inspector General's position in \"occupied\" China more or less untenable, and it is this implied threat that is being advanced or hinted.\n\nIndirectly, but through an unimpeachable source, it has been intimated that refusal to comply with the present demands for Japanese control over the Kowloon Customs - demands which are to be repeated in connection with the Lappa Customs which has its Head Office in Macao - the Inspector General may be regarded by the Japanese as persona non grata; and, this being so, when the Japanese Government accord the Wang Ching Wei Government official recognition - which step it is reported they intend to take soon - the latter may execute their original intention and call upon Sir Frederick Maze to declare his willingness to forsake the Chungking Government and serve the Nanking regime; while the new Foreign Minister in Japan (Mr. Matsuoka), who is said to consider himself under some form of obligation to Mr. A. H. F. Edwardes (who acted as Officiating Inspector General for a brief time after Sir Francis Aglen left; and who, it is reliably asserted, has been, and is now acting unofficially as a sort of Liaison Officer between the Japanese Embassy in London and the British Foreign Office) has advocated on more than one occasion that Mr. Edwardes be invited to return to China to replace Sir Frederick Maze in the \"occupied area\", in the event of the latter persistently declining to accept (officially) office with the de facto authorities in Nanking, after the latter have been formally recognised by Japan.",
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        "content_text": "## 4.\n\nIt is confidentially and authoritatively disclosed that the Kowloon Customs issue is essentially political, that the importance the Japanese place on gaining immediate recognition of their \"control\" over the Head Office in Hongkong of the Kowloon Customs is in some extraordinary and unexplained manner connected with a desire that such an event should play a part in a general scheme to demonstrate effectively to Great Britain at an opportune moment that Japan has completed her conquest of China and is determined to brook no interference with her plan for the New Order in Asia\"; and that delay cannot be tolerated, lest by the autumn Great Britain should be in a position to assume a stronger attitude in the East.\n\nHow far the Japanese arguments and threat are merely bluff intended to induce the Inspector General to submit to their demands, and how far they are prepared to go at the moment in the actual execution of their threat, it is not possible to gauge. In the manner of presentation of their demands there is a ring of greater force and determination than was the case last autumn, and the Inspector General (who is generally regarded as a sort of international trustee for certain foreign trade, shipping, and financial interests in China or what is left of them) cannot afford to disregard these demands in their entirety. Since the commencement of the \"China incident\" the preservation of the Customs Service and the so-called Inspectorate system has been maintained more or less by argument and persuasion, and temporising and bending somewhat where non-essentials are concerned and where it has been within the competence of the Japanese to meet actual refusal with force. In the present case of the Kowloon Head Office refusal cannot be met by force, it is true, but disruption of the Customs Service as a whole in occupied areas is threatened instead. Obviously, therefore, if the integrity of the Service is to be maintained it is essential that some sort of formula be devised calculated to satisfy to some extent the Japanese exorbitant demands as outlined above, without unduly upsetting Chungking. Possibly a solution may be found in the appointment to the Kowloon Customs Head Office in Hongkong of a Deputy Commissioner (or Officer of lesser rank) of Japanese nationality to act as a liaison-officer and interpreter in connection with the Frontier Stations situated in the \"occupied area\". But even if this solution is accepted as a compromise by the Japanese Authorities (and provided, of course, that the Hongkong Government offer no objection) it is likely to incur criticism from the Chungking Government; and there also remains the possibility of a withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from the whole Frontier after such an appointment has been made, thus giving rise to an awkward situation.\n\nThe Customs position generally has become more serious and complicated of late, and while it is realised that existing world conditions may render...",
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        "content_text": "## \nactive support on the part of the \"Interested Powers\" difficult or inexpedient, it is nevertheless considered that unless some sort of support is immediately forthcoming the position of the Inspector General may become still more delicate and arduous. (Vide I.G. personal letter to U.S. Consul General, dated 23rd instant, a copy of which was sent to the British Ambassador).\n\n**(SIGNED) A. S. CAMPBELL**\n\n**Personal Secretary**\n\nShanghai, 25th July, 1940.",
