[ { "id": 218563, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "Pieceipt in Wages paid to Persons serving \n\non the Police Establishment \n\nhame \n\n6. 12. Caldwell \n\nP. C. Thar Sivyney \n\nJames Collins. \n\nof Honghong, during the month & July 1845. \n\nSituation Amount Acknowledgement of \n\nPolice deck 30 \n\nSergeant \n\nJohn Campbell Acting Sex;\" \n\nSammel Crompton. \n\niniliam Speriing. \n\nWilliam Hories Compornc Leorge Fathers\". \n\nMichael Molany Private \n\nConrad Misler. Fenry Myout, \n\nRenly Bennett \n\nGeoker Noble Sade Porter \n\nJennis Healey George Drewers Johir Matmore George Dewington \n\n\" \n\nمرسی \n\nM \n\nI \n\nབལ་ \n\ncharies Perry carried forward $17 \n\nیے \n\nBaldwill \n\nމ.ލ \n\n\" \n\n... \n\nJames Callent \n\nJohn Campée Jarwe \n\nBrompton Pelliume Sherin \n\nCompet \n\nGrge \n\nGALL \n\nDrever \n\n1 case Be singlove. \n\nGeorge \n\nReceipt \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "249\n\n\"the embankment still further - No body could look at the bank without seeing that quite irrespective of my rainfall - alluded to by the Coroner's Jury - it was in a dangerous state.\n\nIt so happened that Captain Berry, R.E. was there at the time and His Excellency pointed out to him the state of the embankment, on the dangerous condition of which he quite agreed with His Excellency. He explained to Sergeant ... (of the Chain &c. Guard) that the men should on no account continue to work there, by His Excellency's direction.\n\nW. Smith", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300427, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "content_text": "166\n\nOriginal Offence.\n\n1876.\n\n29th February,\n\n2nd March,\n\nChan-Ming, Wong-Son\n\n15th March,\n\n3 Wong-Kwai,\n\nUnlawful Possession, Larceny, Rogue and Vagabond,\n\n16th April, 1873, 8th January, 1872,\n\nDeported for 5 Years, 20th January, 1876.\n\n71\n\n26th June, 1872,\n\n4th April,\n\n4 Cheung-Alai\n\nalias\n\nKwok-a-Lok,\n\nKwok-a-Sing,\n\n30th May, 1876,\n\nCheung-a-Kin\n\nHo-a-Yau, ...\n\n9th April,\n\n5 Leung-a-Fu\n\nUnlawful Possession,\n\n27th July, 1871,\n\n25th April,\n\n6 Chan-Choi\n\n0th April.\n\n7 Lan-Fuk-Loi,\n\n4th May,\n\n7th May,\n\nLarceny,\n\nSelling Spirits.\n\nU-a-Toong, ... Rogue and Vagabond,\n\n9 Chan-Yat-Fo,\n\n30th May, 1874,\n\n24th April, 1871,\n\n71\n\n21st May, 1868,\n\n12th August, 1870,\n\n14th November, 1870.\n\n13th May,\n\n30 Yenng-a-Ho.\n\n16th June,\n\n11 Chan-a-Yan,\n\n18th June,\n\n12 Ho-Yuk alias\n\n3rd July, 13 Ho-Yung, ... Li-Sam,\n\n14\n\nAssault,\n\nLarceny,\n\nBurglary,\n\n24th May, 1878,\n\n30th June, 1874.\n\n11th June, 1875. 18th April, 1874.\n\n2nd September, 1875,\n\n11th November, 1875.\n\n15th November, 1875,\n\n20th February, 1873. 14th July, 1874.\n\nJames Dodds, ... fumes Youngsou, Douall Thomsou, J. B. Cameron..\n\nJohn Mathieson... Alexander Mackie, John Lindsay, John Fleming, John Swanston.... Donald Bremner, J. C. Graut....... William Gauld, Robert Taylor.... John Gordon,.....\n\nJohn Harper, Adam Hogg,\n\nTABLE D.\n\nLIST of CRIMINALS found at large in the Colony after Deportation, with Dates of their Sentences and Offences.\n\nDate of Arrest. No. Names.\n\nTABLE F.\n\nRETURN of MEN enlisted in SCOTLAND and ENGLAND for the HONGKONG POLICE, with the present State of such Enlistments.\n\nSCOTCH CONTINGENT.\n\nNames.\n\nDate Enlisted.\n\nRank Last Held,\n\nDate of First Sentence.\n\nHow Pardoned,\n\nWhen Deported.\n\nW. T. Gair,\n\n25th January, 1872,\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n3rd Class Inspector,\n\n2nd Class Inspector; 3rd Class Inspector,\n\n25th January, 1872.\n\n12th February, 1872, Acting Inspector of Nuisances,\n\nSergeant,\n\nGeneral Remarks.\n\nAppointed 3rd Master Government Central School, 1st May, 1874.\n\nDied, 20th November, 1876. Died, 23rd October, 1876.\n\nT. Sangster,\n\n11\n\n21st November, 1867,\n\n29th May, 1868.\n\nGeorge Ross,\n\n13th February, 1872.\n\nLeaves on completion of 5 years' Service.\n\n18th April, 1868,\n\nGeorge Rae,\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n11\n\nJames Ballonr,\n\nLeaves on completion of 5 years' Service.\n\nWong-Fuk, ... Wong-Fuk, ... Wong-See,\n\nLarceny,\n\n13th September, 14 Leung-a-Chi, Receiving stolen property, 16th September, 15 Chau-On..\n\n9th November, 16 Li-a-Tak, 16th November, 17 Chan-Sing.\n\n24th November, 18 Sham-Katalias\n\n9th December, 10 28th December, 20\n\n9th January, 22nd January,\n\n21 22 Leung-Fuk\n\n(female),...\n\nChan-Fuk,\n\n24th January, 23 Wong-a-San 26th February, Bà Chan Chai 18th September, 25 Tse-a-Chong, 18th September, 26 Chan-a-Kwong, 14th November, 27 Chan-I-Tak...\n\nPiracy and endangering Life,\n\n17th November, 1874,\n\n25th March, 1876.\n\nJames Maver,\n\n20th November, 1863,\n\n23rd December, 1874,\n\n11\n\nLarceny.\n\n21st January, 1874,\n\n12th July, 1876.\n\nNeil McKay... P. McFarlano.\n\n14\n\n25th January, 1872,\n\n22nd February, 1875,\n\n4th December, 1871,\n\n21\n\nPocket Picking,\n\nRobbery in a Dwelling House.\n\n3rd September, 1868,\n\n1st February, 1868,\n\n11th July, 1871,\n\nPiracy and Robbery, Larceny, Burglary and Larceny with Violence, Larceny,\n\n18th May, 1861, 24th October, 1873,\n\nPardoned conditionally,\n\n18th October, 1870,\n\n21\n\n12th December, 1868, 18th June, 1867,\n\nRogue and Vagabond.\n\n18th August, 1873,\n\n26th April, 1873. 15th February, 1878. 30th November, 1869. 16th October, 1878.\n\n18th July, 1871,\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police,\n\nCentral Police Station, 31st January, 1877.\n\n2nd May, 1876. 9th November, 1872.\n\n30th April, 1874. 15th August, 1876. 12th August, 1876. 12th August, 1869. 18th June, 1875,\n\n27th January, 1874.\n\nRobert Jardine, George Hay, Wm. Abernethy, Andrew Mackay, Peter Mitchell, John McKay... Angus McKenzie........ David Markie... Robert Porter, Benjamin Miller, George Milne Charles Smith. John Meldrum,\n\nJames Duncan.. Alexander Camming, Win. Templeton, 4 Wm. McClinton,\n\nAlexander Bow, R. McDonald. James Frazer,\n\nT. McConville,\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n25th January, 1872,\n\n1\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n26th January, 1872, 12th February, 1872,\n\n25th January, 1872, 12th February, 1872, 25th January, 1872,\n\n1st Class Constable,\n\n51\n\nDisd, for drunkenness, on 9th Sept., 1873. Absconded, 12th September, 1873.\n\nDisd. for making a false report, 28th Oct., 1873. Dismissed for drunkenness, 28th Nov., 1873. Died, 14th December, 1873,\n\nDismissed for drunkenness, 8th Feb., 1874. Died, 3rd July, 1874.\n\nDismissed for drunkenness, 20th July, 1874. Invalided, sent home, 15th October, 1874.\n\nAbsconded, 21st November, 1874. Absconded, 30th December, 1874. Dismissed, unfit for Service, 5th March, 1875,\n\nafterwards sent home.\n\nDied, 25th October, 1875.\n\nDied, 23rd November, 1875.\n\nDismissed for misconduct 29th March, 1876. Dismissed for neglect of duty, 20th Nov., 1876. Leaves on completion of 5 years' Service.\n\nEnlisted.\n\nNow in Force.\n\nDied.\n\nDismissed.\n\nAbsconded.\n\nInvalided.\n\nTime Expired.\n\nTransferred.\n\n3\n\n3\n\n10\n\n2\n\n45\n\nTABLE E\n\nCASUALTIES in the POLICE Force during 1876.\n\n14\n\n6\n\n7\n\nLONDON CONTINGENT.\n\nNames.\n\nDate Enlisted.\n\nRank Last Held.\n\nJoseph Corcoran,\n\n(2 John Cleaver,\n\nNicholas Perry,\n\nJoseph Flym....\n\n6 William Stanton,.\n\n10th March, 1873,\n\n51\n\nActing Inspector, Inspector of Nuisances, Sergeant,\n\nActing Sergeant,\n\n1st Class Constable,\n\nGeneral Remarks.\n\n6 George Henessy,..\n\nForce.\n\nDeath.\n\nResignation through Sickness.\n\nResignation\n\n7 William Baker,\n\nthrough Expiry of\n\nDismissal.\n\nService or other\n\nPension.\n\nDesertion.\n\nTotal.\n\n8 John Mackay....\n\n9 Peter Jones,\n\nCauses.\n\nJames Pent,\n\nSeptimas Westron,\n\n1\n\n12 George Briarly,\n\nEuropean,\n\n4\n\n1\n\n4\n\n10\n\n1\n\nIndia,\n\n4\n\n5\n\n9\n\n1\n\nChinese,\n\n2\n\n10\n\n18\n\n22\n\n13\n\n3\n\n888\n\n18 Frederick Hooper.\n\n20\n\n14 James Harvey,\n\n11\n\n25\n\n1:\n\n1\n\n20\n\n15 John Costello,...\n\n68\n\n16 Jacob Smith,\n\nW. A. Wastbrook,\n\nTotal,\n\n7\n\n15\n\n27\n\n41\n\n15\n\n3\n\n108\n\n18 Maurice Sullivan,..\n\nSergeant,\n\n19 George Saddler,\n\n20 Thomas Blake,.\n\nCentral Police Station, 31st January, 1877.\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\n20\n\nEnlisted.\n\nNow in Force.\n\nInvalided.\n\nDismissed.\n\nAbsconded.\n\n1st Class Constable,\n\nDisd., 4th April, 1873, for insubordination.\n\nFined $100, or 3 months hard labour, and dismissed for insubordination. Absconded, 12th July, 1875.\n\nPurchased discharge, 26th October, 1875. Resigned on private affairs, 31st Jan, 1876. Invalided, sent home, 7th February, 1876. Dismissed for drunkenness, 5th Oct., 1876.\n\nTransferred.\n\nDismissed, 8th Oct., 1873, for insubordination.\n\nResigned.\n\n10\n\n1\n\n5\n\nI\n\n2\n\nCentral Police Barracks, Hongkong, 31st January, 1877.\n\nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303727, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "ing steam launches, which provides the number of passengers they are allowed to carry. The ferry steamers plying between Victoria and Kowloon are licensed. I cannot remember the tonnage of all the launches. The document produced is a bill of sale of the Potan, transferring the vessel from Augustine Heard to the Company. It comes from the Harbour-Master's office. It gives the tonnage as 663.69. There are blank spaces both in the bill of sale and register. Supposing those blanks to be filled in, if she had the spaces, it would considerably augment her net tonnage. Applying the rule for steam launches to these large steamers, a much larger number of passengers might be carried in them, I should say. There is no practice in the office of registering a vessel's tonnage in parts of three tons each. The register is always given in one sum.\n\nBy Mr. Sharp-The blank spaces referred to by Mr. Brereton are in every register. Sometimes they are filled up and sometimes not, according to the circumstances. It is simply the form. Some of them are filled up in the case of the Kinshen, which considerably increases her tonnage. Had there been similar space in the other steamer, no doubt it would have been mentioned.\n\nInspector Matheson said-On the 17th instant, in consequence of instructions received, I sent four boats between the P. and O. and Canton wharves and gave them certain instructions. When the Canton steamer Kinshan arrived, I was standing on the wharf. I saw her approach through the junk anchorage. No one got on board of her there. The police boats were stationed there to keep people off. No one got on board when she arrived except a few coolies with the Company's uniform on. There were several constables on the wharf to prevent people going on board, and no one did get on board either from the shore or water side. There were police boats on the water side. People knew what was going to take place, and no attempt was made to get on board. There are three gangways. I stationed myself at the main gangway, Inspector Lindsay was at the forward gangway, and P.C. Campbell was at the after gangway. I proceeded to count the passengers. I had two constables and a sergeant on the gangway to assist me in preventing the passengers making a rush. I counted 898. This did not include the crew, as far as I am aware. I saw the crew afterwards on board.\n\nI am quite sure I am accurate in stating the number of people who passed the gangway. I received similar instructions with reference to Powan on the following day. The same precautions were taken with reference to her as with reference to the Kinshan. I was on that occasion stationed at the midship gangway. I counted the passengers in the same way as on the day before. 481 passed the gangway. I had particular instructions to be careful in my counting.\n\nBy Mr. Brereton-I saw the hull of the Kinshan first as she entered the junk anchorage, about a mile and a half distant. Some of the people I counted coming both from the Powan and Kinshan might have been members of the crew. It is usual when a steamer enters the harbour for her to be surrounded with boats. The gangway I was at was about 4ft. wide. The other Inspector and Constable who kept count stood at the other gangways. The Kinshan and Powan both had junks on each side as they approached. I will not undertake to say that from the time the hull came in sight, no one got on board. I could not say that no junks went alongside before the steamer rounded the point opposite the P. & O. Offices.\n\nP.C. Campbell deposed that he was on duty at the Canton Wharf, and had everyone, except the Company's servants and the police, cleared off the wharf before the steamers arrived, and no one else allowed on. He saw the steamers when they were abreast of the Sailors' Home, or about there, and was sure no boats went alongside. He was stationed at the after gangway, and counted 547 passengers leaving the Kinshan. On the Powan, he was stationed at the forward gangway and counted 236 passengers. These numbers, he believed, did not include any of the crew. No one was allowed to go on board again after leaving the steamers.\n\nBy His Worship-He had been on special duty at the wharf for about four years and went on board the steamers every day. After the passengers were out, there were about the usual number of people left on the steamers.\n\nBy Mr. Brereton-He knew most of the crew of both vessels. He could not say there were not any of the crew amongst the persons he counted as passengers. There was a bend in the harbour before the P. and O. wharf. As far as he could judge, when he first saw the vessels, they were abreast of the Sailors' Home. He could not say whether any boats went alongside before they reached there, but none went alongside afterwards.\n\nBy Mr. Sharp-The steamer does not come from the direction of Green Island, but almost across from Stonecutter's Island.\n\nInspector Lindsay said-From certain instructions received on the 17th instant, I took a party of constables to the Canton Wharf and placed them so that no person could come on. There were also some police boats guarding around and placed in the fairway of the Canton boat. I first saw the Kinshan on that day when she was near the Cap-sing-moon coming towards the wharf. I lost sight of her shortly afterwards until she was nearly opposite the Sailors' Home, and I then kept sight of her until she arrived at the wharf. No boats, with the exception of the Police boats, got alongside. When the Kinshan was swinging round at the wharf, I told the captain that I wanted to count the passengers. Captain Bonning then asked me how many gangways I should like, and I replied three. When the vessel was moored, two gangways were put out on the lower deck and one from the main deck. I was stationed at the fore gangway. Inspector Matheson and P.C. Campbell were at the other gangways. I had two lukongs with me to keep the passengers back in case they came out too quickly. The passengers came out slowly. I counted on the gangway I was at, 573 passengers. The gangway was then shifted to the main deck and three more passengers came ashore, making a total 576. No persons went on board from the shore with the exception of coolies with the company's badge on. I did not count these men when they came ashore. Whilst I was counting, the captain came to my gangway two or three times, as did also one of the officers. I also assisted in counting the passengers from the Powan on the following day, when I took similar precautions as I did on the day previous. I was stationed at the after gangway of the Powan. I counted 632 passengers and had no difficulty in doing so. On the 15th, I was on board the Ichang when her passengers were being counted.\n\nMr. Brereton objected to that question as it was irrelevant and had nothing to do with the Kinshan.\n\nHis Worship concurred with Mr. Brereton.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Brereton-The reason I say that the Kinshan was off the Sailors' Home is that I have seen the steamers come in so often and I judged the distance. The intervening time from where I first saw her until the second time I saw her was about half an hour. I cannot say if any Chinamen got on board the Kinshan during the time I lost sight of her. It might be possible. I believe there are four gangways to the Kinshan, and I think three to the Powan. I counted the passengers singly and noted down every hundred. I do not know any of the crew, and it was possible that some of them might have passed out amongst the passengers.\n\nBy Mr. Sharp-I cannot say at what speed the Kinshan was coming in.\n\nP.C. Paterson, P.C. Harper, and P.C. Zwart, in charge of police boats on the days in question, gave evidence to the effect that no persons got on board the steamer or left her before she arrived at the wharf.\n\nLeung Aking, a passenger on the Kinshan, said the vessel was crowded with passengers. It was very hard to walk about on account of the crowd. The vessel stopped at Whampoa and passengers came on board there in two large boats; there might be a hundred in each boat. He did not see any passengers land there or anywhere else before reaching Hongkong. When in the Cap-sing-moon, a steam-launch came alongside, but witness could not say whether any of the passengers got into the launch. When she got into the harbour, she was surrounded by several police-boats. No one got out to the steamer.\n\nBy Mr. Brereton-He was near the gangway when the steamer left Canton and he remained there all the time. No one asked him to take note of all these things.\n\nMr. Brereton asked the witness if he were not to be paid for what he was saying.\n\nMr. Sharp objected to the question.\n\nHis Worship thought the tone in which Mr. Brereton asked the question was improper.\n\nPage 314", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 448, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "# \nthe neck of his steed, and thus evading the storm of missiles, he set spurs to the pony and dashed among the crowd; round and round he went in an increasing circle, knocking the mob over like nine pins. He must have bowled over a very great number of them, and with the pony trampling over the prostrate men, many must have been a good deal hurt. The pony behaved splendidly, and seemed imbued with the same spirit as its rider, tearing might and main in among the thick of the crowd, over numerous obstructions. This man certainly did good work by his excellent horsemanship, and he had several bruises from missiles about him free.\n\nWhile this was going on, the crowd, which extended right away along Queen's-road, past the European taverns which abound in that quarter, had not been idle, but had been pelting any European they could see, or any unfortunate chair or jinricksha coolie who showed himself unwilling to act upon the mandates of the strikers by taking work. Some Europeans took refuge in the public-houses, which were also assailed by the mob with missiles, and most of them had to be hastily closed up. All up the various streets connecting Queen's-road with Hollywood-road to Gap-street the mob extended, and some constables about those parts were roughly handled. Sergeant Kamp was reinforced at his lively post at the junction of Queen's-road and Gap-street, soon after the telegram for help reached the Central Station, by a good body of Sikh constables under Inspector Perry. As fast as the riot was quieted in one direction it broke out in another, and three different telegrams were sent to the Central Station up to eleven o'clock for more police, until the Station was completely drained of men, some of whom were posted near the \"Land We Live In\" tavern under Inspector Rivers, and others at different places along the disturbed part of Queen's-road, while a large number were on patrol up and down the street.\n\nIn addition to the fire constables from No. 7 Station who were sent to the Civil Hospital, there were two of the Central Station men so much cut about with stones that they had to be despatched thither, and a district watchman was also very badly wounded. A lokang with Sergeant's party disappeared in the fight, but he had probably acted upon the dictates of prudence, and got out of the affray with a whole skin. One of the mounted troopers was hurt in the face by being unhorsed in Queen's-road.\n\nThe Administrator (Hon W. H. Marsh) was speedily informed of what was taking place, and he at once set about measures for meeting the emergency. A request was sent to the military authorities for help, and the call was promptly responded to. Two companies of the Buffs were speedily got ready and with fixed bayonets marched to the scene of the disturbance under the command of Major Harrison. The troops marched all through the disturbed parts, but found nothing to do in the shape of active work, though their presence doubtless did much to overawe the mob. The disturbance was at an end before they appeared, and the mobs were in great measure broken up, though the streets were all lined with Chinese, who were now quiet. The spot where the riot was at its worst was the junction of Gap-street and Queen's-road West, and in the Chinese Recreation Ground and adjoining streets, and after the fight was done, it was strewn with the weapons of the Chinese - stones, bricks, lumps of granite, etc., like a battlefield. It was somewhat satisfactory to see one rather amusing incident of the fight in this locality. A Celestial shopkeeper was standing at the door of his shop in Queen's-road, enjoying the sight of the pelting of the foreign constable devils, and was laughing most heartily at the showering of missiles upon them, when a flying brick, doubtless meant for a target other than his, struck him on the side of the head and knocked him down backwards into his shop. He doubtless failed to see the fun of the thing after that. \n\n## \nAnother body of men from the ... followed the first, and marched through the town under the command of Colonel Graves. After this detachment came a body of police with whom were Mr. Wise, Police Magistrate, and Capt. Dempster. Mr. Wise had a copy of the Riot Act with him, and was accompanied by Mr. Bedell Li Yun, Police Court interpreter, who had some Chinese translations of the Act to post up. The mob began to be troublesome again, but the trouble this time did not amount to a great deal, and was suppressed in a short time. It was then not considered necessary to read the Act.\n\nFrom this hour there were no more disturbances during the day. A number of men were arrested during the rioting, and the manner in which they were dealt with will be found further on. It was said they were going to be publicly whipped, and probably such a measure would have had a good effect upon the turbulent people, but this could hardly be done, though they were otherwise severely dealt with.\n\nAmong the casualties it was reported that one wounded Sikh trooper had distinguished himself by a remarkably smart piece of sword practice on a Chinaman, whose head he cut clean off at a stroke. No amount of inquiry, however, could trace this report to any reliable source, nor to any actual eye witness of the occurrence, and it must be regarded as the creation of some brilliant imagination. It would unquestionably be a fine piece of swordsmanship, considering that the swords of the troopers are not sharpened.\n\nThe measures taken to intimidate the cargo boatmen were very effective, and again the usual business afloat was almost at a complete standstill. Very few cargo boats were remaining anywhere near this side of the harbour. Two or three were to be seen alongside steamers, but the panic among them was general, and though they were evidently disposed to get to work again, and unwilling to lose any more days' earnings, they dared not go on with their work for fear of being attacked. All day long the streets in the work district presented the appearance of a China New Year as far as work was concerned. Rice-pounders, coolies, artisans, and workmen of all descriptions seemed to have knocked off work very generally, and were to be seen lounging about idly. After the forenoon, however, they kept pretty quiet, but they could be heard talking about the place being set on fire at night. Their bearing was not that of quietly disposed men, but their appetite for riot and violence appeared as if only whetted by the occurrences of the morning. The threats to burn the town went about very freely, and Chinese servants in many cases informed their masters that this was contemplated.