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        "id": 244348,
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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": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
        "content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—Ã mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}",
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        "content_text": "## The Undersecretary of State \n\nFonique Min \n\nJUNE \n\n244 \n\nM'Berbert \n4 \nBirZAogers \nBi Mansell \n\n22prene \n\nM \n\nHongkong \n\n6715 \nFya \n\nEntered \n\n232 \n\n25 June 1870 \n\nSome drafts by \nEarl Granville, backworthle the night of goutten \n\nEmelsing \ncorrespondence \nfrom the Thornton in to a proposed \n\nconference. \n\nAmerican telegraph line \nfrom California to Japan \nand thence to \nChina to transmit to \nZou for the notice of \nthe Earl \nof Clarendon",
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        "content_text": "## THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1870.\n\n**OPINIONS OF MORNING PAPERS**\n\nThe Bombardment of Paris. The Times thinks that \"the fury and rapidity with which the batteries at Mont Avron were overpowered was in no small measure due to the fact that the spot had not yet been armed with the heaviest guns.\" There is, perhaps, closer resemblance between the besiegers' reliance on overwhelming force and the former's pause, though the latter's mode of attack was more steady and deliberate. The besiegers, however, says the writer, were less successful. The French resistance was more stubborn and more pacific than the authors of the bombardment had expected.\n\nSeizing the Opportunity. The Standard remarks that the war has reacted on prices, not in the shape of invading armies or hostile declarations, but on the sale of champagne and other luxury goods. Your regular wine merchant has not increased his prices due to an enormous stock in hand. The war is simply an excuse for extortion.\n\nTHE COURT.\n\nOSBORNE, December 19.\n\nThe Queen and her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Macdonald; and her Majesty walked in its grounds this morning accompanied by Princess Louise. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold also went out.\n\nThe Marquess and Marchioness of Ailesbury are entertaining at Savernake Forest. Burgundy, Claret, and the better growths of the Bordeaux wines have not been affected at all by the struggle now raging.\n\nTHE SEIZURE OF THE FRENCH CABLE.\n\nThe Standard says — The more closely the matter is looked into, the more egregious appears the blunder of supposing that the recent act had any bearing upon the war. The Hoegh International is a telegraph, not built or equipped for warlike purposes, but for peaceful use.\n\nTHE PRUSSIANS.\n\nThe cause of the seizure of the English vessels Duclair, &c., is divulged in a letter from Rouen to the Times.\n\nTHE WANT OF FORTRESSES.\n\nA correspondent (\"W.P.\") writing from the Army and Navy Club to the Times advocates the construction of fortifications which would deter an enemy from making a raid upon this country.\n\nTHE CONFERENCE.\n\nThe French Government is reported to be negotiating. The Nizam Government has recognised the French Government.\n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS.\n\nThe gap between Bourbaki's forces will tell whether he plans to make a dashing 'raid' on the undefended districts or whether he means to follow up Werder's success and fight wherever found. The former seems the more likely plan.\n\nTHE MILITIA ARTILLERY.\n\nThe noble Earl says:-\"I think it would be difficult to point out a more glaring instance of false economy.\" The money expected on the pay, equipments, and billets of the militia artillery might just as well have been thrown into the sea.\n\nNOTICE—HINDOO'S IL Whisky Depot.\n\nKiddaban and Co. herewith announce their New Spring Stock, S. Great Tower-street, London.\n\nSNOW MISERIES.\n\nThe misery caused by the snow fall in the central parts of the metropolis cannot be appreciated by those who live there. It is in the suburbs specially that the ordinary channels of communication are stopped up.\n\nAMERICA.\n\nNew York, December 29. Gold closed at 110; the highest quotation during the day was 110%, the lowest 110g; sterling exchange on London, 109.\n\nHOMEWARD CAPE MAILS.\n\nForcargo, December 30. The Union Company's Mailer Shawn arrived in Plymouth Sound to-day at 7 a.m., with the homeward Cape Mails.\n\nOUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.\n\nThe P. and O. Company's steamer Tanjore, from Suez, arrived at 7 and leaves at 11 this morning for Alexandria. All well.\n\nINVESTMENTS IN SECURITIES.\n\nSince Variety is charming, notably in ladies' attire, we make no apology for our notice of Le Follet. Very best colours, either plain or mixed, are much worn for covering dress.\n\nFASHIONS FOR JANUARY.\n\nColours are diversified with black, or shades of the same. Neutral tints are also tried. The velvet badges for visiting dresses are profusely trimmed with fan, jet, and feathers.\n\nSTAMINA.\n\nThe Law Times says: The death of Mr. William Brandthis is by no means a loss to the legal profession, but he was a distinguished scholar.\n\n## THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1870.\n\nTHIS MORNING'S WAR NEWS.\n\nThe Prussians are reported to be advancing. General von Gablenz to the 18th Division to change front to their right Bank.\n\nTHE FRENCH BLOCKADE.\n\nThe Prussians are very weak before Quarrieux, and the French artillery retreated.\n\nTHE REFUGEES.\n\nA letter from Rouen of the 26th to the Times says, with time, to the right, the village of Dar, Vau, &c., were repulsed, the greater part being killed.\n\nTHE SITUATION IN PARIS.\n\nA letter from Paris, hearing date the 28th, has been received, and the news was not encouraging. On Wednesday we received definite intelligence that General Bourbaki, who was in another part of France, had reached Bapaume.\n\nGERMAN VALOUR.\n\nA correspondent of the Times has sent here a description of the fighting at Querrieux. At 4.45 I started Quarrieux for the purpose of bringing a message to a wounded friend.\n\nARTILLERY FOR THE FRENCH.\n\nIt is stated in a telegram from Marseilles that 37 batteries of 34-pounders, and 28 batteries of 7-pounders, 300 pieces in all, are being manufactured at La Seyne and other places in France.\n\nMILITARY MOVEMENTS.\n\nThe Count of War of Bourges which was transferred to Issoudun between 1000 and 1,800 killed were found.\n\nAN EXTRAORDINARY PERSONAGE.\n\nA resident in Paris describes a woman who was wounded at Le Bourget. She was transported to Warsaw, where she joined her father in a convent boarding school.\n\nTHE BATTLE OF PONT NOYELLES.\n\nA correspondent of the Lyraph, writing from the German head-quarters at Amiens on Christmas Eve, says that the morning of the 3rd of December was bitterly cold—the frost out intense.\n\nTHE ARMIES OF THE LOIRE.\n\nA French reconnaissance from Havre. Last Friday morning (writes the Havre correspondent of the Times), M. Nucelle was good enough to send me intimation of his intention to take reconnaissance of the enemy's positions.",
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        "content_text": "810\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nSUANGHAI SILK SHIPPERS, From 1st June to 28th Sept., 1879,\n\nAdantson, Bell, and Co. Balfour, Butler and Co. Barnet and Co. Birt and Co. \nBirley, Worthington, & Co. Bain and Co. \nBower, Hanbury and Co.... Bourjau, Hubener, and Co. \nBovet, Brothers and Co. ... Bull, Purdon and Co. Butterfeld and Swire \nChapman, King and Co. \nCoutts and Co. \nDent and Co. \nDickinson and Co. \nEssex and Co. \nFindlay, Wade and Co. \nFogg and Co. \nGamwell, F. R. \nGibb, Livingston, and Co..... Gilman and Co.\n\nBales.\n\n352 Jardine, Matheson, and Co. 276 Jarvie, John, and Co. \n57 Skeggs, C. J. and Co.\n\nTEA CARGOES AFLOAT.\n\nBales.\n\n[Nov, 18, 1872]\n\nShipping Intelligence.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nAt YOKOHAMA.—From London, Sept. 23, Florence Nightingale.\n\nAt SHANGHAI.—From London, Sept. 25, Foutenaye; from Swansea, 23, Daylight; from Liverpool, Nov. 10, Agamemnon (str.); from Cardiff, Whinfel; from Southampton. Deccan (str.).\n\nAt HONG KONG and CANTON.—From London, Oct. 1, Golconda (str.), James Vinicombe; from Callao, Emigrante; from Boston, 4, Europa.\n\nAt SINGAPORE.—From Liverpool, Oct. 11, Agamemnon (str.); from Glasgow, 7. Saltes (str.); from Sunderland, 8, Stanley; from Hamburg, 11, Harmonia.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\nFrom YOKOHAMA.—For London, Sept. 7, Audax; for New York, 16, Emulation; 18, Etta Loring; 23, Leander; 30, Ceylon.\n\nFrom HONG KONG.—For London, Sept. 15, Penrith; for New York, 18, Jessie Isabel.\n\nFrom SHANGHAI.—For London, Sept. 21, Priam (str.), Woodlark; From Foochow.—For London, Sept. 29, Zibu; Oct. 1, Eme.\n\nFrom HONG KONG and CANTON.—For Falmouth, Oct. 2, Hermine.\n\nFrom SINGAPORE.—For London, Oct 4, Eleanor; Nov. 12, Hector (str.).\n\nSHIPPING POSTSCRIPT.\n\nDEPARTURES.—Nov. 14, from London, for Yokohama and Hiego, Glamorganshire; 13, from Cardiff, for Singapore, Proserpine; 14, Massimo d'Azeglis, Elizabeth Child.\n\nLAID ON.—At London, for Shanghai, Carmarthenshire.\n\nSPOKEN.—Esperance, Newport to Hong Kong, Aug. 12, 33 S., 25 W. Franklin, Batavia to London, Sept. 28, 20 S., 60 E. N. C. D. H. (Amicizia, Italian three-mast schooner), Cardiff to Ceylon, Sept. 29, 16 S., 29 W.\n\nLEGAL.\n\nJUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.\n\nHART V. VON GUMPACHI.\n\nThis appeal from Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan came on for hearing, and presented some remarkable features. The appellant is a British subject, and occupies an important position in the service of the Emperor of China as inspector-general of customs.\n\nThe respondent is a naturalised British subject, and is an astronomer and mathematician. Both met in London in August, 1866, and it was alleged that Hart represented to Von Gumpach that he was entrusted with the formation of a college and observatory at Peking, which college was to be an institution for the teaching to the Chinese of Western sciences and learning, \"with a view to the regeneration of China,\" and that he was to procure a library and appoint professors.\n\nIn consequence of these alleged representations, Von Gumpach went to China, and his salary was to be £600 a year. He alleged that there was no such institution, and that he was willing to discharge the duties of his appointment.\n\nHe alleged that Hart represented to the Tsang-li Yamen, or Foreign Board, that he had absented himself, and he received an intimation from the Chinese Government that his services were no longer required; and since the 30th September, 1868, he had been unable to obtain any salary.\n\nHe brought his action against Hart in Her Majesty's Court, and claimed £3,000 as compensation besides his salary.\n\nThe cause was tried before a jury, and they gave £1,800 as damages and 176 taels for money payable to Von Gumpach.\n\nThere had been a demurrer and further litigation, and one point urged for the present appellant was that these were privileged communications from him as to the office he held under the Chinese Government.\n\nThe Court, after further litigation, decided in favour of the plaintiff (the present respondent), and the defendant (the present appellant) has obtained special leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council.\n\nHe denied the alleged misrepresentations, and stated that the Court at Peking had found in his favour as to the representations, and gave damages to Von Gumpach for the loss of his situation, and for money due on account stated.\n\nHe appealed on several grounds—that the verdict was against evidence, on misdirection, and on the privileged communications.\n\nSir John Karslake, Q.C, with whom was Mr. F. Herschell (instructed by Messrs. Murray and Hutchins), appeared for the appellant; Mr. Benjamin, Q.C., and Mr. Myburgh (instructed by Messrs. Brooks and Co., of Doctors' Commons) were for the respondent, the plaintiff in the original action.\n\nMr. Benjamin discussed the several points. He urged that the appellant was liable to the respondent for the wrongs he had committed against him.\n\nThe Chinese Government had not adopted the acts of the appellant as their servant, and therefore it was not an Act of State.\n\nIt was idle for the appellant to say that what he did was by order of the Chinese Government, and that, therefore, he was not amenable to the laws in Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan.\n\nHe cited various authorities in support of his contentions that unless a Government adopted the acts of their servant, the servant was liable, and could not shield himself under the authority of an Act of State and justify the wrong he had committed.\n\nFurther, the learned counsel submitted that Her Majesty's Treaty with the Emperor of China gave all British subjects a right to resort to the Supreme Court for redress; and it was no answer for the appellant (the original defendant) to say what he had done was as servant of the Emperor when malice was alleged against him.\n\nThe question of privilege would not go to such an extent as to shield a man from false representations, and none of the cases cited would support the points raised by the other side.\n\nMr. Myburgh followed on the same side.\n\nSir John, in reply, cited several cases in support of the view he had submitted—namely, that the original action could not be maintained, and that the demurrer ought to have been allowed.\n\nIt was not an action between two British subjects, as was contemplated by the Treaty, but an action against a Minister of China for an act done as such Minister.\n\nBoth parties had been in the service of the Emperor, and the reports made by Mr. Hart were privileged communications, and it was not by merely alleging malice that the protection extended to such documents was to be removed.\n\nThe matter was of importance, and he asked their Lordships to allow the appeal.\n\nSir Montagu Smith, on the conclusion of the arguments, announced that their Lordships would take time to consider their judgment.\n\nCOURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.\n\nIONIDES V. PENDER.\n\nThis was a case (tried last term) of some mercantile importance as to marine insurance, especially with reference to over-insurance.\n\nIt was an action on several policies of insurance, on goods, on profits, on charterparty, and of commission, amounting altogether to some thousands of pounds.\n\nThe defence set up was that there had been enormous over-insurance, and that the ship was not lost by perils of the seas, but had in reality been scuttled.\n\nThe policies were affected by a firm at Hamburg, who had chartered and loaded the ship for a commercial adventure to a port La Sineria.\n\nOn the voyage the vessel sprang a leak, and is making four inches water per hour in still water.\n\nCASUALTIES.—The Carolina (Spanish barque), from Manila to Cadiz, with tobacco, went a bore on Sandalwood Island. Sept. 15, but got off without damage, after remaining on the reef seven days.\n\nThe Hebe (ship, of Rotterdam. Meermans, from Batavia, to Rotterdam, put into Mauritius, Oct. 5, leaky, having encountered a very heavy N.E. to N.W., and S. W. gale Sept. 21st, in lat. 12 S., lon. 93 E., during which\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n811\n\nNov. 18, 1872.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM MEDHURST'S \"FOREIGNER IN FAR CATHAY.\"\n\nAfter what I wrote in my last letter of the negotiations between the commissioners of the two legislative bodies of this city having been broken off because they could not come to an agreement on the vexed question of the Bank Valuta, your readers will no doubt be greatly surprised to hear that, after all, the affair has been finally set at rest and disposed of by a compromise, both sides having given way to a certain extent.\n\nThe draft of the Bill sent by the Senate to the Burgerschaft, but rejected by them, served as a sufficient basis for a rapprochement, and as both parties were agreed in principle, and only differed on certain, though important, points, the door was again opened for discussion.\n\nAn abstract of the amended Bill as agreed to is as follows :--\n\nLaw for the Alteration of the Hamburg Bank Valuta.\n\nArt. 1. Closing of the Accounts based on Silver Bars.—The date is fixed for the 15th Feb., 1879, the Burgerschaft originally wishing it to take place within eight days, and the Senate inclined to keep them open for six months longer.\n\nAfter the above date the balances of accounts can only be repaid in silver bars.\n\nArt. 3. Denomination of Payments in the New Currency made through the Bank.—In all agreements and contracts where payment is stipulated to be made through the Bank, it is required to write after the amount the letters B.Z., which stands for Bank Zahlung, or Bank payment.\n\nI have dwelt thus much upon the characteristics of the servants employed by foreigners, not only to show how they fare in this particular, but because these servants are the only natives with whom the foreign merchant comes more immediately into contact.\n\nThe opinion prevalent at home that foreigners mingle in Chinese society generally is altogether a mistaken one.\n\nThe conventional rules of the Chinese are so constituted, and their habits of thought and customs so peculiar, that there is little or no encouragement to court acquaintance on either part, even were the entire ignorance of each other's language not to present a serious bar in the way of an interchange of ideas.\n\nThere is a class of Chinese brokers and middle men who haunt the offices of the merchants, but they are mostly shrewd, clever upstarts, whom the difficulties of interlingual communication have introduced into the trade, and, with rare exceptions, they lay no claim to respectability even with the Chinese themselves.\n\nThe language employed between these brokers and the merchants is a jargon made up of English, Portuguese, Chinese, and Malay words, tortured into unrecognizable shapes and constructions, and it is little fitted to sustain any conversation beyond what appertains to the mere technicalities of trade.\n\nI have frequently expressed to our merchants the opinion that it is a pity they do not take the trouble to learn the Chinese language.\n\nIt is an acquirement in the spoken form to an extent sufficient for all practical purposes; offers no difficulties that an average intellect and a moderate share of determination cannot surmount, and familiarity with it would have the effect of freeing the foreigner from the domination of roguish brokers and compradores, at whose mercy he now lies, whilst it would open the way to a more extended acquaintance and friendly intercourse to the mutual advantage of both parties.\n\nThere is perhaps no country in the world frequented by the English-speaking race in which merchants are so lamentably ignorant of the customs and resources of the locality in which they live as they are at this moment in China, and this is entirely to be attributed to a want of familiarity with the language.\n\nTHE SUEZ CANAL.\n\nThe Suez Canal Company will continue to insist upon its recent advance of tolls, and declares that it will appeal to the decision of the Government.\n\nThe Ottoman Porte has protested, by order of the Sultan, against the competency of the Tribunal de Commerce de la Seine to interpret the Act of Concession of the Canal—a power which belongs to itself alone.\n\nThe Turkish Government also maintains that, the company being an Egyptian association, subject to the Ottoman jurisdiction, and having its headquarters at Alexandria, cannot admit a foreign jurisdiction in respect to its differences with third parties.\n\nThere is some idea of inviting the Marine Powers to hold a conference at Constantinople, in order to agree upon a uniform system for the measurement of tonnage.\n\nForeign Intelligence.\n\nGERMANY.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nHAMBURG, Nov. 12.\n\nArt. 4. Belehnungen (or advances on deposits).—After the close of the silver accounts the Bank is authorised to receive as deposits the foreign coin hitherto accepted, as well as gold and silver bars, and credit the depositors for the amount in the new currency, according to the regulations drawn up by the administrators of the Bank and having been approved of by the Senate.\n\nArt. 5. Deferred fulfilment of obligations to pay in Banco.—After the closing of the silver accounts, all still outstanding engagements in Hamburg banco or in species banco, whatever may be the period of their origin and the nature of the claim, must be settled by Bank payment in Imperial gold coin, or in double or single silver thalers of German mintage, at the fixed rate of 150 marks new currency for 100 marks banco, with an agio of 18 per mille for species banco.\n\nBills of exchange falling due on the 15th of February, but not presented for payment till after that date, are to be calculated at the officially quoted price of silver on the day of their maturity.\n\nArt. 6. Transitory Regulations.—During the period of transition, viz., from the date of the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial currency till the 15th of May, 1873, creditors of the Bank may have the amount of their balance in Banco transferred, partly or entirely, to their account in the new currency at the fixed rate of 145 marks Imperial currency for 100 marks Banco, as such transfers are to be considered as Belehnungen, or advances on deposits.\n\nThe sum thus transferred may, at any time during the period of transition, be re-transferred to the silver account of the owner; but all such re-transfers must be made before the expiration of the period of transition, in default of which the Bank is authorised to realise the silver for account of the proprietor.\n\nDuring the period of transition only those who have paid in gold coin or silver thalers are at liberty to withdraw their balances in the same money.\n\nDuring the period of transition no charge will be made by the Bank on Imperial gold coin or silver thalers paid in or taken out.\n\nThe publication of this new law will take place in the course of this week, and the date to be fixed for the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial German currency is expected to be the 15th inst.\n\nBut this arrangement has no effect on cash payments made in Hamburg and Lubeck currency, which retain their value as hitherto, till a sufficiency of the new money is coined, which, as the minting operations proceed but slowly, may be deferred for two or three years longer.\n\nIt will be seen by the above that the Bergerschaft have abandoned one of the principal points on which they were at issue with the Senate, and that is that the loss sustained by the conversion of Banco into new currency, the agio on silver being at present rather more than one per cent. above par, should be borne by the State.\n\nAs it now stands everyone who has Banco will only get 150 marks new currency for every 100 marks Banco, and must bear the loss himself.\n\nThe sharp and somewhat bitter remarks made by certain organs of the press in England respecting the award of the Emperor of Germany in his capacity of Arbitrator in the Anglo-American dispute about the San Juan question have found a responsive echo at Berlin; and if these counter remarks have not been translated and reprinted in the English papers, it is perhaps owing to the editors remaining reticent, not to aggravate and increase the ill-feeling between the two countries.\n\nOne of your contemporaries says that the award is remarkable for being written in the German language, instead of the customary diplomatic French\" to which the Germans reply that this is an exploded idea, quite out of date; that the despatches of the German Government—railway companies have received instructions to discontinue, from December 1, the eddies hitherto praised to emigrants, of a reduction in the fares—amounting in some instances to 50 per cent.—and double allowance of luggage (100 lb. per head).\n\nThe number of emigrants that passed through this city to the end of October, 1871, is officially stated to be 37,324 persons, whilst at the same period this year it has risen to 65,151, and before the end of the year will no doubt have reached 80,000.\n\nDr. Hilgendorf, a native of this city, and formerly director of the Hamburg Zoological Gardens, and now professor at the Royal Polytechnic at Dresden, has received a call to go to Japan to prepare young natives for their subsequent studies of medicine at German universities.\n\nA considerable number of Japanese are now studying at Berlin, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.",
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        "content_text": "377\n\nConcession\n\nlearnt that before any concession of the kind can be obtained it will be necessary for the Government of this\n\nthe\n\nColony to notify its desire to\n\njoin the Convention through the Diplomatic Channel to the Russian Government, which will then give notice of the fact to all the adhering States. I should add that this has to be done through the Russian Government because the last conference was held in the Capital of that state. It took place at St. Petersburg in July of the year 1875; and was attended by representatives\n\nof the Indian and almost all the\n\nGovernment Telegraph Administrations in Europe and Asia.\n\nFor the purpose of inducing\n\nYour\n\nGovernment to\n\njoin\n\nthe St.\n\nPetersburg Convention, I am instructed\n\nby my Directors to point out to you\n\nthat at present the Government charges an additional rate on all Telegrams passing through India from Countries not adhering to the Convention. As Netherlands India and Cochin China adhere, they pass messages to or from Saigon at a less rate than\n\nthey do those from this Colony, and\n\nwhen we remonstrated, we were told that it was because Hongkong was a non-adherent.\n\nAs\n\nyour\n\nGovernment possesses\n\nNo Telegraph lines to which the International\n\nConvention",
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        "content_text": "was \n\nin which the last Conference held, and by that state to all \n\nthe others. \n\nright, \n\nIt \n\nwill \n\nconvey, \n\nwith full \n\naccession to all the clauses \n\nand admission to all the advantages stipulated by the present Convention. \n\n(True Extract) \n\nmit \n\nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\n62 Hongkong 10792 \n\nThe Under Secretary \n\nGeneral Post office \n\nMINUTE. \n\nHer. Round 8th Left? \n\nMr. Bramston. \n\nMr. Malcolm. \n\nMr. Meade. \n\nMr. Herbert. \n\nMr. Lowther. \n\n1/3 \n\nLord Carnarvon. \n\nW. Meads. \n\nIndexed \n\nans \n\n1267 \n\n124777 \n\n330 \n\nI am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to acquaint you \n\nthat there has been laid before the Lord of Parliament a copy \n\nof a despatch from the \n\nGovernor of Hongkong \n\nrespecting a proposal \n\nthat that Government \n\nshould join the International \n\nTelegraph Convention. I am to request that you will be informed whether the Hongkong Govt will incur any liability by this",
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        "content_text": "## \n8: telegraph to ask for timely notice of the proposal when things come up.\n\nConference to give me ...\n\nThe enclosure was sent to me before 2356 8.4/4.\n\nSo proceed at once.\n\nMr. Herbert to meet and discuss. See the draft on this at Minutes on 2356 and 4843. The F.O. never called the conference together, & Sir ... Wede 2 725. Hack have won. Kuow left England; but whether with or without F.O. instructions upon this subject ...\n\nRefer to this letter of 6 Apr. 78. and have not been able to ascertain whether they ...\n\nSir J. Ladd ... did so to what extent.\n\n81.6/2/29 had better leave this inquiry private.\n\nI mentioned in the first instance, we did not begin ...\n\nKom the walter Earlier.\n\nthe d H. Zb b withiout having done anything with them.\n\nIt should however be remembered that this Conference comes under an article of the Chefoo Convention of 1876 - which has now been ratified. Though we accepted the money which the Chinese were tendering for the murder of Mr. Margary -\n\nSir Julian seems to indicate that as the Margary question is now at rest, their having been no War ... Complaints, it might be allowed to rest. This is gone Julian as against the Chinese, but it is not quite satisfactory I think. F.O. could come to an agreement, as that if the complaints begin again, our Officials might be in a position to deal with particular lines - an Extension of the Foreign Inspectorate doubtless would be the simplest & best.\n\nas we have already Louisla were disposed to concur in 39.\n\n3967 2012- M we might suffer this 67.0.\n\nGrat 2356/78.47.0 AWW Feb 2 Yes Work Feb 23.\n\nSent notification annexed - \n\nI saw Sir Julian Pauncefote on the 7th Feb. & understood from him that the papers have been sent to Sir J. Walsh who will return them to F.O. when we went away.",
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        "content_text": "500\n\n3.\n\nthe rate of pir\n\none thousand pounds ($1,000)\n\nannum granted for \"Lighting, entertainments etc.\" at the Government House.\n\n6. The six weeks vacation allowed in other Colonies was, owing to the peculiarly trying character of this climate, been extended at Hongkong to two months in the case of the Government Offices. I submit that it would be just to extend this indulgence to the Governor also, on the understanding that he will not be absent from his post at all if the state of public business should require his presence at Hongkong; or for a longer period than six weeks, unless public business, such as a conference with the British Minister at Peking, or the state of his health should render that course expedient.\n\n7. I would request that a reply may be sent by telegraph to the question raised in the last paragraph of this despatch;",
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        "document_key": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]",
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        "content_text": "# GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY \n## OF COPENHAGEN. \n### ABRIDGED REPORT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING \nHELD AT COPENHAGEN ON THE \n15TH APRIL, 1882. \n\nH. C. SHAW, Esq., Presided. \n\nThe Chairman, C. F. TIETGEN, Esq., opened his address by remarking that the past year had undoubtedly been the most significant of those ten years during which the Company as now constituted had existed. This not only referred to the extraordinary progress which the Telegraph had made in China, but also to the prosperous state of the Company's general business. He then reported as follows:- \n\n### State of the Cables\nAs in former years the Cables had not been free from interruptions. In the far East these had not occurred as often in the first half of the year as in the latter half, when they had unfortunately been more frequent and of longer duration. The Shanghai-Amoy-Hong-Kong Cables had been interrupted for 14 days, the Shanghai-Nagasaki Cable for 4 days, and the Nagasaki-Wladiwostock Cable, to which Cable nothing had happened since the beginning of 1878, had been interrupted from the 1st November to the 7th December, and again from the 30th December to the 23rd January this year. In Europe the Cables had also on several occasions been broken, as well in the North Sea as in the Baltic, but generally the repairs had been effected very speedily. Some of these breaks, happening at the time of the violent gales last autumn, when the Cables of other Companies also suffered severely, were no doubt attributable to causes beyond human control, but most of the other cases could be traced to carelessness in anchoring and to trawl fishing, and he had therefore much pleasure in adverting to the question of \n\n### Protection of Cables\nA question which it had often been desired to bring to an issue. The time had fortunately arrived for this. At the Fishery Conference held at the Hague last summer, the Danish Representative, acting upon instructions received from his Government, brought the matter before the Congress, and it was unanimously agreed that the different Governments should be recommended to follow it up. Since then, this Company had, in conjunction with all the other Cable Companies, applied to the English Government, who readily promised to take the matter into consideration. The same had been the case with other Governments, \n\nPage 501",
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        "content_text": "the clauses which deal with procedure de; but I would allude to another question of principle, viz. the question of publicity, and would suggest that instead of \n\nleaving question open [Sec.11] \n\nit should be provided that the proceedings of \n\nall the Registrar \n\nGeneral under this Order should be held in public?\n\nWould it not also be advisable to suggest the enactment \n\nof some of the provisions of \n\nthe Criminal Law Amendment Act \n\n1885, which would come \n\nin this Ordinance, to show in one Ordinance the whole protection provided for girls under 16?\n\nOn Gibraltar it is practically \n\ndecided (entry to an \n\nanything The Straits) \n\nthat \n\nboth at Hongkong and in the Straits \n\nthe whole \n\nC.D. Ord. & \n\nshould be repeated, Except \n\nthe sections providing for the Registration of Brothels, which it is proposed \n\nto Retain solely in the interests of the liberty of the residents \n\ntherein.\n\nto prevent brothel bondage & the corruption of the young.\n\nIf that course is \n\nfinally adopted it seems to me it would be advisable that the C.D. Order should be repealed in toto and that the Registration clauses should be reenacted in this new Ordinance for protection of women and children.\n\n1 \n\nwith the papers fully & I \n\nthe matter was likely to \n\nSee \n\nOrte \n\nA1 \n\nMr Braustio Considered \n\nthe C.D. Laws is deferred \n\nPending \n\nthe arrival of \n\nthe Straits desp. (in about a month hence) I would propose that we \n\nTelegraph to Governor, Straits Settlements, something to the following effect: Referring \n\nto your desp. no. 22 \n\nOrdinance draft \n\npending decision on \n\nthe Conference had \n\nprevented my dealing \n\nwith \n\nContagious \n\ndiseases Ordinance.\n\nReceived S.W. 3, April \n\nStraits (desp. received) 8/5/87 \n\nto the repeal of the C.D. Ord as \n\nin Hongkong.\n\nthe Straits \n\n21/5/80 \n\nThis Bill has passed (Ordinance 9 of 1887): see \n\nminute \n\n14/6/87 \n\nsince received \n\n9/6/87 \n\nAllest funds \n\nhas all to be completed by the \n\nEncl. in desp. \n\nto handen",
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        "document_key": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]",
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        "content_text": "conference between\n\nthe offices\n\nconcerned, and\n\nI trust that you\n\nwill be able to\n\nsee me\n\nan\n\nunderstanding calculated best\n\nto promote the Educational interests of the Colony\n\nthe Governor.\n\nL(x)--571----3000-10-89\n\nPage 1190\n\nNo.\n\n19 July\n\net previous Exper.\n\nsubsequent Paper\n\n15172\n\nstrong strong\n\nNo 13943\n\n(Subject.)\n\nCol Treasurer's dept\n\n514 DESPATCH.\n\n0.0.\n\n13943\n\nRECEIVED 19 JUL 90\n\n\"Regret to inform you that Mr. Lister is dead. \"Could you defer appointment pending\n\n\"receipt of despatch.\"\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Meade\n\nW. Lister held the joint\n\napply\n\nTreasurer & Postmaster\n\nThere may\n\nrearranging\n\nbe a question of\n\nthe duties\n\n? Ack: with regret & say despatch will be awaited. (I don't think we\n\nneed to telegraph) GM. 19/7\n\n19/7\n\nPage 1190",
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        "content_text": "4\n\ncolleague, with the approval of his Government, has been supporting those interests.' \n\nThe India Office, however, adhered to their view, March 5, 1889, and on the 16th March we telegraphed to Sir J. Walsham explaining why they did so. \n\nSir J. Walsham, No. 27, Telegraphic,\n\nSir J. Walsham, in reply, telegraphed a summary of the modifications desired by Russia, and stated that his attitude in supporting them was in the interest of the Companies. October 10, 1889.\n\nBut before the receipt of this telegram Sir J. Pender, October 4, 1889, wrote enumerating certain modifications which the Company were prepared to agree to, and which would, he thought, satisfy both Russia and India.\n\nThe India Office gave a general assent to these proposals, and Sir J. Walsham was instructed to give them a general support at their approaching discussion at Chefoo. India Office, October 19, 1889. To Sir J. Walsham, No. 32, Telegraphic, October 20, 1889.\n\nOn the 29th October, however, Sir J. Pender informed us that they were not put forward at the Chefoo Conference. The Russians decided that the negotiators were to confine themselves to making the arrangements necessary for the out-payments in Europe being defrayed by China out of her proportion of the tariff; that Article 13 of the original Agreement was to be left as amended by Russia; and that Article 9 was not to be discussed for the present.\n\nAn agreement was arrived at on this basis, subject to the approval of the British and Russian Ministers, the Viceroy Li, the Tsung-li Yamên, and the two Companies.\n\nThe following is a copy of the original Agreement, in which the proposed amendments are printed in italics :-\n\n\"An Agreement entered into the 10th day of August, 1887, between the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Company (hereinafter called the 'Administration') of the one part, and the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Copenhagen, and the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Company (Limited) (hereinafter called the 'Companies') of the other part.\n\n\"Whereas the Administration intend to connect the Chinese telegraph system with the telegraph lines of adjacent countries in telegraphic communication with Europe; and\n\n\"Whereas the Companies have already established such connections by means of their direct cable routes vià Russia and via India; and\n\n\"Whereas, by the basis of Agreement signed on the 7th July, 1887, at Chefoo, the Administration and the 'Companies, in order to avoid competition and establish friendly co-operation, have agreed upon certain principles to effect this end; and\n\n\"Whereas it has been agreed that the said basis of agreement shall be annulled, and shall be superseded by these presents; and\n\n\"Whereas it has been proposed that the Administration and the Companies shall enter into the Agreement hereinafter contained, and it is intended that such Agreement shall be construed with reference to and so as to effectuate the aforesaid objects of the Administration and the Companies.\n\n\"Now it is hereby agreed as follows:\n\n\"Article 1. All the traffic exchanged between any part of China (excepting the three ports, Shanghae, Foochow, and Amoy) on the one side, and Europe (Russia excepted) and countries beyond Europe on the other side, and vice versa, transmitted by the land lines of the Administration, whether via the land frontiers or via the cables of the Companies, shall belong to the Administration.\n\n\"For the traffic named in this Article the Administration shall fix a terminal rate of 5 fr. 50 c. per word, which shall belong to the Administration.\n\n\"Art. 2. The Administration shall fix a terminal rate of 5 fr. 50 c. per word for all traffic exchanged by the land lines of the Administration via the land frontiers between Hong Kong, Amoy, Foochow, and Shanghae on the one side, and Europe (Russia excepted) and countries beyond Europe on the other side, which shall belong to the Companies, subject to the payment of percentage named in Article 4.\n\n\"Art. 3. The Companies shall fix their proportion of the tariff on traffic exchanged between Hong Kong, Amoy, Foochow, and Shanghae on the one side, and Europe (Russia excepted) and countries beyond Europe on the other side, and vice versa, by their direct cable routes vià Russia (Siberia) and viâ India at 5 fr. 50 c. per word, which shall belong to the Companies, subject to the payment of percentage named in Article 4.\n\n\"Art. 4. 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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nharbour shall be permitted on payment, in addition to the ordinary charges at present levied of a fee equal to a day's demurrage, subject to a minimum charge of Rs. 50 and a maximum charge of Rs. 200, for each ship on board of which work is carried on. Demurrage for this purpose to be calculated at the rate of 64 annas per ton of registered tonnage.\"\n\nLegislation can be effected with the assistance of the local Chambers of Commerce. The reply of Lord Knutsford to Lord Meath's question in the House of Lords on July 25th sufficiently indicates this. He said that he did not think it would be possible to put an end to Sunday work generally in the Crown colonies except through an understanding to that effect amongst the Chambers of Commerce.\n\nI send this short statement in response to your Secretary, wishing you success in your movement, which will doubtless gain the sympathy and respect of all fair-minded people,\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## II\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1890.\n\nTo the Secretary,  \n**GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HONGKONG**.\n\nTHE BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.\n\nA meeting of the above-named Association was held at the Marine Hotel, Praya West, last night, the 19th Sept., when the general discussion upon the Sunday Labour Question closed with the passing of a resolution in connection therewith. The chair was taken by Mr. H. L. Newbam, who called upon Mr. Chesney Duncan, the Secretary, to read any special correspondence which he might be in possession of relative to the question at issue.\n\nIn response, Mr. Duncan said the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith had kindly favoured him with an extract from a letter received by him lately from Mr. Lang, an important Liverpool shipowner, who stated that he never allowed Sunday labour on board his ships and still he had never found himself a loser thereby. Mr. Duncan also said he was in possession of correspondence from the Government of Ceylon which showed that Sunday labour on board ships in Colombo harbour was prohibited, except upon payment of exorbitant special fees. A scale of these extra charges he now held in his hand. One of the leading arguments against the cessation of Sunday labour in Hongkong was, he understood, to the effect that Hongkong not being a terminus, but merely a port of call, it was of the utmost importance that vessels calling here should be despatched as quickly as possible. He was willing to admit that, but contended that owners could so run their ships as to avoid being in Hongkong on Sunday. Colombo was by no means a terminus either, but there laws were enforced not with a view to wringing from owners exorbitant fees but for the purpose of diminishing labour on board ships on Sunday. He did not think it necessary to make owners pay stiff fees for working on Sunday, but he submitted that British officers, who were just as much entitled to their Sunday as any other subjects of the Queen, should be paid well for Sunday extra labour. It was not their duty, strictly speaking, to work in port on Sunday.\n\nI am instructed to hand you, enclosed, copy of a resolution which was carried unanimously at a meeting of this Association last Friday night, and in so doing, have to say that this Association trusts you will be pleased to accede to its desire for a Conference (either public or private, the former preferred), in the hope that some modus vivendi, as the outcome of our joint deliberations, may be happily arrived at in connection with this important question (The Sunday Labour Question).\n\nI am directed to assure you that this Association desires to move in respect to this much-vexed question in concert with shipowners, and not—as some may conjecture or aver—in antagonism to employers generally.\n\nTrusting your honourable Chamber will favour this request for a Conference with its kind consideration, and assuring you of our deep esteem,\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir, Yours respectfully,  \n**CHESNEY DUNCAN**,  \nHon. Secretary.\n\nN.B.—Personally delivered by me on the 22nd of September, 1890.—C.D.\n\nThe Chairman said it was clear from the remarks of Lord Knutsford in the House of Lords, that at present there was no hope for legislation on the subject, and the only way to obtain their Sunday was to induce the Chamber of Commerce to press for legislation upon the matter, so that no foreign ships would be allowed to work on Sunday any more than British vessels. The Association had no desire to do anything which would be detrimental to the interests of owners.\n\nThe object of the resolution, which he was about to move the adoption of, was to cause the cessation of Sunday labour while acting in concert with shipowners as much as possible. He proposed \"That in view of the fact that the sum and substance of official and public opinion generally was to the effect that the cessation of labour on board ships on Sunday, in Hongkong, could only be effected by moving the Chamber of Commerce, this Association decides that special representations should be made to the Chamber of Commerce with a view to the holding of a conference between delegates of this Association and the Chairman of the said Chamber.\"\n\nMr. Stainton seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. Chapman then proposed that \"the Chamber of Commerce consenting to the Conference, this Association be represented by the President, Captain Ashton, and two or three members to be selected by the Committee.\"\n\nMr. Gale and Mr. Bowker seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously. The regular business of the Association having been disposed of, the meeting closed with a cordial vote of thanks to the Chairman.—*Hongkong Telegraph*.\n\n**HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE**, Hongkong, 11th October 1890.\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**.\n\nSir,\n\nIn answer to your favour of 22nd ultimo, which I have not had the opportunity of replying to earlier, I am directed to state that the Committee of the Chamber will be happy to receive a deputation from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association to consider the Sunday Labour Question on Friday the 17th instant, at 4 p.m., which hour it is hoped will prove convenient.\n\nI am,  \nSir,  \nYour obedient servant,  \n**F. HENDERSON**,  \nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "# THE CONFERENCE.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.\n\nHeld at City Hall at 4.30 pm. on Friday the 17th October, 1890.\n\n### DELEGATES.\n\n- CAPTAIN SAMUEL ASHTON, A. I. N. A.\n- H. BATHURST (Chief of s.s. \"Haitan\")\n- J. W. GALE (not on Service)\n- A. C. H. CHAPMAN (not on Service)\n- J. DOUGLAS (Chief of \"Thales\")\n- H. L. NEWHAM (not on Service)\n- J. MADDOX (Second of \"Tongshan\")\n- J. A. BURKE (Second of \"Chowfa\")\n- W. WINCH (not on Service)\n\n**President:**  \nCHESNEY DUNCAN, Honorary Secretary.\n\n\"The Chamber\" was represented by:\n- MR. E. MACKINTOSH (Chairman)\n- HON. J. J. KESWICK\n- HON. P. RYRIE\n\n\"The Press\" by:\n- MR. H. HOPPIUS\n- MR. W. H. FORBES\n- MR. Thos. JACKSON\n- MR. L. Cox (Daily Press)\n- MR. D. Macdonald (China Mail)\n- MR. G. W. Ward (Telegraph)\n- Editor of War Sun Yat Po (Chinese)\n\nThe deputation numbered about twelve including Captain Ashton, the President of the Association.\n\nCaptain ASHTON having introduced the deputation, said: Mr. Mackintosh and gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce, we should have liked to have had a larger number of our body here to-day but many of our members are away from the port on their official duties. We come before you to-day, to ask you to assist us in doing away with a very old custom of this port, a custom which we know you are not answerable for, a custom which has been handed down to you by your predecessors, a custom which we as a body of mercantile marine officers consider a very great injustice to us. The custom I refer to, is that of receiving and discharging cargo on board vessels on Sunday. We believe it to be not only an old custom but a bad custom, and one that brings no profit or good to any man, woman or child in the Colony.\n\nWe as a body of officers, visit all the commercial ports of the world, and we find in nine-tenths of the ports we visit, there is some law restricting the discharging or receiving of cargo on board ship on a Sunday. Having visited these ports, we also notice the condition of the communities there, and we see that those communities who do not work on Sunday are just as rich and just as prosperous, and, as we think, just as happy as that of Hongkong, where Sunday labour is permitted.\n\nWe do not see why as a body of officers we should be compelled to work on a Sunday. You must bear in mind that an officer is compelled to be on board ship for days, and sometimes weeks, together. He is cooped up when he is on board, and he is subjected to a certain amount of discipline and restraint. He has to be ready to take his place on watch when the bell strikes, and he has to obey every order of his superior officer. He does that willingly, but he does like occasionally to get away from this restraint; and when he does get into a port where these prohibitive laws are in force and he is allowed to leave the ship and get away from this discipline and restraint, he enjoys himself as much as a boy taking his holidays from school, and he comes back in twelve or twenty-four hours, or whatever the time may be, to his work refreshed in body and in mind.