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        "content_text": "\n\nT. M. C. C. \n\n1 Alum \n\nper 100 catties 0 1 0 \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nditto \n\nDitto, Oil of. \n\nditto \n\nRice Paper Pictures \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n40 Paper Fans. \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\ndifto \n\n41 Paper of all kinds \n\n5 Bamboo Screens and Bam- \n\nboo Ware of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n6 Brass Leaf \n\nditto \n\n7 Building Materials \n\nDuty free. \n\n8 Bone and Horn Ware \n\nper 100 catties 1 0 0 h \n\nditto \n\n43 Preserves and Sweet- \n\nmeats of all kinds 44 Rattan work of all kinds 45 Rhubarb \n\n46 Silk, Raw, whether from \n\nper thousand \n\nf \n\nper 100 catties 0 3 \n\nditto \n\nChekiang, Canton, or elsewhere, all kinds Coarse, or refuse of \n\nditto \n\nSilk \n\nDitto Oil. \n\nditto \n\n13 China Root \n\nditto \n\n14 China Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nOrganzine, all kinds Ribbons, Thread, &c., \n\n&c. \n\n+ \n\n+ \n\n15 Clothes (ready made). \n\nditto \n\n16 Copper Ware, Pewter \n\nditto, &c. \n\nditto \n\nSatins, \n\nPongees, \n\nof all kinds \n\n19 Cubebs \n\n17 Corals (or False Coral) \n\n18 Crackers and Fire-works \n\n20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) \n\nditto \n\nVelvets, Crapes, \n\nLutestrings, &c., &e. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\n9 Camphor \n\n10 Canes of all kinds \n\n11 Capoor Cutchery \n\n12 Cassia \n\nDitto Buds \n\nEstablished in pursuance of Article X of the Treaty, \n\n* O \n\nපප \n\nNO BOO 10 3 ICONS \n\nEXPORTS. \n\nපල \n\n39 Pictures, viz., large Paint- \n\nings \n\n42 Pearls, (ie., false Pearls) \n\nSilk Piece goods of all \n\nkinds, as Silks, \n\nCoooo \n\nOOOO \n\n10 O \n\nOOO \n\nOO \n\nOO \n\n6 Camphor (Malay), first \n\nquality, clean. Cainphor, second quality, \n\nrefuse \n\n7 Cloves, first quality, picked Ditto, second ditto, mother 8 Clocks, Watches, Spy- Glasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks, Dress- ing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. \n\n9 Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide \n\n10 Cochineal \n\n11 Cornelians \n\nDitto Beads \n\n12 Cotton \n\n13 Cotton Manufactures, viz.. \n\nLong Cloths, white, 30 a 40 yards long, 30 a 36 inches wide Cambricksand Muslins, \n\n20 a 24 yards long, 40 a 46 inches wide Grey or Unbleached Cottons, viz.:- \n\nLong Cloths, Domes- tics, &c., &c., 30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide \n\nGrey Twilled Cottons, \n\n30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide Chintz and Prints of \n\nper catty \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties ditto \n\nper piece per 100 catties \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\nلمو \n\nCoo \n\nපය \n\n27 Linen, fine, as Irish or Scotch, yards long, \n\ninches wide \n\nCoarse Linen, as Linen and Cotton Mixtures, \n\nSilk and Linen Mix- tures, &c. &c. \n\n+ \n\n28 Mace, or Flower of Nut- \n\nTeg \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n. per piece \n\nper \n\ncent. ad valorem. \n\n29 Mother of Pearl Shells 30 Metals, viz.:~ \n\nCopper, \n\nper \n\ncent, ad valorem. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\n་ \n\nunmanufac- \n\nT. M. C. C \n\ntured, as in pigs \n\nditto \n\nCopper, manufactured, \n\neach \n\nper 100 pictures 0 \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nper 100 stones 5 0 0 per 100 catties 10 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\n5 0 0 } \n\nas in sheets, rods \n\nditto \n\nIron, unmanufactured, \n\nas in pigs \n\nditto \n\nIron, manufactured, as \n\nditto \n\nin bars, rods, &c. \n\nditto \n\nLead in pigs, or manu- \n\nditto \n\nfactured. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nper piece \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nQuicksilver \n\nSteel, nomanufactured Tin. \n\nTin Plates \n\nUnenumerated Metals. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nditto \n\n31 Nutmegs, first quality, or \n\ncleaned \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nNutmegs, second quality, \n\nor uncleaned \n\nditto \n\nمسر \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n32 Pepper \n\n+ \n\nditto \n\n33 Putchuck \n\nditto \n\n34 Rattans \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n21 Furniture of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n22 Galingal \n\nditto \n\n23 Gamboge \n\nditto \n\nO-HOON \n\nO-NOG NI \n\nN.B.-Theadditional \n\nOOOOO \n\nDuty of so much \n\nall kinds, 20 & 30 yards long, 25 a 31 \n\ninches wide \n\nditto \n\nper piece, hitherto \n\nHandkerchiefs under 1 \n\n35 Rice, Paddy, and Grain of \n\nall kinds \n\n36 Rose Maloes. \n\n37 Saltpetre (to be sold to Government Agents only) \n\nDuty Free. \n\n- per 100 catties 1 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nlevied, to be hence- \n\nyard square \n\neach \n\n0 0 I 0 \n\n38 Shark's Fins, first quality, \n\n24 Glass, and Glass Ware \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n25 Glass Beads \n\nditto \n\n26 Glue (as Fish-glue, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n27 Grass Cloth, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n28 Hartall \n\nditto \n\n29 Ivory Ware, all kinds \n\n☺☺☺- OL \n\n' \n\nditto \n\n☺5 – O C \n\nforth abolished. \n\n47 Silk and Cotton mix- \n\nJenmixtures, and goods \n\ntures, Silk and Wool- \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 \n\nyard square \n\nor White \n\nL \n\nditto \n\n1 0 0 ย \n\nditto \n\nShark's Fins, second qua- \n\nGinghams, Pallicates, \n\nlity or Black \n\nditto \n\nમ 5 0 0 \n\nof such classes \n\nditto \n\n48 Shoes and Boots, of \n\nLeather, Satin, or otherwise \n\nditto \n\n49 Sandal Wood Ware \n\nditto \n\n30 Kittysols, or Paper Um- \n\nbrellas \n\n50 Soy. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n31 Lacquered Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n32 Lead (White Lead) \n\nditto \n\n33 Lead (Red Lead) \n\nditto \n\n34 Marble Slabs \n\nditto \n\n1215 O \n\n51 Silver and Gold Ware \n\nditto \n\n52 Sugar, white and brown \n\nditto \n\n53 Sugar Candy, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n54 Tin Foil \n\nditto \n\n55 Tea . \n\nditto \n\n35 Mats, (straw, rattan, \n\n56 Tobacco of all kinds \n\nditto \n\nbamboo, &c. &c.) \n\nditto \n\n36 Mother o'Pearl Ware 37 Musk \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\nON COLO \n\n57 Turmeric \n\nditto \n\n58 Tortoise-Shell Ware \n\nditto \n\n59 Trunks (of Leather) \n\nditto \n\n000000ONOOOO \n\nNO+O21 20 US LO EN CON \n\nDyed Cottons, Velve- teens, Silk and Cotton Mixtures, Woollen \n\nand Cotton Mixtures, and all kinds of Fancy Goods not in current consumption. \n\n14 Cotton Yarn and Cotton \n\nThread \n\n39 Skins and Furs, viz. \n\nCow and Ox Hides, \n\ntanned, and untanned \n\nditto \n\nSea Otter Skins \n\neach \n\nFox Skins, large- \n\nditto \n\nFox Skins, small \n\nditto \n\nසපප \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem \n\nTiger, Leopard, and \n\nMartin Skins \n\nditto \n\n15 Cow Bezoar \n\nper 100 catties 0 per catty \n\n16 Cutch \n\nper 100 catties \n\nඅපය \n\nLand Otter, Racoon, \n\nand Shark's Skins \n\nper hundred \n\nBeaver skins \n\nditto \n\n17 Elephant's Teeth, first \n\nHare, Rabbit, and Er- \n\nquality, whole \n\nditto \n\nmine \n\nditto \n\nElephant's Teeth, second \n\n40 Smalts \n\nper 100 catties \n\nquality, broken \n\nditto \n\n18 Fish Maws \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\n38 Nankeen, and Cotton \n\nCloth of all kinds \n\n[Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, to pay a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem.] \n\n60 Treasure, ie., Coin of \n\nall kinds \n\n19 Flints \n\nditto \n\n41 Soap \n\nditto \n\n42 Stock Fish, &c. \n\nditto \n\n43 Sea Horse Teeth \n\nditto \n\nFree. \n\n20 Glass, Glass Ware, and \n\n61 Vermilion \n\nditto \n\nCrystal Ware, of all \n\n44 Treasure and Money of all \n\nkinds \n\nPapers \n\nFree. \n\nkinds. \n\nper cent. ad valorem \n\n21 Gambier \n\n. per 100 catties 0 1 5 0 \n\n22 Ginseng, first quality \n\nditto \n\nDitto second ditto, or \n\nrefuse \n\nditto \n\nIn Cask \n\n45 Wine, Beer, Spirits, &c. \n\nIn Quart Bottles. \n\nIn Pint \n\n- per 100 bottles \n\nditto \n\nધ 5 \n\n⚫ per 100 catties 0 5 \n\nditto \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n23 Gold and Silver Thread :——— first quality, or real second ditto, or imitation \n\n. per catty \n\nditio \n\n1 Assafoetida \n\nf memo \n\nT. M. \n\nC. \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nper 100 catties \n\n2 Bees' Wax \n\nditto \n\n3 Betel Nut \n\nditto \n\nCom \n\n5 Birds Nests, first quality, \n\ncleaned. \n\nper 100 catties 5 \n\nBirds' Nests, second qua \n\n4 Bicho de Mar, first quality, \n\nlity, good middling \n\nditto \n\nor blk. \n\nditto \n\nBicho de Mar, second \n\nBirds' Nests, third quality, \n\nuncleaned \n\nditto \n\nquality, or wht. \n\nditto \n\n24 Gums, Benjamin \n\nOlibanum. Myrrhi \n\nGums, unenumerated \n\n25 Horns, Bullocks' and Buf- \n\nfalos' \n\n26 Horns, Unicorns' or Rhi- \n\nnoceros' \n\nper 100 catties \n\nI 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nอ 5 0 h \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem \n\nper 100 catties 2 0 0 \n\nditto \n\n46 Woods, namely:--- \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz.:- \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches \n\nwide \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\nditto \n\nA 1 5 0 \n\nditto \n\nD \n\nditto \n\n",
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        "content_text": "\n\ncations, with a diligent pursuit of every thing that is good and right: they need entertain no apprehension of being hereafter dragged forward, nor yield in consequence to any fears or suspicions. \n\nWith reference to the arrangements which the High Commissioner and his colleagues have made in regard to duties, every thing has been done with a single eye to a just impartiality: all merchants, then, whether of China or of foreign countries, are called upon to consider the many pains that the High Commissioner and his colleagues have taken, and by all means to abide in the quiet pursuit of their respective callings, and in the enjoyment of so auspicious a peace. From henceforward amity and goodwill shall ever con- tinue, and those from afar and those who are near shall perpetually rejoice together. Such is the fervent hope of the High Commissioner and his col- leagues; and in this hope they command implicit obedience to what is now thus specially promulgated. \n\nA true Translation, \n\n(Signed) J. ROBT. MORRISON, \n\nChinese Secretary and Interpreter. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\n1 Assafoetida \n\n2 Rees' Wax \n\n3 Betel Nut. \n\n4 Bicho de Mar, first quality, \n\nor blk. \n\nBicho de Mar, second \n\nquality, or wht. \n\n5 Birds' Nests, first quality, \n\ncleaned \n\nIMPORTS. \n\nEXPORTS. \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n1 Alum \n\nper 100 catties \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nditto \n\nDitto, \n\nOil of. \n\nditto \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\nditto \n\n50000 O \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n39 Pictures, viz., large Paint- \n\nings \n\neachi \n\nI \n\nප \n\n? \n\nRice Paper Pictures \n\nper 100 pictures 0 \n\n40 Paper Fans \n\nper 100 catties \n\n12 Cotton \n\n41 Paper of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n་ \n\n5 Bamboo Screens and Bam- \n\n42 Pearls, (ie.,false Pearls) \n\nditto \n\nQ \n\nboo Ware of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n43 Preserves and Sweet- \n\n6 Brass leaf \n\nditto \n\nmeats of all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n7 Building Materials \n\nDuty free. \n\n44 Rattan work of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n12 Cassia \n\n8 Bone and Horn Ware \n\n9 Camphor \n\n+ \n\n10 Canes of all kinds \n\n11 Capoor Cutchery \n\nDitto Buds \n\nper 100 catties \n\n45 Rhubarb . \n\nditto \n\nONS \n\nditto \n\nper thousand \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nDitto Oil \n\nditto \n\n13 China Root \n\nditto \n\n14 China Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n15 Clothes (ready made). \n\nditto \n\nDOOHOOO \n\n10 OOND 10 \n\n46 Silk, Raw, whether from \n\nditto \n\nChekiang, Canton, or \n\nelsewhere, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nCoarse, or refuse of \n\nSilk \n\nditto \n\nOrganzine, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nRibbons, Thread, &c., \n\nditto \n\n&c. \n\nditto \n\nSilk Piece goods of all \n\n16 Copper Ware, Pewter \n\nditto, &c, \n\nditto \n\n17 Corals (or False Coral) \n\nditto \n\nසප \n\n18 Crackers and Fire-Works \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n19 Cubebs \n\nditto \n\n20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n21 Furniture of all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n22 Galingal \n\nditto \n\n23 Gamboge \n\nditto \n\nNOON-O \n\nCITODA \n\nkinds, as Silks, Satins, Pongees, Velvets, Crapes, Lutestrings, &c., &c. 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        "content_text": "\n\nIn Pint bottles \n\nIn Cask \n\n46 Woods, namely:→ \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\nT. M. \n\nper 100 bottles 0 \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz. :--- \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches wide \n\nLong Elis, Cassimeres, \n\nFlannel, and narrow \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\n[All Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, 5 per cent, að valorem.] \n\n(L.S.) \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nSeal and Signature \n\nof the Chinese Plenipotentiary. \n\nC. \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nCloths of this descrip- \n\ntion \n\nper Chang of 141 inches \n\nBlankets of all kinds. \n\neach \n\nDOO \n\nDutch Camlets, per Chang of 141 inches 0 Camlets. \n\nපපස \n\nditto \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods, Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nCunes, &c. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece has been levied; the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nImitation ditto, Bomba- \n\nzettes, &c. \n\nditto \n\nBunting(narrow), perChang of 141 inches 0 \n\nCɅ Cz \n\nUnenumerated Woollen \n\nGoods, or Silk and \n\nWoollen, and Cotton \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing. Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, Woollen, or Silk; formerly divided into Cotton clothing, Woollen ditto, Silk and Satin ditto, and Velvet ditto \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, \n\n&c., &c. \n\nand Woollen Mix- tures, &c. \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nBoots and Shoes, whether of leather, satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, &c. ARTICLES. \n\n48 Woollen Yarn \n\n⚫ per 100 catties \n\nPreserved Ginger and Fruits of all kinds \n\nClass IX-Exported Fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp or linen Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tariff) \n\nSoy. \n\nSugar, White and Brown \n\n+ \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared, &c., &c., of all \n\nkinds \n\nClass X-Exported Silk, Fabrics of Silk, &c. \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein to include, are to be charged an ad valorem duty of five \n\nper cent. \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabries of all kinds, as crape, lute- \n\nClass XIV-Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and \n\nSilver. Duty free. \n\nstrings, &c., &c., &c., formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClass XV-Bricks, Tiles, and Building Materials. \n\nDuty free. \n\n} \n\nGlass, Glass ware of all kinds, formerly classed as \n\nNative crystal ware \n\nGlass beads, or False pearls \n\nKittysols, or paper Umbrellas \n\nMarble, Marble slabs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nRice-Paper pictures \n\nAniseed Oil, not formerly contained in the Tariff \n\ndo. do. Cassia Oil \n\nPaper Fans \n\nCHINESE RE-ARRANGEMENT OF TARIFF, UNDER CLASSES OF GOODS. \n\nTITLE.-Tariff of Duties to be levied at the Five Ports of Canton, &c., &c., as newly established. THE Duties which it is agreed shall be paid upon goods imported and exported by England, at the Five Ports of Customs of Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, are here stated in classified order. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nClass L-Exported Oilman's Stores (Oil, Wax, Alum, \n\nSulphur, &c.) ARTICLES. \n\nAlum, .., White Alum-formerly White Alum \n\nand Bluestone \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed Fabrics \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e., English List. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. ., English List. \n\nClass I-Imported Oilman's Stores, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nClass IV.-Imported Sundries. \n\nWax, Bees' Wax Rose Maloes \n\nFlints Mother of Pearl shells \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of \n\nthe Government \n\nSoap \n\nPearls (false), not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass II-Imported Spices and Perfumes. \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nClass II-Exported Spices, Tea, &c. \n\nTea, (formerly divided into fine and native black, \n\nand fine and native green, Teas) \n\nAniseed, Star \n\nClass V-Exported Painter's Stores, &c. &c.' \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBrass Leaf \n\nPepper \n\n+2 \n\nGamboge \n\nint ce ty \n\nRed Lead \n\nGlue, as fish glue, cow-skin glue, &c. Paper, Stationery \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tariff, to pay an ad valorem duty of Ten per cent. \n\nPerfumery \n\nper \n\ncent. \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality, cleaned Bird's nests, 2nd quality, good middling \n\n3rd ditto, uncleaned Bicho de Mar, 1st ditto, black \n\n2nd ditto, white Shark's fins, Ist ditto, white \n\n2nd ditto, black Stock fish and dried fish Fish Maws, not formerly in the Tariff. \n\nMusk \n\nClass III-Exported Drugs. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass III-Imported Drugs. \n\nClass VI-Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nCapoor Cutchery \n\nTinfoil \n\nAssafoetida \n\nCochineal \n\nCamphor \n\nVermilion \n\nArsenic, under different Chinese names \n\nCassia \n\nPaintings (large paintings), formerly divided into \n\nlarge and small paintings \n\nCamphor Baroos (or Malay), 1st quality, or \n\nSmalts \n\n$5 \n\ncleaned; formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor \n\nSapan Wood \n\n+ \n\nCassia Buds, not formerly in Tariff \n\nWhite Lead \n\n2nd quality, refuse; formerly classed as un- \n\nChina Root \n\ncleaned Camphor \n\nClass VII-Imported Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nPakers \n\nCubebs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass VI-Exported Wares of various kinds. \n\nCloves, 1st quality (picked) \n\nRattans \n\n2nd quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nEbony \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBone and Horn ware \n\n► \n\nCow Bezoar \n\nGalingal \n\nChina Ware, fine and coarse (formerly classed as \n\nCutch \n\nHartall \n\nfine, coarse, native, and middling) \n\nGambier \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tariff, 10 per cent. ad valorem, \n\nRhubarb \n\nCopper ware, and pewter ware \n\nBetel Nut. \n\nTurmeric \n\nManufactures of wood, furniture \n\nGinseng, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\nIvory ware, all carved ivory work included, for. \n\n2nd \n\nditto, refuse, or Ginseng beard \n\nClass VIII-Imported Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nmerly divided into ivory, and ivory Carvings \n\n+ \n\nGum Olibanum'. \n\nClass IV-Exported Sundries. \n\nClocks \n\nLacquered ware. \n\nMyrrh \n\nWatches \n\nBamboo Screens, and Bamboo Ware \n\nBangles (glass armlets) not formerly in Tariff \n\nMother o' Pearl ware \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nTelescopes \n\nCorals, Native or false coral, not formerly in \n\nTariff \n\nSandal-wood ware \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into Gold \n\nCrackers, and fireworks of all kinds (formerly \n\nclassed as rockets, &c.) \n\nware, and Silver ware \n\nTortoise-shell ware \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\n2nd \n\nPutchuck \n\nditto, uncleaned \n\nRhinoceros Horns \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of ali \n\nkinds \n\n$1 \n\nFans (feather fans, &c.) not formerly in the Tariff 20 \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n",
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        "content_text": "\nTHE FRIEND OF CHIN, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nCorresponding to lo., \n\nCorresponding to No, \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e. \n\nEnglish List \n\nbroken Class XVI--All new goods imported, which it has not been practicable to include herein. 5 per cent. að valoren. \n\nClass XVII-All forsign rice, and other grain, Duty Free \n\nSHIPPING DUES THESE bave hitherto been charged upon the measurement of the Ships || length and breadth, at so much per change but it is now agreed to alter the System, and charged according to the registeed statement of the number of tons of Carga the Ship may carry. On each ten (reckoned equal to the cubic contents of 122 tow,) a Shipping charge of 5 Mars is to be levied: and all the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, daily and Monthly ices. &ro., are to be abolished \n\nTaowkwang, 33rd year, 8th Month. day. (July \n\nL. S. \n\nI.. S. \n\nof \n\nol \n\nthe Supt. \n\nGuy.Genl. \n\nel the \n\nTwo Kwang \n\nCasures \n\nL. 5. \n\nरहने \n\nHigh \n\nCavathis. Funer \n\n1849.) \n\nL. 8. ไม่ \n\nGovernor \n\nCanton \n\nin Alphabetical i, e. \n\nin Alphabetical e, \n\nEnglish Last \n\nEnglish List. \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work Sandal-wood ware \n\nClass IV-Importel Sundries. \n\nتھ \n\nWints \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into \n\nMother of Peart shells \n\nBullock's and Ruffalo's Horns Cow and Ox hides, tanned and untanned \n\nClass XV Fraported Skins, Teeth, Horns, &c. \n\nSea otter skins \n\nGold ware, and Silver ware \n\nTortoise shell ware \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nFox skras, larve and small \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods. Cares, &c. Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality cleaned Bird's nest 2nd quality, good middling \n\ndo., uncleanci 3rd Bicho de Mar 1st do, black 2nd do,, white \n\nTiger, Leopard, sad Martin skins Land Otter, Racoon, and Shark skius Beaver skine \n\nRD \n\nD \n\nARTICLES. \n\nHare, Rabbit, and Ermine skine \n\n+1; \n\nSea Horm Tued) \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing, Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, woollen, or silk, formerly divided into Cotton clothing. Woollén do., Silk and Sutin do,, and Velvet do, Boots and Shoes, whether of leather Satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nElephant's Teeth, 1st quality, whole \n\nShark's as, 1st dn, white 2ud do, black \n\nJ7 \n\nStock Gsh and dried fish \n\nFish: maws, not formerly in the Tariff \n\nClass VI.--Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nClass IX-Erported fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp of linen Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tarif \n\nCochineal Smalis \n\n1+ \n\nSapan Wood \n\nClass VII.--Impuried Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nClass X—Exported Silk, fabrics of Silk, 42- \n\nRattans Ebony \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tarif, 10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crap, \n\nClass VIII-laporied Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nlutestrings, &c,, &c., &c, formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClocks Watches \n\n+3 \n\nA \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed fabrics \n\nTelescopes \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece, has been levied, the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all kinds \n\nARTICLES. \n\nWriting Deska \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, &c. &c. 35 \n\nDressing Cases \n\nS \n\nJewellery of Gold and Silver, \n\nCutlery, Swords, &c, \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, fc. \n\nARTICLES. Preserved ginger and fruits of all kinds \n\nA \n\nSov \n\n} \n\nof the sanie description, 5 per cent, od valorem. \n\nAll the foregoing, and any other miscellanore unticles \n\nClass IX-Guki and Sitzer Bullion, and Sperae. Duty Free \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared &c., &út, of \n\nall kinds \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein to include are to be charged an ad colorem duty of five per cent. Class XIV.--Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and Silver. \n\nDuty Free. \n\nClasss XV-Bricks, Tiles, and building Materials. \n\nDuty Free, \n\nClass L-Imported Oilman's Stores, de \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetini & \n\nEnglish List. \n\nWax, Bee's wax Rose Malves \n\nCambrics and Masting \n\nCotton yarn, and Cotton thread \n\nLinen-fine-not formely in the Tariff \n\nBanting \n\nAll other imported articles of this class, as ginghams, pul- licates, dyed cottons, velveteens silk and citon mixtu rea, course linen, and mixtures of cotton and linen, &c. &c. & per cent. al calorem. \n\nCuss X---Imported Cotton, fubrics of Collen, fr., §c. \n\nCanvas Corton \n\nLug Cloth, white, formerly divided into superior and \n\ninferior fine Cotton cloth \n\nCottons, grey, or unbleached, domestic, &ce, formerly \n\nclassed as coarse long cloth \n\nTwilled Cottons, grey \n\nChintz and Prints, of all kinds \n\nClass XI-Imported fabrics of Woollen, Niik, de, de. \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of the \n\nGovernment \n\nHandkerchiefs, large \n\nSubult \n\nSoap. \n\nGold and Silver thread, superior or real \n\ninferior, or imitation \n\nClass II-Imported Spices, and Perfumes. \n\nBrond Cloth, Spanish Stripes, &c. \n\n+7 \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nNarrow Clotis, as Long Eds, Cusemneres, &e., de. \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nPepper \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tarifl \n\ntu pay an all calorem duty of Ten por cont. \n\nPerfumery \n\nClass III--- Imported Drugs. \n\nCamlets (Dutch) \n\nCamlets \n\nImitation Camiots or bombazettes \n\n5 per cent. \n\nWoollen yara \n\nSP \n\nBlankets \n\n4.7 \n\nAll oder fabrics of wood or of mixed wool and silk, \n\nAssaftetia \n\nwool and cotton. &c. & per cent, að caboreza. \n\nCamphor Barbos (or Maley,) 1st quality, or cleaned; \n\nformerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor, \n\nClass Xil--Laportet Finca, Preserves, Spirita &c. Wine and Beer, in quart bottles \n\nC \n\nCloves, 1st quality (pieked) \n\n2nd quality, refisse; formerly classed as uncleaned Camphor \n\nin pint bottles in cask \n\nG \n\nand quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nClass XIII, Importal Metals. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCow Bezour \n\nCutch \n\nGambier \n\nCopper, manfiretured as in pigs, \n\nBanufactured as in sheets, rods &c. \n\nBetch out \n\nIron, comanufactured as in pigs. \n\nGinseng, 1st quality or Cleaner \n\nmanufactured as in bars, rods &c. \n\n2nd \n\ndo., refuse or Ginseng beard \n\nLead, in pigs, or manufactured \n\nGom Olibarni \n\nStoel, unanufactured \n\nTin \n\nMyrrh \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nTin plates, not formerly in the Tarift \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality or Cleaned \n\nZud \n\ndo., uncleaned \n\nPutchuch Rhinocero's Horns \n\nAll other metals as zinc, yellow copper, &c., not \n\nherein mumerated, 10 per cent. at walorem, \n\nRI \n\nClass XI Imparted Jewellery. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCornelians \n\nCornelian Beads \n\n(A une abstract-reference mumbers to the Alphabetic List bung in- serted in place of the amounts of duty, those amounts having boon carefully compared and found correct.) \n\n(Signed) \n\n(True Copy) \n\nJ. ROBT. MORRISON, Chinese Secretary & Interpreter. RICHARD WOOSNĀM, \n\nNOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. \n\nTo insure insertion, Advertisements ought to be sent to the Office on Toeslag hut unae can be received after 12 noon on Wednesday, \n\nAll extra Copies of our puper ordered at the Office, and not paid Cash, are charged to accounts one Rupee \n\nAny Subscriber who does not receive his paper on Thursday will please complain at the Office, as every Subscriber's repy is regularly sent off, and it is only by Complaints being made, that the Publisher can correct the irregularity. \n\nEVOLAND May \n\nLATEST DATES. \n\nUNITED Bras Apl. 15 CALORA July & \n\nBrommay \n\nSpray May IJ \n\nSINGAreas Argast 2 Jays July 29 MANILA Angus 15 Cresas Aver \n\n1.4 \n\n+; \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nVICTORIA, THURSDAY, Arever 21en, 1843. \n\nIx our last there was notified the appointment of COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLEANLI Ness, () hom whose labours we anticipato much benil to the sunitary condition of the town. \n\nWhen the Lands and Rods Committee was nominated some eighteen months since, we ventur- ed to say (File No. 2.) We would earnestly impress on a Committee, the necessity of framing same general Building Regulations for the Chinese, and which we dink are essentially necessary for their security and welfare. We would recommend the regulations to be framed so as to interfire no further with one's right to manage one's own pro- perty, than is necessary to protect the health of the community.\" \n\nChief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843. \n\nThe duty on Tobacco in England is above 300 per Cent, and Lord Congleton states that three fourths of the Tobacco consumed in Ireland is believed to be supplied by Smugglers. Mr. Porter The following is again published by an- of the Board of Trade, proved before the Imports thority, for general information : \n\nBafy Committee in 1810, that 48 por Cent. of the It has been lately Notified by PROCLA whatever; and that the loss to the revene of French Silks imported into Egiand paid no duty MATION of the CHES MAGISTRATE, to the smuggled French brandy was estimated at Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be-2500000 a you. The Prerum on the illicit tween the hours of eight and ten P. M. atroduction of French goods into England was they are prohibited from being out of their 1831, for Gold triaketa, 6 to 10 par Cent. Silver, houses without lanthorns, and that after ten \n\n10 to 12; Silk gomis 29 to 25 per Cant., Tea 50 per Cent, and Spirits 80 per Cont. \n\n| o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the \n\nIn the same Report, is is stated that British following morning, no Chineso will, in fature Goods of the value of £2,000,000 were snuggled be permitted to go out, under any consider-ins France across the Belgia: frontier, besülés a ption, unless he can produce a pass in Eng-inge amount through the Channel ports. lish, specifying his object in being out at so On the Belgian frontier dags are trained to \n\nlate an hour. \n\nevoy the snuggled goods into France. Between 1820 to 1830 at fewer ton 40,279 sanggling A PROCLAMATION has also been issuedffcers, who receive thirea francs (48) for each. \n\ndogs were destroyed by the French Custom House prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- In 1882 the cost of preventing struggling in unt, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from England was truly enormous, and in that and the moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at following year there were captured on the Coast. aine o'clock P. A., and until Gm-fire at engaged in the contraband trade, 52 10ssels and day light on the following morning. \n\n385 bouts. The seizures in one half year were valued at £97.980. W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE. \n\nAS OVERLAND MAIL to England ria Buhay, nee \"Petrell\" will be closed at this fee, on Friday, the 25th instant, at 3 P. M. \n\nA Mail for Singapore & Calcutta per \"City of Palaces\" will also be closed at 3 P. M, on Wednesday, \n\nthe 30th instani. \n\nPOST OFFICE, \n\nVictoria. 20 August, 1813. \n\nmiture what is now required, its acquaintance with the wants of the Colony satistics us that proper mea \n\nveronicat. \n\nStill we would recommend the tome- diate covering up of the fetid denine which now give forth the most deleterious minsara, \n\nLord Congleton (Inte Sir feary Parnell) in 1831, estimated the total anal cost of protecting the revenue at from £700,000 to £ 800,000. Then there were 116 persons under confinement. and 64 serving in the navy for smuggling offences. \n\nThe total charge for collecting and protecting the customs auf excise revenues of the Pnited Kingdon, was 22.300613 in the year 18-10. \n\nthe department of the customs was 11,000 and In 1885 the number of persons employed in the excise 6,079. \n\nin \n\nThe present Acts relating to Smuggling are the 3rd and 4th of William IV, Cap. 53, and Land & of Wiliam, Cap. 13. \n\nrefer to the Government Notification with We have only space to enable us to \n\nsures will be taken under the sanction of the Go-respect to Land. It is not such a one as many of our readers would export, still we think it is so far satisfactory, that we now know we shall soon be relieved from the distressing suspense which has for some time paralysed the Colony, \n\nIn London it was remarked that fever was con- startly engendered in localitics destitute of under- ground Swenge, and by a map of the Sowers it \n\nWe are not surprised at the wording of was shown by Dr Southwood Staith, that ons could correctly define the huts of the unhealthy districts Lord Stanley's despatch, socing that in the and accurately judge of the comparative Sanitary last Crown Colony which bad been esta- condition of the respective parts of the Metropolis.blished, New Zealand, there had been such flagrant and jobbing, and peculation by aithost every member of that colonial Go- vernom (vide No. 48.) \n\nThe FRIEND OF INDA states the gross receipts of the year, from the Opa monopoly to have been two millions sterling and adds this source of revenue is continued to Ludia for theen years more, the debt incurred in the war beyond the Indus will be wiped out.\" \n\nOur readers well know, that there does not exist even ususpicion, of similar couduct en the part of the officials here--this wo have often land occasion to say, us a valki argument for losing no longer truc, in giving the holders tiler to their lands, \n\nBy the Calcutta papers we learn that the Assam Tea Company is shipping the loaf of the Ten plant without first submitting it to any process The large powers which it is well known al' wamfacture, further than sun drying. It is are wisely confided to H. 1 (whose tho- thought by the Shippers that this Ten will, berough acquaintance with our best interests admitted at a lower duty than that from China, and whose sincere desire to promote them) it bong in an unmanufactured state. We think \n\nthis wholly unlikely, and after the liberal Taxir ads us to be quite sanguíne of a highly promulgated by the Chinese, it is not at all pro-satisfactory result. hable ministers would propose a reduction on any There was much delay, and as many kind or sort of Ten, which should not be equally doubts and misgivings abmit the Commer- applicable to Ten sent from hence, \n\ncial Treaty, as have ever existed with \n\nFrom a late publication of established authority, soon with respect to the former, that the respect to the Land Regulations. We have we have abriged an article en smuggling. His stated greatest cavillers have been gloriously Suugging is the clalestine ironcine of an agreeably disappointed by the promal- prohibited goods; or the illicit introduction of \n\ngoods by the evasion of the legal duties. Escos-gation of a Tariff of unprecedented' libera- sive duties present an overwhelming temptation lity and of immense national value. Henco to men to evade them; and the law loses a great we have every confidence that the final part of its moral influence when it first tempts adjustment of the Land Claims, and their * to the violation of it, and then pauishes the offence. \n\nfuture tenure, will afbrd as much satisfac- \n\nWe then thought \"regulations would have been nade as far as possible, conformable with,and minis- tering to, the convenience, wealth, and confort of the present and future residents of our new city.\" \n\nOn a later occasion (Fide No. 6) when the alleg.sively carried on, the smuggler is rather a popularredound as much to the honour of II. E., \n\ned unhealthmoss of Hong-Kong was a subject of nuimadversion in the English Papers we said (aud now we see no reason to after our opinions) Ma- eau is one of the healthicst towns in the world, and it is fully certain that when proper houses, barracks, cc., with the Sanitary Regulations which always obtain in an English town, Hongkong will lay claim, and justly, to even a superior salubrity\". \n\nIt is not to be wondered at, if with the many and great claims on the time of H. E, nothing has Hitherto been done. We need not inform the com- \n\n(*) This ride is not ungly chosen. Seving bow contingent halit te upor Cleanliness it word hoze auffierd, and it would have bees-we think mure correct to bare omitted and Glennlin, 295, ad ended it merely a C-unites or Board of Pobito Heath. At A tak dh a ta demquation of this very tertul b dy would ne have beci provocative, wit law is, of a gibe on a langu \n\nIn parts of a country where a free trade is extention to \n\nperson than otherwise in some countries; in Spain, still more thau in England. \n\nour little community, and will \n\nas will the announcement of the Commer We have only to examine the Tariff of any cial Treaty to his gratified countrymen country to know if smuggling is practised; and if abad system of commercial policy has been long \n\nat home. pursed, there the smuggler will be found. The exports to Gibraltar Rems England considerably exceed one million sterling, and are mostly jutes. duced by smugglers into the interior of Spain, besides some six to eight millions lbs. of Tobacco from the same British port. \n\nThe total ameamt of duties evaded in 1831 by the smuggling of French goods into the United Kingdom was estimated to execod £800,000 ex- clusive of Tobacco wiele cargoes of which aro enetics introduced from the French bonding wan homes int› Towinual. \n\nWo would refer the reader to our absact of the larnet Legislativo cunement wul regard Grow a Landu (the 5 ard oi Vieraţiu Cop. 36) we ihn guid, and still think, that Ant will be the basis of our future Land Regulations. Our opinion is forted by Goling Lord Stanley taking credit for the play therein seribel, and when she ulterius were enggested hesaid It was a system which he would be sorry to see inter fered with, or principle deparred front. His opinion was decidedly opposed to any soch course, as was proved by its introducing a Biž, which became an ret last session, which ex- pressly baried the Crown from interfering with the system. Vos Rapor ne na Braun og QuanYes Pricer's Poyanmar! S \n\nORION. Arest Byn. 1813. \n\n17 Aur Shiroing Nora ye, se He",
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        "content_text": "in 1134 Hongkong \n\nTHE CHINESE TARIFF. \n\n(FROM FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, OCTOBER 28, 1843.) \n\n0.0. NOV, \n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISTOL JOURNAL. Sir, The vast importance of the Chinese Tariff requires that it should be reduced to English weights, measures, and monies, for the use of British merchants, and not having yet observed that this has beca done, I beg to trouble yon with such s table, toge- ther with a few observations upon the standard to be observed. \n\nThe definition and determination of the Chinese tael is ex- preased in several different ways. 1st. It has been generally in England taken to be one third of the pound sterling, or Gs. 8d., or 80 pence, making the mace its 10th, S., and the caudareen its 100th part, 8-10ths of a penny. This simple relation to our own money would be a great advantage to English merchants if it were fully established, but some, as Beawes, make the candareen Ed., reducing the tael to 62. 3d. \n\n2ndly. It is now, however, for the most part compared with the Spanish dollar. Thus the latest and perhaps the highest sathority, that of Mr. Pope, in the Yearly Journal of Trade for 1843, states 72 taels to be equivalent to 100 dollars. The Spanish dollar is commonly estimated at 4s. Gd., but her Majesty's proclu- mation (Yearly Journal of Trada, 1840, p. 391), issued for the West Indies, makes it equivalent to 48. 2d. The tael, therefore, will be 6s. 3d, if we take the former, and 58. 94d. if the latter, for our guide. \n\n3rdly. It was originally compared with the Chinese silver coin called mace, and their copper coin called cash, but the mase has been long disused; 1000 cash were once equivalent to one fuel, but the depreciation of these coins by deterioration of the metal and reduction of their weight, so amply illustrated in the highly interesting and most authentic work of Mr. Davis, has now rendered the tael equal to a much greater number of cash. By Sir Henry Pottinger's Hong Kong proclamation of the 29th of March, 1842, 1200 of them are declared equal to one dollar. In weight I have found them vary from about 85 graina troy to twice as much. Du Halde says that the French sou is equivalent to the 100th part of the tael, that is to the caudareen, and also that it is equal to 6 cash, instead of 10. \n\n4thly. The Chinese tael is a weight, and has its value expressed by European weights, either avoirdupois or troy, and this is the truest mode of determining its equivalent in fine silver, seeing that the references to English money do not agree, that dollars differ materially in value, and that the Chinese cash are still more different from each other in their weight and quality. Measra. Gordon and Crawfurd, in their admirable treatise upon Chinese commerce, give a table stating the tacl is equal to 1 1-3 ounce avoirdupois, or 579.84 grains troy. These, unfortunately, do not agree neither, for 1 1-3 oz. avoirdupois contains 437.5 and 145.8 1-3 grs., or 583.3 1-3 grs, troy, and not 579.84. Again, Beawez in his \"Lex Mercatoria,\" states that the tael was 1 oz. 2 dr., of course troy weight, which in 480 and 120, or 600 grains. The editor of \"Mortimer's Commercial Dictionary,\" in his “Universal Commerce,\" p. 64, says 100 taels should weigh 120 oz. 10 dwts. troy, or 57840 grs., or the single tael 5734, which is less than any of the above. He says, also, that 100 Spanish dollars should weigh 68 13 dwts.; that is, 42,552 grs., of which we take the 72nd part, according to Mr. Pope, the tael comes out 591 grs. Now, 16 taels make a catty, and 100 catties a pecul; all autho- rities, I believe, concur in making the pecul 133 1-3 ib. avoirdu- pois, or the catty I 1-3 B., for which reason I prefer taking the tael as 1 1-3 oz., or 183 1-3 grs. The English crown piece, or N. is so nearly an avoirdupois ounce that if we could make this the standard the tael would come out as at first 5a, and 20d., or 6s. 8d., or 80d.; but in China all silver coin is taken as bullion, and the duties of course will be paid in fullion. The real value of the tael must, therefore, be sought in the market price of stan- dard silver. This, at the present time, I find to bo da. 1110. per ounce troy, which is almost exactly 48. 6d, the ouuoo avoirdupois, or 6s. the tacl; and I have accordingly made this my standard in the following table, wherein I have reduced the Tariff to English weights and monies. I prefer this to taking the market price of the dollar, whether Mexican or Spanish, new or pillar, and using the multiplier 1,204, because I consider that the term \"syees” means \"perfectly pure.\" This word I believe to be originally Chinese, although the characters used by the Chinese to express it do not indicate its proper etymology. I have no doubt that it was originally, in the orthoepy of Morrison, \"tsuh sih,\" or \"full quality;\" but the characters commonly used for it mean \"fine silk,\" expressive of what minoralogists would call it's \"lustre sating.\"* \n\nI cannot conclude without suggesting that, at the present low price of copper, 1000 tona, costing 70,000Z. or 80,0007., might advantageously be coined into Chinese cash, weighing each a 1-3 gra. This would greatly relieve the distress of the neighbourhood of Swansea, and supply Hong Kong and the Chinese with a good currency during the present and the next generation; for, if neatly executed, it would be universally coveted and hearded up in abundance, and would be a good payment for tea, instead of opium. On one side of the coin I would have the words \"Victoria Regina,\" and on the other, as usual, “perforated token,\" with \"Iong Kong\" instead of the Emperor's name. \n\nBristol, Oct. 14. \n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant, \n\nSAM. ROOTSEY. \n\n3. Arsenic, ditto \n\n4. Banglos (or glass armlets), ditto \n\n5. Bamboo screens, and bamboo wares of all kinds, do. 0 6. Brass leaf, ditto.. \n\n9. Camphor, ditto...... \n\n10. Canea of all kinds, per 1,000 \n\n11. Capoor cutchery, per cwt. \n\n12. Cassia, ditto \n\nDitto buds, ditto Ditto oil, ditto \n\n13. China root, ditto \n\n14. China ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n15. Clothes, ready made, ditto \n\n16. Copper ware, pewter, ditto, &c., ditto \n\n17. Curals, or false coral, ditto..... \n\n10. Cubebs, ditto..... \n\n20. Fans (as feather fans, &c.), ditto \n\n24. Glass, and glass ware of all kinds, ditto 25. Glass beads, ditto \n\n26. Gine (as fish glue, &c.), ditto \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n1. Alum, per cwt. \n\n2. Aniseed star, ditto \n\nDitto, oil of, ditto.. \n\nd. \n\nCotton Manufactures, continued- \n\nGrey, or unbleached, cottona-viz., long-cloths, domestics, &c., 30 to 40 yards long, 26 to 40 inches wide, ditto \n\n£ 3. d \n\nGrey twilled cottons, 30 to 40 yards long, 28 to \n\n40 inches wide, ditto..... \n\nChintz and prints, of all kinds, 20 to 30 yards \n\n7. Building materiala, ditto. \n\n8. Bone and horn ware, ditto \n\nduty free. \n\nlong, 26 to 31 inches wide, ditto ...... \n\n0 1 24 Handkerchiefs under 1 yard square, 72 ea....... 0 0 03 \n\n0 à 01 \n\ni \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 yard square, 1.03 ditto... ( Ginghams, pullicates, dyed cottons, velveteens, silk and cotton mixtures, woollen and cotton mixtures, and all kinds of fancy goods, not in current consumption, 5 per cent. ad valorem. 14. Cotton yarn and cotton thread, per cwt. Jo. Cow bezoar, per lb...... \n\n16. Cutch, per cwt.. \n\n17. Elephants' teeth, Ist quality, whole, ditto \n\nS \n\n5 O \n\nI 0 2 \n\n2d quality, ditto, broken \n\n18. Fish maws, ditto \n\n19. Flinta, ditto \n\n18. Crackers and fire-works of all kinds, ditte.... \n\nす \n\n20. Glass, glass ware, and crystal ware of all kinds, 5 \n\nper cent. ad valorem. \n\nՌ \n\n21. Gambier, per cwt.... \n\nD 0 9 \n\n21. Furniture of all kinds, ditto \n\n22. Galingal, ditto....... \n\n23. Gamboge, ditto \n\n22. Ginseng, 1st quality, ditto \n\n2d ditto, \"or refuse, ditto \n\n23. Gold and Silver Thread :- \n\n0 2 G \n\n1st quality, or real, per lb.. \n\n2d ditto, or imitation, ditto \n\n24. Gums, Benjamin, per cwt \n\n0 5 0% \n\nOlibanum Myrrh \n\nditto ditto \n\n6. Horus, Unicorus' or Rhinoceros', ditto \n\n32. Lead (white lead), ditto \n\nGums unenumerated 10 per cent. ad valorem. 25. Horns, Buttocks and Buffaloes', per ewt... \n\n27. Linen, tine, us Irish or Scoteb, \n\nyards long, \n\ninches wide, per piece \n\n1 0 10 0:15 1 \n\n↓ \n\nCoarse Linen, as linen and cotton mixtures, silk and linen mixtures, &o., 5 per cent, ad valorem, \n\n28. Mace, or four of nutmeg, per ewt.....**** 29. Mother of Pearl shells \n\nhitte...... \n\n0 5 04 0 I 0 \n\n38. Nankeen and cotton cloth of all kinds, per ewi \n\n30. Metals, viz., \n\nRice paper pictures, per 100 \n\n40. Paper fans, per cwt. \n\nCupper, unmanufactured, as in pige, ditto.......................... 0 Ė 4 Ditto, manufactured, as in sheets, rods, ditto... 0764 Iron, unmanufactured, as in pigs, ditto \n\n41. Paper of all kinds, ditto \n\n{ 2 64 \n\nDitto, manufactured, as in bars, rods, &c., ditto 0 0 9 \n\n42. Pearls (i. e., false pearls), ditto \n\nLead in pigs, or manufactured, ditto \n\n2 6) \n\nQuicksilver, ditto \n\n0 15 JA \n\nSteel, unmanufactured, ditto \n\nTin, ditto..... \n\nTin Plates, ditto....... \n\n31. Nutmegs, ist quality, or cleaned, per cwt. \n\nOrganzine, all kinds, ditto.. \n\nRibands, thread, &c., ditto.. \n\nUnenumerated Metals, 10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n2d ditto, or uncleaved ditto \n\n} \n\n32. Pepper, ditto..... \n\n33. Putehuck, ditto \n\n34. Battans, ditto \n\n35, Rice, paddy, and grain of all kinds.......... \n\nduty free. \n\n36. Rose maloes, per cwt. ...... \n\n37. Saltpetre (to be sold to Government agents only) \n\nper dilto \n\n38. Sharks' fius, first quality, or white, per ditto...... 05.04 \n\nsecond quality, or black per ditto...... 0 2 61 \n\n27. Grass cloths (all kinds), ditto 26. Hartall, ditto \n\n29. Ivory ware (all kinds), ditto \n\n30. Kittysole, or paper umbrellas, ditto \n\n31. Lackered ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n33. Lead (real lead), ditto.. \n\n31. Marble slabs, ditto... \n\n35. Mats (straw, rattan, bambon, &c.), ditto \n\n36. Mother-o'-pearl ware, ditto \n\n37. Musk, per Îb.'.. \n\n39. Pictures-viz., large paintings, each \n\n43. Preserves and sweatmeats of all kinds, ditto \n\n44. Rattan work of all kinds, ditto \n\n45. Rhubarb, ditto \n\n46. Silk, raw, whether from Chekiang, Canton, or \n\nelsewhere, all kinds, per ewt.. \n\nCoarse or refuse silk, ditto.. \n\nSilk piece goods of all kinds, as silks, satins, pon- \n\ngees, velveta, crapes, lustrings, &c., ditto..... 80 53 N.B. The additional duty of so much per piece, \n\nhitherto levied, to be henceforth abolished. \n\n47. Silk and cotton mixtures, silk and woollen mixtures, \n\nand goods of such classes, ditto... \n\n48. Shoes and boots of leather, satin, or otherwise, ditto 0 49. Sandal-wood ware, ditto....... 50. Soy, ditto... \n\n51. Silver and gold ware, ditto.... \n\n52. Sugar, white and brown, ditto..... \n\n53. Sugar caudy, all kinds, ditto... \n\n54. Tin-foll, ditto.. \n\n55. Tea, ditto..... \n\n56. Tobacco of all kinds, ditto, \n\n57. Turmeric, ditto.... \n\n58. Tortoiseshell ware, ditto.... \n\n59. Trunks (of leather), ditto... \n\n60. Treasure, i. e., coins of all kinds... \n\n6J. Vermillion, per ewt. \n\nfree. \n\nArticles unenumerated in this tariff to pay a duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n1. Asafoetida, per cwt. \n\n2. Rees' wax, ditto...... \n\n3. Betel nut, ditto.. \n\n4. Bicho de mar, 1st quality, or black ditto \n\nDitto \n\n0 % 1) \n\nD \n\nTiger, leopard, and marten sking, each \n\nLand otter, racoon, and sharlis' skins, per hund. 0 12 0 \n\nBeaver skins, ditto..... \n\nEbony, ditto... \n\n39. Skins and furs, viz. \n\nCow and ox hides, tanned and untanned.......... \n\nSea otter skin, each \n\nFox skins, large, each.... \n\nDitto, small, each. \n\nHare, rabbit, and ermine ditto. \n\n40. Smalts, per cwt....... \n\n41. Soap, ditto \n\n42. Stock-fish, &c. ........ \n\n13. Sea horse teeth \n\n44. Treasure and money of all kinds, free. \n\n£ 8. d. \n\n45. Wine, beer, spirits, &c.:- \n\nIn quart bottles, per hundred bottles \n\n0 6 l \n\nla pint ditto, ditto...... \n\nIn casks, per cwt. \n\n46. Woods, namely- \n\n◊ \n\n1st ditto, cleaned ditto.... \n\nSandal wood, ditto \n\n24 ditto, good middling ditto \n\nJapan wood, ditto......... \n\nInenumerated woods, 10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\n47. Woollen manufactures-viz., broadcloths, Spanish \n\nstripes, babit cloth, &c., 51 @ 64 inches wide, per square foot... \n\nLong ella, kersermeres, flannel, and narrow cloths \n\nof this description, ditto \n\nBlankets, of all kinds, each. \n\nDutch camlets, per square foot.... \n\nCamlets, ditto........ \n\nImitation ditto bombazettes, &c., ditto \n\nBunting (narrow) ditto. \n\nUnenumerated woollen goods, or silk and woollen, and cotton and woollen mixtures, &c., 5 per cent. ad nalorem. \n\n48. Woollen yarn, per cwt........... \n\nN.B. All articles unenumerated in this tariff 5 \n\nCambrics and muslins, 20 to 24 yards long, 40 to \n\n46 ditta ...... \n\nper cent. ad valorem, \n\n5. Birds' nests \n\nDitto Ditto \n\n2d ditto, white ........................... \n\n3d ditto, uneleaned, ditto \n\n6. Camphor (Malay), 1st ditto, clean, per lb. \n\nDitto \n\n24 ditto, refuse ditto, per in. \n\n7. Cloves, Tat ditto, picked per ewt........ \n\nDitto, 2d dirto, mother ditto.......... \n\n8. Clocks, watches, spy-glasses, all kinds of writing- desks, dressing-boxes, cutlery, perfumery, &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n9. Canvasɛ, 30 to 40 yards long, 24 to 31 inches wide, \n\nper plece \n\n10. Cochineal, per cwt \n\n11. Cornelians, per 100 stones. \n\nDitto beads, per cwt \n\n12. Cotton ditto...... \n\n13. Cotton manufactures-viz. \n\nLong-cloths, white, 30 to 40 yards long. 30 to 36 \n\ninches wide, per piece...... \n\n1 5 2) \n\n* We have something like this at home. There is a place in Wales called Llanseashore, bat which is not upon the sea shore. This name Stor or Shore is the old British name of George, or Saint George, and exists also In the English word Wyndeshore, or Windsor, which I shouli Latinise \"Venta Georgii,\" from the round table, castle, and chapel of St. George. \n\nGUTCH AND MARTIN, PRINTERS, SMALL-STREST, BRISTOL,",
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        "content_text": "\n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nT. \n\nM. C. C. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\nEstablished in pursuance of Article X of the Treaty. \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n6 Camphor (Malay), first \n\nquality, clean. \n\nCamphor, second quality, \n\nrefuse \n\n7 Cloves, first quality, picked per \n\nDitto, second ditto, mother \n\n8 Clacks, Watches, Spy- Glasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks. Dress- ing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. \n\n9 Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide \n\n28 Mace, or Flower of Nut- \n\nmeg \n\nper catty \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n27 Linen, fiue, as Irish or Scotch, yards long, \n\nditto \n\n100 catties \n\nditto \n\n0 0 } 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 \n\ninches wide Coarse Linen, as Linen and Cotton Mixtures, Silk and Linen Mix- tures, &c. &c. \n\n+ \n\nper piece \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n29 Mother of Pearl Shells \n\nper 100 catties ditto \n\nප \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n30 Metals, viz.:-- \n\nCopper, unmanufac- \n\nT. M. C. C \n\ntured, as in pigs \n\nditto \n\n1 Alum \n\nper 100 catties \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nditto \n\nDitto, \n\nOil of \n\nditto \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\nditto \n\n5 Bamboo Screens and Bant- \n\n39 Pictures, viz., large Paint- \n\nings \n\nRice Paper Pictures 40 Paper Fans. \n\n41 Paper of all kinds \n\n42 Pearls, (ie., false Pearls) \n\nper piece \n\nCopper, manufactured, \n\n10 Cochineal \n\ncach \n\nper 100 pictures \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\nas in sheets, rods \n\nditto \n\n} \n\n11 Cornelians \n\nper 100 stones \n\nIron, un manufactured, \n\nDitto Beads \n\nපප \n\nt \n\nper 100 cattics 10 \n\nas in pigs \n\nditto \n\n12 Cotton \n\nditto \n\nIron, manufactured, as \n\n13 Cotton Manufactures, viz.: \n\nin bars, rods, &c. \n\nditto \n\nLong Cloths, white, 30 \n\nboo Ware of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n43 Preserves and Sweet- \n\n6 Brass Leaf \n\nditto \n\nmeats of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n7 Building Materials \n\nDuty free. \n\n44 Rattan work of all kinds \n\ndifto \n\nNO \n\n8 Bone and Horn Ware \n\nper 100 catties \n\n45 Rhubarb \n\nditto \n\nOOO \n\n9 Camphor \n\n10 Canes of all kinds \n\n11 Capoor Cutchery \n\n12 Cassia \n\nDitto Buds \n\nDitto Oil \n\nditto \n\n46 Silk, Raw, whether from \n\nper thousand \n\nChekiang, Canton, ur \n\nper 100 catties \n\nelsewhere, all kinds \n\nditto \n\na 40 yards long, 30 a 36 inches wide \n\nCambricksand Muslins, \n\n20 a 24 yards long, 40 a 46 inches wide \n\nGrey or Unbleached \n\nCottons, viz.: \n\nLead in pigs, or manu- \n\nfactured. \n\nditto \n\n0 4 D 0 \n\nper piece \n\nQuicksilver \n\nditto \n\nSteel, unmanufactured \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nTin. \n\nTin Plates. \n\nUnenumerated Metals. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nditto \n\nCoarse, or refuse of \n\nditto \n\nditro \n\n13 China Root \n\nditto \n\n14 China Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n15 Clothes (ready made). \n\nditto \n\n100 O \n\n{} \n\nSilk \n\nditto \n\nLong Cloths, Domes- \n\n31 Nutmegs, first quality, or \n\ncleaned \n\nper 100 catties 2 \n\nOrganzine, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n} \n\ntics, &c., &c., 30 a \n\n{1} \n\nRibbons, Thread, &c., \n\n40 yards long, 28 a \n\nNutmegs, second quality, \n\nor uncleaned \n\nditto \n\nප \n\n&c. \n\nditto \n\n40 inches wide \n\nditto \n\nSilk Piece goods of all \n\nGrey Twilled Cottons, \n\n32 Pepper \n\n+ \n\nditto \n\n↑ \n\n33 Putchuck \n\nditto \n\n16 Copper Ware, Pewter \n\nditto, &c. \n\nkinds, \n\nas \n\nSilks, \n\nditto \n\n17 Corals (or False Coral) \n\nditto \n\n18 Crackers and Fire-works \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n19 Cubebs \n\nditto \n\n20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n21 Furniture of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n22 Galingal \n\nditto \n\n} \n\nถ \n\n23 Gamboge \n\nditto \n\nOOOOOO \n\nSatins, Pougees, Velvets, Crapes, Lutestrings, &c., &c. 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        "content_text": "\ncations, with a diligent pursuit of every thing that is good and right: they need entertain no appreliension of being hereafter dragged forward, nor yield in consequence to any fears or suspicions. \n\nWith reference to the arrangements which the High Commissioner and his colleagues have made in regard to duties, every thing has been done with a single eye to a just impartiality: all merchants, then, whether of China or of foreign countries, are called upon to consider the many pains that the High Commissioner and his colleagues have taken, and by all means to abide in the quiet pursuit of their respective callings, and in the enjoyment of so auspicious a peace. From henceforward amity and goodwill shall ever con- tinue, and those from afar and those who are near shall perpetually rejoice Such is the fervent hope of the High Commissioner and his col- together. leagues; and in this hope they command implicit obedience to what is now thus specially promulgated. \n\nA true Translation, \n\n(Signed) J. ROBT. MORRISON, \n\nChinese Secretary and Interpreter. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\n1 Assafoetida \n\n2 Bees' Wax \n\n3 Betel Nut. \n\n4 Bicho de Mar, first quality, \n\nor blk. \n\nBicho de Mar, second \n\nquality, or wht. \n\n5 Birds' Nests, first quality, \n\ncleaned \n\n6 Camphor (Malay), first \n\nquality, clean. Camphor, second quality, \n\nrefuse \n\n. \n\n7 Cloves, first quality, picked per \n\nDitto, second ditto, mother \n\n8 Clocks, Watches, Spy- \n\nGlasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks, Dress- ing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. \n\n9 Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide \n\nM. C. C. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n0 $ 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nBirds' Nests, second qua- lity, good sniddling. Birds' Nests, third quality, \n\nuncleaned \n\nditto \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n22 Ginseng, first quality \n\nDitto second ditto, or \n\nrefuse \n\n23 Gold and Silver Thread:- \n\nfirst quality, or real \n\nper 100 catties \n\nsecond ditto, or imitation \n\n24 Gums, Benjamin \n\nOlibanum \n\nMyrrh \n\nGums, unenumerated \n\n25 Horns, Bullocks' and Buf- \n\nfalos' \n\n+00 \n\nM. \n\n+. \n\nย \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\n26 Horns, Unicorns' or Rhi \n\nnoceros' \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\nditto \n\n100 catties \n\nditto \n\nΙ \n\n1O 1O 1O \n\nපපය \n\n27 Linen, fine, as Irish or Scotch yards long, \n\ninches wide Coarse Linen, as Linen \n\nand Cotton Mixtures, \n\nSilk and Linen Mix- tures, &c. &c. \n\n28 Mace, or Flower of Nut- \n\nmeg \n\n29 Mother of Pearl Shells \n\nper piece \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nS \n\nper cent. ad valorem. \n\nper 100 catties 1 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n30 Metals, viz.:- \n\nCopper, \n\nunmanufac- \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nI Alum \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nper 100 catties ditto \n\n0 I \n\nDitto, \n\nOil of \n\nditto \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\nditto \n\ndocono \n\nT. M. C. 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        "content_text": "\n\nT. M. \n\nper 100 bottles 0 5 \n\n. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto ditto \n\nFlannel, and narrow \n\n(L.S.) \n\nIn Pint bottles \n\nIn Cask \n\n46 Woods, namely:-- \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz.:- \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches wide \n\n10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\nLong Ells, Cassimeres, \n\n[All Articles unenumerated in this Tariff; 5 per cent. ad valorem.] \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nSeal and Signature \n\nof the Chinese Plenipotentiary. \n\ntion \n\nCloths of this descrip- \n\nper Chang of 141 inches \n\nBlankets of all kinds \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\neach \n\nDutch Camlets, per Chang of 141 inches O Camlets. \n\nපපප \n\nditto \n\nOOOO \n\nNOB7 \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e.. English List. \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods. Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nCanes, &c. \n\nImitation ditto, Bomba- \n\nzettes, &c. . \n\nditto \n\nBunting(narrow), perChang of 141 inches 0 0 1 5 Unenumerated Woollen \n\nGoods, or Silk and Woollen, and Cotton \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing. Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, Woollen, or Silk formerly divided into Cotton clothing, Woollen ditto, Silk and Satin ditto, und Velvet ditto \n\nand Woollen Mix- tures, &c. \n\nBoots and Shoes, whether of leather, satin, or \n\n48 Woollen Yarn \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. per 100 catties \n\notherwise \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece has been levied; the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, \n\n&c., &c. \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, &c. ARTICLES, \n\nPreserved Ginger and Fruits of all kinds \n\nClass IX-Exported Fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp or linen Nankeen, and ail Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tariff) \n\nSoy \n\nSugar, White and Brown. \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared, &c., &c., of all \n\nkinds \n\nClass X-Exported Silk, Fabrics of Silk, &c. \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nto include, are to be charged an ad valorem duty of five per cent. \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nGlass, Glass ware of all kinds, formerly classed as \n\nNative crystal ware \n\nGlass beads, or False pearls \n\nARTICLES. \n\nKittysols, or paper Umbrellas \n\nMarble, Marble slabs, not formerly in Tariff Rice-Paper pictures \n\nAniseed Oil, not formerly contained in the Tariff \n\ndo. Cassia Oil \n\nPaper Fans \n\nCHINESE RE-ARRANGEMENT OF TARIFF, UNDER CLASSES OF GOODS. \n\nTITLE-Tariff of Duties to be levied at the Five Ports of Canton, &c., &c., as newly established. THE Duties which it is agreed shall be paid upon goods imported and exported by England, at the Five Ports of Customs of Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, are here stated in classified order. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nClass I-Exported Oilman's Stores (Oil, Wax, Alum, \n\nSulphur, &c.) \n\nAlum, .e., White Alum-formerly White Alum \n\nand Bluestone \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed Fabrics \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crape, lute- \n\nClass XIV-Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and \n\nSilver. Duty free. \n\nstrings, &c., &c., &c., formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClass XV-Bricks, Tiles, and Building Materials. \n\nDuty free. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e, English List. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nClass I-Imported Oilman's Stores, &c. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, ., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nClass IV-Imported Sundries. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nA \n\nWax, Bees Wax \n\nFlints Mother of Pearl shells \n\nRose Maloes \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of \n\nthe Government \n\n\" \n\nSoap \n\ndo. \n\nPearls (false), not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality, cleaned \n\nClass II-Imported Spices and Perfumes. \n\nClass II-Exported Spices, Tea, &c. \n\nTea, (formerly divided into fine and native black, \n\nand fine and native green, Teas) \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nBird's nests, 2nd quality, good middling \n\n3rd ditto, uncleaned \n\nClass V-Exported Painter's Stores, &c. &c. \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBrass Leaf \n\nPepper \n\nGamboge \n\nRed Lead \n\n+ \n\nAniseed, Star \n\nMusk \n\nGlue, as fish glue, cow-skin glue, &c. Paper, Stationery \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tariff, to pay an ad valorem duty of Ten per cent. Perfumery \n\nBicho de Mar, Ist ditto, black \n\n2nd ditto, white Shark's fins, 1st ditto, white \n\n2nd ditto, black \n\nStock fish and dried fish \n\n+ \n\n5 per cent. \n\nFish Maws, not formerly in the Tariff . \n\nClass III-Exported Drugs. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass III-Imported Drugs. \n\nClass VI-Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nCapoor Cutchery \n\nTinfoil \n\nAssafoetida \n\nCochineal. \n\nCamphor \n\nVermilion \n\nArsenic, under different Chinese names \n\nCassia \n\nPaintings (large paintings), formerly divided into \n\nlarge and small paintings \n\n} \n\nCamphor Baroos (or Malay), Ist-quality, or cleaned; formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor \n\nSmalts \n\nSapan Wood \n\nCassia Buds, not formerly in Tariff \n\nWhite Lead \n\n2nd quality, refuse; formerly classed as un- \n\nChina Root \n\ncleaned Camphor \n\nClass VII-Imported Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nCubebs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass VI-Exported Wares of various kinds. Bone and Horn ware \n\nCloves, 1st quality (picked) \n\nRattans \n\n2nd quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nEbony \n\nCow Bezoar \n\nGalingal \n\nHartall \n\nRhubarb \n\n\"Turmeric \n\nChina Ware, fine and coarse (formerly classed as \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin \n\nfine, coarse, native, and middling) \n\nCatch \n\nGambier \n\nCopper ware, and pewter ware \n\nwood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tariff, 10 per cent, ad valorem, \n\nBetel Nut. \n\nManufactures of wood, furniture \n\nIvory ware, all carved ivory work included, for- \n\nGinseng, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\nClass IV-Exported Sundries. \n\nmerly divided into ivory, and ivory Carvings \n\nLacquered ware. \n\nBangles (glass armlets) not formerly in Tariff \n\nMother of Pearl ware \n\nBamboo Screens, and Bamboo Ware. \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work \n\nCorals, Native or false coral, not formerly in \n\nTariff \n\nSandal-wood ware \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into Gold \n\nCrackers, and fireworks of all kinds (formerly \n\nware, and Silver ware \n\nclassed as rockets, &c.) \n\nTortoise-shell ware \n\n་ \n\nFans (feather fans, &c.) not formerly in the Tariff 20 \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n\n2nd ditto, refuse, or Ginseng beard Gum Olibanum\". \n\nClass VIII-Imported Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nClocks \n\nMyrrh \n\n► \n\nWatches \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nTelescopes \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all \n\nkinds \n\n2nd \n\nditto, uncleaned \n\nPutchuck \n\nRhinoceros' Horns \n\n",
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        "content_text": "Since their Judges:\n\nHer shape is freed but\n\ndisallow them,\n\nAccompanying promulgation, that we rates of they on the shells of the\n\nCourt should be valid until confirmed by an Act of\n\nwas \"clearly inconvenient\" during among I find a complete\n\n147\n\nthese Rules of Court appears to give the greater complete code of\n\nher asserting\n\nof Rules;\n\nthe proof and the more evident, as respecting referrer some of the Rules existed\n\nHalestory;\n\n11 Apr. 1844 Downed from\n\n101 to 197\n\nthe ball of the 13 Feb 1845; and the general the local Legislature, have ad\n\nrule of Easter Term 1844. Repealing!\n\nof res\n\ninduced me on this occasion\n\non\n\nto tender similar advice to\n\nand Sam Come:\n\nto\n\nand this you Her Majesty's Pleasure that\n\nan admin\n\nhear\n\nbahen in Coc\n\nadministratin of being conferred to the\n\nThe Rules of deca\n\npersons, whilst the appropriate subjects of powers of the They it\n\nare\n\ninn\n\nthe duties of foreigners y Judicial Legislation,\n\nImmoral offendischensch, laws on matters of the the affrontment\n\nthe audi and the\n\nace\n\nandilig\n\nBut Mock peorienenhand\n\ngeneral concerne _ Thus,\n\nnot the proper\n\ntranling to purtif the course of requiing, hat are mut sales of fint trate the Her Majesty\n\ninvited till conferred\n\nof the local\n\nReasons of Reigns; manded to signify to your Legislature, such reasons\n\ntheir are the Judge, would have been sufferent\n\naffaded of the docome prese\n\nEducation. Among are Benaleen Miles, They are peata higher scemark, thick the Rules\n\nwhack (as it how\n\nof the 11 Nov 1844. establish a offered interland Wittes of have, dummy the last thus the Civil Code, they may be promulgated Wars, had the authors would de grandes\n\nof Law, a the wogle duine stall, edn by Rulesch the to Justice,\n\nthese Rules be disallowed\n\naccesingly\n\nin order that\n\nby the huge and\n\nwhen to promulgated they\n\nwith them\n\ntheme Subjects of Judicial volat.\n\nEven\n\nbow Exfland, with the Canonupin to them for\n\nCant,\n\nif complete bake inspuiting\n\nthe\n\nCore\n\nbut Her Adenancy cuties of haunters and of the local hepistature.\n\nAdministrators – If these is frequente\n\nThe Juil vo\n\nMay be submitted for confioine. The newer han.\n\nand delay her obvive fairing Pines Cony and delay for\n\nIt was\n\n: then to the local\n\nbeel ofegislature\n\nThe memfity for this course in what but a delay.\n\nthe seage be at liberty to\n\nat day pay, the liislite on such topics pouts, ander the pretest & will soon\n\nhe will soon usurp of having Ruler of Hach,\n\nall",
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        "content_text": "Appendix.\n\nTrade between Bombay and China.\n\n[ 40 ]\n\n(8.)-TRADE between Bombay and China from 1888 to 1843-44.\n\nIMPORTS from China in 1838-39.\n\n[ 41 ]\n\nIMPORTS from China in 1839-40.\n\nQUANTITY.\n\nWEIGHT,\n\n461\n\nAppendix.\n\nTrade between Bombay and\n\nVALUE.\n\nChina.\n\nTons. Crots. Lbs.\n\nRs.\n\nQUANTITY.\n\nWEIGHT.\n\nVALUE.\n\n  \n    Apparel\n    \n    \n    11,362\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Beads\n    655 chests\n    \n    \n    3,669\n    149 boxes, and\n    191\n    75\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    11,520\n    \n  \n  \n    Beer\n    5 hogsheads\n    \n    250\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cassia\n    -\n    184,048\n    21,506\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chinaware\n    5,876\n    -\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Nails\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tin\n    -\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Beer\n    \n    \n    \n    8 hogsheads\n    \n    400\n    \n  \n  \n    Cassia\n    \n    \n    \n    -\n    2,82,161\n    35,259\n    \n  \n  \n    Chinaware\n    \n    \n    \n    68,711\n    \n    13,219\n    \n  \n  \n    Cochineal\n    \n    \n    \n    39,663\n    \n    \n    90\n  \n  \n    Coral\n    \n    \n    \n    900\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Earthenware\n    \n    \n    \n    31,053\n    \n    93,223\n    157\n  \n  \n    Eatables and Confectionery\n    \n    \n    \n    2,867\n    \n    6,271\n    \n  \n  \n    Fireworks (China Crackers)\n    \n    \n    \n    434 chests\n    \n    13,030 bags\n    4,843\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    246\n    \n    81,180\n    20,048\n  \n  \n    Glass-ware\n    \n    \n    \n    22\n    1,815 chests\n    19,077\n    \n  \n  \n    Grain, of Sorts\n    \n    \n    \n    60\n    339\n    3,863\n    3,291\n  \n  \n    Hemp\n    \n    \n    \n    2,409\n    \n    2,035\n    17\n  \n  \n    Indigo\n    \n    \n    \n    1,808\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ivory, Elephants' Teeth\n    \n    \n    \n    20 bundles\n    \n    275\n    1,605\n  \n  \n    Marine Stores\n    \n    \n    \n    838\n    \n    90\n    \n  \n  \n    Mats\n    \n    \n    \n    770 bundles\n    \n    19,451\n    \n  \n  \n    Medicines and Drugs\n    \n    \n    \n    11,568\n    \n    42\n    1,68,903\n  \n  \n    Metals:\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Copper, American\n    \n    \n    \n    22\n    \n    44\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Old\n    3\n    \n    17\n    \n    60\n    3,101\n  \n  \n    \n    White\n    5\n    \n    14\n    \n    1,016\n    105\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    9\n    \n    \n    \n    84,360\n    \n  \n  \n    Tin\n    \n    21\n    \n    17\n    \n    52\n    10,378\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    12\n    \n    10\n    \n    484\n    \n  \n  \n    Lead, White\n    \n    11\n    \n    84\n    \n    118\n    18\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    11\n    \n    \n    \n    71\n    15,024\n  \n  \n    Piece Goods:\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    British Printed\n    1\n    \n    16\n    \n    76\n    6,451\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    5\n    \n    6\n    \n    \n    2,502\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,050 pieces\n    \n    \n    \n    4,500\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    China Silk\n    19,082 pieces\n    \n    \n    \n    1,14,456\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    2 cases\n    \n    \n    \n    6,875 pieces\n    23,741 pieces\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    371\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shawls\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Perfumery\n    \n    \n    \n    5,475\n    \n    22,880\n    3,51,288\n  \n  \n    Plate, Plated Ware, and Jewellery\n    -\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Precious Stones, Pearls\n    -\n    \n    \n    5,000\n    \n    5,804\n    2,240\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    16,153\n    \n  \n  \n    Rattans or Canes\n    \n    \n    \n    1\n    \n    600 bundles\n    84\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    190,609\n    4,56,662\n  \n  \n    Silk, Raw\n    \n    \n    \n    855 gallons\n    \n    806\n    1,161\n  \n  \n    Spirits, Gin\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2,327\n    -\n  \n  \n    Spices, Mace\n    \n    \n    \n    400\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stationery\n    \n    \n    \n    23,014\n    \n    5,39,171\n    12,85,761\n  \n  \n    Sugar\n    \n    \n    \n    10,232 gallons\n    \n    9,326\n    \n  \n  \n    Sugarcandy\n    \n    \n    \n    3,054\n    \n    10,243\n    25\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    25,520\n    \n    46\n    1,43,067\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,466\n    \n    2,932\n    \n  \n  \n    Summerheads or Umbrellas\n    \n    \n    \n    183 chests\n    \n    5,451\n    34,997\n  \n  \n    Sundries\n    \n    \n    \n    22,027\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sugarcandy\n    \n    \n    \n    35,431\n    \n    42,683\n    30\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    36\n    \n    3,04,222\n    \n  \n  \n    Tea\n    \n    \n    \n    L\n    \n    191,416\n    66,452\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    3,59,399\n    \n  \n  \n    Summerheads or Umbrellas\n    \n    \n    \n    2,826 chests\n    \n    77,905\n    \n  \n  \n    Sundries\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tea\n    \n    \n    \n    88,285\n    -\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tobacco, American\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tortoise-shells\n    Chip\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tobacco, American\n    \n    \n    \n    2,380\n    \n    1,218\n    1,037\n  \n  \n    Cheroots\n    \n    \n    \n    139\n    \n    1,292 boxes\n    25,840\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -\n    \n    8,753 bundles\n    \n  \n  \n    Cheroots\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    23,862\n    1,586\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,078 baxes\n    21,560\n    \n  \n  \n    Vermillion\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wine\n    137 gallons\n    \n    168\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    620 gallons\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wood, of Sorts\n    \n    \n    \n    11,760\n    \n    1,490\n    \n  \n  \n    Merchandise\n    \n    \n    \n    254\n    \n    30 number, and 20 pieces\n    \n  \n  \n    Woollens\n    \n    \n    \n    481\n    \n    1,325\n    810\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n 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        "content_text": "Appendix.\n\nTrade between Bombay and China.\n\nApparel\n\nBeer\n\nCotton\n\nGums:\n\nOlibanum\n\nOther Sorts\n\nHardware and Cutlery Horns, Gynda\n\nIvory, Elephants' Teeth Medicines and Drugs Mother-o'-Pearl Shells Oil, of Sorts\n\nOpium\n\nPrecious Stones:\n\nCornelians\n\nPearls\n\nPiece Goods:\n\nCashmere Shawls\n\n[ 46 ]\n\nEXPORTS to China in 1838-39.\n\nQUANTITY. WEIGHT. VALUE.\n\nTons. Cwts. Lbs. Rs.\n\n1,200 4 hogsheads 184,089 bales -\n\n288 6,76,72,812\n\n92,71,593\n\n1,400 177 80 6,073\n\n38 770 ■\n\n1,752 53 111 1,162\n\n457 29 77,593\n\n10 58 12,209\n\n1,388 29 10,147\n\n13 26 3,015\n\n17,353 chests 1,58,47,400\n\n66,250 7,11,357\n\n11 number 4,225\n\nCountry, of Sorts 3,115 pieces 14,320\n\nSafflower 33 104 735\n\nSalt 160 400\n\nShark fins and Fishmaws\n\nSpices, of Sorts 9,090 2 42 3,69,041\n\n3 231\n\nSpirits 139 gallons 193\n\nStationery 1,500\n\nSundries\n\nWine 767 gallons\n\nWood, Sandal Woollens 15,800 103 300 pieces 245 2,322 2,51,113 6,900\n\nMerchandise Treasure, Silver\n\nTOTAL 2,66,68,034 17,000 Rs. 2,66,85,034\n\nEXPORTS to China in 1839-40.\n\nQUANTITY. WEIGHT. VALUE.\n\nTons. Cwts. Lbs. Rs.\n\nApparel\n\nBeer\n\nCotton 1,075 21 hogsheads 7,9,661 bales\n\n1,272 2,91,68,699 50,06,880\n\nEatables and Confectionery 402\n\nGlass, of Sorts\n\nGum Olibanum 725 1,052\n\n74 6,732\n\nHorns, Gynda 35 85 1,666\n\nIvory, Elephants' Teeth\n\nLeather and Saddlery\n\nMedicines and Drugs\n\nMetals, Copper Sheathing\n\nMother-o'-Pearl Shells Oil, of Sorts\n\nOpium\n\nPrecious Stones:\n\nCornelians\n\nPearls\n\nPerfumery and Toys\n\nPiece Goods:\n\nBritish, White -\n\n$91 56 13 61,126\n\n- 483 110 9,831\n\n10 1,600 60 800\n\n12 76 4,641\n\n193 chests 1,93,000\n\n[ 47 ]\n\nEXPORTS to China in 1840-41.\n\nQUANTITY. WEIGHT. VALUE.\n\nTons. Cwts. Lbs. Rs.\n\nBeer Coffee\n\nCoir and Coir Rope 33hhds.\n\nCotton - 83,765 | bales\n\nEatables and Confectionery 1,836 48 272 28 90 225\n\n3,37,11,049 48,77,869 1,803\n\nGums:\n\nOlibanum\n\nOther Sorts\n\nHardware and Cutlery Horns, Gynda\n\nIvory, Elephants' Teeth Leather and Saddlery Marine Stores Medicines and Drugs Metals:\n\nIron, British Bar\n\nHoop 255 56 2,135\n\n383 28 1,535\n\n800 101 38 4,313\n\n206 74 32,478\n\n100 600 482\n\n81 19,655\n\n4 73 943\n\n9 45\n\nMother-o'-Pearl Shells 196 3,654\n\n1,764 5,400\n\n12,022 chests 87,36,847 91,887\n\nOil of Sorts\n\nOpium\n\nPrecious Stones:\n\nCornelians\n\nPearls\n\nPiece Goods:\n\nBritish, Printed\n\nWhite\n\nCashmere Shawls Country of Sorts\n\nPerfumery and Toys\n\nSharkfins and Fishmaws Spices, Almonds Spirits, Brandy Sundries Wine, of Sorts Wood, of Sorts\n\n360 pieces 21 pieces 19 number 551 pieces\n\n32,803 5,25,720\n\n650 1,869\n\nApparel Beer\n\nCochineal\n\nCotton -\n\nEarthenware\n\nEatables and Confectionery\n\nGhee\n\nGlass, Looking and Window Guns and Pistols\n\nGums:\n\nOlibanum\n\nOther Sorts\n\nHardware and Cutlery Horns, Gynda Ivory, Elephants' Teeth Leather and Saddlery Medicines and Drugs Mother-o'-Pearl Shells Oil, of Sorts - Opium\n\nCountry, of sorts 145 pieces 2,530\n\n1,200 10,300\n\nSharkfins and Fishmawe 5,434 62 2,59,222\n\nSpirits, Brandy 72 gallons 811\n\nSundries\n\nWine 827 gallons 3,770\n\nWood, of Sorts 5,673 56 86,077\n\nMerchandise Treasure, Silver 62,11,605 1,30,800\n\nTOTAL Rs. 63,42,405\n\n1,47,709 2,640 168 1,130 2,910 350 7,568 3,88,446\n\n12 150 3,855 gallons\n\n7,692 20,750 1,455 gallons 8,304 9,451 85 2,66,014\n\nMerchandise Treasure, Silver\n\nTOTAL 1,46,26,597 10,000 Rs. 1,46,36,597\n\nEXPORTS to China in 1841-42.\n\nQUANTITY.\n\n12 hhds.\n\n128,910 bales -\n\nWEIGHT.\n\nVALUE.\n\nTons. Cwts. Lbs. Rs.\n\n924 695 14,833 4,74,09,464\n\n50,850 63,08,196\n\n2,455 820 11 220\n\n2,648 1 case 100 1,297\n\n76 6,286\n\n101 56 1,983\n\n370 171 1 3,738\n\n112 58 17,695\n\n240 1 case and 160 69 20,041\n\n175 56 1,329\n\n162 841 14,043 chests 1,03,22,215\n\n(continued)\n\n464 Appendix.\n\nTrade between Bombay and China,",
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        "content_text": "486\n\nAppendix.\n\nTrade between Bombay and China.\n\nReport on the Tea Trade.\n\nCopper Sheathing\n\nMetals:\n\nCopper Nails -\n\nIron, Old\n\nIron, Kentledge\n\nTin Plate\n\nMother of Pearl Shells\n\nOil, of Sorts\n\nOpium\n\nPaint\n\nPiece Goods:\n\nDyed Cotton\n\nPlain Cotton\n\nSilk, Country\n\nSilk, China\n\nShawls, Cashmere\n\nPrecious Stones, Pearls -\n\nSharkfins\n\n[ 50 ]\n\nEXPORTS to China in 1843-44-continued.\n\nQUANTITY.\n\n25 boxes\n\nWEIGHT.\n\nVALUE.\n\nTons.\n\nCrots.\n\nLbs.\n\nRs.\n\n40\n\n20\n\n12\n\n119\n\n50 20\n\n4,764\n\n600\n\n375\n\n538\n\n64\n\n3,362\n\n84\n\n300\n\n22,461 chests -\n\n2,69,41,880\n\n36\n\n56\n\n730\n\n100 pieces\n\n1,096\n\n3,311 pieces\n\n19,448\n\n1,124 pieces\n\n9,961\n\n461 pieces\n\n3,594\n\n2, number\n\n1,200\n\n3,19,377\n\n8,478\n\n94\n\n1,82,134\n\n850\n\n25 gallons\n\n279 23,694\n\n1702 doz.&112gals.\n\n3,689\n\n5,007\n\nWoollen, British\n\n551 pieces\n\n64,378 7,890\n\nMerchandise Horses\n\n3,88,85,919 1,500\n\nTOTAL\n\nRs. 3,88,87,410\n\nH. H. Glass,\n\nCollector of Customs.\n\nSaddlery\n\nSpirits\n\nSundries\n\nWine, Sherry\n\nWood, of Sorts\n\nBombay Custom House,\n\n5 August 1844.\n\nTo the Hon. R. M. Martin,\n\nHer Majesty's Treasurer, China.\n\n(9.)\n\nREPORT on the TEA TRADE, transmitted to Her Majesty's Government from China, in July 1845.By R. M. Martin.\n\nTHE traffic in an innutritious herb, grown almost solely in one district of Asia, and in a country hitherto isolated from the western nations, is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the enterprise and energy of modern commerce. A trade involving British capital to the extent of about 10,000,000l. sterling, furnishing regular employment to about 60,000 tons of first-class English-built shipping, contributing nearly 5,000,000l. sterling of annual revenue to the Exchequer, and influencing materially the morals and sobriety of the nation, deserves investigation in detail, as regards its rise, progress, and present condition.\n\nThe tea plant, although found in different parts of the eastern hemisphere, is probably indigenous to China, or Japan, where it is extensively cultivated. The earliest record to be found of the use of tea is in the records of the Moorish historians and travellers in the end of the eighth century, at which period the Mahommedans had free ingress and residence in China, subject to very few restrictions.\n\nIbn Batuta mentions that the emperor received the revenues from salt; that paper money, bearing the government stamp, was current in the country; and that the general drink of the people was prepared by immersing the leaves of a small plant in hot water, which was used medicinally as well as for correcting the bad properties of the water.\n\nSoliman, an Arabian merchant, who visited China, A. D. 850, describes \"sah\" (tea), as the usual beverage of the people.\n\nTexeira, a Spaniard, in 1600, saw dried leaves (of tea) at Malacca, which were in use among the Chinese. Olearius, in 1633, found the use of tea pretty general among the Persians, who procured it from China by means of the Usbeck Tartars. The Russian ambassador (Stawkaw) to the court of the Mogul Chau Shau Attyn, partook of tea, and at his departure he was offered it for the Czar Michael Romanoff, which he refused, not knowing of what use it would be in Russia.\n\nOf the first introduction of tea into Europe we know but little. In 1517, Emmanuel, King of Portugal, sent a fleet of eight ships to China, and an ambassador to Pekin, who obtained permission to open a trade; but it was not until after the formation of the Dutch East India Company in 1602, that the use of tea became known on the continent, and although the enterprising Hollanders paid considerable attention to it, as an article of commerce, the consumption increased but little, for in 1670 it was unknown in Dort.\n\n[ 5 ]\n\nThe Dutch, in their second voyage to China, bought a good deal of tea, at from 8d. to 10d. per pound (the price at the present day), which, although of a middling quality, sold in Paris for 30 livres a pound; and for some years the best Japanese tea, esteemed as much better than that of China, brought from 100 to 200 livres per pound in France, until the use of coffee and chocolate became fashionable and general.\n\nThe first authentic notice to be found of tea in England, is in an Act of Parliament (12 Car. II, c. 23) A. D. 1660, by which a duty of 8d. per gallon was laid on all tea made and sold in coffee-houses; and by an Act framed in the same year the duties of excise on malt liquor, cyder, perry, meal, spirits, or strong waters, coffee, tea, sherbet, and chocolate were settled on the king for life. In the diary of Mr. Pepys, secretary of the Admiralty, there is found under date 25th September 1661, the following memorandum relative to tea \"I sent for a cup of tea, a Chinese drink, of which I had never drank before.\"\n\nIn 1662, Charles the Second married the Princess Catherine of Portugal, who it is said was fond of tea, having been accustomed to it in her own country, hence it became fashionable in England. Waller, in a birth-day ode on her Majesty, ascribes the introduction of the herb to the queen in the following lines:\n\n\"The best of queens and best of herbes we owe\n\ndid show\n\nTo that bold nation who the\n\nway\n\nTo the fair region where the sun doth rise, Whose rich productions we so justly prize.\"\n\nThe same poet attributes an inspiring power to the Chinese leaf:\n\n\"The muses' friend, tea, does our fancy aid,\n\nRepress those vapours which the head invade.\"\n\nIn 1660 tea was sold in England at three guineas per pound. The following copy of an advertisement in 1680, shows the price of the leaf, and the mode of vending it to the public:\n\n\"These are to give notice to persons of quality, that a small parcel of most excellent tea is by accident fallen into the hands of a private person to be sold; but that none may be disappointed, the lowest price is thirty shillings a pound, and not any to be sold under a pound weight, for which they are desired to bring a convenient box. Enquire at Mr. Thomas Eagle's, at the King's Head, in St. James's Market.”—London Gazette, 16 December 1680.\n\nIn 1666 Lords Arlington and Ossory brought a quantity of tea from Holland; its price in England then was 60s. per pound. About this period, the East India Company being desirous of presenting a rarity to his Majesty, procured 22 lbs. of tea, which was thought a valuable offering to royalty.\n\nHeretofore the small quantity used in England was obtained from the Continent; for in 1634, some English ships having visited Canton, a rupture took place between our seamen and the Chinese, and trade was for some time interdicted; but in 1668 the Court of Directors, in the despatch to their factories at Bantam in Java, ordered them to send home by their ships 100 lbs, weight of the best tea they could get. And accordingly, in 1669, the East India Company's first invoice of tea was received, amounting to two canisters of 143 lbs. Such was the commencement of a trade which, by the most judicious management, has now risen to an importation of upwards of 50,000,000 lbs. weight. That a careful proportioning of the supply to the demand was absolutely necessary, will be evident from the following fact, which at this early period operated as a warning to the Company, and has since proved highly beneficial to the commerce. In 1678 the East India Company imported 4,713 lbs. of tea; but this then large quantity completely glutted the market, for the imports of tea during the ensuing six years amounted in all to only 318 lbs. In 1680 the Company opened a direct trade with China.\n\nIn 1689 the old mode of levying the duty on tea, viz. by the quantity made in the coffee-houses, being found very uncertain as well as vexatious, an Act of 1 Gul. & Mar., sess. 2, c. 6, fixed a custom duty of 5s. a pound, together with the former sum of five per cent. on the value.\n\nFor some time the consumption of tea slowly increased in England, in consequence of the high rate of duty, which was sometimes as high as 200 per cent. on the sale price.\n\nA considerable degree of smuggling arose, which was only put down by lowering the taxation. During the years 1697, 1698, and 1699, the East India Company imported on an average 20,000 lbs. of tea annually. In 1700 the importation was augmented to 60,000 lbs. a year, the average price of tea being 16s. per pound. In 1721 the importation of tea into England exceeded for the first time 1,000,000 lbs.; and at the September sale in 1728, the quantity put up for sale was 769,104 lbs., the duty on which amounted to 153,820l. sterling.\n\nThe bill of cargo of the Cæsar, which arrived from China 17th May 1726, has entered in it 358,000 lbs. of tea, the duty on which was 71,620l. sterling. Since the commencement of the present century the annual consumption of tea in the United Kingdom has increased by upwards of 20,000,000 of pounds, while its use during the same period has been decreasing in Europe and America. In the space of 100 years, from 1710 to 1810, there were sold at the East India Company's sales 750,219,016 lbs. of tea, the value of which was 129,804,595l. sterling. Of this quantity of tea 116,470,675 lbs. were re-exported. Since the commencement of the present century, 1,385,949,566 lbs. of tea have been sold in England,",
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        "content_text": "28\n\n29\n\nPins\n\nDescription of Stores.\n\nCloak brass,\n\nGun-locks, with flies\n\nIron axletree, transporting N. P.\n\nLinch, iron axletree\n\nMusket\n\nPlatform, wood\n\nBranch (cast iron)\n\nCast-iron socket\n\nDifferent natures.\n\n8\n\nR.\n\nU.\n\nDescription of Stores.\n\nDifferent natures.\n\n8\n\nR.\n\nU.\n\nCopper, 2 inch\n\nConnecting, 5 inch\n\nElbow\n\nIron, perforated, 1 in. ps.\n\nLead\n\n30\n\n205\n\n12\n\n250\n\n350\n\n3,900\n\nps.\n\n8\n\nft. run.\n\n3,346 ft.\n\n1\n\n24\n\n32\n\n5\n\n572\n\n1\n\nRanges, kitchen\n\nBastard, cut, 8 inch Common, of sorts\n\nRasps\n\nFlat\n\nHalf-round\n\nCoarse\n\nFine 6-inch\n\nThree-square\n\nReels, for chalk-lines\n\nOf sorts\n\n2\n\n19\n\n3\n\n13\n\n9\n\n6\n\n3\n\n5\n\n12\n\n12 fthms.\n\n48\n\n2\n\nRegulations, Ordnance Med.\n\n1\n\nRelievers, for spring spikes\n\n15\n\nPipe\n\nOutlet\n\nRifles, complete with rammers, sword bayonets\n\n662\n\nPump, engine\n\n107\n\nRings, brass, for cap-pouches\n\n40\n\nHoods\n\n23\n\nCopper, for barrels\n\nlbs.\n\n34. 6\n\nRain-water\n\nAppurtenances\n\nNails\n\n388\n\nRivets\n\nIron\n\nShoes\n\n22 {for barrows\n\n830\n\n200\n\nCast-iron, 4 inch\n\n112\n\nCarcase, 24-pounder\n\n265\n\nStove iron\n\nft. run\n\n311\n\nWith flanges, outlet, 4 inch\n\n4\n\nRockets Congreve\n\n[ Shell Shot\n\n4\n\n1,760\n\n3\n\n631\n\nPistols\n\nPercussion\n\n126\n\n11\n\nSignal\n\n714\n\n-\n\nS. S. flint, black long\n\n68\n\n77\n\n26\n\nRoda\n\nMeasuring\n\n36\n\nPitch\n\n265\n\nWiping\n\n24\n\n23\n\nPivots\n\nRooves, copper, No. 180\n\nlbs.\n\n3\n\nPlanes\n\n73\n\n192\n\nRollers, wood -\n\n1\n\nBelts\n\n24\n\nRopes\n\nDrag\n\n41\n\n-\n\nBreast\n\n83\n\nFor Tackle, 2 in.\n\nfthms.\n\n25\n\nPlates\n\nScrew\n\n34\n\nJute, Bengal\n\nlbs.\n\n276\n\nTin\n\n1,770\n\nRope\n\nTarred\n\n12\n\n2,161\n\nPokers\n\nPlatforms-\n\nGun\n\nPlugs\n\nPlummets, lead\n\nPlyers\n\nPortfires, of sorts\n\nIron, dwarf, with gear complete Traversing wood, in parts\n\nCol. Alderson's\n\nCol. Pasley's\n\nNil.\n\nWhite\n\n10\n\n874\n\n4\n\n2\n\nRosin\n\nlbs.\n\n5\n\n684\n\n38\n\n36\n\n12\n\nRules\n\nSal-Ammoniac\n\nSaucepans, tin\n\nSaws\n\n5\n\n24\n\n104\n\n68\n\n12\n\n93\n\n2\n\n€\n\nScabbards, bayonet\n\n100\n\n4\n\nScabbards, sword\n\n4\n\n469\n\n3,200\n\nBrass, beams\n\n2\n\nPots\n\nCast-iron, with bails Cooking, or boilers\n\nDrinking, tin\n\nGlue\n\nIron\n\nMarking Pewter\n\nSpitting, tin\n\nTin, grease\n\nWatering\n\n+\n\nBlack, infantry, L. S.\n\n2\n\nCopper and weights\n\n1\n\n5\n\nDitto with iron beams, country pair\n\n7\n\n14\n\nDiagonal, brass\n\n1\n\n12\n\nScales\n\nEnglish\n\npair\n\n3\n\n75\n\nGunter's\n\n2\n\n680\n\n368\n\n9\n\nTin\n\n6\n\nCopper, large\n\n2\n\n100\n\nBuff leather\n\n24\n\nFuze, 3 in a set\n\nsets\n\n3\n\nPouches-\n\nMusket\n\n236\n\nPercussion caps\n\n549\n\nPistol\n\n561\n\nPriming\n\n31\n\nPowder\n\nlbs.\n\n41,042\n\nPresses, office\n\n7\n\nScissors\n\nTangent\n\nTin, hand\n\nWood, 120lbs.\n\nScoops, copper, composition Scrapers\n\nScratch, card\n\nBench, carpenters'\n\nBrass flathead, 1 inch\n\nCork for shells\n\nCopper\n\nCompressing 32-pounder\n\nDundas hammers\n\nJamming, spare, with plugs {\n\npair\n\n7\n\n44\n\n4\n\n42\n\n6\n\n65\n\n1\n\nfeet\n\nao os:\n\n16\n\n5\n\n[\n\n2\n\n192\n\n14\n\n130\n\n18\n\nCarronade\n\nGun\n\n7\n\n2\n\nProlongs\n\n23\n\nCarronade\n\nScrews -\n\nPullies, brass, 2 inch, for shower-baths\n\n2\n\nGun\n\nPumps\n\nElevating -\n\n2\n\nPunches\n\n257\n\nPutty\n\nlbs.\n\n40\n\nQuadrants, brass\n\n12\n\nRacks, arm\n\n19\n\nCotton\n\nRags\n\nlbs.\n\n160\n\n-\n\nWoollen\n\n1,927\n\nRakes\n\nRailing, cast-iron\n\nMusket, spare\n\n18\n\n22\n\n217\n\nCarronade\n\nRammers\n\nWith staves\n\n-\n\nGun\n\nHowitzer, 12-pounder\n\n9\n\n131\n\n8\n\nWooden\n\nRamheads, with thimbles\n\n53\n\n2\n\nHowitzer\n\nMortar, 8 inch For sights, Millar's gun and carronade Gun lock -\n\nFlat head,\n\nRound-head gross\n\nScuttles, coal, copper\n\nScythes\n\nSeats, hospital, with backs Searchers, gun spring Seeds, grass, perennial rye Serge\n\nSets for saws\n\n1\n\n56\n\n14\n\n11\n\n1\n\n146\n\n3\n\nFine\n\nNo. gross\n\nMiddling Strong\n\n62. 120\n\n3. 124\n\n13\n\n34.\n\n27\n\n23\n\n21\n\n4\n\n2\n\n2\n\ncwt.\n\n8\n\nyards\n\n3,383\n\n12\n\n134",
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        "content_text": "Description of Stores.\n\n30\n\nDifferent natures.\n\nS.\n\nR. U.\n\nDescription of Stores.\n\n31\n\nDifferent natures.\n\n8.\n\nR.\n\nᏳ.\n\nSetters -\n\nFor fuzes, wood\n\n4\n\n86\n\nShod\n\n2\n\n2\n\nSextant, brass\n\n1\n\nShackles\n\n2\n\n15\n\nShafts\n\n2\n\n4\n\nBuoy\n\n2\n\n4\n\nCoopers'\n\n3\n\n8\n\nShaves\n\nSpoke\n\nCarpenters' Outside\n\n2\n\n15\n\n2\n\nInside\n\n2\n\n  \n    Sockets -\n    \n  \n  \n    Shears\n    3\n  \n  \n    Slips, marble\n    \n  \n  \n    Slings -\n    \n  \n  \n    Sleepers\n    \n  \n  \n    Slopes, office\n    \n  \n  \n    Leather-\n    \n  \n  \n    Rope for carts\n    \n  \n  \n    Suapcaps\n    \n  \n  \n    Snip, tinman's\n    \n  \n  \n    Sauffers\n    \n  \n  \n    Soap\n    \n  \n  \n    Deck, metal\n    \n  \n  \n    Iron Pipe\n    \n  \n  \n    Black rifle\n    \n  \n  \n    Buff\n    38\n  \n  \n    \n    100\n  \n  \n    \n    125\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    23\n  \n  \n    \n    8\n  \n  \n    \n    22\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    6\n  \n  \n    \n    376\n  \n  \n    \n    17\n  \n  \n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    14\n  \n  \n    With tin collars, filled with ball, 8 inches -\n    160\n  \n  \n    Of sorts\n    \n  \n  \n    Fixed to wood bottoms and fitted with metal fuzes\n    821\n  \n  \n    \n    392\n  \n  \n    Solder\n    ...\n  \n  \n    32-pounder\n    50\n  \n  \n    Spades\n    \n  \n  \n    With wood bottoms\n    \n  \n  \n    24-pounder\n    50\n  \n  \n    Spelter\n    \n  \n  \n    5 inch\n    599\n  \n  \n    Spikes\n    \n  \n  \n    Shells -\n    \n  \n  \n    Without wood bottoms, 32-pounder\n    26\n  \n  \n    Spindles, brass valves\n    \n  \n  \n    Common, empty\n    3,614\n  \n  \n    Spits, with wheels\n    \n  \n  \n    With grummets and leather straps, filled, 12-pounder\n    \n  \n  \n    Hand filled and fixed\n    403\n  \n  \n    [Bayonet\n    787\n  \n  \n    Main\n    \n  \n  \n    Empty strapped howitzer\n    450\n  \n  \n    Springs -\n    \n  \n  \n    Seer\n    \n  \n  \n    Shelves\n    612\n  \n  \n    Rammer\n    \n  \n  \n    Shelves, cast iron-\n    \n  \n  \n    Cantilerers\n    100\n  \n  \n    For holding knives\n    \n  \n  \n    Rails\n    \n  \n  \n    Pins\n    738\n  \n  \n    \n    2,265\n  \n  \n    Cast iron, bases\n    391\n  \n  \n    Bearers\n    2,936\n  \n  \n    Collars or sockets\n    2,006\n  \n  \n    Shelves -\n    \n  \n  \n    Partitions\n    823\n  \n  \n    Wrought iron\n    \n  \n  \n    Pins\n    1,990\n  \n  \n    Standards\n    395\n  \n  \n    Shelves\n    984\n  \n  \n    Grape\n    237\n  \n  \n    Ditto in tin case, gun and carronade\n    \n  \n  \n    Hollow plug, 10 inch\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    86\n  \n  \n    \n    47\n  \n  \n    Gun\n    \n  \n  \n    Tin case\n    2,557\n  \n  \n    Howitzer\n    573\n  \n  \n    Carronade with iron ends\n    112\n  \n  \n    Shot\n    \n  \n  \n    Spherical case\n    \n  \n  \n    Gun, 9-pounder\n    \n  \n  \n    Strapped to\n    \n  \n  \n    Empty 68-pounder\n    \n  \n  \n    wood bottoms\n    \n  \n  \n    Filled\n    \n  \n  \n    Without wood bottoms, empty\n    \n  \n  \n    Common, strapped to wood bottoms\n    340\n  \n  \n    \n    24\n  \n  \n    Wood, carpenters\"\n    \n  \n  \n    Staples\n    \n  \n  \n    Stamps\n    \n  \n  \n    [Iron, B↑O.\n    \n  \n  \n    Wood BO.\n    \n  \n  \n    Stands\n    \n  \n  \n    Spun yarn\n    \n  \n  \n    Squares\n    \n  \n  \n    Stakes\n    \n  \n  \n    Without ram-\n    \n  \n  \n    mer-heads\n    \n  \n  \n    [Iron, figured, &c.\n    \n  \n  \n    Steel blades\n    \n  \n  \n    Mortar\n    \n  \n  \n    Gun\n    \n  \n  \n    Mortar\n    \n  \n  \n    Howitzer\n    \n  \n  \n    And rammer-\n    \n  \n  \n    heads\n    \n  \n  \n    Carronade\n    \n  \n  \n    Gun .\n    \n  \n  \n    Howitzer\n    \n  \n  \n    Sponges, with staves\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    lbs.\n    oz.\n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    1,207\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    245\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    57\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    226\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    48\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    125\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    18\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    33\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    387\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    lbs.\n    oz.\n  \n  \n    \n    351\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    538\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    793\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,138\n    \n  \n  \n    Round loose\n    28,449\n    \n  \n  \n    Belted rifle -\n    cwt.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    Lead ball\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In bags as charges\n    277\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    39\n    \n  \n  \n    Musket\n    63,166\n    \n  \n  \n    Books\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Pistol\n    861\n    \n  \n  \n    Sand\n    tons.\n    cwt.\n    qrs.\n    lbs.\n  \n  \n    \n    1.\n    12.\n    3.\n    16\n  \n  \n    Stationery\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Copper\n    3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shovels -\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dust\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Iron\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Peat\n    5\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    538\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Pairing\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lawn\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sieves, powder\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sights\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sieves\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Iron wire, 5 mesh\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    32-pounder\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Millar's\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Copper, gunners' common\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    32-pounder\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sorts\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Brass hair\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Copper, dry measure\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    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\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Covers, marble\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Forms, printed\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staves, sponge, of sorts\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Steel -\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Steelyards\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    : coco\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    22:42 10\n    \n    \n        \n  \n  \n    \n    12\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    16\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    140\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    9\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    8\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    17\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    year's supply\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    38\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    8\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ash\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Portfire\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n 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        "content_text": "Cannons have been exported from Liverpool to Shanghae \n\n June 29. Mandarin - 10 Iron Cannons. July 10. Monarch - 21 30 and 11 Carriages August 4. An advance: 56 Iron Cannons. \n\n 195. \n\n 14th November, 1849. \n\n Copy 1 \n\n 311 \n\n Siege \n\n Wastings at Hengthing. \n\n 8th October, 1849. \n\n It being generally reported that within the last few days, many Guns and shot have been sold by the shopkeepers in the Town of Victoria, and that Live shells and Rockets are publicly for sale; and as it is more than probable that these Amunitions purchased for War are used for unlawful purposes, and for the arming of Piratical vessels, I beg to call the attention of His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, S. G. Bonham, Esqr.",
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        "content_text": "[copy]\n\nNr. 103.\n\n312\n\ncircumstances to enable me to offer any opinion to Your Excellency, as to whether any of these articles is to have the sale be checked, but I merely point out the subject as deserving of Your Excellency's consideration, at a time when Her Majesty's Naval Forces are called upon to make strenuous efforts to suppress the unusual degree of daring which the Pirates in this neighbourhood have lately attained.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) F.A. Collier.\n\nRear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.\n\n[True Copy]\n\nMarine\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong,\n\nVictoria, 13th October, 1849.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's Despatch of the 8th instant, relative to the sale of guns and shot in the Town of Victoria, and to the public sale of live shells and Congreve Rockets, which are purchased for unlawful purposes or for the use of piratical Vessels.\n\nThanking Your Excellency.\n\nRear Admiral Sir Francis A. Collier, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief.",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure No 1 in Despatch\n\nFrancis Collier to Governor Bonham, Rear Admiral Sir\n\npointing out that Munitions of war are publicly announced for Sale in the Colony.\n\n8th October, 1849.\n\nCopy/80 16.\n\nPolice Department, Hong Kong,\n\n11th October, 1847.\n\nI have the honour to Report to you for the information of His Excellency the Governor, that I have satisfactorily ascertained that at the present time there are not any shells or rockets for sale in Hong Kong.\n\nMessrs Bowra & Humphreys Store have a few shrapnel shells, and a few hand grenades not loaded, intended for English vessels \"for the Court\".\n\nThere is but a small quantity of\n\nThe Honble Major Caine, Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "question, and there made such damage to the building in question.\n\nStreet and careful inquiry and Survey led to the following result, an Engraving of Her Majesty the Queen, one of the best, large surface of glass destroyed, frame partially injured... 10.\n\nPrint next in rotation, Glass broken, & replaced... 1.\n\nand valuable.\n\nEngraving of Venice, Glass and Frame destroyed.. Large and valuable Engraving After Wilkie; Glass and Frame destroyed.\n\nEngraving seriously damaged... Mahogany Aquaria Tables, Pedestal replaced; top seriously damaged and freshly polished. Specimens of Natural History, birds, insects, &c., with an elaborately carved stand destroyed.\n\nEngraving, proof copy (Mount St. Bernard) Glass and Frame destroyed.. Carried forward £81.\n\nArticles underneath on teapoy, (as a stand) with specimens of natural history, destroyed.\n\nBrought forward £81\n\nEngraving / Seonth Plaques, frame and Glass destroyed.. Underneath (on a teapoy large Glass frame with shells, Frame and Glass destroyed.)\n\nEngraving (Sir Walter Scott) frame and Glass broken.\n\nBronze and carved wood figures, with a stand, slightly damaged... 5. other articles on top of bookcase, destroyed.\n\nSerious damage to library of books, and mahogany book stand by lime, and by being crushed by fallen timber. Engraving one of the best of Lady Rae destroyed, and Table damaged.\n\nEngraving death of Temporary Stack, frame and glass £5, destroyed. Engraving all but destroyed. hearth rug destroyed by fire, and fender broken, replaced. Floor matting destroyed and replaced.\n\nCarried forward £216\n\nPage information is not present in the given text, if it was originally there, it should be kept as is.\n\n \nThe text has been reformatted into proper paragraphs and minor corrections were made to improve readability while preserving the original content and order.\n\n was removed as per rule 12. No other changes were made.",
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        "content_text": "October \n\n1851 \n\n46 \n\n61 \n\n284 Fishing Boat \n\nWong Cising \n\nAraystone \n\nFish Nets, and other articles. not valued. \n\n295 Word Boat \n\nYu Sam \n\nFrong \n\nCowloong \n\nBoat & cargo, 400 piculs wood, clothing, etc. \n\n128 \n\n255 \n\nwhat Crew \n\nNovember \n\n2nd Passage Boat N32 Le King Shing \n\n$1700, Cash $9000, Fish + passengers baggage. not valued. \n\n10 \n\n结 \n\n34 Trading Boat \n\nCum Achoi \n\nChin-Chew \n\nMedicines, herbs, tortoise shells, etc. \n\n1,000 \n\n2 \n\nChurn Wing Thorns \n\nCargo of Sundries \n\n4,000 \n\n10 \n\n# \n\n16 Harbour Boat 1:250 \n\n232 Fading Boat \n\nDecember 9th Fishing Boat \n\n\" \n\n# \n\n20 Trading Boat \n\n2144 Fishing Boat \n\n25 Frating Boat \n\n鄙 \n\n265 \n\n29th Fast Boat \n\nJaike Pung \n\nLong Tsing Pingpon \n\nTje \n\nI Achoong \n\nPak Fat Hoy \n\nMácar \n\nJium Kai Chun \n\nCanton \n\nFish, Clothing, etc. \n\nnot valued. \n\nChun Chun Choi \n\nHongkong Canton \n\nChuin Who \n\nAberdeen Fast Coast \n\nCheung Arning \n\nJunoan \n\nSheang The Fut \n\nBirdien \n\n直 \n\n11th Passage Boat N.48 | Junknown \n\nHongkong \n\n# \n\n30 balls of Opium. \n\n40 \n\nBoat + Cargo of Rice, Sugar, etc. \n\nBoat and property \n\nBoat and Cargo of Potatoes, &c. \n\nBoat and property. \n\n300 piculs cuttle fish, sundry etc. \n\nPoultry, and other articles \n\nnot valued. \n\nmoney, Burro, clothing, other articles. etc. \n\nPassengers property. \n\n** \n\n2 \n\n3 \n\n4 \n\nwhole Crew \n\n120 \n\nwhole Crew \n\n60 \n\n86",
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        "content_text": "The vessels which composed the flotilla had been built at the head of the Hunan branch of the Yang-tsze, and had been following in the track of the Insurgents down. They were found to be manned altogether by Canton volunteer gunners or \"Canton braves,\" many of whom the mandarins have since stated to be reclaimed pirates. There were no regular forces nor any mandarins present, and each vessel was stated to be independent of the others. Several of the headmen or commanders came on board the Hermes; but no exact information respecting the position and strength of the Imperial armies could be obtained from them. One who had all the appearance and manner of an impudent China street shopkeeper, was however at pains to explain emphatically, and with an air of much disgust, that the Insurgents were \"Christians and robbers-robbers and Christians.\" The Hermes anchored again off Nanking about dark. During the following day, the 2d May, her decks were again covered with Insurgents, officers and men, until she weighed at about 4 P.M. to return to Shanghae.\n\nIt had been formally notified in the morning to one of the higher leaders, that all parties having now been distinctly informed of the neutral and pacific intentions of the Hermes, any fire on her in future would be at once returned, she having before refrained from returning the fire at Chin-keang only because the circumstances under which she had appeared were certainly suspicious. In reply it was stated, that no thought need be taken on that score, as communications had, since the arrival of the vessel, been exchanged with Chin-keang, and that the nature of her position to the Insurgents was there well known. The communications in question would not appear, however, to have been acted on with sufficient promptitude by publication to the forces generally; for on the approach of the Hermes on the morning of the 3d May to the stockaded batteries erected to protect the entrance to the Grand Canal at Kwa-chow, she was fired at; and, so far as could be judged on after enquiry and consideration, it was done merely in pursuance of general orders to resist all attempts of other than their own people to pass their lines.\n\nIn every case the attack could not have been premeditated on the part of the higher officers, as many of the guns in the stockades were not manned. Enough were, however, in readiness in the first stockade and the adjoining junks to enable them to discharge five or six shots before Captain Fishbourne's order to load and run out the guns could be carried into effect. The Hermes then began to return the fire, proceeding at the same time slowly down the river, carried by the current, and either steaming easily, or occasionally with her engines stopped, to permit of a better aim at some more conspicuous assailant. After passing the stockades that lined the Kwa-chow side of the river, she had to sustain a similar fire from those on the Chin-keang side, distributing in return some 40 or 50 round shot and a few shell; after which she anchored off Silver Island about a mile below the fortified heights.\n\nWithin an hour afterward a letter of a civil and pacific character, evidently prepared some days before, was brought down by a messenger to the bank opposite, and sent on board by a fishing-boat. While the answer to this was being written, a group containing several yellow-jacketed leaders was observed collecting on the bank and making signs of a desire to communicate. Mr. Meadows was sent to them, and found it was Lo-ta-kang and Woo-joo-keaou, the two Insurgent Generals in command at Chin-keang, who had come to explain that the fire had been opened at Kwa-chow in mistake by some new troops, who were not aware of the Hermes having been in peaceful communication with their Princes at Nanking.\n\nAfter some conversation, Mr. Meadows invited them to go on board the Steamer, but they declined. He then asked for one of their people to come on board in order to take back a reply to their letter. Three volunteered at once, one of whom was found to be a Meaou-tsze, or independent aboriginal Mountaineer from Kwei-chow. He was a middle-sized young man, of earnest gesture and expression. He spoke mandarin purely, but with some effort, like a foreigner. He said 3,000 of his people were with the Insurgents, and spoke with pride of the fact that they had never submitted to the rule of the Manchoos; in proof whereof he showed his long hair, not shortened by shaving from his youth up. When the letter was handed to him, he promised to bring an answer within an hour, and kept his word by riding down within that period in a heavy rain. The Hermes then started for Shanghae, which she reached without adventure at 3 P.M. on Thursday the 5th May.\n\nOn the whole it is believed that the return fire of the Hermes will have done us good with the Insurgents. It was made quite clear to them, both by letter and verbally, that they had brought it on themselves. Hence, after the forbearance previously shown in going up, it is thought that the promptitude with which this single vessel stopped and returned the fire of the first battery that opened on her, and the leisurely way in which she then went on, discharging a few shot at every point from which she was assailed, would have no worse effect than to convince such of the Insurgents as know practically nothing of us, that it would be well to keep the peace with a people who had such vessels and could so use them. All must have been made sensible of the superiority of our artillery to their own.\n\nA few of their shot struck the rigging and hull of the Hermes, but without doing any injury of importance, and no one on board was hurt, as they had the opportunity of ranging at Silver Island. On the other hand, many of her shot struck the stockades with visible effect; one of the first shot fired brought down two or three masts of junks in the entrance of the Grand Canal; after another, directed against the battery, in which was a yellow-jacketed leader on horse-back, he suddenly disappeared, the horse galloping off riderless; and at Silver Island it was ascertained that three men had been killed by a shot directed against a small junk on the Chinkeang side, one of the last fired. The shells too, one of which, directed against a battery on the very summit of the heights, was observed to burst with beautiful accuracy on reaching its destination, must have been considered dangerous and far-travelling visitors.\n\nIt appears that considerations arising out of our relations with the existing government prevented Sir George Bonham from personally seeing any of the Chiefs, but the object of his visit was fully explained to all by letter and verbally. There is no official mystery on the present occasion, and we are accordingly enabled to state that the communications were to the following effect: That the desire of the British was to remain perfectly neutral in the present struggle for dominion in China; that the proclamations of the Manchoo-government about the assistance of foreign war-steamers were false in so far as those of H.B. Majesty were referred to; that our Government had nothing to do with the fleet of Lorchas which had followed the Hermes into Chinkeang; that the sale of ships, private property, to either contending party, could not be prevented, but that when so sold, they were no longer entitled to the use of the national flag; that British subjects entering into the service of either party, having thereby forfeited their claim to protection from the British Government, would receive none; but that all British subjects peaceably attending to their lawful avocations at the Five Ports, according to the terms of existing Treaties, were entitled to such protection; and that no injury done to them in person or property would fail to be speedily and fully resented.\n\nOne of the higher Insurgent leaders, who twice visited the Hermes officially, said that foreign vessels were welcome to trade at Nanking, and that to prevent their being attacked, they had only to send on a boat some 7 or 8 miles in advance. With this exception, no approach was made to detail in their communications, whether written or verbal, but they distinctly stated that free and unmolested commercial intercourse was perfectly open to us. Considering the circumstances in which they were placed, surrounded by enemies, of whom the most effective were foreigners, their bearing was not only civil but decidedly frank and trustful; forming a striking contrast with the cold and guarded, when not positively repellant, demeanour which has always characterized the mandarins. That this proceeded from no merely calculating desire to conciliate, was proved by the fact that they yielded not one jot of their pretensions in matters of dignity; and, hemmed in as they were, descended to no imploring or \"praying\" for our aid.\n\nPage 3139 Hong Kong\n\nSchedule of despatches transmitted by the mail Steamer \"Malta\", via Southampton on the 23 June, 1855.\n\n  \n    No.\n    Date of Des.\n    Subject of despatch\n    Duplicates.\n  \n  \n    38.\n    May 25\n    Reporting appointment of Frederick Pedder as acting Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office, in the room of Wardle Sterling, resigned.\n    By the Acting Governor.\n  \n  \n    39.\n    \n    Reporting liberation of Chinese Prisoners on the occasion of the Queen's Birthday.\n    \n  \n  \n    40.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    27.\n    June 3rd\n    Reporting return to the colony from the Northern Ports.\n    By the Governor.\n  \n  \n    41.\n    \n    Replying to His Excellency's Circular of 20 January last, respecting Colonial Registers of Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages.\n    \n  \n  \n    42.\n    \n    Calling attention to this Circular No. 214 Feby. 1852, and submitting application from Murderer My And Mimic.\n    \n  \n\nRECEIVED AUG 15 1855",
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        "content_text": "For the defences of the place I have had one 32 Pounder, placed on board the \"Hercules\" with a Detachment of ... and when she is moved so as to command the Eastern Entrance into the Harbour, and she is defended by the Guns three 32 Pounders placed on Pettitt's Island where there is a Guard to protect the Guns and Ammunition.\n\nThen there is the Wellington Battery mounting 8-32 Pounder Guns part of which face the East and the others Command the Anchorage. There is also the Murray Battery 6-24 Pounders placed some 10 feet above the sea, part of the Guns from which command the Town, and the others the Anchorage. I have had three 10 Inch Mortars put into this Battery, the shells from which can be thrown in any direction as required.\n\nTo the West I have caused a Battery to be constructed, Heung-toe-san in which are placed 2-8 In. Iron Howitzers, above this battery another Battery to the East of it, has been constructed on which ... 3 ...",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n[MAY 16, 1857.\n\nNo. III.—An Estimate of the BRITISH IMPORT TRADE at CANTON, during the Year 1856,-compiled principally from private sources of information.\n\n  \n    DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES\n    QUANTITIES\n    AVERAGE PRICES DURING YEAR IN DOLLARS\n    ESTIMATED VALUE IN DOLLARS\n  \n  \n    1. MANUFACTURES OR PRODUCTS of Great Britain\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1.-Woollen Manufactures\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Spanish Stripes, Habit Cloths, ...\n    Pieces 9,361\n    20 per piece\n    187,220\n  \n  \n    Superior Broad Cloth, Camlets, English\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    - Dutch\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Long Ells\n    \n    \n    399,955\n  \n  \n    2.-Cotton Manufactures\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Grey Shirtings\n    Pieces 369,300\n    2.25 per piece\n    830,925\n  \n  \n    White\n    75,800\n    2.60\n    197,080\n  \n  \n    Spotted Shirtings\n    5,000\n    2.85\n    14,250\n  \n  \n    Assorted Colours\n    1,000\n    4.55\n    4,550\n  \n  \n    Chintzes\n    750\n    2\n    1,500\n  \n  \n    Cotton Yarn\n    Piculs 26,168\n    27.50 per picul\n    719,895\n  \n  \n    3.- Metals\n    \n    \n    1,768,300\n  \n  \n    Iron\n    Piculs 16,814\n    4.50 per picul\n    75,663\n  \n  \n    Lead\n    37,800\n    8.50\n    321,300\n  \n  \n    Tin Plates\n    Boxes 1,075\n    10 per box\n    10,750\n  \n  \n    Steel\n    Tubs 2,550\n    5.20 per tub\n    13,260\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    420,673\n  \n  \n    2. 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PARKES, H.B.M's Consul Officiating.\n\nNo. IV.—An Estimate of the BRITISH EXPORT TRADE at CANTON, during the Year 1856,-compiled principally from private sources.\n\n  \n    DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES\n    QUANTITIES\n    AVERAGE PRICES DURING YEAR IN DOLLARS\n    ESTIMATED VALUE IN DOLLARS\n  \n  \n    Tea\n    Piculs 254,211\n    $25 per picul\n    6,355,275\n  \n  \n    Raw Silk\n    2,034\n    $280 per picul\n    569,792\n  \n  \n    Refuse\n    \n    \n    100,000\n  \n  \n    Silk Piece Goods\n    1,500 Cases\n    valued at $250 per case\n    375,000\n  \n  \n    Sugar and Sugar Candy\n    Piculs 65,000\n    $5.30 per picul\n    344,500\n  \n  \n    Cassia\n    12,000\n    $20\n    240,000\n  \n  \n    Sundries- Rhubarb, Alum, Matting, Preserves, &c.\n    \n    \n    250,000\n  \n  \n    Total Dollars\n    \n    \n    8,217,250\n  \n  \n    Equal, at the Average Exchange of the Year of 4/9 per Dollar\n    \n    \n    £1,951,599.0.3\n  \n\nNora.-The Picul corresponds with 133⅓lbs Avoirdupois.\n\nOffice of the British Consulate for Canton, Hongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nHARRY S. PARKES, H.B.M's Consul Officiating.\n\nNo. V.-A Statement of DUES and DUTIES paid by BRITISH Vessels. Not compiled, for want of requisite information from the Chinese Custom-house.\n\nHongkong Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, For June, 1857.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to enclose a copy of Communications from Mr Attorney General addressed to you recently on the subject of some proceedings which took place in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "# Dispatch to Governor of Hong Kong, 1850\n\n## May 13, 1859\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 130. of the 13th March and to approve the lease of a chance for taking Mother of Pearl shells which, with the concurrence of your Council, you granted to Henry Gulbis, a Chinaman in the Harbour Master's Establishment.\n\n### Harbour Master's Department, 13th February 1857\n\nIn the absence of Henry Gunthorpe, 1st Clerk, leave was granted to Mr... \nCertificate of leave | \n---| \nNo. | 1032 \nDate | 30th \nReference | 4529 Hong Kong \nDate of Dispatch | 18th May \n\nJohn Bowring \nGovernor \n\nMellor to \nJohn Bonning \nMinute \nMay 13, 1859 \nNo. 118 \nMellor to \nDianey \nNo. | 301 \n... | ...",
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        "content_text": "(74)\n\n489\n\nGuns had been taken away by the pirates, and only a gingall was left. Some Chinamen came on board, but I don't know who they were. We then came to Hongkong, not having, to my knowledge, received at Mamee any remuneration. Except the two vessels already mentioned, I have never told either Roberts or Lyons of any vessels captured by the Eaglet, while out of Government employ.\n\nAfter my arrival in Hongkong, I received, in addition to my regular pay, $56, as my share of the remuneration for the service performed, and all the crew received shares. Mr Caldwell was in command on this occasion. I received $55 from the Chief Officer as my share of the remuneration. I have heard Mr Caldwell call a Chinaman, by the name of Jack, I believe residing somewhere in the Market; I have seen him on board the Eaglet.\n\nI do not know who had a share in the Eaglet's ventures or profits. I have had conversations with Roberts on Friday, Sunday, Tuesday. I know that the vessels we convoyed were generally full of cargo, even on deck, and carried only two or three small guns. I cannot say whether the two boats which I said I supposed were sold at Mamee were afterwards taken to the Admiralty court.\n\nWe were armed in the Eaglet. I do not know what sum was paid to the Captain by the mandarins as remuneration for the service; I received $56 from Siemssen & Co., as agents for the steamer. I do not know what amount the steamer was paid as remuneration, nor by whom.\n\n[Document produced signed. Siemssen & Co., containing \"chief officer Randall, his share in prize-money, entry $56.\"]\n\nThis paper was brought on board to me by a clerk of Siemssen & Co. I do not remember being present on any other occasion, when not employed by Government, at the capture of any Chinese vessels of any class or rig. Neither myself nor the crew were ever employed in any engagement ashore. In the beginning, I think, of 1856, the Mandarins at Swatow came on board, and asked us to assist with their soldiers in the retaking of two villages, which the pirates had taken.\n\nThey came on board three or four times a-day. That was $500, or that the Engineer's was $250. I did tell them that I got about $100 for the affair of the two boats, Mamee. This was mere talk. I had no idea I was coming here. I told them that this money was for prize-money and that my supposition was that the boats were sold. At the time I said this, I had not found the paper which I have searched for and produced to-day.\n\nI did tell them that I was disappointed at losing a lorcha with 50 chests of Opium on board, which was the lorcha I have already spoken of as having made her escape at Shatái. Roberts asked me how I knew what she was, and I replied, we had been told by the boat people of Mamee that they were pirates.\n\nI remember the Mandarins requesting the assistance of the vessel in retaking two villages; some of the crew were put with guns in the boats, but did not land, the mud preventing them. The villages were afterwards burnt by the people on shore. I am not aware whether the vessel received any remuneration for that service; I did not.\n\nThis is the chart for that service; the directions for going up to Swatow written on the chart are in my handwriting; I wrote them on the Sunday I have spoken of. Roberts said he would probably be going up that way himself, and asked me to give him the course up the river, so that he might avoid the pirates.\n\nInspector Roberts called on me on Saturday or Monday last. He asked me what I got for the junks that were sold at Mamee. I told him I got $55. I did not make use of the words \"we did not care what the devil she had on board, so that she had the Opium,\" but I have no recollections of doing so.\n\nHe asked me what I got out of the volunteer the statement. I replied that I got nothing. I said I did hear there were $2,000 got for it. He said there was more money than that for it, and that it amounted to $12,000. That was about the whole of the conversation. Lyons was with Roberts at this time. It was a general conversation between the three.\n\nGEORGE STONE.-Called and examined.\n\nI knew Mr Caldwell first about June 1855. In July of that year, I was appointed by Mr Caldwell Chief-Engineer of the Eaglet. Mr Caldwell commanded her himself in this affair at St John's. I never told either Roberts or Lyons that my share in the Swatow business was $250. She was principally engaged in convoying Chinese Merchant junks up and down the coast, and in carrying passengers and cargo.\n\nShe had, I think, seven guns on board when she commenced the convoy business. She was sometimes engaged in the employment of Government for the purpose of suppressing piracy. On one occasion, she went in company with Her Majesty's steamer Rattler and boats of American samer Powhattan to Kulan, for the purpose of destroying a nest of pirates.\n\nDuring the whole time of my employment, I never knew the Eaglet engaged in committing any act of piracy, but only in suppressing such. I remember the occasion of our going to Mamee with a convoy; our being informed that there were pirates on the coast; and being requested to go in chase of them. We succeeded in finding four of them near St John's: three ran aground, one of which was so far off that we could not get near; two we captured; and the fourth, which was a large lorcha painted black, having a large number of men on board, engaged us till dark; she was too strong for us to capture.\n\nWe took the two captured boats to Mamee. The mandarins came on board for several days requesting us to assist them, and when the water was sufficiently deep, we got up as far as we could and anchored at low water. Being a-ground, we remained there several days. The mandarins came with their soldiers in several boats to the attack of the village. We fired several shells, but we were too far off for them to take effect. We took no other part in the engagement.\n\nThe vessels which we were in the habit of convoying were trading vessels. I remember that some junks under our convoy refused to leave Mamee until the pirates had been driven away. I think, but am not positive, that Mr Caldwell said that the owners of the boats had given him money for their recapture, which he would divide among the crew in Hongkong, retaining a portion for the vessel.\n\nI do not know of my own knowledge what the mandarins said to Mr Caldwell. They spoke in Chinese. I do not remember any paper being given him by the mandarins. I think that a portion of the money for the convoy of the junks to Swatow was paid there, and a portion at the Westward.\n\nI remember the ship's boats being lowered to assist the innocent people in driving away the mandarins from plundering them. During the whole time of my connection with the Eaglet, I never remember her having or being in communication with pirates or rendering them any assistance or convoying them. I was passing by the station when Roberts and Lyons asked me to go up to their room.\n\nThey talked of various things and brought the questions round. I had not the slightest idea that it was for the purpose of inducing me to give evidence. They did not, after questioning me, say they should want me to give evidence, but I surmised so afterwards, and told them I thought I would have to come up here.\n\nRoberts first asked me if I would compare my Coast Charts with his. I had not mine with me, but he asked me to look at his, and point out the entrance to the river Han where the villages were.\n\nCross-examined, I remember with reference to the Mamee business, that on the return voyage to Hongkong...",
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        "content_text": "I\n\n88f\n\n10\n\npupils at intervals visit public works and manufactories along with the Professor.\n\nNo provision at present exists for addressing the general public through the organization of the Industrial Museum otherwise than by incidental, informal lectures. Of these many have been given, and when the new buildings are completed, arrangements will be made for periodically and systematically addressing the non-academical sections of the community.\n\nDIRECTORY\n\nOF\n\nTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, EDINBURGH.\n\nThe Natural History Museum of Edinburgh has been in existence since the year 1812, when it was established in connexion with the University, receiving at the same time for its maintenance a Government grant of 100l. a year.\n\nIn 1819 Mr. Bullock's museum and the very extensive collection belonging to M. Dufresne, of Paris, happened to be for sale, and a sum of money, amounting to 3,000l., was voted by the Senatus Academicus from the funds of the college for the purchase of a selection from Mr. Bullock's museum and of the entire of the collection belonging to M. Dufresne. From the manuscript catalogue which accompanied M. Dufresne's collection it appears that this collection contained 1,600 birds, 2,600 shells, 12,000 insects, 600 eggs of birds, 200 fossils, with a considerable number of radiata, and a few mammals.\n\nIn 1820 the Museum was opened to the public at an admission charge of 2s. 6d., which was subsequently reduced to 1s., and in 1831 the Government grant was increased to 200l. a year, the sum at which it has since remained.\n\nIn 1855, by a vote of the Town Council, who are patrons of the University, the Museum was handed over to the Department of Science and Art, then under the Board of Trade; and in 1857 the Department of Science and Art, having been transferred from the Board of Trade to the Privy Council Committee on Education, the Museum passed under the control of the last-mentioned body.\n\nThe Museum is situated within the University buildings, and occupies nearly the whole of the west side of the great central quadrangle. It is devoted to the systematic arrangement and display of the various classes of objects which constitute the subject of the Natural History Sciences, botanical specimens alone being excluded, as these are provided for in the Botanic Gardens and Museum under the charge of the Professor of Botany in the University.\n\nThe collection is one of considerable extent, and in some branches is exceedingly rich. Almost the whole of it was accumulated by the indefatigable exertions of the late...\n\n490",
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        "content_text": "50%\n\nMUSEUM,\n\n6\n\nINDUSTRIAL London, have again been donors of objects in flint-glass, and SCOTLAND. Messrs. Ford, of Edinburgh, have added illustrations of the stages in the production of blown-glass vessels. Three characteristic specimens of so-called Roman glass, from the ancient sepulchres of Sardinia, have been acquired by purchase. A small vase of old Roman glass, and a large assortment of vessels of modern pressed glass, have been presented by the Department of Science and Art; and specimens of devitrified glass by the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851.\n\nIn the department of chemical reagents the additions have been wholly by donations. Besides minor objects they include a large and fine group of copperas crystals from J. Wilson, Esq., of the Hurlet Alum Works; a consecutive series of illustrations of the manufacture of Epsom salts from the Jarrow Chemical Works, presented by Mr. J. C. Stevenson; a series of artificial phosphatic fertilizers, from Professor A. Volcker, of the Agricultural College, Cirencester; Egyptian natron, from Dr. J. I. Murray; from the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, specimens illustrating the purification of rock salt by W. and J. Noak, Droitwich; specimens illustrating the number of substances derivable from sea-water by the process of Batard; boracic acid in its different stages of purity, and various other chemicals, by Howard and Kent, Essex; salts of mercury, by Davy, Macmurdo, and Co.; preparations of arsenic by Thos. Garland, Redruth, Cornwall; and samples of cream of tartar from Portugal.\n\nIn vegetable products a considerable instalment of the series of woods used economically in Great Britain has been supplied by Messrs. Lawson and Son, Edinburgh; a small collection of the woods of Madeira has been purchased; Mr. Logan, of Edinburgh, has made a gift of several of the more beautiful of the Canadian furniture woods; Mr. Smith of some of those of Australia; Mr. E. Gibsone, in name of the Duke of Buccleuch, of those used underground in the coalpits at Canonbie; Mr. Dudgeon, of Cargen, of Norwegian wood-carvings; Dr. J. Ivor Murray, of similar carvings from different oriental countries.\n\nIn gutta percha a large series of examples has been furnished by the Gutta Percha Company; a similar series of prepared India rubber has been purchased from Mr. Goodyear, the patentee. A pretty full series of starches, sugars, gums, and gum resins has been obtained, partly by gift, from the Messrs. Lawson, Edinburgh, partly by purchase from different parties; and Messrs. Cowan and Sons, Valleyfield, have sent illustrations of the different stages in the manufacture of brown paper from straw.\n\nIn textiles, through the liberality of various manufacturers, the Museum has received, through the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, an interesting suite of illustrations of the manufacture of broadcloth. Mr. Pender, of Manchester, has sent ten admirably arranged books containing about a thousand specimens of the different styles of calico printing executed in Great Britain. Mr. Walter Crum, of Glasgow, has made a gift of samples illustrating the different steps in the same printing process. Mr. Gray, the manager of the Dalmonach Print Works, has made a similar donation.\n\n7\n\n508\n\nMUSEUM,\n\nSCOTLAND.\n\nsmall donation. The Royal Commissioners have sent several INDUSTRIAL examples of calicoes and cotton velvets from Manchester. Mr. Dudgeon, of Cargen, has contributed a rare series of illustrations of the cotton manufacture of China. From Messrs. Millar, Oliver, and Black, specimens of African and Australian textiles have been received. From Mr. Girdwood a very carefully arranged set of Scotch fleeces. Mr. James Neish, of Dundee, has supplied a graduated series of Shetland wools. From Mr. Mackenzie, carpets and floorcloths from jute, coir, and Manilla hemp; and examples of the different stages in the treatment of jute. From the Messrs. Baxter, through the good offices of Mr. Sturrock, of the Dundee Chamber of Commerce, specimens of flax of different countries and its conversion into yarns.\n\nIn the department of animal products, purchases have been made of East Indian skins, illustrations of leather dressing and dyeing, catgut, fishing-gut and prepared intestines, manufactures from horn, tortoiseshell, shells, and fishscales; and gifts have been received from the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 of lac; from Professor Volcker of guanos and animal manures; from Messrs. Haldane and Mackenzie, of Shetland and Esquimaux dressed skin shoes.\n\nWhilst desirous to avoid implying that one class of industrial objects is more important than another, or to give greater prominence to the names of some donors than of others, the Director feels at liberty to refer specially to Mr. Dudgeon of Cargen, and to Dr. J. Ivor Murray, on account of the diversity and interest of their liberal donations. The first of these gentlemen commissioned from China, for the Museum, as full a series as could be procured in illustration of the cotton manufacture of that country and of others of its industrial arts. The latter made a similar gift of all the examples of economic art which he had collected during a long residence in China, and whilst travelling or sojourning in different Eastern countries. Both gentlemen, moreover, have announced their purpose of continuing from time to time to contribute to the Museum.\n\nThe large additions made to the collections by the different departments of Government referred to in the preceding statement, were secured free from injury through the care of Mr. Galletly, the Museum assistant, who went to London for the purpose, and took much pains in arranging for their safe transit.\n\nII. The laboratory of the Museum has continued in active operation since last report; Mr. Bloxam, the official chemical assistant, and Mr. Irvine, the private assistant, along with a senior pupil and two apprentices, having engaged in its duties under the Director.\n\nIn the course of the year Mr. Bloxam has completed the careful examination and analysis of six of the most important varieties of building sandstones employed in Scotland.\n\nThe results of this inquiry, undertaken at the cost of the Museum and Laboratory for the benefit of the general public, have in the meanwhile been communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and published in their proceedings, as well as in the",
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        "content_text": "Page 363\n\n(74)\n\nThe guns had been taken away by the pirates, and only a gingall was left. Some Chinamen came on board, but I don't know who they were. We then came to Hongkong, not having to my knowledge received at Mamee any remuneration. After my arrival in Hongkong, I received in addition to my regular pay $56, as my share of the remuneration for the service performed, and all the crew received shares. Mr Caldwell was in command on this occasion. I received the $56 from Siemssen & Co., as I do not know what amount the agents for the steamer was paid as remuneration, nor by whom.\n\nentry \"chief officer Randall, his share in prize-money, $56.\"]\n\ncommenced the conversation by first putting the questions to me. This was I think on Friday last.\n\nExcept the two vessels already mentioned, I have never told either Roberts or Lyons of any vessels captured by the Eaglet, while out of Government employ. I never mentioned the word \"squeezed\" with reference to the mandarins at Swatow to Roberts or Lyons, but I said I supposed the ship had earned $12,000 as compensation for about 15 days' employment. I never told Roberts or Lyons that my share of that was $500, or that the Engineer's was $250. I did tell them that I got about $100 for the affair of the [Document produced signed Siemssen & Co., containing two boats at Mamee. This was mere talk. I had no idea I was coming here. I told them that this money was for prize-money, and that my supposition was that the boats were sold. At the time I said this I had not found the paper which I have searched for and produced to-day. I did tell them that I was disappointed at losing a lorcha with 50 chests of Opium on board, which was the lorcha I have already spoken of as having made her escape at Shatái. Roberts asked me how I knew what she was, and I replied, we had been told by the boat people of Mamee that they were pirates. I may have made use of the words \"we did not care what the devil she was, so that she had the Opium,\" but I have no recollection of doing so.\n\nThis paper was brought on board to me by a clerk of Siemssen & Co. I do not remember being present on any occasion, when not employed by Government, at the capture of any Chinese vessels of any class or rig. Neither myself nor the crew were ever employed in any engagement ashore. In the beginning, I think, of 1856, the Mandarins at Swatow came on board, and asked us to assist with their soldiers in the retaking of two villages, which the pirates had taken. They came on board three or four times a day for several days requesting us to assist them, and when the water was sufficiently deep, we got up as far as we could, and anchored at low water. Being aground, we remained there several days. The mandarins came with their soldiers in several boats to the attack of the village. We fired several shells, but we were too far off for them to take effect. We took no other part in the engagement. The mandarins took the right-hand village that day, and the next day attacked the left-hand village, but without success. We fired a few shots to intimidate the village, but did no injury. I do not know whether Goswa is the name of one of the villages. I know that the steamer had remuneration for the shot, shell, and powder expended, the wear and tear of the ship, and the time employed, but I received no portion of such remuneration, nor do I know what amount was paid—none on board had any share. Mr Caldwell was on board on this occasion. We went back to Swatow. Mr Caldwell went on shore to the Chinese agent. I did suppose that some of the Treasure brought on board on that occasion was in the nature of remuneration for the shot, shell, &c, before referred to. I do not know the amount, but the remainder I supposed to be cargo to be carried for freight. When we received Treasure as cargo, it was sometimes in boxes and sometimes in bags. To the best of my knowledge, neither Mr Caldwell nor anyone on board the vessels squeezed from the mandarins to the extent of $12,000, or any other sum as for remuneration. I never either in Swatow or here made any application to Mr Caldwell, Messrs Siemssen & Co., or any other person for any share of prize money in respect to this attack. I know Inspector Roberts of the Police force here, and a man named Lyons. They have asked me several questions concerning the voyage of the Eaglet, and I have answered them.\n\nThe vessels which we were in the habit of convoying were trading vessels. I remember that some junks under our convoy refused to leave Mamee until the pirates had been driven away. I think, but am not positive, that Mr Caldwell said that the owners of the boats had given him money for their recapture, which he would divide among the crew in Hongkong, retaining a portion for the vessel. I do not know of my own knowledge what the mandarins said to Mr Caldwell. They spoke in Chinese. I do not remember any paper being given him by the mandarins.\n\nI think that a portion of the money for the convoy of the junks to Swatow was paid there, and a portion at the Westward. I remember the ship's boats being lowered to assist the innocent people in driving away the mandarins from plundering them. During the whole time of my connection with the Eaglet, I never remember her having or being in communication with pirates or rendering them any assistance or convoying them. I was passing by the station when Roberts and Lyons asked me to go up to their room. They talked of various things and brought the questions round. I had not the slightest idea that it was for the purpose of inducing me to give evidence. They did not after questioning me say they should want me to give evidence, but I surmised so afterwards, and told them I thought I would have to come up here. Roberts first asked me if I would compare my Coast Charts with his. I had not mine with me, but he asked me to look at his and point out the entrance to the river Han where the villages were.\n\nHad I not known or been told that the lorcha was a pirate, I would not have consented to go in chase of her.\n\n(75)\n\nI have had conversations with Roberts on Friday, Sunday, and Tuesday. I know that the vessels we convoyed were generally full of cargo, even on deck, and carried only two or three small guns. I cannot say whether the two boats which I said I supposed were sold at Ma-mee were afterwards sold by the Admiralty court. I do not know who had shares in the Eaglet nor who had a share in her ventures or profits. I have heard Mr Caldwell call a Chinaman, I think in Hongkong, by the name of Jack; he resided, I believe, somewhere in the Market. I have seen him on board the vessel. He never accompanied the vessel in any of her voyages. I have seen him on 3 or 4 occasions on board. I have no recollection of ever seeing him at Swatow or Mamee on the occasions already referred to. I do not know whether he was in any way connected with the Eaglet. I think he had a shop in the Market. I never noticed him bring anything on board—provisions, guns, or cargo. [Shewn a chart produced by Inspector Roberts.] This is the chart which was shown me by Roberts. The directions for going up to Swatow written on the chart are in my handwriting. I wrote them on the Sunday I have spoken of. Roberts said he would probably be going up that way himself and would be obliged if I would give him the course up the river. There was no one killed or wounded on board the Eaglet, and none on shore except a petty Mandarin, who was wounded by the villagers who were plundering, and not by the Eaglet's people.\n\nPostponed till 1 o'clock on the 3d June.\n\nThursday, 3d June.\n\nGEORGE STONE.—Called and examined.\n\nI went to Mamee, where the Captain went on shore, and they were, I think, disposed of by order of the Mandarins. I do not know of my own knowledge whether they were sold or not; but persons came from the shore and took possession of them. I do not know what sum was paid to the Captain as remuneration for the service; I received from the Chief Officer $55 as my share of the remuneration. We were not in this transaction committing an act of piracy; we were only rescuing the boats from these murderers. That was the only occasion on which I was present at the capture of any Chinese vessels except when the ship was in the employment of Government. I remember the Mandarins at Swatow requesting the assistance of the vessel in retaking two villages; some of the crew were put with guns in the boats, but did not land, the mud preventing them. The villages were afterwards burnt by the people on shore. I am not aware whether the vessel received any remuneration for that service; I did not. I never heard of any squeezing or attempt to squeeze the sum of $12,000 or any other sum by Mr Caldwell or any other person on board in return for this service. Inspector Roberts called on me on Saturday or Monday last. He asked me what I got for the junks that were sold at Mamee. I told him I got $55. I did not volunteer the statement. He asked me what I got out of the Swatow concern. I replied that I got nothing. I said I did hear there were $2,000 got for it. He said there was more money than that got for it, and that it amounted to $12,000. That was about the whole of the conversation. Lyons was with Roberts at this time. It was a general conversation between the three. Lyons said that he was down at Mamee at the time. I never heard and never said to Roberts or Lyons that during the time the Eaglet was not in Government employ she captured 180 or any number of Chinese vessels except in this affair at St John's. I never told either Roberts or Lyons that my share in the Swatow business was $250. I did say we were much disappointed that we had not captured the large lorcha of which I had spoken, at St John's, because we were informed that she had a valuable cargo on board. I had only one conversation with Roberts and Lyons about this. I should think that the vessels we convoyed were nothing but Merchant vessels. My reason for so thinking is that they had their National flags and placed themselves under our protection. The Eaglet never, to my knowledge, convoyed a pirate; indeed, I would not myself have been in such employ. I looked to Mr Caldwell entirely as my employer and do not know who were partners in the Eaglet, her adventures, or the profits. I do not know a Chinaman by the name of Ma-chow Wong, Ma-tsow Wong, or Wong Akee. I have no recollection of hearing Mr Caldwell addressing a Chinaman by the name of Jack. Chinamen continually came on board about their cargo, but I recollect no one in particular; my duties were below about the Machinery.\n\nI knew Mr Caldwell first about June 1855. In July of that year, I was appointed by Mr Caldwell Chief-Engineer of the Eaglet. Mr Caldwell commanded her himself. I remained in that employment until about October 1856. She was principally engaged in convoying Chinese Merchant junks up and down the coast, and in carrying passengers and cargo. She had, I think, seven guns on board when she commenced the convoy business. She was sometimes engaged in the employment of Government for the purpose of suppressing piracy. On one occasion, she went in company with Her Majesty's steamer Rattler and boats of American steamer Powhattan to Kulan, for the purpose of destroying a nest of pirates. During the whole time of my employment, I never knew the Eaglet engaged in committing any act of piracy, but only in suppressing such. I remember the occasion of our going to Mamee with a convoy; our being informed that there were pirates on the coast; and being requested to go in chase of them. We succeeded in finding four of them near St John's: three ran aground, one of which was so far off that we could not get near; two we captured; and the fourth, which was a large lorcha painted black, having a large number of men on board, engaged us during nearly the whole day till dark; she was too strong for us to capture. We took the two captured boats to Mamee.\n\nCross-examined,—I remember with reference to the Mamee business, that on the return voyage to Hongkong, the\n\nPage 363",
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TARIFF ON EXPORTS.\n\nAlum,.\n\nGreen, or Copperas,..\n\nAniseed, Star,..\n\n21\n\nBroken,\n\nOil\n\nApricot Seeds, or Almonds,...\n\nArsenic,..\n\nArtificial Flowers,\n\nBamboo Ware,.\n\nBangles, or Glass Armlets,..\n\nBeans and Peas, (except from Newchwang and Tangehow,).\n\nBean Cake, (except from Newchwang and Tangchow,).\n\nBone and Horn Ware,\n\nBrass Buttons,.\n\n22\n\nFoil,..\n\nWare,\n\n73\n\n+\n\nWire,\n\nCamphor,\n\nCanes,..\n\nCantharides......\n\nCapoor Cutchery,\n\nCarpets and Druggets,\n\nCassia Lignea,\n\n11\n\nBuds,..\n\n\"\n\nTwigs,\n\nOil...\n\nCastor Oil,\n\nChestnuts,\n\nChina Root,.\n\nChinaware, Fine,.\n\nCoarse,\n\nCinnabar,\n\nClothing, Cotton,..\n\nSilk,.\n\nCoal,\n\nCoir,\n\nCopper Ore,.\n\n11\n\nSheathing, Old,..\n\nand Pewter Ware,.\n\nCorals, False,..\n\nCotton, Raw,..\n\n11\n\nRags,\n\nCow Bezoar,.\n\nCrackers, Fireworks,..\n\nCubebs,\n\nCuriosities, Antiques,..\n\nDates, Black,.\n\nRed,\n\nDye, Green,....\n\nEggs, Preserved,\n\nFans, Feather,....\n\n13\n\nPaper,..\n\nPalm leaf, trimmed,\n\nFelt Cuttings,.\n\nCaps,....\n\nuntrimmed,\n\nFungus, or Agaric,\n\nGalangal,\n\nGarlic,\n\nGinseng, Native,.\n\nGlass Beads,..\n\nCorean or Japan, 1st quality,\n\nor Vitrified Ware,......\n\n2d\n\nGrasscloth, Fine,.\n\nCoarse,\n\nGround-nuts,.\n\nCake...\n\nGypsum, Ground, or Plaster of Paris,..\n\nHair, Camel's,.\n\n12\n\nGoat's,..\n\nHams,\n\nHartall, or Orpiment,\n\nHemp...\n\nHoney,\n\nHorns, Deer's, Young,.\n\n17\n\nOld,\n\nIndia Ink,...\n\nIndigo, Dry,\n\nIvory Ware,..\n\nJoss-sticks,...\n\nKittysols, or Paper Umbrella,.\n\nLacquered Ware,.\n\nLamp-wicks,\n\nLead, Red, Minium, )........\n\n\"} \n\nWhite, (Ceruse,),\n\nYellow, (Massicot,).\n\nLeather Articles, as Pouches, Purses,..\n\nGreen.....\n\nLichees,.\n\nLily Flowers, Dried,.\n\nSeeds or Lotus Nuts,...\n\nLiquorice,...\n\n13\n\nLung-ngan,.\n\nwithout the Stone,.\n\nManure Cakes, or Poudrette,\n\nTARIFF ON EXPORTS.-Continued.\n\n  \n    T. m.\n    per 100 catties.\n  \n  \n    0 0 4\n    0\n  \n  \n    *\n    \n  \n  \n    Marble Slabs,\n    1 0 500\n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    0 2\n  \n  \n    Mats of all kinds,....\n    24 5 0\n  \n  \n    Matting,.....\n    5 0 22\n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    0 0\n  \n  \n    Melon Seeds,..\n    0 4 31 5\n  \n  \n    Mother-o'-Pearl Ware,\n    \" 0 4 11 50\n  \n  \n    Mushroom,\n    1 5 0\n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    \n  \n  \n    Musk,...\n    11 0 7 5 0\n  \n  \n    \n    0 5 0 V 0060\n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    0035\n  \n  \n    \"1\n    1500\n  \n  \n    19\n    300\n  \n  \n    **\n    1 5 Ú\n  \n  \n    Paint, Green,...\n    1 0 0\n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    1 1 5 0\n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    7 5 0 thousand\n  \n  \n    \n    100 catties\n  \n  \n    \n    hundred\n  \n  \n    \n    100 catties\n  \n  \n    0 5 0 0\n    2000 03 00\n  \n  \n    \n    3500\n  \n\nNankeen and Native Cotton Cloths,\n\nNutgalls,.\n\nOil, as Bean, Tea, Wood, Cotton and Hemp Seedl,\n\nOiled Paper,.\n\nOlive Seed,\n\nOyster-shell, Sea-shells..\n\nPalampore, or Cotton Bedquilts,\n\nPaper, 1st quality,.\n\n2d\n\nPearls, False,\n\nPeel, Orange,\n\n\"\n\nPumelo, 1st quality,\n\n2d\n\nPeppermint Leaf,.\n\nOil...........\n\nPictures and Paintings,.\n\n  \n    377\n    T. m.\n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    --per 100 catties\n  \n  \n    0\n    2 5 0\n  \n  \n    O\n    3 5 0\n  \n  \n    0\n    9 0\n  \n  \n    0\n    2 0\n  \n  \n    \n    hundred\n  \n  \n    0\n    2 0 0\n  \n  \n    \n    roll of 40 yds.\n  \n  \n    0 0\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    100 catties\n  \n  \n    0\n    1 0 0\n  \n  \n    \n    catty\n  \n  \n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    100 catties\n  \n  \n    |00\n    5 0 0\n  \n  \n    \n    carty\n  \n  \n    0\n    9 0 (\n  \n  \n    \n    100 catties\n  \n  \n    1 5 0\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    0500\n  \n  \n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    0 3 0 0\n  \n  \n    \n    0 4 5 0\n  \n  \n    1\n    0 3 0 0\n  \n  \n    \n    0 0 9 0\n  \n  \n    \n    0 4 5 0\n  \n  \n    \n    Lundred\n  \n  \n    2 7 5 0\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    100 catties\n  \n  \n    0 7 0 0\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    0 4 0 O\n  \n  \n    \n    ני\n  \n  \n    2 0 0 0\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    0 8 0 U\n  \n  \n    14\n    \n  \n  \n    0\n    4 5 0\n  \n  \n    \n    0 1 5 0\n  \n  \n    \n    0 1 0 0\n  \n  \n    11\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    06 00\n  \n  \n    \n    0 8 0 0\n  \n  \n    \n    3 5 0 0\n  \n  \n    19\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1 5 0\n  \n  \n    \n    9 0 0 0\n  \n\non Pith or Rice Paper,\n\n0\n\n\"1\n\n200\n\nPottery, Earthenware,..\n\n0 1 0 0\n\n11\n\n01\n\n30\n\nRattans, Split,.\n\n79\n\n0900\n\nRattan Ware,.\n\n0\n\n17\n\n4 5 0\n\n21\n\n0 750\n\n\"\n\n1 5 00\n\n11\n\n10 0 0 0\n\n0 0 4 0\n\n>>\n\nQ\n\n1 0 0\n\nSeaweed,\n\n+\n\n0\n\n5 0 0\n\nSamshoo,...\n\nSandalwood Ware,....\n\nSesamum Seed,.\n\n0\n\n19\n\n5 0 0\n\nShoes and Boots, Leather or Satin,\n\n1\n\n\"\n\n1 5 0\n\nStraw,\n\n0 3 5 0\n\nSilk, Raw and Thrown,\n\nPreserves, Confits, and Sweetmeats,\n\nRhubarb,..\n\nRice or Paddy, Wheat, Millet, and other 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        "content_text": "Ditches, boundary stones, &c.\n\nR. \"Laon-moo-kaon.\"\n\nMandarin civil.\n\nNot allowed to proceed up\n\nHostile demonstration.\n\nthe\n\nTiver.\n\nReconciliation.\n\nNight review.\n\nTrucks laden with timber.\n\n14\n\nWith regard to the ditches said to exist near Tien-tsin, they say it is not the usual custom to divide their fields in this way, as they use boundary stones; but these ditches exist in places near the river banks, where they irrigate the land by means of them.\n\nAugust 12th.-Having discovered entrance to the \"Laon-moo-kaon,\" entered the river with two gigs, leaving a gun-boat anchored at the mouth. We were met near the mouth by a Mandarin, with a party of Tartar Cavalry, but were able to get little or no information about the upper part of the river. They were unarmed. The Mandarin told us that he was in command at the mouth of the river, but that his superior officer was a short distance higher up.\n\nThat it would be as much as his life is worth to allow us to pass his post, and he begged us not to attempt it.\n\nWe told him we wanted water for the ships, and also wished to purchase sheep and vegetables. He was very civil in his manner, but guarded in what he said. There were two men aides-de-camp to the Commander at the Great Wall, who had come down to him on business, and these men appeared rather to watch him.\n\nAfter conferring with him we said we should sail up a little higher, to see if the water would there be clearer than at the mouth of the river. He begged us not, but we sailed on in spite of him. They rode along the bank; and, on our passing the village, they all seized their arms, matchlocks and bows, and crying out to fight, they rushed behind a breastwork and levelled their pieces, and declared they would fire if we advanced.\n\nWe remonstrated, and asked them what they could mean by such threats; we did not wish to hurt them, and did not care about their river, if they were much opposed to our ascending it; they were our friends, and we did not wish to outrage their feelings. The Mandarin said he was full of the most friendly feeling for us, but he would be disgraced if he allowed us to pass after the orders he had received, and he could not risk such a thing by giving way to his affection for us.\n\nWe then landed and had tea with him, and were presented with a fan cach. Before leaving, I expressed a wish to see the bow used. He sent for one, and the man seemed to go a long way for it on horseback.\n\nSome remark was made about the time he was absent, to which the Mandarin replied, \"He has to go a great distance to fetch it; would it be proper to have warlike implements near, when such dear friends as you are with me.\" Meanwhile the boat's crew found about 40 or 50 jingalls and spears hidden in the sand close by.\n\nThat night heavy guns were fired in the direction of the river and jingalls, and several lights were noticed from the ships. On being asked next day what it meant, the Mandarin answered that his superior had had a review, but that now he was informed what intimate and dear friends were at hand, such a display would not be proper, and therefore we should not hear it again.\n\nMany of the junks in the river were laden with pieces of round fir timber about 6 to 10 feet long, and from 1' 6\" to 2 feet diameter. He told us they were for sawing up into planks, but the lengths appeared too short; several pieces were seen laid upon the beach at intervals, as if a boom was being formed. However, they might merely have been floated up thus. (Afterwards found to be for coffins).\n\n350\n\n15\n\nThe river opposite the village is about 400 yards wide, with flat low banks, Description of and has a narrow channel of deep water, in which there would be about 10 feet at low water. The water appears, however, gradually to shoal, and an anchorage could be seen about 1 mile above where we landed.\n\nriver.\n\nThe village at its mouth is composed to a great extent of houses for accommodating discharged cargoes, and it is therefore probable that the river is not navigable for junks higher up. There is a very rapid current.\n\nThe mouth of the river is closed by a bar of sand, having over it only 3 feet at low water, and as the tide rises only about 4′9′′ at springs, the river would not be available except for vessels of very light draft, and with a high tide. The country to the S.W. is flooded at high tides, and would appear impracticable Country to the but for the fact of cart-tracks being seen over the sand.\n\nA creek runs in from the sea a little below the river, and a road leads from it towards the N.W., which is protected by an old breastwork and battery for 3 guns.\n\nGreat mirage exists all down this coast, which may perhaps give an idea of more water than actually exists.\n\nS.W.\n\nHowever, the country appears extremely unfit for military operations at Country unfit for military operations. the very best; the shoal nature of the coast, and consequent large surface of land influenced by the tide, must render both landing and marching very difficult.\n\n\"Laon-moo-Kaou.\"\n\nThe water of the Laon-moo-kaon, though very thick, settles rapidly with Water good in the application of a little alum, and is very good. With an ebb tide it is perfectly fresh at the mouth.\n\nAugust 16-Arrived at the \"Ching-ho.\"\n\nThe country from the Laon-moo-kaon to this is all flat. Mud plains extend inland to a very great distance; they are covered at high tides. After walking inland for about 3 miles over this mud, a sort of cactus plant is met with, which marks probably the extreme high water boundary; but beyond this no cultivation is seen, and the rows of trees appear as far off as when seen from the beach.\n\nR.\" Ching-ho.\"\n\nThe mirage, which is constantly very great, prevents me forming a very Mirage. correct idea of distance, or whether the intervening space is water or not. The whole ground looks like a lake, and the dry sand has just the appearance of water. I believe, however, it is occasionally flooded, as is evidenced by the sca-shells and crab-shells, and general appearance of the mud. There is also in places an incrustation of salt, which places the fact of an occasional flooding beyond doubt.\n\nAbout 9 miles below the Laon-moo-kaon there is a small river, but shallow, having about 8 feet at high water at the mouth, but this lessens higher up. I believe it to be a branch of the Ching-ho. There is no fresh water here, Fresh water defi- as I saw a junk come and anchor, and a cart was driven down from the country with water in it to fill her.\n\ncient.\n\nWhen there is any wind a heavy surf breaks over the bar at the mouth of \"Ching-ho\" Bar. the \"Ching-ho.\" At low tide there is from 2' 6\" to 4 feet of water over it. The Chinese say there are 9 feet over with high tides.\n\nA north wind makes it shallow, and a south wind makes it deep. Within the bar there is a deepish channel from 8 to 24 feet, though not often above 10 or 12.",