\n\nIn the afternoon a number of placards were posted about announcing that the town was to be fired in three places at night. Many of the police did not consider the mob had been permanently quieted with the quelling of the morning's riots, but believed the worst of the trouble was in store for the night. The propensity of thieves to set fire to places for the sake of getting loot is well known, and such an opportunity as these troubles offered was considered to be one they would not be likely to miss if they could possibly avail themselves of it. Further rioting also was anticipated.\n\n444\n555 \n15 \n2237", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328555, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n(b.) He was in gaol at Canton on the 17th March, 1885.\n\nHe was on the Hung Shing Tan - San Ping Nam - Christian Preacher - 122 Second Street, Sai Ying Poon.\n\n3. Sergeant Interpreter, Leung Lai Chi, was in the Chung Ki shop, or about the 6th company, Pui Kwai, in February, with a man named Leung, when news was received by the latter of the arrest of a man - presumed to be Chan Jim - which necessitated the mandarin crossing to Kowloon at once.\n\nThere is no evidence whatever of any forcible arrest in this case.\n\nIn accordance with instructions, Inspector Perry will attend upon you for the purpose of his full statement being taken down.\n\nI have, etc., \n(Signed) S. M. Deane, \nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328558, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "332 \n\nto collect further \nevidence \n\nWith regard \nto the evidence \nsuggested in paragraph 3 of Captain \nDecuse's letter, Inspector Perry in answer \nto \nmy questions informed \nthat the \nMandarin therein advanced did not in \nhis conversation with the Sergeant, & Leong Lai Chi, \nnow arrested, nor is the Sergeant able to state that \nthe conversation of the Wouidaniu \nCh'an Friw, but referred to the \nfact that about the same \nday the \nChan Timu \nwas missing. \n\nI have re... \n(Ligued) • 4.P. Stokes \nAatg. Crown Solicitor \n\nSub End. 9 \n\nInspector Perry to Captain Superintendent of Police - \n(Wapy.) \nSir, \nCentral Station \nApril 30th 1886 \n\nFrom enquiries I have made with reference to the alleged forcible abduction of W: Chan Kam Shui from this Colony, as stated in the attached letter, I beg to submit the following \nresult of my enquiries, which, I believe, to be substantially true. \n\nOn or about the 25th February last \nTong A Sze, who, I believe, is General Tong Sing, the officer \ncommanding \nthe forces at Whampoa, and three other \nmen, including a petty \nofficer, \nnamed... \nCapto Supt of Poline \nLenug \nTher \nKwai", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331012, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "\"Mr Deane – No. They are entirely in the hands of Inspectors and Sergeants\"\n\n41, again page\n\n\"Chairman - Do you mean to say \"warrants are never executed by a rank less than a Sergeant?\"\n\n\"Deputy Perry - I never knew but of one case of that kind since the order of Sir John Pope Hennessy.\"\n\nThe latter portion of the paragraph deals with the question so prominently brought forward by Mr. Maclehose (Appendix I) in the letter which formed the basis for the subject of inquiry by the Committee. It is admitted that positive proof is wanting; that it was next sought for by myself and my officers; that it was intentionally not sought for, is, I must respectfully submit, explained by the facts given by me in paragraph 7; for, when I had put matters in train for Magisterial investigation, the Magistrate recommended the adoption of a special course, and my further efforts were stopped by the announcement of His Excellency the Governor that he would appoint a Secret Committee to search into the matter. It has occurred to me that Inspector Perry, with whom I had been in almost daily communication on the subject, must have wondered why I ceased to take action, for I felt strongly the vital importance of the secrecy of the enquiry, that I did not make known even to him His Excellency's intention.\n\nThe corruption of the Li-pongs does not appear from the evidence to exist beyond...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "In the Police Court of Hongkong,\n\nHONGKONG Minutes of Proceedings.\n\nTO WIT. I\n\nMonday the 25th May\n\nCourtday:\n\nNicholas Perry, Insp. of Police\n\nComplainant:\n\n2 Defendants in Court.\n\nCharge:\n\nKeeping a place for public gambling\n\ncausing\n\nan obstruction in the public street on the 24th instant at Victoria.\n\nAll\n\n18\n\nMr. Wotton appears for 1st prisoner\n\nNicholas Perry sworn states: I am Inspector of Police. On the 24th May at 11.30. Sergeant Butlin, Mr. Quincey, and I went to Man Hing Lane. Sergeant Butlin was in front. When I was a short distance in rear, I went up the lane, at the foot of the steps leading up the lane, Sergeant Butlin was upon the top of the steps. Mr. Quincey was with me. As I got to the top of the steps, I saw 7 men, some standing, some sitting at a table against the wall in the lane. Sergeant Butlin was opposite the table. As he saw us, they all got up and came down the lane in a westerly direction. Sergeant Butlin passed them and stopped them. On the table I saw a pen and a brush, and some Chinese ink, and thinking there was something wrong, I arrested the 1st defendant. Sergeant Butlin arrested the 2nd defendant. The others got away. We charged them with keeping a place for sale of lottery tickets and obstructing a public thoroughfare. At the same time we searched each of the defendants. We found nothing on them necessary to be produced, except packets of money. On the 1st prisoner we found 9 packets of papers. Each packet had Chinese characters on them. I produce them. I also found the paper produced with Chinese characters on it. Four of the packages have the names of four Chinese constables on them (put in and marked B1, B2, B3, B4), who are on duty in the park referred to in the list etc. The first prisoner also had...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "4\n\n5.\n\n62\n\nclimate.\n\n11.\n\nthe Force is\n\nThat the rate of promotion in\n\nvery\n\nslow and\n\nyour. Petitioners after having served ex-\n\nnumber of years\n\nsufficient member\n\n& pension.\n\nto obtain\n\nare in most cases\n\nunfit\n\n- for and unable to obtain other\n\nemployment either here or in Great\n\nBritain and their pension is insufficient to encourage them:\n\n12.\n\nthat as\n\ncompared with\n\nthe pay of Policemen in Glasgow\n\nthere is\n\nvery\n\nlittle advantage in coming out to Hongkong and the slightly larger pay of the Force here is quite inadequate to compensate for the ill effects of this\n\ntrying\n\nclimate.\n\nYour Petitioners therefore humbly pray that Your Excellency will consider\n\nthe matter set\n\nforth in\n\nthis Petition and grant them\n\nan increase\n\nof $10 in their\n\npay\n\nHongkong,\n\nRank\n\nInspector\n\ndo.\n\nSergeant\n\n89\n\ndo.\n\n10\n\npay\n\nand also the privilege of\n\nremitting to Great Britain half the\n\nof their pay at the rate\n\nof exchange of 14/5.\n\nYour\n\never\n\n„And\n\npray.\n\n20th September, 1886.\n\nName\n\nSof N. Perry\n\n\"\n\ndo.\n\n44\n\ndo\n\n94\n\n\"\n\ndo\n\n37\n\nN. Stanton\n\nG. Hennessy\n\nA. Mann\n\nN. Baker\n\n00:\n\nPetitioners will\n\nJ. Even so, William L. Ford John Rennie Geo. Cameron I. Campbell J. A. Fowler\n\nSergeant 63\n\nA019 Song : 244\n\nSong! 15\n\ndo. 21\n\nD. McDonald I. Duncan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337594, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 625, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Petition for Good Conduct Allowance to Count Towards Pension\n\n1. That your Petitioners are Members of the Police Force, and as such, in the execution of their duties, to,\n\n2. That each of the undersigned, Member of the Police Force, are in receipt of a monthly allowance, known as \"Good Conduct Allowance\" granted under the above quoted Ordinance.\n\n3. That this allowance is not taken into consideration when the Officer or Constable retires on pension.\n\n4. Your Petitioners beg that Your Excellency will be kind enough to consider that :-\n (a) In the Army and Navy, when a Subordinate Officer, the possessor of a Good Conduct Badge, retires on pension, his Good Conduct Allowance is added to his pension;\n (b) In the Civil Service, \"Personal Allowance\" and \"House Allowance\" count for pension purposes; and that you may be pleased to forward this petition to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommending that this \"Good Conduct Allowance\" may be allowed to count for pension purposes.\n\nAnd your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.\n\n(signed) \n| Name | Rank |\n| --- | --- |\n| Geo. Norspool | Chief Inspector |\n| J. Cradock | Inspector |\n| J. Mathieson | _do._ |\n| J. Morcoran | _do._ |\n| William Remineey | _do._ |\n| N. P. Perry | Inspector |\n| gulfauld | Acting _do._ |\n| Mr. Baken | _do._ |\n| Peter Jones | Sergeant |\n| J.W. Hanson | _do._ |\n| John Butlin | _do._ |\n| J. Campbell | _do._ |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "page_number": 583, "title": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "content_text": "remain two of the Frokien junks,\n\nave\n\nof the others ha\n\ncargo\n\nhaving\n\nsailed without.\n\nto Victoria on the 22nd instant\n\ntwo with car\n\nas go being towed to\n\nVictoria yesterday and one to-day\n\nby the ferry launch :\n\n\"The \"Charles May\" arrived\n\nhere this evening\n\noff Stanley Bay\n\nand is anchored\n\nI have &c. I. W. Hanson.\n\nSergeant in charge.\n\nCopy\n\nSir,\n\n580\n\nHarbour Office.\n\n25th June, 1890.\n\nI this day proceeded to\n\nStanley, and fired the outer fishing\n\nstake F\n\n2.\n\non Chart attached.\n\nSergeant Hanson.\n\non repaired\n\non board, and from his description the\n\napproximate position of the Junk\n\nKam Wo khi on being first boarded\n\nwas ...\n\nThe pinnace then\n\nreturned to the Revenue Cruizer lying in Pienie Bay, Lanima Island R.\n\napproximate position this day, as per Sergeant's letter.\n\nmarked in red ink by\n\n4.\n\nmarked in red ink\n\nAt 10. A. M. the pinnace\n\ncame to about the point.\n\nCapt. R. Murray Rumsey, R. N. &c.\n\nHarbour Master.\n\nPage ...\n\n \n \nThe response is formatted according to the given instructions, focusing on correcting OCR output for historical records related to Hong Kong, using HTML for output as per the final instruction. 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The constable did not\n\nsucceed and both he and the\n\nwoman pursued the prisoner.\n\nSergeant Jerry\n\nrunning\n\nsaw the man\n\nand held out his arm\n\nto", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "to stop him, when the prisoner threw his left arm round and stabbed him on the right shoulder inflicting a wound which penetrated to the lung. Sergeant Jerry felt blood, but he pluckily continued the pursuit, and struck the prisoner on the head with a stick he had in his hand and knocked him down in the gutter.\n\nThe prisoner raised himself up, held the knife in a threatening attitude, and then made a bolt. The sergeant again pursued him and knocked him down a second time. Noticing then that he was without his knife, the sergeant seized him, and the Chinese constable and a district watchman coming up at the time, he handed him over to them to take to the station.\n\nHe himself being obliged to go to the hospital in consequence of his wound, a knife was found near where the struggle had taken place and sold it the next day to a hawker. The knife was produced in Court, and D. Wharry, the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, who attended to the Sergeant's injury, said the wound might have been inflicted with such a weapon.\n\nDr. Wharry described the wound and said that when the sergeant was brought in, the witness had doubts as to his survival. The lung had been permanently injured more or less. He continued in hospital until the 31st of May.\n\nX.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345210, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "315\n\nEnclosure 4.\n\nCopy of Certificate by the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nSergeant Perry's injury is not such as will interfere with the performance of his duties. Still the injury is permanent, producing adhesions of the lungs to the side and may be productive of pain and inconvenience to him hereafter.\n\n(Signed) P. B. C. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon.\n\nHong Kong\n\n11th June, 1879.\n\nPage 315\n\n \n(There are no other texts to be processed)\n\n(The last three lines are kept as is, assuming they are part of the page numbering information)\n\n \n## Actually, the last three lines should be removed as they are not in the original text, the correct output is:\n315\n\nEnclosure 4.\n\nCopy of Certificate by the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nSergeant Perry's injury is not such as will interfere with the performance of his duties. Still the injury is permanent, producing adhesions of the lungs to the side and may be productive of pain and inconvenience to him hereafter.\n\n(Signed) P. B. C. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon.\n\nHong Kong\n\n11th June, 1879.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365925, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Statement of Yeung Fat\n\nIn the forenoon of the 15th I was taken to the office. Mr. May and Mr. Dennys were there with Sung Sing as interpreter. Mr. May said, \"I do not wish to trouble you, but there is evidence against you on this paper.\" He produced a paper which he did not permit me to read. He said, \"If you will tell me about Inspector Stanton, Inspector Hennessy, and Inspector Baker, I will get your banishment cancelled and reinstate you.” I replied \"I know nothing about gambling money. Who has handed the money to me?\" Mr. May then went into another room, and in about three minutes brought out Sham In. Sham In said, \"You confess, your name is there.\" Mr. Dennys said, \"Is that Yeung Fat?\" Sham In said, \"Yes.\" Mr. Dennys told him to speak out. Sham In said, \"He went to 3, East Street every five days to receive from me $1.00 a day for Inspector Hennessy.\" Mr. Dennys said, \"There he fixes you.\" I replied, \"He is an enemy of mine.\" \n\nMr. Dennys said \"What enemy.\" I said \"I had a quarrel with him in the fifth month of last year.\" Sham In said he (Sham In) went home at that time, because his father died on the 9th day of the 5th month. I was then sent back to the cell. In the afternoon, I was taken out to see Mr. Ewens, the solicitor, and Sin Tak-fan. They told me the Governor was going to banish me. I was sent away to Canton the following day, the 16th July. The banishment order was shown to me for the first time in the charge room on the afternoon of the day I was banished. On each occasion I was before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys, my statements denying all knowledge of this bribery by gamblers was taken down by Mr. Dennys. I still deny all knowledge of the matter. \n\nOn the 14th day of the 7th Chinese month (11th August, 1897) P.C. 143 Au Hing visited me in Macao. He told me Mr. May and Mr. Francis had sent him to look for me to go to Hongkong to explain to them about Inspector Stanton, Inspector Baker, and others, and then I would be allowed to reside in Hongkong and be reinstated in the Police. He said, \"If you go, Inspector Stanton will be dismissed, and if you do not go, he will be dismissed, but if you go and give evidence against him, he will not be able to say anything; his mouth will be closed. If you think it will not look well to give evidence against him, you need not go before any Court; you can write and say when you will go to Hongkong and someone will meet you on the steamer and take you to Mr. Francis' office, where he will take down your statement.\" He told me he had been banished, but his wife paid over $100 to Mr. Francis, the barrister, to speak for him to Mr. May and get the order cancelled, but he was not yet reinstated. He further said \"If you do not wish to go to Hongkong write down a statement for me to take to Mr. May and Mr. Francis.\" I said \"I know nothing about the matter and I have already said so in gaol.\" The next day I went to Canton and the day after that P.C. 143, Au Hing came to me here in Canton with a similar request to what he had made in Macao, but I had nothing to tell him or to write, and he left.\n\nDeclared by the above named Yeung Fat in my presence.\n\n[L.S.]\n\n**E. H. FRASER, VICE-CONSUL.**\n\n(Sd.) \n楊發 \n(YEUNG FAT)\n\n## Statement of Tang Chung\n\nI was ... at 7 or 8 p.m. on the first floor and locked up. I was not told why I was locked up. At ... taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol. Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Sung Sing, an interpreter, were there. Mr. Dennys asked me about my police service. He afterwards produced a paper and said Sham In states that if he wanted to open a gambling house he got permission from you, and paid you $3.00 a day, and if you said he must not open it, it was not opened. I told him that was false. He said \"You have been so long a detective sergeant, did you not know there was gambling in Wa Lane?\" I replied \"If I knew, I should have informed Inspector Stanton. I have reported street gambling to him and he has sent me with constables to arrest them.\" He said \"Gambling has been going on there for years, and you say you do not know it.\" He mentioned the names of three persons and asked if I knew them. I replied I did not. He then mentioned the name of Tse Leung and I told him I knew him. He asked why I knew him. I replied \"His father was an informer to Inspector Perry and also had a gambling house in 66, Market Street. I informed Inspector Perry and he arrested Tse Leung's father, Tee Lik, and a number of others. I knew Tse Leung, who was a youth then, and I was informed he threatened to have revenge, no matter how long he had to wait.\" Mr. May asked if I knew Sham In. I told him no, but that I met him on a Canton steamer at the time of the Worshipping of Tombs this year, where we got into conversation about some luggage my wife, whom I had gone to see off, was taking with her. Mr. May asked where I lived. I told him at 43, East Street. He said \"Do you know that 3, East Street is Sham In's outside establishment.\" I replied \"No.\" He asked if I had ever been there for bribe money. I replied \"No, I have never been in the house.\" He asked if I know Ah Tin. I said “What Ah Tin? If you mean Ah Ting I know him. He is my nephew; What about him?\" He said \"Where is he?\" I replied \"He is 14 or 15 years of age and is an apprentice to an engineer.\" He then said \"Speak out and tell me what foreigners and Inspectors you collect money from gambling houses for?\" I replied \"I have never collected any.\" He said \"I will call Sham In to give evidence against you.\" I said \"Call him out.\" He did not call him. He walked out to the stairs and returned and said, \"You speak out and tell me whom you collected for and I can get the Governor to let you off and you will retain your position as Sergeant. I will look after you.\" I replied \"If I received bribes, I need not remain so long in the Police. I should have plenty of money.\" He said \"Yes, you want to save more. You must have received the money or Sham In could not say so: You must have paid it to the foreigners.\" I said \"I have done no such thing and I was never in Sham In's house.\" The interpreter Sung Sing said \"If you did so, confess.\" I was then locked up.\n\nWhat I said at that interview was written down by Mr. Dennys. That was the only time I was taken out.\n\nOn the 14th Mr. May came to my cell and said \"Your wife has engaged a lawyer. Do you wish to see him?\" I said \"Yes, I have been detained here two days and my wife does not know why, she therefore has engaged a lawyer.\" He replied \"All right, see him tomorrow.\" The next day, 15th July, I saw Mr. Ewens in presence of Mr. Dennys and the following day I was banished.\n\nDeclared by the above named Tang Chung before me.\n\n**B**\n\n## Statement of Tang Chung (continued)\n\nTANG CHUNG states:-I am an ex-detective sergeant of the Hongkong Police Force. My number was 190. I served in that force twenty-five years and two months and was Sergeant over eleven years.\n\nOn the 12th July, 1897, I and P.C. 319 Yeung Fat, by order of Inspector Stanton, attended at the Captain Superintendent's office about 4:30 p.m. The Captain Superintendent, Mr. May, took us into the Gaol, of which he was Acting Superintendent, where we were searched by a warder who stripped us of all our clothing except our trousers. I was then taken to a cell on...\n\n[L.S.]\n\n**E. H. FRASER, VICE-CONSUL.**\n\n(Sd.) 忠鄧 \n(TANG CHUNG)\n\n## Statement of O Mi-cheung\n\nOn the 27th day of September, 1897, appeared before me O Mi-cheung, who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared upon his oath that the contents were true.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Statement of Tang Chung\n\n14 \n\nxxxx \n\n15 \n\n263 \n\nwas not opened. I told him that was false. He said \"You have been so long a detective sergeant, did you not know there was gambling in Wa Lane?\" I replied \"If I knew, I should have informed Inspector Stanton. I have reported street gambling to him and he has sent me with constables to arrest them.\" He said \"Gambling has been going on there for years, and you say you do not know it.\" He mentioned the names of three persons and asked if I knew them. I replied I did not. He then mentioned the name of Tse Leung and I told him I knew him. He asked why I knew him. I replied \"His father was an informer to Inspector Perry and also had a gambling house in 66, Market Street. I informed Inspector Perry and he arrested Tse Leung's father, The Lik, and a number of others. I knew Tse Leung, who was a youth then, and I was informed he threatened to have revenge, no matter how long he had to wait.\" Mr. May asked if I knew Sham In. I told him no, but that I met him on a Canton steamer at the time of the Worshipping of Tombs this year, where we got into conversation about some luggage, my wife, whom I had gone to see off, was taking with her. Mr. May asked where I lived. I told him at 43, East Street. He said \"Do you know that 3, East Street is Sham In's outside establishment.\" I replied \"No.\" He asked if I had ever been there for bribe money. I replied \"No, I have never been in the house.\" He asked if I knew Ah Tin. I said \"What Ah Tin? If you mean Ah Ting I know him. He is my nephew. What about him?\" He said \"Where is he?\" I replied \"He is 14 or 15 years of age and is an apprentice to an engineer.\" He then said \"Speak out and tell me what foreigners and Inspectors you collect money from gambling houses for?\" I replied \"I have never collected any.\" He said \"I will call Sham In to give evidence against you.\" I said \"Call him out.\" He did not call him. He walked out to the stairs and returned and said, \"You speak out and tell me whom you collected for and I can get the Governor to let you off and you will retain your position as Sergeant. I will look after you.\" I replied \"If I received bribes, I need not remain so long in the Police. I should have plenty of money.\" He said \"Yes, you want to save more. You must have received the money or Sham In could not say so. You must have paid it to the foreigners.\" I said \"I have done no such thing and I was never in Sham In's house.\" The interpreter Sung Sing said \"If you did so, confess.\" I was then locked up. What I said at that interview was written down by Mr. Dennys. That was the only time I was taken out.\n\nOn the 14th Mr. May came to my cell and said \"Your wife has engaged a lawyer. Do you wish to see him?\" I said \"Yes, I have been detained here two days and my wife does not know why, she therefore has engaged a lawyer.\" He replied \"All right, see him tomorrow.\"\n\nThe next day, 15th July, I saw Mr. Ewens in presence of Mr. Dennys and the following day I was banished.\n\nDeclared by the above-named Tang Chung before me.\n\n[LS.]\n\nE. H. TRASER,\n\nVICE-CONSUL.\n\n## Statement of Yeung Fat\n\nOn the 27th day of September, 1897, appeared before me Yeung Fat who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared that the contents were true.\n\nYEUNG FAT states:- I am ex-detective P. C. 319 of the Hongkong Police Force.\n\nAt 4.30 p.m. on the 12th July last, I was sent by Inspector Stanton to see Captain Superintendent May. I went to his office with ex-detective Sergeant 190, Tang Chung. The Captain Superintendent beckoned us to follow him. We both followed him into gaol where we were stripped of all our clothing except our trousers and searched by a warder. We then put on our clothing and I was taken to a dark cell on the ground floor, and locked up.