\n\nBut, on the contrary, when he arrives in the port of Hongkong on a Sunday—and mind you Sunday is about the only day a British officer has to go ashore, whether to go to church or to see his friends or amuse himself in whatever way he wishes—if he goes to the Captain and says: \"This being Sunday, can I go ashore?\" the Captain very properly says No, you cannot, it is the custom of this port to work on Sunday, and your services are required on board this ship to superintend discharging and taking in of cargo.\" And although the Captain may feel in his own mind that it would be a good thing for the man to get away from the ship, he cannot give him leave; he dare not do so; for the simple reason, that if any cargo boats come alongside to receive or discharge and there is no officer to superintend, the Captain gets himself into a row with his owners. We believe there is neither profit nor advantage in Sunday work.\n\nI myself have been in command of men for a number of years, and I have always noticed that when you tell a man to do something which his nature revolts against and which the early teaching of his childhood is against, he naturally rebels against you, and although you can force him to do what you say, he does it in a half-hearted, sullen, discontented manner. So when he asks on a Sunday for liberty to go ashore, and his Captain tells him he cannot go, and orders him to the hatchway to superintend cargo, he does his work in a half-hearted way, and I believe that claims for lost property and damaged property, which the shipowners have to pay, are almost entirely due to this forced labour—labour which a man considers as moral slavery. I myself have never seen any profit come of Sunday labour.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Goldsmith, as I am sure you all know, interested himself in this matter some time ago, and he got up a petition which was signed very numerously by the Mercantile Marine community in this port. This petition, which I believe had some 600 signatures to it, was handed to our Governor here. Our Governor, in conjunction with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Knutsford, appears to have given considerable attention to it, and we are led to believe from what our Governor said, that legislation to stop Sunday labour in this Harbour could only be arrived at by the advocacy of this honorable body, yourself, Sir, and the members of this Chamber of Commerce. I believe he intimated as much.\n\nSuch being the case, we make bold to approach you, and to ask and beg of you to use your influence to the utmost with the Government of this Colony to bring in some law against working cargo in this port on Sunday. That is the purpose for which we are here. We ask you to exert yourselves with the Government to induce them to bring in some measure to stop this moral slavery. I am quite sure the officers of this Association do not wish to quarrel with their owners, but they do think it is a great injustice that they should be forced to work cargo on Sunday in this port. We consider it an injustice to ourselves and to every Mercantile Marine officer, and we consider it somewhat of a blot and a slur on the fair name of this Colony.\n\nThese are the main points in our case, and I think I need not say any more. It is our wish to carry our point without any friction, to have no quarrel between owners and officers. Gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce, whether your answer is in our favour or not—and we trust it will be—we shall receive it with the greatest respect, because, if we get the opinion of this Chamber we shall have a reliable opinion to go upon, coming as it does from the most influential and powerful body in this Colony. In giving your opinion therefore, whatever it may be, you will be doing the Association a kindness. It is an old saying, and no doubt a true one, that it is a good thing for any man or any body of men to see themselves as others see them. We have had plenty of opinions already, opinions from Brown, Jones and Robinson,—irresponsible opinions,—but we come before you to-day to get a reliable opinion.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Mr. Ashton and Gentlemen of the deputation, we are very possibly pleased to see you here to-day, and I can assure you we shall do all we can to arrive at a friendly satisfactory conclusion. This matter is one that has long stirred the Chamber, and on which they tried to come to a conclusion as early as 1888. The first mention of it in our records is a letter from the Rev. A. G.\n\nPage 13  \nPage 153",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n## THE CHAMBERS' DECISION\n\nSUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR,\n\nthat the Government drafted a Sunday Observance Bill several months ago with the intention of forcing it upon the colony, but it was shelved owing to the opposition of a few capitalists. Political affairs, too, doubtless weighed with the Government, the Colonial Federation Scheme being, at the time referred to, a more or less burning question in the Australian colonies.\n\nThanking you in anticipation for affording me the opportunity of thus removing possible false impressions, which might prove very misleading.\n\nYours, &c.,\n\n**CHESNEY DUNCAN**, Hon. Secretary,\n**British M. M. O. Association**.\n\n**CAPTAIN S. ASHTON**,\nPresident,\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION, HONGKONG**.\n\n## HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\nHongkong, 31st October, 1890.\n\nDEAR SIR,--The Committee of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce have given most careful consideration to the subject of Sunday Labour in this harbour, which your deputation brought so forcibly to their notice at the interview held on 17th inst. To assist them in coming to a conclusion, based on the widest views, the principal Members of the Chamber interested in the Shipping of the Colony, were invited to meet the Committee to discuss the subject.\n\nThe unanimous opinion of those present was, that it would be impolitic to ask the Government, as you desired, to legislate specially to stop Sunday work in this harbour—the restriction being applied to vessels of all nationalities.\n\nThe Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this Harbour, as the questions involved are very serious, and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith. Indeed, if such a recommendation was formulated by the Chamber of Commerce, the Committee are of opinion the Government would not legislate in the direction sought by your body.\n\nThe Committee look upon the question as one that rests solely between employers and employed. But they are pleased to state that during the discussion which ensued at the meeting a strong opinion was evinced that all European supervision for the loading and discharging of cargo during Sundays, by vessels engaged in the local coast trades, could be dispensed with if the officers elected. It therefore rests with individual officers in the Coast trades to seek that privilege from their respective employers.\n\nWith regard to Ocean steamers, as distinguished from Coast, the matter appears to the Committee to be somewhat different. The incidence of Sunday work on officers in those services is less frequent than with the Coast. They may, and no doubt frequently do, escape Sunday in this port. While on the average duration of an Ocean voyage, say 1 month, an occasional Sunday's work in Hongkong does not appear to the Committee to present an intolerable burden to officers. With Ocean vessels touching at Hongkong, the working of cargo in port on all days must be considered one of the incidents of the voyage, Hongkong presents some peculiarities: It is not a terminus, the bulk of its Ocean traffic ends at Shanghai, where \"bar\" obstacles are met, and the loss of a day in Hongkong might lead to most serious pecuniary sacrifice to shipowners.\n\nThe question therefore appears to the Committee to be reduced to the smallest proportions.\n\nThe Coast trade officers can obtain, without doubt, on individual application to their respective employers, freedom from supervising cargo work on Sundays, while officers of Ocean steamers' remedy rests also with their employers. The latter, while considering the officers' application for relief, will doubtless bear in mind the infrequency of the incidence of Sunday work occurring in this port, and the probable great loss they incur from delays in prosecuting their voyages if they concede the Sunday in this Harbour to their employees.\n\nThe Committee desire me to thank you for having brought the matter to their notice, and hope their efforts will result in the settlement of a question that has for some time troubled a section of the Community.\n\nI remain, Dear Sir,\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION\n\nAt a meeting of the **British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association**, held last night, the 9th November, at the Marine Hotel, Captain Ashton presiding, the following letter as a reply to the Chamber of Commerce's despatch of the 31st ultimo was drafted after a good deal of discussion :--\n\n**E. MACKINTOSH**, Esq.,\nChairman,\n**GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HONGKONG**.\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**\n\nHongkong, 10th November, 1890.\n\nSir,—In acknowledging receipt of, and thanking you for, your letter of the 31st ultimo, I have to say that this body considers your proposal impracticable, for the following reasons:-\n\nIn the first place no individual officer is sufficiently independent to make individual application to his owners for exemption from duty on Sunday. We consider that in so doing he would be running a personal risk to himself which is undesirable.\n\nSecondly, some shipowners might graciously grant such request where others would object. For instance, owners of foreign steamers, or, say British Chinese-owned steamers in the Straits or other trade might, we think, be very likely to object. In the event of such objection we can only view with alarm difficulties between individual officers and owners which we, as an association, studiously wish to avoid.\n\nIn conclusion we may add, that the British Mercantile Marine officer is not a man who would stand by disinterestedly whilst foreign interests were, in any way, gaining advantages over those of his employer. We take pride in our ships and our work and would rather work on Sunday, or any other day, than see our employers suffer. But it is not necessarily admitted that either public or private interests would be prejudiced were labour totally suspended on board ships in this port on Sunday.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Signed)\n**E. MACKINTOSH**,\nChairman.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYours faithfully,\n**SAMUEL ASHTON**,\nPresident.\n\n## To THE EDITOR OF THE \"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH\"\n\nHongkong, 18th October 1890.\n\nSIR—I shall esteem it a favour if you will kindly grant me space for the correction of a slight error which appears in your report of yesterday's Conference, for which I am, I feel, chiefly responsible,\n\nWhat I desire to rectify is a possible supposition by the general public that the Hon. J. J. Keswick said: \"he thought the Government would not pass a law to prevent the working of cargo on board ships on Sunday.\" Mr. Keswick did not, as far as I know, say that. It was to the remarks that fell from the lips of Mr. Mackintosh, the Chairman, that I replied: \"I am informed, reliably informed,\n\n## \"THE DAILY PRESS,\" Hongkong, October 21st, 1890.\n\nThe Conference on the question of Sunday labour held on Friday last between representatives of the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association and the Chamber of Commerce resulted in a very useful and interesting discussion. Captain ASHTON on behalf of the Association urged the cause of Sunday rest with considerable force, and in the subsequent discussion fairly faced the difficulties suggested on the other side. He admits that if the observance of a weekly day of rest is made compulsory all classes of shipping must be subjected to the same law—Chinese as well as ...",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOUR.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS.\"\n\nSIR,-Last year the Postal Authorities at home ventured to inflict on Bombay what was then denounced as a social calamity, viz., that the P. & O. mail steamers should leave there every Sunday for London. Immediately this report was out, all Bombay and his wife were mighty indignant, and a loud howl was raised on all sides. The agitation took the form of a very large public meeting, attended by thousands of people, including the Bishops, Judges, Magistrates, lawyers, doctors, merchants, and clerks; in short, all sorts and conditions of men made a common cause of it, and rose to a man for a firm and emphatic protest against the proposed change. They telegraphed their proceedings to London, and they quite overpowered the authorities in Downing Street. So signal was the success that the proposed change had to be abandoned wholly and entirely, there and then. But, in the colony of Hongkong, who is it that suffers? Oh! only sailors and seamen, and \"coolies\" to some degree. The taipans do have their Saturdays (one half) and Sundays for picnics and pleasure; then why should they bother their heads in the matter?\n\nA LOOKER-ON,\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1890.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS,\"\n\nSIR, Some of the agitators, finding themselves in a corner, make what seems to me the grossly unjust, but fortunately wholly impracticable, proposal to enforce Sunday idleness (Satan will find some mischief for the idle hands to do) on the Chinese crews of junks and necessarily on thousands of shore hands, and say that they have to submit to it in the Treaty Ports. This is altogether a mistake, and as many persons in Hongkong are unaware of the arrangements at the Treaty Ports, I think it ought to be made fully known that the junks there do not come under the foreign Customs, only vessels of foreign type, and that the discharging and loading of cargo goes on every day. To put the Colony at so great a disadvantage compared to the Treaty Ports would be interfering with Chinese customs with a vengeance. Whatever is done, there should be no misrepresentation; let us have no half truths.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLAOU SHANGHAI,\n\nHongkong, 22nd October, 1890.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nthemselves, by simply declining to do what their employers have neither a legal nor a moral right to demand of them, as a man is bound to obey only just and lawful commands. But is the command to perform such duties as loading or discharging cargo on Sunday a just or lawful command? Would any Magistrate in Hongkong—putting the force of public opinion aside—consider it a lawful command? I think not. So that I would again repeat: \"where there is no right there can be no duty.\" A man is entitled to one day's rest in seven, as he is entitled to twelve hours' rest in the twenty-four: by custom and usage, it has become a necessity of nature to him. According to our ideas, unless under exceptional circumstances, even voluntary labour on Sunday is wrong. Involuntary Sunday labour is morally criminal; the difference is the difference between the labour of a freeman and a slave.\n\nThe Government would seem to be wise in abstaining from legislating on the subject; the time for a hard and fast law has not yet arrived. Let strict observance of Sunday as a day of rest from labour be recognised as the custom and usage of the port of Hongkong, and it will be as easy to enforce it here as elsewhere. A short time since, it became necessary to increase the light dues for a particular purpose, and they were raised one hundred and fifty per cent. The Government can likewise, with as little difficulty, put a tonnage tax on Sunday labour afloat that would press equally on all classes of steamers. A privilege not worth paying for is not worth having. Ashore, the solution of the question mainly lies with the representatives of our two principal British shipping houses in the Colony; let them stop working their steamers on Sunday, and the rest will follow easy. Why not graciously concede as a favour to their employés what must assuredly come to pass before long, with their consent or without it? Not so very long ago, the departure of the mails on Monday was considered a hardship to merchants and their clerks, because it entailed attendance at their offices on Sunday to write their correspondence. The result was, the mail day was altered, and the merchant enjoyed his Sunday undisturbed—the aphorism about \"Sauce for the goose,\" &c.\n\nLet me recall the arguments in favour of Sunday labour seem strained and somewhat frivolous. The difficulties conjured up may turn out imaginary. The Chinese bogey will not do. The question resolves itself down to whether, for the mere purpose of utilizing Sunday, shipowners will be allowed a privilege in Hongkong which is refused them without heavy payment in most ports of the world, and denied them altogether in others.\n\nAs a ship's officer, I would demand as a right the cessation of labour on Sunday so far as I was myself concerned; as a shipowner, in the sense of being a shareholder in our three local shipping companies, and with other shipping interests of equal importance, I would advocate, as a matter of sound policy, the total cessation of Sunday labour on board ship, on the grounds of its being mostly unnecessary and called for simply by excessive competition.\n\nR. TALBOT.\n\nHongkong, 20th October, 1890.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOR QUESTION.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS,\"\n\nSIR,—The question of Sunday labour on board ship in Hongkong Harbour by European officers has become confused and mixed up with that of Chinese labour on shore—with which, in my opinion, it has little to do—until the hardworked ship's officer has arrived at the, to him, flattering conclusion that the whole social and commercial system of Hongkong depends upon whether he works or does not work on Sunday, and not the rule.\n\nNow, so far as the question extends to Chinese, I think it is susceptible of proof that the bulk of the Chinese afloat, cargo boatmen, coolies, &c., are against Sunday labour. Hardly be engaged on Sunday, they are prompt to tell you: \"B'long Sunday, no wauchee work.\" Coolies or cargo boats can hardly be engaged on Sunday. Chinese merchants seem mostly indifferent. It certainly does not seem a question of much importance to them. They certainly cannot be said to be strongly in favour of Sunday work; their conversation does not lead one to conclude they are so. That Chinese of all classes, both here and at Shanghai and the out-ports, enjoy and appreciate Sunday as a day of rest from business and work can hardly be denied. It is a mistake to assume that Sunday work is general on board all steamers. It is the exception. Sailing vessels seldom or ever work on Sunday, and a large proportion of the Sunday labour going on is avoidable. The steamers trading to Manila are persistent Sunday workers, but for no other reason than to utilize Sunday. For the same reason, they would work all night as well as all day, but that there is a limit to their officers' endurance. Competition compels them to take advantage of this vicious custom, which is recognised all over the world as a moral crime, except in Hongkong. They invariably discharge cargo on Sunday, but as they seldom receive much cargo, it must be accepted as some proof that Chinese shippers do not place very much value on the privilege of Sunday labour. What little is shipped could easily be avoided by some little forethought on the part of the steamers' agents. A steamer arrives on Saturday morning, and very often does not discharge a package of cargo that day; shipping clerks are indifferent—they know she can discharge on Sunday—it never enters their heads to consider the ships' officers, that they may probably have as strong an objection to working on Sunday as they themselves invariably have when personally concerned. Shipping offices are closed on Sunday, but if they were kept open, and clerks compelled to attend when steamers were working, the necessity for Sunday work would not be so often evident.\n\nTo the ship's officer, it is undoubtedly a hardship; it destroys his self-respect, creates dissatisfaction and discontent, and is fatal to discipline. The Chinese sailors will not work on Sunday, and look with contempt on their officers, who are morosely and unwillingly carrying on their duties, while protesting strongly, if silently, against such a state of affairs. If there is truth in the axiom that \"where there is no right there can be no duty,\" then the solution of the question seems to lie with the officers...\n\n## TO THE EDITOR OF THE \"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\"\n\nSIR,—Having just returned from a voyage, I have only now had an opportunity of reading the report of the Conference between the Chamber of Commerce and Capt. Ashton and a delegation of the Marine Officers' Association. I am very pleased indeed to see how well Capt. Ashton maintained his cause in the face of such an evidently biassed, adverse, interested body of capitalists and shipowners represented by Messrs. Mackintosh, Keswick, Ryrie, etc. With all their professed desire for the cessation of Sunday labour, it is palpable to the most casual observer that their great care was evidently to protect the shipowner from a possible loss of one day's earnings.\n\nMr. Mackintosh asked for data regarding the number of officers employed on Sunday. Now, I think that no one is in a better position than himself to provide this information, seeing that the lines known as the \"Blue Funnel\" and \"Butterfield & Swire's\" are the great offenders in this respect; however, in passing, I might remark for Mr. Mackintosh's edification that there are, on an average, from fifty to sixty officers employed on steamers in this port on Sundays. Further, I may add, as regards compradores on board steamers, it in no wise affords the European officers greater liberty; as in steamers carrying compradores, there are usually only two European officers carried, one of whom is expected to sign all receipts and superintend all necessary deck work, while the other is supposed to be below looking after the stowage of cargo.\n\nMr. Mackintosh seems anxious to discover some method by which the Sunday labour of officers might be minimised. This is simple; \"stop Sunday labour.\"\n\nAs regards Mr. Keswick's statement of the strong objections of the Chinese to the law, I should like to know in what way these strong objections have been shown. I have heard of no action on the part of the Chinese in opposition to the proposed legislation on Sunday labour. With respect to his statement of the danger of making 150,000 Chinese idle on Sunday, I think the numbers stated very ridiculous, and I am quite satisfied that not more than 15,000 people would be affected by the cessation of Sunday labour in the harbour. With respect to Sunday labour in treaty ports, I can say that the British are the greatest sinners. And if I condescended to specialize local lines, I have no hesitation in naming the China Navigation Steamship Company and the Indo-China Steamship Company as the greatest offenders in this respect. Ships sailed under the Chinese flag compare most favourably in respect to Sunday observance. I have no doubt the I.M. Customs statistics would prove what is here stated.\n\nMy sympathies are with \"old Ryrie\" in his anxiety with respect to a hot Sunday dinner, but, as I understand the question, the Mercantile Marine Officer's Association are asking for \"cessation of Sunday labour in the Harbour only.\"",
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        "content_text": "## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n... circumstances, and we deeply deplore the sad loss of an able and popular colleague. We also express our deep sympathy with the families of the deceased and with those who were wounded, whom we wish a happy issue out of all their troubles and sickness. (Long continued applause amidst which the speaker resumed his seat.) A cordial vote of thanks to the Chairman, and the same compliment to the Secretary, Mr. Duncan, and the Acting Treasurer, Mr. Bathurst, brought the meeting to a close.\n\nThe annual report of the Association (for 1890) was laid on the table.— \"Hongkong Telegraph\" 5th January, 1891.\n\n## ANNUAL REPORT\n\nOF THE\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**, 1890.\n\nThe first meeting of marine officers held with a view to devising ways and means of starting a Mercantile Marine Officers' Association in this colony was at the Sailors' Home on the evening of the 17th May, 1890. Eleven officers were present as well as the present hon. Secretary. A resolution was passed at that meeting by which it was decided to call a mass meeting of British officers on the 20th May. Accordingly, those present on the 17th canvassed the whole of the shipping in port, and on the 20th over twenty officers assembled at the Victoria Hotel at 9 p.m., when it was resolved:---\n\n1.---That an Association styled the **\"British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association\"** be formed forthwith.\n\n2.-That the objects of the body shall be:--\n\n| Object | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I | For the purpose of counteracting influences that are, and for a very long time have been, acting against the interests of officers of the British Mercantile Marine. |\n| II | To watch over and guard the interests of its members. |\n| III | To maintain the proper dignity of the profession. |\n\nIt was also decided:-(1). To admit none but British subjects as members of the association. (2). That the Press should be admitted to all ordinary meetings. (3). That the entrance fee should be $5, and the monthly subscription $1 each. (4). That members of kindred bodies be admitted to membership upon payment of half the entrance fee.\n\nAt a meeting held on the 2nd of June at the same hotel, a set of temporary rules, based upon those of the Australian Association, were adopted with certain modifications. The meeting was a large and representative one, and the members of the Press, who were present, published reports of the proceedings the next day. A discussion ensued on the subject of the selection of a suitable President, and it was unanimously decided to ask Capt. Samuel Ashton, Commodore of the local Douglas Line, to do us the honour of becoming President. Captain Ashton accepted the presidency when approached on the subject. His acceptance was made known at a meeting held on the 24th of the same month, and the announcement was greeted with much applause. A letter was forwarded to the President couched in respectful terms, thanking him for his kindness in not only becoming the leader of the body but also a member.\n\nDuring the months of June and July, the much-vexed question of the right of foreigners to wholesale employment in British ships was frequently discussed, as also the necessity for a world-wide union of British officers, and resolutions strongly condemning the one and approving of the other were carried unanimously. This was followed by the Secretary being desired to open up negotiations with the English, Australian, and Shanghai Associations, with a view to the conclusion of treaties of amity with them. He was also instructed to make certain representations to Government on the subject of the employment of foreigners on board British ships. The Secretary duly performed the duties assigned to him.\n\nIn the month of August, the subject of the constitution of Local Marine Boards was discussed at length, and resulted in the passing of a resolution condemning the action of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach in causing able seamen to be admitted as members of Local Marine Boards. It was during the latter part of this month that telegraphic advices were received relative to the Australian strike. We were of opinion that the action taken by the officers in the Antipodes was premature, and that their alliance with trades-unions was a very ill-advised step, calculated to bring disgrace upon the profession and ruin to the strikers. That our opinions were well founded, the failure of the strike, or rather its virtual failure, owing to the stubborn resistance of shipowners and employers generally, added to the wavering of many of the officers (by latest advices from the colonies) proves conclusively.\n\nOn the 14th of August, the President, in accordance with the special invitation of the Association, took the chair at a meeting held at the Marine Hotel, and delivered his inaugural address. He was greeted with hearty applause, and his speech, which lasted for fully an hour, was frequently interrupted by loud manifestations of approval and concurrence in the opinions expressed. Representatives of the Press were present, and they published full reports of the proceedings the next day.\n\nOn the 25th of the same month, the Committee was duly elected by ballot.\n\nOn the 6th of September, the President again delivered an address in which he discussed the subject of unnecessary labour on board ships in the waters of this colony on Sundays. The speaker dealt with the subject in a telling manner, both from religious and secular points of view, and, as on the occasion of the inaugural address, the speech was continually interrupted with hearty applause. The representatives of the Press were present and published full reports of the speech, and took the matter up in their journals. The Press supported the movement, and the gratitude of the Association is due to them for their recognition and support, which it is earnestly hoped will be vouchsafed to us in the future.\n\nWe freely acknowledge the power of the Press, for we know it is one of the greatest safeguards of the liberty of the subject.\n\nOn the 19th of the month (September), resolutions were passed to the following effect:--\n\n| Resolution | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | \"That in view of the fact that the sum and substance of official and public opinion, generally, is to the effect that the cessation of labour on board ships on Sunday, in Hongkong, can only be effected by the Chamber of Commerce moving the Government in the matter, this Association decides that special representations should be made to the Chamber of Commerce with a view to the holding of a conference between delegates of this Association and the Chairman of the said Chamber.\" |\n| (2) | The Chamber of Commerce consenting to the conference, this Association be represented by the President, Captain Ashton, and two or three members to be selected by the Committee.\" |\n\nThe Chamber consented to receive a deputation on the 17th of October. Accordingly, at 4 p.m. that day, Captain Ashton, eight members, and the hon. Secretary, accompanied by the representatives of the English and Chinese Press, met the Committee of the Chamber in public conference at the City Hall, when the subject was discussed at length and taken down in shorthand by the Press representatives—the Hongkong Telegraph, Daily Press, China Mail, and Wai Sun Yat Po. Subsequently, full reports of the proceedings, together with the definite reply of the Chamber, were forwarded to the Liverpool Association and other influential friends, with a request that they should place the subject before the British public with all haste and in all earnestness.\n\nThe reply of the Chamber of Commerce, above referred to, caused great indignation to the whole body of Mercantile Marine Officers, and they decided to petition the Acting Governor to receive a deputation. Accordingly, the necessary despatch was written, and resulted in a most courteous reply in which his Excellency graciously fixed the date for receiving a deputation at Government House.\n\n## Page 45\n\n... \n\n## Page 169",
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        "content_text": "# INDEX\n\n| Page | Entry |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1-3 | Legislative Council |\n| 3-4 | House of Lords |\n| 3 | Petition to Governor |\n| 5-8 | Seamens Chaplain's Memorandum |\n| 7-8 | Article on Question at issue, Hongkong Telegraph |\n| 9-10 | Conference proposed |\n| 10 | Letter to Chamber of Commerce |\n| 11 | Letter from Chamber of Commerce |\n| 12-17 | Conference with Shipowners |\n| 18 | The Terms of the Chamber.. Terms |\n| 19 | Officers' refusal of |\n| 19-20 | Article on the Conference, Daily Press |\n| 21-24 | Correspondence re Conference |\n| 24 | Rumours re Petition to H.M. the Queen |\n| 25 | Tonnage Dues levied by Harbour Master |\n| 26-27 | Article on Conference, China Mail |\n| 26 | Comments on the Conference |\n| 27-28 | Deputation to Government |\n| 28-38 | Deputation waits on the Acting Governor, Report of Deputation, articles on |\n| 38-39 | Article in Singapore Free Press |\n| 38-40 | Report of Deputation |\n| 39 | Mission to Seamen.-Letter from London Mission |\n| 40-41 | Letter by \"A Traveller\" |\n| 42-44 | Meeting, Anual, speech by the President |\n| 44-46 | Report, Annual, 1890 |\n| 46-47 | Regulations, Special, at Ceylon |\n| 48-49 | Jubilee Celebration, the Bishop's Address on the occasion |\n| 50 | Article on the Bishop's Jubilee Address, Daily Press |\n| 50 | Letter.--A reply to the Daily Press and others |\n| 52-53 | Statistics showing extent of the practice |\n\nPage 174",
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        "content_text": "# The Mercantile Marine Service Association\n\n## Hong Kong Telegraph 19/11/90\n\n### A National Disgrace!\n\n#### THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION. AN APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT.\n\nHis Excellency the Acting Governor received a deputation from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association at Government House yesterday. The deputation, which was received in the first instance by Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C., and subsequently introduced to His Excellency by the Hon. Secretary, consisted of Captain S. Ashton, Mr. J. W. James, Mr. Chesney Duncan (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. J. W. Gale, N.A. (President), Mr. Pearce, W. Winch (officers), and James Edwards (Hon. Treasurer).\n\nThe Mercantile Marine Service Association was incorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Merchant Service, promoting the general improvement of nautical men by education, wholesome laws, obtaining redress of wrongs, procuring employment, and caring for the helpless and aged.\n\nCaptain Ashton said that the deputation felt most deeply grateful to His Excellency for granting them an interview. They sought to address the strong feeling amongst British officers that there should be a cessation of labour on board ships in this port on Sundays. Having studied Lord Knutsford's speech on the subject, made in the House of Lords on the 25th of July last, the Association came to the conclusion that the best way of causing much-needed legislation on the subject was to move the Chamber of Commerce to recommend Government to introduce a Bill which would cause the cessation of unnecessary Sunday labour.\n\n| **Position** | **Name** |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | J. W. Gale, N.A. |\n| Hon. Secretary | Chesney Duncan |\n| Hon. Treasurer | James Edwards |\n\nThe Association discussed the question at length with the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at a public conference held at the City Hall on the 7th ultimo. Full reports of the arguments occasioned, together with the Chamber's written decision, dated the 31st of October, had doubtless come within His Excellency's cognizance.\n\nCaptain Ashton continuing said, \"We are very glad to think that His Excellency has taken notice of the movement which, we submit, is a righteous and justifiable movement, and a protest against moral slavery.\" He contended that the reply of the Chamber was unjustifiable in the circumstances and was an insult to officers. The Chamber's proposition was impracticable in the extreme and amounted to a modus vivendi.\n\nThe Chamber wrote, \"The Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this harbour, as the questions involved are very serious and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith.\" Captain Ashton argued that the Government could legislate for the suppression of Sunday labour without injuriously affecting the shipping interests or the Chinese population.\n\nHis Excellency, in reply, said he was very glad to receive the deputation and to hear their views on a question which was admittedly one of much importance. He believed it was admitted on all sides that it would be desirable to diminish Sunday labour if such could possibly be done. The question then arose whether it should be interfered with, and if so, by what means such interference should be brought about.\n\nThere were only two ways by which this could be done: one being by having recourse to compulsory legislation, and the other by the voluntary co-operation of those concerned in the shipping interests of the colony. His Excellency admitted that he did not altogether agree with all the arguments brought forward as proof that it was impossible to diminish Sunday labour in the colony.\n\n### Honorary Members\n\n* ADMIRAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., K.T., G.C.B.\n* LORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON\n* LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B.\n* HON. W. A. CROSS, M.P.\n* M. W. MATTINSON, ESQ., M.P.\n* CAPTAIN SIR JAMES ANDERSON\n* SIR E. BATES, BART., M.P.\n* PROFESSOR SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D., F.R.S.\n* WM. RATURONR, ESQ., M.P.\n* DAVID MACIVER, ESQ.\n* EDWARD WHITLEY, ESQ., M.P.\n* SAMUEL SMITH, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH NEVILLE, ESQ., Q.C., M.P.\n* T.B. ROYDEŃ, ESQ., M.P.\n* BARON H. DE WORMS, M.P.\n* W. F. LAWRENCE, ESQ., M.P.\n* SIR G. BADEN-POWELL, ESQ., M.P.\n* T. P. O'CONNOR, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH BROCKLEBANK, ESQ.\n* JAMES BEAZLEY, ESQ., J.P.\n* J. J. MAY, ESQ., J.P.\n\n### Honorary Council\n\n* African Steam Ship Company\n* Aspinal, J, Son & Brooke\n* Balfour, Williamson & Co.\n* Baring Brothers\n* Batea, Stokes & Co.\n* Bibby, James J., Esq.\n* Brocklebank, Sir Thomas\n* Brocklebank, Ralph, Jun., Esq.\n* Bushell Bros. & Co.\n* Cearns & Brown\n* Cary, John, Esq., J.P.\n* Cory, Alderman J., Cardiff\n* Coteaworth, Ingue & Co.\n* Cross, J. T., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. H., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. T., & Sons\n* Eusington & Co.\n* Farnworth and Jardine\n* Gibbs, Bright & Co.\n* Graham, Rows & Co.\n* Gruning & Co.\n\n### Executive Council\n\n* Captain T. VINCENT, President\n* CLARKE ASPINALL, ESQ., Treasurer\n* Littledale, T. & J., & Co.\n* Lyon, Comper & Co.\n* Lockett, John, Esq.\n* Mackie & Sons\n* Melones, John, Esq.\n* Maciver, Charles, Esq.\n* Maciver, Henry, Esq.\n* Morland, Sir Henry, Bombay\n* Moss, Charles, & Co.\n* Myers, W. J. Sons, & Co.\n* Muck, W. D., Esq.\n* National Steam Ship Co., Ltd.\n* Nixon & Thew\n* Nickels, J. T., & Co.\n* North, Colonel J. T.\n\n### Council Members (To serve Three Years)\n\n| **Name** | **Position** |\n| --- | --- |\n| Brooks, Capt. | Captain |\n| Burton, G., Capt. | Captain |\n| Campbell, H., Capt. | Captain |\n| Clarke, Janno, Capt. | Captain |\n| Gales, James, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hill, William, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hamil, Martin f., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hatfield, B., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hayes, H. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Killy, C. J., Capt. | Captain |\n| Lewis, A. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Murray, G. S., Capt. | Captain |\n| McBay, Horatio, Capt. | Captain |\n| Nowell, S., Capt. | Captain |\n| Ritchie, Joseph, Capt. | Captain |\n| Royden, T. B., Esq., M.P. |  |\n| Suumier, Janges, Capt. | Captain |\n| Watt, H. F., Capt. | Captain |\n| Webster, J. K., Capt. | Captain |\n| Williamson, John, Esq. |  |\n\nPage 363\n\nC. O. \n2340\nRECE(REG 2 FEB 91)",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n\n**C. O. 13514**\n\nIt is pointed out that this plaque is in Hong Kong. It now appears that it is at risk of being extinct, and really exists, and moreover that Lord Ripon has doubts whether there are any effective prevention measures in place beyond those which are already in place by civilised governments.\n\nIf, however, the Prussian Government wishes a conference to be held on the subject, his lordship sees no reason why H.M. Government should not agree. Presumably, it would be on the lines of the recent international Cholera conference.\n\n| Office or Individual | General No. | Subject | Date | Last previous Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 13514 | Foreign China Japan | 1894 | 13367 |\n\nFurther telegram & Circular to Foreign Office, 8 Aug `13796/94`\n\nAs a state of Neutrality has been declared, steps will be taken to duly answer the Governor's telegram.\n\n**(Minutes.)**\n\n* M. Fairfield: I think we ought to telegraph to the Governor in answer to his telegram of 31 July, which is awaiting instructions.\n* C.P.I.: 2 Aug, say 3/8\n* 3B & 6, (72)--`J1970-0000-4-3/1`\n\nSubsequent Paper: `113527` of `1352`",
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        "content_text": "Fernor. No.\n\n232\n\nWhen\n\nDate. 1896\n\n8 Oct.\n\nIts previous Paper.\n\nAusd 250:18 hor\n\nJ & L (79)-78515-000-0-0\n\nIts subsequent Paper.\n\nHongKong\n\nN23034\n\n(Subject.)\n\nTelegraph rates.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.0\n\nG 4 23034\n\nRec'd\n\nREG 9 NOV 96!\n\nsends report of meeting of local Chamber of Commerce.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Fat Bramston\n\n7.\n\nThere seems to have been abundant correspondence in regards the telegraph rates to the Straits, but I do not find that the question has been raised as regards Hongkong before. The cause reported in the International Chamber appears to be as follows: accounts of the Telegraph Companies have to be paid on the basis of effective pence in gold. The Companies lose if they collect the charges in depreciated silver, hence they have raised the homeward rates. The anomalous state of affairs that ensued is that the charge for a telegram is higher in one direction than in the other.\n\nThis subject received the attention of the Budapest Telegraph Conference & several States have promised to...\n\nPage 8\n\n \n(The rest of the text is cut off, it is likely to be the continuation of the original text)\n\nPage",
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        "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "# 189 $ \n\nI omit Exception, but is it that matter concerning our general actor at the time of the Conference last summer. \n\nI send to G.P.O. at once copies that W. Chamberlain proposed to await the receipt of the Governor of Hong Kong's despatch before expressing any final opinion on the item adopted, but observing that 4 cents of a dollar is apparently much nearer the equivalent value of that to current rate of exchange than 5 cents.\n\nM. Lucas \nYes, we should wait for His Dispatch. At present the foreign postage rate is 4 cents for Hongkong and 10 cents for foreign.\n\nClearly for both rates should be 4 cents foreign & 4 cents Imperial, of an envelope.\n\n... writing to the Dept. Are any objections? I would suggest to write to GRO as Mr. Round suggests `C.PL 24` at once.\n\nReceiving Form \nClerk's Name, \nForeign No. \n12 \nNo. of Words \n26281 \n162 \nREMARKS, \nBG. \nIn Ally \nal \n\n| Clerk's Name | Foreign No. | No. of Words | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 12 | 162 | BG. In Ally al 26281 |\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nLONDON STATIONS: \nCHIEF STATION: 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. \nBRANCH STATIONS: \n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. \nGREAT TOWER STREET, E.C. \nHOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. \nAnd 449, STRAND, W.C.\n\nThe following Telegram was Received at \n206a, WINCHESTER HOUSE, E.C. \nFrom 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W. \nForeign Auction Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. \nDated Hongkong \n5 Jan \nTo \"Eastern,\" \n\nMy Telegram of 4 November proposing five cents. \nT. Chamberlain \n\nAmongst other things it is proposed to adopt Postal rates. \nFush ... New Black \n24/11 \n86 \n6 \n40 \n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Paper. CONDITIONS UPON WHICH THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED.-The Telegraph Companies and Administrations through whose hands this message has passed, will not be responsible in any case for anything done, or omitted to be done, beyond the limits of their Stations or Telegraphs; nor for any MISTAKES OR DELAYS in the transmission or delivery of, nor for the NON-TRANSMISSION, MIS-DELIVERY or NON-DELIVERY of Telegrams, from whatever cause arising. Any complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought to the notice of the Company.\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED \"VIÂ EASTERN.\"\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900",
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        "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900",
        "content_text": "## HT\n\nScheme similar to that contained in Mr. Jamieson's memo (see on 15718) is to the fate of which we are in ignorance, & as to which I still, in spite of your minute, venture to submit we should ask.\n\nT.C.M.  \n29/5-\n\nI there hesitate to say great results arising from the course proposed, and think it should be given a general trial. Having practical experience & the advice on hand and tell do. We have done it by sending them copies of the despatch which we have received but not expressing any further opinion at present. And sent a similar letter to the Admiralty, sending them copies of our correspondence with the Colonial Office, including one despatch of 9 April `[ASK 2.0. privately C.P. to date do M letter]`.\n\n& I think Mr. Lucas' views on the ruling deserve attention. Telegraph to Swatow \"Dazzleape despatch 142 quaternary 'With reference to your standing letter 4 April you should propose Cullens riceroy without delay letter mearmer Suggested in letter from Admiral govann hangnail apyrexy. 3 April Lanapaph It Gudelight H Blath skill aut but we do not-wait Inform me by telepath what action been Fatten We had better do this at once\".\n\nCuiss 17344  \n(3)-12435-2000-1-93 19231-3000-7-99\n\nSo prouid I have now 30 May alonce may Then it my 30 - for the first time new 153.22. which had not been connected with this series... It takes a great deal further than the point I was able to reach in my memo: attached to 15118, & shows sufficiently that the Chinese have failed, after a conference held at the end of November last, to arrive at anything approaching to a satisfactory settlement of the West River Traffic questions.\n\nMr. Jamieson's proposal appears not to have found favour. I have drafted in the understanding that your minute on 15/18 de 7CM is intended to supercede Minutes on 15/18 de.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]",
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        "content_text": "(Receiving Form. London 3/137.)\n\n**REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED \"VIA EASTERN.\"**\n\n**THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.**\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| **AT ST/SY** | **REMARKS.** |\n|  | **No.** |\n\n**LONDON STATIONS:**\n\n**CHIEF STATION:** 11, OLD BROAD STREET, EC.\n\n**BRANCH STATIONS:**\n\n| Location |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. | 3, GREAT TOWER STREET, EC |\n| 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. |  |\n| 206a, WINCHESTER HOUSE, EC. | 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. |\n| Foreign Auction Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. | STRAND, W.C. |\n\nAnd 449,\n\nThe following **TELEGRAM** Received at........... \n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| **From** | **Foreign No..** |\n| **To** |  |\n| **No. of Words.** | **Dated** |\n|  | 190 |\n\nviá \"Eusteru, \n27 \nTime \nMt. \n\nRear Adamia declines to act as attraction Groth. Rear Admiral avrakion. Conference decided to instruct fore half width other arrangements over senate cheating, no saintis Mars Footwati, around would foreign shiles disagreement ator actwee Blake.\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2.01 0.0 11.576~ | A. F. |\n|  | 24/1 |\n\n**Doubtful Words should be OFFICIALLY repeated.** See Rule Book, pages 13 and 14.\n\n**CONDITIONS UPON WHICH THIS TELEGRAM HAS BEEN ACCEPTED**-The Telegraph Administrations and Companies through whose hands this Telegram has passed, will in no case be responsible for anything done, or omitted to be done, beyond the limits of their Stations or Telegraphs. Nor for any MISTAKES OR DELAYS in the transmission or delivery of, nor for the NON-TRANSMISSION. MIS-DELIVERY OF NON-DELIVERY of Telegrams, from whatever cause arising, any complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought to the notice of the Company. No inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, Leadon Wall, London.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901",
        "page_number": 226,
        "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901",
        "content_text": "Australasia & China and great halton Telegraph Cry stato that their interests are affected by their other proposals and that in recognition of this fact their acting manager was invited to take part in the Conference between fort officials and other Tramway representatives. Arfon, the Tramways Bill was framed. The provisions of the Bill were inserted for their protection. They state, therefore, that their expert adviser, H.D. Wilkinson, M.Inst.C.E., may interview and discuss the subject, as they are considering the papers forwarded in the earlier letters from Aus. Dept\". Chamberlain would be glad to see any of you at his meeting with Wilkinson as proposed.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902",
