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        "document_key": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843",
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        "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843",
        "content_text": "\n\nTous \n\nCastleblayney 5th December 18410. \n\nI only this day received your better dated. 2nd Movz N23- but-have no hesitatino in stating, that I have known you since the Year 1826. and from that line. I consider you as a Private. Soldier, us Corporal, as Orderly Hoorn Cork, and as Oxfor Sergeant, honest, brustworthy, intelligent, and every way quantified for a very confidential Situation.. \n\n[ Sazried.:] S. G. Slackie hete Alufor. 2.5.thing & \n\nBury Larreashire 21th October 1841. \n\nWe the undersignat having had Oeppartieneties of Wit . W.4.-— = messing the Bonduel of Serjeant-Schro Haterich series May 1841. de Certify that he hat during that time Conducted himself very respectably on the situation of Police Serpoint, and so far as may be consistent with the regulations of the Horse Guards, we.baz to recommend the prayer of his Polition, to the favourable core= \n\nsideration of the General Commanding in Chief. — [ Sigurd / E. Grundy, 76. Ashton, I. Grundy, A. Wood, 16. Waller. MP2/ magistrates / W. P. Woodecek. 18. A. Grunty. 1 Magistrates Clerks). — \n\nand now \n\nPreston 8th January 18412.. \n\nIchn. Hoctorien late Odor Serjeant in the 23 Hagt, N. 65.– \n\nserving as a Segoint in the Lancashire Constabuling force, Cang desinus of applying for the appointment of shaff Sergeant on the Recriuting service, I hereby certify that his \n\nConduct during the time he has been dunder my Command. [rancely fri the 3rd May 1840 to this dates has been most exampley, and that he had performas his duties with Zack. Waerity, and Indgement - Insider honi to be remarkably well quaitifit for the situations he scelts – peliquict ) I. Hoodford Caps & cont \n\nChief Constable for Lanrewshire : \n\nNo. 6.- \n\nMes \n\nBury Lancashire 7th February 1842. \n\nI have great ptasure. in evetifying that devring the tense. I have Unown Segiant Aistero Hectorické formerly Ochor Sarynent-28%, Hagmant; and new serving as a Seynent in the Pancashire Bo- - sto butary force. he has born, the highest chonetes as a deber, 10002, Conducted, inclligent, and Zealous Non-Commissioned Offréer.- from the begining of 1826. to the end of 1837. I remember here in the 23. Alignerd; and having been myself Regimental Adjutant-up- - wards of 1/2 Years, Thad every Opportionely of forming \n\nOpprining of his Chamelor, during the last year he has served. under my minidiale command in this force, and I care safety say that his conduct has been martiat by every quality regiusite in a Non-Commissioned Officer. – I sincerely hope. he may \n\nbe successful in his pressent-application – \n\n[ Jaznice / I. S. Grove late Capt. 23. Hoyt Soup! Gerreathire Constaty, \n\nBury Lancashirs 29th (foril 18412. \n\nWe the condensignal Magistrates kome the plousure to \n\nFeasturend.. \n\n- Sergeant Orteriell to the notice of Oxfelain Heryerd for the situation of Inspector of Police, nao vacant in the Bury Police force. - [ Signet / A. Wood. H. Ashton. H. Hardman J. Grandy. S. Hudhanson 19. Coponshaw. – \n\nChef Constables office Preston 37 Sedby 1843, This is to Certify that John Héctériek was appointed. Police Constable in the County of Sancashire Constabulary force. on the 2 day of May 1840, was forrnded to the Hank and pay of slingt on the 18th day of Ang! 1840. and continued to serve to this date. He is supplevt with this centigrade with the tuccio of Baising appointed sluts in the Exx Condat !!.. His conduct-dunng the proved of bus service has been extremely good.. – [Igrica) I. Houtford Chief Constable. \n\nfor £meatture.",
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        "content_text": "(Signed)\n\nJ.\n\n183\n\nPustaw. The\n\nS. J. Edgar\n\nIhr Bond 7 to...\n\nffre. Phillipe Moveste.\n\nB. Chen\n\n2. Sirus to\n\nWilliamus anther Pl.\n\nCott. Comagie\n\nSmith #Burnelow Decilia the\n\nArmstrong & Lawr Lane Crawford I bas :\n\nDouglas\n\nCapraich\n\nLamond\n\nBowra to Mac Ewent lo Trempen the\n\nEdulger Furdagie the\n\nSchaeffer the Ampier\n\nH:\n\ner cent to\n\nGeo. Stolenes\n\nLay : Stephenson\n\nGaskell & Brocon\n\nSolicitors repe\n\nFetcher The\n\nM.M. Robine toto.\n\nBohr Day Barrister at Luva\n\nStewry Kingsinell Barrister at\n\nxave\n\nB.A. I. bel Dub: 3\n\nFred N Gown. M. & Barister at Law\n\nM. a\n\nMr. Gaskell. policiton 1.0 pe\n\nym Moresb\n\nG. Rooper Inner\n\neby\n\nAndrose Parso\n\nSt. J. Parrant\n\nPoliciler\n\nPolicilor\n\nEdward W. Place - Policitor\n\nJames Browns\n\n184\n\n(Signed) Dr. Waordine\n\nAwe Breinn\n\nMht. C. Leatie Rob. I. Malke Francis Chombay\n\nFroma's Chomly\n\nJohn Ashton G. Brodevar M. Mourilyan\n\nFirs\n\n2. Willaume A. Thatcher\n\nFindl\n\nM. M. Pobe\n\nMr. Mill. Richardson\n\nI. Lambarri\n\nMettisting\n\nAC. Maclean\n\nI Still\n\nZ Maclean\n\nBearth Kyrie\n\nAndrew Cans Grant\n\nMionett\n\nHid: St. Bort\n\nJohn 13. Browne\n\nB. Cohen\n\nLch\n\nCL HasKell\n\nRotorpe Simpetray IM. Bromnelor. I. et Lane\n\nM. Crawford Gward PReptons M. A. Bowra\n\n11.Harding\n\ntarzant\n\nPolilitente\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151",
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        "document_key": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]",
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        "title": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]",
        "content_text": "83\n\n228\n\n(Signed) J. Lamonte. Scored) S. Findlay\n\nLouis Arschfield\n\nThomas Fatham John Ashton\n\nR. B. Sherrard\n\nW. Tarrant\n\nAnd I Dyson G. Lindell 2. Lappaik\n\nS. Harper P. Body Any a. Leigh\n\nJ. Willaume-\n\nI. V. Caldas\n\nC. D. Williams\n\nCharles Mein 1.5. Hoey A. W. Kup W. H. Foster 4. Winiberg N. Crosby Jo J. Lamont W. Harding Robt Strachan.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary-\n\nCopy-\n\nI have perused the Official Communication from the Honorable the Attorney General to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary respecting the despatch of business in the Supreme Court. I agree to a certain extent to the propositions laid down by the Attorney General, not however by way of complaint against His Lordship the Chief Justice, for neither the Bar, Attornies nor suitors have ever made any Official Complaint to His Lordship requiring any alteration in the present system and therefore His Lordship must assume that ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856",
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        "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856",
        "content_text": "$15 and with sentiments of esteem.\n\nCharles signed by 440 Members\n\nof the Legislative Council.\n\nRobert I Sturgis, M. M. Robinson, Geo Findlay, Henry Anthon, In Jo & Hasell, J. 7 dos\n\n7 dos Remedios\n\nI Johnson\n\nFred & Rivett\n\nED Watts\n\n7\n\nF Edger\n\nA Denis\n\nGlo Lyall\n\nC F Still, Jim Lamont, Adam Burnes\n\nEdward Perceval's\n\nThos Leslie, John Djebb, J Marrow\n\nB. & Antrobus\n\nJohn Ashton\n\n7 Carroll, Dempster M.D\n\nI S. Mercer\n\nWade CB Biller\n\nColonial Surgeon\n\nChas St & Beverley\n\nR\n\nBemacker\n\nDr Macalister\n\nP Ryrie\n\nC\n\nI\n\nTrawickin\n\nI\n\nLapraik\n\nMa Bowra\n\nfra\n\nN Crawford\n\nCharles Markwick, JW Brimelow\n\nGrandpre\n\nLawrence\n\nNorris\n\nJX Armstrong\n\nW. J. Alexander\n\n215",
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        "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "# To HIS EXCELLENCY \n## Address of the Community, \n### SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON, \n#### SIR, \n##### Governor, &c., \n###### Hongkong. \n\nWe, the undersigned, residents in Hongkong desire to convey to Your Excellency (on the eve of your departure for England) the expression of our esteem and the assurance of our best wishes for your happiness.\n\nThe three years during which you have discharged the duties of Governor of this Colony, have been marked by its rapid progress in prosperity, population and wealth. The indefatigable zeal and efficiency with which you have ever applied yourself to the exigencies we gladly recognize of the public welfare and promoted works of general utility.\n\nWe beg to convey to Lady Robinson and yourself the assurance that you leave behind many who cordially appreciate the kindness and urbanity which have characterized your private intercourse with the members of the community.\n\nWe wish you a pleasant and prosperous voyage and a happy reunion with your family, and hope that your temporary absence from amongst us may be attended with the blessing of recruited health and enjoyment of your visit to England.\n\nWith the renewed expression of our respect and good wishes for Lady Robinson and yourself,\n\nWe remain, \nSir, \nYour Excellency's Obedient Servants,\n\n| Name | Title/Company |\n| --- | --- |\n| W. H. Adams | Chief Justice |\n| John Smale |  |\n| Warren Delano | Russell & Co |\n| Alex. Perceval | Jardine Matheson & Co. |\n| J. Macandrew | do. |\n| Francis Choinley | Dent, 60 |\n| Jus. J. Mackenzie | do |\n| Alexander Turing | Birley + Co |\n| C. W. Murray | Oriental Bank |\n| W. M. Elles | Gibb Livingston & Co |\n| John D. Gibb |  |\n| Eldred Halton |  |\n| W. H. Gibb |  |\n| W. H. Alexander |  |\n| W. H. Remic |  |\n| Chas. St. Geo. Cleverly |  |\n| L. D'Almada e Castro |  |\n| J. M. D'Almada e Castro |  |\n| Pio Marques |  |\n| A. B. L. P. Power |  |\n| Francisco de Chagas |  |\n| M. A. Carvalho |  |\n| A. F. Alves |  |\n| Choy Akum |  |\n| J. A. Carvallio |  |\n| A. Grand-Pré |  |\n| C. May |  |\n| J. C. Power |  |\n| J. Collins |  |\n| W. H. Green |  |\n| Win. Quin |  |\n| Jas. Jarman |  |\n| N. R. Masson |  |\n| P. Ryrie |  |\n| W. H. Baldwin |  |\n| W. Shepard Wetmore | Wetmore & Co |\n| Jas. W. Alley |  |\n| R. B. Slate |  |\n| J. B. Crape | Agra Bank |\n| Henry Noble |  |\n| J. F. Hazeland |  |\n| J. W. Maclellan | Australian Bank |\n| W. C. Hunter |  |\n| C. F. Still |  |\n| Thos. Sutherland |  |\n| D. W. Mackenzie |  |\n| A. H. Anderson |  |\n| Thos. S. Borradaile | A. Heard & Co |\n| J. J. dos Remedios | Portuguese Consul |\n| A. G. Romano |  |\n| D. Lapraik |  |\n| W. Beswick |  |\n| C. W. Austin |  |\n| John F. Higson |  |\n| M. P. Jukes |  |\n| A. W. F. Chambers |  |\n| C. Rivington |  |\n| Richard P. Ashton |  |\n| G. Overbeck |  |\n| Henry Leycock |  |\n| A. A. Wheeley |  |\n| E. Wheeley |  |\n| Jno. Dodd |  |\n| F. J. Pereira |  |\n| R. C. Roney |  |\n| Benj. T. Kindersley |  |\n| C. J. Ozorio |  |\n| S. V. Roza |  |\n| C. Danenberg |  |\n| F. A. Remedios |  |\n| Fred. F. Smith |  |\n| R. Muirheid Reddie | Holliday Wishart & Co. |\n| R. Rowett |  |\n| Ernest Major |  |\n| Robert Brand |  |\n| J. W. H. Escherich |  |\n| W. Nissen | Smith Kennedy & Co |\n| Ludwig Wiese | Siemssen & Co |\n| R. B. Baker |  |\n| David McLean |  |\n| James Webster |  |\n| Henry H. Severs |  |\n| E. H. Duus |  |\n| C. W. Hudson | Gilman & Co |\n| Chas. T. Johnson |  |\n| J. B. Taylor |  |\n| W. D. King |  |\n| E. M. Smith |  |\n| J. Menke |  |\n| W. Van Reesema |  |\n| Fred. H. Block |  |\n| A. W. P. Kup |  |\n| George J. Helland |  |\n| George Gifford | Gifford & Co |\n| J. W. Torrey | Lindsay & Co |\n| T. G. Linstead | Fletcher & Co |\n| Samuel C. Fox | Built Pardon & Co |\n| W. Schmidt |  |\n| James Purdon |  |\n| John Enscoe | Pristav & Co |\n| Wm. Hy. Vickerman |  |\n| C. Ozorio, Jr. |  |\n| M. Souza, Jr. |  |\n| Geo. E. Stokes |  |\n| Rob. Lyall |  |\n| R. Souza |  |\n| A. E. Vaucher |  |\n| M. Bounard |  |\n| G. H. Heaton |  |\n| A. Bourjau |  |\n\n65 \nJG.",
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        "content_text": "months. From the $322 I withdrew afterwards my buck business and received $200. I did not receive any interest. I withdrew because I was not sure of profits and did not like the situation of the premises.\n\nI am collector of rents for Gilmais, Bazuar and Ashton's Buildings and I formerly employed the 2nd Shroff as Collector, but he was dilatory in the work and I took it from him from time to time. I have private business excepting rent collections. I have a shop security for the $500 lent by Akum, the 2nd Shroff first put down my wilful...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862",
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        "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862",
        "content_text": "# To His EXCELLENCY SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON, Governor, &c., Hongkong\n\nWe, the undersigned, residents in Hongkong desire to convey to Your Excellency (on the eve of your departure for England) the expression of our esteem and the assurance of our best wishes for your happiness.\n\nThe three years during which you have discharged the duties of Governor of this Colony, have been marked by its rapid progress in prosperity, population and wealth. We gladly recognize the indefatigable zeal and efficiency with which you have ever applied yourself to the exigencies of the public welfare and promoted works of general utility.\n\nWe beg to convey to Lady Robinson and yourself the assurance that you leave behind you many who cordially appreciate the kindness and urbanity which have characterized your private intercourse with the members of the community.\n\nWe wish you a pleasant and prosperous voyage and a happy reunion with your family, and hope that your temporary absence from amongst us may be attended with the blessing of recruited health and enjoyment of your visit to England.\n\nWith the renewed expression of our respect and good wishes for Lady Robinson and yourself,\n\nWe remain,\nYour Excellency's Obedient Servants,\n\n## Signatories\n\n| Name |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| John Smale |  |\n| A. H. Anderson | Thos. S. Borradaile |\n| J. J. dos Remedios | A. G. Romano |\n| D. Lapraik | W. Keswick |\n| C. W. Austin | John F. Higson |\n| M. P. Jukes | (dauntin Matheson) |\n| A. W. F. Chambers | C. Rivington |\n| Richard P. Ashton | G. Overbeck |\n| Henry Leycock | A. A. Wheeley |\n| E. Wheeley | Jno. Dodd |\n| F. J. Pereira | R. C. Roney |\n| Benj. T. Kindersley | C. J. Ozorio |\n| S. V. Roza | C. Danenberg |\n| F. A. Remedios | Fred. F. Smith |\n| R. Muirhead Reddie | (Halliday & Co) |\n| R. Rowett | Ernest Major |\n| Robert Brand | J. W. H. Escherich |\n| W. Nissen | Ludwig Wiese |\n| R. B. Baker | David McLean |\n| James Webster | Henry H. Severs |\n| E. H. Duns | C. W. Hudson |\n| Chas. T. Johnson |  |\n| J. F. Hazeland | J. W. Maclellan |\n| (Anatialia Bank) W. C. Hunter | C. F. Still |\n| (A Hoard +60) | (dyale Hitor ön) |\n| Thos. Sutherland | D. W. Mackenzie |\n| Suple Pens Miental (xy) |  |\n| W. H. Adams | Chelf dustice |\n| Warren Delano | Alex. Perceval |\n| J. Maçandrew | Francis Chomley |\n| (lettorney General) | Jas. J. Mackenzie |\n| Alexander Turing | C. W. Murray |\n| W. M. Elles | John D. Gibb |\n| Eldred Halton | W. H. Gibb |\n| W. H. Alexander | W. H. Rennie |\n| (Bußclc«j) | Covena Mattom |\n| (Birley & Co) | (Oruità Bank) |\n| (Gibb hiringlónést) | Chas. St. Geo. Cleverly |\n| vinjer firauni) | L. D'Almada e Castro |\n| J. M. D'Almada e Castro | Pio Marques |\n| A. B. L. P. Power | Francisco de Chagas |\n| M. A. Carvalho | A. F. Alves |\n| Choy Akum | J. A. Carvalho |\n| A. Grand-Pré | C. May |\n| J. C. Power | J. Collins |\n| W. H. Green | Win. Quin |\n| Jas. Jarman | N. R. Masson |\n| P. Ryrie | W. H. Baldwin |\n| (Gilmo | * 6« ) |\n| (June,& Co) | W. Shepard Wetmore |\n| (Hotine tuzden & Co) | Jas. W. Alley |\n| R. B. Slate | J. B. Cranc |\n| Henry Noble | fig. a Bank / |\n| J. B. Taylor | W. D. King |\n| E. M. Smith | J. Menke |\n| W. Van Reesena | Fred. H. Block |\n| A. W. P. Kup | George J. Helland |\n| George Gifford | J. W. Torrey |\n| T. G. Linstead | Samuel C. Fox |\n| W. Schmidt | James Purdon |\n| John Enscoe | Pustan the) |\n| (I.Bund 40° ) | CZ |\n| (Gifford the) | (Lindsay 180) |\n| Wm. Hy. Vickerman | C. Ozorio, Jr. |\n| M. Souza, Jr. | Geo. E. Stokes |\n| Rob. Lyall | R. Souza |\n| A. E. Vaucher | M. Bonnard |\n| G. H. Heaton | A. Bourjau |\n\n292",
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        "document_key": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]",
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        "content_text": "20.\n\n32\n\nAundi\n\nwith the succeeding Governor, Sir Yerutes Robinson is to offer the refusal of his private fumitive to the muljoremor\n\nstrould he desire to purchase it. at\n\nvaluation.\n\nIlrave, So\n\na-\n\n(Signed) Chine Stlyes Cleverly,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\n(Tie bopy)\n\nMidland\n\nActing\n\nColonial secretary.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe subjoined List of Jurors for the Year commencing on the 1st of March 1862, as revised and amended by His Excellency the Governor and the Legislative Council, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nCouncil Chamber, Hongkong, 24th February, 1862.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nJURY LIST FOR 1862.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\n  \n    A\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Aderjee, Sapoorjee\n    Broker, Wyndham Street\n    \n    Agabeg, Avietic Lazar, Jr.\n    Merchant. Wellington Street\n  \n  \n    Algar, T.\n    \n    \n    Allen, James W.\n    Clerk, Blackhead & Co.\n  \n  \n    Anderson, G.\n    \n    \n    Archer, George A.\n    Assistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n  \n  \n    Andruss, Theodore F.\n    Bill-Broker\n    \n    Armstrong, John Martin\n    Hotel Keeper. Oriental Hotel\n  \n  \n    Arnhold, Jacob\n    Merchant. Smith, Archer & Co.\n    \n    Arnould, H.\n    Storekeeper. Thos. Hunt & Co.\n  \n  \n    Ashton, R, P.\n    Merchant. Oxford & Co.\n    \n    Atkinson, Juines\n    Superintending Purser. P. & O. Co.\n  \n  \n    Austin, C. W.\n    Assistant. Jardine, Matheson & Co,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    B\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Baker, Colgate\n    Assistant, Smith. Archer & Co.\n    \n    Baker, James\n    Innkeeper, Quren's Road West\n  \n  \n    Baker, R. B.\n    Accountant, Mercantile Bank\n    \n    Baker, S. 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P. de\n    \n    Special Juror\n    Carapiet, S. M.\n    \n  \n  \n    Carpenter, Edward\n    \n    \n    Carvalho, P. M.\n    Special Juror\n  \n  \n    Carr, Henry John\n    \n    \n    Cecil, Cyril\n    Special Juror\n  \n  \n    Chabert, E.\n    \n    \n    Cheverton, J. H.\n    Special Juror\n  \n  \n    Claussen, C. H.\n    \n    \n    Clinker, David Beddine\n    \n  \n  \n    Cockburn, A. Stuart\n    \n    \n    Cohen, C. C.\n    \n  \n  \n    Colien, Henry\n    \n    \n    Collins, Henry J.\n    \n  \n  \n    Cook, H. N.\n    \n    \n    Cook, J. E.\n    \n  \n  \n    Cook, J. H.\n    \n    \n    Cook, M. H.\n    \n  \n  \n    Correa, Maurice A.\n    \n    \n    Coutts, Alexander\n    \n  \n  \n    Cowasjee. Nesserwanjee\n    \n    Special Juror\n    Cox, J. H.\n    \n  \n  \n    Coxon, Atwell\n    \n    \n    Crane. Isaac B.\n    \n  \n  \n    Crawford, David R.\n    \n    \n    Crockett, C. I.\n    \n  \n  \n    Cunningham, G.\n    \n    \n    Cutter, J. A. 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        "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH JANUARY, 1861.\n\nNote. This Regulation will be strictly enforced, in every Vessel crossing the Tropics. And no vessel in which any part of the Passenger deck is in total darkness, requiring artificial light, consuming Oxygen, will be passed by the Emigration Officer as fit to carry passengers.\n\nOther questions affecting Chinese Passenger Ships such as Length of Voyages, regulating supply of provisions; Cabin Passengers; Description and stowage of Cargo; Stowage of water, &c., &c., &c., and many items of detail differing in Vessels of different Tonnage and Build, and in those carrying a greater or less number of passengers, can be settled definitely on application to the Emigration Officer at this Office.\n\n## REGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.\n\n(Omitted from last Gazette.)\n\nA. L. INGLIS, Emigration Officer.\n\n## WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.\n\n### REGISTER AT HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.\n\n| Date        | 6 A.M. Barometer | 6 A.M. Thermometer | NOON Barometer | NOON Thermometer | 4 P.M. Barometer | 4 P.M. Thermometer |\n|-------------|-------------------|----------------------|------------------|---------------------|------------------|----------------------|\n| December 29 | 28.35              | 58                   | 28.35            | 60                  | 28.41            | 47                   |\n|             | 28.46              | ...                  | 28.37            | ...                 | 28.38            | ...                  |\n| January 4   | 28.34              | 64                   | 28.30            | 57                  | 28.48            | 48                   |\n|             | 28.43              | ...                  | 28.37            | 60                  | ...              | ...                  |\n\n### REGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.\n\n| Date      | 6 A.M. Barometer | 6 A.M. Thermometer | NOON Barometer | NOON Thermometer | 6 P.M. Barometer | 6 P.M. Thermometer |\n|-----------|-------------------|----------------------|------------------|---------------------|------------------|----------------------|\n| January 4 | 28.28              | 60                   | 28.20            | 57                  | 28.25            | 58                   |\n|           | 28.26              | 61                   | 28.25            | 53                  | 28.31            | 53                   |\n|           | 28.32              | 53                   | 28.27            | 54                  | 28.20            | 61                   |\n|           | 28.31              | 70                   | 28.24            | ...                 | 28.30            | 62                   |\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nWe have this day established ourselves at this Port, as Merchants and General Agents, under the Firm of HOGG BROTHERS.\n\nJAMES HOGG,  \nEDWARD JENNER HOGG,  \nShanghai, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMr. R. HENRY MERKAY is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm here and at Shanghai, and Mr. HENRY DICKINSON is authorised to sign our Name in China by procuration. Mr. ROBERT D. PARK's connection with our Firm ceased this date; and the management of the interest and responsibility of Mr. ROWLAND HAMILTON, and Mr. HUBERT MARSHALL MURRAY GRAY, in our Firm ceased on the 31st ultimo. Mr. ANDREW BRAND, and Mr. ROBERT RICHARD WESTALL, were admitted as Partners on the 1st instant; and Mr. JAMES CHARLES HELBLING is authorised to sign our Firm in Shanghai per procuration.\n\nSMITH, KENNEDY & Co. Hongkong, 4th January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMr. GEORGE ADAM WIENER and Mr. JAMES HOGG ceased on the 31st December, 1860.\n\nLINDSAY & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nB. ALEXANDER MICHIE is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.  \nShanghai, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. FRANKLIN GEORGE ADAM WIENER and Mr. ALFRED DICKINSON, assumed by our Partner, Mr. CHARNZ A. DICKINSON, for the present.\n\nALFRED WILKINSON & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nI have this day established myself at Canton as MERCHANT and GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT under the Firm of MARGESSON & Co.\n\nH. D. MARGESSON.  \nCanton, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nOur Firm ceases from this date, and our business will henceforth be carried on under the name of WETMORE, CRYDER & Co.\n\nWETMORE, WILLIAMS & Co. China, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMessrs. THEOPHILUS GEE LINSTEAD are authorised to sign our Firm. The Canton Branch of our Firm was closed upon the 31st December, 1860.\n\nLINDSAY & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMr. R. JOHN KEARNY RODGERS is authorised to sign our Firm in China.\n\nWETMORE, CRYDER & Co. China, 1st January, 1861.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nIt is requested that all Notices of BAPTISMS, CHURCHINGS, MARRIAGES, and BURIALS, be sent to Mr. GEORGE SAUNDERS, Sexton, No. 10, Ashton's Buildings, Aberdeen Street.\n\nHongkong, 30th November, 1860.",
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        "content_text": "I do not see any answers. And I do not see any good reason for the general high \n\nSu. F. Rogu \n\n24 Lyst by \n\nThe whole of the Correspondence \n(including \nI think 3285 - 4076 and 4573 Hongkong) \nShould be sent to the four of the Settlements for his consideration \n& report \n\nWR \n\nI do not exactly understand the question. But \nI suppose the \nB.B. correspondence \n9375 \n\nEntered \nSupported \nNo 74 \nMAIUTE 27 \nAshmon \n210 \n\nZet \nCr. 6 9.0 · 11 Apl \n0.0. \n25 afl. \nP.0. caused CO 17 Left 10.28 hep \n88/ \nLittle \n107 \n\n2th \nDelta 186, \nSubmitted to you \nfor the consideration of \nYourself & some \n& for any \nCommittee \nobservation \nWhat may \nfor thereon copies of \na correspondence \nThe form of Hongkong \nbetween \nDepartment & the Post Office on the Subject of the conveyance of \nLC \n\"Extream Hongkong, \nletter \nthe \nS. Settlements & the Mixed \nStates.",
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        "content_text": "# JAPAN HERALD, AND JOURNAL OF THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.\n\nPUBLISHED ON ARRIVAL OF THE MAILS, about the 4th, 14th, and 28th, in connection with the \"LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS,\" \n\nA SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR THE OUTWARD MAILS OF 10th, 17th, and 26th. \n\n## LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 13, 1867. \n\n### VOL. IX.-No. 254.]\n\n#### Latest Advices.\n\n| Location        | Advices         |\n| :-------------- | :-------------- |\n| Nagasaki        | Hakodadi        |\n| JAPAN-Yokohama  |                 |\n| CHINA-Peking    | ---             |\n| Tien-tein       | Chefoo          |\n| New-chwang      | Hankow          |\n| Kia-king        |                 |\n| Chin-kiang      | Shanghai        |\n|                 | Ningpo          |\n\n#### HOMEWARD.\n\n| From London | Arrived out | Arrived in London | Date       |\n| :---------- | :---------- | :----------------- | :--------- |\n|             |             | Foo-Chow           | June 28    |\n|             |             | Framora-Tamany     | June 20    |\n|             |             | Amoy               | June 23    |\n|             |             | Swatow             | May 10     |\n|             |             | Hong Kong          | June 17    |\n|             |             |                        | June 24    |\n|             |             | Canton             | June 29    |\n|             |             | Macao              | July 4     |\n|             |             | Manila             | April 26   |\n|             |             |                        | June 10    |\n|             |             |                        | June 22    |\n|             |             | Saigon             |            |\n|             |             | Bangkok            | May 27     |\n|             |             | Bouxgo-Labuan      | May 27     |\n|             |             | Sarawak            | June 27    |\n|             |             | Batavia            | June 25    |\n|             |             | Singapore          | July 1     |\n|             |             | Penang             | July 7     |\n|             |             |                        | July 10    |\n\nNo later telegrams have been received than those noticed in our last.\n\n### List of Passengers.\n\n#### PASSENGERS INWARD.\n\nPrice 6d., with Sup., 1s. 8d.--Sub. 20s p ann. postage included, Sup. 12s. extra\n\nFrom Marseilles, October 12.-To Ceylon: Mr. J. Mardoch, Mr. and Mrs. Armitage. To Hong Kong: Mr. T. Pyke, Mr. T. Porter.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer, from Southampton, October 20-To Hong Kong: Mr. Armstrong, Miss Caldwell.\n\nFrom Marseilles, October 28-To Singapore: Mrs. R. Little and child. To Hong Kong: Mrs. J. Haffendon.\n\nPer French mail steamer Cuniboge, arrived at Marseilles August-From Yokohama: Mr. Bauduin and four Japanese. From Shanghai: Messrs. Alcock and Tadreyt. From Hong Kong: Messrs. Marnier, De Valla, Payron, Den Breras, Warden, Preciot, Martinez, Rivas, Major, and Tejero. From Batavia: Messrs. Menu, Moser, Van Mariswell, G. A. Smith, G. H. Smith, Cubyn, You der Schall, Van der Bruken Bege mann, Van der Zevreys. From Singapore: Messrs. Colina, Muniz, Salero, Weiss, Saralta, Avarra, Blanco, Aguirre, Del Barco, Navarro, Coro, De Trevins, Kaltenbach, Walter, Lefour, Clavery, Raiz, Lopez, B. Ruiz, Romes Front Galle: Musste, North more, Smith.\n\nBy this mail, to Marseilles, per P. and O. steamer Bangalore, arrived Aug. 11. From Shanghai: Mr. F King, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Twombly and child, Mr. Swire, Mr. Holfe, Lieutenant Rivington. From Hong Kong: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Ashton. From Singapore: Mr. Brenuand. From Penang: Capt. Meyer. From Galle: Mr. A. M. Ferguson. To Southampton, per P. and O. steamer Pota, expected to arrive Aug. 19.-List not to hand.\n\n### Summary of News from the Far East.\n\n#### JAPAN.\n\n##### YOKOHAMA,\n\nThe present mail brings only two days later dates from Yokohama - viz., to June 14th. The following items are from the Japan Times:—\n\nWe are still unable to give the name of the new port on the West coast. We are glad to find that our fear that Tsurunga would be chosen was unfounded; the foreign Ministers have expressed themselves strongly against it. The Serpent, one of H.B.M.'s surveying ships, is now engaged examining all the apparently eligible harbours on the West coast, and some weeks must necessarily elapse before Captain Bullock can make his report.\n\nOur news from Osaka are by no means satisfactory; they augur anything but ease for the Shingoon and peace for the empire. Consequently, unless existing difficulties can be previously arranged, we cannot anticipate much advantage for ourselves when the ports are opened next year. The combination of Daimios against the Shiogoon, to which we alluded last mail, we have now ascertained to be an actual and threatening reality. They very naturally object to the extension of a trade in which they have no share, and the profits from which only strengthen an able and dangerous rival, whom they shrewdly suspect of a design to become their absolute master.\n\nIt appears that Osaka not being strictly his own port, the Shiogoon, by taking the responsibility of promising that it shall be opened in 1868, has so far committed himself that the Daimios opposed to him have just ground of complaint that they had not been previously consulted. They carefully avoided giving him any opportunity of consulting them, it must be remarked, by steadily refusing to attend the conference which he has repeatedly endeavoured to assemble for the purpose. They declare that Osaka shall not be opened, unless foreign trade is also permitted at certain points in their own dominions, and Satsuma, Chiosiu, Echizen, Tosa, and Kanga have declared that if Osaka be opened in 1868, they will themselves invite foreigners to trade at their own ports. It is difficult to say how this can be prevented with any show of right, and very easy to see that much evil will result from the fulfilment of their threat. Subjects of Powers having treaties with the Shiogoon can be punished for trading at any of his ports not opened by those treaties, but at ports out of his territory, and where his authority is not acknowledged, we can see nothing to prevent traders doing whatever business they can, particularly when specially invited by the Sovereign of that country.\n\nOn the other hand, foreign Powers will certainly never make a number of separate treaties with these individual Daimios, and, consequently, foreign traders repairing to their ports would have to do so on their own responsibility, and would be without the inestimable advantage of consular protection. Probably business trade, by means of coasting vessels, supercargos, and receiving ships, a system the evils and inconveniences of which are manifest. The development of the Japan trade has been so...\n\n#### PASSENGERS OUTWARD.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Euxine, from Southampton, August 4-To Shanghai: Mrs. Algernon Wright and child. To Singapore: Capt. Formoehy. To Hong Kong: Mr. Stratford, R.N., Mr. Grant, R.N., Mr. Flatt, R.N., Mr. Blackburn, Mr. C. Jackman, Mr. Wilkinson. To Madras: Lieut-Col. Simpson.\n\nTo Ceylon: Mr. and Mrs. Milne. To Calcutta: Mrs. Hornbrook, Major and Mrs. Wil...\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Columbian, from Southampton, August 20.-To Shanghai: Mr. A. E. Hippisley. To Ceylon: Rev. J. Pickford, Rev. Griffith. To Hong Kong: Mr. Oldknow, R.N., Mr. Toxdale, Mr. Vercoe, Mr. White, Mr. Lugden, Mr. Pinkis, Mr. Lumley. To Singapore: Mr. Kellock, R.N.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer, from Marseilles, September 4-To Hong Kong, via Bombay: Mr. C. I. Alford,\n\nPer P. and O. steamer, from Southampton, September 4-To Hong Kong: Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Caine and child, Miss M. Middlemist, Mr. Lucas, Lieut. Spaight. To Singapore: Mr. Isemonger. To Shanghai: Mr. K. Price.\n\nFrom Marseilles, September 12.-To Singapore: Mr. and Mrs. C. Heinzen, Mr. J. W. Miller. To Penang: Mr. I. Zander. To Hong Kong: Mr. and Mrs. Schonerman, The Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. Alford, Mr. C. Alford.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer, from Southampton, September 17-To Ceylon: Mr. and Mr. Add and two children, Miss Piachand. To Singapore: Mr. Hervey, Mr. Austen.\n\nFrom Marseilles, September 25.-To Hong Kong: Dr. C. M. Jones, Mr. B. H. Price, Mr. Leopold Kalu. To Shanghai: Mr. J. Brand. To Ceylon: Mr. Morris.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer, from Southampton, October 4-To Ceylon: Mr. G. Crowe.",
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        "content_text": "Indian Watchman \n\nthe employ of \n\nthe P40. \n\nEx: Company up my asking his \n\nwhich \n\nName \n\nThe immediately life \n\nthe Establishment at the \n\n2.40pm. \n\nhe \n\nUsed \n\nand \n\nales \n\nthe 22 instant \n\na \n\nHouse Coole \n\nat \n\nMing Kee at 7.45 pm on Friday at the Ning the found \n\nspeaking very \n\nSaid he \n\nEnglish who said \n\nI have \n\nbeen \n\ntolerable \n\nhe was out of employment \n\nStatement I directed \n\nthe \n\nfirst \n\nThen \n\nthe Second. \n\ninstance for doubting \n\nhis \n\nthe watchman in \n\nSend him \n\nmee \n\nThe left at expiry I find the betting rather heavy last \n\nwas \n\nreturned \n\nStaying \n\nin \n\nAi Shaughore \n\nweek \n\nStreet \n\nMAM \n\naway \n\nin \n\nwho will's \n\nat the Wing he has \n\nJervois \n\nlooking \n\nquantity of Cookis on their betting \n\na \n\nI found the naval \n\nfound gauthing \n\nusual \n\nvery \n\nlow \n\nJam ve \n\n(Signed) George Amapool Inspector \n\n4. M. B. Cave Registrar \n\nActing Captain Superintendent. \n\nTrue Copy \n\nAttested \n\nHongkong \n\n1 May 1869 \n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT \n\n1869. \n\n685 \n\n4555. 4556. \n\n349 \n\nCovering Si If Racdonnell Downing Sheet \n\nNo. 64. S \n\n\"MINUTE of \n\n4. Ashmon 2. \n\n29 \n\n1. \n\nof the 6 March \n\nin \n\nthe \n\nsubject of Enfaldwell, \n\nagard to \n\nroman position \n\n2 \n\nSin T. Rose. I the Licensed Gaming \n\nHouses in Strughong, \n\nMethod \n\naptam. Sapeutuis ant \n\ncc \n\npar: in accordance \n\nwith Lendl framuller and the existing \n\nminute \n\n4556. \n\nwhich I do want under. \n\nHaard \n\na cancelled \n\n4555. \n\nalteration \n\nan alter \n\nsuggest an \n\nM \n\nof allotting Sambling \n\nLicences. \n\nI shall postpone \n\nthe a",
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        "content_text": "## RETURN OF VESSELS BRINGING CHINESE PASSENGERS TO THE PORT OF VICTORIA, HONGKONG, FROM PLACES OUT OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE BETWEEN THE 1st AND 31st July 1873 BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE.\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | ADULTS | CHILDREN | TOTAL | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Male. Female. | Male. Female. |  |  |\n| 7 | June 19 | Douglas | 578 | British |  | Singapore | 179 |  | 179 |  |\n|  | 20 | Japan |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 21 | Parfeedin |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Glory |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 30 | Altona |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Galatea | 1519 | American | Freeman | San Francisco | 132 |  | 132 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7 |  | 7 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ashton | Singapore | 176 |  | 176 |  |\n|  |  |  |  | British |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 801 |  | Ba Ker |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  | Siamese | Jorgensen | Bang Rak |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1233 | German |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 9 | July 3 | Semeraldos | 353 |  | Jarrish | Manila | 153 | 77 | 153 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Willabass |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 579 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 861 |  | 561 |  |\n\nthe 18th June, 1873.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's obedient humble Servant,\nGovernor.\n\nEmigration Officer, &c.\n\nHONGKONG,\nEMIGRATION OFFICE,\nJuly 1873.",
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        "content_text": "## \n15. The area of sheltered water enclosed would be fifty-eight acres, but what is equally important, there are also twenty-six acres of sandy foreshore well adapted for beaching purposes.\n\n16. The deeper portions of the area between the Breakwater and low water mark will suffice to accommodate all cargo lighters and the sampans of deep draught that have not fled to the Kowloon side of the Harbour and which would, under all circumstances of weather, remain at anchor; while through the shallower space between low and high water marks and through openings in the present old ruined Causeway, wide channels may be dredged giving access to the beaching ground.\n\n17. The Causeway will form a second line of defence against the surf, and afford still greater security to the smallest boats.\n\n18. The site of the Breakwater is shown in the accompanying drawing stretching easterly in the direction of the granite quarries for a length of 450 yards from a point nearly abreast of the corner of the Sugar Refinery sea wall. At each extremity, openings one hundred and thirteen yards wide, are left for entrance and exit, and for the free passage of the tides which, if more seriously impeded, might promote the deposit of silt.\n\n19. Leaving the description of the necessary works to the proper professional quarter, we would conclude by recommending the site as the only one on this side of Victoria Harbour adapted to the formation of a sufficiently large basin.\n\n20. Although the situation is unfortunately not only to windward of the boat population, but also somewhat distant from their haunts, we consider these defects might be met by the regular institution of Government storm signals giving the people timely warning of the approach of danger and the opportunity to take refuge against it.\n\n21. We have also carefully considered the necessity or otherwise of a shelter at Yau-ma-ti or other point in the Peninsula of Kowloon, but as we find the boat population of the latter have already several natural havens and inlets offering fair security against South-West winds, the only ones that can affect them, we are of opinion that a second Harbour of Refuge at British Kowloon is not, at least for the present, a public requirement.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nSir,\n\nJ. M. PRICE.\nJ. DIXON, R.N.\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N.\nS. ASHTON.\nJ. P. McEUEN, R.N.\nR. MCMURDO.\n\nReferring to paragraph 20 of this Report, I desire to call attention to a Notification in the Government Gazette of the 4th August last instituting a storm signal by hoisting Drums at the Harbour Office and Police Hulk, and firing a gun when bad weather is apprehended.\n\nThe Honourable CECIL C. SMITH,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT,\nHarbour Master.\n\n\"AUDACIOUS,\" AT HONGKONG,\n4th November, 1877.\n\nSIR—I have read the enclosed Report on the creation of a Harbour of Refuge for native boats at Hongkong with great interest. The reasons for preferring the proposed Breakwater at the Causeway Bay site to the two Breakwaters at Kellett's Island appear to me to be very cogent, and I have little doubt but the Causeway Bay scheme is the better of the two.\n\nThat there is no shelter for the large floating population of 12,000 persons, and that great numbers of them are drowned whenever a typhoon reaches this Island, viz., about on an average every 3 years, is a sufficient justification for the outlay, which I hope to hear will soon be undertaken.\n\nI brought the subject before the Island Authorities in a letter dated 9th March, 1877, enclosing one from the late Captain BAX of H. M. Ship Sylvia. The Chinese and Japanese are ordinarily very careless and indifferent to life preservation; the example we would set them by erecting this Breakwater for the preservation of Chinese lives and property will be appreciated.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Excellency's obedient Servant,\nA. P. RYDER, Admiral, Commander-in-Chief.\n\nHis Excellency JOHN POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.,\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\nHONGKONG.\n\n## MINUTE\n\n163\n15447\n\nMr. Round 4th Jour 7\n\nMr. Bramston.\nMor. Malcolm.\nMer. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Lowther\nLord Carnarvon.\nMr Meade.\n\n5\n\nThis is what I understood\n\nyou being MR\n\n2:52-5 July 1877\nsection on\n\nGentlemen,\n\nAnswd 2770=\n(1144)\n\nCo.n° 14-17 dept 1877\n(167) (15/0457)\n\nh2 163 - 22 A plans & printed act; Lory:\nb\n362\n\n9 January 1877.\n\nI am directed\nthe Parl of Camarion\nto transmit to you for\nCopies\nyour consideration\nof correspondence between the Governor of Hongking and his Lordships relative\nto the construction of a\nproposed breakwater for\nthe protection of the Junt\nBpulation of Victoria Afiniex typhoon\n\nLord Camaroon understand that in his John loode's\nAbsence from England.",
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        "content_text": "# EXPLOSION ON THE “YESSO.' \n## GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.\n\nA gloom was thrown over the town yesterday morning by the occurrence of a terrible accident on the steamer Yesso, Captain S. Ashton, from the Coast Ports. The vessel was being moored alongside Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s wharf, between half-past seven and eight o'clock, when a terrible explosion took place, and the forward part of the ship was enshrouded in a dense cloud of steam. The pressure of steam at the time was 14lbs. One of the back plates of the starboard boiler had given way and was blown out. The steam rushed into the Chinese cabin and forecastle, and worked terrible havoc there. Twelve men were killed on the spot, and sixty-four were taken to the Hospital, the injuries of all of them being most serious, and deaths occurred hourly during the day. Many more are expected to die. Several others, who were also much scalded, were taken to the Tung Wah hospital, and others less severely injured went to their homes. One man was taken by his friends into a sampan, where he died in the afternoon. Only one European was hurt, the second engineer, Mr. W. Haggat, who, however, is not very seriously injured. It was a ghastly sight to see the dead and wounded lying about, and crowds soon collected round the steamer and at the doors of the Civil Hospital and the dead house. The wretched victims of the explosion were fearfully disfigured. On the deck of the steamer, the skin from their hands, feet, and legs was to be seen scattered about. Persons who have witnessed many appalling catastrophes were heard to say that they had never witnessed so sickening and distressing a scene before. All the corridors in the Hospital were filled with the wounded, whose piteous cries and groans resounded on all sides, and made up a most distressing scene. As the accommodation in the hospital was insufficient, the European mess-room in the gaol was fitted up as a temporary hospital, and the sufferers were removed there. As soon as the Admiral on board of the accident he signalled for all the men-of-war in port to render medical assistance, which they promptly did. Assistance in removing the bodies and extricating the wounded was afforded by the officers of the ships, the police, and a number of gentlemen who promptly hastened to the scene, and oil was obtained from Messrs. Lane, Crawford's store and freely used on the sufferers. The general cry amongst the scalded was for water. Most of the unfortunate people were in a state of complete helplessness, and several scarcely lived to reach the hospital. The number of Chinese brought down by the Yesso was a hundred and seventy-two. Two old women had the presence of mind to wrap themselves up in their bed clothes, and thereby escaped injury, while many round about them were badly scalded. One Chinese family who were in a cabin between decks had the forethought to shut the door, which kept the steam out, and they escaped unhurt. Numbers of those who were scalded were coolies who, on the steamer arriving at the wharf, rushed on board to obtain a job to carry the luggage for the passengers. The bulkhead on the end of the boiler is partly blown down, and the tea, which was stowed in the forehold, was scattered in all directions in the hold. The steam burst open the hatchway to the between-decks and the skylight on the upper deck. The boiler was built in Hongkong about three years and a half ago. The European passengers brought down by the Yesso were Dr. and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Doagal, and one European deck passenger.\n\nOne of the fire engines was got out, under the superintendence of Inspector Orley, also the engine from the Hongkong Fire Insurance. The latter one is playing into the fore hatch where there was great heat. The police were actively at work to prevent robbery of the passengers' luggage during the confusion consequent on the disaster, and only one known case occurred. Every possible help was rendered by the naval and civil medical men, and one of the naval surgeons remained to assist the Colonial Surgeon all last night. His Excellency the Governor visited the gaol, the Civil Hospital, the Tung-wah, and the steamer Yesso. He gave orders for relays of attendants at the Gaol and Hospital, and for the relations and friends of the victims to be admitted in detachments of a dozen at a time to see them in order that there should be no crowding. He also, when at the Tung-wah Hospital, gave directions for the place to be properly ventilated, and otherwise looked after the comfort and well-being of the poor creatures.\n\n## THE INQUEST.\n\nThe inquest was opened at the Civil Hospital at four o'clock in the afternoon, by Mr. Russell, Coroner, Messrs. J. A. Moseley, V. L. Meyenberg, and R. H. Radecker being sworn as the jury.\n\nThe Coroner said-I presume you are all aware, gentlemen, of the circumstances under which we meet here to-day. A most unfortunate and sudden catastrophe occurred by the bursting of one of the boilers of the steamship Yesso when she arrived here this morning. Shortly after she came in and while lying alongside the wharf, a plate of the boiler gave way and was thrown off with great violence. The steam went into the hold, burst open the hatches, and burnt to death a great number of people. The return made by the police of the number of people brought up is eighty-nine, and there are now lying in the dead-house here thirty. First the wounded were brought here, but there being no accommodation, they were taken to the European mess-room in the gaol, as many as still survive are now lying. There were sixty there. Eleven have died since, and there are now remaining there, looked after by a number of surgeons, forty-nine. There are two men upstairs living, eight were taken to the Tung-wah Hospital, one of whom has died, and up to the present there are thirty-seven deaths. The whole number of persons accounted for is eighty-nine. At present I have only been able to get four bodies identified, one Malay and three Chinese.\n\nWe will see bodies here, then go to look at the steamship, then to the Tung-wah Hospital, and then we will adjourn until to-morrow. It is a very deplorable thing. Of course we don't know how it occurred, but in the course of the inquiry we will probably find out all about it, and it is perfectly useless to speculate about it now.\n\nThe jury then commenced their painful task of viewing the bodies. They first went to the dead-house in Hollywood-road, where the dead bodies ranged on the floor and on benches, presented a fearful spectacle, the skin hanging from parts of the bodies or being completely stripped off. A still more painful sight was that in the improvised hospital in the gaol, where forty-nine sufferers lay moaning on their beds. All that could be done to make them comfortable had been done, they had had the best medical attendance and their pain had been alleviated to the full extent of surgical skill, but it was heart-rending to hear their groans and observe their fearful sufferings. Most of them appeared unable to move at all, and it is feared that only very few of the poor fellows will survive. It was not only their external wounds they suffered from, but they had inhaled the steam and thus scalded their lungs. Having viewed a dead body here which had not yet been removed to the dead-house, the jury went to the Yesso, where Captain Ashton pointed out how the accident had occurred. The plate was blown out and thrown forward against a beam on the foreside of the bulkhead, which it had broken in the middle. The steam had forced up the hatchway to the between-deck, where about half the Chinese passengers were, and also the skylight on to the main deck. This skylight was thrown a considerable distance in the air. The main deck had been cleared, but the between-deck and hold remained in the same state as they were after the removal of the bodies. There were still lying about the skins of hands and feet, which had come off like gloves. Leaving the ship, the coroner and jury went to the Tung Wah Hospital, where they visited the injured who had been taken there and viewed three dead bodies. From the Tung Wah they proceeded to the Civil Hospital, where they went to see the two men under treatment there, one of whom is a Fat-shan mandarin. The inquiry was then adjourned until ten o'clock this morning.\n\nAt a late hour last night the deaths numbered sixty-two.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "## Extract from Song Kong Daily Press \n### 23rd November 1847.\n\n#### Explosion of the \"Yesso\"\n\nA gloom was thrown over the town yesterday morning by the occurrence of a terrible accident on the steamer \"Yesso\" Captain Ashton from the Coast Port. The vessel was being moored alongside Messrs Douglas Lapraik and Co's wharf between half past seven and eight o'clock when a terrible explosion took place and the forward part of the ship was enshrouded in a dense cloud of steam. The pressure of steam at the time was 14... The plates of the starboard boiler had given way and were blown out. Steam rushed into the Chinese cabin and forecastle and wrought terrible havoc there. Twelve men were killed on the spot and...",
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        "content_text": "## GENTLEMEN\n\nAlford, E.  \nAlford, R. G.  \nAlves, A. F.  \nAlves, J. L. de S.  \nAlves, J. M. S.  \nAlves, P. M.  \nAquino, E. J. H. d'  \nArjanee, F. H.  \nArnhold, T.  \nArthur, W. M. B.  \nAnton, J. R.  \nAshton, S.  \nArmstrong, J. M.  \nArnhold, J.  \nBain, Geo. Murray  \nBall, J. D.  \nBarff, F. W.  \nBarff  \nBattles  \nBeale  \nBeart  \nBevis  \nBeyer  \nBillia  \nBird  \nBlackwell  \nBlanchard  \nBlogg  \nBoilie  \nBolilios  \nBotelho  \nBottomley  \nBowdler  \nBoyd, Robt.  \nBraddon  \nBrereton  \nBroadbent  \nBurghignoli, Rev. G.  \nBurnie  \nBush  \nCaldwell, G. A.  \nCampne  \nCarvalho, A. L.  \nCarvalho, J. A. da  \nChalmers, Bev. Dr.  \nChamberlain  \nChampeaux, G. de  \nChapuis  \nChater, C. P.  \nChater, J. T.  \nCheyne  \nChastel  \nCohen, H.  \nCope  \nCoughtrie  \nCox, G. C.  \nCox, J. H.  \nCox, J. S.  \nCoxon  \nCrawford, D. R.  \nCrombie  \nCuff  \nDa Costa  \nD'Almada é Castro  \nDanby  \nDarby  \nDavys, Rev. E.  \nDavis, H. W.  \nDavis, J. K.  \nDe Russett  \nDegenaer  \nDennys  \nDickie  \nDolan  \nDunman  \nDunn  \nEastlacke, Dr.  \nEastlacke, F. W.  \nEastlacke, W.  \nEbrahim  \nEde  \nEdge, Rev. J. C.  \nEitel, Dr.  \nEmanuel  \nErdmann  \nFalconer, A.  \nFalconer, M.  \nFastlacke, Dr.  \nForbes, W. H.  \nFoster, F, J. P.  \nFreusberg  \nGarfit  \nGibb, Hon. H. B.  \nGillies  \nGillanders  \nGlay, de  \nGlover, T. G.  \nGoldsmith  \nGouirdin  \nGrant, J.  \nGray  \nGrobien  \nGultzow  \nGutierres, M.  \nGutierrez, J. G.  \nGutierrez, L. J.  \nHaden, C. S.  \nHancock, A.  \nHancock, S.  \nHanlon  \nHeroe, Rev, F. B.  \nHidulph  \nHirabé  \nHolmes, G.  \nInglis, J.  \nJackson, T.  \nJames, H. G.  \nJames, J. M.  \nJohnson, A. B.  \nJordan  \nJudah, A. H. N.  \nJust  \nKatz  \nKempermann  \nKeswick, J. J.  \nKimer  \nKuhlmann  \nLandstein  \nLechler, Rev. R.  \nLemmonier, Rev. E.  \nLevy  \nLewis  \nLochhead, Dr.  \nLording  \nLowe  \nLyall  \nMacClymont  \nMacgregor  \nMachado  \nMadar  \nMallory  \nMardfeldt  \nMay, A. J.  \nMcEwen, A. P.  \nMehta, R. D.  \nMendel  \nMody, E. N.  \nMolver  \nMorgan  \nMorrison  \nMossop  \nMostyn  \nMoMurdo  \nMuncharjee  \nMunro  \nMurray  \nNeste  \nNewton  \nNicholson  \nNoronha, D, de  \nNoronha, H. L.  \nNoronha, L.  \nNorthcote  \nO'Brien, Dr.  \nOxley  \nPeerbhoy  \nPenati  \nPiercy  \nPoate  \nRay, E. C.  \nRay, W. H.  \nRemedios, D. A. dos  \nRemedios, J. A. dos  \nRemedios, J. H. dos  \nRibeiro  \nRichardson  \nRobinson, G. G.  \nRobinson, J.  \nRogers, Dr.  \nRose  \nRoss  \nRozario, A.  \nRozario, P. H. de  \nRozario, R. A.  \nRuttunjee  \nSandeman  \nSangster  \nSaper  \nSassoon, E. E.  \nSassoon, F. D.  \nSassoon, M. E.  \nSayle  \nSchonberger  \nSeth  \nSharp, E.  \nSharp, G.  \nSilva, A. M. da  \nSilva, M. A. da  \nSlade  \nSmith, A. F.  \nSmith, B. Fraser  \nSmith, C. V.  \nSmith, Henry  \nSmith, Herbert  \nSmith, J. B.  \nSmith, Robt.  \nSmith, R. Fraser  \nSquier  \nStarkey  \nStephens  \nStewart, Dr. F.  \nSuenson  \nThebaud  \nThevenin  \nThomson  \nTomkins, P. H.  \nTomlin, E.  \nTomlin, G. L.  \nTomlin, G. L., junr.  \nTraill  \nTravers, A. K.  \nTravers, D. C.  \nTremlett  \nVaucher  \nVernon  \nViaton  \nVogel  \nVon der Horek, Dr.  \nWalker  \nWasserfall  \nWharry, Dr.  \nWicking  \nWilcox, R, C.  \nWilliamson  \nWilson, W.  \nWingrove  \nWodehouse  \nWood  \nWotton  \nWright  \nYaill  \nYoung, Dr. W.  \nYoung, G. B.  \nYoung, M.  \nYoung, W.  \nYoung, W. S.  \n\n## LADIES\n\nAlford, E.  \nAlford, R. G.  \nMrs. Sands  \nMiss Sands  \nMrs. Sharp  \nMiss Shervinton  \nMrs. Shi-Shang-Kai  \nMiss Rowe  \nMrs. Romano  \nMiss Rogers  \nMrs. Rogers  \nMrs. Ridgway  \nMrs. Wherry  \nMiss Welle  \nMrs. Young, M.  \n\nHarton  \nHassell  \nHauschild  \nHazeland  \nHeermann, Carl  \nHerbert  \nHeston  \nHolmes, H. J.  \nHolmes, J. H.  \nHoppius  \nHoward  \nHughes, S  \nHughes, W. K.  \nMrs. Plunket  \n» Pollock  \nJudah, A. H. N.  \nJust  \nKatz  \nKeswick, J. J.  \n\"1 Smith, R. Fraser  \nKimer  \nKuhlmann  \n,, Squier  \nKempermann  \n\"Thebaud  \nLochhead, Dr.  \nLewis  \nLechler, Rev. R.  \nLording  \nLemmonier, Rev. E.  \nLandstein  \nLowe  \nLyall  \nLevy  \nMcEwen, A. P.  \nMadar  \nMacClymont  \nMoMurdo  \nMendel  \nMorrison  \nMiss Richardson  \nWilcox  \nWodehouse  \nWilson  \nWindrum  \nVögel  \nJames, H. G.  \nJordan  \nJ1  \n19 Wells  \n*>] \"  \n31  \n336  \n33  \n\"}  \n\nThe following Chinese gentlemen were also invited and most of them attended:—  \nMessrs. Ng A-ohoy, Ch'an King-sing,",
