[ { "id": 226420, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "content_text": "I had the gratification to learn that\n\nHis Lordship experienced\n\nwhatever ...\n\nthe late\n\nthe\n\ngarrison no inconvenience from\n\ntemporary detention.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Lordships'\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nJ. ...\n\nof\n\nFrom\n\nSir\n\nSec. 303.\n\n128\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nThe Governor General of India,\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir S. Z. Davis, Bart.,\n\nHer Majesty's Plenipotentiary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nSimla, the 12th September 1847.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's Despatches dated\n\nthe 20th and 24th of June last with enclosures, stating that although the Reliefs had arrived, the monsoon being unfavourable to the old Garrison returning at once to India, your Excellency had determined\n\nto retain the latter until the month of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 226421, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "content_text": "I have the honour to acquaint your Excellency that it is my intention to withdraw the Troops from this Colony by the end of October or November next.\n\nI have the satisfaction to inform your Excellency that the detention of the Troops at Hongkong who are ultimately to proceed to India, has not in the present tranquil state of this country been the cause of the slightest inconvenience to the public service.\n\nI have also to participate in the hope expressed by your Excellency that the late measures resorted to may prove final and conclusive, and that all remaining questions may be so arranged satisfactorily as to permit of the Troops who have been relieved, preceding at the time you mention to their final destination.\n\nBut should your Excellency find it more conducive to the interests of Her Majesty's Government to retain the Troops ultimately destined for India for a still longer period in China, I have to request that your Excellency will, so far as I am concerned, have no hesitation in retaining them, as there appears no probability of their services being urgently required in this Country.\n\n(Signed) Hardinge.\n\nSimla,\n\nThe 12th September 1847.\n\nI cordially participate in the hope expressed by your Excellency that the late measures resorted to may prove final and conclusive, and that all remaining questions may be so arranged satisfactorily as to permit of the Troops who have been relieved, proceeding at the time you mention to their final destination.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "hi 10469/ST\n\n166\n\nSimla 20th October 1857.\n\nDouble Sirs\n\nI have the honor to submit\n\nLetter from Secy Govt to Govt of N.W.P(?) with enclosure\n\nand printed Report\n\nLetter to be in reply no: 344\n\nd/ 20th Oct. 1857\n\nnoted in the margin\n\nwith the Lieutenant\n\nGovernor of the N. W. Provinces, together with a printed report by Mr Fortune upon the Tea Plantations in those Provinces, to which the correspondence refers.\n\nI have read with very great\n\n2\n\ninterest Mr Fortune's report, and regard\n\nwith satisfaction the favorable and ...\n\nencouraging opinion he has been able to pronounce. The encouragement given by one so competent to form, and pronounce an authoritative opinion\n\nThe Double the\n\nCourt of Directors of the East India Company\n\non", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231970, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "m10469/57\n\n168\n\nSimla. 3rd October 1857\n\nSir,\n\nI am desired by the Lieutenant Governor to forward for submission to the Most Noble the Governor General of India two copies of a forwarded report dated September 6th last by Mr. Fortune on the Tea plantations in these Provinces. Copies of letters written in consequence are also forwarded for information.\n\n2. Although the account is encouraging, the Lieutenant Governor apprehends that the manufacture is not yet in a state to admit of any relaxation of effort for procuring both men and plants from China. Enough has been done to shew that these can be procured and at what cost this can be done, and that when procured at this certain cost they can be successfully located in the Himalayas.\n\nThe Chinese manufacturers have been wealthy, contented and thriving in their avocation.\n\nThe Secretary to the Govt. of India with the Governor General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231972, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "plants and seeds. The late attempts to effect this have been so very successful, difficulty will be hereafter experienced in procuring further supplies. Experience has been gained as to the proper time and mode of transport; and as to the treatment of the seeds and plants both on the passage to their destination, and after their arrival. The zealous assistance which Dr Falconer in Calcutta has rendered in this undertaking will no doubt be continued with the same public spirit, which he has hitherto shown.\n\n3. The Lieutenant Governor is not aware what Agency is available in China for effecting these objects, now that W. Fortune's return to England prevents his rendering any further assistance in the project, but there must be many persons on the spot able and willing to give their aid to an undertaking which may now be called National. The Lieut Govr hopes that the Govt of India will be pleased to recommend the subject to the consideration of Her Majesty's Envoy & Superintendent in China.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed), H. R. T.\n\nSecy to Govt, N. W. Provinces\n\nSimla 8th October 1857\n\nThe Board have already in their hands some printed copies of Fortune's report of September 6, 1857 on the Tea Plantations in Kumaon. The annexed copy of a letter written in consequence to Mr Jameson is forwarded for the Board's information.\n\n2. The report affords good hope that the cultivation and manufacture of Tea will in time become a very important and highly remunerative occupation.\n\nTo the Sudder Board of Revenue N. W. Province. - Agra", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "172\n\nYou will afford great facilities for examining, mapping and forming into allotments the whole of these localities - The Board are requested to call upon the local Authorities to take this subject into consideration and to determine without delay what is requisite in this respect and when it can best be accomplished,\n\nSir,\n\nI have,\n\n[Signed] J. Thornton Sealy.\n\nTo the Supt of North Western Provinces\n\nSimla 8th October 1857\n\nSome printed copies of My Postings of Sept. 6 in the Hills are already in your hands. I am now desired to forward, for your information, the annexed copy of a letter to the Sudder Board of Revenue and inform you that measures are in course of adoption for procuring from China further supplies of manufactured plants, and seeds - On this subject you will be further addressed hereafter.\n\nTo The Supt of the Botanical Gardens Saharanpore\n\n2.\n\nThe floral suggestions regarding the improvement of the cultivation, contained in My Postings' report have no doubt already obtained your attention and have probably been adopted - A few remarks occur to the Lieut Governor-\n\n3.\n\nThe climate of Kaslagir and Dehra Dhoon plantation (p. 182) is not so favorable as the Lieut Govr anticipated, nor indeed as might have been expected from the remarks on land and cultivation contained in\n\n4.\n\nSo far as position goes the Dhoon very much answers the description there given of Awae - Chow in China, unless indeed the occasional prevalence of hot winds at Dehra constitutes an essential difference - You will of course satisfy yourself whether the alteration in the mode of culture suggested by Mr Fortune will improve the produce of the Kaslager Plantation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "Supreme Government of India\n\nhas not deemed it expedient to extend the Provisions of the Act in question to India...\n\nI have the honor to be\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke.. \"Your Grace, Most obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nIslam\n\n>\n\nMr Meninle\n\n9. WH\n\n1\n\n(Copy)\n\nHome Dept\n\nLegislative\n\nSimla\n\nFrom\n\nNo 2043/15\n\nN865\n\n37\n\nTo\n\nIs. Plowden, Esqre,\n\nOffg Secretary to the Govt of India,\n\nW. Caine, Esqre,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nDated the 18th October, 1853..\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No 190 dated the 30th August last, and in reply to state for the information of His Excellency the Governor that the provisions of the Act of Parliament 6 & 7 Victoria Cap. 96, therein referred to, have not been extended to India.. I have, &c.\n\nFort William\n\n(Signed) Edwd Plowden,\n\nThe 18th October, 1853\n\nOffg Secretary to the Govt of India.\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "Articles.\n\nKrantity in Store Remarks\n\nAd: Magnesia Riverb Lulphuris Lodidum\n\nlbs. Owdrs: ars:\n\n10\n\n14\n\nM\n\nprecepit\n\nSublimat\n\n84\n\nStrychine\n\nhome\n\nApt: vini Rect:\n\n316\n\ntemina Anisi.\n\nnothe\n\nCarni\n\nhotne!\n\nCoriand\n\nCumin\n\nnone!\n\nJamin pur Tinctura Aloes to\n\nArafatid\n\n↑\n\nAurantir Cont.\n\nBenzoin Comp. Calumbe\n\nCardamom. Co.\n\nCantharid\n\n\"\n\nEsstorei\n\nfa\n\nEsterhu\n\nfr\n\nf\n\n4\n\n部\n\nA\n\nfi\n\n4\n\n10\n\nN\n\nlinchoux Comp.\n\nCinnamomi Compe Cascarrille\n\nDigitalis\n\nFerri Murial\n\nBention. Comp.\n\nHyoscyami Jalape\n\nKino\n\n10\n\n2\n\n~\n\n1110\n\n114\n\nArticles.\n\nTinctura brynika\n\n\"\n\nopi\n\nCamphorat\n\nRhei Comp:\n\nSilla\n\nM\n\nLenne Coup\n\n164\n\nin store Remo\n\nQuantity in Store\n\nlbs: Ops: dris: gro\n\n7\n\nJohtami\n\n\"\n\nA\n\nMerian\n\nZingiberis Cubela Codini Comp Lavandula Comp.\n\nLobelix Inflat\n\nCha\n\n2 2\n\n10\n\n32\n\n12\n\n14\n\nkniaci kumon\n\n2\n\nЬ\n\nTragacanth prem: \"pulo.\n\nValerianx Nad\n\nTeratric\n\nVinum Antimonic Tark.\n\nSpec Renau\n\nMpii\n\nSem: Colchici\n\nUngerent: Hydrang: Fort\n\n4\n\nLodinia Comp Sulphuris\n\nNoe ursi folin\n\nZinci Acctus\n\nOxidan\n\nSulphas (pur.)\n\n\"Zingiberis Rode ( +pt.)\n\n12\n\n~ ~\n\n712\n\n2\n\n2\n\n712\n\nNotre", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "Articles. \n\nlbs: Orgs: duns: \n\nArticles \n\nArticles \n\nlbs \n\nBy: Mrs. \n\nArticles \n\nlts: Ons dro: \n\nGum Benzoin Martie \n\nHematoxyl: lign \n\nras; \n\nHumuli lupuli strobili Hydrargyri Chloridum \n\n\" \n\nAcid- nitric \n\nProto. Erdid \n\nHydrargyrum= \n\nGodinium \n\nin Creta \n\nSpecacuanhœ pulv. Jalapa rad: pulv. Liquor Ammoniæ fort: \n\nCalcis chloridi \n\n \n 2\n SJ\n J\n 4\n \n\nHydrarg + arsenic hydrid / \n\nApii Radix. [Battley's] \n\nLiniment Hydrarg Lini sem: \n\n \n #\n 14\n \n \n Carci\n Caryophyll\n Cinnamomi\n \n \n Jecinoris Apelli\n Lavandula Anglic\n Limoni\n \n \n Myristica\n Mentha pip.\n lini sem:\n \n \n Mive\n #\n 12\n \n \n Croton Ligh\n привет\n 112\n \n \n Opinin (Jurcia)\n Sist\n M. Amygdal dute:\n \n \n 4\n Anisi\n Potassa Sub-carb\n Sulphas\n \n \n hitrus\n Soda Bi-boras\n t\n + Potassæ Fort\n \n \n 1 July!\n Spiritus Ammoniæ Fœt\n Ь\n 2\n \n \n F\n Potassa fusa\n Atheris Vitrici\n 4\n \n \n A\n 4\n Potassi Jodid\n Sulla bulb. resiccat.\n \n \n 2\n 2\n [Potassæ bitart\n 12\n \n \n Secale Cornut.\n 8\n 4\n 4\n \n \n Pulo. brete lo\n Scammonii pulv.\n Cinnamom. Co.\n Denne folia\n \n \n له\n Senne\n Sulphur precipitatum\n 2\n \n \n +\n Op. 1opt)\n Sublim:\n 8\n \n \n %\n Zingiberis\n Strychnix\n 2\n \n \n 16\n Erinci Sulphas\n teinina Anisi\n Rocini purif\n \n \n Rose\n 18\n Radix Rhei Opt.\n Carni\n \n \n Specoenanhe\n Coriand:\n Rosmarni\n Jalape\n \n \n lumin:\n 1+\n Terebinth rect:\n Regina flav.\n \n \n Jamiin\n 4\n Rose Gallic petal\n 2\n \n \n Linctura Hyoscyami\n 2\n tapo Hispan:\n Tragacanth: gum. Pulv.\n \n \n Phunk declas\n Parzaparilla Radix\n Į\n Valerianæ radix\n \n \n Magnesia Carb.\n Gianna Mpt\n Morphia hielas\n Murias\n \n \n Sulphas\n Mezgercon Rad: Cont:\n Myrhebun\n 4\n \n \n Piper longum\n tasafras: Lignum\n Veratriæ\n Calcinat:\n \n \n Pil: Aloes in Myrrh\n Sote Carb, (or Mi-carb)\n 14\n \"Unguent Hydrarg: fort:\n \n \n 2\n Sulphas\n 56\n #\n \n \n lambogia lại\n 8\n 2\n 2\n \n \n H\n \"\n Ferri Co.\n Hydrarg\n \n \n Auberminat Co.\n Laponis en opir\n Silla Co\n Styrains Co.\n \n \n More ursi folia\n Zinci Acetas\n ƒ\n Oxidum\n \n \n Sulphas\n Zingiberis Radix (opt)\n ~ 2\n 2\n \n \n 接\n pulv:\n Potassæ Bi-Carb.\n 8\n \n \n 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "Entered\n\n35%\n\nThe 69\n\nBi H. Robinson\n\nMINUTE\n\nhached B. MAY\n\nMElliot MudRogos 14\n\nW. Cardwell\n\nW. M\n\nThe K. 12 may. 4425.\n\nPrapto to Kunder & Agents.\n\n23 4425\n\nhong kong\n\nSvi\n\n226\n\n19th May /86\n\nI transmit to\n\nfor information accounts of expenses\n\nincurred\n\non account\n\nSimla.\n\nIvor Kinder\n\nof the Hoything\n\nI have authorized the\n\nCrown Agents to pay these charges, amounting to £504/16/11\n\nI\n\nhave\n\n:\n\nBombay prizm...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 268882, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "content_text": "63\n\nThe latter, if the Indian Government does not object, His Excellency suggests should be entirely on as nearly so as possible composed of trained men now serving in the Police at Simla. Day carrying out the above arrangement, there would be ample time for them to give the required 2 month's notice, if insisted on before resignation.\n\nHis Excellency anticipates a material advantage to the Colony in having a gentleman of birth and education managing the pecuniary details such as negotiations, and undertaking.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272379, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "## to the \n\nFrom 8.6. Bayley boy, Secretary, Government of India Home Department. to the Secretary to the Government. Punjab). **No. 101073 dated Simla the 6th June 1867**. \n\nI am desired to acknowledge your letter **No. 601, dated 18th April**.\n\nRegarding the promise given to Mr Creagh regarding his appointment in India for a prolonged period of five years, the Governor General in Council considers that it exceeds the limits within which His Excellency signified his willingness to allow Mr Creagh to retain his connection with the Punjab Police.\n\nHis Excellency considers it very undesirable that any officer who may leave India (it may be presumed for his own convenience or advantage) should be allowed to retain his connection with his department.\n\n2. His Excellency requests that in the present instance, Mr Creagh be made aware of the conditions under which the promise was accorded to him. Mr Creagh was not permitted to express his opinion effectively with reference to the date fixed for the embarkation of the men; and Mr Creagh has now relied on the faith of the arrangement. His Excellency will not interfere with the arrangement further than to request that it may not be drawn into...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272385, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 578, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "**IAL** \nNo. 42 of 1867.\n\nTO THE RIGHT HON'BLE \nSIR STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE, BAET., \nSecretary of State for India.\n\nSIMLA, the 30th August 1867.\n\nSIR,\n\nIn continuation of our Despatch No. 23, dated the 11th June last, we transmit for your information copy of the correspondence noted on the margin, regarding the return passage of the Sikh Police enlisted for service in Hong-Kong in the event of the dismissal of any of the men from the Force.\n\nFrom Acting Colonial Secretary, Hong-Kong, No. 297, dated 6th June 1867.\nTo Government of the Punjab, No. 2950, dated 1st August 1867.\nFrom Government of the Punjab, No. 1195, dated 15th August 1867, and enclosures.\nTo Acting Colonial Secretary, Hong-Kong, No. 3944, dated 27th August 1867.\nTo Government of the Punjab, No. 3915, dated 27th August 1867.\n\nWe have the honor to be,\nSIR,\nYour most obedient, humble Servants,\n\n(Signed)\nJOHN LAWRENCE\nW. MANSFIELD\nH. S. MAINE\nG. N. TAYLOR\nW. N. MASSEY\nH. M. DURAND\nG. U. YULE\n\n21264\nOriginal memoranes belonging to Colonial HOME DEPARTMENT.\nRendone lobe interrott hen done with \n\ndeemed expedient to comply with the **wes** of the `Gost5` India in this matter.\n\nPage 576 \n51 \n39 \n25 \n23 \n23", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "# No.57 \n1867 \n**Government of India.** \n\n577 \n2112645 \n1 \n2 \n\n## HOME DEPARTMENT. \n## JUDICIAL. \n\nNo. 42, dated the 30th August 1867. \n**Copy.** \n\n**Letter to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for India.** \n\nFrom H. J. BALL, Esq., Acting Colonial Secretary, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, Simla,-(No. 297, dated Hong-Kong, the 6th June 1867). \nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the communication No. 2822, addressed by you on the 20th of March last, to Mr. Thornton, from whence it appears that the Governor General in Council had proposed that a certain monthly deduction should be made from the pay of the Sikhs recently enlisted into the Hong-Kong Police, and carried to the account of each man, sufficient to cover the cost of his passage, and to allow him a moderate sum for his journey and maintenance to his home, on his arrival in India. It further appears that this proposition was made by the Governor General in Council, because he was of opinion that the condition proposed by this Government of forfeiture of return passage from China by Sikh Policemen, dismissed for grave misconduct, would entail hardship upon, and eventually render service in China distasteful to, the Sikh population. \n\nHis Excellency the Governor instructs me to inform you that, having regard to the quarter whence that suggestion proceeded, His Excellency has given it full consideration; but nevertheless cannot believe that its adoption would promote that good order and discipline amongst the Sikh members of the Police force which it is so important to maintain; but, on the contrary, His Excellency is of opinion that if the Sikh Policemen once became aware that dismissal for misconduct would enable the offender to return home at an earlier period than would be the case if his conduct were good, the establishment of such a fund might operate as a premium for misconduct. \n\nUnder these circumstances, I am directed by the Governor to inform you that His Excellency is reluctantly compelled to decline promoting the proposed arrangement, although of course if the men should agree to establish such a fund on their own account, His Excellency would offer no opposition. \n\nHis Excellency the Governor thinks it better to leave a liberally disposed Government to deal with the Sikh Policemen according to their behaviour, and that there seems no reason to anticipate difficulties, as Mr. Creagh, with whose energy, discretion and efficiency His Excellency has every reason to be satisfied, has succeeded in safely landing in this Colony as fine a body of men as ever arrived from India. \n\n237: 1667 \nIn continuation of Despatch No. 23, dated 11th June last, forwards, for information, copy of correspondence regarding the return passage of the Sikh Police enlisted for service in Hong-Kong in the event of the dismissal of any of the men from the Force.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 580, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "No. 2950.\n\nFROM\n\nE. C. BAYLEY, Esq.,\n\nTo\n\nSecretary to the Government of India,\n\nT. H. THORNTON, Esq.,\n\nHome Dept. Police.\n\nSecretary to the Government of the Punjab.\n\nSIMLA, the 1st August 1867.\n\n578\n\n**SIR**\n\nWITH reference to my letter No. 2822, dated the 20th of March last, regarding the view entertained by the Governor General in Council of the condition proposed by the Hong-Kong Government as to forfeiture of return passage from China by Sikh Policemen dismissed for grave misconduct, and requesting that a certain alternative arrangement might be proposed to the men who volunteer for service in the Police at Hong-Kong, I am directed to forward, for the consideration of the Lieutenant-Governor, the accompanying copy of a letter* from the Acting Colonial Secretary at Hong-Kong.\n\n*No. 237, dated 6th June.\n\n2. You will observe that the Hong-Kong Government is opposed to the adoption of the alternative arrangement in question. I am therefore directed to inquire what conditions were actually proposed to and accepted by the Sikhs. Were they the original conditions proposed by the Hong-Kong Government in its letter of the 28th January, No. 51, or those conditions as modified in my letter above quoted?\n\n3. If the modified proposition was explained and agreed to by the men, then the Governor General in Council conceives that it must be adhered to. If it was not, then it remains to be considered whether the original terms should in any way now be modified, regard being had to the view of the Government of Hong-Kong. The Governor General in Council would be glad of an early explanation of the facts and of a statement of the Lieutenant-Governor's views on this point.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\n**SIR**\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nE. C. BAYLEY,\n\nSecretary to the Government of India.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 581, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "From T. H. THORNTON, Esq., Secretary to Government, Punjab, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, Simla,-(No. 1195, dated Murree, the 15th August 1867),\n\nI am desired to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 2950, dated 1st August, and in reply to forward a printed copy of the correspondence of this Government on the subject of the entertainment of Police for service in Hong-Kong, and to call your attention to pages 22 and 24, from which it will be perceived that His Excellency's proposals regarding the formation of a Return Fund were not communicated to the men, or accepted by them, before their departure; but Mr. Creagh promised to bring the matter before the Government of Hong-Kong for consideration.\n\n2. I am further desired to call your attention to Clause V. of the conditions of service given at page 25 of the correspondence, and to state that, as the men have been entertained under a distinct understanding that dismissal from the force for misconduct carries with it the forfeiture of a free return passage, and the Government of Hong-Kong has expressed its unwillingness to accept His Excellency's proposal as tending to interfere with the discipline of the force, His Honor would not recommend that any change be proposed in the conditions under which the men have been engaged; but he would leave it to the Government of Hong-Kong to determine in each case, calling for punitive action, the course it will be most advisable to pursue.\n\nPage 579", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 596, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "# From E. C. BAYLEY, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, Hong-Kong\n(No. 3944, dated Simla, the 27th August 1867)\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 297, dated the 6th June last, stating the objection of His Excellency the Governor of Hong-Kong to the proposition that a certain monthly deduction should be made from the pay of the Sikhs enlisted into the Hong-Kong Police, and carried to the account of each man, sufficient to cover the cost of his return passage, and to allow him a moderate sum for his maintenance in India during his journey homewards.\n\n## \n2. In reply, I am directed to state that the Governor General in Council considers it highly important that the men, even if dismissed, should have some assured means of returning to their homes, instead of having the prospect of being left destitute in a strange land. I am desired to state, for His Excellency's information, that even British soldiers, convicted of serious offences, are allowed a return passage from India to England, and that convicts, transported from British India, are, on the expiry of their sentences, provided by the Government with the means of reaching their homes. I am to say that the Governor General in Council does not in any way doubt that the amplest consideration would ordinarily be shown to the Sikhs who have engaged to serve at Hong-Kong; but it cannot be doubted that the Government of Hong-Kong must, in ordinary course, find the discharge of some of these men for misconduct unavoidable, and the Governor General in Council feels assured that it will be materially for the interest of the Colony that there should be no possible risk of such men being left destitute and without the means of reaching their homes. Any one accidental instance of this kind will, the Governor General in Council feels assured, do more harm to the discipline of the force at Hong-Kong, and to the prospect of recruiting in India, than the concession which His Excellency has asked for—a concession which, as has been shown, is extended to the rank and file of Her Majesty's Army in India without any injurious effect in its discipline, and which might be effected in the manner which has already been proposed, without any real cost to the Colony.\n\n3. At any rate, the Governor General in Council feels so strongly the impolicy and the injustice of leaving Sikhs to shift for themselves when dismissed from the service at such a distance from their homes, that he will reluctantly be compelled to forbid any further enlistment in India for service in China, unless provision is made for this object either in the manner desired by the Government of India, or otherwise as the Government of Hong-Kong may deem expedient.\n\n4. The Governor General in Council, therefore, hopes that the Government of Hong-Kong will still be able to make some such arrangement.\n\nPage 594 \nPage 171", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272404, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "593 \n\nFrom E. C. BAYLEY, ESQ., Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, to the Secretary to Government, Punjab,- (No. 3945, dated Simla, the 27th August 1867.) \n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, No. 1195, with the enclosed printed copy of the correspondence of the Government of the Punjab, on the subject of the entertainment of Police for service in Hong-Kong.\n\n2. In reply, I am directed to state that the Governor General in Council observes with considerable regret that his wishes with regard to the return passage of the men, in the event of dismissal from the force, have not been carried out, and he is unable to understand what satisfactory explanation can be given of the omission. In my letter of the 6th of March, it was distinctly stated that the Governor General in Council did not approve of the condition of forfeiture of return passage proposed by the Government of Hong-Kong; and in my subsequent letter of the 20th idem, the grounds of the disapproval were explained and an alternative arrangement was proposed, which the Government of the Punjab was requested to offer to the men who might volunteer for the service. His Excellency in Council now finds that, notwithstanding these instructions, men have been permitted to enlist for service in a foreign country without any proviso for their return in case of dismissal. His Excellency in Council does not for a moment suppose that the Government of Hong-Kong would permit a policeman, enlisted from India for their service, to die of starvation, whatever might have been the cause of his dismissal from the service. Still, a distinct proviso, in accordance with the wishes expressed by His Excellency in Council, should have been inserted in the conditions of service, and until this point had been arranged, the men should not have been permitted to leave the Punjab. A copy of a letter addressed to the Hong-Kong Government on the subject, is forwarded herewith for information.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "# MINUTE\n## 1871\n### JAN\n\nNi hroud 23 \nM'Holland \nHerbert 25 Ju \nMArgessen Earl of Kimberley \n957 24/12/70 555771 \nSee 2917 \nJan 31-1831. \n62 \n23.1877.\n\n## 26 January 1871\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch \n2. 110 of the 28th November, reporting that you had granted twelve months leave of absence to Charles G. Le Conteu, 2nd clerk in the Harbour Master's Department.\n\nI have learned with regret from Major Genl Fremantle, Political Agent at Aden, that our Le Conteu died on the 17th December 1870 on board a P.&O.S.S. \"Simla\" on passage to Suez.\n\nI am to consider whether this event may not afford an opportunity for reducing...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4]", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4]", "content_text": "# \n\nOccurred at Sea on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam Ship Simla, and has been confirmed by Major General Coghlan, the Political Resident at Aden.\n\nSubject to Your Lordship's approval, I have appointed to the vacant post a Gentleman who has been in the Harbour Master's Office during the last two months, and has shewn himself an extremely active and intelligent Officer; viz: Mr T.A Irwin.\n\nThe usual return required by the Regulations of the Colonial Office is enclosed; and I have further to add that hitherto this appointment had been filled up by the Governor.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient humble Servant,\nW. J. Butterworth \nMajor General & Lieutenant Governor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288831, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "VIA MARSEILLES.]\n\nMaritime Intelligence—See page 80.\n\nThe 21st ult.\n\nLondon and China Telegraph.\n\n紙\n\nPUBLISHED WEEKLY ON ARRIVAL OF THE P. & O., MESSAGERIES, AND PACIFIC MAILS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, &c.\n\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE \"LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS.\" A WEEKLY SUMMARY FOR THE OUTWARD MAILS.\n\nVOL. XIV. No. 481.]\n\nJAPAN—Yokohama...\n\nCHINA—Peking....\n\nLONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1872.\n\nLatest Advices.\n\nHOMEWARD.\n\nReceived Nov. 14\n\nOUTWARD.\n\nPORTS.\n\nFrom London. Arrived out.\n\n \n \n Aug. 9\n Sept. 26\n Oct.\n \n \n Yokohama\n \n \n 2\n \n \n Osaka and Hiogo\n July 26\n 12\n Sept. 29\n \n \n Hakodadi\n 26\n 7\n \n \n \n Nagasaki\n \n \n \n \n \n Tien-tsin\n \n \n \n \n \n Chefoo\n \n \n \n \n \n New-chwang\n \n \n \n \n \n Hankow\n \n \n \n \n \n Kin-kiang\n \n \n \n \n \n Chin-kiang\n \n \n \n \n \n Shanghai\n Ang. 1\n \n \n \n \n Ningpo\n \n \n \n \n \n Foochow\n \n \n \n \n \n Formosa\n \n \n \n \n \n Amoy\n 75\n \n \n \n \n Swatow\n \n \n \n \n \n Hong Kong\n 23\n \n Oct. 1\n \n \n Canton\n \n \n \n \n \n Macau\n \n \n \n \n \n PHILIPPINES—Manila\n \n \n \n \n \n COCHIN-CHINA—Saigon\n \n \n \n \n \n SIAM—Bangkok\n \n \n \n \n \n BORNEO—Labuan\n \n \n \n \n \n Sarawak\n \n \n \n \n \n JAVA—Batavia\n \n Sept. 15\n \n \n \n Samarang\n \n Rept. 24\n \n \n \n Sourabaya\n \n 30\n \n \n \n MALACCA STRAITS\n \n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n \n \n Oct. 2\n \n \n Penang\n \n Oct.\n \n \n \n CEYLON—Galle\n \n Sept. €\n 20\n \n \n Colombo\n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n 19\n 22\n 24\n \n \n \n 22\n 26\n 9\n \n\nVia San Francisco.\n\nTHE MAILS, &c.\n\nThe French mail, bringing advices as above, was delivered via Marseilles, on the 14th inst., four days in advance of its due date. The next inward (P. and O.) mail, with dates Yokohama 9th, Shanghai 11th, Hong Kong 17th, Singapore 24th Oct., is due, via Brindisi, on Monday, the 25th inst.\n\nTelegrams by the China Submarine and Red Sea Lines are being received with the usual regularity, occupying, allowing for difference of time, five to six hours in transmission.\n\nList of Passengers.\n\nPASSENGERS INWARD.\n\nBy this mail to Marseilles, per Messageries Maritimes steamer Péluse, arrived Nov. 12—From Yokohama: None. From Shanghai: Messrs. Bromley, Nathan, Billion, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan. From Hong Kong: Messrs. Portman, Bennett, Tatham, Herviz, Serratè. From Saigon: Messrs. Rapine, Berthet, Coutel, Mr. and Mrs. Vogt. From Batavia: Messrs. Lapice, Grebbe, Rierach, Pauvert. From Singapore: Messrs. Carbonell, Laragora, Lazaro, Veiga, Mr. and Mrs. Schulze, Mdme. Gonzales. From Galle: Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan.\n\nPASSENGERS OUTWARD.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Pekin, from Southampton, Nov. 7.—To Yokohama: Mr. S. Yugawa, Mr. S. Okuma, and one second-class passenger. To Shanghai: Mr. G. Lethbridge, Mr. G. R. Johnston, and one second-class passenger. To Hong Kong: Mr. K. Mac Iver, Mr. T. E. Ludlam. To Ceylon: Mrs. F. Bayley and child, Mr. J. R. Loftus, Mr. Reid, Mrs. Robertson and child, Miss Burrington, and two second-class passengers. To Hong Kong (via Bombay): Mr. W. H. Fittock. To Batavia: Mr. Burgoyne.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Malta, from Venice, Nov. 15.—To Yokohama: Mr. and Mrs. A. Exner. To Hong Kong: Mr. D. Petrie. To Ceylon: Mr. Quilty, Earl Grosvenor, Marquis of Stafford, Viscount Lewisham, Dr. Gould.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Malta, from Brindisi, Nov. 18.—To Shanghai: Mr. and Mrs. H. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Moulmein, from Southampton, Nov. 24.—To Shanghai: Mr. W. S. Wulff. To Singapore: Miss Rickards. To Ceylon: Mr. Bell, Lieut.-Com. Ryland, Mrs. Ryland, Mr. G. V. Macdonald.\n\nPrice 9d. Subscription, £2 2s. per annum, Postage included.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Simla, from Venice, Nov. 29.—To Singapore: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. MacArthur, Mr. G. Harrison.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer from Southampton, Dec. 5.—To Hong Kong: Miss McPherson.\n\nPer French mail steamer Dupleix, from Marseilles, Nov. 24 (booked from London).—To Shanghai: Mr. and Mrs. Holdsworth. To Hong Kong: Mr. M. Beart. To Rangoon: Mr. Eugène Blainville, Mdme. Nisou, Mr. M. Engelbach, Mr. M. Mether, Mr. and Mrs. Van der Voest de Bye. To Batavia: Mr. and Mrs. Hora Siccama, Mr. and Mrs. Kleberg, Mr. Shalten, Mr. R. W. Baxter, Mr. John S. Dick, Mr. Alton Mees, Mr. and Mrs. Van Gaens, Mr. Ker Khouw. To Galle: Mr. H. Nagel.\n\nPer French mail steamer Ajaccio, from Marseilles, Dec. 8 (booked from London).—To Yokohama: Mr. Carl Friedrich, Mrs. A. Morf. To Batavia: Mr. G. Muller.\n\nSummary of News from the Far East.\n\nJAPAN.\n\nYOKOHAMA.\n\nThe present French mail brings advices from this port to the 25th September, but by the Pacific mail the dates extend to the 2nd October; the P. and O. mail from London July 26 arrived out on the 8th; the French mail of Aug. 2 on the 20th, and the P. and O. mail of Aug. 9 on the 26th September.\n\nThe following summary of news is from the Japan Herald:—The chief event since last mail has been the hearing before a Japanese tribunal of an action brought by Captain Hereira, of the Peruvian barque Maria Luz, for the recovery of the coolies who since the decree of the Court in the trial of the captain for cruelty towards them have been living ashore at the cost of and under the surveillance of the Japanese authorities. The case commenced on the 18th September, and judgment was rendered on the 27th. Mr. F. V. Dickins, Barrister-at-law, appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Davidson, barrister, appeared for the defendants. The Court gave judgment in favour of the defendants.\n\nIt is not the intention of Government to allow foreigners to lease residences in the city of Yedo. All those who were granted permission are notified that they cannot remain longer than one month from date, and are required to return to Tsukiji.\n\nThe Consuls have just been notified of an important departmental change. All claims of a judicial character, instead of being as heretofore addressed to the Chiji of the Kanagawa Ken, are now to be sent to Mr. Nishi Naromori, Shio Chiu Hanji, the President of the Judicial Department of this ken, which from this date will exist as a separate department. Mr. Hill is appointed its legal adviser, and Mr. Wills to act as interpreter in conjunction with two native interpreters.\n\nIt is some time since Yokohama was visited with an earthquake of such unusual violence as that which occurred yesterday morning. The shocks were both lengthy and severe, in one instance knocking several ornaments from a chimney-piece to the floor, and in another, half emptying some fire buckets of their contents.\n\nIt is reported that Mr. Galy has been appointed to the post of interpreter to the Judicial Department, by the Minister of Justice, and Mr. Ribérolles as principal of the newly-established Law College.\n\nFire-rio kinsetsu, of the new issue, printed on foreign paper, are already imitated, spurious notes being in circulation. The Government asserts that the paper and engraving are correct, but the ink used for Japanese seals is too light.\n\nMr. English, Consul at Niigata, is about being transferred to Osaka, where he was formerly stationed, recent occurrences in that quarter having rendered such a step expedient.\n\nMr. A. M. Shillingford and Mr. W. A. J. Waters have been appointed assistants in the Okura-sho, to Mr. T. J. Waters, Surveyor-General.\n\nA deputation of sixty persons has arrived at Kagoshima from the King of the Loochoos to the Mikado, and may be expected...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "203\n\nNov. 18, 1872.] THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,\n\nAUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.\n\nHATTON-COURT, THREAD NEEDLE-STREET, LONDON\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter. Paid-up Capital, £800,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS, 1872-75. CHAIRMAN.\n\nANDREW CASSELS, Esq. Frederick W. Jeligers, Esq. Emile Lenta, Esq. John Jones, Esq.\n\nWm. Maenganan, Esq. Thomas Lancaster, Esq. William Paterson, Esq.\n\nLudwig Wiese, Esq.\n\nMANAGER.\n\nJohn Howard Gwyther.\n\nSUB MANAGER.\n\nJames Macdonald,\n\nSECRETARY.\n\nWillem Charles Mallins.\n\nBAKERS.\n\nLondon The Bank of England; the City Bank. Scotland-The National Bank of Scotland.\n\nBombay.\n\nAGENCIES AND BRANCHES.\n\nRangoon.\n\nSingapore. Batavia\n\nHong Kong\n\nCalcutta.\n\nShanghai, Amoy.\n\nHankow. The Corporation buy and sell, and receive for collection, Bills of Exchange, payable at the above-named places; issue Letters of Credit; undertake the purchase and sale of Indian Government and other Securities; hold them for safe custody; and receive Interest or Dividends as they become due.\n\nDeposits of money are received for not less than twelve months, bearing Interest at 3 per cent. per annum.\n\nHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK\n\nOF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter,\n\nHead Office-65, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nBranches and Agencies:\n\nBombay, Calcutta, Madras. Colombo. Kandy. Galle, Matric.\n\nSETTLEMENTS and Java-\n\nIn INDIA\n\nCEYLON\n\nSTRAITS\n\nCHINA\n\nJAPAN\n\nSingapore, Penang, Batavia.\n\nHong Kong, Foochow, Shanghai,\n\nCanton, Hankow\n\nYokohama.\n\nBankers:-\n\nBank of England,\n\nLondon Joint-Stock Bank.\n\nThe Bank receives money on deposit, buys and sells Bills of Exchange, issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes, and transacts the usual Banking and Agency business connected with the East, on terms to be had on application.\n\nCOMPTOIR\n\nD'ESCOMPTE\n\nDE\n\nPARIS.\n\nIncorporated by National Decrees of 7th and 8th of March, 1848, and by Imperial Decree of 20th July, 1854, and 31st December, 1868.\n\nRecognised by the International Convention of 30th April, 1862\n\nCAPITAL, fully paid up, £3,200,000,\n\nReserved Fund ... 1,200,000... £800,000\n\nHEAD OFFICE.-14. Rue Bergere Paris.\n\nAGENCIES AT-Lyons. Marseilles, Nantes, Mulhouse, Roubaix (France) Brussels Belgium, Alexandria (Egypt), Calcutta. Bombay, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Saigon (Cochin China), Bourbon (Reunion), and Yokohama (Japan).\n\nLONDON BANK-The Union Bank of London.\n\nLONDON AGENCY-144. Leadenhall-street E.C.\n\nMANAGER.-Theod. Dromel.\n\nThe London Agency grants Drafts and Letters of Credit, and purchases or collects Bills payable at the above-named places.\n\n819\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter, August 30, 1851.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL. £1,500,000.\n\nRESERVED FUND, £444,000.\n\nThe Corporation grant Drafts and negotiate or collect Bills payable at Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo, Foochow, Hong Kong, Kandy, Madras. Mauritius, Melbourne, Point de Galle, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Yokohama, and Ningpo, on terms which may be ascertained at their office. They also issue Circular Notes for use of Travellers by the Overland Route.\n\nThey undertake the agency of parties connected with India, the purchase and sale of Indian and other Securities, the custody of the same, the receipt of Interest, Dividends, Pay, Pensions, &c., and the effecting of remittances between the above-named dependencies.\n\nThey also receive deposits of £100 and upwards for fixed periods, the terms for which may be ascertained on application at their offices.\n\nOffice hours, Ten to Three: Saturdays Ten to Two.\n\nThreadneedle-street, London\n\n1272\n\nCHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE\n\nCOMPANY (Limited).\n\nIn conformity with the SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS, adopted and confirmed at the EXTRAORDINARY MEETINGS of SHAREHOLDERS held at HONG KONG on the 1st and 15th Feb., altering clauses Nos. 13, 14, 132, and 139 of the Articles of Association (such changes to take effect from 1st November, 1871), the net Profits of the Company will, from that date, be distributed as follows, viz.:\n\nTwo-thirds (2/3) to all contributors, whether Shareholders or not, in proportion to the net amount of premia contributed by each.\n\nOne third to Shareholders generally, according to the number of Shares held by each.\n\nLONDON AGENTS-FEARON AND CO., 54, GREAT ST. Helen's. E.C., By whom risks to all Eastern ports are taken at current rates.\n\nHONG KONG AND SHANGHAI\n\nBANKING CORPORATION.\n\nCapital, $6,000,000. Paid up, $1,500,000. Reserve Fund, $900,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS AND HEAD OFFICE IN HONG\n\nKong.\n\nLONDON MANAGER-W.H. Vacher, #2, Lombard-street\n\nBANKERS-London and County Bank.\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES\n\nHong Kong Shanghai\n\nFoochow Ningpo\n\nHankow\n\nYokohama\n\nHiogo Manila\n\nSaigon\n\nSingapore\n\nBombay Calcutta\n\nThe Bank grants DRAFTS upon and negotiates or collects BILLS at any of its Agencies or Branches; also receives DEPOSITS for fixed periods, at rates varying with the period of deposit.\n\nTHE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.\n\nGreat economy effected by using\n\nWALL LIGHTS AND LUSTRES FOR\n\nGAS AND CANDLES. CHANDELIERS IN BRONZE AND ORMOLU. MODERATOR LAMPS AND LAMPS FOR INDIA. TABLE GLASS OF ALL KINDS. ORNAMENTAL GLASS, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN\n\nLONDON-Show Rooms, 45, Oxford-street, W.\n\nBIRMINGHAM-Manufactory and Show Rooms Broad-street.\n\nESTABLISHED 1807.\n\nTHE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE IN CHINA.\n\nFOUNDED IN PEKING Nov. 1871, under the patronage of the Foreign Ministers and Residents in the Chinese Capital, Secretary in Peking, De S. W. Bade (Britt Legation): Sec. for Great Britain, Professor Summers (Chair Once, 3, George-yard, Lombard-street, who will be happy to receive the names of gentlemen who desire to become members, or to subscribe to the Peking Magazine, published by the Society. Sub. £3 per annum. The Magazine to non-members, 6s. per annum from members.\n\nTWO\n\nEDUCATION.-ST, LEONARD'S-ON-SEA.\n\nTWO LADIES of great experience, and possessing excellent testimonials, RECEIVE A limited number of YOUNG LADIES or CHILDREN needing sea air, careful training, and education.\n\nPARENTS residing abroad would find this most desirable home. References can be given for England, India, China and Japan.\n\nFor terms Co., address M1. H., London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, E.C.\n\nK. de PIOTROWSKI, COMMISSION MERCHANT & GENERAL AGENT\n\nHIOGO-KOBE,\n\nJAPAN.\n\nCOWASJEE DINSHAW. Close to the Landing Place, Depot of EUROPEAN, CHINA, AND INDIAN GOODS. WINE, BEER, CHAMPAGNE, and SPIRITS of the best quality Bombay-made Soda Water and Lemonade Perfumery, Confectionery, Oilman's Stores, and Stationery of every description. Sola Topees and Canvas Shoes, &c., &c.\n\nSTEAMER POINT, ADEN. Drawing and Reading-room free to Passengers. The London and China Express ON SALE.\n\nT. W. JACKSON,\n\nLIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT\n\nOF MEAT.\n\nRead carefully the printed instructions. CAUTION.-None genuine without Baron Liebig's the inventor's, signature.\n\nBeware of all imitation extract.\n\nCEYLON.\n\nCOFFEE ESTATES FOR SALE,\n\nSAN\n\nFRANCISCO.\n\nTHE LONDON & CHINA TELEGRAPH. THE FOURTEENTH Volume of this\n\nJOURNAL commenced on the 1st of January 1872. Terms for advertising, 2s. 6d. per five lines and 6d. for each additional line.\n\nSubscriptions and Advertisements received abroad by the following Agents:- Paris\n\nRICHARD & Co. Passage des Princes.\n\nThe Agency will conduct Banking business of every description with the Continent. India, China, &c., upon terms to be ascertained at the Office.\n\nin size from 48 to 1,500 acres, and in price from £200 to £24,000,\n\nALEX. BROWN,\" Kandy.\n\nN.B. Fifty-seven estates now on the register.\n\nTHE AGRA BANK (Limited).\n\nEstablished in 1839.\n\nCAPITAL 1,000,000.\n\nHead Office: NICHOLAS LANE, LOMBARD-STREET,\n\nLONDON.\n\nBranches in Edinburgh, Calcutta Bombay, Madras, Kurrachee. Agra, Lahore, Shanghai, Hong Kong.\n\nCurrent accounts are kept at the head office on the terms customary with London bankers, and interest allowed when the credit balance does not fall below £100.\n\nDeposits received for fixed periods on the following terms, viz.:-At 4 per cent. per annum, subject to twelve months' notice of withdrawal. For shorter periods deposits will be received on terms to be agreed upon.\n\nBills issued at the current exchange of the day on any of the branches of the Bank free of extra charge; and approved bills purchased or sent for collection.\n\nSales and purchases effected in British and Foreign Securities, In East India Stock and Loans, and the safe custody of the same undertaken, Interest drawn, and army, navy, and civil pay and pensions realised.\n\nEvery other description of banking business and money agency, British and Indian, transacted.\n\nJ. THOMSON Chairman.\n\nSCHOUT AND CO., SHIPBROKERS AND FORWARDING AGENTS, AMSTERDAM\n\nALEXANDER BROWN, ESTATE AND GENERAL AGENT, KANDY, CEYLON,\n\nVISITS and reports on Coffee Plantations, estimates Crops, values Properties, buys and sells Lands, Goods, and Produce on Commission, and transacts all kinds of Estate and Agency Business.\n\nHOLLOWAY'S PILLS\n\nCOUNSEL AND COMFORT. A disordered stomach throws the whole system out of gear, and renders us unfit both for work and enjoyment. A few doses of these strengthening and purifying Pills, however, speedily restore order, and re-enable the taker, according to the accompanying directions, will, without difficulty, enable the stomach to digest its food.\n\nThese excellent Pills are suitable alike for the peer as the peasant, the soldier and the sailor, and particularly for those in foreign climates.\n\nHolloway's Pills are very useful in checking feverish attacks, bilious complaints, and inflammation; they have also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy and disease of the kidneys, heart, and lungs, when the sufferers seemed past the aid of medicine.\n\nHamburg Bremen\n\nLisbon.\n\nMr. Cocoto,\n\nR.CARL.\n\nG. STEINMEYER.\n\nHolland-Rotterdam 1.A. Kramers.\n\nAmsterdam MACKAY, BOGERT,&nd Co.\n\nALGUSTE PEDRO CABILIO.\n\nRua des l'oyaes de'. Bento 20.\n\nWN.II. FOGG & C.,82, Burling\n\n80p.\n\nNew York............\n\nSan Francisco.......\n\nAlexandria\n\nSuez.... Aden\n\nPoint de Galle..........\n\nColombo....... Singapore, Labuan, and Sarawak ......\n\nPenang\n\nSaigon.... Batavia Samarang. Sourabaya.. Anjer-Straits\n\nSamla......\n\nManila ......\n\nHong Kong, Canton, Macao and Swatow Amoy\n\nFoochow many\n\nHankow....................\n\nShanghai\n\nTien-Tsin.....\n\nJ. W SULLIVAN 510, Washing\n\nton-street.\n\nCOWASJEE DINSHAW,\n\nMr CM. Bauxsa, Oriental,\n\nHotel.\n\nLAITLAND & Co.\n\nJOHN LITTLE & Co., Singapore\n\nSANDLANDS BUTTRAF, & Co.\n\nW. G. HALK and Co.\n\nHonorow & Co.\n\nJACORSON, VAN DEN BERG & Col\n\nHOUGHTON & Co.\n\nG. Scauir, Anjer Hotel.\n\nLOTZAGA & Co.\n\nMacEwen & Co.\n\nBROWN & Co.\n\nHEDGE & Co.\n\nVIRGO, MATTHEWS, & Co.\n\nIT, Fogg & Co.\n\nJAMES HENDERSON\n\nNagusaki-Japan... PIGNATEL & Co.\n\nYokohama\n\nOsaka and Hiogo... K. DE PIOTROWSKI\n\nOFFICE, 2, COWPER'S-COURT, CORNHILL, E.C\n\n(Over the JERUSALEM.)\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH. [Nov. 18, 1872\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED),\n\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE\n\nEASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nTARIFF TO CHINA AND JAPAN.\n\nOn and after 15th OCTOBER the following Rates for Telegrams\n\nof Twenty Words will come into force:--\n\nFROM LONDON,\n\nTO HONG KONG)\n\nSHANGHAI JAPAN\n\n£6 0 0\n\n7 0 0\n\nFROM PROVINCIAL\n\nSTATIONS.\n\n£6 1 0\n\n7 1 0\n\nHalf the above Rates for every additional Ten Words beyond Twenty Words.\n\nNo charge for Postage will be made on Messages to China and Japan, which are posted at Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Nagasaki.\n\nMessages should be given in at the Falmouth Company's Office, No. 74, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON.\n\nMessages sent from Postal Stations should be ordered\n\nVIA FALMOUTH\n\nthese words being signalled as an instruction by the Postal authorities free of charge.\n\nTHOMAS FULLER, Secretary.\n\nOld Broad-street, London, E.C..\n\n9th October, 1872\n\nDRUGS, CHEMICALS, &c..\n\nWHOLESALE AND FOR EXPORTATION.\n\nDRUGS, &c., guaranteed genuine as imported, and PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS made in strict accordance with the Pharmacopoeia.\n\nW. L. H. SKEEN AND CO.,\n\nPHOTOGRAPHERS,\n\nCOLOMBO, CEYLON.\n\nInvite inspection of their large collection of\n\nAll Orders accompanied by Drafts, or sent through Merchants, attended to promptly, and VIEWS OF CEYLON, NATIVE CHARACTERS, &C\n\nexecuted upon the best terms.\n\nBAISS BROTHERS & CO.,\n\nDRUG MERCHANTS, &c., GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS\n\nFOR CHEMICALS, &c.,\n\n102. LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN AGENCY.\n\nFor the Purchase and Shipment of Goods of all kinds to Ports in China, Japan, the Straits Settlements, &c. Orders for Furniture, Stores, Books, and Personal Requirements of every description promptly executed, either by Overland Route or Clipper Sailing Vessels.\n\nThe articles in all cases are carefully selected by persons who have had personal experience of the wants of residents in China and Japan.\n\nOrders should be accompanied either by a remittance, or a reference for payment in London, All communications to be addressed, and remittances made payable, to\n\nTHE MANAGER, AND JAPAN AGENCY, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, London, E.C.\n\nCATALOGUES POST FREE.\n\nMAC EWEN AND CO., QUEEN'S ROAD\n\nHONG KONG, GENERAL STOREKEEPERS AND COMMISSION AGENTS.\n\nSpecial Agents for the\n\nLondon and China Express.\n\nCAUTION\n\nSTEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS for Children Getting their Teeth. Purchasers are requested to BEWARE OF IMITATIONS of this Medicine, and to observe in every case that the words \"John Steedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey,\" are engraved on the Government Stamp affixed to each packet, without which none are genuine.\n\nSold by all Chemists and Druggists, in packets at 1s. 1d. each.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 289154, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 527, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "M.I. 36 6 0\n\n524\n\nolety\n\nSecretary\n\nto Govt.\n\nin the\n\non account of the pensions (periodical Accounts Current of said Government of India).\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed) D. Barbour,\n\nOffg. Under Secretary to the Govt. of India\n\nSimla,\n\nthe 7th September, 1872\n\n2\n\nThe Govt. of India\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nThe Castle,\n\nHongkong.\n\nFinancial Dept.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your\n\nletter No. 2010,\n\ndated 9th September 1892,\n\nI am directed by the Governor General in Council to forward for the information of the Colonial Government Hongkong, copy of a letter\n\nfrom Comptroller General,\n\ndated 4th Sept. 1872,\n\nregarding the mode of dealing with the payments to be made in India in\n\naccount of the pensions referred to in\n\nletter No. 970 dated 19th June, 1892\n\nSimla;\n\nThe 18 October 1892\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed) R.B. Chapman,\n\nSecy. to the Govt. of India", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302078, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "236 \n\nIn a similar way, he had been before at Pekin and stated that he had been attacked by sunstroke while there. The first few days he was always stripping himself naked and dancing about, he ran down the verandahs of the Hotel in this condition to the breakfast room where some ladies were at breakfast. If prevented from leaving his room, he got abusive and made his voice heard all over the premises, but he was never violent - never used threats of any kind to any one. When he found anything that he could hurt himself with was taken away, he laughed and said \"Don't you fear, I'm not going to hurt myself or any one else, I'm not such a fool.\" He never forgot anything he had done and was always very anxious to explain that it was done for the fun of the thing. At the Hotel, he wrote many letters to different people - Sir Brooke Robertson and the Viceroy of Canton principally. The letters were generally full of nonsense with postscript written all over the outsides of the envelopes. I have since received a letter from Simla, which I enclose, from which it appears he has made a fair recovery. I do not know the origin of his attack as I know little or nothing of his previous...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302437, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 598, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## THE Khyber Pass and Afghan Affairs\n\nThe Bombay Times of Sept. 20 says it is to be hoped that the Government of India will now adopt a vigorous policy. A mere exchange of diplomatic courtesies will not do; the time has come for decisive action.\n\nThe Turkish Circular, says the _Pesth Lloyd_, has a notoriously mendacious tone. A Vienna telegram published by the same newspaper confirms the statement that the Auersperg Cabinet will remain in office until the situation has been rendered somewhat plainer by debates of the Delegations.\n\n## German Parliament and the Socialists\n\nThe German Parliament resumed today the debate on the Anti-Socialist Bill, and passed the second reading of Paragraph 1 in the form, in all essential points, in which it was proposed by the Court. The Centre, Fortschritt, and Socialist parties voted in the minority.\n\n## Social Events\n\nThere has been a great deal of gaiety at Simla this week. The members of the Viceroy's staff gave a fancy dress ball, at which about 100 people were present. Neither Lord nor Lady Lytton appeared in fancy dress.\n\nYesterday, the marriage of Mr. Richard Fanor Curry, stepson of the Rev. J. D. Collis, D.D., and eldest surviving son of the late Admiral Curry, of Shottery Hall, Stratford-on-Avon, to Miss Bright, daughter of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P., was celebrated at the Friends' Meeting-house, Southport, which was crowded.\n\n## Afghan Affairs and British Policy\n\nThe policy which the Government of India intends to pursue is, of course, shrouded in mystery to all except those in high office, and, of course, there is plenty of general speculation about its nature. In the Punjab, very divergent opinions are entertained about the kind of policy which would be best for the Government of India to adopt.\n\nSome believe that the Afghans should be left alone altogether, to \"stew in their own juice,\" as it were, and that if the Russians become particularly friendly with them, the friendship is not likely to last long.\n\n## Funeral of Lord Chelmsford\n\nIt having been announced that the mortal remains of the late Lord Chelmsford were to be interred in the family vault at Brompton Cemetery yesterday, long before the time fixed, the grounds were filled by members of the legal profession anxious to pay their last respects to the late venerable judge.\n\n## Canterbury Convocation\n\nYesterday, the Archbishop of Canterbury attended at the Board Room in the Dean's-yard, Westminster, and prorogued the present Convocation of the province of Canterbury, by virtue of a Royal writ, to Monday, the 4th day of November next.\n\n## Other News\n\nThe Minister President, Herr Tisza, and Baron Wenckheim leave tonight for Vienna. It is reported here that when Herr Tisza returns, he will hand over the direction of the Home Ministry to another member of the Cabinet.\n\nCount Andrassy is resolved to defend his entire policy before the Delegations, and to make the matter a Cabinet question, on the result of which his retention of office would depend.\n\nThe Executive Council of the Greenwich Five Hundred have decided to give a dinner in connection with the association very shortly, to which Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Stone and Mr. Saunders, the Liberal candidates at the next election, will be invited.\n\nWe regret to have to announce the death, at the age of 57, of Mr. John Kay, Q.C., at the residence of Mrs. Drummond, his mother-in-law, at Fredley, near Dorking.\n\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Richard Fanor Curry | Stepson of Rev. J. D. Collis, D.D. |\n| Miss Bright | Daughter of Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. |\n\n## Telegraphic News\n\n(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nPESTH, THURSDAY NIGHT.\n\n## Afghan Frontier\n\nThe Central News says that the Government of India has received official information confirming the presence of Russian troops within fifteen miles of Constantine.\n\nThe news has created great excitement in Government circles, and it was immediately resolved to demand an explanation from Russia.\n\n## British Policy in Afghanistan\n\nThe policy of establishing a series of independent States between Cabul and the Oxus is considered to be a very comprehensive one, and is judged to be worth adopting in the event of the Government of India entertaining no idea of entering upon any bolder or more comprehensive policy.\n\nThe writer believes that it will be good to fortify the Bamian Pass, and so close the way to Cabul for any enemy approaching from Bokhara or Samarkand.\n\n## Other Developments\n\nThe marriage register having been signed, the wedding party left the chapel for Birkdale. Mr. Bright was enthusiastically cheered by the large crowd which had assembled in the street.\n\nThe Executive Council of the Greenwich Five Hundred have decided to give a dinner in connection with the association very shortly.\n\nMr. Gladstone has already signified his readiness to be present.\n\nThe banquet will be to celebrate the successful organization of the association on the Birmingham system.\n\n## Page 363\n\n## Afghan Tribes\n\nThe Afridis, who inhabit the hills about the Khyber Pass, are split up into various clans, all of which are constantly at feud with one another.\n\nThe principal clans are the Malikdeen Khel, Tukka Khel, and others.\n\nThe Khyberees have always been a thorn in the side of the Afghan rulers, and have exacted a heavy price for their allegiance.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nThe situation in Afghanistan remains complex and fluid, with various factions vying for power and influence.\n\nThe British Government is faced with the challenge of determining the best course of action to protect its interests in the region.\n\nPage 594", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332616, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 599, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "No 170 41876 Government of India\n\ng\n\n596\n\nDepartment of Finance and Commerce\n\nSeparate Revenue\n\nOpium\n\nC. O.\n\n13703\n\nREC\n\nAEG 2 AUG\n\nTo The Right Honourable the Earl of Kimberly\n\nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for India\n\nSimla. 5 June 1886.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nod 4. 12. 19.22 +29. We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof Your Lordship's Despatches noted in the margin\n\non the subject of the Opium negotiations with China.\n\nWith reference to the enquiry made in para 2 of Your Lordship's\n\nDespatch of the 11th February 1886,\n\nwe beg to state that we have not...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested, here is the revised version:\n\nNo 170 41876 Government of India\n\ng\n\n596\n\nDepartment of Finance and Commerce\n\nSeparate Revenue\n\nOpium\n\nC. O.\n\n13703\n\nREC\n\nAEG 2 AUG\n\nTo The Right Honourable the Earl of Kimberly\n\nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for India\n\nSimla. 5 June 1886.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nod 4. 12. 19.22 +29. We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt\nof Your Lordship's Despatches noted in the margin\non the subject of the Opium negotiations with China.\n\nWith reference to the enquiry made in para 2 of Your Lordship's\nDespatch of the 11th February 1886,\nwe beg to state that we have not...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 613, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "on the subject and with all other necessary information\n\n401412 E\n\nCon Coward & the Dept. of Finance\n\naud\n\nmelee\n\ninformation.\n\nFor Identidi No 2770, dated Simla, the 29 August 1885\n\nFrom Lt Finlay Egy, Under Secretary\n\nthe Govt of India, Financial Dept,\n\n20. Off Recreation Club, Calcutta.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge a copy of your letter of the 5 August to H + Barbour, suggesting the desirability of entering into an arrangement with China for the collection of the Chinese duty and tax on opium, asking whether there is any likelihood of some agreement being arrived at on the basis indicated in your letter, and stating that China would be prepared to send a special Commissioner with power to come to an understanding with the Govt of India in the matter.\n\n2. In reply, I am directed to state that, if the Chinese Govt wish to send to India an informal agent, the Govt of India won't be prepared to give attention to anything he might have to say and to furnish him with information he might require provided that he came with the consent of Her Majesty's Minister, and that Her Majesty's Minister had full knowledge of the purpose for which he was sent, and the instructions given to him.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332975, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "Mr. Walpole to Sir P. Currie.-(Received August 2.)\n\nC. 328\n\n14970\n\nRECR\n\n\\REGY 21 AUG (6)\n\nIndia Office, July 29, 1886.\n\nIN the course of the correspondence which has taken place during the last few months relative to the new Opium Agreement with China, three plans for the prevention or diminution of smuggling have been suggested--(1) by Sir R. Hart, to the effect that the tax on the drug in question should be levied at Hong Kong instead of in China;* (2) by Mr. O'Conor, who considered that the carrying trade in opium might, perhaps, be limited to British ships; and (3) by Mr. Lister, who proposed that an export duty should be imposed in India on all packages exported from that country, the proceeds being divided between Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and China.\n\nThe first of these schemes has been practically rejected by the decision of Her Majesty's Government that they could not assent to the levy of taxation from the population of Hong Kong for the benefit of the Chinese Government, a result which the adoption of Sir R. Hart's proposals would involve.\n\nFrom the accompanying papers it will be seen that the Government of India have not under their consideration any scheme for restricting the export of opium from India to ships carrying any particular flag. In these circumstances, the question is narrowed to the last of the schemes referred to above.\n\nIt will be observed that the Viceroy in Council does not view with favour any proposals for levying in India an export duty on opium.\n\nIn addition to the many and formidable difficulties to which attention is drawn in the papers now forwarded for the Earl of Rosebery's consideration, any arrangement by which one Power is to collect taxation on behalf of another nation is not only opposed to precedent, but in certain contingencies might be productive of grave international complications. Nor, in spite of the apparent interest which the Chinese authorities have recently evinced in the adoption of some plan in the direction indicated, is it altogether free from doubt whether opposition would not arise--as in 1879, when a similar proposal was suggested by Sir T. Wade--in the event of the matter being seriously discussed. Moreover, apart from the objections to the various schemes suggested, the Secretary of State for India in Council concurs entirely in the view expressed by the Government of India and by Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, that it would be premature to enter upon any negotiations involving a change of system until it is seen how far the new Convention can be satisfactorily worked, or, at any rate, until the Hong Kong Commission shall have submitted its Report. It is understood from Sir P. Currie's letter of the 8th instant that Lord Rosebery also is of this opinion, in which case it will rest with his Lordship to make such communication to the Chinese Government as may be advisable if any further communication is considered to be necessary.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHORACE WALPOLE.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 1 in No.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nThe Governor-General of India in Council to the Earl of Kimberley.\n\nSimla, June 5, 1886.\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatches, noted in the margin,§ on the subject of the opium negotiations with China.\n\n2. With reference to the inquiry made in paragraph 2 of your Lordship's despatch of the 11th February, 1886, we beg to state that we have not under our consideration any scheme for restricting the export of opium from India to ships carrying any particular flag.\n\n3. We forward, however, a copy of correspondence, detailed in the accompanying\n\n*See Confidential Print, 1885, No. 51, pp. 32-35; also 1886, No. 20, pp. 8-10.\n\n+ See Mr. O'Conor's No. 441, Confidential Print, 1885, p. 31.\n\n‡ See Confidential Print, 1885, No. 48, p. 29.\n\n§ Dated the 28th January, 11th February, 25th February, 4th March, and 25th March, 1886, [257]\n\nB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "4\n\nInclosure 3 in No.\n\nMr. Durand to Mr. O'Conor.\n\nSimla, September 11, 1885.\n\nI AM directed to address you on the subject of the duties imposed by the Government of China on opium.\n\n2. Mr. J. J. J. Keswick, of the firm of Jardine, Skinner, and Co., Calcutta, has recently addressed a letter to the Government of India, making certain suggestions connected with the collection of the Chinese duty and tax on opium. A copy is annexed.\n\nMr. Keswick reports the substance of certain conversations between his brother in China and certain high Chinese officials.\n\n3. The difficulty which the Chinese have always experienced in preventing smuggling, and in securing the payment of the duty and tax on opium imported from India, is stated, and the belief is expressed that the difficulty will not disappear when the Convention recently concluded between the British and Chinese Governments comes into operation. To secure a fairly certain collection of the Chinese opium revenue, it is considered necessary to obtain the control of the opium exported from India until the duty and tax are collected; and it is held that this could only be obtained by agreement with the Government of India.\n\n4. The basis of an agreement is suggested on the following lines: All opium to be exported from India in steamers under the Chinese flag; the bills of lading to provide for the payment of the duty and tax fixed under the Convention; the opium to be stored in bond at Hong Kong and the Treaty ports, and the duties to be payable on the opium being removed from bond for consumption; the Chinese Government to undertake that the opium should be absolutely free from all further duty or tax, and, if this condition is not observed by the Chinese, the Indian Government to be at once released from their part of the agreement; special provision to be made for the treatment of opium intended for consumption in Penang, Singapore, and Hong Kong.\n\nIf the Government of India were inclined to accept some such agreement, it is stated that China would send a Special Commissioner to India, with power to come to an understanding.\n\n5. Mr. Keswick asks to be informed whether there is any likelihood of such an agreement being favourably viewed by the Government of India.\n\n6. The Chinese tax will, under the new Convention, be fixed at so high a rate that the Chinese Government apparently fears that even the arrangements under the Convention for the collection of the tax by the Foreign Customs will not suffice to prevent smuggling. That Government accordingly desires to obtain control of opium exported from India before it leaves India.\n\n7. The Government of India is under no obligation to assist China in obtaining what she desires, and, in any case, would make concessions in the desired direction only on condition of receiving at least equal concessions from China in respect of the opium trade.\n\n8. The proposal that opium should be exported from India only under the Chinese flag is one which the Government of India could not accept. But it might, perhaps, be possible to devise a system under which the Government of India could collect the Chinese duty and tax, and hand the collections over to the Chinese Government. Under such a system smuggling would be so completely prevented that the Chinese Government could afford to make large concessions in return. If arrangements could be made whereby the present Indian revenue from opium were secured, and the possibility of China hereafter obtaining, through the agency of the Indian Government, a larger share than at present of the revenue derived from opium entirely obviated, the Government of India might be disposed to consider a proposal to introduce such a system.\n\n9. There are, however, on the other hand, objections to the Government of India taking any share in the collection of the Chinese duties on opium exported from India to China, or taking measures to foster the growth, not of the Indian opium revenue only, but also of the Chinese; and the adoption of such a course might raise considerable difficulties for this Government. It is doubtful whether the Government of India should not restrict itself to the growth and sale of opium in India, and leave all measures relating to opium after it leaves India to private trade and the Chinese Government.\n\nThe desirability of the course which it is proposed to adopt will, in all probability, largely depend on the manner in which the new Convention can be worked, and until that has been ascertained it would seem premature to open the desired negotiations.\n\n5\n\n330\n\n10. A copy of the reply which has been sent to Mr. Keswick is annexed.\n\n11. The Government of India will be much obliged if you will examine the proposals suggested by Mr. Keswick, and the considerations embodied in this letter, both with reference to the practicability and expediency of working an agreement on the basis suggested, and with reference to the dispatch of a special Agent to India to communicate confidentially with this Government. Should you agree to the dispatch of an Agent, the Government of India would wish to be favoured with a full expression of your views on the subject, and with all other necessary information.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nInclosure 4 in No.\n\nMr. Finlay to Mr. J. Keswick.\n\nSimla, August 29, 1885.\n\nI AM directed to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th August to Mr. Barbour, suggesting the desirability of entering into an agreement with China for the more certain collection of the Chinese duty and tax on opium, asking whether there is any likelihood of some agreement on the basis indicated in your letter being favourably viewed, and stating that China would be prepared to send a Special Commissioner with power to come to an understanding with the Government of India in the matter.\n\n2. In reply, I am directed to state that, if the Chinese Government wish to send to India an informal Agent, the Government of India would be prepared to give every attention to anything he might have to urge, and to give him any information he might require, provided he came with the consent of Her Majesty's Minister, and that Her Majesty's Minister had full knowledge of the purpose for which he was sent, and of the instructions given him.\n\n3. If it is proposed to send an informal Agent to India for the purpose mentioned, the Agent should therefore place himself in communication with the Minister (who will be advised from here as to the substance of the proposals under acknowledgment), and he should obtain the latter's consent before starting for India.\n\nInclosure 5 in No.\n\nMr. O'Conor to the Viceroy of India.\n\nPeking, November 28, 1885.\n\nWITH regard to the letter which the Secretary to the Government of India addressed to me, under date of the 11th September, respecting a proposal by Mr. J. J. J. Keswick, of the firm of Jardine, Skinner, and Co., with a view to facilitate, under the new Opium Article, the collection of the Chinese duty and tax on opium, I beg to inclose a copy of a letter which I have received from Mr. William Keswick on the same subject, and of the answer which I returned thereto.\n\nI have carefully considered the scheme drawn up by Mr. Keswick in regard to its probable effect upon the sale and consumption of Indian opium in China, but as I am confidentially informed that the Chinese Government have submitted a counter-scheme to Her Majesty's Government through the Chinese Minister in London, a perusal of which left me under the impression that, with certain alterations, it would perhaps meet with the approval of the Government of India, I think it would be premature to consider at the present moment Mr. Keswick's suggestion with a view to their practical adoption.