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        "content_text": "# 53835/4035.\n\nThe Last COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n29 October, 1940.\n\n19.25 hrs.\n\nAddressed to S. of S. for the Colonies Mc. 631 Shanghai No 209.\n\nI have asked telegram No. 532, for copies (34)\n\nIn view of urgency of the question implied by British Embassy telegrams No. 85 and 872 to the Foreign Office and also your non-objection, I am addressing local Commissioner on lines suggested in British Embassy telegram No. 881 to the Foreign Office.\n\nMy telegram No. 602 makes it clear that closure of Hong Kong office would be opposed to Hong Kong interests and letter is couched in as non-committal terms as possible.\n\nDanger lies in Japanese considering closure of office and in consequence development of situation to point of embarrassment for this government with closure in view.",
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        "content_text": "## CYPHER TELEGRAM\n**GOVERNOR HONG KONG**\n\nTo Ashley Clarke (32)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nCopy to Ashley Clarke.\n\nThe fact that Chinese Maritime Customs has an international character makes it especially vulnerable to Japanese claims in respect of staffing. Japanese control of occupied stations is presumably as complete as they need in spite of superintendence from Kowloon, but admission into Kowloon Office of Japanese representation would be likely to result in increasing demands for active preventive measures by Colony against all and any smuggling trade, with obvious opportunities such demand would provide for trouble both with Japanese and Chinese interests.\n\nIn the circumstances...\n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "31 \n\nI think that Japanese should be made to understand, as Maze suggests, that any insistence on their part would positively result in closure of Kowloon Office.",
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        "content_text": "**CYPHER TELEGRAM**\nD. 2nd October, 1940.\nR. 2nd\n\nNo. 608.\n\nYour telegram No. 532.\n\nI request consideration of the points made in telegram No. 602.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nAfter discussion with Sir Gent on `53838/56/40`, N°602(28)29 dated 1st October, 1940.\n\nDear Ashley Clarke,\n\nWith reference to your letter to Gent No. F.4236/1/10 of the 24th September about the Chinese Customs office at Hong Kong, I enclose a copy of a telegram from Hong Kong deprecating the proposal to close the office at Kowloon.\n\nWe have already telegraphed to the Acting Governor telling him that we would have no objection to his addressing a communication to the local Customs Commissioner on the lines suggested in Shanghai telegram No. 821. After considering the enclosed telegram we are still of the view that Maze's proposal is the best course to follow, and subject to your concurrence we would like to send a telegram to the Acting Governor on the lines of the enclosed draft.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**(Sgd.) W.B.L. Monson**\n\nH. ASHLEY CLARKE, ESQ.\n\nPage 33",
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        "content_text": "# 5383 \n38/56/40 \n\nCur \nCUFF FOR REGISTRA RECEIVED \n\n28 \n134 \n\n30 SEP 1940 C.O. R \n\n**CYPHER TELEGRAM** \n\nFROM \nO.A.O. \nHONG KONG. \n\nD. 27th September, 1940. R. 27th \n** \n13.23 hrs. \n\nNo. 602 \n\nAddressed to S. of S. for the Colonies telegram \nNo. 602, of 27th September. Repeated to Shanghai No. 199 and Chung-King No. 135. \n\nYour telegram No. 512. Chinese customs. \nI have now seen Foreign Office telegram No. 916 to Shanghai. \n\nBefore closure of Hong Kong Head Office is further considered I submit the following points. \n\nA. Existence of that office has not as yet been in any way embarrassment to this Government; on the contrary it is distinctly beneficial, see D. below. \n\nB. It will not be easy to explain to Chung-King Government why numerous institutions of that Government are freely allowed to function here while this one with its international character is forbidden. \n\nC. That international character appears to me to put the question beyond the scope of Hong Kong and even of British decision. Should not for example American reactions to proposed action be considered? \n\nD. Transfer of occupied stations on the frontier to Canton commissionership would be in accordance with realities and a complete answer to Japanese pretensions for representation in Hong Kong. It is ... much trade going into China through unoccupied stations of Kowloon Commissioner and this trade is rapidly expanding. Closure of Head Office and substitution of a new Head Office at some point across Mirs Bay would very seriously obstruct such trade to the detriment of this colony. \n\nAs regards proposed appointment of Japanese liaison officer I am still of opinion delaying tactics are advisable. I have already informed Commissioner that this question is under consideration.",