        "page_number": 477,
        "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902",
        "content_text": "472\n\nthe public.\n\nWe are much obliged to you for the information you kindly give us from your correspondence with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company.\n\nWe have been in informal communication with the Eastern Company and we think that reduction in the charges between this Colony and China is pretty certain to be made at the International Conference which will be held in London next year.\n\nWe also expect a reduction in the charge to the Straits Settlements and other places.\n\nWe shall take care to let you know when we have anything definite to communicate. And the Postmaster General will be much obliged if you will kindly keep us informed of any future action which may be taken by your Department.",
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        "page_number": 478,
        "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902",
        "content_text": "We suggested Amendment of words \n\n`pu935710` Evarard & m. a.c. \n\nagreed \n\n473 \n\nI am aware of the difference in charge to which my Hon. \nFriend calls attention. It is in accordance with a well \nestablished principle of the Telegraph Convention that \nadjoining Countries like Russia and China or China and British \nIndia may make arrangements between themselves for lower \nrates than those which are generally applicable; and Hong \nKong, as forming geographically part of China, has been \nbrought within the terms of the special agreements regulating \ntelegraphic rates between China and Russia on the one hand \nand China and British India, on the other. \n\nThese and other charges have been under the consideration \nof the Colonial Office and Post Office and I hope that it may \nbe possible to reduce the rate between this Country and Hong \nKong at the Conference \n\nI ought to add that the Great Northern Company does not \npossess a monopoly of landing rights in any British territory,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904",
        "page_number": 79,
        "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904",
        "content_text": "POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.\n\nNo. of Telegram....... 76\n\nIf the accuracy of an Inland Telegram be doubted, the telegram will be repeated on payment of half the amount charged for such accuracy. If on repetition it be found that there was any inaccuracy, the charge for repetition will be refunded. Special conditions are applicable to the repetition of Foreign Telegrams.\n\nLiverpool\n\n£ 2.\n\nCharges to pay 28822 Received Charge Office Stamp\n\nAU 16 04 to Chief Secretary Colonial Office\n\nBritish steamer Mensington taken up account of Suman Conference for large cargo and passengers. Shipment a hot dispute. Details believed under Juvia. Being passengers are not Coolies but Eurasians detained by Authorities in Hong Kong under Labourer's warrant and this gives first news of arrival respecting sailing license refusal. Saturdays (dot) but yesterday's (a decision) difficult to overcome license from while today further message from Governor Hong Kong at once were required. What the precise nature of the aforesaid matter has been referred to firm will be... \n\n-220 Jour a member will kindly telegraph to me this evening if you prejudice already suffered is",
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        "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]",
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        "content_text": "68 \n\nand Kwong Tung merchants in the various ports in the Southern Ocean \n(i.e., Straits Settlements, Australia, and other places) to take shares. \n\nBut, later on, as Viceroy Shum was in a hurry to get this done, H.B. \nCheung took the responsibility upon himself of saying that the money \ncould be advanced although the shares had not yet been taken up. The \nnecessary cost of building the railway, too, was to be temporarily \nborne by the Authorities on condition that the money (for making Whampoa a treaty port and the construction of the railway thus expended) \nshould be repaid when the shares were taken up. When Cheung had settled \nthe above with Viceroy Shum in the conference, he returned to Chiu Chau, \nhis native place, to see about the funds, and as soon as he gets enough \nfunds, he will come to Canton to commence work. He will begin with the \nsection between Canton and Amoy (or Whampoa as mentioned earlier, but the text seems to refer to a different location, possibly a typo or confusion) and with all work in connection with the opening of the latter as a treaty port and the construction of the embankment. In the meantime, he will telegraph to the various towns in \nthe Southern Ocean to immediately take up shares in the Canton-Amoy \nRailway, which is a main line, so that he can continuously work section \nafter section. \n\nWe further hear that part of the railway between Amoy and Chiu \nChau is considered to be the main line for the Fokien Province and the \nfunds for its construction are to be raised from the Fokien people, and \nthat the funds for building the Kwong Tung main line between Canton \nand Chiu Chau are to be raised from the Kwong Tung merchants. The \nscheme is first to commence work on the section from Canton to Whampoa \nand then on those passing through Tsang Shing, Tung Kun, Shek Lung, Pok Lo, Roi Fung, and Luk Pung, to Chiu Chau, and, at the same time, work \nwill be commenced from Amoy to Chiu Chau, where a large railway station \nshall be built, being a station for the use of both provinces. All \ndistricts along which the railway passes shall also have stations for \nthe convenience of passengers and goods. \n\n(Editor of the She Men Yat Po:) Railways are closely connected with \ntreaty ports. By this movement, H.F. Cheung may be said to have caught \nhold of the very clue. It is hoped that the railway shares will be \nbacked up as eagerly as those of the Canton-Hankow Railway. The only",
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        "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906",
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        "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906",
        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n259\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[35559]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[October 22.]\n\nSECTION &\n\nCO\n\n13805\n\nMr. Carnegie to Sir Edward Grey-(Received October 22.) P: 27 MA (No. 368.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 5, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 335, Confidential, of the 8th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copies of two notes which I addressed to Prince Ching on the 18th ultimo and to-day on the subject of the Chinese project to build a railway from Canton to Whampoa.\n\nOn the 17th ultimo at the Wai-wu Pu I pressed for a reply to my note of the 13th ultimo. After some discussion, in which Mr. Tang Shao-yi appeared to think that this question should form part of the Canton-Kowloon negotiations, he promised to consult with Prince Ching.\n\nI have not yet succeeded in obtaining the interview with Prince Ch'ing which is referred to in my despatch No. 358, Confidential, of the 23rd ultimo. His Highness is still with the Court at Wan Shou Shan, and has been much occupied by a conference on Government reform which has followed the return of the Special Commissioners from Europe; but yesterday at the Wai-wu Pu his Excellency Lien-fang promised to remind him of his obligation to receive me, and last night I mentioned by letter that I would be glad to call on his Highness to-morrow at his residence near the Summer Palace at any hour convenient to him.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Carnegie to Prince Ching.\n\nPeking, August 13, 1906.\n\nIN a note of the 12th May which I had the honour to address to your Highness I stated that I had received a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the effect that the Canton provincial authorities were taking active steps in furtherance of a scheme for constructing a railway from Canton city along the right bank of the East River through Whampoa. It was pointed out that, as such a line would follow the proposed route of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the Preliminary Agreement of March 1899 would be infringed, and your Highness was requested to impress this fact upon the Viceroy of Canton by telegraph, and to move his Excellency to drop the scheme.\n\nOn the 16th July I again wrote to your Highness, stating that I had received telegraphic inquiries on this subject from Sir E. Grey, and requested that I might be informed whether the Chinese Government had communicated with the Viceroy in the sense desired by my note of the 12th May. In reply to verbal representations at the Wai-wu Pu, I was informed that the Chinese Government had no information of the project to construct a railway from Canton city through Whampoa, but that inquiries were being made, and a reply would be sent to me later.\n\nI have recently received more precise information from His Majesty's Consul-General, which places it beyond any reasonable doubt that the Board of Commerce has sanctioned this scheme, that large funds have been subscribed to carry it out, that a foreign engineer has been engaged, and will reach Canton shortly, and that the contract for the material is to be given to a foreign firm.\n\nI should remind your Highness that in a note of the 4th August I had the honour to address you on the subject of similar action taken by the Board of Commerce in regard to railways in Chekiang and Kiangsu, which action contravened the terms of Agreements concluded by the Chinese Government with the British and Chinese Corporation. The Board of Commerce having openly supported and obtained the Imperial sanction to proposals violating solemn contracts with a British firm in respect of railway undertakings in Kiangsu and Chekiang, there is all the more reason to credit\n\n2183 y---8]",
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        "document_key": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]",
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        "content_text": "vespermcille for a deal of the fraction, and ulatuvar haffen, did not allow the work fall into bei hands. hat the \n\nJer. \n\naltogether \n\nto musunderstand \n\nwhat is regained stein under the \n\n\"Departinantil Agelamm \n\n257 \n\nappers from für time Jack me of Obring die Gewolfe Baring discuss the whadde white matter rebally with \n\nlike \n\nwy \n\nevery foremor. Sie d. \n\nSir & Hopwood. \n\nStopword menslike women the Parts Paper C2325, \n\ntop 28-30 \n\nའས \n\nAs a compranation mais of the \n\nAdvantages Adriadvantages qtte 2 explains, and als the Funs. papers who have but in a deperate handle or the loten ottin \n\nfor Lyttelton's dash. to bis 1. Anderson \n\nThe minutes \n\ncoperiall \n\nCA \n\nCA 1794705 \n\nDesp Cheron dealing similar fattitude. \n\nparks &hi &. Sweth \n\ntut paper. [See also \n\n22964/07 Having regard to (i) the work one & expenditure \n\n+ 12/ the fast list as the fair \n\naband incurred, Requestave started the works in a \n\nharry with onl \n\npreliminary plans to perification, so that there t whave to be prefaced before contrans cibe lake, I \n\non departim cubill. \n\nthink that we had butters go on bat lose it wibe wise to explain canhellt \n\nThug and what his role will be, and get hunts with matter our to with Sis & Wolfe Karry; \n\nIsh - recommend an unofficial letter out \n\nin plain a leves them we can darf. test ish will be the worse for he \n\nMay telling him in plain ar \n\nLage wan \n\nget \n\nthe work into his on \n\nLunded. \n\nThis shy In caref \n\nwn. Her \n\nLands in any \n\nChatham \n\nSood price \n\nChatham if m that he wante \n\nfind him des treating or causing fiction, \n\nBack in the prist instance Ish saw the for's dash to the ICA. and (ich Sie & Hopword \n\nthat he? Haw \n\nover Lave and \n\nDr. \n\n10/4 \n\nC.PL. \n\n11 \n\nI am finite ready \n\nthis defystion if \n\nto mode \n\nConference is \n\nSie J. Hopwood \n\nfor \n\nto adopt \n\nan \n\naffentiens \n\na day when the \n\nSitting Tight \n\nYou discussed this today with Sie & Wolfe Barry & Sir Eblake. \n\nconsidered that the Dropathic \n\nto have control of any \n\nIt was \n\nWorks might not \n\npart of the construction. \n\nthe tunnel, Sis J. \n\n2. On the question of Wolfe Barry's Catest reports are \n\ntum cum \n\nCon \n\nthe interfon inclined to drop the draggestion karit on the past and to contract. On your \n\ninthannce he agreed to telegraph for fretter information \n\nas to the porchable cost, if cashier \n\nugh departmentally, to handle \n\nhis indica \n\nthe bla \n\n& Lucard \n\natter.",
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        "content_text": "# \nunder acknowledgment he handed it, as in duty bound, to the Company for consideration. Five hundred and some score of the gentry and merchants of all Yunnan have now sent in a joint Petition as follows:-\n\n\"The retention or the loss of the railway is a matter that affects the lives, fortunes, existence, and continuity of the Yunnanese. They would go through fire and water to struggle for it. The other day they came in crowds to the Company to hold a conference. When going into the question of the political aspects of this line they learnt for the first time that the British Envoy, without taking counsel of our Wai-wu Pu, had proceeded to fix a date for engineers to cross the border and survey the country between Tengyueh and Tali. Although this road is on the far frontiers, it intimately concerns our politics as a whole. The gentry and people of the Three Ridings must and will unite their strength to make it together, the rich providing money and the poor labour, but all putting their hands to it with one accord, in the hope of getting it well started. Thus would the terms of the Memorial be followed and hold over the profits maintained. No matter what dangers have to be faced in this affair of the railway, we would never dare to abandon our duty in its regard.\n\nEngland is in the forefront of the world's civilization, and all admire the friendly spirit she displays and her high regard for justice. The British Consul in Yunnan has been long at his post, and knows well the feelings of the people. He is peaceable and conciliatory, and the Yunnanese have long entertained a deep respect for him. In the matter, however, of this reconnaissance we are ashamed to confess that we are lacking in understanding; we cannot but feel some doubts, and it is only by a personal interview that those doubts can be resolved.\n\n\"We therefore with one voice humble pray that your Excellency will write to the Consul to ask him to come on the 11th (26th December) to the railway Company's, to have an explanatory talk with the elected Representatives, and to arrive at a satisfactory understanding.\"\n\nThe Governor-General has accordingly the honour to ask whether the Consul-General can meet their wishes, and on the 26th December do them the honour to proceed to the railway Company's and discuss matters in a friendly way with the gentry and merchants, so that he may get an inkling of the popular view. Should the duties of his high office not allow leisure for such condescension, the elected Representatives will be told to walk to his residence and pay their respects, when it is hoped that he will deign to receive them and give them the benefit of his counsel.\n\nRequesting the honour of an acknowledgment. (Compliments).\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"Yünnan Gazette\" of December 21, 1906.\n\n### Telegram from the Yunnan Railways Company to the Wai-wu Pu\n\n(Translation.)\n\n[Sent about December 20, 1906.] To their Excellencies the Prince and Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu, Peking:\n\nWE have more than once submitted telegrams regarding the British Consul Wu's (Wilkinson's) reconnaissance of the Tengyueh-Tali country. According to recent communication from that Consul to his Excellency the Governor-General, the British Envoy at Peking telegraphs repeating telegraphic directions from his Foreign Office to instruct the Consul that the present reconnaissance is an integral part of last year's, and is not a new departure. He asks that against the day fixed for the engineers to start, instructions may be telegraphed to the Superintendent (of Trade, i.e., the Taotai) at Tengyueh and the local officials, to afford efficient protection as before.\n\nWhen Englishmen on previous occasions crossed the frontier for reconnaissance, our Company for exclusive construction had not been established. There is an obvious difference between the conditions then and now. Opposition in accordance with the Treaty has been time and again offered, and Consul Wu, seeing the exceeding strength of such opposition, changed (\"reconnaissance\") into \"travelling.\" That not being agreed to, he again desires a crossing of the frontier for a survey. Were the survey to take place, there would be later on fewer arguments for resistance. Yunnan, for the sake of their lives and property, as long as they are Yunnanese, must oppose with all their strength, and will certainly not yield in the slightest. Although Yunnan is on the confines of the Empire, still there is not a foot or inch of its soil that does not belong to the State; we cannot by any means sit idly by and see it lost.\n\nShould the British Envoy not yet have broached the subject with your honourable Board, we would pray you to strenuously oppose the British Envoy. The prestige of the State is concerned, and it is earnestly hoped that the object aimed at may be attained.\n\nIf they are once allowed to cross the frontier, it is to be feared that a grave calamity will ensue.\n\nThe matter is most pressing and vital.\n\nYunnan Railways Company, Head Office,\nLi K'un, Ting Yen, Wang Hang-t'u, Yang Chin-tang, Shih Yu-k'uei, and 300 Delegates from all Prefectures, Sub-Prefectures, Departments, and Districts, together with the Tengyueh Sawbwas.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n### Consul-General Wilkinson to Governor-General Ting\n\nDecember 26, 1906.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nTHE Consul General has the honour to acknowledge receipt of the Governor-General's note in reply to his despatch stating that he had received, on the 9th December, a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Pekin, saying that the latter was desired by the Secretary of State to instruct the Consul-General that the present reconnaissance forms an integral part of last year's survey, and is not a new departure, and that protection ought to be accorded as on previous occasions. The Consul-General accordingly asked that instructions might be telegraphed to the Taotai at Tengyueh against the day earlier fixed for the start of the engineers, to direct the local authorities to afford protection as on the two previous occasions.\n\nTo that despatch his Excellency now replies that as a Railway Company has been established for exclusive construction of the Tengyueh line, the situation is not the same as before; that he had, as in duty bound, handed the despatch to the Company for consideration; and that the Company had sent in a representation begging his Excellency to invite the Consul-General to the Company's office, there to have an explanatory conversation with the elected representatives.\n\nThe Consul-General would observe that in May last he received telegraphic instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking to arrange with his Excellency to discuss the proposals of the Government of India regarding a railway from Burmah to Tengyueh when those proposals should be communicated to him by telegraph. His Excellency verbally agreed at the time to this course; but before the proposals had been telegraphed, a Memorial for the establishment of a Railway Company for exclusive Chinese construction of the Tengyueh line\" is announced.\n\nThis had very much the appearance of an affront to the British Government; and the Consul-General could not recognize any such exclusive Company.\n\nMoreover, in the matter of the reconnaissance, the instructions of His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, conveyed through His Majesty's Minister—that the reconnaissance is no new departure, but an integral part of last year's, and that protection must be given as before—having been received by him, the Consul-General can only act in accordance with the orders of his superiors, and would be unable to enter on further negotiations, still less on an informal discussion with private individuals. It has long been understood between his Excellency and the Consul-General that the present is nothing more than a reconnaissance, and that if it is found that a railway can be constructed, further negotiations must take place; there is no question of immediate building. His Excellency has already twice consented to reconnaissances by the engineers, and the Consul-General is at a loss to understand why a third reconnaissance should be opposed; he seeks in vain for an explanation.\n\nThe matter is one that affects Anglo-Chinese relations, and it is of importance that regard should be had to international comity and friendly dealing. It is hoped, therefore, that the previous procedure will be followed and that opposition will not be again lightly entertained and time wasted. The Consul-General begs that instructions may... \n\nPage 426",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nSir Robert Hart would agree to the cost of their repair and maintenance being met from Customs funds.\n\n7. A copy of a recent Report from the Commanding Officer of the \"Robin\" on the state of affairs in the West River is inclosed, and I would express my opinion that the only means by which such piratical acts as those described in his letter can be stopped are by entrusting to the Customs authorities the powers I have advocated in paragraph 4.\n\nat Canton.\n\nSir,\n\nS. I am forwarding a copy of this letter to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **A. W. MOORE**.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Fortnightly Report of Proceedings, February 1 to 15, 1907.**\n\n\"Robin,\" at Wuchow, February 16, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that the West River between Wuchow and Canton appears quiet, and no information of piracies below Wuchow has been obtained between the 1st and 15th February.\n\nThe country about 18 to 30 miles above Wuchow appears somewhat unsettled, and I have the honour to report that a daring robbery occurred on the 24th January near Yun-wo-hn, a small market town in the district, 18 miles up the river.\n\n**Armed Robbery of Junks containing British Goods**.-Armed robbers attacked four large junks at anchor about 9 P.M. by means of sampans. The attack was also covered by an armed party on shore.\n\nThe piece-goods boxes were broken open and the contents taken away.\n\nThe estimated number of armed men and confederates was fifty.\n\nThe stolen property included some of the effects of Von Strauch, the Acting Commissioner at Nanning, also a British firm at this port had goods to the value of 1,750 taels broken into and stolen.\n\nTaotai Wong, who has taken active measures, has recovered a quantity of the stolen goods, and considers he has five of the ringleaders.\n\nTaotai of Wuchow-Owing to other outrages in this proximity, Taotai Wong is proceeding to the vicinity on Saturday, the 16th instant.\n\n**Loss of British Launch “Hong Hing,” No. 461**.-I regret to report that the British launch \"Hong Hing,\" a stern wheeler proceeding from Wuchow to Kuli-hsien, struck a rock off Circular Island (some 35 miles above Wuchow), and sank at 2 P.M. on Friday, the 8th instant. Forty passengers, the Comprador, three crew, and five guard soldiers were drowned, and all cargo and papers lost.\n\nThe Chinese New Year has passed without incident at Wuchow.\n\nTaotai Wong has been most friendly and hospitable, and did me the honour to invite me to accompany him as his guest on his journey to pacify and punish the country in the vicinity of the outrage that I have already submitted.\n\n**Inspection of Launches**.-I submit I have inspected the following launches: \"Tsun Fat,\" \"Tung Wo,\" \"Choung Fat,\" \"Wung Fat.\"\n\n| Launch Name | \n|-------------|\n| Tsun Fat    | \n| Tung Wo     | \n| Choung Fat  | \n| Wung Fat    |\n\nThe \"Tung Wo,\" 502, had no name and a wrong number, and has been reported to Canton and sent there for re-survey, which was overdue. The behaviour of the British launches is, I have the honour to report, improving.\n\nThe Senior Officer,  \nWest River Gunboats.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **COLPOYS C. WALCOTT**,  \nLieutenant-Commander.\n\n19974  \n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**(RECEIVED 5 JUN 07)**\n\n[May 4.]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n**SECTION 4.**\n\n[14408]\n\n## No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 4.)\n\n(No. 133.) Sir,\n\nPeking, March 16, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 71 of the 6th February, I have the honour to inclose copy of a Confidential despatch from His Majesty's Consul at Nanking, reporting conversations with the Viceroy and the Shanghae Taotai on the subject of the settlement of the Shanghae riots. Mr. Ker had informed me by telegraph of the purport of these conversations, and I was not therefore surprised to receive on the 4th March a Memorandum from the Wai-wu Pu, in which I was asked to send an officer to Nanking to negotiate on the basis of reciprocal compensation. I inclose a translation of this Memorandum.\n\nNext day, 5th March, I called at the Wai-wu Pu and stated my reasons—which I need not here repeat—for considering the request inadmissible, and said that if the demand for compensation by us to Chinese sufferers was persisted in, I saw nothing for it but a joint investigation by the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court and the present Shanghae Taotai into the riots and the causes of them, including the conduct of Taotai Yuan. There was the usual lengthy discussion over the old ground, and it was finally understood that I should put my views shortly before their Excellencies in writing at another meeting.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of the Memorandum which I left at the Wai-wu Pu on the 8th March, in pursuance of this understanding. As you will see, I expressed my readiness to recommend to His Majesty's Government that a joint inquiry should be held at Shanghae before the Judge and Taotai to investigate exhaustively the causes of the riots and the conduct of the officials concerned, Chinese and British, including Taotai Yuan, and to report on the questions of compensation and punishment of the ringleaders. As it is well known that the Taotai Yuan has no desire to figure in the witness box, I made a point of insisting that his personal testimony would be necessary in the event of such an inquiry taking place.\n\nTheir Excellencies had no objection to offer to my proposal, but they showed by their manner and by sundry casual remarks that it was not likely to find favour with Taotai Yuan, the principal person concerned; and I have gathered generally that it might be useful to the Viceroy of Nanking in bringing pressure on that gentleman and his friends to assist towards a solution less objectionable to themselves.\n\n(No. 7. Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Ker to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nNanking, March 3, 1907.\n\nON the occasion of my New Year visit to the Viceroy Tuan Fang on the 20th February, I inquired when the Shanghae Taotai was coming, and asked that I might be informed of the result of the conference between the Viceroy and him on the subject of the settlement of the Shanghae riots. His Excellency stated that the Taotai was expected about the 22nd, and promised that he would let me know the conclusion arrived at.\n\nThe Taotai did not arrive until the 26th, and on the 28th I sent a message to the Viceroy's yamên asking for an interview next day. In the evening an answer came that the Viceroy would see me on Sunday, 3rd March. In the meantime, I had arranged to call next day on the Shanghae Taotai, who had called on me last year on his way to his post, and whose visit on that occasion I had not been able to return.\n\nA few days before, I had read in a Chinese newspaper published in Shanghae (the \"Universal Gazette\" of the 21st February) two letters purporting to have been written by the Shanghae Taotai on the subject of riot compensation.",
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        "content_text": "# 302 \n## 920 \n### AFFAIRS OF CHINA. \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n\n[40882] \n\n## No. 1. \n### [December 14.] \n## SECTION \n### 9 JAN 08 \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 14.) \n\n**(No. 510.)** Sir, \n\nPeking, October 30, 1907. IN continuation of my despatch No. 500 of the 17th instant, respecting the Peking Syndicate's affairs in Shansi, I have the honour to inclose copies of Memoranda drawn up by the Agent-General of the Syndicate describing his interviews with the provincial representatives.* \n\nThe first of these inclosures carries the narrative of events up to the point reached in my previous despatch, and sets forth the grounds upon which the Delegates of the Gentry began by disputing the validity of the Agreement of 1898. \n\nThat their attitude towards the Syndicate is one of unveiled hostility has been made sufficiently evident in their meetings with the Agent-General, and if additional proof were necessary, it is afforded by the complaint of Mr. Brown, copy of which I have the honour to inclose,* showing that two of their number have been instigating an active campaign against the Syndicate in Shansi while these negotiations are in progress with a view to intimidation. I have brought this charge, the truth of which is hardly disputed, to the notice of the Wai-wu Pu. \n\nAt the meeting of the 21st instant the validity of the Agreement was no longer questioned, and a proposal was brought forward by the Gentry for its redemption. \n\nMr. Brown replied to this offer that his Syndicate had no desire whatever to be bought out, but he consented under pressure to receive a definite proposition for repurchase on the understanding that by so doing he did not commit either his Syndicate or His Majesty's Government to accept such a solution. \n\nA firm offer of 600,000 taels, say £90,000, was then made at the next meeting on the 24th instant, but this figure fell far short of the amount which Mr. Brown was induced to name as the minimum which the Syndicate would be likely to accept, viz., 1,500,000, while his counter-proposal that the Chinese should co-operate in working the coal mines with the Syndicate, as they are pledged to do in respect to the iron mines and smelting, was refused all consideration by the Delegates. \n\nAt the next conference on the 29th instant, no advance was made towards an agreement, though the offer for redemption was increased to 1,000,000 taels, say £150,000, a tenth of the sum mentioned by Mr. Brown. The offer of co-operation was again made and refused, and a suspension of all further negotiation was only averted by Mr. Brown's consenting to telegraph the Chinese offer for what it was worth to the London Board. \n\nIn conversation with the Ministers at the Wai-wu Pu on the 29th instant, I described the course which these discussions had taken, and requested them to utilize the intervening period before the next meeting, fixed for the 4th November, in sending for Ting Ta-jén, the Provincial Judge, and impressing upon him the danger of losing this opportunity for an amicable settlement. They promised to speak to Prince Ching on the subject, and agreed with me that the redemption of the Agreement was undesirable, even if the necessary sum could be found. As regards co-operation, I informed them that Mr. Brown had a definite scheme, which he would lay before the Wai-wu Pu if they so desired. \n\nWhether Mr. Brown has been wise in allowing the negotiations to assume this phase and in entertaining in any degree the idea of redemption may perhaps be open to question, but I have little doubt that if he had refused to listen to the long-winded speeches of the Shansi Delegates, and had insisted on confining the discussion *ab initio* to the execution of the Agreement, the conference would merely have come to a deadlock at an earlier date. He can now show the Chinese Government that he has listened patiently to all that the Gentry had to say, and it remains to be seen how far the central authorities can go in compelling the province to accept a reasonable settlement, such, for instance, as Mr. Brown's offer of partnership. \n\n* Not printed. \n\n[2769 o--1]",
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        "content_text": "Two courses of action remain—either inform Viceroy that as his patrol service is not effective, ours will be increased, and that inquiry will be held into registration of British vessels; or to inform Viceroy that if the \"Sainam\" compensation claim is settled, we will defer taking active measures to protect our flag until the result of his efforts are seen, also that we will take steps to prevent irregular use of our flag. Please telegraph your views.\n\nAdmiralty approve action which was proposed in my letter of the 29th September.\n\n(3.)\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, November 21, 1907. Viceroy has handed me following extract from a telegram from the Wai-wu Pu, dated the 5th July, 1907\n\n\"Patrol of West River. The British Envoy asks for an additional four small steamers under the control of the Customs. Our Board have on several occasions discussed the question with him. In further discussion he requested us to notify the Shui Wu Ch'u to advance a sum of 200,000 taels for the steamers, and stated clearly that foreign officers would not be required, but that it would be for China to dispute officers to take charge (of the steamers).\"\n\nI have no information from you to this effect. At interview yesterday it appeared that question of foreign officers and Commissioner's opposition to scheme were chief stumbling blocks. The first seems in present state of popular feeling insuperable, and active hostile action might have far-reaching and disastrous effect. Admiral has shown me his telegram to you giving proposed action, which he has discussed with me. I suggest that the \"Sainam\" claim should be fixed at 85,000 dollars. This is the reduced amount, which I consider strictly reasonable.\n\n(4.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\nPeking, November 22, 190...\n\nIn reply to your telegram, Wai-wu Pu's telegram quite misrepresents my language.\n\n\"Sainam\" claim being fixed at 85,000 dollars.\n\nI approve\n\n(5)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\n(Through Consul-General, Canton.)\n\nFollowing for Admiral. Your telegram of yesterday:\n\nPeking, November 22, 1907.\n\nIn view of the opposition of Customs, which emanates from Inspector-General (Sir Robert Hart) and British Consul-General's opinion that the employment of foreigners is impracticable, and that active hostile action (which expression I presume he does not intend to include your proposed patrol of waterways) might have far-reaching and disastrous effect, I consider Viceroy should be informed that if 'Sainam' claim is settled you will defer taking action for patrol of waterways until his scheme has been given a trial.\n\nQuestion of irregular use of the flag never been brought forward by the Wai-wu Pu, nor, so far as I know, previously by the Viceroy. Should the latter ask it, I think it will be sufficient to say that new Regulations are already under consideration.\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Viceroy of Canton.\n\n\"Alacrity,\" at Canton, November 23, 1907. HIS Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton has transmitted for my information a copy of your Excellency's despatch of the 21st instant, in which you confirm the offer made at our recent conference to provide four additional fast launches for the patrol service, in connection with the suppression of piracy, but state that you are unable to carry out the undertaking made by your predecessor and the Peking Government to place the launches under Customs control.\n\n2. In addition to the provision of these fast launches, I have noted that your Excellency agreed also during our conversation\n\n(a.) To provide for a more systematic patrol of the river.\n\n(b.) To provide for the co-operation of soldiers on shore with the patrol launches, to enable the robbers to be followed up, should they escape.\n\n(c.) To replace the guard-boats recently withdrawn.\n\nFurther, that in regard to the \"Sainam\" compensation claim, you stated that you were not fully acquainted with the case, but would study the papers on the subject, and give your decision in one week.\n\n3. As regards your observation, made at the conference, that the British launches were in many cases really owned and run by Chinese subjects, I beg to inform your Excellency that new Registration Regulations are now under consideration with a view to stopping any existing abuses.\n\n4. With respect to the four fast launches being controlled by the Imperial Maritime Customs, and commanded by officers belonging to that Service, I would observe that the proposal was originally made in consequence of the Chinese gun-boats being powerless to prevent, and making but little effort to check, the repeated acts of piracy which, as your Excellency has admitted, have been going on for years. It was recognized that the duty of safeguarding those trading in the Canton Delta and the adjacent rivers was that of the Chinese themselves, and to supplement the patrolling flotilla by a few fast launches under Customs control appeared to be the only alternative to the Powers interested taking more active measures themselves. There may be difficulties attending such assistance by the Customs, but they can be surmounted.\n\nIn this connection I would remind your Excellency that a very effective service of armed cruising launches for the prevention of smuggling (and capture of pirates if necessary, as happened in 1903) is carried out under the supervision of the Commissioner of Customs at Kowloon and Macao, each vessel carrying two European officers, and if such duties can be carried out effectively by the Customs, surely that of assisting in the prevention of piracy could also be. As, however, your Excellency has declined to carry out this proposal, I have nothing more to add; and with a view to carrying out my Government's instructions to afford protection to British trade, I am returning to Hong Kong on Monday morning, the 25th instant, to arrange for a considerable increase in our own patrolling service.\n\n5. In regard to the \"Sainam\" compensation claim, I wish to take this occasion to emphasize again the serious nature of that piracy, and the undoubted fact that the moral and international obligation to grant compensation for an outrage the result of the remissness of those responsible for the security of trade in the river would be recognized and met by every civilized Power. I would draw your attention to the facts that Dr. MacDonald, a man who for over twenty years had devoted himself to the good of China, was brutally murdered, and that he leaves a widow and two children without means; the captain of the \"Sainam\" was shot through the chest and left for dead; the engineer was badly burned by a stink-pot; two Indian watchmen were shot through the jaw, one of them being permanently injured, and the ship was completely looted.\n\nThe settlement of this just and undeniable claim would go a long way towards a friendly understanding and co-operation in regard to the patrolling service, and should your Excellency decide, as I trust you will, to satisfy the claim, I am prepared on my part to recommend to my Government that the dispatch of additional patrolling-vessels shall be deferred until the effects of your Excellency's proposed measures are seen. Failing this settlement, I shall lose no time in carrying out the instructions received from my Government.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nterminal Chefoo telegrams written in Kana, and Japanese Government telegrams exchanged with the stations in the Japanese telegraph system.\n\n2. Japan agrees to close all telegraph stations in Manchuria except those in the railway area and towns in the vicinity which are open to foreign commerce.\n\n3. Japan agrees to pay China a royalty on telegrams transmitted solely over the railway lines and the Japanese connecting lines.\n\nThese are more favourable terms than Japan has hitherto offered, doubtless due to the action of the British Foreign Office, and Mr. Dresing considers that a basis of agreement on these lines may possibly be arranged.\n\nHe understands that telegrams accepted at the Japanese offices in Manchuria will be confined to local telegrams exchanged between Japanese Railway offices and terminal telegrams exchanged with Japan.\n\nUntil Japan defines the class of traffic which she stipulates shall be transmitted over the Sasebo Dalny and Dalny--Chefoo cables, we are unable to say to what extent our interests would be affected by an agreement based on the above proposals.\n\nMr. Dresing does not propose to conclude an agreement until after the Telegraph Conference at Lisbon has taken place, as he considers it advisable first to discuss details with the other parties concerned. Mr. Dresing and Mr. Chow Wan Pang have been appointed to represent China unofficially at the Conference. They are leaving for Lisbon in a few weeks hence, and will there meet Japan's Delegates and the representatives of the two Companies.\n\nProlonged negotiations have taken place at Tôkiô between the Northern Company and the Japanese Administration. The Northern Company agreed to withdraw their protest against the laying of the Sasebo-Dalny cable, and to give their consent to the laying of the cable between Dalny and Chefoo, subject to China's consent being obtained, provided that Japan would enter into an arrangement regarding terminal traffic exchanged between China and Japan. The negotiations have, however, been fruitless, and are now in abeyance, owing to the unreasonable terms demanded by Japan.\n\nRusso-Chinese Convention.\n\nA new Telegraph Convention between Russia and China was concluded in October 1907, in which Russia agreed-\n\n1. To hand over to China all telegraph landlines erected by Russia in Manchuria other than railway landlines;\n\n2. To pay China a royalty on telegrams transmitted over the Russian Railway landlines in Manchuria;\n\n3. That telegrams transmitted over the Russian Railway telegraph lines shall be confined to terminal telegrams exchanged between Manchuria and Russia. Telegrams for Europe and America accepted at the Russian Railway offices in Manchuria will be handed over to the nearest Chinese telegraph station.\n\n4. That the Russian Railway telegraph lines will not exchange with the Japanese Railway lines any other than service telegrams.\n\nAs Japan still retains ten telegraph offices in Manchuria outside the railway area, Russia is now dissatisfied with the terms of the above-stated Convention, and has recently given China twelve months' notice of her intention to determine the same.\n\nWe have not a copy of this Convention.\n\nAgreement between Germany and China.\n\nAn Agreement made between Germany and China came into force in July 1907, whereby it was agreed:\n\n1. That when both of the Chinese Administration's cables between Chefoo and Taku are in working order, one of the said cables will be placed at the disposal of the German post offices at Chefoo and Peking for four periods of thirty minutes each day for the transmission of bona fide German Government telegrams. When one cable is interrupted, the time will be reduced to two periods of thirty minutes.\n\n2. During the interruption of one of the German Administration's cables, the Chinese Administration will transmit German Government telegrams free of charge between Shanghae and Chefoo.\n\n3. During the interruption of the Chinese Administration's Shanghae-Chefoo cable, the German Administration will place the Shanghae-Tsingtau-Chefoo cable at the disposal of the Chinese Administration, provided that the cable is not occupied by special German traffic.\n\nIn such cases a fixed charge will be paid to the German Administration for all traffic transmitted over the said cable, excepting Chinese Government telegrams and telegrams terminating in China and exchanged between China, on the one side, and Europe, America, and Russia, on which no charge will be levied.\n\n4. The German Administration undertakes not to fix lower rates for their Shanghae-Tsingtau-Chefoo cable than those established by the Chinese Administration. They further undertake not to compete with the Administration, and to pay the latter half of their receipts for all traffic exchanged by their cable between Shanghae and Chefoo originating and terminating at these places.\n\nThe Chinese Administration have communicated to us several extracts from the Chinese-German Agreement, but we have not a copy of the Agreement.\n\nNegotiations between France and China.\n\nThe Convention made between France and China in 1888 for the exchange of telegrams between the Tonquin and Chinese land lines has been prolonged by a supplementary Article signed on the 31st December, 1907, which contains a clause to the effect that the Convention can be terminated by either party on giving six months' notice.\n\nThe protracted negotiations concerning the French cable from Tourane to Amoy have been fruitless, and are at present in abeyance owing to France maintaining her demand for permission to extend the cable from Amoy to Shanghae, a demand to which China has declined to accede on the grounds that there is no necessity for such a cable, which would be a competing line with the Administration's land line, and that if it should eventually be required, China herself would lay the cable. It was explained that China was treating France exactly as she was treating other Powers, who were not allowed to extend their cables beyond the landing-place originally chosen.\n\nWe are informed that if the French cable is extended to Shanghae, France intends to lay a cable from Shanghae to Vladivostock; this would be highly detrimental to the interests of the Extension Company, as it would establish a competing route to Europe.\n\nShould your Excellency at any time desire further information on telegraph affairs, I shall be glad to communicate the same.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W. BULLARD,\n\nManager in China.\n\n646",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nexistence of a Loan Agreement or the terms of security; and if difficulties arise, the Chinese Government will not undertake to recover losses.\n\nThis Memorial was approved by Roscript on the 11th May, 1908.\n\nWe have taken this step in consideration of the importance attaching to such loans, and to prevent foreigners from becoming involved in difficulties. I have the honour to request that British subjects may be directed to comply therewith.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nRE\n\n[June 23. 7 JUL 08\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[21657]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nThe Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company to Foreign Office.--\n\n(Received June 23.)\n\n(Confidential.) Dear Sir Francis,\n\nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, London, June 22, 1908.\n\nWHEN in Lisbon recently attending the International Telegraph Conference, we were informed that, on the suggestion of Mr. Babington Smith, you had instructed the British Minister at Peking to make representations to the Chinese Government with a view to inducing them to accept Japan's counter-proposal for the settlement of the long-outstanding difficulty between China and Japan in regard to the Manchurian telegraph question.\n\nWe now learn from Mr. Dresing, who has just arrived in London, that the Chinese Government has agreed to accept the counter-proposal on the following conditions, viz.:-\n\n1. That Japan retains the Japanese telegraph stations in Manchuria outside the actual railway territory for two years.\n\n2. That Japan then hands these stations over to China on the understanding that China undertakes to have by that time operators trained to telegraph \"katakanas.\"\n\nUnfortunately these conditions are unacceptable to Japan, and they have been rejected. At the same time, Japan has promised to only deal with traffic at the retained stations exchanged with the Japanese system.\n\nIn these circumstances the Chinese-Japanese telegraph negotiations are again at a deadlock, and unless China can be induced to withdraw the above conditions and accept Japan's counter-proposal without further delay, very serious consequences may result to British as well as to Chinese telegraph interests, especially as Russia has given notice to cancel her Convention with China regarding the North Manchurian telegraphs, unless before the 1st November next a similar Convention is made between Japan and China respecting the South Manchurian telegraphs.\n\nWe should therefore be glad if you could see your way to instruct the British Minister at Peking to make further representations to the Chinese Government on the subject.\n\nYours faithfully, (Signed) F. E. HESSE.\n\n[1819-]\n\n-1]\n\n43",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[18151]\n\n### No. 1\n\n[May 26.]\n\n#### SECTION 2\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 26.)