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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]",
        "page_number": 324,
        "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "27\n\nMina to pag-did not give him so understand that I was scale he was not going away.\n\n\"Gerard by Belles,\n\nhey thos\n\nmen de finally\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\nMare. I saw the birth and tenth priscacs n board the ma-ter of Alluny's business. I said that if he diwas paid. He owed about 15,000-partly for four others of the Badly on the passage they overmied Chim several tens of dollars or a badrcil. I made tud Thistle. I believe 300 is due on the promissory only when in sight of the Prais Chande, but I see not press the business, I would set my shop, and gipartly prouissory notes for hire of the same s in the sb, the dotresites and his father and brolis fore-entia. Esing empradore i busrd, offer entirely en\n\nAl sets the Insitus in the reta:) shoe it thit 100 songst the prisoners; i dones know fleiri en Day of Abluto's funt's in the subject our abacush previous, I selit li 16 dags of 2013, vwn responsibility, I have uotes, oud the rest for flour which I sappiled about one\n\nench did not suspect that be was going to icare The Cowel sentence the last wires to six sunthu' in Island, until he had left he promissory nets fril I did not reate there. Ithak, plize abent 9. Ablam said he had very important business 11\n\ndue on the 5th January, it was drawn about four au to 400 peple, awue tints are at leasecord-\n\nDOUGELY LAPIAIN-I Bougkeng and an sked the Caplaid to lake the steam-auner is his father, the fat is n entiers of Bility stay-drawn on the sue date. Titis witness gir ing the goator of the bread prutace- did or back to Hongking The Capris said he contal thians. The R-sing firm had two establishment. his evidence un eros, examination very reluctantly, the perintend the aging of the bread-Bones 1 do it. Ahlus said i had very supertant business kenw the retail shop Ablue is er or master, à Attorney Generell its ceply said har to drag it hat two Evropen forthes and some Chinese bakere, Hongkong, in answer to the Captain, who asked him father superinters the shop ustness, I am not aware, out by air force.) Ponais e Change arman; and somariose de why he was a hurry to go back, kala conversation thing berst up and there was no korvan a alt. My with: Ablam soos after. I said the wul that was pur-bread of him on 15th and was aude sick by it\n\nkhus share. Inta a customer of -sing broug Boris magh the Chinese how to make broal,\n\nYKONG Kwa Sow, -1 cu a builder. I have three chase. this morning from your shop male every and the mechanic part of the baking was done hair very sick; he replid, that was the resou hetou for the Port of Steamers Between & and monthly for an indefinute period. He asked me to wake by Cal-sc. 1 csider the bakery is worth 100,\n\nA Ben was Agent for Mr. Murrow in Choses beland theEing batery. I am sequainted with\n\nAhlum--On the 19th January, I let the houses to Ahl elling the penis, ne more u tom de heto him, saying, that it was very probalde dat all the Pedders' wharf. I saw a boat passing in the entwan month each-3 months payable in odrame.\n\nwanted to get back to liongkong. I went u uslking to 7. I was in a small boat is the Labor, not fur ir ovens in this for him hakery. They were let a m E-sing ces was courly increasing, and tutely pee who eat his bread were sitt be left very met 9. Mang entirely supplies the Counissariat Hongkong the same day; and thou ke asked if the\n\ndirection and rocognised one man, Ablulu, on boa color tot wah £2,000, the maenines $3,00 Captan would take the reamer back the same eveniny fur\n\nI have been acquainted with him for about sendwall of the business, $1.600, and stock $3,000 on the $100. I said I did not know. ith Jary. I was in the Colony when she shops were thought of sis bastuces lie said it is a little thing which naked his was he\n\nyears. I had meen him on the 28th Dec. in the shop conversed with him; he recognised me the porter shot me in November. I don't know the forcuan of the litru ruerteciue will make all proper. This was ter\n\nwed. I called hic by Lame, I was 50 paces from him lakery tanne I know the name of the man that called the most active man, I know hitaas I have son\n\nbe offered Mr. Agabes and the Captain together $156 to\n\nhad an object in bailing him, it was to ascertain wheti ! him in the hipnoz doprtment; and know putting of the which they sit they could not do; and that it was seird the Steamer back to Hongkong that evening,\n\nsteaper was going to start for Macua. He made no bread department I know him to se ha most active better to wait until next morning. The fire was pub\n\nI strange at the time. in the bakery, The bay was being enlarged and snt inmediately me: we arrived in the inner harbour. pr wel in December last\n\nHe acele e isle anle ranga, The fast jure I wae Ahium on our was when! European not even Mr Morrow, bread bi ta commnunty, com say my so he dado ao was talking to the Captain; he then offered $59 if h\n\nbay ay lust, Wien ut the bakery business would tagg lúm kurie to: Fungkong that night; 15; Captin i present fur contes know Ahim, the last propaths ego. There is another promissory nofs due\n\nhat which was not the one I was accustomed in w balted him only once, Re evomized-it did not occurred to me that wy & would make Allum not recognize me.\n\nuf\n\nNo - a working haker, Long Ahoy la my master. He is the commissarrin haker-I am fere- man. Jang Ahoy does not superintend the Bakery, but leaves it entirely to me.\n\nCrossmined by the Attorney General,I a Ablum's friend-ne elution-no relation by earringe\n\nmonths' real was gaid on the 13th, in advance. One of the Jupes is still in my possession, the upper story is broken up for the purpose of buikling the ovens. I have given up possession, of the two others. There are now er to my bail and tumed away his head; I though ply four barrels in them. Cozamined by Dr. Bridges.---I was in a China be Toususamer å boy-woodenter at the sing he went in tow the parish steamer to the inner ba-beur,\n\nThe elame anised of the Praia Grande, and thesiliout a cover, I was denseed, mach na usul. I had ry, rocog med at the prisoners except the 31 pioner; they belonged to the Esing bakury on in and hatwe blom sad the Capturis soon after we got into Crained my Mr. Day heard nonversation Tak Ja mary. The 3 and 46 prisomes are brund the inner haroser; it took plñen en the deck spousite the Inkara\n\nCaptain's stock ruota. I could not go forward, the place Creamed by Mr. Day was captured with a burrianded, and all the Chinese passengers wore cleven others n the 15:1, January in the upper part of forend of tin harricade. I heard that sum of the F-ei the takery; the eleven were bleet kera. There were\n\nothers on the piers at the sime To S 6th and Chicae pese gers that pay $1, al Another that pay $2 family on tammi, were sick Tha ja one class of 8th prisoners were among these arrested. There were both are be rented out. The 12 passengers are in the no other perpen in the house than ise arvestat. We fore-cata; and t passengers down slow, forward. ram taken to the palice stacion. I was questioned by-sug and his family were in the cabin, and lus onder Mr. Mag together wet til uther eleven me. Thurs and ather Chines were an deck, the barriquis is were only guiva pesent us the time, We were al sent isun mal confica! by uncive. I do not szil al 's family had been sick, I saw no of the\n\ntaean the und the after part of the steamer. Alumif know Mickson, or Mr. Turner, or the detorney very sick an Serd, could not see the rest of his Gonerat, (who are pointed out to lika.) So one femily who wers in the in Ahlem said that he als spokann na about giving evidenon. I was brought was sick, he was not sick in my presence. I do not from the cell to the place below and brought up here,\n\n1. 31, RN, 1 was it from eating broad absinus sous-I do know them, of the bags w\n\nknow if these two boys, who werd very sick, wựn Al- from the B-sing shop, on the 15th January last, in pensei somuching like the 2nd prisoner bezwen isend 17. yours yance of which I made gagnvies after the misere: fag. Bore offers ware made in the inner harley, Antons, sed à fouel he had leg the Colony for Mano That unborning.\n\nANTONIO XAVIK,- ans Captain of the Shamrock\n\nIncertainthe goverment had not de-\n\nAfter the orgina. 12as taken, of which Loveha I w\n\neffect that he had secreted the E-sing preatises on Diputy frapector Boyle's \"depositions read to 15th January but found nothing of a spicious natu Join Dunn-Police Inspector-I proceeded to Esing shop in Queen's Road Bass, on the morning gave them to Mr. Grande, the lath, had brought bread and dour front there,\n\nI remeber only ou, the Grat prisoner. I de net kan Create camined by Dr. Bridgea-I apprehended in\n\ninquiry if any had absconded. I searched the sho any one had abscended that drunking. I did not na ncing suspicions was found!\n\nHO ACHAT, WomanOn the 15th January, I was resuled in Alto's Bakery, Queen's Road East. I lived with Ahium's family, and it consists of Cheng Aliee bla an A-One child is 3 years, 1 child 3 months, wife, 2 children, servant giri, myself, and u temule relation old both boys. They lived in the up part of the house lacing the road. I herd with them for four years. The bakery is at the back, tiny make wont und biscolt, night and day. The dough for the bread is put info the oven all o'clock e.. I do not know, when the Breed bread baking was finished, no ruport was mule up-stales baking is frished-70 tile wight of the 14th after the\n\nconting up, and he did say that after supper all the work Ahyow, clerk, did cure that night, he is in the habit of ater were voiting Geard them vuiling, Ahlem does not often sleep in the inkery with his family aerly 2 or 3 times a mouth. Alama did not sleep there on the 14th Jan, le game there on the morning of the 13th, soon after dry-Byld and requested bis family to get ready to go by the steamer, to their village, Long. They had no breakfast before Acung near Macno. they startril. They took to the steamer two kind of bread large and sniall, the large was commun loof, she swall Joat way made for the occasion by order for pre- were 4 Inrge loaves, these were brought to me by Ali- seats to their friends in the aforrasid village. There\n\nThis cut the ease fur the Crown, nt 4.30 1. Dr. Bridges Intiated that he would not be able emmene his defence that night, and though the day Court consented to ajourn. ware auxions to go on and get done with the adfuir,\n\n(journed 4.50 PM\n\n(Fourth Day, 5th February.)\n\nfe\n\nmany strong observation ugadunt the manner in which Dr. Bridges commenced his spreeb at noon and we\n\nthe crown had undated the case, and agaiter the volum. The Bread were made the night before. I only mittingjuetimos la cullod\n\nci 1 chartering any steamer; chewupon chartered Captain, ce she th of January I took the command of the the Rerace Spark at has en use to go to Me Mr. Ma pointed me. On the the men We arrived at 6.30 o'clock that evening. So pocenions of the 17th January, I left fur bliscau, dust before were tenderci tand by the Govern, has left, thism and a family came on board the steamer, his a lot with polcomen coming. fearing that Ahlin father was amongst them.-wy brought an order frota might have spes alone I told the Cpini: not to wait for then as we were underweigh.\n\nMr. Mure for their passage (order presented by the W. LE MESURIER-1 un head of the Comissat 10 Macan I made a statement that the police were\n\nWhen I got whitness). Allum hituself presented the order and I indenriment, I know Ahlam by the name of sing 1 coming in the steamer wich was to leave in the\n\nmediately put hiau ar his family in the fore cabin, made a contract with him on the 14th January. Os at Aftenbos. I did not apply to the Macao audierities.\n\nOrder red] Shaurant, please give Ablum's family days tender was accepted for the supply of 100,000 ba but I went on hoard the Shrmport abent 7 e.., nter using of betweet. 8 and 9 persons, a passage to facs biscuit by sing. I had transacted Cusiness with bia making enquiries, there I found Ahlem in the forenin\n\nin the fare calia. None of them appeared to be sick oz before, and was quite andisfied with bis conduct I wodd with several Chinamen, women and children.\n\ntheir coming on board. I say some of the passenger? I put\n\nhave entered at any time into other contracts with him. my hand on his tail and told him he was my prisoner, made enquiry as the evose of the sickness, whether they about six oths in this Colony.\n\nwho were sailors and exalkers sick about 11 d'clock. if Crozanawaśned by the Attorney General-I have Sien and muss some on shom with me. i did not tell hire un what charge arrested hou. The prisoner saidave of the net and wite not aick, but the bread was new and ens bread cat.They said they had on here any om die at Hengkung.\" To which I replet bread and the fore they craoluded in to be the effect of you have poisoned for every boy wite arsenic. enting that bust. Baving attained slut the Bruxd Is asked me what nesenie was, I sold bin it was the tain they sad to destroy rats. He sait ha did xut bed was purchased; and they and at the E-sing shop. was the cause of the sickness, I asked, where the know want that I then sail this was very lod thing for him after having heen snapccied to tre\n\nI arrived of the main Grands at about 1 oeber and had something to do with the Thistle's athir.\n\ntion went to tow the Spanish steuer inte the inner he was very sorry for it, bot that he did not knew any\n\nharbor, where I arived at 9. Ahlam did not leave thing about either fair. I asked him why he had taken\n\nthe steamer. I had the tention Aptale him on board la funily over from Hongkong. He sud because the\n\nIndoconversion with Allum on the passage previons been threatened that his house would he barn i asked\n\nto the scammer cloring in the inner harbor. Abium hise if he had a house in Macau for his family. He sait said that he would give $50. I t I was not sked if he could leave for longkong the same evening, he had na, but is intended to leave them there with gig and could not ge, fining cargo to deliver\n\nAs I was going to the Governor to explain board and Aldam offered lur $100 to send the steamer lart I haut dore I act some of the Hongkong police. 1 Park Litas sveoing which, waa refused, and Mr. Aguleg rammed with them to the guard boss and give prisoner stiet li could not send then steamer back before text into easy: then returned to Hongkong in the work. inorning as 5 o'clock. Ahira then asked me whether Whea (first went on board the Shamrock, I told the it would a heater for him to go back to Hongkong in mare no to allow any o to go on shure wot the Hongkong police arrived.\n\na Chinese boat that evening or to wait for the ausner next morning t 1 advised him to wait for the\n\nAnd\n\n|\n\nof\n\nsaw one of the maull loaves given by Allan) to one the children before they left, it was to the eldest child. efter the child eat the bread be voulted. My master At the time the bread was given the child was well,\n\nsked why the child vomited. I aud the other servant RB well, aswered that it was owing to the cold, air of the morning. We all wear to the steainer, we were all toget- her in the fore cabin. There were some other people there who i do not kasw. There was a sereen, a cloth, hanging between the men and the women. There was\n\naware of his having tendered to supply the Commiserinting to the same visage, I heese bur name is Aher-ake R. A. ONDE-I am nequninted with Aldom. Iancnother tough not belonging to the family, but belang- with biscuit, he had to sign an agreement after the terder was there before we arrived. Whde on board we only eat was accepted. & 4 or 4 & 5, 1 wes not certain of time corrcer the bread were given to the infant chilld.\n\nI do not know if he be it signes, Isaw bread. and dething else. The bread eat by us, on board, him on the 14th of January in the afternoon between 3 was cut by Ahlum, he eat of the bread first, comic of the wanted to know when he meant to deliver some parted in ny snouth first, and then gave it to him; he then I gave it, I chew- of the biscuit. He said he was going to Macao, and that vomited. We e voisited-ties and we all felt he world bring say servant hack with him. I understood alike. The sickness continued until we arrived at he was to go the next dry. He said be would be hack Macao, then the vomiting ceased, the giddiness con- in the course of a week and would bring my servant tinued. The children were ill after they got back to with his\n\nHongkong on the 15. The whole family were\n\n$2392riend. I then took him ashura tu the Governor's Incac. Aerwards the Agent Mr. Agaber caine ou the Inst contract. When I suy tread I mes: Liscultiple in Honung mla be sick too, therefore we nust\n\nKitard,\n\nwith a ever since I came into the Colony. I had a reh, and women wore sick from eating the bread, peo- W. Spine, I tu . S. Naval Storekeeper, I know brought back here by the police. I heard the unver- Ah'um. In my offelel capacity, I bad business transadiensation between Ahiura and bis father, that as the child- contract with him for 108.000 lbs. it was the largest and was always perfectly antisfied with the manner he failed his contracts. Most Fasuredly i would have been ready to enter with him into further contracts had this affair not happened.\n\n[ go hnek,\n\non the 15th Janury, only 9,005 s. of hecnit ready, Crosscamins by the Attorney General, There was\n\nCrossezamined by the Attorney General-I did not\n\nCrosseramizat by Dr. Bridges, some mede consteamer, Ablam Haid he world remain on board 1 wovording to his stetergent, which he made a few ways give one saul: leaf to the chid in the bout: be gave\n\nsapon took place on hore. De Shamrock. When I told statuer aul the following morning, Ahers said him seni had been used; he said his own children had further three would land his family in the morning, ben sick, and asked me to come and see them. I do\n\nlined to do so. I do not know whether 1 gave the co-That lio did not care if his family were to die so long as lie and himself and his father wohl go back to Hongkong. versation in the saras order before the Magistrate; I was could go back to Hongkong, because he zupplied the nci particularly asked to do so. but I do so how that it is particularly beught to my memory. He volancered went ou board, may mate was.