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        "document_key": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]",
        "content_text": "7\n\n162\n\nnot being filled up by the time this application may reach you, and I do so, in the confident expectation that when my public Services brought under consideration as above detailed are your consideration you will not refuse to assign his suitable reward to one who has given the best years of his life to The Queen's Service in this distant Colony, and who has always had at heart the interests and advancement of Strathcona.\n\n \nShould I be again passed over it would be a grievous disappointment to me, but should I be fortunate enough to have substantiated my claim, it only remains to assure you that my best endeavours shall be to the performance of the high duties entrusted to me.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, your most Obedient Servant,\n\nMonial Secretary of Strathcona.\n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected \"Strughous\" and \"Strughong\" to \"Strathcona\" as it seems to be the correct name.\n2. Corrected \"disappointinent\" to \"disappointment\".\n3. Corrected \"your mort Obedient Servant\" to \"your most Obedient Servant\".\n4. Rejoined broken sentences and restored proper paragraph breaks.\n5. Removed extra spaces and corrected minor spacing issues.\n6. The original text \"Monial Secretary of Strughong-\" was corrected to \"Monial Secretary of Strathcona.\" assuming \"Monial\" might be a OCR error for \"Colonial\". However, I left it as is because it might be a correct title or name in the context. If \"Colonial\" is the intended word, it should be corrected accordingly. \n7. The output is formatted in HTML using `` for paragraphs as per the instructions.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891",
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        "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909",
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        "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909",
        "content_text": "# THE TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1909.\n\n## WESTERN TEACHING FOR CHINA.\n\nThe China Emergency Appeal Committee are about to make an appeal for assistance in medical training and other educational work in China. The fund for this purpose will be opened at a meeting to be held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, March 18, at 8 p.m., under the presidency of the Lord Mayor. The meeting will be addressed by Sir Robert Hart, the Bishop of London, the American Ambassador, Lord Strathcona, Dr. Gibson, and the President of the Wesleyan Conference.\n\nSir Robert Hart is the president of the committee, of which the vice-presidents are the Bishop of London, the Vice-Chancellors of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Universities, the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Armitstead, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Reay, and Lord Strathcona.\n\nThe offices of the China Emergency Committee are at 28, Victoria-street, Westminster, where all particulars can be had.\n\nRepresentative boards will be established in China in each locality where they do not already exist to secure the proper administration of funds devoted to union or inter-denominational work. Contributions, if desired, can be specifically given for one or more of the three objects included in the appeal.\n\nContributions may be sent to the treasurers, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mansion House, É.C., or to Mr. Robt. Lathain Barclay, 54, Lombard-street E.C., in addition to the bankers of the China Emergency Appeal Fund, Messrs. Barclay and Co., 54. Lombard-street, and the Hong-kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 31, Lombard-street, \"E.C.\n\nThe change which has taken place in China, says the memorial prepared by the committee, has been rapid. The educational system has been transformed, and schools and colleges of various grades have been established. To refashion her institutions and educate her children China is seeking help from the West. Happily she knows the West through missions as well as through the opium trade.\n\nOut of the co-operation of some missionary societies and the earnest interest of others, there has arisen a new enterprise, the scheme of which the committee sets forth.\n\nThe first and most urgent need of China, according to the committee, is for medical colleges where natives may be prepared to practice among the people. It is proposed, therefore, to develop a medical college recently established at Peking and to bring up its equipment to the highest modern standard, and to reorganize in the same way three other institutions in West, Central, and Southern China. In support of this scheme the committee propose to appeal provisionally for £40,000.