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        "content_text": "Description of Stores.\n\n30\n\nDifferent natures.\n\nS.\n\nR. 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17\n  \n  \n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    14\n  \n  \n    With tin collars, filled with ball, 8 inches -\n    160\n  \n  \n    Of sorts\n    \n  \n  \n    Fixed to wood bottoms and fitted with metal fuzes\n    821\n  \n  \n    \n    392\n  \n  \n    Solder\n    ...\n  \n  \n    32-pounder\n    50\n  \n  \n    Spades\n    \n  \n  \n    With wood bottoms\n    \n  \n  \n    24-pounder\n    50\n  \n  \n    Spelter\n    \n  \n  \n    5 inch\n    599\n  \n  \n    Spikes\n    \n  \n  \n    Shells -\n    \n  \n  \n    Without wood bottoms, 32-pounder\n    26\n  \n  \n    Spindles, brass valves\n    \n  \n  \n    Common, empty\n    3,614\n  \n  \n    Spits, with wheels\n    \n  \n  \n    With grummets and leather straps, filled, 12-pounder\n    \n  \n  \n    Hand filled and fixed\n    403\n  \n  \n    [Bayonet\n    787\n  \n  \n    Main\n    \n  \n  \n    Empty strapped howitzer\n    450\n  \n  \n    Springs -\n    \n  \n  \n    Seer\n    \n  \n  \n    Shelves\n    612\n  \n  \n    Rammer\n    \n  \n  \n    Shelves, cast iron-\n    \n  \n  \n    Cantilerers\n    100\n  \n  \n    For holding knives\n    \n  \n  \n    Rails\n    \n  \n  \n    Pins\n    738\n  \n  \n    \n    2,265\n  \n  \n    Cast iron, bases\n    391\n  \n  \n    Bearers\n    2,936\n  \n  \n    Collars or sockets\n    2,006\n  \n  \n    Shelves -\n    \n  \n  \n    Partitions\n    823\n  \n  \n    Wrought iron\n    \n  \n  \n    Pins\n    1,990\n  \n  \n    Standards\n    395\n  \n  \n    Shelves\n    984\n  \n  \n    Grape\n    237\n  \n  \n    Ditto in tin case, gun and carronade\n    \n  \n  \n    Hollow plug, 10 inch\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    86\n  \n  \n    \n    47\n  \n  \n    Gun\n    \n  \n  \n    Tin case\n    2,557\n  \n  \n    Howitzer\n    573\n  \n  \n    Carronade with iron ends\n    112\n  \n  \n    Shot\n    \n  \n  \n    Spherical case\n    \n  \n  \n    Gun, 9-pounder\n    \n  \n  \n    Strapped to\n    \n  \n  \n    Empty 68-pounder\n    \n  \n  \n    wood bottoms\n    \n  \n  \n    Filled\n    \n  \n  \n    Without wood bottoms, empty\n    \n  \n  \n    Common, strapped to wood bottoms\n    340\n  \n  \n    \n    24\n  \n  \n    Wood, carpenters\"\n    \n  \n  \n    Staples\n    \n  \n  \n    Stamps\n    \n  \n  \n    [Iron, B↑O.\n    \n  \n  \n    Wood BO.\n    \n  \n  \n    Stands\n    \n  \n  \n    Spun yarn\n    \n  \n  \n    Squares\n    \n  \n  \n    Stakes\n    \n  \n  \n    Without ram-\n    \n  \n  \n    mer-heads\n    \n  \n  \n    [Iron, figured, &c.\n    \n  \n  \n    Steel blades\n    \n  \n  \n    Mortar\n    \n  \n  \n    Gun\n    \n  \n  \n    Mortar\n    \n  \n  \n    Howitzer\n    \n  \n  \n    And rammer-\n    \n  \n  \n    heads\n    \n  \n  \n    Carronade\n    \n  \n  \n    Gun .\n    \n  \n  \n    Howitzer\n    \n  \n  \n    Sponges, with staves\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    lbs.\n    oz.\n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    1,207\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    245\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    \n 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\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Covers, marble\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Forms, printed\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staves, sponge, of sorts\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Steel -\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Steelyards\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    : coco\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    22:42 10\n    \n    \n        \n  \n  \n    \n    12\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    16\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    140\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    9\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    8\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    17\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    year's supply\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    38\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    8\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ash\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Portfire\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n 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\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    59\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stocks, for bits, drill\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12 ft, and 20 ft.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    14\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stomach-warmer, tin\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    ft.\n    run.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    600\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stones\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stools\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stoves\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    112\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,290\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    160\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    135\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    146\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,758\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    202\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    528\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    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        "content_text": "# Prices of Proposed Engines, Machinery, &c.\n\nWharf & Schedule of Works - External - 3 March 1861\n\nHef Haden\n\n{\n\n42240\n\n45\n\nEstimate of Head Wheel and Machinery\n\nand\n\nShe will\n\nengage\n\nto make the\n\nfollowing Machinery — to fit it up complete ready for erection — to mark it all to suit supply plans for its fixing at a foreign Station for the Sums annexed to each-\n\nThe whole to be of the best material\n\n& workmanship –\n\nConstruction\n\nof\n\nA head wheel for two men\n\n10 ft long\n\n5-6 diam with central shaft of best iron\n\nrungles free\n\nBread supports\n\nsupports - wood treads\n\nBolts - Carriages. Brasses, Bearing Plates, Bolts & nuts complete -\n\nevricating\n\nThe\n\nFor\n\nthe\n\nJarne\n\nRuncit\n\nBourds seats and divisions\n\nRequired\n\nMain spur Wheel & Pinion for the\n\nCrafting\n\n\"Bevel wheel & Pinion geared to Main Shafts- Carriages & Brasses –\n\n£150-0-0\n\nbearing Plates\n\nL\n\nBolts.\n\nM. Circular Saw Bench Spindle & Pulley with their sacos\n\nfitting, complete\n\nA light vertical saw Frame 2 saws appurten\n\ncomplete –\n\nShafts - Gullies & Balls to drive them & plate fittings\n\n95-0-0\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "On the Service of the Mint of Hong Kong\n\n29th September 1884.\n\nThe Master of the Mint of Hong Kong\n\nTo Joseph Payton & Co.\n\nfor the Royal Mint of Hong Kong.\n\nSupplementary Order\n\n1k 4 Brass Water Closet Latches flush bolted with white porcelain Enamel handles P.S.\n\n2-5 in plain japanned Night Latches with 12 Keys to pass 4/new\n\n6-bin 2 Bolt Mortice Locks handed with white China firm Pat. Spindle\n\n6-6 in 2 Bolt Best Brasses form O.L.\n\n6-6 in 2 bolt Rim Locks Right Handed and Left handed Best Brasses furnished.\n\n3 keys theas to order\n\n2 doz 2½ in Parts to complete former Contract enclosed\n\nAdditional order packed with above, 3 doz Brass flush bolts six cwt flush Bolt and Bank slide 5 in Latch strong 3 doz 1 in x 2\n\n1½ in do\n\n18 in do",
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        "content_text": "252\n\nOn the Service of the Mint of Hong Kong\n3th April\n\nThe Master of the Mint of Hong Kong\nTo Joseph Stenn\nGoods as per Contract 1865\nNewgate Street & C\n\n£\n12. Steel Spindles with Roulette | 5 | 2 | 10 |\n24 Extra Roulettes | 12 | do |  |\n10 Steel gauges of these X |  |  |  |\n2 list Hayal @ do for 10 Cent Collars | 3- |  |  |\nHeel - Bolsters to Tracing |  |  |  |\n5 Double ended Plong Ganges to suit, with stamped 1 Gauge |  |  |  |\n| 12 | 16 | \" | 30 |\n| 4 | 10 |  |  |\n\n1 Set Letters for Stamping Bari | 2 | 26 |\n1 Set Numbers for do |  |  |\n: Set Letters & Nunchers | 78 |  |\nDozen Magnifying Glasses in harn. 14 in diameter. @ 3/4 | 2 | 156 |\nd B These artistic are- |  |  |\nbosscasion Zer AB bay & Mind Key ). Lot 4 |  |  |\nHM C Et anime Lig Thot won kinder M.M. H. K. |  |  |\nApproved What Graham- |  |  |\nA A",
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        "document_key": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]",
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        "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]",
        "content_text": "## to cause \n\nStandard gauges for the Hong Kong coinage with other articles from Messrs Henns prove to be missing. \n\nI acknowledge receipt of your letter and request that enquiries be made as to whether these have been found after the departure of Mr Davies, and if so, you will be good enough to forward them by the Overland mail without delay. It will be necessary to enclose the articles in a tin-lined case. \n\nOn the other side, I append an inventory of the articles. I am becoming very anxious about the dies and matrices for the new dollar. Have advices been received that any have been sent out? It will be necessary to supply the matrices for the ten/10/ cent piece and I have to request that they may also be sent without loss of time. \n\nThere delivered Mr John Graham 6th April 1865.\n\nI have the honor to be \nSir \nYour Obedient Servant \n**(Signed) Thou Kinder** \nMr. M.H.H. \n\n### Inventory of Articles Missing\n\n| Description | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Steel Spindler with couletter | 12 |\n| Extra rouletter | 24 |\n| Jr for 10 cent pieces | 12 |\n| Steel Standard rings of the true diameter of the dollar, half dollar, quarter dollar, cent and ten cent pieces, with name stamped on each | 5 |\n| Double ended (high & low) Standard plug gauges for the above coins with name marked on each | 5 |\n| Bars of letters 3/8 for stamping | 1 |\n| teh 5/8 numbers | 1 |\n| bet 1/8 letters and numbers | 1 |\n| Magnifying glasses and home... | 11 |",
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        "content_text": "How Dry\n\nA-169. 52. April, 1867.\n\n2.3.\n\n+\n\nJes Putterbad Herest TC. 2.3.\n\n4. Ms. Amisté Pénipotentiary-\n\nDoris Kony\n\nLight houses and Seneous mat\n\nRepruta and Suggestion as to. off Master Commander Pack, RN. briction of Light Bonus beyoush\n\nJurisdiction of homimyrstaų For\n\nriasou skla.\n\nIncloure be in verm dir Puchark Graves Maconnetti Despatch A 267 of 13 foril, 15\n\nLYDON\n\nCONTIN\n\nTAILDO ON JUNK\n\nWhite Packe\n\n03\n\nSetrend\n\nLANA\n\ndodan\n\nring Fangting\n\nGregorjas\n\nMarigi.\n\nAhau\n\nGNfl\n\nبرای همراه\n\nHONG KOZO\n\nthe\n\nISLANDY\n\nTani channel.\n\nLidle deurve disease Me mypast lighten van Hock would be resible F/2\n\n..\n\n21 8\n\nBAY\n\nSpindel xoja\n\ngoniter\n\nshowing the distance che proposed light on Hoylan. would be gentle ris Mumia\n\nPROPOSED POSITIONS\n\nLIGHTHOUSES, BEACONS &c\n\nin the neighborriccod' of\n\nHONG\n\nKONG\n\nCepede in Jenigen Zevents Offere\n\n229",
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        "content_text": "## Requisition for Stores and Duplicate parts\npot August 1867\n\n1. Capper pans for blanching boiler 18\" wide at top, 10\" deep, handles strong and wall riveted, to be of M&B MG.\n2. 4 Slike Blocks for Canning Presses to fit die dishes, those must be made stronger than the original ones, as indicated in sketch by Carry reb Frent Balck. No stops are required as they only breaken the block and in practice are useless.\n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 6 | Sets of dolphin top joints for Canning press with Centres to deep in head, instead of pin holes right through as at present as the hole weakens the joint too much. |\n| 6 | Breaking spindles for Rolling Mills. |\n| 1 | Clutch Boxes for Rolling Mills |\n|  | Wrought iron, cast iron pinions for factoring dimension: \n    - dia of pitch circle \n    - Breadth of teeth \n    - Number of teeth \n    - length between bearings \n    - dia of bearings \n\n## Details\n7th ... 11/27 ... 12 ... 11/ ...",
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        "content_text": "# 10 Misstess Numbers Description\n\n## M.HK- \n\n| B 28 | BBox | 19 | Content | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | Box continued |  |\n\n## Content\n\n| Quantity | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 21 | Collars various |\n| 17 | Die dish pins |\n| 7 | J1⁄2 inch funs for shear brackets |\n| 10 | Bolster |\n| 17 | Die Kings |\n| 9 | Shear lege |\n| 8 | Heils for Shear boxes |\n| 6 | Thick packing plates for |\n| 36 | Thin Dilli |\n| 3 | Propolishing Sipe for dies |\n|  | Coltar bushes unfinished Bling for dise Quite of Elhis |\n| 5 | Markot Frombers Descripti |\n\n## MHK\n\n| B 28 | BBox | Marking Machine |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 10 | Imall ditto for themő side of ditts |  |\n| B 29 | Box |  |\n| 14 | Segments for ditte |  |\n| 2 | brass guides |  |\n| 1 | JM &pour & bracket | Brass Channel for pets |\n| 1 | Hopper for dille | Bracket for delto |\n| ! | Die for dist |  |\n| 2 | 20 Pens Spouts & Bracket |  |\n| 1 | Wheel for delivering |  |\n\n## Contents\n\n| Quantity | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Dollar |\n| 1 | Pulley for wheel |\n| 1 | Detter frout & Bracket |\n| 1 | Ser bracker for die |\n| 1 | Handard or bracket for hopper & pulley Epindle |\n| 1 | Coruss Channel for Filte / BBracket for Gitte |\n| 3 | packing plate |\n| 1 | Segment bracket |\n| 2 | Hops |\n| 1 | Heady Spindle |\n| 1 | Sel pion for cells |\n| 4 | Auts for holding down pin |\n| 2 | Iron delivering apports |\n| 1 | Coracker & rest for licering uh dise |\n| 1 | Guide for band |\n\n## Quantity of iron work extra for tatts frees when workest rizing dis viz.\n\n| Quantity | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 3 | Shuft & levers for racing wilt a |\n| 2 | Cdruckets & Acids, prins |\n| 2 | Buirs Brusse & glands |\n| 4 | Bods & trupo |\n\n## Quantity of iron work extra for Halls press when worked with a rising die viz:\n\n## Remarks\n\nRF Over",
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        "content_text": "## 6 Mark Hembers Descriptor\nMIIK\n\n### Contents\n| Box | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| B 29 | Box Continued |\n|  | Bracket & 2 Springs |\n|  | Side plates with Qet pins for raising Collar plate |\n|  | Liver for ditto |\n|  | Wedges & buttons die dishes |\n|  | Marks & Remarks |\n\n### Cumber Description\n| Box | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| MHK B 29 | Box |\n|  | 4 Laying on levers & brackets |\n|  | Plate for raising lower die Collar plate in |\n| B 30 | Base |\n|  | Laying on plate & hopper |\n|  | 1 Anvil bed & traps |\n|  | 1 Conical Anvil |\n|  | / Spring Collar Rong |\n|  | Brackets for wedges Brass guard |\n|  | Spanner |\n|  | Door plates for Brass |\n|  | 1 Screw driver |\n| B 31 | Witte |\n| B 32 | Postage |\n| B 33 | dite |\n| B 34 | Car Cines |\n|  | 3 Spring for lifting Dice block |\n|  | Spare & duplicate parts |\n|  | Top die dishes. Bolton Clithe |\n|  | Depressin Came Laying |\n|  | Top Knuck joints AB Botton Chitto |\n|  | 7 Limb for ditto |\n|  | Dampee pins Contints |\n|  | But Continued |\n|  | 10 Depressing levers |\n|  | 4 Heelges ficers for Mardards |\n|  | Sets Deres for depressing lever |\n|  | 16 Operings for laying on levers |\n|  | 6 Wedges |\n\n### Milling Machine\nMilling Machine with fast & Coon pully spindles & clise\n1 Breet Quantity of Copper utensils\n- Bans with handle\n- 12 Inch pan\n- 4 10 Inch pan\n- 6 Inch Kans Amares Scoops\n- 2 Buckets Acid Jugo\n1 Sharing lurret Siraking burrit Span Crank for Dining pries\n\n### B35\nBuchages / Die is 2. 2 Ciameter\n\n### Remarks\n199 Temarks\nF. Over",
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        "content_text": "## Engines, Boilers, & Fittings\n\n| Description | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chambers Occription M.H.K CI |  |\n| C 2 Case 2 Connecting |  |\n| Case | 4 |\n| Rods with brasses | 18 |\n| Cotter Complete Eccentric rods with brasses | 4 |\n| Eccentrics | 2 |\n| Cross heads with guide Block | 2 |\n| Links with brasses for valve Motion | 2 |\n| Bullies for Governors | 2 |\n| Levers for valve gear | 1 |\n| Hurting bar |  |\n| Quadrant guide & Catch off cocks brass | 4 |\n| Cara. Spanners for St. Guides for valve motion | 8 |\n| Guides for blocks of guide |  |\n| Bolls | 12 |\n| Standards & 7 piece of Brass hand rails |  |\n| Govenor |  |\n| 4 Procre for Glo & Leavers for St. Spindle & pullies | 1 |\n| Blod & lovers for throttle Agloco | 203 |\n| Temask upy Over |  |",
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        "content_text": "## Milests $ \n## Sumbers Discription \n\n| Milests $ | Sumbers Discription |\n| --- | --- |\n| **MILK** |  |\n| C2 | Cmteste |\n|  | Case Continued |\n|  | Case & supports for spindles Guide bars |\n| C3 | Just |\n| 20 | Old Cirving beck Leather & Rubber |\n| 4 | Dmkey Engine |\n|  | Spare brasses for crank- |\n| 0 |  |\n| 204 | Alburks & |\n| **Remark. Members Suscriptor MHK** |  |\n| C4 | base. Contents |\n|  | Case continued 3 Prices Beeting |\n|  | Copper oil Cans |\n|  | Popper Pallow Rece Brass drip pan |\n|  | Spare Flow ort Cocks for Cylinders |\n|  | I Canets for Miete valves |\n|  | Custing Spare wheel for Camlir Thatt of Engine |\n|  | **Bernark** A par plumper |\n|  | Gange Cocks for Boilers |\n| C5 | Gauge Crates for water gauge Glasors |\n| C6 | 16 Oct tape ditts |\n|  | 1 Meam whistle |\n|  | Driving wheel (in part for the above |\n|  | Ostko jer valves |\n| 6 | Cocks for boiler blast |\n| C7 | Shaft |\n|  | Counter shaft for above ·e. gear. and Du calves |\n| C8 | Casting |\n|  | 6 Torvises for slide valve, Ir Pipes for team Gause Cocks & s pipes for indications |\n|  | 12 Duplicate brassco for Connecting Blous |\n|  | 11 Gunde for dette vulver Str. for throttle St. |\n|  | Spare throttle valves and Spindles |\n| C9 | ditto |\n| C10 | ditto |\n|  | Priming wates & pare blow off Cock. |\n| C11 | ditto |\n| C4 | Wuse Conkey Engine Completi |\n|  | 1 Cylinder with stick i aler Cover; Brass cock & throttle solve. Spindle. & gland: |\n|  | Cylinder with slide valve Cover Brees Cock & throttle relve, Op mille & 8 gland |\n|  | 1 Bded plate for Engine Lied plate for Engine |",
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        "content_text": "## Rolling-Department \n\nMarks to Numbers Description \n\nMHK \n\nD 1 Duse \nD 2 dot \nD 3 delle \nD 4 ditts \nD 5 Case \nD 6 detto \n\n## Contents \n\n1 Pair 20 × 13″ Holts \n1 Fair 10 × 13 Rolls \n\nParts and pinions for Stc: \n- Large Brasses Bearings \n- Over Frame & Slides \n- Connecting Bolts \n- 8 Amuse Brasses & Aresing bolt \n- 4 Bell plate bolts \n- So Game Bret \n- 4 Slide blocks & adjusting Beras \n- 4 Screws with pinions \n- 4 Bärcks & Crasses Haud wheels \n- 8 Clummer blocks \n- 2 Large Brasses \n- 2 Amar Aito \n- 12 Holding down botto \n- 2 Spindles (breaking) \n- 2 Covering plates \n\n? 209 orks \nProve Turn Over",
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        "content_text": "# Murke Humbers Description\n\n## MH K\n\n### Contents\n\n| Number | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| D 7, 8 | Castenasort |\n| D 9, 10 | Hocusing for Pretts |\n| D 11, 12 | Witte |\n| D 13 TO 22 | detts. Cluted boxes for spindles |\n|  | Central Hunitards for & Bollo pinions of Weathe |\n\n## Remark Numbers Description\n\n### M.H.K.\n\n| Number | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| D 29 TO 32 | Contents Casting I'ver having freemes for |\n| D 33 | Custing |\n| D 34 TO 44 | Bloc Frames. Central standards for pinions. Fin Sutch box for spindle. Spare clutch box |\n| D 45 | Casting |\n| D 23 | dlitt 4 Bed plate |\n| D 46 | Alitte Casting for Thears. |\n| D 24 | clitte 1 Bru Bed plate |\n| D 25 | Dur & 1 Fair of pissions for Botto |\n| D 47 | lase Cuis of 10×13 Rolls |\n| D 48 | Buse Buir of 10×13 Boles |\n| D 26 | dette Esurings & brasses Connecting. bott plummer block & hande otels |\n| D 49 | Pasting Fred plate |\n| D 50 | chitts Edid plate |\n| D 27 | dilts 4 Slide blocks & adjust serews. or Gourd Denis with pinions Bearings & brasses |\n| D 51 |  |\n| D 52 | ditt Holding 4 6 breaking spindler down Bette washers & all wrenches & a quantity of rubber belting Bores Ouse Hrising & Broths for & pair of Merupper Nell rolle |\n| D 28 | dite Central Gearing with Si töb ders Free & Secaking Spande For 1 pair of Biosts nach geum phase shar flate |\n| D 53 | Case Cred plate for Diets. |\n\n## P. Over",
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        "content_text": "## Marks & Members Description\n\n| M.HK | D 54 | D 54-2 | Case | lavo | D55 | D56 | Contents | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Pulleys for 2 sets of Krupps lives 2 Gears & Spindles kruppo rolls with 2 liners 2 weights & Wical Spinalny where for cletti Mandard for Gearing of 1 pair krupps 18otts Housing & Parts for 1 pipe of Krupps Sheet Roth Centrel gearing with later Her Pressure Bolls #L.CO |  |\n\n## Marks & DemarksHumbers Description\n\n| MHK | D60 | Case | D 61 | Glitt | Contents | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Cree Continued Fair Chears 16 Holding down bolt Ditts for Tapering Machine Handards for drag benchi 2 Cullies of 2 geare of Chain 3 2 Embouchoirs Finishing Bolts & P2- \"Dragons\" |  |\n\n## Contents\n\n1. Unt duplicate parts for t drag benches. \nDrag bench frame with a longitudinal Bolts \nD62 \nD 57 ditto Casting \nD63 ditto Drag binch frame with's Thin \nD58 Casting \nD64 Litte us Bus D. 53 bencia. \nD59 ditto Standards for gewring & fair \nD65 thrupp clitte us Case D 55. \n14 Washers \n2 Overhead motion for Brag \n214 Cotters for Holding down botte of Bolling mill \nD60 Case \nYour Orcomporis Complete inte fly wheels putlier for fr \nD66 Case 2 Hand Cutting acet frees. \nAlrench 4 for Handards 1 Sapering Machine with Buses bearing shuft & fly torthes \nB. 3 Over \nD67 Casting Large derving wheel of Blotting (mies gearing (centre) \nB. H Over I |",
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        "content_text": "(8)\n\n(9)\n\n29\n\nwin and hydrometeors, such as are usual in observatories of the first order; together also with apparatus, such, for example, as Seismic instruments, which is pretty certain to be procured before long. I propose also to provide a small room for the Electrograph, which will be referred to further in connexion with observations of atmospheric electricity. I have added, at Mr. BOWDLER's suggestion, an upper storey, to be appropriated as quarters for the Director. I recommend that the building be constructed of red bricks, the walls of the lower storey being made 1 ft. 9 in. thick, and those of the upper storey 1 ft. 2 in. thick.\n\nSo lately as last February, Dr. WARREN DE LA RUE furnished the Colonial Office with a list of the instruments necessary for these purposes in a first-class meteorological observatory. The list comprises a Barograph, a Thermograph, an Anemograph, a Rain-gauge, a Sunshine Recorder, and an Electrograph; together costing about £397.\n\nOf these, the Barograph, or self-recording barometer, will be accommodated in the Magnetic Room in the basement, to be presently described.\n\nFor the Thermograph—i.e., self-registering (photographic) dry and wet bulb thermometers—a special hut and shed will have to be put up in the grounds of the observatory. This may, however, be left until the instruments arrive.\n\nIn laying out the building on the ground, it will be important to obtain accurate orientation, for which purpose I suggest that Polaris be observed with a theodolite at one of its culminations, and a meridian line carefully marked at the observation. The transit-room will need vertical shutters about two feet wide, opening in the north and south walls from a height of four feet above the floor and extending to the roof; also roof-doors of the same width, so that there may be a clear view of the meridian from the south to the north horizon.\n\nThe rooms should be 15 feet high, from floor to ceiling, and the roof be made as flat as possible, in order that it may be utilised for some of the meteorological apparatus.\n\nEspecial care must be given to protection of the building against lightning, for which purpose one conductor should be placed at each angle of the main block, and the points carried at least eight feet above the parapet, the earth ends being sunk below ground until permanently damp soil is reached.\n\nPiers, isolated from contact with the surrounding soil or any parts of the building, will be needed for the transit-instrument, the electrograph, the collimator, and each of the two clocks. These should be built of red bricks, in cement, and be carried down to firm ground, at a depth of not less than four feet in any case, there resting on good foundations of cement concrete.\n\nA building on a plan somewhat as shown in the accompanying tracing will probably answer well for the present purposes of the Observatory. If at a future time it should be decided to increase the equipment, the east and west wings could be extended so as to accommodate a Photoheliograph for the record of sun-spots, as suggested by His Excellency the Governor, and an Equatorial telescope.\n\nIt would be necessary, in this case, to raise the equatorial sufficiently high to obviate any serious interruption of the sky view by the upper storey of the main block; and, for architectural symmetry, the photoheliograph might be similarly raised.\n\nA building of the kind above suggested would probably cost, with piers, &c., about $10,500, to which $500 must be added for furniture and fitments. A small additional building, to contain quarters for a caretaker, servant and coolies, with a store, workshop, kitchen and other offices, and connected with the main edifice by a covered way, would cost say $2,400 more.\n\nII. Meteorology.\n\nThe proposal to establish a meteorological branch of the observatory, under skilled management and supplied with the best modern apparatus, commands approval for two reasons.\n\nIn the first place, as Dr. DE LA RUE has indicated, such an institution will furnish the science with valuable and much-needed data, from a locality well suited for the observation and collection of facts appertaining to certain phenomena of special interest.\n\nSecondly, it cannot fail to have a direct and practical value, as being the means of affording security, by its predictions and weather warnings, to life and property, in seas navigated by vast numbers of native and foreign vessels, but subject during four or five months of the year to rotatory storms of appalling violence and danger.\n\nThe Anemograph, or self-recording Anemometer, is an instrument the best and newest forms of which are constructed to register continuously the direction, pressure and velocity of the wind. A small turret, to carry the vane, &c., for the instrument, of whatever pattern, may be erected centrally over the front verandah roof of the main building, and the spindle be carried through the roof to the registering apparatus placed in a small chamber or compartment on the upper verandah, as shown in the drawing.\n\nThe Rain-gauge, to judge from the high price (£60) set against it in the list, is doubtless a self-recording instrument, or pluviograph.\n\nThe Sunshine Recorder is a contrivance for marking and measuring the duration of sunshine. The instrument in use at Greenwich consists of a solid glass ball four inches in diameter, supported in a hollow hemispherical bowl of three inches' radius.\n\nThe Electrograph of Dr. DE LA RUE's list, though not described, is doubtless a THOMSON'S Quadrant Electrometer, fitted for photographic self-registration. I have provided a small room for it on the ground floor of the main building, the window of which can be darkened to the extent required.\n\nThe whole of the above are autographic instruments, and need only occasional attention, for changing the record-sheets, pointing the pencils, &c.\n\nThe second branch of work appertaining to the Meteorological Department will be the observation and collection, as far as possible, of facts and phenomena relating to typhoons, both for the protection of marine interests and for the purpose of contributing bit by bit to our knowledge of a subject at present but little understood.\n\nFor weather warnings, the telegraphic cables connecting this port with others on the coast, and with Manila, will furnish most valuable aid. Past observations seem to show that the typhoons which sweep the Southern China sea for the most part originate in a region the centre of which is situated about a thousand miles (in round numbers) to the south and east of the Philippines.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "542\n\n(8)\n\napparatus, such, for example, as Seismic instruments, which is pretty certain to be procured before very long. I propose also to provide a small room for the Electrograph, which will be referred to farther on. I have added, at Mr. BOWDLER's suggestion, an upper storey, to be appropriated as quarters for the Director. I recommend that the building be constructed of red bricks, the walls of the lower storey being made 1 ft. 9 in. thick, and those of the upper storey 1 ft. 2 in. thick. The rooms should be 15 feet high, from floor to ceiling, and the roof be made as flat as possible, in order that it may be utilised for some of the meteorological apparatus. Especial care must be given to protection of the building against lightning, for which purpose one conductor should be placed at each angle of the main block, and the points carried at least eight feet above the parapet, the earth ends being sunk below ground until permanently damp soil is reached.\n\nIn laying out the building on the ground, it will be important to obtain accurate orientation, for which purpose I suggest that Polaris be observed with a theodolite at one of its culminations, and a meridian line carefully marked at the observation. The transit-room will need vertical shutters about two feet wide, opening in the north and south walls from a height of four feet above the floor, and extending to the roof; also roof-doors of the same width, so that there may be a clear view of the meridian from the south to the north horizon. The collimator may be placed on a brick pier about fifteen feet to the north of the transit-room, a small room or hut six or seven feet square being built over it, for protection from the weather. It should be approximately horizontal with respect to the transit-instrument.\n\nPiers, isolated from contact with the surrounding soil or any parts of the building, will be needed for the transit-instrument, the electrograph, the collimator, and each of the two clocks. These should be built of red bricks, in cement, and be carried down to firm ground, at a depth of not less than four feet in any case, there resting on good foundations of cement concrete. The largest will be those for the transit-instrument and electrograph, which may measure about six feet by three feet. For the clocks the dimensions will be very much smaller. All of them had better be left unfinished at the floor-level until the instruments and clocks arrive.\n\nA building on a plan somewhat as shown in the accompanying tracing will probably answer as well as any for the present purposes of the Observatory. Lest it be thought that the space provided is somewhat more liberal than is necessary, it may be well to bear in mind the great heat of the summer weather, as well as the facts that ample room will be needed for presses for stores, stationery, records, &c., and that the requirements as to space in an establishment of this kind are certain to grow year by year. If at a future time it should be decided to increase the equipment, the east and west wings could be extended so as to accommodate a Photoheliograph for the record of sun-spots, as suggested by His Excellency the Governor, and an Equatorial telescope. It would be necessary, in this case, to raise the equatorial sufficiently high to obviate any serious interruption of the sky view by the upper storey of the main block; and, for architectural symmetry, the photoheliograph might be similarly raised. But, if a Siderostat in connexion with a fixed telescope should be preferred for gazing purposes to an equatorially mounted instrument, no such elevation would be needed. A building of the kind above suggested would probably cost, with piers, &c., about $10,500, to which $500 must be added for furniture and fitments. A small additional building, to contain quarters for a caretaker, servant and coolies, with a store, workshop, kitchen and other offices, and connected with the main edifice by a covered way, would cost say $2,400 more. Both of them may be at once designed in detail, and proceeded with, should the scheme here proposed receive the approval of the Government.\n\nII-Meteorology\n\nThe proposal to establish a meteorological branch of the observatory, under skilled management and supplied with the best modern apparatus, commands approval for two reasons. In the first place, as Dr. DE LA RUE has indicated, such an institution will furnish the science with valuable and much needed data, from a locality well suited for the observation and collection of facts appertaining to certain phenomena of special interest. Secondly, it cannot fail to have a direct and practical value, as being the means of affording security, by its predictions and weather warnings, to life and property, in seas navigated by vast numbers of native and foreign vessels, but subject during four or five months of the year to rotatory storms of appalling violence and danger.\n\nIts operations, like its purpose, will be twofold. There will be, to begin with, the systematic observation and record of the ordinary phenomena of pressure, temperature, humidity, rain, sunshine,\n\n(9)\n\nwind and hydrometeors, such as are usual in observatories of the first order; together also with observations of atmospheric electricity.\n\nSo lately as last February, Dr. WARREN DE LA RUE furnished the Colonial Office with a list of the instruments necessary for these purposes in a first-class meteorological observatory. The list comprises a Barograph, a Thermograph, an Anemograph, a Rain-gauge, a Sunshine Recorder, and an Electrograph; together costing about £397.\n\nOf these, the Barograph, or self-recording barometer, will be accommodated in the Magnetic basement, to be presently described.\n\nFor the Thermograph-i.e., self-registering (photographic) dry and wet bulb thermometers-a special hut and shed will have to be put up in the grounds of the observatory. This may, however, be left until the instruments arrive. The Thermograph, it will be observed, does away with the necessity for maximum and minimum thermometers, as the changes of temperature are recorded unceasingly.\n\nThe Anemograph, or self-recording Anemometer, is an instrument the best and newest forms of which are constructed to register continuously the direction, pressure and velocity of the wind. We are not told by Dr. DE LA RUE what kind will be sent. A small turret, to carry the vane, &c., for the instrument, of whatever pattern, may be erected centrally over the front verandah roof of the main building, and the spindle be carried through the roof to the registering apparatus placed in a small chamber or compartment on the upper verandah, as shown in the drawing. The turret must be provided with a lightning conductor.\n\nThe Rain-gauge, to judge from the high price (£60) set against it in the list, is doubtless a self-recording instrument, or pluviograph. At Greenwich, an Oster's Anemometer and Rain-gauge form a joint apparatus, by which wind and rain are registered on the same sheet of paper. This instrument needs no special provision beforehand.\n\nThe Sunshine Recorder is a contrivance for marking and measuring the duration of sunshine. The instrument in use at Greenwich consists of a solid glass ball four inches in diameter, supported in a hollow hemispherical bowl of three inches' radius, the two surfaces being separated from one another by a space of an inch. The rim of the bowl is marked like a sundial, and the interior surface is lined with a strip of prepared mill-board. Whenever the sun shines out, its rays, brought to a focus by the glass ball, burn a mark on this strip. The intervals and interruptions of sunshine are thus recorded. This instrument may be set up on the roof of the main building, for which purpose no special preparations are needed.\n\nThe Electrograph of Dr. DE LA RUE's list, though not described, is doubtless a THOMSON'S Quadrant Electrometer, fitted for photographic self-registration. It has been shown that I have provided a small room for it on the ground floor of the main building, the window of which can be darkened to the extent required. The collector for this instrument may be attached to a small mast on the roof, above the room; and the wire or rod be carried thence to the instrument, the pier for which should be capped with a slate or marble slab.\n\nThe whole of the above, it will be noticed, are autographic instruments, and need only occasional attention, for changing the record-sheets, pointing the pencils, &c. The labour of observation is thus reduced to a minimum.\n\nThe second branch of work appertaining to the Meteorological Department will be the observation and collection as far as possible of facts and phenomena relating to typhoons, both for the protection of marine interests and for the purpose of contributing bit by bit to our knowledge of a subject at present but little understood. It will include also the giving attention to the phenomena of the monsoons.\n\nFor weather warnings, the telegraphic cables connecting this port with others on the coast, and with Manila, will furnish most valuable aid. The Manila cable will be of special service in this respect. Past observations seem to show that the typhoons which sweep the Southern China sea for the most part originate in a region the centre of which is situated about a thousand miles (in round numbers) to the south and east of the Philippines. Of those which take Luzon in their course, some make for Hainan and the Gulf of Tonquin. Others pursue a more northerly direction, towards Formosa and",