\n\nAt first nothing was said as to why or for what purpose I was thus treated. I asked the warder who locked me up, for what offence I was locked up. He answered \"I do not know; it is the business of the Superintendent of the Gaol, Mr. May. He told me to lock you up.\" I said \"If I had committed any offence, I should be placed on the charge sheet or there should be a warrant shown to me and explained.\" He replied \"I do not know; it is Mr. May's orders.\" I said \"I have been a policeman ten years and arrested numerous persons, but never saw anything like this before.\" The cell I was put in was about 7 feet by a little over 4 feet. It was dark, the only light was what came through a window about 17 inches by 7 inches. The cell was swarming with bugs. I told the warder I had not had any dinner and he said there was none for me. I had been on duty at the Bank that day and had had nothing to eat after 8.30 am.\n\nAt 11 p.m., still having had nothing to eat, I was taken out by the receiving officer who took me up into the Gaol Superintendent's Office where I saw Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and an interpreter named Sung Sing. I asked for what offence I was locked up. Mr. May and Mr. Dennys both laughed and said \"Don't you know? It is because of that gambling matter.\" I said \"I do not know about the gambling.\" Mr. May said \"The Governor has issued an order to banish you, because you have collected money from gambling houses for Inspector Stanton, Inspector Baker and Inspector Hennessy.\" I replied \"I have not collected any such money.\" Mr. Dennys said \"If you do not acknowledge it your name is down as an intermediary in the matter.\" Mr. Dennys then asked my name, age, how long I had been a Jukang, my native place and what family I have. He also asked whose orders I was under and I told him Inspector Stanton's and Inspector Quincey's. He asked if I knew Wa Lane. I said \"I have often seen Inspectors arresting gamblers there.\" I told him I did. He said \"Did you know there was gambling there.\" He asked if I knew Cheung Hing Street. I told him I did. He asked if I knew there was gambling there, and I told him no. He said \"The houses have been opened two or three years and you do not know it. Have you never heard there was gambling there?\" I replied \"Yes, I have often heard of the houses being broken by Police, but do not know which houses. I am in charge of No. 6 section, and these houses are not on my section. They are in No. 7 section.\" I was then sent back to the same cell.\n\nAt 2 p.m. on the 14th, two days after my arrest, I was again taken to the Gaol Superintendent's office where I saw Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, Mr. Brewin, and the solicitor Mr. Ewens' clerk Siu Tak-fan. Mr. Siu Tak-fan said to me \"Now your friends have employed Mr. Ewens to attend to your case; if you know about that affair then speak out, and say so. If you do not know, do not say you do, no one can compel you to speak.\" I replied \"I do not know.\" He said \"The Governor has issued an order to banish you for five years.\" I said \"I have property here to look after and there will be no one to look after it.\" Mr. Dennys told me I could hand over that to a lawyer to attend to.\n\nMr. May and Siu Tak-fan then went downstairs together and in ten minutes returned. Then I was taken downstairs with Siu Tak-fan and into a room, the chief warder standing by. Siu Tak-fan said \"Mr. May told me to tell you that if you will tell him all and give evidence, what Inspectors receive gambling money, he will not banish you, but will reinstate you in your position and you will be able to look after your business yourself. He does not care about your mentioning anything about the Chinese. He looks on them as sesamum seeds and green beans (that is, of no importance), he wishes you to tell him about the English and the Inspectors.\" I replied \"I know nothing about it and cannot give evidence against any one.\" Siu Tak-fan then took me back up into the office and I said, \"If I am to be banished, banish me soon, for I am sick now.\" Siu Tak-fan interpreted that to Mr. May and Mr. Dennys. I was then taken back to the dark cell. Soon after I was removed to a big light cell on the first floor. The same evening, 14th July at 7 or 8 p.m., I was taken to the office before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys. Sung Sing was there as interpreter. Mr. May said \"Although there is an order to banish you the Governor can cancel it, and instead of banishing you, you can be sent before the Supreme Court, where your own evidence may be used against you and you may be sentenced...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Statement of Yeung Fat\n\nstatement for me to take to Mr. May and Mr. Francis.\" I said \"I know nothing about the matter and I have already said so in gnol.\" The next day I went to Canton and the day after that P.C. 143, Au Hing came to me here in Canton with a similar request to what he had made in Macao, but I had nothing to tell him or to write, and he left.\n\nDeclared by the above named Yeung Fat in my presence.\n\n[L.S.] E. H. FRASER, \nVICE-CONSUL.\n\n(Sd.) 楊發 (YEUNG FAT)\n\nup. What I said at that interview was written down by Mr. Dennys. That was the only time I was taken out.\n\nOn the 14th Mr. May came to my cell and said \"Your wife has engaged a lawyer. Do you wish to see him?\" I said \"Yes, I have been detained here two days and my wife does not know why, she therefore has engaged a lawyer.\" He replied \"All right, see him tomorrow.\" The next day, 15th July, I saw Mr. Ewens in presence of Mr. Dennys and the following day I was banished.\n\nDeclared by the above named Tang Chung before me.\n\n(Sd.) HP (TANG CHUNG)\n\n## B\n\nOn the 27th day of September 1897 appeared before me Tang Chung, who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared that the contents were true.\n\nTANG CHUNG states: - I am an ex-detective sergeant of the Hongkong Police Force. My number was 190. I served in that force twenty-five years and two months and was Sergeant over eleven years.\n\nOn the 12th July, 1897, I and P.C. 319 Yeung Fat, by order of Inspector Staunton, attended at the Captain Superintendent's office about 4:30 p.m. The Captain Superintendent, Mr. May, took us into the Gaol, of which he was Acting Superintendent, where we were searched by a warder who stripped us of all our clothing except our trousers. I was then taken to a cell on the first floor and locked up. I was not told why I was locked up. At 7 or 8 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol. Mr. May, Mr. Dennys and Sung Sing, an interpreter, were there. Mr. Dennys asked me about my police service. He afterwards produced a paper and said Sham In states that if he wanted to open a gambling house he got permission from you, and paid you $3.00 a day, and if you said he must not open it, it was not opened. I told him that was false. He said \"You have been so long a detective sergeant, did you not know there was gambling in Wa Lane?\" I replied \"If I knew, I should have informed Inspector Staunton. I have reported street gambling to him and he has sent me with constables to arrest them.\" He said \"Gambling has been going on there for years, and you say you do not know it.\" He mentioned the names of three persons and asked if I knew them. I replied I did not. He then mentioned the name of Tse Leung and I told him I knew him. He asked why I know him. I replied \"His father was an informer to Inspector Perry and also had a gambling house in 66, Market Street. I informed Inspector Perry and he arrested Tse Leung's father, Tse Lik, and a number of others. I knew Tse Leung, who was a youth then, and I was informed he threatened to have revenge, no matter how long he had to wait.\" Mr. May asked if I knew Sham In. I told him no, but that I met him on a Canton steamer at the time of the Worshipping of Tombs this year, where we got into conversation about some luggage, my wife, whom I had gone to see off, was taking with her. Mr. May asked where I lived. I told him at 43, East Street. He said \"Do you know that 3, East Street is Sham In's outside establishment.\" I replied \"No.\" He asked if I had ever been there for bribe money. I replied \"No, I have never been in the house.\" He asked if I knew Ah Tin. I said \"What Ah Tin? If you mean Ah Ting I know him. He is my nephew; What about him?\" He said \"Where is he?\" I replied \"He is 14 or 15 years of age and is an apprentice to an engineer.\" He then said \"Speak out and tell me what foreigners and Inspectors you collect money from gambling houses for?\" I replied \"I have never collected any.\" He said \"I will call Sham In to give evidence against you.\" I said \"Call him out.\" He did not call him. He walked out to the stairs and returned and said, \"You speak out and tell me whom you collected for and I can get the Governor to let you off and you will retain your position as Sergeant. I will look after you.\" I replied \"If I received bribes, I need not remain so long in the Police. I should have plenty of money.\" He said \"Yes, you want to save more. You must have received the money or Sham In could not say so: You must have paid it to the foreigners.\" I said \"I have done no such thing and I was never in Sham In's house.\" The interpreter Sung Sing said \"If you did so, confess.\" I was then locked...\n\n[L.S.] \nE. H. FRASER, \nVICE-CONSUL.\n\n## C\n\nOn the 27th day of September, 1897, appeared before me O Mi-cheung who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared upon his oath that the contents were true.\n\nO MI-CHEUNG states: - I served in the Hongkong Water Police Force for fourteen years and eight months. I was a detective thirteen years and six months and an acting sergeant and a sergeant about thirteen years of this period.\n\nOn the 15th July, 1897, Inspector Hanson took me into Victoria Gaol. Just before arriving at the gaol he said to me, \"Do you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving $3.00 a day from gambling houses? Did you hand it to him?\" I told him I know nothing about it. He then took me inside and the chief warder searched me, after which I was locked up in a cell on the first floor. At 8 or 9 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol, before Mr. May, Mr. Dennys and Mr. Sung Sing, who acted as interpreter. Mr. Dennys asked me if I had ever collected gambling money and handed it to Mr. Corcoran. I replied \"No.\" He said \"No? Sham In says you have.\" Sham In was then called in and Mr. Dennys asked if I know him. I said \"No. I do not know him.\" Mr. Dennys asked Sham In if he knew me and he replied \"Yes.\" I asked how many times he had seen me. He replied \"Once.\" I said \"When?\" He replied \"In the 3rd decade of the 12th moon of last year (January, 1897) above a barber's shop.\" I asked in what street and the number of the house, and he said he could not remember. I asked to whom he had paid the money, and he said \"To Yeung Fat and Tang Chung; uncle A Cheung (meaning me) confess.\" I said \"I have done nothing to confess.\" Mr. May then sent Sham In away and said to me, \"You have heard what Sham In said.\" I replied \"He is a prisoner and wants to be let out.\" Mr. May said, \"I believe he speaks the truth.\" I said, \"I have done no such thing.\" Mr. May said, \"Tell everything and I will speak to the Governor, who will perhaps let you off and let you remain a Sergeant, otherwise you may be placed on the charge sheet, and charged and if there is evidence, you may be sentenced to six or nine months' hard labour and afterwards be banished for five years. Why is it you will not tell? Corcoran has resigned and you need not be afraid to speak; he cannot look after you now,\" I replied, \"Yes, if I know I must tell and look after myself before others.\" Mr. May said in English, \"You are very foolish.\" When I was before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys, Mr. Dennys wrote down my statement. I was sent away and locked up.\n\nThe next day, 16th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. Sung Sing was interpreter. Mr. May again questioned me as on the previous day.\n\nOn the third day, 17th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. He said, \"There is no one present, you speak in a low tone and tell me about Corcoran affair.\" I replied...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366689, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## 8\n\nstatement for me to take to Mr. May and Mr. Frauris.\" I said \"I know nothing about the matter and I have already said so in gaol.\" The next day I went to Canton and the day after that P.C. 143, Au Hing came to me here in Canton with a similar request to what he had made in Macao, but I had nothing to tell him or to write, and he left.\n\nDeclared by the above named Yeung Fat in my presence.\n\n[LS.]\n\nE. H. FRASER,\nVICE-CONSUL.\n\n(Sa.) 楊發 (YEUNG FAT)\n\n## 9\n\nup. What I said at that interview was written down by Mr. Dennys. That was the only time I was taken out.\n\nOn the 14th Mr. May came to my cell and said \"Your wife has engaged a lawyer. Do you wish to see him?\" I said \"Yes, I have been detained here two days and my wife does not know why, she therefore has engaged a lawyer.\" He replied \"All right, see him tomorrow.\" The next day, 15th July, I saw Mr. Ewons in presence of Mr. Dennys and the following day I was banished.\n\nDeclared by the above named Tang Chung before me.\n\n## 5\n\nOn the 27th day of September 1897 appeared before me Tang Chung, who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared that the contents were true.\n\nTANG CHUNG states:- I am an ex-detective sergeant of the Hongkong Police Force. My number was 190. I served in that force twenty-five years and two months and was Sergeant over eleven years.\n\nOn the 12th July, 1897, I and P.C. 319 Yeung Fat, by order of Inspector Stanton, attended at the Captain Superintendent's office about 4:30 p.m. The Captain Superintendent, Mr. May, took us into the Gaol, of which he was Acting Superintendent, where we were searched by a warder who stripped us of all our clothing except our trousers. I was then taken to a cell on the first floor and locked up. I was not told why I was locked up. At 7 or 8 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol. Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Sung Sing, an interpreter, were there. Mr. Dennys asked me about my police service. He afterwards produced a paper and said Sham In states that if he wanted to open a gambling house he got permission from you, and paid you $3.00 a day, and if you said he must not open it, it was not opened. I told him that was false. He said \"You have been so long a detective sergeant, did you not know there was gambling in Wa Lane?\" I replied \"If I knew, I should have informed Inspector Stanton. I have reported street gambling to him and he has sent me with constables to arrest them.\" He said \"Gambling has been going on there for years, and you say you do not know it.\" He mentioned the names of three persons and asked if I knew them. I replied I did not. He then mentioned the name of Tse Leang and I told him I knew him. He asked why I knew him. I replied \"His father was an informer to Inspector Perry and also had a gambling house in G6, Market Street. I informed Inspector Perry and he arrested Tse Leung's father, Tse Lik, and a number of others. I knew Tse Leung, who was a youth then, and I was informed he threatened to have revenge, no matter how long he had to wait.\" Mr. May asked if I knew Sham In. I told him no, but that I met him on a Canton steamer at the time of the Worshipping of Tombs this year, where we got into conversation about some luggage my wife, whom I had gone to see off, was taking with her. Mr. May asked where I lived. I told him at 48, East Street. He said \"Do you know that 3, East Street is Sham In's outside establishment.\" I replied \"No.\" He asked if I had ever been there for bribe money. I replied \"No, I have never been in the house.\" He asked if I knew Ah Tin. I said \"What Ah Tin? If you mean Ah Ting I know him. He is my nephew; what about him?\" He said \"Where is he?\" I replied \"He is 14 or 15 years of age and is an apprentice to an engineer.\" He then said \"Speak out and tell me what foreigners and Inspectors you collect money from gambling houses for?\" I replied \"I have never collected any.\" He said \"I will call Sham In to give evidence against you.\" I said \"Call him out.\" He did not call him. He walked out to the stairs and returned and said, \"You speak out and tell me whom you collected for and I can get the Governor to let you off and you will retain your position as Sergeant. I will look after you.\" I replied \"If I received bribes, I need not remain so long in the Police. I should have plenty of money.\" He said \"Yes, you want to save more. You must have received the money or Sham In could not say so: You must have paid it to the foreigners.\" I said \"I have done no such thing and I was never in Sham In's house.\"\n\nThe interpreter Sung Sing said \"If you did so, confess.\" I was then locked up.\n\n[SL.] 忠戳\n\n(TANG CHUNG)\n\n[L.S.]\n\nE. H. FRASER,\nVICE-CONSUL.\n\n## C\n\nOn the 27th day of September, 1897, appeared before me O Mi-cheang who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared upon his oath that the contents were true.\n\nO MI-CHEUNG states: - I served in the Hongkong Water Police Force for fourteen years and eight months. I was a detective thirteen years and six months and an acting sergeant and a sergeant about thirteen years of this period.\n\nOn the 15th July, 1897, Inspector Hanson took me into Victoria Gaol. Just before arriving at the gaol, he said to me, \"Do you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving $3.00 a day from gambling houses? Did you hand it to him?\" I told him I know nothing about it. He then took me inside and the chief warder searched me, after which I was locked up in a cell on the first floor. At 8 or 9 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol, before Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Mr. Sung Sing, who acted as interpreter. Mr. Dennys asked me if I had ever collected gambling money and handed it to Mr. Corcoran. I replied \"No.\" He said \"No? Sham In says you have.\" Sham In was then called in and Mr. Dennys asked if I knew him. I said \"No. I do not know him.\" Mr. Dennys asked Sham In if he knew me and he replied \"Yes.\" I asked how many times he had seen me. He replied \"Once.\" I said \"When?\" He replied \"In the 3rd decade of the 12th moon of last year (January, 1897) above a barber's shop.\" I asked in what street and the number of the house, and he said he could not remember. I asked to whom he had paid the money, and he said \"To Yeung Fat and Tang Chung; uncle A Cheong (meaning me) confess.\" I said \"I have done nothing to confess.\" Mr. May then sent Sham In away and said to me, \"You have heard what Sham In said.\" I replied \"He is a prisoner and wants to be let out.\" Mr. May said, \"I believe he speaks the truth.\" I said, \"I have done no such thing.\" Mr. May said, \"Tell everything and I will speak to the Governor, who will perhaps let you off and let you remain a Sergeant, otherwise you may be placed on the charge sheet, and charged and if there is evidence, you may be sentenced to six or nine months' hard labour and afterwards be banished for five years. Why is it you will not tell? Corcoran has resigned and you need not be afraid to speak; he cannot look after you now.\" I replied, \"Yes, if I know I must tell and look after myself before others.\" Mr. May said in English, \"You are very foolish.\" When I was before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys, Mr. Dennys wrote down my statement. I was sent away and locked up.\n\nThe next day, 16th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. Sung Sing was interpreter. Mr. May again questioned me as on the previous day.\n\nOn the third day, 17th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. He said, \"There is no one present, you speak in a low tone and tell me about Corcoran affair.\" I replied...\n\n## 34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 435, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "## Statement of Yeung Fat\n\n425 \n\n8 \n\nstatement for me to take to Mr. May and Mr. Francis.\" I said \"I know nothing about the matter and I have already said so in gaol.\" The next day I went to Canton and the day after that P.C. 143, Au Hing came to me here in Canton with a similar request to what he had made in Macao, but I had nothing to tell him or to write, and he left.\n\nDeclared by the above named Yeung Fat in my presence,\n\n[L.S.]\n\n**E. H. FRASER, VICE-CONSUL.**\n\n(Sd.) 楊發 (YEUNG FAT)\n\nup. What I said at that interview was written down by Mr. Dennys. That was the only time I was taken out.\n\nOn the 14th Mr. May came to my cell and said \"Your wife has engaged a lawyer. Do you wish to see him?\" I said \"Yes, I have been detained here two days and my wife does not know why, she therefore has engaged a lawyer.\" He replied \"All right, see him tomorrow.\" The next day, 15th July, I saw Mr. Ewens in presence of Mr. Dennys and the following day I was banished.\n\nDeclared by the above named Tang Chung before me.\n\n(Sd.) 鄧忠 (TANG CHUNG)\n\n## Statement of Tang Chung\n\nB\n\nOn the 27th day of September 1897 appeared before me Tang Chung, who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared that the contents were true.\n\nTANG CHUNG states: - I am an ex-detective sergeant of the Hongkong Police Force. My number was 190. I served in that force twenty-five years and two months and was Sergeant over eleven years.\n\nOn the 12th July, 1897, I and P.C. 319 Yeung Fat, by order of Inspector Stanton, attended at the Captain Superintendent's office about 4:30 p.m. The Captain Superintendent, Mr. May, took us into the Gaol, of which he was Acting Superintendent, where we were searched by a warder who stripped us of all our clothing except our trousers. I was then taken to a cell on the first floor and locked up. I was not told why I was locked up. At 7 or 8 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol. Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Sung Sing, an interpreter, were there. Mr. Dennys asked me about my police service. He afterwards produced a paper and said Sham In states that if he wanted to open a gambling house he got permission from you, and paid you $3.00 a day, and if you said he must not open it, it was not opened. I told him that was false. He said \"You have been so long a detective sergeant, did you not know there was gambling in Wa Lane?\" I replied \"If I knew, I should have informed Inspector Stanton. I have reported street gambling to him and he has sent me with constables to arrest them.\" He said \"Gambling has been going on there for years, and you say you do not know it.\" He mentioned the names of three persons and asked if I knew them. I replied I did not. He then mentioned the name of Tse Leung and I told him I knew him. He asked why I knew him. I replied \"His father was an informer to Inspector Ferry and also had a gambling house in 66, Market Street. I informed Inspector Ferry and he arrested Tse Leung's father, Tse Lik, and a number of others. I knew Tse Leung, who was a youth then, and I was informed he threatened to have revenge, no matter how long he had to wait.\" Mr. May asked if I knew Sham In. I told him no, but that I met him on a Canton steamer at the time of the Worshipping of Tombs this year, where we got into conversation about some luggage my wife, whom I had gone to see off, was taking with her. Mr. May asked where I lived. I told him at 43, East Street. He said \"Do you know that 3, East Street is Sham In's outside establishment.\" I replied \"No.\" He asked if I had ever been there for bribe money. I replied \"No, I have never been in the house.\" He asked if I knew Ah Tin. I said \"What Ah Tin? If you mean Ah Ting I know him. He is my nephew; what about him?\" He said \"Where is he?\" I replied \"He is 14 or 15 years of age and is an apprentice to an engineer.\" He then said \"Speak out and tell me what foreigners and Inspectors you collect money from gambling houses for?\" I replied \"I have never collected any.\" He said \"I will call Sham In to give evidence against you.\" I said \"Call him out.