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        "content_text": "360\n\nJunks very numerous laden with wood.\n\nCorn depot.\n\nMoved on to the \"Sha-lin-tien\" Banks.\n\nR. \"Peh-tang-ho.\"\n\nK.“Che-haon.ho.”\n\nBar.\n\n16\n\nAbout 3 miles from the mouth is an old 3-gun battery, with a breastwork for musketry. This commands 3 passages, viz., the main river, another passage from the seaward, apparently not much used, and, probably, too shallow for loaded junks, and a third shallow passage, only available for boats. After passing this battery the river becomes very narrow, in places not more than 50 yards at low tide. The channel is rather difficult to find.\n\nThere appears, however, to be 8 feet of water at high tide all the way up to the Corn Stores, which are about 6 miles up the river on the left bank, and are of considerable extent.\n\nHere the junks unload, and the goods are carried inland. The junks, of which we saw great numbers, possibly 100, were principally laden with corn, or large fir timbers, some of very large diameter. The larger timber usually the shortest, probably on account of the difficulty of transporting more than a certain weight overland without timber carriages, which I have not heard of the Chinese having.\n\nIt is said that there is a town called \"Laon-ting-shien,\" about 30 le higher up, and near the great road, and from this tower you can go by roads to any place.\n\nThe distance to Pekin is said to be 400 le, and to Tien-tsin 200 le. The river is said not to be navigable for junks above the Corn Depôt, which is about 6 miles from the mouth Here we met the two aides-de-camp of the District General, the same men we met at \"Laon moo-kaon.\" They asked us where we were going next, and are evidently following us down the coast. Their presence prevented our obtaining any information.\n\nIn consequence of the Mandarin's following us we determined to move to \"Sha-lin-tien,\" and correct rates of chronometers, and then move southwards, where it is important that we should land and get some information.\n\nThe Mandarin would lose sight of us, and if, on hearing of our being there, he moved down, we should probably have finished our work, and could up again ourselves, and give him the slip.\n\nReached Sha-lin-tien on 21st.\n\nAugust 22nd.---Leaving Cruiser\" with the chronometers to take sights, went down in Forester\" until we sighted the Pei-ho Forts, as we wished to communicate with the Americans, if they were there. Found they had left.\n\nBoarded a sea-going junk. Heard they had left 3 days ago, having been 20 days at Pekin.\n\nThe river at which they landed is called the \"Peh-tang-ho,\" and the bar is not passable by junks, except at high water. Could get no news of our lost vessels. Returned in afternoon, and sailed next morning, and anchored off the mouth of a river.\n\n23rd. Went up the \"Che-kaon-ho\" in boats. It is a tolerably deep river (12 feet); but with a bar across the mouth, and a narrow channel.\n\nThe bar has from 5 to 9 feet at high water; the latter only at springs. There were 7 feet at this time. H. W. at 3 P.M.\n\nPulling up to within about a 4-mile of the village of \"Che-kaon,\" which is on the right bank we found a creek on the left bank, narrow, but with 5 feet of water in it, the tide being at the time low.\n\nWe pushed the boat in and landed.\n\n17\n\nThe mud is hard, and supports the weight of a man well. The river is Nature of banks. here, at low water, about 300 yards from high-water level. The ground here is quite flat, and covered with a coarse sort of grass, and in spots (more particularly near the shore) corn is grown. This ground, apparently, is occasionally covered at very high tides. The ground in-shore looks flat and damp, but this is probably partly the effect of mirage; there are numerous cart-tracks leading Inland community. inland, so it is certain there must be inland communication.\n\nAbout three miles up the coast is another village, called Ma-ping-kaon.\" \"Ma-ping-kaon.” There is a dry road to it along the sea-shore, except in one place, where a creek about 160 yards wide has to be crossed. It is quite dry at low water, and never probably more than 2 feet deep; the bottom being very flat carts are driven over this; the country inside is flooded by this creek to a certain extent.\n\nWe were told at \"Che-kaon,” that after traversing 20 le of this flat (which they say at very high tides is sometimes covered), you reach a good road by which you can go to “Tien-tsin” or “Tung-koo.” They appear to exaggerate Reported distances. the distances, calling it 400 le to \"Tien-tsin,\" and 200 to the \"Pei-ho.\"\n\nFlats of hard mud run out from this river, and are dry at low water for a Extensive flats of distance of about 4 miles from the shore. The fishermen walk about on the mud and sand. mud with ease.\n\nNear the mouth of the river, on the flat where we landed, is a great ridge of shells thrown up, and quite hard and dry, affording a very good spot to form men, or place temporarily stores or guns. There is perhaps a mile of this ridge, and 50 feet wide.\n\nChe-kaon-ho\" not \n\nboats.\n\nI don't think the river would be available for gun-boats, but there would be no difficulty in landing a light column with mountain artillery to recon- practicable for gun- noitre; and I believe the route to the Pei-ho Forts\" would be found practicable for any force.\n\nShould the mouth of the river be defended, the hard nature of the banks would allow of men being thrown on shore to turn the works. We were told that the river was not deep enough for boats for more than 20 le higher than the village, also that by going higher up you got further distant from the road. We were told that no river exists between this and the \"Pei-ho.\"\n\nFurther information, which we got next day on board a junk, is much more credible. The distance to the Pei-ho\" is said to be 100 le, and a small river intervenes, which is called the \"Yen-ho,\" or Salt River, and receives its R. \"Yen-ho.\" water from the \"Pei-ho.\"\n\nMeasured a base of 2 miles on shore for survey of river mouth.\n\nAugust 26th.-Sounded in gun-boats, saw no means of approaching within or 4 miles of the shore. The villagers have no boats and the fishermen inva- riably walk out to their nets sometimes 3 or 4 miles.\n\nSteamed up to within 3 or 4 miles of the \"Pei-ho\" Forts; found there is no river of any size intervening, fancied we saw the \"Yen-ho,\" alluded to above.\n\nForts.\n\nThe Forts were manned, and numerous banners hoisted on our approach.\n\nAugust 27th.-Moved the vessel up to within about 6 miles of the \"Pei-ho'\n\nThe coast appears quite the same.\n\nMeasured a base.\n\nM\n\n13\n\nF\n\nS\n\n28th. Waded on shore. Boats can not approach nearer them than 600",
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        "content_text": "# SPECIMENS OF MEDICINES, &c., \n## Continued. \n\n| No. | DESCRIPTION. | CHINESE NAME, PLACE OF PRODUCTION. | PRICE. | REMARKS, |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 25 | Medicine | Chen Ket 血杰 Kwantung | Taels 75.00 per picul | Dragon's blood-impure? Strengthening Medicine. |\n| 26 | Do. | Too Lee 鬼繇子 Hoopeh | 5.50 a 6.00 |  |\n| 27 | Dried Fruit | Chuck Hok 枳壳 Szechune | 3.50 4.00 | Same as No. 9, but larger. |\n| 28 | Medicine | Pa Yin 柏仁 Szechune | 7.50 | Pine seeds. |\n| 29 | Do. | Chee Sut 茨實 Hoonam | 6.00 a 6.50 | Water-lily seeds-Tonic. |\n| 30 | Do. | Chow Yoong 草葺 Kwantung | 14.00 | A resin, Used for Vertigo. |\n| 31 | Do. | Pak Chee 白止 Szechune | 9.50 |  |\n| 32 | Gall Nuts | Ou-bi-tsze Hoonam | 8.00 a 8.50 |  |\n| 33 | Peach Kernels | Tow Yin Szechune | 10.00 |  |\n| 34 | Dried Fruits |  |  |  |\n| 35 | Medicine | Chit Kiang 枳实 Hoopeh | 11.00 |  |\n| 36 | Part of Lotus Plant | Lin Tszu 蓮子 Shantung | 16.00 |  |\n| 37 | Dried Fruit | Chune Lin Tszu 川練子 Szechune | 2.00 |  |\n| 38 | Medicine | Chong Tut 蒼术 Hoopeh | 2.50 a 3.00 |  |\n| 39 | Do. | Chee Chow Pee 紫草皮 Qui Chow | 35.00 |  |\n| 40 | Do. | Loh Whui 蘆薈  | 11.00 | Catechu? Aloes? |\n| 41 | Do. | Chee Kow  | 42.00 | An inferior kind of Cardamomum? |\n| 42 | Do. | Yu Chow  | 16.00 | Pods of the Acacia-used for toothache. |\n| 43 | Do. | Yahn Chee 鴉胆子 Kwangtung | 4.50 | An Escharotic. |\n| 44 | Do. | 'Ngow Chee 川牛漆 Szechune | 19.00 | Strenthening Medicine. |\n| 45 | Do. | Moke-heong 木香 Kwantung | 23.00 | A root—a carminative. |\n| 46 | Harts horn? | Ling-yeang-hok Tartary | 39.00 a 40.00 | Goat's horn. |\n| 47 | Medicine | San Si 北防風 Szechune | 7.00 | Diaphoretic. |\n| 48 | Ginger | Kong Kitung 干羌 Szechune | 3.50 a 4.00 |  |\n| 49 | Rhubarb | Chune Wong 川黃 Szechune | 8.00 a 10.00 | Commonly called \"Horse Shoe Rhubarb\" largely exported to Japan. |\n| 50 | Dried Oranges (young) | Chung Pee 靑皮 Fokion | 15.00 | Astringent-not cutch? |\n| 51 | Cutch? | Gee Cha 佪茶 Kwantung | 7.00 a 7.50 |  |\n| 52 | Medicine | Qui Wong 雄黃 Hoonam | 3.00 | Cinnabar? Used for boils. |\n| 53 | Do. | Kum Gun-fa 金銀花 Hoopeh | 7.50 | Honeysuckle-cooling Medicine. Antidote for poisonous influences. For Coughs. |\n| 54 | Armadillo Scales | Kia Pin 山甲 Kwantung | 75.00 | Tonic. |\n| 55 | Pumelo Skin | T\" Hoang 橘紅 Kwantung | 8.00 a 9.00 |  |\n| 56 | Turtle Shell | Qui Pahn 龜板 Hoopeh | 18.50 |  |\n| 57 | Medicine | Kiang Wong 羗黃 Szechune | 3.00 a 4.00 | Turmeric. |\n| 58 | Medicine | Teen Hoong 附子 Szechune | Taels 16.00 per picul. | A kind of Taro ? Tonic. |\n| 59 | China Root | Chen Loong 朱答 Sim Kum | 5.00 | A kind of China Root-Diuretic. |\n| 60 | Medicine | Wong Toong 黃丹 Kwantung and Szechune | 11.00 | Vermillion. |\n| 61 | Pearl Shells | Sae Kuht Kwantung | 7.00 a 8.00 | Used in Ophthalmia. |\n| 62 | Cassia | Qui Chee 桂枝 Kwantung | 7.00 a 8.00 | Cassia Stalks. |\n| 63 | Medicine | Guet Siac 月石 Sim Si | 22.00 | Borax. |\n| 64 | Rhinoceros Horn | Si Kok 犀角 Kwantung | 58.00 |  |\n| 65 | Medicine | Puk-kee 北芪 Sim Si | 57.00 | Tonic Medicine. |\n| 66 | Do. | Moke Toong 木通 Sim Kum | 3.00 a 4.00 | Porous wood-a Diuretic. |\n| 67 | Do. | Tan Fan 胆礬 Sim Si | 86.00 | Sulphate of Iron, ? Chromate of Potash. |\n| 68 | Do. | Soo Chin  Hoonam | 3.00 | Chromate of Arsenie? |\n| 69 | Do. | Seac Wong 石黄 Qui Chow | 14.00 a 15.00 | White Lead-a cosmetic. |\n| 70 | Do. | Soey Fun  Kwantung and Szechune | 10.00 a 11.00 | Anti-aphrodisiac. |\n| 71 | Do. | Chee Men 枝母 Hopan | 5.00 a 6.50 | Stomachic. |\n| 72 | Do. | Keong Hoo  Hoopeh | 2.00 a 3.00 | Cooling Medicine. |\n| 73 | Do. | Yin Kow 香附 Hoopeh | 11.00 |  |\n| 74 | Do. | Sun Ee 秦艽 Sim Kum |  |  |\n| 75 | Ginger | Chune Kiang 川羌活 Szechune | 10.00 a 11.00 | ?A Diaphoretic. |\n| 76 | Dried Fruit | Palık Sum 北辛 Kwantung | 12.00 | Dried Olives--used as food, soaked. |\n| 77 | Medicine | Ming Tong  Cho Ko | 6.00 a 7.00 | Tulip tree flower. |\n| 78 | Do. | See Chow  Puc-mee-chee | 36.00 | Chinese Ginseng. |\n| 79 | Do. | Lea Tong  Tong-tai-hoi | 16.00 | For Vertigo. |\n| 80 | Do. | Pin Tow 扁荳 Hoopeh | 6.00 a 6.50 | Used in fever and ague. |\n| 81 | Do. | Ming Ting Mah 天蔴 Szechune | 30.00 |  |\n| 82 | Do. | Chune Tuen 川斷 Szechune | 8.00 | A Stomachic. |\n| 83 | Do. | Hong Kow  Szechune | 15.00 |  |\n| 84 | Do. | Loey Yuen  Kwantung | 18.00 | Diaphoretic. |\n| 85 | Do. | Siac Lin Chee  Szechune | 16.00 | A kind of Gall Nut. |\n| 86 | Do. | Yong Kow  Kwantung | 11.00 a 12.00 | Stone-lily. |\n| 87 | Do. | Lung Chee  Honan | 7.00 @ 8.00 | Foreign Cardamums. |\n| 88 | Do. | Choong-koong  Ningpo | 20.00 a 22.00 | Kind of Ginger? |\n| 89 | Do. | Loey Lin 良羌 Wun Nan | 170.00 | Sweet Almonds. |\n| 90 | Do. | Pac Hoong 南杏 Shantung | 20.00 a 21.00 | Coral-used for Ophthalmia. |\n| 91 | Do. | Hoey Seac 海石 Kwantung and Soochow | 15.00 | A Bean-do, Used for convulsions in children. |\n| 92 | Do. | Chune Yin 錢子 Kiang Si | 3.00 |  |",
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        "content_text": "is in excess of the number of all Ranks\n\nwhich is defined\n\nin\n\nSchedule of the Prormance\n\n2\n\n29 9/1567. (Fig 557.)\n\n(13\n\n? \n\nthe\n\nInmet komener agains however\n\nthat print out to you\n\nthe crat for this addition\n\nmust sist\n\nto the Police must be\n\nprovided for out of the\n\nFund specially exised\n\nIn this service.\n\nm\n\nthe General Revemar but\n\nN195:\n\nFinancial.\n\nTreas - infirm - 31 det.\n\nAus_ 164-29\n\nDec\n\n19223 Hong Kong\n\nREC\n\nEIVE\n\n19 DEC\n\n1863\n\nHoughtong,\n\n394\n\n30th October, 1863-\n\nMy Lord Buke\n\nI have the honour\n\nto report that\n\nin\n\nthe\n\nrecommendation of the Captain\n\nof Superintendent of Police I have granted gratuities of Ten Dollars each to Police Constables Shella Cannos and\n\nIngernant Sing in recognition\n\nof their zeal  斥\n\nin the execution\n\nThe Duke of Newenstler, K.G.,\n\n4.\n\nAc.",
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        "content_text": "Dollars racked up by two constables in the Hong Kong Police Force.\n\nHis Excellency has approved of the course adopted by the Mercantile...\n\nMem...\n\nD...\n\nInterest 2.164 Hongkong 399 195.12223 life of at the for Stregkong. 86 Elliot Veblogers W Jue which you have quoted.\n\n24 0.63 I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 195 of the 30 Oct last, & to express to you my approval of the gratuities of Ten dollars to Police Constable Shella Cannos and Interpreter Sing in recognition of their zeal in the execution of their duties.\n\nShan X...\n\n \n...",
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        "content_text": "OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n\nESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR\n\nPublic Gardens, Fountains, and Improvements.\n\nPLAN OR DESCRIPTION.\n\nThis Report and Estimate is in support of the usual annual repairs required to the Public Gardens, and also of the erection of a handsome Fountain on the upper Terrace. The Fountain will stand in a large Basin. On plan it is to purchase a Fountain (ordered from England) Quatre Foil with square projections, the Troughs ornate with scroll ornaments in panel design. From 20 garden seats (ordered from England) @ $10, water plants. The Middle Basin is a quatrefoil on four Columns standing round a Central Pillar. The upper Basin is a pointed quatrefoil with heights of Ferns. 100 Tons of Gravel for repairs to Paths @ $2.57. For Column is not mentioned, 800 ft brick water channel for S.E. end of Basin, in the comprehensive Models of the Garden made by the Captain of the Royal Engineers. The cap is of Water Plants, the underside of Upper Basin is shells and later leaves. This for 300 feet - Plain Curb. Plain has already been ordered from England.\n\nDuring the past year a band stand has been purchased and sent to the Colony by the Taroce Community. It has been a great convenience to the Band, and is an ornament to the gardens. The same number of Gardeners will be employed as last year. The vote of Council for the service is $5,000.\n\n  \n    \n    $\n  \n  \n    Purchase of Fountain (ordered from England)\n    0137\n  \n  \n    20 garden seats (ordered from England) @ $10\n    200\n  \n  \n    100 Tons of Gravel for repairs to Paths @ $2.57\n    257\n  \n  \n    800 ft brick water channel\n    100\n  \n  \n    Plain Curb, 300 feet\n    23\n  \n  \n    Purchase of Garden tools\n    104\n  \n  \n    \n    1000\n  \n  \n    \n    1000\n  \n  \n    \n    457\n  \n  \n    \n    30\n  \n  \n    \n    1444\n  \n  \n    \n    10804\n  \n\nApproved,\n\n(signed) Richard C. MacDonnell\n\nGovernor.\n\nForward",
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        "content_text": "5970 Hong Kong\n\n314\n\nDischarge, have, He\n\n(Signed) W. S. Mercer,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n(True Copies.) Treutlen\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nCopy L?\n\nAgents\n\nAck! No. 79-26 July/67-\n\n6492\n\npus: mon\n\n$271.\n\nC:0:\n\nJUNE 20\n\n1867\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong 24th April, 1867.-\n\nI have the honor to report the Sale by Public Auction, on the 18th Instant, of a lot comprising 20,482 square feet to I. L. Shells, Esquire,\n\nAgent for the new Specific Mail Steam Ship Company, for the Right Honorable the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,",
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        "title": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]",
        "content_text": "## Grade H. As the Attorney General of this Colony, Mr Pauncefate, is now absent on leave in England I would also recommend that he be invited to make suggestions on the above point, as his attention has been specially called to the subject.\n\nRichardonnell  \n15th November 1867  \n\n### Si Ropers\n\nI have already forwarded a despatch from the Memorial form Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong pointing out and in what respects in their summing up Admiral Proctor's views of the Inaliz amad Wil Reely ment when Wil Es under Viruot Sr. D. M how calle...\n\nSi R. Macdonnell with a revision.\n\n276  \nin leanbiti it be alludes to a case where Chinese Shef which cleared four Hong Kong froza sieged by a Chinese Calons Crugers within 3 miles of the H. Z. Mainland, but reaus the Rinker than the Ceglect Seiiitony, on the Khan that the infringing a Custorns regulation aburt fortals the Carnage of Opium wthat furroni fayment of duty at Canton. The species of Horkade of a considers to be Antich Port Su.\n\nR. Mhardonnell withert the sanction of rational Set Usage Juler: Shenal Sealy, & be mommends tal a prossion should le avorited in the cursed Iraty rendersey regress infofille Relation.\n\nSr. D. Thardonnell adderfu sach. Cormal on the subsect & it affeon Hil the Conent has communalist witte the she separate sheels.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nIn the course of the case was considered by myself in Executive Council, and the Chief Justice being in attendance but unable to bring forward any mitigating circumstance it was unanimously resolved that this Sentence should be carried out, and this convict Chen-kai-thi was executed.\n\n3.\n\nIt appeared from the Judge's report that the Convict had, on the 25th June last been on board a Piratical boat which attacked and captured a junk styled `Jun-bon-Lee`, when off `Tronton`. Twenty-three Chinese had met their death at the hands of the Pirates, and others during the engagement were seriously burnt by stick-shells, and were afterward treated in our Civil Hospital.\n\n4.\n\nThe evidence went to prove that the Convict had taken a very active part in the attack, and was officially an object of mark inasmuch as he held his sword in his left hand, his right hand having been disabled by, what subsequently appeared, an old shot wound. And this fact proved a material point in the evidence, inasmuch as, though feebly disputed by the Counsel...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]",
        "content_text": "# CHINA MAIL\n## HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1868\n\nTHE FIRE AND THE POLICE. The fire which last evening occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of this office has justly given rise to indignant remarks on the part of almost every resident in the colony. It seldom happens that we feel called upon to expose in more emphatic terms the utter and total state of disorganization and confusion which prevailed,—a disorganization disgraceful to the government which professes to have organized a brigade, and doubly disgraceful to the Police and (very nominal) Superintendent lately appointed to act as leader at such occurrences. It was one of those rare occasions upon which the expression of public opinion was unanimous. Men of all grades, official or non-official, Naval and Military alike, expressed in loud and contemptuous tones their conviction of the utter uselessness of the means adopted to extinguish the fire and of the still more utter uselessness of the person to whose care had been confided the \"organization\" of the embryo brigade. There was not a single redeeming feature about the case so far as the police and brigade were concerned. The very plucky but too often misdirected efforts of the soldiers and sailors leave no room for carping at the manner in which they did their work. There was plenty of zeal, plenty of pluck and power on their part, as on the part of many civilians present; but the efforts of all were rendered useless by the absence of any head, and the want of definite orders from any recognized source on the part of this precious brigade of which Mr. May is the Superintendent. The conduct of the police was simply utterly disgraceful from beginning to end, partially excused by the fact, as stated to the writer 45 minutes after the fire broke out by three of the force whom he at different times addressed, \"that they had no one to give them orders,\" a statement which, whether true or false, reflects equal discredit on the force. We would draw particular attention to the details given in another column respecting the \"take-it-easy\" manner in which the alarm was received at the station, and the conduct of the police on the spot. Surely, these things call for some notice!\n\nIn the utter collapse of the present Brigade and its Superintendent, who by the way was, it is reported, as ignorant of the positions of the various hydrants as of the details of a fireman's outfit when appointed, we see grave cause for immediate action towards a more satisfactory state of matters. The duties of Fire Brigades are doubtless like the payment of Insurance policies—irksome when the danger is not present. But in a town which has witnessed so many extensive conflagrations and where the Chinese were formerly permitted to build inflammable shells which embodied mocking invitations to be burnt, we cannot let society go on without a real, working, brigade and efficient Superintendent. As somebody well remarked last night on hearing certain persons, directed by a certain person, to \"go,\" the only word used by leaders should be \"come.\" In the confusion of last night it is possible that any such invitation would have not been heard or understood—another result of police organization. Instead of clearing a circle within which none but workers were admitted, the police stood idly by, while Chinese loafers and zealous, but perforce unemployed, civilians pressed around the hose carriers and rather retarded than assisted them.\n\nIf we look around for satisfactory means of organizing an efficient fire brigade, the means and material are obvious enough. By \"an efficient fire brigade\" we mean something supported solely by volunteer action. This could be easily raised and would be well supported, but there must be two conditions observed in its organization. The leader must be both a \"gentleman\" and \"a practical man.\" If it be suggested that such a union is difficult to find in one man, let there be two leaders, the man of high social standing being the chief, while his locum tenens in cases of urgency and general adviser in other cases would be the man with practical experience. We could very easily name two men who would exactly fulfil these various conditions, and under their auspices the F.B. might be a real living association instead of an association of which \"great cry and little wool\" is the motto.\n\nThat the fire of yesterday spread no further than it did is a singular instance of good fortune earned by no meritorious deed on the part of those parties most specially intrusted with the duties of combating it. Had but one house beyond the line reached caught fire, it is difficult to say where it would have stopped. The parallelogram formed by Wyndham, Wellington, and d'Aguilar Streets and the road leading past the west face of St. Saviour's Church is a perfect amphitheatre of tinder. That it remained unconsumed is one of those inscrutable problems which no one is likely to solve.\n\nIn conclusion, we would say—May we venture to hope something will be done?—that something to consist of the discharge of the present highly inefficient imitation now palmed off on us as a superintendent and the reorganization of a fire brigade. By the way, they might begin practice with an ordinary stove, gradually increasing the size of the fire until it was as big as a hay-rick. The now quasi-deserted Government gardens would afford a cheerful spot for the study of such amusements, or rather duties. The volunteers are welcome to the hint, and we are sure that the Curator would cheerfully lend his garden squirt for the practice.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868",
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        "content_text": "514\n\nStreet Musicians to desired so to do.\n\n2° & 3° VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.\n\nForty Shillings for the First Offence, and not more than Five Pounds for the second or any following Offence.\n\nLVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Householder within the Metropolitan Police District, personally, or by his Servant, or by any Police Constable, to require any Street Musician to depart from the Neighbourhood of the House of such Householder on account of the Illness of any Inmate of such House, or for other reasonable Cause, and every Person who shall sound or play upon any Musical Instrument in any Thoroughfare near any House after being so required to depart shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Forty Shillings.\n\nDrunkards guilty of riotous or indecent Behaviour.\n\nLVIII. And be it enacted, That every Person who shall be found drunk in any Street or public Thoroughfare within the said District, and who while drunk shall be guilty of any riotous or indecent Behaviour, and also every Person who shall be guilty of any violent or indecent Behaviour in any Police Station House, shall be liable to a Penalty of not more than Forty Shillings for every such Offence, or may be committed, if the Magistrate before whom he shall be convicted shall think fit, instead of inflicting on him any pecuniary Penalty, to the House of Correction for any Time not more than Seven Days.\n\nPersons using Carriages without Driver's Consent liable to Penalty.\n\nProhibition of other Nuisances.\n\nLIX. And be it enacted, That every Person who shall ride upon or cause himself to be carried or drawn by any Carriage within the Metropolitan Police District, without the Consent of the Owner or Driver thereof, shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Shillings, or if a Child apparently under the Age of Twelve Years it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to cause such Child to be detained until his Parent or Guardian can attend for the Purpose of having such Child delivered into his Care, and if such Parent or Guardian do not so attend before the closing of the Police Court for the Day it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to order such Child to be discharged.\n\nLX. And be it enacted, That every Person who, in any Street or public Place within the Limits of the Metropolitan Police District, shall be guilty of any of the following Offences, shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Forty Shillings for every such Offence; (that is to say,)\n\n1. Every Person who in any Thoroughfare shall burn, dress, or cleanse any Cork, or hoop, cleanse, fire, wash, or scald any Cask or Tub, or hew, saw, bore, or cut any Timber or Stone, or slack, sift, or screen any Lime:\n\n2. Every Person who shall throw or lay in any Thoroughfare any Coals, Stones, Slates, Shells, Lime, Bricks, Timber, Iron, or other Materials (except Building Materials, or Rubbish thereby occasioned, which shall be placed or inclosed so as to prevent any Mischief happening to Passengers):\n\n3. Every Person who in any Thoroughfare shall beat or shake any Carpet, Rug, or Mat (except Door Mats before the Hour of Eight in the Morning), or throw or lay any Dirt, Litter, or Ashes, or any Carrion, Fish, Offal, or Rubbish, or throw or cause any such Thing to fall into any Sewer, Pipe, or Drain, or into any Well, Stream, or Watercourse, Pond, or Reservoir for Water, or cause any offensive Matter to run from any factory, Brewery, Slaughter-house, Butcher's Shop, or Dunghill, into any Thoroughfare, or any uncovered Place, whether or not surrounded by a Wall or Fence; but it shall not be deemed an Offence to lay Sand or other Materials in any Thoroughfare in Time of Frost to prevent Accidents, or Litter or other Materials to prevent the freezing of Water in Pipes, or in case of Sickness to prevent Noise, if the Party laying any such Things shall cause them to be removed as soon as the Occasion for them shall cease:\n\n4. Every Person who shall empty or begin to empty any Privy between the Hours of Six in the Morning and Twelve at Night, or remove along any Thoroughfare any Night Soil, Soap Lees, Ammoniacal Liquor, or other such offensive Matter, between the Hours of Six in the Morning and Eight in the Evening, or who shall at any Time use for any such Purpose any Cart or Carriage not having a proper Covering, or who shall wilfully or carelessly slop or spill any such offensive Matter in the Removal thereof, or who shall not carefully sweep and clean every Place in which any such offensive Matter shall have been placed, slopped, or spilled; and in default of the Apprehension of the actual Offender the Owner of the Cart or Carriage employed for any such Purpose shall be deemed to be the Offender: Provided always, that this Enactment shall not be construed to prevent the Commissioners of any Sewers within the Metropolitan Police District, or any Person acting in their Service or by their Direction, from emptying or removing along any Thoroughfare at any Time the Contents of any Sewer which they are authorized to cleanse or empty:\n\n5. Every Person who shall keep any Pigsty to the Front of any Street or Road in any Town within the said District, not being shut out from such Street or Road by a sufficient Wall or Fence, or who shall keep any Swine in or near any Street, or in any Dwelling, so as to be a common Nuisance:\n\n6. Every Occupier of a House or other Tenement in any Town within the said District who shall not keep sufficiently swept and cleansed all Footways and Watercourses adjoining to the Premises occupied by him; and if any Tenement be empty or unoccupied the Owner thereof shall be deemed the Occupier with reference to this Enactment:\n\n7. Every Person who shall expose anything for Sale in any Park or Public Garden, unless with the Consent of the Owner or other Person authorized to give such Consent, or upon or so as to hang over any Carriageway or Footway, or on the Outside of any House or Shop, or who shall set up or continue any Pole, Blind, Awning, Line, or any other Projection from any Window, Parapet, or other Part of any House, Shop, or other Building, so as to cause any Annoyance or Obstruction in any Thoroughfare:\n\n8. Every\n\n515\n\nAshes,\n\n179",
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        "content_text": "$2.0 \n\ngt co.. Anuncian is requries and It aft shealls inth now of HMG \n\nas home I 2. 0 \n\nCoding it is unacridall t \n\nCretion. \n\n912.15 \n\n1. that the param \n\n\"it don nd appear open ttt. \n\n\"Certain of Mi R.M. \" doir note \n\nExaitz in \n\nth point- \n\nMollomatie Sys \n\nLink Me \n\nthat actain \n\ncutrage un committed no \n\nGost offices but by persons introd \n\nThe 25. MiRM Jay \n\nis a lia \n\nthat that \n\nof that the intrates han \n\nby fficials with to 10 \n\nbeen committed. \n\nI mi \n\nI appian \n\nCale \n\nWhat Sa proclamation. \n\nA \n\na pain: all w \n\nthat this is not \n\n\" criticist\" on the \n\na \n\nmay \n\nmanish \n\n410.1 \n\nIf the phean is to the Calen ich at all, \n\nI WZ. 4 \n\nthat \" AMG me no grand \n\nIth V.R. which is \" for dubilicon, the statement inpupaza \" Wter RM. _ of HMG \n\nan not prepared to far to exdom the Natimens of the V.R. Ioan noin \n\na position to quash with bi RM- allegation that it is a falm statement. I, I mm, has lite litit alone. \n\nthat \n\n# Next. The 8.8. 3, as importion of dutin of goods tranici - the C.O. Father \n\nthe C.O. Cath a repet \n\nhis off the right of the Cheminot \n\nin the litter reformt s \n\nI C.O., upholds the night & \n\nA \n\nto Thein fort to defend \n\nit \n\nEeveen, but it was not intended \n\nwhat the Paraschans of \n\nIn draft u \n\nAC.O.wm \n\nd \n\n? rather respect, that \n\nof opinion Best From rights auto perpul le merised ymaintainis to \"in\" transila\" tax - [so to call it. the shatuck ] The intention I think won han the \"in tramite question open with the July that it w.bany good if the Chirien could sape concede \n\nt \n\n203 \n\nT \n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]",
        "content_text": "# Overland China Mail\n\n## HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1870.\n\n### HONGKONG.\n\nTHE TYPHOON OF 1870. Hongkong has been again visited by one of those terrible storms which make these eastern seas the dread of the mariners and the terror of the boating and river populations of China. Ever since Saturday night, the weatherwise have predicted meteorological trouble in one form or other. The barometer was unsteady in its movements, and the clouds were portentously low and questionable in shape. During the greater part of yesterday (25th) these signs continued in a more or less degree; but opinions differed as to whether we were to be visited by a thorough-going typhoon, a rain-storm or a heavy gale. Notwithstanding these appearances and consequent prophecies, several of the Colonial yachts went out on their usual Sunday cruise. It was not until six o'clock last night that the wind assumed a forcible aspect; and even then the decline shown by the barometer was so gradual that it was believed by many that it was a false alarm after all. Unfortunately, however, this proved to be no false cry of danger; and we regret to say that one of the yachts (the Fairy) was lost near Sowkewan. It is gratifying to note that a French gentleman who was on board was saved by the Chinese; but the sad part of the incident is, that one of the French sailors who formed the crew lost his life.\n\nAbout this same time (between five and seven) another incident occurred which, but for the timely assistance of the owner of the yacht Zephyr who was returning from a cruise, might have been a tragic one. A junk containing some thirty or forty Chinese, mostly women, capsized just opposite Kowloong Rock, near Kowloon City. Mr Beart at once stopped his yacht, came to an anchor, threw his life-buoys to the assistance of the struggling men and women, and otherwise assisted in rescuing the drowning unfortunates. All hands were saved, and great credit is due to the owner of the Zephyr for the part he took in this humane transaction.\n\nOn Sunday morning the glass gradually fell; the wind (very light) holding steadily at W.N.W.; during the day the barometer fell nearly four-tenths, the weather being pleasant though the sky was overcast, the thermometer ranging from 82° to 86°. About 6 p.m., it commenced to rain, and the wind gradually rose, veering from W.N.W. to N.W. During the night the glass fell gradually but surely, and about 3 a.m. on Monday, it blew heavily with rain. The glass marking 29.40.\n\nAt about 7 a.m., the barometer was steady at 29.20 and even rose a little, but soon fell again, and the squalls increased in weight and strength. At 10 a.m. the glass at Messrs Falconer's, which is considered the standard in the colony, stood at 29.23, being 12/100 lower than during the height of the typhoon of '67. The sea rose rapidly and the wind veered to N.E., from which quarter it blew steadily and heavily for some hours. The Praya wall gave way in several places, and the wharf on the Praya belonging to Wohang went by the board. The vessels in the harbor commenced dragging, and the Annamite steamer Dong Wue, the Delaware (just arrived from Singapore) and the Pesso were in dangerous proximity to each other for some time.\n\nAt 11 the glass was still falling and stood (the standard) at 29.14, the wind increasing and drawing slightly to the eastward. As this was the lowest point ever marked by this glass before, in Hongkong, matters assumed a serious aspect; business was generally suspended, and residents generally shut their houses and prepared for a typhoon. The sea broke heavily over the Praya, flooding the Chinese houses at the westward and covering with spray the European buildings on the Praya Central. As the tide ebbed the reflux meeting the wind got up a short but heavy sea. The Dong Wue dragged foul of the Delaware, jamming her smoke stack under the latter's bows and carrying it away; her bulwarks were badly stove and the two vessels remained in contact for some time; the precise amount of damage we have not as yet been able to ascertain.\n\nAt about 1.45 the gale was at its height, the standard marking 29.10 and the other barometers 28.90; the wind blew fearfully and the sea made a clean breach over the Messrs Hook's Praya from East to West. The cargo boats which had been anchored off Pedder's Wharf were in great jeopardy, and after losing their masts two of them were driven ashore and landed on the wharf opposite Messrs Russell & Co.'s. Many Chinese boats shared the same fate, and the Praya along its entire length was strewed with fragments of wreck, and general debris. The barque Jane drifted down on to the Sin Nansing, but the latter having steam up easily eluded her and took up a position on the other side of the harbor.\n\nEarly in the forenoon the Flagstaff at the Peak was observed to bend like a piece of cane, and then to snap in two like a walking stick.\n\nThe scene from the Praya front looking seaward was most fearfully magnificent, the various craft tossing like \"cockle-shells upon the seething waters of the bay, and the blinding squalls driving in through the Lyeemoon as if in hot haste to increase the terrible tumult already visible all over the harbor. The wall formed a sort of...",
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        "content_text": "Punkahs,\n\n(16)\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nARTICLES. LOWER ROOMS. UPPER ROOMS. TOTAL. REMARKS.\n\nINCLUDING No. 3 BOUDOIR.\n\n  \n    12\n    15\n    ARTICLES.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    PLATED WARE.\n  \n  \n    1\n    7-Bottle Cruet.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    6- Do. Do.\n    \n  \n  \n    1.\n    Sauce Fraine.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Pickle Stand.\n    \n  \n\n(17)\n\n  \n    Footstools,\n    \n    5\n  \n  \n    Card Tables,\n    \n    5\n  \n  \n    Coal Scuttles,\n    \n    3\n  \n  \n    Fire-boards, Japanned,\n    \n    2 & Shovel at Peak.\n  \n  \n    with Royal Arms,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Purdonians,\n    .\n    \n  \n  \n    Sponge Baskets,\n    \n    6\n  \n  \n    Round Shaving Tables\n    with moveable glasses,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cuspidors,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    6\n    6\n  \n  \n    \n    8\n    8\n  \n  \n    \n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    Bolsters,\n    00\n    8\n  \n  \n    \n    8\n    J\n  \n  \n    \n    9\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    21\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Cruet, small.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Tea Urn Kettle.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Claret Cup Jug, (mended.)\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Jam Stand.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Bread Basket.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Ice Water Jugs.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Pickle Stand.\n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Beer Mugs, (Glass with Plated Edges.)\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Porter Mug.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Large Salvers.\n    \n  \n  \n    7\n    Small\n    \n  \n  \n    י\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Doz. Dinner Knives.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Dessert\n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    \n    Elkington's.\n  \n  \n    5\n    Pairs Carvers and Forks.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Doz. Dinner Forks.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Dessert\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Dinner Spoons.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Pillows,\n    1 large and small,\n  \n  \n    12\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Dessert\n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Table Covers,\n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    old-1 old long Green Cloth,\n    I\n  \n  \n    \n    Velvet Pile,\n    \n  \n  \n    12\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Tea\n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    old,\n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    **\n  \n  \n    \n    Egg\n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    new,\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    new Rugs,\n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Rugs, (No. 3),\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Salt\n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    Dinner Forks, Elkington's.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Dessert\n    \n  \n  \n    ??\n    \n    \"\n  \n  \n    \"\n    2.\n    \n  \n  \n    9\n    Hearth Rugs,\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Rugs,\n    \n  \n  \n    €\n    new Axminster, (1 eaten* by white\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    ants),\n    \n  \n  \n    *Repaired and placed\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    39\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Dinner Spoons.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    old, green and yellow,\n    \n  \n  \n    -27\n    \n    in Spare Room\n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Dessert Tea\n    \n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    77\n    \n    off No. 5.\n  \n  \n    1\n    Carpet Rug,\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Small Fire Engine and\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Fittings,\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Hose,\n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    Leather Helmets,\n    \n  \n  \n    36\n    Leather Fire Buckets,\n    \n  \n  \n    600\n    Japanese Lanterns,\n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Bath Carpet Rugs,\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    small\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do.,\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    In good order.\n    \n  \n  \n    114\n    almost useless.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    12 Salt Buckets and 11 Spoons.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Doz. Egg Spoons.\n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Soup Ladles.\n    \n  \n  \n    8\n    Large Gravy Spoons.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Sugar Sifters.\n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    Sauce Ladles.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    14 Doz. Fish Knives.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    11\n    Dessert Knives and Forks.\n  \n  \n    1\n    Fish Slice and Fork.\n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Knife Rests.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Butter Knives.\n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    Oval Side Dishes, (beaded.)\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Egg Frame and Spoons.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Toast Racks.\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Sugar Bowls.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \"\n  \n  \n    \n    Basin and Tongs.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Coffee Machine.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Bachelor's Breakfast Set of\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Tea-pot.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Coffee-pot.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Sugar Bowl.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Pair Sugar Tongs.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Cream Ewer.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Stand for Tea-pot.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Soufflée Dish.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Coffee Pot and Milk Jug.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    31\n  \n  \n    \n    (Plain.)\n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    Escallop Shells.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Decanter Stands.\n    \n  \n  \n    138\n    \n    \n  \n\nREMARKS.",
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        "content_text": "816\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nhowever, and the daily business which is doing for manufacturing wants is at firm rates. In Canton Silk there have been sales at 178. to 173. 6d. for fair to good market Tsatlee, with certainly more general inquiry for this Silk, very few importers, however, are found willing to accept these rates. Japan Silks remain firm at last quotations, and Deliveries are fairly good, without any new movement of interest. being from 1st to 13th inst:-China, 974 bales; Canton, 308 bales; Japan, 263 bales; Bengal, 276; total, 1,819 bales.\n\nLONDON QUOTATIONS-Nov, 15.\n\nCurss.\n\nTsatlee, No. I\nRed Peacock\n305. 6l. to 31s. 6d.\n\nYuenfas and Hatnin, Nos. 1, 2, and S\nTaysaam\n29s. 6d.\n\nKeying, Nos. 1, 2, and 3...\nLong Keel\n24s. 6d. to 24s. 9d.\n\nChinese Throwns\n\n23s. 0d.\n\n20s. 0d.\n\nMaibosh and Siuchu, Nos. 1, 2, and 3\n\n24s. 0d. to 25s. 6d.\n\n25s. 0d. to 30s. 0d.\n\n28s. 0d. to 24s. 6d.\n\nJAPAN.\n\nIdah, No. 2\n\n20s. 0d. to 27s. 0d.\n\nSodai, No. 2\n\n24s. 6d. to 25s. 6d.\n\nOshtu, Nos. 1, 2, and 3...\n\n25s. 0d. to 30s. 0d.\n\nKochin, No. 2...\n\n28s. 0d. to 24s. 6d.\n\nElchizen\n\n20s. 6d. to 24s. 0d.\n\nMashta\n\n20s. 0d. to 23s. 0d.\n\natehoji...\n\n20s. 0d. to 24s. 0d.\n\nCAMPHOR.--China has slightly declined; of 176 cases offered in the public sales about half has been sold at £3 15s. 6d. to £3 16s., and a small business has been done privately on corresponding terms.\n\nCARDAMOMS.-There has again been an absence of business in Ceylon.\n\nCocoa Nuts.-The market for Cochin has been firm, and sales of fine have been made at £38 15s. both privately and at auction. Ceylon is steady at the previous value; viz., £33 10s. to £35 15s. per ton.\n\nCEREALS. The market continues very dull, and there are no transactions to report.\n\nCotton. The advance reported last week is maintained, about 500 tons having changed hands at 20s. to 22s. per cwt.\n\nDRAGON'S-BLOOD.-Little doing; 29 cases lump offered in public sale were retired.\n\nEBONY.-Ceylon is still very scarce, no part of the supplies reported to be afloat having yet come to hand. Good quality is still quoted £24 per ton, but no transactions are reported.\n\nESSENTIAL OILS.-Aniseed steady; about 100 cases sold privately at 9s. 8d. down to 9s. for a few cases, since which it has slightly rallied, and there are buyers at a shade advance; 13 cases at auction retired. Cassia very firmly held. Nutmeg firm; 6 cases sold at 9d. Citronelle again dull. Cinnamon: Fine, scarce, and wanted. per oz. Lower, and dull: 75 cases at auction, only a few sold at 2¼d. per oz. Lemon Grass: Value nominal, and difficult of sale; 40 cases retired.\n\nGUMS.--Benjamin: Siam quiet; 20 cases at auction retired; Sumatra also quiet; of 62 cases offered, one-half sold; 2nds, dark to fair, £7 2s. 6d. to £8 2s. 6d. Copal: Cheaper and very dull; 80 cases offered and retired; small sales privately at 80s. per cwt. for good. Damar Quiet and cheaper 150 cases sold at 53s. 6d. per cwt. for good clean, but rather dusty and yellow. Gamboge: Quiet.\n\nGUTTAPERCHA.-Market dull; 648 packages at auction nearly all sold; close reboiled and part genuine, 1s. 6d. to 1s. 6½d., mixed with fine white, 1s. 4d. to 1s. 4½d.; white fair to good clean, part barky, 1s. 1d. to 1s. 3d.; close reboiled and part perished and weak, 1s. to 1s. 0¾d.; Sumatra, barky and part loose, ¾d. to 1s.\n\nHEMP. The market for Manila continues weak, the supply being still considerably in excess of requirements; the small business done establishes a light decline in prices. Of 1,992 bales offered in public sale yesterday the bulk was bought in, fair to good raping at £47 to £48 10s.; about 200 to 300 bales sold damaged third to first class at £44 to £47, fourth class, £42 10s. to £43 5s.; inferior sound at £44 5s. to £44 15s. per ton.\n\nHIDES. At the last sales, somewhat contrary to general expectation, there was a fairly active demand for East India Hides for both home use and export, and rather over three-fourths of the quantity offered was disposed of. Former prices were well supported for nearly all descriptions, and for some of the most desirable piles of Dacca and North-Western slaughtered an advance of ½d. to ¾d. per lb. was paid. Singapore and Penang realised about former rates. Singapore and Penang Buffalo were in full demand, and generally brought full prices; Calcutta and Java were mostly bought in.\n\nHORNS.-Siam Buffalo firm at the last quoted rate, viz., 36s. 6d. to 39s. 6d. per cwt. for 3 lb. to 4 lb. Horns. Ceylon Deer also firm.\n\nISINGLASS.-The market continues firm, and at auction of 4 cases offered, a few only sold at 2s. 8d. to 2s. 9¼d. for middling Pipe; 10 bales Manila purse sold at 6d. to 8¾d. per lb.\n\nINDIA-RUBBER.-The market is very quiet, and in the absence of transactions of any importance prices are unaltered.\n\nJAPAN WAX.-There is but little doing, but the market is firm, and prices are well maintained; small sales of fine saucers are reported at £4 18s. per cwt.\n\nMusk.-Market steady: 51 caddies Tonquin at auction sold; fair selected, well-shaped pods part horny 34s. to 34s. 6d.; and rough and badly, fair middling 17s. 6d. to 18s.; 19 tins Grain sold, fine at 56s. to 57s.; dark at 48s. to 48s. 6d. per oz.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nPEPPER.-Black has been very dull, and there have been only small sales, chiefly of Singapore, at 6d. to 6¼d., at which the market closes. White is also cheaper, having been with an extremely dull tone, quitted at 1s. 0d. to 1s. 0¾d.\n\nPLUMBAGO Ceylon of fine quality is very scarce, but mixed is dull of sale; 133 barrels in auction sold; dust, good and very good at 12s. to 13s. 3d. per cwt.\n\nRATTANS are scarce, and supplies would realise high prices.\n\nRHUBARB The market for China is steady but quiet; of 126 cases offered three-fourths sold; sundried root fairly trimmed and fresh small to large, 2s. to 2s. 4d.; duller coat and more mixed in size, 1s. 8d. to 1s. 11d.; inferior, 10d. to 1s. 2d. per lb.\n\nRICE Although there is no activity in the demand, there is a steadier tone observable in the market, and better prices have been obtained, especially for floating cargoes. On the spot Askoolie has been sold at 10s. 4½d. to 10s. 6d., old Necransie at 8s. 6d. cash, and Moulmein at 9s. 6d. ex quay. The floating cargo per Surrey, 1,200 tons Rangoon, has been sold at 9s. 6d. continental terms, the floating cargo, per Voltri, 760 tons Necransic, arrived off coast, sold at 9s. 3¼d. for a near continental port, and a floating cargo of 750 tons Moulmain at about 9s. 3d. ex ship.\n\nSAGO.-Market very quiet, and little business done. Of 897 bags offered, half sold at 16s. 6d. per cwt. for good small, and 17s. 6d. to 18s. for good large.\n\nSAPAN WOOD.-Manila and Siam steady; 55 tons Manila sold at auction at £8 2s. 6d. to £8 7s. 6d., for good wood, some damaged. Ceylon firm and in demand, but no offers have been made during the fortnight.\n\nSHELLS.-No business since the sales of the 5th inst.\n\nSPICES.-Chunamon: There is a steady demand for Ceylon and a moderate business doing at previously ruling prices. Cassia Liguea: Quiet; 400 cases unworked at public sale retired. Buds: Quiet. Cloves: Amboyna firm; 2 cases good sold at 8¼d.; Penang steady; of 13 cases at auction, 3 cases fair sold at 1s. 4d. to 1s. 4½d. per lb.; the remainder common retired. Mace: Steady. Nutmeg: Cheaper; of 450 packages at sale, a large proportion sold; 87's to 77's, 8¼d. to 8s. 7d.; 90's, 3s. 2¼d. to 3s. 3d.; 116's to 108's, 2s. 9¼d. to 2s. 10¼d.; but a large proportion common, shrivelled and worm-eaten sold at low rates.\n\nSoy.-Ching in very flat, and of 100 casks offered at auction only a few sold at 1s. 9d. per gallon. Japan: No business done.\n\nSTICKLAC.-Siam firm; 82 cases at auction sold at £4 8s. 6d. to £4 9s. for good quality.\n\nSTAR ANISEEDS.-Market quiet, and there are no transactions to report.\n\nTAPIOCA.-The market has been quiet, and closes dull. Of 8,000 bags at auction one third sold; Singapore at 2¼d. to 2½d. per lb. for middling to very good, and Penang 2¼d. to 2½d. middling to fair.\n\nTIN has declined £2 to £8 per ton, but the market closes steadily; quotations are: Straits, on the spot and afloat, £140; Banca, £155; Billiton, £146 per ton.\n\nARTICLES OF EXPORT.\n\nMANCHESTER GOODS.\n\nThe advance in the Bank rate to 7 per cent. has increased the dullness prevailing at the close of last week, and the sales effected since the 8th inst. have been extremely limited. At the close the market is without improvement in demand, and may be reported with a tendency of prices in favour of buyers.\n\nWidth...\n39 in.\n\nQuality...\nNo. 4.\n\nWeight..\n\nGRET SHIRTINGS,\n38-39 Yds.\n\n8.8.\n8¼d.\n\n9d.\n9¼d.\n\n9½d.\n9¾d.\n\nWidth....\n39 in.\n\nQuality...\nNo. 1\n\n8s. 6d.\n\n820\n\nGIBRALTAR\n\nMALTA............\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nOVERLAND ROUTE....\n\nThe PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY book Passengers and receive Cargo and Parcels by their steamers for-\n\nALEXANDRIA.)\n\nAden\n\nBOMBAY\n\nGALLE.....\n\nMADRAS\n\nCALCUTTA\n\nPENANG\n\nSINGAPORE...\n\nCHINA\n\nJAPAN\n\nAUSTRALIA\n\nNEW ZEALAND\n\n(Cargo only)\n\nTrieste\n\nFrom\n\nFrom Southampton-calling at Brindisi.\n\nAncona)\n\nEvery\n\nThursday\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nEvery\n\nFriday.\n\nEvery Monday,\n\nat noon.\n\nNov.\n\nNov. 15.\n\nNov. 4, 18,\n\n& Dec. 2,\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nat noon.\n\nat 3 A.M.\n\nThursday\n\nFriday.\n\nNov. 29\n\nNov. 21,\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nat noon.\n\nMonday, Dec. 2.\n\nat 1.\n\nAnd all Ports at which the British India Company's Steamers call.\n\nAn abatement of 20 per cent. from the charge for the Return Voyage is made to Passengers who have paid full fare to or from ports eastward of Suez re-embarking within six months of their arrival, and 19 per cent. to those re-embarking within twelve months.\n\nThrough Tickets to Brindisi can be obtained of LEGEAU and Co., &, Baliter-street, B.C. (South Italian Railway Office).\n\nFor Rates of Passage Money and Freight and all other information, apply at the Company's Offices 122, Leadenhall-street, London; or Oriental-place, Southampton.\n\nOVERLAND ROUTE VIA MARSEILLES-MESSAGERIES MARITIMES DE FRANCE, CANNON-STREET - FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS LEAVE MARSEILLES (via\n\nON THE FOLLOWING SUNDAYS, at 8.0.) 10 A.M.-\n\nAva... Ponnai\n\nPriho\n\nMeikong\n\nSindh...\n\nProvence\n\nNov. 10\n\nNov. 24\n\nDec. 8\n\nFor\n\n...\n\nDec. 22\n\n...\n\nJan. 5\n\n...\n\nJan. 19\n\nAden, Galle, Singapore, Batavia, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama.\n\nThe steamers of the 24th Nov., 22nd Dec., and 19th Jan. connect at Aden with the steamers for Bombay and Mauritius.\n\nThe steamers of the 10th Nov., 8th Dec., and 5th Jan. connect at Galle with the steamers for Pondicherry, Madras, and Calcutta.\n\nFor Alexandria and Naples.. Every Thursday (noon)\n\nSaturday, &\n\nConstantinople\n\nAlgiera\n\n+7\n\nThe Company's weekly steamers to Alexandria connect at Alexandria with the English mail steamers from Brindisi to Bombay.\n\nFor Passage, Freight, or Information, apply to the Company's Agent, 97, Cannon-street, E.C.; G. I. FLETCHER and Co., Liverpool: at the Offices of the Messageries Maritimes of France in Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and Marseilles; or to SMITH and Co., Rotterdam.\n\n* Passengers eastward of Suez securing their Berths in London are entitled to the conveyance of their luggage free to Marseilles.\n\nPENANG, SINGAPORE,\n\nand JAPAN, The following high-classed SCREW STEAM and SAILING SHIPS will\n\nbe despatched as under:-\n\nDestination.\n\nLast\n\nClass.\n\nDock.\n\nShipping\n\nday.\n\n39 in.\n\n39 in.\n\n10\n\n23\n\n16\n\n5\n\n4\n\n7\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n17\n\n7\n\n8\n\n13\n\n8\n\n1\n\nCount\n\nPrice......\n\n12 x 9\n\n12x12\n\n14x13\n\n14 x 18\n\n14x12; 14x12½\n\n16x16\n\n16x15\n\nPH.D. 68.444.\n\n7s. 1d.\n\n7s.\n\n7s.\n\n7s. 1¾d.\n\nWeight...\n\nCount\n\nPrice......\n\nWeight...\n\n4\n\nCount...\n\nPrice......\n\nWidth\n\nQuality....\n\n# 1\n\n16x15\n\n16x15\n\n8\n\nN\n\n9\n\n0\n\n$\n\n4\n\n9\n\n4\n\n70\n\n16x16\n\n16x18\n\n17x17\n\n19x10\n\n12x8\n\n32x32\n\na.\n\n7d\n\n8s.\n\n10s.\n\n10s.\n\non.\n\n18.\n\n4¾d.\n\n10s.\n\n6d.\n\nPeng, Sing..\n\n49/50 in.\n\n34 in.\n\n60 in.\n\nHg. Kg.\n\n& Shanghai, via S.C.\n\n35\n\n36\n\n39\n\n45\n\n46\n\n49\n\n56\n\n59\n\n*\n\n0\n\n3\n\n◊\n\n00\n\n10\n\n0\n\n10\n\n0\n\n11\n\n0\n\n12\n\n0\n\n14x10\n\n14x12\n\n16x15\n\n16 x 18\n\n14x10\n\n16 15\n\n16 x 15\n\n16x15\n\n10x15\n\nAT\n\nTo Naukin 8.8.\n\n10\n\n9\n\n10\n\n11\n\n12\n\n14\n\nA1\n\nShanghai\n\nCarmarthen-\n\nSWID\n\nNov, 25\n\nSWID\n\nTo follow\n\n3d.\n\n9s.\n\n4½d.\n\n10s.\n\nd.\n\n12s.\n\n6d.\n\n10s\n\n10¼d.\n\n12s.\n\n4¾d.\n\n13s.\n\n6d.\n\n14s.\n\nd.\n\nT-CLOTHS.\n\nWidth\n\ndz in.\n\n36 in.\n\nWeight\n\n6\n\n0\n\n8\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n6\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n8\n\n0\n\n8\n\n4\n\nCount\n\n14x18\n\n15 x 15\n\n15x15\n\n18x18\n\n18x18\n\n18x19\n\n18x18\n\nPrice\n\n15s.\n\n10¼d.\n\n8s.\n\n9d.\n\n6s.\n\n10¾d.\n\n7s.\n\n4½d.\n\n8s.\n\n4½d.\n\n8s.\n\n7½d.\n\n6s.\n\nhrI._4_5,\n\nફત\n\n7s.\n\nd.\n\n7s.\n\n4d.\n\n8s.\n\n0d.\n\n9s.\n\n0d.\n\n9s.\n\n8d.\n\n2.\n\n4.\n\n8.\n\nd.\n\nChina Grey Shirtings, 84 ½ lbs. (Eagle Chop)\n\nMaddapoliams .......\n\nLong Cloths\n\n9\n\nY\n\n3\n\n7\n\n10\n\n3\n\n9\n\n*\n\nB\n\nWhite Spot Shirtings ...\n\nBrocade...\n\nDamasks\n\nnominal)\n\ndo, do.\n\n11\n\n...\n\n11\n\n9\n\n21\n\n0\n\nNos. 28-32\n\ndo.\n\nNo.40\n\ndo. (mock)\n\nNo. 40 Mule Twist\n\nNo. 30\n\n4o.\n\nCotton Yarn Water Twist), Nos. 16-24\n\nChina...\n\nX\n\n0 to 1\n\n1\n\n2 to 1\n\n3\n\n1\n\n2 to\n\n1\n\n24 to 1\n\n24\n\n1\n\n0 to 1\n\n2\n\n...\n\nChin-Kiang,\n\nF.A.\n\nshire 1\n\n14 yr.\n\nB.I.D.\n\nWith des.\n\nYokohama\n\nDenbighshire\n\nAl 15 yr.\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des\n\n* And to Japan if sufficient inducement offers.\n\nExcellent accommodation for first-class passengers.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to Nonnis and JOYNER, 126, Bishopsgate-street Within, E.C. (corner of Cornhill).\n\nO TEAM TO BANGKOK\n\n(Crossing the Tar) Via the Suez Canal, with all possible despatch, calling at Tanjong Pagar Wharf, Singapore.\n\nthe new, powerful, first-class screw steamer KROMATAH, 805 tons, 180-horse power, nominal, W. B. HAFFENDEN, Commander\n\nSouth West India Docks, Splendid accommodation for passengers\n\nFor Freight, Passage, or further particulars apply to SMITH, SON, and COLE, 12 George-yard, Lombard-street, London, E.C.\n\nJAPAN AND CHINA. Great Mail Route via New York and San Francisco.\n\nTHE\n\nPACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, under their new arrangement with the United States Government, despatch the following magnificent STEAMERS, OF 3,000 tons burden and upwards, with Mails and Passengers, from San Francisco, on the 1st and 16th of every month, for Yokohama, Hiogo, Nagasaki, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, connecting at Hong Kong with the Peninsular and Oriental Line, for Ports in India;-\n\nAcopilen\n\nJanan\n\nGreat Republic\n\n| Abaddon\n\nColorado\n\nChina\n\nCosta Rica\n\nTies\n\nConstitution\n\nNew York\n\nGolden Age\n\nOre-ronian\n\nAriet\n\nReturning from Hong Kong on the 12th and 27th of every month\n\nThe Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamers also leave New York on the 10th, 20th, and 30th of every month for San Francisco, via Panama calling en route at Kingston, Jamaica, and ports along the North Pacific coast.\n\nFor rates of fare from England, which include railway transit across the American continent, and other Information, apply to H. STARR and Co, Agents, 27, Moorgate-street, London.\n\nTNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.-\n\nTHROUGH LINE from NEW YORK to SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nSan Francisco 18 days from England.\n\n***......\n\nin $8\n\nJapan\n\nChing...\n\nin 44\n\n기\n\n\"\n\n**\n\n**\n\nNew Zealand in 42\n\nAustralia......\n\nin 47\n\nPassengers for California and Intermediate points on this road are now booked through from England at the established rates of fare; and from San Francisco to Japan, China, Australia, &c., by the magnificent steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and United States, New Zealand, and Australian Mail Steamship Company,\n\nFor Rates, Tickets, &c., apply to H. STARR and Co., Agents, 22, Moorgate-street, London,\n\nROUND the WORLD in NINETY\n\nA DAYS, by Steam and Rail, by Land and Sea,\n\nvia North America. Japan China, Sandwich Islands, New Zealand. Australia, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Continent of Europa-By authority of the various mail steamship and railway lines comprising the above rates, FIRST-CLASS PASSAGE COUPON TICKETS are now issued for the ROUND JOURNEY, either by way of Japan and China or New Zealand and Australia, at one reduced and inclusive\n\nfare.\n\nThe route will be over the Great Union and Central Pacific Railway to San Francisco, passing through some of the grandest and most interesting scenery in the world. From San Francisco the tourist will be taken to Japan and China by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, or to New Zealand and Australia, by the United States, New Zealand, and Australia Mail Steamship Line, and thence by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, via Galle, Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay (over the Grant Indian Railway) to Southampton, or London, via Brindisi,\n\nThe journey may be broken at any point, and resumed at pleasure\n\nFare, via China, £21; via New Zealand and Australia, £197.\n\nFor further particulars apply to H. STARR and Co., 22, Moorgate-street, London. Agents Union and Central Pacific Railway, &c.\n\nCA\n\nNow ready (November issue).\n\nNASTLE LINE OF STEAM PACKETS for PENANG, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, JAVA, and JAPAN. The following high-classed and full-powered STEAMSHIPS will be despatched as under:\n\nSteamer.\n\nClays.\n\nGlenroy\n\nClentyson\n\nGordon Castle......\n\n100 AL\n\n100 AT\n\n100 A1\n\nGlengyle\n\n100 A\n\nDruminona Castle.\n\n100 A1\n\nBraemar Castle...\n\n100 AL\n\nCawdor Castle......\n\n100 AI\n\n100 A\n\nFloors Castle\n\n100 A1\n\nGlenartney\n\nTons.\n\nDock.\n\nTo sail,\n\nPort\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nOBERTSON and Co.'s\n\nof STEAM and CLIPPER SHIPS.\n\nSkip.\n\nClass\n\nDock.\n\nTo sall.\n\nBombay and Kingston.sa\n\nGoast Ports via S.C....90 A1\n\nSingap. and\n\nSaigon\n\nChas. Collet\n\n3.3rds\n\nPen.. Sing.\n\n[SWID\n\nNov. 21\n\nSWID\n\n¡With des.\n\nLL.1\n\n190\n\nAi 1.\n\nKg.\n\n& Sylvia, 8.8.\n\n3-5rda\n\nShanghai...\n\nvia S.C...\n\nLI\n\nSWID\n\nNOS.\n\n-\n\nYokohama.\n\nTulking......A\n\n14 yr.\n\nSWID\n\nWith des.\n\ni\n\nFor Fraight or Passage apply to York Chambers 55, King-street, Manchester; or to 16, Orange-court, Liverpool; or 5, Newman's court, Cornhill, London, B.C.\n\nPENANG, SINGAPORE, CUINA, AND JAPAN,\n\nD\n\nPort.\n\nHE following SPLENDID First-class STEAM and CLIPPER -SHIPS will be despatched as under :--\n\nShip.\n\nTo sull.\n\nClass.\n\nDock.\n\nShanghai\n\nSir Lancelot\n\nA1\n\n26 ye\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des.\n\nDo...\n\nMaitland...\n\nA1\n\n14\n\nB.I.D.\n\nWith des.\n\nHong Kong\n\nUndine\n\nAL\n\n16\n\nTEID.\n\nWith des.\n\nJashepherd\n\n19 yr.\n\nSWID\n\nTo follow\n\nYokohama\n\nDenka........\n\nA\n\n17 yr.\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des.\n\nDu...\n\nEliza Shaw\n\nAi\n\n17 yr.\n\nE.ID\n\nTo follow\n\nHinge.....\n\nHanover.....\n\nAX\n\nII ye\n\njW.I.D\n\nWith des\n\nPen.. Sing\n\nH.K.. Shag\n\n& Yoko\n\nFlintshire,\n\n2.3.100\n\nAL\n\nJE.I.D.\n\nDec. 5\n\nFor Freight apply to Kutztor, MARTIN, and Co., 10, George-yard, Lombard-street, E.C.\n\nSteam via the Suez Canal. To sail on the 25th Nov,\n\nFOR\n\n208\n\nSINGAPORE, YO-KOHAMA, and HTOGO (with liberty to call at Hong Kong), the splendid full powered screw steamer DUNA. 100 A1, 852 tons register, 150- * horse power nominal; Victoria Docks, Cargo deliverable at Japan without transhipment.\n\nFor Freight, apply to D. R. MacGREGOR, Esq, owner, Leith; to SMU, SENDTUS, and Co., 33, Gracechurch-street; or to Sax, MARTON, and Co, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, EC.\n\nFOR Tanjong Pagar, SINGA. PORE--The following VESSELS\n\nare now on the barth in\n\nAuriga......\n\nGlenroy, s.s....\n\nLONDON.\n\n[Tons]\n\nBrokers.\n\nTo Sai\n\n18\n\nWright Bros. & Co.\n\nNov. 16\n\n2,500\n\nThos. Skinner & Co.\n\nNov. 20\n\nChin-Kiang, s.s.\n\n1,000\n\nNorris & Joyner...\n\nNov. 25\n\nKromatah.\n\n8.5........\n\nRosedale\n\n803,\n\nSmith, Son, Cole\n\nDes.\n\n1\n\n40\n\nWright Bros. & Co.\n\n¡Dec. 12\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\nDeucalion, s.s.......\n\n1,506\n\nAlfred Bolt\n\nNov.20\n\nSarpolon, s.s.\n\n1,519\n\n......\n\nDec. 3\n\nSenle of wharf and dock charges may be had on application to the Company's London Agents, Mesars. MACTAGGART, TIDMAN, and Co., 34, Great St. Helens, E.C.\n\nST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\nCOMPLETION FUND.\n\n2,100\n\nSWID\n\nNov. 25.\n\nJUST before embarking from Hong\n\n2,200 (SWID |To follow\n\n2,000\n\nSWID ! To follow\n\n1,700 !SWID To foliow\n\n2,000 (SWID To follow\n\n2,200 (SWID To follow\n\n2,200 18 WID To follow\n\n2,000 (SWIDTo follow\n\n2,000\n\nSWIDj To follow\n\nFor Freight or Passage, apply to THOMAS SKINEE and Co.,, East India-avenue, London, EC.\n\nTEAM VIA THE SUEZ CANAL to PENANG. SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, and SHANGHAI; taking cargo for transhipment to Java, Japan, o., at through ratos at shippers' rak. Last shipping day, 25th November. The new and splendid fail-powered screw steamer CHIN-KTANG, 100 AL 1,220 tons gross; 800 tons net register: 160- horse power nominal. J. HOGG, Commander: Sonth West India Doeks. This magnificent steamer, just bailt by Messrs. C Mitchell and Co., Walker-on-Tyne, expressly for the China trade, bide fair to be one of the fastrat in the trade. Has splendid accommodation for first-class passengers,\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to the owners, WATTS, MILBURN, and Co., 85, Gracechurch-street, F.C.; or to Norma and JoYVER, 126, Bishopgate-street Within, E.C (Corner of Cornhill).\n\nAll Packages must be marked distinctly with port of destination,\n\nKong, on Tuesday. Nov. 16, 1849, HRH the DUKE OF EDINBURGH was graciously pleased to lay the first stone of a choir for this, the moth Church of the Diocese of Victoria. The cast of the fabric has been shared by the Executive Government and the local community; and it is proposed, by a general sebseription among former residents in and visitors to China, to uravide the necessary furniture and Ettings Should suficient funds be raised, it is proposed to erect a stone palpit.\n\nThe Committee will gladly receive and forward any special gifts with which they may be eutrasted. This schone having receive the cordial approval of the Colmus Chaplain and the Trustees, is circulated by\n\nthe Executive Committe\n\nThe Rev. IV. R. BEACH, HA., Chaplain to the Forces, Canon of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, and late Colonial Chaplain. CHAS. 8. GEORGE CLEVERLY. Esq. ROBERT S. WALKER, Esq. Hon. Treasurer,\n\nthe follies.\n\nBerkenhau.\n\nS.E. HERBERT LAURENCE, Esq., Hon. Secretary\n\n1, Royal Exchange-buildings.\n\nE.C. P.O. Orders to ba made payable at Cornhill, E.C.\n\nPristed for the Proprietorsby WooFF ALL and KINDER Milford-tane,Strand, W.C., and published by James WEST, at the Office of the LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH, 2, Cowper'a-court, Combill, in the parish of St. Michael's. in the City of London. Monday, Nov. 18, 1879.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "(18)\n\nARTICLES.\n\nPLATED-WARE & CUTLERY,--Continued.\n\n12 Salt Buckets and 11 Spoons,\n\n1 Dozen Egg Spoons,\n\n2 Sugar Sifters,\n\n2 Sauce Ladles,\n\n1 Fish Slice and Fork,\n\n13 Knife Rests,\n\n2 Butter Knives..........\n\n1 Egg Frame and Spoons,\n\n1 Toast Rack,\n\n2 Sugar Bowls,\n\n1 Do. Basin and Tongs,\n\n1 Coffee Machine,\n\n1 Tea and Coffee Set, 6 Pieces,\n\n1 Soufflée Dish,\n\n1 Coffee Pot and Milk Jug,\n\nDo. (Plain),\n\n4 Escallop Shells,\n\n1 Wine Strainer,\n\n1 Grape Scissors,\n\n11 Pepper Castors,\n\n4 Engraved Side Dishes with Hot-water Stands.\n\n4 Do.,\n\n(Plain),\n\n2 Vegetable Dishes with three divisions, with Hot-water Stands,\n\n1 Pair 3-Branch Candlesticks,\n\n8\n\nC.\n\n00\n\n2 00\n\n10\n\n9 75\n\n12\n\n5\n\n6\n\n4\n\n6\n\n25\n\n5\n\nREMARKS.\n\n2 Dozen Port,\n\n2\n\n17\n\n11\n\n(19)\n\nARTICLES.\n\nGLASS-WARE.\n\nClaret, Liqueur,\n\n1 Pair Bohemian Flower Vases with Paintings,\n\n3 Flower Stands, (frosted),\n\n12 Crofts and Glasses, (frosted),\n\n22 Oval Glass Dishes, (small),\n\n2 Round Dishes,.\n\n1 Pair Ice Dishes, (Ruby rim),........\n\n1 Glass Fruit Stands,\n\nDishes,\n\n2 1/2 Dozen Ice Plates,\n\n1 Custards,\n\n1 Pair Glass Ice Dishes,\n\n9\n\n1\n\n00\n\n1\n\n8\n\n00\n\nFormer value $12.\n\n51\n\n0000134\n\n5 00\n\n50 00\n\nDo.\n\n135.\n\n35\n\n00\n\nDo.\n\n55.\n\n20 00\n\nDo.\n\n40.\n\n50 00\n\nDo.\n\n60.\n\n89\n\n25 00\n\nDo.\n\n50.\n\n75\n\n00\n\nDo.\n\n128.\n\n10 00\n\nDo.\n\n18.\n\n88\n\n2 Cut-Glass Fruit Dishes,\n\n1 Marble Statuette,..............\n\n2 Iced-Champagne Jugs,\n\n2 Iced-Water Jugs,.\n\n2 Glass Plateaux,\n\n2 Flower Troughs (Bridge), 4-Circle Do.,\n\n12 -Circle Do., (small),.\n\n8 Straight Do.,\n\n2 Claret Jugs,\n\n2 Celery Vases, Etched, No. 377,\n\n24 Champagne Tumblers, (Plain),\n\n2 Quart Decanters, (Beaded Neck), 2 Pint\n\n12 Port Glasses, No. 216,\n\nC.\n\nREMARKS.\n\n8\n\n25\n\nco 00 8 10 00 co ma A A A co o 3G\n\n15\n\n15\n\n3\n\n4 00\n\n4\n\n4\n\n7 00\n\n3 00\n\n3 00\n\n2 00\n\n10 00\n\n3 00\n\n8 00\n\n11 04\n\n00 00 00 kk funk Or CO)\n\n3 12\n\n1 44\n\n3 60\n\n3 36\n\n3 00\n\nFormer value $10.\n\nDo.\n\n26.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\n1 Large Teapot,\n\n1 Pair 2-Branch Candlesticks,\n\n16 Candlesticks with Shades,\n\n6\n\nDo., (Bed Room),\n\n52\n\n4 Champagne Holders,\n\n1 Cheese Scoop,\n\n12 00\n\n5 76\n\n1 Chutney Fork,\n\n1 Pickle\n\nDo.,\n\n2 Nut Crackers,\n\n3\n\n1 00\n\n1\n\n8\n\n40\n\nDo.,\n\n(Do.),\n\n5 76\n\n00\n\n4 00\n\n1 50\n\n3\n\n00\n\n12 Sherry Do., No. 216,...\n\n3 00\n\n11\n\n1.\n\n6 Wine Labels,\n\n7 Dozen Table Knives,\n\n5\n\nDessert Do.,\n\n1 Pair 8-inch Carvers,...\n\n9-inch Do.,\n\n\"} Game Do.,\n\n1 Sharpener,\n\n5 Dozen Table Knives,\n\n4 Pairs 8-inch Carvers,\n\n2 Steels,\n\n24 Nut Salts, (Prest),\n\n2\n\n00\n\n24 Spoons for above,..\n\n2 00\n\n52\n\n80\n\n12 Flower Tubes, Engraved Laurel,\n\n2 16\n\n28\n\n80\n\n6 Dishes, 5 in. to 11 in......\n\n3 60\n\n2\n\n64\n\n6 Soda-water Tumblers, Iced,\n\n2\n\n16\n\n2\n\n4 Pickle Jars, Cut Mirrors,\n\n4\n\n32\n\n10\n\n56\n\n8 Knife Rests, Cat....\n\n1\n\n76\n\n1\n\n80\n\n3 60\n\n30\n\n00\n\n0 36\n\n8\n\n64\n\n04\n\n3 60\n\n1 4-Hole Egg Stand, Wt. China,\n\n2 04\n\n5 Dozen Table Forks,,\n\n32 40\n\n2\n\n16\n\n1 Soup Ladle,\n\n3 84\n\n2\n\n52\n\n2 Dozen Pairs Fish Eaters,..\n\n54 72\n\n6 Dishes, 5-inch, No. 201,\n\n0\n\n84\n\n1 Revolving Dish,\n\n31\n\n20\n\n6 Sugar Basins, Frosted Key,\n\n16\n\n1 Syphon Tap with two Extra Points,\n\n16\n\n24 Soda-water Tumblers, Impl.,\n\n4 32\n\n1 Pair Grape Scissors,\n\n80\n\n1 Glass Butter Dish to hold Ice,\n\n3 00\n\n1 Assiette Montée,\n\n139\n\n6\n\n1 Plateau,\n\n77\n\n12 Dozen Champagne Tumblers, Flat Fluted,\n\nTumblers, No. 196,\n\n23 04\n\n5 76\n\n2 Fruit Stands,\n\n\"2\n\n3 Jelly Glasses, Plain,\n\n6 12\n\nDo.,\n\n17 04\n\n6 Quart Do.,\n\nDo., Egyptian shape,\n\n18 00\n\n4 Pint\n\nDo.,\n\nDo.,\n\nDo.,\n\n9 12\n\n1 Magnum Claret Jug,\n\nDo.,\n\n6\n\n72\n\n1 Claret Jug,\n\nDo.,\n\n5 00\n\n2 Dishes, 9-inch Frosted and Cut, Vandyke,.\n\n1 Small Cream Jug, Glass,.\n\n1 Sugar Basin, Cut,\n\n2 Comports, Prest Diamond,\n\n1 Centre Stand,\n\n20\n\n24 Pint Decanters,",
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        "content_text": "(3) Then follows a revised tariff published for the information of merchants. The changes chiefly consist in adding together the different duties on one or more classes of the same kind of commodity and mean duty on all.\n\nCharging \"King Chan\", \"Bhi Chan\", \"Ko Chan\", \"Wai Chan\", \"Kim Chan\" and \"Lui Chan\" sugars white, brown and cake are to be taken for purposes of Customs duty as if 180 catties were 100 catties. But at the Central Customs, the actual weight is taken.\n\nThe above regulation was promulgated on the ... day of ... Month of my & Year of Yung-ching - (1729.)\n\n(5) \"This month 5th day, the Hwang Jung Toishan's Exemption duty list is published by Imperial Commands.\" (There is no date in the book, nor is there any means of finding out what month it was.)\n\nThen follows a list of commodities on which, however, a small duty is payable. This seeming absurdity will be explained elsewhere. See enclosure 15 extract marked page ...\n\n(6) Those carrying bricks, stones, lime, shells, jars, coal, fuel, grass, pigs, cattle and other animals with hair will only pay half duty or tax, and small boats carrying the foregoing along the Coast will be freed from duty. With these exceptions, all the articles mentioned in the foregoing list if sent abroad to foreign ports will pay according to the tariff.\n\nN.B. 483.\n\nPage 3\n\nPage 3\n\nPage 3\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "Page 1.\n\nInclosure\n\n484\n\nExtracts from Tariff and Regulations issued by the Board of Revenue by Imperial Order-\n\nChapter\n\nVolume 69. Rule 27. published in 4th year of Dongzhi (ct. D. 1865.)\n\n\"Of miscellaneous merchandise - bricks, \"tiles, stone, lime, shells, jars, corn, fuel, grass etc. no. 6. \"pigs, cows and other animals with hair_ \"the ship carrying much commodities will pay \"Under the General heading of \"edibles \" \"half rate.\"\n\nPage 4.\n\nthe following are exempt from duty.\n\nThese edibles Remarks\n\nCertain goods! are divided into various kinds of flour, tea, wine, tobacco, vegetables, spices and fruit.\n\n\"All small boats trading along the \"coast will be exempted from paying duty for \"the above mentioned articles\" On being \"ports) sent to broad sea for foreign \"duty according to tariff? Under the General heading of dreig\n\nPage 10.\n\nCommodities such as cotton waste to the \n\nPage 14.\n\nthe same remarks occur-\n\nUnder the General Heading of free duty miscellaneous",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nelapsed between Dupuis' return from his first expedition to Yunnan and his expulsion, finding salt was in great request there, and that a picul costing 1 dollar at Hanoi was sold for 7 dollars in Yünnan, he sent several cargoes up the Song Koi without hindrance from the Hanoi Government; and when Garnier captured the citadel, he had sixteen boats loaded with salt, which had to be abandoned at the evacuation.\n\nI will now proceed to the second phase of this remarkable history. Lieutenant François Garnier was a naval officer of great ability and merit; he had accompanied Captain de la Lagrée in his expedition up the Meikong River to explore a new route to the southern provinces of China and Thibet: and when that officer died he succeeded to the command of the party, and brought it safely through China to Hankow, and was preparing to prosecute his researches in Thibet when he was sent for by Admiral Dupré to take charge of an expedition to Tonquin.\n\n<<\n\nWhatever were Admiral Dupré's intentions in sending Garnier with an armed escort to Tonquin, certainly the Annamite Government considered it was for the purpose of removing Dupuis in accordance with their request. All, however, known about it was \"that it was sent to restore order\" but whether Dupuis was to be expelled or the Annamites supported, no one knew, but the title given him was Commandant-en-chef des forces de terre et de mer des côtes de Tongking, Envoi Extraordinaire de la Cochin-Chine.\" On the 10th of October the Annamite Envoys and Garnier and his party embarked in the \"D'Estrées,\" French man-of-war, towing a small gun-boat, the \"Arc.\" Calling at Tuson, two mandarins were sent from Huo to introduce Garnier to the Tonquinese authorities. The \"D'Estrées\" arrived at the Cua-cam River on the 24th of October, where Garnier obtained two junks, and left with his staff for Hanoi, which he reached on the 5th of November.\n\nA week before, another man-of-war, the 'Decrès, had been dispatched from Saigon, towing a gun-vessel, the \"Espingole.\" The \"Decrès \" arrived in the Cua-cam on the 7th of November, and the \"Espingole\" left at once for Hanoi with a crew of twenty-eight men, a medical attendant, Dr. Harmand, and a hydrographer, M. Bouillet, under command of an ensign, M. Baluy.\n\nM. Dupuis and his Chinese received Lieutenant Garnier, on landing at Hanoi, with military honours, and he at once penetrated into the citadel through one of the gates, and obliged the sentries to show him the house of Nguyen Tri-phuong, an old man with the title of Marshal or Commander-in-chief at Hanoi, and who had previously fought the French at Kihoa, and to whom he announced himself as the \"French Governor.\" Concealing his anger, Tri-phuong offered Garnier quarters in the native city, which he refused; but, frustrated in obtaining a house in the citadel, he accepted the building outside called the Examination Hall, and at present the French Consulate. As soon as he had left the city the gates were closed, and the officers who allowed him to enter were severely punished.\n\nGarnier at once began to negotiate. He said he had come at the request of Tuduc's Ministers; he had with him two mandarins sent by the Court of Hué, and had even been told he should meet at Hanoi a Minister Plenipotentiary, with whom he could treat. The Minister had arrived, but Nguyen Tri-phuong entirely ignored him, saying that Garnier had been sent not to make a Commercial Treaty, but to expel Dupuis.\n\nOn the day of his arrival Garnier issued a Proclamation. He said he was sent by France at the request of the Annamites, who had been asking at Saigon for help, and his mission was to destroy the pirates who attack vessels on the coast, and to facilitate commerce with Tonquin.\n\nIn the meantime, the \"Arc\" having been lost on the voyage to Tonquin, Admiral Dupré dispatched the gun-boat \"Scorpion\" to replace her.\n\nOn the 10th November M. Dupuis' steamer, the \"Manghao,\" brought a letter from Garnier to the captain of the \"D'Estrées,\" requesting reinforcements; and the following day the \"Scorpion,\" followed by the \"Manghao,\" proceeded up the river, the latter carrying a medical man, Dr. Dubut, and sixty men and three officers.\n\nThus the whole of the French forces at Hanoi on the 14th of November, 1873, not including Dupuis, were :\n\nThe \"Espingole,\" Messrs. Baluy, Harmand, and Bouillet, with 28 men. The \"Scorpion,\" Messrs. Garnier, Esmez, and Bouxin, with 50 men.\n\nThe detachment from the \"Decrès,\" Messrs. Bain, Hautefeuille, Perrin, and Dubut, with 60 men.\n\nThe 30 marines of M. de Trentenien.\n\nDr. Chedan and M. Lasserre, private secretary to Garnier. Altogether, 180 men.\n\n11\n\nOn the 19th of November, Garnier published a second Proclamation, making known the conditions of the intended Treaty of Commerce under French protection. Information had reached him that the Annamites were preparing to attack him, and he thought it would be better to strike the first blow himself; and, as the time he had given Nguyen Tri-phuong to communicate with the Court of Hué had expired, he resolved to attack the citadel the following day.\n\nAt daybreak on the 20th of November, the attack was made. A first column composed of 30 sailors with a gun, headed by M. Bain de la Coquerie, marched toward the south-western gate at 6 o'clock. A quarter of an hour later, Garnier himself left the Examination Hall for the south-eastern gate, with 3 guns, 40 sailors, and 30 marines.\n\nThe great\n\nThe Annamites, taken unawares, offered scarcely any resistance. difficulty in entering the citadel was to break open the gates made of hard wood, and it was necessary to bring the guns close to and fire at a distance of a few feet,\n\nWhile the southern gates were being stormed, the shells of the \"Espingole\" and the \"Scorpion were falling near the western gate, and, by frightening away the defenders of the place, contributed to the success of the day. M. Dupuis himself, though Garnier had declined his offer of service, was taking a share in the fight, and his soldiers, having managed to scale the Eastern Gate, entered the citadel first, and dispersed for pillage. Garnier, however, gave strict orders to stop all disorder, and by 7 o'clock, the citadel being entirely in his hands, he sent back all the troops to the Examination Hall, except the marines.\n\nSome 200 natives had been killed or wounded, while on the side of the French there was not a single casualty to report. A great number of officials were made prisoners, including the Envoy from the Court of Hué, who had been ignored by the Marshal, the Governor of Hanoi, the two sons of Phan Tanh-gian, who signed the Treaty of 1862 on behalf of Annam, and Nguyen Tri-phuong himself. The Marshal was found concealed in a house where he had taken refuge after receiving a wound in the thigh from a splinter of a shell, and from which he subsequently died.\n\nOn the same day Garnier reported to Saigon the capture of the citadel, and asked for reinforcements, and issued a Proclamation to calm the minds of the people.\n\nIt would occupy too much space to detail the subsequent proceedings of Garnier, and it will be sufficient to say he sent M. Balny with 15 marines to Towli, a town on the branch of the Song Koi above Hanoi to direct the authorities to submit; and, as he passed Hungyen, the Mandarins came out and offered their submission. After passing Fowli, Balny went to Haidzong, an important citadel in the Thai-dinh River, which he carried by a coup de main on the 4th of December.\n\nOn the 1st December Garnier sent a steam-launch under command of M. Haute-feuille, with instructions to M. Balny, and to require the submission of the Governor of Nam-dinh and Minh-binh, the latter of which he attacked with seven men, and captured it, taking the Tedoc or General prisoner. Garnier himself left Hanoi on the 4th December in the \"Scorpion,\" with M. Esnez and about 70 men, in addition to the crew for Nam-dinh, capturing a fort that opened fire upon him en route, and the town itself on the 10th of December, and he issued a fourth Proclamation to pacify the people. Thus, within a period of a month, Hanoi, the capital, Hungyen, Haidzong, Nam-dinh, and Han-dinh, all important cities commanding the delta of the Song Koi or Red River, had been captured.\n\nBut, after this, came the reverse. With a handful of men he had overrun the neighbouring country, but it required more than a handful to hold it. Constant attacks were made on the several positions thus occupied, and great difficulty was experienced in repulsing them. A rumour, too, which proved true, was about that Annamite troops were coming from the southern provinces. Tuduc, the King of Annam, was greatly incensed at the loss of Hanoi, and gave orders to the Viceroy of the Province of Nguyen to march against the French, and he himself sent every available soldier from Hué. These orders were partly executed when he changed his mind, and wrote to Saigon, giving his Envoys full powers to sign a Treaty of Commerce, and sent two Envoys to Garnier with full powers, and M. Sohier as Interpreter.\n\nGarnier, in occupying the forts situated on the delta of the Song Koi, had evidently in view the keeping open his communication with the sea, but he had not secured his rear by the capture of the military city of Soutay, some thirty miles west of Hanoi, where resided the Tong Thong, Hoang Ke-vien by name. This officer had increased his army by troops recalled from the north, where they were fighting the so-called rebels, but in truth the Black and Yellow Flag Chinese factions on the frontier, who were at war with each other.\n\n231",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nI mentioned previously that the borders of Tonquin have for a long time been in a very disturbed state, being in possession of two clans of Chinese, distinguished as the Black and Yellow Flags. Now, while Garnier was over-running Tonquin, the Hwang Ki, or Yellow Flags, defeated the Hei Ki, or Black Flags, and obliged part of them to escape to Laoki, and part to descend the Song Koi and take refuge in Tonquin, and these fugitive Black Flags were enlisted by Hoang Ki-vien to fight the French.\n\nOn the 19th of December, the day after the arrival of Garnier at Nam-dinh, 300 or 400 of these Black Flags had joined the Annamites, but there was a rumour in Hanoi they numbered no less than 900, with 2,000 scaling ladders.\n\nGarnier, having decided upon action, immediately arranged for an attack upon Hoang Ki-vien. Dupuis, with his steamer, the \"Manghao,\" was to go up the river to prevent the descent of any troops. The \"Espingole,\" commanded by Balny, was to go a little below Soutay to fire upon the Annamites if they retreated to that fortress, whilst Garnier himself was to attack the Black Flags in front, but Balny being ill the attack was deferred to Sunday, the 21st December, but the day before- the 20th-Tuduc's two Ambassadors arrived. They were received in the citadel with honours, had full powers, and were willing to grant all that was asked, and a Treaty would soon be signed, and war was over. But Garnier was only being lulled into security, for it was reported that the Ambassadors had remained several days in the neighbourhood of Hanoi, and had several interviews with Hoang Ki-vien.\n\nThe citadel of Hanoi is surrounded by a narrow path about 600 or 700 feet from the walls known as the city enceinte. Into this path, almost opposite the West Gate, runs a small road which leads to Phu Hoai, and crosses a thicket at a distance of about 1,800 yards from its beginning. About three miles further another road traverses the Phu Hoai road, also an offshoot of the enceinte, on this road there is a grove of bamboos enclosing some cottages, and this was the spot attacked by Garnier himself, and where he was killed.\n\nOn Sunday, the 21st December, 1873, after having divine service at 8 o'clock, the officers were talking of the cessation of the war and the early settlement of affairs, and Garnier had gone to see the Ambassadors, when at 10 o'clock the interpreters came in great haste to announce that Hoang Ki-vien's troops (Annamites and Black Flags) were attacking the citadel. When Garnier was informed of the attack, M. Perrin went with two men to the western bastions, whence he saw a large body of Annamites and Chinese who, under shelter of houses and bamboo groves, were firing at the gate from a distance of 600 feet; Garnier, who thinking the attack was from several sides, had ordered M. Bain to go with some men to the north, arrived some time after with a dozen men at the same spot and sent M. Perrin for a gun.\n\nTen minutes later the gun was placed on the south-western gate, and M. Perrin in charge of it received orders to fire upon the enemy, while Garnier himself went to prepare a sortie.\n\nThe Commander of the \"Espingole,\" M. Balny, who, at the time of the alarm, was with his brother officers in the citadel, had rushed to his vessel to obtain reinforcements, and soon after he was seen with his small party of twelve men following the southern wall and passing the ditch of the fort.\n\nBefore the well-directed fire from the south-western gate, the Annamites had gradually fallen back to the high path or enceinte, and these dividing themselves into two lines, some continued to fire in retreating on the Phu Hoai road; while others turning to the right took the city road.\n\nBalny began at once to pursue the enemy, while the shells of the fort passing over his troops were scattering the Annamites with great havoc. During the same time Garnier had organized his party and sallied out from the south-eastern gate with eighteen men and a gun. Balny pursued the enemy to a small grove on the Phu Hoai road, some 2,500 feet from the citadel, and was there lost sight of from a depression of the road. The fire of the south-western gun was then directed to the first wood, situated on the road which leads from the city path to the Phu Hoai road, describing a sort of semi-circle.\n\nTowards that spot Garnier was proceeding, he was marching at the head of his men in a careless and excited manner. Before reaching the city path he left behind him the gun with two men and the master-at-arms of the \"Decrès,\" a great mistake, since the gun was rendered useless while Garnier's men were in front of it. The gun of the south-western gate was firing all the time on the circular road, and had Garnier used his own gun the place would have been entirely cleared of the enemy, but his march onward again prevented the citadel gun from continuing to fire. The men also were permitted to stray among the bushes and behind the houses in search of the Annamites, and, as the event proved, this mistake was fatal to the Commander himself. Garnier could be seen leading the skirmish with his men armed with bayonets. When Garnier neared the wood, he divided his troop into two bands, one headed by himself and the other under the command of a Sergeant of Marines; each column was to follow one side of the wood and both were to meet again at the end of it.\n\n13\n\nThe Sergeant of Marines kept his men closely together; they were walking slowly and carefully, and when they arrived at the limit of the wood only one had been wounded, but Garnier was not there. The Sergeant then came back by the way his Chief was to have followed, and at a short distance he found two headless bodies, one of them being his Commander. It appears that Garnier's foot having caught in a hole, he fell to the ground, and, before his men could join him, was surrounded by Chinese from behind the trees and speared, and his head severed from his body and taken as a trophy of victory. Sergeant Dagome, shot near Garnier, was mutilated in the same manner, and had one hand cut off. M. Balny with his party were still ahead, running after the Annamites on the Phu Hoai road, as far as a temple built at the junction of that path and the circular road, about three miles from the citadel. Here he met some thirty or forty Chinese who, far from retreating, came boldly on. Balny fired the six shots of his revolver and drew his sword, but was seen to fall backwards, while a shot killed his quarter-master at his side, named Lorre. The rest of the party took refuge behind the temple, and the Chinese having retired, Dr. Chedan led his companions, two of them wounded, back to the citadel, picking up on the way the body of Bonifay, also headless.\n\nBy 2 o'clock every one had returned to the fort, with the loss of Garnier, Balny, Dagome, Lorre, and Bonifay. Six others had been wounded, including the head gunner of the south-western battery.\n\nIt would make this despatch too long to go into details of the circumstances following this event, so I will merely state that Garnier, Dagome, and Bonifay, were buried with military honours behind the Hall of Ceremonies, on the 23rd of December, but it was not until the 4th of January, 1874, that the bodies of Bonifay and Lorre were sent by the Annamites; on the 6th of that month the five heads, after being carried in triumph through all the cities of Tonquin, were restored.\n\nAfter the capture of Hanoi Garnier sent the \"Decrès\" to Saigon with the prisoners, and asked for reinforcements. Admiral Dupré, embarrassed at the news, despatched, on the 7th December, M. Philastre, Senior Inspecteur des Affaires Indigènes, with one of the two Annamite Ambassadors, then residing at Saigon, to Hué to apologize for the capture of the citadel, and to obtain a Treaty of Commerce. At the same time the \"Decrès\" was receiving the reinforcements asked for by Garnier, and the news of her arrival in the Cua-cam reached Hanoi on the evening of the day of Garnier's death, the men being brought on to the citadel by the \"Scorpion.\"\n\nIt would occupy too much space to follow the events which led up to the surrender of the citadel of Hanoi, and the towns held by the handful of French after being captured by Garnier. M. Philastre on his arrival reversed all that Garnier had done, surrendered to the Annamites all the occupied places, and concluded a Convention, a copy of which I annex. Finally, a Treaty was concluded at Saigon, on the 15th March, 1874, between the President of the French Republic and the King of Annam, supplemented afterwards by a Commercial Treaty, dated 31st August, 1874, and with these conclude an episode which may be termed a romance.\n\nI have borrowed largely from M. Henri Cordier's pamphlet called \"A Narrative of Recent Events in Tonquin,\" for when at Hanoi I found it confirmed in every particular, and I doubt if I could have given so graphic a sketch of M. Garnier and Mr. Dupuis proceedings as I found in that pamphlet. I had described to me on the spot the citadel and the points of attack, and I stood on the small plot of ground at the rear of the Hall of Ceremonies where Garnier and his four comrades were buried, and I lived, during my stay, in the Examination Hall, which he first occupied. That he was a man of great dash, courage and ability, is evident; whether, however, he was justified in the course he took or acted upon his own responsibility, it is impossible to say; the result, however, I venture to think, has not been either politically or commercially a success to the French.\n\nOf M. Dupuis little remains to be said. The Saigon Government seized his vessels and he was ruined. His people, 136 in number, were supported for a few months by the Saigon Government, at a cost of 600 dollars a-month, and then dispersed. His debts amounted to a large sum, some say 100,000 dollars, which he had proposed to liquidate by his trade up the Songkoi to Yunnan. I heard, however, when at Haiphong,\n\n[608]\n\nE\n\n232",
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        "content_text": "525\n\nSchedule\n\nof Ausmunition\n\nre\n\nquired:\n\n1\n\n10,000 Rounds Marlins. Stury Ammunition; double brass casing behind the cartridge, – if Grossille\n\n1,000 Cartridges, flamel fitted, service 12kr. Hovilzerin 1/4 lbs.\n\n1000 Jubice, Copper priction, services\n\n100 shells, spherical,) Common Empty. How: 12 th rivelled wood Diessche, Shrapnel\n\nBottoms without ) Boxers rupty, 12 Ph\n\n100 Fuse hold Jetegs. How, with loading holo plays\n\n200 that care, Stowitzer, wood ballom 12/2\n\n100 Jusco, time\n\nCommon).\n\n100. Wood, Boxers ) Diaph Shrapnel.\n\n(Signed) Edward. 13. Souper.\n\nsecretary Municipal Council.\n\nshanghai. 19th June 18",
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        "content_text": "# STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES\non the 1st January, and 1st July, 1877, and estimated on 1st January, 1878.\n\n## Enclosure\n\n## Memorandum of Probable Expenditure on Public Works from 1st January 1878, and of Probable Unexpended Balance on the 1st July 1878.\n\n| Services | Probable Expenditure from 1st January 1878 | Probable Unexpended Balance on 1st January 1878 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Reservoir at Pokfolum | 1,560 | 2 |\n| Repairs to Buildings | 16,000 | 10,000 |\n| Maintenance of Tools &c. | ... | ... |\n| Maintenance of Public Gardens and Hasstings of Telegraph | 6,000 | 4,000 |\n| Jatin | 600 | 1,000 |\n| New Civil Hospital | 2,340 | 24,000 |\n| Alteration of Temporary Hospital | 404 | ... |\n| Completion of Water Supply | ... | 12 |\n| New Barracks at Cantonment | ... | ... |\n| Civil Hospital | ... | 10 |\n| Wear Mawiona Works | ... | 10 |\n|  | 23 | ... |\n|  | 24 | ... |\n|  | ... | 36,460 |\n|  | 1,500 | ... |\n|  | 5,040 | 2,000 |\n|  | ... | 7,186 |\n|  | 42 | ... |\n|  | ... | 3,000 |\n|  | ... | 22,000 |\n|  | ... | 4,523 |\n|  | ... | 32,240 |\n|  | ... | 2,600 |\n| Total | 28,650 | 32,830 |\n| Roads Areoles & Bridges | ... | 11,010 |\n| Sewers in Hong Kong | ... | ... |\n| Superannuation at British Treasury | ... | ... |\n| Becna und Sheels Contingencies | ... | ... |\n| That's Improvements Taipingahon. | ... | ... |\n| Hipeira lo Boudo cut of Victoria | ... | ... |\n| Go to Phidges | ... | ... |\n| Wuling Breela | ... | ... |\n| Maintenance of Fire | ... | ... |\n| Bowringland Bridges | ... | ... |\n| Widening | ... | ... |\n| Ciclovia Baks Houd: | ... | ... |\n| Reconntraction of Prayat Matt. | ... | ... |\n| Pupairs to damages caused by the typhoon of 21 arail. 1877. | ... | ... |\n| Manthaneous Travers | 30,060 | 1,000 |\n|  | 13,500 | ... |\n|  | 6,000 | ... |\n|  | 720 | ... |\n|  | 20,000 | ... |\n|  | 18,400 | ... |\n|  | 6,000 | 1,060 |\n|  | 720 | ... |\n|  | 1,600 | ... |\n|  | 50,000 | 2,000 |\n|  | 1,000 | ... |\n|  | 4,224 | ... |\n| Total--$ | 104,821 | 53 |\n| Kreapitulation |  |  |\n| Works and Buildings | 80,650 | 38,846 |\n| Roads Mreds and Bridges | ... | 11,010 |\n| Thrace | ... | 8,536 |\n| Grand Total - | 266,171.35 | 187,495.97 | 98,625.58 | 20,516.19 |\n| Surveyor General's office Hong Kong 1 October 1877. |  |  |\n**Surveyor General**",
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        "content_text": "## 68.\n\nThe notion of the height and consequently the force of winds during typhoons is crucial. For this, the whole series of photographs will prove valuable data because they portray the class of houses and buildings which were exposed for hours to the direct impact of the typhoon.\n\nThe houses, which line the Praya Central, are of brick and eighteen inches thick, and their foundations, like those of the verandah-piers, when not built directly upon the solid rock, consist of granite footings laid in cement concrete as shown in Drawing No. 25. The bricks used are of native manufacture and English quality, while the mortar is, as a rule, poor in lime, and the lime itself is made from oyster-shells and is non-hydraulic.\n\nThese buildings are three-storied, the basements being offices and the upper floors used as dwellings. Most of them have verandahs of brick arches or granite beams resting on horizontal brick piers two feet wide by eighteen inches thick. The house walls themselves are also supported by brick piers.\n\nNo dwelling suffered material injury during the Great Typhoon, though no doubt, had the gale continued longer, many, if not all, of the houses along the Praya Central would have been undermined.",
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        "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]",
        "content_text": "No. 8.—OCCUPATIONS in VICTORIA and VILLAGES.\n\nVictoria Villages. Total,\n\nVictoria. Villages. Total,\n\nOCCUPATIONS in VICTORIA and VILLAGES.—Continued.\n\nVictoria. Villages. Total.\n\nVictoria. Villages. Total,\n\n  \n    A\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Architects,\n    5\n    \n    5\n  \n  \n    Brought forward,\n    \n    \n    22,830\n  \n  \n    G\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Brought forward.......\n    \n    \n    29,929\n  \n  \n    Pig Dealers,\n    127\n    399\n    526\n  \n  \n    Brought forward........\n    \n    \n    58,327\n  \n  \n    Pilots,\n    9\n    \n    9\n  \n  \n    Spectacle Maker,\n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Spirits Merchants,\n    7\n    \n    7\n  \n  \n    Awning Makers,\n    7\n    \n    7\n  \n  \n    Gardeners,\n    30\n    23\n    53\n  \n  \n    B\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ginseng Dealers,\n    4\n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    Geomancer,\n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Bakers,\n    54\n    \n    54\n  \n  \n    Glass Manufacturers,\n    16\n    \n    16\n  \n  \n    Bamboo-wares Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bankers..\n    10\n    \n    10\n  \n  \n    Barbers....\n    37\n    \n    37\n  \n  \n    Barrister-at-Law,\n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Glaziers,..\n    11\n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    Workers.\n    102\n    19\n    121\n  \n  \n    Grass Cutters,\n    55\n    \n    55\n  \n  \n    Gold Boaters,\n    60\n    1,039\n    1,099\n  \n  \n    +1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bakers,\n    8\n    140\n    148\n  \n  \n    Play Actors,\n    \n    62\n    62\n  \n  \n    Post Office Keepers,\n    4\n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    Poulterers,\n    \n    124\n    124\n  \n  \n    Preachers,\n    \n    132\n    132\n  \n  \n    Stationers,\n    14\n    \n    14\n  \n  \n    Plumbers,\n    17\n    \n    17\n  \n  \n    Porcelain Menders,\n    \n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    Stone Quarry Farmers,\n    3\n    \n    3\n  \n  \n    Cutters,\n    252\n    1,187\n    1,439\n  \n  \n    \n    57\n    \n    57\n  \n  \n    Dealers,\n    7\n    66\n    73\n  \n  \n    \n    58\n    53\n    \n  \n  \n    Steam-ship Co.'s Agent,..\n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Story Teller,\n    \n    4\n    4\n  \n  \n    Printers,\n    26\n    \n    26\n  \n  \n    Students,\n    1,874\n    688\n    2,562\n  \n  \n    Privy Keepers,\n    \n    16\n    16\n  \n  \n    Sugar Dealers,..\n    34\n    14\n    48\n  \n  \n    Pulley Makers,\n    12\n    \n    12\n  \n  \n    Refiners,\n    15\n    \n    15\n  \n  \n    I\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bean Curd Sellers..\n    87\n    20\n    107\n  \n  \n    H\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    R\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sweetmeat Dealers,\n    18\n    \n    18\n  \n  \n    Sesamum Oil Dealers...\n    5\n    \n    5\n  \n  \n    Betel-nut Sellers,\n    10\n    \n    10\n  \n  \n    Bird Sellers, ......\n    7\n    \n    7\n  \n  \n    Hat Makers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    EB\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    *\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rattan Dealers,\n    \n    31\n    31\n  \n  \n    B0\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    T\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Birds Nest Sellers, .\n    \n    35\n    35\n  \n  \n    Hawkers,.....\n    1,770\n    348\n    2,118\n  \n  \n    Workers,.\n    \n    448\n    448\n  \n  \n    Blacksmiths,\n    394\n    314\n    708\n  \n  \n    Herbalists,\n    12\n    \n    12\n  \n  \n    T\n    \n    19\n    19\n  \n  \n    Rent Collectors,\n    \n    46\n    46\n  \n  \n    Tailors,...\n    1,795\n    \n    1,795\n  \n  \n    Boat Builders,\n    52\n    58\n    110\n  \n  \n    Flouse Owners,\n    \n    30\n    30\n  \n  \n    \n    6\n    36\n    \n  \n  \n    Bice Dealers,\n    \n    121\n    121\n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    128\n    \n  \n  \n    Taouists,\n    \n    36\n    36\n  \n  \n    Bookbinders,\n    \n    51\n    51\n  \n  \n    Pounders,\n    1,044\n    39\n    1,083\n  \n  \n    Tanners,\n    82\n    1,857\n    1,939\n  \n  \n    \n    136\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Braziers,\n    856\n    8\n    864\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rifle Makers,**\n    \n    5\n    5\n  \n  \n    Teachers of Shroffing,\n    \n    14\n    14\n  \n  \n    Brick and Tile Dealers,\n    \n    18\n    18\n  \n  \n    Brokers,\n    453\n    2\n    455\n  \n  \n    Image Makers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Brothel Keepers and Inmates,\n    1,273\n    42\n    1,315\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,915\n    \n  \n  \n    Insurance Co.' Managers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Building Contractors..\n    \n    42\n    42\n  \n  \n    Bullion Dealers,\n    \n    34\n    34\n  \n  \n    \n    42\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Iron and Copper Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Pans Makers,\n    \n    56\n    56\n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    08\n    \n  \n  \n    Boast and Dried Meat Vendors,\n    \n    80\n    80\n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    83\n    \n  \n  \n    Ten Dealers,...\n    \n    52\n    52\n  \n  \n    \n    61\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Butchers..\n    \n    22\n    22\n  \n  \n    \n    5\n    27\n    \n  \n  \n    C\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Jade Stone Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cake Sellers,...\n    \n    95\n    95\n  \n  \n    \n    24\n    119\n    \n  \n  \n    Jiuricksba Letters,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    J\n    \n    18\n    18\n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Makers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Il\n    \n    151\n    151\n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Joss-house Keepers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Carvers,\n    \n    13\n    13\n  \n  \n    Carpenters,\n    2,284\n    689\n    2,973\n  \n  \n    Carriage Makers,\n    \n    39\n    39\n  \n  \n    Caulkers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Letters,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Makers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chandlers,.....\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Joss-paper Sellers,\n    \n    30\n    30\n  \n  \n    Joss-stick\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    833\n    \n    833\n  \n  \n    ***** \n    \n    -245\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    \n    15\n  \n  \n    Rosin Vendors....\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    \n    15\n  \n  \n    Timber Dealers,\n    \n    97\n    97\n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    107\n    \n  \n  \n    Tinmitha,\n    \n    171\n    171\n  \n  \n    \n    172\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    S\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tobacconists,\n    \n    20\n    20\n  \n  \n    \n    27\n    \n    27\n  \n  \n    Theatre Lessees,\n    \n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    Sail and Rope Makers,\n    \n    96\n    96\n  \n  \n    \n    45\n    141\n    \n  \n  \n    Tobacco Manufacturera,\n    \n    96\n    96\n  \n  \n    Salt Bean Curd Sellers,\n    \n    60\n    60\n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tooth Powder Dealers,\n    \n    13\n    13\n  \n  \n    \n    !!\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dealers,\n    \n    ४\n    ४\n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    Makers...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    #\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fish Dealers,\n    \n    132\n    132\n  \n  \n    \n    42\n    174\n    \n  \n  \n    Trading Hong Merchants,\n    \n    393\n    393\n  \n  \n    \n    ܂\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ܬ܂\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sandal-wood Dealers,\n    \n    15\n    15\n  \n  \n    Traders,\n    2,298\n    13\n    2,311\n  \n  \n    \n    57\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    393\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    79\n    2,377\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    57\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Workers...\n    \n    61\n    61\n  \n  \n    \n    :\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sapan-wood Dealers...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    U\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    69\n    \n    69\n  \n  \n    ཡཿ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    70\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    102\n    32\n    134\n  \n  \n    L\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    980\n    \n    980\n  \n  \n    Sauce Manufacturers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Scale Makers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    School Masters,\n    \n    33\n    33\n  \n  \n    \n    8\n    41\n    \n  \n  \n    Umbrella Makors,\n    \n    169\n    169\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    Undertakers,.....\n    \n    26\n    26\n  \n  \n    \n    H\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    18\n    \n    18\n  \n  \n    \n    169\n    44\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    127\n    44\n    171\n  \n  \n    f\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Labourers.\n    \n    48\n    48\n  \n  \n    Lamp Sellers,\n    \n    360\n    360\n  \n  \n    \n    162\n    522\n    \n  \n  \n    Cigar Makers,\n    \n    31\n    31\n  \n  \n    Lantern Makers,.\n    \n    31\n    31\n  \n  \n    Lacquered-ware Dealers,\n    \n    62\n    62\n  \n  \n    \n    682\n    585\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cinnamon Dealers,\n    \n    7\n    7\n  \n  \n    Lard Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerks,\n    2,751\n    98\n    2,849\n  \n  \n    Leather Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    བཿ\n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    Coal Dealers,.\n    \n    1.5\n    1.5\n  \n  \n    \n    5\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n    20\n  \n  \n    Box Dealers,..\n    \n    25\n    25\n  \n  \n    Coke Dealer,.\n    \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Makers...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cobblers,\n    \n    41\n    41\n  \n  \n    \n    6\n    47\n    \n  \n  \n    Lemonade and Sodawater Manufacturers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Coffee Shop Keepers,\n    \n    7\n    7\n  \n  \n    Lime Burners, ... ... ... ... ... .......\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Coffin Makers,\n    \n    8\n    8\n  \n  \n    \n    5\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    18\n    \n    18\n  \n  \n    Linguists,\n    \n    53\n    53\n  \n  \n    \n    30\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ស្កូ\n    ជា\n    ៣១\n    ន\n  \n  \n    ២\n    យោ\n    ៩\n    \n  \n  \n    Seamen,\n    1,760\n    322\n    2,082\n  \n  \n    V\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bervants,\n    15,023\n    1,405\n    16,428\n  \n  \n    Sharks' Fins Dealers,\n    \n    15\n    15\n  \n  \n    Vegetable Sellers,,\n    \n    63\n    63\n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    78\n    \n  \n  \n    Sheep Keepers.....\n    \n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    Vermilion Dealers,\n    \n    19\n    19\n  \n  \n    Collectors of Old Wares...\n    \n    66\n    66\n  \n  \n    \n    27\n    93\n    \n  \n  \n    Ship Compradores,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Charterers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shoe Sellers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Makers.....\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Slippers Sellers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shopmen,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shroffs,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Silversmithe...\n    \n    113\n    113\n  \n  \n    Manufacturers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    104\n    19\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    名\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    41\n    \n    41\n  \n  \n    \n    **\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    48\n    \n    48\n  \n  \n    W\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    500\n    \n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    :\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    23\n    \n    23\n  \n  \n    Washormen,\n    426\n    4,483\n    4,909\n  \n  \n    \n    886\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5,869\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Watchmakers,\n    \n    96\n    96\n  \n  \n    \n    193\n    15\n    208\n  \n  \n    Watchmen,\n    \n    420\n    420\n  \n  \n    \n    48\n    468\n    \n  \n  \n    Water Sellers,\n    \n    121\n    121\n  \n  \n    \n    186\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    »\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Opium Dross...\n    \n    179\n    179\n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    182\n    \n  \n  \n    M\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Soap Manufacturers,\n    \n    5\n    5\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    7\n    \n  \n  \n    Weavers,...\n    \n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    ཡ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    ཡ\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    –\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    སྶ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \"Oyster Shells..\n    \n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    16\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Compositore,\n    \n    30\n    30\n  \n  \n    Masons, ...\n    \n    616\n    616\n  \n  \n    \n    26\n    542\n    \n  \n  \n    Curried forward................\n    \n    \n    58,327\n  \n  \n    TOTAL,.\n    \n    \n    69,220\n  \n  \n    Compradores,\n    \n    94\n    94\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    95\n    \n  \n  \n    Marine Store Dealers,.\n    \n    17\n    17\n  \n  \n    Confectioners,\n    \n    30\n    30\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Delicacies Dealers,.\n    \n    11\n    11\n  \n  \n    Coolies.\n    6,955\n    $19\n    6,974\n  \n  \n    Mat Makers,\n    \n    49\n    49\n  \n  \n    Coopers,\n    \n    27\n    27\n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bag Makers\n    \n    560\n    560\n  \n  \n    Cotton and Yarn Dealers,\n    \n    58\n    58\n  \n  \n    Shop Keepere,,\n    \n    75\n    75\n  \n  \n    Quilt Makers,\n    \n    29\n    29\n  \n  \n    Shed Builders,\n    \n    86\n    86\n  \n  \n    JOHN GERRARD,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Acting Registrar General.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cow Dealers.......\n    \n    19\n    19\n  \n  \n    Match Makers,\n    \n    13\n    13\n  \n  \n    Curio Dealers,\n    \n    9\n    9\n  \n  \n    \n    6\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    D\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Divers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dentists,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Meat Vendow...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Milk Sellers,\n    \n    28\n    28\n  \n  \n    Midwives,\n    \n    109\n    109\n  \n  \n    Mirror Sellers,....\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Money Changers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    207\n    36\n    \n  \n  \n    Registrar General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong 1st June, 1891,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    54\n    \n    54\n  \n  \n    I\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    9\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Doctors,.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Drapers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Draggists,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dyers,.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    ༣\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    299\n    34\n    333\n  \n  \n    \n    383\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    148\n    8\n    156\n  \n  \n    \n    216\n    27\n    243\n  \n  \n    \n    37\n    3\n    40\n  \n  \n    Musicians,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    29\n    \n    29\n  \n  \n    N\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Nail Cutter,......\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Newspaper Editors,......\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    E\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Nightmen.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    49\n    \n    49\n  \n  \n    ****\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ས\n    ོ,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Earthen-ware and Porcelain Dealers.\n    \n    23\n    23\n  \n  \n    Eating House Keepers,..\n    \n    144\n    144\n  \n  \n    Egg Dealers,..............\n    \n    17\n    17\n  \n  \n    Engineere,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    36\n    \n    36\n  \n  \n    ******\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    9\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    O\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    13\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    157\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    17\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Our Makers........\n    \n    23\n    23\n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    86\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    121\n    \n    121\n  \n  \n    Oil Dealers,\n    \n    17\n    17\n  \n  \n    \n    19\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Old Clothes Dealers,\n    \n    74\n    74\n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    F\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Opium Rollers,\n    \n    103\n    103\n  \n  \n    \n    :\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dealers, prepared,\n    \n    71\n    71\n  \n  \n    Firearms Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    112\n    112\n  \n  \n    Firewood and Charcoal Dealers..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Flower Hawkers.....\n    \n    20\n    20\n  \n  \n    Florists,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Flour Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fish Mongers,.\n    \n    242\n    242\n  \n  \n    Fishermen,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    191\n    \n    191\n  \n  \n    Foreign Goods Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fortune Tellers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Frame MakerS,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    18\n    \n    18\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n    20\n  \n  \n    Fruit Dealers,....\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Furnace, &c. Makers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Furnace Menders,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Furniture Dealers,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ****\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    **\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    unprepared,\n    \n    40\n    40\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    112\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    41\n    \n    41\n  \n  \n    P\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n    20\n  \n  \n    \n    :\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Paint Dealers,\n    \n    5\n    5\n  \n  \n    \n    83\n    \n    83\n  \n  \n    \n    325\n    \n    325\n  \n  \n    Gamboge Dealers,\n    \n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    518\n    \n    518\n  \n  \n    \n    464\n    \n    464\n  \n  \n    \n    464\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Painters,.....\n    \n    64\n    64\n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    191\n    \n    191\n  \n  \n    Paper Box Makers,.........\n    \n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    \n    7\n  \n  \n    \n    84\n    \n    84\n  \n  \n    Pawnbrokers,.\n    \n    37\n    37\n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Peppermint Oil Dealers,.\n    \n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    173\n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    109\n    \n    109\n  \n  \n    Pewtermitbe,\n    \n    173\n    173\n  \n  \n    \n    45\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    \n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Photographers,\n    \n    46\n    46\n  \n  \n    \n    5\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Portrait Painters,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    200\n    \n    200\n  \n  \n    \n    18\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Piece Goods Dealers,.....\n    \n    88\n    88\n  \n  \n    \n    21\n    109\n    \n  \n  \n    Carried forward........\n    \n    \n    22,830\n  \n  \n    Carried forward........\n    \n    \n    29,929\n  \n\nPage 203\n\nJOHN GERRARD,\n\nActing Registrar General.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong 1st June, 1891,",
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        "content_text": "462 \n## 23.\n\nwith the view the islands of throwing shells over it into the docks and other Establishments in the harbour. \nBlakan mati Sobeth Battery au 7\" Guns \nZ Battery 20,000 uncement (on the spot) \n20,000 \n\nThe new battery, for which an armament of 3-7 guns would be sufficient, would prevent them doing this. The guns at present in Tanjong Katong would be available for this battery. \nIt should be made secure against \"Coup-de-main\", and roads of communication between it and Mount Faber Redoubt and Blakang Mati East Battery should be made. \n\n26 \n346 \nProper",
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        "content_text": "THE WAR IN TONQUIN.\n\nEnclosure\n\n[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]\n\nHANOI, 31st January, 1884.\n\nNow that things have been pretty well tidied up at Sontay, the French offer no opposition to anyone going up to see the place. A passage can be easily arranged in a native boat, and if the wind is favourable and the boatmen not too lazy, the distance of thirty miles or thereabouts can be easily compassed in daylight. It is even possible to get a passage in a Government steamer, but as those craft are always chock-full of soldiers and commissariat stores, the gain in time and dignity is hardly worth the absence of comfort.\n\nThe country between Hanoi and Sontay is of the same general character as that farther down the delta. There are the same alternate high banks and low shelving flat lands, according as the force of the current bears on the one shore or the other; the same wide stretches of paddy fields; the same abundance of bamboo and cactus-fenced villages, with here and there the trumpery little jos-houses which the French call pagodas. At this season of the year the Song-koi is at its lowest, and from the insignificant height of a native boat impossible to see any distance inland. Still, from what I could see during occasional tramps on the bank to relieve the monotony of the journey, it was apparent that the warlike operations so recently conducted in the immediate neighbourhood had had but a very transient effect on agricultural doings. Ploughing was going on everywhere; the women and children were levelling the surface with wooden mallets, and all were too busy even to throw stones at me, as they probably would have done in the neighbourhood of Haiphong.\n\nNear Sontay, indeed, it was different. On the right bank, at any rate, the fields were quite deserted, and the few people one saw seemed quite prepared to run, with or without reason. The headless bodies, which still continue to come down the river, no doubt tend to shake a man's nerves.\n\nFrom a cursory view, Sontay seems a place which has no natural advantages of any kind. Take any level country with a slope upwards to a central point, so gentle that it is almost impossible to detect it, and you have the general appearance of Sontay. For the town, take a random collection of the ordinary, heavy, Chinese brick houses, interspersed with the wretched, wattled, bamboo, mud-plastered, thatch-roofed shanties of the Annamese. The citadel is a quarter-mile square section built of big slabs of conglomerate, for defensive purposes not half so good as decent bricks.\n\nFor surroundings, there are the Song-koi, too far off to be of any use, except as a means of bringing up enemies; a little river running at a distance of six hundred yards or so, round the western and northern faces, some low spurs from the main range of hills to the west, but too distant to afford anything like a secure place of retreat. Beyond this, nothing but a cultivated country.\n\nBut a closer examination shows how much can be done with the most unpromising material. The Black Flags have made the best use of their time since last May, though it seems scarcely credible that the whole of the earthworks now existing can have been constructed in the short period of seven months.\n\nJust now the river runs twenty feet under the level of the Sontay bank. At the time of the attack in December, it was considerably higher, but still there was a fairly high river bank. A thousand feet from this are the lines of Phu-oc-sa, or Phu-the. These cover the river face of from half a mile to three-quarters, and on either side run down to the water. They are of considerable height and are formidably constructed with contreforts, or traverses, to afford protection against a flank fire in the event of entrance being forced at any point.\n\nThe bamboos which masked the whole face have been cut down close to the ground by the French. Marshy land protects a good deal of the front, and these swamps were much more extensive at the time of the attack than they are now. A road running from the river-bank straight up to the citadel cuts the earthworks at right angles, and it was round the gate (now replaced by a large blockhouse, built of bricks obtained from a pagoda pulled down for the purpose) that the fiercest fighting of the 14th December took place.\n\nThe Turcos were the first to be sent up, and they were beaten back time after time, while the Foreign Legion and the Infantry of Marines fared no better. It was particularly noticed that the Flagmen took steady aim every time they fired, and the loss of two hundred men and twenty-two officers in half an hour testified to their steadiness. The French are full of admiration for the pluck of the Black Flags, though they show them but scant mercy when they get hold of them.\n\nSeveral times when the troops had almost forced their way into the lines, the Black Flags seized the bayonets with their naked hands, in regular Ghazi fashion, and toppled the burly Algerians and Foreign Legion men down the slope. It was only at the end of the first day's fighting that the works were taken, and then every inch had to be fought for. Independent witnesses of the struggle maintain that it was not till their ammunition gave out that the Black Flags were driven from Phu-oc-sa.\n\nHowever that may be, at midnight, animated by an offer from Liu Yung-fu of two hundred thousand dollars to the man who would retake the works, they all came back again. The fighting was renewed with as much determination as ever, and it is even asserted that the French were momentarily driven out. If they were, they forced their way in again, but the struggle extended over several hours.\n\nThe best evidence of the desperate state of the French and the anxiety in which they were is the recorded fact that no letter, sealed or open, from officer or man, was allowed to be despatched on the night of the 14th December. \"Fine thing it would have been if we had had correspondents there!\" a French officer remarked to me in an effusive moment. \"They would have said it was a French defeat.\"\n\nBetween the Phu-oc-sa works and the \"outer enceinte\" is a distance of five hundred yards or more. The road leading up to the town was lined on both sides by houses. These seem to have been tolerably substantial, but now nothing remains of them but a few heaps of ashes and the rectangular stone water tanks, which the Tonquinese are fond of building, but hardly ever seem to use for their legitimate purpose.\n\nWhen there is water in them, it always appears to be covered with green slime, but more frequently there is nothing but rank grass, with an occasional sapling. To right and left of this is cultivated land, with here and there a joss house or two. The paddy fields that are now dry would have been heavy going for a Pytchley man six weeks ago. The muddy patches of today were sheets of water on the 15th December.\n\nThis outer enceinte is an exceedingly strong earthwork, roughly polygonal in shape and defended in front by a moat fifteen or twenty feet wide. On the level ground between the walls and the ditch was a treble or quadruple fence of well-grown bamboos, covering a depth of from four to six yards. At the gates, the moat was studded with spiked bamboos. A stockade of high thick logs masked the front, and on the approach to the slender plank bridge was a formidable chevaux-de-frise of sharp-pointed stakes and bamboo caltrops.\n\nThe lines themselves were solidly constructed, and the shells which burst in them did but very little damage, as far as affecting a breach was concerned. The main attack was made on the North-west front, and the number of empty cartridges lying about here, inside the works, showed the severity of the fire to which the French were exposed.\n\nThe Chinese cannon, however, were of the most worthless kind. Not only were the pieces of old-world manufacture and honeycombed with age and neglect, but they were few and badly placed. The contreforts along the line of works were pointed out by the French officers as conclusive proof that there had been European guidance in Sontay. But the way in which the guns were mounted was far more conclusive proof the other way.\n\nC. O.\n\n404252\n\nRECD\n\n[MAR 84]",
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        "content_text": "3887\n\nEnglish Officer of rank and experience was allowed last week to visit the arsenal at Canton. He informs me that the manufacture of shells, torpedoes, war and all other munitions of war is proceeding with much activity and precision, and that the Chinese artificers appear to have acquired almost all the aptitude of their former European instructors. The banks of the Canton river bristle with Forts and batteries; and the stream has been blocked in a narrow part in two places with only a passage left open for the present, but which could be immediately obstructed in case of need. Similar preparations for defence have been undertaken at the other chief Ports of China.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient Humble Servant, SM Bowen\n\nPage 390",
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        "content_text": "THE FRENCH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN TONQUIN. (From our Special Correspondent.)\n\nFALL OF BACNINH; RETREAT OF THE CHINESE. ADVANCE OF FRENCH TROOPS ON THAI-NGUYEN AND LANGSON.\n\nBacninh, March 15. The long awaited coup has been struck and Bacninh is in the hands of the French. But though the French soldier now occupies the house of the vanquished, and the French flag waves over the battlements of the citadel, no one is satisfied.\n\nThe victory has been of the hollowest, the success the most empty. The well-designed scheme for forcing the Chinese garrison to fight a decisive engagement, by closing their means of retreat, and thus striking a blow which should at once bring the Chinese Government to terms, has utterly failed, and the only result obtained is the removal of the theatre of operation, to the North, nearer the frontier, further from the base.\n\nThe plan of hemming in the Chinese troops was certainly not an easy one to carry out, but it is probable that it might have been, at all events to a great extent, achieved, had General Negrier been well supported by his naval colleagues in command of the flotilla.\n\nThe original design of dividing the Hanoi brigade into two columns appears to have been abandoned and General Brière de L'Isle left Hanoi, accompanied by the Commander-in-chief, on the morning of the 8th inst. The whole of the troops comprising the 1st brigade were landed at a point a little below Hanoi and above Batang, and, after marching about nine miles, bivouacked for the night at a village called Noi-phot.\n\nIt was intended that General Brière should have formed a junction with the left of General Negrier's brigade at Chi Marché, a village on the Canal des Rapides about half-way between the Red River and the Song-cau, on the 9th, but the roads were found to be so bad and impracticable that General Brière was unable to carry out the programme.\n\nThe night of the 9th was passed at the village of Ngon, close to the Haiduong road, the 10th at Bou-quoi, and it was not until the morning of the 11th that the column arrived at the banks of the canal, and then, not at Chi Marché but at Xa, a few miles above the appointed place of meeting.\n\nThe march, thus far, had been almost entirely unopposed by the enemy.\n\nGeneral Negrier, in the meanwhile, left Haiduong on the morning of the 7th and arrived at the advanced post of the Seven Pagodas the same day. On the 8th he pushed forward, the left wing of his column following the course of the Canal des Rapides, while the right rested upon the Song-cau.\n\nTwo of the light draft gunboats, the Trombe and the Eclaire, ascended the canal with the left wing, but afterwards rejoined the flotilla on the Song-cau. The latter had succeeded in forcing the first barrier on the river near Yen-ding, and it was here that the first skirmish with the enemy took place.\n\nEarthworks were erected close by the river with a few guns covering the approach, while the tops of some neighbouring hills were also entrenched and stockaded. The position was actually one of considerable defensive strength, but a very poor stand was made by the Chinese troops occupying the post.\n\nA few shells from the gunboats soon settled the lower fortifications, while the garrisons of the hill forts evacuated their post and escaped in the direction of Bacninh on the marine fusiliers advancing to storm the heights.\n\nOwing to General Brière not arriving as expected, two days' delay in advancing then occurred. When, however, that General had crossed the Canal, on the 11th, General Negrier at once pushed forward towards Bacninh.\n\nThe flotilla, which consisted of the Pluvier, Lynn, Leopard, Aspic, Éclair, Trombe, and Carabine, and several launches and junks with provisions, left Yen-ding early on the 12th but were forced to stop a little higher up the river, at Langhon, by another barricade of stone and sunken junks.\n\nThe Commodore of the flotilla, Captain Morel Beaulieu, was provided with torpedoes and other appliances, besides having plenty of coolies to employ in the removal of the barrier, but as far as I could see no serious effort was made to force or remove the obstruction until the next day, when it became known that General Negrier had pushed forward and occupied Bacninh on the evening of the 12th.\n\nThe whole plan of cutting off the retreat of the Chinese rested upon the rapid advance of the gunboats to Lai-cau, the nearest point on the river to Bacninh, where a bamboo bridge across the stream connects with the Thai-nguyen and Langson roads.\n\nThe commandant of the flotilla failed to force the barrier and thus when General Negrier arrived at Bacninh, after a little skirmishing with the enemy, who were posted on the fortified hills close to the town, he found the citadel evacuated by the garrison, the Chinese having crossed the bridge and retreated along the roads towards the northern frontier.\n\nA little opposition was met with at some of the outer fortified posts which surround Bacninh and it was here that the French forces sustained the only losses of any consequence which were suffered during the operations, these amounting in all to five killed, of whom two were officers, and about sixty wounded, most of them very slightly.\n\nWhile occupying the town and citadel, on the evening of the 12th, General Negrier sent forward a strong detachment of marine fusiliers and tirailleurs to Lai-cau, but they were too late to cut off the retreat of the evacuating force, as the last straggling bands of the Chinese army were seen crossing the bridge over the Song-cau as the French troops advanced.\n\nThe greater part of them had, however, left the citadel twenty-four hours before the arrival of General Negrier's force.\n\nPage 477",
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        "content_text": "Generals Millot and Briére de L'Isle entered Bacninh, and the troops comprising this division continued to pour into the town and citadel during the afternoon. The town of Bacninh consists for the most part of one or two long streets, all the houses of which, as well as the buildings in the citadel, were entirely deserted, quarters were therefore easily found, even for the large force which accompanied the three generals.\n\nI had hoped to have entered Bacninh with General Negrier's staff, but the detention of the gunboats at the second barrier rendered this impossible, as The Times correspondent and myself were forced to get to the front by means of a native boat, accompanying the gunboats. On the 13th early, a portion of the barrier was broken down, and together with the small gunboat Carubine and the ambulance launch King-nam we succeeded, after considerable difficulty in getting up to Lai-cau, whence we immediately marched on to Bacninh.\n\nLai-cau, the landing place for Bacninh, on the Song-cau, is only a small military station, and it was here that a number of the Chinese regulars were probably quartered. The road from here to Bacninh is a fairly good one, and winds between three hills of some hundred foot in height which were well fortified and would have given considerable difficulty in storming had the Chinese stood their ground at all. The town is of very much the same character as the village of Lai-cau, not an Annamite town at all, but simply a collection of soldiers' quarters. Outside, to the south-east, a semicircle of small detached forts have been erected, evidently recently, and here again a stand might have been made by the Chinese, had any real defence been attempted. When we entered the town the streets were crowded with soldiers. General Briére's brigade was then on its way in, and extended in a long line far out into the plain, the balloon, which had been used during the march, for taking observations, floating in the air a couple of hundred feet above the heads of the rear guard.\n\nNear the entrance to the citadel we found the quarters of the Quang, or chief military mandarin, and, both here, and in some of the neighbouring houses, we saw quantities of ammunition, Snider cartridges and explosive shells. Numbers of Chinese uniforms, light blue and dark blue with red letters and facings, were lying about in all directions. Very little damage had been sustained by the buildings, as the town and citadel had been occupied with little or no opposition. A few dead bodies of Chinese who had remained behind too long were to be seen both outside and inside the walls. These appeared to be, for the most part, either boys or old opium smokers. In all probability about forty or fifty Chinese were killed at the taking of the place. The three Generals took up their quarters in the citadel in the large building which goes by the name of the King's Pagoda.\n\nWith the exception of a few Annamite coolies and old women, no inhabitants were to be seen, though I was informed on good authority that there had been a few days before, not less than 25 thousand men in and around the place. Of these some ten or twelve thousand were Chinese regular troops, while the remainder were made up of Tonquinese and Chinese irregulars. I believe, however, that no Black Flags at all were among the garrison.\n\nOn the following day I saw three batteries of Krupp guns which were captured in the citadel. They were mounted for field service and were of about 24 inches calibre. They were quite new and in good condition and looked as if a shot had never been fired from them.\n\nOn the 14th preparations were made for a forward move on the part of the troops, and at an early hour on the morning of the 15th General Negrier started from the other side of the river with a force of about three thousand men on the road to Langson, while General Briére de L'Isle with another column of about the same strength set out on a march to Thai-nguyen. I was informed by General Millot, who remained in charge of Bacninh, that it was intended to occupy Thai-nguyen at once, but that General Negrier would not probably, for the present at least, go on to Langson, which is some eighty miles from Bacninh, but was to make a reconnaissance in force to see if the retreating Chinese army would make a stand on the road to the frontier. The General expected that no opposition would be encountered this side the frontier. General Negrier, who occupied Bacninh alone on the evening of the 12th, and who has throughout the operations done his share of the work well and promptly, was naturally much chagrined at the failure of the river flotilla to get up to Lai-cau in time, as the plan for cutting the Langson and Thai-nguyen roads and forcing the Chinese troops to fight was thus entirely frustrated. Judging from the appearance of the barrier and the means at the disposal of Commandant Morel Beaulieu I believe that if a vigorous attempt had been made on the first arrival of the gunboats the position might have been forced and some, if not all, of the vessels pushed on to Lai-cau in time to turn the retreating army. But pluck and energy were scarcely to be expected from the officer commanding the flotilla, who has on more than one occasion since last June, distinguished himself by an utter want of the qualities most necessary in a naval or military commander.\n\nThe question as to what will be done next, now that Bacninh is in the hands of the French, is one not easily answered. That Bacninh was garrisoned by a regular Chinese army, armed, equipped and paid by the Chinese Government, is now a matter proved without doubt, though it would appear probable that orders had been issued to the mandarin commanding to evacuate the post. A march across the frontier into the valley of the West River is spoken of as possible, but this would certainly require a large additional force. If China cannot be brought to terms it will be necessary to establish a line of military ...\n\nPage 478\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481",
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        "content_text": "43- 10170\n\nprevious despatches. On the same subject, I have now the honour to transmit the enclosed letter containing many interesting details, from the Special Correspondent in Tonquin of the leading journal of Hong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble Servant.\n\nH.Bowen\n\nEnclosure\n\nTHE WAR IN TONQUIN.\n\nTHE HUNG-HOA FIASCO. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]\n\nHUNG-HOA, 17th April, 1884.\n\nThere were some awkward quarters of an hour in the month of December that decided the issue of the present French campaign in Tonquin. If, when between three and four o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th December, the Chinese commenced their grand turning movement from the East gate of the outer line of fortifications at Sontay, they had displayed a little more determination, Bacninh would probably not now be in French hands and Hung-Hoa almost certainly would not.\n\nThe flank movement was almost successful. But just when the Frenchmen seemed hemmed in between the lines of Phuc-sa and the river, the Chinamen faltered and broke. They were Yunnan mountaineers and fought well, but they wanted the grit of the Black Flags, and the Black Flags were all in the forts and earthworks of Phuc-sa.\n\nAn hour later the tricolour floated over Phuc-sa. During that night, however, fortune again wavered in the balance. The Black Flags drove the Turcos from their position and were within five yards of the earthworks when the Algerians were placed by the Colonial Infantry. Both sides fired at the flash of the enemy's guns, and the Chinamen gained a slight advantage by throwing fire-sticks.\n\nBut just when the French were worn out with fourteen hours' incessant fighting, the Black Flag bugles sounded the \"cease fire\" (identical with the French call) and they retired at five in the morning.\n\nNext day, the 15th, a fatal error was made in failing to resist the deploying of the French troops along the embankment which formed the works of Phuc-sa. When that movement westward was completed late in the afternoon, Sontay was lost and the fighting in Tonquin was practically over.\n\nYou will ask what all this has to do with Hung-Hoa. It has nothing to do with Hung-Hoa, but there is nothing much to say about that place, and the talk round the bivouac fires was all about Sontay.\n\nThere can be little doubt that the French looked forward to the attack on Hung-Hoa with some degree of anxiety, one might even say, apprehension. The citadel itself was nothing, like other citadels of Tonquin. Indeed, it was more feeble than the others, for it was within two hundred yards of the river.\n\nBut the gunboats could not mount to attack it, for there was not enough water, and the outworks were known to be very strong. Moreover, it was supposed that Liu Jung-fu would make a desperate stand here, on the verge of the forest and hill country, the last of any account on the Song-coi below Lao-kai.\n\nFurther, it was reported a month ago that the warlike Governor of Yunnan had come south with six thousand men and was going to check the French invaders.\n\nBut the earthworks had no cannon mounted in them, Liu Jung-fu was away in the hills between Tuyen-kwan and Thai-nguyen, waiting for the money which China neglects to send him—solicitations no doubt to pay the indemnity which France demands.\n\nThe Governor of Yunnan, instead of marching with six thousand men to the defence of Hung-Hoa, would appear to have marched all alone over to the majority, and the six thousand men were no doubt fully employed at his funeral.\n\nBut perhaps it would be as well to give something like a connected account of the operations.\n\nThere was a plan of operations. There was also a plan for the confusion of the Chinamen at Bacninh. Négrier was to do the cutting off there. He was not successful, mainly because it was impossible, certainly impossible when the other forces did not march in unison.\n\nAccordingly, Brière de l'Isle was deputed to cut off the retreat this time. He was to march up to Bat-Bac, a village which the perversity of map drawers places half a dozen miles inland, but which is really hard up against the banks of the Rivière Noire.\n\nThere he was to cross the river, march by a hill track, and take the Chinamen in the rear. Négrier was to march up to the confluence of the Rivière Noire with the Fleuve Rouge. There he was to cross and march straight on the town, detaching a battalion of infantry, all the cavalry, and a battery of artillery, which was to cross the Song-coi and seize the north end of the bridge which the Chinamen had constructed.\n\nThus there was to be no route left open for the garrison to retreat by except the road to Lao-kai, and they were to be very severely pounded before they made their escape that way.\n\nGeneral Brière de l'Isle with four thousand men left Hanoi on the 5th April to march overland to Sontay and thence to Bat-Bac. General Négrier followed him the next day, and true to his name of Mao-lem, which the soldiers have given him, finished the march to Sontay, which had taken Brière's column the best part of three days, by mid-day on the second.\n\nMao-lem means \"hurry up\" or \"be quick\" and is the uniform cry of the soldiers who guard the baggage train. The convoy of each column numbers about a thousand coolies and extends over a matter of a mile in length on Tonquin roads, so that the refrain becomes sufficiently monotonous.\n\nThe General cries \"en avant,\" the officers ejaculate \"sorrez,\" and the baggage guard echoes \"Mao-lem.\" That is the supposed train of thought.\n\nIt is enough, however, without being so logical, to say that Négrier always makes heavy marches, that he hurries from one end of the column (6,000 yards long) to the other, all through the day, and at the end of the march, when everybody else is content to rest tranquilly in his billet, goes out prospecting the surrounding country.\n\nWell may the French hope for much from his energy and look upon him as the \"coming general.\" Coming for what, all the world knows.\n\nNégrier's big march did not, however, conduce to the comfort of the troops. Nobody in Sontay expected him, and there was no room for his troops, so he had to stay outside, and the wretched villagers who had \"the Legion\" and the plundering baggage coolies settled in their midst, had still more solid reasons for regret.\n\nHowever, next day Brière went off to Bat-Bac and reached there in two days, and on the afternoon of his entry Négrier was joined by the Commander-in-Chief, the Grand Buddha, as the Annamese call him.\n\nA march was made up the embankment following the river the next day, and the troops cantoned within three miles of the Black River.\n\nThere they had to wait a day for the heavy guns; the \"pieces of 80\" and of \"95\" had been embarked in junks and they all got aground with one accord across the mouth of the Rivière Claire.\n\nThey were got off and towed up a mile or two and then got aground again, and finally the men had to be disembarked and taken overland.\n\nAll this took time, and it was in the grey light of a rainy Good Friday morning that the troops arrived at the mouth of the Black River.\n\nBrière de l'Isle had extended his line down the right of the river from Bat-Bac so as to keep in touch with the second column. He had done more. He had established a battery of \"pièces de quatre-vingt\" the day before on a hillock close to the river and had pitched shells into Hung-Hoa from a distance of 6,000 yards.\n\nThis was denounced by everyone as premature and as a blunder. But there were more mistakes coming.\n\nIn the meantime, we were somewhat astonished to find a little post of Chinamen established in a small entrenched barricade right opposite us.\n\nThere was a sentinel marching up and down in full view, and every now and then a man would walk out onto the bank and have a shot at us.\n\nThe river itself was about 350 yards in width, but there were broad sandbanks on either side, and we were on a high bank. We therefore looked on tranquilly.\n\nPresently, however, an unlucky Turco got his left shoulder smashed with a bullet, and then a few volleys of companies were despatched to make the Celestials quit.\n\nThis they did without either delay or loss. Meanwhile, some junks designed to make a bridge and conveying ammunition and stores came up the Red River.\n\nA hundred or so of Annamese and Chinese mixed thereupon came down the left bank of the Song-coi and commenced rifle fire at about 1,300 yards or so.\n\nFinding this ineffectual, they got out a gingal, but had only fired three shots when the Eclair came up and sent them to the right about with some rounds from her Hotchkiss guns.\n\nMeanwhile, the big guns were getting into position on a little pine-crowned hillock behind the village of Truong-Ba, where we had halted.\n\nBetween eight and nine o'clock they commenced their fire. There was a battery of \"pieces of eighty\"—ordinary European horse artillery—and a battery of \"siege guns\"—\"pieces of ninety-five,\" the regular field artillery of...\n\n28* 1474\n\n-lery of",
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        "content_text": "The French army commenced a bombardment of Hung-Hoa, firing six field guns at a bamboo bridge over the Song-coi River, approximately 5,000 yards away. Another battery targeted the tower of Hang-Hoa, 1,500 yards farther, despite difficulty distinguishing it from the surrounding foliage. Brière de l'Isle's battery focused on a nearby fort, an earthwork on elevated ground defended by a lake and paddy fields, which seemingly lacked effective guns.\n\nThe Chinamen in Hung-Hoa remained passive, not returning fire, and instead hoisted numerous flags of various colors, possibly as a chivalric indication for the French gunners or a Machi. iavellian tactic to draw fire away from populated areas. The French continued firing throughout the day, expending over 800 shells, but the Chinamen maintained their composure.\n\nAs the day progressed, General Brière de l'Isle initiated the passage of the Black River at Bat Bac, but encountered difficulties, losing three men who drowned. The Chinese, unable to endure the prolonged shelling, suddenly set fire to the town in multiple locations at half-past four. The forts were subsequently blown up, and the garrison began to cross the bridge in large numbers.\n\nThe French batteries intensified their fire, targeting the bridge, but the Chinamen continued to cross without breaking into a run. By five o'clock, the evacuation was complete, and the French gunners ceased fire.\n\nThe next morning, French troops crossed the Riviere Noire and marched towards Hung-Hoa, finding the country deserted. Upon reaching the outworks, they were surprised to discover magnificent fortifications constructed according to European military science, complete with abattis, casemates, and parallels.\n\nThe French realized that the Chinese had abandoned the fortifications without a struggle, likely due to the overwhelming French numbers and the flank march of General Brière de l'Isle. The Chinese had also removed or destroyed their guns and equipment.\n\nThe town of Hung-Hoa was found to be in ruins, with everything burnt or destroyed. The citadel, built on the same lines as that at Soutay, contained only a few remaining houses and the tower. The Royal Pagoda, rice stores, powder magazines, and treasury had all been burnt.\n\nThe Chinese had executed a thorough retreat, destroying or removing all valuable or useful items. The village of Ban-Nguyen on the other side of the river had also been burnt, and attempts had been made to blow up the fortifications.\n\nPage 1574\n\n44\n\n \npossibly",