**  \n**(No. 111.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n**CHINA-JAPAN telegraphs**\n\nPeking, May 26, 1908.\n\nI had an interview to-day with the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu, and repeated the advice I had given them at my previous visits (see my telegram No. 109 of the 23rd instant), endeavouring to impress upon them the fact that the terms proposed by the Japanese were the best that could be secured, and that the rejection of these proposals would entail serious risk.\n\nThey still, however, seem to cling to the hope that Japan might be induced to give up the stations in the neighbourhood of the railway line by a promise on the part of the Chinese Government to provide facilities for the transmission of telegraphic messages in the \"Kana\" script.\n\nThey will telegraph their final decision direct to their Delegate at the Conference, at the same time communicating it to me. This they hope to be able to do to-morrow.\n\n[18157]\n\n### No. 2\n\nPeking, May 26, 1908.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 26.)**  \n**(No. 112.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n**BRITISH shipbuilding firms and orders for Chinese war-vessels**\n\nPlease see your telegrams Nos. 88 and 89 of the 20th and 22nd instant respectively, which dealt with the above subject.\n\nDuring my visit to the Wai-wu Pu to-day, I alluded to the numerous British firms who are endeavouring through their representatives here to obtain orders for ships. After touching on the influences which, it is stated, are being brought to bear in this connection, I said that we were entitled to special consideration, not only because of our position as the first among the Naval Powers, but also in view of the associations between us and the Chinese navy which have existed in the past, and have continued up to the present. We had therefore the right to expect that, in an open competition with other Europeans, perfectly fair treatment should be accorded to British firms.\n\nThe Minister who received me agreed that our claim was justified, adding that before a decision was finally arrived at, the Chinese Government would, so he thought, consult the Legation as to the standing of the rival British Companies.\n\n[2960 cc-2]\n\n280",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nR 13 AUG 08\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[18233]\n\n(No. 113.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nCHINA-JAPAN telegraphs.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received May 27.)\n\nPlease see my telegram No. 111 of yesterday's date.\n\n[May 27.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nPeking, May 27, 1908.\n\nAn official from the Wai-wu Pu called here to-day, and informed me of the Chinese Government's decision not to agree to the continuance of the seven telegraph stations adjacent to the railway, as proposed by Japan. The Wai-wu Pu have instructed their Delegate at the Lisbon Conference to propose, as an alternative solution of the difficulty, that the Chinese Government would arrange, on taking over the stations, for the transmission of messages in \"Kana,\" employing for this purpose specially trained operators, Chinese or Japanese, as might be thought more practical.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu are anxious that His Majesty's Government should support them in endeavouring to obtain the assent of the Japanese Government to this counter-proposal.\n\n[18234]\n\nNo. 2.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received May 27.) (No. 114.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nPeking, May 27, 1908.\n\nIn reply to a question which the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu asked me yesterday, I said that I had no information as to the truth of a rumour that Prince Ito is coming to Peking shortly.\n\nThey thought that the report was unfounded, for, as far as they could see, there was nothing at present to bring the Prince to Peking.\n\n[2960 dd—1]",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[24531]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nForeign Office to Post Office.\n\n[July 17.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, July 17, 1908.\n\nI AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant on the question of telegraphic communication with Japan and the Far East.\n\nSir E. Grey concurs in the recommendation contained in paragraph 1 of the recommendations of the Cables Committee as to the nature of the communication to be made to the Japanese Government, and instructions will be sent accordingly to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio as soon as he has learnt the final views of the Postmaster-General. There is, moreover, no objection from the point of view of this Department to the communications which Mr. Buxton proposes to make to the Japanese Delegates at the recent Lisbon Conference in accordance with paragraph 1 of the recommendations of the Committee and to the Eastern and Eastern Extension Companies, in accordance with both paragraphs of the recommendations.\n\nIn regard to the question of Japanese telegraph stations in Manchuria, I am to state that an extract from your letter will be forwarded to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, with the request that he will do what he can to promote a settlement of the difficulties between China and Japan on the lines desired by Mr. Buxton.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n[1865 r-2 -2]\n\n397",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government:]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[24135]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[July 13.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 13.)\n\n(No. 241.) Sir,\n\nPeking, May 27, 1908.\n\nON receipt of your telegrams Nos. 77 and 78 of the 8th instant, regarding the terms on which Japan was prepared to conclude a Telegraph Agreement with China in Manchuria, I lost no time in seeing Mr. Tong Shoa-yi, the Governor of the Southern Province of Manchuria, who happened to be in Peking at the moment, and with whom the decision of the question virtually rests. I discussed the matter at great length with Mr. Tong, but found him to be strongly opposed to the maintenance of Japanese telegraph stations at towns adjacent to the railway. He attached no importance to the fact that they were only six or seven in number, but held that China could not sanction the existence of foreign telegraph stations on her soil without doing violence to her sovereign rights. If she conceded the point, she would have Germany at Tsingtau, France on the Tonquin frontier, and Russia in Northern Manchuria claiming similar privileges. It was not reasonable, Mr. Tong contended, to continue to maintain in time of peace, and utilize for commercial purposes, telegraph lines which had originally been erected as a military necessity. The same policy had been followed by Japan in Corea after the China-Japan war of 1894, with results which were known to me.\n\nChina would have no objection to allowing the stations to remain until adequate arrangements could be made for supplying the places in question with all the telegraphic facilities which they now enjoyed.\n\nI told Mr. Tong as delicately as I could that China could scarcely expect to deal with this question as if there had never been a war in Manchuria, Japan had already made very considerable concessions, and what was now offered represented the utmost that we had been able to obtain after the exercise of much pressure on behalf of China. I begged him not to reject the Japanese terms without carefully considering what the result would be a return probably to the chaotic condition of things which preceded the Russian Telegraph Agreement of the 7th October, 1907.\n\nMr. Tong's attitude throughout was that Japan might do wrong in Manchuria, but that she would not do it with his consent.\n\nOn the 19th instant I saw the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu on the subject, and left with them a short Memorandum, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.* I reinforced the arguments used in this paper with a verbal statement of the successive efforts we had made in the interests of China, and impressed upon the Board the necessity of taking advantage of the Lisbon Conference to have the question finally settled. The Grand Secretary Na promised to consult Tong Ta-jên and the President of the Board of Communications, and let me have a reply as soon as possible.\n\nI again visited the Wai-wu Pu on the 21st instant, and pressed them once more to come to an early decision in the sense I had previously indicated, but they still showed a strong disinclination to agree to the maintenance of the Japanese stations outside of the railway limits.\n\nAt a further interview yesterday they stated that they would communicate their decision to me to-day, and, as it was evident that it was likely to be of an unfavourable nature, I again warned them of the risk they would incur if they rejected the Japanese terms, which were the best obtainable.\n\nThey repeated that Japan might well dispense with the maintenance of the stations if they made suitable arrangements for the transmission of messages in the Japanese script.\n\nThis morning they sent me a message to say that they had decided not to comply with Japan's request for the maintenance of the seven telegraph stations, and that they would, as an alternative solution, offer to provide all facilities for transmitting\n\n* Not received.\n\nPage 401",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nColonial Office to Post Office.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street, July 18, 1908.\n\nI AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, forwarding a Report by the Cables (Landing Rights) Committee on the improvement of telegraphic communication with Japan and the Far East.\n\n2. Lord Crewe is of opinion that the proposed communication to the Japanese Government should not contain the statement that His Majesty's Government \"would be glad to see an Agreement on these general lines entered into by the Japanese Government\" as proposed in the first Resolution of the Committee (p. 17 of Report), but subject to this he concurs in their recommendations.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nSir,\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. L. ANTROBUS.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Post Office.\n\nIndia Office, July 23, 1908.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th July, 1908, inclosing an advance copy of a Report from the Cables (Landing Rights) Committee on the question of telegraphic communication with Japan and the Far East, and inquiring whether Lord Morley concurs in the recommendations of the Report.\n\nIn reply, I am to inform you that Lord Morley concurs in the proposed Agreement, but I am at the same time to request that this concurrence may not be taken to imply that the Secretary of State for India would be prepared to promote the arrangements recommended by the Committee by accepting charges against Indian telegraph revenue, which possibly might be proposed by the Administrations interested in the telegraphic traffic in the North Pacific.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) T. R. BUCHANAN,\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nPost Office to Mr. Nakaya.\n\nGeneral Post Office, July 31, 1908.\n\nYOU are aware that His Majesty's Government have from time to time communicated with the Government of Japan in favour of\n\n1. The establishment of a direct communication between Japan and the British cable system; and\n\n2. The conclusion of an Agreement between Japan and the Cable Companies concerned for the maintenance of such reasonable rates for communication with Europe as might be arranged.\n\nWith this object in view His Majesty's Government used their interest with the Companies controlling the existing rates to Japan to obtain a reduction of those rates on a sliding scale similar to those adopted in certain cases for communication between Great Britain and her Colonies; and, as you are aware, the question was pursued at the recent International Telegraph Conference of Lisbon, with the result that the Cable Companies formulated certain proposals (applicable to correspondence between Japan and America as well as between Japan and Europe), as set forth in the accompanying Suggested Heads of Agreement between Japan and the Administrations interested in the Telegraphic Traffic in the North Pacific.*\n\nI am now able to inform you that His Majesty's Government have no objection to the proposed Heads of Agreement, except that they think that a definite date of termination should be inserted, and that the proposed new direct cable between Hong Kong and Japan should be laid independently of an increase of traffic, and in any case not later than 1912.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. BABINGTON SMITH.\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nBoard of Trade to Post Office.\n\nSir,\n\nBoard of Trade, July 25, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 13th instant, transmitting an advance copy of a Report from the Cables (Landing Rights) Committee on the question of telegraphic communication with Japan and the Far East, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of the Postmaster-General, that they concur in the recommendations of the Committee.\n\nI am,\n\n(Signed)\n\nT. H. W. PELHAM.\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiralty to Post Office.\n\nAdmiralty, July 30, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 18th July, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Postmaster-General, that they concur in the recommendations contained in the Report from the Cables (Landing Rights) Committee.\n\nPost Office to Sir J. Pender.\n\nGeneral Post Office, August 1908.\n\nWITH reference to previous correspondence and discussions at the Lisbon Conference on the subject of telegraphic communication with Japan and China, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to inclose, for the confidential information of the Eastern and Eastern Extension Telegraph Companies and the other Companies and Administrations concerned, a copy of a communication in which the Japanese Delegates to the Conference have been informed that His Majesty's Government have no objection to the proposed \"Heads of Agreement between Japan and the Administrations interested in the Telegraphic Traffic in the North Pacific,\" except that they think that a definite date of termination should be inserted, and that the proposed new direct cable between Hong Kong and Japan should be laid independently of an increase of traffic, and in any case not later than 1912.\n\nThe Secretary of State for India, in intimating that he concurs in the proposed Heads of Agreement, requests that this concurrence may not be taken to imply that he would be prepared to promote the arrangements set forth therein by accepting charges against Indian telegraph revenue which might possibly be proposed by the Administrations interested in the telegraphic traffic in the North Pacific.\n\nA copy of the communication made to the Japanese Delegates has also been sent to the Great Northern Company in view of the interest which it presents for that Company.\n\n* Not printed,\n\n430",
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        "content_text": "the Eastern Extension Company (under an arrangement which should not be made public) in providing the British share of the new cable between Japan and Hong Kong. A reply has been given to the effect that no objection is seen to such an arrangement, but that it is possible that His Majesty's Government may wish to reserve the right of purchasing the British share of the cable at any time on payment of its value as plant, subject to a suitable allowance for depreciation.\n\nThe Great Northern Company also ask that some guarantee should be given of the transmission via Northern of a fair share of the unordered traffic to and from Japan. A reply has been given to the effect that such an arrangement is already in force in the case of unordered traffic to Japan from the United Kingdom, and that no objection is seen to a similar arrangement in the case of traffic in the reverse direction. This point is one which His Majesty's Government would desire to leave to the Companies and the Japanese Government.\n\nI am to add that, in view of the reduction of tariff which is proposed in the case of telegraphic communication with Japan and China, His Majesty's Government think it reasonable that a corresponding progressive reduction should be made in the rates for telegraphic communication with the Straits Settlements; and I am to inquire whether the Eastern and Eastern Extension Companies are prepared to make such a reduction.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nPost Office to Mr. F. Nielsen.\n\n[Unsigned.]\n\nJ\n\n1908.\n\nGeneral Post Office, August\n\nWITH reference to previous discussions at the Lisbon Conference on the subject of telegraphic communication with Japan and China, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to inclose, for the confidential information of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, a copy of a communication in which the Japanese Delegates to the Conference have been informed that His Majesty's Government have no objection to the proposed \"Heads of Agreement between Japan and the Administrations interested in the Telegraphic Traffic in the North Pacific,\" except that they think that a definite date of termination should be inserted, and that the proposed new direct cable between Hong Kong and Japan should be laid independently of an increase of traffic, and in any case not later than 1912.\n\nThe Postmaster-General understands that the Great Northern Company desire that they should be allowed to participate with the Eastern Extension Company (under an arrangement which should not be made public) in providing the British share of the new cable between Japan and Hong Kong. No objection is seen to such an arrangement, but it is possible that His Majesty's Government may wish to reserve the right of purchasing the British share of the cable at any time on payment of its value as plant, subject to a suitable allowance for depreciation.\n\nIt is understood that the Great Northern Company also desire that some guarantee should be given of the transmission via Northern of a fair share of the unordered traffic to and from Japan. Such an arrangement is already in force in the case of unordered traffic to Japan from the United Kingdom, and no objection is seen to a similar arrangement in the case of traffic in the reverse direction. This point, however, is one which His Majesty's Government would desire to leave to the Companies and the Japanese Government.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n{Unsigned.]\n\n[B]\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Gov3.2.3.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[27708]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n431\n\n4 SEP 08.\n\n[August 10.]\n\nSECTION 4,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 10.)\n\n(No. 284.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 24, 1908. IN my telegram No. 120 of the 9th instant I had the honour to report an unfortunate occurrence on the Franco-Chinese frontier, in which a French lieutenant and six soldiers had been shot by Chinese troops who were, so far as could be gathered from the accounts received here, supposed to be pursuing insurgents flying for refuge across the border.\n\nThe French Minister, from whom I received the first intelligence of the incident, complained of the indifference shown by the Chinese Government, who had not even tendered an expression of their regret, and had merely ordered an investigation by the Taotai of Mengtzu.\n\nIn the course of an interview which I had at the Wai-wu Pu on the 16th instant, one of the Ministers, introducing the subject of his own motion, said there was a mystery connected with it which the Chinese Government found it difficult at such a distance to unravel. They could not for a moment believe that Chinese regular troops had deliberately fired upon French soldiers, and they thought it more likely that the act had been committed by insurgents who had got possession of Chinese military uniforms. However that might be, one of the French demands appeared to them to have assumed a peculiar form, and they failed to realize what connection there was between a railway extension from T'ai Yuan Fu to Hsi An Fu, in the extreme north of the Empire, and a regrettable incident on the southern frontier, over 1,000 miles away. They were willing to make suitable reparation, but not to concede demands of this kind.\n\nAs their language clearly implied that they regarded the French claim as a reversion to the policy which preceded, and in some degree caused, the Boxer outbreak of 1900, I felt it to be my duty to communicate its substance to you by telegraph, and to express the opinion that it could not fail seriously to prejudice the prospects of the Anglo-French combination formed to promote and undertake railway projects in China.\n\nYour reply of the 18th instant authorized me to let my French colleague know unofficially that the proposal would militate against the success of the Anglo-French scheme for a railway from Hankow to Szechuan, and, as M. Bapst happened to call at the moment, I lost no time in carrying out your instructions.\n\nI told him frankly that I had learnt with considerable concern the nature of the demand which had been made by the French Government. We had entered into a partnership for railway exploitation in China on an industrial basis, and any action of one of the partners was sure to affect the common interests. When the Chinese had objected to French participation, as in the case of the Canton-Hankow line, we had always met the objection by laying stress upon the purely commercial character of the undertaking, but this would be no longer possible now that France had reverted to the policy of approaching railway questions from the point of view which obtained some ten years ago.\n\nIndications which had reached me from Chinese sources left no doubt that this was the impression the demand had made in Chinese official circles.\n\nM. Bapst explained that the request for the extension of the Chêng-t'ai-Tai Yuan Fu railway to Hsi An Fu had been made some six months ago, and that its renewal now was not meant to be regarded altogether as in the nature of reparation for the recent outrage. It was rather a concession which China was invited to make by way of redressing the debit balance which stood against her in the account of frontier relations. While France had done her utmost to restrain revolutionary activities in Tonquin, even going so far as to keep some hundreds of revolutionists in prison, China had maintained in office in Yunnan mandarins imbued with anti-French feeling, and had in every way proved a most disagreeable neighbour. She had now an opportunity of making amends for all this by granting a favour to France.\n\n[1905 k-4]",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nC.O.\n\n[July 9, 1908]\n\n[RECP SECTION 7100/08]\n\n[21657]\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nForeign Office to General Post Office.\n\nForeign Office, July 1, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 7th ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Postmaster-General, a copy of a letter from Mr. Hesse,* of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, on the subject of the outstanding difficulty between China and Japan concerning the Manchuria telegraph question.\n\nI am to inquire whether Mr. Buxton would recommend that a further representation should be made to the Chinese Government, with a view to their acceptance of the compromise proposed by the Japanese Delegates to the recent International Telegraph Conference at Lisbon.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n* Mr. Hesse, Confidential, June 22, 1908.\n\n[1865-1]\n\n94",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n169\n\nC.O.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n(\n\n[35185]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[October 10.]\n\n40053\n\nSECTION 4,\n\nJef 2 NOV 08:\n\nColonial Office to Foreign Office.--(Received October 10.)\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and is directed by the Secretary of State to transmit, for the consideration of Secretary Sir E. Grey, with reference to the letter from the Colonial Department of the 26th September, a copy of a telegram from the Governor-General of Canada on the subject of the Opium Commission at Shanghae.\n\nDowning Street, October 10, 1908.\n\nInclosure in No. 1,\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nGovernor-General Earl Grey to the Earl of Crewe,\n\n[Received, October 8, 1908.] REFERRING to your telegram of the 23rd September and your despatch No. 589, Opium Conference, Minute of Council was forwarded to Chargé d'Affaires at Washington the 18th September, stating that Mackenzie King would be sent as Canadian Representative. Please inform me by telegraph as soon as His Majesty's Government nominate him.\n\n[1980 k-4]\n\ni",
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        "content_text": "276\n\n4\n\ninformed me that in a certain province the Treasury would only redeem its notes at nine-tenths of their face value, unless the person presenting them was prepared to await the convenience of the Treasury, a delay which would often extend to months. This informant was confident that if these notes were presented in any large quantity the Treasury would refuse to cash them altogether, or only at most ruinous rates of discount. I have taken every opportunity during the past three or four months to warn all officials with whom I have come in contact, from Viceroys downwards, of the danger to China's credit from the unlimited issue of unsecured notes. If this policy is persisted in, we shall soon be within measurable distance of a bad financial crisis. It certainly seems to me high time for the Foreign Ministers as a body to call the attention of the Chinese Government very strongly to this practice. The country is suffering, and with it all foreign trade, on account of the depreciated copper currency. The Provincial Treasurers reaped huge profits from minting copper coins a few years ago, and in subsequent years the country has had to pay those profits. The suffering caused by the minting of copper coins will only be a summer picnic compared with the disaster that must inevitably follow an unrestrained issue of bank notes.\n\n0\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[38026]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC.O.\n\n[November 29, 1907]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 2.)\n\n24 NOV 08\n\n(No. 414.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 14, 1908.\n\nON the receipt of your despatch No. 335 of the 17th July last, I visited the Wai-wu Pu and again urged upon the Ministers the desirability of coming to an early arrangement with Japan on the telegraph question in Manchuria. I reminded them of the efforts which we had previously made in their interests, of the abatements which had followed in the Japanese demands, and of the risks they incurred if they persisted in refusing to accept the compromise now offered.\n\nThe Ministers, who did not seem to be very familiar with the question, informed me that Mr. Dresing and Chow Taotai, who had been the Chinese Delegates at the Lisbon Conference, were now in negotiation with the Japanese Government in Tokio, and they added that they had every reason to anticipate an amicable settlement very shortly.\n\nThe Japanese Government had, I understood them to say, somewhat modified their conditions, and they appeared to be confident that a formula would be found which would reconcile the differences between them.\n\nSome days later Mr. Campbell, the Chinese Secretary, saw Mr. Liang Shih-yi, of the Board of Communications, and endeavoured to obtain some more definite information from him. Mr. Liang confirmed the opinion that a favourable issue might be expected from the negotiations at Tokio, but had no precise knowledge of their nature except that he understood that the arrangement was likely to be modelled upon that which obtained at Tsingtau with the Germans. The matter was apparently left largely in the hands of the Delegates, in both of whom the Central Government had full confidence.\n\nAs the circumstances had changed since your despatch was written, and as I felt that I could not usefully intervene without a fuller knowledge of what was passing at Tokio, I telegraphed yesterday to Sir Claude MacDonald and asked his Excellency to let me know if at any time I could be of any service here in promoting a settlement of the question.\n\nA copy of this despatch is being forwarded to Tokio.\n\n[2029 6-1]\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\nJ",
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        "content_text": "owns or is in possession of opium paste without holding a licence as required by Articles 3 and 4, section 1, or who without a licence as required by Articles 3 and 4, sections 2, 3, and 4, owns or is in possession of smoking implements shall be liable to not more than one year major imprisonment or a fine of not more than 1,000 yen.\n\nAny person owning or being in possession of any compound having the virtue of raw opium or opium paste, or who, not being a physician, chemist, retailing druggist, or manufacturing chemist, shall own or be in possession of opium powder without holding a licence as required by Article 4, section 5, shall be liable to the same penalty.\n\nArt. 16. Under the circumstances mentioned in Articles 8 and 15, the goods shall be confiscated, or, in the event of their having been already consumed, a fair compensation shall be paid.\n\nArt. 17. Persons punished under this Ordinance may have the penalty changed from imprisonment to a fine in the proportion of 2 yen for each day of imprisonment, In reckoning the amount the correct number of days shall be deducted in the above proportion.\n\nIn this case, the Judge may hear the Procurator's opinion and give judgment without public trial.\n\nArt. 18. A person who does not pay any of the fine shall in lieu thereof be detained in confinement for not more than five years.\n\nIn the case of a person so detained, the Judge shall give judgment in accordance with the Procurator's statement and fix the period of detention without public trial.\n\nWhen a person condemned to a fine has paid part of the fine, when fixing the term of detention, regard must be had to the proportion of the amount of the original fine to the number of days the offender is to be detained and a proper number of days deducted from the term of detention.\n\nWhen the fine is paid during the term of detention, the remaining days must be paid for in the above proportion.\n\nArt. 19. If the member of the family, or an employé, of a person to whom a licence has been granted to sell opium paste in accordance with Article 4, or of a person who is selling under official authority, infringes this Ordinance in pursuance of his occupation, the employer as well as the seller shall be punished.\n\nArt. 20. Section 1 of Chapter 5 of the second part of the Criminal Code does not apply to this Ordinance.\n\nAnnex 2.\n\nYear\nRaw Opium Imported. (Customs Returns, ) Quantity. Value.\nOpium Paste Sold. (Retail) Quantity. Value.\nLicensed Smokers, Number.\nRemarks.\n\n1900\nLbs. £ 500,080\n860,464\n\n1901\n438,812 471,274\n165,752 364,672\n\n1902\n240,669 265,157\n323.601 152,044\n\n1903\n305,962 153,822\n286,817 385,967\n\n1904\n111,312 185,646\n116,819 320,021\n\n1905\n400,423 416,533\n298,570 326,998\n\n1906\n421,594 272,901\n176,748 349,932\n\n1907\n503,045 581,818 343,353\n357,403 232,338 113,165 0\n\n£ 130,401 137,952 130,476 123,650\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Governmen\n\nB] CHINA TRADE, CONFIDENTIAL. [43022]\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1. 743 0.0 217 [December 9.] Sedhtar 2. JAN 09:\n\nColonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received December 9.)\n\nDowning Street, December 9, 1908.\n\nI AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant forwarding a draft of instructions to the British Delegates on the International Opium Conference at Shanghae.\n\n2. Certain alterations are required in two paragraphs of the draft to bring them into accordance with present conditions, and Lord Crewe would suggest that they should be amended as shown in the first inclosure to this letter. Subject to this, his Lordship concurs in the terms of the instructions.\n\n3. I am to take this opportunity of transmitting, for the information of Secretary Sir E. Grey, copies of two letters which have been addressed to Sir Cecil Smith. The permission to communicate through Sir Pelham Warren was given after unofficial communication with your Department, and Lord Crewe will be glad if instructions can be issued to that officer accordingly.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) R. L. ANTROBUS.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nDraft Instructions to British Delegates to the International Opium Commission at Shanghae.\n\nIN the Straits Settlements a Commission has been appointed by the Governor to investigate the question as affecting both the Colony and the Federated Malay States and His Majesty's Government expect shortly to receive the views of the Governor and High Commissioner on the opinions and recommendations formulated by the Commissioners. Copies of the Report and evidence are not yet available for your use, but they will be furnished to you at a later date.\n\nThe attitude of His Majesty's Government towards the opium question, with special reference to the opium divans in Hong Kong and the Malay Peninsula, was made the subject of debate in the House of Commons on the 6th May last, when the policy of His Majesty's Government was explained by the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nA report of the debate is annexed for your information. Correspondence is now in progress with the Governor of Hong Kong as to the procedure for giving effect to the resolution adopted by the House of Commons.\n\nWhile the number of licensed smokers appear to have decreased, the sale of opium has increased annually from 1901 to 1905. Later figures are not obtainable.\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nColonial Office to Sir C. Smith.\n\nDowning Street, December 4, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to the letter from this Department of even date, I am directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that he has learnt by telegraph that the officers whom the Governments of the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong have respectively selected to assist you at the Opium Conference are Mr. W. D. Barnes, Secretary for Chinese Affairs in the Straits Settlements, and Mr. C. Clementi, Assistant Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong.\n\n2. The latter appointment raises a question of some difficulty. Mr. Clementi, in carrying out the work of investigating the financial results of closing the opium divans in Hong Kong, which had been assigned to him by the Colonial Government, has written a Memorandum which shows that the conclusions to which his inquiries",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[1668]\n\n### No. 1\n28 JAN 09 129  \n[January 13.]\n\n#### SECTION 2\n\n**(No. 575.)** Sir,  \n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 13, 1909.)**  \nPeking, December 21, 1908.\n\nON the receipt of your telegram No. 128 of the 24th October last, I telegraphed to his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong for a copy of his despatch of the 3rd September to the Earl of Crewe respecting the working of the Chinese Telegraph Administration in the leased territory, and Sir F. Lugard's reply, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, reached me on the 16th November.\n\nAs the Imperial mourning had just commenced, and all public business was at a standstill, I had no opportunity of moving in the matter until a few days ago, when the arrival of Mr. Dresing, the Foreign Adviser to the Chinese Telegraph Administration, made it possible for me to ascertain before approaching them officially what the views of the Chinese Government on the question were likely to be.\n\nMr. Dresing, as you are aware, recently acted as Representative of China at the Lisbon Conference, and has since then concluded Telegraph Agreements with Japan in regard to Manchuria. He has an intimate acquaintance with the history of Chinese telegraph arrangements, and it seemed desirable to utilize his knowledge and experience in endeavouring to arrive at some practical understanding with the Chinese Government.\n\nI therefore communicated to him verbally the substance of the request made by Sir F. Lugard and the arguments used in support of it, and suggested that he should move the Telegraph Department of the Board of Communications to meet the views of the Hong Kong Government.\n\nMr. Dresing appreciated the objections to the maintenance in British leased territory of the length of telegraph line from the new frontier to the old boundary, and to the continued existence of a Chinese telegraph station at Shamshuipo; but he strongly deprecated disturbing the arrangement under which the Chinese Telegraph Company has always held an office in Hong Kong in the same building as the offices of the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies. This, he said, would raise the question of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's rights at Woosung and Sharp Peak, and would, in his opinion, react unfavourably upon the interests of the British Company generally in China.\n\nMr. Dresing undertook to recommend a solution on the above lines to the Telegraph Administration, and I authorized him to do so on the clear understanding that its eventual acceptance or rejection would rest with the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nThe telegraph authorities appeared at first inclined to fall in with the proposal, but later on professed themselves unable to do so without consulting the Wai-wu Pu. The latter Board, as was to be expected, raised difficulties, referred to the correspondence which had passed in 1904, and saw no reason why they should recede from the position which had been taken up at that time by the Telegraph Administration at Shanghae. They pointed out that a similar state of things existed at Wei-hai Wei, where they had a telegraph line running through the leased territory and a telegraph station on the mainland, opposite to the island; and that at Kiachow they had a Chinese telegraph line of some 30 miles passing through territory leased to Germany, a Chinese telegraph station at Tsing-tau, another station between Tsing-tau and the frontier of the leased territory, and that Germany had never raised any objections to these arrangements. Why, therefore, should the Hong Kong Government make such difficulties at the present moment?\n\nMr. Dresing, at my request, explained that I had approached them through him in an informal and indirect way in the hope of arriving at an amicable and satisfactory arrangement without entering into a protracted correspondence, but that if they persisted in their refusal, I should probably be obliged in due course to treat the question officially.\n\nThere the matter rests for the present, and I should not have proceeded so far without your instructions, had it not appeared to me to be important to take advantage [2116 n-2]",
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        "content_text": "# This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n299\n\nC.O.\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[1668]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n4136\n\n[January 13]\n\n2,\n\nSECTION 2RGE 4 FET 09\n\n**(No. 575)**  \nSir,  \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 13, 1909.)  \nPeking, December 21, 1908.\n\nON the receipt of your telegram No. 128 of the 24th October last, I telegraphed to his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong for a copy of his despatch of the 3rd September to the Earl of Crewe respecting the working of the Chinese Telegraph Administration in the leased territory, and Sir F. Lugard's reply, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, reached me on the 16th November.\n\nAs the Imperial mourning had just commenced, and all public business was at a standstill, I had no opportunity of moving in the matter until a few days ago, when the arrival of Mr. Dresing, the Foreign Adviser to the Chinese Telegraph Administration, made it possible for me to ascertain before approaching them officially what the views of the Chinese Government on the question were likely to be.\n\nMr. Dresing, as you are aware, recently acted as Representative of China at the Lisbon Conference, and has since then concluded Telegraph Agreements with Japan in regard to Manchuria. He has an intimate acquaintance with the history of Chinese telegraph arrangements, and it seemed desirable to utilize his knowledge and experience in endeavouring to arrive at some practical understanding with the Chinese Government.\n\nI therefore communicated to him verbally the substance of the request made by Sir F. Lugard and the arguments used in support of it, and suggested that he should move the Telegraph Department of the Board of Communications to meet the views of the Hong Kong Government.\n\nMr. Dresing appreciated the objections to the maintenance in British leased territory of the length of telegraph line from the new frontier to the old boundary, and to the continued existence of a Chinese telegraph station at Shamshuipo; but he strongly deprecated disturbing the arrangement under which the Chinese Telegraph Company has always held an office in Hong Kong in the same building as the offices of the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies. This, he said, would raise the question of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's rights at Woosung and Sharp Peak, and would, in his opinion, react unfavourably upon the interests of the British Company generally in China.\n\nMr. Dresing undertook to recommend a solution on the above lines to the Telegraph Administration, and I authorized him to do so on the clear understanding that its eventual acceptance or rejection would rest with the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nThe telegraph authorities appeared at first inclined to fall in with the proposal, but later on professed themselves unable to do so without consulting the Wai-wu Pu. The latter Board, as was to be expected, raised difficulties, referred to the correspondence which had passed in 1904, and saw no reason why they should recede from the position which had been taken up at that time by the Telegraph Administration at Shanghai. They pointed out that a similar state of things existed at Wei-hai Wei, where they had a telegraph line running through the leased territory and a telegraph station on the mainland, opposite to the island; and that at Kiachow they had a Chinese telegraph line of some 30 miles passing through territory leased to Germany, a Chinese telegraph station at Tsing-tau, another station between Tsing-tau and the frontier of the leased territory, and that Germany had never raised any objections to these arrangements. Why, therefore, should the Hong Kong Government make such difficulties at the present moment?\n\nMr. Dresing, at my request, explained that I had approached them through him in an informal and indirect way in the hope of arriving at an amicable and satisfactory arrangement without entering into a protracted correspondence, but that if they persisted in their refusal, I should probably be obliged in due course to treat the question officially.\n\nThere the matter rests for the present, and I should not have proceeded so far without your instructions, had it not appeared to me to be important to take advantage [2116 n-2]",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\nC.O. 16122  \n299  \n[March 10]\n\n### No. 1. SECTION 2.\n\nSir C. Smith to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 10.)\n\nShanghae, February 2, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report to you that the Opium Commission commenced its sittings on the 1st instant, after a formal opening by the Viceroy of Nanking, a copy of whose Address is annexed.*\n\nSo soon as his Excellency had retired, Mr. Lin Yuk-lin, the Chief Chinese Commissioner, proposed that Bishop Brent, the Chief American Commissioner, should be elected as President of the Commission. I seconded this proposal, and Bishop Brent took the chair.\n\nThe Commission agreed that it should be left to the President to decide who had been duly authorized to sit on the Commission, and Bishop Brent stated that, in his opinion, the names which had been communicated to the Government of the United States as those of Delegates who had been appointed by their respective Governments was a sufficient authority, and he read out the list of names, of which I inclose a copy.* This course got over a difficulty raised by the Japanese Commissioners that, inasmuch as it was a Commission that had been created, and not a Conference, no credentials were necessary. The German Commissioners also were not provided with any credentials. Two new Chinese members have since been nominated as Commissioners by the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nSome formal business was transacted, and the Commission adjourned until the following day, when, after discussion of certain proposed rules and orders for the conduct of the business of the Commission, a further adjournment was made.\n\nI arrived here on the 25th ultimo with Mr. Barnes and Mr. Clementi. Sir Alexander Hosie was already here. Mr. Brunynte and Mr. Laidlaw have also arrived here, and Mr. Mackenzie King has informed me by telegraph that he will be here on the 15th instant.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH**\n\n*Not printed.*  \n`[2188 k---2]`",