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        "content_text": "# BANQUET AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy entertained the following guests at dinner in the evening at Government House:- Professor Nordenskiold, Captain Palander, R.S.N. Vega, His Excellency Major-General Donovan and Mrs. Donovan, Chief Justice Sir John Smale and Lady Smale, Commodore Smith, R.N., Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Pollock, Hon. J. Russell, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Colonel and Mrs. Geddes (27th Inniskillings), Surgeon-Major Max Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Taro Ando, Mr. F. D. Sassoon, Lieut. Bove (Vega), Dr. Almquist (Vega), Lieut. Nordquist (Vega), Lieut. Hovgaard (Vega), Dr. Stuxberg (Vega), Lieut. Drummond, A.D.C. to the General, and Mr. C. V. Creagh, Acting A.D.C. to the Governor.\n\nThe following, to whom invitations had been sent, were unable to attend -- Right Rev. Bishop and Mrs. Burdon, Right Rev. Bishop Raimondi, Hon. W. Keswick, and Col., Mrs., and Miss Hall. The band of the 27th Regiment was in attendance and played the following selection, under the direction of Herr Werner, bandmaster: Overture... \"Fra Diavolo\" Auber, Polka \"O Katchke\" Stasey, \"Swedish Air\" Anon., Selection \"Beatrice di Tenda\" Bellini, Valse \"First Roses\" Werner, Jun., Reminiscences of Ireland... Godfrey.\n\nAt the close of the dinner His Excellency the Governor proposed the toast of \"The Queen,\" which was most loyally received, the band playing the National Anthem.\n\nImmediately afterwards His Excellency rose and said- Professor Nordenskiöld: In the name of my Sovereign, Queen Victoria, I have the honour to welcome you and your companions to Her Majesty's dominions.\n\nSix centuries ago Marco Polo came from Europe to China. Two centuries later, the Portuguese crossed the Indian Ocean, entered these seas, and landed within a few miles of this Island, and subsequently the direct voyage across the Pacific was undertaken. The nineteenth century can now add to the roll of its triumphs the fourth and final route from Europe to Asia. It is our privilege to-night to behold the illustrious man who has done this-who left Europe fifteen months ago and is received by us after sailing through the Arctic Seas and accomplishing the North East passage. No generation to come can witness the completion of a voyage rivalling this. We be bold as it were in this remote outpost of Europe the writing of the last words in the last chapter of heroic maritime discovery.\n\nI congratulate the Sovereign of Sweden on the gallantry and success of His Majesty's sailors, led by Captain Palander and the officers of the Vega; I congratulate that great republic - the World of Science - on the achievement of one of her choicest citizens, Professor Nordenskiöld. Ladies and gentlemen, let us drink his health and that of his companions.\n\nHis Excellency's toast was received with enthusiasm, and the band played the Swedish National Air.\n\nProfessor Nordenskiold then rose and replied in Swedish. He has favoured us with the following translation: I have to thank your Excellency, on behalf of my comrades and myself, for the kind words you have used in proposing our healths, and the ladies and gentlemen present for the kind manner in which they have received the toast. Already to-day, in another place, I have had to thank the Inhabitants of Hongkong for the handsome way in which the Swedish expedition has been received in this Colony, and I then stated our visit here would be one of the pleasantest remembrances of the Vega's voyage. To your Excellency's guests on the present occasion I beg to repeat the same thing, but especially I have to thank your Excellency for the munificent hospitality you have extended to myself and Captain Palander at Government House, where we have been guests during our stay here. I now beg to propose the health of His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy.\n\nThis toast was duly honoured.\n\n## Reception\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy held an \"at home\" and a brilliant and numerously attended reception after dinner, in honour of their distinguished guests. The following received invitations:\n\n### Officials and Military Officers\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hon. C. B. Plunket | Acting Puisne Judge |\n| Captain Superintendent of Police |  |\n| Postmaster-General |  |\n| Harbour Master |  |\n| Colonial Surgeon |  |\n| Inspector of Schools |  |\n| Acting Registrar-General |  |\n| Staff Commander Heather, R.N. | and officers R.N. Yard |\n| Lieut.-Commander Annesley | and officers of H.M.S. Vigilant |\n| Lieut.-Commander M. L. Bridger | and officers H.M.S. Sheldrake |\n| Commander A. L. Douglas | and officers H.M.S. Egeria |\n| Lieut.-Commander W. Nowell | and officers H.M.S. Foxhound |\n| Don. F. Alarcon | and officers of H.C.M.S. Vencedora |\n| Deputy-Inspector-General Breen | and officers Royal Naval Hospital |\n| Captain Palmer | H.I.C.M.S. Peng Chan Hai |\n| Captain St. Clair | Brigade Major |\n| Captain Barton | A.M.S. |\n| Colonel Stuart | and officers R.A. |\n| Officers | 27th Inniskillings |\n| Lieut.-Colonel Shervinton | and officers Commissariat Department |\n| Commissary-General Moore | and officers Ordnance Store Department |\n| Captain Muskett | and officers Army Pay Department |\n| Deputy-Surgeon General Mackinnon | and officers Army Medical Department |\n| Rev. J. Henderson | Acting Military Chaplain |\n| Mr. J. Fleming | P.W.D. |\n\n### Ladies and Gentlemen\n\nMesdames Armstrong, Anton, Ayres, Arnhold, Murray Bain, Ball, Barff, Belilios, Beyer, Bowdler, Burnie, Bird, Brereton, Breen, Caldwell, Clouth, Coughtrie, Coxon, Crawford, Dunn, Deave, D'Almada & Castro, Edge, Eitel, Eastlacke, Ede, Fleming, Ford, Grobien, A. Hancock, Hanlon, Hauschild, Hazeland, Heaton, G. Holmes, Hurton, Jackson, Johnson, Kier, Kerr, Lister, A. P. McEwan, J. P. McEuen, A. J. May, Murray, Musso, Neate, Newton, Plunket, Piercy, J. H. dos Remedios, Robinson, Ridgway, Rogers, Romano, J. A. dos Remedios, St. Clair, E. Sharp, G. Sharp, Squier, Stephens, Sangster, Seth, G. L. Toudin, Thevenin, Thomsett, Vaucher, Vägel, Vernon, Wilcox, Wilson, Wharry, Windram, M. Young.\n\nMisses Caldwell, Johnston, Rogers, Robinson, Rowe, Shervinton, Thomsett, Wells, Walker.\n\nMessrs. E. Barghignoli, Dr. Chalmers, E. Davys, J. C. Edge, Dr. Eitel, F. B. Heroo, R. Lechler, B. Lemonnier, E. Klitske, B. Vigano, Doctors Eastlacke, Von der Horck, Lochhead, O'Brien, Clouth, Rogers, Wharry, Gomes, Young.\n\nMessrs. E. Alford, A. F. Alves, P. M. Alves, J. M. S. Alves, E. J. H. d'Aquino, F. H. Arjanee, J. M. Armstrong, J. R. Anton, W. M. B. Arthur, S. Ashton, H. Arnold, J. Arnhold, J. L. do S. Aivoa, J. Abraham, G. M. Bain, J. D. Ball, Barff, F. W. Barff, Battles, Beart, Belilios, Boris, Beyer, Blackwell, Blogg, Bottomley, Bowdler, Burnie, J. A. Barretto, Blanchard, von Bobers, Botelho, Boyd, Braddon, Bird, Brereton, Brooke, Ban Hap, W. A. Caldwell, Chastel, C. P. Chater, Cheyne, Cohen, Cope, Coughtrie, J. H. Cox, Coxon, Crawford, Cottell, A. L. Carvalho, J. A. de Carvalho, Chapuis, G. C. Cox, Corrales, Chamberlain, G. de Champeaux, Cuff, Chan Afook, Ching Ayu, Chan Soy Sang.\n\nPage 529",
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        "content_text": "# Native Names\n## Description of Patients Admitted to the Lunatic Asylum from the year 1879 up to 26 July 1882.\n\n| Date of Admission | Name | Age | Religion | Result | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | John The Nulty | 45 | R.C. |  |  |\n|  | Frederick H. Volgeding | 40 | Luth. |  |  |\n|  | Lewis Maton | 30 |  |  | Norway |\n|  | Filippe laver Contrão | 41 | R.C. |  | Portugal |\n| 30 March | Jim Iulia | 28 | R.C. | Suicidal Melancholia | 20o 00H 1.30pg 21 Aby 1880, 11 June. 73, Police Case, Recovered |\n| 30 May 3pm |  |  |  | Mania | 31 May, 26 July 5/26th Augth |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2, Board of Grade Harbour Master, 30, Destitull |\n| 26 Augs! 2/2 |  |  |  |  | 10th Deco/a, 838, Miate paying $4931. Croul Shangh |\n|  |  |  |  | Observation | 10 Septr jessun 11th Septi, 2 Dislitale |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Colonial Jussion, 117, Private paying |\n|  | A. 9. Keira |  |  |  | 1880, Cart Brain, ber. 34CE. Dementia, Monomania |\n| Aug. 207 | Amit R. Viiton | 19 | Conf.. | Mania | Reverb autral di |\n| 1881 | Francisco B. Matos | 14 |  |  |  |\n|  | Hury Yolking | 54 | Col. | Dementia | Check Raison |\n|  | C. Yip com hing | 40 |  |  | China |\n|  | Filippe Xaver | 44 | R.E. |  | Portugal |\n|  | Archibald Portion | 28 | C.GE. | Cut Mront: Punctured | Seol |\n|  | Joseph Struny | 20 | R.C. |  | Cape Verd |\n|  | Po JEL | 22 | C12 |  | Chuia |\n|  | Thomas Garcia | 18 | R.C. | Acute ha una | Manila |\n|  | Abdouli |  |  | Allemphis Erinade by hanging | the Angie |\n| 1. | Panuel Ashton | 25 | RC. | Demuta | chestialia |\n| 2. | Ang berhadeer | 30 | Stunde | Dr | Eough Judia |\n|  | Maria à porter | 36 | R2.C. |  | Portugal |\n| 3. | Pereph Hury | 29 | R.C. | Monomania | Capeterd |\n|  |  | 25 | mah | Mewation | India |\n|  |  | 22 | Acer |  |  |\n| 22 Hebry 1pm |  |  |  |  | 19 hurr. 20 |\n| 18 |  |  |  |  | 5 Janey 5p.n 12th Janaz 20 March 4 pm 5 May |\n| 8 |  |  |  |  | Private paying, Reva's a lo |\n| 25 |  |  |  |  | 47, Ad. |\n| 27 |  |  |  |  | 3.p.m. |\n| 12 April |  |  |  |  | april 16 |\n| 9 April |  |  |  | wound | 达, Dr. Mavie |\n| 16 # |  |  |  |  | 22 May 10.30am. 17 Struck |\n| 26 |  |  |  |  | 10 Board of Grade, 18 April 10, 10. Am 15 Junce |\n|  | Jardins Mathiesond? | 32 | Colomat Surgeon |  | Private payung. fliment to Vinton, Drahtule |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 141, Destitute, Harbour Master| 750 72, Colimal Surgeon |\n| 10 July |  |  |  |  | 7 March 81. 239. 28 Aug24.00 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Polite Caco, Destitute, Police, Police lungistrate, Board f Frado, Harbour Masker, 202 50 |\n| 5 March 12 to |  |  |  |  | 17 May, 74, Pe bu, Folies. 22 |\n| 27 March |  |  |  |  | 3. Private paying, d.7.Ribeiro |\n| 27 May 7.30am. |  |  |  |  | 7 Septr: 162. pt. 18 June, 104. 33 |\n| 10 Lime so am. | Lyra Ahould | 35 |  |  | Milung, Moorden |\n| 22 | g. Woblerberg | 30 | luth | Menangite, readmitted | linget 12 hom 20 OCH. Sept 12 hom Still in the Arg Ger. 42 |\n| 6.55/!m. | Mahomed Tha | 65 | Mah | Congestion of train | India |\n| 2 Deer |  |  |  |  | 15 Deor. China 28 Cons Iniciant Refancholia, is May 1pm 18 May |\n| 26 | Frank Wheeler | 24 | Catholic | Epileptic Mania | Fr. Indian, I am still in Berylum Ang 74 A. Pellez |\n|  |  | 37 | Cof. | 2. Finadal Melancholia | 22 Ince thepen 1 July, mentia, wt ber, 9, 57 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Police Casan. Poki, 143 Board of Frade, 14. EC BL, Harbour Master, Police, Bd. 367. Board of Fide, Poker |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Private paying, klawson Bell & Co., Harbour Master, Dr. R. Lechler, Colonial Surgeon |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 4. Private parsing. 2.9. Bean & C, 104, M |",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong.\n\nNo 2.\n\n31st March 1883.\n\nGovernor,\n\nThe George Ferguson Bowen, GCMG\n\nSir\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Derby\n\nHon'ble W. H. Marsh, CMG.\n\nRespecting the\n\nEnclosures\n\nEnclosure No!\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, APRIL 3RD, 1883.\n\nPRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR.\n\nOn the 29th ult. an address was presented to His Excellency the Administrator, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., at Government House. The presentation was made by the Hon. P. Ryrie, who was accompanied by upwards of eighty of the signatories, representatives of every class and nationality in the Colony being present.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE, in making the presentation, said—Your Excellency, the pleasing duty has been assigned to me of presenting to you a numerously signed address from the community of this Colony. When I state that this has been a spontaneous movement on the part of all classes in the colony, I state what is absolute fact. I believe that I may be considered the oldest British resident in the Colony, and during the period of my stay here, I have taken part in a good many demonstrations of this kind, and I can truly say that I have never seen more anxiety displayed by its inhabitants to testify by their signatures the feelings they entertained of your high abilities as the head of its executive. (Applause). The address, as you will observe, is numerously signed by all nationalities, but there are still a number of gentlemen anxious to join it who from press of time have not had an opportunity of doing so. With your kind permission their signatures can be appended hereafter. (Applause.) I shall now, with your permission, proceed to read the address:\n\nTo HIS EXCELLENCY THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G., THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG, &c., &c., &c.\n\nSIR, We, the undersigned non-official members of the Legislative Council, Justices of the Peace, Members of Professions, Merchants, Bankers, and Residents in Hongkong, desire to convey to Your Excellency on the approaching termination of your Administration of the affairs of the Colony an expression of our esteem and regard as well as of our sense of the admirable and effective manner in which you have discharged the duties of your high position.\n\nThe vigour which has been displayed in every department of your Government, the introduction of numerous measures of useful legislation, and the rapidity with which urgently required public works have been promoted and pushed forward within the short period during which you have held office, make evident to us the eminent capacity for affairs which you possess, while the equal administration of executive authority dispensed by you without fear or favour and with a steadfast regard to the public welfare has inspired all classes of our mixed population with complete confidence in the firmness and justice of your rule.\n\nYou have made Government House the centre of social attraction by the liberal and graceful hospitality which has been accorded to the community.\n\nWe are pleased to learn that the Public Service of the Colony will not be deprived for some time to come of your valuable co-operation and that you will resume your former post as Colonial Secretary. We trust that when you do leave us it will be on the occasion of your appointment to higher office under the Crown to which your long and able public career have so well qualified you.\n\nWith the assurance of our profound respect. We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servants,\n\n[Signatures follow]\n\nP. Ryrie\n\nF. Hugeloy Johnson\n\nE. R. Belilios\n\nAlfred Lefeber\n\nWm. Danby\n\nJohn Thurburn\n\nS. Barff\n\nA. Molver\n\nW. S. Adams, M.D.\n\nBell-Irving\n\nJ. G. T. Haysel\n\nD. Ruttunjoe\n\nFramsjee H. Arjunes\n\nH. M. Mehta\n\nPh. B. C. Aires\n\nU. V. Creagh\n\nC. D. Bottomley\n\nW. S. Young\n\nH. L. Dalrymple\n\nWilliam Forrest\n\nJ. L. Mackenzie\n\nE. Mackintosh\n\nF. D. Sassoon\n\nJohn Gerrard\n\nC. P. Chater\n\nG. M. Carvalho\n\nG. Remedios\n\nJoze Maria G. Pereira\n\nCornelio Corveth\n\nF. H. V. Azevedo\n\nJ. F. Tavares\n\nE. Loureiro\n\nL. J. Gutierrez\n\nA. Eca da Silva\n\nL. M. Baptista\n\nC. V. M. Marques\n\nF. M. Gutierrez\n\nJ. A. 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        "content_text": "Southport hav.\n\nso far as I know town\n\ngather from Motivation,\n\nby and\n\nI\n\napplicant has not\n\nOU\n\nApical comment. should imagine the\n\nmagins anything there\n\nbe and the ordinary routine of shop\n\nM passed\n\nwork examination\n\nv.ow\n\nMr. Dambee is, to\n\nApplication for Colonial Employment.\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, London.\n\nvery good\n\ntime in full\n\nte of Application\n\nmind the profession or occupation\n\nof the whole lot and the boy experiences\n\nhe will with Messrs of the best kind\n\ndo so depending make as many\n\na\n\nthey carr\n\n0.0\n\nBradley they have\n\nbrow ess\n\nBourdes i\n\ndress...\n\nand I her's Name\n\nas very\n\nBelieve\n\nProfession or occupation\n\nAddress...\n\nof their own preparations he h\n\nsolve would have dead, his Name and Profession should\n\nbertheless to given.\n\nparchea's knowledge of that part of thy and year of birth...\n\nThe chief point\n\nbuomioo.\n\nLourour\n\nLo\n\nIvo\n\nM. D.\n\nI think, the circumstances, the been aged,\n\n(\n\nL\n\nlace of birth\n\number of children Sons\n\nCAR\n\nWilliam Malcolm Watson\n\nday 9th 1884\n\nPharmaceutical Chemist\n\n225 Oxford Street,\n\nLondon, W.\n\nThomas Watson\n\nBook-keeper\n\n173\n\n55 Southbank Road, Southport\n\nDecember 18th 1862\n\nLiverpool\n\no student in the Laboratory found in whether single, married, or a widower will see that Proposers Alpild,\n\nAttfield Bentley Dunotan speak very well of him also passed a\n\nHe\n\n-very good, Major examination in the Materia or shall be glad to give your army further belt. I cond\n\nFor\n\nit so not neg\n\nA couple of months\n\nducation\n\nMention Schools\n\nColleges at which you received your education, professional as well as general; give in each case the date of entry and leaving.\n\nto fill up the post ch chise the date it\n\nDaughters\n\nSingle\n\nAged respectively\n\n**\n\nAge last birthday 24\n\nDrip Sergeants (Preparatory school, Everton, Liverpool.\n\nLondon, Whit.\n\nleft December 1871 Liverpool College, Shaw Street, Liverpool, from Jan. 72 to Feb. 14/78 Central School\n\nof Chemistry and Pharmacy, 173 Marylebone Road, from Sept. 2/84 to April 25/85\n\nrofessional qualifications (if any), and the the date at which Pharmaceutical Chemist,\n\nmajor Exam additional each was obtained\n\nand gets, select Dai de should like him to finish his work Laboratory here up to the end of\n\nabout two\n\nmonths hence.\n\ntime would be a great advantage to him.\n\nwish himselfg\n\nfrom\n\nts that he would do adquiriory of the comployment\n\nBesides being beneficial to himself the cationection of cedut cation to present\n\nthe Prize Competitions\n\nbatra training\n\nprobably\n\nyour\n\nto\n\nYours\n\ntime\n\nthe would thus have, would tune\n\nadditional recommendation Meation each position held\n\nDear Sir,\n\nSecretary\n\nby you, the dates between\n\nwhich you held it, and\n\nthe cause of leaving; and what salary you are now receiving.\n\nAppointment desired\n\nIf\n\nyou do not apply for a particular appointment, you should state to what Colonies you would go, and what is the lowest salary that you would accept,\n\n** $ (31,9758) 500 2-87\n\nApprentice to Mr. Ashton\n\nApril 21/85-\n\nPharmaceutical Chemist\n\n77 Lord Street, Southport, from Feb. 17/78 to Feb. 16/83 Assistant to same gentleman, from Feb. 17/83 to Aug. 16/87\n\nLeft in order to pass examinations.\n\nAssistant to Messrs. John Bell & Co\n\nPharmaceutical Chemists\n\n225 Oxford Street, W.\n\nfrom June 22/85 to present time\n\nAs Assistant: Apothecary in the Government.\n\nCine Hospital,\n\n[TURN OVER.",
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        "content_text": "RETURN OF CHINESE PASSENGER Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong,( Continual).\n\nXX.—RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from Places out of the Chinese Empire, during the Year ending the 31st day of December, 1886,\n\n371\n\nADULTS.\n\nCHILDREN,\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nTOTAL\n\nYo\n\nM. F M. F.\n\nDATE ARRIVED.\n\nSHIP'S NAME.\n\nTONE.\n\nNATIONALITY\n\nADULTS. 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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nfrom the Chamber of Commerce and the leading merchants were certainly not of an encouraging nature. He consulted both the Governors when they were in England, in order to ascertain whether any compromise could be effected, but he regretted to say that he found no compromise was possible. He was distinctly opposed to compulsory legislation on this point—viz., forcing against the views of the unofficial members legislation by an official vote. The case of Australia, which had been referred to, was very different. In the first place, as in other colonies where there was a Custom-house, Sunday labour could be prevented indirectly by closing the Custom-house, but in Hongkong and Singapore, Custom-houses did not exist. He was not aware that in Australia any Act prohibiting Sunday labour was in force. The working men themselves had declined to work on Sunday, and indirectly secured for themselves freedom from work on that day, but he was not aware that there was any direct legislation on the point. He did not think anything could be done in this particular branch of labour unless it could be obtained by the voluntary unanimity upon the subject of the members of the Chamber of Commerce and the leading merchants in the colonies, and of the leading merchants here who had partners or agents in the colonies. In that way pressure might be put on local legislatures, and ultimately some measure might be introduced which would put an end to Sunday labour. But at present he did not think there was that feeling in the colony which would justify compulsory legislation.\n\n## THE EARL OF HARROWBY \nsaid that he did not see why legislation on this subject should be possible in Australia and not in the Crown colonies. He would suggest to his right hon. friend, that he should address inquiries to the Governors of all the colonies, Crown and self-governing, as to the existing practice. The feeling among the seamen was rising very high on the question of Sunday labour.\n\n## LORD KNUTSFORD \nsaid that he should have great pleasure in adopting the suggestion of the noble Earl.\n\nThe subject then dropped.—*\"Times,\" London*.\n\nSent in to Governor, November 9th, 1888.\n\n## To His Excellency Sir WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nWe, the undersigned, employed in connection with the shipping in the port of Hongkong, ashore or afloat, respectfully beg Your Excellency's consideration to the following facts:- \n1. Hongkong, with the exception of Singapore and Penang, is the only port under the British flag where Sunday labour in the shape of discharging and loading cargo is permitted without any restriction. \n2. The necessity of a seventh day of rest has for centuries been recognised by the laws and customs of our own Country.\n3. Although the absence of restriction on Sunday work in this port presses very hardly upon us, as it deprives us of that which Englishmen have learnt to look upon as their just right, we are, nevertheless, powerless from our position to do otherwise than submit.\n4. Whereas in some cases the Shipping Owners at home do not encourage or absolutely prohibit the working of their ships on Sunday, we are practically compelled to work in this port, on account of the excessive competition.\n5. The Sunday labour shows a tendency to increase. And thus not only are officers on board ship deprived of their day of rest, but also many of us are compelled to work in our offices ashore and elsewhere all the year round.\n\nHaving regard to these facts, and bearing in mind that restriction would be by no means unprecedented,—witness for instance intermediate ports of call in Australia and Coast ports in China,—your petitioners humbly submit that the time has now arrived when some decisive step may be taken, and respectfully solicit that their day of rest may be assured them by legislation or otherwise.\n\n(Over 600 signatures of masters, officers, and clerks engaged in Shipping offices).\n\n# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.\n\n[Reprint from *\"The Hongkong Telegraph\"* of the 8th September, 1890.]\n\n### THE PRESIDENT ON THE SUNDAY Labour QUESTION.\n\nA special meeting of the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association was held at the Marine Hotel, Praya West, on Saturday evening, the 6th instant, when Captain Samuel Ashton, the President, delivered a very interesting address upon the much-vexed question of Sunday labour. There were present, in addition to local members of the Association, representatives of the Australian and Shanghai Officers' Associations.\n\nThe Secretary, Mr. Chesney Duncan, having read the bye-laws respecting the conduct of meetings, and a list of those who had been appointed, by ballot, members of the General Committee—\n\nCaptain Ashton, who on rising was greeted with hearty applause, said—Gentlemen, to-night I am going to give you my ideas upon the much-vexed question of Sunday labour on board ships in this harbour, a question which the Rev. A. G. Goldsmith has striven so hard to settle in a manner beneficial to all seafaring men. I, myself, believe in the fourth Commandment, and I think that those who rigidly obey it will be healthier, wealthier and wiser in the end. I intend to review this question to-night in all its bearings, in as far as I am able to. The question has become one of great, and I may say burning, importance not only to us out here but also to thousands of our fellows at home. I've already said that the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith has worked very industriously with a view to causing a cessation of needless Sunday labour in this port of Hongkong. He drew up a lengthy petition upon the subject, and obtained the signatures to it of the great majority of captains and officers frequenting this port, as also the autographs of a great number of residents on shore. This petition he presented to our Governor, Sir William Des Voeux, and from what we now learn by recent home advices, it is patent that Sir William has given the matter his earnest consideration. According to these advices, we find that Sir William Des Voeux has been in communication with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Knutsford, as also with Sir Cecil Smith, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, who, by the way, is well-known to all old residents of this Colony. I am quite sure that these experienced statesmen have thoroughly weighed this important question—But—a question which seriously affects every member of this Association.—notwithstanding all that has been done, we find that their Excellencies have come to the conclusion that it is not wise to introduce compulsory legislation at the present time. This is a great disappointment to us as a body of officers, for we reasonably expected, or rather hoped, that our appeal would result in decisive and much-to-be-desired action by Her Majesty's Government. However, the reverse is the case, and as obedient subjects of Her Majesty we must virtually abide by their decision, although differing from them in our opinions. Now, Mr. Goldsmith having done his utmost, backed by the unanimous approval of British officers, we consider that we have a right to do the best we can for ourselves—joint action having failed—this Association having been formed with the express object of maintaining the proper dignity of the profession and improving the condition of its members, morally, socially and intellectually. I say again, we, as an Association of certificated British officers, have a perfect right to do the best we can for ourselves.\n\n### How to Act.\n\nI counsel you to discuss amongst yourselves the advisability of asking your owners to give you extra (double) pay for extra labour on Sunday. I consider you have a right to do so. Not that you wish thereby to put this extra pay in your...",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n\"It is so kept open and shipping clerks busily engaged--there is absolutely no necessity and no justification. The loading and unloading of cargo could be just as easily and economically managed without either delaying the ship or infringing on the all but universally recognised right of every man who works hard six days in the week to have a day of comparative rest on the seventh. Employers of labour, ship-owners, agents, etc., pretend they don't see the force of this sort of argument, but it is merely their innate modesty which makes them try to resemble NELSON before Copenhagen. They do see it and recognise its absolute truth, but this obsolete fetich is a very ancient article of faith, and with \"the classes hard to get out of the old groove. It was just the same with the early closing movement at home thirty years ago. Employers held up their hands in horror and shrieked when early closing and a weekly half-holiday were proposed as a rational concession to the masses who toiled in offices, warehouses, shops, etc., from dawn on Monday morning until Saturday at midnight; the proposed change was predicted to ruin everybody and everything—it was a radical infringement on vested right, the right of capital to control labour in a fashion that was pure slavery; but the change was made notwithstanding the employers' opposition, and the whole world knows the beneficial results. And so it must be with Sunday labour in this Colony. If those who control shipping interests here will insist on shutting their eyes and remaining obstinate and obdurate to the voice of reason and common-sense, they must submit to the **fortiter in re**. Nobody, not even the men who suffer most by this Sunday labour has any desire to give offence to their employers or to cause the slightest trouble or inconvenience in regard to business arrangements. They are ready and willing to meet those whose interests they are paid to safeguard and protect on a common platform, and to make every reasonable concession that may in any way be calculated to place the matter on a footing satisfactory to all concerned. But the fiat has irrevocably gone forth that, whether by amicable arrangement or an open war between shipowners and their employés, Sunday labour on board ship in Hongkong must cease. If the members of the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association remain true to themselves—and if they don't the Association and its pretensions are a hollow sham—they should experience but little difficulty in obtaining from shipowners the inestimable boon of one day's rest in seven, when they happen to be in this port.\n\nWe do not advocate this change, we never have done so, on religious grounds, although the Rev. Mr. GOLDSMITH has made out a very good case from his point of view. When all other laborers are enjoying their \"one day of rest in seven,\" why should sailors, whose toil is alike dangerous and arduous, be the only galley slaves in the world? That is what we should like to have satisfactorily explained. The opinions of Governors DES VEUX and SMITH that it would be unwise to stop Sunday labour by legislative enactment, can carry but little weight with those who are acquainted with the subject. As regards Lord Knutsford's opinions, if he ever had any, they may safely be ignored. If the Government will not legislate for this grievance, and if the ship-owners and agents refuse to come to reasonable terms, then the marine officers must adopt the course recommended by their President, Capt. S. ASHTON, at last Saturday's meeting of the Association—and demand extra pay for Sunday work. And in the event of that reasonable request being refused, the inevitable will have to be faced once and for all, and in any struggle that may take place in the Far East between ship-owners and their officers, the victors will be the coalition that remembers and acts up to the old proverb—**UNITY IS STRENGTH**.—“Hongkong Telegraph,\" 8th September 1890.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\nRev. A. G. Goldsmith on \"The Sunday Labour Question.\"\n\nAt the meeting of the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association held on Tuesday, the 16th Sept., the following communication from the Rev. A. G. Goldsmith, Seamens' Chaplain, was read:\n\n\"GENTLEMEN,—At the request of your Secretary I am writing a few remarks on the important question which you have introduced into your deliberations lately—the Sunday Rest question.\n\nIt is with pleasure that I comply with his request, for as you are aware, it is a question in which I have considered it my duty in some measure to take an interest. The question is a wide one. In a Free Port like Hongkong, where there are no European Custom House officials, and where the labour is heathen coolie labour, it is naturally one not easily settled. But that it will be settled, and favourably, for those who desire the benefits of the Sunday Rest, I think there can be no real doubt, if they show that they do desire it.\n\nThere are no two sides to the question whether Sunday observance is desirable or not. Let me quote the words of two leading men in the political world, delivered on the occasion of the French International Congress, called in September 1889, to consider what could be done to secure the Sabbath for France.\n\nMr. Harrison, President of the United States, wrote to M. Leon Say as follows: \"Experience and observation have convinced me that all persons working either with the hands or mentally need rest, which Sunday observance alone can guarantee to them. Philanthropists and Christians can consider the question in all its different points of view, but whether we consider man as an animal or as a human being, we ought to unite together to secure for him the rest which body and mind equally claim in order to be maintained in the best possible condition. Those who do not see the Divine Command in the Bible cannot fail to see it in man himself.\n\nMr. Gladstone also wrote to the President of the Congress in the following words: \"It seems to me unquestionable that the observance of Sunday rest has taken deep root both in the convictions and in the habits of the immense majority of my countrymen. If it appears to many of them a necessity of spiritual and Christian life, others, not less numerous, defend it with equal energy as a social necessity. The working class is extremely jealous of it, and is opposed not merely to its avowed abolition, but to whatever might indirectly tend to that result. Personally, I have always endeavoured, as far as circumstances have allowed, to exercise this privilege; and now nearly at the end of a laborious public career of nearly 57 years, I attribute in great part to that cause the prolongation of my life, and the preservation of the faculties I yet still possess. As regards the masses, the question is still more important; it is the popular question par excellence.\"\n\nI might also allude to the recent action in Germany to introduce into the Reichstag an ordinance forbidding Sunday labour, except on certain conditions, and when absolutely necessary; and limiting labour on that day to 5 hours in commercial circles, so as not to clog the wheels of transportation and shipping. I have myself conferred with the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce on this matter, as it regards the port of Hongkong. And their answer has been made public, that they sympathized with the movement but would not advocate legislation.\n\nIndividually, I feel convinced, both shipowners and merchants as a rule have no wish to see their ships working on Sunday, and in some cases consider it is through ignorance of what Sunday working of cargo really entails upon all the officers and engineers, that so much of it is permitted. Therefore it is most essential that the said officers and engineers should decidedly intimate their feeling by their own voice.\n\nNo reasonable man objects to working on Sunday or on any other generally recognised holiday or Holy Day, in cases of absolute necessity. The opinions which I have heard expressed by officers and others from time to time on this matter have always been of a most temperate and sensible kind. You are only anxious to secure the rule for the day of rest, as I understand. In fact you ask for that which Sir Robert Hart obtained long ago for the Custom House officials in China—no work on Sunday except on certain conditions which are provided for.\n\nI was very much interested in Captain Ashton's speech at your extraordinary meeting last Saturday; and would especially note his remark to the effect that \"overtime pay\" for Sunday work is not your ultimate desire, and that any proposal to this effect would not meet your wishes. It is not the money you ask. You do not seek to grow rich at your employer's expense, if I may put it so; but you ask for that which every Englishman has learnt to consider as his heritage. If I rightly estimate your feelings, I believe I am stating the case fairly when I say you are anxious to promote the interests of your owners and their agents, but simply request that they will also consider whether they cannot come forward and promote your interests also by obtaining for you the religious, moral, and physical benefits of our Christian Sunday. You are well aware that I consider the religious benefits first and foremost, though I am not indifferent to the social and physical benefits.\n\nThis great end cannot be obtained without Legislation, so that no one company should be driven to leeward because of the indifference of another company. It would not be fair to a shipowner who wished to give his officers and men their Sunday if he found other companies were working their ships without let or hindrance alongside of him. Legislation is needed, placing a prohibition on Sunday work except in cases of absolute necessity, when permission could be obtained for that purpose. And this permission would include a money payment similar to that required for Sunday work in Bombay, e.g., the S. O. No. 1802 of 23rd August 1882 runs as follows: \"Sunday working on board steamers in the ...",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nharbour shall be permitted on payment, in addition to the ordinary charges at present levied of a fee equal to a day's demurrage, subject to a minimum charge of Rs. 50 and a maximum charge of Rs. 200, for each ship on board of which work is carried on. Demurrage for this purpose to be calculated at the rate of 64 annas per ton of registered tonnage.\"\n\nLegislation can be effected with the assistance of the local Chambers of Commerce. The reply of Lord Knutsford to Lord Meath's question in the House of Lords on July 25th sufficiently indicates this. He said that he did not think it would be possible to put an end to Sunday work generally in the Crown colonies except through an understanding to that effect amongst the Chambers of Commerce.\n\nI send this short statement in response to your Secretary, wishing you success in your movement, which will doubtless gain the sympathy and respect of all fair-minded people,\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## II\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1890.\n\nTo the Secretary,  \n**GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HONGKONG**.\n\nTHE BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.\n\nA meeting of the above-named Association was held at the Marine Hotel, Praya West, last night, the 19th Sept., when the general discussion upon the Sunday Labour Question closed with the passing of a resolution in connection therewith. The chair was taken by Mr. H. L. Newbam, who called upon Mr. Chesney Duncan, the Secretary, to read any special correspondence which he might be in possession of relative to the question at issue.\n\nIn response, Mr. Duncan said the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith had kindly favoured him with an extract from a letter received by him lately from Mr. Lang, an important Liverpool shipowner, who stated that he never allowed Sunday labour on board his ships and still he had never found himself a loser thereby. Mr. Duncan also said he was in possession of correspondence from the Government of Ceylon which showed that Sunday labour on board ships in Colombo harbour was prohibited, except upon payment of exorbitant special fees. A scale of these extra charges he now held in his hand. One of the leading arguments against the cessation of Sunday labour in Hongkong was, he understood, to the effect that Hongkong not being a terminus, but merely a port of call, it was of the utmost importance that vessels calling here should be despatched as quickly as possible. He was willing to admit that, but contended that owners could so run their ships as to avoid being in Hongkong on Sunday. Colombo was by no means a terminus either, but there laws were enforced not with a view to wringing from owners exorbitant fees but for the purpose of diminishing labour on board ships on Sunday. He did not think it necessary to make owners pay stiff fees for working on Sunday, but he submitted that British officers, who were just as much entitled to their Sunday as any other subjects of the Queen, should be paid well for Sunday extra labour. It was not their duty, strictly speaking, to work in port on Sunday.\n\nI am instructed to hand you, enclosed, copy of a resolution which was carried unanimously at a meeting of this Association last Friday night, and in so doing, have to say that this Association trusts you will be pleased to accede to its desire for a Conference (either public or private, the former preferred), in the hope that some modus vivendi, as the outcome of our joint deliberations, may be happily arrived at in connection with this important question (The Sunday Labour Question).\n\nI am directed to assure you that this Association desires to move in respect to this much-vexed question in concert with shipowners, and not—as some may conjecture or aver—in antagonism to employers generally.\n\nTrusting your honourable Chamber will favour this request for a Conference with its kind consideration, and assuring you of our deep esteem,\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir, Yours respectfully,  \n**CHESNEY DUNCAN**,  \nHon. Secretary.\n\nN.B.—Personally delivered by me on the 22nd of September, 1890.—C.D.\n\nThe Chairman said it was clear from the remarks of Lord Knutsford in the House of Lords, that at present there was no hope for legislation on the subject, and the only way to obtain their Sunday was to induce the Chamber of Commerce to press for legislation upon the matter, so that no foreign ships would be allowed to work on Sunday any more than British vessels. The Association had no desire to do anything which would be detrimental to the interests of owners.\n\nThe object of the resolution, which he was about to move the adoption of, was to cause the cessation of Sunday labour while acting in concert with shipowners as much as possible. He proposed \"That in view of the fact that the sum and substance of official and public opinion generally was to the effect that the cessation of labour on board ships on Sunday, in Hongkong, could only be effected by moving the Chamber of Commerce, this Association decides that special representations should be made to the Chamber of Commerce with a view to the holding of a conference between delegates of this Association and the Chairman of the said Chamber.\"\n\nMr. Stainton seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. Chapman then proposed that \"the Chamber of Commerce consenting to the Conference, this Association be represented by the President, Captain Ashton, and two or three members to be selected by the Committee.\"\n\nMr. Gale and Mr. Bowker seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously. The regular business of the Association having been disposed of, the meeting closed with a cordial vote of thanks to the Chairman.—*Hongkong Telegraph*.\n\n**HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE**, Hongkong, 11th October 1890.\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**.\n\nSir,\n\nIn answer to your favour of 22nd ultimo, which I have not had the opportunity of replying to earlier, I am directed to state that the Committee of the Chamber will be happy to receive a deputation from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association to consider the Sunday Labour Question on Friday the 17th instant, at 4 p.m., which hour it is hoped will prove convenient.\n\nI am,  \nSir,  \nYour obedient servant,  \n**F. HENDERSON**,  \nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "# THE CONFERENCE.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.\n\nHeld at City Hall at 4.30 pm. on Friday the 17th October, 1890.\n\n### DELEGATES.\n\n- CAPTAIN SAMUEL ASHTON, A. I. N. A.\n- H. BATHURST (Chief of s.s. \"Haitan\")\n- J. W. GALE (not on Service)\n- A. C. H. CHAPMAN (not on Service)\n- J. DOUGLAS (Chief of \"Thales\")\n- H. L. NEWHAM (not on Service)\n- J. MADDOX (Second of \"Tongshan\")\n- J. A. BURKE (Second of \"Chowfa\")\n- W. WINCH (not on Service)\n\n**President:**  \nCHESNEY DUNCAN, Honorary Secretary.\n\n\"The Chamber\" was represented by:\n- MR. E. MACKINTOSH (Chairman)\n- HON. J. J. KESWICK\n- HON. P. RYRIE\n\n\"The Press\" by:\n- MR. H. HOPPIUS\n- MR. W. H. FORBES\n- MR. Thos. JACKSON\n- MR. L. Cox (Daily Press)\n- MR. D. Macdonald (China Mail)\n- MR. G. W. Ward (Telegraph)\n- Editor of War Sun Yat Po (Chinese)\n\nThe deputation numbered about twelve including Captain Ashton, the President of the Association.\n\nCaptain ASHTON having introduced the deputation, said: Mr. Mackintosh and gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce, we should have liked to have had a larger number of our body here to-day but many of our members are away from the port on their official duties. We come before you to-day, to ask you to assist us in doing away with a very old custom of this port, a custom which we know you are not answerable for, a custom which has been handed down to you by your predecessors, a custom which we as a body of mercantile marine officers consider a very great injustice to us. The custom I refer to, is that of receiving and discharging cargo on board vessels on Sunday. We believe it to be not only an old custom but a bad custom, and one that brings no profit or good to any man, woman or child in the Colony.\n\nWe as a body of officers, visit all the commercial ports of the world, and we find in nine-tenths of the ports we visit, there is some law restricting the discharging or receiving of cargo on board ship on a Sunday. Having visited these ports, we also notice the condition of the communities there, and we see that those communities who do not work on Sunday are just as rich and just as prosperous, and, as we think, just as happy as that of Hongkong, where Sunday labour is permitted.\n\nWe do not see why as a body of officers we should be compelled to work on a Sunday. You must bear in mind that an officer is compelled to be on board ship for days, and sometimes weeks, together. He is cooped up when he is on board, and he is subjected to a certain amount of discipline and restraint. He has to be ready to take his place on watch when the bell strikes, and he has to obey every order of his superior officer. He does that willingly, but he does like occasionally to get away from this restraint; and when he does get into a port where these prohibitive laws are in force and he is allowed to leave the ship and get away from this discipline and restraint, he enjoys himself as much as a boy taking his holidays from school, and he comes back in twelve or twenty-four hours, or whatever the time may be, to his work refreshed in body and in mind.\n\nBut, on the contrary, when he arrives in the port of Hongkong on a Sunday—and mind you Sunday is about the only day a British officer has to go ashore, whether to go to church or to see his friends or amuse himself in whatever way he wishes—if he goes to the Captain and says: \"This being Sunday, can I go ashore?\" the Captain very properly says No, you cannot, it is the custom of this port to work on Sunday, and your services are required on board this ship to superintend discharging and taking in of cargo.\" And although the Captain may feel in his own mind that it would be a good thing for the man to get away from the ship, he cannot give him leave; he dare not do so; for the simple reason, that if any cargo boats come alongside to receive or discharge and there is no officer to superintend, the Captain gets himself into a row with his owners. We believe there is neither profit nor advantage in Sunday work.\n\nI myself have been in command of men for a number of years, and I have always noticed that when you tell a man to do something which his nature revolts against and which the early teaching of his childhood is against, he naturally rebels against you, and although you can force him to do what you say, he does it in a half-hearted, sullen, discontented manner. So when he asks on a Sunday for liberty to go ashore, and his Captain tells him he cannot go, and orders him to the hatchway to superintend cargo, he does his work in a half-hearted way, and I believe that claims for lost property and damaged property, which the shipowners have to pay, are almost entirely due to this forced labour—labour which a man considers as moral slavery. I myself have never seen any profit come of Sunday labour.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Goldsmith, as I am sure you all know, interested himself in this matter some time ago, and he got up a petition which was signed very numerously by the Mercantile Marine community in this port. This petition, which I believe had some 600 signatures to it, was handed to our Governor here. Our Governor, in conjunction with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Knutsford, appears to have given considerable attention to it, and we are led to believe from what our Governor said, that legislation to stop Sunday labour in this Harbour could only be arrived at by the advocacy of this honorable body, yourself, Sir, and the members of this Chamber of Commerce. I believe he intimated as much.\n\nSuch being the case, we make bold to approach you, and to ask and beg of you to use your influence to the utmost with the Government of this Colony to bring in some law against working cargo in this port on Sunday. That is the purpose for which we are here. We ask you to exert yourselves with the Government to induce them to bring in some measure to stop this moral slavery. I am quite sure the officers of this Association do not wish to quarrel with their owners, but they do think it is a great injustice that they should be forced to work cargo on Sunday in this port. We consider it an injustice to ourselves and to every Mercantile Marine officer, and we consider it somewhat of a blot and a slur on the fair name of this Colony.\n\nThese are the main points in our case, and I think I need not say any more. It is our wish to carry our point without any friction, to have no quarrel between owners and officers. Gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce, whether your answer is in our favour or not—and we trust it will be—we shall receive it with the greatest respect, because, if we get the opinion of this Chamber we shall have a reliable opinion to go upon, coming as it does from the most influential and powerful body in this Colony. In giving your opinion therefore, whatever it may be, you will be doing the Association a kindness. It is an old saying, and no doubt a true one, that it is a good thing for any man or any body of men to see themselves as others see them. We have had plenty of opinions already, opinions from Brown, Jones and Robinson,—irresponsible opinions,—but we come before you to-day to get a reliable opinion.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Mr. Ashton and Gentlemen of the deputation, we are very possibly pleased to see you here to-day, and I can assure you we shall do all we can to arrive at a friendly satisfactory conclusion. This matter is one that has long stirred the Chamber, and on which they tried to come to a conclusion as early as 1888. The first mention of it in our records is a letter from the Rev. A. G.\n\nPage 13  \nPage 153",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nGoldsmith asking if something cannot be done in the matter. I do not think I need read that letter, but the Chamber carefully considered the arguments that were placed before them in that letter, and the following resolution was passed by the Committee: \"That in the opinion of this Committee, the objects sought to be obtained by the Rev. A. G. Goldsmith as stated in his letter of the 24th March, are worthy of every encouragement, but in view of the many conflicting interests involved, the Chamber do not see their way to support a resolution to compel the total cessation of Sunday labour in this Colony, unless a law could be introduced applicable to all classes and nationalities of vessels.\" That was the opinion of the Chamber in 1888. In December last year the matter was again referred to the Chamber by His Excellency the Governor, and the following reply was sent :-\n\n## HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 16th December, 1889.\n\nSir,\n\nReverting to your letter of 6th inst. (which I have already had the pleasure of acknowledging) having reference to a despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies inviting merchants and others to take voluntary action for the purpose of stopping unnecessary work in the harbour of this Colony on Sundays, I have now the honour of informing you that your letter has had the careful consideration of the Committee.\n\nThe question of Sunday labour has—as you are aware—been the subject of a correspondence in which the Committee, while expressing sympathy with the movement, regretted that the peculiar circumstances under which trade is conducted seemed to render the suppression of Sunday labour in the harbour almost impossible—even though the majority of those interested in shipping business are unfavourably disposed towards such labour.\n\nThe Committee, though individually opposed to unnecessary Sunday labour, are unable as a representative body, to suggest any scheme admitting of equitable and general application calculated to bring about the ends aimed at.\n\nI have &c.\n\n**F. HENDERSON, Secretary.**\n\nThere you have in two years the result of our deliberations. You now come before us as a newly-formed body and suggest that we should ask the Government of this Colony to pass a binding law compelling every ship that enters this Harbour or remains in it to stop from Sunday work. In view of the resolutions already read to you, it appears a matter of impossibility to pass such a law in this Colony. I cannot see how it is to be done. Have you or the deputation any suggestion to offer as to how this Sunday labour can be stopped?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—By passing a law you can stop it.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—The question is—is that a matter of public policy where there are so many conflicting interests?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—I think an Ordinance could be passed which would make exceptions in cases where the labour was for the public weal. Our desire is for total cessation, because we think that it would be fair for everybody in the community.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—I think it is a question for the Government.\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—If the Chamber asked the Government to pass such a law, I think it would be a foregone conclusion that it would be passed.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—It is a matter on which the Committee will deliberate and the Secretary will forward you our answer in writing. Before you leave, however, perhaps some members of the deputation would like to put a few questions.\n\nOn being appealed to by Captain Ashton, the members of the deputation said they would prefer to leave the matter in Captain Ashton's hands.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—Does your Association embrace both local and home members?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—Any officer who likes to come along can join, so long as he is a Britisher.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—But are there any home members on your books now?\n\nMr. DUNCAN (Secretary to the Association).—We are in alliance with the Liverpool Association.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—What I wanted to know was, whether Captain Ashton was speaking for officers on home steamers as well as the local steamers?\n\nMr. DUNCAN.—I believe every officer endorses this appeal. We are justified in doing the best we can for ourselves and our allies.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—But have you got their authority to make it?\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n15\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—As I understand your question, you mean have we any members besides those from local steamers?\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—Yes.\n\nA member of the deputation said there was a captain in this port now who belonged to the home trade who was a member.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—Have you any record of the number of vessels that work on Sunday here? Have you taken any data?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—No.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—I should like to know to what extent this Sunday work exists. I thought perhaps some investigation might have been made in that way.\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—No, we have not done so, but we can do so. It is notorious that all steamers work here on Sunday.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—In the local trade, are not compradores employed to receive cargo?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—On board some steamers.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—That minimises the work of the officers, does it not?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—To a certain extent, but the officer is responsible for receiving the cargo, and he has to be there to supervise whether a compradore is working the cargo or not.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—But his work would be minimised. Could you make any suggestion as to any way to do without the officer being there?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—The officer has to sign the receipts for the cargo.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—Could not they be signed the next day? Does your proposition for stopping work on Sundays apply even to mail steamers?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—Yes, even to mail steamers. My reason is, that mail steamers are also cargo steamers. If these mail steamers are allowed to work cargo, it would not be fair to other steamers.\n\nHon. J. J. KESWICK.—Captain Ashton and Gentlemen of the Association, I can assure you that I have very great sympathy with your object, that every man should be secured one day of rest in seven, but I must say that we have difficulties here which would not characterise the introduction of such an Ordinance as that asked for in any other part of the world. During the last year or eighteen months I have very frequently had this question before me, and I was present when the matter I believe everyone there came up for discussion in the Legislative Council. sympathised with the object in view, but everyone agreed that it would be a very difficult thing to carry it out. In the first place, in this Colony there are very few Europeans as compared with the large number of Chinese, and that causes it to be very difficult to stop Sunday labour on board steamers, because if you stop it there you must stop it in every other calling. I should like to ask you, Captain Ashton, one or two questions, which I should feel obliged if you would answer, in order that we may, if possible, find some way of solving this difficulty. I would like to ask you first whether you consider that any rules and regulations of public bodies would stop Sunday labour?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—No, a direct law from the Government would stop it.\n\nHon. J. J. KESWICK.—Do you not think supposing we had regulations made by public bodies, they would be more honoured in the breach than in the observance?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—But I am asking for a law from the Government. If such a law were passed it would be the duty of the police to see it was carried out.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE.—By imposing penalties, I suppose?\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—Do you suggest fines or imprisonment?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—Well, the Attorney-General would draft the Ordinance.