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        "content_text": "(14)\n\n(15)\n\n459\n\nto collect the rents. I went to Lum Ateen, who said that he had bought the houses. I told him that I had spent a good deal of money in repairing them, and that there were some rents unpaid, and I asked him to let them to me, I being responsible for the repairs. Lum Ateen said that I might have the seven houses at the same rate as before, $30, to which I agreed. The other house was agreed for the same day, for $25. My previous knowledge of Lum Ateen extended only to knowing him by sight. The house spoken of as being intended for a hospital has not been used as such; it is now a family house. I do not know how Lum Ateen got the money for the houses, and do not know anything of his pecuniary affairs, nor anything about his going to Macao.\n\n**TOMAS BERNARDO RIBEIRO**.-Called and examined. I live in Hollywood Road, house No. 300; have been there since January 1857. I took the house of Mr Caldwell's comprador, who told me that the house was Mr Caldwell's. I am keeper of a licensed boarding house; I pay the rent to the comprador, whom I last saw this morning. He came to my house about half-past 7 this morning of his own accord, and said, \"If any gentleman comes asking you, don't tell that this house belongs to Mr Caldwell. Say that it belongs to Mrs Caldwell, or a relation.\"\n\n[Mr Caldwell admits that he receives the rent of the house, but denies the ownership. He also admits that he is the reputed owner, or in other words, that people suppose him to be the owner.]\n\nI told him that the policeman had asked me who the owner of the house was, and that I told the policeman the comprador had told me the house belonged to Mr Caldwell. The comprador did not tell me that if anyone asked who the owner of the house was I was not to say Mr Caldwell. This conversation was in Manila language.\n\n**CHUN SAMCHUN**,-Called and examined. I am a broker, and reside in house No. 331; the number of the ground lot I don't know. I have lived there ten days, and took the house from a person called Lum Ateen, or rather his collector of the same surname who lives at the Cho Sow Tong. I know Mr Caldwell, but have not seen him at my residence. I do not know about Mr Caldwell having any interest in the house.\n\n**CHOU AH-CHEE**,-Recalled. I have brought my rent book. [Book examined, and found to contain entries beginning 20th December last, of $16 rent, paid to and acknowledged by Yee Wo.] Afook is the master of the Yee Wo shop.\n\n**FONG WEIKAI**,-Occupant of inland lot 250, and house 411,-Called and examined. I have occupied the house a few days, and took it from Yee Wo.\n\n**WONG AOON**,-Called and examined. I have occupied my present house (the same house as last witness) two months. I took it from Yee Wo. I do not know who the owner of the house is.\n\n**HO ACHOONG**,-Called and examined. No part of the house in which I live is used as a brothel. There is no brothel on the side of the street in which I live; there is one over the way. The comprador once said that unless I could pay every month I should be turned out. One time he took me down to Mr Caldwell's office. I have lived in the same house as last witness since the 15th January last. I took it from Yee Wo Fook, to whom my boarders pay the rent. I do not know to whom he pays it, nor who the owner of the house is. I said to Mr Caldwell, \"Excuse me this time, as soon as I get ships I will pay.\" Mr Caldwell said, \"I have nothing to do with it; you had better speak to the comprador.\" The comprador said, that I must pay or seek another house. On the 20th of this month I shall owe one month's rent; all the rest has been paid.\n\n**JOHN LYONS**.-Recalled. I have looked at the plan of houses in this colony, and find that house 300 is on lot 204. There are other 5 houses on the same lot, none of which are to my knowledge brothels. The other houses in this lot are numbered 301, 299, 249, 250, 248. Laurenço Pablo lives in a house 248 Lascar Upper Row, No. of license 22.\n\n**LAURENCO PABLO**.-Called and examined. I live in Lascar Upper Row, behind the house of Ribeiro. I keep a Boarding House, and have lived there sixteen months. I took the house of Mr Caldwell's comprador-Lai Sze-kai, who told me that Mr Caldwell was the owner. I pay the rent to the comprador, and last saw him at half-past 7 this morning, at which time he came to my house voluntarily. He asked me what the policeman had said to me, and I told...\n\n**LEONG CHEWKWONG**,-(Lot 204, house 301, Hollywood Road,)-Called and examined. I have occupied this house since the 24th December last, took it from Lai Sze-kai, master of the Tai Cheong shop. I pay the rent to him. He says that he collects the rent for a relation. He has never used Mr Caldwell's name in connection with it.\n\n**CH'UN KUNHEE**,-(Lot 204, house 299,)-Called and examined. I have lived in this house two years. I rented it from Lai Sze-kai of the Tai Cheong shop. I never paid any rent to Mr Caldwell.\n\n[The Commissioners at the request of Mr May proceeded to examine two witnesses on reference to charge \"4 in the second branch of the inquiry. Their evidence will be found printed with the rest of the evidence on the same charge.]\n\nAdjourned to 1 P.M. on the 3d.\n\n## FIFTH DAY,\nThursday, 3d June, 1858. Present,-All the Members.\n\n**GEORGE COOPER TURNER**,-Called and examined. I am a Solicitor in this colony. In December last I was, and still am, Solicitor to the Attorney General. Upon reference to document (M) I can state that, on the 3d January, 1857, I, as Solicitor for the Attorney General, obtained a transfer into his name in the land office, of lots 475, 476, 477, 478, 480, 483, 484, 485, and 507. These lots had been purchased by him from Mr Caldwell. Mr Anstey was very desirous in the latter end of December last, of selling these lots, and I applied to Mr Caldwell to point out where... I think at that time Mr Caldwell said, that he had a friend who was very anxious to buy one of these lots. When I replied, that I did not think it likely that the Attorney General would sell any one particular lot, as he wanted to get rid of the whole together. I made some enquiry as to the lot Mr Caldwell's friend wished to buy, and called on him afterwards to tell him, that the Attorney General would not sell any one lot; the purchaser, if he bought, must take the whole. The lot Mr Caldwell wished to buy was one near the Kulan obelisk; the others are in the neighbourhood of East Point. The whole were afterwards sold to Mr Strachan.\n\nI have collected rents for Mr Caldwell for 11 houses besides. They are not sold I know of my own knowledge that these houses belonged to a sister of Mrs Caldwell, whose name I do not know Chun Atsoo; I know they are the property of Mrs Caldwell's sister, because Mrs Caldwell told me so, and at one time offered to let them to me. Mrs Caldwell managed the affairs of this property. The rents of these 11 houses are paid to Mrs Caldwell, and have always been since I collected them. I collected rent on any other lots for Mrs Caldwell. In the month of February last, I spoke to Mr Caldwell concerning the payment of ground rent on Lum Ateen's property. Lum Ateen was going home he told me to pay the ground rents for him; I said, that I did not know what amount. I had to pay; Lum Ateen told me, I might go to my old master-Mr Caldwell-about it. I went to Mr Caldwell in the month of February, and asked him to give me a note for me to go and pay ground rents. Mr Caldwell told me that he himself was going to pay ground rents, and would wait till Lum Ateen's return, and hand the receipts over to him. He told me that the receipts were at the office; he would get them by and by. I know a Boarding House keeper in Hollywood Road called Tomas. I let him the house in which he lives. I saw him yesterday morning. I said to him, and all the Chinese tenants, \"Don't be afraid; if any inquiry be made, you may say that the houses belong to my mistress [Mrs Caldwell].\"\n\nCross-examined,-Mr Caldwell did not, at the time of the conversation with him, mention the name of the friend; nor do I know for whom the lot was wanted.\n\n**LAI SZE KAI**,-Called and examined. I was Comprador to Mr Caldwell. I ceased to be Comprador from the time Mr Caldwell ceased to be master of the `Eaglet`, about two years ago. Since then I have been partner with Low Ateem in a shop, and now myself keep a shop which is in Stanley Street. When I was Comprador to Mr Caldwell I went with the steamer; I also collected rents. I have had charge of four houses, but I do not know the numbers of the ground lots on which they stand. [The lot referred to is 197.] The present occupants are Lee Koon-tai, Ngow Poo, Chew Angee, Ch'o Ngu, Akwun, who keeps a Chair shop, and Yew Aon-there are eight tenants altogether. I received rents for Mr Caldwell until I went on board the steamer as Comprador, after which I believe Mr Caldwell's cook was collector. After I left the steamer I again collected rents for Mr Caldwell, and continued to do so up to the middle of December last, when the houses were sold to Lum Ateen, after that time I collected them for Lum Ateen as some of them still owed rent.\n\nI delivered to Mr Caldwell the rents as I collected them. When I was collector, for Mr Caldwell, the rents amounted to about $49 a month. The previous evening I went to collect the rents. I was not going to let the houses to them. One of the tenants came to me next morning, and so I went to all. They said some constables had been making inquiry as to the names and occupations of the tenants, and that this was their reason for being frightened.\n\nCross-examined,-The amount of rent due upon the four houses when they were transferred to Lum Ateen in December, was about $70; there is none of this due now. I was in Gaol about the 4th moon of last year, about a debt of my partner. I was 6 or 7 days in Gaol. I have never been in Gaol on a criminal charge. I do not know Chew Alai-nor have I heard the name; neither do I know Chun Atsoo. I had an interview with Mrs Caldwell's sister at Macao, about 4 years ago; I do not know her name. I do not know if she has a sister living in Hongkong. Six of the eleven houses are near the Joss-house in Hollywood Road, and the other are in Queen's Road West. It was after I left the steamer in July, 1856, that Mrs Caldwell offered to let me the houses. I have known Lum Ateen 3 years.\n\n| Name | House No. | Lot No. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Tomas Bernardo Ribeiro | 300 | 204 | Boarding House keeper |\n| Leong Chewkwong | 301 | 204 | Paid rent to Lai Sze-kai |\n| Ch'un Kunhee | 299 | 204 | Rented from Lai Sze-kai |\n| Fong Weikai | 411 | 250 | Took house from Yee Wo |\n| Wong Aoon | - | - | Took house from Yee Wo |\n| Ho Achoong | - | - | Paid rent to Yee Wo Fook |",
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        "content_text": "## \nSir, \nViceroy T'an to Consul Mansfield. \nMay 14th, 1899. \n376A. \n\nI am in receipt of your despatch stating that numbers of local rowdies on the Chinese side of the boundary are about to make an incursion into British territory, and requesting me to take steps for the preservation of order. \nI at once ordered Lieutenant Colonel Shih Yu-shan(4) to despatch by steamer able military officers in command of 800 men of the I(2) Battalion to take up their quarters in the neighbourhood of Samchun to preserve order. I also ordered the San On and Tung Kun Magistrates respectively to take action and report. Of this I informed you in my reply to your despatch. I am now in receipt of the following report from the San On Magistrate, Chao: \"On May 6th, I proceeded with all speed to Samchun, and on the next day I visited Sha T'ou and Huang Kang. I summoned in due order the gentry of Samchun, Pu Ko, and Sha T'ou and Huang Kang (names given) and carefully questioned them",
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        "content_text": "# Alation.\n\nSir,\n\n**Viceroy's Reply to Consul Mansfield**\n\nMay 18th, 1899.\n\n379\n\nWith reference to your despatch stating that numbers of local rowdies on the Chinese side of the boundary are about to make an incursion into British territory, and requesting me to take steps for the preservation of order; I have the honour to state that I at once ordered Lieut. Colonel Shih Yu-shan to despatch by steamer at least military officers in command of 300 men of the \"1st\" Battalion to take up their quarters in the neighbourhood of Samchun to preserve order. I also ordered the San On and Tung Kun Magistrates respectively to take action and report. Of this I duly informed you in my reply to your despatch. I subsequently received a report from Mr. Chao, the San On Magistrate, to the effect that he had visited several villages in person and had ascertained that no such movement was contemplated. Of this I also duly informed you.\n\nI have now received a further report from the Tung On Hsien, Liu, in which he states that he has been in person to several places and has ascertained that none of the villagers have left the district to create trouble.\n\nIt will be my duty to impose on the two Magistrates the responsibility of frequently warning the people and keeping them in check so as to prevent any disturbance.\n\nThe Officers and soldiers sent by Lieut. Colonel Shih will have to be forthwith ordered back to the Canton garrison, to which effect I have given orders.\n\nI beg that you will inform the Governor.\n\n**(Seal of Viceroy.)**\n\nTranslated by\n(Signed) G. D. Bitzipios  \nVice Consul.",
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        "content_text": "Viceroy Tan to Consul Mansfield.\n\nSir,\n\nMay 19, 1899.\n\n381\n\n+\n\nWith reference to your despatch in which you informed me that the Governor of Hongkong had heard that a large number of local rowdies were assembling in Chinese territory to the north of the boundary with the intention of making an incursion into British territory, and requested me to take measures to restrain them. I have the honour to state that I at once ordered Ideut. Col: Shin Yu-shan to despatch Sergt. Pang Pus-lin of the vanguard patrol of the Yi Battalion of the Canton garrison with 300 men of the Yi Battalion to take up their quarters in the neighbourhood of Samchun to preserve order. I also ordered the San On and Tung Kun Hsiens respectively to take action, whereupon they each reported in turn that they had been in person to several villages and had ascertained that no such incursion was contemplated. I then again instructed them to frequently warn the people and to restrain them from creating any disturbance, and forthwith ordered the troops despatched by Ideut. Col: Shin to return to the Canton garrison. Of all this, it will be remembered, I duly informed you.\n\nBut I have just now received from T'ang Fu-Lin, the sergeant in command of the Yi troops, and from the San On Hsien, Mr Chao, a report stating that British troops had congregated at Samchun, surrounded and occupied the building, forcibly taking away the arms, ammunition, uniforms, and military chest of the Chinese troops, whom they obliged to at once retire to a distance on pain of certain destruction.",
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        "content_text": "I have the honour to observe that the troops stationed at Samchun were sent there at your request, and that I, paying due regard to international friendship, and being most anxious that our relations should remain undisturbed, immediately acceded to the request preferred. The present action of the Hongkong civil and military officials is utterly unreasonable. I must therefore request you to communicate with the Governor of Hongkong, so that he may enquire into the circumstances and speedily favour me with a reply.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\nTranslated by\nG.D. FITZPIOS,\nVice-Consul.",
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        "content_text": "British Consulate,\n\nCanton, May 20, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 16th instant, relative to the occupation of Samchun and Kowloon city, which was embodied in a despatch to the Viceroy, I have now the honour to enclose translation of His Excellency's reply thereto.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) R. D. Mansfield,\n\nConsul.",
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        "content_text": "Viceroy Tan to Consul Mansfield.\n\nMay 19, 1899.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 17th instant, informing me that the Governor of Hong Kong, in accordance with instructions received from his Government, has sent a force to occupy Samchun and Kowloon city. I am also in receipt of a report from the Consul commanding at Ta Peng, stating that on the 16th instant, between 3 and 5 p.m., several hundred soldiers under the command of British Officers had swarmed into Kowloon city, and had shut the gates, allowing no one to enter or leave the town; that they had hoisted the British flag on the city wall and had forced the officials and people to leave the city at once.\n\nI was inexpressibly surprised on receiving this report, seeing that the Boundary Commissioners of our respective countries had settled that Sanchun was outside the limits of the new territory, and that the Tsungli Yamen had formerly agreed with the British Minister at Peking that the Chinese should still continue to exercise their functions within the city of Kowloon.\n\nThe Convention is still in existence and I do not see how it is possible to depart from it.\n\nIt has long been known throughout the world that your country holds good faith and righteous dealing in the greatest estimation. Moreover, as the friendly relations between England and China have remained through a long period of time, it is only right that England should increase the already great cordiality of existing relations. But the action of England in the present instance...",
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        "content_text": "147 1\n\nFrom Viceroy an.\n\nC.O.\n\n16557\n\nRECO Rec 27 JUN 79\n\n554\n\n81st. May 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI addressed you the day before yesterday with regard to the sudden and unexpected occupation of ShanChun and Kowloon by British troops, and have as yet received no reply.\n\nI have now the honour to acknowledge receipt of your further despatch informing me that the Governor of Hong Kong, in accordance with instructions received from Her Majesty's Govt., had despatched a force to occupy ShanChun and Kowloon city, which was so considerable that it would have been useless for the Chinese troops at the two places to oppose it.\n\nI have the honour to observe, that it is provided in the convention, originally agreed upon, that the Chinese officials, stationed in Kowloon City, shall be allowed to continue as formerly in the exercise of their duties, and that Shanchun was defined as being outside British territory. It is so shown in the map.\n\nMoreover, the troops, first stationed at Samchun, were sent there on the strength of your despatch, stating that the Governor of Hong Kong requested that troops should be sent to preserve order.\n\nThe occupation of these two places by British troops, who took away the arms and ammunition of the Chinese forces whom they forced to evacuate the places, is an utterly unreasonable proceeding.\n\n...\n\nmutual",
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        "content_text": "of, and have one control over,\n\nthe proceedings of the Viceroy of\n\nCanton and local authorities, and that Her Majesty's Government will deal locally with the matters\n\nat issue in regard to the Convention\n\nfor the Hongkong Extension, without\n\nreference\n\nto the Government at Peking.\n\nSamchun\n\nI am,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nFrancis Denie\n\n...\n\n332",
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        "content_text": "against the expulsion \n\nof the Chinese officials and soldiers from Kowloon and the occupation of Samchun.\n\nThe Chinese \n\nMinister has asked for \n\nearly reply.\n\nI am,\n\nYour obedient, humble Servant,\n\nFrancis Bertie\n\n77966\n\nthe sec\n\nGnomere info\n\nTranslation of a telegram \n\nfrom the Tsungli Yamen \n\nDated Peking May 20, 1899.\n\nOn the 20th instant, the Yamen \n\nwas telegraphically informed by the Viceroy of the two Kwangs \n\nthat on the British \n\nthe 16th instant six \n\nmen of war were despatched to Kowloon and \n\nexpelled Chinese \n\nofficials and \n\nsoldiers from the city; \n\nthat on the \n\n1000 hours on the 17th \n\ninst. some \n\nIndian soldiers \n\noccupied Samchun.\n\nPlease explain the following to Lord Salisbury:\n\nThat as it is expressly agreed in the Convention \n\n✓ for the \n\n \n...\n\n10",
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        "content_text": "for \n\nthe extension of Hong Kong within the city of Kowloon, the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction, and also in the Convention for the demarcation of the Extension signed by the Viceroy of Kwangtung & the Governor of Hongkong it is expressly stated that Samshui (or Samchun) is not to be included in the leased territory; these forcible actions on the part of Great Britain would appear to be violations of the Conventions and are entirely contrary to the friendly spirit in which the Chinese Government granted the lease.\n\nPage 354\n\nAnd that Lordship is earnestly requested to immediately instruct the Governor of Hongkong to withdraw the forces at once and adjust the question peacefully so as to preserve the friendly relations between the two countries.\n\n15\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "381\n\nGovernment must conclude that they were ignorant of or had no control over the proceedings of the Viceroy of Canton and the local authorities and would have to deal locally with the matters at issue without referring to the Government at Peking.\n\nMr. Bax Ironside addressed a Note in the above sense to the Yamen on the 1st instant.\n\nThese repeated representations made to the Yamen led to no result, and after more than a week had elapsed, the Viceroy of Canton not having removed the Chinese troops from Kowloon city, and information having reached the Governor of Hongkong of preconcerted plans for the invasion of the leased territory by large numbers of roughs from the northern boundary, the Governor was authorized to deal with the matter locally, and, with approval of Her Majesty's Government, Kowloon city and Samchun were occupied by the British forces.\n\nIn view of the fact that the Chinese Government do not hold themselves responsible for attacks by local mobs on British troops, the obligation falls upon Her Majesty's Government of performing the duty which is usually performed by the Sovereign of the country, but which the Chinese Government decline.\n\nAfter the recent experience which they have had not only of the worthlessness of the protection extended by the Chinese garrison at Kowloon, but of the additional danger involved in its presence, it is impossible for Her Majesty's Government to allow the resumption of Chinese Authority within the walls of that city.\n\nAs regards Samchun, the question of the permanent arrangements to be made in respect to it must be reserved for future consideration, but as it appears to have been the principal basis of the attacks on the British forces it will be necessary that it should remain provisionally in British occupation for the protection of the leased territory and the maintenance...",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n16762.\n\n440\n\nMr. Box-Ironside to the Marquess of Salisbury.-(Received June 27, 10 P.M.)\n\n(No. 195.)\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nYOUR telegram No. 122.\n\nPeking, June 27, 1899, 8:40 P.M.\n\nOn 24th I made in writing demand for payment of indemnity. At an interview to-day I conveyed the intimation as instructed by your Lordship.\n\nMinisters informed me that they could not admit the claim, and would answer by note accordingly. They claimed that affairs of Northern Railway were being gradually brought to a satisfactory state, and that there would be no default of interest by the end of half-year. Railway accounts were also being dealt with in a manner more satisfactory to foreign Accountant. They maintained a firm attitude as regards dismissal of Governor of Kueichow.\n\nTheir Excellencies were anxious to know whether our troops would be withdrawn from Samchun and Kowloon City in the event of indemnity being settled.\n\nI informed Ministers that I considered their reception of your Lordship's demand to be highly unsatisfactory, and I reminded them of the action of Her Majesty's Government in 1895 regarding dismissal of Viceroy of Szechuen.\n\nAt their urgent request, I promised to submit their views to your Lordship.\n\n[421-120]",
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        "content_text": "Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n13270\n\nRECO\n\n&\n\n[June 26,] Rce 14 JUL 99\n\nSECTION 4.\n\nSve\n\nNo.\n\nNo.\n\nMr. Bax-Ironside to the Marquess of Salisbury.—(Received June 26.)\n\n(No. 121. Confidential.)\n\nPeking, May 12, 1899. My Lord,\n\nWITH reference to my despatch, No. 110, Confidential, I have the honour to state that on the 27th ultimo I received a telegram from your Lordship instructing me to inform the Tsung-li Yamên that Her Majesty's Government have been most painfully impressed by the recent occurrences at Kowloon, and the resistance to the carrying out of the Convention of June 1898.\n\nYour Lordship added that Her Majesty's Government are convinced that the repeated attacks made on the British force by Chinese troops in uniform cannot have taken place without the effective concurrence of the local authorities, and this conviction is confirmed by the refusal of the Canton Viceroy to remove his troops from the leased territory when urged to do so by the Governor of Hong Kong, and by the dispatch of 600 additional men to Kowloon city on the 14th April, and the capture of certain Chinese military flags.\n\nHer Majesty's Government had further seen instructions which were sent from Canton to the officer in command of the coast forts that, in the event of more than three British men-of-war entering the harbour, fire was at once to be opened on them.\n\nYour Lordship instructed me to intimate that Her Majesty's Government will be compelled to ask for satisfaction for these grave injuries, and that they reserve their demands pending further consideration of the form which they should take.\n\nI at once asked for an interview with the Tsung-li Yamen which was fixed for the 29th ultimo. I informed the Ministers of the contents of your Lordship's telegram.\n\nTheir Excellencies complained with regard to the dispatch of the 600 troops referred to by your Lordship, that they had been sent at the especial request of the Governor of Hong Kong to keep order.\n\nFor this purpose only 300 men had been sent to Samchun and 300 to Kowloon, and they contended that, as soon as I had asked for their removal, instructions in that sense were forwarded to Canton at once. Nothing further had been heard by the Yamên.\n\nThe people who offered resistance had, they asseverated, no connection whatever with the Viceroy's troops.\n\nAs a matter-of-fact all the village train-bands in the Kuangtung Province wore uniforms and carried flags just like Government troops, although they were not controlled by the Government.\n\nTheir Excellencies refused to credit that orders had been sent from Canton to the coast forts to fire on British men-of-war, and they asked what proofs I could bring of such orders having been dispatched. According to information which had reached them from the Kuangtung notables, the disturbances were all the work of Roman Catholic converts.\n\nI reviewed at length every incident which had taken place in connection with this matter. I pointed out that I had written once and had warned their Excellencies verbally twice, but they had entirely failed to realize what was happening.\n\nThe Ministers could only repeat their old explanations, and they found fault with the British Commissioner of Customs at Kowloon, Mr. Hillier, who, the Viceroy of Canton said, had made a mistake in stopping the levy of Customs duties except at three of the stations. For this he was about to be removed from Kowloon.\n\nThe Yamen had been expressly informed by a despatch of the 15th ultimo that the Hong Kong Government had been instructed to permit the retention for the present of only three stations.\n\nI pointed out that Mr. Hillier had not fallen into error.\n\nPage 2017=47\n\n-B\n\n445",