\n\nGovernment. I was not on board when M Robinet to go burk with me in the Spark. He told me that he had offered 1100 to the master of the steamer to take -in back to Hongkong at night, hit that the Captair had refused. I know that Allem had gone in the Sun- ruck. I did not goot board dieetly fearing that he might escape. und bin in the Surecakin standing sulking\n\nith sathe Unese,\n\nThird day, at Februrg.)\n\nCreuseumined Mr. Day-The fret time I an Alium on road at 7A..when he presented to the order of Mr. Murronext time I saw him was when the wearer arrived close to 4 o'clock-if Ahlum wished he canid have spoken to me ut any time through the barricade. When the steamier was anchored the har riende was opened, then the conversation took place--\n\nprevious my last contract was in December some time\n\nIt was a verbal contract. A. G. Acame, am the Agent of the Shamrock between 124 40 1 2.4r. The ordinary course is for the steamer at Macna. I remember un the 15th January the Shamrock anrrived in Maco, and reacted the Prolu Grandle\n\nvessel to return to Hongkong the same day between 2 and 3. On this occasion I had actor work for her, it was arrived in the immer harbor about 34, but I are not sure. not previously kupwa by the Captain. The steamer I went on board before shestopped at the Praia Grande. harbour. When I was on board at the Praia Grande, I The barricade was removed before she went to the inner sw all the Chinees passengers coming out from where hat I sun is when be offered the Captain $100 in the they were barricaded. I saw Alum-nt at that time. inner barbor. O the Teuin Grande, i mernly want\n\nway the child was sick owing to as coldness of the morning, but the father said so. The child lives upstairs shut up from the wind. My monster brought the bread did not see from where he got the bread below. He upstairs from below. I only saw bist bring the bread\n\none tuoltar of the children between the time they lea the hour and getding on board the slenaver. It was about on when the bread was our and distributed. I did not\n\nand 2 baskets containing bread and oranges, with chin observed my master bringing that morning ang clothes to the Lonse, the family took will them way bedding some clothing for the children. I heard master say, when the Mandarina are less trombiccome the faraily will come back again; and flat when he got to Mars his father would take them home, and be would return to Rong- kong you so they were lauded. I am dry murine\n\nain to Antum's family. I am not Aklum's wife, no\n\nMy husband is in California. We brought back I we taken to the Police Station. there I remained the whole of taxt day nad she exi 1 Anjum geing in to be examined; he did and passi through the riem I was in,-but through the veranla\n\nOn the count asectbling Mr. Sutton & juror said my When the pfer, of 600 was made Ablam said, thet e boy Ashow asked me if I was going to the Court as applied bread for many families in Hongkong and that he apprehended there was something wrong there, and that was the reason why he wanted to ges back to\n\nou be in give direction and went back on shore. Sionging to it. Assow and several other called me Hongkong to wake inquirica about the poisoned bread\n\nIt was half past 4 o'clock when I went back to lens here today. I did not objeer to be examined at because he supplied the fiscernment and troops. When\n\nstremer in the inner unchar. The chief mete told pic\n\nthe Police Station. M. Agabeg asked him why he was in a hurry to go to\n\nAblam offered 100 to go back to longhong. Some By the Jury-Cannot say what hour the bakers had longlong he gave the same reusons---I think that Grande. The Captain told me that some of his menyn eat is wasatrange, but e caquiries were rasle. of the menger meul on shore at the Prais their supper fat sight. I live upstats I cannot my what Aillum did not know of my intention to detain him on\n\nhour they had their suppor, but know they take appre bord. I had only gives orders to my mate not to uile were sick, bot le did not my polsoped. He said muilunk Avow cares up to tell Ahium's wife she cfremstance, any sumpar to come alongside.\n\nWhen went and I hear it. There was an opening in the screen on board the sb pc mc side. I could see Abian euthing\n\njayman. I said yes, but I could not speak any thing about the case matil the trial was over. He said Ablam's cousin offered to pay me $100, and the same amount to any other person of the jury who would help Aalum te Escape conviction. The Court orderen the arrest of the boy Accord Ablum's consia and that ties be brenght bore the Court.\n\nALEX. MACHINE-I am Kozerd of the steamet Slickar in the habit of purchasing bread from che Sing. I generally receive my head on ene of the boys of the shop and the inney is al generally in the first prisoner. In the shop fie beiind alie manter, believe he is slabenilen in the shop: I have soen rèé second prisoner in the shop, he belonged to the Thistle before she was taken. Thure en him in the shop after the Thistle was ken; he appeared to be one of the boys in the shop. I have seen hit nasist others in the Aelivery of bread. I only cognize three of the prisoners S having seen the f the shop, ti Arst, second Ani a. On the morning of the 15th January, I benght breal at the -si shop for the use of the cabin, between half past & and half past A.M. I was not very long in the shop, do not rollees having seen that gay any of le priserers in the shep, I was there at the time to receive the breil und pay fit. About Ho'clock luft at the nner for Marzo After leaving Hongkong most of the Eareas papers in the form part hesame sick, name of them were saitors. This took place one df an hour after we left Hongkong. At first I thought it might to go eickness, but as you of thera Bilen got sick daught the water cask on bei\n\nright he poisoned. As they said they had drank no\n\nBy the Fury.The temaer was off the Preis Gende about 10 minutes before she went to the Road to tow the Spanish steamer,\n\nthe Shamrock--the crew breakfasted on board on the ANTONIO GONGALVEZ-1 at Chiat Oficer on board\n\nof his intention to detain Arlum.\n\nversation with Ahiana; he said he wanted to go back un beard in the inner harbor, 1 had a rou- to Hongkong ta een now his bread in Ilongsong the head on found the seater. had turned out; he offered to pay $100 if I would ing-I declined his offer. I did nothing to prevent lur allow the steamer to go back to Hongkong that even-\n\nbeen in custody since the 15th January. On the 14th & Cara-TO-I am clerk to the K-eing hakery. I have\n\none of the priest. Wong Ataol was one of the bukor was at the bakery. Alus was the bead baker-he iz aut\n\nmet was mixing the yeset and making the bread. alo, he is not aroong the prisoners. Atrofa depart\n\nThere were 42 prisoners aken on the 16th. An ad\n\nAt wore not wegst them- The night it was\n\nAt night\n\nafterward three of them were able to work, I saw knowledge; he could have gone with the other passen 15th January niter 3 o'clock--they became sick 5 muutes from going on shore, nor any other person to my the prisoner and his family on board efter the steamer gers if he had been so disposed. He mentioned that his drrived in the inner harbour. I saw three of his family family were ill by eating poisoned brand in hoard. 1ful\n\nand that it would be time cough the his purpose. Flels 10 the bread is bakod. After the work is over That were sick, but Ahlum was talking to toe, and did him that he could return re next momlag to ilangkong, Ateoy's turn to taix the cast at o'clock.\n\nnot see them vaniting. The children uppcure sick. peuple were ill, but some of the men vomited steakon hir or troard. After he was prested I saw his family. the workaea get their chw-how. Nothing particular Crasetammed in the Attorney General-didecarred after the work was owy, war after supper, no My reasou lur set sending the stemmer to Hongkong asin of soup. I went upstair. Ever since I was the same evening was, because the men were all set. alea I have been under the custody of the Government out of the hold, and to take in other cargo he crew I was obliged to employ emolies to discharge, the cargo CHEONG-AC-1 am Cek is Chong-Asow who is\n\nnot appear to be sick. Taw the three of Ablam's family sirk after their arrival in the inner barbera. There was ring men, they were all sick-It was after 'clock coulker on board sunong the passengers, and other sea I find a conversation with Ablue, and ther was the only coveration had with him when he said his family sick. Mr. Robinet and on board at o'clock - sked if Ahlum was on hard anebook bin on shore steamer and we returard west morning to longsung. afterwards Serjeant de Silva brought him back to the (Cauet aljourned at 3. 55 a fer quacier of an hour.) CHEUNG-ACHONG,Emined in the matlier of the fer water, but having eat brand, we eunclade the brend way to bribe the jury.]-- am smaker with Mr. Sutton. I enquired from them where they purchase 1 I know him to he nun of the jury. I had a conversa- po:sone their bread. I made out by the description they give off tion with Ablum's cousin aed Akeen, he lives in the shop that it was the E-sing shop. They were Mans Endicott's Bazuar, he is a hook-binder. He kilt me Tung and did not know the E-sing mate. Some of them to let my master with reference to the case, sunt to or belonging to the steaner had some of the saine bread press the mster and that he would give 100 The offer from the passengers, and after we arrived at Macao they got sick. I had te passengers in the aftur rabin one, Pussc, who cat nothing but read was very sick, the other a Lumpen pussenger and the officers of the steamer who had only tones were not sick. I ent seme of the brut, And was sick. The bread I car was the same go at\n\nwas to him alone. My coaster said no, he hau becn sworn in Court and world not de it.\n\nWANG-ACE(Recognized by the last witness, as the person who spoke to her.) I am a Foreign book naker, I am a friend of Aliam's, but not related to him.\n\nKnow the last witness, I never spoke about Abluza'a\n\nthe E-sing shop. Some of the E sing family had on order poisoning business to him; the only thing I spoke of from Mr. Murrow to have a cabin for themselves to was that I heard his master was in the Court pressing\n\nmaster and the mate tolt ne so. were all it with the exception of the officers. The January I and my wifs want to Maco in the sale boat Chinese Government Head Overauer. On the 15th The crew were all with blum. We were in the sarav cabin, screened off by below and roue deck. The master told me at the Praia Grande that the men were sick, and gave it his father, Duideli's comprador and other siratpers a curtain, Ahlum's wife childrou and servate, Aklan, as an excuse for not going to to the Spanish steamer in the Roads. The steamer all the time remained in\n\ncharge of the Captain und Mate\n\nin all 7 or 8 people. Our fue was $teach, we all eat bread or the panga, it was square bread. The bread was cus\n\nby Ahlum, I first eat it about 12 celoek; minato\n\nthe stence when there is cargo to land or to take in also were sick. I never cases sek. Allum was sick, By the Jury never employ coolies to discharge afterwards eating it I felt giddy and vomtiel, ottery 1 Mana.\n\nu wol as his father. Abium readu a rear, that W. Fuscan, are a merchant in this colony. In the red made them sick he would go back to Hong- know the ninth prisoner by the names of Ahlau orang, I went on shore at once, ou arriving of the Praia H-sing, he was indebted to me $800. I sent to col. Grude i get some melosine-állum did not lang as lect the money, but did not press it, a few days previous pe was going hark. Thory was nothing to prevent int frum ianding. I saw his children on board sick, they\n\nto 14th January. Without further spplication he paid.\n\nto the 14th, an application was made, and on the 14th!\n\nCrossermined by the Attorney General-Previous wore a cker than any of ne\n\nCamined by the Attorney General,-Qaly Ablum\n\nJanuary another application was made, and the coney had bread in the cabin, he had four loaves of k aquaro\n\nshabout a pound each, and he cut all 4 louvou eat one fica lem then the thicknem of my little dogur, About dusk I get well, after waking the medicine. 1 st feel my bowel disordered, I feel no pain but an uncari-\n\nD. May-15ek an Iron Cheat from the shop of Allum, there were several papers and books in it and $1229 odd,\n\n*\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\n28\n\nBuildings, 1 am slightly acquainted with Akiom know of the mob saying they would rob un if we did not shut | Mercer, Mr. Mercer was one of his best friends, and where the Esing shop was I seelisen the time the up, thou we did shut.\n\nhe would rather that his tongue should drop out of Chinese made some disturbance and shutting up their GoPro TK-was called much to his astonish-his mouth than attack Mr. Biercer in the way it was\n\nment to break down the exit of one important witness asserted he had done. for the Crowa--but the attempt totally failed. [6] P..\n\nudjourned.)\n\n(Fifth Day, 5th February.)\n\nThe second part of the speech was occupied in a very scute disacation of the exlitence-Very well performed, with a strong leaning to the Crown aido. Mr. Anstey boldly professed that he had not the astrel indifference\n\nshops; it was 1 balieve in November, Alluin kept lis shop opened. It was the vuly chop I saw upon.\n\nChan-Amox,—I am xayior living in a Cilman's Bazaar Queen's Road. 1 know the Raing shop remember the shatting of the hope; fel day Allam did not Cruse examined by the Attorney General,-The ba\n\nsaat op. He ok at the 28 day. His bread was enivad by\n\nThe Attorney General replied in a very able speseb. of Crown prosecutors in ordinary cases, this was an ex- Kory prutson 1 belleve do not belong to Ablum, they are rented by him.\n\nThe first part was employed in defeating the government traordinary case in which he felt in a different manner, the wch, and stones thrown as bis shop.\n\nand Mr. Mercer for the harsh course usected to have and was not anxious thas a verdict of guilty should be Cnos-Ann Woman, -I am wife of inet witness Cras camined by the Attorney Genemy---I was as been pursued in this case. This summed totally une\n\ngiven.* [Not Mr. May's wife but wife of the last Chlem witness] the Jas House that day, the shop keepers said they were cessary, as the government was more to blame for tou I was on board the steamer going to Maran in the santé\n\naitald of the bad people, but a son as the soldiers came must leniency than too much severity, and Dr. Bridges's eabin with Allam's tatuily. 1 c some bread after 11 and cleared the hob they would epen the shops. Did examination as to the examination taking plsed at o'clock. Al eat the bread. The bread was cut by Ahlum not ses Allam there. All the respectable shop-keepera the police statica\" was morely paltry claptraps and returned a \"verdiet of not guilty. And given to on. After a while had a elabs and were there, about 300, they did not say that they would were that gentlemen not s leaned doctor of laws w vomiter All vomited. Ablam elder child was sick shut the Market outil the Governant cisted the should designate it as ignorant waddle. Or Mr. Mercomon report could not do it justice, in the contrary it first small the other afterwards.\n\nFines. I cannot say who was the leading party in pomposer, Dr. Beiges said in rectification of the Aturney would do it great Injustice. W. Garze,-Boarding house keeper living in circular ing to shut the shops. They were shut in cansequence General's defcuce, \"het be had sever attacked Mr.ace to speak for itsalf-KER.\n\nEdited, Protod, and Published by ROBERT STRAUHAN, at the Hongkong Register Offco: Gago Street, Victoria, Hongkong. Tharaday, February 12, 1887.\n\nThe Chief Justice summed up decidedly against Al- Inma aur accessory before the fact.\n\nThe Jury retired and after about half an hour's absencu\n\nWe regret our inability to give the speech entire.\n\nWe therefore leave the evid\n\nA\n\n322\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\nPage 28\n\nTRIAL OF AH LUM\n[...]\n\nPage 322",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nHe shall report any defect or disarrangement in the engine to the superintendent.\n\nHe shall keep an account of the time, and of the names and number of men employed, and not suffer idlers to stand about or interfere with the men pumping; will have power, if required, to order one of the firemen to help him through his duties, and shall take the command of the force in the absence of the superintendents.\n\nENGINEER.\n\nHe shall have the looking after the engine and hose, and keep it in working order, and when it wants washing and oiling, he must inform the superintendent, who will give notice for the members to attend for such purpose; he will keep an account of the quantity of oil and the necessaries required that are used on the engine.\n\nHe shall attach and hold the branch-pipe, and direct the stream of water in the most advantageous manner.\n\nIn doing so he should get as near the fire as possible, and inside the building (unless it is too far gone), so that the water may strike the burning materials.\n\nAt a fire he shall receive orders from the superintendent or officer in command only.\n\nHe will take the command of the whole force in the absence of the superintendents and foreman.\n\nIt cannot be too strongly impressed on the engineer (whether in practice or at a fire) that he should avoid if possible playing on any of the bystanders.\n\n7\n\nFIREMEN.\n\nThey shall make all possible speed to the engine-house; will take orders from the foreman, and when ready for a start will take their appointed seats on the engine; and on arriving at the fire (being numbered off) they will dismount, and stand by the side of the engine until the word of command is given by the foreman; they will put the length of hose, suction, &c., together according to their drill, in the most expeditious manner, and rescue any person or property from the premises on fire, pull down any buildings, &c., if ordered by the superintendent or officer in command, as well as to clear away any obstructions, such as naked walls, burning timber, &c., that may impede the efficiency of the engine, or may be considered as dangerous; and otherwise act according to the instructions of the superintendent or officer in command.\n\nEvery fireman should also be capable of taking any absent member's place, in fact he should make himself competent to put the engine in complete working order by himself.\n\n688",