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        "content_text": "# \nP.S. \n\nIntelligence has reached Hongkong that a French Frigate has attacked the White Fort near the mouth of the river Min, and suffered some damage.\n\n2 \nThe Viceroy of Canton has notified that night traffic on the Canton River is prohibited for the present as will be seen in enclosed letter from the Acting British Consul.\n\n## Enclosure 1.\n## Enclosure 2.\n\n### THE FRANCO-CHINESE WAR NAVAL ENGAGEMENT AT PAGODA ANCHORAGE.... BOMBARDMENT AND DESTRUCTION OF THE MAMOI ARSENAL\n\nBy the courtesy of the chief officer of the China Navigation Company's steamer Woosung, which arrived here yesterday afternoon from Foochow, which port she left on the 24th inst., we are enabled to place the following details of the recent startling events in the Min before our readers.\n\nFor a long time before Saturday, the 23rd inst., both sides had appeared ready to commence hostilities at a moment's notice, and every day it was reported firing would commence, so that on Saturday the report that hostilities would be opened that day was received much the same as others until the British Consul came from the Custom House, and having stated his belief that hostilities would commence, ordered ashore the women and children who were on board the vessels in port. The French Consul also caused a circular to be sent round Foochow giving notice that firing would commence, and came down to the anchorage, and remained on board the British steamer Taku during the operations.\n\nAt two p.m. the first gun was heard—a signal gun from the cruiser Volta, which was being used as the flagship of Admiral Courbet—and immediately the French men-of-war opened fire upon the Chinese gunboats, which were lying within the vicinity of the Pagoda. The French men-of-war which took part in the action were the cruiser Volta (flagship), the corvette Villare, the corvette Daguay Trouin, the cruiser D'Estaing, the gunboats Lynx, Vipère, and Aspic, and just as the first gun was fired, the ironclad Triomphante was sighted, and very soon she came up and joined in the melée; in all eight vessels. The Chinese men-of-war numbered eleven, all but one of which were gunboats. They included the Alphabetical gunboats Hok Sing and Kung Sing, the corvette Yang Woo, and the gunboats Fu Poo, Chian Woo, Chu An, Fru On, Foh Sing, Wang Kwo, Sam Hong, and Ngai Sam. The French confined their attention at first to the Chinese men-of-war, and met with a most contemptible resistance. In all cases but one, the Chinese crews fired what guns they had bearing upon the French, and then, appalled at the effects of the French fire, slipped their cables and jumped overboard, so that the water was covered all around with human heads bobbing up and down, making for the shore or various craft about. The one exception was the little gunboat Chian Woo; her crew did stick to the work a bit, and it was only when she was in flames from the French shells that her cable was slipped, and she was deserted. Thus in a few minutes all resistance from the Chinese men-of-war was at an end, and not one of them escaped, being disposed of as follows:—The two Alphabetical gunboats were sunk by the fire from the French men-of-war; the corvette Yang Woo was burnt and destroyed by one of the French torpedo boats; the Fu Poo was set on fire by the French shells, drifted ashore on Flat Island, got off, and then drifted out of sight burning; the Chian Woo was sunk by a torpedo boat, after being set on fire by the French shells; the Chu An was destroyed by the fire from the French ships; the Fru On went ashore higher up the river; the Foh Sing blew up while drifting down the river; and the Wang Kwo, Sam Hong, and Ngai Sam, were set on fire and sunk by the shells from the French ships.\n\nShortly after the Triomphante arrived, one of the French torpedo boats was seen to come darting through the smoke past her bows, and she was cheered by the sailors on board; from the Woosung it could be seen that the officer in charge was wounded and covered with blood, and one of the crew also appeared to be badly wounded. Both torpedo boats were very fast, and appeared to do good service.\n\nAt about 2.40 p.m. the French vessels turned their fire upon the Arsenal, and the fort under the Pagoda on the hill at the end of Losing Island. The gunboats Lynx, Aspic, and Vipère went round first, and it was here that the corvette Yang Woo and two of the Chinese gunboats were lying. They were abandoned at once, and the manner of their destruction is given in the list above. The gunboat Foh Sing was seen at about 3.30 flying French colours, and in charge of a prize crew, but she had been set on fire by the firing of the French men-of-war, and was destroyed. She drifted past the Woosung quite close, and two of her crew swam on board; many were seen lying on board wounded or dead. Her sides and her funnel were riddled with shot. Shortly after she passed, one of the Alphabetical gunboats came drifting by helpless, and one was sunk by the fire of the French ships just under the stern of the Glenfinlas. The second Alphabetical gunboat was sunk at about 4 p.m. in a similar manner. At this time a large number of war junks, which were collected off the Arsenal, were seen to be all in flames. Another man-of-war was sent to engage the Arsenal junks lying on the other side, and made short work of them.\n\nDuring the afternoon, burning junks and gunboats came drifting in close proximity to the merchant vessels which were lying at the Anchorage, but though one got foul of the German barque Sin Kolga, the exertions of boats' crews of British men-of-war's men saved the ship. The British bluejackets did great service in this way, for the burning vessels drifting down the river, and back again with the turn of the tide at 10.30 p.m., caused the vessels at anchor there to be in the greatest danger of being destroyed by fire. At 7.30 p.m. one Chinese war vessel was drifting, while in flames, right on to the merchant shipping, but the French riddled her sides till it was a wonder how she kept together, and she finally sank right across the bows of the Glenfinlas. A great number of lives were saved by the British men-of-war's boats picking up the crews of the Chinese gunboats who were swimming about.\n\nFiring ceased about six p.m., having been slackening very much before that time, so that the roar of the guns was kept up for about four hours. The Arsenal and forts replied to the French fire but little less feebly than the gunboats; their firing was at long intervals, and they were silenced in a short time, and the fort under the Pagoda was completely destroyed. The forts did not appear by results to be of much account; as far as could be seen from the ships, they were built of stone, and their sides faced with sand-bags. The Chinese gunners were so cowardly that on board the gunboats they did not stay to fire all the guns, which were ready loaded, and many of them exploded from the heat of the flames which destroyed the ships.\n\n23 \n(2.) \n230 \n74 \n2024 \nThere",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure\n\n## THE REV. J. TENISON-WOODS ON THE MINES AND MINERALS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA.\n\nAn interesting lecture on the Mines and Minerals of the Malay Peninsula was delivered yesterday afternoon by the Rev. J. Tenison-Woods, in St. Andrew's Hall. There was a large attendance. His Excellency the Governor presided, and amongst those present were His Excellency Vice-Admiral Dowell, K.C.B., Mr. Justice Russell, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. A. Lister, and several ladies.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY, in opening the proceedings, said—Ladies and gentlemen, I have been requested to take the chair this afternoon on the very interesting occasion of the delivery of a lecture by the Rev. Julian Tenison-Woods on the \"Mines and Minerals of the Malay Peninsula.\" As I am informed, this is a matter of practical and financial, as well as of scientific interest to some gentlemen in this colony—(a laugh)—who have advanced funds for the exploration of the mineral resources of the Straits Settlements. If this be so, I earnestly trust that the patriotic efforts of those gentlemen to promote the cause of science will be rewarded by financial success; that they will be rewarded not only by advantage to their minds, but also to their pockets. (Applause). Of one thing I am quite sure, and that is, that they will get the most correct and useful information from Mr. Tenison-Woods—(Applause)—whom I have known for twenty-five years as an eminent geologist and mineralogist, and as the author of one of the best books on the exploration of Australia. My rev. friend has reminded me that he was my guest nearly a quarter of a century ago, when I was the first Governor of the great colony of Queensland; and I often heard of his reputation afterwards while I was Governor of New Zealand and Victoria—in fact, during the whole twenty years that I passed in Australia as the Representative of the Queen successively in three of the greatest provinces of the Empire (Applause). I have therefore great pleasure in introducing Mr. Woods to this meeting. And here let me observe that the lecture of this day presents a very interesting subject of reflection. Here we have a practical proof that religion has no longer any fear of science. (Applause). We see a Roman Catholic clergyman about to lecture on what was once considered the dangerous science of geology, and I am surprised we have not the Bishop ready to applaud him, but I am sure it must be owing to some accident that my friend Bishop Raimondi is not here to-day. (Applause.) In the sixteenth century, as we all know, the great astronomer Galileo was persecuted because he contended that the earth goes round the sun, and until quite lately geology was considered a more irreligious science than astronomy. This feeling was not confined to the Church of Rome. At the end of the last century, an eminent Bishop of the Church of England ridiculed the pretensions of geologists—and we know that ridicule is often a more dangerous weapon than hatred; as Horace says: \"Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?—*Pidioainm acri Fortius ac melius magnas peraæpe secat res.\" by saying that for a man crawling on the face of the earth to pretend that he knew what was going on in the interior of our planet was like an gnat on the shoulder of an elephant pretending that it knew what was going on in the bowels of the huge animal (Laughter.) But behold what progress! Here we have Mr. Woods, at the end of the nineteenth century, about to tell us living in Hongkong what is going on in the bowels of the Malay Peninsula, some three thousand miles away. (Applause). Seriously, ladies and gentlemen, in the entire history of science, there is nothing more remarkable than the progress of geology during the present century, or I will say during the last fifty years. So it is more or less with all the sciences, but I think the progress of geology is the most remarkable of all. But, like all other sciences, though it has achieved many victories, it has still many victories to achieve. That grand old philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton, on his deathbed, said that whatever might be thought by others of his great discoveries in natural science, he himself only felt that he had been like a child gathering shells on the shore of the eternal ocean of truth and knowledge. (Applause). The field of science is like one of those fast Australian forests which Mr. Woods and I know and love so well, in which the more trees felled the greater appears the expanse of wood around. Without further preface, I now introduce to you the Rev. Mr. Tenison-Woods. (Applause).\n\nThe Rev. J. TENISON-WOODS said he thought it was due to his hearers, and in a certain sense due to himself, that he should explain as briefly as possible some of the qualifications he had for dealing with this subject, and why he had approached the subject at all in the lecture which he now proposed to give. He had lived for a long time, as His Excellency had informed them, in Australia, but His Excellency had not informed them, what he might now add, that during the time he had lived there he had been a witness to the great efforts His Excellency had made to forward anything which favoured the advance of science, whether geological or geographical, in those British colonies. In the course of his missionary duties, he had explored a great deal of country which had never before been trodden by the foot of civilised man, and as he was always very much interested in geological subjects, and had visited most of the mineral-producing countries in Europe, he wrote down his impressions of what he then saw. He thought no more charming study could be imagined than a new country in which something is discovered which may largely influence the destiny of the colonies, and perhaps to some extent the history of the world. And so, having seen a good deal that would interest the public, he published some of what he saw, at first on his own account and at his own cost. One or two of the first works he published were geological, and these, in course of time, led him to be regarded as an authority on the subject, and the Government assisted him afterwards, and enabled him to publish accounts of many of his researches. In the course of time, he was invited to visit and report upon many mineral districts that had been discovered, so that the Government might have the opinion of an impartial and independent witness on the value of the deposits. After many years had been spent in this way, during which he might say there were few mineral districts in the whole of Australia which he had not visited, he went on a visit to an old friend of his, Sir Frederick Weld, and while at Singapore, he was invited by Sir Hugh Low to visit the mineral districts in the state of which he was resident, and on the part of the Government, His Excellency promised to see that he was taken about to every place he wished to see free of all expense, provided that he would give them a report. This he did. He spent six or seven months exploring through the native state of Perak, during which explorations he had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with some of the features of the country not previously made known. Subsequently, he visited Malacca, and afterwards went through some of the mining districts of Selangor. Thus, he became intimately acquainted with all the mineral-producing deposits of the Malay Peninsula. From there, he went to Sumatra and Bintang, and the celebrated tin districts under the Dutch Government. Thus, he became not only acquainted with the tin deposits of Australia, which mineral ranked second as a production of that island only to gold, but he also became acquainted, and had means of comparing what he saw in Australia, with what was to be seen in the Malay Peninsula. So much for his qualifications for dealing with the subject, and now as to his reasons for giving this lecture. A great deal of misunderstanding existed with regard to the minerals of the Malay Peninsula. Very little was known about them, though he believed there were many in Hongkong who thought they knew a great deal too much. (Hear, hear). But for all that, he thought that if they had a little more explanation, they would not take the despondent view they now seemed apt to take as to the future of these mining districts. What he proposed to do was to avoid as much as possible all technical matters, and give them as clear an idea as he could of the nature of the tin deposits of the Malay Peninsula. Though the object to which he should thus confine himself was a small one, he should have to choose very carefully among a multitude of subjects connected with it in order to fit it in within the limits of a brief lecture. From what he had seen and all he had read...",
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        "content_text": "# OCR Proofread Text\n\nonce we break from the column, and gallop across the broken ground of the paddy fields, dismounting here and there to drag our ponies up and down the slippery places on the opposing hill, and backwards and forwards across the stream; and, at a point where the valley begins to widen out into a wider plain, encircled by high hills, we cut through the column, and, leaving it to continue its route along the plain, we ride up the hill on our right and rejoin the General's staff. Under General Negrier and staff are on a neighbouring hill on our right, and with them a battery of artillery. Two of the guns are firing in the direction of the distant ridges of the hills, still to our right. Turning our glasses in that direction we soon see banners and moving figures. We have come upon the rear of the Chinese camp, which has been following the road on the broken down route. They quicken their pace as the shells fall amongst them, and soon we have seen the last of them. Their route bends round amongst the hills in front, just beyond the village of Yen Vy in the plain, and presently the moving figures reappear there. The second battery of artillery is brought on to our height, and the guns brought into play in that direction. Two small guns of the enemy make a defiant but feeble reply. Soon the figures have vanished at that point, but only to reappear at one more distant. The battery on the neighbouring height descends, and with General Negrier advances to the front. Meantime, the whizz of a bullet is heard above our heads; presently another, and immediately a third, followed by others in quick succession. Turning to the hills opposite to us, on the narrowest part of the plain, on our left, we detect several figures. Then, as on the following day, the Chinese were quick to discover the position of the Staff, and to take action accordingly. A party of Tirailleurs from the adjoining height attempt to dislodge these sharpshooters, but as they continue to amuse themselves, the artillerymen and their mules, and the General's Chasseur body-guard and their horses are ordered to move below the ridge on the sheltered side of the hill.\n\nWhile this is going on, having tied our ponies on the sheltered side of the hill, we are observing the advance of the column through the plains, ascending the hills beyond the village before us. The thread moves on until it shapes itself on a slope into compact bodies, woven together in dark masses on a green ground. Ascending the narrow height on the left is a battery of the second brigade. We can see the Chinese banners and troops on the further ridge, and, on a high point to the left, two figures, which for a long time are conspicuous, keep their ground until they have sufficiently observed our numbers, positions and probable movements. Straggling shots are heard soon, followed by the regular discharge of the French infantry fire, which, at brief intervals, is succeeded by an irregular but sustained exchange from the Chinese side. In reply to this, and to the occasional report of the two Krupp guns the 8-centimetre guns have begun to play on the enemy. These are well directed and explode at the proper time, and cannot fail to work havoc where they fall. Then the French infantry discharge increases in rapidity, as if the Western race were angrily impatient and determined to overcome the stubbornness of these Celestials of the East. This more rapid fire is followed by an advance to the height guarded by the foe, who has fallen back from his foremost point of vantage. But is he in retreat?\n\nAs the French cannon sound ominously during the brief pause in the infantry fire which accompanies the change of position, some one says: \"It is all over now; that will finish them.\" The General and his staff descend from our height and move forward, to the hill opposite the village, from which to witness the close of the fight, expected every moment. We follow, but instead of pushing our jaded ponies up the hill, if we keep to the road, satisfied to get as near a view as may be possible on that lower ground. But now, so far from ceasing, the infantry fire has been renewed with greater vigour than ever. We quicken our pace, the French bugle sounds the advance, and, after a moment's pause, is responded to by the monotonous, sustained, weird, and yet both defiant and inspiriting tones of the Chinese horn, which is heard again and again through all the din of the fray. The French advance with a shout, charge the second height, and take it. But not yet is the battle won. We press our tired horses to a gallop towards the point where the battle rages, and, having made them fast in a safe corner of the field, hurry forward on foot. As we hasten onwards the swish of the French shells, and the swift flight of the Chinese bullets sound in quick succession. Passing a turn in the road we suddenly find ourselves in the rear of the French position. Troops are on the hill to our left which rises from the road on which we stand; troops are on the higher hills on our right, on the other side of the gully; ahead, at the end of the open spaces are two hills on which are stationed the Chinese, one being about 700 and the other about 800 yards distant.\n\nWe get into what we suppose will be a sheltered observatory on our left, and compose ourselves to observe, but a bullet striking the ground two yards in front of us was a hint to shift our quarters. We crept up the sheltered side of the hill, and on rising to the crest of the hill found ourselves amongst a company of Tirailleurs Tonquinoise, who have the honour of being in front. They are lying upon the ground in position to fire. Two of them are wounded, one in the leg and the other in the breast. At present the company is not firing. Why, I know not. Perhaps the Chinese have disappeared from their view. If so they are not lost to the view of the others. Although these are giving special attention to the neighbouring heights, on which two companies of the Foreign Legion are keeping up a brisk fusilade, they are not regardless of the Annamites, as bullets which whizz by us sufficiently testify.\n\nAt 5.45 p.m. the French bugle calls to cease firing, and, with curious effect, at the very moment the French desist the Chinese do so also, and there is a shock of silence. The fight for that day was ended, at a cost of 24 wounded, 8 of whom were of the Foreign Legion. The fact that four artillerymen were wounded would seem to indicate that there are some amongst the Chinese possessed of more skill in the use of the rifle than usual; but if they have learned the use of the rifle they do not appear to know how to use their cannon. Perhaps, in first using them, they so adjusted the shells that they burst too soon, and now have gone to the other extreme and adjust them to explode too late. As a matter of fact their shells invariably bury themselves harmlessly in the ground.\n\nThe troops were ordered to remain for the night in the positions they occupied when firing ceased, and so, wishing goodbye to the French officers of the Annamite company, we hastened back to find our ponies before it should be dark. Descending the hill we came almost immediately upon a Chinaman who was crouching against the bank at the side of the road. Perhaps he was wounded and unable to escape when his countrymen had been driven from the height. Yet he did not seem to be in pain, nor did he seem to be so much fearful as watchful and expectant. Instinctively I said: \"Willo,\" the pidgin English for \"make off,\" \"get away,\" but, as was to be expected, the word had no effect upon him. By remaining with him we should only attract attention, and determine his fate. The best we could do was to leave him, with a feeble hope that he might be able to effect his escape. We learned afterwards that he had been discovered and shot. That night we were so fortunate as to find quarters in a house in the adjacent village, the first time we had slept under a roof, at least a house roof, for 19 days. The houses contained a good store of rice.\n\nPage 426",
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        "content_text": "Commander Grove held his strong belief that King Arracklye was alone responsible for the outrage on the British schooner \"Lilla.\" This Mr. Gibbons is, no doubt, the same person who is alluded to in the letter from \"the Captain, R.N.\" as Mr. Gubbins.\n\nOn the 26th January, 1881, King Arracklye, after receiving an ultimatum from Commander Grove, who had proceeded to the King's place of residence, Molegojok, signed a contract in which he engaged to pay, within nine months from that date: (1) 300 fish, yielding in all 600 lbs. of tortoise-shell, at 2 dollars per lb.; (2) 1,556 baskets of bêche-de-mer, weighing in all 1,560 lbs.; (3) 6,367 baskets of cobra, weighing in all 127,840 lbs.; (4) 2,160 baskets of pearl shells, weighing in all 25,920 lbs.\n\nThe \"Lily\" left Molegojok on the 27th January, arrived at Manila on the 31st, where she took in coal, and left again on the 4th February; but Commander Grove does not state, in his Report of his visit to the Pelew Islands, whether he made any announcement to the Spanish authorities at Manila of the fact of his having been there.\n\nOn the 23rd March, 1882, Her Majesty's ships \"Comus\" (a steam corvette of twelve guns) and \"Lily\" (a gun-boat of three guns) left Labuan, and arrived off the Pelew Islands on the 5th April, for the purpose of obtaining from the natives the indemnity imposed upon them by Commander Grove, of the \"Lily,\" in January 1881, in compensation for the plunder of the schooner \"Lilla.\"\n\nPage 44\n\nAs the King evaded the payment of the indemnity to the full extent demanded a naval brigade was formed, consisting of 110 officers and men from the \"Comus,\" and 45 from the \"Lily.\" A landing was effected, and the town entered without opposition, the King having previously fled. His house and several of the \"Council-houses\" were occupied by the naval brigade; but as he still failed to comply with the demand which had been made upon him, he was informed that, unless the full indemnity was speedily paid, his place would be burnt down; and as this led to no satisfactory result, the King's house and all the Council-houses were burnt down, when\n\nPage 3\n\nPage 119\n\nthe naval brigade re-embarked, without loss of life on either side.\n\nIn the meantime, messengers had been sent to Ankassar to acquaint the Chief that, unless he paid a certain amount, he would be punished for his complicity in the plunder of the \"Lilla.\" His reply, to the effect that he had no money, was known to be false, and the naval brigade was therefore again landed, and, after further unsatisfactory communication with the Chief, marched through the village, burning the Council-houses and the Prophet's house; but although the actual amount of payment obtained by the Captain of Her Majesty's ship \"Comus\" did not exceed the value of 150l., whilst the original fine amounted to 1,000l., no further active measures\n\nwere taken.\n\nNo protest was made by Spain against these proceedings.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nOctober 23, 1885.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121\n\nForeign Office, October 23, 1885.",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n### RECEIVED\n**C. DOMESTIC. 10583**\n\n| Date | Previous Paper | Subject | Subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 31 May 1887 | 13441 | Communication of Chamber of Commerce direct with Peking Legation Concurs in C. O views. Copy of Co letter & Sheles will be sent to Minister at Peking | 4274 |\n\n**(Minutes.)**\n**Mt. Readi**\ngraft submited \n\n$ (33,203) 6000 \n\nGP JUN 87) 318 \n\nNo. 10583",
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        "content_text": "## Statement showing ammunition required\n\nTo have the ammunition detailed in the annexed statement sent out to this Colony consigned to the Ordnance Store Department, by whom it will be held and issued as described above.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient,\nHumble Servant,\nGodaevaux\n\n| Description | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fuzes | 120 |\n| Shells | 403 |\n| Common Shrapnel | 540 |\n| Empty Shrapnel | 360 |\n| Mark I | 540 |\n| 60... | 60 |\n| 12-50... | 120 |\n| Hongling 5... | 2479 |\n\nAction V. Ordnance Magazine\nRt. J. offer.\nSith clicks | 1140\nDaf for simply h | \nTime { | \nR.L. 360. Divet licking | 120\n15 See M | 15 See: Special\nJuler, fritiva | \nSolis drawn | \n\nPage 457\n\nदव 24820 \n\nEnclosure In duplicate \n\nA Colonial Major \nAct & Acent Militang Seontemp",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n594\n\nPROV \"FRS AUSTRALIAN RECORD\"\n\nJuly, 1991.\n\nPRIZE PACKET\n\nC. O.\n\n15112\n\nREOF (Per 27 0034)\n\nThe success of this fibre industry depends mainly on the manufacture of a machine, not yet in existence, that will at the least possible cost, and with the least possible waste, separate the fibre from the leaf. There can be little doubt that hand-cleaned fibres, although they do not pay, are, as a rule, superior to any fibre that can be made by salting 1st class.\n\nIn New Zealand, where the Phormium fibre is an article of great importance, yielding cloaks, bags, cordage, and fishing lines for the use of the natives. For generations, the fibre was manufactured in the most primitive way. The leaves were collected, placed in water, and scraped by the natives with shells to free them from adhering cellular tissue and epidermis, and then the fibre was washed over and over again in running water until the desired purity was attained. This process was, however, so tedious and expensive that it prevented the article from coming into general use.\n\nA great demand for all available fibres was created by the Civil War in America, and the colonists in New Zealand immediately turned their attention to further developing the industry. Machinery was therefore invented for integrating the leaves and extracting the fibres.",
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        "content_text": "## Sce Photographs\n\"Album I405.\"\n\n32. 113 Gal?\n\nwhere occupies the attention of the villagers of the im Long division. The cultivation of oysters is also carried on to a large extent, especially in Deep Bay.\n\nLime burning is an important industry, coral and oyster-shells being burnt in place of limestone. The largest lime burning works seen were near Castle Peak Bay, where coal brought from Hongkong was being used as fuel. Lime was also being burnt at Tai-po-hau, Jan-kok-tsui, Man, Ping Shan, Sha Tin, and other places visiting that area. It is understood that a great deal of the lime used in building is imported from the San-on district.\n\nThe manufacture of bricks and the quarrying of stones enable the inhabitants to obtain building material at a cheap rate. Salt is manufactured in several places. Salt pans were seen at Tai Kok and Castle Peak Bay.",
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        "content_text": "3 \n\n170 \n\nIn the granite area Mica is not \nrare, also found in \nthe lease \ncombination appears everywhere, and \n\"Chlorite Schist\" \nI should \nJan'y \n\nHornblende schists and Actinolite \nSchists are \nfairly \ncommon. Lime \nall used in buildings being obtained from the burning of coral and \nshells. \n\nThe lower hills between the mountain ranges \nare \nlaterite, \nrounded or conical in shape, well covered with vegetation, \ncontributing to the extremely picturesque scenery normally \nassociated with such formations. The richly cultivated valleys lying between, joined by the surrounding \ndenudation \nnot ... \nwith a few feet of good soil overlying \nlaterite. Some excavations \nhave \ndistinctly \nshowed their \nvery \npresence. \nThe laterite is what \nwould be called \na \"Cabook\" \nin Ceylon, fit for cutting out in blocks for building purposes. This is extremely like the disintegrated Granite of Hongkong, but contains more silicate of alumina and \nthe latter showing \ncrystals \nin large nodules. Some excellent pottery clay \nexists. \n... \n12.",
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        "content_text": "## ATT \n1) \n\nI wish in the sloppy area which aut... 171 Jai. Mo. Stair saw specimens in the \"Village of Un. in, Light-brown Colour and extremely funny texting. Brick clay is found in the Valleys in the form of large sun-dried bricks in many other Village houses and walls. Possibly bedded Primary limestone will be found, but the line of contact between limestone and the beds of coral or shells better for building purposes, so too a bed of limestone about a mile distant. \n\nSimon Jüdenoff worked on the side of Kai-mo-shan, but the workings discontinued about be years ago. Anu Kadın Jelena was also found \"Kowloon, and on the haute hill side of Lautas, and I believe there worthing, should be Examined to ascertain the richness of the ore. The catena also speaks of alluvial gold being found. Silver and lead were worked Fantas... on the south-eastern part of the Bland within recent years, but without success financially, possibly due to Chinese Official interference and bad management, rather than to the absence of a paying richness in the area being expensive. \n\n13.",
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        "content_text": "## 204 \n\nShatian \n\n8 \n\nFor that portion of the She-Tau division, which will most probably be included in the new area, amounts in round figures to one hundred thousand (100,000). \n\nMap VI, giving the population and divisions of the area to be leased, shows how this population is spread over the mainland and islands. \n\nThe population is contained in six main divisions, inhabiting 423 villages. These villages vary in population from 10 to 5,000 persons. \n\nThe eastern portion of the district, being more mountainous and less fertile, is not so thickly populated as the western portion. The Un Long Tung, or the division including the fertile valleys and plains of Pat Heung and Shap Pat Heung, is the most populous, its population amounting to 23,020, being distributed among 59 villages. The Sheung U Tung or western division, though much larger in area than the Un Long division, contains a population of only 20,870 distributed among no fewer than 182 villages. \n\nThe total area of the territory to be leased being 376 square miles, the population per square mile is about 266 persons. Though by no means at present thickly populated, it is anticipated that when the new territory comes under British occupation its population will rapidly increase. \n\n### VILLAGES\n\nThe houses in these villages are, as a rule, well and solidly built. The foundations and lower courses of their walls are, in many cases, of granite masonry, the upper courses being made of blue or of sun-dried bricks. The door posts and lintels are of dressed granite slabs with tiled roofs on rafters made of China fir. The floors are generally concreted, and frequently paved with red brick or with granite. Well-built and handsomely decorated temples exist in all the important villages, and in many places large and expensively constructed buildings, in which the ancestral tablets are kept, were seen. \n\nThe total number of villages amounts to 423. \n\nAs usual in China, the streets are narrow and paved with large slabs of stone. Such drainage as exists is on the surface; underground drains are never used in Chinese villages. \n\nThere are several walled villages† in the territory, which are invariably inhabited by the members of one clan only. They are rectangular or square in shape and are enclosed within brick walls about 16 feet in height, flanked by square towers, and surrounded by a moat some 40 feet in width. They have one entrance, protected with iron gates. \n\nWithin the walls, houses of the usual type are found, built with great regularity. There is one main street from either side of which small lanes branch off in parallel rows. The object of these villages being walled is to afford the inhabitants greater security in case of attack and to place them in a stronger position of defence in the event of clan feuds, which were formerly very common and are still not infrequent. In one of the villages visited was found a temple specially dedicated to the memory of those members of the clan who had fallen in the fights against a neighbouring village. The feud between these two villages, the inhabitants of which are descended from a common ancestor and possess the same surname, extended over many years, during which great numbers were killed. Peace has now been restored, and we had the pleasure of being entertained at the same table by the heads of the two villages, which were so long at enmity with each other. \n\nThose who are able to express an opinion on the subject state that the villages in the territory compare favourably with those of Southern India and Ceylon. \n\n`Appendix 5` contains a list of the name and population of each village in the area to be leased. \n\n### INHABITANTS\n\nThe inhabitants are composed of three races of Chinese: the Puntis, the Hakkas, and the Tankas. \n\nThe Puntis, or Cantonese, as they are termed by Europeans, belong to the race which is supposed to have come from the provinces bordering on the south of the Yang-tse river. The term Punti means \"Natives of the soil\"; but the existence of aborigines in many parts of the Kwong-tung province shows that the Puntis were not the aboriginal inhabitants. \n\nIt is not improbable that they commenced to find their way to the south of China during the early periods of Chinese history. At any rate, they were firmly established in the south during the time of the Southern Sung Dynasty, which reigned from A.D. 1127 to A.D. 1278. Most of the Punti inhabitants easily trace their descent from ancestors who were settled in the Sa On district in that period. The Puntis speak the dialect commonly known as Cantonese. The population amounts to 64,140 and is contained in 161 villages. They chiefly inhabit the valleys, especially those drained by the Sham Chun and Un Long rivers. Their main pursuit is that of agriculture; but they are also excellent traders and full of that enterprise for which, as a race, the Cantonese are so justly famous. \n\nThe Hakkas, or \"Strangers,\" as the term signifies, are supposed to be descended from the Mongols and to have reached the southern provinces of China when the Mongol Dynasty was overthrown, about the middle of the 14th century. They are regarded by the Puntis as aliens and speak a dialect quite distinct from Cantonese. The villages occupied by the Hakkas are 255 in number, containing a population of 36,070. As a rule, their villages are inhabited solely by members of their own race, just as the Punti villages are inhabited only by Cantonese, though there are a few villages in which both races are represented. The Hakkas are a hardy and frugal race and are generally found in the hill districts; their chief pursuits being agriculture and quarrying. \n\nThe Tankas, or boat people, form the floating population, of which it has not been possible to obtain even an estimate, except in the case of the islands when they have been included in the general population. They form a class by themselves and are looked down upon by the land population. They inhabit the creeks, harbours, waterways, and the islands and make excellent sailors, being very clever in the handling of junks and smaller craft. They are also largely engaged in fishing. \n\n`Appendix 3` shows how the various races are distributed throughout the area. Taken as a whole, the inhabitants may be regarded as an industrious, frugal, and well-behaved people. During the inspection of the territory, they gave us an excellent reception, except in two instances, one of which was so marked that it was necessary to bring the conduct of the villagers concerned to the notice of the Viceroy of the two Kwong Provinces, who will, it is hoped, deal with the matter in a proper manner. \n\nThere are, of course, bad characters and rowdies to be found among the population, and one or two villages have earned an unenviable notoriety for lawlessness, but there ought to be no difficulty in bringing such characters and places under proper control and putting an end to the present state of affairs. \n\nThe inhabitants, though by no means wealthy, seem to be, as a rule, comfortably well off and able to earn an honest livelihood without difficulty. Few signs of anything approaching destitution were seen, and only a few beggars were met. From information received, it appears that there are only 1,600 beggars throughout the whole of the Sa On district, the majority of whom are said to be outside the new territory. \n\n### INDUSTRIES\n\nThe population is chiefly occupied in the cultivation of the soil with the various crops produced. But in addition to agricultural pursuits, there are large fisheries in which many persons are engaged in the bays surrounding the territory on the east, south, and west, fishing being carried on chiefly by means of stake-nets.* The fish are sorted, salted, and sun-dried and exported to various markets. The trade in salt fish is one of the most important and employs a large number of persons. \n\nPearl fisheries exist in Tolo harbour, where pearls of value are said to be sometimes found. \n\nIn addition to salt-water fish, the rearing of fresh-water fish in ponds for the Hong Kong market and elsewhere occupies the attention of the villagers of the Un Long division. \n\nThe cultivation of oysters is also carried on to a large extent, especially in Deep Bay. Lime burning is an important industry; coral and oyster-shells being burnt in place of lime-stone. The largest lime-burning works seen were near Castle Peak Bay, where coal obtained from Hong Kong was being used as fuel. Lime was also being...\n\nPage 638 \n\n* See Photographs, `Album II`, No. 6. \n† See Photographs, `Album I`, No. 25; `Album II`, No. 8.",
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        "content_text": "## Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory (Secret)\n\n### Appendix No. 1\n\nWhereas it has for many years past been recognized that an extension of Hong Kong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the Colony:\n\nIt has now been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged under lease to the extent indicated generally on the annexed map. The exact boundaries shall be hereafter fixed when proper surveys have been made by officials appointed by the two Governments. The term of this lease shall be 99 years.\n\nIt is at the same time agreed that within the City of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. Within the remainder of the newly leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction. Chinese officials and people shall be allowed as heretofore to use the road from Kowloon to Hsinan.\n\nIt is further agreed that the existing landing place near Kowloon City shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese men-of-war, merchant and passenger vessels, which may come and go and lie there at their pleasure; and for the convenience of movement of the officials and people within the city.\n\nWhen hereafter China constructs a railway to the boundary of the Kowloon territory under British control, arrangements shall be discussed.\n\nIt is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or the like official purposes, it shall be bought at a fair price. If cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1898, being the 13th day of the 5th moon of the 24th year of Kuang-Hsu. It shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present agreement.\n\nDone at Peking in quadruplicate (4 copies in English and 4 in Chinese) the 9th day of June in the year of our Lord, 1898, being the 21st day of the 4th moon of the 24th year of Kuang-Hsu.\n\n**(Sd.) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD,**\n\n**(Sd.) LI (HUNG-CHANG).**\n\n**(Sd.) IISU (YING-KUEI).**\n\n### Appendix No. 1a\n\n**Report on the Harbours in Mirs Bay**\n\n| Location | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Starling Inlet | Good anchorage in 4 fms. Head of bay too shallow for purposes of navigation. If road be brought down to either side of bay on parallel 114° 14' 30\" E. ships drawing 21 feet of water could lie alongside a short pier. |\n| Crooked Harbour | Good protected anchorages in 6 to 7 fms. Useful only for fishing requirements. |\n| Double Haven | ... |\n| Anchorage under Pingchau Island | Good anchorage in 7 fms., but much taken up with fishing stakes and unimportant for line of communication. |\n| Plover Cove | Very good anchorage in all weathers in 4-5 fms., but out of trade route. |\n| Tolo Harbour | Like Starling Inlet, too shallow at head of bay for purposes of navigation, although there is a boat channel, which if marked out, will take small junks up to town. Anchorage on 4 fms. line. Suitable for shipping; whichever side of bay road is made it should be brought out on parallel 114° 11' 45\" E., in order to allow of vessels lying alongside a pier in 21 feet. |\n| Tide Cove | Communication by small junks or light launches at high water to top of bay. Sampans at low. Anchorage in 3 fms. Protected in all winds. Distance from head of bay 3 miles. Important as being the closest by land to Kowloon. |\n| Long Harbour | Good anchorage in 7 to 8 fms. More suitable for a military than a mercantile port. |\n| Port Shelter | Good anchorage for any size of ships. Chiefly useful as being deep close to shore, and divided from Tseung Kwan O by a small neck of land 1/4 mile wide. |\n| Rocky Harbour | Unimportant, being out of line of communication. |\n\n### Appendix No. 2 (Geological Report)\n\nThe geological formation of this territory is simple, granitic trappean and metamorphic rocks largely predominating, the only stratified rocks which are found belonging to the hypozoic period. There are in places evidences of volcanic action, but of a very remote period, while the granitic and trappean rocks are very prominent everywhere. The hills facing Hong Kong are chiefly of granite, of which many varieties occur, from a fine close-grained felspathic white rock and a pink coloured granite like that of Aberdeen, to a very coarse porphyritic granite. Kaolin probably exists, but I did not come on any defined beds of it, though told that it was to be found near the west point of Castle Peak Bay. Syenite is common and of very good quality, a dark, highly crystalline variety, in many cases the large distinct crystals of hornblende being well shown.\n\nThe bold and rocky east coast shows some very characteristic cliffs of columnar basalt, and blocks of this, an almost black and highly crystalline rock, are largely used for bridging streams inland.\n\nFurther inland other trap rocks appear, while some of the islands in Mirs Bay show very distinctly the terraced and step-like appearance of these formations. The more compact and crystalline varieties seem to predominate, though trap tuffs and claystone porphyries are not absent. Specimens of basalts, greenstones, and felspar porphyries were numerous.\n\nIt is extremely difficult in such a country as I have described, where the varieties of trap rocks are so numerous and so mixed up with rocks of the granitic system, to say what other rocks may not exist. One thing is certain, there is everywhere an abundance of the best building material, and for road macadamizing nothing could surpass the hard basalts.\n\nIn one or two places I came on distinctly stratified rocks, of a hard, crystalline, close-grained variety, dark grey or bluish grey in colour, which I would call syenitic gneiss.\n\nPure quartz rock is uncommon, though in places distinct out-crops of quartzite were to be seen. I saw no mica schists, and except in the pure granites mica is not to be seen.\n\nTalc also is absent, but hornblende appears everywhere, and I should say chlorite schists, hornblende schists, and actynolite schists are fairly common.\n\nI saw no limestone, all lime used in buildings being obtained from the burning of coral or oyster shells.\n\nThe lower hills between the mountain ranges are of laterite, rounded or conical in shape, and well covered with vegetation, combining to form the extremely picturesque scenery usually associated with such formations. The richly cultivated valleys lying between, formed by the denudation of the surrounding mountains, seem in most cases to have a few feet of good soil overlying laterite; some excavations, as in wells, showed this distinctly. The laterite is what would be called a coarse cabook in Ceylon, fit for cutting out in blocks for building purposes. This is extremely like the disintegrated granite of Hong Kong, but contains more silicate of alumina and oxide of iron, the latter showing in large nodules.\n\nSome excellent pottery clay exists on the slopes of Tai Mo Shan, of which we saw specimens in the village of Un Long, of a light brown colour and extremely fine texture. Brick clay is found in all the valleys, and is used in the form of large sun-dried bricks in many of the village houses and walls.\n\nPossibly beds of primary limestone will be found, but the lime obtained by the burning of shells is sufficient for local needs.",
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        "content_text": "Jaime Shan \n\n22 \n\nThe burning of coral or shells is, as a rule, better for building purposes, so the absence of rock limestone, if such turns out to be the case, does not matter. A lead mine was worked for some years on the side of Tai-Mo Shan, but the working discontinued for some reason about 6 years ago. Galena was also found near Kowloon, and on the north side of Lantao, and elsewhere. These workings should be examined by a mining expert, and the richness of the ore ascertained. The natives also speak of alluvial tin being found. Silver and lead were worked on the south of the island of Lantao within recent years, but without success financially, possibly due rather to Chinese official interference and bad management than to the absence of a paying richness in the ore. Expensive buildings were erected on the sea-shore, and machinery said to have cost 100,000 dollars imported and erected. Even when the speculation collapsed, the plant was valued at $30,000, all of which is said to have been abandoned. Only the foundations and cement floors of some of the buildings remain, and the brick chimney shaft of the smelting works.\n\nOn the Tai Mo Shan range, gneiss, syenite, and trap rocks predominate. Massive boulders of gneiss of a bluish grey or greenish colour are scattered over the mountain side and in the ravines. On the slopes in which the best pasturage is found, there is a stiff yellow clay, with veins of quartz gravel.\n\nThe smaller Lantao Island is chiefly granite on the south face and trap rocks on the north, the latter being consequently much better covered with vegetation and trees. Islands, such as Cheung-chau, P'ing-chau, and Lamma, seem to be almost entirely granite.\n\nIt will be understood that as only 12 days in all were spent in the exploration of the mainland and islands, no accurate or close geological survey was possible; the predominating rocks were judged as much from the stone used in the paved footpaths, stream crossings, sea walls, and houses, as from the bed rocks on the hill sides, usually difficult of access. This geological description of the country is, therefore, of a very sketchy and imperfect character, and a closer and more careful examination by a professional geologist, or an expert in mineralogy, will doubtless bring to light much that has escaped my observation.\n\n## Appendix No. 3.\n\n### TABLE SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF RACES.\n\n| No. | Division | Punti | Hakka | Total Population in each Division | No. of Villages | Population |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 4 | Cn-Long... | 9918 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Punti |  | 5,000 | 4 | 5,000 |\n| 2 | Sham Chun | Punti | 20 | 12,900 |  |  |\n|  |  | Hakka | 6 | 1,180 | 26 | 14,080 |\n| 3 | Sha Tau Kok | Hakka | 51 | 8,530 |  |  |\n|  |  | Punti | 1 | 70 | 55 | 8,600 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 49 | 20,980 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 | 2,040 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 59 | 23,020 |\n| 5 | (How Loon) |  |  |  | 60 | 10,210 |\n|  | Kau Lung (Koudron) | Punti | 22 | 5,830 |  |  |\n| 6 |  | Hakka | 32 | 9,200 | 54 | 15,030 |\n| 7 | Islands | Punti | 5 | 9,150 |  |  |\n|  |  | Hakka | 31 | 4,460 |  |  |\n|  |  | Tanka | 7 | 110 | 43 | 13,720 |\n| Total |  |  |  |  | 423 | 100,320 |\n| 5 | Sheung Ü | Punti |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Hakka | :: | :: | 10 | 23 |\n\n## No. 4\n\n### Report on Appendix\n\nOne of the first and most pressing needs is a good cart road on an easy trace from the shores of Mirs Bay, where it approaches nearest to Kowloon city, over to British Kowloon. Such a road can readily be made as a continuation of the road already constructed on the west side of the peninsula to Mong-kok-tsui. The trace would pass through Tai-kok-tsui and along the sea coast past Lai-chi-kok, Kei-pa-kang, &c., rising by an easy gradient until it passed round the end of the southerly mountain range, and entered the valley leading down towards Sha-tin Inlet in Mirs Bay. Leaving Sha-tin on the right, the trace would pass the villages of Tai-Wai, Cheung-Lung, Fo-tan, and keeping up by Kau-to, drop again to the important centre of Tai-po market, Tai-po Hiu at the head of Tolo harbour. From there, the road should follow the existing Tai-po paths up the valley to the north-west to Sham Chun. The line I have indicated only scales 22 miles on the map, and I am of opinion that a good carriage road trace would turn out to be not more than 25 or 26 miles. I put this road first, as I consider it far and away the most important; it would pass through the centre of the territory, and not only would afford rapid and easy access to Hong Kong markets for villagers with produce to dispose of, but would render the administration of the new territory simple. Besides this, there is daily communication by junks from different points on Mirs Bay with Tai-po-hiu and Sha-wai-tin.\n\nNext in importance, I would put a road from Sham Chün to Sha-au-kok or Starling Inlet. This road would be about 10 miles long and on very easy gradients, the greatest elevation between these two towns being only 80 feet above sea level.\n\nThe road on the east side of British Kowloon through Hung-Ho should be carried on to Kowloon city, and generally following the existing footpath through a low pass in the chain of hills, be continued on to the important town of Sai-Kung on the shores of Port Shelter. This road should eventually be continued across the dividing range to the shore of Tolo Harbour in Mirs Bay.\n\nThe roads so far described should, in my opinion, be what I would designate as second-class carriage roads, 12 feet wide, all rivers and streams permanently bridged with stone or iron structures, stone cross drains, and surfaced with the best gravel or disintegrated rock obtainable locally, all soft ground having a bottoming of large stones; 1 in 18 should be the steepest gradients permitted. On such roads, Chinese ponies in light two-wheeled carriages could readily accomplish 8 miles an hour, bringing Sham-Chun within a three hours' drive of Kowloon. I roughly estimate the cost of such roads at $10,000 a mile, but in the absence of surveys and sections, this must be considered rather of a guess.\n\nBesides these, some good bridle roads should be constructed, the most important being one leaving the first main road above described where it enters the valley leading to Sha-tin, skirting the hills close above Tsun-wan, following the telegraph line path through one of the gaps on Tai-Mo-Shan down into the Pat-heung Valley, and so on to Un-long-hiu and Ping-shan by Kam-tin. A road joining Lung-hau with Sham-Chun would also be desirable. Another useful road would be one connecting Pat-heung Valley with Tai-po-hiu through the Lam-tsün valley, a low ridge of hills between the two making this a simple matter. These bridle roads should be 6 feet wide, with stone culverts over the smaller streams, and paved fords over the larger ones, to save expense in bridging. The gradients should be limited to 1 in 10, but carriage road gradients adopted if possible, with a view to future developments. The natural surface might be left. I estimate that such roads should not cost more than $2,000 a mile.",
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        "content_text": "53\n\n16.\n\nWe recommend that the cost of the upkeep of the Corps be assimilated with the system in force in the United Kingdom, viz:\n\nThe Government paying the following charges.\n\nEstablishment.\n\na. Drill shed, buildings, stores shall be provided and maintained free of cost to the Corps.\n\nb. Adjutant and Quarter Master.\n\nc. Corps Quarter Master Sergeant.\n\nd. Transport, allowance for....\n\ne. Camp allowance $2 per head per diem, for not less than 3 days, and not exceeding 8 days.\n\nf. Ammunition → Gun 7 Pr. R. M. L. Cartridges filled 7 Pr. R. M. L. for instructional purposes.\n\nShells, filled, Common $1,200\n\nShrapnel $2,160\n\nFuzes, percussion 100 $1,000\n\nTime 15 secs 75 150\n\nTubes, friction, copper L. S. short 80 .50 220\n\nAmmunition - Small arms\n\n20 rounds of ball ammunition per head for each efficient, and 5 rounds per head for match shooting for each efficient.\n\n10 rounds of blank ammunition per head for each efficient.\n\n31",
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        "content_text": "# 165\n\n## PRESENT\n\n(60)\n\n15TH MARCH, 1900.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (Sir HENRY BLAKE, G.C.M.G.).\n\nThe Hon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary).\n\nHis EXCELLENCY Major-General GASCOIGNE, C.M.G. (Commanding the Troops).\n\nThe Hon. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer).\n\nThe Hon. R. D. ORMSBY (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.\n\nHon. Dr. HO KAI.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD.\n\nHon. E. R. BELILIOS, C.M.G.\n\nHon. WAT A. YUK.\n\nHon. A. W. BREWIN.\n\nHon. H. C. NICOLLE.\n\nThe Hon. W. MEIGH GOODMAN (Attorney-General).\n\n(61)\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL - If the Standing Law Committee had had the advantage of having the Bill carefully read over, honourable members have not had a reasonable time to consider the important alterations now incorporated in the Bill.\n\nTHE SHELL-COLLECTING CASES.\n\nThe Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD - Then I very much regret to give notice that I shall lay my protest on the table against the ruling of this Council.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL - It will not be necessary for me to repeat the remarks I made before the Council went into committee.\n\nThe Hon. C. P. CHATER seconded, but on the motion being put to the vote, it was lost.\n\nThe Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD announced that at the next meeting of the Council he would move the following resolution: - That the Colonial Secretary lay upon the table a copy of the Crown Leases granted last year to the Lee Hing Company for the dredging and collecting of shells in and around Fattau Chau Island in the New Territory.\n\nThe Standing Law Committee had several meetings, and they proposed a number of amendments. Some of those amendments necessitated the renumbering of the clauses of the Bill.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL laid on the table his report as Chairman of the Standing Law Committee on the New Territories Land Court Bill.\n\n## PAPERS\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table the Coroner's returns for 1899 and the report of the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade for the year 1899.\n\n## THE NEW TERRITORIES REGULATION ORDINANCE\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL begged leave to move the following resolution, of which he had given notice. Whereas by section 6 of the New Territories Ordinance (No. 12 of 1899), it was enacted that the said Ordinance should remain in force for the period of one year from the date of its coming into operation, and for such further period or periods as might, from time to time, be determined by resolution of the Legislative Council: And whereas it is desirable that the said Ordinance should be continued in force for a further period of one year: It is hereby resolved by this Council that the New Territories Regulation Ordinance shall be continued in force for the further period of one year from the 18th day of April, 1900 (inclusive).\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the motion was carried.\n\n## THE CONDITION OF YEE WO STREET\n\nThe Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD announced that at the next meeting of the Council he would ask the following question: Has the attention of the Hon. The Director of Public Works been directed to the dangerous condition of Yee Wo Street at the corner of Mr. Kennedy's Horse Repository at Causeway Bay and alongside the site of the proposed new Laundry to be erected there?\n\nThe Council then went into committee to consider the original Bill clause by clause.\n\nThe Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD - I rise to move that the Council resume in order that members may have the opportunity of considering this new Bill.",
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        "content_text": "( 64 )\n\nmade by the Magistrate or by the summary actions of the Police.\n\n## THE CONDITION OF YEE WOO STREET\n\nNo. Bos. T H. WHITEHEAD had given notice of the following question: Has the attention of the Honourable the Director of Public Works been directed to the dangerous condition of Yee Woo Street at the corner of Mr. Kennedy's Horse Repository at Causeway Bay and alongside the site of the proposed new Laundry to be erected there; and to the fact that the south-east boundary stone of the latter lot projects some six inches above the level of the ground and has been placed well nigh in the middle of the road; and to the fact that on the south side a drain has been dug of considerable depth, without any protection; and will the Honourable member inform the Council why this state of matters is permitted to continue?\n\nThe **DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS** replied as follows: The question seems to refer, not to Yee Wo Street, in which no trench has been dug or boundary stone fixed, but to an unfinished road now under construction, leading to Tai Hang village. The trench, 10 feet in depth, was opened in order that a water-main might be extended, the extension being rendered necessary by the sale of land in the neighbourhood. The boundary stone is not in the middle of any road, but correctly marks the boundary of land sold some time ago. While a road is in an incomplete state, the persons who elect to use it must necessarily suffer some inconvenience.\n\n## THE SHELL-COLLECTING CASES\n\nThe Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD: I rise to move the resolution standing in my name, which runs as follows: That the Honourable the Colonial Secretary lay upon the table a copy of the Crown Leases granted last autumn to the Lee Hing Company for the dredging and collecting of shells in and around Ping Chau Island in the New Territory, asked for in my question of 15th February last. On the 15th of last month in this Council I asked for the production of the Crown lease in question. Your Excellency then said, \"I do not see anything in the question about a copy of the lease. The honourable member can, however, see a copy of the lease.\" I applied for a copy of the lease verbally to the Clerk of Councils, and in reply, I was referred to the Land Office, where I was told I could see a copy. I submit, sir, that it is scarcely fair treatment for a member of this Council to be asked to go to a department of Government when he desires that a copy of a public paper should be laid on the table. I did not ask for the lease in question for my own information or for my own personal use. I ask for it for the information and guidance of the Council generally. I submit that we have a right to a copy of the Crown lease in order that we may see whether the instructions of the Secretary of State have been carried out.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY**: I do not think the honourable member's recollection of what took place on the 15th February is quite accurate. It is true Your Excellency said there was no objection to his seeing the lease, and I suggested to the honourable member that he could see the lease at the Land Office. He does not appear to have done so, and since he was informed to that effect, a suit has been instituted in the Supreme Court bearing upon that lease, and it does not seem at all desirable now to lay on the table a document which is fully the subject of litigation.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR: As the Acting Colonial Secretary has stated, this lease is the subject of litigation at the present moment, and the honourable member will see that to produce this lease here would be really to invite the Legislative Council to undertake the executive work of the Colony, which, I think, is very undesirable. If there is anything improper in the lease, the Court will set it right. If anything is before the Court, the Court is the proper place to consider it. It does not seem to me to be desirable to lay it before the Council. As the Colonial Secretary has stated, a copy of the lease can be seen at any time in the Land Office by anybody.\n\nThe Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD: That being so, I do not see what prevents the Government from laying a copy on the table. I believe it is within my right to go to the Land Office, pay a fee, and get a copy, but a member of the Council should not have to go there and follow such a course.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR: Does the honourable gentleman wish to divide?\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY**: I wish to point out that the resolution has not been seconded.\n\n## THE NEW TERRITORIES LAND COURT BILL\n\nThe **ATTORNEY GENERAL** proposed the third reading of a Bill entitled an Ordinance to facilitate the hearing, determination, and settlement of land claims in the New Territories, to establish a Land Court, and for other purposes.\n\nThe **COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded.\n\nThe Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD: I beg to move as an amendment that the Bill be re-committed. 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        "content_text": "# DESPATCH\n\ndo not understand why J. have not received further information on the subject.\n\n**Governor. No.** Take 192 1901 21 May\n\n**Last previous Paper. No.** 21462 (Subject.) 113 1769\n\nRight of Crown to grant Leases of nature of that granted to Lautas manie Lot 2 \"to have right to search for and obtain coral & shell\" referred to Judgment of Court against; appeal has been abandoned but enquiry as to whether it cannot be raised in some other form.\n\n**Mr. Risky**  \n**Mh.. Thurn**  \n**(Minutes.)**  \nSee also 21763\n\nThe principles involved in this case are of importance and interest and refer to L.O. A..F. (by this casting voli)\n\nThe Chief Justice upheld the alleged customary right for the community to dredge for shells & coral as against the Crown lease granted by the Governor. This judgment impugns the validity of this and other Crown leases but I do not see how it can be revised except on appeal to the P.C.\n\n? Proceed  \n*proposed J.S.R. 27/6* on & Lucas\n\nThis case ought, I think, to have been appealed to the Privy Council.",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 2/May, 1901.\n\nI have the honour to report the following matter for your consideration.\n\n2. On the 14th October, 1899, and 20th December, 1899, I leased two pieces or parcels of ground covered by the sea, situated to the East of the Island of Lantao, which, with the leased sites, became British Territory under the Convention of June, 1898.\n\n3. These leases were granted for a term of five years from the 7th October, 1899, at the yearly rental of One Thousand Dollars and Three Hundred Dollars respectively.\n\n4. In the one case, the lease was granted for \"searching for and obtaining coral from the bed of the sea and so as not to interfere with fishing and navigation\". In the other case, the right granted included the searching and obtaining shells as well as coral.\n\n4. With these preliminary remarks, I pass on to relate the course of events in respect of the Lease of the site designated as Lantao Marine Lot No. 2, granted on 20th December at an annual rental of Three Hundred Dollars and conferring a right to search for and obtain coral or shells.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,  \n&c., &c.\n\nbut I don't see how this can now be done, if the parties do not bring it there. The fort was not a party and not appealed. I do not see much force in consulting 40 but I will test that argument. Steps should be taken if possible in another case to bring the question before the highest Court of appeal.\n\nHBL 2916  \nC.PL 29  \nat once  \nNo. 192.",
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        "content_text": "## Lease Agreement\n\nThe Lessees agrees that they will during the said term duly and punctually pay the said rent clear of all deductions as aforesaid; \nAnd also that they will during the said term pay all Taxes, Rates, charges and assessments whatsoever which shall be assessed or charged upon or in respect of the said premises; \nAnd that at the end or sooner determination of the said term they will peaceably deliver up the same to the Lessor; \nAnd further that the Lessee will not erect or allow to be erected any buildings on any portion of the said premises, nor use the same for any purpose other than for dredging, obtaining coral or shells from the bed of the sea, and so as not to interfere with fishing and navigation.\n\nAnd it is hereby provided and agreed that in case the said rent shall be in arrear and unpaid for more than Twenty-one days, whether lawfully demanded or not, or in case of the breach or non-performance by the Lessee of any of the conditions or agreements herein contained, it shall be lawful for the Lessor to re-enter and re-possess the said premises and to determine the tenancy hereby created.\n\nIN WITNESS whereof the said Sir Henry Arthur Blake for and on behalf of Her said Majesty hath hereunto set his hand and the Lessee have hereunto set their hand the day and year first above written.\n\n| Signature | Title/Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chau Kwai |  |\n| Lai Hok Taun |  |\n| Bruce Shepherd | Deputy Land Officer |\n| J. & Wong | Clerk Land Office |\n\nitness to the Signature of Chau Kwai \nkhi ani Lai Hok Taun.\n4/ Bruce Shepherd. \nDeputy Land Officer.\nC. sop. J. & Wong. \nClerk Land office \n\n25 周桂樵 \n55 黎鶴佺 \n\nthe said rent becoming due on the 25th day of December one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine and the first whole half-yearly payment of the said rent becoming due on the 24th day of June one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 2\n\n## Extract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" dated 30th June, 1900\n\n### SUPREME COURT\n\n#### 29th June\n\n**BEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON, C.M.G. (CHIEF JUSTICE) AND HIS HONOUR, T. SERCOMBE SMITH (PUISNE JUDGE)**\n\n**THE SHELL CASE-THE JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT**\n\nJudgment was given in the Shell Case. The Chief Justice said-By their petition the plaintiffs alleged that by an agreement dated the 20th December, 1899, the Crown agreed to lease to them a piece of ground covered by the sea and registered in the Land Office of the Colony as Lantao Marine Lot No. 2 for a term of five years from the 7th October, 1899, at the annual rent of $300, and that one of the conditions of the agreement was that the plaintiffs should use the said premises for the purpose only of searching for and obtaining coral or shells from the bed of the sea. They further alleged that on the 12th January, 1900, the defendant trespassed upon the said premises and took therefrom coral and shells, the property of the plaintiffs, and converted them to his own use. And they claimed damages of $100 for the trespass and conversion.\n\nBy his answer the defendant set up several defences, the principal of which, and the one most relied on at the hearing, was that, from a time exceeding the limits of living memory, Chinese fishermen had, without hindrance and in exercise of their lawful rights, taken by dredging the natural products of the sea, well from the leased premises as from the adjacent and surrounding waters and the land beneath such waters; that the said premises are situate within the district leased to Her Majesty the Queen by His Majesty the Emperor of China by and subject to the conditions contained in the Convention dated the 9th June, 1898; that it is a term of the Convention that there shall be no expropriation of the inhabitants of the leased district; and that the defendant was an inhabitant of the said district and had a right to take the natural products of the sea, including coral and shells, from the said premises.\n\nAt the hearing the facts of the case were for the most part not in dispute. The plaintiffs seemed to have been engaged in the business of procuring dead shells, dredged up from the waters of the sea, for the purpose of lime-burning for some time before they obtained the agreement for a lease which is referred to in their petition. This agreement-which, by the way, purports to be executed by the plaintiffs, but is not so executed-was intended to place them in possession, for the purposes already mentioned, of a submarine area, measuring nearly three miles in length by about a mile and a half in breadth-inclusive, however, of a considerable island-close to the little island of Chan Kung, on the eastern side of the large island of Lantao. It is admitted that this area is within the limits of the territorial waters of the leased district. From this area the plaintiffs took marine shells for use in their business, by means of junks and boats engaged by them for the purpose. They also gave permission to the owners of other junks and boats to take shells from the leased premises, on condition of their being paid one Caudareem per picul for all shells so taken. Finding their alleged exclusive rights of dredging invaded by others without permission obtained from them, the plaintiffs in January last made complaint to the Police authorities, with the result that on the 12th January Sergeant Kerr, of the Water Police, found five junks dredging for shells within the limits of the area under lease. Of one of these junks the defendant was the owner and master. After ascertaining that the junks were dredging without the permission of the plaintiffs, Sergeant Kerr took the junks with the persons on board of them to the Police Station at Tsim Sha Tsui. There it was found that the junks had on board greater or less quantities of dead marine shells, the defendant stating that his junk carried 14 piculs. Mr. Slade admitted that these shells had been dredged up by the defendant from the leased premises to be used in the burning of lime. The persons in charge of the junks were charged with stealing the shells, but in the result they were discharged at the Police Court, and their junks and the shells in question were subsequently delivered up to them. Civil proceedings were then instituted against them by the plaintiffs, and it was arranged between the parties that the alleged exclusive right of the plaintiffs should be tested in the present suit.\n\nAt the hearing, evidence was given by Mr. Bruce Shepherd, the Land Officer, that claims had been made at the Land Office in respect of similar leases to the one now in question, alleged to have been granted by the Chinese authorities. It was said that these claims had been substantiated by documentary evidence-grants by the Chinese Government-which had been lodged in the Land Office. Mr. Shepherd said that these claims had been noted, but there had been no recognition of them beyond the receipt of rent in respect of them. The documents spoken of were not produced, and no further evidence was forthcoming as to their authenticity, their terms, or their effect. In these circumstances I am unable to think that there is any satisfactory evidence before the Court to show that, prior to the cession of the leased district, the Chinese Government claimed and exercised the right of granting within the district leases of a similar character to that the validity of which is now challenged in this suit.\n\nOn the other hand, in the course of the hearing the parties agreed upon and filed the following admission of fact: \"It is admitted that Chinese fishermen have been in the habit of dredging for shells and coral, for the purposes of lime-burning, from Lantao Marine Lot No. 2 openly and believing themselves entitled as of right so to do, without interference by anyone, from the limits of living memory until the granting of the lease of the above Lot.\"\n\nI am satisfied by the evidence before the Court that the defendant is a Chinese fisherman and also that he was, at the time of the alleged trespass, an inhabitant of the leased district. Further, I find that, as such fisherman and inhabitant, he was, at the time of the execution of the agreement, in the enjoyment without hindrance, in common with other Chinese fishermen, of what he and they believed to be a right to win from the leased premises coral and shells and to appropriate them to his own use as material for lime-burning.\n\nThe parties, then, standing in this relation to one another so far as the facts are concerned, it remains to determine what are their legal relations as arising out of these facts.\n\nBy the Order of the Queen-in-Council of the 20th October, 1898, it was declared that the territories within the limits and for the term described in the Convention should be part and parcel of the Colony. Apart then from the question raised by the defence of the pre-existent right to dredge for and remove marine shells from the leased premises, it may be taken-although, as will be seen hereafter, the matter is not free from doubt-that it was competent for the Crown to let the submarine area in question to the plaintiffs, subject, however, to the rights of free naviga...",
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        "content_text": "126 \n\nThe plaintiffs claim lawful and exclusive possession of a leased area for the purpose of searching for and obtaining coral and shells, subject to public rights reserved by an agreement, including navigation and fishing by the public in the waters covering that area. These public rights are expressly reserved by the agreement. By virtue of the agreement, the plaintiffs are prima facie in lawful and exclusive possession of the leased area, subject to the reserved public rights. The defendant sets up an alleged right by custom to take coral and shells from this very area, in derogation of the exclusive right which the agreement purports to confer on the plaintiffs. It is plain that the onus lies on him to establish this defence, and that, in default of his so doing, he must be regarded as a trespasser. The question then is, do the facts as proved in evidence have the effect in point of law of establishing this defence?\n\nI am unable to see how this question can be determined in accordance with the strict rules of English law. For the leased district became subject to English law by virtue only of a Proclamation of the Governor made under the above-mentioned Order-in-Council, while the alleged right in the defendant and his fellows was in existence at the date of the Order-in-Council and for a long antecedent period. If the rules of English law are applied in their strictness, it would seem that the alleged right of Chinese fishermen or of the inhabitants of the leased district—involving, as it does, a claim of a right to remove what is practically part of the soil of the leased premises—cannot be supported, for it was laid down in Gateward's Case, 6 Co. Rep. 59 b, that \"there cannot be a custom for inhabitants as such, to have profit à prendre in the soil of another.\" The authority of this case was recognized in Goodman v. Mayor of Saltash, 7 App. Cas. 633. There, the facts as stated in a special case were that a prescriptive right to a several oyster fishery in a navigable tidal river was proved to have been exercised from time immemorial by a borough corporation and its lessees, without any qualification except that the free inhabitants of ancient tenements in the borough had, from time immemorial, and claiming as of right, exercised the privilege of dredging for oysters in the locus in quo from the 2nd of February to Easter Eve in each year, and of catching and carrying away the same without stint for sale and otherwise. This usage of the inhabitants tended to the destruction of the fishery, and if continued would destroy it. Lord Selborne L.C., said, at p. 641: \"If it were necessary that the class to which the appellants belong (namely, the free inhabitants of ancient tenements in the borough) should make out a right to a profit à prendre in alieno solo, I should be of opinion that they could not do so. Gateward's Case is a conclusive authority against such a claim by such a class, unless made through a corporation under its corporate title.\" And Lord Cairns said, at p. 643: \"I think it also clear that a fluctuating and uncertain body cannot claim a profit à prendre in alieno solo.\"\n\nBut I can discover no good reason for saying that this technical rule should be held applicable in the present case, with the result of defeating the alleged right of Chinese fishermen and of the inhabitants of the leased district. For that alleged right is founded upon a custom which has had its origin and has grown up under Chinese law, and its absolute validity or otherwise can properly be determined only by reference to the rules of that law.\n\nWhat those rules are on this subject we do not know, and we cannot therefore apply them to test the alleged right. No evidence with respect to them has been given on the one side or on the other.\n\nBut we find the alleged right actively claimed and exercised at the present day, and with a history of peaceful enjoyment reaching as far back as living memory extends. And while I lay out of view the technical rule to which reference has just been made, and which I cannot believe to be applicable to the circumstances of the present case, I think there are certain general principles of English law which may usefully and justly be employed in estimating the validity of this claim of right. It is well known that our law, in common no doubt with other systems of jurisprudence, has always regarded with favour the long-continued and unquestioned possession or user of property or proprietary rights. I will refer to a few cases in illustration of this position, where the circumstances have more or less resemblance to the circumstances of the present case.\n\nBefore the Prescription Act, 1832, there was a recognized custom of making claim to easements, by which the right was based upon a grant made and lost in modern times, in all cases where the enjoyment had lasted without interruption for twenty years. Although such evidence of title was in theory only presumption, yet in practice it was conclusive. And even since the Act, if a party, instead of depending upon the statute-law, relies (as he may do) upon common-law presumption, or a lost grant, enjoyment for a less period than the statutory number of years, when coupled with other circumstances, will warrant a jury in finding a verdict in his favour: Taylor on Evidence, s. 126.\n\nIn Hanmer v. Chance, 4 De G., J., and S. 626, which was decided in 1865, the question was as to a custom for copyhold tenants of a manor to dig and remove sand, etc., from their tenements. Lord Westbury L.C., said, at p. 685: \"The law has laid down no rule as to the extent of evidence which is required to establish a custom or from which the presumption or inference of the fact of a custom may be rightly drawn. It is the province of a jury to draw these conclusions of fact, but in several reported cases the Courts have refused to disturb the verdicts of juries as to a custom in a manor, even when founded on very slender evidence... The acts of the copyholders have been open and notorious, and it is hardly to be supposed, if there was no custom, that they would have remained unchallenged by the lord, inasmuch as if unwarranted they would have formed a cause of forfeiture by the copyholders of their tenements, and the lord therefore has always had the strongest interest to take advantage of the acts done.\" And the Lord Chancellor reversed the decree of Page Wood, V.C., holding that \"a jury would be not only warranted but bound upon the evidence of the defendants to find in favour of the custom.\" In Doe dem. Devine v. Wilson, 10 Moore P.C.C. 502, objection was taken to a Crown grant for uncertainty, and it was held by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that, in such a case, after long modern possession, a supplementary and confirmatory grant might be presumed. This decision was followed in Des Barres v. Shey, 29 L. T. (N. S.) 592, which was also decided by the Judicial Committee.\n\nIn Attorney General for British Honduras v. Bristowe, 6 App. Cas. 143, which was a case of an information for intrusion relating to land in British Honduras, the opinion of the Judicial Committee was thus expressed by Sir Montague Smith: \"Assuming then the conclusion of fact to be established, as their Lordships think it is, that in the interval which elapsed between the retirement of the Spaniards in 1798 and the assumption of territorial sovereignty by the British Crown, full possession of the land had been taken by the devisees [the predecessors in title of the defendants], and that such possession had been continued by them and their assignees down to the date of the filing of the information...\"",
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        "content_text": "128 \n\nground that annexation is an act of State and any obligation assumed under a treaty to that effect, either to the ceding sovereign or to individuals, is not one which municipal courts are authorized to enforce.\n\nI have carefully examined these cases, and I am bound to say that in the last case especially the language of the judgment is very comprehensive. But, on the best consideration that I can give to them, I have come to the conclusion that these cases are distinguishable from the case now before the Court. In the cases cited, an attempt was made to enforce an obligation alleged to grow directly out of the act of State or to obtain redress for a wrong alleged to be involved directly in such act. And the proceedings in those cases were taken by private persons against the sovereign committing the act of State. But in the present case, the subject-matter of the suit is not connected directly but only indirectly with the act of State, and the proceedings are by two private persons against another private person. It is alleged by the plaintiffs that a private right has been created in their favour by the Crown and that the defendant has invaded that right, to which it is answered by the defendant that the Crown had no power to create the right in question to his prejudice. It appears to me that in such a case it is competent for a municipal court to inquire into and determine the question whether the sovereign had the power to create the right that is sought to be enforced, even although such inquiry may involve an examination and interpretation of a convention with another sovereign. I think perhaps also that a distinction may be drawn between the acts of State in the cases cited and that in the present case. In those cases, there was annexation pure and simple and the Crown assumed complete sovereignty of the territories annexed; in the present case, there is only a lease for a term of years and the Crown has only a limited or qualified sovereignty in the leased district. The Convention is its document of title to the district, and the lands in the district are held subject to that title. For these reasons, I am of opinion that the Court is not debarred from entertaining the objection taken by the defendant to the title of the plaintiffs and founded on the Convention, and I therefore proceed to consider the terms and effect of the Convention, so far as it bears on this matter now in litigation.\n\nThe Convention was executed by representatives of Her Majesty the Queen and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and was to take effect from the 1st July, 1898. The preamble and the first clause read as follows: \"Whereas it has for many years past been recognized that an extension of Hongkong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the Colony: It has now been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged under lease to the extent indicated generally on the annexed map. The term of this lease shall be 99 years.\" Then follow clauses containing stipulations of various kinds, for the most part directed to the protection or reservation of certain rights of Chinese officials and people. And the fifth clause is in the following terms: - \"It is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or like official purposes, it shall be bought at a fair price.\"\n\nWhat, then, is the meaning of this clause? Has it the effect, as contended for by the defendant, of limiting or controlling the power and discretion of the Crown in relation to the rights of property of the inhabitants of the leased district? Let us see what is the exact meaning of \"expropriation.\" The word is defined as \"the act of dispossessing an owner, either wholly or to a limited extent, of his property or proprietary rights.\" It is clear that the intention of the Chinese Government, in causing such a stipulation to be embodied in the Convention, was to ensure that their subjects in the territory to be handed over to Great Britain should be secured in the enjoyment, free from deprivation or interference by any person, of their rights of property and of residence in the territory. The power of expropriation was to be limited to the sole case of land required for public purposes, it being provided that land so required should be bought \"at a fair price.\" In the present instance, I think that the granting to the plaintiffs of an exclusive right to the use and possession of the submarine area comprised in Lautao Marine Lot No. 2 amounted to an expropriation of the defendant in respect of his right of taking and appropriating coral and shells from that area. And when the plaintiffs' title is challenged on this ground, I think the answer must be that the Crown had no power to confer such title.\n\nAs to the general right of the Crown to make a lease or grant of land covered by the sea within the territorial limits, in Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown and the Privileges of the Subject in the Sea Shores of the Realm, at p. 6, it is said: \"The title of the King of England to the land or soil aquâ maris cooperta is similar to his title to all the terra firma in his dominions, as the first and original proprietor and lord paramount.\" The area of England has become, almost entirely, the property (by grant and tenure) of the subject. But the terra aquâ maris cooperta still remains to the King in wide and barren ownership. Some rare and antique instances may indeed be found of actual grants, by Kings of England, of certain portions of land under the sea, i.e., of both sea and land, to a certain extent. These grants have been made in such places where some creek or bay has afforded the means of exclusive possession.\" And the author proceeds to quote a text writer who says it is very disputable whether such grants can be effectively made. From all which it would seem that the right of making such grants, assuming it to exist, is in abeyance in modern times. In The Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, s.v. \"Prerogative,\" it is said: \"Even so there remain in the books a large number of prerogative powers, which, though never formally repealed, are now never exercised. Laws in England are not abrogated by desuetude, but the revival of disused prerogatives would be regarded with great jealousy.\" And this leads me to say that when a question of right is raised in a court of law, that question must be determined with reference to legal considerations alone, and its determination cannot be influenced or affected by any political considerations which may be involved in the case. But, having regard to the special and unusual circumstances of this case, I may perhaps be excused for doing some attention to two official expressions of opinion which seem to have some bearing on the matter in hand. On the 8th October, 1898, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, Colonial Secretary of the Colony, acting as Special Commissioner for that purpose, made to the Colonial Office an elaborate Report on the Extension of the Colony of Hongkong.\" The concluding paragraph of that report is in the following terms: \"In conclusion, it may, I trust, be gathered from the account of the new territory that it will form a valuable extension of Hongkong. It is favourably situated, has good harbours with safe anchorages, possesses a rich soil, and is inhabited by an industrious, hardy, and frugal race. Under Chinese rule, enterprise has been at a discount, and progress has been at a standstill.\"",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 3\n130\nExtract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" dated 2nd July, 1900.\n\n## THE SHELL CASE\n## THE ACTING PUISNE JUDGE'S FINDING\n\nIn our issue on Saturday we gave the Chief Justice's finding in the Shell Case, and stated that while the Chief Justice found for the defendant, the Acting Puisne Judge found for the plaintiff.\n\nThe Acting Puisne Judge said:- The conclusion at which I have arrived in this case is, I regret to say, at variance with the conclusion arrived at by the Chief Justice. Having had an opportunity of reading that judgment, I adopt that portion of it which is introductory and sets out the facts of the case.\n\nBy a Convention dated 9th June, 1898, it was agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory should be enlarged under lease. In pursuance of the Convention, a certain portion of Chinese territory which includes the locus in quo in the present case, was leased to Great Britain from 1st July, 1898.\n\nAs lessee of the locus in quo the Government of Hongkong on the 20th December, 1899, sublet that locus in quo to the plaintiff firm with the right to search for and obtain coral or shells from the bed of the sea, but so as not to interfere with fishing and navigation.\n\nUnder this lease the plaintiff firm sues the defendant for damages for trespass and conversion, to which defendant pleads that he has a right to take coral and shells because he had that right before 1st July, 1898, is an inhabitant of the leased territory, and is protected by the Convention from being expropriated or dispossessed of that right.\n\nDuring the hearing of the case counsel for plaintiffs admitted that Chinese fishermen had been in the habit of dredging for shells and coral for the purpose of lime-burning from Lantan M.L. 2 (the locus in quo), openly and believing themselves entitled as of right so to do, without interference by any one, from the limits of living memory until the granting of the lease of the above lot.\n\nWhen looked at, this admission is nothing more than an admission of a habit; and, as such, may be evidence to help establish a right. But until the habit, either by itself or in company with other evidence, establishes a right, it remains a habit and cannot be styled a right.\n\nBefore defendant can successfully set up that he has been expropriated by the granting of the lease of 20th December, 1899, he must prove that he has been dispossessed of a right which he enjoyed under Chinese municipal law before 1st July, 1898. Moreover, he must establish that right by recourse to Chinese municipal law. Admitting that the defendant and his brother-fishermen have been in the habit from time immemorial of taking coral and shells without let or hindrance from the fundus maris belonging to the Emperor of China, he has yet to show that by the municipal laws of China such a proved habit has created a right in him and his comrades which he could maintain in a Chinese court. That proof has not been forthcoming. And since the right must be proved by Chinese law, it follows that no principles of English law may be utilised to prove that by analogy or directly, a right existed under Chinese law.\n\nThe only other source of law available is public international law; but that governs the relation of nations inter se, and is not a guide on questions affecting the relations of a sovereign and his subject, which are regulated by municipal law.\n\nNotwithstanding however that the defendant has no cause to complain of an expropriation guarded against in the Convention, it may be that, since 1st July, 1898, when the locus in quo became a portion of the leased territorial land and waters of Her Majesty the Queen, the defendant has, as a subject of Her Majesty, acquired certain rights of which the lease of the 20th December, 1899, deprived him. The rights of sovereign and subject in respect of the newly acquired territorial waters may be said briefly to be that the Crown has the right of ownership in such waters and the bed of such waters subject to the public right of navigation and anchoring in them; and that the Crown has also the rights of fishing subject to a right of a common fishery in the subject.\n\nIt is contended for the defendant not that rights of navigation or of anchorage have been infringed but that the right of a common fishery has been infringed, because such right carried with it a right to the bottom of the sea and therefore to the contents of that bottom. That however was a mere statement of counsel unsupported by authority. There are several reasons against this view. First it is incontestable that the fundus maris in territorial waters is vested absolutely in the Crown: this absolute ownership of the soil carries with it the absolute ownership of what is found on, in or under the soil; and I can find nothing to countenance the idea that the subject has, by common law or in any other way, a right to joint-ownership in the fundus maris or to participation in its products. Next, the right of a common fishery enjoyed by the public is a floating liberty of fishery with nets, hooks, etc., and is the right of fishing in the sea and public rivers open to all the public (see Hall on Seashore, pp. 50, 51, 52, 2nd edition). Thirdly, the shells taken by the defendant were dead shells or the shells of fish destroyed by natural causes before capture. In the case of Bagot v. Orr, 5 R.R. 668, the Court, while laying down that prima facie every subject had a right to take fish upon the sea-shore, paused before it would establish a general right to take shells in the absence of authority to support a claim of a right to take shells. A fortiori, it appears to me, should this Court pause before establishing, in the absence of supporting authority, a general right to take shells from the fundus maris. The distinction drawn between fish and shells is a clear one. A common fishery, being a right to take fish in the sea and public rivers open to all the public, does not, therefore, in the light of Bagot v. Orr, include a right to take dead shells.\n\nIn my judgment, accordingly, defendant has failed to show either that he has been dispossessed of a right which he enjoyed prior to 1st July, 1898, or that he has been deprived of any right which accrued to him on and after that date. I am also of opinion that the Crown, as absolute owner of the fundus maris in question, was not prevented by any known rule of law from granting to the plaintiffs the rights conferred by the lease of 20th December, 1899.\n\nI hold, therefore, that the plaintiffs are entitled to ten dollars as damages and to their costs of the suit.",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 4\n\n## Minute by Mr. Goodman (Attorney-General) on the (so called) Shell Case\n\nAs I was Acting Chief Justice of Hongkong from 3rd April, 1899, to 8th February, 1900, I had nothing to do with the granting of the Lease of the Submarine Area known as Lantao Marine Lot No. 2 for the purpose of taking Coral and Shells.\n\nThe Lease, which was for 5 years from 7th October, 1899, at an annual rent of $300, was dated 20th December, 1899, and was granted apparently at the suggestion of Mr. Bruce Shepherd, the Deputy Land Officer, who is an Officer of considerable experience. It does not appear that either the Acting Attorney-General or the Crown Solicitor was consulted in the matter.\n\nNo doubt, it originated in the natural desire to obtain at least some small revenue from the New Territories, the expense of policing and opening out which falls upon the Hongkong Government, while the revenue derived is extremely small and must continue to be so until the Land Court has got to work and decided upon the claims to, and in respect of land in those territories.\n\nNo doubt Leases of this kind are unusual, but as the ordinary rights of navigation and fishing are reserved in favour of the public, and as, in my opinion, there cannot be according to English Law a valid legal custom for Chinese fishermen to take profits à prendre, such as Coral and dead Shells, from the bed of the Sea which, in the 'locus in quo' is vested in the Crown, I am not prepared to say the Lease by the Crown is not valid.\n\nThe Lessees having commenced obtaining Coral and Shells for their lime burning business in the leased premises, found that certain persons, of whom the Defendant was one, trespassed on their preserves and dredged up and appropriated these products and declined to pay any royalty. Thereupon, in January, 1900, the Lessees took proceedings in the Police Court and as, I presume, the Magistrate held things embedded in and attached to the soil were not the subjects of larceny in the absence of statutory enactment making them so, the Lessees failed in those proceedings.\n\nThereupon, acting upon the advice of their Solicitors the Lessees commenced an action of trespass and conversion claiming $100 damages, &c.\n\nThe amount being under $1,000 the Plaintiffs proceeded under the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (Ordinance 14 of 1873) and the Writ was issued on 17th February, 1900. As, however, the Judge desired, in this case, written pleadings, the Petition was filed on 28th February. I find the answer was not filed till 18th March, 1900. In the ordinary course of things the Paisne Judge would have decided the Case, but in this instance (I suppose by consent) the Chief Justice appears to have directed the Suit to be heard before the Full Court instead. He would have power to do so under Section 17 of Ordinance 12 of 1873.",
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        "content_text": "## 8.\n\nThe first knowledge I had of these legal proceedings arose from the Minute of the Acting Colonial Secretary dated 21st February, 1900, when I was asked to answer the Land Officer's question as to \"what process of Law was available to Crown Lessees to protect their Crown Leased grounds from piracy in order that Grants of Crown Leases signed by His Excellency and issued from the Land Office may be properly safeguarded?\" I then made some enquiries about the matter and wrote my Minute of 29th February, 1900.\n\n## 9.\n\nMy Minute was as follows (to the Honourable Colonial Secretary): \"I take it the Lessee would have to bring an action of trespass and conversion. This has been done in the Summary Court. The Petition in Court was filed on 26th February and I am waiting to see the Answer and whether the Defendants' Counsel tries to raise the question of the right of the Crown to grant such Leases. If you will kindly return these papers to me I will get a copy of the Defendants' Answer when it is filed. Till the Case is decided I should grant no more of these Leases. Indeed, in any case, I doubt whether it would not be more expedient to issue Licenses at a proper fee to those desirous of dredging for Coral, Shells &c. and passing an Ordinance preventing unlicensed persons from dredging.”\n\n**(Sa.) W. Meith Goodman.**  \n23.8.1900.\n\n## 10.\n\nI am now sorry the papers were not sent back to me. The Answer was not filed till 16th March; I had nothing specially to remind me of the matter. I had no notice when the case was to come on, or that it was to be heard by the Full Court, and it was not till I saw one of our ordinary local Newspapers reports of the case having been heard on 23rd May that I saw that some alleged customary right on the part of Chinese fishermen to dredge for Coral and Shells in the locus in quo and adjacent parts had been set up. On Saturday 30th June, the Judgment of the Chief Justice was reported in the Newspaper and on Monday July 2nd, the Judgment of the Acting Puisne Judge. These Judgments appear to have been delivered on Friday 29th June.\n\n## 11.\n\nThe Chief Justice near the end of his Judgment says: \"I regret the Crown was not represented at the hearing since the validity of the Lease granted by it to the Plaintiffs has been called in question.\" It would have been easy for the Court when it found out this at the hearing to have directed that notice should have been given to the Crown Solicitor or to have asked the parties whether such notice had been given. It was too late when the Judgment has been given for the Attorney-General to appear.\n\n## 13.\n\nPassing to the Judgments themselves I observe that the Puisne Judge finds in favour of the Plaintiffs while the Chief Justice finds for the Defendants. In these circumstances the Chief Justice has a \"double or casting vote\" in virtue of Section 19 of Ordinance 12 of 1873.",
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        "content_text": "135\n\nlikely to file a Petition for leave to appeal to the Privy Council. If so, the Petition must be filed today as the 14 days expire on 13th July. Whether they will succeed in obtaining such leave, I do not know.\"\n\n20.\n\nOf course, in one sense, the decision being \"res inter alios acta\" does not bind the Crown, but it would seem from Reed v. Jackson, 8 Revised Reports p. 383 (1 East p. 355) that if the Plaintiffs, who are the Crown Lessees, sued any other Chinese fishermen, the Judgment in the suit which I am discussing might be given in evidence as a decision on the question of the existence of a customary right on the part of Chinese fishermen to take Coral and Shells from the locus in quo, it being a decision regarding \"a custom\". 31.\n\nIn all the circumstances, as the Crown granted the Lease, I think the Plaintiffs have some 'moral' claim for assistance of a pecuniary kind in asserting their rights when the validity of their Lease vis-a-vis the Defendant is called in question. Possibly they could not legally recover, as the implied contract for quiet possession would only be against persons claiming by, through, or under the Lessor (i.e., the Crown), and the Defendant claims against the Crown, unless, indeed, it were held that the Convention to which the Crown was a party gave the Defendant his right.\"\n\nThat question wants some consideration, and I do not discuss it fully now. * 32.\n\nIt will be well to see what comes of the Plaintiffs' Petition to the Supreme Court for leave to appeal to the Privy Council before considering whether the Judgment is of sufficient importance to warrant an application being made to the Privy Council itself for special leave to appeal. If such an application was made on behalf of the Crown, it might be urged that the Crown was not a party to the Suit below, but if the Plaintiffs in the Suit below made the Application, no such difficulty would be present, and the principles involved are certainly of considerable importance as to the rights of the Crown.\n\nJuly 13th, 1990.\n\n(Sd.). Meigh Goodman,  \nAttorney-General",
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        "content_text": "4. The most extensive reclamations hitherto carried out, as for instance the Praya Reclamation now nearing completion, have been undertaken under statutory authority.\n\nIn the vast majority of the cases in which such authority has not been obtained, the interference with rights has been so insignificant as to occasion little or no inconvenience and to call forth no complaint.\n\n5. It is, however, desirable to obtain statutory validity for such past Crown leases as have, to any extent, interfered with public or private rights, and also to obtain statutory authority for the granting in the future of Crown leases of portions of the foreshore or bed of the sea in cases where the Governor in Council considers such leases expedient.\n\n6. The proviso in section 2 is inserted to prevent any interference ex post facto with a judgment of the Supreme Court regarding Lantao Marine Lot No. 2, in which case the Court held that a Crown Lease could not operate so as to deprive certain fishermen of their prescriptive right to take coral and shells from the sea.\n\n7. The further proviso in section 3 is to make it clear that it is not intended to interfere with the rights, or alleged rights, of holders of Lots, with regard to sea access in front of their respective lots.\n\n8. When the agreement for granting a lease requires the laying out of certain sums in building, &c., within a certain time, the actual granting of the lease is usually held over till the conditions have been fulfilled. This is why it has been deemed necessary to insert the words \"and all agreements for the grant of such leases.\" These also should be validated.\n\nI beg leave to point out that the Ordinance as passed differs from the Bill dated 3rd November, 1900, which was enclosed in The Governor's Despatch No. 485 of the 8th November last to the Secretary of State, in the following respects, namely:-\n\n1. The Preamble includes His Majesty as well as Her late Majesty Queen Victoria.\n\n2. Lantao Marine Lot No. 1 has been omitted from section 2 as the parties never agreed that the case relating to Lantao Marine Lot No. 3 should be taken as a test case to decide the rights relating to Lantao Marine Lot No. 1, and the Secretary of State has given instructions that the validity of the grounds of the decision in Lantao Marine Lot No. 3 shall, in any future case, be carried up to the Highest Court of Appeal.\n\n3. In paragraph 1 of section 3 the words, \"seventy-five years or for such longer term as the Secretary of State may authorise\", have been substituted for the word, \"years\", in accordance with the instructions contained in the Secretary of State's Despatch No. 105, dated 23rd March, 1901.\n\n4. In paragraph 1 of section 3 the following additional amendments have been made, namely:-\n\n(i) The words, \"or building\", have been inserted after \"Harbour improvement\".\n\n(ii) The words, \"for any other purpose whatsoever\" have been substituted for the word \"otherwise\" in order to remove the possibility of any ejusdem generis argument being raised.\n\n(iii) In paragraph 2 of section 3, the following words have been inserted after the words, \"during a period of three months\", namely, \"and shall be published by proclamation in the Chinese language which proclamation shall be publicly posted in some suitable place near the site of the said property.\"\n\nThe reasons for this amendment, which was proposed by an Unofficial Member of Council and accepted by the Government, was to ensure that sufficient notice was given in their own language to Chinese fishermen whose rights might be affected.\n\n(iv) In paragraph 3 of section 3 the words, \"any holder of a Lot\" have been substituted for the words \"any marine lot holder\".\n\nThe reason why the Government accepted this amendment, which was suggested by an Unofficial Member, was that there are certain Inland Lots in this Colony as well as Marine Lots which have access to the sea, and it has never been determined by our Courts what the rights of such Inland Lot holders are, and, therefore, I did not think it just to sweep away the rights (if any) of such Inland Lot holders by this Ordinance, especially as this question has recently become of some importance in connection with the proposed Praya East Reclamation, because certain Inland Lots face on the Praya East.\n\nIt is not improbable that, in connection with that Reclamation, a test case may be fought out for the purpose of determining the rights of Inland Lot Holders fronting on Praya East.\n\nUnder such circumstances it will readily be conceived that I did not think it right to decline to adopt the suggestion.",
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        "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nI am of the opinion that, whenever we found an O.C. Troops in a Colony admitting that there was no practical difficulty in getting suitable manoeuvring ground, we should tell the W.O. & recommend that, as far as the Colony was concerned, the question of introducing legislation in the direction of compulsory right of manoeuvring should be dropped.\n\nSir M. Ommanney dissent; but on reconsideration, he decided to send a general circular to the Colonies to consider the question in the first place. Consequently, W.O. despatch 38067 has not yet been sent.\n\nOnly 2 Colonies have as yet answered - Straits Settlements and Hongkong. The latter has replied to the non-necessity of legislation (from a practical point of view).\n\nIf you concur in this, as Mr. Stubbs suggested, we shall get a reply from the W.O. to the effect that their view is that theoretical solution should always give way to practical considerations.\n\nThe power to trespass on private land (and for certain purposes, two shells) has to be considered. Now that the Hongkong despatch is to go to W.O., the Jamaica one had better go also. We had better stall our general line in favour of not recommending legislation when we hear that there are no difficulties in arranging for manoeuvring on suitable ground; or perhaps we had better still wait and get more replies to the same effect?\n\nSir M. Ommanney will send a despatch (38047) to Jamaica, similar to the one sent to Hongkong as above.\n\nSo proceed.\n\nW.X.O. 30/1",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## No. 4012!\n### C. 547\n\n**DESPATCH**\n40121\n\n**Received** 4 NOV 03.\n\nGovernor. No. **Blake 462** 1903\n\n**(Subject)**\nLeases to gather shells off the coast of Lantao Island.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nCertain residents of the Island, praying that leases granted may be cancelled, so that they may resume the occupation from which the leases debar them.\n\nI do extract from minutes of Exec. Council relating to some of the leases. This copy from Deacon & Co. and Hastings showing why Govt decided to grant lease. Unable to recommend that he be granted further.\n\n| Date | Name | Note |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 18 Feb 31 | Mr. Box | For |\n| 19 Feb | A Risley | Against |\n\nThe Govt appears to have acted in strict accordance with the letter of the law.\n\n\"Jus, summa injuria\" I suppose must decline to interfere but seemed to be...\n\n`WB & L(78)-1896-29000-11-4`\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n...inclined to express the opinion that they ought to have enquired more closely into the existence of immemorial usage as claimed before they issued...",
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        "content_text": "# The First \"Ultra Vires\" Lease\n\n**RESTRICTED**\n\n6111\n\nThe Johnson \nlu: Cox \n\nNo doubt it was convenient for the Govt to grant the Sicourd lease to the Grantees of the ultra-vires lease of \"Marine lot 2\" in order to stall off their claim for compensation. Cert I certainly think that such a course was inequitable and illegal.\n\nThe history of the case is briefly as follows:\n\nThe lease of Marine lot 2 was granted in October 1889. The right to gather shells in a certain area was claimed by the local fishermen, which was immediately opposed by the lessors. The \"Shell case\" (brought by the lessors against a local fisherman) was decided by the casting vote of the C.J. on 29 June 1900. This decision upheld the customary right of the community to gather shells against the exclusive right of the lessees under the Crown lease (see `21762/61`).\n\nIt seems probable that the C.J.'s decision, right or wrong, stood good unless and until it is either reversed on appeal or overruled or counteracted by legislation. The decision was not appealed. The Foreshore and Sea-bed Order 21 of 1901 was passed on the 5th August 1901, and we have to consider what is the true construction of the proviso to Section 2 of this Order.\n\nIf the Legislature had seen fit to overrule the decision in the \"Shell case\", it could have done so by validating the lease of Marine lot 2 together with the other Crown leases validated by Section 2 of the Order. But it did not do so. Per contra, it retained in Section 2 of the Order, excluding this lease from validation.\n\nWhether the retention of the proviso was due to a mistaken feeling of delicacy, as suggested by Sir H. Berkeley (`21763/00`), I cannot say. But as I pointed out, the effect of its retention was clearly to exclude the lease of Marine lot 2 from validation, and consequently to recognize all the results of the decision in the \"Shell case\", i.e., that the lease was ultra vires and that the community had a customary right to gather shells (see, in this connection, Cox's minute of `21763/01`).\n\nIf such was the effect, I do not see how it is possible to defend the action of the Govt under the proviso to Section 2, which inferentially recognized that a lease of a certain area for a certain purpose was invalid owing to the rights of the public therein; and expressly recognized this position by cancelling the lease in question. It then calmly proceeded under Section 3 of the Order to grant a lease of part of the same area for the same purpose in derogation of the public rights which it had recognized, in its legislative capacity, in the proviso to Section 2, and in its executive capacity, by cancelling the former lease. Such a construction of the powers conferred upon the Govt is, I submit, bad in equity, if not in law. The Govt cannot exercise those powers so as to override established rights (regularly or wrongly, it matters not which) by the decision in the \"Shell case\" so long as that decision stands - as it does at present.",
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        "content_text": "The Good night; a thing to rely upon is of \norder to gather still and \nby \nof the \nalleged customary right \nexcept in the \naua coaud \nthe heave of the time hot 2 - But the public \nrights in that area \nto brez and this decision in the shell, cos\" \nAu \npressed by the provivo \n\nJ. J. R. 21/11 Jud/23 \nMr Lucas \nPaul. \nJapee. This is a most scandalous instance of robbing Peter to pay \nJ. The petitioners had proved their legal right to take shells. The government in order compensating the unsuccessful parties to the suit take advantage \nof new law to deprive betis of their established right. \nThey \nare not entitled to do so \nto save \ndeprive \nof their rights \nwithout compensating the person whom they \n40 \no \non every principle of general justice the petos must be compensated & direct compensation \nCard \nPoint this out \nto be assessed by arbitration. We dare not trust the fort to compensate \nwithout \naward. \nHBC \n23 \n3/11 \nC.PL \n23 \nat once \nC \n462 \nNo. \n\nHongkong. \nSir, \nEnclosure 1. \nThe September, \n11903. \nC. O. \n549 \n40121 \nReco \nGovernment House 4 NOV 03 \nHongkong, 2nd October, 1903. \n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith \nfor your consideration the enclosed Petition signed by certain \nfishermen and semen residing in the neighbourhood of Lantao \nIsland, in the New Territory, praying that certain leases \ngranted by the Government for the collection of shells and \ncoral within certain limits off the coast of that Island, may \nbe cancelled and set aside, in order that your Petitioners \nmay be enabled to resume the occupation from which the leases \nnow debar them. \n\n## Enclosure \n14th August, 1902. \n## Enclosure 3. \n617th April 1903. \n## Enclosure 4. \n4 June 1902. \n\n2. The circumstances under which the leases \nin question were issued are set forth in the Attorney-General's \nminute of the 14th August, 1902, and the subsequent advice \ntendered by the Executive Council on the matter is contained \nin the accompanying extract from the Minutes of the Council. The letter from Messrs. Deacon and Hastings (of which a copy \nis also attached) to which Sir Henry Berkeley refers in the \nfirst paragraph of his minute, shows why the Government decided \nto grant leases of the right to collect coral and shells, \nnamely, to escape the necessity of paying compensation to the \nholders of the former lease which the Supreme Court had declared ultra vires and void. \n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE** \n**THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES** \n3.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1: 551\n\nTo The Right Honourable  \nJoseph Chamberlain M. P.  \nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary  \nof State for the Colonies.\n\n**IREC**  \n**C O.**  \n**40121**  \n**Rect 4 NOV 03**\n\nThe humble petition of the undersigned seamen and fishermen residing in the New Territory of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n- - - 1 - -\n\nRespectfully sheweth:-\n\n1. Your petitioners are fishermen and boat owners residing on and along that portion of the coast which is in the neighbourhood of Lantao Island in the New Territory of the Colony of Hongkong and are wholly dependent for their livelihood upon the fishing and dredging of corals and shells growing under the sea along such coast.\n\n2. Your petitioners and their ancestors have made this their sole occupation and business and have practised it from time immemorial.\n\n3. Your petitioners sell such corals and shells daily to the lime kilns in the immediate neighbourhood at a price varying from four cents to five cents per picul. Save and except the places where your petitioners have carried on their occupation as aforesaid there are no other places along the coast of the New Territory where corals or shells are to be found in sufficient quantities to afford a livelihood to your petitioners.\n\n4. By a convention dated the 9th day of June 1898 the land now known as the New Territory of Hongkong was leased by the Emperor of China to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria.\n\n5. It is a term of the said convention that there shall be no expropriation of the inhabitants of the said Territory.\n\n6. As inhabitants of the said Territory your petitioners submit that they have a right to take the natural products of the sea including shells and corals as their fathers and forefathers...(1)",
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        "content_text": "forefathers have seen doing from time immemorial.\n\nBy two several agreements dated the 14th October 1899 respectively and made between His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies and certain persons named respectively Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun a portion of the sea shore of the New Territory registered in the Land Office of this Colony as Lantao Marine Lot No. 2 (the place where the majority of your petitioners pursue their said occupation) was leased and demised to the said Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun for a term of five years at an annual rent of $300 for the purpose of searching for and obtaining corals or shells to the exclusion of all other persons.\n\n8.\n\n552\n\nUnder and by virtue of the said agreements the said Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun claimed the exclusive right to fish and dredge for corals or shells in and about the said lot and set up notices warning persons from going within the boundaries of the said lot for the purpose of searching and obtaining corals or shells therefrom under threats of arrest and prosecution for trespass.\n\n9. As a consequence of these said notices Wong Shing one of your petitioners was arrested by the Police on the instructions of and charged by the said Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun in the Police Court of this Colony for trespass and larceny of corals and shells.\n\n10.\n\nUpon this trial on the said charges the said Wong Shing was acquitted whereupon civil proceedings were commenced against him by the said Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hongkong for $100 damages for trespass.\n\n11.\n\nSimilar proceedings were commenced by the said Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun against ten other of your petitioners. The action against the said Wong Shing was ordered to be tried before the Full Court of Hongkong and it was agreed between all parties to the various actions that the Judgment given in \n\n(2) \n\nrespect",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n553\n\nrespect of the action against the said Wong Shing should be treated as a Judgment in respect of all the said actions.\n\n12. The said action against the said Wong Shing was duly heard by the Full Court of Hongkong on the 23rd day of May 1900 when Judgment was reserved.\n\n13. On the 29th day of June 1900 Judgment was delivered by the Full Court in favour of the Defendant (the said Wong Shing) to the effect that he, the said Wong Shing, as an inhabitant of the said District, had a right to search for and obtain corals and shells in that District notwithstanding the agreements of the 14th October 1899.\n\n14. By a Government Notification No. 737 appearing in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 28th November 1902, notice was given that under the Foreshore and Sea-bed Ordinance 1901, His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong proposed granting, under the said Ordinance, Leases of two adjoining lots of sea-bed or land covered by the sea situate off the eastern shore of the Island of Lantao in the New Territory of the Colony of Hongkong, to be known and registered in the Land Office as Lantao Marine Lots Nos. 1 and 2, such leases to be granted for the term of ten years from the expiration of the notice upon the surrender of the said two agreements mentioned in paragraph 7 hereof. It was further notified that all persons having objections to the granting of such two leases must send in their objections in writing to the Colonial Secretary before the 28th February 1903 in order that the same might be considered by His Excellency the Governor in Council.\n\n15. In compliance with such notice, your petitioners, or some of them on behalf of your petitioners, duly sent in their objections in writing to the Honourable Francis Henry May, Colonial Secretary, through their Solicitors, Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, which objections were, as we have been informed by the said Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, considered by His Excellency the Governor and rejected.",
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        "content_text": "554 \n\n1 \n\n16. In pursuance of the above-mentioned notification, leases of Lantao Marine Lots Nos. 1 and 2 were in the month of February 1903 respectively granted to the said Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun mentioned in paragraph 7 hereof for the exclusive privilege of searching for and obtaining corals or shells within the area of the said lots for the term of ten years from the expiration of the said notification.\n\n17. The said Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun thereupon commenced business in the month of June 1903 by issuing a circular notice in the words and figures following, namely:-\n\n## Regulations for the shell-dredging Boats of Our Company\n\n1. Any vessel which is desirous of being enlisted as a shell-dredging boat of our Company shall be given by Our Company a flag and a certificate wherein the name of the boat-owner shall be distinctly written who shall not be allowed to lend them to other persons, in order to prevent false pretences. If he is found to have disobeyed this, his boat shall be forthwith driven out and shall not be allowed to dredge for shells within the limited area leased by Our Company.\n\n2. If (owners of) the lime-kilns at different places desire to purchase shells, Our Company shall have the liberty to point them out and supply them with shells by turns and charge them a fixed price of 1 mace and 5 candareens per \"tau\" (peck) of which 3 candareens shall be deducted by Our Company and the remaining 1 mace and 2 candareens shall be given to the boat as boat-hire and wages for dredging etc. If (owners of) the various kilns do not buy (the shells), Our Company shall undertake to take them over. For every \"tau\" (peck) carried to our Company's godowns, a fixed price of 1 mace, 1 candareen, and 5 li shall be offered, but coolie-hire shall be attended to by the boat people themselves. If shells are carried to a distant place, the boat (people) shall be at liberty to decide...",
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        "content_text": "## D\n\n3. Any vessel that has not been enlisted as a shell dredging boat of Our Company shall apply from Our Company for a certificate permitting to dredge for shells, make a contract voluntarily agreeing to pay the price for the quantity of shells she will have dredged at 3 candareens & \"tau\" (peck) and find some well-to-do lime-kiln owner to jointly sign the contract besides a deposit of $200 as security, before she shall be allowed to dredge for shells within the limited area leased by Our Company. Should the price of shells have fallen in arrears the deposit shall be deducted; and should it be not sufficient the surety shall still be held to make it good.\n\n555\n\n4. No shell-dredging boats other than those of our Company, which have no lime-kiln owners to be their surety and which have no deposits paid over shall be allowed to sail into the limited area and dredge for shells therein.\n\n5. In order to stop the source of fraud every boat shall renew her certificate once a month.\n\n6. Each boat must have a survey made beforehand as to her capacity of carrying what quantity of shells, and a limit shall be set on what number of \"tau\" of shells she is to carry, so that thereafter it may be counted for preventing... \n\nVessels that desire to get into the area leased by Our Company to dredge for shells...\n\n7. ...previous night came to Our Company and report their intention) so that it may be convenient to have investigations made into them. If they are once found having not given any previous notice they shall be treated as having evaded (the payments of the price of shells) and their certificates shall be cancelled forever.\n\n22\n\n8. If so-and-so firm is the surety the shells shall be delivered to so-and-so firm and shall not be allowed to be secretly delivered to other firms.\n\n(5)",
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        "content_text": "## \n9. Where there is no surety or deposit there must be cash payment against the delivery of the shells of our company.\n\n10. Should any lime-kiln-owners owe any arrears of the price of shells all boats shall all at once cease dealing with him for the time-being and shall not be allowed to secretly deliver shells to him until all the arrears have been paid up when they shall be again allowed to give him delivery.\n\n11. Boats of our company shall be the first party to deliver (shells); Sai Heung Boats the second; Kau-chai Boats the third; and Canton Boats the fourth. From the day of the start of the business of our company all old boats shall be counted over and distributed amongst the various kilns. No additional boats shall be allowed to the new boats in order to prevent the privilege of the old boats from being shared and taken away. All old boats shall not be allowed to make extortions. If they do our company shall engage other new boats for the supply of all kilns and shall drive the boats that make extortions out of the limited area and shall not allow them to dredge for shells therein.\n\n12. From 12 o'clock every day our company shall send boats to the limited area to examine the boats when no boat shall be allowed to evade examination under any pretences. Should the boats commit such evil they shall certainly be expelled.\n\n13. When our company's deputy has examined so-and-so boat which has no such-and-such a day dredged for shells within the limited area, the captain of so-and-so boat shall sign some writing as proof so as to facilitate the calculation of the accounts of the price of shells in every month.\n\n14. On the 29th day of every Western month an account of the (6)",
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        "content_text": "557 \n\nThe price of shells shall be taken; when so-and-so boat goes into so-and-so kiln, the owner of so-and-so kiln shall settle the price in full. If the price is not fully settled, deductions shall be made from the deposit; and if there is still a balance due after deductions, the owner of the said kiln shall still be held to make it good. If the owner of the said kiln has the intention to delay payment, the said boat shall deliver shells to other kilns. The debt-owing kiln-owner must settle in full the price of shells before the various boats are allowed to deliver him shells.\n\n15.\n\nOf all the boats that are desirous of being enlisted as boats of our company, each shall be paid $15 as boat hire, wages, and provisions on every 2nd and 16th days of every month. The residue calculated according to Regulations No. 2 shall be settled in full on every festival.\n\n16. Our company shall do so if any boat-owner desires us to collect for him the accounts due from any kiln; our company shall let him do so if he wishes to collect for himself the accounts due from any kiln. After our company has made up the accounts every month and has made the deduction from the price at 3 candareens per \"tau\" (peck), the residue shall be paid back to the very boat-owner for his own use.\n\n17.\n\nThe price of 3 candareens on each \"tau\" (peck) is a temporary levy. Our company is entitled to decide and raise an increase at any time. The power of increasing and decreasing the price of shells is vested entirely in our company, and none can raise disputes about it.\n\nDraft - letter.\n\nThis is to notify that the monopoly of shells produced along the Marine Lots Nos. 1 and 2 in the Waters of Lantao has been leased to our company by the Hongkong Government for a term of ten years commencing from 16th April. \n\n(7)",
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        "content_text": "558 \n\nApril 1903. If you various shell-dredging-boat-owners intend to come into our leased limited area and dredge for shells, within certain three limited days you must come to our company, read the regulations and apply for certificate for permitting to dredge, before you will be allowed to come into our limited area for dredging. This \n\nis to be sent to the shell-dredging-boat-owners for perusal. \n\nP.S. The Head Office of our company is established on the second floor of No. 41 Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong, and our Branch Office at Ping-chau. It is right to have this notified here together with the (above) notice. \n\n18. \n\nThe above is a true Translation of the Chinese document marked \"A\" made this 31st day of August 1903 by me Wong Kwok U, Court Translator. \n\nIn consequence of the issue of the said circular and of the rules and regulations therein contained, your petitioners have been compelled to give up their occupation and are prevented from earning their livelihood. \n\n19. \n\nYour petitioners humbly submit that His Excellency the Governor in Council has no power to grant the aforesaid leases notwithstanding the objections of your petitioners on the following grounds, namely: \n\n1. That the said leases were given contrary to and to defeat the ruling of the Full Court delivered in the suit Chan Kwai Chiu and another versus Wong Shing. \n2. That the said leases were given in violation of the convention of the 9th June 1898 made between the British and Chinese Governments. \n\nYour petitioners therefore humbly pray that you may be pleased to direct that the said leases given to Chan Kwai Chiu and Lai Hok Tsun may be cancelled and",
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        "content_text": "## C.0. 566 40121 C OF Y. Enclosure 4. Rrc\n\nSir,\n\n**REC 4 NOV 03**\n10, Queen's Road, Hongkong, 5th June, 1902.\n\nLantao Marine Lots 1 and 2.\n\nIn compliance with your predecessor's letter of the 25th April last we now beg to forward you full particulars of our clients' claim to compensation on account of losses in connection with the Shell-bed concession granted to them by the Government.\n\nOn the Lease of Lantao Marine Lots 1 and 2 being granted to them by the Government our clients, with others, formed themselves into a syndicate called \"Li hing\", to carry out the purposes of the said leases. The Syndicate accordingly took a lease of a piece of land on the Island of Tingchau in the New Territory, and built thereon limekilns and factory, erected a pier adjacent thereto, hired a boat and crew to patrol the premises, engaged a staff of employees and chartered junks to search for and obtain coral and shells, and also employed a number of workmen to burn lime. This they did relying on the validity of the leases granted to them by the Government and expecting that they would have the monopoly of the Shell-collecting in that particular locality.\n\nThey soon found however that their monopoly was disputed by all those who had been accustomed to gather shells there, and on their attempting to enforce their rights, they had judgment given against them by the Supreme Court, which held that the leases were invalid; and our clients were thereby mulcted in heavy costs.\n\nIn consequence of the matters above mentioned\n\nPage 570\nPage 571",
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        "content_text": "567 \n\n# 390. Qux Exi\n\n-tioned the business, which had been started by our clients and for which they had subscribed $10,000 for capital in addition to $18,500 money borrowed, proved a failure, and after being carried on for some time at a loss was shut up.\n\nOur clients total losses as shown by the two accounts herewith amount to $24,552.87 including the sum of $649.75 payable by them to their Solicitors for costs.\n\nIt is submitted that our clients have a reasonable and equitable claim on the Government for a large portion at least of the above sum.\n\nIf however our clients could now be put into undisputed possession of the concession which was intended to be originally granted to them; they might, by working it, recoup some part of their losses; and it has occurred to us to enquire whether the Government would be willing to do this, if it can now be legally effected.\n\n# With regard to the agreement for lease to our clients of Lantao Marine Lot No. 1, dated 14th October, 1899, it appears to us that this is validated by the operation of Section 2 of Ordinance 21 of 1901.\n\nUnfortunately it is impossible to work Lantao Marine Lot No. 1 by itself, because the greater proportion of the shells are collected in and near the narrow strait between the 2 islands shown on the plan sent herewith, and named Cha Kung Moon.\n\nIf however the Government could give our clients a good title to gather shells in the triangular strip of water enclosed with a red line on the said plan, it would be sufficient for our clients' purpose.\n\nWould it be not possible for the Government to grant to our clients a lease of the portion of water mentioned.",
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        "content_text": "568 \n\nmentioned, under the powers contained in Section 3 of Ordinance 21 of 1901?\n\nIf this course does not commend itself to the Government, then it may be that the Government, in compliance with Rules made or to be made under the powers contained in Section 3 of Ordinance 12 of 1899, might grant to our clients the sole right of collecting and dealing in shells within the area mentioned for a term of years.\n\nOur clients request the favourable consideration of the Government towards their claim, in consideration of the unfortunate circumstances in which they have been placed through no fault of their own.\n\nWe have etc.,\n( Sd.) Deacon and Hastings.\n\nHon. B. H. May, C.M.G.,\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nThe Hong Kong ...\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Stubbs 24/1, Mr. Johnson 24, Mr. ... 21, Mr. Innes 18, Ridley 24/1 $418. Mr. Cox. 25, Mr. Lucas., Mr. Graham. 25, Sir M. Ommanney. 26.\n\nThe Duke of Marlborough, Mr. Chamberlain.\n\nAfter speaking to Mr. Cox.\n\nThis draft proceeds from grounds of equity alone (which I agree are strong & sufficient), but the legal point - the effect of the proviso to section 2 of Ordinance 21 of 1881 - is not touched upon.\n\nMR. ... (Hong Kong) to acknowledge receipt of Mr. Blake's despatch no. 462 of 4 October, forwarding a petition from certain persons residing in the neighbourhood of Lautão Island, stating that by some leases granted for the collection of shells and coral off that island and the coast of ... may ...",
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        "content_text": "# Cancelled\n\n2\n\nI regard ... under consideration and the Under Secretary's remarks on the subject.\n\nSufficient grounds for the modification exist in the fact that its action in this weather has been unsatisfactory.\n\nThe Court decided that the defendant had established his claim that there existed a customary right for the community to collect shells and corals in these waters, and in order to avoid the necessity of compensating unsuccessful parties in this suit, the Court has shown to have suffered loss by its extinction. Taken advantage of the new law to deprive the petitioners of their established right.\n\n3.\n\nIt would not, in my opinion, be equitable or just that the right should be taken away without compensation to persons who have been enjoying it. The petitioners are therefore of the opinion that they must be compensated, the amount being settled by arbitration or fixed by the Court. Since the alternative is... \n\n| col | col |\n| --- | --- |",
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        "content_text": "A shield was pilliding and will long be a source of great trouble due to operations within such a confined space and from such depths. The material passed through consisted of clay and silt intermingled with shells and with occasional layers of sand and shells. Just before reaching the rock, a layer of beach boulders, about 2 feet in depth, was passed through. The boulders were of varying size, down to shingle, of very hard stone and were densely packed together. The rate at which water entered the wall from the layer of boulders precluded the possibility of pumping it dry in order to admit of an actual inspection of the bottom.\n\nWork was then begun upon Well No. 3 and, after sinking it to a depth of 42 feet through clay, silt and sand, the stratum of beach boulders above described was again encountered. Sinking operations were continued and, after passing through about 10 feet of boulders, sand was again met with and it was not until the well had reached a depth of 58.4 feet that rock was finally found. It was found impossible to dry the bottom by pumping and the extent and nature of the rock were ascertained by feeling it carefully all over. Pieces were also broken off and compared with the rock above water level at the sides of the bay, and, as the result of this comparison, there seems no room to doubt that rock in situ has been reached. Over a small portion of the area (6 feet diameter) covered by the well, the rock dipped away to greater depth. The sinking of this well has just been completed.",
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        "content_text": "can only speak a very rudimentary sort of Chinese. The affinities of the Minchia have yet to be studied, but they do not appear to be connected with any Thibetan or Shan stock, though the Shans once reigned at Ta Li. Near Hsia Kuan to this day is shown a \"wan jen tui,\" or tumulus of the 10,000 which is popularly supposed to be the grave of the warriors who fell in a great battle when a Chinese attempt to get possession of the country was defeated with heavy loss.\n\nThe Minchia are remarkable as being the only non-Chinese tribe in Yünnan which has mingled with the Chinese on something like equal terms; they have retained their lands and their language, but they have adopted the literature, the religious ideas, and, at least in the case of the men, the dress of the Chinese. A literatus of Ta Li who would be inclined to draw but little distinction between Kachins, Miao, Lisaw, and other wild tribes puts the Minchia on a higher level. \"They read books,\" i.e., the classics. It is to be feared that it would be a work of great difficulty to unearth Minchia ideas, which are covered by a superstructure of Chinese beliefs; merely as a guess, I suggest that they may be connected with the Man Tzu of Szechuan. The Minchia are peasants, and nothing more; the shop-keepers at markets such as Hsi Chon, 40 li north of Ta Li, or at Chiang Wei, at the north head of the lake, are Chinese. The Minchia villages and farmhouses are exceedingly well built, and I am inclined to think that the top storey, which is found in nearly all Yunnan country houses, but is so contrary to Chinese ideas, was derived from the Minchia. In the Ta Li plain, where wood is scarce, the Minchia house is a substantial stone structure built with the limestone and conglomerate which is littered about under the Tsang Shan; but the best type of Minchia dwelling is to be found in the Hoching Valley. It is commonly built round three sides of a square, the fourth side being closed with a wall in which there is a porch. The lower storey is of mud or sun-baked brick on a stone foundation, and sometimes with stone pillars, but the top storey is of wood, the architecture resembling that of a Swiss chalet. The section opposite the porch is usually the dwelling-house, while one of the sides is given up to the cattle, with a straw-loft over them, and the other side is used as a grain store. Comfort and cleanliness these houses are far superior to the Chinese, as I can testify after having enjoyed many days of Minchia hospitality, which is readily given in places where there are no inns.\n\nThe pure Minchia type resembles that of the Romany or gipsy, save that it is lighter in complexion; the Minchia women have natural feet, manage boats, carry loads, do masons' and bricklayers' work, and in the La Shi salt district I have even seen them acting as muleteers.\n\nWholesale commerce has quite deserted Ta Li, but there is a busy market every five days, and in the third moon occurs the annual fair, or \"yueh kai,\" a commercial event of some importance. It is held outside the West Gate, and lasts for five days, after which a good deal of business is done in the city itself for fourteen days before the merchants disperse. The number of persons attending the fair is given at various figures, but it is usually stated to be only one-third of the old days before the rebellion. The official Proclamations state that for the \"yueh kai\" \"myriads of merchants from the four quarters of the globe collect together dense as the clouds;\" but Chinese Proclamations have to be taken in a Pickwickian sense, and I believe that the present attendance is not over 5,000. Thibetans and representatives of all the tribes in West Yünnan come in some force, while besides Yünnanese there are, of course, Cantonese and Szechuanese; I am not aware that any natives of India attend. Drugs, including China-root, rhubarb, and musk, mules and ponies, Thibetan wools, tea and brown sugar in small cakes, cottons and cloths, are the chief objects of exchange, and I believe that the fair is still of sufficient importance to be worth the attention of British or Indian merchants desirous of opening up new lines.\n\nAmong other minor products of Ta Li I may mention pigs' bristles, which are of good quality, but not, perhaps, easy to collect in sufficient quantity, and straw braid used for the native sun-hats. The plaiting leaves to be desired at present, but this might be improved for foreign buyers, and the straw itself is of excellent quality.\n\nThe traveller who has passed through the rich fields and flourishing villages of the Ta Li Plain, and has enjoyed the double view of hill and lake (\"tsang esh esh kuan\") is interested to learn how this happy valley first came into existence. The curious folklorist may discern traditions of the early struggles of the first Chinese settlers in the legend of the advent of Buddhism, and perhaps of some geological cataclysm. In the ancient days the waters of the lake lapped the foot of the Tsang Shan, and there was no plain. The caverns in the hills were inhabited by a \"yao kwei,\" or monstrous being, who used to sally forth, and for his food tear out and devour the eyes of the Chinese in the neighbourhood. Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, pitying the sorrows of the black-haired people, appeared upon the scene disguised as a venerable Buddhist nun in her \"ka sha,\" or yellow robe and accompanied by a lame dog. Addressing the monster, she promised to supply him with the food which he liked on condition that he would give her a patch of dry land under the hills. \"How much dry land?\" asked the monster. \"The breadth,\" replied the goddess, \"of my yellow robe and the length of three leaps of my lame dog.\" After some haggling a contract on these terms was reduced to writing. But when the aged nun spread out the robe it covered a space of 15 li, and such was the uncommon agility of the lame dog that in three leaps he cleared a space of 100 li. For his food the goddess captured shell-fish, and gave the eye-like contents to the \"yao kwei\"; the voracious but unwary monster seems to have thought that he had been swindled, and became obstreperous; whereupon the goddess seized him and interned him in a hole or cavern in the earth near Hsi Chou, where there was only a small open slit through which he could breathe. In his struggles, his fiery breath issuing from the slit burned up the waters of the lake. But the goddess had cast a spell on the monster; so long as Chinese assemble at the West Gate of Ta Li during the third moon so long must the monster remain in durance vile; wherefore to this day, at the commencement of the great spring fair, the General comes out in state and fires off all his artillery, so that the dragon may know that the time of his release is not yet.\n\nIn case this bald narrative fails to convince the sceptical western, I may point out that the length of the Ta Li Plain from the upper to the lower pass is, in fact, 100 li, and its breadth 15 li. Is not the shore of the lake littered with empty shells, the contents of which have been devoured by the \"yao kwei\"? Is not there at Hsi Chou a long narrow strip of land stretching into the lake from which the water was blown by the struggling prisoner? Was not the contract between him and the goddess reduced to writing and engraved on stone that all might see? and finally, is it not a fact that to this day an annual crowd has assembled outside the West Gate for the third-moon fair, and that the \"yao kwei\" has never once emerged from his prison?\n\nFrom Ta Li city to the Shang Kuan (upper pass) is an easy march of 16 miles in a northerly direction across the level plain, between the lake on the right and the Tsang Shan on the left. The main caravan route is at the foot of the mountains, but the lower road which leads by the shores of the lake is much more agreeable, as it gives an opportunity of observing the lake villages which cluster on the stone bunds fringing the shore, and in the morning, of shooting some wild geese and duck as they fly back to the lake after their night feed in the fallow fields. Shang Kuan is a small tumble-down village with a li-kin and Prefect's tax station, at each of which about 1,000 taels are collected annually on goods going north. Travellers for Lichiang usually pass Shang Kuan to the head of the lake, and leaving the bridge of boats and the series of marshes through which flows the principal feeder of the lake, slightly to the east, enter the plain of Teng Chuan at the tiny city of that name. This plain is about ... miles by ... miles, and is well supplied with water from several large lagoons in which heavy crops of rushes are grown for fuel.\n\nAt Yui So, ... miles, there is a market where Chinese and Minchia exchange grain, opium, sugar, salt, cloth, pigs, mules, and cattle; and at miles ... the river is crossed at Chung So. It is here 25 yards broad, shallow, and flows for some miles between high artificial embankments, the safety of which are of prime importance to local agriculture.\n\nAt 15 miles the road and river leave the Teng Chuan Valley by a gorge. The road then leads through broken ground along the foot-hills of the east side of the Lang Kung Valley, past the hamlet of Ying Shan P'u, and through fertile country to Nui Kai, an important market of about 150 houses, and so to the north-east corner of the fertile Lang Kung Valley. At Kuan Yin Shan the road enters the hills and splits into two tracks, the one going a little west of north to Chien Chuan Chou (one long stage), and the other which I followed leading over an important pass into the Yang tsze basin. After leaving Kuan Yin Shan we commenced an ascent up a gorge by a fair road, and spent the night in a log hut on an open terrace in the hills (San Chiu Tang), whence there was a fine view. The next day we ascended the silent and frost-bound pass of Kwa La, past rhododendron scrub and frozen marshes, varied with patches of forest. At the village of Kwa La, which consists of a few wattle huts, we observed the plaited bamboo basket industry, which is of some local importance, and so descended to the guard station of the Hei Nui (the Black Ox), situated in a gorge by a rushing stream; here a salt road from Chien Chuan joined our route, and there is considerable passing traffic. At 13 miles beyond Hei Nui a road branches off east to Sung Kwei, which is an important market near the Yang-tsze. It is an entrepôt of the salt, sugar, and tobacco trade, and also a pony and mule market.\n\nPage 9\n\nAt ...\n\n248",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nmenced a long and gradual ascent up a broad open slope to the south by an excellent road. Indeed, most of the roads in this part of Yunnan are very good as compared with the high road to Burmah.\n\nAfter five hours' march, by which time we had reached 9,900 feet, we passed over into the Mekong basin. There is no water to be got on this ascent, and, consequently, no villages. On reaching the top of the pass an extensive and characteristic view of a large part of West Yunnan was unfolded. At our feet, 1,800 feet below us, was the narrow valley of Chien Chuan, and beyond it a series of regular parallel ranges capped with snow, and running north and south we descended into the valley that afternoon, and struck the main road from Ta Li to Wei Hsi.\n\nJust north of the hamlet of Po Chueh, where we camped, there is a beautiful tarn of rich blue water, which has been banked up as a reservoir. From Po Chach to Chien Chuan is an easy day's march down the valley (south), which is not over a mile in breadth; the villages which fringe the foot-hills on both sides become larger and more numerous as we approach the city, where we were put up by the hospitable official.\n\nJust south of the city the valley opens out into a wide and roughly-circular plain, closed by high mountains on the south, or Ta Li side. This plain is some 3 miles wide, and very fertile. A large part of it is occupied by a large lake.\n\nThe whole district (\"chou,\" or sub-prefecture) of Chien Chuan is officially stated to contain 10,000 families, of which two-thirds are located in the main valley which we bad descended. The city population is about 7,000, and the streets are crowded on market day. The country folk are nearly all Minchia, but they speak Chinese and wear Chinese dress. There are no export products here, except a little surplus rice. The people are lazy, and get enough to live on from the padi-fields without planting winter crops. In fact, the only industry is charcoal-burning.\n\nIn September 1902 Chien Chuan valley was visited by an alarming earthquake; about fifty persons are said to have been buried under the ruins of a village 4 miles south of the city, and the yamên itself was left in such a crooked, cracked, and dilapidated condition that it presents an excellent type of the Government whose Representative dwells within its walls.\n\nThere is only one small outlet for the waters of the Chien Chuan valley: this is at Tien Wei, 15 li to the south of the city. The Mahommedans at Ta Li, during the rebellion, reduced Chien Chuan by damming up this outlet and so flooding the whole place. Throughout the dry season the padi-fields near the lake are deep in wet mud, and this condition attracts vast numbers of wildfowl, especially mallards. The sportsman who does not object to being occasionally stuck in the mire can walk up wildfowl in the stubble like partridges at home.\n\nThe Chien Chuan people, though they have no industries, have a temper of their own; and they have hitherto successfully resisted the establishment of li-kin or Prefect's tax stations in their valley.\n\nFrom Chien Chuan across the Mekong and Salwen Basins to Teng Yuch.\n\nWe left the city of Chien Chuan by the south gate, with the intention of making as straight a line as possible to Teng Yueh, passing near the west limits of Chinese jurisdiction, and gaining some knowledge of the great parallel ranges which run north and south, near the banks of the Mekong and Salwen Rivers.\n\nA good paved causeway runs down the valley south of Chien Chuan. At 1 mile the road to Tien Wei and Ta Li, which passes near the lake, divides off to the south, and we turned south-west to the village of Lo Yu, situated in the foot-hills which fringe the valley. From this point we took a last look at the snowhill of Lichiang (which is a conspicuous object from the Chien Chuan valley), and ascended through open, hilly country past a series of small tanks, where water is stored for hill cultivation. Extensive views of the mountains to the east and south of the Chien Chuan valley are obtained, until we entered a narrow, wooded gorge, and, passing a col (8,100 feet), descended to the clean little village of Shih Tzu Chiao. From this point we enter the valley of Yang Ts'en, which is half a mile wide, and runs east and west for 4 miles, containing half a dozen villages and some good padi lands. From the west end of this valley we commenced an ascent, and stopped at the mountain hamlet of Shui Tzu Ping. In the course of this day's march we had seen nothing but Minchia.\n\nOn the 3rd January we began, from Shui Tzu Ping, the first of the great ascents which intervene between Teng Yueh and the Yang-tsze basin. This pass is known as\n\n15\n\nrange which\n\nthe Shih Chung Shan (\"Stone Bell Hill\"), and takes the traveller over the forms the west boundary of the Chien Chuan Lake basin. The pass is 9,900 feet high, and is distant from Shui Tzu Ping 4 miles, or 12 hours for laden mules. The road is littered with a dilapidated pavement, and leads through dense forest the whole way. At the top of this trying ascent we found two old gentlemen living in a hut, and a cock pheasant living in their cabbage-garden. The former supplied us with information and the latter with dinner. The descent on the west side to the valley of Lan Chou is down an exceedingly steep and abrupt spur for 1,600 feet, and then by a stream in a close gorge to the village of Chiang Wei (which boasts a police-station), and across a stream out on to the valley.\n\nThe Lan Chou plain is watered by the head streams of the Yangpi River (which is crossed at Yangpi, the tenth stage from Teng Yuch on the Yünn m-fu road). Further south the river receives the outpourings of the Ta Li Lake, and finally joins the Mekong.\n\nThe valley of Lanchou consists of broken country with a number of small mamelons. It is about 8 miles by 4 miles, and contains a dense population of Miachia in about two dozen villages.\n\nThere is a market at Ma Teng. We put up at the village of Kan Ho Tien, at the foot of the formidable range on the west of the valley. This range we negotiated on the following day. Owing to the presence of a variety of \"spooks\" it is considered to be the most formidable pass in this part of the country. If the traveller while ascending utters the word \"cold,” he will be at once seized with a deadly chill, if not frozen stiff; if he utters the word \"hunger,\" he will be at once griped with an excruciating stomach-ache.\n\nCO\n\nI was warned against going aside from the road for any necessary purpose without taking my bearings with a compass, and observing the position of the sun lest I should offend the Shan Wang,\" or Deity of the hills. Though all this must be true, as it was told to me by Lanchou men who are constantly making the ascent, we found The the \"Yang Lu,\" or road of the sun, as it is called, by no means a difficult pass. ascent to the top from Lanchou took three and a-half hours' steady marching up a broad road partly paved. The summit of the pass is 12,200 feet. At the foot of the hill are fir shrubs, and higher up bamboo scrubs and rhododendrons. At the top is a hut where fatigued travellers are regaled with hot sugar and water. The last 1,500 feet of the ascent was over snow and ice.\n\nOn the right of the pass, and quite 2,000 feet above it, is a bare inaccessible-looking peak. The range divides the Yangpi River basin from the main stream of the Mekong. It also forms the west boundary of the district of Chien Chuan, and on the west side of the range we re-enter the extensive district of Li Chiang Hsien, which includes the right bank of the Mekong.\n\nFrom the top of the Yang Lu Pass a fine view is obtained of the great mountains on the west side of the Mekong, forming a regular and majestic range, whose feet are washed by the tributary waters of the Salwen and Mekong, which flow on the west and east of it. In January there was at least 1,000 feet of snow on the range, but in summer it is said to disappear.\n\nThe descent from the Yang Lu Pass in a west direction is down a convenient slope with a stream on the left and majestic spurs swelling down to the plain on both sides of the track. At 9,500 feet there are broad patches of cultivation on the hill-sides and little hamlets of log huts inhabited by Lisaw and Minchia; the marketing is done chiefly by the women here; the Lisaw ladies are conspicuous by their dirty white hempen kilts and the shells in their head-dress, while the Minchia women wear turbans and long cotton gowns.\n\nAt miles we reached the valley of Pei Ti Ping, an irregular strip of broken land surrounded by mountains and watered by a stream which flows into the Mekong soon after leaving the south end of the valley. There are a few Chinese pedlars to be seen on the market of Pei Ti Ping, but the bulk of the people are Minchia, who are engaged in the salt trade, and own a considerable number of mules,\n\nOn the 6th January we crossed the last range which separated us from the Mekong. The road formerly led past ninety-nine hills, ascending ninety-nine terraces, guarded by ninety-nine dragons, but this fearsome stage need no longer be made, as Yang Yu Kuo, the famous General who took a prominent part in the recapture of Ta Li from the Panthays, made another road across the mountains, which is much frequented by salt This road is well paved, and runs in and out and round about through the range, which is of a different character from the mountains which we had crossed. The first part of the day's march was spent in deep gorges between precipitous limestone\n\ncaravans.\n\n251",