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—But as a penalty, would you be in favour of fines or imprisonment?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—I can't be expected to draft an Ordinance.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—But you must impose some penalty for breaking the law; you would be in favour of fines or imprisonment?\n\nCaptain ASHTON.—I should think a fine, but I would make it so heavy that the thing would not be likely to occur more than once.",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\nSeveral members of the deputation expressed themselves in favour of imprisonment as a penalty for the breach.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--Do you not think it would be next to impossible to stop Sunday labour, seeing that nearly all the workmen are Chinese, who are directly opposed to stopping work on Sundays?\n\nCaptain Ashton--My experience of Chinese is that they always object to any innovation, but they are a law-abiding people, and when the law is once passed, I do not think they will attempt to break it, and I believe that after obeying this law for a certain time, they would think it a very good thing. It is impossible to expect anything but opposition from the Chinese, no matter what is proposed. They do not like anything new. They do not like having a certain space behind their house. They do not like any sanitary measures that are passed; but once the law is passed, they will obey it. The introduction of this measure would naturally meet with a certain amount of opposition among the Chinese.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--Do you consider it a good policy that a law of this kind should be forced upon the Chinese in spite of their strong objections?\n\nCaptain Ashton--I say that this is a British Colony, and I do not see why such a law should not be enforced.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--Do you not think the Government should weigh carefully the effect of throwing upon the Colony say 150,000 workmen who have nothing to do on one day in each seven? Do you not think it a serious responsibility?\n\nCaptain Ashton--I do not.\n\nMr. Duncan--I may say, so far as the Chinese are concerned, very many of them are strongly in favour of passing such a law, and as a proof of their sympathy with us, they have sent here to-day a Chinese gentleman from one of their newspapers. I do not think there is the slightest danger entailed by these men having nothing to do on Sunday, and I believe the Chinese appreciate the one day's rest in seven just as much as the British.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--I am very much obliged to you for your reply; it is very interesting. But to go on with my questions. In dealing with the question of Sunday labour on board ships, there are four classes of persons to be considered. There are the officers on the \"home\" steamers, the officers on the coasting steamers, the officers on the Chinese steamers, and the officers on steamers of all other nationalities.\n\nCaptain Ashton--Yes, that is so, and I think they would all be very glad of a rest on Sunday.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--If it is as I have said, how do you intend to apply the law as regards penalties? Supposing on board a Chinese steamer the officers or crew happened to work on a Sunday, what are you going to do?\n\nCaptain Ashton--The Chinese who enter this port are under British law, and if this law is passed by the Government of this Colony, Chinese steamers must obey it the same as other steamers.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--Would you have the Chinese vessel seized?\n\nCaptain Ashton--Certainly.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--Suppose when she has done working she lifts her anchor and leaves. Are you going to seize her?\n\nCaptain Ashton--Certainly.\n\nA member of the deputation (Mr. Newham) said he had had nine years' experience in Chinese steamers, and did not think they were likely to break this law. They did not work in any of the treaty ports. Hongkong was the only port where they worked.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--Very well, I am only asking to get suggestions, but I thought that steamers could pay special terms and work on Sunday.\n\nThe same member observed that he had never known of such a thing being done.\n\nThe Chairman--I have, frequently.\n\nHon. J. J. Keswick--I must say my experience is the same.\n\nHon. P. Ryrie--Is this law going to affect our servants as well? Are we to be obliged to eat cold dinners on Sunday? (Laughter).\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n17\n\nCaptain Ashton--The law we want to see passed is to prevent unnecessary labour on board vessels on Sunday, nothing more nor less.\n\nMr. Hoppius--Would you consider Chinese junks as coming under this law?\n\nCaptain Ashton--Certainly, it would be unfair to stop steamers working and not stop junks. Some of these junks load for Hoihow, and with a fair wind, if they were allowed to load on Sunday, they would be halfway there before the steamers started.\n\nMr. Hoppius--Would not this be interfering with the junk trade?\n\nCaptain Ashton--Certainly it would; the law will interfere with every trade.\n\nThe Chairman--I should like to ask one question. Do you think this stoppage of work in this Harbour will add to the expenses of the shipowners?\n\nCaptain Ashton--No, I think, on the other hand, it would benefit the shipowner.\n\nThe Chairman--You think that by not working on Sunday, Europeans and Chinamen will wake up that one day in seven?\n\nCaptain Ashton--I am sure of it. I am speaking now of my own ship, but I have no doubt it is the same on board others. When we arrive in a port on Sunday, where the men can get leave from the ship when their work is finished--there is always a certain amount of work to be done on board, cleaning and so on--I have been surprised to see how earnestly even the natives turn to their work. You see the holystone flying, and the buckets flying, and the ship being polished, and the work is done twice as quickly.\n\nThe Chairman--Would you prevent sailing on Sunday?\n\nCaptain Ashton--Certainly not.\n\nA member of the deputation said they were the only body of men who did seven days' work for six days' pay.\n\nThe Chairman--How is that?\n\nThe member explained that other people were paid for six days' work and did it; their week was from Monday till Saturday; the officer, on the other hand, although paid in the same way, was asked to work on Sunday.\n\nMr. Duncan--You mean Sunday is the birth-right of every British subject?\n\nThe member--Yes, certainly.\n\nThe Chairman--Well, when you are at sea, you have to work on Sunday. There is no distinction made when you sign your articles.\n\nThe member said there were always attempts made to lessen the work on Sunday at sea.\n\nMr. Duncan said he had heard that a year ago there was a Bill, similar to the one they were now asking for, drafted by the Government, but it was not proceeded with because it was thought it might be objectionable to some of the chief capitalists of the Colony. Furthermore, the Colonial federation scheme was at that time a more or less burning question in the Antipodes.\n\nThe Chairman--Well, Captain Ashton and Gentlemen, we are very much obliged to you for the interesting interview we have had. The question will be the subject of consideration by the committee, and our view of the matter shall be communicated to you by letter.\n\nCaptain Ashton--When can we reasonably expect an answer?\n\nThe Chairman--As soon as possible; it is a matter for some consideration.\n\nCaptain Ashton--A month do you think?\n\nThe Chairman--Oh, less than that.\n\nCaptain Ashton--Because your answer will guide in a great measure our future action.\n\nThe deputation then withdrew.--Daily Press.\n\nPage 17",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n## THE CHAMBERS' DECISION\n\nSUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR,\n\nthat the Government drafted a Sunday Observance Bill several months ago with the intention of forcing it upon the colony, but it was shelved owing to the opposition of a few capitalists. Political affairs, too, doubtless weighed with the Government, the Colonial Federation Scheme being, at the time referred to, a more or less burning question in the Australian colonies.\n\nThanking you in anticipation for affording me the opportunity of thus removing possible false impressions, which might prove very misleading.\n\nYours, &c.,\n\n**CHESNEY DUNCAN**, Hon. Secretary,\n**British M. M. O. Association**.\n\n**CAPTAIN S. ASHTON**,\nPresident,\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION, HONGKONG**.\n\n## HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\nHongkong, 31st October, 1890.\n\nDEAR SIR,--The Committee of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce have given most careful consideration to the subject of Sunday Labour in this harbour, which your deputation brought so forcibly to their notice at the interview held on 17th inst. To assist them in coming to a conclusion, based on the widest views, the principal Members of the Chamber interested in the Shipping of the Colony, were invited to meet the Committee to discuss the subject.\n\nThe unanimous opinion of those present was, that it would be impolitic to ask the Government, as you desired, to legislate specially to stop Sunday work in this harbour—the restriction being applied to vessels of all nationalities.\n\nThe Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this Harbour, as the questions involved are very serious, and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith. Indeed, if such a recommendation was formulated by the Chamber of Commerce, the Committee are of opinion the Government would not legislate in the direction sought by your body.\n\nThe Committee look upon the question as one that rests solely between employers and employed. But they are pleased to state that during the discussion which ensued at the meeting a strong opinion was evinced that all European supervision for the loading and discharging of cargo during Sundays, by vessels engaged in the local coast trades, could be dispensed with if the officers elected. It therefore rests with individual officers in the Coast trades to seek that privilege from their respective employers.\n\nWith regard to Ocean steamers, as distinguished from Coast, the matter appears to the Committee to be somewhat different. The incidence of Sunday work on officers in those services is less frequent than with the Coast. They may, and no doubt frequently do, escape Sunday in this port. While on the average duration of an Ocean voyage, say 1 month, an occasional Sunday's work in Hongkong does not appear to the Committee to present an intolerable burden to officers. With Ocean vessels touching at Hongkong, the working of cargo in port on all days must be considered one of the incidents of the voyage, Hongkong presents some peculiarities: It is not a terminus, the bulk of its Ocean traffic ends at Shanghai, where \"bar\" obstacles are met, and the loss of a day in Hongkong might lead to most serious pecuniary sacrifice to shipowners.\n\nThe question therefore appears to the Committee to be reduced to the smallest proportions.\n\nThe Coast trade officers can obtain, without doubt, on individual application to their respective employers, freedom from supervising cargo work on Sundays, while officers of Ocean steamers' remedy rests also with their employers. The latter, while considering the officers' application for relief, will doubtless bear in mind the infrequency of the incidence of Sunday work occurring in this port, and the probable great loss they incur from delays in prosecuting their voyages if they concede the Sunday in this Harbour to their employees.\n\nThe Committee desire me to thank you for having brought the matter to their notice, and hope their efforts will result in the settlement of a question that has for some time troubled a section of the Community.\n\nI remain, Dear Sir,\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION\n\nAt a meeting of the **British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association**, held last night, the 9th November, at the Marine Hotel, Captain Ashton presiding, the following letter as a reply to the Chamber of Commerce's despatch of the 31st ultimo was drafted after a good deal of discussion :--\n\n**E. MACKINTOSH**, Esq.,\nChairman,\n**GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HONGKONG**.\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**\n\nHongkong, 10th November, 1890.\n\nSir,—In acknowledging receipt of, and thanking you for, your letter of the 31st ultimo, I have to say that this body considers your proposal impracticable, for the following reasons:-\n\nIn the first place no individual officer is sufficiently independent to make individual application to his owners for exemption from duty on Sunday. We consider that in so doing he would be running a personal risk to himself which is undesirable.\n\nSecondly, some shipowners might graciously grant such request where others would object. For instance, owners of foreign steamers, or, say British Chinese-owned steamers in the Straits or other trade might, we think, be very likely to object. In the event of such objection we can only view with alarm difficulties between individual officers and owners which we, as an association, studiously wish to avoid.\n\nIn conclusion we may add, that the British Mercantile Marine officer is not a man who would stand by disinterestedly whilst foreign interests were, in any way, gaining advantages over those of his employer. We take pride in our ships and our work and would rather work on Sunday, or any other day, than see our employers suffer. But it is not necessarily admitted that either public or private interests would be prejudiced were labour totally suspended on board ships in this port on Sunday.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Signed)\n**E. MACKINTOSH**,\nChairman.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYours faithfully,\n**SAMUEL ASHTON**,\nPresident.\n\n## To THE EDITOR OF THE \"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH\"\n\nHongkong, 18th October 1890.\n\nSIR—I shall esteem it a favour if you will kindly grant me space for the correction of a slight error which appears in your report of yesterday's Conference, for which I am, I feel, chiefly responsible,\n\nWhat I desire to rectify is a possible supposition by the general public that the Hon. J. J. Keswick said: \"he thought the Government would not pass a law to prevent the working of cargo on board ships on Sunday.\" Mr. Keswick did not, as far as I know, say that. It was to the remarks that fell from the lips of Mr. Mackintosh, the Chairman, that I replied: \"I am informed, reliably informed,\n\n## \"THE DAILY PRESS,\" Hongkong, October 21st, 1890.\n\nThe Conference on the question of Sunday labour held on Friday last between representatives of the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association and the Chamber of Commerce resulted in a very useful and interesting discussion. Captain ASHTON on behalf of the Association urged the cause of Sunday rest with considerable force, and in the subsequent discussion fairly faced the difficulties suggested on the other side. He admits that if the observance of a weekly day of rest is made compulsory all classes of shipping must be subjected to the same law—Chinese as well as ...",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOUR.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS.\"\n\nSIR,-Last year the Postal Authorities at home ventured to inflict on Bombay what was then denounced as a social calamity, viz., that the P. & O. mail steamers should leave there every Sunday for London. Immediately this report was out, all Bombay and his wife were mighty indignant, and a loud howl was raised on all sides. The agitation took the form of a very large public meeting, attended by thousands of people, including the Bishops, Judges, Magistrates, lawyers, doctors, merchants, and clerks; in short, all sorts and conditions of men made a common cause of it, and rose to a man for a firm and emphatic protest against the proposed change. They telegraphed their proceedings to London, and they quite overpowered the authorities in Downing Street. So signal was the success that the proposed change had to be abandoned wholly and entirely, there and then. But, in the colony of Hongkong, who is it that suffers? Oh! only sailors and seamen, and \"coolies\" to some degree. The taipans do have their Saturdays (one half) and Sundays for picnics and pleasure; then why should they bother their heads in the matter?\n\nA LOOKER-ON,\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1890.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS,\"\n\nSIR, Some of the agitators, finding themselves in a corner, make what seems to me the grossly unjust, but fortunately wholly impracticable, proposal to enforce Sunday idleness (Satan will find some mischief for the idle hands to do) on the Chinese crews of junks and necessarily on thousands of shore hands, and say that they have to submit to it in the Treaty Ports. This is altogether a mistake, and as many persons in Hongkong are unaware of the arrangements at the Treaty Ports, I think it ought to be made fully known that the junks there do not come under the foreign Customs, only vessels of foreign type, and that the discharging and loading of cargo goes on every day. To put the Colony at so great a disadvantage compared to the Treaty Ports would be interfering with Chinese customs with a vengeance. Whatever is done, there should be no misrepresentation; let us have no half truths.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLAOU SHANGHAI,\n\nHongkong, 22nd October, 1890.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nthemselves, by simply declining to do what their employers have neither a legal nor a moral right to demand of them, as a man is bound to obey only just and lawful commands. But is the command to perform such duties as loading or discharging cargo on Sunday a just or lawful command? Would any Magistrate in Hongkong—putting the force of public opinion aside—consider it a lawful command? I think not. So that I would again repeat: \"where there is no right there can be no duty.\" A man is entitled to one day's rest in seven, as he is entitled to twelve hours' rest in the twenty-four: by custom and usage, it has become a necessity of nature to him. According to our ideas, unless under exceptional circumstances, even voluntary labour on Sunday is wrong. Involuntary Sunday labour is morally criminal; the difference is the difference between the labour of a freeman and a slave.\n\nThe Government would seem to be wise in abstaining from legislating on the subject; the time for a hard and fast law has not yet arrived. Let strict observance of Sunday as a day of rest from labour be recognised as the custom and usage of the port of Hongkong, and it will be as easy to enforce it here as elsewhere. A short time since, it became necessary to increase the light dues for a particular purpose, and they were raised one hundred and fifty per cent. The Government can likewise, with as little difficulty, put a tonnage tax on Sunday labour afloat that would press equally on all classes of steamers. A privilege not worth paying for is not worth having. Ashore, the solution of the question mainly lies with the representatives of our two principal British shipping houses in the Colony; let them stop working their steamers on Sunday, and the rest will follow easy. Why not graciously concede as a favour to their employés what must assuredly come to pass before long, with their consent or without it? Not so very long ago, the departure of the mails on Monday was considered a hardship to merchants and their clerks, because it entailed attendance at their offices on Sunday to write their correspondence. The result was, the mail day was altered, and the merchant enjoyed his Sunday undisturbed—the aphorism about \"Sauce for the goose,\" &c.\n\nLet me recall the arguments in favour of Sunday labour seem strained and somewhat frivolous. The difficulties conjured up may turn out imaginary. The Chinese bogey will not do. The question resolves itself down to whether, for the mere purpose of utilizing Sunday, shipowners will be allowed a privilege in Hongkong which is refused them without heavy payment in most ports of the world, and denied them altogether in others.\n\nAs a ship's officer, I would demand as a right the cessation of labour on Sunday so far as I was myself concerned; as a shipowner, in the sense of being a shareholder in our three local shipping companies, and with other shipping interests of equal importance, I would advocate, as a matter of sound policy, the total cessation of Sunday labour on board ship, on the grounds of its being mostly unnecessary and called for simply by excessive competition.\n\nR. TALBOT.\n\nHongkong, 20th October, 1890.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOR QUESTION.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS,\"\n\nSIR,—The question of Sunday labour on board ship in Hongkong Harbour by European officers has become confused and mixed up with that of Chinese labour on shore—with which, in my opinion, it has little to do—until the hardworked ship's officer has arrived at the, to him, flattering conclusion that the whole social and commercial system of Hongkong depends upon whether he works or does not work on Sunday, and not the rule.\n\nNow, so far as the question extends to Chinese, I think it is susceptible of proof that the bulk of the Chinese afloat, cargo boatmen, coolies, &c., are against Sunday labour. Hardly be engaged on Sunday, they are prompt to tell you: \"B'long Sunday, no wauchee work.\" Coolies or cargo boats can hardly be engaged on Sunday. Chinese merchants seem mostly indifferent. It certainly does not seem a question of much importance to them. They certainly cannot be said to be strongly in favour of Sunday work; their conversation does not lead one to conclude they are so. That Chinese of all classes, both here and at Shanghai and the out-ports, enjoy and appreciate Sunday as a day of rest from business and work can hardly be denied. It is a mistake to assume that Sunday work is general on board all steamers. It is the exception. Sailing vessels seldom or ever work on Sunday, and a large proportion of the Sunday labour going on is avoidable. The steamers trading to Manila are persistent Sunday workers, but for no other reason than to utilize Sunday. For the same reason, they would work all night as well as all day, but that there is a limit to their officers' endurance. Competition compels them to take advantage of this vicious custom, which is recognised all over the world as a moral crime, except in Hongkong. They invariably discharge cargo on Sunday, but as they seldom receive much cargo, it must be accepted as some proof that Chinese shippers do not place very much value on the privilege of Sunday labour. What little is shipped could easily be avoided by some little forethought on the part of the steamers' agents. A steamer arrives on Saturday morning, and very often does not discharge a package of cargo that day; shipping clerks are indifferent—they know she can discharge on Sunday—it never enters their heads to consider the ships' officers, that they may probably have as strong an objection to working on Sunday as they themselves invariably have when personally concerned. Shipping offices are closed on Sunday, but if they were kept open, and clerks compelled to attend when steamers were working, the necessity for Sunday work would not be so often evident.\n\nTo the ship's officer, it is undoubtedly a hardship; it destroys his self-respect, creates dissatisfaction and discontent, and is fatal to discipline. The Chinese sailors will not work on Sunday, and look with contempt on their officers, who are morosely and unwillingly carrying on their duties, while protesting strongly, if silently, against such a state of affairs. If there is truth in the axiom that \"where there is no right there can be no duty,\" then the solution of the question seems to lie with the officers...\n\n## TO THE EDITOR OF THE \"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\"\n\nSIR,—Having just returned from a voyage, I have only now had an opportunity of reading the report of the Conference between the Chamber of Commerce and Capt. Ashton and a delegation of the Marine Officers' Association. I am very pleased indeed to see how well Capt. Ashton maintained his cause in the face of such an evidently biassed, adverse, interested body of capitalists and shipowners represented by Messrs. Mackintosh, Keswick, Ryrie, etc. With all their professed desire for the cessation of Sunday labour, it is palpable to the most casual observer that their great care was evidently to protect the shipowner from a possible loss of one day's earnings.\n\nMr. Mackintosh asked for data regarding the number of officers employed on Sunday. Now, I think that no one is in a better position than himself to provide this information, seeing that the lines known as the \"Blue Funnel\" and \"Butterfield & Swire's\" are the great offenders in this respect; however, in passing, I might remark for Mr. Mackintosh's edification that there are, on an average, from fifty to sixty officers employed on steamers in this port on Sundays. Further, I may add, as regards compradores on board steamers, it in no wise affords the European officers greater liberty; as in steamers carrying compradores, there are usually only two European officers carried, one of whom is expected to sign all receipts and superintend all necessary deck work, while the other is supposed to be below looking after the stowage of cargo.\n\nMr. Mackintosh seems anxious to discover some method by which the Sunday labour of officers might be minimised. This is simple; \"stop Sunday labour.\"\n\nAs regards Mr. Keswick's statement of the strong objections of the Chinese to the law, I should like to know in what way these strong objections have been shown. I have heard of no action on the part of the Chinese in opposition to the proposed legislation on Sunday labour. With respect to his statement of the danger of making 150,000 Chinese idle on Sunday, I think the numbers stated very ridiculous, and I am quite satisfied that not more than 15,000 people would be affected by the cessation of Sunday labour in the harbour. With respect to Sunday labour in treaty ports, I can say that the British are the greatest sinners. And if I condescended to specialize local lines, I have no hesitation in naming the China Navigation Steamship Company and the Indo-China Steamship Company as the greatest offenders in this respect. Ships sailed under the Chinese flag compare most favourably in respect to Sunday observance. I have no doubt the I.M. Customs statistics would prove what is here stated.\n\nMy sympathies are with \"old Ryrie\" in his anxiety with respect to a hot Sunday dinner, but, as I understand the question, the Mercantile Marine Officer's Association are asking for \"cessation of Sunday labour in the Harbour only.\"",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR \n\n## FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMURS. \n\nThat the gallant skipper and his merry men who addressed the Chamber of Commerce have at least the courage of their opinions. That they have no faith in half measures, and believe that only a hard-and-fast law will meet the case. That I summed up yesterday's discussion very succinctly and very aptly as follows:- Government says it will do what Chamber decides - Chamber says can do nothing - Government says that settles it - Sammy then says, pass law - Mackintosh says 'how can ye, that is for the Government!' Sammy says all right, get Government to do it! Sammy scores.\n\nThat on the whole I approve of the officers' attitude, but I think it was a pity Captain Ashton did not draw a broad distinction between the general enforcement of Sunday rest and the special law for the cessation of Sunday work in the harbour, the sole object of which is to put Hongkong in the same position as ports in India, Ceylon, and China.\n\nThat nevertheless Captain Ashton did not allow the Chairman and his friends to bamboozle him. That I do not think anyone will contend that England and her self-governing colonies suffer by the observance of Sunday as a day of rest.\n\nThat, if put in a crude way, shipowners may not be ready to admit the force of Captain Ashton's argument that a cessation of labour on Sunday would be their gain.\n\nThat nevertheless, if they consider the distant as well as the near results, they will find that he is not far wrong.\n\nThat where there is a will, there is a way, and I cannot help thinking, do what I can, that the will on the part of the Chamber representatives is not very strong.\n\nThat I frankly admit the question has many ramifications, and the solution in such a place as Hongkong is not a very easy matter, but the real difficulties are not those raised by the Committee.\n\nThat if I am inclined to blame the Committee of the Chamber, I cannot admire the pusillanimous attitude of the Home and local Governments, who threw the responsibility of a final decision on the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nThat, in the interests of all, it is to be hoped an amicable settlement will be arrived at.\n\nThat the Officers' Association has got a good Chairman in Captain Ashton, who is a strong advocate of a conciliatory policy.\n\nThat if the shipowners and agents are animated by the same spirit, we shall be saved such conflicts as are working havoc in the Southern Continent.\n\nThat the quarrel between labour and capital may be likened to a quarrel between the hands and the mouth.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nregulation does in their own treaty ports, against which there has never been any complaint. It is very difficult to believe how a man of common sense like Mr. Keswick could talk such nonsense as this - In the first place, in this Colony, there are very few Europeans as compared with the large number of Chinese, and that causes it to be very difficult to stop Sunday labour on board steamers, because if you stop it there, you must stop it in every other calling. There is no 'must' about it. Mr. Ryrie was even worse - he showed his hand. No man who was animated by a desire to stop Sunday labour in the harbour would have made the silly remarks he uttered about stopping the work of servants and about cold dinners on Sunday. Captain Ashton, in spite of the way-leading questions, stood his ground very well. He believes in the general enforcement of Sunday rest, and unfortunately, his replies were influenced to some extent by that belief. But the officers do not wish such a general law, and very few would have dreamt of such a thing had not the opponents of the anti-Sunday-labour movement raised it up as a bogey. The difficulties as to the enforcement of the law are also an invention for the purpose of obstruction. If there was a harbour regulation according to which vessels must not be discharged on Sunday without a permit, no captains or agents would ever dream of breaking the law any more than they attempt to do so in such ports as Colombo, Bombay, or Shanghai. It is almost impossible to discharge cargo surreptitiously, even from junks. Our own opinion is that junks ought to be exempt from the operation of the law. They enter very little into competition with steamers, and when it is remembered that the Chinese take about a month's holidays at the beginning of their year, it will be seen that, even leaving out all physical and moral considerations, they have little gain. Doubtless, the best course to adopt would be to put them on the same footing as native craft in customs ports.\n\n| Page | \n| --- | \n| 160 | \n\nThere is scarcely one difficulty raised by the Committee that will stand a moment's consideration. Officers on board Home steamers, whether they are affiliated to the Association or not, are equally desirous of relief from the irksome Sunday labour.\n\nAll that is wanted to obtain the boon is the co-operation of the Chamber. The Government of Hongkong is so weak-kneed and timid that it cannot tackle the question; it throws the burden on the Chamber. If the Committee of that body persist in their obstructive course, trouble may arise between the shipowners and officers, and on such an issue, the latter could not fail to win. The result then would be that labour would be stopped on Sunday on board British ships, while on board German vessels (unless German officers co-operated) it would still go on - a far greater anomaly than any of those conjured up in the fertile brains of the members of the Chamber of Commerce who were present at yesterday's meeting.\n\n## THE “CHINA MAIL,” Hongkong, Saturday, October 18th, 1890.\n\nIt is very difficult to believe, after reading the report of the conference between the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and delegates from the Marine Officers' Association, that the desire of the former to obtain a cessation of Sunday labour in the harbour is genuine. Their whole attitude may be summarised in one word - 'shuffle.' Their great object in the conference held yesterday was to divert the discussion from the main point at issue, to evolve obstacles out of their imagination, and to get the delegates to commit themselves to some impracticable scheme. 'We are burning with zeal to get you Sunday rest, but there is this difficulty and that difficulty, and consequently, nothing can be done.' This is a very dangerous and exasperating policy to pursue, a policy which has led to far more troubles between employers and employés than downright manly opposition. Surely Messrs. Keswick and Mackintosh know that Sunday work on board steamers is practically prohibited in the ports of China by the fact that a permit has to be paid for. What difficulty can there be in making a harbour regulation in Hongkong similar to the customs regulation in Shanghai and the other Treaty ports? None whatever. And the making of such a regulation no more involves the stoppage of all Sunday labour on shore than the requirement of night passes from the Chinese involves night passes for Europeans. We have legislated for Chinese, let us legislate for Europeans, to protect them from the tyranny of Chinese customs. We don't want to force Chinese to observe Sunday. All that is asked is that they shall not compel us to break it and to make it a workday as other days. The law would affect them to a very slight degree - not more than the customs. No injustice would be done to them.\n\n## Copy \n\n**YOUR EXCELLENCY,**\n\nDeputation to the Government.\n\nI am directed to ask you to be graciously pleased to allow a deputation from this body to wait upon you in respect to compulsory labour on board ships in this harbour on Sunday, which British Officers consider a great hardship and an invasion of their rights as subjects of Her Majesty the Queen-Empress. The deputation - which will consist of one or two officers on active service, the President, and Secretary - will be happy to wait upon Your Excellency at such time as may be intimated as consistent with your convenience.\n\nThe Hon. FRANCIS FLEMING, C.M.G.\n\nActing Governor of Hongkong.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nCHESNEY DUNCAN,\n\nHon. Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n## Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1890\n\nSin-In reply to your letter of the 15th instant, I have the honour by direction of the Officer Administering the Government to inform you that His Excellency will be happy to receive the deputation mentioned therein at Government House on Tuesday the 18th at noon, if convenient to them.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n**W. M. DEANE**,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n**CHESSEY DUNCAN, Esq.,**\nHon. Secretary,\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.**\n\n## Reply to His Excellency the Governor, Hongkong, 17th November, 1890\n\nSir, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst. conveying to this body the gratifying news that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony will be pleased to receive a deputation—which is necessarily small owing to many of our members being absent from this Association at the time—at Government House to-morrow, at noon.\n\nPermit me to tender to you most sincere apologies for the delay (as it may appear to you) in answering your kind letter, which is owing to the fact that through some carelessness on our part your kind letter did not come into our Secretary's hands until this afternoon.\n\nI must also express my regrets that, inadvertently, we took a wrong course in addressing the Chief of Police in respect to the alleged danger from the Chinese community were labour stopped on board ships in this port on the Sabbath.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n(Signed)\n**SAM'L ASHTON**, President.\n\nP.S.—May I ask if it is intended that the \"Press\" will be admitted to the audience, or would His Excellency prefer it to be private?\n\n(Signed)\n**SAM'L ASHTON**, President.\n\nN.B.—Reply received graciously granting admission to Press.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION\n\n### Deputation to H.E. the Acting Governor\n\nA deputation from the **British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association** waited yesterday (the 18th November, 1890) on H.E. The Officer Administering the Governor, with reference to the question of prohibiting Sunday labour in the harbour. The deputation consisted of Captain Samuel Ashton, A.I.N.A. (President), Messrs. L. James, T. W. Gale, W. Winch, J. W. Pearce, and Chesney Duncan (Secretary).\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\nCaptain ASHTON—Your Excellency, we come before you as a deputation from the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association to ask you if you can pass a law to do away with what we consider a great hardship—with the unnecessary labour on board ships in this harbour on Sundays, that is to say, the loading and discharging of cargo. I think, your Excellency, we may say that some movement in this direction has been made before, of which I have no doubt you are fully aware. The first movement in this matter was originated by the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith, who got up a petition which was signed by the majority of the Mercantile Marine Officers and also by a number of persons on shore. I think it contained 600 signatures. This petition was presented to our Governor, Sir William Des Voeux, and we have reason to believe that he put it very prominently forward when at Home, and we believe the matter was very fully considered by Lord Knutsford, our Secretary of State, and Sir Cecil C. Smith. They came to the conclusion that legislative action was not advisable unless it was recommended by the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nWe, Sir, as an Association and as a body of British Mercantile Officers wish to better our condition, that is to do away with Sunday work. In Hongkong, we find that we are obliged to work on Sundays, morally obliged to do it. Our owners expect it from us. Instead of being able to go on shore on Sundays as we can do in nine-tenths of the ports of the world, we find on coming to Hongkong that we are debarred. The Governor having expressed an opinion to the effect that the stoppage of what we consider unnecessary work could only be done through the Chamber of Commerce, we asked for a conference with the Chamber, which was graciously granted, and we there stated our case. I need not read the report of the proceedings, as I suppose your Excellency has seen it. We then received a reply from the Chamber of Commerce which we consider impracticable in the highest degree.\n\nIn the first place, they say to us—'The Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this Harbour, as the questions involved are very serious and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith.' We do not believe, and we cannot believe what the Chamber of Commerce tells us. As loyal British subjects, we believe that the Government of this Colony, your Excellency, in the name of Her Majesty the Queen, can legislate for us. That is our answer.\n\nThey say that the suppression of Sunday labour will seriously affect the shipping interests. Undoubtedly so; but although the shipping interests of this Colony are very large, they bear no comparison to the shipping interests of other ports in Her Majesty's dominions, such as London, Glasgow, Liverpool, or many others. We find in other parts of Her Majesty's dominions that Sunday is respected and that we have an opportunity of attending to our religious duties and also of taking recreation which we think is necessary to the well-being of every person, and more especially do we think it necessary to a body of seamen who are necessarily confined on board their ships for a number of days or weeks as the case may be. When they arrive in port, it is to them a great relief to be able to go on shore and be able to put their feet on land. We are not afraid of our work on board ship, but we like to go on shore when we happen to be in port on Sundays. Many of our body are deeply religious. According to the custom in this port—a custom that ought to be done away with—we are prevented from attending to our religious duties. We cannot rebel against this, because we might be turned out of our ships. Clearly, we are kept, as a body of officers, in a sort of moral slavery.\n\nWe consider as British subjects that our first duty is to our Queen and country, to our flag. I trust your Excellency will be able to convey to Her Most Gracious Majesty the assurance that she does not possess anywhere more loyal subjects than in her mercantile marine. We are willing to do our duty by our flag, and we are resolved also to do our duty to our employers and also to ourselves. Our first duty is to our flag and our country; our second is loyalty to our employers, and our third duty is loyalty to ourselves as men. We think it is an injustice that we should be deprived here of the religious privileges enjoyed in every other part of Her Majesty's dominions. We do not think it should exist much longer, and we come before you now to ask you, Sir, to do your best to pass some law, some prohibitive law to do away with this Sunday work, which necessarily entails moral slavery on every mercantile marine officer that is in your port on Sundays.\n\nIn the reply we received from the Chamber of Commerce, it is further stated that the Committee look upon the question as one that rests solely between employers and employed. But they are pleased to state that during the discussion which ensued at the meeting, a strong opinion was evinced that all European supervision for the loading and discharging...",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\nWe are of the opinion that the handling of cargo during Sundays, by vessels engaged in the local coast trades, could be dispensed with if the officers elected. It therefore rests with individual officers in the Coast trades to seek that privilege from their respective employers.' This proposition from the Chamber of Commerce is impracticable for this reason, that an individual officer is not independent enough. If he went to his owner and said 'I wish, myself, to stop Sunday labour.' I have no doubt his owner would say Yes, you may have your Sunday, but at the same time would probably tell the Captain to discharge the officer at the end of a certain time as being a man that was objecting to the idea of Sunday labour.\n\nWith regard to ocean steamers, the Committee say: The incidence of Sunday work on officers in those services is less frequent than with the Coast. They may, and no doubt frequently do, escape Sunday in this port. While on the average duration of an Ocean voyage, say 4 months, an occasional Sunday's work in Hongkong does not appear to the Committee to present an intolerable burden to officers. With Ocean vessels touching at Hongkong the working of cargo in port on all days must be considered one of the incidents of the voyage.\n\nWith regard to this argument, we must tell you that the so-called ocean steamers after arriving in Hongkong are practically coast steamers, especially one line of steamers of which Mr Mackintosh is the local manager—I allude to the well-known blue-funnel line. They go to Shanghai, and then they very often go into Foochow, Swatow, and Amoy. When these steamers pass this port going up, they are practically coasters. Of course, they have as much right to the coast as anyone else. Mr. Mackintosh says that coast officers might possibly get this Sunday exemption. Now, Sir, suppose if one of these ocean Steamers gets here on Sunday and a regular coast steamer arrives here at the same time. The owners of the regular coast steamer have probably given their officers this Sunday exemption, but the owners of the ocean steamer, as implied in this reply, have not given their officers this exemption. Accordingly, this steamer can work against the coast steamer to the detriment of the latter. We consider that all steamers should be put on one fair footing. We are not afraid of competition, but let it be fair.\n\nFor that reason, we, as an Association, beg of you to pass a compulsory law, of course with the exceptions which your Excellency and the Government may think fit to make; for instance, steamers leaving here with live cargo, or arriving here with perishable articles, ferry boats, and all that sort of thing. We do not expect the total cessation of Sunday labour. We think a law might be passed here which could exempt this thing and at the same time do away with what we consider an injustice to ourselves.\n\nAccording to the reply of the Chamber, the fact of a man working on Sunday when he arrives here is merely an incident of the voyage. Now, we do not think so. We think this being a British Colony, a British Mercantile Marine Officer ought to have his Sunday here as well as in other ports, as he has it even in the ports of China. The Chinese Government, or those who made its Customs rules, were considerate of the feelings of the Europeans in their employ; and in the coast ports, Sunday labour is practically stopped. Before you are allowed to work on Sunday, you must show good reason why Europeans should be employed.\n\nThe Chinese Government, probably under the advice of Sir Robert Hart, or his predecessor, had enough respect for the feelings of their European employees not to force them to work on Sundays. In this Colony, we are morally forced to work. I look upon it merely as a relic of heathenish customs.\n\nThere is another point raised by the Chamber of Commerce. They say that the stoppage of Sunday labour in the harbour would in particular injuriously affect the large Chinese population connected therewith. Now, we who are on board ship know that the Chinese boat population, the owners of cargo boats, do not object to Sunday rest. If you ask them to work on Sunday, they charge extra. There is no provision in the regulations for this extra charge, but as a matter of custom, they do make it. I can also tell you that the Chinese artisans in the employ of the Dock Company, who are probably hundreds of these artisans, receive double pay for Sunday labour; and they would not work on Sunday unless they received that pay. That shows us that the Chinese themselves, at least a certain portion of them, object to this Sunday labour.\n\nIt has been stated there might be some fear of disturbance on account of so many Chinese being made idle. We are sure, Sir, that these fears are quite groundless.\n\nCAPTAIN ASHTON—I do not know what is the opinion of your Excellency, but our opinion, from what we can see in the harbour and what we know as people who are frequently about the harbour, is that there is not the slightest danger of any serious objection on the part of the Chinese. The Chinese object to anything that is new. They are a very Conservative people and believe in 'old' custom, but the moment innovations are established, they fall in with them and take them as a part of everyday life.\n\nThere is another point in the Committee's reply I wish to refer to, and it is this: They practically tell us that this British Colony of Hongkong is a place to be avoided, a place that it is lucky to escape from! They say in one place that they (the officers) may, and no doubt frequently do, escape Sunday in this port. And in another place, they speak of the infrequency of the incidence of Sunday work occurring in this port. It cannot, surely, be that this Colony of Hongkong, which has been gained for us by the blood of our forefathers—as we all know, as we read on the monument on the cross-road—is a place for us to escape from! As a body of British Officers, we, Sir, rather think that this is a place where we should find an asylum and a protection, especially for our religious feelings. And when you touch a man's religious feelings, you touch his very heart, his very nature; and these men tell us that this place, which our forefathers bled for, this British Crown Colony, is a place to be escaped from. It ought far rather to be a place to come to and be sure of the protection of Her Most Gracious Majesty, whom we love and honour, whom we would die for if necessary, and whom we consider not only our Queen but the defender of our Faith.\n\n## \n\nHis EXCELLENCY—I am very glad, gentlemen, to see you here to-day and to hear the views you have expressed on an undoubtedly very important subject. There is one thing, I believe, in which we are all agreed, and that is that if Sunday labour, carried on to the extent to which it is carried on now in Hongkong, could be diminished, such a thing would be very desirable; but then the point arises whether any interference with it should take place, and if so, in what way such should be done.\n\nNow, there are only two ways in which this interference could be brought about. The one is to have recourse to compulsory legislation and the other is by voluntary combination among those who are interested in shipping, to in some extent diminish it. As regards the question of compulsory legislation, you must be aware of the views that have been expressed both by the Governor of this Colony, Sir William Des Voeux, and also by the Governor of the Straits Settlements, and you will also be aware of the conclusion that has been come to in regard to that question by the Secretary of State.\n\nThe matter was brought forward before the House of Lords, I think, some time in July last, and Lord Knutsford then made a speech—made some remarks in reply to a question that was put, and in these remarks, he stated that he had come to the conclusion, after hearing the views of the Governors of Hongkong and Singapore, that compulsory legislation was not desirable. It would therefore be impossible for me to accede to the request that has been made to me to-day, namely, to make a promise that legislation should be had recourse to, even if I differed from those who have expressed a contrary opinion, which I may say I do not.\n\nThe other mode in which interference with Sunday labour could be brought about, and in my opinion the only feasible one, is by voluntary combination and earnest endeavour of those who are concerned in the shipping interests in this Colony. Now, a great many arguments have been adduced and some have been alluded to in the communication you have been good enough to read to show the impossibility of doing away with Sunday labour here.\n\nI candidly confess that I do not altogether agree with some of these arguments. As regards our Chinese population, no doubt a Chinaman who does not regard the Sunday in the same way as we regard the Sunday, will naturally work on the Sunday if he is offered remuneration to do so. In other words, if encouragement is given to him to work seven days in the week instead of six, he will do so. I do not think that is limited to Chinamen. I think if we go to other countries where Sunday labour is not as a rule carried on, we shall find a great many in these countries who, for the sake of gain, would be ready to work on the seventh day if opportunity were afforded them to do so.\n\nWe know perfectly well that all work cannot be stopped on a Sunday in Hongkong more than it can in any other part of the world. There is certain work which it is absolutely necessary to perform on Sundays, and it is absolutely necessary that a certain amount of labour should be had recourse to; but I think from the fact that in many other countries Sunday labour does not exist, at all events not to the extent, or nearly to the extent it does here, proves that there are a great many things done here that need not necessarily be carried on on Sunday.\n\nThe whole question therefore seems to me to resolve itself into this—are those who are interested in Sunday labour, who... \n\nPage 31 \nPage 30",