\" He did not call him. He walked out to the stairs and returned and said, \"You speak out and tell me whom you collected for and I can get the Governor to let you off and you will retain your position as Sergeant. I will look after you.\" I replied \"If I received bribes, I need not remain so long in the Police. I should have plenty of money.\" He said \"Yes, you want to save more. You must have received the money or Sham In could not say so: You must have paid it to the foreigners.\" I said \"I have done no such thing and I was never in Sham In's house.\" The interpreter Sung Sing said \"If you did so, confess.\" I was then locked up.\n\n[L.S.]\n\n**E. H. FRASER, VICE-CONSUL.**\n\n## Statement of O Mi-cheung\n\nC\n\nOn the 27th day of September, 1897, appeared before me O Mi-cheung who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared upon his oath that the contents were true.\n\nO MI-CHEUNG states: - I served in the Hongkong Water Police Force for fourteen years and eight months. I was a detective thirteen years and six months and an acting sergeant and a sergeant about thirteen years of this period.\n\nOn the 15th July, 1897, Inspector Hanson took me into Victoria Gaol. Just before arriving at the gaol he said to me, \"Do you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving $3.00 a day from gambling houses? Did you hand it to him?\" I told him I know nothing about it. He then took me inside and the chief warder searched me, after which I was locked up in a cell on the first floor. At 8 or 9 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol, before Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Mr. Sung Sing, who acted as interpreter. Mr. Dennys asked me if I had ever collected gambling money and handed it to Mr. Corcoran. I replied \"No.\" He said \"No? Sham In says you have.\" Sham In was then called in and Mr. Dennys asked if I knew him. I said \"No. I do not know him.\" Mr. Dennys asked Sham In if he knew me and he replied \"Yes.\" I asked how many times he had seen me. He replied \"Once.\" I said \"When?\" He replied \"In the 3rd decade of the 12th moon of last year (January, 1897) above a barber's shop.\" I asked in what street and the number of the house, and he said he could not remember. I asked to whom he had paid the money, and he said \"To Yeung Fat and Tang Chung; uncle A Cheung (meaning me) confess.\" I said \"I have done nothing to confess.\" Mr. May then sent Sham In away and said to me, \"You have heard what Sham In said.\" I replied \"He is a prisoner and wants to be let out.\" Mr. May said, \"I believe he speaks the truth.\" I said, \"I have done no such thing.\" Mr. May said, \"Tell everything and I will speak to the Governor, who will perhaps let you off and let you remain a Sergeant, otherwise you may be placed on the charge sheet, and charged and if there is evidence, you may be sentenced to six or nine months' hard labour and afterwards be banished for five years. Why is it you will not tell? Corcoran has resigned and you need not be afraid to speak; he cannot look after you now,\" I replied, \"Yes, if I know I must tell and look after myself before others.\" Mr. May said in English, \"You are very foolish.\" When I was before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys, Mr. Dennys wrote down my statement. I was sent away and locked up.\n\nThe next day, 16th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. Sung Sing was interpreter. Mr. May again questioned me as on the previous day.\n\nOn the third day, 17th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. He said, \"There is no one present, you speak in a low tone and tell me about Corcoran affair.\" I replied,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374920, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "The letter from da Rocha to Walter Singh \n\nthe charge of money lending was held by \n\non what \n\nground is with 23 203-\n\nit certainly implied that the loan was made by Walter Singh The inquiry \n\nNor May under the Police Ordinance Da Rocha (who appears to have previously billed for Jerry that the Walter Singh lent him the money) \n\nwas examined in the process of Walter Frugt \n\nand then stated that Walter Frugt proceeded the loan for him from Ganda Singh \n\nhe received the money from Walter Singh and paid him the interest but repaid the principal in installments Gunda Singh stated that he had made the loan \n\nWith Walter Singh \n\nhanded the \n\nthe recommendation \n\nLU. S to für Da Rocha Rocka \n\nthat \n\nthe letter Singh admitted the birth of the debt but did not clean his statements qua Singh that blend But the \n\nmoney \n\nht \n\nDu Rocher and prenden \n\nlikker brigh \n\n5 \n\nhaid back to him and he report in the case the Governor and recommended 1. Friskis des neifel-\n\nThe acting attorney final to whom the Governor reped the pages apind witte dos Man's views that Walter Singh had \n\nmi to da Rocher \n\na breach of the regulation \n\nCut the Le advised At W. S. Lad Committee that sunt dish disuca wuld \n\nsment & misconduct cause for which to proveer was confused further Police Administrator to dis niche Uher Fugle upon this recommendation after Captain Suft \n\nThe Governor themselves dismissed him \n\ncic \n\nmit under de element He was \n\nthe \n\npresent \n\n- \n\nthe Tide \n\ndhe hate of the loan affairs open the windener than ten about Sept 1895 \n\n5 months (und 5 graus) before 4. Singh's dismissal He was dismissed under the Police Adinance Regulations usquanth Cl. Aug. 96/d) do not apply Police did not regoise any written charge and then otro met appier than them \n\nwritten chay \n\nafacut but I think was tak Then he \n\nwhe \n\nto hour then supplied for the purport of his appeal to the S for State with a copy the deportions at the requiring het hy berbag \n\nthe fif -to xey tut dide \n\ncharge z \n\nin this case. \n\nIt the \n\nreceiving hibe from the famthing hense is stimefed per consideration. I think the punishment \n\ncheard sxelpin and that Walter Singh ought to have a pension Grüßet nound from the full \n\ntake t \n\nThun \n\nno nud \n\nWalter Singh \n\n244 \n\nIt would not be desciath to reinstate him \n\nin \n\nKariss \n\nHong Kong - and it would be difficult to find Employment for \n\na man, who has had to Cing service and been Sergeant Major, in another Colony - \n\nDes 179.10 \n\n27 \n\nAppended the following particulars to Complete the facts of the \n\ncase \n\nmmy to the Soft in 23203 the \n\nannouncry \n\ndismissal of Walter Singh \n\ncontending that \n\nLe cas \n\nbe his politin he refused the then foremo \n\n\"much inputame stated that he attached \n\nto the regulation (about moneylending which Walter Singh was held to have broken) mi \"Creation being regard to the-accumulares\" \n\nwhich initiated it and which revealed state of things calculated to bring the tour \n\nsiste dierepcti \n\nQ \n\nWhat Itense encunest access Kaw; but the frecuen areo is an alleams could be acked. In the same despatch the fremor wrote \"The Petitioner's long since and position in \n\n\"the force in my opinion merely aggravate the offence", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407914, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "373\n\n2\n\ncommitted what in English law would be perjury of a very serious nature, I have the honour to request your sanction to my asking the Governor at Nan Chiang to award to the latter some suitable, but not vindictive, punishment. As far as the evidence at the trial went, Hsiao Fa should either have been liberated or condemned to death.\n\nRewards.-I cannot but regard the manner in which this part of the stipulations made by His Majesty's Government has been carried out by the Chinese authorities as most unsatisfactory. The revised list of Chinese who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners whose names I brought to Sir Ernest Satow's notice, and to each of whom a substantial reward was to be given, is contained in Mr. Carnegie's despatch. I have the honour to report as follows upon the rewards so far allotted to the various officers and men named therein :-\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet, and Wu Chén-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau, have been placed next on the list for promotion. This is too uncertain; they should at once be promoted to the rank of Chih Chou.\n\nWu Melting, captain of a gunboat, to be promoted to the next Ying vacancy. Should he at once be made a Ying Kuan, preferably at Kiukiang, that being his wish.\n\nHsu Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School; Chiên K'uei (not in original list); Sun Lang, Police Deputy; Hsu Hui-Chuan, ditto; Liu Hung-lin (not in the original list); Shên Fu-hêng, of the Ching Ch'a Chu. When vacancies occur, their cases will be considered. This is too indefinite; they should be given the rank of Chih Chou, and sent immediately to fill acting posts.\n\nLiu Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander; Chên Chin-tang, Commandant of the Ch'ang Fei Chun; Hung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion, Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint; Liu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel of the City Guard; Wang Te-sheng, Captain of the City Guard, Liu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry: Tsao Tê-fu, an Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army; Ho Huan-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry, Wang Hsi-lin, ditto; Pan Têng-hsien, ditto; Hsu Tzo-chün, Sergeant of the Provincial Garrison. These cases have not yet been considered, owing to a change of the Taotai in charge of military matters. Each case should be carefully considered, and definite promotion given immediately; otherwise nothing may be done for three to five years, or the matter may be overlooked altogether.\n\nPao Chiêng haang, of the Chồng Shou Ying; Pao Pu-kuei, ditto; Heung 1-shéng (Hsiung Lan-sen), of the Chang Pei Chün. These have received 7 taels each. They exerted themselves strenuously throughout the day of the massacre, and the reward must be considered inadequate. It cannot be construed as a \"substantial\" reward, as stipulated, and should be trebled at least.\n\nChang Ya-chan and Lü Chin-piao, of the Ching Cha Chü, have received 55 dollars and 45 dollars respectively. This may be considered sufficient.\n\nChu Ping-kun, of the Ching Cha Chi, is to be sent to Japan to study (probably for a military career). This, being at his own request, will, if carried out, be sufficient compensation for his voluntary aid to the missionaries in distress.\n\nI submit that the above list hardly indicates that this portion of the conditions imposed by His Majesty's Government has been carried out in the right spirit, and Had it not been that its immediate and adequate fulfilment should be insisted upon, for the courage and exertions of those named, it is probable that most of the missionaries in Nan Ch'ang at the time would have been murdered and all the Mission buildings destroyed. The sympathy, bravery, and hard work of what may be regarded as a small, but just-minded, pro-foreign party, ready to do right, even on behalf of aliens, in face of the risk of official disapproval, are characters and acts calling for commendation and encouragement, and it is to be feared that if the Governor at Nan Chang is not compelled to fulfil the stipulation as to granting a substantial reward to each of those named in Mr. Carnegie's note to Prince Ching of the 27th June last, since it cannot but be known that the stipulation has been made, the failure to insist upon its proper fulfilment will be regarded as a sign of weakness or indifference, and the name of foreigners and the cause of foreign Missions in Nan Chiang be in so far prejudiced. In those cases where it is impossible to immediately find a substantive post of higher grade, promotion in rank accompanied by an adequate pecuniary reward should at once be given.\n\nOf the names omitted from the revised list, Pao Fang, Miss Warr's writer, exerted himself throughout the day and part of the night, and was probably the means of Miss Warr's life being saved. This man and Chen p'o p'o, the amah who saved the infant Vera Kingham, should not be allowed to go unrewarded.\n\nThat a feeling of disappointment exists amongst those who, instead of deserting the missionaries in the hour of danger, worked hard on their behalf, and in many cases saved their lives and protected their property, is shown by the following extract from a letter, dated the 11th September, received by me from the Rev. A. E. Thor, of the China Inland Mission at Nan Ch'ang:-\n\n\"I have asked a good many, direct and indirect, if So-and-so has been rewarded, but always the same answer 'No,' and no one seems to think there will be any. To-day Liu Kuch-tung, of the cavalry camp, came in to have a chat; I asked him about the reward. He laughed and said: 'Reward there will be none, but a few days ago a note was sent to us from the General, which he had received from Peking, in which we were thanked for good service rendered the country, and that five names (mine being one) were put in the book of honour amongst those who have rendered good service to the country, and that is all we will get. If this country is too poor (as they always say) to give these men higher rank and as such more pay, it seems to me that the Chinese Government could afford to give their officers higher kong-ming' (degree). That would cost the Government nothing, but would work wonders amongst those who get it. Now, they all seem disappointed, as they had expected something, as the Governor cried out during the riot: 'A thousand taels to any one who saves a foreigner.'\n\nI submit that the Governor at Nan Chang should be instructed by telegraph to see that the stipulations of the two Governments are carried out immediately and in a proper spirit.\n\nCompensation. The sum of 4,700l.—the amount agreed upon as compensation for the destroyed property of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and for the support of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham-was received by me to-day (the 18th September) from the Governor of Nan Ch'ang, through the Prefect (the Taotai being in attendance upon his dying mother), to whom I gave a receipt. By the instructions of His Majesty's Chief Judge at Shanghae I have deposited the 700l. in the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Shanghae, in an account named \"His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Kiukiang, a/c K.,\" and the 4,000, in the same bank in London to the account of \"His Britannic Majesty's Chief Judge, Supreme Court, Shanghae.\"\n\nAll the other claims for personal property destroyed having, as already reported, been settled satisfactorily by the former Governor, Hu Ting-kan, there remains only the question of the new piece of land which it was agreed should be granted to the missionaries for the purpose of erecting buildings in which to carry on the work begun by the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and his wife. The 700l. paid as compensation for the late Mr. Kingham's property having included the land on which the house and chapel had been erected, I have stated to the Rev. H. E. Pownall, representing the Stewards' Company (of which Mr. Kingham was a member), that this new piece of land, which obviously cannot form part of Mr. Kingham's estate, may be considered as the property of the Stewards' Company, given to them for the carrying on of the work interrupted by the death of Mr. Kingham, feeling that this course would meet with your sanction and approval. Further negotiations as to whether the same site shall be granted, or whether it will be advisable to rebuild the Mission premises at a greater distance from the Roman Catholic Mission (their proximity having led to their destruction during the late massacre), are under correspondence between the missionaries, the Nan Chang officials, and myself, and will probably shortly reach a satisfactory conclusion.\n\nSettlement and Guardianship.-After correspondence with the Supreme Court at Shanghae, I have suggested the appointment of the Rev. H. E. Pownali and Rev. R. J. Hopkins as trustees for the minor, Margaret Vera Kingham. Owing to the absence of the parties, I have not yet taken the hearing for the appointment of a guardian, and if, as seems probable from what Mr. Pownall has stated, Mr. Hopkins or he would prefer to be guardian rather than trustee, another reliable person nearly connected will be appointed joint trustee with one or the other. The matter will be proceeded with as soon as possible, and the Crown Advocate at Shanghae will then be instructed to draw up a deed of settlement, a draft of which will be forwarded for your approval.\n\nA claim for the guardianship of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham, has been made, though as yet only in an informal manner, in private letters to Mrs. Pownall and Mrs. Hopkins by a Mr. Percy Kingham, a hotel-keeper of Drummond, South Africa, brother of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham, but being satisfied from information gathered from various sources that his guardianship would not be to the interests of the ward, and the Chief Judge concurring in my view, the appointment of a guardian will be proceeded with irrespective of any claim which he may see fit to set up.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. T. C. WERNER.\n\n3\n\n373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438812, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "content_text": "1 :\n\n- 115\n\nThe revenue derived from various sources is about $200 per month; the money is kept in the Police Station safe until paid into the Bank for the Treasury at headquarters (Hong Kong).\n\nThere is no telephonic or telegraphic communication with other places. There is a daily steam-ferry service, however, between the Island and Hong Kong, the passage taking about one hour and a half.\n\nOn the 19th of August, 1912, at about 9:45 p.m., a piratical raid was made by a body of Chinese, estimated to number between forty and fifty, on the Island.\n\nThis band, which was armed with rifles and pistols, sailed to the island in a large junk and landed in their small boats on the easterly side of the narrow strip of ground by which the two ends of the Island are divided.\n\nThey immediately swarmed down the main street and, approaching the Police Station, some burst open the door of the \"quarters\" and ran through to the front; others came round to the front by both sides and, on being challenged by an Indian policeman who was a few yards up on the pier, shot him dead.\n\nTwo other Indian Policemen were shot dead under circumstances which will be detailed later; the European Sergeant and the 4th Indian Policeman escaped. The pirates took possession of the arms at the Police Charge Room, ransacked the Station and a pawnbroker's shop, and, after thus \"holding up\" the place for rather over two hours, took a Government launch which they utilized to tow away their junk and made off to wherever they came from somewhere outside British Territory.\n\nFor the purpose of this enquiry, further details of the attack need not be now entered into.\n\n5.\n\nThe enquiries made by the Committee.\n\nYour Committee visited the Island on the 14th instant and spent some two hours examining the Station and places concerned in this matter. Sergeant Boulger, who was stationed on the Island at the time of the affray, was present, as was also the Captain.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "CERTIFIED TRUE COPY\n\n80\n\nRevised June 1917-For Officers on Military Service,\n\nHONG KONG POLICE FORCE.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nRE-ENGAGEMENT.\n\nReqn. 2613.\n\nAppts.\n\nAgreement made this 2nd day of September 1917\n\nBetween the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, London, for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong, of the one part, and Harry John Paterson of 55 Gopar St, Lymington, Hants of the other part.\n\nWhereby it is agreed between the said parties as follows:--\n\n1. The said Harry John Paterson (hereinafter called the person engaged) hereby agrees, as soon as required by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, subject to Clause 2 below, to proceed to Hong Kong as Lance Sergeant in the Police Force of the Government of that Colony, and to act in all respects according to the directions and instructions given to him by the Government of Hong Kong through its properly qualified officers, and he undertakes that he will faithfully and honestly fulfil the duties required of him by or on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong for the term of his engagement or for any future period of service if he should engage himself after the termination of the period for which he is now engaged.\n\n2. The person engaged will continue to draw his allowance from Colonial funds while on military service and when released from military service will be required to undergo a medical examination by a duly qualified medical officer appointed by the Crown Agents for the Colonies as to his fitness for further service in the Hong Kong Police Force. If he is then passed as fit for further service, he agrees to proceed to Hong Kong as and when required by the Crown Agents for the Colonies. If he is not so passed, his appointment will terminate as from the date of such medical examination.\n\n3. A Second Class passage to Hong Kong shall be provided for the person engaged at the cost of the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n4. The period of engagement is five years from the date of the expiration of the period of five years covered by the last previous agreement made with the person engaged.\n\n5. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement the person engaged shall be bound by the conditions of service in the Hong Kong Police Force hereto annexed, and shall, from the date on which his Colonial allowance while on military service ceases, draw salary at the rate to which he is entitled under such conditions.\n\n6. The Crown Agents for the Colonies shall be in no wise personally liable for any matters arising out of this Agreement.\n\nAs witness our hands the day and year above written.\n\nSigned by Percy Ezechiel (on behalf of the Crown Agents for the Colonies) in the presence of F. Burke, Downing Street, of the office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\nSigned by the said Harry John Paterson in the presence of William Jones, Prime Address No. 1 Military Road, occupation Clerk.\n\nSigned here: Harry J. Paterson\n\nStamp 2/9/17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477294, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 21st September, 1918.\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of Sir Henry May's Despatch No. 223 of the 29th July, 1918, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a local press report, containing the verdict returned by the Jury in the Coroner's enquiry into the death of Sergeant Glendinning and Police Constable B. 18, at Tai O.\n\n2. I enclose a copy of a minute by the Captain Superintendent of Police which details the manner in which the Indian Police concerned have been dealt with, and the steps which have been taken to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy.\n\n3. I also enclose a portion of a previous minute by the Captain Superintendent of Police which shows that certain persons concerned acted promptly and courageously. The coxswain of the ferry launch and the shopkeeper in question have been suitably rewarded, while the Chinese Sergeant Interpreter has been promoted to Fourth Grade. The enclosed copy of a letter from the Sikh Community of the Colony expresses in a gratifying manner the feeling of that body.\n\n4.\n\n5. In the Estimates for 1919, provision is being made.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE** \nWALTER LONG, M.P. \n&c., \n&c., \n&c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477298, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 3\n\n## COPY\n\n**Hon. Colonial Secretary**\n\n522\n\nI would take this opportunity of mentioning the cases of (a) the coxswain of the \"Yu Sang\" ferry launch and (b) Sgt. Interpreter, Tai Tat-san and (c) Wong Ki-hing, a shopkeeper of Tai O.\n\n(a) The ferry launch was on its way from Tung Chung to Tai O, when, about half way, it met the boat with an Indian Sergeant on board. The Indian Sergeant asked the coxswain to go to Castle Peak. The coxswain, however, said that there was a Police launch at Tung Chung, and stopped his launch and returned them. I recommend that he be granted a suitable reward. His action quite possibly saved the lives of Mrs. Glendinning and the child.