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        "content_text": "## \n17v 17mm. 28/9 Noer 28 gear\n\n**Cypher It.**\n\n**Governor**\n\nth  \n283 slonce  \n216  \nRm 101  \n56/ 53838/40 27  \n\n**Recythered**\n\nNo. 532 (24) Shanghai tel to  \nand sent 35  \n15.45hs. 29/9/40  \nH.IJ.  \n\n• you W 287.\n\n**Chinese**\n\nCustoms office in Kowlooming No objection here to Scott  \nsun  \nMazex  \nR  \nC C.  \nC. D.  \n29 SEP  \n2917  \n\nCoppy to 12 y  \nCloghe EO, vel  \nby Maze  \nMage's suggested safety to  \nCommunicatin  \na s  \nPlease in jou  \nConne  \n5  \nWaka  \ns  \nblocal  \nCommissioner.  \nand, if so, of  \nThe ther  \nschon  \nalso  \nyou abs.  \nNation.",
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        "content_text": "(F4236/1/10)\n\nDear Gent,\n\n3:838/50\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE,**\nS.W.1.\n24th September, 1940.\n\nWith reference to your letter to Whitamore of the 7th September, regarding the Chinese Customs Office at Hong Kong, I enclose a copy of a telegram from Shanghai putting forward a suggestion made to Broadmead by Sir Frederick Maze, the Inspector-General of Customs.\n\n2. We see no objection to Sir Frederick Maze's suggestion. If you agree, will you please so inform the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nYours sincerely,\nAshley Clarke\n\nG.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nMr Gent.\n\nCOPY.\n\n(`F4236/1/10`)\n\n26 SEP 1940\n\nU.O. REG:\n\nWith the Compliments of the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs\n\n* 4 SEP 1940\n\n37\n\nCypher telegram to Sir A. Noble (Shanghai).\n\nDespatched Foreign Office 20th September, 1940. 4 a.m.\n\nNo. 983.\n\nMy telegram No. 916 (of September 1st - Kowloon Customs) and Hong Kong telegram to Colonial Office No. 548 (of September 4th).\n\nWhat is the position about closing the Kowloon Customs office?\n\nRepeated to Hong Kong No. 116.",
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        "content_text": "# F4236/1/10\n\n**DEPARTMENTAL No.2. 53838:56**\n\n38\n\n**Decypher.**\n\n**Mr. Broadmead (Shanghai)**\n\n14th September, 1940.\n\nD.\n\nBy W/T.\n\n17th September, 1940.\n\nR\n\n10.35 p.m.\n\n17th September, 1940.\n\n**No. 821.**\n\n23 SEP 1940\n\nC.O.\n\nYour telegram No.916.\n\nInspector General of Customs estimated that while the closure of the Hong Kong office would not seriously embarrass the work of the Customs as a whole, he would like to try a different line of attack.\n\n2. He is convinced that Japanese demands are inspired solely by desire to gain prestige. He believes that he could put a stop to Japanese pressure if the Government of Hong Kong would address a communication to the local Commissioner roughly on the following lines:- \"The Hong Kong Government are aware that the question of control over the Kowloon customs frontier stations might develop into a controversial issue. It will be realised that if the question of Customs Head Office in Hong Kong were to develop in such a manner as to embarrass the Hong Kong Government, they might be compelled to request the customs to withdraw from British territory for the duration of the present hostilities\".\n\nInspector General of Customs believes that if Japanese realise that the only consequence of making trouble on this issue would be the closure of the Hong Kong office they would leave it alone.\n\n3. The only relevant treaty provision seems to be condition No. 3 of Article 6 of the Anglo-Chinese Agreement of September 11th 1886, and I do not think this could usefully be quoted against us in the present context.\n\n4. Subject to the views of Hong Kong Government, I think this suggestion is worth pursuing. There is some urgency as the Japanese are continually pressing the Inspector General of Customs for a decision.\n\nRepeated to Hong Kong telegram No.287, Chungking telegram `No.6753`.",
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        "content_text": "# OUTWARD TELEGRAM\n**LIMITED DISTRIBUTION**\n\n53838/56/+  \n`3527/1/10`\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be kept under Lock and Key.]\n\nCypher telegram to Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai)\n\n**Foreign Office, No. 916.**\n\n**RECEIVED SEP 1940**  \n1st September, 1930. 2.15 a.m.\n\n1. Your telegram No.648 [of July 30th: Kowloon Customs].  \nThe British authorities are not responsible for the internal administration of the Kowloon office of the Chinese Customs, whose functions are, I understand, to supervise Customs work in adjacent Chinese territory. In so far as the latter is under Japanese occupation, the demand that the Customs Administration shall conform to the procedure in other occupied areas is comprehensible.\n\n2. It is a matter for arrangement between the Japanese authorities and the Inspector-General and we cannot usefully intervene at the present time. We should however have strong objection to the appointment of a Japanese Commissioner at Hong Kong.