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        "content_text": "## Instructions to Counsel to Advise in re the Hankow-Canton Railway\n\nHEREWITH are sent :-\n\n* Prints of the two draft Agreements recently settled by counsel.\n* Prints of the Minutes of meetings held between the various groups held in London on the 12th and 13th March, 1909.\n* Prints of the Minutes of further meetings held between the various groups at Paris on the 2nd and 3rd April, 1909.\n* Copy cablegram received by the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation in London from their agent, Mr. Hillier, in Peking, dated the 16th April, 1909.\n* Print of the Addis Memorandum.\n* Print of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement.\n\nAs will be seen from the Minutes sent herewith, the meetings between the various groups proved abortive. This was due to the fact that the German group, prior to the meetings and in defiance of the terms of the Memorandum and Protocol by Mr. C. S. Addis, dated the 26th February, 1909, concluded with the Chinese a Preliminary Agreement for the loan in question, upon terms which were referred to at the various meetings as Tien-tsin-Pukow terms. The terms in question appear from the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement sent herewith.\n\nThe objection to these terms is that they allow the Chinese a free hand in the spending of the loan funds, and that the only protection which the bondholders receive is that after the money is spent the accounts are audited by an auditor who is appointed and paid by the lenders. See the last paragraph of `Article 14` of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement.\n\nAt the conference in Paris, the British and French groups stated clearly their determination not, for the future, to join in loans to the Chinese which did not provide for a check or control or veto over the power of the Chinese to obtain the loan funds. The German group in Paris protested that they could not withdraw from the Preliminary Agreement if the Chinese insisted upon holding them to it without modification, but as will be seen from the Minutes of the meetings, they did telegraph to their agent in China with a view to adding the words \"and countersigned by the Chief Engineer,\" to the last sentence in paragraph 1 of `Article 14` of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Agreement. If the Chinese had accepted this modification the British and French groups were prepared to have come to terms and to have settled all outstanding points on the draft Agreement sent herewith, but unfortunately the German group were unable to obtain any reply from their agent, and the conference broke off.\n\nNegotiations have been going on since, and it is, we believe, the fact that the final Loan Agreement has not yet been signed by the Chinese.\n\n## Letter\n\ndes divergences d'opinion se sont produites lors des conférences tenues à Londres et à Paris.\n\nJe vous suis très reconnaissant des explications détaillées contenues dans votre lettre, et qui confirment, en les développant, les arguments que vos représentants, MM. Urlig et Erich, ont déjà fait valoir dans les conversations que j'ai eu le plaisir d'avoir avec eux.\n\nJ'ai le vif regret, cependant, de ne pouvoir me rallier à votre manière de voir, et je crois de mon devoir, en raison même des anciennes et amicales relations qui existent entre nous, de préciser, à mon tour, notre point de vue.\n\nCroyez bien, d'ailleurs, que les observations qui vont suivre n'ont nullement pour objet de rappeler inutilement les griefs des groupes anglo-français contre l'action du groupe allemand, mais plutôt de chercher, par une explication franche, à préparer le terrain, en vue d'une entente ultérieure que je ne désespère pas de voir intervenir.\n\nL'argument principal sur lequel le groupe allemand s'appuie repose sur le fait que l'adhésion donnée le 1 mars au Mémorandum Addis - et approuvée le 3 mars par le Consortium - ne liait pas votre groupe, tant que l'accord de principe n'était pas complété par l'entente définitive sur tous les points que la conférence des trois groupes devait discuter.\n\nSur ce point essentiel notre manière de voir diffère de la vôtre.\n\nL'adhésion du groupe allemand donnée le 1er mars engageait-elle sa responsabilité au moins morale ? Je ne puis pas un seul instant le mettre en doute. Cette adhésion signifiait la signature de préliminaires de paix, après une guerre reconnue nuisible par tous les intéressés.\n\nOr, pouvait-il entrer dans l'esprit des contractants qu'après la signature de ces préliminaires et avant la conclusion définitive du traité de paix, les hostilités continuassent ?\n\nEn ce qui concerne le groupe anglo-français la cessation de toute action en dehors de l'entente générale a été absolue. Vous en avez été informés, et la prière instante vous a été adressée de suivre la même voie.\n\nIl est certain - et personne ne le met en doute - que le groupe allemand en attendant le résultat de la conférence a cru, de bonne foi, pouvoir maintenir les propositions faites au Gouvernement chinois, bien que l'`Article 6` du Mémorandum Addis comportât expressément le retrait de ces propositions.\n\nMais si l'attitude du groupe allemand peut, au point de vue juridique, ne pas être contraire à la lettre des engagements, sa politique contradictoire devait fatalement placer ce groupe dans une situation fausse soit vis-à-vis du Gouvernement chinois, soit vis-à-vis des autres groupes.\n\nSon offre du 3 mars - d'apporter, le cas échéant, l'affaire obtenue par lui seul aux trois groupes réunis - n'atténue nullement les difficultés de cette situation, puisque vous étiez prévenus d'avance que les autres groupes n'accepteraient pas la formule de Tientsin-Pookow que l'entente générale avait précisément pour objet d'écarter.\n\nC'est cette politique contradictoire du groupe allemand, continuant la concurrence sur des bases reconnues inacceptables dans les préliminaires d'entente, qui, à notre avis, justifie les critiques que les autres groupes lui ont adressées.\n\nVous faites valoir que l'abandon de vos propositions aux Chinois vous eût placés dans cette situation inadmissible que, la conférence repoussant vos demandes, vous eussiez sacrifié sans compensation le fruit de vos efforts.\n\nCette crainte, permettez-moi de la dire, me paraît exagérée. En effet, vous étiez assurés d'avance de l'entente sur les points essentiels : l'entrée du groupe allemand dans la Chinese Central, le système de la désignation alternative de l'Ingénieur en chef, et le partage par tiers des commandes et autres avantages.\n\nPour ce qui est de l'internationalisation des emprunts, vous saviez certainement que la solution ne dépendait pas de la conférence, mais des autorités compétentes.\n\nQuant à la désignation d'un Ingénieur allemand pour tout le chemin de fer du Sze-Chouen, je pense bien que vous n'aviez pas sérieusement l'intention d'écarter de cette affaire l'influence française, ce qui aurait rendu toute entente impossible. Vos représentants n'ont d'ailleurs pas insisté sur ce point lors de la conférence.\n\nLe risque de vous asseoir entre deux chaises, comme vous le dites, n'existait donc pas. Cependant, pour employer la même image, le groupe allemand, en vue d'éviter ce danger, paraît avoir voulu occuper les deux chaises à la fois.\n\nPermettez-moi donc de vous demander quelle eût été notre situation respective si, comme il avait été proposé, la conférence se fût réunie avant l'acceptation de vos propositions par le Gouvernement chinois ?\n\nJe ne doute pas que l'accord définitif n'eût été facilement établi, et si, faute d'instructions contraires de votre part à votre représentant en Chine, vos propositions, toujours valables, avaient été acceptées simultanément par le Gouvernement chinois, vous vous seriez trouvés dans la nécessité de manquer à des engagements définitifs, et non seulement préliminaires - vos engagements envers le Gouvernement ne pouvant se concilier avec ceux contractés envers vos associés.\n\nJe connais trop bien la correction de vos procédés pour croire que vous vous seriez exposés volontairement à une difficulté de cette nature. Je crois ne pas me tromper en supposant que l'acceptation de vos propositions par les Chinois a été une surprise pour vous. Mais c'est précisément sur ce point, et non pas sur la légitimité de votre action, que les autres groupes sont en droit de se plaindre de la politique suivie par vous et qui a rendu cette surprise possible.\n\nVoilà, chers Messieurs, dans quels sentiments nous envisageons cette question. Ai-je besoin d'ajouter que je suis personnellement très affligé d'un différend qu'il n'a pas dépendu de nous d'éviter ?\n\nCe différend, j'en ai la ferme conviction, pourra avec de la bonne volonté réciproque être aplani dans la suite pour le mieux de nos intérêts communs, et je puis vous assurer que je serai très heureux de pouvoir contribuer à rétablir l'entente.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\n(Signé) E. ULLMANN.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1. \nPage 4\nPage 5",
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        "content_text": "## 566 \n\n48 items in Annex III. I request you, therefore, to endeavour to obtain on the spot such further information as may be necessary to elucidate the points in doubt with regard to these claims. If, in the light of any explanations which you may require, the amount of the claim arrived at in each case by the Administration appears to you to be fair, you are authorized to accept it.\n\nWith regard to the question of losses at Nanpiao, Mr. Townley was informed in my despatch No. 205 of the 17th July, that His Majesty's Government might perhaps pass the claim under No. 20 (p. 23 of the printed copy of his despatch No. 138 of the 9th April, which was forwarded to him), if the Railway Administration were able to prove that the facts brought to light since Mr. Wilkinson's Award showed a greater destruction of plant than they were aware of when the claim was sent to him.\n\nMr. Cousins admits, however, that such is not the case, and that Mr. May, the boring engineer in charge at the mines, estimates the amount of extra direct damages (for which compensation had not been received) at £100. Mr. Cousins expresses the hope that, in view of the indirect losses arising out of the troubles of 1906 being considerable, His Majesty's Government will give further consideration to the request of the British and Chinese Corporation that the claim under this heading may be allowed as compensation for three years enforced cessation of work.\n\nAs already explained, such a claim should properly have been included in Mr. Wilkinson's Award if the claim was legitimate, but it would presumably have been disallowed as consequential damages.\n\nWith the exception, therefore, of the £100 estimated for extra direct damages, this claim must be disallowed.\n\nAs soon as figures of the unsettled claims in Annexes III and IV have been arrived at, I shall be obliged if you will furnish me with a Report showing the total amount of the claim as passed.\n\nI request that you will thank Mr. Ottewill for his Report.\n\n(No. 348.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nNo. 57.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) LANSDOWNE.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received December 7.)\n\nPeking, October 15, 1903.\n\nIN my despatch No. 326 of the 19th September, I had the honour to report that Prince Ching had undertaken to telegraph to the Viceroy of Nanking to reconsider the suggestion of the Taotai that the \"Supao\" prisoners should be tried in the Mixed Court with the addition of a higher official for this occasion.\n\nI subsequently ascertained through the British Acting Consul General at Shanghae, that up to the 23rd ultimo no telegram had been received by the Viceroy from Prince Ch'ing, and I consequently addressed the inclosed semi-official note of inquiry to his Highness on the 29th. To this I have received no answer.\n\nMy hope that the matter might be arranged without discussing the letter of the Viceroy to the senior Consul, copy of which was inclosed in my despatch No. 330 of the 24th September, has thus been frustrated.\n\nOn the 3rd instant, a meeting of the Diplomatic Body was held to take into consideration, among other matters, the \"Supao\" question. I have the honour to inclose a copy of the procès-verbal.\n\nThe French Minister proposed that a communication should be addressed to the senior Consul in reply to that in which he had forwarded the letter of the Viceroy, suggesting that the Consuls should endeavour to concert an arrangement with the provincial authorities.\n\nI observed that my instructions precluded my consenting to the surrender of the journalists, and that the warrant for their arrest had been countersigned by the senior Consul in consequence of the Taotai's proposal to have them tried before the Mixed Court. I propose, therefore, that the senior Consul should inform the Taotai that the journalists could not be given up, and that if they could not be tried by the Mixed Court in accordance with his undertaking, they should be discharged from custody within a certain time. I added that in my view the offence charged was of a political nature, and that His Majesty's Government had never given up Chinese political offenders, citing the Taeping rebellion as a case in point.\n\n49\n\nThe Russian Minister, after expressing the opinion that instigation to murder is not a political crime, proceeded to deliver himself of a diatribe against the \"Times\" correspondent in Peking, for having, in his telegram of the 29th July, made public the opinions of the foreign Representatives upon the \"Supao\" case. He then attacked the Municipal Council of Shanghae for having allowed the accused to write and publish inflammatory articles in the paper, after they had been locked up in the municipal gaol.\n\nI replied that to procure information about the opinions of the Ministers was a legitimate journalistic enterprise, and I recalled the manner in which the press and the Chinese Government were in 1900-1901, constantly made acquainted with what passed in conference. As to the accusation against the Municipal Council, I felt certain they would be able to rebut it, if it were brought to their notice.\n\nAs regards the insinuation that the \"Times\" correspondent obtained his information surreptitiously, I am convinced that there is no foundation for such an idea, and that it was given to him in portions by various members of the Diplomatic Body.\n\nAfter considerable discussion it was eventually decided to ask the Italian Minister to draft a letter to the senior Consul, which should be considered at a subsequent meeting.\n\nCount Gallina consequently prepared the draft of which a copy is inclosed. It was circulated before the meeting, and finding on perusal that it did not contain an explicit refusal to surrender the accused, and omitted mention of the trial to be held before the Mixed Court, I prepared the annexed counter-draft, which was also circulated.\n\nYesterday a meeting took place at which my draft was modified, at the suggestion of the German Minister, to meet the objections of some of the Diplomatic Body, and the letter was dispatched the same afternoon to Shanghae.\n\nI have the honour to add a copy of this also, and of my despatch to Mr. Mansfield, transmitting the text for his information.\n\nIn the course of the discussion the Russian and German Ministers both stated that their Governments were in favour of the surrender of the journalists. On the other side, the Governments of Great Britain, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States have already given instructions to refuse the surrender, and the Spanish and Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires has also declared himself in the same sense. The Corean Legations were not represented at yesterday's meeting, and the Netherlands' Chargé d'Affaires expressed no opinion.\n\nIt is doubtful whether the Viceroy, notwithstanding the offers which it is proposed that the senior Consul shall make to him, will agree to the trial being proceeded with in the Mixed Court. But I have instructed the Acting Consul-General that if the Viceroy consents, the original Agreement with the Taotai as to punishment being carried out in the foreign Settlement should be adhered to; and with regard to the punishment to be inflicted on those who are found guilty, I have expressed to him the opinion that it should not exceed five years' imprisonment with hard labour. I beg to add a copy of these instructions.\n\nShould the Viceroy ultimately refuse the offer now made to him, it will become necessary for the Diplomatic Body to act in accordance with the terms of their letter to the senior Consul, and give instructions for the accused to be set at liberty. Measures can then be taken to prevent their molestation by the Chinese authorities, and for their conveyance out of the country, if such a measure becomes indispensable to their safety.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 57.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ching.\n\nPeking, September 29, 1903.\n\nIN conversation on the 9th instant, with regard to the \"Supao\" case, your Highness informed me that you intended telegraphing on the subject to the Viceroy at Nanking.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghae has reported to me by telegraph that [1638]",
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        "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n\n## C.O. 24967\n## SECTION 4\n\n### No. 1. Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Berlin, to Mr. Addis.- (Communicated by Mr. Addis, June 24, 1909.)\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**\n\nPROPOSE to wire to Cordes as follows: -\n\nAgree to participation of Americans up to one quarter of 2,500,000l., provided that they do not participate in materials and chief engineer. Negotiations would have to be conducted through Chinese intermediation by our Peking representatives and by American legation. After an understanding would have been arrived at in principle, American Government would have to name American syndicate, with whom we have to arrange details.\n\nWire if you agree; if so, telegraph same to your Peking representative. Awaiting result of our proceedings. We are not in favour of a conference with Americans. Foregoing is the result of today's syndicate meeting. Are sending identical telegram to Paris.\n\n**REG 26 JUL 09**\n**JAL PORTLA 5**\n**CHINA RAILWAYS**\n**59** \n**[23821]**\n**[2317 aa-4]**",
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        "content_text": "## SECTION 1\n\n(No. 133.)\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nForeign Office, August 21, 1909.\n\n**(Telegraphic.) R.**\n\nHILLIER'S private telegram to Addis of the 20th August.\n\nIt is difficult to see on what grounds proposed arrangement regarding engineers on Ichang Chengtu section is considered equitable.\n\nAs regards question of engineers, we alone of the three original partners in the undertaking are made to suffer from the admission of the Americans to participation, and we receive no compensating advantages in any other respect.\n\nPlease consult Hillier and telegraph your views.\n\n \n\n2 \n\nlocation of that portion of the line from Chen-hsiang-tun to Mukden shall remain to be decided by mutual conference between the two countries.\n\n3. On and from the date when the memorandum is signed negotiations for the purchase of land and for adjustment of all the other details shall be instituted,\n\n4. From the day following signing of the memorandum, that is, from the day after the negotiations above mentioned are instituted the work of reconstruction shall be accelerated.\n\n5. China shall instruct local officials along the line to give every facility regarding execution of the work.\n\nC.O\n\n \n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[31520]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 21.]\n\nacE II SEP 09 \n\n417 \n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government327 \n\n**CHINA RAILWAYS.**",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[37440]\n\nNo. 1, 795\n\n[October 9.]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nC.O. 36185\n\n3 NOV 09\n\n**Mr. C. Addis to Foreign Office.-(Received October 9.)**\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation,\n\nDear Sir Francis,\n\n31, Lombard Street, London, October 8, 1909.\n\nHILLIER wires that the Yuchuanpu is to take over the negotiations for the Hukuang Railway Loan. I regard the prompt action of the Chinese Government in substituting as Hukuang negotiator a department (Yuchuanpu) for an individual (Chang) as highly satisfactory. The Yuchuanpu will no longer be able to say, as did Chang, that railway extensions outside the Hukuang provinces do not lie within its competence.\n\nI inclose copy of Hillier's telegrams and my reply, together with copies of telegrams which I have dispatched to-day to the French and German groups.\n\nYours truly,\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1\n\nCopies of telegrams communicated to Foreign Office by Mr. Addis, October 9, 1909.\n\n### (1.)\nTelegram dispatched to Peking, October 8, 1909.\n\nRe your wire of 8th October, we regard the information as satisfactory. Re my wire of 27th September, we have abandoned idea of convening conference for the present in deference to request of French, who desire to make fresh attempt themselves to secure joint diplomatic action Peking in favour of the object referred to in my wire of the 3rd September.\n\n### (2.)\nTelegram received from Peking, October 8, 1909.\n\nAn Imperial Edict has been issued appointing Board of Communication (Yuchuanpu), Peking, to take over negotiations Hukuang Railway Loan. We think favourably of appointment. With reference to foregoing telegraph to us, what is the present situation? What are the prospects of conference? In the absence of information our position is very difficult.\n\n### (3.)\nTelegram dispatched to Deutsche Asiatische Bank, October 8, 1909.\n\nHillier wires as follows: \"An Imperial Edict has been issued appointing Board of Communication (Yuchuanpu), Peking, to take over negotiations Hukuang Railway Loan.\" We think favourably of appointment.---Addis.\n\n[2471 i-1]",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n \n2 \n\n(4.) \n\nTelegram dispatched to Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Paris, October 8, 1909. \n\nHillier wires as follows:---\n\n\"We think an Imperial Edict has been issued appointing Board of Communication (Yuchuanpu), Peking, to take our negotiations regarding Hukuang Railway Loan favourably in view of the appointment. With reference to the foregoing telegraph to us, what is the present situation? What are the prospects of conference? In the absence of information, our position is very difficult.\"\n\nWe have wired Hillier as follows:- \n\n\"Re your wire of 8th October. We regard the information as satisfactory. Re my wire of 27th September. We have abandoned the idea of convening a conference for the present, in deference to the request of the French, who desire to make a fresh attempt themselves to secure joint diplomatic action, Peking, in favour of the object referred to in my wire of 3rd September.\"--ADDIS.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[37591] \n\nNo. 1. \n\nOctober 11.\n\n36185 \n\nRECEIVED 3 NOV 09 \n\n794 \n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 11.) (No. 346.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 22, 1909.\n\nWith reference to your telegram No. 122 of the 24th July last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith, in translation, copies of memoranda exchanged between the Russian Minister and the Wai-wu Pu regarding an arrangement made between the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, by which the latter cedes to the former a portion of its share in the loan for the Canton-Hankow and Hankow-Szechuan Railways.\n\nYou will observe that the Chinese Government accedes to the arrangement, provided that the consent of the French bank is first obtained, that no objections are raised by the British, German, and American banks, and that the terms of the loan agreement are preserved intact.\n\nThe Russian Minister, in handing me the Chinese text of these memoranda on the 17th instant, explained that their object was to place the arrangement on official record, and that he considered it his duty to bring it to my knowledge, in view of the stipulation making its enforcement dependent upon the consent of the British bank.\n\nI have communicated copies of the papers to Mr. E. G. Hillier, the local manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, who is also acting as agent of the British and Chinese Corporation. He sees no objection to the arrangement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Note communicated by Russian Minister to Wai-wu Pu.**\n\nWith regard to the foreign loan which is at present being arranged by the Chinese Government for the construction of the Hankow-Canton and Hankow-Szechuan Railways, China has on more than one occasion declared that, as a definite understanding had been arrived at regarding the loan, there was no basis for further negotiation, and that Russian capitalists could not, therefore, participate therein.\n\nThe Russian Government, in view of the friendship existing between our two countries, is willing to accept the view expressed by the Wai-wu Pu, and will not insist upon the Russo-Chinese Bank being named in the agreement, but they are most desirous that the Chinese Government should give a separate written declaration to the effect that it shall be permissible for the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Banque de l'Indo Chine to enter into an arrangement whereby a portion of the latter's share of the loan shall be ceded to the Russo-Chinese Bank. This arrangement should not in any way interfere with the original agreement nor introduce any modification in its terms.\n\nIf the board will carefully consider this proposal, they will see that the Russian Government has no desire whatever to obstruct the Chinese Government in dealing with this matter, but is extremely desirous of protecting the interests of the Russo-Chinese Bank and of Russian and Chinese capitalists.\n\nThe favour of a reply is requested.\n\nSeptember 7, 1909.\n\n[2471-1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nagreement Mr. Wei Han, the managing director of the Chinese section, would be appointed to act as the Chinese delegate, and it was arranged that the discussion should take place at Canton with a delegate of the Hong Kong Government and His Majesty's consul-general.\n\nI shall be glad if your Highness will inform me whether Mr. Wei Han can now be empowered to conclude a joint working agreement, and at what date he will be authorised to commence the negotiations with the Hong Kong delegate and His Majesty's consul-general.\n\nSir,\n\nThe favour of an early reply is requested.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nPrince Ch'ing to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nMarch 19, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir John Jordan's despatch of the 14th February, in which he states . . . (Quotes despatch).\n\nThe board communicated with the Board of Posts and Communications, and they have now replied as follows:—\n\n\"As it is clearly laid down in the Canton-Kowloon Railway Loan Agreement that the director-general should arrange an agreement for the junction of the Canton section of the railway with the Kowloon section, we must accordingly observe the loan Mr. Wei Han, the agreement and appoint an official to negotiate the matter. managing director of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, has therefore been appointed by telegraph to take the matter up at once. In due course he will appoint a date to meet the representative of the Hong Kong Viceroy and open negotiations in respect to the junction of the two sections. We beg that you will notify the British Minister in\n\nthis sense.\n\n71\n\nI have the honour to communicate the above for your Excellency's information.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nPrince CHING.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[35582]\n\n33063\n\n[October 3.]\n\nRECR Rro 28 OCT 0\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 3.)\n\n(No. 318.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 15, 1910, THE Board of Trade Journal of the 28th July last (p. 187) quotes a report from His Majesty's consul at Dairen to the effect that an agreement regarding through-freight rates has been concluded between the South Manchurian Railway Company and the Chinese Eastern Railway authorities in St. Petersburgh.\n\nIn a despatch from the acting British consul at Harbin, dated the 30th August, 1910, copy of which I have the honour to enclose, Mr. Sly states that he is informed that no agreement regarding goods traffic has yet been arrived at, but that negotiations between representatives of the companies concerned are now proceeding at St. Petersburgh.\n\nAs regards passenger and baggage traffic, two agreements are now in force between—\n\n(a.) Places on the Chinese Eastern and Ussuri Railways and places on the South Manchurian Railway and in Japan.\n\n(b.) Places on the Chinese Eastern and Ussuri Railways and places on the South Manchurian Railway.\n\nMr. Sly understands that the intention is to extend similar facilities to places on the Russian Government railways, but that the arrangement has been delayed owing to the introduction of new passenger rates on the Trans-Siberian route.\n\nAs the agreements in question refer solely to the business relations between the Russian and Japanese companies, and do not indicate any alteration in the existing passenger and baggage tariff, I do not forward copies of these documents.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Sly to Mr. Max Müller,\n\n(No. 26.) Sir,\n\nHarbin, August 30, 1910. REFERRING to Mr. Parlett's despatch No. 44 of the 5th ultimo to Sir Claude MacDonald, copy of which was forwarded to you, I have the honour to enclose herewith copies of two agreements which are now in force in regard to passenger and baggage traffic between—\n\n1. Places on the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Ussuri Railway and places on the South Manchurian Railway and in Japan; and\n\n2. Places on the Chinese Eastern and Ussuri Railways and places on the South Manchurian Railway.\n\nThe intention is to extend similar facilities to passenger and baggage traffic to places on the Russian Government railways; but the arrangement has been delayed owing to the introduction of new passenger rates on the Siberian route, and will not, therefore, so I understand, come into force before next month.\n\nAs regards goods, my information is that no agreement of the kind mentioned in the enclosure to Mr. Parlett's despatch has so far been reached, and that the whole subject is now under discussion at St. Petersburgh. The Japanese representatives at the conference which is being held there are: Mr. Y. Kinoshita, engineer, traffic manager of the Japanese Imperial Railways; Mr. Aoki, engineer, Japanese Imperial Railways; Mr. Katabe, freight department, Imperial Japanese Railways; Mr. Tanaka, traffic manager, South Manchurian Railway; Mr. Shoji, interpreter, South Manchurian\n\n[2948 e-3]\n\nB\n\n274",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nforeign mail-steamers, but they undoubtedly resented the existence of foreign post offices at inland places such as Hankow and others, where the offices were no longer necessary for the transmission of mails, and were maintained for purely political purposes. Mr. Agien expressed the view, on whose authority he did not say, that the Powers individually would have no objection to removing their offices provided each was sure that the others were prepared to do so.\n\nHe did not think that the plan of starting a line of Chinese mail-steamers was likely to mature at present. It would obviously not be worth China's while to run a line of steamers, e.g., from Shanghai to London or Liverpool, though there would be nothing to prevent it if she chose to put up the necessary subsidy. What was more likely was that she would make an experiment on a small scale, e.g., institute a Chinese mail service to Japan, the risks and expense of which would be less formidable. ... gather, however, that this part of the scheme is published for home consumption, and is not intended to be taken too seriously.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nI\n\n3\n\n1913\n\nTo extend third-class post offices to all lesser district and country towns.\n\nTo establish a \"Postal Gazette.\"\n\nTo start postal telegraph drafts.\n\n1914.\n\nTo draw up treaties with the various Powers relative to the insurance of postal matter and remittances.\n\nTo extend the post offices in Mongolia and Thibet.\n\nTo establish machine shops (for the manufacture of post office requirements).\n\n1915.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER,\n\nTo start in operation special express delivery vans in the treaty ports. To extend fourth-class post offices in the neighbourhoods outside Peking. To extend the system of postal orders and savings banks to second-class and third-class offices in all the provinces.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nExtract from Memorial detailing Measures proposed to be carried out in connection\n\nwith the Chinese Posts.\n\n1910.\n\nTO make arrangements for the transfer of the control of the postal administration. To concert with the Revenue Council the details of the above transfer.\n\nTo compile and publish postal rules and regulations.\n\nTo establish postal and telegraph classes in connection with communication\n\ncourses.\n\nTo dispatch students to Austria to make a study of postal administrations.\n\nTo draw up a statement of ordinary postal administration expenditure and of the\n\nestimated expenditure on its extension.\n\nTo make arrangements for the amalgamation of postal stations.\n\n1916.\n\nTo issue postage stamps in commemoration of the Constitutional Government. To extend the system of railway travelling post offices, and attach them in rear of special express trains on all lines.\n\nTo extend the systems of post office telegraphic transfers and of insurance of mail matters to all postal union countries in the world.\n\n1911.\n\nTo publish new postal administration regulations.\n\nTo regulate the rules referring to ranks, salaries, examinations, and appointments\n\nin the postal service.\n\nTo decide on places in the various provinces for the establishment of head and branch offices.\n\nTo dispatch officials to attend the International Postal Conference and investigate the postal administrations of foreign countries,\n\nTo pray the Throne to establish a uniform standard for postal administration seals, &c.\n\nTo make arrangements for post office savings banks.\n\nTo make arrangements for foreign mail vessels.\n\n1912.\n\nTo join the International Postal Union. (N.B.-And to discuss with the various Powers the question of the abolition of foreign post offices.)\n\nTo publish postal laws.\n\nTo abolish or adapt the private postal agencies in various places.\n\nTo extend second-class offices to all prefectural, departmental, and district towns.\n\nTo decide the method of dealing with undelivered correspondence.\n\nTo make arrangements for post offices in Mongolia and Thibet.\n\nTo start foreign mail vessels.\n\nTo start post office savings banks in all the provinces,\n\n503",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[36170]\n\nSir,\n\nAust aprecedent in then proposals. In 2. Lusard wacher Peking on the 15th Oct mit in droned if possible to telegraph: Lov (reve of. Thus sove be obliged if you ct when Am carly uply to this latter.\n\n2 7 fee. C knew this I think Do pot ajuna njim four with \"hing & we are much AVC No. 1. our [October 6.]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n487\n\n### Colonial Office to Foreign Office.--(Received October 6.)\n\nDowning Street, October 5, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 12th September and to the letter from this department of the 27th August, I am directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir Edward Grey, the accompanying copies of despatches from the acting governor of Hong Kong with regard to the proposed railway and customs agreements with the Chinese Government. A copy of a letter from Sir Frederick Lugard is also enclosed.*\n\n2. I am to state that the question of the procedure to be adopted in negotiating with the Chinese Government was discussed on the 2nd October at an informal conference between Sir John Jordan, Sir Frederick Lugard, and a member of this department.\n\n3. It was agreed that the principle of joint management of the two sections of the railway should be pressed upon the Government of China, but that it would be well not to employ the proposed customs agreement as offering a quid pro quo to China for the concession involved in joint management unless and until the Viceroy of Canton should be prepared to recommend the customs agreement to the authorities at Peking.\n\n4. Lord Crewe shares this view, and he accordingly has informed the acting governor that for the present the question of the customs agreement should not be brought into the negotiations.\n\n5. His Lordship would be glad to learn what answer should be returned to Sir Henry May's despatch of the 26th August as to the negotiation of the customs agreement.\n\n6. I am to add that Sir J. Jordan expressed the opinion that, in the event of the Chinese being prepared to continue the discussion of the railway matter on the lines of the Hong Kong draft proposals, the attendance of Mr. Lindsey at Peking would be of great service; but that a decision might well await the development of the present position. Lord Crewe has accordingly instructed the Government of Hong Kong to send Mr. Lindsey to Peking if Sir J. Jordan should hereafter desire his presence.\n\n7. Mr. Lindsey will in any case meet Sir F. Lugard at Peking on the 17th October for the purpose of semi-official communications with the Chinese authorities preparatory to the resumption of official negotiations.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nG. V. FIDDES.\n\n* Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong, August 17, 26, and 27; Sir F. Lugard, September 28, 1910 (not printed).\n\n[2948 ƒ-2]\n\nPage 487",
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        "content_text": "# No. 106\n## Gr. 9439\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\nGovernment House,  \nHongkong, 30th March, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of 5th instant relating to the proposed resolution of the Commonwealth of Australia at the forthcoming Imperial Conference in regard to legislation throughout the Crown Colonies and the Empire to prevent acts of conspiracy to defeat the laws of any part of the Empire and to confirm my reply to you by telegraph on the 22nd instant as follows:-\n\n\"Advised that there is sufficient machinery to deal with offenders included in primary object of resolution but legislation will be introduced to have all doubt removed: bill will be forwarded.\"\n\nWith regard to proposed enactment throughout Empire Colony willing to give all possible assistance to workable scheme. Should be glad of details.\n\nI have also received your telegram of the 28th instant.\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nLewis Harcourt, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential\nDate: 7 June 1911\n\nLast previous Paper: 21842  \nNext subsequent Paper: 22934\n\nTo Conf 10 Cung  \nI JO. Cons  \n(33,113), Wt.28,032-50.  \n40,000 11/10. A.&E.W.\n\ncentomes by desp to a Italian ... necessary il her Winslow to three months for notice before leaving the service three Emperial Chinese Railway, & thereafter \"I thought\" in order to carry it able to carry out the order that there might be no difficulty in bringing it to sure Whing able to make certain that he would be able to assume new duties some time before Lindsay leaves the In Totary.\n\nI conveyed to you my approval of the appointment by telegraph on 11 July.\n\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1911 | 22580 |\n|  | 20590 REC |\n|  | CaP 1 JUL 11 |\n\nThe question asked was whether it would not be possible to approach the Portuguese Government on the subject of the morphine export from Macao. The F.C. replied to (2716/11) referring generally to the International Conference coming but their words were taken & to refer & probably did only refer to the question of introducing Act of Parliament in this connection the export of morphine & cocaine.\n\nMr Stables Cottus Par 2.  \nMacau's exports and imports of Morphine.  \nCony corres with fort of Macao to ...",
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        "content_text": "## action taken \n\n6 H.M's Consul General at Canton connexion with Rose Regulations comphasize the fact \n\n3. I would wat Kar your serf. 9 X 14 No. Jee allusions Contamed many strictly con. A which should have to confidential Hound place only Iw conf. sess. It kras for Dais learth Kat I Rought it necessary telegraph Rat you no \n\n* Do you sert must account be published. \n\n4. Of course, It is брен to albues you a 213 numbered respatch to me on the subject of Xa Open Regulations question Lastly way &Board Blogs in Hunt Bay завстай GAMay danie Oaktomization it is highly important nat such derf. should be hapers marked and intended public stre arany no reference made which 6 be 40 confidential not store Mada \n\nReconstructed version:\n\n## Action Taken\n\n6. H.M's Consul General at Canton, in connexion with Rose Regulations, emphasize the fact...\n\n3. I would... your self. 9 X 14 No. ... allusions contained many strictly confidential matters which should have been kept in a confidential place only. I was in conference with... It was for... that I thought it necessary to telegraph to you that no... \n\n* Do you consider that the account should be published?\n\n4. Of course, it is desirable to obtain from you a numbered despatch to me on the subject of the Open Regulations question. Lastly, with regard to the Board's plans in Hunt's Bay, ... it is highly important that such despatch should be clearly marked \"Confidential\" and not intended for public reference, and that no reference should be made which could be... 40... confidential matters stored... Mada \n\nRevised to fit the exact rules:\n## Action Taken\n\n6. H.M's Consul General at Canton, in connexion with Rose Regulations, emphasize the fact...\n\n3. I would... your self. 9 X 14 No. ... allusions contained many strictly confidential matters which should have been kept in a confidential place only. I was in conference with... It was for... that I thought it necessary to telegraph to you that no... \n* Do you consider that the account should be published?\n\n4. Of course, it is ... to obtain from you a 213 numbered despatch to me on the subject of Xa Open Regulations question. Lastly, with regard to &Board's plans in Hunt's Bay, ... GAMay danie Oaktomization it is highly important that such despatch should be marked and intended ... stre arany no reference made which 6 be 40 confidential not store Mada",
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        "content_text": "## Conference on Company Registration\n\nPrevious letter from the F.O. containing their proposal for registration in London through Shanghai. Also telegraph to it. Rees Davies \n\nConference as to Company registration will take place at Foreign Office on Monday at 4 p.m. Official letter follows.\n\nUnder Sec. C.O.  \n2007  \nThe  \nAug  \nLove M  \nstwa bp.  \nKily  \nhn Collins  \nAn  \nJALA  \nAsc  \n\nI had the conference at F.O. yesterday afternoon - Mr. Hunt (B of T) Mr. Saunders, Mr. Barnes (BofT) Mr. Davies myself. After a full discussion the F.O. said they would withdraw their \"objection\" if sufficient facilities be granted to Chinese Companies under the existing rules of their registration at Hong Kong. This means that F.O. agree to the draft Ordinance subject to BoT observations. Mr. Barnes promised to send draft without further delay - That an Ordinance will be passed defining the powers of the Shanghai Court which will be practically coordinate or concurrent with those of the Hong Kong Court - \n\nThat when it is passed Hong Kong will pass an amending Ordinance to bring into effect so far as providing that orders re of the Shanghai Court will be recognized by the H.K. Court and arrangements for the registration of incorporation of a Shanghai Company to be arranged in Shanghai and admit the creation of such company before in H.K. by its registration there- \n\nI do not think that in the circumstances Hong Kong can demand more than this. F.O. will write to us when they have done the above lines.\n\n(The next step will be for F.O. to submit outline of their draft Ordinance, for us to obtain the concurrence of the H.K. Govt there, and finally for H.K. to frame the necessary supplementing Order).\n\nWait for F.O. letter.  \nJR1219  \nPage 459",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n`No. 35348/11`. \n\nand address \nThe Under-Secretary of State, \nForeign Office, \nLondon. \n\nSir:- \n463 \nCO \n29930 \nRECS \nFOREIGN OFFICE \nSeptember \n11 1911. \n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state for the information of Dr. Secretary Harcourt that a telegram has been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking reporting that the official organ of the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs has published a telegram from London charging Great Britain with having withheld her consent to the holding of the Opium Conference in October next. \n\nSir J. Jordan has been informed by telegraph that this statement is altogether misleading, and that His Majesty's Government considered that a conference would be useless unless the other Powers concerned were prepared to discuss the question of morphia and cocaine and the adoption of such measures as were required to control the trade in these drugs, but that they have intimated their willingness to take part in the conference \nUnder Secretary of State, \nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nOPIUM,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[35348]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September 11.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n556\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office to India Office.*\n\nForeign Office, September 11, 1911.\n\nI AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state, for the information of the Marquess of Crewe, that a telegram has been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, reporting that the official organ of the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs has published a telegram from London, charging Great Britain with having withheld her consent to the holding of the Opium Conference in October next.\n\nSir J. Jordan has been informed by telegraph that this statement is altogether misleading, and that His Majesty's Government considered that a conference would be useless unless the other Powers concerned were prepared to discuss the question of morphia and cocaine and the adoption of such measures as were required to control the trade in these drugs, but that they have intimated their willingness to take part in the conference at a date to be agreed upon as soon as the other Powers are ready to comply with these conditions.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n[21827-1]\n\n* Also to Colonial Office and Board of Trade, mutatis mutandis",
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        "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911",
        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPTUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[36695]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n-20\n\n[September 19.]\n\nSECTION\n\n2749\n\nof 9 OCT 1\n\nMr. Bryce to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 19.) (No. 231. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nSealharbour, Maine, September 8, 1911.\n\nHAVE the honour to report that on the 6th instant Dr. Hamilton Wright, one of the American representatives to the proposed opium conference at The Hague, called on me here with a letter from the Acting Secretary of State (copy of which enclose herein), having travelled to this place in order to see me.\n\nThe object of Dr. Wright's visit was to ask me to telegraph to you suggesting that it would be desirable for His Majesty's Government to intimate officially, as soon as possible, to the Netherlands Government their willingness to send representatives at an early and definite date to the proposed International Opium Congress.\n\nI enquired what were the special reasons for which the United States Government desired that this expression of their wish should be conveyed through me instead of through the American Ambassador in London, who had been in charge of the negotiations throughout. Mr. Wright informed me that instructions had been sent in this sense to Mr. Reid, who reported that he had been unable to communicate them personally to you owing to your absence from London, to which I naturally replied that the matter could have been presented to, and dealt with by, the Under-Secretary of State in charge.\n\nAfter some further conversation Mr. Wright practically admitted that it was thought that the matter might be advanced by being also treated through another channel, and that in the interests of humanity at large, and from the desire of the United States Government to accelerate progress with the matter, it was their belief that additional representations, transmitted through this embassy, would have further weight, and convey more fully their anxiety to see something done. He was rather vague in his way of putting this, but one could see what he meant. He observed that he understood that His Majesty's Government might feel that the United States Government were unduly pressing the matter, but at the same time he was desirous that, without incurring the suspicion that they had any ulterior motive in this, it should be known that the Department of State were becoming anxious to put the matter through. They had latterly left it to the Dutch Government, but the slow action of the latter was now obliging them to take it up themselves. He eventually showed me a confidential report from Mr. Beaupré, United States Minister at The Hague, in which the latter stated his own personal suspicions, based, it would seem, on conversations with persons in the Dutch Foreign Office, that His Majesty's Government were, for some reason or other, by no means eager that the conference should meet in the near future. Mr. Wright went on to say that he personally did not think Mr. Beaupré's views entitled to much weight, and that both he and the Department of State entirely disclaimed any such suspicions, and were convinced that His Majesty's Government were altogether sincere in the wish they had expressed for the meeting and success of the conference. Proof of this had been given by their action in India. I replied that it was the fact, and the correspondence communicated to me by you showed it. His Majesty's Government were equally desirous with the United States Government that the conference should meet as soon as it properly could, and that their only anxiety was that the representatives of the different Powers interested should be in full possession of the necessary facts and figures, not only respecting opium, but as regards morphine and cocaine also, before the meeting, in order that their deliberations might cover all the subjects involved, and might handle them so effectively as to avoid the necessity of calling a further conference at a later date, when interest in the matter might possibly have begun to evaporate.\n\nMr. Wright then informed me confidentially that it was in his view not inconceivable that the delay in the matter came from the Netherlands Government, who perhaps attempted to conceal their own lack of zeal by attributing such lack to His Majesty's Government. The Dutch, he remarked, were the nation who would incur the greatest loss by the total suppression of the traffic in opium, which was largely grown in Java; and he further alleged, without, however, dwelling on the suggestion, that reasons of economy\n\n[2182 t-1]",