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        "content_text": "# 371\n\n## 24\n\nThe Midfeather is a cast iron partition composed of a series of webbed and flanged plates set on edge, one upon another and bolted together, the edges being planed and watertight joints secured by caulking of rust cement between the plate-flanges. At an interval of every 21 feet vertical, the midfeather is pierced by a circular orifice with flanged lip to which is bolted an 18-inch sluice valve worked by gearing from the top. There are five of these valves, each connecting at its own level with a vertical standard delivery pipe that stands in the dry compartment of the valve well parallel to the Midfeather.\n\nThe advantage of the vertical pipe is obvious in that it admits of the delivery of the water under pressure while it keeps every portion of the valve gearing and outlet culvert dry and accessible for inspection or repair, without the inconvenience that attends the usual method of delivery by which the water is dashed in the form of a cataract from the Sluice valve above; the floor of the valve well whence it escapes through the outlet culvert.\n\nOver the valve well on the top of the dam will be erected a small valve house from which the daily supply to the Town will be regulated by the manipulation of the spindles that connect with the valves. The valve house should have a glass roof to enable the light to penetrate to the bottom of the valve well. The minor features of the Ironwork in the well are sufficiently detailed in the drawings and do not require any further explanation.\n\n## 25\n\nInlet Culvert. The submerged or inlet Culvert running under the dam from the reservoir into the valve well will be built at a level",
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        "content_text": "506 \n\nmarked in the sketch-plan attached, as follows:\n\n(i) Clock room.\n(1) Superintendent's Office \n(11) Computing room and office \n(iii) Meteorological rooms.\n\nClocks. The mean time clock will have a solid foundation and be brought up from a pit-bottom five feet below ground. The clock room will contain the Clock and Electric Apparatus which is to discharge the time ball automatically, also magnetic Apparatus for the correction of mean time errors and two reserve Chronometers to be used in case of accidents to the clocks. Alongside the mean time clock, will be placed a sympathetic dial showing Sidereal time and connected by wire with the Sidereal Clock in the transit room. \n\nNext to the clock room follows the Superintendent's private office and library, and divided from this again by the Entrance hall and Staircase is the general office and computing room. The fourth and last room, adjoining the Computing room, is the meteorological chamber to contain the barograph, thermograph, and eventually the Electrograph.\n\nOver the upper story, a turret rises some height above the roof to contain the anemograph, the registering apparatus of which will also be fixed immediately below the turret, so as to avoid the torsion liable to occur with a long spindle carried down to the Ground floor. The roof of the building will be made easily accessible from the turret, and if necessary may be used as a platform for observations. At a convenient place on the roof or parapet, a small stone block will be fixed to hold the Sunshine recorder. The building may be placed in the Centre of an open level ground in front of the house, which may be turfed and made into a lawn where the rain-gauge will be placed.\n\nThe group of outbuildings containing servants' quarters and outoffices needs no description, as it is only the ordinary adjunct such as would be built with a small private European dwelling house in Hong Kong.\n\nThe transit room is on the ground floor and abuts against the East side of the house. It adjoins the Clock room and is connected with the Lane by a large door; it is also accessible from the verandah by a second door. The transit room is a brick structure 14 feet square. The roof will be of wood covered with felt. The meridian will be open to continuous view by windows two feet wide extending up to the roof, and by a slit or opening along the Ceiling also two feet wide. The opening in the Ceiling will be covered in by a shutter working on hinges controlled by ropes and pulleys, this method being more secure against typhoons than a sliding shutter. The foundations for the Stone piers of the transit instrument will be solidly based on Portland cement Concrete, and the piers themselves will be built up from a pit at least six feet deep. The same precaution against vibration will be observed in the pier.",
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        "content_text": "## opinion as to the cause of explosion\n\nI respectfully but emphatically deny that the slightest responsibility in the matter rests with me for the following reasons:\n\n1. I had made a thorough survey of all the safety-valves and stop-valves, and had expressed myself dissatisfied with the spring-valves (as the spindles were jammed in the cuts). I therefore adjusted the cased-in lever valves to the working pressure and had then closed up before leaving (though not looked up), as it was the intention of the Engineer to overhaul the spring valves and have them locked up as Government valves. I have since ascertained that they were not overhauled. I was informed that the spring valve was \"shut down\" as the spring was broken; and it was only a temporary measure to keep the boiler from priming. And as I knew the lever valves (which were formerly the only safety valves when the same boilers were in the \"Yutting\") had been properly adjusted by Mr. Sapphohen, no possible harm resulting from this measure.\n\n2. I did not express any opinion as to the event in the steamer towards Macao to Complet...\n\n3. The Engineer, Mr. Woods, on his own responsibility, and without acquainting anyone with his intentions, deliberately tampered with, and secured the working of the lever valves by a bar through a hole in the cover, which was not discovered until after the explosion.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]",
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        "content_text": "I have\n\n57 Mr. Robinson\n\nEnclosure. 2.\n\n195\n\nTHE BOMBAY YARN TRADE IN HONGKONG. Mr P. Eduljee, in his annual report on the Bombay yarn trade in Hongkong, says: -- The trade in Indian Grey Yarn continues to advance with rapid strides, and the year just past shows an exceptionally prosperous period both to dealers and importers with a substantial increase in volume and price. Total imports to China and Japan which amounted to 389,862 bales in 1891 show an increase of 54,012 bales in 1892 or nearly 14 per cent. In Hongkong alone receipts increased from 218,732 bales in 1891 to 247,569 bales in 1892 or over 13 per cent., whilst direct shipments to Shanghai and Japan advanced to 196,305 bales as against 171,130 bales in 1891 or nearly 15 per cent. Consumption has also kept pace with arrivals, and whereas Hongkong shows an increase of 67,660 bales or nearly 35 per cent. during the past year over that of the previous twelve months, sales in Shanghai have increased from 144,337 bales in 1891 to 184,386 bales in 1892 or nearly 28 per cent. and in Japan from 14,439 bales to 25,337 or over 75 per cent. During the first six months prices were very slow to move and showed a fluctuation of $1 to $2 per bale, but during the latter half of the year the market took a decidedly upward turn, and in spite of one or two ineffectual attempts to bear prices, values have steadily advanced, and during the year the appreciation may be estimated at $15 in No. 6s. and 8s., $13 in No. 10s and 12s., and $10 in No. 16s. and 20s., and although rates in India showed a corresponding advance, the margin on costs has been more or less considerable.\n\nIn closing the last annual Report it was remarked that since the introduction of the trade into China there has been no more disastrous period both to importers and native dealers than the year just past.' Not only have supplies increased during the last twelve months, but consumption has increased from 181,504 to 219,164 bales, the country being in a better position to absorb more imports, having been happily free from droughts or floods during the period under review.\n\nThe Northern Ports, more especially the large neighbouring markets of Shanghai, have greatly contributed to our advancement, and indeed during the first half of the year were it not for the heavy exports to that port, and the large orders received therefrom we would not have been able to report so good a progress in our market. To give a vague idea of how the trade in Shanghai has expanded during the last four years it is only necessary to mention that whereas in 1889 only 55,401 bales were consumed in that market the consumption last year shows 184,386 bales or an increase of nearly 129,000 bales or over 280 per cent.\n\nIn November 1890, when the new system of clearance in 3 months was adopted by the principal Indian importers in Hongkong, fears were entertained in certain quarters as to the advisability of the movement and all sorts of evils to the trade were prognosticated. The system has had now a fair trial of over two years, and not only have the croakings of the pessimists not been verified but the market has assumed a healthier aspect and every fictitious element which led to inflated sales and spurious prices in the past have been eliminated from the trade. During the last twelve months the productions of two new mills have been introduced into our markets, namely the Coimbatore (in Madras) and Raja Nagar (in Ahmedabad). Three new mills are in course of erection in Bombay island, namely, the Bomanjee Petit Mills, The Hope Mills, and Jacob Sassoon Mills, one in Calcutta and four others in as many commercial centres of India, making a total of eight new mills whose production we may expect to be imported into our markets during the ensuing year.\n\nThe trade with Japan has last year unexpectedly taken an upward turn, as is evidenced by the increased consumption of nearly 11,000 bales over that of 1891. The scarcity of Raw Cotton has been the principal factor at work in the altered circumstances of the trade. This improvement, however, may not be taken as a criterion, as, given another prosperous year and cheap long-stapled raw material, the Japanese bid fair to drive the foreign article from the country at no distant date. Already there is a talk of a contemplated addition of one hundred thousand spindles to the productive powers of local Mills. This would mean an increase of about 175 bales a day or close upon five thousand bales per month to the local output. At the close of 1889 the number of Mills throughout Japan was 34, running an aggregate of 268,988 spindles, increasing to 37 mills in 1890 capable of running 382,976 spindles. It is estimated, however, that only 270,000 spindles on an average were employed during the year producing only 130,000 bales of 40 lbs. In 1891 the number of Mills was reduced to 36, and at the close of the first half of last year they stood at 36 with 324,800 spindles producing 102,500 bales as against 110,000 bales in the whole of 1890 and 110,525 bales in 1891. Whilst this is being written, telegraphic news has been received from Japan of the total destruction by fire of two Mills in Osaka containing 30,000 spindles. The great drawback to the local industry in Japan is the unsuitability of the Home-grown Cotton for spinning either alone or after mixing with other staple on account of its harshness and shortness, and the cost to which the Mills are put in supplying themselves from foreign markets. Notwithstanding these drawbacks the country is advancing with steady progress both in the volume and quality of the manufacture suited to its requirements, and in the course of a few years Japan will not only offer an exceedingly poor outlet for Indian yarns, but be a no mean competitor with Bombay Mill-owners in China markets. In lieu of the manufactured article, however, Japan is now a large buyer in India of Raw Cotton, and the pace at which the trade is advancing since its commencement some two years ago gives promise of a no inconsiderable expansion in the near future.",
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        "content_text": "502\n\nHONG KONG, 1898.\n\n12\n\nCOLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.\n\nThe opium exports of 1898 represent, in piculs, a total of 43,142,525.\n\nThe year 1898 was marked by a considerable increase in the dealings in rice and coal, and by the introduction of the trade in bulk oil from Langkat (Sumatra). The large dealings in rice were due to local famines in the Kwangtung and neighbouring provinces, and those in coal were due partly to the ordinary increase in shipping traffic and the growth of manufacturing industry in the Colony, and partly to the large purchases made by foreign Governments during the period of impending war.\n\nThe import trade of the Colony was increased, during 1898, from all parts of the world; and this increase amounted in the aggregate to 659,833 tons of cargo discharged. The cargo in transit was during the same period advanced by 167,860 tons. In exports generally, there was an increase of 1,205 ships and 229,151 tons of cargo.\n\nThe junk trade has naturally not increased with the same rapidity as that conducted by European vessels. The circumstances of a free port, added to the difficulty of identifying and distinguishing native craft, and Chinese proficiency in evasion, make it extremely hard to keep an absolutely true return of some 50,000 or 60,000 junks, and it is probable that a number of these junks come and go without leaving any trace on our records. The following extract from the Chinese Imperial Customs Report for 1898 gives the following figures as representing, in Mexican dollars, the value of the Hong Kong junk trade for the year under review, and the number of junks entered and cleared:\n\nImports from Hong Kong. Exports to Hong Kong. Total. Number of Junks entered. Number of Junks cleared.\n\n33,190,202.13 33,992,383.12 67,182,585.25 30,217 30,212\n\nIn addition to these, 3,379 fishing junks were licensed.\n\n1 picul = 1331/3 lbs.\n\n(B.) MINES, MANUFACTURES, AND FISHERIES.\n\nMines.-The only mining done in the Colony at present is in granite. Some silver and tin have been discovered, but not in paying quantities. In past years, a considerable sum was expended in a silver mine on the Island of Lantao; but the mine was afterwards abandoned.\n\nIt is difficult, as yet, to say what impetus to mining in the Colony may be given by mineral discoveries in the new territory; and until mining experts and geological surveyors have made a careful examination of the territory, it will be difficult to speak with certainty on the subject of future prospects.\n\nManufactures and Industries.\n\nThe present prosperous state of the industry and manufactures of the Colony, especially of the City of Victoria, seems likely to continue. A survey of the industrial returns for the last five years shows an increase in the number of workmen employed in most of the colonial industries, and the growth in the number and variety of the manufactures themselves shows that Chinamen are not too conservative to turn their capital and abilities into new directions. The chief industries are sugar refining, the manufacture of cement, paper, bamboo, and rattan ware, carving in wood and ivory, working in copper and iron, gold beating and the production of gold, silver, and sandal wood ware, furniture making, umbrella making, jinricksha making, and large industries connected with kerosene oil, cotton, and matches. But while most of these industries are subject to considerable fluctuations from year to year, chiefly on account of the absence of capital to enable the traders to tide over a period of sluggish business, one of the forms of industrial activity which seems to be uniformly and increasingly prosperous is ship and boat building, and especially the building of steam-launches, together with all the minor industries connected with docks and ship-yards, such as rope and sail-making.\n\nThe manufacture of cotton is a new industry, but one which may become one of the most important. The Hong Kong Cotton Spinning, Weaving, and Dyeing Company (Limited) commenced the erection of a large mill in 1898, which will provide for the working of 50,000 spindles. The building has now been completed, and 12,000 spindles are already at work. The engines and machinery have given full satisfaction, and the Chinese have shown much celerity and deftness in acquiring a knowledge of their work.\n\nSome of the industries mentioned are carried on to a greater or less extent all over the Colony; many are confined to the City of Victoria; and there seems to be a tendency towards greater industrial activity in Kowloon. One industry—that of tanning—is practically confined to Kowloon.\n\nFisheries.\n\nThe number of fishing and other boats frequenting the harbour and bays of Hong Kong during the year under review may be roughly estimated at about 5,000. There are no means of ascertaining the proportions in which the different kinds of fish are caught, nor the quantities; and it is therefore impossible to give even an approximate value of the fishing industry.",
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        "content_text": "515\n\n(4)\n\n11-TRADE, AGRICULTURE, AND INDUSTRIES.\n\nA\n\nUnder the heading (A.) I have endeavoured to give such statistics as are ascertainable with regard to Exports and Imports. The fact that Hongkong is a free port makes it a matter of unusual difficulty to give anything like a complete statement on this important subject. In the absence of a Custom House it is necessary to rely upon returns which may be only approximately accurate, but which will probably be found useful in giving a general idea of the present state of Hongkong commerce. The tax on Opium renders that article of commerce the only one of which I can offer clear returns. In the following tables I present the export and import returns of opium for the last five years.\n\n(A.) IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF OPIUM FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.\n\n  \n    \n    1893\n    1894\n    1895\n    1896\n    1897\n    1898\n  \n  \n    Imports,\n    41,578 chests.\n    36,609½ chests.\n    34,208 chests.\n    37,708 chests.\n    39,392¾ chests.\n    \n  \n  \n    Exports,\n    38,978\n    36,241\n    37,828\n    33,385\n    35,808\n    \n  \n  \n    Through cargo reported in manifests but not landed,\n    22,986 chests.\n    16,190 chests.\n    14,838 chests.\n    13,789 chests.\n    15,482 chests.\n    \n  \n\nThe Opium Exports of 1898 represent, in piculs, a total of 43,142,525.\n\nThe year 1898 was marked by a considerable increase in the dealings in rice and coal, and by the introduction of the trade in Bulk Oil from Langkat (Sumatra). The large dealings in rice were due to local famines in the Kwangtung and neighbouring provinces, and those in coal were due partly to the ordinary increase in shipping traffic and the growth of manufacturing industry in the Colony, and partly to the large purchases made by foreign Governments during the period of impending war.\n\nThe Import trade of the Colony was increased, during 1898, from all parts of the world; and this increase amounted in the aggregate to 659,833 tons of cargo discharged. The Cargo in transit was during the same period advanced by 167,860 tons. In Exports generally there was an increase of 1,205 ships and 229,151 tons of cargo.\n\nThe Junk trade has naturally not increased with the same rapidity as that conducted by European vessels. The circumstances of a Free Port, added to the difficulty of identifying and distinguishing native craft, and Chinese proficiency in evasion, make it extremely hard to keep an absolutely true return of some 50,000 or 60,000 junks, and it is probable that a number of these junks come and go without leaving any trace on our records. The following extract from the Chinese Imperial Customs Report for 1898 gives the following figures as representing, in Mexican dollars, the value of the Hong Kong Junk trade for the year under review, and the number of Junks entered and cleared:--\n\n(5)\n\nconservative to turn their capital and abilities into new directions. The chief industries are Sugar refining, the manufacture of cement, paper, bamboo and rattan ware, carving in wood and ivory, working in copper and iron, gold beating and the production of gold, silver and sandal-wood ware, furniture making, umbrella making, jinricksha making, and large industries connected with kerosene oil, cotton, and matches.\n\nBut while most of these industries are subject to considerable fluctuations from year to year, chiefly on account of the absence of capital to enable the traders to tide over a period of sluggish business, one of the forms of industrial activity which seems to be uniformly and increasingly prosperous is ship and boat building and especially the building of steam-launches, together with all the minor industries connected with docks and ship-yards, such as rope and sail-making.\n\nThe manufacture of cotton is a new industry, but one which may become one of the most important. The Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Company (Limited) commenced the erection of a large mill in 1898, which will provide for the working of 50,000 spindles. The building has now been completed, and 12,000 spindles are already at work. The engines and machinery have given full satisfaction, and the Chinese have shown much celerity and deftness in acquiring a knowledge of their work.\n\nSome of the industries mentioned are carried on to a greater or less extent all over the Colony; many are confined to the City of Victoria; and there seems to be a tendency towards greater industrial activity in Kowloon. One industry—that of tanning—is practically confined to Kowloon.\n\nFISHERIES.\n\nThe number of fishing and other boats frequenting the harbour and bays of Hongkong during the year under review may be roughly estimated at about 3,000. There are no means of ascertaining the proportions in which the different kinds of fish are caught, nor the quantities; and it is therefore impossible to give even an approximate value of the fishing industry.\n\n(C.) AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND BOTANICAL STATIONS.\n\nBeyond the cultivation of vegetable gardens there is practically no agricultural industry in the Colony.\n\nIn the Botanical and Afforestation Department, there is a Chinese staff of 53. The following statement shows the revenue of this Department for the year:--\n\n  \n    Revenue from Plant Sales,\n    $674.46\n  \n  \n    Loan of Plants,\n    $202.02\n  \n  \n    Forestry Products,\n    $444.51\n  \n  \n    Total,\n    $1,320.99\n  \n\n  \n    Imports from Hongkong.\n    $33,190,202.13\n  \n  \n    Exports to Hongkong.\n    $38,992,383.12\n  \n  \n    Total.\n    $72,182,585.25\n  \n  \n    Number of Junks entered.\n    30,217\n  \n  \n    Number of Junks cleared.\n    30,212\n  \n\nIn addition to these, 5,379 Fishing Junks were licensed.\n\n(B.) MINES, MANUFACTURES, AND FISHERIES.\n\nMines.—The only mining done in the Colony at present is in Granite. Some silver and tin have been discovered, but not in paying quantities. In past years a considerable sum was expended in a silver mine on the island of Lantao; but the mine was afterwards abandoned.\n\nIt is difficult, as yet, to say what impetus to mining in the Colony may be given by mineral discoveries in the New Territory; and until mining experts and geological surveyors have made a careful examination of the territory, it will be difficult to speak with certainty on the subject of future prospects.\n\nMANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\n\nThere were 33,923 new trees planted in different localities. Grass-fires, which have proved so destructive to trees and shrubs in the past, were greater in number than usual, owing to the dryness. There were no less than 16 between October 20th and December 23rd. Ten fires destroyed 3,285 trees. Gardening, a minor industry which is eminently adapted to the Chinese, is always improving. New kinds of trees and shrubs have been introduced, often by means of a system of exchange with other botanical stations. Fruit is largely cultivated.\n\n(D) LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND.\n\nThe following Table gives particulars of Land Sales, Extensions, and Grants on short leases:--\n\n  \n    \n    No. of Lots.\n    Area in square feet.\n    Premium,\n    Crown Rent.\n  \n  \n    Sales by Auction,\n    21\n    245,131\n    $107,127.00\n    $2,282.00\n  \n  \n    Extensions Granted,\n    18\n    402,451\n    $30,260.68\n    $1,404.08\n  \n  \n    Grants on Short Leases,\n    13\n    152,356\n    $1,332.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    799,938\n    $137,387.68\n    $5,068.68\n  \n\nThe present prosperous state of the industry and manufactures of the Colony, especially of the City of Victoria, seems likely to continue. A survey of the industrial returns for the last five years shows an increase in the number of workmen employed in most of the colonial industries, and the growth in the number and variety of the manufactures themselves show that Chinamen are not to...",
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        "content_text": "Trade.\n\nTransit trade.\n\nActivity of Japanese.\n\nForeigners excluded from timber trade.\n\nCultivation of pepper.\n\n6\n\nThe taxation is in fact very light, amounting to only 5 fr. a-head, which is less than in India, and but little over half the rate in Java. There has doubtless been an apparent increase of charges, but this has been probably more than compensated for by the reduction of the exactions of the native officials, to say nothing of the greater well-being and prosperity which naturally follow the substitution of order for lawlessness and good government for bad.\n\nThe total value of the trade rose from 8,628,000l. in 1896 to 21,406,000l. in 1901, an increase of nearly 150 per cent. The imports advanced from 3,243,000l. to 8,099,000l., the exports from 3,552,000l. to 6,424,000l., transit trade from 877,000l. to 1,339,000l., and coast trade from 1,455,000l. to 5,542,000l. The imports from and the exports to France and her colonies were valued at 4,002,000l., and 1,582,000l., respectively, as against 1,222,000l. and 405,000l. respectively in 1896. The share of the mother country and her colonies in the imports was, in 1901, nearly one-half, and in the exports somewhat less than one-quarter, or roughly two-fifths of the whole foreign trade, which is a considerably larger proportion than in the previous year.\n\nThe shipping entered in 1901 increased by 75 ships and 139,000 tons, the total amounting to 1,235 ships of 1,492,000 tons, of which France contributed 595 ships of 759,000 tons, Germany 341 ships of 334,000 tons, and Great Britain 194 ships of 269,000 tons, the balance of 130,000 tons being divided between eleven different flags. British shipping shows an advance of 30,000 tons on the figures for 1900, whilst French and German gained 144,000 and 71,000 tons respectively. The shipping of both these countries appears to be increasing faster, both absolutely and relatively, than that of Great Britain. It is noteworthy that Japanese tonnage fell from 66,000 tons in 1899 to 11,000 in 1901.\n\nIn view of the various French schemes for the exploitation of Yunnan and Kuanghsi, the growth of the transit trade, above noted, is of special interest. It amounted to 1,339,000l., of which 1,239,000l. represented trade with Yünnan, an advance of some 50 per cent. on 1900, the balance being mostly with Battambong (in Siam). The business was almost entirely with Hong Kong, which sent goods to the value of 911,000l. and received 325,000l. The chief articles imported were yarn, 620,000l. (from India and Japan in about equal quantities), textiles 124,000l., and Chinese tobacco 100,000l., while the exports consisted almost entirely of tin 282,000l., and tea nearly 16,000l. The direct trade with Europe was very small, amounting to only 2,000l. in value, but an attempt is now being made to divert the tin from Hong Kong and ship it direct to France, and should this succeed the French steamers from Indo-China will obtain some 3,000 tons of freight a-year at the expense of the Hong Kong lines.\n\nAs will be observed from the above figures, cotton yarn represents more than half the trade with Yunnan. At present all this comes from abroad, but Indo-China, producing its own raw material and favoured by its proximity to the place of consumption, may in the near future become a serious competitor. Tonquin has now two mills in operation and another about to start, numbering in all 50,000 spindles capable of turning out 2,500 tons of yarn a-year, which is about two-thirds of the local consumption. The production of these mills reduced the import of yarn (mostly No. 20) for the local market by some 300,000l. in 1901, and with the development of the industry that is now going on the home demand will probably soon be more than satisfied, when will arise a need for new outlets, which will no doubt be sought in the neighbouring provinces of China. To satisfy local requirements, and also to supply the Yunnan market, about three times the present number of spindles would be required.\n\nThere was no transit trade with Kuanghsi, the transport charges being considerably higher than by the Pakhoi-Chinchou and West River routes.\n\nIt is alleged by the press that several Japanese officers have been serving with the Siamese forces in the valley of the Mekong, and that the Japanese are displaying activity in other directions in that country. It seems to be feared that their presence will be prejudicial to French interests.\n\nThe Japanese are also said to be practising a system of espionage in Indo-China, and there appears to be an uneasy feeling that they may in certain eventualities become a menace to the security of French possessions in the East.\n\nBy a Decree of June last the timber trade in Indo-China is reserved for Frenchmen and French protégés, but power is given to relax this law in favour of foreigners paying State and municipal taxes.\n\nEncouraged by a remission of half the import duty into France, the cultivation of pepper in Cochin-China and Cambodia has greatly developed of recent years, the production having reached in 1901 some 3,000 tons, which is more than enough to supply the demand of the French market.\n\n**\n\n9\n\n7\n\nOwing to the surreptitious import of pepper from Siam, and its export as colonial produce, a law has now been passed limiting to 2,100 tons the amount which shall be entitled to the abatement of duty. This has caused a heavy fall in the price, and much consternation among the planters. It is feared that the industry, which had attained a very prosperous condition, and was rapidly developing, will suffer a serious check as a consequence of this enactment.\n\n80\n\nA good many Frenchmen are already settled in the country as planters, and their number is constantly increasing. Much may be expected from the presence of this class of men in the way of developing the agricultural resources of the country and strengthening French power.\n\nExtensive operations are being carried on for the enlargement and improvement of the harbour at Haipong, and other important works for the improvement of navigation, and the promotion of agriculture by irrigation and drainage are being projected.\n\nThe recent Treaty with Siam meets with general condemnation, and is considered likely to seriously lower French influence in that country, and to injuriously affect the interests of Indo-China.\n\nIt may be mentioned incidentally that the number of persons registered in the French Consulates as being under French protection is stated to be 30,000.\n\n(Signed) H. A. LITTLE, Consul.\n\nPakhoi, January 9, 1903.\n\nSupplementary Note on Railways.\n\nThe line from Hanoi to Vietry is finished, but is not yet formally open to traffic owing to an accident to the bridge at that place. The necessary repairs are, I understand, almost completed. The section to Yenbay (about 80 kilom.) is expected to be opened in June.\n\nThe route selected from Laokay to Yünnan-fu has turned out to be impracticable, and the line will now pass some distance from Hengtzu, to which a branch will, however, be made.\n\nOwing to the dilatoriness of the contractors the work of construction has been recently placed under military control, and Chinese coolies are being engaged in Kuanghsi, several batches of from 50 to 100 having already arrived from Lungchow.\n\nThe Langson line has been carried right up to the frontier at Nankuan, but trains only run to Dongdang, 31 kilom. distant.\n\nThe section from Ninbinh to Thanhoa will be finished this year, and the continuation to Vinh shortly afterwards. The bridges, which are being made in France, may cause some delay,\n\nThere is a short branch from The section from Saigon to Bienhoa is already open. Ticau to the busy river port Dapcau, one of 2 kilom. from Namdinh to its port, one of 5 kilom. from Vinh to its port Benthuy, one from the Ninghson coal mines to Tourane, and one for portage purposes across the Isle of Khone, on the Mekong, where navigation is obstructed by rapids.\n\nI am informed that a survey is about to be made for a line from Hanoi down the valley of the Mekong to Pnompeh; and I believe that surveys have been made of the country between Lungchow, Nanning, and Kuangchouwan.\n\n(Signed) H. A. LITTLE, Consul.\n\nFebruary 23, 1903,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMap showing Railways in Indo-China.\n\n[Not printed.]",