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        "content_text": "( 26 ) \n\nHighness in his character of a working man, well up in his duty. (cheers.) I have no doubt that probably in his earlier career His Royal Highness has enjoyed some special advantages in the way of family interest, which have given him a good start in life. (laughter and cheers.) Others could not reasonably hope to get their Post rank either so easily or so early, but having got it, the question now is whether His Royal Highness has proved that he deserves to retain it. (hear, hear.) As to that point I need only mention that I was recently informed by the gallant Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, who has just left us, that he never had inspected a vessel in better order, or one reflecting more credit on her Commanding Officer, than the Galatea, and also that His Royal Highness himself did thoroughly, as well as skilfully, command that vessel. Therefore, although his naval career may have been at first easily opened to him, His Royal Highness must now be regarded as able to win his way by his own exertions, and to stand on his own deserts. (loud cheers.) That is precisely the character which a hard working community like this is well calculated to appreciate, and it does appreciate it accordingly. (hear, hear and cheers.) For my own part, the useful and honourable example set by His Royal Highness in the active and zealous prosecution of his professional career has added greatly to the pleasure with which, as his temporary host, I have endeavoured to promote my distinguished visitor's comfort and convenience in accordance with the wishes of the community.\n\nHis Excellency resumed his seat amidst enthusiastic cheering.\n\nDancing was shortly after resumed, but His Royal Highness retired immediately after supper. The first five dances of the evening were suggested by His Royal Highness, of whose musical ability mention will be made hereafter, and two of the waltzes were composed by himself. The Band of the Galatea played during the former part of the entertainment; and that of the 75th Regiment afterwards.\n\n( 27 ) \n\nFriday, November 5th.--The following advertisement, which appeared in the Public Papers, will show that the Native community was not willing to be outdone in Theatrical matters.\n\n\"NOTICE.\"\n\n\"In order to celebrate the arrival of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, the Chinese community of this Colony have engaged a company of first-class actors from Canton. The performance will take place in Tung-Hing Theatre, Taipingshan, commencing on the 25th of October, and concluding on the 30th; and will be continued again from the 3rd to 9th of November. The Theatre has been thoroughly renovated, and will be profusely decorated with fresh flowers. The box in the Gallery will be reserved for His Royal Highness, and the seats in the body of the house are open to the public on payment of one dollar.\"\n\nOn the evening of this day, His Royal Highness, accompanied by His Excellency the Governor, Vice-Admiral Kellett, and a large party, honoured the above-named Theatre with his presence. The building, which will hold rather more than three thousand people, was crammed; and considerable excitement was manifested when the Prince took his seat in the front of the Royal Box which had been prepared for him.\n\nIt is the custom in Chinese Theatres, when any high Official vouchsafes a visit, for one of the actors, splendidly dressed, to come out on the stage and pay him reverence, to soft music, exhibiting a scroll, on which a wish for his\n\n( 44 )",
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        "content_text": "23\n\nBond repressed by start -- Mollendorff, has been reproved and the report and its grounds sent to the Berlin Foreign Office.\n\nIrially who acts as Las I. Lain, the Chiramand and the Viceroy's interpreter, got into trouble and it is said has been dismissed from the Viceroy's service.\n\nBetts is now here, acting for the Submarine Telegraph Company in connection with Schmidt. Two newcomers have arrived.\n\nThe verbal promise of the line from Pao-ting-fu to Paulong-fu was made to the German Agent, Icking, for which stemmerpsen asked, and up to day, in rain-diviner, Betts, Wehrriedt have the Viceroy's promise of construction of the first main line, which will proceed from Shanghai and end at Canton, connected with Peking.\n\nThis will be Imperial line and the Great Northern Company will not have it.\n\nThe change - The provincial authorities may deal with any as they like. The Viceroy Li is known to be displeased and the present state of affairs is against the Danes.\n\nA plan has been made and has had a very favorable reception, whose object will be to secure to China all native and Foreign telegraphic traffic in to and from China. The... \n\n3",
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        "document_key": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]",
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        "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]",
        "content_text": "157\n\nair adnezatqar 000,0M coafo.\n\nT\n\no Jack 20 at berlayar baste it to J800\n\norb ai truos i tot nae1 (sa\n\nredat al Anal frow{JI AJ TO SILC way twit togt et øj To armija de mort muted anbad fis vixon,atiq WoTToƐ mor? bral aid to Iseh BOTH A .8gbir flli ade no hast aword HOTT bebust a CIW NAWII: add taukais bannslo his fund ybooris .nottouderoƉ to molteljeroo old retts Xoad\n\n-veno beg edga¤ sebaar en tibusqze nit\n\nevaert ene dat ́ ́w abяof antyto2 to Jaco aid aobrIont eaxi- enii eqvær arčam skít not awo ([e 817,ES$ na kuona betertijas bro sort I : dino2 sild narade? ge bind meroge, has Xnad asal you #gowted boot treo add oa!A .BISY ATOJE 1:aT XOX IBT\n\ne to sor¶ ITOH art b\n\n6.5\n\nno towed G\n\nborasy\n\n+\n\nT\n\nMUTAZ VEEN! @th of mă tried vısy al eni[\n\nJanrijden qeat bus 2x of dati vrtov arijatinamos gord\n\nAT\n\nBA\n\nhot max:\n\n10%\n\nAR 't aba: eVA! I\n\n€\n\nIta 2nd new) sval I‚anisasic to Iseb boog # eveil of\n\nIainetan silt TaveTerw hus enti eid on tot ay iijus\n\nXnsä sulf ofonia sit\n\n11628950N\n\nBaeoxe ni si\n\nJafa enti old ob\n\nbe too great. In connection with this see my General Letter\n\nNo. 29 dated 3rd. May, paragraph 20.\n\nBeyond this point most of the banks are\n\nmade with spoil from the tunnel.\n\nFrom the North Face of the tunnel to\n\nthe Tai Wai River the work is heavy on account of the long\n\nlead across the valley through which this river runs. No borrow\n\npits can be dug here as the valley is liable to heavy floods\n\nthe water being some times 3 or 4 feet above ground level,\n\nthe flood comes during a high tide.\n\nwhen\n\nFrom the Tai Wai River to the North\n\nEnd of Taipo Station Yard is the critical portion of the line\n\nexposed as it is to the sea. The alignment here has been most\n\ncarefully looked into and the Grading arranged so that the banks\n\nand cuttings almost equalise. There is a great deal of rock on\n\nthis portion of the line, but it is not of so hard a nature as\n\nmight be expected from the look of the hills. Most of the\n\ncuttings are scarped out of the hill side which ought to be\n\ndone fairly cheaply.\n\nsaa 70 698 97 mart mot foЯ T\n\natwe na [[wv mes pisausson sit now bïs】 ; otseta noolwol To%\n\n.000,001 10?\n\nrot nedi vrsali taliter & ogle at exoft\n\npower A „bt Y rol-era ndt mot moltsrinfoeЯ art mi zdrow enanterb\n\nad of wad Khanh ta sk· TOUR # AS flew as tower quitqoorstał\n\nOAK CIRtro att Re Rowan prin.beef arsov esⱭ anois Jitud\n\nant batso el risch Teten proka siis ka talo¶ a1haerifosJ¶\n\n.bgoN SIIIv.un salaougo busy moi ́n$2 <4+ rebre 19vivo test of\n\n[ław painismen tuul ajute st\n\n......\n\nd butettuazon:\n\nBeqola pro! els bi va of A\n\n02 bxrrot us intoq atri da Ionad a to taon\n\n.ok quitto ni\n\nTarkva mago\n\nI have allowed a good deal of pitching\n\nI on the slopes of those banks where exposed to the waves.\n\npropose to pitch all banks up to a reduced level of 212.00 i.e.\n\n12 feet above Ordinary Low Water. Only in a very few places is\n\nthe Bank founded below low water and then the position is not\n\nsuch as would expose the bank to a very long reach.\n\nSome of the earthwork from Taipo to\n\nthe frontier was done by the Public Works Department before my\n\narrival. Nearly all the banks are made from Borrow pits, but\n\nthe rates at which the work was let by petty contract were very\n\nlarge. However His Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan decided that I\n\nshould continue at the same rates as he looked upon it as a\n\nbreach of contract to close down the works and start afresh.\n\nThis accounts for the soft excavation in Paddy land being\n\nbooked at $13 per thousand cubic feet. The cost of some Earth-\n\nwork",
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        "content_text": "443\n\n4\n\ncompleted. These additions are being made by hard-headed business men who are not likely to invest their capital without counting the cost; but I shall speak of this later when I deal with Tairen.\n\nAn English merchant at Newchwang bitterly complained to me that on indenting for cotton goods on samples sent out from England he was informed in reply that the goods could not be supplied for a year or more, and then only at prices higher than quoted with the samples. I am forwarding with this Report samples of Japanese sheetings, which are finding great favour in Manchuria, owing, it is alleged, to the readiness with which they take the dye as compared with British or American manufactured goods, and I may mention here that I have good authority for stating that Japanese merchants, in order to capture the Manchurian market, not infrequently mix their own inferior cottons with English goods at, if not under, cost price.\n\nJapanese Railway to Tairen.\n\nI left Newchwang for Tairen at 8:40 p.m. of the 27th September, and arrived at 11:30 A.M. the following day; but, after accomplishing the 13 miles between Newchwang and Ta Shih Ch'iao on the main line, I had to wait at the latter from 9:25 P.M. till 1:46 A.M., when I caught the down, or, as it is called by the Japanese, the up train from Mukden. It is a somewhat weird experience to enter a railway carriage in the middle of the night and find nearly all the seats fully occupied with recumbent figures closely wrapped in white cotton blankets, which are such an eyesore to the British manufacturer of woollen goods. In each 2nd class carriage there was one, and in each 3rd class carriage two, Japanese railway guards fully armed, marked by wooden labels with the characters for \"escort's seat,\" but the men stood to attention the whole time. They were relieved at various stations. A third rail was being laid down in places to the standard gauge, and here and there the track was being widened for the double line to be constructed between Tairen and Mukden.\n\nTairen (Dalny).\n\nAn excellent view of Tairen and of Ta-lien Bay, along whose southern shore it is built, is obtained from the hills which run east and west behind the town. I had previously visited it as Dalny when in Russian hands, the administration quarter of the town, on high ground on the north-west side, was still uncompleted, and the harbour works were in course of construction. The administration quarter, which was built on a lavish scale, still remains the best part of the town, for, although a considerable part of the area laid down in the Russian plan has been and is being built over, the houses are inferior, many of them mere lath and plaster hidden by cemented exteriors. The passenger station is situated near the administration quarter, but the railway opening out into numerous sidings is continued through a cutting, over which a rather pretentious brick-cemented bridge is almost completed, to the docks and wharves. The population was given to me by a Japanese friend, formerly Consul-General at Shanghai, who did much to satisfy my inquisitiveness, as 30,000, of which 20,000 and 10,000 were Japanese and Chinese respectively; but Mr. Parlett, His Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul, discounts the total by about 5,000. Streets on the Asiatic side of Russia are notoriously bad, and, although those in the administration quarter may be described as fairly good, Japan has had neither the time nor the money to put this part of her house in order. Tairen is still too evidently in a state of transition, and it will be some time before the town can be made presentable to a European eye. With the exception of four small Chinese hand-worked bean mills, there are as yet no industrial undertakings in Tairen; but a large bean mill jointly Japanese (Mitsui Bussan Kaisha) and Chinese (from Newchwang) with foreign machinery is in course of construction. That the Chinese are from Newchwang, and bean-mill owners there is a significant fact. The foreigners resident in Tairen are fourteen all told. There are two British firms, one which has laid claim to be British, but has failed to satisfy the proper authorities in Tairen and elsewhere in Manchuria of its genuineness, and a German; but they do little business, and are more steamer agents than merchants. The town is full of small Japanese and Chinese retail shops, but genuine wholesale Japanese traders number less than a dozen. Regulations of the Kwantung Government now in force do not tend to encourage foreigners: they fail to provide for fixity of tenure, without which firms are unlikely to start business, and, although the authorities profess that there need be no fear of ejectment, they decline to put it in writing. Nor is any encouragement held out to the Chinese to take part in the development of the port, for the Japanese authorities, without any warning, may and do demolish Chinese houses on the ground that they are insanitary. Under such conditions Chinese traders are scarcely likely to take up their residence there. My Japanese friend informed me that Japanese banks and traders are treated in exactly the same way, and an endeavour is being made to have the Regulations revised and amended.\n\nOn the day of my arrival in Tairen there were four steamers outside the breakwater and one large British steamer—the \"Indravelli,\" of Liverpool—two smaller Japanese steamers, and a number of small craft and tow boats alongside the wharves. The quay is lined with corrugated-iron godowns surrounded by railway sidings, and a double track on which laden trucks were standing occupied the quay itself. In a word, there is every possible railway facility for the shipping and discharging of cargo from and to the interior of Manchuria. But, as in Newchwang, times were dull; the godowns were far from full; and the extent of the trade since the opening of the custom-house on the 1st July may be gauged by the amount of revenue collected. In July it was 14,000 Haikwan taels, in August 7,000, and the September collection up to date was poor; but, as I have already stated, Tairen is in a state of transition, and it is yet too early to judge of its effect on the trade of Manchuria. It has the natural advantage of being open to steamer traffic all the year round, while Newchwang is closed by ice for four months. It has the railway facilities for handling cargo not possessed by Newchwang, for at the latter port cargo has to cross or ascend the river to be forwarded by the Chinese or Japanese lines, and transit costs money; and although railway freight to stations south of Mukden is heavier by the Japanese lines from Tairen than from Newchwang, the cost of transit mentioned above must go far to discount the difference, while the equality of freight to places north of Mukden, where the great producing and distributing centres are situated, is strongly in favour of Tairen. It is true that the Imperial Railways of North China are competing successfully with the Japanese line from Newchwang to Mukden; and had the British Concession on the north bank of the Liao been acquired, steamers could have loaded and landed their cargoes from and into godowns close to the Chinese railway which desired the right of way into the proposed Concession when the negotiations were being carried on in 1899.\n\nThe Japanese are continuing the work of afforesting the hills south of the town which was begun by the Russians, and on the lower slopes the pines have attained a height of over 6 feet. There are extensive nurseries full of pine saplings raised from Japanese seed which were being carefully tended by Chinese under Japanese superintendence, and there is an experimental farm in which dry rice was being treated in separate plots with different chemical manures, the other cereals being the millets known as Holcus sorghum and Setaria italica so common throughout Manchuria. Of fibre plants, hemp (Cannabis sativa), abutilon hemp (Abutilon Avicennæ), and cotton from American seed were all being tried, and the Japanese Superintendent informed me that the cotton was showing signs of being an excellent crop. The sugar beet was also a success. Several varieties of cabbages, turnips, taros, and melons were also the subject of experiment; the brinjal or egg-plant gave poor results, and a Japanese capsicum splendid results; peppermint showed a fine bushy growth; and there was a plot of young mulberries which in Japan are manured with macerated bean-cake. A tuber from Japan called \"Gobo,\" which is unknown to China, was also being cultivated. Flowers of many kinds and varieties were being tried; but the soil of the Kwantung territory is undoubtedly the poorest, as it is the stoniest, part of the Liaotung Peninsula and of Manchuria generally.