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        "content_text": "might also lead them to desire to postpone the holding of the conference in their own country.\n\nThe present position of affairs was stated by him to be as follows: The French and German Governments had already expressed their willingness to meet in accordance with the conditions laid down by His Majesty's Government, and were understood to have the facts needed all in their possession as regards the inclusion of the question of regulating the sale of morphine and cocaine.\n\nThe Portuguese Government had declared that they fully expected to be ready to go to the conference by the 16th October, a date which had been suggested, while the Japanese Government had intimated that they held that their acceptance, already conveyed, of the previous invitation made it needless for them to repeat this formally to the Government of the Netherlands, who had apparently asked for it.\n\nI informed Dr. Wright that I had no means of verifying this information, and he replied that it had been already communicated to you by Mr. Reid in London.\n\nDr. Wright has the eagerness of the specialist who has been placed in charge, and I believe, probably he is himself urging the State Department to press things forward. However, that the United States Government are really desirous that the matter should go promptly forward, and that the President, who has been in China, and continues warmly interested in its welfare, is responsive to the requests which it seems the Chinese Government has made to the United States for action. Dr. Wright says, the Chinese declare that they are doing all they can, but find difficulties which the conference, and drastic measures to be approved by it, would enable them to overcome.\n\nHe observed that an immense amount of American capital was involved in the trade in these articles which it would be necessary to disturb, but added that as the stoppage of their production as ordinary articles of commerce would enable their price as drugs used in medicine to be raised, the manufacturers need not suffer.\n\nI ultimately promised to telegraph to you in the sense desired by the United States Government, which I did (see my telegram No. 145 of the 6th September); but in doing so I expressed the wish that it would be explained to Mr. Reid, in order to remove any possible misapprehension on the latter's part, that this was done wholly at their request, and I intimated my own feeling that as the matter had been so far dealt with in London between you and Mr. Reid it might be better that this should continue to be the method followed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nPage 21\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[37795]\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n32749\n\n9 OCT 11\n\n[September 27.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received September 27.)\n\nIndia Office, September 26, 1911.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th September, and, in reply, to state that his Lordship concurs in the proposal contained in the penultimate paragraph with reference to the subjects to be discussed at The Hague Opium Conference.\n\n&c.\n\nLIONEL ABRAHAMS.\n\n[2182 dd-1]\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nMr. Wilson to Mr. Bryce.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.\n\nDepartment of State, Washington, August 30, 1911.\n\nMy dear Mr. Ambassador,\n\nOWING to the complications which have arisen relative to the proposed International Opium Conference, I have entrusted this note to Dr. Hamilton Wright, a delegate to the conference, who will make clear the steps taken by this Government since Sir Edward Grey stated in May last that as soon as the Governments concerned were in position to comply with certain conditions, His Majesty's Government would only be too happy to take part in the conference.\n\nDr. Wright will also be very glad to explain any points which you may desire to have made clear to you.\n\nIn view of the President's personal interest in the International Opium Conference, and in the early consummation of the great ideal to which the nations are pledged, I am writing to you in the hope that you will be good enough to make known to your Government how great is the interest of the United States in this conference, and how earnestly this Government trusts that there may be no further delay in its assembling.\n\n&c.\n\nHUNTINGTON WILSON,\n\nActing Secretary of State.",
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        "content_text": "3.0.\n\n34348/11\n\nN Kong Eastern\n\n31.\n\n55\n\nDRAFT.\n\nForeign Office\n\nJK 30/10\n\n7. Shublo\n\n少\n\n3--0\n\n7 Collins, 304\n\nM\n\nB\n\nIs to Dons Dept after\n\nAnsa 30*6\"4f1\n\nf\n\nJuna\n\n310.11\n\nI am to ack the receipt\n\nof letter (No 4176/11) of the\n\nWith set with\n\nopeners &\n\nIngard\n\nto the\n\nthe International\n\nConference at the Hague, & to request you to inform Sir Edward Grey that in his opinion, for C.C. South China, the\n\nnot suitable delegate\n\nAm. 9.\n\n2. M. Harcourt is communicating\n\nby\n\ntelegraph\n\nwith the East...",
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        "content_text": "318\n\nImmediate\n\nAcce\n\n39909\n\nReas 12 DEC II\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and is directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state, for the information of Jus Secretary Harcourt, that the British delegates to the International Opium Conference have reported by telegraph that the Conference desires information as to all legislation with regard to the extermination of traffic in prepared opium since the date of the International Commission at Shanghai.\n\nThe delegates ask that they may be furnished as soon as possible with a memorandum stating the present rules as to the export and import of prepared opium in the British Colonies in the Far East, including British North Borneo.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "content_text": "SIL\n\nHONG KONG\n\n1911\n\nCO 4055\n\nReceived 19 Feb.\n\n343\n\nForeign\n\nDate.\n\n18 Feb.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n7.0.40322\n\nLAOTERNAN\n\n40551\n\nApunine Conference\n\nExpression \"prepared opium \"as defined by Conference refers simply to opium prepared for purpose of consumption by smoking or eating. With regard to resolution prohibiting import and export of prepared opium, His Majesty's Government considers it very undesirable that foreign Powers should make any reservation in accepting it. Acting as soon as possible.\n\nSo vital a question.\n\nMust so decide.\n\n(48142). Wt.22961--14. 2000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nNext subsequent Paper 040816\n\n7. Stibles\n\nIt may be said that on the assumption that the adoption of the resolution will not interfere with local arrangements in the Colony, the Secretary of State had not objected to the Delegation being instructed to vote in favour of the resolution. The better course would be to telegraph.\n\nOff here with (for Sir J. Jordan's sake)\n\nJR 19/12\n\nInclined to like.",
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        "content_text": "As in last par\n\nTelegraph summary of pamphlet high 1 & add in proposed by the Robeson 4.0. letter\n\nas amended by their Stubbs.\n\nIf at once\n\nJa. 1.1.12\n\n(Sir J. Anderson agreed that, if the replies to our telegrams\n\nare in the affirmative, we can authorize the Delegates to sign on behalf of the British Colonies in\n\nthe Far East \"or if they prefer \" on behalf of Ceylon,\n\nthe S.S., H.K. and S.S.W.\" but that we cannot authorize\n\nsig. on behalf of Protectorates such as Johore,\n\nand that we had better leave out F.M.S. also).\n\nA&C\n\nC\n\nin any further communication\n\non this subject, please quote\n\nNo.\n\nand address---\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon.\n\nSir:-\n\nPage 369\n\nRice\n\n101 JAN\n\nJAN 12\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE\n\nDecember 3 1911.\n\nJ\n\nWith reference to previous correspondence on the\n\nsubject of the International Opium Conference, I am directed\n\nby Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, for the\n\ninformation of the Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nthe following documents received from the British Delegates\n\nto the Conference:\n\nA. A proposed Convention in the form adopted by the\n\nDrafting Committee. This Convention will be finally\n\nconsidered by the Conference when it reassembles on January\n\n8th, and it is not anticipated that any alterations in\n\nsubstance will be made.\n\nB. The draft of Articles respecting ratification,\n\nadhesion and denunciation.\n\nFurther discussion will be\n\nrequired in regard to these articles, the British delegates\n\nhaving submitted a counter-draft according to which the\n\nconvention will come into operation independently of the\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nadhesion\n\nPage 370",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\n3.0\n\n2/1/2\n\nTelegram (substance in cypher) from Colom to Govr & Kong\n\nSwenner\n\nGov. Singapore.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Robison 1/1/12\n\n77 Shibbs 2\n\nMr. Collins T\n\nMr. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\n★ Sir J. Anderson. 2\n\nLord Lucas, Bust.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nMr.\n\nIn view of the summary\n\n4.3.1.12\n\nno when it\n\nthem, unnecessary to add any material remark to what I originally proposed.\n\nJK\n\nTo Harcourt.\n\nA Kong\n\nEastern.\n\n\"Substance cypher telegram. 3-2+ from\n\n3 Jan 12\n\nInternational Conference.\n\nhas drawn up draft convention which the following are the principal portions :- (1) Raw opium,\n\nCoz 70.\n\n16/12.\n\nStraits\n\n\"Production & distribution from\n\nOpium to be controlled & legislation in ports of importation & exportation to be limited; measures to be taken to prevent exportation to countries which prohibit import to control exportation to\n\nWill you telegraph concurrence to countries which object to such importation being carried on under conditions.\n\nM.2.1\n\ntelegraphed concurrence\n\nconcurrence importation & exportation is\n\n3.1.12\n\nonly to be carried on the",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT. TELEGRAM.\n\n(Substance in cypher.)\n\nGovernor Colombo.\n\nGovernor Hong Kong\n\nGovernor Singapore.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. J. Robinson 1/1/12 Mr. Stubbs\n\n2.\n\nMr. Collins 2.\n\nMr. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\n2.\n\nLord Emmott.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\n(In view of the summary\n\nnow given it seems unnecessary to add any special remark to Hong Kong originally proposed.)\n\nA.E.C.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nIf you concur?\n\nJ.R.\n\nAs I\n\nWill you telegraph\n\nJ.A.2.1.\n\nF.O.\n\n&c.\n\n2. 11/12. Hong Kong\n\nEastern.\n\nRecorded January, 1912.\n\nInternational Conference has drawn up draft convention of which the following are the principal provisions:-\n\n(1) Raw opium, Production and distribution to be controlled by legislation: ports of importation and exportation to be limited;\n\nmeasures to be taken to prevent exportation to countries which prohibit import and to control exportation to countries which subject importation to conditions: importation and exportation is only to be carried on through duly authorised persons.\n\n(2) Prepared opium. Measures to be taken for the gradual and effective suppression",
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        "document_key": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nExtract from the Proceedings of Legislative Council.\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK-Your Excellency, I beg leave to make the motion which stands in my name, and as hon. members have the motion in full before them I will, with your Excellency's permission, ask them to take it as read. This motion, Sir, has reference to the very important subject of wireless telegraphy, which, as your Excellency is aware, has formed the subject of questions and debates in this Council for something like two years past, but, Sir, all the information that we have been able to get upon this subject has, until the last few weeks, been very much of a tentative and provisional character, in fact, Sir, when I asked the question in this Council at our last meeting on 22nd August this year as to whether the Government could give any information to the Council with reference to the promised establishment of a wireless telegraph station in this Colony, the hon. Colonial Secretary replied: \"The Government is not yet in a position to give any information on the subject.\" That, Sir, was the position of affairs so recently as a few weeks ago.\n\nSince then, however, there has come out to this Colony a report of the debate in the House of Commons on the 7th August, the last day of the session, in the course of which debate the Postmaster-General, Mr. Herbert Samuel, made a statement with regard to wireless telegraphy which gave us some useful, interesting and pleasurable information. It appeared, Sir, from the speech of the Postmaster-General on that occasion, that various important bodies such as the Cable Landing Rates Committee, the Sub-Committee on Imperial Defence, and the Imperial Conference had taken into their joint consideration the question of communication by wireless telegraphy throughout the Empire, and it appeared from the speech of the Postmaster-General that as the result of that conference, whilst providing for the sending of all Naval and Military messages required for defensive purposes, it was still apparently considered practicable that a considerable number of commercial messages could be dispatched, thereby incidentally reducing considerably, as it was hoped, the cable rates between different portions of the Empire.\n\nThe sending of commercial messages and the reduction of cable rates are very prominent features of the Postmaster-General's speech. With regard to the erection of a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire, he goes on to say that on two points there will be no disagreement. The first was that the erection of a chain of telegraph stations at suitable points throughout the Empire was in itself desirable. In peace they would be useful for commercial purposes and would be likely to contribute to the cheapening of telegraphic communication between various portions of the Empire. He later says that the problem of the Empire was largely one of communication, and the more the Government was able to improve communication the better it would be.\n\nI am sure these words will find an echo in the minds of members of this Council. Under the heading of working of the system he states that each Government would pay for the maintenance of the station which it erected and would be credited with the receipts of traffic which its own station handled. The receipts would not be pooled. The revenue would be divided on the same principle as the through telegraph traffic revenue was divided between the various countries.\n\nLater on, under the heading of cost and remuneration, after stating that the annual expenditure for working six stations, allowing for the redemption of capital in 18 years, interest and management expense, would be about $106,000 per annum, the Postmaster-General went on to say that \"the revenue must naturally depend upon the rates charged for traffic and on the amount of traffic obtained, but it would be impossible to form an estimate of revenue until it had been decided what the rates were to be. If they were able to secure enough traffic to enable the stations to work 20 hours a day and if they were able to carry the traffic at a speed of 20 words a minute duplex, if one-third of their traffic was unpaid, that was to say, Government traffic, and if one-third was Press traffic, on these terms this system would be remunerative, indeed, quite profitable, and allowing for a considerable reduction of rates. If they were not able to keep the stations employed 20 hours a day or if any of the other of these conditions were not fulfilled, then, of course, the financial results would be modified accordingly.\" And he goes on to say that \"even if it were not remunerative the Government thought it advisable to erect stations if only for strategical reasons.\n\nTherefore, Sir, it will be seen from the extracts I have read from the speech of the Postmaster-General that although he naturally feels the importance of the erection of general wireless stations throughout the Empire for strategic and defensive purposes, he puts in the matter before the House of Commons the erection of these stations as being also likely to turn out a solid and profitable business proposition; in fact, as your Excellency will have noted, he goes so far as to say that he believes a profit can be assured even allowing for Government traffic, which has to be carried gratis, and for Press traffic, which is carried at reduced rates, and also allowing for a reduction in the rates charged for telegraphic communication.\n\nSo far then, Sir, one may say that the statement of the Postmaster-General is of an exceedingly satisfactory character, because one can hardly suppose that he would have launched out into these commercial figures and calculations unless he were fairly well satisfied with his deliberations with the three bodies I have mentioned, two of which, as your Excellency will have noted, were the Sub-Committee on Imperial Defence and the Imperial Conference, which might be trusted to look after the interests of the Empire, and after taking into account their views as well as those of the other body mentioned the Postmaster-General obviously thought that he was justified in putting this matter before the House of Commons as a speculation which was likely to turn out profitable.\n\nSo far, as I said just now, everything would be entirely satisfactory from our point of view, but there is one point, as is indicated by the motion, upon which I would respectfully venture to suggest that it is desirable that we should express our views, and that is the point as to the date of the erection of the proposed wireless telegraph station in this Colony of Hongkong. The Postmaster-General mentions in his speech certain places in regard to which apparently wireless telegraphy stations are to be erected at an early date. Those places mentioned in the speech as places at which the British Government would erect and pay for four",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n357\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[50187]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n434\n\nJAN 12\n\n[December 15.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nSir,\n\nBoard of Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received December 15.)\n\nBoard of Trade, December 14, 1911.\n\nI AM directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th December, forwarding copy of a telegram from His Majesty's delegate at the Opium Conference, with regard to a proposal \"that the participating Governments bind themselves to prohibit the importation and exportation of prepared opium.\"\n\nIt is not clear whether the expression \"prepared opium\" is intended to imply solely opium prepared for smoking, or whether it is intended to include also opium dried or powdered for the manufacture of morphia, &c., and I am accordingly to suggest, subject to Sir E. Grey's approval, that Sir C. Clementi Smith should be instructed by telegraph to report on this point.\n\nIf the proposal is intended to apply only to opium prepared for smoking, the Board offer no objection to His Majesty's delegates being authorised to vote in favour of it.\n\n[2297 p-3]\n\nI am, &c.\n\nGEO. J. STANLEY.",
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        "content_text": "COPY HAS BEEN 1200\n\n1521 DOMINIONS.\n\n427 Govt.\n\nSee print B. in 2/11,12. But this restriction on the liberty of withdrawal seems to be necessitated by the subject matter of the Convention and by the attitude of other Powers. Moreover the Dominions would authorize the signature of the Convention on their behalf on this understanding.\n\nIf, as above proposed, the Dominions are left as free as non-signatory Powers in the matter of signing the Convention, I don't see the necessity of consulting them until the Convention in its final form is sent out. We were forced by circumstances to telegraph to the Far Eastern Colonies a rough statement of the terms of the Convention and to ask them to trust the Secretary of State's discretion as to there being nothing objectionable. But it would not be advisable to put before the Dominions anything but the Convention itself.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. 1700/12, and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.\n\nJan. 11\n\n1520 London.\n\nReceived 15 JAN 12\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE\n\n13th January, 1912.\n\nWith reference to recent correspondence on the subject of the Opium Conference at the Hague, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to forward, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a telegram from the British Delegates dealing with the terms of the adhesion and ratification clauses of the proposed Convention.\n\nIt will be observed that the Delegates are inclined to accept the revised wording of the clauses put forward by the German delegates, but they consider that, instead of ratification by the Signatory Powers being contingent upon adhesion by all the non-Signatory Powers of Europe and America (as suggested by Germany), the condition of ratification should be the adhesion of a substantial number of the non-Signatory Powers invited to adhere.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "A total of 11 Powers (practically eleven only, for the Italian Delegation has been almost entirely absent) are endeavouring to deal with matters some of which are of world-wide concern.\n\nWe should be glad if you would telegraph to us your views on this communication as soon as possible.\n\nWe have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. E. Maycr\n\nfor British Delegation to the International Opium Conference.",
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        "content_text": "480\n\n2\n\nWe would also observe that as indicated in our telegram of the 11th instant it will be difficult to make any valid distinction for the purposes of paragraph 9 between Parliamentary legislation and administrative action, which takes its place in certain countries or dependencies. We propose, however, to leave it to the French representative, who is specially interested on this point with regard to French Indo-China, to move an amendment placing \"règlements administratifs\" on the same footing as \"lois.\"\n\n4. Finally, we propose to substitute for paragraph 10 of the draft a paragraph which contemplates the summoning of a fresh conference in the event of difficulties arising (with special reference to paragraph 9 as amended) in regard to the putting into force of the convention as a whole or of the laws, regulations, and other measures specifically contemplated thereby.\n\nWe think that these amendments will sufficiently meet your views and those of the Board of Trade as already communicated to us on the matters we have been discussing, and that if they be substantially accepted there will be no objection to following the general course of procedure indicated in the draft of the \"Comité de Rédaction.\" Also that this course presents material advantages in coping with the difficulties of a situation in which the representatives of twelve Powers (practically eleven only, for the Italian delegation has been almost entirely absent) are endeavouring to deal with matters some of which are of world-wide concern.\n\nWe should be glad if you would telegraph to us your views on this communication as soon as possible.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(For British Delegation to the International Opium Conference),\n\nW. S. MEYER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nNouveau Document (B).\n\nCOMITÉ DE RÉDACTION,\n\nProjet modifié suivant les Suggestions de leurs Excellences de Marees van Swinderen\n\net Asser.\n\n3A. Le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas donnera immédiatement à toutes les Puissances signataires avis de chaque signature supplémentaire.\n\nSignature supplémentaire.\n\nLES Puissances non représentées à la conférence seront admises à signer la présente convention.\n\n2. Dans ce but le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas invitera immédiatement après la signature de la convention par les plénipotentiaires des Puissances qui ont pris part à la conférence, toutes les Puissances non signataires de l'Europe et de l'Amérique, à savoir [énumération]\n\nà désigner un délégué muni des pleins pouvoirs nécessaires pour procéder à La Haye à la signature de la convention.\n\n3. La convention sera munie de ces signatures au moyen d'un protocole de signature de Puissances non représentées à la conférence, à ajouter après les signatures des Puissances représentées et mentionnant la date de chaque signature.\n\n4 A. Dans le cas où la signature de toutes les Puissances invitées n'aurait pas été obtenue à la date du 31 décembre, 1912, le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas invitera immédiatement les Puissances signataires à envoyer des délégués à La Haye pour considérer s'il ne sera pas possible de procéder néanmoins à la ratification.\n\nAdd to 9:\n\n3\n\nRatification.\n\n4. Après que toutes les Puissances, tant pour elles-mêmes que pour leurs possessions, colonies, protectorats et territoires à bail, auront signé la convention ou le protocole supplémentaire visé ci-dessus, le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas invitera toutes les Puissances à ratifier la convention avec ce protocole.\n\n5. La ratification sera faite dans un délai aussi court que possible et déposée aussitôt à La Haye au Ministère des Affaires Étrangères.\n\n6. Le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas notifiera tous les six mois aux Puissances signataires les ratifications qu'il aura reçues dans l'intervalle.\n\n7. Aussitôt que toutes les ratifications tant pour les Puissances elles-mêmes que pour leurs colonies, possessions, protectorats et territoires à bail, auront été reçues par le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas, celui-ci notifiera à toutes les Puissances qui auront ratifié la convention la date à laquelle il aura reçu le dernier de ces actes de ratification.\n\n8. La présente convention entrera en vigueur deux mois (six mois) après la date mentionnée dans la notification du Gouvernement des Pays-Bas visée à l'alinéa précédent.\n\nLa date à partir de laquelle ces lois entreront en vigueur fera l'objet d'un accord entre les Puissances signataires, sur la proposition du Gouvernement des Pays-Bas.\n\nSubstitute for 10:\n\nDans le cas où des questions surgiraient relatives à la mise en vigueur de la convention ou des lois, règlements et autres mesures qu'elle comporte, le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas, si ces questions ne pourront pas être résolues par d'autres moyens, invitera toutes les Puissances qui auront signé la convention ou le protocole à envoyer des délégués à La Haye pour arriver à un accord immédiat sur ces questions.\n\n9. A l'égard des lois, règlements et autres mesures prévus par la présente convention qui exigeraient le concours des Parlements ou des Corps législatifs, il est convenu que les projets requis à cet effet seront proposés par les Gouvernements au plus tard six mois après l'entrée en vigueur de la présente convention.\n\n10. Si deux ans après la date de la signature de la présente convention par les plénipotentiaires des Puissances qui ont pris part à la conférence, le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas n'a pas pu faire la communication mentionnée à l'alinéa 7, il invitera toutes les Puissances qui auront signé la convention ou le protocole à envoyer des délégués à La Haye pour délibérer sur les conditions dans lesquelles la convention pourra être mise néanmoins en vigueur en totalité ou en partie.",
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        "content_text": "5. Exportation to foreign countries, whether adhering to the convention or not, and to other portions of the British Empire to be permitted only upon production to the Customs authorities of a certificate from the country of destination that the consignee is authorised to import the drugs either in accordance with the stipulations of the convention or with local laws or regulations which, in the opinion of the Customs authorities, are equally stringent.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n0\n\n2545\n\nHEJ7:26 JAN 550\n\n[December 15.]\n\nSECTION 4,\n\n[50187]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n(No. 2.) Gentlemen,\n\nSir Edward Grey to the British Delegates to the Opium Conference.\n\nForeign Office, December 15, 1911. I REFERRED to the Colonial and Indian Departments and to the Board of Trade your telegram of the 12th instant, enquiring whether you are authorised to vote in favour of a proposal put forward at the conference, \"that the participating Governments bind themselves to prohibit the importation and exportation of prepared opium.\"\n\nI transmit to you herewith copy of the replies received from the Colonial Office and Board of Trade.* I have communicated to them and also to the India Office the definitions of raw, prepared, and medicinal opium enclosed in your despatch No. 1 of the 7th instant, which I presume were adopted by the full conference.\n\nOn the receipt of further replies from the three departments, you will be instructed by telegraph as to the action which you should take in the matter.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n* Board of Trade, December 14; Colonial Office, December 14, 1911.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[2297 -4]",
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        "content_text": "# THE OPIUM EVIL.\n\nThe Italian Government has pointed out the importance of the question of the traffic in Indian hemp drugs to that Government and has suggested that the conference might advantageously deal with the question of this traffic.\n\nThe Netherlands Government, while agreeing to the general principles of the tentative program, at the same time observed that for the Netherlands Indies, where the culture of the poppy does not exist and where the opium régie has been or will be introduced, the question of most importance to the Netherlands Government is for the conference to arrive at an agreement as to measures to be taken to combat the smuggling of opium.\n\nThe Russian Government, while approving in principle of the general tenor of the tentative program, took exception to item (f) inasmuch as there is almost no production of opium in Russia, and for that reason the restriction and control of the cultivation of the poppy, as provided for by that item, would be superfluous as far as Russia is concerned, and would oppose a serious obstacle to the development of one of the branches of Russian agriculture.\n\nThe other powers have accepted the tentative program as a basis for discussion, reserving their particular views upon it, which will be expressed at the conference itself.\n\nYou will see, therefore, that, although the tentative program proposed by the United States has been in some respects narrowed by the reservations made by several of the powers, generally speaking, the scope of the work of the conference has been broadened by the suggestions that it include in its deliberations the question of the manufacture of and trade in morphine and cocaine and the Indian hemp drugs. It therefore seems to this Government desirable that the production of and traffic in all habit-forming drugs which have been proved to be a menace to the moral, physical, and economic welfare of the world would be considered by the conference and adequately dealt with by it in the spirit of resolution 5 of the International Opium Commission, which places a ban on all drugs which appear on scientific inquiry to be liable to abuse and productive of the ill effects of opium, its derivatives, or preparations.\n\nIt would be inexpedient to limit you by too rigid instructions upon the different questions which may be brought forward in the conference for discussion; but you should closely bear in mind that, though it has been clearly demonstrated that the United States has large material interests in any action which the conference may take, this Government has no revenue of moment at stake; and that primarily the international movement for the suppression of the opium evil was initiated by this Government with the object of assisting China in her recent and energetic effort to suppress her opium evil.\n\nAll of your communications and reports to this Government will be made to the Department of State for due consideration and final preservation in the archives. The records of the delegation will be kept by its secretary, Mr. Frederic L. Huidekoper. Should you be in doubt at any time in regard to the meaning or effect of these instructions, or should you consider at any time that there is occasion for special instructions, you will communicate concisely with the Department of State by telegraph.\n\nI may say to you that it is the President's earnest desire that the very old and troublesome opium problem growing out of the abuse of opium and the allied habit-forming drugs may be successfully dealt with by the conference.\n\nI am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,\n\n**ALVEY A. ADEE.**\n\nThe Dutch Government set aside for the use of the conference a part of the Hall of the Knights, the seat of the States General, and on the first day of December, 1912, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the conference was opened by his excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands in the presence of the delegations representing the twelve nations, the diplomatic corps, the press, and the general public. His excellency the foreign minister made a felicitous address of welcome, saying amongst other things, that the Netherlands Government considered it a special privilege to greet at the royal residence a conference of eminent diplomats and experts arrived from the four quarters of the globe to discuss an international problem; that the problem before the conference pressingly claimed solution for the welfare of mankind; that the conference would have to deal with one of \n\n## THE OPIUM EVIL.\n\nthose complications of Providence where God had created a plant containing in itself the elements to make it a real benefactor to humanity, but where man had by an abuse of that benefit transferred it into a scourge spreading economic ruin and moral as well as intellectual degradation; that the Netherlands Government had been anxious for the honor of seeing the conference meet on Netherlands soil, the mother country of vast colonies where the opium problem was of great actual importance, and that the interested governments responding to that appeal with an enthusiasm as graceful as it was flattering, he extended the welcome of the royal government to the conference as a tribute of gratitude.\n\nAt the conclusion of this address of welcome the first delegate of the Netherlands Government proposed for president of the conference Bishop Charles H. Brent, of the American delegation. This was seconded by the chiefs of the British and German delegations. With the unanimous consent of the assembly, Bishop Brent accepted the presidency and then delivered an address, partly personal, in which, besides thanking the conference for the honor of the presidency, he called attention to the work of the International Opium Commission, which convened in 1909, and then outlined the purpose for which the International Opium Conference had been assembled. On the termination of the presidential address, and with the consent of the conference, the president proposed the personnel of the secretary general's office. His Excellency R. de Marees van Swinderen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Dutch Government, was elected honorary president. In the name of the conference the president dispatched the following message to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:\n\nThe representatives of the 12 nations assembled at The Hague for the International Opium Conference have the honor to lay at the feet of Your Royal Majesty the homage of their most respectful devotion and the expression of their gratitude for the gracious reception given to them in your residence.\n\nAt the second plenary session of the conference the president read the following telegram:\n\nI am glad to see at The Hague the representatives of twelve States assembled for an International Opium Conference. Thanking you, Mr. President, for the feelings which you have interpreted, I express to you my good wishes for the humanitarian goal of the conference.\n\n**WILHELMINA.**\n\nPrevious to the assembling of the conference, the Netherlands minister for foreign affairs had requested the American delegation to suggest a body of rules to govern the conference. At the second plenary session the conference proceeded to consider the tentative rules proposed by the American delegation, which were as follows:\n\n## Rule I. \nThe International Opium Conference is composed of all the plenipotentiaries and technical delegates of the powers which have accepted the proposal of the United States Government and the invitation of the Government of the Queen of the Netherlands.\n\n## Rule II. \nAfter organizing its bureau, the conference shall appoint committees to study the questions submitted to it. The plenipotentiaries of the powers are free to register on the lists of these committees according to their own convenience, and to appoint technical delegates to take part therein.\n\n## Rule III. \nThe conference shall appoint the chairman of each committee. The committees shall appoint their secretaries and reporters.\n\n## Rule IV. \nEach committee shall have the power to divide itself into subcommittees which shall organize their own bureau.",
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        "content_text": "## \nFrom \nPutly & Wait \n`Ju97/11/13` \nth \nMK \nArc \n7-x1.13 \nSR2 \n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote \n**M – 01634**. \nand address letter to.... \nThe Secretary, \nAdmiralty, Whitehall, \nLondon, S.W. \nC.O \n3820-13 \nAdmiralty, \n**RECE 4th November** \n**REGE 4 NOV 13** \nSir, \n**Immediate & Confidential** \n304 \n\n1913. \n22608- \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 27th September No.29733 relative to the projected Low Power Wireless Station at Hong Kong, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that they have received from the War Office copy of the letter from that Department of the 1st July which makes the concurrence of the Army Council in the site at Cape d'Aguilar contingent upon satisfactory arrangements being made to dismantle it in the event of war, when such action is considered necessary by the military authorities.\n\n2.- As however (pending the completion of a High Power Station) the Low Power Station might be of great value to the Fleet in war, My Lords cannot see their way to co-operate in a scheme which might leave the Colony without means of Wireless Telegraph communication at a critical moment. They are desirous however of meeting the commercial requirements of the Colonial Government as far as possible, and they think that a discussion between representatives of the Departments concerned might remove the difficulty. They are therefore inviting the Army Council to send a representative to a conference on this subject, and I am to express the hope \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office. \n**L.P.-No. 8.** \n1",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential\n\nSir,\n\nAdmy 29733\n\nWith further reference to your letter of the 27th September No.29733, respecting the erection of a 5 k.w. Wireless Telegraph Station at Hong Kong, and in confirmation of the conclusions reached at the Interdepartmental Conference which took place at the Admiralty on the 7th instant, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request that you will inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that they accept his suggestion that no naval station should be erected at Cape d'Aguilar, on the understanding that in time of war the Colonial Station to be erected there shall (so long as it is in use) be entirely at the disposal of the Navy.\n\n2. My Lords are willing to take over the work of the Colonial Station, when erected, for commercial as well as for naval purposes, and concur generally in Mr. Harcourt's proposals relative to the financial side of the undertaking.\n\n3. Assuming that the Colonial Government desire the existing visual Signal Station at Cape d'Aguilar to be retransferred to them for the purposes of the new Wireless Telegraph Station (to which course My Lords raise no objection), I am to observe that the agreement made in 1906 provided for the payment by the Colonial Government of $2,000 per annum in respect of two Signal Stations.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,  \nColonial Office.\n\nPage 310\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `M-01909`, and address letter to The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London, S.W.\n\nC.U 40756  \nRFG 25 NOV 13  \nRr 25 XI ASS  \n310  \n\nAdmiralty,  \n24th November 1913.",
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        "content_text": "# treaties in the matter of the opium trade. On referring to my telegram to you of the 8th November I find that the suggestion as to a conference being held at Hangchow to discuss a settlement of the opium question was stated to have been made by Mr. Ezra himself, and I quite well remember Mr. Ezra making such a statement to me. From his local agent, Mr. Myer, I subsequently learnt that this proposal emanated from Mr. Wên, not from Mr. Ezra. It has been a feature of this incident that the British merchants have made a number of assertions, both to the Chinese and to myself, which have turned out subsequently to have been very far from correct, and in some cases these inaccuracies were not, I feel sure, due to genuine mistakes.\n\nIn the case of the proposed conference, which was to include representatives of the anti-opium party as well as the tutu, myself, and the British merchants, the fact that Mr. Ezra claimed it as his own suggestion at first disarmed my suspicions; but reflection gradually convinced me that such a proposal would be far more likely to have originated from a Chinese source, and on my enquiring from Mr. Myer it turned out to be so. It then became clear to me that the proposal was a mischievous one. The presence of the representatives of the anti-opium faction at a meeting of such a kind would amount to a tacit admission of some status or qualification on their part to take part in the negotiations, which I felt to be quite inadmissible. On the other hand, Sir Everard Fraser informed me by telegraph of an interview which he had had with Mr. Wên, and expressed the opinion that it was risky to let the opium merchants negotiate direct with the authorities. In the meanwhile, I had received your telegram of the 9th November, informing me that, in reply to the protest of the Wai-chiao Pu, you had proposed to them that the Wai-wu Pu's circular instructions of the 15th June, 1911, be reissued and the province of Chekiang called upon to withdraw its prohibition. It was evident that the anti-opium party, who by this time had held a meeting and appointed Ch'u Pu-ch'eng as their head, and who were advocating such violent measures as the shooting of all persons found buying or smoking opium, and the forcible closing of the foreign shops, would be found quite impossible to deal with in the course of any negotiations to which they might be admitted. The only way to reconcile them would be to make it worth their while to withdraw their opposition, in view of the notorious character of their chief, who is generally credited by the local Chinese with having amassed 1,000,000 taels during his tenure of office. But the authorities of Chekiang are already so hard put to find money for administrative and military expenditure that they could not spare any for such a purpose, unless some fresh source of revenue could be found. This prompted my suggestion that if a substantial portion of the increased taxation on Indian opium were to be credited to Provincial Governments against their annual contributions towards the loans and indemnity, they would have a direct incitement to refrain from hindering the trade.\n\nIn this connection I should mention that I had been confidentially informed by Ezra junior that the prohibition of opium in Chekiang early this year had been brought about by the refusal of the opium guild to pay the local Government a sum of 100 taels a-chest; and that sums varying from 50 to 100 taels a-chest are actually paid to the Governments of several provinces to secure immunity for the trade. The extra cost is obviously borne by the consumer, who in the case of Indian opium can only be the well-to-do Chinese, for the poorer classes can clearly not afford to pay several taels an ounce for it as at present.\n\nHowever irregular such exactions may be, the opium dealers can well afford to pay them, as they amount, at the ruling prices of Indian opium, to no more than from 3 to 5 per cent. of the wholesale value of the drug. The effect in general is to restrict its sale to all but a very small section of the Chinese people, and that is mostly the non-productive class which is probably able to escape the taxation so much felt by the poorer elements of the Chinese population.\n\nIf there is some probability that a solution of the present deadlock in Chekiang will be found in a similar arrangement between the opium guild and the authorities, I should not be surprised if the protestations of the anti-opium party were to be appeased before long.\n\nMr. Wên has admitted both to Sir Everard Fraser and to myself that he was well aware of the violation of the opium agreement by Chekiang. He called on me on the 14th instant and gave me to understand that the question now depended upon instructions being received from the Central Government. He said that the matter was no longer one for local negotiations and asked me to inform Mr. Ezra that the proposed conference should be considered as cancelled. Unfortunately, it is generally very difficult to obtain a clear and unmistakable statement from him, though he is a good English scholar and is a pleasant man to meet; but I have felt a little diffident as to whether I had rendered his statements correctly in my telegram to you of the 18th instant. I half understood him to mean that the Chekiang authorities have been pressing the Wai-chiao Pu to give them definite instructions as to how the opium agreement should be carried out. The one thing definite he did say was that the agreement should be carried out, and that the decision of the question now rested with the higher authorities, and was no longer one for local negotiation. I then reminded him that the opium merchants had offered to waive their claims for compensation if the matter was settled within a month, and that that period expired on the 29th November. He thought some arrangement might be arrived at by that time.\n\nI also took the opportunity to point out to him a somewhat curious result of the self-denying ordinance imposed upon the Chekiangese population by their recent rulers and inexperienced would-be reformers. It is notorious that trade is being affected to a serious degree by the fact that the wealthy Chinese have left their homes in large numbers for such places as Shanghai, Tien-tsin, and Hong Kong, where they feel more secure and can indulge their tastes for luxuries, and that a large number of them have not returned. It is a matter of public knowledge that, at present, the price of such luxuries as silks and furs is extraordinarily low at Hangchow. I am told also that trade at Kashing is not flourishing. Yet security has been to a great extent restored by this time.\n\nLocal Chinese assert that the reluctance of the rich to return to their homes is, to a considerable degree, due to the opium prohibition. Supplies of the drug are indeed brought into the province in small packages, chiefly by railway passengers, but these supplies are precarious and opium-smoking is attended with a certain amount of risk. The result is that many smokers who have taken up their abode at Shanghai prefer to remain there and indulge their habit in safety and comfort.\n\nOn the 11th instant the Russian consul-general informed Sir Everard Fraser that the Russian opium shop opened here was to be closed, and I understand that the Russian merchant, who left for Shanghai some time ago, has taken back his stock of opium. The British merchants still have their premises here and have not taken down their signboard, which did not specify the nature of the trade. They agreed with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs not to sell any more opium retail, but reserved the right to sell wholesale. No sales are, however, being effected; but I understand they are retaining the appearance of having premises here until the settlement of the opium question principally because they fear that the closing of their place will tend to bring down prices.\n\nOne rather peculiar feature of this incident has been that not a single official communication referring to it has been addressed to me by the tutu; the only case in which the local authorities approached me at all on the subject was that of the telegram sent to me by Mr. Wên. The conclusion I have drawn is that the tutu is not anxious to take action on his own account in regard to opium matters, and wishes to appear to yield only to instructions from the higher authorities.\n\nIt seems, as far as one can judge, almost probable that if definite instructions were to be issued now by the Central Government they would be carried out even in this province.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nV. L. SAVAGE.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Note communicated to Sir J. Jordan by Wai-chiao Pu**\n\nOn the 4th November of this year the Wai-chiao Pu had the honour to receive a memorandum from His Majesty's Minister stating that His Majesty's Government held the view that the two questions of suppressing the cultivation of native opium and prohibiting the import of Indian opium were closely connected with each other, and requesting the issue of a presidential order reaffirming the sense of the Wai-wu Pu's telegram of last year.\n\nOn the 9th November they had the honour to receive a further memorandum on the subject of the retail sale of opium by British merchants at Hangchow stating that His Majesty's Minister was quite willing to comply with the request put forward by the Wai-chiao Pu if they would at once recirculate the instructions issued by the Wai-wu Pu last year, and order Chekiang to conform therewith.\n\nSome days ago the Wai-chiao Pu forwarded for the information and guidance of Kiangsi and other provinces copies of the original text of the Wai-wu Pu's circular...",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## OPIUM\n\n### No. 1\n\nFebruary 7\n\n#### SECTION 1\n\nSeñor de Villa Urrutia to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received February 7.)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nSpanish Embassy, London, February 4, 1913.\n\nUnder instructions from my Government, I have the honour to inform you as follows:-\n\nIn accordance with the clause contained in the final protocol of the International Opium Conference, held at The Hague from the 1st December, 1911, to the 23rd January, 1912, to the effect that the attention of the International Postal Union should be called to the necessity of regulating the dispatch by post of opium, morphine, and cocaine, instructions have been given both to the Central Postal and Telegraph Administration, and to the other postal authorities concerned, to look into the matter and to take action in accordance with the views expressed at the International Opium Conference.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nVILLA URRUTIA",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n## OPIUM.\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[5867]\n\n## No. 1.\n\nFebruary 13.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nSir Edward Grey to Señor de Villa Urrutia.\n\nForeign Office, February 13, 1913.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 4th instant, stating that instructions have been given by your Government to the Central Post and Telegraph Administration, and to the other postal authorities concerned, to look into the matter of regulating the dispatch by post of opium, morphine, and cocaine, and to take action in accordance with the views expressed at the International Opium Conference.\n\nIn thanking your Excellency for this communication, I have the honour to state that similar instructions have been given to the postal authorities in this country.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**E. GREY.**\n\n[2806]7--1 \n252",