\n\nI have not been furnished with a copy of the proposals of the Chinese Government, but I have no doubt they will at once be submitted to the India Office, and referred to your Excellency.\n\nIf they are rejected by Her Majesty's Government, Mr. Keswick's scheme might then be taken up, and with this view I will supply your Excellency with a Memorandum thereon, drawn up by Mr. Hillier, Chinese Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation, whose long residence in Peking and intimate acquaintance with the opium question entitle him to speak with confidence.\n\nEven if the Chinese proposals are accepted, it would be very necessary to supplement them by certain restrictions in the class of vessels authorized to carry opium from India to China.\n\n[257]\n\nBA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "## No. 33 OF 1887.\n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.** \n**HOME DEPARTMENT.** \n**PUBLIC.** \n1055 \n\nTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \n**VISCOUNT CROSS, G.C.B.,** \nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for India. \n\nMY LORD, \n\nSimla, the 28th May 1887. \n\nWITH reference to the Despatches noted on the margin, we have the honour to transmit a copy of the replies \n| Reference | Description |\n| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |\n| From Her Majesty's Secretary of State, No. 113. | dated 25th November 1886. |\n| From Her Majesty's Secretary of State, No. 51, | dated 14th April 1887. |\n\nwhich we have received from the several Local Governments and Administrations to our request to be furnished with reports on the working of section 31 of the **European Vagrancy Act, IX of 1874**. \n\n2. It will be seen from these reports that no necessity seems to have arisen for bringing that section into operation anywhere in India. \n\nWe have the honour to be, \nMY LORD, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble Servants, \n**DUFFERIN.** \n**F. S. ROBERTS.** \n**T. C. HOPE.** \n**A. COLVIN.** \n**G. CHESNEY.** \n**A. R. SCOBLE.** \n**J. B. PEILE.** \n\n383 \nRECEIVED 2 \n**INDIA OFFICE** 18 JUN.87 \n\nI am eli \n(3) J. Pauncepte. \nCol. Of. \n7.1.1-5./86. \nSo Judia Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "(J&P 1053 1287)\n\nExtract from the Proceedings of the Government of Madras, Public Department,-No. 533, dated Fort St. George, 13th April 1887.\n\nREAD the following:-\n\nFrom the Commissioner of Police, Madras, dated 7th February 1887, No. 16,-Reporting on the working of section 31 of the Vagrancy Act, 1874.\n\nOrder thereon by the Government of Madras.\n\nOrdered to be forwarded to the Government of India.\n\n2. His Excellency the Governor in Council concurs with the Commissioner of Police (who is also President of the Government Workhouse Committee) in thinking that section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, 1874, works satisfactorily in this presidency.\n\nNo. 534.\n\nCopy to the Government of India, Home Department, with reference to their endorsement No., dated 12th January 1887.\n\nNo. 16, dated Madras, 7th February 1887.\n\nFrom-COLONEL T. WELDON, Commissioner of Police, Madras, To-The Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras.\n\nI HAVE the honour, with reference to Order of Government dated 4th February 1887, No. 175 (Miscellaneous), communicating a reference made by the Government of India as to the working of section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, 1874, to state that I am not aware of any complaints on the part of foreign Consuls, or masters or consignees of foreign vessels, as to the working of the present law.\n\n2. I do not think that a shorter term of liability than now obtains would be effective in the public interests. If a shorter term be allowed, less care will be taken when either making or terminating engagements which may result in the employé being thrown on public charity, or becoming a charge to the public funds. As a matter of fact, Consuls, consignees, and private employers of labour can frequently, if it be their interest to do so, find employment for a vagrant better than the Government.\n\nG. C, B. Froas, Simla.-No. 250 11. D.----26-6-87,—16,\n\nRECEIVED\n2\nINDIA OFFICE 18 JUN.87\n384", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "# J&P 1053\n\nNo. 1631, dated Calcutta, 23rd March 1887.\n\nFrom **The HON'BLE SIR H. L. HARRISON**, Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, To-The Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1326J. of the 22nd instant, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Government of India in the Home Department pointing out that the report submitted with this office letter No. 863, dated 14th February last, is a report on the working, not of section 31, but of section 32 of Act IX of 1874.\n\n2. In reply, I beg to report, for the information of His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, that no single instance can be traced from the records of this office of the deportation, at the cost of the importers, of any European other than a groom under section 32 of the Act. In the cases of British seamen becoming destitute within six months of their leaving their last ship, they have been removed from the country in communication with the Shipping Master, while destitute foreign seamen are provided with ships by their Consuls.\n\n3. I beg to express my regret for the mistake in submitting a report on the working of section 32 instead of section 31 of the Act.\n\nNo. 1523 J., dated Calcutta, 31st March 1887. Endorsed by the Government of Bengal.\n\nCopy submitted to the Government of India in the Home Department for information, with reference to the letter from that Department, No. 688, dated the 18th instant.\n\nPage 386\n\nG. O. B. Press, Simla.—No. 250 H. D.-26-5-87--16.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "# \n1053 \n387 \n\nNo. 574 dated Allahabad, 2nd April 1887. \n`VI-965'` \n\nFrom-**W. C. BENETT, Esq., c.s.**, Secretary to the Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, \nTo-**The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department**. \n\n**I AM** directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. %, dated the 12th January 1887, forwarding a Despatch from Her Majesty's Secretary of State, with enclosure, asking that enquiry may be made as to the working of section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, IX of 1876. \n\n2. In reply, I am to state, for the information of His Excellency the Governor General in Council, that, as far as can be ascertained, section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act has never been brought into operation in these provinces. \n\nG. C. B. Press, Simla.-No. 250 17, D.-28-5-87.-18.\n\nPage 390\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "## J&P 1053 \n1887 \n\nNo 1, dated Nagpur, 23rd March 1887.\n\nFrom A. C. Durr, Esq., c.s., Under-Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces,\nTo—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hewett's endorsement No., dated the 12th January last, and in reply to state that the Officiating Chief Commissioner is not aware of any case in which section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, IX of 1874, has been put in force in these provinces.\n\nQ. C. B. Press, Simla.—No. 269 H. D.—26-5-87.—16.\n\n## 380", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "## \n$1053 \n1887 \n390 \n\n**No. 4** dated Rangoon, 25th March 1887.\n\n验\nFrom - **E. S. SYMES, Esq., C.I.E.**, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Burma, \nTo - The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.\n\nIn reply to your endorsement No., dated the 12th January 1887, I am directed to submit that, so far as can be ascertained, section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, 1874, has never been put into operation in Burma.\n\nQ. C. B. Preas, Simla, -- No. 260 H, D.-26-5-87, -- 18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "# J. & R 1053 \n391 \n1887 \n\n## No. 166, dated Shillong, 31st January 1887.\n\nFrom—**C. J. LYALL, Esq., C. I. E., c. s.**, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, To—**The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department**.\n\nIn acknowledging receipt of your endorsement No. ..., dated the 12th instant, asking for a report on the working of section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, 1874, I am directed to report that there has been no experience of the working of that section in this province. Since the passing of the Act, the annual returns relating to it have, with the single exception of those for 1875, always been blank in Assam; and it does not appear that in that year any recourse was had to section 31 of the Act.\n\n3\n\n**G. C, B. Press, Simla.-No. 230 H. 12-20-5-37.-16.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "J & R1053 \n1887 \n392 \n\nNo., dated Bangalore, 5th February 1887.\n\nFrom—**MAJOR D. ROBERTSON**, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Coorg, To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.\n\nIn reply to your endorsement No. 5, dated the 12th January 1887, I am directed to say that there has been no occasion to enforce in Coorg the provisions of section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, 1874.\n\nG. C. B. `vreas`, Simla.—No. 2001, D.-2-3-87.--16.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "# \n## No. 105 G., dated Hyderabad Residency, 21st March 1887.\n\nFrom - **A. H. T. MARTINDALE, Esq., c.s.**, Secretary for Berar to the Resident, Hyderabad,\n\nTo - The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.\n\nWITH reference to your office endorsement No., dated 12th January 1887, calling for a report regarding the working of section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act (IX of 1874), I am directed to state that, so far as the Hyderabad Assigned Districts are concerned, it has never been found necessary to have recourse to the provisions of the section in question.\n\n`G. C. B, Press, Simla No. 230., H. D.-25-5-87.-16`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335783, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, DEPARTMENT OF HOME PUBLIC\n## No. 33, DATED Simla, the 28th MAY 1887.\n\n[Copy]\n\n**LETTER TO HER MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA**\n\nWith reference to the Despatches from the Secretary of State cited within, transmits copy of replies received from Local Governments and Administrations, from which it would appear that section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act IX of 1874, has not been brought into operation anywhere in India.\n\nGovt. C. B. Press, Simla.-No. 250 H. D.-23-3-87.—10 \n\nDRAFT.\n\nWith reference to your despatch no. 69 of 9 June, and to my despatch no. 60 of 21st April last, I have the honour to transmit, for your information and guidance, copy of a letter from the Govt. of India, forwarding correspondence with the India Office respecting the working of section 31 of the Indian Act called \"The European Vagrancy Act IX of 1874,\" together with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "Page 353\n\nHONGKONG, JULY 18TH, 1893.\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nTHE CURRENCY OF THE COLONY. RECOMMENDATION TO LEGALISE THE JAPANESE YEN.\n\nA special meeting of the members of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday at the City Hall for the purpose of discussing the desirability of recommending the Government to make the Japanese yen a legal tender in Hongkong, and further to urge the adoption of the necessary measures for the coinage of a British dollar. There were present Messrs. J. J. Keswick (Chairman), A. G. Wood, N. J. Ede, R. M. Gray, C. Jantzen, H. H. Joseph, J. H. Scott, T. H. Whitehead (Committee), T. Jackson, J. J. Francis, L. Mendel, J. H. Garrels, Q. Sharp, B. Byramjee, Gustav von Wille, J. S. Lapraik, E. R. Belilios, J. S. Moses, D. R. Sussoon, W. H. Gaskell, E. F. Alford, A. McConuchie, C. J. Halliday, W. R. Loxley, V. A. C. Hawkins, F. Seip, F. Henderson (Secretary), and others.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said—Gentlemen, the disturbance to all financial affairs throughout the world consequent upon the action of the Indian Government in declaring a gold standard of value in that Empire, and the influence upon exchanges generally which has ensued, has been felt as much in Hongkong and in the trading ports of China as in any other places. When it became known here that the Viceroy's Council was sitting in Simla last month to decide upon the recommendations of Lord Herschell's Committee, this Chamber forwarded to His Excellency the Viceroy a telegram deprecating any action tending to injure the trade between India and China, and mentioning that anticipations were already paralyzing business. Similar messages were sent by bankers and merchants, and I believe by the Hongkong Government, but the replies, as you are aware, were practically that \"the matter was settled.\" For the present we are in the dark as to the precise recommendations of the Herschell Committee, but their result has been such as to cause the enactment of a policy in India which, with the information before us, seems unlikely to be to the benefit of the people of that country at large or of the British mercantile, manufacturing, and planting communities there who have done so much, especially within the last ten years, to promote the wealth and general prosperity of that dependency.\n\nThe adoption of a gold standard, in other words the protection of the rupee and the non-protection of the dollar, has had its natural effect, and we have seen silver for the first time in the world's history worth only 30 pence an ounce, and the value of the dollar in Hongkong at less than half-a-crown. Great silver-producing countries like America and Mexico have not yet declared the measures they will adopt in consequence of India's financial policy, but from Mexico we have at least a note of warning which requires that in this distant Colony we should take such action as we can for our own protection and for the safeguarding of banking and trading interests.\n\nFor well-nigh half a century the Mexican dollar has been the coin at the Treaty ports of China and Hongkong, and latterly of The Straits Settlements, and we are able to fully appreciate the inconvenience which may arise if there should be any curtailment of its supplies in the absence of another token to meet the want thus created. It is for the purpose of considering what should be done to meet such a contingency that we are here to-day, and it is satisfactory to see such a good and representative attendance.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, too, takes the deepest interest in the question, and has expressed a wish for your views as to making the Japanese yen a legal tender in Hongkong, and His Excellency will, I am sure, give the fullest effect in his power to the recommendation of this Chamber. When your Committee had this question under consideration a few days ago, they were, I think I may say, unanimously in favour of the Japanese yen being made legal tender here as the only immediate relief we can look for in the event of the supply of the time-honoured Mexican being inadequate to the requirements of the great and growing China trade in connection with which the banking facilities find a focus in Hongkong.\n\nThe yen is of at least equal value with the Mexican dollar, is highly appreciated by the Chinese, is an unusually handsome and well-finished coin, and I may say that its history for nearly twenty years has been in every respect satisfactory as to uniformity of value. Such being the case, I think I may venture to say that your Committee would be glad if this meeting would favourably view a recommendation to the Government that it should be made a legal tender.\n\nThe popularity of the coin, and the not unnatural desire of the enterprising and progressive Japanese Government to furnish the trading medium of the East, seem to indicate it as the most valuable auxiliary we can obtain if there is to be, as we fear, an uncertainty in the supply of the Mexican coin.\n\nIt is not the first time that this proposal has been before this Chamber. Our predecessors in the seventies recommended the Government to legalize the yen, but for some reasons with which I am unacquainted, possibly that there was no necessity at the time, no effect was given to the suggestion. But, gentlemen, if you recommend that the yen be made a legal tender, as it is hoped you may, it should be borne in mind that by many it will be deemed but half a measure of safety, and that there are those who consider that in order to obviate a recurrence of our present danger of a dearth of currency, we should have a dollar of our own, a British dollar, or a Hongkong dollar; a dollar, by whatever name you call it, of which the supply shall be regulated by our requirements.\n\nNow, such a proposal is probably in every way commendable theoretically, but it opens up the great questions of cost of production and of ways and means, the chief desiderata in all undertakings! This is a point I hope this meeting will debate, and debate freely and fully, and if necessary appoint a special sub-committee to consider. The minting of a British dollar was, I believe, favourably considered by this Chamber in 1877, but I cannot trace that anything practical resulted.\n\nIn considering this suggestion, many will call to mind with regret that Hongkong once had a mint of its own and that they abandoned it hastily and sold their plant to our friends in Japan. It was a grievous error in the light of subsequent experience, as I doubt not that had the mint been continued a few years longer it would not only have been a satisfactory source of revenue to the Colony, but ere this would have supplied the China-Straits trade with its dollars and probably permeated the length and breadth of China, and we would not to-day be under the necessity of discussing how we are to avoid running dry in the event of Mexico stopping her silver coinage.\n\nIf there be those here, or in this Colony, who advocate re-establishing a mint in Hongkong, I say they must count the cost; the opportunities are not...\n\nPage 353 (end)\n\n...\n\nPage 354", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352997, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 589, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "586\n\nMe here\n\nColonial Secretary, Clinical\n\n&\n\ntram for\n\nA\n\n!\n\nand then\n\nSimla capacity\n\nСбыну?\n\nnaturally\n\nIf Jam I stay\n\npleased\n\n20120\n\nInspecting Officer\n\nany\n\naffair\n\nsay\n\nthat\n\nSe. ülhet\n\ndefaulted battle\n\niris\n\n(\n\n✓\n\nLang\n\nterm-\n\nI the chung.\n\npuang tamu\n\nall getting\n\nth\n\nworking well.\n\nthing\n\nabout\n\nL\n\ninent, plas Suspenn.\n\nAnd\n\nI should\n\nK\n\nWe m\n\nI san\n\nha\n\nmittin\n\nI mostly,\n\non hen,\n\nhon meth\n\nwith long\n\n4\n\nat one,\n\nA tier\n\nHe\n\nLan\n\nwould join\n\nthe truth of\n\nWratten.\n\nI hope\n\nmight\n\nthe wollen.\n\nktee\n\nfriemua penition of\n\nuited.\n\nMy andrey\n\nkecinang.\n\naw\n\nПрва над\n\nbut the\n\nThe Sherry\n\nexpenditure\n\nBilen.\n\ndə\n\n5. ཞུ་་་་", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353435, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 423, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "421\n\nTESTIMONIALS.\n\nEarl Russell has graciously favoured J. T. Davenport with the following:- Extract of a despatch from Mr. Webb, H.B.M. Consul at Manilla, dated Sept. 17, 1864.\n\n\"The remedy most efficacious in its effects (in Epidemic Cholera) has been found to be CHLORODYNE, and with a small quantity given to me by Dr. Barke I have saved several lives.\"\n\nEarl Russell communicated to the College of Physicians that he had received a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Manilla to the effect that Cholera has been raging fearfully, and that the ONLY remedy of any service was CHLORODYNE-See Lancet, Dec. 31, 1864.\n\nExtracts from the GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, LONDON, as to its efficacy in Cholera.\n\n1st Stage, or Premonitory-In this stage the remedy acts as a charm, one dose generally sufficient. 2nd Stage, or that of Vomiting and Purging-In this stage the remedy possesses great power, more than any other we are acquainted with, two or three doses being sufficient.\n\n3rd Stage, or Collapse.-In all cases restoring the Pulse. So strongly are we convinced of the immense value of this remedy, that we cannot too forcibly urge the necessity of adopting it in all cases.\n\nFrom Dr. THOMAS SANDIFORD, Passage West, Cork.\n\nI will thank you to send me a further supply of Chlorodyne. It is the most efficacious remedy I ever used, affording relief in violent attacks of Spasms within a minute after being taken. One patient in particular, who has suffered for years with periodical attacks of Spasms of a most painful nature, and unable to obtain relief from other remedies, such as opium, &c., finds nothing so prompt and efficacious as Chlorodyne.\n\nFrom W. VESALIUS PETTIGREW, M.D., formerly lecturer at St. George's Hospital, London.\n\nI have no hesitation in stating that I have never met with any medicine so efficacious as an Anti-spasmodic and Sedative. I have used it in Consumption, Asthma, Diarrhea, and other diseases, and am perfectly satisfied with the results.\n\nFrom Symes & Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists, Medical Hall, Simla-January 5, 1880.\n\nTo J. T. DAVENPORT, Esq., 33, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London.\n\nDEAR SIR,-Have the goodness to furnish us with your best quotations for Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne, as, being large buyers, we would much prefer doing business with you direct than through the wholesale houses. We embrace this opportunity of congratulating you upon the wide-spread reputation this justly-esteemed medicine has earned for itself, not only in Hindostan, but all over the East. As a remedy of general utility, we much question whether a better is imported into the country, and we shall be glad to hear of its finding a place in every Anglo-Indian home. The other brands, we are happy to say, are now relegated to the native bazaars, and, judging from their sale, we fancy their sojourn there will be but evanescent. We could multiply instances ad infinitum of the extraordinary efficacy of Dr. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne in Diarrhoea and Dysentery, Spasms, Cramp, Neuralgia, the Vomiting of Pregnancy, and as a general sedative, that have occurred under our personal observation during many years. Choleraic Diarrhea, and even in the more terrible forms of Cholera itself, we have witnessed its surprisingly controlling power. We have never used any other form of this medicine than Collis Browne's, from a firm conviction that it is decidedly the best, and also from a sense of duty we owe to the profession and the public, as we are of opinion that the substitution of any other than Collis Browne's is a deliberate breach of faith on the part of the chemist to prescriber and patient alike. We are, Sir, faithfully yours,\n\nSYMES & CO.,\n\nMembers of the Pharm. Society of Great Britain, His Excellency the Viceroy's Chemists.\n\nFrom J. M'GRIGOR CROFT, M.D., M.R.C.P., London, late Staff-Surgeon to H.M. Forces.\n\nNovember 26, 1859,\n\nSir, After prescribing Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne for the last three years, in severe cases of Neuralgia and Tic-Douloureux, I feel that I am in a position to testify to its valuable effects. Really, in some cases it acted as a charm, when all other means had failed. Without being asked for this report, I must come forward and state my candid opinion that it is a most valuable medicine, and I have recommended several chemists in this neighbourhood not to be without it for prescriptions.\n\nFrom Jno. E. GOULSTONE, M.D., late Principal Surgeon to the Steam-Ship Great Eastern.\n\nI can confidently state that Chlorodyne is an admirable Sedative and Anti-spasmodic, having used it in Neuralgia, Hysteria, Asthma, and Consumption, with remarkably favourable results. It relieved a fit of Asthma in four minutes, where the patient had suffered eleven years in a most distressing manner, previous remedy having had so immediate and beneficial an effect.\n\nFrom DR. B. J. BOULTON & Co., Horncastle.\n\nWe have made pretty extensive use of Chlorodyne in our practice lately, and look upon it as an excellent direct Sedative and Anti-spasmodic. It seems to allay pain and irritation in whatever organ, or from whatever cause. It induces a feeling of comfort and quietude not obtainable by any other remedy, and it seems to possess this great advantage over all other Sedatives, that it leaves no unpleasant after effects.\n\nA BILL\n\nENTITLED\n\nAn Ordinance for the regulation of the consumption of Morphine and for the suppression of the pernicious practice of administering or injecting preparations of Morphine by unqualified persons.\n\nWHEREAS it is desirable to regulate the consumption of Morphine in this Colony and to forbid the administration or injection of preparations of Morphine except in cases where such treatment has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical practitioner.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as \"The Morphine Ordinance, 1895.\"\n\n2. For the purposes of this Ordinance, Morphine shall include Morphia and every preparation thereof.\n\n3. Any person, not being a duly qualified medical practitioner, who shall administer by injection or otherwise any Morphine to any other person, except in cases where the same has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical practitioner, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three months.\n\nThe onus of proving the exception shall lie on the person so administering the Morphine.\n\n4. Any person, not being a duly qualified medical practitioner, who shall, except in cases where Morphine has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical practitioner, furnish Morphine or a hypodermic syringe or other appliance for the injection of Morphine, to any person, except a duly qualified medical practitioner, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three months.\n\nThe onus of proving the exception shall lie on the person furnishing Morphine or a hypodermic syringe or other appliances as aforesaid.\n\n5. Any person, not being a duly qualified medical practitioner or a chemist or druggist actually carrying on business as such, who shall have in his possession any Morphine or any preparation of Morphine shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and, in default of payment, to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three months. Provided that this section shall not apply to cases where Morphine has been prescribed by a duly qualified medical practitioner.\n\n6. No prosecution shall be commenced under section 5 of this Ordinance without the fiat of the Attorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "# No. 19 OF 1894\n\n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**\n**HOME DEPARTMENT**\n**JUDICIAL**\n**Police**\n\n& P \n977 \n1894 44 \nC.O. \n9874 \nREC \n\nTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE H. H. FOWLER, \n`(REGE 7 JUN 34)` \nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for India. \n\nSIR, \n\nSimla, the 16th May 1894. \n\nWe have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Kimberley's Despatch No. 15 (Public), dated the 15th February last, requesting to be informed whether any, and, if so, what special regulations are in force in Burma with regard to brothels; and also whether the oppression of the inmates of brothels which is complained of at Hong-Kong and Singapore is found to exist in Burma, and, if so, how it is dealt with.\n\n*No. 264-1-T.-20, dated 11th April 1894.*\n\n2. In reply, we beg to forward a copy of a letter* from the Chief Commissioner of Burma, with enclosures, from which it will be seen that there is no special law in Burma relating to brothels. The further reports referred to in paragraph 5 of the Chief Commissioner's letter will be forwarded to you as soon as they are received.\n\nWe have the honour to be, \nSIR, \nYour most obedient, humble Servants, \n\nELGIN, \nG. S. WHITE, \nA. E. MILLER, \nH. BRACKENBURY, \nC. B. PRITCHARD, \nJ. WESTLAND, \nA. P. MACDONNELL. \n\n138/94 \n**RECEIVED** \n**INDIA OFT** \n5 JUN. 94", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "**Confidential.**\n\nSIR,\n\nNo. 89 of 1894.\n\nMilitary Department.\n\nTHE RIGHT HON'BLE H. H. FOWLER,\nHER MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.\n\nSimla, the 5th June 1894.\n\nWe regret to have to bring to the notice of Her Majesty's Government that an illicit trade in arms and ammunition has been carried on by sepoys returning to India from Hong-Kong. We fear that this trade is not confined to men of the corps in Hong-Kong, but that sepoys of other Colonial Corps and Police recruited in India have engaged in it.\n\n2. We are taking the necessary measures to put a stop to the traffic, in which it appears, as will be seen from the paper enclosed, that the sepoys have in some cases been aided by the possession of passes obtained from their Commanding Officers under the provisions of paragraphs 1527, 1528 and 1529, Army Regulations, India, Volume II. We would observe that these regulations are applicable only to the Native Army of India; and that Officers Commanding Colonial Corps composed of natives of India have no power to grant passes for arms to their men when returning to this country on furlough.\n\n3. We request, therefore, that the Secretary of State for the Colonies may be moved to inform all Colonial Governments possessing corps or bodies of Police recruited in India that such passes will not be recognized by the customs authorities in this country, and to request them to take such steps as may be necessary to prevent the illicit export of arms and ammunition from the Colonies to India. The matter is one to which we attach importance, as there \n\n*Vide Finance and Commerce Department Circular No. 101-S., dated 27th March 1894.\n\nPage 56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355791, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "# No. 295-1T.-20, dated Rangoon, the 13th July 1894\n\nFrom **The Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Burma, Municipal Department**, To-**The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department**.\n\nIN continuation of this office letter `No. 264-1T.-20`, dated the 11th April 1894, I am directed to report that the Deputy Commissioners of the districts which include the towns of Rangoon, Moulmein, Akyab, Bassein, Mergui, Prome, Mandalay, Bhamo, and Yandoon (Nyaungdun) have been consulted and have reported that Chinese women are not kidnapped for prostitution in Burma, and that complaints about \"brothel slavery\" have not been received. A copy of `No. 13-4T-34`, dated the 30th April 1894, of the report of the Deputy Commissioner, Rangoon Town, is submitted.\n\n## No. 12-4T.-34, dated the 30th April 1894\n\nFrom **The Deputy Commissioner, Rangoon Town District**, To-**The Commissioner, Pegu Division**.\n\nWith reference to your endorsement, General Department, `No. 283-30-M.`, dated the 14th instant, I have the honour to report that there is no reason to believe that kidnapping of Chinese women, or women of other nationalities, for immoral purposes or keeping of them in brothels by the methods mentioned in the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner's letter is prevalent among the Chinese population in Rangoon. It seems that nearly all the Chinese prostitutes in Rangoon are prostitutes from Penang or Singapore, who come to Rangoon by the British India Steam Navigation Company's boats and return after staying here for a time. In the Straits they are said to require a pass from the Chinese Consul before being allowed to practise prostitution. Steamers seldom come here direct from China, and no instances have yet come to notice in which women have been brought to Rangoon direct against their wish.\n\n2. It would appear that in Rangoon there is no necessity to keep women in brothels by force or fraud. The brothel-keepers provide board and lodging and receive in return half of what the women earn by prostitution. The establishments, which contain about a dozen women each, are reserved for Chinamen only, and the women seem perfectly contented and not unfrequently marry, their calling being no special bar to matrimony. In some cases mothers reside with their daughters in brothels with a view to selling them to the highest bidders whose wives they would become.\n\n3. From the regular and business-like way that these establishments are conducted, it does not seem that it would pay to use coercion to obtain women. I understand that while there were no Chinese brothels in Rangoon about ten years ago, there are now five, and they are said to be becoming more numerous with the increase of trade in Rangoon and decline of it in Penang.\n\n4. No complaints have been made by the Chinese community in Rangoon about the non-regulation of brothels. When brothels were first started, the Cantonese sect petitioned the then District Magistrate to put a stop to Chinese prostitutes coming over to Rangoon, but no dissatisfaction appears to exist now, and on the contrary the establishments seem to be becoming more popular.\n\nPage 1531 \n15719 \nRECP PLC 5 SEP \nG. C. Press, Simla.-No. (81 H. D.---8-8-94,17)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG. APRIL 1st. 1895.\n### THE COOLIE STRIKE.\n#### DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERNOR.\n##### EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon the Committee appointed at the public meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce Room on Thursday last waited upon His Excellency the Governor at Government House in order to make recommendations suggested by the leading Chinese in regard to the coolie strike. The members of the Committee present were **Hon J. J. Keswick** (Chairman), **Mogers**, **H. Mackintosh**, **G. B. Dodwell**, **N. A. Simba**, **H. I. Doungs**, and **St. C. Michaelsen**. They were accompanied by **Hon Ho Kai**, and there were also in the room **Hon. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart** (Colonial Secretary) and **Mr. F. H. May** (Captain Superintendent of Police).\n\nHis EXCELLENCY having received the deputation,\n\n**Hon. J. J. KESWICK** said-We are the Committee appointed at the public meeting which took place the day before yesterday to consider the crisis arising out of the labour difficulties. We had a meeting yesterday at the Council Chamber, and were there met by a large committee of Chinese compradores and persons connected with various hongs.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY-At the Chamber of Commerce?\n\nThe **Hon. J. J. KESWICK**-At the Chamber of Commerce. The persons represented I have not the names of; but they were the masters of the principal Nam Pak-Hongs, the large merchants, the piece goods merchants, the coal merchants, opium merchants, shipping merchants, and the compradores of the leading European firms. They represented to this Committee that the chief objection which the coolies had to the present registration law was the fear that it was a precursor of a poll tax, and we thereupon, after some considerable discussion with them, endeavoured to seek an interview with your Excellency, but as you were not at Government House we had an interview with the Colonial Secretary. We informed the Colonial Secretary of what had passed, and in the evening he informed us that you were not prepared, or that you were averse, to acquiesce to the proposal which had been submitted, namely, that the landlords should be registered instead of the tenants. We returned to the deputation and they informed us that the whole difficulty would be at once overcome if the members of the Committee present, on behalf of the various firms they represented, would give a guarantee that there would be nothing in the shape of a poll tax. In view of your Excellency's statement, we had no difficulty in giving a guarantee. We gave them a guarantee, a translation of which has been put into the papers, which doubtless your Excellency has seen. Immediately thereafter it would appear that the coolies' representatives had become aware of this guarantee and the labourers were prepared to return to their work. It would appear, however, that they bethought themselves and decided that they would wait to see the issue of a notification from the Government. We have come now, sir, to ask your Excellency, seeing that the strike continues, what steps you believe would be practicable in order to put an end to the strike. If I have not fully represented the views of the Committee, perhaps you will allow some other gentleman to supplement the remarks I have made.\n\n**H. B. MACKINTOSH**-Your Excellency and gentlemen, the sole question that rests between the strikers and the employers of labour through the Government is this, the Government have insisted by their latest legislation that the coolie tenant of a coolie heng, shall become registered to the Government to fulfil the various obligations under the by-laws that have been passed by the Legislative Council or by the Sanitary Board; and in the event of the coolie tenant being unavailable and that he cannot be got at, it shall devolve upon the landlord or the owner of the property. It appears to me that the Chinese in asking for the obliteration of the coolie tenant are on all fours with their desire that they should obtain from us and also from the Government a statement that no poll tax or registration fee will be imposed. If you will look at it, the Government have granted these two positions-first the tenant, next the landlord; ergo, it is optional for the registrar to put forward the tenant or the landlord; therefore these gentlemen who are speaking for the coolie hongs have no grievance whatever, either as regards the imposition of a poll tax or as regards a guarantee that shall be given, because they can simply say to the Government, \"We will not give the tenant; we will give the landlord.\" The thing is in a nutshell. If the Government decline to strike out the tenant and rely solely on the landowner, the Chinese can simply say the tenant is non est; here is the landlord. I think this is a solution of the law, the whole thing. It is really a quibble in terms. The Government insist upon people; failing one they will take the other--one the tenant, the other the landlord. The deputation we saw yesterday, I may say, is not a deputation from the coolie guilds or the strikers in any shape or way. Our difficulty when we were appointed was to get at the coolie gentlemen, and we believe the Government have had exactly the same difficulty as ourselves. We cannot get at them. They have fled; they cannot be found. Our next position was to get at those who we think, and we think reasonably, are in some way connected with the coolie hongs and have some influence over them, and hear what their grievance is. We have individually tried to find out what special grievance there is, and after careful examination of every statement put before us it amounts to nothing. It is really a grievance against the Government for passing regulations they think will be a restriction upon them. This restriction, I think, can be got over by an explanatory proclamation stating a recapitulation of the guarantee given by the Committee that there will be no poll tax and no registration fee, and that the landlord of the house shall be the guarantor instead of the tenant. It is optional for these gentlemen to say, \"We will not give a guarantee; here is the landlord.\" If that were to be put in a proclamation and published throughout the colony, I think the thing would be finished to-morrow. I may say that these Chinese gentlemen we met asked us to give the guarantee, which we were perfectly prepared to give. We gave it with the idea of resuming business in this colony as quickly as we possibly could, for it is a matter of the most serious importance to the whole community. We see that these gentlemen stated that their own loss was $200,000 for the two or three days. That is probably exaggerated, but speaking for myself and the other members of the deputation round you, most of them largely connected with labour works in this colony. I may say that the losses of these gentlemen will not fall very far short of that sum.\n\n**Hon. Dr. Ho Kai**-I was invited by Mr. Keswick to attend the meeting to-day, no doubt with a view of supporting the recommendation of the Committee. I must say that the decision of the deputation was in agreement with what on a former occasion a certain number of the Chinese had recommended in another place, that the landlords should be allowed to register for the tenants and the head coolies. After they have settled down and seen that the law will work no hardship upon them they would very likely be induced to register for themselves. It is perfectly plain that these coolies are ignorant and have no knowledge of what is really good for them, and, like children when they see a strange thing for the first time, they are apt to be very shy. But as soon as they become more acquainted with the law and the working of it, I have not the slightest doubt they will quietly submit to the views of the Government. The advantage of having landowners registered is this. So far as the coolies are concerned they do not get much advice; they do not know very much. But the landlords, who are a more intelligent body of persons and can get legal advice whenever they desire, protect themselves if they choose by...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358895, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## 1805\n### SIMLA\n#### FOREIGN DEPARTMENT\n##### INTERNAL\n\nNo. 83, dated the 1st May 1895.\n\nCopy.\n\n**Letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India.**\n\n**Grant of permission to the Nawab of Basoda to visit America and Australia.**\n\nG. C. Press, Simla.-No. 153 F. D.-30-4-95.-8.\n\nC. O. `9012`\nRECP(`RES 27 MAY 95`) \n298", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358896, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# No. 83 of 1895\n\n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA** \n**FOREIGN DEPARTMENT** \n299\n\nTo \n**SIR**, \n**INTERNAL**. \nTHE RIGHT HON'BLE H. H. FOWLER, \nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for India.\n\nSimla, the 1st May 1895.\n\nWith reference to our Despatch No. 63 (Internal), dated the 22nd March 1893, we have the honour to forward for the information of Her Majesty's Government, a copy of the correspondence marginally noted, showing that the Nawab of Basoda has again received our permission to visit America.\n\nFrom the Agent to the Governor-General in Central India, No. 2521-6, dated the 29th March 1895, and enclosure. \nTo the Agent to the Governor-General in Central India, No. 1235-1, dated the 16th April 1895.\n\n2. The Nawab also proposes to visit Australia.\n\nWe have the honour to be, \n**SIR**, \nYour most obedient, humble Servants, \n(Signed) \nELGIN. \nG. S. WHITE. \nA. E. MILLER. \nH. BRACKENBURY. \nJ. WESTLAND. \nA. MACKENZIE. \nA. C. TREVOR.\n\n**INDIA OFFICE** \n17 MAY. 95 \n33 \n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358897, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# 1895\n## SIMLA\n### 300 C.O. 9012 RESP\n**(Received 27 MAY 96)**\n## FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. INTERNAL.\nEnclosures of a letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No. 83, dated the 1st May 1895.\n`G. C. Press, Simla.-No. 158 F. D.--30-4.95,-8.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358898, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 304, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# No. 2524-G., dated Indore Residency, the 29th March 1895\nFrom-**LIEUTENANT-COLONEL D. W. K. BARR**, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India,\nTo-**The Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department**.\n\nI have the honour to submit, for the favourable consideration of the Government of India, the accompanying letter from the Political Agent in Bhopal, regarding the proposed visit of the Nawab of Basoda to America and Australia.\n\n2. There are no local objections to the Nawab's proposals, unless an absence of two years from his estate be considered excessive.\n\n3. Should the Nawab's proposal meet with the approval of the Government of India, he will be given a letter of introduction as on previous occasions.\n\n# No. 447-169-84, dated Bhopal Political Agency, Sebore, the 18th March 1895.\nFrom-**MAJOR M. J. MEADE**, Political Agent in Bhopal,\nTo-**The 1st Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General in Central India**.\n\nWith reference to the correspondence ending with your office telegram `No. 7811`, dated the 21st October 1893, conveying permission for Mohammad Amar Ali Khan, the Nawab of Basoda to go and visit Madrid and Lisbon, I have the honour to state that the Nawab could not avail himself of the permission owing to the failure of crops that year, and he has now sent me a yaddasht requesting to be allowed to go and visit America and Australia.\n\n2. The Nawab proposes to embark from Calcutta and to sail to America *viá* Hongkong and Japan and to return to Bombay *vid* Liverpool, Gibralter, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Naples and the river Nile in Egypt. After his return from America the Nawab intends spending a few days at his capital to see if things are going on all right, and then to resume his travels to Australia. The money required for his trip to America will be, he estimates, about Rs. 5,000, and it will take the Nawab five months to complete the journey. Separate arrangements will be made for his travels to Australia.\n\n3. The Nawab assures me that the State is free from all embarrassments, that the administration is being carried on smoothly, and will be managed as usual by his son, Mian Hyder Ali Khan, during his absence. He asks that, as after his return from America, he will only be here for a short time before proceeding to Australia, sanction may be obtained for his absence from Basoda for two years to save time.\n\n4. I see no reason why the wishes of the Nawab should not be complied with except that the period he intends remaining away is too long, and I therefore forward his application for the favourable consideration of the Agent to the Governor-General.\n\n5. If the Government of India sanctions the Nawab's request, I beg that the usual circular letter in English may be forwarded for his use.\n\n# No. 1235-1, dated Simla, the 16th April 1895.\nFrom-**CAPTAIN H. DALY**, Officiating Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department,\nTo-**The Agent to the Governor-General in Central India**.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter `No. 2524-G.`, of 29th March 1895, regarding the proposed visit of the Nawab of Basoda to America and Australia.\n\n2. On the understanding that the Nawab's son, Mian Hyder Ali Khan, will carry on the administration of the State during his father's absence, the Governor-General in Council has no objection to the Nawab travelling as proposed. He may be furnished with a letter of introduction as on previous occasions.\n\n**INDIA OFFICE**\nG. C. Press, Simla. `No. 153 F.D.--30-4-95.--35.`\n17 MAY 95\n1\n301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361751, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 611, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "To \n\nNo. 96 OF 1896.\n\nGOVERNMENT OF INDIA.\n\nFINANCE AND COMMERCE DEPARTMENT.\n\nPENSIONS AND GRATUITIES.\n\nF 2084 1896 607\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD GEORGE FRANCIS HAMILTON,\n\nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for India.\n\nNo. 9391 REC\n\nSimla, the 15th April 1896.\n\nRest 4 MAY 36\n\nMY LORD,\n\n5811195\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatches No. 229, Financial, dated 26th December 1895, and No. 9, Financial, dated 16th January 1896, regarding the grant of a pension to Mr. C. V. Creagh, C.M.G., in respect of his service in the Punjab Police.\n\n9. In reply to a reference we made to the Accountant General of the Punjab we received a letter, of which a copy is forwarded for Your Lordship's information, in which it is stated that Mr. Creagh did not render so much as one complete year of pensionable service in India. He is not therefore eligible for any pension from Indian revenues.\n\n3. With reference to Your Lordship's remark that no arrangement appears to have been made in regard to Mr. Creagh's Indian pension at the time of his transfer to colonial service, we transmit, for Your Lordship's information, extracts from correspondence on the subject. In a letter to the Government of India, No. 651, dated 30th November 1866, the Government of Hong Kong enquired whether the Government of India were willing to allow Mr. Creagh, who was then an Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Punjab, to take service in Hong Kong without prejudice to his position in the Indian Service. In reply, the Government of India stated that they could not allow Mr. Creagh's service in China to count as service in India, or towards pension, but that they would not object to the retention of Mr. Creagh's name on the Police List of the Punjab so as to give him the option of returning to the Punjab Police within a limited period of, say, two or three years. The Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, writing to Mr. Creagh on the 30th November 1866, informed him of the purport of the communication to the Government of India of the same date and then stated-\" It is, however, very probable that this request may be one impossible to comply with, and you will then have to consider whether the prospect of £400 per annum here, with quarters, offers a sufficient inducement for abandoning your career in India.\" It was finally arranged that Mr. Creagh should receive the first vacancy that might occur after his return, should he come back within five years, with restoration to the rank and position he would have occupied in case he had remained.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\n[MY LORD,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble Servants,\n\n(Signed) ELGIN.\n\nG. S. WHITE.\n\nJ. WESTLAND,\n\nJ. WOODBURN.\n\nM. D. CHALMERS,\n\nA. CADELL.]\n\n7574\n\nRECEIVED\n\n2 INDIA OFFICE\n\n- 1 MAY 1896", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 613, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT OF INDIA\n## FINANCE AND COMMERCE DEPARTMENT\n### PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES\n\nThe Government of India, \nThe Secy. of State for India\n\n**No. 96.** \nDated Simla, the 15th April 1896. \nReceived Reporting that Mr. C. V. Creagh, C.M.G., is not eligible for any pension from the Indian revenues in respect of his service in the Punjab Police.\n\n## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, FINANCE AND COMMERCE DEPARTMENT\n### Enclosure to Despatch No. 96 of 1896\n\n**No. 15300-P., dated 6th March 1896.** \nFrom R. E. HAMILTON, Esq., Accountant-General, Punjab, \nTo-The Secretary to the Government of India, Finance and Commerce Department.\n\nWith reference to the Finance and Commerce Department letter `No. 961-P., dated 27th February 1896`, forwarding a copy of papers regarding the grant of a pension to Mr. C. V. Creagh, C.M.G., for his service in the Punjab Police, and requesting me to report (1) whether Mr. Creagh's service in the Punjab Police prior to his transfer to Colonial service was pensionable, and (2) for what amount of pension he would be eligible in respect of that service, I have the honour to state that no pension is admissible to him for the service in question, under the provisions of Article 517 of the Civil Service Regulations, as he was appointed substantively as an Assistant District Superintendent of Police on the 3rd July 1866, and vacated the appointment on the 30th April 1867, that is to say, before he had completed one year's qualifying service, his previous officiating service from 14th September 1865 to 2nd July 1866 not being pensionable.\n\n### No. 651, dated 30th November 1866.\nFrom-Richard Graves Macdonnell, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong, \nTo-His Excellency, Sir JOHN LAWRENCE, G.C.B., K.S.I., Governor-General of India.\n\nI have the honour to invite Your Excellency's attention to the following facts.\n\n2. A very great difficulty has for some years been experienced in procuring an adequate number of efficient police for the duties of this city and island. It has not been found possible in summer to carry on the service with Europeans only, whilst, on the other hand, the men hitherto procured from Bombay and other parts of India, having had no previous police training, have not proved efficient.\n\n3. A number of these men who had entered for a limited period will be leaving next March, and though I hope to be able to detain them, if needful, for a couple of months longer, it is highly necessary to take early measures for replacing them.\n\n4. Knowing the liberality of the Indian Government on other and not dissimilar occasions, I have thought it advisable to communicate with your Excellency and inquire whether you cannot spare 100 of the Sikh Police, and, if they be so inclined, allow them to volunteer for service in Hong Kong.\n\n5. I have hitherto found it so difficult to prevent corruption and bribe-taking amongst the class of Inspectors whom I have hitherto been able to secure that I am specially anxious that the Sikh contingent in question should have at its head some person who is a gentleman by birth and education, it being my belief that in no other way can the Government be secured against corrupt practices.\n\n6. Having heard that a young gentleman, member of an old county family with which I have been for years acquainted, was in the Punjab, and had been appointed an Assistant District Inspector, after passing a very creditable examination, I wrote to him last August inquiring whether he would like to take service here and whether he could procure one hundred trained policemen to accompany him.\n\n7. Mr. Creagh has informed me in reply that he has reason to believe the local Government would not object. He also tells me that, supposing he could find trained and good men willing to accompany him, they would have to give two months' notice, whilst he also is naturally diffident as to the propriety of inducing men to leave the service.\n\n8. I need scarcely inform Your Excellency that I have no wish or intention of doing or inducing others to do anything within the British Indian dominions without the full privity and consent of the authorities there.\n\n9. I am, however, in a very embarrassing position at this moment, as the necessity of procuring additional and trustworthy police is extremely urgent. Therefore, in the interest of the Queen's Government, I apply to Your Excellency for aid so far as to give Mr. Creagh leave to transfer his service to the Government without prejudice to his position in the Indian service-a favour accorded to other Indian employés in similar circumstances; and secondly, I am extremely desirous that Mr. Creagh should have permission to enlist at once 100 of the Sikh Police for duty here without requiring from the men the usual two months' notice.\n\nPage 2084 \nPage 609 \n1896 \n9591 \n\n**Received** \n`MAY 26` \nG. C. Press, Simla, \n`No. 63 C. F`—`13-4-96`,—`30`. \n\n**Received** \n`1 MAY 1906` \n`'DIA OFFIOE` \n`qury`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361754, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 614, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "2\n\n10. It is not improbable that, even if Mr. Creagh cannot be permitted to retain his position in the Punjab Police or be allowed to count his service here, he will nevertheless consent to come to Hong Kong. I fear, however, that he will do this under an impression of my having it in my power hereafter to do more for him than I can, and I am therefore very reluctant to interfere with his future prospects in the Indian service.\n\nerroneous\n\nII. I trust Your Excellency may find yourself able to take a favourable view of the request herein preferred and to issue early the necessary directions for that purpose. Not knowing any other suitable channel through which to make this communication I have been obliged to trouble Your Excellency with these details.\n\nExtract, paragraphs 2 and 3, of a letter from the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, to Mr. G. V. Creagh, No. 652, dated 30th November 1866,\n\n2. His Excellency is writing by this post to the Governor General of India to inform him of his wish to obtain your services at Hong Kong, without prejudice, if possible, to your future promotion under the Indian Government, and requesting that service here may count in your favour for promotion in the Punjab Police hereafter.\n\n3. It is, however, very probable that this request may be one impossible to comply with; and you will then have to consider whether the prospect of £400 per annum here, with quarters, offers a sufficient inducement for abandoning your career in India.\n\nExtract, paragraph 6, of a letter to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, No. 126, dated the 7th January 1867.\n\n6. In regard to Mr. Creagh, I am desired to intimate, for His Excellency's information, that the Government of India would be unable to allow his service in China to count as service in India or towards pension; but there would be no objection to the retention of his name in the Police List of the Punjab, to which, if he wished, he might revert within a given time-say two or three years.\n\nNo. 621, dated 18th April 1867.\n\nFrom-T. H. THORNTON, Esq., Secretary to the Government of the Punjab and its Dependencies, To-E. C. BAYLEY, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and its enclosure, No. 3678, dated 11th instant, and to state that the instructions communicated therein will be carefully carried out, and that Mr. Creagh will be enjoined to use all practicable expedition so as to be enabled to embark with his men in one or other of the vessels indicated,\n\n2. As regards Mr. Creagh himself, the arrangement which the Lieutenant-Governor proposes is that he receives a promise of the first vacancy that may occur after his return should he come back within five years, and of restoration to the rank and position he would have occupied in case he had remained. To keep his place vacant for a period of five years would undeniably be most inconvenient and prejudicial.\n\nNo. 1073, dated 6th June 1857.\n\nFrom-E. C. BAYLEY, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India,\n\nTo-T. H. THORNTON, Esq., Secretary to the Government of the Punjab.\n\n* Letter in this Department, No. 126, dated\n\nHong\n\n7th January, to the Government of Kong, enclosed in this office letter No. 127 of 11th April last, the same date; also letter No. 3678, paragraph 2.\n\nI am desired to acknowledge your letter No. 621, dated 18th April. As regards the promise given to Mr. Creagh, the Governor General in Council considers that it exceeds the limits within which His Excellency signified his willingness to allow Mr. Creagh to retain his connection with the Punjab Police, His Excellency considers it very undesirable that any absentee who may leave India (it may be presumed for reasons of his own convenience or advantage) should be allowed to retain his connection with his appointment in India for so lengthened a period as five years, or that it should be guaranteed by a promise binding on any future Lieutenant-Governor or Governor General.\n\n2. His Excellency regrets that, in the present instance, he was not made aware of the conditions permitted to Mr. Creagh in time, with reference to the date fixed for the embarkation of the men, effectually to express his opinion; and as Mr. Creagh has now sailed on the faith of the terms accorded to him, His Excellency will not interfere with the arrangement, further than to request that it may not be drawn into any precedent for the future.\n\n3. I take this opportunity of forwarding, for the Lieutenant-Governor's information, copy of a further communication from the Government of Hong Kong, No. 201, dated the 15th April.\n\nG. C. Press, Simla-No. 63 C, F.-13.4-96. – 30.\n\nGraft\n\n9.0. ItKey 9591\n\nti\n\n610\n\nC.V. Creagle En, like. H\n\nW. Johnson 6 May\n\nM. Lucas\n\n6 March 1896\n\nofs\n\nSir,\n\nDs.\n\n7\n\nMay 1896\n\nWith reference\n\ntzan letters of\n\n22nd Nov. I\n\nth feet.\n\nlast, I am directed\n\nby Mr. Lee Chamberlain\n\nto transmit to\n\nof a\n\nletter from\n\nZu copy\n\nAccountant General, Punjab, to the Learetag to the hor of India, (which has been rec\n\nfrom the India Offrie\n\nwhich it appears Treasury from\n\nThat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368538, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\nThe Secretary to \nSir, \nThe Admiralty \n\nMr. Macnaughten 21/3 \nMr. Simla He \nMr. Wilson. \nMr. Lucas. \nMr. Graham. \nMr Johnson \nSir J. Bramston. \nMr. Wingfield. \nEarl of Selborne. \nMr. Chamberlain. \n\n216. \nI am directed by Mr Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter `W.L. 169/761` of the 17th regarding the proposed extension of the Royal Naval Yard at Kowloon & I am to request you to inform the L.C. of the Admiralty that Mr Chamberlain will,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 627, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "No.3533\n\nA.\n\nTO\n\nsir,\n\nC. O.\n\n13616\n\nA\n\nRest 28 MAY 19\n\n614\n\nENCLOSURE\n\n2.\n\nRECR\n\nGovt. of India.\n\nFinance & Commerce Department.\n\nSimla, the 12th August, 1898.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary,\n\nHONG-KONG.\n\n**\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.934, dated the 9th June, 1898, enquiring whether the Government of India would be prepared to execute at the Indian Mints the coinage of 10 and 5 cent pieces for the Government of Hong-Kong, and if so, what the minting charges will be. It is stated that the annual supply required in monthly consignments to be determined later would approximately be 38 million 10 cent pieces and 2 million 5 cent pieces.\n\n2. In reply I am to say that the amount of coinage to be executed forms an important factor in determining the rate to be charged. But on the understanding that the annual coinage of these pieces would not differ materially from the amounts named above, the Government of India would be willing to undertake this subsidiary coinage at the Calcutta Mint at the rate of Rs.5.8.0. per 1000 of either the 10 or the 5 cent pieces, provided that the silver required and the necessary dies and punches are supplied to the Mint. I am to...\n\n... \n\n \n\nThe response is formatted according to the given instructions, focusing on correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, and maintaining the original content's integrity. The Tibetan text \"མས་\" is not directly related to the rest of the document and is omitted as it seems out of context. If it is part of the original scan, it should be either left as is or marked as unclear with \"...\". The output is in HTML format using `` for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372530, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "AVAK I K\n\nAutovog venjast s to soTZO i badresor (odaroub alb\n\nCOD\n\nNo.917\n\n61\n\n2.\n\ntaker har qurtes 89-3BA30u ojfu gsouth bu yo trodde Janupon. Du\n\nVISH\n\nUTO\n\n24 SEK 1a nang n o 2 wt lung ne\n\nI\n\nand-Surveys.\n\nSir,\n\n$1\n\nEnclosure 1. ins\n\n23753\n\nRace\n\n90\n\nRea2 4 SEP 19\n\nT.W.Holderness, Esq.,C.S.I.\n\nSecretary to the Government of India.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nSimla the 29th April, 1899.\n\n1\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof your letter No.13 dated the 10th March, 1899, regarding the proposed survey of the territory in Kwang Tung Province leased by Great Britain from China.\n\n2.\n\nIn reply, I am to forward a copy of a Note dated the 13th April 1899 by the Surveyor General of India, in which he states what the constitution and cost of a party suited to make the required survey should be. The Government of India will be happy to place such a party at the disposal of His Excellency the Governor of Hong-Kong, if volunteers from the Survey of India can be obtained. The Surveyor-General does not anticipate a difficulty on this point, but this is a contingency which he thinks it desirable to mention.\n\n3.\n\nAs regards the pay and allowances which should be granted to the survey officers to be deputed, I am to say", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378524, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "# No. 232 OF 1900.\n\n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.**\n\n## FINANCE AND COMMERCE DEPARTMENT,\n### ACCOUNTS AND FINANCE, Mint.\n\n47773 \nRECO \nA \nReel 20 AUG 00 \n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD GEORGE FRANCIS HAMILTON, \nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for India.\n\nSimla, the 19th July 1900.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, with your Despatch of the 31st May 1900, No. 88 (Financial), of the recent correspondence with the Colonial Office regarding the supply of subsidiary silver coin for Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements.\n\n2. Your Lordship has already been informed in our telegram of the 15th June 1900 of the inability of the Indian Mints to meet the immediate requirements of these colonies. It is possible, however, though not by any means certain, that the pressure occasioned by our own coinage and the conversion operations undertaken for certain Native States may be only temporary, and may not extend beyond the current financial year.\n\n3. Accordingly, if by March or April next these colonies have not made other permanent arrangements and still wish to have their subsidiary coinage executed by the Indian Mints, we suggest that the matter may be again referred to us as we may possibly be then in a position to undertake any work that may be required.\n\n4. The terms on which the coinage of 10 and 5 cent pieces could be undertaken are stated in our Financial Secretary's letter of the 12th August 1898, No. `3533-A`, a copy of which formed one of the enclosures of Your Lordship's despatch. We may add that there would be no objection to including bronze coin in any arrangements that may be concluded.\n\nWe have the honour to be, \nMY LORD, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble Servants,\n\n(Signed) **CURZON OF KEDLESTON.** \n**E. H. H. COLLEN.** \n**A. C. TREVOR.** \n**C. M. RIVAZ.** \n**T. RALEIGH.** \n**E. F. G. LAW.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n## CHINA\n\n(Telegram)\n\nFrom the Government of India to the India Office\n\nSimla, 28th June 1900. Our military telegram, 25th June. China Force. The following troops will have sailed from Calcutta:- 7th Bengal Infantry, by 5th July; 24th Bengal Infantry, 1st Sikh Infantry, 22nd Bombay Infantry, 1st Bengal Cavalry, 12th Field Battery, Royal Artillery; Ammunition Column unit, 1 Native field hospital, 2 sections British field hospital, 8 signalling units, Engineer field park, General Commanding, and Staff. The following troops - 1st Madras Infantry, 3rd Company Madras Sappers and Miners, sail 7th July, ... 11th July. The remainder Infantry will embark at Bombay as soon as ships can be fitted. We will report later the date of departure.\n\n*Text reads \"5th June.\" should be \"5th July\"* is rewritten as \n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n## CHINA\n\n(Telegram)\n\nFrom the Government of India to the India Office\n\nSimla, 28th June 1900. Our military telegram, 25th June. China Force. The following troops will have sailed from Calcutta:- 7th Bengal Infantry, by 5th July; 24th Bengal Infantry, 1st Sikh Infantry, 22nd Bombay Infantry, 1st Bengal Cavalry, 12th Field Battery, Royal Artillery; Ammunition Column unit, 1 Native field hospital, 2 sections British field hospital, 8 signalling units, Engineer field park, General Commanding, and Staff. The following troops - 1st Madras Infantry, 3rd Company Madras Sappers and Miners, sail 7th July, ... 11th July. The remainder Infantry will embark at Bombay as soon as ships can be fitted. We will report later the date of departure.\n\nCorrected to:\n## **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## **CHINA**\n\n(Telegram)\n\nFrom the Government of India to the **India Office**\n\nSimla, 28th June 1900. Our military telegram, 25th June. China Force. The following troops will have sailed from Calcutta:- 7th Bengal Infantry, by 5th July; 24th Bengal Infantry, 1st Sikh Infantry, 22nd Bombay Infantry, 1st Bengal Cavalry, 12th Field Battery, Royal Artillery; Ammunition Column unit, 1 Native field hospital, 2 sections British field hospital, 8 signalling units, Engineer field park, General Commanding, and Staff. The following troops - 1st Madras Infantry, 3rd Company Madras Sappers and Miners, sail 7th July, ... 11th July. The remainder Infantry will embark at Bombay as soon as ships can be fitted. We will report later the date of departure.\n\n*Text reads \"5th June.\"*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n191\n\n**CHINA**\n\nFrom the Commander-in-Chief, India, to the Quarter-Master-General.\n\n(Received 30th June, 3 p.m.)\n\n**(Telegram.) (No. 251)**\n\nSimla, 30th June 1900, 3.50 p.m. Transport \"Palamcotta\" left Calcutta, 29th June, with right wing of 7th Bengal Infantry, 8 British Officers, 9 Native Officers, 338 Native rank and file, 52 public, 28 private Native followers, 9 chargers, 49 mules; 1 section 43rd Native Field Hospital, 1 British Officer, 2 hospital assistants, 3 Native rank and file, 65 public, 2 private Native followers, 1 horse; Staff, 4 British Officers, 3 chargers, 7 Native followers; Marine Department, 2 British Officers, 6 rank and file, 1 Native follower.\n\n120\n\nChina 1582", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388381, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 557, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "543\n\nEnclosure No.2 to Despatch No.174 of the 2nd April, 1903.\n\n**CIRCULATED FOR INFORMATION OF MEMBERS.**\n\n16\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nAT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE held in the Chamber Room, CITY HALL, on Tuesday, 23rd December, 1902, at 4 p.m. Present—Hon. C. S. Sharp (chairman), Mr. W. Poote (vice-chairman), Hon. C. W. Dickson, Messrs. E. A. Hewett, C. Michelau, N. A. Siela, J. R. M. Smith, H. E. Tomkins, R. C. Wilcox and A. R. Lowe (secretary).\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said—We are met here to-day in consequence of what is seemingly a general desire, as expressed by means of suggestions, if not demands, in the columns of the public Press, as well as in consequence of a renewed request from our neighbours at Singapore, that we should consider whether it would be possible or advisable for this Colony to take steps by means of urging on the Government, or otherwise, to deal with the silver question, and if possible, bring about some measure of stability in exchange. It is needless to say that this is a question closely affecting us all, and the trade of the Colony, and of late the position has been much accentuated by the changes adopted in neighbouring countries, which have no doubt combined with other causes to bring about a heavy fall in the gold value of the white metal, and further a movement is now in progress having for its object to place the currency of the Straits Settlements on a gold basis, which, if carried out, will no doubt have a further depreciating effect on the value of silver. A similar movement is also being made in regard to the Philippines. This is a subject which in past years has received not a little attention from preceding Committees of this Chamber, the result of which I will shortly summarize:\n\n1892, 19th November. A general meeting of members passed the following resolution:--\n\nThat the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce recommend to, and urge upon, Her Majesty's Government the desirability of adopting in concert with the other European Governments, with the Government of the United States and with that of India, also with those of other countries, if so desired, such means as will lessen if not remove the present serious uncertainty in exchange between silver and gold-using countries which has had so disturbing and so universally injurious an effect upon British Commerce with all Eastern and silver-using countries.”\n\n1893, 17th March. Committee addressed Government a request that the home authorities be pressed to fully consider the interests of this Colony in any measures proposed with regard to Indian currency. Letters were also exchanged with various bodies on the same subject, and at the Annual Meeting held in 1894, 11th May, the Chairman pointed out that though foreign traders in China suffered by the Indian movement the natives here benefitted by it.\n\n1897, 27th August. A letter was addressed by the Singapore Chamber of Commerce inviting this Chamber to co-operate in moving for some remedy to bring about fixity of exchange, a subject they were then considering, and asking if this Chamber contemplated taking any action on this important matter. On 4th September, this Chamber replied that the positions occupied by the two Colonies were very different, which rendered combined action impossible in the direction of procuring relief from the instability of silver, and stating that situated on the borders of the greatest silver-using Empire in the world, with which country its trade is mainly conducted, it would be wholly impracticable for this Colony to attempt divorce from China, however much, for some reasons, such a departure might at first sight seem desirable.\n\n594", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "1903.\n\nC. O.\n\n10650\n\n21 MAY 03,\n\n549\n\nSIMLA.\n\nMILITARY\n\nDEPARTMENT.\n\n(CONFIDENTIAL.)\n\nRY RE\n\n!\n\nSMA.\n\nNo. 68, DATED THE 9TH APRIL 1903.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nDespatch to His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.\n\nEnlistment of natives of India by Foreign Powers.\n\nG. C. Press, Simla-No. C-18# M. D2-7-4.03.- 50.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "(CONFIDENTIAL.)\n\nNo. 68 of 1903.\n\nMilitary Department.\n\nTo\n\nTHE RIGHT HON'BLE LORD GEORGE FRANCIS HAMILTON, G.C.S.I.,\n\nHIS MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.\n\nSimla, the 9th April 1903,\n\nMY LORD,\n\nWe have carefully considered in Council the correspondence forwarded by your Lordship with your military despatch No. 150 of the 17th October 1902.\n\nSent in advance by the mail of the 26th March 1903.