\n\n(b) The Sergeant Interpreter acted with intelligence and resolution, (for a Chinaman of that class). On hearing the news of the murder, he collected Winchester rifles from fishing junks in the Harbour, with which he armed himself and some of the boatmen. He stationed a man to guard the passage across the creek. They were expecting Indian Police Constable 18 to break out of the station to attack them, and the Chinese were at first under the impression that all the other Indians were hostile. The Sergeant Interpreter then approached the station and posted his men so as to guard the exits.\n\nHe is one of the senior men in the 5th grade and on his maximum. I would suggest that a suitable reward would be to promote him to IV grade, and let him commence on the first increment as he is presumably near to promotion now in the ordinary course.\n\n(c) Wong Ki-hing is a shopkeeper of Wing On Street, Tai O Village. He volunteered to accompany Lee, Sergeant Perkins to the station, and armed himself with a Winchester.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477727, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "# COPY.\n\nNo. 690/1918.\n\nThe Honourable \nThe Colonial Treasurer, \nKowloon-Canton Railway, \nBritish Section, \nHongkong, 16th October, 1918.\n\n8963 \nREC \n406 \n\n**Sir,**\n\nREG 1 TB 19\n\nI regret to have to report that the railway pay clerk Leung Kam Tong absconded yesterday with $3,915 of Government money in notes, and it is feared that he has got away to China.\n\nThe circumstances, so far as are known, are as follows:-\n\nThe cash to be paid into the bank amounted to $86,896.52, of which $83,915 was in notes. It was made up into four bags and was sent from the shroff's office at about 1:45 in charge of the pay clerk, an Indian Police Sergeant and four coolies. Outside the ferry pier, it appears that the pay clerk gave the Indian sergeant his fare, telling him that he would follow shortly, and he came back in the direction of the office, while the rest of the party, with the exception of one other man who appears to have been an accomplice and held the bag containing the notes, went on to the ferry and crossed over to the bank, arriving there soon after 2 p.m.\n\nAt about 4:25 p.m., I was called up by the bank and informed that our men were still waiting there with the money, but that no one had yet turned up to pay it in. I immediately sent the shroff to go over to fetch the cash back, as I did not know at that time whether the notes were missing or not, and only had my suspicions. I then telephoned the Honourable Captain Superintendent of Police, giving him all the information I could.\n\nMr. Morris, who was just leaving for military duties, then turned up, so I sent him to the Bank too, and he phoned me from there that the shroff had arrived and taken the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480607, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Statement by Fung Chi, 2nd Coxswain, No.1 Fire Float\n\nI am 2nd Coxswain of the Hongkong Fire Brigade No.1 Fire Float. About 10 P.M. on the 3rd August 1919, I was on board the float which was lying at the buoy in the Harbour, off Statue Wharf. I heard a Police whistle being sounded, the sound appeared to be in the direction of the Star Ferry Wharf. I heard someone shout in Chinese for a boat to be lowered from the Float. Along with Wong Kan King & Lo Kwai, two of the seamen, I lowered the dinghy. We rowed the dinghy in the direction from which the sound came. At a distance of about 15 yards from the Fraya, I saw a man struggling in the water. Sergeant Wall Field was also in the water. I saw Sergeant Field get on board a sampan and attempt to get the man on board. The man whom Sergeant Field was attempting to rescue was struggling violently. I assisted Sergeant Field in getting the man on board the sampan.\n\nThe man rescued fell into the water a second time. The Sergeant got him on board the sampan a second time. Sergeant Field then landed the rescued man at Statue Wharf. He handed him over to European Police in uniform. The rescued man was then to all appearance unconscious. When I first saw Sergeant Field on the sampan, his clothes were soaked in water.\n\n## Metadata\nTaken on: 4. 9 - 19 \nTaken by: William Murison, Chief Detective Inspector \nInterpreted by: Ng Ping U, Sergeant Interpreter \n\nPage 332", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480609, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Statement by: Wong Ken, Seaman, No.1 Fire Float\nTaken by: William Murison, Chief Detective Inspector. Interpreted by: Ng Fing U, Sergeant Interpreter.\n\nI am a seaman on board No.1 Fire Float, Hong-kong Fire Brigade. About 10.P.M. on the 3rd August, while lying at our buoy off Statue Wharf, I heard Police whistle being sounded in the direction of Star Ferry Wharf. I looked through the binocular glasses and saw a man jump from the Praya Wall into the Harbour. I eventually went in the dinghy, with two others of the crew to where the man was in the water. I saw a second man in the water, whom I later learned was Sergeant Field. I saw Sergt. Field attempting to keep the other man on the surface of the water. The Sergeant got on to a sampan still holding on to the other man and attempted to get him on board. The man whom Sergeant Field was attempting to get on to the sampan struggled violently. Along with the other two I assisted in getting the man on board the sampan. The man still struggled and again got into the water. With our assistance Sergeant Field again got him on board the sampan and landed him at Statue Pier. The rescued man was there handed over to European Police in uniform.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492107, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922]\n\ning and generally on business. Such fears, I am glad to say, proved not well founded. There has been a very considerable amount of building during the past year and I had hoped it would be sufficient to relieve the previous shortage of housing accommodation to the extent that it would make it unnecessary to continue the Bill in operation. I am informed, however, that this has not been the case and it is still necessary to continue to keep this Bill alive; otherwise, tenants would be in the unfortunate position from which we had to rescue them last year. They would be at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords. I have, therefore, to give notice that it is the intention of the Government to propose in the next few weeks that the Ordinance restricting rents should be retained in operation another year. During the course of this year there have been communications to the effect that the Ordinance in certain circumstances had worked hardship on the landlords, and it might be that we shall think it desirable to introduce amendments which will require consideration. It will be of great assistance to the Government if those landlords or others who have found that the operation of the Ordinance as it stands needs amendment will inform the Government fully of the points to which they object in order that we may consider how far they weaken the principle of the measure.\n\nTHE ADJOURNMENT.\n\nI propose that the Council adjourn till this day week, and as there will be very little before the Council, I propose, unless members object, that we should meet at 12 o'clock on that day.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY intimated that he would like the members of the Council to remain after the meeting of the Finance Committee.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY later returned to the Council Chamber, but this meeting was not open to the Press.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee was held, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding.\n\nRAILWAY NOTES.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,200 in aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, Other Charges Maintenance of Way, works and stations, repairs, Station buildings.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nThe Hon. Mr. POLLOCK: It is done at night properly, and fill the cisterns ready for the next morning.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: Yes. The vote was agreed to.\n\nEX-SERVICE MEN.\n\nSUCCESSFUL RE-UNION DINNER.\n\n\"THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST.\"\n\nThe Ex-Active Service Men's Association held a most successful re-union dinner at the Hongkong Hotel on March 18th. A large company assembled and the spirit of good comradeship evoked in the trenches of France and Flanders was manifest in the gathering. The President (W. St. A. Malleson, V.C., R.N.) was in the chair and the guests included H.E. Sir John Fowler, K.C.M.G., C.B., Colonel Nicholson, Mr. H. Percy Smith, and Captain Fisher.\n\nDuring the evening \"The Silent Toast\" was honoured and the \"Last Post\" was sounded by one of the King's Regiment buglers; also the sergeant in charge of the buglers. \"Old Bill\" was there in costume issue. The menu card was as follows:-\n\nRATIONS.\n\n1-Estaminet Cocktail.\n\n2. Trench Soup (and plenty of it).\n\n3. Sole a la Whizz Bang.\n\n4.-Fillet of Shrapnel en Hellfire Corner.\n\n5. \"Somme\" Chicken.\n\n6-Iced Asparagus (of your dreams).\n\n7.-Pipsqueak en Surprise.\n\n8-Mills Bombs on Toast.\n\n9. Dessert (please don't).\n\n10.-Coffee and Rum (Watch the Sergeant Major).\n\nProfessor MIDDLETON SMITH, in proposing the toast of the Association, congratulated the Association on the pleasant reunions it had organised to keep members in touch with one another, and spoke of the value of keeping green memories of the great effort the Empire made in 1914-1918. The times, he said, were somewhat out of joint and the future would not be bright unless the splendid spirit of comradeship and high endeavour shown in the war continued to prevail.\n\nThe PRESIDENT (Lieut. Malleson, V.C.), in responding to the toast, laid emphasis on the need of a club where ex-Service men could meet and be sure of finding the glad hand extended to them. He did not think the Association would ever get going properly until they had acquired a club house of their own.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The Engineer of the railway has reported that in consequence of the abnormally heavy traffic recently passing through, the collapsible gates have been seriously damaged and should be taken in hand at once. There are new gates and it is proposed to utilise them, and the estimate for carrying this work into effect is $1,200.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $5,386 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, additional sidings, Loco Yard, Hunghom.\n\nMr. Tom WRIGHT responded to a call for a speech, and extending a cordial welcome to General Fowler, Mr. Mackintosh said that they were ready to follow the General in the battle of peace as they did in the battles of war- (Applause).\n\nMajor General FOWLER, replying on behalf of the visitors, said that he felt greatly honoured by having been invited to reply to this toast. As far as he was concerned, he would assist the Association to the utmost of his ability. He also looked to the Association to help in the maintaining of order.\n\nA voice: We will do our best for you, Sir.\n\nDuring the evening an excellent concert took place and the whole assembly joined in many songs reminiscent of army life.\n\nTHE BRITISH LEGION.\n\nREPETITION OF THE ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe British Legion, aggrieved by the stabs of the anonymous letter-writer, held its annual meeting over again at the City Hall on March 20th. The Committee, elected at a sparsely attended meeting during the strike, had resigned en bloc. This time there was a large attendance.\n\nA \"vote of confidence\" in the President (Brig.-General E. B. Macnaghten) was indicated by his being elected to the chair. Someone then proposed that the decisions of the earlier meeting should be endorsed forthwith. Another member thought it would be better to have each name formally proposed and seconded. In the end, the course was adopted of asking members to fill in ballot papers, taking the names according to their choice, from the full list of members of the Legion.\n\nThe result of the ballot was declared as follows:-\n\nPresident, Brig.-General E. B. Macnaghten; Chairman, Mr. A. Murdoch; Vice-Chairman, Mr. H. C. Gray; Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. K. Holmes; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. W. J. Hawker; Hon. Auditors, Mr. H. Spicer and Mr. A. Piercy.\n\nCommittee.-Lieut. Conway Hake, the Rev. C. C'ouston Porri, Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton, Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird, Mr. T. W. Hill, Mr. M. H. Turner, Mr. H. W. Roberts, Mr. F. W. James, and Mr. H. S. Burleigh.\n\nIn the course of the proceedings, the Chairman read a letter from the Captain Superintendent of Police stating that the Legion had been the first to offer services in the special constabulary during the strike and thanking them for the excellent example set and the good work done.\n\nDr. TEESDALE MACKINTOSH, in proposing the toast of \"The Visitors,\" urged those of the guests who were eligible to become members of the Association to see that before Sunday dawned they got hold of the secretary and joined up. To those who were \"really bona fide visitors,\" he appealed for their support and sympathy. \"We have,\" said Dr. Mackintosh, \"annoyed a great many people in this Colony (Cheers) and we have trod upon a great many peoples' corns. If these people have corns, they must expect to have them trod upon.\"\n\nAMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.\n\nA London telegram says:-An overwhelming majority of amateur golfers voted in favour of the suggested new Amateur Championship rules, which include a stroke qualifying competition over 38 holes. Thirty-two competitors will be played over thirty-six holes.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. PARR: Does it mean that the 1920 and 1921 championships were circularised and 129 voted for the change, 19 against, and 90 did not reply? A petition was presented to the authorities forthwith with the request that this revision will govern the 1922 championship at Prestwich in May.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The Manager of the Railway states that they are experiencing great difficulty in the cleaning of the coaches. This work is done at Hunghom at the loco yard, and after discussing the matter with the Traffic Superintendent, it was decided to concentrate and transfer the whole of the cleaning to Hunghom, putting in three sidings and laying additional water pipes.\n\nA gentleman, who was a parson, had suggested to him that Hongkong needed a quiet day in the Cathedral. Hongkong did not want a quiet day. What Hongkong wanted was an earthquake (Loud cheers). He wanted this Association to provide that earthquake. He wanted it to put an end to this splendid spirit of isolation and this peculiar halo that surrounded the people who dwelt so many hundred feet above the sea level. He wanted to bring them down out of the fog.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The fact is that with the present accommodation, it is impossible to clean the coaches in time for the next day's traffic, but if they have them concentrated in one place, they can clean them properly.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "118 Falls\n\nalls\n\n103\n\nricksna coolie I went to Bank garden and saw a revolver lying in the garden at the place I pointed out this morning. The ricksha coolie climbed over and picked up the revolver and handed it to me. It was loaded. I opened it 5 chambers 4 alive and one exploded. Those are like the cartridges.\n\nBarlow.\n\nTo the Court.\n\nI gave it on the same day to Mr.\n\nIt was an ordinary ricksha coolie who approached. Arthur Howard Barlow.\n\nManager Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. On 24th February last witness gave me a revolver and 4 live and 1 spent round. That is the revolver. I handed over the revolver and cartridges to an\n\nEnglish Police Sergeant.\n\nTo the Court.\n\nIt was then unloaded.\n\nSidney Gough.\n\nL.S.A 48. On February 24th about 11.40 I was on duty on Connaught Road Central near Star Ferry Wharf going fast from Ferry I found a man lying on the ground. Prisoner was then in charge of 0.0.59. I took prisoner in charge and took him up Wardley Street\n\nto Des Voeux Road. There Mr. Barlow last witness called to me. He\n\ngave me the revolver and 4 live rounds and 1 dead.\n\nthere\n\nThis is it.\n\nI took it up to Central Police Station, and gave it to Inspector\n\nGrant.\n\nCharles Robert Rozeskwy.\n\nL.S.A.19. About 12 P.M. on February 24th I removed dead body\n\nof a Chinese male in an ambulance from the Praya to Government\n\nCivil Hospital. Body examined by Dr. McKenny and Dr. Esler and\n\nthen remove to the mortuary. Next morning at the mortuary body\n\nidentified in my presence as that of Leung Yuk Tong. These 2 (the\n\nbrothers) were present. Dr. Valentine gave me the bullet, The\n\nclothing in Court Ex. B. is what deceased was wearing. There is a\n\ncharred mark on the outer jacket. I examined the clothing at the\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital before it was taken off.\n\nJohn Grant.\n\nInspector of Police. About 12.30 P.M. on 24th February I", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "DANISH BANK AFFAIRS,\n\n(Continued from Page 6.)\n\n(Reuter's Service.\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nBRIBE RESISTED.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER\n\n22; 1922.\n\nDAIRY FARM NEWS.\n\nBy Indian Constable, Copenhagen, September 21.\n\nHow an Indian constable was offered a handsome bribe and rejected it, was told in a case against a Chinese, named Lai Wah, who appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Police Court today. The defendant was arrested at the Star Ferry Wharf at Kowloon yesterday, and on the way to the Water Police Station is said to have at first offered a bribe of $15 and then to have added a similar sum, with the promise of a further sum as a condition for his release. The Indian constable, Alla Bux, took both sums but did not refrain from marching the prisoner to the Station, where a charge of being in possession of $25 worth of opium was preferred against him.\n\nP.C. Alla Bux said that he saw the prisoner with the parcel containing the drug tucked under his arm, and his movements suggested to him that here was a case worth examining into. On being interrogated, the prisoner said that he had something good to eat. The \"something good\" was shown to be two tals of opium when the parcel was opened. To avoid discovery, the prisoner is said to have attempted to divert the attention of the constable by pointing to another man who, he said, also possessed \"something good to eat.\"\n\nMr. Lindsell was of the view that the charge of bribery was one to be committed for trial and he ordered an adjournment for the evidence of the Sergeant Interpreter of the Water Police Station who took down the prisoner's statements when charged.\n\nDEATH OF MR. A.A. DOS REMEDIOS.\n\nOne of the oldest and most respected members of the Portuguese community passed away early this morning, in the person of Mr. Adalino A. dos Remedios. The deceased, who was 74 years of age, had been for no fewer than 41 years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd. and was very highly esteemed and respected by all his fellow employees. Only three days ago he attended the office as usual, but was obviously unwell, suffering from a chill. He went home and later developed influenza which led to pneumonia. He passed peacefully away this morning, at his home in Caine Road.\n\nThroughout his long association with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., the deceased had been a valued servant. For many years he was in charge of the Shipping Office, but for the past three years he served in the Indo-China Book Office. Of a quiet and retiring disposition, the late Mr. Remedios, who possessed a particular charm of manner, will be mourned by all with whom he came into contact.\n\nHe leaves a widow and two children to mourn their loss. His son is Mr. J. S. Remedios, of the Post Office, his daughter being Mrs. J. F. Tavares. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon, at 6 o'clock.\n\nSHANGHAI'S MIXED COURT.\n\nWith reference to the Mixed Court at Shanghai, the Sinwanpao contains the following report:-\n\nMembers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs met on Tuesday to discuss the many questions connected with the return to China of the Mixed Court. Two suggestions were offered: (1) To reform the Court; (2) To return it to the Chinese for sole administration. It was decided that members of the Ministry should confer on the matter with the British, American and French Ministries.\n\nCANADIAN POTATOES\n\nFine, Choice, Mealy.\n\nPRICES RIGHT.\n\nTHE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.\n\nKOWLOON\n\nTHEATRE\n\nThe only entirely European Cinema in the Far East\n\nJ. T. SHAW\n\nCLOSING UP SALE\n\nLAST SIX WEEKS\n\nA FEW SPECIAL BARGAINS\n\nMORLEYS' WOOL SOCKS... $1.25 Pair\n\nDRESS PUMPS... $10.00 Pair\n\nSOFT COLLARS $3.00 Dozen\n\nDRESS GLOVES $1.00 Pair\n\nBRACES... $1.00 Pair\n\nSTIFF DRESS SHIRTS $1.00 Each\n\nDOUBLE TERAI HATS $12.50 Each\n\nVELOUR HATS $13.50 Each.\n\nBOILER SUITS $2.00 Each.\n\nWill show all the Big Pictures from now on! Just cast your eye over this list\n\nTO-NIGHT & TO-MORROW HAROLD LLOYD\n\nIN\n\nA SAILOR MADE MAN\n\nSUNDAY & MONDAY\n\nTHE GIRL IN THE TAXI\n\nKING'S BATTALION.\n\nFootball and Cricket.\n\nA full programme of matches has been played during the past week.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, the Drummers played 1 selected eleven from St. Joseph's College. An excellent game resulted in a win for St. Joseph's by 3 goals to 2. In the return match on Thursday afternoon, the Drummers won by the only goal in the match.\n\nThe King's second team played South China \"B\" team in a friendly match last Saturday afternoon on Causeway Bay ground. The King's led by 1 goal to nil at half-time and an excellent goal from their centre forward put them further ahead soon after the change of ends. South China were seen to better advantage after this and managed to level up matters towards the end of the game. Result 2-2.\n\nIn the Company League, the Machine Gun Platoon sustained their first defeat in the competition when they were defeated by \"B\" Coy, the score being 1-0. They still, however, have a good lead in the League table and should win the championship.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, \"1\" Coy defeated the Band and Drums 2-1.\n\nA match between the Regimental Team and the Hongkong Police has been arranged for Saturday afternoon, on Murray Parade Ground. Kick off 5 p.m. The Police are playing some of their new men, and an excellent game is anticipated.\n\nThe League table is given below.\n\n \n P.\n W.\n D.\n L.\n Goals.\n \n \n M.G. Platoon.\n 7\n 6\n 0\n 1\n 12\n 3\n 6\n 12\n \n \n \"C\" Coy.\n 6\n 3\n 1\n 2\n 18\n 13\n 7\n \n \n \"D\" Coy.\n 6\n 2\n 2\n 2\n 11\n 14\n 6\n \n \n \"A\" Coy.\n 6\n 2\n 1\n 3\n 10\n 14\n 5\n \n \n Band & Drums.\n 4\n 0\n 2\n 2\n 7\n 9\n 2\n \n \n \"B\" Coy.\n 5\n 1\n 0\n 4\n 6\n 17\n 2\n \n\nCricket.\n\nIn the Cricket League competition, the Band and Drums beat \"B\" Coy. on Friday afternoon by 15 runs. Scores:- 56 to 41.\n\nThe Machine Gun platoon beat the Band and Drums on Sunday afternoon by 40 runs and thus became the holders of the Battalion Cricket Cup for 1922-23.\n\nThe Cup was presented to the Machine Gunners Team at the end of the match by Lt.-Col. F. Hyslop, C.B.E.\n\nThe final positions in the Cricket League are given below:-\n\n \n P.\n W.\n L.\n Pts.\n \n \n M. G. Platoon.\n 5\n 4\n 1\n 8\n \n \n \"D\" Company.\n 5\n 3\n 2\n 6\n \n \n \"C\" Company.\n 5\n 3\n 2\n 6\n \n \n Band & Drums\n 5\n 2\n 3\n 4\n \n \n \"B\" Company.\n 5\n 2\n 3\n 4\n \n \n \"A\" Company.\n 5\n 5\n 0\n 10\n \n\nCANTON NEWS.\n\nMore Trouble at Wuchow,\n\nOur Canton correspondent states that the Cantonese merchants in Kwongsi have wired to their agents in Canton not to forward further cargo. A report from Wuchow states that troops commanded by Lo To and Chang Hoi-yue are moving down to Chunchow and that traffic between Wuchow and other cities in Kwangsi is unsafe.