\n\n3. A solution recommended by the Colonial Office is that the Kowloon Customs station should be closed at least for the duration of the hostilities. I am informed that its functions are much reduced in importance and that it is an increasing embarrassment to the Hong Kong authorities.\n\n4. If you see no objection you should urge this view upon Sir F. Maze and suggest that the Customs stations in the surrounding country should come under the Commissioner at Canton.",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT. CYPHER\n**GOVERNOR**  \n**HONG KONG.**  \n**TELEGRAM.**  \n**FURTHER ACTION.**\n\nYour telegram 4th September, which is being repeated to Sir A. Clark, has been addressed by Foreign Office to Shanghai suggesting that best course from point of view both of Hong Kong and Chinese Customs would be to close down Hong Kong Station since special reasons for its maintenance no longer exist.\n\nAs regards suggestion in your telegram I agree that delaying tactics which you propose would be appropriate until matter of closing down Hong Kong Station has been discussed with Maze.\n\nPage 40  \nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nMr. Gent.  \n7.9.40.  \nA 4.9.40.\n\nDear Whittamore,\n\n7th September, 1940.\n\nI enclose a copy of a telegram from Hong Kong regarding the Chinese Maritime Customs office in the Colony. We are awaiting a clarification of the last part of the telegram.\n\nIf we are right in presuming that the re-draft of a telegram to Clark Kerr, in which we subsequently concurred, as enclosed in Ashley-Clarke's note to me of the 26th August (No. `F3527/1/10`), has been sent, H.E. the Ambassador will no doubt infer that the present enquiry ought to be at least evaded; the best course, if possible, would be if the Customs office in Hong Kong could be closed altogether for the duration of the war.\n\nC. E. Whittamore, Esq.,  \nYours sincerely",
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        "content_text": "# 548\n\n## FROM\n\n### COPY FOR REGISTRATION 18/\n\n#### CYPHER TELEGRAM\n**O.A.G**  \n4th September, 1940.\n\nDo {#  \nR. 4th  \nHONG KONG.  \n23.59 hrs.\n\nAddressed to S. of S. Colonies telegram No. 548, 4th September, repeated to Shanghai telegram No. 182, Chungking telegram No. 122, Tokyo telegram No. 96.\n\n42\n\nI have been asked how the Government would regard appointment of a Japanese liaison officer under Commissioner of Chinese Customs who administers from Head Office in Hong Kong certain Customs establishments on and near the frontier.\n\nExcept as regards most of the senior posts I cannot object on racial grounds to staffing arrangements of this international machine but I foresee serious difficulties particularly since only some of the frontier stations administered by the Commissioner from Hong Kong are at present situated in occupied territory remainder operating as in free China.\n\nI understand the general practice of the Customs in territory under Japanese control is to yield to Japanese demands of this nature under force-majeure. Clearly this principle cannot apply in Hong Kong where the Japanese are not in a position to employ force and the Chinese Government would therefore be likely to resent such a concession by the Customs in Hong Kong. On the other hand if the Japanese are not in a position to apply force-majeure in Hong Kong they can and do threaten to disrupt the customs administration in other areas in their control if their demands are not granted and the Inspector General of Customs considers he can no longer resist this concession without incurring serious risk of collapse of the entire customs administration which has only been preserved with the greatest difficulty in face of continued Japanese pressure.\n\nIt would be within the competence of the Japanese to compel the customs to yield under force-majeure to a demand for customs posts in occupied territory to be reopened under administration of an occupied port e.g. under commissioner stationed at Canton but it would appear that Japanese are not prepared to follow this course as they are determined to get their man into Hong Kong office.\n\nIt would naturally ease the situation for the Inspector General of Customs were the Hong Kong Government to demur but he appreciates that they might find it embarrassing to take such a line and he is anxious not to appear in the light of endeavouring to persuade Hong Kong to pull his chestnuts out of the fire.\n\nPossibly time might be gained and situation be thus eased were Hong Kong Government to reply in somewhat vague terms such as \"question is under consideration but appointment of a senior Japanese official would seem to involve some modification of long accepted practice of appointing only British members...\n\n(message corrupt from here to end. Repetition being asked for).",