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        "content_text": "## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\nno doubt derive gain and profit from Sunday labour, are they prepared to make some sacrifice in order that Sunday labour should be diminished here. As a matter of course, if a person works seven days in the week instead of six he will naturally make more money whether he works as a labourer or whether he is an employer of labour.\n\nCaptain Astrox--We do not get more money for working seven days.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--With regard to those who are interested in Sunday labour, they necessarily make more money than they do by working six days in the week. Although there may be certain individual cases in this colony in which a person makes as much by six days labour, we shall find as a whole that if the seven days of the week were employed for labour and if remuneration were given for them instead of only six, naturally larger fortunes would be made and a greater amount of money amassed. Therefore the question resolves itself into this, whether those who gain by Sunday labour are prepared to make a certain sacrifice in order that Sunday labour should be to a certain extent diminished. In regard to the necessity of carrying on Sunday labour in this colony, I may say that there are no doubt more reasons which call for more work being done here than probably exist in many other places; and I would also remark that there is this difficulty in stopping the Sunday labour, which does not exist in many other parts, and that is that we have no Custom House. It is much easier where a port has a Custom House for a Government to close that Custom House, and by thus doing it practically, to a considerable extent, stops working on the day the Custom House closes.\n\nCaptain Asurox--We possess a Harbour Master's Office, where we pay light dues and where we clear, and it seems to me that if a law were passed here, the Harbour Master would be able to put a stop to Sunday labour as well as a Custom House.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--Not so effectually as stopping work by the Custom House. Captain ASHTON--If a man wants to clear his ship, he has to go to the Harbour Master, and he has to do the same when paying his light dues, and if he wants a permit on Sunday for requisite labour he can go there.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--I should be disposed to think there was more difficulty in stopping Sunday labour by means of the Harbour Office than by means of the Custom House.\n\nCaptain Astros--In every part of the world there is some sort of supervision, by a Harbour Office, Police, or Custom House. In some places a Custom House boat patrols the harbour; in Hongkong the Harbour police patrol. So far as the actual enforcement of the law is concerned, I do not think there would be any difficulty. I think the Custom House argument will not bear one moment's consideration.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--Speaking from my knowledge of other colonies, I think that the mere fact of closing the Custom House has a great effect in interfering with Sunday labour. If it was opened on Sunday and work went on, you would have much the same state of things as here.\n\nCaptain ASHTON--As far as the general work is concerned, the Harbour Master's office is almost the same as the Custom House. You have to apply for a clearance; you cannot clear on Sunday.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--There is a difference between clearing a ship and loading. Captain Asurox--If we had a law passed prohibiting Sunday labour----\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--That is another matter altogether. When a ship comes into port and finds that the doors of the Custom House are closed, and she cannot be discharged without the Customs clearance, that naturally stops Sunday labour. I cannot give you any promise that the Government is prepared to have recourse to compulsory legislation. At the same time, those concerned in the shipping interest who seriously consider they have a grievance, have their representatives whose opinion and the opinion of those who are in favour of diminishing Sunday labour can no doubt be brought to bear on those who live in England, who feel in regard to the Sunday as you do, and these can bring their influence to bear on their representatives here. I believe myself that in this way, by the voluntary action of those connected with the shipping interest, who are willing to make a certain amount of sacrifice to secure the observing of Sunday, sooner or later, what you desire will to a very considerable extent be brought to pass here. It will require time. It cannot be done in a day or a month or a year. It is a question that will require no little consideration, and in regard to which you must be content to move by degrees. At the same time I do not look on the result as hopeless, and I do not think that the reply of the Chamber of Commerce should be taken as a conclusive answer that nothing more could be done.\n\nCaptain Astrox--Thank you, Sir.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--As I mentioned to you, Lord Knutsford conferred with the Governors of Hongkong and Singapore on this subject. Sir William Des Voeux, our Governor, will be back in a short time, and I am quite sure that he will be perfectly ready to listen to any arguments or any proposals that you may desire to bring to his notice. You will understand that placed in the position I am now, I could not take upon myself, pending his return, to promise that the Government would have recourse to legislation. I again repeat that I for one will be happy to take into consideration any proposals in regard to this matter that may be brought before me.\n\nThe question of Sunday labour is one of great importance, and if there is a general agreement among the members of the Chamber of Commerce, among those interested in shipping and in the community generally that it should be diminished--and the extent to which Sunday labour is carried on here is undesirable--I say, if there is an earnest desire and real co-operation, if the question is well followed up, I believe that some steps may be taken to secure to some extent the object you now desire to attain.\n\nCaptain ASHTON--Do you think that the Government is powerless to pass a prohibitive law?\n\nHis EXCELLENCY--I do not think the Government of Hongkong is powerless to pass any law.\n\nCaptain Asırrox thanked the Administrator for his kindness in receiving them, and the deputation retired.-(From `China Mail`). \n\nPage 33",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION, AN APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY the Acting Governor received a deputation at Government House on the 18th Nov., 1890, from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association on the question of unnecessary Sunday labour on board ships in this port. The deputation, which was received, in the first instance, by Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C., and which was subsequently introduced to His EXCELLENCY, the Hon. F. FLEMING, C.M.G., by the Hon. W. M. DEANE, C.M.G., Acting Colonial Secretary, consisted of Captain S. ASHTON, A.L.N.A. (President), Mr. CHESNEY DENGAN (Hon. Secretary), and Messrs. L. R. JAMES, T. W. GALE, JAMES PEARCE, and W. WINCH (officers).\n\nCaptain ASHTON said that the deputation felt most deeply grateful to His Excellency for granting it the honour of an interview, which was sought owing to the strong feeling amongst British officers that there should be a cessation of labour on board ship in this port on Sunday. Having studied Lord Knutsford's speech on the subject, made in the House of Lords on the 25th of July last, the Association came to the conclusion that the best way of causing much-needed legislation on the subject was to move the Chamber of Commerce to recommend Government to introduce a Bill which would cause the cessation of unnecessary Sunday labour. With that object in view, the Association discussed the question at length with the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at a public conference held at the City Hall on the 17th ultimo. Full reports of the arguments used on that occasion, together with the Chamber's written decision, dated the 31st of October, had doubtless come within His Excellency's cognizance.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY.-Yes, and your reply to the Chamber's letter has also been read by me.\n\nCAPTAIN ASHTON, continuing, said he was very glad to think that His Excellency had taken notice of the movement, which, he submitted, was a righteous and justifiable movement, and a protest against moral slavery. He could well understand that the Committee of the Chamber was temporarily mesmerized by its surroundings, which were heathenish, and that therefore they looked at the situation through somewhat dim glasses. But whether that were so or not, he contended that the reply of the Chamber was unjustifiable in the circumstances, and it was an insult to officers. It was perfectly well known to shipowners here that no individual officer was independent enough to take the consequences of making personal (individual) application for exemption from duty on the Sabbath. The proposition of the Chamber was impracticable in the extreme, and by no means amounted to a modus vivendi. The Chamber wrote: \"The Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this harbour, as the questions involved are very serious and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith.\" The Government, he was convinced, could legislate for the suppression of Sunday labour; it would not \"injuriously affect all, or any, of the shipping interests of the Colony.\" As to the Chinese, he was aware that they always objected to any new law—innovations were detested by them, no matter what their nature. A Sunday observance law would not injuriously affect the Chinese, and it was preposterous for the Chamber to make such an assertion. He was convinced the Chinese would warmly appreciate their Sunday's rest.\n\nIt was regrettable that the Chamber should have seen fit to question, to virtually impeach the motives of Lord Knutsford. That important servant of Her Majesty had said, in as many words, that he would legislate were the Chamber of Commerce to recommend it; and now the Chamber committed itself to the statement: \"Indeed if such a recommendation was formulated, the Committee are of opinion that Government would not legislate.\" That was a very bold assertion, and it was the first time in the annals of colonial history that a Chamber of Commerce had taken upon itself to answer for the Government on a question which affected the masses. The Association was persuaded that Lord Knutsford meant what he said, and that the Committee's reply was utterly unjustifiable.\n\nAs to the distinction drawn by the Chamber between ocean-going and coast steamers, it was equally without reasonable basis, for ocean steamers became coasters, almost without exception, as soon as they touched Hongkong; for they usually called in at Swatow, Amoy, and Foochow en route to Shanghai, and often called at Foochow and Swatow on their way home from the Far East. It was palpably an insult for the Chamber to instruct British Officers that they must consider Sunday labour on board ships in this port as a mere incident of a voyage of four months' duration! They did not, and never would, consider it \"a mere incident,\" but they did consider, and continued to do so, that the incidence was a scandal and disgrace, and a blot upon our boasted civilization. Hongkong, instead of being a centre of light and civilization to our heathen neighbours, was absolutely the reverse.\n\nThat was the \"incident\" which was firmly implanted in the minds of British officers who were so unfortunate as to be in Hongkong on a Sunday—they were better off in the ports of China where owners had to pay heavy fees for permission from the Chinese Customs Authorities to work on the Sabbath. But this was not the worst phase of the Committee's dictum: Officers were told, \"officers may, and frequently do, escape Sunday in this port.\" Instead of Hongkong, a British possession, dearly bought with British blood and money, being a place of safety and protection for the storm-tossed British mariner, he was instructed to consider himself fortunate if he \"escape\" being in Hongkong on Sunday. Escape! He spurned the idea, and was confident that no Briton could be convinced that it was right for him to consider it a lucky escape were he never, once in a twelve-month, in Hongkong on Sunday.\n\nHe trusted His Excellency would urge Her Majesty's Government to take steps to relieve the British Mercantile Marine Officer, whose practice it was to follow three principles of loyalty, which were: - First, loyalty to their Sovereign, Defender of their Faith. Secondly, loyalty to their employers. Thirdly, loyalty to themselves. They had in years gone by proved their loyalty to their Sovereign and to their owners, and how they came before his Excellency with all humility and in deep earnestness to implore and beseech him to protect them from the continuance of an obnoxious custom (it was merely a custom, a relic of an evil past) which they felt to be a great hardship, and an invasion of their rights as loyal subjects of the Queen.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY, in reply, said he was very glad to receive the deputation and to hear the views expressed by them on a question which was, admittedly, one of much importance. It was, he believed, admitted on all sides that it would be desirable to diminish Sunday labour as carried on in this colony if such could possibly be done. The question then arose whether it should be interfered with, and if so, by what means such interference should be brought about. There were only two ways by which this could be done, one being by having recourse to compulsory legislation, the other by the voluntary co-operation of those who were concerned in the shipping interests of the colony.\n\nAs regards the question of compulsory legislation, the views of the Governor of Hongkong and the Governor of the Straits Settlements, as well as the conclusions which had been expressed by the Secretary of State, and which were stated by him in the House of Lords when answering a question in connection with this matter in July last, must necessarily be known to the members of the deputation. If, even, therefore, he (His Excellency) entertained views different from those expressed by the Governors of Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, which he did not, it would not be for him to enter into that question.\n\nHe admitted that he did not altogether agree with all the arguments which had been brought forward as proof that it was impossible to diminish Sunday labour in this colony. It was true that the Chinese did not regard the Sunday in the same light as we did, and they would, not unnaturally, be disposed to work on that day, if encouragement were given to them to do so. But this could scarcely be said to be peculiar to the Chinese, inasmuch as in some other countries, where Sunday labour did not exist to the same extent that it did here, there would doubtless be found many who would be ready to work on the seventh day in addition to the other six days of the week, if sufficient inducement were offered to them to do so.\n\nPage 34\nPage 35",
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        "content_text": "## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nnecessity of Sunday work, it could not be denied that there were certain works which were necessary to carry out in this colony as well as anywhere else, but inasmuch as the Sunday was observed in many countries to a greater extent than it was here, such was a proof, to some extent at all events, that to work on the seventh day to the extent that was done here was not an absolute necessity. In so far as this colony was concerned, it should also be borne in mind that the fact of having no Custom-house, rendered it more difficult to limit Sunday work here than was the case in those countries where Custom-houses did exist, and where, therefore, it was more easy to put a check on Sunday labour.\n\nCaptain Asaros remarked that the Harbour-master gave clearances to ships on Sunday, which he thought showed that even the small means which did exist for stopping Sunday work could be made use of at any time.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY (continuing) said that although what had just been stated by Captain Ashton might be the case, he could not admit that giving clearances to ships necessarily encouraged work being carried on in the loading and discharging of cargo on Sunday to the extent that it was carried on in a colony where no Custom-houses existed, and that the mere fact of its being known that the Custom-house was closed in places where Custom-houses existed, and that business was only transacted in it under very exceptional circumstances, naturally tended to a very considerable extent to prevent Sunday labour being carried on. The question really seemed to him to resolve itself into this, were those who necessarily derived a certain amount of profit and gain from Sunday work prepared to make a certain sacrifice in order that the Sunday might be better observed than it now was? It must be admitted that where work was carried on during seven days of the week instead of six, some profit and gain would naturally be realised, and therefore it appeared to be a question whether those who derived that profit and gain were prepared to make the sacrifice he had alluded to in order that the Sunday might be better observed than it now was. This question of diminishing Sunday labour might not altogether depend upon those who were directly interested in the business of this colony. Many of the latter were probably representatives of people at home, who might possess to some extent the same feelings in regard to Sunday labour as the members of the deputation who had come there that morning, and might bring influence to bear upon their representatives here to do what was in their power to limit Sunday labour, and so carry out, at all events to some extent, the wishes that had been expressed. He might say that he did not think that the reply of the Chamber of Commerce, which had been considerably quoted to him, should be taken as a conclusive answer that nothing more could be done in this matter (Captain Ashton and several others, \"thank you, Your Excellency\"), and in so far as he was concerned, he should at all times be prepared to listen to any proposals which might have for their object the carrying out, to some extent, of the desires that had been expressed to him, \"but he felt sure the deputation would understand that under present circumstances, and situated as he now was, it could not be expected that he could accede to their proposal to introduce compulsory legislation in regard to the question of Sunday labour. The Governor, Sir William des Voeux, who since he had been at home had conferred with Lord Knutsford on the question, would soon return, and he (his Excellency) felt sure he would gladly listen to any proposals that might be made to him in connection with this important question on his return. In conclusion, he would again admit that the question was one of much importance: It was one which undoubtedly had difficulties connected with it, and one which they could not expect to be solved in a day, nor perhaps in a year, but it was one which, if there existed desire and real co-operation among those who were interested in the shipping business of the colony to diminish Sunday labour in the extent to which it was now carried on here, would, he felt pretty sure, sooner or later, be solved, to a certain extent at all events, in accordance with the wishes of those who had expressed their views to him that morning.\n\nCapt. Ashton - May I ask Your Excellency if Her Majesty's Government do or do not possess power to pass any law they think fit?\n\nHis EXCELLENCY - Certainly, Her Majesty's Government have power to make any laws they deem expedient for Crown Colonies.\n\nThe deputation then withdrew after thanking his Excellency for the courteous reception.-(From `Hongkong Telegraph`).\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n“THE CHINA MAIL,\" (Leading Article) Hongkong, Thursday, November 20th, 1890.\n\nThe object of Captain Ashton, and of the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association, of which he is the President, in waiting on the Administrator the other day was doubtless to ascertain if they could rely upon the support of that officer in the movement for the suppression of Sunday labour in the Harbour. They must have known that an official in the position of Mr. Fleming, who is only administering the Government in the room of another, whose return is expected in a few weeks, could not promise to introduce a measure of which the actual Governor disapproved. As Colonial Secretary, however, Mr. Fleming might exercise considerable influence with Sir William des Voeux, and perhaps the Association thought that if they were assured of his sympathy and co-operation their task might be lightened. Whatever was their object, the interview afforded Captain Ashton an opportunity of publicly replying to the letter received by the Association from the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. And this he did most effectively. He showed conclusively that it is impossible to hope for a cessation of Sunday labour in the harbour from the individual application of officers to owners for relief. Even if some of the owners were so large-hearted and liberal-minded as to grant their officers' request, the privilege would rest on a very insecure basis, for a change of management which often takes place in such a port as Hongkong, might soon entail a resumption of Sunday labour. Besides, as Captain Ashton pointed out, if Sunday rest was not uniform, owners who granted the privilege would be handicapped, or at any rate would think they were handicapped, in the competition with others; and even if some of the officers were willing to accept the concession on such terms, they could not rest secure in its possession, for in these days of merciless competition shipowners are very sensitive with regard to everything they think may handicap them. Neither had Captain Ashton much trouble in disposing of Mr. Mackintosh's cynical references to ocean steamers. They only require to be put in their true light, to bring about their own condemnation. With regard to every port at which a steamer calls, it might be said that Sunday labour is only an incident of the voyage; and if Mr. Mackintosh's argument were to apply universally, such a thing as Sunday rest would be unknown to the officers of our mercantile marine.\n\nIf the deputation expected support from the Administrator in their effort to get a compulsory law passed, they were considerably disappointed. Of course his Excellency could not, in the circumstances in which he is placed, promise to introduce such a Bill. But he went further than declaring his inability to comply with the requests of the officers: He showed that he was personally opposed to compulsory legislation. His Excellency has one great defect. He talks too much, and a man who does that runs the risk of saying more than he means. His speech will be read at Home by those who are interested in the Sunday movement, and we hope they will deal charitably with it, for it contains several passages which, if taken literally and disjointedly, are almost an insult to the religious and moral feelings of a Christian country. He says, I think if we go to other countries where Sunday labour is not as a rule carried on, we shall find a great many in these countries who, for the sake of gain, would be ready to work on the seventh day if opportunity were afforded them to do so. If that sentence stood alone it might be regarded as only a cynical assertion that a good deal of Sunday observance, in Great Britain and in America, the only countries he can refer to, is due to the fact that men have not the opportunity of making money on that day. But he must mean something more, otherwise this very assertion defeats his own argument against compulsion. He goes on to speak about greater fortunes being made and more money amassed by working seven days instead of six, and of sacrifices that have to be made in order to secure Sunday rest. Such remarks, if they were not qualified, would almost lead one to suppose that his Excellency believed England and America were impoverished by the cessation of labour on Sunday, and that the poverty of the working class was due to some extent to the fact that they only worked six days a week. Now, if there is one fact more clear than another, it is this, that even supposing more could be produced by working seven days than by working six, which is doubtful, the working man's share would not be increased. The invention of machinery and the increased facilities of communication have increased production a hundred-fold within the last fifty years. Were the position of the wage-earners dependent alone on production, poverty would long ere this have disappeared. But the amount of possible production has only a small bearing on the wealth or poverty of a country. There are many other ...",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.\n\n### 4 January, 1891.\n\nA large number of members of the above-named Association assembled at College Chambers, the new quarters of the Society, last Saturday night. Captain SAMUEL ASHTON, A.I.N.A., occupied the Chair.\n\nThe President said Gentlemen, I have to-night to congratulate you as an Association. We commenced to be a thoroughly active body in June last, and since that time I think we can honestly say we have not been idle. The object with which the Association was formed was to improve your position socially, morally and intellectually, and it is only by combining together that you can hope to improve your position. I am glad to see that you have combined yourselves, and, as a united force, there is no doubt that you can carry out any reasonable reformation you think necessary. Although I must confess the results of our combination have, so far, practically been small, I think we can look forward to satisfactory results in the near future. But we must not be impatient of these results. As his Excellency the Acting Governor told our deputation the other day, we must not expect immediate results; but our united efforts, if properly, quietly, consistently and forcibly carried out, will no doubt obtain results which will benefit our profession as a whole. As you know, we have been recently occupied with the Sunday labour question, a question which not only affects local men but every mercantile marine officer who visits this port. You cannot hope that your fruit will ripen immediately. You must give it time, and I judge that by so doing and from information to hand, we shall have ripe fruit in the end (applause). I suppose you are all aware that, thanks to the efforts of our energetic Secretary, we are now in alliance with the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool, one of the most powerful associations in the world, and from what we learn from recent advices the Liverpool Association has combined itself with every kindred association in the United Kingdom, forming one grand federation of mercantile marine officers; and I think, gentlemen, we can congratulate ourselves on being amalgamated with the most powerful body of mercantile marine officers the world has yet known (applause). Gentlemen, we have in addition, powerful friends amongst shipowners and employers of labour, and as an instance of this I will ask the Secretary to read you a letter which has been recently received from a leading shipowner of Glasgow.\n\nThe Secretary then read a letter from the head of a firm of shipowners in Glasgow. The writer stated that he himself had been a captain, and had always insisted on the observance of Sunday rest in port. He had proved, over and over again, that he could get more work done by giving his crew one day of rest in seven, and agents and merchants in the end had acknowledged that he was right. Since he had become an owner, he had always given his masters instructions that no Sunday labour was to be carried out on board his ships except in cases of sheer necessity. He considered Sunday labour unjustifiable, and would at once press the matter forward amongst leading shipowners in Scotland.\n\nThe President (continuing) said - Gentlemen, that letter will show you what encouragement we are getting. I may tell you that I myself have received private letters, which I cannot read to you just now because I have not permission to do so, letters from influential men in England, whose influence will be used in our behalf with a view of bringing about a cessation of Sunday labour on board ship, and I feel certain that in the course of time, and I think and trust not a very long time, we shall see this question, which the Association has so earnestly taken up, brought to a successful issue. It is too great and too important a question to be settled in a moment, but I do trust that in this the Jubilee year of the Colony, we may reasonably look forward to a satisfactory issue before the year closes. (Loud applause). I think such would be a fitting, the most suitable, memorial we could have to mark the Jubilee (renewed applause). We must remember, gentlemen, that if this reform, the first we have attempted, is carried out, all others will be the more easily carried, and carried as I trust all our measures will be carried, by force of reason and argument, not by violent action. We have only to look at the recent strike of mercantile marine officers in Australia: Their action has caused an unnecessary amount of misery to people who had nothing to do with, and were in no way concerned in, the questions at issue, and it has miserably failed. Gentlemen, just and righteous claims can always be gained by the force of public opinion, and it is by that I trust we shall gain what we require and what we are justly entitled to (applause).\n\n## THE \"NAMOA\" TRAGEDY.\n\nBefore sitting down, gentlemen, there is one more matter to which I must refer, and that is the Namoa tragedy, and I should like to ask you whether you consider we should formulate some expression of opinion on that matter? (cries of “yes.”) Gentlemen, I am glad to find that you think as an association, it is our duty to express some opinion regarding this terrible occurrence. You have no doubt read the accounts which have appeared in the local papers, and you have also no doubt discussed the matter amongst yourselves, and I am sure you must feel surprised at the supineness and dilatoriness of the authorities of this colony, after having received reliable information of this sad catastrophe. I think I may say we are all surprised that more prompt action was not taken in regard to this matter.\n\nI do not say who is to blame, but I do say that considering these attacks have been taking place periodically ever since 1857, more prompt action should have been taken in this matter. On the receipt of such information, gunboats should be ready to leave at a moment's notice. It is probably in the recollection of some members of this Association that it used to be the rule for certain gunboats - the Algerine, Bantry, Haughty and others - on this station, to be held in readiness to leave at once on the receipt of such information as was brought here with reference to the Namoa. It may be that owing to the Chinese having been virtually admitted into the community of civilized nations, the idea that their Navy and Customs cruisers were competent to keep down piracy on their coasts has lulled foreign Powers into a sense of security which is as utterly groundless as it has been proved to be fictitious - it is, in fact, a mischievous assumption based upon the hare-brained ruminations of so-called sinologues and lazy officers. That the Chinese are utterly unable to keep down piracy is an absolute fact, which may be proved by reference to the foreign vessels outraged in the China Sea since 1866.\n\n| Year | Vessel | Type |\n|------|--------|------|\n| 1866 | British bark Cæsar | Outraged |\n| 1866 | Danish ship Carl | Outraged |\n| 1868 | German bark Lesmona | Outraged |\n| 1874 | British steamer Spark | Outraged |\n| 1879 | British bark Elizabeth Childs | Outraged |\n| 1885 | British steamer Greyhound | Outraged |\n| 1890 | British steamer Namoa | Outraged |\n| ...  | British steamers Bowen and Soochow | Pirates on board |\n\nI refer to the: British bark Cæsar and Danish ship Carl in 1866, German bark Lesmona in 1868, British steamer Spark in 1874, British bark Elizabeth Childs in 1879, British steamer Greyhound in 1885, British steamer Namoa in 1890, and the British steamers Bowen and Soochow which pirates were on board of with arms, ammunition and stinkpots. The latter were, however, found out before the hour had arrived for the outbreak, consequently these two vessels and several lives were saved. As to who is to blame, we as an association should not, I think, blame any individuals (cries of \"name them\"), but we can, and do, blame a system which has proved itself not only unable to detect and stop the conspirators who armed themselves and boarded the Namoa in the waters of this colony, but which, when fully informed of the dastardly outrages committed within 50 miles of the port, utterly failed to even attempt to capture the cold-blooded villains who turned a British ship into a terrible, an awe-inspiring, hell! (cries of \"shame,\" \"police\" and \"navy\"). I would add that we as a body of officers do not experience that sense of security which, as constituent parts of a peaceful profession, we ought to feel, if properly protected by those whom we and our employers are taxed to support (loud applause). Gentlemen, it is apparent that we carry our lives in our hands under present conditions, and that many an awful warning has been woefully disregarded. Taking everything into consideration we now fearlessly assert that the Namoa tragedy resulted through the negligence of those over whom neither the owners of the Namoa nor the officers on board had any material control. We absolve all the officers of the Namoa from blame, (\"hear, hear,\" and \"certainly\"); we consider they acted with great wisdom under the circumstances.",
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        "content_text": "## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\nCapt. Ashton headed the deputation on the 18th of November, and he appealed, in eloquent language, to Government to relieve officers of a great hardship and an invasion of their rights as subjects of the Queen. His Excellency kindly replied at length, and did much to allay the storm, which the ripple on the surface gave warning of, and showed how the depths were surging below. His Excellency (the Hon. F. Fleming, C.M.G.) said, inter alia, that the officers need not consider the reply of the Chamber as final. As on previous occasions when the Association had important work on hand, the Press was represented, and kindly published full reports of the proceedings.\n\nFull particulars of all that has been said and done in Hongkong with a view to the abolition of this obnoxious custom are now in the press, and will very soon be issued in pamphlet form for general information.\n\nIn the foregoing, I have, in my capacity as Honorary Secretary, merely outlined the work performed by this young Association during the past year. From a small beginning of ten members, the body numbered over a hundred in less than six months. From that, it has increased until fully 7/8ths of the officers sailing out of this port are enrolled as members. Irrespective of this, a world-wide union of certificated British officers is all but *un fait accompli*, for by our alliance with the Liverpool Association, our members stood at over 3,000 in October, and subsequently, through our connection with that body which took the lead in forming the federation of shipmasters and officers in London, it rose to close upon 15,000. Our alliance with Australia and Shanghai cannot long be deferred, so we understand, and when that is accomplished, we shall see what can be done in India. We therefore hope that ere 1891 draws to a close, the world-wide union of British officers will become an indisputable fact. That we should be so united, no sensible man will deny, for without it, a thorough revision of the laws governing the Mercantile Marine of Great Britain, which are so notoriously unsuited to the times, cannot be regarded as within measurable distance.\n\nLet us all bear in mind that it is through her mercantile marine that Britain's commerce has become the greatest the world has yet known; it is by means chiefly of her mercantile marine that such commerce can be maintained; it is by the use and efficiency of her mercantile marine that this vast amount of commerce (this unfathomable source of wealth to the Empire) will be even further developed, and by which England will maintain her proud position as the first commercial Power of the world. Bearing all these facts in mind, let us strain every nerve to maintain the dignity of what should ever be a highly respected profession, and never forget that \"UNITY IS STRENGTH.\"\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1891.\n\n**CHESNEY DUNCAN**,  \nHon. Secretary.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n(). That when Officers are required for Sunday work, they should be directed, upon application of the Agent (which application should be made on the day previous) to be in attendance and not to leave the town during the following day, and that after this notice has been given, should the officers' services not be required, they will be entitled to payment for the day—having been unnecessarily detained in Port.\n\n(Signed)  \n**Colonial Secretary's Office**,  \nColombo, 5th January, 1870.  \n**H. T. IRVING**,  \nColonial Secretary.\n\n## MINUTE\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** is pleased to direct that the following Scale of Allowances shall be paid to the Officers of the Customs Department at Colombo by parties requiring the performance of duties by them on Sundays and Holidays, and beyond the regular legal hours, viz.:\n\n| Position | Rate for Sundays and Holidays | Rate per hour beyond legal hours |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Landing Surveyor | Rs. 10 the day | Rs. 3 per hour |\n| Landing Waiters and Clerks | Rs. 5.0 do. | Rs. 1.50 per hour |\n| Lockers, Tide Surveyors, Tide Waiters | Rs. 0.75 do. | Rs. 0.50 do. |\n|  | Rs. 0.26 do. (Tide Waiters only) | Rs. 0.25 do. (Tide Waiters only) |\n\n3. For superintending within the legal hours the trans-shipment of Goods from one vessel to another.\n\n## SPECIAL PORT (SUNDAY) REGULATIONS AT CEYLON\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** in virtue of the power vested in him by the 79th clause of Ordinance No. 17 of 1869, has ordered and hereby orders that the following special Regulations relating to the entry inwards and outwards of the Landing, Shipping, and Trans-shipping of Goods and of all business connected with steamers, be published for general information and have force of Law.\n\n(a). That all Mail Steamers or Steamers for which Agents have given a special Bond shall, on timely notice being given to the Collector of the Port, be permitted to work after office hours and during the night and on Sundays, and the said notice shall give a guarantee for the payment of the several officers the Collector may think necessary to appoint for the required service.\n\n| Position | Rate for Sundays and Holidays |\n| --- | --- |\n| Landing Waiters | Rs. 2.50 the day |\n| Lockers, Tide Surveyors | Rs. 1.25 do. |\n| Tide Waiters | Rs. 0.75 do. |\n\nAnd for periods beyond the legal hours, the regular rates per hour.\n\n4. When application is made for such services, the Collector, if he sees fit to sanction the same, should require a deposit to be made, sufficient to cover the expenses likely to be incurred.\n\n5. When more than one vessel may be so working, the expenses for extra attendance of Officers shall be divided amongst all the parties availing themselves of their services.\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office**,  \nColombo, 11th September, 1872.  \nBy His Excellency's Command,  \n**HENRY T. IRVING**,  \nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "# The Mercantile Marine Service Association\n\n## Hong Kong Telegraph 19/11/90\n\n### A National Disgrace!\n\n#### THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION. AN APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT.\n\nHis Excellency the Acting Governor received a deputation from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association at Government House yesterday. The deputation, which was received in the first instance by Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C., and subsequently introduced to His Excellency by the Hon. Secretary, consisted of Captain S. Ashton, Mr. J. W. James, Mr. Chesney Duncan (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. J. W. Gale, N.A. (President), Mr. Pearce, W. Winch (officers), and James Edwards (Hon. Treasurer).\n\nThe Mercantile Marine Service Association was incorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Merchant Service, promoting the general improvement of nautical men by education, wholesome laws, obtaining redress of wrongs, procuring employment, and caring for the helpless and aged.\n\nCaptain Ashton said that the deputation felt most deeply grateful to His Excellency for granting them an interview. They sought to address the strong feeling amongst British officers that there should be a cessation of labour on board ships in this port on Sundays. Having studied Lord Knutsford's speech on the subject, made in the House of Lords on the 25th of July last, the Association came to the conclusion that the best way of causing much-needed legislation on the subject was to move the Chamber of Commerce to recommend Government to introduce a Bill which would cause the cessation of unnecessary Sunday labour.\n\n| **Position** | **Name** |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | J. W. Gale, N.A. |\n| Hon. Secretary | Chesney Duncan |\n| Hon. Treasurer | James Edwards |\n\nThe Association discussed the question at length with the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at a public conference held at the City Hall on the 7th ultimo. Full reports of the arguments occasioned, together with the Chamber's written decision, dated the 31st of October, had doubtless come within His Excellency's cognizance.\n\nCaptain Ashton continuing said, \"We are very glad to think that His Excellency has taken notice of the movement which, we submit, is a righteous and justifiable movement, and a protest against moral slavery.\" He contended that the reply of the Chamber was unjustifiable in the circumstances and was an insult to officers. The Chamber's proposition was impracticable in the extreme and amounted to a modus vivendi.\n\nThe Chamber wrote, \"The Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this harbour, as the questions involved are very serious and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith.\" Captain Ashton argued that the Government could legislate for the suppression of Sunday labour without injuriously affecting the shipping interests or the Chinese population.\n\nHis Excellency, in reply, said he was very glad to receive the deputation and to hear their views on a question which was admittedly one of much importance. He believed it was admitted on all sides that it would be desirable to diminish Sunday labour if such could possibly be done. The question then arose whether it should be interfered with, and if so, by what means such interference should be brought about.\n\nThere were only two ways by which this could be done: one being by having recourse to compulsory legislation, and the other by the voluntary co-operation of those concerned in the shipping interests of the colony. His Excellency admitted that he did not altogether agree with all the arguments brought forward as proof that it was impossible to diminish Sunday labour in the colony.\n\n### Honorary Members\n\n* ADMIRAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., K.T., G.C.B.\n* LORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON\n* LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B.\n* HON. W. A. CROSS, M.P.\n* M. W. MATTINSON, ESQ., M.P.\n* CAPTAIN SIR JAMES ANDERSON\n* SIR E. BATES, BART., M.P.\n* PROFESSOR SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D., F.R.S.\n* WM. RATURONR, ESQ., M.P.\n* DAVID MACIVER, ESQ.\n* EDWARD WHITLEY, ESQ., M.P.\n* SAMUEL SMITH, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH NEVILLE, ESQ., Q.C., M.P.\n* T.B. ROYDEŃ, ESQ., M.P.\n* BARON H. DE WORMS, M.P.\n* W. F. LAWRENCE, ESQ., M.P.\n* SIR G. BADEN-POWELL, ESQ., M.P.\n* T. P. O'CONNOR, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH BROCKLEBANK, ESQ.\n* JAMES BEAZLEY, ESQ., J.P.\n* J. J. MAY, ESQ., J.P.\n\n### Honorary Council\n\n* African Steam Ship Company\n* Aspinal, J, Son & Brooke\n* Balfour, Williamson & Co.\n* Baring Brothers\n* Batea, Stokes & Co.\n* Bibby, James J., Esq.\n* Brocklebank, Sir Thomas\n* Brocklebank, Ralph, Jun., Esq.\n* Bushell Bros. & Co.\n* Cearns & Brown\n* Cary, John, Esq., J.P.\n* Cory, Alderman J., Cardiff\n* Coteaworth, Ingue & Co.\n* Cross, J. T., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. H., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. T., & Sons\n* Eusington & Co.\n* Farnworth and Jardine\n* Gibbs, Bright & Co.\n* Graham, Rows & Co.\n* Gruning & Co.\n\n### Executive Council\n\n* Captain T. VINCENT, President\n* CLARKE ASPINALL, ESQ., Treasurer\n* Littledale, T. & J., & Co.\n* Lyon, Comper & Co.\n* Lockett, John, Esq.\n* Mackie & Sons\n* Melones, John, Esq.\n* Maciver, Charles, Esq.\n* Maciver, Henry, Esq.\n* Morland, Sir Henry, Bombay\n* Moss, Charles, & Co.\n* Myers, W. J. Sons, & Co.\n* Muck, W. D., Esq.\n* National Steam Ship Co., Ltd.\n* Nixon & Thew\n* Nickels, J. T., & Co.\n* North, Colonel J. T.\n\n### Council Members (To serve Three Years)\n\n| **Name** | **Position** |\n| --- | --- |\n| Brooks, Capt. | Captain |\n| Burton, G., Capt. | Captain |\n| Campbell, H., Capt. | Captain |\n| Clarke, Janno, Capt. | Captain |\n| Gales, James, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hill, William, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hamil, Martin f., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hatfield, B., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hayes, H. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Killy, C. J., Capt. | Captain |\n| Lewis, A. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Murray, G. S., Capt. | Captain |\n| McBay, Horatio, Capt. | Captain |\n| Nowell, S., Capt. | Captain |\n| Ritchie, Joseph, Capt. | Captain |\n| Royden, T. B., Esq., M.P. |  |\n| Suumier, Janges, Capt. | Captain |\n| Watt, H. F., Capt. | Captain |\n| Webster, J. K., Capt. | Captain |\n| Williamson, John, Esq. |  |\n\nPage 363\n\nC. O. \n2340\nRECE(REG 2 FEB 91)",
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        "content_text": "There were certain works which were necessary to carry out in this colony as well as anywhere else, but inasmuch as the Sunday was observed in many countries to a greater extent than it was here, such was a proof, to some extent at all events, that to work on the seventh day to the extent that was done here was not an absolute necessity. In so far as this colony was concerned it should also be borne in mind that the fact of having no Custom-house rendered it more difficult to limit Sunday work here than was the case in those countries where Custom-houses did exist, and where, therefore, it was more easy to put a check on Sunday labour.\n\nCaptain Ashton remarked that the Harbour Master gave clearances to ships on Sunday, which he thought showed that even the small means which did exist for stopping Sunday work could be made use of at any time.\n\nHis Excellency said that although what had just been stated by Captain Ashton might be the case, he could not admit that giving clearances to ships necessarily encouraged work being carried on in the loading and discharging of cargo on Sunday to the extent that it was carried on in a colony where no Custom-houses existed, and that the mere fact of its being known that the Custom-house was closed in places where Custom-houses existed, and that business was only transacted in it under very exceptional circumstances, naturally tended to a very considerable extent to prevent Sunday labour being carried on. The question really seemed to him to resolve itself into this, were those who necessarily derived a certain amount of profit and gain from Sunday work prepared to make a certain sacrifice in order that the Sunday might be better observed than it now was? It must be admitted that where work was carried on during seven days of the week instead of six, some profit and gain would naturally be realised, and therefore it appeared to be a question whether those who derived that profit and gain were prepared to make the sacrifice he had alluded to in order that the Sunday might be better observed than it now was. This question of diminishing Sunday labour might not altogether depend upon those who were directly interested in the business of this colony. Many of the latter were probably representatives of people at home, who might possess to some extent the same feelings in regard to Sunday labour as the members of the deputation who had come there that morning, and might bring influence to bear upon their representatives here to do what was in their power to limit Sunday labour, and so carry out, at all events to some extent, the wishes that had been expressed. He might say that he did not think that the reply of the Chamber of Commerce, which had been considerably quoted to him, should be taken as a conclusive answer that nothing more could be done in this matter. (Captain Ashton and several others, \"thank you, Your Excellency\") And in so far as he was concerned he should at all times be prepared to listen to any proposals which might have for their object to carry out, to some extent, the desires that had been expressed to him, but he felt sure the deputation would understand that under present circumstances, and situated as he now was, it could not be expected that he could accede to their proposal to introduce compulsory legislation in regard to the question of Sunday labour. The Governor, Sir William Des Vœux, who since he had been at home had conferred with Lord Knutsford on the question, would soon be among us again, and he (His Excellency) felt sure he would gladly listen to any proposals that might be made to him in connection with this important question on his return. In conclusion, he would again admit that the question was one of much importance. It was one which undoubtedly had difficulties connected with it, and one which they could not expect to be solved in a day, nor perhaps in a year, but it was one which, if there existed an earnest desire and real co-operation among those who were interested in the shipping business of the colony to diminish Sunday labour to the extent to which it was now carried on here, would, he felt pretty sure, sooner or later be solved, to a certain extent at all events, in accordance with the wishes of those who had expressed their views to him that morning.\n\nCapt. Ashton - May I ask Your Excellency if Her Majesty's Government does or does not possess power to pass any law they think fit?\n\nHis Excellency - Certainly, Her Majesty's Government have power to make any laws they deem expedient for Crown Colonies.\n\nThe deputation then withdrew after thanking His Excellency for the courteous reception.\n\nC.O.2340\nRECR\nRecd 2 FEB 91\n271",
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        "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nform classes to receive a thorough English training from himself; (4) that other Chinese youths who had not been in any of the Government Schools but wished to learn English should be admissible on payment of fees to the headmaster's classes; and (5) that the superintendence of the other Schools, not concentrated in the proposed Institution, be continued as heretofore, the Headmaster (as Inspector) to be assisted in it by the Board of Education. This plan, admirable in its conception of a Model School to form the centre of the educational system of Hongkong, placed the Headmaster and Inspector of Schools, who was at the same time a Government Officer, in the same hybrid relation to the Government and to a fluctuating and internally dissentient Board of private educationists, which had made Mr. Ibscheid's position one of constant friction and which, in this case also, was bound to come to a speedy termination. The announcement of Dr. Legge's plan was the death-knell of St. Andrew's School. It was closed at the end of the year 1860, during which it had been taught by Mr. J. Kemp and attended by 70 boys. Mr. Kemp had adopted the Madras system of monitorial teaching and obtained good results. He reported the School to be increasing in favour among the Chinese population. Nevertheless, Dr. Legge's popular plan put the extinguisher on St. Andrew's School. Out of its ashes arose that phoenix of the Government Central School which now bears the prouder name of Victoria College.\n\nIn reporting on the Government Schools for the year 1860, the Committee announced the sanguine expectation, which has ever since been connected with the Central School and Victoria College, that some day the Schools of Hongkong will exercise an important influence on the system of education pursued in the Schools of China itself. Meanwhile, these Hongkong Government Schools, now 30 in number, and attended by 902 boys and 46 girls, had but an imperfect organization, and the method of teaching followed in the Schools was a strange medley of Chinese and European and latterly of religious and secular principles. The Committee actually reported that the monitorial system had been adopted in the smaller Schools. Even the sphere to be allotted to English instruction, in relation to Chinese studies, with a view to obtaining decent results in both languages—which is the real crux, still unsolved, of the educational problem of Hongkong—was not defined yet. The Committee expressed in this report a vague desire that education in English should enter more largely into the conduct of the principal Schools than it has yet done. The Government spent, during the year 1860, a total of $6725 on education.\n\n## 1861\n\nThe revival of Voluntary Schools, which had so suddenly set in with the year 1860, continued during the year 1861. St. Paul's College received a new lease of life, as a School, by the arrival of a new tutor, Mr. J. Fryer, now the well-known Translator of scientific works at Kiangnan Arsenal. He had 4 Chinese assistant teachers under him and 44 boys under instruction. The expenses of the School amounted to $4000. The Girls School, opened by Bishop Smith in 1860, was now, on the arrival of the instructress, Miss Eaton, re-organized under the name of the Diocesan Native Female Training School, beginning with 17 Chinese girls, temporarily located at the Albany. The Government having granted a building site (that of the present Diocesan School), a local Ladies Committee, under the presidency of Mrs. Smith, raised funds by local subscriptions and a good-sized building was erected. As the instructress was sent out and maintained, independently of the local Committee, by the London Society for the Promotion of Female Education in the East, which now for the first time entered upon its long-continued educational labours in Hongkong, there was a divided control which naturally did not augur much success.\n\nAnother new educational agency, unfortunately but of a few years' duration but to the present day living in the memory of many, appeared on the scene in the person of Miss Baxter. Being possessed of independent means, Miss Baxter started on her own account, but in connection with the above-mentioned Female Education Society, most useful Christian work among the women and children of Hongkong. No class of people in need of education, help, or comfort, escaped Miss Baxter's observation and energetic helpfulness. The wives and children of the soldiers of the garrison in town and at Stanley (where they were ruthlessly decimated by malarial fever), Chinese women and girls of all classes, and most especially the Eurasian children of the Colony, then more numerous and more neglected than at present, were the principal objects of Miss Baxter's unwearied ministrations, by regular house-to-house visits, on the principle of Indian Zenana work. In addition to these labours, Miss Baxter started in 1861, at Ashton Buildings, a Chinese Day School with 2 Chinese teachers, and a Boarding School for Chinese and Eurasian girls (commencing with 8 Chinese girls and 5 Eurasian orphans). At the same time, Miss Magrath, unconnected with any Society, started, with the aid of local donations, an Anglo-Chinese Boarding School, with 6 boys and 10 girls, at Mosque Terrace. Miss Legge continued the re-opened Anglo-Chinese Girls School of the London Mission, under Mrs. Kwan Amni and a Chinese teacher, the School being reported as intended for the daughters of native church members. It cost $205. Finally, two German Ladies of the Berlin Foundling House commenced, in their institution, a School with 13 children costing $144.\n\nAs to the R. C. Mission Schools, the work re-commenced in 1860 was continued in the year 1861. Mr. Rowland gave an English education to 30 boys in the R. C. Boys School in Wellington Street, which cost the Propaganda Society $900. In the same Street, Mr. Vincento Pereira gave a European education in the Portuguese language to 25 boys, also at a cost of $960, and Mr. Leung gave to 90 boys an ordinary Chinese education at a cost of $141. At Spring Gardens, Mr. Vincent Uen (under the direction of the Propaganda Society) taught a Chinese School of 35 boys at a cost of $192, and at Aberdeen, Mr. Stephanus Chú, of the same Society, taught 18 Chinese boys at a cost of $144. In the Seminary in Pottinger Street, eleven students of theology were under the instruction of Fathers G. Favini, J. Borgozzi, and Peter Leang, at a cost of $600. The Sookonpoo Theological School under Father J. Jaquemin had 10 students and cost $480. The Sisters of the Italian Convent, continuing the good work which they had commenced in 1860, had 20 girls receiving an English education under Sister Aloysia, 28 girls receiving a European education in the Portuguese language under Sister Giovannina, and 35 girls receiving a Chinese education under Sister Giuseppina. At Spring Gardens, the Italian Sisters continued their Chinese Girls-School, attended by 30 children under Sister Cecilia Leang, at a cost of $144. The Sisters of the Asile de la Sainte Enfance had, at Spring Gardens, a Chinese Girls School, attended by 34 children, under Sister Benjamin. This School cost $240. There was also a Boys School, attended by 15 Chinese boys under Mr. Joseph Lee, which cost the French Sisters $120.\n\nEarly in the year (9th January, 1861), the Government informed the Board of Education that the Governor (Sir Hercules Robinson) approved of Dr. Legge's Plan and acceded to the recommendation, agreed to by the Board, to place all the Government Schools under the superintendence and inspection of the Headmaster to be placed in charge of the proposed Central School. At the same time, the Government authorized the Board to find a gentleman suited to the post. Dr. Bridges and Dr. Irwin having...",
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        "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nThe Board of Education, having undergone changes in its membership due to resignations and absences, now consisted of the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. W. T. Mercer (president), the Hon. A. Fletcher, M.L.C., Rev. W. R. Beach, the Rev. Dr. Legge, and Mr. W. Robinson (Secretary). The latter was soon succeeded by Mr. J. C. Power. At the request of the Board, Dr. Legge drafted a circular letter, which was forwarded (10th April, 1861) to the Registrar of London University and to the Principals of the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, requesting each of them to recommend to Bishop Smith (then in England) two gentlemen likely to occupy efficiently the position of Headmaster Principal in the proposed Central School. Bishop Smith was authorized to select from the candidates thus recommended the individual most likely to give satisfaction. The circular described the Government Schools, noting that \"they are not religious Schools, but the sacred Scriptures in Chinese are used as a class book.\" Dr. Legge's characteristic sentences in the circular included: \"The Headmaster will be expected to acquire the Chinese language, without a knowledge of which he cannot fill the situation efficiently. Under the right man, the Institution will not only benefit the Chinese population of this Colony but tell powerfully on the enlightenment and progress of the adjoining Continent.\"\n\nOn 25th March, 1861, Dr. Legge's Plan was submitted to the Legislative Council, which approved it and authorized the purchase of premises for the proposed Government Central School in Gough Street for $20,000 and the erection of an additional building on the same site.\n\nThe Board of Education had abandoned its former, decidedly religious, principles of education and adopted secular principles. This is evident not only from the circular letter but also from the fact that the Board resolved (2nd April, 1861) that the Bishop's Diocesan Girls School, a Christian School and constituted differently from the Government Schools, could not remain under the Board's superintendence. The Rev. W. R. Beach resigned his seat on the Board (3rd September, 1861), and a merchant, Mr. J. J. Mackenzie, took his place. As the Colonial Secretary ceased to attend the Board's meetings around the same time, Dr. Legge was appointed Chairman. Before the close of the year, the Board received (3rd December, 1861) information from the Bishop that he had selected Mr. F. Stewart, M.A., for the Headmastership of the Government Schools.\n\nIn their report for the year 1861, the Committee stated that Dr. Legge had inspected the Schools in the absence of a regular Inspector and reported favorably on attendance and teachers, but the report gave no statistics.\n\n## 1862\n\nSt. Paul's College School, under Mr. J. Fryer, assisted by 4 Chinese teachers, received English boys during 1862, teaching them together with Chinese boys. There were 44 boys in average attendance, and the School cost $4000. The Diocesan Female Training School, under Miss Eaton, continued in the Albany, rent-free, with an average attendance of 17 girls, at a cost of $2043. Miss Baxter continued her Chinese Day School in Ashton Buildings with 20 children and a Chinese-Eurasian Boarding School in Mosque Terrace with 13 children, costing $125 and $625, respectively. Miss Mugrath's European Day School in Mosque Gardens had 16 children, and Miss Legge's Anglo-Chinese School had 12 children. The Berlin Foundling House had 13 children attending school. St. Andrew's School, having closed at the end of the previous year, disappeared from the records.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Schools included: Mr. Rowland's B.C. English Boys School in Wellington Street with 30 boys at a cost of $960; Mr. Pereira's R.C. Portuguese School with 35 boys at the same cost; and Mr. Maurus Leong's R.C. Chinese School with 30 Chinese boys at a cost of $144. The Propaganda Society also ran a Chinese School in Spring Gardens with 35 boys under Mr. Vincent Uen at a cost of $192, and another in Aberdeen with 18 boys under Mr. Stephanus Chu at a cost of $144. The Ecclesiastical School of the French Mission had 10 students under Père Jaqueminet at a cost of $489. The Italian Convent had 20 girls in their English School, 28 girls in their Portuguese School, and 35 girls in their Chinese School, costing $2400. Their Chinese Girls School at Spring Gardens had 30 children at a cost of $144. The Asile de la Sainte Enfance had 34 girls and 15 Chinese boys under Sister Benjamin and Mr. Joseph Lee, respectively, costing $360.\n\nThe great event of the year for Government Schools was the arrival (18th February, 1862) of the new Headmaster, Mr. (later Dr.) Stewart, who established the reign of secularism in local education. He exercised a beneficial influence on hundreds of Chinese youths through his strict discipline and noble character. The Central School became highly popular and the ideal of the community under his leadership.\n\nBefore Dr. Stewart's arrival, Dr. Legge and Mr. J. J. Mackenzie had amalgamated four Government Schools into one Central School at Gough Street. The question of its permanent organization and admission principles was solved by Mr. Mackenzie's Memorandum (3rd June, 1862), which was accepted by the Board (8th October, 1862) with slight modifications. The Regulations for the Government Schools in Hongkong excluded rudimentary Chinese teaching from the Central School, admitting Chinese scholars only after a test examination.\n\nPage 188\nPage 26\nPage 27\nPage 382",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nSHANGHAI COMMITTEE.\n\nMR. R. M. CAMPBELL, Chairman,\n\nMR. CHARLES DOWDALL\n\nMR. C. J. DUDGEON\n\nMR. A. P. MCEWEN\n\nMR. E. A. PROBST\n\nMR. E. B. SKOTTOWE\n\nMR. ALEX. WRIGHT\n\nMr. W. H. TALBOT, Hon. Sec.\n\nHONGKONG COMMITTEE.\n\nMR. T. JACKSON, Chairman.\n\nMr. C. J. HOLLIDAY\n\nMR. J. J. KESWICK\n\nMR. E. MACKINTOSH\n\nMR. JAS. DODDS\n\nMR. J. A. FRASER\n\nMr. A. G. WOOD\n\nMR. T. H. WHITEHEAD\n\nMR. F. HENDERSON, Hon. Sec.\n\nYOKOHAMA COMMITTEE.\n\nMR. J. F. LOWDER, Chairman.\n\nMr. E. F. KILBY, Hon. Treas.\n\nMR. J. P. MOLLISON\n\nMr. W. W. TILL\n\nMr. E. WHITTALL\n\nMR. W. J. S. SHAND, Hon. Sec.\n\nAdams, F. C.\n\nLIST OF MEMBERS.\n\nAdamson, W. R. Adler, M.\n\nAnderson, Fred. Anton, J. R. Alford, E. F. Allen, Herbert J. Anderson, Robert Antrobus, R. C. Arnhold, Jacob Ashton, R. J. Ash, Arthur\n\nBaggallay, M. Baker, H. Bain, Allan W.\n\nBaird, C. W.\n\nBalfour, L. C.\n\nBarnes, F. D.\n\nBarton, Alfred, M.D.\n\nBatt, E. W.\n\nBayne, W. G.\n\nBeattie, Joseph\n\nBeazley, H.\n\nBellingham, A. W. H.\n\nBelilios, E. R.\n\nBennett, W. R.\n\nBeris, H. M.\n\nBird, S. Godfrey\n\nBlackwell, R.\n\nBois, J. C.\n\nBrown, Jr. M, Brown, Thos. Bruce, Bobt. H. Brutton, G. K. H. Buchanan, Jas. Burgoyne, J. W. H, Burkill, A. R. Burman, A. Byrne, Edwin\n\nCass, F.\n\nCaffin, Edward Caldbeck, E. J.\n\nCameron, E.\n\nCampbell, Alexander\n\nCampbell, Chas.\n\nCampbell, Jas.\n\nCampbell Rod. M.\n\nCantlie, Jas., M.A., M.B.\n\nCarlill, A. J. H.\n\nCarter, J. F.\n\nChalmers, W. B.\n\nChambers, H. J, J.\n\nChater, C. P. Cheyne, A.\n\nClarke, Brodie A.\n\nClark, Geo.\n\nClark, H. J.\n\nClark, J. D.\n\nCoghill, J. G. S., M.D.\n\nCooper, F. D.\n\nClarke, W. J.\n\nColes, F. W.\n\nBowen, Rt. Hon. Sir Geo, F.,\n\nP.C., G.C.M.G.\n\nBoyd, Matthew\n\nCooper, Jno.\n\nCooper, W. M.\n\nBoyd, Thomas M.\n\nBrand, David\n\nBrand, William\n\nBrearley, D. S.\n\nBremner, A. S.\n\nBrodie, W. G. Brooke, J. H. Browett, Harold\n\nCorner, G. R.\n\nCornes, F.\n\nCousins, Edmund\n\nCoxon, Attwell\n\nCraven, J. H.\n\nCraven, T.\n\nCrossman, Sir Wm., Major-General K.C.M.G.\n\n345",