\n\nThe subject to which that correspondence refers, namely, the enlistment of natives of India by Foreign Powers, has engaged the attention of our military authorities for some time past, but only from the point of view of its effect on the recruitment of the Indian Army. We are, however, of opinion that the question is of much more serious import if regarded in its political aspect, and on these grounds we strongly urge that measures should be taken to arrest what we consider is an increasing evil, and one which may grow to dangerous dimensions.\n\nThe question is much complicated by the necessity, which we acknowledge, of permitting British Colonies and Administrations to enlist natives for constabulary or similar duties, with the object of strengthening our military position in the Far East.\n\n2. It may be explained that there are in practice four classes of employment in the Far East which attract Sikhs and other natives of India of martial proclivities, namely:\n\n(i) Service in British Colonies and Settlements;\n\n(ii) Service under Foreign or cosmopolitan municipalities, such as Shanghai;\n\n(iii) Service in weak or friendly States, such as Siam or Johore;\n\n(iv) Service under our political rivals in the East.\n\nAs we have already observed, we have no objection to natives of India taking service under (i), nor have we at present any serious objections to (ii) and (iii), except that under all these conditions there is a tendency for men to drift away to service under (iv). Men who are dismissed by their employers\n\n550", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391216, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n173\n\n[May 21.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received May 21.)\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of Lord George Hamilton, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of inclosures in a letter from the Foreign Secretary, Simla, dated the 23rd April, relative to Burmah-China frontier affairs.\n\nIndia Office, May 20, 1903.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nRangoon, April 6, 1903. (Telegraphic.)\n\nLITTON telegraphs: \"Two military officials left here in order to investigate north unsettled frontier. If they trespass provisional frontier, recommend you to arrest them, or at least to telegraph strong protest.\"\n\nHe has been asked to telegraph any information available as to precise locality Commissioner of Mandalay will also procure any military officials will visit. information possible as to their movements, which will be communicated to you.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to Government of Burmah.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nSimla, April 16, 1903.\n\nYOUR telegram of the 6th April. I presume Litton is keeping the Peking Legation informed of Chinese proceedings. Please make sure of this.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nRangoon, April 20, 1903.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nYOUR telegram of the 16th April. Litton is being asked whether he is keeping Legation informed. He telegraphs, dated the 15th April, that he believed locality This is probably Ming Kuang to which officers have gone is Ming Kuang Chi. Valley, referred to in fourth paragraph of Memorandum forwarded with my despatch of the 9th March.\n\n[1992 -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394711, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n# SOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nNo. 1.\n\n4237\n\n[September 24]\n\nSECTION\n\nREGE 8 FEB 04]\n\n46\n\nC\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received September 24.)\n\nIndia Office, September 23, 1903.\n\nWITH reference to the correspondence regarding the provisional boundary between Burmah and China in the N'Maikha region, ending with your covering letter of the 3rd June last, transmitting Mr. Townley's telegram, I am directed by Lord George Hamilton to inclose, for Lord Lansdowne's information, a copy of a letter from the Government of India, dated the 27th August, and inclosures.\n\nThat Government recommend that a clear intimation should be made not only to the Chinese Government, but also to the local authorities in Yunnan, that His Majesty's Government claim as their frontier in this region the watershed of all streams that drain into the N'Maikha from the east, and that they will not be responsible for the consequences if that boundary is violated.\n\nI am also to point out that more recent explorations have shown that the description of the provisional boundary used by Sir C. MacDonald in his note to the Tsung-li-Yamên of the 28th July, 1898, and in subsequent communications to the Chinese Government, viz., \"the watershed between the N'Maikha and the Salween rivers,\" is applicable only to the northern portion, and may have led the Chinese authorities to suppose that His Majesty's Government intended to claim certain Chinese Settlements which are said to exist on the upper waters of the Shweli (Lung Chiang) River.\n\nA full description of the boundary claimed by the Government of India is given in the inclosures to Sir A. Godley's letter of the 17th April, 1901, of which a copy is inclosed for ready reference.\n\nIn conclusion, I am to say that Lord George Hamilton would commend the proposal of the Government of India to Lord Lansdowne's favourable consideration.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed)\n\nHORACE WALPOLE.\n\nInclosure 1. in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to Lord G. Hamilton.\n\n(Secret.) My Lord,\n\nSimla, August 27, 1903.\n\nWE have the honour to forward, for your Lordship's information, copies of the papers described in the attached list regarding matters connected with the Burmo-Chinese frontier on the east of the N'Maikha River.\n\n2. On the 2nd April last your Lordship informed us by telegram that His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking had been instructed to ask for a reply to Sir Ernest Satow's note of the 18th September, 1902, and we have since received a copy of the communication which, on the 10th April last, Prince Ching handed to Mr. Townley in response to this request. The document, however, does not carry the negotiations beyond the point which they had reached more than three years ago. The claims which are now advanced to Tzu Chu and other places are practically identical with those urged by the Tsung-li-Yamên in May 1900*; and recognition is still withheld from the boundary which, after sufficient investigation, we have suggested as alike the most convenient and the most consistent with the respective limits of past control. During the recent visit of Sir Ernest Satow to Burmah, the Lieutenant-Governor took the opportunity to discuss the question with the Minister, and has now submitted his recommendations in the telegram, dated the 24th July, and the letter, dated the 10th August, of which copies are inclosed. We agree that the course suggested is the only one which, in the circumstances, is likely to lead to any practical result, and we trust that the proposals will be accepted by His Majesty's Government.\n\n* Vide their note, dated May 10; copy received with Secretary's letter, dated July 20, 1900.\n\n[2260 aa-1]\n\nPage 2\n\n \n\n \n\nPage 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394719, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n54\n\n[November 20.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.~(Received November 20.)\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office, November 18, 1903.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 25th October, 1900, relative to the visional frontier between British Burmah and China, between the Namting River and Nalawt, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Brodrick to inclose, for Lord Lansdowne's information, a copy of a Secret despatch from the Government of India, dated the 22nd ultimo, and inclosures, recommending that Sir Ernest Satow should be instructed to address the Chinese Government in the sense suggested by himself in the course of his discussions with the Lieutenant-Governor of Burmah during his recent visit to Rangoon, as reported in paragraph 4 of the letter from the Government of Burmah, dated the 4th September last, inclosed with the despatch from the Government of India.\n\nI am to add that Mr. Brodrick concurs in this recommendation.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed)\n\nA. GODLEY.\n\n(Secret.) Sir,\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Brodrick.\n\nSimla, October 22, 1903.\n\nWE have the honour to forward, for the consideration of His Majesty's Government, a copy of a letter from the Burmah Government, on the subject of that portion of the Burmo-Chinese frontier, lying between the Namting River on the north and Nalawt on the south, which has not yet been finally demarcated in agreement with the Chinese.\n\nA report of the operations of the Burmo-Chinese Boundary Commission (1899-1900) relating to the portion of the frontier in question was forwarded with our Secret despatch, dated the 2nd August, 1900.\n\nIn his Secret despatch, dated the 28th September, 1900, Lord George Hamilton approved the instructions issued by us on the subject to the Lieutenant-Governor of Burmah, and subsequently His Lordship intimated that the provisional line of British frontier, viz., either that indicated on the map attached to the Agreement of 1897, or any line on the British side which had been formally pointed out to the Chinese Government as the British frontier, might provisionally be regarded as the frontier of British Burmah, pending a final settlement of the matter.\n\n2. The frontier which we claim in this part is indicated on a map which accompanied Sir George Scott's letter, dated the 28th May, 1900, and it will be seen from that report that the Chinese Commissioners were clearly informed of what we regarded as the boundary.\n\nSir George Scott's action had been approved in a telegram from Lord George Hamilton, dated the 22nd May, 1900, which directed that the intimation to the Chinese authorities should be so clear as to leave no room for misunderstanding. These instructions were communicated by telegram on the 30th May, 1900, by the late Marquess of Salisbury to Sir Claude MacDonald, who was at the same time authorized to inform the Chinese Government of what had been done in the matter. It seems possible, however, that no communication was actually addressed to the Chinese Government, for Sir Ernest Satow, with whom the Lieutenant-Governor took the opportunity of discussing the question during his recent visit to Burmah, was not aware that His\n\n[2219 bb--1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395337, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 674, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\nC.O.\n\n37319\n\n[October\n\n1670\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.--(Received October 22.)\n\n(B) Sir,\n\nIndia Office, October 20, 1904. IN continuation of my letter dated the 20th instant on the subject of the proposed taxation of opium in China, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, for the information of the Marquess of Lansdowne, a letter on the same subject which he has received from the Government of India.\n\nAlthough the Government of India accept the interpretation placed on the additional Article by Sir E. Satow, Mr. Brodrick remains of opinion that, before it can be confidently accepted and acted on, further inquiry of the British Minister at Peking, and possibly a reference to the Law Officers of the Crown, are desirable.\n\nIt will be observed that the Government of India consider that the proposed tax will not fall equally on native and foreign opium. The Secretary of State for India is of that opinion, and agrees with the Government of India that the scheme should be strenuously resisted, if necessary--by a threat to abrogate the additional Article.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed)\n\nA. GODLEY.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Brodrick,\n\nSimla, September 22, 1904.\n\nHIS Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking has forwarded to us a copy of a despatch No. 242 dated the 7th July last, and inclosures, which he has addressed to the Marquess of Lansdowne on the subject of a proposal made by the Provincial Government at Canton for increasing the revenue which is at present derived from the internal taxation of opium. The scheme provides for the taxation of all prepared opium, whether manufactured from the native or from the imported drug. Sir E. Satow contends that the arrangements proposed by the Viceroy at Canton constitute an infringement of the provisions of the additional Article to the Chefoo Convention, inasmuch as no provision is made in the draft Regulations to insure that native opium must first have paid duty at the rate of 110 taels per 100 catties before any additional taxation is levied on the imported drug,\n\n2. We concur in the view expressed by Sir E. Satow that, before foreign opium can be taxed in the manner proposed, native opium must first have paid 110 taels per 100 catties, this being the amount of the consolidated duty leviable on imported opium. We are also of opinion that the proposal should be strenuously resisted on the grounds that the tax, if imposed, would not in fact fall equally on native and foreign opium, and that equality of incidence could not in any case be secured with the fiscal machinery at the disposal of the Chinese Provincial Governments. The provisions of Article 5 of the additional Article to the Chefoo Convention could not be satisfied, and the scheme proposed by the Viceroy at Canton is therefore, in our opinion, inadmissible.\n\n3. We trust that His Majesty's Government will be disposed to accept these views, and that they will protest strongly against the introduction of a system which, if accepted, will undoubtedly result in the differential taxation of Indian opium in China.\n\nWe have, &c. (Signed). AMPTHILL.\n\nKITCHENER.\n\nE. FG. LAW. E. R. ELLES.\n\nA. T. ARUNDEL.\n\nH. E. RICHARDS.\n\nJ. P. HEWETT.\n\n(9206 --", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n### Liverpool Chamber of Commerce to India Office\nLiverpool, May 28, 1904\n\nI AM directed by the Committee of the East India and China Trade Section to refer to your letter of the 14th December, 1903, on the subject of the extension of the Mandalay Kunlon Railway, and to ask what has been the result of the consultation of the Secretary of State for India in Council with the Government of India respecting the whole question of railway communication between Burmah and China.\n\nThe Committee have had again under their consideration the subject of the construction of a light railway from Bhamo to Momein, recommended by them in their letter dated the 25th February, 1903, of which I inclose a copy.\n\nI am to express the hope of the Committee that steps have been taken in the direction desired.\n\nSir,\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) THOMAS W. BARKER, Secretary.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n### India Office to Liverpool Chamber of Commerce\nIndia Office, September 2, 1904\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to refer to your letter of the 28th May last, the reply to which has been delayed pending the consideration of the views of the Government of India on the question of railway communication between Burmah and China.\n\nThe Government of India are still in consultation with the Burmah Government in regard to the project for a railway between Bhamo and Momein, and steps have, meanwhile, been taken to improve the roads between these places.\n\nIn regard to the larger schemes for a railway from Burmah through Yünnan to Szechuan, the Government of India have furnished an estimate of the cost of surveying the portion of the route between the Salween and the Mekong, and this estimate, which amounts to 1,50,000 rupees, has been communicated to the Foreign Office. The Government of India, however, are not willing to throw this expenditure on the Indian revenues, and the Secretary of State in Council, in these circumstances, cannot proceed with the survey.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) HORACE WALPOLE\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n### Government of India to Mr. Brodrick\nSimla, October 27, 1904\n\n334\n\nSir,\n\nIn your despatch dated the 18th December, 1903, we were asked to furnish an estimate of the cost of examining the country between the Salween and Mekong Rivers, in order that you might be prepared with information for any British Company or Syndicate that might desire to undertake the construction of a railway into Yünnan. At the same time the proposal to make a railway from Bhamo to Momein (Têngyüeh) was commended to the consideration of the Lieutenant-Governor of Burmah.\n\n2. With reference to the proposal to examine the country between the Salween and Mekong Rivers, we informed you in our telegram dated the 4th May, 1904, that a survey would cost at least 1,50,000 rupees, and that we deprecated the expenditure of this sum from Indian funds, as, from information already in our possession, the cost of construction is known to be prohibitive. For the sum named we believe that the country could be fairly well examined, but if a detailed location for the railway is required, the cost would be at least 3,00,000 rupees. The distance from the Salween to the Mekong by the Nam-Ting Valley, which we believe to be the only practicable route, is quite 160 miles; and the cost, based on the cost of surveys already made, and allowing for the necessary escorts and the carriage of stores, &c., would probably be about 2,000 rupees a mile.\n\n3. We note with satisfaction that it is not contemplated to apply the revenues of India to the construction of such a line, and therefore that we shall not be called upon to bear any portion of the cost of the survey, and we await further orders from you before taking any steps to put it in hand. We have, moreover, no staff available at present for undertaking it.\n\n4. The question of a railway from Bhamo to Momein (Têngyüeh) was referred to the Government of Burmah, and we inclose a copy of that Government's letter dated the 29th June, 1904, and inclosures. It will be noticed that neither Mr. Wilkinson, His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Yünnan-fu, nor Mr. Warry, the adviser on Chinese affairs to the Burmah Government, considers that a railway is required; while Mr. Litton, His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Momein (Têngyüeh), strongly advocates the construction of the line, and in this is supported by the Lieutenant-Governor of Burmah, who recommends that the survey should be undertaken as soon as possible.\n\n5. In paragraph 6 of the letter from the Government of Burmah it is estimated that the cost of the railway on the 2 ft. 6 in. gauge will be between 107 and 188 lakhs of rupees, and that the gross earnings, upon the information furnished by Mr. Litton, might at first amount to 5,35,000 rupees. This, with working expenses at 75 per cent., would return only 1.24 and 0.71 per cent., respectively on the estimated capital outlay. Even with the gross receipts ultimately enhanced to double the amount the railway would not prove remunerative, and it is therefore improbable that either the Burmah Railways Company or the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company could be induced to join in carrying out such a scheme without a guarantee from Government. Sir Hugh Barnes, however, suggests that, if the money is found by the Imperial Government, it is probable that the Burmah Railways Company would be willing to undertake to construct the line on terms which would involve them in no pecuniary responsibility.\n\n6. While, however, there are in India and in Burmah many productive projects which demand our attention, and which cannot be undertaken for want of funds, we trust you will agree that the question of the construction of the line from Bhamo to Momein, under any arrangement which would impose the entire pecuniary liability on the Government of India, should not in present circumstances be entertained. We therefore think it would be premature even to undertake its location at present.\n\nWe have, &c.\n(Signed) AMPTHILL\nKITCHENER\nE. F. G. LAW\nE. R. ELLES\nA. T. ARUNDEL\nH. ERLE RICHARDS\nJ. P. HEWETT", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403417, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT OF INDIA\n## FINANCE AND COMMERCE DEPARTMENT\n### ACCOUNTS AND FINANCE\n#### Coinage\n\n**THE RIGHT HON'BLE LORD GEORGE FRANCIS HAMILTON, G.C.S.I., His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.**\n\n## MY LORD\n\nSimla, the 20th August 1903.\n\nWe have the honour to offer, as requested in Your Lordship's Despatch, No. 118 (Financial), dated 10th July 1903, the following observations on the letter from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, dated 15th June 1903, in which they deprecate our proposal to increase the seigniorage on the coinage of British dollars from one to two per cent, and to give precedence to the coinage both of Indian rupees and of the new Straits dollars over that of British dollars.\n\n2. The Banks have not adduced any strong arguments in support of their request that the terms of the present contract should be continued, and it therefore appears to us to be unnecessary to give more than a brief statement of our position. The Government of India agreed in 1894 to coin dollars at an extremely low rate of seigniorage because they then expected that the time of the Mints would not be fully occupied, and there were manifest advantages in employing them on outside work. The circumstances have now entirely changed: the requirements of our own coinage (including the recoinage of 1840 rupees) and the coinage of the new Straits dollars will probably be sufficient to occupy the whole time of the Mints for some years to come. It will therefore be of little advantage to us, but rather an inconvenience, to continue coining dollars for the Banks, and we see no reason to do so at a lower charge than we consider to be fair and reasonable, viz., 2 per cent. We are quite unable to entertain the suggestion of the Banks that we should coin dollars at a cheap rate in the interests of the trade of the East, and thus indirectly subsidise that trade.\n\n3. The Banks have not referred to the fact that we have recently agreed to coin the initial issue of new dollars for the Straits Settlements at a seigniorage of 1 per cent. Possibly they are unaware of the arrangement. But if they should base any argument upon it, we consider that it would be sufficient to answer that the fact that we have conceded in special circumstances the most favourable rate possible to the Government of a British Colony is no reason why we should extend the concession to private institutions like the Exchange Banks.\n\n4. Our stipulation that the coinage of rupees must take precedence over the coinage of dollars seems to us hardly to require explanation or defence. It is obviously right that the Indian Mints should give priority to Indian over extraneous coinage.\n\n5. The proposal to allow priority to the new Straits coinage was made at the suggestion of the Colonial Office, which was communicated to us in Your Lordship's telegram of the 11th of May last. It is a matter with which we are not really concerned, and we are content to leave it in the hands of His Majesty's Government.\n\nPage 319", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT OF INDIA\n## FINANCE AND COMMERCE DEPARTMENT\n### ACCOUNTS AND FINANCE. Coinage.\n\nFROM\nTHE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,\n321 India Office, London,\n8th October 1903.\n\n**Financial, No. 177.**\n\nTo His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor General of India in Council.\n\nΤΟ \nMY LORD, \nTHE SECY. OF STATE FOR INDIA.\n\nNo. 263. \nDated Simla, the 20th August 1903. \nReceived \nProposal to increase the seigniorage on the coinage of British dollars to 2 per cent.. and to give precedence to the coinage both of Indian rupees and of the new Straits dollars over that of British dollars.\n\nG. C. Press, Simla—No. 816 C. F.—~15-8-03.~50—J, D.\n\nIn continuation of my Despatches of the 10th July last, No. 118, and the 17th July, No. 125, and with reference to your letter of the 20th of August, No. 263, I forward for your information a copy of further correspondence with the Colonial Office, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, respecting the coinage of British dollars in the Indian Mints.\n\n*From Colonial Office, dated 28th August \nTo ditto, dated 5th September 1903. \nTo ditto, dated 24th September 1903. \nTo Banks, dated 24th September 1903.*\n\n**Coinage of British Dollars at Indian Mints: further correspondence to be sent to India. 1903, with enclosures.**\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient humble Servant,\n**(Signed) GEORGE HAMILTON.**\n\n13581. 1. 2102.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403482, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n## Government of India to Sir E. Satow.\nFort William, March 25, 1904.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 16th November, 1903, to the address of his Excellency the Viceroy, regarding the disputed rights formerly enjoyed by the Kanjutis in the Raskam Valley.\n\n2. I am to convey his Excellency's thanks for the précis which you have furnished, and to inclose a copy of it in print, completed from the records of the Government of India in the Foreign Department. I am also to inclose, for your information, a copy of the papers cited in the accompanying list, and to invite your attention to the final paragraph of the Government of India Secret despatch of yesterday's date, which expresses the views of this Government regarding the use of the term \"ousted\" in the telegram to his Majesty's Secretary of State for India, dated the 13th March, 1901.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n### Extract from the Kashgar Diary for ten days ending March 10, 1904.\n\nMarch 1—Nazar Ali, the Hunza Vakil, with the present of gold arrived. He asked me if he could speak to the Taotai about the cultivation in Raskam. I said I saw no objection to this, but that my name was not to be mentioned. I told him I had written about this when in Yarkand last December, but no reply has been received as yet, but this be due to the Chinese New Year, when for a month the Chinese do no business.\n\nMarch 5.—Nazar Ali, the Mir of Hunza's Vakil, presented the present of gold yesterday. It was said to be under weight, but Nazar Ali at once made good the deficiency. I am afraid the Vakils are disappointed, as they are only being given a bare subsistence. Nazar Ali spoke about the cultivation said to be going on in Raskam, but said that the Taotai paid very little attention to anything he said.\n\nMarch 7—Nazar Ali, Hunza Vakil, yesterday was given his leave to return by the Taotai. He seems to have been given much the same presents as usual, except that there was a shortage in the \"kham\" (country cotton cloth) which Nazar Ali thinks not quite right. He expressed a wish to discuss the Raskam question. Mahmood Beg, the Taotai's interpreter, who also was interpreter to Huan Taotai, in whose time the Raskam question was fully discussed, was told off to talk to Nazar Ali. Mahmood Beg knows all about the question. Nazar Ali appears to have pointed out that, pending a final settlement of the question, it was arranged that no one was to cultivate in Raskam, whereas this arrangement has been broken, as Sarikolis are cultivating there. Mahmood Beg reported the conversation to the Taotai, who sent out a reply, asking why the Mir had not drawn attention to this in his letter. Nazar Ali replied that the Mir had told him to represent this question verbally. The Taotai replied that he would write two letters—one to the Taotai and one to the Amban of Sarikol—directing the latter to prohibit cultivation in Raskam. The Taotai added that next year he hoped some satisfactory arrangement would be arrived at. All this conversation was brought by an interpreter, and was not in front of the Taotai. Mention was also made of the Russians having interfered to prevent Raskam being returned to Hunza. Nazar Ali appears to have had some difficulty in getting Mahmood Beg to get an answer about this question of Raskam.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n### Government of India to Mr. Colvin.\n(Telegraphic.)\nSimla, April 20, 1904.\n\nKASHGAR diary ending 10th March, 1904. Proceedings of Mir of Hunza's Envoy at Kashgar. Please inform Macartney at once of present position of Raskam question as set forth in inclosure to my telegram of 15th April.\n\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n(Telegraphic.)\nSrinagar, April 22, 1904.\n\nMy telegram of 22nd March. Political Agent, Gilgit, wires—\"Approximate value of annual Chinese present to Hunza is 1,250 rupees. Hunza on 3rd May, and would prefer to submit report regarding assistance to Hunza from there after I have made further inquiries on spot regarding condition of people.\" As regards your telegram of 20th April, I had already ordered Macartney to be informed of position.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1.\n### Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\nSrinagar, April 27, 1904.\n\nWith reference to the diary of my Special Assistant for Chinese Affairs at Kashgar for the ten days ending 10th March, 1904, entry dated 10th March, regarding the Raskam question, I have the honour to report that I have instructed the Special Assistant (now His Majesty's Consul at Kashgar) not to move further in the matter.\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1.\n### Extract from the Gilgit Diary for the week ending April 23, 1904.\n#### HUNZA.\n\nThe Vakil of the Mir of Hunza, who was sent to Kashgar with the annual present of gold for the Chinese Government, returned to Hunza on the 15th April. The Vakil states that he was well treated by the Chinese authorities. He also states that he reminded the Taotai of Kashgar regarding the Raskam question. The Taotai promised to again bring the matter to the notice of his superior, and undertook to send instructions to his subordinate at Tashkurgan that he should prohibit the Sarikolis from cultivating the tract in question until the case had been definitely settled. It may be noted here that information was recently received by the Mir of Hunza that some Sarikolis had settled in Raskam.\n\n*Not printed.* \n`[2167 -1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\n## Memorandum.\n\nTHE telegram from the Indian Government of the 13th March, 1901, says \"meanwhile the Chinese, in spite of assurances of Russian Government, have ousted Hunza from Raskam by settling their own subjects upon both banks of river.\"\n\nThe India Office upon this wrote to the Foreign Office on the 22nd March: **Excellency** the Viceroy reports two fresh events, the establishment by arrangements with China of a Russian post at Tashkurgan, and, secondly, the expulsion by the Chinese of the people of Hunza from Raskam and the settlement in their place of Chinese subjects.\n\nThe Foreign Office wrote to Sir Ernest Satow, the 9th April, that \"the Chinese authorities have no ground for their present action.\"\n\nIt is evident that both the India Office and the Foreign Office understood the expulsion to have taken place recently, and they passed their impression on to the Legation at Peking.\n\nThe Indian Government now explain that, as shown by the papers cited as `1` and `2` in the Peking précis, the Kanjutis were turned out of Raskam in 1897, and that again in May 1899 the Kanjutis had begun to cultivate five tracts in Raskam, when a large number of men arrived with the Chinese Amban and demanded the withdrawal of the few Kanjatis who had been left to water the crops. The actual expulsion of these men, it is added, was reported in the letter from the Mir of Hunza to the Political Agent, Gilgit, dated the 11th May, 1899, which apparently was not sent to Peking.\n\nObviously His Majesty's Minister at Peking, to whom no copy of the letter of the Mir of Hunza, here alluded to, had been sent, could not be expected to suppose that the word \"expulsion\" used in the letter of the India Office and in the Foreign Office despatch of the 9th April, 1901, referred to that event, of which he was ignorant; nor could he be expected to understand that the sentence \"meanwhile the Chinese, in spite of assurances of Russian Government, have ousted Hunza from Raskam by settling their own subjects upon both banks of river\" — the telegram of the 13th March, 1901, from the Indian Government to the Secretary of State for India — referred to the destruction of crops in 1897, which was not a fresh event. The assurances of the Russian Government were given in August 1899, and neither act of expulsion could be said to have taken place in spite of the assurances of the Russian Government, which is the language used in the telegram of the 13th March.\n\nConsequently, the only interpretation that could be put on the wording of the letter from the India Office and the instructions from the Foreign Office, to which reference has been made, was that the Chinese had more recently expelled Kanjuti settlers. The Chinese Foreign Board understood it in this sense and denied it.\n\nPeking, May 18, 1904.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n# Inclosure 16 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Viceroy of India.\n\nPeking, May 24, 1904. IN a despatch from the Government of India to His Majesty's Secretary of State, dated the 24th March last, which formed one of the inclosures in your Excellency's despatch to me of the 25th March on the Raskam land question, I noted that it was stated that the Russo-Chinese border in this direction had been fixed, and that this was urged as a reason for bringing pressure to bear on the Chinese Government to induce them to fulfil their promises to the Mir of Hunza, since they could no longer put forward the unsettled nature of the frontier as a reason for not allowing the Kanjutis to settle in Raskan.\n\nAs I had no information of the final settlement of the frontier referred to, I addressed a telegram on the subject to His Majesty's Consul at Kashgar, and from his reply it would appear that the Government of India are under a misapprehension as to the extent of the frontier settlement arrived at in those regions.\n\nMr. Macartney states that the Kashgar-Ferghana frontier was defined by a Russo-Chinese Commission in 1884 as far as the Uzbel Pass, south-east of the Great Karakul, but that the frontier from thence to the Hindoo Kush has not been settled officially, although, since the Pamirs were occupied by Russia, the frontier-line has practically been the watershed dividing the Upper Oxus from the Tarim.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \nERNEST SATOW.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\n# Inclosure 17 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nJune 30, 1904. PLEASE see Sir Adelbert Talbot's letter dated 4th March, 1899. Political Agent at Gilgit telegraphs: \"Hunza Chief asks leave to send men to Taghdumbash Pamir to collect taxes. Larger profits accrue to Mir if taxes are collected in summer, but perhaps operations should be postponed until we know the result of negotiations with China.\"\n\nPolitical Agent states in subsequent telegrams he understands that Hunza has received taxes from Taghdumbash Pamir during the past eight years. I presume Mir may continue collection of these taxes pending a settlement of the Raskam question.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\n# Inclosure 18 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Colvin.\n\nSimla, July 7, 1904.\n\nYOUR telegram of 30th June. Mir of Hunza may continue collection of Taghdumbash taxes pending decision of question of Hunza's withdrawal from all relations with China.\n\n# Inclosure 19 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, June 23, 1904.\n\nIN continuation of my letter dated the 3rd June, 1904, I have the honour to forward a copy of the letters showing (a) the present strength of the levies in Hunza and Nagar, and details of the cost of the proposed increase in their numbers, and (b) that the Mir of Hunza now gratefully accepts the conditions offered by the Durbar for the grant of waste lands to the redundant population of Hunza.\n\n2. I am addressing the Durbar on the latter subject, but will defer action in regard to the proposed increase in the Hunza and Nagar levies until I am acquainted with the views of the Government of India in the matter. I do not think the increase to the bodyguard of the two Mirs is very necessary, but in other respects I cannot suggest any improvements on the Political Agent's proposals.\n\n# Inclosure 20 in No. 1.\n\nCaptain Gurdon to Mr. Colvin,\n\nGilgit, May 28, 1904.\n\nWITH reference to correspondence regarding the proposals for providing for the redundant population of Hunza-Nagar, ending with your telegram dated the 25th May, 1904, I have the honour to inclose a statement showing the present strength of the levies in Hunza and Nagar, and details of the increase in numbers proposed in my **Confidential** letter dated the 19th May.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 24 in No. 1.\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\nGulmarg, August 2, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward a copy of a letter, dated the 25th May, 1904, received from His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Kashgar, and to inquire whether Mr. Macartney is correct in his belief that the Russo-Chinese boundary in the direction referred to has not been fixed, since there appears to be nothing on record in my office regarding its delimitation.\n\nMeanwhile, please see Gilgit diaries of the 20th June and the 1st August, 1903; also the telegraphic correspondence with the Resident in Kashmir, copy of which was sent with Foreign Secretary's letter of the 28th July, 1904.\n\n# Inclosure 25 in No. 1.\n## Consul Macartney to Mr. Colvin.\nKashgar, May 25, 1904.\n\nTHE Government of India, Foreign Department, letter, dated the 24th March, 1904, to the Secretary of State for India, on the Raskam question (a copy of which was forwarded to me with your office indorsement, dated the 2nd April last) contains the following words in paragraph 3:-----\n\n\"Such efforts (to obtain from the Chinese the lease of the Raskam lands) might now be attended with success, as the Russo-Chinese border in this direction has been fixed, and the Chinese could not again put forward the unsettled nature of the frontier as a reason for not allowing the Kanjutis to settle in Raskam.\"\n\n2. I beg to remark that, so far as my own knowledge goes, the Russo-Chinese frontier in the direction referred to has not been fixed, at least in a sense that may be termed official, although it is a fact that since 1892 the watershed west of Sarikol, which divides that portion of the basin of the Upper Oxus which is now commonly known as the Russian Pamirs from the basin of the Taghdumbash River, has been tacitly considered by the Chinese to be their boundary with Russia in their Sarikol country.\n\n# (Telegraphic.)\n## Inclosure 26 in No. 1.\n### Mr. Brodrick to Government of India.\nIndia Office, August 10, 1904.\n\nYOUR despatch, Secret, 24th March last: Northern frontier. His Majesty's Government consider that it will not be advisable to make to the Chinese Government any communication on the subject of boundary unless the Government of India are able to exercise effective control up to frontier claimed. In the meantime, please report as to extent to which rights in western extremity of Taghdumbash Pamir have been recently exercised by Kanjutis and as to measures which it would be practicable to adopt for effectively asserting Hunza's rights in that territory, in the event of China acting inconsistently with such rights as well as (for securing) the observance of the frontier, which we propose to treat as having been accepted by China. In Satow's despatch to you of the 24th May I observe statement that the Russo-Chinese frontier has not been officially settled south of Uzbel Pass.\n\n# Government of India to Mr. Colvin.\nSimlu, August 18, 1904.\n\nI AM directed to refer to the correspondence ending with the indorsement from the Government of India in the Foreign Department, dated the 15th April, 1904, regarding the frontier between Hunza and the Chinese dominions and the disputed rights of the Kanjutis in Raskam.\n\n2. I am now to forward a copy of the correspondence noted in the margin,* and, with reference to the telegram from His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, to request you to furnish a very early report as to the extent to which rights in the western extremity of the Taghdumbash Pamir have recently been exercised by the Kanjutis, and to favour the Government of India with your views as to the measures which it would be practicable to adopt for effectively asserting the rights of the Mir of Hunza in the territory above referred to in the event of China acting inconsistently with such rights, as well as for securing the observance of the frontier which it is proposed to treat as having been accepted by China.\n\n*1. Despatch to His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, Secret, dated October 27, 1898. (Secret, November 1898, Nos. 110–114 (114).\n2. Letter from Sir C. MacDonald to the Tsung-li Yamin, dated March 14, 1899. (Secret, August 1899, Nos. 168-201, sub-inclosure 1 (inclosure 1) of proceeding No. 188.\n3. Telegram from His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, dated August 10, 1904.\n\n# Inclosure 29 in No. 1.\n## Extract from the Gilgit Diary for the week ending September 10, 1904.\n### HUNZA.\n\nTHE Mir has sent for my information a letter regarding the Taghdumbash tribute, which he has received from the Amban of Sarikol. The Amban states in this letter that he cannot agree to any increase in the tribute. Apparently the Mir had represented to the Amban that certain Wakhis residing on the Taghdumbash had declined to accede to the demands of his Representative. The Amban argues that these Wakhis were exempted from the payment of tribute to Hunza by his predecessors, and that he therefore does not agree to making them pay now. I am returning the Amban's letter to the Mir without comment.\n\n# (Telegraphic.)\n## Inclosure 30 in No. 1.\n### Government of India to Mr. Colvin.\nSimla, October 8, 1904.\n\nGILGIT diary week ending the 10th September. Please instruct Gurdon to obtain, if possible, and forward with a translation, Amban's original letter to Mir of Hunza. Reply to my letter, dated the 18th August, should be sent early as possible.\n\n# Inclosure 27 in No. 1.\n## Government of India to Mr. Brodrick.\nSimla, August 16, 1904.\n\nI WILL reply as soon as possible to your telegram of the 10th August, regarding the Hunza-Chinese frontier, after obtaining the latest information as to collections by...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403490, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Inclosure 31 in No. 1.\n\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, October 12, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to reply to Mr. Clarke's Confidential letter, dated the 18th August, 1904, regarding the frontier between Hunza and the Chinese dominions and the disputed rights of the Kanjutis in Raskam.\n\n2. As regards the rights which have recently been exercised by the Kanjutis in the western extremity of the Taghdumbash Pamir, I may say that the only right exercised by the Mir of Hunza in that tract of late years is that of levying tribute from the Sarikolis and Kirghiz, who resort to that locality for grazing purposes. This right has been acknowledged by the Chinese, and the Mir's Representative was on the Pamir only last month for the purpose of collecting the tribute due for the current year.\n\n3. As to the measures which it would be practicable to adopt for effectively asserting the rights of the Mir of Hunza in this tract, in the event of China acting inconsistently with such rights, I am of opinion that, as against China, this could be done by establishing levy posts at convenient points near the proposed border, probably at Mintaka Aghazi and Kuktarak. This would suffice for securing the observance by China of the proposed frontier.\n\n4. It is, I think, my duty to add that I am not in favour of any such measure. On further consideration of the whole proposal, it seems more consistent to withdraw from all positions where the claims of our frontier States can possibly involve the Government of India in complications with Russia. The whole tenour of the despatch of the Government of India dated the 24th March, 1904, indicates that this is the policy which they desire to follow. The western portion of the Taghdambash Pamir is such a position, just as much as Raskam. We could hold it by levy posts against China, but, if and when Russia has taken the whole of Chinese Turkestan, our position strategically on the line between Peak Pavolo Schreikovsky and the Karchanai Pass would be quite untenable. If China had not agreed to this frontier, Russia would certainly disregard it, and either a complication would arise, such as it is our desire to guard against, or we should have to ignominiously withdraw, on the mere suggestion of hostilities, from positions which, during peace time, we had only been able to maintain at great expense and inconvenience, for there is no doubt that the cost of supplying and maintaining these posts would be great, as there is no surplus grain in Hunza, and supplies would have to be carried from Gilgit.\n\n5. Captain McMahon in 1898 pointed out the inconveniences which might result from surrendering territory beyond the natural strategic frontier of the Hindoo Kush and Mustagh ranges; but it has been decided (as, I think, very rightly) that the balance of considerations is in favour of such surrender, the territory not being very valuable and being likely to supply an inconvenient handle to the enemy. The argument applies to the western portion of the Taghdumbash Pamir not less than to Raskam, only I think that, to make the complete separation of Hunza from China and the loss of its rights in these territories more palatable to the former, the Government of India should not hesitate to award liberal compensation to the Mir, not less certainly than 6,000 rupees a-year. It is of the first importance that in the event of trouble with Russia on this border, or if she should make a feint towards Hunza, the people of that country should be ready and willing to co-operate with us in the warding off of an attack; and to secure their loyalty and gratitude, the grant of 6,000 rupees per annum towards the Mir's revenues and the provision of suitable employment for the people are absolutely insignificant items in the scale.\n\n6. I therefore recommend that the proposed frontier should be modified in the following manner: From Peak Pavolo Schveikovsky the line would follow the northern watershed of the Taghdumbash Pamir, passing through the Taghra Maum, Mehman-yoli, and Kara-jilga Passes, thence, still following the watershed, round the western extremity of the Taghdumbash Pamir to the Wakhajrui Pass; thence to the Kilik Pass, which becomes a tri-junction, and thence round the southern watershed of the Taghdumbash to the Mintaka, and so to the Karchanai Pass, where it would rejoin the frontier that has been already proposed. The places mentioned above are all clearly marked in sheets No. 2-N.E. and No. 2-S.E. of the Trans-frontier Survey Maps.\n\n7. As regards Darwaza, I see no advantage in the proposed deflection from the natural border, in order to include this place within our frontier. On this point Major Gurdon writes as follows:-\n\n\"I see from Sir W. Cuningham's Confidential demi-official letter, dated the 1st August, 1898, to Sir A. Talbot that Younghusband advocated the retention of the Hunza (or Kanjuti) post at Darwaza, just on the other side of the Shimshal Pass. I fail to see any advantage in retaining Darwaza. I fancy the Hunza people held it in the old days as a connecting link between the Shimshal Valley and Raskam and Oprang, and with a view to securing the retreat of their raiding parties. I think the frontier should adhere to the crest of the Mustagh Range. The actual pass, which is called Shimshal, may be easy, but the valley which leads to it (I mean on the Hunza side), e.g., the Shimshal Valley, is the most difficult in the whole of the Hindoo Kush region. So far as I know, Younghusband did not explore the Shimshal Valley on the Hunza side, but Cockerill did, and you will find his report in your office. The Shimshal Valley is so difficult that every one hesitates to go there, and the present Mir of Hunza is visiting it this summer for the first time in his life. There is certainly no cause for anxiety in this direction,”\n\nI concur in Major Gurdon's views.\n\n8. If the boundary sketched above is substituted for that which has already been proposed, it will follow throughout its length a line which forms a natural strategic frontier, which is perfectly clear and which would not require demarcation in situ, while it seems not improbable that the modifications proposed would make the acceptance of the frontier quite palatable to the Chinese. It would undoubtedly be better to have this boundary defined with their consent, or at least with their deliberate acquiescence; but if the necessity of such definition compels us to impose a frontier on China, then it is equally clear that the frontier selected should be that which is most easily and naturally defensible--in other words, the main ranges of the Hindoo Kush and Mustagh.\n\n9. I have not received any reply from Mr. Macartney to my letter to him on this subject; but as the Government of India have pressed for an early reply, I submit these views, and will, if it seems necessary, forward Mr. Macartney's opinion on arrival. Major Gurdon's opinion and mine are entirely in accord on all the points raised.\n\n## (Telegraphic.)\n\n## Inclosure 32 in No. 1.\n\n## Government of India to Mr. Colvin.\n\nSimla, November 7, 1904.\n\nPlease expedite reply to my telegram of the 8th October, asking you to forward Amban's letter to Mir of Hunza. YOUR letter of the 12th October, 1904. Hunza frontier. Does the Mir maintain any post now at Darwaza?\n\nAddressed Resident, Kashmir; repeated to Political Agent, Gilgit.\n\n## Inclosure 33 in No. 1.\n\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, November 12, 1904.\n\nIN continuation of my letter, dated the 12th October, 1904, I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a letter, dated the 2nd October, 1904, from His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Kashgar regarding the frontier between Kashmir and the New Dominion.\n\n2. Mr. Macartney's views are very interesting. It will be seen that he is of opinion that the Chinese would at once resort to force if the Mir of Hunza were to establish an outpost in the Western Taghdumbash. Without sharing that opinion, I think, as I have already written, that it is not desirable to attempt to hold this country on behalf of the Mir.\n\n3. The suggestion that we should make the cession of all territorial rights in this tract by the Mir the peg on which to hang a condition that China should not cede it to a third Power, or allow any other Power to station troops there without the consent of the British Government, is a useful one, and would be no doubt effective so long as Kashgaria remains under Chinese sovereignty, but no longer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Inclosure 40 in No. 1.\n\n### Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, December 3, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to invite a reference to the correspondence ending with my letter dated the 12th November, under cover of which I forwarded a copy of a letter of the 2nd October, 1904, from my Special Assistant in Kashgar, expressing his views in connection with the alignment of the frontier between Kashmir and the Chinese New Dominion. The Political Agent, Gilgit, who has recently been touring in Hunza and Nagar, has been able to consult the Mir of the former place, and has, in consequence, very much modified the views which he held before, and which were quoted in paragraph 7 of my letter dated the 12th October, 1904, in regard to the portion of the line affecting Darwaza. The Mir explains that there is no grazing on the Hunza side of the pass, and that the people of Shimsbal (more correctly Shingshal) always resort in summer to the valley, or Pamirs as he calls it, between the pass and Darwaza. He also says that they sometimes go 20 miles beyond Darwaza for grazing, and that there is a place about 5 miles beyond Darwaza from which they fetch salt. Major Gurdon further states that the inclusion of the Ghorzerab Valley within the limits of Hunza is a matter of considerable importance to the Shingstalis, who mainly depend on their flocks for their livelihood, and to whom it is therefore a matter of extreme importance that the grazing rights, which they have hitherto enjoyed, should be secured to them. These people keep their flocks and herds in the Ghorzerab Valley in the late autumn for a period of three months because less snow falls there than in the valley between the Shingshal Pass and Darwaza. The Mir of Hunza states that the grazing in the Ghorzerab has been enjoyed since time immemorial by the Shingshalis, and he doubts whether the Kirghiz or Sarikolis even know of the existence of the valley. It appears clear that the right of the Shingshalis to the Ghorzerah has never yet been challenged by any one. In this connection, and in order to ascertain the position the Ghorzerab Valley, which is not marked on map No. 52, S. 94, I would invite a reference to the notes recorded by Major Manners-Smith, in connection with the Shimshal Pass and routes thence into Hunza, which were forwarded to you under cover of this office letter of the 1st August, 1901. The valley lies 8 miles below the junction of the Shingshal Stream with the Mustagh River (on the map wrongly marked as Oprang, vide No. 13 of the notes referred to above) and 4 miles above the point where the Oprang joins the Mustagh.\n\n2. Major Gurdon now proposes the following alignment: Starting from the Khunjerab Pass, the boundary should run south along the main watershed as far as a point about 4 miles south-west of the Oprang Pass. At this point it should leave the main watershed and continue down the spur which forms the watershed between the Oprang and Ghorzerab Valleys until it reaches the Mustagh River. The Mustagh River would then form the boundary up to a point about 4 miles above the junction of the stream from the Shingshal Pass, so that the salt deposits referred to by the Mir of Hunza may be included. From this last point it would ascend the nearest high spur to the west and regain the main crest, which it should then again follow on the lines indicated by Sir Claude MacDonald in his letter to the Tsung-li Yamên, dated the 14th March, 1899.\n\n3. I regret that the importance of the Darwaza post and of the grazing grounds between it and the Shimshal Pass and in the Ghorzerab Valley was previously overlooked. In view, now, of the Mir's assertion and Captain Manners-Smith's report, which I had not previously seen, I think that the Ghorzerab Valley should be included within our proposed border as well as the valley between Darwaza and the Shimshal Pass. If we depart at all from the main mountain crests in order to include Darwaza, there is less objection to aligning this division so as to include the Ghorzerab Valley. It is a pity to leave the main watershed at all, but the position of Darwaza seems to compel us to do this, and, that being so, it is only reasonable to include the Ghorzerab Valley as well as Darwaza, as the Mir's rights there seem to be equally strong and well substantiated. I would therefore support Major Gurdon's proposed line.\n\n## Inclosure 41 in No. 1.\n\n### Government of India to Mr. Brodrick.\n\nCalcutta, January 12, 1905.\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**\n\nHUNZA-CHINA frontier: Lord Ampthill's telegram of 16th August. We shall shortly send you despatch, suggesting composite arrangement for settlement with Chinese Government of all our difficulties in Chinese Turkestan.\n\n## Inclosure 42 in No. 1.\n\n### Mr. Brodrick to Government of India.\n\nIndia Office, February 24, 1905.\n\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nHUNZA-CHINA frontier. Please refer to Government of India letter of the 20th January last. I request that I may be furnished with a map on which precise boundary you now wish to claim, from longitude 74° 55′ to 80° east, should be clearly marked. As regards boundary in neighbourhood of Shingshal Pass, is the line now proposed identical with that which you recommended in 1899?\n\n## Inclosure 43 in No. 1.\n\n### Government of India to Mr. Brodrick.\n\nSimla, August 10, 1905.\n\n**(Secret.)**\n\nWITH reference to his Excellency the Viceroy's telegram, dated the 10th March, 1905, we have the honour to forward, for the information of His Majesty's Government, a map indicating the boundary between Hunza and Chinese Turkestan, as claimed by Sir Claude MacDonald in his despatch, dated the 14th March, 1899, and that which it is now recommended the Chinese Government should be invited to accept as part of the general settlement of all outstanding difficulties in Chinese Turkestan.\n\n2. The boundary which was claimed in 1899 is indicated by a blue line; the variations now proposed are marked in red. The proposals of 1899 contemplated that the line, after leaving the crest of the Mustagh Range in the vicinity of the Shingshal Pass, should run in an easterly direction, and then turn southward so as just to include the part of Darwaza within the Hunza frontier. Thereafter it was to continue its southward trend until it regained the main crests. We now recommend that the boundary should run from the Kunjerab Pass south along the main watershed, as far as a point about 6 miles south-west of the Oprang Pass. At this point the line should leave the main watershed, run due east for about 5 miles, and then continue in a south-easterly direction until it strikes the Mustagh River (incorrectly shown on the map as the Oprang) at Kuram-jilga. The Mustagh River would then form the boundary up to a point about 4 miles above the junction of the stream from the Shingshal Pass; from this point it would ascend the nearest high spur to the west and regain the main crest, which it would then follow on the lines indicated in Sir Claude MacDonald's despatch to the Tsung-li Yamên of the 14th March, 1899.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| CURZON |\n| KITCHENER |\n| E. R. ELLES |\n| A. T. ARUNDEL |\n| H. ERLE RICHARDS |\n| E. N. BAKER |\n| C. L. TUPPER |\n\n*Map to illustrate the explorations of Captain F. E. Younghusband, King's Dragoon Guards, on the northern frontier of Kashmir. Scale 1 inch 16 miles.-Not printed.*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n433 \n37741 \n\n## SOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September 21.]\n\n(RE 23 00 5\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.--Received September 21.)\n\nIndia Office, September 20, 1905. WITH reference to Sir E. Gorst's letter of the 10th August regarding the joint examination by British and Chinese officials of the Burmah-China frontier north of Manangpum, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Brodrick to request that you will lay before the Marquess of Lansdowne the accompanying copy of a letter from the Government of India, in which they support certain recommendations of the Government of Burmah for the settlement of the question with the Chinese Government.\n\nMr. Brodrick would suggest, for Lord Lansdowne's consideration, that Sir E. Satow should be instructed to endeavour, in the first instance, to induce the Chinese Government to agree to accept, without further discussion, the watershed between the Irrawaddy and Salween basins as their boundary up to the confines of Thibet, on the understanding that the Indian Government will agree to pay an annual sum not exceeding, say, 1,500 rupees as compensation for the extinction of all Chinese claims of whatsoever nature on the British side of the boundary.\n\nLord Lansdowne will, however, observe that the Government of Burmah deprecate any precise statement as to where China ends and Thibet begins, and that they do not desire, should difficulties be raised by the Chinese, to press for the watershed boundary beyond latitude 26° 30′. Up to that point they recommend that the Chinese Government should, in the last resort, be made clearly to understand that His Majesty's Government intend to regard the watershed as the frontier; and that, failing its acceptance by the Chinese on the terms now offered, the Government of Burmah will be instructed to administer the country without further negotiations.\n\nIt will be seen that the Government of Burmah attach importance to the avoidance, in negotiations on this subject with China, of all terms of local jurisdiction, and prefer the use, as far as possible, of geographical definitions.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**HORACE WALPOLE**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Brodrick, \n**(Secret.)** \nSimla, August 17, 1905.\n\nSir,\n\nWE have the honour to refer to our Secret despatch, dated the 30th June, 1904, regarding the joint examination by British and Chinese officials of the Burmah-Chinese frontier north of Manangpum, and to the papers on the subject which have subsequently been transmitted to the Secretary in the Political Department of the India Office for your information.\n\n2. We now have the honour to forward copies of the communications from the Burmah Government, in which they have reported the results achieved by the expedition, and have offered their opinion with regard to the action which should now be taken.\n\n3. We concur in the views expressed by the Lieutenant-Governor in his letter of the 19th June last, as subsequently modified by his letter dated the 24th June last, and support the recommendations made by him. We would therefore suggest that His Majesty's Minister at Peking should be instructed to address the Chinese Government in the sense proposed by Sir Herbert White.\n\n[2167 2 1] \nB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403619, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# WLAN ANCHE CANDY\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## SOUTH-WEST CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nNo. 1.\n\nDecember 15.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received December 15.)\n\nIndia Office, December 14, 1905.\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Campbell's letter of the 10th September, 1903, and to subsequent correspondence on the subject of Mr. Litton's proposal for the removal of the prohibition against the passage of Yunnan opium through Burmah to China in bond, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to inclose, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a letter from the Government of India expressing their agreement in the views taken by His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and stating that, in their opinion, the scheme should be definitely abandoned.\n\nThe Secretary of State for India in Council feels some hesitation in accepting this opinion, and directs me to forward the draft of a despatch which he proposes, subject to any observations which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs may offer, to address to the Government of India, asking for a further expression of their views on the question whether it may not be desirable to sound the Chinese Government in the matter, in connection with the action reported by Mr. Litton to have been taken by the Chinese merchants interested in the trade, in petitioning the Peking Government for the removal of the restrictions on the export of opium to Burmah.\n\nShould the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs see no objection to the terms of the proposed reference to the Government of India, it may be advisable to inform Sir Ernest Satow that the question is still an open one, for, if the Government of India agree, the matter will then have to be reconsidered, and the question will arise whether Sir E. Satow should raise the question of admitting Yunnan opium conveyed through Burmah to the Treaty ports on the conditions discussed in my letter of the 22nd February last.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) **A. GODLEY**.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Brodrick,\n\nSimla, October 12, 1905.\n\nWITH reference to your revenue despatch, dated the 16th June, 1903, we have the honour to state that we entirely agree in the view expressed by Sir E. Satow that it is not desirable to approach the Chinese Government on the question of the removal of the existing prohibition against the passage of Yunnan opium through Burmah to China in bond. In these circumstances, the scheme should, in our opinion, be definitely abandoned.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n**CURZON**\n**E. R. ELLES**\n**A. T. ARUNDEL**\n**H. E. RICHARDS**\n**J. P. HEWETT**\n**E. N. BAKER**\n**C. L. TUPPER**\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nDraft of Despatch from Mr. Morley to Government of India.\n\nIndia Office,\n1905.\n\nI HAVE received the despatch from your predecessor's Government dated the 13th October, in which it is stated that the Government of India entirely...\n\nPage 1\n[2325 p--1] \n521", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405379, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 574, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "## closure 1.\n\n568 suffered, and Chinese bankers considered that in view of the manner in which dollars had been replaced by Chinese subsidiary coins in the Kwang Provinces there would be no chance of Hongkong subsidiary coins being required in those provinces in the near future. The Treasurer recommended that the bulk of this coin should be reshipped home for sale as bullion.\n\n### \n\n3. Before acting on this recommendation I discussed the matter with Mr. J. R. M. Smith who thought that it might be possible to dispose of the coin more advantageously by sale to the Indian mints then buying silver, and who at my request telegraphed to ascertain if these mints would buy. On the 28th May he advised me that the Indian Government had wired from Simla that they were not prepared to do this. The telegraphic correspondence with Your Lordship and the Crown Agents, of which en clair versions and paraphrases are enclosed, then took place with the result that the following subsidiary coins were shipped to London per S.S. \"Preussen\" on the 21st June:\n\n| Denomination | Quantity | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 20 cent pieces | 148,000 | |\n| 10 cent pieces | 3,250,000 | $3,398,000 |\n\nleaving in the hands of the Colonial Government 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "2\n\nBhamo to Tengyueh. The object of that proposal is to enable Indian merchants to retain a considerable share of the Yunnan trade even when the French railway has been completed to Yünnan-fu. And if the construction of the line should prove to be feasible, any scheme that promises to improve the traffic upon it is deserving of consideration.\n\n5. A copy of correspondence with the Foreign Office on the subject is inclosed, from which it will be seen that His Majesty's Government will in any case reserve their decision as to laying the matter before the Chinese Government until His Majesty's Minister at Peking has again been consulted.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJOHN MORLEY.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Morley.\n\nSimla, April 26, 1906.\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch dated the 26th January, 1906, in which you deprecate the definite abandonment of the scheme for the passage of Yunnan opium through Burmah in bond.\n\n2. It will be seen from paragraphs 3 to 5 of our despatch dated the 5th January, 1905, that we have recognized the fact that the adoption of the scheme in question might give some stimulus to the Burmah-Yünnan trade, and that we are also fully aware of its possible political advantages. We have therefore no objection to the matter being again referred to His Majesty's Minister at Peking. At the same time we cannot but repeat and emphasize the doubts expressed in regard to the scheme in our despatch of the 5th January, 1905, referred to above, which were so fully shared by Sir E. Satow that he thought it inexpedient to approach the Chinese Government on the subject, and we strongly urge that no formal overtures may be made by His Majesty's Government to China, and that the initiative in this respect, if taken, should be left to come from the latter Power.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nMINT0. KITCHENER,\n\nA. T. ARUNDEL. DENZIL IBBETSON.\n\nH. E. RICHARDS.\n\nE. N. BAKER.\n\nC. H. SCOTT.\n\nC. L. TUPPER.\n\n* To Foreign Office. December 14, 1905; Foreign Office. December 25, 1905.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[18671]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nForeign Office to India Office.\n\n2262223257\n\nREC\n\n[June 13 1906]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n436\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, June 13, 1906,\n\nI HAVE laid before the Secretary of State your letter of the 30th ultimo, inclosing copies of further correspondence with the Government of India on the subject of the removal of the existing prohibition against the passage of Yunnan opium through Burmah in bond.\n\nWith regard to the suggestion of again consulting His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject, Sir E. Grey has observed that the Secretary of State for India, in his speech in the House of Commons on the 30th May, announced his intention of discussing the whole opium question with Sir E. Satow on his arrival in this country.\n\nI am to suggest, for Mr. Secretary Morley's consideration, that the subject matter of your letter under reply should also be reserved till then.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407430, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 726, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "Serusolon@ \n\n710\n\n-:betade,ficwe ylab atisol, diedqaḥ\n\new .m.q-01.7 1. ↑ Jinda .. 08.0 de saunib bull -lose! naibat sad zoa 1 Dite (10/90% ent adiy shiatuo anag samedi 0 g jowolfot drage aan ed lis tot garicum 82-\n\nANFEIN\n\nA\n\nand nedouma 1 evsilud T Ji un ton blyva and tsvlovaz Jetzt and bis sie nur u sham, Bul.at ond mould (awah navanİZİN -97 to all asks aneid onluq mi da dota el wond 1 pics .movies .008 now I hiss * bna enit prode aow planofloa“\n\nPUBGW D1 sivti u part ins \"ebiani suon\" blaa nodnot enti un al di” bien ) mit au de exit of beðnara ceud navi jellad and barw list I brie,\"exed synth-iguda #ev\n\n38%\n\ndulu Joy, aw Amid boz Kings add utrl \"dog-dinibe\" a wonde .\"amub eel\" higa todoor eit opla burudvade ont no jokalde biove of awo vai nodoof and badanelxa\n\nyole who wewania a z\n\nof misgo or what diet ] bre Toooo? and dyport Jule a duq *uno (quto” bina bne ni sluɔ good mail? banh mich qel Mus evils was I tudom aes vd van bexoiá bra fatherpenh si yaxsiz qəd -“Deob al sa\" pisa bawos edit yetiwae TW60 (el). isnt w tłu maju as sood bra annie wat no Lotes en svog bra tìage ni anso gand bas qitalsg Consum multa J'nub 1 gina and suud gen rant\n\n‚enioiben enda bns tee; a'blanotox! „at quedured gent AJILI, SAJ bila di beling mid dexoni qe to blod dog desainf *bana al out\" bila ke bawow yi was redd has 110 und og nasibniw brus garsofoad end irisol I silla nata od ammo teenigna telu\" and nest „tel nad zadð babilondo\n\nbrusda end,tein? en brs en Uia ut besnaw vert\n\nOM\n\nsaid so. The steward said he was a passenger and would not give me away. I then resumed command. The Chief said the pirates had gone. I stopped on the way at Lung Ki, Mah-ning, Kumchuk and Kaukong. At the latter place an extra number of passengers came on board. There were 26 passengers from Kaukong. They took the steamer up some creek and anchored there. The Chinaman who shot me was well dressed like a second-class passenger. The boat had not stopped yet and I thought the Chinaman had run amok.\n\n(Signed) Fred W. Joslin.\n\nLeong Sing, Carpenter, declared:-\n\nAt first I heard some noise from the women's cabin;\n\nI was sitting at the door of my own room. I ran to see. I saw six or seven men with revolvers shooting about. I then saw the explosion of a stink-pot on the starboard gangway. I then went to the passengers' department to hide myself. The pirates searched me.\n\n(Signed) Leong Sing.\n\nTang Kan declared:\n\nI am No. 2 pilot. I was on watch in the wheelhouse.\n\nI heard a noise down below and firing, and the Indian watchman came up with eight men chasing him. Then they pointed revolvers at me and hit me in the chest with the butt. They ordered me to steer wherever they wanted. Only one man stayed with me and gave orders. Then he made me run ashore. The engines were going all the time. I then ran\n\n1) 42\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407784, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nNORTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n483]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 19.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n243\n\n-1\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.~(Received December 19.)\n\nIndia Office, December 18, 1906.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of letters from the Foreign Office, dated the 6th, 7th, and 12th instant respectively, on the subject of the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway project.\n\nIn regard to Sir J. Jordan's inquiry whether an arrangement on the lines of the Canton-Kowloon Railway Agreement would be acceptable to His Majesty's Government, I am to say that Mr. Morley is unable to express any opinion on the subject till he has consulted the Government of India. He has accordingly addressed the Government, and will cause a further communication to be made to you on the receipt of their reply.\n\nI am to take this opportunity of forwarding to you, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a telegram from the Burmah Government to the Government of India, dated the 17th ultimo,\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) HORACE WALPOLE.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nGovernment of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nRangoon, November 17, 1906. TALI reconnaissance. Consul, Tengyueh, wires first, dated the 15th instant :---- \"At an interview to-day Tantai suggested that he and I should settle the matter. I should write to him saying that Lilley and others were going to Tali on a trip, leaving out mention of the survey. He said that he would not send a deputy, but would issue instructions to officials on the road to give protection and send escorts. He said that the number of the party, fifty, was much too many. In my opinion measures proposed are adequate for safety, especially if I were allowed to accompany the party from time to time. Leaving out question as to numbers of the party, do you agree?