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        "content_text": "(F3527/1/10)\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE,**\nS.W.1.\n26th August, 1940.\n\n17 43\n\nDear Gent,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 15th August about the Hong Kong office of the Chinese Customs.\n\nI enclose herein a re-draft of the proposed telegram to Sir A. Clark Kerr in accordance with your suggestions and should be glad to know if you agree in its terms.\n\nYours sincerely,\nHohly Clarkan\n\nG.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.,\nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "# 3527/1/10\n\nSir A. Clark Kerr, \nShanghai. \n\n**Telegram** \n\nNo: \n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.** \nDespatched \nAugust, 1940. \nM. 44 \n\nYour telegram No. `648` (of July 30th: Kowloon Customs). \n\nThe British authorities are not responsible for the internal administration of the Kowloon office of the Chinese Customs, whose functions are, I understand, to supervise Customs work in adjacent Chinese territory. \n\nIn so far as the latter is under Japanese occupation, the demand that the Customs Administration shall conform to the procedure in other occupied areas is comprehensible. \n\n## 2. \nIt is a matter for arrangement between the Japanese authorities and the Inspector-General and we cannot usefully intervene at the present time. We should however have strong objection...\n\n## 3. \nA solution recommended by the Colonial Office is that the Kowloon Customs Station should be closed at least for the duration of the hostilities. \nI am informed that...",
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        "content_text": "45\n\nthat its functions are much reduced in importance and that it is an increasing embarrassment to the Hong Kong authorities.\n\n4. If you see no objection you should urge this view upon Sir F. Maze and suggest that the Customs stations in the surrounding country should come under the Commissioner at Canton.",
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        "content_text": "## Colonial Office: F3527/1/10 of 2nd lang\nCopy.\n\n(F3769/1/10)\n+36\n13029/48.\n53808/56/40 HK\n\nWith the Under Secretary of State,\n\n16 for Telegram (en clair) from The Marquess of Lothian (Washington),\n\n1 TOD Y D.R. 3.40 p.m. No. 40 (Saving).\n\nShanghai telegrams Nos 648 and 649. 6th August, 1940.\n\nI told Under Secretary of State to-day about His Majesty's Government's anxiety that Japanese were about to make a further demand to force the resignation of Sir Frederick Maze from the Chinese Maritime Customs. Mr. Welles said that the United States Government had so far received no appeal for support from Sir Frederick Maze but was extremely interested in the subject.\n\n11th August, 1940.",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential.\n\n15th August, 1940.\n\nDear Ashley-Clarke,\n\nMay I refer to your official note of the 10th of August (`F.2529/1/10`) with the draft telegram to Shanghai about the Hong Kong office of the Chinese Customs. That office had, as you know, a useful function while the railway was operating, for securing the through passage into China of dutiable goods from Hong Kong without the need for disturbance at the Hong Kong frontier. Latterly its function has been reduced in the main to certain minor duties of looking after and paying the staff at certain Customs stations in the territory neighbouring on Hong Kong, and also to supervising the collection of some Customs receipts which are still accruing from Mirs Bay traffic. Last year Northcote suggested to Clark-Kerr and Maze that the best thing would be to close the Hong Kong station down as being no longer useful but an increasing embarrassment to Hong Kong. Maze, however, did not agree, and I do not think the proposal went so far as to be reported here. Our own feeling, and Northcote's,\n\nH. Ashley-Clarke, Esq.",
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        "content_text": "48\n\nIt is considered that a Japanese Commissioner at the Hong Kong office of the Maritime Customs would be strongly objected to by the Hong Kong Government.\n\nIn the circumstances of the present Japanese demands we should like to see Northcote's proposal of last year reconsidered, and if necessary Maze pressed to agree to the Hong Kong office being closed down and the various Customs stations in the surrounding country left to depend on the headquarters station at Canton.\n\nЭто что \n\nSo Grand",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential Correspondence\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 2529/1/10` and address—— not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\n**Confidential** `51038/56/`\n`18-F.O.P. 5000`\n\nTHE Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith the draft of a proposed Dispatch, subject to the concurrence of the Colonial Office, to address to Lord Lloyd on the subject of his Representative Shanghai Chinese Customs.\n\nForeign Office,  \n18th Feb. 1920.\n\n| Ref. | Previous Correspondence |\n| --- | --- |\n| 4|20 (2744) | 49 |",