\n\nThe accompanying plan of the town and harbour was issued by the Civil Administration Office of Tairen during the present year.*\n\nTairen to Chemulpo.\n\nTairen is an expensive place, as indeed is the whole of Manchuria at the present time, and it may be a slight exaggeration to say that a house proprietor is able to recoup his initial outlay by a couple of years' rental. My room with board at a Japanese hotel cost 10 dollars a-day, and as I found that I would have to wait about a week for a steamer to Antung, I resolved to take the first ship to Chemulpo and proceed by rail to Seoul, Ping-yang, and Hsin Yi Chou on the left bank of the Yalu River, 14 miles below the City of Antung, which lies on the right bank and in Manchuria.\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\n[28137-2]",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n4\n\nthe opportunity to discuss the failure of Japanese policy in Manchuria, \"Though Japan won in the field, she has lost in diplomacy.\" The South Manchurian Railway is not a success, as it seems to be looked upon merely as a means for enriching the officials and offending all other nationalities, while Japan is represented in Manchuria by a swarm of immigrants of the lowest class. The objections to the proposed Hsin-mintun-Fakumen extension are, the paper states, not justified by facts, and the Japanese, by their attitude on this question, are only adding to their unpopularity in China.\n\nThe \"Eastern Times\" criticizes the Government's proposal to redeem the Peking-Hankow line by the issue of internal loan bonds. The Government's decision that it would be better to abandon the idea of redemption than to invite the danger of a foreign loan is declared to be sound, but the want of confidence between the officials and the people is such that the bonds will not be taken up to a sufficient extent. The paper here hits upon the great practical obstacle which the advocates of native loans too often forget; and the only remedy that the \"Eastern Times\" can suggest is constitutional reform, providing for popular control of the national finances.\n\nThibet.\n\nAccording to the Peking native papers, it would appear that the Chinese are contemplating a more energetic policy than that they have hitherto pursued as regards Thibet. Chang Ta-ch'en is said to have put forward various proposals, which are now under consideration, aiming at the establishment of a military force in Thibet, the encouragement of trade with Szechuan, the founding of schools where the Chinese language is to be taught, the organization of an administrative system, and, in general, the assertion of China's sovereign rights.\n\nIt is also reported that an official will be sent to Thibet to investigate the mineral resources of the country, and to arrange with the Thibetan and British officials some means of raising capital for the exploitation of the mines.\n\nNaval Affairs.\n\nA Peking newspaper is responsible for the statement that the Board of Finance have arranged to devote the sum of 10,000,000 taels for the purchase of new ships, the construction of naval harbours, &c. The annual expenditure for the upkeep of the navy is to be met by the various provinces concerned. The fleet, which, it is hoped, will be completed in three years, will be divided into three squadrons, the head-quarters of the first being Yu Lin Chang; of the second, San Men Wan and Chou Shan; of the third, Chefoo and Ching K'u.\n\n0\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[22269]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 29.)\n\n[June 29.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n(No. 197.) Sir,\n\nPeking, May 6, 1908. IN continuation of my despatch No. 180 of the 27th April, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a Report by Mr. Harding which gives further and fuller information respecting the Sunning Railway, the construction of which is, as the writer points out, a remarkable feat suggestive of further possibilities in railway development in this country.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Harding respecting a Short Trip through the Sunning District.\n\nTHE Sunning district is one of the most progressive in China. In every village one is sure to come across men who speak English, or, more strictly, American, as some of them indeed call it. On the streets are men in foreign clothes and without queues; brand new villages are springing up everywhere; rows of neat new houses, with a broad street in between. And yet the district contains no Treaty port; no foreigners reside in it; few ever visit it. All the improvements which one sees are but the result of the... fact that from here was effected the Chinese colonization of the Pacific Coast of America.\n\nUndoubtedly the principal evidence of this Americanization of the people of Sunning is now the railway, which already connects the district city with the Ngae Mun River at Kung Yik, and will soon connect it with the sea-coast at Sam Kap. The first named place is situated opposite the town of Tam Shöü Hau, some five hours by steam-launch from Kongmoon. At present it has no population at all; long rows of new Chinese houses alternate with broad grass-grown streets, but the Railway Company hope that when the town is built and the railway complete, inhabitants will come, The railway station is some little way from the town, just beside an imposing-looking, white-painted, two-storeyed building, in which are some of the Company's offices. At present there are only two trains a-day each way, which start-most unpunctually at 7.30 A.M. and 130 P.M. from Kung Yik, and at 9 A.M. and 3 P.M. from Sunning, local time, half-an-hour earlier than the China coast time in use at Hong Kong and Canton, being used. The first-class carriages are most luxurious, more so even than those of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway. The second-class carriages are about the same as on other Chinese lines; while the third-class are mere cattle-trucks with seats. All, with three out of the six locomotives owned by the Company, are built in the United States. The other three, with all the rails and some of the other material, come from Germany,\n\nThe distance from Kung Yik to Sunning is 17 miles; the time taken over the journey being an hour and a-quarter, and the fares 80 c., 50 c., and 30 c. by first, second, and third class respectively.\n\nJust after leaving Kung Yik the line makes an enormous bend, necessitated by the refusal of a village, which lay in the direct line, to sell the requisite land. At this one place a mile is lost, and there are several lesser bends on the way to Sunning. The Company's inability to compel unwilling villagers to part with their land has further led it to follow the top of a range of low hills with a gap in the middle, thereby necessitating a couple of rises of 70 feet.\n\nThe line is well laid, and travel on it is much smoother than on the Canton-Hankow line, or, indeed, on the Shanghae-Nanking line when newly built. No ballast\n\n[1819 ƒ-2]\n\n79",
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        "content_text": "Page 1\n\nHONG KONG\n\n41601\n\n501\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nCO 41601\n\nReceived 27 Dec 09,\n\nGovernor. No. 359\n\n1909\n\nBy Nov. M. H. G. Haggard.\n\nLast Previous Paper. 1398/08.\n\nOrdinarily be we propose to have the cost of ...\n\nAs 1.3Ja There sly me Ad 1738-A. & E. V.—20062/23--- 25000-11-08.\n\nTelegram of the 30 July from M. Haggard, but in cires has ordained that it be written off. No pay shall be issued to him after 30 July.\n\nJJ. Stubbs.\n\nI am afraid that in our anxiety to answer out MH, the fact that he had got to pay for the tickets was overlooked (Aft on 19/10/06). I expect it will be difficult to get the money, but I see no reason why we should not try.\n\nI take it that the 30 July was in a mistake. Any how he has been found up to 31 July. I am afraid we shan't get a day's pay ...\n\nTo sects dept to calculation of ...\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\n \nhas been removed as per rule 6 \"Indicate missing words\" and other formatting done according to the rules specified, with a focus on correcting spacing, rejoining broken sentences, and applying Markdown formatting for structure. The initial nonsensical text at the start has been omitted as it appears to be OCR errors without coherent meaning. The text has been formatted into paragraphs and proper spacing has been applied. File references have been corrected to remove any spacing inside parentheses as per rule 10. Page numbering has been kept intact as per rule 11. No translation or rephrasing has been done.",
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        "content_text": "# Errors in existing Maps\n\nMost maps in existence limit the number of places in the Ordos of which they show the position to the seats of Government of the tribes nearest to the Great Wall; some include Hangkin on their list. While at one time the positions assigned to these places were doubtless correct, time has brought about a change in some of them, a change to which all are liable for the Prince of the tribe may at any time see fit to move his seat to a more suitable spot where there is better water or pasturage; or else some bad luck may come to his house and the lamas may advise him to build elsewhere. Thus all readings of the maps as regards these places should be accepted with caution. The position of Wushin, for instance, is wholly different now to what it was ten years ago. The Prince now resides two days' journey (50 miles) to the south of where he is indicated on the map as living. Again, the Prince of Hangkin is indicated on the German maps as living close to the south-east end of Dabassun Noor where as he now lives (whatever he once did) several days' journey from the lake in a west-south-westerly direction. But perhaps the strangest map error of all is in the position of Salatsi ting which is indicated as lying about 30 miles south-west of Kweihuacheng and off the main road to Bautu. Bautu is rightly placed at 90 miles distant from Kweihuacheng. The maps which mark Salatsi ting to the south will indicate Chagenkuren as a small place on the road 20 miles east of Bautu and 60 miles west of Kweihuacheng. Now Salatsi is the Chinese and Chagenkuren the Mongol name for one and the same place. It seems impossible to understand how such a vast error in distance arose and why it has been allowed to remain uncorrected for so long.\n\nApril 27—Leaving Anental to the west over low hillocks of sand piled up by countless years of winds we soon turned south-west away from the river, ascending gradually into the heart of the Ordos. No houses anywhere to be seen and no traffic. A Tai lu or official track is supposed to run in a south-westerly direction through the princedoms, but the difficulty of keeping on it is enormous owing to the number of side tracks crossing it. The country is covered with hillocks of drift-sand covered with scrub and among these antelope were browsing heedless of our caravan. Travelling would be extremely difficult for anything except camels. The country is so broken by sand-ridges and hillocks that a caravan can move along the tracks without being seen from a distance. Early in the afternoon we stopped at a small Mongol settlement of two houses known as Koturbala; here there is a good well, a necessary thing in a country where water can only be obtained by digging, a difficult process in view of the amount of drift sand.\n\nThe track was especially difficult just now because of the recent number of dust storms which had obliterated the tracks and made it hard to find the right road.\n\nThe Mongol dogs are as fierce in the Ordos as elsewhere in Mongolia; my retinue fortunately saved me from one today. Koturbala was a comfortable rest house after a dead calf had been ejected from the best room.\n\nWe picked up here a Mongol who spoke Chinese fluently and who consented to accompany us as far as Ninghsia for the sum of 10 taels (30s.).\n\nApril 28.—As payment for her hospitality the old lady here snipped off some camel's hair. She said she took toll of every passing caravan in the same way. Excellent sport is obtainable by walking some 200 yards from the convoy and parallel with it. Care has to be exercised lest one lose the convoy as the track twists and bends and one may imagine oneself to be keeping parallel with them and yet be far from doing so. Once lost it would be an extremely difficult matter to extricate oneself for one meets no one; at the same time there is always the danger of lighting on a cabin among the hills and of finding oneself attacked by several dogs who do not hesitate to spring at the traveller's throat. Even close to the convoy the utmost strategy has sometimes to be used to extricate oneself from an attack by dogs.\n\nAfter travelling three hours we reach the few lonely cabins which form the settlement of Bourdan, situated on a strip of land some few hundred yards wide and 1/2 a mile long, more fertile than the surrounding country.\n\nAn hour later we descended into a depression at the bottom of which trickled a little water an inch or so in depth and some 25 yards broad. This stream which flows north into the Yellow River is known as the Er khe gol. The banks are sandy and precipitous and must be 30 feet high. An hour later we reached the residence of the Djungar Prince. The first thing one sees is a mud-walled enclosure, each wall 200 yards long much broken down in places and against which a good deal of sand has drifted. This encloses an encampment surrounded by a low wall. This is the Prince's residence.\n\nThe encampment lies north and south. Outside the entrance at the south end is a temple in front of which are a number of poles with many prayer flags strung between them. There are prayer flags on all the walls and on many of the trees in the Prince's garden.\n\nThe Prince is a man of 60. He never leaves his house, except to go once in three years by cart to Peking. His duties are to keep the district in order and to administer justice; for this purpose there is a Yamen attached to the residence. The Prince is said to receive 500 taels of silver a-year and 100 bags of rice from the Chinese Government. As he has no taxes to pay and no soldiers to maintain the position cannot be a difficult one.\n\nThe few cabins round the encampment grow potatoes, wheat, millet, and kaoliang. The encampment is, however, wholly Mongol, nor has the Prince a Chinese wife. A few of the population speak Chinese, but there is no compulsion to learn it.\n\nDuring the afternoon we passed three small tricklets of water, at the last of which we halted for the night in a Mongol house known as Wotodiassho.\n\nApril 29—We crossed several small streams flowing northwards, and occasionally a Mongol cabin, either in the vicinity of the streams or of a marshy piece of ground. After three and a-half hours we halted at a small Chinese Settlement called Ba ha ra se ho.\n\nThe Chinese families here pay a small land tax to the Mongol owners. A farm labourer told me his wages were one tael (3s.) a-month, of which 20 cents (one-ninth) went to buy opium.\n\nTwo hours later we halted at Hungehow (Red Temple) for the night, a small Chinese village overlooking a stream of the same name which flows north. We had deviated a good deal from the right road, our guide wishing to take us to Ninghsia by the more direct route across the centre of the Ordos. There is a miserable inn at Hungchow.\n\nApril 30.—We passed occasional Chinese cabins: their inhabitants are said to be under the authority of the local Prince for petty offences. A hurricane came on in the late afternoon, followed by a dust-storm which changed to heavy snow. We just reached the shelter of a solitary Mongol house, called Sadungapu, in time.\n\nMay 1.—Deep snow lay everywhere; we could not start till late as the camels had to be unfrozen, they had been obliged to remain in the open all night, there had been also great mortality among the lambs and kids. The snow, however, melted during the day, but while it lay the track was exceedingly difficult to find. We stopped the night at a Chinese Settlement, called Hurutu, situated on the side of a ravine, the cabins being for the most part cave-dwellings.\n\nMay 2—The day saw a renewal of the terrible dust-storms we had experienced between Kweihuacheng and the Yellow River. From 9 AM to 5 PM it was impossible to see more than a few yards ahead, while the force of the wind raised not only dust but even pebbles, and hurled them against us. A caravan winding its way over the treeless downs with no sheltering hills is fully exposed to such storms. During the day we crossed a number of dry river-beds, each several hundred yards wide; these show that the country was once well watered. The country is extremely broken into deep nullahs and gullies, round the heads of which the track has to wind. The dry river-beds are, however, composed of firm sand or fine gravel; there are no rocks or boulders. We halted at a small Chinese Settlement called Hodatogol. One of the natives here is an example of thrift: he owns many flocks and herds, his expenses per annum are literally nil apart from his land tax to the Mongols. He lives on his fields and his flocks, and sells the skins of the latter to the native dealers, who come from Ninghsia at fixed times in the year.