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        "content_text": "att \n\n4 \n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong added that the Consul at Canton had telegraphed that the Viceroy was sending troops to Samchun for the prevention of disturbances.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. O. BAX-IRONSIDE.\n\nHer Majesty's Government begging them to bear in mind the friendly way in which the territory was ceded by China and not to be deceived by false rumours,\n\nOn the 20th instant, when you came to the Yamên, you mentioned that the Governor of Hong Kong had requested the Governor-General of Canton to withdraw the troops he had lately sent, and that the Governor-General was not willing to do so. We have telegraphed to the Governor-General to withdraw these troops immediately.\n\n(Cards of Yamên Prince and Ministers.)\n\nInclosure 1 in No.\n\nThe Tsung-li Yamên to Mr. Bax-Ironside.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nPeking, May 1, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH regard to the fighting between British troops and Chinese people at Tai-po-bu in the Kowloon extension, we received your visit at the Yamên on the 29th April. You then stated that the Chinese in question included some who wore uniforms, and it was suspected that some soldiers were among their number.\n\nWe explained to you at the time that all the local defence corps formed by the villagers of Kuangtung have uniforms, and that it was certain that no soldiers had been concerned in this disturbance.\n\nWe find that on the 16th April Mr. Fulford, Chinese Secretary of your Legation, called at the Yamên and spoke of the affair. The same day the Yamên telegraphed to the Governor-General of Canton to investigate the matter and to effectively preserve order.\n\nOn the 19th April we received the Governor-General's telegraphic reply as follows:---\n\n\"On the 2nd April the Governor of Hong Kong came to see me, and requested me to send soldiers to keep order. I deputed at once the officer Fang to go with 300 men from Sanon to Samchun, and the Colonel Shên with 300 men to be stationed at Kowloon city.\n\n\"On the 3rd April, when the soldiers had not yet arrived, the foreign workmen were erecting houses for their soldiers at Tai-po-hu, and the villagers showed obstruction. Happily there was no disturbance. I afterwards received a verbal report from the officers Fang and Shen, who came to Canton, to the effect that the people of the district were disaffected, and that it was to be feared that they would make trouble with the foreign soldiers. I at once ordered the two officers to hasten to the spot and suitably admonish the people.\n\n\"In conjunction with the Governor of Kuangtung, I have issued a strong Proclamation for the instruction of the people, and quoting the terms of the Convention for the lease of the territory. This has been seen by everybody. The Proclamation also stated that the English would certainly not ill-treat the Chinese population of the extension district, and enjoined upon the people, both of the leased territory and the adjoining district, to quietly pursue their callings and not to make disturbances.\n\n\"On the 15th April, however, the English sent soldiers to erect a flagpole, and the people drew up in array on the hills and fought with the English troops. The Governor of Hong Kong suspected that they were regular troops from the fact that they had guns, cannon, and uniforms. He was not aware that the villagers of Kuang-tung, in their constant fights with each other, are always erecting forts, and use guns and cannon, and wear uniforms. This is a matter of common notoriety.\n\n\"I have now again given orders to the officers above mentioned to proceed in different directions and put a stop to these proceedings, so that there can be no disturbance.\"\n\nOn the 20th April the Yamen received another telegram from the Governor-General as follows:-\n\n\"Of the soldiers sent at the request of the Governor of Hong Kong for protection, 300 were stationed at the Custom-house and 300 at Samchun. These men and the garrison of Mirs Bay were far distant from Tai-po-hu. At the time of the disturbance raised by the people the soldiers had made no move. Of late many of the defence forces of the various villages have prepared for themselves flags and uniforms, and it is impossible to distinguish them (from soldiers). Nothing happened on the 17th and 18th April, and they may have dispersed.\"\n\nWe (the Yamen) have the honour to send you a copy of these telegrams from the Governor-General of Canton for your information, and to request you to telegraph to ...\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMr. Bax-Ironside to the Tsung-li Yamén.\n\nPeking, May 1, 1899.\n\nON the 29th April, at an interview with your Excellency, I had the honour to convey a message from Her Majesty's Government with reference to recent occurrences in the Hong Kong extension.\n\nI subsequently telegraphed to Her Majesty's Government the substance of your Excellencies' remarks in reply, and I have now received a telegram from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs instructing me to inform your Highness and your Excellencies that unless proper consideration be given by the Chinese Government to the representations of Her Majesty's Government, Her Majesty's Government will be obliged to conclude that the Chinese Government are ignorant of, and have no control over, the proceedings of the Governor-General of Canton and the local authorities, and Her Majesty's Government will deal locally with the question at issue in regard to the Hong Kong extension without reference to the Peking Government.\n\n(No. 18.)\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. O. BAX-IRONSIDE.\n\nInclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Mansfield to Mr. Bax-Ironside,\n\nCanton, April 20, 1899,\n\nI HAVE the honour to report the details of the action taken during the last few days by this Consulate in connection with the assumption of British jurisdiction over the new territory at Kowloon.\n\nOn the 15th instant I left for Hong Kong, upon the invitation of his Excellency the Governor, to be present at the ceremonies attendant upon the hoisting of the British flag upon the day first appointed, namely, the 17th instant.\n\nOn the morning of the 16th, Mr. Pitzipios received the following telegram from his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong\n\nMessage received from officer commanding 100 men Hong Kong Regiment, sent to Tai-po-hu to-day to prepare for Monday's ceremony of hoisting the British flag, that he found 1,000 Chinese troops with battery of field artillery; later message that Chinese troops opened fire. Request from Viceroy immediate answer whether these troops are regular forces or not; if they are, it is an act of war, I have sent ample reinforcements. I will hoist British flag to-morrow.\n\nInform Viceroy all Chinese authorities and soldiers in our territory must be removed at once.\n\nMr. Pitzipios, accompanied by Mr. Assistant Higgs, at once left for the Viceroy's Yamen and had an interview, lasting about an hour, with that official, the result of which was summarized in the following telegram, dispatched on his return, to his Excellency the Governor :-\n\n\"Just returned from interview with Viceroy, who denied that aggressors were regular forces. As regards hoisting British flag, Viceroy says 'please yourself,' but absolutely refuses to remove Custom officers and other officials. Said that soldiers would leave in due course when territory was taken over. Refused to send orders, telegraphic or otherwise.\"\n\nMr. Pitzipios characterized the Viceroy's whole tone and demeanour as obstinate, discourteous, and generally unsatisfactory.\n\nPage 450\n\nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[October 18.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSĩ La Féng Luh to the Murquess of Salisbary. E(Received October 18.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nREFERRING to your Lordship's letter of the 30th May, I have the honour to inform you that I did not fail to acquaint the Tsung-li Yamên by telegraph of the decision of Her Majesty's Government to provisionally continue the British occupation of the Chinese town of Samshun, and reserve for future consideration the question of the permanent arrangements which would have to be made respecting it.\n\nI have just received a telegram from the Tsung-li Yamên, informing me that shortly after receiving the above-mentioned communication, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peking called at the Yamên and stated that he had been authorized by your Lordship to say that Her Majesty's Government would be prepared to evacuate, and restore to China, the town of Samshun on two conditions, viz.:-\n\n1. That the instalments then due to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation for interest on the Shan-hai-kwan Railway Loan should be promptly paid.\n\n2. That Tan Tzü-cheng, the fugitive criminal accused of having been the principal instigator of the murder of Mr. Fleming, should be arrested and brought to justice.\n\nNow, these two conditions have been fulfilled. In a despatch which the Yamên has addressed to the British Chargé d'Affaires, the Yamên requested him to inform your Lordship that Tan Tzü-cheng had been arrested in the Province of Hunan, and that the money which had been owing to the bondholders of the Shan-hai-kwan Railway Loan had been duly paid. Further, Mr. Bax-Ironside was to request your Lordship to have the goodness to cause the Governor of Hong Kong to be directed to order the evacuation of the town of Samshun, and to permit the Chinese authorities to resume the government of the city of Kowlung, conformably with the Convention of the 9th June, 1898, which stipulates that the intra-mural jurisdiction of the place is reserved to China.\n\nThe Yamen, having received no answer to the above requests, have desired me to call the attention of your Lordship to the matter, and at the same time express the hope that, as the Convention for the extension of the boundaries of the Colony of Hong Kong was agreed to as a special mark of China's friendship for Great Britain, and as the two conditions which your Lordship imposed for the retrocession of the town of Samshun have been fulfilled, arrangements may be made for the restoration of that place to China at an early date, also for the Chinese authorities being enabled to resume the government of the city of Kowlung.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) LO FÊNG LUI.\n\nPage 660\n\nPage 661",
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        "content_text": "I enclose for your uniform copy of the correspondence which has taken place with the 7.0 upon this subject, you will observe the enclosure to your fax Ironside's Despatch of the 8th September, which is enclosed in the 7.0 letter of the 23rd.\n\nIt is clear that the Chinese government appear to be taking some steps with a view to putting down piracy on the West River.\n\nPage 66\n\nCOLONIAL HONG KONG\n\nOF Individual.\n\n899\n\nSerious Paper.\n\n924-0000-4-49\n\nSubsequent Paper!\n\n275\n\n691\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n6.0.\n\n32999\n\nFace No.\n\n32959\n\n27 NOV 19\n\n(Subject.) Samchen Retrocession Kowloon jurisdiction\n\nSend note to Jun Chivese Legation.\n\nSW Hamilton\n\n(Minutes.) I understand from the Library, that they have a copy of the lease of Port Arthur to Russia; but a summary of the terms will be found on pp. 27 and 28 of the Blue Book (C-9131)\n\nMerewith. No such reservation is referred to there.\n\nIf the Chinese authorities had ventured to lease it to Russia they did so, Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon would have been swept away long ago.\n\n1024 Formally.\n\n? Put S.\n\nA. F. 28/11\n\nP.T.O",
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        "content_text": "Foreign Office,\n\n25 November, 1897.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying Copy of a note as marked in the margin, concerning the Retrocession of Weihaiwei.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nFrancis Bertie\n\nPage 27 NOV\n\n \nThe original text appears to be a letter from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office, dated 25 November 1897. The OCR output contained several errors and nonsensical characters, which have been corrected in the output above. The text has been formatted into paragraphs using HTML `` tags. \n\nSome minor corrections and adjustments were made:\n- \"Amat\" and other nonsensical words were removed or corrected as they did not form coherent text.\n- \"Samehun\" was corrected to \"Weihaiwei\" based on historical context, assuming it refers to the territory.\n- \"Fancis Bertie\" was corrected to \"Francis Bertie\".\n- The formatting was adjusted to follow the original structure as closely as possible.\n- \"Pe 27 NOV\" and similar lines were retained as \"Page 27 NOV\" to preserve the original page numbering information.",
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        "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government,\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n32939\n\nRac\n\nRegd 27 NOV 19 [November 15.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Loh Fêng Luh to the Marquess of Salisbury.(Received November 15.).\n\nMy Lord,\n\nChinese Legation, London, November 14, 1899.\n\nWITH reference to the note which your Lordship did me the honour to address to me under date of the 24th ultimo, I beg leave to inform you that I have received a telegram from the Tsung-li Yamên instructing me to convey to your Lordship the expression of their gratification on learning that you were in communication with Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, respecting the arrangements to be made with a view to the retrocession of the town of Samchun to China.\n\nAt the same time, I am to express to you the concern of the Imperial Government on hearing of the hesitation of Her Majesty's Government to allow the Chinese authorities to resume the control of the city of Kowloon. The Imperial Government hope that, on further consideration, Her Majesty's Government will see their way to a solution of the question which would avoid the committal of what would manifestly be a violation of a Convention which was concluded so recently as the 9th June last and they are the more solicitous of this because of the prejudicial effect to Chinese interests, which would result from any failure on the part of China to maintain the integrity of the Convention.\n\nIn the lease to Russia of Port Arthur and Talienwan there is a stipulation, with respect to the city of Kinchow, similar to that referring to the city of Kowloon, contained in the Convention for the extension of the Colony of Hong Kong, and the Imperial Government are apprehensive lest any departure from the conditions on which Great Britain obtained lease of the Kowloon Peninsula should be made a plea for a similar violation on the part of Russia of the Agreement with regard to Port Arthur and Talienwan.\n\nI hope your Lordship will appreciate the gravity of the last-mentioned consideration, and abstain from any action with regard to the city of Kowloon, which would be likely to create difficulties for the Imperial Government with the Government of Russia.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) LOH FENG LUH.\n\n[2317/17]\n\n186",
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        "content_text": "# \nExtract from Daily Press of the 20th May 1903-\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\n## THE GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL ADDRESS\nH.E. the GOVERNOR said.-Honourable Members of the Legislative Council, this is the last occasion on which I shall have the honour of presiding over your deliberations. I propose, with your permission, to review as shortly as I can the condition of the Colony during the five years of my administration of this Government. I arrived at a time when a most important and far-reaching change was about to be made in the condition of the Colony. Hongkong, which was ceded to Great Britain in 1841, had developed into a great port, with a population of 248,000. Its area, including the point of Kowloon Peninsula, was 32 square miles. The northern shores of the harbour were Chinese territory; at Sam-shai-pa, Cap-sui-moon, and Fu-ti-moon Chinese Custom-houses were established, and Chinese Customs cruisers operated within the ill-defined harbour limits to the great irritation of the community. The Kowloon extension agreement, signed on the 9th June, 1898, remedied this anomalous state of affairs in a harbour that, under the fostering care of Great Britain, had grown into the position of the third port in the world, the tonnage of whose shipping had in twenty years increased from 5,000,000 to 17,000,000. Under its provisions, it became my duty as the representative of Her late Majesty the Queen to assume the government of over 400 additional square miles of territory, with a population of over 100,000, and also over the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay. This agreement gave for the first time complete control over the waters of the harbour and its approaches, and removed the causes of the long-felt irritation.\n\nIt will be in your recollection, gentlemen, that the taking over of the New Territory was not accomplished without some trouble. The delimitation of the northern boundary had to be arranged, and when it had been finally settled, on the 18th March, I, at the request of the Chinese Government, made through the British Minister at Peking, deferred the hoisting of our flag to the 17th April (actually it was on the 16th that formal possession was taken, and the flag was hoisted on the 17th). In the meantime, certain agitators inflamed the minds of the people by false statements as to the result of our occupation to such an extent that armed resistance to the transfer of the New Territory was agreed upon. On the 14th April, the matsheds erected at Tai-pó Ha were destroyed, and the police and troops who proceeded to the place preparatory to the ceremony of the 17th were attacked by large numbers of Chinese apparently under military direction. Reinforcements were at once sent out, and formal possession of the New Territory was taken over on the 16th, so that our position should be made perfectly regular. After two engagements, in which the Chinese displayed considerable courage in acting against regular troops, and suffered some losses, the opposition collapsed. That these attacks upon our forces were encouraged by the then Viceroy there can be little doubt. My inability to permit the Chinese Customs to continue to function within the limits of the Colony was deeply resented by His Excellency, and he refused to send a Chinese official to be present at the ceremony of hoisting the flag on the 17th April.\n\nIn consequence of the evidence of the complicity of the Viceroy with the leaders of the attacks upon our troops, it was decided to occupy that portion of Samchun Valley lying to the north of the boundary line, including the important market town of Samchun. This was effected by a joint naval and military expedition, which met with no opposition, and the district was held for a month by a military force under the command of Major Prendergast, R.E., who acquired the confidence of the people; insured the security of their persons and property; assisted them in making good roads; and ultimately, under instructions from Her late Majesty's Government, withdrew from the district amid demonstrations of good-will from the inhabitants, to whom the presence of our troops had brought freedom from taxation, security of their property, and a market for their produce.\n\nOrder having been restored, the question had to be reconsidered as to the system on which this apparently turbulent population of the newly acquired territory should be governed. Two courses presented themselves-repression, or co-operation. The leaders of the people had been almost to a man actively engaged in the operations against us, but if these leaders were put aside and degraded from the position of focal consideration and authority hitherto enjoyed by them, we should have been face to face with a hostile population, without the means of communicating with them through trusted local intermediaries whose assistance is so essential to good government.\n\nI have had some experience in coercion. In certain situations, it becomes necessary. But it engenders an ever-deepening distrust, atrophies local interest in preserving order, and with the lapse of time becomes day by day more difficult to abandon without danger to the public safety. I felt, besides, that these leaders would not have been guilty of such egregious folly had they not believed the scandalous statements of our intentions that were so freely circulated, and, believing them, I could not withhold a meed of sympathy for misguided men who dared to face in open fight an overwhelming power in defence of their customs and their homes.\n\nI therefore chose the latter course, and, with the able assistance of Mr. Stewart Lockhart, whose excellent work in the pacification and arrangement of the New Territory is well known to the Honourable Members of this Council, I met the elders and gentry of the districts at Tai-pò Hu and Ping Shan, disabused their minds as to their fears, divided the Territory into eight districts and forty-seven sub-districts, and appointed the village elders as district elders with judicial power to deal with petty cases, giving at the same time to Mr. Lockhart a general controlling power with coordinate jurisdiction.\n\nAs a matter of fact, the elders, being satisfied of our just intentions, have never exercised their jurisdiction, but have left these cases to be dealt with first by Mr. Stewart Lockhart, and, after his return to the duties of Colonial Secretary, to Mr. Hallifax, Police Magistrate at Tai-po Ha, whose services are more frequently in demand as an arbitrator than as a magistrate, his decisions being readily accepted.\n\nThe establishment of police stations was proceeded with at once, and a main road laid out, which has since been constructed to Tai-po Hu, a distance of 18 miles, at a cost of $225,133. This excellent road gives access to the centre of the New Territory and obviates the necessity of communicating by sea, a passage not unattended by danger in rough or foggy weather. The construction of the road was carried out without difficulty or opposition, the claims of owners whose lands were acquired being settled at once by arrangement or arbitration.\n\nHaving arranged for police stations and the patrol of the territorial waters surrounding the 390 miles of newly acquired coast line, to check the prevalent robberies ashore and afloat, a trigonometrical and cadastral survey was entered upon, the services of a staff of surveyors and demarcators having been obtained from the Surveyor-General's department of India. The trigonometrical survey has been completed, and 345,926 lots have been demarcated. A Land Court was established to deal readily and inexpensively with the holdings claims, of which 165,231 have been presented to the Land Court.\n\nThe principal cultivation of the Territory is rice, but there is also a considerable cultivation of sugar, and, in the Tai Wan district, pineapples are grown. I found on inspection that the sugar canes were of a poor quality, and the pineapples of inferior flavour, while the primitive stone-mills in use leave a large percentage of juice in the crushed megasse. A number of canes of the best varieties were obtained from Java and Penang and have been distributed to the sugar farmers, and two Chattanooga steel mills were also imported and lent to large growers for experiment. Good varieties of pineapples were imported from Ceylon for distribution.\n\nWhile the cultivated land is now practically confined to the valleys, it is evident from the terracing of the hills that they too yielded their share of wealth-giving crops in the past, and I have little doubt that suitable cultivation will be resumed in the future. In the meantime, over 170,000 fir and camphor trees have been planted, and experiments are now being made with the Agave Rigida, or sisal hemp plant, that may yet, I hope, introduce an important industry into the Colony, while the establishment of succulent grasses on the suitable hill sides ought, if successful, to go a long way...",
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        "content_text": "# Telegram \n25533546 \n**REC** \nIR 14 JUL 06 \n\nGovernor Sir M. Nathan to the Earl of Elgin \n\n(Received, Colonial Office 9.50 a.m., 14th July, 1906.) \n\nBritish Consul General Canton reports piracy of British steamer on West River 12 miles below Samchui. Captain and several of crew wounded and Macdonald, a Missionary doctor, killed. His Majesty's Ship \"Moorhen\" has gone to the scene of the incident.",
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        "content_text": "# 547\n\nRet 9.50 au 14.7.88.\n\nBut it ah Consul General, Canton reports piracy on the West River. A steamer ran aground near Samchui.\n\n12 persons: Captain and several gentlemen wounded; Missionary and hardware clerk killed.\n\nH.M.S. \"Moorhen\" has gone to the scene of the incident.",
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        "content_text": ") ( \n\nIn any further communica- \n\ntion on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. \n\n7283 \n\nUnder-Secretary of State, \n\nForeign Office, \n\nLondon. \n\n[12] \n\nR \n\n0320 \n\nPRE O MAR \n\n192 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \n\nhis compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies \n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned papers. \n\nForeign Office, \n\nMarch 8 \n\n1906. \n\nReference to previous letter: \n\nName and Date. \n\nTel. from Shanghai \n\nDescription of Inclosure. \n\nSubject. \n\nSeizure of coal by \n\nSamshun Hongkong Viceroy at Canton \n\n20 \n\nFebruary 1906 \n\nTel. to Sir E. Satow \n\nNo.39 of 27 February Tel. from Sir E. Satow \n\nNo. 36, of 28 February.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]",
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        "content_text": "## Minute by Mr. G. W. Eves, C.R.A.\n\n423\n\nC.O. 38063\n19.00 08\n\n**Hon. Colonial Secretary,**\n\nAt the Canton end land is being bought rather quicker than formerly. So quick in fact that the Engineer-in-Chief told me he could hardly put on coolies fast enough. Four or five bridges have been started as well as four or five houses for the staff to live in.\n\nElsewhere the purchase of land is still very slow.\n\nMr. Grove hopes to open from Canton to Shek-lung in about 18 to 21 months but owing to the primitive methods of transport on the Samchun-Sheklung length he does not think he will be ready to open through for about 3 years.\n\nsd. G. W. Eves,\nC.R.E. 11.9.08.",
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        "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908",
        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[37715]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n24. NOV 00 [October 30.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nColonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received October 30.)\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and is directed by the Secretary of State to transmit, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, with reference to the letter from the Foreign Department of the 22nd instant, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, with inclosures, on the subject of the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nDowning Street, October 29, 1908.\n\n(Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nGovernor Sir F. Lugard to the Earl of Crewe.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, September 14, 1908. IN your despatch of the 3rd ultimo your Lordship asked to be kept informed of progress on the Chinese section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. I alluded to this matter in my despatch of the 6th ultimo on the subject of the joint Working Agreement, and I have now the honour to inclose a copy of Minute by Mr. G. W. Eves, dated the 11th instant, giving later information.\n\n2. In this connection I may refer your Lordship to remarks made by Mr. P. H. King, Commissioner of Customs at Canton, on this subject in his Annual Trade Report for 1907, to the effect that, whether or not the line gets through to the Kowloon shore, China is safeguarded against loss in the fact that the East River traffic alone will be quite sufficient to secure commercial success, besides the possibility, by a branch extension from Weichow, of bringing Canton into direct communication with Swatow and the productive districts of Eastern Kwangtung. Unfortunately the British section has no such security, and depends for its success entirely upon through connection with Canton and the prolongation northwards to Hankow and Peking. I have little doubt that the construction of the line from Hankow to Canton will create a demand for access to a good port, and I much regret the delay which has taken place in the construction of that line.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. D. LUGARD.\n\nP.S.-I inclose copy of despatch, dated the 9th instant, addressed to Sir John Jordan, which has just been received from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nF. D. L.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMinute by Mr. G. W. Eves.\n\nAT the Canton end land is being bought rather quicker than formerly, so quick, in fact, that the Engineer-in-chief told me he could hardly put on coolies fast enough. Four or five bridges have been started, as well as four or five houses for the staff to live in.\n\nElsewhere the purchase of land is still very slow.\n\nMr. Grove hopes to open from Canton to Sheklung in about eighteen to twenty-one months, but, owing to the primitive methods of transport on the Samchun-Sheklung length, he does not think he will be ready to open through for about three years.\n\nSeptember 11, 1908.\n\n[1983 gg-1]\n\n(Signed) G. W. EVES, C.R.E.",