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        "content_text": "# \n## No. 119\n### 3.0 13309\n#### 30 APR 00 97\n\nGovernment House,  \nHong Kong, 2 March, 1900.\n\n4767  \n3207  \n9785  \n\nSir,  \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.39 of the 9th ultimo, and to inform you that the consequences of the reversal of the position of the buildings of the New Law Courts pointed out in Messrs. Ashton and Webb's letter, which formed an enclosure in your despatch, were fully realised here, and it was considered notwithstanding that the principal offices in the buildings should face the East.\n\nI decided therefore to adhere to the opinion of the Committee which, as stated in my despatch No.368 of the 29th of December, I had appointed to consider the plans of the buildings, and accordingly I telegraphed to you on the 28th instant as follows:-  \n\"Referring to your despatch No.39 of 9th February opinion unchanged respecting reversal\".\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.  \n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,  \nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,  \nHenry Arthur Blake  \n**GOVERNOR &C.**",
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        "document_key": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904",
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        "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904",
        "content_text": "Erected and Supported by Voluntary Contributions. Delightfully situated on the Cheshire bank of the River Mersey, between Egremont and New Brighton.\n\nOPENED BY H.R.H. THE LATE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, 16th DECEMBER, 1882.\n\nTHE CENTRAL BUILDING, or \"CLIFF HOME,\" erected at the sole cost of the late Mr. W. CLIFFE, provided for the entire maintenance of Aged Mariners (Shipmasters, Officers, and Seamen), as the funds will permit. There are now 66 inmates.\n\nTHE COTTAGE HOMES, in the same grounds, viz. The \"SLACE Cottages,\" the \"DIXON Cottages,\" the \"KELLOCK Cottage,\" the \"SANDER Cottage,\" the \"REYNER Cottages,\" the \"FORWOOD Cottages,\" the \"AURANTA and ETRURIA Cottages,\" the \"BACON Cottages,\" the \"PICKUP Cottages,\" \"ASHTON Cottages,\" the \"BROCKLEHURST Cottages,\" the \"MCINNES Cottages,\" the \"POTTER Cottages,\" \"Chaddock Cottages,\" and the \"HARLING Cottages,\" are for Aged Mariners who have Wives or other suitable Relatives to live with them, or as may be determined by the Council. Here they have a comfortable home, firing, gas, water, and taxes free, and a small pension, with liberty to engage in shipkeeping or other suitable employment.\n\nTHE PARK will admit of additional Cottages being erected and endowed.\n\nOUT-PENSIONS, for Aged Mariners who have friends they prefer to reside amongst, but who cannot support them altogether, and CASUAL RELIEF TO THE WIDOWS OF MARINERS, are also included among the objects of the Institution, as the funds are provided.\n\nDONORS of £5,000 may name a Ward, and Donors of £1,000 may name a Cabin in the Main Building.\n\nMr. ALEXANDER SPEIRS, Mrs. W. WRIGHT, the late Miss MARTHA RIDGWAY, and Messrs. RANKIN GILMOUR & Co., have each endowed a Cabin.\n\n1904\n\nAged Merchant Seamen and Widows Fund, 19 Feb\n\nFor affording pecuniary relief to Aged and Poor Shipmasters, Officers, and Seamen of all ranks, and the WIDOWS and Children of Mariners, who are in circumstances of distress. Four-fifths of the Income is derived from Annual Subscriptions, Donations, and Collections—a small Invested Fund yielding the only reliable income.\n\nPensions were granted to 126 aged Mariners and Widows, and casual relief was given to aged and distressed Mariners and Widows in 862 instances during the past twelve months; over £24,700 paid in Monthly Allowances and Casual Relief, since its formation in 1870, by the Mercantile Marine Service Association.\n\nLiverpool Seamen's Pension Fund.\n\nFounded by the late Mr. T. H. ISMAY, in June, 1887, by a Jubilee Gift of £20,000.\n\nSince augmented by Gifts from other kind Donors to a total of nearly £48,000.\n\nThe income of which permits 110 Aged Mariners receiving a pension amounting to £20 per annum each.\n\nThe late Mr. Ismay also laid down the following basis for the fund:-\n\n1. The object of the fund is to provide pensions for British sailors who have sailed out of Liverpool or in Liverpool-owned ships, and who have been unable to make adequate provision for their declining years.\n\n2. The pension, which it is proposed shall be fixed at £20 per annum, will not be granted to any person other than a British sailor, and will be continued at the absolute discretion of the Committee.\n\n3. No person shall be eligible for a pension who is able to serve at sea, or who has not attained the age of fifty years.\n\n4. Those persons only will be admitted as Candidates, who can prove twenty-five years of service at sea in the mercantile marine as Captain, Deck Officer, or Seaman.\n\n5. The Fund may be invested in the name of the Mercantile Marine Service Association, who will have the power of selecting suitable Candidates for the pension.\n\nThe \"MARGARET ISMAY\" WIDOWS' FUND, established by Mrs. ISMAY, with a Donation of £10,000.\n\nProvides Grants of £10 per annum to Widows of Pensioners of the Liverpool Seamen's Pension Fund.\n\nThe above Institutions are under the management of the COUNCIL OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE SERVICE ASSOCIATION, (incorporated by Special Act of Parliament.)—See opposite page.\n\nHon. Treasurer—J. H. STOCK, Esq., M.P.\n\nSecretary—C. P. GRYLLS.\n\nOFFICES—67 & 68, TOWER BUILDINGS, WATER STREET, LIVERPOOL.\n\nHere Contributions may be paid in between the hours of 9 and 6; Saturdays 9 to 2, or at the Bank of Liverpool, Water Street.\n\nNo. 6022\n\n(Subject.)\n\nFood supply in\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n6022\n\nPage 20 FEB 041\n\nWar time\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nDesp to for\n\non\n\nsubject\n\nTo for Sur Canada, con le cais 207\n\nFurther\n\nAnso 12 May 16:30 SHAY\n\naned to they\n\n76 & 1. (75) —13388–20700¬Z!· S\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nYou\n\n16530\n\n(Minutes.)",
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        "content_text": "## Colonial Office\n**C. O.**\n44917\n**RECE** `acce 2)` DEC 06\n\nMessrs Ashton Webb and E. Ingress Bell to Crown Agents.\n\n19 Queen Anne's Gate  \nWestminster  \nS.W.  \nw/Hong Kong 579  \n18th December 1905\n\nGentlemen,\n\n242\n\nWe have examined the plans, photos &c., submitted to us with your letter of the 15th instant and beg to report as follows.\n\nWe think that the Clock Tower would be suitably placed in connection with the new Post Office Buildings, and that its design as shown on the elevations is in harmony with the rest of the building and does not call for any particular modification.\n\nIf, however, the internal arrangements of the building permit, we think there would be some advantages in placing the Tower at the angle of the block as shown in the accompanying sketch, which, although not attempting to show the details, has been set up to scale.\n\nWe return the plans and other enclosures of your letter  \nand are  \nGentlemen &c.,  \n(Sd) Aston Webb & E. Ingress Bell.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906",
        "page_number": 419,
        "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906",
        "content_text": "414\n\nBAY Jalog 9.3 ms patonalanobnu edinileb Jaid duo beurtoq 012,bru stoedien wat a*nommene nao! ni lauuAS\n\nTOYALİ NA ,welv se da og'ashion\n\n•Vélude: 9321:3100 deniz add to oular\n\nwal sdt ttbom of boox:#\n\n* Jon Blow 3\" \"Ave\" bannt:\" mita Jans\n\nawo truthe\n\nAPIfata, tha to mol\n\n.adas xetr\n\nDraper n!\n\n2 erotetano quetibro \"o nu dat ber188dö\n\nBarieven seentielle\n\nلوت\n\ntwo gated vd #gstrvise to Mistre\n\nwww!!ull no abonged than not aflat\n\nTylno dno teniesit bn, glodano.\n\nsevah lab Ja Anqtontag bis taskeant et\n\noe 14 tane 2. • Sm ob oa A\n\n•nold Itequoo ɣianton-\n\nades det a'qenital ord of Tislms gloŋonom\n\nnt vow drist indoors It ded\n\nkry tanodaro: ent neulo odan\n\n.0 6 1 series of . oxed et belle d\n\nd blucis moltenue mi eevci“\n\nShah neři do nk nedz te sed.b eu edo erotei\n\nsimons, nors Jeep of Jim tollive Yo:OTTO\n\nnobro beltne of Ilece dotdaw not empeioxe\n\nnot leto to grid tufted' oA WON\n\n.893.00\n\nsad of dmtog\n\n* wol byyo edy beca$NGXS\n\n!? 'Joem:te von Basnirin\n\n• EFWJE*25 Drone* 445, ***** weld ever dusf -at\n\n, faol ef? to solve and\n\naventaud ett 1.000 3 itemhm a besogon; a:ld to toette e:ið\n\nrates\"\n\nClause might be to create artificial competition to the Bank's disadvantage. The Article, as drafted, stated that the Bank would settle exchange \"at the most favourable\n\nand H.E. would no doubt recognise the fact that its established reputation for fair dealing was sufficient guarantee that such rates would be given in the future as in the past.\n\nHis Excellency admitted the justice of this view and thought the Bank would, as a matter of course, transact such business but the Chinese Government was entitled to preserve freedom of action in making these remittances on account of the Bondholders. He declined therefore to accept the Clause as drafted. MR. BLAND agreed to telegraph to the Chief Manager of the Bank and submit the point.\n\nAfter certain minor verbal alterations in the text of other Articles, and a general review of the whole contract, MR. BLAND submitted a summary of the Consulting Engineer's estimates lately received from the Board, and basing thereon the opinion that a supplementary loan might be required or additional funds provided by the Chinese Government under the terms of Article 2, asked for the amendment of Article 9 so as to provide in such case for a proportionate increase in the Corporation's commuted commission. This, after some discussion, was agreed to in respect of any supplementary loan but H.E. TANG SHAO-YI declined to accept the condition as applicable to any additional expenditure which the Chinese Government might make from its own funds.\n\nIn this connection, MR. BLAND raised the question of branch lines as a matter affecting the interests of the Bondholders, and of the Corporation respectively, and asked for the inclusion of a clause, similar to that in the Northern Railway Loan Agreement, to provide for the financing and construction of branch lines, when required by the Viceroy, either from the Chinese Government's funds, or further loans from the Corporation. He pointed out that\n\nsuch",
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        "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908",
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        "content_text": "# 345\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n1799 [December 10.]\n\n## IRFER\n\nSerio? JAN 08\n\n[40549]\n\nSir,\n\n### No. 1.\n\nMessrs. Ashton, Hoare, and Co. to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received December 10.)\n\n36, Charlotte Street, Manchester,\nDecember 9, 1907.\n\nWE last addressed you on this subject on the 3rd July last, and now beg to submit to you an extract from a letter dated Shanghae, the 14th November, from our correspondents at that port. They write as follows:-\n\n\"The Foreign Office is making urgent appeals to the Japanese Government, through Sir Claude MacDonald, His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Tokio, with a view to the conclusion of an Agreement whereby marks being used by British firms in China will receive the protection of the Japanese Courts. Meantime they state that it cannot be too strongly emphasized that every mark likely to be used in the future, either in Japan or China, should be registered at once at the Japanese Patent Office, failing which no action in a Japanese Court is likely to be successful. We think the Foreign Office might be asked why, as the expense of registering, without knowing how far protection goes according to Japanese law, is a thing to be seriously considered. The best solution, and one which the Foreign Office should, we think, press for in view of our Treaty with Japan, is that the latter should join the Trade-Mark Convention, for the reciprocal protection of marks in China.\"\n\nThey also write that it is publicly stated in Shanghae that--\n\n\"Mr. Hisamoto, of the Japanese Patent Bureau, has requested the Yokohama Foreign Board of Trade to make it known that it is the earnest desire of the Bureau to secure to every one the full protection accorded by the law, and that they will be glad to receive particulars of all marks which are still in use and were in existence and use prior to the 1st July, 1899.\"\n\nIn view of recent decisions in the Japanese Courts, which give encouragement to the idea that the imitation of a trade-mark is not a breach of their law, it is difficult to understand the advice said to have been tendered by the British Foreign Office (see paragraph first quoted above). Such advice, when it emanates from the Representative of the Japanese Patent Office (see second paragraph quoted) is not difficult of explanation.\n\nAs merchants trading with China we cannot see the advantage of registration of our marks in Japan, as under present conditions such registration seems to mean little or no protection. We venture to hope that you will press our ally Japan to join the Convention for the reciprocal protection of trade-marks in China. This appears to us to be, at any rate, a practical suggestion.\n\nWe are,\n&c.\n\n(For Messrs. Ashton, Hoare, and Co.),\n(Signed) J. A. SWANWICK, Director.\n\n|2765 K-1|",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908",
        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n## CHINA TRADE.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n1799\n\nReceived December\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nForeign Office to Messrs. Ashton, Hoare, and Co.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nForeign Office, December 17, 1907.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 9th instant respecting the protection of trade-marks in China, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to communicate the following observations to you:\n\nThe communication from Shanghae quoted in your letter would appear to be that addressed by this Department to Messrs. Morton on the 12th September last. As regards the advice tendered to them as to the necessity for registering marks in Japan, Sir E. Grey is not prepared in any way to modify that recommendation which was given after careful consideration and on evidence supplied by the Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy at Tokió.\n\nSir E. Grey is informed that the expenses incurred in registering are not excessive, and he is decidedly of opinion that persons and firms having marks liable to imitation should lose no time in registering them, as there would appear to be nothing to be gained by postponing matters till the last moment. This applies not only to trade-marks used in Japan but also to those used elsewhere in the Far East. Whatever trade-mark Regulations may be adopted in other countries, it may frequently happen that in the case of imitations coming from Japan action can more easily be taken in that country so as to deal with the source of the evil. Action in Japan would also tend to diminish the danger of applications for registration of the same trade-mark in such a country as China by British and Japanese simultaneously, each having the mark validly registered in his own country.\n\nWith regard to the penultimate paragraph of your letter, I am to say that only one case of a pirated registered mark, viz., that of Messrs. Buchanan's whiskey, has been brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government. This case is receiving careful consideration, and a further full report on it is now on its way from Tôkið.\n\nI am to add that His Majesty's Government are at present actively engaged in negotiations with the Japanese Government for the conclusion of a Convention for the reciprocal protection of British and Japanese marks in China, but such a Convention, if successfully concluded, would not of course apply to cases of infringement in Japan itself, where British subjects are amenable to Japanese Courts and Japanese law.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n`[2765 r-1]`\n\n346 \n## Page 346",
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        "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908",
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        "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908",
        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government].\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[12381]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n17031\n\n[April 10.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\n19 MAY 08)\n\nSir,\n\nMessrs. Ashton, Hoare, and Co. to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 10.)\n\n36, Charlotte Street, Manchester, April 9, 1908. REFERRING to your letter addressed to us on the 17th December, 1907, re trade-marks in the Far East, you therein intimated that you had had only one case of a \"pirated registered mark\" brought to your notice, viz., Buchanan's whisky. If you have not seen the inclosed (Armitage's \"Crocodile\") it will be of interest to you. It is a glaring case.\n\nThe low level of commercial morality which permits such an imitation is, it can scarcely be doubted, initiating and permitting other imitations. The matter will grow from bad to worse, and will, we submit, become the more difficult to deal with.\n\nWe have reason to believe that the goods bearing this mark have been sold not only in Japan but also in China, where the chop is most valuable.\n\nMay we be allowed to express the hope that your negotiations with the Japanese Government, upon which you were actively engaged when you wrote to us, are progressing favourably, and that a Treaty is on the way to be concluded which will effectually preserve all English trade-mark rights as against the absolutely unscrupulous theft of those rights which too many Japanese traders have been and are at present practising without let or hindrance.\n\nWe are, &c. (For Ashton, Hoare, and Co., Limited),\n\n(Signed) J. A. SWANWICK, Director.\n\nP.S.-If convenient will you kindly return us the photographic sketch sent herewith.\n\n[2918 k-3]\n\nJ. A. S.",
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        "content_text": "recognize the making and selling of pseudo-foreign goods as an offence, it is impossible to blame them for their apathy.\n\nMy opinion, therefore, is that a Convention in the existing circumstances and on the lines proposed will have no good results in China, and is therefore inadvisable. There is no doubt that an arrangement of some kind between Great Britain and Japan for the mutual protection of trade-marks in this country is desirable, if only to avoid the endless disputes between British and Japanese merchants and constant friction that must take place when China finally makes up her mind to issue satisfactory regulations on the subject and establishes a Trade-marks Bureau of her own; but to a Convention such as is proposed, which involves the sacrifice of valuable British property and the abandonment of our legitimate rights in favour of Japanese who give nothing in return, even the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs is preferable.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) PELHAM L. WARREN.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n(12381)\n\nNo. 1.\n\nForeign Office to Board of Trade.\n\n5310. 17031\n\n18 MAY 08\n\n[April 21.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, April 21, 1908. WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith, to be laid before the Board of Trade, copies of correspondence which has passed between this Office and Messrs. Ashton, Hoare, and Co. relative to the protection of British trade-marks in China and Japan.*\n\nWith the concurrence of the Board, it is proposed to answer Messrs. Ashton, Hoare's letter of the 9th instant on the following lines:-\n\nThe case of Sir E. Armytage's \"Crocodile\" mark, to which they refer, has been fully reported to His Majesty's Government, and, on the instructions of Sir E. Grey, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires made a complete statement of the facts to Count Hayashi, with the suggestion that the Japanese Government should, if necessary, so amend their trade-mark law as to enable any mark to be struck off the register by a competent Tribunal on its being proved to belong to another, and that some provision should be inserted to enable registration to be cancelled unless made by the true owners of the mark.\n\nCount Hayashi replied that as the \"Crocodile\" mark had been in the undisputed use of the Japanese, by whom it had been registered, for three years since the date of registry, the 20th February, 1903-by Japanese law the mark had become the legal property of the registering party. The Japanese Government could not therefore render the registration invalid, as Messrs. Armytage had taken no steps either to register the mark in Japan themselves or to challenge the right of the other party to the mark within the three years allowed for that purpose by the Trade-marks Law of 1899.\n\nSir E. Grey would propose to say further that no doubt Count Hayashi's interpretation of the Japanese law, as it at present stands, is correct, and that in the circumstances it would be useless to press the matter further, the fault being primarily that of Messrs. Armytage, who failed to take the precaution of registering their mark in Japan.\n\nSir E. Grey fully appreciates that Japanese trade-mark law is by no means satisfactory, and the matter of its amendment will be again urged upon the Japanese Government.\n\nSir E. Grey would propose to conclude by saying that the draft Convention with Japan for the mutual protection of British and Japanese marks in China is still under discussion between the British and Japanese Governments, but he would at the same time point out that in any case such a Convention can only provide for protection of marks from infringement by Japanese subjects in accordance with Japanese law, and that, as stated in the letter to Messrs. Ashton of the 17th December, 1907, the first step to obtain such protection is to register in Japan without delay.\n\nShould the Board concur in the reply on the above lines, Sir E. Grey would suggest sending instructions to Sir C. MacDonald to again bring to the notice of the Japanese Government the suggestions contained in the Board of Trade letter of the 20th March, 1907, the substance of which was communicated to Count Hayashi in Mr. Lowther's note of the 27th May, 1907 (see inclosure in the letter from this Office of the 12th September, 1907).\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.\n\nP.S.-A copy of a further letter from Messrs. Ashton, Hoare of the 13th April is also inclosed; the despatch therein referred to is no doubt Sir C. MacDonald's despatch No. 10 of the 18th January last. Sir E. Grey proposes to take no action in this letter beyond including it in the general reference in his reply to Messrs. Ashton, Hoare. The return of the inclosures in their letter of the 13th instant is requested.\n\nF. A. C.\n\n* Messrs. Ashton, Hoare (Limited), December 7; to ditto, December 17, 1907: Messrs. Ashton, Hoare (Limited), April 9, 1908.\n\n† Messrs. Ashton, Hoare (Limited), April 13, 1908 (not printed).\n\n[2918 I- -1]",
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        "content_text": "11006 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\n\nArts & Crafts Limited.\n\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\n\nAstor House Hotel Company.\n\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\n\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\n\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\n\nAustralian Produce Company.\n\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai. Azaidian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\n\nBakels & Co.\n\nBaldwin, C. C.\n\nBanbam, F. C.\n\nBanker & Co.\n\nBin Lam Drug Stores.\n\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger. Banque de l'Indo-Chine.\n\nBanque industrielle de Chine. Bansuiken, Shanghai.\n\nBarkley Company.\n\nBarlow & Co.\n\nBarrett, E. G.\n\nBarry & Co., B. M.\n\nBathgate & Co.\n\nBatu Anam Rubber Company. Beck, I.\n\nBeck, M. G.\n\nBelgian Brick Factory. Tien-tsin.\n\nBelgian Trading Company.\n\nBell, D. W.\n\nBell, H. F. L.\n\nBen Albert & Co.\n\nBenjamin and Potts.\n\nBeque, Henri.\n\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\n\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\n\nBlack, J. F.\n\nBlake & Sons, F. A.\n\nBlancke, Charles.\n\nBo Won, Canton,\n\nBona, F.\n\nBouchard.\n\nBourgery, C.\n\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\n\nBoyd & Co.\n\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\n\nBoyes, Basset, & Co.\n\nBradford Dyers' Association.\n\nBradley & Co. Limited.\n\nBrand Brothers & Co.\n\nBrand, H. S., & Co.\n\nBrandt, A. L.\n\nBrandt & Co.\n\nBrandt & Rogers.\n\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Dre.\n\nBrewer & Co. Limited. Bridges, H.\n\nBritish American Tobacco Company.\n\nBritish and Asiatic Company.\n\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\n\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\n\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\n\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society,\n\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company. British Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung).\n\nBrockett & Co.\n\nBrockett, E., & Co.\n\nBrook, E., & Co.\n\nBrossay, René,\n\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\n\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company. Bryant & Ryde.\n\nBulin & Co., Hankow.\n\nBurin Yoko.\n\nBurkhardt, L. R.\n\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\n\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co. Burtenshaw & Co.\n\nButler, A.\n\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co. Caissial.\n\nCaldbeck, MacGregor. Calder, Marshall, & Co. Calico Printers' Association. Camera Craft Company. Campbell, Alex., & Co. Canadian Commissioner.\n\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press. Canadian Pacific.\n\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsay, T., & Co. Castellano.\n\nCathay Trust.\n\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils. Catanneo.\n\nCawasjee Palanjee, Shanghai. Cement Tile Works Limited.\n\nCentral Agency Limited.\n\nCentral China Dispensary.\n\nCentral China Import Company. Central China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\n\nCentral Garage Limited.\n\nCentral Stores Limited.\n\nCentral Trading Company.\n\nCercle sportif français.\n\nChang Dah Yuen.\n\nChang, T. S,\n\nChapeaux.\n\nCharrey.\n\nCharrey et Conversy.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\n\nChauvin, Mme.\n\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\n\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited. Chempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\n\nCheng Rubber Estate.\n\nChic Parisien.\n\nChin Ho Hsiang.\n\nChina Agenta Company.\n\nChina American Lumber Company.\n\nChina American Trading Company.\n\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\n\nChina Engineering Company.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\n\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\n\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\n\nChina Inland Mission.\n\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\n\nChina Land & Building Company Limited. China Land & Finance Company Limited. China Merchants Ponges Association. China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. China Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\n\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company. China National Life Assurance.\n\nChina Navigation Company.\n\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited. China Strawbraid Export Company,\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915. 11007\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\n\nChina Times Limited.\n\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\n\nChina Trading Company.\n\nChinese American Company,\n\nChiness Electric Light & Power Company.\n\nChinese Optical Company..\n\nChinese Railways (all).\n\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\n\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Shanghai, Chefoo.\n\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\n\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\n\nChing Kee, Amoy.\n\nChinson Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\n\nChuan Chang.\n\nChun Shing.\n\nChun Sing, Shanghai.\n\nChung Fall & Co., Chefoo.\n\nChung Heva Book Company, Shanghai.\n\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\n\nChurch Missionary Mission.\n\nCoghlan, H. H.\n\nCohen, Andre.\n\nCollina & Co.\n\nCombfort.\n\nCommercial Press Limited.\n\nCommercial Union Assurance Company.\n\nCompagnie d'Eclairage et de Tramways of Tien-tsin.\n\nCompagnie française des Tramways de l'Eclairage électrique et des Eaux de Shanghai.\n\nCompagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine.\n\nCompagnie des Messageries maritimes. Comptoir commercial auversois.\n\nConnell Brothers.\n\nConsolidated Rubber Estates Limited. Cook & Anderson.\n\nCook, Thomas & Sons.\n\nCornabe, Eckford, & Co. Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\nCossanteli & Co.\n\nCox, W. Wakeford.\n\nCozzi, E. Hankow.\n\nCrédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.\n\nCrofts & Co., George. Cros, Paul.\n\nCrossfeld & Sons Limited. Crystal Limited. Culpeck, E. A.\n\nCurtis Brothers.\n\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\n\nDah Lung & Co..\n\nDah Sung & Co.\n\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai. Dai Nippon Brewery Company. Daishin & Co., Shanghai,\n\nDallas Livery Stable Company, Danese, E., Hankow. D'Arc, G. L.\n\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\n\nDavid & Co.\n\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\n\nDavies & Brooke.\n\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\n\nDavis, W. Trenchard,\n\nDeacon & Co.\n\nDeane, T. P.\n\nDebenham & Co. Denham & Rose.\n\nDenniston & Sullivan. Dent, A., & Co.\n\nDent, Herbert. Dieden & Co.\n\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\n\nDodwell & Co. Limited. Dollar Robert Company. Dombey & Son,\n\nDominion Express Company. Donnelly & Whyte.\n\nDowdall, W. M.\n\nDrakeford & Co.\n\nDuncan & Co.\n\nDunlop Rubber Company.\n\nDunn, Walter.\n\nDuplessis.\n\nDutch Colonial Trading Company,\n\nDutton, W., & Co.\n\nDyce & Co.\n\nDzing Nye Haing, Hankow.\n\nEagle & Globe Steel Company.\n\nEast Asiatic Company.\n\nEastern & Australiau Steamship Company.\n\nEastern Extension Telegraph Company.\n\nEastern Trading Company.\n\nEcho de Tien-tsin.\n\nEdgar Brothers & Co.\n\nEkman Foreign Agencies.\n\nEnergie électrique,\n\nEnterprise Tobacco Company Limited. Enticknap, P. (Ashton & Co. Limited). Equitable Life Assurance Society. Erasmic Company.\n\nEstablishments de Tongkou.\n\nEtablissements Fei Yen, Ateliers de Construction Mécaniques.\n\nEvans, A. M. A.\n\nEvans, Edward, & Sons Limited.\n\nEvans, Pugh, & Co.\n\nEwo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Company.\n\nEwo Yuen Press Packing Company.\n\nExcess Insurance Company Limited.\n\nEzra, E. I., Shanghai.\n\nEzra, Edward, & Co., Shanghai.\n\nEzra & Co., Fred, Shanghai.\n\nEzra, N. E. B., & Co.\n\nEzra, Y., & Co.\n\nFa Hsiang, Tien-tsin.\n\nFairchild, F. A.\n\nFukul & Co., Shanghai.\n\nFar Eastern Geographical Establishment.\n\nFarley, W. A.\n\nFarmer, F. D., & Co.\n\nFearon, Daniel, & Co.\n\nFederal Life Assurance Company of Canada.\n\nFengtien District Inspectorate of Salt Revenue.\n\nFerretti.\n\nFindlay, Richardson, & Co. Firth, W., & Sons. Fobes & Co.\n\nFoo Tai Company, Hankow, Forbes & Co., William. Foster, McClellan, & Co. Frankau & Co. Limited, A. Frazar & Co.\n\nFrench Bakery,\n\nFu Shing Tai, Tien-tsin.\n\nFuchs, H., & Co. (Rint'ai Stores).\n\nFujita & Co., Mukden.\n\nFukien Drug Company.\n\nFung Tang, Shanghai.\n\nFurukawa & Co., Shanghai. Futcher, J. W.\n\nGabhai, M. N., & Co.\n\nGadai Yoko.\n\n301",
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        "content_text": "Abbey, F. H.\n\nAbbey, T.\n\nAbbott, F. J.\n\nAckland, R. J.\n\nAdair, N.\n\n87\n\nA\n\nBaker, H.\n\nBaker, T. S.\n\n*Balloch, G.\n\nBandinel, R.\n\nBardens, G. R.\n\nBarham, W. H.\n\nAbraham, D. E, J.\n\nAdam, L. D.\n\n*Adams, F. C.\n\nAdams, F. R. J.\n\n*Adamson, W.\n\nBarlow, A H.\n\n*Bartow, Sir J. Emmott, Bart..\n\nM.P.\n\nBarnes, J.\n\nBarrett, E. G.\n\nBiason, C. H. Blogut, E. T. J. Blundell, G. **Boje, T. 0.\n\nBounar, J. W. C.\n\nBooth, W. M. Botustow, J. C.\n\nBottenheim, A. H,\n\nBonneville, C. A.\n\nBourne, F. S. A., C.M.G.\n\nBowden, R. C.\n\nBowden, V. G.\n\n516\n\nThe following List of Members includes\n\nall Members of the China Association\n\nand British Association of Japan resident\n\nin England or abroad.\n\n*Addis, Sir Charles 8.\n\nAinscough, T. M.\n\nAlabaster, C. G.\n\nAlgie, A. F. Allen, C. *Allen, C. F. R.\n\nAllen, W. N. C. Alport, C. M. Alway, W. T. Anderson, A. La Auderson, Fredk. Anderson, Geo. W. Anderson, J, G. Anderson, L. J, C. Auderson, R. N. *Anderson, T. C. *Anderson, W. C. C.\n\nAnton, C. E. *Anton, J. R.\n\nArgent, W. A. Armstrong, F. H. Armstrong, John *Arnhold, H. E.\n\nArnold, H. Arnould, H. M.\n\nArthur, Capt. T.\n\nAscherson, Dr. H. S.\n\nAshton, F.\n\nAshworth, Francis\n\nAtwell, W. E. Auld, J. D.\n\nAusten. A. W. S.\n\nAyscough, Francis\n\nB\n\nBabington, Anthony\n\nBailey, H. G. O.\n\nBailey, W. S.\n\nBain, Allan W.\n\nBain, C. M. Baker, Geo.\n\n*Barry, Sir John Wolfe, K.C.B.\n\n*Barry, A. J.\n\nBartlett, S.\n\nBartlett, S. J.\n\nBarton, G. W.\n\nBarton, John\n\nBarton, S., C. M.G. Bateman, A. E. Bateman, E. F. Bates, Woo. Beart, E. Beart, Montague *Beavan, P. W.\n\nBeavis, O. E. H,\n\nBeck, J. M. Beeston, P. E. *Behrens, G. *Beith, Alex. *Bellios, R. E.\n\nBell, G. H.\n\nBell, Harold\n\nBell, H. F. L.\n\nBell, H. 8.\n\nBell, H. T. M.\n\nBall, R. G.\n\nBell, R. T.\n\nBennet, A.\n\nBennett, P. S. Leigh Bennett, W. G.\n\nBent, P. S.\n\nBerger, Henry Barigny, Th. de Berkley, E. J. Beswick, C. Bethell, H. Beytagh, L. M. F. Bidwell, G. B. D. Bird, H. W. Birnie, L. Biron, C. *Bishop, F. C. Black, J. R. *Blackwell, R.\n\nBlaker, C. *Bland, J. O. P.\n\n• Resident in England.\n\n* Member of the General Committee.\n\nBowden, V. R.\n\nBowley, F. B. L.\n\nBox, R. H.\n\nBoyce-Kup, J.\n\nBoyd, C. A. S. *Boyd, H. R.\n\nBrady, A. A.\n\nBrady, G. 0. Bragg, C. H. Brailsford, J. A.\n\nBrazier, H. W.\n\n*Brazier, J. R.\n\nBredin, W. H.\n\nBredon, Sir R. E., K.C.M.G\n\nBremser, A. 8.\n\nBreann, Byron, C.M.G. Brenan, E.\n\n*Brenan, E. V.\n\nBrewitt-Taylor, C. M. Briniog, J. W. Brinkworth, G. Britton, F. G. *Broadbent, J. F. *Brook, Henry\n\nBrockhurst, G. N.\n\nBrockhurst, G. W. Browett, Harold Brown, N. S. Brown, Dr. David *Brown, Thos.\n\nBrown, P. B. Brown, W. 8. *Browne, Percy H.\n\nBruce, Lient. Col. C. D.\n\n*Bruce, Robt. H.\n\nBryer, A. Buchan, R. G. Buck, R. S. Buckland, H. W. Buckland, P. J.\n\nBuckle, N. Bugbird, F. H. Bullard, W.\n\nBunting, E. I.",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n## 12814\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\nArts & Crafts Limited.\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\nAster House Hotel Company, Shanghai, Tien-tsin.\nAt Chi, Shanghai.\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\nAustralian Produce Company.\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai.\nAzadian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\nBailey, H. G. C.\nBakels & Co.\nBaldwin, C. C.\nBan Lam Drug Stores, Amoy.\nBanham, F. C.\nBanker & Co.\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger.\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\nBanque industrielle de Chine,\nBansuiken, Shanghai.\nBarkley Company.\nBarlow & Co.\nBarrett, E. G.\nBarry & Co., B. M.\nBathgate & Co.\nBatu Anam Rubber Company.\nBeck, I.\nBeck, M. G.\nBelgian Brick Factory, Tien-tsin.\nBelgian Trading Company,\nBell, D. W.\nBell, H. F. L.\nBen & Co.\nBen Albert & Co.\nBenjamin & Potts.\nBeque, Henri.\nBergman, Edward.\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\nBlack, J. F.\nBlake, F. A., & Sons.\nBlanche, Charles.\nBo Won, Canton.\nBona, F.\nBouchard.\nBourgery, C.\nBow On Drug Company, Canton.\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\nBoyd & Co.\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\nBoyes, Bassett, & Co.\nBradford Dyers' Association.\nBradley & Co. Limited.\nBrand Brothers & Co.\nBrand, H. B., & Co.\nBrandt, A. L.\nBrandt & Co.\nBrandt & Rodgers.\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Drs.\nBrent, A. D.\nBrewer & Co. Limited,\nBridges, H.\nBritish-American Tobacco Company, Limited.\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society.\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company Limited.\nBritish Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung),\nBrockett & Co.\nBrockett, E., & Co.\nBrook, E., & Co.\nBrossay, René.\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company.\nBryant & Ryde.\nBalin & Co., Hankow,\nBurin, Yoko.\nBurkhardt, L. R.\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co.\nBurtenshaw & Co.\nButler, A.\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co.\nCaissial,\nCaldbeck, MacGregor.\nCalder, Marshall, & Co.\nCalico Printers' Association.\nCamera Craft Company.\nCampbell, Alex., & Co.\nCanadian Commissioner.\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press.\nCanadian Pacific Railway Company.\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsey, T., & Co.\nCastellano,\nCathay Trust.\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils.\nCattaneo (Catanneo), Peking.\nCattaneo, P., & Co., Peking.\nCawasjee Pallanjee, Shanghai.\nCement Tile Works Limited.\nCentral Agency Limited.\nCentral China Dispensary.\nCentral China Import Company.\nCentral China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\nCentral Garage Limited.\nCentral Stores Limited.\nCentral Trading Company.\nCercle sportif français.\nChang Dah Yuen.\nChang, T. S.\nChapeaux.\nCharrey,\nCharrey et Conversy.\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\nChauvin, Mme.\nChefoo Hairnet Company.\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited.\nChempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\nCheng Rubber Estate.\nChie Parisien.\nChin Ho Hsiang.\nChina Agents Company.\nChina American Lumber Company.\nChina American Trading Company.\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Engineering Company.\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\nChina Inland Mission.\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\nChina Land & Building Company Limited.\nChina Land & Finance Company Limited.\n\n## 12815\n\nChina Merchants Ponges Association.\nChina Merchants Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company.\nChina National Life Assurance.\nChina Navigation Company.\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited,\nChina Strawbraid Export Company.\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\nChina Times Limited.\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\nChina Trading Company.\nChinese American Company.\nChinese Electric Light & Power Company, Peking.\nChinese & Foreign Dispensary, Amoy.\nChinese Optical Company.\nChinese Railways (all).\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\nChing Chong & Co., Shanghai.\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Chefoo.\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\nChing Siu Tong, Foochow.\nChing Tai & Co., Mukden.\nChitsin Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\nChristiakoff, J.\nChuan Chang, Shanghai.\nChuan Kes & Co., Amoy.\nChujudo & Co., Newchang.\nChuma & Co., Newchang,\nChun Shing, Shanghai.\nChua Sing, Shanghai.\nChung Fah & Co., Chefoo.\nChung Hang Company Dispensary, Canton.\nChung Hwa Book Company, Shanghai.\nChung Mei Drug Company, Canton.\nChung On & Co., Canton.\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\nChurch Missionary Mission.\nCoghlan, H. 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A.\nCurtis Brothers.\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\nDah Lung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai.\nDai Nippon Brewery Company.\nDaishin & Co., Shanghai.\nDallas Livery Stable Company.\nDanese, E., Hankow.\nD'Arc, G. L.\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\nDavid & Co.\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\nDavies & Brooke.\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\nDavis, W. Arthur.\nDavis, W. Trenchard.\nDeacon & Co.\nDeane, T. P.\nDebenham & Co.\nDenham & Rose.\nDenniston & Sullivan.\nDent, A., & Co.\nDeut, Herbert.\nDea Remedios, A. G., Shanghai.\nDieden & Co.\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\nDodwell & Co. Limited.\nDollar Robert Company.\nDombey & Son.\nDominion Express Company.\nDong Sing Wo & Co., Shanghai.\nDonnelly & Whyte.\nDowdall, W. M.\nDowler, Forbes & Co.\nDrakeford & Co.\nDreyfus, Edmond, & Bros.\nDuncan & Co.\nDunlop Rubber Company.\nDunn, Walter.\nDunne, T. 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        "content_text": "# \nIn this state of affairs the uncle, having very good reason to suspect misconduct on the part of the nephew, left Chicago and came to Hong Kong, desiring to protect his interest in the property. He found as a fact that the nephew had defrauded him by creating the legal mortgage for 10,000 dollars, which undoubtedly had priority to his own equitable interest, and had defrauded the appellants by creating in their favour the equitable mortgage for 12,000 dollars which, apart from any question as to the uncle's conduct, was undoubtedly postponed to the uncle's equitable estate. The uncle and the nephew thereupon, after consulting solicitors in Hong Kong, entered on the 20th June, 1914, into the following transaction: First, the nephew paid off the legal mortgage and took a reconveyance of the legal estate. It does not appear whether the uncle or the nephew found the money for this purpose. Secondly, the nephew assigned the legal estate to the uncle subject to the indenture, creating the equitable mortgage, and the principal and interest thereby secured, the nephew covenanting with the uncle to pay him on demand the principal sum of 12,000 dollars and all interest or other monies due by virtue of the indenture of mortgage, and the costs, charges, and expenses of paying off such mortgage and obtaining a reconveyance thereof.\n\nThe second point their Lordships have to decide is the effect of these transactions on the position of the appellants. The uncle contends that they do not preclude him from setting up as against the appellants the equitable estate which he undoubtedly theretofore possessed. The appellants, on the other hand, contend that such equitable interest as the uncle had prior to the transactions in question is now gone, and that his sole interest is the legal interest which he expressly takes subject to the appellants' equitable mortgage.\n\nIn considering these rival contentions, there are two points which must be borne in mind. In the first place, whatever the nephew does in carrying out the transactions in question must be taken as done by the direction of the uncle, the party beneficially interested. In the second place, the position of an equitable mortgagee may be improved by transactions to which he is not a party. Where a prior mortgage is paid off by the owners of the property, the position of a puisne equitable mortgagee is improved, although the circumstances were such that the party taking the reconveyance might, had he so chosen, have kept the mortgage alive in his own favour, so as not to benefit the puisne mortgagee. Even in the case of the creation of an equitable charge, it is not necessary that the person in whose favour the charge is created should be a party to the transaction. A conveyance by A to B, subject to a charge in favour of C, improves C's position.\n\nIt is their Lordships' opinion reasonably clear that the effect of the transaction was, and was intended to be that for which the appellants contend. This indenture contains a recital of the appellants' mortgage, and no recital as to its being postponed to the uncle's equitable estate. It also recites a request by the uncle to the nephew to assign the property to him, subject to the appellants' mortgage, and to enter into the covenant thereinafter contained, namely, the covenant to pay the uncle on demand the principal and interest due on such mortgage. What conceivable consideration could there be for such a covenant, unless the uncle intended to give the appellants priority in respect of their mortgage over his own equitable estate, and how can the uncle now assert such equitable estate against the appellants without destroying this consideration? Again, the conveyance is expressed to be subject to the appellants' indenture of mortgage and to payment of the principal and interest thereby secured, and not subject to any charge created by this indenture which might take effect in priority to the uncle's equitable estate, as would have been the case had the uncle intended to set up such estate against the appellants. Lastly, the nephew covenants to pay the uncle on demand what is secured by the appellants' mortgage, and not, as would have been the case if the uncle's contention be correct, pay these monies to the appellants and indemnify the uncle's property for any claim to a charge in respect thereof.\n\nIn their Lordships' opinion, the effect of these transactions was that the uncle, instead of his equitable estate ranking in priority to appellants' mortgage, took the legal estate subject to the appellants' mortgage, in consideration of the nephew covenanting as above mentioned. The uncle's prior equitable estate, being co-extensive with the legal estate which he was acquiring would, prima facie, merge in such legal estate. (Selby v. Ashton, 3 Ves. Junr. 339; Re Douglas, 28 C. D. 327, and Re Selous, 1901, 1 Ch. 921.) He might have kept it alive as against the appellants but he deliberately elected not to do so, and the result is that the appellants can claim the benefit of the transaction, although they were not parties to it.\n\nUnder these circumstances it is unnecessary to deal with the question whether the uncle had or had not been guilty of conduct disentitling him in a Court of Equity to set up his prior equitable estate as against the appellants' equitable mortgage.\n\nTheir Lordships will humbly advise His Majesty that this appeal should be allowed with costs here and in the Court below, and that the order of the Trial Judge should be discharged, and the action in which the appeal arises be dismissed with costs.",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential \nJune 1918.\n\n113\n\nI am instructed by the Minister of National Service to inform you that particulars have been passed to this Ministry by the War Office of an ex-officer who was recently dismissed the service by sentence of General Court Martial and who would appear to be liable for service under the Military Service (No.2) Act 1918.\n\nI am to state that this ex-officer, namely, Mr. Richard Carrington Barlow, formerly Temporary Lieutenant No.3 (Reserve) Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, is described as having been employed prior to being granted a Commission, in the Education Department, Hong Kong, and his present address is given as Ashton's Hotel, 126 Praed Street, Paddington, T.2, and C/o The Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\nIn view of the fact that arrangements have been made by which a person claiming to be ordinarily resident in His Majesty's Dominions abroad can obtain a certificate from the High Commissioner for the Self Governing Dominion stating that the man falls within the exceptions to the Military Service (No.2) Act 1918, Schedule one, I am to ask whether any such certificate has been issued to this gentleman or whether you can furnish Sir Auckland Geddes with any information which may assist him in deciding upon the question of Mr. Barlow's liability under the Military Service Act, and at the same time I am to say that Sir Auckland would be glad to have any other information which may be in your possession which may facilitate any enquiries which may be instituted.\n\nI am,\nYour obedient Servant,\nH. R. Boyd\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office.\n\nALL COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESSED TO \nTHE SECRETARY, QUOTING THIS REFERENCE:- \n`R.Ia/X.0/519`.\n\nC. MINISTRY OF NATIONAL SERVICE, \nWESTMINSTER, S.W. 1. \n30476 \nTELEPHONE, VICTORIA 9310. \nTELEGRAMS \"NATGERVICE.\"\n\n## FORM L...\n\n+ Then enlisted as a private.\n\nGreen\n\nmuch doubt if in these circumstances \nhe would be held to be \"ordinarily resident \nin the Colonies.\n\nAnd even if he was, it would \nnot help him much if he has enlisted. \nThrowing up his right to get a discharge \non the ground of not being ordinarily resident \nin Great Britain.\n\nThere are points for discussion on this from CO, & I believe the practice is not going to be adopted. (Except, of course, in clear cases, e.g., Succession). \nSee marginal notes to `teve Beckett's manuale`. `Hlib. 28/6/1`\n\nWe had better have a draft for consent. I have no \nobjections to make; The fact that Mr. B. is now serving \nas a private in the Leic. Regt. will probably satisfy \nthe Min. of Nat. Serv.\n\nAEC \n1.7.18 \n\nWe have just heard from N.J. that we \ndo not issue certificates.\n\nDraft for consent \n881.7.18",
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        "content_text": "Further communication please quote\n\n205/17/10\n\nTo any person by name,\n\n\"Secretary of State,\"\n\nLondon, S.W. 1.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n57572\n\nRECE\n\nREG 23 NC 201\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to the Under Secretary of State for the\n\nColonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper printed.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nNovember 19th, 1920.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nName and Date.\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nMr Ashton Gwatkin November 18th.\n\nSubject.\n\nGrudge in opium\n\ndeliberations augs\n\n(1794) 10000 11/20\n\nSimilar letter sent to:\n\nIndia Office\n\nPage 110\n\nLO.\n\nQ\n\n*RE",
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        "content_text": "# F.O. Confidential\n## HONG KONG\n### 4414/192/1921\n**British Interests in China**\n\nJan 21st\n\n**Last previous Paper**\n\n## Memo:\nby Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin.\n\n| Ref No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 132/4414 | RE-27 AN CU No Buckalf |\n\nThis reference is in noting ... stardy, for purposes in ... Party.\n\nWe might have 200 ...\n\nshould leave one or any subsequent Paper.\n\n| Ref No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 70 \"60502 | 2. 2/ |\n| Tak.2.22 | (26069-1h) Wt. 26689-35 60,000 11/19 H, St. G. 122) 41 |\n\n**Copies herewith**\nS.o. 895. 3.1.\n\nMAGH 5.2.11 done 2011·2·21",