\n\n\"Above sent to Yunnan with the request to repeat to Peking, if necessary, with amendments.\"\n\nSecond, dated the 16th instant :--\n\n\"I hope to arrange for deputy privately by guaranteeing his expenses separately, rupees ... a month. May I...\n\n\"Repeated to Yunnan for Peking.\"\n\nFollowing reply sent out to-day:\n\n\"Your telegrams Nos. 215 and 216. We entirely agree to your proposal. ... the party.\"\n\nSubject to approval of Consul-General. His ... Will reply later about deputy and numbers...\n\n(Addressed to Foreign Secretary, Simla, and repeated to Foreign Secretary with Viceroy, Viceroy's Camp.)\n\n[2284 t-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416233, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "392\n\nj\n\n2\n\nIt would be altogether a mistake to believe that the people of Yunnan are opposed to a British railway from Burmah to this city. There is not the slightest reason to apprehend in this province any such struggle as that which you speak of as provoked in Chekiang. Everything, indeed, points the other way. The handful of pestilent literati here, after two years of agitation, have failed to arouse among the people of Yunnan any sort of enthusiasm for a Chinese railway to Szechuan, still less for one from Tengyuel to Burmah. As I have shown from their own published accounts, scarcely any private individual has been found willing to subscribe. On the contrary, the call to pay some 6 per cent, more for land tax in the form of railway subscription, coming as it does on the top of the suppression of opium, has roused very considerable discontent. I may mention that in this district the Governor-General has, despite the Edict allowing ten years' gradual suppression, and his own Proclamations allowing three years, caused all poppies to be forcibly destroyed. Were the Yunnanese not by nature a peaceable and submissive folk, there would be a strong provincial opposition, not to railway construction by foreigners, but to the proceedings of the present Governor-General and the small reactionary gang of soi-disant Railway Directors.\n\nAs regards our Tengyueh Railway scheme in particular, the Taiping Valley, through which the line would run, is inhabited almost entirely by Shans, while the Chinese traders of Tengyueh town, who constantly visit Bhamo and often Mandalay, would seem to be altogether in favour of its construction. They certainly are not in favour of the Chinese Company, for, as far as I can learn, they have not bought a single share in it.\n\nI have not, however, been advocating at this stage the demand from the Chinese Government of a definite Railway Concession, so much as insistence on their formal recognition of our right to absolutely equal treatment with France in Yünnan. I venture, with the utmost diffidence, to dissent from the view that the enforcement of that right could not now be attained by diplomatic methods. I am convinced that if His Majesty's Government were (let it be said, by communication through the Chinese Minister in London) to firmly insist on such recognition the Chinese Government would certainly yield. Quite apart from the most-favoured-nation clause of the Burmah-China Treaty, and the correspondence of March 1902, the principle that we are entitled to equal treatment with France in Yunnan is so obviously just that China could look in no quarter for support should she deny or oppose it. If, moreover (as I have said in an earlier despatch), the Chinese Government could be led to understand that, the principle once conceded, we should be ready to consider modifications in its practical application, that Government would be still less likely to hold out.\n\nYou do not refer in this despatch to the fact (as reported in my Confidential despatch No. 14 of the 29th November last) that the Throne has instructed Governor-General Hei that it has called for a report from the Cheng-wu Ch'u and the Wai-wu Pu on our claim to construct a railway in Yünnan; nor do you allude to the growing distrust and distaste said to be expressed by the Central Government for so-called “demonstrations in the provinces.” If the former (as I have no doubt) is correct, and the \"popular\" latter story well founded, then it would seem that the Peking Government would not be indisposed to make a compromise with us, preferring to transfer his Excellency Hsi-liang and to snub the literati rather than to run the risk, however remote, of a collision with India.\n\nIn this connection you will have noticed that in the Army Scheme for all China lately presented by the Lu-chün Pu and approved by the Throne it is proposed that within five years the forces in this province (computed in the Memorial to consist of one brigade of drilled infantry and two battalions of artillery) shall be raised to two “chen,” or army divisions. The reason given is that \"Yünnan controls the frontier posts of the south-west, and it is of the utmost importance to collect there a strong military force to co-operate in the scheme of defence.\" If we continue to delay, and do not now firmly require recognition by China of our right to equal treatment with France in Yunnan, then some future Governor-General of his present Excellency's type will, encouraged by what he will believe to be an overwhelming force, commit such actions—as, for example, ostentatious administration west of \"Scott's line\"—as will oblige us at length to maintain our prestige by force of arms.\n\nIn the meantime that prestige is being very seriously affected by the delay of the Indian Government to insist firmly on its right to build the Tengyueh Railway and to extend it, if the Government sees fit, to Tali and Yunnan-fu.\n\nWe have gone just far enough—in our surveys to Tali and our proposals of 1906 for the construction of a railway to Tengyueh—to make our present inaction appear a victory for the impudent \"bluff\" that inserted the words \"and Tengyueh\" in the title of the exclusively Chinese Yunnan-Szechuan Railway Company. We have swallowed this affront, and we are therefore, here in Yunnan, of no account. The result is that this Consulate is no longer consulted, as was the case when Ting Chih-t'ai was contemplating a railway to Szechuan and an international Settlement at Yunnan-fu (see my despatch of the 11th March, 1905), and it is hopeless to expect—for the matter has a commercial side also—that any contracts for the supply of machinery for mints, arsenals, or other public works, or proffers of engagement as instructors or engineers will come our way.\n\nThe \"friendly co-operation of the province,\" of which your despatch speaks, cannot be attained through any efforts on the part of this Consulate as long as the incumbent appears to be left without support from the Indian Government, on whose behalf he has been maintaining, vis-à-vis of the provincial Government, that British railway enterprise in Yunnan is entitled to equal privileges with French. It may be that the Government of India is waiting for the conclusion of the Thibetan Agreement before turning attention to its eastern frontier, but no intimation to that effect has reached me. It is more than two months since I submitted to Simla, by telegram through Maymyo on the 2nd December, the proposals set out in my despatch to you No. 46 of the 18th December. Those proposals, I cannot but believe, are practicable and such as should commend themselves to the Indian Government, yet they have not been even acknowledged, except in so far as the Government of Burmah have informed me of their due transmission.\n\nIf those proposals are favourably received at Simla, and if—for that, I submit, is the key to the problem—His Majesty's Government will formally require from China recognition of our equality with France in Yunnan, then I do not think that the prospect of overtaking our rivals need be regarded as remote. We should, once we began, work faster, and with less friction; and I am confident that our light electric railway would reach Yunnan-fu in ample time to take a full share in what is the real object of the French line, the traffic and trade of Szechuan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\nP.S., February 8.—It is reported here among the Chinese that the French Government has agreed to sell the railway for 25 million taels (say, 85 million francs). This is less than the amount already spent on earthworks, tunnelling, and masonry. My colleague of France, whom I questioned yesterday on the subject, replies that it appears to him altogether unlikely, but that in any case he knows absolutely nothing about the matter.\n\nW. H. W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416653, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 818, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "811\n\n5. Two officers of the Hong Kong Public Works Department leave this Colony on the 16th instant to travel across China, and will visit Changsha on their way. They will travel thence to Chungking, making as full a survey of the country as possible, with a view to railway construction. So soon as I receive the results of their surveys, I will send a copy to your Excellency.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. D. LUGARD.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n23756\n\nJUL 08\n\n[June 18.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[20817]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir F. Lugard.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 9th instant regarding the suggestion of Mr. Clementi that the country between Chungking and Changsha should be examined with a view to railway construction, and informing me of the departure of two officers of the Hong Kong Public Works Department on a journey along this route.\n\nDuring my recent visit to Hankow, I informed His Majesty's Consul-General confidentially of this project. Mr. Fraser was inclined to consider that the prospects of finding a practicable alignment through those parts were small. The country, moreover, was poor, and had been traversed recently by British officers.\n\nYour Excellency will find these views borne out in the \"Military Report on the Province of Szechuan,\" Simla, 1903, p. 11, where a map prepared by Captain C. G. W. Hunter, R.E., marks as impracticable for railway construction the route from Yochow to Chenchou and thence to Fuchou on the Yang-tsze below Chungking.\n\nOn p. 14 of the same Report the opinion is expressed that \"there appears small chance of a practicable railway route being found along this (the south) bank of the Yang-tsze.\n\nWith regard to paragraph 4 of your Excellency's despatch, it should be observed that no Concession has been granted to foreign capitalists for railway construction between Hankow and Szechuan, though an engagement exists to borrow money from Great Britain if foreign capital is required for the undertaking.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\n(No. 95.)\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nForeign Office, June 18, 1908. PLEASE refer to your telegram No. 122 of the 16th instant on the subject of the French demand for the extension to Hsian-fu of the Chengting-Taiyuan-fu Railway.\n\nYou might point out to the French Minister unofficially, if you see no objection, that the chances of the Anglo-French Railway from Hankow into Szechuan might be adversely affected by this scheme,\n\nI am making a suggestion in a similar sense to Sir F. Bertie.\n\n[1814 -]\n\n-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416791, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[21875]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n115\n\n[June 27.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 98.)\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(Telegraphic.)P.\n\nForeign Office, June 27, 1908. RECOGNITION of Mr. Macartney as Consul at Kashgar.\n\nWith regard to sending out Royal Commission for Mr. Macartney, we proposed to India Office to consult you, in view of the circumstances which you reported in your telegram No. 102 of the 15th May.\n\nReply of the Government of India, to whom the matter has been referred, will be repeated from Simla to you.\n\n[1815 dd-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418059, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "content_text": "Confidential\n\nNO.61\n\nof 1906.\n\nC.0\n\n8\n\n21824\n\nREGS\n\n16 JUN 08\n\nArmy Department.\n\nTHE RIGHT HON'BLE JOHN MORLEY, O.M.,\n\nHis Majesty's Secretary of State for India.\n\nSir,\n\nSimla, the 19th July 1906.\n\nWith reference to your Confidential (Public)\n\nDespatch No.50, dated 20th April 1906, requesting to\n\nbe favoured with an expression of our opinion on\n\ncertain points raised by the Shanghai Municipal\n\nCouncil connected with the employment of natives of\n\nIndia at Shanghai, we have the honour to reply as\n\nfollows:-\n\n2.\n\nWith regard to the enquiry whether it is\n\nproposed to put a stop to the independent flow of\n\nemigrants from India in search of military or police\n\nemployment in the Far East, we would observe that, in\n\naccordance with your telegram dated 13th March 1906,\n\na notification, a draft of which is enclosed, will shortly be published in India to the effect that all Indian recruits required for the police in China will\n\nbe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419791, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "UBOJ\n\n.ROVI\n\n+ denguà dida\n\n2000\n\nCOPY.\n\nConfidential,\n\n10. 2327 R.E.\n\nTo\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong, China.\n\nSimla,\n\n330\n\ndated the 5th. of July, 1909.\n\nmedjure\n\nJaena ini ed to mergeied wo\n\nbae goabati bei od won bugnga everi yraqsoo yuvilad sibni .worthridty of ofdbenoqai ji robienoo I ald not eguene od bortan galad ona yiyakbrooos B’zeenişad III Bibi to JessuYLOVDA\n\n.eldiɛnog we noða 8a arutʻlaqeb\n\n.hearro înt ed\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof your letter No. 2852/1909, dated the 15th. April, 1909, with which you enclose a memorandum by His Excellency dealing with the nature of the advice your Government requires in connection with the projected working agreement for the Kowloon-Canton\n\nRailway and the qualifications of the officer it desires to\n\nengage from India.\n\n2.\n\nWith regard to the first part of the Memorandum,\n\nI am to say that the President of the Railway Board,\n\nSir Trevredyn Wynne, will transmit to you his views as he has\n\nknowledge of Chinese conditions acquired during the two years\n\n1902 - 1904 he has been in Northern China.\n\n3.\n\nWith regard to the selection of an officer\n\ncapable of carrying out the duties you desire him to undertake\n\nthe Railway Board have, after very careful consideration,\n\ndecided to recommend to you the appointment of Mr. G. F. Lillie.\n\nMr. Lillie is of pure British extraction and is a strong active\n\nman in excellent health and 39 years of age. He was educated at\n\nthe Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill of which\n\nCollege he is a Fellow, joined the Indian Railway Department\n\nin 1892 and has now had seventeen years' service. During this\n\nperiod Mr. Lillie has had considerable experience of railway\n\nconstruction work. Besides this he has obtained special\n\nexperience in railway administration and management. He was\n\nDeputy", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419792, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "5\n\nQ000\n\nto the gift beteb\n\n* exofor\n\n.73 0\n\nfaldmehind\n\n8. s ..\n\n06\n\n\"LANDS\" Isinalo! NET\n\nstephol culos (230 tocmbh me I\n\n.IJAI sit herub,908fga8$ „uk ngetal quron, to\n\nMONTAL a snologa now foły\n\nwulehe ads to studar eft\n\nhow bedoelong eld\n\nnoj spermon at a stigo\" doo AT YO\" \"te\n\nHOTCRO-HOefy a \"tot detentna\n\nor emtiesh *1 *en/994 at 10 anoltsokkklam oro bix YAVILAĦ\n\n•*' bπ mo** #nemh@\n\n02. sit to drag diett one of brag in DIT\n\n.3\n\nsoft tautiet wie to cashless\" ada cavid ga od ms ↑ RNS-\n\nnei mai xe quede at no os din nama [5kw,smmm? myberver? \"IP\n\n\"BOL D 2 ela aukuh berbug on anoletbeco egeatrí to onbelwor\n\nBaba wimano Al Raw ad AOCI - s0er\n\nKendito ma to nedanslek ale or bruseAT INVIT\n\nsolerabia. of ich. extash vox ankeuth e le daro suivres to alisgao\n\n(nożew błanos (utenen vzw postajavali bisoft veufteft art\n\nto do antugga mit iron, of brawoost oz bohto b\n\norkane proton s að hrs nottoances find the oung to al sit\n\nte bedsbo nam .89 20 atıken 96 bros feland dreffance nè ran\n\nKalev to 10% aftaqoob es rg55500 antroerig?% nelbul Cryo?\" ode\n\nSamstaqali yeviler\" nathe I ad? heufel vollet æ að æ:f omafio)\n\nahlo sndud .Auiysaa teteam pestreven had won ead bite S08£ at\n\nwewflv\" to socotnewch eid-weblawoo baut est KEINT .N?' bolroy\n\nIstonje barberdo and off alde schdegt „Xron moldov36800\n\n„Disentengutan bra rofrendalelde gewfkan ní boneînega\n\n321\n\nDeputy Consulting Engineer and Under Secretary Railway Branch,\n\nto the Government of Bombay in 1904-5, and was Manager and\n\nEngineer-in-Chief of the Kathiawar Railway system in 1905-6\n\nduring the absence of the permanent incumbent on long leave.\n\nAt the present time he is in charge of a\n\nvery important hill section of the North Western State Railway,\n\nhis duties comprising the control and supervision of all the\n\nDepartments of the line, viz.:- Engineering, Locomotive and\n\nTraffic. Personally, Mr. Lillie is in every way suitable both\n\nin appearance and manners.\n\n4.\n\nWhile offering this gentleman to your\n\nGovernment, I am to say that the Railway Board wish to make it\n\nquite clear that they have no desire at all to lose the benefit\n\nof Lillie's services and their reason for his selection is\n\nbecause they desire to send you an officer who, they think,\n\nwould be capable of carrying out in a satisfactory manner the\n\nduties you will entrust to him.\n\n5.\n\nI am now to ask that if you decide to accept\n\nMr. Lillie you will kindly telegraph to RAILWAYS, SIMLA, the\n\nwords \"ACCEPT LILLIE\". On receipt of this telegram arrangements\n\nwill be made to relieve Mr. Lillie of his present duties: as he\n\nwill require a little time to settle up his private affairs\n\nhere, the date he will sail for Hongkong will probably be about\n\nthe middle or end of August.\n\n6.\n\nTo prevent any misunderstanding it will be\n\nperhaps best to recapitulate the terms on which Mr. Lillie\n\nwould be placed at your disposal. He would be lent by the\n\nGovernment of India and on the termination of his engagement\n\nwith you he would return to our service. The conditions of\n\nservice with you would be:-\n\n(1). Engagement to be for three years, commencing\n\nfrom the date Mr. Lillie sails from India.\n\n(2). Salary £1,500 per annum (payable in not less than\n\nfour instalments annually) from date of sailing.\n\n(3).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "# ARMY DEPARTMENT\n## [Confidential.]\n### Separate.\n\nNo. 75, DATED THE 1ST JULY 1909.\n\n**Despatch to His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.**\n\n**Employment of natives of India in the Far East.**\n\nG. C. B. P. Simla —No. C. 34 A. D.--24-6-09.—30.—RECEIVED \nMILITARY REGISTRY \n19 AUG 1909 POL CRZICE. -2632 \n303 \n1909", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "# [Confidential.]\n\n## No. 75 of 1909.\n\n## Army Department.\n\n**THE RIGHT HON'BLE VISCOUNT MORLEY OF BLACKBURN, O.M.**\n\n**HIS MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA,**\n\nSimla, the 1st July 1909.\n\n309\n\n**MY LORD,**\n\nWe have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's confidential despatch No. 86 (Public), dated the 19th June 1908, transmitting, for consideration, a copy of subsequent correspondence regarding the employment of Natives of India in the Far East, and requesting to be favoured with the observations of the Government of India on the various points raised by the Governor of Hong-Kong.\n\n2. Referring to the statement made by the Governor of Hong-Kong:- \"Until the Government of India is in a position to control the emigration of the races it desires to retain, it seems in fact useless for this Government to undertake a costly and troublesome experiment which would be clearly ineffective,\" we would state that the Government of India, in proposing that recruiting for the Hong-Kong, Shanghai, and Tientsin Police should be conducted through the Indian Army Recruiting Staff, and that men on termination of their service should be repatriated, were actuated by two motives, namely to protect the interests of the Indian Army, and to prevent Indians of the fighting races from enlisting in the service of foreign, and possibly hostile, Powers.\n\n3. When the project was first mooted, it was recognised that it was practically impossible to adopt so drastic a measure as to restrict the emigration of Indians eastwards, and to have enacted a special law affecting Punjabis alone would, in our opinion, have been impolitic and likely to cause great discontent. We hoped to achieve our object indirectly, without having recourse to special legislation, and suggested the scheme of enlistment in India only, and of repatriation on completion of service. This was accepted by His Majesty's Government and promulgated by His Majesty's Minister at Peking. Since 1st January 1907, it has been agreed to extend the scheme to all other British Concessions in China. The Straits Settlements Government also, while not agreeing to recruit through the Recruiting Staff in India, consented to repatriate men at the end of their service, and undertook to urge a similar measure on the Governments of Johore, North Borneo, and Sarawak.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\nOffice or Individual.\n\n**War Office** \n1909 \n8 July. \nLast Previous Paper.\n\n**HONG KONG** \n22890 \nREC \nC. O. 22890 \n30 9 JUL (9) \n\n\"Military Report on Province of Kwangtung, not Jukien.\" Chapter IV, Defences, 1905' is not present, however \"Military Report on Province of Jukien\" is mentioned. Asks that this publication be withdrawn.\n\n| Reference | Note |\n| --- | --- |\n| 34105 | Note of 8 July to for Secret no. 3172 and Secret 2100s Sa |\n| 1750-A. & E. W.-20082/27- 25000-11-05 | |\n\nNext subsequent Paper: 34105\n\nHave you got this publication? \nMr. E. J. Seward... (illegible name, possibly \"ing\" as in \"Sewarding\") \nNo. \nColne Close \nMr. Stubbs \n8k 15/2 Unf.1677 \nCopy to (out of record). \nEnt. 16. \n\nAsk them privately what they want to do: to send it to us, or to give it to the Foreign Office for them, or to send it back to Simla, or to burn it, or to what?\n\n-BEJ 1617 \nTo \n493 \n#23", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## Secret.\n\n**M. Stubbs further note attached.**\n\nIn sending copy 1st note * Gov2 senet desp. ash for the refont No 560 M0.3 C.O.\n\n| Reference | Office | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| % Wo 22890 | War Office | to be sent home on transmission |\n\nWhitehall, S. W. IgH 24/7. TH\n\n**8th July, 1909.**\n\nThe Director of Military Operations presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and begs to request that he will be so good as to arrange for the withdrawal from the Governor of Hong Kong of the copy of the **\"Military Report on the Province of Fukien, Chapter IV Defences, 1905\"**, issued by the Intelligence Branch, Simla. This publication has been superseded by a new edition issued last year by the General Staff, and of which copies have been supplied to the General Officer Commanding, South China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423495, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n161\n\nReceived October 22 23 NOV 09\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[38995]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n#### SECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\n**India Office to Foreign Office.**~(Received October 22.)\n\nIndia Office, October 21, 1909. WITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 6th August, 1908, and to subsequent correspondence on the subject of the Burmah-Yunnan railways, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to forward, for the consideration of Sir E. Grey, a copy of a letter from the Government of India, dated the 26th August last, urging the importance which attaches to an early settlement of the negotiations with China regarding the construction of the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway.\n\nLord Morley agrees generally with the views expressed by the Government of India, and, subject to Sir E. Grey's concurrence, suggests that a copy of this letter and its inclosure should be forwarded to Sir John Jordan, with the request that he should state what steps he considers can be taken for the furtherance of the objects desired by the Government of India.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**ALEXANDER MURRAY.**\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Government of India to Viscount Morley.**\n\nMy Lord,\n\nSimla, August 26, 1909. WITH reference to our telegram dated the 26th May, 1908, regarding the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway, we have the honour to forward, for the consideration of His Majesty's Government, a copy of the letter, dated the 28th June, 1909, from the Government of Burmah on the subject.\n\n2. In view of the approaching completion of the French railway to Yunnan-fu, and the detrimental effect which its completion, before any steps have been taken to establish communications between Burmah and Yunnan, may be expected to have on British commerce in Burmah, and British prestige in Western China, we fully endorse Sir H. Thirkell White's opinion as to the importance which attaches to a speedy settlement of the negotiations with China regarding the construction of the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway.\n\n3. The necessity for this step is emphasised if the report which we have recently received from His Britannic Majesty's consul at Yunnan-fu to the effect that American engineers have been definitely engaged for the Yunnan-fu-Tengyueh and Yunnan-fu-Szechuan railways be true. We trust, therefore, that instructions may be sent to His Majesty's Minister at Peking to make early representations to the Chinese Government in the matter.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n**MINTO.** \n**KITCHENER** \n**J. O. MILLER.** \n**G. F. WILSON.** \n**S. P. SINHA.** \n**H. H. RISLEY.**\n\n#### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\n**Government of Burmah to Government of India.**\n\nMaymyo, June 28, 1909.\n\nI AM directed to solicit a reference to the correspondence ending with my letter dated the 27th April, 1909, regarding the proposed construction of a railway from Bhamo to Tengyueh, and Talifu.\n\n[2471 y-1]\n\n*Vide our telegram dated July 17, 1909.*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425306, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "# 328\n\nThere is, however, little doubt that the removal of the Customs stations from Capsulmoon, etc., to Taishan, etc. has greatly increased the cost of collection: but, as the Customs publish no figures as to their expenditure, it is impossible to ascertain what loss has been caused to them by the lease of the New Territories. I have been told by credible informants that the Customs have never yet succeeded in making their \"Kowloon station\" pay. Perhaps Mr. Moorhead states that \"the decrease in 1897 was probably due to the opening of the new West River ports and the stringent carrying out of the transit pass rules, both of which causes helped to divert trade from junks to other channels\" and that the decrease in 1898 was due to \"the same causes, assisted by the desire on the part of shippers to escape a tax called Tao-lu levied this year for the first time in certain articles (Tobacco, Salt Fish, Kerosene Oil, Samshu, etc.) passing the stations\".\n\nFrom Mr. Moorhead's table, which unfortunately has not been retained in the annual Returns of Trade, it appears that the figures for 1898 (when collection was made at Capsulmoon, etc.) and for 1901 (when collection was made at Taishan, etc.) were almost identical: while as regards the distribution between the several stations \n\n(a) in 1898 Capsulmoon and Changchow collected in all Tls. 307,354: but these stations were replaced by those at Taishan and Lintin which in 1901 collected Tls. 301,666 i.e. very nearly the same amount.\n\n(b) in 1898 Fatshan and Kowloon collected in all Tls. 31,252: but these stations were replaced by those at Samun, Saüchung, Shanchun and Shatowkok which in 1901 collected Tls. 49,794 i.e. a considerably increased sum.\n\nThere was a decrease of Tls. 162,009 or 51% in the total revenue collected: and that since then the total collection has remained fairly constant. \n\n| Year | Amount |\n|------|--------|\n| 1898 | 307,354 |\n| 1901 | 301,666 |\n| 1898 | 31,252 |\n| 1901 | 49,794 |\n\n# OUD, POA \n081, 183 \n# \n# \n0081 \n1001 \nBOOHOTO Alb eft \nBeon6re7710 \nxsa,50 004.08 090.38 \n\nBIT \n# \nerid reiw vijosxe broqnoroo den ob novewod \n.atmal \n\nTyd nevis muigo no ntvti bos yjub not newgit sunever crit 8001 of 1981 morî darit (s) nofe neidad beatdwoo aff TEBI mi dørit (0) besoni qIlheads amodwo noolwo? erit yd bedoellos BIT to IIa) silla a auw ezerid galuollot ert at dadd (o) :020 \n\nIt appears the rest of the text is not readable or meaningful after OCR. Only the last part was somewhat coherent and has been reproduced above.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426451, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "Page 34.\n\naniwore ZIZKKIKY 107 food dusmerom a qaex od atodoeqe: I Xart\n\nszoft bas arvor AS ent midylw aeruttaqeb bra elsviyıs\n\n«droq ni gmintamor\n\nbas atroqmi erit of beltiðon ed of yah adt gntuub zísvit¬8 [[A\n\n.atotoegenI Xnub sdt vd sidlaɛoq es nooa es soitto athoge\n\n(.ĉS egeq)\n\n„XIOW WOďISH of vísunq sevisement enitnoo of atodosqand davl\n\nodd bne videlṣed to eteoitions) edt Haul s naibisod a0\n\n.be18 (100 sf of .ol hazrd bas enso (bebrsmeð eð of Jɛetinsk\n\nInut tant toorq aa rodoeqenI end vɗ bengla ed of Jaeilask\n\ndon erms bra bedoeqani ed of tremsar:À „bebisod noad asd\n\n.besine bobasrd\n\nmanofed valger to sjeoltitveo od es benlettetce era atdwob 11\n\n.JNOMOTIVESex-et yɗ ebem ad caum Zoero Xout a ot gai-\n\n(.0S ognq)\n\n+\n\nent etuoi?i‡769 on est bes baorda mort beritīs asri Xout 21\n\nmojavo sasniɗ0 a bezusq galva^` to toorg souborg jawm tOJES”\n\nVientot ed of tejtam adt toorq dove gnilts” .nolta¢2\n\n(.6S ogaq) .amotavo to Tenoleɛhimod add Atiw betegijɛsvai\n\n.asitaita†2 obSIT Inut\n\neď od OI etpaolone reg es adnut to ajnamevol not retaigoЯ ent\n\n(.fs sgaq) .‡qox\n\n.04\n\n.IE\n\n.65\n\nPage 135.\n\nPage 136.\n\nPage 37.\n\nPage 229\n\nDetailed Import Manifest to be handed in by Junks on entering.\n\nThis manifest should take the form of a duplicate of the\n\nexport manifest which must be presented on clearing from\n\na Chinese Customs Station. The duplicate manifest to be\n\ncertified as correct by the Officer of the Customs Station.\n\n(page 87.)- 25-26.)\n\nA Junk clearing from a port in the Colony for abroad should\n\nhand in export manifest in duplicate. The manifest should\n\nbe retained at the Harbour Office and the duplicate should\n\nbe sent to the Kowloon Customs Office for transmission to\n\nthe Chinese Customs Station where the junk must call, the\n\nduplicate will be checked with export manifest handed in\n\nby the Junk and returned to the Harbour Office. (page 26.)\n\nJunks arriving from, or leaving for places outside Customs\n\ncontrol to hand in correct manifests.\n\nStatistics of Cargo carried by Steamers.\n\n(1). Sub-section 11 of Section 37 =Êxami¤$entiææxt and Sub-\n\nsection 2 of Section 22 of the Merchant Shipping\n\nOrdinance to be amended so as to provide that within\n\n18 hours of arrival a complete Import Manifest of the\n\ncargo on board shall be furnished; with marks and\n\nnumbers (if any) on packages; number of packages;\n\ncontents of packages, weight value and destination of\n\neach package, 1.0. whether for Hongkong or other\n\nPorts. (page 59.)\n\n(2). As regards the particulars and value of goods arriving by\n\nCoasting Steamers full particulars can be obtained\n\nby the co-operation of the I. M. Customs.\n\n3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426712, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "458\n\nraddons yd turon silt of diford raw woh neddiw hart ort dariw dud\n\node rodtoile oeso art at totokk tnatroqnt nsnav ¿I JHAGE 708\n\nensn old novia bodromoning oft vonal tort nå ofw #naniniquos\n\n- omit oil da 038 169% 5\n\n#ootdra oft ne donobivo nwo ¤H\n\nbio na daw ok .rogutażņali oft te bisa bed of tady botatbørÝHOD\n\nsdgim et bus toldables wov ton asw zimnefn grovom old bra new\n\nIstuð sið da tnessiq need Insegroc eft bad eldinzoq mand oved\n\nSuoh #1##1I ovaɗ I „dnioq aint go atoch tasxo oft niet1990B OF\n\norið gałądkupas at værį er dittv soronftat smon had atdit tant\n\n-Quso pripɔk**ih ods Netw tsillat vrov me I\n\n.+\n\nLeatmtro raro itožažytoque talget yno to Donooda wild yd bo-\n\nbail ov se,moita^aqonq to actuon writ at one yon) viliw aoɑso\n\nSTOW #TOJDoskor? iworo ow? ered\" .cuk÷bua mi ti dtty Lash of\n\nnt colloq est satrhe of ozov aatruh Isinaqa ezodw botnlogge\n\nzzogaq ootlog £!^ .conso Lis 20 Joubпoo bus molenzaqorq ~bede\n\nabstí #*loger has ‚eotrón has anottomitant tot morte of theɑ ozow\n\nvidmateson nrow 29ɑsɔ Lia Jade on ‚omic of onté mort mode of\n\neric of qu omno Bongo tant eIrben edo f÷tw ,peve mladit ozated\n\n.hortagena vifurtonzo ver assiɛɛA\n\ndt!w sociosaor¶ two- a tarit ovoliod I\n\n[Iv #\n\n.a\n\ngrofo) påse në vau toory to od bluow unottonut &fimla\n\nat at youb saufw możłolio? mozo ufe xbrotin et oord bise of\n\nbed fuanoo svetfed I dost mi mi ciw ban,notfog erit ontvhs of\n\nmożniqo vĩ në don at alɗð tuf Jaselra vtipolttih yas novenoriw\n\nai vienséanos at od ono omoc al bosnow al der?\" .cnofoftwa\n\nmoffw bus,88680 20 ontelo ab eoilo% to ¤teof1^0 [ta delw dojot\n\nToo to Joanso I .28880 (a nè divenos og yrub zisɗt od blow #1\n\nandyonellesrii two? ot mottaengua oft eda: marit stort ob sp-\n\nglossoom cet to boonivuoo uus T suusood ou ob t\n\n.0\n\nma bad dobów \"ottaa mostoma mi otorim\n\nohuris of bœrod ma I dołdw of moitaoup site no mat~sed toeribal\n\nmidtoŋ odé gertun os abnud oainek ylltuow oris Swift boontvnooD FM T\n\nt\n\nadt eroted gabinert adt nedw *'Isioeque exom ABRAO SMQa to qu\n\notantatge\n\nMagistrate is near the next ensuing Assize, in order to get a commitment in time. The result is, I believe I am right in say\n\n-ing, that the cases come before the Attorney-General, a few days only before the trial, when it is often too late to do\n\nanything to remedy mistakes.\n\n7.\n\nI have recommended bi-monthly Assizes on\n\nanother ground, but the Secretary of State has objected to the change. As this has an important bearing on the subject which I am now dealing with, I think is right to draw Your Excellency's attention to this new aspect of the question.\n\n8.\n\nOn the general question, if Your Excellency should see fit to obtain the views of other officers upon it,\n\nI venture to suggest that the late Attorney-General, Sir Henry Berkeley, might perhaps be able to give Your Excellency his experience of the way in which the present system works.\n\nMr. Justice Wise authorises me to state\n\n9.\n\nthat he concurs in my opinion.\n\nis Excellency\n\nSir Frederick Lugard, K.C*M.G.,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) F. T. Piggott,\n\nChief Justice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429035, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 376, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[A]\n\n# OPIUM.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[July 2.]\n\nC 373 22504\n\nRece 12222 JUL 10\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nhala\n\n[23734]\n\nI think the\n\n30. brought\n\nup the first of the doops\n\nwhi hit Harding refers\n\nConference:\n\nat the Gerfonal\n\nI do not know if you\n\nseen the second.\n\nAs A must\n\nfo\n\nis not\n\nthe first despatch is\n\nto the Conference,\n\nj\n\nmuch\n\npractical in\n\nimportance.\n\nBU\n\nAs purpose\n\n## No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.--(Received July 2.)\n\nIndia Office, July 1, 1910. WITH reference to your letter dated the 14th June, 1910, and preceding correspondence, on the subject of the proposed opium conference at The Hague, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, to be laid before Secretary Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a letter from the Government of India containing their views on the question.\n\nI am to say that Lord Morley is disposed to think that a conference for the purpose of conventionalising the recommendations of the Shanghai Commission would be premature at present, and that the more extended programme which the Government of the United States have suggested as a basis for discussion contains matter which is outside the recommendations of the Shanghai Commission, and which on other grounds open to objection. In particular, the treaties and diplomatic arrangements of His Majesty's Government with China should not, in his opinion, be submitted to a conference.\n\nI am to add that before coming to a final conclusion on the subject, Lord Morley will be glad to see the recommendations of the interdepartmental conference which it has been decided to hold for the purpose of considering the proposals of the American Government, and suggesting the terms of a reply.\n\n7\n\nColonel July\n\nSoproceed\n\nHBL\n\nyes.\n\n2017\n\nJ.\n\n29.7 atonce\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\nI am; &c.\n\nED. MONTAGU.\n\nGovernment of India to Viscount Morley.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nSimla, May 26, 1910. WE have the honour to reply to your Lordship's despatch of the 12th November, 1909, inviting our opinion on the expediency of the proposal to convene an international conference on opium which has been put forward by the United States Government, and also on the scope of its labours.\n\n2. The scheme of the United States Government is set forth in a circular letter dated the 1st September, 1909. Postulating \"the suppression of the opium evil\" as a common end in view, and \"impressed\" (as the letter states) \"by the gravity of the problem and the desirability of divesting it of local and unwise agitation, as well as the necessity of maintaining it upon the basis of fact as determined by the Shanghai Commission, the United States deems it important that international effect and sanction be given to the resolutions of the International Opium Commission, and to this end proposes that an International Conference be held should have full powers to conventionalise the resolutions adopted at Shanghai and their necessary consequences.\" The letter then proceeds to set forth a tentative programme of fourteen items which is declared not to be exhaustive.\n\nIt is also stated that it \"was recognised by the (Shanghai) Commission as a whole that their resolutions, however important morally, would fail to satisfy enlightened public opinion unless by subsequent agreement of the Powers they and the minor questions involved in them were incorporated in an international convention.\"\n\n3. As regards the last point, we believe the United States Government to have been misinformed. Nor do we anticipate that the step proposed will discourage agitation. But, as we shall explain more fully to your Lordship in replying to your despatch dated the 6th August, 1909, we accept the recommendations of the\n\n[2812 -1]\n\n* See Foreign Office letter, dated 2nd December, 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429041, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n379\n\n2\n\neasy to realise how critical the situation has become, and with what alarm the future is viewed if energetic steps are not taken by His Majesty's Government to bring about a speedy abolition of this tax and the immediate withdrawal of all other restrictive measures.\n\nWe and other British merchants have been engaged in the opium trade for many years, and have been trading under certain conditions secured to us by treaties; it is only right and equitable then that before these conditions are modified or altered, due notice and sufficient time should be given to enable merchants to dispose of their stocks and obtain their money from their purchasers. Apart from the fact that we as British merchants are entitled to have the support of our Government in the legitimate pursuit of our trade, we must be all the more entitled to that support when it is realised that the opium which we import is bought from the Government of India, on the clear understanding that no interference with the freedom of its sale in China will be allowed.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nE. D. SASSOON AND Co.\n\n[B]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[24450]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.(Received July 7.)\n\nC O 22504\n\n[July 7.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nRres 22 JUL 10)\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office, July 6, 1910. IN continuation of this office's letter dated the 1st July, 1910, on the subject of the proposed Opium Conference at The Hague, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a letter from the Government of India, stating the action that they have taken and propose to take with regard to the resolutions adopted by the International Opium Commission at Shanghai.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nCOLIN G. CAMPBELL.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment of India to Viscount Morley,\n\nSimla, June 2, 1910.\n\nWE have the honour to refer to your Lordship's despatch dated the 6th August, 1909, in which you ask for a statement of the action which we propose to take in regard to resolutions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 adopted by the International Opium Commission at Shanghai.\n\n2. We enclose copies of the letters which we have issued to local governments on this subject. In the first two of these, dated the 25th October, 1909, we asked for their recommendations on certain special points arising out of the commission's resolutions. In the last, dated the 26th May, 1910, and written after a full consideration of the commission's report, we communicated our concurrence in the resolutions, and intimated that we were prepared to consider any practicable means of rendering them effective in this country. Your Lordship will also have observed the references to this subject in paragraphs 48 and 49 of the speech in which our honourable colleague, Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, introduced the financial statement for 1910-11 in the Legislative Council.\n\n3. Pending the receipt of replies from the local governments, we are not in a position to state what precise action it will be possible to take in the directions suggested by the International Commission; but we may with advantage indicate at once our provisional opinions. Of the five resolutions which we are asked to consider, two bear on the question of internal regulation. In the first of these the commission recommend the gradual suppression of the practice of opium smoking with due regard to the varying circumstances of the different countries concerned, and in the other they suggest the desirability of a re-examination by each country of its own system of regulation with a view (as the preamble to the resolution implies) to incorporating in it any improvements which may be expected to ensure an increasingly stringent control over the use of the drug.\n\n4. As your Lordship is aware, the practice of opium smoking has never been generally adopted in India, it is discouraged by public opinion, and very severely restricted by our own regulations. The sale of smoking preparations is entirely prohibited, and the 600 shops where such sale was previously carried on have been abolished. No individual is allowed to be in possession of a quantity of opium prepared for smoking exceeding 180 grains in weight, and in several provinces this restriction has been supplemented by a further rule limiting the aggregate quantity which may be possessed by a party of persons to a maximum of 900 grains. The quantity of opium daily used by an opium smoker is so large in comparison with that required by an opium eater,\n\n[2812 g-2]\n*\nExcluding Burmah.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429042, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "1\n\nsuccess.\n\n2\n\nand the inconvenience and difficulty involved in the repeated preparation of opium for smoking in the manner which is customary all over the Far East are so great, that these restrictions hardly fall short of legal prohibition; and though in a metropolis and seaport like Calcutta there is no doubt some successful evasion of the law, and other forms of smoking are known to be more or less prevalent in particular areas, it would appear that the severely restricted policy which has been followed by the Government of India for many years past has been really effective. The underlying aim of the policy is, however, ultimate prohibition, and we are agreed that the time has come to consider whether direct and unqualified prohibition of opium-smoking is not now possible, at any rate in a number of provinces. It would be premature to say more on this point until the views of the local governments have been received; but we shall adopt any recommendations in this sense which offer a real prospect of success.\n\n5. In Burmah the conditions are of course entirely different. The Burman is akin to the races in the Far East in taking readily to the smoking habit, and in his case, subject to the registration of old consumers, it has been found necessary to prohibit the use of opium altogether, though prohibition has not hitherto been enforced against non-Burman residents of the province. Your Lordship is already well acquainted with the history of this experiment, which is conveniently summarised in the memorandum on opium in India presented to the Shanghai Commission.\n\nWe were already, before the receipt of the resolutions, considering whether it was not desirable to extend the policy of prohibition to Chinese and other non-Burmans living in Burmah, and we have definitely put this proposition to the local government in our letter of the 25th October, 1909. This would mean the absolute prohibition of the use of opium in any form except for strictly medical purposes for all races throughout the province. Whether the time is yet ripe for the universal application of that principle to Burmah, or how long it would take to make universal prohibition effective, we cannot yet say; but this is the end at which we should aim.\n\n6. We now turn to the second of the resolutions dealing with matters of internal policy. In view of what we have said regarding Burmah our remarks on this resolution apply of course only to India proper. The British delegates stated plainly to the Opium Commission that they were \"not able to accept the view that opium should be confined simply and solely to medical uses,\" and they supported this opinion by laying before the commission a very full analysis of the conditions which present themselves in India. They held that geographical and political limitations would make it impossible to prevent illicit consumption on a serious scale; that it would not be legitimate to withhold from the peoples of India a drug which is one of the main household remedies on which they rely; and that despotic interference with a national habit dating from a period long anterior to British rule could not be justified by any evidence of extensive social degradation or by the assurance of strong and genuinely popular support from Indian public opinion. We agree in these views.\n\nIt cannot be too clearly understood that the \"opium habit,\" in the ordinary acceptation of the term, is ordinarily not known in India. It is probable that the magnitude of India's production—mainly for China and the Far East—has led to an exaggerated estimate of the extent to which she is herself an opium-consuming country. The statistics laid before the Shanghai Commission indicated that between 1900 and 1907 the average recorded imports of crude and raw opium into the United States amounted to about three-fourths of the standard of recorded consumption in British India, excluding Burmah, though our population is nearly three times as great. The best estimates put China's consumption, prior to the recent anti-opium movement, at over fifty times as much as ours, though her population is probably not more than double. We think this comparison strongly confirms the view that the Indian consumption, notwithstanding the long period which it has had for development, is on a moderate scale only, and that the races of India proper are not irresistibly inclined to the abuse of the drug.\n\nIt would in any case, in present political conditions, be idle to consider any suggestion for violent interference with the accepted usages of the people in this matter.\n\nFor these reasons, we entirely concur with the International Opium Commission, who, while they demanded the gradual suppression of the practice of opium smoking, deliberately refrained from advising the abandonment of the policy of regulation by which the practice of opium eating in this country has hitherto been successfully kept under restraint.\n\n7. Having reaffirmed our position in this matter, we can also express our concurrence in the view of the commission that it is in fact desirable that a country which professes to adopt a system of regulation leading to progressively increasing stringency should from time to time re-examine its methods and seriously consider whether they ought not to be strengthened and more fully enforced. We have accordingly referred that question to the local governments; and we shall give careful attention to their advice.\n\n8. We need only briefly refer to the three remaining resolutions as we have already noticed them in stating our views on the proposal to convene an International Opium Conference at The Hague or elsewhere. As regards No. 4, we already prohibit the shipment of opium from ports in India other than Bombay and Calcutta, and such shipment is subject to the strictest regulation, the suppression of illicit practices in regard to opium being recognised as one of the most important functions of our preventive establishments. We shall be ready, when the time comes, to prohibit under section 19 of the Sea Customs Act, the export of opium, its derivatives and by-products, to countries which prohibit their import, and we shall be willing to take all reasonable supplementary measures which may be required to make such prohibition effective.\n\n9. As regards resolution No. 5, we warmly welcome the suggestion that an endeavour should be made by those countries in which morphia is manufactured to control its manufacture, sale and distribution in the country of origin, as we are convinced that unless the Western Governments concerned impose effective restrictions on their own manufacturers and traders, it will be impossible for Eastern countries like India to deal effectively with the morphia habit. Such action as is possible on this side is already being taken, as will be seen from the memorandum on morphia in India which was submitted to the International Opium Commission by the British delegates. The morphia habit, and the still more ruinous cocaine habit, though of comparatively recent introduction, constitute a graver potential danger than any which is to be apprehended from the use of opium as practised in this country, and protection against the illicit importation of such drugs may at any time become a matter of cardinal importance.\n\n10. As regards resolution No. 6, dealing with the investigation of the properties of opium and of anti-opium remedies, we understand that the enquiry contemplated is one of a scientific character, to be carried out in Western laboratories, and that the main point which the commission had in view was the discovery of an antidote to the smoking habit. The question therefore only incidentally affects this country.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nMINTO.\n\nO'M. CREAGH,\n\nJ. O. MILLER.\n\nG. FLEETWOOD WILSON.\n\nS. P. SINHA.\n\nB. ROBERTSON.\n\nJ. L. JENKINS.\n\nGovernment of India to Government of Burmah.\n\nSimla, October 25, 1909.\n\nI am directed to forward a copy of a despatch from the Secretary of State for India dated the 6th August, 1909, and of its enclosures, on the subject of the resolutions adopted by the International Opium Commission which met at Shanghai.\n\n2. It will be observed that the Secretary of State has asked for a statement of the action which the Government of India propose to take in regard to the resolutions numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Of these Nos. 4, 5, and 6 do not call for present report from local governments.\n\n3. As regards resolution No. 2, I am to refer to the correspondence communicated with the letter from this department dated the 17th August, 1897, and to request that the Government of India may be furnished with a report on the possibility and desirability, in present circumstances, of prohibiting the smoking of opium to all classes in Burmah. At present, those Burmans only are permitted to consume opium who are registered as having been opium smokers prior to 1893, and this class will eventually cease to exist. As to the Chinese population, since under existing policy they are not to be allowed to smoke opium in their own country, there is no justification for treating them more liberally in Burmah. As regards natives of India, the chief difficulty will probably be...\n\n[2812 g-2]\n\nB 2\n\n380", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429043, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4\n\nbe with the Sikhs, who are recruited in considerable numbers for police and military purposes; but with a fairly liberal allowance for medical necessities, \"it may be possible to enforce a general prohibition in respect to this class also.\n\n4. With reference to resolution 3, the Government of India do not at present see any necessity to recast the existing systems for the regulation of the traffic in opium in this country, which are the result of many years' experience. They are, however, of opinion that the preventive and fiscal arrangements should be rendered increasingly stringent, and in this view I am to suggest that the question of raising the issue price of opium may be taken into consideration and form the subject of a report.\n\n5. In connection with this resolution the Shanghai Commission have also recorded, in the minutes of their proceedings, an expression of the views of the Netherlands delegation to the effect \"that the opium business in its entirety should be managed in such a way that no person concerned in the management be interested in the amount of sale, and that the establishment of such a way of managing should not be put off longer than the circumstances require.\" This opinion is based on experience of official vend in Netherlands India. With reference to paragraph 4 of the letter from this department dated the 16th March, 1907, I am to request that the Government of India may be favoured with an expression of the present opinion of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor as to the advisability or otherwise of starting a system of official vend in Lower and Upper Burmah.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. M. HAILEY, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1,\n\nGovernment of India to Government of Madras.*\n\nSimla, October 25, 1909. I am directed to forward a copy of the despatch from the Secretary of State for India dated the 6th August, 1909, and of its enclosure, on the subject of the resolutions adopted by the International Opium Commission which met at Shanghai.\n\n2. It will be observed that the Secretary of State has asked for a statement of the action which the Government of India propose to take in regard to the resolutions numbered Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Of these Nos. 4, 5, and 6 do not call for present report from local governments.\n\n3. As regards resolution 2, I am to refer to the correspondence communicated with the letter from this department dated the 17th August, 1897, and to request that the Government of India may be furnished with a report on the possibility and desirability, in present circumstances, of taking legislative action against opium-smoking clubs and dens. I am also to inquire whether it is possible to reduce the amount of smoking preparations individually or collectively in Madras.\n\n4. With reference to resolution 3, the Government of India do not at present see any necessity to recast the existing systems for the regulation of the traffic in opium in this country, which are the result of many years' experience. They are, however, of opinion that the preventive and fiscal arrangements should be rendered increasingly stringent, and in this view I am to suggest that the question of raising the issue of opium may be taken into consideration and form the subject of a report.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. M. HAILEY,\n\nDeputy Secretary to the Government of India,\n\n5\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to Government of Madras.*\n\nSir,\n\nSimla, May 26, 1910. In continuation of the letter from this department dated the 25th October, 1909, I am directed to forward two copies each of vols. i and ii of the proceedings of the International Opium Commission which met at Shanghai. The Government of India have now carefully examined the proceedings, and find themselves in cordial agreement with the general principles embodied in the resolutions. They are anxious that those of the recommendations which relate to internal administration should receive the fullest consideration, and I am accordingly to request they may be favoured with the detailed opinion of his Excellency the Governor in Council in respect of resolutions 2, 3, and 4.\n\n2. The first of these resolutions sets forth the desirability of the gradual suppression of the practice of opium smoking.\n\nThe Government of India have already addressed you on this subject, and have nothing to add to the remarks contained in the previous letter.\n\nThis practice has never been generally adopted in India; it is discouraged by public opinion, and the Government of India have followed a severely restrictive policy in the matter. The underlying aim of this policy has throughout been ultimate prohibition, and the time has now come to consider the possibility of realising this ideal. I am therefore to ask particularly for a report on the feasibility of enforcing, within a reasonable period, a direct and unqualified prohibition of the practice of opium smoking,\n\n3. The third resolution of the commission suggests the desirability of re-examining existing systems for the regulation of the traffic in opium. The Government of India fully endorse the opinion expressed by the British delegates at Shanghai, that the entire abolition of the use of the drug is not, in the present conditions of India, a question of practical politics. They wish, however, to make a serious attempt to ascertain whether the existing regulations and methods of administration are sufficiently restrictive, and are disposed to think that it would be possible to make a decided advance in the direction of controlling consumption. In requesting a general expression of opinion on this point, I am to invite special attention to the present system of retail vend, and to enquire whether, in the view of his Excellency the Governor in Council, it does not admit of modifications which would facilitate such control.\n\n4. With regard to resolution 4, the Government of India are prepared to prohibit, under section 19 of the Sea Customs Act, the exports of opium, its derivatives, and its bye-products, to all countries which forbid their imports. I am to ask for an expression of opinion with regard to the measures which should be taken to render the prohibition effective.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. S. MESTON, Secretary to the Government of India.\n\nCopy of the correspondence forwarded to the Department of Commerce and Industry.\n\nBy order,\n\nJ. E. C. JUKES, Under Secretary to the Government of India.\n\n* Also to the Government of Bombay, Government of Bengal, Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam, Government of the United Provinces, Government of the Punjab, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province, Chief Commissioner of Ajmer-merwara, Chief Commissioner of Coorg, and Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan, mutatis mutandis.\n\n0\n\n* Also to the Government of Bombay, Government of Bengal, Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam, Government of the United Provinces, Government of the Punjab, Government of Burmah, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province, Chief Commissioner of Ajmer-merwara, Chief Commissioner of Coorg, and Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan, mutatis mutandis.\n\n† Resolutions 2, 3, and 4 to Maritime Governments only; resolutions 2 and 3 to Non-maritime Governments.\n\nTo Burmah only.\n\n$ To all except Burmah.\n\nMaritime Governments only.\n\n381", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 586, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "solution of social problems will be discredited, if the considerable measure of agreement reached at Shanghai is to be recklessly exaggerated to make it fit in with views which the Commission abstained from endorsing and to justify international pressure and interference which they never contemplated or implied; or if, where all were working to a common end, the facts are to be strained with the object of disparaging the activities of one of the co-operating powers or of unduly emphasizing those of another.\n\n21st July, 1910.\n\nSoy J. B. Brunzale\n\nG. C. B. P., Simla.-No. 2541 Fin D.—21-7-10.-12-A, E. J.\n\nExtract A.\n\nAppendix I.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM DR. WRIGHT'S REPORT.\n\n(a) \"Turning for a moment to the resolutions adopted by the International Commission, it will be readily appreciated that, quite apart from their condemnation of the opium vice, they are of great importance in that they were passed unanimously. Seriously opposing views in regard to the moral, economic, and other aspects of the opium problem developed, the commission might have had to issue a majority and minority report. As the American delegation stood for the principle of immediate and effective prohibition of the abuse of opium, it would probably have had to head the minority report. Had that been the event, the whole question would have been once more in the melting pot, where it had been thrown by nearly every national commission that had sat on it, and the way to further proposals for international action would have been blocked to the United States.\n\nThe international commission having unanimously agreed that the opium vice must cease, it was open to our Government to propose further international co-operation for the placing of the production and traffic in opium under international law.\" (Page 69).\n\n(b) \"Although no formal declaration was made as to further international action in regard to opium production, traffic, and misuse, it was nevertheless recognized that such action was necessary before the powers could congratulate themselves on having solved the problem that has loomed so large and so long in the Far East, causing war and other evil consequences not outstripped by the evil consequences of slavery.\n\nThe American delegation introduced a resolution to the effect that further international action be advised. But as there was a feeling on the part of some of the delegations that this was carrying advice too far and might lead to separate and confusing proposals, it was withdrawn. It had served to develop the fact that the other Governments would look to the United States for further proposals for international action to control the production, trade in and abuse of opium.\n\nLooking broadly at the results achieved by the International Opium Commission, and considering that the United States has now proposed an international conference, this time with full powers to conventionalize the Shanghai resolutions and minor questions rising from them. * *\" (Pages 70-71).\n\n582", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 592, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "3.0.\n\n588\n\nIt Kong\n\nExtract K.\n\n(a) \"Resolutions 7 and 8 were introduced by the Chinese delegation, while resolutions 4 and 9 were introduced by the American delegation, and were passed in their original form.\" (Page 71).\n\n(b) \"Resolution 9 was proposed by the American delegation as the best method to stifle the uncontrolled sale by foreign pharmacists in China of anti-opium remedies containing opiates.\" (Page 72).\n\n12\n\n(i) The following is an extract from the Proceedings of the International Opium Commission (Vol. I, page 77). The resolution quoted is resolution No. 9 to which Dr. Wright refers:--\n\n\"Mr. Tang Kuo-an announced that during the interval he had held a consultation with Dr. Rossler and Dr. Hamilton Wright, and that by their suggestion he now wished to move the following in the place of his original resolution:- That the International Opium Commission recommends that each delegation move its Government to apply its pharmacy laws to its subjects in the consular districts, concessions and settlements in China.\"\n\n(ii) The following further extract (ibid, pages 51-52) refers to resolution No. 4:-\n\n\"DR. HAMILTON WRIGHT then moved the adoption of the fourth resolution.\n\n\"Sir CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH suggested that the words in the second paragraph of the resolution: \"which continue to produce opium, its alkaloids, derivatives, and preparations\": should be omitted. This would put the pressure not upon one country only but upon all countries. He also ventured to suggest to the United States delegation that the paragraph in question should read: \"it is the duty of all countries to adopt reasonable measures to prevent, etc.\"\n\n\"DR. HAMILTON WRIGHT accepted these amendments, and the resolution in its altered form was adopted unanimously by the House.\"\n\nG.B.P., Simla-No. 2541 Fin, D.-21-7-10.-13.-E.G.G,\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe U.S. 1.S.\n\n20.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Robila 6/9 Mr. Stuthy\n\nMr. Fuldes.\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nSir C. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nCol. Seely.\n\nLord Crewe.\n\nS\n\n26457/10 Eastun\n\n791? by pony\n\nI am\n\n5 Sept. in\n\nand to act the rut 14t\n\nhtter (po 28253/10) of the\n\n26 which Aug, transmitting\n\nA\n\naft & the rifle which it is\n\nproposed to when to the\n\nAntaraber biited States, with regard to\n\nA\n\nthe for sofferted Opmin\n\nComprence at the Stagne.\n\n2.\n\nJam to request you to mich\n\nLeety Sur Idlerand Grey that Low Treme\n\nConcurs\n\nMi the\n\nhims of the aft suply;\n\nthat his hardship agreem", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429343, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC\n\n# OPIUM\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[29029]\n\nNo. 1\n\nо\n\n79\n\n20643\n\n[August 10\n\nRace 16 SEP 10 SECTION 3.\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.~(Received August 10.)\n\nWITH reference this Office letter dated the 3rd August, 1910, on the subject\n\nIndia Office, August 9, 1910. of the proposed Opium Conference at The Hague, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward to you, to be laid before Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a letter from the Government of India enclosing a memorandum by Mr. J. B. Brunyate, C.I.E., on certain statements made in a report by Mr. Hamilton Wright on the proceedings of the Shanghai Opium Commission,\n\nViscount Morley desires to leave it to Sir Edward Grey to decide whether the memorandum should be referred to Sir Cecil C. Smith.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nR. RITCHIE.\n\nGovernment of India to Viscount Morley.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nSimla, July 21, 1910. IN continuation of our telegram dated the 4th July, 1910, we have the honour to submit, for your consideration, the memorandum therein referred to. It has been prepared, at our request, by Mr. J. B. Brunyate, CIE, the officer who represented India at the recent international commission at Shanghai, and it deals with certain incorrect statements as to the attitude and recommendations of that commission which are contained in a report by Mr. Hamilton Wright, one of the American delegates who attended it. We attach importance to the correction of the impression which these misrepresentations may have made on His Majesty's Government, more particularly in view of the fact that Mr. Wright's report has been made the basis of certain proposals for international action to which, in the interests of India, we object.\n\n2. We would suggest that Mr. Brunyate's memorandum be referred to the Right Honourable Sir Cecil Clementi Smith for his opinion or confirmation.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nMINTO.\n\nO'M. CREAGH,\n\nG. FLEETWOOD WILSON,\n\nS. P. SINHA.\n\nJ. L. JENKINS.\n\nR. W. CARLYLE.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Brunyate.\n\nAT the request of the Government of India, I record my impressions on the report on the International Opium Commission at Shanghai which has been submitted to the United States Government by Dr. Hamilton Wright, a representative of that Government on the commission. The report referred to is the section headed \"The International Opium Commission and its Results,\" which forms the concluding portion of a communication dated the 1st January, 1910, from Dr. Hamilton Wright to the American Secretary of State, and is reproduced on pp. 62-75 of the United States Government official paper \"Senate-sixty-first Congress, 2nd session, document No. 377.\"\n\n2. The tone of Dr. Wright's narrative 'departs so unexpectedly and so widely from the spirit which animated our discussions and findings at Shanghai that I should\n\n[2860 k -3]\n\nB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 468, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "• feltered by debt; & he informs me that it is impractical, impossible to have any thing out of his pay then with his Kept COPY 28.7.60.\n\nNo.914 Accts: } URGENT 452\n\nGOVERNMENT OF INDIA\n\nFINANCE DEPARTMENT (MILITARY FINANCE).\n\nSIMLA, 4th June, 1910.\n\nTO CAPTAIN P. H. M. TAYLOR,\n\n32nd Lancers,\n\nAide-de-Camp to His Excellency\n\nthe Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 11th February 1910 to the Comptroller, India Treasuries, on the subject of your leave and pension contributions, I am directed to say that the Government of India have decided as follows.\n\n(1) The claim for contributions in respect of leave will be waived, the effect of this being that you will be considered to have earned no leave at the expense of Indian revenues during your period of service in Hong Kong.\n\n(2) The contribution on account of pension will be levied at one-sixth of the actual pay of the appointment which you have been holding namely £300 a year, and the reduced amount will be recovered at that rate namely £50 per annum with effect from the 19th June 1907, which is understood to be the date on which you were relieved of your appointment in India, penal interest being waived, and recoveries of arrears being effected by instalments spread over 12 months.\n\n(3) For the latter purpose, the arrears will be held", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 611, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "594 which either haker LM the Tables formerly Toples (appended. pro of Ad red with vide with figure the prospective pension underwent he back should be es proved, can't (in total) pom Cha qthe Legion Tablag Mone d bach inth figures. will be how These full (tend spective become pensions simal. and apply pensions actually The prospective was bad in red with. to pro- which were payable the 31/12/1900] will Total be for only The prospective pensions dim uns had cording на 1*- Conseque Total will be ( M the ordinance, quence redus ch on of any ysalary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432562, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nSir,\n\nYour 22409 \n2417498. \nC \n33004 \n310 \nRec Real 12 OCT\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG, 6th September, 1911.\n\nIn reply to your Confidential Despatch of the 26th of last July, I have the honour to inform you that the volume in question was not printed at Government expense.\n\n2. Mr. C. Clementi forwarded on the 21st June a copy of the volume to the Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General \"R\" Section, Intelligence Branch, Division of the Chief of the Staff, Simla: and has sent his plans to the Royal Geographical Society.\n\n3. Upon the receipt of your Confidential Despatch of the 8th of last June, steps were taken to prevent in future any such oversight as that pointed out in the 3rd paragraph of your Despatch under reply for which I have to express my regret. I may, however, point out that there is nothing of a confidential nature in this correspondence, as Mr.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., \n&c., \n&c., \n&c...\n\nClementi's", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received June 16.)\n\nIndia Office, June 15, 1911.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to enclose, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a letter from the Government of India, calling attention to the spread of the cocaine habit in Burmah and other parts of India, and expressing the view that their efforts towards the suppression of the habit will be fruitless unless something is done to restrict the export of the drug and its congeners from the chief manufacturing countries. The information now supplied by the Government of India affords further evidence of the importance of bringing the morphia and cocaine questions before the proposed Opium Conference.\n\nMeanwhile I am to suggest that, with Sir E. Grey's permission, a copy of the Government of India's letter and enclosures might be communicated by your department to the Board of Trade with reference to previous correspondence regarding the trade in morphia and cocaine in this country, as to which it is understood that the Board of Trade are now making enquiries. A copy of the papers has been sent to the Colonial Office.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**ED. MONTAGU.**\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nGovernment of India to Viscount Morley.\n\nSimla, May 11, 1911.\n\nWE have the honour to invite your attention to the enclosed extracts of paragraph 43 of the report on the administration of the Excise Department in Burmah for the year 1909-10, and of paragraphs 6 and 5 respectively of the reviews thereof by the financial commissioner and lieutenant-governor, regarding the spread of the cocaine habit in that province.