\n\nMay 3—The day was worse than yesterday for dust, and we got hopelessly out of our road, thanks to it, and had to halt early at a solitary house known as Shihpakotu for the night. It did not increase one's pleasure to learn later in the day that there was a child ill of small-pox in the farm.\n\nMay 4—We had to turn south to get straight again, and passed through quite a belt of cultivation, a large amount of land being under the plough, the inhabitants being of course Chinese. During the morning we crossed the dry Ulan Muran. In the afternoon we reached a different country altogether, the hills being of red sandstone, and both they and the valleys covered with a low scrub. We halted at the Mongol farm of Chaganboshoo.\n\nMay 5.—Three hours marching brought us to the residence of the Prince of Wang, round which farms are rather more plentiful than they had been for some days. The encampment resembled that of the Prince of Djungar, only that there were no outer walls to it. The Prince himself was away on a pilgrimage to the Wutaishan with a large retinue.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nC O\n\n[January 12, 1909? or January 25, 1902? likely to be 1909 due to context]\n\n143\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[1142]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION\n\nRros FEB 10\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.(Received January 11, 1910.)\n\n(No. 474.) Sir,\n\nPeking, December 20, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a very exhaustive and instructive account of the constitution and opening proceedings of the provincial assemblies which met for the first time on the 14th October last,\n\nThis review of the constitutional movement in China has been prepared by Mr. Campbell, Chinese Secretary of the legation, who has drawn the materials for it from the reports which the consuls at the important centres were instructed to furnish, and may,\n\nI think, be accepted as embodying the most complete and authentic information that is obtainable on the subject.\n\nAs it seems to me highly important that the further progress of the movement should be carefully watched by the members of His Majesty's service in this country, I would suggest that the present paper should be printed and copies of it distributed amongst the various consulates, so that it may serve as a guide for further researches, and form a basis for the framing of similar reports in the future.\n\nWithout some such common basis to work upon, it is extremely difficult for consular officers scattered over such a large and diversified country as China to contribute the data necessary for an intelligent study of a question of this kind.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nReport by Mr. Campbell respecting Provincial Assemblies of October 1909.\n\nINDEX\n\nOrigin\n\nGoverning Rules\n\nElection Law\n\nComposition and Numbers\n\nElective Franchise\n\nSittings\n\nBusiness and Powers\n\nDecree of October 13 on opening Assemblies\n\nShantung\n\nPreparations\n\nElectorate\n\nDistribution of Seats\n\nFirst Election of Delegates\n\nPROVINCES.\n\nSecond Election of Members Presidents and Standing Committee Opening Ceremony, October 14\n\nGovernor's speech\n\nPresident's Address\n\nRules of Procedure\n\nProgramme of Government Business\n\nManchuria-\n\nFeng-tien.\n\nElectorate\n\nFirst Election\n\nSecond Election\n\nComposition of Assembly\n\nOpening Ceremony\n\nBusiness\n\nKirin: Opposition to Governor Heilungchang: Opening\n\nPage 3\n\n3\n\n3\n\n10\n\n10\n\n10\n\n10\n\n10\n\n10\n\n10\n\n8\n\n8\n\nB\n\nPage 143\n\n[likely page end]\n\nPage 144\n\n[likely page start]",
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        "content_text": "146\n\nLai-chou-fu Ching-chou-fu.. Kiao-chou\n\nManchu Garrisons-\n\nChing-chou\n\nTe-chou\n\nTotal\n\n  \n    :::\n    6\n  \n  \n    :::\n    ::\n  \n  \n    :::\n    :::\n  \n\nElectors. Members.\n\n3,337 4\n\n10,220 9\n\n4,972 4\n\n204 24 2\n\n1 119,549 103\n\nEach Chinese member of the assembly thus represents 1,193 votes, while the three Manchus only represent 76 each.\n\nFirst Election of Delegates--The lists of voters were ready by March 1909, and published in April. The revised lists were drawn up early in May, in which month they were sent to the polling stations, and the elections of the delegates commenced. For each member ten delegates were elected, making 1,030 for the province. The polling was not heavy, probably not over 50 per cent. of the voting list, and supplementary elections were necessary in many cases.\n\nSecond Election of Members.-The second elections for the provincial assembly were held on the 27th and 29th June, all the delegates voting among themselves for the selection of one out of every ten of their number. The successful were duly declared elected members. Prominent notables headed the list everywhere. The senior member for Chinan-fu is the chairman of the Grand Chamber of Commerce and formerly president of the local Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Bureau.\n\nPresident, Vice-Presidents, and Standing Committee.-The members assembled in Chinan-fu in the course of August, and proceeded to elect a president and two vice-presidents, and a standing committee of twenty members. The remaining members returned to their constituencies, there to start deliberative councils for the purpose of getting into touch with local public opinion. A voluminous programme had already been drawn up of subjects for discussion in the assembly, embracing every conceivable topic of public interest, including foreign relations. This last was divided into nine sections--\n\n1. The leased territories.\n\n2. The foreign settlements.\n\n3. Foreign missions.\n\n4. Foreign industrial undertakings in the interior.\n\n5. Extra-territoriality.\n\n6. Railways.\n\n7. Mines.\n\n8. Sea fisheries.\n\n9. Articles of foreign manufacture in the interior.\n\nOpening Ceremony on the 14th October.--The formal opening of the assembly took place, according to the rules of the 24th July, 1908, on the 1st day of the 9th moon (14th October), and was an impressive function. In addition to the governor and members, the chief provincial officials were all present, and special seats were reserved for metropolitan officials, foreigners, and officials from other provinces. Accommodation was also provided for the press and the public, and it is estimated that about 1,000 persons were present.\n\nThe president opened the proceedings by asking the governor to address the meeting. His Excellency read a formal speech, in which he dwelt on the fact that the desire of the court to associate the people with the government of the country had at last been carried out, and the president followed by reading a formal reply of thanks on behalf of the members. The governor then made a second address, which has been widely published, and merits quotation in full.\n\nNot the least interesting feature of it is the outspoken commendation of Yuan Shih-k'ai's action during the Boxer outbreak, and it is difficult to believe that a governor whose touch with the central Government is so close would venture to express his views so openly on such an occasion without some knowledge that they were seasonable.\n\nGovernor's Speech. On the occasion of the opening of this assembly to-day there are two points to which I should like to direct your attention. The first is that Members in no case should the difficulties of any question be lightly underrated. elected for the first time must needs lack experience, and may act rashly without due consideration of the real facts of a case, and like lucky drawers in a lottery, rush into foolish courses which may overstep legal bounds. Such persons, though they appear to be merely over-enthusiastic, are really rash by nature, and do far more harm than good--let me warn you against them.\n\nMy second point is that there should be no fear of adverse criticism. In the conduct of affairs, once a definite policy has been determined on as essential--and without decision no achievement is possible--it should be strenuously adhered to in spite of all difficulties and faithfully pursued until the desired aim is reached, regardless of any adverse criticism that may be encountered meanwhile.\n\n\"Let me quote examples from among the eminent officials who have served the Empire since it recovered from the troublous times of the Great Rebellion--the glorious achievements of the Marquis Tseng Kuo-fan are known to young and old throughout the land, yet when he was Viceroy of Chihli he incurred such adverse criticism from the people of that province on account of his action in the Tien-tsin Missionary Riot case that he could not continue in office there, and was transferred to the Liangkiang province; the Marquis's own statements at the time showing the intensity of the feeling against him when he said, 'I have offended both my own conscience and public opinion.'\n\nAgain, take the late Li Hung-chang, whose diplomatic skill may be said to have been almost unrivalled. He was stigmatised as servile to foreigners for advocating peace in the China-Japan war, and later public censure of him increased as foreign affairs multiplied; but it is only after death that the true verdict on a man is pronounced, and the name of Li Hung-chang, though censured during his lifetime, is now enshrined in the national history with a lustre that a myriad ages will not dim.\n\nOr, again, look at Yuan Shih-k'ai, when he was governor of Shantung, at the time of the outbreak of the Boxer rebellion. At that period high officials both at the capital and in the province, believing in the Boxers, were following their lead, and Yuan alone regarded them as a heretic sect, and took measures against them. The ignorant people who also believed in the Boxers abused Yuan, but before long the Boxers were overthrown and the province of Shantung, thanks to his energy alone, was preserved in peace; this was a benefit experienced by yourselves as inhabitants of this province who can thus confirm my words.\n\n\"The public are capable of appreciating the benefits of an accomplished fact, but not of planning for its accomplishment. Men of ability do not need to be guided merely by public approval in their conduct of affairs; it is only necessary for them to consider the final results of action, and if these are good the adverse comment endured for a time is of no consequence.\n\nJust as it is necessary to remove the skin of a fruit in order to taste its sweetness, so in dealing with affairs it is necessary to weigh carefully the pros and cons of any measure, and in order to do this it is essential that there should be calm and dispassionate investigation.\n\nThe assembly, in discussing any given subject, should first carefully examine all the surrounding circumstances and not act in any rash or hasty manner, in order that the true bearings of the matter may be discovered and action taken without subsequent hindrance.\n\nDivergence of views there must be, but difference of opinion should be carefully distinguished from obstinacy. Obstinacy is the greatest obstacle to all progress, and I would earnestly warn you against it.\"\n\nPresident's Address.-The president then delivered an address in which he traced the development of parliamentary institutions in western countries from the earliest times down to the present day, dwelt on their recent extension to Japan, and concluded by pointing out that China had at last taken the first step on the path of constitutional reform.\n\nThe rules of procedure and other regulations of the assembly have since been published. They are minute and detailed, but present no original features, being closely modelled on those of western countries. Every subject for debate has to pass three readings, and is to be discussed clause by clause, each individual motion or amendment being voted on separately. Provision is also made for special committees to which questions may be referred from the full assembly.\n\nProgramme of Government Business.--The governor has placed a variety of questions before the assembly for discussion, and it is evident that he intends to occupy their attention fully by matters of official suggestion. The following is a short list:",
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        "content_text": "has decided \n\nCarr \n\nAre \n\nthat \n\nEnts of taxe Cat Int \n\narrangements \n\nFin \n\nin frara \n\nris Cayton. Maurituves, Seychelles, \n\ndescribed \n\nof the \n\nletter \n\n) the Start Setts, Ind. \n\nthing & Wihaine \n\nunder refre \n\nthe \n\ndefit of the \n\naffily \n\namfilified \n\nHONG KONG \n\nC \n\n3113 \n\n4815 \n\n4815 \n\nIRES* \n\n527 \n\nAsst Masters \n\nletter \n\nfrom \n\nthis \n\nSept. 1909, \n\n(28604/09) \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\ncaber \n\nSalaries \n\nof \n\nof all affito. \n\nthe \n\nwh \n\nda \n\nmot \n\nexceed \n\n£300 per annum \n\nof \n\ninstead \n\nunder the present arrangements. \n\n£250 per annum \n\n(Signed) H. J. READ. \n\nfor the Under Secretary of State \n\n1915 302an \n\n3013\" \n\nTwo candidates were interviewed 27 Jan, but it was decided not to recommend either. \n\nFurther interviews took place about \n\nmiddle of March. \n\nMr Cowell, Mr Colling \n\nAud 16 Feb \n\nTO GNU 33) \n\n(See also \n\nWe can't help ourselves \n\nConcur \n\n2/2/11 \n\n15 \n\nlater minute \n\n3015) \n\nse \n\nNext subsequent Paper \n\n20898 \n\n(107,099) M Cable. \n\nRemna \n\n(86,195). Wt.31,086-13. 45,000. 19/15. A.L.E.W, \n\n31,907-5l. 66,000. 11/14. \n\n44 \n\nin form \n\nAr \n\nAva \n\n3.2.11- \n\n0.16/4/15° \n\naft \n\nMin By short diff. asking \n\nposition \n\nHol \n\n16.4-15",
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        "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]",
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        "content_text": "8\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nCAMERA NEWS\n\nPicture taken after a fire that destroyed 15 locomotives of the Maine Central and Boston & Maine railroads.\n\nJumbna, the African elephant in the national zoological park at Washington, getting her ears washed.\n\nHere is the start of a race for harness horses at the Grand Circuit meeting at Belmont Park, Philadelphia.\n\nRadio has now been developed to such an improved state that a set can be brought to the beach and other similar places without trouble. It has made beach dancing popular.\n\nLady Diana Cooper, called England's most beautiful woman, enjoys a bathe.\n\nThis Berlin father built a vehicle out of two bicycles, a couple of gears and some basket seats. Now he takes the whole family for a ride.\n\nDr. J. S. Plaskett, director of the Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, B.C., appears dwarfed alongside the mammoth 72-inch reflector telescope with which he recently discovered the twin suns. The new planet is five times as large as any other known body, according to the astronomer.\n\nA monster aeroplane engine, designed by Glenn D. Angle, of Dayton, Ohio. It is rated at 700 horsepower. It has 72 spark plugs, six carburetors, 4 high-tension magnetos and a maze of wires, tubes and controls are needed to keep the monster humming.\n\nDOINGS OF THE DUFFS\n\nWHILE WE ARE ALL HERE TOGETHER I WANT TO TAKE UP THE SUBJECT OF VACATION. I HAVE A LINE ON A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE COTTAGE ON THE LAKE WHERE I CAN COME IN TO THE OFFICE EVERY DAY AND BE WITH YOU IN THE EVENING.\n\nTHAT WON'T BE MUCH OF A VACATION FOR YOU!\n\nThe Family Reaches a Compromise.\n\nI GUESS I WON'T BE ABLE TO GET AWAY THIS SUMMER AND THIS WILL STILL GIVE ME A LITTLE CHANGE. I'LL SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF THE COTTAGE!\n\nTHAT SOUNDS GOOD!\n\nWELL, THAT'S THE THING TO DO THEN!\n\nNOW, HERE'S A PICTURE OF THE COTTAGE - YOU SEE IT'S RIGHT ON THE LAKE - YOU GET A FINE VIEW AND PLENTY OF TREES AND A NICE BEACH!\n\nSWELL! IT'S A PRETTY LITTLE PLACE!\n\nL\n\nBY ALLMAN",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 13th October, 1925.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your secret despatch of 2nd September with regard to the question of the strength of the garrison of Hongkong.\n\n2. In present circumstances it is, for financial reasons, quite impossible for this Government to meet the cost of additional permanent barracks and even in normal times it would, I am afraid, be impossible to put any such proposal to the Legislative Council with the slightest prospect of its being favourably received. Public feeling against the War Office on account both of the Military Contribution and the Military Lands question is very strong; I think the word 'bitter' would not be an exaggeration and the opportunity would be taken to start acrimonious discussion in Council which would do no good to British prestige.\n\n3. I fear that any hope that the important British Companies with extensive interests in China might contribute to the cost of housing an additional British battalion in Hongkong must be regarded as ... \n\nreceive confidential \n\nASS \n\nhit a \n\niny \nis being \nsent to Foreign & Commonwealth Office, War Office & Air Ministry \nand sent \nabroad \nwith copy Secret despatch, \nomitting portion in \nin italics \nthe part ... \n**SECRET**\n\nas extract. \n287 \nF.O. \n1.0. \nThey \nArmy \nWar Office \nAir Ministry \nAction above 53534 \nSects. Bundy, Lecaithe \n| Search LFF \nFelling \nTallaha Suck \n3.12.25 \nBecker \n3/12 \neach \n\nIn addition to the reasons mentioned by the Governor, the penny wise, pound foolish policy of the Treasury regarding the guarantee of the £3,000,000 loan has destroyed any hope of getting any more money for years. \n4.4.25 \n12 \nJassel. \n5.12.25 \nout of H. Kong Hi \nG.G. \nat once \nSir, \n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,** \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "Cleans and Disinfects in One Operation. REMEMBER\n\nNO SOAP, NO STRONG CAUSTICS.\n\nNO DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS\n\nARZ WANTED THE \"CARBOLACENE\n\nREGULARLY\n\nWALKER\n\nREGO CARBOLACENE\n\nFRAGRANT\n\nCLEANSER DISINFECTANT\n\nAn Active Disinfectant and Cleanser for use in Hotels, Institutions and in the Home,\n\nUsed by the British & Foreign Governments.