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        "content_text": "# M. Lothian \n\nA meeting was held at the I.O. today. The discussion centered around the issue of restricting morphine smuggling. We are anxious for ratification on the ground that their prevention would be facilitated if the use of morphine is restricted.\n\nA. Michi... will be... from which smuggling... Common take place... Air... The Board... Trade... had found that the attitude strongly corroborates the possibility Germany may follow Austria when a loophole is closed.\n\nIt was decided to telegraph the Sultan whether... harm...\n\nThe Calcutta Opium Conference...\n\n## Opium Convention \n\n293 \n\nI have been watching & learning the Opium Convention papers according to the decision taken. I do not wish to delay beginning the second draft with deportation control.\n\n# M. Convention \n\n5th meeting on the subject of the signature of the India Office was held at... on the... The information obtained from the Hague according to the resolution taken shows that the forts whose signature had not been obtained by the 31st of Dec 1912 (30/1) have since come in a satisfactory manner.\n\nAll information showing the reasons for silence or refusal is as follows:\n\n### Meeting Report \n\nAt the first meeting, it was shown that:\n(1) As regards the Powers which had returned a definite negative reply, Turkey used the phrase \"economic reasons\", Switzerland, while admitting...\n\n### Cocaine and Morphine \n\n* manufacture of morphine, adhesion, supervision, is abundantly perfect.\n(2) As regards the Powers which had not returned a definite reply, Russia, which has started \"holding off\", is still in the same position as at the end of December last. Roumania, Austria-Hungary, Norway, Sweden, are still discussing or have given an unfavourable or absurd reason. It does not justify the fact that their existing legislation does not carry out the provisions of the Convention. Roumania still has the question under consideration.\n\n### Date and Correspondence \n\n30/4/13 \nBr. \nLa 1.5.17 \n7.1.5.13. $ 1.5.13 \n30.4.13 \n\nexpressed in the correspondence in a form...",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential Despatch\n\n2. Senhor de Freitas has spent nearly a month at Macao studying the situation there, and on his return he told me that his Government had instructed him to ascertain unofficially from me my views as to the limitations to be placed on the opium farmer at the next letting of the opium farm there in the matter of the amount of opium which he should be allowed to use. Senhor de Freitas said that if a figure could be agreed upon with this Government the negotiations in Lisbon and London on the subject would be much facilitated.\n\n3. Accordingly on the 28th ultimo I had a conversation with the Minister, a note of which is enclosed, and, as he said that he would telegraph a summary of it to Lisbon, I thought it proper to inform you by telegraph of the gist of the interview.\n\n4. I am still of the opinion expressed in my confidential despatch of the 15th October last that 150 chests per annum would be an ample allowance for the local consumption at Macao. But as I found that the Portuguese Government would not be likely to accept so low a figure, I deemed it expedient to raise it to 180 chests per annum in order to arrive at an agreement. But I would urge that under no circumstances should a higher figure be agreed to.\n\n5. Regarding the allowance for export I attach copy of the reply I received from His Britannic Majesty's Minister in Mexico to my letter of the 3rd October, and of subsequent telegraphic correspondence with him, which speaks for itself. I do not know when the fiscal year in Mexico begins, but it is obvious from the figures given by Mr. Stronge, which work out in chests of opium, as set out in `Enclosure 6`, that the import of opium into Mexico is comparatively small, and would probably be satisfied by an export of the product of 240 chests per annum from Macao. If that should not be enough there the 120 chests allowed to the Hong Kong farmer to fall back upon. I am willing to agree to Macao having the larger allowance because their interest in the export trade has always been greater than that of Hong Kong.\n\n6. If the limitations I have suggested can be imposed a great diminution in smuggling from Macao should ensue. The imports there of uncertificated Bengal opium during 1912 reached the enormous figure of 1,786 chests, of which thirty chests were imported from Hong Kong (these chests were imported prior to the 1st September, 1911); 325 chests from Singapore, and 1,431 chests from Calcutta, by direct steamer in both cases. In connection with this direct importation Senhor de Freitas has represented that it puts the Macao farmer to very heavy expense, and has asked whether import from Hong Kong can be permitted if the limitations on the Macao farmer are arranged to the satisfaction of this Government. I said that I would be willing in that event to make the necessary arrangements for the supply of uncertificated opium to Macao under proper safeguards. These would be easy under the recent amendments of the opium ordinance.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n**Governor Sir F. May to Mr. Harcourt**\n\nF. H. MAY.\n\n## Enclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n**Notes by Governor Sir F. May**\n\n1. Consumption in Hong Kong is 540 chests per annum. Population is 440,000. Population of Macao is 71,000. Allowing for 100,000 rural population of Hong Kong, it is submitted that the consumption of Macao cannot exceed 20 per cent. of that of Hong Kong. Putting it at 25 per cent. we arrive at consumption of 135 chests per annum only.\n\n2. Export of prepared opium to Mexico from Macao prior to 1911 was very small. But in the twelve months the 1st July, 1911, to the 30th June, 1912, he boiled 334 chests for export to Mexico. I have ascertained that the import of prepared opium (including compounds of opium) to Mexico in 1910-11 was the equivalent of 310 chests, while in 1911-12 it was only 223 chests. The export of prepared opium from Hong Kong to Mexico was the equivalent of 60 chests in 1911 and of 11 chests in 1912. More prepared opium was therefore exported to Mexico in 1911-12 than she received.\n\n3. From the 1st July, 1911, to the 30th June, 1912, there were imported into Macao from Singapore, Calcutta, and Hong Kong 1,364 chests of uncertificated opium. The amount of opium returned as having been used by the Macao farmer in the same period was:\n| Category | Chests |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) For local consumption | 461 |\n| (b) For export to Mexico | 344 |\n| Total | 805 |\n\nThe local consumption, it is submitted, is excessive.\n\nIt is submitted that opium supplied for local consumption at Macao should be limited to 150 chests per annum as a maximum; and that not more than 240 chests should be allowed for boiling for export. It is suggested that export should only be allowed on permits for import issued by the Mexican Government.\n\nI represented the foregoing facts to Senhor de Freitas, Minister for Portugal to Peking, to-day. He argued that the local consumption of Macao should be fixed at 340 chests per annum, and the export at 240 chests. I said that I would accept the latter figure on the understanding that the export from Macao of opium to Mexico were only permitted on production of permits of import into Mexico issued by the Mexican Government.\n\nHis Excellency agreed to this.\n\nAfter considerable discussion I said that in order to arrive at an agreement, I should not object if the number of chests the Macao farmer were permitted to draw for local consumption were limited to 180 chests per annum.\n\nHong Kong, February 28, 1913.\n\nF. H. MAY.\n\n## Confidential Despatch (Telegraphic)\n\nHong Kong, March 5, 1913. In continuation of my Confidential despatch of the 3rd December, I beg to inform that I had an unofficial conference with Senhor de Freitas, Portuguese Minister en route for Peking, who was desired by his Government to discuss the limitations to be placed on imports of opium into Macao for the use of the opium farmer on the expiry (in July 1913) of the present contract. Senhor de Freitas urged the following allowance: 300 chests for local consumption and 240 for export trade per annum. I insisted that the maximum amounts which my Government could allow as reasonable are 180 chests for local consumption and 240 chests for export to Mexico, with the proviso that export would be permissible only on production of certificates from that Government allowing import.\n\nThe Hong Kong opium farmer informed me confidentially, for the information of Senhor de Freitas, as to the financial effects of such limitations, that he would be prepared to offer 400,000 dollars for the Macao farm on those conditions. The Macao Government at present receive only 140,000 dollars per annum rental. It is hoped you will make such representations to the Portuguese Governments as will induce them to accept these figures of mine. I am sending full details by mail.\n\n## Enclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n**Mr. Stronge to Governor Sir F. May**\n\nMexico, January 13, 1913.\n\nI have the honour to report that on receipt of your Excellency's despatch, I at once addressed a note to the Mexican Government asking to be supplied with the information you desired, in order to make some arrangements whereby the traffic of opium may be kept within legitimate bounds.\n\nA few days later I also received a telegram from the Foreign Office on this same subject, which I likewise communicated to the Mexican Government, asking for a reply to both these notes.\n\nI failed to receive any reply until the 8th instant, when they forwarded me a table showing the total amount of opium imported into Mexico during the past five years.\n\nI lost no time in transmitting the contents of this answer from the Mexican Government to the Foreign Office, as you will see from the enclosed copy of a despatch I addressed to Sir Edward Grey, in reply to his enquiries, and you will observe that I have also reported that I have renewed my request for replies to the points raised by...",
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        "content_text": "# \n2 \n\nThe returns of Indian opium removed from bond from the four ports of Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy and Swatow during last February were 987, 186, 58 and 178, respectively, a total of 1,409 against 1,063 chests for February 1912. The respective figures for March 1913 were 1,318, 115, 68 and 160, a total of 1,661 against 1,204 chests for March last year. The sales at Hong Kong have been about 400 chests monthly. At this rate the difficult problem of the uncleared stocks at Shanghai and Hong Kong should solve itself on present lines within the next two years or even earlier. For every consumer of Indian opium there are probably five or six of the native drug. Opium smoking in China cannot be extinguished suddenly by means of laws and regulations, however drastic these may be. The only practical remedy lies in the gradual curtailment of the supply and consumption of the drug.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Peking Daily News\" of March 10, 1913.\n\n### NATIONAL OPIUM CONFERENCE (FIFTH SESSION).\n\nTHE National Opium Conference held its fifth and last session at Teng Shi Kou on Saturday, the 8th March. Final reports were received, and some twenty resolutions, the result of the work of the Conference, were put in order. Perhaps the most important work was the appointment of a permanent Committee to carry on work proposed.\n\nFive delegates, who will be in Peking, were appointed as a Continuation Committee, to carry out the proposals of the Conference, and to make more effective the co-operation of the provinces in the effort to stamp out opium in China. Some of them are members of the coming National Assembly. They will also print the report of the Conference. An Anti-opium Committee will be formed in the National Assembly itself, so that, in the future, matters relating to opium prohibition can be brought at once to the attention of China's legislators.\n\nThe greatest hindrance to the opium prohibition, it was reported, comes from the treaty ports and the foreign concessions, where, under the protection of foreign consuls, the trade and vice thrive. Twenty new shops for opium have been opened in Tientsin concessions, while all are closed in the Chinese territory. In Shanghai, Hankow, and other places, the trade flourishes in spite of all that China can do. Foreigners are making money from China's vice in the face of China's efforts to free her people. The Wai-chiao Pu was asked to take up this question vigorously, on behalf of the nation.\n\nThe following are findings of the Conference:\n\n| Resolution # | Resolution Text |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Resolved, that as time for the total prohibition of opium has already arrived, we request that the Government should urge the Governors of the provinces to give a full report of the enforcement of the prohibition laws before the 30th June, 1913. |\n| 2. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of the Interior to instruct the provincial anti-opium bureaux to push on vigorously the work of opium prohibition in a uniform manner, and to have the provincial bureaux called by the same terms. |\n| 3. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Justice to instruct all the provincial officers to pay special attention to opium offences. |\n| 4 | Resolved, to ask the Government to prepare a Bill for the National Council, making the laws against the opium evil more vigorous than they are now. |\n| 5. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to instruct the provincial authorities not to register opium merchants as a legal business, and who have already registered should be removed from the lists. |\n| 6. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to instruct the provincial Commissioners of Foreign Affairs to consult with the various foreign consuls, in order to have opium prohibition carried out in the foreign concessions and along the routes between treaty ports, and along any railroads controlled by foreign Powers. |\n| 7. | Resolved, to ask the Government to prepare a special Bill for the National Council to provide for heavy punishments for officials who do not execute the anti-opium laws. |\n| 8 | Resolved, to ask the Government to also prepare a special Bill providing for offences in the use and sale of morphine. |\n| 9 | Resolved, to ask the Government to prepare a special Bill for the National Council providing for the use of military forces for the suppression of opium cultivation, and that offenders should be treated in accordance with martial law. |\n| 10. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of the Interior to push on the prohibition of opium in Peking, and to offer rewards for the report and detection of offenders against the present regulations. |\n| 11. | Resolved, to urge all the newspapers throughout the Republic of China to push on and stir up public opinion in favour of the anti-opium measures, and to promote the public burning of opium in as many places as possible, and to ask the international reform bureau to give special attention to this matter. |\n| 12. | Resolved, to send letters to the British anti-opium societies and to the British Parliament expressing our appreciation of their help, and stating clearly our wishes for the total prohibition of the opium trade and the use of opium, as well as its cultivation in China. The draft of the letters was read and the delegates signed their names. |\n| 13. | Resolved, to make known to the people of China the statements made in the British House of Commons in favour of China's anti-opium reform, and also the efforts made by the opium merchants to protect their trade. |\n| 14. | Resolved, to ask the Government to instruct provincial officials not to allow any outside influence by other parties to prevent the punishment of opium offenders. |\n| 15. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Laws to have all the fines received from opium offenders set aside for the work of opium prohibition. |\n| 16. | Resolved, to ask, in the name of this Conference, that all the Governors in China stand firmly against any opium monopoly by the Central Government which may be under consideration. |\n| 17 | Resolved, to telegraph to all the Governors urging that no monopoly for the sale of opium be undertaken in any province or district. |\n| 18. | Resolved, to ask the Wai-chiao Pu if there is any truth in the statement that Governors of some provinces have been \"utterly disregarding the opium treaties,\" or preventing the importation of Indian opium at the treaty ports. |\n| 19. | Resolved, to appoint, from among the delegates present at this Conference, a Continuation Committee, to carry out the foregoing resolutions and to continue the work of co-operation by the provinces in the total prohibition of opium. The following members were then appointed as the Continuation Committee of the National Opium Conference: Mr. Chen Cheh-pu from Chihli, Mr. Chang Hsin-fu and Mr. Liang-fu from Chekiang, Mr. Li Keng-yuan from Yunnan, Mr. An Ming from Kirin, and Mr. Chang Yu Chun at Peking. |\n| 20. | Resolved, to ask for the formation of a Standing Committee on Opium Prohibition in the coming National Assembly, to be ready to consider any questions on the subject. |\n\n### List of delegates to the National Opium Conference at Peking, held from the 4th to the 8th March, 1913.\n\n| Province/Organization | Delegate Names |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chihli | Chen Cheh-pu, Hua Tseh-shun |\n| Shansi | Hsin Tien-yuan |\n| Shantung | Shen-tau |\n| Fengtien | Chen Chi, Wang Hsiao-yin, Chen Tsih-lang, Tiao Ching-hsian |\n| Kirin | Fang Chih-tai, An Ming |\n| Heilungkiang | Liu Teh-chien |\n| Hupeh | Chu Kuo-chen |\n| Hunan | Hsieh Chi-ling, Ten Mu-yao |\n| Fukien | Chen Nun-kuang, Cheng Shao-haing |\n| Chekiang | Chang Hsian-fu, Chao Ping, Liang-fu |\n| Yunnan | Li Keng Yuan |\n| Anhui | Hsu Yu |\n| President's representative | Wellington Koo |\n| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Chou Chu-wu |\n| Ministry of the Interior | Wu Cheng, Wang Yu-chuen |\n| Ministry of Agriculture and for Canton | Yang Yung-chih |\n| Representative of the Board of the United Societies | Chien Paochuen |\n| International Reform Bureau | Chang Yu-chun, E. W. Thwing |\n\nSome of the Governors who did not send delegates sent their reports by telegram.\n\n3 \n\n516",
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        "content_text": "36\n\nto Her Majesty the Queen and our thanks to the Government of the Netherlands for the hospitality that they have extended to us.\n\nIn your name also, Gentlemen, I thank our honorable President Mr. CREMER for the zeal with which he has conducted our discussions. He has fully justified the confidence which we have placed in him.\n\nHis Exc. Mr. Lloyd Bryce said: I wish as a Delegate, also to thank Her Majesty the Queen and the Netherlands Government for the hearty cooperation and assistance they have rendered us in bringing our Conference to the stage of development it has already reached, a stage which leaves no doubt as to the future, and from which there will be no recession, but always advance. To have contributed to this end is a proud distinction for any Government.\n\nPerhaps it may even be permitted me to touch a more personal note. To avoid seeming to detach His Exc. the Minister for Foreign Affairs from his Government let me address him further, and not instead, in his additional capacity of Honorary President of this Conference. I desire to pay a well-deserved tribute to the unfailing kindness and consideration which he has shown to all. Though not presiding in person he has presided in spirit and he has made us feel, while in this beautiful city, so to speak, in the house of our kinsmen, yes with such success that I for one am often inclined to forget whether I am in Washington or in the Hague. Please do not attribute it to any Trans-Atlantic tendencies of a monopolistic nature if my Delegation at least claim him as half its own. His long and distinguished service in our country, in this too and in other lands has fitted him for the role of the ideal International host.\n\nLet me also put myself on record in expressing our sincerest thanks for the patient, considerate, and impartial manner in which the actual President of this Conference His Exc. Mr. CREMER has conducted the business of its sessions. His notable career in both orient and occident not to forget the part he played in the Hudson Fulton celebrations, attended by Delegates from all the world have made him not only personally known but a friend to many here, while all recognise him as an international asset of the greatest value in the good work we are trying to accomplish.\n\nThere has been so much said, and so much well said, on this question of opium however that there seems nothing left to say. Perhaps my colleagues will not regret the admission.\n\nBut the harmony, good feeling and unanimity which have marked our discussions argue well not only for this Conference but for the Great Cause viz—the International settlement of matters in which the world is interested. Concerning one among the many important questions which have already received the stamp of universal approval let me relate a curious little incident: yet in its effect it is big in suggestiveness as to the future of civilization. I approach it with diffidence, because at the first hearing it may almost arouse a smile.\n\nSome little while ago I was instructed by cable from my Government to inform the Government of Luxemburg that on the levees of New Orleans had been found at 3.30 in the afternoon a dead rat examination was proved to have died of bubonic plague. This information was (laughter) which on flashed by telegraph to every civilized Government, in accordance with the International Sanitary Convention, signed at Paris, January 17, 1912. Yes, from one point of view my recital might well arouse a smile, but when you consider the effect of such detailed information imparted simultaneously to the further corners of the world as a warning of danger to come, I can think of no greater tribute to the kind of work the Hague is doing.\n\nMr. Carnegie, has just written me to say that he will be present at the opening of the Peace Palace. To be sure, it will be a long time before wars cease and the Millennium arrives. Just at this moment the peace movement\n\n37\n\nmay seem just a trifle retarded, but I think we can attribute to the influence of the Hague the fact that the war now in the near East has been confined to that quarter, this could hardly have been the case ten or fifteen years ago. Yes, it is my firm conviction the Peace Conferences held here have not been in vain. On the contrary they have created an atmosphere of conciliation throughout the world, which already has sensibly affected the great family of nations.\n\nIn short, the Hague by furthering international cooperation along the line of beneficent legislation is making the world a better, a happier, and a healthier place for human habitation. To this end the Opium Conference closing today has played in my opinion no insignificant part.\n\n(Applause.)\n\nThe President said:\n\nThe complimentary words that you have just heard have greatly touched me and I sincerely thank you for them.\n\nThe reason that our labors have been so agreeable and that you all, Gentlemen, particularly the Editing Committee and their collaborators, have rendered such assiduous cooperation is due, I am sure, to the conviction that our conflict with one of the evils of humanity must be crowned by success, despite the difficulties to be overcome; the conviction that we acknowledge defeat.\n\ncan never\n\nThe First Conference pointed out to us the road to follow, along which we have just taken another step, but it is with regret that we realize that the promised land is, perhaps, still distant.\n\nThis is only because all the Powers who were asked to join us are not represented here. Whatever may be the reasons for this absence, I am more than ever convinced of the truth of the old saying that \"those who are absent are wrong\". Let us all strive, therefore, Gentlemen, and let our Governments join in firm but friendly effort, to persuade those whose absence is so deplored soon to unite with us, so that the structure of which we have laid the foundation and sketched the outline may be completed without delay. In order that this goal may be attained, let us hope that the black war-clouds which now obscure a portion of our European heavens and hamper our peaceful task may soon forever disappear.\n\nGentlemen, before we disperse I deem it our duty as the Minister of France has already proposed to express how greatly we appreciate the hospitality that we have enjoyed during our visit to this city. I therefore beg to discharge a last duty by proposing that the following telegram be addressed to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands on behalf of the Conference:\n\n\"At the termination of their labors, the Delegates of the Powers assembled for the Second International Opium Conference beg to express to Your Majesty their sincere appreciation of the gracious hospitality extended to them by Your Majesty's Government. They beg to tender to Your Majesty their respectful homage and their sincere wishes for a prosperous reign.\"\n\nOne more but no less agreeable task that devolves upon me a task, that has already been partly accomplished by the former speakers — is to express our deep gratitude to our distinguished Honorary President, His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who, after opening our Conference with an address, has been so kind as to facilitate our task by lending his valuable assistance.\n\nYou will unite with me, Gentlemen, in expressing our thanks to the Secretariat. Owing to their zeal and to that of the members of the National Printing Office, the documents so necessary during our labors have been prepared in good time and distributed to all.\n\nAnd now, Gentlemen, permit your President, before relinquishing this place to your Honorary President, to thank you cordially for your kind indulgence and to wish you a happy return to your homes.\n\n293\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "103\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,\n\n\"MYRIHOGONE, FEN, LONDON\"\n\n47116\n\nRef. 44712/1915.\n\nC.O.\n\n8. Billiter Square,\n\nLondon\n\n47782\n\nRECEIVED\n\nREGD 16 OCT 15\n\nGovt.\n\n15th October, 1915.\n\n44792\n\nWith reference to your letter of 6th instant and mine in reply of 8th idem., I beg to inform you that I have now received a telegram from the Chairman of the Committee of this Conference at Hong Kong indicating that in view of Messrs W. A. Hannibal & Co. having been recognised by the Government of the Colony as a British Firm he desires that I will inform him by telegraph whether the various Conference Lines are to persist in their refusal to carry cargo tendered by that firm.\n\nBefore therefore replying to his enquiry I am to ask that you will please inform me whether it is now agreed that we shall be in order in continuing to follow the instructions contained in the letter from the Foreign Office to Mr. Richard D. Holt dated 7th ultimo.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nMorthman\n\nSecretary, Homeward Japan, China & Straits Conference,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office\n\nLondon, S.W.",
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        "content_text": "# No. 3449/1916.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,  \nHongkong, 2nd March, 1916.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 18th, 25th and 28th February regarding the increase of freights on luxuries to Europe, and to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has no instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to move in this matter.\n\n2. It is stated in the telegram quoted in your letter of the 18th February that Japanese co-operation had been invited, and I am to enquire whether such co-operation has been obtained.\n\n3. It is a question whether ginger in barrel, tobacco, raw silk and cocoons can be regarded as luxuries to be barred. His Excellency the Governor will telegraph to the Secretary of State if you so desire, but it would appear that you could ask for the views of the conference just as easily and perhaps more effectively.\n\nI am, etc.,  \n**(SD.) Claud Severn**  \nColonial Secretary.\n\n1. V. D. Parr, Esq.,  \nChairman,  \nChina & Japan Homeward Freight Conference,  \nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from letter received from the Secretary to the Freight Conference in London, dated 18th February, 1916.\n\nHomeward Freight Tariffs - Carriage of luxuries.\n\nSome of our British Principals finding that, notwithstanding the special increases in the rates on certain articles referred to in your letter of 16th December last, one or two of which were also adopted in Shanghai, these and other unnecessary articles were continuing to come forward to the exclusion of more desirable cargo for the national needs, the question has been under general consideration and it was decided that I should telegraph you upon the subject, which you will probably have noticed is one that has been meeting with Government attention.\n\nIt was at the same time appreciated that there is a difficulty in deciding in all cases as to whether an article comes under the heading of luxury and/or unnecessary cargo, vide your having dealt with Beeswax in your list dated 13th December, whereas such enters into the manufacture of Munitions. It was consequently thought that you should confer with the Colonial Government for assistance in this correction, who if they have not already received communications from the Home Government on the point could refer to them for information.\n\nAs usual, the N.Y.K. here, although in sympathy with the action of their British Colleagues, could only cable their Head Office, suggesting cooperation. The London Agent of the H.M. has asked his Head Office to telegraph their Agency to fall in with the proposal. Enclosed please find translation of telegram accordingly despatched to you yesterday.\n\nI am sending a copy of my foregoing remarks to the Shanghai Chairman.\n\n**(Intd.) E.V.D.P.**",
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        "document_key": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916",
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        "content_text": "The decree of the Shared Income Farmer of Sthong is to be notified accordingly by telegraph to WBL. They will be prepared to do so, if you will undertake to rebar the Tel Tost & ... (Sa) y Grundle.\n\nMinistry Arnditions 1916\n\n13 Mar. Last previous Paper.\n\n10734 6611 Copy above held by 5. M. M. (23 moh! Tel: Gov: 22 hatch. KONG HONG KONG GENERAL 12810 RES 0. 2810 5:39 17 MAR 16 71 Shipments of Coconut oil to res Sus ... ground for objecting to pathe. + tous. -proposed or to other to Exports from porto such as HK of produce derived from countries not within the British Empire + discusses the General çuration.\n\nHi Poon Hill Mefindle M. of M. distributing ut defts. Sir S. Fiddes It is very obliging not to wish to ... of the injure trade of H. Kong other the shoum have mot Done. sollicitude for said Conference I gather from what Inter departmental Colonies at Our wh. that the Bd. of the Abrand I attended Trade wat forumcifle Wat Friday like to to shefimento Ate U. K. & fats etc. made via their re exportation freely affely of oils Belt and allow unders thing.\n\nNext subsequent Paper. (90099) WL. 35800-6. 45,000. 12/15. BM & Š. Cambr from British sources I don't think that is Rigland,\n\n \nPage ...\n\nhas been rewritten to meet the requirements as follows:\n\ndecre the \n\nShared Im \n\nFarmor \n\nof Sthong to be \n\nnotified accordingly E telegraph WBL. \n\nwill be prepared \n\nto do so, if you \n\nwill undertake \n\nMinistry Arnditions\" \n\n1916 \n\n13 Mar. \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\n10734 \n\n6611 \n\nCopy above hel 5. M. M. (23 moh! \n\nTel: Gov: 22 hatch. \n\nKONG \n\nHONG KONG \n\nGENERAL \n\n12810 \n\nRES \n\n0. \n\n2810 \n\n5:39 17 MAR 16 \n\n71 \n\nShipments of Coconut oil to res \n\nSus \n\nground for objecting to pathe. \n\n+ tous. -proposed \n\nor to other to Exports from porto such as HK of produce Lerived from countries not within the British Empire \n\n+ discusses the Gmoral çuration \n\nHi Poon Hill Mefindle \n\nM. of M. \n\ndistributing \n\nut defts. \n\nSir S. Fiddes \n\nIt is very obliging \n\nnot to wish \n\nto \n\nof the injure \n\ntrade \n\nof H. Kong \n\nother \n\nthe \n\nshoum \n\nhave \n\nmot \n\nDone. \n\nsollicitude for \n\nsaid \n\nConference \n\nI gather from what Inter departmental \n\nColonies \n\nat \n\nOur \n\nwh. \n\nthat \n\nthe Bd. of \n\nthe \n\nAbrand \n\nI attended \n\nTrade \n\nwat \n\nforumcifle \n\nWat \n\nFriday \n\nlike to \n\nto shefimento \n\nAte U. K. \n\n& fats etc. made via \n\ntheir \n\nre exportation freely \n\naffely of oils \n\nBelt and allow \n\nunders thing \n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n\n(90099) WL. 35800-6. 45,000. 12/15. BM & Š. \n\nCambr \n\nfrom British sources \n\nI don't think that is Rigland,\n\nHowever, to follow the format to the letter as requested:\n\ndecre the\n\nShared Im\n\nFarmor\n\nof Sthong to be\n\nnotified accordingly by telegraph WBL.\n\nwill be prepared\n\nto do so, if you\n\nwill undertake...\n\nMinistry Arnditions\" 1916\n\n13 Mar.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n10734\n\n6611\n\nCopy above held by 5. M. M. (23 moh!\n\nTel: Gov: 22 hatch.\n\nKONG HONG KONG GENERAL\n\n12810 RES 0.\n\n2810 5:39 17 MAR 16\n\n71\n\nShipments of Coconut oil to res...\n\nSus ground for objecting to pathe.\n\n+ tous. -proposed or to other Exports from porto such as HK of produce derived from countries not within the British Empire\n\n+ discusses the General çuration.\n\nHi Poon Hill Mefindle\n\nM. of M. distributing ut defts.\n\nSir S. Fiddes It is very obliging\n\nnot to wish to...\n\nof the injure trade of H. Kong other the shoum have mot Done.\n\nsollicitude for said Conference\n\nI gather from what Inter departmental Colonies at Our wh.\n\nthat the Bd. of the Abrand I attended Trade wat forumcifle Wat Friday\n\nlike to to shefimento Ate U. K. & fats etc. made via their re exportation freely affely of oils Belt and allow unders thing.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n(90099)WL.35800-6. 45,000. 12/15. BM & Š. Cambr from British sources\n\nI don't think that is Rigland,",
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        "content_text": "The Opium Agreement of 1911 provides for the total extinction of the trade by the end of 1917, and thus the coming spring will be the last season during which inspections under the agreement can be made. There are indications that the Chinese Government is uneasy as to what is going to happen at the expiration of the stipulated period, and a National Opium Prohibition Conference has been meeting daily in Peking since the 10th instant to devise immediate measures for the suppression of the evil. It is hoped therefore that the representations that have been made, as reported above in connection with the Kuangsi incident, will strengthen the hands of the Central Government in dealing with the recalcitrant provinces.\n\n(Copy to India.)\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n80.\n\n20067\n\nOPIUM.\n\nRECO REG 19 PE 17\n\n[February 3.]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n[26646]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.—(Received February 3.)\n\n(No. 45.) (Telegraphic.)\n\nPeking, February 2, 1917.\n\nFOLLOWING telegram received from Shanghai:\n\nOpium.\n\n“Ezra asks me to telegraph that, subject to consent of His Majesty's Government, combine has signed agreement with Vice-President Feng to hand over stock on 31st March against 6 per cent. bonds at the rate of 8,200 taels per chest for Chinese authorities to dispose of as medicine.\n\n“Bonds are those of first year of republic and not special opium bonds. With a view to making parliamentary sanction unnecessary, they are to be paid off in ten years at latest with yearly drawings.\n\n“All opium holders here and in India have agreed. Stock now about 2,700 chests, but 500 or 600 expected to be sold and delivered meanwhile.\n\n“He promises letter with full particulars in a day or two.”\n\nI await copy of agreement before submitting observations. With reference to my telegram No. 35 of 22nd January, I think inspection of provinces should proceed irrespective of any arrangement for disposal of stocks.\n\n(Sent to India.)\n\n[2662 c]\n\n210",
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        "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nNow sex also telegraph received - about free passages (`61473`). I would reply as below.\n\nInd sent 4.10.  \n10.1 Jal Goodifier Hongkong up gathers  \nYour fit. 18- & scamber  \nobblica alumish priofuga illbrowse  \n\nNo objection to appointment of new Commission as proposed. Important to appoint members of moderate views.\n\nSecurities  \nIt should be borne in mind that liquidation may have to face total loss of opium revenue in the near future.\n\nYour tel. 17th December Concession (`1473`) to passengers.  \nSpecial reasons not applying to Hong Kong.\n\nI agree as a temporary arrangement nominally your giving free passages to subordinate officers touching Hong Kong is urgently called for, but it is not desirable that they should adopt anything like the system of long full pay leave or the (temporary) arrangement of free passages for everybody until the proposed Commission has considered the whole matter.\n\nThe Govt. have proposed that the Opium Convention question shall be taken up at the Peace Conference and in any case, the USA will press us to enforce its provisions in future. This is a very serious prospect for Hong Kong (Govt. have few elastic resources).\n\nAEC - 27/12/18  \nDespatch reserve the concession.  \nConcessions to be withdrawn.\n\n2. I agree that commuted leave will not suffice. It is necessary to your granting commuted leave to be debited against leave earned in the future.\n\nLong leave.  \nI agree that some concession in leave is urgently required.",
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        "content_text": "## Original Text Reconstructed\n\n.Y 100 \n297 \n\nThe text appears to be jumbled and out of order due to OCR errors. Reconstructing the original content is challenging. However, a coherent section is found towards the end.\n\n\nMilitary Government are situated, condoned, or were unwilling to make amends for, an act, which is tantamount to an act of piracy committed in the waters of an Allied Power, I need scarcely point out how prejudicial to the cause of the Republic this would be.\n\nI would accordingly beg Your Excellency to lose no time in complying with the very reasonable request of the **Hong-kong Government**, and in returning the **Kwangli** to **Hongkong** with a \nsuitable apology for the unwarrantable action of the **Tater Police Department**, as unless their request be promptly complied with the **Hongkong Government**, who have exercised great forbearance hitherto, will have no alternative but to lay the whole matter by telegraph before **His Majesty's Government** in **London**, on whom the incident will create an impression far from favourable to **China's Representation** at the **Peace Conference**.\n\nHis Excellency \nThe Acting **Tuchun**.\n\nI have etc., \n(sd.) **J. W. Jamieson**.",
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        "content_text": "# No. 19.\n\n**Sir**\n\n## Enclosure\n\n**H. B. M. Consulate-General, Canton, April 12th, 1919.**\n\nOn the 10th instant, I had an interview lasting nearly two hours with the Military Governor, in the course of which I endeavoured, by means of all the arguments of which I could think, to induce His Excellency to return the Kwangli to Hongkong with an apology, at the same time giving him a very plain hint that, were he to do so, there was every probability that Your Excellency's Government would, on being approached through me, return her and the other interned vessel belonging to the Provincial Government to Canton. His reply was that he was unable to do so, as the provincial Navy would not give their assent to such a proceeding, and this morning he has addressed to me an official communication ignoring what actually happened and reiterating his refusal.\n\nIn view of this uncompromising attitude, I have the honour accordingly to suggest that Your Excellency telegraph to the Colonial Office, asking them to approach the Foreign Office with a statement of the facts and a request that it be laid before the Conference now sitting at Paris, with a view to having excluded from the sittings all Chinese delegates, representing more particularly South China, until this grave breach of international comity has been atoned for.\n\nShould Your Excellency decide to act on this suggestion, will you be good enough to let me know immediately. I will then inform the Tuchun, the Military Government, and Mr. La Yung Ting of what action has been taken, and point out what grave consequences to their cause are likely to ensue.\n\nI have etc.,\n(sd.) J. W. Jamieson,\nConsul-General.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government,\nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "-2-\n\n422\n\nGovernment are situated, condoned, or were unwilling to make amends for, an act, which is tantamount to an act of piracy committed in the waters of an Allied Power, I need scarcely point out how prejudicial to the cause of the Republic this would be.\n\nI would beg Your Excellency to lose no time in complying with the very reasonable request of the Hongkong Government, and in returning the Kwangli to Hong Kong with a suitable apology for the unwarrantable action of the Wai Chow Police Department, as unless their request be promptly complied with the Hongkong Government, who have exercised great forbearance hitherto, will have no alternative but to lay the whole matter by telegraph before His Majesty's Government in London, on whom the incident will create an impression far from favourable to China's Representation at the Peace Conference.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) J. W. JAMIESON.\n\nJ.\n\n1919\n\n18 July.\n\nLast previous Paper,\n\nFD4223,\n\nHONG KONG\n\n42234\n\nOpium Traffic\n\nA\n\nCO42234\n\nSr 2 1 19\n\nI. a deep. from Peking really traffic with China & collocations to remarks reapp. the Mutong opium monopoly.\n\nTh. Beckett\n\nPlease\n\nJ\n\nalso 42231, minute separately?\n\nSü\n\nAnsḍ 30 July 19\n\nForeign Office 9 Sept 19 L.F.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office. 8 Oct 19: 64146. H. Ken\n\n6.a.g\n\nJ. Jordan's suggestion at the Beijing\n\np.z of\n\nench.,\n\ncomment o\n\nwww.t\n\nat this\n\nstage\n\nbe\n\nagreed\n\nتا\n\nshisment of\n\nGov. wit have some\n\nthis boiut\n\n+++\n\nwould\n\nto the\n\n&tu i\n\nwriting either to\n\ncopies of\n\nThe Straits yout\n\nFrans-\n\nof\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nNo\n\n~4769\n\nFur\n\nhave not written about the question\n\nopium at S'pore; doubtless the\n\nobson to\n\nin replying\n\n14.K.\n\n5%\n\noffer\n\nto the Desp-on suobu\n\nto\n\n2\n\nStraits\n\nja\n\nT\n\nthis\n\nthe end. there already\n\ngone. to both, & ti Deep.\n\nraises the whole question in\n\n(90104—44) Wr. 90378-21, 50m. 11/18. D&S. G. 122 41.\n\ngeaud forme.\n\nI submit",