\n\n2. It will be observed that this pernicious habit is growing rapidly in Burmah, and that cocaine is said to be taking the place of opium in certain areas. The fact is viewed with considerable apprehension by the local authorities; but they despair of arresting the progress of the habit unless action is taken to stop the supply of cocaine at the sources from which it is imported into this country. As the financial commissioner points out, the difficulties in the detection of the smuggling of the drug are even greater than in the case of opium, inasmuch as in proportion of value to bulk and in portability it is superior to opium, while it has no strong smell which needs to be disguised.\n\n3. Since the year 1905 special restrictions have been imposed upon the import, possession, and sale of cocaine and its congeners in Burmah. Import and sale of the drugs have been wholly prohibited except under a licence from the local authorities, while their possession is permitted only in restricted quantities by (a) licensed vendors; (b) qualified medical practitioners in the exercise of their profession; and (c) private persons on the prescription of such practitioners. The import of the drugs through the post, which affords the readiest means of smuggling, has also been prohibited, and special powers have been conferred upon the postal authorities at the ports of entry (viz., Rangoon and Akyab) to search all postal articles in course of transmission which may be suspected to contain illicit drugs. In spite of all these precautions a very large illicit trade in cocaine is carried on, as will be seen from the following figures of seizures of the drug in Burmah for the periods named:\n\n| Period | Seizures |\n|------------|---------------|\n| 1907-08 | 490,885 grains |\n| 1908-09 | 389,636 |\n| 1909-10 | 939,685 |\n\nThis traffic the existing preventive establishments are unable to put a stop to,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435286, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nC [25602]\n\n(No. 104.)\n\nNo. 1. \n23533 \n[July 3.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n(Telegraphic.) R.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nForeign Office, July 3, 1911.\n\nGOVERNMENT of India telegram of 29th June: **Opium**.\n\nYou should bring the difficulty in respect to article to the notice of the Chinese Government, and request them to accept concurrent numbering of Bengal and Malwa chests for the current year.\n\n[2106c-1] \n65\n\n2. That of the quantity to be offered for sale each month not more than 1,360 chests will be Benares opium and not more than 1,260 chests Patna opium.\n\n3. That no reduction will be made in these quantities without three months' previous notice.\n\n**J. S. MESTON,**\nSecretary to the Government of India.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nSimla, June 27, 1910.\n\n**OPIUM.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## C O 23921\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[July 7]\n\n### SECTION 1\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.—(Received July 7.)\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of the Marquess of Crewe, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, with reference to India Office letter of the 3rd July, copy of enclosures in a letter from the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, dated the 15th June, 1911, relative to a Kachin rising against the Chinese.\n\nIndia Office, July 6, 1911.\n\n#### Enclosure in No. 1\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nGovernment of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nMY telegram, dated the 5th June.\n\nSimla, June 9, 1911.\n\nA report from His Majesty's consul, Tengyueh, states that he is informed that there is a considerable increase in the number of Kachins in revolt, and that about 800 troops of Hsunfangtui have gone to the spot. General Chang left Tengyueh on 1st instant, and consul is informed that general has arranged for the dispersal of Kachins. The Tengyueh Taotai has requested that steps may be taken to prevent Kachins escaping across frontier. Instructions are being sent to Deputy Commissioner, Bhamo, to take measures to discourage harbouring in his district of Kachins from disturbed area.\n\nPage 152", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n# OPIUM,\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nREGE20 OCT 11September 18.]\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n### Government of India to the Marquess of Crews.\n\nSimla, August 23, 1911. YOUR telegram of 14th August: Conference at The Hague on opium. Can you tell us what the business to be put before the conference will be? Its ostensible object was to be conventionalising of the Shanghai resolutions, but the detailed agenda originally suggested by the United States Government included a number of objectionable issues which we trust have been now eliminated. We also presume that the position of highest importance will be given to measures for stopping the illicit trade in cocaine and kindred drugs, which threaten greater evils to India than opium has ever caused, and which will become possibly substitutes for opium in China. International control over opium without corresponding restrictions over cocaine, morphia, and their congeners will be worse than useless. We have, however, little confidence in the motives or the judgment of some of the promoters of the conference, and there are two subjects which we will urge upon His Majesty's Government to insist on excluding from the recommendations of the conference: one is the arrangement regarding our Indian trade with China, the other is our domestic regulation of the production and use of opium in India. The working of the recent Peking agreement requires the most delicate handling, and China seems only too ready to seize on any excuse for making our position more difficult. The rapid disappearance of the trade, which is now inevitable, will strain severely the resources of British India and the temper of a number of our native States, where serious hardship must result. We would most strongly deprecate any enhancement of these difficulties by outside interference as regards our internal regulations. We shall shortly address you by despatch, but the question, which is associated with the gravest political and humanitarian considerations, is obviously one for the British Government alone, and it should be as clearly excluded from the recommendations of the proposed conference at The Hague as it was from those of the Shanghai Commission. On learning from you the probable agenda of the conference, we shall send you materials for our case by despatch, and we would urge that Indian interests should be represented strongly.\n\n[36537]\n\nPage 363\n\n(No. 343.) Sir,\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 18.)\n\nPeking, September 2, 1911. The Wai-wu Pu have recently approached me on several occasions with regard to the arrangements which we are prepared to make in conjunction with them for carrying out the fourth article of the Opium Agreement of the 8th May last, and have intimated to me their intention of undertaking an extensive investigation of the provinces with the view of determining how far the suppression of the cultivation and import of native opium may have entitled them to claim the exclusion of Indian opium under article 3 of the agreement.\n\nChihli and Fukien have been specially mentioned as provinces in which there is a strong popular demand for total abolition, and it is expected that the National Assembly, when it meets next month, will bring great pressure to bear upon the Government to have effect given to the resolution which it passed last session for the extinction of the opium trade within a limited period of time.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu are therefore naturally anxious to show that the agreement of 1911 is producing good results, and that they are ready to meet the wishes of any province which declares for exclusion.\n\nIn a note, copy of which I have the honour to enclose, they have requested me to inform them in due time of the steps we intend to take for the appointment of the necessary officials, and I have therefore the honour to submit for your consideration the following recommendations:\n\nNothing can be usefully done in the matter until next spring, when the poppy crop will be sufficiently advanced for the purpose of the investigation. There would be at least ten provinces which would require to be examined within a limited space of time, and I would suggest that consular officers should be detached from the larger consulates to do the work in company with the delegates appointed by the Chinese Government. The provinces of Shensi and Kansu, for instance, might be allotted to an officer from this legation; the consulate-general at Tien-tsin might spare a man to examine Chihli and Shantung; from Hankow an officer might be detached to inspect Hunan and Hupei, and the provinces in the vicinity of Shanghai might, if necessary, be examined by a member of the Shanghai consulate-general. Fukien would be assigned to the Foochow consulate.\n\nSir A. Hosie, who has performed most valuable services in connection with the whole question, should, I venture to suggest, direct and supervise all these various enquiries and devote his time generally to seeing that the agreement of 1911 is effectively carried out in the interests of India. The Chinese Government are impatient of any delay on our part in giving effect to the wishes of the provinces, and consider that we have been most unreasonable in refusing to entertain their first application under article 3 until the restrictions mentioned in article 7 were removed. That these restrictions will be renewed and continued in one form or another, so long as Indian opium is imported, is a moral certainty, and Sir A. Hosie's presence here and his personal knowledge of the question are of the greatest assistance to me in dealing with the vast mass of correspondence which reaches the legation from the opium merchants, the Hong Kong Government, and the consuls at the ports on this vexed and complicated question. I trust, therefore, that sanction will be given to his retention here for the present.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n[2182 s--2]\n\n--2]\n\n47\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435840, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[38656]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRECO\n\nCO33819\n\nRroe20 OCT robebber 3.]\n\nSACTION 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.- (Received October 3.)\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office, October 2, 1911. IN continuation of Mr. Montagu's letter of the 30th June last on the subject of the arrangements for numbering the chests of opium exported from India, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to forward, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a letter from the Government of India of the 31st August, 1911.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nLIONEL ABRAHAMS.\n\nGovernment of India to the Marquess of Crewe.\n\nMy Lord Marquess,\n\nSimla, August 31, 1911. WE have the honour to refer to our telegram dated the 29th June, 1911, on the subject of the consecutive numbering of opium chests in accordance with the provisions of clause 1 of article 8 of the recent opium agreement with China.\n\n2. We have now arranged to mark the chests of Malwa opium exported to China in 1912 with consecutive numbers from 1 to 14,980, and those of Bengal opium with numbers from 14,981 onwards. It has not been found possible to number the Calcutta and Bombay chests in one series according to the date of export, but we trust that with the proposed arrangement the identification of chests will present no difficulty.\n\n3. In this connection we would invite attention to paragraph 2 of Sir John Jordan's despatch No. 286 dated the 14th July, 1911 (a copy of which has been forwarded to us direct), and would observe that we should be glad to communicate to Mr. Aglen, the acting inspector-general of the Imperial Maritime Customs, China, any information that he may require to facilitate the identification of chests exported to that country from India.\n\nA copy of this despatch is being communicated to Sir John Jordan,\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nHARDINGE OF PENSHURST.\n\nO'M. CREAGH.\n\nG. FLEETWOOD WILSON.\n\nJ. L. JENKINS.\n\nR. W. CARLYLE,\n\nS. H. BUTLER.\n\nW. H. CLARK.\n\n[2226 c-1]\n\nPage 49\n\n \n...\n\nPage 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435907, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[October 23.]\n\nSECTION 1\n\n[41769]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nCO 36988\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.--(Received October 23.)\n\nSir,\n\nRES17 NOV 11 India Office, October 21, 1911\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Langley's letter, dated the 14th August, enclosing copy of a telegram from Sir J. Jordan, No. 174, dated the 11th August, regarding the contemplated prohibition by the Chinese Government of the import of prepared opium into China, I am directed to forward, for the observations of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a letter from the Government of India, dated the 28th September, enclosing copy of a letter from Messrs. David Sassoon and Co., and other opium merchants, complaining of the absence of any restrictions on such importation.\n\nI am,\n\n&c.\n\nJ. W. HOLDERNESS.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment of India to India Office.\n\nSimla, September 28, 1911.\n\nI AM directed to forward a copy of a letter, dated the 10th August, 1911, from Messrs. David Sassoon and Co. and other opium merchants, in which they complain of the absence of any restriction on the importation of prepared opium into China, and express the fear that uncertified opium will, in these circumstances, readily effect an entrance. I am to suggest that, with the permission of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for India, it may be ascertained whether any precautions are, or can be, taken to keep out such imports.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nJAS. MESTON.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nJoint Letter addressed to Government of India.\n\nBombay, August 10, 1911.\n\nWE have the honour to address you with reference to a circular recently issued by the Inspector-General of Peking to all the Commissioners of Customs, notifying increase of duty and li-kin on prepared opium.\n\nThe text of the circular is as follows:-\n\n\"Collect on boiled opium arriving, no matter whether from foreign or Chinese ports, import duty and li-kin at the rate of 200 Haikwan taels and 500 Haikwan taels respectively per 100 catties, and on boiled opium exported, similarly irrespective of origin or destination, an export duty of 460 Haikwan taels per 100 catties. 'In fixing these new duty rates the same principle which decided the old rates has been adhered to, viz., that of doubling the rate for the crude article, and further that, in future, as hitherto, boiled opium not exceeding 10 taels weight for personal use may be carried by travellers duty free both inwards and outwards.'\n\nWe make no comment on the enhancement of li-kin and duty, but what we are most anxious to bring to your immediate attention is the fact that no restriction is imposed upon the quantities of prepared opium that may be taken in and out of China. It will be readily seen that this has a most important bearing upon the position of certified Bengal opium. Uncertified opium is, in its raw state, debarred from entry, yet in accordance with the notification of the Inspector-General buyers\n\n[2226 -1]\n\n110", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nTo\n\n10\n\n4\n\nREC?\n\n16 JUN 11\n\nR&S 332\n\n1392\n\n1911.\n\nNo. 26 of 1911.\n\nGOVERNMENT OF INDIA.\n\nDEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.\n\nEXCISE.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE VISCOUNT MORLEY OF BLACKBURN, K.G.,\n\nHis Majesty's Secretary of State for India.\n\nSimla, the 11th May 1911.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nWe have the honour to invite your attention to the enclosed extracts of paragraph 43 of the Report on the Administration of the Excise Department in Burma for the year 1909-10 and of paragraphs 6 and 5, respectively, of the reviews thereof by the Financial Commissioner and the Lieutenant-Governor, regarding the spread of the cocaine habit in that province.\n\n2. It will be observed that this pernicious habit is growing rapidly in Burma and that cocaine is said to be taking the place of opium in certain areas. The fact is viewed with considerable apprehension by the local authorities; but they despair of arresting the progress of the habit unless action is taken to stop the supply of cocaine at the sources from which it is imported into this country. As the Financial Commissioner points out, the difficulties in the detection of the smuggling of the drug are even greater than in the case of opium, inasmuch as in proportion of value to bulk and in portability it is superior to opium, while it has no strong smell which needs to be disguised.\n\n3. Since the year 1905 special restrictions have been imposed upon the import, possession and sale of cocaine and its congeners in Burma. Import and sale of the drugs have been wholly prohibited except under a license from the local authorities, while their possession is permitted only in restricted quantities by (a) licensed vendors, (b) qualified medical practitioners in the exercise of their profession, and (c) private persons on the prescription of such practitioners. The import of the drugs through the post, which affords the readiest means of smuggling, has also been prohibited, and special powers have been conferred upon the postal authorities at the ports of entry (viz., Rangoon and Akyab) to search all postal articles in course of transmission which may be suspected to contain illicit drugs. In spite of all these precautions a very large illicit trade in cocaine is carried on, as will be seen from the figures of seizures of the drug in Burma during the years 1907-08 to 1909-10 quoted in the margin.\n\n \n \n 1907-08\n 1908-09\n 1909-10\n \n \n Grains.\n $90,885\n 989,636\n 939,685\n \n\nThis traffic the existing preventive establishments are unable to put a stop to.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436181, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.\n\nDept. of Commerce and Industry.\n\nEXCISE.\n\nF. & S. 1382.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\n16 JUN 1911\n\n15 June 1911.\n\nFROM\n\nTHE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,\n\nTo\n\nTHE SECY. OF STATE FOR INDIA.\n\nNo. 26 OF 1911.\n\nDated Simla, the 11th May 1911.\n\nReceived\n\nProposed adoption of measures to restrict the supply of cocaine to India from the countries from which it is exported.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to enclose, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a letter from the Government of India calling attention to the spread of the cocaine habit in Burma and other parts of India, and expressing the view that their efforts towards the suppression of the habit will be fruitless unless something is done to restrict the export of the drug and its congeners from the chief manufacturing countries. The information now supplied by the Government of India affords further evidence of the importance of bringing the morphia and cocaine question before the proposed Opium Conference.\n\nMeanwhile I am to suggest that, with Sir B. Grey's permission, a copy of the Government of India's letter be sent to the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office.\n\nG. C. B. P., Simla.-No. C-15 O. & I. D2--6-5-11.-96—B.C.O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "16\n\n22934A\n\nEnclosure No. 5.]\n\nExtract paragraph 57 of the Bombay Excise Administration Report for the year 1909-10.\n\n57.\n\nIllicit transport, possession and sale (of intoxicating drugs) show an increase of 124 cases chiefly in Bombay (193). The increase in Bombay was due to the fact that 221 cases of illicit transport, possession and sale of cocaine were detected during the year under report against 34 in the previous year. The very large increase in the number of such cases detected is due to the system of night patrols introduced in the cocaine hawking areas. In Surat and Ahmedabad the number of such cases detected was 7 and 3, respectively. This deadly drug is yet happily unknown to the people in several districts.\n\nEnclosure No. 6.]\n\nExtract paragraph 10 of the Resolution by the Government of Bombay No. 629, dated the 21st January 1911.\n\n10. The Excise staff have had increased success in the detection of illicit dealings in cocaine though these efforts are hampered by defects in the law and regulations. These defects are in the course of being removed, but no real progress can be made in suppressing this pernicious traffic until assistance is obtained from the countries where the drug is produced.\n\nG. C. B. P., Simla—No. 049 C.&I, D.—6-5-11,—–96--Q.P.\n\n1911\n\ndia offic\n\nDate.\n\n12 July\n\nNG KONG\n\n22934\n\n22934\n\nOpening reed by countries other than China\n\nIt is desired to estimate the annual requirements of countries in the appended list\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nfou. 2244.\n\nIt is thought that particulars may be furnished\n\nfor Straits\n\nFur. 2.0.\n\n223\n\nlogit 203\n\nMs. Apr. 26\n\nJuly\n\n26 July\n\nm\n\n23 Mom you. 36009/«\n\n5 39 34 A\n\nDome.\n\n£7...\n\nCopy\n\ndx3\n\n(89419). Wt.28,032--50. 40,000. 11/10. ▲.AE.W.\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\n0.23910,\n\nlo 22954\n\nA\n\nMr. Stutt Collin.\n\nThis information must be obtained locally\n\n7\n\nZ\n\nmust be turned\n\n7\n\nCopy to SS, Ceylon & HK.\n\nreport.\n\nL.F.F. for enquiry\n\nYou. 313044.E.AP.\n\nbr.\n\n7.31607. Compar\n\nThen to East African Dept.\n\nDominions D\n\nRow\n\n14/7.\n\nIn Fiddes\n\nIt is odd that they have omitted Hongkong, leading to Ceylon, Straits, Hongkong, Wei-hai-wei, Mauritius, S. Africa & Australia.\n\nJune 362 39. 11.\n\nDome\n\nYou. 3660 in this asking\n\na\n\nrepat\n\nM\n\nthe subject are for", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438946, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "content_text": "Page 247\n\nSimla, 13th May, 1903.\n\nTo\n\nThe Adjutant General in India.\n\nSir,\n\n**MEMORANDUM**\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1260 B, dated the 9th May, 1903, recommending that certain Non-Commissioned Officers and men who took their discharge from the Hongkong Regiment on the disbandment of that corps may be allowed to re-enlist in the 5th Bengal Infantry now being reconstructed, on the following terms:-\n\n(a) That the former service in the Hongkong Regiment and Indian Army (if any) be allowed to count for good conduct pay and pensions, and that they be granted the concessions laid down in Government General Order 1005 of 1902, para. vi (1) (a), (b) & (c) on the understanding that they refund any gratuity which they may have received on discharge.\n\n(b) In order that their service may be continuous that their re-enlistment have effect from the 1st December, 1902, and that they be granted as on furlough from that date to the date of their actually joining the 5th Bengal Infantry.\n\n(c) That men unwilling or unable to refund the gratuity should not be granted the above concessions under (a) and (b) but that they be regarded as new enlistments in all respects.\n\n2. In reply I am to state that the Government of India sanction the above proposals.\n\nI am etc.,\n\n(Sd.) M. H. S. Grover,\n\nOffg. Dp. Secty. to the Government of India.\n\nPage 247\n\n \n(To accompany Enclosure 1.)\n\n247", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438948, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n10611/2 (A.G.10).\n\nGovernment of India,\n\nArmy Department,\n\nSimla, the 15th July, 1912.\n\nSir,\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nI am directed to inform you that a copy of your letter No. 934/12, dated the 8th March, 1912, and enclosures, regarding the grant of a pension to Ismail Khan, a Constable in the Hongkong Police Force, in respect of his previous service as a Private in the late Hongkong Regiment, is being forwarded for disposal to the Most Honourable the Secretary of State for India to whom any further communication on the subject should accordingly be addressed.\n\nI am etc.,\n\n(Sd.) R. Graham,\n\nMajor, for Offg. Secretary to the Government of India.\n\nPage 249\n\nPage 249\n\nPage 249", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440705, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n**OPIUM.** \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n`[34581]` \n\n## No. 1. \n## [August 16.] \n### SECTION 3.\n\nSir, \n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received August 16.) \nIndia Office, August 15, 1912. WITH reference to your letter dated the 26th July, 1912, on the subject of the restriction of direct opium shipments from India to Macao, I am directed to forward, to be laid before Secretary Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a despatch from the Government of India on the general question of restricting the exports of uncertified opium. \n\nI am to say that the Marquess of Crewe would be glad to receive any observations on the letter that Secretary Sir Edward Grey may wish to offer. \n\nIt may be remarked that the question of prohibiting or restricting the direct export of opium from India to a particular country, whether at the request of the country or on the ground that the traffic is mainly for contraband purposes, is distinct from the question of fixing a limit to the aggregate amount of opium which may be exported during the year to all countries other than China. With regard to the latter question the limit for 1913 has not yet been fixed. With regard to the former question, the Marquess of Crewe has already accepted the principle that if any country prohibits or restricts the import of opium, export of opium from India will, on the application of the Government concerned and in co-operation with it, be prohibited or restricted to a like extent. \n\nA copy of the Government of India's letter has been communicated to the Colonial Office. \n\nI am, &c. \nR. RITCHIE.\n\n39\n\n## Government of India to the Marquess of Crewe.\n\nMy Lord Marquess, \n\nSimla, July 18, 1912. OUR attention has been drawn to the telegram No. 120, dated the 29th May, 1912, from His Majesty's Minister at Peking to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, of which a copy was forwarded with Sir Thomas Holderness's letter dated the 7th June, 1912. In that telegram Sir John Jordan remarked, referring to the smuggling of uncertified Indian opium into China, that \"the remedy seems to lie with the Government of India.' \n\n2. We are deeply sensible of the debt which India owes to the firm advocacy by Sir John Jordan of her legitimate claims, and to the zeal with which he has endeavoured to insist on the performance by the Chinese Government of its treaty obligations. We are aware that at the present time the situation is such that his task is particularly difficult, and we can understand that the smuggling of uncertified opium is a factor which must tend still further to increase his difficulties. We are very reluctant therefore to take exception to any remark made by Sir John Jordan on the merits of any part of the opium question. Nevertheless, we feel unable to allow the above statement to pass unchallenged. We should regard it as most unfortunate if it should appear to your Lordship that the efforts of Sir John Jordan are in any way hampered by the acts or omissions of the Government of India, and we feel that we must firmly repudiate the notion that we are either responsible for, or able to remedy, the smuggling of Indian opium into China. \n\n3. The nature of the particular measure which Sir John Jordan would like us to apply will be gathered from the following sentence in his letter No. 220, dated the 9th May, 1912, to the Foreign Office. \"The fact that seizures of uncertificated opium are being made is sufficient proof that its annual export from India, reduced though it was to 14,000 chests in 1911, is still in excess of the requirements of non-Chinese markets, and I cannot urge too strongly the desirability of reducing the export to the actual needs \n\n`[2604 q-3]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[37575]\n\nNo. 1\n\nC. O.\n\n[September 6]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.--(Received September 6)\n\nIndia Office, September 5, 1912. WITH reference to your letter of the 23rd July last, I am directed to forward for the information of Sir E. Grey a copy of a letter from the Financial Secretary to the Government of India regarding \"touch\" opium.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment of India to India Office.\n\nSimla, August 15, 1912. I AM directed to refer to paragraph 2 of Sir John Jordan's despatch to the Foreign Office No. 287, dated the 6th July, 1912, a copy of which has been received direct from Peking, and to say that the Government of India have decided not to allow the export of \"touch\" opium to China in future. A copy of this letter is being communicated to Sir John Jordan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. F. HOWARD.\n\n[2644 ƒ-1]\n\n105", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440808, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## reduce the number of opium shops and divans by as many as eight per annum, but I find no proof of this clause having been acted on.\n\n10. With regard to the regulation and restriction of opium smoking in Macao not very much has been done. The preamble of Ordinance No. 21 of the 23rd February, 1910, quoted above, says: \"It being also necessary in conformity with their official instructions to adopt certain measures to restrict the use of opium,\" &c., and this is followed by twenty-six articles, of which I may call attention to the following:--\n\nArticle 6, § 1. The number of balls of opium boiled annually for consumption in Macao and its dependencies shall be fixed by the Government, and no more than the number allowed shall be permitted to be boiled.\n\nArticle 7, § 1. The number of opium shops and opium divans shall be fixed by the Government.\n§ 3. The sale of prepared opium is forbidden to women and persons under 16 years under heavy penalties.\n\nArticle 19. Smoking in private houses shall only be permitted to persons who have obtained a licence from the Government and paid an annual fee of 1 dollar.\n\n1. These licences shall only be granted during the first year of the opium farmer's contract. No new licences shall be granted during the second and subsequent years of the contract, but the existing licences may be renewed.\n$ 2. Such licences must not be given to women or children.\n\nAs already stated, the number of balls to be boiled for local consumption was fixed by the Government at 500 chests, or 20,000 balls, for the first year of the present contract, 450 chests, or 18,000 balls, for the second, and 405 chests, or 16,200 balls for the third year, which commences on the 1st August next.\n\nI cannot hear of anyone who has taken out a smoking licence, neither can I hear of anyone having been prosecuted for smoking without such a licence, so, unless my information is incorrect, this rule has always been a dead letter.\n\n11. I cannot hear of any steps having been taken to cure opium smokers in Macao of their habit.\n\n12. The main sources of income of the Macao Government are the Fantan and Lottery monopolies, which now bring in 1,000,000 dollars a-year between them. I have not heard of any new source of revenue mooted, and it would almost seem as if the authorities did not anticipate being deprived of the opium revenue for some time to come. I may mention, however, that the recent increase in the revenue from the gambling monopolies would more than compensate for the loss of the opium farmer's annual payment.\n\n13. As regards the Government's attitude towards the opium question, I believe that the present authorities are quite sincere in their desire honourably to carry out their treaty obligations, and that they have no wish to encourage opium smuggling on the part of the farmer or any one else; but there is so little business of any kind in Macao, that the authorities are most anxious to foster the trade in boiled opium to Mexico.\n\nAbove all, the Government is badly in need of funds; consequently, if it is true that they look forward to letting out the opium farm a year hence at a very large increase on the present figure, it is hardly likely that they will introduce or accept any very drastic repressive measures, which would be sure to reduce the profits and therefore lower the rental value of the opium monopoly.\n\nThree years ago, when the United States of America closed their doors to the importation of prepared opium, the then opium farmer was unable to keep up his payments, which at that time amounted to 334,000 dollars per annum, and was obliged to throw up his contract. The preparation of opium for local consumption had then to be carried on by the Macao Government, and they are no doubt anxious to avoid taking any steps that might lead to a repetition of that experience.\n\nWhen the question of importing uncertificated opium came up last year the Macao authorities, of their own accord, decided to keep this commodity under Government control, and passed special regulations which I considered were as restrictive as we could reasonably expect. If these regulations have not worked satisfactorily in practice, the fault does not lie with the rules or with the authorities that made them, and their failure must, in my opinion, be attributed to the remissness or connivance of ill-paid underlings.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**SMOLLETT CAMPBELL.**\n\n33132\n\n**OPIUM.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nREC October 2.\n\nREG 21 OCT 12\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n142\n\n[41324]\n\n## No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 2.) (No. 373.) Sir,**\n\nPeking, September 17, 1912. WITH reference to my despatch No. 287 of the 6th July last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter addressed to this legation by the officiating secretary to the Government of India forwarding a copy of a letter addressed by him to the Secretary, Revenue and Statistics Department, India Office, stating that the Government of India have decided not to allow the export of \"touch\" opium to China in future.\n\nI have communicated this decision to the Wai-chiao Pu to-day.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN.**\n\n## Government of India to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nSimla, August 16, 1912. WITH reference to paragraph 2 of Sir John Jordan's despatch No. 287, dated the 6th July, 1912, to the Foreign Office, I am directed to forward a copy of letter dated the 15th August, 1912, which has been addressed to the India Office on the subject of the export of \"touch\" opium to China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**H. F. HOWARD, Officiating Secretary.**\n\nGovernment of India to India Office.\n\nSir,\n\nSimla, August 15, 1912. I AM directed to refer to paragraph 2 of Sir John Jordan's despatch No. 287, dated the 6th July, 1912, to the Foreign Office, a copy of which has been received direct from Peking, and to say that the Government of India have decided not to allow the export of \"touch\" opium to China in future. A copy of this letter is being communicated to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**H. F. HOWARD.**\n\nOfficiating Secretary.\n\n[2660 b--2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## APPENDIX II.\n\n(Authorising search for intoxicating drugs passing through the post, paragraphs 22 and 35 of Despatch.)\n\nNo. 717-79, dated Calcutta, the 4th February 1911.\n\n**Notification by the Government of India, Department of Commerce and Industry.**\n\nIn exercise of the powers conferred by section 25 of the Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (VI of 1898), the Governor General in Council is pleased to empower, with effect from the 1st June 1911, the officers noted in the margin to search, or cause search to be made, for-\n\nThe officers are:\n| S.No. | Officer |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The Mail Officer for the time being in charge of the Bombay, Aden Sea Post Office. |\n| (2) | Postmaster and Deputy Postmaster at Karachi. |\n| (3) | The Presidency Postmaster, the Deputy Postmaster and the Assistant Postmasters at Bombay. |\n| (4) | The Presidency Postmaster, the Deputy Postmaster, and the Assistant Postmasters at Madras, |\n| (5) | The Postmaster and the Deputy Postmaster at Tuticorin. |\n| (6) | The Presidency Postmaster, the Deputy Postmaster, and the Assistant Postmasters at Calcutta. |\n| (7) | The Postmaster, the Deputy Postmaster, and the Assistant Postmasters at Rangoon. |\n| (8) | The Postmaster at Akyab, |\n| (9) | The Postmaster at Negapatam. |\n\n(1) opium and all alkaloids of opium and all intoxicating drugs made from the poppy;\n\n(2) ganja, bhang and charas and every intoxicating drink or substance prepared from any part of the hemp plant (`Cannabis sativa`).\n\n(3) coca leaves, alkaloids of coca, every other intoxicating drink or substance prepared from the coca plant (`Erythroxylon coca`) and all drugs, synthetic or other, having a like physiological effect to that of cocaine;\n\n(4) all preparations and admixtures of any of the above, the bringing of which by sea or by land into British India is prohibited by Notification No. 720-99, dated the 4th February 1911, in course of transmission by post to any place in British India, and to direct that the said officers shall deliver all such articles found to the nearest officer for the time being in charge of the Excise Administration, and that the articles shall be disposed of in accordance with the rules for the time being in force relating to the drugs and substances referred to above, confiscated under the provisions of the Excise law in force for the time being in the part of British India in which the actual delivery of the articles so found was made to the Excise officer aforesaid.\n\n2. The Notifications of the Government of India in this Department, No. 9249, dated the 29th November 1906, No. 7098-91, dated the 23rd August 1907, and No. 8574-119, dated the 18th November 1909 (as amended by Notifications No. 742-119, dated the 28th January 1910, and No. 3024-82, dated the 23rd April 1910), and rules 174, 175 and 177 of the rules issued with the notification of the Government of India, No. 7397-225 of the 5th August 1908, are hereby cancelled, with effect from the 1st June 1911.\n\nG. C. B. P., Simla,-No. 272 F. in D.-26-10-11.-10.-C.O.8.\n\n461", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# \n1. In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, \n(5) \"Opium\" means the inspissated juice of the poppy, and includes madak and chandu and all preparations or admixtures of opium and intoxicating drugs prepared from the poppy, but it does not include poppyheads.\n\n(9) \"Morphia and its preparations when sold in any quantity not exceeding 10 grains in weight, shall be deemed to be sold by 'retail'; and when sold in any larger quantity shall be deemed to be sold 'wholesale';\"\n\n(11) \"Licensed vendor\", used with reference to opium, means a person to whom a license for the retail sale of opium, other than preparations or admixtures of opium used for smoking, has been granted under these rules by the Collector.\n\n(12) \"Licensed druggist\" means a person to whom the Collector has granted, free of charge, a license for the retail sale of opium, other than preparations or admixtures of opium used for smoking, for medicinal purposes only.\n\n## MANUFACTURE\n4. (4) A licensed druggist may, subject to the conditions of his license, manufacture opium, other than preparations or admixtures of opium used for smoking, in quantities not exceeding those specified in rule 5, sub-rule (3), for medicinal purposes.\n\n## POSSESSION\n5. (1) Any person may possess \n(6) Morphia and its preparations to an amount not exceeding 10 grains in weight; Provided that such preparations or admixtures of opium have been manufactured from opium bought from a farmer or licensed vendor or from a licensed druggist.\n\n(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), the Collector may, by general or special order in writing, authorize any person to possess opium in quantities not exceeding such weight as may be specified in the order.\n\n(3) A licensed druggist may, subject to the conditions of his license, possess opium, other than preparations or admixtures of opium used for smoking, not exceeding one seer in weight.\n\n## SALE\n7. (2) A licensed druggist may, subject to the conditions of his license, sell opium, other than preparations or admixtures of opium used for smoking, by retail for medicinal purposes only.\n\n## IMPORT, EXPORT AND TRANSPORT\n17. The Government may import, export or transport opium on its own account.\n\n18. (ii) He shall procure his preparations or admixtures of opium either by importing them or by preparing them himself.\n\n19. (1) Any person may personally import, export or transport, without a pass or the payment of any duty, opium in quantities which he is entitled to possess.\n\n(2) Subject to the limits of possession laid down in rule 5, sub-rule (3), a licensed druggist may, with the special permission of the Collector, import for medicinal purposes opium other than preparations or admixtures of opium used for smoking from such places and in such manner and in such quantity as may be prescribed in a permit granted to him for this purpose.\n\n19 (1) A person authorized by a general or special order in writing of the Collector to possess opium in quantities exceeding those specified in rule 5, sub-rule (1) may import opium to the extent to which he is authorized to possess the same, subject to such conditions and by such routes as the Collector may, by general or special order, from time to time prescribe.\n\n21. The transport of opium, other than preparations or admixtures of opium used for smoking, in quantities exceeding those specified in rule 5, sub-rule (1), may be permitted under a pass granted by the Collector and subject to the conditions contained therein.\n\nG. C. B. P., Simla. -No. 272 FinD,-31-10-11-10-1.D.\n\n471", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## APPENDIX V\n\nExtract section 19 of the Sea Customs Act, 1878, VIII of 1878.\n\n(Paragraph 29 of Despatch.)\n\n19. The Governor-General in Council may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India, prohibit or restrict the bringing or taking by sea or by land goods of any specified description into or out of British India or any specified part of British India.\n\n| Substance | 1909-10 | 1908-09 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Morphine pure | lbs. ozs. | lbs. ozs. |\n| Morphine hydro-chlorate | 284 12 | 263 8 |\n| Morphine acetate | 0 10 | 0 1 |\n| Morphine tartrate | 62 11 | 62 11 |\n| Codeia | | |\n\nFor reorystalisation | 1 | \nMessrs. Burgoyne Burbridges and Co., London. | 170 | \nMedical stores and dispensaries | 160 | 72 \nEuropean and Native druggists | 42 | \nFor manufacture of morphia acetate | 52 | 11 \nLoss on account of moisture | 3 1 | 40 8 \nTots | | \n\nG. C. B. P. Simla-No. 272 Fin D≈ 4-11-11-—-—10—H.C.8.L. \nG. C. B. P., Simla No. 272 Fin. D.-4-11-11-10~H4&L \n\nPa \nN \n{ \n473", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441163, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# APPENDIX\n\nStatement showing the number of licenses issued for the sale of cocaine and its admixtures, and the quantities dealt with under them during the year 1909-10.\n\n| Name of province | Number of licenses issued | Quantities seized in cocaine cases | Quantities sold | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Bengal | 273 (a) | 28 lbs. 7 oz. of pure cocaine 10 lbs. 5 oz. of admixtures | 495 | (a) Includes one license for the sale of novocain. |\n| Eastern Bengal and Assam | 68 | (e) | (e) | |\n| United Provinces | 131 (b) | 2 oz. of cocaine hydrochlor. in dry state. 1 oz. of solution of cocaine hydrochlor. | 37 lbs. 2 oz. 1 dr. 28 grs. | (b) Of these 51 were for possession only and 80 for possession and sale. |\n| Punjab | 90 | (e) | 2 lbs. 10 oz. 3 drs. 21 oz. | |\n| North-West Frontier Province | 14 | (e) | (e) | |\n| Madras | (e) | (e) | 5 lbs. 5 oz. 3 drs. 47 grs. | |\n| Bombay and Sind | 444 | 1 oz. | 8 lbs. 8 oz. 5 drs. 41 grs. | (c) Represents quantity imported. (d) Represents quantity consumed, the quantity imported being 74 lbs. 8 oz. |\n| Central Provinces and Berar | (e) | (c) | 44 lbs. 9 oz. 1 dr. 40 grs. | |\n| Burma | 36 | (e) | 163 lbs. 1 oz. o drs. 25 grs. | (7) The figures are approximate. |\n| Coorg | (4) | Nil. | ... | |\n| Ajmer-Merwara | 3 | (d) | 3 grs. | |\n| Baluchistan | (e) | (e) | (e) | |\n| | 26 | 5 lbs. 10 oz. (f) | 1 lb. 9 oz. 9 drs. 10 grs. | |\n| | | | 28 grs. | |\n\nQ. C, B. P., Simla.-No. 209 C & I, D.-13-9-11—50 ~C.B.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# To 320 \nNo. 201 OP 1913. \n2454 \n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.** \n1912. \n**FINANCE DEPARTMENT.** \n**SEPARATE REVENUE.** \nOpium, \n507 \nne \n**THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS OF CREWE.** XC15 C \nHis Majesty's Secretary of State for India. \n\nSimla, the 18th July 1912. \n\n## MY LORD MARQUIS, \n\nOur attention has been drawn to the telegram No. 120, dated the 29th May 1912, from His Majesty's Minister at Pekin to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, of which a copy was forwarded with Sir Thomas Holderness' letter No. `R. and S. 1673`, dated the 7th June 1912. In that telegram Sir John Jordan remarked, referring to the smuggling of uncertified Indian opium into China, that \"the remedy seems to lie with the Government of India.\" \n\n2. We are deeply sensible of the debt which India owes to the firm advocacy by Sir John Jordan of her legitimate claims, and to the zeal with which he has endeavoured to insist on the performance by the Chinese Government of its treaty obligations. We are aware that at the present time the situation is such that his task is particularly difficult, and we can understand that the smuggling of uncertified opium is a factor which must tend still further to increase his difficulties. We are very reluctant therefore to take exception to any remark made by Sir John Jordan on the merits of any part of the opium question. Nevertheless, we feel unable to allow the above statement to pass unchallenged. We should regard it as most unfortunate if it should appear to your Lordship that the efforts of Sir John Jordan are in any way hampered by the acts or omissions of the Government of India, and we feel that we must firmly repudiate the notion that we are either responsible for, or able to remedy, the smuggling of Indian opium into China. \n\n3. The nature of the particular measure which Sir John Jordan would like us to apply will be gathered from the following sentence in his letter No. 220, dated the 9th May 1912, to the Foreign Office. \"The fact that seizures of uncertificated opium are being made is sufficient proof that its annual export from India, reduced though it was to 14,000 chests in 1911, is still in excess of the requirements of non-Chinese markets, and I cannot urge too strongly the desirability of reducing the export to the actual needs of countries outside China, for smuggling with its attendant evils will continue until the necessary steps are taken at the fountain head.\" We consider that this argument contains a non sequitur. We admit the desirability of the measure proposed by Sir John Jordan: in point of fact we have already carried it into effect. But it seems clear to us that the restriction of exports of uncertified opium cannot in itself put a stop to smuggling and it is incorrect, therefore, in our opinion to regard the existence of smuggling as any proof that these exports continue to be in excess of the requirements of non-China markets. We deal with these points separately in the following paragraphs. \n\n4. The quantity of non-certified opium notified for export in the current year is 13,200 chests. From our telegram No. `6779-F. E.`, dated the 3rd November 1911, it will be seen that this amount was suggested by us in pursuance of our policy of assisting China in her anti-opium campaign, although, as we stated in the telegram, the data then at our disposal would have justified our taking a somewhat higher figure for the normal and genuine requirements of the non-China markets. The further statistics subsequently forwarded with your Revenue Secretary's letters Nos. `R. and S. 2946`, `3115`, `3198` and `3173` and `3214`, dated ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "183\n\nrequest that my case may kindly be put before His Excellency for favourable consideration that my service which I had done in Hong Kong Regiment under Imperial Government may kindly be counted towards pension, for this act of kindness I shall ever pray and shall be most grateful for your long life and prosperity.\n\nFurther, I beg respectfully to bring to your kind notice that in the case of any other man put the similar case, they have no claim, save 6 men who have served in the Hong Kong Regiment.\n\nYour most obedient and humble Servant,\n\nFrom\n\n(Sd.) Ismail Khan,\n\nNo.725, Police Constable.\n\nDated Simla, the 13th May 1903.\n\nTo\n\nColonel M.H.S.Grover,\n\nOfficiating Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Military Department.\n\nThe Adjutant-General in India.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.1260-3, dated the 9th May 1903, recommending that certain non-commissioned officers and men who took their discharge from the Hong Kong Regiment on the disbandment of that corps may be allowed to re-enlist in the 5th Bengal Infantry now being reconstructed, on the following terms :-\n\n(a)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "SSI\n\nod Torrevod erit .E.H mort margeist ebon to noidalamaTT\n\n„NIEI,Jungwa Njël betek etate to yisteroe8 enj\n\n123\n\n!\n\n!\n\nberedtsc) noidstogto) pnianed isdyred2 kns ynożynoɑ\n\n.bti sibal to dnad slitnaotell bus animo bus ailaztani akbal to dusƐ\n\nto aeronend ana dotie arıit Insol noisebrisq avoiosty yd Jadt zeď\n\nof rebro ni saeniaud amitnos of bewolis ad of oriqué namieð ni emrit\n\ntrebnu era doków ynolo0 ni mdooje vient to asoqɛió of madt sidane sbeeooïq dneverq of abraugeisa reban oshiento bre else toi JosiÍNOD goissessoq mi becslg ed of aboog IIA .now edt zniwb geoxynol gnivsel\n\nyrevileb no deso adnud yd berevileb ed of mined benoidnem svode to Laioege of aed otni yeq of exatebru IIiw monil etiqadi meorted Xiao .berevileb ylevolverq abooy to Joeqası ni bevisner yenom IIs ajrwovos wen tot adqłever oals has Byenom tlova nister of exatrebro IIiw edosa ritiw emoyna of To amit eriqë narrel od đưo yag od don bna setevifob of nonol to Jnewsnevoð -groznol! To Fremrievod to ydirodīdus duo\n\nbowa writt daijing of sɛembeddebni to eyidbeib ni sinemyaq estrondus\n\nod becruder ed od sboog olí .ebit anod of as beitaitee ti sined\n\n-gnożynol·l to dimurievod to yttroštva Juodd iw sortit etiquél maurisû\n\nstiqut naarted wolls of noidensib tiedt da beatroddum ed od silmaƐ\n\nbesogong eldane of zebro ai has seeneqre thetwo teem od venom murrit\n\n-jard wen eldane od tebro mi don dud tuo beltiso ed of ajnameynSTIS\n\nti svima od sub aboog teroo of oala nolɛaires .erobed of vaso\n\naboog tant coitibnoo no vino tud zw to noitersloeb ezoted beggids\n\nto yas to dosend has axined benoidnem evoda to nolausssoq ni Jug ers\n\nni Jaeredni to swietrot liados IIkw unit yna yd besoqoʻq aarred end\n\nynofoŋ est mirtiw at berister abood .ynolo) sat aiddiw yðroqonq yas\n\nrevo ni badeeradni aemonco slakting 000,000,8% Tevo da betemitas\n\nsyu adnad benoidnam svoå betaeretni ola ameonos Iantuen Far\n\nbra sevismend to stooredni ni noiseineq nol ydisseven ylynorja\n\nbra bedoetis viewoltes admed daiting to adserejni esifreddo ynolo)\n\nJniog I yanı bas bremboer yfgrondƐ .ehart saenido no Joelle avoİTES\n\nof venom to yiqque yoibnee to moitreup on eď nao erant Jadd two\n\neriqa nared of sonattimer reddede [øttduob si JI .eriqa nauried\n\nyaw Teddo yna ni bednaverq ed mas\n\nYAM\n\nTranslation of code telegram from H.E. the Governor to\n\nthe Secretary of State dated 22nd August, 1914.\n\nYour telegram of August 20th referring to Prize Courts Order 28 Rule 1 not understood latest rules know here are\n\nthose of July 1898.\n\nMAY", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450517, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[2316]\n\n6406\n\nREC\n\n19\n\nNo.\n\n[January 17.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office. (Received January 17.)\n\nIndia Office, January 16, 1914.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st December, 1913, and to inform you that a copy of it, with its enclosure, will be forwarded to the Government of India with a request for an expression of their views.\n\n2. I am to take this opportunity of forwarding, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, a copy of the telegraphic correspondence on the subject of the amount of the non-China demand for Indian opium, and to explain that the Viceroy's telegram of the 12th June, 1913, arose out of representations made by the Government of the Straits Settlements, with the support of the Colonial Office, that the reduced amount of 9,000 chests was insufficient to meet the legitimate demands of the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong together with the other non-China markets.\n\n3. I am also to refer to the correspondence, ending with Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 371, of the 14th September, 1912 (forwarded by the Foreign Office on the 11th October, 1912), in which the effect of the Indian Government's sales of uncertificated opium on the smuggling of opium into China was discussed.\n\n4. Lord Crewe would suggest that Sir J. Jordan should be asked to furnish any information in his possession regarding the extent to which uncertificated opium is smuggled into China, and the routes which it is believed to follow.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nTW. HOLDERNESS.\n\nGovernment of India to the Marquess of Crewe,\n\nSimla, June 12, 1913.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nYOUR telegram dated the 30th April. Uncertified opium. We have had careful confidential enquiries made at Bombay and Calcutta regarding existence of alleged corner. At Bombay where chief dealers in certified opium have their headquarters nothing definite is known of any such movement on their part. At Calcutta enquiries among banks and traders have failed to elicit confirmation of Government of the Straits Settlements assertion that dealers in certified opium have cornered uncertified market. Following facts point definitely against existence of such a corner. Firstly, number of uncertified chests sold by us in current year up to the 15th May has been 4,975, while number shipped in the same period has been 5,851, and customs official(s) report that the quantities and destinations of these shipments show no striking variations from last year; secondly, number of sold chests uncertified opium lying uncleared at Calcutta is now only 2,563 as against 4,838 in August last; thirdly, three chief dealers in certified opium are Messrs. David Sassoon and Co., Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co., and Hardatrai, and out of the total 4,975 chests purchased from us these firms have purchased only 280, 30, and 35 chests respectively, remainder having been purchased by well-known dealers in uncertified opium trading with Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok. In any case we could not without breach of faith to the trade and discredit to ourselves enhance the limit already announced with fullest publicity for 1913, either directly by a revised notification or indirectly by supplementary sales direct to Government of the Straits Settlements.\n\n[2032 r-2]\n\n96", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450518, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "2\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to the Marquess of Crewe.\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nUNCERTIFIED opium.\n\nSimla, July 11, 1913.\n\nPlease see our telegram of the 12th ultimo and earlier correspondence. It is in our opinion most important that announcement as to sales in 1914 should be made at an early date. Recent price is only slightly in excess of 2,000 rupees a chest as against a price four months ago of 3,000 rupees, and all our information indicates unmistakably that the uncertainty regarding the quantity to be exported in 1913-14 is restraining merchants from buying. Many protests by leading dealers in the uncertified drug were evoked by the notification last January that exports would be reduced. If we make an early announcement it will tend to make the trade steady, it will obviate the danger that it may become speculative, and probably may have the effect of reassuring non-China markets generally, and the Governments of those countries in which opium is under the control of Government. An early announcement would also be a reversion to our former practice of announcing about June the sales for the following year.\n\nWith regard to the number of chests which should be notified for sale our firm opinion is that larger number should now be reverted to. The second of our telegrams of the 30th December last stated that reduction of uncertified chests in 1913 to 9,000 was purely a temporary measure proposed with a view to causing stocks of certificated opium in treaty ports to be diverted to other markets. There is now no doubt that the measure will not accomplish that end. Opium at Shanghai fetches regularly over 5,000 rupees per chest and passes continuously into China at that price, while the highest price realised by the uncertified drug at the monthly sales was about 3,000 rupees a chest even before the recent fall in prices. We have all along contended that non-China markets legitimately require more than 13,200 chests as sold last year, and the recent representations from the Colonial Office and the Government of the Straits Settlements appear fully to support our contention. We therefore consider that we should be justified in notifying the former quantity of 14,000 chests, and should the competition of Persian opium in our markets become more serious, we might have to ask permission to adopt this figure for 1915. In any case we look upon 13,200 chests as the least possible number, and all things considered, recommend this figure for next year. Subject, therefore, to the approval of your Lordship we propose to issue notification for 13,200 chests with same reservation as in our notification of the 11th October last, No. 784 F.E., Clause 4.\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to the Marquess of Crewe.\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nUNCERTIFICATED opium.\n\nSimla, July 27, 1913.\n\nPlease refer to your telegram of the 22nd July. Our recommendation in our telegram of the 3rd November, 1911, that sales of uncertified opium for 1912 should be reduced to 13,200 chests allowed for only 3,180 chests for Straits Settlements as, in calculating requirements of non-China countries, your Revenue Secretary's letter of the 10th November, 1911, enclosing estimate of September 1911 was not before us. Our despatch of the 18th July, 1912, indicated this in paragraph 4.\n\nIn the same way nothing was included on account of Macao as we had no information on the point at the time. See our despatch of the 17th January, 1913, last sentence of paragraph 4. With regard to Hong Kong we allowed 900 as against 660 chests now reported. Altogether for these three countries we allowed for 680 chests less than, as now stated, they actually require.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nThe Marquess of Crewe to Government of India.\n\nIndia Office, August 1, 1913.\n\n(Telegraphic) P.\n\nUNCERTIFICATED opium. Please refer to your telegram of the 27th ultimo. My telegram of the 22nd July made comparison between the anticipated requirements of Macao and the Straits Settlements in 1914 and what apparently was their actual consumption in 1912. If the larger requirements of these countries in 1912 and also needs of other non-China countries were met by 13,200 chests, this quantity would be too great for 1914, it seems that the answer must be either that the quantity actually consumed in 1912 was less than stated or that consumption was not adequately covered by 13,200 chests. If the latter view is held by you I shall be glad to receive a statement of your reasons. It is desirable to have definite substantial reasons as the point will be contested. In the meantime you should not make any announcement.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nThe Marquess of Crewe to Government of India.\n\nUNCERTIFICATED opium.\n\nIndia Office, July 22, 1913.\n\nPlease refer to your telegram of 11th inst. I agree that it is unnecessary to retain for 1914 the temporary reduction to 9,000 chests. But I desire to be furnished with your observations on the considerations set forth below before coming to a decision on your proposal to adopt the figure sanctioned for 1912, viz., 13,200 chests.\n\n(1) Letter from Government of Straits Settlement dated the 5th February, 1913, enclosed in letter from my Revenue Secretary dated the 11th March, 1913, gives their requirements as 3,600 chests only, as against 5,350 chests as stated in September 1911.\n\n(2) Requirements of Hong Kong are now limited to 660 chests.\n\n(3) Amount absorbed by Macao last year was probably 1,500 chests or more, but there is now a prospect of its being limited to 500 chests.\n\nGovernment of India to the Marquess of Crewe.\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nSimla, August 26, 1913. OPIUM. Your telegram of the 1st. We have carefully considered the matter of uncertified opium, and hold by the second of the conclusions which you mention, viz., that consumption of markets outside China in 1912 was probably not adequately met by 13,200 chests. We have throughout held this contention (see our despatch of the 18th July, 1912, paragraph 4, and our despatch of the 17th January, 1913, paragraph 5). There is nothing, so far as we can see, to justify alteration of our opinion in subsequent facts.\n\nThe main reasons for believing that the above number of chests failed to meet legitimate requirements in that year are:-\n\n1. We based the figure in our telegram of the 12th July, 1911, as to 1911 sales (14,000 chests) on the average consumption of non-China markets for the years 1905–1909. When we offered, in our telegram of the 3rd November, 1911, to reduce the figure to 13,200, we did so purely to prove the sincerity of our wish to help China, although, from information furnished by you up to the date of the latter telegram, we should have been justified in proposing at least 14,000 chests.\n\n2. The calculation referred to in the latter telegram comprised 3,180 chests for Straits, 900 for Hong Kong, and nothing at all for Macao. On the 27th July, 1913, as stated in the telegram of that date, the latest available information showed that we had underestimated by 680 chests the requirements of those countries.\n\n3. As regards other countries, though we do not possess any information later than that which you furnished in 1911, we have no reason to believe that there has been any...\n\n97", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[27496]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n27449 121 REC REG 28 JUL 14\n\n[June 18.]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.—(Received June 18.)\n\nIndia Office, June 17, 1914. IN continuation of this Office letter of the 4th December, 1913, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a letter from the Government of India on the subject of the proposal of the Netherlands Government for a convention between the Powers interested in the production and distribution of opium in southern and eastern Asia, to limit the traffic exclusively to the Governments of the countries concerned.\n\nI am to suggest that, if Sir Edward Grey accepts the views put forward by the Government of India, the Netherlands Government should be informed that His Majesty's Government would prefer to await the result of the coming into force of the Opium Convention before deciding upon the need for a convention of the nature suggested. The Government of India have given proofs of their readiness to assist Governments possessing opium monopolies in preventing the smuggling of opium into their territories, and consider that this object has already, to a substantial extent, been secured. If further assistance is required they are able and willing to help, as the departure of opium from their ports is under strict regulation. Further arrangements can most suitably be made with the Governments concerned in accordance with Article 3(b) of the Opium Convention.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nT. W. HOLDERNESS.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\nGovernment of India to the Marquess of Crewe.\n\nMy Lord Marquess,\n\nSimla, April 30, 1914. IN your Lordship's despatch dated the 5th December, 1913, you asked for an expression of our views regarding a proposal put forward by the Netherland Government for the conclusion of a convention between the opium producing and opium importing countries, under which the traffic in opium would be limited exclusively to the Governments of the countries concerned. A proposal to this effect was put forward at The Hague Conference but was withdrawn, but it is now suggested that it might be possible to carry it into effect over a limited area, as for example, southern and eastern Asia.\n\n2. In so far as the object of the proposal is to prevent the smuggling of opium, your Lordship is aware that we have throughout been ready to adopt any measure of co-operation and restriction which may be required to secure that end. Thus, on the conclusion in 1911 of the agreement with China, we voluntarily placed an absolute limit on our exports to the non-China markets, and have consistently acted on the principle that such exports should not exceed the legitimate requirements of the countries concerned. We have also expressed our readiness to adhere to Resolution No. 4 of the Shanghai International Opium Commission, regarding the prohibition of the export of opium to countries which prohibit its import. Later, and coming to more specific action, we have co-operated in arrangements culminating in an agreement with the Portuguese authorities, which will prevent the use of Macao as a centre for the distribution of smuggled opium. As regards the general regulation of the opium traffic in India itself, it need hardly be pointed out that, although a very large quantity of the drug is produced in this country, the entire trade is under the most effective control, and no opium can leave the country without official authority and otherwise than under the strictest regulations. Finally, by accepting the principle of direct sales to the...\n\nParagraph 8 of despatch dated June 2, 1910.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455325, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nSir,\n\n20 GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 3rd September, 1915.\n\nI have the honour to report certain circumstances which have led to the resignation of Inayat Ullah Mirza, First Grade Clerk in the Accounts Office, Public Works Department, and his deportation to India.\n\n2. In September, 1913, the Director, Criminal Intelligence, at Simla reported to the Captain Superintendent of Police that Mirza was alleged to be in league with one Barakat-ullah, one of the leaders of the Indian revolutionary movement, residing in Tokyo; but no evidence was forthcoming to establish this supposition.\n\n3. In July last an informer came forward to state that Mirza was actively engaged in seditious propaganda; and after careful examination of his evidence I caused Mirza to be arrested and his house to be searched.\n\n4. The search resulted in the finding of some copies of two seditious newspapers, dated in 1913, one of the newspapers being that issued by the man Barakatullah at Tokyo, but there was nothing else of a seditious nature. There were also found certain documents which tended to show that Mirza, in the name of his wife, had invested in real property in the Colony contrary to the provisions of General Order No. 54.\n\n5. The evidence of participation in seditious propaganda was not strong, being based mainly upon the statement \n\nThe Right Honourable \nANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.,\n&c., \n&c., \n&c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455524, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "# Report on Thakur Singh\n213\n\nThakur Singh, son of Sher Singh of Ikolata village, Ludhiana District was employed as Station Inspector on the Canton Kowloon Railway. He speaks and writes English well. These proceedings are the result of the stoppage by the Censorate of a very seditious letter. This letter was written by Thakur Singh at Canton, it was sent by Registered letter post to B.S. Jakhi, the well known seditious leader Bhagwan Singh, and addressed to San Francisco. The date of posting at Canton was November 17th, 1914. It reached San Francisco on December 20th, 1914. Another letter, also in these papers was sent by Dewan Singh, Chief of Police on the French Concession at Canton dated November 14th, 1914, to Jakhi at San Francisco. This letter is referred to in the case of Dewan Singh who has already been deported to Calcutta by the \"Empress\".\n\nBoth letters were opened and fastened by pieces of paper with part of names printed on them, they were evidently put in another cover and forwarded to Bangkok. Bhagwan Singh had however not gone to Bangkok but to Manila, and these two letters were put into another cover, posted at Bangkok on April 21st, 1915, addressed to B.S. Jakhi at Manila. They were opened by the Censor of the Hongkong Post office. This shows that there could be no question of planting a letter to the Government, so as to have revenge on Thakur Singh.\n\nA letter was received on May 19th from the Director of Criminal Intelligence Simla No. 1217 of April 22nd, stating that Thakur Singh was being allowed to return, and informing me that during his stay in India his character was not free from suspicion.\n\nThe story of writing the letter for someone else, was a pure fabrication. It is of little use making out that he was loyal at the time of the Delhi Durbar. At that time Bhagwan Singh was also apparently loyal.\n\nIt appears to be a very bad case, and I recommend deportation, and would suggest an escort.\n\n**(Sd.) C.M. Ileser**\nC.S.P.\n11.9.15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "Page 4 0 0\n\n424\n\nJudde 10%, 28. jul\n\n\"Trading with the Enemy Act, of which please take note\".\n\n.811880.\n\n...\n\nThere seems to be a significant OCR error in this section, making it difficult to decipher the original text. 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However, significant portions remain unclear or nonsensical due to the extent of the OCR errors.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 401, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company,\n\nHongkong, 18th November, 1915.\n\nC. W. Jeffries, Esq.,\n\nDirector, Royal Observatory,\n\nHongkong.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nWeather forecasts by Marconi.\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 2nd September last, my Directors have replied to my enquiry that they have been in communication with the Marconi Company's Directors in London, who state they do not regard the weather forecasts as coming within the category of free service, an opinion which my Directors think is an open question.\n\nIn any case however it was considered the P. & O. Company was not liable for these charges on the last occasion when the point was raised in regard to Indian meteorological reports by the Meteorological Department of Simla.\n\nOn this occasion I understand The Marconi Company made no charge for the Service to begin with, and subsequently only a nominal one and they propose the Hongkong weather service be treated in precisely the same way.\n\nYours etc.,\n\n(Sd.) Edbert A. Hewett,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nCOMER(58)\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n395\n\nPage 140\n\nPage 140\n\n...\n\nPage 395\n\nPage 395\n\nPage 395", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456597, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 763, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Confidential.\n\nNo. 3215.\n\nFrom\n\nHome Department. (Political).\n\nTo\n\nG. M. Young, Esq.,\n\nUnder Secretary to the Government of India.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nSimla, the 23rd September, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter No. 915/1914 dated the 17th August, 1915, on the subject of the appointment of an officer of the Indian Police to Hongkong, I am directed to say that the matter is under consideration and that a further communication will be addressed to the Government of Hongkong as soon as is feasible.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) G. M. Young,\n\nUnder Secretary to the Government of India.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\n60\n\nSan Francisco. \"Extra to the Hindustan Ghadar\" 1st November, 1915.\n\nAnniversary of Ghadar.\n\nToday is the 1st of November, 1915. \"Ghadar\" 1st number was issued on November 1st, 1913. Ghadar is two years old today. What Ghadar has done during the short period of two years is known to rich and poor. The splendid work done by Ghadar has been acknowledged by our enemies, the English Administrators of India. The leading London papers call Ghadar the \"World Wide Ghadar\". In the office of the Viceroy Hardinge, which is on the peak of Simla mountains, discussion is always going on about the \"Hindustan Ghadar\". The British Government have opened a new department for the translation of Ghadar. The echo of Ghadar has reached the ears of rich, poor, students, and herdsmen of every village. The Ghadar has awakened the Indians, as the Ghadar Sepoys assert, by pulling their ears and put them on the right way from going astray. A splendid new movement has been mapped. It has opened a wide road of liberty and prosperity for the welfare of his countrymen.\n\nIt is the duty of our countrymen to strengthen such a road and to pound their bones instead of stones on it, and to sprinkle their blood instead of water. It is their duty to preach about Ghadar on a higher stage and to keep the new movement at all costs in existence.