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        "content_text": "# XXIII-British Employees under the Chinese Government\n\nA list of British interests in China would not be complete without mention of the large number of British subjects employed by the Chinese Government as expert advisers or as assistants in administrative work. I do not know of any complete list of such foreign employees. But in the Chinese Maritime Customs alone, 1,148 foreigners, representing seventeen nationalities, are employed; and of these a little more than 50 per cent are British. The Inspector-General, Sir Francis Aglen, is a British subject, in accordance with the Chinese Declaration of the 13th February, 1898, that the Inspector-General of the Maritime Customs should be a British subject so long as British trade predominates in China. It may be observed en passant that the Japanese statesman, Viscount Kato, in his confidential talk with Mr. Alston in June 1919, touched upon this subject and remarked that \"the increase in Japanese trade might soon enable his country to claim priority.\"\n\nSir Reginald Gamble, Foreign Associate Chief Inspector in the Salt Administration, is also a British subject, and so is a large proportion of his foreign staff of about forty persons.\n\n## Competition in China\n\nF. ASHTON-GWATKIN\n\n## PART II-Our Competitors\n\nOur principal competition in the past has been with Germany, since Germany traded largely in the same lines as we did. German competition has for the time being been entirely swept away, and it is evident that it will not recover for many years. French trade is chiefly concerned with silk, and Russian trade with tea; British merchants have comparatively little share in these two businesses. It is clear that our principal competitors in the future will be Japan and the United States of America. These two countries have geographical advantages with which we cannot compete; moreover, they each take a very large share of China's export trade - United States of America in silk (which is China's most valuable export), hides, and egg products, and Japan in beans, beancake, and bean oil (the second most valuable export), raw cotton, iron ore, and pig-iron, flour, wheat, wool, fibres, ground-nuts, sesamum seed. This development of the export trade has naturally assisted in increasing the volume of imports. But the Japanese are handicapped by the hatred with which they have inspired the Chinese, and by the poor quality of their goods; and the Americans by their inexperience of the China market, and by the absence of a mature development of banking and shipping facilities.\n\n### United States of America\n\nWe must recognise, however, that both of our most dangerous competitors lay great stress on the national spirit in trade, and both are actively engaged in extending their commercial interests in China. In Shanghai alone, 100 new American firms, amongst which are included several banks and shipping companies, started business in 1919 (see Appendices VII and VIII). Especially in the supply of iron and steel, in machinery, and, to a certain extent, in cotton fabrics, American competition has been keenly felt. For instance, the supply of motor cars to the Far East has become practically an American monopoly. The Jones Act, which has just become law in America, appears to aim largely at a monopolisation of American trade in the Pacific for American ships. It is a manifest threat to Japanese and British tonnage transporting goods from China to the United States; and seeing that the American mercantile marine has increased from 2,027,000 tons before the war to 16,350,000 tons in July, 1920, it is clear that the threat is not an idle one. An independent interest in railway finance and construction in China commenced in 1916 with the Siems-Carey concessions, although as members of the first consortium, the Americans were already concerned in a share of the Hukuang lines. The Standard Oil Company has tanks and factories in China; and the Singer Sewing Machine Company has agencies throughout the country. The General Electric Company has a share in an electric bulb factory at Shanghai (China Lamp Company, Japan-American), and the Western Electric Company has a share in a telephone factory in the same city (China Electric Company, Sino-Japanese American). Americans have three albumen factories at Shanghai, and a refrigeratory at Tsingtao. At Tien-tsin, a Sino-American flour-milling company has begun operations with a mill, which is to be the first of a comprehensive system of mills to be erected by the same company at various centres in North China. The company will later engage in the pressing of bean-oil and the making of macaroni; another American concern at Tien-tsin has begun work on a new cold-storage, meat-packing, and egg-albumen plant. An American syndicate is prospecting for metals in Yunnan. Finally, the lead taken by America in the formation of the new loan consortium, and the fact that the American market alone is at present in a position to find the ready capital which China's development so badly needs, will greatly enhance America's prestige in China and assist her commercial and industrial expansion. America is also greatly assisted by her large share in missionary and educational work in China (see Appendix XIV), by the return of half her Boxer indemnity, and by the fact that she has never joined in the scramble for concessions or territories. Chinese regard America as their one disinterested friend.\n\n### Japan\n\nJapanese competition is more to be feared than American, because their Government recognises that they must keep the Chinese market or cease to exist as a great commercial country. Japanese commercial expansion in China has been fostered by every possible means, by Government undertakings like the South Manchurian Railway, by subsidies to shipping, industrial, and other concerns, by diplomatic pressure exerted à outrance, as in the case of the Twenty-One Demands, and by a series of purely political, non-economic loans which can only be described as the systematic purchase of the leading politicians in China. Japanese financial control of China has considerably strengthened since the days before the war, when Japan had to rely on the support of the London market for funds to promote her policies abroad. Now it is Japan and America who will carry the British and French share in forthcoming consortium loans. During 1917-18, it is estimated that Japan invested between £20,000,000 and £30,000,000 of her war profits in financing (and corrupting) China. As securities for these loans, the Chinese have pledged railway revenues, salt revenues, native customs revenue, iron, tin, and antimony mines, forests, bank stock (e.g., Bank of Communications), shares in the Lanchow Coal Company (which is part of the Kailan Mining Administration), telegraph property, wireless telegraph property, provincial revenues, &c. It has been said that, since 1917, the corrupt Government of China has pawned to the Japanese every national asset on which it could lay hands. The principal Japanese bank for financing the China trade and for making loans to the China authorities has been the Yokohama Specie Bank. But during the great loan period 1917-18, it was the Bank of Chosen (Korea), in conjunction with the Industrial Bank and the Bank of Taiwan (Formosa), which found the funds (see Appendices VIII and IX).\n\n#### Japan: Trade\n\nHelped by many advantages, natural and artificial, the percentage of Japan's share in the China trade shows a remarkable upward curve:\n\n| Year | Percentage |\n|------|------------|\n| 1896 | 8.4        |\n| 1903 | 14.7       |\n| 1913 | 19.7       |\n| 1914 | 21.1       |\n| 1915 | 23.1       |\n| 1916 | 28.3       |\n| 1917 | 39.4       |\n| 1918 | 40.9       |\n| 1919 | 37.1       |\n\nJapanese shipping in the Chinese carrying-trade shows the following increase in percentage of the total tonnage:\n\n| Year | Percentage |\n|------|------------|\n| 1903 | 12.2       |\n| 1913 | 25.1       |\n| 1914 | 21.5       |\n| 1915 | 26.3       |\n| 1916 | 27.5       |\n| 1917 | 28.2       |\n| 1918 | 31.2       |\n| 1919 | 28.4       |\n\nIn 1919, the whole of the iron ore exported from China went to Japan, and most of the output of pig-iron. The only important iron and steel works in China, the Hanyang works and those near Dairen in South Manchuria, are under Japanese control. There has been little export of coal from China as yet; but, of a total production of 13,000,000 tons produced by modern methods, the Manchurian mines...",
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        "content_text": "# 141 \n\n14 \n\nThe consortium could be asserted, and if such pledges could be given as would satisfy China and the rest of the nations that the alliance aims at unification and not at dismemberment, then its renewal would undoubtedly promote the peace of the Far East and the further development of economic relations in one of the world's most promising markets. \n\nF. ASHTON-GWATKIN. \n\n1. Hong Kong \n\nAppendix. \n\n## PART III-Appendices. \n\n### I.-British Industrial Concerns in China. \n\n### II.-British General Merchants in Hong Kong. \n\n### III.-British General Merchants in China \n\n### IV.-Railways. \n\n### V.-Shipping in Chinese Ports. \n\n### VI.-Shipping: Percentage of Tonnage. \n### VII.-Shipping Lines. \n\n### VIII.- Banks. \n\n### IX.-Loans. \n\n### X.-Trade with China: Total Values. \n\n### XI.-Trade with China: Percentages, \n\n### XII.-British Newspapers in Hong Kong and China. \n\n### XIII.-British Missionary Societies. \n\n### XIV.-British Education in China. \n\n### XV.-Trade of Principal Treaty Ports. \n\n## APPENDIX I. \n\n### British Industrial Concerns in China, \n\n#### 1. Hong Kong \n\n- Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company (Limited). Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- Green Island Cement Company. Cement works. \n- W. S. Bailey and Co. Engineers and shipbuilders. \n- Macdonald and Co. Engineers and shipbuilders. \n- China Light and Power Company (Limited). Electric light works. \n- Hong Kong Electric Company. Electric light works. \n- Hong Kong and China Gas Company. Gas works. \n- Hong Kong Ice Company. Ice factory. \n- Kowloon Canton Railway Company. Railway works. \n- Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company. Rope works. \n- The Hong Kong Saw Mills. Saw mills, \n- The China Mining and Smelting Company (Limited). Smelting works. \n- China Sugar Refinery Company. Sugar refinery. \n- Taikoo Sugar Refinery Company. Sugar refinery. \n- China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company. Telephone service. \n- The Hong Kong Tramway Company. Tramway. \n- The Peak Tramway Company. Tramway (funicular). \n- Wei San Knitting Company. Woollen factory. \n- A. S. Watson and Co. Aerated water factory, \n- Hong Kong Iron Mining Company. Iron mining (undeveloped). \n- Messrs. Kelly and Walsh. Printing works. \n- Noronha and Co. Printing works. \n- Guedes and Co. Printing works. \n- Hong Kong Printing Press. Printing works. \n- South China Morning Post (Limited). Printing works. \n- Hong Kong Daily Press (Limited). Printing works. \n- China Mail (Limited). Printing works. \n\nThere is also in Hong Kong a cigarette factory, a glass factory, a soap and candle factory, a match factory, a biscuit factory, and a tannery. Lard is produced in large quantities under Government inspection. The dairy farm has one of the best-equipped dairies in the world, with cold storage and other accessories. The chief meat, dairy, and produce company in Hong Kong is undertaking the packing of meat in tins and otherwise for export, and promises to become an important, if not a controlling, factor in the tinned meat trade of southern Asia. \n\nSo Hong Kong is a very perfect small industrial centre, and its large concerns are entirely in British hands. Two soap factories on American lines have been projected, one by the Standard Oil Company. Our only local competitors are Chinese, who have not yet developed any big industrial concerns in South China, though examples such as the Kwantung Government cement works at Canton and the Nanyang Tobacco Company at Hong Kong show that the Chinese are no longer oblivious to their opportunities. \n\n#### 2. Shanghai- \n\n- Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills. \n- International Cotton Manufacturing Company. Cotton mills. \n- Oriental Cotton Manufacturing Company. Cotton mills. \n- Kung Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills. \n- Laon Kung Mow Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills. \n- Shanghai Cotton Manufacturing Company (two mills). Cotton mills. \n- Yangtzepoo Cotton Mill Company. Cotton mills. \n- Ewo Silk Filature. Silk filature. \n- Ewo Yuen Press Packing Company. Wool cleaning and press-packing factory. \n- Liddell Brothers and Co. Wool cleaning and press-packing factory. \n- Mackenzie and Co. Wool cleaning and press-packing factory. \n- Shanghai Dock and Engineering Company. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- New Shipbuilding and Engineering Works. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- Marine Motor Works. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- China Soap and Candle Company. Soap and candle works. \n- British Cigarette Company. Cigarette factory. \n- Kiangsu Chemical Works. Sulphuric acid works. \n- A. Butler and Co. Cement and tile works. \n- Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company. Telephone service. \n- Shanghai Electric Construction Company. Tramway. \n- Shanghai Waterworks Company. Waterworks, \n- Shanghai Gas Company. Gas works. \n- Shanghai Ice and Cold Storage Company. Ice and cold storage. \n- China Import and Export Lumber Company. Saw mills. \n- Lih Teh Oil Mill Company. Oil mill. \n- S. Moutrie and Co. Piano and organ factory. \n- China Pencil Company (Limited). Pencil factory. \n- Shanghai Horse Bazaar and Motor Company (Limited). Motor car and carriage factory. \n- Eastern Garage and Star Garage Company. Motor car and carriage factory. \n- Central Garage. Motor car and carriage factory. \n- Hall and Holtz. Furniture factory. \n- Weeks and Co. Furniture factory. \n- Arts and Crafts (Limited). Furniture factory. \n- A. S. Watson and Co. Aerated water factory, \n- Llewellyn and Co. Aerated water factory. \n- Aquarius Company (Limited). Aerated water factory. \n- Sparklis Aerated Water Factory (Limited). Aerated water factory. \n- Mercantile Printing Company (Limited). Printing works. \n- Messrs. Kelly and Walsh (Limited). Printing works. \n- Messrs. Brewer and Co. (Limited). Printing works. \n- North China Daily News and Herald. Printing works. \n- Shanghai Mercury (Limited). Printing works. \n- Shanghai Times. Printing works. \n\nThe Anglo-Chinese Steel Rolling Mills propose shortly to erect a steel works at Shanghai. \n\nIt can be seen from the above that Shanghai has developed from being merely a port into becoming the most progressive manufacturing centre in China. The staple product is cotton goods, which is the most promising of the new industries of China. A 1918 report gave the total number of cotton mills in China as forty-one with 1,300,000 spindles. Of these, twenty-two are in Shanghai and thirteen in the surrounding district. Of the Shanghai cotton mills, eight were British (capital...",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n### DATE \n5 Dec\n\n### RE \nC.O. 60502\nRe: 6 JEC 712\n\n2. In the course, the question of interest will not arise.\n\n**(85)**\n\n## FOR CIRCULATION:\n- Mr. Jer. Mesham T\n- Mr. Grindle\n- SRZ\n- Sir H. Lambert\n- Sir H. Read\n- Birsu: Make Smith\n- Mr. Wood\n- Mr. Churchill\n\n### Previous Paper \nSUBJECT: British & foreign interests in China\n\n| Ref | Action |\n| --- | --- |\n| 4414 | I copy memo to Edb |\n| 4414 | Sent to Fait |\n| 16 | Canada, Australia Dept hou |\n|  | M Dame. Sith |\n\n### MINUTES \nPut be up to date Edb M Ashton Gwatkin's memorandum.\n\n### Subsequent Paper \n(e) (377300) Wt. 4710/19 Gp. 163 \n40000 5-21 W&S Ltd \n8.16.11 alow \n8.12",
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        "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]",
        "content_text": "**SECRET** \n\nDespatched 1535 24/7/25. Received 1005 24/7/25.\n\nFrom: O.C. Hong Kong.\nTo: The War Office.\n\nRepeated: India.\n\n1193 cipher 24/7.\n\nYesterday 400 Chinese troops with Russian officers arrived at frontier. I have sent two platoons of Punjabis to reinforce frontier. Situation quiet but Peking still nervous. No change in situation at Southern ports. Strike situation at Hong Kong improving slowly.\n\nCopies to:\n- **ARMY COUNCIL**\n- D.M.O & I.\n- D.D.M.Q & I.\n- O.1.1A.ID.2.2A.2B.\n- M.1.1.2.20.3.30.\n- D.S.D.\n- D.M.T.\n- D.M.Q.\n- D.R.O.\n- S. for Foreign Affairs.\n- Sir Maurice Hankey.\n- Sir William Tyrell.\n- Mr.Ashton-Gwatkin.\n- First Lord of Admiralty.\n- Lord Beatty.\n- D.N.I.\n- D.O.D.\n- S. of S. for India.\n- Military Department.\n- Col.Wilson-Johnston.\n- S. of S. for Colonies.\n- Sir J.E. Shuckburgh.\n- Mr.Clauson.\n- S. of S. for Air.\n- Air Ministry (C.A.S.)\n- Air Ministry (D.C.A.S.)\n- Air Ministry (D.D.O.I.)\n- Air Ministry (R.Tels)",
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        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\n050\n\n**PARAPHRASE**\n\nFrom: General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong.\n\nTo: The War Office, repeated C.in C. India.\n\n1194 cipher 28/7.\n\nDesp. 1330 28.7.25. Recd. 0940 28.7.25.\n\nNo further advance has taken place on frontier and apparently no threat is intended. No change in boycott and strike at Hong Kong; half of volunteers have been demobilized.\n\n0.4.(Telegrams). Copies to: \n| Recipient | \n| --- | \n| ARMY COUNCIL | \n| D.M.O.& I. | \n| D.D.O.& I. | \n| M.1.1.2.20.3.30 | \n| S.of S.for Foreign Affairs | \n| Sir William Tyrrell | \n| M.0.1.1A.10.2.2A.2B | \n| D.S.D. | \n| D.M.T. | \n| D.M.Q. | \n| D.R.O. | \n| Sir Maurice Hankey | \n| F.O.(Mr.Ashton-Gwatkin) | \n| First Lord of Admiralty | \n| Lord Beatty | \n| Ad.(D.N.I.) | \n| Ad.(D.O.D.) | \n| S. of S. for India | \n| 1.0.(Col.Wilson-Johnston) | \n| 1.0.(Military Department) | \n| S.of S. for the Colonies | \n| C.O.(Sir J.E.Shuckburgh) | \n| C.O.(Mr.Clauson) | \n| S.of S. for Air | \n| Air Ministry (C.A.S.) | \n| Air Ministry (D.D.O.I.) | \n| Air Ministry (D.C.A.S.) | \n| Air Ministry (R.Telegrams) |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]",
        "page_number": 313,
        "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "المساء\n\nSECRET\n\n311\n\n9ECRET,\n\nPARAPHRASE\n\nDesp.1720 27.7.26.\n\nFrom: The War Office,\n\nTo: G.O.O., Hong Kong.\n\n#2893 cipher M.O.2. 27th July, 1926.\n\nYour 1225 cipher dated 24th instant.\n\nUnless you receive specific instructions from His Majesty's Government, you should not employ your troops beyond the frontier of the leased territory.\n\nC.4, (Telegram). Copies to: ARMY COUNCIL,\n\nD.M.O.& I. D.D.M.I. I.O.I. I.A. I.O.2, 4.I.I, 2, 3. D.S.D. D.M.T.\n\nB. of S. for Foreign Affairs,\n\nSir Maurice Hankey.\n\nSir William Tyrrell.\n\nF.O. (Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin).\n\nA.A. (3.N.I.). S. of S. for India.\n\nI.O. Military Department\n\nI.O. (Col. Wilson-Johnston). S. of S. for Colonies.\n\nC.O. (Sir J. Shuckburgh). C.O. (Mr. Clauson).",
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        "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]",
        "page_number": 314,
        "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "SECRET\n\n1\n\nSECRET.\n\nPARAPHRASE\n\nFrom G.O.C., Hong Kong.\n\nTo The War Office.\n\n1225 cipher 24/7,\n\nDesp.1445 24.7.26. Reed, 0930 26.7.26.\n\n312\n\nDemonstration made by British company on the 21st instant south of frontier in aid of civil authorities during negotiations with strike pickets after a police patrol had been seized on the 20th. The captured men were returned on demand so no action was taken.\n\nAm I permitted to assist the Governor by employing troops outside the colony should he request me to do so.\n\nC.O.S. (Telegrams) to M.O.1. (for action).\n\nCopies to: ARMY COUNCIL, D.M.O.&I. D.D.M.O.&I. M.O.1.1A. 10.2. M.I.1.2.3. D.9.D. D.H.T. S.of S. for Foreign Affairs, Sir New ice Harkey, Sir William Tyrrell, F.O, Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin.\n\nAd. (D.N.I.) S.of S. for India. I.O. Military Department, I.O. (Col.Wilson-Johnston) S.of S.for Colonies. C.O. (Sir J.E.Shuckburgh). C.O. (Mr. Clauson).",
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        "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
        "page_number": 266,
        "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
        "content_text": "SECRET\n\nPARAPHRASE\n\nDespatched 1.52.5. 16/9/21 Received 1000 16/5/26\n\nFrom: -\n\nTo: -\n\nG.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nThe War Office.\n\nrepeated India.\n\n1232 cipher 16/9.\n\nThe term garrison referred to in naval suggestion in your cable 1231 September 14th means military garrison. Should this be required we propose to send for this purpose two platoons of Indian Infantry.\n\n252\n\nC.4. (Tels) to C.O.C. (for action).\n\nCopies to:- ARMY COUNCIL. D.O. & I. U.D.M.O. & I. C.O.C./A.D.C.2.2A.2B. M.I.1.c. M.O.2.c. M.O.3.c. D.M.T. S. of S. for Foreign Affairs. Sir Maurice Hankey. Sir William Tyrrell. F.O.(Mr.Ashton-Gwatkin), First Lord of Admiralty. Lord Beatty. Ad (B.N.I.) Ad(D.O.D.) S. of S. for India. I.O.(Military Department) I.O.(001.Wilson-Johnston). S.of S. for Colonies. C.O.(Sir J.B.Shuckburgh). C.O.(Mr.Clauson).\n\nS. of S. for Air. Air Ministry (C.A.S.) Air Ministry (D.O.A.) Air Ministry (D.D.O.I.).",
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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": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
        "page_number": 357,
        "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
        "content_text": "AB17(3)\n\nSECRET\n\nSEC AB17\n\nPARAPHRASES.\n\nDespatched 1745-4/10/34\n\nFrom: -\n\nTo:- The War Office.\n\n4.0.4. Hong Kong.\n\n92949 cipher M.0.1. 4th October 1934.\n\nYour 1239 cipher 3/10 reference last sentence.\n\nUnless you receive definite authority from this office you are not to send troops to Shameen.\n\n338\n\n...\n\n(Telegrams) Copies to:- ARMY COUNCIL. D.M.O. & I. D.D.M.O. & I. M.0.1.14.10.2.2A 2B. M.1.1.2.20.3,30. D.S.D. D.4.T. S. of S. for Foreign Affairs, Sir Maurice Hankey. Sir William Tyrrell. F.O.(Mr.Ashton-Gwatkin). First Lord of Admiralty. Lord Beatty, Ad(U.N.I.) Ad(9.0.D.). S. of S. for India. I.O.(Military Department) I.O.(Col.Wilson-Johnston). S. of S. for Colonies. C.O.(Sir J.E. Shuckburgh). C.O.(Mr.Clauson).\n\nS. of S. for Air. Air Ministry (C.A.S.) Air Ministry (D.C.A.S.) Air Ministry (L.1.0.I.).",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
        "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nPARAPHRASE.\n\nFrom :- G.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nTo: - The War Office.\n\n1239 cipher 3/10.\n\nUpper Yangtze.\n\nDespatched 1240 3/10/26 Received 0930 4/10/26.\n\nSituation Chungking quiet.\n\nSettlement of Wanhsien incident progresses; Consul Ichang informed by Yangsen representatives there will not be further trouble.\n\nMiddle Yangtze.\n\nSouthern Army have mined river; foreign ships continue to suffer interference. Northern attack progresses on left bank of river; Canton nervous as to position of Hankow; Wuchang still holding out. Nothing definite Sun Chuan Fang but Southern reverse on Kiengsi Hunan front reported.\n\nKwangtung no change; no issue yet of Canton official proclamation raising boycott.\n\nNaval proposals in regard to coercive measures, short of war, if boycott not raised by October 10th, are first close Canton to Chinese traffic blockading below Bogue and also west river, and secondly, stop under threat of seizure all movements of cargo boats in Canton. Proposals based on conclusion Shameen must be held: Military garrison desired by Navy. If required propose, as I originally suggested, to send two platoons.\n\nPage 348\n\n0.4, (Telegrams) Copies to:- A.M.S.O. D.M.O. & I. D.D.O. & I. D.A.T. S. of S. for Foreign Affairs, Sir Maurice Hankey. Sir William Tyrrell, F.O.(Mr.Ashton-Gwatkin). First Lord of Admiralty, Lord Beatty, Ad(D.N.I.). S. of S. for India. 1.O.(Military Department) 1.O.(Col.Wilson-Johnston). S.of S. for Colonies, 4.O.(Sir.J.E.Shuckburgh). C.O.(Mr. Clauson). S. of S. for Air. Air Ministry (C.A.S.). Air Ministry (D.O.A.S.). Air Ministry (D.I.G.O.).",
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        "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]",
        "page_number": 91,
        "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "SECRET\n\nPARAPHRASE.\n\nSTATE.\n\nFrom: -\n\nThe War Office.\n\nTo:-\n\n3.0.C. Hong Kong.\n\nPospetaret 1400-18/11/99\n\n92981 cipher M.0.1. 16/11/26.\n\nYour 1252.\n\nPlatoons may act under orders of\n\nAdmiral to whom instructions have been sent by\n\nBritish Government.\n\n88\n\n(Telegrams) Copies to:- ARMY COUNCIL. D.M. & I.DD.M.0 & 1\n\nM.0.1.1A.1D.2.2A.2B. M.1.1.2.2D.3.3D. D.S.D. D.M.T.\n\nS. of S. for Foreign Affairs. Sir Maurice Hankey.\n\nSir William Tyrrell. F.O.(Mr.Ashton-Gwatkin). First Lord of Admiralty. Lord Beatty. Ad(D.N.I.) Ad(D.O.D.) S. of S. for India. I.O.(Military Department) I.O.(Col.Wilson-Johnston). S. of S. for Colonies. C.O.(Sir J.E.Shuckburgh). C.O.(Mr.Clauson).\n\nS. of S. for Air. Air Ministry (C.A.S.) Air Ministry (D.C.A.S.) Air Ministry (D.D.O.I.).",
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        "content_text": "STATE-SECRET\n\nSEC\n\nTARAPHRASE.\n\nFrom!- 5.0.6. Hồng none.\n\nDespatched 1406 16/11/20 Received 0910 16/11/26\n\n90 - 101.\n\nThe War Office.\n\n1852 cipher 16/11.\n\nI am sending at the request of Governor and Admiral, two platoons of Indian infantry to reinforce Naval contingent leaving immediately for Bias Bay to rescue two European women reported to be captured by pirates, with orders that without your cabled authorization they are not to land. Please telegraph authorization.\n\n(Telegram 8)\n\nto M.0.1. (for action).\n\nCopies to:- ARMY COUNCIL. D.M.0 & 1. D.D.M.0 & I. M.0.1.14.10.2.24.28. M.I.1.2.20.3.30. D.S.D. D.M.T. B. of S. for Foreign Affairs. Sir Maurice Hankey. Sir William Tyrrell. F.0.(Mr.Ashton-Gwatkin). First Lord of Admiralty, Lord Beatty, Ad(D.N.I.) Ad(D.0.D.) S. of S.for India. I.0.(Military Department)\n\n0.(Colonel Wilson-Johnston). S.of S.for Colonies. C.O.(Sir J.E.Shuckburgh), C.O.(Mr.Clauson).\n\nS.of S.for Air. Air Ministry (D.A.S.)\n\nAir Ministry (D.A.S.) Air Ministry (D.D.Q.I.)",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nbe taken by the British Government to find out: (1) whether it would be possible to induce the League of Nations (including the representative of China) unanimously to pass censure on the existing Government of Canton for its defiance of the treaties; (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 represent to the Powers that it is an unfriendly act for non-British shipping to avoid Hong Kong at the dictation of the Strike Committee at Canton. In 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\nArrangements for close liaison between Canton, Hong Kong and Peking were made.\n\nIn view of the dearth of practical suggestions revealed at the Hong Kong meeting, and the increasing demands in this country that \"something must be done,\" a determined effort has been made by the Foreign Office further to review the situation.\n\nThe result has been an exchange of telegrams which will be found in Annex XVIII (Foreign Office to Peking, Nos. 30 and 35; Peking telegrams Nos. 39, 40 and 42: Canton telegram No. 5), and which may be summarised as follows:\n\nMethods of Dealing with Canton.\n\n(1.) Force, Sir R. Macleay says:—\n\nWar with Canton would imperil future trade relations between Great Britain and China would immediately lead to a fresh outburst of anti-British feeling all over China.'\n\nSir J. Jamieson says:—\n\nAs war would leave a legacy of hatred and might unite the rest of China, I deprecate it emphatically.\"\n\n(2.) Blockade.—(a.) Independent action by ourselves; same objections as in case of (1), and besides it would entail friction with other Powers;\n\n(b.) Joint international action based on clear infraction of articles I and 3 of Washington Nine-Power Treaty (see Annex XXI); Sir R Macleay doubts whether any Power (except perhaps France) would be ready to co-operate, and that such a proposal (if proceeded with) should be mooted in London and not in Peking. considers joint international action as the sole solution.\"\n\nSir J. Jamieson\n\n(3.) Assistance to an anti-Communist Chinese Leader.-This would be against our policy of non-intervention in Chinese affairs, and it is not encouraged by the incompetence of such leaders as Chen Ch'iung-ming. Sir J. Jamieson adds an unexpected observation that the present Government is (i.e., in municipal matters, &c.) the best Kwangtung has ever had, and the introduction of others would lead to chaos. But the support (especially with arms and munitions) of a serious military leader like Wu Pei-fu in action against Canton should not be definitely excluded.\n\n(4.) Pressure on Moscow-This has been considered and rejected, since the only effective threat would be the withdrawal of the Moscow mission, and even that might not be successful (see also above p. 4 and Annex I).\n\n(5.) Conciliation.—Sir R. Macleay considers this is useless so long as the present anti-British Kuomintang faction is in power, openly directed and abetted by the Bolsheviks. We believe this to be so, so long as the Cantonese are getting more from the Russians than from us.\n\nWe have enquired whether Canton Government can be influenced by the moderate Kuomintang or by non-extremist Cantonese at Peking, Shanghai, &c. Sir R. Macleay has replied that such persons have no influence whatever with the faction now predominant in Kwangtung,\n\nWe have suggested that the Boxer Indemnity delegation should visit Canton and that a grant might be made out of indemnity funds which would offset Russian subsidies. Sir R. Macleay does not think such action would have any effect at present; Sir J. Jamieson is disposed to favour the offer of a grant, but doubts whether a visit from the delegation would be advisable.\n\n• See, for instance, \"Morning Post\" of January 14, 1926, Annex XX.\n\n13\n\n(6.) Appeal to the League of Nations, as suggested at Hong Kong meeting (see above, p. 11, also Annex XVII). We do not favour this as we feel sure that the League would not condemn Canton unanimously unheard, and that the hearing would provide a welcome opportunity for China to advertise its grievances on all manner of extraneous subjects. Young Further, as Sir R. Macleay points out, the Chinese representative on the League would never join in a resolution of censure, nor would such a censure have any effect on the Canton Bolsheviks; also, the attitude of the United States to the League would nullify any attempt at pressure by that body.\n\n(7.) Patience. As Sir R Macleay states: The policy of patient conciliation has borne abundant fruit in the restoration to a great extent of friendship and goodwill between the British and Chinese peoples and resumption of normal commercial relations throughout China, except in a few areas, such as the Province of Kwangtung, which are controlled by external influences violently and openly hostile to Great Britain.\" Bolshevik prestige and influence, he says, have been severely shaken throughout China even in the eyes of Nationalist and student elements (by events in Manchuria, &c.), and we should wait developments of anti-Bolshevik feeling and the formation of a coalition of friendly military leaders, who will probably, if and when they find themselves strong enough to do so, take action against Canton.\" (According to Hankow telegram No. 2 of the 1st February, Chiang Kai-shek-the leader of the Cadet army has already sent an offer of co-operation to Wu Pei-fu.) At the same time, we should indicate that our patience may in the end become exhausted, and we may be forced reluctantly into a change of policy.\n\nThe demands of Canton are:-\n\n11\n\n(a.) The five demands (see p. 2 and Annex VII), which have now apparently been shelved.\n\n(b) The economic demands of the strikers (see pp. 8, 9).\n\n(c.) The demand that the strikers have representatives of their own on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, that extra-territoriality be abolished, and Shameen be handed back (see p. 9).\n\n(d) The terms suggested by Mr. Sung to the Governor of Hong Kong (see Annex XVI) dealt with: (i) Inequality of treatment, freedom of meeting and speech; (ii) flogging by police; (iii) deportation from Hong Kong (iv) closing of Hong Kong unions; (v) representation of Chinese labour in Hong Kong legislature; (vi) strike pay; (vii) reinstatement of strikers.\n\n(e) General Chiang Kai-shek's programme (see his speech after the recovery of Swatow in Peking despatch No. 882 of the 7th December) included: (i) abolition of all unequal treaties; (ii) prohibition of gambling and opium-smoking; (iii) resumption of control over Maritime Customs.\n\nThe Government of Hong Kong (see telegram in Annex XIX) do not believe that it is possible to negotiate a settlement with the present Canton Government, especially so long as the Russians are allowed to remain. They consider that not only the Washington Treaty, but the Treaties of Nanking and Tien-tsin (see Annex XXII) have been infringed; that it would be correct to regard the Canton Government as a rebel Government in insurrection against Peking; and that very strong pressure should be brought to bear on the representatives in London of the chief maritime Powers with a view to joint action.\n\nForeign Office, February 3, 1926.\n\nF. ASHTON-GWATKIN.\n\n501",
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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": "No. F 1284/1/10\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\n30th March, 1926.\n\nWith reference to your letter C 6309/26 of March 23rd I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to state that he has given careful consideration to the views therein expressed regarding the visit of Lord Willingdon's China Indemnity Delegation to Hongkong and Canton.\n\n2. At the same time, he has had to consider the opinion submitted by His Majesty's Minister at Peking in his telegram No.126 of March 23rd, and has accordingly telegraphed in reply (Foreign Office telegram to Peking No.105 of March 25th) that for the present Lord Willingdon's delegation should visit neither Hongkong nor Canton. Copies of this correspondence were forwarded to your department in Foreign Office letter F 1252/1/10 of March 26th.\n\n3. Lord Willingdon's mission is intended to be a gesture of friendship towards the Chinese people as a whole; and it is desirable that it should be utilised as a lever in the Canton-Hongkong dispute. It is hoped, however, that recent events in Canton will lead to an improvement in the position there, and will make it possible for the delegation to visit both Hongkong and Canton in due course.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nF. Ashton-Gwatkin\n\nUnder-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nC. 7250\n\n31 MAR 1926",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA.\n\n81\n\n[March 16, 1926.]\n\nSECTION 7.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[F1093/184/10]\n\n(No 47.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir R. Macleay to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—(Received March 16.)\n\nPeking, January 19, 1926. IN reply to your despatch No. 831, Confidential, of the 23rd September, I have the honour to submit the following observations on the questions of policy in connection with the arms embargo raised in the papers enclosed therein:—\n\n2. The situation in China has of course undergone a change since the date of Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin's memorandum of the 7th September last, and we can for the moment no longer say that \"in every part of China two parties are facing each other, which may be characterised as (1) a pro-Soviet party bitterly opposed to us, and (2) an anti-Soviet party which is disposed to be friendly\"; nor that we are fighting for our lives in China, and it seems unfair that we should hand our enemy a deadly weapon while we ourselves remain deliberately unarmed.\" Since the above words were written some of the armies and military groups have dissolved into new formations, thus furthering a general disintegration; while the military faction representing in the north the party No. (1) above referred to, having secured the momentary discomfiture of party No. (2), is professing to hold out the hand of friendship to us, and to be anxious to let bygones be bygones. It remains to be seen what these professions of friendship may be worth. But, in the meantime, such considerations as existed last summer in favour of our departure from our policy of strict neutrality have lost their force. This policy seems, indeed, to have been more than ever justified by the events of the past two months, and to be more than ever applicable to the present situation with its obscure outlook for the future. Moreover, the best Chinese public opinion is becoming increasingly strong against the importation of arms (see, for instance, the views on the subject expressed by General Huang Fu, as reported in my despatch No. 16 of the 5th January); while, as long as we adhere to our present arms embargo policy, we can at any rate refute absolutely and entirely, as far as we ourselves are concerned, the charge so often levied nowadays by the students and intellectuals against the foreigner, that he promotes the evil of militarism by importing arms into China. For the above reasons I do not consider, on broad grounds of general policy, that any departure from our present attitude towards the arms embargo is for the moment desirable; and I would go as far as to say that the effect at the present juncture of anything like a public withdrawal by His Majesty's Government from the embargo would be deplorable.\n\n3. The situation has also been to some extent altered by the action of the Chinese Government in announcing, in the mandate of the 2nd September last, their intention to issue no more permits for the importation of arms. It is possible that this declaration of policy may well prove to be meaningless except on paper, and that there may be political objectives behind the move in the sense of affording certain favoured militarists the opportunity of evading the prohibition. But, taking it at its face value, it seems to provide an opportunity for continuing the arms embargo with the nominal approval and co-operation of the Chinese Government, a factor which would provide a solid logical basis for the embargo policy which has hitherto been lacking. It is true that, arms and ammunition being in any case under treaty prohibited imports except to the order of the Central Government, the declared intention of the latter to discontinue importation would on the face of it render any embargo arrangements, including our own legislation on the subject, superfluous. But the necessity of such arrangements would, of course, in actual fact remain owing to the lack of effective control by the Chinese Central Government over distant provincial centres and their semi-independent military authorities, who, as, for instance, in the case of those in Manchuria and Kwangtung, are able to compel the local Customs to respect their provincial huchaos, and who can thus, in spite of any well-meant professions on the part of the Central Government, only be prevented from obtaining arms from abroad by a self-denying arrangement on the part of the Powers. It is admitted that the Chinese Government may at any moment revoke the mandate of the 2nd September. But \"face\" counts, as we know, for much in this country, and it is possible that the Chinese may in time find themselves so bound by\n\n[1226 q-7]",
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        "content_text": "C.D.C.196)\n\nENCLOSURE\n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, FOREIGN OFFICE, TO UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\n(F4328/84/10)\n\nSir,\n\n21st October, 1926.\n\n357\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 12th October and previous correspondence on the subject of piracies in Bias Bay, I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to inform you that His Majesty's Minister at Peking and His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton were asked to furnish their views as to the proposals of the Governor of Hongkong transmitted in your letter of the 4th September. The telegrams which have been received in reply (Peking telegrams No. 374 and 375) have already been communicated to the Colonial Office.\n\n2.\n\nSir Austen Chamberlain agrees generally with the modification of the Governor's proposal suggested by Mr. Brenan but is further of opinion that any British expedition sent to occupy Bias Bay should consist of naval rather than military forces.\n\n3.\n\nIf Mr. Amery concurs in these views, a telegram in this sense will be sent to Sir R. Macleay after the concurrence of the Admiralty and the War Office has been obtained. A draft of the telegram which it is proposed to send is enclosed herewith for Mr. Amery's observations.\n\nI am, etc.\n\n(Signed) F. Ashton Gwatkin.\n\nC.D.C.196 Paper No. 195 Appendices IV and V.",
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        "content_text": "RESTRICTED.\n\nPAPERS\n\nDesp. 1445 24.7.26. Recd. 0930 26.7.26.\n\nFrom: G.O.C., Hong Kong.\n\nTo The War Office.\n\n424\n\n1225 cipher 24/7.\n\nDemonstration made by British company on the 21st instant south of frontier in aid of civil authorities during negotiations with strike pickets after a police patrol had been seized on the 20th. The captured men were returned on demand so no action was taken.\n\nAm I permitted to assist the Governor by employing troops outside the colony should he request me to do so.\n\n0.4. (Telegrams) to M.O.1. (for action).\n\nCopies to: ARMY COUNCIL. D.M.O.&I. D.D.M.O.&I. M.O.1.14.1p.8. L.I.1.2.3. D.S.D. D.L.7.\n\nS. of S. for Foreign Affairs.\n\nSir Maurice Hankey. Sir William Tyrrell.\n\nF.O. (Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin),\n\nAd. (D.N.I.) S. of S. for India.\n\nI.O. (Military Department).\n\nI.O. (Col. Wilson-Johnston).\n\nS. of S. for Colonies.\n\nColonial Office (Sir J.E. Shuckburgh). C.O. (Mr. Clauson).",
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        "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nPARAVIMASE.\n\nDes. 1720 27.7.26.\n\nFrom:\n\nThe War Office,\n\nTo: G.O.C., Hong Kong,\n\n92893 cipher M.O.1. 27th July, 1926.\n\nYour 1225 cipher dated 24th instant.\n\nUnless you receive specific instructions from\n\nHis Majesty's Government, you should not employ your\n\ntroops beyond the frontier of the leased territory.\n\nC.4. (Telegrams). Copies to: ARMY COUNCIL.\n\nD.M.O.&I D.D.M.O.&I. M.O.1.14.10.2. K.I.1.2.3. D.S.D. D.M.7.\n\nS. of S. for Foreign Affairs.\n\nSir Maurice Hankey.\n\nSir William Tyrrell.\n\nF.O. (Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin)\n\nAd. (D.E.I.). S. of S. for India.\n\nI.O. (Military Department).\n\nI.O. 001. Wilson-Johnston). S. of S. for Colonies. C.O. (Sir J.E. Shuckburgh), C.O. (Mr. Clauson).",
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        "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nPARAPHRASE.\n\nDesp.1445 24.7.26. Read.0930 26.7.26.\n\nFrom: G.O.C., Hong Kong.\n\nTo The War Office,\n\n428\n\n1800) NEDİ\n\nDemonstration made by British company on the 21st instant south of frontier in aid of civil authorities during negotiations with strike pickets after a police patrol had been seized on the 20th. The captured men were returned on demand so no action was taken.\n\nAm I permitted to assist the Governor by employing troops outside the Colony should he request me to do so.\n\n1225 cipher 24/7.\n\nAction: (Telegrams) to M.O.1. (for action),\n\nCopies to: ARMY COUNCIL. D.M.O.& I. D.D.M.O.& I.\n\nM.O.1.14.10.2. M.I.1.2.3. D.S.D. D.M.T.\n\nS. of S. for Foreign Affairs.\n\nSir Maurice Hankey. Sir William Tyrrell.\n\nF.O. (Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin),\n\nAd. (D.N.I.) 3, of 8, for India.\n\nI.O. (Military Department).\n\nI.O. (Col. Wilson-Johnston).\n\nS. of S. for Colonies.\n\nColonial Office (Sir J.E. Shuckburgh). C.O. (Mr. Clauson).",
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        "content_text": "Page 433\n\nDes. 1720 27.7.26.\n\nFrom : The War Office,\n\nTo: G.O.C., Hong Kong\n\n92893 cipher M.O.1. 27th July, 1926.\n\nYour 1225 cipher dated 24th instant. Unless you receive specific instructions from His Majesty's Government, you should not employ your troops beyond the frontier of the leased territory.\n\nCopies to: ARMY COUNCIL.\n\nD.M.O.& I D.D.M.O.& I.\n\nM.O.1. M.I.1.2.3. D.S.D. D.M.T.\n\nF.O. (Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin)\n\nS. of S. for India,\n\nI.O. (Military Department),\n\nC.O. (Col. Wilson-Johnston),\n\nS. of S. for Colonies.\n\nC.O. (Sir J.E.Shuckburgh). C.O. (Mr. Clauson).\n\nPage 434",
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        "content_text": "REPORT.\n\nSir,\n\nOctober 18, 1926.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit the Report of the Statutory Committee (of which I am Chairman), established under \"The China Indemnity (Application) Act, 1925,\" to advise regarding the allocation of the China Indemnity Fund for purposes beneficial to the mutual interests of His Majesty and of the Republic of China.\n\n2. This Report takes the form of an analysis of the Report submitted by the Delegation which visited China under the Chairmanship of Lord Willingdon, and should be read in conjunction with that document. The Advisory Committee supports the general lines of the recommendations submitted by the Delegation, but has added thereto specific comments and recommendations of its own.\n\n3. The members of the Advisory Committee concur unanimously in the terms of this Report.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nI have the honour to remain,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nBUXTON,\n\nChairman.\n\nSir Austen Chamberlain, K.G., M.P.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nPART 1 Introductory\n\nPART II - Recommendations of Delegation, with Committee's Observations\n\nPage 3\n\n&\n\nAPPENDIX I. -- Note by Sir F. Heath, K.C.B., on a proposed Research Institute.\n\nAPPENDIX II. - Letter from Dr. W. H. Wong and others regarding a National Institute of Science and Technology\n\n19\n\n20\n\n:\n\nPART I.\n\nINTRODUCTORY.\n\nCHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) ACT.\n\nPassed 30th June, 1925.\n\nTHE original Act provided that the money paid and accumulated since December 1922 on account of the Boxer Indemnity should be applied to such educational and other purposes as, in the opinion of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, after consultation with an Advisory Committee, were beneficial to the mutual interests of His Majesty and the Republic of China. The decision to establish a Board of Trustees in China (see paragraphs 31-42 below) will, however, necessitate an amendment of the Act in order to give power to the Board to apply the Fund to educational and other purposes, and to make such investments for the perpetuation of a portion of the Fund as the Board may determine in accordance with the general scheme and purposes laid down by the Advisory Committee.\n\n2. The Advisory Committee was to consist of eleven persons, of whom at least one was to be a woman and at least two citizens of the Republic of China. The text of the Act is set out in full in the Report of the Delegation, p. 6.\n\n3. The Advisory Committee, as finally constituted under the terms of the Act, is as follows:-\n\nThe Right Hon. the Earl Buxton, G.C.M.G. (Chairman).\n\n(Postmaster-General, 1905-10; President of the Board of Trade, 1910-14; Governor-General of South Africa, 1914–20.)\n\nThe Right Hon. the Viscount Willingdon, G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.B.E.\n\n(Governor of Bombay, 1913-19; Governor of Madras, 1919–24.)\n\nSir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G.\n\n(Director of the Bank of England and Chairman of the London Committee of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.)\n\nDame Adelaide Anderson, D.B.E., M.A.\n\n(Principal Lady Inspector of Factories, Home Office, 1897-1921; assisted on Commission appointed by Shanghai Municipal Council to investigate Child Labour in Shanghai.)\n\nSir William Clark, K.C.S.I., C.M.G.\n\n(Comptroller-General of the Department of Overseas Trade.)\n\nProfessor Hu Shih, Ph.D., B.A.\n\n(Lately Professor of Philosophy and English at Peking University.)\n\nMr. G. A. Mounsey, C.M.G., O.B.E.\n\n(Head of the Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office.)\n\nSir Christopher Needham.\n\n(Governor of Manchester University since 1908; Chairman of the District Bank, Limited, Manchester; nominated to serve on the Committee by the Board of Trade.)\n\nProfessor W. E. Soothill, M.A.\n\n(Professor of Chinese, Oxford University.)\n\nDr. V. K. Ting, D.Sc.\n\n(General Manager, Peipiao Coal-Mining Company and Honorary Director of the Geological Survey, China.)\n\nDr. C. C. Wang, Ph.D., LL.D., M.A.\n\n(Formerly Managing Director of Peking-Mukden and Peking-Hankow Railways and Director-General of the Chinese Eastern Railway.)\n\nSecretary: Mr. F. Ashton-Gwatkin.\n\n3556 [14888] [15217]\n\nB 2\n\n437",
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        "content_text": "18\n\n79. The Advisory Committee desire to join with the Delegation in expressing their warm appreciation of the very friendly reception accorded in China to their Representatives, and for the courtesy and hospitality shown them by the Chinese Civil and Military Officials and ex-Officials, and for the welcome and ready help given to them throughout by the non-official Chinese and the British and other foreign residents in China. The task of the Delegation was thereby greatly facilitated and lightened, and the amenities of their visit and the interest of their work were correspondingly increased.\n\n80. At an early stage in their proceedings, the Advisory Committee decided that, in their opinion, no advantage would be gained by taking evidence in England, inasmuch as the Delegation would have the opportunity of obtaining first-hand evidence in China itself. But the Chairman, and other members of the Advisory Committee, have had the benefit of personal discussion with representative Authorities residing in England, and with those residents in China who have been in this country since the formation of the Committee.\n\n81. Finally, the Advisory Committee desire to place on record their appreciation of the services rendered to them throughout by Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin, their Secretary. His knowledge of the subject, his efficiency and industry have been of great value to them in carrying out the somewhat difficult and delicate task committed to them.\n\nBUXTON (Chairman).\n\nWILLINGDON (Chairman of Delegation)\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\nADELAIDE M. ANDERSON.\n\nW. H. CLARK.\n\nHU SHIH.\n\nGEORGE MOUNSEY.\n\nCHRISTOPHER T. NEEDHAM.\n\nWM. E. SOOTHILL.\n\nV. K. TING.\n\nC. C. WANG.\n\nF. ASHTON-GWATKIN, Secretary.\n\nOctober 18, 1926.\n\nto China).\n\n19\n\nAPPENDIX I.\n\nNOTE BY SIR FRANK HEATH, K.C.B., ON THE PROPOSED RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHINA.\n\nA careful reading of the evidence of Dr. Ts'ai and of Dr. V. K. Ting, on which the recommendations of the Willingdon Delegation on Scientific Research are largely based, indicates that both these distinguished Chinese men of science had in mind the applications of science to practical problems as the main purposes of the proposed Research Institute rather than the prosecution of research in pure science. Dr. Ts'ai says: \"It will be set up in order to create a spirit of reverence for science and industrial arts,\" and proposes it should include a museum as an important if not predominant feature. His ideas are curiously parallel to those of the late Prince Albert, who thought of the South Kensington estate, purchased from the profits of the Great Exhibition, as the home of the applied sciences and the industrial arts—as it has indeed become. Dr. Ting, who is a geologist, defines geology, zoology and botany in his draft estimate (p. 57) in terms that indicate his grasp of the importance of the practical side of the work. He is most specific in his own science, and only less so in the two sciences which lie nearest to his own. But in dealing with physics, chemistry and the social sciences he naturally avoids definition. Yet these are as capable of a practical bias as the rest.\n\nResearch in pure science—research, that is, which is undertaken for its own sake because the worker is attempting to extend our knowledge of nature without any regard to the usefulness of his discoveries—can only safely be made the aim of an institute, or indeed of any organisation—if there is a large and well-established provision for the highest education. Universities not only give opportunities for men of the highest originality to obtain the sound foundations of scientific training which is a necessary preliminary of original work—the creative kind in modern science—but more important still they are the only means of establishing standards of equipment and attainment adequate as some indication of capacity for original work of the highest type. Humboldt's \"Akademie der Wissenschaften\" was the crown of a wide-flung University system in Prussia, and without it could not have secured the status it has. A Research Institute for pure science would be likely to find itself \"in the air\" in China to-day. It is noticeable that Dr. Ts'ai lays stress on the \"training of men\" as China's most urgent need, and in view of the difficulty of introducing a system of scientific education into his country, he contemplates that the Institute will best accomplish this task \"by lectures, publication and research.\"\n\nIf, on the other hand, the main object of the Institute were research with a view to the development of the natural resources of the country as seems to be contemplated by Dr. Ting in geology, botany and zoology, the work would make a more direct appeal to a people beginning to find their way into Western science and would be easier of accomplishment in the earlier years. The fundamental discoveries in pure science wherever made would be available for application to the special problems of China, and while the methods of the worker would be the same as those adopted by the seeker after knowledge for its own sake, there would not be the same demand upon the creative imagination. The young investigator would have his feet firmly planted on the ground, and he would be guided by a purpose that both he and public opinion could understand. To take a single example:—Tung oil, which is a valuable product for the manufacture of paints, since it has a drying power much higher than linseed oil, and was till recently produced only in China, has recently been successfully produced in the United States. The American oil is better than the Chinese and the American nuts are made to produce 30-40 per cent. of oil as compared with 20 per cent. extracted in China. This double improvement is entirely due to the discovery that the oil should be extracted by cold pressing when the nut is fresh.\n\nExperience in other lands has shown, on the other hand, that important research in pure science is the work of a relatively small number of highly equipped minds who, for the most part, have been trained in the national universities. The supply of such men in China will naturally be small at first. But there is a wealth of fruitful results to be won in applied science by men of capacity who have had some scientific training if their work is directed by research leaders of high standing. In the early\n\n[15217]\n\nE\n\n445\n\nT",
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        "content_text": "Customs Administration. He anticipated that the Cantonese would refuse (in which case presumably our acquiescence would also fall to the ground). He did not suggest what our next step should be, but it appeared that he was not really in favour of acquiescence at all, but would prefer that we should join in an emphatic protest and attempt to unite the Powers in a joint stand in defence of their treaty rights. In this connection, it should be noted that in a previous telegram Sir R. Macleay had informed us that, in view of the tame acquiescence of the Powers in the illegal exactions of the Strike Committee and in irregular taxes, such as the Canton oil tax, it was unlikely that they would proceed beyond paper protests. This anticipation was fully confirmed at a Diplomatic Body meeting of the 20th October, when Sir R. Macleay reported that his colleagues did not think that the proposed protest would be effective in stopping the Cantonese levying the taxes or that their Governments would join in any action to enforce it.\n\nXXVI.\n\nOn the 3rd November Sir R. Macleay, misunderstanding his instructions, agreed to participate in a joint protest, but without making any explanation to the Powers as to our policy as set forth in paragraph XXIV above. This has made it impossible to proceed with that policy on the lines originally intended.\n\nForeign Office. November 4, 1926.\n\n[F 1998/8/10]\n\nANNEX I.\n\nJ. T. PRATT.\n\nMemorandum communicated to United States Embassy, May 28, 1926.\n\nHIS Majesty's Government have received through the United States Embassy in London a message from the United States Government enquiring whether His Majesty's Government endorse the attitude ascribed to the British delegation at Peking of desiring to abandon the negotiations at Peking and break up the Tariff Conference; and expressing the hope that His Majesty's Government will continue to co-operate with the other interested Powers in bringing to a conclusion the task which was begun last October.\n\n2. His Majesty's Government desire to assure the United States Government that the report received by them that the British delegation desired to withdraw from the negotiations at Peking appears to be based on a complete misunderstanding. His Majesty's Government have no intention whatever of breaking up the Tariff Conference. It is true that the question has been considered whether at the present juncture it might not be convenient to arrange a brief suspension of the conference over the summer months. It was realised, however, that in existing circumstances suspension of the conference might prove to be more prolonged than was intended, and in order to prevent the possibility of misunderstanding as to the sincerity of the Powers, His Majesty's Government considered it to be of the greatest importance that, before even such a brief suspension as above contemplated took place, there must first be a complete liquidation of the promises made at Washington.\n\n3. The British delegation in Peking fully shared this view, and appreciated the prime necessity of liquidating the Washington Treaty. A considerable interchange of views has, however, taken place between the Foreign Office and the delegation in regard to the proceedings of the conference on the subject of the unsecured debt; and it is probable that the misunderstanding to which reference is made above has arisen in consequence of the attitude which the delegation has been instructed to take on this matter, and which was formally stated by the chief British delegate at the meeting at the Netherlands Legation on the 6th May.\n\n4. The United States Government will no doubt recollect that His Majesty's Government were from the first averse to the imposition on the Chinese Government of any scheme of consolidation of the unsecured debt as part of the work of the Tariff Conference, and that they only agreed later and with great reluctance to the discussion of any such scheme at the conference. If the schemes of the foreign delegations for the consolidation of the unsecured debt should postulate too strict a control over China's customs revenues (shortly to be increased by tariff autonomy) His Majesty's Government are afraid that a dangerous deadlock may arise, for the discussions on this subject show that the Chinese, though willing to bind themselves to devote a proportion of their revenues to the unsecured debt, have declined to allow the details of debt consolidation to be dealt with by the Tariff Conference, and will refuse to submit to any extension of foreign control over China's customs revenues.\n\n5. His Majesty's Government, after full consideration and prolonged consultation with their delegation in Peking, have come to the conclusion that, while they are ready to agree to any reasonable scheme for dealing with the unsecured debt put forward by the Chinese and agreed to by the other Powers, it would not be right to associate themselves with any attempt to force upon the Chinese a greater degree of foreign control over the revenues required for that purpose than they are prepared voluntarily to concede. A policy involving increase of foreign control, and capable of being regarded as an encroachment on that sovereignty and independence of China which the Powers agreed at Washington to respect, is so fundamentally opposed to the traditional policy of the United States towards China that His Majesty's Government are disposed to believe that the State Department will share their anxiety on this subject.\n\n6. It is true that His Majesty's Government originally desired to exact proper guarantees from China in regard to the abolition of li-kin as a condition precedent to the grant of the Washington surtaxes, but they have come to the conclusion that, in the altered circumstances and changed atmosphere of to-day, any attempt to insist upon guarantees against the will of the Chinese Government would only result in postponing indefinitely the liquidation of the Washington promises. They are as anxious as the United States Government fully to implement these promises at the earliest possible moment, and believe that it would be contrary to the intentions of both Governments, both at and subsequent to the Washington Conference, to subordinate the fulfilment of these promises to the imposition upon China of a scheme for the consolidation of her unsecured debt and extension of foreign control over her customs revenues. Any failure to implement the Washington Treaty might create a very dangerous situation, and His Majesty's Government now therefore hold the view that if any reasonably satisfactory assurances are given by the Chinese Government as to the use which it proposes to make of the new revenues the Powers should accept such assurances, abstain from any attempt to impose control or exact guarantees, and forthwith authorise the levy of the surtaxes. They feel confident that a policy so closely in accord with the friendship and generosity always displayed by the United States of America towards the people of China, will receive the full and cordial support of the United States Government.\n\nForeign Office, May 28, 1926.\n\n[F 4326/1/10]\n\nANNEX II.\n\nTHE CANTON BOYCOTT.\n\nA Record of Events (July 15, 1926-October 13, 1926).\n\nThe following memorandum is a continuation of Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin's memorandum respecting Canton of the 3rd February, 1926 (Confidential, 12906), and of Mr. Patrick's memorandum of the 13th July, 1926, on the Hong Kong-Canton negotiations (July 13, 1926, Section 1).\n\n2. 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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nPIRACY IN WATERS ADJACENT TO HONG KONG.\n\nNotes of a meeting held at the Colonial Office on the 13th January, 1926.\n\nPresent.\n\nSir G. Grindle, K.C.M.G., C.B.\n\nSir R.E. Stubbs, K.C.M.G.\n\nMr. F.T.A. Ashton-Gwatkin, Foreign Office.\n\nMr. G.S. Moss, Admiralty.\n\nCaptain A.M. Peck, D.S.O., War Office.\n\nMr. P.E. Marrack, O.B.E., Board of Trade.\n\nMr. J. Leak, Colonial Office.\n\nCaptain F.W. Bate\n\nMr. J. Paskin\n\nMajor R.B. Pargitor\n\nMr. Marrack explained that while the Navy accepts the duty of protecting British ships on the high seas, he did not think that the British taxpayer could properly be called upon to pay for the provision of special naval forces to prevent piracy in the inland waters of another country.\n\nSir R.E. Stubbs said that it was scarcely possible to draw the same distinction between the high seas and river waters in China as is drawn in Europe. The broad Chinese rivers are to a very great extent \"no man's ground\". He felt, therefore, that if naval forces are provided to patrol these waters it lay with the Imperial Government and not with the Government of a Colony to pay for them.\n\nIn his view, however, too much had been made of the necessity for and efficacy of patrol vessels. Most of the ships that had been pirated were coastal vessels actually in international waters. We could only recollect two cases of piracy properly so called...",