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        "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908",
        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n288\n\nC.O.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General For to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 40. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nCanton, September 9, 1908.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 31, Confidential, of the 25th July last, on the affairs of the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, I have the honour to report that Mr. Grove, the Engineer-in-chief, has now completed his estimate of the total cost of the line from Canton to the British frontier.\n\nMr. Grove is unable to furnish me with a copy of this estimate for your perusal, but suggests that the British and Chinese Corporation, to whom the statement has been forwarded, will doubtless send you a copy if requested to do so.\n\nMr. Grove has with much difficulty, and at a sacrifice of efficiency to economy in certain matters, succeeded in keeping his estimate within the allotted sum (£1,500,000.), leaving, however, no margin for unforeseen expenditure. As stated in my previous Report, the unexpectedly heavy expenditure which is being incurred in the purchase of land is chiefly responsible. Mr. Grove informs me that the purchase of land is now proceeding more satisfactorily, and he hopes by next spring to have secured all the land he requires. Considerable opposition to the railway is being shown in the Samchun district, adjoining the British frontier, where the inhabitants of one village have, after an acrimonious dispute with the railway's land officers, succeeded in inducing the Director-General in Peking to sanction a serious deviation in the line.\n\nMr. Grove estimates that the section between Canton and Hsintang (near Shelkung), some 30 miles long, will be open to traffic in December 1909, and the whole line in July 1911.\n\nThe line is divided, for construction purposes, into three sections, each under a District Engineer.\n\nThe first and third sections present few difficulties; the second section, which is considerably shorter than the others, will require a large amount of bridge work.\n\nWork is now proceeding on all three sections.\n\nMr. Grove does not consider that any good purpose will be served by commencing negotiations for a Working Agreement between the Chinese and British sections until portions of the line on both sides have been opened to traffic, and traffic departments have been organized. However, this is only his personal opinion, and he has asked me to assure the Governor of Hong Kong that, should his Excellency deem it advisable to start preliminary negotiations at this stage, he will co-operate in whatever way he can. He does not wish to take any active part in the negotiations himself, as he is afraid that, by so doing, he might compromise his position as Engineer-in-chief vis-à-vis the Chinese authorities.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) H. H. FOX.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[38032]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 2.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n42997\n\n24 NOV OC\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 2.)\n\n(No. 420. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 16, 1908.\n\nWHEN Mr. Hillier saw Mr. Liang Shih-yi, of the Board of Communications, on the 1st September, to discuss the draft Final Agreement mentioned at the close of my despatch No. 385 of the 1st September, he was requested to inform his principals that the Grand Council preferred the first of the two alternatives offered on the 29th August, that is, a loan at 95 and 5 per cent., and would probably refuse to conclude the transaction on the 93 basis. Mr. Liang gave expression to some personal disgust at being forced to break his word, but Mr. Hillier naturally insisted that he had been given the option \"firm,\" a fact which was in no way denied, and declined to acquiesce in its withdrawal in this manner. The matter was referred by him to London by telegraph.\n\nIt appears that, in the meantime, the French group had expressed to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation in London their readiness to take half of the whole seven millions at 93 if it were issued at once, but they were unable to co-operate in a loan at 95 for a reason peculiar to the French market. There is a French stamp duty of 2 per cent., as opposed to 10s. per cent. in England, and the difference of 1¼ per cent. left insufficient margin to the French on the 95 offer. As a matter of fact, Mr. Liang in discussion had admitted that the 93 scheme was more advantageous for China, and he could give no better reason for the withdrawal of the option than the wish of his superiors, whose names were not disclosed.\n\nWhile this difficulty was created on the Chinese side, Mr. Hillier's principals showed signs that they were not satisfied to issue a loan without stating the purposes for which the money was required, and especially that four millions of it were to go to the redemption of the existing Belgian indebtedness. Mr. Liang had shown himself stubborn on this point, alleging that the stipulation required might furnish a handle for future interference, and that the Chinese Government were resolved not to furnish the slightest pretext to foreign bondholders to meddle in the administration of the Pei-Han Railway.\n\nI saw my French colleague on the 6th September, gave him a Memorandum by Mr. Hillier to read, and explained the situation fully. He had himself seen Mr. Hillier the same morning, and had learnt from him how matters stood. I should mention that a pledge had been given by Mr. Hillier at the outset that there should be no official intervention of Legations in this matter, but Mr. Hillier did not think that this pledge could be construed to cover a \"breach of faith\" on Mr. Liang's part. On the other hand, it was possible that any attempt by the Legations to hold the Chinese Government to the 93 option might wreck the whole negotiations, and bring the Belgians again on the scene. M. Bapst was willing to let Messrs. Hillier and Casenave decide jointly whether or not they desired intervention, and, if they did, he thought a private representation to Yuan Shih-k'ai would be the best method of procedure. I gathered from him the impression that, in his view, the 95 proposal, which he characterized as a \"bold one,\" had been made and accepted by the British group without consulting the French.\n\nOn the 8th September M. Casenave received a telegram from the Banque de l'Indo-Chine at Paris stating that the price of 95 shut them out entirely from participation in the operation, and making a counter-suggestion of a loan repayable in thirty years at 5 per cent. for fifteen years and 4½ per cent. for the second fifteen years at the price of 94; but soon afterwards this was followed by another telegram instructing him to keep this suggestion in reserve, and to hold the Chinese Government to the 93 option. A telegram to the latter effect was also received by Mr. Hillier from London on the 9th September.\n\nI took advantage of a private visit from Mr. Tong Shao-yi on the 9th September to put the circumstances before him. I did not conceal my suspicions that the surprising withdrawal of the 93 option sprang from some doubtful manoeuvre of Chen Pi, the President of the Board of Communications, who is commonly reported to be in Belgian ...",
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        "content_text": "hope that it may be found possible to assure so I suggested that the grant withhold for one year only.\n\nMr Cox.\n\nJR 255.\n\nI take rather a different view. I think it is obvious that in any system of calculation \"indirect losses\" there is no conceivable method of assessing them. All that can be said is that there will be such losses,\n\nan argument for stretching doubtful points in favour of Hong Kong.\n\nMore than that we can scarcely do.\n\nThe main point for consideration, \"direct losses\".\n\nOn this point, I think there is need of clearer thinking.\n\nAfter all, the policy of H.M.G. has not destroyed wealth in Hong Kong (except of course that a certain amount of home traders). This, however, is not the point.\n\nThe Chinaman will have his money, it's just that it won't pass through the opium divans. The merchant cannot get it one way as Samchun got it before; they should get it another way.\n\nThe problem is to me that the devise meeting at which the surplus hitherto expended in the opium divans is to be recouped.\n\nTo the extent that the new taxes will represent the share which it previously got from the Chinaman's expenditure.\n\nIn other words, to devise such new taxes of the community will come from the same classes, in the same revenue, the fruits of which...\n\nTheoretically such taxes should exactly balance the loss from the old system. Practically, of course they won't, for (a) the Chinaman will have the money before but, owing to the new system, he will not spend it as he did heretofore, it will not filter through to the Government way of the opium farmer (largely diminished).\n\n(b) Taxes will cost something to collect, whereas the opium rents cost nothing.\n\n(c) It will be impossible for the Government to find, without a good deal of experimenting, the right taxes to levy.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "# \n554 \n\n.000,OVIX. \n\n## Capital.\n\n### Chinese Section.\n$13,815,000 \n\n### British Section.\n$9,020,000 \n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Gross Earnings | $1,246,000 |\n| Working Expenses | $373,800 |\n| Nett Earnings | $872,200 |\n\n$14,000 x 89 = $1,246,000 \n$20,671 x 20 = $423,756 (erroneous entry, not in table)\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Working Expenses | $89,800 x 89 = $7,982,200 (erroneous, actual: $373,800 for 89) |\n|  | $89,800 x 20 = $1,796,000 (erroneous entry, actual calculation not needed) |\n| Nett Earnings | $222,856 (erroneous, actual: not this figure) |\n\n## \n2.47% \n\n6. \nTherefore, given the rate of 90 cents for the third class fare from Canton to Shamchun, or 1 cent per mile, the rate for the third class fare from Samchun to Kowloon should be, say, 30.5 cents (1 cent x 207/140 x 20.5 miles).\n\n7. \nIn making the above deductions, however, it has been assumed that both lines have been constructed in the most economical manner, but it is a well-known fact that a short line is more expensive to build per mile than a long line, and the short line naturally cannot be expected to obtain as great financial benefits as the long line (other factors being equal). Taking this fact into consideration and also allowing for the possibility that the Chinese Section has been built more economically than the British Section (which the Chinese Section Administration maintains to be the case), it would appear that some reduction should be made in this amount of 30.5 cents for the British Section journey. I would suggest a reduction of 25 cents.\n\n8. \nWith these proportions established (viz.: 90 cents and 25 cents for the 3rd class fares of the full lengths of the Chinese and British Section respectively), the ratings for passengers and goods traffic for all distances can be readily proceeded with.\n\n(sd.) Chao Ching-hua, \nActing Managing Director, Canton Kowloon Railway, Imperial Chinese Section.",
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        "content_text": "## Appendix to Division of Fares\n\nIt may be claimed that no deductions should be made from the Capital Costs of the two Sections, though this view seems hardly fair, in view of Mr. Lindsey's statement that certain of the works undertaken on the British Section are not part of the Railway proper. If this view be taken, then the proportion of fares would be arrived at as follows:-\n\n|  | Chinese Section | British Section |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Capital Cost | $15,500,000 | $12,000,000 |\n| Average cost per mile | 174,157 | 585,365 |\n\nRatio of nett earnings per mile C.S. : B.S. :: $174,157 : $585,365.\n\n|  | C.S. | B.S. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Assumed nett earnings for total Mileage for one year | 4,200 x 89 |  |\n|  | £373,800 |  |\n|  | 4,200 x 585,365 / 174,157 |  |\n| Working Expenses | $9,800 x 89 | $9,800 x 20.5 |\n| Gross earnings | $1,246,000 | $490,278 |\n| Gross Earnings per mile per year | 1,246,000 / 89 miles = $14,000 | 490,278 / 20.5 miles = $23,916 |\n\nRatio of rates per mile C.S. : B.S. :: $14,000 : $23,916. Rates for 3rd class fare from Samchun to Kowloon should be 1 cent x 23,916 / 14,000 x 20 miles = 35 cents. Allow for deduction of 5 cents for reasons stated in paragraph 7 and the rate becomes 30 cents.\n\n**(Sd.) Chao Ching Hua,**\n**Acting Managing Director,**\n**Canton Kowloon Railway, Imperial Chinese Section**",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1911\n\n## THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.\n\n### THROUGH CONNECTION ESTABLISHED. FORMAL OPENING OF THE CHINESE SECTION.\n\nOn the invitation of the Directorate General of the Chinese Imperial Railways, a number of guests from Hongkong and Canton assembled at Samchun yesterday to participate in the opening ceremony of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. The occasion was a memorable one, for it marked the connection of Hongkong and Canton by rail, and incidentally saw a material advancement in the scheme which aims at linking East and West with rails of steel.\n\nUnfortunately, His Excellency the Viceroy of Canton and His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong were unable to attend the opening ceremony. But there were many prominent men present, both from the Chinese capital and Hongkong. For a few days prior to the date fixed for the opening of the line, rumours were rife that the revolutionaries intended to make their presence felt at the ceremony, and the visitor yesterday was inclined to place some credence in those rumours when he witnessed a large number of braves assembled in the vicinity where the function was to take place. The station at Samchun, which was festooned with greenery, was also guarded by armed men, who were drawn up a number of paces apart on either side. Along the side of a hillock which overlooked the shed in which the tiffin was held, another guard of soldiers was entrenched, while other braves were posted around the doors of the shed.\n\nThe train from Canton, with its gorgeously decorated engine, was the first to arrive at Samchun, and the arrivals from Canton were on the platform when the train from Hongkong drew up at the station. While greetings were being exchanged between Hongkong and Chinese officials and others, the following were observed to be among the number present: Hon. Mr. W. D. Barnes (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross, Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., His Honour Mr. Justice Gompertz, His Lordship Bishop Lander, Captain F. W. Lyons, Dr. Stedman, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., Mr. C. Clementi, Dr. J. W. Hartley, Messrs. E. D. C. Wolfe, H. W. Looker, A. H. Harris, M. H. Logan, E. S. Kadoorie, W. S. Bailey, S. Moore, Garibaldi, R. M. Dyer, H. Gilman, E. A. Stanton, A. Tigges, R. F. Matheson, A. Ellis, W. S. Brown, and W. E. L. Shenton, His Excellency Li Ching Feng, His Honour Chen Wang Cheng, His Honour C. H. Chao, Taotai Cheng Yung, His Excellency Lung Chien Chang, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Mr. Wei Yak, Messrs. Lau Chu Pak and son, Ng Hou Tsz, S. W. Tso, Chan Kai Ming, Fung Wa Chuen, Yeung Hee, Lau Tu Chung, Taung Yuet Kai, Kwok Yick Ting, Leang Lai Mun, Tao Fat Shao, Chau Siu K, Leung Pui Chi, Wong Tsze Loung, Lau Yau Chuo, Yung Yik Ting, Ngan Hung Po, and Captain Wu.\n\nThe arrival being just before the hour fixed for tiffin, adjournment was made to a large galvanized shed near the station where the lunch was laid out. The Chinese proved admirable hosts and soon had their guests seated. A novel feature of the tiffin, apart from the military atmosphere which surrounded it, was the attendance of a Chinese band which played foreign music with passable success. Sufficient time having been allowed for the repast, the band played a stanza of the British National Anthem, after which the toasts of the day were proposed and responded to.\n\nH.E. LI CHING FENG, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, in proposing \"Success to the Canton-Kowloon Railway,\" said: - I and my official colleague, the Taotai of Industry and Commerce, have had the honour to be deputed by His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwongs to represent him here to-day upon this auspicious occasion (His Excellency being prevented by other pressing official matters from attending in person). The connection and opening of the whole line of this, the Canton-Kowloon Railway, to-day, is an event which may be regarded as of extreme importance, establishing as it does a new facility of travel and transportation between the two friendly countries concerned. It is our fervent hope that this day will mark a new phase in the period of the commercial relations between our countrymen and their British friends, and that the advent of this railway will prove to be another link in the binding chain of friendship which has so long existed and tended to promote the welfare of our respective peoples and encourage the expansion of their trade. (Applause.) Our official and commercial circles alike are indebted to those gentlemen on both sections of the line who have so ably supervised the construction of this railway, and we should take this opportunity of expressing to them our hearty congratulation and thanks for the praiseworthy manner in which they have discharged their multifarious duties. May the life of this line henceforth be one of undisturbed harmony, and may the line itself tend, as is its object, to facilitate and expand the commercial and industrial relations at both its ends; and with that wish and in the name of His Excellency Tsang Ming Ki, Viceroy of the Kwongs, we have much pleasure in declaring this Railway connected and opened to public traffic this 13th day of the 8th moon in the 3rd year of Hsuan Tung, being the 4th day of October in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven. (Applause.)\n\nHon. Mr. BARNES, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, in reply, said: Your Excellencies and Gentlemen, - Of the four names down on the toast list to return thanks to the toast proposed, mine happens to be that of the...",
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        "content_text": "# \n279 were 35 person who is most representative of the Government and the people of Hongkong, and on their name I wish to offer your Excellencies very hearty thanks for the invitation extended to us to take part in what will doubtless be one of the leading events of the history of South China, and for the hospitality which has been extended to us\n\nThe toast of Success to the Canton-Kowloon Railway is really a toast of success to Anglo-Chinese co-operation for joint working to our mutual profit. You accepted our assistance in building the Chinese section of this line. You employed British engineers in it. And that section is part of the joint Canton-Kowloon line. The mere name shows that the working has been co-operative. We have not called our line the Kowloon-Lown line, and you have not called your line the Canton-Samchun line. It is one line-the Canton-Kowloon line-with two sections, one British and one Chinese. And as part of the co-operative working of that line we have been for some time discussing with you a working agreement for it. This agreement is now, except for formal confirmation, concluded.\n\nThere were difficulties to be met in several that agreement, and naturally the main one was on the division of profits. (Laughter.) We thought you had your views: we had ours. Consideration should be given to the great proportionate cost of our shorter length owing to our tunnels. You quoted your bridges. That matter is now concluded, and I don't think Mr. Chao, who conducted the negotiations with Mr. Clementi and Mr. Lindsey, is of opinion that we English are grasping or very greedy. We have a proverb that neighbours should be neighbourly, and I think it should be neighbourly, and will be found in this instance that we have acted up to our proverb.\n\nAnother matter required settling. We in Hongkong have a free port; you in China collect a material portion of your revenue from Customs duties. It was obviously desirable to make such arrangements as would not, on the one hand, hamper the working of passenger traffic on the line, and, on the other hand, endanger your revenue. We are very distrustful of anything like Customs in Hongkong. We are suspicious. And even the personality of our friend Mr. Harris was unable to remove those suspicions altogether, I think Mr. Harris will admit that we are perhaps watching him closely in seeing that he is not doing what he ought not to do, but we gave him every facility for protecting that great revenue which it is his duty to look after.\n\nWell, your Excellencies, we have taken these steps not only because we wished to be neighbourly, but also for a pecuniary reason. We have sunk a good deal of capital in our share of the line, and we want it to pay, and we can only get the maximum benefit from it with the heartiest co-operation between the two sections, the Chinese and British. That it will pay I personally have not the slightest doubt. I come from the Straits, the Malay Peninsula, and down there they have built 400 odd miles, and are still building, not, as here, through a country overflowing with industries and a thriving population, but in great part jungles interspersed with Malay villages, and the Malay, though he has many virtues, has never been accused of industry.\n\nWe have frequently put in lengths of line there, not with a view to immediate profits, but expecting that in the long distance they would pay. Time after time we found that immediately they were opened they paid handsomely; that people who had never travelled in their lives became enthusiastic travellers and that the revenue went up immediately. I have not the slightest doubt that will happen here also, and I believe the local traffic alone will pay all working expenses and a handsome sum towards the interest on the capital.\n\nThen there is the long distance traffic. This line is quite a small portion of a line that before long will be reaching until it joins the main line to Europe. I am a recent comer to Hongkong, but I expect to be passing Samchun with a ticket in my pocket to London, and a return ticket at that. (Applause) Apart from that very long distance traffic, there is the China traffic alone. This section will be part of a line running from Peking through all the populous provinces of China with their cities, towns and villages down to Hongkong, one of the great ocean ports of the world, and a port for the last 70 years through which the greater part of the trade of China has passed.\n\nThat such a line cannot pay handsomely is inconceivable. And I would remind your Excellencies that as much as you have used Hong-kong in the past I believe you will use it still more in the future. Every year ships are getting bigger and bigger, they want deeper and deeper water, more and more accommodation, and more and more facilities. A big port can meet the ocean traffic on those lines in a way no small port ever can, and I believe we shall still be doing very much business with Canton for many years to come.\n\nAnd, your Excellencies, I can assure you on behalf of the Government and merchants of Hongkong that nothing will be left undone to make that great port even more useful to you, and to maintain it in its position among the ocean ports of the world. (Applause.)\n\nI have said this Canton-Kowloon Railway is a monument to Anglo-Chinese co-operation, and I believe it will lead to still further co-operation. It will bring the Cantonese still closer in touch with the inhabitants of Hongkong, and I firmly believe the more we see of one another, the more we know of one another, the more ready we shall be to work with one another. (Applause.)\n\nYour Excellencies, it is the earnest wish of your British guests that any future enterprise of Anglo Chinese co-operation may begin under as happy auspices as has this Canton-Kowloon Railway. (Applause.)\n\n## \n\nHis Honour CHAO CHING Hua, Managing Director of the Imperial Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, said:-Your Excellencies and Gentlemen,-I desire no greater pleasure than to be able to express my gratitude to the officials, gentry and the staff of the railways of the two sections for the honour shown by them in attending this pleasurable and interesting function.\n\nThe opening of the first section of this railway, which took place within a lapse of 10 months, and to-day we are here witnessing the opening of the whole line and the connection of the two sections. This function, which is the last in connection with this railway, will mark the through opening and the connection of this railway with that of the British section, and principally it will mark the strengthening of the close friendship which is...",
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        "content_text": "# \nnow existing between the two great nations of China and England. The presence of His Excellency Li Ching Feng, the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, and of His Honour Chen Wang Chung, the Taotai of Industry, both of whom are representing His Excellency the Viceroy, and the presence of the Honourable Mr. Warren Barnes, the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, who is representing His Excellency the Governor, amongst us affords tangible proof of the unwavering interests of the two Governments both in this railway and in the friendship of the two nations. Therefore, in the name of the Directorate General of the Imperial Chinese Railways, I now formally convey a most hearty and sincere welcome to the officials, gentry, and guests here present. I may say that though this railway cannot be ranked among the long lines, still it has a strong bearing on the means of communication. Between Canton and Hongkong, you can now have a round journey in one day. In bygone days, whenever there was a typhoon, people hesitated travelling for fear of the blow. Now such hesitation is removed, as you can now travel to and fro whenever you wish. Asia and Europe will also be linked together, as when the Canton-Hankow line is completed and this railway connected with it, journeys from Hongkong to Europe will be greatly facilitated. I have no doubt you have thought of those advantages. On my part, I must say that though I am entrusted with my present important office, I am not well versed in matters regarding the construction of railways. It is therefore my desire to remember at this time the services of my predecessor in office, who showed great ability in dealing with and settling intricate matters, and it is also my desire to remember the valuable and sound directions of the High Authorities at Peking and in Canton, the assistance of the local authorities, the services rendered by the Chinese and Foreign Staffs of this railway, and especially the kindness I had from the Hongkong Government while negotiating the working agreement for the connection of these two sections, which agreement has been brought to a satisfactory conclusion through the liberality shown by that Government: all of which so largely contributed to the success which we are now enabled to record. Thanks are also due to our Engineer-in-Chief, Mr. Frank Grove, for the service he has rendered to the railway—services which are worthy of high praise. In conclusion, I sincerely hope that this railway will prosper and communications expand, and that the discrimination of nationalities will be non-existent. (Applause.)\n\n## \n\nMr. E. S. LINDSEY, General Manager of the British Section of the line, said: Your Excellency and Gentlemen,--After the two eminent speakers who have preceded me, there seems to be nothing left, except to express the thanks of the British Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway to your Excellency for the kind way you have proposed the toast, and to you, gentlemen, for the manner in which you have honoured the toast, \"Success to the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\" Mr. Barnes and Mr. Chuo have dealt with the general and economic aspects, and I would like to add a few words in the belief that, though \"repetitions,\" they are not necessarily \"tiresome ones,\" leaving it to my friend, Mr. Grove, to give the figures usual on such occasions, which go to show that the Railway has been constructed so economically that an early return on capital is not a difficult matter. It is just a year ago since the British Section of this Railway opened for traffic, and the fact that the result of the past year has greatly exceeded expectations may be taken as a happy augury for success in the future. If a line 22 miles in length, running from Kowloon to Lowu—nowhere in particular—and passing through a thickly populated district of the New Territory, can earn enough to almost pay its fair working expenses during the first year's operation, what possibilities must there lie before a line five times as long, connecting two such centres as Hongkong and Canton, and passing through a portion of a province whose average population exceeds 450 to the square mile? But the success of the Railway cannot depend alone on the possibilities of local traffic, and there are other sources of success, the most important of which is undoubtedly the connection of this Railway with Hankow. When I was in Peking last year, His Excellency Liang Shi Yi, then Director of Railways, who himself had just returned to the Capital from a tour through this very line, stated that the Canton-Kowloon railway could not be expected to pay until the connection with Hankow had been accomplished. The events of the past six months go to show how thorough was his conviction in this respect, and how great the importance which the Board of Post and Communications attaches to the connection. We may therefore rest assured that everything is now being done by the Imperial Post to bring about the happy result. The physical difficulties in the way of construction are great, however, and notably in that portion of the Yueh Han Railway which runs in the Kwong Tung Province, so that he would be a bold man who ventured to assert the possibility of travelling by rail from Kowloon to Calais in the very near future. Consequently, if the success of this Railway is to depend on the interchange of traffic, it will be as well to lose no time in connecting with the already built portion of the Yueh Han Railway, in order to initiate and establish the long hauls which are necessary to success in the carrying of goods traffic. I understand that the survey of this connecting link has been completed, and the land is now being acquired, so that I may take it for granted that before long, another sixty miles of open line will be added to the length of this Railway from Kowloon, and in the direction of Hankow. Another element of success, consideration for the public, lies in the hands of the Administrations of the Railway themselves. As you are aware, a working agreement has been concluded between the two Sections of the Railway, and now awaits the Imperial Edict. In this Agreement, a great deal has been left to the discretion of those on the spot, and both Governments have wisely recognised that if the two Sections are to be worked as separate undertakings, such a procedure is the only means of ensuring successful operation. The public may feel assured that although, on opening a new line, it is wise policy to restrict ambition in the matter of time-tables and fast running, it will not be very long before improvement takes place, and renders it possible to go from Canton to Hongkong in four hours, allowing the passenger time enough to transact business and return home on the same day. We also hope that before long, passengers by slow train will no longer be required to change carriages at Samchun. I can assure you, gentlemen, that the Administrations of the Railway fully recognise that, if the railway is to be a success, the convenience of the public must be their first consideration. And such being the case, I trust they will prove deserving of the kind wishes and sentiments which the toast has called forth, and for which, on behalf of the British Section, I again have the honour to thank you. (Applause.)\n\n## \n\nMr. FRANK GROVE, Engineer-in-Chief of the Chinese section, said: Your Excellencies, and Gentlemen,--There are probably few present... \n\n280",