\n\nSole Makers for -\n\nW. & F. WALKER, LTD., Liverpool, England.\n\nSole Agents- ANDERSON & ASHED.\n\nQue's Buildings.\n\nINSURE\n\nFOUR\n\nMOTOR\n\nCAR\n\nWITH\n\nGILMANS.\n\nTHE\n\n\"OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE POLICY\n\nhousehold.\n\n[24\n\nA Welcome Visitor\n\nat any\n\ntime in\n\nevery\n\nEvery\n\nBug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with\n\nKEATING'S\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.\n\nChemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietors MARTIN, Chisholm, Southampton Row.\n\nUNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.\n\nAT THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nFROM\n\nADURYS ED Petrovitch, 32, Nathan Rd. Shanghai\n\nfragoon Sheinm\n\nTokyo Shouzhai Shanghai\n\nKisty Simpson\n\nBorghie Cassic\n\nBang\n\n-hal\n\nJAR\n\nMercery...\n\nAndrew Tr\n\nJonicbole\n\nL\n\nAbig Amay Totolas Chicago, Ulincin\n\nAT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nADDRESSED\n\nHeatley Rinorez Yardley Celly\n\nFrom\n\nLender\n\nDaina\n\nSu Franciaco\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nstedssful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nNOVEMBER\n\n5FR.\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\n\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\n\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\n\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\n\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\n\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\n\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\n\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\n\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\ntrientales, upon the Sensor for the Depertinent, and japon Colonel Blachere, military erminander of the region, stat ing that he had been instapeter to par-\n\nClub de Racrei ad XI. r. 8.0.\n\nAlhalic Association,\n\nis referising reels to the cost of the case saputorial on position is loux searching stab and corridors that too kung land. Endell, wuite apart from must is spent in searching steamers for the wase; supp's question, the cablu, the inutividani in question call-id. P. Fuertes, A. Losang. J. M. da ours and list grugs I would emorye box of the vatani sets very strict iuits the Prefect of die Pens | Siha, and A. J. Brown, than relive service is absolutely to the practicability of hoana babita neentary in a port of this slae and in\n\nnon. There art, moreover, engout re portiure, closely insted his in to a\n\nSoge #gatus, maxing the islami dependan foreign contry. Search has to on made for its water apon the maidand. There for exciele and antialle articles and fore, akhough. I fear that we shall never for prohibited imports. We have also be able to dispense with rider auine certain interjunal obligations in these the flan, het web doubties will utiere, cod shine ang sourched on operate as encouragement to add matter of routine. It is quive itaposiole tonal population to settle in Kaulugu questions raised by y Honourable duty to exannine all j Friend. The fact thar, 4,30 pounds of water storage on the sand itself, and which be made an ratensive four of the Accumpeau.\n\nThie match will be payed on the Re-1 chaec a villa on the Côte Vermeille Forreio's groun, Kiug's Park, Lo-earrow, the Peince of Wales.\n\nkick-not at 245 pudar.\n\nA pram of noble boating, speaking\n\nThe Secret team wall be:--L. M.\n\ncat, Hankey, Light Weish. Sergt Steyer, Seval Bruno. Beveridge and Mefatyre.\n\nHOCKEY.\n\nTODAY'S GAMES.\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\n} \n\n$100.\n\nthe Calous and with the remarks of hon, I supply bien. 21 furnishing all the etubers on that subject. One more data secessary for foenutatley our leture should like\n\nto thank\n\ngfficul collenges for their veys flattering rewound he premature to take a tal desi poliny in this respect. Until then it marks on the way the budget was intro- dowed and for the very restrained tona of their reasonable criticism and, espe einily, for their generous appreciation of the services of the virions Government departmente.\n\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\n\nEducation.\n\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply. Ever since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\n\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\n\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\n\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\n\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\n\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\n\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\n\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\n\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\n\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\n\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\n\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\n\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\n\nCONFERENCE.\n\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\n\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\n\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse. According to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\n\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\n\nBRITISH POLICY.\n\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\n\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\n\nFLIGHTS.\n\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\n\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\n\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present State laws enter having their aspirations seamed up A norcher of distinguished mebers of prohibition were apparently carried in the vertsnational dependenes\n\nPARIS, Noriber 4th.\n\nto\n\nTile\n\nRetar, November th A series of darmonstration Aights by a An experienced į De Havilland Hevents three-engines air- un on layder patiated that even if a thead which will operate on the new six her bare cameź the right to tive hy working unionista quatribaled one penny cute from Egypt to India were carried fiving rails fuas of execation for five per lay only th0,000 per week weidi bejut yesterday. By the end of new years, aviiside for the miners. This wou week The first of five machines ordered\n\nTHE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN,\n\nTRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE,\n\nNO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.\n\nLeros, November 3rd. A furiber essage from Perpignan, exklatance from other unions they muallack in the trapies, nad a noticeable that alloguer Sparish and Italian mostly the former have begu - be prepared to accept the ambition of the fextare is the special arra gements Gade rested onion in connertion with coal dispute as suggested 15 the Prades for the comfest of poesengers. Not only\n\nthe Spanish plat. Con Congress as representing those is the cnbir waliloted at a greater exure British, e was at Erst stated,\n\nElection earle 264 Sone of those arrested suggested\n\nthe Paris bar bare signed an appeat to California ad Mouting wile Favela\n\noverwhelmingly voted for a resolation only, & legitinute in a very laudable the United States against the expertos encumeing de present federal law and\n\ncbject of aspiration.\n\nPossibly the T.L.C. and a great, any of Sacco and Vanzetti, They point out deadede e apendress of\n\nother persons as well wit be surprised Cantul Sterns Constirution regards to less that the national independence thek even the Americas judges are int ernhibition Missouri al Colorado ap\n\nof the Chinese people bus from the very sure of their gul, and even guilty.pear to have led down measures in first been one fine principal objeers of\n\n2 the morifiration of the State law.\n\nBibel policy, and that the so called LATER. \"uceque beates of 1801-models of Belated election retains indieste a re- moderation and good will-wore bamed dacties of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfece as ele as possible Republican ajrity in the Redste aval with China's covereign rights and to ca House of Representatives. alay sents courage bei ndicals and people to tread are still in the ballot and i the Deaerata be one wh that could pensione less hu capture a few core the western Repub-indeperasuste. Buevey, is the ba Bean urgents, ied by the Wiannokin coutrageglible Int, to be verbied by any grow of which the late Sepstor La Lane who takes the trouble to glady who Folette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategic position, by holding Unfortunately, it gestas to hyve been the balance busween the Demorats autorgattan not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Repu>Ticana\n\ndelunatists alone that sovereignty\" Latest Figures.\n\nCalot be confereed by a magician's wand, or ever by u Washington Conier New York. November 4 ence is our state to be enjoyed, but a\n\navailable show fandtion to the expreised. Mercins, Dai the next Serace be composed of deed, mamed it only to the Wise and #7 Detrocrats, one of the Parser Labore | Benevolent Water! Turky, 48 Repathesne, whereof eight are\n\ninsurgents, ad bence thorns To the i The French podion are being honored dech of the Amulsation Six sela\n\nweek for each wirer sad on strike.\n\nthe\n\nunions Disforöuation was expressed to tent than usoni, bor a special sir scoopi belp the wires to preing an unpreât is provided which Altera sir for din adio struggle. Ja London in 15 generally catatan: Marwughout the lateries.\n\nbelieved that the Conference will be con-\n\nCredit for Polica.\n\n| \n\nPn. November d\n\n| wills credit. Für fromvating lous of the is the Honee are duabital bat hitherto most entermined punish evolutionary the Replicas bure a more tears than\n\nand for their teed until\n\nsiderably tolesced by the failure of the EARL. BEATTY'S RESIGNATION 618 For hutched on French territory the Doucurals,\n\nforlorn hopes of the miners leaders,\n\nnuts, regarding the crcburgo ou servign i\n\nPOSTPONED,\n\nBrgey, November 4th.\n\nthe itapliunted non more salely within\n\nthe Le The conspiracy is attributed\n\nin a Cnts ex-Dopyty named Macia.\n\ncost and the compulsory lexy and by the East Beauty who has been Fiza Sawhoy however, caped. The arrested men plain weaking at to-day's craterence. 1\n\nLoud of the Advising and Chief of concertedly attempted 10 sayape when im\n\nInfantry was dented in to mount guard.\n\nis arassidered highly probauls that Winore Nasal Staf siree November, 151, has tied in Phun trap dalyahaw of Our dirilisation has produced so any\n\nFoxerulivo will senk authority to connivade | expreazeri kis desire to be allowed to le Similar Senegade Tailleurs wHIS TO disorders, from weleer to courtoiss which these its \"ery existence that, a settlement on the bush forms that can sign office on complaing a period of\n\nnidecod, baffed, wise to see the uhtalked in districts with the safe - civilization for the Bandos, we hostin\n\ngeintioned at\", Parpagena to control thep imprisona) there, who were revolt\n\nSOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN\n\nCHINA AND THE TREATICS.\n\nNAKIPO THE MOST OF GENEVA,\n\nThe Geneve\n\nthe Forrespondent of Hugging Fest states that Belgiumie ap- per to the Hugue Court against China's quilatere donandiation of the nuequal Customs Fronty daỡng bon 139 wil m no way jafurice Pekang's decision tu maka ben action cortive from Velour 27th at prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and fortuguese treaties later in the year and other une jou treaties as saur as the six wonths' denunciation\n\nto me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister In Bruznets.\n\nEurocan cRITER'S AGENCI\n\nTHE NEW BETTING TAX-\n\nBOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.\n\nPICKET SYSTEM THREAT.\n\nLONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Weating so day, and consequently it was impossible to turn any starting prices. According to Wang, Chien wil: javuke\n\nis is understood that this was due to\n\na boycost of Belgia gucds it themsets the fat that buckmbuers are unable toetuse lo sgiate Customs at and agree ang themselves haw Die betting reciprocat inri fronties along the lines\n\nA geais ated in the reynolic asing on the greani of the unsuitability of Tattoreult's Ming as the Windsor Rave Perise aries. This net was unle Glen shrug our shoulden, out of sheer self-guarding provision lec national privriples. the maximan ing which an officer will the food. Defence\n\nThis, adiy, is for antlement angested in rescined on the Board of the Ad- If we parties in shrugging everything out of dar attention, we shall en bis the Trades Brion Congress. The miraty except a sprint elryumstances. withous abonlines to ghrag, but some granding of auch authorisation by The bay however commented, so the request things, such as (for me) Clška, must be iamisted in the riot of staying we\n\nPolagate tonference woul se an inport of the l'inst Lord, a defer bia vesigns. that we call the world.\n\nant intve towards prese. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.\n\nDEATH AGAIN REPORTED.\n\nLatest Developments.\n\ntion.\n\nNATIONAL FINANCE, SPRCIAL COMMUNTRE'S FINDINGS.\n\nCose\n\nof treaties already noncladed\" with Gor many and Autria. The British treaties anies be denom.sed legally for eight years, bat Wang believes that credm.\n\nThe\n\nthar\n\nThe incidence of existing tesañon with special aminion conferees at the luneseen. The bet the police piloted him to safety with of the world.\"]\n\nCOAL STOPPAGE AND LIFE ASSURANCE.\n\nACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.\n\nPROBLEM.\n\ntax Redd be applied. The altitude of PROSPECTS OF GETELEMENT.\n\n[başkaskers vulndning from oftering prices was gonerally condemned, and ibe Lenox, Novemùre Srd.\n\nopinion was freely expingsed that their We need have no fear of those difi-ion is making the strangest posible tamee wilt serant of abregation before enities or evenally befog antiled to GY, November 4th.\n\nFor the Satroad jau the satisfaction of the one to the other.\n\nterafiarto, Considerable innvortance attacles to\n\nGeneral Herzog, speaking at lun-\n\nMeaza hile. A is evident that Chinese the Miners Delegais Conferemer in holly\n\nWe Want the Wato.\" Seen in Lendos go-üny giver By the Br\n\najataşıman one seaking the most of their SHANODAL, Necember 4th. dou -day and strong hops, restrained Marshal San Chusn Farer's form head-only by the manory of pue disappoiti\n\nBrors, Novezier 4th. uish fudian Buion in the Indian de\n\nL352. ajestien og the Leagur Council. They will quarters have received a faspatch from mente, entertained hot at Set the British system of National furco has Margas of Bouding persided.\n\nAn exhuastive examination of the gates of the Imperial Coulrease. The There is a grong disposition as the vas ienova js a publicity centre, vuiting\n\nmoment, aming the booktankers in Putter į the azue unday Article is of the Core Marahel stafing that the Superin way all be clenged for a puzon effort, tendent of the Aurican Mission les The main out for decision is the date the chainauship of Lord Colwyn The\n\nDuw been coaj leted by a committes urner The function was notable, as being calle Ring to stay away pliogether from ant. mai dertzog's first appearance at i now Windsay Jomorrow. Using the stone | According to dis article of the Coven- pital at Changsha resta essure to the gates will free their exentive finance Caiutee was t Amican Copen at Nanking on October ariesiona and power in to proused in\n\noc by Mr. Philip South African function, while his queeri steps of the staed as a rostrum sproval at the Assemby may from the to Snowder, who was then Chancellby of was noteworthy we the test subiely aggrieved bookmakers halangued the time use the reconeidéention to mera- S to the affect thay General Ching sonich of a sectieraons along the lives the exliegues to February 1994 and its indication feren anyone inside the red and from bets by drifted to burs of the League of treaties which have Fai Shek had died from wounds.\n\nangusted by the Frado Union Congress, terms of incedenes were to rotate and Conference of the faanly froling strong | polities with violens petsons on Mr. Win become inapplicable, and the considere. There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the the conferens,\n\nFurthermore, General sing Churchill. One man who shouted ties of antineliopal conditions where BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED\n\nwing specifig patce temps.\n\n\"We Esans to be decried is whether the excreference to their egg on brade, indus\n\nHerring was the sole representative of the Fe want the Tote \"jut a roug's sime dispostimages wight endanger the peace IN HUNAN.\n\nshat Le Sudorised in by for a try, oplosment, and National credis.arquis of Reading, in a speech, wanbly no hum done. AP.C. BUILDING BURNED DOWN.tries, and whether such autherias. It is undergo that the cum titles med Gotural Herizon\n\nfun. if garsed, shall be conditional\n\nBookmakers' Organise Bogenot. dindings are embodied in too reports entirely wrihout restriction.