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        "content_text": "0\n\n7\n\n284\n\nDistribution of exports.\n\nDistribution of total trade,\n\nCauses of the commercial development.\n\nAgriculture and\n\nFrench colonization.\n\nThe exports were distributed as follows:-\n\n  \n    France and Colonies\n    Million £.\n    14\n  \n  \n    Hong Kong\n    \n    24\n    1%\n  \n  \n    Singapore\n    \n    6\n    1%\n  \n  \n    China and Japan (direct)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Europe (direct)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Other countries (mostly eastern)†\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nThe total foreign trade was divided between the different countries as follows:-\n\n  \n    France and Colonies\n    Nearly\n    Million £.\n    54\n  \n  \n    Hong Kong\n    Nearly\n    \n    2\n  \n  \n    China and Japan (direct)\n    \n    \n    14)\n  \n  \n    Europe (direct)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Singapore\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Other countries (mostly eastern)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nIt is interesting to note that as regards the whole volume of trade Indo-China ranks twenty-first, and as regards imports alone thirteenth in importance among the countries trading with France.\n\nIt will have been noticed that the general increase in trade begun in 1897, and was most marked in 1900, but, as already stated, I do not think this was to any great extent due to the loans which were raised about that time. Over half of the loan of 1896 for 80,000,000 fr. was applied to paying off previous deficits, that is, expenses of administration for the most part, and the balance, I believe, has only recently been exhausted, so that it can hardly have materially influenced the course of trade. Of the authorized loan of 1898 for 200,000,000 fr., 50,000,000 fr. were issued at the end of 1898 or the beginning of 1899, and were apparently completely expended last year when the second issue of 70,000,000 fr. was made. The expenditure of this money was no doubt largely responsible for the big jump in imports in 1900, but it must be observed that it was also in that year that the exports showed the greatest expansion, which, as these latter consist entirely of agricultural produce, can scarcely be attributable to the same cause. Moreover, the large increase in the class of goods in the purchase of which the loan was partly applied was to a certain extent due to the importation of material for public works paid for out of current revenue, and also for agricultural and industrial purposes. Further, the increase was not by any means confined to this class, but extended to all kinds of articles consumed by the natives, which, even after making considerable allowance for the money spent in wages in connection with railway construction, can only be rationally explained by a growth in the prosperity of the people as a whole. And this prosperity is, I think, the healthy fruit of a general internal development resulting from the restoration of order and tranquillity which, by insuring safety of property and person, has stimulated the industry of the people; from the execution of extensive irrigation works and the improvement of the means of communication which, by adding to the cultivable area and facilitating the interchange of goods, have increased production and promoted trade; from the reorganization of the financial and general administration which, by demonstrating the present solvency of the country and inspiring a belief in its future progress, has attracted foreign capital and foreign enterprise. The recent commercial expansion thus resting, as I think, on the solid foundation of a development of internal resources appears to me sound and likely to continue.\n\nI have already, in dealing with exports, given some account of the chief products of the soil, and I shall here merely record a few facts concerning the part played by Frenchmen in the agricultural development of the country.\n\nThe settlement in the Colony of Frenchmen as planters and colonists is encouraged by the Government by the grant of assisted passages and in other ways, and there has been a steady influx of this class of men in recent years, the movement being most marked in 1897 and 1898, especially the latter year, and thus coinciding with the general forward movement in trade which has already been pointed out. The number of exploitations or Concessions prior to 1896 was 288, with a total area of 160,000 acres;\n\n* About three-fifths consisted of rice for China.\n\n† Mostly rice for Philippines and Dutch Indies. Probably about three-fourths to and from China.\n\nOf these 575,\n\nin 1901 this had risen to 717 with an area of over 890,000 acres. measuring 660,000 acres, were held by Frenchmen, the rest being owned by natives, About one-eighth of this area was under cultivation. The average size of the Concessions was, approximately, 1,000 acres, the total area of holdings under 100 acres not exceeding 10,000 acres, while there were only two or three of more than 20,000 acres in extent. In Cochin China there were 335 Concessions, which was about double the number in Tonquin, the area—150,000 acres—being, however, less than one-third of that of the latter. The area of the exploitations in Annam was some 50,000 acres, and in Cambodia about 5,000 acres. There were in all about 350 French planters, the difference between this figure and the number of Concessions being probably accounted for by some planters holding more than one Concession, and also by some of the Concessions being held by missionaries and officials. The chief objects of culture are rice and pepper, but some progress is being made with tea, tobacco, coffee, sugar, aniseed, and vanilla. Tea already gives promise of being a success (the export in 1901 was 450,000 lbs.), but the others appear to be still in the experimental stage.\n\nThere has been a Board of Agriculture since 1897, with branches in the provinces, Board of Agriculture. which gives much assistance to planters in the way of advising as to what any particular soil is best fitted to grow, the kind of manure to use, the local supply of labour, &c. Small bounties are also granted, and fertilizers in limited quantities supplied at cost price. Experimental gardens have been established in many places where extensive experiments are carried on with a view to improving the quality and yield of the products of the soil. Natives also join in this work by making tests on their land under the supervision of officers of the Board. Some good results are said to have already been obtained from this institution.\n\nThe industrial development of the country is only just beginning, and it is yet Industrial. too early to forecast its future. The following are the factories and mills now in operation :-\n\n  \n    Albumen\n    \n    Hue, Quinhon, Numdinh, Moncay, Hanoi.\n  \n  \n    Brewery\n    \n    Haiphong.\n  \n  \n    Cement\n    Considerable quantities used in public works.\n    \n  \n  \n    Cotton\n    Saigon, Pnompenh (ginning), Haiphong, Hanoi, Namdinh (last three yarn, aggregating 50,000 spindles),\n    \n  \n  \n    Docks\n    Haiphong (capable of turning out steamers of 300 tons), Saigon (graving dock, 168 metres long), Tourane.\n    \n  \n  \n    Ice\n    \n    Saigon, Pnompenh, Hanoi, Thaiphong.\n  \n  \n    Electricity\n    \n    Saigon, Hanoi.\n  \n  \n    Iron foundry\n    \n    Haiphong.\n  \n  \n    Lime\n    \n    Dapeau (turned out many bridges for Government).\n  \n  \n    Matches\n    \n    Hue.\n  \n  \n    Paper\n    Even with heavy protective duty can scarcely compete with Japanese.\n    Viinh, Hanoi.\n  \n  \n    Powder and cartridges\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Explosives\n    \n    Hanoi. Product said to be equal to any but very best French.\n  \n  \n    Rice\n    \n    Tuyenquang. Erection decided upon by Government about a year ago, but it is not known whether it has been actually completed or not, Hunoi.\n  \n  \n    Saw mills\n    \n    Saigon and Cholon (a dozen or more).\n  \n  \n    Silk\n    Nadinh. Government model filature. Product fetches double the price of native spun, and is said to be equal to Cantonese.\n    \n  \n  \n    Soap\n    \n    Saigon, Haiphong, Hanni. Small quantity exported to Pakhoi and Kwangehouwan.\n  \n  \n    Tiles (encaustic)\n    \n    Hanoi.\n  \n  \n    Tobacco\n    \n    Hanoi.\n  \n\nThere are also a large number of distilleries scattered all over the country. Besides the coal mines already enumerated under exports, there are gold mines at Attopeu and Bongmieu (near Tourane), and tin mines at Caobang and Pak Hin Boun (Upper Mekong), which are being worked by French Companies.\n\nThe railway system, present and projected, was described at length in my last Communications. Report, and I have now only to add a few particulars which were then overlooked or Railways. have since come to my knowledge.",
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        "content_text": "# 557 \n- 6- \n\nOne hundred and five thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven (105,967) emigrants left Hongkong for various places during the year; of these, 78,576 were carried in British ships and 27,391 in Foreign ships. The year 1907 has proved to be the record year in the history of the Colony for the numbers of emigrants shipped.\n\nOne hundred and forty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty-two (145,822) immigrants were reported as having been brought to Hongkong from the several places to which they had emigrated, either from this Colony or from Coast Ports. This includes 905 returning from South Africa. Of the total number, 112,742 arrived in British ships and 33,080 in Foreign ships.\n\nThe total Revenue collected by the Harbour Department during the year was $348,300 (including $24,098 previously collected by the Registrar General's Department for Boat Licences, the issuing of which was transferred to this Department from the 1st January, 1907), as against $298,106 collected in the previous year, showing an increase of $50,193:\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Light Dues, | $80,389.00 |\n| 2. Licences and Internal Revenue, | 116,122.40 |\n| 3. Fees of Court and Office, | 151,746.30 |\n| 4. Miscellaneous Receipts, | 42.40 |\n| Total, | $348,300.10 |\n\n## (6.) INDUSTRIES\n\nDuring 1907, the price of refined Sugars in the East still further declined, principally as a result of the lower cost of Raw Sugar, but also owing to the determined competition of Japanese Refineries seeking to capture the local Refineries' old established Chinese connections. The quantity of Sugar refined in Hongkong was, however, larger than for years past, and was disposed of in China and other markets, although at a loss in some instances, and on very small margins of profit in others. By the end of 1907, the strenuous competition from Japanese quarters had, however, exhausted itself, and it is confidently expected by those best able to form an opinion that local industries will be able to maintain and improve their position.\n\nThe demand for Yarn during 1907 was even more unsatisfactory than during the previous year, which was undoubtedly due to the failure of almost every Yarn Shop in the Colony. These failures threw a quantity of Yarn on the market which had to be disposed of at a reduction of $20/25 per bale on the contract price. Owing to the large stocks on hand, it was found necessary to decrease the output of the local Cotton Mill by reducing the number of spindles running, and during the last three months of the year, \"short time\" was also resorted to.\n\nBoth exchange and the price of raw material have been in favour of the Rope Factory, enabling them to reduce their selling price to their customers to a lower limit than for some years. On the other hand, the lower price induced a greater demand, and the Factory's turnover accordingly showed a fair increase.\n\nNo further additions have been made to the plant of the Cement Company, which, with a good demand for Cement, has been kept continuously employed throughout the year.\n\nThe Flour Mills at Junk Bay were kept running continuously night and day, including many Sundays.\n\nFour hundred and twenty-two (422) vessels of 1,001,001 tons and 112 launches, lighters, &c., were docked and repaired, compared with 449 vessels of 1,063,454 tons and 79 launches, lighters, &c., in 1906. One hundred and eleven (111) steam-launches and other vessels with an aggregate tonnage of 6,311 were built during the year.\n\nA small new industry has recently been established in this Colony, i.e., that pursued by the Wai San Knitting Co., Ld., but the Company is still in its infancy.\n\nAnother recently established industry is carried on by the Imperial Brewing Co., Ld. Large quantities of their products are being exported to the various ports in China. The capacity of the plant is 2,750,000 gallons per annum.\n\n### (c.) FISHERIES\n\nA considerable proportion of the boat-population of Hongkong supports itself by deep-sea fishing, in which pursuit a large number of junks are engaged. The villages of Aberdeen, Stanley, Shaukiwan, and many others in the New Territories are largely dependent upon this industry for their prosperity. Fresh water fish is imported from Canton and the West River. There are oyster beds of considerable value in Deep Bay.\n\n### (d) FORESTRY, BOTANICAL SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE\n\nIn Hongkong, fifty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-five (54,295) pits were dug and sown with pine seeds by the departmental staff. Thirty thousand pits were sown by contract with no result in the majority of cases. In the New Territories, 111,156 pits were dug by contract and sown by the department; while 24,557 were planted by the department, and 8,000 by contract. One hundred and fifty-two shade trees were planted in streets in Kowloon, and 45 in streets in Hongkong; while 265 trees were planted along the newly formed banks of May Road and Conduit Road. Six hundred and ninety-six bamboos were planted along roads at the Peak and elsewhere, while 92 Hydrangeas and 102 Azaleas were planted out on Crown land in various parts of the Peak.\n\n### (e) LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND\n\nThe amount received from sales of Crown Land was $161,459, being $154,274 less than the receipts for the previous year. This falling off may be attributed to the continued depression of business throughout the year and to general tightness of the money market. The principal items were for sites for a Cigar Factory in Kowloon and for a Brewery at Lai Chi Kok in the New Territories, a lot at North Point and land for an extension of the Standard Oil Company's new premises at Lai Chi Kok.\n\n## HI-LEGISLATION\n\nSixteen Ordinances were passed during 1907; two of which, No. 9 of 1907 and No. 10 of 1907, afford facilities to certain foreign companies for carrying on their business in the Colony in the same manner as if they had been incorporated under the law of the Colony; whilst another, No. 6 of 1907, continued the incorporation granted under the Ordinance of 1866 of the leading local banking concern for a further period of 21 years and empowered it to increase its capital subject to certain conditions.\n\nA Life Insurance Companies Ordinance (No. 11 of 1907) was passed in accordance with Imperial precedent to secure the solvency and permanency of companies carrying on the business of Life Insurance in the Colony.\n\nA Seditious Publications Ordinance (No. 15 of 1907) was enacted in order to prohibit the publication in the Colony of matter calculated to excite disorder, or to incite to crime, in China.\n\nA Companies (Local Registers) Ordinance (No. 16 of 1907) was passed based on the Imperial Act of 1883 and makes provision for companies registered in the Colony but carrying on business elsewhere to keep local registers of members.",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT BY DIRECTOR OF OBSERVATORY\n\nThe typhoon which struck the Colony on the night of the 27th to 28th July last was possibly formed on the 25th to the Eastward of the Balingtang Channel. But as this typhoon must undoubtedly be classed as one of small area, in the absence of any data from the Pacific, this cannot be certainly affirmed. There is, in any case, no evidence whatever of its existence prior to the 25th. On this day a slight fall of the barometer took place in Luzon and S. Formosa, although pressure remained slightly above the normal over both areas.\n\nOn the morning of the 26th a sharp fall, amounting to just over a tenth of an inch since the previous day, was noted at Koshun (S. Formosa) 29.71, and at Aparri (N. Coast of Luzon) 29.69, and the wind circulation, a strong N.E. breeze at the former, and a light S. breeze at the latter station, gave evidence, in conjunction with pressure conditions over surrounding areas, of the existence of a depression in the Balingtang Channel. The position assigned to the centre on our Weather map was 19 N., 121° E., and information in accordance therewith was issued in Hongkong and the shipping notified by signals at 10.45 a.m.\n\nThe afternoon observations received from Koshun and Aparri indicated some movement of the depression to the Westward. The barometer had risen at both stations, the wind had veered to E., a strong breeze at Koshun (bar. 29.73) while a light S.W. air blew at Aparri (bar. 29.73).\n\n| Location        | Barometer Reading | Wind Direction | Wind Force |\n|-----------------|-------------------|---------------|------------|\n| Koshun          | 29.73             | E.            | Strong     |\n| Aparri          | 29.73             | S.W.          | Light      |\n\nHigh pressure lay over the Pacific between the Bonin and Loochoo islands on this day, an area of low pressure was situated over Manchuria, while conditions over S. China were practically normal.\n\nThe morning observations of the 27th showed a moderate increase of pressure in Luzon (Aparri 29.78, wind S.E., a light air, clear sky). The observations from Koshun did not reach the Observatory, but at Swatow the barometer read 29.71, wind N.E. force 1. In Hongkong, where pressure had given way two hundredths of an inch only, during the past 24 hours and was below the normal by the same amount, the barometer at 10 a.m. read 29.75, wind E. force 1. At Gap Rock a gentle breeze blew from N.E. These observations faintly indicated the existence of the depression but gave no clue whatever as to its severe character. It was believed to be situated at that time about 300 miles to the S.E. of the Colony and notice to that effect was given, and the Red signals were hoisted at 12.15 p.m.\n\nPressure on this day had weakened slightly but was still high over the Pacific between the Bonins and Loochoos. The Manchurian depression had moved to the N.E. and a slight increase of pressure had taken place over N. China. In the South the only abnormal feature was the light N.E. wind along the S. coast of China.\n\nPerhaps the best evidence of the existence of the typhoon was furnished by clouds. The morning broke fine, the sky being almost cloudless. Shortly after noon a bank of clouds of the cirro-stratus type was observed bearing S.E. by E., its advancing edge being at an altitude of about 30°. At 4 p.m. this pall had covered nearly the whole sky except just above the N.W. horizon where it was still clear. A few patches of alto-cumulus below it were seen to be coming from N.E. by E. in the afternoon. The direction however was backing, a significant fact. At 6 p.m. they came from N.E. by N. and it was then that the Black signals were hoisted.\n\nThe barometer, still only 0.02 inch below the normal at 4 p.m., now began to fall and the wind, which had been chiefly a light breeze from E. during the day, shifted to the North. Gap Rock at 4 p.m. reported \"slight swell from S.E.\", the wind there at the time being a gentle breeze from N.E. At the same hour Waglan reported a moderate breeze from E.N.E. At 6 p.m. it blew a fresh breeze from N.N.E. at Waglan and a gentle breeze from N. at Gap Rock, the swell still being reported from the latter station as \"slight from S.E.\". It thus appears that sea swell in this instance had not outrun the advancing storm to any considerable distance. Rain commenced to fall at the Observatory at 8 p.m.\n\nThe following observations show the conditions prevailing at 9 p.m. Observatory barometer 29.64, wind North force 5, Waglan 29.58, N.N.W. 7, Gap Rock 29.57, N.N.W. 6. The swell reported by the latter station was now moderate from E.S.E. These observations appeared to indicate the probability of the typhoon centre reaching the coast in the neighbourhood of the Colony, and I then wired a message to that effect to Hongkong for distribution. The barometer at the Observatory still read only 0.12 inch below normal, but the gradient between here and the lighthouses was increasing.\n\nThe barometer now commenced to fall quickly and the wind to rise and at 11.15 p.m. (Standard Time) No. 3 night signal, accompanied by the firing of three bombs, was made. This indicated that the gale then blowing was likely to increase to full typhoon force.\n\n| Time          | Barom. at M.S.L. | Wind Dir. | Velocity (Miles per hour) |\n|---------------|------------------|-----------|---------------------------|\n| July 27th, 6 p.m. | 29.65           | N.        | 8                        |\n| 7             | 29.65           | N.        | 12                       |\n| 8             | 29.63           | N.        | 17                       |\n| 9             | 29.64           | N.        | 26                       |\n| 10            | 29.60           | N.        | 39                       |\n| 11            | 29.49           | N.        | 53                       |\n| midnt.        | 29.24           | N.E. by N.| 75                       |\n| July 28th, 1 a.m. | 28.93        | E.S.E.    | 72*                      |\n| 2             | 29.30           | S.S.E.    | 81                       |\n| 3             | 29.48           | S.S.E.    | 54                       |\n| 4             | 29.58           | S. by E.  | 42                       |\n| 5             | 29.63           | S. by E.  | 36                       |\n| 6             | 29.67           | ...       | 23                       |\n\nThe barometric minimum, 28.85, occurred at 1 hr. 3 m. a.m. The wind moderated somewhat at about 1 a.m.--the direction was veering quickly towards S.E. and S.--but rose again a few minutes later and blew with greater fury than before, the squalls being not only terrific but also of long duration. Between 1.15 a.m. and 1.45 a.m. the wind began to moderate. It is probable that the greater part of the damage on shore occurred during this interval. In the Observatory compound nearly all the damage was caused by the S.S.E. wind, trees and other debris falling towards N.W. and N.N.W.\n\nRain which practically ceased to fall between midnight and 1 a.m. set in again at the latter hour, and lightning which had been first observed at 11 p.m. continued until 2 a.m. With the exception of the typhoon of September 18th, 1906, this is the only occasion on which lightning has been observed here near the centre of a typhoon during the past 25 years. Thunder was not heard.\n\nObservations subsequently received from Waglan and Gap Rock show that it blew with full typhoon force at the former station, from N.E. at midnight and from E.N.E. at 1 a.m., the barometer falling to 28.70 at the latter hour. At Gap Rock typhoon force was not recorded. The lowest barometer reading, 29.24, occurred at 1 a.m. with the wind a whole gale (force 10) from West, and subsequently at 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. from S.W., it began to moderate. The gradient between the Observatory and Waglan at midnight was equivalent to just over half an inch in 15 miles.\n\nThese observations show that the centre of the typhoon passed within a distance of 10 miles to the Southward of the Observatory near 1 a.m.\n\nSubsequently at about 7 a.m. the typhoon passed to the South and West of Canton. It had probably filled up to some extent but was still a severe storm.\n\n* The record of wind velocity is not reliable probably from midnight. The spindle carrying the cups snapped just above the supporting arms at some time during the night. The cups however continued to revolve, but loss of speed during the high velocities is certain to have occurred.",
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        "content_text": "# KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY\n## BRITISH SECTION.\n### WORKSHOP PLANT and Machine-Shop.\n\n| Item | Description | Price (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | One 7 ft face plate lathe to take 6 ft diameter | 475 |\n| 2 | One wagon journal lathe 6 ft wheels | 500 |\n| 3 | One radial drilling machine 3 ft arm | 135 |\n| 4 | One planing machine to take 6 ft by 6 ft | 825 |\n| 5 | One shaping machine 12\"-14\" stroke | 82 |\n| 6 | One hydraulic wheel press | 160 |\n| 7 | One screwing machine to 24 | 92 |\n| 8 | One nut-tapping machine | 45 |\n| 9 | One universal milling machine | 165 |\n| 10 | One 5 inch centre S & S lathe | 35 |\n| 11 | One 6 inch centre R & S lathe | 55 |\n| 12 | One 10 inch centre S & S lathe | 125 |\n| 13 | One punching and shearing machine | 170 |\n| 14 | One 5 cut steam hammer | 186 |\n| 15 | Two 18 ton travelling cranes | 1,000 |\n\n### Carriage and Waggon Shop.\n\n| Item | Description | Price (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 16 | One vertical drilling machine 1 spindle | 35 |\n| 17 | One screwing and tapping machine to 1 | 40 |\n| 18 | One 3 inch centre S & S lathe | 45 |\n\nTo drive these machines by electricity the motors necessary will be as follows:-\n| Item | Description | Price (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 19 | To drive Nos.1 to 12 | 180 |\n|  | 2 motors of 15 b.h.p |  |\n| 20 | To drive No.13 | 90 |\n|  | one 15 b.h.p motor |  |\n| 21 | To drive Nos.16 to 18 | 54 |\n|  | one 5 b.h.p motor |  |\n\n**Total** £4,494\n\n-13- \n194",
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        "content_text": "58\n\n83\n\n\"condition nearly all the prisms in the top and the centre and bottom panels are broken or chipped badly, the carriage revolves in a very erratic manner the conical rollers being the worse for wear, the clockwork is also worn badly, and to bring the light up to date you require a new optical apparatus consisting of 4 panels, instead of the existing 3 panels whereby you would obtain a broader beam of light and consequently a greater area of candle power, a new pedestal, Bath and float, the optical apparatus to revolve and float on mercury, thus reducing friction to a minimum, now clockwork of the improved type with the principal spindles revolving in ball bearings and made adjustable so that each spindle can be reset without removing the frame.\n\nThis scheme would involve an expenditure approximately of £3,000 or more, the second scheme would be to have a new pedestal and Bath and float and new clockwork, and to re-erect the old optical apparatus on the new pedestal and Bath and float, it would then be impossible for it to work erratically when revolving in mercury, you would require a temporary revolving light to be exhibited during the construction and this could be obtained from Messrs. Chance Bros. on loan through Sir Thomas Matthews, Engineer-in-Chief, Trinity House, at a nominal cost. This scheme would involve an expenditure approximately of $1,000 or more. I give the life of the existing clockwork and the revolving carriages about 5 years, but for its immediate efficiency you require 9 steel conical rollers, 9 steel studs and 9 steel thickness pieces, for the revolving carriage, you also require a light governor to be fitted on the clockwork in place of the existing ball governor. One of the existing conical rollers and studs and thickness pieces should be sent home as a pattern when ordering, this will involve an expenditure approximately of £40. Upon receipt of this report it was decided to effect immediately the repairs costing £40 and to provide in the\n\nColonial",
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        "content_text": "## 4 \nto get money to buy opium. I cannot work well when I take opium. In jail, I feel better since I have had to give up the habit. I will not use opium after release. If I do use it, I will come back to jail again.\n\n\"I am 31 years of age. I inject morphia, four annas worth a day. I started morphia injecting at the age of 26. I never was in jail till after I began morphia injecting. My first crime was theft to get money for morphia. I will not use it on release. If I do use it, I will steal and come back to jail.\"\n\n\"I am 54 years of age. I started using opium at the age of 40. I eat two annas worth a day. I feel better when taking that quantity and can work well. I will use it again on release. The use of it had no relation to my crime of theft.\"\n\n\"I am 25 years of age. I started opium eating at 20. I eat two annas worth a day. It makes me feel well. The use of it had no relation to my crime of theft.\"\n\n6. The conflicting statements made by those who eat four annas worth and more at first sight are somewhat puzzling, and one might be tempted into saying that such is the idiosyncrasy of some opium eaters that they can use four annas worth per day and yet receive benefit. This, I think, would be wrong, for I noticed that those who used four annas worth or more per day and said that they received only benefit from its use were more or less recent admissions to jail and had not been in jail long enough to have their strength built up, and the opium habit properly broken off, and they still have the craving for opium in them. The conclusion I have, therefore, come to is that while the use of opium to the extent of two annas worth a day may not be injurious, any amount over that is injurious both physically and morally and leads inevitably, in poor men, to a career of crime.\n\n7. So far, I have dealt principally with the relation of opium eating to crime. As regards the physical effects, no one who has visited a jail can have any doubts as to the havoc it plays with a man's constitution. On admission to jail, every opium eater has to be sent to hospital, and he generally has to stay there at least a month. His physical condition is wretched. He has a poor appetite; he suffers from constipation or diarrhea or a peculiar colitis. He is a thin, wasted, miserable creature with sunken cheeks, hollow temples, projecting ribs, a flat abdomen, and spindle legs. He is filthy in his habits. His clothes are dirty, his body unwashed, his hair unkempt. As likely as not, he gives a positive reaction to Calmette's tuberculin test. He is quite unfit for work. His constant cry is for more opium. He can be broken from the habit in two months or less, and in six months, he is another being; he has gained weight, his body has a reasonable covering of fat, his bowels are regular, he takes his food well, and he is fit for work.\n\n**Cocaine Drug Habit**\nOut of a total admission of 2,217 prisoners during 1910, I found that very few, not more than 20, admitted using cocaine. The results of my enquiries about cocaine are, therefore, based on the statements of this comparatively small number, together with the collateral evidence obtained from opium eaters, many of whom are well acquainted with cocaine.\n\n**Mode of Use**\nThe most popular mode of use is simply to eat cocaine hydrochloride powder; others inject a solution of the powder.\n\n**Facial Incidence**\nThe habit seems to have caught hold of the Burmans more than the Chinamen, and the Chinamen more than the natives of India.\n\n**Age**\nThe age at which Burmans start to use cocaine is very young. From 13 to 17 seems to be the favourite age. This is a great contrast to opium, the eaters of which, except Chinamen, generally contract the habit after adolescence is reached.\n\n**Quantity Used**\nHere, also, cocaine affords a striking contrast to opium. While opium eaters have a fixed quantity which they consume per diem, the cocaine eater has no fixed quantity but eats as much as he can afford. Once he has contracted the habit, he spends all he can on the drug.\n\n**Districts Where Cocaine is Used**\nWhile I found that opium seems to be known and used in small jungle villages, it was very noticeable that the use of cocaine is at present restricted to the larger villages and towns.\n\n**Is Cocaine Habit on the Increase?**\nThe unanimous opinion of cocaine users is that the use of cocaine is very much on the increase in towns and the larger villages. It has not yet ousted opium from public favour because the opium habit, being older, has more victims of middle age, but among boys of under 20 years of age, in towns, cocaine seems to be more popular than opium. One pick-pocket of 15 years of age volunteered the statement that in the district of the town where he resides, there are eight boys of age similar to him; they all use cocaine. Opium traders, now in jail, who reside in towns say that they sell twice as much cocaine as opium, and that they sell opium generally to men who have reached maturity, but young lads are the chief purchasers of cocaine.\n\n**Effect of Cocaine**\nHabitues seem to use it for two purposes:\n1. For its local effect in producing numbness of the lips and mouth, a condition which is said to render a subsequent smoke much more enjoyable.\n2. Its general effect in producing intoxication.\n\nMany opium eaters also use cocaine.\n\n1. The physical effects of using cocaine do not seem to be so pronounced as is the case with the use of opium. Cocaine eaters seem, as a general rule, to be in fair health, but this may be attributed to the fact that, as a general rule, they are much younger men and have not practised the habit for such lengthened periods as are found among opium eaters.\n\n2. The impression I gained from my enquiry is that the cocaine habit is very much on the increase. At present, in large towns, the younger generation are more addicted to cocaine than to opium. The use of it has not yet penetrated much into country districts. People start the habit at an earlier age than opium eating, and they spend more on it. I have no doubt that its effect on crime will soon be as marked as that of opium.\n\n3. Put briefly, the results of my enquiries are as follows:\n| SN | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The use of opium is at present more general both in town and country than the use of cocaine. |\n| (2) | Opium eaters are generally older than the devotees of cocaine. |\n| (3) | Opium eaters use a certain fixed quantity per diem; cocaine eaters spend all they have on the drug. |\n| (4) | Cocaine is rapidly on the increase among boys and in the more populous districts. |\n| (5) | The effects of opium on the constitution seem to be worse than the effects of cocaine. |\n\nThis statement, however, needs modification:\n| SN | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | because I have examined fewer cocaine eaters; |\n| (b) | because the cocaine eaters are much younger than the opium eaters; |\n| (c) | the devotees of cocaine have not practised the habit for such a long time as the devotees of opium. |\n\n**No. 919, dated May 1911**\n\nFrom—**Dr. LAWRENCE GEORGE FINE, M.B., C.M., Superintendent, Central Jail, and Civil Surgeon, Myaungmya**\n\nTo—**The Inspector General of Civil Hospitals, Burma**\n\nWith reference to your Medical Department letter `No. 0-5089-Confidential`, dated 12th instant, I have the honour to say that my experience of opium eaters, almost entirely Burmans, has been derived from admissions to jail. I append a statement showing the number admitted during the past 3 years in the Myaungmya Central Jail.\n\nIt will be seen that there were only 19 registered opium consumers out of a total of 626 prisoners who admitted that they had been addicted to opium prior to conviction. The quantity consumed is shown in separate columns from anna 1 to anything over annas 8 per diem. I am aware that the statements made by opium eaters are usually unreliable, so the figures given in these columns cannot be accepted as absolutely correct, but as there was nothing to be gained after conviction by any false statement, the amount paid for the daily quantity of opium consumed by each man was probably approximately correct. It has, however, to be borne in mind that the price paid by an unregistered person would be much more than that paid for the same quantity got from a Government opium shop by a registered consumer. I am informed that the former pay on an average at least 4 times what would be paid by the latter. One tola of Government opium, roughly equivalent to 180 grains, costs one rupee when bought from the Government opium shop; so that a registered man who consumed annas 4 worth per day would use 45 grains per day. A non-registered consumer could not get this quantity (45 grains) for probably less than Re 1. I am informed by the Superintendent of Excise that there is probably not a single Burman in this district who consumes more than annas 4 worth (i.e., 45 grains) per diem. The average daily consumption of Burmans, Chinese, and Indians is given on the attached statement furnished by the Superintendent of Excise here.\n\n2. It will thus be seen that the conclusions based on the Jail figures alone would be fallacious as the price paid by an unregistered person would vary. From the Excise Department figures, the average daily consumption of opium amongst Burmans in this district is not very high but quite enough to cause physical deterioration.\n\n3. About 75 per cent of the opium-consuming prisoners state that they first took the drug for the relief of pain or as a sedative. No doubt, some of these persons have not spoken the truth, but I am inclined to believe that many have made a correct statement. The principal diseases for which the drug has been taken are as follows:\n| SN | Disease |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | Intestinal troubles, e.g., Colitis, dysentery, diarrhea. |\n| (2) | Malarial fevers, both as a prophylactic and to relieve the muscular pains after an attack or the pains of malarial neuritis. |",