\n\nFor educational purposes the committee hope that efficient help will be provided by the equipment of a central University. This important object, however, is not included in the present appeal, because a special committee has been formed to deal with it. Primary and secondary schools are, however, now being established in all parts of the Empire, and these need Chinese teachers trained in the new learning. To provide such teachers it is proposed to form normal training colleges at various mission stations. A scheme has also been drafted, and has received the cordial approval of all English societies represented at the Shanghai Conference, by which missionary societies would be invited to establish theological colleges for pastors by the side of each central training institution for teachers.\n\nThe management of the central institutions would be vested in the hands of a local board representing the societies concerned. These societies would provide the salaries of the staff, the cost of the general upkeep of the colleges being met by the fees of the students.\n\nThere is, moreover, a growing demand for literature in China. To supply it there are already at work at least ten literature and tract societies, to assist which the committee appeal for £20,000.\n\nFinally, the memorial points out that the aim of the committee is not primarily evangelistic, but educational, and their appeal is, therefore, not to the supporters of any particular missionary society, but to the nation as a whole. It is proposed that this National Fund shall be administered in England by a board, including the honorary treasurers and an advisory committee, one-half the members of which shall be representatives of the missionary societies and the other half representatives of the emergency committee.\n\n## TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.\n\nSir,-A meeting is announced to be held at the Mansion House on the 16th inst., with a view to providing Western teachers--especially medical teachers--for China. It so happens that an earnest effort is being made just now to found a University (at the very portals of China) in the British colony of Hong-kong, and I venture to suggest that the object in view could not be better furthered than by supporting that project. The coincidence appears, indeed, so opportune that I may perhaps be permitted to outline the position.\n\nAn aspiration expressed by the Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, in the course of a public address, induced a resident in the colony, Mr. Mody, to offer to present the necessary buildings to start a University if the Government would provide a site and if the sum necessary for an endowment can be raised.\n\nIt is estimated that the buildings will cost some $200,000 (say approximately £29,000); the Colonial Government will provide a fitting site; there remains the endowment, which is estimated at £110,000. When Mr. Mody's munificent offer reached Sir Frederick Lugard he called a meeting of representative residents to discuss it, and I have before me a memorandum in which he states their conclusions and elaborates his conception of the objects to be kept in view.\n\nIt was the unanimous opinion of the meeting that the two faculties of primary importance to the Chinese, the establishment of which should take precedence of any others, were those of medicine and applied science (engineering).\n\nIt is proposed accordingly to amalgamate and extend the \"Hong-kong Medical College,\" which was founded in 1887 for the education chiefly of Chinese in medicine and surgery, and which has already turned out 36 qualified licentiates, besides 24 who are still undergoing training. The diploma does not at present represent a medical degree, though men possessing it have practised in the colony and elsewhere with excellent results; but powers would be taken and arrangements made under the new scheme to institute examinations and confer degrees on students who attain a standard equal to that required in England.\n\nAs regards engineering, there exists also the nucleus of a faculty in a so-called \"Technical Institute\"--which combines lectures on various subjects, but especially engineering and its allied studies. The lecturers' fees, apparatus, and lecture room are provided by the Government, supplemented by certain Chinese contributions and students' fees.\n\nNeither is the moral side of \"education\" (in the fullest sense of the word) overlooked, for foremost among the objects which the University should keep before it is placed the training of character.\n\nI would hope [writes his Excellency] that the graduates of Hong-kong would establish for themselves a reputation as patriotic and loyal citizens whether of this colony or of China; that during their sojourn here they shall learn to appreciate British ideals of justice and fair play; in short, that, while remaining in every respect Chinese, the University shall turn out men of upright character and not merely pour new wine into old bottles and evolve machines capable of passing examinations, but incapable of moral control.\n\nIt would seem that here are precisely the objects at which the China Emergency Committee aims.\n\nPage 17  \nPage 9  \nPage 7  \n06 MAR 09",