\n\nGhadar was issued in Urdu first and appeared in Gurmukhi after 3 weeks. The British Government were perplexed by a few copies of Ghadar only. It was planned to deport Lala Hardyal from this country. As he himself had to leave this country and his safe arrival in Europe in April, 1914, and the continuance of our work smoothly made the British Government astonished. The Government were under the impression that the publication of Ghadar would be stopped in a day or two. The English did not know that the Hindustanis were now living under the new sphere with new imaginations in the new world, and it was not easy to put them down. In addition to Gurmukhi and Urdu, the Ghadar was issued in Gujrati dialect as well. Books were published, and Ghadar flashed its light in such a way that the eyes of the British Government were dimmed. The English Government had not finished rubbing their eyes when", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 640, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "# CANADA AND INDIA\n\nThe British Empire is apparently a disqualification. I do not wish to speak of retaliation, but, in my humble opinion, no so-called reciprocity will be worth anything if the colonist be not taught to respect the golden rule and to realize that the Indian's country is not for him to exploit at his sweet will. I have every hope that since out of evil cometh good, one beneficial result of this war will be that racial antagonism will to a large extent die out, and the white man will recognize that the brown or black man who fought side by side with him and shed his blood without stint does not deserve to be, and cannot be, despised. The time is coming for the adjustment of our differences in a true statesmanlike spirit, which will not divorce morality from politics and which will steer clear not only of all petty selfish prejudices, but also of all narrow, short-sighted, and degrading considerations. A fair settlement is all that we ask for.-Dr. Satish Chandra Banerji, in the **Indian Review**.\n\n## QUESTION UNDER CONSIDERATION\n\nIn regard to the \"representation\" referred to in the above article, and which was reprinted in full in the preceding number of **Canada and India** under the title \"The Status of Indians Within the Empire,\" this statement is made in the **Indian Review**, July: \"In connection with the memorial submitted to the Government on the question of the position of Indians in the colonies, and particularly in Canada, by the United Provinces Congress Committee, a reply has been received from the Government of the United Provinces, which says the whole question is under consideration of the Government of India, and matters dealt with in the memorial will receive their earnest attention in any negotiations which may be undertaken with the Colonial Governments with a view to arriving at a satisfactory solution of the difficulties which have arisen.\"\n\n## EMIGRATION AFTER THE WAR\n\nThe following expression of opinion regarding Indian emigration has an added interest because taken from an Anglo-Indian paper: \"The Governments of the Dominions must be prepared to cope with that spirit of adventure, and if they are wise they will prepare well beforehand, not in the old compromising spirit, but in a desire to deal justly and honourably with a proud race. The Government of India, too, must prepare by affording facilities for opening up Mesopotamia, that land of ancient glory and fertility, and by encouraging enterprise in the borderlands of India. It must remove restrictions that hamper the mobility of labour and operate against industries that need workers. But when the Government of India has done all that is possible to do to keep the labour it so badly needs itself in India, there will still remain a number of adventurous souls who will turn to distant lands. These are the men with whom our Dominions must deal, and if the bitterness of the past is to be avoided an early endeavour should be made to arrive at a fair and honourable scheme for their admission.\"-**Calcutta Englishman**.\n\n## INDIA IN FINAL WAR SETTLEMENT\n\nCommenting on why India should have a voice in the final settlement of the issues of this war, the **Bombay Chronicle** says: \n\n\"In view of the beginning that has already been made in the new relations of intimate confidence and consultation with the Dominions, it is but natural that India should not only expect a measure of confidence to be extended to her, but that she should be anxious to know why responsible Ministers are loath to assure her equally with the Dominions that her aspiration will not be ignored. One would prefer to leave the public discussion of these matters on one side at the present moment, and there is every desire to avoid controversy and embarrassment to the Government, but what is to be done when we find the Minister in charge of the interests of the colonies going out of his way amidst the plaudits of the public to announce the new rights and privileges to be enjoyed by the Dominions as a direct response to their services and loyal devotion to the Mother Country in the war, while the Minister for India is silent as to the part which India is to be allowed to play? In the face of the loquacity of Mr. Bonar Law, the silence of Mr. Chamberlain is likely to be given a sinister interpretation in this country. It is incumbent upon the Secretary of State to announce whether India is to be consulted or not, even if he is not prepared to tell us in what form she will be represented in the Imperial Council Chamber.\"\n\n## WHAT BRITAIN SHOULD DO\n\nNow, what is the dominant note of the French civilization? It is liberty, equality, and fraternity. Perhaps it stands on an even higher moral plane than the British civilization. This high standard of moral conception of human relationship was attained by the French nation after it had passed through the volcanic stage of the Revolution. It is the next higher stage to the ideal aimed at by British culture, and is not antagonistic, but allied to it. The whole system of French Government is based on the recognition of this ideal, and the spirit of its administration is permeated by it. In the words of Mr. Cloudesley Brereton in the **Hibbert Journal**, in the modern French Empire, there is no second-class citizens. Rightly or wrongly, there is no colour line in French citizenship. The inhabitant of Senegal, of Tahiti, or Madagascar, is treated, is regarded, just as much a French citizen as the inhabitants of Paris or Marseilles; and, what is more important, he regards himself as such, and is proud of belonging to a nation which he hears described as the finest in the world. This appeal is not first and foremost to his desire for good Government, or even to his sense of justice. It is to his sense of dignity as a human creature. It is to this ideal to which the British Government must approximate in order to achieve a full measure of success in Britain's associations with India.-The **Allahabad Leader**.\n\n## A NOTABLE BIRTHDAY\n\nMr. Dadabhai Naoroji, who is called India's Grand Old Man and the father of Indian political reform, saw his 90th birthday on September 4th. It is comparatively rare for an Indian public man to attain great age, and since his retirement some years ago his birthday has been regarded as a national anniversary. Some of the leading English papers had interesting references to the event.\n\n### THE FIRST INDIAN M.P.\n\nIt is certainly interesting to recall that the little white-headed Parsee who was an energetic London member in the last Gladstonian House of Commons, was born so long ago as 1825, more than thirty years before the rule of the East India Company was merged in that of the Crown, and a long time before the gallant Sikhs, now fighting with us in Flanders and the Dardanelles, were incorporated in the British Empire. Mr. Naoroji, who kept up his activities until he was past four score, now lives in retirement near Bombay. The Viceroy always sends him a birthday telegram, and so do many other dignitaries, who bear no malice towards an old opponent, and like to think of the aged agitator as in these days a very fervent supporter of the Imperial cause.-The **Pall Mall Gazette**.\n\n### ADVOCATE OF GREAT REFORMS\n\nHe has lived to see a great part of the programme for which he fought adopted by the Imperial Government and much of his criticism of the economic basis of the Indian revenue system admitted by all impartial enquirers. When Mr. Naoroji began the labours that lasted without intermission until his final return to India, eight years ago, his countrymen were not admitted to the Indian Civil Service, or even to the Legislative Councils. They sit now in the Viceroy's Cabinet and preside over departments of State, are elected by popular franchise to seats in the Councils, and not seldom dominate the University Senates and the High Court bench. There is still a great deal to be done, as the war has made everybody realize, before the Government is brought into harmony with the reasonable claims of the Indian people. But it is rare indeed for any reformer to enjoy so great a measure of fulfilment as this fine old Indian can reflect upon to-day.-The **Manchester Guardian**.\n\n(The University of Bombay conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. on Mr. Naoroji the other day.)\n\n## CANADA\n\n### INDIA AND IMPERIAL CONFERENCE\n\nReuter's Agency at Ottawa has been busy of late. On September 23rd the following appeared in the Canadian papers: \n\nA special despatch from Simla announces that India's place in the councils of the Empire was discussed at an important meeting of the Imperial Legislative Council today, and that a resolution will be forwarded to London requesting that measures be taken to have India represented at the next Council of the Empire, as are the various overseas Dominions and dependencies.\n\nThe resolution, which was moved by the Hon. Khan Bahadur Mian Muhammad Shafi, asked that India in future be officially represented at conferences of the British Empire, the request to be forwarded to the Secretary of State for India.\n\n### VICEROY IN SYMPATHY\n\nLord Hardinge, the Viceroy, affirmed that the Government of India gladly accepted this important resolution, which had his warmest sympathy, adding that if Council adopted it his Government would readily comply with the recommendation. The Viceroy proceeded to recapitulate what had occurred at previous conferences.\n\nThe ultimate decision at the next meeting of the conference rested with the conference itself. If India were admitted, said his Excellency, it would appear reasonable that she should be represented by the Secretary and one or two other officials from India.\n\nLord Hardinge dwelt upon the difficulties and obstacles in the way of carrying out the request, but laid emphasis upon the fact that the Imperial Government, without committing themselves regarding its principles or details, would give most careful consideration to the Legislative Council's resolution, although the ultimate decision of the Imperial Government must necessarily depend largely upon the attitude of the other members of the conference. He thought this pledge eminently satisfactory, as showing due appreciation of India's claims, to which, he trusted, the Governments of the overseas Dominions would give sympathetic consideration.\n\n### BRITAIN'S BEST CUSTOMER\n\nMuch had happened since the last Imperial Conference, said the Viceroy, and India's size and population, her wealth, her military resources, and her patriotism demanded suitable representation. She could not be disregarded when great Imperial issues were debated in which she was concerned. To discuss questions of the defence of the Empire without counting upon India, he declared, would be ignoring the value of the Empire's greatest military asset, outside the United Kingdom itself. To discuss trade questions without India would be disregarding Britain's best customer. To concede India direct representation in future Imperial Conferences would be no revolutionary or far-reaching concession to Indian opinion or to her just claims.\n\n\"I feel confident,\" said Lord Hardinge in conclusion, \"that when the question is placed in its true light before the Governments of the Dominions they will regard it from the widest angle of vision, from which we hope other Indian questions may be viewed in the near future, so that the people of India may, in the words of Mr. Asquith, feel that they are conscious members of a living partnership extending all over the world under the same flag.\"\n\n### INDIA'S PLACE IN THE EMPIRE\n\nIt is right to mention here that India in a sort of way has been represented at the meetings of the Imperial Conference by the official class, but what the Indian public now want is an Indian representative of the Indian people. This is shown by the unanimous way in which the Indian members of the Council asked for it in the Council chamber.\n\n### COMMENTS OF THE CANADIAN PRESS\n\n| Newspaper | Comment |\n|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| **Toronto Star** | \"The question of the representation of India in the Imperial Conference is likely to become practical soon...\" |\n| | \"Why should not the representatives of India go into consultation with those of Canada?...\" |\n| **Toronto World**| \"With the endorsation of the Viceroy, the Indian Council has forwarded to the Secretary of State for India a request...\" |\n| **Mail and Empire** | \"The time has come for taking India into the Councils of the whole Empire...\" |\n| **Toronto Globe**| \"It will be interesting for British people everywhere to watch the effect of the present war and the coming peace...\" |\n\nThe **Toronto Star** referring to it says: \"The question of the representation of India in the Imperial Conference is likely to become practical soon. At present the conference is one of self-governing commonwealths only. But it is purely advisory, has no legislative power, and there does not appear to be any insuperable difficulty in the way of allowing representatives of India to take part in a conference. Why should not the representatives of India go into consultation with those of Canada? The Imperial Legislative Council of India wants this, and their request is supported by Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy. Questions relating to Indian migration into the colonies have come before the conference, but no representative of India was present. Now, the way to settle this question of Indian migration is by friendly discussion between the representatives of India and those of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.\"\n\nThe **Toronto World** writes: \"With the endorsation of the Viceroy, the Indian Council has forwarded to the Secretary of State for India a request that India be hereafter represented at the Imperial Conference. When acknowledging its receipt, Mr. Chamberlain stated that inasmuch as the composition of the conference is a matter for the conference itself, the overseas Dominions must be consulted before a more definite reply can be given. Few, however, of those conscious of the evolution and development of the British Empire will refuse sympathetic consideration of the claim made by the Indian Government, or fail to recognize that it can be supported on real and weighty grounds.\"\n\nThe **Mail and Empire** of Toronto expresses the opinion that \"The Imperial Legislative Council will forward to London a resolution in favour of the admission of representatives of India to the Imperial Conference. The petition is not likely to be denied. Before replying to it the British Government will doubtless communicate with the several Dominion Governments, whose concurrence will decide the matter. The time has come for taking India into the Councils of the whole Empire.\"\n\nWhilst the **Toronto Globe** comments thus: \"It will be interesting for British people everywhere to watch the effect of the present war and the coming peace on the minds of the Indian peoples. The cheerful loyalty and self-sacrificing courage of the Hindu soldiers in the war have made it inevitable that some change shall take place in their status as citizens.\"\n\n### CANADA MUST BE COSMOPOLITAN\n\nAn Italian in Welland writes to the **Star** protesting against a real estate handbill in which a certain locality is described as desirable because foreigners are barred. Our correspondent is quite right in his view that the alliance of which we now form part ought to break down instead of increasing racial prejudice. It need hardly be said that we should be generous to the Hindus, who are members of the British Empire, and whose brethren are fighting for our cause in France and at the Dardanelles. A broad-minded Imperialist must necessarily be a cosmopolitan, absolutely free from racial prejudice.-The **Star**.\n\n### IS IT FAIR?\n\nWhen our Aryan forefathers broke up their homes in Southern Asia, some of them went to India. When that Empire was added to Britain, Queen Victoria gave these, our Indian cousins, her pledge (and her son Edward and her grandson George have since reiterated that pledge), in which she said: \"We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligations of duty which bind us to all our other subjects.\"\n\nIn 1911, an ex-soldier from India who had settled in Canada went home to bring out his wife and child. On his return they were detained under bond of $1,000, and were admitted after three months' litigation, but only as an act of grace.\n\nAbout 2,500 of these fellow-citizens from India are in Canada, the great majority of them being Sikhs. Only five of these men's wives have thus far been admitted. Yet they are the husbands of one wife each; they are distinguished loyalists, having saved the Empire at the time of the mutiny. They have fought in Asia and Africa, and are now fighting in Europe for our \"free institutions\" with a bravery unsurpassed, and are showing a generosity which is the admiration of the Empire.\n\nIs it not time for us to think what our treatment of them on the western coast looks like to them? Is it not time for our Government to \"clean house\" in this matter? Turkish Mohammedans, who would have several wives if they dared, enjoy all the privileges of other Europeans in this Dominion, and are allowed to bring wives and children here; why should our own fellow-citizens, who are bearing the burdens of the Empire and are superior to the Mohammedan in every way, have their wives and children excluded?-**Public Health Journal**.\n\n### SIKH CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE\n\nJ. A. M. writes: \"Before even the claims of the Japanese, 'an Imperial ally,' come the Imperial rights of the Sikh, a British citizen. In his case, more than in that of the Japanese citizen, has been 'seen the conflict of Imperial and domestic considerations.' And whilst in the handling of the case of the alien there was at least a savor of diplomacy, in the handling of that of the Sikh there has been little but prevarication. Would it not be possible at this most interesting time, when Sikh and Canadian blood has flowed freely on the Flanders fields, in a blood brotherhood of opposition to the present-day enemies of humanity and freedom to speak out once more a word on their behalf?\"\n\nFor those interested who want to know more about India, we call attention to the following books, which, as well as copies of **Canada and India**, can be obtained from McAinsh & Co., Ltd., Publishers, 4 College Street, Toronto: \n1. `Web of Indian Life` by the Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble)\n2. `Religion of the Sikhs` by Dorothy Field.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# OOPY.\n\nFrom\n\nTo\n\nSir.\n\n## Enclosure 1.\n\n221\n\nNo. 908 F.E.\n\n**Government of India. Finance Department.**\n\nSimla, the 16th August, 1916.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. H.P. Howard, C.I.E., I.C.S., \nOffg. Secretary to the Government of India, \nTo \nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI am directed to reply to your letter No. 2422, \ndated the 29th March, 1916, reporting that 170 chests of \nopium consigned to Mexico were detained in Hongkong and \nre-shipped to Calcutta.\n\n2.\n\nThe Government of India understand that the object \nwhich your Government have in view in making this reference \nis to ensure that their regulations in the matter of opium \nare not evaded. I am to explain that ordinarily the Government \nof India accept the declared destination of opium purchased \nat auction sales and privately exported. They, however, fully \nappreciate the anxiety of your Government as to the possibility \nof opium being smuggled into Hongkong, and will be glad to \nadopt such precautions as are possible in order to prevent \nthis. Thus, they will be prepared not to grant export passes \nto Hongkong in circumstances which imply an intention on the \npart of the exporter to disregard the Hongkong Government's \nregulations, and also to inform that Government by telegraph, \nof all shipments actually made to Hong Kong.\n\n3.\n\nThe particular consignment referred to in your \nletter seems to stand on a somewhat different footing. \nIn that case the opium was consigned to Mexico, and so far as can...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463135, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "## \n2422/1916.\n\n### \nI \n\n## TRICTTSVOD \n\n### .1.1 OG .DE \n\n101 \n\nSir, \n\nE \n\nnolosure \n\n2. \n\n223 \n\nColonist Lustangs \n\nAR 22nd September, \n\n6. \n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your \nletter No. `903 F. E.` of the 16th August regarding the shipment \nback to Calcutta of 170 chests of opium which were detained in \nHong Kong. \n\n2. \n\nIt is well known that certain Chinese officials \nare prepared to take every possible step to smuggle into China \nun-certificated Indian opium, in defiance of the agreement entered \ninto between the Imperial and the Chinese Governments and in \ndetriment of the interests of the holders of the remaining stocks \nof certificated opium. \n\n3. \n\nThe Government of Mexico has for some time past \ndiscouraged and it has now absolutely prohibited the import \nof opium into that country. \n\n4. \n\nThe shipment of 170 chests under reference would \nnot have been discharged in Hong Kong, but it would have been \ndischarged in adjacent Chinese waters. In a more recent case a \nshipment of 132 chests from Macao to Mexico was found to be \nmolasses upon examination at Wai Hai. \n\n5. \n\nI am to suggest that in future all shipments eastwards from India to foreign countries should be consigned to the \nBritish ...\n\nThe Secretary to the Government of India, \nFinance Department, \nSIMLA.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# G \n**D.O. No. 2081 Political.**\n\n**REC** \n37941 \n**REGE | AUG 16**\n\nDear Seton,\n\n## HOLE DEPARTMENT\nSimla, the 4th July 1916.\n\nI am desired to invite a reference to your demi-official letter No. `J. & P. (S.) 571/16`, dated the 16th May 1916, and to say that the Government of India are prepared to accept the charges incurred by the Hongkong Government in the payments of rewards for information leading to the seizures of arms and ammunition destined for India from China.\n\n2. The Government of India have of course no information as to what amount of expenditure will be involved, but the rate mentioned in paragraph 3 of the letter dated the 14th December 1915, from the Governor of Hongkong to the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, does not seem excessive, though the Governor reserves discretion to pay larger rewards if necessary.\n\n3. It is noticed also that in paragraph 5 of the same letter the Governor speaks of arms and ammunition \"intended for India or other British possessions\". When seizure of arms is made it may not always be possible to tell exactly what the intended destination is, but the Hongkong authorities might be asked to satisfy themselves, when debiting the cost of rewards to this country, that there was a reasonable probability that the arms seized were intended for India. I am to add that the Government of India would be glad to be consulted if any special case should arise, involving the payment of very large sums in rewards.\n\nYours sincerely,\n(sd.) H. WHEELER.\n\nI.C. Seton Esq., C.B., \nSecretary, Judicial & Public Dept., \nIndia Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "he.\n\nSPROT\n\n**prie Azzur þið sporðånot yď z.. ASL 14.5\n\n„izorėtuodel erit 12 as digid\n\n>mij hudcortado el padre\n\n*\n\nJugra ani hohenczo ed antj bedeantnoo eft 31\n\nboara-out ed Jha Iforie dzɔw edd noqu\n\nA\n\nto beoubor ad neveroť neo (пögu\n\n`d arthropo£ +9ö 1.:amfzow medijo to\n\nuta na mobilqa bett\n\n- dodo fesz\n\nM\n\n3\n\n31 TELEVI98a omer (odreda listaba\n\nJ\n\n* 93 70 mk, beerga emit (1) alijis vɔt be\n\nwydianjostakiwa\n\nwo tirowanate un maddi- bemotmag jon jamitravo enɔb F7QE.♪\n\ncustomjad efraîæstrā ›*j od mot blag of Iimla,Jearimoo y\n\ntão edam pris do tqqaldatanli\n\nsuch an biror fara sakera 12 BORNTVA) and 22 3hr arabhfod. Iurenço the paudu 15 305STECH ple to 2915 ruod dona mot zeek Fall savikɔ no uvaexyah ada 10. DI\\E\n\nfor Arud autoit voda bna mavo nuod na to jraq ro „honom svad podt de life antzub weib\n\n-:ewoffot as bioq ad sT .a\n\nat the aft erat Ilaria yasamoo muɔfortɔl oricatasjad 3AT.I\n\nistumunda? and to new and to tear yaq\n\n3.19 to 197us,y*** Qiun & ad qu tikieur Bɔng to Jože mi .8\n\nIkat t has sport!\n\n--\n\n•\n\n$ 0.1m tha and mot\n\nyd at an phum að ƒMyme 5.1 *u* log for da brid\n\n• Yilsquos est\n\n+ to\n\nmay not haa prasmanan old galyfaque yɗ .ɗ\n\n-16 mee (ponamqwo.ä.d) at1190\n\nmarita mo uɔby ud itag aaie. 150 gør alt to jJtaq aff.9 ed flats or iowa nɔ secnevba dit aa Ifer us,boot\n\n!'.I ebhaftsfjall al Bing\n\nmɔmuodal -t of sub nogaárő\n\njoand 83.00 (\n\n18 to\n\nbua Tava\n\n02:\n\n1\n\nmelb\n\nT\n\ndo Asiw befow\n\n171\n\nthe time, they have to lose by fulfilling a duty imposed upon them by the authorities for which they do not receive\n\na remuneration, except if such a duty le caused by a\n\ncivil ocurt case or is due to a fact that has taken\n\nplace outside the estate where the labourer is working.\n\nThe claim to daywages lapses, if the fulfilment of the\n\nabove mentioned duty takes longer than seven consecutive\n\ndays.\n\nIV.A. Advances, which the labourers may regetve, shall be deducted from wages earned in the following way. No\n\nadvances shall be given to the labourers before their\n\ndeparture from Hongkong, which they should have to refund\n\nafterwards.\n\n1\n\nB. Deductions for advances, due to payments made for account\n\nof the labourers cr for ecste of arrest in case of\n\ndesertion, shall together not exceed of the amount due\n\nto the labourer for work performed, either for daywages,\n\nat daily task or on piecework, and not more than of the\n\nwages earned by contract, if the labourer hae worked by\n\ncontract.\n\n1\n\nC. The Company binds itself to supply the labourers once a\n\nmonth with a statement of their account by posting plain\n\nlists in or near their dwellinga.\n\nV.A. Nc work shall be required from the labourers on the\n\nfollowing days:-\n\nContract the fifteenth of the 1st. rese month. the day of the thing Bing\n\natival.\n\nthe fifth day\n\nthe fifth\n\nad ba\n\ntf\n\nTad od \"falfa,yonum at blaq\n\nCC O\n\ny of the\n\nTreds beNOT GOU?)\n\nCannondal - To Isturan\n\n,\n\ntal 371. *\n\ninese month.\n\nthe fifteenth\n\ngith ChineBÉ nth\n\nthe\n\ntoday, of the\n\n-altitium\n\nang Tsocih)\n\n1. the last day of the 19th Chinese month.\n\n2. the first and second day of the let chinese month.\n\n3. the fifteenth day of the seventh Chinese month.\n\n4. the afternoon of the fifteen day of the first Chinese\n\nmonth.\n\n5. the afternoon of the day of the Tshing Bing festival.\n\n6\n\nthe afternoon of the fifth day of the fifth Chinese\n\nmonth.\n\n7. the afternoon of the fifteenth day of the eighth\n\nChinese month.\n\n8\n\n•\n\nthe afternoon of the fifteenth day of the winter-\n\ncltitium (Tang Teboth)\n\nand besides", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 21st June, 1918.\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith a copy of a letter I have received from the Chief Justice recommending that the Attorney-General be raised to the rank of King's Counsel and to inform you that I warmly support this recommendation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE WALTER LONG, M.P.\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nJJM-7/9/6\n79 8.6.2.9.18\nNo 184.\n42016\n508 PEC\n**RESTRICTED** [stamp: AUG 18] \n\nof the teak about half of them with to kies.!\n\nBut in all the circumstances (including the fact that the A...to dow not have pirate media) I think it likely she have lus silla...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478402, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 639, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "As regards the second point, it is observed that the statement enclosed in the Government of India's letter shows a sum of £2:8:5 as due from the Hong Kong branch of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank to the Disconto-Gesellschaft. This, it is thought, may since have been adjusted.\n\nIt is presumed that the payments to the Disconto-Gesellschaft of £900.9.6 and £1458.15.0 referred to in the report on the liquidation of the Hong Kong branch of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank covered only debts actually due from the Hong Kong branch.\n\nA copy of this letter and enclosures is being sent to the Board of Trade for communication, if no objection is seen, to the Controller in the winding-up of the Disconto-Gesellschaft, for his observations.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nЕд Плит\n\nTo\nNo. 16 of 1918.\n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**\n**DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY**\n**TRADING BY FOREIGNERS**\n\nThe Right Honourable Edwin Montagu,\nHis Majesty's Secretary of State for India.\n\nSimla, the 19th July 1918.\n\n635\nWat 5499 1918\n\nSir,\n\nWe have the honour to refer to the correspondence ending with our Commerce and Industry Department letter No. 23, dated the 7th March 1918, to His Majesty's Under Secretary of State for India and to forward a copy of a letter from the Government of Bengal No. 135-T.-Com., dated the 11th June 1918, with enclosures, relating to a request from the Direction der Disconto-Gesellschaft, London, to the Liquidator of Hostile firms, Bengal, for the remittance to them, out of the surplus assets of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank in Calcutta, of a sum of £21,719-15-1, being the balance due from the various branches of the Bank.\n\n2. The request is not in accordance with the procedure suggested in paragraph 2 of the Colonial Office letter No. 35710, dated the 11th August 1916 (enclosure No. 7 to your predecessor's Revenue despatch No. 77, dated the 22nd September 1916), by which the Calcutta, Hong Kong and Singapore branches of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank should pay off first their debts to one another and to the Disconto-Gesellschaft, in London and subsequently the debts due by other branches in proportion to their assets. In view, however, of the considerations put forward in the Local Government's letter, we are prepared to accede to the present proposal. We accordingly request that the amount in question be paid to the Disconto-Gesellschaft, London, from the funds held by the India Office to the credit of the Liquidator of Hostile firms, Bengal, it being...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478407, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 644, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA:** \nDept. of Commerce and Industry.\n\n**TRADING BY FOREIGNERS.**\n\n9.0. 52590 18 8. Hong Kong 640 Shais 9 November to Jad And 3 Si\n\nWith ref. to your letter R... S. WT. 5499 of last month,\n\n**DRAFT.**\n\n9.0. \n**FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,**\nTo **THE SECY. OF STATE FOR INDIA:**\nNo. 16 of 1918. \nDated Simla, the 18th July 1918. Received\n\n**SUBJECT.**\nPayment to the Direction der Disconto-Gesellschaft, London, of a sum of £21,719-15-1 out of the surplus assets of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank in Calcutta, being the balance due from the various branches of the Bank,\n\n#CID-44-30-3-16—GCP9\n\n**MINUTE.**\n\nCome at t request you to inform in elle Sen Montage that he affirms the 9.7.1.5/11/18 proposal of the foot. of 20 Tanugron Go the total debt now 31r. Colline f \n\nMr. Gr \nGrinde \nMr. Lambert \nSir H. Road. \nBir G. Fildes. \nMr. Hewins. \nMr. Long, \npriesp. to Govy. E.K. and for obsons, L.F.F.\n\nThe various branches of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank to the British establishment of the Disconto-Gesellschaft should be paid forthwith from the surplus funds of the Calcutta branch of that Bank on the understanding that the Calcutta branch will be repaid such amounts as represent the proportions due from the Hong Kong...\n\n| Name | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Gr | |\n| Grinde | |\n| Mr. Lambert | |\n| Sir H. Road | |\n| Bir G. Fildes | |\n| Mr. Hewins | |\n| Mr. Long | |\n\nPage 363 (if present at the top or bottom of the original page)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 647, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "# \nFrom No.1101-17. **GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**. \n**DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND AGRICULTURE**, (Meteorology). \n643 \n61347 \nREGD. \nREGD. 18 EC 18 \nJ.E.Gilliat, Esq. I.C.S., \nUnder Secretary to the Government of India. \n\nTo \nThe Secretary, \nIndia Office, \nRevenue & Statistics Department, \nSir, \nSimla, the 18th October, 1918. \n\nWith reference to your letter No.R. & S.2563 dated the 1st August, 1918, I am directed to forward a copy of a note containing the views of the Director-General of Observatories on the minutes of the Director of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, regarding the system of recording hygrometric observations. \n\n2. \nI am to add that the Government of India concur in the views expressed in Mr. Walker's note. \n\nI have etc., \n(Sgd.) A.E. Gilliat. \nUnder Secretary,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480702, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "## No. 903 F.E.\n\n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA** \nFinance Department \nSimla, the 16th August 1916.\n\nFrom \nThe Honourable Mr. H. F. Howard, C.I.E., I.C.S., \n**Offg. Secretary to the Government of India**\n\nTo \nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI am directed to reply to your letter No.2422, dated the 29th March 1916, reporting that 170 chests of opium consigned to Mexico were detained in Hongkong and re-shipped to Calcutta.\n\n2. The Government of India understand that the object which your Government have in view in making this reference is to ensure that their regulations in the matter of opium are not evaded. I am to explain that ordinarily the Government of India accept the declared destination of opium purchased at auction sales and privately exported. They, however, fully appreciate the anxiety of your Government as to the possibility of opium being smuggled into Hongkong, and will be glad to adopt such precautions as are possible in order to prevent this. Thus, they will be prepared not to grant export passes to Hongkong in circumstances which imply an intention on the part of the exporter to disregard the Hongkong Government's regulations, and also to inform that Government by ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. \n## FINANCE DEPARTMENT \n\nSimla, the 10th November, 1916.\n\n**COPY.**\n\nNo. 1062 \nB \nF.E.\n\nFrom \n**The Honourable Mr. H. F. Howard, C.I.E., I.C.S.,** \nOffg. Secretary to the Government of India.\n\nTo \n**The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter \nNo. `2422/1916`, dated the 22nd September 1916, suggesting that in \nfuture all shipments of opium eastwards from India should be consigned to the British Consular representative at the port of destination under heavy penalty in the event of non-arrival.\n\n2. In reply, I am to observe that in order to prevent smuggling into China or other eastern countries, the Government of India have limited the amount of opium offered at their auction sales to the quantity which was found to represent the normal legitimate requirements of the trade with countries in the cast, and they are of opinion that in doing so, at a considerable sacrifice of Indian revenue, they have taken all the action which they can reasonably be expected to initiate for the prevention of illicit traffic. In paragraph 2 of my letter No. `903-F.E.`, dated the 16th August 1916, they offered further co-operation in the prevention of smuggling into Hongkong from India; but they now understand that no smuggling into...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 571, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "Enclosure in Tokyo Despatch No. 338 Secret of August 15, 1919,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nReport No. L. 1.\n\nBef. H. A./80.\n\nUNMARRIED OFFICERS IN FORMOSA.\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Embassy, TOKIO.\n\n8th August 19.\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I am informed on very good authority that unmarried Japanese Officers quartered in Formosa are strongly urged (practically obliged) to deposit with their Regimental Commander 10 Yen per month of their pay whilst they are serving in that Island. The usual period of service is 3 years. At the end of this time, therefore, they have more than 360 Yen to their credit.\n\nThis sum, whilst they are in Formosa, is placed by their Colonel in the Savings Bank. Prior to leaving the Island, the Officers receive the amount deposited, plus interest, and are then allowed to go on leave to such places as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Amoy, &c. for the purpose of improving their education.\n\nReports reach us from time to time regarding the considerable number of Japanese officers visiting such places as Hong Kong, and I venture to suggest, therefore, that the information given above is of interest, as it probably accounts for the visit of many such officers to British stations in the Far East, and helps to dissipate the rumour heard now and then that such Officers have been sent there by the Japanese Authorities for the purpose of spying.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n(sd.) C. R. WOODROFFE.\n\nCopy to C. G. S.,\n\nSimla.\n\nBrigadier General, Military Attaché.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481917, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 649, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "2\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Montagu.\n\nSir,\n\nSimla, May 21, 1919. WE have the honour to refer to your telegram, dated the 20th March, 1919, in which you asked to be supplied with full information regarding shipments and transhipments of opium to Japan and Formosa, and also desired to be furnished with our observations on the measures suggested by Sir John Jordan regarding the control of the export trade to those places either by insisting on consular certificates or by total prohibition of exports to the Far East.\n\n2. Statements showing the quantity of Indian opium shipped to Japan and Formosa since 1913 and of Persian opium transhipped at Bombay for these places are annexed, while a further statement showing the names of shippers and the quantities shipped by them to Kobé, Yokohama, and Saigon is also appended. From these you will observe that the firm of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha (Limited), is responsible for practically the whole of the shipments to Japan, while the Saigon market is catered for by a number of firms. We understand in the case of the shipments to Japan that Mitsui Bussan Kaisha acted as principals, while in the case of a shipment of 150 chests to Saigon they were acting as agents only. We consider it not unlikely that a portion of the opium shipped to Saigon eventually finds its way to Japan and thence into China, but though we have made such enquiries on this point as are possible here, we have not been able to obtain any information on the point.\n\n3. The despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, dated the 30th December, 1918, to which reference is made in your telegram, raises the wider question of the effective control of export to the Far East. In view of certain remarks made in this and subsequent despatches from His Majesty's Minister which appear to suggest that India can legitimately be called upon to make further sacrifices on behalf of China, we consider it desirable to review briefly the measures which have been adopted by us since export to China ceased. As we stated in our despatch, dated the 30th April, 1914, we have throughout been ready to adopt any measure of co-operation and restriction which may be required to secure the prevention of the smuggling of opium, and in paragraph 2 of that despatch we summarised the action taken by us up to that date:\n\n'Thus, on the conclusion in 1911 of the agreement with China, we voluntarily placed an absolute limit on our exports to the non-China markets, and have consistently acted on the principle that such exports should not exceed the legitimate requirements of the countries concerned. We have also expressed our readiness to adhere to Resolution No. 4 of the Shanghai International Opium Commission, regarding the prohibition of the export of opium to countries which prohibit its import. Later, on coming to more specific action, we have co-operated in arrangements culminating in an agreement with the Portuguese authorities, which will prevent the use of Macao as a centre for the distribution of smuggled opium. As regards the general regulation of the opium traffic in India itself, it need hardly be pointed out that, although a very large quantity of the drug is produced in this country, the entire trade is under the most effective control, and no opium can leave the country without official authority and otherwise than under the strictest regulations. Finally, by accepting the principle of direct sales to the Government of Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, we have quite recently indicated our readiness to substitute a system of direct sales at the option of the purchasing Governments, in lieu of the present system of auction sales to private traders.'\n\n4. In subsequent years the system of direct sales has been extended to the Dutch East Indies, British North Borneo, and Siam. At the time when export to China ceased, it was calculated that the average annual consumption of the markets outside China was about 13,200 chests, and we thereupon deliberately limited our exports to that quantity. With every extension of the system of direct sales, the quantity of opium offered at our auctions has been reduced to an extent roughly corresponding to the estimated requirements of the countries with whom these agreements were concluded, with the result that in 1918 only 5,600 chests were auctioned, this figure roughly corresponding to the actual exports from India during that year of 3,790 chests to Saigon and 1,681 chests to Japan. (Apart from these quantities small shipments of 70 chests and 47 chests were made during the year to Ceylon and Mauritius, respectively.) In 1919, owing to the shortage of our own stocks, we have gone still lower than this, and the amounts at present being offered for sale at auction have been reduced to 300 chests a month.\n\n5. We may now turn to the obligations which we should be required to undertake under the International Opium Convention of 1912 should this be ratified. The essential relevant obligations are those contained in its article 3:\n\nThe contracting Powers shall take measures-\n\n(a) To prevent the export of raw opium to countries which shall have prohibited its entry, and\n\n(b) To control the export of raw opium to countries which restrict its import, unless regulations on the subject are already in existence.\n\nWe consider that we can reasonably claim that we are already complying with the spirit as well as the letter of this article. Thus, so far as China is concerned, we are not permitting export from India to that country, and it is from the nature of the case impossible for us to take active preventive measures to check smuggling into China even if it were incumbent on us to do so. Apart from China, the greater part of our exported opium is shipped to countries with which definite agreements have been concluded, while as regards other countries our exports have been limited to a figure believed to be well within their legitimate requirements.\n\n6. In fact it appears that the position of nine years ago has recurred. The Central Government in China declares its desire to suppress opium from the highest motives, and we have no reason whatsoever to doubt its sincerity. But the provincial authorities are apparently not all in accord with the central policy, and connive at much illicit cultivation, from which the people derive to a considerable extent a substitute for the opium which India has ceased to send them. We are being urged to take drastic measures, at the sacrifice of Indian revenues, to prevent any of our opium being smuggled by third parties into China. We are most willing to help, as our past policy has fully demonstrated; but we cannot participate more effectively than we are doing now unless China is equal to make its own policy effective. It appears to us that it is unreasonable that we should be asked to make sacrifices, at the cost of the Indian tax-payer, which would not bring at least corresponding benefits to China.\n\n7. We have, as explained above, cut down our auction sales to the limit of what we believe to be the legitimate needs of our non-agreement customers. We recognise, however, that it is desirable to test what their legitimate needs actually are and whether we have over-estimated these or not. The simplest method of effecting this would be an extension of the agreement system to French Indo-China and Japan, as also to our smaller customers, viz., Ceylon and Mauritius. We, on our part, would readily assent to such an arrangement, which, in the case of Ceylon and Mauritius, at any rate, should present no difficulty. If you concur in our views, we suggest that in the case of France and Japan the necessary negotiations should be set on foot in connection with the question of the ratification of the Opium Convention of 1912; we understand that a suggestion has been made that this matter should be considered by a meeting of representatives of all the Powers concerned who are parties to the Peace Conference. If France and Japan can then be induced to say definitely how much of our opium they need for their recognised purposes, we are ready to let them have those amounts at a fair fixed price and to discontinue our miscellaneous auctions altogether. Even if France alone is prepared to enter into such an arrangement, we should be willing to cut down to a very low figure our auctions for the Japanese market, and also to adopt the expedient of export under British consular certificates: though it is not unfair to surmise that Japan will be able to supply any deficiency by purchasing Persian or Turkish opium.\n\n8. The actual price to be charged under agreements such as those which we suggest would be a matter for negotiation. Our general views as to the methods to be adopted for fixing the price of opium under arrangements for direct sales were first placed before you in our despatch, dated the 20th April, 1917. Since the first agreements were made, the prices realised at our auctions have risen considerably, and in the latest agreement made with the Straits Settlements the price was fixed at 3,000 rupees a chest. We have recently further raised the upset price at our auctions to 4,000 rupees, and the latest sales have been made at a rate in excess of ...\n\n3\n\n633", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481925, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 657, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nC.R.S.S.14437(3).\n\nFrom: The General Officer Commanding the Troops,\n\nStraits Settlements,\n\nTo:\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Minister,\n\nPeking.\n\n623\n\nMilitary Headquarters, S.S.,\n\nFort Canning,\n\nSingapore.\n\n7th July, 1919.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward for Your Excellency's information, the attached list of Bolsheviks in the Far East, published by the War Office on 30th November 1918.\n\nSeveral of these people are already on our Suspect List and information regarding them has been circulated either in the General Staff Appendix to War Diary or in the Secret Abstracts of Intelligence of this Command.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(sd.) Dudley Ridout, Major General.\n\nCommanding the Troops, Straits Settlements.\n\nCopy to:-\n\nH.B.M. Consul General, Batavia\n\nH.B.M. Minister, Bangkok\n\nH.B.M. Consul General, Shanghai\n\nH.B.M. Consul General, Manila\n\nChief of the Commonwealth Section, Imperial General Staff, Melbourne.\n\nChief of the General Staff, Simla\n\nThe General Staff, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 482033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "content_text": "69\n\nEnclosure to para. 29 of General Despatch No. 58 (Army), dated the 31st July 1919.\n\nReport on the treatment of Chinese artisans as Summarised in letter No. 8 in 1069-1916, dated the 30th September 1918, from Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, to the Chief of the General Staff, Simla.\n\nParagraph (2) of Colonial Secretary's letter,\n\nThe facts of the case are substantially as stated. The trouble was due, to a great extent, to a want of appreciation of the peculiar needs of Chinese when travelling by rail. The first cause of trouble was a demand by the Chinese for chop sticks and plates before entraining. The former were provided at once in Calcutta and put in the train, and a wire was despatched asking that the latter should be placed in the train en route. The train started late from Howrah in consequence and arrived at the first stopping place, Chakdharpur, about 3 hours late on the 30th April 1918. The men who had had a meal early on the 29th April had by this time consumed more of their rations than they ought to have done. Mr. Colin Campbell, the Conductor in charge, wired to the Commandant, Combined Labour Depot, Bombay, to arrange for rations at Nagpore and also to the Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore. Cooked rations were sent by the Commandant, Combined Labour Depot, to Nagpore. The Deputy Commissioner provided cooked rice at Nagpore. The cooked rations, chiefly consisting of tinned meats, were provided at Manmad, after which there was no further trouble. As regards the Conductors, there are refreshment rooms en route, at which they could have been served.\n\nParagraph (3) of Colonial Secretary's letter.—For this contingent, third-class stock at 43 men per bogie was supplied, together with an upper-class bogie for the Conducting Officer, Supervisor, sub-Assistant Surgeon, and Hospital.\n\nThe Supervisor in charge, Mr. Morris, stated, on disembarking, that the Chinese were accustomed to three hot meals a day and should have their third before entraining. As there was no time to arrange this, a supply of 1 lb. of bread per man was issued at Howrah, and Mr. Morris was advised accordingly.\n\nRations were supplied at the docks according to the scale laid down for Chinese in Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force General Routine Order No. 241362 of 1917, with the exception of fresh meat. Mr. Morris refused this and also an offer of tinned meat in lieu; we are not aware of the reason. Rations were provided, two days for the journey and one day's reserve. Cooking coppers, camp kettles, ladles, chop sticks, and Chinese bowls, sufficient for all, were also supplied. An escort of one British Officer and 30 Indian ranks accompanied the party to Bombay.\n\nParagraphs (4) and (5) of Colonial Secretary's letter.—Though the incidents referred to are regretted, we are inclined to the opinion that the Chinese labourers must be regarded as somewhat difficult to please, especially in time of war, when our shipping was fully utilised by various classes of personnel who had to be catered for.\n\nParagraph (6) of Colonial Secretary's letter.—The \"Santhia\" had on board a Chinese contractor whose duty it was to ration the men throughout the voyage, and the trouble has been due (1) to the failure of the contractor to make adequate provision, (2) to the failure of the authorities at Shanghai to advise the proper authority in Singapore of the despatch of the draft.\n\nOn receipt of the original complaint, an officer of Army Headquarters was despatched to Calcutta to make enquiries, as a result of which complete instructions were drawn up, copy enclosed, for dealing with Chinese. These orders have worked satisfactorily.\n\nThis officer also arranged that Chinese should not, as a general rule, be entrained direct from the Transport, but should go to a selected Chinese Boarding House for the night. While in the Boarding House, a money allowance is given to each man in order to make provision for the train journey, and they are advised, through the medium of Chinese interpreters, of the nature of the journey they have before them and what they will require en route.\n\nThe Boarding House affords facilities for the purchase of bowls, chop sticks, and the food peculiar to Chinese, and in practice, the money allowance has proved to be the most satisfactory way of dealing with this class.\n\nOfficers experienced with Chinese have also been appointed to conduct parties to and from India. The recruitment of Chinese has now been stopped, and all those in East Africa and Mesopotamia are being repatriated as rapidly as possible.\n\n257AD-20-29-7-19-GCPS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 482034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "content_text": "Memorandum No. 1514-G., dated Simla, the 17th August 1919.\n\nThe following instructions are issued for guidance in regard to repatriation and expatriation of such Chinese as are recruited in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and neighbouring places.\n\nRepatriation—Repatriates will be collected from overseas bases at the Combined Labour Depot, Wadi Bunder, Bombay.\n\nAs a general rule such men will be repatriated via Madras.\n\n(1) The Commandant of the Combined Labour Depot will ascertain the date and time of departure of the vessel and inform \"Control\" by telegram of the number to be despatched and the date and time they should arrive at Madras for embarkation. \"Control\" will then issue movement orders for the party.\n\n(2) The General Officer Commanding, Madras, will be advised by \"Control\" of the time and date of arrival and number of the party, and will make the requisite arrangement for their direct embarkation, or accommodation, rationing and subsequent embarkation, as may be necessary.\n\n(3) The General Officer Commanding, Madras, will wire the General Officer Commanding, Singapore, advising departure and stating the numbers for Singapore and beyond separately, and whether in the case of men for beyond Singapore they have been booked through.\n\n(4) The General Officer Commanding, Singapore, has undertaken to make the necessary arrangements for paying off such personnel as were originally recruited in Singapore or vicinity, and to accommodate if necessary and subsequently despatch to the Recruiting Officer, Shanghai, such men as were recruited by him, advising that officer of numbers and probable date of arrival.\n\n(5) On arrival at Shanghai the Recruiting Officer will settle up with such men as were recruited through him.\n\n(6) The Commandant, Combined Labour Depot, will see that all men are despatched with complete papers showing up to what date they have been paid and what their rate of pay is. He will also see that they are provided with rations for the journey to Madras.\n\nRepatriation via Calcutta.\n\n(7) In cases of repatriation via Calcutta the Officer Commanding, Combined Labour Depot, will ascertain the sailing date of steamers, arrange for the despatch of small numbers direct, or, in the case of large numbers, through \"Control\". The Officer Commanding, Combined Labour Depot, will advise the Technical Recruiting Officer, Calcutta, of date and hour of arrival at Calcutta and the latter officer will arrange for their reception, housing, rationing and embarkation. He will also wire the General Officer Commanding, Singapore, as detailed in paragraph (3) above.\n\n(8) Repatriation via Bombay will be done entirely by the Officer Commanding, Combined Labour Depot, in consultation with the Embarkation Commandant, and the information detailed in paragraph (3) above will be telegraphed by the Officer Commanding, Combined Labour Depot.\n\nExpatriation.\n\n(1) As a general rule Chinese expatriates will arrive at Madras.\n\nIn all cases despatches will be cabled to the War Section, Army Headquarters, India, a copy being sent to the General Officer Commanding at the port concerned. In the case of men from beyond Singapore the General Officer Commanding, Singapore, will also be informed.\n\nPage 70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "Page 361\n\nCopy.\n\nKARDHINT\n\n¿nożnot „zeRTS VOD\n\nΠΟΤΙ\n\n> (\n\n.Pilnī „verocił .VICI\n\nOT\n\nFrom\n\n,90% NJSI\n\ncana bedek wibni te iddasm erò ni noitroi?itok\n\ndepą odady ddiw zimeg ti Lela od (in Q¿0€ f.ol dozek at gnojok de sciloy to Jnobrednitaqu? yd bawa-İ rett veillevend nibal to suviden rol droger.nq ne bedquoor Leibni od proof\n\nTo\n\nDete\n\n199\n\nTELEGRAM\n\nSecretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla.\n\nGovernor, Hongkong.\n\n16th June, 1920.\n\nYour telegram of 12th June. Government of India regret inability to accept suggested relaxation in passport regulations to which they attach great importance unless there are strong local reasons for it,\n\nFOREIGN.\n\nPage 362\n\n \n(empty lines or page numbers, actual content to follow)\n\n(to be continued)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nNo.1067/1917.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHongkong, 20th June, 1917.\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 16th June, I\n\nam directed to state that under the passport regulations in force in Hongkong natives of India desiring passports are\n\nrequired to forward with their applications a recommendation\n\nfrom the Government of India or from the India Office.\n\n2.\n\nThis rule is based upon a similar rule obtaining in the United Kingdom, and it is applied in all cases except\n\nthose of well known residents of Hongkong.\n\n3.\n\nIt is of course impracticable in most cases for\n\nthe Indians who proceed from Hongkong to India to obtain a\n\nrecommendation from the Government of India, except after\n\nconsiderable delay; and, apart from the case of Indians in\n\nGovernment employment, it is not possible to ascertain, except\n\nin so far as racial characteristics may be accepted as proof,\n\nwhether an applicant is in fact a British subject.\n\n4.\n\nIt must be remembered that Hongkong is the shipping centre in the Far East to which Indians come from America\n\nand all parts of the East seeking transport to India; and this\n\nGovernment cannot see its way to issue British passports to all\n\nand sundry who may state that they are natives of British India. Such passports would obviously be useless for any purpose for\n\nwhich the Government of India require passports.\n\n5.\n\nUnless, therefore, some such arrangement as is\n\nindicated in my telegram of the 12th June is adopted it will be necessary for this Government in future to inform persons claiming to be natives of British India, who are unknown to it, that\n\nSecretary to the Government of India,\n\nForeign Department,\n\nSIMLA.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "Page 202\n\nNo.13330.\n\nSimla, 28th August, 1917.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the correspondence ending with your letter No.1067/1917 dated the 20th June, 1917, I am directed to inform you that in the circumstances explained the Governor-General of India in Council has been pleased to exempt by order in writing under rule 4 of the Defence of India (Passport) Rules, 1917, all natives of India travelling from Hongkong to India from the operation of rule 3 of the said Rules provided that they are in possession of permits (with photographs) issued by the Superintendent of Police at Hongkong. These permits should contain a full description of the bearer.\n\n2. I am to request that copies of all such permits (with photographs) may be furnished to the Government of India, who should also continue to be apprised by cable, as at present, of all Indians returning to India from Hongkong.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nI have, etc.\n\nSd.\n\nA. H. GRANT,\n\nSecretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department.\n\nPage 203", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485904, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## No. 6996.\n\nSpare copy.\n\n**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.**\n\n**DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, AND INDUSTRY**\n\n9420 1920 \n191. \n257 \n\nSimla, the 14th October 1920.\n\nJ. G. PRAZLEY, I.C.S., \n**DEPUTY SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**\n\nSir,\n\nThe Secretary, \nRevenue and Statistics Department, \nIndia Office, London.\n\nIn continuation of Mr. Corbett's letter No.2131, dated the 30th April 1913, I am directed to forward a copy of a letter from the Government of Bengal No.343-T/Com., dated the 29th September 1920, reporting the present position of the affairs of the Calcutta branch of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank which is under liquidation. Further communication will be made to you on receipt of the Local Government's report when the liquidation has been completed.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nYour most obedient servant, \nJ. G. PRAZLEY, \n**DEPUTY SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485909, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## COPY OF TELEGRAM\nFROM Viceroy Finance Dept: to Secretary of State for India.\n\nDATED Simla, 1.11.20. RECEIVED AT INDIA OFFICE 3rd, 4 p.m., November, 1918.\n\nPlease refer to your telegram dated 14th regarding renewal of Straits Settlement Opium Agreement. Para 2, Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, now requests renewal of Agreement for further five years from 1st January 1921, with requirements of 10 chests monthly, and they agree to pay £4,000 per chest. We propose to agree and request your approval by telegraph.\n\nPara 3. As there is no sale of Council Opium at present, arrangements for payment reported in our telegram dated 20th June 1917, 958.7.E., is unsuitable. We have no information regarding the rate at which payment is made to you by Colonial Government under the present agreement, and would be glad to know what rate should be suggested to them for the future.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th May, 1921.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the correspondence noted in the margin, I am directed to enclose for the information of your Government copies of correspondence with the Government of Macao and of a despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies dealing with the import of opium into Macao.\n\n| Colonial Secretary's telegram of 14th March, 1921. |\n| Colonial Secretary's letter of 29th March, 1921. |\n\nIf the policy which is understood to be favoured by the Indian Government of restricting transactions in opium to direct dealings with responsible Governments is adopted, the Agreement of 14th June, 1913, for the supply of opium to Macao would seem to require revision as there would no longer appear to be any legitimate use for the 240 chests which under Article 4 are \"destined for exportation to countries which have not prohibited at present, or which shall not hereafter prohibit, such imports of opium.\"\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**(Sd.) CLAUD SEVERN, Colonial Secretary.**\n\nThe Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department, SIMLA.\n\nEnclosure 4. COPY. `5473/1922` \n... \nother unrelated OCR text fragments are not included in the output.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487545, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 5\n\n512\n\n**From**: Secretary to Government of India, Simla \n**To**: Colonial Secretary, Hongkong \n**Date**: 19th April, 1921 \n\n**Translation of Code Telegram**\n\nYour telegram March 14th. Opium to Macao. Irregularity occurred owing to accident. Usual procedure indicated by you will be maintained in future.\n\n**SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA** \n**SECRETARY** \n`GN II DIA`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure \n\n### Paraphrase of Cypher Telegram\n\n| From | To | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Governor, Hongkong | Viceroy, Simla, India | 24th March, 1921 |\n\nPresent powers of dealing with undesirable Indians under war legislation likely to terminate in near future. In view of Indian Garrison necessary to retain powers of deportation of seditious and undesirable Indians. Would be glad of information as to powers permanently retained in India for controlling movements of seditious persons and of advice as to best method of dealing with problem here.\n\nGOVERNOR\n\nPage 150 \nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2.\n\n146\n\n**Paraphrase of Cypher Telegram**\n\n| From | To | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Viceroy, Simla, India. | Governor, Hongkong. | 26th April, 1921. |\n\nWith reference to your telegram of March 26th there is no objection on the part of the Government of India to legislation on the lines of the China (Amendment) Order in Council, 1920, but the power to deport should apply to \"every person subject to Criminal Jurisdiction of the Court\". Indians should not be specifically mentioned in this connection.\n\n**VICEROY HOME No.686**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488965, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# OPIUM.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n[F3266/17/10]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 18.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received December 18.)\n\nIndia Office, December 17, 1920. WITH reference to the correspondence ending with your communication dated the 25th June, 1920, on the subject of the cultivation of poppy on the Burma frontier, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, for the information of Earl Curzon of Kedleston, a copy of the despatch from the Government of India, dated the 4th November, 1920, with enclosures.\n\nE. J. TURNER.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment of India to Mr. Montagu.\n\nSimla, November 4, 1920. WE have the honour to invite a reference to paragraph 7 of your despatch dated the 11th September, 1919, on the subject of the alleged smuggling of opium from Burma into Yunnan, and the cultivation of the poppy on the Burma-Yunnan frontier, and to forward a copy of a letter from the Government of Burma, together with its enclosures, stating the measures which they propose to adopt with a view to the prevention of the smuggling of opium into China, and the gradual reduction of the cultivation of the poppy in the frontier tracts bordering on Yunnan.\n\n2. We entirely concur in the recommendations of the Government of Burma, and have approved the measures which they propose to adopt in the matter.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nC. C. MONRO. \nG. R. LOWNDES. \nG. S. BARNES. \nW. H. VINCENT. \nW. M. HAILEY.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment of Burma to Government of India.\n\nMaymyo, September 15, 1920. WITH reference to the correspondence ending with Mr. Nixon's letter, dated the 26th June, 1920, concerning the cultivation of poppy in the Shan States and the smuggling of opium into China, I am now to submit, for the approval of the Government of India, the Lieutenant-Governor's considered proposals for dealing with these complex and difficult questions, and am also to enclose, for the Government of India's perusal, a letter from the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma, dated the 12th August, 1920, together with its various annexures.\n\n2. The Government of India will doubtless appreciate that the formulation of a definite policy has not been altogether an easy matter. On the one hand, the general interests of humanity and civilisation, quite apart from definite treaty obligations, would seem to indicate that a policy of total suppression was the only possible course, while on the other hand there is the hard fact that Government's control over these frontier tracts is in some cases very shadowy, in others incomplete, and, in the case of all, action involves interference with liberties which these untutored tribes are likely to resent. It is therefore clear that one uniform line of action would be inappropriate, and that repressive measures must in the main depend on political considerations and on the degree of administrative control actually exercised.\n\n3. After careful consideration and full consultation with experienced local...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489292, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "281 \n\nVATO JUS 81 \n\nDININIGE T (11/15/10). \n\nMOITOHL To unfat? Japan seakly Chrondele. 437, Jadi erotette debuget de maĮ „0% thang Yai almostat htel vut „dainket se na 19e% 40%* a dig? OM 24 ASID ɛga 12 la IPERINE VIA à =47 »! \n\nSome time ago the General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association wrote a letter to Mr. Vahida Aghohai, President of the \"Simla Anti-Opium Society\" and Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medalist of the Asian Society, asking for his assistance in founding an anti-opium society in Japan to supplement the work of that in London. Will the Japan Anti-Opium Society be a publication whose controversial methods preclude the possibility of holding it in any respect, and whose general tone is calculated to put the reader against Japan, whose interpreter is now something exceptionally ignorant, and for the lokuzynani, it is one of those societies which profess to study things Chinese, and which, being very common in Japan, seem to say thẳng to rehabilitate the name of Japan with the Chinese.\n\nAn anti-opium sensation did not quite appreciate the real standing of Mr. Vahida, his review, and his ability, when they wrote to him as well as to a number of distinguished Japanese. Mr. Vahida, however, takes the opportunity to publish both the letter and his reply in the pages of his review for Japan. He begins his reply with an expression of appreciation of the Anti-Opium Association's \"noble offers\", and goes on, \"but I may inform you that Japan is practically free from the case of drug habit, nor is there any manufacture of opium and its derivatives\". Mr. Vahida doubts whether it is really good to form any anti-opium society in Japan, as it is... \n\nOF, POGROS/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# Viceroy, Army Dept., to Secretary of State for India\n\nSimla, 6th May, 1921.\n\nReceived 9th May, 1921. 10,8,8.\n\n165\n\n727, 6/5. Second and last part.\n\nIf these proposals are accepted, all Indian battalions except Gurkhas will be on one roster for Foreign Service. This will be popular with Indian troops.\n\nThe second alternative is that garrison of Indian troops for all over-sea localities including mandated territories should be found by adding one or more regular active battalions to each twenty Indian infantry groups and to each three Pioneer groups, if Pioneer battalions are required in addition. Any such battalions would of course be extra to India's requirements, 120 Infantry and 12 Pioneer battalions. The Increased Indian Army thus formed, would, with the exception of Gurkhas, be on one roster for over-sea service.\n\nTo admit of maintenance of battalions serving over-sea it will be necessary to retain in India one training company for each battalion so employed, the cost of which would also fall on Imperial Revenues. The Personnel of these training companies would be added to the strength of our existing training battalions.\n\nThe tour of service over-sea might be fixed at say four years. If Cavalry are required for any mandated territories we can supply, but we shall require immediate notice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490162, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 653, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# MATIAN DUMTSI\n\n## FINDING\n\n651 Gåget, að en vet sidlaøng dood 206, DAL DA AKAN fitges 1 \n\nIn conclusion, I shall be glad to learn whether the Portuguese Government propose to refer the general question at issue to the League of Nations. I would point out that it is most important to His Majesty's Government that definite steps should be definitely initiated to ensure a final settlement of the whole boundary question.\n\nI have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, Your obedient Servant,\n\n## Other Text\n\nThe remaining text appears to be garbled and contains non-English characters, possibly due to OCR errors.\n\n\nSome recognizable phrases and words were found in the rest of the text, but they do not form coherent paragraphs or sentences.\n\n\nPage 060", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491066, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "SP1262/1921\n\nShould the Secretary of State decide to adopt the recommendation of the official conference of the I.M.S. at Simla for the appointment of a sanitary commissioner on the lines and duties, I shall be glad if my name may be considered in connection therewith.\n\nI was for many years principal medical officer, Hong Kong, and have had an extensive experience in the prevention of tropical diseases. I retired in 1917 owing to some trouble with one of my eyes, but I am perfectly restored to health.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492100, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "198\n\nThe Hon. Mr. D. Y. Perkins, senior partner in the Straits legal firm of Messrs. Drew and Napier, has recently retired from the Colony after a residence of 21 years. He had been an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Colony since 1918. In 1910 Mr. Perkins married, in Singapore, the second daughter of the late Sir John Anderson, then Governor of the Straits Settlements. In social circles both Mr. and Mrs. D. Y. Perkins have held a high place in the colony and they will be greatly missed.