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        "content_text": "# \nIt would exceed the limits of this letter and might appear a presumption upon Your Excellency's valuable time, were we to enumerate the many reasons in explanation of our statements. Suffice it therefore to say that it is the well considered opinion of our Lancashire and Yorkshire friends, and they are many, that a trade such as this, with all its ramifications, built up by years of patient and laborious effort, can only be diverted into other channels gradually, and that any endeavours to hasten this process of slow acquisition are bound to do harm. There is also the all important question of old established valuable trademarks or \"chops\", owned by the alien firms either alone or jointly with Manchester and Bradford firms; and the Imperial Government will surely not approve of any interference with the ownership of such trademarks, desirable as this may appear to be on first thoughts. In short, to stop the trade of old established alien firms in Hongkong all at once is bound to very materially increase the number of idle spindles and looms, and to bring further misery upon thousands of mill and factory hands in Lancashire and Yorkshire for some time to come.\n\nWe therefore trust, and respectfully pray, that Your Excellency will kindly cause steps to be taken which will ensure that these considerations are not lost sight of by those entrusted with the important duty of liquidating the alien firms in Hongkong which trade in Lancashire and Yorkshire textiles; and we further pray that Your Excellency will kindly have regard to those considerations, in the interest of our British home trade, in case further regulations affecting it should be framed by Your Excellency's Government.",
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        "content_text": "(۲)\n\nquantity.\n\n(8)\n\nDescription.\n\nAmount\n\nd.\n\ndi\n\n81\n\n1H\n\n33.5\n\n...\n\nTOT\n\n1 god mat tudiniskh sfor ba 131* (salq ao ▼ mot $18öq knapt dheth adut ausios¥ débe - que Ë ħna\n\nOP 100 ABOUT\n\nprode na ata i qudd vani sa\n\nBrought for\n\n20\n\n26 lbs.\n\nDistribution case, Z.C.pattern, for 25 pairs, as Item 35, for position 2 on plan.\n\nLumbera listal, spare, 32. tin.\n\nfor.\n\n1. 10.\n\n3.\n\nd. lb. 1.\n\n۳۱\n\n13011 Judizi\n\nLasium\n\n28\n\n*\n\n30lder, Bơ tin, în 1/2 lb. sticks.\n\n1/.\n\nW\n\n11.\n\n8.\n\n3\n\nC.\n\nI\n\na te feast venyt 501.ok #foq\n\nResin cored ŝelder, spare, for 100 as 22 62 making joints on dry core cable.\n\n2/. 1b.\n\n-\n\n14.\n\nS\n\n- Я ло!тавя\n\nFaper dleeves, spare, for joints on above dry core oable.\n\nfor\n\n1.\n\nம்\n\n6.\n\n이\n\nbodfasda bas!\n\n* 10‡bubnɔo vadi ^[ parlaq 001 sidro $100 118 DET .aby 1 lb. -ani? İraqa of berwoerta baa 1000 ट d. al Đại avor roi rexod slot anatsigmon jeldso eting .asxod infot avoda 1000 al ertaq 3^I sist T 130 714g 03 bre ...mozo?! ↑ BroĞe ed (0%) xoj na) tudiTdHIS #lor Letttt (aniqg, no T not Meog Santos ih sdus sukmal d*** 703.8seat code ? bre proda na .$*.fasoo „azirg casal stewod naj turška dažb 1-1) xoć satoj T ncil taxt TIP: 2 [\n\n  \n    Bookbinders thread for tising paper sleeve joints on above dry core cable.\n    Fothead Insulators, Tayler Tun- nicliffe & Jo's No. 7.1.187 for 5/8\" sorew spindles.\n    Draw- ings 2.0.919, 920, 921, 922, 923.\n  \n  \n    Spindles -5/8\",Cordeaux sarew, to B.&.0.3pecification, com= plete with iron and felt wash- ers, and for use on wood arms, for above insulators.\n    |38/. per] 100\n    17. 18.\n  \n  \n    for\n    9.\n    61/. par 100\n  \n  \n    30\n    10\n    2 mil-s\n  \n  \n    28 lbs.\n    2.12/1/2 anamal and cotton cor- ered, load sheathed, leading- in cable, to specification E.\n    Specimen forwarded.\n  \n  \n    rothead Compound for use with pole distributing boxes,\n    for\n    35.\n  \n  \n    for.\n    10.\n    ¿\n  \n  \n    3\n    G.\n    ៨\n  \n  \n    C.\n    ونا\n    di\n  \n  \n    11\n    J\n    adleli\n  \n  \n    Ja armed fat most teiulyt # A steinnor, kręt 20£.of\n    1\n    52 pairs Pole Distribution Dox fitted with carbons and fuses to 3.1. & H. Co's drawing Bo. 2813, but 14\" longer.\n  \n  \n    to drawing\n    19.\n    3\n  \n  \n    L.\n    25 pairs\n    ditto.\n  \n  \n    க\n    No. 2813.\n    #KOTORANot .edi Or\n  \n  \n    *\n    .by -ellescT OF LOZNOSTA DOS\n    10 pairs ditto.\n  \n  \n    Ho. 3849.\n    to drawing\n    7) 12.\n  \n  \n    5.\n    apeccatigateste gori dat\n    **ade\n  \n  \n    10% esxed fatet \"eta!quar, oldat .exed tate“\n    1st) xos sntot T mani sat sant că faalę ed I nai #leok anisq ?^i,mi nitaq 30 £\n    As bas, dzemat tipi »TH 40 a $4 [gebr.1 tto Brisg A condid sexod Tynda\n  \n  \n    .brrero) kalTTED\n    No. 23 aniiole Frame and Cover for Roadway fitted with hard- wood blocks and with two lift- ing keyst to Packensie & \"onour's drawing lio. 8930.\n    56 19.\n  \n  \n    وبا",
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        "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "## CA/13101/16 Ittay \n### 656 \n**DRAFT.** \n**Agents** \n**MINUTE** \n\n1. le 20 73/16 \nMr. Chinsen 24 7. \nSir G. Fiddes. \nStr H. Just. \nSt J. Anderson. \nMr. Steel-Maitland. \nMr. Bonar Law. \n\n24 Fent 75 \nMarch M \nI aurte to ack: the receipt of Yav lette of the 18 March CD. Stamps. 2067 clative to the surfplat of Sthang postage stamps to be overfanted for use ly \n\nCopy Ger 81. 25 March \na tes to For: Wire British Post Office Mencies thina; that the amangement made in this carvercion in the Een yll stiti holds good.\n\n2. to the however Kwend the I. P. O. as to the recessit for taking precautiais to ensure that the panted over-stamps cannot be used in \n\nHave May. 2 \n(To) Spindle.\n\nPage 660  \nPage 661",
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        "title": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nMay 1917\n\n22.5 70\n\n233\n\n22570\n\nRECE REG 2 MAY 17\n\n78 Supervision Aresum\n\nSupt. of Imports Exports\n\n12 Mch\n\nLast previous Paper: 20004\n\nTo So I May reply. 9. - Auss 97. by May 9 May.\n\nText subsequent Paper.\n\nconsiders requests of the Hescourt reasonable, if he cannot be offered apt.\n\nsuggests\n\n1858. Pilling who is\n\nMin Opindle Si C. Kidder.\n\nPhare se ir - May's letter Kiris. Fidder attacke?.\n\nart\n\nWe have, as a general rule, taken the position that it is inadvisable to bargain with officers other, if they are prepared to accept our offer on the terms offered, we and look elsewhere without more ade.\n\nIn the event of Mittar count, lengthy explanations - Le Joy / 332859/4 LA 5916 - Gov / 15867) has unfared the offer and has hast\n\n(J 18015-11.) Wt. 35792-18. 50,000 11/16. D&S. G12241.",
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        "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917",
        "content_text": "Last previous Paper.\n\nC. Agts\n\nJune\n\nHONG KONG\n\n28365\n\nMilitary\n\nvendo copy\n\nPerrci\n\nof\n\nCUTAR-E\n\nWh\n\n28365\n\nRes 4 JUN 17\n\n32\n\nREC\n\nPolice Constables\n\nwith Col Port\n\nao to wanne\n\nin which period of engorgement is affected by -. requeste infer, on points raised!\n\n(Reached in 13/6/1).\n\nlagrer with CA interlutation/\n\nthe cones: the men who continue\n\nTraw aker Will ritum or brochenge suggested. Sythewire.\n\nAR15 9457\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nC. Agts\n\n808713\n\n* 16916-db.) Wt. 35722-13. 60,000, 11,16. D&S. 182′ 41.\n\nPage ...\n\n(Signed) G. GPINDLE\n\nCrown Agents\n\n1917",
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        "content_text": "60\n\n16 miles from its mouth. The port is accessible for steamers drawing up to 18 feet. Regular services of French coasting steamers are maintained with Saigon, where connection is made with the Messageries Maritimes steamers for Europe; and with Hong Kong, which port supplies a large proportion of the imports into the colony.\n\nThe conditions of trade are very similar to those prevailing in Saigon. The only British house established at the port is the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, which is steadily strengthening its position. British commercial interests are represented by French firms, and the following houses conduct this business:-\n\nMessrs. Denis Frères.-M. Giquesux, a partner of the house, holds the office of H.M. Vice-Consul, while the firm acts as the agents for the China Navigation Co., Ltd. (Messrs. Butterfield and Swire), the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and many British insurance offices.\n\nCompagnie de Commerce et de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient. The agencies of the Blue Funnel Line (Alfred Holt & Co.) and the Indo-China S.N. Co. (Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.) are in the hands of this firm, which also acts for several London fire and marine insurance companies.\n\nA. R. Marty operates a line of steamers to Hong Kong under the French flag, and also represents the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha.\n\nThe last few years have witnessed an important development of industrial activity in the province of Tongking. The important Hongay coal mines, situated on the coast, produce anthracite coal of excellent quality, which is finding a steadily increasing market in South China. Portland cement is manufactured at Haiphong, and is competing in the markets of the Far East with that produced by the British company at Hong Kong. Perhaps the most important industrial enterprise in the whole of French Indo-China is the Société Cotonnière du Tonkin, which operates three cotton-spinning mills in the province, one at Haiphong of 25,000 spindles, one at Nam-Dinh of 24,000, and one at Hanoi of 10,000. The yarn spun at these factories is not only finding a ready sale throughout Indo-China, but is being exported in steadily increasing quantities to the neighbouring Chinese province of Yunnan to the detriment of Bombay and Japanese spinnings. Between the years 1908 and 1914, the imports of Tongkingese yarn into Yünnan and Mengtsz increased from 6,423 piculs to 36,072 piculs.\n\nTransit Trade. Since the completion in 1910 of the through line of railway between Haiphong and Yunnan Fu, the capital of the Chinese province of Yünnan, the importance of Haiphong as the port of entry for S.W. China has increased enormously. In this respect Haiphong may be said to be a commercial dependency of Hong Kong, in which market the foreign trade of S.W. China is largely centred. Regular services operated by\n\nThe China Navigation Co., Ltd., and the Indo-China S.N. Co., Ltd., under the British flag, by A. R. Marty under the French flag, and by Japanese steamers, ply between the two ports.\n\nGoods passing in transit through Tongking are charged 20 per cent of the general French Import Tariff as transit dues, but in addition have to submit to an infinity of charges levied by the local authorities at Haiphong, which involve endless trouble and serious delay. The exactions and indifference of the French Customs officials to a large extent neutralise the benefits of a most important railway line, which has been of very great expense to the colony, but which, in fact, has done little to increase French commercial activity in Yünnan. German commercial interests in Yunan Fu before the war were predominant, and the recent successful British endeavours to secure this trade have been regarded with undisguised jealousy and hostility on the part of French officials and merchants.\n\nvery\n\nSUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS.\n\n1. The foreign trade of the French Colony of Indo-China is centred in the two ports of Saigon and Haiphong, and has increased from a total of 5,000,000l. in 1880 to 26,000,000l. in 1913. The trade consists, on the export side, of very heavy shipments of rice, and, on the import side, of manufactured goods, mainly cotton fabrics and yarns, gunny bags, silk tissues, and hardware. The share of France\n\n61\n\nand her colonies amounted in 1913 to 30.4 per cent. of the total trade, to 21 per cent. of the exports, and to 36.75 per cent. of the imports.\n\n2. The share taken by the United Kingdom in the trade of the colony is very small, but the British ports of Singapore and Hong Kong do a most important transit trade with Indo-China, and large shipments of gunny bags are made from Calcutta to meet the requirements of the rice exporters.\n\n3. Although the colony offers a promising market for manufactured goods, British manufacturers are effectually excluded by the high tariff in force, with the result that 95 per cent. of the cotton fabrics and 66 per cent. of the machinery imported is drawn from France and the French colonies.\n\n4. Prior to the war there were no British general merchants established in the country, nor have I heard of any expansion of British interests within the past two years, beyond visits from the travellers of certain Straits firms and a few sales of piece goods from stock. The Chartered and Hong Kong Banks transact financial business and exchange, both at Saigon and Haiphong, but their clients are almost entirely French firms. The apparent reason for this state of affairs is that British houses prefer the free, cosmopolitan conditions prevailing in the other markets of the East to the cramped and confined existence in the French colonies, where the French language, customs, and mode of life prevail, and where foreigners are not regarded with favour.\n\n5. Despite these conditions, one or two German merchants, with headquarters in Paris, have been able to conduct a profitable business. These houses are now closed, and it is doubtful whether German firms will be allowed to open in the colony at least for several years after the conclusion of hostilities. Therefore, there would appear to be an opening for one or more British houses, preferably those established in the Straits Settlements, to take up the trade formerly handled by the Germans, in addition to which there is little doubt that the large British shipping and insurance companies would probably give their support in the way of agencies. I have reason to know that the local agents of the British banks would welcome such enterprise.\n\n6. On the whole, the prospects for any very material expansion of British trade in Indo-China are not promising. The French Government apparently regards its Oriental colonies solely as political \"points d'appui\" and as outlets for the manufactures of the Mother Country. From this somewhat selfish point of view, French colonisation may be said to have met with a certain measure of success, but there is no doubt whatever that the development of the countries themselves has been restricted and retarded by this ultra-protectionist policy. One has only to compare commercial conditions at Saigon and Haiphong with those prevailing in the free open ports of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, or even Bangkok, to realise how French bureaucratic methods and Customs duties have stunted and restricted the natural development of the country. This protectionist régime is, to some extent, reacting upon French industry. For instance, under the protective tariff, French textile fabrics have practically supplanted British and other goods in the Indo-Chinese market, but this has been at the expense of the native consumer, and has had the natural result of stimulating the establishment of textile manufactures in the country itself. But for the tariff wall with which Indo-China has been surrounded, there is little doubt that Saigon could have been made a great open port, rivalling to some extent Hong Kong and Singapore.\n\nThe future, so far as British trade is concerned, depends entirely upon whether the French Government is prepared, after the war, materially to reduce in our favour, whether as a result of bargaining or otherwise, its highly-protective tariff.\n\nSECTION 6.-Hong Kong.\n\nThe present conditions in Hong Kong have many points of resemblance to those prevailing in the sister Crown colony of the Straits Settlements. Hong Kong, even more than Singapore, is an entrepôt pure and simple, and caters for the trade of South China, and to some extent for that of the Philippines and French Indo-China. The conditions in Hong Kong and South China have already been described in some detail in my previous report on China. I therefore propose to confine myself in this section\n\n627",
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        "content_text": "94\n\nThese houses conduct a general mercantile business in exports, imports, shipping, and insurance. The competition encountered is mainly that of Japanese merchants, but there was considerable competition before the war from local German firms, who were present in considerable numbers and pursued their usual methods of cutting margins, selling on long credit, &c. The manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at Yokohama writes as follows:\n\n\"As to how far the present efforts of British merchants in Japan are likely to be successful in securing, after the war, the trade formerly enjoyed by Germans, I should say that they would be more likely to secure and consolidate a larger share of the trade if British manufacturers confine themselves to British firms as agents; if British steamship companies charge rates on goods shipped from British ports not higher than the rates charged on goods from Continental ports; if British financial houses exercised more discrimination or commercial patriotism in their dealings with aliens; and if British manufacturers would take a share of the risk as they do in the home trade consequent upon the granting of credit facilities, and have on the spot, where necessary, a technical expert working under the direction of their agents until customers became acquainted with the goods to be disposed of.\"\n\nDuring the war, America is supplying many lines of manufactured goods, principally iron and steel, machinery, and hardware, which were formerly obtained from the United Kingdom, but a considerable share of this increased trade is in the hands of British merchants, and it is probable that a return to normal conditions in Europe will see the re-entry of British manufacturers in the trade. The increased demand for Japanese manufactures has led to a considerable increase in the means of production, and the necessary plant and equipment, hitherto obtained from abroad, has, to a considerable extent, been supplied by Japan herself. \"Necessity is the mother of invention,\" and Japanese manufacturers will have learnt a great deal during the time that they have been thrown back upon their own resources.\n\n2. JAPAN AS AN INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL COMPETITOR IN THE FAR EAST AND ELSEWHERE.\n\nSources of Information. The bulk of the statistical matter contained in this section has been obtained from:\n\n\"The Financial and Economical Annual of Japan,\" 1915 and 1916, issued by the Department of Finance.\n\n\"The Recent Economic Development of Japan,\" 1913, published by the Bank of Japan.\n\n\"Statistical Report of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce,\" 1916, Japan.\n\nThe rapid strides made by Japanese manufacturing industries of recent years, and the growth of the export trade in manufactured articles to the countries of the Far East and also to Europe, renders an examination of Japanese industrial and commercial power particularly opportune at the present moment. For the sake of convenience, the following grouping has been adopted:\n\nA. A brief study of Japanese competing industries, viz.\n\n(1) Textile industries.\n\n(2) The mining and metal manufacturing industry.\n\n(3) Ceramics, lacquer-ware, &c.\n\n(4) Miscellaneous industries.\n\nB. Japanese competition in cotton textiles in Eastern markets.\n\nC. Shipping.\n\nD. Active Government encouragement of foreign trade.\n\nA. The textile industry is the most important industry in Japan and comprises the spinning and weaving of cotton, wool, silk, and to a lesser extent hemp.\n\nCotton. The cotton industry, from the point of view of future competition with Great Britain, is the most important of all. Japan resembles the United Kingdom in that she imports the whole of her raw cotton and depends upon foreign markets for the sale of the greater portion of her manufactured goods. The industry is centred in Osaka, the Manchester of Japan.\n\n95\n\nThe imports of raw cotton in 1914 were drawn from the following countries:\n\nCountry\n£\n\nChina\n14,847,800\n\nEgypt\n5,509,100\n\nIndia\n1,199,500\n\nUnited States\n584,400\n\nFrench Indo-China\n163,200\n\nOther Countries\n49,600\n\nTotal\n22,353,600\n\nIt is noteworthy that whereas in former years the bulk of the supplies consisted of short-stapled Chinese cotton, the imports from India and the United States of recent years have advanced rapidly, and these countries now constitute the main sources of supply. A considerable proportion of the small crop of long-stapled cotton grown in India is purchased by Japan, and her increasing imports of American and Egyptian cottons clearly prove that Japanese mills are spinning finer and finer counts. In consequence of the abnormally high Atlantic freights due to the war, and the low charges maintained on Japanese subsidised vessels, American cotton has recently been laid down in Japan at 73d. per lb. as compared with 81d. per lb. in Liverpool! While this relative advantage will probably be removed on the resumption of normal conditions, Japanese shipping subsidies will always tend to react in favour of low laying-down costs of raw materials in Japan.\n\nCotton Spinning. The following statistics compiled by the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association give a fairly accurate idea of the strength and essential details of the Japanese cotton spinning industry:\n\nThe figures are for the month of December 1915:\n\nCategory\nValue\n\nWorking spindles: ring\n2,602,475\n\nWorking spindles: mule\n38,894\n\nWorking spindles: total\n2,641,369\n\nWorking days per month\n26.1\n\nWorking hours per day\n22.37\n\nAverage count of yarn: rings\n21.7\n\nAverage count of yarn: mules\n30.4\n\nYarn produced during the whole year 1915: ring\n696,747,242 lbs.\n\nYarn produced during the whole year 1915: mule\n2,978,156 lbs.\n\nYarn produced during the whole year 1915: total\n699,725,398 lbs.\n\nAverage per day per spindle in lbs.: ring\n0.92\n\nAverage per day per spindle in lbs.: mule\n0.27\n\nCotton consumed in lbs. (whole year 1915)\n808,156,198\n\nCotton fly in lbs. (whole year 1915)\n94,544,681\n\nWaste yarn in lbs. (whole year 1915)\n4,483,702\n\nActual horse power used\n72,569\n\nNumber of operatives: male\n24,304\n\nNumber of operatives: female\n95,447\n\nNumber of operatives: total\n119,751\n\nAverage wages per hand per day in pence: male\n12.35\n\nAverage wages per hand per day in pence: female\n8.27\n\nWeaving. It is difficult to ascertain with accuracy the number of power looms in Japan, as the official statistics group all the looms in the country together. Cotton weaving by power loom is largely in the hands of the spinning companies, which usually conduct both operations.\n\nThe Japan Cotton Spinners' Association gives the following figures for 1914:\n\nCategory\nValue\n\nCompanies, number\n57\n\nPower looms\n11,454\n\nWorking days per month\n26.3\n\nHours per day\n13.23\n\nProduction per 12 months, yards\n454,901,674\n\nAverage per loom per day\n15\n\nOperatives, male, number\n3,416\n\nOperatives, female, number\n21,993\n\nWages per day, male, pence\n12.76\n\nWages per day, female, pence\n9\n\nNOTE. These figures appear to be excessive for the number of looms given, and this leads to the conclusion that the number of looms in Japan is in excess of the number given above.\n\nPage 96 is missing.\n\n644",
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        "content_text": "96\n\nThe total number of operatives in the bleaching, dyeing, and finishing trades in 1914 was 10,731, of which 8,466 were males, and 2,265 females.\n\nWool. The woollen industry is not developed on such an extensive scale as the cotton trade, but the industry is new to the country, and great progress has been made during the last 10 years, particularly in the hosiery and underwear section.\n\nIn 1914 raw wool to the value of 529,800l. and wool tops amounting to 979,400l. were imported (vide Table on page 91), while woollen and worsted yarns to the value of 432,600l. were received, mainly in the form of dry mule-spun knitting yarns from Germany. This quantity was much less than the normal owing to the war. Import of such yarns in 1913 totalled 1,029,700l.\n\nThe value of Japan's output of woollen fabrics and mixtures in 1911 was 2,300,000l, and has considerably increased since that date, although figures are not available. The most remarkable advance has been made in the manufacture of mousseline-de-laine. The staple productions, however, are uniforms for naval, military, and police purposes, serges, flannel blankets, travelling rugs, shawls.\n\nThe knitting industry has doubled in size since the year 1906, and Japan, since the war, has not only supplied the markets of the East, but has exported considerable quantities to the United Kingdom.\n\nThe knitting industry received a good impetus during the Russo-Japanese war, and is also being stimulated now by the demand for war supplies. That it does not need a large plant nor much skill to start with is another factor which makes for quick development. Tokyo is the centre for the home trade, and Osaka for the export trade.\n\nThe following statistics give an idea of the output in 1914--\n\nNumber of factories\n1,441\n\nEmployees: Male\n4,748\n\nFemale\n5,826\n\nOutput: Shirts Doz.\n3,971,733\n\nDrawers £\n940,000\n\nSocks\n259,853\n\nM Gloves\n112,000\n\nPantaloons-\n1,748,459\n\nOther goods\n164,000\n\n914,142\n\n56,000\n\n169,800\n\n22,000\n\n181,000\n\n£\n1,375,000\n\n97\n\nDaily average working spindles\n29,424\n\nTsumugi (silk and Silk consumed, in lbs.\n2,098,486\n\ncotton mixtures) } Production\n1,498,583\n\nPrice per lb.\n18. 6d.\n\nJapan exported in 1914 756,400 lbs. of spun yarns, amounting in value to 238,800l. Japanese spun silk yarns are becoming a serious competitor in the United Kingdom market. The competition is of recent growth, and was first noticed about 1910. The imports from Japan into the United Kingdom since 1912 have grown steadily, as the following figures show:-\n\n1912\nLbs. 40,837\n\n1913\n58,462\n\n1914\n110,928\n\n1915\n236,885\n\nThere is little doubt that the British waste silk spinning industry is seriously threatened, and the evidence received by the Textiles Committee confirms this.\n\nSilk Piece Goods. Owing to the excellence and adaptability of the material, silk fabrics woven in Japan are of many varieties. Kyoto takes the leading place in the production of heavy figured silks such as gold-wrought brocades and arras, figured damasks and crapes, taffetas, reps, &c., &c.\n\nFrom the point of view of competition in the world's markets the plain-woven pongees known as \"habutae\" are the most important. These goods were exported in 1914 to the value of 3,163,600l. and were distributed as follows:-\n\nUnited Kingdom\n£ 882,700\n\nBritish India\n334,200\n\nAustralia\n372,900\n\nCanada\n36,500\n\nUnited States\n693,700\n\nFrance\n593,300\n\nGermany\n115,800\n\nOther countries\n134,500\n\nTotal\n£3,163,600\n\nTotal value of output\n\nSilk.--Raw Silk Silk reeling is one of the oldest and most important industries of Japan, and thanks to the wise guidance and protection extended by the Government, coupled with initiative and enterprise on the part of the native growers and reelers, the industry now supplies nearly one-third of the world's total consumption of raw silk.\n\nOf the production of raw silk, 26 per cent. is consumed at home and 74 per cent. exported. The exports in 1914 amounted to no less than 16,516,000l., of which the United States took nearly 14,000,000l.\n\nSpun Silk.—In spite of the abundance of raw material, silk spinning until recently was, comparatively speaking, neglected, but considerable advance has been made of late years, and it is noteworthy that the silk spinning concerns have recently been absorbed by the cotton spinning companies. In evidence given before the Textiles Committee, it was stated by an expert witness that each of the large cotton spinning concerns in Japan contemplated the laying down of a silk spinning plant in addition, to be an extension of their works and to be driven by the same power,\n\nIn 1914 the number of separate silk spinning factories amounted to eight with a total daily average of 7,457 operatives, of which 1,797 were males and 5,660 females:-\n\n&c.\n\nJapanese habutae have held their own in the markets of the world for some years, and have not only driven out similar articles of European production, but have seriously competed with the similar though more durable and expensive Chinese pongees. In addition to habutae, Japan also exported in 1914:-\n\nSilk-faced cotton satin, yards\n3,003,562\n\nHandkerchiefs, dozen\n£ 155,300\n\nKaiki, yards\n872,139\n\nTaffetas, yards\n241,900\n\n125,802\n\n4,900\n\n753,765\n\n52,300\n\nThe total production of all textile fabrics in 1914 amounted to over 28,500,000l,\n\nand was divided as follows:-\n\nSilk-fabrics\n£ 9,700,000\n\nSilk and cotton mixed\n1,900,000\n\nCotton fabrics\n15,300,000\n\nHemp fabrics\n480,000\n\nOther tissues\n1,440,000\n\nTotal\n28,820,000\n\nWorking days in the year\n298\n\nAverage working hours per day\n17\n\nDaily average wages, males\n11.27 pence.\n\nfemales\n6.20\n\nSilk\n\nDaily average working spindles\n84,008\n\nSilk consumed in lbs.\n1,550,049\n\nProduction\n2,463,541\n\nPrice per lb.\n6s. 5d.\n\nThe exports of textiles in 1914 amounted to nearly 60 per cent. of the total exports from the country.\n\n(2) The Mining and Metal Manufacturing Industries. 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        "content_text": "74.\n\n47\n\nLANA KING\n\n10805\n\nCO\n\n10805\n\nFEB 20\n\n1920\n\n19th Jan.\n\nDelay in departure\n\nMs. T. Wallin\n\nhh.. copies liv. from Ins. Wallis\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nInb\n\naction regarding -\n\nYou, Wallis explaining\n\nRecommends that incident\n\nhis\n\nbe regarded a\n\nAust Conf. grantin\n\nNext absequent Paper.\n\nJ.CA.\n\nM: Opindle\n\nPersonally I don't\n\n-\n\nSi E. Flatts\n\nbertap be regarded\n\nW. Callus\n\nHave\n\nageer\n\nbut the incident\n\nán\n\nyou any\n\ncloud\n\nброто?\n\n4/7/20\n\ncuss th\n\nCon\n\nM. Dakin, notwithstanding that he was temporarily sent for under the bar rule, was, as a member of the Colonial Audit Dept., merely a civil servant, and I count it truth with, in acting as he did within reporting the circumstances which led to a talk with the head of Dept. he was guilty of a breach of discipline which his Explanation does not minimise or excuse- and for which therefore\n\n(20003-4) WL. 26689–95 50,0",