\n\nChan Cheong-po has been ordered by General Chan King-ming to take his force to the West River, as far as Dosing, to maintain order.\n\nThe Provincial Treasurer has decided to form a Finance committee for the improvement of the paper currency. He has invited the leading merchants and gentry to become members, and hopes to have publicly announced the exact number of notes in circulation.\n\nIt is reported that the Gunboat, Control and the Water Police Departments are to be abolished and a new body created to be known as the Sea and River Defence Headquarters, of which Chan Wing-son will be the chief.\n\nRAILWAY OFFICER'S \"FIRST DUTY.\"\n\nTo Attend Court.\n\nIn a case of larceny of two lengths of chain from the Railway Station at Kowloon, it was stated by Inspector C. Aris that Mr. G. Walker, the Traffic Superintendent, who prosecuted in the case, was unable to appear in Court on account of pressure of work. However, if his presence were urgently wanted, he would turn up.\n\nMr. E. W. Hamilton (to Inspector Aris)- Give my compliments to Mr. Walker, and tell him that if he does not appear I will discharge the man. It is his first duty to attend the Court.\n\nThe case was adjourned until to-morrow morning for the attendance of Mr. Walker.\n\nACCIDENT TO CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nFalls and Breaks Arm in Typhoon.\n\nThe Chief Justice (Sir Wm. Rees-Davies) met with a nasty accident during the typhoon on Wednesday night. He and Mr. H. A. Nesbit went up in the Peak Tram. They were walking together with arms linked, in Cham-bers Road. The wind was very strong. One gust was so sudden that it took the Chief Justice off his feet. He fell on his right side and in so doing broke his right arm.\n\nIt was Sir William's intention to go to Japan to-morrow, but owing to the accident he will probably not be able to make the trip.\n\nEntertain your friends with a VIC TROJA\n\nAsk about our easy payment system.\n\nMOUTRIES:- Exclusive Distributors.\n\nTUESDAY ONLY\n\nCAROLYN THE CORNER\n\nSKIM MILK\n\nWHAT IS IT?\n\nWEDNESDAY & THURSDAY\n\nMARRIED LIFE\n\nMore Big Pictures to follow!\n\nALERT\n\nIt is milk from which most of the fat (cream) has been removed. Is it nourishing? Is it healthful?\n\nIT IS BOTH!\n\nWe feed our calves on Skim Milk. You will never starve drinking Skim Milk. It contains all the nourishing elements - the casein, etc., which ordinary milk contains (less the fats only), and is far more easily digested than whole milk because it is not rich in fats. Skim Milk is a low-priced milk, specially suitable for making Puddings and thickening Soups. 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TEA SETS\n\nFOR 13 PERSONS)\n\nRUGS\n\nCARPETS & TABLE COVERS\n\nHOP CHEONG\n\nTelephone Central No. 654, Complete House Furnishers, 55, Queen's Road Central", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503940, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "10\n\n-\n\n11\n\nSir,\n\nDespatch from H. E. the Governor Hong Kong to\n\nSecretary of State for Colonies.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG, 18th February, 1926.\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information a chronological summary of the \"incidents\" that have occurred on the New Territories Frontier since June 1925. They mark a breach in the generally peaceful relations obtaining since the lease of the New Territories in 1898, attributable only to the activities of the Strike Pickets which under the direction of the Strikers' Committee in Canton have been posted on the Frontier to prevent trade with British Territory,\n\n2. Many of the incidents are clearly attributable directly to the pickets themselves acting under instructions; for a number of others the pickets are no doubt equally responsible; while less directly the conditions they have established offer opportunities which robbers and brigands, have not been slow to seize.\n\n3. The whole state of lawlessness evidenced by the list of outrages may therefore justly be laid at the door of the present Government of Canton: which, if it does not actively assist the pickets, at the least condones this systematic and open attack on trade with British Territory.\n\n4. The circumstances constitute a wholesale violation of the spirit of the Treaty of Nanking as expressed in Article I. The connivance of the Canton Government with this defiance of Treaty rights is a conclusion it is impossible to avoid; and in the absence of any responsible governmental control in China there is no immediate reason to expect an end to this interference with normal conditions of life on the Frontier.\n\n5. This despatch complements my despatch of the 18th February in which I have set out in detail Treaty conditions violated by the present Government of Canton.\n\n6. I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Peking and His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\n&c.,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L. C. M. S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n*Herein before printed.\n\n(Sd.)\n\nC. CLEMENTI,\n\nGovernor.\n\n1. On 5th July, a seaman of the Water Police, named Tang San (No. 94) left the Police motor boat at Lok Ma Chau and went over to Sham Chun (Chinese Territory) to buy food, according to his usual practice. While there he was seized by a gang of unarmed men, and imprisoned. He was subsequently sent to Canton and there imprisoned at the Supervisory Bureau for over a fortnight. He was released, but told that he must not leave Canton. A day or two later he managed to effect his escape and make his way to Sham Chun. With the assistance of friends he was able to evade the pickets and on 1st August to return to duty at Lok Ma Chau.\n\n2. On 14th July a butcher took a boat-load of seven pigs from Tai Po Market (British Territory) to British Sha Tau Kok. He landed on the beach on the British side of the frontier and drove the pigs to the railway station. When they had been put on to a truck a party of about 20 armed Chinese suddenly appeared, seized the pigs and the man in charge and took them away into Chinese Territory.\n\n3. On 16th July a party of eight Chinese women, carrying baskets of fruit started to cross the Sham Chun River by the Man Kam To Ferry near Lok Ma Chau. A labour picket ordered them to return and upon their refusal to obey the order opened fire. One woman was killed instantaneously and another mortally wounded. Two jumped into the river and were drowned and three were arrested and subsequently sent to Canton. The surviving member of the party was the daughter of the wounded woman, and was allowed by the picket to carry her mother to the nearest village for the purpose of obtaining assistance.\n\n4. On 27th July the Assistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories, reported as follows:-\n\n\"Yesterday afternoon 26th July, 1925, about 300 Cadets in charge of Russian officers, were seen lining the Chinese side of the Sham Chun River, between Lo Fong and Ta Ku Ling Bridge. They appeared to be employed in preventing all persons from entering British Territory. They remained there until dusk and then returned to Sham Chun. I gave orders for a military and a police picket to keep them under discreet observation, but nothing untoward happened; no attempt being made by the Cadets to trespass on our territory.\"\n\n5. On 30th July the Assistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories, reported as follows:\n\n\"There are about 70 Cadets, in charge of Russian officers, quartered in Chinese Lin Ma Hang, North of Ta Ku Ling. They are there evidently to prevent the conveyance of cattle and foodstuffs over the Sha Wan Gap.\" \"Lance Sergeant Knowles reports that 40 Cadets arrived yesterday (July 29th) in Chinese Sha Tau Kok and that they are all Northerners.\"\n\n6. On 30th July at about 6.45 p.m. a Hong Kong Chinese Police Sergeant arrested a man in British Territory carrying two tins of kerosene oil towards the frontier. In answer to questions the man stated that he was taking the oil to Sham Chun (Chinese Territory). He was arrested and handed over to a police patrol with instructions that he was to be taken to Ta Ku Ling station. Before the patrol reached the station, and opposite to the Convent in Chinese Territory, a shot was fired and a bullet struck the road in front of the patrol.\n\n7. On 31st July at about 6.30 a.m, near Ta Ku Ling two soldiers from Chinese Territory came across the border and fired three shots at men who were driving cattle. Three bullocks were seized, but after some parleying were given back.\n\n8. On 13th August a gang of seven painters were at work on the British end of railway bridge number 49, which spans the Sham Chun River, when two men armed with rifles and a number of unarmed men came across the bridge, seized them and took them away into Chinese Territory.\n\n9. On 14th August at about 1 a.m. the police rowing boat on the Sham Chun River near Lok Ma Chau was hailed from Chinese Territory and ordered to come alongside the bank. The crew shouted that they were police, whereupon a number of shots were fired at them from Chinese Territory.\n\n416", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "26. On 3rd December two platoons of the 5th/2nd Punjabis under the command of Captain J. M. Hunt marching along the frontier from Lo Wu to Ta Ku Ling, in British Territory, were fired on by a party of 30 or 40 men. The fire was returned.\n\n27. On 9th December a Chinese police officer who was inside a shop in British Sha Tau Kok was fired at by a Chinese named Wong Chun Wa, standing outside the shop. The man subsequently escaped, and efforts to induce the Canton authorities to deal with the man have had no effect.\n\n28. On 14th December No. XI Police motor boat was fired on at the Lok Ma Chau Ferry.\n\n[NOTE:-Repeated complaints to the Canton Authorities produced nothing but evasive replies. There was however a lull in the series of outrages until July, when negotiations for the cessation of the Boycott were actually proceeding in Canton.]\n\n29. At about 3 p.m. on 20th July, 1926, the Police Motor Boat No. X, while patrolling the Sham Chun River, which was heavily in flood, went ashore on the Chinese side of the river. The two European policemen, who with one Indian constable and four Chinese boatmen made up the crew, endeavoured to refloat the boat but were interrupted in their efforts by the arrival of strike pickets who fired one shot. The boat's crew then stood to their arms, but did not return the fire although occasional shots were fired over the boat. About 6.30 p.m. further pickets arrived who demanded the surrender of the boat, the crew and all arms, and added that the military would be called in and force used if the crew refused to comply. Cut off by a flooded river in rear, and with insufficient ammunition for a prolonged resistance, the Sergeant in charge decided to surrender under protest. On the 21st July when the news became known, an urgent protest was sent to the Canton Authorities through H.B.M. Consul-General, while a company of troops was despatched to the British side of the Lo Wu Bridge. Mr. A. E. Wood accompanied by the District Officer and the Asst. Supt. of Police, N.T., then visited Sham Chun and made representations at the headquarters. Finally the entire boat's crew, who had been imprisoned all night, were released with all arms and ammunition, and a promise was made that no interference with men engaged in refloating the boat should be made, provided that they should be unarmed while on Chinese soil.\n\nThis undertaking was properly observed on both sides, save that on the evening of 24th July while a salvage boat was passing Chik Mei Village, lower down stream, three or four shots were fired at it from Chinese Territory by a man in a blue uniform.\n\n30. On 10th August, 1926, Trading Junk No. T1099 H. left Un Long Creek, British Territory, and at about 8 a.m. next day she was boarded, while at anchor becalmed, by a green launch flying the Strike-pickets' flag. On learning that the junk came from Un Long Creek the pickets insisted on searching the cargo. They then stole $30.00 in money, one cannon, one rifle, nine muskets, powder and ammunition, and the junk's dinghy. The steersman of the junk reported that he had seen the launch in question operating in those waters for some time.\n\nThe usual representations have been made at Canton but nothing has eventuated.\n\n31. On 2nd September, 1926, Trading Junk No. T654 H. while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Chung Hau in Chinese Territory, was, when off Chik Wan, near Tai Chan Customs Station, stopped by a launch flying the pickets' flag. The pickets, on learning they had come from Hong Kong, stole 2 rifles, 150 rounds of ammunition, 4 muskets, and 20 lbs. of bullets. They also kidnapped one of the crew, named Kwock Yung Kwai.\n\nA complaint has been laid before the Canton Authorities by the Consul General but no satisfaction has been obtained.\n\n[NOTE--The latter half of this Chronological List has been revised and added to, in the light of subsequent events, since the transmission of the original despatch. The revised account is being sent to the Secretary of State.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929\n\n## WARWICK REVUES. CONTINUED SUCCESS.\n\nThe season which opened last week at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, so brightly continues its success. The Warwick Revue Company started off very well, and they are maintaining their high standard. What is more, when a complete change of programme is promised it is given—and that cannot be said of all managers.\n\nThe first two successes of the short season was followed last night by yet another—\"The Merry-Go-Round\"—not that the name matters at all. What does matter is that Mr. Warwick's talented company continue to demonstrate their remarkable store of talent and versatility. There is not a dull moment during the evening; and the various numbers are presented so swiftly, attractively, and with such originality that one almost forgets having seen the same performers a night or two previously, and can imagine an entirely new company having made its appearance in their stead.\n\nIf there be anyone on Kowloon side who has not yet seen a Warwick revue, and who appreciates ...\n\n## CORRESPONDENCE.\n\n### MRS. EDDY AGAIN.\n\nSIR,—I have just seen a cutting from your issue of August 15 and despite the long delay I respectfully request you to publish a few words in regard to the communication therein by William H. Adler, Committee on Publication in Hong Kong for the Boston \"Mother Church.\"\n\nMr. Adler was ill-advised in quoting Rev. Lyman P. Powell of New York City, former President of Hobart College, as having spoken favourably of Mrs. Eddy as the Founder of Christian Science. Some years ago Rev. Powell examined the documentary evidence bearing upon the question of Mrs. Eddy having purloined her doctrines from her teacher, Dr. P. P. Quimby, and then wrote a book entitled \"Christian Science, The Faith and Its Founder\" which was published by the well-known New York firm of G. P. Putnam's Sons. On page 64 of this book Dr. Powell says:-\n\nDr. Quimby had started on his mental healing course years before his most distinguished patient (Mrs. Eddy) had ever heard of him. The most she ever did for him who did so much for her was to give to him while he was alive the appreciation, precious beyond words to every doctor, and when he was dead fulsome verse, in which she made \"sackcloth clothe the sun and day grow night.\" And then, as years went by and ambition grew with what it fed on, she began to claim first that she had started Quimby on his course, then that she, not he, had planned the course, and last, that he had not taken any course at all of mental healing, but was mere mesmerist. And only in the high noon of this year's (1908) publicity has truth crushed to earth risen again to the defence of Quimby and the depreciation of his one-time friend and pupil patient. An unbroken line of witnesses from 1862 to 1875 all testify that Mrs. Eddy was in those years continuously making generous acknowledgement that she got her central principle from Quimby.\n\nA new biography of Mrs. Eddy by Edwin Franden Dakin has just been published by Scribner's, one of the leading American publishers. This 550-page book, which is having a very large sale in America and England, is composed largely of documentary evidence fully sustaining the fact that Mrs. Eddy developed her system entirely from what she got from Quimby. I enclose for your files an extensive review of this book from the New York Times Book Review, the leading American medium of literary criticism.—Yours, etc.\n\nJOHN V. DITTEMORE, Committee on Information, The Christian Science Parent Church.\n\nWASHINGTON, Sept. 13.\n\n## COL. LINDBERGH AS ARCHEOLOGIST. DISCOVERS LOST MAYA CITY.\n\nBelize, British Honduras.—Carrying out a project he has cherished for months, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is conducting an aerial survey of the area between Belize and Yucatan and is reported to have discovered new secrets of the ancient Maya civilization.\n\nRadio reports from Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh state that they have uncovered signs of large ruins in the midst of heretofore impenetrable jungles.\n\nColonel Lindbergh's imagination was fired toward conducting this exploration when, in the course of a good-will flight months ago, he spied ancient ruins in the midst of jungle country.\n\nTwo tiny green lakes gleaming up like eyes attracted his attention and he flew down to discover that they were part of an elaborate plan apparently forming a temple and grounds. No habitations were near and the jungle seemed so dense that to penetrate to the scene on foot would be a labour of months.\n\nLindbergh desired to return at once but other duties called him away. The present work may occupy some time and it is believed that it may have important consequences in facilitating the study of the ancient Mayas.\n\n## PENANG HOSPITAL AFFAIR.\n\nIn the middle of 1927, the Penang visiting committee had reason for strongly criticising the conditions at the General Hospital. As a result, an official report was made by Dr. Douglas and Dr. Ebden, who at that time were stationed at Penang. Three weeks later the visiting committee issued a public statement intimating their decision to resign en bloc.\n\nQuestions were asked in the Legislative Council and in answer to the question as to whether the doctors concerned would be punished, Government replied that their careers would not be prejudiced.\n\nWhat actually happened at the end of Dr. Douglas' term of office was that he was told that his services would no longer be required and he sailed for home in April this year.\n\nDr. Ebden was appointed to an inferior position at Singapore and subsequently appointed Acting Medical Officer, Alor Star.\n\nNow, after 18 months' service in Kedah, during which time he was largely responsible for many much-needed improvements, he has been told his services will no longer be required. The Pinang Gazette says: \"Both men are capable officers who were high up in their profession. If this Machi the Service fails to attract the best men.\"—Straits Times.\n\n## \"WORKERS\" SEIZE PEPING TEMPLE. VIGOROUS BUDDHIST PROTEST.\n\nPeking. A spectacular demonstration was held in the old capital against the recent forcible occupation of the Teh-san Temple by the local Tramway Co.'s workers. The demonstrators, composed of monks, nuns, lamas, and schoolboys from the Buddhist institutions, numbering not less than 2,000, started in a lengthy procession from the western city to the Municipal Party Headquarters. Upon their arrival, the following demands were made:-\n\n| Demand | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | That the temple in question should be returned; |\n| 2 | That compensation should be made by the Workers Union for damage done in the temple; |\n| 3 | That the culprits be punished; |\n| 4 | That the local authorities should afford due protection in future. |\n\nThe requests are said to have been complied with.—Kue Wen.\n\n## PERAMBULATOR THEFTS. TWO CHINESE ARRESTED.\n\nTwo Chinese have been arrested in Kowloon in connection with perambulator thefts which were reported to have occurred last July. Detective Sergeant Humphreys and a posse of police raided a house in Mongkok and took charge of two Chinese and three baby carriages. The men will be brought before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magistracy to-day.\n\nThe first man is charged with stealing a perambulator, the property of Mrs. Park, No. 12, Empress Lodge, on July 3; and another perambulator from Mrs. Larcombe, of No. 25, Carnarvon Road, ground floor, on July 9th. In this case, the perambulator was stolen from the hallway.\n\nThe other Chinese is charged with stealing a basinette, valued at $40, from Mrs. Othen at No. 15, Carnarvon Road, on July 25. The first man is further charged with \"receiving\" this basinette.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531083, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932", "content_text": "August 28, 1931\n\nMOTOR CYCLE NOTES.\n\nKOWLOON CLUB'S ACTIVITIES.\n\n[By \"CAMSHAFT.”]\n\nPublication of my recent comments on the Kowloon Motor Cycle Club has brought further interesting details of this excellent organisation from the Secretary, Mr. Brand.\n\nI am informed that the Club owns a matshed at the Cafeteria Beach, Castle Peak, and that it has proved extremely popular with the members. The beach is one of the best to be found on the mainland, and the club is to be congratulated on obtaining such an excellent site for its swimming activities.\n\nMembers also have the privilege of using two garages, with their accompanying equipment, without any charge whatever. One of them is the headquarters of the Gascon Motor Company, owned by Mr. Gascon, who is one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the Club, while the other is the garage of Mr. Marriott, situated at Kowloon Dock. Members who are without expert knowledge of their machines obtain excellent free service in this direction, and it might even be said that payment of the moderate membership fee ensures free service, expert advice, etc.\n\nThe Club continues to hold at least one social run each week, usually on a Sunday, and often in co-operation with the motor-cycle section of the H.K.V.D.C. The friendliest relations exist between the two clubs, and without doubt better times are in prospect for local sporting riders.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nIt is extremely interesting to note that, on the whole, Hong Kong motor cyclists are a very well-behaved crowd. It may be that their little failings are overshadowed by the brilliant performances of Chinese public-car drivers, and as they are in a minority in the Colony as compared with four-wheelers, but I find it difficult to get away from the fact that motor cyclists figure very rarely in police court proceedings, at least in comparison with other road users, so perhaps we are not such incorrigible rogues and vagabonds as some people would have us believe.\n\nNo Law-Breakers.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nLAST WEEK'S ACTIVITIES.\n\nTUESDAY, August 18.\n\nSir William Hornell and the Rev. Father Byrne arrived at Mountain Lodge\n\nTHURSDAY, August 20.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor presided at the meeting of the Executive Council.\n\nFRIDAY, August 21.\n\nSir William Hornell and the Rev. Father Byrne left Mountain Lodge.\n\nAccompanied by the Hon. Mr. Creasy (D.P.W.) and Goldsmith (A.D.P.W. Hong Kong) His Excellency the Governor inspected various sites near Magazine Gap.\n\nParking Places.\n\nHillier Street, west side, between Connaught Road Central and Bonham Street.\n\nWardley Street between Des Voeux Road Central and Connaught Road Central.\n\nCar Park, Salisbury Road, opposite Kowloon Fire Station,\n\nLiberty Avenue.\n\nHaiphong Road, north side, at junction of Canton Road.\n\nArgyle Street to Prince Edward Road.\n\nAustin Avenue, south side, between Kimberley Road and Chatham Road\n\nPedder Street centre of roadway between Des Voeux Road Central and Connaught Road Central-8 cabs.\n\nRumsey Street between Des Vœux Road Central and Wing Lok Street, east side -3 cabs.\n\nJunction Wing Lok Street and Des Voeux Road Central, south side -3 cabs.\n\nYaumati Ferry Wharf-4 cabs,\n\n293\n\nMOTOR VEHICLES.\n\nAMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS.\n\nA large number of new or amended traffic regulations is published in the Government Gazette.