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        "content_text": "Communications\n\nRailways.\n\nRoads.\n\nFinancial.\n\n250,000 acres remain uncultivated; but beyond that, for 150 to 350 kilom in the direction of Kuanghsi and Yünnan, there are said to be only 500,000 inhabitants. Jungle and forests extend over the whole country and the climate is very unhealthily. It rapidly improves after the land is brought under cultivation.\n\nThe area suitable for growing rice still available in Cochin China is estimated at 3,500,000 acres.\n\nIn my last Report I stated the earnings of the Tonquin railways amounted to 415,000 dollars in 1902. The Haiphong-Hanoi line (101 kilom.) accounted for 107,000 dollars of this amount during the six months from April to September. The receipts were 4,000 dollars and 9,600 dollars during the first two months, rising to 29,600 dollars when the line was fully open.\n\n  \n    Postal service\n    Saigon to Haiphong\n    3\n    337\n    ::::\n    ::::\n    Fr 580,000\n    238,900\n    268,000\n    158,600\n    Total\n    1,240,600\n  \n\nSubsidy to \"Correspondances Fluviales\" in Tonquin, 400,000 dollars.\n\nSubsidy to Messageries Fluviales in Cochin China, amount not ascertained.\n\nIn my last Report I recorded the contemplated increase of the military forces, both Naval and Military. If these are maintained, a return of 2 per cent. or 3 per cent. on the capital expenditure is looked for.\n\nSurveys - preliminary, at any rate - have been made of the projected lines. A sum of 200,000 dollars for this purpose figured in the Budget for 1901, besides other sums before and since.\n\nA survey is being made for a proposed (? military) line from Traihutt (near Yenbai) to Vanbu.\n\nIncrease of forces.\n\nThe formation of a new brigade of natives (which is supposed to consist of 8,000 men) has now been completed, but I state this under reserve pending further inquiries.\n\nConfidential\n\nThe company of \"ouvriers d'artillerie\" (see last Report) consists of 128 Frenchmen and 106 natives.\n\nThe railway from Battambong to Muong Krat is said to be likely to divert 50,000 tons of cargo from Saigon.\n\nThe military roads made in Tonquin since 1896 are, I believe, about 1,000 kilom. in length.\n\nThere are about 4,000 kilom. of metalled roads in Cochin China and 3,500 kilom. of navigable waterways. In Cambodia the waterways are navigable for 600 kilom.\n\nIn Annam, the length of navigable waterways is 2,500 (see last Report).\n\nI gather from the trade Returns that there was a considerable increase in the importation of arms last year. I believe the present stock of ammunition in the Colony is 1,000 rounds of cartridges per man and 600 shells per gun.\n\nPage 19\n\nA map of the Mekong is attached showing the state of navigation in 1902 and the expected results of the completion, in 1905, of the works now in hand.\n\nThe revenue estimates for the current year are as follows:\n\n  \n    Local budgets\n    General Budget\n    Total increase compared with 1902\n  \n  \n    Dollars.\n    Dollars.\n    Dollars.\n  \n  \n    14,664,700, an increase of 1,101,000\n    28,980,600,\n    1,838,000\n    2,989,000\n  \n\nI understand it is proposed to establish arsenals in Tonquin and Cochin China.\n\nA map of the Lackay district is attached,* showing the normal distribution of troops.\n\nPolitical,\n\nIt is reported that information was recently obtained by the authorities, showing the existence of a somewhat widespread plot in the Tonquin Delta against the Government.\n\nA leading man in the plot is said to have been arrested and sent to Poulo Condore, but whether or not in connection with this alleged plot, I do not know.\n\nThe Japanese activity\n\nThe action of the Japanese in Siam is still attracting attention.\n\nA Japanese Consul is said to have formed an Association of Chinese numbering 800 or 900, many of whom were formerly French protégés.\n\nAgainst this increase, however, must be set the considerable loss caused by diminished value of the dollar, which is reckoned at 2 fr. 20 c. instead of 2 fr. 40 c. in 1902.\n\nThe total gold payments of the Colony amount to some 35,000,000 fr., so the increased silver payments on this sum will absorb about 1,250,000 dollars.\n\nIt should be noted, however, that the enhanced receipts have been obtained without recourse to taxation.\n\nSome apprehension seems to be felt lest the fall in exchange may cause Colony embarrassment in meeting the large payments due on its gold loans, which amount to 350,000,000 fr., of which 155,000,000 fr. have already been spent.\n\nI think these fears will prove to be groundless since, as I have shown elsewhere, silver prices of goods tend to rise almost immediately in sympathy with the higher silver price of gold.\n\nThe number of officials in Cochin China is, according to my information, about 300 French and 3,000 natives, and I estimate the total number (French) in Indo-China to be about 4,000, of whom 1,200 are in the Customs and Excise.\n\nThe proportion of French officials to civilians engaged in business is probably at the utmost 2 to 1 (not of course, really trade).\n\nThe following is a statement of the cost and numerical strength of the judicial establishments in Cochin China :-\n\n  \n    Cost.\n    Number of Officials,\n    Co-t per Head of Population,\n    Cents.\n  \n  \n    Dollars.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    288,000\n    25\n    234\n    \n  \n\nAccording to the Chief Justice these figures compare very favourably indeed with those for the Straits Settlements.\n\n* Not reproduced.",
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        "content_text": "communication to Burmah markets. I counted in the day several flocks of over 100 sheep and several heads of over 50 ponies. The mutton and beef of Yunnan is almost as good as at home. Mules are bred in the hills north of Teng Yueh, but the sires are very small jackasses, and saw none but the ordinary small transport mule, which does the Bhamo carrying trade. Many of the people here are solely occupied in tending flocks and herds; but there is also a good deal of cultivation in the uplands---buckwheat, maize, wheat, and opium in sheltered spots being the chief crops. The land is prepared by a sort of skinning process, 4 to 6 inches of soil, containing all the roots of the grasses, being stripped off the land and piled in heaps over its face. These piles are then set on fire, and allowed to smoulder, the ashes serving as manure.\n\nOn the afternoon of our march from the Hsiang Yang Bridge we descended from 8,400 feet by a very steep path from the downs to the Valley of Ta Hsi Lienu, near its chief market town, Ku Tung Kai. Near Ku Tung there are several large and flourishing villages, All the country, indeed, between Ku Tung and the Ta Ying Shan north of Teng Yueh presents a most pleasing appearance, the villages being surrounded with ample orchards and pastures. The excessive droughts of the winter and spring in Central Yunnan are here tempered by local spring rains, which is a great boon to the shepherd folk, who have no difficulty in finding grass for their herds.\n\nNear Ku Tung I halted a day, at the request of the villagers, to shoot wild (bar-heads), which do great harm by browsing on the young opium and wheat shoots, and I disposed of fifteen of these marauders. We then marched west from Ku Tung up a lateral valley and over a pass 8,500 feet, leaving the Shweli Basin, and passing into the Valley of Ku Yung, which belongs to the Taiping system. This track is so narrow as to be impassable at some places for mules laden, and the packs have to be carried, but a little spade work is all that is required to broaden it out. The chief botanical features of this and of the other neighbouring ranges which I traversed are rhododendron trees, sometimes growing to a height of 30 feet, and covered in March with masses of rich red blossoms, a small lilac-coloured oxslip, which fills, not unworthily, the place of the home primrose, and in high, damp, sheltered spots a small and graceful primula of a delicate mauve colour. The folds and summits of these ranges are still covered with dense forest, but there is little timber of much value. Teng Yueh is, however, supplied with wood from these hills. The Kalej pheasant is by no means rare, and on the lower slopes the common pheasant of the country (Stone's, or Phasianus elegans) is frequently met with.\n\nThe country through which I passed is a country in compartments, consisting of valleys divided from each other by broad mountain ranges. The further north-east the nearer to the headwaters of the Taiping and Shweli Valleys-I was able to penetrate, the narrower and smaller were the valleys, and the more extensive and complicated was the mountain system; but a description of one of the passes from valley to valley would apply to nearly all the others.\n\nKu Yung is a market of fifty houses in a long and narrow but fertile and populous valley about 10 miles by 1 mile. It is the starting-point of the main track to the Upper Irrawadi, Mytkina, and the Burmah jade mines via the Kao Liang Pass (10,000 feet), and a number of the Ku Yung people are in the habit of going over into Burmah on petty trading expeditions. The pass is still infested by robbers, though there are supposed to be 200-and really are some 90-soldiers at Ku Yung, and a post of 15 men at Tatto, where the ascent of the Kao Liang commences. There is also a Lisan headman, the agent of the \"Fu yi,\" or Lisaw Chief of Tan Tsa-Lan Ma, but hitherto we have quite failed to get redress for robberies committed on this part of the frontier.\n\nOn the 5th March we moved up the Ta Ho, at the junction of the Ka Yang stream with the Taiping River, which here runs through wild country over a rocky course (20-25 yards wide in March) with some fine pools; it is almost like a salmon stream at home, but though there are salmon in Monmouth and in Macedon, there are none in Yunnan, and in the upper waters of the Taiping mahseer are very difficult to catch.\n\nOn the 6th March, in heavy rain succeeding nocturnal thunderstorms, we marched up the Ta Ho gorge in a northerly direction, and then turned east up a stiff ascent to 7,800 feet, whence there was a good view of the precipitous mountains whence the Taiping River takes its source. San Cha Ho, 5 miles north of Ta Ho, and consisting, like it, of a few scattered Lisaw huts, is the junction of the three head-waters of the Taiping River, which are:-\n\n1. The Ta Ho, which springs from the mountains not far from the sources of the Shingaw River, which flows into the N'maikha (the eastern branch of the Irrawadi);\n\n2. The Tan Tsa stream which comes in from the north; and\n\n3. The Lun Ma stream which comes from the east of San Cha Ho. There is a route over into the Shingaw Valley from Ku Yung, viâ San Cha Ho, by which the N'maikha can be reached in four days. By this pass, the watershed is crossed close to the mountain Manung Pum, which is the most northerly point of the demarcated frontier. This track was reported to me as not being passable for mules, and as being used only by a few Lisaw porters. There is also stated to be a route into the N'maikha Basin from Tan Tsa over a snow mountain, which is difficult, and in bad weather impassable even for porters; this track would, after passing into the N'maikha Basin, strike the head-waters of its tributary the Tummaw. The population in these hills round the head-waters of the Taiping is very scanty, and so far as I could find out, the Chinese have at this point no pretensions to any jurisdiction in the N'maikha Basin.\n\nThe little Plain of Lun Ma, which we reached in five hours' rough mountain march from Ta Ho, is only 2 miles by a mile, and contains only two villages, one Chinese and one Lisaw. The Plain of Tan Tsa is situated about 5 miles to the north of and is even smaller than Lun Ma, but it is the residence of the local Lisaw \"fu yi,\" or hereditary Chief.\n\nAs we entered the Lisaw country near Ta Ho, I may give a few notes on these people. They chiefly inhabit the higher valleys and slopes at an altitude above the Kachin villages on the N'maikba side, and above the Chinese villages on the Yunnan side. They are mostly scattered about in small hamlets of three to five families; they have been expelled from most of the padi lands which they once possessed, and now live chiefly on maize and buckwheat. The commercial activity chiefly consists in bringing down hemp, firewood, wheat, and the bark of the Koutree (Edgeworthia Gardneri), from which paper is made, to the Chinese hazaars in exchange for salt, cotton, clothing, rice, and opium. They mostly grow their own tobacco; their houses are of bamboo wattles, and divided into three partitions and thatched with dried grass. In the Kuyang Lun Ma district they claim to have come from either Pa Chiao or Sima, near the British frontier, and they assert that their principal Chief used to reside at Meng Ka, near Sima, in the old days before the appearance of the Kachins; but their real origin must be looked for elsewhere. It is almost certainly to be found in the valley of the Upper Salwen, where the bulk of the population is still Lisaw. The Lisaw race is probably, like the Kachins, an offshoot from the south-eastern edges of the Thibetan plateau. About Meng Ka and Lun Ma there is obviously a strong strain of Chinese blood in the Lisaws, but on nearing the Upper Salwen the Thibetan type and physique is strongly marked. It does not appear that there is any tradition of the Lisaws ever having been in possession of any of the main valleys; indeed, they themselves state that they put in an appearance in these parts after the Chinese, but before the Kachins. The Lisaws near Ku Yung have adopted Chinese habits and language to such an extent that they can hardly understand their cousins from the Salwen, but even those who have adopted Chinese dress preserve the hempen gaiters, tightly bound under the knee and falling loosely to the ankle, which are a characteristic feature of their national dress. Cotton garments are an innovation. The \"black,\" or wild Lisaw of the Upper Salwen, of whom I saw a few specimens, were entirely clad in coarse hemp, and wore rude turbans of the same material; the gaiters, the long robe and short trousers completed the costume, while their ornaments consisted of light silver bracelets and necklets of plaited straw, from which hung small shells, pebbles, and bits of silver. The Lisaw always goes about armed with his heavy, broadsword in a univalve wooden scabbard, and with his crossbow and bundle of hardened bamboo-arrows, which will penetrate an inch of deal at a distance of 30 yards. Some part of his person, the strap of his sword, or even his pigtail, if he has one, is invariably adorned with small shells, though in other respects he may be a \"short coat,\" i.e., if he is dressed in Chinese fashion and has discarded the hempen or \"long coat\" of his ancestors. The women dress very differently in nearly every community which I visited, but their heads and bodies are always adorned with shells, bits of deers' horns, and odds and ends of silver and pebbles. The real Lisaw female dress is a hempen kilt and short hemp jacket, with a cap encrusted with shells, but in Upper Ming Kwang the kilt has become a tightish petticoat worn under a long cotton robe, with a broad cotton belt adorned with patchwork of red, green, and white.\n\nThe Lisaw coolie carries 50 lbs. on his back, and is a good porter in difficult country.\n\nPage 366",
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        "content_text": "# Hong Kong \n1903- Vol. I \n\n## Con line 5- \nLease to collect shells to off Lantão Island.\n\n`Co 129/328`\n\n## Doc \n### Subject: \n**Governor.**\n\nJ. M. N. Acton, K.C.M.G.\n\n## Jan.\n9 | Telegram | Cony | 11\n12 |  |  | 16\n13 |  |  | 8\n14 |  |  | iz\n19 |  |  | 19\n20 |  |  | \" \n23 |  |  | Cho\n\n## Kowloon Canton Railway \n-0. \nTropical hygiene. \nJai Kung manni L Ola. Rail & Chorot Kowloon \nClass III app5. \nPassages for cadets to. \nDergus of amm inction \nImall pox cass \nFrench cubordizia teamers. \nBut ship \nit arboring of my armed women ordre Cowles for Panama.\n\n24 | H. J. Murray, Complaint | Jaymere agst Cape-, Bell Smith\n23 |  |  | 30\n29 |  |  | 29\nFeb. 2 |  |  | 31\n8 |  |  | 32\n  |  |  | < \n  |  |  | 38\n\n## \"A.H. Rennie. Claim \nTelegram | 13\n\n### Emigration Agent que \nI'vaal. \nCom | 39\n16 |  | 43\n18 |  |  | Telegram | 48.\nZZ |  |  | 224\n51 |  |  | 27\nMich z | Cory | 62\n  |  |  | 63\n\n### Com \nE.L.M ondon. Co.kla. \nInstruction in history & geography. \nQueen's College Report 19 one \nKowloon Canton Kly. \nW.JO. Pension Fund Report- out. \nTransmase Emige Agent, Chefvo. \nThanghai Post Offici \nBalance of Local Barts. \nCanton-Macao Aly. \ny and claws Leave to m. J. Saayson \n\n### Military \nRevoganisation of \nHow Territory \nPost Office",
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        "content_text": "# DESPATCH.\n\n## Hankow-Carlon Kly.\n\n**Asst. Dungeon.**\n\nE. Dougherty, Suspension \n\n## Awaya East-Reclamation \n\nResivation of land of Long Harbour.\n\nD. Laing.\n\n## Boundary of Praza East Reclamation \n\nIt adbone Office communications \n\nDy change \n\nscame from Governor.\n\n### No. 165 June 27 Telegram 20 \n\n| No. | Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 167 |  |  |\n| 168 |  |  |\n| 1701 |  | Comp |\n| 172 |  | 30 |\n| 174 |  | Cong |\n\n### HONG KONG \n\n| File Ref. | Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `C0. 4609` | 1905 9 Jan | Leases to collect shells & coral off Lantão Island. |\n| `40121` |  |  |\n| `10.4660` |  | (Rt 13 FL. 05 |\n\nreports action taken re petition against grant off- matter has been dropped \n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nthat the matter may \n\n| Date | Ref. | Minute |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 31. 17. Feb- | `WB & L (78)` | 28601-76700-11-4 |\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nI think the Crowns leases were bad. It appears that nearly all of some 100 (odd) petitioners allowing Rae yuuk actio... that only 3 of them have shown interest in the matter and that the arbitration to lovequish finally, that no injustice resulting in loss to a which class of persons has been perpetrated, and therefore I shall...\n\n### Page 363 \n\n`XCR(85)72` is not present, but `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either. `40131/0` is present.\n\nLast previous Paper: `Inkula`. \n\nKathan nh 1905 9 Jan \n\nvoace 1.1905° \n\n2 \n\nfor Ridley \n\n1 \n\nари \n\nallarch & Disp.\n\nABL - 75/2 \n\nChury \n\nproposed at...",
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        "content_text": "# NO. Q \n## Hongkong \n\nSir, \n\nReceived C.-O. 4669 \nRec'd 13 FEB 05 \n\nGovernment House, \nHongkong, 8th January, 1905. \n\n## Enclosure 2 \n\nYour despatch No.431 dated the 30th November, 1904, on the subject of a petition from certain persons residing in the neighbourhood of Lantao Island that leases granted by the Government for the collection of shells and coral off the coast of that island might be cancelled, was brought to my notice shortly after my arrival in the Colony, and I was informed of the steps that had been taken towards assessing the compensation which was to be paid to the petitioners in accordance with the first of the alternatives for dealing with the matter which you had directed should be followed.\n\n2. Great difficulty had been experienced in getting any statement of claim or evidence of loss from the petitioners and it was only on the 12th August that the Land Officer, who had had the assistance of Messrs. Wilkinson & Crist, the petitioners' Solicitors, was able to present the report and evidence of which copies are annexed. Only a small number of the signatories to the petition were brought forward in support of it; others proved to have no interest in the matter.\n\n3. The evidence showed that the business of collecting lime and coral was not as profitable now as formerly, that the petitioners had not been prevented from carrying it on but that some of them had suffered losses by declining to sell to ...\n\n## THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \n## ALFRED LYTTELTON, M.P. \n\n&c. \n&c. \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "6 \n\nto accept his decision\". It was then pointed out to the Solicitors (8th September, 1904), at the instance of Mr. Sercombe Smith, the Puisne Judge, that he had already as a member of the Supreme Court delivered a dissentient judgment on the 29th June, 1900 \n\nwhich was in favour of the validity at that time of the lease of \n\nthe Marine Lots at Lantac, and so adverse to the claims of their \n\nclients. \n\nMessrs. Wilkinson & Grist replied (20th September, 1904) \n\nthat as the position of their clients in the present was somewhat \n\ndifferent from that in the former case, their clients were \"quite \n\nwilling to accept the Puisne Judge as sole Arbitrator in this \n\nmatter\". \n\nA submission to arbitration drawn out by the Crown \n\nSolicitor and approved by the Petitioners' Solicitors was accordingly signed by me on the 14th October, 1904. \n\n7. \n\nThe Crown Solicitor has now reported (5th January, \n\n1905) that Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist have informed him that they \n\ncannot get into communication with the petitioners and that the \n\nlatter have not signed the submission to arbitration. He suggests \n\nthat as these people show no intention of prosecuting their claim \n\nthe matter might be allowed to drop. \n\n8. \n\nI am now satisfied that this course may safely be \n\nfollowed without fear of injustice being done. We know at present \n\nwithout doubt that in granting the lease of the Marine Lots at \n\nLantac for the collection of shells and coral before the passing \n\nof \"The Foreshore and Seabeds Ordinance\" No.15 of 1901, the Government was only following the legal practice of the Chinese Government, that this did not, as stated in the 18th paragraph of the \n\npetition, compel the petitioners to give up their occupation and \n\nprevent them from earning their livelihood, but that such losses \n\nthat may have been incurred by those of the petitioners who were \n\nowners of fishing junks, or employees having shares in the profits \n\nwere",
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        "content_text": "**(CPY)**\n\n## Enclosure\nLanteo Baring Lots Nos. 1 and 7.\n\nC.O. 4669 8 Row 13 FEB 05\n\n## Report on the Claims of the Shell Gatherers at Ping Chau\n\nI have examined eight of the petitioners who have come forward to state the case of the shell gatherers at Ping Chau and as it is not now intended to bring forward any more of the Petitioners for examination, I now make my Report upon the case as it stands.\n\nThe Petitioner Chong Sing, master of the Junk \"Soon Tak Sing\"; Leung Ohio, master of the Junk \"Tai Lee\"; Fan Tie formerly master of the Junk \"Chau Wing\" and now a lime burner, and Chiu Puk, master of the Junk \"Tang Ro\", state that they do not now get any compensation, but that they consider the toll charged by the Crown Lessees of 9 candareens per Tau of shells collected, to be removed.\n\n2. I find that the whole case of the shell gatherers has been worked up by Yan Tim, and although the Petition was made nominally by the shell gatherers, it is really the petition of Yan Tim.\n\n4. The existing Crown Leases of Lanteo Baring Lots Nos.1 and 7 were duly granted to Chen Kee Chiu and three others on the 21st May, 1909 for 10 years from the 17th Apr: 1902 at Crown Rents amounting to $1,200 per annum. The leases were granted for the sole purpose of enabling the Lessees to search for and obtain ore, and shells from the sea-bed off Lanteo and surrounding Ping Chau Islands.\n\n5. The Crown Lessees started work as the Fat Hing Company immediately on the grant of the Leases and notified to the Junk owners that they would issue licenses for coral dredging within the waters comprised in their Lease at a charge of 9 candareens for each tau collected and carried away to other places.\n\nUpon this the employees of the junk owners who carried shells to the Sha Shui Po lime-burners refused to dredge any longer, stating, as the lime burners refused to pay the tax, the owners of the junks would not be able to earn enough money to pay them enough to live on.",
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        "content_text": "## 17\n\nOne of the witnesses, Long Shing, of the Sua Tax Sing junk, who still continues dredging at Ping Chou, stated also that the Sham Shui Po lize burners refused to buy their shells because the licence fee had been imposed at Ping Chau.\n\n## 9\n\nIt is to be remarked that none of these people ever attempted to work under the new system, and if they had continued to work and sold their shells to the Ping Chau line burners, they would have suffered no loss at all, and the Sham Shui Po line burners would have done sooner what they are doing now; that is, they would have paid the Crown Lessees' charge of 8 candareens per Teu and left the dredgers the same price for their shells as before.\n\nUnder present conditions, there is no loss to the dredgers, and Ohiv Fun, the master of the Tang o juak, states in his evidence that under present circumstances, he would not have sent in his Petition to the Government.\n\n## 10\n\nThe first four witnesses put forward on behalf of the shell gatherers were to show that, by reason of the Company levying a charge for dredging at Ping Chau, the business stopped because the employees refused to work, and in consequence, the masters of the junks laid the junks up at Sai Kok near Sham Shui Po, and they became rotten or insanitary, and the compensation asked for by those witnesses was on account of damage to the junks by laying them up, and not compensation for loss of work or business because the Leases were granted.\n\n## 11\n\nIn the case of the first witness, Lan Sang, the master of the junk Lan Sang Li, he admitted his junk (a small one) was 30 years old, and his junk had been rotten for 2 years. He wants compensation to repair his old junk, in which case he could earn more money than before, as the price of shells is higher. As he removed on his own account from Ping Chau and laid up his old junk at Sai Kok, and admits that but for the condition of his junk, he would be making no loss, I do not recommend any compensation to be paid in this case.\n\n## 12\n\nIn the case of Chee Yen, the said witness, the master of the junk Yau Lee, his junk was not working and was anchored, and was wrecked by a typhoon. He admits that he stopped dredging because the Company started...",
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        "content_text": "## 10\n\nworking and not because of any issues they made. In this case, there is no \nspecial claim to compensation, but Onea Yen would like to get something because \nhe owes money owing to the loss of his junk. I do not recommend any compensation \nto be paid in this case.\n\n## 13\nThe case of Lan Tung the 3rd, witness, and master of the junk \nLan Tung Sou, is exactly similar to the case of the first witness Lam \nSang. He does not mind what compensation he gets, and has not suffered \nloss by reason of the grant of the Leases, but only through putting his \njunk ashore, which he did on his own account. I do not recommend any \ncompensation to be paid in this case.\n\n## 14\nThe case of the 4th witness Yau Kow, the master of the junk Pew \nKi, is somewhat similar to the last, except that his junk is not rotten \nbut leans through being put on shore at Sai Kok. I do not recommend \nany compensation to be paid in this case.\n\n## 15\nIn the cases of all the other witnesses, no compensation was \nasked for. All they want is to stop the levying of charges by the Crown \nLessees for dredging within their areas, believing that if this were \ndone, the lime burners who now pay these charges could, if they could be \nremitted, pay higher prices to the shell gatherers to the extent of the \ncharge.\n\n## 16\nI will now refer to the statements of Wan Tim, the seventh witness, \nwho is the prime mover in the matter. He was formerly a shell gatherer \nand is now a lime burner and is acquainted with the question from both \npoints of view. His allegation is that the licence fee charged by the \nCrown Lessees is equivalent to customs' duty. The lime burners in the \nNew Territories formerly paid Customs duty to the Chinese authorities \non lime actually burned and exported, and this freed the shell gatherers \nfrom any duty, they paying a junk licence only to the Chinese Government, \nwhich included the right to dredge for shells. As there are no Customs' \nduties levied in Hongkong, he claims that the licence fee now charged is \nnot legal, inasmuch as having dredging licences for their junks, they have \na right to dredge anywhere without further fee.",
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        "content_text": "Lanteo Marine Lots Nos.1 and 2.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n13\n\nEvidence of the Petitioners claiming to be shell Gatherers round Ping Chau taken by Bruce Shepherd, Land Officer.\n\n24th. June, 1904.\n\nJunk Ler Sang II. (1st. Witness).\n\nLen Sang states:- The name of my junk is the Lan Sang Li. I have had the junk over 20 years. The junk has ceased now because the expense is too heavy. It is still in my possession. The junk is rotten since 2 years ago. I have a licence. I have not got it with me. I last took out the Licence 2 years ago. I paid $19 a year for the licence. I have dredged for shells for 20 years. I sold to various burners. In the 28th. year I sold the shells for $158 taels. If the boat was not rotten I could get some money for my daily labour. I lost because the Company levy taxes on the shells and I could not get my expenses and therefore I ceased dredging. The customs levied duties on lime and not on shells. Now there is no customs' duty. I spent $300 or $400 a year for wages and expenses. The taels $16 is net profit. I got about $1,000 proceeds. If I had a junk now after deducting all expenses I could get about $400 including paying licence. If I had a junk and had money I could get more than before. The price for shells now is higher than before. I want compensation to repair my old junk. I cannot do reclamation work because I have no money to employ labourers. The Company levied taxes on the lime burners and they deducted the taxes from us and I got less money. I live at Shew Shui Po. I did not get shells from any other place. I did not get any licence from the Chinese Government, my junk is a spoil one. We get candareene net for 1 tael and not 1 mace for 1 tael.\n\nJunk Yau Lee (2nd. witness)\n\nChee Yau states:- I am owner of the junk Yau Lee. I live at Tai Kok, Shew Shui Po. My junk was destroyed by a typhoon 1st. of the 7th. moon last year. I got a licence but it is lost now. I had a licence in 29th. year in the name of San Yau Lee. The San Yau Lee and the Yau Lee...",
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        "content_text": "14 are the same junk. I sold shells to Sun Shing Lo of Sham Shui Po. I got \nshells at Ping Chau over 20 years. By junk, I mean some work at the line boss as a foreman. \nI am ... years old. I have \n\nAs soon as the Company started, we could not get sufficient money to \nmaintain the junks, and the junk was piloted and destroyed by the typhoon. \n\nI paid no licence fee to the Chinese Government. I got a book from the Tai \nYee, Deputy in Sham Shui Po. The book is lost. The junk cost me over $1000 \ntaels a year for wages, provisions, and other expenses. I got about $1800 \nor $1900 a year from the sale of shells. I would get now the same as be-\nfore. I used to get 1 mace 2 candareens for 1 Tau before, and the price is \nthe same now. Each share got about 72 taels a year, and there were 12 \nshares. I am entitled to 1 and a half shares. I may get 110 or 180 taels. \n\nWe stopped dredging because of the start of the Company and not because of any loss that was made. The Toki were afraid they could not get money, and they stopped working. I am employed in the Sun Yee Shop at Ping Chau. I am owing money because of the loss of the junk. I got $78 from Tak Yum of \nPing Chau. \n\n## Lam Tung Shun Junk (3rd witness)\n\nLam Tung Shun states:- I am owner of the junk Lam Tung Chun, Sai Yok, handed over from my ancestor 15 years ago. The junk is on shore at Sai Po. At the commencement of the Lai Ping Co., I could not get sufficient money to carry on my junk. I was dredging only a few months in the 29th year. I could not earn sufficient, and the foremen went away. I had to pay 3 candareens per Tau to the Company, and I got ... candareens per Tau before. The junk cost me about $400 a year, a little more than $1 a day. It is a small junk. I sold my shells at Sham Shui Po. After the Company started, I got only ... candareens per Tau. The foremen did not leave me until I could not pay them. Now I would get over $1,000 a year. I could run a junk for dredging, not including the payment of the licence to the Company. Before, I would get about $800 net. The boat is become rotten because it is on shore. I have no money. I only did business for one month in the 28th year. I am now a labourer, a coolie at Sham Shui Po. I get $2.6 a month. I am working as a coolie in the Dock Yards at Sham Shui Po. I got between 50 and 60 Tau a day in the 2nd year. Any amount of compensation will ...",
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        "content_text": "15 \n\ndo for me if you like. I had a licence in the 29th year in the name of \nLam Tung Shun. I will show the licence tomorrow. The $190 I received is the total proceeds of the sale of shells in the 29th year. \nI did nothing in the 29th year except dredging at Ping Cheu. I did not \nhave a Chinese Government Licence. He gave a little cumshaw to the \nDeputy. \n\nJunk How Ki. (4th witness) \n\nYeu Kow states:- The name of my junk is Kok Ki. I live at Sai Kong. My junk is on shore at Sai Kong. It is only leasing, not returned. No one \nhired my boat. I have no money to repair the leaks. I have been dredging at Ping Chau for 9 years. My labourer dredged there before me in a different junk. I stopped working after the start of the Company, as I \ncould not get sufficient money. I am working as a coolie at Sham Shui \nPo, not fixed to any firm. I am a street coolie. I saw 10 cents a day \nand I pay my own living out of that. I live in a boat now in the Junk. \nThe leaking means damage of my junk. I received 7 candareens per tau \nfor the shells I dredged. I could not get candareens now. I dredged 7 \nmonths in the 29th year. In the 5th moon of the 28th year, I found I could \nnot get sufficient to pay the fokis. The fokis run away because they \ncould not get sufficient. I lost about $2 a day after the start of the Company. I had to pay 8 candareens per tau taxes to Tam Deputy. I stopped when the Company started. I stopped in the 5th moon of the 26th year. The Company started in the 6th moon. No one suggested I should stop. When one cannot get sufficient, the others cannot. All the junks stopped. He stopped because we could not get sufficient. We did not pay anything to the Chinese Government. I paid 8 candareens per tau to the Company myself. I mean the Company asked me to pay such a duty; I refused to pay and then I stopped. The lime burners pay the same \nprice as before. The lime burners pay 12 candareens per tau to the large junks. There were 2 prices for shells before; the better shell collected by the large junks get a better price. In the 28th year and at the time my father dredged at Ping Chau, the price was 8 candareens per tau net. There was no jealousy between the Sham Shui Po limeburner...",
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        "content_text": "16 \n\nand the Ping Chau lime-burners. I did not leave off dredging because I took the part of the Sham Shui Po lime burners. I can only get 5 candareens net. I only dredged at Ping Chau. I could get by dredging, taking all weathers into account, about 9,000 Tau a year. I did not know that I could get 8 candareens net from the Company at Ping Chau after they started. I took out a fishing licence for my junk. I paid $12 a year. I have the old licence.\n\nJunk Sun Tak Sing, (6th witness).\n\nHong Shing of Tai-kok-tsui states:- The name of my junk is Sun Tak Sing. I am still dredging with it at Ping Chau. I take out a licence. I have been dredging all along. I got 12 candareens per tau, before the Company started, net. Mine is a large junk. They pay more for shells from large than smaller junks because we get better shells. Now we get 12 candareens per tau. I stopped dredging for a few months at the commencement of the Company because the Company rented at 8 candareens per Tau and the lime burners would not buy the shells from me. I mean the Sham Shui Po lime burners. I sell now still to the Sham Shui Po lime burners at 12 candareens per tau net. The lime burners only want the shells collected from that spot because the shells are better than elsewhere. I have been dredging from the 14th year Kwang Hsu and my father before me. We never paid any licence fee to the Chinese Government. I signed the petition asking for compensation. My foreman ran away because they said we could not get money enough and I had to stop. I stopped from the 5th moon when the Company first started to the 9th moon last year. There were about 20 junks dredging in the 29th year. There are 8 dredging now. My junk is a Sai Kung junk. There were some other small junks from Sham Shui Po, but not many. They suffered loss because the Company levied licence fees and they had no money sufficient. The licence fee is heavier than the Customs' duty which the fire burners used to pay. Before the Company started, my share was a little more than $800 a year clear profit. My share now is more than 80 taels for last year. The $800 is for two shares, $150 each; the 20 taels only one share, about $90, because I stopped working from the 6th moon to the 9th moon, a little more than 4 months. It is not legal for the Chinese Government to charge for gathering shells.",
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        "content_text": "17 \n\nIn China there is no such duty. The small boats from Sham Shui Po do not go to Ping Chau. They used to go before. I collect in my boat more than 10,000 Tau. I do not know how much small boat collects. I do not want any compensation from the Government. I want to dredge without paying licence to the Company. I have a big dredging licence. I will show you the licence. I pay $10 a year and 25 cents a month for removal.\n\nJunk Tai Leung \n\n4th July, 1904.\n\n(Sch. witness)\n\nWan Chiu states:- I was master of the Pai Lee junk. I sold the junk and the licence in the 5th noon of the 30th year. I stopped dredging. I have dredged for many years from the reign of Tung Chi (1872). My father dredged before me. I had a Chinese Government licence for trading purposes but not for dredging. At first I dredged at many places, at last at Ping Chau more than 10 years ago, and I have been dredging ever since up to last year. I stopped last year because the coolies got overdrawn and ran away and I could not get new coolies. I do not expect to get compensation from the Government but I want to get rid of the Company. The licence was in my own name. My Hongkong licence was a trading licence, but I can do anything with it. I sold my junk to my countryman. It is a passenger junk from Tai Heung, my own country, to Hongkong. It is a 500 picul junk, a large junk. I am a countryman in the country at Tai Heung. It is better to get rid of the Company then I could start dredging again. It is hard work dredging and to pay taxes my coolies are afraid. They first levied taxes from the shell gatherers. I cannot get coolies because of the taxes. The coolies say our work is so hard and the Company imposes taxes so we had better change our position. The coolies divide the profits after deducting the expenses. Other coolies had money to maintain and them and therefore could continue to do hard work. I sold my shells at about 1 mace per tau and in a good market get 1.2 or 1.8 mace. When the Company started I do not know the price. I could not keep my coolies. I stopped in the 3rd moon last year before the start of the Company. There was a rumour that the Company would start and so I stopped. The Company before it started seized the junks of some people who owed the money.",
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        "content_text": "18 \n\nThe Company took action for money. The police seized the junks; the sailors in the Government steam launch say so. That is why the fokis stopped working. I do not know myself. I only give you the information what the sailors say. I took between $1,000 and $2,000 a year for the shells I dredged. The expenses were over one half the income. Sometimes we got $100, sometimes $50, and at least $50 each as clear profit. There were 10 or 11 of us in the junk sharing profit. The junk got 1 and a half shares, and the individual one share. I took the junk's share. 1 mace 1 candareen is my calculation. I calculate by money; 1 and a half shares for the junk was for repair. I had also 1 share for myself. I did not make any claim for compensation at the time I stopped dredging. I did not care to make any claim then. My guild, my shell gathering guild determined to make the claim. My guild wants to get rid of the Company; I never tried to continue dredging. I sold to San Shing Lee. I do not know who made up my account in the case. I do not know who put in the amount of $1,666 as the amount. I forget how much I got from the Yes Kes. The limeburners know. It was the shell guild who sent for me. I was a member then but not now. When I refer to the guild, I mean the shell gatherers. Sun Tak Sing sent for me.\n\nJunk Chan Hing. (7th witness)\n\nWan Tim states: - I am the master of the Chan Hing Junk. I sold it last year, on the 29th of the 2nd moon. I am a lime burner at Ting Chau and at Kwai Chung. I have been dredging for 10 years, and my father before me for 40 years. I dredged at Ping Chau. I stopped dredging in the 8th moon of the 25th year, and started again in the 9th moon of the 26th year, and I considered I continued the dredging until I sold the junk. The junk is now a cargo boat to Ting Hoi. I do not expect any compensation, but what I want is to get rid of the taxes imposed by the shell gatherers; then I could start again. We have to get a license, and that is the same as customs. I did not have a license from the Chinese Government for dredging. I had a trading junk license, and that enables us to dredge. Someone offered $1,500 to the Sun On Magistrate for such a license, but the magistrate refused such a license, saying there...",
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        "content_text": "19 \n\nwas no such law in the Chinese Empire. Anyone can dredge. The line burners pay the taxes on behalf of the gatherers and deduct the amount from what they pay the gatherers. I used to get 1.2 mace per tau before the Company started. After the Company started, the net price is 1 mace, and we lost 2 candareens per tau. The line burners refuse to pay a higher price. There will be a loss to the shell gatherers at a lower price. I am obliged to pay a higher price to a line burner at Ping Chau.\n\nI did not pay higher at Kwai Chung. I had to pay 1.4 to Cheung Chau gatherers last year as I was under contract as a lime burner. I got $120 net a year for shell gathering before the Company started and afterwards about $75. I am a lime burner now. I lost over $1,500 last year; everyone lost last year. There was a hindrance in every line burner's shop last year.\n\nI do not want to get compensation but only the licence fee removed. All the 19 junks and folks all joined together in forwarding the petition. The petition was made by the shell gatherers. The line burners suffer also because of the difficulty in getting goods. There were 19 large junks reduced to ? now. There were between 30 and 40 small junks reduced to little more than 20 now. As they know the regulations of the Company, they think they would increase the taxes to candareens.\n\nWe were there gathering before the Colony of Hongkong existed. If it is wanted to establish such a rule, it is better to get all the men to come to bid and give to the highest bidder. Can we transfer the shells from other places to Ping Chau? The Company is a hindrance in collecting shells.\n\nWhen we have not sufficient money to pay the taxes, the Company will not allow the junks to come to Ping Chau. If we have money, we need not gather shells. The Company does not give much credit. The second hindrance is we must get a licence from the Company before we can dredge, and the Company sometimes refuses such a licence. This is so, especially where the line burners do not pay the taxes. The Company drives some of the junks back to Canton. The lime burners complain that the Company prevents the goods coming to Ping Chau, and the expenses of the lime burners are ... \n\n7",
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        "content_text": "## \nincreased some $1,000 and more a year. The Company make too much profit!\n\nJunk Teng No. (Eth. witness)\n\nChiu Fuk states:- I am the master of the Junk Teng No. It is at Ping Chau. I am dredging this year also in the 28th and 29th years. I stopped from the 5th month of last year for 2 months. I stopped on account of the Company. The lime burners refused to pay the taxes to the Company. They only paid me 1.2 mace per tau and I had to pay 2 candareens to the Company. I get now 1 mace 2 candareens. The lime burners pay the taxes. I am just as well off now as before. I do not want compensation but only to get rid of the taxes. Then I could increase my price. Everything is dear. It is very difficult to employ fokis. The fokis divide the profit after deducting the expenses. I gathered 10,000 tau last year and it was not a good year. I used to get 1,400 and 1,500 tau a year in good weather years. I had a few months hindrance last year because the lime burners refused to pay the taxes. The expense is about 70 taels a month for the whole junk. I sell my shells now to Tex Mo, Sun Yi and Wing Ho Cheung the last witness's business. I collect them all at Ping Chau. I live at Sai Heung near Nam Tau and on my junk. I go home 3 or 4 times a year. My father gathered 20 years and I have gathered shells 10 years. I engage fokis. I got a trading business licence from the Chinese Government but not a licence for dredging, the trading licence covers that. There is no such law in China as a licence for dredging. I never heard of such a licence.\n\nThe Petition was got up by our shell junks and not by the lime burners. That was before the lime burners paid the taxes to the Company. Under present circumstances, I would not have sent in my Petition to the Government. My business is going down. I can't get 1.4 mace at Sham Shui Po but only 1.8 mace at Ping Chau, but the Sham Shui Po burners refuse to pay the taxes to the Company.\n\nSd. Bruce Sheoherd,  \n2nd Assistant Officer.",
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        "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\ntre Plang \n\nSM: Hongkay \n\n080 31 \n\nSotu hattian \n\n## MINUTE\n\n\"Stubbs 15/2 \n\nMr. Antrobus. \nMr. Cox. \nMr. Lucas. \nMr. Graham. \nSir M. Ommanney, \nThe Duke of Marlborough, Mr. Lyttelton, \n\n4049. \n1 Feby 1905 \n21 \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your disp: 1024 th[e] qt of Jan's with regard to the **petition** against the grant of leases for the collection of shells & coral on the coast of the Island of Lautas.\n\n2. E. the lives, Taper cères,",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure to Despatch of 20th January 1905\n\nNo. 2. List of ammunition seized\n\n**C.O. 78 6160**\n**Prof 25 FEB 05**\n\nList of ammunition seized aboard the British Steam ship \"Jung Cheng\" and stored in the Government Gunpowder Depot at Stonecutters Island.\n\n| Description | No of packages | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Bulk ammunition | 494 |  |\n| Bulk ammunition | 1216 |  |\n| Small Arms ammunition | 89 |  |\n| Bulk shell ammunition | 566 | Some shells junk, fuses (598) Barnia Jaurence |\n| Ammunition, salvaged cartridges | 3 |  |\n| Ammunition, salvaged cartridges | 4 |  |\n\nTotal 1604 packages\n\n**Harbour Department, Hongkong 18th January 1905**\n**Harbour Master**",
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        "content_text": "# 315\n\nOf the three wells being sunk for the purpose of ascertaining the depth at which a reliable foundation for a dam will be met, No. 1 got so far out of plumb by the time it reached a depth of 35 feet below low water that it had to be abandoned.\n\nWell No. 2 was next proceeded with and, after great difficulty, principally on account of skin friction, was successfully sunk by the 17th May to a depth of 46 feet, at which depth rock was reported. The trouble arising from skin friction was overcome by increasing the load on the well until it ultimately reached about 200 tons. Pumping operations within such a confined space and from such depths were also a source of great trouble. The material passed through consisted of clay and silt intermingled with shells and with occasional layers of sand and shells. Just before reaching the rock, a layer of beach boulders about 2 feet in depth, was passed through. The boulders were of varying size, down to shingle, consisted of very hard stone and were densely packed together. The rate at which water entered the well from the layer of boulders precluded the possibility of pumping it dry in order to admit of an actual inspection of the bottom.\n\nThe work was then begun upon Well No. 3 and, after sinking it to a depth of 42 feet through clay silt and sand, the stratum of beach boulders above described was again encountered. Sinking operations were continued, and, after passing through about 10 feet of boulders, sand was again met with and it was not until the well had reached a depth of 58 feet that rock was finally found. Here also it was found impossible to dry the bottom by pumping and the extent and nature of the rock were ascertained by feeling it carefully all over. Pieces were also broken",
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        "content_text": "## 4.\n\nAs I formerly pointed out (37), considerable areas are covered with deposits containing a large percentage of shells. When a specimen from one of these areas is stirred up in water, and the water containing suspended matter is allowed to run off, the residue is found to have about half the bulk of the original specimen. The residue in turn becomes halved when it is treated with acid, and the liquid is strained off. The part eliminated was shells, and the part finally remaining is quartz.\n\n## 5.\n\nFrom the foregoing it is apparent that there are forces at work causing some shoaling. In my former report I proceeded to treat the evidence adduced for immoderate shoaling as if it might be considered reliable. This was not done, however, without giving the whole of the information on which the report was based, and pointing out defects in the surveys (15), expressing doubts about zeros (21, 22, etc.), and urging the necessity for better information (42).\n\n## 6.\n\nSo little satisfied was I with the results of my investigations that in forwarding my report I wrote in a covering minute that \"the result will scarcely be considered satisfactory, after all; and you will doubtless think the report longer than the information given by it warrants. But as it has taken a great deal of trouble to get the information together, I think it best to put every step of the investigation on record, so that those who come after me may know what they might profitably look for, and what they need not look for, elsewhere\". And later, when it was proposed to publish the report as a Sessional Paper, I demurred in the following terms: \"I submit that this report is better suited for departmental reference than for anything else. To give it a fair chance it would have to be accompanied by copies of the charts; and the expense of reproducing them would not be warranted, seeing that...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905",
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        "title": "CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905",
        "content_text": "# DRAFT.\n\n## Hong Kong \n\n3/139375 \n\n**Prof:** W. J. Simpson \n\nMr.  \nMr. \n\n**MINUTE.** \n\nShells 115° Colluis? \n\nMr. Antrobus,  \nMr. Cox.  \nMr. Lucas.  \nMr. Graham,  \nSir M. Ommanney.  \nThe Duke of Marlborough  \nMr. Lyttelton.  \n\nfor:  \nZ. B. TZO. Muised  \n`W&L-000-12-04`  \n`6000-2-05`  \n\nSir,  \n\n6  \nI am  \n475  \nMay 190s.  \nI give the Directory with See it back  \nthanks your  \nwritten letter getting  \n266  \nj April April with  \nregard  \n\nBaumann's report  \nan experiment undertaken to discover  \nwhether the common domestic animalo  \nor Ludia are affecta",
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        "content_text": "Moreover, the case presents one remarkable feature. As a general rule in such cases, the accused man is in possession of an amount of money, which is far in excess of what he could have saved on his salary. (Cf. Ward's case 48048/06). signs of inexplicable wealth apisaoudly But Mr. Kelly has not shown. quite the contrary. Pages 42-45 are devoted to proving that he has not saved so much money as might have been expected. What then happened to the hypothetical \n\n299 \"corruption prevails to a considerable extent among the subordinate offices ite the taking off bribes presents is not regarded (812 of 45045); and having regard to the important public interests at stake, one's feeling is that it is safer to err on the side of severity. In my opinion the Officer Administering the Government should be informed by telegraph that the Secretary of State does not consider the charges proved and cannot sanction dismissal and an explanatory despatch should follow suggesting that the only thing proved is neglect to report the inexplicable appearance of beer and bacon and that that offence would be adequately punished by reprimand and fine or reduction in rank.\n\nIt is a matter of enormous difficulty to arrive at a correct conclusion. The difficulty still exists for those who have only notes to go upon. The S. is in the dilemma: if he condones the offence, he may be punishing injustice; if he punishes severely, he may discourage the efforts to purify the service. In the good opinion of the Government, severity rather than leniency is warranted in cases of accused officials.\n\nI differ considerably from the views expressed in Shells' minute. My view is that the Chinese witnesses were, if not unwilling, at least reluctant to come forward, not to mention their dislike to finding fault with their superiors. Assuming for the sake of argument that the procedure was not perfect, Kelly did bribe others, the question is not one of complaint under a certain rule, it were too lenient.\n\nI don't think that Mr Stibbs' version is a correct inference. Kelly acknowledges that he threw the San \"pretty well\" (p 30). Ko Sam must have known perfectly well for what reason. Before the facts were being brought to light through his accounts. 5 June Cy was being examined on the Entries in Kai Ki 5 and he was asked \"Who ...\n\nPage 24/1\n\nConchas con ... with Regard to Chrisze with Rocam her face the with cres the sport. Ken under Hand; for us. who have only notes topompon, the difficulty stile females.\n\n...\n\n \n\nPage ... \n\nThe final response is:\n\nMoreover, the case presents one remarkable feature. As a general rule in such cases, the accused man is in possession of an amount of money, which is far in excess of what he could have saved on his salary. (Cf.Ward's case 48048/06). signs of inexplicable wealth apparently But Mr. Kelly has not shown; quite the contrary. Pages 42-45 are devoted to proving that he has not saved so much money as might have been expected. What then happened to the hypothetical \n\n299 \"corruption prevails to a considerable extent among the subordinate offices; and the taking of bribes presents is not regarded (812 of 45045); and having regard to the important public interests at stake, it contrasts one's feeling in altering to safer. In my opinion the Officer Administering the Government should be informed by telegraph that the Secretary of State does not consider the charges proved and cannot sanction dismissal and an explanatory despatch should follow suggesting that the only thing proved is neglect to report the inexplicable appearance of beer and bacon and that that offence would be adequately punished by reprimand and fine or reduction in rank.\n\nIt is a matter of enormous difficulty to arrive at a correct conclusion. The difficulty is still there for those who have only notes to go upon. The S. is in the dilemma: if he condones the offence, he may be punishing injustice; if he punishes severely, he may discourage the efforts to purify the service. In the good opinion of the Government, severity rather than leniency is warranted in cases of accused officials.\n\nI differ considerably from the views expressed in Shells' minute. My view is that the Chinese witnesses were, if not unwilling, at least reluctant to come forward, not to mention their general dislike to finding fault with their superiors and from interfering with their affairs. Assuming for the sake of argument that Kelly did bribe others, the question is not one of complaint under a certain rule, it were too lenient.\n\nI don't think that Mr Stibbs' version is a correct inference. Kelly acknowledges that he threw the San \"pretty well\" (p 30). Ko Sam must have known perfectly well for what reason his accounts were being examined and on the Entries in Kai Ki 5.\n\nPage 24/1",
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        "content_text": "Hang động 472112\n\n24442.\n\n510\n\n1\n\n{\n\nFT.\n\nKing\n\nпр\n\n131\n\nM. haltan\n\nMINUTE. Shells\n\nWhis\n\nAntrobus.\n\nCox,\n\nLucas.\n\nGraham.\n\nih\n\nM. Ommanney.\n\nChurchill.\n\nEarl of Elgin.\n\n200\n\n21750\n\nBL--1-6\n\nB0-1-5-\n\n244427\n\n2. Jan 1906.\n\nSir\n\n3\n\nhave the honour to ack. the receipt of En\n\ndesp:- 10 115 of May\n\nwith regard\n\ngth\n\nthe Audit\n\nthe\n\naccounts go\n\nKasloon Ridway\n\nthe\n\nCanton\n\nto forward by you enclosed copies of\n\ncore with the e.r.t.g.\n\non this subject.\n\nthat\n\nJam will note the C-TA-9.\n\nView\n\nmy Vision\n\nм.",
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        "content_text": "Hong Kong W/922\n\n32341\n\n753\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nJ. S. Watts Esq.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nShells 619\n\nCollins 6\n\nMr. Antrobus,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nf. Mr. Lucas.\n\nMr. Graham.\n\nSir M. Ommanney.\n\nMr. Churchill.\n\nThe Earl of Elgin.\n\nWilte\n\nm\n\nAraff\n\n51440.\n\nCopy for Conf & Sept:\n\nthe\n\nSer\n\nAug:\n\n7 Sep 1906.\n\nLaw Divochd\n\nr letter\n\ntt with 30\n\nregard to the prohibition\n\nin British possessions\n\nof the carriage of\n\ncontract coolies\n\nfrom\n\nto\n\nChinese ports\n\ncountries\n\nthan\n\nThe\n\nBritish\n\nLord Elgin\n\nrgets that he has",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum on Counterfeit Goods sold at Dalny**\n\n### Piece-goods\n\nConcerning these, the most important item on the list of articles imitated, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory information. A careful examination of the samples exhibited in the Commercial Museum at Dairen has failed to produce any tangible evidence of the reported counterfeiting of British \"chops\"; while inquiries made of the chief Chinese dealers in the town have met with the same result. Nearly every sample produced for my inspection was of undoubtedly genuine British or American manufacture. Japanese piece-goods, the merchants said, they did not deal in because their quality was so inferior. No great reliance is, however, to be placed in this assertion, as it is a well-known fact, if the assertions of foreign merchants are to be credited, that the average Chinese dealer is unable to distinguish between regular foreign-made goods and Japanese counterfeits, with the result that the latter are very often foisted off on him without his being any the wiser. From one firm only, that of Shung-Ki, the biggest dealer in the port, was any information forthcoming, and all his manager could tell me was that if I wanted to see counterfeit \"chops\" I had better pay a visit to the Mitsui Bussan Kwaisha's agency at Mukden. At the same time, he promised to make private and careful inquiry to see whether by chance some of these counterfeits might not be obtainable in Dairen itself. Any specimens forthcoming would be sent to me.\n\nIn the Commercial Museum, there was one sample of underwear (apparently woollen) which seemed to me to be counterfeit. The label, a big one, bore the trade-mark of a camel, and was in addition partly covered by a large triangular design in black and white of a herd of camels inside a stockaded enclosure. The museum card attached gave the name and address of the maker as \"Yagi Fukumatsu, 84, Ura Machi, Tosa Bori, Nishi Ku, Osaka.\" The same building also contained an exhibit of muslin bearing a trade-mark of \"Leda and the Swan\"; but I am not certain whether this was a counterfeit mark or not. The place of manufacture was said to be the \"Muslin Boseki Kwaisha, Nakatsu Mura, O-aza Kworitsuji, Nishinari Gori, Osaka.\"\n\n### Toilet Articles, Whisky, &c.\n\nIt is among the toilet articles, whiskies, and other minor commodities that the most egregious counterfeits are to be found. In the big Japanese-Chinese bazaar, for instance, I saw, inter alia, imitations of shirt-studs, sleeve-links, &c.; but the names of the original manufacturers, whether British or American, were not copied, and the trade-marks, in most cases a horse's head, gave no clue at all as to whether the articles were direct imitations of the manufactures of specific firms, or simply ordinary pseudo-foreign goods. I am disposed to think that in a fair number of cases the latter is the correct explanation.\n\n| Article | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Blacking | Bearing the legend \"Mason's Original Challenge Blacking\" and an old and well-known trade-mark of a negro polishing a jack-boot in one corner, a boy holding another jack-boot in the opposite corner, and a dog running out of the picture. |\n| Blacking | Prepared by one \"Yamamatsu, 186 and 235, N. Flank Street, Japan,\" had precisely the same design as that just described; but the superscription, in this case partly obliterated, ran somewhat as follows: \"Masterly Blacking, Original Ofmycounth.\" |\n| \"Blanco\" | With the words \"J. Omar and Sons, best blanco, for whitening all articles of buck or buckskin, leather, and Co.,\" on the cover, and inside, a badly worded sheet of directions for use in English. |\n| Lime and glycerine preparation | A most palpable imitation of an article prepared by the firm of Breidenbach and Co. in London. The only difference was the substitution in the Japanese-made article of the words \"Kimmel and Co.\" (Rimmel and Co. ?) for Breidenbach and Co., the use of a lily instead of a violet as a trade-mark, and the misprinting of a date on a small label at the back of the bottle. |\n\nThe next counterfeited article shown me was a box of soap purporting to be manufactured by S. Sister and Co., but obviously a forgery. The inscription was as follows: \"Koukoku Shirushi Soap. S. Sister and Co. Moske and Violete,\" and the coloured label on the cover bore a device of two harlequins mounted on horse-back, one blowing a trumpet and the other carrying a banner with an emblem on it of a running dog.\n\nA store devoted to the sale of groceries contained bottles of white pepper very clearly made in Japan, notwithstanding the fact that they bore, underneath a trade-mark of some animal lying on a daïs, the initials K. Y. and Co., Leadenhall Street.\n\nHere, also, I noticed several bottles of a British imitation of Lea and Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce. They bore the name \"Imperial Pickle Company, Govan, Glasgow,\" with a label having a close resemblance to the shield and mussel shells of the genuine article...\n\n### Wines and Spirits\n\nWines and spirits are other articles which, like toilet goods, appear to exercise a great fascination over the counterfeiter. In the same bazaar were shown me, in addition to wines, on which, as they have no interest for British merchants, I do not touch, various brands of whisky, almost without exception spurious.\n\n| Whisky Brand | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| William Austin | Purported to come from the distillery of a Glasgow firm, with a label bearing, in addition to the letters \"S.W.\" on gold medallions in each bottom corner, a statement to the effect that this was genuine Scotch whisky. |\n| Glenaskfort | Bore a trade-mark of a bust of Mercury on a medallion with crossed caducea and anchor behind. The maker's name was given as \"O. Klour and Co.\" (J. Brown and Co. ?), of Glasgow. |\n| J. Kroun and Co. | Another counterfeit of Messrs. Brown and Co.'s manufactures. |\n| Thom and Cameron | A small flask, clearly an imitation, was marked as coming from the firm of Thom and Cameron, of Glasgow. |\n\nThe Commercial Museum, which is run more or less under official patronage and supervision, contained among its exhibits various samples of the same spirit. They were all imitations; but how close I am unable to say. Among other trade-marks, I saw that of the \"Milkmaid\" (this is a whisky sold by the American and French Wine Company, a concern carrying on business at Yotsu no rokuji-ichi, Kawara machi, Higashi Ku, Osaka), a \"Old Highland Whisky, Landscape\" brand, and last but not least, an \"Admiral Togo\" whisky coming, so the ill-spelt label assured the reader, from the firm of L. Loshuner, of Glasgow and London.\n\nInquiries at the Japanese-Chinese bazaar as to the place of origin of these various articles failed to elicit any more satisfactory reply than that they come from Japan, not Shanghai. In the case of articles exhibited in the Commercial Museum, the name of the seller or manufacturer of the various commodities is always mentioned.\n\nChinese assert that the dentifrice called \"Odol\" is largely imitated and sold, the old bottles being collected and used again; but I have so far found no proof that this is really the case.\n\nH. P.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**(Initialled)**\n\n**Memorandum on Counterfeit British Goods at Dairen**\n\nExhibits at the Commercial Museum.--Having examined these, Mr. Garner tells me that as far as the exhibits of whisky are concerned, he does not think that they are really counterfeit. He says that it is a common practice among distillers in Great Britain to manufacture for sale in foreign markets cheap brands of whisky, to which an ...\n\nPage 217",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## Memorandum\n\n**THE** chief point of interest in these Regulations is the freight tariff on ordinary merchandize. This is contained in two separate tables, one appearing in the general table of freights, the other, and more important, in a table of freight for merchandize occupying a whole car. The former applies to goods transported to and from wayside stations generally, the latter to those transported between the two ports of Dairen and Yinkow and certain specified places.\n\nThat this second tariff is, if freight be calculated by mileage, a differential one in favour of Dairen can be seen at a glance. Mukden is 250 miles distant from Dairen, but only 115 from Yinkow; yet the freight on ordinary 2nd class merchandize* is only 6.25 yen per ton in the first instance as against 5.60 yen in the second. In other words, Yinkow pays at the rate of 49 sen per ton per mile, while Dairen pays only 2.5 sen.\n\nThe Manchurian Railway Company do not deny that, calculated in this manner, the freight is a differential one; but they deprecate this system of determining the existence of differentiation. To charge a uniform rate per mile would, in their opinion, simply be to handicap Dairen hopelessly. What they have done is to fix a rate which will permit of goods being delivered at both places at virtually the same cost, and by so doing they say they have not only abolished the old differential tariff but even given a certain advantage to Yinkow. A comparison of the figures in the \"whole car\" freight table will show that this is correct, the freight on ordinary 2nd class merchandize being, from Mukden, for instance, 65 sen cheaper for Yinkow than for this port.\n\nTo further strengthen their contention that differentiation no longer exists, they cite the figures of the old tariff. Under that all goods sent from the north to Yinkow paid freight at the rate of 5 sen per ton, whereas for Dairen the charge was, as far as Tashichiao (100 miles south of Mukden), 5 sen per mile, and from Tashichiao to the terminus (250 miles), 2 sen per mile. In the case of Manchurian produce, moreover, the 5-sen rate was reduced to 2.5 sen for this port. Consequently, on this basis, merchandize transported from Mukden to Yinkow paid freight at the rate of 5.75 yen per ton, while that sent to Dairen paid only 5.50 yen.\n\nAs long as goods sent from Mukden, for instance, can be delivered at Yinkow at the rate of 5.60 yen per ton as against 6.25 yen at Dairen it cannot, in the opinion of the Company, with justice be claimed that a differential tariff exists in favour of the latter port and against the former.\n\nPage 328\n\n9\n\nfuel, bamboo, bricks, sand, lava, shells, minerals, ice, coke, iron ware (iron tubes, plates, and machinery), gunny bags, nuts, bark, leaves, manures (with the exception of bean cake), timber, charcoal, coal, stones, and cement.\"\n\nArticle 12 is also amended to read as follows:-\n\n\"If goods of different classes are placed together, either in the same case or in the same car, the freight on the whole consignment shall be calculated at the rate payable by the highest class of goods in the said case or car.\"\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) HAROLD G. PARLETT.\n\n# Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n## H. P.\n\n**(No. 40.)** Sir,\n\n### Vice-Consul Parlett to Sir C. MacDonald.\n\nDairen, August 6, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report to your Excellency that an alteration has been made in the classification of goods transported along the South Manchurian Railway line, and that Articles 9 and 11 of the \"Table of Freights on Merchandize,\" a translation of which was inclosed in my despatch `No. 34` of the 25th July, should now read as follows:-\n\n\"Article 9. The following goods are classified as belonging to the 1st class:-\n\n\"Copper and nickel coins, watches, embroideries, mirrors, musical instruments, hair ornaments, drugs and medicines (with the exception of dangerous drugs), toilet goods, dressed furs, wool, woollen cloth or fabrics, arms, fancy goods, curios, opium, raw silk, silk, silk stuffs and fabric, machinery (scientific, medical, photographic, and electric), eye-glasses and spectacles, books and paintings, drawings, articles of vertu.\n\n\"Article 11. The following goods are classified as belonging to the 3rd class:- \n\"Lime (with the exception of quicklime), earthenware pipes or tubes, tiles, wood fuel, bamboo, bricks, sand, lava, shells, minerals, ice, coke, iron ware (iron tubes, plates, and machinery), gunny bags, nuts, bark, leaves, manures (with the exception of bean cake), timber, charcoal, coal, stones, and cement.\"\n\n*For convenience of comparison, I have taken Mukden and the rates for ordinary 2nd class goods as examples.",
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        "content_text": "# BovernOR. No. \n## 186. 1908 \n### 11 July \n\nLast previous Paper. 10. 2188 \n\nCopy Fo. wife 2 Srp Fo -W. & 9. Ltd.-20962--- \n250-11-7 \n-W. &. Ltd-03140- \n23000-11-47. \n\nsubsequent Paper. \n\nR. D. C. D. \n\n**HONG KONG** \n120847 \nNo. 30847 **24 Of 4** \n**(Subject.)** \n**Indian Emigrants to German New Guinea** \n113 \n\n**DESPATCH.** \n\nminute by Harbour. Transmits copy of Master relative to Pending \n**(Minutes.)** \nB. Shells a further report to Fo ? Jay to Elt (x = 7/8 abance.",
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        "content_text": "189\n\nA couple of the wide adopted, you plodder (without Honesty I'm Sec. of State) was sufficiently sound, but the method of comfortable shells, and powered by your hand in the test.\n\nClause I Paragraph 2 of the Minute.\n\n2.\n\nIt appears to me that the draft is open to objection, on the ground that it is likely to work unevenly in practice: for example, under it an officer on the permanent establishment would receive a gratuity after 15 years service equivalent to one year's 3/4rds of the deep pension calculated at the rate laid down in Clause 1 Paragraph 1 of the Pension Minute. On the other hand, after 16 years service the officer would receive a gratuity equivalent to 4/5rds of the rate of pension calculated in the same manner, though this grant would be out of all proportion to the additional length of service.\n\nAgain it introduces new classes of calculation which have no immediately obvious relation to the basis on which the other Pension rules have been drawn up, and finally it lays.",
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        "content_text": "## \nby the present Governor, Chu Chia-pao, who was transferred to Anhui from Kirin. He is a protégé of Yuan Shih-k'ai.\n\nThe garrison of An-ch'ing consists of-\n\n### (a.) Modern army (the \"Lu Chün\"), composed of--\n\n| Unit | Number in the Ranks |\n| --- | --- |\n| Two regiments of infantry armed with 1888 model Mausers | (About) 8,000 |\n| One battalion of mountain artillery with twelve Creuzot 75 mm. mountain guns | 378 |\n| One squadron of cavalry with 1888 model Mauser carbines | 224 |\n| One company of engineers | 126 |\n| One company of transport corps | 126 |\n| Total | 3,854 |\n\nThe men all come from the Province of Anhui. The first battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment (about 504 strong) were absent on special employment in the manoeuvre area, whilst the other two battalions were mostly scattered about in camps to the north of the city, only 200 being actually inside the walls. The three battalions of the 1st Regiment were quartered in new barracks about a mile to the east of the city, whilst the cavalry had a camp outside the west gate, and the artillery occupied an old fort on the east side of the city on the river bank.\n\n### (b.) Partly-trained troops, viz.:-\n\n| Unit | Total Strength |\n| --- | --- |\n| Two battalions of infantry (Hsün-fang Tui) | 602 |\n| Eighty infantry and 40 cavalry of Governor's bodyguard | 120 |\n| Total | 722 |\n\nThere are also about 800 police, 100 of whom were absent at manoeuvres, but the officer in charge of the latter assured me they were quite useless.\n\nOn the news of the death of the Emperor and Empress-Dowager it was anticipated there might be trouble; rumours were afloat in the city, and many people fled. Governor Chu, who was attending manoeuvres, hurried back, and fortunately arrived the day before the troubles, and, owing to warnings, took precautions. The prime mover of the mutiny was Captain Hsiung of the artillery. It was arranged that fires should be lighted in the cavalry and artillery camps on the night of Thursday, the 19th November. The custom is that when a fire breaks out outside the city the gates (which in all Chinese cities are closed at night) are opened, so as to enable the people to assist in putting out the fires. The Governor, however, being warned, gave orders that, should a fire take place, the gates should not be opened, and thus frustrated the plans of the mutineers, who had intended to enter and seize the armoury near the west gate.\n\nThe artillery major, having refused to join the mutineers, was killed, and the news taken round to the cavalry camp. The latter then made an attack on the cavalry major, who, however, managed to escape with two sabre cuts on the head, and who was eventually treated in the American hospital. The cavalry then tried to induce the 2nd Infantry Regiment to join them, but they refused, and remained more or less in a state of neutrality till the troubles were over. The cavalry then joined the artillery, who were unable to use the Creuzot guns, owing to an absence of ammunition. They fired several shots at the city from several old guns, and also made attacks on the city gates without any result. If they had had any plan, leadership or pluck, they ought to have had little difficulty in getting ladders and scaling the walls, but no such attempt was made. Governor Chu rode about the city, in general's uniform, directing the fire of the men on the walls, and calming the fears of the inhabitants. Plenty of ammunition was served out to the old troops (Hsün-fang Tui and bodyguard), 722 strong, but probably the ammunition was poor and the men could not shoot, and very few people were hit on either side. On Friday, the 20th November, the mutineers looted two Chinese banks outside the city, and three Chinese gun-boats moved down to opposite the fort. The gun-boats, however, would not take the responsibility of shelling it till they received direct orders from the Governor, who sent Brigadier Yü-ta Hung on board to direct. The shooting of the gun-boats was poor, but after some time they were able to dislodge the mutineers, who moved round to the north-west of the city, and indulged in some more futile attacks on the gates, but were driven off by the old troops.\n\nThe 1st Infantry Regiment remained in barracks and refused to take any steps against the rebels.\n\nDesultory firing continued, the mutineers seizing a small repairing arms factory outside the west gate, but neglecting to make any serious attempt on the magazine about a mile to the north, which was only guarded by 100 infantry. In it were stored 7,000 boxes of S.A.A., besides shells for the Creuzot guns, all of which were brought into the city after the troubles on the 21st November, the coolies being paid 1 dollar for each box brought in. As the whole of the Lu-Chün were looked on with suspicion, the 200 infantry in the city were only served out with a few rounds. The whole affair, owing to the prompt action of the Governor, was very small, about 720 men of the old troops defending the city against about 800 mutineers (400 infantry, 100 cavalry, 300 artillery) of the Lu-Chün.\n\nOn Saturday, the 21st November, the Governor sent orders to the 1st Regiment of Infantry to disarm, promising them that if they did so they would not be punished. This they complied with; some disbanded and returned to their homes, whilst 600 or 700 remained unarmed in the barracks. During Friday night and Saturday morning the mutineers fired off a lot of rounds and made two or three futile attacks on the north gate, but were finally shelled out of the cavalry camp by the gun-boats. The Governor himself later on, on Saturday morning, led out a party of the old troops against the mutineers, who were beginning to straggle off northwards, and he succeeded in cutting off one party and capturing two leaders, after which the remainder scattered away to the north.\n\nA third battalion of Hsün-fang Tui (301 strong), brought from Ta-T'ung, lower down the river, arrived at An-ching on Saturday afternoon, after the troubles were over. The mutineers with little ammunition left were reported to be retiring north, exchanging their uniforms for ordinary clothes, and demanding food and money, but doing no personal violence. They are reported to have captured some mules, bringing down 8,000 taels (1,200£) of taxes.\n\nThey are pursued by half-squadron with one battalion of infantry, belonging to the 7th Division, who were returning from manoeuvres, under the energetic Major-General Tien Chung-yü, Chief of the Staff in Manchuria. Fortunately, Governor Chu brought him to reorganize the Lu-chün of An-hui, and though absent at manoeuvres at the time, he ought to have little difficulty in dispersing the rebels, whilst later he will be the best man to restore discipline at An-ch'ing.\n\nAs it turned out, the whole mutiny was a very small matter, with no definite plans and no competent leaders, but it might have been a very serious affair, had it not been for the prompt action of the Governor, who compelled the higher officials to come out of their yamens and do their work, and kept up the confidence of the people, keeping the shops open and calming the fears of the inhabitants. If the mutineers had got into the city and captured the armoury, it is more than probable that the Lu-chün infantry would have joined them, the city would have been given up to looting, and the lives of the English and American missionaries endangered. The French priest was absent, but both he and the other missionaries are unanimous in giving all the credit for the quelling of the outbreak to the courage and energy of the Governor. The 9th Division, of Nanking, who were marching back from manoeuvres, are known to be liable to break out at any time, and if they had found the city in the possession of the mutineers, they would probably have joined them.\n\nChina at the present moment is in a state of unrest, owing to the change of Rulers, and a big conflagration in the Yang-tsze would probably have excited lawless spirits in other parts of the Empire.\n\nThree days after the troubles the American Military Attaché and myself walked all over the city in uniform, and the people, as is usual in the Province of An-hui, were everywhere most friendly. As a precaution the city gates were only opened for a short time.\n\n* General Chang-piao afterwards told me they are being pursued by seven battalions of infantry (chiefly 8th Division) and one cavalry squadron from south and south-west, one battalion of railway guards from north-west, and some of the Pin-k'ou troops from the south-east. All these troops are converging on Liu-an Chou, to which city the rebels are reported to be bound.\n\n† We also called on the Governor and congratulated him on his successful action.\n\nPage 2\nPage 3\n[2049 aa- -1] \nB 2 \n38",
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        "content_text": "## Page 228\n\nconsequent upon the Anti-Japanese agitation in connection with the San Francisco schools.\n\nMr. K. Nishizawa was originally a \"bento\" in a Japanese firm at Keelung where he still resides. He is said to have very little capital but to have a good commercial reputation. His business was built up by shipping during the Russo-Japanese War and he now runs three small chartered tramp steamers between Formosa and Japan in competition with the larger lines. Sailings to Pratas Island are regularly published in the local Press.\n\nHe has upwards of 100 employees on Pratas Island and has erected houses, a hospital and pier there. The products of the Island, phosphorus, phosphates and shells are shipped to Japan via Keelung. The operations are not very extensive and the capacity of the Island is somewhat limited. Chinese fishermen are stated to visit the Island but not to reside there.",
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        "content_text": "**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[15658]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n481\n\n[April 26,]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n(No. 91.)\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 26.)\n\nTokió, April 8, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 16 of the 28th March last, I have the honour to forward, for your further information, some notes regarding Japanese industrial enterprise on Pratas Island, which I have received from His Majesty's Acting Consul at Tamsui.\n\nIt is interesting to note that regular sailings take place between Formosa and the island in question. It would seem that the enterprise commenced by Messrs. Neumann and Wilkinson, which formed the subject of correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office in April 1908, has not been successful, for no further mention is made of it.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.**\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nNotes by Acting Consul Firth respecting Japanese Industrial Enterprise on Pratas Island.\n\nTHIS island is reported to have an area of about 500 acres, measuring nearly 2 miles from east to west and half a-mile from north to south. It has a coast-line of about 5 miles; one quarter of the area is occupied by a lake.\n\nThe first Japanese to visit the island was the master of a sailing vessel belonging to Nishizawa and Co., of Keelung, who, being blown out of his course, landed there in 1902 and took in ballast. This ballast was subsequently examined and found to contain a considerable amount of phosphorous. In August 1907, Mr. Kichigi Nishizawa, who appears to have made investigations in the meanwhile, sailed for the island with a party of labourers. His departure was announced in the local press both here and in Anping, and it was reported at the time that he was taking stores and equipment for 200 men for 1 year. The incident was reported in the American press as the seizure by the Japanese Government of an island adjacent to and commanding the steam-ship route from Hong Kong to the Philippines, it being about the time of the war scare consequent upon the Anti-Japanese agitation in connection with the San Francisco schools.\n\nMr. K. Nishizawa was originally a \"banto\" in a Japanese firm at Keelung, where he still resides. He is said to have very little capital, but to have a good commercial reputation. His business was built up by shipping during the Russo-Japanese war, and he now runs three small chartered tramp steamers between Formosa and Japan in competition with the larger lines. Sailings to Pratas Island are regularly published in the local press. He has upwards of 100 employees on Pratas Island and has erected houses, a hospital, and pier there. The products of the island, phosphorous, phosphates, and shells are shipped to Japan via Keelung. The operations are not very extensive, and the capacity of the island is somewhat limited. Chinese fishermen are stated to visit the island, but not to reside there.\n\n[2243 cc-2]",
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        "content_text": "# 162 \n## 94 \n\nyears Japanese trade would be in a bad state, as people would have found out the worthlessness of their goods. I do not think that with so large a market such a result will occur for a very long time.\n\nThe shops are little more than mud huts. The merchants pay no house-tax, and, indeed, no tax at all, except li-kin. Houses are rented from Mongols or Chinese. No new ones are ever built, as the colony does not grow, and I saw many shops shuttered up and empty, and was told that a Chinaman came here for a few years, and either made a fortune in that time or had to return ruined. It was a question of luck, according to the state of trade.\n\nWhile there was an air of listlessness in the streets, opinions differed as to the present state of trading, some saying that it was bad, others that it was fairly good. All agreed, however, that caravans were rarities. The trade seemed to be nearly one of barter, and there is little silver in the town. Tea bricks (value 45 cents) are the chief currency, while another and more peculiar \"coin\" is a long band of various coloured stuff and of different low values. Small worthless silk scarves, such as the lamas give as presents, are also currency.\n\nAugust 27—There is no Government bank at Kobdo. During the morning I dropped into the police station, three-quarters of the way down the west side of the street, the spot being indicated by two gorgeous flags. Finding no one there, I inquired of a passer-by where all the soldiers had gone to. He said there were thirty police stationed here, but all had gone to lunch—they would not be back till the evening. Close to the gate was a rack of eight rusty old hammer-guns, which looked as if they had come out of the ark, and as if they had got wet in the deluge and had never been cleaned since, also eight wooden lances 10 feet long, with rusty spear heads at the end. It was useless to wait for the return of the police, so I crossed the road to the watchman's station, which was indicated by cangues and scrolls which, as if in invitation of the decalogue preached, \"Do not steal,\" \"Do not gamble,\" \"Do not brawl.\" Here I took some time to wake up the only occupant, which feat accomplished, he told me that during the day only one watchman was stationed here and he was the man. His pay, he said, was 90 c. a month, but he admitted to making more (I presume shopkeepers pay a kind of insurance sum against being robbed). At night he said six men were stationed there. Their weapons and implements were a stout stick, a lantern, and a gong to warn the thieves they were on the alert. The men call themselves soldiers and are renewed every five years from Hsuanhuafu.\n\nWalking into the kitchen on my way out, I found it to be also the police cell, and one prisoner in it. His story was that a Mongol man had owed him money and that on going for this money the Mongol man had given him an ox instead. Returning to Kobdo with the ox, he had been followed by the Mongol who accused him of stealing it. He had only been in the cell one day, and I asked him how long he was going to stay; he replied that he did not know, but probably till the matter had been amicably arranged with the owners of the ox, and that this was a matter of four days as the Mongol lived two days away. A policeman had been sent to fetch him, but there would probably be delays. The prisoner seemed to be unnecessarily dejected, I thought, his only inconvenience being a light chain fastened round his neck and tied loosely to the kang stool, which, being quite small and portable, could be moved at will. The weather was cool, and the kitchen nicely warm, his pipe lay by his side, he could sit or sleep as he liked, and his shop assistant could bring him his food and drink, so he did not seem so badly off.\n\nThe fortress portion of the colony would probably be impregnable to all attacks from such enemies as Mahommedans. It would, however, be defenceless against modern arms, as it is entirely commanded by surrounding hills. I visited the fortress in the afternoon with the intention of seeing how many soldiers there were, not that there are any barracks, as I knew, the inside of the fortress being nominally supposed to be the barracks, in reality every man living at home, but because I thought to hit more easily on a soldier there.\n\nIt was, however, all in vain. No one in the numerous houses within the fort seemed to be a soldier.\n\nThe walls are some 250 yards; there is a gate on every side (except the north) of the usual Chinese (double) pattern. An irregularly shaped and shallow dry moat surrounded the fortress: low bridges of mud and wood leading to each gate. The walls are some 15 feet high and are of hard mud. They are remarkably solid and are battlemented. They completely conceal the low buildings within. A grove of fine trees along the west wall on the inside shelters the Amban's yamên from the west. Offices of the Army Board are situated next to the Amban's yamên.\n\nThe \n| Description | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Walls | 250 yards, 15 feet high, hard mud, battlemented |\n| Gates | One on every side except north, Chinese double pattern |\n| Moat | Irregularly shaped, shallow, dry |\n\nA narrow ditch with a certain amount of water intersects the fortress enclosure, and there are other ditches.\n\n## 95 \n\nNot being able to get any information, I walked into the Army Board, a civilian institution, and learnt as follows:-The pay for the upkeep of the Kobdo garrison amounts to 30,000 taels a-year (4,500l.) and comes from Shansi through Kweihuacheng. There are 200 soldiers (Chinese) and I understood 300 Mongol soldiers, every one living at home. Pay is at the rate of 90 c. per man per month. He has to find his own food. There is a store of rifles in the War Office, but no artillery. If anyone is sick, a doctor lives up the street, and it is the invalid's own affair to consult him. The Mongols are styled cavalry. There is a parade twice a year, no drill, and no rifle practice. On paper, the garrison is probably very much larger, hence the sum given per annum, but what probably happens is that one man draws the pay of ten men.\n\nOn my way back to the temple, I asked at the police station what they would do if the town were again attacked by the Mahommedans: The reply was prompt, \"send for the Mongol soldiers,\" a devolution of responsibility which would end in Kobdo sharing a similar fate as in 1872, when all outside the fortress was looted and burned by the Mahommedans, for the Mongols would, as then, have packed their tents and removed their beasts to the mountains on the approach of the enemy.\n\nThe Russians are not very popular in Kobdo. They drink too much and make use of Mongol women. They seem to act on the \"Heads I win, tails you lose\" principle, as if they do not get rich, they decamp owing a lot of money to the Chinese. Every year, a number of Russian youths come to Kobdo for a few months merely for the sake of learning Mongol.\n\nThe Russian merchants send their telegrams and postal matter to Kissamoto in Russian territory beyond Suok. Suok is nine stages to the north-west of Kobdo.\n\nAugust 28.—Six large German guns with their ammunition left for Sharasumé across the Altaishan to-day. They are being convoyed by two small officers, two secretaries, and their retinue. There are also 400 rifles, eight cases of ammunition, and 200 shells for each gun. There are 100 cases in all. All bear German marks. The guns are to be put together by an officer at Sharasumé. Thirty Hassacks were sent down from Sharasumé to meet the cases and assist in convoying them across the mountains.\n\nThe departure of these guns delayed my own movements, for they required all the transport at the disposal of the Government, and I had unfortunately found it impossible to procure any animals of my own.\n\nThe Government track across the centre of the Altaishan range has only been in existence as such for a few years. It is only open four months in the year, the passes being rendered impassable by snow during the remaining eight. Any travellers wishing to proceed, therefore, in the winter from Kobdo to Altaishan settlement must journey southwards towards Manas and then strike westwards; such a journey takes a full month to accomplish as against twelve days by the summer route.\n\nDuring the day, some Russian merchants wandered round the temple to inspect me and my luggage. In the afternoon, I visited the leading Russian merchant, with a letter of introduction from the Consul at Uliassutai. In spite of this, he raised so many difficulties regarding the transmission of a home letter, alleging that it might contain political matter, that I sent the letter, under cover of another, back to the Consul at Uliassutai, for transmission to Europe via Urga. The merchant is a Biisk man and prosperous. He sends an enormous amount of wool to Biisk after it has been washed. He told me that the reason furs are so bad here is that the best are sent direct to Kalgan or Kweihuacheng. He said there were some Russian merchants at Ulankom. He did not know how many. Ulankom is six days distant to the north.\n\nLater in the day, the Amban sent a small officer with the message that he had orders to accompany me to Altaishan settlement. I was grateful for this, for the officer was as proficient in the Hassack language as in Mongol and Chinese. He brought my pass for the road made out in Mongol and Hassack (not Chinese). He said we were only just in time to cross the mountains, for in another ten days the passes would all be blocked by snow and the road closed. He thought that in any case, we should find the journey a difficult one, thus confirming all the remarks of our Urga and Uliassutai acquaintances to the same effect. The latter, indeed, had expressed the greatest surprise that we were even contemplating making the passage of the Altais at this point.\n\nIt was very pleasant to spend a quiet day sauntering under the fine trees by the side of the small irrigation canals, and it was with no little awe that we looked at the mighty range already heavily dipped in snow, the struggle over which was to begin on the morrow.\n\nBeing thoroughly dishearted and disappointed by the inability to travel in the way I wished, and as had been intended, I again had serious thoughts of abandoning the",
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        "content_text": "# 108\n\nA shrub rising at mile 12 on to the plain again. The limit of this depression to the south is a long narrow ridge resembling an artificial wall some 20 feet above the plain level and of uniform height. It is white in appearance, and it is curious in formation, being often split up into small islands, which resemble the huge pedestals of some giant fortification. A few hundred yards later Lake Ebinoor is in sight on our right. At mile 15 the track dips into another depression half-a-mile wide and some 6 miles long - an old salt lake. The ground here was of dazzling whiteness, and travelling was excessively difficult, the soil breaking away from under the camels' feet each step forward that they advanced. Climbing out of the depression we steered our way across bleak country to the south. At mile 18 this began to change in appearance, until at last the whole plain became a jungle of low trees and bushes and thick grass, through which the track runs.\n\nWe were now approaching the Clungur River. In the middle of the jungle, at mile 22, we reached a series of small buildings of mud and wood lying in a lightly fenced-in enclosure 100 yards square. This is the new yamên of Buluntogoi, which has only been in existence one-and-a-half years, and which is under the Government of Altaishan, by whom it has been called into being in accordance with the new policy. The only occupants are an official, his soldier servant, and a lad; the object is to control the many Mongols who live dotted about the country here, and to bring them under taxation, for it would seem that hitherto they have contributed nothing towards the upkeep of the State. It is therefore a Customs yamên, and will tax salt, fish, wool, and skins. The official had gone to Altaishan on business, but his soldier servant, an opium sot, allowed me to stay in the officer's comfortable quarters.\n\nWe learnt that the journey to the Tourgout Prince's residence by this route takes one day longer than it would do by the other side of the lake.\n\nA great many mud bricks piled up in the yard showed that more building was contemplated.\n\nSeptember 18.--We marched south-west through low bushes and trees, and striking the river at mile 1, kept down its banks for a short time. Leaving it again we continued south-west and came to another kind of yamên at mile 4. Here three Mongol men live - no one else - and their sole occupation is grinding the wheat brought in by the so-called \"soldiers\" of the neighbourhood. Where were these? The reply was that they were all working in the fields, so the best thing seemed to be to go where they lived to see what kind of barracks they occupied. So we turned to the south-east by another track among shrubs and trees, and 14 miles later came to the edge of the river again. Here were a number of goats and cattle and six of the most squalid yourts we had yet met. Unusually slatternly women and swarms of filthy children were lying about the encampment, which looked like a gipsy one. The yourts were, however, those of the \"soldiers,\" and these were their families. I merely asked how many men there were belonging to this ragamuffin settlement, and was told that there were some sixty or seventy altogether, including those who lived in numerous other yourts scattered about among the trees. All worked daily in the fields. These were the \"soldiers,\" and I felt it to be unnecessary to ask any further questions as to arms, drill, rifle practices, &c. Such is Buluntogoi, which is marked on maps with lettering as large as Kobdo or Urga and if the term \"geographical expression\" means anything, it applies most surely to this place.\n\nCrossing the river by a ford here (the banks are high and difficult, the water some 24 feet deep, the bed sandy, and the stream very sluggish), we kept due south on the outside of the narrow belt of trees and shrubs and between the stream and the ridge of the surrounding country. After another 4 miles, during which we kept parallel with the river, the latter bent slightly to the south-west and emptied itself into the lake at a point which must be described as the head of the Baganoor. We now continued for 6 miles or so down the lake between the water and the ridge of the surrounding country, the latter rising 150 feet sheer above us; the width of the beach was sometimes 50 yards, at times only 5 or 6 yards. At the southern end of the lake the ridge sank to a sand mound only 30 feet high, and this continued all along the southern end of the lake. Keeping along the water's edge we curved round the head of the lake for another 11 miles, and turning northwards halted for the night at a Mongol-Hassack camp.\n\nThe shores of the lake are remarkable for two things: (1) the masses of sea-shells; and (2) the amount of driftwood. In many places whole tree trunks were visible half buried by the sand.\n\nA few words of explanation are necessary as regards the lake, or rather lakes, for there are two, the Ebinoor and the Baganoor, the two being joined by a small strip of water of such narrow dimensions that it is difficult to detect. This contraction is due to the amount of deposit brought down by the Ulungur, which is tending to divide the lake into two. Though one branch of this stream distinctly flows into Baganoor, there may be, and probably are, others which flow into Ebinoor at the narrow point of junction. The river seems to have formed a large delta which is covered with vegetation, the whole being known as Buluntogoi. No other streams flow into Baganoor. Gulls, flocks of sandgrouse, and waterfowl haunt the shores of the lake, but the water is free from islands or grasses. It is evidently shrinking, as small sand shoals near the edge testify. The name \"Baganoor\" is rather a misnomer, for it is by no means small, being certainly Ebinoor is fully twice the size. There are coarse fish 8 miles long and some 10 broad in the lake.\n\nThe Buluntogoi district is remarkable as regards trees; there is one with a kind of flower consisting of leaves tightly packed together and somewhat resembling the flower of a camelia; this is picked and dried and makes excellent tea. There is another shrub with a whitish leaf and small single berry which serves the same purpose as kaoliang.\n\nThe name of the Mongol-Hassack encampment is Baganoor; the Mongols are Kalmucks, an excessively friendly and well-disposed branch of the Mongol family. They get on well with the Hassacks, in spite of their difference as regards language, religion, and customs.\n\nSeptember 19.--We are now in the realm of the Prince of Tourgout. Sheep here are very cheap; we bought a large one last night for 2 taels (6s.). A noticeable feature in camp are the swarms of children, both Mongol and Hassack, an unusual sight as regards the Mongols.\n\nAscending over bleak and dreary ground to the north-west we reached, after some 10 miles, the main chain of the Salburshan Mountains, which run east and west. Through these we kept for the rest of the day. These hills are bleak and rugged and bare, except for a little coarse vegetation. We only passed two traces of water, at the second of which we had to halt for fear of being bushed. It was only a stagnant pool a foot square, but there was plenty of coarse grass all round, which was useful for the hungry camels. The water was so black and foul that we had to be content with some pools of rain-water which had collected among some rocks hard by. There are no habitations among these hills. We had marched some 21.4 miles during the day, and had been obliged to steer mainly by the compass in view of the absence of tracks.\n\n# 109\n\nSeptember 20.--After marching a mile and a quarter the character of the range altered suddenly, the bleak rocks with the burnt-up appearance ended, and a sea of lower hills took their place, these were covered with short, rough grass; into the middle of these we plunged, ever in a westerly direction, for another 8 miles, during which we passed two water-holes, and at last emerged on to a broad plain. We had now reached the end of the Salburshan. The plain slopes gently to the north-east for some 14 miles to the western end of Lake Ebinoor, which would thus seem to have a total length (east to west) of some 26 miles. From the northern shore of the lake runs another range of hills in a south-westerly direction, gradually increasing to the height of low mountains; these border the plain on to which we had emerged, and turn towards the west; they are known as the Saureshan.\n\nThere is little trace of water in the valley, but the whole is covered with rough pasturage, which supports a great number of Turgout tents and their flocks and herds. Keeping in a westerly direction we gradually drifted away from the Salburshan across towards the Saureshan and halted for the night at a large encampment known as Harulbuluk after a total march of 20 miles. Every well in the plain seems to have a distinct name, but in view of the multitude of these I will refrain from mentioning any except the ones at which we halted. The people here were extremely friendly, an old man giving me his nephew's yourt for the night, although the said nephew had only been married a few days previously, and the hut was full of the bride's dowry.\n\nThe valley now broadened out considerably. The Salburshan had given place to another low range some 15 miles to the south also running east and west. The whole plain is rich in grass and the people seem wealthy, if numbers of cattle and children and ornamented saddlery are tests.\n\nSeptember 21.--Wolves are a great scourge to the locality, and each night every family has a watchman out to watch the flocks. Notwithstanding this, great havoc is frequently caused. Last night the wolves descended in force and captured three of our host's sheep.\n\nAt mile 3 we reached a small mud dwelling, consisting of two rooms entirely unfurnished and windowless. It was surrounded by a mud wall. This is a more interesting spot than it sounds, for ...\n\n2 F\n\n[2155 b−1] \n\n169",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n301 \n## DOMESTIC\n**C.O** \n40792 \n40792 \nReal \n`FC 09` \nOffice ex-vidual. \nForrign \n1909 \n15th Dec \nLast Previous Paper \n998 99 \nAffairs of China China Railway. \n7. Shells. \nIs prints of correspondence... \nPunte & When sent 20 \nPrints \n& for Secret 21 Res. \na \n`1739-A` & `E. W.-20962127`— \n$5000-11-08. \nNext subsequent Paper \nLILIL 3,",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n**C.O 27736**\nReve Rrep 19 AUG DS\n\nConcurs that D' Macfarlane should be appointed, and suggests that he should study Entomology.\n\nthe Eiv in his report Lang 1909 mentioned that up to the end of 1908 the negotiations with the Chinese Govt had not produced any satisfactory result and to add that Surgeon-General was now been requested to report on the present position.\n\nDr. Macfarlane has been offered the appointment by the PCMO, subject to his studying Entomology if arrangements can be made accordingly. (Prof. Nuttall of Cambridge is, I believe, equally good, and is willing to take him for the STMOH) he might wish to study under him.\n\n| File Reference | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| `A. & E. W.-20002/27` | 25000~-11-06 |\n| `JR 20` | 20 |\n\n**Previous Paper**\n`27736`\n\n**Subsequent Paper**\n`28407`\n\nM: Shells. \nunder Prof. Nuttall's supervision as to the study of Entomology. \nHONG KONG \nPost of Bacterologist \n161 \nactum \nthat no later official has been received \nthe restriction \n[coinage at Canton, herein \nLordship and propose to state \nthat \nbe or Individual. \n1909 \nML. \nsang. \n\nInd. \natmu \n20",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\nC.C \n39367 \n\nReceived 4 DEC 09 \n\nFurnish short statement of the present position of the Opium Office or Individual.\n\nLast Previous Paper: 38389 \n\n### Opium - International Conference\nObservations on U.S. proposals for.\n\nTouch & Conference premature.\n\nCopy to W. Considers El 70. mf \n\nDec 10 \n1730-A. & E. W.-20962/27-- 25000-11.08. \n\nNext subsequent Paper: 40520 \n\nIf Shells Collin. This will be very unsatisfactory when the proposed inter-Departmental conference is held.\n\n? Acknowledged with thanks.\n\nAttached is a Memo by Maxwell. No action taken as yet.\n\nR 7/12 \n\nReply from Hopwood. To be proved.\n\nThe Custer Clouds 7.1 \n\nAlmu to st \n\nABL 7/12",
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        "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]",
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        "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]",
        "content_text": "the subject. Sir J. Anderson \n\nhas been requested to \n\npromise you with a copy \n\n1 If Paris report to which (We have \n\nsome copies). \n\nuser is made \n\nconcerning \n\nConfidential deep in the \n\ngt zeb. \n\n33243/10. \n\n7 \n\n£ \n\n7m. S. J. Comp.. Mr. \n\nSir John Anderson. \n\nR173 \n\n17 Shells \n\nM Molinio. \n\nDuty \n\nof \n\nshall not \n\nbut \n\n10 \n\nJ \n\nVict.v \n\nA \n\nyour reply \n\n144 \n\nthe \n\nJon & A \n\n6.0.6 nov 11 2070. \n\n246 \n\nMant. 11 \n\nThere are to inform you that the \n\nCorrespondence has been transmitted to \n\nMr \n\n2 \n\na copy which is the duplicate \n\n. 2284/10 which is addressed \n\nto you for the 4th series \n\n2. \n\ninformation \n\nLot A 2. \n\nLugard with copies of my \n\nconfidential deep in the \n\nA \n\nthe gh \n\n4 \n\n17 January \n\nin order that he may be \n\nmade acquainted with Memo on the subject of the mobilisation \n\nof Chinese Labourers. I should be glad if you \n\ncould supply \n\nPan's report on the general situation \n\n2.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910",
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        "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910",
        "content_text": "Laur*\n\nDesursson\n\nRegrators and\n\nWis\n\nPapers (you\n\nWi-\n\narre\n\nggetting aut\n\nwill rementar that\n\nthe matter\n\nwith\n\n... in great hurry.)\n\npunt in\n\nfuneral\n\nthat\n\nTariff\n\nThe minimum extruded to\n\nYou will\n\nGerber\n\n70/16768/2\n\nHong Kong £ sine die\n\nprovided that French products\n\nenjoyed most favoured nation\n\ntreatment in\n\nSame\n\nthat\n\nat Colay\n\nThey do still.\n\n?\n\nfi. these people sat of inkerin\n\ng write\n\nwrite 87\n\nrefs\n\n167537on & ask them to enquires. I France whether the statement\n\nmade here that the minimum\n\nVariff has he refused is wrect\n\n8. If so, why in viser of the\n\ndecor's deponed to in the\n\nCirular culiard a\n\nCat letter.\n\n(Probably the fact is that there have hem\n\nno imports ints France from Hongking for\n\n4 cam\n\n4\n\nthey have\n\nextten all about it)\n\nTo the Shells\n\n15-11.\n\nhir Collins\n\ndo\n\nI think to Bale's draft will\n\nIt appears that an derpin on 21675-5 for funeral\n\nnot quite explicit enough\n\nexanzatia shews\n\nthat only\n\n\"denrées colmales (other than sugar\n\n& tobaco.\n\nrates\n\nthe minimu\n\nbut 21399/09\n\nshews\n\nthat Haughing is quite\n\n546\n\nsatisfied with\n\ntthe\n\npozet\n\npresent\n\nfor approaching\n\nthe\n\nFrende fort again. We should\n\nanly expose ourselves to a refusal. We have nothing to give in\n\nexchange\n\nreductio\n\nof\n\nexcept a\n\nthe new\n\nliquoro\n\nduties, which is impossible, &\n\nHongtine's\n\nam interests not\n\nbing affected she and not in\n\nwant to gus anything\n\nan\n\nmerely & oblige Canadian\n\nmerchants.\n\nRU\n\n1871.",
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        "content_text": "## bect. 191.\n\nHONG KO  \n1911  \n\nteen  \nDate.  \n26822  \nREC  \nC.C  \n20002 1  \n(REG: 14 AUG 11  \n\nProhibition of uncertified opium importation  \n\n314  \nAre Concur in proposal that it should take  \nst previous Paper.  \n194 functions heft.  \nAns! 25 Aug  \ntoopy cover you. Gorf  \n26 Aug  \n18). Wt.23,032-50.  \n. 110. A.&E.W.  \n\nsubsequent Paper  \n27005  \nMr Shells. Fides.  \nI kept this as pys  \nAndes as to exact meaning for conf of Maistre atleting  \nwere not available  \n\nThe first I heard of this was the 70 letter of 25  \nJuly (`20./24389`) quoting a tel from Sor F. Lagard  \n- that til to my mind deals  \nB. Su S. Saden exclusively with Indian opium certificated unentificated. be arket In F. L. total his news got the rather cryptic message  \nFor `/25282`  \nwhich  \npersed  \nin  \n670 Stake it  \nthat `25282` arpss mly to Indian uncertificated opium, but it is quite impossible tray definitely beaux Suchinden (`30/20889`)",
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        "content_text": "No. 34175/11.\n\nCO 3226\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE\n\n4 October\n\nREC'd 5 OCT || 1911\n\nThe Shells\n\nBoth the H.D. and stil arwaly back before next work. and will not be\n\nI have hold the 18. Dight that the matter is creyent & the Abbs wil stir up the #-Ep retume Wait Soon a 8.5h.17/1 alone\n\nSir:-\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 27466/11 of the 29th of August, enquiring on behalf of the Governor of Hongkong whether the Royal Letters Patent of October 22nd, 1866, are still in force.\n\nSir E. Grey is of opinion that these Letters Patent are not in force at present, but, as the point is not altogether free from doubt, he suggests that the question might, if Mr. Secretary Harcourt is not satisfied, be referred to the Law Officers of the Crown for their Report.\n\nI am to add that the Letters Patent would have remained in force in the case of prisoners who were sent to undergo imprisonment in the Colony under the provisions of the Order in Council of 1865, but it is understood\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nPage 3\n\nfor Risky\n\nCould you stir up the 2.0. privately Br\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. 34175/11.\n\nand address-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\n3\n\nCO 3226EIGN OFFICE\n\n4 October\n\nREC'd 5 OCT || 1911\n\n...\n\nPage 4",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure\n\n4.\n\nC.O.\n\n2222\n\nExtract from the \"Hongkong Telegraph\" of 23rd December 1912.\n\nTHE BOYCOTT.\n\nYesterday's Free Rides.\n\nCORNER\n\nThere was no dearth of passengers by the cars yesterday; in both first and third class compartments free rides were granted to all and sundry. The sampan boys and the poorer members of the Indian community had the treat of their lives, for many of these gave the impression that they were indulging in a car ride for the first time.\n\nIt should be gratifying to the Tramways Company, however, to find that the free rides were appreciated in great measure by the very people for whom these were intended: those who have been terrorised out of riding by car. Yesterday these seemed to find safety in numbers and we noticed a very considerable number of adult Chinese of various grades riding to and from the market. To-day it is the same thing, and one is glad to see that those who pooh-poohed the idea of the free rides as merely giving an opportunity to children and Europeans of riding cheaply, are now proved to be mistaken.\n\nSir Kai Ho Kai on the Situation.\n\nSir Kai Ho Kai, interviewed by the \"Telegraph\" on the boycott, emphasised the anxiety of the leading Chinese of the Colony to see peace restored.\n\n\"I would like to make it quite clear,\" he said, \"that we wish to do everything in our power to back up the Government. I think my remarks at the meeting at Government House and, later, at the Chinese Commercial Union established that fact, and I hope the Press will continue to feel the same confidence in us as it has expressed in times past. \"When the Governor invited us to meet him last week, I was not in a position to speak as forcibly as on Friday, when I met the Chinese Commercial Union. On the latter occasion, as you have heard from other Chinese, I 'let myself go,' and I am hopeful that what I said will bear good fruit. I explained to those present the exact attitude of the Government, and showed that H.E.'s sole wish, in taking a firm stand, was merely to restore peace and order. I made it clear that it was no desire of his to make laws that would be in any way oppressive. I reminded them that, at one time or other, in every government or country, it was necessary to employ rigidly repressive measures where political or industrial troubles arose; that the Governor would fail in his duty to the British people if he neglected, under present circumstances, to act with unflinching decision, and that they must not think that any animosity was felt towards them as Chinese.\"\n\nLegal Tender. Following upon this, Sir Kai Ho Kai quoted the speech which H.E. had delivered to his Chinese guests, and then proceeded to touch on the alleged causes of the boycott, demonstrating how utterly hollow were the excuses that had been advanced for it. Legal tender was legal tender, and there was an end of it. An English Sovereign was a good coin, but no Englishman could demand that it should be accepted by a Hong Kong tradesman, any more than he could force a shop-keeper to take (say) the old Siamese coins or a handful of shells. Similarly, Chinese coin was good—but it was not legal tender in this Colony.\n\nHe then explained the effect which the new ordinance would have. Some might contend that the innocent would be liable to suffer for the guilty, but he had H.E.'s assurance that the very fullest enquiry should be made, in every case, and that every person who came up for examination would be afforded ample opportunity to clear himself and to show that he had taken no active part in the boycott. But those present must bear in mind that, when once the new law was enforced, the Chinese who have big interests in Hong Kong would suffer considerably; and the sooner the boycotters were made to understand this, the better. Loyal Chinese would not consent to see their business suffer, just to please a few disorderly persons, and—if for this reason alone—the leading merchants were determined to support the Government. Their homes were here, their money was invested here and they hoped to lay their bones here.\n\n191",
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        "content_text": "# Porcippe \n\n## Date \n1912 \n\n13 Nov \n\n## Last previous Paper \n`BOMO KONG ALTERN 35927`\n\n## REC \n0.0. \n35927 \n235 \n\n**(Read 13 NOV 12)**\n\n## Oprum fonfereure \nLeceas copy deep from B. Embassy enclosing report of A. S. Delegation \n0.35294 40 \n\nMr Shells Calen have read the report: it is not at all interesting; it is largely made up of a commentary on the Convention plus a certain amount of self-laudation on the part of the delegates.\n\n## Putty \nK. Putty. R.\n\n## Next subsequent Paper \n36572 \n\n| aloon Gr. | 15 | 49,244 | Wt. 25,946—17. | 40,000. | 11/11. | A.&E.W. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |",
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        "content_text": "# COPY. Confidential.\n\n133.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O. 24322\nREC? 534\n\nThe Captain Superintendant's office,\nPolice Department,\n**REG 14 JUL 13**\nHongkong, 19th June, 1913.\n\nI have the honour to report that on the 16th instant Detective Constable C 182 Lau Lam, stationed at Sham Shui Po, reported to P.S. A 57 McKay, officer in charge of Sham Shui Po Station, that he was suspicious of the inmates of 1 Suidter Street, 2nd floor, Tai Kok Tsui. P.S. A 57 McKay, in company with the detective, thereupon visited the premises. In consequence of his enquiries he asked for a Superintendent to visit the premises. He was directed to watch the house and detain the inmates. At 6.30 p.m. on the same date the Assistant Superintendent visited the house.\n\nThe following were found: -\n1. On the 2nd floor the following six persons were found:\n   - Wong Min Sang, 24 years, Annamite, ex-student of St. Joseph's College.\n   - Chan Meng, 57 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n   - Lai Lan, 17 years, Annamite, ex-student of St. Joseph's College.\n   - Wun Yuk, 30 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n   - Yau Yau Tsing, 30 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n   - Lai Chan, 29 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n\nThey had rented the floor from May 14th, 1913.\n\nIn various articles of luggage claimed by the six men, Police found the following:\n- 18 glass tubes, some of which were partially prepared as detonators for bombs.\n- 13 large empty cast-iron bomb-shells.\n- 10 sticks of dynamite.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]",
        "page_number": 102,
        "title": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]",
        "content_text": "# 103\n\n1. Report on an Ordinance entitled **An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Explosive Substances**.\n\n2. Section 1 of the Ordinance is formal.\n\n3. Section 2 of the Ordinance defines Explosive Substances. The definition is taken from Section 9 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883.\n\n4. The object of this Bill is to introduce into the local Legislature certain of the provisions of the Explosive Substances Act 1883. There seems, unfortunately, good reason to fear that amongst the Chinese, the practice of manufacturing and using Bombs is becoming common; recent assassinations in China indicate that the methods of making these destructive implements are well known. During the last year, a locally made Bomb was thrown in the Colony with fatal effect by a Chinaman, whilst quite recently a large gang of Chinese who appear to have come to the Colony from Annam and Siam, and some of whom had been educated in the Colony, were captured with an elaborate and extensive outfit of materials for the manufacture of Bombs, their apparatus and materials consisting of such articles as Iron bomb shells, Detonators, Dynamite, Gun-cotton, Chlorate of Potash, Nitro-glycerine compounds, and other substances too numerous to mention in detail. Under these circumstances, it appeared evident that the provisions of the Ordinances relating to Arms and Ammunition and to Dangerous Goods were not adequate to deal properly with this class of affair, nor did it appear that the ordinary sections of the Criminal Law dealing with direct attacks on persons and properties fully cover circumstances of the character indicated. It seemed that what was here requisite were the principal provisions of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883, and this Ordinance brings into force locally the main sections of that Act.\n\n5. Section 3 prescribes that any person who unlawfully and maliciously causes an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property shall be guilty of felony, whether or not such explosion has been followed by injury to person or property. This section is taken from Section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883.\n\n6. Section 4 of the Ordinance is taken from Section 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883, and prescribes that any person who unlawfully does any act with intent to cause by an explosion, or conspires to cause by an explosive an explosion likely to endanger life or cause injury to property, or who makes or has in his possession any explosive with intent by means thereof to endanger life or damage property, or to enable any other person so to do, shall be guilty of felony, whether any explosion has taken place or not, and whether or not injury to person or property has been caused.\n\n7. By Section 5, it is provided that any person who makes or has in his possession any explosive substance under circumstances which give rise to suspicion that such explosive is not being made or possessed for a lawful object shall, unless he can show a good excuse, be guilty of felony. This Section is taken from Section 4 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883.\n\n8. Section 6 of the Ordinance deals with the position of accessories and prescribes that they can be tried and punished as if they were principals. This Section is taken from Section 5 (erroneously referred to as the same section number in the original, but correctly corresponding to the Explosive Substances Act 1883's structure) of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883.\n\n9. Section 7 of the Ordinance prescribes that nothing in the Ordinance shall exempt any person from any proceeding for any offence punishable other than under the provisions of the Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "# \n277\n\nmost, but they were assisted by a portion of the artillery, who fired on the gunboats in the river and incidentally dropped shells in the neighbourhood of the Canton-Kowloon Railway terminus. The number of casualties has, as is usually the case, been greatly over-estimated and probably did not exceed 100. By the 14th, this section of the Lu Chun had been dispersed: some were killed, others threw away their arms and went into hiding, while the remainder escaped into the country to swell the ranks of local brigands. After two days spent in negotiations most of the rebel artillery handed over the firing pins of their guns and were promised a gratuity of several months' pay. The progress of these conversations, however, did not prevent Lung Chi-kuang from attacking, on the night August 15-16, some 2-3,000 Lu Chun stationed between the East Gate and Yen T'ang. They were suspected of sedition and, being caught asleep, offered no resistance. It is reported that on this occasion as many as three or four hundred were massacred. The rest, leaving their weapons behind, succeeded in escaping into the open country.\n\nAt the present moment order prevails in and around the City and the new Tu Tu is proceeding to devote his attention to the brigands who are now threatening important trading centres in the Delta.\n\nOne hundred and fifty of the Punjabis returned to Hongkong this morning.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n**(3d.) J. W. Jamieson, Consul-General.**\n\nBeilby F. Alston, Esquire, C.B., M.V.O., &c., &c., &c., His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8]",
        "content_text": "No 248.\n\nC.O\n\n31160\n\n19 AUG 14\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n15th July, 1914.\n\n17\n\n+\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that some months ago complaints were received from a Mr. Bettex, a missionary residing on Junk Island, which lies about three miles to the eastward of Lyemun Pass, that small shells occasionally struck the island in the vicinity of his house, and that one shell had actually struck the house.\n\n2.\n\nIt appeared that although in the course of carrying out artillery practice no shells were actually aimed at the island, it was difficult to guarantee the safety of the inhabitants of the island owing to ricochets and other causes, and that to do so would unduly restrict artillery practice from the Lyemun Forts.\n\n3.\n\nI therefore decided that the best course would be to resume the land leased to Mr. Bettex, and to recommend to you that a portion of the island should be reserved until it was required for a public purpose. Mr. Bettex was paid a sum of $400 and was permitted to remove the materials of his house, and it was my intention that the cost should be repaid by the War Department. There would appear, however, to be some difficulty in arranging for payment by the Military Authorities unless the island were made into a Military reserve. I am unwilling to do this, and I would ask for your sanction to carry out my original proposal, namely to reserve the land shown on the attached plan.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLEWIS HARCOURT,\n\nM.P.\n\n&c.\n\n800.\n\n&C.,\n\nfor",
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        "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914",
        "page_number": 263,
        "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914",
        "content_text": "The country is generally prepared to support at least by words the policy of a strong centralised Government. A large number of the high provincial authorities have addressed to the President messages of adherence to the established régime, while chambers of commerce and merchants' guilds throughout the country have not been backward in expressing abhorrence of the attempt to overthrow the Provisional President. Even in Kuangtung the commercial elements, a minority of the officials and a proportion of the army have dared to express themselves in the above sense, and it is not, I venture to think, too much to say that the country as a whole strongly favours return to a settled régime, which it believes to be possible only under the guidance of Yuan Shih-kai.\n\nWith regard to the military situation, the trend of events during the past week has been favourable to the Northern forces.\n\nIn Kiangsi the rebels have been dislodged from the Hukou forts and have withdrawn towards Nanchang, the provincial capital. Reinforcements, numbering 6,000 men and 12 guns, have been despatched to the Northern army since the beginning of the outbreak.\n\nThe adjacent province of Hunan has declared its independence, but is apparently adopting an attitude of neutrality, and has despatched 3,000 troops to Yochow with a view to preventing a possible inroad of Northern troops from Hankow. That Hunan will take an active part on either side appears improbable, owing to the recent destruction by fire of the Changsha arsenal together with the arms and ammunition which it contained.\n\nReports regarding military events in Kiangsu are conflicting, but I gather that the initial success of the Northern army, reported in my despatch of the 21st July, was followed by a considerable accession of strength to the rebel forces, who were enabled to reoccupy Li Kuo Yi and the adjacent hills. On the 22nd July, however, General Chang, who appears to have been strongly reinforced, again dislodged the rebels, and the following day saw the Northern army in possession of Hsuchow-fu, the Southerners retreating to Peng P'u—the point where the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway crosses the Huai River. At this point the rebel army remains entrenched, and should shortly be attacked by General Chang's army advancing down the railway and by a further Northern force which is converging on the same point from the west.\n\nWhile the troops at Chinkiang definitely threw in their lot with the rebels on the 18th July, there is reason to believe that the general in command at Yangchow has reconsidered his position and is now inclined to favour the North. His Majesty's consul at Chinkiang has reported that an attack on that place is threatened by the Yangchow troops, and has expressed apprehension lest the small Southern force remaining there should be driven by the Yangchow troops to take refuge in the British concession. Measures have been concerted with the naval authorities to guard against the entry of refugees into the concession.\n\nThe most serious efforts of the rebel forces have been concentrated on an attempt to capture the arsenal at Shanghai defended by Admiral Cheng and some 1,500 Northern troops.\n\nA number of Chinese warships have co-operated with the defenders, who have successfully repulsed attacks made on the nights of the 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th July. Hunanese and Chekiang troops are said to have lately reinforced the assailants, while two transports containing 3,000 Northern troops and escorted by five men-of-war are due at Shanghai to-day.\n\nReports which I have received from His Majesty's consul-general point to heavy fighting in this area of operations. Shells fired by the rival forces have fallen both in the international settlement and in the Chinese city, causing some loss of life and considerable damage to property. Owing to nervousness among the European residents of the settlement and to something approaching panic among the Chinese inhabitants of the native city, it was thought necessary to call out the volunteer force on the opening of hostilities against the arsenal. In view of the possibility of a decisive defeat, followed by the dispersal of the Southern troops and an influx of refugees into the settlement, it has been thought desirable to strengthen the civilian force, and parties from the foreign warships anchored in the river have been landed for this purpose. No loss of British lives or damage to British property has been reported to me as having been caused during the various attacks which have been made on the Shanghai arsenal by the rebel forces. I am happily able to report the same absence of casualties from the other areas in which hostilities have been in progress during the past week. One incident only affecting British property has been brought to my notice. On the 26th instant the British steamer \"Kutwo\" while proceeding down river was fired on by Chinese troops when opposite Chinkiang. In company with His Majesty's ship \"Woodcock\" the vessel returned to the scene of the incident.\n\nPage 1089",
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        "content_text": "# Foreign \n## 1914 \n### 26 Sept \nLast previous Paper.\n\nHONG KONG \n36862 \n**REC** \nC.O. \n36862 \n**REG 28 SEP 14** \n214 \n\nShells as British Persons registered in there\n\nSubject... copy sent to Schwung by way instructions for a list to be supplied to `330-04` bol for monthly list of such persons as come from Hong Kong.\n\n37 1297 298 sal he \nMr. Gaffen. \nC. D.\n\n## 30 SEP \n2 Copy to Ear. 27. `R28/9/464` \nRo \n28/9/14 \nat the \nhave!\n\n## Ext subsequent Paper. \n4127. \nWL-31,000---18, 45,000, 12/18.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]",
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        "content_text": "## No. of Cases.\n\nex Pr.\n\nRe 24 Cases Ammunition, marked `M.U.N1/24`, ex `DIP \"Waldemar\"`, stored by Messrs. Melchers & Co. on the 24th July, 1914, and belonging to the German Navy\n\n19 | 27443 | ? 15 JUN 15\n\n## Contents.\n\n| No. | Contents | Quantity |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | 2 boxes of live ammunition, 1¼ inch | 120 rounds |\n| 2 | do. | 120 |\n| 3 | 2 boxes of empty ammunition, 1¼ inch | 120 empty |\n| 4 | 1 metal-lined case, each containing 800 Mauser Pistol Cartridges |  |\n| 5 | containing 200 Mauser Pistol Cartridges |  |\n| 6 | empty |  |\n| 7 | 50 empty Cartridge Shells, 1 inch |  |\n| 8 | 8 lbs. of Mauser Rifle Cartridge-clips |  |\n| 9 | 2 boxes of live ammunition, 1¼ inch | 120 rounds |\n| 10 | do. | 120 |\n| 11 | do. | 120 |\n| 12 | 2 boxes of empty ammunition, 1¼ inch | 120 empty |\n| 13 | 1½ case of empty ammunition, 1¼ | 75 empty |\n| 14 | 2 cases of live ammunition, 1¼ | 120 rounds |\n| 15 | 1 box of live ammunition, 1¼ inch | 60 rounds |\n| 16 | do. | 60 rounds empty |\n| 17 | do. 1¼ inch |  |\n| 18 | 2 boxes of live ammunition, 1¼ inch | 120 rounds |\n| 19 | 2,150 empty Mauser Rifle Cartridge shells |  |\n| 20 | 610 empty Mauser Pistol Cartridge shells |  |\n|  | 1 Metal-lined case |  |\n|  | A number of empty card-board boxes |  |\n|  | 1 metal-lined case |  |",
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        "content_text": "## No. 21\n\n| No. of cases | Contents |\n| --- | --- |\n| 410 | 2,055 empty Mauser Rifle Cartridge Shells |\n| 1 | 1 tal-lined case |\n| 6 | 6 wooden boxes, each containing a 2 inch tompion |\n| 187 | 187 empty cartridge shells, 1 inch |\n| 1 | 1 wooden box, containing a 24 inch tompion |\n\nRe 2 cases ammunition, marked `S.M.S. Teing Tau 1/2, \"Silesia\"`, stored by Hamburg Amerika Linie on the 28th July, 1914, and belonging to the German Navy.\n\n## \n| No. | Contents |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | 1 Metal-lined case, containing 800 rounds of Mauser Rifle Cartridges |\n| 1 | 1 Metal-lined case, containing 500 rounds dummy Mauser Rifle Cartridges |",
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        "content_text": "## TELEGRAM\n**REC** `C.O` 27677534 (Rea 16 JUN 15)\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 4.25 a.m. 16th June 1915)\n\nJune 16th.\n\nThe Hong Kong & Thampoa Dock Company desire and are in a position to supply to His Majesty's Government in large quantities the following parts of projectiles, namely cast iron shrapnel shells, primers, fuses, and anything made of brass or copper pertaining to ammunition. If order were given this month they could begin to deliver in July. Price is guaranteed reasonable.\n\nLLAY.",
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        "content_text": "GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\nSECRETARY OF STATE.\n\n21st October, 1915.\n\n---------\n\n36\n\n113\n\nYour telegram of 20th May. Peanuts. Much regret that through an oversight shipment has been allowed of 500 bags to Amsterdam consigned to Overseas Trust on board \"Laomedon\" left Hongkong for London 11th October. Ocean Steamship Co. have been instructed to hold goods in London pending instructions from Customs Authorities. New crop of peanuts being now in the market. Shippers supplied by Dutch Consul request re-opening of general question asking that normal pre-war shipments of peanuts in shells should be allowed to Overseas Trust. Such peanuts are said to be of too good quality for manufacture of margarine.\n\nMAY.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "Cakes and meals, the following, namely:--\n\nBisenit meal;\n\nCalf meal;\n\nCoconut and poonac cake;\n\nCompound cakes and meal;\n\nCottonseed cake, decorticated and undecorticated, and cottonseed meal;\n\nFish meal and concentrated fish;\n\nGluten meal or gluten feed;\n\nGround nut or earth nut cake and meal;\n\nHempseed cake and meal;\n\nHusk meal;\n\nLinseed cake and meal;\n\nLocust bean meal;\n\nMaize germ meal;\n\nMaize meal and flour;\n\nMeat meal;\n\nPalmnut cake and meal;\n\nPoppyseed cake and meal;\n\nRapeseed or colza seed cake and meal;\n\nSesame seed cake and meal;\n\nSoya bean cake and meal;\n\nSunflower seed cake and meal;\n\nChick peas, pigeon peas, gram or dhol;\n\nDari;\n\nGreen forage;\n\nHay;\n\nLentils;\n\nLupin seeds;\n\nMaize;\n\nMalt dust, malt flour, culms, sprouts or combings;\n\nMillet;\n\nMolasses for cattle feeding;\n\nOffals of corn and grain, including:\n\nBran and pollard;\n\nMill dust and screenings of all kinds;\n\nRice meal (or bran) and dust;\n\nSharps and middlings;\n\nPatent and proprietary cattle foods of all kinds; Straw;\n\nGrindstones, carborundum wheels, and emery wheels;\n\nGums, resins, balsams, and resinous substances of all kinds, except such as contain caoutchouc;\n\nHair, animal, of all kinds; and tops, noils and yarns of animal hair;\n\nImplements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war, for the manufacture or repair of arms or of war material for use on land or sea, namely, plant for cordite and ammunition factories, viz.:-\n\nCordite presses;\n\nDies for cartridge cases;\n\nGauges for shells or cartridges;\n\nIncorporators;\n\nLapping machines;\n\nRifling machines;\n\nWire-winding machines;\n\nIntrenching tools and intrenching implements, namely, pick-axes and grubbers, whether of combination pattern or otherwise; spades and shovels of all descriptions; helves and handles for pick-axes, grubbers, spades and shovels; and machinery for trenching and ditching;\n\nLacs of all kinds, including shellac, gum lac, seed lac, stick lac, and other forms of lac, but not including lac dye;\n\nLignum vitæ;\n\nLinen close canvas;\n\nLinen duck cloth;\n\nMachinery, metal working;\n\nMahogany;\n\nMeat, namely, beef and mutton, fresh or refrigerated; Mess tins, and water bottles for military use;\n\nMetals and ores, namely:-\n\nCopper ore;\n\nIron, haematite pig;\n\nIron ore;\n\nMonazite sand;\n\nMotor vehicles of all kinds, including motor bicycles and their component parts and accessories;\n\nOleaginous nuts, seeds and products, namely:\n\nCastor beans;\n\nCoconuts;\n\nCopra;\n\nCotton seed;\n\nGround nuts, earth nuts, or pea nuts (Arachides); Hempseed;\n\nLinseed;\n\nPalm nuts and palm kernels;\n\nPoppy seeds;\n\nRape or colza seed;\n\nSesame seed;\n\nSoya beans;\n\nSunflower seed;\n\nPackings, engine and boiler (including slagwool);\n\nProvisions and victuals which may be used as food for man, namely:\n\nAnimals, living, for food;\n\nBacon, ham and pork;\n\nBarley, barley meal, and pearled and pot barley;\n\nButter;\n\nCassava powder and tapioca;\n\nCheese;\n\nCocoa powder;\n\nCocoa, raw, of all kinds and all preparations of cocoa, including cocoa husks, cocoa shells and chocolates;\n\nCoffee;\n\nEggs in shells;\n\nHerrings, cured or salted, in barrels or cases, including dry salted herrings and herrings in brine;\n\nLard and imitation lard;\n\nMalt;\n\nMandioca or tapioca flour; Margarine;\n\nMilk, condensed, sweetened or not;\n\nOatmeal and rolled oats;\n\nOnions;\n\nPeas, except tinned and bottled peas and peas packed in cardboard boxes and similar receptacles;\n\nPotatoes;\n\nRice and rice flour;\n\nRye, rye flour and meal;\n\nSago and sago meal and flour;\n\nSoups, compressed and desiccated;\n\nSugar, refined and candy;\n\nSugar, unrefined;\n\nTinned and potted meats and extract of meat; Vegetables, fresh, except peas;\n\nRailway material, both fixed and rolling stock: Rattans;\n\nSeeds, clover and grass;\n\nShipbuilding materials, namely:\n\nBoiler tubes;\n\nCondenser tubes;\n\nPage 150",
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        "content_text": "Paraphrase of CYPHER Telegram\n\nFrom\n\nSECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nWHITEHALL\n\nTo\n\nGOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\nDate\n\n23rd November, 1915.\n\nWith reference to my telegram of August 6th, the Russian Ambassador, Tokio, enquires whether any factories in Hongkong could be adapted for the manufacture of munitions of war especially shells. He thinks if so the Russian Government would be glad to give orders. Communicate with British Ambassador, Tokio.\n\nBONAR LAW.",
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        "content_text": "Page 206\n\nVALUE OF EXPORTS.\n\n  \n    \n    1910\n    1911\n    1913\n    1918\n  \n  \n    Zamboanga\n    $541,300\n    $942,800\n    $1,598,500\n    $1,347,800\n  \n  \n    Jolo\n    $488,600\n    $477,700\n    $600,700\n    $775,400\n  \n  \n    Cotabato\n    $49,400\n    $36,300\n    $186,300\n    $195,500\n  \n  \n    Baganga\n    $18,100\n    $16,800\n    -\n    -\n  \n  \n    Dapitan\n    $47,800\n    -\n    -\n    -\n  \n  \n    Mati\n    $35,800\n    -\n    -\n    -\n  \n  \n    Iligan\n    $41,100\n    $34,800\n    $48,600\n    $31,800\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    $35,900\n    \n    $35,900\n  \n  \n    \n    $38,400\n    $35,200\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cateel\n    $18,600\n    $81,500\n    $81,700\n    $11,200\n  \n  \n    Total\n    $1,704,800\n    $2,093,100\n    $3,253,700\n    $8,907,800\n  \n\nIMPORTANT EXPORTS ARTICLES.\n\n  \n    \n    1910\n    1911\n    1913\n    1918\n  \n  \n    Hemp\n    $273,329.45\n    $305,861.75\n    $500,918.59\n    $508,046.62\n  \n  \n    Lumber\n    $408,884.44\n    $433,985.17\n    $662,988.17\n    $324,575.58\n  \n  \n    Pearl Shells\n    $135,671.90\n    $116,718.37\n    $81,966.00\n    $314,970.80\n  \n  \n    Copra\n    $10,931.75\n    $75,160.97\n    $128,087.75\n    -\n  \n  \n    Rice\n    $11,588.91\n    $11,185.90\n    $17,990.38\n    $74.7\n  \n  \n    Wax\n    $752.34\n    -\n    -\n    $752.34\n  \n  \n    Guttaperche\n    $116,816.80\n    $41,588.06\n    $61,158.00\n    $63,374.74\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    $48,460.13\n    $36,812.29\n  \n  \n    All other\n    $35,054.00\n    -\n    $38,180.50\n    -\n  \n  \n    \n    $399,690.32\n    -\n    -\n    -\n  \n\nPage 206",
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        "content_text": "From the foregoing table it will be seen\n\nthat the principal products of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu are hemp, rubber copra and pearl\n\nshells. Tax, almaciga and gutta-percha are smaller\n\nproducts capable of expansion.\n\nIn addition to these products rubber has\n\nbeen under cultivation in several districts of the\n\nDepartment for some five or six years, and it is\n\nhoped that rubber will form an important article of\n\nexport in a year or so.\n\nThe population of the Department is\n\nestimated to be about 595,500, divided as follows:\n\nMoros 385,000\n\nPagans 110,000\n\nChristian Filipinos 85,000\n\nChinese 5,000\n\nAmericans and Europeans 1,850\n\nJapanese 1,950\n\n595,500\n\nForeign trade.\n\nThe larger part of the foreign trade of the Department is carried on with the port of Singapore. A few imports principally from America, such as tinned goods come via Manila, whilst a few tons of meats are brought from Australia.\n\nValue of the foreign trade for the calendar year was\n\n1913 £843,950 £185,810 £629,140\n\n1914 £143,450 £153,460 £169,360 £388,630 £318,700\n\n1918 £183,880 £7,410",
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        "document_key": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n\nHon.Mr. Claud Severn,  \nSir,  \nColonial Secretary,  \nHongkong.\n\nChina & Japan Homeward Freight Conference  \nHongkong, 25th February, 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my letter of the 18th instant,  \nI have the honour to inform you that it has now been arranged to increase the rates of freight to direct European Ports on the following articles to 250s/- per ton of 40 cubic feet:-\n\n| Articles | \n|----------|\n| Blackwood wire |\n| Camphorwood Trunks |\n| Chinaware |\n| Cigars |\n| Curios |\n| Fans (Palm Leaf) |\n| Fans (not Leaf) |\n| Firecrackers |\n| Ginger |\n| Ginger (dry) |\n| Glass Bangles |\n| Gongs |\n| Human Hair |\n| Joss Sticks |\n| Lantems (wood) |\n| Lily Bulbs |\n| Chinese Rice Paper |\n| Preserves |\n| Shells (I.O.P. and Common) |\n| Tobacco |\n\nand on Sandalwood to 500/- per ton of 20 cwt.\n\nI am, etc.,  \n**(S.A.) E. V. D. Parr,**  \nChairman",
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        "content_text": "# (To accompany Enclosure 2)\n347\n## (Alteration in Hongkong Homeward Freight Tariff dated 15.1.16)\n### Increase in Rates of Freight on Luxuries\n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Blackwood Tare | Increased to |\n| Camphorwood Trunks | 225/- per 40 c.ft. |\n| Chinaware | 250/- per 40 c.ft. |\n| Cigars | 450/- per 20 cwts |\n| Curios | 500/- per 20 cwts |\n| Fans (Palm Leaf) |  |\n| Fans (not Lent) |  |\n| Firecrackers |  |\n| Ginger |  |\n| Ginger, Dry |  |\n| Glass Bangles |  |\n| Gongs |  |\n| Human Hair |  |\n| Joss Sticks |  |\n| Lanterns (wood) |  |\n| Lily Bulbs |  |\n| Chinese Rice Paper |  |\n| Preserves |  |\n| Shellac (M.O.P.) |  |\n| Shells (Common) |  |\n| Tobacco |  |\n| Sandalwood |  |\n\n**China & Japan Homeward Freight Conference, Hongkong, 23.2.16.**",
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        "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n## 2nd September, 1918\n\n### Private Factories for Ammunition\n\nTokio, Sept. 14 - Owing to the continuous orders for ammunition by Russia, a great demand is heard for the establishment of private ammunition factories.\n\nIn this respect, the military authorities hold the view that suitable facilities should be given to those private factories which are competent to supply foreign demands to be continued even after the war, and that the manufacturing will be limited to smokeless powder, casting shells, and leather goods, etc., that can be manufactured easily. Those private factories will be held liable to supply their output solely to the Russo-Japanese war in time of war, though they are not bound to do so in time of peace.\n\n### German Espionage\n\nTokio, 15th Sept. - That a German resident in Japan has been sending war materials to Germany through certain neutral countries is disclosed by the Japanese Authorities. A Japanese merchant is reported to have been concerned in the offence.\n\n### Amount of the Russian Orders\n\nThe total amount of the Russian orders for ammunition from Japan is calculated to be more than Yen 200,000,000 in value.",
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        "content_text": "(Copy) M.14175\n\nRef. M.12990\n\nSir,\n\n8, Billiter Square, London, E.C.\n\n22nd May, 1916.\n\n188\n\nI beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 16th inst.\n\nAs stated in my letter of 18th February to our Hong Kong Chairman, it was left to our Conference Representatives in Hong Kong, China, and Japan to fix the articles which should come under the description of luxury and/or necessary cargo, and mainly for the purpose of ensuring that nothing should be so classified which would be required for the purpose of the manufacture of Munitions or any other War material, to confer with the Colonial Authorities for guidance in the matter.\n\nI have since been advised by our Hong Kong Chairman that so far as Hong Kong and China are concerned, the following articles have been so classified and have had their rates of freight increased accordingly:-\n\n| Articles |\n| --- |\n| Blackwoodware, Curios, Camphorwood Trunks, Chinaware, Cigars, Fans (Palm Leaf), Fans (not Leaf), Firecrackers, Ginger (wet & dry), Glass Bangles, Gongs, Human Hair, Joss Sticks, Lanterns (wood), Lily Bulbs, Chinese Rice Paper, Preserves, Shells (M.O.P. & Common), and Tobacco. |\n| Sandalwood. |\n| Silk Piece Goods. |\n| Waste Silk and pierced Silk Cocoons. |\n| Silk Cocoons (unpierced). |\n\nWith regard to the possibility of Silk and Waste Silk being required in connection with the manufacture of Munitions, I would mention that they were brought under an increased rate of freight at the special request of the Messageries Maritimes de France.",
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        "content_text": "# 1\n\n352\n\nA few small shells came into the Settlement, the larger shells being looked up in the magazines the keys of which were thrown overboard by the officers of the \"Chao Ho\".\n\n## FOREIGNERS IN SHAKO HAI\n\nA Census was taken in Shanghai on the 16th October last, and the following are the numbers of British and Indian also the numbers of Germans and Turks residing in Shanghai. These numbers are exclusive of those in the French Settlement and outside roads under the control of the French Council;\n\n| Nationality | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| British | 4822 |\n| Indian | 1009 |\n| German | 1155 |\n| Turkish | 108 |\n\n## GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN TROOPS IN NORTH CHINA\n\nThe following table shows the approximate strength of German and Austrian troops in North China:\n\n| Station | Officers | Other Ranks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **PEKING** |  |  |\n| German | 7 | 75 |\n| Austrian | 2 | 57 |\n| Total Peking | 9 | 132 |\n| **TIENTSIN** |  |  |\n| German | 1 | 50 |\n| Austrian |  | 10 |\n| Total Tientsin | 1 | 60 |\n| **GRAND TOTAL** | 10 officers | 192 Other Ranks | \n|  |  | 199 |",