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        "content_text": "## Registry \nNo: `F3527/1/10`\n\nLar \n50 \nAugust, 1940. \nDespatched M. Draft.\n\n**Telegram** \nSir A. Clark-Kerr, Shanghai. \nNo: (12) You \nYour telegram No. `648` (of July 30th: Kowloon Customs). \n\nThe British authorities are not responsible for the internal administration of the Kowloon office of the Chinese Customs, whose functions are, I understand, to supervise Customs work in adjacent Chinese territory. In so far as the latter is under Japanese occupation, the demand that the Customs Administration shall conform to the procedure in other occupied areas is comprehensible.\n\n2. We should object to the appointment of a Japanese Commissioner but the requirements mentioned in your telegram do not infringe British sovereignty in the Colony and would seem to be a matter for arrangement between the Japanese authorities and the Inspector-General.\n\n3. I appreciate that it is more difficult for the latter to plead force majeure in this case to his superiors at Chungking, but if there is a real danger of having a separate Customs service established in the occupied areas, I think that the Chinese Government would be well advised to allow him to compromise. It is not a matter in which we can usefully intervene at the present time. You may at your discretion communicate this view privately to Sir F. Maze.\n\nPage 50  \nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "**LIMITED DISTRIBUTION**\n\n151\n51\n\n**Decypher**\n\nSir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai)\n30th July, 1940\n\nD. 7.25 p.m. 30th July, 1940\nR. 9.00 p.m. 30th July, 1940\n\nNo.649\n\nFollowing is continuation of my immediately preceding telegram.\n\n6. There is an element of bluff in Japanese attitude, but the position of customs has only been maintained by much ingenuity and the position is undoubtedly serious. Inspector-General of Customs, in order to strengthen his hand, has appealed to the United States Government through the United States Consul-General here to make some statement reaffirming their interest in integrity of customs. Meanwhile he is considering the possibility of appointing a Japanese official as deputy commissioner or lesser rank at Hong Kong office; but this solution, even if acceptable to Hong Kong authorities, would be criticized by the Chinese Government and might give rise to an awkward situation if the Japanese forces withdraw from the border areas. Inspector-General of Customs considers that unless he can get some outside support his position will become even more difficult than it is at present.\n\n7. I assume we are not in a position to do anything much at present and our support might even do more harm than good. Successful intervention by United States Government might possibly ease the situation a little.\n\nRepeated to Washington telegram No.8 and saving to Tokyo, Chungking and Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n## LIMITED DISTRIBUTION\n\n**Colomid Jes**  \n`F3527/1/10`  \n`13029`  \n57  \n12  \n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**  \n**Decypher.**  \n**Sir A. Noble (Shanghai).**  \n30th July, 1940.  \n**D.** 6.47 p.m.  \n**R.** 10.30 p.m.  \n**No. 648.**  \n\n*******  \n31st July, 1940.  \nthe Count of the Jawor Sec: atary of State for Foreign ...airs  \nForeign  \n2 AUG 1940  \nauts  \n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**  \nCopy sant  \nTAsy  \n40  \n\nRelations between Chinese Maritime Customs and Japanese are again in a state bordering on crisis, as an indirect result of Japanese being on the Hongkong border.\n\n2. In October 1939 the Japanese Consul General at Hongkong asked the Commissioner of Customs at Kowloon (1) To place Kowloon Customs and branches under Japanese authorities in Kuangtung. (2) To enforce occupied areas tariff. (3) To deposit revenue in Yokohama Specie Bank and (4) To withdraw only minimum to meet local administrative expenses. Consul General maintained that as it was possible to enforce Submission on stations in Chinese territories above demand should be regarded as applicable to Head Office in Hong-kong. The Inspector General of Customs took the line that the question should be held in suspense until the Japanese were in permanent occupation of the whole frontier, including Mirs Bay and pointed out that he could not be compelled to take action in a British Colony or in unoccupied territory. Japanese Consul General seemed to want control over Hongkong Office as a matter of \"face\". Question did not however become acute and the Japanese shortly afterwards withdrew from the border area.\n\n3. Japanese have now returned to the charge though they still are not in occupation of Mirs Bay and threaten that if their demands are not met they will reopen the frontier stations under an independent regime, thus undermining the integrity of the Customs administration. Commissioner of Customs at Kowloon has tried to work in accordance with instructions issued in 1939, i.e., he has pointed out that posts in occupied areas could be put under the control of some other occupied port, but that he cannot properly be required to deposit in Yokohama Specie Bank, revenue collected from posts in unoccupied territory. Japanese refuse to accept these contentions.\n\n4. Situation is more serious than in 1939 as Japanese are surer of their ground. They seem determined to gain control of the Hongkong Office or to disrupt Customs Administration.",