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        "content_text": "# Japan's Interests in China\n\n## Japan: Coal and Iron Production\n\nUnder Japanese management, coal production in China was significant. Mines under Japanese management were responsible for nearly 3,500,000 tons, and Japanese mines in Shantung produced 1,000,000 tons, while those in Kiangsi produced 500,000 tons. Important coal and iron concessions in nine places in Manchuria were secured under the 1915 treaty with China.\n\n## Japan: Trade with China\n\nOf Chinese exports, next to silk, the most valuable are beancake (44,000,000 taels in 1919) and raw cotton (30,000,000 taels in 1919); both of these are almost entirely taken up by Japan. Japan also took in 1919 about one-third of the export of flour and one-half of the export of wheat. Japan, therefore, in 1919 was the principal purchaser of Chinese produce.\n\nThe principal imports into China are cotton goods and cotton yarns. Japan provided over a third (value 30,000,000 taels). The exact import of Japanese cotton goods into China is difficult to estimate, but out of a total cotton import (including yarns) of 210,000,000 taels, the Japanese share cannot be less than one-third. Japan in 1919 was the principal provider of foreign imports.\n\nThe boycott of 1919, according to the figures given by the Imperial Maritime Customs, did not have nearly so serious an effect on Japanese trade as had been expected. China is too dependent on Japan to boycott her goods effectively; and too many Chinese ports are in Japanese hands. Appendix XV shows the steady increase of the trade of those ports which chiefly handle Japanese goods, viz.: Dairen, Antung, and Kiaochow (Tsingtao).\n\n## Japan: Railways\n\nThe railways in Japanese control are principally to be found in the \"special spheres\" of South Manchuria and Shantung. In South Manchuria, Japan has some 850 miles in operation, some 580 miles under construction, and some 900 miles projected under concession. In Shantung, Japan has the Tsingtao-Tsinan railway (510 miles), with concessions for 430 miles more. The Japanese also have a financial hold over the Kiukiang-Nanchang railway (86 miles) in the Yang-tsze valley, with a promise of the support of Great Britain in obtaining a continuation of the line to Foochow, and a Japanese loan has been advanced to the Peking-Suiyuan railway (266 miles), which for many years had been China's pride as her one purely national railway.\n\n## Japan: Propaganda\n\nIn the Twenty-One Demands, an attempt was made to secure for Japanese Buddhist missionaries a footing in China like that allowed to Christian missions; this demand, however, was shelved. Mr. Carl Crow's Memorandum (see `Confidential Print 151232` of the 12th November, 1919) shows how persistent and widespread is Japanese newspaper propaganda in China. These Japanese-controlled newspapers have been consistently and vituperously anti-British. A Japanese propaganda society runs a school at Shanghai for teaching Chinese language and customs to Japanese, and for teaching Japanese to Chinese students. Another propaganda society runs three or four Japanese hospitals in China.\n\n## Japan: Industries - Manchuria\n\nSimilarly, with Japan's industrial interests in China, they are centred chiefly at Dairen, Mukden, and Tsingtao. At Dairen, there is the Kawasaki dockyard and four ironworks, six bean-oil and cake mills, factories for sulphuric acid and dye stuffs, seven brick works, one cement works, one rice mill, one bone-dust mill, three soap (bean-oil) works, two salt works, one tile factory, one ice factory, one cold storage works, &c., all in Japanese hands. At Mukden, there are two woollen-yarn and weaving mills, oil mills, saw mills, and rice mills, a sugar refinery, chemical works, glass factories, match factories, and candle factories, under Japanese or under joint Sino-Japanese control. There are two tobacco factories of the To-A Tobacco Company at Mukden and at Ewchwang. At Harbin, in the Russian sphere of North Manchuria, there is at least one Japanese flour mill, and the Japanese Government have installed a commercial museum as general headquarters for their commercial offensive. There are electric light works, Japanese and Sino-Japanese, throughout South Manchuria, which is certainly the province of China best equipped with modern conveniences. There is the important Penhsifu coalfield and ironworks managed by Okura and Co., and there are the numerous undertakings of the South Manchurian railway, which include the Fushun and Yentai coal mines, the Anshantien iron mines and foundry, harbour, gas, electricity works, glass works, tile factory, hotels, schools, hospitals, &c. Important companies have been recently floated in Japan (1) to develop cattle-raising in Manchuria and Mongolia, (2) for rice cultivation in Manchuria. A Japanese authority values Japanese interests in South Manchuria at £30,000,000.\n\n## Japan: Industries - Shantung\n\nAt Tsingtao, the Japanese have taken over from the Germans their brewery, railway repair shop, shipyard, cotton-spinning mill, silk filature, flour mill, and salt works (this salt industry is expanding rapidly, and the Japanese set great store by it). They also have two match factories, tanneries, four oil refineries, two albumen factories, two canneries, an ice factory, a glass factory, a lumber mill, brick and tile factories, a cement and coke works, a glycerine factory, two soap factories, a rice mill, and smelting works. According to a United States of America commercial handbook, 1919, Japanese capitalists seem to be inaugurating a vigorous development of the manufacturing possibilities in Tsingtao, chiefly along the lines indicated above, raw materials for such enterprises being obtainable both cheaply and abundantly in the hinterland of the leased territory. No less than five new cotton-spinning mills, with 155,000 spindles, have been projected by Japanese companies in order to make Tsingtao one of the centres of this great new industry of China. Ironworks are projected at Chin-Ling-Chen, 180 miles from Tsingtao; and coal mines have been acquired at various points in Shantung. Japanese undertakings (two glass factories and an albumen factory) have been started at Tsinan, the capital of Shantung.\n\nIt is not difficult to foresee in these activities the formation in Shantung of a second Japanese enclave like South Manchuria.\n\nElsewhere than in these protected spheres, Japanese industrial enterprise is less to the fore. However, in Shanghai, the Japanese have obtained control of at least three cotton mills, one flour mill, and one paper mill. At Hankow, they have, through loans and through the 1915 treaty with China, acquired a preponderant interest in the great undertakings of the Han-Yeh-Ping Company, which is the overshadowing industrial concern of Hankow (see `Appendix I`). At Tien-tsin, they have a cigarette factory, an oil mill, a flour mill, and an ironworks.\n\n## Japan: Population, Special Rights, &c.\n\nIt may be added that the Japanese population in China is given by the Maritime Customs as 171,485; of these, about 75,000 are in South Manchuria and about 65,000 in the Kwantung Peninsula. The Japanese population of Shantung is over 25,000, of whom about 20,000 are in Tsingtao itself. There are probably some 10,000 Japanese in Shanghai. The Japanese have thirty-two consulates in China and fifty-three post offices. They own residential concessions at Hankow, Tien-tsin, and Amoy, and settlements at Chungking, Hangchow, and Soochow. They maintain a large force of railway guards along the South Manchurian railway and in Shantung, and a garrison of about 1,000 men in Hankow. By the treaty of 1915, they acquired exclusive rights for residence in South Manchuria, and for industrial and agricultural undertakings in Eastern Inner Mongolia, with extra-territorial privileges.\n\n## Japan: Formosa and Fukien\n\nFinally, the great and rich island of Formosa should not be lost sight of, which Japan took from China as a result of the war of 1894. It has an area of 13,839 square miles, a population of 3,600,000, and an import and export trade (1918) of £25,000,000. It is peculiarly rich in sugar, tea, rice, camphor, coal, and other minerals, including petroleum. After the acquisition of Formosa, the attention of Japan was first attracted towards expansion in China, and her first attempt to carve out a sphere of influence was in the direction of Fukien. In 1898, China gave Japan an assurance of non-alienation of this province. 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        "content_text": "# 141 \n\n14 \n\nThe consortium could be asserted, and if such pledges could be given as would satisfy China and the rest of the nations that the alliance aims at unification and not at dismemberment, then its renewal would undoubtedly promote the peace of the Far East and the further development of economic relations in one of the world's most promising markets. \n\nF. ASHTON-GWATKIN. \n\n1. Hong Kong \n\nAppendix. \n\n## PART III-Appendices. \n\n### I.-British Industrial Concerns in China. \n\n### II.-British General Merchants in Hong Kong. \n\n### III.-British General Merchants in China \n\n### IV.-Railways. \n\n### V.-Shipping in Chinese Ports. \n\n### VI.-Shipping: Percentage of Tonnage. \n### VII.-Shipping Lines. \n\n### VIII.- Banks. \n\n### IX.-Loans. \n\n### X.-Trade with China: Total Values. \n\n### XI.-Trade with China: Percentages, \n\n### XII.-British Newspapers in Hong Kong and China. \n\n### XIII.-British Missionary Societies. \n\n### XIV.-British Education in China. \n\n### XV.-Trade of Principal Treaty Ports. \n\n## APPENDIX I. \n\n### British Industrial Concerns in China, \n\n#### 1. Hong Kong \n\n- Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company (Limited). Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- Green Island Cement Company. Cement works. \n- W. S. Bailey and Co. Engineers and shipbuilders. \n- Macdonald and Co. Engineers and shipbuilders. \n- China Light and Power Company (Limited). Electric light works. \n- Hong Kong Electric Company. Electric light works. \n- Hong Kong and China Gas Company. Gas works. \n- Hong Kong Ice Company. Ice factory. \n- Kowloon Canton Railway Company. Railway works. \n- Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company. Rope works. \n- The Hong Kong Saw Mills. Saw mills, \n- The China Mining and Smelting Company (Limited). Smelting works. \n- China Sugar Refinery Company. Sugar refinery. \n- Taikoo Sugar Refinery Company. Sugar refinery. \n- China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company. Telephone service. \n- The Hong Kong Tramway Company. Tramway. \n- The Peak Tramway Company. Tramway (funicular). \n- Wei San Knitting Company. Woollen factory. \n- A. S. Watson and Co. Aerated water factory, \n- Hong Kong Iron Mining Company. Iron mining (undeveloped). \n- Messrs. Kelly and Walsh. Printing works. \n- Noronha and Co. Printing works. \n- Guedes and Co. Printing works. \n- Hong Kong Printing Press. Printing works. \n- South China Morning Post (Limited). Printing works. \n- Hong Kong Daily Press (Limited). Printing works. \n- China Mail (Limited). Printing works. \n\nThere is also in Hong Kong a cigarette factory, a glass factory, a soap and candle factory, a match factory, a biscuit factory, and a tannery. Lard is produced in large quantities under Government inspection. The dairy farm has one of the best-equipped dairies in the world, with cold storage and other accessories. The chief meat, dairy, and produce company in Hong Kong is undertaking the packing of meat in tins and otherwise for export, and promises to become an important, if not a controlling, factor in the tinned meat trade of southern Asia. \n\nSo Hong Kong is a very perfect small industrial centre, and its large concerns are entirely in British hands. Two soap factories on American lines have been projected, one by the Standard Oil Company. Our only local competitors are Chinese, who have not yet developed any big industrial concerns in South China, though examples such as the Kwantung Government cement works at Canton and the Nanyang Tobacco Company at Hong Kong show that the Chinese are no longer oblivious to their opportunities. \n\n#### 2. Shanghai- \n\n- Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills. \n- International Cotton Manufacturing Company. Cotton mills. \n- Oriental Cotton Manufacturing Company. Cotton mills. \n- Kung Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills. \n- Laon Kung Mow Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills. \n- Shanghai Cotton Manufacturing Company (two mills). Cotton mills. \n- Yangtzepoo Cotton Mill Company. Cotton mills. \n- Ewo Silk Filature. Silk filature. \n- Ewo Yuen Press Packing Company. Wool cleaning and press-packing factory. \n- Liddell Brothers and Co. Wool cleaning and press-packing factory. \n- Mackenzie and Co. Wool cleaning and press-packing factory. \n- Shanghai Dock and Engineering Company. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- New Shipbuilding and Engineering Works. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- Marine Motor Works. Shipbuilding and engineering. \n- China Soap and Candle Company. Soap and candle works. \n- British Cigarette Company. Cigarette factory. \n- Kiangsu Chemical Works. Sulphuric acid works. \n- A. Butler and Co. Cement and tile works. \n- Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company. Telephone service. \n- Shanghai Electric Construction Company. Tramway. \n- Shanghai Waterworks Company. Waterworks, \n- Shanghai Gas Company. Gas works. \n- Shanghai Ice and Cold Storage Company. Ice and cold storage. \n- China Import and Export Lumber Company. Saw mills. \n- Lih Teh Oil Mill Company. Oil mill. \n- S. Moutrie and Co. Piano and organ factory. \n- China Pencil Company (Limited). Pencil factory. \n- Shanghai Horse Bazaar and Motor Company (Limited). Motor car and carriage factory. \n- Eastern Garage and Star Garage Company. Motor car and carriage factory. \n- Central Garage. Motor car and carriage factory. \n- Hall and Holtz. Furniture factory. \n- Weeks and Co. Furniture factory. \n- Arts and Crafts (Limited). Furniture factory. \n- A. S. Watson and Co. Aerated water factory, \n- Llewellyn and Co. Aerated water factory. \n- Aquarius Company (Limited). Aerated water factory. \n- Sparklis Aerated Water Factory (Limited). Aerated water factory. \n- Mercantile Printing Company (Limited). Printing works. \n- Messrs. Kelly and Walsh (Limited). Printing works. \n- Messrs. Brewer and Co. (Limited). Printing works. \n- North China Daily News and Herald. Printing works. \n- Shanghai Mercury (Limited). Printing works. \n- Shanghai Times. Printing works. \n\nThe Anglo-Chinese Steel Rolling Mills propose shortly to erect a steel works at Shanghai. \n\nIt can be seen from the above that Shanghai has developed from being merely a port into becoming the most progressive manufacturing centre in China. The staple product is cotton goods, which is the most promising of the new industries of China. A 1918 report gave the total number of cotton mills in China as forty-one with 1,300,000 spindles. Of these, twenty-two are in Shanghai and thirteen in the surrounding district. Of the Shanghai cotton mills, eight were British (capital...",
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        "content_text": "# Industrial Interests in China\n\n## 2. Shanghai\n\nThe British have significant industrial interests in Shanghai, with numerous cotton mills, engineering works, and other manufacturing facilities. The international cotton mill, with over 6,000,000 taels and 345,026 spindles, was initially British but has been sold to a Japanese company. The principal competition comes from the Chinese themselves, who are becoming increasingly interested in developing their cotton industry. In June 1920, there were thirty-five Chinese-owned cotton mills in operation, with 728,112 spindles set up and 277,316 spindles on order.\n\nBesides cotton mills, the Chinese in Shanghai own two important shipbuilding dockyards: the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works and the Nicholas Tsu Engineering and Shipbuilding Works. They also have fifty-six silk filatures, fourteen flour mills, eleven larger and thirty smaller rice mills, five oil mills, two woollen factories, paper mills, match factories, cigarette factories, a canned goods factory, and a saw mill.\n\nThe Japanese, besides their cotton mills, have a flour mill, a paper mill, and an oil mill. The principal Japanese tobacco company is going to establish a factory to compete with British-American interests.\n\nAmerican companies have three albumen factories and a soap and candle works. The China Lamp Company, which has a factory for electric light bulbs, is half Japanese and half American. The China Electric Company, which manufactures telephone apparatus, has Chinese, Japanese, and American capital interested. The German brewery is now Norwegian; and there was a German soap and candle works.\n\n## 3. Hankow\n\nBritish industrial interests in Hankow include:\n| Company | Factory Type |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Cigarette Company | Cigarette factory |\n| Hankow Light and Power Company | Electric light works |\n| Pao Tai Soap Factory | Soap factory |\n| Liddell Brothers and Co. | Wool-cleaning and press-packing factory |\n| Mackenzie and Co. | Wool-cleaning and press-packing factory |\n| International Export Company | Cold storage and albumen factory |\n| Hankow Ice Works | Ice factory |\n| Hankow Motoring and Engineering Company | Motor car and carriage factory |\n| Hankow Dispensary (Limited) | Aerated water factory |\n| Wilson and Co. | Aerated water factory |\n\nThe Yang-tsze Engineering Works, a leading shipbuilding and engineering concern, is a British company under Chinese management.\n\nOther foreign industrial interests in Hankow include:\n- Germans: two antimony smelting works, a brick and tile works, an engine and ironworks, a small electric light plant, a saw mill, and five albumen factories.\n- Russians: five tea factories and an antimony smelting works.\n- French: an albumen factory, a distillery, and a carriage factory.\n- Belgians: an albumen factory.\n- Americans: a candle factory (Standard Oil Company), an albumen factory, and a wool-cleaning and press-packing factory.\n- Japanese: a wool-cleaning and press-packing factory, an electric light plant, and an oil mill.\n\nThe Japanese have acquired a preponderant interest in the Han-Yeh-Ping Company, which includes the Tayeh iron mines, the Pinghsiang collieries, the Hanyang iron and steel works, and the new industrial city at Wan Shih Kang.\n\nThe Chinese themselves own various industrial concerns, including the Hanyang arsenal, the Government antimony smelting works, three engineering works, the Government mint, the Government powder factory, the Hupeh Government wool factory, three cotton mills, six flour mills, one silk filature, ten oil mills, two railway works, two brick and tile works, four candle factories, one cement works, five albumen factories, five electric light plants, one glass factory, two match factories, one nail and needle factory, one China grass and jute mill, two paper mills, five soap factories, two saw mills, one tannery, one tea factory, and one waterworks.\n\n## 4. Tien-tsin\n\nForeign industrial interests in Tien-tsin include:\n| Company | Factory Type |\n| --- | --- |\n| Kailan Mining Administration (Sino-British capital £3,200,000) | Coal mines, bricks, pipes, tiles, &c., iron mining concessions, and iron and steel works (projected) |\n| Fu-Chung Mining Corporation (Sino-British: capital $1,000,000 nominal) | Coal mines |\n| Taku Tug and Lighter Company | Dockyards, shipbuilding, &c. |\n| Tien-tsin Lighter Company | Dockyards, shipbuilding, &c. |\n| Eastern Engineering Works | Central heating, plumbing, and artesian well boring |\n| Adair, Graham and Co. | Central heating, sanitary engineers, and plumbers |\n| Yang Tsun Brickworks | Brickworks |\n| Tien-tsin Gas and Electric Light Company | Gas and electric light works |\n| Tien-tsin Waterworks Company (Limited) | Waterworks |\n| Tien-tsin Native City Waterworks Company (Limited) | Waterworks |\n\nOther foreign industrial interests in Tien-tsin include:\n- Germans: three tobacco factories, four wool-cleaning and press-packing factories, and two printing works.\n- Belgians: tramway and electric light in the French and Japanese concessions, and a brick works.\n- Italians: an oil mill and a cement works.\n- French: an engineering works, a brick and tile works, an albumen factory, and a soap factory.\n- Russians: a cold storage, meat packing, and albumen factory, and a soap factory.\n- Americans: a candle factory (Standard Oil Company), a flour mill, and a new cold storage, meat packing, and albumen factory.\n- Japanese: an ironworks (Mitsui and Co.), a cigarette factory, a tannery, an oil mill, a flour mill, two glass factories, and three printing works.\n\nChinese undertakings in and around Tien-tsin include the Government mint, the Government arsenals at Techow and Taiyuanfu, the workshops connected with the Peking-Mukden railway and the Peking-Hankow railway, the Government woollen cloth factory, six large cotton mills, the Tien-tsin spinning factory, a cement works, two match factories, a tannery, a leather factory, a tobacco factory, a soap and candle factory, and a brewery.\n\n## Summary\n\n1. At Hong Kong, British interests hold almost a monopoly.\n2. At Shanghai, British interests are very extensive, especially in engineering and cotton-spinning.\n3. At Tien-tsin, British interests preponderate over any other Power except the Chinese themselves.\n4. At Hankow, British interests are less conspicuous but by no means negligible.\n\nThe following is a list of British concerns in other Chinese cities:\n- Canton: A. S. Watson and Co., Aerated water factory.\n- Kiukiang: Duff's Dairy Farm, Dairy produce, curing of hams and bacon, and canning.\n\nPage 16\nPage 17",
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        "content_text": "# Japan: Financial Influence\n\nUntil the outbreak of the European War, the principal source of foreign loans to China has been the Yokohama Specie Bank. But during the great loan period 1917-18, it was the Bank of Chosen (Korea), in conjunction with the Industrial Bank and the Bank of Taiwan (Formosa), which found the funds (see Appendices VIII and IX). Since 1918 Japan has stopped her independent loan policy towards China.\n\n## Japan: Trade\n\nHelped by many advantages, natural and artificial, the percentage of Japan's share in the China trade shows—until 1919—a remarkable upward curve:\n\n| Percentage | 1896 | 1903 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 |\n|------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|\n|            |  |  |  |  | 19.7 | 21.1 | 28.4 | 28.3 | 40.9 | 33.4 |\n|            |  |  |  |  |  |  | 37.1 | 31.0 |  |  |\n\n* Japanese trade with China in 1920 amounted to 239,440,000 taels imports into China, and 160,260,000 taels exports: total, 404,700,000 taels. Of this total, 160,880,000 taels, or 39.7 per cent., was trade with South Manchuria. The total foreign trade figures for South Manchuria and the Japanese-Manchuria trade figures for 1920 were as follows:\n\n|            | Total Foreign Trade | Including Trade with Japan |\n|------------|----------------------|-----------------------------|\n| Imports    | 122,254,000 taels    | 43,800,000 taels            |\n| Exports    | 131,371,000 taels    | 77,490,000 taels            |\n| Total      | 253,625,000 taels    | 160,880,000 taels           |\n|            | (or 63.4 per cent.)  | (or 63.4 per cent.)         |\n\nThe principal import into South Manchuria is cotton piece goods, and the principal exports are beans and bean products. Practically all transport and banking facilities in South Manchuria are in Japanese hands.\n\nAs compared with the rest of China, it should be observed that in 1920 each inhabitant of South Manchuria spent on the average 8 taels on the purchase of foreign goods and sold produce to foreign countries to the value of 8.75 taels, whereas in the rest of China only 1.70 taels per head was spent on foreign goods purchased, and only 1.10 taels per head was sold to foreign countries.\n\nThe comparative value of Japan's special sphere of influence becomes apparent.\n\nJapanese shipping in the Chinese carrying-trade shows the following increase in percentage of the total tonnage:\n\n| Percentage | 1903 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 |\n|------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|\n|            | 12.2 | 25.1 | 24.5 | 26.3 | 27.5 | 28.2 | 31.2 | 28.4 | 27.0 |\n\nIn 1919 the whole of the iron ore exported from China went to Japan, and most of the output of pig-iron. The only important iron and steel works in China, the Hanyang works at Hankow and those near Dairen in South Manchuria, are under Japanese control. Coal exported from China during 1920 almost all went to Japan; and of a total production of 12,700,000 tons in 1920, the Manchurian mines under Japanese management were responsible for 3,460,000 tons, and Japanese mines in Shantung for 600,000 tons. Important coal and iron concessions in nine places in Manchuria were secured under the `1915` treaty with China.\n\nOf Chinese exports, next to silk, the most valuable are beancake and raw cotton: both of these are almost entirely taken up by Japan. Japan also took in `1919` about one-third of the export of flour and one-half of the export of wheat. Japan has, therefore, become the principal purchaser of Chinese produce.\n\nThe principal imports into China are cotton goods and cotton yarns. Of yarns, Japan provided over a third in `1919`. The exact import of Japanese cotton goods into China is difficult to estimate, but out of a total cotton import (including yarns) of 210,000,000 taels during `1919`, the Japanese share cannot be less than one-third. Japan in `1919` was the principal provider of foreign imports.\n\nThe boycott of `1919`, according to the figures given by the Imperial Maritime Customs, did not have nearly so serious an effect on Japanese trade as had been expected. China is too dependent on Japan to boycott her goods effectively: and too many Chinese ports are in Japanese hands. Appendix XV shows the steady increase of the trade of those ports which chiefly handle Japanese goods, viz. Dairen, Antung and Kiaochow (Tsingtao).\n\n† During `1920`, owing to the slump, Japanese trade received a set-back, greater perhaps in proportion to that suffered by British trade; but Japanese preponderance must still be considerable.\n\n## Japan: Railways\n\nThe railways in Japanese control are principally to be found in the \"special spheres\" of South Manchuria and Shantung. In South Manchuria Japan has some 850 miles in operation, some 580 miles under construction, and some 900 miles projected under concession. In Shantung Japan has the Tsingtao-Tsinan railway (310 miles), with concessions for 430 miles more. The Japanese also have a financial hold over the Kinkiang-Nanchang railway (86 miles) in the Yangtsze valley, with a promise of the support of Great Britain in obtaining a continuation of the line to Foochow; and a Japanese loan has been advanced to the Peking Suiyuan railway (266 miles), which for many years had been China's pride as her one purely national railway.\n\n## Japan: Propaganda\n\nIn the Twenty-one Demands, an attempt was made to secure for Japanese Buddhist missionaries a footing in China like that allowed to Christian missions; this demand, however, was shelved. Mr. Carl Crow's Memorandum (see Confidential Print `151232` of the 12th November, `1919`) shows how persistent and widespread is Japanese newspaper propaganda in China. These Japanese-controlled newspapers have at times been vituperously anti-British. A Japanese propaganda society runs a school at Shanghai with branches at Hankow and Tientsin for teaching Chinese language and customs to Japanese, and for teaching Japanese to Chinese students. Another propaganda society runs a number of Japanese hospitals in China. There are at present about 3,000 Chinese students in Japan.\n\n## Japan: Industries—Manchuria\n\nJapan's industrial interests in China are centred chiefly at Dairen, Mukden, Tsingtao and Shanghai. At Dairen there is the Kawasaki dockyard and four iron-works, six bean-oil and cake mills, factories for sulphuric acid and dye stuffs, seven brick works, one cement works, one rice mill, one bone-dust mill, three soap (bean-oil) works, two salt works, one tile factory, one ice factory, one cold storage works, &c., all in Japanese hands. At Mukden there are two woollen-yarn and weaving mills, oil mills, saw mills and rice mills, a sugar refinery, chemical works, glass factories, match factories and candle factories, under Japanese or under joint Sino-Japanese control. There are two tobacco factories of the To-A Tobacco Company at Mukden and at Newchwang. At Harbin, in the Russian sphere of North Manchuria, there is at least one Japanese flour mill, and the Japanese Government have installed a commercial museum as general headquarters for their commercial offensive. There are electric light works, Japanese and Sino-Japanese, throughout South Manchuria, which is certainly the province of China best equipped with modern conveniences. There is the important Penhsifu coalfield and ironworks, a Sino-Japanese concern but managed by Okura and Co., and there are the numerous undertakings of the South Manchurian Railway, which include the Fushun and Yentai coal mines, the Anshantien iron mines and foundry, harbour, gas, electricity works, glass works, tile factory, hotels, schools, hospitals, &c. Important companies have been recently floated in Japan (1) to develop cattle-raising in Manchuria and Mongolia, (2) for rice cultivation in Manchuria. A Japanese authority values Japanese interests in South Manchuria at £30,000,000.\n\n## Japan: Industries—Shantung\n\nAt Tsingtao the Japanese have taken over from the Germans their brewery, railway repair shop, shipyard, cotton-spinning mill, silk filature, flour mill, and salt works (this salt industry is expanding rapidly, and the Japanese set great store by it). They also have two match factories, tanneries, four oil refineries, two albumen factories, two canneries, an ice factory, a glass factory, a lumber mill, brick and tile factories, a cement and coke works, a glycerine factory, two soap factories, a rice mill and smelting works. According to the United States of America Commercial Handbook, `1919`, Japanese capitalists seem to be inaugurating a vigorous development of the manufacturing possibilities in Tsingtao, chiefly along the lines indicated above, raw materials for such enterprises being obtainable both cheaply and abundantly in the hinterland of the leased territory. No less than five new cotton-spinning mills, with 155,000 spindles, have been projected by Japanese companies. In the whole of China, Japanese are credited with having in operation at the present time sixteen cotton mills with 469,000 spindles.",
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        "content_text": "14 \n\nIn railways, for instance, China possesses only 6,000 miles as compared with 35,000 miles in India and 250,000 miles in the United States of America: 40,000 miles of railway in China are an urgent necessity.\n\nForeign Office, October 10, 1921.\n\n1. Hong Kong.\n\nAppendix,\n\n## PART III.-Appendices\n\n### I.—British Industrial Concerns in China\n### II.-British General Merchants in Hong Kong\n### III-British General Merchants in China\n### IV.-Railways\n### V-Shipping in Chinese Ports\n### VI.-Shipping: Percentage of Tounage\n### VII Shipping Lines\n### VIII. Banks\n### IX.-Loans\n### X-Trade with China: Total Values\n### XI.-Trade with China: Percentages\n### XII.-British Newspapers in Hong Kong and China\n### XIII-British Missionary Societies\n### XIV, British Education in China\n### IV. Trade of Principal Treaty Ports\n\n## APPENDIX 1\n### British Industrial Concerns in China\n\n#### Hong Kong\n\n| Company | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company (Limited) | Shipbuilding and engineering |\n| Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company | Shipbuilding and engineering |\n| Green Island Cement Company | Cement works |\n| W. S. Bailey and Co. | Engineers and shipbuilders |\n| Macdonald and Co. | Engineers and shipbuilders |\n| China Light and Power Company (Limited) | Electric light works |\n| Hong Kong Electric Company | Electric light works |\n| Hong Kong and China Gas Company | Gas works |\n| Hong Kong Ice Company | Ice factory |\n| Kowloon-Canton Railway Company | Railway works |\n| Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company | Rope works |\n| The Hong Kong Saw Mills | Saw mills |\n| The China Mining and Smelting Company (Limited) | Smelting works |\n| China Sugar Refinery Company | Sugar refinery |\n| Taikoo Sugar Refinery Company | Sugar refinery |\n| China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company | Telephone service |\n| The Hong Kong Tramway Company | Tramway |\n| The Peak Tramway Company | Tramway (funicular) |\n| Wei San Knitting Company | Woollen factory |\n| A. S. Watson and Co. | Aerated water factory |\n| Hong Kong Iron Mining Company | Iron mining (undeveloped) |\n| Messrs. Kelly and Walsh | Printing works |\n| Noronha and Co. | Printing works |\n| Guedes and Co. | Printing works |\n| Hong Kong Printing Press | Printing works |\n| South China Morning Post (Limited) | Printing works |\n| Hong Kong Daily Press (Limited) | Printing works |\n| China Mail (Limited) | Printing works |\n\nThere is also in Hong Kong a cigarette factory, a glass factory, a soap and candle factory, a match factory, a biscuit factory and a tannery. Lard is produced in large quantities under Government inspection. The dairy farm has one of the best-equipped dairies in the world, with cold storage and other accessories. The chief meat, dairy and produce company in Hong Kong is undertaking the packing of meat in tins and otherwise for export, and promises to become an important, if not a controlling, factor in the tinned meat trade of southern Asia.\n\n15 \n\nSo Hong Kong is a very perfect small industrial centre, and its large concerns are entirely in British hands. Two soap factories on American lines have been projected, one by the Standard Oil Company. Our only local competitors are Chinese, who have not yet developed any big industrial concerns in South China, though examples such as the Kwantung Government cement works at Canton and the Nanyang Tobacco Company at Hong Kong show that the Chinese are no longer oblivious to their opportunities.\n\n#### Shanghai\n\n| Company | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| *Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company | Cotton mills |\n| Oriental Cotton Manufacturing Company | Cotton mills |\n| *Kung Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company | Cotton mills |\n| Lao Kung Mow Spinning and Weaving Company | Cotton mills |\n| *Yangtszepoo Cotton Mill Company | Cotton mills |\n| Ewo Silk Filature | Silk filature |\n| Ewo Yuen Press-Packing Company | Wool-cleaning and press-packing factory |\n| Liddell Brothers and Co. | Wool-cleaning and press-packing factory |\n| Mackenzie and Co. | Wool cleaning and press-packing factory |\n| Shanghai Dock and Engineering Company | Shipbuilding and engineering |\n| Jardine's New Shipbuilding and Engineering Works | Shipbuilding and engineering |\n| Jardine's Marine Motor Works | Shipbuilding and engineering |\n| China Soap and Candle Company | Soap and candle works |\n| British Cigarette Company | Cigarette factory |\n| Kiangsu Chemical Works | Sulphuric acid works |\n| Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company | Telephone service |\n| Shanghai Electric Construction Company | Tramway |\n| Shanghai Waterworks Company | Waterworks |\n| Shanghai Gas Company | Gas works |\n| Shanghai Ice and Cold Storage Company | Ice and cold storage |\n| China Import and Export Lumber Company | Saw mills |\n| Lih Teh Oil Mill Company | Oil mill |\n| S. Moutrie and Co. | Piano and organ factory |\n| Shanghai Horse Bazaar and Motor Company (Limited) | Motor car body factory |\n| Eastern Garage and Star Garage Company | Motor car body factory |\n| Central Garage | Motor car body factory |\n| Hall and Holtz | Furniture factory. Retail |\n| Weeks and Co. | Furniture factory. Retail |\n| Arts and Crafts (Limited) | Furniture factory. Retail |\n| Llewellyn and Co. | Aerated water factory |\n| Aquarius Company (Limited) | Aerated water factory |\n| Mercantile Printing Company (Limited) | Printing works |\n| Messrs. Kelly and Walsh (Limited) | Printing works |\n| Messrs. Brewer and Co. (Limited) | Printing works |\n| North China Daily News and Herald | Printing works |\n| Shanghai Mercury (Limited) | Printing works |\n| Shanghai Times | Printing works |\n\nIt can be seen from the above that Shanghai has developed from being merely a port into becoming the most progressive manufacturing centre in China. Its staple product is cotton goods, which is the most promising of the new industries of China. A 1920 report gave the total number of cotton mills in China as sixty-three with 1,422,832 spindles. Of these, twenty-six are in Shanghai and thirteen in the surrounding district. Of the Shanghai cotton mills, five are British and five are Japanese. (In the whole of China, Japanese are credited with having in operation at the present time 16 mills with 469,000 spindles.) But the principal competition comes from the Chinese themselves, who are becoming more and more interested in the development of their cotton industry. In June 1920 there were thirty-five Chinese-owned cotton mills in operation in China, having 728,112 spindles set up and 277,316 spindles on order: and there were seventeen new mills being erected, for which 318,016 spindles and 1,510 looms were on order in England and America.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. are general managers for these three mills; at the beginning of 1921 an amalgamation was proposed, and the formation of a new company with capital of 5,000,000 taels.",