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        "content_text": "## THE OPENING OF THE RAILWAY\n## OFFICIAL DINNER AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\n\nHis Excellency gave an official dinner at Government House on Wednesday night on the occasion of the opening of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the guests including: Mr. Li Chen, representing H.E. The Viceroy of Canton, Mr. Chao Ching Hus, Managing Director, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, Mr. Gompertz, Mr. Barnes, Mr. Chatham, D. Atkinson, Mr. Brewin, Captain Lyons, Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. Wei Yak, Mr. Rosa, Mr. Stabb, Mr. Robertson, Colonel Wrigley, Mr. Harris, Mr. Maze, Mr. Grove, Mr. Moore, Mr. Garibaldi, Mr. Hall, Mr. Logan, Mr. Lindsey, Mr. Lau Chu-pak, Mr. Ng Hin-ting, Mr. Fung Wa-chun, Mr. Leung Pai-chi, Mr. Chan Sin-ki, Mr. Chan Lok-chun, Mr. Lau Yam-tsun, and Mr. Ho Kom-tong.\n\nAfter the usual loyal toasts, **HIS EXCELLENCY** spoke as follows:-\n\nGentlemen, I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without asking you to pledge success to the Canton-Kowloon Railway. Many who are my guests this evening have enjoyed the privilege of attending the lunch which the Chinese Government gave at Samchun to-day in honour of the occasion, and you have heard many speeches, and drank to many toasts there, similar to that I am now proposing. I do not therefore intend to inflict a long speech upon you or to ask for a response, but I should greatly regret not to have an opportunity of myself wishing success to the railway, and of bearing testimony to the admirable work done by those who have been responsible for its construction and for all that has led up to the opening ceremony to-day.\n\nWe have here this evening many of those who have been engaged on the construction of each section, and you who have traversed the line from end to end can bear witness to the admirable way in which their task has been fulfilled, from the emplacement of the great girder spans across the river at Sheklung to the boring of the tunnel through the Kowloon hills. We have also present the gentlemen who have represented their respective Governments in the negotiations for Agreement for working the Railway - Mr. Chao, on behalf of the Chinese Government, and Messrs. Lindsey and Clementi on behalf of the Hongkong Government. I, who have been conversant with every single step in these negotiations, can testify as no-one else can to the ability with which both sides have presented their point of view, and the tolerance and courtesy with which they have debated the subject. The draft is now completed and awaits the concurrence of the Peking authorities which I trust may not be long delayed.\n\nThe spirit which has prompted both sides is that if the railway is to be a success it must be regarded as a business proposition in which both parties who have invested should obtain a fair return for their capital. This can only be achieved if it is recognised that we have a common interest in developing the line as a whole against outside competition. I offer on behalf of the Colony of Hongkong our hearty congratulations to Mr. Chao, the Director-General, and to Mr. Grove, the Managing Director, and to all the staff of the Chinese section on the completion of their great undertaking to-day, and I ask you to raise your glasses to the toast \"Success to the Kowloon-Canton Railway.\"\n\nMr. Li Chen, Mr. Chao, and Mr. Grove expressed their thanks.\n\n`CO 35489`\n`RECO`\n`REGE 3 NOV` \n284",
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        "content_text": "## Financial problems of new government are chief danger to public peace.\n\nThey have to fulfil so many promises to so many creditors.\n\nTu Tu has issued a proclamation inviting subscriptions to enable the new government to carry on. Their funds at present, as far as one can ascertain, are between $100,000 and $1,000,000. They have received a severe, albeit temporary, blow to revenue through burning of the land deeds in Treasurer's office.\n\nEngineer in chief of Chinese Canton-Kowloon Railway went to inspect line with or Chunɛ, delegate of new government. They were held up and turned back by an armed mob at Cheklung and their escort of 46 soldiers fired. Presumably they were creatures of the present government.\n\nMaritime Customs hoisted the new flag afloat. Commissioner explained that it was 'difficult to carry on routine work in obedience of any national emblem'.\n\nGeneral Lung makes overtures to H.M. Consul General with regard to his leaving Canton.\n\n### Tuesday, November 14th\n\nFighting at Lamchun, the railway station on the British frontier. British troops have been sent there from Hongkong.\n\nFriction between new model troops and Lu's men; occasional street fighting. Tu Tu wishes to disband the former, but on advice of Gulde, he calls them to Provincial Assembly and addresses them in flattering terms. Proclaims he has now sufficient troops. During past five days, he has supplied a constant stream of vagabonds from the country with arms.\n\nA delegate of new government sent down to Cheklung with $40,000 to placate the mob who opposed running of trains.\n\nGovernment funds running short. Scheme cursed by Guilds for raising $5,000,000 loan.\n\nFrench Consul has sent priest to visit Tu Tu and express hope, in rather humble way, that he will continue to afford protection.",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## A Railway Vote\n\n$475, on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway Special Expenditure, Switch Board, Lighting, etc.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--A telephone cable is being laid to Hunghom and the manager of the Railway recommends that the exchange at the locomotive shed be abolished and the store and quarters be connected direct with the exchange at Kowloon. He has gone into the cost and the Director of Public Works agrees that the proposal is a good one. $300 is included for a larger switchboard. At the same time, he recommends the laying of underground cable to the standards in Kowloon Station yard. The wire is in a very bad condition. The cost of that is $175, making up the estimate of $475.\n\nApproved.\n\n## P.W.D. Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\n$3,500, in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment, Other Charges, Transport and Travelling Expenses.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This sum is $1,160 less than the average expenditure of the last three years. In addition to this, charges for motor cars, hitherto paid by various votes, are now being charged to this one vote and there is considerable departmental extension.\n\nApproved.\n\n## A Typewriter\n\n$270, in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment, Special Expenditure, Typewriter.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--A typewriter is urgently required for the Land Survey Office.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Drawing Materials\n\n$3,500, in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment, Other Charges, Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This vote is $2,500, but some print linen to the value of $2,280 did not arrive in time to be paid for last year. There has been also an increase of staff in the Survey and Architectural Offices.\n\nApproved.\n\n## New Buoys\n\n$1,430, in aid of the vote Harbour Department, A-Harbour Office, Other Charges, Purchase of buoys and Moorings.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This is required to complete the purchase of six new buoys and moorings. The estimate was $89,000 but the entire cost is $90,130; the buoys include two A class and four B class.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Higher Costs\n\n$5,120, in aid of the following votes:-\n| Vote | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Medical Department, Other Charges: Lunatic Asylum: Provisions, etc. | $1,500.00 |\n| Victoria Hospital: Fuel and Light Provisions, etc. | $600.00 |\n| Government Laboratory: Apparatus, etc. | $1,000.00 |\n| Books and Journals | $20.00 |\n|  | $2,000.00 |\n| Total | $5,120.00 |\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This is due, as to the Lunatic Asylum, to a large increase of patients and the high cost of provisions; Victoria Hospital: the increased cost of milk and extras and installation of geysers. At the Government Laboratories the cost of apparatus was considerably more. The catalogues from which the estimates were made out were found to be out-of-date.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Railway Bridge at Samchun\n\n$900, in aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, Bridge No. 37.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--In connection with widening Bridge 37, near Shumchun, to facilitate shunting operations timbering was found necessary.\n\nApproved.\n\n## New Site for Queen's College\n\n$160,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (36) Compensation and Resumptions.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This item is for the purchase of Inland Lot 358, Caroline Hill the site of the future Queen's College.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds\n\n$500, in aid of the vote Botanical and Forestry Department, Other Charges, Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--The vote maintenance of gardens and grounds has been nearly exhausted. A supplementary vote of $500 is required for the remaining two months of the year. It is partly due to the re-laying of the tennis court at the Government Quarters at Taipo, $250, also turf laying, and removing black soil and disintegrated granite at Government House.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Electric Fans and Lights for C.S.O.\n\n$120 in aid of the vote Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature, Other Charges, Electric Fans and Light.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This is for the Colonial Secretary's Department.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Miscellaneous Works\n\n$10,862, in aid of various votes. The breakdown includes: the Hongkong Harbour approach lights $10,862, red warning signs $240, small works connected with the D.O. South $230, fire alarms Laichikok $550; motor garage, Taipo $1,500; approach road Samshui police station $400; fans, warder's quarters, Laichikok $700; removing and re-erecting boat house $260. There is an allowance for contingencies and small unapproved items amounting to $4,087.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN suggested a reduction by $3,000 and this was agreed to.\n\n## Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage\n\n$11,500, in aid of the following votes:-\n| Vote | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Works, Recurrent: Kowloon, Miscellaneous: (34) Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages | $8,500 |\n| New Territories, Miscellaneous: (45) Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages | $3,000 |\n| Total | $11,500 |\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--The vote is $10,000 which had already been before the Council, was $7,980.65. Since then the estimated cost of further damage incurred is $18,500 or $8,500 more than the estimate. On Public Works Recurrent, the expenditure to 29th July is $7,573. New Territories, the vote is $15,000 and the estimated cost of further damage is $18,000.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Miscellaneous Works in New Territories\n\n$9,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Miscellaneous, (86) Miscellaneous Works.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This vote has already been before members. The vote was $14,000 and the real reason that made the expenditure considerably higher than the sum now asked for.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Development in New Kowloon\n\n$50,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Communications, Roads, 77 (f) General Works.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This sum of $50,000 is arrived at as follows: The Department of Public Works forwarded for approval an additional programme of road work.",
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        "content_text": "## Imperial War Relief Fund Appeals to America\n\n154  \nOu & Tome 1920  \ncffent  \n15561/20  \n\nJoup. War Format  \ncalled on behalf of the \"Thanks Was Relief\" Fund\n\nI don't  \nnoe any objection in principle  \n39933/20  \nto  \nBritish Meristen  \nfotably during to pored  \nto ammetting Colon is that chair fromancier poition  \nvis..  \nQe affere  \nhout the  \nbeast omitted  \nSo the  \nfrinciful is  \n3539/21  \nmak dapuk shuel.  \nt, &c  \nomitted  \nDomy. Deft shoutd  \nARC  \nque Domo  \nCur  \n$51.1.\n\nI should off (bat he can affect denech, but (hand by, hould be careful wish to  \nsugges  \nthal  \n33978/20  \nthe has the samchon of HME In the requed  \nAt 25/1/u  \nfuite \n\nDrain  \nMir ES Harding  \nAfpeals for the \"Save the Children\" Theni (ford Weardale's)  \nhave been tainted the laws. Thermath this Dept.  \ndifferent witter  \nwitter and the managinuent  \nof the Frond is situated in London.\n\nthat in the cast  \nI should think The appeal will we mosh  \nappropriately for Pellen direct and that it is not for  \nThe This  \nSme  \n26/1/21  \nno to inference Sir B. Alston one way (See also muss, attached in t  \nImaps. Wir lebeth Fund appeals, which  \nwould seem to be an out about brew.)  \n\n## Reply\n\nJared & M. Fiddian  \n34833/20  \n3539/21  \n71228/20  \n67 27/1/201  \nb1954 |  \n121 080 37/4X4  \n66995/10  \n27.1.21  \n\n2.-  \ntelegraphed to she the Dons. excefet Canada.  \npublished in  \nAustralia beck  \nThe appeal was we do not linows what was the nature of the responce  \nIn New Zealand appanks for the I.W. R. Fash  \nThis is  \nand the W/Natives Tyfilers Fund have been in circulation  \nrespouse. sice Time but have brought forth athiluted to the lack of comorination between three  \nMerisations operating separately (the third being \"Save the Children Zum referred win  \nuite)  \n\nFurther cindance of this lack of coordination will be found in the unrest with the thing and thu  \nmisunderstandings which more there with regard to the allocation of the suns subscribed and the British, York. £ for ₤ addition  \nbut this point is cast immediately  \nsalevant.  \n\nde Vashrendtand general oprimis was  \nentirely adverse to  \nappeal being made.  \n\nLiberal contributions have leas made us  \nN. Zaland (£50.000 abready and muse  \ni  \nbeing mined) and  \n1  \nHi (+14.0  \n201  \nby 23 Tume and wire  \ncoming in)  \nfor the \"Save the Children\" Fund  \n\nAppeals have recently been sent on whalf  \nof L/N & trim and N 20. for the schef of typhuss  \n26/1/21",
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        "content_text": "# SPECIAL MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF CHINESE GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HELD ON MONDAY THE 10TH AUGUST, 1925.\n\n141\n\nThe Executive Committee of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of Hongkong, which represents all the various Chinese Mercantile interests of the Colony including 17 Chinese District Commercial Unions and 37 Trade Guilds, at a meeting on August 10th unanimously resolve as follows:-\n\n1. That in the opinion of this Chamber the present Strike is not a strike in the ordinary sense of the words, and is totally unconnected with industrialism, but is a movement engineered and fostered by Canton Bolshevic agitators by means of lying propaganda, intimidation, terrorism, actual violence to the person and even murder, with the avowed object of destroying the commercial life and bringing about the general economic ruin of Hongkong.\n\n2. That this object has already been partially attained in that this Colony is passing through a commercial and financial crisis unprecedented in magnitude and intensity, and that unless effective remedial measures are taken without further loss of time, such crisis will result in wholesale failures.\n\n3. That the law-abiding Chinese residents of this Colony view with alarm the unfriendly measures adopted by the Canton Government against Hongkong at the instigation of Bolshevic Russians, such as -\n| Measure | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Prohibiting the export of foodstuff to, and the landing of cargo from, Hongkong, and generally isolating the Colony by land and water. |\n| (b) | Preventing by force the return of strikers and others to Hongkong; |\n| (c) | Posting large numbers of armed men at the frontier at Samchun, which already resulted in the killing of 4 innocent women for attempting to |",
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        "content_text": "PEAK WATER.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nBy Saturday Peak residents should be assured of a full supply of water for a period of three to four hours a day, a \"China Mail\" representative who made enquiries this morning was informed. By that time it was expected that the new engine which was intact at the Pokfulam pumping house station would be connected up by piping underneath the boulder that has fallen.\n\nWhen it is possible to bring into operation another of the auxiliary engines which were being reassembled at the time of the disaster and several parts of which have been lost, then it may be possible to run a full service for eight hours during the day time.\n\nThis may be effected within a fortnight according to the time taken to replace the lost parts and connect up by means of pipe lines.\n\nThe greatest delay will be that in connection with bringing into operation the main engine of the Pumping station which has been greatly damaged. This has a capacity equal to the two others combined. The two dock engineers may be able to cast certain parts but in the words of an official approached this morning it will probably be \"months and months\" before this engine will be in service again. However, with the two auxiliary engines in operation the Peak will be assured of a regular daily supply, and it is on bringing these into service that the department is concentrating at present.\n\nAt present the Peak is restricted to the \"dribble\" which it is possible to get from the reservoirs which are cut off from the pumping station, and the Conduit Road level to the supply from a service reservoir into which a stream has been diverted. Within the next few days, however, the Conduit Road level will be assured of a better supply as the services of the Fire Brigade are to be available for pumping water up to this level.\n\nDifficult Task.\n\nThe task with which the water authorities are faced is one of considerable difficulty particularly in regard to the Eastern filter bed which has been damaged by the fall of a big boulder. Pipes have also been carried away which will entail considerable difficulty in replacing.\n\nCarrying pipes weighing a ton each up the hill has been a difficult task. In certain cases staging has had to be erected.\n\nWith regard to the lower level supply the work in connection with necessary repairs and clearances is progressing and it is expected that the next few days will see a return to normal.\n\nPage 363\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nPEAKITE'S LETTER.\n\nJuly 21. Received too late for insertion yesterday, a reader of the \"China Mail\" sends the following letter from the Peak.\n\nIt is typical of the experiences of residents from topside—and very modest.\n\nThe Peak, Tuesday,\n\nIt is very seldom that Peak residents are put to any inconvenience but this time they have been badly hit after the recent storms.\n\nLights went out about 8 at night when one could hardly see one's hand but fortunately it was only for a short time.\n\nRain was pouring down and some found that the chair shelter's telephone was out of order.\n\nI sent a coolie down to get chairs at the tram station only to find no cars running and chairs would be soaked through.\n\nIn spite of all weathers, the Dairy Farm milkman turns up at his appointed hour. He is a very old servant of the company and serves us faithfully. He gladdens many a mother's heart when bad weather is about.\n\nI arrived at the office soaked through, and had to remain so until dry clothes could be got.\n\nThe next drawback was the water shut off. This caught me napping and until the papers appeared in the evening they did not know how badly they were placed.\n\nIt was a great relief to get a telephone message last night to say that water would be turned on for one hour daily.\n\nFLOOD THIEVES.\n\nShops from two shops in the main Thoroughfare of Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese locality in the western district, were carried away by the torrent of rain water on Monday.\n\nSuch was the flow of water, mud, rocks and debris from the hillside near No. 3 pumping station, that Queen's Road West was under several feet of water. Goods from exposed shops were swept away and two safes were embedded in the slime.\n\nWhen the \"current\" was high, a number of men are alleged to have salved one safe and made off with it.\n\nThey are accused of having pried it open. The report goes that they were arrested by detectives from No. 7 station when in the very act of dividing the contents.\n\nHousewives sent to the Dairy Farm, Wiseman's and Lane, Crawford's, only to find that there was nothing to be had.\n\nSome were expecting to do business at about 2 pm, but nothing was to be had all day.\n\nPhotos by Ice Fong.\n\nThis is a scene outside a Government market at Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese quarter in the western part of the town. It is at the foot of the nullah below the pumping station. The rocks and rubble unloosened by the boulder have been swept down the nullah and accumulated in a pile, having \"jumped\" a high wall, on to the street.\n\n[No. 2998—July 22, 1926.]\n\nFREAK ARMOUR.\n\nAn ingenious device, as yet unheard of in Hongkong, has been adopted by up-country shipping, reported below:\n\n[From Our Own Correspondent.]\n\nPakkao, Kongmoon, July 17. The \"Tung Wo\" towboat has installed a set of machinery, comprising a system of iron netting which completely covers the ship and is charged with electricity. This is to safeguard against piratical attacks.\n\nAnother part of the defence consists of a powerful new searchlight on the towboat's bow.\n\nThe \"Tung Wo\" plies between Canton and Kongyick.\n\nA day after the \"Tung Wo's\" freak armour had been put on, pirates showed their utter contempt for such measures by successfully attacking the Shekki-Kongmoon towboat, when off Kongmei. The boat, all the cargo and passengers were taken away.\n\nNew Aircraft Carrier.\n\nOn July 14, we heard that Kwong Hoi had fallen into bandits' hands.\n\nMembers of the Kongmoon Red Cross who were attached to the punitive expedition lost all their effects, escaping with their lives only in the nick of time when the outlaws launched their offensive.\n\nAn armoured ship, as big as the ordinary Hongkong river steamboat, named the \"Chee Yau\" (meaning Liberty or Freedom) is acting as aircraft carrier for the Canton Government.\n\nIt arrived here on July 14 with an aeroplane from Canton, to be sent to Kwong Hoi to fight against bandits. The \"Chee Yau\" left the same day for Canton.\n\nGeneral Notes.\n\nH.M.S. \"Cicala\" arrived here on July 15. (This gunboat left and was at Macao on July 18.)\n\nOn July 14, the Customs launch \"Foo Moon\" arrived here with Col. F. Hayley Bell, Commissioner of Customs at Canton, and left with the Colonel on July 16.\n\nThe Sanwui magistrate has been ordered to provide 800 coolies for transport work with the Northern Expedition. The Tung Tak guild offered 400 volunteers.\n\nTelephone employees at Kongmoon are striking for higher pay. The service is being maintained and it is hoped that mediation will succeed.\n\nThe river flood has gone down gradually. On July 17, the sounding outside the Customs House was 9 feet 7 inches.\n\nNo. 2998—July 22, 1926.\n\nA MEDICINE DEAL.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nA curious dispute concerning a deal in medicines by the Yeung Yui Chung Medicine Depot of 201 Queen's Road Central, a firm having considerable interests throughout China and the Malay States, came before Mr. Justice Wood in the Summary Court this morning.\n\nThe above firm claimed for $299.16 for goods supplied to the Sui Cheong firm, of 41 Wing Lok Street.\n\nMr. Leo d'Almada represented the plaintiff firm and Mr. E. S. C. Brooks the defendant firm.\n\nMr. d'Almada explained that the plaintiffs had purchased the goodwill of the business from Yueng Wai-cheung, the former owner, for $3,000. There were certain subsidiary arrangements, one of which was that the purchasers were to provide Yueng with an annuity of $1,200, that they should have the right to use the figuration of Yueng's father (the founder of the business) on their trade labels, etc., that the Sui Cheong firm, defendants, should have certain concessions in dealings and that a debt of $1,000 owed by Yueng to the Sui Cheong should be paid by purchasers.\n\nThe terms under which the Sui Cheong was to obtain goods were that 45 per cent cash should be paid and 55 per cent discount allowed.\n\nPlaintiff went into the witness box and said that the agreement referred to by counsel had been drawn up in Mr. Hall Brutton's office.\n\nThe indebtedness of Yeung to the defendant firm had been met by the plaintiff firm. Goods had been supplied to the Sui Cheong firm on June 12 in accordance with order and payment was asked for by the foreman.\n\nHe was told that payment could not be made then but if he left the goods payment would be made later.\n\nThe bill submitted by the foreman was endorsed but on his return, the endorsement was erased by another representative of the Sui Cheong and the foreman was told that they had come to an arrangement with Yueng, whom they regarded as a partner of the firm, whereby they received 60 per cent discount.\n\nThe plaintiff denied that the chop on the receipt in question was the chop of the Yeung Yui Chung firm or that Yueng was a partner or had any authority to conduct transactions for the firm.\n\nHis Honour remarked that the whole point seemed to be as to whether Yueng was still a partner.\n\nYueng Wai-cheung gave evidence and deposed to being interested in the firm to the extent of $3,000 which had not been paid in full.\n\nA witness was called by the defendants who said that he was salesman and accountant of the Sui Cheong firm.\n\nHe understood he was a partner.\n\nMr. Brooks, in cross-examination of the plaintiff, asked him if it was not a fact that the purchase money was to be $6,000 and that only $3,000 of this had been paid.\n\nThis plaintiff denied.\n\nHe had then come to an arrangement with the plaintiff firm whereby he is to resume his interest in the business.\n\nHis Honour, after hearing further evidence, decided that there was no evidence as to Yeung being a partner and found for the plaintiffs with costs.\n\nPhoto by Ying Ming.\n\nHere is further evidence of the violence with which the death-dealing boulder charged down on the pumping station.\n\nThis is a nullah, by the public mortuary, all in confusion because of the debris which the landslide sent down.\n\nThe nullah leads from below the reservoir section to West Point.\n\nPhoto by A. Pong.\n\nOUR MAN SEIZED.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nA rumour is current in town that six Hongkong policemen have been \"captured\" by Canton strike pickets, together with a motor-boat, on the Samchun River.\n\nTwo of the six prisoners are members of the British section of the Force, viz., Lance-Sergeant Ryan and Lance-Sergeant Hughes, both attached to Lok-ma-chau station.\n\nThe other four were Chinese seamen, of the Water Police.\n\nThe motor-boat is also under the Water Police and is used regularly for patrolling the Samchun River.\n\nNo other information could be obtained, not even from people who had crossed the frontier and come in to Hongkong on the Kowloon-Canton Railway British section.\n\nIt is only known definitely that the men and launch were taken away by armed pickets.\n\nLok-ma-chau is the station that overlooks the frontier.\n\nBetween the New Territories and the Chinese district of Po On is the Samchun River, which is crossed by the steel bridge on which the railway runs.\n\nSamchun market is on the Chinese side of the border.\n\nA camp of strike pickets has been established there for a year.\n\nObviously some of their number met the Hongkong police launch, out on patrol on the river, and took them into custody.\n\nLater.\n\nThe \"capture\" was due entirely to the Police motor-boat running aground, on the Samchun River, during the flood.\n\nBoth the sergeants had gone ashore when the pickets took them into custody.\n\nThe boat was taken further up the River, and then into Chinese territory.\n\nA fairly strong detachment of infantry from the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, has been sent out to the frontier to recover the motor-boat and the captives.\n\nThe Peak Tram, at the Kennedy Road Bridge. On the left, the \"overhead track can be seen. The confusion in the middle and to the left shows why the delay is necessary.\n\nPage 364",