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        "content_text": "## 2. Administration\n\nThey are hinting that if the Inspector General of Customs does not comply with their wishes they will make his position in occupied China untenable. There is a danger that if Wang Ching Wei régime is recognised, the Inspector General of Customs may be called on to make his submission, failing which Mr. Edwardes, at the time officiating as Inspector General of Customs now believed to be attached in some capacity to the Japanese Embassy in London, will be appointed to succeed Sir F. Maze in occupied China.\n\nIt is believed that determination of Japanese to secure control of the Office is intended in some way by the Japanese to be proof that conquest of China is complete, and that interference with established \"order in Asia\" will not be tolerated; speed is regarded as essential owing to fear that by the autumn we may be in a position to take stronger line in the Far East see my immediately following telegram.\n\nRepeated to Washington telegram No. 7 and Tokyo, Chungking, Hongkong Saving.",
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        "content_text": "(F3551/1/10)\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.**\n\n24th July, 1940.\n\n## 154\n\nDear Gent,\n\nI write to confirm my telephone conversation with you this morning about the question of disarming the Customs cruisers at Hong Kong raised in Hong Kong telegram No.440 of the 20th July.\n\n2. We have in previous correspondence with the Admiralty opposed the purchase or requisition of these cruisers for our own purposes but their disarmament is another question. If you and the Service Departments consider the disarmament desirable from a defence point of view we should not wish to offer any objection.\n\n3. If this action is taken, however, it should be based on the ground that it is part of the precautionary measures taken for the defence of Hong Kong. We should deprecate any mention of \"hostile persons\" or the use of any other phrase which seemed to direct the measure specifically against the Japanese.\n\n4. If protests are made from any quarter, Chinese may well make some protest, we think they can be answered on the grounds of the overriding necessity of providing for the defence of Hong Kong.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nG.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.,  \nColonial Office.\n\nAshley Clark",
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        "content_text": "## Colonial Office F3551/01\nCopy.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\nRECEIVED: 3830/56/4\nC\n26 JUL 19 10\n\nDecypher. Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai)\n10\n55\n25 JUL 1940\n\n**LIMITED DISTRIBUTION.**\n\n23rd July, 1940.\nD. 8.31 p.m.\n23rd July, 1940.\nR. 10.40 p.m.\n23rd July, 1940.\n\nNo. 626.\n\nHongkong telegram No. 440 to Colonial Office. \n(?Inspector General of Customs) tells me that he would have no objection to disarmament of these vessels provided arms are not handed over to any other national authority, but are stored in Hongkong until end of hostilities.\n\nRepeated to Hongkong telegram No. 234.",
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        "content_text": "## MOST IMMEDIATE\n\nGovernor Hong Kong\n\nNo. 24149\n\nTelegram No. 440.\n\nChinese maritime customs vessels have been discussed with Was Office Admiralty who both consider it undesirable to take action proposed. Sufficient if careful watch is kept on these vessels.\n\n70 ... accept this view and add that if it becomes necessary to disarm these vessels FURTHER ACTION.\n\nConcession to Majestic Steel Co. Bany M... Ashley Clarke without specific mention of forestalling for defence reasons explanation should be simply that it is done as part of general measures to secure Hong Kong and is not designed to forestall possibilities...\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Prython \nGeut \nSir A. Burns. \nMr. G. L. M. Clauson. \nMr. C. J. Jeffries. \nMr. A. J. Dawe. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nPermt. U.S. of S. \nParly. U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT. Cypher telegram \n53838/56/40 MK \n56 \nNo. 392 \nReaddressed. Reapplied. \nBEL 12.30m 24/7 \n2 000 \n\n4282-150) Wt. 38815-61 10,000 12/39 T.S. 695 \n(*5444-150) Wt. 45767-68 30,000 2/40 T.S. 695",
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        "content_text": "57 \nof Statute \nby \nhortice Parsons.",