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        "content_text": "Int.\n\nGod damn Wichtige Firske\n\n14\n\nM\n\n287\n\n13FK\n\nJlqqa\n\nก\n\n45; on for, Spindles sig\n\nDRAFT.\n\nbeng much interes\n\nall\n\naul\n\nDr Vincent\n\nyou to wte\n\nla da day about\n\nNicklige Rom\n\nmedical caucation in the Jan East.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. 11/2/24\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nCMr. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Lambert.\n\nSir H. Read.\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith,\n\nMr. Wood.\n\nMr. Churchill,\n\ncovy aut\n\nAL very pretigut for what.\n\nthe Rockefeller Institute proposes\n\n146 do for Hongkong be\n\nangstation University, for with b\n\nAGA const\n\nConta\n\nI understood that in the\n\nGoing notung that this at present; but t\n\nthis, because I should naturally\n\nof any deley on omision\n\nB\n\npont Cintinfer with the menor of which promines.\n\nCliciousity and indeed\n\nChe G\n\nwill for Hongkong the wighboming counting",
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        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nITV #\n\nON THIS\n\nDaily Telegraph\n\n9/8/23\n\n\"The textile machinists of Lancashire will be represented by their association, viz., the Textile Machinery Makers' Association; there are probably wide interests outside the engineering world which would join, while we feel that most of the China merchants in London will be able to combine with us, and we are without delay seeking them to assist. As a matter of fact, we have been endeavouring to get established in China a textile college which would educate the young Chinese in spinning, weaving, bleaching, dying, and textile fabrics, to counteract in some way the other textile school which appears to be run entirely by America, having educated Chinese professors and teachers. We have arranged for the English textile machinists to supply free a complete plant, if, on the other side, they will supply the ground and buildings. The scheme, however, appears to be in abeyance owing to the financial crisis in China, and there would have been further questions to decide as to the upkeep of the school, the salaries of British-trained teachers, and the suggested scholarships which might be given to the Chinese to finish their education in this country.\n\n\"It has been pointed out often enough in the papers that for every Chinese student we have in England there are at least 100 in America, and the result has been most undoubtedly, exceedingly detrimental to British commercial interest in China.\n\n\"At last there is to be a concerted movement in commercial circles to promote study by Chinese students in this country. It is true that the Manchester Chamber of Commerce recently passed a resolution in favour of such a course; but there were 10 persons present at the meeting. The prominence given to the matter in the House of Commons and outside has revived interest, and last Friday Sir Walter de Frece, M.P., asked the Prime Minister if he would submit to the various Chambers of Commerce, especially those in industrial districts, the report of Sir John Jordan's Committee on the education of Chinese students in this country. This report has been in the hands of the Government, and it favours immediate action.\n\n\"Before the war there was practically no American machinery for textile industries imported into China at all, and the English manufacturers had it all their own way; but since the war American competition is becoming more and more difficult to meet, and we are constantly coming across employers, managers, and technical assistants who have been educated in America, and are consequently biased toward all things American.\n\n\"From the list of spindles which have been imported into China since 1915, it will be seen that the proportion ordered with two American machine shops is almost equal to the total spindles ordered with the five English textile machinery makers, and when it is remembered that before the war the Americans had not a spindle in China, a very good idea will be formed of the result of the education of Chinese students in the United States.\n\n\"Our agents in China nowadays find that the chief difficulty they encounter is the number of Chinese American-educated men who are overrunning all the industries of China, the greater part of which have hitherto been pro-British.\n\n\"We hope that the Boxer indemnity will in future be used for the subsidising of Chinese students for the purpose of education in this country, and most of the engineering firms are only too glad to take in a number of them. Yet, as our Chinese agents point out, private enterprise can only touch the fringe of the matter.\n\n\"We have in our employ two Chinese gentlemen who are finishing their education in textile machinery. They came originally as volunteers, but since they had offers from American firms to subsidise their education in that country we were obliged to pay them the same amount from private funds, in order that they shall, at any rate, finish their education in this country.\n\n\"It was proposed that the English textile machinists should supply free a complete plant of machinery to establish a large textile school in Shanghai, if the Chinese would supply the ground and buildings. It was further proposed that scholarships should be given for certain students to come over to this country, and finish their education here.\n\n\"The scheme appears to be held up owing to the lack of funds in China, and it requires a certain amount of stimulation to get the matter going.\n\n\"Mr. HARMSWORTH: I think that it is an extremely important matter to British trade with China.\n\n\"Sir W. de FRECE asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the importance of the matter to British trade, our agents in Shanghai would submit to the various Chambers of Commerce, especially those within industrial districts, the Report of Sir John Jordan's Committee on the Education of Chinese Students in this Country.\n\n\"Sir Walter de Frece replied:\n\n\"The position is that members of Parliament have brought the matter before the notice of the Government, but that commercial interests have been, as a rule, singularly apathetic. Speaking with an intimate knowledge of the situation, I venture to say that if commercial men throughout the country had pressed the Government at all on the subject, the Minister would have agreed not to ask China for the balance of the Boxer indemnity on condition it was ear-marked for Chinese education on British lines, either in this country or in China.\n\n\"We should be delighted to see your interest in the matter, and I feel certain that if the Lancashire firms would write to the Prime Minister on the subject we should very soon achieve our aims and objects.\n\n\"2. Dobson and Barlow have now replied, according to the urgent need for the organisation of commercial opinion to represent trade views to the Government, and have undertaken to move until their views are carried into effect.\n\n\"It would be premature to take the action suggested until the Question, which is now under consideration, of the attitude to be adopted towards the resumption of the Boxer Indemnity payments due December, has been decided by His Majesty's Government and the other Powers concerned.\n\nOfficial Report\n\n4th August 1922\n\nCHINESE STUDENTS (EDUCATION).",
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        "content_text": "1\n\n19\n\nPeking,\n\nNo. 326,\n\nMay 8, 1920.\n\n[F167;40) io.]\n\nPeking. No. 403,\n\nJune 1. 1920. [F1840/407)\n\nPaking, No. 651\n\n18\n\nwill eventually entail a large expenditure which can best be drawn from the customs. Furthermore, it is indisputable that if the Inspector-General were left to face the Chinese Government—his own employers—without the support of the Diplomatic Body behind him, he would soon cease to exercise any influence over the disposal of the customs releases.”\n\n67. From that date releases of customs surplus have followed one another more or less automatically, always with the allocation of the 137 per cent. to the South, but in May 1920 a complication arose. By that month the Southern Military Government at Canton had collapsed, and the chief leaders of the party, Messrs. Sun Yat Sen, Tang Shao-yi and Dr. Wu Ting-fang had fled from Canton to Shanghai. At the suggestion of Sir B. Alston the last quota of customs revenue allotted to them—548,000 taels—was deposited with the Inspector-General of Customs till further notice: and subsequent allocations to the South have been similarly handled.\n\n68. This has led to a series of protests both by the Canton authorities and by the ex-Southern Military Government (Tang Shao-yi, Sun Yat Sen, Wu Ting-fang); for some time these had no effect, but at one moment some of the foreign representatives, principally M. Boppe, French Minister and dean of the Diplomatic Body, began to show signs of indecision. M. Boppe was swayed by a desire to propitiate the South as Sept. 22, 1920, neighbours of French Indo-China. He even suggested at one moment that the Southern allocation should be divided up amongst the various warring factions into which the Southern party had split. But wiser counsels prevailed, and, thanks largely to the firm stand taken by Mr. Clive, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, it was eventually decided to continue to withhold all payments from the South and continue depositing them with Sir F. Aglen.\n\n[P9005, 07/\n\n10.3\n\nThis\n\n69. When, in the autumn of 1920, Messrs. Tang Shao-yi, Sun Yat Sen and Wu Ting-fang returned to Canton and re-established themselves as a Southern Government, they sought to revert to the original arrangement and obtain possession of the Southern 137 per cent. of the releases, past and future. But, as they were held by the Diplomatic Body to have no following, their request has been ignored has led to yet a third threat to seize the Southern customs, a threat countered by the immediate intimation of the imminent application of the same counter-measures as contemplated in 1917 and 1918. As in both those years, this intimation has proved sufficient and no attempt has actually been made to interfere with the Customs administration or funds at the Southern ports.\n\n70. According to most recent reports from His Majesty's Legation, the Southern Government are becoming more and more discredited. But, in any case, the question of the allocation of future surplus customs revenue is likely to solve itself. Owing to dropping customs receipts and a heavy fall in silver, customs surplus has now dwindled to a minimum, and there is thus little likelihood of the problem of its disposal arising again in future. As regards the arrears of Southern allocations since May 1920, these have remained in suspense on deposit with Sir F. Aglen until a few days ago, when, with the unanimous consent of the Diplomatic Body, they have been handed over to the Central Government on condition that these funds are devoted to specific objects, such as payment of diplomatic and consular salaries abroad, from which both North and South draw benefit.\n\n71. When, in February last, the American Government, through their Embassy in London, sought to reopen the whole question of the control of these funds by the Diplomatic Body, and appeared to wish to challenge the status of the foreign representatives at Peking to exercise any further restraint upon the disposal of the customs revenue, they were informed that it seemed to us inopportune, in the real interests of the Chinese people, to modify the existing arrangements, which in practice were working well and equitably.\n\nMarch 31, 1921.\n\n[F396/246/10]\n\nAPPENDIX II.\n\nMemorandum on British Educational Policy in China,\n\nImportance of the Question.\n\nA PERIOD has commenced in China which may be compared to the 1853-1889 period in Japan, and more remotely to the 1453-1595 period in Europe—a period of renaissance. The medieval organisation of the country is being transformed by an influx of occidental knowledge. The choice and adaptation of such knowledge to China's needs is therefore the most critical question of the times for China herself; and, further, if during the next fifty or hundred years a united China, a country of 400,000,000 people, were to take a decisive step in the direction of Bolshevism or Christianity, or industrialism, or militarism, or pan-Asianism, a change of paramount importance would be effected in the world's history. It is unlikely that China, still amorphous and aloof, will take any such decisive step, as Japan did in 1868: but before dealing with Chinese education as a matter of commercial or political propaganda, it is as well to reflect on the scope and power of the forces which are being called into existence.\n\nWestern education has been propagated in China through two channels: (1) through Chinese who have gone abroad for their studies, mostly to America; (2) through Western educationalists, almost all missionaries, who, for philanthropic By far the greater and religious motives, have devoted themselves to this work. proportion of these are Americans. In fact, Sir J. Jordan (despatch No. 348 of the 23rd July, 1918) states that fully 70 per cent. of the whole foreign education of China is in American hands.\n\nThere is a growing chorus of opinion, coming from those educationalists, business men and China experts, who are best qualified to judge, that the time has come when (1) a more definite policy of education for Chinese along British lines should be initiated, (2) voluntary missionary effort should be supplemented and reinforced by a solid endowment, dedicated to this purpose.\n\nin\n\nMr. Wilton, in his comprehensive report on the subject, enclosed Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 348 of the 23rd July, 1918, points out three aspects under which the question can be viewed—political, commercial and moral. It is on the second of these considerations that he lays special stress, as offering the most certain return for our outlay. He says: Assuming that China will become an expanding market for British goods, the spread of the English language and British methods in technical and commercial schools in China can hardly, I think, be over-estimated. There would be a distinct tendency, if not even a certainty, for young Chinese, speaking English, accustomed to British machinery, weights, measures and goods, and imbued with British ideas, to promote British enterprises in China. Quite apart from any question of personal sympathies, their mental equipment would make it difficult for them to work with others than Englishmen or Americans.'\n\nFor practical purposes, therefore, the commercial aspect should have first consideration; and the first question, which should confront every suggestion for a Government-supported educational scheme in China, is, Will it pay?\n\n>\n\nThe following quotation from the \"United States Commercial Handbook of China (vol. II. p. 420) gives some idea of the commercial and industrial future of the country:\n\nChina is the most populous of Asiatic nations: its trade offers more opportunities than does that of any of the other Far Eastern countries. It is now at the threshold of modern industrialism. Its 6,500 miles of railways must expand to 250,000 miles if it would have a mileage equal to that of the United States; it has a territory one-quarter again as great. Its cotton spindles must increase from 1,500,000 to 50,000,000, its looms from 5,000 to 800,000 and its textile-mill operatives from 20,000 to several million to equal those of England, which is poorer in potentialities in this industry than is China. Its cotton must increase from 2,500,000 to 12,000,000 bales to equal the United The output States, yet it has the land and labour necessary for this increase. of its coal mines must expand from 15,000,000 tons a year to 700,000,000 tons,\n\n[6823]\n\n337",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE.\nIn reply refer `7.897/50/87`.\n\nMr. Harman  \nMr. Beckett  \nMr. Davis.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nSir H. Read.  \nSir J. Masterton Smith.  \nMr. Ormsby-Gore,  \nDuke of Devonshire.\n\nI am requested to inform the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston that the term of the Dean relative to the negotiations concerning the subject of opium.\n\n(Signed) **CPINDLE**  \n`PR 157`  \n`DRAFT.`  \n`U.S.QS.`  \n`LC`  \nRef `19316`  \nFiled `21280`",
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        "content_text": "# The Present Situation in China\n\n# WHAT HAS HAPPENED?\n\nThe fundamental causes of the present trouble are, first, the terrible conditions of the workers, chiefly under foreign industrial control, and, secondly, the abuse of special privileges and immunities by foreign imperialists.\n\nThe immediate cause of the outbreak appears to have been a demonstration by Chinese workmen employed in a Japanese-owned cotton mill at Shanghai, because members of the staff of the mill had killed a Chinese workman.\n\nWorkers and students who made a demonstration demanding redress of this wrong, marching through the Nanking Road of the British Settlement, were fired at by the police employed by the Municipal Council, who killed six and wounded many more.\n\nOn the next day three were killed and many were wounded. On the third day twenty-one were killed and hundreds were wounded.\n\nIn regard to the street fighting all the casualties have been on one side, indicating that the Chinese are entirely unarmed and defenceless. According to the official Chinese protests, medical evidence states that the workers had been shot in the back, and no armed police had been injured.\n\n# CONDITION OF THE WORKERS\n\nThe following is taken from Report of Child Labour Commission appointed by Shanghai Municipal Council, June, 1923, and published July, 1924. The average wage of workers varies from 16s. to 30s. per month, which is below the amount necessary for bare existence in Shanghai. A woman worker gets 24d. to 6d. a day. There is no insurance, compensation, old-age pensions, &c. The hours of work of men, women, and children alike are from twelve to thirteen and a-half hours a day.\n\n\"The Commission heard evidence that contractors obtained young children from the country districts, paying the parents two dollars a month for the service of each child. By employing such children in the mills and factories the contractor is able to make a profit of about four dollars a month in respect of each child.\n\n\"The children are frequently most miserably housed and fed. They receive no money, and their conditions of life are practically those of slavery.\"\n\nOf course the adult workers are under similar conditions.\n\nThe following is an extract from a pamphlet published by the International Federation of Working Women:-\n\n\"The factory conditions of 80 or 100 years ago in the West are being, unfortunately, reproduced in China. The ordinary working hours are twelve, fourteen, and sixteen hours a day. In the cotton mills a twelve-hour day and a twelve-hour night shift are worked, and the workers go alternate weeks on each.\"\n\n\"Small children of six, seven, or eight and upwards are working the long hours and under the bad conditions described above. Hundreds of girls between the ages of eight and twelve are employed to stir cocoons placed in steaming hot water, which often scalds their little hands, leaving white stains on them. In cotton mills they work at spindles joining threads. In both cases they are on their feet working twelve hours a day. In some cases even longer, or on night shifts.\" Out of 82,696 workers in the Shanghai mills 13,062 are under fourteen. \"Besides these small children employed in factories there are babies of two or three years seen toddling or playing about in some of the factories. Mothers often work at machines with babies strapped on their backs or lying at their feet. How many of these babies, who are brought up under such conditions, survive we have no way of finding out,\"\n\nIn Shanghai the British and Japanese-owned spindles amount to 967,432 out of 1,740,556. The remainder is still largely under the control of foreign capital.\n\n# ORGANISATION OF CHINESE WORKERS\n\nNot until 1919, after the general strike in Shanghai, did the Chinese workers begin to organise themselves effectively. Until then the unions had been more in name than in fact.\n\nAt first the shopworkers organised themselves according to locality, i.e., streets, but factory workers organised according to their trade. The organisation of the factory workers is most active and sensitive to the grievances of the workers.\n\nTheir protests have been always neglected by the owners and by the authorities of the Settlement, and their headquarters are often raided by the foreign police and frequently suppressed.\n\nAny sort of complaint and aspiration after the improvement of working conditions is considered as Bolshevism and, therefore, the common enemy of the capitalists, who consider they ought to be shot.\n\nAmongst the most important unions are:-\n\nThe All-China Industrial Salvation Union.\n\nThe Shanghai Weavers' Union.\n\nThe Shanghai Cotton and Silk Women-workers' Union.\n\n# WHAT ARE THE TREATY PORTS?\n\nThe Treaty Ports are foreign colonies within the Chinese Republic, taken against her will; concessions for which no rent is paid and in which the Chinese themselves have no rights.\n\nOver half a century ago, as a result of the Opium War, the Powers established themselves at Treaty Ports. The Treaty of Nanking, 1842, opened the ports of Shanghai, Canton, Amoy, Foochow, and Ningpo. Later by the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858 were added the ports of Newchang, Tangchow, Swatow, and Kungchow. To-day there are forty-nine Treaty Ports.\n\nThe foreigners enjoy special privileges and immunities, and often abuse them under the name of extra-territoriality.\n\n# HOW THEY ARE GOVERNED\n\n\"Municipal Government\" in the Treaty Ports is a farce, and actually means dictatorship by the Consuls and foreigners. Occasionally a Chinese is co-opted as an adviser. The Chinese population has not votes, but they have the privilege of paying the rates.\n\nThese alien municipal councils have their own police, often Sikhs or non-Chinese under foreign officers. It is these who have fired on the unarmed strikers. In these settlements many evils are overlooked through corruption; for example, munition traffic, opium smuggling, &c.\n\n# CHINA'S VITAL SERVICES CONTROLLED BY FOREIGNERS\n\nTariffs are fixed by Foreign Powers, limiting the tax on imports to 5 per cent. The Washington Conference promised to increase this to 7 per cent., but after three years have elapsed, this promise is still unfulfilled. These conditions threaten the very economic existence of the Chinese nation.\n\nCustoms, that is to say, the bulk of the revenue outside the Salt Gabelle, are controlled by an Inspectorate-General, composed of various nationalities. The Salt Gabelle, the main source of revenue, is under the control of an Englishman.\n\nPage 517",
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        "content_text": "## \n57.\n\nnot to you, for the office of the C.I.D.\n\nCons 1\n\n1\n\nPolicing from the Yau Ma Tei Hiking \n\ninclosure mine \n\nX\n\nnemorandum setting \n\nnot the \n\nviews of the H.K. Garrison Defence Committee \n\nin the \n\nto \n\nmonitor.\n\n2 The Trade \n\n& Blockade Advisory \n\nCommittee will doubtless be looked \n\nto consider the problem when the \n\nviews of the Naval Commander-in-\n\nChief and the Military Representations in China have \n\nbeen ascertained. In the \n\nmeantime \n\nCopy 1 \n\nOther Govt. deps. & enclosure \n\nbeing forwarded to the F.O., the \n\nthe W.M., the Air Min., the \n\nArmy the W.M., \n\nB \n\n1.\n\nJ. & the D.M.O. & I.\n\n(Sgd.)\n\nSPINDLE",
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        "content_text": "(8).\n\n23. Cylinders, Pistons & Piston Rods. The cylinders, with their piston valves, are to be outside the frames. The steam ports and passages are to be designed with special attention to securing a free and unobstructed path for exhaust steam, all sharp bends and sudden changes of cross-section are to be avoided.\n\nThe Piston Heads are to be of forged steel, fitted with two cast iron rings. The piston-rods, which are to have tail ends, are to be of class \"A\" steel, the seats for the piston heads are to be formed with a taper of 1 in 6, straight though with no collars, and the seats to the crossheads are to be tapered 1 in 20. The piston heads are to be secured on the rods with gunmetal nuts and steel cottars, similar to those shown on Drgs. Nos. 4472/156 & 137 Requ. No. 251/1 modified to suit the smaller diameter of cylinders.\n\nThe tail-rod glands, bushes, packing, covers etc., and also the cylinder cover castings, which are to be finished bright, are to be similar to those shown on Drg. No. 4472/136, Reg. No. 251/1, modified as necessary to suit the smaller diameter of cylinders.\n\n24. Metallic Packing. Metallic packing as supplied by the United Kingdom Patent Metallic Packing Company, is to be fitted for the piston rods. The packing for the valve spindles is to be the same as that shown on Drg. No. 4472/138, Requ. No. 251/1.\n\n25. Piston Valves. The design of the piston valves is to follow that shown on Drg. No. 4472/145, Requ. 251/1. Renewable liners of tough cast iron are to be fitted in the steam chests and the steam ports in the liners are to be triangular in shape, similar to those shown on Drg. No. 4472/144.",
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The pipes to be made from plates bent in bending rolls and welded by the water gas process, the heat being applied locally inside and out and the welding load by a roller under hydraulic pressure on a cantilever anvil.\n\nAll pipes to be smooth inside and outside and free from scale, blisters and other defects.\n\nThe following tolerances not to be exceeded-\n\n2½% under or 7½% over the specified weight.\n\n1\" over or under the specified diameter save at the joints which must be made accurately to gauges and templates and interchangeable.\n\nThe pipes to be supplied in average effective lengths of 25 feet, as follows- Suitable for putting together at the site in Hong Kong in stretches of 200 feet, the intermediate joints being of the welded flange type shown on drawing No. 6, faced and drilled for countersunk rivets, and the terminal joints being of the welded on flange type to British Standard Specification No. 10 Table II for a pressure of 225 lbs. and between each 200 feet stretch a ball and socket joint, of cast steel, or cast iron if approved by the Engineer. Suitable bolts and rivets to be supplied for jointing the above into two continuous 18\" pipe lines each having a total length of 5,650 feet including ball and socket joints.\n\nEach pipe to be subjected at Works to a pressure of 1,000 lbs. per square inch between the heads of a hydraulic testing machine, to be thoroughly cleaned and free from all rust, mill scale and foreign matter adhering to the surface, and each length of pipe to be subjected to a centrifugal process whereby the interior surface of each pipe is coated with a special bituminous solution to an approximate uniform thickness of ⅛\", giving a smooth glassy surface, impervious to water, acids, alkalies or corrosive action, such solution being applied in accordance with Patent No. 224365 or other approved method, to ensure that this internal coating will withstand damage, heat or handling in transit to the tropics. The exterior surface of the pipe to be then coated with a special bituminous solution applied cold, and wrapped with Hessian Cloth weighing not less than 7 ozs. per square yard, saturated with a similar solution and wound spirally round the pipe with an overlap of not less than 1\". This wrapping to be repeated a second time so as to ensure a minimum thickness of two ply of wrapping on the outside, the wrapping being stopped off 3″ short of the flange joints, the intermediate joints being subsequently coated and wrapped with solution and Hessian prior to launching each 200 feet stretch of pipe.\n\nFrom time to time during the manufacture of the pipes the Inspector may require short pieces to be cut from the pipes for examination of the weld. Each pipe must be tested in the Inspector's presence under hydraulic pressure. The pressure is to be clearly and satisfactorily indicated by a proof testing gauge to the satisfaction of the Inspector. The pipes are to be hammered throughout their length when under pressure and any pipe which leaks or in any way fails under this test will be rejected.\n\nEach pipe shall have hay bands wound on spirally at 8 inches pitch and secured with wire 14 W.G. wound spirally in the opposite direction or such other protection as to ensure safe arrival in the Colony, as the Inspector may approve or require.\n\n17. Cast iron pipes, bends and junctions, where required, shall be in strict accordance with B.S. Specifications Nos. 78-1917, and 10-1904, and to be constructed to the dimensions set out therein for a pressure of 300 feet.\n\n18. The ball and socket joints, Drawing No. 6, of Glenfield & Kennedy's or other approved design, to have a working diameter of about 30\" and to be of cast steel made by the Siemens Martin or other approved process, having a tensile strength of 26 to 35 tons per square inch of section.\n\nTensile tests of the material to show an elongation of 15% to 20% on British Standard Test Pieces.\n\n23\n\nThe material to show the following analysis —\n\n  \n    Carbon\n    ·15\n    to .2%\n  \n  \n    Manganese not to exceed\n    I%\n    \n  \n  \n    Silicon\n    ·25%\n    to 3%\n  \n  \n    Sulphur not to exceed\n    ·06%\n    \n  \n  \n    Phosphorus not to exceed\n    ·06%\n    \n  \n\nThe castings to have a smooth surface and to be free from cracks, blow holes and other defects, and to be thoroughly annealed and dipped in an approved bituminous solution before machining or galvanized or otherwise protected. Care must be taken that each joint is efficiently protected.\n\nThe working surfaces (ball and socket) to be turned smooth and spherical, the glands and stuffing boxes being accurately machined to a working fit and all flanged faced and drilled to template, so as to be interchangeable with one another and with the flanges of the pipes.\n\nAll bolts connecting ball and socket and pipe flanges to be of mild steel and galvanized after threading, 5% spares being provided.\n\nEach ball and socket joint to be packed with white metal of approved quality and provided with two soft sheet lead joints ⅛\" thick covering the whole face of the outer flanges.\n\nEach ball and socket joint after machining to be fitted with temporary packing and subjected to the hydraulic test pressure of 500 lbs. between the heads of a hydraulic testing machine.\n\nPipes and fittings to be coated with white lead on all machined surfaces and protected by wooden discs with temporary bolts against damage when in transit.\n\nThe whole of the process of manufacture, testing and protecting with bituminous compound, is subject to the approval of the Inspector.\n\n19. All structural steel work to be in accordance with British Standard Structural Steel Specifications Nos. 15-1912, and 1-1920, and wherever possible to be heavily galvanized, and where not galvanized to be properly cleaned and painted before shipment, and after erection scraped and cleaned and coated with selected bituminous paint in two coats of approved colour.\n\n20. All screw valves, air cocks and other accessories to be manufactured by Glenfield & Kennedy or other approved firm, of the best quality, gun-metal faced and fitted, with bronze spindles, cast iron pedestals with 18\" hand wheels, brass indicators and index scales, selected patterns, and where necessary fitted with by-pass valves and connections.\n\nAll valves, not shown fitted with pedestal opening gear, to be furnished with keys so as to be conveniently operated from valve house floor. All valves and other cast iron work to be coated with bituminous covering.\n\nPIPE LINES.\n\n21. The pipe lines between the Kowloon and Victoria sides of Hong Kong Harbour to begin behind the sea wall on the Kowloon side by a 24″ pipe let through the wall and projected sufficient distance from the back of the wall to allow for a flanged joint being properly made with a proposed new 24\" main to this point. The 24\" pipe to be continued over the Harbour to a valve chamber situated about 40 feet from the face of the sea wall. In the valve chamber the 24\" pipe to divide into two 18\" pipes, each of which is to descend vertically to the level shown on the section and to be furnished with all the operating valves, sand catchers, and discharge pipes, as shown on the Drawing No. 7.\n\nThe crossing of the Harbour to be in line and to the levels and dimensions shown on Drawings Nos. 3 and 6.\n\n202",