\n\nSome of the principal charges are as under: Licences:-\n\n \n Trailers\n $60\n \n \n Hand-propelled petrol oil pumps\n $60\n \n\nThe driver of a motor omnibus shall ensure that the signalling device referred to in regulation 129 (5) is in good working order and is properly operated, and be responsible if any signal is not duly given.\n\nThe driver of a commercial motor vehicle shall ensure that his vehicle is not overladen and that the load is properly stacked, secured and carried\n\nDeposit of $200.\n\nEvery applicant for a licence for a public vehicle shall, as a condition of the issue of such licence, deposit with the Inspector General of Police the sum of $200.\n\nPublic vehicles and commercial motor vehicles shall be inspected by a police officer authorised by the Inspector General of Police.\n\n(1) before being licensed as new vehicles;\n\n(2) on change of ownership;\n\n(3) once monthly.\n\nAll reasonable facilities shall be given to every such inspecting officer by the licensee and the driver, and his reasonable requirements shall be complied with by them.\n\nA motor vehicle shall not exceed seven feet six inches in width between its extreme projecting points.\n\nBrakes,\n\nThe brakes of a motor vehicle may be tested by any European police officer of the Traffic sub-department not below the rank of sergeant. The licensee and the driver shall give reasonable facilities for such testing, and the occupants (if any) of the vehicle shall comply with all reasonable requirements of the police officer. Cars may be stopped on the road for such testing of brakes, but, ordinarily, cars will not be stopped for brake test while making a journey.\n\nThe substitution of the words \"fifteen miles per hour\" for the words \"twenty miles per hour.\"\n\nThe driver of a vehicle passing through any junction or along any road in which there is a centrally placed structure, erection or traffic sign shall only use that part of the roadway on his own left side thereof.\n\nSignalling Device.\n\nA vehicle must be provided with a mechanical signalling device, to the satisfaction of the Inspector General of Police, in good working order, easily seen from the rear, and to be lighted at night, for indicating to following traffic direction to be taken by the vehicle, and intention to stop the vehicle.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533958, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "content_text": "THE VOTE\n\nProprietors: THE MINERVA PUBLISHING CO. LTD. Offices: 144, High Holborn, W.C.1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nNOTICE.-Letters should be addressed as follows:-\n\nTo the Advertising Manager on advertising.\n\nTo the Secretary on all other business, including VOTE orders, printing, and merchandise, etc.\n\nTelegrams: \"DESPARD, Holborn 9301, London.” Telephone: Holborn 9301.\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\nThe Editor is responsible for unsigned articles only. Articles, paragraphs, or cuttings dealing with matters of interest to women generally will be welcomed. Every effort will be made to return unsuitable MSS. if stamped addressed envelope be enclosed, but the Editor cannot be responsible in case of loss.\n\nTHE KING'S SPEECH\n\nThe new Session of Parliament was opened by the King in State last Tuesday.\n\nThe text of the King's Speech expressed the hope that the forthcoming World Economic Conference would ease the present economic situation, and that the Disarmament Conference would attain the greatest possible measure of general disarmament. Reference was made to the third Indian Round Table Conference. Careful supervision over public expenditure, both national and local, was stated to be necessary. The promise was made that the Government would continue to do everything in their power to stimulate the recovery of trade and that further plans would be taken to enable agriculture as a whole to take its proper place in the economy of the nation.\n\nUnemployment, the gravest of our social problems, was specially mentioned. The fact that many young men and women had never in their lives had an opportunity of regular employment was referred to, and notice was given of the Government's intention to bring forward measures dealing comprehensively with Unemployment Insurance and the treatment of those unable to obtain work.\n\nA promise was made of the introduction of Bills relating to Scotland to amend the procedure governing private legislation, to facilitate the administration of civil justice, and for other purposes.\n\nIt was further stated that measures dealing with Rent Restriction, London Passenger Transport, and other matters of importance will be introduced and proceeded with as time and opportunity offer.\n\nA WOMAN'S NATIONALITY\n\nMrs. Grace Tyndall, of Newent, near Gloucester, was summoned last week for failing to register as an alien.\n\nShe married in 1910, and both she and her husband were British subjects. In October, 1931, the husband obtained a certificate of naturalisation in America, and became an American citizen. He returned to this country in July this year, registered as a foreigner, and was given certain instructions as regards his wife. Mrs. Tyndall, however, refused to register, and told the court that if she registered as an alien she really became a woman without a country. She had been to the American Consul, and he told her she was not an American, and the British Consul said she could get no help from him. \"In time of war I can look nowhere for help. My property would be interned, and I should be turned into the streets.\" Mrs. Tyndall said she had written to the Home Office to see whether it was possible for her to return to her nationality, but had received a reply in the negative. She was not an illiterate foreigner. She said, \"I am British, and will not give up my country. I have never signed the oath of allegiance to America, and I never will.\"\n\nThe chairman of the bench said Mrs. Tyndall had been guilty of an offence, and would be fined 20s., or seven days. Her father, an ex-police sergeant, advised her to do the seven days. We only wish that every British woman married to a foreigner would refuse to register as an alien in this country, refuse to pay any fine, and elect to go to prison for any length of time the court might impose. Nationality is a fundamental right, and it is monstrous that it should be taken away from any adult person without that person's consent.\n\nMUITSAI IN HONG KONG\n\nOn July 15th last we reported in THE VOTE that Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question by Mr. Rhys Davies (Lab., Westhoughton), declared that the mui-tsai system in Hong Kong had now been abolished; that the girls who were mui-tsai had been registered, and their status changed to that of free paid domestic workers.\n\nLast week we received at this office several Press cuttings from the \"South China Morning Post,\" dated August 4th, August 13th, September 8th, September 22nd, September 29th, and October 6th, reporting prosecutions for not registering mui-tsai, for ill-treating them, and in one case for selling a girl into prostitution. All these cases were brought into court by a man inspector, and the extraordinary thing is that the fines imposed were so inadequate—50 dollars being the biggest sum mentioned. A Hong Kong dollar is worth 1s. 3d., so that a 50 dollar fine can hardly be looked upon as a deterrent for slave owning in the British Colony of Hong Kong. At the present time there is only one inspector (a European police officer), who has two Chinese women assistants, to deal with abuses of this character. It is estimated that there must be quite 20,000 mui-tsai in the colony, though only about 4,000 are registered. It seems to us that a trained British woman inspector ought at once to share in the work of securing the complete abolition of this mui-tsai system, both for the sake of the children and for the credit of this country. We cannot wholeheartedly rejoice in the anti-slavery centenary celebrations when there is this slavery of children in a British Crown Colony.\n\nWe would also draw attention to another point. So-called \"adopted daughters\" have never been registered to this day, and apparently by the law of Hong Kong it is legal to buy a girl for bona fide adoption, as the following extract from a letter sent out by the Colonial Office under date February 18th, 1932, will show:\n\nEvery person who takes any part, or attempts to take any part, in any transaction the object or one of the objects of which is to transfer or confer, wholly or partly, the possession, custody, or control of any minor under the age of eighteen years for any valuable consideration shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this section, unless such person proves beyond reasonable doubt that the transaction was bona fide and solely for the purpose of a proposed marriage or adoption, in accordance with Chinese custom.\n\nLeading authorities are agreed that there is no such bona fide adoption of girls under existing conditions in Hong Kong. We urge, therefore, that the registration of adopted daughters shall be enforced forthwith, as these transactions are merely a subterfuge for obtaining mui-tsai as in the past. Obviously, too, the present registration of mui-tsai is glaringly incomplete. We call the attention of the Colonial Office to the fact that the system of mui-tsai in Hong Kong has by no means been abolished, and we recommend that effective steps be taken to ensure the immediate registration of all mui-tsai and \"adopted daughters\" in the colony, a much more thorough system of inspection of the houses where they are lodged, and the imposition of far heavier penalties on those who infringe the law.\n\nGREEN, WHITE AND GOLD FAIR, 1932\n\nAn unusually fine attendance on the first day, and the news of Amy Johnson's triumph on the second, added to the spirit of success which pervaded this year's Fair.\n\nIn contrast to the November gloom outside, Caxton Hall was gay with banners full of significance to many present, and attractively decorated stalls. On Thursday afternoon the proceedings opened with the particularly apt song by Miss Marjorie Bagge, \"Lads and Lasses, Won't You Buy?\"\n\nIn presiding, our President, Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, read a telegram from Mrs. Hilton Philipson, deeply regretting that the alteration of a matinee at Bristol prevented her from opening the Fair. Our President was, therefore, not only chairman, but opener. Suffragettes, she said, were well trained to rise to emergencies, and in the spirit of the verse,\n\n\"I am the cook and the captain bold\n\nAnd the mate of the Nancy Brig,\n\nAnd the seamen bright and the midshipmite\n\nAnd the crew of the captain's gig.\"\n\nshe would endeavour to combine both functions.\n\nMrs. Pethick-Lawrence explained how good it was to-day to belong to the Women's Freedom League. While everywhere else there was a lack of continuity, in our League, where the Green, White and Gold Fair, Mrs. Despard's birthday party, the Annual Conference, and so forth took place year after year, we had the solid earth beneath our feet.\n\nEvery woman who had taken part in the fight for the vote had played a part in the emancipation of women in all parts of the world. The phenomenal progress made by Turkish women in the last ten years is part of this revolution.\n\nThe present position of the world is unstable. When the new world is evolved the work women are doing will tell; the full harvest of our sowing we shall never know.\n\nMrs. Pethick-Lawrence expressed warm thanks to all who had helped in the work of the Fair, and most of all to Miss Berry, our Honorary Fair Organiser.\n\nMiss Underwood maintained that the members of the Women's Freedom League were not downhearted when they contrasted the position of women at the time the League was founded and the position to-day.\n\nThe closing of the first Session of Parliament brought the next General Election one year nearer. We needed more branches and greater strength in our branches, so that when the opportunity came we could help to secure the return of more women members.\n\nThe Reform of the House of Lords was under consideration. The Women's Freedom League wanted women in that House on the same terms as men.\n\nWe were urging that reference to the nationality of married women should be made in the King's Speech; we were delighted to learn that a British woman married to an American had chosen to go to prison rather than pay a fine for not registering as an alien.\n\nThe Women's Freedom League claim equal political, economic, and social status with men.\n\nMrs. Ward made an urgent appeal for more subscribers to THE VOTE—a paper packed with interesting news concerning women in all parts of the world.\n\nA hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence was proposed by Dr. Knight, seconded by Mrs. Dore, and carried enthusiastically.\n\nOn Friday the chair was taken by Mrs. Sadd Brown. She felt it an honour, she said, to be presiding at a Fair organised by the Women's Freedom League—a League which pursued a line of continuity and never forsook its ideals. The Women's Freedom League worked with a resolute persistence, its activities were always going on, and although the world might know little about this work, it received the benefit. The League was able to carry on because of its unflagging courage and dogged determination.\n\nThe Hon. Mrs. Franklin said she had been studying Ruth Drapper's delightful sketch on how to open a fair, and would proceed accordingly.\n\nAlthough not a member of the Women's Freedom League, she had a great respect for our First President, Mrs. Despard, and for THE VOTE, which, in her opinion, entirely fulfilled the requirements of a feminist paper. She congratulated the editor on the attention given to the new avenues opening up to women.\n\nThe paper was small, handy, and concise, and gave just the information wanted.\n\nAt the moment there was a certain wave of pessimism concerning the future. One reason women had always wanted to help in world affairs was to procure peace. Public opinion was now behind the Government in asking for peace.\n\nIf anything had been learnt during the last years it was that no nation was sufficient unto itself; it was ridiculous for one nation to fight another. Women wanted the vote for no other reason than to be in a position to fulfil their duties. Mrs. Franklin hoped that women would work in truth for the betterment of the world. Now, like Ruth Drapper's lady, she would declare the Fair open.\n\nMiss Underwood said how proud we were of the achievement of Amy Johnson. She then briefly recapitulated the aims of the Women's Freedom League, and stressed the importance of the appointment of women to administrative posts that they might fit themselves for office at the League of Nations.\n\nMrs. Ward made a spirited appeal for subscribers to THE VOTE. Miss Anna Munro proposed a vote of thanks to all speakers, and Mrs. Whetton, in seconding, said that until women had equal opportunities with men they would not be able to give of their best to the community.\n\nRound the Stalls\n\nBRENTFORD AND CHISWICK STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Watling, Mrs. Yeomans, Mrs. Fairley, Mrs. Haines, Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. Jinks, and Mrs. Hurrell, is to be complimented on a fine display of delicious confectionery made by Mrs. Watling.\n\nGOLDERS GREEN STALL, in the charge of Miss Aickman, Mrs. and Miss Muriel Pierotti, and Mrs. Stammers, had a good assortment of aluminium ware and brushes.\n\nHAMPSTEAD STALL, in the charge of Miss Lyndon, Miss Trotter, and Miss James, had a varied collection of dainty and useful handkerchiefs.\n\nHIGHBURY STALL, supported by Bradford Branch, in the charge of Mrs. Bateman, Miss Beatrice and Miss Marie Bateman, made a good show with a variety of useful articles, each for the small sum of 1s.\n\nMINERVA CLUB BRANCH STALL, in the charge of Miss M. I. Neal, Mrs. Surrey Dane, and Mrs. Evans had a good show of hosiery and general goods.\n\nMID-LONDON AND BARNSBURY STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Anderton and Mrs. Potter, gave a speciality of hand-made waste-paper baskets and bags made by Miss Horniman, and had a good assortment of stationery.\n\nPORTSMOUTH STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Whetton, Mrs. Brading, and Mrs. Curtis, made a special feature of initialled towels, and had a good collection of household linen.\n\nSOUTH-EASTERN STALL, in the charge of Miss White and Miss Bentley, is to be specially congratulated on a display of Rye pottery, made and presented by a Rye member. It also had a good show of dainty shopping-lists, handsome silk scarves, hand-made baskets, and Japanese goods.\n\nSCOTTISH AND NORTHERN BRANCHES STALL, in the charge of Miss Anna Munro, Mrs. Graves, and Mrs...\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "12.8.32 \n\n18.8.32 \n\n11\n\n126\n\nI do not remember if he read it through in my presence.\n\nI cannot remember if he asked me any questions on it.\n\nI was in a very nervOUs state when I was writing out the statement.\n\nI cannot remember if Sergeant Fitches asked me any questions after I had made it.\n\nI kept a copy of the statement.\n\nI was under the charge of the O.C.D.I.\n\nI cannot remember if Sergeant Fitches ever questioned me in this matter after the first statement.\n\nThe second statement was made entirely voluntarily.\n\nIt was not the result of any questioning by or conversation with, a police officer.\n\nWhen I made it Christie was in the cell with me.\n\nI wrote my second statement in the cell.\n\nI cannot remember the name of the Police officer to whom I handed my second voluntary statement.\n\n4.18 to Mon. 15th.\n\nMon, 15th August, 1932.\n\nFetter\n\nI submit that I can put Zimmern's written statement of the 2nd April to him without making it evidence.\n\nArchbold, p.523. I can cross-examine and ask him if it contained accounts of the conversation of the 1st March at the Nathan Hotel, on the way to the Star Ferry, and at Prince's safe.\n\nHe may also refresh his memory by looking at it if he pleases, without my making it my evidence.\n\nI agree, but the statement must not be put to the witness for cross-examination without making it evidence.\n\nI agree.\n\nIt is subject to that ruling that I want.\n\n(44)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "18.8.2\n\nLīši Zatem recalled\n\nXX Jenkin (con)\n\n127\n\nI have heard what Mr. Potter has said.\n\nI read Mr. Lindsell's opening.\n\nYou detailed in your evidence Cheng's attempts to get Christie and you to kill Fung, the Ti Fong diner, the knocks at the door in the Nathan Hotel, the conversation on the bed there about the $10,000 offer, the mention of the chauffeur, powerful car and disguise, on the way to the ferry.)\n\nA. That was a conversation with Christie which I overheard,) and Chang's warning at the ferry not to talk, and the discussion later about the poison.\n\n4. Did you say at the Magistracy that you made one statement and one only.\n\nA. Yes. I handed it to Sergeant Fitzhes. I have not ... that since. I cannot recollect if I have ... of it. I have no copy of that statement in my possession. I have never had. I may have been examined on it.\n\nMr. Lindsell took me through it. I have never seen the original copy of any statement but I may have been shown portions of a copy. I was sent for to the C.I.D. office. The C.I.D. men asked me about the case.\n\n5. In that statement there is an absolute omission of the conversation at the Nathan Hotel about getting rid of Fung.\n\nI cannot recollect.\n\nAlso of the walk-to-the-ferry-conversation.\n\nThat may have been a revision I believe I made to Mr. Lindsell on that point.\n\nAlso of the breakfast conversation.\n\nI do not know,\n\nYou are a blackmailer.\n\nCan ...\n\nAccording to the case, you put it at that.\n\n(Emp. C.J. No blackmailing has been disclosed so far - swindling, yes.)\n\n(48)\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 538060, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "content_text": "# Head 20.-POLICE FORCE\n\n## Approved Estimate, 1933\n## Estimate, 1934\n\n### POLICE FORCE,—Continued.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward | 578,538 | 556,970\n---------|----------|----------\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n| 1933 | 1934 |\n|------|------|\nEuropean Contingent.—Land & Water.,-Contd. | 38 | 39\n| 41 | 44\n\nSub-Inspectors, (£370 to £430 by £15 annually)............. | | \nDo., Good Conduct Medal Allowances, 2 at £4. 10s. each, and 7 at $30 each. | | \nSergeants, (£260 to £350 by 2 annual increments of £20 and 5 of £10) | 272,239 | 258,912\n\n| (1) | (2) | (3)\n|------|------|------\n536 | 354 | \n(1) | (4) | \nDo., Good Conduct Medal Allowances, to 1 at £4. 10s. 0d, and 1 at £9. 0. 0. | 77 | 216\n(5) | 137 | 139\nDo., Lance Sergeants, (£190 to £240 by £10 annually)... | 549,196 | 517,106\nGood Conduct Medal Allowance 1 at £13, 10s, 0d., and 2 at $30 each. | | \nAllowances to Detective Force, 56 men at $144 each | | \nLanguage Allowances... | 25,950 | 27,180\nDrill Instructors Allowance, to 2 at $144 each | 288 | 288\nActing Pay | 10,250 | 9,220\n(7) | | \n\n### Indian Contingent.\n\n1 Assistant Superintendent, ($2,100 to $3,000 by $150 annually) | 3,000 | 3,000\n33 | 62 | \n2 Inspectors, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually)........ | 2,400 | 2,555\n(8) | 2,040 | 1,970\n3 Sub-Inspectors, ($900 to $1,020 by $60 annually) | 3,360 | 3,302\n(3) | 16,370 | 16,322\n1 Sergeant Majors, ($780 to $840 by $30 annually) | | \n26,260 | 26,262\n(3) (9) | 1,200 | 1,200\nSergeants, ($440 to $520 by $20 annually). | 198 2nd Class, at $336 each | 208,260 | 215,700\n(10) | | \nLance Sergeants, ($396 to $420 by $12 annually) | | \nRent Allowances to above | 330 | 210\n(3) | 22,356 | 24,222\nGood Conduct Medal Allowances | | \n(5) | 576 | 576\nLanguage Allowances | 60 | 60\nDrill Instructors Allowances to 12 at $48 each | | \nDetective Allowance to 1 at $60 | 297 | 284\n(7) | | \nActing Pay | | \n\n### Chinese Contingent.\n\n#### Cantonese.\n\nInspectors, at $900 each................ | 1,800 | 1,800\nSub Inspectors at $840) each | 2,520 | \nSergeants, at $720 each | 1,440 | 1,440\nPrincipal Chinese Detectives, at $720 each | 1,440 | 1,440\n26 Sergeants, at $480 each | 12,480 | 12,480\n42 Lance Sergeants, at $396 each | 16,632 | 17,028\n(12) | 305 1st Class, ($312 to $360 by $12 annually). | | \n507 | 526 Constables | \n221 2nd Class, ($240 to $300 by $12 annually). | 162,369 | 166,247 (13)\nRent Allowances to above | 11,580 | 11,580\n22 Female Searchers, (1 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially and 22 at $156 to $204 by $12 triennially each) | 3,840 | 4,123\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each.. | 1,056 | 1,104\n|| (14) | | \nAllowances to Detective Force | 10,000 | 10,000\nGood Conduct Medal Allowances | 1,170 | 1,170\nLanguage Allowances | 854 | 390\n(5) | | \nDrill Instructors Allowances to 2 at $48 each | 96 | 96\nCarried forward | 2,178,156 | 2,125,568\n\n(1) Higher rate of exchange.\n(2) One new post for C. I. D. work at Yaumati.\n(3) Changes in personnel.\n(4) Three new posts; one for C. I. D. work at Yaumati, one for Searching Squad Kowloon, and one for Aliens and Passport office.\n(5) More allowances payable.\n(6) Two new posts; one for detective work at Mongkok station, and one for Deportee and Records office.\n(7) Less acting pay required.\n(8) Stipulated increments.\n(9) One new post for H. E. the Governor's bungalow at Fanling.\n(10) Fourteen new posts; four for H.E. the Governor's bungalow at Fanling, two for Kowloon hospital, six for traffic posts at vehicular ferry wharfs Jubilee Street and Jordan Road, and two for patrol duty in Sham Shui Po district.\n(11) Five new posts.\n(12) One new post for searchers at Water Police Station.\n(13) Nineteen new posts; nine for searchers at Water Police Station, five for traffic duty in Hollywood Road. Wyndham Street and Queen's Road/ D'Aguilar Street, two for Larceny Squad Kowloon, one for Deportee and Records office, one for detective work in Hunghom and Kowloon City, and one for detective work on Police cruising launches.\n(14) One new post.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549883, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935", "content_text": "PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS.\n\nThe following promotions and appointments etc. have been made:\n\nMajor H.B.L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E. to be Lieut-Colonel and Commandant of the Corps.