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        "content_text": "## COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n**RECEIVED 158**\n22 JUL 1940\n\n**CIPHER TELEGRAM**\nC. O. REGY\nO.A. Q.\nHONG KONG\n\nDated 20th July. Received 7.41 a.m. 20th July, 1940,\nNo. 440.\n\nAddressed Colonial Office No. 440\nrepeated to Shanghai No. 141.\n\nGeneral Officer Commanding advises\nthat Chinese maritime customs vessels now in Hong Kong harbour should be disarmed to forestall possibility of seizure by hostile persons. Understand customs would hand over those arms under protest pleading force majeure but since customs administration is not only Chinese Government Department but also has semi-international status, political aspect is important. Unless instructed to the contrary I propose to present demand to surrender on 25th July.\n\nFor status of these vessels please see `96/53838/10/37` compare Northcote's secret despatch of 17th December 1937.\n\nBarry To Stur - 23.7.40.",
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        "content_text": "## CYPHER TELEGRAM \nfrom the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 14th July, 1940. Received 10.3 a.m. on 15th July.\n\nAddressed to British Ambassador No. 129 repeated to Secretary of State for the Colonies No. 414.\n\nKowloon Commissioner of Customs informs me that Japanese Consul General has today notified him reopening of Customs Stations on frontier under Japanese control is required under threat that Japanese will otherwise themselves open stations in despite of Customs integrity.\n\nreported to Inspector General.\n\nThis is being \n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "1. From Dr. Selwyn Clark-\n\nMedical Report-\n\n2\n\n-Surding\n\n3/3/46.\n\nDr. Kauntze.\n\nThis report by the D.M.S., Hong Kong, Dr. Selwyn Clarke, together with the reports by the A.D.M.S., Dr. Valentine, who was Chief Medical Officer in Stanley Internment Camp and Miss Watson, Almoner of the Medical Department and Deputy Chairman of the International Welfare Committee in the Camp, is of very considerable value. It is different in character from a previous report by Dr. Selwyn Clarke which is registered at (5) on the 1945 file attached herewith. The latter is primarily concerned with the work which Dr. Selwyn Clarke and his band of helpers were able to carry out in Hong Kong; the former is more concerned with the incidence of disease and the state of public health throughout the Colony during the period under review.\n\nYou will no doubt advise whether this report (and possibly also the earlier report already referred to) should be sent to any medical authorities either British or international who would be concerned in such matters. The kind of body I have in mind is the health organisation of the League of Nations, but I do not know whether this is still in being or has been replaced by some corresponding organisation of the U.N.\n\nThe report is perhaps of more value than the ordinary annual reports of a Colonial Medical Department and you will no doubt suggest whether it is appropriate for publication as a Colonial Office paper and if it should go to the Colonial Medical Committee.\n\n2. Note to Mr. J.H. Thamprom\n\n8.3.46.\n\n8/3/46\n\n310. b-in-b. Hong Kong.\n\n-N/fuels.\n\n4.W.O. C4.\n\ndrafts - m/s (3)\n\n9/3/46 12/3/46.\n\n5 To U.S.S. from Dr. Selwyn-Clarke\n\n6 To U.S.25.\n\nDr.\n\n7 Note by Miss Rustam from Th. S-Clarke - 28/3/46.",
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        "content_text": "## Weekly Press Summary\n\npara!(6) is a short comment on the rising price of rice and Miso. Rustam made some remarks on this topic.\n\n2(@) is about income tax.\n\nD. B. Whyte 21/3\n\n## Weekly Press Summary Put by\n2-8 Mar 47 | 20-3-47 | D. B. Whyte to %/\n---------|----------|-------------\nOrij. on 96009/1571 |  | \n\n## Weekly Press Summary\n31 Mar -5th '47 | 6-12 Apr '47 | 12-4-47 | 14-4-47\n---------|----------|---------|---------\nAction taken | PAS |  | \n\nPassages marked `// min (12) 967)` are further comments on incidents. `x/` of (12) concerns the future of H.H. - a cutting shared. Para. `54145/27`.\n\n## Notes\nO | of (13) | may | subject\n---------|----------|---------|---------\nCutting | is | not | а \nalso be relevant to this | Do | vague | necessary\nthat a |  |  |\n\nD. B. Whyte 28/4 at anse...",
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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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        "content_text": "## Minute of 28th February\n\nWe can...\n\nPlease see copy of Miss Rustam's letter;\n\nI think this is as far as we can get at present with regard to cleaning the question of a C.D. & O.W. grant. I have started a memorandum (draft opposite) for the application to the Treasury, but as we have no estimates until we can fill in financial details, the application cannot be made.\n\nWe have some idea of the total cost of the visit of a Town Planning Expert.\n\nMay I suggest that arrangements are made to wait until the application for a grant to cover more definite costs is made, when we might be able to make interim incidental expenses, if necessary?\n\nD.S. Whyte 25/2.\n\nExpenses such as travelling (£500) have to be considered. I should liaise with Finance & Development Dept. on this basis.\n\nMin.",
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