\n\nLiving costs in Tokyo, highest of any city in the world, are the real cause of the closing of the Rumanian Legation here this month, according to the Hochi. The Rumanian Minister, his First Secretary and Military Attaché have received instructions to close the Legation temporarily and are making preparations to sail for home within the next few weeks. According to the newspaper, the appropriation for the maintenance of a Legation in Tokyo felt justified by Rumania has not proved sufficient to meet present price levels.\n\nAccording to Japanese native papers, the officials of the Yokohama Dockyard Co. have decided to wait until the pinch of want drives the workmen who are now on strike back to their jobs. The officials seem confident that this will come about before long. The strikers are selling bread and groceries to raise strike funds and declare they are able to carry on the struggle for at least six months. All the repair works in the docks has been entrusted to other companies, with the exception of that on the Kaga and the Kamo, which is almost complete.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nThe British Legation Chapel in Peking was the scene of a pretty wedding on the 7th inst., when Mrs. Belcher, widow of the late Major F. P. Belcher, R.A.F., was married to Mr. E. C. Mieville, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Mieville of London. The bride was given away by Sir Beilby Alston, H. M. Minister, Lady Alston acting as proxy for her mother, and Mr. L. N. Mackinnon, of Tientsin, was best man. Following the ceremony, the guests assembled at Sir Beilby Alston's house to tender their congratulations. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Mieville left for Tientsin, where the first portion of the honeymoon is being spent.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nThe Czecho-Slovak Republic has conferred on Temp. Lt.-Colonel John Ward, C.B., C.M.G., the Croix de Guerre.\n\nMr. Charles Henry Wailar, a visitor staying at the Peak Hotel, suddenly died on March 22nd from heart failure. The deceased arrived here last week from Bombay.\n\n\"Assaulting the police appears to be a favourite occupation now-a-days,\" said Mr. Lindsel, at the Magistracy, on March 21st, in sentencing a man to six weeks' imprisonment for an attack on a Chinese constable.\n\nIt is announced that Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., have been appointed agents of the London Liverpool & Globe Insurance Co., Ltd., for Hongkong and Canton, and that the present branch offices of the Company in Hongkong and Canton will be closed from 1st April.\n\nLt. Col. F. S. Penny, R.A.M.C., who, as a major, has recently been promoted to colonel. He served as an assistant-director of medical services in the late war, winning the C.M.G. and D.S.O., and had previous field service in South Africa.\n\n[March 5th, 1929.]\n\nFour armed men entered a house in Shanghai Street about 9.30 at night on March 22nd. Having driven the inmates into a cubicle, they robbed the house at their pleasure, stealing $59 worth of jewellery and $104 in cash.\n\nThere was quite a lively scene in Yau Ma Tei the other night, when a mob of Chinese surrounded the police station crying for vengeance upon an Indian constable.\n\nAs far as could be gathered, it was alleged that the constable, who was off duty, had assaulted a Chinese. Quiet was not restored until a considerable force of police had been marched to the scene by Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse and Mr. T. H. King. A baton charge dispersed the mob which numbered some hundreds.\n\nLady Stubbs opened a small bazaar held on March 20th in the Church Hall of St. Andrew's, Kowloon, in aid of the Mission Hospital at Yunnanfu and St. Dunstan's Home for Blinded Soldiers. H.E. Sir John Fowler, K.C.M.G., C.B., presided at the opening ceremony. Instructive missionary exhibits were on view and kinematograph films were shown during the evening also illustrative of missionary work. A large number of helpers contributed efforts to make the affair a success.\n\nMr. O. T. Breakspear, manager of the Publicity Bureau for South China, is leaving for Home by the City of Simla towards the end of the present month. The work of the Bureau will be carried on by Capt. A. G. McClay, who has recently arrived. During the past three years Mr. Breakspear has been the Hon. Corresponding Secretary for the Overseas Club in the Colony, and Mr. Eric Rice has consented to take over these duties in the meantime.\n\nUnder the title of labour organizations before the war, the Government Bureau of Economic Information publishes a list of 47 bodies. The workers who are so organized include labourers, cooks, employees of vegetable shops, printers, seamen, mechanics, warehouse coolies, girl hosiery makers, weavers, blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, laundrymen, tailors, barbers and shoemakers. The list also includes a ricksha coolies association, but a note explains that this has been organized by the managers of ricksha concerns and has no relation with the coolies at all.\n\nShanghai residents, and perhaps the Shanghai police, who were startled some weeks ago by the killing of a Korean in broad day in a public thoroughfare (says the Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News) may be interested to know that the victim was not named Yang, as then reported, but was the more or less notorious Kim Lip, an agent of the Irkutsk bureau for the dissemination of Communist propaganda among Oriental peoples, who came to Peking last summer with Russian gold to the value of $400,000 and resided for some time at various road houses in the Western Hills.\n\nThe inevitable has happened. Costs are rising as a consequence of the strike. By advertisement this week the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., and Holt's Wharf announce that from the 1st of next month the charges for landing, shipping and storing cargo will be increased by 10 per cent., owing to the increased cost of working and maintenance.\n\n56\n\nMr. William Yinson Lee, a prominent merchant of Sydney, arrived last week by the s.s. Arafura on a business trip to Hongkong and South China. During the recent visit of the Prince of Wales to Australia Mr. Yinson Lee had the honour of presenting the address of welcome from the Chinese community of all the States of the Commonwealth to His Royal Highness.\n\nThe health return for the week records 15 cases of plague (all Chinese excepting one Portuguese case). Eleven of the Chinese cases proved fatal. There were also three fatal cases of small-pox (Chinese); two non-fatal enteric and paratyphoid fever; and one non-fatal case of scarlet fever (British) and one of relapsing fever. Influenza accounted for two deaths during the week.\n\nA rice merchant was attacked by four men, whilst riding in his private ricksha on March 16th, and robbed of $146. The attack took place at the junction of Wilmer Street with Des Voeux Road. One of the men threw pepper in his victim's face, and the others dragged him out of the ricksha. A wallet containing a quantity of notes was stolen. An attempt by one of the men to snatch his gold watch and chain failed. The robbers disappeared when the merchant blew his police whistle.\n\nAmong the passengers who left the Colony by the Andre Lebon were M. Reau, the French Consul-General, who, we understand, will not be returning to Hongkong. M. Reau's departure is much regretted by the French community and many friends of other nationalities. Other well-known French residents of the Colony who left by the French mail steamer for France with no intention of returning were M. and Madame Lecab'e. As agent of the Société des Charbonnages du Tonkin M. Lecab'e had resided in the Colony for some years and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. M. and Madame Lecable intend to settle in France.\n\nA clipping from a home paper has now been received giving further details of the tragedy which occurred at Gibraltar.\n\nA serious collision occurred on Praya East on March 18th. Two motor cars, which were meeting one another, were about to pass, opposite Wai Wo's yard. At that point, also, two or three rickshas were proceeding westwards. The driver of the west-bound motor car (which belonged to the Dragon Garage) misjudged the available space and caught one of the rickshas full in the back. The occupant, Mr. H. Gelling, of the Daily Press, was hurled by the force of the impact a distance of some yards and narrowly escaped crushing his head against a verandah pillar, which was only missed by inches. As it was, he sustained many severe contusions and is now under treatment by Dr. Dalmahoy Allan. The ricksha coolie was hurt about the head and the ricksha is a wreck.\n\nThe names of a special jury were called for the Praya murder trial at the Criminal Sessions on March 20th. Later Mr. W. S. Bailey arrived in Court and explained to the Chief Justice that pressure of work had caused him to overlook the matter; he was very sorry. The Judge said it was a very serious matter. In consequence of Mr. Bailey's absence another gentleman had to serve in his place. The Chief Justice added that he could see no possible excuse whatever and Mr. Bailey would be fined $50.\n\nA report states: \"Dr. Lovell Moss, who has a medical practice here, was returning by motor-car from a dance to his residence at Algeciras, accompanied by his wife and sister-in-law and chauffeur and assistant chauffeur, when he was caught in the chains at a level crossing on the Andulaces Railway at Los Barrios, and almost simultaneously run into by a troop train. Mrs. Moss and the two chauffeurs were killed on the spot, while the doctor and his sister-in-law were conveyed to a hospital here, where they are lying in a critical condition.\" News has since been received in Shanghai that Miss Molloy died the day after the accident and Dr. Moss the day following.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492962, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "306\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nTHE BLUE FUNNEL LINE\n\nREGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nLONDON\n\nTEIRESIAS PELEUS ANTILOCHUS HYSON\n\nSERVICE (Direct)\n\n25th Sept. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp 2nd Oct. London, Rotterdam & Hamburg. 9th Oct. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp 16th Oct. London, Rotterdam & Antwerp\n\nLIVERPOOL SERVICE (Direct or via Continental Ports)\n\nKT. TEMPLAR TYDEUS OVESTES\n\n4th Oct. Marseilles, Havre & Liverpool 20th Oct. Genoa, Marseilles, Liverpool & Glasgow.\n\n4th Nov. Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow.\n\nPACIFIC SERVICE (via Kobe and Yokohama)\n\nTYNQAREUS PROTESILAUS\n\n17th Oct. Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver 7th Nov.\n\nNEW YORK SERVICE (via Suez or Panama)\n\nANTILOCHUS AGAMEMNON TEUCER TERESIAS PYRRHUS PYRRHUS\n\n5th Oct. via Suez 25th Oct. via Suez 15 Nov. via Suez\n\nPASSENGER SERVICE\n\n25th Sept. for Singapore & London 1st Nov for Shanghai & Japan 4th Nov. for Singapore & London\n\nFor Freight and Passage Rates and further information apply to :-\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.) AGENTS.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.\n\nRegular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong, Swatow and return.\n\nS. S. \"BAKA\" Due S. S. \"BINTANG\" Will leave for Bangkok via Swatow\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., Agents. CONSIGNEES.\n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE.\n\nThe Steamship \"PRESIDENT MCKINLEY\" having arrived from Manila P. I on Sep. 21 consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., at Kowloon, and stored at consignees' risk.\n\nConsignees of cargo must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading will be counter-signed.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nEARLIER TELEGRAMS. (Continued from Page 3)\n\nTHE ALLIES AND TURKEY.\n\nParis, Sept. 21.\n\nAn account of the proceedings of the Foreign Ministers' Conference yesterday is contained in the semi-official statement which says that Lord Curzon expressed great astonishment at the fact that while the British had decided to reinforce her troops at Chanak, both France and Italy had resolved to withdraw their contingents from the south side of the Sea of Marmora.\n\nLord Curzon considered that the Franco-Italian decision hardly conformed with the agreements of 1915 and 1918, providing for partial Inter-Allied occupation of Turkish territory.\n\nM. Poincare regarded the agreements as being at present inapplicable, as no conflict was feared when the allocation of troops was provided thereunder. He added that French opinion would not permit French troops to act with the Greeks and he argued that if Chanak was held, the whole of the southern shore of the Sea of Marmora ought equally to be occupied.\n\nKemalists would entertain peace proposals.\n\nSignor Sforza, agreeing with M. Poincare, believed that the discussions on the acceptable basis of agreement cabled last night and which just then arrived.\n\nThe Conference decided, in principle, to hold a Peace Conference at Venice, but pointed out that Russia had not been invited as she was not directly interested, the Soviet-Angora Treaty specifically excluding Russian decisions affecting the sovereignty of Turkey and the security of Constantinople.\n\nM. Poincare further pointed out the military objection to the Allies fighting with their backs to the sea. He also pointed out the undesirable effect upon the Islamic world if Britain adopted an uncompromising or bellicose attitude.\n\nIt is semi-officially declared that the problem cannot be referred to the League of Nations as urged by Dr. Nansen and Dominion representatives, as it is a Government matter.\n\nThe document states that the Foreign Minister's decision marks a big step on the road to peace.\n\nAll broken, chafed and damaged cargo is to be left in the Godowns, where it will be examined at 10 a.m. on 26th inst., by the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Anderson & Ashe.\n\nAll claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.\n\nNo claims will be recognised after the goods have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Sept. 27th will be subject to rent.\n\nNo Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.\n\nConsignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for counter-signature immediately.\n\nPACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, No. 4. Des Voeux Road, Managing Agents, THE ADMIRAL LINE. Hongkong, 21st. Sept., 1922.\n\n\"For the Blood is the Life.\"\n\nSufferers from Bad Legs, Abscesses, Ulcers, Piles, Glandular Swellings, Eczema, Boils, Pimples and Eruptions, Gout, Rheumatism, must realise that the only sure way to complete and lasting relief is to free the blood of the poisonous waste matter, the one cause of such troubles.\n\nClarke's Blood Mixture contains ingredients which soon overcome and expel the impurities, that's why so many lasting cures stand to its credit.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. COPENHAGEN.\n\nThe M. S. \"INDIEN\" will be loading for Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen & other Scandinavian Ports, about 1st October.\n\nFurther Sailings:-Expected on or about 4th October M. S. \"ASIA\" 15th October M. S. \"PANAMA\" 26th October M. S. \"MALAYA\" Subject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. Agents. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1922.\n\nMRS. SEKAI MASSAGE\n\nTHE CANTON BANK, 2nd Floor, No. 2, DUDDELL ST. HONGKONG.\n\nSAVARESSE'S SANTAL CAPSULES\n\nFrom all Chemists The best internal treatment. Specially made in a way that prevents sickness or nausea. Physicians recommend them.\n\nTHE GRECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO CO. 12a, Queen's Road, Beg to announce to the general public the arrival of their new coffee roasting machine for the best quality Mocha and Java coffee, which can be had at the above address, Fresh Coffee roasted daily.\n\nA PERSIAN PROVERB: \"A cup of hot coffee without an Egyptian cigarette is like meat without salt.\"\n\nSimla, Sept. 21.\n\nTwenty-five Moslem Members of the Legislature have submitted their views on the Near East situation to the Viceroy, most earnestly and with the greatest moderation drawing his attention to the points on which it is considered Turkish peace ought to be based and which formed the subject of the Government of India's famous telegram of March 8, the unauthorised publication of which resulted in Mr. Montagu's resignation of the Secretaryship of India.\n\nThe Viceroy promised to lay their views before the Imperial Government.\n\nParis, Sept. 21. A message from Angora reports that the Turks altogether captured 60,000 Greeks.\n\nWellington (N.Z.), Sept. 21. There has been an immense response to the proposal for service in the Straits. Ten thousand New Zealanders yesterday alone offered themselves.\n\nConstantinople, Sept. 21. Hamid Bey, the Kemalist representative here, has informed a British correspondent that the Turks intend to cross the Dardanelles and enter Thrace, but will not fire on the Allies in crossing unless first attacked.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Near East policy of the United States has been outlined at the White House.\n\nIt is stated that the United States will stand aloof in the event of trouble, except to provide adequately for the relief of American citizens endangered by the Turkish advance and to participate in any general programme of relief adopted by the European governments.\n\nTHE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Treasury experts estimate that the new tariff under the Fordney-McCumber Bill, the measure when enacted, will yield about $100,000,000 annual revenue, half of which will be derived from the following sources, viz., sugar, $37,000,000; raw wool, $63,000,000; tobacco, $35,000,000; laces and embroideries, $15,000,000; while the average ad valorem rates will be slightly higher than the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.\n\nThey will in actual operation show an average slightly lower because some of the new duties will be inoperative owing to their height or the absence of imports of commodities they cover.\n\nPerhaps, the most notable feature of the Bill is the power given to the President, after investigation by the Tariff Commission, to increase or decrease any rate in the Bill by 50 per cent. if necessary, in order to set off the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad.\n\nThe President may also declare American valuations as the basis of an assessment of ad valorem duties.\n\nIt is estimated that this will automatically increase the rates about 100 per cent.\n\nAfter such declaration the President could reduce any duty by 50 per cent. but could not increase it.\n\nAlmost all infantile troubles arise in the first place from stomach and bowel troubles.\n\nTo remedy these conditions use Baby's Own Tablets.\n\nThese Tablets stand in a class by themselves, being especially made for children's use, pleasant in taste and guaranteed absolutely harmless.\n\nThey quickly reduce simple fever, cure indigestion, check diarrhoea, allay teething pains, expel worms, relieve croup and colds, quiet the nerves and promote health-giving, restful sleep in a natural way.\n\nBaby's Own Tablets are sold by chemists, or at 60 cents the vial, post free, from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai.\n\nVisitors always welcome a VICTROLA No Home complete without one.\n\nMCUTRIES:-Sole Agents.\n\nAIRSHIPS SUPPLANT CRUISERS.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. The Admiralty has decided that the use of the airship in wartime shall become the first consideration of British airship policy, and its employment for Imperial communications the next.\n\nThis decision was influenced by figures in comparison with the cruiser, showing that the airship costing £250,000, compared with £900,000, is cheaper to navigate and able to cover seven times more area.\n\nSIAMESE TEAK TRADE.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. As the May meeting of the Anglo-Siam Corporation is forthcoming, the issue of 22,000 ordinary shares of £50,000, 7%, preferences is announced.\n\nThe chairman's review considered the Siamese Government was insufficiently considering the interests of the teak trade in Siam.\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO. Just Arrived \"SWIMEASY\" Worsted and Wool BATHING SUITS for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. Practical and Dressy Style Large Assortment of WATER WINGS Price $1.25 a pair\n\nGOLDEN STATE BUTTER From CALIFORNIA CREAMERIES. Sold by all the leading dealers in one pound cartons (FRESH)-and 1 lb. tins. SOLE AGENTS:--GEIZ BROS. & Co. of the Orient Ltd. PROVISION DEPT.\n\nTAI LEE CHAN Established 1884. SUNDRY HARDWARE and METAL GOODS Telephone Central 1993. 119. Jervois Street\n\nFRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS\n\nBY BLOSSER", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "Shipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nP.&O.-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR\n\nAND\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND)\n\nTO\n\nBURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST & SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND & QUEENSLAND PORTS.\n\nRED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC\n\nPENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS (UNDER CONTRACT WITH H. M. GOVERNMENT.)\n\n \n S.S.\n Tons\n From Hong-kong (about)\n Destination\n Miles\n \n \n MACEDONIA\n 11,000\n 27 Sept. 11 am\n 'pore, P'ang, C'ho & B'bay\nB'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n 6,696\n \n \n KALYAN\n 9,000\n 11th Oct.\n B'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n \n \n \n MANTUA\n 11,000\n 25th Oct.\n M'les, London & Antwerp\n \n \n \n DONGOLA\n 8,000\n 8th Nov.\n \n \n \n\nBRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS (South)\n\nTORILLA 15,205 24th Sept. 11 a.m. | Singapore & Madras.\n\nJANUS 4,824 29th Sept. | Calcutta via S'pore, Penang.\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)\n\nARAFURA 4th Oct. | Manila, Iloilo, Sandakan, Thurs. Is., Tville, B'bane,\n\nSydney and Melbourne,\n\nFrequent connections from Australia with the following:-\n\nThe Union S. S. Co's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc\n\nThe P.&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal\n\nThe P&O Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape\n\nThe New Zealand Shipping Co's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.\n\n \n S.S.\n Tons\n From Hong-kong (about)\n Destination\n \n \n ST. ALBANS\n 6,052\n 22 Sept. d'light\n Amoy, Y'hama & Kobe\n \n \n MANTUA\n 10,902\n 25 Sept. d'light\n S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama\n \n \n DONGOLA\n 8,083\n 7th Oct.\n Shanghai & Japan\n \n\nSAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.\n\nAll dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice\n\nWIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS.\n\nParcels Measuring not more than 2ft x 2ft. x 1ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing.\n\nFor Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights etc., apply to\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO\n\n22, Des Voeux Road Central.\n\nGLEN\n\nAND\n\nSHIRE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS.\n\nU.K., STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN Service.\n\n \n Vessel\n OUTWARDS\n HOMEWARDS\n \n \n S.S. GLENOGLE\n Leaves Hongkong... 22nd September\n Discharges G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n \n \n S.S. GLENAVY\n 5th October\n \n \n \n S.S. GLENAPP\n 5th October\n \n \n \n S.S. GLENADE\n 24th Sept.\n G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n \n \n S.S GLENARIFFE\n 18th Oct.\n G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, H'BURG\n \n\nMovements are subject to change without notice. For freight or further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.\n\nTHE GLEN LINE, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nTelephone Central No. 215, sub-ex. 23 and 3696\n\nJAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY\n\nSERVICE BETWEEN\n\nJAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.\n\n \n Steamer\n From\n Expected on or about\n Will leave on\n in port\n \n \n Tjikini\n Java\n 21st Sept.\n 23rd Sept.\n Shanghai\n \n \n Tjisondari\n Java\n \n 21st Sept.\n Japan\n \n \n Tjisalak\n Japan\n 23rd Sept.\n \n Java\n \n\nThe steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers\n\nAll steamers carry a duly qualified Surgeon.\n\nCargo taken with through rates to all ports in N., Frlands-India and Australia.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to the\n\nJava-China-Japan Lijn.\n\nYork Buildings.\n\nTelephone Central No. 1574.\n\nHONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMERS.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-CANTON LINE.\n\nSailings: To Canton daily at 8 a.m & 10 p.m. (Sun. 10 p.m. only)\n\nFrom Canton daily at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. (Sundays 5 p.m. only)\n\nSERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMBOAT CO., LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-MACAO LINE.\n\nSailings to Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sundays at 9 a.m. only)\n\nSailings from Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sun. at 5 p.m. only)\n\nFurther information may be obtained at the Company's office, 4A Des Voeux Road Central, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son or the American Express Company, Hongkong.\n\nTHE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY.\n\nShipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nN. Y. K.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,\n\nVICTORIA, SEATTLE & VANCOUVER via S'hai & Japan ports\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued to all Overland Common Points in U.S.A & Canada\n\n \n Steamer\n Sailing\n Destination\n \n \n SHIDZUOKA MARU\n Saturday, 30th Sept., at 11 am\n \n \n \n YOKOHAMA MARU\n Monday, 23rd Oct., at 11 am\n \n KASHIMA MARU\n Friday, 29th Sept. at 11a.m.\n MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP via Singanore, &c.\n \n \n HAKONE MARU\n Friday, 13th Oct. at 11 am\n \n \n \n MATSUMOTO MARU\n Thursday, 28th September.\n LIVERPOOL via MARSEILLES\n \n \n TOYOHASHI MARU\n 17th Oct. at 11 a.m.\n SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, &c.\n \n \n YOSHINO MARU\n Tuesday, 26th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n \n \n \n AKI MARU\n Tuesday, 3rd Oct. at 11 a.m.\n NEW YORK VIA PANAMA\n \n \n SANUKI MARU\n Monday, 25th September.\n CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon\n \n \n MORICKA MARU\n Friday, 29th Sept.\n BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo\n \n \n AKI MARU\n Friday, 13th Oct. at 11a.m.\n NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n \n \n TOTTORI M.\n Saturday, 23rd Sept.\n SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n \n \n FUSHIMI MARU\n Thursday, 28th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n \n \n\nFor further information apply to Tel. Central Nos. 292 & 293.\n\nNIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nK. H. KAMEI, Manager.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nCOASTAL\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nINDO CHINA STEAM\n\n309\n\n11\n\nSHIPPING NEWS.\n\nSYDNEY'S PILFERAGE LOST\n\nThe annual loss at the port of Sydney through pillaging of cargo\n\nNAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.\n\n \n Steamer\n Sailing\n Destination\n \n \n Yuensang\n Sat. 23rd Sept. at 3 p.m.\n MANILA\n \n \n Chipshing\n Tues. 26th Sept. at 4 p.m.\n TIENTSIN\n \n \n Wingsang\n Tues. 26th Sept. at noon\n T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n \n \n Drufar\n Tues, 26th Sept. at noon\n BANGKOK via Swatow\n \n \n Mingsang\n Wed. 27th Sept. at 8 a.m.\n HAIPHONG via Hoihow\n \n \n Fooksang\n Wed. 27th Sept. at 3 p.m.\n STRAITS & Calcutta\n \n \n Yatching\n Thurs. 28th Sept. at noon\n T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n \n \n Mausang\n Sat. 30th Sept. at 2 p.m.\n SANDAKAN\n \n \n Hangsang\n Sun. 1st Oct. at noon\n T'TAO via Stow & S'hai\n \n \n Kutsang\n Tues. 3rd Oct. at 3 p.m.\n STRAITS & Calcutta\n \n \n Laisang\n Thurs. 5th Oct. at noon\n KOBE\n \n\nCALCUTTA LINE:-This Line now affords regular sailings to Calcutta, Penang and Singapore; Returning from Calcutta steamers proceed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan occasionally calling at Shanghai.\n\nfrom ships is considered to be not less than £500,000 yearly.\n\nSECOND MATE'S CERTIFICATE\n\nDuring the year ended June 30 last 1,974 candidates were examined at Home for certificates of competency as second mates. 829 were successful.\n\nSOOCHOW SHIPPING. A total of 4.293 vessels, aggregating 188,948 tons, entered and cleared at the Custom House during 1921 as compared with 4031 vessels, aggregating 189,859 tons, during 1920.\n\nGERMANY BUYS JAPANESE STEAMER.\n\nThe Japanese s. Shimpo Maru, 4,392 gross tons, has been purchased by Messrs. Schroser, Holcken and Fischer, of E\n\nSHANGHAI LINE: Sailings approximately every three days between Canton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through Bills of Lading are issued for all to Northern and Yangtsze Ports via Shanghai.\n\nAll steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light & Fans and carry a fully qualified Surgeon.\n\nstated to have been re-christened the Harald.\n\nMANILA LINE-A weekly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger accommodation, sailing from both ports every Friday.\n\nHAIPHONG LINE:-Sailings, approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at Hoihow when inducement offers.\n\nBORNEO LINE:-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 ton steamers s.s.\" HINSANG\" & \" MAUSANG \"\n\nboth steamers having excellent passenger accommodation.\n\nCargo taken on through Bills of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu.\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nTIENTSIN LINE-A regular service is run from March to Nov.\n\nREGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON\n\nFOR NEW YORK & BOSTON.\n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO.\n\nTaking cargo on through Bills of Lading for Levant. Black Sea and Danube Ports.\n\nFIUME having been re-opened for traffic, cargo is also accepted for this port on through Bills of Lading.\n\nFOR SHANGHAI.\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE “\n\nSailing on or about 5th October.\n\nFor BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE.\n\nVia Singapore, Penang and Colombo.\n\nS.S. \"PERSIA \"\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE\"\n\nSailing on or about 22nd September.\n\nSailing on or about 22nd October.\n\nPassengers Luggage can be insured at the office of the Agents.\n\nNATAL LINE OF STEAMERS.\n\nRegular Passenger and Cargo Service.\n\nFROM CALCUTTA TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.\n\nS.S. \"UMLAZI \"\n\nSailing on or about 31st October.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong.\n\nFor Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:-\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.,\n\nAgents.\n\nTelephone Central 1030.\n\nAUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL LINE.\n\nHONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS.\n\nSAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)\n\n \n Steamer\n Arrives Hongkong from Australia\n Leaves Hongkong for Australia\n \n \n TAIYUAN\n 28th Sept.\n 3rd Oct.\n \n \n CHANGSHA\n 15th Oct.\n 20th Oct.\n \n\nThis steamer is fitted with Refrigerating machinery, ensuring\n\nbetween H'kong & Tientsin calling at Weihaiwei & Chefoo, plan. The Shipping Board suggested the plan to preserve the rates after the recent disruptions and disorganizing of the Eastern freight shipments. when the Atlantic Conference declare i open rates. A later report av that fourteen steamship es. plying between American N Atlantic and Far Eastern ports, have drawn up a schedule f freights, which is stated to b higher than the present rate. They have also agreed to deposit a sum of $25,000 each as a guarantee of the maintenan the schedule.\n\nCREW'S \"SMOKE-ABLES\"\n\nRecently in the House of Commons a member asked the President of the Board of Trade a question relative to the prices charged to ships' crews for cigarettes and tobacco. According to this querier, there \"M certain stij masters who compel those on board to\n\nSHANGHAI LINE.-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO.\n\nExcellent Saloon accommodation amidships. Electric Fans in Saloon and State-rooms. Regular schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai (thrice weekly) and Tsingtao (weekly), taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtsze, and Northern China Ports. Passengers are Landed in Shanghai avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosung.\n\nBANGKOK LINE.-Weekly service to and from B'kok via 'tow.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, (John Swire & Sons, Ltd.)\n\nAGENTS.\n\nTelephone Central No. 36. Cargo and baggage can be insured at the above office.\n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.\n\nand\n\nHONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE.\n\nRegular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having a plentiful supply of ice, fresh provisions etc. and has superior good accommodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms. A duly qualified Doctor is carried. Reduced Fares. Cargo booked through to all Australian. New Zealand and Tasmanian ports.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to\n\nTelephone Central No. 36.\n\nButterfield & Swire. JOHN SWIRE, & SON, LTD.) Agents.\n\nFor Swatow, Amoy and Foochow and Returns, (Occupying 9 to 10 days,) Steamships.\n\nCaptain. Leaving. Haiching... J. S. Thomson ... | SUN..\n\n24th Sept. at 11 a.m. Haihong .. W. C. Passmore\n\nFRI, 29th Sept. at 1 p.m. Haifoong... W. S. Turnbull... | FRI., 29th Sept. at p.m.\n\nArrivals and Departures from the Co's Wharf (dear Blake Pier.)\n\nFor Freight and Passage, apply to\n\n\"ELLERMAN\" LINE.\n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall S. S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT SERVICE.\n\n \n Vessel\n OUTWARDS\n HOMEWARDS\n \n \n \"City of Tokio\n S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama. 20th Oct.\n \n \n \n \"City of Sydney\"\n \n 10th Oct. L'don, Alwerp, R'dam, H'burg. G’gow\n \n \n \"City of Paris\"\n Mid. Dec.\n Marseilles & London\n \n \n \"City of York\"\n Beg. Feb.\n \n \n \n \"City of Simla \"\n Mud, March.\n \n \n \n \"City of Poona\"\n Mid. April.\n \n \n\nPASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars apply to\n\nREISS & CO.\n\nCANTON.\n\nDouglas Lapraik & Co., General Managers.\n\nbe left to shipowners and masters to take action.\n\nAN OLD-TIME CAPTAIN\n\nThe following is culler ** the Syren anul Shipping The late Captain \"Tom \"Dutton mas in his day one of those tine a men whose sterling chara ter and sound navigational ski...com tributed so largely to the enviable reputation which the hard Line enjoys Atlantic voy acers. We made several passages ar ago with Captain Dutton in the old Umbria, and have Many pleasant recollections, both of the ship and her commander. He was a typical British sailo bluff, courteous, and cool an emergency. During his 32 rear of service with the Cunard Cor-pany he commanded many of their well-known liners, and h was in command of the inhr when he retired some 20 -\n\nOld Cunarders will re bar the late Captain Drzys famous \"mosquito net,\" was one of the institutions tr Umbria. Many tales are tid o\n\nago.\n\nNANYO YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nthis old sea.dog. One fine ...\n\nThe South Sea Mail S.S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE between\n\nJAPAN, HONGKONG & JAVA.\n\nFor Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. SAMARANG MARU\n\nSailing on or about 26th Sept.\n\nFor Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.\n\nS.S. CHERIBON MARU\n\nSailing on or about 24th Sept.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\n(Tel. Central 80).\n\nTel. Central No. 2206. Second Floor, Prince's Building.\n\nK. SUZUKI, Manager.\n\nday morning in mid-Atlan: fe appeared on deck in full rezal -white cap cover, white trou etc. A lady passenger meeting him said: 'Good morning Captain, I see you've got clea white trousers ou.\" madam,\" was the reply, and i hope you have, too.\"\n\nKIANGSU EDUCATORS'\n\nAPPEAL\n\nTO PEKING,\n\nThe Educational Association of Kiangsu has sent a telegraphic appeal to the Peking Government asking that a stricter enforcement of the Presidential Mandates against lotteries be made. These Mandates prohibiting lotteries : China bave not been obeyed the merchants of Kiangsu a they have even gone to the ends of requesting the local authorities to suspend the operation of the..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492980, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "2014 12 Europe Australia, and other Ports \n\nP. & O.-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR \n\nANA \n\nFASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES \n\nCOMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND) \n\nΤΟ \n\n*TRAITS ★ BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES MAURITIUS EAST & SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, &c. \n\nNCIUDING, NEW ZEALAND & QUEENSLAND PORTS. RED SEA, BÜLLET RODE PTC \n\nPENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS (UNDER CONTRACT WITH H. M. GOVERNMENT.) \n\nYAN \n\nSICILIA MANTUA DONGOLA \n\nJANUS EGRA \n\nTana \n\n19,000 6,702 11,000 \n\n8,000 \n\n\" \n\nFrom Hong-kong (about) \n\nDestination \n\n11 Oct 11 a.m. Mles, London & Antwerp \n\n16th Sept 1 S'pore, P'ang, Cbo & B'bas 25th Oct. B'hay, Mles, L'don, A'werp \n\n8th Nov. M'les, London & Antwerp \n\nBRITISH INDIA, APCAR SAILINGS (South) \n\nTHE \n\nHONGKONG \n\nTELEGRAPH. \n\nSATURDAY, \n\nSEPTEMBER 30, 1922. \n\nShipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports \n\nN. Y. K. \n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION \n\nVICTORIA, SPATTLE & VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan ports. Through Bills of Lading issued to all Overland Common Points in U.S.A. & Canada. \n\nSHIDZUOKA MARU (Calling Keelung) Sat., 30th Sept., at 11 a.m. \n\nYOKOHAMA HARU...... \n\nMonday, 23rd Oct., at 11 a.m. \n\nMARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP via Singapore, &c. \n\nKASHIMA MARU, \n\n29th Sept. at 11 a.m. 13th Oct. at 11 a.m. \n\nHAKONE MARU \n\n--- \n\nFriday, \n\nFriday, \n\nAMBURG via LONDON, ROTTERDAM. \n\nLIVERPOOL via MARSEILLES. \n\nTOYOHASHI MARU \n\nSecond half of October. \n\n... \n\nAKI MARU \n\nSYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, &c. \n\nYOSHINO MARU....... \n\nTuesday, 17th Oct. at 11 a.m. Tuesday, 14th Nov. at 11 a.m. \n\nNEW YORK VIA PANAMA. \n\nEnd of October. \n\nMAYABASHI MARU... \n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES via Cape. \n\nBOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo \n\nAWA MARU \n\nThursday, Penang. BALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon. \n\nMORIOKA MARU NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA, \n\nAKI MARU SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA. \n\nMISHIMA MARU \n\n| 30 Sept. I p.m. ↑ Calcutta via S'pore, 5, 08 \n\n8th Oct. Singapore. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) \n\n(Manila, Iloilo, Sandakan, | 6,000 | 4th Oct. 11 a.m. \n\nThurs Is., Tville. B'ban \n\nSydney & Melbourne. \n\nARAFURA \n\nFrequent connections from Australia with the following:- The Union S.S. Company to the United Kingdom via New Zealand &c. \n\nThe P & O Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape \n\nThe New Zealand Shipping Co's steamers for Bordeaux &c. \n\nFGR \n\nSAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. \n\nAnong. \n\n*n* Canal \n\nSICILIA \n\n5,108 670 DONGOLA 18,084 \n\n4th Oct. \n\n5th Oct d'light \n\n7th Oct. \n\nST. ALBANS | 6,000 \n\n9th Oct. \n\nAmoy Shanghai. Shanghai & Japan. Japan. \n\nAll dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice \n\nWIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS. \n\nParcels measuring not more than 2ft x 2ft x 1ft, will be received at the Company's Offices up to noon on the day previous to sailing \n\nFor Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights etc., apply to \n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO \n\n22, Des Voeux Road Central. \n\nCLEN \n\nAND \n\nAgent- \n\nSHIRE. \n\nJOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS \n\nO.K., STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN Service \n\nVessel. \n\n9.S.S. \n\nGIENAVY \n\nS.S. \n\nGLENAPR \n\nSS. \n\nCARNARVONSHIRE \n\n$S. S.S. \n\nGLENUARY\": \n\nOLENIFFER \n\nVessel. \n\nS.S. GLENARIFFE \n\nS.S. GLENOGLE \n\nOUTWARDS. \n\nHOMEWARDS. \n\nLeaves Hongkong. \n\nDue Hongkong. \n\n5th October. 5th October. 19th October. 2nd November \n\n16th November. \n\nDischarges. \n\n18th Oct. LONDON. A'WERP & HAMBURG 23rd Oct. L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG, \n\nMovements are subject to change without notice. For freight or further particulars please apply to:- \n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. \n\nTHE GLEN LINE, LTD \n\nAGENTS' \n\nTelephone Central No 215, sub-ex 23 and 3696 \n\nJAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. \n\nSteiner \n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY \n\nSERVICE BETWEEN \n\nJAVA, CHINA and JAPAN. \n\nFim \n\nor about \n\nW1il Trave \n\nnz about \n\nExpected D \n\nTjikembang Java 30th Sept. Tjitaroem...Shai, N.C. | 2nd Oct. Tjiliwang... | Japan Amoy 7th Oct. \n\nJapan Amoy 15th Oct. | 17th__ Oct. \n\n7th Oct. 4th Oct. 9th Oct. \n\nFor \n\nFor further information apply to Tel. Central Nos. 292 & 293. \n\n10th October. \n\nFriday, \n\n29th Sept. \n\nFriday 13th Oct at 11 a.m. \n\nThursday, \n\n12th Oct. at 11 a.m. \n\nNIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. K. H. KAMEI, Manager, \n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD. \n\nREGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON \n\nFOR NEW YORK & BOSTON, \n\nS.S. KENDAL CASTLE\" Sailing on or about 15th Nov. \n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO. \n\nTaking cargo on through Bills of Lading for Levant, Black Sea and Danube Ports. \n\nFIUME having been re-opened for traffic, cargo is also accepted for this port on through Bills of Lading. \n\nFOR SHANGHAI. \n\nS.S.TRIESTE ̈ \n\nSailing on or about 14th October. For BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE. Via Singapore, Penang and Colombo. \n\nwww \n\nS.S.TRIESTE \" Passengers' Luggage can be insured at the office of the Agents, \n\nSailing on or about 31st October. \n\nNATAL LINE OF STEAMERS \n\nRegular Passenger and Cargo Service. \n\nFROM CALCUTTA TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS \n\nSailing on or about 31st October. S.S. \"UMLAZI\" \n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong. \n\n*** \n\n*** \n\nFor Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:- \n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD., \n\nAgents. \n\nTelephone Central 1030, \n\nAUSTRALIAN, ORIENTAL LINE. \n\nHONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS. SAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION). \n\nSteamer. \n\nTAIYUAN CHANGSHA \n\nArrives Hongkong from Australia. \n\n2nd Oct. \n\n15th Oct. \n\nCOASTAL SHIPPING. \n\nINDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. \n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION \n\nMon. Tues. \n\nTues. \n\nThurs. \n\nThurs. \n\nSailing \n\n1st Oct. at 10 a.m. 1st Oct. at noon. 2nd Oct at 4 p.m. 3rd Oct. at noon. 3rd Oct. at 3 p.m. 5th Oct. at noon. 5th Oct. at 2 p.m. 6th Oct. at 8 a.m. 6th Oct. at 3 p.m. \n\nnoon. 8th Oct at \n\nSHIPPING NEWS. \n\nC.S, MERCANTILE MARINE \n\nRATIONING PLAN, \n\nThat steamship operating at New York approve in principle the rationing plans being worked out by the division of operations of the United States Shipping Board is indicated not only by their expressions of approval, but by active co-operation in working out details. The Standing Committee of managing agents of the Shipping Board and representatives of thirty-eight steamship companies operating Government vessels met in the Whitehall Building, NY, says the New York Maritime Recorder, to discuss details of the rationing plan. \n\nDestination \n\nSteamer BANGKOK via Swatow Drufar Sun. TAO via S'tow & S'hai Yatshing Sun. OBE....... \n\n......Laisang TTAO via Stow & S'bai Hangsang STRAITS & Calcutta... Kutsang ANTUNG via Shanghai Loksang SANDAKAN \n\nMarsang HAIPHONG via Hoihow Leesang Fri. | MANILA \n\nYuensang Fri. TT Ovia Stow & S'hai Kwongsang Sun. KOBE via Yokohama...... Namsung Tues, 10th Oct. at noon. BANGKOK via Swatow Childar Tues, 10:h Oct. at noon, ~ALCUTTA LINE:-This Line now affords regular sailings to \n\nCALCUTTA, PENANG and SINGAPORE; Returning from Calcutta steamers proceed via Straits and Hongkong to \n\noccasionally calling at Shanghai, \n\nJapaustenance, repairs, stores and \n\nfuel. The rationing of the latter, the most they say, presents difficulties. A fixed allowance for sustenance is already in force, the Government allowing 65 cents a day for each member of the crew of a Shipping Board \n\nAll steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted \n\nwith Electric Light & Fans and carry a fully qualified Surgeon. SHANGHAI LINE: Sailings approximately every three days between \n\nCanton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through tickets can be obtained and through Bills of Lading are issued all to Northern and Yangtsze Ports via Shanghai.\" MANILA LINE:A weekly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger accommodation, sailings from both ports every Friday. |HAIPHONG LINE :-Sailings approximately weekly for passenger and cargo, calling at Hoihow when inducement offers- BORNEO LINE :—Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 ton steamers S.S. \"HINSANG\" & \"MADSANG \" both steamers having excellent passenger accommodation Cargo taken on through Bills of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu. \n\nTIENTSIN LINE:-A regular service is run from March to Nov. between H'kong & Thentain calling at Weihaiwei & Chefoo, BANGKOK LINE:-A weekly service is provided between Hong \n\nkong and Bangkok, via Swatow, by five steamers fitted with \n\nup-to-date passenger accommodation. \n\nCALCUTTA LINE. S.S.\"Kutsang\" will be despatched on or about Tuesday, † 3rd Oct., at 3 p.m. for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA. \n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWETTENHAM & MADRAS & DUTCH EAST INDIES \n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to: \n\nJARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. \n\nTelephone Central No. 815. \n\nGeneral Managers. \n\nC. N. C. \n\nCHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD. SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION \n\nSteamers. \n\nFor SWATOW & BANGKOK ...Kiangsu SHANGHAI & TSINGTAO...Szechuen W’WEI, CHEFOO & T’TSIN Kuzichow [SWATOW & SINGAPORE „Kaying \n\nSHANGHAI & TSINGTAO... Kanchow HAIPHONG \n\n.Chinhua \n\nMO & SHANGHAI ......Suiyang SHANGHAI & гSIN ITAO...Sinkiang \n\nH’HOW. PHOI, H'PHONG. Kalong [SWA POW & BANGKOK ...Chengtu \n\nW WEI, CHEFOO & T’TSIN Huichow \n\nTo Sail. 1st Oct. at 1st Oct. at 1st Oct. at 2nd Oct. a. 3rd Oct. 1 4th Oct. at 5th Oct. at .. 7th Oct. at ..10th Oct. at .,10th Oct. at .10th Oct. at \n\n... \n\nnoon.. 4 p.m. 4 p.ni, 2000. \n\n+ p.m. * 8.11. 4.p.m. \n\n4 p.m. ↑ a.m. \n\nnoon. \n\n4 p.m. \n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, (John Swire & Sons, Ltd.) \n\nAGENTS. \n\nTelephone Central No. 36. Cargo and baggage can be insured at the above office. \n\nyat arranged is the amount of vessel. One of the details not \n\nthe allowance for passengers carried by Shipping Board freighters. The cost of meals for passengers is above that of rations for the crew, the operators contend, and the adjustment of the rate because of this \n\nis being discussed by Shipping Board officials and the representatives of the companies concerned. There also has been some discussion of a more elastic allowance to provide for adequate payment where rationing necessitates the carrying of food in launches to vessels anchored midstream or in out-of-the-way \n\nplaces. It is understood that the Shipping Board has decided to permit operators to arrange for minor repairs without the specific approval of the board. Minor repairs in this case considered to be all those costing less than $5,000. The bill in each case is subject to checking up by a representative of the Government. Repairing costing more than $5,000 will have to be approved by the division of construction and repair, headed by Commander R. D. Gatewood, before ordered by the operating \n\ncompany \n\nBREAKDOWN OF JOB CONTROL UP\" \n\nTHE COMMONWEALTH LINE, A correspondent writes to the.. Journal of Commerce:--As I \n\nreported in my last letter, rather' than agree to the demands of the Seamen's Union to appoint the \"bo'sun\" of the Largs Bay the Commonwealth Line management, under instructions from the \n\nPremier, ordered the vessel to be \n\nSHANGHAI LINE.—PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO, withdrawn from the sailing schedule and laid up, and further. \n\nExcellent Saloon accommodation smidships. Electric Fans in Saloon and State-rooms. Regular schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai (thrice weekly) and Tsingtao (weekly), taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangteze. \n\nAustralian ports should also be laid up as and when they arrive, avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosung. \n\nThis very quickly resulted in a BANGKOK LINE.—Weekly service to and from B'kok via S'tow. \n\npartial climb down of the union. \n\nthough \n\nWilliam \n\nFor Freight or Passage apply. \n\nMorris Hughes is regarded by Labour as one big bluff, unfortunately not. until the Largs Bay had actually been withdrawn and anchored at an Admiralty buoy in Farm Cove, \n\ndays later the union announced that Daley, the bo'sun bone of contention, had resigned, and the matter might be considered as ended. This of course was an ingenious method of saving face, but not enough to satisfy Billy \n\nHaving thrown his chest once, and not had it burst in, he threw it again and called for unconditional surrender of the union, in the form of an undertaking that there should be no further attempts at job control, either on the Largs Bay or on any other vessel of the line \n\nIt has taken a fortnight to get this well home into Tom Walsh's head, and now the undertaking has been given. It may be assumed that job control is now ended, but the situation as regards the private lines is unchanged \n\nNegotiations are, however, proceeding, and will translate in the \n\nLeaves Hongkong \n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. \n\nfor Australia. \n\n6th Oct. 20th Oct. \n\nHONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE. Regular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having \n\nShanghai. \n\nThis steamer is fitted with Refrigerating machinery, ensuring good accommodation for First Class Passengers, Electric Light and Fans in state-rooms and Saloon and \n\nBanka, Batavia. a plentiful supply of ice, fresh provisions etc. and has superior Cuisine. \n\nFor Swatow, Amoy and Foochow and Returns. Macassar. S'ban accommodation with Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in \n\nBilliton, Batavia the State-rooms. A duly qualified Doctor is carried. Reduced Fares. \n\n(Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Cargo booked through to all Australian, New Zealand and Tas- \n\nCaptain. \n\nLeaving. ¦ Haifang... | W. S. Turnbull... TUES. 3rd Oct, at \n\nHaichine... J. S. Thomson ... FRI., Haibong W. C. Paramore | TUE., 19th \n\nThe steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. through rates to all ports in Netherlands-India and Australia. \n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to the \n\nTelephone Central No. 1574. \n\nCargo taken s \n\nJava-China-Japan Lijn. \n\nYork Building.. \n\nPACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. \n\nOFFERS \n\nSPECIAL THROUGH FIRST CLASS RATES \n\nHONGKONG TO EUROPE \n\nvia SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK \n\nU. S. $120.50 \n\nwhich includes \n\nMINIMUM BERTH TO SAN FRANCISCO FIRST CLASS RAIL ACCOMMODATIONS \n\nSAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK \n\nWITH STOPOVER PRIVILEGES, BERTH AND ACCOMMODATIONS ON ANY ATLANTIC OCEAN STEAMER VALUED AT U.S. $49. $205.00 \n\nBUT DOES NOT INCLUDE BERTH AND MEALS ACROSS AMERICAN CONTINENT. \n\nFOR FULL INFORMATION apply to \n\nPACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. \n\nManaging Agents. \n\nUNIT D STATES SHIPPING BOARD. \n\nUNION BUILDING, HONGKONG \n\nCable Address \"SOLANO\" Cinton Agents, REISS & CO. \n\nSteamships. \n\n1 p.m. I p.m. 1 p.m. \n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to \n\noth \n\nOct. al Oct. al \n\nTelephone Central No. 36, \n\nButterfield & Swire. (JOHN SWIRE & SON, LTD) Agents. \n\n‡ Calling at Amoy for Passengers only. Arrivals and Departures from the Co's Wharf 'near Blake Pier.) \n\nFor Freight and Passage, apply tō“ \n\n\"ELLERMAN\" LINE, \n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall S. S. Co., Ltd) UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT SERVICE. \n\nOUTWARDS. \n\n\"City of Tokio \" \n\n20th Oct. \n\nHOMEWARDS. \n\nS'hai, Kobe & Yokohama. \n\n\"City of Sydney\" 10th Oct. L'don, A'werp, R'da 'n, l'burg, G'gow. PA-SEN ER SERVICE. \n\nMarseilles & London. \n\nCity of Paris' City of York \" \"City of Simla “ \"City of Poona\" \n\nMid. Dec. \n\nFeb. Beg. Mid. March. Mid: April. Subject to change without notice. for further particulars apply to REISS & CO. \n\n14 \n\nCLETON. \n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD. \n\n(Tel. Central 80). \n\nDouglas Lapraik & Co.. General Managers. \n\nNANYO YUSEN KAISHA. \n\nceeding, and will translate in the \n\nThe South Sea Mail S.S. Co., Ltd.) REGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE \n\nbetween \n\nJAPAN, HONGKONG & JAVA. \n\nFor Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya. \n\nS.S. BORNEO MARU Sailing on or about 12th Oct. \n\nFor Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. \n\nS.S. MACASSAR MARU Sailing on or about 10th Ost. \n\nFor further particulars please apply to:- \n\nsame manner without doubt. The success of the Commonwealth \n\nLine is a matter of great importance, because ever since the war labour tactics in this country have been developing almost on the lines of Sovietism. Industry was to be run by and for the benefit of those engaged in it \n\nThe nation was to be regarded \n\nly as the source from which tribute should be paid to Labour, which would decide exactly what should and should not be produced, and how much should be demanded for the production. \n\nX \n\nTel. Central No. 2206. Second Floor, Prince's Building. \n\nK. SUZUKI, Manager. \n\nPEPYS'S CURING WATER. For many years Pepys's curing water, sold at Banner, N London, is to be cleaned and repaired. Samuel Pepys records frequent visits there.. \n\nis \n\nn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493694, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "82\n\n10\n\nand Revenue Departments of the proper rank are given powers of search, seizure and detention. There is also a special rule prescribing that in prosecutions for breaches of the Act it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that all opium for which an accused person is unable to account satisfactorily is opium in respect to which he has committed an offence under the Act. The main provisions of the rules made by the different provinces are uniform. The produce of the poppy cultivated on Government account must all be delivered to the Government Opium Department, and such opium can, therefore, only be obtained from Government. The produce of the poppy cultivated by licensed cultivators in the Punjab can only be sold to licensed vendors and cannot be obtained direct by the ordinary consumer. Government, or \"excise,\" opium, is issued only to licensed wholesale or retail vendors. The wholesale vendor may sell such opium, or opium obtained from a licensed cultivator, only to other licensed vendors or to licensed druggists; the retail vendor and the licensed druggist may sell to individuals. Thus the individual can obtain opium produced in India only from a licensed retail vendor or a licensed druggist. Each stage of the distribution down to the retail vendor is safeguarded by an elaborate system of transport passes, while the conditions governing the licence of a retail vendor are most stringent. He may not sell to any one person at one time more than the quantity of opium which an individual may lawfully possess; he may sell only for cash and only on premises for which he is licensed; he must not allow consumption on such premises, and he must keep correct daily accounts of his sales, which shall be open at all times to inspection by Excise officers. The number of licensed shops in an area is fixed so as not to exceed what is necessary to satisfy the moderate needs of legitimate consumers, and is constantly being reduced as improvements in communications or other changes in local circumstances render centralisation of supply more easy. In the year 1892-93 there were 9,531 opium shops in British India. By 1907-08 these had been reduced to 8,136; and the figure now stands at 6,394. The amount of opium of which an individual may be in possession varies according to circumstances in the different provinces, but in most places is either 360 or 540 grains.\n\nEqually strict control is maintained over the supply of Indian grown opium obtainable from a licensed druggist and the supply of imported opium. A notification under the Sea Customs Act, 1878, No. 720-79, dated the 4th February 1911, prohibits absolutely the import of opium by sea or by land by means of the post, and restricts its import by other means to cases in which it is imported by persons permitted to import it by a Local Government or Administration. The rules as to import made by Local Governments vary considerably in detail, but generally speaking it may be said that only licensed druggists and medical practitioners are permitted to import opium, in quantities of which they may lawfully be in possession by means of a special permit or licence. Exceptions are made in the case of visitors of distinction from countries outside India and foreign horse-dealers, who are allowed to import small quantities for the personal use of themselves and their attendants or for their horses. In the Punjab licensed vendors are also permitted to import on passes opium produced in the Simla Hill States and the Hill States of Chamba, Mandi, Suket and Sirmur. Similarly, in Ajmer-Merwara licensed wholesale and retail vendors may import Malwa opium on pass. The further distribution of opium thus obtained from Indian States is regulated in exactly the same manner as the distribution of excise opium described above. Imports by licensed druggists and supplies obtained by them from licensed vendors can only be sold for medicinal purposes, in quantities not in excess of the amount which the purchaser may legally possess, and correct accounts must be maintained showing the amount of opium in the possession of the licensee from day to day.\n\n11\n\nThe following statistics form a striking commentary on the success of the Government's policy\n\n \n Year\n Excise Revenue (Licence Fees and Duty) converted into sterling at Rs. 16 to the £\n Consumption, Excise Cheats of 1234 lbs.\n \n \n 1911-12\n 8,334\n 1,010,133\n \n \n 1912-13\n 8,496\n 1,150,466\n \n \n 1913-14\n 8,610\n 1,356,066\n \n \n 1914-15\n 8,311\n 1,372,666\n \n \n 1915-16\n 8,066\n 1,424,600\n \n \n 1916-17\n 8,099\n 1,373,066\n \n \n 1917-18\n 8,262\n 1,457,200\n \n \n 1918-19\n 7,893\n 1,587,733\n \n \n 1919-20\n 7,480\n 1,676,333\n \n\nDuring the same period the issue price of excise opium has been raised as shown below:\n\n \n Province\n Issue Price Rs. per seer (2.2 lbs.) 1911-12\n Issue Price Rs. per seer (2.2 lbs.) 1921\n \n \n Madras\n 28\n 60\n \n \n Bombay\n 24 and 27\n 45\n \n \n Bengal\n 20\n 35\n \n \n Burma\n 10\n 50\n \n \n Bihar and Orissa\n 35 to 72\n 70 to 1063\n \n \n United Provinces\n 18 to 20\n 55\n \n \n North-West Frontier Province\n 18 to 26\n 50\n \n \n Central Provinces\n 13 to 37\n 50\n \n \n Assam\n 37 and 40\n 50\n \n \n Baluchistan\n 30\n 50\n \n \n Punjab\n 17 to 35\n 55\n \n \n Delhi\n 16\n —\n \n \n Coorg\n 987\n 888\n \n \n \n 669\n 888", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494594, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nNo. 172\n\nGov.\n\nMr. William Cowell\n\nMr. Davis\n\nSir G. Grindle\n\nSir H. Read\n\nMr. Ormaby-Gore\n\nDuke of Devonshire\n\n18 June\n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE\n\nTo\n\nC. D.\n\n18 JUN.\n\nXCR(85)72\n\nFor. 7640/23\n\nTel. 22\n\nWith reference to your despatch of the 26th of September, I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a despatch (with its enclosures) from the Governor of Ceylon, regarding the visit of the Royal Development Commission to Bangkok in connection with the Oriental Railway Development.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed) DEVONSHIRE\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nEncl. No 2 to 7460.p\n\nSimla, bet.\n\nD.\n\n21 день\n\n136 :23.\n\nMauritius (48140)\n\n1/1⁄2\n\nfito comem.\n\n(Comp. deep. Truels)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495743, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "iv\n\n7\n\nCopy.\n\nEnclosure No.903 P.E.\n\nGovernment of India.\n\nFinance Department.\n\nSimla, the 16th August, 1916.\n\nFrom\n\nThe Honourable Mr. H.F. Howard, C.I.E., I.C.S.,\n\nOffg. Secretary to the Government of India,\n\n402\n\nTo\n\nSir,\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, HONG KONG.\n\nI am directed to reply to your letter No.2422, dated the 29th March 1916, reporting that 170 chests of opium consigned to Mexico were detained in Hongkong and re-shipped to Calcutta.\n\n2.\n\nThe Government of India understand that the object which your Government have in view in making this reference is to ensure that their regulations in the matter of opium are not evaded. I am to explain that ordinarily the Government of India accept the declared destination of opium purchased at auction sales and privately exported. They, however, fully appreciate the anxiety of your Government as to the possibility of opium being smuggled into Hongkong, and will be glad to adopt such precautions as are possible in order to prevent this. Thus, they will be prepared not to grant export passes to Hongkong in circumstances which imply an intention on the part of the exporter to disregard the Hongkong Government's regulations, and also to inform that Government by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495745, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "COA\n\nCopy.\n\n404\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nNo.2422/1916.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong. 22nd September, 1916.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.903 F.K. of the 16th August regarding the shipment back to Calcutta of 170 chests of opium which were detained in Hongkong.\n\n2.\n\nIt is well known that certain Chinese officials are prepared to take every possible step to smuggle into China uncertificated Indian opium, in defiance of the agreement entered into between the Imperial and the Chinese Governments and in detriment of the interests of the holders of the remaining stocks of certificated opium.\n\n3.\n\nThe Government of Mexico has for some time past discountenanced and it has now absolutely prohibited the import of opium into that country.\n\n4.\n\nThe shipment of 170 chests under reference would not have been discharged in Hongkong, but it would have been discharged in adjacent Chinese waters. In a more recent case a shipment of 132 chests from Macao to Mexico was found to be molasses upon examination at Shanghai.\n\n5.\n\nI am to suggest that in future all shipments eastwards from India to foreign countries should be consigned to the British Consular representative at the port of destination, under heavy penalty in the event of non-arrival.\n\nThe Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department.\n\nSIMLA.\n\nI am &c.\n\n(Sd). Claud Severn, Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495746, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3\n\nNo.1062 F.E.\n\nGovernment of India.\n\nFinance Department\n\nSimla, the 10th November 1916.\n\nTo\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.2422/1916, dated the 22nd September 1916, suggesting that in future all shipments of opium eastwards from India should be consigned to the British Consular representative at the port of destination under heavy penalty in the event of non-arrival.\n\n2.\n\nIn reply I am to observe that in order to prevent smuggling into China or other eastern countries, the Government of India have limited the amount of opium offered at their auction sales to the quantity which was found to represent the normal legitimate requirements of the trade with countries in the east, and they are of opinion that in doing so, at a considerable sacrifice of Indian revenue, they have taken all the action which they can reasonably be expected to initiate for the prevention of illicit traffic. In paragraph 2 of my letter No.903-F.E., dated the 16th August 1916, they offered further co-operation in the prevention of smuggling into Hongkong from India; but they now understand that no smuggling into Hongkong is found to exist, and that your Government does not desire to proceed further with the suggestions put forward in my letter. In the circumstances, I am to say that, having received no representations from other Governments on the subject,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "content_text": "# Export of Opium from the Persian Gulf to the Far East\n\nDated Simla, the 12 July 1923.\n\n## Letter from the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department\n\nTo \nHis Majesty's Under Secretary of State for India, \nIndia Office, \nLondon.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to refer to the correspondence ending with the Government of India's telegram No. `2065/1276-0`, dated the 11th July, 1923, and to forward herewith a draft King's Regulation relating to the control of the traffic in opium between the Persian Gulf and the Far East.\n\n2. This draft has, to save time, been prepared by the Government of India and a copy of it has been forwarded to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, with the request to telegraph to you any comments that he may have to offer, and in the absence of any material modification to take steps for its immediate introduction under Section 56(4) of the Persian Coast and Islands Order-in-Council.\n\nI have, etc., \n(Sgd.) E.B. Howell, \nfor Secretary to the Government of India.\n\n| File Reference | \n| --- | \n| `2072/1276/0` |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "No. 291-E. Om.\n\nGovernment of India,\n\nDepartment of Education, Health and Lands.\n\nSimla, the 8th October 1925.\n\nFrom\n\nG.S. Bajpai, Esq., C.B.E., C.I.E.,\n\nOffg: Deputy Secretary to the Government of India,\n\nTo\n\nHis Majesty's Under Secretary of State for India,\n\nEconomic and Overseas Department,\n\nIndia Office, London.\n\nQuestion and answer in the Legislative Assembly regarding the reservation of the Peak District in the Island of Hong Kong for Europeans.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to forward a copy of a question asked by Mr. S.C. Bose in the Legislative Assembly on the 1st September 1925 and of the reply given thereto. It would appear from the information contained at page 707 of Whittaker's Almanac, 1925, that the area in question is reserved for Europeans but the Government of India would be grateful if it could be ascertained from the Colonial Office whether this is correct. If so, they would also like to be informed of the circumstances in which the area came to be reserved and whether the local Chinese or any other non-European community has asked for a modification of the arrangement.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nSd/ G.S. Bajpai\n\nOffg: Deputy Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502028, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "# Memorandum by the Director, Meteorological Office\n\nI see no reason why copies of the revised Circular to Mariners should not be distributed to the Shipping Companies mentioned in the letter from Hong Kong. I am afraid, however, that the response is likely to be very unsatisfactory.\n\nMany meteorological services have attempted to obtain meteorological data from the ocean by issuing general appeals to shipping to send them observations by wireless, but they have been almost uniformly unsuccessful. The failure of India, which for this purpose is very well situated, has been particularly marked and frequently referred to by the Director-General of Observatories, Simla.\n\nThe experience of the Meteorological Office, London, is that the only way to obtain satisfactory observations from ships is to organise the service on the same lines as a land service is organised. We provide the ships from which we wish observations, with fully tested instruments, registers in which to record the observations and forms on which to code and despatch the messages. In this way we have been successful in obtaining very satisfactory meteorological information from the North Atlantic, our success only being limited by the amount of money available, as the service is naturally somewhat expensive. The organisation of such a service in the Atlantic is particularly easy owing to the regularity with which ships cross and recross from one side to the other. I can see considerable difficulty in the organisation of such a service from Hong Kong; but I think some attempt should be made to work along the lines of individual co-operation rather than along the lines of broadcast requests for help.\n\nDuring recent years this question of obtaining meteorological observations from ships at sea has been very much before the International Meteorological Committee.\n\nPage 267", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nTo\n\nNo.56.\n\nGovernment of India,\n\nHome Department (Political)\n\nHis Majesty's Under Secretary of State\n\nfor India.\n\nDated Simla, the 13th May 1926.\n\n207\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the telegram to the Secretary of State No.867/S dated the 12th May 1926, I am directed to forward copies of the reports of the Special Officer who was placed on deputation to study Bolshevik activities in China.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(sd.) H.G. Haig.\n\nSECRETARY\n\nTO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "## \n\n155 \n\nsubject of Mr. Acting Consul-General Fitzmaurice's despatch \nto you No.62 confidential of June 19th., 1928.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nwith the highest respect, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble servant, \n**(Signed) J. CROSBY** \nConsul-General.\n\nCopies to:- \n| Destination |\n|------------|\n| The Governor-General of Australia, Melbourne. |\n| The Governor of the Straits Settlements, Singapore. |\n| The Governor of Hongkong, Hong Kong. |\n| His Majesty's Minister, The Hague. |\n| His Majesty's Minister, Bangkok. |\n| His Majesty's Consul, Medan. |\n| The Acting Director, Political Intelligence Bureau, Singapore. |\n| The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department, Simla. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "## 159\n\nsubject of Mr. Acting Consul-General Fitzmaurice's despatch to you No.62 confidential of June 19th., 1926.\n\nI have the honour to be, with the highest respect, sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, (signed) J. CROSBY Consul-General.\n\nCopies to:-\n| Destination |\n|------------|\n| The Governor-General of Australia, Melbourne. |\n| The Governor of the Straits Settlements, Singapore. |\n| The Governor of Hongkong, Hong Kong. |\n| His Majesty's Minister, The Hague. |\n| His Majesty's Minister, Bangkok. |\n| His Majesty's Consul, Medan. |\n| The Acting Director, Political Intelligence Bureau, Singapore. |\n| The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department, Simla.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-10 Macao opium traffic 6-12-1926 - 7-12-1927", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-502-10 Macao opium traffic 6-12-1926 - 7-12-1927", "content_text": "## C. No.6-8.0./27.\n**Government of India** \n**FINANCE DEPARTMENT (CENTRAL REVENUES)**\n\n87\n\nFrom \nV.S.Sundaram, Esquire, \nDeputy Secretary to the Government of India, \n\nTo \nHis Majesty's Under Secretary of State for India, \nEconomic and Overseas Department, \nIndia Office, Whitehall, London, S.W.1.\n\nSimla, the 9th June 1927.\n\nSir,\n\n**Opium (Indian) Portuguese Possessions - Macao** \nImport of, into Mr. Walton's letter No. `E. & 0.3203/27`, dated the 10th May 1927.\n\nI am directed to refer to the letter quoted above forwarding certain papers relating to opium traffic in Macao. It is now observed from the Macao Opium Return for February 1927, that Macao imported 5 \"Caixas\" and 200 \"bolas\" of Benares opium during that month.\n\nI am directed to suggest that, if the Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India approves, the Foreign Office may be moved to write to His Majesty's Representative in Lisbon regarding this transaction also, in continuation of their Despatch to him, No.146, dated the 7th April 1927.\n\nI have, etc., \n(signed) V. S. Sundaram \nDeputy Secretary to the Government of India.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-10 Macao opium traffic 6-12-1926 - 7-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-9 Opium traffic- activities of Nemazee family 1-12-1926 - 27-10-1927", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-502-9 Opium traffic- activities of Nemazee family 1-12-1926 - 27-10-1927", "content_text": "## c. No. 36 E.c/27.\n\nFrom V. S. Sundaram Esq., \nDeputy Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department (Central Revenues) \nTO \nGovernment of India, \nHis Majesty's Under Secretary of State for India, Economic & Overseas Department, \nIndia Office, \nWhitehall, London, S.W.\n\n**Sir,**\n\nSimla, the 16th June 1927.\n\n**Opium (Persian) - French Indo China- via Singapore Transhipment of, to-.** My letter C. No. 36 E.C/27, dated 2nd June 1927.\n\n1. In continuation of my letter quoted above, I am directed to say that the Government of India have permitted the transhipment at Bombay of 5 chests of Persian opium to French Indo-China, via Singapore by Messrs. Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co. The consignment arrived in Bombay on the 21st May 1927.