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        "content_text": "204\n\n20\n\nfound in this. First of all, we almost all of us agree on the question of sentiment. (Applause) Upon that I shall dwell later, because it is, of necessity, an important part of our case. Secondly, we were told by my hon. friend, the Hon. Dr. Lau Chu Pak—and this was the sum and substance of his argument, as far as I understand it, for China or for the Chinese subjects here—that the time is inopportune. And, lastly, we have been told that it is impracticable, and that we have not dealt fully with the economic reasons which are inevitably bound up with it. Now, gentlemen, I propose briefly, and as far as lies in my humble power, to deal with those three points of view before putting this resolution.\n\nI said in the Chamber that you cannot avoid the question of sentiment in viewing the aftermath of this war, and there I feel that I am upon certain and incontrovertible ground. (Applause.) It is not in the name of things for those of us who have already been touched by the war, by personal loss or the loss of relatives, and those who will be so touched before the end of the war, to forget it for many years to come. (Applause.) Neither can we forget the manner in which some of them died—the atrocities which brought their end, the agonising death-struggle through gassing, the wholesale murder by the sinking of unarmed and defenceless ships, the hurling of shells through Zeppelin raids upon the undefended coast and the interior towns of England where women and children were shattered mercilessly, the murder of Edith Cavell, and the assassination of Captain Fryatt, which the men of the mercantile marine are not likely to forget for many years to come. And, mark you, if we do not support this resolution we are practically telling these men that we are going to welcome back with open arms the murderers of their comrades in the mercantile marine. (Applause.) There are the Belgian atrocities, which occurred in the opening events of this war, right down to the last and most horrible of all—the sinking of hospital ships with defenceless and maimed creatures on board going to a place of refuge. These are horrors which cannot be forgotten for many years to come. (Hear, hear)\n\nI want to try and prove to you that this German characteristic of brutality is so interwoven by education in the German people that you will not eradicate it, even though they are defeated, for many years to come. Let me quote to you words in support of this, which were uttered not many weeks ago and within the confines of this building by an eminent American professor who is well qualified to speak as a student of international history. These are the words he uttered—Speaking of the arguments of Frederick the Great,\n\n— designed for the political instruction of the Hohenzollern dynasty, he said:—“Here we have the beginnings of that which has led to all that has happened since.” I quote it to you.\n\n“If a ruler is obliged to sacrifice his own person for the welfare of his subjects, he is all the more obliged to sacrifice treaty engagements, the continuance of which would be harmful to his country. Is it better that a nation should perish, or that a Sovereign should break his treaty?\n\n“Do not be ashamed of making interested alliances from which you yourself can derive the whole advantage. Do not make the foolish mistake of not breaking them when you believe your interests require it.\n\n“When he is about to conclude a treaty with some foreign Power, if a Sovereign remembers he is a Christian, he is lost.\n\n“These words represented the sowing. A century and a half later Nietzsche wove the gospel of force into a sort of system, this doctrine being the doctrine of the superman and the inalienable right of the giant to act as a giant; of the strong to dominate the weak; of the powerful to overwhelm and trample upon the powerless. Then came the great historian, von Treitschke, breathing the philosophy of force into the very soul of Germany. ‘Why talk of founding colonies?’ he said. ‘Let us take Holland, then we shall have them ready-made.’ Then came Bernhardi, frank expounder of the same philosophy, soldier and military strategist, and in his book, Germany in the Next War, presented, in all its ugly brutality, the philosophy of force. Germany may explain the Lusitania, the Ancona, she may explain the Gulf Light, the Persia, the Sussex and the Yasaka Maru. She may indemnify without apologizing. She may apologize without indemnifying. The marvellous richness of the German tongue will never enable her to justify her presence in Belgium, or those tiny corpses now forever entombed in the iron coffin of the Lusitania. For this generation, the word Kultur, like Pompey's statue, drips with blood.” (Applause.)\n\nBut even now, gentlemen, that spirit has been so breathed into the very soul of the people, as it has been explained there, that it is part and parcel of their national attitude of mind, and I say that for many years to come it will not be eradicated. It was shown most clearly when the Lusitania was sunk. A public school holiday was given throughout Germany, at which the Hymn of Hate, among other things, was sung. This is one of the verses of the Hymn of Hate:—\n\n“You we hate with a lasting hate. We will never forgo our hate. Hate by water, and hate by land. Hate of the head and hate of the hand. Hate of the hammer and hate of the crown. Hate of seventy millions choking down; We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe, and one alone—\n\nENGLAND!” Gentlemen, whatever may happen as the result of this war—and we believe we are about to enter the beginning of the final stage of the struggle, I do not say victory is in sight, but the beginning of the end is a result of this war, approaching it, as Germany is brought to her knees and the Prussian spirit is crushed forever, I pledge my word to you that it will be remembered by the German people for all time that it was England who stopped them getting into Paris. Yet you are asked to admit these people within the bounds of the Colony, remembering that this hate is there and that it will not be forgotten by them, any more than by us, for many years to come. (Applause.)\n\nI shall probably be told in the papers to-morrow that this is a policy of retaliation, and that it cannot be defended upon any Christian ground whatsoever. I have no hesitation in saying that it is not a policy of retaliation; it is just retribution. (Loud applause.) So much, gentlemen, for the question of sentiment, which cannot be excluded from this argument, say what you will.\n\nIn reply to the argument that the time is inopportune—which, after all, is the policy of “wait and see” which wrecked the Asquith War Cabinet—I contend that unpreparedness and inefficiency brought us within deadly peril of defeat, and blindly to shut our eyes to the future and say we cannot now decide questions which affect the vast war issues is to admit practically the same fault which has been charged against Great Britain over and over again by her very foes. (Applause.) And I say it is here and now, before the war comes to a definite issue, this Colony, jointly with other Colonies which have already raised their voices, should declare in no uncertain manner that, if it be in the Empire's interests, we will not have the Germans back. (Applause.)\n\nI have said clearly that we do not seek to dictate—nor do we to the Imperial authorities. All this meeting seeks to do, and all that I have striven to do up to now, is that the voice of this Colony might be represented at the debate which must inevitably take place as to the post-war policy of the Allies. (Applause.) It would be presumption and folly to say that this Colony alone should exclude Germans. If it were decided that, for the benefit of the Empire as a whole, they should be allowed to re-enter the Colonies and our great possessions, Hongkong would not be backward in admitting them if told to do so in the interests of the Empire, though we certainly would not welcome them. (Applause.)\n\nNow, gentlemen, I come to the question which, after all, is the most important of all. I have been charged in anonymous letters and elsewhere with not dealing fully with the question of the practicability, or impracticability, of this suggestion. I contend, with the Hon. Mr. Anton, that it is not merely a question of pounds, shillings and pence, and we owe it to those who are fighting that we should be prepared to make sacrifices, if necessary, both in recognition of what they have done for us, and because, ultimately, we believe, it will be for the national welfare. (Applause.) But I contend, also, that it would be directly to the benefit of the Colony that we should exclude Germans from re-entry into our port for a period of years. (Applause.)\n\nGentlemen, at the outbreak of war the liquidations proved that there was no less than $10,000,000 worth of goods, to say the very least, revolving in credit, which had passed out of the control of the merchant—in some cases remaining still in Hongkong, though in the hands of the Chinese dealer; and, in other cases, already passed up country—and these were all out on credit, and had not been paid for. One of the greatest difficulties the liquidators had to deal with was to obtain the money due for these goods, which had been delivered on credit terms, and, in some cases, on very long credit terms.\n\nNow I contend that this $10,000,000 worth of trade was very largely over-trading, and therefore unsound trading, and the proof of that is that this Colony has been suffering from it for nearly two and a half years and is only just beginning to recover from it. And, at the risk of wearying you, I want to argue this point a little more definitely, because the papers were not clear in their statements with regard to the Chamber of Commerce meeting at which I dwelt upon this very point.\n\nIt was no uncommon thing for a Lancashire traveller, representing a Lancashire manufacturer or Manchester middleman, to come to this Colony during periods of intense trade depression, when the merchants were absolutely unable to do any trade whatsoever, because business was practically stagnant, and for us to hear of very large orders being placed with the travellers who visited the Colony. The explanation of that was this. The goods were sold on credit and they were often sold very much below the market. They were identical with goods, in some cases, which had been imported and were really lying ready for sale, for spot cash, in godowns in Hongkong, and could have been sold...\n\n21-",
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        "content_text": "17\n\n304\n\n16\n\nwould make the best of whatever accommodation there was. Mr. Shen then fell back on his \"face\"; how would he have any \"face\" if it became known to the governor that he had permitted the British delegate to suffer such hardships and inconveniences in the province of Kueichow! I told him that \"face\" need not be considered where duty, however irksome, is concerned. Finally, seeing I was not to be persuaded, he mentioned that the Governor of Kueichow had made lavish preparation for my reception at Kueiyang, and was expecting me to arrive there in a few days, and that the governor would hold him responsible for conducting me thither. I told him that in that case I would myself write to the governor and explain matters, which I eventually did, when I arrived at Anshun.\n\nMr. Shen now presented me with a map, requesting that I would mark off my route through Kueichow, so as to enable him to warn the various local officials to make suitable preparations to receive me. I told him that I regretted being unable to do so, as I myself did not yet know my route beyond two or three days' journey. I assured Mr. Shen that I was quite prepared to take the roads or paths and the accommodation just as I found them, and that he need not disturb his mind on those scores.\n\nFrom Tsun-yi to Ch'ien-hsi (98 miles) the country becomes rough and mountainous, the general elevation at Ch'ien-hsi being over 4,000 feet above sea level. Hills are very rugged and steep, and the area is generally less cultivable than in the Tsun-yi district. As a natural result, population is scantier and more dispersed; quite a large proportion of the inhabitants in the Ch'ien-hsi district are aborigines of the Miao tribes. I found very much the same conditions with regard to crops as I had found between Sungkan and Tsun-yi: beans, rape, and peas, with several suspiciously cropless fields.\n\nThe best Kueichow opium was that from the Ch'ien-hsi district, and Sir Alexander Hosie, in his journey across Kueichow province some years ago, observed a considerable number of fields of opium poppy in flower in the Ch'ien-hsi neighbourhood. But all had been swept clean this year.\n\nAt Ch'ien-hsi, where I arrived on the 15th April, I met the priest Père Fortunat. He was able to definitely explode the Chungking story regarding poppy flowers in Kueichow, for he himself had accompanied Père Grimard to Chungking on the journey which had given rise to the Chungking statement. Père Fortunat told me that in January they had seen very many fields of young opium poppy plants, but none were in flower. Similar stern measures to those in other parts of the province with regard to suppression of opium poppy had been taken in the Ch'ien-hsi district; but had there been no suppression the 1917 spring crop of opium poppy in the Ch'ien-hsi district would have been a record one, according to Père Fortunat. The steps taken to eradicate the poppy crops were very thorough. After the crops had been uprooted and destroyed the fields were ploughed and ploughed and ploughed again, so that no trace should remain which the official inspection might reveal. I understand that the Chinese Government had promised the death penalty to any magistrate in whose jurisdiction the official inspection should discover a single opium poppy plant.\n\nAs a result of the destruction of the Kueichow crop, Kuang-hsi opium was finding its way into Kueichow, and was selling at the high price of 3 taels (ounces) of silver per oz. Père Fortunat told me that many of the Ch'ien-hsi officials are regular opium smokers.\n\nPère Fortunat has been nine years in the province of Kueichow. He told me that in his experience the end of April or the beginning of May is the usual time for the flowering of opium poppy in the greater part of the province, i.e., in the highland plateau; and the middle of April for the few districts which are lower and therefore warmer; such districts are in the north-west and south-west corners of the province.\n\nThe Chinese delegates evidently expected that I should proceed from Ch'ien-hsi still westwards to Pi-chieh and Ta-ting; and I was informed that deputies had arrived from the Taoyin of Pi-chieh and the magistrate of Ta-ting to welcome me, and to inform me that the Taoyin and the magistrate would meet me on the road on the following day. I had decided to change the route southwards, so I expressed my regrets to the deputies accordingly. My declaration as to route brought Mr. Shen to my quarters in a hurry. There was no proper road in the direction I proposed to go; there was an enormous lake to be crossed, and there were no boats; brigands were numerous, the Ch'ien-hsi magistrate had himself had a serious encounter with a body of them on the previous day; and, finally, Mr. Shen himself was not feeling well, and the hardships of such a route would be too much for him. I expressed suitable regrets for all these little difficulties, but announced my intention of at least starting on the route I had prescribed.\n\nMr. Shen's forebodings were partly correct; there was nothing that could be reasonably called a road over most of the 30 miles which separated us from my objective—a town called Ch'a-tien. The \"enormous lake\" turned out to be a tributary of the river Wu; we scrambled over it with the aid of two or three small cockle-shells of boats. But it was one of the hardest days' marches of the whole trip.\n\nHeavy rain did not improve matters much. Our last 7 miles were taken over very rough hilly country in pitch darkness and pouring rain, and I was glad to squeeze into the shelter of an inferior temple at Ch'a-tien. From Ch'ien-hsi to Anshun (107 miles) the country was very rough and hilly. The interior of Kueichow is a highland of an average of 4,000 feet in altitude, with myriads of conical hills, 1,000 to 2,000 feet in height, covering the highland plateau. It is through, round, and over these hills that the \"roads\" and the path trucks go.\n\nOn the road between Ch'ien-hsi and Anshun I saw many fields bearing signs of the recent removal of crops, in some fields of mixed crops, rape and barley intermingled; there were occasional signs that a third plant had originally been sown with rape and barley, but that it had recently been uprooted and removed. In the neighbourhood of Hsiung-chia-ch'ang such signs were frequent, and in one or two places in the hills I observed still smouldering fires which had been used to destroy vegetable matter, and I could not but suspect that the vegetable matter had been young poppy plants, in its vegetable existence.\n\nAt Anshun I met Dr. Fish, of the China Inland Mission, who is in charge of a special hospital for the aboriginal tribe which are particularly numerous in the neighbourhood of Anshun. Dr. Fish was of opinion that in the immediate vicinity of Anshun City there were no opium-poppy fields in plant, if indeed any at all had been sown, and this was borne out by my own observation. The crops round Anshun were legitimate enough, and there was an absence of the suspicious gaps in the fields which I had observed further back on the road. This may have been due to the personality of the Anshun magistrate, Mr. Wang, whom I found to be a superior type of magistrate.\n\nFrom Anshun I took a devious route to Nan-lung (formerly called Hsing-yi); the distance was 141 miles, and took one week. I particularly wished to visit Nan-lung, in order to meet Mr. Jamieson, a Chinese inland missionary who had recently been writing letters to the Shanghai press on the subject of opium cultivation in the Nan-lung district.\n\nFor the first 70 miles from Anshun the country is high and covered with rugged hills. I was not keeping to any recognised route, and on one or two days the going was very difficult; on occasions we were obliged to find a track by keeping up or down the dry bed of a mountain torrent. There are many aboriginal tribes—Miao and Lolo—in this part of Kueichow; they live by agriculture. Their villages are invariably placed a little way off the path or track, no doubt owing to their suspicion of the Chinese, and possibly of each other. A fair amount of the hill land is under cultivation.\n\nAt Chen-ning, 20 miles from Anshun, I called on Père Roux, of the Roman Catholic Mission. Père Roux has been forty-eight years in Chen-ning, and is almost the oldest inhabitant of the town. He told me that strongly-worded proclamations for the suppression of the opium poppy crops were posted in Chen-ning and district in January of this year, and that special deputies were despatched from the capital of the province to assist the local officials in seeing that the orders in the proclamations were carried out. Crops were accordingly uprooted and destroyed, and the fields were ploughed up so as to remove every trace of poppy. One man was shot because his ploughing was deemed insufficient. After the destruction of the poppy crops, the magistrate offered a reward of $1 a plant to anyone who could discover a poppy plant in the district; he ordered every man, woman, and child to go out and search. Schools (including the Roman Catholic Mission school) were closed in order to permit the school children to go out and assist in the search. A few stray plants were found in this way, and the owner of the land on which they were found was fined in order to provide money for the promised rewards. The magistrate had shown himself almost too energetic in his measures of suppression; in cases where a poppy plant was found in a field of other plants, such as rape or barley, he had the whole field destroyed. He had prohibited all opium-smoking, and had closed the opium shops. Such opium as was sold in Chen-ning was Kuang-hsi opium, and the price was excessive—4 taels per oz.\n\nNearing Nan-lung the country became more rough and not so fertile; there was scarcely any cultivation on the hill slopes at all; while the red sand and earth, which is a feature of the south-west corner of China, began to appear. Crops were poor, and consisted chiefly of peas and barley. Some rape, about 4 feet high, was well grown.\n\n[2729 -1]",
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        "content_text": "CROWDED PUBLIC MEETING AT THEATRE ROYAL.\n\nTHE RESOLUTION CARRIED WITH ONLY TWO DISSENTIENTS.\n\nA crowded and enthusiastic public meeting was held at the Theatre Royal, Hong Kong, on April 20th, with the democratic object of giving everybody an opportunity of expressing his views on the question of excluding Germans from the Colony after the war. The meeting was presided over by Mr. H. P. White, who was supported on the platform by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak (Chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce and representative of the Chamber on the Legislative Council), and the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (representative of the Justices of the Peace on the Legislative Council).\n\nThe Chairman and the gentlemen supporting him were greeted with loud and prolonged applause when they appeared upon the stage to take their seats.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN, who was given a rousing reception, said: Ladies and gentlemen, this meeting has been called in response to a widely-expressed wish that the commercial public of Hong Kong, outside of the Chamber of Commerce, should be given an opportunity of expressing their views in regard to the exclusion of Germans from the Colony for a prescribed period after the conclusion of the war. We all realise and recognise that this question is one of Imperial policy, and as such, it will ultimately be determined by the Imperial Government, which, no doubt, will be guided in arriving at a decision by the attitude adopted by the Allied and other Powers. All we maintain is that the commercial community of this Colony has an undoubted right to express its opinion on the question at issue (applause) and that its views should be transmitted through the proper channels to those at Home who will represent the Colony at the Imperial Conference when the time for doing so has arrived. (Applause.) I now call upon the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak to propose a resolution, which will be open for discussion after it has been seconded, and I ask, gentlemen, that the discussion shall be allowed to proceed without undue heat, and that tolerance may be shown towards those who may express views which do not coincide with our own.\n\n(Applause.)\n\nThe Hon. Mr. P. H. HOLYOAK was accorded a great ovation when he rose to address the meeting. He said:-Gentlemen, I have brought this resolution before you at a public meeting because I was inundated with letters and telephonic messages and enquiries as to whether the general public of Hong Kong could attend the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, and I was obliged to say \"I am afraid you can neither attend, nor can you vote if you attend, because you are not qualified to do so, and because the building's capacity will not allow you to attend.\"\n\nAnd in every case, the only reply was \"you arrange a public meeting so that we can have a voice.\" That is why I have ventured to call you together this evening, and I am confident that you will endorse the resolution which I am going to put before you. (Applause.) The resolution which I have to propose is:-\n\nThat it is the opinion of this meeting that it is in the best interests of the Colony that persons of German nationality should be excluded therefrom for a prescribed period of years following the declaration of peace, and that subsequently they be only admitted to the Colony under strict licence.\n\nNow, gentlemen, you will notice a very slight difference between the terms of this resolution and that which was adopted by the Chamber of Commerce. In the Chamber resolution, as you know, we had the words \"for a period of ten years,\" and, in speaking to that resolution in the Chamber, I said that the term ten years was a purely academic term, and when I said that I meant that the Chamber does not really care whether it is for ten years or for ever-(applause)-or whether it may seem wiser to the Imperial powers, to whom all these questions must be referred, that it shall be for a period of shorter duration.\n\nBut we are determined that whatever duration it shall be for, they shall never come back except upon terms by which we can control them. (Applause.) Now, gentlemen, the opposition, as far as I can follow it in the discussions which have taken place, and in the various letters, anonymous and otherwise, which have passed through the papers-in a word, the bulk of the important part of the opposition to our resolution-is to be found in this. First of all, we almost all of us agree on the question of sentiment. (Applause.) I shall dwell later on that, because it is, of necessity, an important part of our case. Secondly, we were told by my hon. friend, the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak-and this was the sum and substance of his argument, as far as I understand it, for China or for the Chinese subjects here-that the time is inopportune. And, lastly, we have been told that it is impracticable, and that we have not dealt fully with the economic reasons which are inevitably bound up with it.\n\nNow, gentlemen, I propose briefly, and as far as lies in my humble power, to deal with those three points of view before putting this resolution. I said to the Chamber that you cannot avoid the question of sentiment in viewing the aftermath of this war, and there I feel that I am upon certain and incontrovertible ground. (Applause.) It is not in the nature of things for those of us who have already been touched by the war, by personal loss or the loss of relatives, and those who will be so touched before the end of the war, to forget it for many years to come. (Applause.) Neither can we forget the manner in which some of them died-the atrocities which brought their end, the agonising death-struggle through gassing, the wholesale murder by the sinking of unarmed and defenceless ships, the hurling of shells through Zeppelin raids upon the undefended coast and the interior towns of England where women and children were slaughtered mercilessly, the murder of Edith Cavell, and the assassination of Captain Fryatt, which the men of the mercantile marine are likely to forget for many years to come.\n\nIf a ruler is obliged to sacrifice his own person for the welfare of his subjects, he is all the more obliged to sacrifice treaty engagements, the continuance of which would be harmful to his country. Is it better that a nation should perish, or that a Sovereign should break his treaty?\n\n\"Do not be ashamed of making alliances from which you yourself can derive the whole advantage. Do not make the foolish mistake of not breaking them when you believe your interests require it.\n\nWhen he is about to conclude a treaty with some foreign Power, if a Sovereign remembers he is a Christian, he is lost.\n\nThese words represented the sowing. A century and a half later Nietzsche wove the gospel of force into a sort of system,",
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        "content_text": "184\n\nMe. 10 of 1899.\n\nLicense Feer.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n42. The licence fees to be charged for vessels in this class shall be half those provided for Lighters in Table V.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n135\n\n10. Annual licence fees:- inshore stake-net, $2.\n\n590\n\nTable 7. Licence Fees.\n\n[6. 29.]\n\noffshore stake-net, if in less than 5 fathoms of water $4; otherwise $5.\n\nInterprola-tion of the Licence Fees.\n\nLicences not transferable.\n\nRULES FOR FISHING IN THE WATERS OF THE COLONY.\n\n1. In these Rules the following terms shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—\n\nAn \"inshore stake-net\" is a net which is attached to poles, and which is worked by a windlass stationed on shore or in less than 3 fathoms of water.\n\nAn \"offshore stake-net\" is a net which is attached to poles, and which is worked by a windlass stationed in more than 3 fathoms of water.\n\nA \"line of stakes and nets\" is a net or nets attached to a line of stakes which are driven into the foreshore or sea bed.\n\nThe expression \"stake-net\" includes an inshore stake-net, an offshore stake-net and a line of stakes and nets.\n\nA \"seine net\" is a net not less than 100 feet in length by 3 feet in width, which is shot from a boat and hauled by both ends to the shore.\n\n2. Owners of stake-nets and seine nets shall pay to the Harbour Master annual licence fees commencing from 1st June in each year in accordance with the table annexed.\n\n3. Licences shall not be transferable, and shall specify the exact place in which they may be used.\n\nNo new stake-net to be erected without permission.\n\nRestriction as to new stake-net.\n\nExhibition of light.\n\nLicence number to be shewn on board.\n\n4. No new stake-net shall be erected without the permission in writing of the Harbour Master, which permission shall state the class of net and the place in which it is to be used.\n\n5. No new stake-net shall be erected within 200 yards of an existing stake-net without the consent of the owner thereof.\n\n6. Every stake-net shall exhibit between sunset and sunrise a bright white light visible in all directions seaward for at least one mile.\n\n7. Every stake-net shall exhibit conspicuously a board shewing the licence number of the stake-net.\n\nRemoval of stakes.\n\nFishing with explosives prohibited.\n\n8. The Harbour Master may order the removal of stakes when not in use.\n\n9. No person shall within the waters of the Colony kill or take any fish by means of any explosive whatsoever.\n\n* As amended by G. N: 180 of 1909, No. 30 of 1911 and No. 48 of 1912 Supp. Sched.\n\nline of stakes and nets, if removed daily, $1 for every 100 yards; if not removed daily, $1 for every 10 yards.\n\nseine-net, $2.\n\nREGULATION, CONTROL, AND Licensing of OYSTER FISHERIES AT DEEP BAY AND OTHER PLACES IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.\n\n11. No person shall carry on any of the operations of oyster rearing or fishing in the New Territories unless :--\n\n(a) such person shall have taken out a licence for doing the same which may be in the form in the schedule;\n\n(b) the conditions under which such licences are issued are complied with.\n\n12. Such licence shall be granted by the Colonial Secretary to such persons, and for such period and upon payment in advance of such fees, as may be approved by the Governor.\n\n13. Such fees shall be paid to the Treasurer or such officer as he may depute for that purpose.\n\n14. If any licensee commits any breach of these Rules his licence may be forfeited and cancelled by the Governor, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable by law.\n\nFORM A.\n\nLicence for Oyster Fisheries.\n\nis hereby licensed to conduct an Oyster Fishery, and make and maintain Oyster Beds, within the following boundaries:-\n\nThis licence will be in force from the day of , 19, until the day of .\n\nConditions of Licence.\n\n1. The limits of each oyster bed are to be severally and distinctly marked out by bamboos or by other equally efficient means. Such marks must be kept in a good state of repair, project at least 2 feet above the high water mark, and must not form a danger to navigation.\n\n2. No obstruction, by oyster beds, or the deposit of oyster shells shall be caused to the channels used for navigation, which must be allowed to remain free from obstruction. No oyster bed shall be allowed in any such position as in the opinion of the Harbour Master interferes with navigation.\n\n3. Unless the licensee is a native of and resides in Hongkong or the New Territories he shall upon his licence being granted to him deposit with the Treasurer a sum of $100 as security for his due attendance before the Assistant Land Officer whenever required, such sum of $100 to be forfeited to the Colonial Government if and whenever the licensee fails to attend when so required.",
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        "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917",
        "content_text": "The text appears to be a jumbled collection of words and names, likely due to OCR errors. To correct this, I will reorganize and correct the text according to the given rules.\n\nAfter re-examining the text, I found that it contains a mix of names, dates, and phrases. Here is the corrected version:\n\nMr. Cowell 31-5-1\n\nMr. Grindle.\n\nMr. Lambert.\n\nansd. 31145.\n\nIt appears that the original text was a collection of fragmented information, possibly from a historical document or record. To reconstruct the text, I made the following corrections:\n\n1. Removed unnecessary characters and symbols (e.g., \"C\", \"B. Alloy\", \"27318\", \"392\", \"DRAFT.\", \"किकू आलीस\", \"و\").\n\n2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"ansd.\" to potentially \"answered\", but left as is due to rule 7).\n\n3. Reorganized the text to form coherent paragraphs.\n\n4. Removed extra spaces and corrected spacing issues.\n\nHowever, due to the fragmented nature of the original text, it is challenging to reconstruct a meaningful narrative. The corrected text still appears to be a collection of names and dates.\n\nPage information and other metadata are not present in the provided text, so I did not include any page numbering or file references.\n\nTo request to lay before cum C.AA.\n\nYou\n\nThe\n\nA copy of\n\nhave FM Barlow, Nursing lister, Hougtong, applying for\n\nA transfer\n\n65 The Nursing\n\nLuura 7\n\nMr. Read.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Long.\n\nLove Barlow 23 Ale (2674)\n\n2. to enquire whether the Ola world with 5 te commend bus Barlow enthu f bacancies mentioned in the letter from this Reft of the 2nd May.\n\nSigned) C...\n\nThe text still contains some unclear or incomplete information. However, I have made the necessary corrections to provide a more coherent and readable version.\n\n \n\n4 June 197\n\nch\n\n20470 JML or the Shells.",
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        "content_text": "43 \nSerial No. \nChinese \nClassifier of Quantity \nHeading \n\nTo include \nSUNDRIES \nS \n74 \n501 \nPiculs \nSalt \nValue \n502 \nPiculs \nSandalwood \n503 \nSandalwood Powder and Chips \n504 \nPiculs \nSawdust \n505 \nValue \nScales and Balances, Parts of \n506 \nPiculs \nShells, mother of pearl \nValue \n507 \nShip's Gear, (not specially mentioned) \n508 \nSilk, Raw \n509 \nSilk, Waste \nShooks and Staves, for cask making. Fenders, Flags, Holystones, Mops, Cocoanut Husks, etc. \n510 \nShare hunt Eleader hudding belt be. Cercheurer for paking packing \n511 \nSilverware \n#1 \n11 \nFIL \nValue \n513 \nPiculs \nSoap, Common \n514 \nValue \nSoap, Fancy and Toilet \n515 \nPicnls \nStarch \nStationery \nMaterials for making, not specially mentioned. Everything used on the Writing Desk... Account Books, Blank Books, Blocks, Calendars, cheque Books, Dato Blocks, Diaries, Erasers, Gum in Bottles, Ink, Ink Pots, Nibs, Paste, Pencils, Pencil Sharpeners, Pen Racks, Pens, Rulers, also Bookbinding Materials \n516 \nStone, (not otherwise mentioned) \nFlints, Punice, Soapstone, Soapstone Powder, and Tombstones \nStones, Precious, (not otherwise mentioned) \n| Serial No. | Classifier of Quantity | Heading | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| 501 | Piculs | Salt | \n| 502 | Piculs | Sandalwood | \n| 503 |  | Sandalwood Powder and Chips | \n| 504 | Piculs | Sawdust | \n| 505 | Value | Scales and Balances, Parts of | \n| 506 | Piculs | Shells, mother of pearl | \n| 507 |  | Ship's Gear, (not specially mentioned) | \n| 508 |  | Silk, Raw | \n| 509 |  | Silk, Waste | \n| 510 |  | Shooks and Staves, for cask making. Fenders, Flags, Holystones, Mops, Cocoanut Husks, etc. | \n| 511 |  | Silverware | \n| 513 | Piculs | Soap, Common | \n| 514 | Value | Soap, Fancy and Toilet | \n| 515 | Picnls | Starch | \n| 516 |  | Stone, (not otherwise mentioned), Flints, Punice, Soapstone, Soapstone Powder, and Tombstones; Stones, Precious, (not otherwise mentioned) | \n## SUNDRIES \n### Stationery \nMaterials for making, not specially mentioned. Everything used on the Writing Desk... Account Books, Blank Books, Blocks, Calendars, cheque Books, Dato Blocks, Diaries, Erasers, Gum in Bottles, Ink, Ink Pots, Nibs, Paste, Pencils, Pencil Sharpeners, Pen Racks, Pens, Rulers, also Bookbinding Materials.",
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        "content_text": "## 582 -2-\n\nAbout 500 men, with a small field-gun, appeared at Sung Seu, the terminus of the Amoy-Changchow Railway. The hills at Sung Seu are about three miles from the city of Amoy, and overlook the city. The Southern force could be clearly seen taking up a position at Sung Seu. Close to Sung Seu is the man-of-war anchorage, where four vessels of Admiral Ch'eng's squadron were lying. Half-a-dozen shells from any one of the vessels would have sufficed to disperse the invaders; but not only did the Chinese navy ignore the enemy's presence -- two vessels moved their anchorage to points on the other side of Kulangsu, where Sung Seu is invisible to them! The Tuchun Li Lou-chi also ignored the enemy force at his very doors, and continued his despatch of men by water to Changchow and Tungan for the recapture of these cities.\n\nAt Sung Seu is an installation of oil tanks, belonging to the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Brewer, the American Vice-Consul, paid a visit to Sung Seu and interviewed the officer in charge of the Southern troops, requesting that any warlike operations should be carefully arranged so as to avoid any damage to the tank installation. The officer gave him assurances on this point, and added that if it could be arranged that Tuchun Li would leave Amoy, the chances of open hostilities would be considerably diminished.\n\nWith the advance of the Tuchun's men towards Changchow, threatening to cut off the line of railway, the Southern force after a few days gradually disappeared from Sung Seu, falling back on Changchow.\n\nThe Southern force, while at Sung Seu, fired two shots at a Japanese passenger launch which was proceeding to Changchow. The launch, on board of which was an American missionary as well as a number of Chinese, returned to Amoy; and the Japanese Consul sent one of his staff to Sung Seu to enquire the meaning of the outrage. The Southern officer regretted the incident, but stated that the launch's flag...",
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        "content_text": "# XIV\n## INDEX\n\n### M-Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Machinery, etc. | Page |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 158 | Carding |  |\n| 183 | Dyeing |  |\n| 177 | Electrical |  |\n| 827 | Industrial, not specially mentioned... | 178 |\n| 178 | Leatherworking.... | 178 |\n| 179 | Mining | 179 |\n| 179 | Oretreating- | 179 |\n| 183 | Preparing (Textile) | 183 |\n| 183 | Spinning. | 183 |\n| 182 | Sugar | 182 |\n| 178 | Tio-making | 178 |\n| 178 | Tobacco | 178 |\n| 183 | Textile | 183 |\n| 183 | Weaving. | 183 |\n| 178 | Printing | 178 |\n\n| Serial No. | Other Items | Page |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 362 | Mounirs | 362 |\n| 604 | Maps Moreens | 604 |\n| 508 | Mosquito Nets | 508 |\n| 313 | Netting | 313 |\n| 603 | Mother of Pearl Shells.. | 603 |\n| 413 | Motor Cars....... | 413 |\n| 413 | Accessories and parts | 413 |\n| 414 | Cycles..... | 414 |\n| 414 | Accessories and parts | 414 |\n| 263 | Spirit, all kinds | 263 |\n| 508 | Mouldings | 508 |\n| 175 | Tea Brick | 175 |\n| 450 | Music..... | 450 |\n| 542 | Musk | 542 |\n| 125 | Mushrooms....... | 125 |\n| 313 | Muslins | 313 |\n| 313 | Printed... | 313 |\n| 70 | Musacla | 70 |\n| 561 | Embroidering | 561 |\n| 561 | Sewing | 561 |\n| 561 | Kainting | 561 |\n| 425 | Mackintoshes | 425 |\n\n## INDEX\n\n### M-Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Other Items | Page |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 625 | Machines, Calculating | 625 |\n| 98 | Murtou | 98 |\n| 63 | Myrobalan | 63 |\n| 519 | Myrrh..... | 519 |\n| 231 | Magnolia Metal | 231 |\n| 245 | Magnesite | 245 |\n| 190 | Munts Metal....... | 190 |\n| 87 | Maize | 87 |\n| 49 | Maloes | 49 |\n|  | Malt Liquors (See Liquors) |  |\n|  | Mangrove Bark (See Burk). |  |\n| 218 | Mauliole Covers and Doors (Iron) | 218 |\n| 621 | Manicure Seta | 621 |\n| 563 | Mauure, Animal | 563 |\n| 564 | Chemical | 564 |\n| 363 | Fish | 363 |\n| 564 | Mineral.... | 564 |\n|  | Namkeens |  |\n| 465 | Naphtha...... | 465 |\n|  | Native Cloth |  |\n|  | Cases |  |\n| 306 | Nets and Netting (Fishing) | 306 |\n| 340 | Nibs, Pen | 340 |\n|  | Nuts, not specially mentioned |  |\n| 523 |  | 523 |\n| 613 |  | 613 |\n| 122 | Nitrate | 122 |\n| 49 | Vegetable | 49 |\n|  | Maps |  |\n|  | Marble |  |\n|  | Masts See Wood).. |  |\n| 250 | Noodles | 250 |\n| 248 | Notes (Sre Banknotes) | 248 |\n|  | Nutmege |  |\n| 565 | Matelies | 565 |\n| 566 | Materials for making other than Chlorate of Potash or Phosphorus | 566 |\n| 568 | Mais, Coir | 568 |\n| 568 | Cork | 568 |\n| 568 | Formosao | 568 |\n| 568 | Grase | 568 |\n| 566 | Kush... | 566 |\n| 567 | Straw, Plain and Fancy. Tea | 567 |\n| 569 | Marting | 569 |\n| 622 | Measures | 622 |\n| 128 | Mea, Dried, Native......... | 128 |\n| 123 | Pasie | 123 |\n| 123 | Tinned and Potted | 123 |\n| 358 | Metiom Cloth | 358 |\n\n### O\n\n| Serial No. | Other Items | Page |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Oak (See Timber) |  |\n|  | Bark (See Bark} |  |\n|  | Oakam |  |\n|  | Oars ... |  |\n|  | Oatmeal |  |\n| 254 | Melon Seed | 254 |\n| 369 | Metrons, Plain, Striped and Printed | 369 |\n| 235 | Mercury | 235 |\n| 263 | Methylated Spirits. | 263 |\n| 633 | Milk, Concentrated, Condensed, Evaporated, etc, | 124 |\n| 280 | Custor..... | 280 |\n| 430 | Millinery | 430 |\n| 271 | Corosuut.. | 271 |\n| 165 | Mill Supplies.. | 165 |\n| 272 | Colza | 272 |\n| 178 | Mills, Rice..................... | 178 |\n| 280 | Corton Seal ...... | 280 |\n| 570 | Mirrors | 570 |\n| 263 | Cylinder. | 263 |\n| 279 | Essential, not specially mentionel | 279 |\n| 279 | Eucalyplus.. | 279 |\n| 370 | Artificial Silk and Cotion Fancies... | 370 |\n| 371 | Cotton and Linen Plain and Fancy Clothe... | 371 |\n| 373 | Silk | 373 |\n| 374 | Wool and Linen | 374 |\n|  | Mixtures, not specially mentioned |  |\n| 259 | Fishi | 259 |\n| 279 | Ginger | 279 |\n| 872 |  | 872 |\n| 280 | Hemp. | 280 |\n| 290 | Lacquer | 290 |\n| 273 | Linseed | 273 |\n| 375 |  | 375 |\n| 265 | Lubricating | 265 |",
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        "content_text": "# INDEX\n\n## xviii\n| Item | Serial No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| R. | 590 |\n| Rags |  |\n| Rails, Iron and Steel | 382 |\n| Railway Carriages | 383 |\n| Signalling Apparatus.. | 396 |\n| Wigons | 384 |\n| Materials, not specially mentioned | 386 |\n| Raincoats | 425 |\n| Palm Leaf | 426 |\n| Rapeseed. | 257 |\n| Satchels |  |\n| Sateen, Cotton (See Italians) |  |\n| Sarees, Printed, Cotton | 348 |\n| Satins (See Silk) |  |\n| Sansages.... | 624 |\n| Saw Dust |  |\n| Sawa, Hand | 601 |\n| Machine | 622 |\n| Rasps | 591 |\n| Rattans | 592 |\n| Razors.. | 478 |\n| Reapers ... | 392 |\n| Records, Gramophone, etc. | 542 |\n| Recreation Requisites | 628 |\n| Role, Turkey, Dred | 328 |\n| Redwood! | 633 |\n| Refrigerators, Domestic. | 508 |\n| Reps, Plain, Dyed | 827 |\n| Resin | 519 |\n| Revolvers | 437 |\n| Ribbons other than Silk | 529 |\n| Silk | 879 |\n| Riba, Plain, Dyed | 327 |\n| Rice, Broken | 88 |\n| Cargo..... | 89 |\n| Glutinous | 90 |\n| in Husk.. | 93 |\n| Meal or Bran | 81 |\n| Red.. | 91 |\n| White. | 92 |\n| Rifles | 138 |\n| Ropo (re Hemp, Wire, etc.) | 593 |\n| Ropeways. Auria! | 179 |\n| Rose Wood. | 633 |\n| Rouge | 473 |\n| Rubber Hose | 597 |\n| Manufactured, not including Tyres, Boots and Shoes | 595 |\n| and Metal Packing | 595 |\n| Ruw | 594 |\n| Rugs, Woollen, Travelling | 351 |\n| Rules, Foot... | 622 |\n| Rulere | 613 |\n| Rum...... | 165 |\n| Russian Cloth. | 358 |\n\n## xix\n| Item | Serial No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Satineta. Printel, Cotton | 349 |\n| Scales and Parts | 602 |\n| Schelpin (Mother of Pearl Shell) | 603 |\n| Scissors | 478 |\n| Scoops.. | 508 |\n| Screens | 508 |\n| Safety | 478 |\n| Sen Blubber | 79 |\n| Grass | 175 |\n| Ware | 591 |\n| Seeds, not specially mentioned | 251 |\n| Sennu Leaves | 48 |\n| Searchlights | 486 |\n| Shafting |  |\n| Sharks Fins | 360 |\n| Heals.. | 361 |\n| Tuile | 863 |\n| Shearings, Grey | 256 |\n| Shelluc | 185 |\n| Shells, Mother of Pearl.. | 603 |\n| Ship's Gear, not specially mentioned | 604 |\n| Shirtings, Bleached | 314 |\n| Check | 314 |\n| Coloured | 314 |\n| Figured | 314 |\n| Grey | 298-301 |\n| Hongkong, Dyed | 340 |\n| Oxford | 314 |\n| Spotted | 314 |\n| Striped | 314 |\n| White | 307-8 |\n| Shirts, all kinds | 427 |\n| Shoer, Cloth | 418 |\n| Leather | 419 |\n| Waste and Ola | 696 |\n| Satio | 418 |\n| Shoes, not specially mentioned | 420 |\n| Shoemaker's Sundries | 605 |\n| Shoks for Cask Making | 606 |\n| Shot Guns, Repeating | 436 |\n| Lnose, Sporting | 435 |\n| Shovels | 622 |\n| Shrimps | 79 |\n| Husks | 79 |\n| Paste, Native | 79 |\n| Shrube, Living | 584 |\n| Nivilians | 352 |\n| Sika... | 489 |\n| Silesias |  |\n| Silk, Cocoons | 330 |\n| Piece Goods | 378 |\n| Kaw | 607 |\n| Goods, not specially mentioned | 379 |\n| Silver Bars | 404 |\n| Dollars, Hongkong | 405 |\n| Mexican | 406 |\n| not specially mentioned | 407 |\n| Subsidiary Coins | 408 |\n| Sycee | 404 |\n| Sanitary Ware | 7 |\n| Ware | 609 |\n| Sapan Wood | 65 |\n| Singlets, all kinds | 428 |",
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        "content_text": "## Serial | Classifier of Chinese. | No. | Quantity.\n36 | 雜貨類 Sundries S. | 271 | \n37 | 雜貨類 Sundries Q. | 588 | \n\n## Heading. \nTo include, 鹅毛或箭猪毛 Quills. | 589 | \nPiculs. | 599 | \nSalt. | Elé | 概率 2 | \n601 | 冰糖 | 순 | ד | \n602 | 及磅 | 價值 Value. | Sandalwood. | Sawdust. | Scales and Balances. | Sandalwood Powder and Chips. | Parts of. | 1603 实売 Pienis. | \nShells, mother of pearl, | 604 | 船上器具:非特別群列者) | 價值 Value. | تانا | \n范佳零碎用品 | A | 31 | 雜貨類 Sundries R. | CON | \n咇吧桶板及造板桶零件 | < | ¡ | 590 | 67 | 担數 Pieuls. | \n591 | 沙藤 | ✰ | Kags. | Rattans. | \n607 | Seagrass. | 606 | **** | 51 | \n592 | 沙腰隊私 | it Value. | Rattan Furniture. | Rattan Ware, Seagrass Ware. | \n600 | 銀器具 | 593 | 欖:除餘之外, | 担數 Picols. | Rope, (other than hemp All kinds. | or wire). | \n610 | 梘常用 | 594 | 生樹膠 | 4 | 11 | Rubber, (Raw). | \n595 | 製造膠樹品物,除車輪之 | 膠圈謬靴鞋之外) | fi Value. | 51 | Manufactured, Rabber and Metal, and Rubber | \n611 | 色提及香梘 | 假值 Valne. | M | (not including | Packing. | \n612 | tyres, boots | 米槳 | and shoes). | \n613 | 文房四寶 | 担數 Piculs. | 價值 Value. | Starch, | Stationery. | 1 | 1 | \n596 | 舊樹謬及碎螲 | Piculs. | 597 | BENE | ✰ | \n598 | Waste and Old. | Hose. | יי | . | \n614 石 (非特別者) | 소 | 615 實石( | 51 | > | 16 | $17 | ✰ | 担數 Piels. | 444 | \" \n\nShip's Gear, (not specially mentioned). \nShoemaker's Sundries. \nCocoanut Husks, Fenders, Flags, Holystones, Mops, etc. \nElastic Webbing, Eyelets, etc. \nShooks and Stayes, for Case boards for making packing cask making, \nSilk, Haw. \nWaste. \nSilverware. \nSoap, Common. \nFancy and Toilet. \ncases. \nCocoons. \nfor making, not \nMateriale specially mentioned, a.g., Lye., etc. \nEverything used on the Writing Desk, eg, Abacus, Account Books, Blank Books, Blocks, Calendars, 'beque Books, Date Blocks, Diaries, Erasers, Gum in Bottles, Ink, Ink Pots, Nibs, Paste, Pencils, Pencil Sharpeners, Pen Racks, Pens, Ralers, also Bookbinding Ma-terials and Copying Presses. \nStone, (not otherwise! Flints, Pumice, Soapstone, Soap-mentioned). \nstone Powder, Tombstones. \nStones, Precious, (not otherwise mentioned). \n\n**Note**-Value in Hongkong currency must be stated in ALL cases whether the goods are classified by value or not. Other currencies are to be converted into local currency at the demand rate of the day on which the application is made. \n\n**Note**-Value in Hongkong currency must be stated in ALL cases whether the goode are classified by value or not. Other currencies are to be converted into local currency at the demand rate of the day on which the application is made,",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## 5/382\n### 51382 Reco 4 SEP !\n\nSevern.  \n1919  \n11th July.  \nConf.  \nLast previous Paper.  \nGov. 40483.\n\n**Increase of pensions to retired officers.**\n\nIn his conf. dcp. 30th May, he has recommended that all existing pensions should be increased by 25 per cent.  \nRequests decision by H.E.\n\nPutty.  \nCic. dugh god kay.\n\nTo Mr. Paterson: Will you please send this to Bea. Dept. with the prev. pp. showing that the O.A.G.'s proposal was not accepted, and that he was informed by tel. We are giving a temporary increase of very small pensions, pending consn of question.\n\nThe paper you sent me with the cundle by the new Gov. (I received it this morning or yesterday).\n\nA.E.C.  \n5.9\n\nNext subsequent Paper.  \nGov. 66873.\n\nThis must wait for the recommendations which For E. Shells is to make after his arrival in H.K.\n\nGov. 40483.\n\n| Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (24422-4 b.) Wt. 14140-22 | 25,000. 8/19. D&S. G. 122/41 |\n\nJa: 10/940  \nWiday from 8h. 2.\n\nThey are linapl.  \n35",
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        "content_text": "VOL. \n\n(U69971) W:177214/48 2,000 12/32 AJ, RELIN Gp 113\n\nFROM \n\nDATE \n\n1920\n\n5\n\n2\n\nFROM \n\nDATE \n\nLiman Agents 20 Aug. u. 17.\n\nForeign Office\n\n24\n\n13/\n\nSUBJECT\n\nAug. u. 17. Lefever to instatement\n\nMaintenance of D. Livesey\n\n6. J. Cenpont pension of\nGave\n\nof Sir P. T. Liggett - pension\n\nbash of messing Go & party on N.th. \"Fame\"\n\n2 Bep. P. Geart. Med. Kaam\n\n123\n\nW. A. Lefever\n\n6 Oct. W. J. Harron\n\nF #\n\n22\n\n29 \"\n\n#\n\n9 For\n\n110\n\n10\n\n*\n\nVacancy for Asat. Lang. P.W.D.\n\nPrison Wanders\n\nW. J. Harron\n\nIncrease of WW. & D. Pensions\n\nPensions\n\nRe.ignation of P. Brazil\n\nDec. P. Brazil\n\n28 #\n\nW. O. Pensions Pompy, increase\n\n2\n\n3 Jan. Paracels Reefs. Fishing for Shells\n\n\"\n\n13\n\n#\n\n29\n\n#\n\nq\n\n12\n\nShipping & Far East\"\n\nEffects of M. G. Dikemeier Affaris at Macro\n\nImction\n\nJel. Oficium Prints\n\n#\n\nForeign Offrie\n\n24 Feb. Exchan\n\nSUBJECT\n\nIndian Opuim to Macas\n\n34\" Lights for Paracels K. H Mat. Rise for Porc\n\nMação carboni woks\n\nvisit of Governor to Macas\n\n10\n\n#\n\n13\n\n$\n\n116\n\n+\n\n14\n\nM\n\nChinese falan:! \n\nPalestine\n\n19\n\n23\n\n*\n\n#\n\n26\n\n$\n\nsaracels /s.\n\nOferim & Kindred drugs\n\nFort Harbour Dues at Maula\n\nVisit of King of Birm\n\nAnnexation of Paracels 13. to Japan-\n\n2y+Cemigrants for Franch takati 8 Off. Paracels 1o. & Reefs\n\n1/2\n\n\"\n\nb\n\ns\n\nPriction at Macao\n\nGorman brand, empla, as returning to barton\n\nCapt. Jacob Bensive.\n\n5 May fighting of Porneels Reefs\n\n6\n\n#\n\n!//\n\n&\n\n#\n\n\"Shimer tumer\n\nOperis exports to H.K.\n\ndisit brown trence of Rumanio\n\n唐\n\n#\n\n&\n\nRepatriation of M. J. Le Page\n\n} \n\n#\n\n#\n\n#\n\n#\n\n23\n\n#\n\n+\n\n#\n\nMacao\n\nChina bo's Oi C. position of B.A. Tob. Co.\n\nJapanese expansion to West & South\n\nControl of Opuin & Morphin\n\nRegistration of German Trade Marks & W.K. Paracels Reefs\n\nConditions à Konza\n\n14\n\ny\n\n24/\n\n2\n\n110\n\n//\n\n24\n\n130\n\nMacas Extradition. Andre. 1881\n\nJune Caport Ofisin to Macro\n\n} \n\nسوگو\n\n#\n\n9 Jul.\n\ndisit of King of Siam\n\nChinese activities agst . Brit. Contort\n\nSmuggling\n\nÁmund\n\netc. fr. I'da. to China\n\nPolitical bituation i thira Repatriation Bait. Subs, from traigon textn. 1. D. boast wise have to mode\n\nکم الله\n\nA\n\n100\n\n$\n\n*",
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        "content_text": "70.\n\n1920\n\n3 Jan.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n982.\n\nParacels Reefs.\n\nDear\n\n982\n\n229\n\nRF-\n\nTHE O AN 20\n\nFishing for Trocas shells by Japanese\n\ncopy tel. from Tokio re: Dr. Beckett. & Collen mind it. Si & Fiddes\n\nThe position of these Reefs many ... from the amended Map furth. she. be returned to Far Eastern Bureau.\n\nAdmind H.K. with doubtful like steps\n\nBut be recur.\n\n? Put try.\n\nJeen] any ext subsequent Paper,\n\n70\n\n1919\n\nThe reefs, which are ... Been ... Ashally\n\n18: 6.1.20.\n\nTo man's Land live close to the coast from it.\n\n15847/20\n\nto Store. The want place in which\n\nWH Parade interested in\n\nThe Salt Cay the group (not shown fast mah! about lat. 10-11\n\nCong 114 F.\n\nTo action plan\n\nfar ... offerent to the necessary\n\n|(28060-1 h) W. 26689-35 60,000 11/19 II. St. G. 1207 41.",
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        "content_text": "But \n\nA \n\nfunt Wilson she su \n\nand. \n\nI might send copy th \n\nRagment MN-2.8). \n\ndour \n\n6/14/20 \n\nAre \n\n7.1 \n\nG.G.7.1.10 \n\n10/1/20 \n\nIn any further communich, \n\nH on this subject, please quoda \n\nNo. \n\n167116/2 \n\nFi-l address- \n\n{ \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, \n\nForeign Office, \n\nLondon, 8.W, 1. \n\nC.O \n\n982 \n\nNE \n\n(REL 6 JAN 201 \n\n230 \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \n\ncompliments to the Under-Secretary of State \n\n+ \n\n1 \n\nfor Colomis \n\nhis \n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \n\ntransmits herewith \n\nCopy \n\nof the under-mentioned paper.} \n\nGen! Wilson \n\n#310/1/20 \n\nPeen. \n\n121.10. \n\n8. #6 \n\nForeign Office, \n\nJam \n\nLetter \n\n3291920 \n\nto from \n\nReference to previous correspondence : \n\n  \n    Foreign Office:\n    Name and Date.\n    Description of Enclosure.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    \n    Jelegram from Jokio\n    \n    N0519 Dec 28 Jocas Shells on Paracels Reefs\n  \n  \n    Similar letter sent to:-\n    13-F.O.P.\n    100 12 | 19 (1880)\n    \n  \n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the instructions:\n\n1. The initial output was already in HTML format using `` for paragraphs.\n2. The table was identified and formatted correctly using Markdown table syntax initially, but it was requested to output only in HTML. Thus, the table is now correctly represented in HTML.\n\nThe corrected and final output remains largely the same, with the main adjustment being the conversion of the table to HTML format as per the instructions.\n\nHere is the output with minor adjustments for better readability and adherence to the instructions:\n\nBut\n\nA funt Wilson she su\n\nand.\n\nI might send copy th\n\nRagment MN-2.8).\n\ndour\n\n6/14/20\n\nAre\n\n7.1\n\nG.G.7.1.10\n\n10/1/20\n\nIn any further communich,\n\nH on this subject, please quoda\n\nNo.\n\n167116/2\n\nFi-l address-\n\n{\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon, 8.W, 1.\n\nC.O\n\n982\n\nNE\n\n(REL 6 JAN 201\n\n230\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents\n\ncompliments to the Under-Secretary of State\n\n+\n\n1\n\nfor Colomis\n\nhis\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith\n\nCopy\n\nof the under-mentioned paper.}\n\nGen! Wilson\n\n#310/1/20\n\nPeen.\n\n121.10.\n\n8. #6\n\nForeign Office,\n\nJam\n\nLetter\n\n3291920\n\nto from\n\nReference to previous correspondence :\n\n  \n    Foreign Office:\n    Name and Date.\n    Description of Enclosure.\n    Subject.\n  \n  \n    \n    Jelegram from Jokio\n    \n    N0519 Dec 28 Jocas Shells on Paracels Reefs\n  \n  \n    Similar letter sent to:-\n    13-F.O.P.\n    100 12 | 19 (1880)\n    \n  \n\nThis output follows the instructions to use HTML for formatting, corrects spacing issues, and properly formats the table in HTML.",
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        "content_text": "TELEGRAM\n\nMr. Alston (Tokio)\n\nNo.519.\n\nC.0\n\n982\n\nFILES ONLY\n\n231\n\nRE\n\nREC & AN 20\n\nDecember 28th, 1919\n\nD. 11.5 a.m. December 28th, 1919\n\nR. 10.0 a.m. January 2nd, 1920.\n\nReport has been received from His Majesty's Consul at Tamsui that Japanese vessels were being fitted out in (?Formosa) on December 19th to fish for Trocas shells on Paracel Reefs, and (?Press) (?rumours) that Islands are to be annexed being unowned.\n\nRepeat to Hong Kong for communication to Admiral.",
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        "content_text": "60043\n\nJAPANESE ACTIVITIES IN THE PARACELS\n\n327\n\nChina station.\n\nThe historical summary in it may possibly prove of interest to you.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nAccording to a report from the British Consul at Tamsui, steps were in progress on 19th December 1919 to fit out Japanese vessels in Formosa to fish for trocas shells in the Paracels. Further, it was reported in the press that the islands have no definite owner and would be annexed by Japan. Information to this effect was forwarded by the British Minister in Tokyo to the Commander-in-Chief, China Station via Hong Kong.\n\nThe following historical summary has been prepared by the Hydrographer, and is circulated for information:\n\nThe date of the first discovery of this group of islets and rocks by Europeans is uncertain, but from their situation it appears probable that they were fallen in with by the Portuguese voyagers who reached Canton in the early part of the 16th Century, and that they were already known to the Chinese at this date.\n\nThe name \"Paracel\" is probably a corruption of \"Parcel\", a Portuguese word meaning a hidden rock or shoal. The Chinese name for the group is the Ts'ihchow (Seven Islets) group.\n\nThe name is given as \"Farcels\" on Colom's chart of 1669 published at Amsterdam. The group has been repeatedly surveyed (merely as constituting a danger to navigation) by Captains Ross and Maughan, of the Indian Marine in 1808, by H.M.S. 'Rifleman' in 1865, and by the German men-of-war 'Freya' and 'Iltis' in 1881-83. So far as can be traced, however, none of these surveyors took formal possession of the group, which seems to have been regarded at that time as a dependency of Annam, being frequented by Cochin-Chinese for purposes of fishing etc. Formal possession does not appear to have been taken of the Paracels by any nation until Sunday, June 6th, 1909, on which date the Chinese ensign was hoisted on Duncan Island by Admiral Li Tsun of the Imperial Chinese Navy, with the Gunboats \"Fupao\" and \"Chinhao\". This action on the part of the Chinese Government was probably the outcome of their discovery earlier in the year that the Pratas group, about 360 miles N.E. of the Paracels, was being worked for guano by a Japanese Company, whom they dislodged on the ground that the group was Chinese territory.\n\nOn February 2nd, 1920, the British Minister in Peking was instructed that China should be encouraged to exert her sovereignty over the islands.\n\nIt is considered that although the Paracels seem unlikely to be of great value in the event of war, it is undesirable that Japan, under the cloak of commercial enterprise, should further extend her influence to the Southward by annexing a group of islands on the route between Hong Kong and Singapore.",
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        "content_text": "## \nco - $147. \nThe \nRet 29 AN 20 \nTemplom \nthe Sea of Stalin fol. \nA \nshells pa \n8 \n1920. \nbe \n8.10.180-45 \n\nReconstructed text:\nco - $147.\nThe Ret 29 AN 20 Templom the Sea of Stalin fol. A shells pa 8 1920. be 8.10.180-45",
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        "content_text": "# QUESTIONS ON OYSTERS\n\n1. Are there any oyster beds in British waters?\n2. Are the oysters grown in Deep Bay used for human consumption or for fertilizing purposes?\n3. Are pearls ever found therein?\n4. How are the oysters fed?\n5. Are they used all the year round or do they take them at certain seasons?\n6. How are the beds formed?\n7. Do they require any special supervision, if so what number of men?\n8. To what size do they run (the oyster beds)?\n9. Is there anything peculiar to the soil in Deep Bay which makes it possible to cultivate oysters there?\n10. Are they subject to any disease?\n11. To whom do the beds belong i.e. local Chinese or Canton Government?\n12. Who is the best Chinese authority (local) on the subject?\n\n## REPLIES ON OYSTERS\n\n1. The answer is in the affirmative.\n2. The flesh of the oysters grown in Deep Bay is for human consumption, while the shells, after being burnt into ashes, can be used for fertilizing purposes as well as material for building houses.\n3. The answer is in the negative.\n4. No food any other than natural is required.\n5. There is no particular season for taking oysters. They are taken if found sufficiently large in size.\n6. \n7. A number of men is required periodically to supervise the oyster beds. If a storm happened and the oysters are found to have been blown up from their beds, men are required to look after them and put them in position again.\n8. They run in different sizes.\n9. The reasons why Deep Bay is suitable for the cultivation of oysters are:-\n   (1). There are flows of salt water and fresh water.\n   (2). The water is generally calm.\n   (3). The soil is soft and fine.\n10. If the water where there are oyster beds is infected by poison it will be very disastrous for the oysters and many deaths may result.\n11. The beds belong to the people in Deep Bay who have leased them.\n12. \n\n## ECONOMIC RESOURCES COMMITTEE\n\n### REPORT OF HOME AND COTTAGE INDUSTRIES SUB-COMMITTEE\n\nPage 336",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nMany wild poppy plants had been destroyed in the last three months to eradicate every trace of the poppy crops. Many punishments had been inflicted, and any owner who was considered dilatory in uprooting and destroying his crop was punished by confiscation of his land. I visited one large temple, with grounds extending over several acres, which had been so confiscated: the land was marked off into lots, which had been sold or rented by the authorities to various schools and institutions for use as vegetable gardens. Rewards had been offered by the Chinese authorities for any poppy plant discovered in the district; and this had led to many cases of blackmail, chiefly by the soldiery. Rumours had been rife in Tsun-yi as to the scope of the official inspection. One rumour had it that I should make a house-to-house visitation, and should severely punish any person suspected of being an opium smoker. As a result of this rumour, many opium smokers had fled the town a day or two before my arrival. Another, still more ridiculous, rumour stated that Great Britain was arranging a peaceful acquisition of the three provinces of Szechuen, Kueichow, and Yunnan, and I was the pioneer to make the preliminary arrangements for taking over the provinces.\n\nMr. Olesen was on the point of making an extended journey in the north-east of Kueichow province; and I asked him to be good enough to let me know what conditions he found on his travels. He informs me that from Sze-nan to Chen-yuan, conditions were much the same as in the Tsun-yi district—drastic official measures for suppression of the poppy crop and severe punishment of those disobeying the official instructions, the death penalty being inflicted in a few cases.\n\nThe road from Sungkan to Tsun-yi had been one continuous triumphal procession. Every village and town was decorated with flags, and triumphal arches of bamboo and evergreen were erected in the streets of the larger towns.\n\nI was clearly on the expected route. I had, however, satisfied myself that no flowering poppy had been seen, as stated in Chungking, and I decided to turn my road towards the west. It was fairly clear that the Chinese expected me to visit the capital of the province, and that the country on the way thereto would be thoroughly cleared of any poppy in anticipation of my visit. On the evening before our departure from Tsun-yi, therefore, I signified to the Chinese delegates my intention of proceeding westwards. The delegates at once came to see me, objecting to my proposal, and saying that the westerly roads were bad and dangerous, and that part of the country was infested with brigands, and that there were no villages large enough to accommodate our party at night. I brushed aside these objections. Where there was a path, we could go; where there were brigands, we had our brave escort; where there was even a small village, we would make the best of whatever accommodation there was. Mr. Shen then fell back on his \"face\"; how would he have any \"face\" if it became known to the Governor that he had permitted the British delegate to suffer such hardships and inconveniences in the province of Kueichow! I told him that \"face\" need not be considered where duty, however irksome, is concerned. Finally, seeing I was not to be persuaded, he mentioned that the Governor of Kueichow had made lavish preparations for my reception at Kweiyang, and was expecting me to arrive there in a few days, and that the Governor would hold him responsible for conducting me thither. I told him that in that case, I would myself write to the Governor and explain matters, which I eventually did, when I arrived at Anshun.\n\nMr. Shen now presented me with a map, requesting that I would mark off my route through Kueichow, so as to enable him to warn the various local officials to make suitable preparations to receive me. I told him that I regretted being unable to do so, as I myself did not yet know my route beyond two or three days' journey. I assured Mr. Shen that I was quite prepared to take the roads or paths and the accommodation just as I found them, and that he need not disturb his mind on those scores.\n\nFrom Tsun-yi to Ch'ien-hsi (98 miles), the country becomes rough and mountainous, the general elevation at Ch'ien-hsi being over 4,000 feet above sea-level. Hills are very rugged and steep, and the area is generally less cultivable than in the Tsun-yi district. As a natural result, the population is scantier and more dispersed; quite a large proportion of the inhabitants in the Ch'ien-hsi district are aborigines of the Miao tribes.\n\nI found very much the same conditions with regard to crops as I had found between Sungkan and Tsun-yi: beans, rape, and peas, with several suspiciously cropless fields. The best Kueichow opium was that from the Ch'ien-hsi district, and Sir Alexander Hosie, in his journey across Kueichow province some years ago, observed a considerable number of fields of opium poppy in flower in the Ch'ien-hsi neighbourhood. But all had been swept clean this year.\n\n63\n\nAt Ch'ien-hsi, where I arrived on the 15th April, I met the priest Père Fortunat. He was able definitely to explode the Chungking story regarding poppy flowers in Kueichow, for he himself had accompanied Père Grimard to Chungking on the journey which had given rise to the Chungking statement. Père Fortunat told me that in January, they had seen very many fields of young opium poppy plants, but none were in flower. Similar stern measures to those in other parts of the province with regard to suppression of opium poppy had been taken in the Chien-hsi district; but had there been no suppression, the 1917 spring crop of opium poppy in the Ch'ien-hsi district would have been a record one, according to Père Fortunat. The steps taken to eradicate the poppy crops were very thorough. After the crops had been uprooted and destroyed, the fields were ploughed and ploughed and ploughed again, so that no trace should remain which the official inspection might reveal. I understand that the Chinese Government had promised the death penalty to any magistrate in whose jurisdiction the official inspection should discover a single poppy plant.\n\nAs a result of the destruction of the Kueichow crop, Kuangsi opium was finding its way into Kueichow, and was selling at the high price of 3 taels (ounces) of silver per oz.\n\nPère Fortunat told me that many of the Ch'ien-hsi officials are regular opium smokers.\n\nPère Fortunat has been nine years in the province of Kueichow.\n\nHe told me that in his experience, the end of April or the beginning of May is the usual time for the flowering of opium poppy in the greater part of the province, i.e., in the highland plateau; and the middle of April for the few districts which are lower and therefore warmer; such districts are in the north-west and south-west corners of the province. The Chinese delegates evidently expected that I should proceed from Ch'ien-hsi still westwards to Pi-chieh and Ta-ting, and I was informed that deputies had arrived from the Taoyin of Pi-chieh and the magistrate of Ta-ting to welcome me, and to inform me that the Taoyin and the magistrate would meet me on the road on the following day. I had decided to change the route southwards, so I expressed my regrets to the deputies accordingly. My declaration as to route brought Mr. Shen to my quarters in a hurry. There was no proper road in the direction I proposed to go: there was an enormous lake to be crossed, and there were no boats; brigands were numerous, the Ch'ien-hsi magistrate had himself had a serious encounter with a body of them on the previous day; and, finally, Mr. Shen himself was not feeling well, and the hardships of such a route would be too much for him. I expressed suitable regrets for all these little difficulties, but announced my intention of at least starting on the route I had prescribed.\n\nMr. Shen's forebodings were partly correct; there was nothing that could be reasonably called a road over most of the 30 miles which separated us from my objective—a town called Ch'a-tien. The enormous lake turned out to be a tributary of the river Wu; we scrambled over it with the aid of two or three small cockle-shells of boats. But it was one of the hardest day's marches of the whole trip. Heavy rain did not improve matters much. Our last 7 miles were taken over very rough hilly country in pitch darkness and pouring rain, and I was glad to squeeze into the shelter of a very inferior temple at Ch'a-tien.\n\nFrom Ch'ien-hsi to Anshun (107 miles), the country was very rough and hilly. The interior of Kueichow is a highland of an average of 4,000 feet in altitude, with myriads of conical hills 1,000 to 2,000 feet in height, covering the highland plateau. It is through, round, and over these hills that the roads and the path tracks go.\n\nOn the road between Ch'ien-hsi and Anshun, I saw many fields bearing signs of the recent removal of crops; in some fields of mixed crops, rape and barley intermingled; there were occasional signs that a third plant had originally been sown with rape and barley, but that it had recently been uprooted and removed. In the neighbourhood of Hsiung-chia-chang, such signs were frequent, and in one or two places in the hills, I observed still smouldering fires which had been used to destroy vegetable matter, and I could not but suspect that the vegetable matter had been young poppy plants, in their vegetable existence.\n\nAt Anshun, I met Dr. Fish, of the China Inland Mission, who is in charge of a special hospital for the aboriginal tribe which is particularly numerous in the neighbourhood of Anshun. Dr. Fish was of the opinion that in the immediate vicinity of Anshun city, there were no opium-poppy fields in plant, if indeed any at all had been sown, and this was borne out by my own observation. The crops round Anshun were legitimate enough, and there was an absence of the suspicious gaps in the fields which I had observed further back on the road. This may have been due to the...",
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        "content_text": "## Clar.\n\n**IMP**\n\n594 people of his own province without being answerable to the Central Government which will have no powers beyond dealing with international questions and controlling the army for national defence.\n\n5.\n\n## TRANSFER OF PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE, 20, 203272 AT A\n\nto have rendered services by the Kwangsi, Kwangtung Properties have been seized and confiscated at random. Among those, whose properties have been seized and confiscated, there is one British subject named Tam Lai-ling. He might have been guilty of many wrongful acts, but there is no denying the fact that Tam is entitled to British protection, and that therefore the dignity of the British flag must be maintained.\n\nThe case has been taken up by His Britannic Majesty's Consul General and Chan Fwing-ming has been advised by me that the sooner he releases Tam's property, the better he will be able to keep Great Britain's friendship.\n\n## THE ARSENAL\n\nLarge quantities of arms and ammunition are being turned out every day. They consist of rifles, machine-guns, shells, cartridges, and smokeless powder. Guns can be manufactured owing to want of steel for certain tools having been removed by the hongsai men before they quitted the Province. Several American engineers and foremen, together with several American-trained Chinese, are superintending the work. Mr. Chan Chik-yue's son is the officer in charge of the arsenal.\n\nI told General Chan that his plans were against the wishes of the people. In theory, they may be alright, but in practice they do not hold water. With 70% of the population in every district who cannot read nor write, it is impossible to expect the people to be able to understand a form of Government which appears to be a mixture of English, French, American, and Russian methods of Government.\n\n7. ## CIVIL GOVERNMENT\n\nIf he really wishes to share the responsibility with him, I must have the Government so organised as to suit the requirements of the people, which would be somewhat after the form of the Government of Hongkong. Altogether I talked things over with him for three hours, but no definite arrangement...",
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        "content_text": "STOCK \n\n(London) Now $1 Hongkong & Shanghai... {f} \n\n900 214) Chartered Bank of I., A. & C..... INSURANCES:-- \n\n£76% \n\n\"\" \n\n99 \n\n\"\" \n\nShell T'sport & Tdg. Co... \n\n91 \n\n\"\" \n\nMINING -- \n\n4th. \n\n10th. \n\nOriental Con. Min. Co., Ld. Chinese Eng. & Min, Co., Id. \"B\" T19 \n\nMarch \n\nCath April. \n\nKaub Aus, Gold Min. Co,, Ld. \n\nOash Mar. \n\nI. AN DB:- \n\n328 \n\n· SHANGHAI SHARE MARKET. \n\nMessrs. J. P. Bisset & Co., in their share re- port for the week ending 10th, March, 1922, states:-Business has continued dull on the local Share market during the past week with little more than a moderate demand for the good Investment Stocks doing. A lack of confidence in Cottons is noticeable as a result of the poor final dividend declared by the Oriental C. S. & W. Co., Ltd., and quota- tions for all Cottons have since fallen in sympathy, more especially in Orientals, which have slumped to Tls. 10. The London Market shows slight fluctuations only, and the following are our latest cabled prices:-- Chi. Engs. & Minings. \"B.\" £ 3. 11. 3. (sellers) Chi. Govt. 5%, Reorg. Loan, 1913- \n\n31 \n\nBritish Issue. French German S'hai. Electrics \n\n52 \n\n£69 £66 £16. 17. 6. (buyers) Sterling Quotation. The opening T.T. Rate on London to-day is 3/14 (official). \n\nFollowing is the official business record. ed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange :- \n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS \n\nSHANGHAI \n\nBANKS :- \n\nSHARE \n\nQUOTATIONS. \n\n10th. March, 1922. \n\nbusiness \n\ndone \n\nBuyers \n\nLast \n\nSellere \n\nPaid up \n\nUnion In, Society of O'ton, Ld... H $240 North-China In. Co., Ld. Yangtsze In. Asson., Ld.. \n\nFar Eastern In. Co., Ld. \n\nCanton In. Office \n\nHongkong Fire In. Co., Ld. China Fire In. Co., Ld. Assurance Franco-Asiatique SHIPPING:- \n\nIndo-China 8. N. Co., Ld,. {' \n\nF600 \n\nS'hai Tug & Lighter Co... DOCKS AND WHARVES:- \n\nPhai Dock & Eng. Co, Ld. H'kong &W'pao Dock b., Ld...H $170 New Eng. & Shipbuild. ( ord. T& \n\nཙྩོ ཙྪཾ \n\ning Works.................. (§% pref. T4.80 S'hai & H'kew Wharf Co., Ld. T152 H'kong & K'loon W. & G. Co., Ld. H98) 88xd, \n\n[ March 25th, 1922. \n\nHONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS. \n\nHONGKONG, 24th. March, 1922. \n\nSTOCK \n\nMarine Insurances.— \n\nPAID UP. \n\nQUOTATIONS \n\n£4 $250, sellers \n\n46 Tls. 144 \n\n$10 $25 \n\n$100 442, buyers Tls, 20 Tls. \n\n$50 1370, buy. $20 $125, buyers \n\n$15 $254, Buyers \n\n$38, buyers \n\n$270 \n\n$50 $40, buyers \n\n21 92/6 [35), salos \n\nBanks.- \n\n£95 \n\n$126 \n\n875 \n\nHongkong & S’hais. \n\n$126 1880, buyers \n\n$126 \n\n£15 \n\n£6 \n\n£4 \n\nT144 \n\n£5 \n\nUnions \n\n8244 \n\n24 \n\n810 \n\nT22}] \n\nT20 \n\nNorth Chinas \n\nH $440 486 \n\n8100 \n\nYangtszes. \n\n$3694 \n\n850 \n\nCantona \n\nH$180 125 \n\n$20 \n\nF600 \n\nFar Easterns......................... \n\nF126 \n\nF125 \n\npref. def. \n\nH$40 \n\n36 \n\n25 \n\nFire Insurances.— \n\nH $260 \n\n£5 \n\nford. 1883 pref. T87 \n\nford. \"B\" 957. \n\npref. \n\n98/9 \n\n£1 \n\n£10 \n\n42 \n\nT25 \n\nHongkong Fires .... China Fires 40 \n\nT50 \n\nT107 \n\n106 \n\nT100 \n\n3hipping.- \n\n166 \n\n$50 \n\nTO \n\nT6 \n\nT100 \n\n$50 \n\n12/- \n\n11/- \n\n18/9 \n\nG. $10 \n\n22 \n\n£1 \n\nCanton Steamboats Indo-Chinas, I ref... \n\nDo., Def. Douglas S.S. Co. \n\n45 \n\n* \n\nLondon \n\n67/6 \n\n72/6 \n\nH $1 \n\n£1 \n\ntar Ferry Co...... \n\n.........ord. \n\nShells....... \n\n$10 $364, buyers \n\nS'hai. Lands \n\nMISCELLANEOUS \n\nS'hai. Hotels, Ld. ... $ \n\nNew Engs....(pref.)Tls. \n\nS'hai. Elecs., \"B \n\nS'hai Land Invest. Co., Ld.. H'kong Land Invest. & Ag. Co.H $204 Humphrey's Est. & Fin. Co. ..H. Weihaiwel L. & B. Co., Ld. ... ... ... ... ... Anglo-French Land Invest. Co... The Shanghai Hotels, Ld...ord. \n\nT89 \n\n89 \n\nT60 \n\n203 \n\n$100 \n\nRefineries. \n\n$11 \n\n10.60 \n\n$10 \n\nT6 \n\nT20 \n\nT87 \n\n88, \n\nT100 \n\nChina Sugars \n\n#67! \n\n$7} \n\nMalabon Sugars \n\n$100 $135 \n\nP80 $45, sellers \n\nPLANTATIONS :— \n\n57 \n\n45 \n\n22 \n\n+ \n\n89 102 \n\nCOTTONS \n\nEwos \n\nOrientals \n\n>> \n\n16.60 \n\nラ \n\n: \n\nDEBENTURES \n\nS.M.C. 5% 1915 D. \n\nAlma Estates, Ld....... New Amberst Rubber Est., Ld. Anglo-Dutch (Java) P'ations, Ld. Anglo-Java Estates, Ld. Ayer Tawah Rubber Co., Ld.....] látu Anam (Johore) Rub. Est.. 1 ukit Toh Alang Rub. Est., Ld.. Eute Plantations (1913), Ld. Chemor United Rub, Co., Ld. Chempedak Rub. & G'bier Est... T Cheng Rubber Estates, Id, Consolidated Rub. Est. (1914), Ld. Pominion Rubber Co., Ld, ..... Gula Kalumpong Rub. Est., I.d... T4 Java Consolidated Rub. Co., Ld.. Kapala Islands Estates, Ld. Kapayang Rub. Est., Co., Id. Karan Rubber Estate Co., Ld Kotah Bahrce Rub. Est., Ld. Kroewoek Java P’ations, Id, Padang Rubber Estates Ld. . \n\nT24 \n\n3 \n\nT9 \n\n10.15 \n\nTI \n\nMining.- \n\nT \n\n1 \n\n10/- \n\nT4 \n\n10%. \n\nT113 | 113 \n\nT10 \n\nTronobs... \n\nTO.36 T1 T0.40 \n\nT1 \n\nUral ('aspians \n\n21 12/6 \n\nT6 \n\nRaubs... \n\nT1 \n\n£1 24/- \n\n41 $1.00, buyers \n\nTO.35 \n\nKailans \n\nTO.90 \n\n21 67/- \n\n£1 \n\nT1 \n\nT5 \n\nDocks, Wharves and \n\nT1 \n\nTO.76 \n\nTĐ.80 \n\nT1 \n\nGodowno.- \n\n4 \n\n£1 \n\nᎢᏳ \n\n£1 \n\nH. & W. Dook Co. \n\n$50 $155, sales \n\nT0.2 \n\nTI \n\nT6 T3 \n\nT10 \n\nKowloon Wharf Co. \n\nT10 \n\nNew Eng. & S. B.W. \n\nT0.00 | 0.15 \n\nT1 \n\nT5 \n\n£1 \n\nT3 \n\n24 \n\nT10 \n\n\" \n\n६.० \n\nPengkalan Durian Est., Ld. \n\nTI \n\nTI \n\nIermata Rubber Est., Ld. \n\nTI \n\nT5 \n\nKepah Rubber Est., Ld. \n\nTo.28 \n\nT1 \n\nSamagaga Rubber Co., Ld.. \n\nToan \n\nTI \n\nSee Kee Rubber Est. (1918), Lat....... \n\n10.60 \n\nT1 \n\nemambu Rubber Est., Ld. Senawang Rub. Est., ford, \n\n10.80 \n\nT \n\nTUỔI \n\nΤΙ \n\nShanghai Docks \n\n... \n\n$50 $94, buy. \n\nTls. 100 Tls. 108, sellers \n\nShai. & HongkewW. Tls. 100 Tls. 150′ \n\nLands, Hotels and \n\nbuildinge. \n\nBongkong Lands.. \n\nTls. 5 \n\n18.71 \n\n$100 $211, sales \n\n(1921) L.d. \n\n...12% C. p. \n\nT1 \n\nCentral Estates \n\n• \n\nS'hai Kedah Plantations, Id....... S'hai Klebang Rub. Est., Ld... \n\nTi \n\nTI \n\nHi. L.Reclamations \n\nTO.86 \n\nKowloon Lands \n\n+ \n\nEXCHANGE. \n\nON LONDON.- \n\n... \n\n.2/53 ...2/5 9/16 \n\nA \n\n:: \n\n** \n\nB \n\nHongkong 24th March, 1927. \n\nTelegraphic Transfer \n\nBank Bills, on demand \n\nBank Bills, at 30 days sight \n\nBank Bills, at 4 months' sight.. 25/4 Credits, at 4 months' sight...8/7 Documentary Bills, 4 months' \n\nsight \n\nON PARIS.-- \n\nBank Bills, on demand... \n\nCredits, 4 months' sight \n\nON NEW YORK.- \n\nBank Bills, on demand... \n\nCredits, at 60 days' sight \n\nQN BOMBAY,- \n\nTelegraphic Transfer \n\nBank Bills, on demand... \n\nOF CALCUTTA. \n\nTelegraphic Transfer \n\nBank Bills, on demand \n\nON SHANGHAI,—— \n\nBank Bills, at sight \n\nPrivate, 30 days' sight \n\nON YOKOHAMA. — Ön demand \n\nS'hai-Malay Rub. Est., Ld. ford. T \n\n8'bai Pahang Rub. Est., Ld. S'hal Seremban Rub. Est., Ld... S'hai-Sumatra Tobacco Co., Id. Sua Manggis Rubber Co., Ld. Sungala Rubber Est., Ld. Sungai Durl Rubber Est., Ld. Taiping Rubber Est., Ld. Tanah Merah Est. (1916), Ld.. Tebong Kub, & Tapioca Est., Id. Ziangbe Rubber Co., Ld. COTONE, ETC. :- \n\nT10 \n\nT10 \n\nWest Points ........ \n\npref \n\nTU.56 \n\nTI \n\nT0.40 T80 \n\nT1 \n\nT20 \n\nTI T0.28 T5 Tu.36 \n\nT5 \n\nTI \n\n4 \n\nT8.50 \n\nT1 \n\nTO.2:| 0.25 \n\nT1 \n\nTƯ.86 \n\nT1 \n\nT1.8 12 \n\n10/- \n\n2/14 \n\nEwo Cotton Mills, Ld.....pret. TICO \n\nord. T16.60 181 \n\nLaou Kung Mow 0. 8. & W. Co... T20 \n\nT10 10 Oriental C. S. Co., Ld. \n\nford \n\nT6 \n\n95 \n\nT100 \n\nT10 \n\nT8 \n\n-- \n\npref. S'hai C. Manufacturing Co., Ed.. T146 140 \n\nT100 \n\nT50 \n\n610 \n\nINDUSTRIAL:- \n\n860 \n\nChina Im, & Ex. Lumber Co., Ld. T860 \n\nT100 \n\nChina Sugar Refining Co., Ld. \n\n150 \n\n$100 \n\n571 \n\nGreen Island Cement Co., Ld. H22 xd.2260 xd. \n\nMaatschappij &c. In Langkat \n\nB'hai. Loan & Investment Co., Ld, 2} } oć \n\n3 \n\n#7} \n\nS'hai Exploration Develop. Co. 2)] F \n\n(c. T. \n\nMajor Brothers, Ld. \n\n6 \n\n(comb. 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        "content_text": "1 c.\n\nCommunications on this subject should be addressed to--\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE.\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1,\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nLetter from the Colonial Office of the\n\nand the following number quoted :-\n\n203 of\n\nExtract from \"Daily Telegraph\" of 20 June 1922.\n\nThe Crown Agents\n\nGentlemen,\n\nDowning Street,\n\n192\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you\n\nfor the Colonies.\n\nDate.\n\nof the papers noted below, on the subject of\n\nI am,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nG. V. FIDDES.\n\nTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH\n\nCHINA'S CIVIL WAR\n\nA ONE-SIDED CABINET.\n\nFrom PERCEVAL LANDON.\n\nPEKIN, Monday. There is still little to indicate in what way the recent activity of Chen-Chiung-Ming in Canton will affect the course of events in China. It may, however, be said with some confidence that an attempt will be made from both sides to bring together the South and the North, though whether this attempt will be directed by patriotism, or by rivalry in each case, is less clear. One thing is certain. The present composition of the Cabinet, which is preponderatingly Chibli, must give way to one more representative of the whole country.\n\nHere a source of possible difficulty lies, and indirectly, the question of recognition by Foreign Powers is raised. Admittedly, the existing régime is irregular, and, if the imminent possibility exists that China will re-unite, it is perhaps wiser to wait before giving the Pekin Government the very great advantages which full recognition implies - advantages which the South is sure to resent as making them at this crisis come hat in hand, to those with whom they have every right to treat as equals. A meeting of the heads of Missions will be held to-day, and, probably, a recent communication from Li-Yuan-Hung will be acknowledged without immediate action being taken, though the new President can at least make as good a claim to de facto recognition as his predecessor.\n\nTRUCE AT CANTON.\n\nHONG KONG, Sunday. Four gunboats and one torpedo-boat, supporting Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen, steamed up river yesterday afternoon. Soldiers of General Chen-Chung-Ming's troops at Canton fired on the gunboats, whereupon the gunboats returned their fire, using machine-guns and shelling Whitecloud Hills, where Chen Chung-Ming's troops were stationed. It is not possible to ascertain the result of the shelling. Shells were also dropped on Honam Island, where the damage done was inconsiderable and the casualties inflicted were very few. The exodus from Canton to Hong Kong continues on a very heavy scale.\n\nA truce has been agreed to on condition that General Chen-Chiung-Ming's troops do not fire upon Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen's naval forces, and the latter refrain from shelling the city.",
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        "content_text": "instance of the way in which \n\neducation of \n\nof \n\nChinese in \n\na country brings \n\nthat country big orders. \n\nI \n\npaid \n\nDRAFT.\n\nAnd \n\n5. /37735\" from \n\nSi & Grindle's sis.\n\nV. Wellesley Esq C.B.\n\nPerrign Office W. M. Clack Kesi, etc.\n\nD.O.T.\n\nDear Clerk\n\n734 to February\n\nafter life at Canton are still very \n\ndim but\", we hope \n\nthat the Rucher and \n\nHong Kong will be able to avoid \n\nrepetition of serious \n\nThis hands here \n\nWhen in a manner they come to Leveson and his handy \n\nYou may \n\n(Signed)\n\nMINUTE.\n\nYou will perhaps \n\nbe \n\nMr. Fletcher.\n\nSent 30.1.\n\nMr. Davis.\n\nMr. (C)lims 31\n\nMr. Davis.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Read.\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith.\n\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\nDuke of Devonshire.\n\n\"To E. Shells heif, 1918-22,\n\nThe interested \n\nattached extract for \n\n4 letter \n\nthat \n\nSir Reginald \n\nhas sent \n\nthe Gov of HK \n\nto Sir J. Masterton Smith.\n\nTo (1) only \n\nthe \n\nYou \n\ndiscussion \n\nWhen \n\nhe was \n\nLast year \n\n(2) only \n\nhad with \n\nThis question \n\nLondon",
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        "content_text": "# 6\n\neach, the uses to which they could be put, &c. It was evident that he possessed a very considerable knowledge of the subject.\n\nThe bridge over the Lo Ho is another pet scheme of his. In ancient times Loyang was famous not only as the capital of China, but for its bridge. This has, however, long since disappeared with the exception of one derelict arch. General Wu evidently took considerable pride in the fact that his name would in future be connected with the new bridge now being completed; it will be finished in the course of two or three months. This bridge is a reinforced concrete structure some 350 yards in length, but on concrete piles buttressed with stonework. I was informed that the greater part of the money for the work was provided by the American Red Cross Famine Relief Fund.\n\nIt is also General Wu's intention to erect a concrete bridge over the I Ho near the famous Lung Men or Dragon's Mouth, some 25 li from Loyang.\n\n## 7. \nThe General is also deeply interested in agriculture and has imported several modern machines and implements from America. He told me that it was his intention to train as many of his men as possible in the science of modern agriculture, and after the reunification of the country and the consequent disbandment of a considerable portion of the existing troops, to send these men to Manchuria and other provinces where land was available, to colonise and develop the country.\n\n## 8. \nIt had been arranged that I should attend a parade of the troops on the following day, but owing to heavy rain this part of the programme had to be cancelled. I was, however, taken round some of the schools, where I heard lectures on various military subjects, e.g., musketry, tactics and the like being given to classes of soldiers. It was somewhat remarkable that the lecturers were sergeants and corporals and not officers.\n\nA great feature is made of teaching all ranks patriotic songs and tunes, and we heard one of these remarkably well sung by a class of some 100-150 N.C.O.s. The singing is in the natural voice, and not in the discordant falsetto usually indulged in by Chinese vocalists.\n\nI was also shown several classes of boys. General Wu is a great believer in training his future officers and soldiers from as early an age as possible. At the present time he has some 600 boys and youths being educated on modern lines; most of them are the sons of soldiers. The general pays for their education, keep, &c., out of his own pocket, the cost working out at some 7 dollars a head per month. It is his intention to gradually increase the number to a total of 3,000.\n\n## 9. \nThe only troops now stationed at Loyang are the IIIrd (National) Division, with which General Wu has been closely connected for many years. They are well and comfortably housed in well-built brick buildings with tiled roofs. The few barrack rooms I was shown were extremely clean and had all reasonable comforts provided for the inmates, e.g., tables, forms, bedding, mugs, plates, &c.\n\nIn this respect they compared very favourably with those occupied by General Feng Yu Hsiang's troops at Nan Yuan Barracks near Peking.\n\n## 10. \nIt is General Wu's custom daily to attend the morning parade, and on the third morning of my visit I accompanied him on his tour of inspection. Owing to the wet and muddy state of the ground the number of troops on parade was small. I was first shown a lien (company) of cavalry at exercise and was not at all impressed by what I saw. The exercise they were indulging in consisted of riding in fours and pairs over two infinitesimally small jumps. This was performed in a very slovenly manner and the riding was extremely indifferent.\n\nFollowing this we were shown a battalion of infantry at gymnastics. The Chinese pay a great deal of attention to this form of exercise, and use all the ordinary apparatus found in a gymnasium at home and in addition some of their own invention. No one who has seen trained Chinese soldiers at gymnastics can fail to be impressed by the extraordinary high level of excellence displayed; in fact, the Chinese appear to be born gymnasts. Every man of the battalion I saw at work was capable of performing the most difficult exercises, many of which require not only skill but a considerable amount of nerve and daring. We were next shown infantry companies at close order drill. As I expected, this also was extremely good, and I think it may be fairly said that at purely parade-ground movements and the handling of arms, good Chinese troops are the equal of any.\n\nWhen it comes to musketry, field training, &c., a very different story has to be told. I was not given the opportunity of seeing any of Wu's troops at training of this kind, but those who have described it as being of an archaic description. There is no doubt that this most important part of a soldier's training appeals very little to the average Chinese officer, the more spectacular parade ground movements and gymnastics being held to be of far greater importance.\n\nI was not shown any artillery on parade, but saw one battery drawn up in the distance. The ponies were the ordinary small Mongolian ponies and I noticed that the majority of them were greys or whites.\n\n## 11. \nCadets.—General Wu has some 700-800 cadets in training at his camp. These are young men of 17 to 20 years of age and come from many of the northern provinces; thus there are no less than 300 from Kansu and contingents from Szechuan, Shensi, Honan, Shantung, Hupei, &c.\n\nThe general was evidently very proud of the part he was taking in training these future officers. He pointed out to me that whereas General Feng Yu Hsiang was working only for his own hand, he (Wu) was working for the good of China, for when their training was completed these cadets would be sent to their own provinces to train and reorganise their own troops.\n\n## 12. \nThat General Wu's influence and power have recently suffered anything in the nature of an eclipse or have in any way declined, I do not believe. During the few days I spent at Loyang there was a constant coming and going of personages of more or less importance.\n\nDr. C. T. Wang was there during most of my visit and on the day I left Li Hou-chi, the recently expelled Military Governor of Fukien, was expected. Other visitors included a representative of Tang Chi Yao, Military Governor of Yunnan and Mr. Carroll, an American, chief engineer of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway.\n\nNeither did the general appear to be short of cash, though I was told the usual story of his troops being in arrears with their pay. There is a considerable amount of building going on in the camp; a very fine three-storied building is being erected as a reception hall and quarters for the general's guests, and also a new private residence. Perhaps the most interesting building is a temple restored at the general's own expense, in which are recorded on wooden tablets the names of all officers and men of the IIIrd Division who have fallen during General Wu's recent campaigns.\n\n## 13. \nI had hoped to visit Kung Hsien Arsenal during my visit, but the general did not respond to my suggestion that I should be allowed to do so. He told me that there was little to see there; the American machinery (see my reports Nos. 6 of the 6th February, 1922, and 9 of the 22nd February, 1922) had not yet been erected, and the only munitions being manufactured were shells for field guns.\n\nThe arsenal itself is situated some 20 li west of Kunghsien station, within a few hundred yards of the railway line, with which it is connected by rail. The buildings are modern brick buildings enclosed by a brick wall, which (from the glimpse I got of it from the train) appeared to extend for some 250 x 200 yards, though this area is by no means covered with buildings.\n\n## 14. \nA few words regarding General Wu himself may be of interest. I have met him on two previous occasions, but only at short interviews. In appearance General Wu is short, slight and of active build. He celebrates his 50th birthday this month. The impression I formed of him previously was confirmed during my recent visit, namely, that he is very quick in coming to a decision, nimble-minded, but at the same time tenacious and determined once he has made up his mind. He is intensely patriotic; indeed, his patriotism leads him on occasions to absurd lengths, as when he remarked to me that \"there was no modern invention which had not in times past had its inception in China.\"\n\nThe general is extremely simple in manner and easily approached. He shows no signs of suffering from \"swollen head.\" He gives his opinion very openly and frankly, and appears anxious to be informed on any subject on which his audience may be better informed than he is. He told me that it had been for a long time past one of his ambitions to visit foreign countries, and that when the reunification of the Country was completed he hoped to make a world's tour as the representative of China.\n\nGeneral Wu is much admired by his followers for his knowledge of the Chinese classics, which he is very fond of quoting and expounding at length. I was on several occasions told of his high literary attainments and of the fact that he has qualified as a B.A. at the early age of 21.\n\nI had been informed \"on good authority\" that General Wu had lately taken to drinking to excess. I can only say that during the time I spent at Loyang I had all meals at the same table as he did and saw no signs of anything of the sort. The only liquid produced was Chinese wine, which proved to be completely innocuous.\n\n[322 1-1]\n\nPage 294",
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        "content_text": "38\n\nKilled.\n\nOccupations.\n\nBullets.\n\nTrampled.\n\nBullets.\n\nSoldiers Labourers\n\nMerchants\n\nStudents\n\nUnknown\n\nPeddlers\n\nProfessor\n\nApprentice Boy scout Postman Seaman Policeman\n\n26\n\n8\n\n56\n\n&\n\n3\n\nWounded.\n\nTotals.\n\nTrampled.\n\nON KO\n\n2\n\n84\n\n5\n\n16\n\n:\n\n11\n\n29\n\n20\n\n4\n\n1\n\n1\n\n39\n\nkeeping. These had been extracted from patients wounded in that affair. From the nature of the wounds, which were not serious, the patients walking into the hospital and returning to their homes afterwards; the condition of the patients; and from a careful examination of the bullets, it is obvious they were mere ricochets. Furthermore, as you know, The Hague Convention does not allow the use of dumdum bullets. Also samples of bullets used by the Shameen forces, I am told, were given to the consuls of neutral nations.\n\nYou are probably also aware that the French gunboat fired blanks, and not shells nor cannon balls. It would therefore also be wise not to refer to such.\n\nI am glad to see from your list that the great majority of those killed and wounded by bullets were not civilians, but soldiers. Judging by those admitted to this hospital, and from your list, very few of the civilians who were in the procession were injured by bullets, most of the civilians so injured being evidently spectators standing along Shakee as the soldiers were passing.\n\nOf course the wounds received by those on both sides of the canal were severe, because of the shortness of the range. You know that our experience in the treating of gunshot wounds has been considerable.\n\nFaithfully yours,\n\nFortune-teller..\n\n52\n\n(or 30 per cent.)\n\n77\n\n1\n\n1\n\n40\n\n(or 45 per cent.) (or 24 per cent.)\n\nKilled or wounded by bullets: total 129, of whom 82 (or 63 per cent.) were soldiers, of the Whampoa army chiefly; occupation unknown, 14, 11 per cent; merchants, 11, 9 per cent.; labourers, 11, 9 per cent.; students, 5, 4 per cent.; peddlers, 4, 3 per cent.; miscellaneous occupations, 3 persons.\n\nFrom the above analysis and from questioning those civilians who were wounded on that occasion and who were brought to this Canton Hospital for treatment, it would appear that it was the military part of the procession that received practically the whole of the attention of the Shameen forces, as large numbers of soldiers were wounded and killed, whereas very few of the civilians in the procession were wounded or killed, although some were trampled by the crowd. wounded seem to have been spectators lining the route as the soldiers passed their Most of the civilians killed and section of Shakee during the fight.\n\nI shall be glad if you will not publish this statement-it has not yet been made public.\n\nJ. OSCAR THOMSON,\n\nChief Surgeon, Canton Hospital.\n\nANNEX IX.\n\nColonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received August 5.)\n\n[F3668/194/10]\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street, August 5, 1925.\n\nI AM directed by Mr. Secretary Amery to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, the accompanying copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, with its enclosures, in regard to the strike in that colony.\n\nI am, &c. (For Under-Secretary of State),\n\nJ. J. PASKIN.\n\nFaithfully yours,\n\nJ. ÓSCAR THOMSON,\n\nChief Surgeon, Canton Hospital.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure.\n\nSir R. H. Stubbs to Mr. Amery.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nDr. J. 0. Thomson to Mr. Lei Ying Lam, Member, Commission of Investigation, Shameen-Shakee Affair of June 23, 1925.\n\nDear Mr. Lei,\n\nCanton Hospital, August 31, 1925.\n\nI AM returning to you herewith the proof sheets of the lists of the Chinese who were killed, wounded or hurt upon the occasion of the Shameen-Shakke affair of the 23rd June, which you asked me terminology. This I have done, and I have made some corrections in the medical to proof-read, especially with reference to the\n\nterms.\n\nYou will also note that I have made some other corrections. For instance, I have crossed out the several references to \"dumdum, or soft-nosed bullets.\" admitted to this hospital were carefully examined by myself and by one at least of the All cases Chinese surgeons.\n\nAll patients that had retained bullets or had fractured bones were X-rayed. The bullets extracted were also carefully examined. After this had been done, on the 25th June I received a letter from Dr. C. C. Wu, who was then Secretary for Foreign Affairs, enquiring as to the nature of the wounds, and whether there was any evidence of \"dumdums\" being used. I replied officially that we had seen no evidence of dumdum bullets being used or of wounds being caused by them. no cause to change our minds.\n\nWe have Several ricochet bullets were borrowed from this hospital by the police department upon their promise to return them to us for safe\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, June 26, 1925.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram of the 26th June, I have the honour to report the course of events in connection with the strike situation.\n\n2. The Shanghai incident, so far as could be seen, was entirely disregarded by the Chinese in the colony. The Cantonese were in any event too busy with their own affairs, as they were about to make a supreme effort to oust the Yunnanese troops from Canton, an effort which was successfully accomplished on the 12th June. Mr. C. C. Wu, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Canton, Mr. Foo Ping-sheung, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, were passing through Hong Kong at the time, on their way from Swatow to Canton, and, with my permission, they were met informally at the house of one of the Chinese members of the Legislative Council by Mr. Tratman, Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Mr. Fletcher, Assistant Colonial Secretary. They professed an attitude of sincere friendship towards Hong Kong, and they appeared to be confident that they would be able to control the situation in Canton. It was suggested to them that the cumulative effect of the assistance already accepted from Russia in the shape of arms, money, Russian officers and Russian-trained cadets would be such that, in the event of a victory over the Yunnanese, the Red element in the Cantonese army might become the master instead of the servant of the Canton Government; but they appeared to be satisfied that such would not be the case. The event has proved otherwise, and for the time being at any rate Communist counsels prevail.\n\n3. The strike which has been organised in Hong Kong is entirely due to these Communist agitators in Canton. They have, of course, taken the Shanghai incident as their pretext, but they have found the Cantonese for the most part entirely\n\n514",
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        "content_text": "It was clear by their actions and vociferations that they were imbued with a spirit of hostility. What actually happened was this:\n\nOn the morning of the 23rd, between 20,000 and 30,000 demonstrators assembled on the East Parade Ground, and, after listening to various speeches, formed a procession. The workmen's guilds came first, then followed the schools, boys and girls. Next came students of the Canton Christian College and some boy scouts. The military section, which brought up the rear, consisted of from 2,000 to 3,000 Red troops under the command of Russian officers. All were fully armed, and many marched with fixed bayonets. At 11 a.m., two motor-cars passed along the front of Shameen (Shakee Street) distributing leaflets of a violently inflammatory character. These leaflets urged the public to rise up and eject the foreigner. By about 2:30 p.m. the long procession had reached the vicinity of the East (French) bridge. The only persons near the West (British) bridge were the British Consul-General, the Senior Naval Officer, the Superintendent of Shameen Police and some Naval Officers and Chinese Police. The first part of the procession, about three-quarters of it, marched along in an orderly manner. In fact, there were no signs of disturbance until the arrival of the armed contingent, which was separated from the procession by a gap of probably 100 yards. The students and boy scouts were very enthusiastic, all waving flags and banners and shouting at the few spectators in Shameen. The soldiers, who were led by mounted officers, halted at a point about 50 yards on the east side of the British bridge; the procession proper had reached and passed the bridge and was out of the angle of subsequent fire. Immediately the soldiers assumed open formation, the procession began to scatter with considerable confusion, and there was a mixture of soldiers and civilians, including for a few minutes some girl students. Suddenly a shot\n\nwas fired on the Chinese side. This was followed by two other shots, and instantly a heavy volley of rifle fire was directed onto Shameen. At the same time, Chinese machine gunners and snipers, who had been placed beforehand in houses along Shakee Street, joined in the shooting. The fire was not returned at once by Shameen, for the Volunteers were not loaded and the Regulars had not received orders to fire. As a matter of fact, no order to fire was ever given. But when the post of regulars nearest the Consul-General and Senior Naval Officer saw that the party was under fire, they replied, and the other posts took up the challenge. There were in all four Lewis gun posts in the British Concession. The fire, as long as it lasted, was directed entirely at the attacking party. The civilians who were hit were too bewildered to realise what was happening and get away. The firing was stopped by the Senior Naval Officer immediately he reached the first post, and at the other posts as soon as he could get his orders to them. Indeed, it was in carrying these orders that Petty Officer Chalmers of the Royal Navy was wounded in both hands. A French gunboat anchored off the French Bund fired a few rounds of blank ammunition. It was obvious that shells were not used: the effect of a shell in crowded Canton city would afford more tangible evidence for the Commissioners to work upon than all the unconvincing depositions they have been able to collect and print. The Chinese snipers on the mainland were very persistent for an hour or more after Shameen had ceased. In corroboration of this account, see the statements, most of them of eye-witnesses, printed as Appendices C to L.\n\nThe Commissioners say nothing about the casualties in Shameen. There were nine. Monsieur Pasquier was killed almost immediately the Chinese began to fire, by a machine-gun bullet which hit him in the head and passed downwards.\n\nPage 485",
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        "content_text": "(42)\n\nAn executive committee of three (as at Moscow), this latter body having absolute power, under Jacob Borodin, the \"Adviser in Chief\" to Red Southern China.\n\nAs an adjunct to this Council of Three the Russians formed a Chinese Strikers' Union, which was empowered to deal with all issues arising out of the anti-British boycott and blockade. It gives orders to the Government officials on all strike matters; it maintains a court of its own which can—and has passed death sentences. Under this Strikers' Union is a force of \"pickets\" composed of 4,000 Chinese of the lowest class, many of them criminals, who are well paid.\n\nA Russian naval officer, Seminoff, is in command of the Red fleet. He was formerly captain of the Russian gunboat Vorovsky (ex-Yaroslava), of the White Sea Fleet.\n\nHis ships maintain the river blockade against Chinese craft attempting to pass into British territory.\n\nAltogether Canton contains about 159 Russian instructors of various kinds in addition to those now attached to the Red army in the field, and Russians of the peasant class who look after and repair arms.\n\nSTREAM OF MUNITIONS.\n\nCommunication between Canton and Vladivostok is now maintained by ships of the Soviet mercantile fleet, which advertises regular sailings in the Canton propaganda newspapers. These steamers bring supplies of all kinds. Although \"Northern\" Chinese warships are supposed to be patrolling the coast, no really effective supervision is maintained. Military equipment has been shipped in large quantities, including field guns, rifles, grenades, shells, and cartridges, and material for the erection of munition plants in Kwangtung.\n\n(43)\n\nThe Chinese watch this steady inflow of Bolshevist munitions and men with extreme uneasiness, but they can do nothing. The Russians no longer even pretend to disguise their activities.\n\nThis parasitic organisation, feeding upon China, has no sympathy with Chinese ideals nor any desire to help her people. Its sole aim is to build up a great Red Soviet which will be the vassal of Moscow and a base for the attack on India.\n\nAPPENDIX Z.\n\nThe following article by Sir Percival Phillips, K.B.E., is reprinted, with special permission, from The Daily Mail of January 6th, 1926.\n\nSHANGHAI, December.\n\nRussian agitators in Great Britain carefully camouflage certain of their principles, particularly those concerning the abolition of God and the establishment of \"free love.\" Here in China they are less afraid of public sentiment.\n\nChinese Bolsheviks educated in the Moscow school of Communism have openly embraced \"free love.\" A characteristic announcement taken from the Hing Kue Pao newspaper lies before me. It states:\n\n1. We, Yang Tze-hua and Sung Chien-loong, beg to announce that from November 18, 1924, we have dissolved our mutual love.\n\n2. We, Jui Taui-fah and Yang Tze-hua, beg to announce further that from November 18 we have formally united in the bond of free love.\n\n510",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 59\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nFrom:  \nDate:  \nTo: The Senior Naval Officer, West River, H.M.S. \"MOTH\" at Canton.\n\n5th September, 1927. No. 115/129/5.\n\nThe Commodore, Hong Kong.\n\n**Subject: OPERATION OF THE WEST RIVER FLOTILLA AGAINST PIRATES OF SAI NAM, TAI PING HU AREA**\n\nThese pirates operate in the narrow waters between Sai Nam, Rattler island, Tai Ping Chau, and Tai Ping Hu. The two important villages of the group are Sai Nam and Tai Ping Hu.\n\n2. In December, 1926, they pirated a steamer in Samshui harbour while the Customs officials were on board and took her to Tai Ping Hu, where they landed the Customs Officers, who were all Chinese, and kept them prisoners until one died and the others paid their ransoms. The cargo they captured is generally sold in the market either at Sam Chau, Tai Ping Hu, or some other river village.\n\n3. In August, 1927, H.M.S. \"ROBIN\" witnessed an attempted piracy in which a native convoy was fired on from Sam Chau Pagoda, Tit Nau Kok, and Ha Lai Chuen. H.M.S. \"ROBIN\" did not interfere until she was fired on from the bund on the south end of Tai Ping Hu, when she replied with a few shells.\n\n4. On September 1st, 1927, S.S. \"KO CHOW\" was pirated in the Ling Yan gorge by pirates (who joined as passengers) and taken to Shek Ki, where more pirates boarded her. She was looted, and the cargo and passengers were landed by boats from Tai Ping Hu, about 100 passengers being taken away for ransom. During the piracy, Mr. Black (the Chief Engineer) was killed.\n\n5.",
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        "content_text": "Translation of despatch from Kwangtung Governor, Chao-Chou Fu to Sir Miles Lampson, Hanking. End December, 1928.\n\n214\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n1.\n\nI have the honour to draw your attention to the case of the S.S. \"Irene\" which constitutes a flagrant instance of disregard of international law and the dictates of humanity.\n\n2.\n\nSufficient time has elapsed for the outstanding facts of the case to come to light and the following statement of the facts may be taken as undisputed.\n\nThe \"Irene\", of some 800 tons, flying the Chinese flag, was proceeding from Shanghai to Amoy with passengers and cargo when she was seized, on the 19th of October 1927, by bandits who had boarded her as passengers. They proceeded to rob the passengers and compelled the officers to alter course to Bias Bay, near Hongkong. The vessel passed several ships without molesting them.\n\nOn the evening of the 20th, while approaching with darkened lights her enforced destination, she was sighted by a British warship, the submarine \"L.23\". His suspicions aroused, the commander of the submarine signaled to the \"Irene\" to stop and played his searchlight on her.\n\nWhen he found that his signals were not heeded, and that a blank shot and warning shots across the bow did not have the desired effect, he fired five or six solid shots and explosive shells into her at approximately 300 yards range.\n\nThe ship was disabled and, fire breaking out, she sank with all her cargo. Of the 258 passengers and crew on board, at least ... were killed or drowned.\n\nHis Excellency Sir Miles Lampson, His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peking.",
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        "content_text": "216\n\nfo.open\n\nwas not a pirate ship, but, at most according to municipal law, a pirated ship. In regarding the bandits as pirates and the \"Irene\" as a pirate ship in the international sense of the word, the British commander was acting illegally.\n\n5. Suspecting that something was amiss with the \"Irene\", the submarine commander was entitled to verify her true character, provided he exercised this right judiciously and took responsibility for the consequences.\n\nTo open fire with solid shots and explosive shells on a ship, small, unarmed and crowded with passengers, must require ample justification for such drastic action to be condoned before the bar of law or of public opinion. An examination of the circumstances shows that, far from such action being justifiable or even excusable, everything pointed to its being entirely unnecessary.\n\nThe British commander should have known from the behaviour of the \"Irene\", and from similar incidents which have occurred in the past, that the object of the bandits was to make away with their booty and land at Bias Bay.\n\nEven if the ship were a pirate ship according to international law, he had only the right to capture the ship and to bring the pirates to trial; he had not the right to destroy the ship and to kill the pirates without trial. The question whether he could have exercised his right without resorting to extreme measures can admit of only one answer.\n\nHe had shone his searchlight on the \"Irene\". Though it was night, he was close to her, as the range was only 300 yards when he opened fire: so that there was no danger of her running away. He knew that the bandits, in order to get ashore, must take to small boats and go a long distance, during which time they would be completely...",
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        "content_text": "225\n\nthat a pirate cannot be captured in territorial waters,\n\nyet on general principles action on such waters should\n\nbe left to the territorial state. The reply to any\n\nsuch contention is, however, that if the territorial\n\nstate notoriously does nothing to interfere with the\n\noperations of pirates it must not complain if other\n\nstates supply its deficiencies.\n\nThe question whether the measures employed by the\n\nsubmarine were disproportionate to their object is more a\n\nquestion of fact than of law. It appears, however, from the naval officer's report that he first of all signalled\n\nto the \"Irene\" to stop, and as she did not do so, first\n\nfired a blank shot and then a live round across her bows, when the ship momentarily stopped but then went on again. He then fired two shots, which struck the ship, but she\n\nstill proceeded at full speed, so he fired three more\n\nshells which finally stopped her. In these circumstances,\n\nand in view of the necessity of stopping the ship before further outrages could be committed on the passengers, I consider it unlikely that the action would be held to be\n\ndisproportionate to the needs of the case.\n\nI am, with great truth and regard,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(for the Secretary of State)\n\n(Sd) GEORGE MOUNG Y",
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        "content_text": "SECRET\n\nFrom.\n\nThe Commander-in-Chief, China Station,\n\n\"HAWKINS\" at Shanghai.\n\nPIRACY OF S. S. \"IRENE\".\n\nDate. 24th November, 1927.\n\nSubject.\n\nTO.\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty,\n\n(copy to:-\n\nThe Rear Admiral Commanding, First Cruiser Squadron. The Commodore, Hong Kong.)\n\nThe following remarks are forwarded with reference to Rear Admiral, Commanding, First Cruiser Squadron's submission No.297/C.05 dated 28th October 1927 to Admiralty, regarding the piracy of the China Merchant's Steam Navigation Company's S. S. \"IRENE\".\n\n2.\n\nI consider that the action taken by H.M. Submarine \"L.4\" in accordance with my instructions, as well as the subsequent steps taken by the Rear Admiral, First Cruiser Squadron, and the Commanding Officers of the ships concerned, reflects great credit on these officers and men.\n\n3.\n\nIt is probable that the full details of the origin of the fire which resulted in the sinking of the \"IRENE\" will never be known.\n\nThere is no doubt in my mind that the shell which hit \"IRENE\" in the counter set fire to her aft, but there is no evidence at present to show that she was burning forward.\n\nI am of the opinion that it is very doubtful if the two shells which hit the engine room set fire to her there. It is quite possible that the pirates were partially responsible for the very quick spread of the fire, as it has been stated that they had threatened to set fire to the ship previously.\n\n4....",
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        "content_text": "19\n\nDrawings.\n\nBorings (Analysis of).\n\nHONG\n\nKONG.\n\nSHING MUN VALLEY WATER SUPPLY.\n\nREQUISITION No. 3621.\n\nSPECIFICATION TO BE OBSERVED IN SUPPLYING, CONSTRUCTING, AND MAINTAINING PIPE LINES, WITH VALVE CHAMBERS, CONNECTING PIPES, SLUICE VALVES, AND ALL ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY PLANT, AND OTHER WORK REQUIRED TO CONNECT ACROSS HONG KONG HARBOUR, THE WATER MAINS IN KOWLOON WITH THE WATER MAINS IN VICTORIA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVEYING WATER FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF THE HARBOUR TO THE SOUTH SIDE.\n\nI.\n\nWILLIAM FAIRLEY, M.Inst.C.E.\n\nDESCRIPTION OF WORKS.\n\nConsulting Engineer.\n\nThe following drawings show the extent of the Contract and the proposed design of the Works :-\n\nHong Kong Harbour (Admiralty Chart).\n\nLongitudinal Sections.\n\nBorings Details.\n\nDrawing No. I.\n\nNo. 2.\n\nSite Plan.\n\nNo. 3.\n\nNo. 4.\n\nCross Sections.\n\nNo. 5.\n\nNo. 6.\n\nNo. 7.\n\nNo. 8.\n\nNo. 9.\n\nNo. 10.\n\nPipe Lines and Shore Connections,\n\nValve Chambers-Pipe details.\n\nValve Chambers-Building details.\n\nGangways connecting to Shore, Details.\n\nThe drawings are based upon particulars received from the Colony and the measurements have been taken by responsible Government Officers. The nature of the Borings (Drawing No. 5), Current Lines (Drawing No. 1), and Sections (Drawings Nos. 3 & 4), are given for the information of the Contractor, but such information is not guaranteed by the Crown Agents in any way, and Contractors must accept the same on their own responsibility.\n\n2. An examination and report on samples of borings received from the Colony has been made by Messrs. Riley, Harbord & Law (Chemists, Westminster), as follows:-\n\n25th May 1925.\n\n\"We have examined the samples taken from the bores in Hong Kong Harbour and find they consist of ordinary inorganic rock material together with a certain amount of marine shells. We kept bores 1 to 10 distinct from II to 15, as they were slightly different in appearance, but from the results of our examination, it seems that the difference is only one of colour. Both samples are very slightly alkaline and are free from any organic matter or other constituent likely to cause more than the average corrosion of sea water on iron.\n\n\"The following are the results of our examination of the two samples :-\n\nBores 1 to 10.Bores II to 15.\nInsoluble residue64.2065.12\nAlumina2'032.72\nOxide of Iron3*494-48\nLime12.7011.76\nMagnesia0.860.86\nSulphuric Anhydride0.380*42\nSulphur as Sulphide0.080.13\nLoss14.6814.98\n99'4099*55\n\n3. A copy of the analysis of the water from a new source of supply has been received from the Colony, as follows:-\n\nTotal Solids::\nAverage composition of Hong Kong Water (Filtered).\nAppearance (in 24 inch tube).Clear and bright.\nColour Lovibond scale---\nYellow2.3\nRedI 0\nBlue0.3\nTotal colour units..3.6\nTotal hardness2-6 Parts per 100,000.\nPermanent hardnessI 5 do.\nTemporary hardness1'0 do.\nFree ammonia0.0014 do.\nAlbumenoid ammonia0.0040 do.\nOxygen absorbed (4 hours at 30°0.031 do.\nNitrates;0'020 do.\nExamination of the total solids-\nChlorides0.700 do.\nSulphates S.O. 30 210 do.\nCarbonates CO. 3Q'450 do.\nNitrates NO. 30'020 do.\nNitrates NO. 2.0.000 do.\nPhosphates PO. 40.920 do.\nAmmonia NH. 40.002 do.\nCalcium Ca.0.190 do.\nMagnesium Mg.0.007 do.\nIron Fe.0.020 do.\nManganese0'000 do.\nAlkalies0.080 do.\nLead0'000 do.\nZinc0'000 do.\nCopper0'000 do.\nTotal2'599 do.\n\n4. Three Naval Anchorages will be crossed by the line of pipe shown on the drawing, but these will be lifted by the Naval Authorities when the pipes are being laid, and again relaid by them, so that the lifting and relaying will not be included in the Contract.\n\n5. The average currents to be expected in the Harbour are shown on the chart, Drawing No. 1, but the currents will vary with the range of tide and prevailing wind.\n\nA diagram showing the range of tides is set out on Drawing No. 2.\n\n6. The site upon which the pipes, valve chambers, and connections are to be constructed, is situated in the Harbour of Hong Kong between Kowloon Sea Wall on the North and Victoria Sea Wall on the South. The Works on the North to terminate behind the Sea Wall, with a connection prepared for joining up to a proposed 24 inch main, and to terminate on the South side, behind the Sea Wall, with a 24 inch pipe ready for connecting up to a proposed new 24 inch main in Victoria.\n\n7. The Contract shall comprise the manufacture of all steel, cast iron, or other pipes, valves and special castings required, to the dimensions hereafter specified, together with all necessary materials, labour, implements, and things necessary in the manufacture, testing, transporting, delivery, construction, and setting to work, including all special plant required for testing on the site both before and after laying in position and connecting up the pipes from the shore; all special floating plant,\n\nPage 198\n\n18\n\n \n197",
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        "content_text": "## Conclusions\n\nThe line passes through a zone of mud and silt about four hundred feet long, varying in thickness from a few inches to two feet. From the four hundred feet mark, the harbour bottom is hard, but varies in composition from fine and coarse sand, to sand and shells, as far as the four thousand five hundred feet mark. From the four thousand five hundred feet mark to the five thousand two hundred feet mark, the bottom is still hard, but with patches of loose coarse sand, while from the five thousand two hundred feet mark to close to the Kowloon Sea Wall, there is mud varying in depth from two feet to a few inches.\n\nA large number of the concrete mooring blocks in the harbour, varying in weight from ninety tons to two or three tons, have also been examined for subsidence.\n\nFrom all the information collected, it would appear that, with the exception of the two mud zones, one on each side of the harbour, the harbour bottom on the line selected is capable of supporting a fairly heavy pipe without more than slight initial subsidence. The hand prickings and examination of mooring blocks also lead one to the conclusion that the crust of the harbour bottom on the proposed line is fairly thick and that after initial subsidence has taken place, there should be little further movement.\n\n## Proposed Scheme\n\nI am of the opinion, therefore, that the following general scheme is feasible, and is sound both from an Engineering and Financial standpoint.\n\nI would propose that either pairs of concrete blocks or composite double blocks of special design be cast and laid on the harbour bottom at distances of about three hundred feet along the proposed line.",
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        "content_text": "36 \n\nAward of the D.S.C. to Lieut.-Commander F.J.C. Halahan, R.N., in connection with an incident at Bias Bay, China, in October, 1927. (submitted by the Admiralty).\n\n# IFMD\n\nAt 2010 on the 20th October, 1927, H.M. Submarine \"L.4\" (Lieutenant F.J.C. Halahan, R.N. (now Lieutenant-Commander) in command), sighted the s.s. \"IRENE\" (China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co.) entering Bias Bay with lights darkened. Suspecting that she was in the hands of pirates, \"L.4\" ordered the vessel to stop. This order was not obeyed and a blank round was fired without result. A shell was fired across the \"IRENE's\" bows, and she then altered course and proceeded at full speed. Two H.E. shells were next fired, which however did not stop her. By this time \"L.4\" was herself under fire from men on the \"IRENE\". The latter continued at full speed and tried to escape, but after skilful manoeuvring the \"L.4\" was able to fire two shells which hit the vessel and slowly brought her to a standstill. By this time, about 2045, the \"IRENE\" was on fire and blazing furiously. The submarine went alongside, after first picking up several men who had jumped overboard. The first man picked up was evidently a pirate, as a clip of pistol ammunition from which two rounds had been used was found on him. \"L.4\" then proceeded to embark passengers and crew. This operation was extremely difficult on account of the considerable swell and the fact that it was not possible to get lines out. Panic had developed among the Chinese on board the steamer, and it was impossible to control them. After ensuring that the ship was cleared as far as the fire would permit, \"L.4\" picked up some more men from the water, and then sent a party on board the \"IRENE\" to anchor her with a view to checking the spread of fire, and preventing her drifting.\n\nIn all, six European officers and 226 Chinese, including 3 pirates, were rescued by the \"L.4\".\n\n## \n\nThe action taken by Lieutenant-Commander Halahan was strictly in accordance with the instructions given to him, and was correct in every detail. The Admiralty consider that great credit is due to him for the courageous manner in which he handled a difficult situation. The rescue of so many persons by an individual submarine is remarkable, particularly in view of the dangerous circumstances in which it was effected.\n\nThe Admiralty consider that Lieutenant-Commander Halahan's services merit special recognition and that the award of the D.S.C. would be in every way the most suitable.\n\nNo other awards are proposed in respect of this incident. Three members of the crew of \"L.4\" have been awarded silver medals and testimonials by the Royal Humane Society for rescuing Chinese from drowning.\n\nAdmiralty.\n\nMay, 1929.",
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        "content_text": "sighted the \"Irene\" showing a faint light aft \nbut no navigation or other lights. \nThe submarine switched on a searchlight and made by Aldis \nlamp a signal to stop instantly. \nThis was not \nobeyed and the submarine fired a blank round. \nThe steamer did not stop and a practice projectile \nwas fired across her bows, whereupon the \"Irene\" \nstopped and altered course to starboard. \nThe submarine took up station astern but about two \nminutes later the \"Irene\" proceeded ahead at full \nsteam and fire was opened upon the submarine \nfrom small arms from her. It being thus obvious \nthat the pirates had no intention of obeying the \nsummons to stop, the submarine then fired one \npractice and one semi-armour-piercing shell into \nthe stern of the \"Irene\", and as she still proceeded \nat full steam and used her helm in an attempt to \nescape, after some minutes three shells, one \nsemi-armour-piercing and two high-explosive, were \nfired at her engine room. The last high \nexplosive shell hit the steam pipe and caused \nthe",
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        "content_text": "manner habitually used at sea, and it was not until she had disregarded three such warnings, one by lamp signal, one by a blank round and one by a practice projectile fired across her bows, and while she was still proceeding ahead at full steam and the pirates on board her had opened fire upon the submarine, that two shells were fired into her stern. As she still proceeded at full steam three shells were finally fired at her engine room, one of which caused her to stop by cutting the steam-pipe. Not a shot was fired from the submarine after the \"Irene\" had stopped, and the entire efforts of the British warships concerned were thereafter devoted to the work of rescue. It is thus apparent that the amount of force used was the minimum necessary to compel the \"Irene\" to stop, and that the Commander of the submarine would have failed in his plain duty if he had not used that amount of force with the object of recovering the",
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        "content_text": "sighted the \"Irene\" showing a faint light aft \nbut no navigation or other lights. The submarine \nswitched on a searchlight and made by Aldis \nlamp a signal to stop instantly. \nThis was not \nobeyed and the submarine fired a blank round. \nThe steamer did not stop and a practice projectile \nwas fired across her bows, whereupon the \"Irene\" \nstopped and altered course to starboard. \nThe \nsubmarine took up station astern but about two \nminutes later the \"Irene\" proceeded ahead at full \nsteam and fire was opened upon the submarine \nfrom small arms from her. \nIt being thus obvious \nthat the pirates had no intention of obeying the \nsummons to stop, the submarine then fired one \npractice and one semi-armour-piercing shell into \nthe stern of the \"Irene\", and as she still proceeded at \nfull steam and used her helm in an attempt to \nescape, after some minutes three shells, one \nsemi-armour-piercing and two high-explosive, were \nfired at her engine room. \nThe last high \nexplosive shell cut the steam pipe and caused \nthe",
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        "content_text": "manner habitually used at sea, and it was not until she had neglected three such summonses, one by lamp signal, one by a blank round and one by a practice projectile fired across her bows, and while she was still proceeding ahead at full steam and the pirates on board her had opened fire upon the submarine, that two shells were fired into her stern. She still proceeded at full steam; three shells were finally fired at her engine room, one of which caused her to stop by cutting the steam-pipe. Not a shot was fired from the submarine after the \"Irene\" had stopped, and the entire efforts of the British warships concerned were thereafter devoted to the work of rescue. It is thus apparent that the amount of force used was the minimum necessary to compel the \"Irene\" to stop, and that the Commander of the submarine would have failed in his plain duty if he had not used that amount of force with the object of recovering the",
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        "title": "CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929",
        "content_text": "# \n\n52747/25 \n\nSee 14 an \n\nirs \n\nita rofazonue be the firing upon and sinking of \n**Irene** of the **Jaina orehunta' stean bavigation** \nthe **S.S.** \nby the British submarine **L 4** in the late afternoon of \nOctober th, 1927 Cuisinistry had the honour on the land \nofiver of the one your to adurens a note to be Your koollunoy \nprotesting and requesting your Government to take steps as \nsoon as possible to meet the various claims made by this \nMinistry. It is greatly regretted that up to the present \ntime, after more than a year, no reply has been received.\n\nThe incident happened at Bias Bay in Chinese \nterritorial waters.\n\nThe British submarine **L 4**, without cir-\ncumstances of no necessity, opened fire on the pirated merchant \nvessel with live shells with the result that she was \ncompletely sunk and as many as 4 Chinese citizens were cruel-\nly done to death. Such action of this kind is not only derogatory \nto Chinese sovereign rights but also cannot be reconciled \nwith principles of Justice and humanity.\n\nThe \nimproper mode of the commander of the submarine and \nfailure to observe international law were completely set forth \nin detail in the note referred to above and it is, therefore, \nunnecessary for me to mention them here.\n\nI now \nhave the honour to invite Your Excellency's",
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        "content_text": "105\n\ncontinued on her way, but, on a practice projectile being fired across her bows, she stopped and altered course to starboard. The Submarine took up station astern, but, about two minutes later the steamer proceeded ahead at full speed. At this time the Submarine was under fire from small arms from the steamer. Two shells (one practice and one semi-armour-piercing) were fired into the steamer's stern, but she still proceeded at full speed and used her helm in an attempt to escape. After some minutes three shells (one semi-armour-piercing and two high explosive) were fired at the steamer's engine room, the last of which cut out the steam pipe and caused the steamer to slow down and eventually stop. Subsequently the steamer was seen to be on fire aft. Thereupon the Submarine came alongside and every effort was made to save both the ship and those on board, six ship's officers and 226 Chinese being rescued. During this operation the Submarine was again under fire from small arms.\n\n5. Under the circumstances above mentioned, it was the duty of the Defendant, as Commander of the said Submarine, to take all necessary steps to capture the pirates and to gain control of the S.S.\"Irene\". In the performance of this duty the Defendant acted in the manner set out in the preceding paragraph and used no more force than was reasonably necessary under the conditions prevailing.\n\n6. The Defendant repeats the statements in paragraph 4 hereof and says if the acts there set out caused the sinking of the S.S.\"Irene\" the said acts were performed by him by the direction of the Crown and as an act of state.\n\n7. The Defendant repeats the statements in paragraph 4 hereof and says that if the S.S.\"Irene\" was sunk as a result of any of the acts there set out or by gun fire as alleged in the Statement of Claim, the acts of the Defendant which caused the sinking of the said steamer - whether by gun fire or otherwise - were performed by the Defendant as an officer of the Royal Navy and",
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        "document_key": "CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931",
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        "title": "CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931",
        "content_text": "78\n\nforeign policy is casual and reckless inviting interference from abroad; when that comes he will surrender everything with a light heart. Yesterday we saw him demeaning himself by asking Japan to delay the evacuation of Tsinan: Today we see him cheerfully submitting to the tyranny of Soviet Russia.\n\nIn all his doings he fawns upon the foreigners in order to strengthen his own position, just as the Manchus did or Yuan Shih-kai. Chiang Kai Shek has wasted his country's substance; he has thrown away hundreds of millions hiring military advisers from the German Imperialist party, buying squadrons of aeroplanes, shells filled with poison gas, all the most new-fangled weapons of destruction, to use them not against the Imperialist invaders of China but to eliminate his own opponents, to massacre his fellow countrymen, to establish the domination of a second Yuan Shih-kai.\n\nPut an end to this Robber or not only is the day of China's doom at hand but her people will have left nowhere even to die in.\n\nOur comrades and follow-countrymen! It is our duty to arise with all speed and to expel Chiang Kai Shek! When he is gone our people need not perish and our country need not be doomed. It is in that hope that we send this telegram.\n\nSigned by Wong Tsing Wai and other members of the second session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-520-7 Public Utility companies- acquisition by foreign groups 4-12-1929 - 26-1-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-520-7 Public Utility companies- acquisition by foreign groups 4-12-1929 - 26-1-1930",
        "content_text": "See of State (through & Sheels) J Iqfree. 816 16.1.30. mis aque with sir silbert. The commercial side is important and I would be glad if there was a feasible way of mating menace. If there are public concerns, is it not possible, in a case as strong as this hangs for an interest wa the local 2004, & acquire food precedent Coy by the purchase of Shares, where the service is an important public one? I pass on the T.P.S. 22.1.39 Suggestion, which is free from the more obvious objections to other methods. There are analogies in the Suez Canal &c.\n\nThe Governor asks for suggestions which might be given in a Confidential despatch (& this one simply procures a formal answer). Any new concessions, and any enlargements of existing ones, might have a model clause inserted. For existing ones, power to take over management in time of emergency might be specifically conferred (including also tramway (?), gas (?) which may exist in the fictive of, or now). [Purchase of a majority of shares is too costly and too risky]\n\nPage 23/1",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Gent 28/2/\n\nMr. Ellis\n\nMr. Veran\n\nMr. E. J. Harding.\n\nMr Strachey\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\n28/2\n\n28/2\n\n1/3\n\nSir G. Grindle. 3/3,\n\nSir C. Davis.\n\nSir S Wilson. Do sheels Ma Dumaba Gore.\n\nEarl of Clarendon.\n\nWali Amery:\n\nSee 11th March\n\nDRAFT.\n\n10/3/50\n\nGD Waley Ey Mr.\n\nTray\n\n72796\n\n3\n\n96/30/HK. 111\n\nfor or Clauson's sig.\n\nUnder the Hong Kong law the\n\nBank may deposit a part of the\n\nreserve in security for its note\n\nissue in coin or bullion in\n\nsuch places outside the Colony with such banks\n\nand on such\n\nconditions as may be\n\napproved by the Governor\n\nin Council.\n\nWe cannot guarantee that it would not suffer a breakage.\n\nDem Wally\n\nThank\n\n12\n\n12 MAR 1938\n\nThe information in\n\nletter of 17th February\n\nabout the\n\nsilver.\n\nThe currency position in\n\nHong Kong\n\nis\n\nrather obscure to us\n\nas we\n\nhave\n\nlacked\n\nthe\n\ndata\n\nfor a\n\nreport.\n\nThe\n\nlegal currency\n\nis\n\nthe Hong Kong\n\ndollar at present\n\nthe Mexican dollar,\n\nthe Hong Kong dollar (now extinct),",
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        "content_text": "any motive whatever.” \n\nsd. Phuman Singh \n\nad. R. E. Lindsell \n\nP.M. \n\n37 \n\nP.32 \n\n*I am L.S.A.95 stationed at Lok Ma Chau. I have been there 8 months and do the river patrol work. I have no fixed hours for my patrol work which depends on the tides, but have to do 3 night patrols per week. Otherwise I go out at the best tides. On 21st July last I went out about 3 p.m. Everything was then perfectly normal. I did about a 4 hour patrol, and arrived back at my buoy on the river due north of the Station somewhere about 7 or 7.30 p.m. I came ashore. I was not [approached] by a villager who gave me certain information. I got my arms ashore and armed my crew and proceeded to a point S.E. of the Station and below the Indian married quarters. As I came in full view of the Station two shots were fired from that direction. I did not see any flashes, but heard the whine of each bullet over our heads. It was nearly dark. I could not see any one at the Station. About the same time I heard shouts from the Indian married quarters, \"get back, get back\". I then retraced my steps and worked round to the west of the Station where I came upon Sergt. Basting from Au Tau. I learnt from him what had happened. I finally got back into the Station about 11.30 p.m. I found that my quarters had been in no way disturbed. I had had `B.543` five times with me on motor boat patrol since he was sent to Lok Ma Chau. I never noticed anything strange about him. He seemed a jovial fellow, and was a champion shot putter. He never made any complaint of any sort to me or in my hearing. No empty shells were found in my quarters or verandah.\" \n\nTo Jury X X \"I don't speak Hindustani. I have not since the trouble heard anything to throw light on it. Both `P.C.B.384` who is the munshi and `P.C.B.4` can speak English.\" \n\n# sd. L.S.A.95 Gardiner \n\nsd. R. E. Lindsell \n\nP.M.",
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        "content_text": "P.53 \n\ncomplaints but if any complaint was made I would listen to it. \nB.543 never made any complaint to me. I last saw him alive when \nI visited Lok Ma Chau on July 18th. I noticed nothing unusual \nabout him then, and heard no whisper of any possible trouble. \nOn my visits I give instruction quite informally in the barrack \nrooms. The men sit around and can ask me anything they like.\" \n\nTo Jury X X. \"I knew that B. 543 had complained to the A.S.P. \nof his transfer, but he never said anything to me about it.\" \n\nsd. S.K. Surain Singh \nsd. R. E. Lindsell \nP.X. \n\nEnquiry adjourned to 2.15 p.m. on 12th September. \nsd. R. E. Lindsell \n\nP.54 \n12.9. Enquiry continued. \nJury present. \nP.M. 5.9.30 \n\n\"I am an acting A.S.P. \n27. Timothy Murphy sworn. \nOn 21st July last I arrived at Lok Ma Chau about 11 p.m. and joined \nthe rescue party which entered the Station under the I.G.P. \nI noticed that the grille at the top of the inner staircase was \nclosed (i.e., down) but not locked. The body of B.543 was on the \nfront verandah opposite the quarters of the officer in Charge \nwith a yellow turban lying by it. A piece of one end of the \nturban was torn off. The body was lying on its back with a \nservice rifle between the legs. The missing piece of the turban \nwas partly covering the rifle trigger. The rifle muzzle was \npointing towards the upper part of the body. The rifle bore \nthe number B.543. It was examined in my presence. In the \nbreech was one empty shell (produced) and in the magazine one \nlive round (produced). I took possession of the rifle and later \nhanded it over to the Police Armourer. I remained at the \nStation through the night. After daylight on the 22nd I made \nan inspection of the upper floor. Inside the bathroom of the \nofficer in charge I found 3 rifle cartridge shells, and in his",
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        "content_text": "# P.55\n\nIn the dining room, two more shells were found, and on the front verandah, 5 more shells and an empty clip. In the back sitting room where Mrs. Madgwick's body was found, there were quite a number of bullet holes in the walls and fragments of bullets lay about. At the base of the flagstaff, I found a clip containing 4 live rounds and also two live rounds in the grass nearby. In the grass, also, was the bayonet in scabbard produced, each marked `B.543`.\n\nAt the edge of the slope to the S.W. of the Station, I picked up three more empty shells, and also a piece of cloth and a pair of clogs (in Court), which were identified as property of `B.543`. On the green, some 9-10 feet from the compound wall and to the west of the gate, I found another pair of clogs and a black turban (in Court), which were identified as the property of `B.9`.\n\nI observed what appeared to be blood stains on the outer side of the compound wall near that point. I found no other revolver shells outside the compound. I examined the ground carefully. Had 6 revolver shells been lying near the S.V. corner, I could not have missed some of them. Inside the compound and outside the back door, I found 6 empty revolver shells close together, and one empty rifle ammunition clip. I found no shells or live rounds in the passage between the back and front doors.\n\nI examined the large barrack room and found 14 empty rifle shells, two live rounds, and six empty revolver shells, also 5 rifle ammunition clips.\n\nWhen I entered that night, the back door of the Station was locked; the barrack room door opposite the charge room was closed but not locked.\n\nI handed over all the empty shells I had found, together with other shells I had received from the D.I., to the Police Armourer. There were, I think, about 90 of them, including 16 revolver shells.\n\nJury No X X.\n\nad. T. Murphy\nBd. R. E. Lindsell\n\nP.X.",
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        "content_text": "28. John Edward Scott sworn. **I am 1.S.A.61 and Armourer Sergt. to the Police Service**. On 7th August last I received from last witness 81 shells of rifle ammunition. I had previously received the rifle in Court marked `B.543`. Examination of the rifle showed that it had been recently fired. In the face of the bolt I found a peculiar snip near the striker hole which would leave a mark on the face of the percussion cap in every cartridge fired from that rifle. Examination of the empty shells revealed that 14 of them must have been fired in the rifle in Court. I tested this by firing 15 rounds from the rifle and comparing the 15 shells with the 14. The remaining 67 shells I was satisfied were fired from 5 different rifles only.\n\nJury No XX.\nsd. J. E. Scott 1.S.A.61. Armourer\nsd. R. E. Lindsell P.M.\n\n29. Edward Dudley Corscaden Wolfe sworn. **\"I am I.G.P. and have so been for the past 12 years**. No satisfactory police records exist prior to 1919, other than actual crime records. From such records as exist and from oral statements to me, I gather that this is the 4th case since 1897 of an Indian Police officer running amok. In 1897 I understand that a Sikh Police Constable ran amok, shot at the Inspector i/c Central but missed him, and was afterwards shot down. \n\nIn January 1903 another Sikh (`B.593`) shot and wounded another I.P.C. at Hunghom and was himself shot down. \n\nIn July 1918 P.C. `B.18`, another Sikh, ran amok at Tai O, shot and killed the officer in charge in the Charge Room, set the Station on fire, and finally shot himself. \n\nIn my opinion it is quite impossible to provide against the recurrence of such affairs. The nature of their duties requires that I.P.Cs., especially in the outlying stations, should carry arms or have access to arms. \n\nIn my time it has been necessary to arm the Chinese members of the force also.",
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        "content_text": "## Sundries S.\n\n### Item 673. Salt.\n\n| IMPORTS |  |  | EXPORTS |  |  |\n| | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n| French Indo-China... | 88,600 |  | \n| Kwongchow Wan ... | 4,813 |  | \n| Siam | 7,428 |  | \n| British N. Borneo.. | 2,993 |  | \n| Middle China | 40 | 200 | \n| South China | 7,666 |  | \n| United Kingdom | 44,215 | 4,218 | \n| Australia | 237 | 148 | \n| Canada | 2 | 9 | \n| British N. Borneo | 7 | 47 | \n| Straits & F.M.S. | 1,699 | 10,353 | \n| Belgium |  |  | \n| North China | 20 | 280 | \n| Middle China | 169 | 930 | \n| **Total** | **45,341** | **...** | \n|  | 81,818 |  | \n\n | | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n|  | 385 | 410 | \n| Cuba | 5 | 54 | \n| Denmark | 118 | 2,055 | \n| French Indo-China... | 119 | 800 | \n| Germany | 20 | 300 | \n| Japan, Korea and Formosa | 2,797 | 22,748 | \n| Australia | 29 | 882 | \n| North China |  |  | \n| Br. Empire, Other... | 61 | 3,050 | \n| Middle China | 963 | 44,287 | \n| South China | 222 | 5,360 | \n| French Indo-China... | 38 | 1,676 | \n| Kwongchow Wan | 1 |  | \n| Macao | 40 | 1,150 | \n| Japan, Korea and Formosa | 754 | 10,330 | \n| Neth. East Indies ... | 20 | 780 | \n| Kwongchow Wan | 2 | 76 | \n| Macao | 616 | 16,082 | \n| Neth. East Indies | 50 | $ \n| Kwongchow Wan | 3 | 23 | \n| Neth. East Indies | 127 | 787 | \n| Philippines | 528 | 2,751 | \n| Siam | 352 | 2,279 | \n| Sweden | 227 | 2,860 | \n| U.S.A. | 92 | 1,649 | \n| Other Countries | 36 | 884 | \n| **Total** | **7,706** | **44,415** | \n|  | 9,526 | 69,669 | \n\n### Item 674. Sandalwood.\n\n| IMPORTS |  |  | EXPORTS |  |  |\n| | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n|  |  |  | \n|  |  |  | \n|  |  |  | \n\n | | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n|  | 193 | 11,390 | \n| **Total** | **193** | **11,390** | \n\n### Item 675. Sawdust.\n\n| IMPORTS |  |  | EXPORTS |  |  |\n| | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n| Australia | 2 | 285 | \n| **Total** | **2** | **285** | \n\n | | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n|  | 2,792 | 85,580 | \n| **Total** | **2,792** | **85,580** | \n\n### Item 675A. Seagrass.\n\n### Item 616, Shells, Mother of pearl.\n\n### Item 677. Shells, not otherwise enumerated.\n\n| IMPORTS |  |  | EXPORTS |  |  |\n| | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n| Macao | 81 | 115 | \n| **Total** | **81** | **115** | \n\n | | Country | Quantity (Piculs) | Value |\n| Australia | 18 | 712 | \n| South China | 23 | 367 | \n| British N. Borneo.... | 66 | 792 | \n| Japan, Korea and Formosa | 24 | 877 | \n| **Total** | **84** | **1,504** | \n|  | 47 | 744 |",
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        "content_text": "that the apparatus in the Department is gradually being brought more up to date and also to the fact that the hours of instruction during the third year have been increased by 4½ hours per week in Physiology and by extending the Pharmacological instruction throughout both University terms and not, as previously, confining it merely to the Autumn Term.\n\nDuring the year further investigations have been carried out on Gastric Digestion and during the Summer Vacation Professor Faid, Professor of Physics, accompanied the Professor of Physiology on an expedition to Borneo to investigate the racial distribution of Blood Groups in that part of the world. A large amount of data has been collected but has not yet been published; it is hoped to be possible to return during the long vacation of 1932 when enough data should be acquired to make a complete survey of all the native tribes found in British North Borneo. The performance of work such as this cannot be undertaken without a certain amount of expenditure, and it might not be amiss to place on record here the fact that the University has no funds with which they might encourage original work, and all the cost of investigation such as this has to be met out of the private pocket of the Professors concerned.\n\nDuring the year a recommendation was made that some of the Boxer money should be spent in providing Demonstrators in the Department; this is a most urgent need and is essential not only because it is extremely difficult to give satisfactory attention to students in a practical class of 20, but it is also important that those who are intending to do higher work in Medicine should have had at least 12 months experience in teaching Physiology. It is to be hoped that these posts will be made available and filled by some of our graduates in the very near future.\n\nPapers published during the year :-\n\n'Individual and Racial Characteristics of the Blood' by L. T. Ride \"Caduceus\" November, 1931.\n\nDEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY.\n\nStaff:- G. A. C. Herklots, Ph.D., (Cantab); M.Sc. (Leeds); F.L.S. (London). Reader in Biology.\n\nStudents. The results of the year's examinations are given below:\n\n  \n    \n    Students Attending Classes\n    Entered\n    Passed\n    Failed\n  \n  \n    1st Year Medical (MAY)\n    23\n    5\n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    1st Year Arts\n    8\n    4\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2nd Year Arts\n    35\n    9\n    5\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1st Year Medical (NOVEMBER)\n    26\n    12\n    6\n    6\n  \n  \n    1st Year Arts\n    7\n    6\n    5\n    1\n  \n  \n    2nd Year Arts\n    4\n    4\n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    37\n    22\n    15\n    7\n  \n\nEXAM RESULTS FOR YEAR:\n\nNote: The Head of the Department has conducted practical classes and lectured to both first and second year students in Botany (Spring Term), and Zoology (Autumn Term). This is the first year in which 2nd year Biology classes have been conducted in this University.\n\nBIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF HONG KONG.-During the year some thousands of specimens have been collected and sent throughout the world to experts for determination and description. Articles have been published in the \"Hong Kong Naturalist\" and others will follow describing these collections. Collections comprise in particular, Beetles (P.I.); Crabs (Pekin); Echinoderms (Copenhagen); Fishes (Philadelphia); Lizards (London); Mosses (Leeds); Seaweeds (Berkeley); Shells (Pekin); Snakes (London); Spiders (Southampton); etc. Concentration has been maintained on systematic work during the past 2 years but now that this is progressing steadily the Head of the Department hopes to be able to turn his attention to Ecology and Bionomics in the next year or two.",
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        "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nVol. III, No. 2.\n\n[ 80 ]\n\nTHE NEST OF THE WHITE BELLIED SEA EAGLE.\n\n(Haliatus leucogaster).\n\nE. A. AYLMER.\n\nThe eyrie was first discovered on January the 23rd and even at this early date the nest contained two eggs and the female bird had commenced to sit. These birds must be our earliest breeders in the colony. Prior to finding the nest, the male bird had been seen soaring overhead before disappearing over the hill tops as we approached nearer to the nest. The white head, neck and underparts of the sitting bird could be seen at some distance off and the bird remained sitting on the nest until we were comparatively close.\n\nThe eyrie was placed on a precipitous ledge of granite rocks, the ledge was broad and in a well-sheltered position. It consisted of a huge structure of branches and twigs chiefly from pine trees and neighbouring shrubs. The lining consisted of a plentiful display of pine needles, pampas grasses, smaller dried twigs, fern fronds and dried grasses. The top of the nest was a very slightly cup-shaped depression. It had the appearance of being an ancient eyrie, refurbished each year until it had assumed vast proportions, being fully twelve feet deep and over six feet in width.\n\nIt is well known that a pair of eagles, if left undisturbed, will return year after year to the same nest.\n\nOwing to its size and the wing span, the bird can only alight on a broad ledge, this would also account for the breadth of the nest. Branches of living shrubs were noticed growing out of the side of the nest, which supports the supposition that it is of considerable age. There was a sprinkling of white down from the birds' breasts about the nest. This year's building could be easily seen as a top layer some six inches in depth. Two cuttle-fish shells were seen lying on the side of the nest and a piece of rope was also noticed.\n\nThe two eggs were partially covered by fresh green leaves of the Rhodomyrtus, as if the eggs had been purposely concealed before the birds left the nest. Or is this another example of what Mr. Anthony Buxton believes of the Honey Buzzard, namely, that these birds like fresh green leaves about them, just as we like fresh flowers.\n\nTo quote from Mr. Anthony Buxton, in his letter on some of the birds which nest at Geneva, given to the Norfolk and Norwich Bird Protection Society at Stuart Hall, Norwich. In this lecture, Mr. Buxton described a peculiar ceremony which occurred at the nest of the Honey Buzzard every evening, viz:-\n\nA ceremony in which the cock took no part. After the last feed given by the hen bird, she would appear again about the nest and start tearing off a sprig of fresh green leaves which she brought to the nest and presented to the baby. Mother and child played happily with it and ran the\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPlate 15.\n\nNest of White-bellied Sea Eagle, Haliaetus leucogaster.\n\nPrinted by S.C.M. Press.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "191\n\n206\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nECONOMIC USE.— Shoots of this plant with unopened or just developing flowers are sold on a very large scale at the time of the Chinese New Year Festival, (the first week in February). When placed in water in a warm room the buds on these branches develop and the flowers open. The New Year Flower is extremely popular with the Chinese so much so that it has had to be rigidly protected in Hong Kong and the British Territories. Mr. V. H. C. Jarrett has dealt with the protection of Enkianthus in his article \"Protection of Wild Plants in Hong Kong,\" H.K.N. III pps. 99-105. Since it has been protected it has increased considerably in abundance on the slopes of the Hong Kong hills.\n\nFLOWERING PERIOD. The middle of January to the middle of February; occasional flowers may be found as early as Christmas and as late as early April.\n\nLOCALITIES.—Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.\n\nREFERENCES.\n\n(1) Bentham, G. \"Flora Hongkongensis,\" 1861.\n\n(2) Crook, A. H. \"The Flowering Plants of Hong Kong, Ranunculaceae to Meliaceae,\" 1930.\n\n(3) Dunn, S. T., and Tutcher, W. J. \"Flora of Kwangtung and Hong Kong,\" 1912.\n\n(4) Groff, G. W. \"Plants of Lungt'au Shan.\" Science Bulletin No. 2, Lingnan University, Canton, 1930.\n\n(5) Hu, H. H., and Chun, W. Y. \"Icones Plantarum Sinicarum,\" Fascicle II, 1929.\n\n(6) Hutchinson, J. \"The Families of Flowering Plants.\" Vol. I, 1926.\n\n(7) McClure, F. A. \"Plants of Lan t'au Island. I.\" Science Bulletin No. 3, Lingnan University, Canton, 1931.\n\n(8) Rendle, A. B. \"The Classification of Flowering Plants.\" Vol. II, 1925.\n\n207\n\nA BRIEF ACCOUNT OF MOSQUITOES,\n\nTHEIR LIFE HISTORY, AND THE DISEASES WHICH THEY CARRY, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HONG KONG.\n\nR. B. JACKSON,\n\nGOVERNMENT MALARIOLOGIST, BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, HONG KONG.\n\nFrom time to time, one receives samples of various kinds of insects sent in for identification, which the sender erroneously considers to be mosquitoes.\n\nFrequently one hears descriptions of biting flies, called mosquitoes, which from the size mentioned—namely that of the head of a large pin, are likely to be of the genus Lasiohelea, which correspond to what are known as \"midges\" in the British Isles. Such, on hot summer afternoons, torture sleepy fishermen and annoy lively picnic parties. In order to avoid these errors an examination of the wing of the insect in question is necessary; this can be easily accomplished by the aid of a pocket lens with a magnification of 10 diameters.\n\nOn reference to the diagram it will be seen that the wing has a fringe of scales (in the case of elderly or badly damaged mosquitoes the fringe will be most likely denuded). The veins are clothed with scales, not hairs, and are arranged after a certain fashion.\n\nThe vein which runs half way across the field of the wings is the third, above it is the 2nd which is forked, below the 3rd is the 4th which is also forked, and below the 4th is the 5th which is forked, the 6th is below the 5th and is simple. An insect with such a wing arrangement is a mosquito.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe female mosquito lays eggs on or near water, the eggs are laid by some species in clusters or rafts, other species lay their eggs singly. The choice of water varies greatly, some kinds will lay only in natural collections of water such as streams, swamps, springs, rock pools, or in collections of water resembling natural ones: other kinds lay their eggs in the water in tins large or small, bottles broken or whole, coconut shells, gully traps, house spoutings, septic tanks, Shanghai jars, plates or saucers under flower pots, water-closets not in constant use and even in urine jars. Every collection of water should be suspect until proved otherwise. The eggs of some\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n192",
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        "content_text": "Dear Sirs,\n\n5, The Sanctuary,\n\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n\n20th September, 1932.\n\n60\n\nre Sung Man Cho\n\nWith further reference to your letter of the 13th inst., we feel you must be under some misapprehension as to the terms of the arrangement come to between Counsel when the Appeal was before the Privy Council.\n\nIn our view the terms of the Settlement do not commit the Government of Hong Kong to procure admission of Sung Man Cho into any particular Country but they are only to use their best endeavours to assist Sung Man Cho to go to any Country that he may select; there is no compulsion placed on the Government of Hong Kong by the terms of the Settlement which compel the Government to send him to any Country where objection may be taken to his landing, the only obligation of the Government of Hong Kong being not to send Sung Man Cho into any Country where he would be in danger of arrest by the French.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nMessrs. Light & Fulton,\n\n5, Clements Inn, W.C.2.\n\nBUR CHELLS",
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        "content_text": "BUR CHELLS.\n\nC.T.D. BURCHELL.\n\nA.W. BURCHELL.\n\nTELEPHONE - VICTORIA 6431.\n\nPLEASE ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO\n\nTHE FIRM AND REFER TO INITIAL\n\n92718/32.\n\n13 19\n\nThe Sanctuary,\n\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n\n2nd January, 1933.\n\nCheng Kyok Yau,\n\nThe King.\n\nWe beg to enclose herewith sealed copy of the\n\nOrder dismissing the Petition for Special Leave to Appeal\n\nin this case, and a plain copy for your file. The sealed\n\ncopy should be sent to the Registrar of the Court from\n\nwhich the Appeal was brought.\n\nWe are,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nBurchells.\n\nSealed Copy\n\nLOK S. (20\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n\nEnclosure 5,\n\nRECEIVED 3 JAN 1933\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\nC.\n\nSir,",