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        "content_text": "213\n\n34\n\nBrought forward\n\n62 cwts.\n\n41 yds. Sup.\n\n96 ft. Lin.\n\n4 yds, Sup.\n\n36 ft. Lin.\n\nNo. 2\n\nNo. I\n\nContractors to allow for transit, insurance and all expenses for erection complete in every way.\n\nNOTE. The approximate gross dead weight of the two Lanterns is about 3 tons 10 cwt.\n\nApproximate shipping specification volume about 117 c. ft.\n\nStructural steelwork in beams supporting floors and pipes. Galvanized.\n\nCast iron open diamond pattern floor plates, 1\" thick, galvanized. Allow for all fitting to corners, holing for valve spindles, etc.\n\nCast iron galvanized angle curb to take above, bedded on and bolted to walls.\n\nCast iron galvanized chequer plating for landings, §* thick.\n\nCast iron galvanized angle curb to take above, secured to channel beams.\n\nHinged Access Covers, 3' 0\" X 1' 9\", formed of 1\" dia. bars at 21/2\" centres, ends riveted into 1\" × frame. All galvanized.\n\nDo. do., but 2′ 6′′ X 2′ 0′′, \n\nProvide and fix 11/2\" external dia. wrought iron steam tube double handrail, 3 feet high, to landing.\n\nAbout 31 ft. double rail and II wrought iron solid standards with flanged bases for bolting to channel beams.\n\nAll galvanized.\n\nProvide and fix W.I. guard chain and standards as per detail.\n\nLength of chain 200 ft.\n\n66 ft. Lin.\n\nNo. 2\n\nWeight of chain 5 lbs. per yd.\n\nT 40.\n\nNo. of standards\n\nAll galvanized.\n\nIn No. 3 galvanized W.I. ladders, 1'9\" overall width, formed of 4\"x3\" side bars, with 1\" dia. double rungs at 10\" rise.\n\nEnds to be built into wall or bolted to beams.\n\nTeak doors and frames, with semi-circular heads, 8′9′′ high by 5'0\" wide. Frames out of 4\"X4\" Doors hung in two parts, framed, and ledged in 21/2\" thick timbers with 11/2\" V-jointed, tongued and grooved filling. Frames to be fixed to walls with heavy galvanized wrought iron cramps 21/2\" long about 2 ft. apart and ends of frames to have galvanized iron shoes with stubbs. Complete with heavy bronze butts, tower bolts, locks, keys, and furniture.\n\nCarried forward £\n\nd.\n\nNo. 6\n\n1\n\nNo. 3\n\nNo. 2\n\n40 ft. Lin,\n\n35\n\nBrought forward\n\nProvide lights, 3'0\" dia. similar to ship pattern port-holes, strongly constructed of a non-corrosive material and glazed with very heavy plate glass. The whole storm and waterproof.\n\nThe prime cost of the 6 Lights manufactured by Messrs. Carron Co., ★★★★★ delivered f.o.b. packed is £120. Contractors to allow for transit, insurance and all expenses for erection complete in every way.\n\nNOTE. The approximate gross dead weight of the 6 Lights is about 15 cwt. Net weight 131/2 cwt.\n\nApproximate shipping specification volume-2 cases, cach 4\" x 41/2 x 21/4 \n\nForm dog-legged ventilating openings in wall, with 9\"x3\", brass hit and miss slide gratings.\n\nProvide motor and pump for the Kowloon Valve Chamber, constructed by Messrs. Worthington. Simpson. Ltd. Prime cost, packed, f.o.b. £180.\n\nContractors to allow for all other additional expense as before.\n\nProvide do, do. for the Victoria Valve Chamber, Prime Cost, packed, f.o.b. £200.\n\nAllow for all other additional expenses as before. NOTE.-Approximate gross dead weight of two, complete with motors and all piping, about 2 tons. Approximate shipping specification volume about 180 c. ft.\n\nProvide the sum of £100 for labour and materials in supplying internal lighting in each of the valve houses and guard lights if required, and for switch gear and wiring, etc., for the motors and cables and ducts connecting the apparatus in the valve houses with the nearest electric light mains of the Companies in the area.\n\nProvide and place in position steel lattice girder gang-ways, flanges; 12\"X1/2\" plate, and two 5\"x4\"x3/8\" angles; diagonals: 3\"x3\"x3/8\" angles, with cast iron galvanized plating footway as per detail drawing.\n\nNOTE. Both gangways.\n\nApprox. weight of steelwork \n\nC.I. plating..\n\n12 tons \n\n11/2 tons \n\nProvide and fix to gangways 168 ft. lin. 5 lbs. per yd. chain guard rail with 32 wrought iron standards, as per detail. Drawing No. 9-All galvanized.\n\nExtra labour only in laying 24\" dia. steel pipe between girders and supporting and bracing with 2\"x2\" x 1/4\" angles. as shewn on Drawing No. 9.\n\nCut sea walls to erect the girders on padstones lay the 24\" dia. pipes, make good, and build pipes and girder ends into bases of valve chambers.\n\nPipes to be supported on saddle padstones.\n\nCarried forward £\n\n214\n\n£9.\n\nd.",
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        "content_text": "244\n\nRX\n\nAnnexe B.\n\n2-\n\nInvestigations have been made on the site of the proposed Dam foundations in the Aberdeen Valley immediately above the existing reservoir by trial pits and prickings and it has been ascertained that the scheme for the complete development of the Aberdeen Valley as set forth in Mr. Henderson's report dated 6.8.1926 is feasible.\n\nSome modification in detail will be necessary but the general scheme as originally proposed will remain practically unaltered.\n\nA small scale map showing the general layout of the scheme is attached.\n\n7th November, 1927.\n\nH. T. JACKMAN,\n\nDirector of Public Works.\n\n3.\n\nAnnexe A.\n\nExtracts from a report of Mr. R. M. Henderson, Engineer-in-charge of Waterworks, on the Development of the Aberdeen Valley Catchment Area.\n\nThe existing Paper Works Reservoir is situated on the main Aberdeen stream West of Bennet's Hill. The Dam which is of rubble concrete faced and backed with granite rubble was built in 1890, having a maximum depth of 40 ft. from stream bed to overflow, an overflow of 125 lin. ft., and contained 42 million gallons when full, top water level being +243.85 O.D. Cost $24,000.\n\nIn 1899 the Dam was raised eighteen feet and strengthened by means of 10 concrete and rubble faced counterforts, the overflow being left the same length, top water level being raised 18 ft. to +261.85 O.D. and the storage capacity raised to 92 million galls. Cost $48,000.\n\nThe Dam which has a total length of 465 ft. is shown on Drawing No. 3 and is constructed of a lime and cement concrete lining (cement, 1 lime 2 red earth and 3 stone) backed by Rubble Concrete (1 lime, 2 red earth and 3 stone) and faced with granite rubble with 10 counterforts of rubble concrete faced with granite rubble. There is one draw-off operated by a primitive headstock and sloping spindle, while there is a washout pipe at stream bed level.\n\nThe structure while apparently well built is constructed of poor materials and is a good example of what might be termed cheap construction.\n\nThe foundations in the stream bed and for some height on either side appear excellent, but further than that it is impossible to more than guess. As however leakage from the Dam is not excessive, the foundations generally would appear to be good.\n\nThe spur on which the West end of the Dam rests rises sharply, but the spur at the East end has a very flat slope, so that any possible raising of the Dam any considerable height would mean adding greatly to its length.\n\nI have very carefully considered the possibility of raising this Dam and have had rough contours taken for thirty feet above the existing top water level to get capacities. Thirty feet added to the existing Dam would raise the capacity from 92 million gallons to 270 million gallons, but would make the Dam 700 feet long.\n\nAn entirely new Dam would require to be constructed immediately in front of the existing one, as the present structure would not stand the pressures and could therefore not be incorporated in the new structure and the foundations originally made for a 40 feet dam would not be safe for a 90 feet dam.\n\n245\n\nPaper Works Reservoir.\n\nDrawing No. 3.\n\nAnnexe B.\n\nFor the foregoing reasons in the event of complete resumption of the Scheme A. Paper Co.'s rights, I would propose development of the valley on the following lines as shown generally on Drawing No. 4.\n\nBuild a concrete and masonry dam in the main stream about mile above the existing Dam, the reservoir to hold about 200 million gallons with a top water level of +365 O.D.\n\nConstruct a West Catchwater 15,000 feet long draining 496 acres, and an East Catchwater 11,200 feet long draining 314 acres, both discharging into the reservoir, and raising the Drainage Area from 505 acres to 1,315 acres.\n\nDrawing No. 4.",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nwhich I enclose a paraphrased copy along with a copy of the Governor's reply. You will see that we have asked him to keep us fully informed. I don't think there is really any risk of his taking any decision step without reference home. We know that he has to consult the Executive Council & the mercantile community & we can quite understand that he would be most reluctant to refer home for a decision without being able to frame his own recommendations with the support of those bodies. Probably his recent absence in the Philippines caused the matter to be hung up temporarily.\n\nYours sincerely  \nG Spindle",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nM/r.\n\nMr./Mar/min 13.8.30 Mr Gent 13 My Ellis\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\n13\n\nwith\n\nNo 543,452/19 of\n\n72752/30 HK\n\nresent\n\n4632\n\n16.\n\nDear Perrins,\n\n18 Aug 1930\n\nJag 1930 to Smindle\n\nrefe to your letter of the 6th August, we have no objection to your draft.\n\n17. D. Pernis by sending to the Opium Advisory Committee the statement which you enclose about the Canton Opium (kon... will you kindly let us...\n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve the output:\n\nC. O.\n\nM/r.\n\nMr Mar/min 13.8.30 Mr Gent 13 My Ellis\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\n13\n\nwith\n\nNo 543,452/19 of\n\n72752/30 HK\n\nresent\n\n4632\n\n16.\n\nDear Perrins,\n\n18 Aug 1930 jag 1930 to Smindle\n\nRefe to your letter of the 6th August, we have no objection to your draft.\n\n17. D. Pernis by sending to the Opium Advisory Committee the statement which you enclose about the Canton Opium ... will you kindly let us...\n\nLet's correct and reformat it according to the given rules:\n\nC. O.\n\nM/r.\n\nMr Mar/min 13.8.30 Mr Gent 13 My Ellis\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\n13\n\nwith\n\nNo 543,452/19 of\n\n72752/30 HK\n\nresent\n\n4632\n\n16.\n\nDear Perrins,\n\n18 Aug 1930\n\nRe: your letter of the 6th August, we have no objection to your draft.\n\nPlease send to the Opium Advisory Committee the statement which you enclose about the Canton Opium ... Will you kindly let us know?\n\nHere is the final version in HTML format as requested:\n\nC. O.\n\nM/r.\n\nMr Mar/min 13.8.30 Mr Gent 13 My Ellis\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\n13\n\nwith\n\nNo 543,452/19 of\n\n72752/30 HK\n\nresent\n\n4632\n\n16.\n\nDear Perrins,\n\n18 Aug 1930\n\nRe: your letter of the 6th August, we have no objection to your draft.\n\nPlease send to the Opium Advisory Committee the statement which you enclose about the Canton Opium... Will you kindly let us know?",
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        "content_text": "# THE WOOL TEXTILE INDUSTRY\n\n42. Consideration of the wool textile trade in relation to Japan falls into two sections:- \n\n- Section 1.--The present position of Great Britain with regard to imports into Japan and the influence thereon of \n  (a) Japan's own wool textile industry, \n  (b) Our European Continental competitors. \n- Section 2.--The growth of Japan's wool textile industry and its probable or possible competitive power in external markets in the future.\n\n## Section 1.--The present position of Great Britain with regard to imports into Japan.\n\n### RAW WOOL IMPORTS.\n\n43. As there is no domestic production of wool in Japan, the raw material for the Japanese wool textile industry must be imported. The chief sources of supply are Australia and New Zealand, comparatively small quantities being obtained from other countries. The importation of wool is in the hands of some half-dozen large financial firms, who supply practically the whole of the wool for the mills. There are no wool merchants in the ordinary English sense and no top makers or commission combers in Japan, all sorting and combing being done by the spinners themselves.\n\n### MILLS.\n\n44. There are some fifteen large mills with combing and spinning plants. Most of these have looms as well, and the combined equipment of the fifteen mills is said to be approximately-\n| Equipment        | Quantity     |\n|------------------|--------------|\n| Noble Combs      | 104          |\n| Continental Combs| 500          |\n| Worsted Mule Spindles | 371,500  |\n| Woollen Mule Spindles | 60,000   |\n| Ring Spindles    | 61,200       |\n| Cap Spindles     | 22,800       |\n| Looms            | 9,900        |\n\nThere is a small number of flyer spindles in addition to above, and in addition to the larger firms, there is a large number of small weaving plants, chiefly in the Nagoya district. Some of these buy their yarn, and others weave on commission. They are said to number about 400. The smaller firms are said to have an equipment of approximately 3,000 broad looms and 3,000 narrow looms, the latter being partially engaged in cotton or silk weaving.* The growth of the Japanese wool textile industry in recent years is shown by the changes in the import statistics of wool, tops, yarn, and piece-goods, details of which will be found in the Wool Appendix (`Appendix B`).\n\n### WOOL AND TOPS.\n\n45. The rapid development of the Japanese wool combing industry is seen from the following :-\n| Year | Wool Imports (in thousand lb.) | Tops Imports (in thousand lb.) |\n|------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|\n| 1913 | 11,517                         | 9,374                          |\n| 1925 | 72,472                         | 11,366                         |\n| 1926 | 98,448                         | 5,920                          |\n| 1927 | 114,774                        | 1,702                          |\n| 1928 | 107,088                        | 702                            |\n| 1929 | 114,444 (Wool and tops)        | ...                            |\n| 1930 | ...                            | 21 (first six months)          |\n\n(NOTE. A new tariff law came into effect in 1926, under which tops are subject to a duty of 14.5 yen per 100 kin, or about 2¼d. a lb. Before 1926 there was no import duty on tops.)\n\nIn 1913, Japan imported 11,517,000 lb. of wool and 9,374,000 lb. of tops. In 1929 the wool imports totalled 107,088,000 lb., and in 1930 114,444,000 lb., whereas the imports of tops, which had reached a maximum of 11,366,000 lb. in 1925, declined to 702,000 lb. in 1929, and to 21,000 for the first six months of 1930. `Table II` in `Appendix B` shows that the tops came almost entirely from Great Britain and Australia, and that Great Britain was the first to lose the trade.\n\n* The total number of looms employed by woollen and worsted manufacturers in Japan has been stated to be as high as 29,425 but it is probable that these will include hand looms. Accurate information is impossible to obtain. Even the number of firms is not known and the figure of 400 stated above is conservative being much less than the largest estimate given to us. \"Industrial Japan\" - a publication got out specially for the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo, 1929, states as follows:-\n| Year 1927 | Factories with less than 10 looms | 10/50 looms | over 50 looms | Total    |\n|-----------|----------------------------------|-------------|---------------|----------|\n|           | 62                               | 291         | 525           | 878      |\n|           | totalling 2,272 looms            | 5,762       | 21,391        | 29,425   |",
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        "content_text": "## TEXTILE MACHINERY\n\n166. There are in China already about 120 cotton mills equipped with modern machinery, chiefly of British manufacture. Owing to war difficulties Japan and the United States obtained a larger proportion of the work for a while, but Great Britain is reasserting her dominant position and in 1929 accounted for 63 per cent. of the imports. It is estimated that a further 75,000 spindles were delivered in 1930. Continued activity in mill extensions is anticipated following the new tariff. It is stated that a certain carelessness has recently characterised replacement parts supplied by our makers. The greatest care in this sort of business is essential as we must take every care of our high prestige.\n\nIn many cases, as in Japan, the complete process from spinning to finishing is carried out in one establishment but the example of our Calico Printers' Association, who have erected a first-class finishing works at Shanghai on British lines, is likely to be imitated elsewhere. There are already four finishing works of smaller size. Much of the bulky work for this section of the trade is likely to be of local manufacture, but there will remain good openings for import.\n\nThe closely allied knitting and sewing machine business, is at present largely in American hands, but in small knitting machines for cottage industry, locally made machines are gaining ground. Close study of exact requirements of this trade should result in Great Britain securing a better share, but given the right article energetic demonstration and selling will be needed to get it accepted by conservative users.\n\n## ENGINEERING WORKS\n\n167. From large dockyards and arsenals down to small Chinese workshops there is considerable activity in engineering industry. The dockyards are steady buyers of machinery and stores of which Great Britain supplies a good proportion. At Hongkong in addition to the Government Yard, there are two large private yards with very complete equipments for ship building and ship repairs. They are also able to carry out large constructional work. The Whampoa Dockyard at Kowloon is a very fine yard, with well arranged and substantially built premises, and completely equipped workshops, docks and slipways. Its foundries turn out excellent castings, both for its own use and for others; its forges and machine shops are able to undertake high quality work. Similar conditions prevail at the Taikoo Dock of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire at Hongkong and at the four large dockyards of Shanghai, the Shanghai Dock & Engineering Company, the New Engineering & Shipbuilding Works (which are British), the Kiangnang Dock & Engineering Works (which belong to the Chinese Government, but has a British Manager), and the Société Franco-Chinoise (which is partly French-owned partly Chinese). With their excellent management, good equipment and cheap labour, these yards are able to take on important work very competitively.\n\n168. The rates of wages vary from place to place. As an instance, may be given the rate at Kiangnang where coolies get fifty cents a day, skilled men one dollar and fifty cents a day and foremen one hundred and fifty dollars a month.* Owing to the expert nature of their work and their knowledge of the value of machinery, these yards are among Britain's best customers. But we must support them by an energetic sales policy of our own.\n\nChina has some 20 arsenals, some of which are very fully equipped, and all of which are from time to time, buyers of machinery and materials. The two arsenals at Mukden have very complete workshops. The large arsenal has a big power plant of British make, but the bulk of its equipment is Danish. The small arsenal has numerous tools of rather a miscellaneous character, mostly second hand. Both of them are considering seriously the problem of taking on industrial work. The large arsenal has had several Czech engineers engaged for a considerable time to report on the possibility of doing this.\n\nIt is suggested that assembly and part-construction of railway rolling stock would be a suitable activity. The small arsenal has already started in this direction by using its foundry for turning out domestic radiators, and its other departments are busy getting ready to make a special type of motor lorry suited to Manchurian requirements.\n\n169. Another big section of engineering activity is to be found in the railway workshops. These vary in importance according to the activity of the lines they serve, but in the bulk form a very large market for engineering plant and materials.\n\nThe South Manchurian Railway workshops at Dairen are exceptionally well equipped. Many of the older tools are British, but the new ones are chiefly American or Japanese, with only a few specialties of British make. The equipment is so complete that in addition to repairs they can make vehicles and even locomotives. For general repair work they can tackle 30 locomotives, 40 passenger vehicles and 100 wagons at a time. They employ about 3,000 men, half of whom are Chinese. The educational, housing, and welfare arrangements are very ample and the whole place, including all offices and factory buildings, is a model one.\n\nThe Chinese Eastern Railway at Mukden also have an excellent lay out designed for rapid overhaul of their considerable rolling stock. Unfortunately they have very little British machinery here owing, so their chief engineer stated, to our very poor propaganda compared to the United States educational advertising.\n\n* See note to paragraph 189.",
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        "content_text": "106\n\n90\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nsmooth and shining on the upper side, but not so much so as in the two following species, on petioles of 3 to 6 lines. Flowers white, sweet-scented, in dense terminal trichotomous cymes, sessile above the last leaves, and shorter than them. Pedicels short. Sepals orbicular, very obtuse, about 1½ lines long. Corolla-tube 4 to 5 lines long; the lobes shorter, narrow at the base, suddenly expanded, chiefly on one side, into a very oblique or falcate lamina, broader than long, with 2 irregular teeth on the inner or expanded edge. Scales of the throat more than a line long, united to about the middle into a 5 or 10-lobed cup. Berry globular. The flowers are only about half the size of the other two local species.\n\nNAMES.—Mountain orange; Karlor, hoanquor.\n\nILLUSTRATION. Figure 1 is a reproduction of drawings of leaves, flowers, and fruit.\n\nFLOWERING PERIOD.—May.\n\nLOCALITIES.—Common on the hillsides and in the nullahs on Hong Kong island and elsewhere in the Colony.\n\nMELODINUS MONOGYNUS, Roxb.\n\nM. monogynus, Roxb.; A. DC. Prod. viii. 329; Bot. Reg. t. 834; Bot. Mag. t. 2527. A tall woody climber resembling the last species in most respects, but the leaves are usually longer and narrower in proportion, often above 4 in. long, more coriaceous, smooth and shining, the sepals scarcely so broad, the flowers larger, the tube full 5 lines long, the lobes obovate or broadly oblong, falcate with 1 or 2 teeth on the inner expanded edge, the scales of the throat free, or scarcely connected at the very base, hairy inside.\n\nLeaves are more shining and the flowers are much larger than in the previous species and generally in dense bunches. The fruit is globular to oblong.\n\nDISTRIBUTION.—Tropical Asia.\n\nFLOWERING PERIOD.—End of April and May.\n\nLOCALITIES.—As for preceding species.\n\nMELODINUS FUSIFORMIS, Champ.\n\nM. fusiformis, Champ. in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 332. This species is again very nearly allied to the M. monogynus, with the same general habit, foliage and inflorescence, except that the leaves are usually smaller, and the cymes fewer-flowered. Sepals ovate, the outer ones more or less acute. Corolla of the size of M. monogynus, but the lobes less oblique and less distinctly toothed on the inner edge, and the scales of the throat very small and hairy. The berry, according to Champion, is spindle-shaped or pear-shaped, the size of a large apple. In a specimen of Wright's, if not mismatched, it is globular.\n\nDISTRIBUTION.—According to Bentham only known from Hong Kong island, but doubtless it is also present on the adjacent mainland.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Flowering Shrubs and Trees of Hong Kong\n\n91\n\nILLUSTRATIONS.—Figure 2 is a reproduction of a rough sketch, actual size, of flower and fruit. Figure 3 shows the arrangement of the leaves and a single terminal trichotomous cyme of flowers, half actual size.\n\nFLOWERING PERIOD.—End of April and May.\n\nLOCALITY.—Victoria Peak, Hong Kong.\n\nNAME. McClure (5) p. 34 gives the name Loh Hon Kwoh T'ang to this plant which his collector has found on Lan T'au island.\n\n<<\n\nx1.\n\nOrange\n\ngreen\n\nSepals\n\nло n\n\nFigure 2. Melodinus fusiformis.\n\nCERBERA, Linn.\n\nCalyx without glands. Corolla-tube cylindrical. The lobes ovate, spreading, without scales at the throat. Anther linear-lanceolate, included in the tube. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, united by a single style, with a conical 2-lobed stigma. Ovules 2 in each carpel. Fruit a nearly globular drupe, flattened on one side, with a woody endocarp, usually one-seeded. Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, crowded on the young branches. Flowers white, in terminal cymes or panicles. Bentham loc. cit. p. 219.\n\nDISTRIBUTION. A genus of very few species from Tropical Asia and the Pacific Islands.\n\nCERBERA ODOLLAM, Gærtn.\n\nCERBERA MANGHAS, Linn.\n\nC. Odollam, Gærtn.; A. DC. Prod. viii. 353; Wight, Ic. t. 441. A glabrous erect shrub, with thick herbaceous branches. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 6 in. long, narrowed into a rather long petiole; the lateral veins transverse. Flowers white, sweet-scented, in a dense terminal pedunculate cyme. Sepals oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, about ½ in. long. Corolla-tube 1 in. long; the lobes about half as long, obovate-oblong. Bentham loc. cit. p. 219.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n107",
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        "content_text": "273\n\nthe Universities of the British Empire. I was available throughout the summer, or rather until the end of August when I got ill, but there was apparently no service which I could usefully perform for the Board during that period.\n\n5.\n\nI am almost entirely lacking in such knowledge as would enable me to contribute anything useful to those discussions which now take up the greater part of the time of the Board's meetings, even were I able to follow such discussions which unfortunately I am not. I refer to discussions on such questions as to whether the Indemnity's capital funds should be invested in the construction and equipment of, say, an electrical factory to be worked by the Ministry of Industries, or in the purchase of spindles and other machinery for certain Chinese Cotton Mills in Shanghai. If the Trustees are responsible for the investments in which the Indemnity funds are to be placed (as presumably they are, though even this is not clear to me, for the Political Council appears to decide without reference to the Trustees, not only how the whole indemnity including such funds as are in the terms of the China Indemnity (Application) Act of 1931 to be paid to the Board direct should be apportioned as between railways and other state activities, but also what particular schemes should receive the benefit of the Indemnity Funds) then surely those who are qualified to judge the probable productivity of an industrial or other scheme should be included among the Trustees, or experts should be employed? And this would seem to be the more necessary because though some suggestions have been made that the Chinese Government will guarantee interest, no assurance of this has, so far as I am aware, been given to the Trustees. Frankly I do not know where, as a Trustee,",
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        "content_text": "The Parasitic Slime-Moulds.\n\n31\n\nlosing its flagellum during the process, and then when once it is inside it becomes rounded or rather irregular in shape. It grows and may migrate further up the root-hair by amoeboid movement. The swarm spore nucleus divides, and a small multinucleated naked plasmodium is formed. Around each nucleus, a wall is developed in a way similar to that occurring during spore formation. Each of these bodies is a zoosporangium and measures from 6.4–6.5μ in diameter. The nucleus of the zoosporangium divides up into four or eight parts, and around each, a small mass of cytoplasm collects. The wall of the zoosporangium, which is quite thin, collapses, and the zoospores escape. Each zoospore is a spindle-shaped body 1–1.5μ in length and from 0.5–0.7μ in diameter. After escaping from the zoosporangium, these zoospores fuse in pairs. This fusion may either take place in the root-hair or the individuals may migrate into the cells of the cortex, and fusion may occur there.\n\nin soil.\n\nIn haste time.\n\n9\n\nIn cont...\n\ne\n\nThe Life-cycle of a typical member of the Plasmodiophoraceae.\n\na. Spore, b. emergence of swarm spore, c. mature swarm spore, d. conjugation of swarm spores, e. uninucleate amoeba, g. growth of plasmodium, h. stage of nuclear disorganisation prior to spore formation, j.–l. nuclear divisions prior to spore formation, l. a mass of mature spores. Stages a–c take place in the soil, d–e in root-hairs, and j–l in the host tissue.\n\nIn all the other species where the infection stages have been followed, the swarm spores themselves fuse in pairs outside the host, and a zygote swarm spore enters either through a root-hair or some other part and immediately makes its way into the parenchyma. Here it grows and may fragment into a number of parts or schizonts, which migrate by amoeboid motion and infect other neighbouring cells. These all develop into multinucleated amoeba or plasmodia, see Text figure 1. It is only in Plasmodiophora Brassicae that the formation of zoosporangia from the swarm spores has been recorded.\n\nSupplement No. 1, 1932.\n\n113\n\nPage 113\n\n \n\nPage 113 \n\nSupplement No. 1, 1932 \n\nwas not needed so removed. Rest kept as is to follow rule 5 and 13. The text was reordered and reformatted according to the rules provided, with corrections made for spelling, spacing, and Markdown formatting. The original page numbering and supplement information were preserved as per the instructions. The final output is in HTML format using  for paragraphs.",
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        "content_text": "212\n\nR. B. JACKSON\n\nIf\n\nThe wings of the Anopheline are usually ornamented with light and dark markings, but one of the local Anophelines A. aitkeni has plain wings like a Culicine. Its larvæ are found in shady pools in the hill streams. If the antennæ of this mosquito are examined, the sex can be determined and the nature of the palps will indicate that it is an Anopheline; the resting position will also confirm this. A Culicine with spotted wings exists in Hong Kong, it is called Culex mimeticus; from its resting position, it can be seen that it is not an Anopheline, which can be further verified by examination of the antenna and palps, and the fact that the abdomen has pale cross bands. No Anopheline with banded abdomen exists in the Colony.\n\nAnopheline mosquito\n\nCulicine mosquito\n\nDiagrams of Resting positions.\n\nMales of C. fatigans whilst resting on a mosquito curtain somewhat resemble Anophelines in their posture and appearance, but the banded abdomen will indicate that they are not Anophelines, as well as an examination of the palps and proboscis.\n\nApart from the diseases which they carry, mosquitoes can cause serious nuisance as biting pests. Neighbouring unoccupied houses are fruitful sources of breeding if they are not properly looked after, also houses in process of erection or demolition on account of the careless habits of the workmen engaged on the task. Such breeding places have already been indicated. In dealing with a mosquito nuisance, numerous samples of the offending insects should be captured in test tubes, or appliances for the purpose. Investigations should be made of all likely collections of water in the neighbourhood, and when the larva are obtained, they should be hatched out, and a comparison made between the mosquitoes thus obtained and those already caught; this will serve as an indication as to whether we are on the right track or not, as a good many kinds of mosquitoes either do not enter houses at all or else so infrequently that they do not constitute a nuisance. For all hatching out purposes, a sieve such as is used for sifting rice, flour, etc., can be obtained at trifling cost. The side opposite the gauze should be covered with a piece of mosquito netting: a hole is then made with an auger in the woodwork of the sieve so as to enable the neck of a bottle (beer?) just to pass through. The bottle should be thoroughly cleaned, and the larva with the corresponding water introduced. It is then passed through the hole in the sieve. Such mosquitoes as hatch out fly up from the bottle into the sieve and cannot escape. The bottle should stand in a saucer of water so that ants cannot make their way to the imprisoned mosquitoes.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nA Brief Account of Mosquitoes\n\n213\n\nYellow fever, formerly the scourge of the West Indies and South America, is carried by a mosquito. In Hong Kong, the following diseases are transmitted by these insects: Malaria, human filariasis, canine filariasis, and dengue fever.\n\nIn the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, certain bodies known as malarial parasites are found in the red blood corpuscles; these parasites are either asexual or sexual. The asexual parasites split up (after attaining full growth) into groups of smaller parasites, which in turn enter a fresh red blood corpuscle and continue the cycle. If there were only asexual parasites, then these would die when their host died. The asexual parasites, when present in sufficient numbers, cause fever, but another form of the parasite is found in the blood — sexual parasites. When the Anopheline imbibes the blood of a person containing such parasites in sufficient numbers and proportions, the male and female unite in the stomach of the mosquito and result in the formation of little cysts which grow out from the stomach wall. In their early stages, grains of pigment are found in these cysts; as the cysts grow larger, the pigment is not so obvious: the cyst wall gets thicker, and the cyst becomes full of little spindle-shaped bodies called sporozoites. In time, the cyst wall bursts, the sporozoites are liberated, and the majority make their way into the salivary glands of the insect. The cysts and sporozoites can only be seen with high powers of a good microscope. In some stomachs, when twenty to twenty-five cysts have been observed, in others one or two. An infected mosquito sucks the blood of a person; these sporozoites make their way from the salivary glands into the wound and infect him or her with malaria.\n\nIn Hong Kong, the Anopheline larvæ most frequently encountered are those of A. maculatus, A. minimus, A. hyrcanus; those of A. maculatus being by far the most numerous and readily obtainable at all times. This is not the case with the larva of Anopheles minimus, which recent researches made in the Malaria Bureau, Hong Kong, have shown to be a most dangerous mosquito.\n\nIn order to ascertain which are the dangerous species, it is necessary to capture them from a place where malaria abounds, bring the catch to the Laboratory, and examine them for infection. The mosquitoes are killed with chloroform, and the salivary glands and stomach dissected out. The salivary glands are examined for the sporozoites (already mentioned), and the stomach for cysts.\n\nThe habits of Anophelines vary considerably; some species, after partaking of a hearty blood meal, do not tarry but take their departure; others remain in the building after feeding, such as A. minimus, which can be caught in the day time in a certain type of habitation close to their breeding grounds. The following device is in use for obtaining nocturnal visitors: a man sleeps in a room on a camp bed provided with a mosquito net; outside this is a large mosquito net supported on four poles fitting into large wooden discs. The large mosquito net is provided with openings which can be closed by flaps; the flaps are left open, and the catcher withdraws to the shelter of the camp bed and its net. From time to time, he gets up, lets down the flaps...\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n198\n\nPage 140\n\nPage 141\n\n199",