\n\n2. I am directed to enclose for the information of the Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India, a copy of the import certificate covering the consignment and purporting to be signed by the Governor General of Indo-China and countersigned by the Superintendent Singapore. It will be observed that the Government of French Indo-China have employed the services of Mr. A. Namazie for the supply of the opium. The Government of India suspect that he is connected with the firm of M. G. Nemazie notorious for its illicit opium traffic. It will no doubt be considered whether it is advisable to convey any warning about this person's antecedents to the French Government through the Foreign Office.\n\nI have, etc., \n**V. S. SUNDARAM** \nDeputy Secretary to the Government of India", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-9 Opium traffic- activities of Nemazee family 1-12-1926 - 27-10-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510546, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "content_text": "# \n\n30149/7 \n\nAK \n\n23 \n\nThree large cases and the one small one hidden beneath \ngunny bags were actually found as predicted, but were discovered to be without contents. Moreover, I gather that researches by the police in the neighbourhood of Tasikmalaja have failed to disclose any secret installation for the manufacture of arms beneath the Tjiang. The authorities are therefore inclined to suspect that the information may have been deliberately and falsely supplied from communist sources, either as a practical joke or as a means of testing the vigilance of the Dutch Indian Intelligence Service. If (as may be the case) the reports are substantially true, they are obviously of much importance, as demonstrating both the ramifications of the local communist organisation and the lengths to which it is prepared to go.\n\n## \n\n11. Special attention may be called to Lim Soe Den, whose name has been quoted several times in this despatch. I understand that he was partially educated in Holland and that, in addition to his other functions, he is alleged to exercise those of \"Colonel at Whampoa\". The address of his firm (the \"Long Tong Kongsi\") at Hong Kong is given as \"No.1 Connaught Road, West (Praya)\". The firm is said to deal in sugar. If the information respecting him is trustworthy, Lim Soe Den must be a particularly dangerous man.\n\nI have, etc., \n\n**(Signed) J. Crosby.** \n**CONSUL-GENERAL**\n\nCopies to: \n- The Governor-General of Australia, Melbourne\n- The Governor of the Straits Settlements, Singapore\n- The Governor of Hong Kong\n- The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department, Simla\n- His Majesty's Minister at The Hague\n- His Majesty's Minister at Bangkok\n- His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton\n- The Director of the Political Intelligence Bureau, Singapore", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513426, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-13 Employment of British and Indian troops stationed at Hong Kong 31-12-1927 - 20-8-1928", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-508-13 Employment of British and Indian troops stationed at Hong Kong 31-12-1927 - 20-8-1928", "content_text": "Distribution of Army Regr.Me.8115-A.D.1.\n\nNo.24902-2-G.S.5.D.1(A.D.1)\n\nGovernment of India\n\nARMY DEPARTMENT.\n\n(UK)\n\nTo\n\nSir,\n\nSimla, the 26th July 1928.\n\nThe Secretary, Military Department,\n\nIndia Office,\n\nLondon.\n\nHONG KONG GARRISON.\n\n10\n\nIn continuation of Army Department telegram No.1435-S, dated 23rd July 1928, to the Secretary of State, I am directed to say that it appears from the enclosure to your letter No.M-3427/28, dated the 4th June 1928, that the last sentence of Army Department letter No.24902/1(G.S.-S.D.1), dated the 5th April 1928, has given rise to some misunderstanding.\n\nExpressing their willingness to retain the Indian infantry battalion and the Hong Kong Mule Corps at Hong Kong for so long as they were required by His Majesty's Government, the Government of India never intended to imply that those units were to be employed at Hong Kong only and not elsewhere in China, as the War Office considered desirable.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nSd/-A.F.L. Brayne,\n\nOffg: Secretary to the Govt. of India.\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11\n\nAny further communication on this subject should\n\nbe addressed to\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for India,\n\nMilitary Department,\n\nIndia Office,\n\nLondon, SW.1,\n\nand the following reference quoted :—\n\nM.4584/28.\n\nTelephone:----\n\nVictoria 8920.1.0. Ext. No.\n\nTelegrams-\n\nRetaxandum, London.\n\nSir,\n\nSECRET", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-13 Employment of British and Indian troops stationed at Hong Kong 31-12-1927 - 20-8-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-13 Employment of British and Indian troops stationed at Hong Kong 31-12-1927 - 20-8-1928", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-508-13 Employment of British and Indian troops stationed at Hong Kong 31-12-1927 - 20-8-1928", "content_text": "JRL/AW.\n\nFrom\n\nCOPY OF TELEGRAM\n\nViceroy, Army Department, to Secretary of State for India.\n\nDated Simla, 23rd July, 1928.\n\nReceived 23rd July, 1928, 7.45 p.m.\n\nX X\n\n12\n\n1435-S.\n\nReference your Military Department letter\n\nNo. 3427 of 4th June: Last sentence of Army Department\n\nletter No. 24902 of 5th April to your Military Secretary\n\nwas intended to imply that Government of India would\n\ncontinue to regard as placed at disposal of His Majesty's\n\nGovernment for employment anywhere in China Indian units\n\nnormally stationed at Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-13 Employment of British and Indian troops stationed at Hong Kong 31-12-1927 - 20-8-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 514003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-7 Opium on Macao market 10-1-1928 - 9-11-1928", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-508-7 Opium on Macao market 10-1-1928 - 9-11-1928", "content_text": "No.C.No.6-E.0/28\n\nFrom\n\nV.A.Sundaram, Esq.,\n\nTo\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT OF INDIA,\n\nFinance Department (Central Revenues).\n\nSmuggling.\n\nHis Majesty's Under Secretary of State for India,\n\nEconomic and Overseas Department,\n\nIndia Office, S.W.1.\n\nSimla/New Delhi, the 14th June 1928.\n\n57\n\nYour letter No.E. & O.3012/28, dated the 12th May 1928.\n\nOpium Portuguese Possessions Import and Export, etc. -\n\nI am directed to refer to the letter quoted above, forwarding, inter alia, Macao Opium Returns, and to request that, with the permission of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, enquiries may be made, through the Foreign Office, as to the details of the 5 chests of Indian Opium stated to have been confiscated by the Macao Authorities and the result of the enquiries communicated to the Government of India.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Sgd) V.A.Sundaram.\n\nDeputy Secretary to the Gov. of India.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-7 Opium on Macao market 10-1-1928 - 9-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-510-8 Policy on sale of Opium 12-1-1928 - 24-7-1928", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-510-8 Policy on sale of Opium 12-1-1928 - 24-7-1928", "content_text": "35 \n\nhas a somewhat larger population; whereas the \n\ntotal population of the whole of this Colony is \n\nless than that of a single town in the Kuang-tung \n\nprovince, I mean its capital, Canton. Moreover, \n\nthere is in normal times a daily ebb and flow of \n\nmany thousands of Chinese, \n\namong whom are probably \n\nhundreds of opium addicts, \n\nbetween Hong Kong and \n\nCanton, while in abnormal times there is a sauve qui \n\npeut from Canton to Hong Kong, which may add \n\n(as recently happened) some twenty thousand souls \n\nto the Colony's population in a couple of weeks. \n\nUnder such conditions it is quite impossible for \n\nHong Kong to suppress, or even to affect considerable \n\nreduction in, the consumption of opium by its \n\ninhabitants, while the Canton authorities encourage \n\nboth the production and the consumption of opium and \n\ntake no steps whatever to check the export of prepared \n\nand raw opium from Kuang-tung into this colony. \n\nAll that is practicable in Hong Kong, until the \n\nproduction and consumption of opium in China are \n\neffectively controlled with a view to eventual \n\nsuppression, is to keep the price high enough to \n\nmake opium a luxury and yet not so high as further \n\nto encourage smuggling. \n\n6. Another important factor in the local \n\nsituation is the opium policy of the Government of \n\nIndia. In a letter, dated the 14th June, 1926, \n\nthis Government was informed by the Finance \n\nDepartment (Central Revenues), Simla, that the \n\nGovernment \n\n15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-510-8 Policy on sale of Opium 12-1-1928 - 24-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525336, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "265\n\n14\n\nHeads and Sub-heads.\n\n266\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1931\n\n15\n\nEstimated,\n\nActual.\n\nIncrease\n\nDecrease.\n\nProvisionally\n\nVoted.\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n3,645,984\n\n8,881,248.25\n\n332,416.99\n\n97,152.74\n\nBrought forward\n\n13. HARBOUR DEPARTMENT AND AIR SERVICES,-Continued.\n\nOTHER CHARGES,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n8 Incidental Expenses\n\n782,157\n\n2,000\n\n752,746.36\n\n32,438.97\n\n11,844.61\n\n32,921.00\n\n9 Moorings for Harbour Craft and Rock\n\nand Fairway Buoys\n\n2,000\n\n674.55\n\n1,956.14\n\n1,325.45\n\n43.86\n\n10 Raising, renewing and repairing\n\nMoorings of Ocean Steamships\n\n15,000\n\n11 Rent of Offices\n\n5,130\n\n14,958.30\n\n5,530.00\n\n41.70\n\n400.00\n\n400.00\n\nIncrease in rent of Government Marine Surveyor's Office.\n\n12 Repairs, minor improvements and\n\nstores for Launches and Boats\n\n180,000\n\n122,994.06\n\n57,005.94\n\n13 Stores and equipment for Lighthouses.\n\n12,000\n\n10,789.90\n\n1,260.10\n\n14 Sundry Stores\n\n3,630\n\n2,206.55\n\n1,423.45\n\nAnnual overhaul and repairs generally were cut down. Replacements of boilers to two launches and purchase of new launch for Sanitary Department suspended.\n\n15 Steam Launch Hire and Transport\n\n16 Uniforms\n\n1,200\n\n316.25\n\n883.75\n\n9,000\n\n4,860.53\n\n4,139.47\n\n17 Slipway at Yaumati, Maintenance\n\n3,000\n\n1,701.03\n\n1,298.97\n\n18 Coal for Offices\n\n6,000\n\n3,393.35\n\n2,606.65\n\nScale of issues reduced.\n\nNot required.\n\n19 Rent, Light and Water Allowances for\n\nSlipway Staff\n\n2,934\n\n2,542.88\n\n391.12\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n20 1 Duplicator\n\n450\n\n200.00\n\n250.00\n\n21 2 Reversible A Class Buoys\n\n4,500\n\n2,500.00\n\n2,000.00\n\n22 Training Expenses of G. M. S. in\n\nEngland\n\n16,200\n\n6,756.32\n\n9,443.68\n\n23 Conversion of Commercial Moorings\n\n($176,222, spread over 3 years)\n\n50,000\n\n19,500.00\n\n30,500.00\n\n24 Three outboard motors to Nos. 1, 2\n\nand 3 Police Launches\n\nFewer officers undergoing course of instruction in England.\n\nNot fully carried out.\n\n2,200\n\n2,200.00\n\n25 Readjustment of Waglan & Gap Rock\n\nW/T Transmitters\n\n800\n\n300.00\n\n500.00\n\n26 Installation of Typhoon Lights and\n\nSignals at Peak\n\nPostponed.\n\n1,605\n\n1,605.00\n\n27 Replacement of Boilers S.D. 2\n\n11,000\n\n11,000.00\n\n28 Replacement of Boilers Police\n\nLaunch No. 2\n\n11,000\n\n11,000.00\n\n29 Tachometer for G. M. S. Department.\n\n225\n\n85.57\n\n139.43\n\n30 Vicken Oil Separator and Purifier\n\nwith storage & settling tanks\n\n1,406\n\n1,238.76\n\n167.24\n\n31 New Furnace & Combustion Chamber\n\nto Police Launch No. 5\n\n7,000\n\n7,000.00\n\n32 Pulling Boat with outboard motor for\n\nH. D. 5\n\n1,200\n\n1,200.00\n\n33 One New launch to replace Police\n\nLaunch No. 11\n\nPostponed.\n\n12,000\n\n34 2 New Fairway Buoys\n\n6,000\n\n6,000.00\n\n35 Lighting New Fairway Buoy\n\n1,815\n\n1,815.00\n\n36 Instruments for G.M.S. Department..\n\n111\n\n87 New Launch for Sanitary Department.\n\n62,000\n\n62,000.00\n\nPostponed.\n\n38 New water boat for Tai O station\n\n375.00\n\n39 Expense of sending officers to attend\n\nConference at Simla\n\nTotal Harbour Master's Department...\n\n1,164,394\n\n6,778.79\n\n962,648.12\n\n6,778.79\n\n39,612.76\n\n241,358.64\n\n40,580.00\n\nLess Increase\n\n39,612.76\n\nSavings\n\n201,745.88\n\nCarried forward\n\n$\n\n4,810,378\n\n4,843,896.37\n\n372,029.75\n\n338,511.38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527608, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "content_text": "## COLONY OF HONG KONG\n\n## SCHEDULE OF ADDITIONAL PROVISION REQUIRED TO MEET EXPENDITURE IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATE FOR THE YEAR FOR THE PERIOD 1st October to 31st December 1931\n\n| No. | OF ITEM | HEAD | SUBHEAD | ORIGINAL ESTIMATE | PREVIOUS ADDITIONAL PROVISION | ADDITIONAL PROVISION NOW REQUIRED | TOTAL | SOURCE OF Savings | SPECIAL PROVISION FOR YEAR | WARRANT & Date or No | APPROVED BY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | APPROVED BY SECRETARY OF STATE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 23 | 24 | 8 | | 23,000 | 24 | | | | | | | | |\n| 24 | 16 | 25 | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 25 | 31 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 26 | 23 | 900 | | 125,000 | | Special Expenditure. Gestetner Duplicator | 40,000 | 6,500 | 750 | | Fin. Message 12/31 para. 92. | | |\n| | | | | | | | | H | # | +4 | | | |\n| 27 | 30 | 7 (7) | | 3,000 | 1,500 | | | H | 11 | 19 | | | |\n| 28 | 26 | 32 | Consulting Engineers fee in connection with tele-autographic plant. | | | 800 | 250 | 1,287 | H | + | 26 | 1 | |\n| 29 | 29 | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 30 | 35 | 20 | | 2,500 | 2,000 | 800 | 2,800 | # | | | | | |\n| 31 | 27 | 15 | | 500 | 300 | # | | 1: | 27 | | | | |\n| 32 | 23 | | Special Expenditure. | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 33 | 3 | 33 | Motor Emergency Unit | 9,800 | 1 | 10 | | | | | | | |\n| 34 | 27 | 3 | | 2,280 | 377 | 30 | 33 | 132 | 10.12.31 | 17.12.31 | | | |\n| 35 | | | | 14,989 | 900 | tt | 11 | ft | A | | | | |\n| 36 | 232 | 30 | 5 (1) | 25,000 | 7,100 | 36,100 | | 14 | 나 | 37 | | | |\n| 37 | 233 | | | 29,000 | | | 35,000 | 9,439 | 815 | -- | 10,254 | * | 11 |\n| 38 | 32 | 13 | Expenses of sending officers to attend | 12,000 | 1,500 | -- | H | | 32 | 12 | attend conference at Simla. | | |\n| 39 | 33 | 15 | | 6,408 | 371 | | | | | | | | |\n| 40 | 31 | 60 (b) | | 80,000 | 32,000 | A | | | | | | | |\n| 41 | 15 | 11 | | 7,000 | 1,200 | | | | | | | | |\n| 42 | 23 | 23 | 14 | 5,000 | 2,000 | 22 | | | | | | | |\n| 43 | 13 | | Tai O Station. New Water boat for | 375 | 1 | A | # | # | H | 99 | 300 | H | #+ |\n| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 帽 | \n| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 100 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1: | \n| | | | | | | | | | | | | | # | \n| | | | | | | | | | | | | | #1 |\n| 101 | 33 | 2 | 377 | 27 | 13 | 30 | 4 | H | B | # | * | 13/31 | |\n| 102 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 103 | 11 | | 瞎 | H | | | | | | | | | |\n| 104 | # | 19 | Ti | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 105 | H | # | H | 1,500 | # | = | # | | | | | | |\n| 106 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 107 | | | | 6,779 | H | H | H | H | | | | | |\n| 108 | 11 | | 幢 | 體 | 31 | 43 (b) | 32,000 | t | M | # | # | | |\n| 109 | tt | 15 | | 1,200 | t | H | 11 | ++ | | | | | |\n| 110 | 23 | 4 & 8 | 2,000 | # | # | H | 13 | 12 | 375 | 體 | พ | |\n| 111 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 112 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "content_text": "## 64\n\nBrought forward..... $8,407.00\n\n106.-37, Pensions:-1, Death Gratuities.......\n$815.00\nProvision made in Estimates (page 111 head 37 sub-head 1) $35,000\nProvision made by Supplementary Vote (Messages Nos. 8 and 9 items Nos. 38, 39 and 60) $9,439\nTotal....... $44,439\n\nThe additional sum now requested is required to provide for a death gratuity of $334.87 (i.e., the equivalent to one year's salary less pension already drawn) to the widow of the late Lo Kau P.C. C15, who was granted a pension after 21 years service on 4th July, 1931, and died on 10th September, 1931, and a death gratuity of $480 (i.e., the equivalent to one year's salary) to the widow of the late Cheng Pak, P.S. C32, who was granted a pension after 20 years service on 1st August, 1931, and died on 2nd September, 1931.\n\nThe above grants were approved by the Finance Committee on 7th October, 1931, and 16th September, 1931, respectively.\n\n(C.S.O. 3150/31).\n\n* 107.-32, Kowloon-Canton Railway :-Other Charges, 15 Lubricants E-3-1-4 Locomotive Oil...\nProvision made in Estimates (page 98 sub-head 15)... $1,500.00 $12,000\nFrom May 3rd, 1931, the express trains between Kowloon and Canton were hauled by the new tender Locomotives, and a more expensive oil was used on these engines, also oil consumption increased as higher speeds were attained.\n\nIn addition, a certain number of the tank locomotives had to be lubricated in readiness should they be called upon to run the express service.\n\nThe above is to be met from savings under E-3-1-2-1 Coal for Locomotives (1931 Estimates page 97 sub-head 6).\n\n(C.S.O. 12 in 173/31).\n\n108.-13, Harbour Department and Air Services:-Expenses of sending officers to attend conference at Simla\nProvision made by Supplementary Vote (Message No. 5 item No. 13) $6,408\nEstimated expenses for sending 3 delegates to India to attend the Merchant Shipping Round Table Conference was $6,407.13, to cover which the sum of $6,408 was authorized by Financial Committee message 5 item 13 of 1931.\n\n$371.00\n\nBrought forward.......... $11,093.00\n\n* 109.-31, Public Works Extraordinary-General Works. Drainage 60 (2) Miscellaneous Works, New Kowloon\nProvision made in Estimates (page 95 sub-head 60 (b)) $80,000\nIn connection with the development of the area between Kau Lung Tsai and Kowloon City, it is very desirable to put in hand this year the following drainage works:-\n| Item | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| i | Sewer in the cemetery road between N.K.I.L. 1382 and Prince Edward Road | $8,000 |\n| ii | Sewer in Prince Edward Road from the foot of the cemetery road to street west of Tak Ku Ling Road | $15,000 |\n| iii | Extension of 81\" storm water drain in street west of Tak Ku Ling Road, towards Kowloon City | $9,000 |\n| Total | | $32,000 |\n\nThe above is to be met from savings under Miscellaneous Drainage Works, Kowloon (1931 Estimates page 94 sub-head 43 (6)) on which vote there is an approximate balance of $57,000.\n\n(C.S.O. 2 in 391/31).\n\n* 110.-15, Fire Brigade:-11, Stores\nProvision made in Estimates (page 36 sub-head 11) ... $7,000\nOwing to the lower rate of exchange and increase in cost of stores, the vote will be exceeded by $1,200.\n\nA supplementary vote for the sum of $1,200 is therefore requested.\n\nThe above is to be met from savings under \"Hose\" (1931 Estimates page 36 sub-head 5).\n\n(C.S.O. 18 in 173/31).\n\nCarried forward............... $11,093.00\n\n* 111.-23, Police Force :-14, Incidental Expenses\nProvision made in Estimates (page 46 sub-head 14) .. $5,000\nThe sum provided has proved insufficient owing to several unforeseen payments in respect of fees and expenses of police officers attending special courses of training in Great Britain.\n\nThe above is to be met from savings under Bedding-$1,000 and Coal for Barracks-$1,000 (1931 Estimates page 46 sub-heads 4 and 8).\n\n(C.S.O. 18 in 173/31).\n\nThe actual expenses of the delegation amounted to $6,778.79, and a vote to cover the excess is now applied for.\n\n(C.S.O. 1 in 946/28).\n\n| Amount |\n| --- |\n| $32,000.00 |\n| $1,200.00 |\n| $2,000.00 |\n\nCarried forward............ $46,293.00\n\n## 65\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527698, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "content_text": "# COLONY OF HONG KONG\n\n## SCHEDULE OF ADDITIONAL PROVISION REQUIRED TO MEET EXPENDITURE IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATE FOR THE YEAR 1931.\n\n### FOR THE PERIOD 1st April to 30th June.\n\n| No. | HEAD | SUBHEAD | ESTIMATE | PREVIOUS ADDITIONAL PROVISION | ADDITIONAL PROVISION NOW REQUIRED | TOTAL | ALREADY APPROVED BY WARRANT | ALREADY APPROVED BY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | SPECIAL PROVISION FOR YEAR | SOURCE OF SAVINGS | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 13 | Expenses of Officers attending Conference at Simla. | | | | 6,408 | | | 66 2.4.31. 7.5.31. | | | Acting pay to Deputy Harbour Master whilst Harbour Master attending Simla Conference. Cost of Transport and Hotel Expenses. Immediate funds required. To be followed by Comprehensive vote. |\n| 32 | | | | | 445,267 | | 3,621 | 66 2.4.31.7.5.31. | | | Derailment at mile 9 and washout to Kail-way Embankment. |\n| | | | | | 1,500 | | 610 | 74 28.4.31. | | | Additional Exchange Switchboard for Kowloon. |\n| | | | | | 5,000 | | 500 | | | | Traffic Light. |\n| | | | | | 1,386 | | | | | | Cost of Signal Light. |\n| | | | | | 15,000 | | 1,407 | 78 7.5.31. 14.5.31. | | | Part Cost of Tennis Court. |\n| | | | | | | | | 78 7.5.31. 14.5.31. | | | Grant to Royal Society of Tropical Medicine Increase required due to fall in dollar. |\n\nO.R. 2811bb \n\nPage 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527702, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "content_text": "## Schedule to Item No. 203\n\n| Sub-head | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| | $1,967 |\n| | $1,159 |\n| | $181 |\n| | $36 |\n| | $67 |\n| | $138 |\n| | $99 |\n\np. 102 Sub-head 43...\np. 103 Sub-head 1. 27 in `173/30`. p. 102 Sub-head 30...\n\n35, Charitable Services...... 16 in `173/31`. p. 33 Sub-head 10...... $200\n14, Royal Observatory... p. 33 Sub-head 12...... \n15 in `173/30`. p. 47 Sub-head 26...... Finance Message No. 15, Item No. 132. 20 in `173/31`. p. 45 Sub-head 5......\n5,000 | 25, Medical Department... $2,000\n43, Stationery... $8,500\n34, Miscellaneous Services... $30\n30, Newspapers and Periodicals... $95,000\n12,481 \n009 \n006 \n1, Sundry Charitable Allowances and Pensions (already allocated)... $12\n12, Maintenance of Magnetographs... $10\n10, Maintenance of Lithographic Plant... $6\n6, Laboratory Expenses... \n20, Expenses of courses of study and attendance at Medical Congresses... $16,000\n24, Prison Department... $5\n5, Clothing and Shoes for Staff... \n\n## Provision in Estimates 1930\n\n| Head of Estimates | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- |\n| | $140,684 |\n\n## TOTAL\n\n$4,705\n\n## 12.-13, Harbour Department and Air Services\n\n1, Personal Emoluments: Provision made in Estimates (page 28, sub-head 1)... $445,267\nEstimated acting pay as under, owing to the absence of Comr. G. F. Hole, R.N., Harbour Master from the Colony to attend the Merchant Shipping Round Table Conference to be held at Simla in May, 1931.\n\n| Amount required | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Comdr. J. B. Newill, R.N., Deputy Harbour Master to act as Harbour Master for 24 months and draw salary as per G.O. `92(1)`... | £31. 5. 0 |\n| Comdr. T. C. Stiff, R.N.R., Nautical Surveyor, to act as Assistant Harbour Master for 2 months, vice Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood who is proceeding on home leave in March and draw salary as per G.O. `92(1)`... | £10. 8. 4 |\n| Total... | £41.13.4 |\n\n£41.13.4 viz £20.16.8 at Exch. 1/6d. = £20.16.8\n\n| | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N... | 1,491.15 |\n| Mr. W. O. Lambert... | 768.90 |\n| Mr. G. Swan... | 652.37 |\n| Deficit... | 277.78 |\n| | 430.11 |\n| TOTAL | $2,912.42 |\n| | $3,620.31 |\n\n## 13.-13, Harbour Department and Air Services\n\nExpenses of sending officers to attend Conference at Simla. Estimated Expenses for sending three delegates to India to attend the Merchant Shipping Round Table Conference. Estimates are based on a period of 2 months:\n\n| | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Three return fares 1st Class Hong Kong to Calcutta... | 2,283.00 |\n| 3 return Railway fares-Calcutta to Simla 1st Class Rs 620/2/6 @ Exchange 65/4 (cost from Thos. Cook & Son)... | 951.72 |\n| Hotel Allowances for 3 Officers at Rs 15/-/- per day each for 46 days R 2070 @ Exchange 65/1... | 3,172.41 |\n| Total... | $6,407.13 |\n\n`(C.S.O. 946/28. Part II)`\n\n## TOTAL\n\n| | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| | 10,029.00 |\n| | 6,408.00 |\n| | 3,621.00 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527717, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932", "content_text": "## Schedule to Item No. 203. 1930.\n\n| Sub-head | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | 1,967 |\n| | 1,159 |\n| | 787 |\n| | 36 |\n| | 67/ |\n| | 138- |\n| | 66 - |\n\np. 102 Sub-head 43 ... 27 in `173/30`. \np. 102 Sub-head 30 ... 8,500 \n| Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Miscellaneous Services | 95,000 |\n| Newspapers and Periodicals | 30,000 |\n| Stationery | 12,484 |\n| Charitable Services | 16 |\n| | 200 |\n| Royal Observatory | 1 |\n| Sundry Charitable Allowances and Pensions (already allocated) | |\n| Maintenance of Lithographic Plant | 10 |\n| Maintenance of Magnetographs | 0.09 |\n| | -- |\n| | 0.06 |\n\np. 103 Sub-head 1. \n15 in `173/31`. | p. 33 Sub-head 10. \n| Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Medical Department | 5,000 |\n| Laboratory Expenses | 2,000 |\n| Expenses of courses of study and attendance at Medical Congresses | ... |\n| Prison Department | 16,000 |\n| Clothing and Shoes for Staff | 5 |\n\n## Provision in Estimates 1930.\n\n| Head of Estimates | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- |\n| | $140,684 |\n\n## TOTAL.\n\n$ 4,705\n\n## Estimates, 1931.\n\n### 12.-13, Harbour Department and Air Services:-1, Personal Emoluments\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 28, sub-head 1)... $445,267 \nEstimated acting pay as under, owing to the absence of Comr. G. F. Hole, R.N., Harbour Master from the Colony to attend the Merchant Shipping Round Table Conference to be held at Simla in May, 1931,\n\n| Position | Amount Required |\n| --- | --- |\n| Comdr. J. B. Newill, R.N., Deputy Harbour Master to act as Harbour Master for 2 months and draw salary as per G.O. `92(1)` | £31. 5. 0 |\n| Comdr. T. C. Stiff, R.N.R., Nautical Surveyor, to act as Assistant Harbour Master for 2 months, vice Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood who is proceeding on home leave in March and draw salary as per G.O. `92(1)` | £10. 8. 4 |\n| Total | £41.13.4 |\n| Difference of Salaries when paid at Treasury Rate 1s. 1d. | £20.16.8 |\n\n| Name | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. | $1,491.15 |\n| Mr. W. O. Lambert | $768.90 |\n| Mr. G. Swan | $652.37 |\n| Deficit | $277.78 |\n| | $430.11 |\n| TOTAL | $2,912.42 |\n| | $3,620.31 |\n\n(`C.S.O. 946/28 Part II.`)\n\n### 13.-13, Harbour Department and Air Services - Expenses of sending officers to attend Conference at Simla\n\nEstimated Expenses for sending three delegates to India to attend the Merchant Shipping Round Table Conference. Estimates are based on a period of 2 months:\n\n| Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Three return fares 1st Class Hong Kong to Calcutta | $2,283.00 |\n| 3 return Railway fares - Calcutta to Simla 1st Class Re 620/2/6 @ Exchange 65d | $951.72 |\n| Hotel Allowances for 3 Officers at R 15/-/- per day each for 46 days R 2070 @ Exchange 65d | $3,172.41 |\n| Total | $6,407.13 |\n\n(`C.S.O. 946/28. Part II`)\n\n## TOTAL.\n\n$10,029.00 \n$3,621.00 \n\n## 194", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "1370 69941 1194/405\n\nFor copy of\n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTORY AUTHORITY**\n\n257116\n\nThe reply `4(12)` on this matter refers to No (9) which states that action in connection with the new regulations to replace Ordinance No 10 of 1899 Tables A and D has been suspended by the Hong Kong Govt pending the result of a Trade Conference which was held at Simla last June.\n\nA draft despatch (transmitting a copy of a despatch from the Govt of India regarding the proceedings of the Conference or copies of the rules which were adopted & office Report of committees & records of Proceedings) is ready to go to Hongkong when its terms have been approved by Govt.\n\nIt seems clear that the Hong Kong Govt will not introduce regs to replace Tables A & D until this Report has been received and the enclosures have been considered.\n\nReply that the Hongkong Govt is not yet in possession of the Report with full results of the Conference and it is unlikely that regs to replace Tables A & D will be introduced until the Report has been fully considered. Say that Hongkong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527804, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "## \n1 \n\nLoot is being asked to forward copies of the new regulations when they are enacted, which will be sent to Do for transmission to the Danish Legation. ... will be asked to recive and Lask Hongkong accordingly ref to the despatch which is to be sent on `80592 General`. Despatches are to go by same mail as that on `80592 General` or by a subsequent mail.\n\nFiles below should be dealt with/returned to Regs. General.\n\n8-12-36 \n\nSay that Request F.D. to reply that the U.K. Govt. has not yet received the report of the Simla Conference but that it will be sent to them shortly; that on receipt of the report the U.K. Govt. will consider the issue of regulations to replace Tables A & B; and that it will be asked to forward copies of the new regulations when issued for transmission to the Danish Legation; copy enclosed. to (13) of our reply to you. for infor LF reference (4). Officialder \n\n9.12.31 \n\n2 tone \n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTED 3.0. (13 Aug?)** \n\n15 DEC 1931", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527805, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "## Page 9\n15° Zo O.A.G. 339 (w/o excl-130 / 194) A.1. 15.12.31. \n\n16 \n\n**F.O.** \n47450/1197/405 \n29.10.3/ \n8 \n\nTws. c/deat. of 28/12 to Danish Legation \nnefee. to the 14. \n? Put by \n307/12/21 \n31 \n\nEnquires whether the new regulations in (14) have yet been issued by the Govt. \n\nHong Kong has replied (Nos 90106/1/32 Jul) to the despatch of the 31 (12 on 80592/1/31 Feb) regarding the Simla Conference. But as yet we have no known here the new regn? have not been issued. The law has already been asked to send copies when issued. \n\n? Tell F.O. that so far a substitute for [ ] for [] but that a reminder will be sent. \n\nd as soon as these are received they will be forwarded to F.O. for transmission to the Danish Legation? \n\na deer LF \nHalder \nreply to to antesor \n3-6-32 \n\n## Page 9\nTo F.O (3PN) \nDoned \n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n19. \n21 JUN 1932 \n\n## Page 70.3329. 3100.40s \n1.9 \nEnquires whether \nAnswer \n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \nshortly. \nfurther to (?) may be expected \n? Ask HK ref(19) when the inform regarding the regulations to replace tables son is likely to be received \nBad infora and send copy to SFO for info \nfor infer ref(20) \nKuramewor \n2.7.32 \n2 atauce \n**LOKG. 325.** \nCons: \n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n22 -0.7.0 \nw/c. 21. \n? Remma Gov. hf. efe (19) a (22). \nWait a month \nJACalder \n14-12-3 tam \nKYO. \n14/12. \n14/12 \nE \n12/9/22 \n\n## Page 9\nWTD. 3339- 3100 4105 \nEE: \nto (?). \nwhether \nЛишн \n**DER STATUJE** \na \n13.6 \nfurther reply 10 be expected, shortly. \nSay a reply as soon as tul will be sent informon requested in (22) - a copy of whien is received wees suit to tho F.O. - from Hong Kong. \n3pn \n15-12-32 \nF.O. \n\nIn view of this reminder I had better refly 3 pr. thend it is not havon when a refly may be expected but that the In is being reminded; & rend a reminder (F. \n23. A \nANSIND. \nAlalder \n16.12.3 2 \nstam \n-21/12/32 \n**YED DER STATUTE** \nX25 Legs 472. P/2 caw \n12 \n32. \n26 Mov-39. \n\n## Page 11\nnew Regins to the Merchant Shipking \n6- \nreplace. \nOrdie, \n23.1.33 \nA and D \nawaits. \nthe \nG \napplication Convention for the final decoun régued ing Shong kong of the 1929 \nLafely of Life at Sea, \nУн \nInternational Lond Line \nLuila Rules. \nCovention, and \nthe \nPło. \ne 10 \ne 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527807, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "82743/31.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your communication No. L.3100/3100/405 of the 10th of June, 1932, and subsequent correspondence, regarding the enquiry of the Danish Minister concerning the issue of new regulations to replace Tables A and D of the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, I am directed by Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister to transmit to you, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the accompanying copy of a despatch which has been received from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject, dated Fr.Gov.H.K.23.1.33.\n\n2. Various difficult questions regarding the application of the Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, the International Load Line Convention, and the Simla Rules, are at present under consideration.\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\nFOREIGN OFFICE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "## \n\ndifficult questions regarding the application of the Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1929, the International Load Line Convention, and the Simla Rules, are at present under consideration by the Board of Trade, and You it is not possible at present to indicate how soon the final decision to which the Governor refers in the despatch will be taken.\n\nI am, etc.\n\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527813, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 23rd January, 1933.\n\n(19)\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your despatch No.193 of the 23rd June, 1932, and previous correspondence on the subject of the issue of new Regulations to replace Tables A and D of the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance, I have the honour to inform you that the amendment of these Regulations awaits a final decision regarding the application to this Colony of the 1929 Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, the International Load Line Convention, and the Simla Rules. In this connection I invite reference to my despatch No.26 of the 13th January, 1933.\n\n`Su 0182/1/33`\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\nGovernor, &c.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.** \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "No.L7450/1197/405.\n\n**FORZICH OFFICE, 8.1.**\n\n28th December, 1931.\n\n20\n\nSir\n\nWith reference to Monsieur de Oxholm's note No.5-L/GH.No.230/31 of the 20th ultimo, enquiring whether the new regulations replacing Tables 'A' and 'D' of the Hongkong Merchant Shipping Ordinance No.10 of 1899 have yet been issued by the Government of the Colony, I have the honour to inform you that the Hongkong Government are not yet in possession of the report of the Conference held at Simla in May last on the subject of the Indian Pilgrims and Deck Passengers Traffic. A copy of the report is, however, being sent to the Governor at an early date and on receipt of the report the Hongkong Government will consider the issue of the regulations in question. The Governor will be asked to forward copies of the new regulations when issued and I shall have the honour to transmit them to you in due course.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nwith the highest consideration,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n(For the Secretary of State)\nCount P.F. Ahlefeldt Laurvig, G.C.V.O.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527816, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nOh U.S.S.\n\n7.0\n\n(9)\n\nFrom former\n\nC.O.S. Ag. T.\n\nN°. 21197/1197/405 8th April,\n\ncount inclosing a copy of a note from the Danish Minister regarding the regulations which the Govt of Hong Kong propose to introduce to repeal Tables A and B of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, N.10 of 1899.\n\nMs. to Transmit to F.A., for his information, a copy of a despatch which has been sent to the Governor.\n\n2. The Conference referred to in the Confidentials which the Govt of the contracting powers directly interested in the Russian pilgrims traffic was convened last May in Simla to consider the draft convention with Articles 4(6) and 12(5)2.\n\n| Date | Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 5 May | (8) | |\n| 15 June, 1831 | | |\n| 9-JUN | 82743/2, 41. | |\n| 8th April | N°. 21197/1197/405 | Danish Minister's note |\n\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` \n`XCR(85)72`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-5 Shipping regulations and equipment 3-12-1930 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530579, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "content_text": "## Paragraph 10\nSingapore, which has recently followed the example of Hong Kong in seeking world-wide recognition for its Class A passenger certificates, has been asked for information as to the details of the staff of its Marine Surveyor's Office and of the work done. It must, however, be remembered that it was at the special request of this Government that the Board of Trade sent out a representative to report on the staffing of the Government Marine Surveyor's Department, with a view to the recognition by the Board of Trade of the Hong Kong Class IA passenger certificate, and that if the Government is not prepared to accept the recommendations of the Board of Trade's representative, a not unnatural result would be for the Board of Trade to withdraw its recognition from the Hong Kong certificate. That is a contingency which this Government would not be prepared to accept.\n\n## Paragraph 10\nThe Hong Kong Regulations will be published as soon as the draft has been revised to bring them into line with the recommendations and agreements reached at the Simla Conference. It would have been useless to publish them before the findings of the Conference were ready.\n\n## Paragraph 11\nIn 1929 there were inspected only twenty-five non-passenger carrying launches; and of these twenty-five only those built of wood were surveyed twice yearly. It would hardly be worth while to hand over to private surveyors the inspection of twenty-five launches out of a total of over 400. Government does not feel able to accept the certificates of private surveyors in respect of passenger-carrying launches.\n\n## Paragraph 12\nThe cost of the Government Marine Surveyor's Department is roughly $250,000 per annum. The estimated revenue of the department for 1932 on the present scale of fees is $78,500.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n91\n\nwere in force on the 19th September, 1903, when the principal Ordinance came into operation.\n\n8. On the 31st May, 1929, an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and, on the 5th July, 1930, an International Load Line Convention were signed in London. To give effect to them, the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, was passed on the 17th March, 1932, which was brought into full operation on the 1st January, 1933, by an Order of His Majesty in Council under sections 39 and 67 dated the 10th November, 1932, published in the London Gazette of the 15th November, 1932.\n\n9. In 1931 the Governments of Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, the Netherlands East Indies, and the Straits Settlements, being satisfied that it would be impracticable to enforce compliance with the requirements of Chapters II and III of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, in the case of passenger ships engaged in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed Mohammedan pilgrims and other unberthed passengers to or from their countries and desiring to formulate general rules concerning Construction, Life Saving Appliances, etc., applicable to the particular circumstances of these trades in accordance with Article 4, paragraph 6 (b), and Article 12, paragraph 5 (d), of the said Convention, appointed delegates, who formulated the Simla Rules, 1931.\n\n10. The Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, amends the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1928, and will be construed as one with them under the general title of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1932.\n\n11. Part I of the Act of 1932 deals with Safety at Sea and by section 36 His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that the provisions of Part I of the Act and (so far as may appear expedient for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of that Part) the provisions of any other Act relating to Merchant Shipping, shall extend (inter alia) to any Colony, with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications (if any) as may be specified in the Order. Orders in Council under this section may direct that any provision of Part I of the Act, which is expressed to apply only to British ships or passenger steamers registered in the United Kingdom, shall apply to British ships or passenger steamers, as the case may be, registered in any country or part of His Majesty's dominions to which the provisions of Part I can be extended. These Orders in Council may also direct that any reference in Part I of the Act to a port in the United Kingdom shall be construed as including a reference to a port in any such country or part of His Majesty's dominions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549203, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-7 British Empire and China Trade Fair 14-5-1935 - 23-10-1935", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-554-7 British Empire and China Trade Fair 14-5-1935 - 23-10-1935", "content_text": "The Trade Committee des\n\nDecode. Sa. (Ika kom)\n\nhem duar.\n\n19th July, 1938.\n\n(PV jimla n) 19th July 1565.\n\n22nd July 1930,\n\n118\n\nlack of er\n\nA 30 201\n\nfollows.\n\n19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-7 British Empire and China Trade Fair 14-5-1935 - 23-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550954, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "to her with France and the United States, that the success of the above policy is linked with the development of international trade. In particular, the greatest importance is attached to action being taken without delay to relax the present system of quotas and exchange controls with a view to their abolition. The British Government, in common with the United States and French Governments, invites the co-operation of other nations to realise the policy laid down in the present declaration.\n\nI venture to believe that the Colony's present relations with our great and friendly neighbour, China, which your Excellency has already done much to foster, are such as will place no obstacle, so far as we are concerned, in the way of the realisation of this declaration of policy on the part of the British Government.\n\n## Medical Services\n\nTurning now to the departmental estimates, I observe with growing alarm the enormous increase in the expenses of the medical department, particularly so as I am still convinced that by the use of part-time services of our local medical practitioners, some of this extra expense could be avoided. I can well understand how the professional instincts and ideals of my honourable friend, the Director of Medical Services, incline him towards operating with his own medical assistants, on a self-contained basis, but the gratification of those ideals appears to me to be, not only very costly, but to seriously endanger the livelihood of the medical profession practising in the Colony.\n\n### Physicians Affected\n\nA well-known non-medical resident, who shares my views in this matter, went so far as to express the opinion that, even if the Government did not put our nursing homes and our medical fraternity entirely out of action, they would certainly so adversely affect the earnings of the latter, that they would be unable to afford to keep themselves up to date in modern medicine and surgery. He went even further than that, suggesting a sequel so disastrous that I hardly like to repeat it to honourable members. He pictured this policy, if carried to extremes, resulting in the gradual annihilation of the commercial community and the survival of a first-class Government servant in shape to enjoy for a maximum number of years a pension, which, presumably, in view of the extinction of the Colony's traders, would have to fall like manna from heaven.\n\nWhile this undoubtedly is going a bit too far, it does illustrate in an exaggerated way the menace to our local medical efficiency threatened by the Government's policy. The real menace, however, is to the livelihood of a section of the community, many members of which have served the Colony well for a long period of years. In fact, I place this self-contained system of dispensing our medical services in the same category, so far as the medical profession is concerned, as that other organisation which is the _bete noire_ of us merchants, \"The Crown Agents for the Colonies\", in itself no doubt a most estimable institution, theoretically sound, but one which the merchants consider deprives those who originally built up the prosperity of the Crown Colonies and have always shouldered a considerable portion of the burden of taxation of the opportunity to compete for so much of the Government's requirements.\n\n## Street Cleaning\n\nI further notice with extreme regret, that while there is this large increase in the expense of curing disease, there is no provision in either the Public Works or Sanitary Department estimates for the prevention of it by a much more thorough cleansing of our streets than is carried out at present, though we should surely now have enough water for the purpose.\n\nWhen recently in Shanghai, I had occasion to visit some of the poorer districts of the International Settlement and my amazement at the clean and wholesome appearance of their streets as compared with ours, was excelled only by my amazement at the reason given for this welcome change. I was assured that it was entirely due to the zeal with which our Chinese friends had taken up the New Life Movement. Shopkeepers and householders are made responsible for their respective sections of the paths and roads, and if they don't do their job to the satisfaction of their neighbours, they are seized and paraded through the streets with their hands tied behind their backs carrying a broom.\n\nPossibly the Government is waiting for the New Life Movement to catch on in the Colony in a similar effective way and so save them considerable outlay. If, however, it does not, I consider that our tuberculosis record alone makes the incurring of this expense an absolute necessity.\n\n## Road Maintenance\n\nWhile I am in sympathy with some of the proposals for new roads made by the honourable Mr. Braga, who has a much more intimate knowledge of the requirements of Kowloon than I have, I am, generally speaking, in favour of spending our restricted revenue on properly maintaining our present roads rather than on building new ones. I have a vivid recollection of the state of the Taipo and Castle roads before the Governor's bungalow was built at Fanling. New roads through beautiful scenery are undoubtedly a great acquisition to the Colony, but it is very difficult indeed for the motorist to enjoy the beautiful scenery through which he is passing when he is incessantly dodging potholes and in constant danger of being shot through the roof of his car.\n\n## Peak\n\nIn conclusion, Sir, I should like to wholeheartedly support the honourable Mr. Paterson's request that unofficial members may in future be given the opportunity of considering and discussing the various departmental estimates before the first reading of the Budget Bill, in the same way as they are permitted to discuss the Public Works estimates.\n\nUnofficial members of this Council, I am sure, greatly appreciate the disposition which your Excellency has shown since you came to the Colony to consult them on so many matters of public interest, and as I believe Hongkong is one of the few Colonies where the estimates are not referred at an early stage to a select committee composed partly of unofficial members, I venture to hope that the proposal will find favour with your Excellency.\n\nPage 75\n\n## MARINE SURVEYORS\n\n### Mr. Johnson Queries Cost Of Development\n\nThe Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson said: - Your Excellency, - I desire to associate myself with the congratulations voiced by my Honourable friend the Senior Unofficial Member upon the manner in which the Budget has been presented and to express my sympathy with your Excellency that your first Budget for the Colony should be one in which so much has had inevitably to be sacrificed to economy.\n\nI would like to refer to one subject which has come particularly to my notice as a Member of the Harbour Advisory Committee and that is the cost of maintaining the Government Marine Surveyor's Department. I wish to preface my remarks by saying that the last thing intended in these is any reflection on the personnel of the Department in question. On the contrary, in my opinion and experience, we are extremely well served by the Government Marine Surveyor's Department. The Surveyors are both highly competent and reasonable and courteous to deal with, but it does seem to me, and I know to others interested in shipping also, that the cost of maintaining the Department is extraordinarily high and out of proportion to the needs of the Colony.\n\nAccording to a statement circulated to the Harbour Advisory Committee this year, the total annual cost of the Department in round figures is £15,435. Included in this amount, in addition to salaries totalling £10,804, the statement shows Pensions £859, Rent Allowances £825, Conveyance Allowances £297, Overtime Allowances £55 and Passages £1,433. The last mentioned item, I may mention, represents more than 8.8, nearly 9, full-rate First-Class London to ... per return passages per annum for a staff of 16 Europeans and their families. The greater part of the balance of the £15,435 is accounted for by maintenance of a fleet of three launches costing £943 per annum.\n\n### Misleading Comparison\n\nI understand from my Honourable friend the Harbour Master that, in comparison with London and other places, on the basis of tonnage visiting the port, we are by no means over-staffed, but such a basis of comparison may easily prove misleading. In Hongkong, statistics of tonnage visiting the port are swollen by the frequent calls of coasting and river craft and I submit that these figures are not therefore a reliable indication of the amount of work which the Marine Surveyors may be called upon to do.\n\nThe Technical (Shipping) Committee of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce urged upon Government three years ago that the additional staff then considered necessary in view of the application of the new Safety and Load Line Conventions should be engaged on temporary appointments only. The Committee's advice, I believe, was not taken, but now that the additional work entailed by the adoption of those Conventions and of the Simla Rules is drawing to an end, it would, I suggest, be a suitable opportunity to consider reorganisation of the Department and gradual reduction of staff as may best be done without the infliction of any undue hardship.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564028, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939", "content_text": "# Office of the Medical Superintendent \n## Lady Reading Hospital \n### Simla 15. 3. 26.\n\nDr. Anna Blair M.B. Ch.B. has been Resident Medical Officer of the Lady Reading Hospital, Simla from September 15th 1925 up to the present date. During this time she has been in charge, under my supervision, of 60 beds, consisting of medical, surgical and obstetrical cases. She has in this way gained considerable experience of a variety of cases.\n\nDr. Blair is a pleasant colleague to work with. She is very kind to her patients and is popular with them. She is specially successful in her treatment of children.\n\n**(sa)**\n\nCharlotte L. Houlton.\nM.D. B.S. Lond.\nMedical Superintendent.\n\n**Certified true copy.**\n\nMalling\nSecretary,\nMedical Department.\n22nd July, 1939.\n\nPage 17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566709, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-579-2 Sino-Japanese War- attack on British ship S.S. Sagres 9-4-1939 - 13-7-1939", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-579-2 Sino-Japanese War- attack on British ship S.S. Sagres 9-4-1939 - 13-7-1939", "content_text": "2\n\n20\n\n(4)\n\n(5)\n\n(6)\n\n(7)\n\nand we will claim for any stores etc., missing on re-delivery.\n\nBUILDING:- The value of the Deck and Engine Room equipment, spare gear etc. on board at time of seizure is estimated at H.K.$17,000.00 and we will claim for any equipment that may be missing on re-delivery.\n\nGENERAL:- We reserve our right to claim compensation for loss of business, and any claims arising against us as owners for breach of contracts, loss of cargo, or of any nature whatsoever arising out of the seizure of the ship.\n\nDAMAGE:- We will claim compensation for any damage to the Hull, Engines, Boilers or gear on board that may arise during the period of detention, furthermore should the ship's bottom become foul due to her being held for a sufficient period to cause fouling and necessitate Docking, the cost of docking will be claimed.\n\nVALUE:- We value the ship at £30,000.- Since our purchase in December 1935 we have classed the vessel in British Corporation and have also taken out a Passenger Licence complying with the latest Simla Rules, this alone costing $120,000.-\n\nWe trust the above statement will make it clear to the parties responsible for the seizure of vessel that our claim will be considerable and is increasing daily.\n\nAn early return of the vessel will therefore minimise our final claim.\n\nTR:JM\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\n(SD) WILLIAMSON & CO.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-2 Sino-Japanese War- attack on British ship S.S. 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Name in full Surname first, in block capitals.) State whether British-born or Naturalized; if latter, give particulars.\n\nSHAIN!\n\nERIC ERNEST LIDDELL O'NEIL\n\nBritish Born\n\nDay and year of birth. August 18th 1902.\n\n...Age last birthday 37\n\n(A birth certificate must be furnished; it will be returned. Neither a certificate of registry of birth nor a baptismal certificate is sufficient.)\n\nPlace of birth Chail, Simla Hills Punjab.\n\nPermanent address 5 East Point Terrace G.F. floor\n\nAddress for correspondence (if different from above)\n\n(N.B.--Any change of address must be notified immediately.)\n\n2. Whether single, married, or a widower Single\n\nWife's maiden name \"\"\n\nnationality at birth, and place of birth\n\nNumber of children\n\n3. Father's name. JOHN O'NEIL\n\nprofession or occupation and nationality at birth, and place of birth\n\n(If dead, the above questions should be answered nevertheless; if living, his address should be given below.)\n\nLIDDELL\n\nAddress\n\n4 Mother's maiden name GERTRUDE ELEANOR\n\nDeceased! British\n\nnationality at birth, and place of birth....British..\n\n5. Class of appointment desired.\n\n[Application for more than one branch of the Service may be made, and an order of preference given if desired.]\n\n6. About how soon would you be available, (if selected).\n\n[TURN OVER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-20 Appointment of editor for the Radio Review 24-11-1939 - 26-1-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-20 Appointment of editor for the Radio Review 24-11-1939 - 26-1-1940", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-582-20 Appointment of editor for the Radio Review 24-11-1939 - 26-1-1940", "content_text": "7. Give particulars of any physical impairment from which you may have suffered.\n\nIt is particularly important that any nervous trouble such as neurasthenia or an impediment in speech should be mentioned.\n\n8. State here whether you possess special knowledge of any language other than English. Some Malay,\n\n9. Schools in chronological order, giving dates of entry and leaving. Mention any Examinations passed [e.g. Matriculation, School or Higher Certificate], any distinctions gained in school work, games, school societies, etc., and positions of responsibility held.\n\nBishop Colton School, Simla \n\nThe Lawrence School, Ghora Gali, Murrees \n\nPrivately educated\n\n \n School\n From (Month & Year)\n To (Month & Year)\n \n \n \n March 1912\n March 1916\n \n \n \n Nov. 1915\n Nov. 1918\n \n \n Head Pry. Kawn. Lese\n \n \n \n \n Rev. G.T.H. Lightwick\n \n \n \n \n B.C.S. Head master: Rev. Hugh hu. Lewis\n \n \n \n\nGive the names of your Head or House masters.\n\n10. University (or other similar Institution). State (a) any scholarships held or prizes won (b) subject or subjects read in degree or diploma course (c) athletic and other non-academic distinctions (d) the name of your college Tutor, or of the Professor or Lecturer who knew you best.\n\n11. Degree, Diploma, or Professional Qualifications and the date at which each was obtained. The result or class obtained in each part of your course must be clearly shown here. If not completed at the time of application, give particulars and date of final examination.\n\n12. Civil employment or occupation, up to the present time. [Any period spent under articles should be included.] Mention in chronological order each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving; also any dates between which you were not employed. The name of each employer should be stated here, and his address should also be given, unless it is stated in Section 15. State present employment and salary you are now receiving.\n\n \n Staff: \"Pinang Gazette\"\n 1920\n 1928\n \n \n \"Bangkok Times\"\n 1928\n 1935\n \n \n Chain Mail\n 15.2.\n \n \n \n S.S.R. Dept, Butterfield Suine\n Feb. 1935\n Oct 1939\n \n \n \n 1937-\n \n \n \n \n 1935-1937\n \n \n\n13. Navy, Army, or Air Force service, if any. Rank held and any decorations, mentions etc., in despatches, obtained. The names (with initials, rank, and Regiment) of the senior officers under whom you served in H.M.'s Forces, and the period of your service under each officer, should be stated in Section 15 (b).\n\n(If you were of military age, but did not hold commissioned rank or were exempted from military service during the Great War, you should submit your discharge or exemption papers for inspection.)\n\n14. Personal References. Give the names and addresses of two referees. They should be responsible persons who know you well, either in private life or in business; and one at least should be well acquainted with you in private life. The names of relatives must not be given, nor those of distinguished persons unless they know you well. Testimonials from your personal referees should not be sent.\n\n \n Name\n W.H. Lock fry\n \n \n Address\n \n \n \n Occupation\n Manager\n \n \n Period during which he has known you\n 1938-39\n \n \n Name\n A.I. 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If, for any reason, you experience difficulty in obtaining a testimonial to cover a particular period of your career, you should state the reason in writing. In this case the name and last known address of someone who would be in a position to report on your character and conduct during the period in question should be given.\n\n(b) Where either you, or the writer of a testimonial, prefer that he should send it direct to the Colonial Secretary, you should state hereon that he is doing so and for what period he will speak. The contents of reports or testimonials received by the Colonial Secretary direct can in no case be communicated to you at any time.\n\nYou should state, in the space below, the name, address, and occupation of the writer of each of your testimonials, the period of your career for which he can speak, and the capacity in which he speaks.\n\n \n W. H. hundie Bay\n \"The Bangkok Times\" General.\n \n \n C.G. Burnett\n Bombay\n \n \n The China Mail\n 1928-33\n \n \n \n 1931-37\n \n \n A. R. Masson\n Borrie I Butterfield Suine\n \n \n 'Ws. I. Lock Sm)\n 1937-39\n \n\n[TURN OVER.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-20 Appointment of editor for the Radio Review 24-11-1939 - 26-1-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568982, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSIMLA.\n\n11. 7. 39.\n\n159\n\nMy dear Caine,\n\nHuxham of Ceylon tells me that he has passed on to you my letter on the subject of investigating the possibilities of imposing an Income Tax in Hong Kong, and that he has suggested that we correspond direct.\n\nI need not repeat what I said in that letter, but having discussed the matter informally with Raisman, the new Finance Member here, (without mentioning that the place in question is Hong Kong) I am now in a position to explain the circumstances in which I could get away from India for the purpose of making the investigation, reporting, and drawing up a scheme in detail.\n\nAs the Indian Income Tax Act has been completely revised by legislation passed early this year as a result of the recommendations which were made by an Enquiry Committee of which I was a member, we are now in the throes of giving effect to these changes. In addition to this, I am engaged on tightening up the administration which had become slack, and in places very corrupt, and which in certain respects had been developing on wrong lines. Although this work is proceeding smoothly enough and the results which are emerging from the reforms are gratifying, this year is naturally a very critical one and it would be virtually impossible for me to get away before February of next year. What I could do, however, would be to leave India in February, arriving in Hong Kong at the end of that month travelling by sea so as to get the advantage of a short rest and spend March, April, May, June, and perhaps part of July in Hong Kong.\n\nHaving initiated so many changes here, fought for them (in", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568996, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nS.P. Chambers,\n\n173\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n17th July, 1939.\n\nHuxham has sent to me a copy of your letter of 28th June, on the subject of your possibly undertaking an inquiry into Income Tax in this Colony.\n\nThe present position is that we have put it up to the Colonial Office for approval in principle, and if that approval is given, to open negotiations with the Inland Revenue Department at home. As I do not quite know how far they have proceeded I cannot, at this stage, do any more than send home semi-officially copies of this correspondence for their information.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nSd. S. Caine.\n\nS.P. Chambers, Esq.,\n\nIncome Tax Department,\n\nSimla,\n\nIndia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568998, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSIMLA.\n\n28.6.39. 175\n\nMy Dear Huxham,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 5th inst. I am sorry I have been so long replying but I was away on tour and have only just returned to Simla.\n\nI presume that you expected me to write to you and not directly to Caine, but if I am wrong please let me know. In any event let me take this opportunity of thanking you warmly for your services as an honorary intermediary—I was going to say procurer!\n\nThe suggestion naturally interests me, but the Government of India have a claim on me until December of next year, and would like me to stay longer. As I am rather heavily engaged in putting into operation the very extensive legislative changes just introduced, it is not easy for me to get away. However, I am discussing certain proposals which might solve the difficulty and might prove acceptable to the Hong Kong Government if they are prepared to wait two or three weeks for these proposals to take shape. My pay in India is £2,700 a year, but I would only agree to an extension at a higher pay. Whether or not these figures would preclude my taking a job for a term of years with the Hong Kong Government, in any event I would not want to do more than investigate, report, draw up a scheme with draft Ordinance, draft Rules etc., and start the show going. I would not want to run the Department after that, and I have no doubt that a very good man could be brought out from home for that purpose more cheaply.\n\nWill you let Caine know the position as I have outlined it, and let me know whether I should write to you or to him with concrete proposals in due course?\n\nAgain, many thanks for your good offices.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Sgd: S.P. Chambers.\n\nH.J. Huxham, Esq.,\n\nThe Financial Secretary,\n\nCeylon Government,\n\nColombo,\n\nCeylon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "content_text": "234\n\nown nationals.\n\n3.\n\nArticle 7 as it stands would enable China to appoint Consular Officer at Delhi/Simla. I suggest that this difficulty could be disposed of by Chinese undertaking in letter or minute attached to Treaty not to claim by virtue of Article 7 right to station Consul Officer at Headquarters of the Government of India in consideration of the fact that they already have Commissioner there.\n\n4.\n\nPlease telegraph your comments very urgently as we wish to move as near as possible simultaneously with United States.\n\nO.T.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "# SECRET\n\nXXX 75 \n141 \n1302 \n\nAllotted to Burma Office, \nFrom \nDated \n\n**DE CYPHER OF TELEGRAM** \n\n**Governor of Burma to Secretary of State for Burma**, \n19 \nSimla, 17.20 hours, 16th December 1942. \nReceived 21.30 hours, 16th December 1942. \n\n**IMPORTANT** \n\n943- \nYour telegram No. 1143 dated November 27th and your telegram No. 1163 December 10th. I feel that Burma should be excluded, \n\nIt has always been a cardinal part of our agricultural policy to maintain indigenous cultivator on land. To secure this, positive checks on alienation of land have been found necessary. Future policy may call for even more stringent checks. If we concede right to acquire land etc. to Chinese we could not repeat not deny same rights to Indians. Similar consideration applies to industrial and commercial enterprises. \n\nYour first formula in telegram No. 1163 is less open to objection than that originally proposed. I feel however that we should avoid taking any step which might compromise us in our dealings with Indian land owners on our return to Burma; \n\nP.J.O. \n\nPage 140 \nPage 141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578829, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "2577\n\nCertificate of Registry, Transfer of Shares, Mortgaging, etc., is closely linked with the work of the Ship Surveyor. As soon as the Transfer Restrictions Act is suspended I anticipate considerable activity in this sub-department.\n\n(ii) Shipping Surveys. Title -\n\nHarbour Master, Hong Kong, is the Issuing Authority.\n\nThese include the issue of International Convention Certificates (International Passenger and Safety Certificates, Loadline Certificates, etc.), Surveys for Registry, Classification, etc., Surveys for Emigration Licences as issued under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, Special Surveys as provided for under the Simla Rules, etc., and the Surveys of launches and lighters as provided for under local legislation.\n\nThe periodic inspection of vessels in order to see if the necessary standards are being maintained is not the business of a Port Trust.\n\n(iii) Mercantile Marine Office. Title - Superintendent of Mercantile Marine.\n\nThis office is devoted exclusively to the welfare of the seaman. His agreement with the Master, pay, conditions of service, sickness, Unemployment Insurance, National Health and Pensions Insurance, etc.\n\nThe work of this office has been greatly increased as a result of the war and legislation intended to better safeguard the interests of the seaman.\n\nIn addition, we have the problem of Chinese crews which is bound to become more complex as more definite relations are established with China.\n\n(iv) Emigration Office. Title - Emigration Officer.\n\nThe duty of the Emigration Officer is to see that the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance are correctly observed, e.g., the vessel is properly manned, equipped and stored, adequate safety measures are in order, etc., that the intended emigrant receives a fair deal with respect to his or her passage, etc.\n\nIn this connection I work closely with the Surveyors and The Secretary, Chinese Affairs.\n\nThe title is rather misleading if considered with \"Immigration Officer\" whose duties are entirely different.\n\n(v) Examinations of Masters and Mates. Title - Principal Examiner of Masters, Mates and Engineers.\n\nNautical and Engineering Surveyors who are specially detailed carry out these duties under supervision, and the present Deputy Harbour Master usually takes the oral examination of Masters and Mates.\n\n(vi) Discipline of Crews and Enforcement of By-Laws. Title - Marine Magistrate.\n\nThe Deputy Harbour Master or myself sit in the Marine Magistrate's Court every morning and hear complaints directly concerned with offences on board vessels in the port or offences against the Port Regulations.\n\nThere can be no objection to the system, for officers so qualified are best able to decide such cases as are within our powers.\n\nA Port Trust would prosecute in cases concerning offences against the \"By-Laws\".\n\n(vii) Courts of Enquiry. Title - Marine Court (The Harbour Master is Chairman).\n\nA Marine Court is convened as provided for in the Shipping and Navigation Ordinance, and deals with Collisions, Strandings, Sinkings, Burnings, etc.\n\n2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "2\n\nI now propose to deal with \"Functions\" as outlined in your paragraph 10.\n\n(i) Registry of Shipping. Title - Registrar of Shipping.\n\nThe Registrar of Shipping has nothing to do with the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine. The former deals with the issue of a vessel's \"Birth Certificate\" and the latter with ships' personnel. The issue of a ship's Certificate of Registry, Transfer of Shares, Mortgaging, etc., is closely linked with the work of the Ship Surveyor. As soon as the Transfer Restrictions Act is suspended, I anticipate considerable activity in this sub-department.\n\n(ii) Shipping Surveys. Title - Harbour Master, Hong Kong, is the Issuing Authority.\n\nThese include the issue of International Convention Certificates (International Passenger and Safety Certificates, Loadline Certificates, etc.), Surveys for Registry, Classification, etc., Surveys for Emigration Licences as issued under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, Special Surveys as provided for under the Simla Rules, etc., and the Surveys of Launches and Lighters as provided for under local legislation.\n\nThe periodic inspection of vessels in order to see if the necessary standards are being maintained is not the business of a Port Trust.\n\n(iii) Mercantile Marine Office. Title - Superintendent of Mercantile Marine.\n\nThis office is devoted exclusively to the welfare of the seaman. His agreement with the Master, pay, conditions of service, sickness, Unemployment Insurance, National Health and Pensions Insurance, etc.\n\nThe work of this office has been greatly increased as a result of the war and legislation intended better to safeguard the interests of the seaman.\n\nIn addition, we have the problem of Chinese crews, which is bound to become more complex as more definite relations are established with China.\n\n(iv) Emigration Office. Title - Emigration Officer.\n\nThe duty of the Emigration Officer is to see that the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance are correctly observed, e.g., the vessel is properly manned, equipped, and stored, adequate safety measures are in order, etc., that the intended emigrant receives a fair deal with respect to his or her passage, etc.\n\nIn this connection, I work closely with the Surveyors and the Secretary, Chinese Affairs.\n\nThe title is rather misleading if considered with \"Immigration Officer\" whose duties are entirely different.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "## \nI now propose to deal with \"Functions\" as outlined in your paragraph 10.\n\n(i) Registry of Shipping. Title - Registrar of Shipping.\n\nThe Registrar of Shipping has nothing to do with the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine. The former deals with the issue of a vessel's \"Birth Certificate\" and the latter with ships' personnel. The issue of a ship's Certificate of Registry, Transfer of Shares, Mortgaging, etc., is closely linked with the work of the Ship Surveyor. As soon as the Transfer Restrictions Act is suspended, I anticipate considerable activity in this sub-department.\n\n(ii) Shipping Surveys. Title - Harbour Master, Hong Kong, is the Issuing Authority.\n\nThese include the issue of International Convention Certificates (International Passenger and Safety Certificates, Loadline Certificates, etc.), Surveys for Registry, Classification, etc., Surveys for Emigration Licences as issued under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, Special Surveys as provided for under the Simla Rules, etc., and the Surveys of Launches and Lighters as provided for under local legislation.\n\nThe periodic inspection of vessels in order to see if the necessary standards are being maintained is not the business of a Port Trust.\n\n(iii) Mercantile Marine Office. Title - Superintendent of Mercantile Marine.\n\nThis office is devoted exclusively to the welfare of the seaman. His agreement with the Master, pay, conditions of service, sickness, Unemployment Insurance, National Health and Pensions Insurance, etc.\n\nThe work of this office has been greatly increased as a result of the war and legislation intended to safeguard the interests of the seaman.\n\nIn addition, we have the problem of Chinese crews, which is bound to become more complex as more definite relations are established with China.\n\n(iv) Emigration Office. Title - Emigration Officer.\n\nThe duty of the Emigration Officer is to see that the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance are correctly observed, e.g., the vessel is properly manned, equipped, and stored, adequate safety measures are in order, etc., that the intended emigrant receives a fair deal with respect to his or her passage, etc.\n\nIn this connection, I work closely with the Surveyors and the Secretary, Chinese Affairs.\n\nThe title is rather misleading if considered with \"Immigration Officer\", whose duties are entirely different.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]