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        "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938",
        "content_text": "## HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT—*conid.* \n\n### War Office— \n**Secretary of State** Rt. Hon. LESLIE HORE-BELISHA, M.P. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Lord STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL. \n**Financial Secretary**-Sir VICTOR ALEXANDER GEORGE ANTHONY WARRENDER, Bt., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Air Ministry— \n**Secretary of State**-Rt. Hon. Sir H. KINGSLEY WOOD, M.P. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Captain HAROLD HARINGTON BALFOUR, M.C., M.P. \n**Lord President of the Council**- \nRt. Hon. Viscount RUNCIMAN. \n\n### Lord Privy Seal— \nRt Hon. Sir JOHN ANDERSON, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., M.P. \n\n### India Office— \n**Secretary of State**-Most Hon. the Marquess of ZETLAND, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Lieut-Colonel ANTHONY JOHN MUIRHEAD, M.C., M.P. \n\n### Burma Office— \n**Secretary of State**-Most Hon. the Marquess of ZETLAND, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Lieut.-Colonel ANTHONY JOHN MUIRHEAD, M.C., M.P. \n\n### Admiralty— \n**First Lord**-Rt. Hon. the Earl STANHOPE, K.G., D.S.O., M.C., D.L. \n**Parliamentary and Financial Secretary**-GEOFFREY HITHERSAY SHAKESPEARE, Esq., M.P. \n**Civil Lord**-Colonel JOHN JESTYN LLEWELLIN, O.B.E., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence— \nRt. Hon. Sir THOMAS WALKER HOBART INSKIP, C.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n\n### Board of Trade— \n**President** Rt. Hon. OLIVER FREDERICK GEORGE STANLEY, M.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-RONALD HIBBERT CROSS, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Mines Department— \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-Captain HARRY FREDERICK COMFORT CROOKSHANK, M.P. \n\n### Department of Overseas Trade \n**Secretary**-Rt. Hon. ROBERT SPEAR HUDSON, M.P.-[Representing Foreign Office and Board of Trade.] \n\n### Ministry of Health— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. WALTER E. ELLIOT, M.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-ROBERT HAMILTON BERNAYS, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Transport— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. EDWARD LESLIE BURGIN, LL.D., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-Captain AUSTIN UVEDALE MORGAN HUDSON, M.P. \n\n### Board of Education— \n**President**-Rt. Hon. the Earl DE LA WARR. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-KENNETH MARTIN LINDSAY, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Labour— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. ALFRED ERNEST BROWN, M.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-ALAN TINDAL LENNOX-BOYD, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Pensions— \n**Minister** HERWALD RAMSBOTHAM, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. WILLIAM SHEPHERD MORRISON, M.C., K.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-The Earl of FEVERSHAM. \n\n### Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster— \nRt. Hon. Earl WINTERTON, M.P. \n\n### First Commissioner of Works— \nRt. Hon. Sir PHILIP SASSOON, Bt., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P. \n\n## HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT—*contd.* \n\n### Attorney General— \nRt. Hon. Sir DONALD BRADLEY SOMERVELL, O.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n**Solicitor General**- \nSir TERENCE JAMES O'CONNOR, K.C., M.P. \n\n### General Post Office— \n**Postmaster-General**-Major Rt. Hon. GEORGE CLEMENT TRYON, M.P. \n**Assistant Postmaster-General**-Sir WALTER JAMES WOMERSLEY, M.P. \n**Paymaster General**-The Earl of MUNSTER. \n\n### Treasury— \n**Chancellor of the Exchequer** Rt. Hon. Sir JOHN SIMON, G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., O.