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        "title": "CO129-544-14 Proposed public park in Kowloon- question of Chinese jurisdiction in city area 9-8-1933 - 9-8-1933",
        "content_text": "# \n## Mr. Bax-Ironside to Yamen Despatch No. 54 \n26/6/99.\n\n## Yamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Despatch No. 45 of 1/7/99.\n\n## Yamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Despatch No. 57 of 1/10/99.\n\n## Mr. Bax-Ironside to Yamen Despatch No. 73 of 6/11/99.\n\nHis Majesty's Government to allow the resumption of Chinese authority within the walls of that city\". (The question of Samchun was reserved for future consideration).\n\nOn the 26th June, His Majesty's Chargé presented to the Yamen a claim for $150,000 as compensation for expenditure incurred in consequence of Chinese opposition to the occupation of the Kowloon extension. This claim was rebutted by the Yamen, who denied that there had been any opposition, the disturbances being due to the natural alarm of the common people when British troops were sent to take up their quarters prior to the handing over of the territory.\n\nAt interviews on the 27th June and the 6th July, the Yamen was informed that His Majesty's Government would consent to the withdrawal of troops from Samchun provided that certain other matters (e.g., the Fleming murder, etc.) were satisfactorily settled. On the 1st October, the Yamen informed His Majesty's Chargé that these matters had been satisfactorily settled, requested the withdrawal of troops from Samchun accordingly, and reiterated the demand for the restoration of jurisdiction in Kowloon City. On November 6th, His Majesty's Chargé replied stating that the Governor of Hongkong had been instructed to withdraw the British troops from Samchun within the boundary previously delimitated and referring to the Note addressed by the Marquess of Salisbury to the Chinese Minister in London on the 30th May, in which \"the reasons why His Majesty's Government cannot allow the resumption by Chinese authorities of jurisdiction in Kowloon City\" were set forth. His Majesty's Chargé stated that \"a copy of this Note was doubtless forwarded to the Yamen\".",
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        "content_text": "**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]**\n\nFrom **CHINA**.\n\nTelegram (en clair) from Mr. Blunt (Canton)\n\n252\n\n18th December, 1937.\n\nD.\n\nh/T 19th December, 1937.\n\nR. 7.30 p.m. 19th December, 1937.\n\nNo. 74.\n\n35\n\nAddressed to Peking No. 156 of December 18th.\n\nMy telegram No. 155.\n\nFurther air raids on December 15th, 17th and 18th. Canton Kowloon and Canton-Hankow Railways bombed on each occasion but damage not extensive. Canton bombed for the first time on December 17th. Samshui Railway and Jinho aerodrome at Canton bombed again on December 17th. Twenty-two aeroplanes appeared over Samshun this morning to bomb Canton-Kowloon Railway. Extent of damage not yet known.\n\nPeking please pass to Foreign Office.\n\nRepeated to British Embassy at Shanghai No. 141, Foreign Office No. 74, Governor Hongkong No. 78, General Officer Commanding Hongkong No. 35, Commander-in-Chief No. 64, Military Attaché Shanghai No. 38.",
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        "content_text": "For 120 3\n\n55838/24/49.5.\n\n1. F.O\n\nF. 984/42/10\n\n(Japanese reference to\n\nre\n\nrelling\n\nstack\n\nterretary\n\nPara (1)\n\n8\n\nto Chinese section of Railway deposited in H..\n\nthis letter answers the question\n\nraised in para. (4) of (66) •\n\non\n\nthe -138 file.\n\nThe Japanese have no\n\nlegal case\n\nbut seem\n\nto be in a fairly good bargaining position.\n\n? Concur in the draft F.O. tel. on the\n\nsubject of the reopening of the railway,\n\n& ask that\n\ninstructions to the\n\nConsul, Canton\n\nmay\n\nbe repeated\n\n3\n\n39.\n\n2. to F.O.\n\n3. F.O\n\nto Hong Kong.\n\nA.N. Galsworthy\n\n15/2\n\nH.R. Lowell\n\nI annex\n\nF. 819/42/10\n\nRailway.)\n\ntel: 74\n\n(Terms of Lukong desp 1827 +/ 21/12;\n\ninterests in\n\n(Japanese demands on\n\nterritory.)\n\n4.\n\nGov.\n\nBritish\n\n5.\n\nGov.\n\n(Full report\n\nsent\n\nJom.\n\n15.\n\n1572. Mace\n\nBritish\n\ntrains\n\ntel.75\n\nby G.O.C.\n\nto W.O.\n\n20\n\n16.2.39\n\n21.\n\nwell within\n\n39.\n\n21.\n\n2.\n\n39.\n\nP.T.O.",
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        "content_text": "No. 3\n\nThe note from the Ministers for Foreign Affairs to Sir R. Graigie had already been summarised & sent to the F.O. in the form of a tel., a copy of which is attached at (65) on the -/38 papers.\n\nNo. 4\n\nMr. Talbot rang me up about this. The F.O. think that Sir R. Graigie will already have lodged a protest on the strength of this tel. The F.O. intend waiting for a further tel. from the Gov. giving further information as to any casualties in the repryse camp, then instructing Sir R. Graigie to lodge a further protest.\n\n? Wait for a further tel.\n\nA.N. Galsworthy 21/2\n\nVery unlikely. They are scarce enough even at Victoria.\n\nMr. Talbot rang me again to ask whether we knew if there were any anti-aircraft guns in the neighbourhood of the attack, & if so why they did not open fire. After speaking with Mr. Cowell I told Mr. Talbot that we would be extremely surprised to learn that there were anti-aircraft guns near Sham Chun, but that the W.O. should know.\n\nA. N. Galsworthy 21/2\n\n \nth. hee to see on actum.\n\n \n\n is removed as per the instruction to output only HTML using  for paragraphs (and \n only if absolutely necessary). The text has been formatted into proper paragraphs, spelling errors corrected (e.g., \"Minists\" to \"Ministers\", \"Affaris\" to \"Affairs\", \"rel.\" to \"tel.\", \"shingth\" to \"strength\", \"repryse\" likely remains as is due to context uncertainty, \"fov.\" to \"Gov.\", \"feller\" to \"further\", \"wistructing\" to \"instructing\", \"Graig\" to \"Graigie\", \"axe\" removed as it seems out of context, \"anti-arcraft\" to \"anti-aircraft\", \"Ealswortly\" to \"Galsworthy\"), and spacing issues fixed. The original text's structure and content are preserved as much as possible, with minimal alteration. The file reference format is already correct or not present in a form that requires correction. Page numbering is not present in the provided snippet. The text is not translated, and no comments are left in the output.",
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        "content_text": "My preceding minute was written before No. (5) had been received. I have read it over to Mr. Talbot, who asked for a copy to be sent over to him. This has been done.\n\nThe F.O. are asking the W.O. for the report on the attack, a copy of which will presumably also be sent to the C.O.\n\n? Wait for this report.\n\nA. N. S[lowor]thy\n\n21/2\n\n#G[owell]\n\nJona\n\n21.2.\n\nImes.\n\nPage 6\n\n6. H.K. to W.O. 21/2\n\n7. F.O. F. 1701/150/10\n\n8. F.O.\n\n9. F.O.\n\n(tes of Lokys tel 165 of 21/2; preliminary protest.)\n\n(the c/ Canton tel 13 of 21/2\";\n\nPage 7\n\n( les c/ Canton tel 14 of 22/2 = Lakys tel 170\n\n(Misc)\n\nF. 7703/150/10\n\n8.1737/100/10 Japanese proposals.\n\n10. Gps (al.76 Reply to 8.\n\n11. Times, 22.2.39.\n\n22.2.39.\n\n22 2.39.\n\nof 22/2;\n\n22.2-\n\n29.\n\nThe incident began with nine Japanese bombing planes attacking Sham Chun from the south, i.e. crossing British territory. Six bombs were dropped on the Customs station. Two machines then attacked the British railway station 200 yards inside the frontier, dropping four bombs inside British territory.",
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        "content_text": "territory.\n\nCasualties from this bombing were one Sikh policeman and six Chinese refugees; number of wounded is not known.\n\nOne of these machines then circled again and machine-gunned the British railway station killing two Chinese. The other machine dived over the Lowu camp and attacked a stationary train one mile inside British territory, dropping two bombs one of which caused considerable damage to the train.\n\nThese attacks were unexcusable since the frontier at the Sham Chun River was clearly defined and the Japanese had already promised to note it on their maps.\n\nThe same day Col. Ishino in Hong Kong asked for an interview with Brigadier Grasett to express regret on behalf of the Japanese army for the incident. But since it was thought the Japanese might maintain that the incident was closed by this apology, Brigadier Grasett refused to see Col. Ishino, with the Governor's concurrence.\n\nBy this time Sir R. Craigie had made in Tokyo a preliminary protest. About the same time the Japanese Consul-General in Canton made to Mr. Blunt the astonishing and absurd statement that \"Japanese military headquarters feared a bomb had been dropped within British territory near Shan Chun and in the neighbourhood of a locomotive. If this should prove so, the Japanese military authorities desired to express deep regret at this error and a wish to pay compensation for any damage\". The Governor's reply to this suggestion is registered at (10).\n\nLater Mr. Okazaki telephoned to Mr. Blunt and put forward the proposals contained in (9).\n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "The Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs has asked to see Sir R. Craigie tomorrow morning probably to talk about this incident. I understand that the Foreign Office are sending a provisional telegram to Sir R. Craigie instructing him to say, should the Minister for Foreign Affairs broach the subject, something to the effect that he cannot believe that his Government would be content with a purely local settlement.\n\nA.N. Galsworth\n22.2.39\n\nMr Ronald telephoned to me that F.O. were sending an immediate telegram to Sir R. Craigie, roughly to the effect that H.M.G. could not accept a purely local settlement of this affair, and emphasising our protest. I gathered that F.O. thought that the terms of settlement in (9) might be regarded as acceptable, provided that they were expressed in a formal communication from the Japanese Government and did not merely form the subject of a local exchange of notes.\n\nI suggested that F.O. should also point out that on the occasion of the infringement of the boundary by Japanese troops the line of the boundary was clearly pointed out to them, and that there could be no excuse for the aviators being, at this date, ignorant of the actual boundary.\n\nNo action on our part is required at the moment.\n\n#QRowell\n\n23.2.",
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        "content_text": "You \n\n(Considers that staff and fail OL tel: 78 vechal statement to meet case is misrepresentation of affair \n\n13. GO.C., GO.C., H.K., 4873. + \n\n15. F.O. F. affair.) 23.2.39. by Jap Chief of B. B. C. broadcast 718/1696/10 sel comes with tokyo.) (tes of tel goo. tel:79 considers that expression of regret & offer of Compensation are adequate.) 22 2. 39. 23.2.39. \n\n(143) (12) (15) \n\nAt (9) the Japanese Consul-General in Canton telegraphed to Mr. Blunt the following proposals:- \n\n(1) Major General Tanaka should apologise verbally to Mr. Blunt for the incident. (2) The Japanese army would pay compensation for damage done. \n\n(3) Those responsible would be punished. (4) An assurance would be given that orders have been issued to prevent the recurrence of any such incident. \n\nThe Tokyo telegram No.171 recommends the acceptance of this settlement proposed by the Japanese army, but in his telegram No. 78 the Governor states that from Hong Kong's point of view he considers a verbal statement by Major General Tanaka to Mr. Blunt would entirely fail to meet the case. \n\nIn his subsequent telegram No. 79, however, the Governor expresses the opinion that an expression of regret and an offer of compensation are adequate this after he had seen Tokyo telegram No. 173. \n\nAt the same time",
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        "content_text": "(9)\n\n(14A)\n\n9\n\ntime the Governor cannot accept the Japanese version\n\nof the incident, which is clearly a gross\n\nunderstatement of what actually took place.\n\nAlthough\n\nthe Japanese military authorities in Canton had\n\npreviously offered the spontaneous assurance that\n\ndisciplinary action would be taken, Mr. Arita\n\nsubsequently said in his interview with Sir Robert\n\nCraigie that he could not give such an assurance\n\nwithout again consulting the military authorities,\n\nwhich he undertook to do at once. In any case the\n\nGovernor and the G.O.C. both agreed that this\n\nguarantee is not required. There thus seems to have\n\nbeen a slight modification in the Governor's attitude.\n\nAfter speaking with Mr. Cowell I submit\n\ndft. letter to the F.O. for consn.\n\nA.N. Gallworthy\n\nThe Japanese Government's formal note of\n\n23.2.39\n\nregret is probably all that we can expect in the\n\ncircumstances, and we can no doubt leave the\n\nquestion of compensation for local settlement.\n\n16. Lo F.O.\n\n#Lowell\n\n23\n\nпри\n\nTapper Jom.\n\nalma\n\n2372.\n\n24.\n\n2.39",
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        "title": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
        "content_text": "17. Press Cuttings\n\n18. F.O.\n\n19. F.O.\n\n20. F.O.\n\n21. F.O.\n\n22. (Texts of Tokyo reports.) press reports (Leo of Tokyo)\n\n23.2. F.1772/169/6/10 178 of 23/2; inaccuracy of F.1782/1696/10 tels 175, 176 & 177 of 23/2; tels/banton tel 15\n\n23. 39. 39. der.2.39 F.1082/1696/10 of 28/2. 244.2. 39. Tokyo. (two draft tels to)\n\nThe Japanese are puffed after all to an assurance that disciplinary action will be taken against those responsible for this outrage, after investigators have been made.\n\nI submit draft telegram.\n\nA. N. Galsworthy\n\n25/2\n\n22, to F.O. 21 and 28/2/39\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "23\n\nG.O.C., H.H., 4875.\n\n2. F.O. F.1779/1696/10 Lu (he refers to Lokys, 95 of 244/2; settlement.)\n\n25. You tel. 82 (Prepared to discuss compensation as convenient to Japanese military Authorities).\n\n25. 2. 39\n\n27.2. 39.\n\nAng gap in military Authorities.\n\n26. Fo 2012.) F. 1867/1696/10 (to c) Lokyo tel. 185/188 of 20/2.\n\n27. G.O.C., H.K., 4888.\n\n28. F.O. F. 1937/1696/10 (Lok) Canton tel. 18 of 27/2; compensation discussions with Major-General Tanaka.\n\n27.2.39.\n\n28.2. 1.39\n\nIn his tel. to Canton registered at (25) the For. states that H.K. is prepared to discuss compensation as soon as convenient to the Japanese military authorities. Mr. Blunt's reply is repeated at (28): Major-General Tanaka is now in H.K., where he will remain until the discussions regarding compensation are completed.\n\nNo action appears to be required for the moment; the F.O. will inform us of the outcome in due course.\n\nAnother point arises from Tokyo tel. No. 186, registered as (26c). Para 3 states that Sir R. Craigie expressed the hope to the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs that once an understanding had been reached on the subject of the 48...",
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        "content_text": "Los. notice of intended operations,\n\nthis would form\n\na s.o. communication\n\nfrom the taps. to Sir R. Craigie . M.\n\nDening (F.O.) spoke to me about this:\n\nhe said the F.O. consider it a\n\nmatter\n\nfor the Sov. to decide whether such\n\na communication is desirable.\n\nThe\n\nF.O. would like us to tel. in this\n\nsense to the for.\n\nI submit draft tel. common.\n\naccordingly.\n\nA. N. Galsworthy\n\n1/3\n\nIll. to go off. Sir H-Moore & see pp. after desp.\n\nPage 29\n\n30. Goo\n\nHong Kong Tel. 4.9. Ampt. com 1/3/39\n\ntel.85\n\nNotice of intended operations with Maj. Gen. Tanaka.\n\n2 3.\n\nWill discuss\n\n39\n\n31. you.\n\ntel. 86\n\n2. 3\n\n(Expression\n\nby Major\n\nTanaka of some\n\nand do\n\nregret.)\n\nMajor Gen. Tanaka is now in\n\nHK., & will discuss amongst other\n\nmatters the point about notice of intended operations (su 29).\n\n? Copies of (30) & (31) to F.O. (Mr. Dening) 4.\n\nTox Cowell\n\nA. N. Galsworthy\n\n2/3\n\nPage 30",
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        "content_text": "15\n\nOn the assumption at A I agree that we should\n\nproceed as proposed.\n\nBut it is clear that the damage to the train and buildings can hardly have been \"considerable\", quite apart from the value attached to human life, which in China is notoriously cheap.\n\n27.3.39.\n\n221 27/2/29\n\nWith reference to the proposal by Mr. Fee.\n\nThe government must be the judge.\n\n31/3\n\n42. To Ronald (EO.) w/c A1 - s/o at once 6.4.39\n\n43. to F.O. w/c. 40.\n\n4644-0\n\n* W.O\n\n45. F.O. L.F. 10 APR 139 24.3.39.\n\n46. F.O. (F.2808/1696/10 reference to despatch 54 of 11/3; conversation with Jap. ...)\n\nF. 3111/1696/10 reference to despatch 121 of 21/2; protest to Jap Minister for Foreign Affairs.)\n\n4.\n\nAccording to the conversation between M. Blunt & M. Okazaki reported in (45), the Japanese authorities have punished the pilots responsible & the Officer Commanding the Laps.\n\nHis Excellency in conversation with his Chief of Staff, merely put in a plea for leniency.\n\n14/4/39.\n\nNis Andrews\n\n15 when A. N. Salsworthy\n\n75/4",
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        "content_text": "No. 204 (34/72V(1)/39)\n\nHIS Majesty's Representative at Tokyo presents his compliments to The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit to him the under-mentioned document.\n\nBritish Embassy, Tokyo, 17th March, 1939\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n  \n    Name and Date\n    Description of Enclosure\n    Subject\n  \n  \n    Note No. 30 from Minister for Foreign Affairs dated 23/2/39\n    Note No. 43 to Minister for Foreign Affairs dated 25th February 1939\n    Bombing of train within the Hongkong Leased Territory\n  \n\nCopied to: Embassy Shanghai No. 120, Hongkong No. 20, Canton No. 5",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nTRANSLATION. No. 30.\n\nFrom Minister for Foreign Affairs.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's Note No. 41 of the 21st February regarding the incident in which bombs were dropped by Japanese aircraft on a train within the Hongkong Leased Territory on that day.\n\nI immediately referred the contents of Your Excellency's Note to the Imperial authorities on the spot with instructions to investigate the facts. According to their report, it is a fact that a disaster occurred in that aircraft of the Imperial forces while engaged in a bombing attack against defeated Chinese troops in the neighbourhood of Shumchun on the morning of the 21st February, dropped bombs by mistake within the Hongkong Leased Territory in close proximity to the Chinese border. I am informed that the Imperial military authorities on the spot have provisionally conveyed an expression of apology to the British Consul-General at Canton through the Imperial Consul-General there.\n\nThe Imperial Government hereby express their profound regret that such an incident should have occurred and I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that after a strict investigation the necessary disciplinary action will be taken against those who committed this serious mistake and that appropriate measures will be devised to prevent the recurrence of incidents of this kind. Furthermore, I intend to bring about a settlement through immediate negotiations between the British and Japanese authorities on the spot with regard to the payment of compensation for damages and other matters.\n\nI avail, et cetera.\n\nHis Excellency\n\n(Sgd) HACHIRO ARITA.\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs.\n\nSir Robert Craigie, K.C.M.G., C.B.,\n\n(L.S.)",
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        "content_text": "No. 43.\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY,\n\nTOKYO.\n\n25th February,\n\n19..\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's note No. 30 of the\n\n23rd February, in which you were good enough to\n\nexpress the profound regret of the Japanese\n\nGovernment for the incident in which bombs were\n\ndropped by Japanese aircraft within the Hongkong\n\nLeased Territory on February 21st, to offer com-\n\npensation for damages, and to assure me that\n\ndisciplinary measures will be taken against those\n\nat fault and steps taken to ensure that such an\n\nincident will not recur.\n\nUnder instructions from His Majesty's\n\nPrincipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs\n\nI am glad to inform Your Excellency that His\n\nMajesty's Government regard the incident as having\n\nbeen settled on these terms.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to\n\nrenew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest\n\nconsideration.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nMr. Hachiro Arita,\n\nHis Imperial Japanese Majesty's\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs.",
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        "content_text": "53838/41/39\n\n20\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\n13 May, 1939.\n\nMy dear Northcote,\n\nWith reference to your semi-official letter to Cowell of the 8th of March, on the subject of the settlement made with the Japanese Military Authorities for the Hong Kong bombing, this is just to assure you that the views expressed in your letter and the principle on which the Hong Kong Government acted in assessing the compensation to be demanded are matters on which we are in the fullest agreement with you.\n\nSIR GEOFFRY NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n9.8.g. Gent\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "(F3437/1696/10).\n\n(4)\n\nMy Dear Gent,\n\n4822\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.\n\n20th April, 1939.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAPR 24 1939\n\nWe concur in your proposal to tell the Governor of Hong Kong that you fully agree with the views he expressed in his letter to Cowell of the 8th March about the settlement reached with the Japanese over the bombing incident at Shamchun.\n\nE.J.\n\nG. E. J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F3763/1696/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London, S.W.1,\n\n47.\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\n\nForeign Office,\n\n25th April, 1937,\n\n26 APR:939\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n23\n\nC.O. REGI\n\nF.O. letter\n\nof\n\n23rd February, F1482\n\nF1482/1696/10 to\n\nMr\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\n(19) or unallowable\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\nFrom H.M. Representative\n\nBombing by Japanese within\n\nTokyo.\n\nNo. 204.\n\n17th March, 1939.\n\nHong Kong territory\n\nSimilar letter sent to W.O.\n\n14\n\n6130 18804\n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected \"ар\" to \"...\", assuming it was an OCR error and the word was not fully captured.\n2. Corrected \"or guloworthy\" to \"or unallowable\", assuming it was an OCR error and the correct word was \"unallowable\".\n3. Changed the formatting to HTML using `` tags for paragraphs.\n4. Made minor spacing adjustments to improve readability.\n5. Preserved the original content and page numbering lines as per the instructions. \n\nHowever, upon closer inspection, it appears that the original text was likely a scanned document with some OCR errors. I have corrected the errors to the best of my abilities based on the context and the rules provided.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo.\n\n73111 1696/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\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\n\nof the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n5 April 1939.\n\n5 APR 1939\n\nC.O. COPY\n\nReference to previous correspondence: (7)\n\nForeign Office letter of 21 February, 1939 (F71731/1696/10).\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\n24\n\nFrom H. M. Representative\n\nat Tokyo.\n\nNo. 121.\n\nBombing of railway near Anglo-\n\nChinese border.\n\nin British territory\n\n14\n\n21 February, 1939.\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nWar Office\n\n6130 18804",
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        "content_text": "25\n\nNo.\n\n121 (4/72V(1)/39)\n\nRepresentative of\n\nHIS Majesty's Government at Tokyo presents his compliments to The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit to him the under-mentioned documents.\n\nBritish Embassy, Tokyo.\n\n21st February, 1939.\n\nReference to previous correspondence: Tokyo tel: No.165 of 21st Feb.1939, (repeated to Embassy Shanghai as No.139, Hongkong as No.21, and Canton as No.7).\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\n  \n    Name and Date.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    Note to Minister for Foreign Affairs No.41 of 21st February, 1939.\n    Bombing of Railway in British Territory near Anglo-Chinese border.\n  \n\nCopied to: Hongkong No.13, Shanghai No.84",
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        "content_text": "42\n\n31\n\n6 April, 1939.\n\n8. 3. 59.\n\nDear Ronald,\n\nWith reference to our official letter of the 7th March forwarding a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the payment of compensation by the Japanese for the bombing in Hong Kong territory on the 21st February, I enclose a copy of a semi-official letter from the Governor explaining the attitude observed by the Colonial Government in connection with the assessment of the compensation.\n\nSubject to Foreign Office concurrence we propose to inform Northcote in reply that we fully agree with the views which he expresses and the principle on which the Hong Kong Government acted in assessing the compensation to be demanded.\n\nWe are just sending to the Foreign Office a copy of the official despatch mentioned in the last paragraph of the letter.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Signed) G. E. J. Gent\n\nN.B. RONALD, ESQ., C.M.G., C.V.O.",