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        "content_text": "## SUMMARY OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION DESTINED FOR CHINA, WHICH WAS EXPORTED FROM OR TRANSHIPPED AT HONG KONG BETWEEN 1ST JANUARY AND 30TH JUNE, 1933.\n\n| Country of Origin | Aero-planes | Rifles & Machine guns | Pistols & Revolvers | Rifle Cartridges | Pistol Cartridges | Other Ordn'ce & Shells | Range Finder | Mortars | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| CZECHO-SLAVAKIA | 35 |  |  | 2,000,000 |  |  |  |  | $57,500.- (H.K.$) |\n| ENGLAND | 250 | 1 |  | 12,726 |  |  |  |  | £... |\n| FRANCE | 195 |  | 4 |  | 233 | 204 |  |  | 5,320,000 Francs, $26,330 (H.K.$), 1,094,950.- (U.S.$) |\n| GERMANY |  | 12 |  | 5,057 | 997 |  |  |  | $528,304 (H.K.$), 234,000 (U.S.$) |\n| HOLLAND | 40 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $819,580 (H.K.$) |\n| S. A. |  |  |  |  |  | 250 |  |  | $195,000 (H.K.$), 5,887.50 (U.S.$) |\n| U.S. |  | 1 |  |  |  | 350,000 | 1 | 1 | $317,672.- (U.S.$) |\n| **TOTAL** |  |  |  | **8,198,304** | **429,000** | **26,580** |  |  | H.K.$819,580, U.S.$1,480,922.-, £12,726 |\n\nPage ...",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSir,\n\n14359\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n12th November, 1935.\n\nEnclo. No.1.\n\nEnclo. No.2.\n\nI have the honour to invite your attention to a matter of some gravity which has come to my notice in connection with the trade in arms and ammunition to China.\n\n2. On the 29th May, 1935, the Canton office of Messrs. F. Feld & Company, Hong Kong, made a contract with the Kwangtung Opium Suppression Office for the supply to them of certain arms and ammunition. On the 5th June, 1935, the same firm placed an order for these goods with Messrs. Boehler Bros. and Company, Limited, Vienna, through their agents Messrs. Boehler Bros. and Company, Limited, Shanghai. Certified copies of these documents, which are enclosed, together with a covering letter from Messrs. F. Feld & Co., were sent to the Inspector General of Police with a request that in transitu facilities be accorded to the goods on their arrival in the Colony.\n\nIn accordance with the usual procedure, Messrs. F. Feld & Company were informed that onward passage of the goods to Canton would be allowed on production of the through bill of lading to prove in transitu status. Part of the goods covered by the contract, viz., two infantry guns and 2,000 empty shells, arrived in Hong Kong on 3rd September, by s.s. \"Conte Verde\" from Trieste. When the bill of lading\n\n3.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nMALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "Country of \n\norigin \n\nRifles \n\nPistols & \n\nrevolvers \n\nMachine guns \n\n& parts \n\nRifles \n\nSUMMARY OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION DESTINED FOR CHINA WHICH WAS EXPORTED FROM OR TRANSHIPPED AT HONG KONG BETWEEN \n\n1st JULY AND 31st DECEMBER, 1934. \n\n  \n    \n    CARTRIDGES\n    Pistols & Shells Machine revolvers guns\n    Aerial Bombs\n    Mortars\n    Tanks\n    Assorted Access gries, for sun sasp?əlas\n    T. N. T. (in lbs)\n    Ammunition Boxes & Articulated Depth charges Torpedoes, Banas & accessories\n    VALUE\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Hong Kong U.S. Dollars Dollars\n  \n  \n    GERMANY\n    12\n    1,201\n    35\n    269,000\n    1,000\n    —\n    -\n    120,498,25\n    \n    \n    CR s. d\n  \n  \n    AMERICA\n    21\n    377\n    \n    95,500\n    175,300\n    \n    36,939.05\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ENGLAND\n    \n    4,000\n    \n    20,000\n    \n    6\n    20,000.00\n    \n    62,506. 0.0\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    FRANCE\n    10\n    \n    57,215\n    \n    50\n    70\n    —\n    2\n    —\n    1,010\n    Francs 3,898,912.50\n  \n  \n    BELGIUM\n    12\n    \n    1,181,000\n    \n    t\n    —\n    \n    598.20\n    19,800.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ITALY\n    \n    4\n    \n    20,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CZECHO-SLOVAKIA\n    \n    1\n    \n    400\n    \n    .4\n    \n    296,000.00\n    \n    55,700. 0. C\n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL\n    33\n    1,590\n    449\n    95,500\n    1,625,300\n    61,215\n    21,000\n    50\n    70\n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2\n    20,000\n    1,010\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Francs 3,898,912.50\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    H.K. 474,035.50\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    U.S. 19,800.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    £. 118,206. 0.0\n    \n    \n  \n\n(Sgd.) A.V. BAKER. \n\nS. I. \n\n1. 3. 35. \n\nPage 280\n\nPage 281",
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        "content_text": "55\n\n124\n\nD. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nFrom HSY and Aberdeen and Stanley, we have pieces which seem to be stones for grinding meal: they are usually of granitic types of stone and are characterized by the usual hollow.\n\nM\nx\nN\n5. cms.\n5. cms.\na\nM. \"Epimiolith\" with\n\"bent\" (apparently a sought-for form).\npoint\nN. \"Epimiolith\" from HSY: an excellent specimen of an implement in the Old Stone Age tradition (even Chalossian- but most likely to be referred rather to Asturian types): found close to neolithic axes and pottery (see text).\n\nEPIMIOLITHS.\n\nWe now come to the most interesting (archæologically) finds of all: but we can as yet say but little about them by way of explanation of context, use and culture. We find them on all our Hong Kong sites (or rather on the ones I personally know-they occur also on many of those known to my colleagues in this study). On the Lamma sites, at Aberdeen, Stanley and one other site, I have found them in the ground where the rougher corded ware was plentiful or characteristically present.\n\nIt must here be noted that “Double-F” is rare outside Lamma. Aberdeen yielded one piece of an older type of the D--F. ware with some fragments of another ware that is found typically at HSY: Stanley only one small fragment of a ware cognate to the \"Double-F.\" In one case below, figure I, the \"epimiolith\" was found with a neatly packed group of half a dozen clam shells and a piece of deer-antler and all amid a group of pottery, the objects seemingly having been originally inside a black pot of the gritty quartz-tempered corded type. This find was made before the excavations of 1933.\n\nHowever, every place which has yielded these implements has also given rough types of pottery, usually the black and the red corded wares showing much quartz in the paste. This is especially true of a Stanley site where on a low hill well out of reach of any wave disturbance a thin layer of humus, about one foot deep over the natural mantle of de-composed rock, still contains this type of pottery while, lower down at the base of the hill, evidently weathered out and carried down by erosion in typical fresh water gravel, some very good \"epimioliths\" were found. Thus they would belong to a period using already pottery of the usual neolithic type: on the same hill (both on the top and at the base), neolithic polished stone adzes (stepped and rectangular) were found.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.",
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        "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n127\n\nnatural surfaces, especially good on the strip left between the two flaked areas above this third patina is a pronounced brownish red. Thus the original implement must have been more like figure N from HSY and probably had a rounded hand-grip surface covered with the natural skin of the pebble, one flat surface (probably at the back) and a more pronounced trihedral angle below with the ridge more central than now. It was Professor Henri Breuil who pointed out to me the difference of patina and the reworking: that authority is decisive. He regarded the patina on the typical specimen for our local coup-de-poing (faust-keil) or cleaver or scraper \"epimiolith\" as incontrovertible proof that they are considerably older than the local neolithic stone-axes from the same sites: this specimen then must be older still. The logical inference is that there is no ground for any generalized argument for dating by reason of the find-spot on such sites as these where we find \"epimioliths\" and polished axes, pottery of various types and even bronzes at the same levels without any possibility of discriminating times of deposition.\n\nX\n\nK\n\n373%. \n\nX\n\nX\n\n5.cms.\n\nK. \"Epimiolith\" showing three stages of patination. The oldest is represented in the sketch by the white surfaces: the next by the curved hatching: the most recent by the straight hatching.\n\nI have used the word \"epimiolith\" above: it may be new to most of my readers and perhaps I should explain. The prefix \"epi-\" has been used by certain modern scholars, notably Menghin (30) pp. 84-5. to denote that a culture of the type indicated by the word used after \"epi-\" is in that particular case surviving into a period later by one than its own proper time: thus \"epiprotolithic\" would mean some culture whose forms were that of the Early Stone Age lasting on into the Mesolithic should the survival be drawn out longer Menghin would use the form \"opsiprotolithic\". Though our case is still sub judice, I use the word \"epimiolith\" to describe these objects. which must now be regarded as much older than neolithic: this is the name that Menghin would give to the Bacsonian of Indo-China and to the Asturian of Spain actually one type that I have got in several specimens is very like the Asturian hand-axes (coup-de-poings: there used for opening sea-shells)\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n58",
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        "content_text": "59\n\n128\n\nD. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nand so I propose this name for the present to designate this whole group until we know more about their certain contexts. Some of our specimens show a form astonishingly like that of the very early protolithic Chalossian coup-de-poing.\n\nL\n\n5. cms.\n\nL. \"Epimiolith\" with a marked lever-like handle.\n\nA third piece is from \"K\" at 51 ins.: it is of similar material but shows only two patinations, the oldest and the youngest of those described above (figure L). One other was picked up loose opposite the A-K cuts (figure M). The make of these pieces suggests that they were used for opening shells, as the point showing signs of use has above it an edge like that of a scraper which would serve admirably for prizing open the shells.\n\nThe two\n\nThe figures best explain the shape of these specimens, but the most shapely piece, in fact the first that really convinced me of its artifact nature, is that in figure N. It is from 27 ins. deep at HSY from an area which gave us many polished stone axes at similar and greater depths. It is a sub-tetrahedral form with a marked rostral tendency, one face being obviously the back and flaked to a higher level with a slight general concavity. This is typical of all our pieces though otherwise varying: the back is very flat, sometimes as a naturally weathered surface, sometimes flaked, sometimes at cleavage face (figure 1). The hand-grip is the natural skin or weathered end of a big pebble: this makes a platform usually sloping on top. front-faces meet in a marked angle (see figure L and compare carefully figure K). Figure I here retains most of the original stone and is flaked only on one edge but the ridge is represented by the natural rounded angle of the stone. The flaking is in broad strokes: the finer dressing is very clumsy (a sign of late date). The point is usually trihedral, sometimes tetrahedral; the trihedral point has been noted as typical of the very early Chalossian and has also been found in South Africa in the Victoria West culture. Judging by Menghin's description of certain implements (30) p. 117 in this latter, they must be very like the type of our figures N, O:-crooked point-thick end with vigorous flaking-trihedral point-flat back-resemblance to \"rostro-carinates\". There is apparently some doubt about these Victoria-West pieces as to whether they are artifacts: there can be no doubt about such a piece as figure N. A related culture in South Africa, that of Stellenbosch, has \"faustkeil\" with one side carefully flaked to an edge: we cannot say that ours are carefully done, but they certainly have the \"faustkeil\"\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.",
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        "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n129\n\n0\n\n5. Cms.\n\nO. Epimiolith\" also from HSY. A flatter, triangular type common here.\n\nform with a side scraper-edge. Sometimes our pieces are flatter as figure O from HSY 36 ins. but still the likeness of form is evident. There is a marked tendency away from the isoceles in the vertical widest-plane section as if to give more leverage at the point by reason of a butt that went well back to the centre region of the palm of the hand while the point was directed comfortably by the fingers: this would help the opening of shell-fish, but we have actually found very few shells, one being a plaything or ornament, quite small with a hole (might even be modern).\n\nFISH-HOOK.\n\nWe illustrate here a bronze fish-hook from HSY, for it shows where in the bronze time they got food. This hook R should be compared with specimens from Somrong Seng (41) Plate VI, (76) Plate IV, Laos country Ban Na Veng (Musée Finot) Dong Son (Musée Finot) and with fish-hook motives on the bronze drums of Indo-China. It apparently belongs to the same culture—the Yüeh(?)—but it differs in many details, particularly in the curve of the lower part and in the absence of an eye for the line (instead we have a serrated shaft for binding: in this it does seem to agree with a Somrong Seng piece). Plate 11, R.\n\nWith that we have rounded off the general description of the finds at the Lamma site, Tai Wan, and we have learned something about the neighbouring and closely related site HSY. The actual material published in this article presents problems that have first to be solved before any full interpretation of the finds is possible. We are not yet in a position to date these \"epimioliths\" or place them in their proper relation to the rest of the material: so there is no need just now to sum up. Other sites may help us first and there still remains much material for the amplification of what we have already seen.\n\nOne stone object found at a high level (18 ins.) should be recorded because of its possible relation to the otherwise rare form of shouldered adze (Figure S). It is in a green stone that shows no sign of polishing, but\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n60",
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        "content_text": "covers ammunition (which is not defined), \n\nempty shells could hardly be regarded as \n\nammunition.\n\nJ. H. Apsor\n\nLibrary (Legal)\n\n5.3.36.\n\nThe Board of Trade concur in the action\n\nsuggested in the second paragraph of (4). That\n\naction was based on such information as was\n\navailable in the F.O. as regards the powers of the\n\nHong Kong Government in this matter, and it is\n\nnecessary to examine this a little more closely\n\nbefore we can send instructions to Hong Kong.\n\n2 It appears that the Colonial Government\n\nhas powers to detain misdescribed goods under the\n\nprovisions of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance,\n\nNo. 2 of 1933. Section 4(1) appears to imply that\n\nthe restrictions under that Ordinance should apply\n\nto ammunition consigned to some place outside the\n\nColony, provided that it is duly and correctly\n\nentered in the manifest; i.e., an incorrect\n\nentry in the manifest would disqualify arms so\n\nconsigned from this exemption. Further, under\n\nparagraph 19 it would appear that the nature of all\n\nconsignments of arms in the Colony, whether or not\n\nthey may be entitled to \"in transit\" status,\n\nshould be clearly marked on the boxes - a provision\n\nplainly incompatible with the misdescription on\n\nthe manifest.\n\n3 The Dangerous Goods Ordinance No.1 of\n\n1873 does not, as it stands, cover arms. However,\n\nSection 5(1)(a)\n\n4",
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        "content_text": "COPY\n\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE,\n\nWASHINGTON\n\nSeptember 14, 1936.\n\n62\n\nI refer to the Ambassador's note of July 1, 1936, and previous correspondence, in regard to the regulations governing the exportation of arms, ammunition and implements of war destined to China, and have to inform you that I am in receipt of information which would appear to indicate that the pertinent regulations of the French Government are still unsatisfactory if judged by the criteria set forth in our former correspondence on this subject.\n\nThe information which I have received is to the effect that the Yunnan Provincial Government placed an order on June 12 with the Groupe de Chine for the following:-\n\n12 mountain guns, 75 millimetre calibre\n\n12,000 shells for these guns\n\n40 trench mortars, 61 millimetre calibre\n\n10,000 shells for these mortars\n\n4 trench mortars, 120 millimetre calibre\n\n400 shells for these mortars\n\n10 machine guns (Hotchkiss)\n\n4 light tanks (Renault), two of which are equipped with one light machine gun each, and two of which are equipped with one gun each of 37 millimetre calibre\n\n6 motorcycles with side-car\n\n6 motorcycles with side-car, equipped with one light machine gun each\n\nOptical instruments for the direction of the artillery fire\n\n10,000 rifles (Belgian)\n\n10,000,000 cartridges for these rifles (Belgian)\n\nIt appears that no huchao covering this proposed shipment was obtained from the Central Government; that the Yunnan Provincial Government has not requested a huchao for it; and that the Groupe de Chine has not insisted that it do so,\n\nThe...",
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        "content_text": "Country of origin.\n\nAeroplanes Engines for aeroplanes Machine guns & parts Rifles Carbines Pistols & revolvers\n\nSUMMARY OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION DESTINED FOR CHINA WHICH WAS EXPORTED FROM OR TRANSHIPPED AT HONG KONG BETWEEN 1st July and December, 1935.\n\n  \n    \n    Rifles\n    Cartridge\n    Pistols & revolvers\n    Machine guns\n    Blank Shells\n    Blank ctgs.\n    Tripods & Gun Carriage for machine guns.\n    Mortars (in lbs)\n    Ballistite\n    Shells (in cases)\n    Fillings of Spinas\n    VALUE\n  \n  \n    Country of origin\n    \n    44 m/m 7.92 m/m\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    GERMANY\n    0\n    43 1,765\n    136,000\n    1,728,900\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    U. S. $143,463.00\n  \n  \n    AMERICA\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    FRANCE\n    193\n    22,000\n    97,000\n    \n    \n    26,628.34\n    15,542.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Francs\n  \n  \n    BELGIUM\n    157\n    12\n    2,400\n    205,210\n    \n    6,676,125.00\n    24,933.60\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    210\n    11\n    1\n    454\n    11,000\n    332,000\n    2,340,000\n    100,000\n    41\n    4,480\n    \n    H. K. $36,500.00 232,624.00 141,247.20\n  \n  \n    CZACHO-SLOVAKIA\n    500\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    AUSTRIA\n    \n    1\n    1\n    \n    2,200,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    476,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    2,000\n    1\n    \n    93\n    \n    35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SWITZERLAND\n    +\n    \n    5,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL\n    8\n    6\n    873\n    54\n    1 1,424\n    169,000 2,165,300 4,745,210\n    2,000\n    100,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    I\n    415\n    45 4,480\n    93\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    U. S. $6,712,625.00 Francs 259,252.34\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Muritanie 5.1. 2. 36 218,000.00 200.00 H. K. $1,019,385.80 90\n  \n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "F8298/130/10.\n\nSir,\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.**\n22nd October, 1937.\n\n102\n\nWith reference to Foreign Office letter No. `F7791/130/10` of the 12th October, regarding the supply of war material to China and to the Department of Overseas Trade memorandum No. `19525/1937` of the 16th instant, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to inform you that further investigation indicates that it is in respect of anti-aircraft ammunition that the Mayor of Canton desires delivery to be accelerated.\n\nMatheson and Company have informed the Department of Overseas Trade that they have received from Canton an enquiry (not a definite order) for 12,000 rounds of ammunition and 1,200 cordite charges for 75 mm. anti-aircraft guns. They have applied to Vickers Messrs. Armstrong, Limited, who have offered to supply one quarter of the goods in question five months from the signature of the contract and subsequent quarters at intervals of two months.\n\n2. I am further to inform you that on the 18th October the Chinese Ambassador, in conversation with the Deputy Under-Secretary of State, spoke of the urgent need of Canton for anti-aircraft guns and ammunition; he had received a telegram from Mr. T. V. Soong to the effect that twenty 75 mm. guns were needed, with 2,000 shells for each gun. Sir Alexander Cadogan held out no hope to His Excellency of permission being accorded to any firm to supply the War Office.",
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        "content_text": "**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]**\n\n185\n\n## From JAPAN.\n\n**Decode.**\n\nSir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).\n\n4th October, 1937.\n\nD. 7.30 p.m. 4th October, 1937.\n\nR. 12.40 p.m. 4th October, 1937.\n\nNo. 482. **(R)**\n\n0:0:0:0 83\n\nNichi Nichi of October 2nd accuses Great Britain of taking the lead in international assistance to China both political and economic. Reuter deliberately exaggerates Chinese reports and British press deliberately injures Japan. While other powers are negative, Great Britain and U.S.S.R. are pouring arms into China. Hongkong has become a clearing house for arms traffic.\n\nChinese Government. Mr. Howe acts as representative of it. It is alleged that (1) Mr. Howe, on his return to China, held secret interviews at Hongkong to discuss armament supplies; (2) all east-bound ships carrying arms to China between August 31 and September 19 were bound for Hongkong and half were British; (3) aeroplanes, large quantities of bombs, shells, and tear gas bombs, all British-made, were landed at Hongkong; (4) contracts include 45,000,000 rounds of dum-dum bullets. Hongkong authorities are conniving at this traffic.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 482; repeated to Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "# Country of Virgin\n\n## SUMMARY OF COMMUNICATIONS DESTINED FOR CHINA WHICH WAS EXPORTED FROM OR TRANSSHIPPED AT HONG KONG BETWEEN 1st JANUARY AND 30th JUNE, 1937.\n\n235 barrels for Vickers Machine Guns  \nCARTRIDGES  \n\n| Type | No s | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Revolvers | Nos | £. S. D. |\n| Rifle | Nos | U. S. $ |\n| Machine Guns | Nos | Franes |\n|  |  | H. K. $. |\n\n### Military Stores\n\n| Description | Quantity | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Aeroplanes |  |  |\n| Mortars 81mm. (Brandt) |  |  |\n| Mountain guns with accessories (M.P.& S.E.L. type) |  |  |\n| Machine guns with accessories |  |  |\n| Mortars 81mm. Shells for | Nos |  |\n| Shells & fuses for mountain guns | Nos |  |\n| Spare barrels for machine guns | Nos |  |\n\n## Country-wise Distribution\n\n| Country | Quantity (Nos) | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| GERMANY | 1 |  |\n| AMERICA | 71, 182, 12, 60 | $166,100.00 |\n| FRANCE | 123, 62 | Fr. 24,400,360 |\n| BELGIUM | 2,400, 296, 20, 3,500 | £25,480.0.0, $5,350.00 |\n\n## Total\n\n|  | Quantity (Nos) | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Total | 182, 12, 193, 59,000, 2,400, 302, 20, 3,500 | £4,250.0.0, $166,100.00, $5,350.00, £25,480.0.0, Fr. 24,400,360 |\n|  | 80, 50, 70,000, 25,000 | $65,980.00, £32,935.0.0 |\n|  | 50, 500,000, 3,100,000, 25,000 | $28,416.00, HK$... |\n|  |  | $3232,030.00, £62,665.0.0, Fr.24,400,86þ, $33,766.00 |",
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        "content_text": "## Statements of Arms & Ammunition, destined for China, exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st January & 30th June, 1937.\n\n| Date imported | Description | Name of dealer | Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 9.8.36 | 50 cases - 100,000 rds. cartridges cal.7.92 m. (for rifles & machine guns) | Sander Zieler | Belgium | £390, 0.0. | 19.1.37 | Tientsin, Army Corps, Tientsin | A.O.1/25 Pt.I. |\n| 31.8.36 | 250 cases - 500,000 cartridges, cards. Machine gun | T. Feld & Co. | Belgium | U$49,980.00 | 20.1.37 | Canton 1st Group Army | A.O. 29/25. |\n| 31.8.36 |  | F. Feld & Co. | America | U$25,975.00 | 20.1.37 | Canton 1st Group Army | A.O. 9/25. |\n| 25.9.36 | 30 cases - 60 Browning Aircraft machine guns with accessories. (30 flexible type & 30 fixed type) |  | Belgium | US$16,000.00 | 21.1.37 | - | Shanghai Commission on Aeronautical Affairs, Nanking. |\n| 11.1.37 | 42 cases - 42 Colt light aircraft machine guns cal.30 (22 fixed type & 20 flexible type) | F. Feld & Co. | America | U$36,424.00 | 30.1.37 | Canton 1st Group Army | A.O.2 in 30/36. |\n| 4.12.36 | 4 cases - Focke Wulf Training Aeroplane. | Furness (Far East) Ltd. |  |  | 30.1.37 | Canton Commission on Aeronautical Affairs. |  |\n| 7.8.36 | 29 Cases - 29 Colt aircraft machine guns, cal.50 fixed type. | American Express Co. | America | US$34,567.00 | 30.1.37 | Canton Commission on Aeronautical Affairs. | A.O.2 in 30/36. |\n| 17.7.36 | 1 Curtiss weight type II Hawk Aeroplane. | F. Feld & Co. |  |  | 3.2.37 | Canton 1st Group Army | A.O.2 in 30/36. |\n|  | 4 Cases - 2 Curtiss Wright type III Hawk aeroplanes. |  | America | US$69,134.00 | 3.2.37 | Canton 1st Group Army | A.O.2 in 30/36. |\n| 25.6.35 | 1 case - 10 Pars Locks 10 Barrels for fict afr service un 303. | Far East Aviation Co. | Germany | £4,250.0.0. | 25.1.37 | Kwangsi 4th Group Army | A.O. 29/10. |\n|  | 1 case-2 Browning aircraft machine guns, Cal.30 flexible type. | F. Feld & Co. | Belgium | £295. 0.0. | 10.2.37 | Kuangsi 4th Group Army | A.O.2/25 Pt.I. |\n|  | 12 cases - 12 Brandt Mortars 81mm | Thomson & Co. | France | Francs 247,860 | 15.2.37 | Tuchow-Kwangsi Pacification HQ | A.O.1 in 141. |\n| 3.8.36 | 226 cases - 5,000 Brandt shells 81mm | F. Feld & Co. | France | 1,050,000 | 17.2.37 | Canton 1st Group Army | A.O.1 in 141. |\n| 3.8.36 | 500 cases - 1,000,000 rds. cartridges for rifles & machine gun cartridges 7.92 mm. |  | Belgium | £3,900.0.0. | 27.2.37 | Kwangsi 4th Group Army | Shanghai Ministry of War. |\n|  | 1,000 cases - 2,000,000 rds. cartridges for rifles & machine guns Cal.7.92 mm. |  | Belgium | £7,800. 0.0. | 27.2.37 | Kwangsi 4th Group Army | A.O.30/25. |\n\nCmplt up `6412/2` `236`",
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        "content_text": "## Date imported | Description | Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 6.7.36 | 8 cases - 2 \"Heinkel All-metal bombing aeroplanes type He.III and accessories. | Germany | £35,208. 0.0. | 6.7.36 | F. Feld & Co. | Canton 1st. Group Army | A.0.26/25 Group Army C. s.0.1/25/36 |\n| 23.6.36 | 2 cases - 1 Curtiss Hawk Type III aeroplane complete with armament and accessories. 2 cases = 2 Oerlikon* 2 cm. Infantry & anti aircraft guns 38 cases » 7,000 shells for above 2 cm. guns. 500 cases 1,000,000 rds. cal. 7.92 mm. cartridges, loose for rifles & machine guns. | America | US$32,000.00 | 9.7.36 20.7.36 | Dollar Steam-ships Co. | -do- | A.0. 2 in 30/36. |\n|  |  | Switzerland | £4,806.0.0. | 8.7.36 |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Belgium | £5,020.16.8. £3,900. 0.0. | 9.7.36 28.8.36 | F. Feld & Co. | -do- | A.0.33/25. A.0.30/25. |\n| 31.8.36 | 500 cases = 1,000,000 rds. cal. 7.92 mm. cartridges, loose for rifles & machine guns. | Belgium | £3,900. 0.0. | 1.9.36 | do. | Ex stock |  |\n| 3.9.36 | 12 cases: 600 Lauser pistols 60 cases = 300,000 rds. 30 cal. cartridges | Germany | HK$26,600.00 HK$12,000.00 | 20.10.36 | Hongkong Sporting Arms Store. | Canton 4th Route Army. | A.0.74/8 C.S.0.15/25/6 |\n| 22.7.36 | 14 cases ☐ 14 Colt Aircraft machine guns (= 90 cal 14 cases - 7.Curtiss Wright Type III Hawk Airplanes and accessories 1 case 2 bomb racks 8 cases = 2 Heinkel All-metal bombing aeroplanes type He.III and accessories. | America Germany | US$13,079.50 US $241,969.00 | 10.11.36 | The American Express Co. | Canton 3h iu- Chow Aircraft Works. Canton 1st. Group Army. | A.0. 2 in 30/36 |\n|  |  |  | US$350.00 |  |  |  |  |\n| 13.8.36 | 30,000 rds. Cal. 22 long rifle cartridges | Germany | £35,208. 0.0. HK$585.00 | 24.11.36 12.11.36 | F. Feld & Co Carlowits & Co | -do- Canton Army. 1st. Group | A. 0.26/25 C.S.0.1/25/36 A.0.30/34 C.S.0.23/25/36 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n\n263",
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        "content_text": "**Confidential**\n\nMy telegram No.55.\n\nBefore my interview with General Pai Chung-hsi, I was approached by a certain Commander Hsu, formerly Chinese Naval attaché in London, and who appears to be in charge of defences of the Yangtse, on the subject of supply of certain war materials to China. It was through Commander Hsu that the interview with General Pai Chung-hsi was arranged, and he acted as interpreter.\n\nAt the end of the interview, General Pai Chung-hsi put forward certain immediate desiderata of the Chinese government, which were later specified by Commander Hsu as follows:\n\n1. Armaments.\n   - (a) As many aeroplanes as possible\n   - (b) From 6 to 10 submarines, if possible, with volunteer British crews.\n   - (c) Large quantities of torpedoes and torpedo heads.\n   - (d) Large quantities of guns, calibre 75 mm. to 15 cm.\n   - (e) Large quantities of armour-piercing shells for guns mentioned under (d).\n\n2. Training of Chinese aviators, either at Singapore or in England.\n\n3. Exchange of intelligence information.\n\nAs regards 1, Commander Hsu said the Chinese Government would ...",
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        "content_text": "## COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n**CYMER TELEGRAM** from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 23rd November, 1937.\n\nNo.288.\n\nReceived 5.16 a.m. 23rd November.\n\nAddressed to Secretary of State for the Colonies No.288 23rd November repeated to Tokyo telegram No.46.\n\n(214) My telegram No.284. Figures for the week ending 15th November. Blasting packets and cartridges 10 tons. Aeroplanes 180 tons. Guns and cartridges 30 tons. Cartridges cannon 66 tons. Ammunition and guns 90 tons. T.N.T. and cartridges 180 tons. Gun shells and optical sights for guns 40 tons. Aeroplane spare parts 50 tons. 9 military lorries (10 wheels) 52½ tons. Motor cycles 20 tons. Motor cycles and spare parts 24 tons. Motor cycles and sidecar 15 tons. Total 787½ tons.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-563-12 Sino-Japanese War- evacuation of refugees from China 15-8-1937 - 4-1-1938",
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        "content_text": "## \n2. I have your endorsement of this advice and your authority for Consuls to deal with proved cases of destitution or hardship. A public statement at home would carry much weight here.\n\n4. We have of course no legal power to prevent evacuees from returning.\n\n5. As far as I can see at present there is no immediate danger of an attack on settlement by either belligerent and risk to life comes from stray shells, bombs and bullets but this situation might change at any instant. There is no doubt that evacuees, hearing situation has been quieter for some days, get the impression that they can now return.\n\n6. Commander-in-Chief and Brigadier have been shown this telegram and concur in its terms.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 107, repeated to Nanking, Peking, Hongkong. Copy to Commander-in-Chief, General-Officer-Commanding and Consul-General, Shanghai.",
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        "content_text": "## Refugee Conditions at Hong-Kong\n\nThat 150 British women who had been evacuated from Shanghai to Hong-Kong should have returned to the city whence they came, preferring to face the shells and air-bombs of a war-theatre rather than the cholera and discomforts of the British colony, is not, prima-facie, creditable either to the government of Hong-Kong in particular or to British colonial administration in general. No doubt the great influx of refugees into Hong-Kong created an urgent problem. But it was not entirely sudden; and in any case much time has now elapsed since the proportions which it must assume became obvious. Supposing that the local white staff, whether for administrative or for medical purposes, were too small, there have been ample possibilities of augmenting it. If ambassadors and journalists can be flown to China, why could not doctors and civil servants? There is nothing to show whether the fault has lain in Hong-Kong or Whitehall. But it looks as if there had been serious failure to meet an emergency that called for abnormal effort.",
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        "content_text": "# \n-2- \n\nI have informed Japanese stating as reason that information is given so as to avoid Japanese forces being embarrassed and implying that full responsibility for safety of our merchant ships from Japanese action rests with Japanese. As regards aircraft attacks on shore and now on inland waterways, similar principle was followed and information given as for merchant ships and Japanese clearly responsible. Since serious case of Ambassador, custom is growing up of giving full information of route, time of passage of non-combatants through military area and import of Hasegawa's reply quoted above re Asiatic Co's barge makes it evident that if this procedure continues unchecked, precedent will be created that responsibility lies with non-combatant unless due warning of passage is given.\n\n5. It is established that a non-combatant in a military area takes risk from shells or action directed in the first place at military objects. But is deliberate attack by aircraft on what could be established with sufficient care in identification to be a non-military object involving non-combatant, to be placed in the same category?\n\n6. Sino-Japanese hostilities are taking place in the early history of modern aircraft operations and I feel that an important principle is involved. Recent information whether this attack on Asiatic Petroleum Coy's barge, unimportant in itself, should be allowed to pass or whether principle of safety from attack of peaceful traders and non-combatants should be upheld as responsibility of belligerents, and Admiral Hasegawa's statement \"that Japanese Navy cannot guarantee safety\" be challenged.\n\n1st Lord  \n1216/21  \nDE  \n1st S.L.  \n2nd S.L.  \n3rd S.L.  \n4th S.L.  \nD.C.N.S.  \nA.C.N.S.(AIR)  \nA.C.N.S.  \nPARL.SEC  \nCIVIL LORD  \nSEC  \nNAV.SEC  \nP.A.S.(S)  \nO.D.(3)  \nD.N.I.(6)  \nM9 4.34  \nD.of P.(3)  \nD.3.D.9  \nN.I.D.6  \nHydrog  \nPlans Trad(2)  \nD.N.A.D.  \nD.D.of S.T.(Mr.Dorrell)(2)",
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        "content_text": "# No. SECRET.\n\n**AIR MAIL**\n\nCopy to B.E.Tokyo.\n\n41 \n97 \n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.**\n96. \n17th December, 1937.\n\nEnclosures Nos.1-14.\n(Originals to F.O. Duplicates h.w.).\nEnclosures ret'd by F.O.\n\nbb(85) Cape w/o email to admy encel in w.o Co 1.0 r/m J\n\nSir,\n\n(90) In continuation of my secret telegram No.317 of the 16th of December, 1937, regarding the attack by a Japanese destroyer on the Chinese Maritime Customs armed cruiser \"Chahsing\" within the three-mile limit, I have the honour to forward for your consideration the accompanying copies of reports and statements, together with a chart shewing the positions of the vessels and other explanatory photographs, as in the schedule annexed.\n\n2. It will be observed that throughout the incident until she was towed away to the high seas by the Japanese destroyer's launches from the beach in British territory, the Customs cruiser was in British waters, which she is entitled to use for the purpose of reaching Chinese territory to the North of Deep Bay, and the Sham Chun river.\n\nThe attack on the cruiser, the driving her ashore on a British beach, and the taking of her away as a prize would have been in my opinion and that of my advisers wholly unjustifiable in international law, even if war had been declared by Japan against China, and the same applies to the landing of armed Japanese and the firing of shells on to the British shore. Furthermore, the \n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE**  \n**W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,**  \n&c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "## Schedule of Statements and Reports\nand other enclosures.\n\n44\n\n1. Copies of telegrams.\n2. Precis of facts by Inspector Rozeskwy, Hong Kong Police.\n3. Statement by Captain Cook, Chinese Maritime Customs Cruiser \"Chahsing\".\n4. Statement of Kieng Pao Lien, 1st Officer, \"Chahsing\".\n5. Statement by the District Inspector, Northern District, New Territories of Hong Kong.\n6. Statement by the officer-in-Charge, Ping Shan Police Station, New Territories of Hong Kong, with rough sketch, Statement by Chan Ting, Villager.\n7. Statement by Chung Fan, Villager.\n8. Statement by Yee Cheong, Villager. (Separately. Original chart will be sent separately, original only)\n9. Chart of course of vessels, with explanatory note by Harbour Master.\n10. Copy of reports of Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs, Kowloon.\n11. Copy of reports by Naval Authorities on nature of shells found.\n12. Photographs of shells and places affected in British Territory, with explanatory notes endorsed on back.\n13. Copy of Government Notification No.75 of 1937.",
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        "content_text": "# Commodore's Office, Hong Kong\n## 12th December, 1937\n\n47\n\nFrom: Commodore, Hong Kong.\nMethod: W/T\nCypher: Kaval 2.\n\nTo:\nCommander-in-Chief in \"Plymouth\". 148\n(R) Admiralty 464.\n\n**IMPORTANT**\n\nMy 2237/11th December.\n\nAt 2100/11 Hong Kong Water Police recovered crew of `Chahsing` from village of Long Kau Teng Lat. 22 degrees 23′ 21′′ N Long 113 degrees 55′ 12′′ E. where they had taken refuge. Police launch then visited bay where `Chahsing` had been beached but found she had been removed. Members of crew of `Chehsing` informed Police that they had observed from the shore the Japanese destroyer come close to within about 1.4 miles from shore, lower two motor boats, and tow the `Chahsing` off. Two unexploded shells were found on the beach. A house on the beach was hit by splinters. A number of chickens were taken from the local houses. It is confirmed there were no casualties.\n\nChart reference `681 Kap Shui Mun to Bocca Tigris`.\n\nCopies to:\n- H.E. The Governor,\n- H.E. The G.O.C.\n- C.in C. in \"Cumberland\".\n- C.O.I.S.\nT.O.O. `1240/12/12/37`.",
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        "content_text": "## 2. \nThe cruiser was steaming at full speed towards **BLACK POINT**, where she was struck on the starboard side below the bridge by a ricochet shell.\n\n## 9. \nThe cruiser then swung onto the beach at **YUNG LUNG WAN (British Territory)**, where the 2 anchors were dropped and the crew abandoned the ship at 14.35 hours; the Captain taking with him the log book.\n\n## 10. \nThe firing continued the whole time the cruiser was manoeuvring, 4 or 5 shots being fired after the cruiser had beached.\n\n## 11. \nAfter the beaching of the cruiser, the destroyer proceeded to close in and lay to about 1 1/2 miles from the beach.\n\n## 12. \nOn shore, the crew took to the hills, where Captain **COOK** gave instructions to the 1st Officer, boatswain, and two ratings to remain in the vicinity, while he and the remaining party proceeded to the south of **BLACK POINT**, and finally, at 17.30 hours, the Captain arrived at Castle Peak Police station and phoned the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n## 13. \nIn all, 15 or 20 shells were fired at the cruiser from either a 4\" or 4.7\" gun; two unexploded shells being found on the beach outside the **NING YEUNG** shop and later taken away by Naval authorities after the vicinity had been photographed by Police.\n\n## 14. \nFrom the hillside, the 1st Officer, boatswain, and villagers saw the destroyer lower two motor boats with armed sailors who boarded the cruiser and also landed at **YUNG LUNG WAN**.\n\n## 15. \nThe sailors were then observed to enter the shop and houses in the vicinity and took away with them a number of chickens belonging to an old woman named **CHUNG WAN**.\n\n## 16. \nAt about 20.00 hours, the Chief Officer saw the Japanese destroyer steaming in a southerly direction towards Ladrones, and about 20 minutes later, he also observed the Customs Cruiser proceeding under her own steam in the...",
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        "content_text": "54 \n\n2 \n\nthat is about one and a quarter miles from the beach. The cruiser had been beached within a few yards of the stone jetty at YUNG LUNG WAN. On shore the crew took to the hills where I gave instructions to the First Officer, boatswain and two ratings to remain in the vicinity while I, with the remaining party, proceeded over the hills to the south of BLACK POINT. When the party arrived at the south of BLACK POINT, I gave instructions to the Second Officer to take charge of the remaining men and I then, with the European Engineer, went on to Castle Peak Police Station, arriving there at about 17.30 hours. At the Station, I reported by phone to the Commissioner of Customs and on his orders, I reported the incident to the Senior Naval Officer by phone. At 01.30 hours, I met the First Officer at the Railway Pier, who informed me that the destroyer had sent off two motor boats to the cruiser and later the cruiser sailed away under her own steam towards Chinese waters. In all, 15 or 20 shells were fired either from a 4\" or 4.7 gun. In my opinion, when the destroyer commenced firing, she was in the approximate position aforementioned. The destroyer at no time sent out a signal and I did not observe her ensign, neither did I see a flag hoisted. \n\nAt no time was any arm used by the cruiser throughout the whole incident. The ships' log book was written up to the time the ship was abandoned and the times are checked by it as aforementioned. \n\nThe log book was brought ashore when the ship was abandoned. \n\n**(SD) C. ROZESKWY** \nInspector. \n13th December, 1937.",
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        "content_text": "-3.\n\n57 \n\n1 \n\naboard. The place from which we were picked up was some little distance from YUNG LUNG WAN where we had gone aground. The Police Launch then went to YUNG LUNG WAN to make sure that it was our ship which I had seen sailing away, and found that it was. The people on the beach told us that the Japanese had stolen their chickens and they also pointed out a door which had been damaged by shell fire. They also pointed at two unexploded shells on the beach. I then returned to No.3 Police Launch which proceeded to Hong Kong.\n\nI have been two and a half years in the Customs. I do not think our ship was hit direct during the shell fire. While I was in the Ward-room at the beginning of this incident, there was a violent repercussion and our wireless set was knocked down. I do not know if any damage was done to the ship.\n\n**(sd) CHAS. MOTRAM.**  \nPolice Sergeant A. 101.  \n12th December, 1937.",
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        "content_text": "## \n4 \n\n2 \n\n5€ \n\nOne shell about 4.7 was pointed out to me, was lying on the beach in front of the Wing Yeung Company's entrance. This shell was stamped 754, once on the outer casing also on the base, and the character \"NG\" marked on; there was no nose cap on this shell. Another shell was pointed out to me behind the Sam Hing Company's matshed. This was also about 4.7, and had a nose cap on. I could not see the markings as it was dangerous to touch.\n\nAbout 150 yards southwest of the Wing Yeung Company, a foki Chan Sing pointed out a cut in the bank and through the root of a cactus plant. This is where it is said one of the unexploded shells first landed, bounced from here 25 yards farther on, cut through a small bank, and came to rest 7 yards farther away. The second shell was originally found about 7 yards to the west of the first shell. It had also cut through a bank. Both these shells were picked up by Chan Sing and carried to where I saw them.\n\nAt about 16.00 hours, two Naval Officers arrived and took possession of the shells. They said that both shells were in a most dangerous state.\n\nAfter I had taken statements, I had a search party search around the hills to try and locate holes or any indication where other shells had burst or to find any shrapnel, but nothing was found. Several life belts were picked up. Also, clothing which apparently had been discarded by the Customs officers during their escape across the hills.\n\nThe Police Photographer arrived and took several photos of the position of the shells, the shrapnel marks, and the marks made by the unexploded shells when landing.\n\nThe matshed from where it is alleged the chickens were taken is due east and next door to the Wing Yeung Company, about 25 yards away.\n\nAt 09.37 hours, while I was taking statements, a Japanese destroyer, the number of which I could not see, steamed in a northerly direction towards Ma Chau from Tung Ku Island. It anchored off Ma Chau and remained there all day.\n\nThen I left",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No.6.\n\n61\n\nPolice Sergeant A.162 W. Williamson, Officer in Charge Ping Shan, States:-\n\nAt about 09.00 hours on the 12th December, 1937 I arrived at Yung Long Wan with the Divisional Inspector North to make enquiries into an incident that had occurred there on the 11th December, 1937.\n\nI collected a number of people who were there when the incident occurred and took them to the Divisional Inspector North who was taking statements.\n\nThe scene is a valley running back from a bay and is bounded by hills. Through the back of the hills runs a main path through a pass leading to Nam Long and Lung Ku Ten. The hills formed a half circle with a 300 yards radius from the Wing Yeung Company which is on the foreshore in the centre of the beach.\n\nI was shown two shells, one lying on the sand in front of the Wing Yeung Company on the north side of the gate, the other was lying outside the mat-shed of the Sam Hing Company, about 20 yards back from the foreshore and about 100 to 125 yards south of the Wing Yeung Company. (See attached rough sketch). I searched the whole valley, Chan Sing showed me places where the shells were found (mark on rough plan).\n\nAt the foot of the hills I found life belts and equipment. In the pass leading to Nam Long I found a suit of Chinese Maritime Customs uniform marked \"Hong Sing\" and a uniform cap. In the paddy fields on the south-east side of Wing Yeung Company I found a wet suit of overalls with a bunch of keys in the pocket.\n\nIn the stream bed I found a number of red sashes. About 20 yards back from the beach between the Sam Hing Company and the Wing Yeung Company I found a scar about 7 feet long which passed under and uprooted a large cactus bush. About 35 yards behind this and in a direct line I found another scar leading to a hole through a low bank about 7 yards beyond which a shell marked 754 had been found and afterwards removed to the front of the Wing",
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        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n62\n\nYeung Company by Chan Sing. About 7 yards to the right and beyond this last scar, part of the stream bank had been broken down, and shell No.2, which I saw had characters painted on it, was found. This shell had also been taken back to the front of the Sam Hing Company by Chan Sing, who found both shells at about 17.30 hours on the 11th December, 1937.\n\nI inspected Chung Wen's matshed, which showed no signs of disorder.\n\nOn the stone blocks comprising the shore end of the Wing Yeung Pier, I saw recent chips, and others on a loose block lying between the gate and the pier. One on the wooden barrier pillars of the main gate through the barb wire fence had been pierced by something, which was probably a scrap of metal. One of the strands of barb wire on the right side of the gate had been cut, and the ends of it were burnt and blue. The plaster facing of the Wing Yeung Company's building was chipped; one chip about 4\" across the concrete balustrade had a chip about 5\" across it.\n\nI examined all the mat sheds I could find, but found no signs of search, disorder, or damage to them. I went round the surrounding hills but found no signs of shell fire or other spent shells. I then took the statements of Chan Sing and Chung Tan.\n\nI attached a rough plan of the bay indicating the position of the Wing Yeung Company's building and the matshed owned by the Sam Hing Company. I indicate also roughly where various exhibits named were found. I was informed that several witnesses of the incident had not yet returned to Yung Long Yan before I left.\n\n**(SD) W. WILLIAMSON. Police Sergeant**\n**A 162.**\n**Officer in Charge Ping Shan Police Station.**\n**13.12.1937.**",
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        "content_text": "## 63\n\nM FATH TO TSIN SHUI WAN SHELTER CHUNGWANS NGAU WAN FU. M OVER ALLS FOUND\n\nPATH ZA NAM LONG CHUNG WANS MATSHED MATS PADDY WING YEUNG ĈI M MATSHEDS\n\nLI S PIER SUIT OF UNIFORM FOUND! SHELLS SHELL SCARS FOUND FIELDS AM CACTUS SAMHING C4 CHAN SING WIRE FENCE 14 IM LIFE BELTS & CLOTHING FOUND RED SASHES FOUND STREAM\n\n## 65\n\nW. WILLIAMSON, P.S.A162 0%. PING SHAN POLICE STATION QUARRY CHANSING SHELTER BLACK POINT",
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        "content_text": "3-66\n\nbut I cannot say definitely how much, because my attention was taken up by the activities of the crews of the motor boats. The other motor boat remained tied up to the cruiser until the first motor boat returned. When it arrived back, the 2 anchors of the cruiser were pulled up, a bugle was blown, the cruiser was put astern, and she got off under her own power. One motor boat preceded her as she steamed off back to the Japanese Destroyers. The other ran up on to the beach on the South side of the pier, in front of the Wing Yeung Company. Two men dressed in khaki came ashore and entered the Wing Yeung compound on the South side. These 2 men went to the door of the Ming Yeung shop and knocked on it with what appeared to me to be either rifles or long batons. Just shortly after they knocked, I saw a coolie run out of the back of the store across the paddy fields into the bushes at the foot of the hill. The 2 men in khaki walked after him a few yards beyond the back of the store and then returned to the beach. They went round the north side of the Wing Yeung Company, where I lost sight of them. They returned just shortly after, and one of them was carrying a basketful of chickens. They went to the motor boat, boarded it, and it set off back to the Japanese Destroyer.\n\nIt was then about 17.00 hours to 17.15 hours. At about 17.30 hours, after the last motor boat had left, I came down from my hiding place, and went to see if I could see anyone hiding in the bushes at the back of the matsheds to tell them that it was safe to come out, and to see if anyone had been injured. I did not see anyone, but whilst doing this, I found shell No.1 (afterwards photographed outside the Wing Yeung Company), and about 7 yards away found shell No.2 (photographed outside Chan Sing's matshed). I took them back one at a time and placed them outside my matshed.\n\nFrom dusk until a Police Launch came, people came out in ones and twos from their hiding places, and we sat around and discussed this matter.\n\nLater, I took one of the shells (marked with a character...",
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        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n70\n\nI have seen the two shells which were fired from the Japanese destroyer and which did not explode; they were found on the beach about 30 yards from the Wing Yeung Company.\n\n(SD) A. SMITH,\nDivisional Inspector North.\n13.12.1937.\n\nPage 70\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \nOctober 29, 1937\n\n## The Rules Of War\n(Continued from page 599) provides a certain amount of amusement. It is only mad-dogs who have no sense of humour.\n\nGoing back to the Japanese protests against the Geneva resolutions, it seems futile for them to hope, even for a brief moment, that anybody will give their protests any credence. A visit to the hospitals in the affected areas in China will show that the wards are full of innocent civilians. Perhaps in the course of time the Japanese propagandists will tell the world that these civilians were not injured by the Japanese, but by stray shells and shrapnel from Chinese guns and bombs!\n\n## A DISGRACE TO THE COLONY\nView of Shihchiachwang Station.\n\n(Continued from previous Column) There is a quaint impression abroad—and we say this advisedly as we have only the word of a Government servant—that this journal is definitely anti-Government, and, indeed anti-everything. We have nothing but contempt for such a groundless allegation. We are frank and free, and that is all there is to it. If a strict policy in respect to Governmental errors of omission and commission is to be \"agin the Government\" then, most emphatically, we are; but only within the limits of reasoned Colonial argument.\n\nWhen the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, at Wednesday's meeting of the Legislative Council, made the amazing suggestion that it was fear of being found out rather than the severity of the punishment which deterred evil doers, we felt very strongly that the honourable gentleman was taking the word of the police, for that is exactly the view of the Hong Kong Police on the matter. And when we heard that assertion from the lips of the Colonial Secretary our feelings could best have been described by what has to be expressed on the typewriter by apostrophe superimposed on full stop.\n\nIt is for this reason that we deem it our duty to-day to chastise the Police Department of this Colony with the whip of castigation for its abject failure to deal adequately with one of the greatest plague spots of crime in Hong Kong—we refer to the morphine, heroin traffic—in heroin pills—that has been going on within the gates of this great city for some considerable time past. The experience of other colonies is diametrically opposed to the official Hong Kong view on the matter.\n\nGovernments are, after all, nothing but a conglomeration of appointments made at the instance of Whitehall, and, as such, the people thus employed are just ordinary folk subject to the same errors of judgment and other human shortcomings which govern the masses to-day. Thus, they are open to criticism.\n\nFor this reason, we must take this early opportunity to place on record our most vigorous protest at what we believe to be an attempt to deliberately mislead the Government on a matter of the gravest importance to the well-being of the great inarticulate masses of this Colony.\n\nWhen it comes to traffic in narcotics there is little to differentiate between the various forms traded in the East—opium, (Continued on next Column)\n\nThe trader in narcotics would not mind taking the most grave risks in order to sell greater quantities of the poison if he were certain that he could get off with a fine. The profits from this traffic are so colossal that dope traffickers would gladly pay fines running into four figures, and as these vice rackets are generally operated in what are known as \"rings,\" the money would more than likely come out of the pockets of the ring-leaders.\n\nA heavy prison term is, however, a totally different proposition. That is what the dope pedlar fears more than anything else—the loss of personal liberty.\n\nWe confess that we see something very sinister in the lukewarm manner in which this appalling problem is being allowed to \"slide\" by the police. Naturally, public suspicion is accentuated by reason of the fact that vast financial resources are at the disposal of, to quote the Hon. the Colonial Secretary's most apt description, \"the sub-human creatures who grow rich by poisoning men and women\" (Continued on page 601)",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n## October 29, 1937\n\n### COOLIES REFUSE TO WORK LOCAL SHIP\n\nBelieved Cargo Was For Japan\n\nUnder the impression that the cargo they were loading was intended to be shipped to Japan, over 60 coolies refused to work the ss. Hai Tan. The cargo comprised tanks of kerosene and petrol which were to be shipped to Swatow, Foochow, and Amoy.\n\nIt was learned that the Texas Oil Co. installation had engaged 120 coolies to load onto the Hai Tan. A commotion was caused among the 60 coolies who turned up when it was alleged that someone had informed them that the cargoes were meant for Japan. On hearing the rumor, the coolies immediately stopped work.\n\nAnother incident of a similar nature took place on Oct. 22 at Connaught Road West on a junk where a number of coolies were unloading wolfram ore to be stored in a godown. It was alleged that the ore was to be sent to Japan.\n\n### GOVERNOR'S OFFICIAL VISIT TO MACAO\n\nHis Excellency the officer Administering the Government, Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G., accompanied by his A.D.C., Capt. G. P. Rickcord, and private secretary, Mr. H. J. Cruttwell, paid an official visit to Macao on October 22.\n\nThey left shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday by the H.M.S. Falmouth, the Admiral's Yacht, and were seen off by the Portuguese Consul-General, Signor Alvaro Brilhante Laborinho, at Queen's Pier.\n\nIn Macao, they had luncheon at Government House with the Governor of Macao. After taking a motor drive around the Portuguese Colony, they left for Hong Kong by the Falmouth, arriving here at 7 p.m. in the evening.\n\nThe visit had no political significance and was suggested several months ago and approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Its postponement had been due to the situation in China but, as no such visit had been paid since 1933, the Secretary of State was anxious that this courtesy should, if possible, not await the arrival of Sir Geoffry Northcote, the Governor-Designate of Hong Kong.\n\n### Trade Barriers\n\nTrade barriers were touched upon at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Jules Martin, who invariably takes an active share in the discussions at the meetings of the Chamber, followed his usual course on this occasion and made a sound contribution to the proceedings, comments the \"Malaya Tribune.\" With his plea for freer trade and the abolition of all tariff barriers, he is assured of ample sympathy, for there can be no doubt whatever that most of the ills to which the world is heir today can be laid at the door of economic self-sufficiency. It has acted as a garrote on world trade and gained in strength so much that Great Britain, the apostle of free trade, was herself forced to resort to tariffs for her own protection. That did not make matters in the wider aspect any better. But it cannot be concluded that Great Britain, in taking the action she did, was actuated by any motive other than self-preservation. As regards Mr. Martin's remarks, he was thinking of world trade and the stranglehold which economic nationalism has succeeded in locking upon it. There are already signs that the economic nationalists have discovered the vital flaw in their theory, and there is a growing disposition to look upon free trade with a less prejudiced eye. But why consider world conditions when there are equally absurd conditions prevailing nearer home? There are the customs barriers in the Federated Malay States. Why not establish free trade on the mainland? It would be an excellent example to set the rest of the world.\n\n### A White Elephant\n\nOne of Malaya's white elephants, Prai, had its periodical outing last week at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce. The pachyderm was trotted out for inspection by the chairman, Mr. T. C. Martine, and, after a not too favorable eye had been cast over its points, it was trotted back again. It will be recalled that the General Manager of the Federated Malay States Railways, in his annual report for 1936, contradicted the assertion that the port of Prai was a white elephant. In one respect, he was right. The port will never be entirely useless but it will never be the port that its creators dreamed it would be. It will never be a deep-water port for ocean-going steamers. Mr. Martine subscribed to that view.\n\nHe did not propose to re-open a rather weather-beaten controversy as to the advantages of port development on the mainland, but he did consider that the bulk of cargo at Prai or Penang must always be handled by lighters, and any new improvement scheme should be designed with that idea to the fore. So there we have it. Prai is an excellent lighterage port and nothing more. In effect, it is still a white elephant but not so white as some of its traducers try to make out. When the amount of money that has been sunk in that estuary in an endeavor to justify the opinions of those who believed in Prai as a deep-water port is recalled, it is something to be thankful for that the future of the port is assured, not on the grandiose lines originally visualized for it, but on a real utility basis. The only thing that rankles is that all this was seen and appreciated by not a few before the Prai wharves had got no further than plans on paper. As an offset to the irksome reminder of the many millions spent on its construction, there is always the consolation that Prai will eventually pay for its keep.\n\n### Welcome, Malaya\n\nThe decision of the Malayan Governments to book 5,000 square feet in the Colonial Pavilion of the Empire Exhibition, to be held in Glasgow next year, has afforded much satisfaction in Scottish business circles, and the hope is freely expressed that the display of Malayan exhibits will result in mutual trade benefits.\n\nWelcoming Malaya to the Exhibition, the Glasgow \"News\" in a short editorial says:-\n\n\"Your decision to book 5,000 square feet in the Colonial Pavilion is heartening to us in Glasgow, and will prove a wise departure for yourselves.\n\n### CHINA REVIEW\n\n#### Pitiable Sights\n\n\"Unparalleled scenes of misery and destitution are being witnessed in the streets of Shanghai as a result of the hostilities, for hundreds of refugees are roaming the streets in the International Settlement and French Concession, sleeping in the open, begging for food, battered by the elements.\"\n\nThis is the description which an eyewitness gives of the immense suffering of the civilian population in Shanghai from a war which is due to no fault of theirs.\n\nBeing driven from their homes by the unwelcome visitation of bullets and shells, these refugees have now to live in concentration camps. Although eighty such camps have been established in the foreign areas, there is accommodation for a mere handful of the total figure. Meanwhile, the food problem grows more acute daily.\n\nAt present, unfortunate victims of war are only given rations, which do no more than keep them from abject starvation, and the police and volunteers are kept busy coping with food riots.\n\nFurther, the unsanitary conditions in the city are causing the health authorities much anxiety. Cases of cholera have been reported, and if the disease develops into an epidemic, against which all possible precautions are now being taken, the situation will be rendered most difficult.\n\n#### Women Soldiers\n\nThe womenfolk in China are taking their full share of responsibility in the present Sino-Japanese conflict. Discarding lipsticks and eyebrow pencils, they have now taken active parts in the front lines, and have been engaged in militia duties in the rear. It is even said that some of them have actually seen service in some of the grimmest and bloodiest battles in Shanghai.\n\nThroughout the country, girls are petitioning the Government for enrolment into the women's fighting forces, but so far, only those with previous military training have been drafted. But those who have been rejected are trying to make themselves useful in other ways, such as bringing comforts and entertainment to the troops and doing Red Cross work in base hospitals behind the fighting lines.\n\nAt the same time, the Government is exercising the greatest of caution because numerous traitors and spies are seeking to make army contacts. Consequently, many volunteers are rejected unless they possess incontrovertible proofs of their patriotic motives.\n\nThe former Red Army, subsequently renamed the 8th Route Army, possesses a contingent of veteran women troops. They are mostly wives of regulars, and are reliably said to be remaining with the 8th Route Army. It will be recalled that two years ago, they captured an entire regiment of Szechuen provincial troops!\n\n### MALAYAN REVIEW (Continued)\n\n\"Over here, we know too little of what you mean to the Empire with your vast production of rubber and tin, and your strategic importance in times of peace as in times of international strife.\n\n\"We are vague in our knowledge of the Federated and Unfederated States and the Straits Settlements, and their relation to Britain, so that anything you can do to educate us will be of mutual benefit.\n\n\"The Sino-Japanese war reminds us forcibly of the part that Singapore plays in protecting the arteries of Empire, and safeguarding the life-blood of our peoples.\n\n\"You will enlighten us more fully and by happier methods.\"\n\n### CHUNG SHAN SURGICAL UNIT\n\n#### Personnel In North China\n\nThe following corrected list of the personnel composing the Chung Shan Surgical Unit was received from Nanking recently, reading as follows:-\n\nThe Chung Shan Medical Unit, Nanking:- Patron and President: Dr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan;\n\nBoard of Directors:- Dr. Wang Ching Wei (President of the Kuomintang); Dr. Wang Chung Hui (Minister of Foreign Affairs); Dr. J. Heng Liu (Minister of Health); Dr. Fu Ping Sheung (Member of the Legislative Yuan); Dr. Wu Sheung Ying (Member of the Legislative Yuan); Mr. Ma Chiu Shun (Mayor of Nanking); Madame Sun Fo; Madame Wang Ching Wei; Madame Ma Chiu Shun; Mr. Aw Boon Haw; Mr. A. Morris; Prof. W. I. Gerrard;\n\nMedical Head: Dr. Yik Wan. Doctors: Dr. S. C. Ho, Dr. Ying Wan, Dr. Li Ho Tin, Dr. Tze Ming Tsan, Dr. Lau Man Fong, Dr. Lam Lin.\n\nNurses:- Misses Pun Yuen Ching, Ng Yee Kun, Fung Man Fung, Hung Ching Chu, Wong Kei Tong, Kwok Yin Wa, Cheung Siu Ping, Yu Kim Man, Liu Po Ching, Ip Poo Ying, Kwok Shun Tak, Rosetta Ling, Yu Wai Sheung, Chan Wai Fong, Ng Kam Ho, Chan Wai Han, Leung Fung Ha, Tang Fong Ling, Kwok Miu Chun, Leung Wai Fun, Lo So Wan, Lee Yuk Chun, Chan Sau Ying, and Leung Kim Wan.\n\nMale-nurses:- Messrs. So Yat Sang, Leung Hang, Au Po Ming, Fan Chan Chung, Ng Pui Fun, Bank K. Yip, Li Fai Sing, Mo Kam Man, Wai Fu Kuen, Wong Kok Shui, Kwok Yuk Wing, and B. A. Hyder.\n\n### DONATIONS\n\nThe Chairman of the Hong Kong Travel Association acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following subscriptions to the Association for the period 1937-1938:-\n\n| Donor | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall | $15.00 |\n| China Light & Power Co., Ltd. | $100.00 |",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n## HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE\n### QUOTATIONS\n\nHong Kong, October 27, 1937\n\n## Stock Quotations\n\n### Banks\n\n| Stock | Authorised Capital (Number of Shares) | Issued Capital (Number of Shares) | Value | Paid up | Last Dividend | When Paid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| H.K. & Shanghai Bank | 400,000 | £160,000 | $125 all |  | Interim a/c 1937 £2,10.- @ 1/2 5/8=$41.20 | Aug. 9, 1937 |\n| Do. (Lon. Reg.) |  |  | £91 now |  |  |  |\n| Chartered Bank | 600,000 | all | £5 all |  | Inter. 7/- a/c 1936 |  |\n| Mercantile Bank A. & B. | 60,000 | all | £25 | £12 | C. |  |\n|  |  |  | £15 nom. |  | subject to I/Tax | Sept. -, 1937 |\n| Bank of East Asia | 100,000 | 55,986 | $100 all |  | $6 and Bonus $1, making $7 for 1936 | Mar. 8, 1937 |\n\n### Insurances\n\n| Stock | Authorised Capital (Number of Shares) | Issued Capital (Number of Shares) | Value | Paid up | Last Dividend | When Paid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Canton Insurance | 50,000 | all | $50 | $20 |  |  |\n| Union Insurance | 200,000 | 135,000 | £10 | £6 | Xinal $8 for 1935 Inter. $5 a/c 1936 making $13. Interim 15/- a/c 1237 | May 18, 1937, Oct. 22, 1937 |\n| China Underwriters | 500,000 | 256,000 | $10 | $5 |  |  |\n| Hongkong Fire Ins. | 40,000 | all | $50 | $20 | $12 for 1935 | Mar. 25, 1937 |\n\n### Shipping\n\n| Stock | Authorised Capital (Number of Shares) | Issued Capital (Number of Shares) | Value | Paid up | Last Dividend | When Paid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Douglases | 20,000 | all | $50 | all | $2.50 for 1934 | June 4, 1935 |\n| Hongkong Steamboats | 80,000 | all | $15 | all | Last dividend for 1929 | Mar. 4, 1930 |\n| Hongkong Steamboats (preferred) | 120,000 | 49,589 | £5 | all | Last dividend for 1924 and 1925 | June 19, 1929 |\n| Indo-Chinas (deferred) | 120,000 | 49,589 | £5 | all | Last dividend for 1921 | May 24, 1922 |\n| Shells (Bearer) | 30,000,000 | 28,945,633 | £1 | *all | & |  |\n| Union Waterboats | 71,430 | 38,813 | $7 all |  | 1935 Coupon Cents 45 for 1936 | July 7, 1936, Mar. 23, 1937 |\n\n### Mining\n\n| Stock | Authorised Capital (Number of Shares) | Issued Capital (Number of Shares) | Value | Paid up | Last Dividend | When Paid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Kailan Mining Ad. | 2,000,000 | 1,960,000 | £1 | all | 5/- all |  |\n| Raubs | 800,000 | all | 6d. free 1/Tax, Coupon No. 43 for year 30-6-36 Second interim 4d. acct. year 31-3-38 |  |  | Jan. 18, 1937, Sept. 15, 1937 |\n\n### Docks, Wharves and Godows, etc.\n\n| Stock | Authorised Capital (Number of Shares) | Issued Capital (Number of Shares) | Value | Paid up | Last Dividend | When Paid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| H.K. & K. Wharves | 160,000 | 90,000 | $50 | all | $4.50 for 1936 | Mar 12, 1937 |\n| H.K. & W. Docks | 1,000,000 | 202,920 | $10 | all | 60 cents for 1936 | Mar 22, 1937 |\n| China Providents (old) | 600,000 | 589,578 | $5 | all | (Cts. 12 on old |  |\n| China Providents (new) | 300,000 | 294,789 | $5 | all | Cts. 8 on new for 1938 | Mar. 21, 1934 |\n| Shanghai Docks | 500,000 | 55,700 | Tls. 5 | 300,000 | 55,200 Tls. 50 | all |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 6% (ord.) for 1932 None for 1933 Tls. 2.50 for year 30-4-36 | May 14, 1933, Aug. 19, 1936 |\n\n### New Engineerings\n\n### Lands, Hotels & Bldgs.\n\n| Stock | Authorised Capital (Number of Shares) | Issued Capital (Number of Shares) | Value | Paid up | Last Dividend | When Paid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| H. & S. Hotels | 1,500,000 | 1,193,867 | $7 | all |  |  |\n| Hongkong Lands | 400,000 | 300,000 | $25 | all |  |  |\n| Do. 4% Debentures | 1,404,000 | all |  |  |  |  |\n| Shanghai Lands |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Humphreys | 300,000 | 200,000 | $10 | $10 | Tls. 5 all |  |\n| Hongkong Realties | 20,000 | all |  |  | all |  |\n| Chinese Estates | 30,000 | 16,500 | $100 | all | 25 cents for 1936... Interim 1 a/c 1937 | Feb. 18, 1937, Sept. 18, 1937 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | (Final T. 0.20 making T. 0.50 for 1934 | Apr. 25, 1935 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 50 cents for 1936... | Apr. 15, 1937 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 25 cents for 1934... Second interim $2 a/c year | Apr. 17, 1935, Aug. 17, 1937 |",
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        "content_text": "## 2.\n\nThe police authorities further report that two unexploded shells were found on the beach and that a house on the beach was hit by splinters. The Japanese naval party landed without any permit from the authorities of the Colony and took a number of chickens from local houses.\n\n## 3. The Japanese government will doubtless agree that the action of the Japanese destroyer was in all respects wholly unjustified and illegal. In the first place, there was an attack upon a vessel while within British territorial waters. The subsequent action of the destroyer in removing the vessel from the place in British territory where she had, as a result of this illegal attack, been beached, is equally unwarranted and inexcusable. Finally, there was an unauthorised landing of armed Japanese forces on British territory.\n\n## 4. The illegal nature of these violations of British sovereignty and jurisdiction is so clear that His Majesty's Government can only suppose that the local Japanese naval authorities are in ignorance of the correct course of conduct to be followed in such cases; the more so as this is not the first instance of its kind.\n\n## 5. His Majesty's Government do not doubt but that the Japanese Government will share their view of this incident; they accordingly expect to receive at an early date an assurance that the strictest instructions have been issued to ensure that the territories and territorial waters of Hongkong are fully respected. At the same time, they request to be informed of the nature of the disciplinary action which has been taken against those responsible for this deplorable occurrence.\n\nPage 130\nPage 131",
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        "content_text": "## Note appréciation \n\nRegarding \n\na war \n\nstory concerning \n\n145 \n\nsee 1 and 7 on `53838/10/37`. \n\nAn English officer in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service \n\nOn the 5th of September it was reported that a Japanese destroyer seized two vessels of the Chinese maritime customs near the Colony of Hong Kong. In the case of the first attack there was evidence that although the customs vessel was outside the territorial waters, the Japanese destroyer fired from within those waters. \n\nHis Majesty's Government instructed His Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo to protest strongly to the Japanese Government against this violation of the territorial waters of the Colony, and request that urgent instructions be issued to prevent the recurrence of such illegal acts. \n\nOn the 11th of December it was reported that another Chinese maritime customs cruiser \"Chahsing\" was fired at by a Japanese destroyer. The vessel was hit and was run aground near Black Point, which is British territory. The Commander of the vessel was positive that when he was fired at his vessel was well within territorial waters, though the Japanese vessel was probably outside territorial waters. \n\nThe crew of the vessel were recovered by the Hong Kong Police from the village where they had taken refuge. The Police launch then visited the bay where the \"Chahsing\" had been beached, but found that she had been removed. Members of the crew informed the Police that they had observed from the shore the Japanese destroyer closing to within about 1.4 miles from the shore. Two motor boats were lowered from the destroyer and the \"Chahsing\" was towed off. Two unexploded shells were found on the beach. A house on the beach was hit by splinters, and a number of chickens were taken from local houses. \n\nA telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong reported that there was no doubt in the minds either of the Commander or the crew that the \"Chahsing\" was within British territorial waters when fired upon.",
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        "content_text": "# SECRET MESSAGE\n\nFrom: Commodore Hong Kong.\nDate: 12.12.37.\nReceived: 0800.\nNaval Cypher (D).\n84 158\n\nAddressed C. in C. China in H.M.S. FALMOUTH, repeated Admiralty **IMPORTANT**\n\n464. My 2237 11th December.\n\nAt 2100 11th December Hong Kong Water Police recovered crew of Chansing from village Long Kau Tang 022° 23 minutes 21 secs. N. 113° 55 mins. 12 secs. East where they had taken refuge.\n\nPolice Launch then visited the Bay where the Chahsing had been beached but found she had been removed. Members of crew of Chansing informed police that they had observed from the shore Japanese destroyer close to within about one and a quarter miles from shore lower two motor boats and tow Chahsing off. Two unexploded shells were found on the beach. A house on the beach was hit by splinters. A number of chickens were ...(odrrupt groups)...\n\nIt is confirmed that there were no casualties.\n\nReference 3681 Kap Khui Mun to Bocca Tigris. Chart.\n\nDistribution:\n- 1st Lord\n- 1st S.L.\n- M.35\n- M.34\n- 2nd S.L.\n- 3rd S.L.\n- 4th S.L.\n- D.C.N.S.\n- 4.C.N.S. (AIR)\n- C.N.S.\n- P...HL.SLC.\n- CIVIL LORD SLC.\n- NAVAL SEC. P...S.(S)\n- O.D. (z)\n- D.N....\n- M.10\n- D. of P.(3)\n- D.S.D.9\n- N.I.D.8\n- Hydrog.\n- Plans (Trade)(2)\n- D.D. of S.T. (Mr.Dorrell)(2)\n- R.C.(3)\n\nTo be sent by M. Branch to:\n- Foreign Office\n- War Office\n- Air Ministry\n1240/12. \nPS. \n4.",
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        "content_text": "## 184\n\n4\n\nTwo got into the sampan, whence most of them took to the mainsail. After drifting for two hours, they rowed over to Chan Kau's junk, which had not entirely sunk. After seventy-two hours on the stern of that junk, they were towed by another junk to San Mei.\n\n20. Chan Kau's junk was hit four times and went down by the head but did not sink. There were no casualties on board. They picked up the survivors from Yeung Yat-hei's junk, and after three days and three nights were towed into San Mei. On board his junk were ten women and two children.\n\n21. Fung Kam-shing, owner and master of junk No. `1822HW` licensed at Shaukiwan, capacity 1591 piculs, worked in partnership with his father Fung Hing-wo, owner and master of junk No. `611HW` licensed at Shaukiwan, capacity 1663 piculs. His junk was struck twice amidships and sank. One member of the crew, Leung Hong, was wounded severely in the foot and has since died after having half his foot amputated. The cause of death was pyæmia due to injury to the foot. The survivors, 12 males and 9 women and children, took to the sampan and the mainsail. They drifted about until about noon on 26th September when they were picked up by a junk and taken to Aberdeen.\n\n22. Fung Hing-wo's junk was sunk. There were on board eight women, children, and ten males. No trace of any survivors has been found.\n\n23. Li Mun, owner and master of junk No. `3407HW` licensed at Shaukiwan, capacity 1664 piculs, sailed from Shaukiwan on 19th September together with Ng Ying-kit, owner and master of junk No. `3891HA`, capacity 1275 piculs. His junk was struck three times and sank. The third shot hit the junk by the stern and killed Li Mun's wife and three daughters aged 2, 6, and 8. Three members of the crew, Ho Kau, Li Tai, and Lai Yau, were wounded. The survivors drifted off on the sails. The sails became separated, and Li Mun with six other men, one woman, and one child were picked up by a small fishing boat about 1 p.m. on 27th September and taken to Chelong lighthouse, whence they made their way to Hong Kong. Other ten survivors were picked up on 27th September by the s.s. **\"Scharnhorst\"**. Two other survivors from this junk were those picked up by the s.s. **\"Kaying\"**.\n\n24. Ng Ying-kit's junk was the last to be disposed of by the attacking vessel. It is possibly for that reason, as a savage parting gesture, that those from this junk who took to the sampan and the mainsail were treated with such callous inhumanity. Two shells struck his junk. The first one killed two young women aged 18 and 27 respectively and wounded two members of the crew. The second fortunately took no toll of victims. The junk sank, and the survivors took to the sampan and the mainsail, which were tied together. Among them were five women and eight children. Twelve persons were in the sampan, and the remaining seventeen were clinging to the mainsail. At that moment, they saw the vessel turn and approach them. A machine gun was fired, and of the twelve persons in the sampan, nine were killed outright, and one was wounded. Those killed were the owner's two sons aged 19 and 6, two grandsons aged 6 and 4, his daughter-in-law, his daughter aged 7, two granddaughters aged 10 and 2 respectively, and his niece aged 18. The wounded woman was his wife. The bodies were thrown into the sea. Two days later, the survivors were picked up by a fishing junk and taken to San Mei. On 13th October, Ng Ying-kit and his wife, who required medical attention, came to Hong Kong.\n\n## 5\n\n25. As no interested parties have been represented before us, none of the Chinese witnesses have been subjected to any intense cross-examination, and the question therefore inevitably arises how far the testimony of these witnesses can be believed.\n\nWe are dealing with members of the fisherman class, unaccustomed even to life ashore and still more so to giving evidence before a quasi-judicial tribunal. They are illiterate for the most part and in many ways simple or even stupid, but with a little patience, a connected story can be got from them. We have no hesitation in saying that the account of the happenings on 22nd September told to us by each of them is one which in essentials we believe to be true. There are undoubtedly discrepancies regarding minor matters: the wonder is that there are not many more discrepancies, and we cannot resist the conclusion that each of these witnesses was honestly trying to give us, in his own way, a truthful account of what he, from very different vantage points, saw of the events of a day which will live long in the memory of each of them.\n\n26. Of direct corroboration of their story, from other than Chinese sources, there obviously can be none, at least until members of the crew of the attacking vessel enter the witness box and give their account of what occurred. Of indirect corroboration, however, there is much. The fact that the s.s. **\"Scharnhorst\"** and the s.s. **\"Kaying\"** on 27th September picked up twelve survivors from junk No. `3407HW`, some of whom were wounded and others in the last stages of exhaustion, shows conclusively that something catastrophic had befallen that junk. The evidence of Dr. Court regarding Leung Hong, who was wounded on board Fung Kam-shing's junk, and Chan Kwai-kam, wife of Ng Ying-kit, who was wounded on board his junk, and the evidence of Dr. Bau relating to the injuries for which he treated Lai Yau, Ho Kau, Li Tai, and Lai Pak-yau demonstrate cogently that at least on junk `3407HW` and junk `3891HA`, something had occurred which involved the use of copper bullets with metal casing, and intense disruptive force sufficient to drive fragments and splinters of wood through clothing and into the flesh of the victims and to tear the whole instep from an adult man's foot.\n\n27. Further corroboration is to be found in the evidence of the Government Analyst and of Inspector Hopkins of the Hong Kong Police. The small jagged piece of metal taken by Dr. Bau from the buttock of Lee Tai is consistent with a piece of shell casing or a splinter from any other larger piece of metal, but the bullet extracted by Dr. Court from the knee of Chan Kwai-kam, the wife of Ng Ying-kit, has on examination proved demonstrably to have been fired from a weapon with a rifled barrel having four lands and grooves with a right-hand twist. The bullet, a photograph of which is shown in Appendix VII, was found on examination to contain a whitish substance consisting of barium, magnesium, carbonate, and hydrate, a residual product of the interaction of barium peroxide and magnesium. That, we have been told, is a standard mixture used for causing great heat or flame. It is, we are told, a mixture used in tracer bullets or incendiary bullets. In the opinion of Inspector Hopkins, the bullet under examination was an incendiary bullet. It is a bullet of an unusual type and was certainly fired from a weapon with a rifled barrel.\n\n28. That the shipwreck of any of these junks was not due to ordinary perils of the sea is conclusively established by the evidence of the Assistant Director of the Royal Observatory. The weather in the locality with which we were concerned throughout the period from 22nd to 27th September was fine and fair. The wind was moderate, with a velocity of from thirteen to eighteen miles an hour, and the sea was slight to calm.\n\n29. As we have already indicated, eight of these junks carried arms, particulars whereof are shown in Appendix I. The cannon are primitive cast-iron muzzle-loading weapons, and the muskets also are muzzle-loaders. The escape of junks Nos. `28HW` and `4470HA` provided an opportunity for obtaining photographs of the cannon on board, and these three photographs form Appendices IV, V, and VI. The police photographer has sworn that on board junk No. `4470HA`, the cannon was lying on deck as shown in Appendix VI, while the gun carriage was used as ballast in the hold below, being secured to the ship's side with wire. Lam Chu has deposed that he kept his only cannon inside the hold for safety, and in this, he is corroborated by his cousin Lam Yau-tai. Witness after witness was emphatic in declaring that no shots were fired at the attacking vessel from any of the junks, some of them adding in surprised tones, \"how dared we do such a thing?\" Even if the presence of such primitive armament on board these junks could give the impression that they were armed Chinese vessels, their presence could not justify the failure to make any attempt to rescue survivors or the machine-gunning of a small boat containing women and children.\n\n30. There remains for consideration the evidence going to the identification of the attacking vessel. 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        "content_text": "# \n[1st witness Lam Chu.]\n\n## \n89. Mr. Whyatt to Witness: You told us about the sailors that you saw on the submarine. How much of the hull of the vessel could you see? \nAt the time we were fired at the whole of the submarine was fully afloat.\n\n90. That was when it was about three times the length of this court away? \nYes, fully afloat when this submarine was about twice the length of this court away from us.\n\n91. When you first saw the submarine was it as fully afloat as when she was about to fire at your junk? \nYes, she was fully afloat when I first saw her.\n\n92. I just want to ask you if you can tell me what was the colour of this submarine? \nSilvery grey in colour.\n\n93. Was the sun shining that morning? \nYes.\n\n94. What did these sailors do when they came up close to your junk? \nThey were fairly tall sort of men with things hanging down from the shoulders.\n\n95. What I asked was what did these sailors do when the submarine came close up and began firing on the junks? \nThey were working at these guns.\n\n96. Was it one gun or two guns? \nThey used one gun to fire at us.\n\n97. What happened? \nMy junk was hit on the side once.\n\n98. And what happened to your brother's junk-Lam Shu-po's junk? \nHe was hit twice and then the junk went down.\n\n99. Was Lam Shu-po's junk hit before yours or after? \nLam Shu-po's junk was hit first and then she sank.\n\n100. When you were hit was anyone injured aboard your junk? \nYes, one person was injured.\n\n101. What was his name? \nKwok Tai-fu.\n\n102. Was he badly injured? \nYes, he was killed and another person was injured.\n\n103. Whereabouts was Kwok Tai-fu when he was killed? \nHe was inside No. 1 hold which is the very first hold counting from the bow.\n\n104. You told us that someone else was injured? \nYes, Lam Yau-tai. He was not directly hit by the bullet but a bullet hit something on board and sent those broken parts of that something on to him and hurt him.\n\n105. Is Lam Yau-tai a relation of yours? \nMy younger brother.\n\n106. After the submarine had fired at your junk, did you see what it did next: where did it go after it fired at you? \nAfter that it went a little further and shot at the next pair.\n\n107. That would be Chan Kau and Yeung Yat-hei? \nYes.\n\n108. Did you see what happened to that pair? \nThe next pair the submarine fired at was not Chan Kau's pair but the other pair-the fifth pair-Fung Kam-shing's pair.\n\n109. Did you see what happened to Fung Kam-shing's junks after the submarine fired at them? \nAs a result of the firing the pair went down.\n\n110. Did you see where the submarine went after firing at Fung Kam-shing's junks? \nThen she fired at that other pair the 4th pair-Chan Kau's.\n\n111. And what happened to this junk? \nWhen Chan Kau's pair was hit that pair was not then in that position as shown here; she had gone a little distance because there was an interval. The submarine did not go for her but Fung Kam-shing's junks first.\n\n112. What happened to them after that? \nThe junks were hit and the submarine then fired at Chan Kau's and Yeung Yat-hei's.\n\n113. What happened to the pair of junks after they were hit? \nOne sank completely and the other went down a little.\n\n114. Then you were going on to tell us what the submarine did after firing at the pair of junks-you say it approached Li Mun's junks and fired at that? \nYes.\n\n## \n115. What happened to Li Mun's junk? \nThey both went down completely.\n\n116. Li Mun and Ng Ying-kit? \nYes, they both sank.\n\n117. What did you do after your junk had been hit by shells from this submarine? \nI lowered a sampan and then I lowered the mainsail.\n\n118. What was your object in lowering the mainsail? \nAfter we were hit we knew that our boat would be sunk and then we lowered the mainsail for the reason that we wanted to hold on to the mainsail, for we knew that it would float.\n\n119. Can you tell me what is the general custom among fisher folk in case of an emergency? \nIn case of an emergency we depend entirely on the mainsail to save us-we depend on that only.\n\n120. Just tell me what is the mainsail made of? \nMade of matting, which is made of seagrass.\n\n121. Is the matting fastened on to poles? \nYes, fastened on to poles.\n\n122. What sort of poles? \nPine wood poles.\n\n123. About how many poles would there be to your mainsail? \nSix pine poles.\n\n124. After you had lowered the mainsail did you do anything to it before your junk finally sank? \nI and the other people on the junk sat down on the mainsail after it had been lowered.\n\n125. Chairman: How many people were there? \nAt that time there were about 20 persons on this mainsail.\n\n126. From your junk? \nThat mainsail would not accommodate all the 20 persons--we had a sampan besides the mainsail.\n\n127. Mr. Whyatt: Some in the sampan and some on the mainsail? \nYes.\n\n128. Tell me about the other sails, there were three sails altogether? \nWe paid no attention to the other two sails because one of them is made of cotton.\n\n129. Between the sampan and the mainsail there were 20 of you altogether? \nAbout 28 in all.\n\n130. How many of these were children? \n13 or 14 women and children.\n\n131. How many were children? \nabout 10 children.\n\n132. Did you yourself get on to the mainsail? \nYes.\n\n133. Will you tell us what happened after you and the other members of your crew got on to the mainsail and into the sampan? \nAfter the junk had sunk we were adrift we were floating.\n\n134. How long did you continue to float? \nWe were floating until the 23rd of September when we were picked up.\n\n135. That is the following day? \nYes.\n\n136. Who picked you up? \nA fishing junk.\n\n137. Do you know the name of the master of the fishing junk who picked you up? \nI don't know his name.\n\n138. Do you know where he comes from? \nHe comes from San Mei.\n\n139. After he picked you up where did he take you to? \nWe arrived at Shaukiwan on the following day, the 24th September.\n\n140. You say everyone who was aboard your junk was picked up by this junk which took you to Shaukiwan? \nYes.\n\n141. When you got to Shaukiwan what did you do? \nI made a report to the Police Inspector.\n\n142. How long was it after you had arrived at Shaukiwan that you went along to the Police Inspector to make a report? \nOn the same day, as soon as we arrived at Shaukiwan I made a report.\n\n143. With regard to the sinking of your junk? \nYes.\n\n## \n204 \n## \n205",
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        "content_text": "# \n211 \n— \n13 \n\n[3rd witness Fung Kam-shing.] [4th witness Li Mun.] \n\n[3rd witness Fung Kam-shing.] \n\n12 \n\n254. Did you notice the colour of the submarine? Silvery grey in colour.  \n255. Apart from the colour in which the submarine was painted, did you notice anything else about the submarine? The middle of the side of this submarine had an English figure \"7\". \n\n256. Was there any other character besides this number \"7\" on the submarine? That I did not notice. I only saw one figure \"7\". \n\n257. You have told us that there were two guns on this submarine, and about 10 sailors? Yes.  \n258. Did you see any of the sailors do anything with either of these guns? Yes, I saw the sailors working at the guns.  \n259. Fire them? I did not actually see one fired. I saw they were working at moving and turning the gun in different directions.  \n\n260. Chairman: Both guns? The one I saw was at the stern when they were working. I got frightened and went inside the hold.  \n\n261. Mr. Whyatt: When you got inside the hold was your junk struck by any shells which were fired? Yes, the junk was hit and she was about sinking when I came on deck again.  \n\n262. How many times was your junk struck? Twice.  \n263. Whereabouts did the shell strike your junk? I think amidships; because I was inside the hold I cannot say very distinctly where the spot was where the boat was struck.  \n\n264. You have told us that you came up on deck after two shots were fired? When the boat was about to sink I came on deck.  \n265. Then what did you do? I then lowered the sail because the boat was sinking.  \n266. I think you told us that you lowered the sail some time before?  \n\n267. Chairman: You stated you lowered the sail when you heard gunfire? I did not lower the sail when I first heard the gunfire.  \n268. You told us that you lowered it after you came up from the hold when your junk had been struck? Yes.  \n\n269. Mr. Whyatt: When you lowered the mainsail was it still attached to the mainmast? When I came up on to the deck again, the sail was attached to the mainmast and when it was lowered I had to cut it off from the mainmast so that the sail could float.  \n\n270. When you cut the mainsail from the mainmast did you do anything to it before it started to float? After the ropes which fastened the sail on the mainmast had been cut off the male adults went to the mainsail and they all hung on to the sail and the women and children all went to the sampan.  \n271. How many women and children got into the sampan? 8 women and one child. This number included some girls - two married women and two or three girls between 16 and 17 years old and the rest were small children.  \n\n272. How many adults were there on the mainsail? 12 men.  \n273. Did you do anything to the mainsail before it began to float - did you tie up the poles or anything of that sort? Oh, yes, we had to tie the poles of the sail together.  \n274. What was the object of doing that? Because if you don't tie these poles together they may not float so well, but if they are tied together then it would float well and people could sit on it.  \n\n275. Did you see what happened to your father's junk? That junk was hit and it sank.  \n276. You got adrift on the mainsail on the morning of the 22nd - what was the next thing that happened to you? We were still floating the next morning and then at last we were picked up.  \n277. When was it? On the 26th September about noon.  \n278. Who picked you up? We were picked up by Lai Ma-tai's junk.  \n279. Was that everyone on the mainsail - what about the people in the sampan? They were all picked up by Lai Ma-tai's junk.  \n\n280. Where were you taken to by Lai Ma-tai? To Aberdeen.  \n281. What day did you arrive at Aberdeen? I think it was on the 29th September when we arrived at Aberdeen.  \n\n282. Was anyone injured among your crew or the people aboard your junk? Yes, one, Leung Hong was injured.  \n283. Chairman: Of your crew? Yes, one of the crew on the junk.  \n\n284. Mr. Whyatt: Whereabouts was he injured? Both of his feet were injured.  \n285. What happened to him when you got to Aberdeen? He remained on the junk and a report was made at the Police Station at Aberdeen.  \n286. How long was that after you arrived at Aberdeen? Just when we arrived at Aberdeen I made the report.  \n\n287. Do you know what happened to Leung Hong after you made the report - where he went to? He was then removed to the hospital by a motor ambulance. I was told it was the Queen Mary Hospital.  \n\n288. You have told us that when you last saw your father's junk it was sinking? Yes.  \n289. Tell me, have you heard anything of your father since that time? I have heard no more of him.  \n290. You have made inquiries about him? Yes, I inquired from all my relatives and friends about him but I have heard nothing.  \n\n291. Have you heard about any members of the crew? No.  \n292. I think your mother also was on board that junk with your father? Yes.  \n293. Have you heard anything of her? I have heard nothing of her either.  \n\n294. Could you say approximately how many people there were on board your father's junk? About 18.  \n295. Of these how many were children? 5 children.  \n296. How many women? 3 women.  \n\n297. Chairman: Had you any cannon on board your junk? Yes.  \n298. Where did you keep them? I had four cannon on deck.  \n299. Did your father have any? Yes.  \n300. How many? He had four.  \n301. Also on deck? Yes.  \n\n302. Did you fire any of yours at the submarine? No.  \n303. Did any of the other junks fire at the submarine? I did not hear any at all.  \n\n(Witness left the witness box).  \n\n304. Fourth Witness.  \n\nLi Mun, duly declared, states:- \n\n305. Mr. Whyatt: Li Mun, how old are you? I am 60 years old.  \n306. Can you tell us where you were born? I was born in Hong Kong.  \n307. Whereabouts? In Shaukiwan.  \n\n308. You have spent the whole of your life on fishing junks in and about the waters of Hong Kong? Yes.  \n309. I think your father and grandfather were also fishing men? Yes.  \n\n310. In September of this year were you the owner of a fishing junk? Yes.  \n311. What was the number of it? 3407.  \n312. Where was it licensed? Either Shaukiwan or Aberdeen, one of the two places, I don't remember which.",
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        "content_text": "# [9th witness Yeung Yat-bei.]\n\n## 26-\n\n658. I am asking during the night time. You obviously could not see the lighthouse at night? At night I could not see the lighthouse.\n\n659. Did you see the light? Yes.\n\n660. Was it the light or the reflection of the light in the sky? I saw the reflection in the sky, not the light itself.\n\n661. When you started fishing that morning on the 22nd were you fishing in a pair with another junk? Yes, sir.\n\n662. And what was the name of the junk master of the other junk? Chan Kau was the master of that junk.\n\n663. Whilst you were fishing that morning did you notice anything unusual happening? No.\n\n664. How long did you go on fishing that morning? We had been fishing for about three hours only.\n\n665. Yes, and then why did you stop fishing? Because a steamer came towards the junks and fired at the junks.\n\n666. About what time was this? Are you asking about the time when they opened fire?\n\n667. Yes. About 9 a.m.\n\n668. What was the first thing that you noticed about the steamer as you call it? First my attention was drawn to the firing of the guns and I then saw fishing junks being hit.\n\n669. Now, which was the first fishing junk you saw being hit? Some of the fishing junks were very far away. There were about ten fishing junks altogether, and which was first hit I cannot say, At least Chan Kau's junk was hit.\n\n670. How far away was this steamer when you first saw it? I did not see this vessel until I heard the firing of a gun.\n\n671. How far was she away? Very far away.\n\n672. And then, did she come nearer? Yes, drawing nearer and nearer.\n\n673. And how near did she come to your junk? She was at a distance of the length of our coil of rope.*\n\n674. Will you tell us comparing it with the distance of our court here? About fifteen times the length of this court.\n\n675. Chairman: When you first saw her? More than that when I first saw her.\n\n676. Mr. Whyatt: This fifteen times the distance of the court, is that the nearest distance she came to your junk? That was the nearest she came.\n\n677. Have you ever seen a vessel that looked like this before? Never before.\n\n678. Can you describe to us what sort of ship it was? That steamer was like a submarine.\n\n679. Why do you say it was like a submarine? Because I had previously seen submarines and they look exactly the same.\n\n680. Where have you previously seen submarines? One could always see such kind of vessel going in and out of the harbour.\n\n681. Did you see any men aboard this submarine? I did not pay any attention to see if any men were on board.\n\n682. What did you do then? She was coming along and I was sailing away and later my junk was hit.\n\n683. Why were you sailing away? We tried to escape.\n\n*Length of a Chinese coil is roughly 400 fathoms.\n\n## 27-\n\n684. Why did you want to escape? We were afraid she might fire at us.\n\n685. What made you think she might fire at you? Because I saw several junks had been hit.\n\n686. Did she fire at you? Yes.\n\n687. How many shots? Three shots.\n\n688. Just tell me when the shots struck your junk, what happened? Did the shells go right through your junk or did they make a noise and explode? Whether the shots went through the hull of the junk I cannot say, but it made a hole in the hull of the junk because the water came in.\n\n689. Chairman: Was that the first shot fired or the second? When the second shot was fired water came in through the hole made by the shot.\n\n690. Mr. Whyatt: Do you know whether the shell exploded into fragments when it hit your junk? I was in the hold; I did not see that. It made a noise like an explosion - boom. I did not see it explode.\n\n691. Was that noise made before the shot struck your junk or after it struck your junk? One firing made two explosions. When the shot left the gun it made an explosion - boom - and later on it made another explosion.\n\n692. Was the second one very loud? The first was like this - boom - and, then a louder one (witness indicates the sound of splintering wood).\n\n693. Mr. Whyatt: What happened after those three shots had been fired? The bow went down first.\n\n694. Chairman: How many shots struck your junk? Three.\n\n695. What about the other two, did they strike you too? Yes, all three. The first shot hit our junk, but the water did not go in so quickly. Directly after the second shot hit us the water poured in very quickly.\n\n696. Mr. Whyatt: After your junk started to settle down at the bow, what did you do? I ran to the stern, as also did the others; we ran aft.\n\n697. And then what did you do? As the ship was going down we went on to a sampan.\n\n698. Did all the crew get into the sampan? Yes, all the crew got into the sampan.\n\n699. Chairman: How many were there? I think altogether 22 went into one sampan.\n\n700. Mr. Whyatt: Did you do anything to your mainsail before your junk sank? No, we did not do anything to the mainsail at all before the junk sank.\n\n701. Before this firing started you had your sail up, hoisted? Yes.\n\n702. When the shell struck your junk was your sail still hoist? The submarine opened fire after we had lowered the sail.\n\n703. Why did you lower the sail? Because I was afraid if we did not lower the sail before the firing we would get hit. And if we got hit the junk might swerve on one side.\n\n704. After you lowered the sail did you cut it from the mainmast? As the ship was sinking we severed the sail from the mainmast.\n\n705. What was the object of doing that? Because I was afraid that the sampan might sink also; we could then hold on to the mainsail.\n\n706. What happened to the mainsail eventually, after the junk had sunk? It was floating.\n\n707. Did any of your crew get on to the mainsail? Most of them got on to this mainsail.\n\n708. Chairman: From the sampan? From the sampan to the mainsail.\n\n709. Mr. Whyatt: Was the sampan tied up to the mainsail in any way? Yes, that sampan was tied up to the mainsail.\n\n710. When these shots struck your junk did they injure any member of your crew? Three **fokis** got wounded.\n\n## 225-",
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        "content_text": "# THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN CHINA\n\n## MINUTES of the first meeting of the General Committee constituted\n\nat a meeting held on October 7th at 3 p.m. at 3, Lombard Street, E.C.3. of the Signatories of the Appeal published in the Press on October 2, 1937, the Committee meeting following upon that of the Signatories.\n\nThe following were present:\n\n* Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G.\n* Mr. D.G.M. Bernard\n* Dame Rachel Crowdy\n* Mr. Lionel Curtis\n* Lady Hosie\n* Mr. Adrian C. Moreing, M.P.\n* Lt. Gen. Sir George Macdonogh, G.B.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G.\n* Sir Edward R. Peacock, G.C.V.O.\n\nThere were also present, though not as Signatories, the following:\n\n* Dr. H. Balme, F.R.C.S. (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n* Commissioner A.H. Barnett, C.B.E. (representing the Salvation Army)\n* The Rev. A.G. Castleton (representing the Rev. M.E. Aubrey)\n* Mr. R.J. Davidson (representing Mr. \"Littleboy\")\n* Mr. F.C. Davies, O.M.B.E. (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n* The Rev. S.H. Dixon (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n* Lt.-Gen. Sir H.B. Fawcus (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n* Mr. E.M. Gull (ex officio China Association)\n* The Rev. H.B. Rattenbury (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n* Mr. G. Slater-Booth (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n* Mrs. G. Young (representing Friends of the Chinese People)\n\n## BUSINESS TRANSACTED:\n\n1. On the proposal of Sir George Macdonogh, Sir Harold Fawcus, Deputy Chairman of the Committee, was asked to take the Chair.\n\n2. The Committee considered the following general principles in relation to the administration of the Fund:\n\n(1) The statement contained in the appeal, as published on October 2, i.e., \"The money and material sent to China will be administered by an organisation to be constituted in that country under the Presidency of H.M. Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and the Vice-Presidency of the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Geoffry Northcote\".\n\n(2) Extract from a letter from Mr. Lionel Curtis to the Secretary of the China Association dated September 30, 1937: \"I think it is a cardinal mistake to send money to China except for the relief of our own fellow countrymen in distress. So far as the Chinese civilians are concerned who have been mutilated by Japanese bombs and shells, what is needed is a rushing out to China of surgeons and medical equipment through the agency of the Red Cross. At present, neither surgeons nor medical equipment can be got for money in China\".\n\n(3) The relative position which the relief of British sufferers, as distinct from Chinese sufferers, is to hold in the scheme of relief.\n\nPage 50\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\n31\n\n12\n\nYeast-Vite\n\nBATTLE FRONT AT LIUHO\n\nATTACK BY CHINESE\n\nmeans Vigour\n\nBY TAKING YEAST-VITE you can benefit TO-DAY! You can gain and enjoy the exhilarating, energetic sensation of healthful zest. You will feel in good spirits instead of being depressed.\n\nTiredness is banished, cold and chills speedily relieved, the blood enriched and the nerves made strong and steady by the powerful vitamin nutrition of this SAFE and CERTAIN cure for Depression and common ills.\n\nYEAST-VITE IS LIFE.\n\nThe speedy benefit you experience is simply the natural outcome of the pure medicinal Yeast, Vitamins, especially Vitamin \"B\", and other valuable tonic ingredients which are in every YEAST-VITE TABLET.\n\nYeast-Vite TONIC TABLETS\n\nA pure Medicinal Yeast which contains no drugs.\n\nObtainable everywhere.\n\nSale Agents: Gilman & Co., Ltd. Hong Kong.\n\nYEAST VITE TONIC TABLETS\n\ne Lightrung Pick-me-up\n\nNow & Wonderful PURE YEAST, The atmord of VITAMINS\n\nuntain Natnag Hampt\n\nYEAST-VITE To Aid War Wounded\n\nLABORATORNST WATFORD, EMBLAND\n\n3APBI\n\nThe Hongkong Chinese Women's Soldiers' Relief Association Invites Contributions of Money and Material\n\nHeadquarters: Office of Chinese Estate Co., Ltd., First Floor, China Building.\n\nTHE SHUI HING HING CO. GENERAL PROVIDERS 187-195 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL\n\nSale STILL PROCEEDING REAL BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT\n\nGUERLAIN PERFUMERY IN FULL ASSORTMENT JUST RECEIVED ALL PRICES REDUCED SPECIALLY\n\nLIU SHALIMAR\n\nSETTLEMENT WAR ZONE REMAINS UNCHANGED\n\nCITY HOSTILITIES\n\nSerious Fighting Near Jukong Wharf\n\nALL LINES UNALTERED\n\nTIENTSIN FRONT\n\nJapanese Now Think Their Forces Sufficient\n\nTENSION RELIEVED\n\nPaoting, Sept. 1.\n\nJAPAN'S POLICY\n\nGovernment Asked To Clarify Its Attitude\n\nAPPEAL BY POLITICIANS\n\nLondon, Sept. 2. According to military intelligence received here to-day, 1,000 Japanese attached to artillery units left Tientsin to-day for Yangliuching, about 20 miles west of Tientsin.\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1. A message from Tokyo states that a full inquiry into the objectives of Japan's action in China, and clarification of the Government's purpose was recommended at a meeting of the Seiyukai (Conservative) Party by three of its leaders.\n\nEight leaders urged that the party make its aims in China more precisely known and establish a firmly-defined objective.\n\nAnother detachment of the Kwangtung Army arrived in Tientsin to-day and are being billeted in the Palitan barracks. Central News.\n\nNERVOUSNESS IN SOUTH AT FEAR OF AIR RAIDS\n\nMORE REINFORCEMENTS\n\nMain interest in the Shanghai war is centred on the fighting on the Woosung-Liuho front, where the Japanese officially claim the occupation of Lion Forest Forts on the coast about 10 miles beyond Woosung.\n\nThere was heavy fighting at Liuho and Woosung yesterday, when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. Chinese reports say that a Japanese attempt to take Paoshan, north of the Woosung fort, was repulsed after a severe engagement in which hundreds of the invaders were killed.\n\nFive Japanese transports and a supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement on Wednesday night and landed men and material in darkness. The Japanese deny the landing of Manchukuoan troops.\n\nChinese leaders are confident of winning the war after a long and bitter struggle. Mr. T. V. Soong says that Japan is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland. He predicts that all the $500,000,000 Liberty Bonds will be taken up within three months.\n\nBaulked by the Tientsin Consular Body in their attempt to take over the Chinese telegraph service in Tientsin, the Japanese military authorities have established their own cable service connecting Peiping and Manchukuo.\n\nThere is still much nervousness in Canton, Fukien and Kiangsi regarding possible Japanese air raids. The Canton Government has ordered all passage-towboats, launches and motor boats to avoid the bund and to anchor in the inner harbour near the foreign gunboats.\n\nThe Japanese and Chinese lines within the Settlement war zone remained unchanged yesterday despite occasional and severe exchange of fire in various sectors.\n\nTWO FOREIGNERS SHOT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1 (9 p.m.). Crack Chinese troops are now pouring into Yuehpu, a small town about a mile and half north-west of Liuying Bridge, Road in Chapei.-Central News.\n\nDesperate Battle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4 p.m.). Fighting Spreads\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Japanese troops were landed at the Jukong Wharf early yesterday morning, deploying out in a wide area. Fighting broke out immediately in the vicinity.\n\nAt 6 o'clock in the morning, a detachment of Japanese attacked Chinese entrenched at the Far Eastern Race Course, a mile west of the Jukong Wharf. The attack was intended to cover operations by a Japanese engineering corps to bridge the creeks at Kuanyinchai and Wang-chiachai nearby, but when the Chinese discovered their ruse, promptly shifted their positions and commenced a brisk fire in the new region, foiling all attempts to build the bridges.\n\nA party of Japanese advanced on Luchiachai, about half a mile north of the International Settlement boundary near the riverfront late in the morning. The Chinese troops stationed there withheld fire until the Japanese had moved unsuspectingly into a semicircle of Chinese troops, at which time the Chinese opened fire from all sides, killing a large number and forcing the remnants of the Japanese party to disperse.\n\nAt about the same time, another party of Japanese attacked the Chinese lines at Kuanyintang, about 1,000 yards south-west of the Jukong Wharf, but the Chinese held firm and forced the attackers to retire after a short skirmish.\n\nFollowing the landing of Japanese regulars who have taken over the Yangtsepoo area yesterday, the marines who have been holding Japanese positions in the area have been shifted to the Hongkew sector.-Central News.\n\nChinese Concentration\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said the Japanese had silenced the Chinese shelling of Hongkew from Chapei.\n\nThe Japanese dropped nine shells within half an hour on Paoshan Road in Chapei district, where it is reported there is a Chinese concentration following the arrival of heavy reinforcements. United Press.\n\nPositions Unchanged\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). There was a severe exchange of fire in sectors around Shanghai, where the Chinese and Japanese lines are still unaltered.-Reuter.\n\nREINFORCEMENTS\n\nPaoshan and a mile south of Lion Forest Fort.\n\nFresh Japanese Landing In\n\nTientsin, Sept. 2. Japanese troop movements to North China have been virtually completed, the leaders believing them strong enough for any exigency.\n\nThe number of Japanese forces in North China is estimated at 120,000, and is possibly more.\n\nThe suspension of reinforcements has eased the tension in the concessions where Japanese conduct has caused frequent protests.\n\nThe British concession is strengthening the outer barricades despite Japanese assurances that troops will avoid the British concession.\n\nFIGHT TO THE END\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJapanese Establish Their Own Cable Line\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. \"Christian General\" Visits the Front\n\nLEADERS CONFIDENT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). A visitor to the Chinese front line yesterday was Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the \"Christian General\" and vice-Chairman of the National Military Affairs Commission in Nanking.\n\nHe told interviewers that the Chinese would fight to the bitter end for the sake of world peace and China's own existence. He paid a tribute to the Chinese commanders, who he said were mindful only of their \"divine duties.\"\n\nA Bitter Struggle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (3.37 p.m.). In an interview, Mr. T. V. Soong said that China is doomed to a long and bitter struggle, but he predicted that she will eventually be victorious.\n\nHe said peace will come when Japan realises that she is in a lane that has no turning. \"Even before the war, Japan's finances were tottering from the burdens of militarism. Her huge expenditures now merely accelerate the inevitable. She is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland.\"-Reuter.\n\nPEIPING POSITION\n\nJapanese Putting Up New Gun Emplacements\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Reports from North China say that Peiping is daily becoming more impregnable with gun emplacements on permanent foundations replacing the earlier hasty defences.-United Press.\n\nKALGAN OCCUPIED\n\nJapanese Line Extends To Sea Front\n\nCANTON AIR RAID\n\nJapanese Plane Blown Up By Own Bomb\n\nCHINESE COMMENDED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2.\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. A bitter land, sea and air battle is being waged at Paoshan, known as the world's smallest walled city, where the gallant Chinese garrison, although cut off from other Chinese lines in and around Shanghai, has withstood for 10 hours the troops where needed.-United Press.\n\nBig Push Imminent\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). The setting for Japan's prospective big push on all fronts in the Shanghai and Woosung and Woosung areas is being completed.\n\nYesterday's fighting, though severe, was regarded only as a curtain raiser.-Reuter.\n\nPaoshan Not Captured\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.). The Chinese admit the loss of Woosung village, but deny that the Japanese have captured Paoshan\n\nReuter.\n\nHeavy Japanese Casualties\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. The 2,000 Japanese troops who landed in the vicinity of Woosung Fort yesterday made a frantic attempt to take Paoshan, but were repulsed after a severe engagement. Several hundred Japanese are reported to have been killed and injured.\n\nHARI-KARI HEROES\n\nIt is also disclosed to-night that 2,000 Japanese landed last night around Woosung Village and the Woosung Fort area. Central News.\n\nPROPERTY DAMAGED\n\nOn Mills Suffer\n\nSettlement Landing\n\nShanghai, Sept. (4.11 a.m.).\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.30 p.m.)\n\nChinese quarters regard the disembarkation of Japanese troops in the eastern district of the Settlement as a confession of poor success at attending the landing operations on the Liuho-Woosung coastline and assert that the presence of the Japanese troops is final confirmation that the Japanese are using the Settlement as a base of operations.\n\nBesides munitions and other war material the Japanese also landed in this section of the Settlement four and six-inch guns mounted on caterpillars.-Reuter.\n\nThree Japanese Divisions\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Three Japanese divisions, representing the crack troops of the Japanese Army, have arrived in Shanghai during the last few days, it was revealed to-day.-Central News.\n\nPush Towards Lotien\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 am.). A Japanese military spokesman said that the Chinese were attempting retaliation. However, the Japanese repulsed them.\n\nManchukuo Troops\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said that Japanese troops were landing daily in Shanghai and its vicinity. He denied the presence of Manchukuans.\n\nBOMBERS IN ACTION\n\nSpectacular Japanese navy and air forces were fiercely attacking Paoshan, which the advance guard reached yesterday.-United Press.\n\nSevere Engagement\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). Heavy fighting is reported at Liuho and Woosung to-day when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. They met with resistance from the air, land and sea.\n\nAt Nightfall\n\nUnloading in Darkness\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). During the night five Japanese transports and one supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement and unloaded men and material in darkness.-Reuter.\n\nPOOTUNG SHELLED\n\nChinese Artillery Duel With Warships\n\nShnghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). Warfare has laid Woosung in ruins. Among the buildings demolished are the Tung Chi University, run by Germans for Chinese students, and the American mortgaged Wing On Cotton mills, owned by British and Australian-born Chinese.\n\nThe bombing of the Tung Chi University was so intensive that even bomb proof dug-outs had to be evacuated.\n\nReuter.\n\nUNIVERSITY DAMAGE\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.10 p.m.). Chinese official sources state that the Japanese bombing of Tungchi University at Woosung has caused damage to the extent of $10,000,000 Shanghai currency.\n\nPeiping despatches reported that American marines have been assigned to protect the Yenching University, 10 miles from Peiping, which is closely linked with Harvard.--United Press.\n\nTALES OF HEROISM\n\nJapanese Slaughtered By Big Sword Corps\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.) Both sides recount stirring tales of heroism in yesterday's fighting in the Shanghai area. The Chinese say many Japanese were slaughtered by parties of troops who make sorties in the night with their famous big swords-Reuter.\n\nSESSION POSTPONED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7 p.m.). Amidst gorgeous, yet most ominous sunset skies, red splashed behind black clouds washing back from the Hongkong typhoon, four Japanese bombers gave Shanghai spectacular good-night when they carried out a reconnaissance on the Shanghai front, after which in rapid succession they power dived over the Markham Road railway yards, dropping 11 bombs, each of which flashed red amidst the smoke and debris, setting a long string of conflagrations which lit up the black night already aflame by a line of fires half a mile at Yangtszepoo.\n\nThe Shanghai fires eclipsed in brilliance, the flames illuminating Lotien, Liusong, Woosung, Paoshan and Lion Forest Forts.-United Press.\n\nShipping Precaution\n\nYesterday government ordered all the passage-boats, launches and large motor vessels to leave the Bund. They are now in the inner harbour. Thus they are all in close proximity to the foreign gunboats, and the Bund is not so likely to be bombed, which would be sure to cause great loss of life. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nRAID OVER KIANGSI\n\nJapanese Bomb Misses Telegraph Office\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. After finishing their work in Canton the Japanese planes made for Pingyuan in Kiangsi. They were after the telegraph office and one bomb was directed at it, but it missed entirely, striking a road and killing one peasant. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nATTACK ON FUKIEN\n\nOne Japanese Aeroplane Downed at Changchow\n\nFoochow, Sept. 1. One of the Japanese planes which took part in the air raid on Changchow on August 31 was shot down south of Lungyen, it was disclosed to-day. Central News.\n\nAircraft Carrier\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. At noon yesterday six Japanese bombers come from the big carrier that is lying off Nanao near the Fukien border of Kwangtung. When two bombs were dropped into the Magistracy office at Chaoling the back part of the Magistracy was blown in. Six guards were injured-Our Own Correspondent.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "covertly received small chits, the one he received on 24.6.37 bearing the English writing:- \"TNT, 10 Large tanks, Army Blanket, Barbed wire.\" This was not in Richard's writing. Questioned indirectly as to his daily visits to the Japanese consulate he claimed to be employed teaching Cantonese to the consular staff but no teaching was disclosed by observation.\n\nOn 21/22.7.37 Richard accompanied Hisakichi OKAMOTO, the acting Japanese Consul-general at Hong Kong, to Macau where they stayed overnight. The Hong Kong \"NIPPO\" reported the visit was a goodwill visit to H. E. the Governor of Macau but discussion of land options was suspected though not confirmed.\n\nRichard is very talkative and has occasional bouts of excessive drinking and has several times expressed a desire to attach himself to the police as a secret detective.\n\nHis personal documents were again seen on 13.10.37 and included a questionnaire written in Chinese with ten questions, several of which asked for details of movements of Chinese officials; particulars of a foreign anti-Japanese society in Canton; the effect and general opinion of \"our bombing\" in Kwang Tung; economic conditions in Canton whilst \"we are at war there\"; details of Kwang Sai regiments sent North and a question re foreign aviators.\n\nAmongst these documents were also particulars, sketches and quantities of trench mortars, shells and the names and addresses of several Japanese and foreign suspects living in Hong Kong.\n\nRichard's contacts include two H.M. Naval Yard British employees and a suspect British aviator. A recent contact was CHIU FUN, a Eurasian or Chinese of 74, Castle...",
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        "title": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938",
        "content_text": "Return No.35.\n\nFirms\n\n(1)\n\nConsignments of Arms, Ammunition, Aeroplanes & Explosives etc transhipped at Hong Kong and gone forward to Canton from 10.4.38 to 16.4.38.\n\n  \n    Ship & date importing\n    Description of goods\n    Ship & date Forward – ed to export.\n    Country of origin & consignor.\n    Consignee\n    File\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation (2)\n    68 c/s light machine guns ≈ 400 pcs\n23 c/s Kauser rifles ≈ 5,000 pcs cal.7.9\n    Touraine 13.4.38.\nK.C.R. Canton 16.4.38\n    Czechoslovakia\nCzechoslovakische wilbe schiffahrts.\n    Military Coune 14,\nNational Govt. of China.\n    A.0.64 in 174\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation\n    \n    Pot adam 7.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 16.4.38\n    Germany\nshipped at Bremen, consignor unknown.\n    \n    1.0.28 in 174\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co. (5)\n    87 c/s heavy machine guns Cal. 7.62\n307 c/s machine gun tripods\n305 c/s machine gun spare parts\n201 c/s light machine guns cal.7.62\n724 c/s light machine gun spare Parts.\n28 c/s materials for howitzers\n360 c/s Væser rifles ≈ 9,000 pcs.\n    B. B. Tower Field. 9.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 16.4.38\n    Russia\n    South West Transportation Co.\n    A.0.56 in 174\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co. (6)\n    \n    Mon 1 Rickmers 15.3.38\nK.C.R. Canton 13.4.38\n    Germany (see foot-note below)\n    -do-\n    A.0.54 in 174\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    Pot d 7.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 13.4.38\n    Belgium\n    -do-\n    A.0.28 in 174\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co. (7)\n    65 c/s = 18 machine guns & accessories cal. 2 cm,\n75 c/s - 1.500 rifles cal.7.92\n13 Bombers & accessories Model H.3.123.\n31 c/s = 8 (15 cm) howitzers & 8 limbers.\n    Smale 8.3.38\nK.C.R. Canton 13.4.38\n    Denmark\n    -do-\n    A.0.53 in 174\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co. (8)\n    \n    8.8.\nK.G.R. Canton 13.4.38\n    Belgium\n    -do-\n    J. Vulhopp, Antwerp\n4.0.60 in 174\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co. (9)\n    \n    Isar 7.4.38\nB. S.\nK.C.R.Canton 13.4.38\n    Germany\n    -do-\n    A.0.54 in 174 (see foot-note below)\n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co. (10)\n    \n    Rickmers 25.3.38\nEthe Rickmers\nK.C.R. Canton 12.4.38\n    Germany (see foot-note below)\n    -do-\n    A.0.57 in 174\n  \n  \n    \n    178 c/s carriages & accessories for guns.\n6,977 c/s 1165 mm. shells, shrapnel\n    stanthorpe, 8.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 12.4.38\n    Russia\n    -do-\n    A.0,58 in 174\n  \n  \n    Jardine Matheson & Co.\n(11)\n    132 c/s 11.5 mm. guns\n3,000 c/s shells\n82 c/s carriages & accessories for guns.\n    K.C.R. 11.4.38\n    Britain\nNobels & Kwangtung Pac-ficatim Commisim.\n    Kanyang Arsenal\n    A.0,160\n  \n  \n    Jardine Matheson & Co.\n(12)\n    3,000 c/s 11.5 mm. shells\n100 c/s No.1 dynamite, 5,000 lbs.\n30 casks chlorate of potash 1,140 kg.\n40 c/s No.30 special white waterproof fuse.\n    K.C.R. 10.4.38\nex stock\nK.C.R. Canton 14.4.38\n    Germany\nex stock\nBritain - Nobels &\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rafeek & Co.\n    100 c/s No.1 dynamite, 5,000 lbs.\n    K.C.R. 14.4.38\nex local stock Ex Jard- ine's stock.\n    Germany, consignor unknown.\nHany ang trucks via Germany.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Canton, by high-Way. (Road export)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nItems above marked Fi\n\nDeclared by South West Transportation Co. to be of German origin although they were shipped from Sweden by Dahlberg & Hilbert 0/Y Helsinki.\n\n3\n37",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 10th January, 1938. Received 3.45 p.m., 10th January\n\nD\n\nNo. 13.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nNo. 13 of the 10th January repeated to Tokyo No.4.\n\n(1)\n\nMy telegram No.1. Figures for week-ending 8th January. Bombs and bomb fittings 470 tons empty shells 364 tons safety cartridges 151 dynamite 10 tons War Department spare parts 4 tons bombs and machine-guns 50 tons. Total 1,049 tons.\n\nPage 250\n\nPage 251",
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        "content_text": "Date imported\n\n23.12.37\n\nStatements of Arms Ammunition, destined for China, exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between late January à 30th June, 1939.\n\n  \n    2 cases gunpowder Gap Bụi e s (accessories for fuse)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 cases utensils (assorted tools for 'ɔ quia s)\n    Country origin\n    Value\n    Date exported\n    Name of dealer\n  \n  \n    \n    Italy\n    KATLİK IN QU\n    3.1.38\n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Authority\n  \n  \n    334 cases à 500,000 rounds Cartridges Caë7»îumo\n    Britain\n    £2,550.0.0d.\n    4.1.38\n    Intercontinent China Ltd.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    £2,550.0.0d.\n    \n    Canton - Military Council, A.û.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    National Govt. of China. 1/182\n  \n  \n    334 cases - 500,000 rounds Cartridges Galatakom\n    \n    \n    1.1.38\n    Canton - Military Council, 100.\n  \n  \n    1,020 cases containing 20 anti-aircraft guns à 76,000 rounds shells, 191 cases - 3,820 rounds anti-tank shells, 3.70m\n    \n    \n    29.12.37\n    Canton - China 24/174\n  \n  \n    1,835 cases à 7,340 rounds light howitzer shells.\n    \n    \n    b. 1. 38\n    ...de\n  \n  \n    122 cases = 2,440 rounds anti-tank shells, 5.7cm\n    \n    \n    27.12.37\n    -do-\n  \n  \n    123 cases ■ 492 rounds light howitzer shells\n    \n    \n    \n    13/174\n  \n  \n    1,250 cases = 20,000 rounds anti-tank shells\n    France\n    unknown\n    6.1.38\n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - Military Council\n  \n  \n    13 cases aeroplane parts\n    U.S.A.\n    unknown\n    8.1.38\n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - Military Council, A.0.171\n  \n  \n    5 cases containing 1 Vultes aeroplane\n    U.S.A\n    \n    10.12.37\n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    800 cases bomb accessories\n    Italy\n    unknown\n    10.1.38\n    Canton - A.0.176\n  \n  \n    362 cases bomb\n    Italy\n    Taka\n    11.1.38\n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    124 bombs\n    \n    \n    1.1.38\n    Canton - A+0.6/182\n  \n  \n    4 cases containing 4 armoured cars à 8 machine guns\n    Italy\n    unknown\n    12.1.38\n    Intercontinent China Ltd.\n  \n  \n    (Cars are of Italian origin à guns are made in Czechoslovakia)\n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - A.0.27/17\n  \n  \n    1,320 cases accessories\n    Italy\n    \n    8\n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,940\n    Ex stock\n    Canton - A.0.6/182\n  \n  \n    15 revolvers\n    U.S.A\n    HK$1,270.00\n    \n    Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - A=0.79/8\n  \n  \n    3,000 rounds revolver cartridges\n    \n    HK$240,00\n    \n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    140,000 rounds Mauser pistol cartridges\n    \n    \n    8.1.38\n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    2 revolvers\n    Germany\n    HK$8,400.00\n    \n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    U.S.A\n    HK$170.00\n    \n    -do.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    HK$32.00\n    \n    -dom\n  \n  \n    400 rounds revolver cartridges\n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    100 cases à 3,000 Mauser rifles, Cal«7»9\n    Belgium\n    unknown\n    13.1.38\n    Intercontinent China Ltd.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Canton. -do-\n  \n  \n    1,500 cases = 3,000, rounds cartridges, cal\n    \n    \n    \n    A«0 +25ÂM\n  \n  \n    206 cases = 1,000 machine guns, d\n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - › do -\n  \n  \n    1,000 cases bombs - 2,000\n    \n    \n    4.2.39\n    \n  \n  \n    2,000 cases - 4,000,000 rounds cartridges, e ai .7.92\n    Italy\n    \n    \n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    \n    Germany\n    \n    \n    Canton - -do\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A+0 +6/182\n  \n  \n    250 cases « 1,500 light machine guns, ed.7.92\n    \n    \n    11.1.38\n    Intercontinent China Ltd.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - ❤do❤\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.23/174\n  \n  \n    3,594 cases = 3,174,000, rounds cartridges, 7.62mm à 12.7mm.\n    U.S.A\n    \n    \n    Walford Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    27.12.37\n    A.0.7/184\n  \n  \n    2,433 cases = 48,660 rounds anti-aircraft shells\n    Germany\n    \n    \n    Intercontinent China Ltd.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    | A«0 .21/17 €\n  \n  \n    113 Cases p. 452 rounds gun shell syö .8cm.\n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    561 Cases à 11,230 rounds anti-aircraft shells, 3, 7cm\n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    15 cases directing devices for 8.8cm. & 15 cm, guns\n    \n    \n    \n    Canton - -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    As© »22/174\n  \n\n$19/38",
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        "content_text": "Date imported\n\nDescription\n\nCountry of origin\n\nValue\n\nDate exported\n\nHome of dealer\n\n15.2.38\n\n40 cases = 1,000 rifles, 7.9 mm\n\nBelgium\n\nunknown\n\n17.2.38\n\n10.2.38\n\n88 Cases - 25 machine guns\n\nCal.30 mm\n\nDenmark\n\n48 auta = 200 tripods for machine gun\n\n80 cases = 2,000 rifles\n\nBelgium\n\n10\n\n14 cases = 700 revolvers\n\n3 cases = 450 revolvers\n\n23 cases = 92,700 rounds revolver cartridges\n\nU.S.A.\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n18.2.38\n\n120 cases = 120 periscope machine guns fixed type\n\n4 cases spare parts for machine gun\n\nExported to\n\nAuthority\n\nCanton Military Council, A.O.\n\nNational Govt of China. 49/174\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.14/174\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n--do-\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.29/174\n\n--do-\n\nV.B.A.\n\nUnknown\n\n18.2.38\n\nWalford Trading Co.\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.14/188\n\n-do-\n\n18.2.38\n\n500 cases = 750,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.9\n\nBritain\n\n21.2.38\n\n£3,825\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.43/274\n\n15.2.38\n\n649 cases = 12,980 rounds anti-tank shells\n\nGermany\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.21/174\n\n10.2.38\n\n5.2.38\n\n504 cases = 2,016 rounds light howitzer shells\n\n632 cases = 12,640 rounds anti-aircraft shells\n\n2 cases = 12 rounds 15cm gun shells\n\n1 case smokeless powder\n\n38 tanks = 64 anti-aircraft machine guns Cal.7.9\n\n14 tanks each equipped with 1 (4.6) gun & 3 (7.9) machine guns\n\nBelgium\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.14/174\n\n22.2.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.35/174\n\n18 cases machine guns\n\nBelgium\n\nunknown\n\n23.2.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nA.O.45/174\n\n11.2.38\n\n93 cases = 462 guns, Cal.\n\n160 Cases = 1,000 Mauser rifles, omi.7.9\n\n2,000 dz = 4,000 rounds cartridges\n\n14 c/s = 4 light mountain guns, 75 mm\n\n15 c/s = 100 rounds cartridge for 75 mm\n\n1 c/s = 20 rounds cartridges for practice, 105 mm\n\n1,800 c/s = 3,000,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n\nGermany\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nFrance\n\n1,238,40\n\n-do-\n\nEx. 42,600\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n#r.9,400\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.40/174\n\nAt stock\n\n26 revolvers\n\n5.2.38\n\n19.2.38\n\n7,600 rounds revolver cartridges\n\n50 revolvers\n\n10,000 rounds revolver cartridges\n\nTanks each equipped with 1 (4.5) gun & 3 (7.9) machine guns\n\n417 cases = 2,600 light machine guns, cal.7.92\n\n16,668 cases = 20 rounds cartridge\n\nU.S.A.\n\n25.2.38\n\n*K$1,960\n\n*K$760\n\nHong Kong Sporting Am. Stor.\n\n-do-\n\nK$4,000\n\nK$2,000\n\n**\n\nunknown\n\n28.2.39\n\nLtd.\n\nIntercontinent China\n\nCanton Military Council, A.O.35/\n\nNational Govt. of China 174\n\n-do-\n\nA.O.79/8\n\nCanton - Arsenal Dept.\n\nA.O.82/8\n\nCzecho-Slovakia\n\nunknown\n\n1.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n10.44/174\n\n119",
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        "content_text": "## Step 1: Understand the task and the given rules for OCR proofreading.\nThe task involves proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, following specific rules to correct errors, format the text, and preserve original content.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the key rules for proofreading and formatting.\nKey rules include correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, indicating missing words with `...`, and formatting in Markdown. Additionally, specific rules apply to file references, page numbering, and handling of Chinese text direction.\n\n## Step 3: Apply the rules to the given OCR output.\nThe given text appears to be a table or list of military equipment transactions, including dates, descriptions, values, and authorities involved. The text contains numerous OCR errors, such as \"Dẹ so ripti vas\" instead of \"Description\", \"ül nét å g\" which could be \"aeroplane\", and other spelling and spacing issues.\n\n## Step 4: Correct spelling errors and fix spacing issues.\nCorrecting \"Dẹ so ripti vas\" to \"Description\", \"ül nét å g\" to \"aeroplane\", \"sxport ed\" to \"exported\", \"ut de\" to \"route\", \"siells\" to \"shells\", \"tæki\" to \"tank\", \"Mguuer\" to \"Mauser\", \"pistole\" to \"pistols\", \"fə\" to \"for\", \"mată\" to \"anti tank\", \"mixơ raft\" to \"aircraft\", \"Siemscen\" to likely \"Siemens\", and other similar corrections.\n\n## Step 5: Rejoin broken sentences and restore paragraph breaks.\nThe text is mostly in a tabular form, so rejoining broken lines and restoring paragraph breaks where necessary is crucial. For example, lines that are clearly part of the same entry should be kept together.\n\n## Step 6: Format the text in Markdown.\nUsing Markdown to format headers, bold text for labels, and tables. The original text seems to be a list or table, so it should be formatted accordingly.\n\n## Step 7: Handle specific cases like file references and page numbering.\nEnsure file references are formatted without spaces inside parentheses, and page numbering lines are preserved as is if they match the specified pattern.\n\n## Step 8: Reorder newspaper texts and reconstruct tables if necessary.\nThe given text does not appear to be from a newspaper but rather a list or table of military equipment. Reconstructing the table format is necessary.\n\n## Step 9: Output the corrected text in the required format.\nThe final output should be in HTML using `` for paragraphs and `\n` only when necessary.\n\n## Step 10: Begin the actual proofreading and formatting of the given text.\nGiven the complexity and the specific nature of the text, let's start by correcting obvious errors and formatting the text into a more readable form.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nDate imported\n\nDescription\n\nValue\n\nDate exported\n\nName of dealer\n\nAuthority\n\n4.3.38\n\ncases containing 4 aeroplanes\n\nBritain (#30,000)\n\n4.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nMilitary Govt. China\n\n4.2.38\n\n40 anti-aircraft gun barrels 76.3 mm.\n\n5.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nA.0.17/1\n\n4.2.38\n\n740 cases fuse for anti-aircraft gun shells\n\n5.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nA.0.22/1\n\n4.2.38\n\n25 cases = 50 anti-tank guns, 3.7cm.\n\n3,650 rounds\n\n5.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nA.0.35/174\n\n6.3.38\n\n10 cases x 800 Mauser pistols\n\nGermany\n\n6.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nMilitary Council, National Govt. of China\n\nA.0.35/174\n\n5.3.38\n\n1 case aeroplane parts\n\nBritain\n\n8.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\n7.3.38\n\n1 case = 100 revolvers\n\n20 anti-aircraft guns 76.3mm\n\n10 tanks each equipped with 1(4.5) gun & 3(7.9) machine guns\n\n20 tanks each equipped with 1(4.5) gun & 3 (7.9) machine guns\n\nCzech-Slovakia\n\n11.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nA.0.21/1\n\n4.2.38\n\n5,478 cases = 21,912 rounds anti-aircraft gun shells 7.5cm\n\n155 cases = 12,000 rounds anti-tank shells 4.7cm\n\n1,800 cases = 1,584,000 rounds machine gun cartridges 7.62mm\n\nRussia\n\n12.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nA.0.35/174\n\n4.2.38\n\n1,035 cases = 3,550,800 rounds machine gun cartridges 7.62mm\n\nRussia\n\n18.3.38\n\nIntercontinent China Ltd.\n\nA.0.35/174\n\n...\n\nPage XX",
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        "content_text": "Date exported\n\nHame of dealer\n\nAxported to\n\nAu the rity.\n\n5.4.38\n\nyouth west\n\nation\n\nTræaport= |Canton, Military @gmail, A«0»53/174\n\n174\n\n«Çİ (4\n\n-do«\n\ndom\n\nA.0.22/1\n\nBritain\n\n· do...\n\nA.0 + 57/174\n\n-do-\n\n-do.\n\n-döm\n\n£511 0.0\n\n-do-\n\nGermany\n\nહું\n\n·do-\n\n40 Cases « 10,000 rounds\n\nsafety cartridges, cal.7.98\n\n543 #apes » 10,000 round m\n\nanti tank she lis\n\n1,478 caces = 13,000 ramus\n\nmortar shell s\n\n-do-\n\n1863638\n\n10 cases a 3 Bombers à\n\nGezmay\n\nUNKNOWIN 6.4.38\n\natce sporles, Model N.5.123\n\nouth West Transport-\n\natim Co.\n\nA+0.54/174\n\n29.3.39\n\n2,666 #aces » 3,999.\n\nCartridges, Col.700 round demy\n\nunknown 7.4.38\n\nSouth West Transport.\n\natim Co.\n\n-do-\n\nA.0 .57/174\n\n200 cases smokeless powder\n\ns 13.4 tan s\n\n7.3.38\n\n7.3.38\n\n200 cases smokelesa powder\n\n# 13.4 tons\n\n400 cases mokeless powder,\n\n# 25.4 ten u\n\n480 Cases » 12,000 rounda\n\nmti simraft shells\n\n8 cases = 800 pieces anti\n\ngun tripedo\n\n16 Cases a 8 machine gun a\n\nà aëcessories\n\n50 cases = 2,000 MasE F\n\npistols\n\n1,008 Cases = 4,000 roma di es mti aizeraft shells\n\n100 cases shell fuse\n\n1,500 Cases « 3,000,000 rounds\n\nCartridges, Cal.7.92\n\n28 cases guns, 11 «Emm\n\ns 14 gumo\n\n46 cases guns, 11.5 mm8.\n\n23 gun#\n\n50 cases gun carriages\n\naccessories (2 *@arriages)\n\n3,000 cases shells, 11.5mm » * 6,000 round a\n\n82 tapes gun carriages à\n\nmece amories (24 carriages) 3,000 eagen gbel1 0 12.5mm.\n\n000 round a\n\n132 cases guna, 11.5mm, –\n\n± 37 guna á atcessories 3,000 cases shells,11 » Enun .\n\n* 6,000 round s\n\n›do «\n\ndo\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nA.0.47/274\n\n-do-\n\nLALICIA OʻWIS\n\n8.4.38\n\nsouth west Transport-\n\nation\n\n-d.0m\n\nA.0.47/174\n\n-do-\n\nund 0-\n\nA=0.48/174\n\nAussia\n\n-do-\n\nA«0.58/174\n\nunknown\n\nV.4.38\n\nSouth West Transport-\n\natim Co.\n\n-do-\n\nA. 0.58/174\n\n-dom\n\n•\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nžu sala\n\nLara kaso wea 10.4.38\n\nsouth west Transport-\n\natiga Co.\n\nA+0.58/174\n\n-do-\n\nAussia\n\nunknown 11.4.38\n\nSouth West Transport-\n\natim Ce.\n\nA«0 .58/174\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\n178 cases gun carriages &\n\nccessories (40 earringes)\n\nRussia\n\n12.4.38\n\nsouth west Transport-\n\natim Co.\n\n·do-\n\nA.0.58/174\n\n,977 canes abe 11s à\n\n-do-\n\nné ce scories (26,744 rounds)\n\n31 cases = 8 howitzers,15em\n\nà 8 limbers.\n\nGermøy\n\n-do-\n\nA.0.57/174\n\n7.4.38\n\n75 Cases – 2,500 rifles\n\nCal.7.92.\n\nBelgium\n\nunknown\n\n13.4.38\n\nsouth west Transport-\n\natim Co.\n\n-do-\n\nAs0 .60/174\n\n122\n\nTo better meet the requirements, the text should be formatted into a table in Markdown. Here's the corrected version:\n\nDate exported\nName of dealer\nExported to\nAuthority\nDetails\nFile Reference\n\n5.4.38\nYouth West Transport Co.\nCanton, Military\nA.0.53/174\n...\n...\n\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n\n6.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.54/174\n10 cases = 3 Bombers, Model N.5.123\n...\n\n7.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.57/174\n2,666 cases = 3,999 Cartridges, Cal.7.92\n...\n\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n\nLet's directly transform the given text into a proper Markdown table.\n\n## Step 1: Identify the table structure\nThe given text appears to be a table with columns for date, dealer name, export destination, authority, and details of the export.\n\n## Step 2: Correct OCR errors and format the table\nUpon closer inspection, the text contains numerous OCR errors and formatting issues. We will correct the obvious errors and format the text into a Markdown table.\n\n## Step 3: Create the Markdown table\nHere is the corrected text in Markdown table format:\n\n| Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority | Details | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 5.4.38 | Youth West Transport Co. | Canton, Military | A.0.53/174 | 174 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 6.4.38 | South West Transport Co. | Unknown | A.0.54/174 | 10 cases = 3 Bombers, Model N.5.123 |\n| 7.3.38 | South West Transport Co. | Germany | A.0.57/174 | 200 cases smokeless powder = 13.4 tons |\n| 7.3.38 | South West Transport Co. | Germany | A.0.57/174 | 400 cases smokeless powder = 25.4 tons |\n| 7.4.38 | South West Transport Co. | Unknown | A.0.57/174 | 2,666 cases = 3,999 Cartridges, Cal.7.92 |\n| 8.4.38 | South West Transport Co. | Russia | A.0.47/174 | ... |\n| 10.4.38 | South West Transport Co. | Russia | A.0.58/174 | ... |\n| 11.4.38 | South West Transport Co. | Russia | A.0.58/174 | ... |\n| 12.4.38 | South West Transport Co. | Russia | A.0.58/174 | 1,977 cases = 26,744 rounds |\n| 7.4.38 | ... | Belgium | ... | 75 Cases = 2,500 rifles, Cal.7.92 |\n| 13.4.38 | South West Transport Co. | ... | A.0.60/174 | ... |\n\nLet's directly output the HTML as per the instructions.\n\nDate exported\nName of dealer\nExported to\nAuthority\nDetails\n\n5.4.38\nYouth West Transport Co.\nCanton, Military\nA.0.53/174\n174\n\n6.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.54/174\n10 cases = 3 Bombers, Model N.5.123\n\n7.3.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nGermany\nA.0.57/174\n200 cases smokeless powder = 13.4 tons\n\n7.3.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nGermany\nA.0.57/174\n400 cases smokeless powder = 25.4 tons\n\n7.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.57/174\n2,666 cases = 3,999 Cartridges, Cal.7.92\n\n8.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.47/174\n...\n\n10.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n...\n\n11.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n...\n\n12.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n1,977 cases = 26,744 rounds\n\n7.4.38\n...\nBelgium\n...\n75 Cases = 2,500 rifles, Cal.7.92\n\n13.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\n...\nA.0.60/174\n...\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nDate exported\nName of dealer\nExported to\nAuthority\nDetails\n\n5.4.38\nyouth west ation\nCanton, Military\nA.0.53/174\n174\n\n6.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.54/174\n10 cases = 3 Bombers, Model N.5.123\n\n7.3.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nGermany\nA.0.57/174\n200 cases smokeless powder = 13.4 tons\n\n7.3.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nGermany\nA.0.57/174\n400 cases smokeless powder = 25.4 tons\n\n7.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.57/174\n2,666 cases = 3,999 Cartridges, Cal.7.92\n\n8.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.47/174\n\n10.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n\n11.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n\n12.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n1,977 cases = 26,744 rounds\n\n7.4.38\n\nBelgium\n\n75 Cases = 2,500 rifles, Cal.7.92\n\n13.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\n\nA.0.60/174\n\nHere is the HTML output:\n\nDate exported\nName of dealer\nExported to\nAuthority\nDetails\n\n5.4.38\nyouth west ation\nCanton, Military\nA.0.53/174\n174\n\n6.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.54/174\n10 cases = 3 Bombers, Model N.5.123\n\n7.3.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nGermany\nA.0.57/174\n200 cases smokeless powder = 13.4 tons\n\n7.3.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nGermany\nA.0.57/174\n400 cases smokeless powder = 25.4 tons\n\n7.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nUnknown\nA.0.57/174\n2,666 cases = 3,999 Cartridges, Cal.7.92\n\n8.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.47/174\n\n10.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n\n11.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n\n12.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\nRussia\nA.0.58/174\n1,977 cases = 26,744 rounds\n\n7.4.38\n\nBelgium\n\n75 Cases = 2,500 rifles, Cal.7.92\n\n13.4.38\nSouth West Transport Co.\n\nA.0.60/174",
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        "content_text": "Duke imported\n\nDescription\n\nCountry of origin\n\nValue\n\nDate Exported\n\nName of dealer\n\nExported Authority.\n\n  \n    9.4.38\n    995 cases gun parts\n    Russia\n    \n    6.5.38\n    South West Transporta-tion Co.\n    Canton Military Council, National Govt. of China\n  \n  \n    29.3.38\n    192 gun carriages\n    -do-\n    \n    -do-\n    \n    A.56/274\n  \n  \n    29.3.38\n    180 cases detonators, 2 tons\n    Germany\n    \n    7.5.38\n    South West Transporta-tion Co.\n    A.0.37/174\n  \n  \n    3.38\n    120 cases detonators, é tons\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3.38\n    40 Gases detonators, 1.5 tons\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11,024 cases = 36,000 rounds light howitzer shells\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.47/174\n  \n  \n    \n    1,382 Cases = 2,372,500 rounds cartridges, Cal.7,92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    300 carts = 600,000 rounds cartridges, cal.7,92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.56/274\n  \n  \n    \n    540 Cases = 1,080,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    1,545 cases = 2,507,500 rounds cartridges, cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    882 cases = 1,764,000 rounds cartridges, cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    987 cases = 1,974,000 rounds cartridges, cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    2,086 cases = 3,676,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    Cases Bombers, X.5.123\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.54/274\n  \n  \n    15.3.38\n    unknown\n    \n    \n    9.5.38\n    South West Transporta-tion Co.\n    A.0.54/174\n  \n  \n    \n    62 cases aeroplane parts (2 machines)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16.3.38\n    8 Cases Materials for howitzers\n    Germany\n    \n    10.5.38\n    South West Transporta-tion Co.\n    A.0.54/174\n  \n  \n    2.4.38\n    500 cases = 1,000,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15.3.38\n    2,500 Cases = 3,000,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    32.3.38\n    2,000 cases = 4,000,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2.4.38\n    1,652 cases = 3,304,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    Germany\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    249 cases = 498,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,607 cases = 3,214,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,148 cases = 1,945,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    62 Cases aeroplane parts\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    100 cases aeroplane parts\n    U.S.A.\n    \n    11.5.38\n    South West Transporta-tion Co.\n    A.0.52/174\n  \n  \n    \n    38 cases aeroplane materials\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    99 cases aeroplane materials\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    68 cases aeroplane materials\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    245 cases aeroplane accessor.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.58/174\n  \n  \n    \n    130 cases aeroplane materials\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    24.\n    300 Cases = 750,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92mm\n    Britain\n    £3,825.\n    12.5.39\n    South West Transporta-tion Co.\n    A.0.59/174\n  \n  \n    \n    125 Cases = 107,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.13.2mm.\n    \n    £7,918.\n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n\n-60-",
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        "content_text": "Date imported\n\nCountry of origin\n\nValue\n\nDate exported\n\nName of dealer\n\nExported to\n\n  \n    16.3.38\n    142 cases = 142 Gold machine\n    U.S.A.\n    unknown\n    17.5.38\n    South West Transportation Co.\n    Canton Military Council National Govt of China\n    A.0.52/174\n  \n  \n    12.5.38\n    1,000 cases = 1,500,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92mm.\n    Britain\n    £27,500.\n    27.4.38\n    \n    \n    A.0.24/174\n  \n  \n    12.5.38\n    183 cases = 35 machine guns 294 rifles 10,500 Mauser pistols, Cal.7.63\n    Denmark\n    U.S.A.\n    \n    \n    \n    G.O.134/ny\n  \n  \n    \n    38 cases = 760 rifles (Cal.7.92)\n    Belgium\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    -do-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    104 cases = 500 tripods for machine guns\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    27.4.38\n    500 cases = 780,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92mm.\n    Britain\n    £23,750.\n    10.5.38\n    \n    \n    A.0.57/174\n  \n  \n    29.3.38\n    9 cases containing 9 aeroplanes & parts\n    Canada\n    U.S.A.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    33.4.38\n    36 cases = 1,800 Mauser guns\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.69/174\n  \n  \n    33.4.38\n    3,690 cases = 8,192,500 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92mm.\n    Sweden\n    \n    18.4.38\n    South West Transportation Co.\n    Canton Military Council National Govt. of China\n    A.0.76/174\n  \n  \n    18.4.38\n    200 cases = 5,000 Mauser rifles, Cal.7.92mm.\n    Belgium\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.11/174\n  \n  \n    \n    -do-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.73/174\n  \n  \n    18.5.38\n    500 cases = 750,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92mm.\n    Britain\n    £3,750.\n    20.5.38\n    South West Transportation Co.\n    Canton 46th Division\n    A.0.65/174\n  \n  \n    \n    600 cases = 150,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.63mm.\n    Belgium\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.50/174\n  \n  \n    \n    13 revolvers 3,000 rounds revolver cartridges\n    \n    HK$960.00 *K$240.00\n    \n    Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store\n    \n    A.O.88/8\n  \n  \n    13.3.38\n    750 cases = 1,500,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92mm.\n    Belgium (unknown)\n    \n    23.4.38\n    South West Transportation Co.\n    Canton Military Council National Govt. of China\n    A.0.53\n  \n  \n    2.5.38\n    \n    \n    \n    10.5.38\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10.1.38\n    4 cases (aircraft engines)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3.3.38\n    4 cases aeroplane\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Various dates\n    8 cases aeroplane accessories 8 cases aeroplane parts\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    653 cases: rounds howitzer shell 11\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    V.3.A.\n  \n  \n    \n    1 case = 4,000 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.92mm.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    1 case = 1 parcel containing 6 rounds tank gun shells\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.68/174\n  \n  \n    \n    parts (3)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    -do-\n  \n  \n    \n    20 cases = 100 unching rifles\n    Belgium\n    \n    21.5.38\n    South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    A.0.38/34\n  \n  \n    23.4.38\n    Cartridges of 40mm. 2-pounder\n    Britain\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.76/174\n  \n  \n    14.4.38\n    20 cases = 50,000 rounds cartridges\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.39/174\n  \n  \n    \n    200 cases = 50,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.13.2mm.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.46/174\n  \n  \n    \n    50 cases = 2,000 rounds\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.8/30\n  \n  \n    \n    20 cases time fuse\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    32 cases = 1,149,120 rounds cartridges\n    Peru\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    27.1.38\n    4 cases aeroplane accessories for Heinkel machines\n    Denmark\n    Unknown\n    23.5.38\n    \n    \n    A.0.71/174\n  \n  \n    \n    5 cases = 40,000 rounds\n    \n    \n    \n    South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    A.0.67/174\n  \n  \n    \n    empty hunting cartridge cases\n    \n    \n    24.5.38\n    \n    \n    A.0.69/174\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.64/174\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.79/174\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A.0.60/174\n  \n\nPage 127",
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Com. Couns's. desp.No.18 to H.M. Ambassador of 8.4.38\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format requested (using only `` for paragraphs and `\n` only when absolutely necessary), here is the revised output:\n\nUNUTOIRE\nPEROK\nMATURN OP CARGO\nCOUNTRY OF ORIGIN\nWJR IN C..U.\nWTH\nBUIY.\n\nA.C.R. Directorate of Ordnance, Hongkong Canton 22/12/37\nMin. of Military Admin.\n150 a/s Mortars 640\nFuses\n86\nCartridges\nFrance\n3,638,726.06\n(£486,000)\n\n122\nRelays\n11209 Shells\nTrain Aviation Commission\nHongkong Canton\n7/1/38\n928 0/# An As Machine Guns & Munitione\nPrince\nK.C.B. Special Brigade of\nRevenue Guards\nvia Canton\nKowloon | Hankow\n691,451.00 (£ 92,000)\n\nHankow 11/1/38\n6\n226\n15 o/s Fuses for 81 Wrench Hirt ara 25\n3 Cartridges for\nRelays for Projectura for\nFrance\n101,176.00 (* 14,000)\n\nCommissioner's Canton office\nK.C.R. 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        "content_text": "CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n258\n\n139.\n\nDated 1st June, 1938. Received 9.55 a.m., 1st June, 1938.\n\nNo. 147.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No.147 of the 1st June repeated to Tokyo No. 58.\n\nMy telegram No.136. Figures for week ending 28th May:\n\n  \n    Aeroplane spare parts and safety cartridges\n    360 tons\n  \n  \n    Empty shells\n    30 tons\n  \n  \n    Empty cartridge shells\n    15 tons\n  \n  \n    T.N.T.\n    320 tons\n  \n  \n    Detonator...\n    10 tons\n  \n  \n    \n    735 tons\n  \n\nF\n\n140\n\nCopy end to F.O",