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary** Captain Rt. Hon. HENRY DAVID REGINALD MARGESSON, M.C., M.P. \n**Financial Secretary**-Captain Rt. Hon. DAVID EUAN WALLACE, M.C., M.P. \n**Lords Commissioners**- \n- Hon. JAMES STUART, M.V.O., M.C., M.P. \n- Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES IAIN KERR, D.S.O., M.C., M.P. \n- Captain THOMAS LIONEL DUGDALE, M.P. \n- PATRICK MUNRO, Esq., M.P. \n- STEPHEN NOEL FURNESS, Esq., M.P. \n**Assistant Whips (unpaid)—** \n- Major Sir ALBERT JAMES EDMONDSON, M.P. \n- Major JOHN ARTHUR HERBERT, M.P. \n- Major GEORGE STEVEN HARVIE WATT, M.P. \n\n### Scotland— \n**Secretary of State** Rt. Hon. DAVID JOHN COLVILLE, T.D., M.P. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-HENRY JAMES SCRYMGEOUR WEDDERBURN, Esq., M.P. \n**Lord Advocate**-Rt. Hon. THOMAS MACKAY COOPER, O.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n**Solicitor-General**-JAMES SCOTT CUMBERLAND REID, Esq., K.C., M.P. \n\n### His Majesty's Household— \n**Lord Chamberlain**-Rt. Hon. the Earl of CLARENDON, K.G., G.C.M.G. \n**Lord Steward**-Rt. Hon. the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, G.C.V.O. \n**Master of the Horse**-The Duke of BEAUFORT, K.G., G.C.V.O. \n**Treasurer** Captain Hon. ARTHUR OSWALD JAMES HOPE, M.C., M.P. \n**Comptroller**-Captain CHARLES WATERHOUSE, M.C., M.P. \n**Vice-Chamberlain**-ROBERT VILLIERS GRIMSTON, Esq., M.P. \n**Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms**-Rt. Hon. The Earl of LUCAN, K.B.E., C.B. \n**Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard**-Lord TEMPLEMORE, K.C.V.O., D.S.O., O.B.E. \n\n### Permanent Lords-in-Waiting— \n- Colonel The Rt. Hon. Lord WIGRAM, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.S.I. \n- Rt. Hon. The Earl of CROMER, G.C.B., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O. \n**Lords-in-Waiting—** \n- Viscount GAGE. \n- The Earl of ERNE. \n- The Earl of ELDON. \n- Viscount ALLENDALE, M.C. \n- Earl FORTESCUE, M.C. \n- The Earl of BIRKENHEAD. \n\n### Forestry Commissioner— \nColonel Rt. Hon. Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE, Bt., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Charity Commissioner— \nLEWIS JONES, ESQ., M.P. \n\n### Second Church Estates Commissioner, representing Ecclesiastical Commissioners— \nHon. RICHARD DOUGLAS DENMAN, M.P. \n\n## No. 165 \n## A 2 \n## 10",
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        "content_text": "Strathcona Court\n\n198 Cromwell Road\n\n24th April 1946\n\nHumphrey,\n\nSw3\n\nI wonder if you\n\nMy dear\n\nI be...\n\nsome kind...\n\nfor me\n\nenclosed note marks...\n\nThat portion of the letter between...\n\nthe...\n\nhave the...\n\nartel.\n\nEly typed copy Diary of the...\n\nwhich I handed attached to the Police...\n\nwan in over Houphoup to you.\n\nThe incidents at Quarry Bay station on the night of the 18th December have been somewhat vague. This account clears up a good deal.\n\nThe writer is...\n\nP.S. A 19. Hill JF",
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        "content_text": "Hundred\n\nby (7=-7--Evans\n\nStrathcona Court\n\n198 Cromwell\n\nRoad\n\none (574\n\nMy dear Humphrey,\n\n574\n\n1st April 1946.\n\nHaw with the Report on Hongkong Police activities in the coming down through generation of Police officers.\n\nI imagine that it will be of considerable historical interest to policemen 100 years hence.\n\nIt is nice of you to send me your personal thanks. Although",
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        "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946",
        "content_text": "Mr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr...\n\nMr.\n\n5+144/43/3/2/45\n\n108 2\n\nHemmplacy 4.4.46 Ho\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nle\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nLetter to\n\nJ. P. Counsfather Conne\n\nEsy\n\nStrachicona Court,\n\n198 Cromwell Road,\n\nJudou\n\n5.13.\n\nDear Mr Pennefather-Evans,\n\nOn the 14th November, I last wrote to the U.S. of S. reporting various matters in connection with the Hong Kong Police.\n\nAs you can see, a written acknowledgement was sent to you.\n\nI much regret the omission.\n\nActually, all the points raised in your letter (disciplinary cases during internment, position of former members of the Police under the new scheme, etc.) have been dealt with and I think, through the various discussions which you have been good enough to attend here, with the action taken.\n\nThere is only one matter mentioned in your letter which has not been pursued with the \"Hong Kong Police War Diary, 8th to 25th December, 1941\".\n\nI would suggest that the document here may be of interest to official historians seeking dates and other facts.\n\n18 APR 1946",
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