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        "content_text": "Government House, \n\nMarch 8th, 1939. \n\nMy dear Cowell, \n\nI hope that the Powers That Be approve of the settlement which we made with the Japanese Military Authorities for the Shum Chun bombing. Locally, I know, the Chinese tend to think that we let the Japanese down too easily, and I have heard somewhat similar views expressed by Europeans. \n\nThe principle on which we acted was to exact the just amount without anything for moral damage or in the way of punishment. That seemed to me the only dignified course: I am sure that if we had asked for one hundred thousand dollars the Japanese would have paid without demur, so anxious were they to settle the matter on our terms: but I did not think it consistent with British prestige to open ourselves to an accusation of 'tizzy-snatching' in a matter such as this: moreover, I felt convinced that a strictly moderate demand for compensation would impress the Japanese more, and in the better way, than would have one for heavy damages. \n\nH. R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.",
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        "content_text": "36\n\n40.\n\nM. CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nCopied to: The General Officer Commanding the British Troops in China. B. E., Tokyo. No. 20. B.E., Shanghai. No. 19. Commodore for Commander-in-Chief, China Station. Consul-General, Canton. No. 19.\n\nEnclosure No.1. to F.O.\n\nEnclosure No.2.\n\nSir,\n\n21/3\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG, 8th March, 1939.\n\nMAR 1939\n\n35) I have the honour to refer to my telegram No.88 of 4th March, 1939, and to forward for your information the accompanying note of the proceedings at a meeting between representatives of this Government and the Japanese authorities to discuss the claim for compensation for losses sustained in the Lo Wu incident of 21st February, 1939.\n\n2. I trust that the decisions reached will have your approval. I am very grateful for the prompt assistance given to this Government by His Majesty's Government and His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador in Japan in this lamentable affair, which has now, in my view, been settled satisfactorily.\n\n3. I enclose also a copy of the report which the General Officer Commanding the British Troops in China will send to the War Office on this bombing incident.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, Governor.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P., &c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No.1.\n\n37\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nA meeting was held in the Council Chamber on 2nd March, 1939, at 3 p.m. to discuss the claim for compensation for losses sustained in the Lo Wu incident of 21st February, 1939.\n\n2.\n\nPresent: The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (Chairman)\n\nMajor General Tanaka and his A.D.C.\n\nThe Honourable the Commissioner of Police.\n\nColonel Neville, G.S.O. I, China Command.\n\nThe Manager of the Railway.\n\nCaptain Boxer, G.S.O. III, China Command.\n\nThe Consul for Japan, Hong Kong.\n\nThe Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary welcomed the Japanese representatives.\n\n3.\n\nColonel Neville stated the correct facts, as derived from competent accounts of military eye-witnesses, for the information of Major-General Tanaka and to correct versions of the facts which had come from Japanese sources. Colonel Neville especially emphasized that the bombing of the Chinese Maritime Customs Station could not be done without violation of British Territory.\n\n4.\n\nMajor-General Tanaka produced a sketch map which he said has been drawn up by the attacking unit to explain their operations. He explained that the officer commanding the attacking aeroplanes had received special instructions not to violate British Territory, that their maps were not as good as ours, and that the attackers confused the rivers at the boundary.\n\nThe General admitted, however, when pressed by Colonel Neville, that instructions to bomb the Chinese Maritime Customs Station had been given and",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No.2.\n\n39\n\nREPORT ON THE BOMBING OF BRITISH TERRITORY BY JAPANESE AEROPLANES ON 21st FEBRUARY, 1939.\n\n(Reference Map: SHAM CHUN River, 1/20,000.\n\nAt about 0945 hours on February 21st, 1939, nine Japanese aeroplanes, coming from the direction of West by North, bombed the village of SHAN CHUN (1483) in Chinese territory about 1500 yards North of the Shan Chun River, which forms the frontier between China and the New Territories.\n\nAfter bombing Sham Chun, the whole formation circled round and appeared to fly over the top of Crest Hill (1380) in British Territory. One flight of three then attacked the Chinese Customs Wireless Station. About ten bombs were dropped.\n\nThe attack was made from the South, and a glance at the map will show that it is not possible to attack this target from the South without flying over British territory.\n\nAnother flight then made an attack on the British Railway Station (1481) about 200 yards inside the frontier. This attack was made by two machines only, and approached the target from the South West; four bombs were dropped, two about 400 yards inside the frontier due West of the Railway Station between the railway and the river, and two on the railway about 200 yards South of the bridge. The first two fell in the mud and did no damage, the second two demolished a blockhouse and did considerable material damage to buildings and to rolling stock, besides killing 1 Sikh policeman and 7 Chinese. One of these two machines circled round again and opened machine-gun fire on to refugees going along the railway, killing as far as is known three Chinese. There can be no doubt of this machine-gun attack, not only does medical evidence show that three Chinese were killed and one wounded by bullets, but five empty cartridges were afterwards picked up.\n\nThe third machine of this flight detached itself when over Crest Hill and attacked a train standing on the railway",
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        "content_text": "2 \n\nat about Lo Wu Brickworks (1479) a mile inside British \n\nterritory. \n\n40 \n\nTwo separate attacks were made, one bomb being dropped each time: they both fell on the embankment and caused considerable damage to the train, though as far as can be ascertained there were no casualties. \n\nThe train was part of the normal daily service on the railway. \n\nThe aeroplanes in previous reports were said to be \"probably type 96\", but evidence obtained since indicates they were in fact reconnaissance planes \"type 97\". \n\nAll the attacks were made from a height of about 500 feet and it is estimated that the bombs used were of a weight of about 60 Kilos. The attacks were seen by His Excellency the Governor and by officers of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots who were in Lo Wu Camp at the time. \n\nAt the spot where the attacks were made the frontier is particularly clearly defined: it is crossed here by the only railway in this part of the country: the frontier itself is the River Shan Chun, which is wider than any other river in the neighbourhood and bends in a peculiar \"U\" shape where it is crossed by the railway, while the British Camp at Lo Wu could not have been mistaken for a Chinese Camp, and as the whole formation flew very near it, and some machines actually over it, the Japanese airmen must have seen it. \n\nThe total casualties on British Territory amounted to 1 Sikh policeman, 11 Chinese killed, and 4 Chinese wounded. \n\nOn 2nd March, 1939, General Tanaka, Chief of Staff to General Ando commanding the Japanese Army in South China, came to Hong Kong to arrange, amongst other things, for payment of claims arising out of the Japanese bombing. The usual courtesy calls were paid, and a full apology was made to the General Officer Commanding on behalf of General Ando. In the afternoon a Conference under the Chairmanship of the Colonial Secretary took place at 3 p.m. General Tanaka was accompanied by his Staff Officer, Colonel Ohira and by Mr. Oda, the acting \n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "- 3 -\n\nJapanese Consul-General.\n\nThe Conference began by Colonel Neville giving the British version of the bombing, and handing a short written account of it to General Tanaka.\n\nGeneral Tanaka did not dispute our statements, but said he would like to give the account he had from his own Squadron Leader.\n\nHe admitted that the orders for the Squadron had been for the main body to bomb Sham Chun and for one flight to bomb the Chinese Customs House.\n\nHe said that one flight mistook the river running from North to South for the frontier river and that they thought they were in Chinese territory.\n\nHe added that bombs had been dropped in British territory and that machine-guns had been used.\n\nThe Japanese had very different maps, and from the map which he produced there seems no reason to doubt his statement.\n\nColonel Neville pointed out that it was impossible for anyone to bomb a target situated in the position occupied by the Customs House without violating British territory.\n\nGeneral Tanaka admitted that this was so.\n\nThe Conference then discussed the question of compensation.\n\nThe Japanese seemed prepared to pay whatever we asked, provided it was perfectly clear that there would be no further claims for payment later.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary reassured them on this point and the compensation was fixed at $20,000.\n\nIt was evident from the Japanese attitude during the conference that they fully appreciated that they were in the wrong, and they seemed only too anxious to make amends and get the matter settled and done with.\n\nWhen saying goodbye General Tanaka asked that assurances should be given to General Grasett, that such a thing would never occur again.\n\nThey were not asked to give any written assurance, as it was thought that General Tanaka's word would be more likely to carry weight than any written document.\n\nHONG KONG. 6/3/1939.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER\n\nTELEGRAM.\n\n42\n\nFrom:\n\nG.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nTo\n\nThe War Office.\n\nSECRET.\n\nDesp.0033 6.3.39. Recd.1030 7.3.39.\n\n4902 Cipher 6/3.\n\nGeneral Tanaka accompanied by two staff officers arrived from Canton 2nd March and left morning of 6th. He conveyed full apologies on behalf of General Ando for bombing of British territory Hong Kong 21st February. There is no doubt that bombing much regretted by Japanese higher command and was an embarrassment to them.\n\nGeneral Tanaka exchanged formal call. He gave explicit verbal assurance no further violation of British territory would occur in future. Compensation of $20,000 asked for and accepted without question. Formal conference was held by C in C and informal discussion took place.\n\nAt none of these did anything of real interest emerge. Attitude of Japanese was correct and outwardly friendly throughout and it was evident that they were anxious to settle this incident as soon as possible and without argument.\n\nC.4.(Telegrams).\n\nCopies to:- S. of S.\n\nC.I.G.S.\n\nD.C.I.G.S.\n\nP.U.S.\n\nD.M.O. & I.\n\nD.D.M.O.\n\nD.D.M.I.\n\nM.0.1A. 2. 2A.\n\nM.I.2. 20.\n\nMr. Howe (F.0.).\n\nCarol (Admiralty).\n\nSqdn.Ldr. Pelly (Air Ministry). Mr.Gent (Colonial Office).",
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        "content_text": "43\n\n38.\n\nIn any further communication on this please quote No. 11964/1696/10 and address—not to any person by name, but to— \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 7 March, 1939.\n\nRECEIVED 8 MAR 1939\n\nReference to previous correspondence.\n\n  \n    Name and Date\n    Description of Enclosure\n    Subject\n  \n  \n    Telegram to H.M. Representative at Tokyo no.97. 27 February, 1939\n    \n    Bombing by Japanese within Hong Kong territory.\n  \n\nSimilar letter sent to W.O. A.M. Ad. 6130 17930 (4)\n\n14",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n44\n\nTO JAPAN.\n\nCode telegram to Sir R. Craigie.\n\n(Tokyo),\n\nForeign Office, 27th February, 1939.\n\nNo. 97. (R),\n\n2.45 p.m.\n\ntoday:\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nFollowing statement will be made in the House of Commons\n\nOn the 21st February a number of Japanese aeroplanes engaged in mopping up operations flew at a low altitude over the border of the British Leased Territory near Shamchun and dropped several bombs, killing one Sikh policeman and eight Chinese, and causing considerable damage to a train. Machine gun fire was also opened on the British railway station and two Chinese were killed. The total number of wounded is not at present known.\n\n2. On the same day His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton was informed by his Japanese colleague of the readiness of the Japanese military authorities to tender their apologies and make amends. Meanwhile His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo protested to the Japanese Government, who have now replied expressing their profound regret that such an incident should have occurred, and assuring the Ambassador that after a strict investigation they will take necessary steps to prevent any recurrence.",
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        "content_text": "45\n\nStrict investigation disciplinary action would be taken against those who committed this serious mistake and that appropriate measures would be devised to prevent the recurrence of incidents of this kind. The Japanese Government also indicated its intention to arrange through direct negotiations between the British and Japanese authorities on the spot for payment of compensation for damages and for other matters.\n\nUnder instructions from my Noble Friend Sir Robert Craigie has informed the Japanese Government that His Majesty's Government regard the incident as having been settled on these terms.\n\nRepeated to Shanghai. No. 158.",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nReceived via ATS on 4th March, 1939\n\nDated 4th March, 1939\n\n4 MAR 1939\n\nNo 88.\n\n46\n\n35\n\nAddressed to the Colonial Office No 88\n\nrepeated to Tokyo No 28 Shanghai No 38 Canton No 25.\n\nIncidents of 28th February.\n\nMy telegram No 86.\n\n(31)\n\nCompensation.\n\nOn 2nd March the Colonial Secretary and\n\nrepresentatives of Government Departments and military authorities conferred with the Japanese Consul and\n\nMajor General Tanaka\n\nregarding the terms of compensation.\n\nFull agreement was reached and a payment of\n\na claim not yet fully known up to a maximum of $20,000 was agreed\n\nto by the Japanese representatives. Payment of this\n\nsum has since been received.\n\nFuller report of the\n\ndiscussion at the meeting will follow by mail.",
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        "content_text": "34\n\nFrom: Military Attache Tokyo.\n\nDesp.\n\n2.3.39. Recd. 1000 2.3.39.\n\nTo\n\nG.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nRepeated The War Office.\n\n108 Code 2/3.\n\n47\n\nRepresentative General Staff visited me on February 28th to say how gratified they were that the unfortunate incident in which Army Air Service was involved had been satisfactorily settled. He went on to say reports from their military authorities in South China laid great stress on valuable help and co-operation given by Captain Boxer of General Staff, which had facilitated and expedited settlement to a large extent. He added this was another example of great benefit resulting from the presence of Liaison officers on both sides who knew each other's mentality and language.\n\nC.4. (Telegrams).\n\nCopies to:\n\nS. of S. C.I.G.S.\n\nD.C.I.G.S.\n\nP.U.S.\n\nD.M.O. & I.\n\nD.D.M.O.\n\nD.D.M.I.\n\nM.O.1A. 2. 2A.\n\nM.I.2. 20.\n\nMr. Howe (F.O.)\n\nCdr. Loly, (Admiralty).\n\nSqdn. Ldr. Pelly (Air Ministry).\n\nMr. Gent (Colonial Office).",
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        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER\n\nTELEGRAM.\n\n33\n\nSECRET.\n\nFrom: - G.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nTo :- The War Office.\n\n4892 Cipher 1/3.\n\nDesp.1330 1.3.39. Recd.1530 1.3.39.\n\nMajor General Tanaka Chief of Staff to Japanese Army\n\nin South China arrives this evening by military transport to\n\npay respects to Governor C.-in-C. and G.O.C. and to discuss\n\nquestion of indemnity for recent bombing.\n\nC.4. (Telegrams).\n\nCopies to:-\n\nS. of S.\n\nC.I.G.S.\n\nD.C.I.G.S.\n\nP.U.S.\n\nD.M.O. & I.\n\nD.D.M.O.\n\nD.D.M.I.\n\nM.0.1A. 2. 2A.\n\nM.I.2. 20.\n\nMr. Howe (F.0.).\n\nCar. Loly (Admiralty) Sqdn.Ldr.Pelly (Air Ministry). Mr. Gent (Colonial Office).\n\n48",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 2nd March, 1939. Received REGA 2nd March, 1939.\n\n22 MAR 1939\n\nNo.86.\n\nC. O.\n\n(30)\n\nCopy\n\nG F.O.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No. 86 repeated to No. 37 Canton No. 24 Tokyo No.27 Shanghai\n\nMy immediately preceding telegram. Major General Taneke called on me this morning and expressed General Ando's deep regret and apology for Shumchun incident. I replied that I was highly appreciative of General Ando's action in sending his Chief of Staff on this mission and was glad to know that the incident had been disposed of satisfactorily by the Governments concerned.\n\nDiscussion re compensation will take place with the Colonial Secretary this afternoon, tomorrow other points will be discussed between the Commander in Chief and the General Officer Commanding and the person named.\n\nG F.O.\n\n32\n\nCopy",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nRECEIVED\n\n*2 MAR 1939\n\nC. O. REGY\n\n30.\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 2nd March 1939. Received 4.52 a.m. 2nd March\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\nNo.85.\n\nYour telegram No.49 Major General TANAKA Chief of Staff of General ANDO Commanding the Japanese troops in South China is now here and will discuss this point amongst others tomorrow with the General Officer Commanding, I will telegraph subsequently if necessary,\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "53838/41/39.\n\n29\n\nTelegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nto the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nImportant,\n\n(Sent 10.0 p.m.. 1st March, 1939).\n\n51\n\nNo. 49.\n\nShumchun bombing incident.\n\nPlease\n\ntelegraph whether you have any observations on\n\nparagraph 3 of Tokyo telegram No. 186 repeated to you as No. 33 (notice of intended operations).",
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        "content_text": "(*2643-150) Wt. 16318-94 15,000 7/38 T.S. 695\n\n(*3600-150)\n\nWt. 38746-16 20,000\n\n1/39 TS. 695\n\nSov.\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Galsworthy 1/3\n\nMr. Cowell\n\nMr. A. J. Dawe.\n\nSir H. Moore.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\n53838/41/39\n\nAmended 30\n\n20152\n\nTyped & aut\n\n10 per 1/2/39\n\nImportant-\n\nC5.\n\nNo.46.9\n\nSchumchun bombing incident\n\nPlease telegraph whether you have any observations on whether it is considered desirable to make an official communication from His Majesty's Ambassador in Japan to the Japanese Minister regarding notice at 7.0. of intended operations, referred to in para. 3 of Tokyo tel. (sent in response to your request)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\n(26d) No. 186 repeated to you as No. 33. (notice of intended operations)\n\nfeer.\n\n \nHang-Kary",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F.1937/1696/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n“The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\n53\n\n28.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to the Under-Secretary of State for\n\nthe Colonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n28 February, 1937.\n\nC.O. letter\n\nReference to previous correspondence :\n\n53838/24/34 of 24 February, 1937.\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\n(16)\n\n  \n    Name and Date.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    Telegram from H.M.\n    Consul General at\n    Canton\n    no.\n    183\n    27 February, 1937.\n    Bombing by Japanese of railway within Hong Kong territory.\n  \n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nW.O.\n\n6130 17930 (4)\n\n14",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Blunt (Canton).\n\n27th February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\nBy wireless 27th February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n5.40 p.m. 27th February, 1939.\n\nNo. 18. (R).\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\n54\n\nら\n\n23 February 27th.\n\nAddressed to Governor Hongkong February 27th.\n\nYour telegram No. 22.\n\nMajor General Tanaka will be empowered to discuss compensation during his proposed courtesy visit which you approved on February 21st.\n\nHe proposes to arrive on March 1st to pay calls as already arranged in principle and to remain at Hongkong until discussions are completed.\n\nRepeated to Foreign Office, Embassy Offices Shanghai telegram 35, Tokyo No. 13, Hongkong please pass to Commander-in-Chief as my telegram 38 and General Officer Commanding Hongkong as my telegram 3.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER\n\nS BELEGRAM.\n\nDesp.2230 27.2.39. Recd.1200 28.2.39.\n\nFrom:-\n\nG.O.C. Hong Kong\n\nTo :-\n\nThe War Office.\n\n4888 Cipher 27/2.\n\n55\n\nHe came to my house in plain clothes. I received Colonel Ishino ostensibly (?regular officer) in (?Hong Kong) this morning. He expressed apologies from General Ando on recent bombing, as from one soldier to another and without prejudice or reference to conversations between London and Tokio.\n\nInterview took place in my house.\n\nAfter Ishino had expressed apologies I emphasised the importance of better arrangements to give us previous notice of operations contemplated in the frontier area.\n\nC. 4. (Telegrams).\n\nCopies to:- S. of S.\n\nC.I.G.S.\n\nD.C.I.G.S.\n\nP.U.S.\n\nD.M.O. & I.\n\nD.D.M.O.\n\nD.D.M.I.\n\nM.O.1A. 2. 2A.\n\nM.I.2. 20.\n\nMr. Howe (F.O.).\n\nCdr. Loly (Admiralty).\n\nSqdn. Ldr. Pelly (Air Ministry). Mr. Gent (Colonial Office).",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. \n\nF1867/169 \n\naddress-not to any person by name, but to- \n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1. \n\nD \n\n26.2.39 \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \n\ncompliments to the Under Secretary of State for \n\nthe Colonies \n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n\n27 February, 1939. \n\nReference to previous correspondence: \n\nF1867/16 \n\n(5171/16 \n\n(8177/1696/107 \n\n(244) \n\n  \n    Description of Enclosure.\n    Name and Date.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    Telegrams from \n    nos. 185, 186, 187, 188. \n    Bombing by Japanese within \n  \n  \n    H.M. Representative at Tokyo.\n    25 February.\n    Hong Kong territory.\n  \n\nSimilar letter sent to W.C. \n\n6130 17930 (4)\n\nPage 14",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\n57\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo).\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\nD. 6.30 p.m. 25th February, 1939.\n\nR. 11.30 a.m. 25th February, 1939.\n\nR\n\nNo. 185. (R).\n\n(24)\n\nYour telegram 95.\n\nHis\n\nI called on the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs this morning (Minister for Foreign Affairs being unable to see me before this afternoon) and carried out your instructions.\n\nExcellency did not appear to see great difficulty about the inclusion of assurances (c) and (d) in a supplementary paragraph to be added to the Japanese Government's note, but thought that insistence on assurance of 48 hours' notice of intended operations might create undesirable delay, since it would involve communication to the military authorities on the spot. I suggested that, if it were really impossible to include this in the proposed note, the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs should give me this assurance subsequently in a semi-official letter.\n\nThe Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs promised to take the whole matter up at once with the competent authorities and hoped to let me have his reply today.\n\nHe added that the Japanese military authorities had suggested sending representatives to Hongkong forthwith, to settle the matter referred to in the note, but that the Hongkong authorities had proposed to postpone the visit until particulars of the damage and details of the claims had been established.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 185; No. 157, Hongkong No. 32 and Canton No. 17.\n\nrepeated to Shanghai",
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        "content_text": "Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nFrom JAPAN,\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo),\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n11.10 p.m.\n\n25th February, 1939,\n\nR.\n\n5.15 p.m.\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\nNo. 186.\n\n(R).\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\nC\n\n58\n\n14/\n\n24/\n\nMy telegram No. 185.\n\nVice Minister for Foreign Affairs asked me to call this evening and handed to me a note, for text of which please see my immediately following telegram. This is in substitution for note quoted in my telegram No. 173 original of which I returned to His Excellency.\n\nYou will see that the new note contains assurances C. and D. referred to in your telegram No. 95, but not that relating to the forty-eight hours notice of intended operations. On this point the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs stated some doubt existed because according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs records, notice originally offered by local authorities was only twenty-four hours.\n\nHe felt sure however that British and Japanese local authorities would have no difficulty in reaching satisfactory understanding on this point.\n\nI expressed the hope that once such an understanding had been reached it would be recorded in the form of a semi-official communication to myself, should Your Lordship consider this desirable.\n\nI then handed to the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs note of which text is given in my telegram No. 188.",