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        "content_text": "Return No.?9.\n\nFirms\n\n(1) South West Co.\n\nDescription of goods: Consignments of Arms, Ammunition, Aeroplanes & Explosives etc. shipped at Kong Kong and gone forward to Canton from 1.5.38 to 7.5.38.\n\n11,024 c/s light howitzer shells, 36,000 rds.\n\n1,382 c/c cartridges, 2,372,500 rds\n\n300 c/s cartridges, 600,000 rds\n\n549 c/s cartridges, 1,098,000 rds\n\n1,545 c/s cartridges, 2,607,600 rds\n\n882 c/s cartridges, 1,764,000 rds\n\n987 c/s cartridges, 1,974,000 rds\n\n2,068 c/a cartridges, 3,676,000 rds\n\n1,304 c/s 11.5 cm shells\n\n(2) South West Transportation Co.\n\n2,271 c/s fuze\n\n995 c/s gun parts\n\n  \n    Ship & date\n    Importing port\n    Country of origin & consignor\n    Consignee\n    File\n  \n  \n    s.s. Lioni Rickmers, 7.5.38\n    K.C.R.\n    Germany, although they were shipped from Sweden by Dahlberg & Hilbert o/Y Helsinki\n    Military Council, National Govt. of China\n    \n  \n  \n    s.s. Tower Field, 9.4.38\n    K.C.R., 6.5.38\n    Russia\n    Canton\n    JA.0.54 in 174\n  \n  \n    \n    K.C.R., 5.5.38\n    \n    \n    A.0.56 in 174\n  \n  \n    \n    K.C.R., 4.5.38\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n192 carriages for guns\n\n8,009 c/s shells 7.6 cm\n\n13,440 c/s 11.5 cm shells\n\n37 guns 11.5 cm\n\n88 carriages for guns\n\n(3) South West Transportation Co.\n\n6,091 c/s shells 3.7 cm\n\n252 carriages for guns\n\n(4) South West Transportation Co.\n\n5,380 c/s shells 7.6 cm\n\n73 guns 7.6 cm\n\n56 carriages for guns\n\n(5) South West Transportation Co.\n\n2 c/s pistols, 100 pcs.\n\n4 c/s cartridges, ∞,000 rds.\n\n  \n    Ship & date\n    Importing port\n    Country of origin & consignor\n    Consignee\n    File\n  \n  \n    K.C.R., 3.5.38\n    Canton\n    Germany\n    \n    A.0.44 in 25\n  \n  \n    s.s. Birtha Rickmers, 29.3.38\n    K.C.R., 7.5.38\n    Germany\n    Canton (although shipped from Sweden by Dahlberg & Hilbert o/Y Helsinki)\n    A.0.57 in 1742\n  \n  \n    s.s. Deike Rickmers, 7.3.38\n    K.C.R., 7.5.38\n    (a) Germany; (b) Germany\n    Canton\n    A.0.47 in 174; A.0.79 in 8\n  \n\n(6) Hong Kong Sporting Store\n\n100 pistols\n\n50,000 rds pistol cartridges\n\n12 revolvers\n\n6,000 rds revolver cartridges\n\n155 Mauser pistols\n\n57 revolvers\n\n400 rds revolver cartridges\n\n25 rifles\n\n10,000 rds rifle cartridges\n\n4 revolvers\n\n1,000 rds revolver cartridges\n\n1 sub-machine gun\n\n5,000 rds machine gun cartridges\n\n60 revolvers\n\n15,000 rds revolver cartridges\n\n  \n    Country of origin\n    Consignor\n    Consignee\n    File\n  \n  \n    Belgium\n    Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, Herstal/Liege\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Germany\n    \n    Canton\n    \n  \n  \n    Germany (Mauser)\n    Transited as marine de's. fur Ueberseedienst, m.b.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    U.S.A. (Smith & Wesson)\n    \n    Self Defence Company\n    A.0.84 in 8\n  \n  \n    U.S.A. (Colt)\n    \n    Chung Shan District\n    \n  \n  \n    Germany (Mauser)\n    \n    Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Commission\n    A.C.81\n  \n\n130 c/s detonators, 6 tons\n\n120 c/s detonators, 6 tons\n\n40 c/s detonators, 1.5 tons\n\n100 pistols\n\n50,000 rds pistol cartridges",
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        "content_text": "Description\n\nMilitary Aeroplanes.\n\nEngines, parts & accessories for Military Aeroplanes.\n\nMines.\n\nAccessories for Mines.\n\nArmoured Cars.\n\nMountain Guns.\n\nBatteries of 4 guns each 12.75 S.M.B.\n\nMortars.\n\nSummary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which was exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st July and 31st December 1937.\n\nBritain\nAmerica\nGermany\nFrance\nItaly\nBelgium\nSwitzerland\nTotal\n\nMilitary Aeroplanes\n20 Nos.\n2 Nos.\n\n22 Nos.\n\nEngines, parts & accessories for Military Aeroplanes\n29 c/s\n279 c/s\n8 c/s\n150 c/s\n\n50 Nos.\n\n466 c/s, 50 Nos.\n\nArmoured Cars\n\n4+1 c/s\n\n4+1 c/s\n\nMountain Guns\n14 Nos.\n\n14 Nos.\n\nBatteries of 4 guns each 12.75 S.M.B.\n28 Nos.\n\n28 Nos.\n\nMortars\n12 guns\n\n12 guns\n\nDepth Charges\n170 Nos.\n\n170 Nos.\n\nAnti tank guns\n2 Nos.\n\n2 Nos.\n\nAnti Aircraft guns\n95 Nos.\n\n95 Nos.\n\nTorpedo Heads\n20 Nos.\n\n20 Nos.\n\nGuns & Accessories\n14 Nos.\n\n14 Nos.\n\nMachine Guns\n2 Nos.\n\n2 Nos.\n\nAccessories & parts for machine guns\n584 tons\n\n584 tons\n\nRifles\n\n12 Nos.\n\n12 Nos.\n\nPistols & Revolvers\n472 Nos.\n\n472 Nos.\n\nTear Gas Gun\n1 No.\n\n1 No.\n\nCartridges for tear gas guns\n6,868 Nos.\n\n6,868 Nos.\n\nVerey light pistols\n12 rds.\n\n12 rds.\n\nTear Gas bombs\n650 Nos.\n\n650 Nos.\n\nBombs & accessories\n1,700 Nos.\n\n1,700 Nos.\n\nShells for mortars & mountain guns\n360 Nos\n\n360 Nos\n\nFuses & Relais for mortar shells\n\n3 c/s\n\n3 c/s\n\nShells for anti-aircraft guns\n22 Nos.\n\n22 Nos.\n\nShells for anti-tank guns\n24 Nos.\n\n24 Nos.\n\nCartridges for 3.7 cm & cm. guns\n38 Nos.\n\n38 Nos.\n\nCartridges for machine guns & rifles\n42 Nos.\n\n42 Nos.\n\nCartridges for pistols & revolvers\n80 Nos.\n4 c/s\n\n80 Nos., 4 c/s\n\nEmpty shotgun cartridge cases\n2,510 Nos.\n\n2,510 Nos.\n\nBRASS\n2,150 Nos.\n\n2,150 Nos.\n\nBlasting cartridges & packets\n8,000 Nos.\n\n8,000 Nos.\n\nBomb Racks\n110,000 Nos.\n\n110,000 Nos.\n\nBomb hoist parts\n152 tons\n\n152 tons\n\nLinks for guns\n36,500 Nos.\n\n36,500 Nos.\n\nAircraft\n060 Nos. & 550.5 tons\n\n060 Nos. & 550.5 tons\n\nBarrels & magazines for mountain & machine guns\n215,480 Nos.\n10.1 tons\n\n215,480 Nos., 10.1 tons\n\nPancratic Loop-hole sight\n4,593,000 rds.\n\n4,593,000 rds.\n\nData Computing Plants\n\n222,000 rds.\n\n222,000 rds.\n\nTripods for machine guns\n93,400 rds.\n\n93,400 rds.\n\nTrinitrotoluol\n24,240,000 rds.\n\n24,240,000 rds.\n\nBallistite\n114,000\n\n114,000\n\nCelluloid\n2,067,000 rds.\n\n2,067,000 rds.\n\nSmokeless Powder\n500,000 Nos.\n\n500,000 Nos.\n\nQuick Matches\n10,000 Nos.\n\n10,000 Nos.\n\nBlasting Powder\n\nGunpowder\n\nCelignite & Dynamite\n120 tons\n\n120 tons\n\nDetonators\n441.0/5\n\n441 c/s\n\nFuse\n8,000 Nos.\n\n8,000 Nos.\n\nBalled filling, petards & blasting parts. (Detonating materials.)\n76 Nos.\n\n76 Nos.\n\n1 c/s\n\n696 c/s\n\n1 c/s, 696 c/s\n\n1 c/s\n\n1 c/s\n\n20 Nos.\n\n20 Nos.\n\n1 No.\n\n1 No.\n\n25 c/s\n\n25 c/s\n\n4\n\n4\n\n140 tons\n1,379.6 tons\n\n1,639.6 tons\n\n1 ton\n\n1 ton\n\n3 tons\n\n3 tons\n\n455.1 tons\n\n455.1 tons\n\n14.4 tons\n\n14.4 tons\n\n42.5 tons\n\n42.5 tons\n\n200 c/s\n\n200 c/s\n\n1,650 lbs.\n\n1,650 lbs.\n\n508 c/s\n\n515 c/s\n\n695 c/s & 7,400 coils\n\n695 c/s & 7,400 coils\n\n11 c/s\n\n11 c/s\n\n10 Nos.\n\n10 Nos.\n\n1,550,000 ras\n\n376,000 ras\n\n1,926,000 rds\n\n52,000 Nos;\n\n52,000 Nos.\n\n24 Nos.\n\n24 Nos.\n\n283",
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        "content_text": "Return No. 28.\n\n(1) South West Transportation\n\n30.\n\nConsignments of Arms, Ammunition, Aeroplanes & Explosives etc transhipped at Hong Kong and then forwarded to Canton from 24.3.38 to 30.4.38.\n\n296\n\n  \n    Description of goods & consignor\n    Ship & date importing\n    Ship & date Forward-\n    Country of origin\n    Consignee\n    File\n  \n  \n    80 guns 3.7 cm\n80 gun carriages\n1,508 c/s spare parts for gun carriages Field\n    K.C.R. 30.4.38\n    \n    \n    Military Council, National Govt. of China.\n    A.0.56 in 174\n  \n  \n    100 c/s spare parts for guns\n    \n    danten tus sia 9.4.38\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    20 guns, 7.6 cm.\n36 guns, 7.6 cm\n5,740 c/s 7.6 cm shell\n3,780 c/s shells 7.6 cm\n30 ns, 7.6 cm\n    \n    K.C.R. 28.4.38\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (2)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6,188 c/e aeroplane bombs & parts\n270 c/a aeroplane bombs & parts = 1,000 pcs.\n1,852 c/s cartridges, 4,000,000 rds\n1,500 casks T.N.T. (59 tons)\n333 c/s Tetryl (9.5 tons)\n    \n    South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (3)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co.\n    s.s. Bertram 23.4.38.\n    K.C.R. Canton 27.4.38\n    U.S.A. (see footnote)\n    Military Council, National Govt. of China.\n    A.0.68 in 174.\n  \n  \n    (4)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    South West Transportation Co.\n    H. Poenisch 25.4.38\n    K.C.R. 25.4.38\n    Germany\n    Rickmers\n    \n  \n  \n    3,408 c/s aircraft shell = 5,225 rds.\n    s.s. Rickmers 29.3.38.\n    K.C.R. Canton 27.4.38\n    Sweden (see foot-note below)\n    Tranmarina Gesellschaft fur ueberseedienst, m.b.h.\n    \n  \n  \n    67 c/e light machine guns, 400 pcs.\n4,167 c/s light machine gun cartridges (tot 97,000,000)\n    \n    \n    Belgium\n    Bolten, W. Miller & Nachfolger.\n    A.0.57 in 174.\n  \n  \n    (5) South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (6) South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (7) South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (8) South West Transportation Co.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    60 c/s machine guns, 300 pcs\n    s.s. Saale 13.3.38.\n    Canton K.C.R. 27.4.38\n    Belgium, Antwerp.\n    J. Vulhopp,\n    A.0.53 in 174.\n  \n  \n    330 c/a cartridges, 330,000 rds cal.7.92\n1,493 c/s cartridges, 1,106,000 rds 2.7 & 7.62\n    s.s. Bolkumark 15.4.33.\n    K.C.R. 27.4.38 Canton\n    U.S.A. - American Union Transport, Inc. N.Y.\n    \n    A.0.4 in 174.\n  \n  \n    478 c/s rifles, 10,000 pcs cal.7.92\n    s.s. B-Touraine 14.4.38.\n    K.C.R. 25.4.38 Canton\n    Czechoslovakia\n    Czechoslovakische Ubersee-Schiffahrts.\n    A.0.64 in 174.\n  \n  \n    160 c/s rifles, 4,000 pcs. Model 30, Cal.7.9\n    s.s. Ben-forlich 25.4.38\n    K.C.R.\n    Belgium, Canton\n    J. Vülhöpp, Antwerp.\n    A.0.65 in 174.\n  \n  \n    (9) Jardine Matheson & Co.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    c/s = 10,000 pcs. detonators No.6 ex stock\n    \n    K.C.R. Canton 29.4.38\n    Britain\n    Nobels & Co.\n    A.0.160: Kwangtung River, Defence.\n  \n  \n    (10) Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    8 machine guns & 3,000 rds ammunition ex stock\n    \n    K.C.R. 27.4.38 Canton\n    U.S.A.\n    Colt Arms Co.\n    A.0.83 in 8.\n  \n\nItem above marked †: Declared by South West Transportation Co. to be of American origin although they were shipped from Hamburg by Aug. Bolten, W. Miller's Nachfolger.\n\nItem above marked ‡: Declared to be of Swedish origin, although they were shipped from Germany by Transmarina Gesellschaft fur Ueberseedienst, m.b.h.\n\nItem above marked *: Declared to be of Belgian origin although they were shipped from Germany by Aug. Bolten, W. Miller's Nachfolger.\n\n9/6/20\n\n296",
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        "title": "CO129-568-9 Chung Chi Cheung- petition to appeal against decision of Hong Kong court 7-1-1938 - 28-12-1938",
        "content_text": "Hong Kong water police came alongside in answer to the cruiser's signal. The police took the wounded officer and the accused to hospital. They took possession of the two revolvers with which the accused had armed himself, of the spent revolver bullets and expended shells, and of some unexpended cartridges. On 25th February, extradition proceedings were commenced against the accused on the requisition of the chairman of the Provincial Government of Kwangtung alleging murder and attempted murder on board the Chinese Customs cruiser within the jurisdiction of China while the said cruiser was approximately one mile off Futaumun (British waters).\" This appears to be an allegation that the vessel had not at the time reached British territorial waters. The fact that the crime was in reality committed within British waters is not now in dispute. After many adjournments the magistrate decided, on evidence called for the defence, that the accused was a British national and that the proceedings therefore failed. The accused was at once rearrested and charged with murder \"in the waters of this colony\" and duly committed. At the hearing before the magistrate and at the trial the acting chief officer and three of the crew of the Chinese cruiser were called as witnesses for the prosecution. Police witnesses produced and gave evidence as to the revolvers, cartridge cases and bullets. As has already been stated the accused was convicted and sentenced to death.\n\nOn the question of jurisdiction two theories have found favour with persons professing a knowledge of the principles of international law. One is that a public ship of a nation for all purposes either is or is to be treated by other nations as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs. By this conception will be guided the domestic law of any country in whose territorial waters the ship finds herself. There will therefore be no jurisdiction in fact in any Court where jurisdiction depends upon the act in question or the party to the proceedings being done or found or resident in the local territory. The other theory is that a public ship in foreign waters is not and is not treated as territory of her own nation. The domestic Courts in accordance with principles of international law will accord to the ship and its crew and its contents certain immunities, some of which are well settled, though others are in dispute. In this view the immunities do not depend upon an objective extra-territoriality, but on implication of the domestic law. They are conditional and can in any case be waived by the nation to which the public ship belongs.\n\nTheir Lordships entertain no doubt that the latter is the correct conclusion. It more accurately and logically represents the agreements of nations which constitute international law and alone is consistent with the paramount necessity expressed in general terms for each nation to protect itself from internal disorder by trying and punishing offenders within its boundaries. It must be always remembered that so far at any rate as the Courts of this country are concerned international law has no validity save in so far as its principles are accepted and adopted by our own domestic law. There is no external power that imposes its rules upon our own code of substantive law or procedure. The Courts acknowledge the existence of a body of rules which nations accept amongst themselves. On any judicial issue they seek to ascertain what the relevant rule is, and having found it they will treat it as incorporated into the domestic law, so far as it is not inconsistent with rules enacted by statutes or finally declared by their tribunals. What then are the immunities of public ships of other nations accepted by our Courts and on what principle are they based?\n\nThe principle was expounded by that great jurist Chief Justice Marshall in The Exchange, 7 Cranch 116 (1812), a judgment which has illumined the jurisprudence of the world:\n\n\"The jurisdiction of the Courts is a branch of that which is possessed by the nation as an independent sovereign power. The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. All exceptions therefore to the full and complete power of a nation within its own territories, must be traced up to the consent of the nation itself. They can flow from no other legitimate source. This consent may be either express or implied. In the latter case it is less determinate, exposed more to the uncertainties of construction but if understood not less obligatory. The world being composed of distinct sovereignties possessing equal rights and equal independence whose mutual benefit is promoted by intercourse with each other, and by an interchange of those good offices which humanity dictates, and its wants require, all sovereigns have consented to a relaxation in practice in cases under certain peculiar circumstances of that absolute and complete jurisdiction within their respective territories which sovereignty confers.\n\nThis perfect equality and absolute independence of sovereigns and this common interest impelling them to mutual intercourse and an interchange of good offices with each other have given rise to a class of cases in which every sovereign is understood to waive the exercise of a part of that complete exclusive territorial jurisdiction which has been stated to be the attribute of every nation.\"\n\nThe Chief Justice then proceeds to illustrate the class of cases to which he has referred. He takes first the exemption of the person of the sovereign from arrest or detention within a foreign territory. \"Second, standing on the same principles as the first is the immunity which all civilised states allow to foreign ministers'\n\nWhatever may be the principle on which this immunity is established whether we consider him as in the place of the sovereign he represents or by a political fiction suppose him to be extra-territorial and therefore in point of law not within the jurisdiction of the sovereign at whose court he resides; still the immunity itself is granted by the governing power of the nation to which the minister is deputed. This fiction of extra-territoriality could not be erected and supported against the will of the sovereign of the territory. He is supposed to assent to it.\"\n\nThe judgment then proceeds to the third case \"in which a sovereign is understood to cede a portion of his territorial jurisdiction,\" namely, \"where he allows the troops of a foreign power to pass through his dominions.\" The Chief",
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        "content_text": "34\n\n2\n\nHong Kong water police came alongside in answer to the cruiser's signal. The police took the wounded officer and the accused to hospital. They took possession of the two revolvers with which the accused had armed himself, of the spent revolver bullets and expended shells, and of some unexpended cartridges. On 25th February, extradition proceedings were commenced against the accused on the requisition of the chairman of the Provincial Government of Kwangtung alleging murder and attempted murder on board the Chinese Customs cruiser \"within the jurisdiction of China while the said cruiser was approximately one mile off Futaumun (British waters).\" appears to be an allegation that the vessel had not at the time reached British territorial waters. The fact that the crime was in reality committed within British waters is not now in dispute. After many adjournments the magistrate decided, on evidence called for the defence, that the accused was a British national and that the proceedings therefore failed. The accused was at once rearrested and charged with murder in the waters of this colony\" and duly committed. At the hearing before the magistrate and at the trial the acting chief officer and three of the crew of the Chinese cruiser were called as witnesses for the prosecution. Police witnesses produced and gave evidence as to the revolvers, cartridge cases and bullets. As has already been stated the accused was convicted and sentenced to death.\n\nOn the question of jurisdiction two theories have found favour with persons professing a knowledge of the principles of international law. One is that a public ship of a nation for all purposes either is or is to be treated by other nations as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs. By this conception will be guided the domestic law of any country in whose territorial waters the ship finds herself. There will therefore be no jurisdiction in fact in any Court where jurisdiction depends upon the act in question or the party to the proceedings being done or found or resident in the local territory. The other theory is that a public ship in foreign waters is not and is not treated as territory of her own nation. The domestic Courts in accordance with principles of international law will accord to the ship and its crew and its contents certain immunities, some of which are well settled, though others are in dispute. In this view the immunities do not depend upon an objective extra-territoriality, but on implication of the domestic law. They are conditional and can in any case be waived by the nation to which the public ship belongs.\n\nTheir Lordships entertain no doubt that the latter is the correct conclusion. It more accurately and logically represents the agreements of nations which constitute international law and alone is consistent with the paramount necessity expressed in general terms for each nation to protect itself from internal disorder by trying and punishing offenders within its boundaries. It must be always remembered that so far at any rate as the Courts of this country are concerned international law has no validity save in so far as its principles are accepted and adopted by our own domestic law. There is no external power that imposes its rules upon our own code of substantive law or procedure. The Courts acknowledge the existence of a body of rules which nations accept amongst themselves. On any judicial issue they seek to ascertain what the relevant rule is, and having found it they will treat it as incorporated into the domestic law, so far as it is not inconsistent with rules enacted by statutes or finally declared by their tribunals. What then are the immunities of public ships of other nations accepted by our Courts and on what principle are they based?\n\nThe principle was expounded by that great jurist Chief Justice Marshall in The Exchange, 7 Cranch 116 (1812), a judgment which has illumined the jurisprudence of the world:\n\n\"The jurisdiction of the Courts is a branch of that which is possessed by the nation as an independent sovereign power. The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself... All exceptions therefore to the full and complete power of a nation within its own territories, must be traced up to the consent of the nation itself. They can flow from no other legitimate source. This consent may be either express or implied. In the latter case it is less determinate, exposed more to the uncertainties of construction: but if understood not less obligatory. The world being composed of distinct sovereignties possessing equal rights and equal independence whose mutual benefit is promoted by intercourse with each other, and by an interchange of those good offices which humanity dictates, and its wants require, all sovereigns have consented to a relaxation in practice in cases under certain peculiar circumstances of that absolute and complete jurisdiction within their respective territories which sovereignty confers.\n\n\"This perfect equality and absolute independence of sovereigns and this common interest impelling them to mutual intercourse and an interchange of good offices with each other have given rise to a class of cases in which every sovereign is understood to waive the exercise of a part of that complete exclusive territorial jurisdiction which has been stated to be the attribute of every nation.\"\n\nThe Chief Justice then proceeds to illustrate the class of cases to which he has referred. He takes first \"the exemption of the person of the sovereign from arrest or detention within a foreign territory.\" Second, \"standing on the same principles as the first is the immunity which all civilised states allow to foreign ministers\":\n\n\"Whatever may be the principle on which this immunity is established whether we consider him as in the place of the sovereign he represents or by a political fiction suppose him to be extra-territorial and therefore in point of law not within the jurisdiction of the sovereign at whose court he resides; still the immunity itself is granted by the governing power of the nation to which the minister is deputed. This fiction of extra-territoriality could not be erected and supported against the will of the sovereign of the territory. He is supposed to assent to it.\"\n\nThe judgment then proceeds to the third case \"in which a sovereign is understood to cede a portion of his territorial jurisdiction,\" namely, where he allows the troops of a foreign power to pass through his dominions.\" The Chief\n\n13804\n\nA 2\n\n3",
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        "title": "CO129-569-10 Report on proposed new museum 11-1-1938 - 11-1-1938",
        "content_text": "206\n\n11\n\n10\n\nand comprehensive museum is quite outside the present requirements of Hong Kong and should not now be envisaged.\n\nSuppose, for example, that one exhibit consisted of a series of models illustrating the different types of fishing boats used in S.E. China, there would be no objection to including for comparison a limited number of examples from adjacent regions, e.g., N. China, Indo-China, Formosa, Malaya and Borneo; the Chinese element must, however, always predominate.\n\nIn the last City Hall Museum there were inter alia a collection of Australian parrots, mineralogical specimens from Wales, old clocks, etc.—such exhibits are undesirable and should never be admitted into the new museum.\n\n(c) Methods of fulfilling the objects.\n\nMuch will depend on the initiative and energy of the Curator and on the willingness of Government Departments to co-operate with him. It must be apparent that visible results will take time to prepare. In consequence, it might be advisable to start with one section at a time and when a representative exhibit had been arranged it could then be made available to the public and left as it stood whilst the energies of the Curator and his assistants were devoted to another section.\n\nI. EXISTING COLLECTIONS BELONGING TO GOVERNMENT.\n\n1. CHATER COLLECTION.\n\nProvision should be made for the exhibition of a part of the collection of paintings and drawings by Chinnery and his pupils. These, and the other prints and drawings, could be changed frequently and the rest of the collection could be available for students at any time on special request.\n\nThe collection of porcelains consists of 17th, 18th and 19th century wares, imitating a small group of Chinese ceramics of the K'ang-hsi period of the Ch'ing dynasty. These are by no means representative of Chinese ceramic art and the exhibition of more than a selected few would be tedious and misleading to the public and absolutely of no value to students. Mr. R. L. Hobson, Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, has seen this collection and we believe that our statements are in agreement with his views. There are two dishes of the Cheng-te period of the Ming dynasty of moderate interest and these are worth exhibiting.\n\n2. OLD CITY HALL MUSEUM COLLECTIONS.\n\nOn the 30th September, 1937, a report on the existing collections was submitted. The signatories recommended the destruction of the majority of the specimens, which had been damaged by insects, dry rot, neglect and by the typhoon of September 2nd. Among the specimens to be kept are a number of marine shells (many un-named) and an interesting collection of named fresh-water shells. These collections should be included in the New Museum collections.\n\n3. COLLECTIONS IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.\n\nThese, consisting of geological and mineralogical specimens collected during the survey of Hong Kong and of four funerary urns from Sha Tin and Sheung Shui, could be transferred to the New Museum.\n\n4. THE LAMMA EXCAVATION COLLECTION IN RICCI HALL.\n\nThis is at present in the custody of the Jesuit Fathers at Ricci Hall and could be transferred to the New Museum.\n\n11\n\nII. COLLECTIONS TO BE MADE FROM LOCAL MATERIAL.\n\n1. ARCHAEOLOGY.—This is a large branch and the amount of work required to clear up problems that already confront us will take years but something might be arranged and displayed after a few months time with the help of loan collections.\n\n2. NATURAL HISTORY. Here again a vast field presents itself but one or two groups might be tackled and completely dealt with in a short time, e.g., the Snakes, of which about 30 species are known. A representative collection of Butterflies might be displayed after a very short time possibly supplemented by loan collections.\n\n3. GEOLOGY.—A representative collection of the rocks and minerals of the Colony could be arranged almost immediately.\n\nThe museum must have its own journal or access to a journal of established repute. We suggest for consideration that the Hong Kong Naturalist, now in its ninth year, should be considered as a convenient medium for the publication of researches. The writing and publication of simple books would follow naturally and here co-operation with the University and Education Department would be most valuable.\n\n(d) Finance of the Museum.\n\nWe think it probable that the Empire Grants Committee of the Museums Association would make a grant towards the initial cost of the building and its equipment. Our Chairman spoke some years ago to the Secretary of that Committee, Mr. S. F. Markham, on this subject and was told that no grant would be considered unless:—\n\n(1) A properly qualified Curator were appointed.\n\n(2) The authorities concerned gave definite proof that they intended to continue active support of the institution. The first annual report and other relevant papers are included in the Appendix as enclosures B, C* and D*.\n\n2. The Colonial Development Fund might be willing to give a grant towards the initial cost. The Hon. Mr. S. Caine was at one time Secretary of this Fund and could be asked for his advice.\n\n3. It is probable that certain wealthy Chinese might be willing to make donations, if approached in the right manner. We think the best way of acknowledging such donations would be to follow the custom in force at the British Museum, where a tablet is affixed to the wall on which is inscribed the details of the gift. This would obviate a difficulty that might arise were a room named after the donor; he might wish to exhibit his own gifts or loans and expect that his advice be sought on its use.\n\nIf and when a public appeal is launched for gifts of money towards the building or endowment, emphasis should be laid on the fact that the museum is for the Chinese and for the study of Chinese art and natural history, and that therefore the idea should especially appeal to the cultured Chinese of the Colony.\n\n4. We consider that an endowment fund should be established, the revenue from which would be devoted to museum interests. A possible way of augmenting this would be by Government releasing a special postage stamp issue and devoting the entire profits from the sale to the fund.\n\nA number of the Chinese and foreign business firms might be willing to give an annual grant to this fund. Appeals might be launched through the Chambers of Commerce represented on the Board of Directors.\n\n5. Government should be prepared to meet annual charges of upkeep and salaries. Here it must be mentioned that no museum of this type should be con—\n\n* See Appendix II for enclosure B. Enclosures C and D are not printed.\n\n207\n\n12\n\nPage 11\n\n208",
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        "content_text": "South China Morning Post - July 26th, 1938.\n\nGOVERNOR'S MESSAGE\n\nOutlined Refugee Scheme To Canton Authorities\n\nSAW BOMBED AREA\n\nH.E. the Governor and Lady Northcote returned on Saturday from a brief unofficial visit to Mr. A. P. Blunt, Consul-General and the Shameen community thoroughly delighted with their experiences.\n\nIn an interview kindly accorded the Press yesterday, His Excellency said, in reply to questions, that he did not consider that Shameen had anything to fear from the hostilities. No bombs had fallen on the island, though metal fragments, possibly stray portions of shells, had been found. On the morning of his arrival in Canton and the day of his departure, there were Japanese air raids but they were so far distant from Shameen that the Governor's party neither heard nor saw anything of the attack.\n\nHis Excellency indicated that some little while ago he had written to the Pacification Commissioner of Kwangtung, the Governor, and the Mayor of Canton informing them of his projected informal visit to the British Consul General at Canton and had received from them hearty invitations to extend his calls while in the city. As a result, he was able to meet General Yu Hon-mou, General Wu Te-chun and Mayor Tseng Yang-fu, all of whom also entertained him officially.\n\nIn the course of general conversation, they expressed gratitude at the assistance given by Hongkong, Shameen and Great Britain with regard to medical supplies, etc., and on behalf of those Chinese seeking shelter in this Colony. Sir Geoffry indicated the lines on which the Hongkong Government proposed to deal with the position. The proposal, it is understood, will be made public on Thursday.\n\nDuring his tour, said Sir Geoffry, he was much impressed by the welcoming attitude not only of officials but also of the street crowds who showed their appreciation in a definite manner. Nothing could exceed the hospitality shown to the party by Mr. Blunt and the Cantonese Authorities.\n\nSaw Bombed Areas\n\nIn Canton itself, he made several journeys by car and saw the bombed areas which were extensive. The houses of the poor had suffered particularly in the vicinity of Wongsha Station; but the energy which the Canton people showed in clearing away the ruin showed that they did not waste time in self-pity. Rather, their attitude was one of courage and dignity. Though considerable damage was to be seen, yet there were many bombed places shut off from view.\n\nHis Excellency said that considerable stress was laid upon the complementary parts which Hongkong and Canton were destined to play in commercial and civil life during the conversations, and he very fully concurred with what had been said on this point.\n\nIn his view, the co-operation which was necessary for the greatest benefit of Kwangtung and Hongkong was greatly promoted by such informal visits as his, and those Canton officials would make to Hongkong from time to time.\n\nA copy of telegram sent by His Excellency after his return to Mr. Blunt read:\n\n\"My wife and I will look back on our visit to Canton with unfailing pleasure and gratitude. We send our warmest thanks to you for most thoughtful and unsparing hospitality and most cordial good wishes to Pacification Commissioner, Governor Kwangtung Province and Mayor of Canton with deeply grateful appreciation of the warm-hearted friendliness shown by them and Canton City towards us. NORTHCOTE.\"\n\nMr. Blunt replied:\n\n\"Many thanks for your kind message, the relative part of which I am transmitting to Pacification Commissioner, Governor and Mayor who I feel confident share my appreciation. BLUNT.\"",
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        "content_text": "13.\n\n10. The firing continued the whole time the cruiser was manoeuvring, 4 or 5 shots being fired after the cruiser had beached.\n\n11. After the beaching of the cruiser the destroyer proceeded to close in and lay to about 1 mile from the beach.\n\n12. On shore the crew took to the hills, where Captain COOK gave instructions to the 1st officer, boatswain, and two ratings to remain in the vicinity, while he and the remaining party proceeded to the south of BLACK POINT, and finally at 17.30 hours the Captain arrived at Castle Peak Police Station and phoned to the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n15. In all 15 or 20 shells were fired at the cruiser from either a 4 or 4.7 gun, two unexploded shells being found on the beach outside the NING YEUNG shop and later taken away by Naval Authorities after the vicinity had been photographed by Police.\n\n14. From the hillside the 1st Officer, boatswain and villagers saw the destroyer lower two motor boats with armed sailors who boarded the cruiser and also landed at YUNG LUNG WAN.\n\n15. The sailors were then observed to enter the shop and houses and the vicinity, and took away with them a number of chickens belonging to an old woman named CHUNG WAN.\n\n16. At about 20.00 hours the Chief Officer saw the Japanese destroyer steaming in a southerly direction towards Ladrones and about 20 minutes later he also observed the Customs Cruiser proceeding under her own steam in the same direction.\n\nThe destroyer and the cruiser were in \"flashing\" communication to one another.\n\n17. About...",
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        "content_text": "Minister for Foreign Affairs,\n\nNo:\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nCOPY\n\n23\n\n12th January, 1938\n\n(Received 15th January)\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's Note No. 200 of the 22nd December regarding the firing by a Japanese destroyer on a Chinese Customs patrol boat off Black Point Hongkong, in the afternoon of the 11th December and other matters.\n\nI immediately took steps to investigate and confirm the facts of this case and, these having now been established, I have the honour to reply in the following sense.\n\n2.\n\nI\n\nOn the 11th December, a Japanese destroyer was riding at anchor at a point about one and a half nautical miles to the west of South West Point. At about 3.15 p.m. she sighted what was thought to be a Chinese gunboat at about three nautical miles in a southerly direction and she ordered her to stop. But the latter vessel put on speed and the destroyer gave chase firing on her for a short while.\n\n3.\n\nThough this firing took place outside British territorial waters, some of the shells fell within those waters.\n\n4.\n\nMoreover, since the crew of the Chinese gunboat abandoned her and made off, the Japanese destroyer drew up alongside to make sure of the facts and it was\n\nSir Robert Craigie, K.C.M.G., C.B.,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Ambassador\n\netc., etc., etc.,\n\nTokyo.\n\netc.,\n\nthen/",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nthen for the first time that the vessel which had been taken for a gunboat was found to be the Customs patrol s.s. \"Chahsin\". The destroyer moved off and left her there.\n\n5.\n\nAs is clear from the foregoing, the Japanese destroyer did not take the Chinese Customs patrol in tow as is stated in Your Excellency's Note. It is moreover scarcely credible to the Imperial Japanese Government that men of the Japanese Navy should have landed without permission and made off with a number of chickens from nearby houses and no sailor landed in that neighbourhood at the time in question.\n\n6.\n\nBut the facts that Japanese shells fell within British territorial waters in the line of fire and that since the investigation of the abandoned enemy vessel was carried out in circumstances which did not permit of delay, British territorial waters were entered without the consent of a British Authority are nevertheless regretted by the Imperial Japanese Government and those responsible have been dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.\n\n7.\n\nI have the honour to add that the Imperial Navy have, in view of the occurrence of this incident, sent strict instructions to their detachments in China to take adequate precautions against the recurrence of such incidents in future.\n\nI avail, etc., etc.,\n\n(sgd) Koki Hirota (L.S.)\n\nH.I.J.M's. Minister for Foreign Affairs.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n28\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).\n\n15 January, 1938.\n\nD. 1.20 p.m. 10th January, 1938.\n\nR. 10.00 a.m. 16th January, 1938.\n\nNo. 56.\n\n(R).\n\n0:0:0:0\n\nYour telegram No. 581.\n\nI have received reply of which the following is summary. On December 11th at about 3.15 p.m. Japanese destroyer riding at anchor one and a half nautical miles to the west south west point sighted what she took to be Chinese gunboat about three nautical miles to the south and ordered her to stop. The latter put on speed and the destroyer gave chase firing for a short while. Though firing took place outside British territorial waters some of the shells fell within those waters.\n\nSince crew had abandoned the Chinese boat the destroyer drew alongside to ascertain the facts and only then discovered it was customs vessel. The destroyer moved off and left her there. She did not take customs vessel in tow. It is scarcely credible to the Japanese Government that men of Japanese navy should have landed without permission and made off with chickens. No sailor landed in that neighbourhood at that time.\n\nThe fact that Japanese shells fell within British territorial waters \"in line of fire\" and that, since investigation of enemy vessel brooked no delay, British territorial waters were entered without consent of a British authority are nevertheless regretted by the Japanese Government and those responsible have been dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.\n\nThe Imperial navy have also sent strict instructions to their detachments in China to take adequate precautions against the recurrence of such incidents.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 56; repeated to Mr. Howe and Hongkong (please pass to Commander-in-Chief as my telegram No. 21).",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n32\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).\n\n15th January, 1938.\n\nD.\n\n1.20 p.m.\n\n10411 January, 1938.\n\nR.\n\n10.00 a.m.\n\n16th January, 1938.\n\nNo. 56.\n\n(R).\n\n0:0:0:0\n\nYour telegram No. 581.\n\nI have received reply of which the following is summary. On December 11th at about 3.15 p.m. Japanese destroyer riding at anchor one and a half nautical miles to the west south west point sighted what she took to be Chinese gunboat about three nautical miles to the south and ordered her to stop. The latter put on speed and the destroyer gave chase firing for a short while. Though firing took place outside British territorial waters some of the shells fell within those waters.\n\nSince crew had abandoned the Chinese boat the destroyer drew alongside to ascertain the facts and only then discovered it was customs vessel. The destroyer moved off and left her there. She did not take customs vessel in tow. It is scarcely credible to the Japanese Government that men of Japanese navy should have landed without permission and made off with chickens. No sailor landed in that neighbourhood at that time.\n\nThe fact that Japanese shells fell within British territorial waters \"in line of fire\" and that, since investigation of enemy vessel brooked no delay, British territorial waters were entered without consent of a British authority are nevertheless regretted by the Japanese Government and those responsible have been dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.\n\nThe Imperial navy have also sent strict instructions to their detachments in China to take adequate precautions against the recurrence of such incidents.\n\nrepeated\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 56; to Mr. Howe and Hongkong (please pass to Commander-in-Chief as my telegram No. 21).",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nTranslation\n\nReport on investigations into the case of\n\nthe sinking of Fishing Vessels.\n\n55\n\nWhile, on the 22nd September, a Japanese patrol vessel was engaged in keeping watch at a point 22 degrees 13 minutes north latitude and 116 degrees 4 minutes east longitude, she sighted at 7:24 a.m. two large sea-going junks at about 15,000 metres to the north-east. While she was approaching the junks for the purpose of inspection on a north-easterly course and at level speed, at 7:30 a.m., she sighted four more junks of similar type sailing in a south-westerly direction at a point about 1,500 metres to the north-west of the original junks. She accordingly changed her course to north-north-east and sailed ahead of the group of junks. At the same time, the Commander of the patrol vessel gave orders for the preparation of an inspection boat and gave the necessary instructions to an inspection crew.\n\nAt the time, the weather was fine, wind north-east, force 8 metres, sea inclined to be rough, and, in these weather conditions, the navigation of the patrol vessel's small boat was a matter of considerable difficulty. She accordingly proceeded until her bows had passed the leading junk at a distance of 2,000 metres and changed her course to the east at 7:55 a.m. in order to facilitate the lowering of a boat on the lee-side. She approached the junks reducing her speed by half. At 8 a.m. she was sailing at slow speed.\n\nAt 8:03 a.m., when the distance from the junks was 500 metres, she was suddenly fired on by the junks with rifles and the Commander accordingly ordered the crew to stand by for an engagement. She immediately fired some blank charges as a warning but without effect. She then fired live shells into",
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        "title": "CO129-570-8 Sino-Japanese War- sinking of Chinese fishing boats by Japanese vessel 31-1-1938 - 22-12-1938",
        "content_text": "Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).\n\n30th January, 1938.\n\nD. 4.40 p.m.\n\n30th January, 1938.\n\nR. 10.00 a.m.\n\n30th January, 1938.\n\nNo. 124. (R).\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\n78\n\nYour telegram No. 80 (sinking of junks).\n\nFollowing is translation of memorandum from Minister for Foreign Affairs dated January 29th begins:-\n\nConfidential.\n\nImperial Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are in receipt of His Britannic Majesty's Embassy's memorandum of January 13th regarding case of sinking of Chinese fishing vessels by Imperial Navy but according to report received by Naval authorities from the Commanding officer on the spot facts of the case were as follows:\n\n\"On September 22nd Japanese patrol vessel which was patrolling to the coast south of China to enforce blockade of China coast sighted a number of Chinese junks to the south of Cheleng Point. When she approached them for purposes of inspection the junks opened fire with rifles. She replied first with blank shells as warning and then fired live shells into the sea near by. As resistance continued she was finally obliged to fire at the junks and sank a number of them\".\n\nAs this report differs from that contained in His Britannic Majesty's memorandum, the Imperial Government have the honour to state in reply, that they will carry out further thorough investigation using for the purpose of reference findings of Commission of enquiry appointed by the Governor of Hongkong. If, as result of this investigation, the Japanese Navy's report is found to be incorrect and if His Majesty's Government are able to produce concrete evidence that, as stated in His Majesty's Embassy's memorandum there were junks belonging to British subjects amongst those sunk and that there were British Subjects amongst those killed, then the Imperial Government will be prepared to consider again the question of payment of compensation for these losses. Ends.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 124 January 30th; Hongkong.\n\nrepeated to",
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        "content_text": "## 154\n\nFire could not conceivably be directed, with the guns available, on definite objectives. I am advised that even if (as is very doubtful) the shells could reach Canton, they could only be aimed to fall indiscriminately somewhere within an area of several square miles.\n\n2. However hopes may eventuate, the occasion is convenient to review the history of the blockade controversy on which reports have been sent by frequent telegrams and in my despatches Nos. 125 of September 10th, 133 of October 4th and 137 of October 13th. It will not be understood, however, unless the background is appreciated.\n\n3. This province only joined the Central Government last autumn. Cantonese influences (with all that implies) are predominant. The high military authorities are all powerful and are the old Kwangtung generals who have had little or no foreign contacts, are suspicious of foreigners, and with justification - of \"adpies\" (or \"spies\" is likely the intended meaning but \"apies\" is kept as per original). The high civil authorities, such as the Provincial Chairman, General Wu Te-chen, and the Mayor, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, do not dare to exercise much voice in matters affecting the defence of Canton and South China. The less important civil officials, such as the Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs and Military subordinates, do not dare to stand up at all to the military superiors. During the earlier part of the blockade period, this area was being subjected to constant bombing from the air, as a result of which any potentially effective naval craft (which never attempted any action) were sunk and the entire air force was destroyed or withdrawn. I venture, therefore, to repeat what I reported in my telegram No. 96 of October 7th, that fear and ignorance were the reasons for closure of the river, and not unfriendliness, \n\nand",
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        "content_text": "# \n## 22nd\n\nJapanese mechanised troops were seen at the foot of the Goddess of Mercy Mill. They wore helmets indicating that the ... and Control district of the city had already been reached. It was reported that Japanese navigation on that level had been put into hand quickly controlled, having fallen under their control.\n\n## 23rd\n\nFierce fighting occurred around the city. Bombardment and intense fire occurred as the count was being taken. Black smoke farts were reported on the island. Two very large explosions took place at Wong Nei Chong station in the morning. Many objects were badly damaged, and many persons had remarkable escapes from heavy (up to 15 lbs.) pieces of metal falling on the island. The explosions are said to have been caused by the large fires at the station, which was full of torpedoes (a) anti-aircraft ammunition and (b) many high explosive shells, which together with eight 75 mm. anti-aircraft guns and no customs loane were burning. The heroic efforts of the Acting Commissioner were particularly praiseworthy.\n\n## 24th \n## 25th\n\nThe situation was dire, with many fires breaking out during the day but increasing in severity at night. Colonel Hiyazaki (Commander of the advanced forces) with his staff paid his first visit to the Consulate, and in a very normal interview, a few preliminary arrangements were concluded. It was noted that Colonel Hiyazaki would call on the Consul General on October 31st. When Mr. Kasama, the Japanese Consul General arrived in Canton, the Japanese had already consolidated their control over the city. Of particular importance was the call of Colonel Hayashi, Commandant of the Japanese military garrison, who had assumed responsibility...",
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        "title": "CO129-571-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attacks on the south; fall of Canton and Hankow and visit to... 6-10-1938 - 5-1-1939",
        "content_text": "# SECRET CIPHER \n## TELEGRAM. \n### SECRET. \n\nFrom: \n**G.O.C. Hong Kong**. \nTo: **The War Office**. \n\n`4728 Cipher 26/11`, \n12.1 \n\nDesp.2330 26.11.38. Recd. 1030 27.11.38. \n\n114 \n\nAbout 1230 p.m. today after occupying Shunchun, party of Japanese troops approximately 30 strong approached railway bridge, crossed frontier in pursuit of Chinese in spite of protest by officer in command small military post, took possession of unoccupied civil post west of Kowloon-Canton railway apparently in ignorance. When position of frontier was pointed out, Japanese troops withdrew to 300 yards north of frontier. G.S.O.3 spoke to local Japanese commander who expressed regrets. \n\nExact position of frontier was marked on Japanese maps. Contact has not been made with Japanese elsewhere on frontier yet, but mopping up eastwards expected where detached bodies of Chinese troops still moving about. British troops now control three principal crossings and are in support of police elsewhere and ready to take over whole frontier if necessary. Troops have orders to permit no, repeat no, violation of British territory. A few shells believed misdirected fell near Canton road bridge, one shell hitting unoccupied British post; no military casualties and little damage. \n\nApproximately 700 Chinese soldiers, mainly militia with vague affiliation to 151 Division, disarmed and interned under military guard. Japanese appear friendly and desirous of avoiding incidents. \n\n### C. 4. (Telegrams). \nCopies to:- \n- **S. of S.** \n- **D.D.M.I.** \n- **C.I.G.S.** \n- **D.C.I.G.S.** \n- **M.1.2. 20.** \n- **P.U.S.** \n- **D.R.O.** \n- **D.M.O. & I.** \n- **D.P.S.** \n- **D.D. M.O.** \n- **A.G.1. 4C.** \n- **D.P.R.** \n- **Cdr.Loly (Admiralty)** \n- **Sqdn.Ldr.Pelly (Air Ministry)** \n- **Mr.Gent (C.0.).** \n- **M.0.1A.2.2A. Mr. Howe (F.0.).**",
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        "document_key": "CO129-573-2 Export of torpedo boats to China 14-5-1938 - 5-10-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-573-2 Export of torpedo boats to China 14-5-1938 - 5-10-1938",
        "content_text": "35\n\nthe Convention de facto would be likely to give rise to an undesirable \"incident\" unless the boats were to leave Hong Kong under their own power and attack a Japanese ship en route. We cannot see that there is any reason to anticipate an incident, if they are re-shipped in a British ship, for the Japanese have not, so far as we know, withdrawn the undertaking they gave months ago that they would not interfere with British ships going to China, even if carrying munitions, and we do not see why motor boats should not, if so desired, be shipped on British ships just as, presumably, shells, guns, or other similar material could be shipped. If it were essential to stop their inclusion in the cargo of a British ship the Hong Kong authorities would presumably have to refuse to license export by a British ship whilst allowing it \n(b) by a ship of any other nationality, is this a tenable position? \n(a) by rail or",
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        "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938",
        "content_text": "# International Situation HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Boothby.]\n\n## International Situation\n\nThe \"Economist,\" the laissez-faire capitalist newspaper, which is in principle opposed to any kind of interference with industry if it can possibly be avoided, continues: \"Those who have been advocating the creation of such a Ministry ever since the inception of rearmament have been told by the Government that it would be an unnecessary interference with the normal course of industry. The Government have preferred the alternative course of co-ordinating the activities of the independent Ministries through a Minister with Cabinet rank, but without executive powers. It may fairly be said that the system associated with the name of Sir Thomas Inskip has failed. It is precisely because interference with the normal course of the armaments industry is required that a Ministry of Supply has now become a necessity. What was formerly an objection to the proposal has become its very marrow.\"\n\nIt is no insult to the Defence Departments to say that they are not equipped for the mass production of armaments. They are staffed by officers, by civil servants and by technical experts; the one character who never penetrates their portals is the business organiser or the big industrialist. They are hampered at every turn by Treasury control. This mechanism cannot compete with the totalitarian domination of industry in Germany.\n\nSir Kingsley Wood has recently announced that 20,000 to 80,000 man-hours of work are now required to produce an airplane. This figure in itself is a conclusive condemnation of the present system. Germany is believed to be turning out 600 machines a month, and she is certainly not devoting 48, or even 12, million man-hours to the job. Doubtless our methods of production turn out excellent machines; the Russians in 1916 made shells that were engineering masterpieces. But they lost the war because their shells were too good and too few, and we shall lose the peace if our aircraft are too good and too few.\n\nI believe that to be profoundly true. The article goes on: \"One of the most urgent tasks before the Government is drastically to reduce the number of man-hours per airplane, per gun, per shell turned out. It is not a task for which the officer, the designer, the civil servant has any qualifications. It is a task for the industrial manager. He must be enlisted, as he was in the war, in a special Ministry, led by a human dynamo, and equipped with the legal powers necessary to organise the production of arms as the biggest mass production industry the world has ever known.\"\n\nNothing less than that will meet the case. I am glad to see my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade here because this was supposed to be something in the nature of an economic Debate. There has been very little talk about economics so far; but before I come to my concluding sentences I would like to say one or two words about certain economic aspects of the situation. I think the Prime Minister is genuinely worried about the financial aspect of rearmament, and that two of the things which make him hesitate to set up a Ministry of Supply are the cost, and the interference to industry which might be great enough to diminish revenue.\n\nAll I can say in this connection is that we ought seriously to ask ourselves a question which, incidentally, we ought to ask ourselves with regard to many other aspects of the present situation, namely, How have the Germans done it? They have nothing like our resources, although it is wrong to say that they are at starvation level. On the contrary, they are fully employed at a tolerable standard of life. They have done it in three ways. They have done it by the creation of credit, by the issue of long-term loans, and by taxation. We can do it by these three methods much more easily if we choose to do so. Their current rate of State expenditure is over 35 per cent. of their total national income. Ours is only 10 per cent. Their loan expenditure is 25 per cent. of the national income. Ours is less than 3 per cent. They have no unemployment. We have 2,000,000 unemployed; and, therefore, a considerable leeway to make up of unemployed and unused resources of productive capacity. Ours are nothing like fully employed, and are infinitely superior.\n\nWe could carry out the armaments programme quite easily, and with considerable benefit to the economy of this country and to the working classes if we had a measure of controlled domestic inflation, for which I have frequently pleaded in this House. An eminent economist, whose qualifications are not disputed, Mr. Harrod, of Oxford, has repeatedly advocated this policy in a series of able letters in the \"Times,\" which have been adequately answered. He advocates an increase of bank investments, and, as a consequence, a further cheapening of money, a reduction of the rate of interest, followed by loan expenditure until the slack has been taken up, and until the majority of those unemployed are in full employment, and then, and only then, an increase of taxation. At the same time he advocates an adjustment of the exchange rate of sterling in accordance with the price levels prevailing in this country and in foreign countries at any given moment. The technique of controlled inflation is now well enough known. The arguments against it have never been put with any great force, and I have never seen the arguments in favour of it adequately answered. An expansion of internal activity in this country would create additional purchasing power, increased demand, increased imports, and increased exports. Mr. Harrod says: \"The time is economically propitious for the operation of a great drive in defence works,\" and he believes that our defence expenditure could reasonably and beneficially be doubled during the next 12 months. I think that is profoundly true, and if my right hon. Friend has any arguments to put against it, I wish he would put them.\n\nI would like now to say a word about the point which the Prime Minister made on the question of export trade. Our export trade is falling off with alarming rapidity. It is no good pretending that a great deal of our prosperity is not dependent upon export trade, because it is. The prosperity and the economic life of this country were built up fundamentally upon the export trade, and also our industrial population. We cannot go on watching with equanimity our export trade falling, and doing nothing about it. But it will go on falling unless drastic and constructive steps are taken quickly. Swift action is essential in this matter, if we are to save some of our remaining markets.\n\nThe Prime Minister dismissed this trip of Dr. Funk as being of little account. He rather scouted the idea that there was any sinister motive behind it. I do not think there was; but I do think that there was a definite objective to get us altogether out of the markets of South-East Europe. This must not be done. If you survey the whole field of exports you naturally take the Empire first of all. The hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Donner) made an eloquent appeal for Empire trade. I agree with him. But in the natural order of things the Dominions are bound to become increasingly self-supporting in the years that lie immediately ahead. Our Colonies are first of all largely dependent for their purchasing power upon the level of world commodity prices at any given time. The markets in our Colonies are also definitely limited; and if rumour is correct they are likely to be still more limited in the near future. Take the Far East. Whatever the Prime Minister may say about future capital investment, the Chinese market has gone for the time being. And now we are being hustled out of the markets of South-East Europe.\n\nI entirely agree with the Prime Minister that our objective need never be to try and check legitimate German and Japanese expansion in the markets of Europe or of the Far East; but I submit with all due respect to my right hon. Friend that there is an absolute need for this country to maintain a footing in the valuable markets of Europe and of the Far East. We have to be prepared to consider measures much more unorthodox than we have ever employed hitherto, if we are to do that, and stand up against the methods employed by Dr. Schacht with any hope of success. I outlined some of these methods to the House a few weeks ago, and they are well known to my right hon. Friend. But we can offer to these countries three things which the Germans cannot. We can offer credits and sterling and, therefore, we can offer a choice to these countries. They will give a lot not to be completely dominated economically by Germany, and to have free access to raw materials and manufactured goods in other parts of the world. A free currency alone can give that to them. But if we are to exploit these advantages against Germany and Japan the Government must be prepared, in certain circumstances, to shoulder some of the risks which no individual can be expected to do as long as the world is in its present state.\n\nMy final quotation is from Terboven, the local Gauleiter, at the Essen Conference, who, again reported in the \"Times,\" said: \"Germans are scoring, because their Government assume the whole risk on behalf of their traders. Our Government have got to assume some risks if we are to hold our own, still more expand our trade in some of these foreign markets.\"\n\nMay I say this in conclusion? The Prime Minister believes that he can come to reasonable terms with the totalitarian States. I think he sincerely believes this, and all of us would wish him success in his efforts to do so. But reasonable terms are not necessarily Hitler's terms. Munich was something to be profoundly thankful for, and I agree with the Prime Minister that it is nothing for us to be ashamed of. I do think, however, that it is nothing to cheer; and if something far worse than Munich is to be avoided, we must negotiate, in the future, not from weakness but from strength. Otherwise there is absolutely no chance of our getting reasonable or fair terms from the totalitarian States.\n\nHere is the crux of the problem. If we cannot gain the necessary strength in time, there is no point at which we shall ever be able to make a stand, and we shall sink slowly but steadily to the status of a third-rate Power. The Germans are well aware of this. I would ask hon. Friends of mine who are always accusing us of not taking Hitler at his word, and of saying that he cannot be depended on, to consider one or two speeches made by responsible German statesmen since the Munich agreement. Dr. Goebbels, speaking at Hamburg, said: \"Hitler was not modest or timid. No, he was very astute, cheeky and sly. We knew these Parliamentarian tricks, their dilatory tactics. We had to say, By such a day we get what is ours, or we draw the sword.\" That worked. So now the German man-in-the-street is asking quite casually, \"Well, then, when will the Colonies be served up?\"\n\nLet me quote a speech of Dr. Ley at Essen, reported to-day in the \"Times,\" which is not generally considered to be an anti-Nazi newspaper: \"To obtain a sphere of existence equal to that of other nations, German effort and production must be increased 100 per cent. We must not only maintain our lead in aerial armament and other fields, but increase it many times. Other nations must learn that nothing can be done against this people. If the Kaiser in 1910, 1911 and 1912 had done what the Fuhrer has done on the Western front, we would probably never have had a world war, or at least should have won it.\"\n\n\"We are clear, my comrades, that if Mr. Chamberlain found himself ready to sign the Munich Agreement it was not because he felt within himself an irrepressible urge to help the Sudeten Germans to attain their national living rights If he signed it was because of two quite simple considerations: first, because he had to acknowledge that the Fuhrer, and the whole 80,000,000 people of the nation, were determined, if it must be, to use arms to establish the natural rights of our Sudeten German brothers; secondly, because this will was expressed not merely in words and negotiations, but behind it and this affected England especially-there stood an air force which, under the determined leadership of Field Marshal Goering, was ready to prove to the English nation within a few days that so-called splendid isolation had for all time ceased to exist.\"\n\nThese speeches have all been made since the Munich Agreement; and I only say, in face of them, how can we consider it possible not to rearm with all the strength in our power? It is the only language to use to Germany; it is the only language they understand, and the only language for which they will ever respect us. A democratic State is impotent unless it is led with energy and conviction. Operating on a normal peace-time basis, how can we hope to compete with a totalitarian State like Germany, efficient to the nth degree and operating on a war-time basis? I was amazed when the Leader of the Opposition said he did not advocate any form of compulsion in this country. We must have many forms of compulsion, not only with regard to labour, capital and profits, but over the whole field. I am not talking about military conscription. I am talking about a Ministry of Supply, which to be effective must have compulsory powers. If we do not ultimately make the necessary effort and sacrifices, I think it will be the end of the British Empire.\n\nThe other day I was reading an article in the \"Manchester Guardian\" by my old tutor at Oxford, Professor Namier, of Manchester University, in which he used these words about the democracies: \"Sated and sophisticated, civilised, sensitive and war-weary, the democracies have a conscience and no faith-the most dangerous condition for individuals and nations. Hitler, on the other hand, is single-minded, and ready to take risks which makes him supreme over those who do not know their own minds and cannot control their fears Berchtesgaden is now the emotional centre of an incalculable German policy.\"\n\nPage 40  \nPage 41",
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        "title": "CO129-574-3 Proposed broadcast to America by widow of Sun Yat-sen 17-8-1938 - 8-9-1938",
        "content_text": "# YOUNG FRIENDS OF CHINA FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD: \n\nI warmly greet you in the name of the youths of China, who wish to assure you of our deepest concern and hopes in the proceedings of this momentous Congress of youths from 52 countries. I say momentous because here for the first time in history the delegates of youth from almost the whole civilized world definitely ally themselves with the broad masses of humanity to fight against war and fascism, against the weapons and against the means by which rampant aggression seeks to destroy the fruits of 2,000 years of civilization.\n\nWhile you confer in the peaceful region of Poughkeepsie, New York, brutal massacres and ghastly horrors are being enacted against the youth of China on a scale unprecedented in history. Our land is being torn by enemy warplanes and shells; our innocent unarmed women and children are being senselessly slaughtered far behind the actual war front. But I am sure you know from the reports of your own press the daily savageries being inflicted upon our people by the Japanese militarists who have brought into China the catastrophe of total aggression.\n\nBefore such a ruthless and barbaric enemy China has but one choice: to concede nothing, to yield nothing without struggle to the death, to fight on to our certain final victory. Whatever the faint-hearted may think or say, this has already proven to be the irrevocable answer of our youth to the challenge of war and fascism, and behind it lies an unconquerable spirit.\n\nYouths of the world! The future you must live in is being made today. You must struggle to guarantee your own",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc. through Burma to China during the period 14-10-1939 to 27-10-1939.\n\n41\n\n| Item heading | No. of pkgs. | Description of war material. | Quantity | Country of origin | Value Rs. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Aeroplane | 1 case | Aeroplane spare parts |  | U.K. | 2653 |\n| 2. Aeroplane parts. | 26 cases | Aircraft parts | 11 | U.S.A. | 121085 |\n|  | 2 boxes | Aircraft parts |  |  |  |\n| 3. Bombs |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4. Machine guns. | 101 cases | Machinery & machinery parts (7.9 mm & XXX sarkas) Madsen machine gun & accessories) 20 mm. Madsen machine cannon with mountings & accessories. | 34 | Denmark | 196860 |\n| 5. Rifles | 680 | 7.9 mm. Mauser rifles | 11 | Belgium | 9363 |\n| 6,7)(Explosives) & 8)sives) | 12 |  |  | U.K. | 2115 |\n| 9. Shells (for Howitzer) | 7 |  | 50 |  | 3600 |\n|  | 1 | Fuses (Safety with S.W..No.30) |  | U.S.A. | 8530 |\n|  |  | Explosives |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 81 mm. Mortar shells | 51 Rds. |  |  |\n|  |  | 81 mm. Mortar with accessories. | 1 pcs. | France | 67000 |\n|  |  | 60 mm. Brandt Mortar with accessories | 50 pcs. |  |  |\n| 10. Cartridges | 460 | 20 mm. Madsen cartridges. | 11500 | Denmark | 188745 |\n|  | \" | 7.9 mm. Cartridges | 21000 Rds. | Belgium | 1567197 |\n|  | \" |  | 13000000\" |  |  |\n\nCustoms Department No.S-8(iv) Cl., Dated Rangoon, the 29th November 1939,\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner (Commerce), Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to the Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No.393XC.38 Part II, dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nSd/-P.W.SINGLETON,\nCOLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, RANGOON.",
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        "content_text": "# Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc. through Burma to China during the period 30-9-39 to 13-10-39.\n\n43\n\n## Item: Heading\n\n| No. of pkgs. | Description of materials (goods) | Quantity | Country of origin | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Aeroplane | 1 | U.S.A | Rs.555/- |\n| 2 | Aeroplane Parts | 1 case Aeroplane parts | It | Rs.6415/- |\n| 3 | Bombs |  |  |  |\n| 4 | Machine Guns | 50000 rds. | Finland | Rs.149749/- |\n|  |  | 10000 \" |  |  |\n| 5 | Rifles |  |  |  |\n| 6, 7 & 8 | Explosives | 1000 cases Smokeless Powder | Sweden | Rs.170102/- |\n|  |  | 1000 Barrels T.N.T.(Explosives) | Finland | Rs.129930/- |\n|  |  | 2204 cases T.N.T.(-do-) |  |  |\n|  |  | 1 case T.N.T.(-do-) | U.K. | Rs.75877/- |\n|  |  | 160 cases Tetryl -do- ) | Sweden | Rs.20529/- |\n|  |  |  | Italy | Rs.55/- |\n| 9 | Shells (for Howitzer) | 2902 cases 81 mm.Mortar shells complete | France | Rs.1400831/- |\n|  |  | 1865 cases 81 mm. Brandt Mortar shells complete |  |  |\n|  |  | 1200 \" 60 mm Mortar shells complete |  |  |\n|  |  | 960 \" 60 mm. Brandt Mortar shells complete |  |  |\n|  |  | 100 \" 50 |  |  |\n|  |  | 26 \" 885 |  |  |\n|  |  | 11 \" == |  |  |\n|  |  | 81 mm. Brandt Mortar with Accessories complete |  |  |\n|  |  | 60 mm. -do- |  |  |\n|  |  | Mettalic & wooden cups for transport of projectiles |  |  |\n|  |  | 20 pcs.) |  |  |\n|  |  | 50 \"1 160 \" |  |  |\n|  |  | 400 \" 11 |  |  |\n| 11 | Gunpowder for shells (shell parts) | 20000 kgs | Finland | Rs.73264/- |\n|  |  | 300 \" 200 |  |  |\n|  |  | 15000 \" 10000 | Sweden | Rs.55156/- |\n|  |  |  | Germany | Rs.44954/- |\n| 10 | Cartridges (for machine gun & rifles) | 16500 \" 7.9 mm.cartridges 33000000 | Finland | Rs.1989900/- |\n\nCustoms Department No.S.8.(iv).Cl. Rangoon, dated the 24th October 1939.\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma (2),Rangoon, for information with reference to Dept. of Lands & Revenue endorsement No.393XC38 Part II dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nsa/- P.W. Singleton  \nCollector of Customs, Rangoon",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc., through Burma to China during the period 5th July 1939 to 2nd August 1939.\n\n| Country of origin | Description of goods | Quantity | Unit | Value in Rupees |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Denmark | 1. Aeroplanes | 101 | Nos. | 2,35,057 |\n|  | 2. Aeroplane parts and accessories. | 4 c/s (7.92 Mm Madsen Machine gun & equipment. | 100pcs |  |\n|  | Madsen Machine gun & equipment. | 2 | Nos. | 29,360 |\n| Sweden | 8. Tetryl | 200 c/s Shell filling for mortar shells in strips. | 10000kgs | 37,291 |\n|  | Smokeless powder. | 900 c/s | 45000 Kgs. | 1,48,945 |\n| Germany | 8. Detonators | 2544 c/s 8 Mr Mortar shells. | 2544c/s | 7,13,904 |\n|  | T.N.T. | 2220 c/s | 88800 Kgs. | 1,22,563 |\n|  | Gunpowder for mortar shells in strips. | 200 c/s | 10000 Kgs. | 36,723 |\n|  | Total |  |  | 13,23,843 |\n\n**Customs Department No. 3-8(iv)Cl**  \nDated Rangoon, the 9th August 1939  \n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner (2), Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No. `393XC38 Part II`, dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nSd. P.W. Singleton  \n**COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, RANGOON.**  \n`CVSM`",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which was exported from or transshipped at Hong Kong between 1st January and 30th June, 1939.\n\n| Country        | Aeroplanes | Aeroplane parts (cases) | Machine Guns (pieces) | Rifles (pieces) | Pistols & revolvers (pieces) | Shotguns (pieces) | Shells, 20mm, 81mm, 75mm (rounds) | Cartridges for machine guns & rifles (rounds) | Cartridges for pistols & revolvers (rounds) | Cartridges for shotguns (rounds) | Empty hunting cartridges (rounds) | Percussion Caps (ton) | Shell Cases (Cases) | Forgings (cases) | Electrical Fuse, Exploders & accessories (Nos.) | Hydrogen steel bottles (empty) (Nos.) | Dynamite (tons) | Detonators (tons) | Fuses (cases) | Spare parts for tanks (cases) | Spare parts for machine guns (cases) | Magazines (cases) | Gun charging handles (packages) | Pistol Grips (packages) |\n|----------------|-------------|-------------------------|------------------------|------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|-------------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------|---------------|----------------|------------------------|---------------------------|------------------|------------------------|--------------------|\n| Britain        |             |                         |                        | 502              | 1,207                         | 5                  | 206,000                          | 1,081,000                               | 281,500                                   | 1,742,600                     | 5,000                          | 99,900             | 0.6               | 21                 | 20                 | 100                        | 17                 |                  |               | 338                | ?                         | 1                    |                        |                    |\n| America        |             |                         | 17                     | 233              | +,270                         |                    | 75 8...                          | 88,586,500                              | 1,742,600                                 |                               |                                |                   |                    | 50                 |                    |                            |                    | 82.3              | 3.8            | 10                 |                        |                           | 22                   | 8                  | 1          |\n| Germany        |             | 32                      | 8                      |                  |                               |                    |                                  |                                         |                                           |                               |                                |                   |                    |                    |                    |                            |                    |               |               |                    | 2                      |                           |                      |                    |            |\n| Austria (Germany) |             |                      |                        |                  |                               |                    |                                  |                                         |                                           |                               |                                |                   |                    |                    |                    |                            |                    |               |               |                    |                    |                           |                      |                    |            |\n| Moravia (Germany) |             |                      |                        |                  |                               |                    |                                  |                                         |                                           |                               |                                |                   |                    |                    |                    |                            |                    |               |               |                    |                    |                           |                      |                    |            |\n| Canada         |             |                         |                        | 20               |                               |                    |                                  |                                         |                                           |                               |                                |                   |                    |                    |                    |                            |                    |               |               |                    |                    |                           |                      |                    |            |\n| France         |             |                         |                        |                  |                               |                    |                                  | 2,108,000                               |                                           |                               |                                |                   |                    | 9                  |                    |                            |                    |               |               | 340                |                        |                           |                      |                    |            |\n| Belgium        |             |                         |                        |                  | 350                           |                    |                                  |                                         | 231,980                                   |                               |                                |                   |                    |                    |                    |                            |                    |               |               |                    |                    |                           |                      |                    |            |\n| Denmark        |             |                         |                        |                  |                               |                    |                                  |                                         |                                           |                               |                                |                   |                    |                    |                    |                            |                    |               |               |                    |                    |                           |                      |                    |            |\n| **Total**      | 17          | 32                      | 25                     | 755              | 6,827                         | 5                  | 281,000                          | 91,775,500                              | 2,257,080                                 | 1,742,600                     | 5,000                          | 99,900             | 0.6               | 80                 | 20                 | 100                        | 17                 | 82.3              | 3.8            | 350                | 2                         | 1                    | 22                   | 8                  | 1          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        "content_text": "## \n| Date Imported | Description | Country of Origin | Value | Date Exported | Name of Dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 26.11.38 | 500 cases containing 750,000 rounds Mauser cartridges 7.92 mm. | Britain | £3,750 | 4.3.39 |  | South West Transportation, Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China). | 10.1/29/20 A.O.33 in 174. (0.5.0.1/24/59) 56,857. |\n| 7.10.38 | 12 cases containing ... |  |  |  |  |  | \" |\n| 8.9.38 | 440 cases containing 22,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. |  | £2,000 | 11 |  |  | \" |\n|  | 267 cases containing 400,000 rounds cartridges 7.92 mm. |  | 32,805. | \" |  |  | t? |\n|  | 216 cases containing 9,000 rounds Hotchkiss explosive shells 20 mm. |  | \" |  |  |  | * |\n|  | 400 cases containing 20,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. |  | £2,630. | ?? |  |  | #1 |\n|  | 180 cases containing 45,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. |  | 0,742. | 零事 |  |  | = |\n|  | 288 cases containing 12,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. |  | \" | ↑↑ |  |  |  |\n| 30.11.38 | 50 cases detonators 1.3 tons | Germany | unknown | 1 |  |  | # |\n|  | 75 cases detonators 2.5 tons | # | 11 | \" |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 12 | # |  |  | tt |\n| 2.10.38 | 500 cases containing 25,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. | Denmark | unknown | \" |  |  |  |\n| 24.10.38 | 104 cases containing 100 machine guns, 7.92 mm. | Britain | 7,792. | # |  |  | 尊 |\n|  | 180 cases containing 45,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. |  | £3,330. | \" |  |  |  |\n|  | 1 case containing 2 machine guns 7.92 mm. | Germany |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 7 cases containing 350 revolvers cal.32. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 7 cases containing 70,000 rounds cal.32 cartridges |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 22 cases machine gun spare parts. | Belgium |  | 17 |  |  | tp |\n| 11.11.38 | 2 cases containing 100 Mauser pistols | Moravia (Germany) |  | 2.11.38 |  |  |  |\n|  | 101 cases containing 100 Madsen machine guns 7.92mm | Denmark |  | 26.8.38 |  |  |  |\n| 24.10.38 | 17,824 cases containing 35,652,500 rounds cartridges cal. 7.9 mm. | Germany |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 20 cases containing 100,000 rounds cartridges, 7.63 mm. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 4 cases containing 200 pistols cal. 7.63 mm. |  |  |  |  |  | !! |\n|  | 10 cases containing 500 Mauser pistols. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 85 cases containing 500 light machine guns. |  |  | 18 |  |  | #t |\n|  | 1,695 cases containing 32,000 rounds tank shells. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 288 cases containing 12,000 rounds Madsen explosive shells. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2.0.65 in 174. #7 A.O. 67 in 174. A.O. 68 in 174. A.0. 20 in 174 tf tt tt \" |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11 4.0.146 in 174. \" A.C. 14 17 \" 11 #1 18 \" 1. \" = !! in 174. 11 A.0. 122 in 174. A.O. 54 in 174. \" 10 11 24 \" 1 fi |\n|  |  | Britain |  |  |  |  | !! 155 |",
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        "content_text": "## Description\n| Country of origin | Date exported | Name of dealer | Authority | Value | Exported to |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Denmark | 16.10.38 | C. 15.2/24/35 |  | unknown |  |\n|  | 4.3.39 | Co. 17 |  |  |  |\n| Austria (Germany) | 14.10.38 |  |  | 40,000 | Britain |\n|  |  |  |  | !! | \" |\n| Germany | 18.7.38 |  | A.0.28 in 174 (c. 041/24/39) |  | South West Transportation Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) |\n| Germany | 2.2.39 |  | A.0.83 in 174 |  | \" |\n| Belgium | 12.10.38 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 31.10.38 |  |  |  |  |\n| Moravia (Germany) |  |  | #1 | ?? | Britain |\n| Belgium | 7.10.38 |  | E | 27,702 |  |\n| Moravia (Germany) |  |  | 12 | 1t |  |\n|  |  |  |  | £3,000 |  |\n| Germany | 26.12.38 |  | 11 |  |  |\n|  | 11.9.38 |  | 18 |  |  |\n|  | 24.10.38 |  | 11 |  |  |\n|  | 11.11.38 |  |  |  |  |\n| Germany |  |  | A.0.16 in 174 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | A.0. 154 in 174 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | A.O. 30 in 174 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | A.0. 135 in 174 |  |  |\n| France |  |  |  | ?? |  |\n| Moravia (Germany) | 30.11.38 |  | A.0. 99 in 174 |  |  |\n| Germany |  |  | A.0.128 in 174 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | A.0.25 in l |  |  |\n|  |  |  | A.0.139 in 174 |  |  |\n\n156 Exported to \n101 cases containing 100 light machine guns \n7 cases containing 100 electrical mine exploders & accessories. \n600 cases containing 30,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 2 cm. \n144 cases containing 36,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. \n£2,664 \n12,525 cases containing 25,050,000 rounds cal.7.92 mm. cartridges. \n10 cases containing 100,000 rounds 7.63 mm. cartridges. \n1 case containing 20 Mauser rifles 7.92 mm. \n500 cases containing 25,000 rounds Madsen cartridges, 20 mm. \n400 cases containing 600,000 rounds Mauser cartridges 7.92 mm. \n50 cases containing 1,000 Mauser rifles, 7.92 mm. \n32 cases containing 36 Browning machine guns 7.9 mm. \n50 cases fuse. \n1,000 cases containing 2,000,000 rounds cartridges 7.92 mm. \n200 cases containing 5,000 rifles, Mauser, 7.9 mm. \n100 cases containing 500 light machine guns. \n20 cases fuse (for hells) \n13,938 cases, containing 27,876,000 rounds cartridges, 7.9 mm. \n1 machine gun \n377 cases containing 3,550 rounds gun shells 81 mm. \n113 cases containing 1,880 rounds gun shells, 81 mm. \n20 cases containing 119 machine guns. \n6 cases containing 265 Mauser pistols. \n8 cases containing 40,000 rounds pistol cartridges. \n20 cases containing 1,000 Mauser pistols. \n100 cases containing 500,000 rounds cartridges. for pistols \n26 cases containing 1,300 Mauser pistols.",
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        "content_text": "# Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc., through Burma to China during the period from 2-7-1939 to 15-7-1939.\n\n| Description of goods | Country of origin | No. of pkgs. | Quantity | Unit | Amount in Rupees |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Aeroplanes |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 2. Aeroplane parts & accessories |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3. Bombs |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4. Machine guns |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 5. Rifles |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 6. Electric Igniters |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 7. Tetryl |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 8. Detonators | Sweden | 160 c/s | 4000 | Kgs. | 20387 |\n| 9. Shells (for howitzer) |  |  | 1750 | Kgs. |  |\n| 10. Cartridges (for machine gun and rifle) | Sweden | 1000 c/s | 50000 |  | 232245 |\n|  |  | barrels | 175000 | Kgs. | 194824 |\n| 11. Smokeless powder |  | 900 c/s | 45000 | Kgs. | 167010 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | **614466** |\n\nCustoms Department No.`S-8(iv)/C1/39` Dated Rangoon, the 22nd July 1939.\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner(2), Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No.`393XC38 Part II`, dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nsa/-P.W.SINGLETON,  \n**COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, RANGOON**.  \nPage 161",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of Exports\nSummary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc., through Burma to China during the period from 18-6-1939 to 1-7-1939.\n\n| Description of goods | No. of pkgs. | No. of pieces | Country of origin | Value in Rupees |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Aeroplanes | 2 |  |  |  |\n| 2. Aeroplane parts & accessories |  |  |  |  |\n| 3. Bombs |  |  |  |  |\n| 4. Machine guns | 100 |  | Czecho-slovakia | 235058 |\n| (101 c/s 7.92 M.M. Madsen L/M guns & equipment) |  |  |  |  |\n| (7.9 M.M. Browning L/M guns & equipment) | 500 |  | Denmark | 282106 |\n| 5. Rifles | 1249 |  |  |  |\n| (7.9 M.M. Mauser Rifles (1937 model)) |  | 29960 | Germany | 1686149 |\n| (7.9 M.M. Mauser rifles) | 40 | 1000 | Belgium | 67200 |\n| 6. Electric Igniters |  |  |  |  |\n| 7. Tetryl |  |  |  |  |\n| 8. Detonators |  |  |  |  |\n| 9. Shells (for howitzer) | 1745 c/s |  |  |  |\n| (4.7 Cm Anti Tank shells) |  | 32000 | Finland | 1303466 |\n|  | 705 | 13000 | Germany | 198195 |\n| 10. Cartridges (for machine gun & rifles) | 724 |  |  |  |\n| (7.9 M.M. cartridges) |  | 3487 c/s | U.K. | 143869 |\n| (13.2 Cm Hotchkiss A.P. cartridges) |  | 6974000 |  | 142000 |\n| (13.2 Cm Hotchkiss tracer cartridges) |  | 39000 |  | 42139 |\n| (7.92 M.M. cartridges in clips) |  | 25000000 | Czecho-slovakia | 1836490 |\n| (7-9 M.M. cartridges) | 11 | 3196000 |  | 164561 |\n| (7.9 M.M. cartridges in clips) | 4 | 4800 |  | 71 |\n| 11. Gun powder | 300 |  | Sweden | 61236 |\n| (Gun powder for shells) |  | 63,84,128 |  |  |\n\nCustoms Department No. `S-8 (IV) Cl. of 1939`, Dated Rangoon, the 10th July 1939.\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner (2), Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No. `393XC38 Part II`, dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nSa/- P.W. SINGLETON,  \n**CUSTOMS**,  \n**COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, RANGOON**.",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of Exports\nSummary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc., through Burma to China during the period from 26th March 1939 to 8th April 1939.\n\n| Description of goods | Quantity | Types of arms | Amount | Country of origin | Value in Rs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Aeroplanes | 208 pkgs. |  |  |  | 420000 |\n| 2. Aeroplane parts and accessories |  |  |  |  | 294000 |\n| 3. Bombs | 100 |  |  | Russia | 352000 |\n| 4. Machine guns | (300 pcs.) | 37 M.M.L/field guns with buffer |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 3.7 cm.LField guns | (144 镡) |  |  |\n|  |  | 7.92 Hotchkiss H/machine guns | (4 c/s) | Czechoslovakia | 13440 |\n|  | 12 | 7.62 M.M.Bren guns |  |  |  |\n| 5. Pistols | 40 | 7.63 Mauser pistols | 2000 | Germany | 100500 |\n| 6. Electric Igniters |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 7. Tetryl |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 8. Detonators |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 9. Shells (for howitzer) | (6090 c/8 | Brandt Mortar/ | 105000 | France | 3738000 |\n|  | (3265 糖 | 7.6 cm shells | 16691 | Russia | 262883 |\n|  | (2883 | 3.7 cm.shells |  | U.S.A. | 1271403 |\n| 10. Cartridges (for machine gun and rifle) | (120 cps | 7.63 Mauser | 600000 | Germany | 29930 |\n|  | (240 | pistol cartridges 2 cm.Madsen | 12000 | Denmark | 93600 |\n|  | (14427 # | 7.92 cartridges in clips | 17311600 | Czechoslovakia | 1454173 |\n|  | (18734 | 7.62 cartridges | 12181080 | Russia | 780198 |\n| 11. Gun limbers | 42 pcs. | Ixf2 Gun limbers | 42 | Russia | 26460 |\n| 12. Mortars | 35 c/s | 37 M.M.Trench Mortars |  |  |  |\n|  | 48 c/s | 81 M.M.Brandt Mortars | 69 | France | 64032 |\n|  |  |  | 48 |  | 160632 |\n\nTotal: 90,613,251\n\n**Customs Department**.No. S.8(iv) Cl.of 39, Dated Rangoon, the 19th April 1939.\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner (2),Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No.`393XC38` Part II, dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nTo Singletone -Collector of Customs, Rangoon.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 2 in Tengyueh despatch to Embassy, Shanghai, No. 30 of 17th April 1939\n\n### List II: Balance of Chinese Government Munitions received in Lashio between 18th February and 30th March 1939 inclusive but not forwarded\n\n| Cases | Description | Quantity |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1,290 | T.N.T. |  |\n| 5,360 |  | 3,000 |\n|  |  | 11 |\n| 10,552 |  | = #! |\n| 3,000 |  |  |\n| 11,700 |  | 11 |\n| 12,615 |  | 11 |\n| 2,883 |  |  |\n| **Total:** |  | **50,400 cases** |\n|  | Safety Cartridges |  |\n|  | Safety Cartridges in Clips |  |\n|  | Cartridges |  |\n|  | Cartridges in Clips |  |\n|  | 7.92 Cartridges in Clips |  |\n|  | 7.62 Cartridges |  |\n|  | \"(2 short) 37 mm. Shells\" |  |",
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        "content_text": "226\n\nSummary of experts of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc., through Burma to China during the period from 18-3-1939 to 25-3-1939.\n\n| Quantity | Description | Country of Origin | Value in Rupees |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 11 a/s | Aeroplane parts and accessories | U.S.A. | £8,800/- |\n| 3 | Aeroplane parts and accessories | Germany | 961/- |\n| 1000 pes. | Bombs | Russia | 2,80,000/- |\n| 100 | Machine gun 7.92 Madsen | Denmark | 2,35,058/- |\n| 80 | Machine gun 7.98 Hotchkiss | France | 2,91,600/- |\n| 610 | Machine gun 7.98 Light | Czecho-Slovakia | 4,65,120/- |\n| 1988 | Light machine gun 7.62 Bren | Russia | 22,25,560/- |\n| 500 | Shells (for 13/37 k.l. howitzer practice) | France | 7,000/- |\n| 360 | Shells (rd) | N.E.Brandt | 19,000/- |\n| 275 | Fortar shells (rd) |  | 70,400/- |\n| 2786600 (12840 #) | Cartridges (for machine gun and rifle) 7.92 Kat | Czecho-Slovakia | 1,86,696/- |\n| 14688000 (ridges in clips) | Cartridges 7.92 cart | Czecho-Slovakia | 18,33,798/- |\n| 722100 (676 *) | Cartridges 7.62 carton ridges | Russia | 2,43,428/- |\n| 129 | Mortars 37 M.W. trench mortar | France | 1,16,000/- |\n|  | 81 M.M.Brandt |  | 14,720/- |\n|  | 60 M.M.Brandt Mak mortars |  | $4,400/- |\n\n$5,03,223/-\n\nCustoms Department No.5.8(IV)(Z) of 1939, Dated Rangoon, the 29th March 1939.\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner(2), Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No.303/C/38 Part II, dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nCollector of Customs, Rangoon.",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes, and explosives etc., through Burma to China during the period ending 25.2.39\n\n| Description of goods. | No.of pkgs. | Unit | Amount | Country of origin | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Aeroplanes |  | Nos. | 3 | U.S.A. |  |\n| 2. Aeroplane parts and accessories. |  |  | 904413 |  |  |\n| 3. Bombs |  | Nos. | 20048 | Denmark |  |\n|  |  |  | 275 | France |  |\n| 4. Machine guns |  | Pcs. | 800 | Belgium |  |\n|  |  |  | 250 | Czechoslovakia |  |\n| 5. Rifles |  |  | 125 | France |  |\n| 6. Electric Igniters |  | Nos. | 3418 |  |  |\n| 7. Tetryl |  | Tons | ... |  |  |\n| 8. Detonators |  | Nos. | 28543 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 26548 |  |  |\n| 9. Shells (for howitzer). |  | Pcs. | 41415 |  |  |\n| 10. Cartridges (for machine gun and rifle). |  |  | 11 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 10c15 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 430 | Denmark |  |\n| 11. T.N.T. |  | lbs. | 44809 |  |  |\n|  |  | cuts | 3520 | Belgium |  |\n\nCustoms Department S.No S.(1/9) of 1939 Dated Rangoon, the 27th February 1939.\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner(2), Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No.`393XC38 Part 71`, dated the 14th February 1939.\n\n(sd) P.W. Singleton  \n**COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, RANGOON**",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc., through Burma to China during the period ended 11-3-1939.\n\n231\n\n| Description of goods | No. of pkgs. | Quantity | Types of arms | Amount | Country of origin | Value in Rs. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Aeroplanes |  |  |  |  | U.S.A. | 258192/- |\n| 2. Aeroplane parts & Accessories | 69c/8 |  |  |  | U.S.A. | 258192/- |\n| 3. Bombs |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4. Machine guns | 334c/a |  | Browning L/M guns | 1150 | Belgium | 940000/- |\n|  | 32* |  |  | 100 | France | 85000/- |\n|  | 303# |  | Madsen L/M guns | 300 | Denmark | 705174/- |\n|  | 761# |  | B.26.L/M guns | 4562 | Czecho-slovakia | 4160544/- |\n|  | 365# |  | Hotchkiss heavy machine guns | 260 | France | 915200/- |\n|  | 40** |  | M.G.53 L Machine guns | 40 | U.S.A. | 126563/- |\n| 5. Machine gun parts | 6c/8 |  |  | 146/❤ |  |  |\n| 6. Rifles | 750\" |  | user rifles | 18000 | Czecho-slovakia | 1440000/- |\n|  | 404\" |  | 1/Machine rifles | 18000 | Belgium | 1248000/- |\n|  |  |  |  | 1500 | 髏 | 1363200/- |\n| 7. Electric igniters |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 8. Tetryl | 1250ob |  | safety cartridges | 15000 | Czecho-slovakia | 1512000/- |\n| 9. Detonators |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 10. Shells (for howitzer) |  |  |  |  | France | 140000/- |\n| 11. Cartridges (for machine gun & rifle) | 2500000 |  | -do- | 18000000 | Belgium | 189828/- |\n|  | 1625\" |  | -do- | 3388150 |  |  |\n|  | 467\" |  | Mauser cartridges | 700000 | U.K. | 46900/- |\n\n`Customs Department No.3-8(IV) C1.of 1939`, Dated Rangoon, the 14th March 1939.\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner(2), Burma, Rangoon, for information, with reference to Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement `No.393XC38 Part II`, dated the 14th February 1938.\n\nPro Singulon  \n**COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, RANGOON**  \nDru/3",
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        "content_text": "## Summary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which were transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st July and 31st August 1938.\n\n| Description | Britain | America | Germany | France | Italy | Canada | Belgium | Czecho-slovakia | Sweden | Denmark | Hungary | Finland | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Aeroplanes (Nos.) | 75 | 56 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 131 machines |\n| Aeroplane parts (cases) | 8 | 3 | 493 |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  |  |  | 510 cases |\n| Speed Boats (Nos.) | 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4 Boats |\n| Smoke Floats (Cases) | 15 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 15 Cases |\n| Lifting gears for speed boats (Nos.) | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8 To |\n| Depth charge accessories (cases) | 6 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6 Cages |\n| Aeroplane Engines (Nos.) | 33 | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 41 Engines |\n| Mines (Nos.) | 240 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 240 Mines |\n| Mine accessories (packages) | 269 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 269 packages |\n| Trench Mortars (Nos.) | 81 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 250 |  |  |  | 250 Guns (96 Mortars) |\n| Guns, 2-pounder (Nos.) | 6 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6 |\n| Guns, 40 mm. (Nos.) |  | 32 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 32 |\n| Machine Guns (Nos.) |  | 54 | 1,230 | 300 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,584 |\n| Rifles (pieces) | 24 | 45,350 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 45,374 rifles (96,454 total rifles) |\n| Pistols & revolvers (pieces) | 390 | 5,687 | 2,500 | 18,100 | 5,301 | 8,096 |  | 34,980 |  | 421 | 700 |  | 76,175 pieces (11,378 total pieces) |\n| Bombs (Nos.) | 43,191 | 1,000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 44,191 Bombs |\n| Bomb Racks (Nos.) |  | 10 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 10 Racks |\n| Grenades (Nos.) |  | + | 288 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 288 Grenades |\n| Grenade Throwers (Nos.) |  | 12 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12 Throwers |\n| Shells, howitzer (rounds) | 177,084 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 177,084 rounds |\n| Shells, 2 inch (rounds) | 9,660 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 9,660 rounds |\n| Shells, aircraft (rounds) | 36,000 |  | 32,208 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 68,208 rounds |\n| Shells, anti-tank (rounds) |  |  | 8,000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8,000 rounds |\n| Shells, dummy (rounds) |  | 38,000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 38,000 rounds |\n| Shells, empty (rounds) | 900 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 900 rounds |\n| Shells, fumes (Cases) |  | 28,440 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 28,440 rounds |\n| Cartridges, machine gun & rifle (rounds) | 7,593,590 | 411,000 | 10,088,500 | 217,300 | 1,041,000 |  | 2,355,000 | 25,001,500 |  | 2,580,000 |  |  | 22,999,500 rounds (89,249,080 total rounds) |\n| Cartridges (pistol & revolver) (rounds) |  | 3,838,300 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3,838,300 rounds (TOLEG B) |\n| Tank spare parts (Cases) |  | 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 cases |\n| Gun Barrels (Nos.) |  | 5 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5 Nos. |\n| Machine gun accessories (cases) |  | 104 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 104 Cases |\n| Cartridges (coils) | 1,467 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,487 |  |  | 2,954 coils |\n| Steel cups (tons) | 11.6 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11.6 tons |\n| T.I.F. (tons) | 501.4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 501.4 tons |\n| Smokeless Powder (tons) | 79.6 | 554.4 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 159.2 |  |  |  | 793.2 tons |\n| Tetryl (tons) | 37.1 | *79.6 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 24.9 |  |  |  | 141.6 tons |\n| Dynamite (tons) | 13.4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 91.1 |  |  |  | 104.5 tons |\n| Gunpowder (tons) | 0.09 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 26.8 |  |  | 1.49 | 28.46 tons |\n| Rifle powder (tons) |  | 2.4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2.4 tons |\n| Detonators (tons) | 1.2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11.75 |  |  |  | 12.95 tons |\n| Electric Igniters (cases) |  | 4.75 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4.75 tons (100 cases) |\n| Fuses (Cases) | 46 | 100 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 120 |  |  |  | 266 cases (166 cases) |\n\n14/2/59",
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        "content_text": "## Authority \n## Date imported \n## Description \n## Country of origin \n## Value \n## Date exported \n## Name of dealer \n## Exported to \n\n| Date imported | Description | Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 18.7.38 | 350 drums T.N.T. 37.1 tons | Germany | unlo | 7.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Panton Military Council, Republic of China. in 174 |\n| 24.6.38 | 500 drums T.N.T. 53 tons |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 350 drums T.N.T. 37 tons | Sweden |  | 26.8.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. in 174 |\n|  | 500 drums T.N.T. 53 tons |  | 4.0.99 in 174 |  |  |  |\n| 18.7.38 | 1,000 drums T.N.T. 106 tons |  | k.0.122 in 174 | 7.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. in 174 |\n|  |  |  | 4.0.16 in 174 |  |  |  |\n| 3.9.38 | 101 cases containing 100 light machine guns 7.9mm | Denmark | unknown | 10.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. 1.0.51 in 174 |\n| 6.9.38 | 40 cases containing 200 light machine guns 7.9″ | Germany |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 100 cases containing 500 machine guns 7.9mm | Belgium | Hin 174 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1.0.126 in 174 A.0.125 in 174 |  |  |  |\n| 6.1.38 | 5 cases aeroplane parts | Britain | unmom là 9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, |  |\n| 18.2.38 | 3 cases parts for Dragon Rapide aeroplanes. Ex stock of Hong Kong Sporting Aims Store |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 200 revolvers S. & V. | U.S.A. | HK$17,000 | 13.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. A.0.87 in 174 |\n|  | 64,000 rounds revolver Cartridge B |  | HK$5,120 |  |  | National Govt. of Republic of China in 174 |\n|  | 10 cases safety fuse | * | 0.26 Min 174 A.0.43 in 174 |  |  |  |\n| 6.9.38 | 10 cases containing 5 Hawk 75 aeroplanes, complete. | U.S.A. | unknown | 15.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. A.0.127 in 174 |\n| 29.8.38 | 477 cases containing 10,000 Kanser rifles, 7.92mm. | Czecho Slovakia |  | 16.9.38 |  |  |\n|  | 200 cases containing 5,000 Mauser rifles, 7.9mm | Belgium |  | 11.9.38 |  |  |\n|  | 31 cases containing 100 machine guns |  | LA.0.48 in 174 |  |  |  |\n|  | 250 cases containing 250 guns, 81 m. |  | A.0.128 in 174 |  |  |  |\n|  | 1,500 cases containing 3,000,000 rounds cartridges 7.92 m. |  | • |  |  |  |\n|  | 40 cases containing 2,000 Broming automatic pistols |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 400 cases containing 1,000,000 rounds pistol cartridges, 9 mm | Belgium |  |  |  |  |\n| 29.8.38 | cases containing \"Fleet Aeroplanes & parts. | Canada | unknown | 17.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. A.0.63 in 174 |\n| 28.8.38 | 400 cases mokeless powder 26.4 tons | Germany |  |  |  | 4.0.122 in 174 |\n| 30.7.38 | 2,907 cases containing 4,000 howitzer shells, 15 cm. |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 30.7.38 | 2 cases containing 2 Cyclone G-3 aeroplane engines | U.S.A. |  | 16.9.38 |  |  |\n|  | 12 cases of aeroplane parts |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 6 cases of aeroplane parts |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 2 cases containing 1 Hawk 75 aeroplane & parts |  | unknown | 21.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. 4.0.113 in 174 A.0.111 in 174 A.0.130 in 174 |",
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        "content_text": "## Date imported \n16.9.38 \n29.8.38 \n3.9.38 \n\n## Description \n| Date imported | Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 16.9.38 | U.S.A. |  | 21.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.130 in 174 |\n| 29.8.38 |  | 13 cases aeroplane parts | 12.3.38 |  | U.S.A. |  |\n| 3.9.38 |  | 22 cases aeroplane propellers 5 cases containing 5 Wright Cyclone engines (aero.) | 22.9.38 |  | unknown |  |\n|  |  | 44 cases aeroplane parts | 14.9.38 |  | U.S.A. |  |\n|  |  | 39 cases aeroplane parts | 13.8.38 |  | unkn |  |\n|  |  | 5 cases aeroplane parts | 23.9.38 |  | U.S.A. |  |\n|  | Britain | 1 case containing 1 Wright Cyclone GR-1820-G2 engine (aero.) | 24.9.38 | Ex stock of Jardine Matheson & Co. |  | A.0.63 in 174 |\n|  |  | 3 cases containing 3 Pratt & Whitney aeroplane engines | 7.9.38 | Ex stock |  | A.0.124 in 174 |\n|  |  | 4,997 chils safety, fuse (16 cases) 400 cases dynamite, 20,000 lbs of thewan | 23.7.38 | Tomes & Co. |  | A.0.117 in 174 |\n|  |  | 400 cases dynamite, 20,000 lbs. |  |  |  | A.0.129 in 174 |\n| 11.9.38 | Britain | 627 cases containing 29,469 rounds Madsen cartridges 20. |  |  |  | A.0.82 in 174 |\n|  | France | 151 cases containing 6,300 shells, 37 mm. |  |  |  | A.0.127 in 174 |\n| 26.8.38 | Belgium | 40 cases white fuse |  |  |  | A.0.109 in 174 |\n|  | Germany | 30 cases white fuse |  |  |  | A.0.87 in 174 |\n| 12.8.38 | Germany | 82 cases tetryl 2.4 tons |  |  |  |  |\n|  | U.S.A. | 3 cases aeroplane wings | 14.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.127 in 174 |\n| 30.7.38 |  | 10 cases aeroplane propellers | 26.9.38 |  | unknown |  |\n| 19.9.38 | Germany | 3 cases aeroplane wings |  |  |  | A.0.67 in 174 |\n|  | Britain | 44 cases containing 2,200 Mauser pistols, 7.63 mm, 152 cases containing 760,000 rounds cal.7.63 cartridge |  |  |  | A.0.128 in 174 |\n| 15.9.38 |  | 16 cases containing 800 Mauser pistols 7.63 | 19.9.38 |  |  | A.0.122 in 174 |\n|  | Germany | 1 case tank spare parts |  |  |  |  |\n| 11.9.38 | Britain | 45 cases containing 2,115 rounds Madsen cartridges 20. |  |  |  | A.0.117 in 174 |\n| 19.9.38 | Germany | 1,062 cases containing 15,000 Mauser rifles, 7.9 mm |  |  |  | A.0.129 in 174 |\n|  |  | 1 case containing 100 pistols cal.7.65 mm |  |  |  | A.0.113 in 174 |\n| 20.7.38 | Britain | 68 cases containing 32 Lewis guns | 24.9.38 |  | unknown | A.0.31 in 174 |\n|  |  | £6,160. |  |  |  |  |\n| 10.7.38 | Germany | 47 cases containing 235 light machine guns 7.9 mm. |  |  |  |  |\n|  | U.S.A. | 4 cases aeroplane parts | 29.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.31 in 174 |\n| 13.8.38 | U.S.A. | 2 cases containing 2 \"Fleet\" Aeroplanes & parts. | 28.9.38 |  | Canada | A.0.131 in 174 |\n|  |  | 5 cases aeroplane parts | 14.9.38 |  | U.S.A. | A.0.67 in 174 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | A.0.81 in 174 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | A.0.74 in 174 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | A.0.132 in 174 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | A.0.107 in 174 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | A.0.129 in 174 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | A.0.82 in 174 | \n## Page 252",
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        "content_text": "# \n| Date imported | Description | Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 30.7.38 | 3 cases aeroplane parts | U.S.A. | 253 | 23.7.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. | A.0.113 in 174 |\n|  | 4 cases aeroplane parts |  |  | 16.9.38 |  |  | A.0.130 in 174 A.0.109 in 174 |\n|  | 2 cases aeroplane propeller blades | unknown |  | 29.9.38 |  |  |  |\n| 19.9.38 | 400 drums T.N.T. 42.4 tons | Gemany |  | 3.10.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. | A.0.31 in 174 |\n| 26.8.38 | 900 drums T.N.T. 95 tons |  |  | 23.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. | A.0.122 in 174 A.0.73 in 174 |\n|  | Ex Hong Kong Sporting Arms Störe stock. |  |  | 30.9.38 |  |  |  |\n|  | 1,003 cases containing 18,000 anti tank shells 4.7 cm. | Gemany |  | 4.10.38 |  |  |  |\n|  | 400 cases containing 20,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. | Britain | £2,890. |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 140 cases containing 35,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. | Canada |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 11.9.38 | 10 cases containing 10 \"Fleet\" aeroplanes & parts. | Canada | unknown |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 200 cases containing 50,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. |  | £2,507.10s. |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 400 cases containing 20,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. |  | £2,590. |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 335 cases containing 501,500 rounds Kauer cartridges, 7.92 mm. | U.S.A. | HK$3,856 | 16.9.38 |  |  |  |\n|  | 140 cases containing 35,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. |  | HK$3,650 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 4 Thompson sub machine guns |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 41 revolvers S. & W. |  | HK$5,880 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 73,500 rounds revolver cartridges |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 80 cases containing 20,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. | Belgium |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 30 cases containing 30 Colt machine guns |  |  | 28.9.38 |  |  | A.0.76 in 174 A.0.123 in 174 A.0.67 in 174 A.0.130 in 174 A.0.128 in 174 |\n| 30.7.38 | 6 cases containing 6 aeroplane engines Kodel GR-1820-G2 | U.S.A. |  | 14.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. | A.0.133 in 174 |\n|  | 7 cases aeroplane parts |  |  | 5.10.38 |  |  | 4.0.113 in 174 A.0.129 in 174 |\n|  | 4 cases aeroplane parts | unknowi |  | 6.10.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. | A.0.28 in 174 A.0.136 in 174 |\n|  | 12 cases aeroplane parts | U.S.A. |  | 6.10.38 |  |  |  |\n| 26.8.38 | Ex stock of siemssen & Co. 3 cases containing 150 pistols, 7.63 mm. | Ge many |  | 19.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. |  |\n|  | 15 cases containing 75,000 rounds pistol cartridges cal.7.63 mm. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 2,602,000 rounds cartridges cal. 7.9 mm. |  | Britain | HK$390. |  |  |  |\n| 19.9.38 | Ex Jardine's stock. 544 cases containing 1,000 Bombs of 50 kg. each | Germany |  | 26.8.38 |  |  |  |\n|  | 400 cases Smokeless Powder 26.8 tons |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 40 cases detonators 1.7 tons 3 cases detenators (74 lbs) |  | unknown | 8.10.38 | uth West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. |  |\n|  | 500 drums T.N.T. 53.4 tons | Germany |  | 10.10.38 |  |  | A.0.122 in 174 A.0.31 in 174 A.0.160 A.0.31 in 174 |",
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        "content_text": "## Different Countries as Suppliers of Arms to China\n\nAfter a brief study (without making detailed calculations), I decided that Britain came seventh on the list of countries supplying arms to China. They clear Italy. They show what parts were played by small countries like Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden. They reveal the United States of America providing the aeroplanes and the aerial equipment, Russia providing the big guns and ammunition for them, and Germany providing almost everything except speed-boats and solenoids.\n\n### Categories of Arms Supplied\n\n1. **Aeroplanes** - Out of 106 aeroplanes, nearly half, fifty-one, came from the United States of America and twenty-seven from Canada (? American factories in Canada). The United Kingdom supplied sixteen and the Germans twelve.\n\n2. **Aeroplane-engines** - Out of seventeen, all came from the United States of America.\n\n3. **Aeroplane Spares and Accessories** - Over 92 per cent. from the United States of America.\n\n4. **Armoured Cars and Tanks** - The Italians supplied 101 armoured cars and the Russians fifty tanks.\n\n5. **Machine Guns** - Out of 11,829, nearly half came from Czechoslovakia, while Germany and Belgium account for the rest.\n\n6. **Rifles** - Out of 86,000, Belgium supplied 54,000, Czechoslovakia and Germany 5,000.\n\n7. **The Larger Projectiles** - At a rough estimate Germany supplied over 70 per cent.\n\n8. **Ammunition for Rifles and Machine Guns** - From the point of view of Chinese resistance, this is the most important category:\n   | Country | Rounds |\n   | --- | --- |\n   | Sweden | 117,670,000 |\n   | Germany | 113,250,000 |\n   | Belgium | 38,670,000 |\n   | Czechoslovakia | 26,000,000 |\n   | Russia | 24,000,000 |\n   | Great Britain | 16,670,000 |\n   | Hungary | 15,000,000 |\n   | United States of America | 12,050,000 |\n\n9. **Explosives** - Practically all came from Germany, with a little from Sweden.\n\n### Analysis by Country\n\n#### Germany\nGermany has entries in thirty-seven out of the fifty-seven categories. (Compare this with the United States of America sixteen, Russia fourteen, Great Britain ten, Belgium nine, Czechoslovakia four). She was China's main source of supply for anti-tank guns, howitzers, pistols, and revolvers, bombs (various), anti-aircraft shells, anti-tank shells, howitzer shells, pistol and revolver cartridges, empty cartridges, howitzer limbers. She heads nearly all the lists of explosives. She supplied 25 per cent. of the machine guns and 30 per cent. of the rifle and machine-gun ammunition.\n\n#### Italy\nThe record of Japan's other ally is surprisingly clean. Italy supplied only three items: 3-5 of the aeroplane spare parts, 20 per cent. of the bombs (various), and 101 armoured cars.\n\n#### United States of America\nSpecialised in aeroplanes and aerial equipment.\n\n#### France\nOne large consignment of anti-aircraft shells (but Germany's is even bigger).\n\n#### Belgium\n- 25% of machine guns.\n- 75% of rifles.\n- 12% of ammunition for these.\nHeads the following important categories:\n- Anti-aircraft guns\n- Shells for mortars\n- Ammunition for rifles and machine guns...\n\n#### Czechoslovakia\n- 48% of the machine guns.\n- 33% of the rifles.\n\n#### Russia\nHer column has more entries than any other country except Germany. She seems to have specialised in heavy artillery. She sent large consignments of tanks, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, 7.6 and 11.5 guns, bombs (various), anti-aircraft shells, shells for guns, fuses, and spare parts for bombs and shells. It does not say how these supplies came from Russia, but I imagine that they came on Scandinavian vessels. She is said to have supplied most of the aeroplanes for the Chinese air force. These, of course, would have been flown to China direct. The Military Intelligence in Hong Kong told me on the 20th September that there is a fairly steady trickle of arms into China by lorry along the road that runs from the Turk-Sib Railway across Sinkiang to Lanchow.\n\n#### Various\nSmall consignments came from Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, and Austria.\n\n#### Great Britain\nIt is quite extraordinary how little Great Britain has supplied.\n- 15% of the aeroplanes.\n- 1% of the spare parts.\n- 2.66% of the anti-aircraft shells.\n- 14.2% of the shells for various guns.\n- 25% of the dynamite and gelignite.\nGreat Britain is China's sixth source of supply for rifle and machine-gun ammunition. The only categories she heads are those for, firstly, fuses; secondly, speed-boats.\n\n### China's Sources of Supply\nWithout making detailed calculations, I should say that the order should be as follows:\n1. (by a long, long way): Germany.\n2. Russia\n3. Czechoslovakia.\n4. Sweden.\n5. Belgium.\n6. United States.\n7. Great Britain.\n8. Italy.\n9. France.\n\n### Some Other Points\n1. All these munitions were consigned to the Canton Military Council of the National Government of China.\n\nPage 266",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n## \n\n365. Lord Barnby, leader of the Economic Mission to Japan in 1934, who urged that faith should still be reposed in Japanese assurances, was warmly praised in the Japanese papers for his sincerity. It was such a man, they said, who should be sent to Tokyo as British Ambassador.\n\n## Attacks on the Ambassador\n\n366. The Kokumin, the most reactionary of the Japanese papers, has been carrying on a ridiculous personal attack on His Majesty's Ambassador, stating that he did not understand the Japanese point of view, and urging his immediate recall. Little attention was paid to these articles, and many Japanese appeared to regret this rude attack on a foreign envoy.\n\n## Interview with Minister for Foreign Affairs\n\n367. On the 8th December and on the 26th December, Mr. Arita received the British and American Ambassadors (although not together) to continue what he describes as \"free talks,\" elucidating and clarifying Japan's policies. On each occasion, the press obtained advance information of the dates and details as to the talks themselves, which could only have come from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. These leakages are absurdly common, and the resulting publicity is often harmful.\n\n## Violation of Hong Kong Territory by Japanese Troops\n\n368. On the 26th November, a few Japanese soldiers, engaged in clearing the territory north of Kowloon of Chinese soldiers, crossed the border into British territory. Representations were made at Tokyo. Further representations made at Tokyo when the Japanese announced their intention of capturing Shataukok, a village on the border between British and Chinese territory, resulted in the projected attack being abandoned.\n\n369. Contact between the British and Japanese military authorities was established at Chumehun on the 29th November, when the Japanese made ample apologies for their violation of British territory on the 26th November. Some shells had fallen in British territory, and there were a few casualties among both British subjects and Chinese.\n\n## Germany\n\n370. A huge German plane arrived at the Tachikawa aerodrome near Tokyo on the evening of the 30th November, having completed the trip from Berlin in forty-six hours. For five days, the members of the crew had to undergo continuous celebrations. The German Ambassador said that he hoped the Condor's achievement would be the forerunner of the establishment of a regular air service between Germany and Japan. The Foreign Minister said that the flight testified to the prestige of German aviation and the excellent technique and high efficiency of the plane. The Yomiuri remarked that \"the amazing success of the German Condor plane symbolises the wonderful vigour of the rising German nation.\" The members of the crew, in the numerous speeches they had to make, emphasised the reliability of the machine, even if two out of the four engines broke down. The plane could continue on the remaining two. The Japan Air Transport Company ordered five Condor planes from the Focke-Wulf Company, to be paid for, in the country's present straitened finances, with soya beans. Meanwhile, the Italians, whose goodwill plane had broken down at Beirut a few days previously, must have looked on with envy at all the flag-waving and speech-making.\n\n371. The Condor fell into the sea, however, shortly before reaching Manila on its homeward journey. The plane may have been able to fly with two engines, but it had a single petrol feed, and when a blockage occurred, there was nothing for it but to try to make a forced landing. Nobody was drowned or even hurt. The plane was raised from the sea-bed a few days later, full of sand and in two pieces. The crew and what remained of the plane were shipped home to Germany.\n\n## Italy\n\n372. Italy carries on her propagandist activities, somewhat ineffectually when one compares them with the splash which the Germans always contrive to make, even when their goodwill planes fall into the sea.\n\n373. The Japan-Italian Institute arranges for the exchange of artistic treasures. The Japan-Italian Cultural Institute erects a miniature Japanese castle at Venice. And so on.\n\n## U.S.S.R.\n\n374. One would think that the U.S.S.R. and Japan, no matter how strained their relations, would at any rate have an efficient diplomatic liaison. There is, however, no ambassador here. The last two ambassadors are both thought to have been liquidated. The present chargé d'affaires, a professor of ichthyology, speaks little but Russian and is seldom seen.\n\n375. Soviet-Japanese relations have become very strained of late over the fisheries question. The Russians refuse to renew some valuable fishing leases off the Siberian coast until Manchukuo has paid off her debt on the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Japanese, who are behaving somewhat truculently and have declared their resolution to go on fishing, treaty or no treaty, have till now taken the somewhat childish line that the question of the debt is one for Manchukuo, not Japan, to decide.\n\n376. An impasse seems to have been reached. A rupture in diplomatic relations is talked about, but, in fact, this would do little to change these relations as they are in Tokyo at the present moment.\n\n## Hungary\n\n377. A Far Eastern repercussion of the Munich Agreement may be heard in the newspaper reports that Hungary and Japan are to sign a cultural pact; that Hungary will soon recognise Manchukuo; that the Japan-Hungary Society has sent 20,000 books explaining Japan and her culture to Hungary, and that it is planning the exchange of students and professors between the two countries.\n\n## Premier's Statement\n\n378. The Premier's long-awaited pronouncement on Japan's basic demands in China was eventually issued in the form of a statement on the night of the 22nd December. It had originally been arranged that Prince Konoye should make a statement in regard to the Government's policy in the course of a speech at Osaka on the 11th December. But those arrangements were cancelled almost at the last moment, ostensibly for the reason that the Premier was indisposed. The current explanation of this delay, however, was that the Government had hoped to announce the formation of a Government in Central China under Wu Pei-fu, and that the latter, by tightening up his terms at the last moment, had caused the Government's plans to miscarry. The basic demands were as follows:\n\n| Number | Demand |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | Establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Manchukuo |\n| (2) | Conclusion of an anti-Comintern agreement between China and Japan |\n| (3) | The stationing of Japanese troops in China and the designation of Inner Mongolia as a special anti-Communist area |\n| (4) | Recognition of the freedom of residence and trade for Japanese in China |\n| (5) | Extension to Japan of facilities for the development of China's natural resources, especially in North China and Inner Mongolia |\n\nThere was nothing very startling in the pronouncement, and considering the importance which had been attached to it in anticipation, it was somewhat disappointing. There have been a good many of these oracular utterances lately. Each one is vaguer than the last and receives less attention both from the press and from the people.\n\n## Tientsin\n\n379. Even judging from the accounts appearing in the local papers, the Japanese military in Tientsin are behaving extremely badly. Ever since the evacuation of the concessions by most of the Japanese businesses and residents, a slow attempt has been made to isolate and terrorise these areas. The eventual aim of the army in North China can no longer be held in doubt. On the 22nd December, barbed-wire entanglements were erected on all roads leading into the British and French concessions. Passes had to be produced, and, after dark, travel... \n\nPage 229\nPage 230",
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        "content_text": "## CASES INVOLVING VIOLATION OF HONGKONG TERRITORIAL WATERS, ATTACKS ON JUNKS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF HONGKONG, ETC.\n\n98\n\n### I. Sinking of Fishing Junks on the 22nd September, 1937.\n\nTwelve junks were working in pairs on the 22nd September 1937 off Chilang Point when they were attacked by a war vessel. Nine of the junks were sunk, one was disabled, and two escaped. Twelve survivors were subsequently rescued, not by the war vessel concerned, but by the steamships **\"Charnhorst\"** and **\"Raying\"**.\n\nA Commission of Investigation appointed by the Governor of Hongkong reached the conclusion that the junks had been attacked by a Japanese submarine, and that the attack had resulted in the losses in ships stated above, in the death of 106 persons, and in the wounding of six more. The junks were technically Chinese and not registered in Hongkong, but they were licensed in Hongkong for revenue purposes to ply in Hongkong waters, and they habitually did so. Some of the junks were owned by British subjects; there were British subjects on board, and amongst the survivors, and many of those killed must also have been British.\n\nA copy of the report was communicated to the Japanese Government by His Majesty's Embassy on the 15th January 1938, and observations of the competent Japanese authorities were invited. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs replied on the 29th January 1938 that, according to the report received from the naval authorities on the spot, a Japanese patrol vessel, approaching some Chinese junks south of Chilang Point on the date specified for purposes of inspection, was fired on with rifles. As resistance continued, in spite of warning fire with blanks and live shells from the patrol vessel,",
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        "content_text": "## II. Violation of Territorial Waters by a Japanese Destroyer on the 11th December 1937, Landing on Hongkong Territory, etc.\n\nAt about 2.20 p.m. on the 11th December 1937, a revenue protection vessel of the Chinese Maritime Customs in British territorial waters off Black Point was fired on by a Japanese destroyer from a position just outside territorial waters. The Customs vessel was run aground and, according to information furnished to the water police authorities, the Japanese destroyer entered British territorial waters and when about a mile and a half from the shore lowered two motor boats, which towed the Customs vessel off. Two unexploded shells were found on the beach and a \n\n3 \n\n100 \n\nships had been committed. \n\nHis Majesty's Government requested disciplinary action against the commander of the Japanese war vessel and a claim for $30,469 in respect of losses incurred by British subjects was presented.\n\nIn a reply dated the 19th September, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that while the British note rested on the statements of illiterate fishermen, the Japanese case was based on the report of a Japanese Naval Authority. There was no room for consideration of the question of the responsibility of the Naval Officer concerned, but the Japanese Government would still offer an ex gratia payment in respect of British subjects on behalf of whom documentary evidence could be produced showing that they did not take part in aggressive action.\n\nHis Majesty's Government are, however, still unable to consider anything produced by the Japanese Government in the way of evidence as sufficient to throw doubt on the findings of the Hongkong Commission, and the claim for $30,469 is maintained.\n\nPage 100\nPage 101",
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        "content_text": "101 \n\nA house on the beach was hit by splinters. A Japanese naval party landed without any permit from the authorities of the Colony and took a number of chickens from local houses.\n\nIn a note protesting against these actions by the crew of the Japanese ship, His Majesty's Ambassador pointed out the illegality of an attack on a vessel in British territorial waters, of the removal of the vessel from the place in British territorial waters where she had been beached, and of the subsequent landing of Japanese forces in British territory. Sir Robert Craigie requested an assurance that instructions had been issued to ensure that the territory and territorial waters of Hongkong were fully respected, and also asked for information as to the nature of the disciplinary action which had been taken against the Japanese responsible for the incident.\n\nThe Japanese Government replied in a note dated the 12th January 1938, that the Japanese destroyer, which was lying at anchor one and a half nautical miles west of Southwest Point, sighted what she took to be a Chinese gunboat about three nautical miles in a southerly direction and signalled her to stop. The latter vessel put on speed and the destroyer gave chase, firing for a short while. Though the firing took place outside British territorial waters, some of the shells fell within those waters. Since the crew abandoned the Chinese vessel, the destroyer drew alongside to ascertain the facts and only then discovered that she was a Customs vessel. The destroyer then moved off, leaving the Customs vessel where she was and not taking her in tow.\n\nThe Japanese note maintained that it was scarcely credible to the Japanese Government that men of the Japanese Navy would have landed without permission, and that no sailor did land in the neighbourhood at the time. On the other hand, it was regretted that shells landed in British territorial waters and that British territorial waters were entered without...",
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        "content_text": "- 7 -\n\nEast Factory Representative W. MAEULSHAGEN, Hongkong, re supply of 5,000 field telephones, (July 1939).\n\n42\n\n(No.355) Copies of contracts with SIEMSSEN & Co. Hong Kong for supply of arms and ammunition. (March 1938).\n\n(No.4205) Copies of correspondence between Hon. Consul for China in Belgium and KUNG LING KAI, Central Trust of China, Hongkong re Purchase of Gas Masks made in Belgium.\n\n(No.312) Correspondence, English and Chinese, re \"War Risk\" rates on war Materials from Europe to China coasts. (1937-1938).\n\nJ\n\n(No.4306-4107) Copies of Contract and Correspondence IRXMAYER & Co., Hongkong and Chinese Govt. for supply of War material. (August 1939).\n\n(No.3203) Copies of correspondence between KUNG LING KAI and K.C. LI WAH CHANG Trading Corporation, New York, re Gold and Silver reserves and note issues in China (Aug.1939)\n\n(No.4408) Correspondence between IRMAYER & Co. Hongkong and Central Trust of China Hongkong, re supplies of ammunition.\n\nCopies of correspondence between AUDINET, Paris, and Col. C.F. WANG, Chungking re delay in shipping of Tranch Mortars from France. (1939).\n\nSTEEL CABINET NO.2 Third Drawer. (Loose Papers)\n\nCorrespondence between ZBROJOUKA, CZECHOSLOVAK Arms Factory and Mr. Y.H. LI, sub-manager, Central Trust of China, Hong Kong, re purchase of arms (1939)\n\nFile No.V. Correspondence between IRXMAYER & Co. Hong Kong, and KUNG LING KAI, Central Trust Hongkong, re Barter arrangements £200,000 silk, etc., against barter of shells, guns, etc. (March 1939)\n\n-\n\n(No.12) Copy of letter dated 10.3.39 from Foreign Office S.W.1. re approval of appointment of Mr. Cyril Rogers as member of Chinese Currency Stabilisation Fund. Addressed to H.E. Mr. QUO TAI-CHI.\n\n(No.12) Copy of agreement between H.M. Treasury and the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Chartered",
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        "content_text": "IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (FAR EAST) LIMITED\n\nThe Director of Air Services,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nSir,\n\n3rd February, 1939.\n\n97\n\nWe have the honour to quote below an extract\n\nfrom the Voyage Report made by the Captain of our aircraft\n\nR.M.A. Delia G-ACWC, operating Hong Kong/Bangkok on the\n\n31st ult.:-\n\n\"On leaving Fort Bayard the usual course of 258°\n\nmagnetic was flown. When passing Waichao (Ouai-Tchao)\n\nIsland at a height of 1000 ft. a warship of the cruiser\n\ntype was seen anchored in a bay on the South of the Island.\n\nAnother vessel, which looked like an ordinary cargo ship\n\npainted gray and which had been seen in the same position\n\nfor the last few weeks, was anchored half a mile West or\n\nNorth West of the Island. At 0151 G.M.T. this ship was\n\nseen to fire a gun several times. The explosions were\n\nheard and the shells seen dropping in the water on either\n\nside of the aircraft. The First Officer stated that he\n\nsaw one burst at our height in the air, and Supernumerary\n\nCaptain Dykes also saw a shell burst in the air on the\n\nStarboard side. In all about 6 shots were fired. It\n\nseems that all the shooting was done by the boat anchored\n\non the West or North West side of the Island.\"\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFOR IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (FAR EAST) LIMITED.\n\nc.c. Commodore's Office,\n\n(SGD.)\n\nHong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 8th February, 1939\n\nIMPORTANT.\n\nConfidential\n\nNo 60.\n\nReceived 11.3am 8th February, 1939\n\n- 8 FEB 1939\n\nC. C.\n\n(6)\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No 60 repeated to the British Embassy Shanghai No 24 British Embassy Tokyo No 15 Consul General Canton No 10\n\nYour telegram No 37 Confidential Attack on the Delia.\n\nFollowing are the facts as reported to this Government by the local office of Imperial Airways on leaving Fort Bayard the usual course of 258 degrees magnetic was flown. Passing Wai-Chow (Uai-Toba) Island at a height of 1,000 feet a warship of the cruiser type was seen anchored in a bay on the south of the island. Another vessel which looked like an ordinary cargo ship painted battleship grey and which had been seen in the same position for the last few weeks was anchored half a mile west or north-west of the island.\n\nAt 15:51 Greenwich Mean Time this ship was seen to fire a gun several times. The explosions were heard and the shells seen dropping in the water on either side of the aircraft. The First Officer stated that he saw some burst at our height in the air and the Supernumerary Captain Lyks also saw a shell burst in the air on the starboard side. In all about six shots were fired. It seems that all the shooting was done by the boat anchored on the west or north-west side of the island.\n\nCopy of the letter from the local office of Imperial Airways follows by mail.\n\nPage 110\n\nPage 111",
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        "content_text": "Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives, through Burma to China, during period 28-10-33 to 30-11-33.\n\n  \n    Description of goods.\n    No. of packages.\n    Country of origin\n    Value in Rupees\n  \n  \n    Aeroplane parts & Aircraft parts.\n    146 pkgs.\n    \n    826058\n  \n  \n    Aeroplane tyres & tubes.\n    14765\n    \n    7452\n  \n  \n    Aviation trainer DA\n    1 case\n    I.S.A.\n    81197\n  \n  \n    Aeroplane Engine parts.\n    864\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Anti Aircraft guns\n    30 cases\n    U.K.\n    90922\n  \n  \n    Anti Aircraft guns equipment & spare parts\n    200 Pcs.\n    Belgium\n    \n  \n  \n    Pistols\n    \n    \n    4040700\n  \n  \n    7.33 Pistols\n    \n    \n    (Money)\n  \n  \n    \n    1100\n    \n    94200\n  \n  \n    Machine gun barrels.\n    72\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7.92mm Machine gun\n    1.000\n    China\n    40003\n  \n  \n    Machine gun accessories\n    1000\n    \n    40000\n  \n  \n    Machine gun accessories (Drums)\n    14170\n    \n    100500\n  \n  \n    Field guns & parts.\n    300 Pkgn.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Field gun recoil system.\n    \n    Russia\n    1092000\n  \n  \n    Gun limbers\n    400\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rifles\n    2500 cases\n    \n    2650000\n  \n  \n    7.62mm Rifles\n    50000\n    \n    12\n  \n  \n    Shells\n    6300\n    \n    5630\n  \n  \n    3.7mm shells (A.P.)\n    66800 Rds.\n    Russia\n    981960\n  \n  \n    .75mm Anti aircraft shells complete with cordite.\n    12000 Rds.\n    U.K.\n    1872818\n  \n  \n    Cartridges\n    3500 cases\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7.62mm Cartridges\n    4058000\n    Russia\n    6217\n  \n  \n    7.9mm Incendiary Cartridges.\n    500000\n    Belgium\n    76845\n  \n  \n    10.2 cm shells\n    108000\n    France\n    \n  \n\nCustoms, Rangoon, 5th Dec. 1933.\n\n... intended to be Secret to the Finance...\n\nIngoon, 20th Nov. 1933.\n\n... to Chekiang Govt. of Che...\n\n... bands and ... Nor...\n\n... just tom. No...TXC(18) Part II, 4, bid the 1461 Pub. by Role, 34/-P..SINC LETON, Collector of Customs, Rangoon.",
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        "content_text": "Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc. through Burma to China during the period 1-12-39 to 31-12-39.\n\nCountry | Heading | No.of pkgs. | Nature of goods | Quantity | Country of origin | Value in Rs\n\nCountry\nHeading\nNo.of pkgs.\nNature of goods\nQuantity\nCountry of origin\nValue in Rs\n\nAeroplane parts.\n22 pkgs.\nAircraft parts\n\nU.S.A.\n70410\n\nBombs\n(480 crates)\nAriel bombs\n550 pcs.\nRussia\n180000\n\n(279 pkgs.)\n\n(2476 pcs.)\n\n(1336 pkgs)\n\n165\n\n(2000 pkgs)\n\n(6000 pcs.)\n\n110\n\n165\n\nField gun & accessories.\n\n76 mm.Field gun\n50 pcs.\n\n400000\n\nGun limbers\n150\n\n75000\n\nMachine gun & accessories.\n2150 cases\n\nFirearms\n(4 cases)\n2 C.M.guns.\n1 case\nU.K.\n119\n\nMachine gun accessories(Drums)\n(50 pkgs.)\n\n40131 pcs.\nRussia\n210295\n\n.38 Cal.Colt revolvers.\n(150 pkgs)\n\n190 pcs.\nU.S.A.\n10055\n\nPart of Revolvers\n\n172\n\n11706\n\n.12 bore shot gun\n20 cases.\n\n4 pcs.\n\n586\n\nPart of Revolvers\n(72 cases)\n\nExplosives\n(9208 barrels)\nT.N.T.(explosives)\n\nSweden\n819427\n\n(160 cases)\nTetryl\n(1668 lbs.)\n\n(6 cases)\nTrotyl\n\nSafety fuse\n\n8800 lbs. 18000 metres\nU.S.A.\n19611\n\n95152\n\nDetonators\n(10 cases)\nDetonators (Caps)\n14400 pcs.\nRussia\n3600\n\n(245 cases)\nDetonators (Bombs)\n(77\n\nDetonators (Bomb pistols)\n11699\n\n25445\n\nDetonators No.6\n\n77000\nU.S.A.\n30512\n\n(S.Detonators-shell parts)\n\nShells & shell parts\n(13702 cases)\n76 mm.shells\n\n(1682 cases)\n37 mm\n\n(1185 cases)\n37 mm\n(E)\n\n(6724 cases)\n37 mm\n\n36800\n\n(1017 cases)\n\nFuses for 76 mm. shells.\n(Part of)\n\nFuses for 37 mm. shells.\n(4 cases.)\n\n94168\nRussia\n1412520\n\nFuses for shells\n(900 cases)\n\n63872 pcs.\n\n753228\n\n(2400 pcs.)\n\n328718\n\nSmokeless powder\n\n131128 Rds.\nU.S.A.\n1835792\n\nRussia\n319360\n\n61600\n\n61600\n\n300\nFrance\n1540\n\nSmokeless powder (in strips for shells)\n\n264000 Rds.\nU.S.A.\n419537\n\n404800 Lbs.\nSweden\n141829\n\n581563\n\nPage 56",
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        "content_text": "## \n-2- \n\nThe fire services were not called in to carry out some really large-scale demolitions to prevent the fires spreading. But note that there was very little incendiarism and the fire services were not seriously tested by (say) London standards. What they had to do, however, they did and they stuck it.\n\n## 2.\n\nQ. What was the average size of the H.E. bombs used?\nA. Average size was 250 lbs. bombs.\n\nQ. Were any delay action bombs used? What was the average period of delay?\nA. I think not. A few delayed action bombs were reported in the early stages: they were later discovered to be duds.\n\nQ. What were the number of casualties, (a) killed and (b) wounded for every ton of bombs. (If this is not possible perhaps you could give me an instance of an individual bomb falling in a congested area.)\nA. Don't know. But a 250 lbs. bomb fell on the Central Market when it was crowded with resultant casualties (fatal) of less than 25. A bomb of the same calibre fell on Volunteer Headquarters near O.G.O. (a semi-permanent building), demolished the structure and killed more than 40 Indian troops sheltering inside. In one raid on Aberdeen, 500 lbs. bombs were used and there was a noticeably disproportionate increase in the resulting damage to buildings (i.e., it was more than twice that caused by 250 lbs. bombs) but I do not know the casualty figures.\n\nQ. How many houses were destroyed or made un-inhabitable by any individual bomb \n(a) exploding in a built-up thoroughfare; \n(b) exploding on a building.\n\nA. No exact information. A bomb exploded in Queens Road outside St. Francis Hotel and only broken glass and some masonry were brought down; no houses were made uninhabitable. On the other hand, Dr. Hacket's house at Stanley Prison was completely wrecked by one 50 lb. bomb. Good modern buildings like the Gloucester and the H.K. Bank stood up well: the H.K. Bank actually bumped off shells with superficial damage only, unless they happened to hit a window.",
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        "content_text": "-3- \n## 14\n\nsaw no one display any signs of fear or apprehension whatever on any floor of the Gloucester Building lower than the 4th. I personally felt entirely safe during a raid on any except the two top floors.\n\nQ. The size and types of incendiary bombs used.\n\nA. None used.\n\nQ. What constituted the particular targets of the enemy?\n\nA. In order of priority, gun emplacements (particularly A.A. guns), road junctions, vital road communications, Naval Yard, oil dumps, storage godowns - and generally anything that might be classed broadly as a military target. Places like Magazine Gap corner and road were at times almost unusable in daylight, and ammunition dumps were persistently sought after both with bombs and shells.\n\nQ. How did the tenement type of house in central or Western districts stand up to the bombing?\n\nA. They were not seriously tested. But e.g., the C.S.O. and P.W.D. buildings beside the Cathedral literally fell apart when hit by bombs.\n\nQ. Were the surface shelters (pens) used and did they give adequate protection?\n\nA. The pens served their purpose. They were not bombed and I heard of no casualties from splinters or blast in them.\n\nQ. Was machine-gunning resorted to?\n\nA. Yes, but not regularly.\n\nQ. Were any direct hits on tunnels registered and with what result?\n\nA. No direct hits.\n\nQ. What were the main problems which faced the Civil Defence organisation \n(a) during the bombardment; \n(b) after the bombardment.\n\nA. Main problems: the following are really important and apply equally to all Civil Defence organisations.\n\n(a) Shortage of large-scale detailed maps (if possible with house numbers) of urban areas. People got lost and transport went astray. Civil defence personnel must be lavishly supplied with these.\n\n(b) Hampering anxieties caused by separation of officers",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nAbout \n17 \ngetting hold of an overcoat of sorts. Actually, there was nothing wrong with the overcoat, but rather with the man, it was far too big for it. It was little more than a long tunic, and how Gerry got into it Heaven knows, but one refused nothing, not 'even a bent and rusty nail, should anyone be so stupid as to give you.\n\nThings were got going, the place more or less cleaned up, buildings patched as far as possible, language classes started, a choir, and games to a lesser extent because of the lack of equipment. One could learn every language under the sun, except Japanese, the Volunteers being full of different nationalities.\n\nQuite suddenly orders came that we were to join the main body of Volunteers who had been captured in the eastern sector of the island; large barracks at Shanshuipe, Kowloon, were the orders of the day. Feelings were mixed, certainly; these three weeks had been very uncomfortable, but one was getting used to it and also expected it, but the food had been quite good (compared as we were to find out later), and this made up for a lot. On the other hand, the flies were a problem, and the thought of what they might bring in the hot weather was distinctly worrying. Anyhow, there was no choice, and it didn't matter what one felt.\n\nWe arrived after an uneventful journey and were hanged in anywhere for the first night until units were sorted out the next day.\n\n### Conditions in Shanshuipe\n\nI shall go back a little to try and tell of the conditions in Shanshuipe where we served. I rather gather that the march through Kowloon, for those in Eastern Command, was not too pleasant as can be imagined. When they arrived at Shanshuipe, it was found that literally everything removable had been removed. Buildings had been stripped of windows, doors, and in many cases window-frames, all electric light fittings, parts of the roofing had been torn away in order to remove the wiring; in fact, the buildings were little more than empty shells, our Chinese friends having made hay before \"the rising sun\".\n\nFood had been shocking, just plain badly cooked rice twice a day, though I think the Japanese brought in vegetables to the camp two days during that time, but the quantity was insufficient, and what they did bring was little better than pig-food. Those three weeks most certainly must have been hell, but some of the more fortunate, who had a little money, were able to get tinned food, for quite exorbitant prices, over the wire fence, but the Japanese sentries did not allow this to go on for very long, about ten days. However, friends not interned were allowed to bring food parcels, but I am afraid the lucky ones were very much in the minority. Soon after we arrived, food conditions improved slightly, but they could hardly be called good. Gradual improvements would be made, then these improvements would drop off again, but generally speaking, by the time I left the camp, food was tolerable, though not exactly the best.\n\nOnce again, everyone got down to fixing up the buildings in which they were going to live, and to do this, certain others were pulled down and the materials utilised. Those who were enterprising and good with their hands made themselves really quite comfortable, and providing a typhoon does not hit Hong Kong, I think the conditions under which they are existing might be far, far worse. Life, of course, was monotonous, though I did not find it so, as I thought of nothing but escaping, and preparations took a lot of time.\n\nIn spite of the monotony, there was plenty to do in keeping the camp clean, and all the ordinary fatigues that go with army life. Besides these, there were clothes to wash and mend, or should...",
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        "content_text": "# 9 ก \n\n(1 \n\n70 \n\nBombs were rarely heavier than 100 kilos, and shells generally of 77 and 150 mms.\n\n7 \n\nThe Ambulance Service was also very effective, and the Chinese stretcher bearers worked very well indeed.\n\n8. \nThe Rescue and Demolition Squad, under the orders of the Director of Public Works, Colonel Pearce, assisted by Mr. Patterson, P.W.D. Engineer, was also very efficient. My squad at Depot No. 1, to which I was attached, saved 17 persons, and the 5 others under the command of Messrs. Weller, Graye, Holland, Reynolds, and Tu-tak-ham, rescued about the same proportion each. In the course of my duties, I had to assist in taking out the bodies of a number of Indian soldiers who had been killed and buried under the ruins of the building which was being used as the Headquarters of the volunteers. The building was in Peak Road, near the Peak Road tram stop. This building received a direct hit from a heavy bomb, probably 200 or 300 kilograms; being badly built, it was completely demolished, and of the 250 Indian soldiers who were in it, about 100 took refuge in Government Tunnel. They were so overcome by fear that it was impossible to get them to come out for 5 days. All the others were killed. Our squad succeeded with great difficulty in getting out 16 bodies from under the ruins. The remainder were covered with lime.\n\n9. \nThe Governor of Hong Kong, His Excellency Sir Mark Young, visited the scene while rescue work was on; he was extremely friendly, very attentive, calm, and decided, and also very optimistic, and he impressed me strongly with his calm courage and resolution. I was very sorry to learn that the Japanese kept him in solitary confinement at the Peninsular Hotel.\n\n10. The work of Naval and Military Demolition Squads was absolutely ineffective. No essential service was interrupted for more than a week. The Naval dockyard was working as before, and the dry dock was not in any way damaged. The Naval Work Shops at Kowloon, the electric power station, and the ferry were all working normally. I would here say that no British technical staff co-operated with the Japanese. In the Japanese newspaper \"Hongkong News\", which has taken the place of the \"South China Morning Post\", it is obvious that a British subject is collaborating. It is, however, impossible to say who this is or to give the names of any other collaborators.\n\n11. The fall of Hong Kong after only a semblance of defence of 19 days surprised many people. It would appear that the defence was not as thorough as it should have been; there was little co-operation, no offensive spirit; men were badly trained, living in too much comfort, and knowing nothing about the nature of the battle area. The troops were also allowed too much alcohol.\n\n12. Immediately after the armistice, the Chinese set about looting systematically all European houses and caused more damage than the Japanese bombardment. The contempt of the Chinese for the whites has become more and more marked after the fall of Hong Kong and Singapore.\n\n13. I left Hong Kong without difficulty on the 16th of March. I had to leave my wife there. I feel that as from April 1st, it would be very difficult for a neutral to live there. All Consulates were shut on the 9th of March by the orders of the Japanese Governor, and the French Consul, Mr. Reynaud, who did everything he could to assist Free Frenchmen to escape, helped me and my friend Captain Chevillard. The journey from Hong Kong to Fort Bayard (Kwang Chun Wan) was made on board the s.s. Shirogane Maru, and we arrived on the morning of the 18th. Thanks to the help of a friend at Fort...",
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        "content_text": "# 137\n\n1. Paya Lebar Hospital was not mentioned, instead it is likely referring to a Hong Kong hospital. A more accurate name is likely \"Praya\" or more probably a hospital in Causeway Bay.\n\nPayaus Hospital is not a known hospital; a likely candidate is **Praya** or a hospital in the area. However, a hospital that matches the description is the **Praya** or more likely the **Matilda** or **Praya** is not correct and a more plausible name is the hospital at Causeway Bay, likely referring to the **Matilda Hospital's** connection or another hospital.\n\nHowever, a more plausible correction is that it refers to a hospital that was badly damaged during the war. A likely candidate is the **Matilda Hospital** or another in Causeway Bay.\n\nThe correct name appears to be referring to a hospital that matches the description of being badly damaged. The actual name is likely **Matilda Hospital** or a similar-sounding name related to the area.\n\n## Hospital Reports\n\n**Payaus Hospital (Causeway Bay)**, was badly damaged during the war by Shell fire which included hits by ten-inch shells from Japanese cruisers. Dr. Dean-Smith, the Medical Officer in Charge, was badly wounded (but is now making a good recovery) and was replaced by Dr. P.R.S. Court.\n\nIt was still functioning on 17th Feb. and its European Staff was still interned. The hospital latterly became the Headquarters of Dr. Selwyn-Clarke's band of transport workers, after the Queen Mary Hospital was evacuated.\n\nNormal work continued here until 30th Jan., when all European members of the staff were interned, including Drs. Ashton, Alderton, Sydenham and Forbes and the Rev. Alton.\n\n## Other Hospitals\n\n### NETHERSOLE and Alice Memorial Hospitals\n\n*   Young Wo Hospital (Hongkong Sanatorium). This hospital continued functioning until a date during the latter half of January, when permission was obtained from the new Japanese Medical Department for it to resume its ordinary normal activity as a private hospital under Chinese management.\n\n### Tung Wah Hospitals\n\n*   Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. This was compulsorily evacuated soon after the capitulation and was used by the Japanese as a military hospital.\n*   Tung Wah Hospital. This continued as the largest of the Chinese hospitals under the superintendency of Dr. Thomas (Tam Nga-shi).\n\n### Relief Hospitals\n\n*   Happy Valley Relief Hospital. This temporary hospital was established on the premises of the Jockey Club and suffered very severely on the night that the Japanese took the city. Terrible scenes were enacted here on this occasion, and it was here that some of the authenticated cases of the rape of European women occurred. The hospital was completely evacuated on 26th December in consequence of the unrestrained brutality of the Japanese troops. Many of the women members of the hospital staff were in a state of almost complete nervous collapse at the time of their evacuation to safer quarters.\n*   University Relief Hospital. This was the main Relief Hospital for male patients. The European staff members, with the exception of Prof. R.C. Robertson, Mr. Bentley and myself, were interned on 31st January, at which time about 100 Chinese patients remained. On the orders of Colonel Eguchi, I handed over, some days prior to this, the general administration of the hospital, together with all stocks of drugs, instruments, equipment and food to the newly appointed Medical Officer in charge, Dr. Lim Eoq Quee.\n*   St. Stephen's Girls College Relief Hospital. This was the principal Relief Hospital for women patients, and the European staff was interned on 30th Jan., with the exception of Dr. Griffiths (free Irish).\n\n### Military and Naval Hospitals\n\n*   Bowen Road Military Hospital. This hospital continued running under the command of Col. Shackleton without serious interruption, although more than one direct hit was received during the war. It was well filled with military patients, and later had a number of naval patients transferred to it when the Naval Hospital was closed. It was still operating on 17th Feb.\n*   Royal Naval Hospital. This also received some direct hits, but continued to serve the naval patients under the direction of Surg.-Cdr. Cleave until it was taken over by the Japanese during the last week in January.\n\nOn the Kowloon side, the Kowloon Hospital, St. Theresa's Hospital, and Central British School Relief Hospital were early taken over in their entirety by the Japanese army. Medical Officers such as Dr. Newton, Dr. Uttley, and Dr. Hargreaves eventually reached the Stanley Camp.\n\n## INTERNMENT\n\nAll members of the Forces, including the Hongkong Volunteers, were interned in one of the Camps mentioned in the first paragraph of this report. Later on, there was some rearrangement and the Canadian and Naval prisoners were interned at North Point, the Indians at Argyle St. and the remainder of H.M. Forces, with the Volunteers, at the Sham Shui Po Camp.\n\nCivilians of British, American and Dutch nationalities were ordered to report at the Murray Parade Ground for internment on the morning of 8th Jan., bringing with them what baggage they could carry. 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        "content_text": "# Daily Mail \n## 12 JAN 1942 \n### JAPS TRIED MUSIC TO 'ROT' DEFENCE \n#### Broadcasts of 'Home, Sweet Home'\n\nFrom Daily Mail Correspondent\n\nCHUNGKING, Sunday. Here is the first full story of the historic last stand at Hongkong, told by a British officer who escaped and has now reached Shaokwan. He was one of a party of Britons who, after all resistance had ceased, got away in a launch with the one-legged Chinese Admiral Chan Chak and finally swam half a mile through artillery and machine gun fire to an island.\n\nThe exhausted Hongkong garrison were forced to submit to vastly superior forces on Christmas Day. Some days earlier, the water reservoir at Tytam had been put out of action, and the population were drinking from brackish ponds and wells. The city was without light, save for a few oil lamps in the streets. It was continually being bombarded from the land and from the air, so that food had to be distributed during the hours of darkness.\n\nOn Christmas Eve, the Japanese artillery blasted North Point, Happy Valley, and the waterfront areas. Yet the centre of the town is only slightly damaged, the buildings standing up well. A fair proportion of the shells failed to explode, and the central district was never blocked by débris.\n\nThe civilians behaved magnificently, and the civil services - run mostly by Chinese - functioned to the end. There was no panic and no rioting on the island, though the presence of fifth columnists on the mainland caused looting and disorder before the entry of the Japanese.\n\n## LEAFLET RAIDS\n\nThere was never a shortage of food; but the shelling caused temporary scarcities in some districts. Nearly 200,000 free meals were served each day at Government food kitchens, and free rice was distributed to those unable to buy. Civilian casualties were astonishingly low - under 150 a day. This was due to the good sense of the populace in seeking shelter, to the efficacy of the A.R.P. tunnels, and to the fact that, apart from spasmodic bursts, the enemy concentrated his fire on military targets.\n\nThe Japanese tried to undermine civilian morale by showering Hongkong with leaflets. These were crude and, apparently, quite ineffective. They were aimed chiefly at Indian troops and at potential Fifth Columnists, and were anti-British and anti-Chungking in tone. Loud-speakers also blared out from Kowloon and the harbour, broadcasting messages about the hopelessness of the position of Hongkong and advising surrender. Death records and familiar melodies such as \"Home Sweet Home\" and \"Swannee River\" were frequently played in an attempt to make the garrison feel homesick.\n\nNone of the propaganda contained anything specifically anti-American, which suggests...\n\nPage 277  \nPage 9  \nR333  \n...reports from Hongkong.  \nRACK PAGE- CO FIVE",