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        "content_text": "X\n\nMr. Paskin. 22/2\n\nLa\n\nMr. Beckett. 23\n\nMr. Ellis 23/\n\nMr. E. J. Harding.\n\nMr. Strachey.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir C. Davis.\n\nDear Sir S. Wilson,\n\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\nEarl of Clarendon.\n\nMr. Amery.\n\nC. D.\n\n21 FEB\n\nConson\n\n3 DRAFTS.\n\n5.0. for my sig.\n\n1. P.E. MARRACK, ESQ., O.B.E.\n\nAdmiralty.\n\nMarrack\n\nGwatkin\n\n3. Pargiter\n\n4. Leak\n\nB/T C.1003/26 H.K.\n\n5. Sir Edward\n\nDowning Street,\n\nFebruary, 1926.\n\n273\n\nI now enclose an amended copy of the Notes of the Piracy meeting which was held here on the 13th of January. I am sorry that this has been somewhat delayed, but I am afraid that I have had to put it aside for more urgent work.\n\n2. F.T.A. ASHTON-GWATKIN, ESQ., Foreign Office.\n\n3. MAJOR R. B. PARGITER, War Office.\n\n4. H. LEAK, ESQ., Board of Trade.\n\n5. SIR R. E. STUBBS, K.C.M.G.,\n\nI also enclose copies of two draft despatches to Hong Kong and I should be much obliged if you would let me know whether you wish to suggest any amendments. I am also sending copies to Notes.\n\nJencis.\n\nDraft, desp. (debe) I without (dobe).\n\n(1-4) Sir E. Stubbs and to the representatives of the (1) F.O.W.O., and B/T. (2) Admty. W.O and B/T. (3) Admty, F.O and B/T (4) Admty. F.O. and W.O. (5) Admty., F.O., W.O. and B/T. who attended the meeting.\n\nWhen I get their replies, we ... to refer the drafts",
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        "content_text": "COPY\n\nConfidential\n\n25 C. Rencon\n\nPIRACY IN WATERS ADJACENT TO HONG KONG.\n\nDraft Notes of a meeting held at the Colonial Office on the 13th January, 1926.\n\nPresent.\n\nSir G. Grindle, K.C.M.G., C.B. Foreign Office.\n\nSir R.E. Stubbs, K.C.M.G. Colonial Office.\n\nMr. F.T.A. Ashton-Gwatkin Foreign Office.\n\nMr. G.S. Moss, O.B.E. Admiralty.\n\nCaptain A.M. Peck, D.S.O. War Office.\n\nMr. P.E. Marrack, O.B.E. Colonial Office.\n\nMajor R.B. Pargiter War Office.\n\nMr. H. Leak Board of Trade.\n\nCaptain F.W. Bate Admiralty.\n\nMr. J. Paskin Colonial Office.\n\nMr. Marrack explained that while the Navy accepts the duty of protecting British ships on the high seas, he did not think that the British taxpayer could properly be called upon to pay for the provision of naval forces to operate in the inland waters of another country.\n\nSir R.E. Stubbs said that it was scarcely possible to draw the same distinction between the high seas and river waters in China as is drawn in Europe. The broad Chinese rivers are to a very great extent \"no man's ground.\" He felt, therefore,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-498-24 Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung- application for training in the Royal Tank Corps 12-11-1926 - 19-1-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-498-24 Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung- application for training in the Royal Tank Corps 12-11-1926 - 19-1-1927",
        "content_text": "# F 4660/4660/10\n\nSir,\n\n## 712 \n**FOREIGN OFFICE,** \nS.W.1. \n12th November, 1926.\n\nWith reference to our Office letter No. `100/H/9577(3.D.2)` of the 30th ultimo, regarding Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung's application to undergo a course of instruction with the Royal Tank Corps, I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to state that the cadet in question appears to be a British subject, and to suggest that, if the Army Council consider it desirable, the question should be referred to the Colonial Office, to whom copy of this correspondence has been sent.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nThe Under Secretary of State, \nWar Office.\n\n(D) F. ASHTON GWATKIN",
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        "document_key": "CO129-501-2 Chinese situation- Boxer indemnity 5-2-1927 - 14-12-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-501-2 Chinese situation- Boxer indemnity 5-2-1927 - 14-12-1927",
        "content_text": "77 \n\nthat the scheme should be proceeded with as soon as \npossible, is ready to stand down. No British members \nhave as yet been approached, and no steps will be taken \nto obtain them until the question of the Chinese members \nis settled. \n\nThe policy of the Foreign Office, therefore, for \nthe present, is to continue leisurely with the constitution \nof the Provisional Committee and to wait on events before \ndeciding whether the Committee's recommendations regarding \nthe use of the Indemnity Funds require any modification. \n\nThe Foreign Office desire to carry out the recommendations \nof the Advisory Committee, if they can possibly be \nreconciled with the existing state of affairs in China. \n\nA question on the subject was asked in Parliament \non July 6th by Major General Sir Alfred Knox, who \nenquired what was now the total amount of the Fund and \nwhether the Secretary of State, after consultation with the \nAdvisory Committee, would use this sum to compensate \nBritish Nationals robbed at Hankow, Nanking and other \nPlaces in China. In reply Mr. G. Locker-Lampson stated \nthat the total Fund must now amount to nearly £2,000,000; \nbut that the Advisory Committee, having submitted their \nrecommendations, could hardly be expected to revise them \nin favour of an entirely different policy. \n\n## F. ASHTON-GWATKIN \n**Secretary**",
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        "content_text": "that the scheme should be proceeded with as soon as possible, is ready to stand down. No British members have as yet been approached, and no steps will be taken to obtain them until the question of the Chinese members is settled.\n\nThe policy of the Foreign Office, therefore, for the present, is to continue leisurely with the constitution of the Provisional Committee and to wait on events before deciding whether the Committee's recommendations regarding the use of the Indemnity Funds require any modification. The Foreign Office desire to carry out the recommendations of the Advisory Committee, if they can possibly be reconciled with the existing state of affairs in China.\n\nA question on the subject was asked in Parliament on July 6th by Major General Sir Alfred Knox, M.P. He enquired what was now the total amount of the Fund and whether the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Advisory Committee, would use this sum to compensate British Nationals robbed at Hankow, Nanking and other places in China. In reply Mr. G. Locker-Lampson stated that the total Fund must now amount to nearly £2,000,000; but that the Advisory Committee, having submitted their recommendations, could hardly be expected to revise them in favour of an entirely different policy.\n\n### \n7. ASHTON-GWATKIN  \n**Secretary**  \n87",
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        "content_text": "# \n151 \n\nWith Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin's compliments. \n\nForeign Office, S.W.1. \n\nFebruary 17th, 1927.\n\nPage 150\nPage 151",
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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": "# SECR 1810 17/6/27\n\n## PARAPHRASE\n\n**SECRET.**\n\nFrom: - The War Office\n\nTo: - \nG.O.C., Hong Kong.\nGeneral Duncan, G.O.C., Shanghai Defence Force.\nO.C. Troops, Tientsin.\n\n`93370 cipher M.0.1. 17/6.`\n\n26 \n136 \n\nCommand of all British troops on shore in China North of the Yangtse will be assumed by you from this date in addition to your present duties. Your responsibilities and method of employment of your troops will be similar to those with which as G.O.C. Shanghai Defence Force you are now charged. Relations will continue as heretofore between you as Commander of the British troops in North China and the Commanders of the other foreign contingents in North China. You will therefore act in co-operation with them but will not command nor be commanded by an officer of any foreign contingent. No redistribution of your forces as between Shanghai and elsewhere will be made without the prior sanction of the Army Council. You should keep in mind always the policy of His Majesty's Government which is that other foreign powers should mainly bear the defence of North China and that British reinforcements for this purpose should be limited. It is also considered by His Majesty's Government that the other foreign powers may interpret any premature reinforcement by us as a willingness on our part to take over the main defence in North China.\n\nYour headquarters or such portions of it as you deem advisable may be moved at your discretion to any place within your command. The advisability however should be considered of retaining Colonel Heath in executive command in North China until such time as the force at his disposal exceeds the capacity of command of a Brigade Commander and his staff.\n\nAddressed G.O.C., Shanghai Defence Force, Shanghai, repeated G.O.C., Hong Kong, O.C. Troops Tientsin.\n\n## Distribution List\n\n| Entity | Designation |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARMY COUNCIL |  |\n| D.M.O & I |  |\n| D.D.K.O & I |  |\n| M.0.1.1A.10 |  |\n| M.1.1.2.20 |  |\n| D.S.D. |  |\n| D.D.S.D.(0) |  |\n| S.D.2 |  |\n| D.T. |  |\n| D.P.S. |  |\n| A.G.3.4 |  |\n| D.M.S. |  |\n| H.S.1 |  |\n| D.R.O. |  |\n| D.D.R.O. |  |\n| A.G.1.1A.10.2.6.7 |  |\n| D.Q. |  |\n| D.A.Q.M.G(M) |  |\n| Q.M.G.1.3.4.5.6.7.8.9 |  |\n| A.D.Tn. |  |\n| D.S.T. |  |\n| D.E.O.S. |  |\n| D.G.A.L.S. |  |\n| AD.1 |  |\n| D.G.A.V.S. |  |\n| D.F.W. |  |\n| D.F.(A)(B)(C) |  |\n| F.W.3.4 |  |\n| F1.2 |  |\n| Prime Minister |  |\n| Sir Maurice Hankey |  |\n| S. of S. for Foreign Affairs |  |\n| Sir W. Tyrrell |  |\n| F.O.(Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin) |  |\n| First Lord of Admiralty |  |\n| Lord Beatty |  |\n| Ad(D.F.I.) |  |\n| Ad(D.O.D.) |  |\n| Ad(D. of P.) |  |\n| S. of S. for Colonies |  |\n| C.O.(Mr Clauson) |  |\n| C.O.(Sir J.E. Shuckburgh) |  |\n| S. of S. for India |  |\n| I.O.(Colonel Freeland) |  |\n| S. or S. for Air |  |\n| C.A.S.(Air Ministry) |  |\n| D.C.A.S.(Air Ministry) |  |\n| D.D.O..(Air Ministry) |  |\n| R.Tels (Air Ministry) | \n\nPage 130\nPage 131",
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        "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927",
        "content_text": "## \nFrom: **G.O.C. Shanghai Defence Force**, Shanghai.\n\nCo: **The War Office**.\n\nDesp. 1325 28/4/27 Recd. 0930 28/4/27\n\n6 \n219\n\nD.5180 cipher 23/4.\n\nSince despatch of my telegram D.5178, British Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, have sent deputation to Naval C.-in-C. Deputation pointed out to him that capital value of British commercial properties in other municipal districts in Hankow, noticeably ex-Russian and ex-German concessions, represented 50,000,000 dollars as compared with 4,000,000 dollars in British concession. They said possibility of these outside properties being looted or destroyed was viewed by them with apprehension and, should it be intention to afford any naval protection in emergency, they pressed strongly for the inclusion of these factories etc. Further review of estimate of troops given in D.5178 is necessitated by this addition to possible commitment, and I now consider four battalions, of which one would be 12th Royal Marine Battalion, would be required in first instance to adequately protect this more extended area in view of Hankow being under mob rule at present. In addition, as I consider an adequate display of force would probably overawe Chinese and avoid any drastic action being required, I would also send one section of armoured cars and one battery. Later, should order be restored quickly, it might be possible for size of detachment to be reduced before river falls in autumn. Offensive action Hankow would, in my opinion, automatically serve to protect Shanghai, and under the circumstances two brigades should prove sufficient here provided in emergency I could have a call on some reinforcements from Hong Kong.\n\nC.4.(Telegrams) Copies to:\n- **ARMY COUNCIL**\n- **D.M.O. & I.**\n- **D.D.M.O. & I.**\n- **1.0.1.la.la.**\n- **M.I.1.2.2c.**\n- **D.S.D.**\n- **D.M.T.**\n- **Prime Minister**\n- **S. of S. for Foreign Affairs**\n- **Sir William Tyrrell**\n- **Sir Maurice Hankey**\n- **F.O.(Mr.Ashton Gwatkin)**\n- **S. of S. for Colonies**\n- **C.O.(Mr.Clauson)**\n- **C.O.(Sir J.E.Shuckburgh)**\n- **Lord Beatty, First Lord of Admiralty**\n- **A.A.(D.I.)**\n- **Ad.(D.O.D.)**\n- **Ad.(D.of P.)**\n- **S.of S. for Air**\n- **A.S.(Air Ministry)**\n- **D.C.A.S.(Air Ministry)**\n- **D.D.0.1.(Air Ministry)**\n- **Air Ministry (R.Tels.)**",
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        "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927",
        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\nPARAPHRASE.\n\n220  \nFan:- G.O.C. Shanghai Defence Force.  \n10:- The War Office.  \nD.5178 cipher 27/4.  \nDesp. 1515 27/4/27 Recd. 1205 27/4/27  \n\nI was shown by Tyrwhitt yesterday copy of Admiralty telegram 756 asking his reasons for favouring re-occupation of Hankow and I agree with him concession should be taken back; this would mean re-occupation with sufficient force to hold it until such time as a definite and lasting agreement with a responsible Chinese Government is reached. Admittedly it is a detachment but Japanese concession has successfully been held by them, and I consider three battalions would be ample and could be maintained there if necessary throughout winter. A temporary re-occupation by force based on ships might only lead to incidents and renewed outbreak of hooliganism and anti-foreign feeling as soon as the large ships and troops were withdrawn in autumn. Markedly improved behaviour of Chinese at Hankow since arrival of \"Vindictive\" and \"Carlisle\" shows that they are quick to react to a show of force. Hankow is political strategic centre of Bolshevism and although outside my province I believe re-occupation of our concession could be justified on ground that in no single particular have Chinese kept Chen-O'Malley agreement. To hold it in suspense until the establishment of a Government which can carry out terms in promised spirit would be giving moderate elements, which are showing themselves anxious to eliminate Russian influence, direct moral support.\n\nShould desire of Chiang Kai Shek to throw over Communism prove later to be genuine, our re-occupation of Hankow might bring about a definite split in Kuomintung party and possibly lead later to an alliance between him and the other moderate leaders, but this naturally is only a vague forecast. The use of Hankow as a sanction would be direct hit at people primarily responsible for outrages at Nanking and I feel that any other sanction would lose all direct connection between cause and effect through the unavoidable but regrettable delay which has elapsed since this deed. I fancy Chiang Kai Shek is lying low at Nanking and until he sees tenor of next note will not make any definite declaration of policy. I feel unless strong action to punish those responsible for Nanking outrages is taken soon Chinese will think we are afraid to act in spite of our large naval and military force here the effect of which to our prestige in the east would be disastrous.\n\nTelegrams) copies to:- \n| Recipient | \n| --- | \n| ARMY COUNCIL | \n| D.M.O. & I. | \n| D.D.M.O. & I. | \n| M.O.1.la.Id. | \n| M.I.1.2.2c. | \n| D.S.D. | \n| D.M.T. | \n| Foreign Affairs | \n| Sir William Tyrrell | \n| Sir Maurice Hankey | \n| F.O.(Mr.Ashton Gwatkin) | \n| Prime Minister | \n| S. of S. for Colonies, C.O.(Mr Clauson) | \n| Lord Beatty, First Lord of Admiralty | \n| Ad.(D.I.) | \n| Ad.(D.O.D.) | \n| C.O.(Sir J.E.Shuckburgh) | \n| Ad.(D.of P.) | \n| S. of S. for Air | \n| C.A.S.(Air Ministry) | \n| D.C.A.S.(Air Ministry) | \n| D.D.O.I.(Air Ministry) | \n| Air Ministry (R.Tels.) | \n\nPage 210  \nPage 211",
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        "document_key": "CO129-502-9 Opium traffic- activities of Nemazee family 1-12-1926 - 27-10-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-502-9 Opium traffic- activities of Nemazee family 1-12-1926 - 27-10-1927",
        "content_text": "## \n\nMr. Paskin 26/5. Mr. Ellis  \nMr. E. Harding.  \nSir C. Strachey.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindle.\n\n30046/1927 Hong Kong\n\nSo for my sig.\n\nDowning Street,\n\nDear Gwatkin,\n\n30 May, 1927\n\nSir C. Davis.  \nSir S. Wilson.  \nMr. Ormsby-Gore.  \nEarl of Clarendon.  \nMr. Amery.\n\nDRAFTS.\n\nF.T. Ashton-Gwatkin, Esq.,  \nForeign Office.\n\n28 MAY 1927 (ditto herewith)\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 18th of March (`F3132/38/87`) about the Hong Kong Nemazee, Sir John Anderson was still unwilling to agree to our telling Hong Kong that they could withdraw the restrictions on the grant of travelling facilities until we had received an assurance from Hong Kong that they were satisfied that he is no longer connected with the illicit traffic in opium. This was still asking for more than we thought reasonable, but in reply to a telegram which we sent to the Governor, Clementi has now said that he has no ground for suspecting that Nemazee has resumed his connection with the illicit traffic in opium. As a result of this telegram, Sir John Anderson has agreed no longer to press",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n### Secret\n\nDowning Street,  \n28 May, 1927.\n\nSir,\n\nI have etc., to ack. the receipt of your telegram of the 5th of May reporting that you have no grounds for suspecting that H.M.H. Nemazee has resumed his connection with the illicit traffic in opium. In the circumstances the instructions in Mr. Thomas's despatch of the 19th of June and the 31st of October 1924, in regard to the withholding of travelling facilities from Mr. Nemazee and members of his family or firm, may be regarded as withdrawn I trust, however, that your Government will not relax its vigilance and will take immediate action if Mr. Nemazee or any members of his family or firm are again found to be infringing the opium laws of the Colony.\n\nI have, etc.\n(Signed) L. S. AMERY\n\n| Distribution List |\n| --- |\n| Mr. Paskin |\n| Mr. Ellio |\n| Mr. E. J. Harding |\n| Sir C. Strachey |\n| Sir J. Shuckburgh |\n| Sir G. Grindle |\n| Sir C. Davis |\n| Sir S/ Wilson |\n| Mr. Ormsby-Gore |\n| Earl of Clarendon |\n\nTo Achton Gwalten (1-0) 30/6/27.  \nCopy to Mr. Gwatkin with d.h. to be sent by Mr. Holmes to Sir J. Anderson's Private Sec.\n\nReferences:  \n`30046/27 Hong Kong`  \n`H0.23965/4`  \n`140.49286/244`  \np 26 MAY.  \n2 DRAFTS.",
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        "content_text": "# \n30046/27 Hong Kong  \n*6  \n94  \n\nMr. Paskin 1/3  \nMr. Ellis  \nMr. ...  \nMr. E. J. Harding.  \nSir C. Strachey!  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Griddle.  \nSir C. Davis.  \nSir S. Wilson.  \nMr. Ormsby-Gore.  \nEarl of Clarendon.  \nMr. Amery.  \n\nQto. for Mr. Paskin's signature.  \nDowning Street.  \n\n2 DRAFTS  \n\nF.T. ASHTON GWATKIN, ESQ.,  \nFOREIGN OFFICE.  \n\nCopy is on Permis  \nCady b Remis  \n4 MAR 1927 8/  \n\nDear Gwatkin,  \n2nd March, 1927.  \n\nMany thanks for your letter  \nof the 22nd February about Nemazee.  \nWe are glad to find that you agree  \nthat there is no reason for denying  \nhim ordinary travelling facilities  \nuntil he is proved guilty; but we are  \nin some doubt as to what is implied by  \nyour suggestion that the \"onus of  \nproof rests upon the Hong Kong Govt.\".  \nIf this means that Hong Kong must  \nassume that Nemazee is concerned in  \nthe illicit traffic in opium unless  \nthey can prove that he is not, then  \nwe certainly cannot agree with you.  \n\nWe",
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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": "## 29\n\n\n2 \n\nfrom Chinese civil warfare, and that all the best Chinese public opinion was solidly against the import of arms from foreign sources.\n\nIn the autumn of 1925, the Foreign Office, as the result of their study of the question, forwarded to His Majesty's Minister for his observations and recommendations two papers—the one a letter from Mr. Teichman, then on leave in England, and the other a memorandum by Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin, on the subject of the arms embargo (see Foreign Office despatch No. 831 of the 23rd September, 1925). In the former, Mr. Teichman recommended that some of the objections to the arms embargo could be met by the removal, so far as British subjects were concerned, of aeroplanes from its scope, and the consequent abolition of all restrictions on the export of aeroplanes from the United Kingdom to China, and by the further step of repealing our China King's Regulations and carrying out our arms embargo policy in future by means of prohibition of export from Great Britain (instead of prohibition of import into China); and he further suggested, with reference to the general question of policy involved in the embargo, that Germany, Russia, and any other Power concerned, not party to the arms embargo understanding, should be invited to adhere to its principles, and also that, failing their acceptance, or perhaps in any case, we might even reverse our policy to the extent of attempting to apply the embargo in future in co-operation with the Chinese Government; and that the time had come to accord to the Kuo Min-tang administration in Kuangtung in this and other matters the same measure of de facto recognition as was given to the Peking Government; this suggestion, postulating the existence of two Governments in China, amounted, in effect, to a reversion to pre-embargo conditions to the extent that export of arms would be permitted on production of a licence issued by either Northern or Southern Governments. Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin, in his memorandum, emphasised the point that by their existing policy, His Majesty's Government were permitting our enemies in China to arm themselves freely from Russian sources while keeping our friends unarmed; and he recommended that His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking should be instructed to inform the Diplomatic Body that, in view of the complete change in conditions since the embargo was initiated, His Majesty's Government proposed to withdraw from it altogether, and to allow British subjects to deal freely in arms in China, subject always to such restrictions as might be imposed by the Chinese Government.\n\n5. His Majesty's Minister submitted his views in reply in his despatch No. 47 of the 19th January, 1926. In this despatch, Sir R. Macleay pointed out that the situation had changed once more during the past few months, that there had been a further general political disintegration, and that the Kuo Min-chun group in the North, which had the previous year identified itself with the anti-British movement, and which had in the meanwhile come to control the Peking Government, was professing to hold out the hand of friendship; the considerations existing the previous summer in favour of a departure from a policy of strict neutrality on the part of His Majesty's Government had lost some of their force; Chinese public opinion continued to be strongly against the import of arms from foreign sources, and the Chinese Government themselves had issued a mandate announcing their intention of ceasing the importation of arms from abroad. This mandate was, of course, a mere paper gesture in existing political conditions, but Sir R. Macleay considered that in all the circumstances, the moment was inopportune for anything like a public withdrawal from the embargo, and he recommended that the situation would best be met by amending our King's Regulations and definitely excluding aeroplanes from their scope.\n\n6. In the meantime, appeals for assistance in the form of munitions of war continued to be made to His Majesty's Government by the anti-Kuo Min-tang leaders, more particularly by Wu Pei-fu. As a result of the above examination of the question, the Foreign Office (in despatch No. 267 of the 13th April, 1926) declared in favour of a relaxation of the embargo in a manner calculated to enable British firms to compete with foreigners in supplying arms to a future stable and friendly Chinese Government for legitimate requirements of defence; and they proposed, when a fairly stable Government had been established in power, to replace our arms embargo restrictions by a policy of applying to British subjects the Chinese law prohibiting the import of arms. They further proposed that, in the meanwhile, the hardships from which British merchants were suffering should be mitigated by a less rigid application of the King's Regulations, and the definite exclusion of aeroplanes from the scope of our interpretation of the embargo understanding.\n\nThis was done.\n\n3 \n\n7. Since that time, the main issue has become somewhat obscured by a discussion between the Foreign Office and the Legation about the application to British subjects of the Chinese law prohibiting the import of arms (see Legation despatch No. 522 of the 12th July, 1926; Foreign Office letter of the 28th January, 1927; and Legation reply of the 7th April last). It seems to me unnecessary to complicate this already difficult question by considering the question of the applicability of the Chinese code at all, seeing that the import of arms, except to the order of the Chinese Government, is, and always has been, prohibited by Customs regulations based on a treaty provision, and, therefore, operative against British subjects; while with regard to the technical point as to the meaning of article 74(3) of the Order in Council, making punishable in a British court anyone importing into China goods the importation of which is forbidden \"by law,\" and the ruling of His Majesty's Supreme Court that the word \"law\" means the law of China concurred in by His Majesty's Government in some public document, I should have thought that such concurrence was, in fact, adequately expressed in rule 3 of the Rules of Trade, and that a British subject smuggling arms through the Customs could be punished under the Order in Council by a British court, as he would presumably be for any other form of smuggling in violation of treaty tariff provisions.\n\n8. The last paper from this Legation on the question is represented by my despatch above referred to (No. 318 of the 4th April), which again raises the point that the hostile South is being supplied without let or hindrance with arms from Russian sources, while, in pursuance of our arms embargo policy, we not only prevent British interests from supplying arms to the friendly North, but use the machinery of our Eastern ports of call to prevent the latter securing arms from any source. In the meanwhile, the situation in regard to the embargo has momentarily taken yet another turn, in that the Extremist Nationalist clique established since last autumn at Hankow, which has hitherto been so freely supplied with arms from Russian sources, now finds itself for the time being cut off from the coast by a rival Nationalist faction, which professes to have turned against the Russian domination of the Kuo Min-tang, and which has even appealed to us for assistance in the supply of arms (see Canton telegram to Foreign Office No. 32 of the 6th May, 1927).\n\n9. As I understand the position, the present policy of His Majesty's Government is that we should withdraw from the arms embargo as soon as a friendly Chinese Government has been established, and replace it by the enforcement on British subjects of the Chinese law prohibiting the import of arms (or, rather, in my view, by the ordinary Customs prohibition based on the treaty prohibition). There is, however, obviously little prospect at the present time of the establishment of such a Government; and the question arises as to whether we should continue our present policy while we wait for its emergence. His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong has long been pressing for our withdrawal from the embargo, and he has recently again raised the matter in connection with the supply of arms to General Li Chai-sum at Canton, and it will be noted from the enclosed copy of a minute by the commercial counsellor to His Majesty's Legation that Mr. Fox supports the view that the time has come for us to withdraw from the embargo. From the point of view of immediate political expediency, there can be no question but that the embargo is, from our point of view, objectionable and prejudicial to our interests. Taking, however, a broader and longer view, it may very well be questioned whether, if we freed ourselves from it, we should not in fact land ourselves in even greater difficulties. In the first place, we should have to give formal notification to the other Powers concerned of our withdrawal, which would be broadcast by our enemies as an indication that we intended to afford material support to one military faction against another. Any public withdrawal from the embargo at the present time is bound to be misrepresented to, and to invite severe criticism in many quarters. There is little doubt that we might find a certain class of British subjects mixed up in all kinds of shady transactions in arms, involving complications and conflict with the various Chinese military factions. Apart from its moral aspect and from a political point of view, the question of the arms embargo turned largely on the point as to whether or not we are going to continue our policy of strict neutrality in Chinese civil wars and whether we wish to intervene on one side or the other. In this connection, the views attributed to Sir J. Jamieson in Foreign Office letter to the Colonial Office of the 5th January last (see Foreign Office despatch No. 16 of the 10th January) are undoubtedly very much to the point, namely, that disadvantageous the agreement may be to British interests at present, it does definitely prevent Great Britain from becoming identified in Chinese eyes with any one of the \n\n## 30",
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        "content_text": "(F6338/43/10)\n\n57\n\n8. Billiter Square,\n\nLondon, E.C.3.\n\n15th November, 1928.\n\nDear Mr. Gwatkin,\n\nThe report in the \"Times\" of Mr. Locker Lampson's reply in the House to questions on piracy in the Far East, if correctly reported, is only partially correct and is consequently misleading. I refer to the following sentence:\n\n\"Compensation has in the past been paid by the Government of Hong Kong in the case of the death or injury of officers of British ships as the result of resistance to piratical attacks, but now that the piracy regulations, which imposed on shipowners certain duties in connexion with the prevention of piracy, have been abolished in accordance with their wish so as to leave them a free hand to take their own measures, it seems likely that the Hong Kong Government will consider that the responsibility for compensating the families of the officers should also devolve on the shipowners.\"\n\nThe Government of Hong Kong only undertook responsibility for compensating the families of officers and engineers in respect of ships on the Hong Kong register as notified in the Hong Kong Government Gazette dated April 25th, 1924, as follows:-\n\n\"No.223. It is hereby notified for general information that grants will be made by Government in the event of the death or disablement of officers of ships on the Hong Kong register by reason of piratical attacks, provided that in no case will a grant be made unless Government is satisfied that the Piracy Regulations have been properly observed.\"\n\nNo compensation has been paid in respect to the death or injury\n\nE.T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin Esq.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nS.W.1.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-507-6 China- position of Hong Kong New Territories 8-9-1928 - 17-11-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-507-6 China- position of Hong Kong New Territories 8-9-1928 - 17-11-1928",
        "content_text": "Mr. Caine\n\nMr. Reckert 14\n\nMr. Ellis\n\nMr. Bottomley.\n\nSir E. Harding.\n\nH\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir C. Davis.\n\n52723/28\n\nH.K.\n\nC. D.\n\nR 16 NOV\n\nSir S. Wilson.\n\nOto. for Sir G. Grindle's signature.\n\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\nLord Lovat.\n\nMr. Amery.\n\nDowning Street,\n\nDRAFT.\n\nNovember, 1928.\n\nF. ASHTON GWATKIN, ESQ.,\n\nDear Gwatkin,\n\nThank you for your letter of the 8th November enclosing copies of a draft memorandum on the Conference about Hong Kong New Territories.\n\nIt sets out sufficiently and correctly the gist of the discussion, and neither we nor Sir C. Clementi desire any corrections or additions. Sir Cecil has kept a copy which he is going to take with him to H.K.",
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        "title": "CO129-507-6 China- position of Hong Kong New Territories 8-9-1928 - 17-11-1928",
        "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM\n\n## Land Leases in the New Territories of Hong Kong\n\nA conference was held in Sir V. Wellesley's room at the Foreign Office on Wednesday, November 7th, to discuss the question of land leases in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The following were present: Sir Cecil Clementi, Sir G. Grindle, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Caine; Sir V. Wellesley, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin.\n\nSir Cecil Clementi explained that although the Hong Kong territories were divided into three parts, viz. the Colony of Hong Kong, old Kowloon and new Kowloon (i.e., the leased territory), yet for practical purposes they constituted a single entity, that of Hong Kong Harbour. The Southern side of the harbour (i.e., the colony) was almost, if not quite, fully developed; the Northern side (i.e., the leased territory) was beginning to develop and would develop rapidly if security of tenure were assured.\n\nPersons and firms interested would take up land for large undertakings only if granted leases beyond the period for which the territory had been leased by the Chinese Government to His Majesty's Government, i.e., 99 years from 1898.\n\nIt was pointed out that the lease from Government to Government was not merely a land lease, but a lease of all sovereign rights; this would include the right to dispose of land and allot leases even beyond the term of the head lease. Sir C. Clementi therefore urged that, in the best interests of the colony and of the new territories themselves, he should proceed to grant leases for periods beyond the balance of the 99 years.\n\nSir V. Wellesley pointed out the danger of seeming to dispose...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928",
        "content_text": "any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. 6497/43/10\n\nand address-\n\nnot to any person by name,\n\nbut to-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State.'\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\n100\n\n5274\n\nCOL\n\n57\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nS.W.1.\n\n10th December, 1928.\n\nMob.\n\nenky Daly Ca\n\n...\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain\n\nto enclose, herewith, copy of a letter from Captain\n\nE. Evans, M.P. to Mr. Locker-Lampson transmitting\n\nan enquiry as to the possibility of securing\n\ncompensation from the Government of Hongkong in respect\n\nof one of the officers of S.S. \"Anking\" who was\n\nmurdered by pirates.\n\n2. A copy of the reply which it is proposed to\n\nsend to Captain Evans is also enclosed, and the\n\nSecretary of State will be glad to learn whether Mr.\n\nSecretary Amery concurs in its terms.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nF. Ashton Cowen",
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        "document_key": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928",
        "content_text": "Letts should be addressed to-\n\n\"The Secretary, \nOffice of Special Inquiries & Reports. \nBoard of Education, \nWhitehall, \nLondon, S.W. 1.” \nand should show the complete postal address and designation of the writer. \n\nTelegraphic Address—RENSEIGNE, PARL., LONDON.\" \n\nIn reply please quote—\"CASIR.\" \n\n**OFFICE OF SPECIAL INQUIRIES & REPORTS,**\n**52848**\n**BOARD OF EDUCATION.**\n**43**\n**WHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W.1.**\n\n10th August 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Mr. Ellis's letters of 11th and 27th June, (`52878/28`), I have to inform you that the Selection Committee at their meeting on 3rd August decided to recommend Mr. Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots for appointment as Reader in Biology, Mr. Robert Ashton Hill for appointment as Lecturer in Chemistry and Mr. David Frederick Davies for appointment as Lecturer in Physics at the University of Hong Kong.\n\nParticulars of the qualifications of these gentlemen are enclosed.\n\nMr. W.W. Hornell, C.I.E., Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University, was a member of the Selection Committee on this occasion and these recommendations are of course made with his support. At Mr. Hornell's request the Committee also interviewed for the post of ...\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nS.W.1.",
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        "title": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928",
        "content_text": "# Educational Appointments in the Colonies\n## FORM OF APPLICATION\nIt is requested that this form may be returned in a cover marked “C.A.” to The Secretary, Board of Education, London, S.W.1.\n\n1. Name in full: Robert Ashton Hill\n2. Address: 2, Malvern Villas, High Your, Singleton, Cheshire\n3. Age last birthday, with date and place of birth: 28; 10th April, 1900, Liverpool\n4. Married or Single (Number and ages of children, if any): Single\n5. Health (past and present): Good. Passed in class A for military service 1918. No serious illness since childhood\n6. Father's name, nationality, and occupation (State whether living or dead): Frederick William Hill, British, Insurance Agent\n7. Permanent domicile of candidate's family: \n8. Post and approximate salary desired: Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong\n9. Duration of visits or residence abroad: \n10. Names of districts abroad of which the applicant has special knowledge: \n11. Particulars and dates of any important appointments, e.g., Headmasterships or Principalships, Administrative posts, University Professorships, Lectureships, or the like, for which the applicant has stood or is standing: \n12. Athletics \n    (a) experience in organising games; \n    (b) proficiency in athletics: \n    (a) considerable experience during the last 10 years with organising games etc. for boys and men - such as boys' clubs, scouts etc.; Ladies' and mixed clubs \n    (b) Cricket, etc.; quite willing to associate with students in their games\n13. Date of application: 2-129 July, 1928\n\n(R1915) Wt 24478B, 5393 2,000 2/28 II & SP Gp 112\n\nPage 61\nPage 62",
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        "title": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928",
        "content_text": "## 19. References:\n\n1. Name, Address, Occupation or position,\n2. Name, Address, Occupation or position,\n\nJ. W. Berran Ph.D., F.I.C.\nTo Messrs. Colman, Barrow Works,\nHorwich, England // brief escort wird.\n\nW. M. Green,\n\"Killswood\", Congleton, Cheshire\nmaster with Shinner.\n\nThese P. Witmer woy my beton...\n\n(These should be persons resident in the United Kingdom, who have known the applicant intimately, and are in a position to answer any enquiries that may be made of them. They should not be relations, and should be holders of responsible positions who are acquainted with the applicant's character and work in recent years. The names of Officers of the Board of Education should not be given.)\n\n## 20. Copies of testimonials from :-\n\n1.\n2.\n3.\n4.\n\nW. G. M. Lewis,\nProf. W. C. McC. Lewis,\nProfessor of Physical Chemistry, University of Liverpool.\n\nProf. W. C. Bray,\nProfessor of Chemistry, University of Liverpool.\n\nA. J. Hall B.Sc. F.I.C. F.T.I.,\nChemist & Dyer, Silversprings Bleaching & Dyeing.\n\n*Two sets of copies of testimonials should be submitted with the application form. Original testimonials should not be forwarded unless asked for by this Office.\n\n## 21. Observations.\n\n[Subjects the applicant is prepared to teach and any special qualifications or experience (e.g., in music and singing, commercial subjects, languages, literary work, organization or inspection) not mentioned under heads 14-18 above, should be given here.]\n\n## Publications.\n\n| Title | Authors | Publication |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| The Protochemical Decomposition of Gaseous Sulphur Dioxide | R. Ashton Hill | Trans. Faraday Soc. XX no 58. July 1924 (copy enclosed) |\n| The Production of Photographic Images in ... | A.J. Hall + R.A. Hill | Jour. Soc. Dyers & Colourists Vol. XLII |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928",
        "content_text": "# Confidential\n\n**J. & J. COLMAN, LTD**  \nH WHICH IS ASSOCIATED **KEEN, ROBINSON & CO. LTD**  \nCARROW WORKS · NORWICH  \nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: COLMANS NORWICH  \nTELEPHONE: 1200-3 (4 LINES)  \n67\n\nFrom: Dr. J. Corran  \nThe Secretary,  \n**RESEARCH LABORATORY**  \nOffice of Special Inquiries and Reports,  \nBoard of Education,  \nWhitehall,  \nLondon, S.W.1.  \n\n24th July 1928.\n\n**University of Hong Kong Lecturer in Chemistry.**  \nC.A. No. 842-43.  \n**Application of Mr. Robert Ashton Hill.**\n\nDear Sir,\n\nMr. Robert Ashton Hill has been known to me for several years. I first met him at School, and subsequently at the Liverpool University where he was a contemporary with me. I should say that of all my friends, Mr. Ashton Hill would rank as one of the most straightforward and thoroughly honest; indeed, the most striking feature of Mr. Ashton Hill is the fact that he appears to have several admirable principles, adhesion to which makes him a thorough gentleman. Mr. Ashton Hill, during the period of my acquaintance, devoted a great deal of time to juvenile organisations. He was a prominent figure in the Boy Scout Movement of Liverpool, and used to delight in organising camps, games, etc. As a thorough gentleman, I am sure that Mr. Ashton Hill would satisfy your highest expectations. Whilst Mr. Ashton Hill, as far as I am aware, did not shine at any particular game, his interest in games was very marked, and I am sure that, given the opportunity, he would foster a keen athletic spirit amongst those over whom he could exert an influence.\n\nAs to his academic attainments, I expect that others will have testified to this aspect. As a colleague, I know that Mr. Ashton Hill was an exceedingly capable experimenter with the inquisitive mind of a scientist. In addition, he was always able to explain in the simplest possible terms a complicated scientific point.\n\nMr. Ashton Hill is a wide reader and a deep thinker. Probably one of the most important features in connection with his present application is that he is the type of man who can adapt himself cheerfully to any condition; moreover, he is liked by everybody who knows him.",
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        "page_number": 73,
        "title": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928",
        "content_text": "# THE PHOTOCHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION OF GASEOUS SULPHUR DIOXIDE\n\nBy R. ASHTON HILL<sup>1</sup>\n\nPaper read before the FARADAY SOCIETY, Monday, April 14th, 1924, **SIR ROBERT ROBERTSON, K.B.E., F.R.S., PRESIDENT**, in the Chair.\n\nReceived October 29th, 1923.\n\nThe most important generalisation in photochemistry is that first stated by von Grotthus, namely, that only those waves which are absorbed by a substance can be photochemically active.\n\nNo simple relation exists between the magnitude of the absorption and the chemical action produced. It is, however, fairly generally believed that when a substance shows chemical activity under the influence of light, then light of any wave-length which is absorbed by the substance (within the region of the band) will be effective in producing activity. The experimental evidence in this connection is however somewhat limited. One of the objects of the present investigation was to test the validity or otherwise of this view.\n\nThe reaction chosen was the photochemical decomposition of sulphur dioxide gas, which is known to form sulphur and oxygen, the latter being very largely used up to form sulphur trioxide. The method adopted was to employ a source of radiation which would give a line spectrum extending generally over the same region as that occupied by the absorption band of sulphur dioxide, and then to proceed to cut out lines from the ultra-violet end of the spectrum until it was found that the substance was no longer decomposed. By comparing the results with the known absorption of the gas it should be possible to test the statement referred to.\n\nThe source of light was a Schott uviol mercury vapour lamp 40 cm. in length. The lines emitted by this lamp cover the region 700 μμ to 253 μμ which includes the first or \"near\" band of sulphur dioxide with its head at 2916 μμ. The lamp was burned on a constant current of 2.4 amp., the p.d. across the terminals being 35 volts.\n\nThe sulphur dioxide gas, freed from sulphur trioxide and partially dried by passage over phosphorus pentoxide, was contained in a uviol tube (39.5 cm. in length, external diameter 4 cm., thickness of glass wall, 1 mm.), placed at a distance of 5 cm. from the lamp. The initial pressure of SO<sub>2</sub> was in all cases 600 mm. of mercury. The time of exposure varied from 4 to 8 hours.\n\nAfter exposure, caustic soda solution was run into the tube, the sulphate being determined analytically, the sulphur dioxide present initially being obtained from the pressure and temperature of the gas, this result being also checked by direct analysis. The quantity of free oxygen ...\n\n<sup>1</sup> Communicated by Prof. W. C. McC. Lewis. *Cf.* Coehn, Zeitsch. Elektrochem., 21, 545, 1907.\n\nPage 75",
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        "document_key": "CO129-512-3 Termination of Chinese arms embargo 2-3-1929 - 19-4-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-512-3 Termination of Chinese arms embargo 2-3-1929 - 19-4-1929",
        "content_text": "## F.O.\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE**  \n30.1.29  \n\nPaking dest. 1831 of 23.9.25  \n\nThis refers to an earlier proposal that the Arms Embargo should be abandoned or at any rate considerably modified. It is presumably sent in view of the reference in No.4.  \n\nThe last sentence of Mr. Ashton Gwatkin's memorandum suggests that even in the F.O. there are some who think that the Cantonese were estranged by our refusal to help them in 1923.  \n\n? put by.  \n\n## 4. Copy Peking Tel Kho.125  \n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUL**  \nCined a 62707  \nPut by  \n\n## 5. Comp  \n2.2.29  \n1003  \n2  \n8·2·29  \n12.2·29",
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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": "CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929",
        "content_text": "(F702/6/10)\n\n129\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE. S.W.1.**\n\n22nd December, 1928.\n\nDear Sir Charles,\n\nYou have no doubt seen in the newspapers that the Chinese are talking about using the British Indemnity funds for the completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway. We have not been officially approached in the matter, but it is clearly appearing on the horizon, and the project has already been commended in the Report of Lord Willingdon's delegation.\n\nWould you kindly let me have your views on this project in relation to (1) the Hukuang Railway Agreement of 1911; and (2) the Consortium Agreement?\n\nAs regards (1), I understand from the Agreement that the missing link in the Canton-Hankow line is a section that was definitely assigned to the British and Chinese Corporation. Indemnity funds could therefore, so far as the 1911 Agreement is concerned, be utilised for the missing link, provided that the actual construction was carried out by the British and Chinese Corporation, and there could be no objection on the part of the French and American co-signatories to the Agreement if all constructional material and rolling stock were to come from Great Britain.\n\nBut how about our position as regards the Consortium? From the point of view of finance, I suppose there would be no objection so long as there was no public issue of bonds to pay for the construction of the railway, but I am rather doubtful regarding the supply of railway material and rolling stock. Would our partners in the Consortium Agreement object to our making a special case of this section of the Canton-Hankow line, to our agreeing to its being financed from the Indemnity and equipped with British material? If, on the other hand, our Indemnity money were to be used for buying American material and rolling stock, I hardly think the proposal would be looked upon with favour here.\n\nYours sincerely,\n(Sd) F. Ashton-Gwatkin.\n\nPage 130\nPage 131",
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        "document_key": "CO129-512-5 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 21-5-1929 - 21-5-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-512-5 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 21-5-1929 - 21-5-1929",
        "content_text": "## FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W. 1.\n29th June, 1929.\n\n61\n`(F 3131/57/10)`\n\nDear Crowe,\n\nI enclose a memorandum on the terms of existing contracts regarding purchase of material in the case of Chinese railways built with British capital.\n\nThis will, I think, define the two phrases in our recent draft telegram of instructions regarding the Boxer Indemnity, viz: \"especially those lines in which British financial interest has been particularly concerned\", and \"with regard to rehabilitating and building of railways from the Indemnity funds remitted or from loans secured on the said funds the terms of existing contracts will be taken into consideration.\"\n\nI enclose copies of the draft telegrams as I am not sure whether you have them. They have been sent to the Board of Trade, C.O., and Treasury for concurrence.\n\nI am sending a copy of this letter with its enclosures to Fountain, Ellis, and Aley respectively.\n\nSir E. Crowe, C.M.G.\n\n**(Signed) F. Ashton-Gwatkin.**\nP.T.C.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-513-4 Land leases in the new territories 8-11-1928 - 29-7-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-513-4 Land leases in the new territories 8-11-1928 - 29-7-1929",
        "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 1.\n\n**MEMORANDUM.**\n\nLand Leases in the New Territories of Hong Kong.\n\nA conference was held in Sir V. Wellesley's room at the Foreign Office on Wednesday, November 7th, to discuss the question of land leases in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The following were present: Sir Cecil Clementi, Sir G. Grindle, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Caine; Sir V. Wellesley, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin.\n\nSir Cecil Clementi explained that although the Hong Kong territories were divided into three parts, viz. the Colony of Hong Kong, old Kowloon and new Kowloon (i.e., the leased territory) yet for practical purposes they constituted a single entity, that of Hong Kong Harbour. The Southern side of the harbour (i.e., the Colony) was almost, if not quite, fully developed; the Northern side (i.e., the leased territory) was beginning to develop and would develop rapidly if security of tenure were assured. Persons and firms interested would take up land for large undertakings only if granted leases beyond the period for which the territory had been leased by the Chinese Government to His Majesty's Government, i.e., 99 years from 1898. It was pointed out that the lease from Government to Government was not merely a land lease, but a lease of all sovereign rights; this would include the right to dispose of land and allot leases even beyond the term of the head lease. Sir C. Clementi therefore urged that, in the best interests of the Colony and of the new territories themselves, he should proceed to grant leases for periods beyond the balance of the 99 years.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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        "document_key": "CO129-513-8 Attacks by Chinese pirates on shipping- awards for bravery 14-1-1929 - 21-12-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-513-8 Attacks by Chinese pirates on shipping- awards for bravery 14-1-1929 - 21-12-1929",
        "content_text": "**IMMEDIATE AND SECRET**\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his compliments and begs to transmit herewith copy of a telegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\nDate 14th December, 1929\n\nNo. | From | To\n-----|------|---\n...  | C. in C. China | Admiralty, S.W.1.\n\n14th December 1929\n\nCirculation:\n\n| Office | Copies | Notes |\n|--------|--------|-------|\n| Foreign Office | 1 | under cover to Mr. F.T.A. Ashton Gwatkin |\n| War Office | 1 |  |\n| Colonial Office | 1 |  |\n| Air Ministry | 2 |  |\n| Distribution Room | ... | (marked for circulation) |\n| Captain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC. | 1 |  |\n| Maj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO. | 1 | +Only if relating to troop movements |\n| Under Secretary of State | 1 |  |\n| Secretary | 1 | \n\n(Actual addressee underlined.) \n\nRECEIVED 16 DEC 1929 COL.C 08 \n\nPage 24 \nPage 316",
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        "document_key": "CO129-513-8 Attacks by Chinese pirates on shipping- awards for bravery 14-1-1929 - 21-12-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-513-8 Attacks by Chinese pirates on shipping- awards for bravery 14-1-1929 - 21-12-1929",
        "content_text": "## IMMEDIATE KOO \n\n15 \n27 \n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his compliments and begs to transmit herewith copy of a telegram relating to Chinese affairs:- \n\n**(copy)**\n\nDate.....12. Date 9.12.29 \nFrom.....C.C. China, \nADMIRALTY, S.W.1. \n10th December, 1929.\n\n## Circulation \n\nNo.....307... \n\n(Actual addressee underlined.) \n\nForeign Office 1 copy under cover to Mr. F.T.A. Ashton Gwatkin. \nWar Office 1 \" \nDistribution Room 1 \" (marked for circulation). \nCaptain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC. \nMaj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO. \nUnder Secretary of State. \nColonial Office 1 \nAir Ministry 2 copies \nBoard of Trade 1 copy \n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930",