\n\nGeneral Hortzog's Speech, LATRA. which will shortly be handed to the A division of opinion is hely but the Choreitor of the bandoquer,\n\nGeneral Fartzog, regtrias, canplssied It is now resised that the action of deleges are bed with the knowledge The newapapers state that the majority\n\nthol vryne of clase contact in ravoving the hackmakes at Windsor, which thew that any attempt to renew the demand report deals with the gezocal ducis (endersienbuch, presie and hicker the whole carration of holding in a for calling out the safety me or for system in a way that is in nerd witheria) Cuntrance, lure the delegaces to organisal boyants, and acom of there\n\nvandstill throughout the county, was The Prudential Assurance Company ings. That was why he ngareciated the widge\n\nnorances that, \"Bubject to certain easy and secusly accepted pripsiplex, and Sark rentact giving the uneasy or threatened that his would be costumed conditions, policy holdiers au have the thet veldrags Gatsibutions of trade commends unly minor alterations and\n\nnoisy will not alone exabin the dis-djustments the existing methods GẼ deurs and anderstanding. He added to the end of the dat soon wates the arrears of preuvame the base accuupa-\n\nBIAA South Afries and die were try- froth to be cenzused with any hopes of textian 14 minted that the fluding ing to come into closer contact. They is exported at Tattersall's at Winter to-\n\nBax is favouerbiy altered. No okiakerated during unemployment resulting success. Yesterday nearly ons roure by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable diferences in the grow, while it 24 uuderstool one on their industrial branch policies, from the coal dispune deducted from the dus went back to work, the biggest freinstances, reveamend the inposi-past, but he was convinced that with, single day heat for some tion, and there ton of a capital lovy, but will declare better fual understanding they would publie not to eate thongs Heel of the payments already mute, or suffer, picket system will be organised to induce fustend of heving, forfeit horsfé THE ILL-FATED \"KIANGYUNG.ed with 256,000 a week ago, and 16.000 taxation. is success, however, must de\n\nnow in the pits over 2,000 corpur- that it is a practicat ethed of seducing he appared to mel oue Juncher's re-me en helt or will be held as a reduction in the capital amount of anouth o The miners employed\n\naaghout the entry, appending for read largely or its general acceptance General Hering was boudly cheered today,\n\nfor the etion of the Windsor Before the dispute numbered 1,and evő by the Nation, mat as a potiosi creed when he made the remark noted at\n\nIn a fasacial expedia.\n\nbeginning. He concluded la hoping that\n\nOBITUARY.\n\ndiving the sermainder of their library ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.\n\nthey would contine u the happy spiri in which M. Baldwin and the Dominion} Gelegentes had been getting oa at the Con- ferenze, Whers they looked one another face to face and had not been afraid in connection with the anniversay in say what they wanted in\n\nsay Aristine Play next Thursday, which, as\n\n(Applause.) Ja former years will be celebrated roughout 12 fixpire y religious ser. Mr. A. J. Cock has nude the state- vices and the observance of two minots!\n\nSHANOR November 4th. A message received her From Changsh states that the Asiatic Petroɔlepa Com- pany's property at Packing has been brut dewn Also that Messrs. Butter- feld And Swim's property at Changra\n\nve been deatroyed,\" and that soms Wesleyan mizzinecies at Linyang have\n\nem faced to deadpate\n\nAll the awna mentioned chore are in the occupation of Southero troops.\n\nCOMPENSATIOS DEMANDED\n\nw! bo Funile,\n\nABOHAN RECTER'S AGENCY. piy boatsion is AvoidaÄ\n\nJDON, November 3rd.\n\nMarshal Son Chaan Prag is the re ripient of telegrama Tozs the Chis Merchants' Secor Navigation Compeny asking comprenantion for She loss of their\n\n6 appears that the Unions decided vessel, the Kinoguey, which went, done will: 12 hops af Kinking After only to permend and not to ingor Longon coinde n momiantion, she was in levy, because the non-payment of s comptiary by would eutui penalties energing, explored).\n\nLATAR.\n\nHron, November 4th. the last erremony in Whitehall, Louien, Avrangements are now coupleted for\n\nThe angry was coemendered in the stripe of the dis-affiliation of the Ly Suo's troops and the steamship you. Taions not felting the instruction.\n\nas officials requear him to inquire into the actual uning of the futafity. There was a crew of 118 men on road of whichment that the Mind Executive bussenes Accerpanied by the Prince of only were resoned and the company never diesed the question of district Wales, the Duke pants arch starked for the torped of settlements, which thes the remaining se who are believed Josongor honis. and proper wapensation made to the vie is families. They also requnal, in the telegram, th your other of their hips, comorandzerest by Mitula troops,\n\nreipt:S],\n\nhe\n\ngubamunpre\n\ninsur the re-emering employment the policy- holders will. azider the scheme, have his Reggars reduced to four weeks, and wil only have to meet the regular weekly payments; the outstanding balance will BISHOP OF ST, DAYIDE.\n\nbe covered by a suitable deduction to be (made when à clain ansee In the rase The death is announced of the Bishop of a with profit policy this deduction will of St. David's, the Right Rev. John made, noi frain the sum assured, but Usen\n\nGum the bons thereon, and no the huit The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A., bad of the insurances isped by the Pradentind bear Bistry of St. huvida ei.co 1867. me of this description, the vane of the He was born in 1854. And was thus 72 coomon cannot, it is oicially stated, years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can He was ordained Desuon in 1879, Priest, be vanilovi by a silabic payment at 16; Walsh Professor and Classica Loe any time before a claim arises. turer at St. David's College. Lampeter, It pointed on that most of those 1679 Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal drupate will ron Llandovery College, 1985 $8; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of kahffity, 4pl, 185 68; racial of St David'sant that lets of the Pedential will College, Lamuser; Cason of 6. Asaph, rethze that the way has been made\n\neasy for them to maintain their policies. i loze.\n\nTHE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.\n\nWAS WRONG MAN LYNCHED: York and other wen meutered the Royal Family; the King will\n\nPants, November ul. lng a wreath at the Cenotaph and wil be\n\nA vemarkable statement is mache in present daring the brief service that will\n\na tieuna telagenas to the Paria Widi that be endented there. Surrounding the the boy Zumboni was not the real asi Menotaph will be representative detachant of Msanii but that he was yached\n\ntents of the Eighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the aid of 1999-97; when he was mised to th Slatine, and ex-Servicemen,\n\nthe shot and trier to Ben.\n\nBishopvie. I\n\nNearly 800,00 Miners at Work,\n\noxnoy, November 3rd.\n\nA total of 290,67 ders am working, I to-day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5FR, 1926\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1926\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD).\nPage 3\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nsuccessful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\nHOCKEY.\nTODAY'S GAMES.\nPage 4\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\nEducation.\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply.\nEver since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\nCRICKET.\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\nCONFERENCE.\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse.\nAccording to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\nBRITISH POLICY.\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\nFLIGHTS.\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present",
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        "content_text": "## 28\n\nIt was a bleak December, and the examination was held on the 6th. On the previous night, I went to bed early in order that I might be well prepared for the morrow, but the night was cold, my mind was given up to imagination, so that I could hardly fall into a sound sleep. In the morning, when the air was fresh and dewy, I got up and had a little exercise.\n\nAfter breakfast, I started for the University with my friends. On the way, we met many boys and girls who were also going for that examination. In about ten minutes' time, the University building came in sight, and we went in through the main entrance where our mistress was already waiting. She first led us in and then went to find the room where the seats were prepared for our examination. While we were waiting outside the room, we felt rather nervous. \"Wake up, girls, don't be so nervous and be steady,\" said our mistress to us.\n\nThen the bell rang, and we went into the room for the first paper. Through my nervousness I took a wrong seat, No. 755 instead of 754. What a strange, big room it seemed with three long lines of desks and the countenances of the girls which were not familiar to us! Then entered two lady examiners who provided each of us with a question paper on which several questions were set. I, having an unsettled mind like Ulysses, took a long time to think whether I should take this one or the other, but at last I chose one. The time passed swiftly; just when I had finished my essay and had written half of my letter, I heard the lady speaking suddenly, \"Fifteen minutes more.\" I just finished in time. Now the first paper was over, and what a relief!\n\nThe bell rang again, and we dispersed for a moment and went back to the cloak room where there were conversations exchanged amongst us as if we were birds twittering on the tree in the morning. We had to be back again for another paper after an interval. By the end of the morning we went home for tiffin. \"How do you like the papers?\" asked my cousin. \"Well, the first one was not bad, but the second one was rather distasteful, for those sums were hard and tricky; I think I could hardly have got half of them right,\" said I.\n\n## 66\n\nAfter having my Free Hand Drawing in the afternoon, a day's work was over. I was glad to get home, which seemed to be the haven from the storms and perils of the world. Mathematics, a dreaded subject of mine, would start our second day's work next morning, so I looked them over and prepared for the morrow.\n\n## 29\n\nNext morning, I went to the University again, and it seemed that everything was quite familiar to me.\n\nThe longest examination was on Thursday afternoon. In the evening we returned home, the sun was already going down among purple islands of clouds.\n\nSeven days quickly passed, then all our work was over. I was so happy that my burden was released, yet I was full of eagerness about the coming out of the result.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n## 3\n\n### 1/2\n\n2 \n\nforeigners in Canton. I have no doubt, however, that if the Cantonese thought they could push us out of the concessions without too much difficulty the mob would be encouraged to make the attempt. It is only the fear of the consequences which prevents the attempt being made. The Nationalist Government cannot run the risk of having their base blockaded whilst their northern campaign is still in the balance.\n\n4. It is obvious, however, that this is neither a safe nor a desirable basis on which to continue the possession of Shameen. It was originally the desire of the Chinese authorities themselves that foreigners should be set apart in concessions. Their residence in the cities was strongly resented. In Canton it was for a long time absolutely prohibited, and the seclusion of the \"foreign devil\" in special areas was considered by the Chinese as the best way of dealing with an apparently necessary evil. Moreover, in order to secure this seclusion, they were willing to allow the foreigner to have municipal control over the area which had been set apart for him. The Chinese attitude of mind on the subject has undergone a great change in recent years. In Canton they no longer object to foreigners residing in the city. In fact, a number do reside there and in the suburbs, but, on the other hand, the Chinese now strongly resent foreign municipal control over any part of Chinese soil as an infringement of their country's sovereign rights. For this reason they are determined to regain possession of the concessions, and, as things are shaping at present, it looks as though they will succeed, in one way or another, before very long, at all events so far as the smaller places are concerned.\n\n5. To return to Shameen, although, owing to the fact that it is an island, it could probably be held against a mob, or perhaps even for some time against a military attack, it is clear that if the Nationalist Government are determined to resume control over the concession area they could, by more peaceful means, speedily make our continued possession of the island impossible, or at least unprofitable. It would not be difficult to reimpose the boycott and blockade of Shameen in a more stringent form than before. The electric light, which is derived from a Chinese company in the city, could be cut off. This was not done during the recent troubles, and although there is an emergency dynamo in the concession, I am told that it would only be sufficient for street lighting. The island has its own waterworks, but a few shots through the water-tower would put it out of commission and we should be reduced to drinking boiled river water, which near Shameen is practically liquid sewage. Moreover, whereas during the last boycott British subjects were permitted to move freely about the city and were so enabled by surreptitious means to do a certain amount of business, it could be made dangerous for them to leave the shelter of the island, and their trade would then really come to an end. All this could be done without any overt act on the part of the Canton Government, who would, as before, assert that they were unable to suppress a patriotic manifestation of national feeling. A mob attack repulsed with bloodshed would almost certainly bring about such a state of affairs.\n\n6. If, then, the Chinese are determined to get back the concessions, their wishes will have to be met sooner or later, and I venture to suggest that it is better to start negotiations voluntarily to this end whilst we are still in possession, and so get better terms than we could obtain after we have been driven out. In this connection please see Foreign Office telegram to me No. 1 of the 15th January. As such negotiations are contemplated in your telegram to the Foreign Office No. 6 of the 3rd January, I presume that you will wish to have my views on the extent to which our control over the British concession in Shameen can safely be relinquished to the Chinese authorities.\n\n7. Full information regarding the origins of the concession and the title by which we hold it are in the possession of the Legation and the Foreign Office, and it is not necessary for me to go over that ground. It may be useful, however, to explain once more that Shameen is a small flat island, about a mile and a quarter round, bounded on one side by the river and separated from the mainland on the other by a creek about 100 feet wide. A plan of the island is enclosed.* The British concession occupies four-fifths, whilst one-fifth at the eastern end constitutes the French concession. The two areas are only divided by an imaginary line. The island is rather like a London park, with its cement walks, avenues of trees and grass lawns, although of course it has more houses. It is joined to the mainland by two bridges with steps which prevent the passage of wheeled vehicles, and, in fact, no wheeled vehicles, except bicycles, are allowed on the island by the concession bye-laws.\n\n8. There are a number of fine buildings, including banks, offices and residences, and there are several warehouses, mostly belonging to the banks, in which raw silk in large quantities is deposited against loans. At the present moment there is between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 dollars' worth of silk on the island. There are no industrial concerns beyond a small Boda water factory belonging to A. S. Watson and Co. (Limited), and no Chinese other than the servants and employees of foreigners are allowed to reside in the concessions. Chinese, however, can come in and out freely, and the restrictions on their use of the bund and the bund seats have been tacitly dropped since the boycott without any noticeable inconvenience to the residents.\n\n9. I enclose a memorandum supplied by the Municipal Council giving detailed figures regarding the population and value of property in the concession and the personnel of the administration. There is a total population of 1,230, of whom 116 are British and 126 are Japanese. The total value of land and buildings is about 19,536,405 dollars, of which 9,753,170 dollars is held by British subjects, 1,708,075 dollars by Japanese and 1,041,788 dollars by Americans. The administrative machine consists of five counsellors, who are local merchants and give their services gratis, with a staff of one paid British secretary and thirty-one Chinese employees, whilst the police force comprises one English captain superintendent, nineteen Indians and twenty-three Chinese.\n\n10. It will thus be seen that, while the British concession on Shameen contains valuable property, its administration is not a very large or complicated affair, and that it is not beyond the ability of the Canton Government, who after all administer a large city not too badly, to take it over and run it, if they wish, in a manner sufficiently acceptable to the foreign residents. The danger would not be, as in Shanghai, a general deterioration of all public services, because there is none to speak of on Shameen, and the substitution of Chinese for foreign police need not, I think, cause any serious alarm so far as the protection of life and property against ordinary crime is concerned.\n\n11. Provided satisfactory arrangements can be made for the exchange of Chinese perpetual leases for the existing Crown leases, it seems to me that the chief dangers to be apprehended after the surrender of the concession are the imposition of heavy taxation on real property and the exposure of the residents to mob violence in times of anti-foreign disturbance. As regards the former, the Canton authorities are now demanding the re-registration of all title deeds for land outside the concession, for which a fee of 2 per cent. ad valorem is charged, and thereafter it is their intention to collect an annual land tax of considerable amount. I have not yet got full particulars of the scheme, but hope to obtain them shortly. This procedure would also be applied to concession properties once they came under Chinese control, unless the matter were made the subject of special agreement at the time of the surrender. Moreover, in course of time, an attempt would be made to levy business and other taxes from which foreigners living in concessions are now free, but I gather from your telegram to the Foreign Office, No. ... of the 3rd January, that the subjection of British subjects to Chinese municipal taxation, if regularly imposed, is in any case contemplated. Nevertheless, I think an effort should be made to secure a very definite understanding regarding the taxation to be levied in the concession area, as otherwise property owners will be subjected to all sorts of extortion in legal guise. On the other hand, it is thought by the well-informed that land values in the concession will increase as soon as Chinese are allowed to buy and a free market is opened to property owners. Land on the Chinese bund adjacent to the concession is worth more than on Shameen.\n\n12. The question of mob violence in times of trouble is also a serious one, but nowadays it is a moot point whether in an anti-foreign agitation it is safer to have a concession or not. The concession, it is true, provides a place which can be defended for a while against the mob whilst women and children are evacuated, but on the other hand it forms a target for attack and is a standing provocation to all the agitators and extremists who preach the abolition of foreign privilege. Moreover, if, as at Hankow and in a lesser degree in Canton, many of the foreign residents live outside the concession, the use of firearms in the defence of the latter imperils the lives of the people outside. Questions of national prestige also invest the protection of these areas with an importance unwarranted, in some cases at least, by their intrinsic value.\n\n13. I have long been of the opinion that the smaller concessions are a danger in the present state of Chinese feeling, and that we should be wise to return them to Chinese control. If this were done voluntarily, it would be easier to stipulate for sufficient foreign, and preferably international, participation in the municipal government to prevent the undue misappropriation of the municipal revenues, and to secure such other safeguards as may be considered essential. Things would not be so ... \n\nPage 363 \n\n[34 z-5] \n\nB",