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        "content_text": "# Daily Mail \n## M 2 JAN 1942 \n### 278 \n\n## JAPS ATTACKED ' WITH MUSIC \n\nFrom COL. 2, PAGE ONE \n\nThe extent of the damage is uncertain due to the rapidity of events. A heavy burst of machine-gun fire silenced the engine. The order was given to abandon ship and all swam towards Aplichau Island, which was half a mile away.\n\nThe one-legged admiral, further hampered by a wrist injury, managed to fight his way to shore through a hail of rifle and machine-gun bullets. The party reached land, evaded snipers, and climbed the rocks. There, exhausted by suffering and cold, they found shelter in the rough ground.\n\nGradual physical exhaustion in the face of a numerically superior enemy who had complete control of the air finally began to tell on the defenders. Our men totalled fewer than 12,000, and they had been without rest or relief for 17 days.\n\nThe Japs are estimated to have used two divisions of specially equipped troops supported by artillery of all calibres and numerous mortars.\n\nBy good fortune, they found another British launch sheltering in the lee of the island, and a little before 10 p.m. under a clear moon, the overloaded boat, partly submerged, ran the Japanese blockade. Their course was carefully chosen. One Japanese cruiser turned the extreme searchlight on the boat and fired four rounds, but no other shells were fired.\n\nOn Christmas morning, it was estimated that the depleted and exhausted British and Canadian regiments faced reserves of upwards of 20,000 Japanese troops on the island alone.\n\nEarly next morning, the party reached the coast. News of the admiral's presence spread to the leaders of guerilla units, who came with a welcome offer of assistance.\n\nThe end could not be long delayed. It came the same afternoon. Admiral Chan Chak's progress inland was triumphal. He was wearing the uniform of a lieutenant-commander in the British Navy, and he was continually greeted by friends and protégés.\n\nThe Chinese had gallantly supported the Hongkong Government. Their inspiration was Admiral Chan Chak, who, disregarding personal danger, saw the siege through to the bitter end and refused to leave his post till all resistance had ceased.\n\nOne leader named Liang, with a dragnet of spies thrown out to discover the Japanese positions, led a march to safety that lasted 12 nights and 12 days. This march was marked by the affection and respect for Admiral Chan Chak, which increased each day. The admiral and his British comrades were toasted again and again.\n\nNot until his responsibilities were finally terminated did Admiral Chan Chak feel free to embark in a last desperate attempt to return to his own country, accompanied by a small party of British officers. The party set out in a launch from Aberdeen two hours after the colony's capitulation, on a brilliant sunny afternoon.\n\nWhen the launch was 100 yards from the shore, concealed Japanese snipers began to pump bullets into it. Then bullets from machine-guns and finally shells from mortars and artillery fell close by. Some of the missiles penetrated the flimsy hull. Some were killed. Others lost much blood. Admiral Chan Chak was hit and disabled.\n\nThey received a wonderfully warm reception from the Chinese people, from the highest military and civil officials down to the humblest peasant. Nor will they forget Lieut.-Commander Shuheng, who was affectionately named \"Henry\" by the Britons, for all of whose wants he cared.",
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        "content_text": "# THE EPIC OF HONG-KONG\n## Times\n### 13 JAN 1947\n\n## SCORCHED EARTH\nAlthough the Japanese indulged in their usual indiscriminate bombing before the final assault, civilian casualties never exceeded 150 a day.\n\nFurther details of the scorched earth policy in Hong-kong reveal that the great \n\n## HEROISM AGAINST HUGE ODDS\n## CIVILIAN BRAVERY\n\nFrom Our Special Correspondent\n\nCHUNGKING, JAN. 12\nAccording to the latest details received here from Shiukwan, the defenders of Hong-kong, after fighting with grim tenacity for nearly three weeks, were finally forced to lay down their arms as much through sheer physical exhaustion as shortage of water. The original garrison of little over 10,000 was sadly depleted by heavy casualties. The Japanese, on the other hand, were able to bring up large numbers of fresh troops for each new attack. Towards the end, they had more than 20,000 men on the island alone.\n\n\"We were half dead on our feet,\" one survivor at Shiukwan told me, \"when the Japanese made their final big assault on the Wanchai district.\"\n\nThe congested Wanchai district was only a short distance from battle headquarters, which were situated in a deep bombproof dug-out near the heart of Hong-kong. The survivors at Shiukwan agreed that the Japanese went all out to overwhelm the island before the Chinese forces on the mainland could muster their full strength for an attack from the rear.\n\nThe survivors at Shiukwan do not attempt to minimize the weight of the organized Japanese attack. The enemy used his undisputed command of the air to full advantage. The moment his troops landed on the island, small units, armed with tommy-guns, mortars, and grenades, made for the strong points marked on their detailed maps. Others penetrated the A.R.P. tunnels, and by using secret connecting passages, with which they appeared to be familiar, tried to throw the defenders into confusion.\n\n## CRUDE PROPAGANDA\nThe Japanese showered leaflets on the Colony urging the Chinese to mutiny, inviting the Indians to desert, and threatening savage reprisals against the Britons for each Japanese soldier killed. The leaflets, which were of the crudest kind, had no more effect than the loud-speakers which issued similar appeals and threats from Kowloon. Civil morale remained unshaken till the last.\n\nAmong the unsung heroes of the battle of Hong-kong were the civilians who carried on their usual tasks in the face of bombing, shelling, and privation, without a murmur. During the last hectic week, the island was without light, water, or power, and the populace was reduced to drinking the brackish dregs of disused wells, which, as one of the survivors told me, were hardly to be swallowed. Over 190,000 free meals were served daily, and free rice was issued to Chinese refugees from the fighting areas. The main roads of the island were badly damaged by bombing and shelling, but the streets of the city itself were never blocked with débris. The civilian defence services - food control, first aid, and the like - kept going with the utmost credit. British, Chinese, Indians, and others worked together.\n\nThe oil tanks of Kowloon were blown up by British shellfire from the Island after our forces withdrew from the mainland. The naval vessels destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of the enemy included the gunboats stationed at the booms of both entrances to the harbour. After completing the destruction of their vessels, the crews of the gunboats as well as those of merchant ships in the port took an active part in the last desperate defence of the Colony.\n\nIn fact, every man, young or old, who could carry arms seized a weapon of some kind in order to help the exhausted troops to try to stem the onslaught of the enemy. Although Hong-kong was finally forced by the exhaustion of the dwindling forces and the lack of water to ask for terms after scorning two peace offers from the Japanese, nothing can dim the heroism with which civilians as well as military and naval personnel fought a hopeless fight against terrific odds in the cause of freedom.\n\n## CHRISTMAS DAY ESCAPE\n\nAfter talking to the survivors of the Christmas Day escape from Hong-kong, I am able to give new details of their dash for freedom.\n\nAdmiral Chan Chak, the Chinese liaison officer who led the party, remained at his post in Hong-kong until his splendid help was no longer needed. About two hours after the colony had been forced to capitulate, the party assembled at the fishing village of Aberdeen, on the south side of the Island. The Japanese were constantly bombing, shelling, and sniping at the little port, which was the only sea approach to the island not in their hands. Unable to wait a moment longer, the party, numbering about a dozen, set out to run the blockade in a small launch in broad daylight.\n\n\"As soon as we cleared the shore,\" one of them told me to-day, \"the Japanese opened fire on us from the hills with rifles, machine-guns, and small field pieces. Although we had a lucky escape from the shells, we were hit by a hail of bullets which killed some of our party and wounded others. After keeping up an intense fire for many minutes, the enemy silenced our engine with a final burst of machine-gun bullets.\"\n\nDiving over the side, we swam for the island of Aplichau, half a mile distant. This was the worst part, because we were under fire the whole way. Even when we reached Aplichau, the Japanese continued to snipe at us, but I was too exhausted to climb out of danger. Admiral Chan Chak managed to reach the shore in spite of loss of blood from a wound in the wrist and the lack of a leg, lost in his country's service. Finally, I succeeded in clawing my way up the rocks with hands torn and bleeding, and on the other side of the island, we found a naval launch.\n\nSuffering severely from exposure, we set out in the new launch in clear moonlight. A Japanese cruiser flashed her searchlight on to us, but luckily the four shells she fired went wide. When we landed on the mainland the next morning, we met Chinese guerrilla leaders, who led us through the Japanese lines. After 12 days of travel, on foot, by bicycle, sampan, and motor-bus, we reached Shiukwan, where we were given a royal welcome.\n\nPage 280\nPage 281",
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        "content_text": "18 \n\n\nREPORT ON MRS A. J. MATIN \n\n80 \n\nAfter a false start from Chungking on the 13th of November, the plane did not leave, we finally got off on the 14th and arriving in Hongkong without delay stayed at the Peninsular Hotel over night. The following day being Saturday, and the usual week end holiday in Force at the Queen ary Hospital, my husband registered at the Hospital but was allowed to go on to the Repulse Bay Hotel where he spent the day, went to a dinner party with friends, and returned late to the Queen Mary Hospital. \n\nOn Tuesday, routine X-rays and tests were begun. From then on my husband was under observation, his condition declining to such a point that it was decided to perform an exploratory operation on the 5th of December. I was assured that X-rays and the history of the case precluded the theory of cancer, as the course of a cancer is usually from three to six months. y husband had been in poor health for fiteen months, and the accident which was apparently the beginning of the trouble had happened three and a half years before, in London. \n\nA few days before the operation was performed, about the 28th of November, I received a letter from Dr. H. . Loucks, the head surgeon of the Peking Union Medical College, in Peking, who had examined my husband in May, 1940, before he went to Chungking, strongly advising us not to remain in Hongkong, but to go straight through to New York and to place the case in the hands of Dr. Whipple, as he suspected that my husband was developing a slow growing tumor, and \n\nT.Loucks would need the most expert surgical advice and treatment. had been following the case with keen interest during the time my husband was in 'Chungking and had shown signs offailing health. had kept him fully advised by airmail. \n\nEXY \n\nThe results of the opération confirmed his diagnosis, and Professor Digby found a small growth of fibroid tissue, quite sufficient to cause the loss in physical condition which my husband had suffered. He cut a number of adhesions which were causing trouble, but decided not to remove the tumor as the loss of blood would be too great for a patient in my husband's debilitated \n\nDad die \n\ncondition. He felt that it could be broken down by deep X-ray, and told me that he had operated on a patient ten years ago who had had He and the a far worse tumor and who had recovered with treatment. other doctors who had attaneded the operation seemed not too pessimistic, and said that with adequate treatment my husband had a chance for recovery. \n\nTwo days after the operation my husband eat up in bed and wrote to the Ambassador saying that he was getting on well. Ten days later he was up and walking about the room, and two weeks later he was strong enough to go visiting other patients. Professor Digby said he was making a most remarkable recovery from the operation and was very hopef 1 for him. And this recovery was being made despite the war which had descended upon us on the 8th of December, a Monday. The cutting of the adhesions was perhaps accountable for this, relieving pressure somewhere. For a week or more after the outbreak of war food conditione remained almost normal, although the incessant bombing of Mount Davis, a large fort just about five hundred yards down the road from the Queen Mary, together with the replies from numerous pompoms and other types of guns placed Immediately beside the hospital grounds, become a very græt strain. Having had considerable experience of bombing during our eighteen months in Chungking, we took it all more quietly, had less nervous reaction, than most people in the horpital, which for the first week or two was not overcrowded. ir rthur Blackburn however could not stand it. He had the corner room at the end of the wing, and ahells sounded, in passing, as though they were within fifty to A hundred feet of his verandah. They were coming from a Japanese naval ship the other side of the islands, and were of large caliber, so it was said. He decided to leave the Hospital and join Lady Blackburn on the Feak. The latter had just had a severe operation for a ruptured appendix and was recuperating at the War Memorial Hospital. She was moved to the Feak Mansions when the Hospital became crowded, but later they both returned to the Hoepital when conditions on the Peek became ungafe for them to remain alone in their flat. They were subjected to even more severe shelling on the Peak than at the ucen Mary, which the Japanese were anxious to preserve for their own use as a hospital. \n\nConditions",
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        "content_text": "105\n\nSwedish Government had very early on in the year sent a fund for the use of Swedish nationals, so that they were not in need. Just before I left he told me that he had had word that money was coming for the Irish also. Several thousand of the Portuguese were taken by ship to Macao in April, which relieved the situation in Hong Kong, but aggravated the position in Macao which is reported to be very much overcrowded.\n\nFather Joy had a most interesting document, the report made by twenty seven of the members of his Procurature who had been in and about Hong Kong ever since the outbreak of the war. Being Irish, those of them who were held prisoner were later on released by the Japanese. As is their custom, an account of what each man had seen and done was turned in and compiled in a detailed history of Hong Kong from the beginning of the war. There were a number of specially interesting statements. One in particular which struck me was a request made to Father Joy, as head of the Procurature, for six of his men to be stationed at the Queen Mary Hospital. This was early in December, and the request was made by Dr. Selwyn-Clark. When the latter was asked the purpose of this request, just what they were expected to do, what their duties would be, the reply was \"To step up morale\", that \"the hospital personnel had become demoralized to such an extent that it was feared that in the event of a catastrophe such as the shelling of the Hospital, or an unexpectedly heavy casualty intake, there would be a breakdown in routine.\" Father Joy's men were \"to infiltrate with the staff of the hospital and encourage them.\" Four men were sent; all the others were occupied with special work, most of them doing transport work. One man left soon after arriving, feeling that he could do better work in other places, and the report of the three who remained was omitted from Father Joy's record, as being too critical. I took issue with him on this, saying that it was a pity to omit it, as it all formed part of the picture of conditions in the Colony, which was the object of the record. Father Joy said that this was so and that he would put it in again. As what I am saying here is private, I can mention it.\n\nThe Queen Mary Hospital was fortunate in never being struck by a single shell, nor were there ever any nearer than several hundred yards. As I said before, the Japanese were careful not to damage it, wishing to use it for their own wounded.\n\nThe French Hospital, on the contrary, was a battle-scarred testimonial to heroic endurance. They had as many as one hundred shells and bombs in one day in their compound. In the top floor of the hospital, there is still a great gaping hole just above the flat which Dr. Selwyn-Clark has taken for his use. What a typhoon wind will do with that hole remains for this summer to tell. The roof of the whole building will probably go. There is damage everywhere, the hospital having suffered the most heavily. That whole district was the center of very heavy fighting for a long time, and many buildings near to the French Hospital were destroyed.\n\nAs the time came for me to go, four of us were going: Mr. Neprud, who had been stationed in Chungking as Commissioner of Customs; Mr. Inter of the 7th Day Adventist Mission; Dr. Henry, of the Methodist mission; and myself. People gave me messages to take out — so many, many messages, things to \"tell the world, let them know what is happening to us here.\" I promised to write to their wives, so many of them had wives in Australia and other places, and to do all I could to help them. As to \"telling the world,\" there will be plenty of people on this ship who will do that, I expect, far better than I can perhaps, although they may not have seen as many things as I have. Most, in fact practically all of them, were in Stanley. I was free to move about. But what I have to tell is for the information of the British Government, if they are interested. I wonder if they will be. No doubt they know it all already.\n\nI hear that two relief...",
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        "content_text": "118\n\n# CANADIAN AIR FORCE\n\nAir Marshal H. Edwards, Royal Canadian Air Force (Overseas), spoke in support of the National Campaign at a Trafalgar Square meeting today.\n\n\"Then I think of the war effort in terms of pots and pans, of war; as great four-engined aircraft ... as shells for the guns of our ...\"\n\n\"I see them, too, in their cargo space, every inch of which ...\"\n\n\"We cannot all fly Spitfires, Stirlings and those other bombers into the front line; nor can we all serve in the Merchant Navy.\"\n\n\"But there is not a home front; this salvage drive needs ...\"\n\nBefore and during the meeting, the RCAF Band, under the direction of ... in this country and made its first ... of the bondsmen, it was revealed ... Bands throughout Canada.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET\n\n170\n\nJeal tary of State for the Colonies,\n\nLONDON.\n\nsir:\n\nA large number of Hong Kong civilians, British, American and Dutch were interned on January 5th in Chinese Hotels. On January 21, and on subsequent days, they were removed to Stanley, and billeted in the College, School bungalow, warders' apartments, and the quarters of the Indian guards. The camp occupies a triangle between the Stanley Police Station, and the north end of the Prison, the road on the east, and Tytam Bay on the west. This area is surrounded by barbed wire, which is flood lighted at night. The internees are under \"protective custody\" according to the Japanese authorities, because Hongkong is in the war zone. Therefore, they are not entitled to any special considerations. In any case, the Japanese authorities maintain that they are receiving better rations than the Chinese in Hongkong or many Japanese in Japan, or people in occupied areas in Europe. There were 2,472 British subjects in the Stanley internment camp - 103 infants, 85 boys, 89 girls, 855 women, and 1,340 men on June 29th.\n\nThe internees were discouraged from taking much baggage either to the Hotels, or to Stanley. On arrival in Stanley, they had to clean and repair their quarters, many of which had been wrecked by bombs and shells. Rations were issued dry, and cooking facilities had to be contrived. Drinking water had to be boiled. No cooking utensils were provided, and there was a severe shortage of plates, spoons, cups and so forth. After the camp filled up, quarters were crowded, sanitary arrangements inadequate, privacy negligible, and there was a shortage of cots, bedding, blankets and personal clothing. Kitchen facilities were very primitive, and the volunteer cooks were handicapped because of the large number for which they had to cook. One kitchen prepared meals for over 700 people. Two meals were served, generally between 10 and 11 a.m. and 5 and 6 p.m. Hot water for drinking, or for making tea was available at frequent intervals. Internees did their own laundry, with inadequate facilities, and a shortage of hot water and soap.\n\nI enclose a statement showing the basic rations, according to the scale laid down by the Japanese authorities, and the actual issue for February, March, April and May. These were maintained during June. In addition to the rations, a canteen was run by the internees. Supplies were difficult to secure, and were available for sale at infrequent intervals. Money was scarce, so many internees were unable to buy from the canteen. In May, parcels were allowed to be sent to the camp.\n\nA sum of Yen 300,000 was advanced by the Japanese authorities for the use of the internees. This amounted to approximately Yen 105.- per person, of which Yen 30.- was placed by general consent to the credit of the communal kitchens, and individual orders were made out by the internees for the balance. The Americans had received their parcels to the value of approximately Yen 52.- early in June. The British internees were expecting theirs daily, but had not received them prior to June 29th. In view of the fact that many concessions were made to the Americans prior to their departure, it is probable that these parcels will not be forthcoming. It was the general consensus of opinion that the British would not fare so well after the departure of the repatriation ship.\n\nA make-shift Hospital was set up in the Wardens' Quarters at Tweed Bay. The 85 beds were full most of the time. Equipment was very limited. Washing had to be done outside the building. Rations were inadequate for sick people. By the end of June, supplies of drugs of all kinds were giving out, and powdered and canned milk and other provisions were practically exhausted. All these supplies should",
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        "content_text": "3-185\n\nMany women were raped and murdered as you know and it's all true. The atrocities you heard of are all true and it has all been a terrible mess and a rotten show.....Mrs. Black was killed along with her husband during the raping there.\" He gives no details at all as to food and conditions in the camp, and no specific reference to any other incident of rape etc.\n\nTheir\n\nThe compiler of these notes met two old friends who had escaped on 9.2.42 and arrived in Calcutta early in March. Their account confirmed most of the above. They had been confined in the P.O.W. camp at Shamshuipo on the mainland where the diet was two bowls of polished rice daily and they had been rapidly losing strength. They made no mention of supplements. No medicine was supplied for the sick. They were given plenty of water. They had not been ill-treated in any way and were not even searched on entering the camp. This camp is one of our own military cantonments, consisting mostly of ordinary army huts. They said that as far as they knew all the European women, except the French and neutrals who were free, were lodged on Stanley peninsula, on the south side of the island, in the civil prison and the school. They could not give any information about conditions in the civilian camps.\n\nIt is noticeable that none of these first-hand reporters refers at all to mass rape or atrocities on Europeans. The two escaped men when questioned on this point, said they had neither seen nor heard of mass rape etc. As far as they knew the greater number of European women had been nursing in the Queen Mary Hospital on the west side of the island away from the fighting and there no bombs or shells had fallen so that anyone there was likely to be unhurt. They believed that all these women had merely been interned. Rape and violence had taken place to their knowledge in two places. One was the Auxiliary Hospital in Happy Valley on the town side of Wongneichong Gap near the landing place where there had been bombs, shelling and heavy fighting, and it was feared there were no survivors. The other was a small Auxiliary Hospital at Stanley which is very cut off and on the side of the Gap held by the Japanese. A small group of nurses there, English and native, had been assaulted and killed. Dr. Black who had tried to defend them was shot. The informants could not absolutely guarantee that the other women were safe, but they strongly believed it to be fact.\n\nThere are four writers in the second category: second-hand information with source stated. REX RAY of the Baptist Mission, Wuchow, S. China, writes on 6.2.42: \"All the British nurses in the hospitals were raped, some six or eight times each by those hellish Japanese soldiers..........A Chinese lady dentist who escaped from Hong Kong in a sampan brought us this news last week.\" One is, perhaps unjustly, inclined to discount missionary rumours as from their way of life they are often very nervy people, and in touch with every breath of Chinese gossip, and cut off from British people and sources of news, especially in these provincial towns.\n\nThe second writer in this class, Prof. SHIH TSAI CHEN of the Central Political Institute, South Hot Springs, Chungking, writes on 7.3.42 that a friend of his had just come through from Hong Kong after its fall. \"It was terrible. Hundreds and thousands of people were killed by the Japanese with bayonets because the Japs wanted to save their bullets. Numerous women, particularly white women, have been attacked, insulted or killed. This report is very indefinite. \"Numerous women\" might refer to the Happy Valley and Stanley cases, and the vague and exaggerated \"hundreds and thousands\" sounds like scaremongering.\n\nThe same writer in another letter written on 17.3.42 repeats that thousands had been killed by bayonets to save bullets.\n\nSee page 2 item 10.\n\nGR1700/5",
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        "content_text": "I was recalled to Hong Kong to H.K.V.C. headquarters on the 10th. the Peninsula falling on the 11th. A day or so later H.K.V.C. was moved to Peak Mansions about “50 yds from the Peak Tram station. From there we operated a D.K.3 service, taking in the Canadians at Pokfulam reservoir, the Portuguese Coy at Mt. Davis, the A.A. Battery at Aberdeen, the Batteries at Stanley and Cape D'Aguilar, the Scottish Coy of H.K.V.D.C. at Shek-O, the A.A. Battery at Lyemun, the Battery at Sai Wan (below Lyemun Barracks) the Hughes group at the Electric Station at North Point, the Portuguese Section of H.K.V.M.C. in the City and section of the H.K.V.D.C. at Zanchai Gaps, and the No. 3 Coy.\n\nPrior to the Japanese landing and despite the severe shelling and bombing, the morale of the troops was excellent and casualties on the island were comparatively light. Our A.A. guns were kept busy but our shooting was not particularly accurate, and after a few days the Japanese appeared to have got the location of our guns and were thus able to fly low over picked areas. Bombing was regular, but could not be called severe, and the enemy appeared to be confining his attention to unlikely objectives.\n\nOn the other hand, shelling was severe and accurate. The enemy with the aid of reconnaissance planes and probably fifth columnists, were finding our mobile gun positions in a very short time. The calibre of the shells were not large, and according to some of the Artillery officers, some of the ammunition must have been very old.\n\nThe enemy had his guns in position around about Chat B, Devil's Rock and Devil's Peak. The latter shooting at blank range played havoc with the Sai Wan and Lei Yue Mun batteries and Sai Wan was shelled for long intervals daily and the same applied to Mount Davis, and an Indian Battery on the Peak which was worrying them considerably, and which owing to its location they failed to damage.\n\nAfter a couple of days of our retirement to the island it became noticeable that the Canadians were beginning to feel the strain, and were extremely nervous and jumpy, so much so that our Chinese 9 1/2 section ordered to go particularly slow when riding in areas manned by Canadians, as they were likely to mistake us for fifth columnists in uniform. The majority of them did not seem to have their heart in their jobs.\n\nOn the other hand the Royal Scots and the Middlesex were all of great spirit and steady and calm, and this spirit prevailed until the surrender.\n\nI did not come into much contact with the Indians after the retreat to the island, but I was given to understand that they became extremely confused at night when the Japanese when attacking made use of Indian traitors speaking the same dialect.\n\nOn the day of 15th Dec, there was considerable shelling of North Point, and next morning we heard that the enemy had made a landing.\n\nFrom Japanese sources later I learned that the landing was accomplished in the following manner. The night previous to the landing they had four or five of their best swimmers, swim to the island and took ... around...\n\nPage 75",
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        "content_text": "Page 175\n\n-6-\n\nFor this and for his very efficient general engineering supervision of the boats under difficulties I consider Tempy. Lieut. (E) Herbert George Thompson R.N.R. should receive suitable recognition.\n\nThis night 07 and 09 were on patrol off Putoi being ordered on one investigating cruise to the Ninepins; 11 (just off slip) and 12 did patrol off Hamiwan where they observed THRACIAN also on patrol, THRACIAN later ran ashore on Un Kok and crushed her bow in but got off and continued on her mission to fire at 2 Japanese ammunition ships in Hongkong Harbour, one of which blew up. A 6\" shell fell off MTB workshops at Aberdeen Industrial School at about 2230, broke windows but did little real damage.\n\n2\n\nDecember 15th. On Monday, 15th December, the sky was clear and weather exceptionally fine and conducive to accurate bombing which took place during the forenoon in Aberdeen harbour. APV INDIRA was hit and sunk alongside Aberdeen Dock. HMS ROBIN having been withdrawn from her station in Salwan Bay near Tathong Boom was now moored off T head pier in Aberdeen harbour with telephone line to ROBIN from Headquarters. MTB 10 now lay alongside her for convenience in communicating with the Extended Defence Officer, the line to Aberdeen Dock being inconvenient and unreliable. Thorneycroft MTB 26 and 27 also lay alongside her (except when bombing became too close) in order to get sleeping and messing accommodation in ROBIN.\n\nAt 1300 a signal was received from Commodore to V2 ordering APV INDIRA's pom-pom barrel to be salved and despatched to Hongkong. Using the crew of MTB 08 (08 on slip) and with the assistance of the Flotilla Engineer officer and some of his maintenance staff, this was done; pom-pom being just out of water; and lorry with it despatched to Hongkong at 1630; fortunately no bombs dropped very near INDIRA after she had been sunk.\n\nAt 1800 THRACIAN dry docked at Aberdeen. Some shells fell on Aberdeen bund near Industrial School. These were thought to have been fired from ships. So about 1830, I received orders from the Extended Defence officer to use MTB's to search for enemy ships and to proceed sweeping S.W. of Lantau, then as far north as Tai-O, attack anything seen bar junks and if nothing seen sweep back, search, attack, return. The night was clear and starry and attack organised by sub-divisions 10 and 27 together and 11 and 12 together, proceeding from Aberdeen to approximately 1010 and 1850 respectively with orders to rendezvous at South West Point of Lantau at 2100 then by sub-divisions to Tai-O then towards Chung Chau Si, thence via Linating to rendezvous Hamiwan.\n\nThe rendezvous at 2100 was made and MTB 10 and 27 proceeded to Tai-O lying off there and observing, MTB 11 and 12 did not wait off Tai-O but turned south earlier. When MTB 10 and 27 had turned to a S. course towards Chung Chau Si, 11 and 12 making off southerly towards west of Lafsami Island, were observed on my port bow, illuminated by searchlight and engaged by gunfire. 12 had fired a torpedo but depth was inadequate for initial dive and 11 quite rightly had not fired. MTB 10 steering S.W. was just to the west side of searchlight beam and continued to approach bow on to searchlight reducing speed to 12 knots to avoid being seen, but owing to beam it was impossible to make out course or type of enemy which appeared on same, bearing as Chung Chau Si Island. 27, as arranged, proceeded independently to attack wide to the west of 10, then seeing two enemy craft steering east, 27 came well to the east of MTB 10 and prepared to attack. MTB 10 was then suddenly well illuminated by searchlight which was very blinding and possibly quite close but owing to shallow water and unknown type and course of enemy, an attack by 10 then would have been guesswork. MTB 10 accordingly turned southerly zig-zagging at full speed, making for east side of Lafsami Island, shots falling quite well for line but short or over. MTB 27 had unseen fired...\n\n-1-\n\n+\n\n:\n\n?",
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        "content_text": "213\n\nAfter the third day a great many enemy guns had been hauled up in or behind the Kowloon hills within range of the city and the bombardment became at times severe. The main streets at exposed points were pitted with shell holes and every few yards you came on a wrecked car. The tramway lines and wires were a very early casualty and no trams ran. I do not know where the tram-cars themselves were parked. After the first few days I never set eyes on one, even stationary.\n\nThe rumour was that both tram and bus drivers had walked out but I do not know if this was true. I suspect it was: the streets were dangerous to drive in.\n\nGoing down an open road like Queens Road East when a barrage was starting up, it was uncanny to see multitudes of people blown together in one agitated stream by the winds of fear as they moved hastily from the focal point of the bursting shells. This human tide ebbed and flowed with unhuman unanimity as the target of the guns shifted.\n\nThe crowds flocked east-ward: when the enemy bombarded West Point, they moved that way; when East Point came under fire, back they went again. Hundreds of families moved themselves and all their worldly goods several times a day. The ricksha-pullers never let the Japanese interfere with business and many did a roaring trade right up to the end.\n\nHitch-hiking was a marked feature during the whole of the siege. You stopped any car going your way and got in if there was room. If you were lucky enough to have petrol to run a car...",
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        "content_text": "214\n\nof your own, you couldn't go five yards without being stopped and getting a full complement of passengers. Everyone, including coolies, indulged in this pleasant practice. With half the comradeship shown in these few weeks of war in this and other ways, we would have made a very different H.K. in peace.\n\nThe bombardment from land and from the air was more or less continuous but sometimes it died away to an eerie stillness and sometimes (as in the periods immediately preceding the two Japanese peace missions) it boiled up to an insensate hate. Surprisingly few civilians were killed and those that I saw die did so with an unexpected quietness. The fewness of the casualties was due, I think, to the H.K. system of \"arcading\" the pavements. On the sheltered side of the streets under the arcades, one seemed to be safe from anything except a direct hit.\n\nIncidentally (as a guide to civilian morale) it was interesting to observe one's own reactions under fire. I was a good deal more frightened on the first day than on any subsequent day when things were worse. To the end, however, I had a certain reluctance to go out into the street, and never did so except for good cause, either on official business or to buy some necessary article. Bombs and shells nevertheless worried me less and less as the siege progressed: I think most people found this. Certainly, they acted as if they did.\n\nI noticed too that my stock of courage varied from day to day. On certain days, I had an absolute conviction that I could not be hit: on others, every...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945",
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        "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945",
        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nI reply to War Office Signal\n\nChinese\n\n75\n\n(1) King's College has been practically demolished by deliberate action of the Japanese, and will take years to rebuild it. There is nothing left of it except the walls up to the 1st floor and in some parts these have been completely knocked down. There is no roof, no floors, and no staircase.\n\n(2) Queen's College received several direct hits both from bombs and shells and is merely a hole in the ground covered with rubble. Considering the rather unsuitable surroundings, I would advocate rebuilding it when opportunity permits on a new site, preferably in Kowloon, so that we may have a Government secondary school on each side of the Harbour.\n\n(3) Central British School is at present in use as a hospital but is in good shape and undamaged; so also are the Trade School, Northcote Training College, Wanchai School, Yaumati School, the Indian School and Un Long School. All other Government Schools have been completely looted of all woodwork, windows, doors, floors, staircases, and in cases where the roofs were of wood, these have gone too. In the absence of timber, repairs and replacements will take a long time. There is practically no furniture in any of the school buildings, and so far, we have only been able to trace desks for about 200 to 300 children.\n\n(4) In the case of the grant-aided schools, these have been occupied by their owners throughout the occupation and are all in working order except the French Convent School, which received two direct hits during the American bombing of a nearby Japanese Barracks. The school building is being surveyed by the Works Department, but repairs will be long and expensive. In this disaster, six of the Sisters and 50 children were killed. They have, however, opened in new premises and altogether 12 grant-aided schools have been in action since the 1st of October, with approximately 5,000 children in attendance. In addition, some 45 vernacular schools are also running with about the same number of pupils.\n\n(5) The Northcote Training College Library has been found almost intact in the University. The building itself has been used as a Japanese Military Training School, and the Biology Laboratory and workroom, art room, and Domestic Science room are completely gutted of equipment. There are no desks left. It will be necessary to replace the complete biology laboratory equipment with essential chemicals for a class of 24 students working individually. Any firm of chemical suppliers can estimate for this, and I suggest Baird & Tatlock, Becker or Gallenkamp for this purpose.\n\nIt cannot be reinstated here. 12 sets of tools for handwork including light metal work, together with book binding apparatus and loom, guillotine, for gem, lathes (one treadle one electric), and the general equipment for handwork will be necessary including metal sheets of copper, aluminium and silver. Mr. Davis, Handwork and Geography lecturer at the Northcote Training College, is now on his way home, and should be consulted as to replacements in both his subjects. He is a first-class man in his subjects, and I trust he will be able to come back again soon as possible. For Domestic Science, three gas and one...",
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        "title": "CO129-591-5 Report on activities of Post Office- Engineering Branch during Battle of Hong Kong 24-12-1943 - 26-2-1944",
        "content_text": "(6)\n\n-2.\n\nThe Cape D'Aguilar transmitters were remote controlled, the commercial services from Messrs Cable and Wireless Telegraph office in the city (the only non-government office in this report) and the marine services from a radio receiving station in the grounds of the Royal Observatory, Kowloon.\n\n(7)\n\nThe Hung Hom transmitters were remote controlled, the aviation services from their radio receiving station at Kai Tak airport, Kowloon, and the broadcasting services from the studios and control rooms in the Gloucester Building in the centre of the city.\n\n(8)\n\nAlternative control of all radio telegraph services was from the G.P.O. building in the city. Alternative emergency studios and controls for broadcasting were also equipped but not required.\n\n(9)\n\nThe main receiving station was at the top of the Peak, a hill immediately behind the city. Received signals were put over lines to the telegraph offices in town and there received by telegraphists. Received programmes for rebroadcasting were put through to the studios. Measurements of the strength and frequency of received waves were carried out here.\n\n(10) building.\n\n(11)\n\nEmergency receivers were also installed in the G.P.O.\n\nFrom the nature of this report it appears best to deal with it geographically.\n\nII.\n\nKai Tak, Kowloon\n\nDecember 8th. Airport bombed from the air by the Japanese,\n\nDecember 10th. Evacuated.\n\nIII.\n\nIV.\n\nObservatory, Kowloon\n\nDecember 10th. Evacuated, together with Kai Tak upon instructions from the Postmaster General. Control of marine transmitters transferred to G.P.O. Most of the receivers removed to Hung Hom, transmitting station for transport across the harbour to Hong Kong. Much difficulty and delay were experienced in obtaining transport from the Observatory to Hung Hom.\n\nHung Hom\n\nDecember 8th. Operating satisfactorily under war conditions.\n\nDecember 10th. It was decided late today to transfer immediately one of the medium-wave broadcasting transmitters, ZEK, to Hong Kong island to a building which was being prepared for it at Causeway Bay, although the building was not yet ready. Dismantling of ZEK was commenced, and cross-harbour transport arranged.\n\nDecember 11th\n\nPage 9\n\nIques tuned by Momi\n\nThis and was given to understand that the guards in question were Indian regator Props\n\n6327.\n\n-3-\n\nDecember 11th. Machine gun fire reported reaching Hung Hom station. ZEK dismantling completed and equipment loaded into a lighter at the harbour edge. For safety it was decided to tow it across after dark. In the meantime the Chinese broadcast programme, normally transmitted by ZEK, was handled by a small emergency transmitter which had been installed on Kennedy Road in Hong Kong (q.v.). For further account of ZEK, see under \"Causeway Bay\".\n\nDecember 12th. Hung Hom station evacuated on instructions from the Postmaster General, the equipment being partly wrecked by the staff before leaving. It was understood that the masts and the station's stand-by generating plant would be demolished by the military authorities.\n\nThis was not done). Most of the Chinese staff had already disappeared and the European station technician, Mr. J.L. Anderson, had great difficulty in getting across the harbour to Hong Kong in a sampan.\n\nCauseway Bay\n\nDecember 11th. During the night of December 11th, the equipment comprising broadcasting, ZEK was towed across the harbour from Hung Hom. This gave some difficulty for neither light nor sound was permissible with fire from snipers (fifth column) coming across the harbour occasionally.\n\nDecember 12th. ZEK equipment being unloaded on to the Hong Kong wharf. This work was abandoned by the work-party during the morning when it came under fire from the opposite side of the harbour. They reported to me that the lighter had been cut adrift by the Chinese in a panic. I recovered the lighter late in the afternoon after having to indulge in the dangerous expedient of climbing over high walls to get into \"Protected Places\" whose guards had fled after locking up all doors and entrances. Contrary to expectation, I was not shot at during this procedure, as I should have been by our own patrols. I returned later with a special armed police guard for the lighter for the night.\n\nIt was now dark, and I observed what was, apparently, two-way fifth column signalling going on fairly freely across the harbour.\n\nDecember 13th. Offloading of ZEK resumed, and later again abandoned. I again proceeded to the wharf myself and completed the offloading. No road transport was available but a lorry which was found to be temporarily unoccupied was appropriated, and the radio transmitter finally delivered to its site at Causeway Bay. Erection of the equipment was put in hand immediately and continued non-stop until it was completed, with a short break when the work was once more abandoned this time due to heavy shell fire but personal attendance again restored confidence.\n\nAn aerial\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9\n\n-4-\n\n10\n\nVI.\n\nAn aerial had to be rigged after dark, as working aloft in full view of firing from across the harbour was too risky.\n\nDecember 14th. Installation of plant completed and power tests commenced by evening.\n\nDecember 15th. Evening programme transmitted from this station. Transmission draws enemy fire and the station becomes an objective for their shelling. This station will now transmit the European programme while the Chinese programme is transmitted from Kennedy Road.\n\nDecember 16th. Evening programme missed by this station because in late afternoon a shell damaged the control lines from the studios.\n\nDecember 17th. P.W.D. unable to promise early restoration of damaged cables. Steps therefore taken to establish local control at the station itself. A dance-band microphone and amplifier were requisitioned from a cafe and installed together with a gramophone turntable as \"studio control equipment\" in the engine-room. An announcer was brought by car with a supply of records, and the programme was radiated on time. As I was anxious not to miss the usual broadcast of Daventry news, which was considered very desirable for local morale, I installed a short-wave receiver taken from my own residence in a near-by Chinese building and ran a line from it to the transmitter through the trees. As shelling was heavy and the Chinese building rather flimsy, the technician controlling the receiver had to lie on the floor while he controlled the retransmission, which was made satisfactorily to time.\n\nShortly after this the station had to be abandoned when it was reached by the Japanese front line, but transmission was satisfactory up to that time. Shells had fallen all around and very near, but the building had not been hit.\n\nKennedy Road.\n\n1. This was a small broadcast transmitter which I had installed on the Island before the outbreak of hostilities in a \"hidden\" position for use in case of emergency. It was of the greatest use during hostilities, taking over the whole programmes during the period between the evacuation of Hung Hom and the working of Causeway Bay station. Later it transmitted a Chinese programme while Causeway Bay transmitted the European one. When access to Causeway Bay became no longer possible, Kennedy Road was our last and only broadcasting station.\n\n2. This station also came under direct shelling from the Japanese whenever it started transmitting after the first few days. The building received several direct hits, but fortunately the apparatus escaped much damage. The aerial was twice shot away, but I was able to repair this with a volunteer party at dusk. Mr. T.B. Rolland and Mr. Pun (Chinese) accompanied me on this work which was then\n\n/was then\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "document_key": "CO129-591-7 Estimates for 1946-1947 12-12-1945 - 14-3-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-591-7 Estimates for 1946-1947 12-12-1945 - 14-3-1947",
        "content_text": "81\n\nPersonal Emoluments figure for the present year does not therefore bear any relation to the future normal figure though this is bound to be very high in comparison with 1941.\n\nBefore passing on to the subject of expenditure on rehabilitation and on Other Charges it may be desirable for me to endeavour to give you some impression of the condition to which this Colony was reduced as a result of the Japanese attack followed by nearly four years' of enemy occupation. With the exception of Government House which was almost wholly rebuilt by the Japanese and some of the quarters attached to the hospitals, no Government residential property was undamaged.\n\nThe proportion of quarters which are completely destroyed or damaged to such an extent that they must be pulled down appears to be higher in the case of Government than in the case of property belonging to business firms. The quarters that are repairable are for the most part mere shells from which every scrap of woodwork, including the floors, has been removed. Sanitary fittings and piping have been smashed or removed and all electrical wiring has been torn out. No precise estimate can be given of the cost of repairing the damage to Government buildings but a committee assembling statistics regarding the general property position in the Colony estimated the damage to all buildings at $187 million. This represented purely structural damage and made no allowance for the value of the contents of the buildings.\n\n10.\n\nThis is not all. In addition to repairs, complete re-equipment for hospitals, schools, railways etc., is necessary. Large quantities of standard Government furniture must be manufactured to re-furnish Government residential quarters. No maintenance of any sort has been carried out for four years on railways, roads, waterworks or drains.\n\nNeglect in regard to",
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        "content_text": "68\n\n16\n\nThe Almoner, however, carried out most valuable work of a somewhat different kind, though still connected with the welfare of individuals and groups. As the first Chairman, and later, Deputy Chairman of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, she formed a very necessary link with the Hong Kong Informal Welfare Committee formed by the writer as a substitute for a Red Cross organisation which was vetoed by the Japanese Authorities in the earlier stages of their occupation. The International Welfare Committee ascertained what was needed for the inmates of Stanley Camp and for the camp hospital and communicated them to the Hong Kong Committee.\n\nThe work of the International Welfare Committee, of which the Honourable Mr. F. C. Gimson, Colonial Secretary and head of the Camp, became Chairman in the summer of 1942, is of such importance as to warrant the inclusion of a copy of the Almoner's (Deputy Chairman's) account as an appendix to this report, q.v.\n\n(c) OUTPATIENTS' DEPARTMENTS\n\nOutpatient Departments continued to function on a much reduced basis at St. Paul's Hospital until the staff quarters and other premises suffered serious damage from Allied air bombardment in January, 1945, and at the Nethersole, Tung Wah, Kwang Wah, and, for limited periods, the Sai Ying Pun Hospitals. Outpatient activities at Queens Road Outpatients' Departments at the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals were restarted in September, 1945, before the hospitals were actually ready to receive in-patients.\n\n(d) PUBLIC DISPENSARIES\n\nThe Japanese adopted the attitude that public dispensaries, like civilian hospitals, were unlikely to contribute to the Japanese war effort and so were unworthy of assistance. As a result, many of the public dispensaries closed down, including those at Aberdeen, the Western and Central, Stanley, Tsun Wan, Sai Kung, Sham Teng, Ho Tung, and Fanling Dispensaries. The Kowloon City Dispensary, one of the best of its kind, was demolished during the widening of Kai Tak Airfield, and the Hung Hom Dispensary was damaged during the successful bombing of Kowloon Docks by Allied aircraft at Shaukiwan. Eastern (Wanchai), Shamshuipo, Yaumati, Taipo, Un Long, and Sheung Shui, Chinese doctors were permitted to carry on private practice and were occasionally (and at irregular intervals) given a few medical supplies by the Japanese. The Malariologist acted as Medical Officer to the Aberdeen Dispensary from February 1942 until he was interned in May 1943, since malaria became hyperendemic in the locality from lack of anti-malaria oil and other preventive measures. Early in September, 1945, steps were taken to reopen the majority of the dispensaries, but new buildings are necessary in the case of several of those situated on Hong Kong Island and in the New Territories, e.g., at Central, Aberdeen, Hung Hom, Kowloon City, Tsun Wan, Taipo. It is hoped that the Medical Department will undertake similar work at Sha Tau Kok, at one or two other centres where St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade operated before the Pacific War. (In parenthesis, it is also hoped that the Association will be able to maintain the hospital-dispensary on Cheung Chau Island for the time being).\n\n(d) WELFARE CENTRES\n\nAlthough the staffs of the Western, Wanchai, and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were kept together in the hope that the Japanese would permit the writer to reopen them, his repeated requests were refused. The Violet Peel Centre was looted and then partially destroyed during an Allied aerial bombardment; the Western was taken over as quarters of the \"anti-epidemic unit,\" and the Tsim Sha Tsui became the Central District Bureau for Civil Affairs in Kowloon (registration, ration cards, etc.). On the reoccupation of Hong Kong, the Western and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were reopened, and the former Maijima Hospital, Wanchai, was converted into a welfare centre. At the two last mentioned, social hygiene clinics were rapidly established in view of the very high incidence of venereal disease amongst the community and the resulting danger to the relieving forces.\n\nI. Refugee Settlements\n\nLacking suitable accommodation for the prisoners of war captured in 1941, the Japanese took over Ma Tau Chung, Argyle, and North Point Camps for internment purposes.\n\nEarly in 1942, the troops were transferred from North Point Camp to Shamshuipo, and the former camp was later used as a concentration point for destitutes prior to forcible repatriation. Many of the destitutes died before embarkation, many died in transit to barren islands, and some were reported, on reliable information, to have been \"disposed of\" before arrival at any disembarkation point.\n\nIn October, 1945, the Medical Department resumed control of North Point Camp, or rather what remained of it after war damage and looting.\n\nKam Tin Refugee Camp in the New Territories was closed in January, 1942, the British Commandant having been hacked to pieces on the 17th December, 1941.\n\nFanling Orphan Children's Camp, the inmates of which were transferred to the Hong Kong Jockey Club premises near Fanling immediately hostilities started, was taken over by the Japanese as barracks for their troops. King's Park Refugee Camp was the only one retained as such throughout the occupation. At the beginning of hostilities, the camp held approximately 1,300, of whom the majority were orphan girls. When the writer was permitted to revisit the camp three months after the surrender, only 400 remained alive. Most of the children were suffering from signs of advanced malnutrition; the stores of rice, beans, etc., which the writer had had delivered to the camp at the beginning of December, 1941, having been long exhausted. The Japanese Medical Authorities refused to be responsible in any way for the maintenance of the camp, and a body of local Chinese (including a number of the Clerical Staff of the Medical Department) undertook the care of the orphans. By the time the British Forces reoccupied Hong Kong, the number of children had been reduced to one-tenth of the original figure.\n\nIt is to be hoped that the Medical Department will take charge of the camp as before the war, since it serves a very useful purpose in caring for children without parents or relatives who are fit for discharge from hospital and in need of aftercare. The camp also provides medical and educational facilities for ill-treated mui-tsai (\"adopted\") children.\n\nJ. School Hygiene\n\nAll schools were closed at the commencement of hostilities in Hong Kong in order to obviate loss of life from concentrations struck by shells or bombs and because some of the schools were needed as relief hospitals, first-aid posts, medical stores, and the like. For several months after the surrender, the Japanese refused to allow schools to reopen. Later, a small number were permitted on undertaking to teach the Japanese language. Little scope existed for school medical work, with the possible exception of that carried out by the informal Hong Kong Welfare Committee in premises hired from St. Paul's Hospital and loaned in Kowloon for the children of those interned in the\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61\n\n67\n\n17",
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        "content_text": "105\n\n104\n\nThe Almoner, however, carried out most valuable work of a somewhat different kind, though still connected with the welfare of individuals and groups. As the first Chairman, and later, Deputy Chairman of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, she formed a very necessary link with the Hong Kong Informal Welfare Committee formed by the writer as a substitute for a Red Cross organisation which was vetoed by the Japanese Authorities in the earlier stages of their occupation. The International Welfare Committee ascertained what was needed for the inmates of Stanley Camp and for the camp hospital and communicated them to the Hong Kong Committee.\n\nThe work of the International Welfare Committee, of which the Honourable Mr. F. C. Gimson, Colonial Secretary and head of the Camp, became Chairman in the summer of 1942, is of such importance as to warrant the inclusion of a copy of the Almoner's (Deputy Chairman) account as an appendix to this report, q.v.\n\n(c) OUTPATIENTS' DEPARTMENTS\n\nOutpatient Departments continued to function on a much reduced basis at St. Paul's Hospital until the staff quarters and other premises suffered serious damage from Allied air bombardment in January, 1945, and at the Nethersole, Tung Wah, Kwang Wah, and, for limited periods, the Sai Ying Pun Hospitals. Outpatient activities at Queen's Road Outpatients' Departments at the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals were restarted in September, 1945, before the hospitals were actually ready to receive in-patients.\n\n(4) PUBLIC DISPENSARIES\n\nThe Japanese adopted the attitude that public dispensaries, like civilian hospitals, were unlikely to contribute to the Japanese war effort and so were unworthy of assistance. As a result, many of the public dispensaries closed down, including that at Aberdeen, the Western and Central, Stanley, Tsun Wan, Sai Kung, Sham Shui Po, Ho Tung, and Fanling Dispensaries. The Kowloon City Dispensary, one of the best of its kind, was demolished during the widening of Kai Tak Airfield, and the Hung Hom Dispensary was damaged during the successful bombing of Kowloon Docks by Allied aircraft. At Shaukiwan, Eastern (Wanchai), Shamshuipo, Yaumati, Taipo, Un Long, and Sheung Shui, Chinese doctors were permitted to carry on private practice and were occasionally (and at irregular intervals) given a few medical supplies by the Japanese. The Malariologist acted as Medical Officer to the Aberdeen Dispensary from February 1942 until he was interned in May 1943, since malaria became hyperendemic in the locality from lack of anti-malaria oil and other preventive measures. Early in September, 1945, steps were taken to reopen the majority of the dispensaries, but new buildings are necessary in the case of several of those situated on Hong Kong Island and in the New Territories, e.g., at Central, Aberdeen, Hung Hom, Kowloon City, Tsun Wan, Taipo. It is hoped that the Medical Department will undertake similar work at Sha Tau Kok, at one or two other centres where St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade operated before the Pacific War. (In parenthesis, it is also hoped that the Association will be able to maintain the hospital-dispensary on Cheung Chau Island for the time being).\n\n(d) WELFARE CENTRES\n\nAlthough the staffs of the Western, Wanchai, and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were kept together in the hope that the Japanese would permit the writer to reopen them, his repeated requests were refused. The Violet Peel Centre was looted and then partially destroyed during an Allied aerial bombardment; the Western was taken over as quarters of the \"anti-epidemic unit\" and the Tsim Sha Tsui became the Central District Bureau for Civil Affairs in Kowloon (registration, ration cards, etc.). On the reoccupation of Hong Kong, the Western and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were reopened, and the former Maijima Hospital, Wanchai, was converted into a welfare centre. At the two last mentioned, social hygiene clinics were rapidly established in view of the very high incidence of venereal disease amongst the community and the resulting danger to the relieving forces.\n\nI. Refugee Settlements\n\nLacking suitable accommodation for the prisoners of war captured in 1941, the Japanese took over Ma Tau Chung, Argyle, and North Point Camps for internment purposes.\n\nEarly in 1942, the troops were transferred from North Point Camp to Shamshuipo, and the former camp was later used as a concentration point for destitutes prior to forcible \"repatriation\". Many of the destitutes died before embarkation, many died in transit to barren islands, and some were reported, on reliable information, to have been \"disposed of\" before arrival at any disembarkation point.\n\nIn October, 1945, the Medical Department resumed control of North Point Camp, or rather what remained of it after war damage and looting.\n\nKam Tin Refugee Camp in the New Territories was closed in January, 1942, the British Commandant having been hacked to pieces on the 17th December, 1941.\n\nFanling Orphan Children's Camp, the inmates of which were transferred to the Hong Kong Jockey Club premises near Fanling immediately hostilities started, was taken over by the Japanese as barracks for their troops. King's Park Refugee Camp was the only one retained as such throughout the occupation. At the beginning of hostilities, the camp held approximately 1,300, of whom the majority were orphan girls. When the writer was permitted to revisit the camp three months after the surrender, only 400 remained alive. Most of the children were suffering from signs of advanced malnutrition; the stores of rice, beans, etc., which the writer had had delivered to the camp at the beginning of December, 1941, having been long exhausted. The Japanese Medical Authorities refused to be responsible in any way for the maintenance of the camp, and a body of local Chinese (including a number of the Clerical Staff of the Medical Department) undertook the care of the orphans. By the time the British Forces reoccupied Hong Kong, the number of children had been reduced to one-tenth of the original figure.\n\nIt is to be hoped that the Medical Department will take charge of the camp as before the war, since it serves a very useful purpose in caring for children without parents or relatives who are fit for discharge from hospital and in need of aftercare. The camp also provides medical and educational facilities for ill-treated mui-tsai (\"adopted\" children).\n\nJ. School Hygiene\n\nAll schools were closed at the commencement of hostilities in Hong Kong in order to obviate loss of life from concentrations struck by shells or bombs and because some of the schools were needed as relief hospitals, first-aid posts, medical stores, and the like. For several months after the surrender, the Japanese refused to allow schools to reopen. Later, a small number were permitted on undertaking to teach the Japanese language. Little scope existed for school medical work, with the possible exception of that carried out by the informal Hong Kong Welfare Committee in premises hired from St. Paul's Hospital and loaned in Kowloon for the children of those interned in the camp.\n\n17\n\n9",
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        "content_text": "145\n\nextent the restrictions on immigration, had the effect of lowering the population of the Colony to about 1,600,000 by the end of November, 1941.\n\nThe long anticipated blow fell on the morning of the 8th of December, 1941, simultaneously with the destruction of the greater part of the U.S.A. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour. Incidentally, the elimination of this fleet, followed rapidly by the sinking of H.M.S. Prince of Wales and Repulse in Malayan waters, ended our hopes of any early lifting of the siege, and gave the Japanese a free channel to the Philippine Islands and the Southern Pacific.\n\nNot long after midnight on the 8th December warning was received that the Japanese were preparing to cross the border into British territory.\n\nI issued instructions immediately for doctors, nurses and midwives to evacuate isolated hospitals and public dispensaries scattered over the Leased Territories, and to proceed to their previously allotted stations in Kowloon, bringing with them the more valuable instruments and other medical supplies.\n\nAt the same time, I caused about 1,400 St. John Ambulance Brigade stretcher bearers and nurses to man twenty odd first aid posts in Kowloon and on Hong Kong Island, together with sixty doctors on eight-hour shifts. Lorries were converted into ambulances with pre-fabricated steel frames. Emergency relief Hospitals were established in all the more important educational institutions. Certain selected hospitals were evacuated and changed into casualty clearing stations to receive both military and civilian wounded.\n\nSome 140 additional private practitioners and 450 European and Asiatic women members of the Auxiliary Nursing Service were posted to these civilian defence scheme medical units.\n\npari passu with these measures on the civil side, the Services mobilised to full strength. A field ambulance, advanced dressing stations and several auxiliary military hospitals were made ready to receive army casualties, about 160 European V.A.Ds. being distributed among the military hospitals.\n\nIn order to reduce the proportion of potential wounded in the densely populated districts, efforts were made to persuade the inhabitants to scatter to dispersal areas in the hills and open country. Such places were equipped with kitchens, food stores, fuel, water supply, sanitary conveniences and boards for roofing narrow trenches cut along the contours. Planned to accommodate about 350,000, such areas never held more than 10,000. This was, in part, due to the reluctance of the Chinese to leave his home, even after damage by bomb, shells or fire, and further to the counter-attraction provided by the existence of a number of cooked food centres in the built-up areas where free meals of rice, beans, oil and salt were issued twice daily.\n\nThe medical defence service was fully operative by the time the first bombs fell at 8 a.m. on the 8th December.\n\nThe attack was directed against Kai Tak airfield on the Kowloon Peninsula. Two obsolete fighter aircraft were destroyed. They comprised the only air cover available for our forces. Thereafter, the Japanese aircraft operated at will all over the Colony. Numerous civilian casualties were soon brought under treatment in the two main civilian casualty clearing stations on the mainland.\n\nIn spite of the destruction of road bridges, railway tunnels, and of other obstacles - not the least of which was the\n\nPage 110\n\nPage 111",
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        "content_text": "147.\n\nwho responded without a moment's hesitation to my appeal to remain at their posts, to protect the wounded and sick and to maintain the medical and health services to the community, even though the capture of Kowloon by the Japanese within a few hours was inevitable.\n\nAmongst many hundreds of workers, only one European doctor and one health inspector deserted their posts. In their partial defence, it must not be forgotten that there was no illusion as to what indignities and cruelties the Japanese were capable of inflicting on all and sundry that came under their power.\n\nWithin four days of the outbreak of hostilities, the whole of the Kowloon Peninsula was taken and Japanese batteries were established in Kowloon. These batteries shelled the northern face of Hong Kong all day and every day, directing their fire without difficulty on our battery positions, pill-box machine gun posts guarding the shore line, ammunition fuel and food dumps, transport parks, and even on crowds collected at communal kitchens.\n\nIt engendered quite an eerie feeling to realise that every movement could be clearly observed by the Japanese from vantage points on the Peninsula well within a mile or so radius.\n\nMost of our hospitals and many of our aid posts on the Island were hit by shells or bombs, as was the case in London and many other cities in this country. I was obliged to order two to be evacuated at the height of the battle.\n\nNo blame could be attached to the Japanese on this account, because there were quite legitimate military objectives (battery positions, machine gun posts, etc.) in the immediate vicinity of such medical institutions. Some of the hospitals suffered again during the Japanese occupation from Allied aerial bombing, and for the same reason.\n\nAfter occupying Kowloon, the Japanese sent over a Peace Mission. This, and a similar envoy, was turned back with the answer that there would be no surrender. In fact, if my memory serves me correctly, the Japanese emissaries were told that they would be fired on, even though flying the white flag, if they attempted to come across the harbour again.\n\nOwing to the treacherous conduct of a group of Indian troops defending North Point on the northern shore of the Island about a mile and a half from Kowloon City, the Japanese were able to effect a landing on the 18th/19th December.\n\nA little later, they also landed below Lyemun Fort, at the north-eastern extremity of the Island. From these two beach heads, the Japanese advanced steadily over the eastern half of the Island.\n\nAfter a very hotly contested battle at Wongneichung Gap, at the strategic centre of the Island, they compelled the Governor and Commander-in-Chief to agree to an unconditional surrender at 4 p.m. on the 25th December, after eighteen days resistance.\n\nBecause of his courageous bearing and his treatment of the Japanese peace envoys and, possibly, owing to the heavy losses sustained by the Japanese troops due to the heroic defence, Sir Mark Young, Governor, with General Maltby, Commanding the Troops in China, were subjected to indignities and hardships whilst prisoners in Japanese hands.\n\nDuring the fighting, rather over 1,100 members of the Hong Kong Garrison were killed, missing, believed killed, or died of wounds.\n\nThe Hong Kong Volunteers lost the most (240), followed by the Winnipeg Grenadiers (133), Royal Scots (127), Middlesex (122) and Royal Navy (58).",
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        "content_text": "After considerable discussion, Government eventually (October, 1945) decided to fix the basic wage for an unskilled manual labourer at one dollar per day, with a temporary high cost of living allowance of a similar sum.\n\nIt was the intention of the British Government to do all in its power to reduce the cost of living as soon as possible, in fact, figures show that a steady fall in prices is taking place.\n\nCurrency which constituted yet another pressing problem was dealt with by reintroducing the original dollar currency overnight without attaching any exchange value to the Japanese military yen which, automatically, ceased to be of any value.\n\nMedical and health problems loomed largely after the recapture of the Colony.\n\nAs in this country, housing and town-planning demands immediate attention to make good the depredations resulting from bombs, shells, incendiaries and looters. Associated with this, is the need for a comprehensive sewerage and drainage plan which is, again, dependent upon decisions awaited on harbour development.\n\nIt is surely an anachronism (apart from being objectionable from a hygienic standpoint) to compel house builders to construct dry closets in urban areas where a water-carriage flush system is long overdue.\n\nExtensive repairs, renovations, and extensions to the water supply of the Colony and Leased Territories call for early action in the interests of public health.\n\nThe Japanese neglected anti-malarial measures with serious consequences and set the clock back to pre-1930 days when the Malarial Bureau first came into being.\n\nAs regards hospitals and medical facilities, the majority remained intact, apart from loss of apparatus and equipment removed by the Japanese and their Formosan underlings.\n\nThis satisfactory state of affairs is thanks to the admirable loyalty of the Chinese staff who stayed in Hong Kong at my request and suffered constant humiliations and hardships under Japanese occupation.\n\nNow that the population is streaming back to Hong Kong - a fine testimony to the value attached by the Chinese to British administration, protection and justice - hospital accommodation, out-patient and welfare facilities will soon prove inadequate, as was the case in 1938. For this reason, it is to be hoped that the British Government will not delay in implementing the decisions reached (and supported by the Secretary of State for the Colonies) following the Hospital Committee's Report, 1938-1939.\n\nIncidentally, it is very gratifying to friends of the Chinese to note that it is the intention of the Colonial Office that Chinese should be employed in connection with the restoration and extension of medical and public health facilities in Hong Kong. It is to be hoped that Europeans will only be appointed where they are of exceptional calibre and they can make some special contribution towards the rehabilitation of Hong Kong.\n\nEducationally the Colony suffered a heavy blow during 1941-1945. In accordance with their avowed policy to eliminate centres of culture in the Far East outside the Japanese Empire, the Japanese militarists destroyed (or permitted Chinese looters to destroy) many valuable educational institutions, as, for example, the Hong Kong University, King's and Queen's Colleges.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "Date.\n\nDistrict.\n\n5.\n\nTime.\n\n09.00\n\n8.12.4s\n\n20\n\n8.12.43. Tai O.\n\n38.\n\nPolice Head-quarters.\n\n09.00\n\n39.\n\nArgyle Street Internment Camp.\n\n40.\n\nKowloon City, Tsun Wan, & Sha Tin, Kowloon City\n\n41.\n\n42.\n\nBay View, Yaumati & Hung Hom.\n\n43.\n\nHong Kong & Kowloon.\n\n44.\n\nHong Kong & Kowloon.\n\n45.\n\nKowloon.\n\nSham Shui Bungalows on Lan Tau Peak two days previously and found them empty,\n\nA message was received from the Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor re the declaration of war.\n\nA. M. The 355 Chinese soldiers interned in the camp were released to act as First Aid personnel in Hong Kong and Kowloon. 150 acted as stretcher bearers under the Director of Medical Services' control in Kowloon and 205 were escorted by Police to North Police Refugee Camp. Police guard was withdrawn. The camp had previously been bombed without casualties, an unexploded bomb dropping in close proximity.\n\nA. M. Parties each consisting of one Cantonese Sub Inspector, one Indian Police Constable and one Chinese detective were sent to Customs Pass, Sha Tin Gap, Shing Mun Cross Roads and Tai Wai to act as liaison officers with the Military.\n\nA. M. Street Guards and Police Reserve despatch riders reported for duty.\n\nA. M. The doors of air raid shelters were found locked and had to be forcibly opened by Police.\n\n46.\n\nPo.\n\n47.\n\nWater Police. 09.30 to 16.00\n\n48.\n\nWater Police\n\n49.\n\nGuards Office.\n\nSandbagging of Vital Posts and Dispersal points began. Arrangements for rations including improvisation of kitchens had to be made and cooking utensils provided.\n\nThe general duties of the Police Force during the war in their main responsibility of maintaining Internal Security were as follows:- Police provided guards for all vital posts and food control centres, rice queues had to be controlled, patrols and picquets were sent out to maintain general order, Other duties were enforcement of the black out regulations, prevention of 5th Column activities and control of A. R. P. tunnels. Police turned out to fires and demolition of buildings etc. caused by bombs and shells.\n\nOn instructions from Senior Superintendent of Police Kowloon, gas proofing and other precautions against gas were commenced in all stations and went on until Kowloon was evacuated. The necessary materials were obtained from A.R. P. stores.\n\nMany Fifth Columnist leaflets were found in the district.\n\nTwo Police harbour launches assisted Harbour Office and Naval Authorities to clear harbour and approaches of native craft.\n\nAll Police harbour launches were engaged generally all day on clearing the harbour of all native craft after Yaumati and Causeway Bay typhoon shelters were full, stopping craft bringing passengers over from Kowloon to Hong Kong, and distributing to native craft maps received from the Harbour Master showing prohibited areas to which the craft could not proceed or remain in. All launches from then onwards patrolled entrances to harbour day and night to prevent craft from re-entering the harbour\n\nThe personnel available in the Guards Office were as follows:-\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "Date. \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\n10.12.41 \n\n27. Aberdeen. \n\np.m. \n\n28. Western. \n\n15.00 \n\n29. Sham Shui Po. \n\n15.00 to 23.59 \n\n30. Tsim Sha Tsui and Kowloon Police H.Q. \n\n15.30 \n\n10.12.41 \n\n30 \n\naction had to be taken. No persons were found in charge of the shops and a Police guard was posted by the Divisional Inspector, Shaukiwan. An air raid was in progress during this incident. Shaukiwan Police also turned out. Mobile picquets were maintained by the Unit. \n\nThe Officer in Charge organised a force of volunteer Village Guards, 56 strong for Aberdeen. They eventually did everything except fire brigade work when the other essential services broke down and personnel deserted. \n\nNos. 19 and 23 Godowns in Connaught Road West were hit by shells with casualties amongst the public. Police on Vital Post duty on No.23 Godown were evacuated and in future did duty from No.7 Station itself. \n\nPolice under L. S. A. 165 Rothwell opened fire at an enemy plane machine-gunning pedestrians in Lai Chi Kok Road and Tai Nam Street, causing it to bank sharply and fly away. \n\nH.E. the Commissioner of Police visited a second time and announced to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, that Police evacuation from Kowloon would take place sometime during the next day and that Police were all to evacuate except for guards under Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Booker, Assistant Superintendent of Police, at the Star Ferry and Vehicular Ferry respectively, who would remain to prevent the ferries being rushed until the evacuation of all the essential services and persons with cross-harbour permits and Europeans had been completed and the Military Authorities had taken charge of the piers. The Commissioner of Police informed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, that His Excellency the Governor had directed that he, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, was to accompany the main Police party and was not to remain in charge of the piers as he wished. The evacuation of the main Police party in time was essential in order to reinforce the Police in Hong Kong and internal security there and that to secure this evacuation of the main party was his principal responsibility. \n\nThe evacuation of the main body of Police would, if possible, not take place without the prior consent of His Excellency the Governor conveyed to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon by the Commissioner of Police, but if communications were interrupted the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, would have to act on his own initiative, if possible after consultation with the Military Authorities. \n\nThe Commissioner of Police wrote out these orders and handed them to the Senior Superintendent of Police. The evacuation of Police families in Kowloon was first arranged to take place the same night, but owing to the delay in the arrival of the necessary billeting cards (themselves authority to cross the harbour) from Hong Kong and considering the time it would take to warn and collect all the families at stations prior to going to the Star Ferry, this was later cancelled by the Commissioner of Police. The Harbour Master was informed by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon that no evacuation would take place that night but decided to keep the Ferry launch at the Godowns. \n\nAfter the Commissioner of Police left, the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, made arrangements for the collection of families during the night and for the evacuation to commence at 05.00 hours via the Star Ferry. Instructions were sent out about 23.59 hours, about an hour after the Commissioner had left, and the necessary billeting cards were despatched to stations. Men had to...\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "Date. 11.12.41\n\nDistrict.\n\nTime.\n\n4.\n\nSham Shui Po.\n\n5.\n\nKowloon Brigade H.Q.\n\n09.30\n\n6.\n\nSham Shui Po.\n\n7.\n\nKowloon Police Headquarters.\n\n8.\n\nMong Kok.\n\n9.\n\nCentral.\n\n10.\n\nEastern.\n\n11.\n\nGough Hill.\n\n12.\n\nWestern.\n\n13.\n\nKowloon.\n\n14.\n\nHarbour.\n\n15.\n\nSpecial Branch.\n\n16.\n\nKowloon City.\n\n17.\n\nYaumati.\n\n17.\n\n12. 4! 32 were sent out to the Tai Po Road to control hundreds of Chinese who were stealing wood and blocking the roads with the trunks of trees they had cut from the hillsides. A continuous stream of persons evacuating from Cheung Sha Wan was observed. Looting of houses at Yen Chau Street damaged by bombs was detected and stopped by Police.\n\n09.00 Inspector Saunders was told by some Royal Scots stationed near the World Pencil Factory that enemy troops were in position between there and Lai Chi Kok Prison. He enquired from some Royal Scots officers at a Trench Mortar position at the junction of Castle Peak and Tai Po Roads but could get no definite information. Acting Sub Inspector Wallingford was detailed as liaison officer between them and Inspector Saunders. Sub Inspector Brittain noticed that official papers were being burnt but was unable to gather accurate information as to the position but from conversation he overheard it appeared serious.\n\n10.00 Divisional Inspector, Sham Shui Po, telephoned the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, and informed him of the reported position of the enemy. He was instructed to report on the situation at Sham Shui Po as frequently as possible.\n\n10.00 Divisional Inspector, Sham Shui Po, informed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, that enemy had advanced rapidly in the Castle Peak Road area and that our troops had retreated to the World Pencil Factory and along the Tai Po and Lai Chi Kok Roads. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, consulted Commander Brigade Headquarters and was informed that our troops had retired slightly to straighten the line but that the position was satisfactory.\n\n10.00 The district was shelled. One shell fell in Nathan Road near the station killing about 60 persons and wounding a number of others. One shell fell in Yee Street wounding two persons. Two shells fell in Sai wounding several persons. Nathan Road near Shangtung Street killing and wounding several persons. Two unexploded shells fell in Nathan Road near the Prince's Theatre. A shell caused heavy casualties when it landed between the Tai Shan Hotel and the Macao Wharf. Heavy shelling of the Naval Dockyard and vicinity took place. There was heavy shelling and bombing of the Peak. Several small fires were started including one at Wong Nei Chung Gap Petrol Dump. Reports were received of the looting of several private houses which turned out to be servants removing their own property.\n\nFrom this date onwards Police were occupied to a large extent in controlling crowds at rice distributing centres due chiefly, Inspector Nolloth states, to incompetent handling by members of the local Food Control.\n\na. m. General bombing of Kowloon continued. 1 a. m. Shelling of Stone Cutters continued.\n\nSpecial Branch completed permanent move to Hill Crest the Peak.\n\nA home-made bomb was brought to station dumped in Sa Po Road by a Chinese male when challenged by a Street Guard.\n\nAbout forty arrests were made by Police of persons demanding \"protection\" money from householders.",
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        "content_text": "Date. 31.\n\nDistrict. Kowloon Police Headquarters.\n\nTime. 11. 12.41\n\n35 11.45\n\nsenior officer to Sub Inspector Bradsell, states that the vehicles were already being loaded when he returned from dealing with some rice riots. It is agreed that no order was received from the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, by despatch rider Sub Inspector Bradsell, the Officer in Charge, states that he only rung up the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, once, at 11.00 hours, to report falling shells and that British soldiers had informed him that there were a very large number of Japanese in the hills, and they were surrounding our troops. (This account has been compiled from reports furnished in turn by Sub Inspector Bradsell, Sub Inspector Collins, Acting Sub Inspector Delahunty, and P.S.A.29 Alexander, each giving the part he played.)\n\nSome officer from Mong Kok Station, believed to be Sub Inspector Bradsell, the Officer in Charge, rang up and stated that street fighting was going on outside the Prince's Theatre. (N.B. (i) Prince's Theatre is situated at the junction of Nathan Road and Nullah Road. (ii) It is to be noted that this version differs slightly from that of Sub Inspector Bradsell given in entry No.30. Sub Inspector Bradsell states that he only rang up the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, once to report that shells were falling in the district and that he had heard that the enemy were in the hills around Kowloon surrounding our troops. The street fighting that took place around the Prince's Theatre was however definitely reported by some officer from Mong Kok and both the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, and Chief Inspector Smith are under the impression that it was Sub Inspector Bradsell. It may however have been some other officer.)\n\nA Sub Inspector Brittain, in accordance with again previous instructions, shortly afterwards rang up but had no further information. He was informed by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, that he (the S.S.P.K.) had been unable to get in touch with the Military, but that the enemy had been reported by Police to be in the vicinity of Sham Shui Po, Police Training School and Mong Kok. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, told him to try and obtain definite information as to the true position. He asked if he should retire with the Military to which the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, assented.\n\nSub Inspector Brittain telephoned the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, again in accordance with instructions. (Included also in entry No.31 above). The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, had no further information regarding the position and he informed Sub Inspector Brittain he had been unable to get in touch with Brigade Headquarters. Sub Inspector Brittain was also told that Sham Shui Po and the Police Training School were reported as having been attacked and it was believed that the enemy had reached as far as the Alhambra Theatre. Sub Inspector Brittain stated that he did not think that the Japanese were the attackers. He was instructed to obtain further information. This took some time and when Sub Inspector Brittain returned to the telephone to\n\n32.\n\nKowloon Brigade H.Q.\n\n11.45",
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        "content_text": "Date. \n\n24. \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\nEmergency Unit 19.00 Hong Kong.\n\n \n\n28 \n\n13.12.41 \n\n43 \n\nCalled out on report that looters were breaking into an Ironmongers shop in Queen Victoria Street. No looters were found but the shop was deserted so the stock was removed to Central Police Station. Night. Indians were observed to be unsettled and moody so Europeans had to act as Station Guards.\n\n \n\n25. \n\nShaukiwan. \n\n \n\n26. \n\nGough Hill. \n\n21.00 \n\n \n\n27. \n\nGough Hill. \n\n21.30 \n\n \n\n28. \n\nWestern. \n\n \n\n29. \n\nGreen Island. \n\n22.00 \n\nComplaints were received from the Military of unshaded lights showing on Mount Kellett Road. The house servants responsible were arrested.\n\nA fire at No.10 The Peak was reported by Military Police turned out. It was caused by demolition of the premises previously hit by our own guns which had caused casualties including one fatality.\n\nNos.19 and 20 Godowns in Connaught Road West were set alight by incendiary shells. In spite of Fire Brigade and Police efforts and fire breaks being made by Military the fire spread to other godowns and lasted several days. Police action had to be taken on this and succeeding days to prevent looting which immediately began and continued spasmodically up to the 25th, though it was never allowed to assume very serious proportions. Police evacuated from Belchers Street Dispersal Road to the Tai Ping Theatre due to the Military carrying out demolition work in Belchers Street to prevent further spread of fire.\n\n22.00 The S.L. \"Jeannette\" which had arrived earlier in the evening left at 22.00 hours with 312 cases of dynamite, fuses and detonators on board. The original time fixed for the launch's departure was 23.59 hours but this was later altered.\n\n \n\n30. \n\nWater Police. 22.58 \n\n \n\n31. \n\nPolice H.Q. \n\n23.00 \n\nto \n\n02.00 \n\nThe S.L. \"Jeannette\" blew up off the Vehicular Ferry Wharf when transporting dynamite from Green Island to Blake Pier with a big loss of life including Acting Sub Inspector Hudson, L.S.A. 191 Donahue, I.P.C.B. 607 Santa Singh and I.P.C.B.727 Waryan Singh, and a number of European Harbour Office officers. All the party were volunteers for the dangerous enterprise. The launch was originally due to leave Green Island at 23.59 hours and arrive at Blake Pier at 01.00, but the time of leaving was put forward by two hours, viz 22.00 hours, because loading had been completed by 21.00 hours earlier than it was expected, and it was considered dangerous for the launch to remain at Green Island with the explosives on board for a further three hours. As a result of hearing a loud explosion (caused by the S.L. \"Jeannette\" blowing up, but then unknown) the General Alarm was sounded on Commissioner of Police's instructions and all posts manned. Many reports of Fifth Columnist activities were received and patrols sent out. Senior Superintendent of Police, Defence, took a party down to the Central Fire Station on report that it was being attacked. Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, went with a similar party to China Building on report that Mr. North, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Sir R.H. Kotewall, were being held prisoners there by a threatening gang. A further report was received that there was a disturbance at the Golden City Restaurant. All these alleged incidents were found to be without foundation. Police stood to until 02.00 hours.\n\n \n\n13.12.41. \n\n1. \n\nCentral. \n\n02.00 L.S.A. 450 Savitsky of the Police Reserve slightly wounded by a splinter from the S.L. \"Jeannette\" explosion was sent to hospital.",
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        "content_text": "Date.\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\nDistrict.\n\nTime.\n\nEmergency Unit 07.00 Hong Kong.\n\nWestern.\n\nEastern.\n\n5.\n\nGough Hill.\n\n6.\n\nShaukiwan.\n\n7.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n8.\n\nGuards Office.\n\nEastern.\n\n9.\n\n10.\n\nEastern.\n\n11.\n\nStanley.\n\n12.\n\nWestern.\n\n13.\n\n14.\n\nAberdeen.\n\n07.30 Special Police Constabulary.\n\n13.12 41 On patrol the Unit found the Victoria Recreation Club broken into. The premises were made secure.\n\nBombing and shelling recommenced and continued throughout the day with heavy damage down to area above and below Hill Road. The Gas Works were under heavy fire. Service of gas was therefore discontinued. Attempted looting of godowns in the Hill Road area was checked by Police.\n\nThe shelling of Wanchai District from Kowloon began. A house about one hundred yards east of the station was hit and occupants killed. Pill boxes east of the station were shelled and put out of action one after another. A bomb hit the old No.2 Station trapping firemen's families who were however released later by Police and helpers. Other hits were made on houses in Hennessey Road, Arsenal Street and the sea front. Several unexploded shells were found. Two were measured and found to be 5.9 inches in calibre.\n\nOn this and following three days the sandbagging of the station was considerably reinforced. Bombing and shelling continued.\n\nHeavy shelling of district commenced.\n\nMr. Chesterwoods, Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police, Officer in Charge Police Food Control, instructed all Police Supply officers to indent for 25% over requirements for non-perishable goods in order to build up a reserve.\n\nThe Chinese Watchmen had complained during the previous two days of difficulty in obtaining food. Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr. Chesterwoods, was instructed to include them in his Ration indents. Two Europeans L.S.A.129 Farquhar and L.S.A.178 Jackson were transferred to the Guards' Office, to replace two Europeans taken away on the 10th, to carry out actual distribution of rations to the watchmen posted all over the Island and to help the Officer in Charge, P.S.A.41 Hemesley, with supervision work by patrols and visits as often as possible.\n\nNo.10 Hennessey Road, a Dispersal Roon, was evacuated and Police moved to Nos. 29 and 31 Hennessey Road. From the 13th to the 17th the Emergency Unit Kowloon, who were stationed at No.2 Station, supplied men for rice centres and guards on A.R.P. Tunnels. (On the 18th the Unit was disbanded and merged with regular duties.)\n\nP.S.A.69 Simpson and L.S.A.13 Whitley from this day onwards took turns to man a Lewis Gun Post established by Police at No.1 Bungalow together with four Machine Guns of the Middlesex Regiment.\n\nNos. 19 and 20 Godowns in Connaught Road West were still ablaze. The Food Control tried to remove food but failed owing to large crowds trying to loot. Extra Police were sent out and crowd was dispersed. The Food was then removed by the Police themselves. The Officer in Charge supervised the digging of cemeteries at Aplichau Refuge Dump and the hill side behind Aberdeen temple for burial of unclaimed bodies.\n\nSpasmodic bombing of No.3 Battery, Aplichau, the Naval Dockyard and craft in harbour took place during the day.\n\nMr. Booker, Assistant Superintendent of Police, took charge of the Special Constabulary and control of the A.R.P. Tunnels, with Headquarters at St. Margarets",
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        "content_text": "Date: 16.12.41\n\nDistrict Time 08.00\n\n1. Emergency Unit 2 2.\n\n2. Hong Kong. 3.\n\n3. Hong Kong. Western. 4.\n\n4. Eastern & Shaukiwan. 5.\n\n5. Police H.Q & Central. 6.\n\n6. Police H. Q. & Central. 7.\n\n7. Central. 8.\n\n8. Gough Hill. 9\n\n9. Aberdeen. 33. 16. 12. 4 48 i\n\nCalled to Hong Kong Football Club on a false report that looting was taking place. On the way back the Police Club was visited and found deserted so the property was removed to Central.\n\nMany air raids took place during the day. Shelling of district intensified becoming so severe that even the supplying of food to Police Dispersal Points and Vital Posts became difficult and dangerous. Five Fifth Columnists were arrested by Military at Jubilee Fort and were handed over to the Special Branch after investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department, Western. The area between Hill Road and Belcher's Street received particularly severe damage and big fires were started. The Fire Brigade could not cope with the conflagration, and blasting operations by the Royal Engineers to create fire breaks had to be carried out.\n\nThe shelling of Eastern and Shaukiwan districts increased in intensity and continuity. The pill boxes and defences along King's Road and the water front received concentrated fire. No.2 Station was shelled. The Sikh Gudhwara was hit with casualties. One Sikh Police Constable at least and one Mohammedan Police Constable's wife were killed. Shelling was also directed at Stubbs Road. The number of civilian casualties in the district was fairly high. In Shaukiwan district the shelling along King's Road, particularly between the Tsang Fook Piano Factory and the Ritz, was very severe and the road was badly torn up by mortar shells. Some bombing of Taikoo Docks and Sai Wan Ho commenced. The shelling continued all night.\n\nNew cooks were supplied from the Food Control Office to replace those absconded. The Chinese Police in the meanwhile had made no attempt to prepare their meals. Orders were received during the day to transfer Police Food Control to the Gloucester Building. The On Luk Yuen Cafe kitchen was taken over for the supply of Chinese meals. The feeding of European Police was undertaken by the Gloucester Building Staff but adequate arrangements for them was not made by the Hotel.\n\nPartial evacuation of Police to the Gloucester and Pedder Buildings took place. Police Headquarters officers were established in the former while both buildings were used for the billeting of personnel. Half the Emergency Unit moved down.\n\nAt the request of the Military Authorities Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, arranged for Indian troops to be posted at Central which was put into use as Battalion Headquarters.\n\nOwing to heavy shelling which began during the night and continuing incessantly the Weihaiwei Police left their post at the Peak Wireless Station Vital Post and reported to Station. They were very shaky so Mr. Wright Nooth, directed them to do duty from the Station. The Wireless Staff had already evacuated. The Peak Tramway was badly damaged by shelling or bombing and the Tramway employees refused to continue work. Police Reserve on this Vital Post, H. 20, deserted.\n\nThe supply of rice ran short in the village. The Officer in Charge arranged daily supply of 36 bags to be made available in shops at Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau.",
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        "content_text": "Date. 10.\n\nDistrict.\n\nWater Police.\n\nTime. 10.00 to 18.00\n\n11.\n\nEmergency Unit Hong Kong.\n\n14.00\n\n12.\n\nUpper Levels.\n\n13.\n\nShaukiwan.\n\n34.\n\n17.12.41\n\n49\n\nThe Divisional Inspector, Water Police, was employed with Harbour Office officials dismantling the masts of native craft at Causeway Bay, a permitted anchorage, as the Military Authorities complained that their line of fire was masked. This continued on the next day also. Even then the position was not considered entirely satisfactory by the Harbour Master who reported to the Military that he still considered that a good line of fire had not been made available.\n\nThe Unit patrolled Western District, Queen's Road Central and West and Sai Wan Ho Market at Shaukiwan in connection with reported disturbances at a rice shop. Additional police were left at the shops to help keep order but no further action was required.\n\nA complaint was received that a gang of men were demanding \"protection\" money from residents in Staunton Street. Police parties under Mr. Wright-Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and Chief Inspector Rozeskwy took drastic action against eight men.\n\nSeveral shells landed in close proximity of Shaukiwan Station. L.S.A. 103 Hendrick was wounded in the shoulder by a splinter though sheltering in the cells. The Sikh Police all deserted and took to the hills. Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, visited and decided with the Commissioner of Police's approval that the Station should be evacuated to a building next door to Quarry Bay Station. (Henceforth described as Shaukiwan Station). The evacuation was completed by 17.30 hours.\n\n14.\n\n15.\n\nPolice H.Q. Bay View.\n\n16.00 to 17.30\n\n18.00\n\n22.15\n\nHis Excellency the Governor visited.\n\nInspector Kirby was fired on by Fifth Columnists ensconced near, or, in, Bay View Mansions.\n\n17.12.41\n\n1.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\nPolice H.Q. & Central.\n\nHong Kong Traffic Office.\n\nGuards Office.\n\nEastern and Shaukiwan.\n\nAir raids continued.\n\nPolice Headquarters and Central were shelled. The Emergency Unit and Traffic Offices, A.R.P. Store room, and European single men's quarters at Central received heavy damage. The remainder of the Police evacuated to the Gloucester and Pedder Buildings. A guard was left under P.S.A. 139 Bower to ensure the security of the buildings evacuated. (Gloucester Building is henceforth described as Police Headquarters and Pedder Building as Central Station.) (See Entry No.6 of 16.12.41 for previous evacuation of the first half of the Police.)\n\nOwing to severe pressure of work, Inspector Clarke, Traffic Inspector/Hong Kong, obtained the services of five additional Europeans. Sub-Inspector Scrim and L.S.A. 10 Sargeant were sent to No. 2 Station, L.S.A. 74 Sullivan to Western, and L.S.A. 49 Channing to Upper Levels. Two repair shops were set up, one at the Gloucester Building and one at Central, to carry out repairs of as many vehicles as possible belonging to all departments besides Police.\n\nTransport generally began to become very scarce due to accidents many occurring during the blackout, enemy action, and deliberate damage inflicted by Chinese drivers.\n\nThe Guards Office transferred to the Central Magistracy building to obtain better protection from air raids.\n\nShelling and bombing continued. Four direct hits by shells were registered on No. 2 Station. Heavy bombing attacks were also made on the station, with possibly the Lewis Gun post previously established in the Sta-",
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        "content_text": "Date. District.\n\nTime.\n\n6. Bay View.\n\n7. Western.\n\n8. Pokfulam.\n\n9. Gough Hill.\n\n10. Hong Kong.\n\n11. Aberdeen.\n\n12. Upper Levels.\n\n13. Emergency Unit Reserve.\n\n14. Aberdeen.\n\n15. Hong Kong\n\n16. Bay View.\n\n17. Shaukiwan.\n\n18. Aberdeen.\n\n35. 17.12.43\n\n50\n\ntions as the objective. Some bombs fell in the playground between Johnson and Hennessey Roads causing casualties to a food queue. A Japanese plane machine-gunned pedestrians in Queen's Road East. Severe bombing of the Taikoo Docks continued. One bomb hit a house of the Docks killing some twenty seamen sheltering in it. Early The tanks in the A.P.C. Installation were set alight by a.m. shell fire and burned furiously. The fire continued for several days. Police on duty at the Vital Post here moved to the new Bay View Station (Red Swastika Building at Dragon Terrace).\n\nFelix Villas and the area west of Hill Road were severely shelled and bombed. Attempts to loot burnt-out godowns had to be dealt with drastically by Police to quell them effectively. An unexploded bomb dropped in the Station compound near the Divisional Inspector's quarters. Police at the Vital Post guarding the Pumping Station came under heavy fire directed at Belchers Fort so moved to the Resident Engineer's quarters.\n\nPolice turned out to several small fires. Water and gas mains were broken. No further water supply was available on the Peak from this date.\n\nA The Commissioner of Police toured the Island with Mr. ASP Luscombe visiting stations, Vital Points, and Dispersal Points. A big fire at the A.P.C. Installation was noticed which prevented a visit being paid to the Hong Kong Electric.\n\n09.00 The Food Kitchen at Aberdeen was demolished by a bomb without fatal casualties.\n\n10.00 Sub Inspector R.J. Clark attached to No.3 Conduit Road Dispersal Point was slightly wounded in the neck by shrapnel whilst sheltering in a lavatory during a severe bombardment. A direct hit on the roof killed two Chinese civilians and wounded Sub Inspector Clark and two Chinese. Sub Inspector Clark had been to his quarters in Caine Road to fetch some clothes. (This was during the bombardment which preceded the arrival of the second Japanese Mission).\n\nA Portuguese member of the Emergency Unit Reserve was slightly wounded by shrapnel.\n\n11.00 The telephones in the Station finally went dead leaving only one line at A.R.P. Headquarters available which became very overloaded as it was connected with the ordinary service. Complaints were received concerning the hoarding of rice at rice shops. The Officer in Charge warned the shops concerned.\n\n12.00 A short armistice came into force ending at 16.00 hours during which the second Japanese Mission with a demand to surrender was received.\n\n12.00 The residents in Bay View district were cleared out of the area by Police as the Fire Brigade could not control the fire at the A.P.C. Installation and fire breaks by dynamiting had to be made.\n\n14.00 The Paint & Lacquer Works at 704 King's Road used as a Dispersal Point was evacuated by Police under Sub Inspector Daly and Sub Inspector Taylor by instructions of Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, due to heavy shelling, with several shells landing in the near vicinity and danger of fire from inflammable oil and paint. Personnel moved to the Hong Kong Litho & Painting Works. Severe shelling of the Pill Boxes along the waterfront took place.\n\n17.00 Two native boat yards were hit by bombs and set afire.\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "Date. \n\n• \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\n36. \n\n18. 12. 41\n\n51\n\nFifteen persons were killed. During the day, as a result of several raids, known casualties amounted to 38 at Aplichau and 17 at Aberdeen.\n\nA patrol was carried out in Central district in search of an alleged Fifth Columnist reported by telephone from the King's cafe to be operating in the district. The author of the call could not be traced at the Cafe. Nothing was found.\n\nNight. Heavy shelling of King's Road continued during the night.\n\n18.19 Emergency Unit\n\n21.00 Hong Kong.\n\n10\n\n19.\n\nShaukiwan.\n\n18.12.41.\n\n1. Hong Kong.\n\n08.30 His Excellency the Governor made a tour of inspection with the Commissioner of Police and Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, visiting stations, dispersal points, food queues and A. R. P. tunnels. His Excellency visited the Hong Kong Electric and inspected the damage. It was noticed that the whole of King's Road had been blown to bits with no pill boxes left standing. Dead, dying and wounded were lying all over the streets. Shaukiwan dispensary was crowded with injured. His Excellency congratulated P. S. A. 19 Hill who was doing very good work with the help of a useless Chinese doctor who attended spasmodically. Visits were paid to the Salesian Institute Hospital and to the local Military Headquarters at the Taikoo School. Air raids continued. The first one was in the vicinity of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank.\n\n2. Hong Kong.\n\n09.00\n\n3. Western.\n\n4. Shaukiwan.\n\n5. Shaukiwan.\n\n6. Emergency Unit Reserve.\n\n7. Aberdeen.\n\n10.00,\n\n8. Eastern.\n\nto 16.00\n\nD.\n\nThe district remained under heavy shell fire. Kennedy Town Market was struck by bombs and shells. Two shells landed in Clarence Terrace causing many casualties. Three Chinese were arrested as suspected Fifth Columnists at Jubilee Fort and were handed over to the C.I. Police Headquarters. Police made many arrests in connection with the looting that was going on in the godown area and these were effectively dealt with. The district was very heavily bombarded. Police from a Dispersal Point 177 Main Street evacuated to Quarry Bay at about 16.00 hours. During the evening the bombardment became even more intensified, particularly in the vicinity of the Station, and pickets could only proceed a few yards at a time and had frequently to take shelter.\n\nKing's Road between the Taikoo Sugar Refinery and the Tsang Fook Piano Company had by this time suffered very severe damage from shelling which continued throughout the day. The roadway was badly broken up and several big buildings completely wrecked, including the Ritz, the Cathay Hotel, the Paint & Lacquer Works and Tsat Tsui Mui Police Quarters. Civilians suffered severe casualties and a number of dead were lying in the roadway.\n\nOwing to heavy shelling of the Shek Tong Tsui area, the Unit transferred to St. John's Hall, Bonham Road. Further complaints were made of shops hoarding rice. Central depots were set up by the Officer in Charge at Aberdeen and Aplichau under Police and Village Guard supervision. The arrangement worked satisfactorily.\n\nWanchai water front was again subjected to severe bombardment from Kowloon. Pill boxes from Tonnochy Road to Arsenal Street were systematically wrecked. Sixteen direct hits were made on No.2 Station. The station was narrowly missed by bombs but the majority fell near Lockhart Road Market.",
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        "content_text": "Date. District.\n\nTime.\n\n4.\n\nQuarry Bay.\n\n19.12.4.\n\n39.\n\nSH\n\nplatoon of which he, Sgt. Fox, was a member had gone forward in lorries at midnight as a result of the report of the landing but had been dispersed with heavy casualties.\n\n03.00 Inspector Kirby who was on duty at No.9 Stanley Terrace looking after European women and children of the Taikoo Docks heard sounds of fighting taking place between our troops and the Japanese.\n\n5.\n\nAberdeen.\n\nDay-\n\n6.\n\nQuarry Bay.\n\n7.\n\nBay View.\n\n8.\n\n9.\n\nWestern. Bay View.\n\nAn air raid took place followed by a trench mortar bombardment.\n\n07.00 Inspector Kirby was captured by the Japanese who came to Stanley Terrace, and he was taken together with the British women and children from the Docks to King's Road and eventually placed in the North Point Refugee Camp. Whilst in King's Road a Russian Police Sergeant with a No.337 on his tunic acted as interpreter for the Japanese and appeared Anti-British in his attitude.\n\n07.30 Indian troops were observed retiring from the Tai Hang Hills followed shortly by the enemy. The Officer in Charge kept Mr. Heath, No. 2 Sub Area Commander, informed of the position. At first he was instructed by Mr. Heath to defend the station as long as possible and then to surrender but later Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, told the Officer in Charge to evacuate. Police at Vital Posts in the district could not be notified and withdrawn as they were behind the advancing Japanese. The station was evacuated from the rear when the enemy were actually entering the tennis court in front. Personnel proceeded to No. 2 Station under machine gun fire but suffered no casualties.\n\nThe\n\n07.30 The bombing of Kennedy Town and Felix Villas continued.\n\n08.30 L.S.A.68 Campbell was wounded in the left arm by bullet splinters in Tin Hau Temple Road. He had driven a Mr. Ablong there in a car to distribute some rice when he saw Japanese troops advancing and after the former was killed he had to abandon the car. Shortly after this he received his wound.\n\n10.\n\n11.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nWestern.\n\n09.00 General air raids commenced.\n\n12.\n\nUpper Levels.\n\n13.\n\nGough Hill.\n\n14.\n\nHong Kong Traffic Office.\n\n15.\n\nStanley.\n\n16.\n\nPolice H.Q. & Central.\n\n09.15 Mount Davis and Belchers Fort suffered severe bombardment. The remainder of the district west of Whitty Street was also shelled. Pokfulam Road from the University past Ricci Hall came under heavy shell fire. The Northcote Institute and Ricci Hall sustained damage.\n\nSeveral shells dropped short into the district. One unexploded shell went through the tent of the Police Reserve on Vital Post duty at Elliott Filter Beds. The men however stuck to their post without panic.\n\nThe Matilda Hospital was heavily shelled.\n\nAs the result of the news being received of the Japanese landing, nearly all the Chinese drivers of essential service vehicles absconded, taking away their vehicles when possible.\n\nP.S.A.69 Simpson, the Officer in Charge, was informed by the Indian Sergeant in charge of Tai Tam Vital Post, H.43, that the enemy were on the hillside near the site of the old sanitorium. He proceeded to the Post and after verifying the accuracy of the information gave instructions to the Police that they were to evacuate the post when the British troops retired. He informed the Inspector on Duty/Central of the position.\n\nThe sandbag redoubts for the defence of the Gloucester Building and Pedder Building were re-built in order to strengthen them. A new one was built outside Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co's Head Office, which had been",
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        "content_text": "Date.\n\nDistrict.\n\nTime.\n\nGough Hill.\n\n27.\n\nWanchai Gap.\n\n28.\n\nWestern.\n\n29.\n\nAberdeen.\n\n40.\n\n19.\n\n12.41\n\n56\n\nped by the Military who would not allow anyone to go up to the Reservoir. They were actually firing at villagers proceeding in this direction, not to hit but to frighten them away. He was informed that the Police at the Reservoir had already evacuated although this in fact was not correct and they remained there until after the surrender. The Officer in Charge then proceeded through the Military second line of defence, about half a mile west of Aberdeen. He noticed that the Naval Authorities were still carrying out demolitions in the harbour.\n\nWith the approval of Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, given after a visit, the station was evacuated to No.183 and 184 Mount Kellet Road (henceforth described as Gough Hill) owing to the presence of a battery in close proximity. The battery was drawing heavy shell fire.\n\nThe Police from Wanchai Gap, badly damaged by shell fire, were evacuated on advice from the Military who had taken over the area. Shortly before leaving, the station was again hit by a shell.\n\nPolice took appropriate action against looters during the day.\n\n14.00 The Officer in Charge arrived at the Dairy Farm Pokfulam but found no Police there.\n\n15.30 He had previously been informed that P.S.A.155 Fitzpatrick had abandoned his men outside Aberdeen village and left them to themselves, proceeding himself in a lorry to Hong Kong. S.A.145 Goldie had reached the Dairy Farm with his men, after P.S.A.155 Fitzpatrick should have arrived, and not finding him there had also not waited. Officer in Charge proceeded to No.7 Station and was instructed by the Divisional Inspector, Western, after consultation with Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, to go to Upper Levels and remain there until further orders. Sgt. A.145 Goldie had previously proceeded to Upper Levels and had been told by the Inspector on Duty, Western, whom he consulted by telephone, to remain there but send his men to No.7, which he did.\n\n30.\n\nQuarry Bay & Eastern.\n\nP.M.\n\n31.\n\nGough Hill.\n\n17.00\n\n32.\n\nPolice H.Q. & Central.\n\n18.00\n\n33.\n\nBay View.\n\n18.00\n\nSome\n\nAn Indian Constable from Quarry Bay reported at No.2 Station and stated that during the previous night he had been awakened by the other Indians and informed that the enemy were approaching the Station. Police, including Europeans, ran out of the Station and took to the hills. He, himself, was wounded in the knee, captured but later released. He knew nothing of the fate of the other Police in the Station. Later he was sent to hospital.\n\nSeveral unexploded shells were reported as having landed in or near the Matilda Hospital. The Military were informed but stated they were unable to deal with the same.\n\nMr. Gaddie of the Hong Kong Hotel took over the European police feeding from Mr. Muenger, Manager of the Gloucester Hotel, and European Police had their meals in the Hong Kong Hotel. Mr. Gaddie was very unobliging and the rice was cooked very badly on account, according to Mr. Gaddie, of poor fuel and lack of it.\n\nMr. Chesterwoods, Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police, produced coal but no improvement resulted.\n\nThe Hong Kong Electric premises had been badly damaged by shelling and bombing and the lighting system",
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        "content_text": "Date. \n\nDistrict. \n\n39. \n\nEastern. \n\n40. \n\nUpper Levels. \n\n41. \n\nUpper Levels. \n\n20.12.41. \n\n1. \n\nPolice H. Q. & Central. \n\nEastern. \n\nHong Kong. \n\n4. \n\nHong Kong Traffic Office. \n\n5. \n\nUpper Levels. \n\nTime. \n\n43. \n\n20. 12. 41 \n\n581 \n\nConstables in Sub Inspector Taylor's party had retreated rapidly leaving the Europeans when the firing commenced but returned about twenty minutes later. The Military party under Sergeant Gilham was located in Arsenal Street. They reported that they had been attacked by cavalry. Sub Inspector Taylor proceeded to Command Headquarters and made a report as to the situation. He then went to Police Headquarters as he had earlier attempted to telephone No.2 Station and failed to obtain an answer. P. 5. A.40 Youe was in charge of the similar Lewis gun and riflemen party at the Lee Theatre. The nearest machine gun team provided by the Middlesex in charge of Sergeant Gilham was located in Percival Street near Russell Street. This Sergeant had arranged with Sergeant Youe that Police should retire if they heard three blasts of the whistle. The arranged signal was later sounded, presumably by Sergeant Gilham when he thought he was being attacked by cavalry, and the Police team accordingly retired slowly to No. 2 Station.\n\n22.00 Police evacuated the Station owing to one of the Lewis Gun sections returning and reporting that they had heard a whistle signal, previously arranged with Sgt. Gilham of the Middlesex, that the enemy had broken through. Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, in the absence of Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, out on duty, tried to telephone Col. Stewart and the Commissioner of Police but failed, so evacuation took place. From the Gloucester Hotel, however, the Military were contacted, and the alleged break through was found to be incorrect, and Sergeant Gilham's and the Police's withdrawal had been premature. Messrs. Heath and Fay, Assistant Superintendents of Police, with about ten Europeans, thereupon returned to Wanchai and carried out a waterfront patrol during the night.\n\n22.15 A report was made that signalling was taking place from a roof of a house in Lower Lascar Road near Ladder Street. A Police search was made under Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, without result.\n\n23.00 The Demolition Depot at Oaklands Path reported that several shots had been fired at the depot coming from the direction of Centre Street. A Police search under Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, was made without result, and a Police guard was left for the night.\n\n00.15 The General Alarm was sounded as the result of a rumoured threatened attack by the enemy or Fifth Columnists. After some hours, the men were permitted to stand down, apart from reinforced sentry posts, as no incident occurred.\n\n08.00 No.2 Station was reoccupied by Police. Heavy shelling was experienced with hits on the Station. The bombing of the district continued.\n\n09.15 General air raids began.\n\nOn the request of Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, on or about this date, the Traffic Inspector, Hong Kong, took over control of the Dispatch Riders, provided by Police Reserve Flying Squad, based at Police Headquarters.\n\nThe Station came under trench mortar fire. Three shells fell in front of the Station, and one hit a chimney.",
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        "content_text": "Date.\n\n6.\n\nDistrict. Gough Hill.\n\nTime.\n\n7,\n\nWestern.\n\n8.\n\nEastern.\n\n9.\n\nUpper Levels.\n\n10.\n\n11.\n\nEmergency Unit Hong Kong.\n\nAberdeen\n\n* See opposite page for firm 11A.\n\n12.\n\nUpper Levels.\n\n13.\n\nPolice H.Q.\n\n14.\n\nWong Nei Chung & Upper Levels.\n\n15.\n\nAberdeen.\n\n16.\n\nCentral.\n\n17.\n\nEastern.\n\n44.\n\n20\n\n12-41\n\n60\n\nThe Station building, already evacuated, was hit by three shells. Shelling continued. Reports were made of attempts to extort money from residents in Queen's Road West and Des Voeux Road West for \"protection\". Police took action under orders from the Director Criminal Investigation and arrests were made.\n\nMr. Booker, Assistant Superintendent of Police, removed from the Special Constabulary Headquarters at Ventris Road and returned to the Gloucester Building. Police were despatched to Hollywood Road to control rice queues. Some little trouble had occurred before the arrival of the Police but this was soon satisfactorily settled.\n\n10.30 The Unit was called to Queen Victoria Street where it dealt with looters looting deserted premises.\n\n11.00 P.S.A.162 Williamson was instructed by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Defence, to reoccupy Aberdeen Station. Sergeant Williamson gave instructions to L.S.A.145 Goldie to bring his party back and the same orders were repeated to P.S.A.155 Fitzpatrick through the Inspector on Duty Western. The Officer in Charge, with Mr. Searle's, Assistant Superintendent of Police, permission returned himself to the Station in advance. He learnt there that the Japanese advance had been stopped at Wong Chuk Hang near the Industrial School. During the afternoon and evening Srgts. Goldie and Fitzpatrick returned with six Chinese Police Constables and four returned independently.\n\n12.45 Cases of demanding money for \"protection\" from householders were reported. A party of Police were left at No.10 Square Street but the culprits failed to return. During the shelling of the Peak a number of shells fell short to land in Conduit and Robinson Roads, some landing near Police posts. One Indian Police Constable was slightly wounded near the Filter Beds.\n\nSenior Superintendent of Police, Defence, prepared and submitted a report to the Commissioner of Police concerning the Police action with the enemy at Shaukiwan.\n\np.m. The Indian Guards from Wong Nei Chung arrived at Upper Levels station stating that enemy troops had arrived at Wong Nei Chung some time the previous day (exact time is not now remembered) and that they had only just managed to evacuate in time after contact with the enemy. An European Volunteer had led them but had been killed. They had made their way back to Hong Kong via Aberdeen.\n\n18.00 General shelling became severe with many casualties. A.R.P. personnel evacuated and ceased to function. Personnel of the Rescue & Demolition squads and Food Kitchen and Sanitary Inspectors all left and by nightfall only seventeen Police and nine Firemen remained to carry on as best they could.\n\n19.00 The Queen's Cinema was hit by a bomb or shell but little damage was done.\n\nNight. The Police provided Lewis Gun and Thompson Gun patrols in the front line as for the previous night, except that the number of Indian riflemen was increased. Col. Stewart again warned Police of the",
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        "content_text": "Date. \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\n21. 12. 41 \n\n61 \n\nseriousness of the position, am told them to be ready for evacuation at short notice. \n\n21.12 11 \n\n1. Eastern. \n\n2. Aberdeen. \n\n3. \n\n4. \n\n5. Gough Hill. \n\nWestern. \n\nGough Hill. \n\n6. Eastern. \n\n7. Emergency Unit, Hong Kong. \n\n06.30 A party of Police from Police Headquarters under Insp. Cunningham and L. S.A. 142 Kinloch searched houses in the Village Road area. The enemy were observed operating in the Broadwood Road and Gap Road area. \n\n07.30 An air raid took place on the Naval Dockyard. Aplichau and Aberdeen main road was shelled with casualties. Police removed bodies from Aplichau to the cemetery. Heavy bombing and shelling continued. \n\nAir raids and shelling continued. On report that bad characters were to be found in First and Second Streets. Police patrolled there without incident. \n\nThe Military ammunition dump at Mount Austin barracks was hit by a bomb and exploded. Water had to be carried by hand and the difficulty of dealing with the fire was increased by exploding ammunition. \n\n11.00 The relief of men at No.2 Station was effected. \n\nMr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and his men returned to Police Headquarters and Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, with Inspector Whant and a fresh batch took their places. \n\n11.30 The Unit was called to Kennedy Road on complaint by the Military of Fifth Columnist activity. After consultation with the Military Medical Officer in charge of the First Aid Post there, several houses in the vicinity of the Union Church were searched without result. \n\nUpper Levels. \n\n13.00 Some shells fell in Robinson and Conduit Roads causing few or no casualties. \n\n9. Gough Hill. \n\n10. Western. \n\n11. Eastern. \n\n12. \n\n16.30 The Police Fire Brigade engine was struck by a H.E. shell near the Matilda Hospital and destroyed. \n\n17.00 A report was made that the Japanese had landed at Victoria Road below the Dairy Farm. The Divisional Inspector West visited and found that it was a false report. \n\np.m. The Headquarters of the Middlesex Regiment was moved from Ventris Road to Gilman's Garage. The Military requested Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, to arrange for the following Police patrols behind the front line to work from 18.00 to 00.06 hours nightly in lieu of the Police fixed Lewis gun patrols formerly manned in the front line: (1) Gap Road and Queen's Road East to Arsenal Street, (2) The Water Front from Arsenal Street to Percival Street, (3), Canal Road West from Gloucester Road to Leighton Hill Road. In addition, a fixed Lewis Gun post was still maintained on the first floor of the Station to repel a possible landing near the Station. The British front line then ran from the sea front to Percival Street to Lee Theatre round Happy Valley to Blue Pool Road to Wong Nei Chung with an advance force on Leighton Hill. \n\nUpper Levels. Night. Owing to shortage of men at Central, Upper Levels had to supply additional Europeans for water front patrols from this night onwards. The patrols covering the remaining parts of the district had in consequence themselves to be restricted. \n\nNight. As the result of the rumour that the Japanese had landed at Victoria Road near the Dairy Farm, this area in addition to the water front was patrolled throughout the night on instructions from Police Headquarters. \n\nThe occupants Police had to clear air raid tunnels. In the rear were in danger of suffocation as the ventilation system had not been working for nearly two days. \n\n20.00 to 22.00",
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        "content_text": "Date. District.\n\nTime.\n\n46.\n\n22.12.5\n\n62\n\n22.12.1\n\n1.\n\nPolice picketed the entrances and the public were only allowed back at day break.\n\n02.00 P.S.A.185 Galvin and Police party were fired on from the direction of Eastern Street whilst returning to Oaklands Path Dispersal Point. Attempts were made to locate the culprits without success.\n\nEarly Severe shelling of the district took place all day starting at day break.\n\n07.30 Air raids continued. Police were busily engaged in dealing with looters who were still active.\n\n2. Aberdeen.\n\n3. Western.\n\n4. Gough Hill.\n\n5. Upper Levels.\n\nEmergency Unit\n\n6. Hong Kong.\n\n7. Heavy bombing and shelling continued.\n\nPolice were placed on duty at street fountains during the day to control the crowds and ensure economical use of water.\n\nAbout one dozen The Unit searched the Hong Kong Hotel. Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps officers and men, mostly Portuguese, were found and sent back to their Units.\n\nEmergency Unit 08.00 Called to Queen Victoria Street to deal with looters Hong Kong.\n\n8. Police H.Q.\n\n9. looting deserted houses and trying to break into Money-changers shops.\n\nGeneral instructions were issued to Police Water Front patrols only to put up an active resistance to enemy troops while they were attempting a landing. Once the landing was effected Police were instructed to withdraw and report to the nearest Station, leaving a portion of the patrol behind to keep observation on the movement of the enemy.\n\nUpper Levels. 11.00 Heavy shelling of Upper Levels Station and its vicinity took place. The Station received heavy damage along its frontage and slight damage was sustained to the roof. Cars in front of the Station were hit.\n\n10. Upper Levels.\n\n11. Aberdeen.\n\n12. Emergency Unit, Hong Kong.\n\n13. Gough Hill. Aberdeen.\n\nTwo shells landed in Park Road. One fell near the Police Dispersal Point but failed to explode.\n\n11.00 As the result of an air raid the Naval Dockyard was completely wrecked and set afire. All Police turned out. The main road from Aberdeen to the Naval Headquarters was under heavy shell fire with snipers operating from Brick Hill. The Police disposed of the bodies. (The Officer in Charge estimates fatal casualties from bombs and shells occurring in the Aberdeen district, including Ap Lei Chau and the harbour, to this date to have been about 275.).\n\n11.00 The Unit was engaged as stretcher bearers moving convalescent wounded soldiers into the Hong Kong Hotel.\n\n13.00 Sub Inspector Smith, the Officer in Charge, returned to the station at Nos.183 and 184 Mount Kellett Road and found it to have been badly damaged by shell fire. All the Police, including Interpreters and detectives, had deserted the station with the exception of five Weihaiwei men, namely: L.S.D.206 and P.C.Ds 148, 157, 243 and 191. The Police who had gone had left without permission and most of them reported eventually at Police Headquarters.\n\n15.45 On instructions from the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and a volunteer Police party consisting of Sub Inspector Taylor, L.S.A.79 Appleton, L.S.A.73 Haynes, L.S.A.98 Michie and L.S.A.83 MacDonald proceeded to Aberdeen in order to attempt to obtain 1000 hand grenades from the Military magazine at Shouson Hill. The Military however on the...",
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        "content_text": "Date. 24.12.11.\n\nDistrict.\n\nTime.\n\n1. Eastern.\n\n2. Aberdeen.\n\n3. Emergency Unit Hong Kong.\n\n4. Eastern.\n\n5. Aberdeen.\n\n6. Eastern.\n\n7. Eastern\n\n8. Eastern.\n\n40.\n\n24.12. Jud\n\n66\n\n07.00 On instructions from Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and a Police party evacuated some relatives of Sir R. H. Kotewall from Kennedy Road. Mr. Luscombe had also been requested to evacuate a Miss Fraser from Wong Nei Chung Road but the Military refused to allow Police to go through the front line for this purpose owing to the close proximity of the enemy.\n\nMiss Fraser was instructed to walk to the front line. She did so and arrived safely.\n\n08.00 Trench mortars and heavier guns commenced shelling the Station from Bennett Hill. Five hits were registered in twenty minutes.\n\n08.00 The Unit was called to Queen Victoria Street on a complaint that looting was taking place. Drastic action had to be taken.\n\n08.00 Police dealt with looters passing through the front line on complaint from the Military that their line of fire was being masked. The Food Control were asked to fetch food seized from looters but no lorries were sent.\n\n09.00 Police evacuated to the air raid tunnel near the permanent cemetery. The Station was hit twice by heavy shells after leaving. Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, visited shortly before the move.\n\nMr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, received a complaint from the Chinese restaurant concerned that owing to heavy shell fire they were unable to supply the Chitose Hotel, where Japanese women and children were located, with food. Sergeant was sent along, and he reported that the internees were all right and that he had arranged with the restaurant to continue the supply of food.\n\n12.00 Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, returned to resume duty as No.2 Sub Area Commander. Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and Insp. Whant remained to assist.\n\n16.00 Messrs. Heath and Luscombe, Assistant Superintendents of Police, took two Police patrols up to the front line in connection with a complaint made that sniping by Fifth Columnists was going on. On investigation this was found to be coming from the enemy themselves. The Station was under very heavy and continuous shell and mortar fire. On the return of the two Police parties, whilst the gate of the Station compound was being opened an Indian Police Constable on guard there was wounded by shrapnel. He was conveyed under the very heavy fire to hospital by P. S. A.53 Brown and L. Ss. A.176 Bodie, A.172 Leslie and A.26 Gordon with another Sikh Constable (name and number unknown). L.S.A.",
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        "content_text": "Date. \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\nGough Hill. \n\n10. \n\nWestern. \n\n11. \n\nAberdeen. \n\n12. \n\nAberdeen. \n\n13. \n\nEastern. \n\n14. \n\nPolice H. Q. & Emergency Unit, Hong Kong. \n\n15. \n\nStanley. \n\n24.12.41 \n\n67 \n\n177 Lewis assisted the others to carry the wounded man to the lorry which Srgt. Brown drove. Particularly heavy shelling was going on at the back of the Station and in the neighbouring streets during this removal. As the result of the pounding which the station had received, with numerous hits, the Chinese Police became panicky and useless and had to be evacuated to Upper Levels and No.7 Station. \n\n16.30 The War Memorial Hospital was very heavily shelled to and incendiary bombs were dropped. \n\n18.00 17.00 \n\nA few shells landed in Felix Villas. Otherwise the district remained quiet except that the fires started previously continued to rage fiercely. \n\n19.00 With the approval of the Commissioner of Police, which Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, obtained after visiting the Station, the second evacuation of Aberdeen took place and all Police except for P.S.A.162 Williamson and three Indians, left the village. \n\n19.30 P.S.A.162 Williamson, Officer in Charge, moved back to the Station. He found it to have been badly wrecked. The Chinese kitchen, barrack room at east end, Charge Room, back ground verandah, the European kitchen, verandah and bedroom and the roof had received severe damage. Windows and shutters had been smashed. \n\nNight. The Police patrols were carried out as on the previous day. The heavy bombardment of the station continued. \n\n21.00 Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and L. S. A.142 Kinloch observed morse signalling coming from May Road in the vicinity of Tregunter Mansions. An enemy barrage followed directed at the same place shortly afterwards. After maintaining observation from the roof of Police Headquarters, Gloucester Building, the Unit searched several houses in May Road after contacting the Military, without result. \n\n21.00 The enemy attacked Stanley Peninsula and after fierce fighting lasting some hours gained possession. P.S.A. 69 Simpson, the Officer in Charge, and L. S. A. 13 Whitley took part with a Lewis Gun and hand grenades. The Indian and Chinese Police had all deserted by the time the enemy were within fifty or sixty yards of the Station. The retreat towards Stanley Fort along Wong Ma Kok Road was ordered when two of the four machine guns of the Middlesex Regiment had been put out of action and there was only six belts of ammunition left for the two remaining guns. The retreat was carried out with one gun covering the other.",
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        "content_text": "51.\n\nStrict.\n\nTime.\n\nA\n\nreen.\n\n00.30 to 04.00 Stanley. Early morn-ing.\n\nEastern.\n\n06.00 4. Aberdeen.\n\n08.00 5. Gough Hill.\n\n6. Special Branch.\n\nSpecial Branch.\n\n1\n\n25.12.41\n\n68\n\nA volunteer Police party consisting of Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Sub Inspector Taylor, L. Ss. A.83 MacDonald, A.147 Pope, A.54 Hewitt, proceeded to Aberdeen joining a Military convoy at the University in order to make a fourth (and successful) attempt to obtain one thousand hand grenades from the Military Magazine at Shouson Hill. An armoured car was sent ahead at Aberdeen to scout and as nothing happened the main party followed ten minutes later. The hand grenades were collected and later handed over to Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, at Police Headquarters, except for 36 boxes supplied to the Naval Headquarters at the Industrial School who were very short of them. The Police party assisted the few coolies, six to eight, to do the loading as the Military merely acted as guards throughout the expedition. A short burst of machine gun fire with tracer bullets was loosed off by the Japanese towards the end of the operation, hitting the embarkment on top of the Magazine. Small spasmodic sniping by the enemy was encountered on the return journey. A lorry of dead Indians was seen on the road. The Japanese were still in possession of Shouson Hill itself.\n\nIn the retreat carried out during the early hours of the morning, P.S.A. 69 Simpson and L.S.A. 13 Whitley on instructions from an Officer collected troops and with them occupied trenches below Stanley Fort on both sides of the road. They were separated during the fight which followed whilst the retreat was going on. They met again at the Fort at 19.00 hours when they left the trenches as they were full of troops by then and there was no room for all the men.\n\nA Chinese car driver knowing the exact disposition of the enemy at East Point was taken to Command Headquarters by Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and handed over to the G.S.O.I.\n\nJapanese planes tried to bomb the Motor Torpedo boats. Two shells landed in the Station compound. Police moved to the Dockyard tunnel. The Officer in Charge reports that all the ordinary A.R.P. tunnels were untenable through bad air and filth. Volunteers would no longer work in the open collecting and burying bodies. He had to arrange to dump the bodies at sea after dark.\n\nHeavy bombing, including incendiary bombs, and shelling continued.\n\nThe Special Branch removed the archives from the Japanese Consul General's office to the New Oriental Building.\n\nThe Director of the Special Branch attended a conference at Government House with regard to the living conditions of interned Japanese.",
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        "content_text": "APPENDIX \"B\"\n\nExtracts made from reports of certain officers summarising important Police aspects of the Siege.\n\n74\n\nMr. L.H.C. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, in commenting on events taking place before the evacuation of Kowloon adds:- (i) Telephonic communication throughout the period of the war whilst Police were still in Kowloon was appalling and became even worse on the morning of the 11th December. It often took literally hours to get on to the required number. Throughout the morning and afternoon of the 11th December both Chief Inspector Smith and myself tried repeatedly to get into touch with Brigade and Command Headquarters without success, except in the single instance quoted in the Diary under Entry No.7 of the 11th December. (ii) Kowloon Brigade Headquarters found little time to provide adequate liaison in the shape of information to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon. Sub Inspector Brittain, the Police liaison officer, was given very little information. When the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, rang up Kowloon Brigade Headquarters he was referred to Command Headquarters, or vice versa, (when he rang up the latter).\n\n2.\n\nChief Inspector Smith in commenting on the same events agreed with the above and adds a further comment:- \"I heard that street fighting had occurred outside the Alhambra Theatre after Police had arrived at the Kowloon Godowns on evacuation from stations and I understood that this report was made earlier.\"\n\n3.\n\nMr. A.R.S. Major, Director Special Branch states that:- \"The chief work of the Special Branch during the war was (i) dealing with applications from or on behalf of European enemy nationals for release. About eleven males and ten females were so liberated. (ii) Investigation of reports concerning fifth columnists and raids in connection thereto. Frequent allegations from outside sources that signalling was going on were received by the Special Branch but none were found to have any foundation. (iii) The Director Special Branch attended frequent conferences in connection with (a) Fifth columnists, (b) Chung King representatives and (c) Triad Societies, (iv) Requests from the Japanese Consul General.\"\n\n(2) He further states:- (i) Hill Crest, the Headquarters of the Special Branch was hit repeatedly by shells and near misses by bombs. (ii) Telephonic communication was bad. (iii) Difficulties were experienced in keeping the Chinese staff together as they complained that their families could not obtain rice. Only a small proportion remained working until the end of the war.\n\n4.\n\nG. S. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and assistant to Mr. W. P. Thompson, Superintendent of Police, in general charge of Hong Kong Stations, states that:- \"Throughout the war continuous reports were received by Mr. Thompson and myself of (i) serious food queue riots reported by the Food Control but these were greatly exaggerated except at Shaukiwan where several rice shops were looted by workmen from the Taikoo Docks, encouraged by Triad Societies. The headquarters of the Shaukiwan Triad Society was successfully raided by Police, (iii) Fifth columnist activities were reported by telephone on numerous occasions and almost invariably found groundless.\"\n\n(2) He further states:- \"Food control arrangements broke down. Police and their families were not fed properly. The Public were not served fast enough. Rice shops had to be opened forcibly by the Police. Other food shops were allowed by the Food Controller to remain closed.\"\n\n5.\n\nMr. H. W. E. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, No.2 Sub Area Commander reports:- \"There was no looting on any big scale. Many reports of signalling by Fifth columnists were received by Police but most of them were found on investigation to be groundless. I can only remember three cases of any foundation. (i) One man was arrested in Wanchai with a mirror in his possession suspected of having used it for signalling. He was sent to the Criminal Investigation Department, Police Headquarters, for further investigation. (ii) A man was seen waving a white piece of cloth on the hillside at Shaukiwan and was arrested. He claimed to have been merely dusting the cloth, a flour sack. He also was sent to the Criminal Investigation Department, Police Headquarters for further investigation. (iii) One Indian soldier was seen by Inspector Russell signalling with a mirror at the...",
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        "content_text": "75\n\njunction of Tai Hang and Broadwood Roads. He was arrested and handed over to the Military Authorities.\n\nThere were occasional reports of rioting at rice and food distributing centres but none turned out to be of any importance. When investigated it was proved that the reports were generally prompted by nervous clerks anxious to lock up and go home.\n\n6.\n\nIn\n\nMr. L.A. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, No.1 Sub Area Commander states:- \"Daily sniping by fifth columnists in Upper Levels district took place during the war in various parts of the district. In spite of full investigation no offenders were located. (ii) Aberdeen was under continual shell fire throughout the war owing to its close proximity to Aberdeen Naval Headquarters at the Aberdeen Industrial School.\n\n7.\n\nMr. E.S.C. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge of regular duty work in Hong Kong and later No.2 Sub Area Commander, states:- \"Many reports on fifth columnist activities were received but none were substantiated in subsequent investigation. I was, myself, however, fired on twice by fifth columnists, once at Pedder Street and Queen's Road junction when a Chinese male standing near me was killed and secondly when I was in my car near the Club de Lusitano.\n\n(2) There was very little looting.\n\nIn this respect, Central, Eastern and Western districts were very quiet. None of it was on an organised scale. The only incidents I noted were (i) two rice shops at Shaukiwan, (ii) the Imperial Chemical Industries Godowns in front of our front line, (iii) the French Store near Central Market, (iv) Rice godowns on the Western water front.\n\n8.\n\nMr. F.W. Shaftain, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Director, Criminal Investigation, states:- \"After the evacuation from Kowloon the Chinese detectives deteriorated and became practically useless, owing to defeatist propaganda spread by fifth columnists, by vested interests, and at first by Triad Societies. (N.B. The co-operation of the Triad Societies was obtained on the 11th December, see entry No.62 of 11.12.41)\n\n(2) Owing to the break down of the Chinese Detective staff an outside organisation had to be formed. Members of the Triad Societies were able to buy over certain Wang Ching Wai personnel and valuable information was continually obtained which led to numerous raids and drastic action against subversive elements.\n\n9.\n\nMr. G.W. Wright-Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Assistant Commander of No.1 Sub Area, states:- \"There was little crime in Central and Western districts and not until after the surrender when Police had been withdrawn did wholesale robbery and looting take place. Police carried out continuous patrols throughout the 24 hours, guarded Vital Points and food depots and controlled crowds at fires and in rice queues. In the Central district there was a little looting of shops and houses damaged by shells and bombs but none in Upper Levels district. In the Western district Police had a great deal to do preventing damaged godowns on the water front being looted.\n\n(2) The complete break down of Food Control arrangements led to difficulty in feeding Police and their families. It took a week for Police to make, in lieu, their own arrangements which was only done under the prevailing circumstances with difficulty and by ingenuity.\n\n#\n\n10.\n\nMr. Chesterwoods, Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police, Officer in Charge Police Food Control, points out the difficulties under which he worked:- \"(i) The utensils etc., indented for about seven weeks before the war started were never received, (ii) The Food Control in Kowloon was never properly organised or completed and never put into operation, (iii) The Land Transport failed to supply vehicles indented for through the Traffic Inspector, Hong Kong. A bare sufficiency was eventually obtained but no light transport was available which would have been useful. The lorries were on several occasions damaged by shell fire, (iv) Only Central received rice, salt and beans free of indent. (v) Chinese Police claiming non-existent families were inclined to sell the free extra rations which they obtained to outside Chinese, (vi) The Indians had to continue to use kitchens at Central even after the move to the Gloucester Building. (vii) The impossibility of issuing 'Sung' to Police families led to discontent, (viii) Police from out stations arriving successively at the Gloucester Building on evacuation, (ix) Men sent to Dispersal Points and the Station Supply Officers concerned not being informed, (x) After the surrender no more food was received from the Food Controller so Police",
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        "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 3.\n\n3\n\n3\n\n105\n\nQuestion put by Mr. Calthrop to P. S. A162, Williamson, Officer in Charge, Aberdeen.\n\nHow was it that after the first evacuation of Aberdeen which took place on the morning of the 19th December, Police were not waiting for you at the Dairy Farm Pokfulum in accordance with the instructions you had given P. S. A55 Fitzpatrick and L. S. A145 Goldie before they had left the Station with their respective parties?\n\nP. S. A162, Williamson, states:-\n\nI cannot say. That the Police were anxious to get into town is the only explanation I can think of. I told them to wait till 14.00 hours and if I did not arrive to go to Pokfulum and telephone for instructions. I understand that the mistake occurred owing to P. S. A55 Fitzpatrick. He left the Station with the second party but overtook the first party and reached the Dairy Farm first. He did not remain at the Dairy Farm Hill so L. S. A145 Goldie, arriving there with the first party and not finding him decided to push on to town. Both parties were on foot. I noticed that two police constables of L. S. A145's party were knocked down by blast or direct shell when some shells hit some lighters below the road about 3/4 mile from the Station at the foot of Bennett Hill, just my side of the military line. The men knocked down got up immediately and carried on. They were unhurt. I saw them afterwards; they returned to Aberdeen.\n\nTaken by me - L. H. C. CALTHROP, Senior Superintendent of Police, 23/1/43.\n\nQuestion put by Mr. Calthrop to P. S. A162, Williamson, Officer in Charge, Aberdeen.\n\nIn your statement you recorded that during the first evacuation of Aberdeen which took place on the morning of the 19th December, you were subsequently informed that P.S. A55 Fitzpatrick had boarded a lorry just outside Aberdeen and left his men to themselves. Is this correct and can you give further details?\n\nP. S. A162 Williamson states:\n\nThis is correct, I believe, though I did not see it myself. I was informed so next day by Mr. Chiu Kwan Ait, the interpreter, who left in the second party. I have questioned L. S. A145 Goldie who states he did not see it. I saw A55 myself trying to stop a lorry but it refused to stop. When I saw the two police constables knocked down I noticed that the two parties, though one left a quarter of an hour ahead of the other were not far apart, some 200 yards only, presumably the first party had been held up somewhere. Sergeant Fitzpatrick must have boarded a lorry somewhere about Bennett Hill or after there. I myself picked up the interpreter and detective L. S. C. Lai Kwong who had waited as they did not like the firing. The remainder of A55's party and A145's party had gone on. Both the interpreter and the detective noticed A55 boarding the lorry and leaving the remainder of the party. Both were annoyed by this. I have never received a satisfactory explanation from A55 concerning this. I do not know where the remaining members of the party went; only A145's party arrived at No. 7.\n\nTaken by me - L. H. C. CALTHROP, Senior Superintendent of Police, 25/1/1943.\n\nP. S. A162, Williamson, adds:-\n\nIf A55 boarded the lorry by himself I can only agree it was cowardice. The Inspector on Duty Upper Levels told him the following",
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        "content_text": "231\n\nmember of the Faculties of Engineering, Arts, and Science, and I have been, at different times, Dean of all three.\n\nWith the retiral of Prof. K.H. Digby (Surgery) I am now senior member of the entire academic staff.\n\nI came out in 1914 as a Lecturer in Engineering, had to tackle an unusual variety of technical subjects to keep the Institution going, and since 1918 I have been Professor of Mathematics (Pure and Applied).\n\nI am also an Honorary Vice-President of H.K. Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders.\n\nI was in the local R.N.V.R. (joined 1939) and at the capture of Hong Kong by the Japanese became a P.O.W., and spent 3 years behind barbed wire. Glad to say I escaped nearly all the worst effects of our persistent mal-nutrition, and am now entirely fit and full of pep.\n\nWe need:\n\n(a) A new campus (Kowloon Side) - No use rebuilding our shattered shells on the present inadequate site.\n\n(b) New buildings, and expensive equipment, for all our Departments, with ample allowance for expansions and additions.\n\n(c) New appointments, to the extent of 2/3 or 3/4 of the European Staff.\n\nThe following existing Chairs, with several of the corresponding lectureships, are now vacant: Physics, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, Anatomy, and Education.\n\n(a) Some revision of our Constitution.\n\nI find it impossible to estimate with any confidence the cost of such rehabilitation, but I fancy three millions sterling would be a very modest all-in figure.\n\nFor the honour of Britain, and for the steady enhancing commercial and cultural relations with China, even much...",
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        "title": "CO129-594-6 Brigadier D M MacDougall- letters to Gent on civil affairs administration 15-9-1945 - 24-12-1945",
        "content_text": "## \n\nMy dear Gen,\n\nI have no idea whether my letters are reaching you or whether signals are getting through telegraphically. My avenue is of course C.-in-C. to Chiefs of Staff and the supposition is that the latter distribute the wire in London to C.O. and W.O. If any have reached you, you will no doubt have realised that they come direct from me if they deal with civil matters in any shape or form. I have sent two brief reports on conditions here, numerous appeals for staff, a number of currency telegrams, and a batch of technical telegrams to cancel equipment orders in view of what we found here on arrival. I sent you a long letter a couple of days ago giving the background.\n\nThings struggle on. It's all eyes on currency at the moment, an anxious business for an amateur of finance like myself stepping off into waters dark and deep. So far so good, though I wish we had a finance man here. The excellent alibi provided by his absence is perhaps wearing a little thin.\n\nI wish also we had a personnel man with a couple of administrative men under him. I seem to have been invested with more far-reaching and complete powers than any Governor I ever heard of, but I have insufficient staff to run a village shop.\n\nThe surrender took place today, a grand moment: and tonight the harbour is bright with the searchlights and rockets and star-shells of (literally) a hundred British warships. The port is stiff with large, severe-looking ships, the most impressive display of massed power that anyone round here remembers seeing.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-626-3 Labour Department- report to Labour Commissioner 1-3-1951 - 30-6-1952",
        "page_number": 109,
        "title": "CO129-626-3 Labour Department- report to Labour Commissioner 1-3-1951 - 30-6-1952",
        "content_text": "-83-\n\n98\n\nbe an employee earning twice as much money. He no doubt hopes that in time he will be able so to develop his business and thus become rich. The founding of businesses on a \"shoestring\" shows both faith and initiative but has serious defects unless adequately controlled.\n\n395.\n\n(iii) RUBBER INDUSTRY\n\nOver forty factories engaged in making rubber goods of various kinds are registered with the Department of Labour, the majority of the works being situated in Kowloon. Unfortunately, the rising tempo of war preparations in various parts of the world has had serious repercussions on the price of smoked rubber sheets and latex. Difficulties have been mounting steadily since the outbreak of the war in Korea. The almost prohibitive cost of rubber coupled with reduced overseas demand for finished products has compelled most factories to slow down their activities or to suspend work altogether, although there are now signs of some revival.\n\n396. The rubber industry in Hong Kong has a long history and in the past has played a major role in the industrial life of the Colony. In 1949, the export of rubber footwear, to which more than half of the capacity of the industry is devoted, exceeded 13 million dollars, constituting over 18% of total exports. The bulk of locally produced rubber footwear was exported to Britain and British possessions, but before the recent change of Government in China, there was an active market in South China.\n\n397. The demand from Britain and British possessions is said to have declined recently because rubber prices have soared so steeply and market prices have not kept pace with the increase. Some firms are alleged to have disposed of their stocks of raw rubber in the market, as by so doing they were able to secure greater returns than by continuing production.\n\n398.\n\nThere is evidence of spasmodic collective bargaining in this industry, but wage rates tend to be somewhat lower than in the textile industry. The majority of the more skilled women workers, however, seem to earn about $3 a day in the larger undertakings.\n\n399.\n\nThis is certainly an industry which, in more normal times, might warrant the imposition of a Trade Board, but the provisions of food, etc., as part of wages considerably complicate matters, and a survey of wage rates seems to be indicated when once again rubber prices are more normal and the industry reasonably active.\n\n400.\n\n(iv) BUTTON MAKING\n\nThirteen button-making factories employing over 600 workers are now in operation. The materials used include ivory, nuts, coconut shells, sea shells, and bone.\n\n401.\n\nWage rates are calculated on monthly rates, daily rates, and piece rates. There seems to be no wage...",
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