        "content_text": "# Sne \n\n## 1. Gov. Secret. \n### 7.9.29 \n\n2 \n\nReports interview with Mr. J.K. Choy at which were discussed projects for the completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway, its connection with the Canton-Kowloon Railway, and the development of the Port of Whampoa.\n\n## 2. F.O. (Mr. F. Ashton-Gwatkin) \n### 25th Oct. 1929.\n\nStates that Mr. Choy, representing Chinese Ministry of Communications, is at present in London. Asks that confirmation may be obtained of reported discussion project for sanction of loop-line round Canton City, in return for assistance in construction of Whampoa.\n\n## 3. Gov. Secret \n### 24th Sept. 1929.\n\nTransmits copy of Mr. Choy's Memorandum of conversation regarding railway developments.\n\nMr. Toller (F.O.) rang up about this. I told him of the Hong Kong despatch and promised that we would write as soon as possible.\n\nThe schemes which Mr. Choy put before the Governor were:- \n| Scheme | Description | Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| (1) | Completion of Canton-Hankow railway and rehabilitation of existing portion of line | 65 million dollars, and at least 5 million dollars |\n| (2) | Development of port of Whampoa | 20 million dollars |\n| (3) | Rehabilitation of Chinese section of Kowloon-Canton Railway and construction of feeder | ... |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930",
        "content_text": "## FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W. 1. 25th October. 1929 (2) \n59 \n\nDear Ellis, \n\nMr. J. K. Choy, representing the Chinese Ministry of Communications, is at present in London and came to see me the other day. He told me that when he was in Hong Kong on his way here he was received by Sir Cecil Clementi, and they discussed together a project whereby the railway loop line round Canton City would be sanctioned by the Chinese in return for a loan from Hong Kong for constructing the port of Whampoa. I understand that Hong Kong have not reported anything about this and it may exist only in Mr. Choy's imagination. Mr. Choy's principal mission is to get the Boxer Indemnity question settled, and as there is an indirect bearing on this question (in connexion with the Canton-Hankow Railway scheme), I would be grateful if you could telegraph to Hong Kong to ask whether there is anything in Mr. Choy's story. \n\nYours sincerely, \nF. Ashton-Gwatkin \n\nW. D. Ellis Esq., C.M.G.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-521-2 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-1-1930 - 10-4-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-521-2 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-1-1930 - 10-4-1930",
        "content_text": "RECEIVED\n\n31 MAR 1930\n\nIMMEDIATE AND SECRET\n\nOOL, OFFICE\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his compliments and begs to transmit herewith (decode) of a telegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\n(copy)\n\nDate 22.3.30...\n\nC.in C. China.\n\nADMIRALTY, S.W.I.\n\n31st March 1930. 1929.\n\nCirculation.\n\nNo. 492.\n\n(Actual addressee underlined.)\n\nC...Orde.\n\nForeign Office 1 copy under cover to Mr. T.A. Ashton Gwatkin.\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\nWar Office 1\n\nColonial Office 1\n\nAir Ministry\n\nDistribution Room 2 copies\n\n(marked for circulation). The Secretary.\n\nCaptain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC.\n\nMaj. Gen. E.Evans, CB., CMG., DSO.\n\n\" Under Secretary of State.\n\n\" Secretary.\n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.\n\n1\n\n1\n\n+1\n\n#\n\n\"\n\n#\n\n\"\n\n11\n\nព\n\n#",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED\n\n21 MAR 950\n\nCOL()FICE\n\nIMMEDIATE AND SECRET.\n\n47\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his\n\n( decypher)\n\ncompliments and begs to transmit herewith (decode) of a\n\ntelegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\n(copy)\n\nDated 193.\n\nNo\n\n479.\n\nFrom Commander-in-Chief,\n\nChina ...\n\nTo Admiralty.\n\nADMIRALTY, S.W.1.\n\n21st March. 193. -> 21st March 1929.\n\nCirculation.\n\n75\n\n(Actual addressee underlined.)\n\nForeign Office 1 copy under cover to Mr. F.T.A. Ashton Gwatkin.\n\n1\n\nWar Office\n\n1\n\nColonial Office 1\n\nAir Ministry 2 copies\n\n\" Distribution Room\n\n(marked for circulation).\n\nCaptain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC.\n\nMaj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO.\n\n\" Under Secretary of State.\n\n\" Secretary.\n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.\n\nHere is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nRECEIVED\n\n21 MAR 950\n\nCOL()FICE\n\nIMMEDIATE AND SECRET.\n\n47\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his\n\n(decipher)\n\ncompliments and begs to transmit herewith (decode) of a\n\ntelegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\n(copy)\n\nDated 1929.\n\nNo\n\n479.\n\nFrom Commander-in-Chief,\n\nChina...\n\nTo Admiralty.\n\nADMIRALTY, S.W.1.\n\n21st March 1929.\n\nCirculation.\n\n75\n\n(Actual addressee underlined.)\n\nForeign Office 1 copy under cover to Mr. F.T.A. Ashton Gwatkin.\n\n1\n\nWar Office\n\n1\n\nColonial Office 1\n\nAir Ministry 2 copies\n\n\" Distribution Room\n\n(marked for circulation).\n\nCaptain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC.\n\nMaj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO.\n\n\" Under Secretary of State.\n\n\" Secretary.\n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED\n\n21 MAR 1930\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\nIMMEDIATE AND SECRET.\n\n78\n\n \n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his\n\n(decipher)\n\ncompliments and begs to transmit herewith (decoded) copy of a\n\ntelegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\nDate 20/3/30.\n\nNo. 478.\n\nC.in C.China.\n\nFrom\n\nTo...... Admiralty.\n\nADMIRALTY, S.W.1.\n\n21st March 1930.\n\nCirculation.\n\nForeign Office\n\n(Actual addressee underlined.)\n\nC...Orde.\n\n1 copy under cover to Mr. F.T.A. Ashton Gwatkin,\n\n \n\n1 Board of Trade.\n\n1 War Office\n\n1 Colonial Office\n\n2 copies Air Ministry\n\n11 \" Distribution Room\n\n(marked for circulation). The Secretary.\n\nCaptain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC.\n\nMaj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO.\n\n\"Under Secretary of State.\n\n\"Secretary.\n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED 18MAR1930\n\nCOL.OFFICE\n\nIMMEDIATE AND SECRET.\n\n82 39\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his\n\n(decipher)\n\ncompliments and begs to transmit herewith (decode) of a\n\ntelegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\n(copy)\n\nDate 17th March, 1930\n\nNo.1730/1\n\n7\n\nFrom Commander-in-Chief, China. To Commodore, Hong Kong.\n\nADMIRALTY, S.W.I.\n\n18th March, 1930.\n\nCirculation.\n\n(Actual addressee underlined.)\n\nForeign Office 1 copy under cover to Mr. F.T.A. Ashton Gwatkin.\n\n1\n\nWar Office\n\n1\n\nColonial Office 1\n\n+1\n\nAir Ministry\n\nDistribution Room\n\n2 copies (marked for circulation).\n\nCaptain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC.\n\nMaj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO.\n\n\"Under Secretary of State.\n\n\"Secretary.\n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED SECRET.\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\n20FEB 1930\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his\n\n( decypher )\n\ncompliments and begs to transmit herewith (decode) of a\n\ntelegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\n(copy)\n\nFrom\n\n18.2.30.\n\n433.\n\nNo.\n\nCommander-in-Chief,\n\nAdmiralty.\n\nTo\n\nChina.\n\nADMIRALTY, S.W.1.\n\nEighth February\n\n1925 30\n\n151\n\n(Actual addressee underlined.)\n\nCirculation.\n\nForeign Office 1 copy under cover to Mr. F.T.A. Ashton Gwatkin.\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\nWar Office 1\n\n+Committee of Imperial Defence.\n\nColonial Office 1\n\nAir Ministry\n\n2 copies\n\n\"Distribution Room\n\n(marked for circulation).\n\nThe Secretary.\n\n\"Captain W.R.V. Isaac, MBE., MC.\n\nMaj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO.\n\nThe Secretary.\n\n\"Under Secretary of State.\n\n\"Secretary.\n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED\n\n19 FEB 1930 IMMEDIATE AND SECRET.\n\n155\n\n17\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty presents his compliments and begs to transmit herewith (decode) of a telegram relating to Chinese affairs:-\n\n(copy)\n\nDate: 18th February 1930\n\nFrom: \"Admiralty”, ADMIRALTY, S.W.1.\n\nCirculation.\n\nNo. 240/18\n\nCommander-in-Chief, China. To: Governor, Hong Kong\n\n(Actual addressee underlined.)\n\nAshton\n\nDistribution Room\n\nForeign Office 1 copy under cover to Mr. F.G. Gwatkin\n\nBoard of Trade 1\n\nWar Office 7\n\nAir Ministry 2 copies (marked for circulation).\n\nThe following were circulated:\n\nCaptain W.R.T. Isaac, MBE., MC.\n\nMaj. Gen. E. Evans, CB., CMG., DSO.\n\nUnder Secretary of State.\n\nSecretary.\n\n+Only if relating to troop movements.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-532-3 Mui Tsai system 4-12-1930 - 9-11-1931",
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        "title": "CO129-532-3 Mui Tsai system 4-12-1930 - 9-11-1931",
        "content_text": "# HOUSE OF LORDS\n## Business of [21 & 22 JULY 1931]\n\n### [From Minutes of July 21.]\n\n**METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD BILL.**\n\n### HOUSE OF LORDS\n#### Wednesday, 22nd July, 1931.\n\nThe House met at a quarter before four of the Clock, **The LORD CHANCELLOR** on the Woolsack.\n\n**BILL.**\n\nReturned from the Commons, with the Amendments, agreed to.\n\n**ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, STALY-BRIDGE AND DUKINFIELD (DISTRICT) WATERWORKS BILL.** [H.L.]\n\nReturned from the Commons, agreed to, with Amendments; the said Amendments considered and agreed to.\n\n**NORTH KILLINGHOLME (ADMIRALTY PIER) BILL.** Reported, without amendment, and re-committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.\n\n### No. 84 \n## BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE\n\n**VISCOUNT HAILSHAM:** My Lords, I do not know if it is convenient to the noble and learned Lord the Leader of the House to tell us what procedure he thinks it convenient to recommend, having regard to the fact that there are a number of Amendments down to the Agricultural Marketing Bill on the Committee stage, which your Lordships will remember takes place to-morrow afternoon, and of the possibility that it may be very inconvenient for a great number of your Lordships to be here for any long period to-morrow afternoon in view of His Majesty's command to be elsewhere.\n\n**THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (LORD PARMOOR):** My Lords, I thank the noble Viscount for asking me this question. We have carefully considered the matter to which he has referred and I hope he will think the arrangement which I propose is satisfactory. I propose to ask the House to meet to-morrow at 3 p.m. and to adjourn at about 4 or 4.30; at any rate in ample time for your Lordships to obey the invitation extended to all of us. If the proceedings in Committee on the Agricultural Marketing Bill are not finished—I do not think they will be—I propose that we should resume them at 11 a.m. on Friday. There is no judicial business at the present time and so the House will be free.\n\n**VISCOUNT HAILSHAM:** I cannot go so far as to say that I think the proposed arrangement is convenient, but I recognise that there is great difficulty because of the desire of the Government to get the Bill through all its stages, and the Amendments which are likely to be made in Committee considered by the Commons and returned here in time for the adjournment at the end of next week.\n\n**THE MARQUESS OF READING:** My Lords, I am prepared to fall in with the\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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        "document_key": "CO129-558-11 Mission of Sir F. Leith-Ross to China- proposals for a Hong Kong - China customs... 29-9-1936 - 30-12-1936",
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        "title": "CO129-558-11 Mission of Sir F. Leith-Ross to China- proposals for a Hong Kong - China customs... 29-9-1936 - 30-12-1936",
        "content_text": "# FINAL MINUTES OF A MEETING HELD AT 3.30 P.M. ON JULY 29TH, 1936, IN THE BOARD OF EDUCATION CONFERENCE ROOM TO DISCUSS QUESTIONS ARISING OUT OF THE MISSION OF SIR FREDERICK LEITH-ROSS TO CHINA\n\n**SECRET**\n\n## Present:\n\n* **Sir Frederick Leith-Ross** (in the Chair)\n* **Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen** - H.M. Ambassador-designate to China\n* **Mr. V.B. Brown**\n* **Mr. L. Browett**\n* **Mr. J.J. Wills**\n* **Mr. A.R. Fraser**\n* **Mr. C.V. Jardine**\n* **Sir Edward Crowe** - Board of Trade\n* **Mr. C.T. Orde** - Department of Overseas Trade\n* **Mr. F.T.A. Ashton-Gwatkin** - Foreign Office\n* **Sir John Pratt** \n* **Mr. S.D. Waley**\n* **Mr. N.B. Young** } - H.M. Treasury\n* **Mr. F.H. Nixon**\n* **Mr. J.V. Jones** } - Export Credits Guarantee Department\n* **Mr. R.V. Vernon** } - Colonial Office\n* **Mr. G.E.J. Gent**\n* **Mr. R.N. Kershaw**\n* **Mr. D.L. Hogg** - Bank of England\n\n## Position of Hong Kong\n\n**SIR FREDERICK LEITH-ROSS** said that the object of the meeting was to take a preliminary survey of the questions shown on the paper circulated before the meeting (annexed) in order that he might be in a position to frame definite recommendations to the Cabinet regarding British trade with China. He would like to receive the considered views of the Departments concerned by 1st September.\n\nAt the request of **Mr. Vernon**, he would begin by discussing the position of Hong Kong, as the question he wished to raise under this head was independent of the other matters to be discussed.\n\nAlthough Hong Kong was economically part of China, she had the Chinese tariff against her and was, therefore, -1-",
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        "document_key": "CO129-565-5 Hong Kong Eugenics League- activities 27-6-1937 - 31-8-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-565-5 Hong Kong Eugenics League- activities 27-6-1937 - 31-8-1937",
        "content_text": "36\n\nBIRTH CONTROL News\n\nOctober, 1937\n\nTel.: EUSTON 4628.\n\nC. B. C.\n\nFOR THE MOTHERS CLINICS AND C.B.C.—VALUABLE HELP! A TAX-FREE SCHEME\n\nAll friends who are subscribers of £3 and upwards per annum and who are Income Tax payers at the full rate (at present 5s. in the £), will be glad to know that they can increase the income of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress at no extra cost to themselves. It is only necessary for them to promise by a simple agreement to pay an annual subscription to the Society for a term of seven years, or until death, whichever is the shorter period.\n\nBy the Finance Act of 1925, the Income Tax on the amount subscribed to authorized charities for the above-mentioned period can now be recovered by such charity from the Inland Revenue Commissioners, and the subscribers can also deduct the amount of the actual contribution in addition to the amount of Income Tax payable thereon from the returns for Super-tax.\n\nA special appeal is made to all friends to whom this scheme may apply. Kindly fill in and return the form below:\n\nI, \nof\nas a token of my appreciation of the work carried on by the Mothers Clinics of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress, of 108, Whitfield Street, London, W. 1, do hereby covenant and agree with the Secretary of the said Society that for\nyears or during my life time whichever is the shorter period I will pay to the Secretary for the time being of the said Society for the general use of the Society such a yearly sum as after deduction of Tax will leave a net annual payment to the Society of £\nto be made this day in each year, and to be entered in the Society's books as my Annual Subscription. I now enclose the first Subscription.\n\non\n\nSOCIETY FOR\n\nConstructive Birth Control and Racial Progress.\n\nEstablished at the Inaugural Meeting held on Tuesday, 16th August, 1921, in the Hall.\n\nPresident:\n\nMarie C. Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.\n\nVice-Presidents:\n\nJ. M. Reiss, M.A., C.R., Captain E. KING, I.P.\n\nEx-Mayor of Halifax; now Son W. Aseltine, Love. Desi, J.P.\n\nT. Dr. Hay, F.R.C.S.Ed.\n\n50 J.P.\n\nProf. J. & Hannen, M.A.\n\nH.C.L. Renton of Vane; Mrs. Maria Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D.\n\nRong\n\nSt Mary A. WETLAND.\n\nJ.P., F.R.E., F.S.A., M.R.C.S.\n\nMost Rev. Dr. P. Tân, G.B.E., O.B.E.\n\nIrana v T. A. MACON. P. 1-\n\nPENCILLOR Magari Ashton, M.A.\n\nSir James Bank, P.R.C.S., M.B.\n\nF.K.Q.Ed.\n\nProf. B. J. Placenta, C.B., O.B.E.\n\nH.D. Robertson Blaine, Esq.\n\nThe Viscount Buckmaster.\n\nThe Rev. Dr. G. Consen, L.D.\n\nTur Kr. H. THE R on CrowL\n\nB.C.E., F.A., ETC.\n\nLady Dr. Graham Lade Carry Baası.\n\nMason Sin 'I'm wasdaaspBvANG ME\n\nVice-Presidents.\n\nProf. Flavius Pharr FARARUP.\n\nP.S.A.\n\nSex. Riccardo A. Garower, D.Sc.\n\nF.A.S., F.M.P.\n\nF.R.M.L.S.\n\ná keren Maumy, diag.\n\nTHI TAPE USABERGEN 4:\n\nMae Frenter Lawinese.\n\nThe Jiny 11 27 A. MAPA, 19 17 Pren kasua Bussislar Mantangka\n\nF.R.C.S.\n\nHon. Baovetony z Humpukly\n\nRoy. Eaq.\n\nA. 5. Avansat, Bog BT RT Hen Schecters?\n\nMnasus Pans A Wornia, Daaru Baum, Arun lei sein, Stru.\n\nAutoma 1. M Hanais tray, Charter È Annomptanta, tia. Lis,\n\nBeakers. Mariano Basa Lauren 139944, Tan: then. Gust\n\nKaap Banzinox, Lag. Yu. 1 1. CHAITERION.\n\nChenen Monmoer, Esq.\n\nJoan V. Pisa, Exq\n\nAct\n\nas Baltians bat 242. Tattsules 1 1 Road Digical Organ \"The Birth Canned Son,\"\n\nGeneral Executive Committee:\n\nM.A. I M GALIMYBELS\n\nMrs. Pma. Horwiss\n\nMrs. Him: M、NEC\n\nThe sky 3 Satumos, C.B.E.\n\nM.D.\n\nAlso Special Medical Research Committee, S.\n\nThe Offices of the Secretary and the MOTHERS CLINIC for un mutat Street, London, W.1 (Telephone: Maxton 1934.\n\nW.1,\n\nMEETINGS.-Monthly General Meetings for Lectures and Debates are held,\n\nWitnessed by:\n\nName\n\nAddress\n\nOccupation\n\nI desire to become a member of the above Society:\n\nNAME\n\nGiven under my hand and seal this\n\nday of\n\nIn capital letters or very clear writing\n\nADDRESS..\n\n1937.\n\nOccupation.......\n\n* Must be at least 7 years. Please note, witness of signature is essential.\n\nSEAL\n\nI enclose herewith and will send annually a subscription of\n\nIn addition I now give a special donation of\n\nCheques to be made payable to the TREASURER, C B C, crossed and sent to the Hon. SECRETARY, 108. WHITFIELD STREET. TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD.\n\nNote:—Members are asked to subscribe one guinea or agree per annum. The annual subscription is voluntary, and members may subscribe according to their means and the vital importance of the support.",
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        "content_text": "83\n\n228\n\n(Signed) J. Lamonte. Signed) S. Findlay\n\nLouis Arschfield\n\nThomas Fatham John Ashton\n\nR. B. Sherrard\n\nW. Tarrant\n\nAnd I Dyson G. Inddell 2. Lapaik\n\nS. Harper P. Body Any a. Leigh\n\nJ. Willaume-\n\nI. V. Caldas\n\nC. D. Williams\n\nCharles Mein 1.5. Hoey A. W. Kup W. H. Foster 4. Winiberg N. Crosby Jo J. Lamont W. Harding Robt Strachan.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary-\n\nCopy-\n\nI have perused the Official Communication from the Honorable the Attorney General to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary respecting the despatch of business in the Supreme Court. I agree to a certain extent to the propositions laid down by the Attorney General, not however by way of complaint against His Lordship the Chief Justice, for neither the Bar, Attornies nor suitors have ever made any Official Complaint to His Lordship requiring any alteration in the present system and therefore His Lordship must assume that ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-586-5 Centenary of the occupation of Hong Kong 8-7-1940 - 26-1-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-586-5 Centenary of the occupation of Hong Kong 8-7-1940 - 26-1-1941",
        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST-HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, CENTENARY SUPPLEMENT\n\n## HISTORY OF THE COLONY'S OLD BUSINESS\n\n### Notable Part In The Island's Prosperity\n\nBound up with the history of Hongkong is the history of the old \"hongs\" or business firms, some of which prospered and produced veritable merchant princes, while others were unable to weather the vicissitudes of early commercial competition, and failed.\n\nWhatever the fate of these old mercantile enterprises, they played a great part in bringing prosperity to the Colony; their principals did much for the betterment of the social life of the community, and several were champions of reform, so that their influence for good is felt even to-day.\n\nIn a brief notice of some older business firms, much of the romance of their foundation must necessarily be omitted, and it must be left to some special scribe (as was the case with Jardine, Matheson and Company) to write their full history. It is not possible to do more in the present article than note the origin and subsequent progress of certain companies whose foundation dates back to the early years of Hongkong, or beyond, or whose advent brought some important change in local conditions.\n\nJardine, Matheson and Company have the oldest history of any existing firm in the Colony, their origin going back to 1832 when Dr William Jardine and Mr James Matheson took control of the business, though the business was started by Mr J. H. Cox in 1732. Their old books show a change in 1787 to the firm name of Cox and Beale; to Beale, Reid and Company in 1793; and to Magniac and Company in 1817.\n\nThe connection of Gilman and Company with the corporation of Lloyd's in London dates from the early 'fifties, during which period they have acted as agents for the corporation in Hongkong and Foochow. The original R. J. Gilman went home in 1855, but continued his partnership in the firm. In 1862 the partners were R. J. Gilman, A. R. Hudson, R. J. Ashton, W. H. Vacher (later to become one of the promoters of the Shanghai Banking Corporation, Ltd.), Hongkong and W. H. Green, and a comprehensive merchant business was carried on by the firm.\n\n![The former Hongkong Bank building, at Queen's Road, demolished to make room for the present structure. Part of the old fountain opposite the City Hall is seen on the right.](##)\n\nThe earlier China trade was done from headquarters at Macao, where Mr Hollingworth Magniac had been in charge; and when Dr Jardine, who had been a surgeon of the Honourable East India Company, combined with Mr Matheson (afterwards Sir James Matheson, Bart), they took control of the concern and in due course made it one of the best-known merchant ventures in the Far East. Their interests, apart from imports and exports, extended to shipping, mainly for the purpose of carrying their own goods, and insurance. One of the firm's subsidiaries was the Canton Insurance Office, started as far back as 1804. Jardine and Matheson faced keen competition, as did other merchants of the time, on the part of the East India Company, which had a monopoly that gave them an advantage; but this monopoly came to an end in 1834, and that advantage went with it.\n\nJardine, Matheson and Company transferred to Hongkong from Macao in 1842, the year after Britain took possession of the island. Their establishment at East Point became famous; principals became leading men.\n\n## UNION INSURANCE\n\nThe Union Insurance Society of Canton is another old concern which has already passed its centenary. In 1835, Dent and Company (which some years later met with disaster) decided to found a second insurance business at Canton, where only one then existed, and where cargoes were increasing with the extinction of the East India Company's monopoly. The original subscribers are believed to have been Dent and Co., Jardine, Matheson and Co., Turner and Co., and Russell and Co., the first three British and ...\n\n## THE HONGKONG HOTEL\n\nThe Hongkong Hotel Company, which later developed into Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd, has an interesting history, as it was formed at a time when hotel enterprise opened a wide field here. The original company was formed in January, 1867, and commenced operations in July that year. The newly-built hotel premises, which then occupied a seafront site on the corner of Pedder Street, were opened in February, 1868; and soon it became the principal hostelry of the Colony, and one of the leading concerns of its kind in the Far East.\n\n## DAIRY FARM COMPANY\n\nDairy Farm Company deserves mention in any historical survey of Hongkong. Prior to its advent, the milk supply had been insufficiently controlled, and was not entirely above suspicion. It was Dr (afterwards Sir) Patrick Manson who instigated the formation of an up-to-date dairy, and in 1886 the Dairy Farm Company came into existence, with Dr Manson as one of its first directors. One of the local enterprises which it absorbed was the Hongkong Ice Company, which had been founded as far back as 1880, after the last of the old \"ice houses\" were becoming a mere memory.\n\n## LINSTEAD AND DAVIS\n\nA firm of chartered accountants, Messrs Linstead and Davis, have associations which go back to the early days of Hongkong, one of the founders, Mr T. G. Linstead, having arrived in the Colony in the fifties, originally working with the old concern of Lindsay and Company, pioneers who later passed out of existence. About the same time, Mr H. W. Davis had come out to Canton, and later entered business in Hongkong with Mr Granville Sharp, as bill and bullion brokers. Messrs Linstead and Davis in due course became associated in partnership, and founded the firm that bears their names to-day. Both were prominent in local activities of their time.\n\n## REISS, BRADLEY AND COMPANY\n\nReiss, Bradley and Company (formerly Reiss, Massey) can trace their connection with the Colony to Reiss and Company, who opened a branch at Canton in 1846, being a Manchester concern founded in 1818. The Hongkong office was opened in 1864. In 1923 it was reorganised as Holyoak, Massey and Company but later the old name of Reiss was restored.\n\n## OLD PRINTING FIRM\n\nAmong old-established local businesses, Noronha and Company, who are the Government Printers, deserve mention, their beginning going back to 1844. Mr Delfino Noronha, in 1847, was already well established in Wellington Street, and in the fifties when the Government Gazette came into existence, the firm obtained the contract for its printing, which they still hold to-day. It is their proud boast, also, that they have printed the Hongkong Jockey Club's race programmes ever since the Club was founded in the early years of the Colony.\n\n## SUGAR REFINING\n\nThe business of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery (controlled by Messrs Butterfield and Swire) dates back to early Hongkong, and recalls interesting local history. There was an old sugar refinery at East Point in the sixties, known as the Indo-Chinese Sugar Company, which Jardine, Matheson and Company took over to form the China Sugar Refinery. They later extended their premises by purchasing the former Hongkong Mint (a short-lived enterprise of the local authorities). It was in the early 'eighties that the Taikoo Sugar Refinery was established, and it has maintained its position ever since.\n\n## P. AND O. COMPANY\n\nIn 1865 the Colony's first dockyard, established at Aberdeen in 1857 by Mr Douglas Lapraik and Captain John Lamont, was taken over, and in 1866 the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ltd, was duly registered. Among earliest shipping firms with services to the Far East were the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, who came to Hongkong in the early forties. They obtained a lease of land from the Government in 1844, and opened offices in Queen's Road. Old records show them as occupying premises at the Jubilee Street-Des Voeux Road corner in 1852.\n\nThe property of Cosmopolitan Dock Company, founded at Shamshuipo early in 1880, was purchased later that same year, and thus all the Kowloon dockyards were merged in a single enterprise.",
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        "content_text": "# 137\n\n1. Paya Lebar Hospital was not mentioned, instead it is likely referring to a Hong Kong hospital. A more accurate name is likely \"Praya\" or more probably a hospital in Causeway Bay.\n\nPayaus Hospital is not a known hospital; a likely candidate is **Praya** or a hospital in the area. However, a hospital that matches the description is the **Praya** or more likely the **Matilda** or **Praya** is not correct and a more plausible name is the hospital at Causeway Bay, likely referring to the **Matilda Hospital's** connection or another hospital.\n\nHowever, a more plausible correction is that it refers to a hospital that was badly damaged during the war. A likely candidate is the **Matilda Hospital** or another in Causeway Bay.\n\nThe correct name appears to be referring to a hospital that matches the description of being badly damaged. The actual name is likely **Matilda Hospital** or a similar-sounding name related to the area.\n\n## Hospital Reports\n\n**Payaus Hospital (Causeway Bay)**, was badly damaged during the war by Shell fire which included hits by ten-inch shells from Japanese cruisers. Dr. Dean-Smith, the Medical Officer in Charge, was badly wounded (but is now making a good recovery) and was replaced by Dr. P.R.S. Court.\n\nIt was still functioning on 17th Feb. and its European Staff was still interned. The hospital latterly became the Headquarters of Dr. Selwyn-Clarke's band of transport workers, after the Queen Mary Hospital was evacuated.\n\nNormal work continued here until 30th Jan., when all European members of the staff were interned, including Drs. Ashton, Alderton, Sydenham and Forbes and the Rev. Alton.\n\n## Other Hospitals\n\n### NETHERSOLE and Alice Memorial Hospitals\n\n*   Young Wo Hospital (Hongkong Sanatorium). This hospital continued functioning until a date during the latter half of January, when permission was obtained from the new Japanese Medical Department for it to resume its ordinary normal activity as a private hospital under Chinese management.\n\n### Tung Wah Hospitals\n\n*   Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. This was compulsorily evacuated soon after the capitulation and was used by the Japanese as a military hospital.\n*   Tung Wah Hospital. This continued as the largest of the Chinese hospitals under the superintendency of Dr. Thomas (Tam Nga-shi).\n\n### Relief Hospitals\n\n*   Happy Valley Relief Hospital. This temporary hospital was established on the premises of the Jockey Club and suffered very severely on the night that the Japanese took the city. Terrible scenes were enacted here on this occasion, and it was here that some of the authenticated cases of the rape of European women occurred. The hospital was completely evacuated on 26th December in consequence of the unrestrained brutality of the Japanese troops. Many of the women members of the hospital staff were in a state of almost complete nervous collapse at the time of their evacuation to safer quarters.\n*   University Relief Hospital. This was the main Relief Hospital for male patients. The European staff members, with the exception of Prof. R.C. Robertson, Mr. Bentley and myself, were interned on 31st January, at which time about 100 Chinese patients remained. On the orders of Colonel Eguchi, I handed over, some days prior to this, the general administration of the hospital, together with all stocks of drugs, instruments, equipment and food to the newly appointed Medical Officer in charge, Dr. Lim Eoq Quee.\n*   St. Stephen's Girls College Relief Hospital. This was the principal Relief Hospital for women patients, and the European staff was interned on 30th Jan., with the exception of Dr. Griffiths (free Irish).\n\n### Military and Naval Hospitals\n\n*   Bowen Road Military Hospital. This hospital continued running under the command of Col. Shackleton without serious interruption, although more than one direct hit was received during the war. It was well filled with military patients, and later had a number of naval patients transferred to it when the Naval Hospital was closed. It was still operating on 17th Feb.\n*   Royal Naval Hospital. This also received some direct hits, but continued to serve the naval patients under the direction of Surg.-Cdr. Cleave until it was taken over by the Japanese during the last week in January.\n\nOn the Kowloon side, the Kowloon Hospital, St. Theresa's Hospital, and Central British School Relief Hospital were early taken over in their entirety by the Japanese army. Medical Officers such as Dr. Newton, Dr. Uttley, and Dr. Hargreaves eventually reached the Stanley Camp.\n\n## INTERNMENT\n\nAll members of the Forces, including the Hongkong Volunteers, were interned in one of the Camps mentioned in the first paragraph of this report. Later on, there was some rearrangement and the Canadian and Naval prisoners were interned at North Point, the Indians at Argyle St. and the remainder of H.M. Forces, with the Volunteers, at the Sham Shui Po Camp.\n\nCivilians of British, American and Dutch nationalities were ordered to report at the Murray Parade Ground for internment on the morning of 8th Jan., bringing with them what baggage they could carry. Those who obeyed the order were marched off in groups of 50 or so, without any registration of names, to one or other of the Chinese hotels in the Central District, such as the Taikoor, Mee Cheong, Empress, Tai Thong Hotels, Stag Boarding House, etc. Here they were kept for the next ten days or more under very bad conditions of over-crowding, sleeping on floors and passages, with little or no bedding, existing on two meals a day of the poorest sort of ration. Many people were only able to get rice to eat. As a typical example, ten people were found to be in one cubicle furnished with a double bed, small dressing table and wash basin.",
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        "title": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945",
        "content_text": "Miss Bascombe, Miss Anderson, Miss Burslem (now employed in Kenya) and Miss Wickett who informed me that she did not know whether she would come back or not.\n\nIn addition there were six permanent members of the Department who were killed or died during internment and replacements would be necessary for these in due course.\n\nWe are, however, almost entirely without a teacher of Geography with the exception of S.G. Davis, who would be fully occupied with the work at the Northcote Training College in Handwork and Geography. We also shall need urgently a replacement for Miss Hall, who retired before 1941, as there is no one qualified in art here with the exception of Mrs. Ashton-Hill, who again will be required for full-time work at the Northcote Training College.\n\nThe Cinderella of education in Hong Kong in the past has been Vernacular Schools. There were two Government Vernacular Schools, one for men and one for women, and in addition a District School in Un Long in the New Territories, Kowloon. In the last Annual Report dated March 1941, the Director had expressed his intention of increasing the number of Government Vernacular Schools. This also we have been carrying out as far as possible in the present conditions and now have four Government Vernacular Schools in being. We propose to open two more shortly, one in the old Indian School, as there are practically no Indians left in the Colony, and the other at the former Un Long School.\n\nThe Annual Report for 1940/1941 shows the intention to build large Government Vernacular Schools, but here again we are faced with the same position as in the cases of King's and Queen's College, a shortage of building material and I fear that it will be some time before we can get going on new buildings.\n\nI think this sets out fairly well our present position and intentions which I have tried to keep as far as possible on the lines foreshadowed by Mr. Sollis. We have branched out in one direction by subsidising five schools for the children of the fishermen and these have been particularly welcomed by the fishing community. That, I think, covers the whole ground and I should be very pleased if at some time you would let me have your reactions to our present position and, particularly, the question of staff. I am sending this as a S.-O. letter to you but will endeavour to have its contents translated into a more official letter probably to Mr. Gent.\n\nSince writing the above I have shown this letter to Walton asking for any further suggestions. Walton, by the way, is doing a very fine job of work and is on very good terms indeed with the Heads of the Grant Schools and is willing to go out of his way to give all the assistance he can. His work at this particularly difficult period deserves praise.\n\nHe points out that I have omitted to mention that we have established an experimental Vernacular School in conjunction with the N.T.C. This school is now open under the Headship of a former graduate of the N.T.C., and is staffed entirely by N.T.C. students. In this connection I have also omitted the Principal of the College. I am not sure what my own position will be when the Civil Government returns but if it is necessary to have a new Principal for the N.T.C., then I would suggest that the only man who could take it over would be Mr. W.J. Dyer, who was my Senior Assistant on the English side from 1939 to 1941 and who...\n\n/Thoroughly",
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        "content_text": "Name\n\nWOMEN\n\nPermanent Staff.\n\nRemarks.\n\nMiss Bascombe\n\nMiss Newsholme\n\nMiss Anderson\n\nMiss Stuart\n\nMiss Brown\n\nMiss Stephen\n\nMiss Gray\n\nRetired ?\n\nRetired ?\n\nK.G. (Retiring?)\n\nRetired ?\n\nEnglish\n\nEnglish\n\nMiss Swift\n\nP.T.\n\nMiss Bicheno\n\nK.G.\n\nMiss Beavis\n\nK.G.\n\nMiss Burslem\n\nKenya\n\nMiss McGuffog\n\n66\n\nMrs. Ashton-Hill\n\nMiss Blanchette\n\nMiss Whitley\n\nMiss Gemme\n\nMiss Oram\n\nMiss Wickett\n\nMiss Hearson\n\nMiss Sage\n\nMrs. Allinson\n\nEnglish\n\nHandwork\n\nMathematics\n\nEnglish\n\nK.G.\n\nK.G.\n\nDomestic Science\n\nGeography\n\nBiology\n\nFrench & Latin\n\nTemporary Staff.\n\nMrs. Fowlie\n\nMrs. Searle\n\nEnglish\n\nK.G. (formerly Miss J.M. Jeffreys).\n\nMiss Patterson (semi-permanent)\n\nGeneral Subjects (Queen's College)\n\nMrs. Church\n\nMrs. Vagnone\n\nGeneral Subjects\n\nMrs. Hill\n\nGeneral Subjects ) Junior General Subjects ) forms.\n\nT.J. Price\n\nD. Orr\n\nL.B. Holmes\n\nR.H. Griffiths\n\nJ.G. Ferguson\n\nH.H. Beddow\n\nKilled\n\nScience\n\nGeography\n\nMathematics\n\nEnglish & Geography\n\nTrade School\n\nMathematics",
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        "content_text": "-60\n\nShe was assisted by the Czecho-Slovakian wives of two members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (Mesdames Krofta and Tomes) and by a Portuguese mother and three daughters (Xavier) whose husband and father was also a military internee.\n\nThis group was responsible for a thousand pairs of strong leather shoes, hundreds of pairs of sandshoes, thousands of shirts, vests, etc., being carried to Shamshuipo Camp.\n\nThe Canadian troops in this prisoner of war camp had arrived in Hong Kong shortly before hostilities commenced, consequently they had made very few friendly contacts and had no relatives as was the case with the interned volunteers or other units. To ensure that they received a reasonable quota of food parcels each week, I utilised lists of those who had been in hospital for wounds or sickness and arranged for Miss Ho's group to lend their names and to take a number of parcels addressed to the Canadians every week.\n\nM.\n\nFunds to combat malnutrition.\n\nFrom time to time, the Japanese Commandant of the prisoner of war camps stopped food parcels being sent in. To overcome this and to assist the camp medical authority to buy eggs, peanuts, and other highly nutritious foodstuffs through Japanese and Formosan sentries, I had recourse to sending money by underground channels to Major T.W. Ashton-Rose, I.M.S. Senior Medical Officer in the camp. This officer was thereby able to give extra meals every day to several hundred cases of advanced malnutrition.\n\nN.\n\nProhibition against drugs.\n\nI was obliged to use the same underground method when serious outbreaks of dysentery, diphtheria, \"electric feet\", etc., occurred in the camp and the Japanese medical authority refused to allow me to send in by the normal, official way supplies of anti-toxin, sulfapyridine, and so on. I was fortunate enough to find a Japanese with high humanitarian principles who had the entré into the camp and who was prepared to risk his life in taking special drugs and money for food purchases to the camp doctors. Appendix 1 has a bearing on this point.\n\n0.\n\nMedical and welfare care for wives and dependants of p.o.w. etc. Meanwhile, efforts were made to lighten the burden of the wives and dependants of prisoners of war and internees.\n\nApart from monthly grants to meet food and rent, I organised schools on both sides of the harbour where certificated teachers combined teaching with games and physical culture in order to keep the children happy and healthy. Milk and vitamin biscuits were distributed daily to the children. They were examined and weighed and when they showed signs of ailing, they were examined by a doctor specially trained in paediatrics.\n\nTwo ladies (Miss Helen Ho and Miss Dorothy Lee) assisted me to look after the non-interned families of volunteers and others. They visited each family at least once every month and some families on two or more occasions as necessity arose. They took pains to ascertain whether the mother and children were adequately fed, clothed and housed and were in good health or whether they needed additional and special help.\n\nIn order that these wives should not sacrifice themselves or their children by spending their monetary grant on food parcels for their husbands or relatives in the internment camps, I arranged for them to receive tinned soya beans, marmalade, etc. each time\n\n25\n\nthey",
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        "content_text": "36\n\nAPPENDIX II.\n\nNAMES OF PERSONNEL WHO GAVE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE IN\n\nHONG KONG DURING THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION.\n\nI. DOCTORS, ETC. (alphabetical order).\n\nF.R. Ashton, Kenneth Chaun, K.H. Digby, D.W. Fang, E.L. Gosano, A. Guiteres, G.M. Hargreaves, T.J. Hua*, P.C. Lai+, Li Shu Pui, J.B. Mackie, Ruth Milne, J.H. Montgomery, I. Newton, A. Dean Smith+,\n\nAnnie Sydenham, G.H. Thomas, M.B.E., K.H. Uttley, D.J. Valentine+, T.P. Wu, K.C. Yeot.\n\nII. PRINCIPAL MATRON.\n\nA.M. Davies*.\n\nIII. MATRONS.\n\nChue+(Kwong Wah), A.M. Cullinan (Tweed Bay), D.P. Geen (Tweed Bay), S.C. Leung (Tsan Yuk),\n\nBessie Thom (Lai Chi Kok), M.E. Wilson (Tweed Bay).\n\nIV. ALMONER.\n\nM.S. Watson+.\n\nV. NURSING SISTERS.\n\nD. Dymond, N.L. Everett, I.L. Morgan, A.L. Popham, E. Riley, A.S. Rogers, C.B. Robinson, R. Spry,\n\nE. Townsend, L. Turner.\n\nVI. AUXILIARY NURSES.\n\nCommandant - Nina Valentine+.\n\nN. Coleman, W. Cox, B. Farrar, L. Fearon, G.C. Frederick, M. Harrison, A. Jones, S. Low+, S. Odell, N. Olsen,\n\nL. W. Phillips, M. Sleap, V. Simmonds+, E. Tinson.\n\nVII. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF.\n\nFrank D. August, J.I. Barnes+, J.H. Gelling, Dorothy V. Holloway+, W.C. Low.\n\nVIII. LAY SUPERINTENDENTS OF HOSPITALS.\n\nK. Mackenzie Dow, E. Morton, Frank Short+.\n\nIX. RADIOGRAPHER.\n\nJ. Skinner*.\n\nX. PHARMACISTS.\n\nArthur Rowan, M.A., E.V. Hopkinson.\n\nXI. HEALTH STAFF.\n\nG.I. Hooper+, D. Benwell+.\n\nXII. ENGINEERING STAFF.\n\nJ. Crookdake, J. Kempton, Arthur May*.\n\nXIII.",
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        "content_text": "welcome, especially the nicotinic acid of which we cannot get enough. We have 800 or 900 cases of pellagra and they have started increasing recently, so we are most grateful for your help.\n\n(f) Letter dated 13th October, 1942, from Major T.W. Ashton-Rose, Indian Medical Service, Senior Medical Officer, Shamshuipo Camp\n\n\"Dear Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, I am extremely grateful to you for your great assistance. The diphtheria serum is a 'God-send' as we have a bad epidemic here. Nearly 240 cases among the Canadians and the death rate is rising and will rise further as the serum runs out. I am going to use human serum from the cases which have recovered from diphtheria and see how it works.\n\nI am rather pressed with work, but under the present circumstances one must do his best to save life.\n\nSkin diseases, scabies and ringworm remain untreated here for want of ung. sulph. and anything for tinea.\n\nHong Kong foot is troublesome but somewhat better. There are quite a number of cases of painful feet and some of the men have had no sleep for 10 to 12 days. Do you think you will be able to help us in this line? Morphia is practically run out and we have no opium preparations. Any article of medical supply will be gratefully accepted. Our instruments are few here and drugs and anything that you can spare we will be delighted to receive. Dressings we have nil.\n\nAll the best and many thanks again for your great help.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nT.W. Ashton-Rose, Major, I.M.S.\"\n\n(g) Letter dated November, 1942, from same officer.\n\n\"Your parcel received this morning through our good friend. May he be permitted to continue his good work. The diphtheria situation is now good and deaths have ceased for the past few days. We are now faced with another situation which is developing in an alarming way. I have started a food kitchen and have funds now for another two weeks but have to depend entirely on funds from outside. I have a salary of 100 M.Y. each month but it goes a very small way. We are just preparing a document to raise a loan of $200,000 (50,000 M.Y.) and your assistance will be greatly appreciated. We will sign as guarantors as persons of substance for the repayment on the cessation of hostilities. Do let me know your views in this connexion and if you can assist us to save quite a number of men who are now in a bad way. One of the Hong Kong Judges, Williams by name, and the late Crown Solicitor here have the document in hand and I will pass it out to you as soon as possible. Milk food is what we require and a few more ferrous carb. tablets. Bismuth sal., sodium bicarbonate, dettol and sulph. sublimate are also required. I cannot express to you how grateful we are for all your assistance and trust that I will be able to express personally my feelings. Many thanks once again.\"\n\n(h) Letter dated November, 1942, from same officer.\n\n\"Your parcel received on Sunday containing dressings, instruments and marmite was welcome. The basket today contained bismuth sal., vaccine, pot. brom., etc., was also received safely. Ever so many thanks. I will do my utmost regarding your...\"",
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        "content_text": "16\n\n139\n\nLAU TAK KWONG, ALEXANDER CHRISTY SHINTON, LEUNG HUNG, FREDERICK IVAN GEORGE HALL, BRAILEY, DOUGLAS WILLIAM WATERTON, HUBERT STANLEY REES, VALTER RICHARDSON SCOTT, JOHN ALEXANDER FRASER.\n\nSentence of 15 years' imprisonment was passed on the accused HO YAU, CHAN WAI CHI, LUIS CARLOS ROSARIO SOUZA, FRANK ROBERT, WILLIAM ANDERSON, JAMES LESLIE ANDERSON.\n\n19th October, 1943\n\nHongkong Occupied Territory Governor-General's Dep., Court Martial.\n\nLieut.-Col. FUJIMOTO.\n\nChief Judge:\n\nJudge: Judge:\n\nLegal 1st Lieut. YAMAGUCHI, Kyoichi. Army 1st Lieut. TIMURO, Tetsu.\n\n(T.N. All sentenced to death (N.B. LEE LAM's name is omitted from the list) executed 29 Oct. 1943. Those sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment had sentence commuted to 10 years by Proclamation 15, 1944).\n\nThe case against Major CECIL BOON, R.A.S.C., may be summarised briefly as follows: It is alleged that:\n\n1.\n\nOn or about Dec. 16, 1942, at SHAMSHUIPO P.W. Camp he made extreme pro-Jap remarks, supplied the enemy with propaganda material, and praised without justification their treatment of Ps/W.\n\n(Witnesses: Major ASHTON ROSS, I.M.S., Major J.D.A. GRAY, R.A.S.C., Capt. A.M. RODRIQUES, H.K.V.D.C., Capt. G.C.E. GREW, R.A.S.C., Capt. R.N. THURSEY, H.K.V.D.C., Capt. C.G. WEBBER. Evidence forthcoming from BOON's document entitled \"Mental Reactions\" and his diary.\n\n2.\n\nOn 1st Oct. 1944 he condemned an air attack made by American Air Force on the camp, and supplied the Japanese with propaganda material in the form of a letter.\n\n3.\n\n(Evidence: 1. Lip written in red pencil probably by a Jap. interpreter suggesting that a letter of protest should be sent to A.A.F. in CHINA.\n\n2. Pencilled draft letter with alterations in BOON's handwriting.\n\n3. Memo in ink and pencil probably from Jap. interpreter with request from Lt. TANAKA for proposed letter.\n\nTypewritten copy of actual letter sent by Major BOON dated 18 Oct. 44 found in office used by the Japanese.\n\nLetter with some amendments was published in H.K. News dated 20 Oct. 44 under the heading \"U.S. Officer's letter of protest\".\n\nDuring mid-September 1942 he subjected his fellow Ps/W to excessive, dangerous and harmful work, and deliberately failed or refused to exercise his authority to effect any improvement in working conditions, or to pass on protests to the Japanese.\n\n(Witnesses: Major ASHTON ROSS, I.M.S., Major J.D.A. GRAY, R.A.M.C., R.S.M., F.C. JONES, H.K.V.D.C., Capt. R.K. VALENTINE, o/i.c., H.K.V.D.C., Lt. SAINSBURY, D.D.C., Major GRIEVE, R.A.S.C., Capt. R.L. LANCASTER, R.A.S.C., Major F.T. ATKINSON, R.A.S.C., Detail No. 279, Sgt. G.H. FIERCY, H.K.V.D.C., C.S.M. COLLINS, P.O. VAN WAARDENBURG.)",
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        "content_text": "171 \n\nThe Auxiliary or Police Reserve all returned for duty on instructions of the Colonial Office long before their due period of leave had expired, to assist in the rehabilitation of the Colony. That in itself is surely a pointer towards our claim that due recognition \n\nshould be given to all pre-war members of the Force and that their interests should not be prejudiced by recruitment of newcomers. \n\nWe would deem it a favour if due consideration be given to the letter, and we would appreciate it if you could grant us an interview in which we could supply details and clarify any other matters that may be obscure. \n\nWe would also be grateful if any communication on the subject matter of this letter be addressed to all the undersigned. \n\nA.F. ROSE, Swanton Novers, \nNORFOLK. \n\nA.S. Rosa. \nMelton Constable, \n\nT. J. HEMSLEY, 85 Great Thrift, Petts Wood, \nKENT. \n\nW. SULLIVAN, \nBox Cottage, \nSteeple Ashton Common, Nr. Trowbridge, \nWILTS. \n\nS. INNES, \n21 Talbot Road, Roundhay, \nLeeds 8, YORKSHIRE \n\nA. LESLIE, Fairfield, \nNewtonmore, Inverness-shire, \nSCOTLAND. \n\nJ.H. DOWMAN, \nLove Way, \nSpeke, Liverpool 19, \n\nT.P. RUSSELL, \n191 Edge Lane, \nLiverpool. \n\nD. MANN, Altan, Drinarben, Fort William, \nSCOTLAND. \nS.P. Ross, \n75, Pitkerro Road, Dundee.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Archer, C.H. | Consul-General in charge of Consular Section, United Kingdom Liaison Mission in Japan |\n| Ashton, A. | Translator, International Prosecution Section, SCAP |\n| Boyce, A.R. | First Secretary (Information), United Kingdom Liaison Mission |\n| del Re, Arundel | Foreign Adviser to Education Division, Civil Information and Education Section, GHQ, SCAP |\n| Eckersley, T. | Australian Political Observer |\n| Forsythe, J. | Assistant Australian Political Observer |\n| Gascoigne, A.D.F. | Ambassador, Head of United Kingdom Liaison Mission |\n| Hawley, F. | \"Times\" correspondent, Tokyo |\n| Morland, O.C. | Counsellor, United Kingdom Liaison Mission |\n| Nambara, Professor S. | President of the Tokyo Imperial University |\n| Norman, Dr. H. | Canadian Political Representative |\n| Redman, H.V. | Counsellor (Information), United Kingdom Liaison Mission |\n| Nittall, L.H. | Economic Adviser, United Kingdom Liaison Mission |\n| Kito, R. | Secretary, Nippon Romaji Kai, Tokyo |\n| Okunaka, K. | Manager of the Romaji Hirome Kai, Tokyo |\n\n## (a) CIVILIANS (USA)\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Halpern, Dr. | Chief Linguistic Adviser, Education Division, Civil Information and Education Section, GHQ, SCAP |\n| Sparnon, N.J. | Assistant head of Translation Section, ATIS |\n\nPage 80\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "Mr Sloss\n\n12\n\nSw M.K.Lo\n\n13\n\nSu A. Morse\n\nPlease see Mr Ashton's min of 20/7.\n\n12\n\n20.7.51\n\n20.7.51\n\n26.7.51.\n\nLetters (11-13) have been sent to SWA.Morse, Sú M.K. Lo & Mr Sloss\n\ninviting\n\nthem to the meeting in the S of S' room at 10 am on\n\nFriday 27th July\n\nSw A. Morse has already telephoned his acceptance & we shall probably hear from Su M K Lo & the Sims on Monday.\n\nSw C Cox's & Now W Adams' letters home noted the time of the meeting & think\n\nboth will be able to attend.\n\nMr Brundillon is already booked for a meeting with Sw H. Prynne but the Palmer will be representing Finance Dept.\n\nIn para 4 of (10) the F.O. was asked to let us have his reactions to the Japanese assets suggestion before the proposed further meeting with Sir A Morse etc in the latter part of next week. If he does not reply by Wednesday morning, we should remind him.\n\nAt present the following will probably be present at the meeting:\n\nSir A Morse, Sir M.K. Lo, Mr Sloss, Sw C. Cox, Mr Adams & Mr Palmer.\n\nPr\n\n1\n\nI think\n\nDo Súr C Jefferies & Mr Parkin wish to attend? If they, you & I do, number attending will be 10+ Mr Ashton should note this when the\n\nfile returns to him\n\nThursday, 26 July\n\n14\n\nSw M.K.Lo\n\nH\n\nrequested in his min of 20/7,\n\n21\n\n21\n\nH.Mall\n\n24/7\n\nMr. Sidebotham\n\nSir M.K. Lo and Mr.Sloss have also accepted\n\n-\n\nSee (14)\n\nand (15) and I have confirmed the time of the meeting with Mr. Sloss by telephone.\n\nI submit opposite a memo on the University.\n\nParas. 1 to\n\n3 give some background information but the Secretary of State need only read from para. 4 onwards.\n\nI.Mall\n\n23. 7. 1951.",
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        "content_text": "54465\n\n1950. 1951\n\nHONG KONG and PACIFIC\n\nCLOSED\n\nUNTIL\n\n1982\n\n54465\n\nRECEPTION of H.K DELEGATION to B.I.F.\n\nof\n\nARRANGEMENTS\n\nfor\n\nPrevious\n\n1949\n\nSubsequent\n\nHKP242|2|01\n\nMy Ambion Ashton M's Petherick 13/4\n\nThe Gaboone 16.1462 84.\n\n२ 75 Petherick 4\n\nThe Holl 27/4 5208\n\n27/4. Mr Hall 30/4...\n\nMr Parkin 30/4\n\nMy Osborne 1/5 815\n\nMr. AP Stall 9/5 H.462.\n\n1/6. isk m. Howard Drake 14/5 H.452.\n\n24/8 • I. Watson Mr Hall\n\n......... کیلتار 18/5 452 6/16 19/6\n\nMy Hall H.452. Md. Anderson 9/5. the Anderson.\n\nM2 M2 Mr Sidebotham in Lide botham 17/452\n\nMr Anderson 3/4--- H 452 311\n\nMr Faiselough\"/ Cam Hall 12/1\n\nMy Osborne H142. 22/3 ww Hall 12/3 the Osborne (1142) 7/3\n\nFILE AM, AP, Hall 28/3 23\n\nMr Sidebotham 4452 6/4 9/0\n\nCOR Wt. 39362 5301 20.450 in 15 serta 2/50 TCP/JR\n\n12",
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        "content_text": "B/U ext\n\n# March\n\n1x\n\nWith Im Ashton to suggest material for Speech by the S.S. at the luncheon.\n\n8\n\n6. ? proceed as suggested above.\n\n4.\n\nList of H.K. delegation passages.\n\nMr Osborne.\n\nPerhaps we would discuss. I have spoken to Mr Bryant & he suggests whether the \"entertainment\" Tea Party in the C.O. Sherry Party (which might be more sociable\") ought to consider if it should come out of Foreign hospitality rather than from the small C.O. fund, the numbers involved would be about 60.\n\nList of Guests for reception on 27.10.57.\n\nMi Hall\n\nHollall 1441\n\nWe have spoken about this. You will remember my mentioning that it would only be possible to have a Government Hospitality reception provided the delegation were not also being entertained at Government expense by another Department. We are making enquiries on this point.\n\nYou will be informed as soon as it is clear that there is no \"double\" entertainment the proposal for a Sherry Party can be put up to the Secretary of State for approval and Government Hospitality sounded as to the appropriate time and place.\n\nIs it yet possible to attach a complete list of guests (with addresses) to be invited?\n\nMr Osborne\n\nLyn Osborne 22/3\n\nThe H.K. Govt office will let us have names & addresses of the H.K. contingent as soon as they can but are unlikely to be able to do so before the end of this week. The number is approx 85.\n\nPage\n\nTo these must be added the C.D. guests mentioned in the Fournoughts min of 11/1, para 4.\n\nI did mention to you some time ago that the contingent have not been invited to any other Foreign hospitality reception. In premises your key hue hue invited to a sherry party by the Bot T. that they would much prefer the C.O. reception to be their main, if necessary, only party.\n\nUllall\n\n6. Revised nominal roll of H.K. Delegation/s.\n\n9\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "29/5\n\nS.1.5.\n\nPlease see in particular the comments in Mr. Fairclough's minute 1. dated January above. Are you prepared to approve his proposal to give free or reduced-rate parking to the Hong Kong delegation to the BIF about his car? As of 1. April? We are engaged to have luncheon within the delegation on him 20.\n\nMr. Achton. May 22\n\nWe spoke; further action seems to be necessary in view of Mr. Ostrom's minute of 22/3. The dates originally suggested by Mr. Petherick were 26th and 27th April.\n\nWall 21/3\n\nMr. Anderson\n\nI understand that you have a list of guests attached. Government Hospitality will now be responsible for this and will be issuing the invitations in the next day or two.\n\nBorbome 13/4\n\nMr. Petherick\n\nAmended visitors list attached. Forame 14/4\n\nPage 10\n\nThe Board of Trade have phoned about the reception, and consider that since this is to be a fairly large party, certain representatives from the BIT should be invited. In view of the size of the party already, he has only given one name:\n\nA. G. Bottomley D.B.E., M.P. (Secretary for Oversees Trade)\n\nA. E. Percival\n\nMiss Mr. B. Jennety\n\nW. I. Smith Dennety\n\nMr. H. Gordon Taylor\n\nSir Stephen Holmes K.C.M.G., M.C.\n\nThe G. Bowen.\n\n17/4.\n\nMiss Petherick.\n\nI have told W. Stall that Government Hospitality have agreed to send invitations to the five officials mentioned in your minute and to cut out Sidebetham (who will be out of London) and Mr. Fairclough.\n\nWys coberma 18/4\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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