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        "content_text": "59\n\n2.\n\nAs regards publicity, His Excellency agreed to my request that nothing should be said officially before Monday morning papers, so as to give time for arrangements to be made in London. On Monday the Japanese Government will state that settlement of incident has been reached as the result of exchange of notes between the two Governments. Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs quite understood you would wish to make a more detailed statement in Parliament but expressed the hope that this would be made as little controversial as possible so as not to mar effect of quick settlement.\n\nI should be grateful if I might be informed as much as possible in advance of terms of any statement you may propose to make or issue.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 186, repeated to Shanghai No. 158, Hongkong No. 33 and Canton No. 18.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\n60\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo)\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n11.15 p.m.\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\npto\n\n5.15 p.m.\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\nNo. 187.\n\n(R).\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\nMy telegram No. 173. Second note which is also dated February 23rd contains the following amendment to third paragraph of text given in my telegram under reference.\n\nAfter \"I have the honour to inform Your Excellency\" please insert \"that after a strict investigation the necessary disciplinary action will be taken against those who committed this serious mistake and that appropriate measures will be devised to prevent the recurrence of incidents of this kind. I intend\" etc., as in previous text.\n\nFurthermore\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 187, repeated to Shanghai No. 159, Hongkong No. 34 and Canton No. 19.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nFrom JAPAN,\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo),\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\n).\n\n11.20 p.m. 25th February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n5.15 p.m.\n\n25th February, 1939.\n\nNo. 188.\n\n(R).\n\nIMPORTANT,\n\n61\n\nA\n\nMy telegram No. 186.\n\nFollowing is text referred to in my immediately preceding telegram. Begins.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's note of February 23rd, in which you were good enough to express the profound regret of the Japanese Government for the incident in which bombs were dropped by Japanese aircraft within Hongkong leased territory on February 21st, to offer compensation for damages, and to assure me that disciplinary measures will be taken against those at fault and steps taken to ensure that such an incident will not recur.\n\nUnder instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs I am glad to inform Your Excellency that His Majesty's Government regard the incident as having been settled on these terms.\n\nEnds.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 188 of February 25th, repeated to Shanghai No. 160, Hongkong No. 35 (Hongkong please pass to Canton as my telegram No. 20).",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nCOPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n25\n\nRECEIVED\n\n27 FEB 1939\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 27th February 1939. Received 6.10 a.m. 27th February\n\n\"R\" Decode.\n\nAddressed to Canton telegram No.22 February 27th. Repeated to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.82 Tokyo telegram No.26 Shanghai telegram No.35. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs telegram No.7 to you. This Government is prepared to discuss compensation as soon as convenient to Japanese Military Authorities.\n\nDening",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL 63\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F1779\n\n1169610.\n\nAddress - not to any person by name,\n\nbut to -\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\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.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n25 February, 1939.\n\nReference to previous correspondence :\n\nForeign Office letter of 23 February, 1939 (01782/109610)\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nName and Date.\n\nTelegram to H.M.\n\nRepresentative at\n\nTokyo.\n\nno.95.\n\n24 February, 1939\n\nSubject.\n\nBombing by Japanese within Hong Kong territory.\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nW.O.\n\n6130 17930 (4)\n\n14",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n(F.1779/1696/10)\n\n# TO JAPAN\n\nCypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo)\n\nForeign Office\n\nNo. 95\n\n24th February, 1939\n\n4.50 p.m.\n\nIMPORTANT\n\nYour telegram No. 176 [of the 23rd February: Japanese aerial attack on Hongkong leased territories].\n\nI authorise you to accept settlement on the lines indicated, but as a matter of practical convenience and in order to have all the assurances in writing I suggest that Japanese reply should be consolidated in one document, covering (a) apologies offered in paragraph 3 of Note given in your telegram No. 173 [of the 23rd February: F.1747/1696/10], (b) compensation offered in same paragraph, (c) disciplinary measures referred to in Vice-Minister's message given in your telegram under reference, (d) assurances about non-repetition given verbally to you by Minister for Foreign Affairs as reported in your telegram No. 174 [of the 23rd February: F.748]. In this connexion Japanese Government may be prepared to repeat promise of forty-eight hours' notice of intended operations near frontier. This is not essential, but it should be included if possible.\n\nTo this Note you could reply that you are instructed by His Majesty's Government to regard the incident as having been settled on these terms.\n\nrepeated to Shanghai No. 151\n\nAddressed to Tokyo No. 95; Hongkong unnumbered and Canton No. 7.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER TELEGRAM.\n\n65\n\nSECRET.\n\nFrom:- G.O.C. Hong Kong\n\nTO\n\nThe War Office.\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\n4875 Cipher 23/2.\n\nDesp.2220 23.2.39. Recd.1045 24.2.39.\n\nWith regard to Japanese proposal apology and\n\n(?Settlement) bombing Hong Kong have advised Governor that a\n\nguarantee that those responsible for bombing will be punished is\n\nnot repeat not required. Prefer leaving disciplinary action\n\nrequired to Japanese commander concerned. We have invariably\n\nrefused similar demands from Japanese on the ground that we must\n\nourselves carry out investigation and decide suitable action.\n\nProbable senior Japanese Office will visit Hong Kong\n\nin near future. Will endeavour to make more satisfactory\n\narrangements precise information (?reach) (?us) in advance of\n\nJapanese operations in vicinity of frontier.\n\nC.4. (Telegrams).\n\nCopies to:- S. of S.\n\nC.I.G.S. D.C.I.G.S.\n\nP.U.S.\n\nD.M.0. & I.\n\nD.D.M.O.\n\nD.D.M.I.\n\nM.0.1A. 2. 2A.\n\nM.I.2. 20.\n\nD.P.R.\n\nMr. Howe (F.0.).\n\nCar. Loly (Admiralty).\n\nSqdn.Ldr.Pelly (Air Ministry). Mr. Gent (Colonial Office).",
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        "content_text": "53838/24/39.\n\n22\n\n66\n\n28 February, 1939.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary MacDonald to refer to Mr. Ronald's letter to Mr. Cowell of the 24th of February, enclosing a draft of a telegram authorising His Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo to accept the settlement of the Japanese aerial attack on the Hong-Kong Leased Territories on the lines indicated in the telegrams Nos. 173, 174, 175 and 176 from Sir R. Craigie to the Foreign Office and to confirm that Mr. MacDonald concurs in the terms of that telegram.\n\nI am,\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nH.R. Cowell",
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        "content_text": "Page 68\n\nAnad\n\n22,\n\nWith Sir H. Moni's approval, I have informed\n\nMr Ronald that we can\n\nconfirm by letter.\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nDear Cowell,\n\n84.\n\n21\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.,\n\n24th February, 1939.\n\nI enclose a draft of the telegram which\n\nwe propose to send to Craigie authorising him\n\nto accept the settlement of the Hong Kong\n\nbombing incident on the lines indicated in his\n\ntelegrams Nos. 173, 174, 175 and 176, copies of\n\nwhich I enclose herein for convenience of\n\nreference, together with copies of his telegram\n\nNo. 171 and Blunt's telegram to the Governor\n\nof Hong Kong No. 41.\n\nWe shall be very grateful if you will let\n\nus know at the earliest possible moment whether\n\nyou concur in the terms of this draft.\n\nH. R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nMalcolm Donald\n\nPage 69",
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        "content_text": "Registry No: F1779/1696/10\n\nN.B.R.\n\nDespatched FOREIGN OFFICE, 69 February, 1939. Draft.\n\nSir R. Craigie, Tokyo. Telegram. No. Cypher.\n\nYour telegram No. 176 [of the 23rd February: Japanese aerial attack on Hong Kong Leased Territories].\n\nI authorise you to accept settlement on the lines indicated, but as a matter of practical convenience and in order to have all the assurances in writing I suggest that Japanese reply should be consolidated in one document, covering (a) apologies offered in paragraph 3 of Note given in your telegram No. 173 [of the 23rd February: F1747/1696/10], (b) compensation offered in same paragraph (c) disciplinary measures referred to in Vice-Minister's message given in your telegram under reference, (d) assurances about non-repetition given verbally to you by Minister for Foreign Affairs as reported in your telegram No.174 [of the 23rd February: F748]. In this connexion, Japanese Government may be prepared...\n\nRepeat to Shanghai Hong Kong Canton.",
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        "content_text": "70\n\nto repeat promise of 48 hours' notice of\n\nintended operations near frontier. This is\n\nnot essential, but it should be included if\n\npossible.\n\nTo this Note you could reply that you are\n\ninstructed by His Majesty's Government to regard\n\nthe incident as having been settled on the said\n\nterms.\n\nAddressed to Tokyo No.\n\nRepeated to\n\nShanghai No.\n\nto Hong Kong No.\n\nto\n\nCanton No.\n\nNOTHING\n\nWRITTEN\n\nBE\n\nTO\n\nIN\n\nSIH.L\n\nMARGIN.\n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n71\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo).\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n7.15 p.m., 23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n1.30 p.m., 23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 176.\n\n(R).\n\n4\n\n→\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nMy telegram No. 174.\n\nVice Minister for Foreign Affairs informs me that Japanese Government now desire to give the following assurance in addition to those already given: \"Japanese army will take disciplinary measures against those who have committed major error, after thorough investigation of the facts.\"\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 176; repeated to Shanghai telegram No. 149, Hongkong No. 27 and Canton No. 14.",
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        "content_text": "72\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDecypher.\n\nFrom R. Craigie (Tokyo)\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n7.15 p.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n1.10 p.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 175.\n\n0000\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nPlease pass to Canton as my telegram No. 13. Governor of Hong Kong's telegram 78 to Secretary of State for Colonies.\n\nPoint A. We are doing what we can to get a correct statement of the facts published.\n\nPoint B. In an interview this morning I impressed the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the promise to give forty-eight hours notice had not been fulfilled, in connexion with my demand for punishment of those responsible.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 175 of 23rd February;\n\nNo. 26.\n\nrepeated to Shanghai No. 148, Hong Kong",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nFROM JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo)\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n1.00 p.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n9.30 a.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo.174(R)\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nVVVVVVVVV\n\nMy telegram No.172.\n\nWhen handing me the note the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that I might assure my Government that adequate measures would be taken to ensure that there would be no repetition of such an incident. He then read to me a telegram received from the Japanese military authorities in South China admitting the dropping of four bombs and machine-gunning, but maintaining that only one Japanese aeroplane had flown over British territory. Cause of the incident was stated to be that the airman had mistaken his direction and thought that he was bombing in Chinese territory north of the frontier instead of to the south as subsequently transpired.\n\nThe Minister for Foreign Affairs added that it was quite out of the question that any Japanese airman would purposely commit an act which would oblige his government to apologize to a foreign government. I replied that this might well be the case but that nevertheless the error was a very serious one, calculated to produce international complications and that I felt sure that you would require at least an assurance that disciplinary measures would be taken against the airmen responsible. Arita agreed as to the seriousness of the error but stated that he could not give this assurance without again consulting the military authorities, which he would do at once.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No.174; repeated to Shanghai No.147; Hongkong No.25; Canton 12:\n\n73",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n74\n\nFrom: JAPAN. Decode. Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo), February 23rd, 1939.\n\nDe 1.00 p.m. February 23rd, 1939. Re 9.30 a.m. February 23rd, 1939.\n\nNo. 175. (R). IMMEDIATE.\n\nMy immediately preceding telegram.\n\nFollowing is translation of Japanese note:\n\n\"Your Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's note No. 41 of February 21st regarding the incident in which bombs were dropped by Japanese aircraft on a train within Hongkong leased territory on that date.\n\nI immediately referred contents of Your Excellency's note to imperial authorities on the spot with instructions to investigate the facts. According to their report, it is a fact that a disaster occurred in that aircraft of Imperial forces, while engaged in a bombing attack against defeated Chinese troops in the neighbourhood of Shumchun the morning of February 21st, dropped bombs by mistake within Hongkong leased territory in close proximity to the Chinese border.\n\nI am informed that the Imperial military authorities on the spot have provisionally conveyed an expression of apology to British Consul-General at Canton through Imperial Consul-General there.\n\nThe Imperial Government hereby profess their profound regret that such an incident should have occurred and I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I intend to bring about a settlement through immediate negotiations between the British and Japanese authorities on the spot with regard to payment of compensation for damages and other matters.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 173; repeated to Shanghai No. 146, Hongkong No. 24 and Canton.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned\n\nto the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\n75\n\nFrom\n\nJAPAN.\n\nDecypher.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo),\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n12.10 p.m. 23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n5.45 p.m. 22nd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 171.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nCanton telegram No. 41 to Governor Hongkong.\n\nAlthough seriousness of incident would warrant apology from\n\nJapanese Government through diplomatic channels I venture to\n\nexpress the hope that His Majesty's Government will see their way\n\nto accept the settlement now proposed by Japanese army on\n\nfollowing grounds.\n\n(1) The peculiar relations existing between the Government at\n\nTokyo and army in China.\n\n(2) Adequacy of reparations offered spontaneously by\n\nJapanese army.\n\n(3) The fact that any undue loss of face by Japanese Government\n\nover this incident would in the peculiar circumstances of today\n\nbe conducive to further incidents rather than the reverse.\n\nI anticipate that at tomorrow morning's interview Minister\n\nfor Foreign Affairs will propose settlement on these lines.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 171, repeated to Shanghai\n\nNo. 144, Governor Hongkong No. 22 and Canton No. 9.",
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        "content_text": "人L\n\n76\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\nFrom CHINA.\n\nDecypher.\n\nMr. Blunt (Canton),\n\n22nd February, 1939.\n\nD. Admiralty W/T\n\nR.\n\n1.00 p.m.\n\n22nd February, 1939.\n\n22nd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nAddressed Governor Hongkong No. 41 February 22nd.\n\nYour telegram No. 75 to Secretary of State for the Colonies. My Japanese colleague has just telephoned to me following proposals:\n\n(1) that Major-General Tanaka, Chief of the Staff, shall call on me to apologise on behalf of Army Headquarters for the occurrence.\n\n(2) that Japanese army is prepared to pay full compensation for all damage done.\n\n(3) that Japanese army is prepared to punish those responsible.\n\n(4) that Japanese army will give an assurance that orders have been now given to all troops which will ensure no possible repetition of occurrence.\n\n2. I replied that it was not within my power to discuss matter officially but that I would pass these proposals immediately to higher authorities concerned.\n\nRepeated British Embassy Shanghai No. 30, Foreign Office No. 14 and Tokyo No. 12.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\n1696/10\n\nNo. F1082/1696\n\nan address-not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nD\n\nCC.: 20.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to the Under-Secretary of State for\n\nthe Colonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n24 February, 1939.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n\"Foreign Office letter of 22 February, 1939 (11731/1696/10.)\n\nName and Date. Description of Enclosure.\n\n(a)\n\nSubject.\n\n  \n    77\n    Telegram from H.M.\n    23 February, 1939.\n    Bombing of Hong Kong territory by Japanese.\n  \n  \n    \n    Consul-General at\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Canton.\n    15.\n    14\n  \n  \n    Similar letter sent to W.O.\n  \n\n6130 17930 (4)",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\n78\n\nFrom:\n\nCHINA.\n\nDecypher.\n\nMr. Blunt (Canton).\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\nW/T\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n8.00 p.m. 23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 15.\n\n[illegible text due to OCR damage]\n\n(a)\n\nMy telegram No. 41 to Hong Kong.\n\nI have not received Tokyo telegram No. 171.\n\nSubject to this reservation I venture to suggest that\n\nthe proposals of the South China military authorities contained in my telegram under reference are adequate with the following additional stiffening to 2.— \"On U.S.S. \"Panay\" scale and without delay\".\n\nIt seems a pity to waive 3 since it has been offered but perhaps gesture suggested in last paragraph of the Governor of Hong Kong's telegram No. 79 to the Colonial Office is preferable.\n\nI feel that for once the Japanese local military authorities are conscious of error and that the opportunity should be used to make it quite clear that such incidents of gross carelessness or ... indifference do not pay.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 15 of 23rd February, repeated to Governor, Hong Kong No. 44, Shanghai No. 31, Tokyo No. 13.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F1782/1696/10\n\nan address-not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nD\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\n19.79\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 copies of the under-mentioned paper\n\nForeign Office,\n\n23 February, 1939.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nForeign Office letter of 23 February, 1934. (F178/1646/10.)\n\n  \n    Name and Date.\n    Description of Enclosure.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    (144)\n23 February, 1939.\n    Telegrams from\nH.M.\nRepresentative at Tokyo.\n    nos. 175, 176 & 177.\nBombing of Hong Kong territory\nby Japanese.\n  \n\nSimilar letter sent to W.O.\n\n14\n\n6130 17930 (4)",
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        "content_text": "NO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo)\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n7.15 p.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n1.10 p.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 175.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nPlease pass to Canton as my telegram No. 13. Governor of Hong Kong's telegram 78 to Secretary of State for Colonies.\n\nPoint A. We are doing what we can to get a correct statement of the facts published.\n\nPoint B. In an interview this morning I impressed on the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the promise to give forty-eight hours notice had not been fulfilled, in connexion with my demand for punishment of those responsible.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 175 of 23rd February;\n\nNo. 26.\n\nrepeated to Shanghai No. 148, Hong Kong\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\n81\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo).\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n7.15 p.m., 23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n1.30 p.m., 23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 176.\n\n(R).\n\n1\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nMy telegram No. 174.\n\nVice Minister for Foreign Affairs informs me that Japanese Government now desire to give the following assurance in addition to those already given: \"Japanese army will take disciplinary measures against those who have committed major error, after thorough investigation of the facts.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 176; repeated to Shanghai telegram No. 149, Hongkong No. 27 and Canton No. 14.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n89\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo).\n\nD.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\n8.50 p.m., 23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n3.00 p.m., 23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 177.\n\n(R).\n\n(1)\n\nMy telegrams Nos. 165 and 173.\n\nText of my note was as follows:\n\n\"Your Excellency, I have been informed by the Governor of Hongkong that the Japanese aeroplane, in the course of bombing operations this morning on the border of Hongkong territory dropped several bombs on railway trains well within British territory in such a manner as to suggest that the object of their attack was the Shamchun railway bridge, which is within the borders of the colony.\n\n2. Pending the receipt of any instructions which I may receive from His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, I have the honour to bring this information to Your Excellency's urgent attention and to enter a strong protest against the attack on British territory.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 177; repeated to Shanghai No. 150, Hongkong No. 28 and Canton No. 15.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. 1772/1696\n\nan address—not to any person by name, but to— \n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \n\ncompliments to the Under-Secretary of State \n\nfor the Colonies \n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, \n\n23 February, 1939\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n18\n\nForeign Office letter of 23 February, 1931 (14) Description of Enclosure. (1748/1076/10)\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\n83\n\nH.M. Telegram from I.M. Representative at Tokyo. Bombing of Hong Kong territory\n\nno. 178.\n\n23 February, 1939.\n\nby Japanese.\n\nSimilar letter sent to \n\nW.O.\n\n6130 17930 (4) 14",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\n84\n\nFrom: JAPAN. Decode. Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo) 23rd February, 1939. D. 7.50 p.m. R. 1.30 p.m. 23rd February, 1939 23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 178 (R) XXXXX IMPORTANT\n\nMy telegram No. 173. I have drawn Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs' attention to inaccuracy of Japanese press reports of the incident, expressing the hope that this tendency will be corrected in tomorrow morning's papers and suggested that as soon as the facts have been agreed to between the authorities on the spot, a precise statement of what occurred should be issued.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office, repeated to Shanghai telegram No. 151, Hongkong telegram No. 29 please pass to Canton as my telegram No. 16.",
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        "content_text": "ANOTHER BRITISH PROTEST IN TOKYO\n\n73\n\nRAID NEAR HONG KONG\n\nBy Our Diplomatic Correspondent\n\nA stiff protest following the bombing of British territory near Hong Kong by Japanese 'planes is being delivered, on behalf of the British Government, to the Japanese Government by the Ambassador in Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie. Unless it is clear that Japan is prepared to offer full recompense voluntarily, this will be demanded peremptorily.\n\nSir Robert lodged a first protest on Tuesday, without awaiting instructions from London. This appears to have resulted in the Japanese authorities in Canton expressing their apologies and regrets to the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir G. A. S. Northcote.\n\nDAILY TELEGRAPH AND\n\nThe British Government takes an extremely unfavourable view of the Japanese demands for a greater share in directing the affairs of the Shanghai Municipal Council, put forward afresh on the pretext that it is justified by the latest outbreaks of terrorism in Western Shanghai.\n\nOn this matter, as on the question of Hong Kong, the British attitude has become extremely firm and uncompromising.\n\nHong Kong Ban on News of Raid - Page 13.\n\nHONG KONG BAN ON NEWS OF RAID BY JAPANESE\n\nCOLONY'S CHINESE PRESS CENSORED\n\nGOVERNOR & TOKYO ALLEGED APOLOGY\n\nFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT\n\nHONG KONG, Wednesday. It is revealed this morning that the Hong Kong censors deleted all reference in newspapers in the Chinese language to the Japanese bombing in Hong Kong territory yesterday.\n\nReuter. They even suppressed a despatch from London reporting the British protest in Tokyo against the bombing.\n\nThe suppression included quotations which the Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong intended to make from yesterday afternoon's edition of the British-owned Hong Kong Telegraph.\n\nThe Chinese Owners' Newspaper Association in Hong Kong is understood to be drawing up a petition to London questioning the constitutionality of the Government regulations under which such censorship is carried out.\n\nGOVERNOR'S STATEMENT\n\nWhile the Chinese newspapers are muzzled by rigid Government censorship, the British morning newspapers intend to publish prominently to-morrow an official statement issued by the Governor of the Colony, Sir Geoffrey Northcote. This is as follows:\n\nA message broadcast this evening as coming from the Tokyo Foreign Office regarding an alleged apology offered by the Japanese Consul-General, who is not at present in Hong Kong, to the Colonial Secretary is less than a half-truth.\n\n\"It is advisable for the present to refrain from publishing information, reputably credible, as the diplomatic or political outcome of this outrage until the British Foreign Office in London has declared itself.\"\n\nIt is understood that Sir Geoffrey Northcote referred to a report broadcast by the B.B.C. Empire transmitter at Daventry, to which he listened on his receiver.\n\nThis stated that a Japanese Foreign Office apology had been conveyed to the Hong Kong Government by the Japanese Consul-General.\n\nThis apology is supposed to have stated: \"One Japanese 'plane inadvertently crossed into British territory by mistake and dropped one bomb on a train.\"\n\nCASUALTIES FROM RAID\n\nThe latest casualties in yesterday's bombing incident are 131 killed and 98 injured. Of these, 118 persons were killed and 80 injured in the Chinese frontier town of Shumchun, and 13 were killed and 18 injured in British territory.\n\nThe Shumchun raid has started a new influx of refugees into Hong Kong necessitating the reopening by the Government of three refugee camps in the vicinity of Fanling. More than 4,000 persons have entered the Colony in the past 24 hours.\n\nWomen and children were evacuated from Namtua, near the frontier, this morning on the advice of the village elders, who have rejected a Japanese ultimatum that they appoint a pro-Japanese magistrate before Friday. Similar ultimatums, expiring on Friday, are understood to have been made in all districts of the Hong Kong border zone.",
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        "content_text": "53838/24/39.\n\nSir,\n\n86\n\n24\n\nFebruary, 1939.\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary MacDonald to refer to the telegram No. 79 from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the attack by Japanese aircraft on British territory near Sham Chun on January 21st.\n\n2. I am to state, for the information of Viscount Halifax, that Mr. MacDonald is inclined to agree with the Governor's view that an expression of regret and an offer to pay compensation for the damage inflicted on British property by the action of the Japanese bombing aircraft are adequate, and that in the circumstances mentioned by His Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo in his telegram No. 22 to the Governor of Hong Kong, repeated to the Foreign Office as No. 171, a guarantee that disciplinary measures\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nwill",
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        "content_text": "11 be taken against the airmen responsible for\n\nthe outrage is not essential to a final settlement,\n\nif the Japanese authorities refuse to give such an\n\nassurance.\n\n3. In conclusion I am to say that\n\nMr. MacDonald shares the Governor's view that there\n\ncan be no room for dispute as to the number of\n\naeroplanes which dropped bombs and used machine\n\nguns on British territory.\n\nI am,\n\nsir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nH. R. Cowell.\n\n87",
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        "title": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
        "content_text": "643-150) Wt. 16318-94 15,000 7/38 T.S. 695\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Galsworthy 23/2/39\n\nMr. Cowell +3\n\nMr. A. J. Dawe.\n\nSir H. Moore.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\n23. fs.\n\nSir,\n\n53838/24/39 Hong\n\nCO\n\nscret.\n\nA 24 FEB. D24\n\nDOWNING STREET.\n\n88\n\n24 February, 1939.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\n(15)\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nWAR OFFICE\n\nF.O\n\nI am etc. to refer to the\n\n(s) telegram No. 79 from the Governor of\n\nHong Kong on the subject of the attack\n\nby Japanese aircraft on British\n\nterritory near Sham Chun on January\n\n21st.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\n2.\n\nI am to state, for the\n\ninformation of Viscount Halifax, that\n\nMr. MacDonald is inclined to agree with\n\nthe Governor's view that an expression\n\nof regret and an offer to pay compensation\n\nfor the damage inflicted on British\n\nproperty by the action of the Japanese\n\nbombing aircraft are adequate, and that\n\nin the circumstances mentioned by\n\nH.M. Ambassador in Tokyo in his\n\n(14) telegram No. 22 to the Governor of\n\nHong Kong, repeated to the Foreign Office\n\nas",