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        "content_text": "In the Conveyance\n\nof Paces\n\nYou lest,\n\nMails to the Lau\n\nthat it is hoped to start\n\nthe new Service at an\n\nearly date.\n\n2) The Governors of the\n\nStraits Setts and H.M.\n\nColonies are being informed of the\n\ninstitution of the new Service.\n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nDusd. 9-\n\nYour reference NQ.52757/28\n\n118927/27.\n\nP.O. reference..\n\nAll communications should be\n\naddressed to-\n\n\"The Secretary,\n\nGeneral Post Office.\"\n\nSCHEME\n\nFOR DISABLED\n\nEX-SERVICE MEN\n\n10\n\n1928.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, E.C. 1.\n\nMay\n\nSir,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n5MAY 1928\n\nCOL.OFFICE\n\nWith further reference to your letter of the 30th of\n\nJanuary last, I am directed by the Postmaster General to\n\nacquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State\n\nfor the Colonies, that the Treasury has now authorised the use\n\nof Holt Line Steamers, alternately with Steamers of the\n\nPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, for the\n\nconveyance of Parcel Mails to the Far East.\n\nThe necessary arrangements are being made with\n\nMessrs. Holt, and it is hoped to start the new Service at an\n\nearly date.\n\nThe Postal Administrations of the Colonies concerned will\n\nbe advised as soon as a date for the first despatch has been\n\nfixed.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nAlliduar\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## POST.\nWEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929\n\ncontinued unrestricted import and export of silver dollars to correct the vagaries of the tael, and the free circulation and acceptance of silver dollars, and in this the Government might assist by withdrawing its discouragement to payments to the Treasury in the Colony's legal tender.\n\nAn increase in notes accompanied by free circulation of dollars interchangeable into notes and general observation of the fact that silver dollars are legal tender in this Colony would appear to be effective almost at once in bringing down the Hongkong paper dollar to its true value.\n\nIt is desirable to retain bank-notes, and its temporary increase might be facilitated to the issuing Banks by the grant of less onerous conditions for an excess of the present amount, subject to a gradual reduction to a figure proved by experience to be sufficient for the Colony's requirements.\n\nThis is by no means an exhaustive review of the situation, but sufficient facts have been exposed to warrant an examination of the problem by the Government. Perhaps one of our unofficial members of the Council will take the matter in hand and move for a Commission to explore the matter in all its aspects, or preferably a currency expert might be engaged to report thereon.\n\nYears ago a situation detrimental to the interest of the Colony in reference to small coins was corrected by the action of the Government, and it now lies again with the Government to take such steps as may be necessary to remove the handicap which now exists to the trade of Hongkong.—Yours, etc.,\n\nOBSERVER.\nHongkong, July 16th, 1929.\n\n### Flowers, and Funerals.\n\nSir, May I express my agreement with Captain Baylis' admirable letter in your issue of today? On the occasions of these melancholy and unfortunately not uncommon processions to the cemetery, we cannot be but struck by the deplorable waste of money that has been expended in wreaths of fast withering flowers.\n\nPerhaps but comparatively few of us appreciate the splendid work that charities such as the Hongkong and kindred societies are doing. Their work is always unobtrusive, perhaps too unobtrusive, but every penny received by them is expended in lightening the burden of someone to whom the world has not been overkind.\n\nThe causes for the anomaly of a \"promise\" being superior in value to the \"performance\" in this issue are undoubtedly many, but the principal cause would appear to be the inadequate supply of bank notes for \"trade\" purposes; the value of bank notes emitted is returned in millions, but what proportion of these millions is in trade circulation is unknown, nor is the total ascertainable of the huge sum hoarded by the Chinese in South China as a protective measure against the insecure and mercurial paper of their own Banks, and their coin of varying and doubtful values.\n\nThis is a wonderful tribute to the note-issuing institutions of Hongkong, but they are possibly not performing fully the service intended by the Ordinances authorising their respective note issues in that an important percentage of such notes (larger than most people think) is being utilised to a purpose foreign to facilitation of trade by its permanent withdrawal into the Chinese equivalent of the French peasant's stocking.\n\nThis unexpected use of bank-notes has kept Hongkong currency at an over silver parity, and a position in taels, originally contracted for trade requirements which did not eventuate and since carried on speculatively, has intensified the difficulty by keeping up or even increasing the premium.\n\nSir, I think many of your readers will thoroughly endorse all that Mr. Baylis has said, re Flowers and Funerals. I hope something will be done to have stop this habit (for has it not become that?) of sending stacks of wreaths, ordered from Flower Street, by the office boy to the funeral of everyone of note who dies here.\n\nOld custom dies hard, but if instead of the wreath the cost of it could be sent to Captain Baylis for distribution, what an amount of real suffering would be alleviated. Tomorrow, from entirely selfish motives, I am going to make a start. I am informing those few, alas! very few persons who in the event of my decease would be likely to send a wreath, to forward $2.50 instead to Captain Baylis, for though I can think of little good I have done by living, I will then in my last hours have the consolation that I have endeavoured to accomplish some little good by dying.—Yours, etc.,\n\nCORONA.\n\n### That Shanghai Notice.\n\nSir, I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 5, addressed to the Chairman of Council, relative to an enquiry by the Editor of Dearborn Publishing Company as to whether the expression \"No dogs or Chinese admitted\" appears on any public signboard in Shanghai.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to inform you that no such notices are posted in any parks or in any of the places under the Council's jurisdiction, furthermore, careful investigation reveals the fact that such a notice has never appeared in the International Settlement.\n\nFor your information, I have the pleasure in handing you herewith three photographic reproductions of notices posted in the various parks and gardens. The Council would, accordingly, greatly appreciate it, if when replying to the Dearborn Publishing Company, you would emphatically point out that such statements as these are entirely false, unfounded and unwarrantable and that their publication is strongly objected to by the Council and the Foreign Community at Shanghai.—I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\n(Sgd.) E. S. B. ROWE, Secretary.\n\nAttached to these letters are facsimiles of the Regulations posted outside the Public and Reserve Gardens, Jessfield Park, and Hongkew Park, notes, a natural and normal consequence of weakness in the sterling rate in Shanghai vis-a-vis a relatively unmovable rate in Hongkong.\n\nIn other words, the premium of Hongkong notes is primarily due to the demand therefor exceeding the supply, and in a secondary manner to the speculation in taels.\n\nThere are undoubtedly other very many causes, but whatever they may be, the fact remains that a departure of a currency from its parity, whether a rise or fall from its basis of value, cannot react otherwise than detrimentally to trade.\n\nThe question is full of intricacies, and a satisfactory solution even more so, but a remedy might be found in an increase in the issue of bank notes, and placing a curb on the speculation in taels. The latter might be reached without great difficulty by agreement between the Banks themselves but, for obvious reasons, it cannot be effective unless accompanied by drastic measures to meet the trade requirements of Hongkong in respect of banknotes.\n\nNeither will an increase by itself in the issue of Bank notes remedy the situation unless accompanied by a certainty of convertibility.\n\n### Yunnan Fighting.\n\nTerrible Havoc Caused in Yunnanfu.\n\nPeking, July 16. Delayed messages from Yunnanfu paint a lurid picture of street fighting in that city, after a powder magazine explosion, which wrecked large areas of the city, including the French and British Consulates.\n\nThe explosion occurred on July 11. The British Consulate was mostly demolished, with most of its contents entirely destroyed. The Consul, Kirke, was injured, but not seriously.\n\nIt appears that troops of Generals Ho and Chang invaded Yunnan from Kweichow, marched on Yunnanfu, where a weak defending force failed to beat off the attack. The invaders got into the city, and there was much fighting in the streets, followed by the explosion of the powder magazine. There are further details yet to come.—Reuter.\n\n[An exclusive cable to S.C.M. Post last week gave facts of the explosion, and its results.]\n\n### The Colonies.\n\nAppointment of Mr. Hartshorn Foreshadowed.\n\nLondon, June 2. The Times to-day features an article by its Parliamentary correspondent, forecasting that on the conclusion of the Simon Commission's work Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, M.P., will be invited to Office and the Colonial Office separated from the Dominions Office, when the latter will be definitely separated.\n\nLord Passfield will continue to act as Secretary of State for Dominions and Mr. Hartshorn take charge of the Colonial Branch.\n\nM. F. KE, Hon. Secretary, Association, Hongkong, made a Statement.\n\n### PUBLIC AND RESERVE GARDENS REGULATIONS\n\n| Rule | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | The Gardens are reserved for the Foreign Community. |\n| 2. | The Gardens are opened to the public from 6 a.m. and be closed half an hour after sunset. |\n| 3. | No persons are admitted unless respectably dressed. |\n| 4. | Dogs and bicycles are not admitted. |\n| 5. | Perambulators must be confined to the paths. |\n| 6. | Birdnesting, plucking flowers, climbing trees or damaging trees, shrubs, or grass is strictly prohibited: visitors and others in charge of children are requested to aid in preventing such mischief. |\n| 7. | No person is allowed within the band stand enclosure. |\n| 8. | Amahs in charge of children are not permitted to occupy seats and chairs during band performances. |\n| 9. | Children unaccompanied by foreigners are not allowed in Reserve Garden. |\n| 10. | The Police have instructions to enforce these regulations. |\n\nBy Order,\nN. O. LIDDELL,\nSecretary.\n\nShanghai, September 13, 1917.\n\n### PEAK RESIDENT.\n\nSir,—With reference to the claim of your correspondent \"Truth-seeker\" to have seen in 1916 at the entrance to the Bund Gardens at Shanghai a notice reading \"Dogs and Chinese are not admitted,\" it seems desirable to publish once more the official repudiation, and I therefore enclose a copy of an official statement on the subject.\n\nIt is surely quite simple for the relatives to insert the words \"No flowers by request,\" and the custom would die out.—Yours, etc.,\n\nPEAK RESIDENT.",
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        "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939",
        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# FAR EASTERN (JAPAN)\n\nMarch 3, 1939\n\n## SECTION 6\n\n[F 2144/23/23]\n\nCopy No. 131\n\n## Sir R. Craigie to Viscount Halifax.—(Received March 3.)\n\n**(No. 29.)**\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTokyo, January 19, 1939.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 12 of the 6th January, I have the honour to append a list of the new Cabinet, whose investiture took place on the evening of the 5th January :-\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Prime Minister | Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma |\n| Minister for Foreign Affairs | Mr. Hachiro Arita |\n| Minister of Home Affairs | Marquis Koichi Kido |\n| Minister of Finance | Mr. Sotaro Ishiwata |\n| Minister of War | Lieutenant-General Seishiro Itagaki |\n| Minister of Marine | Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai |\n| Minister of Justice and concurrently Communications | Mr. Suehiko Shiono |\n| Minister of Education | Baron Sadao Araki |\n| Minister of Agriculture and Forestry | Mr. Yukio Sakurauchi |\n| Minister of Commerce and Industry and concurrently Overseas Affairs | Mr. Yoshiakira Hatta |\n| Minister of Railways | Mr. Yonezo Maeda |\n| Minister of Welfare | Mr. Hisatada Hirose |\n| Minister without portfolio | Prince Fumimaro Konoye |\n\nOf the new entrants into the Government, Messrs. Ishiwata and Hirose are permanent officials, who were the Vice-Ministers of their respective departments under the former Government, and the appointments of Messrs. Sakurauchi and Maeda serve merely to change the representatives in the Government of the established political parties. There is a general tendency towards reduction in the size of the Cabinet, and Baron Hiranuma has stated that he does not intend to fill the two vacant seats at least until after the Diet session.\n\n2. There has naturally been much speculation on the causes of Prince Konoye's resignation. The prince himself explained his action to the press by stating that national policy had been fixed at the Imperial Conference of the 30th November, that the China crisis had entered upon a new stage of reconstruction and that the time had arrived when a new and vigorous Government should be formed and a fresh start made. This explanation is, of course, far from convincing. There is little doubt that the immediate cause of the crisis is to be connected with the omission of Admiral Suetsugu from the new Government. A divergence of opinion had arisen between Prince Konoye and the admiral over the latter's National Council proposal (please see my Savingram No. 35 of the 5th December last) and this proposal was backed by Count Arima, who has also been relieved of his portfolio. Admiral Suetsugu is known to have advocated strong policies on every occasion, including the dissolution of the House of Representatives on the slightest provocation, and there would have been ample provocation had the admiral been permitted to defend his unpopular proposal in the House. As indicated in my despatch No. 1010 of the 15th December, Prince Konoye's prospects in the Diet were precarious enough without this added source of danger and it has been known throughout that his supporters in Court circles have been determined to preserve him from all risks of political defeat. Mr. Ikeda's insistence upon resignation is to be explained by the fact that he only consented to enter the Government during last May, in spite of his failing health, at the personal request of Prince Konoye. He has always said he would not remain in any Cabinet not led by Prince Konoye; he had found himself in constant disagreement both with Admiral Suetsugu and General Itagaki; and, finally, he cannot but have welcomed this opportunity of escaping from the increasingly difficult task of maintaining Japan's finances on a sound basis.\n\n[558 c-6]",
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