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        "content_text": "[ 117 ]\n\nARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS ON LAMMA ISLAND\n\n(H) NEAR HONG KONG.\n\nPART IX.\n\nBy D. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nWhat has already been published by Professor Shellshear (24) and in the H.K.N. series of articles is enough to give an adequate idea of the prehistorical material found around Hong Kong in general and on Lamma in particular. The Naturalist series so far has kept within the Neolithic and Bronze Age aspects of the Lamma finds, because these are the prevailing features there and it was actually a long time before the presence of older types was noted. Professor Shellshear and Dr. Heanley had come to recognise the existence of such elements in their surface finds elsewhere and these were published in the Hanoi paper (24) p. 67, Plates VII, VIII (5, 6). In rounding off by this publication the important features of the Lamma finds, I wish to keep mostly to the Tai Wan and HSY material and to treat this peculiar \"epimiolithic\" evidence merely in an introductory fashion: it is of great importance and a proper discussion of it is hardly possible as yet and would in any case involve the illustration of other sites and material: I hope to describe later some other sites in quick survey and then the question will come up again. After this present part, we shall be concerned with Tai Wan mainly only by way of amplification or special detail.\n\nThe material to be described here does not admit of as much illustration by parallels from other sites outside the Hong Kong area as did the bulk of the things already treated above; it consists, first, of some objects whose use and even fabrication are obscure-they are perhaps fabricators themselves; secondly, of the types of polishing stones (briefly indicated, for the material is very rich and hard to publish); thirdly, of the \"epimioliths\" and finally of some implements very significant for the character of the Lamma culture (spindle-whorls and fish-hook).\n\nSTONE-WORKING IMPLEMENTS (POLISHERS)?\n\nThis is the type of thing illustrated in Plate 11. The specimens come from Tai Wan except for the piece E which seems obviously to be a piece in readiness to make an article of the type, Plate 11 D: this “blank\" comes from HSY (picked up loose). Material and finish (if one can so describe what seems rather to be smoothened surfaces consequent on use) suggest that these objects belong to the type of tools used by workers in stone, analogous to the saws (or files) published in H.K.N. VI, p. 59, Plate 6. The material of these as far we know them is softer than that of the saws: it is of the ash, shale or softer sandstone kind.\n\nThe first piece Plate 11, A was found at 27ins. resting on top of a short pestle-like stone: this latter kind of thing has turned up frequently on our sites here and seems to have been either a percussion implement or a whet-stone (usually the ends show signs of hammering, often with big fractures, but the sides sometimes seem polished): the collocation looks like that of tools such as we shall have to note below for other specimens. This piece is of a greyish-blue. The shape is roughly like that of the saws\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n47",
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        "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nVol. VI, No. 2.\n\nPlate 11. A-D. Stone Implements of uncertain meaning, perhaps polishing tools. E is a rough blank closely related to D in form. D and E seem to be of the \"hache courte\" type (see text). G is a polishing tool of sandstone. D, E, G found in a clump with neolithic step-axes. R is a bronze fishing-hook from HSY. X is a stone disk pierced: around lip of hole is a spindle-whorl \"cushion\" rim. Probably this is a ...\n\nScales in Cms.\n\nThe Scales on the right refer, in turn from the upper one, to figures D and E; B and C; G; X; R; A.\n\n27\n6\n49",
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        "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n125\n\nWe\n\nBut the specimen in figure K has a more puzzling context and condition. It comes from Tai Wan, from a section not counted in the 1933 excavation. It is from a kind of pocket amid rocks to the east of the clump of vegetation and the (sacred) tree which stands on the rocky knoll. The ground there is no longer the pure sliding sands of the main site but beneath the humus is lightly cemented together with minerals brought down by moisture from the upper layers. The sandy mass is about five feet deep over the rocks in this, one day when I visited the site with Mr. Schofield and Drs. Brock and Lees the geologists, I found by my own digging a most interesting collection of objects. These may be set forth here quickly, for the whole group is in the nature of a test case on which we have fortunately some of the best judgments that the scientific world may give on certain points. The section was about five feet wide with a face standing firm and clean about six feet measured down from the surface: at about five feet heavy boulders began: above that it was a sand concreted slightly with lime: the levels here as distinct from the rest of the Tai Wan site admit of much wash-down from the background.\n\nFound \"Double-F\" pottery at 40 ins. as described in H.K.N. III, p. 245. Related ware of I.d. ii type at 49 ins. (cp. ib. pp. 232, 245). The \"Chou\" type of ware (white rough developed from corded ware with bronze influence on pattern), illustrated in H.K.N. IV, Plate XIV, No. 6, p. 64: this was at about 50 ins. At the same level and quite close, four pieces of bronze of uncertain use, very corroded so that they were cracked as if made of perished leather: Mr. Simpson suggests that one piece with a curved point (like the nail-extractor on the old-fashioned Sheffield combination pocket-knives or, the Chinese so-called \"knot-openers\") may be a tool for trimming a clay mould before casting bronze: two pieces might possibly be bits of a runner from a mould: the other two are of about the thickness of an ordinary pencil but almost square in section: one surface is very flat being probably the top level of the liquid metal: they seem originally to have made one stick about 80 mm. in length of which the curved tip comes to a scraping edge. Close by these was a bronze coin of the usual cash type, obviously of an old date: it is so worn that it is not worth reproducing: the British Museum Coin Room to whom it was submitted gave as their opinion of its date:-\"PROBABLY c. I CENTURY A.D.\" The coin was not contained in any object and thus we have the alternative of dating the rest by the contiguity of the coin (later than the coin?) or else of regarding the coin as a later intruder: the second solution is suggested by quite modern coins which here and there were found well below the surface in other parts of the site. Further, close to the bronzes were two pottery \"beads\" or, more probably, spindle whorls these are of rough pottery with a vague design of small holes arranged in horizontal zones: one end (polar) of each specimen has been cut into, in one case seemingly by a regular curved object. These things look very primitive, but Professor Beyer has found pieces of very similar type in one of his Early Iron Age sites on Luzon. A neighbouring part of Tai Wan gave very much better finished specimens of the same kind of object (but without decoration) from a corresponding level (about 4 feet).\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n56",
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        "content_text": "D. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nWe have however from HSY a different type of whorl which strangely resembles specimens from Troy (Hissarlik)(97) p. 353 in decoration, figure Q—and our S sites have given us many specimens of this type in corroboration; it has also been found at Ba-Xa in Indo China(98) Plate XIV: so that the actual use of these \"beads\" as whorls must be held an open question—they might be loom weights as we can argue from the pottery imprints that textiles were known here: this later use (or whorl-use) might explain the peculiarly fractured under-sides of our two specimens.\n\n3. cms.\n\nQ.\n\nQ. A spindle-whorl from HSY. With the section, a spindle has been drawn in section to suggest use. This specimen had a decoration of four tree-like branches as found on European Bronze Age whorls. The use of such whorls in Early Chinese Culture is shown by the upper wheel part of the character \n\nwith the idea of spinning as well as by the reference in the Book of Poetry to the \"pottery\" (sc, a pottery-whorl) given to baby girls as a play-thing and a presage of their future occupation.\n\nP.\n\nP. A loom-weight or spindle-whorl of pottery. Decoration of shallow holes in belts. Lower part broken.\n\nA stone disc with projecting rims to the central hole (Tai Wan) may be still another type of whorl, Plate 11, X].\n\nThe actual find of importance to which all this is a prelude was figure K. It is undoubtedly a worked stone in a palaeolithic tradition. The material seems to be a rhyolite with perhaps three different patinations, the most recent of which must be very old: it has produced a pale greenish to cream tone: it is clearest at the flaked tip and the flaked edge to the left of figure. An older patina with a little more of a light yellow-red covers the other flaked (or cleavage faces) as on the rest of figure, except for projecting surfaces which preserve the third or oldest patina on the\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.",
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        "content_text": "162\n\n104\n\nHead 28. SECRETARIAT FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS\n\nHead 29. STORES DEPARTMENT\n\n105\n\nHead 28. SECRETARIAT FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS\n\nSub-heads:-\n\nI Personal Emoluments\n\n2 Conveyance Allowances\n\n3 Electric Fans and Light\n\n4 Incidental Expenses\n\n5 Library\n\n6 Rent of Public Telephone........\n\n7 Transport\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\nOther Charges.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nHead 29. STORES DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-head :-\n\nApproved Estimate, 1988.\n\nEstimate, 1989.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n141,867\n\n121,183\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n125,651\n\n600\n\n780\n\n(1)\n\n1,600\n\n1,400 (2)\n\nOther Charges.\n\n1,100\n\n1,000 (2)\n\n150\n\n200\n\nA-General.\n\n117\n\n117\n\n(4)\n\n660\n\n660\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n4,227\n\n4,157\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n8 One Typewriter....\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n\n146,094\n\n313\n\n(5)\n\n9 Stationery\n\n10 Telegrams\n\n318\n\n125,653\n\n2 Conveyance Allowances\n\n3 Electric Fans and Light\n\n4 Firewood (all departments)\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n6 Losses and Depreciation of Stores\n\n7 Maintenance of Museum Exhibits\n\n8 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n11 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\n12 Transport of Stores\n\n13 Uniforms\n\n2,250\n\n450\n\n3,500\n\n700\n\n500\n\n250 (1)\n\n120\n\n30,000\n\n600\n\n750\n\n5,000\n\n200\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1939\n\n1989\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n1\n\n1\n\nCadet Officer Class I, (£1,800)\n\n28,800\n\n28,800\n\n1\n\nDo..\n\n(£1,500 to £1,800 by £50 annually)\n\n24,959\n\n(6)\n\n2\n\n2\n\nCadet Officer Class II, (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50, 1 of £75, 1 of £100, and 11 of £50) Lady Assistant, (£360 to £700 by £20 annually)\n\n23,712\n\n24,637\n\n(7)\n\n5,760\n\n5,947\n\n(7)\n\n}\n\nI\n\nJunior Clerical Service\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n2\n\n3\n\n2\n\n1\n\n4\n\n3\n\nClass V, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually).\n\nClass I, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually),\n\nClass II, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n\nClass III, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) Class IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n\nDo.. Shorthand Allowance to I\n\n4,082\n\n4,282\n\n3,154\n\n6,125\n\n(x)\n\n7,475\n\n5,075 (9)\n\n5,484\n\n1,600 (10) 4,184\n\n(11)\n\n(7)\n\nB--Furniture.\n\n14 Conveyance Allowances......\n\n15 Electric Fans, Light and Power\n\n16 Maintenance of Equipment\n\n17 Furniture (all departments)\n\n18 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\nC-Sand Monopoly.\n\n19 Conveyance Allowance\n\n20 Electric Fans and Light\n\n22 Purchase of Sand\n\n29 Rent of Public Telephone\n\n24 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\nD-Unallocated Stores.\n\n240\n\n600\n\n2,000\n\n(1)\n\n37,000\n\n400\n\n21 Maintenance of Equipment\n\n720\n\n50\n\n(0)\n\n500\n\n100,000\n\n(6)\n\n80\n\n250\n\n(I)\n\n60\n\n60\n\n2\n\n3\n\nClass VIA, ($950 to $1,050 by $100 annually)\n\n2,100\n\n3,150\n\n(12)\n\n5\n\n4\n\nClass VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, I of $160, 25 Purchase, Freight and Other Charges\n\nDeduct Value of Stores to be issued to other sub-heads and Services\n\n1,500,000\n\n1,500,000\n\n(6)\n\n3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n\n5,124\n\n4,200 (13)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nChinese Assistant, ($3,500 to $5,600 by 5 of $200, 1 of $300 and 4 of $200)\n\n5,600\n\n5,600\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n186,190\n\n1\n\n1\n\nInspector of Mui-tsai, (£475 to £533 by £20 annually)\n\n8,560\n\n8,560\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nDo..\n\nLanguage Allowance\n\n180\n\n180\n\n2\n\n2\n\nFemale Inspectors for Mui-tsai Work, at $1,800 each.\n\n3,600\n\n3,600\n\n3\n\n3\n\nFemale Inspectors,($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n\n3,600\n\n3,843\n\n(7)\n\n1\n\nClass III Writer and Censor, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n\n2,458\n\n2,558\n\n(7)\n\n4\n\n+\n\nPress Censors, (1 at $1,440, 1 at $1,200, 1 at $1,080 and 1 at $864)\n\n4,584\n\n4,594\n\n2\n\n2\n\nOffice Attendants, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)\n\n552\n\n552\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances at $48 each......\n\n96\n\n93\n\nNUMBERS\n\n2\n\n2\n\nI\n\nOffice Attendants, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n\nDo.\n\nRent Allowances at £48 each......\n\n412\n\n423\n\n(7)\n\nૐ\n\n96\n\n96\n\n2\n\n2\n\nMessengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\n408\n\n408\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances to 1 at $48 and 1 at $21\n\n72\n\n72\n\n1\n\n26 One Tenoning attachment for Spindle Moulder\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\n1938\n\n1939\n\nTotal Stores Department\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nL-General Staff:\n\nController of Stores, (£900 to £1050 by £30 annually).\n\n400\n\n400\n\n312,241\n\n15,160\n\n3\n\n3\n\nCoolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\n531\n\n543\n\n(7)\n\nDo.\n\n;\n\nDo Rent Allowances at $24 each\n\n72\n\n72\n\nDo.\n\nPersonal Allowance at £100....... Residential Allowance at £50\n\n1,600\n\n(7)\n\n800\n\n2\n\n2\n\nPress Censorship Coolies, (1 at $216 and 1 at $120).. Acting Pay\n\n336\n\n336\n\n1\n\nStorekeeper, (£460 to £640 by £20 annually).....\n\n10,240\n\n(8)\n\n1,600\n\n(8)\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\n141,867\n\n121,183\n\n1\n\nAssistant Storekeeper, (£310 to £430 by 4 of £10, 1 of £20 and 4 of £15 annually)...\n\nInspector of Stores, (£440 to £575 by 1 of £15 and 6 of £20 annually)\n\n(9)\n\n7,201\n\n(10)\n\nCarried forward\n\n35,00\n\n(1) Allowance to Lady Assistant provided.\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(3) Considered necessary.\n\n(4) For Inspector of Mui Tsai.\n\n(5) Required for Lady Assistant's Office.\n\n(6) Transferred to Head 2, 0.8.0.\n\n(7) Stipulated increments.\n\n(8) One promoted from Class III.\n\n(9) One promoted to Class II.\n\n(10) Promoted from Class V.\n\n(11) One promoted to Class IV.\n\n(12) One promoted from Class VIB.\n\n(13) One promoted to Class VIA.\n\n(1) Formerly under Public Works Department.\n\n(2) New item.\n\n(3) All departments except Prisons, formerly under Head 18, Miscellaneous Services.\n\n(4) Formerly under Head 18, Miscellaneous Services.\n\n(5) New item. 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        "content_text": "# Head 29.-STORES DEPARTMENT\n\n993\n\n105\n\nApproved Estimate, 1988.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n# Head 29.-STORES DEPARTMENT\n\n## Sub-head :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n125,651\n\n## Other Charges.\n\n### A-General.\n\n2 Conveyance Allowances\n\n3 Electric Fans and Light\n\n4 Firewood (all departments)\n\n5 Incidental Expenses\n\n6 Losses and Depreciation of Stores\n\n7 Maintenance of Museum Exhibits\n\n8 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n9 Stationery\n\n10 Telegrams\n\n11 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\n12 Transport of Stores\n\n13 Uniforms\n\n2,280\n\n450 (1)\n\n3,500 (2)\n\n700\n\n500\n\n250 (1)\n\n120\n\n30,000 (3)\n\n600\n\n750\n\n5,000\n\n### B-Furniture.\n\n14 Conveyance Allowances.....\n\n15 Electric Fans, Light and Power\n\n16 Maintenance of Equipment\n\n17 Furniture (all departments)\n\n18 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\n200 (1)\n\n240\n\n600\n\n2,000\n\n### C-Sand Monopoly.\n\n19 Conveyance Allowance\n\n20 Electric Fans and Light\n\n21 Maintenance of Equipment\n\n22 Purchase of Sand\n\n23 Rent of Public Telephone\n\n24 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\n37,000\n\n400\n\n720 (1)\n\n50 (1)\n\n500\n\n100,000\n\n80\n\n250 (1)\n\n### D-Unallocated Stores.\n\n25 Purchase, Freight and Other Charges\n\n1,500,000\n\nDeduct Value of Stores to be issued to other sub-heads and Services\n\n1,500,000\n\n## Total Other Charges\n\n## Special Expenditure.\n\n26 One Tenoning attachment for Spindle Moulder\n\n## NUMBERS\n\n1938\n\n1939\n\n## Total Special Expenditure\n\n## Total Stores Department\n\n186,190\n\n400\n\n400\n\n15,160\n\n312,241\n\n1,600 (7)\n\n800\n\n10,240 (8)\n\nX (1)\n\n(9)\n\n7,201\n\n35,001 (10)\n\n(1) Formerly under Public Works Department.\n\n(2) New item.\n\n(3) All departments except Prisons, formerly under Head 18, Miscellaneous Services.\n\n(4) Formerly under Head 18, Miscellaneous Services.\n\n(5) New item. Formerly charged to Various Votes.\n\n(6) New item. Sessional Paper No. 9 of 1938.\n\n(7) Title changed from Supt. of Accounts and Stores and salary scale revised.\n\n(8) Title changed from Assistant Storekeeper.\n\n(9) Post abolished.\n\n(10) Salary scale revised.\n\n## Personal Emoluments.\n\n## Details of the foregoing.\n\nI.-General Staff:\n\nController of Stores, (£900 to £1050 by £30 annually)\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nPersonal Allowance at £100.....\n\nResidential Allowance at £50\n\nStorekeeper, (£460 to £640 by £20 annually)..\n\nAssistant Storekeeper, (£310 to £430 by 4 of £10, 1 of £20 and 4 of £15 annually)...................\n\nInspector of Stores, (£440 to £575 by 1 of £15 and 6 of £20 annually)\n\nCarried forward",
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        "content_text": "Head 30. Treasury, Etc.\n\nEstimates, 1989 Estimates, 1988\n\n  \n    \n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    Personal Emoluments\n    135,644\n    186,190\n  \n  \n    Other Charges\n    9,993\n    \n  \n  \n    Special Expenditure\n    400\n    9,993\n  \n  \n    Total\n    322,284\n    \n  \n  \n    Deduct Decrease\n    9,993\n    \n  \n  \n    Net Increase\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    312,241\n    312,241\n  \n\nHead 31.—Public Works Extraordinary.\n\nEstimates, 1939 Estimates, 1938\n\n  \n    \n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    Personal Emoluments\n    47,488\n    94,126\n  \n  \n    Other Charges\n    1,620\n    3,551\n  \n  \n    Special Expenditure\n    50,850\n    12,140\n  \n  \n    Total\n    109,817\n    \n  \n  \n    Deduct Increase\n    50,850\n    \n  \n  \n    Net Decrease\n    58,967\n    \n  \n  \n    Estimates, 1939\n    322,001\n    263,934\n  \n  \n    Decrease, 1939\n    58,967\n    \n  \n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n  \n    Sub-head.\n    $\n  \n  \n    Stipulated Increments\n    7,297\n  \n  \n    Transferred from Other Heads\n    11,471\n  \n  \n    Changes in Personnel\n    2,306\n  \n  \n    Transferred to Other Heads\n    91,820\n  \n  \n    New Posts\n    28,720\n  \n  \n    Total\n    47,488\n  \n  \n    Total\n    94,126\n  \n\nOther Charges.\n\n  \n    Sub-head.\n    $\n  \n  \n    7 Transport\n    720\n  \n  \n    8 Upkeep and Maintenance of Accounting Equipment\n    900\n  \n  \n    2 Conveyance Allowances\n    \n  \n  \n    4 Incidental Expenses\n    \n  \n  \n    5 Rent of Public Telephones\n    \n  \n  \n    6 Stamps\n    1,620\n  \n  \n    Total\n    1,620\n  \n  \n    \n    3,551\n  \n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n  \n    Sub-head.\n    $\n  \n  \n    10 Alterations to Cash Registers\n    328\n  \n  \n    11 One Typewriter\n    100\n  \n  \n    Equipment for Addressograph, etc.\n    123\n  \n  \n    One Tenoning attachment for Spindle Moulder\n    ...\n  \n  \n    One New Cash Register and Equipment, etc.\n    1,400\n  \n  \n    \n    342\n  \n  \n    \n    1,140\n  \n  \n    \n    11,000\n  \n  \n    Total\n    1,742\n  \n  \n    Total\n    12,140\n  \n\nPage 346",
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        "content_text": "# Head 27. SECRETARIAT FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS AND LABOUR OFFICE\n## Approved Estimate, 1940-41\n## Estimate, 1939\n\n|  | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **A – General** |  |  |\n| 1 Personal Emoluments | 87,286 |  |\n| 2 Conveyance Allowances | 2,280 | 2,400 |\n| 3 Electric Fans, Light and Gas | 450 | 1,300 |\n| 4 Firewood (all departments) | 3,500 | 4,500 |\n| 5 Incidental Expenses | 700 | 1,000 |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 4,785 |  |\n| 6 Losses and Depreciation of Stores | 500 | 500 |\n| 7 Maintenance of Museum Exhibits | 250 | 300 |\n| 8 Maintenance of Stores | 600 |  |\n| 9 Rent of Public Telephones | 120 |  |\n| 10 Stationery | 300 | 600 |\n| 11 Telegrams | 50 | 300 |\n| 12 Transport and Travelling Expenses | 750 | 500 |\n| 13 Transport of Stores |  | 5,000 |\n| 14 Uniforms | 200 | 1,000 |\n| **Special Expenditure** |  |  |\n| One Typewriter | 360 |  |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | 360 |  |\n| **Total B.-Labour Office** | 92,431 |  |\n\n## B. LABOUR OFFICE\n### Sub-heads\n|  | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 15 Conveyance Allowances | 240 | 130 |\n| 16 Electric Fans, Light and Power | 600 | 2,000 |\n| 17 Maintenance of Equipment |  | 37,000 |\n| 18 Furniture (all departments) | 400 | 900 |\n| 19 Transport and Travelling Expenses |  | 2,500 |\n| **C-Sand Monopoly** |  |  |\n| 20 Collection and Storage of Sand | 100,000 | 150,000 |\n| 21 Electric Fans and Light | 50 | 50 |\n| 22 Maintenance of Depots at Tai Lam Chung-Gin Drinkers Bay | 600 |  |\n| 23 Maintenance of Equipment | 500 | 600 |\n| 24 Transport and Travelling Expenses | 2.50 | 1,200 |\n| 25 Uniform for Watchmen |  | 150 |\n| **D-Unallocated Stores** |  |  |\n| 26 Purchase, Freight and Other Charges | 2,500,000 |  |\n| Deduct Value of Stores to be issued to other sub-heads and Services | 2,500,000 |  |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 186,190 | 275,300 |\n| **Special Expenditure** |  |  |\n| 27 Control Int at Tai Lam Chang-Gin Drinkers Bay |  | 6,100 |\n| 28 One Drilling Machine | 3,500 | 600 |\n| 29 Loose Leaf Binders | 500 |  |\n| 30 One Typewriter |  | 400 |\n| One Tannning attachment for Spindle Moulder |  | 400 |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | 360 | 400 |\n\n## Details of the foregoing\n### Personal Emoluments\n|  | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Cadet Officer Class I, *(£1,450 to £1,600 by £50 annually)* |  | 30,271 |\n| Cadet Officer Class II, †(£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50, 1 of £75, 1 of £100 and 11 of £50) |  | 14,235 |\n| Chief Labour Inspector *(£475 to £575 by £20 annually)* | 11,500 |  |\n| Labour Inspectors,* (£260 to £430 by 9 of £10, 1 of £20 and 4 of £15) | 13,840 |  |\n| Chinese Labour Inspectors, Probationers ($1,200 to $1,500 by $100 annually) | 3,050 |  |\n| Female Labour Inspectors, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually) |  | 6,100 |\n| Junior Clerical Service: |  |  |\n| Class IV, (1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 2,250 |  |\n| Class V ($1,100 to 1,400 by $100 annually) | 3,295 |  |\n| Class VIB ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 1,230 |  |\n| Office Attendants ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially) | 480 |  |\n| Messenger ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) |  | 120 |\n| Coolies ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 390 |  |\n| Rent Allowances at $48 each | 120 | 60 |\n\n### Details of the foregoing\n#### I.-General Staff:\n|  | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | 15,160 | 20,667 |\n|  | 1,600 | 2,000 |\n|  | 800 | 1,317 |\n| 1 | 10,240 | 12,800 |\n|  | 7,286 |  |\n| Inspector of Stores,* (£440 to £575 by 1 of £15 and 6 of £20 annually)* | 7,201 | 9,394 |\n| Controller of Stores, (£900 to £1050 by £50 annually) |  |  |\n| Personal Allowance at £100 |  |  |\n| Residential Allowance |  |  |\n| Storekeeper,* (£460 to £640 by £20 annually)* |  |  |\n\nPage 160\nPage 161\n\n# Head 28. STORES DEPARTMENT\n## Approved Estimate, 1930\n## Estimate, 1940-41\n\n|  | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 125,511 | 168,631 |\n| **Total Stores Department** | 312,241 | 448,894 |\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n(2) Considered necessary.\n(3) New posts.\n(4) One transferred from C-Sand Monopoly, to A-General,\n(5) More travelling by Inspector of Furniture.\n(6) Expansion of Service.\n(7) Includes provision for Conveyance allowances previously made under a separate Sub-head.\n(8) Provision made under Sub-head 24,\n(9) Replacement.\n(10) Non-recurrent,\n(11) Revised scale of salary.\n(12) Stipulated increments.\n\nPage 180\n181",
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        "content_text": "COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1939\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n29. STORES DEPARTMENT.\n\nSub-heads:\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\nProvisionally Voted.\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\n  \n    $\n    $\n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    35,492,813\n    35,186,371.07\n    2,988,237.25\n    3,294,679.18\n  \n  \n    4,543,247.00\n  \n\nA.-General.\n\n  \n    1 Personal Emoluments\n    125,651\n    182,705.39\n    \n    7,054.89\n  \n  \n    2 Conveyance Allowances\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 Electric Fans and Light\n    2,280\n    450\n    1,680.60\n    599.40\n  \n  \n    4 Firewood (all departments)\n    3,500\n    3,492.21\n    \n    7.79\n  \n  \n    5 Incidental Expenses\n    700\n    758.54\n    58.54\n    \n  \n  \n    6 Losses and Depreciation of Stores\n    500\n    493.29\n    \n    6.71\n  \n  \n    7 Maintenance of Museum Exhibits\n    250\n    3,619.52\n    3,369.52\n    \n  \n  \n    8 Rent of Public Telephones\n    120\n    117.00\n    \n    3.00\n  \n  \n    9 Stationery\n    30,000\n    39,692.33\n    9,692.33\n    \n  \n  \n    10 Telegrams\n    600\n    385.31\n    \n    214.69\n  \n  \n    11 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n    750\n    547.79\n    \n    202.21\n  \n  \n    12 Transport of Stores\n    5,000\n    696.60\n    \n    4,303.40\n  \n  \n    13 Uniforms\n    200\n    199.77\n    \n    0.23\n  \n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\n  \n    Changes in personnel.\n    Lapsing allowances.\n    Under estimated.\n  \n  \n    Medical expenses for officer on leave.\n    Restoration of Chater collections.\n    Emergency services.\n  \n  \n    Use of air mail.\n    Over estimated.\n    Delay in completion of new premises.\n  \n\nB. Furniture.\n\n  \n    14 Conveyance Allowances\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15 Electric Fans, Light and Power\n    240\n    600\n    240.00\n    503.50\n  \n  \n    16 Maintenance of Equipment\n    2,000\n    \n    1,998.27\n    1.73\n  \n  \n    17 Furniture (all departments)\n    37,000\n    \n    47,688.64\n    \n  \n  \n    18 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n    400\n    \n    395.10\n    4.90\n  \n\nC-Sand Monopoly.\n\n  \n    19 Conveyance Allowances\n    \n    46.56\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    20 Electric Fans and Light\n    50\n    23.08\n    \n    26.92\n  \n  \n    21 Maintenance of Equipment\n    500\n    486.29\n    \n    13.71\n  \n  \n    22 Purchase of Sand\n    100,000\n    186,881.57\n    86,381.57\n    \n  \n  \n    23 Rent of Public Telephone\n    80\n    34.66\n    \n    45.34\n  \n  \n    24 Transport and Travelling Expenses\n    250\n    540.24\n    290.24\n    \n  \n  \n    24A Care and Maintenance, Shing Mun\n    \n    1,198.30\n    1,198.30\n    \n  \n  \n    Construction Surplus Plant\n    1,200.00\n    \n    \n    1,200.00\n  \n\nD.-Unallocated Stores.\n\n  \n    25 Purchase, Freight and Other Charges\n    1,500,000\n    1,500,000\n    \n    \n  \n\nCar allocated for services in place of Travelling Allowances (see S.H. 24).\n\nUpkeep and maintenance of Car for Sand Monopoly (see S.H. 19).\n\nPreviously charged to 34% Dollar Loan Account.\n\n270,836.00\n\nCost of stores sold and credited to Revenue; increase in stock.\n\nDeduct Value of Stores to be issued to other sub-heads and Services\n\n270,835.04\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n  \n    26 One Tenoning attachment for Spindle Moulder\n    400\n    410.72\n    10.72\n    \n  \n\nTotal Stores Department\n\n812,241\n\n696,213.06\n\n390,172.03\n\n6,199.97\n\nLess Decrease\n\n383,972.06\n\n6,199.97\n\nIncrease\n\n448,957.00\n\nCarried forward\n\n  \n    35,805,054\n    35,882,584.13\n    3,378,409.28\n    3,800,879.15\n  \n  \n    4,992,204.00\n  \n\nPage 95",
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        "document_key": "CO129-611-1 Hong Kong Electric & China Light & Power Company Ltd. 1-12-1945 - 2-5-1947",
        "page_number": 60,
        "title": "CO129-611-1 Hong Kong Electric & China Light & Power Company Ltd. 1-12-1945 - 2-5-1947",
        "content_text": "2\n\n60\n\ncommercial condition. required.\n\nNormal maintenance and repairs are\n\nNo.4 Turbo Set: This set has been removed by the Japanese. It would be a decided advantage to the security of the Station if the set could be installed, but so far only part of the set has been located. The Company does not wish that the re-installation of this machine should be considered as a Government liability.\n\nNo.3 Turbo Set:\n\nNo.2 Turbo Set:\n\nSomewhat similar remarks apply.\n\nAlthough this set has not yet been opened up, it has been, and is being, used extensively to meet the present demand. The machine runs well and although there is no sign of serious trouble, it is probable that when opened up, several stages of blading and diaphragms will require renewal, if the condition of No.1 set, which is at present being overhauled, is any criterion. Although both of these sets which have the same capacity have been used to meet the demand, in preference to No.6 for the reasons stated above, they cannot both be considered as essential to meet the load envisaged by next March.\n\nNo.1 Turbo Set: This machine is at present being overhauled. Five rows of blading on the rotor should be replaced, together with four complete diaphragms, and other miscellaneous small parts for the governor gear, valve spindles, extraction pump glands and shaft.\n\n6.\n\nD.C. Auxiliary Turbo Set No.2. This set is apparently in reasonable condition, with the exception of one auxiliary motor which is at present being overhauled. The condensing plant for this set is common to a similar set which has been removed by the Japanese, but which has been located, and will be re-installed as time and circumstance permit. The latter is a Company's liability.\n\nD.C. Auxiliary Turbo Set No.1: This set is covered by the observations above.\n\nMotor Generator Set: This set is apparently in reasonable condition, only normal running spares and maintenance need be anticipated.\n\n7.\n\nNo.1 Frequency Changer Set: and overhauled as found necessary. state of repair, only normal spares anticipated.\n\n8.\n\nNo.2 Frequency Changer Set:\n\nThis set has been examined It is now in a reasonable and maintenance need be\n\nSimilar observations apply.\n\nFeed Water System: The feed water system is generally in reasonable condition, the various components have been overhauled as necessary, and the number of pumps available is adequate. Normal maintenance and repair is all that need be anticipated.\n\n9.\n\nBoilers:\n\nNo.13 Boiler: This boiler has not yet been erected. Approximate 35% of the structural steelwork is on site, the balance having disappeared since the surrender of the Colony. Of the boiler itself, a number of component parts are on site. The rear boiler drum has suffered severe damage, apparently due to being partially filled with salt water. This is not a Government liability.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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