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        "page_number": 89,
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        "content_text": "89\n\nas No. 171, a guarantee that disciplinary measures will be taken against the airmen responsible for the outrage is not essential to a final settlement, if the Japanese authorities refuse to give such an assurance.\n\n3.\n\nIn conclusion I am to say that Mr. MacDonald shares the Governor's view that there can be no room for dispute as to the number of aeroplanes which dropped bombs and used machine guns on British territory.\n\nI am, etc.\n\nJ. R. Cornell",
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        "page_number": 90,
        "title": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
        "content_text": "CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the \n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nDated 23rd February, 1939. Received 10.33 a.m. 23rd Feb. \n\n15. \n\n90 \n\nIMMEDIATE. \n\nNo.79. \n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.79 of the 23rd February repeated to Tokyo telegram No.24 Shanghai No.34 Canton No.20. Tokyo telegram No.173 to the Foreign Office. \n\n(14) B \n\nI venture to express opinion that expression of regret \n\nand offer of compensation are adequate. \n\n(14) A \n\nReference to subsequent telegram No.174 I am prepared \n\nto believe airmen implicated had lost their bearings but there is no room for dispute as to the number of aeroplanes which dropped bombs and used machine-guns upon British territory. Many competent observers can testify that two aeroplanes dropped four bombs upon British railway station killing one Indian Policeman and eight Chinese. Third machine of the same flight diverged and dropped two bombs in two consecutive dives upon a train standing a mile distant from the railway station. One of these three machines also dropped another bomb on British territory a few hundred yards from the railway station killing one or more Chinese. In addition to foregoing three other aeroplanes flew over British territory in the course of their attack on wireless station in Chinese territory. aeroplanes violated British territory. \n\nIn all six \n\nAs regards the assurance that disciplinary measures would be taken against the airmen responsible General Officer Commanding advises and I concur that such a guarantee is not required. We are quite prepared to leave disciplinary action to \n\nthe judgement of the Japanese Commanders concerned. Commanders have always objected to furnishing such guarantees prior to investigation by them, \n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "91\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo.\n\n1748/1696/10\n\n1748\n\nan address-not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nD\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to the Under-Secretary\n\nthe Under-Secretary of State for the\n\nColonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n23 February 1939.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nName and Date.\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nSubject.\n\nTelegram from\n\nRepresentative at Tokyo\n\n2.\n\nno.171\n\n23 February, 1934\n\nTelegram to H.M. Representative at Tokyo.\n\n3. Telegram\n\nat Tokyo.\n\n4.\n\nFrom ditto\n\n5.\n\nFrom ditto\n\nno.93\n\n22\n\nFebruary, 1934. from H.M. Representative\n\nno 172.\n\n\"\n\n23 February.\n\nno.\n\n173.\n\n23 February.\n\nno.174\n\n23\n\nFebruary\n\nJapanese bombing of Hong Kong leased territory\n\nSimilar letter sent to W.O.\n\n14\n\n6130 17930 (4)",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nFrom\n\nJAPAN.\n\nDecypher.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo),\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n12.10 p.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n5.45 p.m.\n\n22nd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 171.\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nCanton telegram No. 41 to Governor Hongkong.\n\nAlthough seriousness of incident would warrant apology from Japanese Government through diplomatic channels I venture to express the hope that His Majesty's Government will see their way to accept the settlement now proposed by Japanese army on following grounds.\n\n(1) The peculiar relations existing between the Government at Tokyo and army in China.\n\n(2) Adequacy of reparations offered spontaneously by Japanese army.\n\n(3) The fact that any undue loss of face by Japanese Government over this incident would in the peculiar circumstances of today be conducive to further incidents rather than the reverse.\n\nI anticipate that at tomorrow morning's interview Minister for Foreign Affairs will propose settlement on these lines.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 171, repeated to Shanghai No. 144, Governor Hongkong No. 22 and Canton No. 9.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nPage 93\n\nTo JAPAN.\n\nCypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo),\n\nForeign Office, 22nd February, 1939. 7.00 p.m.\n\nNo. 93.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nYour telegram No. 171 [of February 22nd: Japanese bombing of Hongkong Leased Territory].\n\nIf Minister for Foreign Affairs does raise the question of Hongkong, I think you can only reply that His Majesty's Government have not yet completed their investigations, but the material they have so far collected has led them to take a very serious view. (In this connexion, you will bear in mind previous correspondence about making known to all ranks actual position of frontier (your telegram No. 1407 of 27th November), safeguarding of British interests (your telegram No. 1409 [of 29th November]) and promised notice of intended operations (Hongkong telegram to you No. 115 [of 3rd December])). His Majesty's Government have, however, promised to send you instructions as soon as possible.\n\n2. If Minister for Foreign Affairs refers to line of settlement proposed by Japanese Consul-General to Mr. Blunt (see Canton telegram to Hongkong No. 41 [of 22nd February]), you should say that you must reserve judgment, but having regard to the very serious character of what occurred you cannot believe that your Government will be content with a local settlement.\n\nAddressed to Tokyo No. 93, repeated to Hongkong unnumbered, Shanghai No. 148 and Canton No. 6.\n\nPage 93",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nFROM JAPAN\n\nDe code.\n\nD•\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo).\n\n23rd February 1939.\n\n1.10 p.m. 23rd February 1939.\n\nR. 9.30 a.m. 23rd February 1939.\n\nNo. 172. (R).\n\n94\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nYour telegram No. 93.\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs handed to me today text of note expressing deep regret of Japanese Government.\n\nText of note in my immediately following telegram.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 172, repeated to Shanghai No. 145, Hongkong No. 23 and Canton.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\nB\n\n95\n\nFrom:\nJAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).\n\nFebruary 23rd, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n1.00 p.m. February 23rd, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n9.30 a.m. February 23rd, 1939.\n\nNo. 173.\n\n(R).\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nMy immediately preceding telegram.\n\nFollowing is translation of Japanese note:\n\n\"Your Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's note No. 41 of February 21st regarding the incident in which bombs were dropped by Japanese aircraft on a train within Hongkong leased territory on that date.\n\nI immediately referred contents of Your Excellency's note to Imperial authorities on the spot with instructions to investigate the facts. According to their report, it is a fact that a disaster occurred in that aircraft of Imperial forces, while engaged in a bombing attack against defeated Chinese troops in the neighbourhood of Shumchun on the morning of February 21st, dropped bombs by mistake within Hongkong leased territory in close proximity to the Chinese border. I am informed that the Imperial military authorities on the spot have provisionally conveyed an expression of apology to British Consul-General at Canton through Imperial Consul-General there.\n\nI am\n\nThe Imperial Government hereby profess their profound regret that such an incident should have occurred and I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I intend to bring about a settlement through immediate negotiations between the British and Japanese authorities on the spot with regard to payment of compensation for damages and other matters.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 173; repeated to Shanghai No. 146, Hongkong No. 24 and Canton.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n \n\nPage 96\n\nFROM JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo)\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\n1.00 p.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n9.30 a.m.\n\n23rd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 174 (R)\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nMy telegram No.172.\n\nWhen handing me the note the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that I might assure my Government that adequate measures would be taken to ensure that there would be no repetition of such an incident. He then read to me a telegram received from the Japanese military authorities in South China admitting the dropping of four bombs and machine gunning, but maintaining that only one Japanese aeroplane had flown over British territory. Cause of the incident was stated to be that the airman had mistaken his direction and thought that he was bombing in Chinese territory north of the frontier instead of to the south as subsequently transpired. The Minister for Foreign Affairs added that it was quite out of the question that any Japanese airman would purposely commit an act which would oblige his government to apologize to a foreign government. I replied that this might well be the case but that nevertheless the error was a very serious one, calculated to produce international complications and that I felt sure that you would require at least an assurance that disciplinary measures would be taken against the airmen responsible. Arita agreed as to the seriousness of the error but stated that he could not give this assurance without again consulting the military authorities, which he would do at once.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No.174; repeated to Shanghai No.147; Hongkong No.25; Canton No.12:\n\nPage 96",
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        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER\n\nG.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nThe War Office,\n\n4873 Cipher 22/2.\n\n13 97\n\nDesp.1445 22.2.39. Recd. 1315 22.2.39.\n\nMy 4871 21/2c\n\nViolation yesterday was an infraction of Japanese undertaking given verbally last November that minimum of 48 hours notice would be given if operations in border area were to be renewed, see Hong Kong I.R. number 25/38 para. 11.\n\nC.4, (Telegrams).\n\nCopies to:- S. of S.\n\nC.I.G.S.\n\nD.C.I.G.S.\n\nP.U.S.\n\nD.M.O. & I,\n\nD.D.M.O.\n\nD.D.M.I\n\nM.O.1A. 2. 2A.\n\nM.I.2. 20.\n\nMr. Howe (F.O.).\n\nCdr. Loly (Admiralty).\n\nSqdn. Ldr. Pelly (Air Ministry). Mr. Gent (Colonial Office).",
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        "content_text": "FOR REGISTRATION\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 23rd February,\n\nRECEIVED 6.1 a.m.,\n\n23 FEB 1939\n\n98\n\n12.\n\nNo. 6.1 a.m., 23rd February.\n\nMost Immediate.\n\nC.\n\nNo.78 of 23rd February.\n\nAddressed to Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.78 of February 23rd repeated to Canton telegram No.19 Shanghai telegram No.33 Tokyo telegram No.23.\n\n(al\n\n(5) My telegram No.75, Canton telegram No.41 to me repeated to Foreign Office telegram No.14 and Tokyo telegram No.171 to Foreign Office.\n\nI am not in the position to comment on reasons which lead His Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo to advise acceptance of Major General Tanaka's proposals to the Consul-General Canton but from the point of view of this Colony I consider a verbal statement by the Japanese Chief of Staff generally to the British Consul General Canton would entirely fail to meet the case.\n\nThis view is the more strongly held on the following ground: (a) the grossly false description of this outrage promulgated by the Japanese authorities at Tokyo and broadcast last night by British Broadcasting Corporation is obviously a misrepresentation of the affair I trust that it will be in the eyes of the world contradicted at once through the Corporation.\n\nApart from false statement of facts concerning the attack no apology had been offered in Hong Kong by any competent Japanese official until 10 a.m. this morning when the Japanese Consul offered regrets of the Japanese Government to the Colonial Secretary who replied that the statement was noted and a further reply would follow in due course.\n\n(b)",
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        "content_text": "(13) \n\n(b) Attack without notice being given to Hong Kong authorities was in flagrant disregard of the promise made by the Japanese Military Authorities in November last to give at least 48 hours notice of any intended military operations near the Anglo-Chinese frontier, see General Officer Commanding's telegram to the War Office 4,873.\n\n(c) Humiliating treatment to which British shipping in the Pearl River has been and is being persistently and unnecessarily exposed.\n\nOtherwise I agree that the proposals are adequate.\n\n99",
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        "content_text": "Limes,\n\nY 22 1939\n\n22\n\n2.\n\nAIR RAID NEAR HONG-KONG\n\nBOMBS ON BRITISH TERRITORY\n\nPROTEST TO JAPAN\n\nFrom Our Correspondent\n\nHONG-KONG, FEB. 21 Japanese aeroplanes, after bombing Shamchun this morning, crossed the border and dropped bombs in the Hong-kong \"New Territories,\" killing eight adults and three children. The Governor of Hong-kong, Sir Stafford Northcote, who was in residence at his bungalow at Fanling, saw some of the bombing and inspected the scene with Brigadier Grasett. The Governor immediately sent a strong protest to the Japanese authorities at Canton and is reporting fully to the Colonial Office.\n\nResponsible quarters are inclined to believe that the bombing was done by over-ambitious airmen. The raiders attacked a train a mile and a half inside Hong-kong territory, and the Japanese should have known that there were no trains running on the Chinese section. Confusion probably exists in Japanese minds over the actual border, which is the northern bank of the Shamchun River, whereas the river and the two bridges are in British territory.\n\nREFUGEES FIRED ON\n\nThe bombing occurred soon after 9 o'clock, when nine aeroplanes bombed Shamchun City, which suffered severely. The raiders continued along the railway, dropping two bombs near the refugee hospital in the old casino at Shamchun. Refugees fleeing towards Hong-kong are reported to have been fired on with machine-guns. Many wounded have entered Hong-kong and have been taken to hospital, where some have already died.\n\nSix of the aeroplanes continued along the railway, and after crossing the Hong-kong border bombed the railway bridge at Lowu and the new road bridge, but without success. Three of the machines turned back and dropped 10 bombs near the Customs and wireless station just beyond the border, damaging them extensively and killing several Chinese, while the European officers had narrow escapes. Three aeroplanes continued into Hong-kong territory, where two of them dropped four bombs near Lowu bridge.\n\nOne bomb landed on the railway and another made a direct hit on the cook-house near the military post 200 yards from the bridge. Since the incidents of last December police, including Indians and Chinese, have manned this block-house, under a European sergeant. This bomb killed an Indian policeman, Surda Singh, and seven Chinese refugees who were sheltering near the blockhouse. Two other bombs fell on the river bank among refugees, on whom the aeroplanes then fired with machine-guns, killing a Chinese revenue officer and another Chinese.\n\nTRAIN ATTACKED\n\nThe raiders then attacked a mixed passenger and goods train which had halted a mile and a half from the border. The first bomb fell beside the engine, and two more on either side of the train, splintering one side of a carriage. The passengers, including two Europeans, fled into the open, and only one Chinese was slightly injured. Some reports state that the raiders fired on the passengers. The station building at Lowu and a group of carriages in a siding which are used as police quarters were also fired on with machine-guns. Altogether seven bombs were dropped in British territory. The aeroplanes are reported to have circled over British military encampments, and then to have followed the river, bombing and firing on the villagers.\n\nTroops from The Middlesex Regiment, The Royal Scots, and the Kumaon Rifles deployed along the border, but later withdrew, leaving in charge the police, who closed all roads in the vicinity. So far some 3,000 refugees have entered Hong-kong, including about 100 wounded. It is believed that 100 Chinese were killed in Chinese territory.\n\nDIPLOMATIC ACTION IN TOKYO\n\nFROM OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT\n\nSir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador in Tokyo, is to protest strongly against Japanese bombing attacks yesterday morning on British territory near Hong-kong.\n\n100\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nRECEIVED\n\n22 FEB 1939\n\n10\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 2nd February 1939. Received 5.7 a.m. 2nd February\n\nNo.76.\n\nReference Canton telegram No.13 to the Foreign Office I have replied as follows begins:- Your telegram No.40.\n\nto you.\n\nFacts are being sent to you in another telegram tonight. In view of deliberate and very serious nature of the incident I have referred the whole matter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nends.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. \n\nF1737/150/10 \n\naddress—not to any person by name,ʼbut to— \n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1. \n\n \n\nConfidential \n\n9102 \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \n\ncompliments to \n\nthe Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies \n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper \n\nForeign Office, \n\n22 February \n\n9 \n\n1937. \n\nReference to previous correspondence : \n\n  \n    Name and Date.\n    Description of Enclosure.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    Telegram from H.M Consul-General at Canton no.14. 22 Feb.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Telegram from H.M. Representative at Tokyo.\n    m.170\n    Bombing of railway in Hong Kong by Japanese.\n  \n  \n    22 Feb.\n    \n    \n  \n\nSimilar letter sent to \n\nW.O. \n\n14 \n\n6130 17930 (4)",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nFrom CHINA.\n\nDecypher.\n\nMr. Blunt (Canton)\n\n22nd February, 1939.\n\nR. D. Admiralty W/T\n\n1.00 p.m. 22nd February, 1939.\n\n22nd February, 1939.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nIMMEDIATE,\n\nAddressed Governor Hongkong No. 41 February 22nd.\n\nYour telegram No. 75 to Secretary of State for the Colonies. My Japanese colleague has just telephoned to me following proposals:\n\n(1) that Major-General Tanaka, Chief of the Staff, shall call on me to apologise on behalf of Army Headquarters for the occurrence,\n\n(2) that Japanese army is prepared to pay full compensation for all damage done.\n\n(3) that Japanese army is prepared to punish those responsible.\n\n(4) that Japanese army will give an assurance that orders have been now given to all troops which will ensure no possible repetition of occurrence.\n\n2. I replied that it was not within my power to discuss matter officially but that I would pass these proposals immediately to higher authorities concerned.\n\nRepeated British Embassy Shanghai No. 30, Foreign Office No. 14 and Tokyo No. 12.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. \n\nF1703/130/10 \n\nan address-not to any person by name, but to- \n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1. \n\nD \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \n\ncompliments to the Under-Secretary of State for \n\nthe Colonies \n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n\n22 February, 1934. \n\nReference to previous correspondence: \n\nForeign Office letter of 21 February, \n\nDescription of Enclosure. \n\n  \n    105\n    8\n    1937 (F-1701/130/10) (2)\n  \n  \n    Name and Date.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    Telegram from\nAM.\nConsul-General at\nCanton.\n    40.13.\n21 February, 1934.\n    Combing by Japanese of railway trains within Hong Kong territory.\n  \n\nSimilar letter sent to Wo\n\n14\n\n6130 17930 (4)",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Blunt (Canton)\n\n21st February, 1939.\n\nD.\n\nBy/T.\n\n21st February, 1939.\n\nR.\n\n1.10 p.m. 21st February, 1939.\n\nNo. 13.\n\n0000\n\nAddressed to Governor Hong Kong telegram No. 40 of 21st February.\n\nYour telegram No. 74 to Colonial Office.\n\nJapanese Consul-General informed me about 11.00 a.m. that Japanese military headquarters feared a bomb had been dropped this morning within British territory near Shamchun and in the neighbourhood of a locomotive. This should prove so Japanese military authorities desired to express deep regret at this error and a wish to pay compensation for any damage.\n\nI am informing Japanese Consul-General of the fact contained in your telegram and am reminding him of promise made about refugees camp (see my despatch saving No. 3 of January 25.)\n\nRepeated to British Embassy Shanghai telegram No. 29, Foreign Office telegram No. 13, Tokyo telegram No. 11.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote No. F1701/150/10 and address—not to any person by name, but to—\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nD\n7\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 21 February 1939.\n\nReference to previous correspondence: Name and Date. Description of Enclosure.\n\n  \n    H.M.\n    Telegram from Representative at Tokyo\n    no. 163. 21 February, 1939.\n  \n  \n    Subject. Bombing by Japanese of railway in Hong Kong territory.\n  \n\nSimilar letter sent to W.O.\n\n6130 17930 (4)\n14\n\n107",
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        "page_number": 108,
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        "content_text": "NO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie (Tokyo)\n\nD. 7.35 p.m.\n\nR. 12.40 p.m.\n\n21st February 1939.\n\n21st February 1939.\n\n21st February 1939.\n\nNo. 165. R.\n\nHongkong telegram No.74 to Secretary of State for Colonies.\n\nI have made preliminary protest \"pending receipt of any instructions which I may receive from His Majesty's Government in United Kingdom.\"\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No.165, repeated to Shanghai No.139, Hongkong No.21, Canton No.7.\n\nPage 108\n\nPage 108\n\nPage 108",
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        "page_number": 109,
        "title": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER\n\nFrom:- O.O.C. Hong Kong,\n\nTELEGRAM.\n\nRAMRAE\n\nDesp. 2330 21.2.39. Recd.1000 22.2.39.\n\nTo\n\nThe War Office.\n\n4871 Cipher 11/8.\n\n109\n\nThe (other) machine of this flight detached itself when over crest of hill and diving over Lo Fu camp attacked a train standing on railway at about Lo Vu (brick) works (1479) a mile inside British territory. Two attacks were made one bomb being dropped each time. The bomb fell on embankment and caused considerable damage to train; this train was running on normal schedule. All attacks made in British territory were from a height of not more than 500 feet and were observed by officers 2nd Bn. Royal Scots in Lo Fu camp which is one mile from British railway station and 500 yards from railway embankment on which train was standing.\n\nHave just returned from frontier and consider attacks were inexcusable as nowhere is frontier more clearly defined than in this sector. Frontier itself is Sham Chan river, railway crosses it by a bridge and there is clear line of hills on British side, while Chinese side is flat. Lo Fu tented camp occupied by battalions at training is most conspicuous and visibility at time was excellent. Flying at height they were there should have been no possibility of mistaking their whereabouts.\n\nHave ordered (?Royal Scots) and 6th Rajputana Rifles in Lo Fu and Jun Lai camps to take action against any aircraft attacking British territory.\n\nGovernor has instructed Consul General Canton to communicate this to Japanese Commander.\n\nColonel Ishino resident in Hong Kong as a language officer has asked through Japanese Acting Consul General for an interview.",
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        "page_number": 110,
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        "content_text": "110\n\ninterview with me to express regret on behalf of Japanese ruy for today's incident. Have informed Acting Consul General that matter has been reported to London and incident too serious for me to accept apology on behalf of His Majesty's Government). Have taken this action as there is possibility of Japanese maintaining Ishino's apology to me closes incident.\n\nC.4. (Telegrams).\n\nGovernor concurs.\n\nPage 110\nPage 111",
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        "page_number": 111,
        "title": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER\n\nTELEGRAM.\n\nSECRET.\n\nFrom: G.O.C. Hong Kong.\n\nTo\n\nThe War Office.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nDesp.2055 21.2.39. Recd. 1410 21.2.39.\n\n4871 Cipher 21/2.\n\nFIRST OF THREE\n\nPARTS.\n\nMap reference Sham Chun river 1/20,000.\n\nOn 21/2 at about 0945 hours 9 Japanese twin engined monoplane bombers (probably type 96) flying from direction of West by North bombed Sham Chun Hu 1483 in Chinese territory: they then circled round over British territory (?going) over top of crest of hill 1380. One flight of 3 planes then bombed customs wireless station about 300 yards inside Chinese territory. The attack was made from South, machines thus crossing British territory in run up. Six bombs were dropped from a height of about 500 feet on customs station.\n\nAnother flight attacked British railway station at 1481 about 200 yards inside frontier from South West. This attack was made by two machines only. Four bombs were dropped inside British territory. Two due west of railway station between railway and river about 400 yards inside frontier and two on railway about 200 yards inside.\n\nAll machines were attacking at not more than 500 feet.\n\nAll bombs were, it is thought, about 60 kilos.\n\nCasualties in British territory from this bombing were, as far as can be ascertained at present, one Sikh policeman and six Chinese killed, wounded not known. One of these two (?machines) circled again and opened machine gunfire on British railway station killing, as far as is known, two Chinese.\n\nC.4. (Telegrams).\n\nCopies to:-\n\nS. of S. C.I.G.S. D.C.I.G.S. P.U.S.\n\nD.M.O. & I.\n\nD.D.M.O.\n\nD.D.M.I.\n\nQ.M.G.13.\n\nMr. Howe (F.O.).\n\nM.O.1A. 2.2A. Cdr.Loly (Admiralty).\n\nM.1.2. 20.\n\nD.P.R.\n\nSqdn.Ldr.Pelly (A.M.).\n\nMr. Gent (Colonial Office)",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n5.\n\nTELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 21st February 1939. Received 1.22 p.m. 21st Feb.\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No 75, repeated to Shanghai No. 31, Tokyo No. 21, Canton No. 17.\n\n(4) My telegram No. 74.\n\nFull report sent to the War Office by General Officer Commanding this evening with which I concur fully.\n\nI was an eye witness from my country house of the attack on the train and inspected the bombed railway station shortly afterwards,\n\nPage 112",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary\n\nof State for the Colonies.\n\n113\n\nEND\n\nDated 21st February, 1939,\n\nReceived 5:38 a.m. 21st February.\n\nMost Immediate.\n\nNo.74.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n21 FEB 1939\n\nC. O. REGY\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nNo.74 repeated to the British Ambassador at Shanghai No.29\n\nBritish Ambassador at Tokyo No.19 Consul General at Canton\n\nNo.14. Japanese aeroplanes bombing along the Anglo-Chinese\n\nBorder this morning dropping several bombs on railway trains\n\nwell within British Territory. Presumably the object of the\n\nattack was Sham Chun Railway Bridge which is within British\n\nTerritory. Please make immediate strongest protest. Fear\n\nvery grave result in the refugee camp close to the Bridge.\n\nWill telegraph again later.",
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