\n\n21.4.34\n\nMajor G.D.R. Black, V.D., M.D., C.M. (Tor) to be Lieut-Col.\n\n1.9.34\n\nCaptain M.A. Johnson, M.M. to be Major.\n\nCaptain J.C. Macgown, M.D., Ch.B. (Edin) to be Major.\n\nLieutenant L.F. Nicholson to be Captain.\n\n17.11.34\n\nLieutenant J.S. Rodrigues to be Captain.\n\n21.9.34\n\nLieutenant E.G. Stewart to be Captain.\n\nDr. H.J. Croot, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S.(Eng.), L.R.C.P.(Lon) to be Lieutenant.\n\n13.9.34\n\nMr. W.F. Murray to be temporary Lieutenant.\n\nSecond Lieutenant J.R. Way to be Lieutenant.\n\n1.10.34\n\nSergeant G.C. Moutrie to be Second Lieutenant.\n\n12.10.34\n\nSecond Lieutenant J.C. Bousfield, M.C. to be Captain.\n\n6.12.34\n\nL/Corporal H.A. de B. Botelho to be Second Lieutenant.\n\n1.1.35\n\nMr. R.D. Walker, M.C. to be Major.\n\nMr. I.B. Trevor to be Captain.\n\nMr. J. Smith to be Lieutenant.\n\nMr. A.E. Perry to be Lieutenant.\n\nMr. T. Addis Martin to be Captain.\n\n11.1.35\n\nMr. L.C. Tatham to be Lieutenant.\n\n17.1.35\n\nSecond Lieutenant F.F. Sequeira to be Lieutenant.\n\n1.3.35\n\nRESIGNATION OF COMMISSION.\n\nCaptain H.L.A. Bunbury resigned his commission.\n\n20.12.34\n\nCaptain F. Syme-Thomson (deceased).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570754, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940", "content_text": "Assistant Superintendent of Police \n\n(New Territories), \n\nSir, \n\nTai Po Police Station. \n\n14th April, 1940. \n\n26 \n\nPlease see attached statements in connection with \n\nJapanese air raids on Sha U Chung (沙魚涌), Chinese \n\nterritory, on the 13th April, 1940. \n\nIt appears that 3 Japanese planes raided Sha U \n\nChung at about 10.30 hrs on the 13th April, 1940. About 30 \n\nbombs were dropped and machine guns were used. \n\nIt is alleged by the Coxswain named Lam Sam (林三) and Wan Wah (溫華) who is in charge of the Ferry Launch \"Tai Pang\" that a Japanese plane flew \n\nover the launch when it was about 1,000 feet from the shore of \n\nSha U Chung and in British Waters. \n\nExact distances cannot be given but if a Japanese \n\nplane did pass over the Ferry Launch \"Tai Pang\" it must have \n\nbeen over British Waters as the whole of Mirs Bay up to high \n\nwater mark is British territory. \n\nThere is only about 5 feet difference between \n\nhigh and low tide at Sha U Chung. \n\nThis raid lasted about 20 minutes. \n\nA short time later 2 other Japanese planes raided \n\nSha U Chung and dropped several bombs and used machine guns. \n\nAn eye witness named Lo Ying (羅應) states \n\nthey flew in from the sea (Mirs Bay) each time they dropped \n\nbombs. Twenty two wounded and 1 dead were brought to Tai Po \n\nby the Ferry Launch \"Tai Pang\" on 13th April, 1940, \n\nand sent to Kowloon Hospital. Four more wounded were brought \n\nto Tai Po on 14th April, 1940, and sent to Queen Mary Hospital. \n\n(Sgd.) E. Franklin, \n\nLance Sergeant A.202, \n\nOfficer in Charge, Tai Po. \n\n14th April, 1940.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940", "content_text": "28\n\nThese two aeroplanes circled over Sha U Chung two or three times and dropped altogether about 10 bombs which fell on the hillside, seashore and near the Customs House. One bomb hit the roof of the Customs House, demolishing the roof. I heard 2 bursts of machine gun fire.\n\nI did not see any of these 2 planes fly over the Ferry Launch \"Tai Pang\". This raid lasted about 15 minutes.\n\nThe raiders then left in the direction of Ping Shan, Chinese territory.\n\n(sd.) E. Franklin,\n\nLance Sergeant A.202.\n\nOfficer in Charge, Tai Po.\n\n13th April, 1940.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# 206\n\n## 27th Jan, 1942.\n\n## 16.\n\nSpent the whole day sending telegrams to Foreign Office regarding conditions in H.K. \n\nThe end of a tragic month. Why was there so much discord. Every department seemed to be working against the other. The lack of coordination between the Military and the Navy and the Government is too obvious, also between the troops themselves and the High Command. The story told by Brian Fay is typical. He was in charge of No. 2 station and holding it against everything. Then he saw the Japs landing, he telephoned to A.R.P. headquarters only to be told it was not their business. He then telephoned to military H.Q. and the sergeant who replied, when told the Japs were landing and to inform his C.O. said \"I can't wake him up at this time, it's 11.0 pm and he's gone to bed, he'll be mad if I wake him up.\" At the end of the fighting, No. 2 had received over 30 direct hits. At one time we had to evacuate but Fay went back and reopened the station and finally evacuated it at 2.30 Xmas day with no casualties and a few superficial wounds.\n\nMany of the Chinese police reserves discarded their uniforms and their arms. Most of the A.R.P. did the same. Looting became the order of the day and what the Chinese could not take themselves was later taken by the Japs by truck load. When I left H.K., orders had been given to take down the statues from Statue Square and the lions from the H.K. bank; they already had large wooden tags around their necks saying \"this is the property of the Imperial Japanese Government\". I saw quantities of iron gates being brought down from houses on the Peak. It was a common sight every day to see ships going out loaded down to the water line, in convoy. Food stocks have all gone. Outside P.G., I saw four lorries taking medical equipment, radio, and photography materials from B& Shell House where there was a large haul.\n\nThe Indian police have been given back their jobs; most of them have gone over, but I still feel a few loyal ones about. They have even been given back their arms. The Chinese have not been armed except with a baton. Out of 1000 Chinese, only 80 returned to duty, which speaks well of them.\n\nThe Indians are being particularly objectionable in searching foreign women, particularly at the ferry points. The Japs are merely passing their hands over the body looking for arms, but the Indians are definitely mauling women. Passes are required to go over to Kowloon and they are good for only one return journey. Those who want to return to Kowloon to live are not allowed to return to the island. Special passes are required for business people or those on special jobs, which are good for ten days only.\n\nThe Murray Parade Ground was stacked high with tins of petrol and oil, all collected from the various island dumps, which shows that all of it was not destroyed. There are thousands of gallons now lying there. I saw myself truck loads of rifles and ammunition being taken from the `C1 ucester`, which had been in the hands of the police; why could it not have been dumped into the harbour, which, after all, is only a stone's throw.\n\nI noticed during the Jap parade that their uniforms were torn and ragged but their equipment was of the latest pattern, most modern and up-to-date. They were equipped with Winchester repeating rifles. How many times have I heard it said \"we can lick the Japs with our hands tied behind us\" and how many times have I replied, \"don't be too sure\". I have seen them training and in 1935 and 1936 we had to go through blackouts of a week at a time, not just a few hours. Emergency exercises on a grand scale, but nobody takes any notice. They have been underestimated, which is now quite obvious and the same will happen in Malaya, because people at the top don't want to be told something which they ought to know and have never taken the trouble to learn. I have tried time and time again to make somebody listen, but it was hopeless.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. • District.\n\n11.12.41 Emergency Unit,Kowloon.\n\n \n Time,\n \n \n \n 18.\n Kowloon Police H. Q.\n \n \n 19.\n Sham Shui Po.\n \n \n 20.\n Kowloon Police Headquarters.\n \n \n 21.\n Kowloon Brigade H. Q.\n \n \n 22.\n Kowloon Police Headquarters.\n \n \n 23.\n Sham Shui Po.\n \n \n 24.\n Kowloon City.\n \n \n 25.\n Sham Shui Po.\n \n \n 26.\n \n \n \n 27.\n \n \n\n18. A number of calls were received to deal with rice riots. Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, was handed minute from Commissioner of Police by Mr. Eager, Deputy Commissioner of Police Reserve, confirming that the evacuation would almost certainly take place later in the day and emphasising once again the Commissioner of Police's previous orders that instructions to evacuate would be given the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, if possible but if communications broke down he would have to use his own judgment to ensure main body of Police getting away in safety.\n\n10.30 Inspector Saunders again went to the World Pencil Factory in the Castle Peak Road and was told by the Royal Scots that the enemy were \"just around the corner\". (N.B. There is a sharp hairpin bend at this point.)\n\n10.30 Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, summoned Messrs. Searle and Booker, Assistant Superintendents of Police, Nos. 4 and 3 Sub Area Commanders, to Kowloon Police Headquarters and handed them written orders concerning the evacuation of Kowloon likely to take place at any time thereafter and consequent manning of the Star Ferry and Vehicular Ferry barricades when it did occur.\n\n11.00 After hearing certain arrangements made for the Military withdrawal Sub Inspector Brittain informed the Senior Superintendent of Police Kowloon by telephone of the apparent serious position stating that he could get no definite information regarding it or need for Police evacuation. He asked the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, if he (the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon) could ring up Command or Brigade Headquarters to ascertain the true position.\n\n11.00 Sub Inspector Brittain, Police Liaison Officer Kowloon Brigade Headquarters rang up and stated that preparations were apparently being made to evacuate Brigade Headquarters, that the position seemed serious but that he could not obtain any instructions. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon and Chief Inspector Smith in turn tried to get into touch with both Brigade and Command Headquarters without success several times.\n\n11.00 Inspector Saunders was informed by No.3 Sub Area Commander that evacuation might be ordered during the day.\n\n11.00 Inspector Post, Divisional Inspector Kowloon City was instructed by No.4 Sub Area Commander to remain in station until further orders in case instructions were received to evacuate.\n\n11.15 L.S.A.115 Watson reported that Royal Scot Officers at the World Pencil Factory had informed him that the enemy were then in Cheung Sha Wan. The Divisional Inspector, Sham Shui Po, informed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, of Sergeant Watson's report and the general situation and asked if he was to evacuate the station. He was instructed by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, to remain till further orders as he (the Senior Superintendent) could not give orders to evacuate the stations till he had received the same from the Commissioner of Police.\n\n11.30 The Divisional Inspector, Sham Shui Po, rang up Kowloon Police Headquarters.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\n24. \n\n11. 12. 4l \n\n39 \n\n51. \n\nWestern. \n\n52. \n\nHong Kong. \n\n53. \n\nWater Police. \n\n54. \n\narmed with rifles who tried to stop the car. Police had to fight their way through. They then held the main gate against the same mob and snipers. The evacuating troops, Canadians, arrived between 21.00 and 22.00 hours and Police withdrew with them. Parties Nos. 2 and 3 proceeded in No.17 Motor Boat in charge of L.S.A.188 Summers and landed at their respective piers. Party No.2 assisted the R.A.O.C. to load ammunition in lighters though it was subsequently dumped as the Military decided they could not take it across as there was not sufficient craft, the lighters being already overloaded. The R.A.O.C. from the Ma Tau Kok depot were evacuated from this pier. Party No.3 took up position at the Kowloon City ferry pier having dealt with some looters in Kowloon City Station, Sai Kung and Prince Edward Roads and shortly afterwards Indian troops commenced to arrive. At about 18.30 hours P.S.A.203 Groves telephoned the Senior Superintendent of Police Defence and was told to proceed to Wanchai and at the same time a Major informed him that Police services were no longer required. The motor boat with L.S.A.188 Summers on board had remained at Kowloon City ferry pier the whole time. Sergeant Groves then proceeded to Ma Tau Kok pier in the motor boat and picked up the Police party there, taking on board also 3000 rounds of .303 ammunition. A call was also made at the Kowloon Docks to pick up party No.1 but it was found to have already left with the Military evacuating from there. The Motor boat crossed over finally to Hong Kong arriving at about 21.30 hours.\n\n16.00 Heavy shelling of the district, and the godowns on the waterfront in particular, began and continued during the remainder of the day and during the night. Godowns in Belchers Street and Kennedy Town again suffered severe damage. A shell landed in Connaught Road West near the Tung Shan Hotel killing thirteen and wounding thirty-nine. Police in a dispersal house in Hill Road evacuated to the Tai Ping Theatre.\n\np.m. In connection with the evacuation of Kowloon the Star and Vehicular Ferries stopped running and had to be forced back into service by Police in Hong Kong.\n\n16.30 The Divisional Inspector, Water Police, reported to the Harbour Master that there were still many lighters and launches on the Kowloon side.\n\nKowloon Police Headquarters. 17.00 The main Police party left Kowloon Godowns on a Star ferry launch and evacuated to Hong Kong. The ferry was bombed on leaving the pier but the bombs were all misses.\n\n55. \n\nEmergency Unit, Hong Kong. \n\n56. \n\n17.00 Two squads under L.S.A.142 Kinlock proceeded to Kowloon with Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, P.S.A.25 Gowans and P.S.A.169 Forrest on a Star Ferry vessel to help to round up European evacuee stragglers. Sgts. Gowans and Forrest returned on the ferry with evacuees while Mr. Fay and Sgt. Kinlock proceeded to the Peninsula Hotel and offered passage across the harbour to several more Europeans in the lounge, a few accepted. Ferry loads of evacuees were taken across the harbour.\n\nTsim Sha Tsui 18.00 Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, with Inspector Cunningham patrolled Kowloon in a lorry. 19.00 They observed looting taking place in Sai Yeung Choi Street and Hung Hom by organised gangs wearing white arm bands and travelling in lorries. In spite of reports received at 13.00 by the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, from some British soldiers that Japanese troops had penetrated the town and reached the Alhambra Theatre none were seen. They also proceeded to Prince Edward Road to escort a certain Chinese family to Kowloon Godowns to cross over to Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579363, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date \n\nDistrict \n\nTime. \n\n27. \n\n12.12. \n\n41 \n\n42 \n\n16. \n\nPolice H. Q \n\n17. \n\nWater Police. \n\n18. \n\nGreen Island \n\n19. \n\nWestern. \n\nEmergency \n\n20. \n\nUnit, Hong Kong. \n\n21. \n\n22. reported to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon that all Kowloon Police, except Green Island, had been checked as safely over. \n\n10.30 A Police party under Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police with the Chief Inspector Kowloon was formed with the intention of proceeding over to Kowloon to acquire food from the Kowloon Godowns but the project was abandoned on instructions from the Defence Secretary. \n\n10.30 After waiting without result for guards to arrive for the Star Ferries to prevent crews deserting Inspector Whant, Divisional Inspector Water Police, P.S.A. 216 Wheeler and Mr. MacKenzie of the Star Ferry Company decided to proceed over to Kowloon to reconnoitre. Five European civilians insisted on accompanying them over to Kowloon, two were women - Mrs. Hollands and Mrs. Sando in A.N.S. uniform, and in spite of Inspector Whant's protest refused to leave the ferry. Approaching Kowloon about 50 Indians and a few British troops were observed firing with machine guns under Lieut Forsyte. These were taken on board and the launch left using the machine guns to cover the withdrawal. In spite of the two European ladies being made to lie flat on the deck Mrs. Hollands received a bullet wound in the abdomen. Mr. Pontig was superficially wounded in the head. \n\nOn arrival in Hong Kong orders were given by the Defence Secretary and the Harbour Master that no further trips were to be made over to Kowloon without special instructions. \n\n12.00 As a result of a warning by the Military given at about 09.00 hours the same day that a Pill Box at Aberdeen had been blown up by hand grenades thrown from two sampans special watch was maintained and at 12.00 hours Police and Military opened fire with effect on the two sampans observed proceeding towards Kennedy Town. Batteries joined in and one sampan was destroyed 12.45 L. S.A.191 Donahue, I. P. C. 607 Santa Singh and I. P. C. B. 727 Waryan Singh were detailed from 76 Belchers Street Dispersal Point, at the request of Mr. Buchanan of Messrs Marsman & Co., to clear No.9 Air Raid Tunnel at Smithfield of members of the public in order to make room for dynamite which was to be transported from Green Island. The party failed to return after carrying out this duty and it was subsequently ascertained that they had been blown up in the S.L. \"Jeannette\". (See report, entry No.30). Neither Inspector Nolloth, Divisional Inspector Western, or P. S. A. 88 Cordeaux, Officer in Charge Belchers Street Dispersal Point, had given any instructions to Sergeant Donahue to board the launch or take any part in the transport of the dynamite. It is not known definitely for what purpose the dynamite was required but it is surmised that it was to be used to create fire breaks. \n\na.m. Several calls were received during the morning for assistance to control crowds at the rice shops in the Morrison Street area. \n\nHong Kong. 14.00 Green Island. 14.00 \n\n23. \n\nEastern. \n\nHeavy shelling of the Island commenced. \n\nPolice assisted Mr. Bailey, Custodian of the Green Island Magazine to carry 400 boxes of dynamite down to the enclosure near the pier ready for removal to Hong Kong by the S. L. \"Jeannette\". \n\np.m. Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, transferred to No.2 Station to be in charge of Sub Area No.2 with Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, to continue duty as Assistant Sub Area Commander.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Appendix \"D\"\n\nOFFICERS MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS.\n\nMr. L.H. Calthrop\n\nSenior Superintendent Police,\n\nAssistant Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, &\n\nOFFICERS RECOMMENDED.\n\n(g) cont'd.\n\n3\n\nEXTRACT FROM RECOMMENDING OFFICER'S REPORT AND/OR DIARY REFERENCES.\n\n£ 87\n\n\"Though in both cases the parties were not allowed to proceed past Naval Headquarters at the Aberdeen Industrial School owing to the fact that they were not accompanied by a Military escort, I think some credit is due to the officers concerned for volunteering for this potentially dangerous mission.\"\n\nII.\n\nReference to the Diary does not disclose conspicuous gall and art\n\n(h) Mr. E.C. Luscombe, A.S.P.\n\nP.S.A53 Brown; P.S.A185 Galvin; L.S.A124 Oakley; L.S.A34 Flaherty.\n\n(i) Mr. E.S.C. Luscombe, A.S.P.\n\nForce accompanied by military.\n\nwith the Cooling into every dealing They ran into five live men wounded,\n\nMr. L.A. Searle, A.S.P.; No. 4 Sub-Area Commander & No. 1 Sub-Area Commander.\n\npage (Booker?) 22 Entry 37\n\nP.S.A53 Brown; 2.S.A185 Galvin; L.S.A34 Flaherty; L.S.A164 Mayor; L.S.A113 Mackenzie; L.S.A63 Woodhead.\n\n(a) Inspector Cunningham,\n\nGood work but distinctive does not warrant Special\n\ndo Inspector McWalter,\n\nChief Inspector Rozeskwy.\n\n(b) P.S.A162 Williamson, O.I.8. Aberdeen.\n\n\"For courage and devotion to duty displayed in volunteering and taking part in an expedition to the Imperial Chemical Industries' Godowns in Great George Street, some 200 yards in front of the British front line in order to clear away looters on a complaint from the Military that their fire was being masked on the morning of the 23rd December.\n\nPlease see Diary Entry No.1 of the 23rd December, 1941.)\n\n\"For courage and devotion to duty displayed in volunteering and taking part in the second expedition to the Imperial Chemical Industries' Godowns in Great George Street, about an hour after the first expedition on December 23rd.\n\n(Please see Diary Entry No.2 of the 23rd December, 1941.)\n\n\"Good work performed while manning and guarding the Star Ferry Barricades between 11.00 hours on the 11th and 01.00 hours on the 12th, during the evacuation of Kowloon.\n\n\"I found the assistance of Inspector Cunningham invaluable. A tireless worker and always exceptionally level-headed. Inspector McWalter and Chief Inspector Rozeskwy worked very well. All are worthy of recognition.\"\n\n\"Aberdeen suffered from intense shell fire throughout being in close proximity to the Naval Headquarters at the Aberdeen Industrial School.\n\nFausteserted and only a few Chinese which testifies to the control he had over his men, and Sergeant Williamson is to be commended in the calm manner he acted before and after the surrender.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579423, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Appendix \"D\"\n\nOFFICER MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS.\n\nXXI.\n\nP. S.\n\n224 Carruthers at Kowloon City.\n\n2\n\nXXII. P. S. A203 Groves, Officer in Charge at Kowloon City Pier.\n\nOFFICERS RECOMMENDED.\n\n(a) P. S. A32 Dowman; L. S. A28 Hutchinson; L. S. A98 Michie; L. S. A007 Willison & Indian P. C. B549.\n\nDealt with page 1\n\n(a) L. S. A188 Summers.\n\nDealt with page 12\n\nEXTRACT FROM RECOMMENDING OFFICER'S REPORT, AND/OR DIARY REFERENCES.\n\n11.12.41.. at about 16.00 hours P. S. A32 Dowman volunteered with L. S. A28 Hutchinson and several Indian Police Constables for duty at Ma Tau Kok Ordnance Pier where they remained until about 23.59 hours assisting the Military in evacuation. They came over to Hong Kong that night. L. S. A98 Michie also volunteered for rear-guard duty & was sent with L. S. A107 Willison, Y. C.I.D. and three Indian Constables to Kowloon Docks, Main Gate, where he remained until 22.00 hours when he came over to Hong Kong with the \"Canadian Troops\". During his passage by car to Kowloon Docks he had to shoot his way by Thompson Gun through a hostile crowd of about 300 Chinese males who attempted to hold up the car in Ta Ku Street. During his duty at the Main Gate of the Docks his party was sniped at in the darkness from the hillside. Police returned the fire and on several occasions attacked up the hillside and cleared the snipers out. Indian Police Constable B549, (name unknown) attached to the party displayed zeal and determination in these attacks on the snipers.\n\n(This recommendation has already been made by Mr. Calthrop in Paragraph 1(b) except for Indian Police Constable B549.)\n\nGuarding of the Kowloon City & Ma Tau Kok Piers on December 11th.\n\n\"L. S. A188 Summers was also a volunteer and was employed as he knew how to operate No. 17 Motor Boat. The motor boat stayed with me at Kowloon City Ferry Pier till we left again. He rendered valuable assistance by taking the two parties to Kowloon City & Ma Tau Kok Piers. He was fully aware of the potential danger of the enterprise.\"\n\n(This recommendation has already been made by Mr. Calthrop, see Paragraph 1 (b))\n\nXXIII. P. S. A76 McHardie, Officer in Charge, Upper Levels, after December 16th.\n\n(a) P. S. A50 Mattison; P. S. A44 Blackburn; L. S. A184 Fyffe and special\n\n\"P. S. A50 Mattison, P. S. A44 Blackburn, and L. S. A184 Fyffe assisted me to their best ability, this I highly appreciated. They turned out at all hours of the night for waterfront patrols, flashing lights, alleged Fifth Columnists, looting or anything whatsoever. Sergeants Mattison & Blackburn did this in addition to their Charge Room duties. Sergeant Fyffe was with me for only about one week but worked very well during that period.\"\n\nXXIV.\n\nP. S. A214 Mawer, Officer in charge, Bay\n\n(a) L. S. A68 Campbell.\n\n\"On or about 12th December L. S. A68 Campbell was posted to my station for duty. He was a great help and performed his duty", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]