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        "content_text": "22\n\ncould only be made after conference with the Dominion authorities. A valve station could be erected in the United Kingdom to communicate with a similar station in Canada, at an approximate distance of 2,500 miles, the capital cost (apart from residences) of the two complete stations (subject to any percentage increase in cost and salaries in Canada) being about £250,000, and the annual charges, including amortisation, about £90,000. For such an efficient service a load of some 4,000,000 words per annum might reasonably be expected at the existing wireless rates, which for ordinary traffic are two-thirds of the cable rates, though for deferred and other cheap-rate traffic there is only a difference of a halfpenny a word. This traffic would give a revenue of about £50,000 a year for the two stations, and it would doubtless increase in the near future at a fairly rapid rate. But the value of the wireless service as an adjunct to the Imperial cable, and as a relief in case of interruption of the latter, would be considerable, and would justify a certain loss upon it in the earlier years.\n\nIf the Dominion authorities desire it, a similar pair of stations might give wireless communication between Eastern Canada and Vancouver (say, 2,500 miles), but a Canadian station on the Pacific, from an Imperial point of view, involves consideration of a high-power Australian station.\n\n42. The Australian Government has made an official request for information regarding the type and power of a station, to be situated south of latitude 30° S., recommended for communication with any station situated south of latitude 30° N. This specification, however, gives insufficient information regarding the maximum range desired, since the shortest distance between these parallels of latitude would be due north and south, along a meridian of longitude, namely, 4,140 statute miles, whereas in a north-easterly or north-westerly direction the distance would be very much greater.\n\nThe specification of communication with a station in latitude 30 N. rules out Vancouver, which is situated in latitude 50° N., and in any case, as already stated, we regard an efficient and economical commercial wireless service over this distance, say, to Brisbane, 7,864 miles, as outside present possibilities. Taking 6,000 miles, however, as the maximum range envisaged in the above-mentioned inquiry, which would be about the distance from Poona to Brisbane, the latter being near the position of a station contemplated south of latitude 30 S., it is possible that a station might be erected there to give a more or less efficient service, at least by night, over this distance. The smallest arc transmitter to be considered for the purpose would be one of 750 kilowatts. The cost of the duplicated power plant, namely, two 850-kilowatt turbo-generators, three water-tube boilers, and all auxiliary plant and buildings, erected in Australia, would be £97,000. The costs of the rest of the station (English prices plus a suitable addition) would be: pair of arc-transmitters, £52,000; eight steel masts 820 feet high and aerial system, £160,000; wireless plant building, £10,000; roads and fences, £3,000; receiving station, £12,000; contingencies, £22,000; making an approximate total capital cost of £356,000, to which must be added cost of site and residences. The annual costs would be, for generating, supervision, interest and depreciation, say £75,000, and for operating, £16,000, making a total approximate annual charge of £91,000. There can be no certainty, however, that this power would suffice. The most experienced makers of these arcs give less than 6,000 miles as the maximum range for an all-year service, and so far as we know there is nowhere a 750-kilowatt arc operating under efficient conditions from which its performance may be judged. Therefore, it would probably be thought desirable to install 1,000-kilowatt arcs for this service, at a considerably greater cost. Still less, however, is known of arcs of this extreme capacity, since one has never yet been erected, and, as before stated (see section 11 (b)), we should regard it as an unwise adventure to incur such expense before awaiting the results obtained from the 1,000-kilowatt arc shortly to be completed by the French Government near Bordeaux.\n\nIn view of the foregoing considerations the Australian Government would be well-advised, in our opinion, to be content for the next few years, which may well bring striking developments in long-range wireless telegraphy, with the communication from northern Australia to Singapore by the employment of the valve station we recommend, the more so since emergency strategic needs appear likely, as explained later, also to be met by this scheme.\n\n43. The same considerations apply to the construction of a Pacific super-station by the Canadian authorities for communication with Australia. If the Australian Government decides not to erect a station of very high power, and the Canadian Government should hesitate to erect a Pacific station which, in that event, would be used entirely for communication with a foreign country, namely, Japan, it might be\n\n23\n\n503\n\nwell for them to allow the Canadian Marconi Company to do so, under suitable conditions, in accordance with a proposal recently made by that company to the Canadian Government. The telegraphic facilities between Canada and Japan are at present bad and the rates are very high, and communication between the United States and Japan also leaves much to be desired. Any estimate of traffic must be guess-work - out an initial load of 1,500,000 words might fairly be expected, producing an income for the Canadian station of, say, £75,000.\n\n44. Communication with the West Indies is being independently considered by a Sub-Committee of the Imperial Communications Committee. If this should decide in favour of a wireless system, probably £100,000 to £150,000 would be required for reconstructing the existing stations and providing the necessary new stations.\n\n45. The provision of a station at Singapore for communication with Australia does not in every respect fulfil the strategic requirements of the Admiralty (see Section 81). This criticism, however, may perhaps be met by the following considerations. It is necessary to bear in mind the vital distinction between a satisfactory commercial service, and a means of strategic communication. The former postulates continuous, high-speed, duplex signalling, with a small percentage of repetitions, during practically twenty-four hours a day. The latter demands only the passage of single messages, which may be repeated several times if necessary. We have received, through his Excellency the Governor-General, extracts from the official diary of Radio-Awarua Station, New Zealand, in which it is stated that the signals of Horsea are read there frequently, at medium strength, only a single-valve receiving apparatus being employed. Now, if Horsea, with 25 kilowatts in an aerial 420 feet high, is read in New Zealand with a one-valve receiver, it would appear that the English valve stations, and still more, of course, the Egyptian and Indian valve stations, with 120 kilowatts (see Section 11 (d)) in an aerial 656 feet high, would certainly be read in Australia with multi-valve reception. And conversely, that the corresponding valve station in Australia would be read in India, in Cairo, and probably in England. We do not mean, let us repeat, that a commercial service is possible in this manner; we merely point to the experience of the New Zealand station, to show that emergency strategic messages might be expected to be transmissible to and from Australia, by the Imperial scheme we recommend, even if the station of Singapore were for any reason unavailable.\n\n46. It will have been observed that when a balance is struck between the above estimates of annual cost and annual revenue, the working of the Imperial wireless scheme shows a net yearly loss for the opening years of £100,000, after allowance for interest on capital at 6 per cent., and full amortization of plant and buildings. This loss might have been expected to prove greater. It was not to be thought that a world-wide scheme of this kind, involving the growth of much new telegraphic traffic, could be established to yield an immediate profit. Our estimates of cost are carefully conservative, but we believe we have devised the most economical method in which a scientific, satisfactory Imperial wireless service can be secured in the shortest possible time. Though our proposals are modest, we are convinced that they will link together the far-flung communities of the Empire by quick and trustworthy communications, and that the natural growth of traffic and the certain increase of wireless signalling speed will in due course wipe out the initial loss, and reduction of rates will then be possible. This has been the history of cable communication. The State-owned Pacific cable showed a heavy loss during the first ten years of its working; to-day it pays handsomely. An annual loss of £63,000 by the Imperial Government, of £4,000 by the Indian Government, of £20,000 by the Australian Government, and of £13,000 by the Government of South Africa - losses which there is every reason to believe will decrease year by year until in ten years they will have disappeared - is a small price to pay for the gain to commerce, to social intercourse and to national defence throughout the Empire. We have had evidence that the overseas communities are eager and impatient for these Imperial links to be forged. It would be a false economy at this moment, in our opinion, to think more of a few thousand pounds than of many nations.\n\n47. In considering the erection of wireless stations it should be borne in mind that the greater part of the material is a matter of ordinary commercial manufacture. Buildings, power plant, transformers, condensers, switchboards, batteries, high tension lines, telegraph lines, masts, aerial wires and earth connections, insulators, &c., which represent more than three-quarters of the total cost of a station, would be subject to competitive tender by many manufacturing firms. The manufacture of valves on the\n\n[3569]\n\nE 2",
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        "content_text": "CHINA.\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM:\n\nSir J. Jordan (Pekin) January 27th, 1920.\n\nD. 11.40 a.m., January 27th, 1920.\n\nR. 1.15 p.m., January 28th, 1920.\n\nA\n\nNo. 44.\n\nVery Urgent.\n\nPOLITICAL.\n\n263\n\nYour telegram No. 29.\n\nAnd when I had spoken to the Acting Foreign Minister in the sense of your instructions, he affirmed the Central Government was powerless and disclaimed all responsibility on their part for action taken by the Canton Government at Macao. He consented, however, to telegraph to the Authorities at Canton, informing them of the representations I had made at Wai-wu-pu under your instructions and advising a non-aggressive attitude. He urged the necessity of cessation of work but said that settlement by arbitration and delimitation of boundaries were alike impracticable in view of the relations at present existing between North and South. He contended that the work which was being done was a violation of an arrangement come to in Hongkong on the close of the Conference in 1909. I have since learned from the Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires that the work has been stopped.\n\nConfidential. The Minister, from his personal knowledge, described Macao as a plague spot on the confines of China, which lived on opium smuggling and gambling, and contrasted",
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        "content_text": "## Charles Addis returned to New York on the 9th October. There were three alternative courses of action to choose from: to refuse to sign and to break off the conference if the French group's position remained unchanged; second, to sign and trust to the French bringing their agreements later; third, to sign subject to a reservation by which the French would agree to be excluded from the benefit of the agreements contributed by others. If the French rejected this reservation, then the British group were to withhold their signature and refer to their Government for instructions. It was the third course which was approved by Sir Auckland Geddes and by the American Acting Secretary of State, but the latter made it a condition of his approval that if in these circumstances signature were suspended, the British group would continue in session until the decision of their Government was made known. The representatives of the French group were at once informed of the action taken, and consented to telegraph to Paris a recommendation that the Banque Industrielle should be invited to join the French group, and that pending the completion of that arrangement, authority should be given to them to accept a resolution framed by the British group excluding the French group from the benefits of the agreements pooled by the other groups. Throughout these proceedings, the American group showed themselves comparatively indifferent to the issue, but the Japanese representatives concurred in and supported the British view.\n\n## Opening of Conference: Chairman\n\nAt the opening of the conference on the 11th October, in view of the position of the American group as hosts, it seemed appropriate to ask their senior representative, Mr. T. W. Lamont, of Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co., to take the chair. He carried out his duties with great tact and fairness. The following notes on the proceedings at the various meetings should be read in conjunction with the agenda and formal minutes, and are intended to throw light upon them and supplement them where necessary.\n\n## Amendments to Consortium Agreement\n\nThe first business of the meeting involved three amendments to the draft of the Consortium Agreement as approved in Paris on the 11th and 12th May, 1919.\n\n1. **Government Support**  \nThe first amendment, dealing with the degree of Government support to the consortium, was made at the instance of the respective Governments and requires no elucidation.\n\n2. **Chinese Government Guarantee**  \nThe second amendment arose on a question brought forward by the Japanese group as to the meaning of the words \"Chinese Government or Chinese Provincial Government guarantees.\" After discussion, a new wording was adopted, covering any transaction involving a public issue to which the guarantee of the Chinese Government attached.\n\n3. **Objects of Consortium**  \nThe third amendment arose from a suggestion made by the British group that the agreement should contain some expression of the aims of the consortium in language which, when published, might appeal to Chinese public opinion as indicating a benevolent attitude towards China and as emphasising the desire of the consortium to assist China in raising capital from Chinese sources. With this object in view, the British group had prepared a more comprehensive statement than is contained in the wording which was ultimately adopted in deference to the wishes of the American group.\n\n## Belgian Group\n\nIn considering the application from the Belgian group for admission to the consortium, reference was made to possible applications from other Powers, such as Holland and Switzerland, and it was decided that the consortium was bound by resolution 4 of the Paris meeting of the 11th May, 1919, to welcome the Belgian group, but that it would not be necessary to give them an equal share with the existing four groups, and the proportion was fixed at one-ninth for the Belgian group, leaving two-ninths for each of the other four groups. At the suggestion of Sir Charles Addis, it was decided to recommend that when the resolution welcoming the inclusion of the Belgian group is communicated by the respective Governments to the Belgian Government, their attention should be called to the reported conclusion of a loan agreement with China for 60,000,000 fr. (vide letter from State Department to Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co. dated the 11th October, 1920, `Appendix 1`) and to enquire if it was the intention of the Belgian group to bring this particular agreement into the consortium.\n\n## Italian Group\n\nRegarding the Italian group, it was decided to treat the application of the Italian Ambassador at Washington and of the Italian Financial Commissioner in New York made in 1919 as an application on behalf of an Italian group, but the conference was unanimous in thinking that, in view of the present economic conditions in Italy and the state of Italian exchange, it was premature to consider the entry of an Italian group into the consortium.\n\n## Russian Bank\n\nThe next item on the agenda dealt with the position of the Russian group under loans in which they had participated, and though it was considered in the discussion that their position remained technically unaffected, it was thought that no useful purpose would be served by recording any minute under this heading.\n\n## Chinese Group\n\nOn the question of Chinese participation, Mr. Lamont addressed the meeting on the subject of his recent visit to China and his discussions with the group representatives at Peking. Sir Charles Addis considered that the consortium should show the fullest readiness to co-operate with a Chinese group if such group were prepared to undertake the obligations as well as to share in the advantages of the consortium, by issuing their quota of any loan in silver in their own market in China or, in any case, an amount at least approximately corresponding to the individual shares of the other groups.\n\n## Conditions of Pooling of Agreements\n\nThe tabling and pooling of existing agreements was next considered and gave rise to much discussion. Sir Charles Addis pointed out that, in the present economic circumstances, many of them might not be dealt with at all during the life of the consortium, viz., five years, and that should the consortium then come to an end, it would be only fair that existing rights should revert to the present holders. This principle was adopted, but consideration was deferred of the second resolution already referred to limiting the right of participation in pooled agreements to such groups as had themselves made individual contributions to the pool.\n\n## Expenses arising from Residuary Participation\n\nMr. Mortimer Schiff, a member of the American group, raised a question as to the meaning of the words \"total expenses\" in article 6 (5) of the Consortium Agreement, and it was agreed that underwriting expenses were included under the words used.\n\n## Second Meeting\n\nThe second meeting of the consortium was held on the 13th October, the intervening day having been spent in informal interviews with the representatives of the various groups.\n\n## Currency Loan\n\nThe question of the renewal of the Currency Loan Agreement was discussed, and an application for a further six months' extension was resolved on. It may be mentioned that before the representatives left New York, information was received by telegram from Peking that this application had been granted.\n\n## Tabling of Pooled Agreements: Reservations regarding Agreements Pooled\n\nThe secretaries of the conference having reported that copies of the various individual agreements and options pooled by the British, Japanese, and American groups, and of the agreements pooled in common by all the groups, such as the...",
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        "content_text": "# ONI \n\n171 \n\nFor all orders of the Chinese government for wireless equipment. The company is the direct offering of the Marconi Wireless Telephone Contract (see 3 above).\n\n16. The views of Mr. Olive, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, on the contents of Sir John Pender's letter of October 22nd have been obtained, and the essential points in these are as follows:-\n\n17. (1) The extension of the companies' monopoly is politically desirable, and probably essential if our position in telegraphy in the Far West is to be maintained.\n\n18. (2) Our former position has been seriously impaired by Japanese competition, and the recent action of the Chinese Telegraph Administration in purchasing an unsuitable cable from Japan on the advice of their Japanese employees, and against the advice of the cable companies, shows that Japan is determined to take full advantage of the privileged position secured by her under her loan agreement.\n\n19. (3) Any extension of cable monopoly must, however, take into consideration the present day environments of the commercial community in China, which call for wireless and cable facilities, and such a monopoly must operate as not to preclude the development of wireless by the Chinese Government under British auspices. At the recent conference of the British Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai, the question of wireless facilities was discussed, and the present opportunity would seem suitable for a reconsideration of the British cable and wireless vested interests in China as represented by the Eastern Extension and Marconi companies.\n\n20. (4) It is to be remembered that cable monopoly in itself only affords partial protection to any British predominance, since American, German, Dutch and Japanese landing rights have all had to be successively admitted, and the interests in Japan of the Northern Company render the latter as a partner of our monopoly especially susceptible to Japanese pressure. Moreover, since the headquarters of the Chinese Administration were transferred from Shanghai to Peking in 1911, the western company have been handicapped by the lack of a responsible representative in Peking. It is British rather than Danish support which carries weight with the Chinese Government, and yet in the present negotiations, with their important political bearing, we are dependent on a Danish advisor, Mr. Erikson, in London who is in constant communication with a Danish employee at Peking, while His Majesty's Legation is not yet in a position to ascertain either the nature of the Chinese Government's instructions to Mr. Carlsson, or the effect on these of the change of Government which has occurred since his departure from Peking.\n\n21. (5) The Japanese Minister has recently protested to the Chinese Government against the schemes now under consideration for a wireless development, by the Chinese National Navy on the ground that they conflict with the Sino-Japanese Agreement, and the Japanese may possibly claim the right, under articles 9, 10 and 11 of their agreement of April 1913 to be consulted with regard to the proposals, notifications. In any case, it is safe to assume that Japan aims at predominance in land, cable and wireless telegraph interests in China, and the issue is, therefore, a clear and comprehensive one between the Japanese and ourselves, of which the present cable monopoly extension is...",
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        "content_text": "## DEST\n\nCable Company's existing monopoly is a concern, but the issue at hand also violates the rights of priority in the matter of the supply of wireless equipment to the Chinese Government enjoyed by the Marconi Company in virtue of their charter with the Chinese Government embodying the formation of the Chinese National Wireless Telegraph Company; full details with regard to this Company and its rights and functions will be found in the enclosed **Confidential Print**.\n\nThe matter has been taken up vigorously at Peking by Sir B. Alston, and copies of the telegraphic correspondence that has passed with him are enclosed for the information of your Committee, who will observe that, in addition to his own representations and conversations with the American Minister at Peking, prompt action at Washington through His Majesty's Embassy is also urged.\n\n258\n\n7. From Mr. Illingworth's letter of February 7th, it soon becomes clear that before any further steps can be taken at Peking or at Washington, either on the general cable question or with regard to the clash between Messrs. Marconi and the American Federal Wireless Company, it is essential that this Department should be favoured with the observations of your Committee. It may well be, as a result of the proceedings at the Preliminary Conference at Washington to which Mr. Illingworth calls attention, that His Majesty's Government are precluded from further supporting the desire of the Cable Companies to extend their existing monopoly beyond 1930; and equally that His Majesty's Government are debarred from protesting further to the American Government against...",
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        "content_text": "# GICIERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON \n## 255355/20 \n### 7th February, 1921 \n\n261 \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to refer to your letter of the 17th ultimo (`7 267p/2579/10`) relative to a scheme which has been discussed between the Chinese Telegraph Administration and the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies for the laying of additional cables between Amoy and Hongkong and between Shanghai and Chefoo, and for the grant by the Companies to the Chinese Government of a loan of £1,500,000, in consideration for which the Companies' exclusive concessions in China, which are due to expire in 1930, should be extended until 1950.\n\nAt the recent Preliminary Conference at Washington a resolution was proposed by the United States Delegation recommending that Governments should not in future grant exclusive cable or wireless concessions, and should not support their nationals, diplomatically or otherwise, in seeking such concessions from other Governments except in cases where the traffic is too small to admit of competitive services. This resolution was accepted by the British Delegation as being in general accordance with their instructions, and it was also agreed to by the other Delegations.\n\nIt is believed to be on the whole in accordance with British interests, as there have been tendencies on the part of certain United States wireless Companies to seek exclusive privileges in South America, and (as shown by the enclosures to your letter) on the part of Japan to seek exclusive rights in China, such as the resolution will militate against. It would be unfortunate if this resolution - to which the United States Government attach great importance - were to be used as a reason for the British Government to refuse support for the extension of the exclusive concessions of the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Companies.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nForeign Office.",
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        "content_text": "## 322\n\nThe Marconi Company signed an agreement with the Chinese Government to form the Chinese National Wireless Telegraph Company, a joint stock concern, to manufacture wireless telegraph and telephone equipment, etc. The company has no right to operate commercial wireless stations in China but receives priority for all orders from the Chinese Government for wireless equipment. The company is the direct offspring of the Marconi wireless telephone contract (see 3).\n\n25. The above are the agreements that bear on the questions now before us. Both the Japanese and Chinese Governments have been officially warned that His Majesty's Government refuse to recognize the validity of the declaration given to Mitsui debarring any other party from erecting a wireless station for communication with Japan, Europe, and America. Although both their Governments have refused to recognize the validity of our protests, they know that we do not acquiesce in the Mitsui claim.\n\n26. To return to the practical issues raised by the Chinese application to the cable companies and the latter's desire to secure an extension of their monopoly, the views of Mr. Clive, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, have been obtained and are as follows:\n\n27. (1) The extension of the companies' monopoly is politically desirable and probably essential if our position in telegraphy in the Far East is to be maintained.\n\n(2) Our former position has been seriously impaired by Japanese competition. The recent action of the Chinese telegraph administration in purchasing an unsuitable cable from Japan, on the advice of their Japanese employees and against the advice of the cable companies, shows that Japan is determined to take full advantage of the privileged position secured by her under her loan agreement.\n\n28. (3) Any extension of cable monopoly must take into consideration the present-day environments of the commercial community in China, which call for wireless and cable facilities. Such a monopoly must operate as not to preclude the development of wireless by the Chinese Government under British auspices. At the recent conference of the British Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai, the question of wireless facilities was discussed, and the present opportunity would seem suitable for a reconsideration of the British cable and wireless vested interests in China as represented by the Eastern Extension and Marconi Companies.\n\n29. (4) It is to be remembered that the cable monopoly in itself only affords partial protection to any British predominance since American, German, Dutch, and Japanese landing rights have all had to be successively admitted. The interests in Japan of the Northern Company render the latter, as a partner of our monopoly, especially susceptible to Japanese pressure. Moreover, since the headquarters of the Chinese Administration were transferred from Shanghai to Peking in 1911, the Eastern Company have been handicapped by the lack of a responsible representative in Peking. It is British rather than Danish support that carries weight with the Chinese Government, and yet, in the present negotiations, with their important political bearing, we are dependent on a Danish adviser, M. Eriksen, in London, who is in constant communication with a Danish employee at Peking, while His Majesty's Legation is not yet in a position to ascertain either the nature of the Chinese Government's instructions to M. Eriksen or the effect on these of the change of Government that has occurred since his departure from Peking.\n\n30. (5) The Japanese Minister has recently protested to the Wai-chiao Pu against schemes now under consideration for a wireless development by the Chinese National Company on the ground that they conflict with the Mitsui Agreement. The Japanese may possibly claim the right under articles 9, 10, and 11 of their agreement of April 1918 to be consulted with regard to the present negotiations. In any case, it is safe to assume that Japan aims at predominance in land, cable, and wireless telegraph interests in China, and the issue is, therefore, a clear and comprehensive one between the Japanese and ourselves, of which the present cable monopoly extension question is only one phase. On our side, we have the Marconi agreements and what remains of the cable monopoly privileges, while the Japanese have the Mitsui and telegraph loan agreements.\n\n31. (6) Our partnership with the Danes renders us vulnerable through the Northern Company's interest in Japan and possibly through Danish sympathy for the Telefunken Company, while Japanese interests are practically those of the Japanese Government.\n\n32. (7) If we are to succeed, it would seem essential:\n- (a) To amalgamate the Danish and British cable and wireless interests into as solid a block as possible.\n- (b) To obtain our proper share in the leading of negotiations by opening up direct communications between His Majesty's Government and the Chinese Government at Peking.\n\n33. Having reached this stage, a letter was addressed to the various Government offices concerned, enquiring their views on the issues at stake. On the 7th February, the Post Office replied, suggesting that, in view of the recent preliminary conference at Washington, it might be undesirable to seek any exclusive cable or wireless concessions or to support British nationals in seeking such concessions, save in cases where the traffic was too small to admit of competitive services. Adverting to Sir J. Pender's hint of the possibility of pooling in case of need, the Postmaster General suggested that this might prove the best solution if feasible. In any case, it was hardly desirable to exclude wireless communication between China and Europe; and that being so, the exclusive cable rights, in any form in which the British Government could agree to them, would probably mean little to the Eastern Company, who, as regards cable communications, might well stand on their merits.\n\n34. The text of the Post Office letter, a copy of which has already been forwarded to the Imperial Communications Committee, forms `Annex 4` to this memorandum.\n\n## II. Clash between British and American Wireless Interests in China\n\n35. Since then, a further complication has arisen in a clash between the Marconi Company and the American Federal Wireless Company in wireless matters in China.\n\n36. In August 1918, the Marconi Company, as already mentioned, signed an agreement (`Annex 2`) with the Chinese Government for the supply of 200 sets of wireless telephones. The company lent the Government £600,000, of which £300,000 was the actual purchase price.\n\n37. The Chinese Government undertook that until the loan was repaid, they would exclusively adopt the Marconi system of wireless telephony. They further bound themselves that, in the event of the Government deciding to establish a repair shop or factory for the maintenance of wireless installations in China or for the manufacture of wireless apparatus, the Government would first open discussions with the company with a view to arranging joint operation of such a factory by the Government and the company.\n\n38. Arising out of this article, the Chinese Government on the 24th May 1919 signed a subsequent agreement with the Marconi Company (`Annex 3`) for the formation of the \"Chinese National Wireless Telegraph Company,\" a joint-stock concern composed of the Chinese Government and the Marconi Company. The object of the company was to manufacture wireless telegraph and telephone apparatus, materials, and supplies; to deal in such apparatus, material, and supplies; and to repair and maintain wireless installations now existing and hereafter established. Nothing in this agreement confers any right upon the Chinese company to operate commercial wireless stations in China. The Marconi Company granted to the Chinese company the right to the use in China of all Marconi patents, rights, designs, drawings, and secret processes, past, present, and future, for wireless telegraphy and telephony. The Government undertook that if the goods supplied by the company were not lower in quality nor more expensive than those offered by other companies, the Government would purchase exclusively from the Chinese company all its present and future requirements in wireless telegraph and telephone apparatus, material, and supplies. Further, if the Government suffered no loss by giving such work to the Chinese company, that company should be exclusively entrusted with the repair and maintenance of all wireless telegraph and telephone apparatus and equipment in China. Finally, the Marconi Company undertook not to grant the use of their patents, etc., to any other person for use in China in whole or in part, nor themselves to sell wireless telegraph and telephone apparatus, etc., except through the Chinese company. The Chinese Government, on their part, promised to do all in...",
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        "content_text": "## ANNEX 4\n\nPost Office to Foreign Office.-(Received February 8.)\n\n**General Post Office, London, February 7, 1921.**\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster-General to refer to your letter of the 17th ultimo, relative to a scheme which has been discussed between the Chinese Telegraph Administration and the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph companies for the laying of additional cables between Shanghai and Hong Kong and between Shanghai and Chefoo, and for the grant by the companies to the Chinese Government of a loan of 1,500,000*l., in consideration for which the companies' exclusive concessions in China, which are due to expire in 1930, should be extended until 1950. At the recent preliminary conference at Washington a resolution was proposed by the United States delegation recommending that Governments should not in future grant exclusive cable or wireless concessions, and should not support their nationals, diplomatically or otherwise, in seeking such concessions from other Governments, except in cases where the traffic is too small to admit of competitive services. This resolution was accepted by the British delegation as being in general harmony with their instructions, and it was also agreed to by the other delegations. It is believed to be on the whole in accordance with British interests, as there have been tendencies on the part of the United States wireless companies to seek exclusive privileges in South America, and (as shown by the enclosures to your letter) on the part of Japan to seek exclusive rights in China, against which the resolution will militate. It would be contrary to the spirit of this resolution, to which the United States delegation attached great importance, for the British Government to support a scheme for the extension of the exclusive concessions of the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Companies.\n\nIt seems clear from the history of the case, as described in your letter and in the memoranda which accompanied it, that the present so-called \"monopoly\" is a monopoly in name only, as in actual practice other companies have been allowed in several cases (indeed in all cases where the company concerned has received sufficiently strong support from its Government) to lay cables and to establish wireless stations for communication between China and other countries.\n\nThe Postmaster-General observes from the telegram of the 23rd November last, a copy of which was enclosed with the Foreign Office letter of the 6th December, that Sir John Denison Pender has suggested that, if there is great objection to the suggested extension of the exclusive concessions, his company might be ready to accept a scheme \"for pooling among the consortium Powers.\" It is not clear whether the suggested \"pooling\" applies only to the loan (the exclusive concessions not being extended at all), or whether it is contemplated that the exclusive concessions would be extended but would not apply as against the nationals of the consortium Powers (which are understood to include the United States). The Postmaster-General is of opinion that some such modification as that suggested by Sir John Pender would, if feasible, probably be the best solution.\n\nThe present exclusive concessions operate not only against foreign telegraph companies but also against other British companies, including wireless companies. The only real risk of serious competition with the present cable service between China and Europe seems to lie in the direction of wireless telegraphy; but it is very doubtful whether it is in accordance with British interests that wireless communication with Europe should be excluded. From this point of view, therefore, the exclusive rights, in any form in which the British Government could agree to them, would probably mean little to the Eastern Company. As regards cable communication, the company may well stand on their merits.\n\nThe question is one which concerns several Government Departments; and, in the circumstances, the Postmaster-General would suggest that it should be referred as soon as possible to the Imperial Communications Committee.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nG. E. P. MURRAY.\n\n## ANNEX 5\n\n**Memorandum communicated by United States Embassy.**\n\nThe American Embassy is informed that on the 8th January last, the Federal Telegraph Company, an American corporation, signed with the Chinese Government a contract for the construction and opening of wireless stations at Shanghai, Peking, Harbin, and Canton for a period of ten years in joint agreement with the Chinese Government, and for a further period of ten years thereafter on a royalty basis.\n\nIn this regard the American Government is amazed to learn that His Majesty's Minister at Peking recently advised the American Legation there that, under instructions from His Britannic Majesty's Government, he had protested to the Chinese Government against the American contract above referred to, and had insisted upon its cancellation on the ground that such a contract infringes upon the rights which are claimed to have accrued to the British Marconi Company by virtue of a contract entered into on the 24th May, 1919, which established a joint enterprise under the name of the British Corporation, with certain preferential rights for the supply of wireless equipment to the Chinese Government.\n\nLeaving on one side for the present any discussion as to the propriety of a foreign Government asserting diplomatically as against another nationality the claims of this Corporation, the American Government desires to meet unequivocally and on its merits the claim that any Government can rightfully assert in behalf of the interests of its nationals to exercise any such monopoly or preference for the supply of materials or equipment as would debar American citizens from the right to contract freely with the Chinese Government for any category of supplies. The adoption of such an exclusive or preferential right in behalf of British interests would frankly raise in the mind of the American Government a doubt whether it has quite understood the attitude of His Britannic Majesty's Government during the course of the recent efforts to co-operate in making real and effective the principle of equality of commercial and industrial opportunities in China. The American Government feels that it must in candour make clear its position that such a claim to monopoly or preference in the supply of equipment to any service of the Chinese Government is, in its view, fundamentally repugnant to the principle of the \"open door\" and to treaty rights, and that the American Government is not prepared to recognise any claim to contractual rights in favour of any party as valid or effective in excluding its nationals from any field of commercial or industrial activity in China.\n\nIt is thought that His Britannic Majesty's Government may perhaps not be aware that as long ago as 1917 the American Government found occasion to apply this interpretation of the \"open door\" principle as against the claims of certain of its own nationals under the following circumstances:-\n\nOn the 20th October, 1917, by a contract closely analogous to the Marconi contract with the Chinese Wireless Company, the Western Electric Company, an American company, formed with the Chinese Government the China Electric Company, which, according to the provisions of the contract, was to have a preference for the supply of all machinery, apparatus, or other materials in connection with the telephone and telegraph systems required by the Chinese Ministry of Communications. Upon becoming acquainted with this provision, and after consultation with the United States Government, the American Minister at Peking, on the 28th January, 1919, formally notified the China Electric Company that his Government would not recognise or support any such preference as was provided for in the contract of 1917. The position of the American Government in this regard was at that time explained to the Chinese Government also.\n\nNo doubt exists in the mind of the United States Government that, with a knowledge of the attitude thus taken, His Britannic Majesty's Government will not be disposed to insist in favour of its nationals upon an advantage which the American Government had previously rejected as unfair and repugnant to treaty rights and the policy of equality in China, when claimed by American interests. Should it be found, however, that this confidence is not justified, and should His Britannic Majesty's Government continue to assert the preference claimed in favour of the Marconi Company, the American Government would be reluctantly compelled to consider, amongst other things, whether the prior rights claimed as accruing to the Western Electric Company under the contract of 1917 are not as fully entitled...",
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        "content_text": "# I \n\nP \n\n2 \n\nI shall have the honour to communicate to your Lordship the full minutes of the discussions as soon as they reach me in printed form. Meanwhile, enclose an extract from the press giving a report of the speeches delivered at the opening of the conference.* \n\nIn conclusion, I have great pleasure in drawing your Lordship's attention to the excellent work done by Messrs. Rose and Brett, Commercial Secretaries in Peking and Shanghai respectively.\n\nThe efforts of these gentlemen in making the preliminary arrangements, which entailed very arduous work, in conjunction with Mr. Gull, secretary of the Shanghai Chamber, contributed very largely to the success of the conference.\n\nMr. Rose was elected chairman of the conference in committee, and in the discharge of this duty, which required a detailed knowledge of all the subjects under discussion, he displayed tact and ability deserving of the highest praise.\n\n(Copy to Department of Overseas Trade.)\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. H. CLIVE\n\n## Resolutions of the Conference of British Chambers of Commerce in China and Hong Kong, held in the Supreme Court, Shanghai, November 3–6, 1920.\n\n### I. Affiliation with the Association of British Chambers of Commerce in Great Britain.\n\nTHAT this conference recommends that the Associated British Chambers in China and Hong Kong be affiliated with the Association of British Chambers of Commerce in Great Britain.\n\n### II. Chihli River Commission.\n\nThat this conference resolves to communicate to His Majesty's Minister in Peking the satisfaction with which it views the work already accomplished by the commission for the improvement of the river system of Chihli, urges the importance of the continuance of the commission, and to this end requests His Majesty's Minister to endeavour to arrange that the necessary steady financial support be accorded either by earmarking a portion of the customs or salt surplus revenues or by such other means as may be conveniently devised.\n\n### III. Yang-tsze Conservancy.\n\nThat as a preliminary to the appointment by the Chinese Government of a Conservancy Board to improve the navigation of the Yang-tsze, as recommended in the resolution passed at last year's conference, this conference would strongly urge the nomination of a technical commission to make a preliminary study of the whole question with a view to formulating general proposals as to the lines on which this work should be taken in hand.\n\n### IV. Manufacturers and Merchants.\n\nThat this association, being in the main composed of merchants, many of whom, however, are sole agents for some of the biggest manufacturers in Great Britain, desires to place on record its anxiety to co-operate in the fullest practicable way with the manufacturers in the advancement of the Empire's commercial and manufacturing interests.\n\n### V. Currency Reform.\n\nThat this conference welcomes the indications which the Chinese Government has given of its intention to open a mint in Shanghai, but would emphasise the absolute necessity of the employment of foreign experts with a view to ensuring the production and maintenance of a standard currency capable of replacing sycee.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n### VI. China Companies.\n\nThat this conference considers it desirable that enquiry be made into the advisability of legislation being enacted whereby the word \"British,\" or other word or words of similar import, be appended to the names of all China companies, present or future, following the word \"limited,\" and that the secretary to the association be instructed to institute these enquiries at as early a date as possible.\n\n### VII. Tariff Revision.\n\nThat this conference desires to express the view that the additional revenue accruing from any revision of the existing import duties should be held in trust until such time as the Chinese Government shall have shown itself capable of maintaining order and protecting trade interests throughout the country.\n\nAt the same time, it desires to express the opinion that when the time for such revision shall arise, advantage should be taken of the opportunity so presented to press for the reorganisation of the whole system of taxation of trade in China on the lines suggested in the association's letter of the 21st April, 1920, and that, as a preliminary and practical step in this direction, the Chinese Government be pressed to abolish forthwith the taxation now levied by the Chinese Maritime Customs on all goods carried from one port to another in China.\n\n### VIII. Aids to Navigation.\n\nThat in view of the fact that the Hong Kong Government has approved the use of diaphones and wireless position-finders as used in European, American, and Canadian waters, and intends shortly to install these at the approaches to Hong Kong harbour, this conference is of opinion that China, through the Maritime Customs, should similarly install such aids to navigation on the China coast.\n\nFurther, that weather signals and cable communications should also be considered in connection with the wireless position-finders, more especially in view of the recent frequent stoppages of the Swatow-Hong Kong-Shanghai telegraph services, and that a sufficiently powerful wireless installation should be established at Swatow in conjunction with one at Hong Kong at the earliest possible moment to provide telegraphic and wireless communication with Hong Kong and other places, which is at present inadequate.\n\n### IX. Copyright.\n\nThat in connection with the resolution passed at the last conference, urging the advisability of instituting copyright laws in China, this conference now desires to express the opinion that further representations should be addressed to the Chinese Government with a view to securing its adhesion to the Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works created under the convention signed at Berne on the 9th September, 1886, by the Governments of Great Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Hayti, Italy, Liberia, Spain, Switzerland, and Tunis.\n\n### X. Russian and German Concessions at Hankow and Tien-tsin.\n\nThis conference views with grave concern the attitude of the Chinese Government, which, in assuming control of areas formerly under foreign jurisdiction, has deprived Treaty Power nationals of their rights in regard to the ownership of land and municipal representation. This conference accordingly urges upon His Majesty's Government the supreme importance of safeguarding to the fullest extent the treaty rights of British subjects residing and doing business in China, and of resisting every encroachment upon these rights. It further urges upon His Majesty's Government the absolute necessity of arriving at a satisfactory understanding with the Chinese Government as to the future administration of these areas on such terms as will ensure that the interests of British property owners and residents shall be in no way prejudiced, and the good order and peace of the other concessions fully safeguarded.\n\n### XI. Disorder in China.\n\nThat this conference views with grave alarm the state of unrest and lawlessness prevailing in almost every province in China, and the prevalence of unchecked piracy and brigandage, in which undisciplined troops are frequently the worst offenders. It protests against the utter failure of the Chinese authorities to deal effectively with this deplorable situation, and urges His Majesty's Government to use its utmost...\n\nPage 351",
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        "content_text": "502 \n\n32 \n\n22424 \n\non entertaining railway officials passing through Tsinan. It is only fair, however, to state that the present chief inspector of the Hanchuang Tsinan section, who is also assistant traffic manager for the whole line, is making an honest attempt to suppress bribery, and has dismissed several officials for this offence.\n\nIt is important to note that the obstacles to trade which I have endeavoured to describe in this report have been discovered by importers, namely, the large firms who spread an intensive organisation over the interior of China with a view to laying down their specialised products at the lowest possible price. The exporter must suffer equally severely from these obstacles, but he probably suffers in ignorance. The importer goes himself into the interior, and by means of his foreign brains, foreign enterprise and capacity for organisation, is able to a large extent to overcome these obstacles. The exporter with few exceptions remains in the treaty port and leaves the whole business of bringing cargo down from the interior to his compradore and Chinese staff. His own organising ability is not brought into play at all. But if the importer cannot sell his goods at a profit without going himself into the interior to grapple with difficulties of transport it would seem to follow that the exporter cannot buy his produce at a profit unless he does the same. It is a matter which needs careful consideration and it probably cannot be done without setting up an organisation on a very large scale, but I would suggest that the time has now come in China when the exporter should go up country after his cargo and no longer wait in the treaty port for his compradore to bring it down to him.\n\nThe faulty management of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway results in much traffic which might go along the railway being diverted to other channels. A vast amount of produce from the Yellow River districts, which should be transported by rail to Tien-tsin, is now brought overland from Lokow to Tsinan and shipped by the Japanese railway to Tsingtao for export, or else finds its way to the north by devious water routes. When one hears of cargo waiting at a wayside station for two months for cars it is certain that the produce of that district does not find its way to market by rail, and also that the district does not produce all that it might produce, both in kind and quantity, if the railway properly performed its full economic functions. This is a point on which the utmost emphasis should be laid. This report perforce deals with the question from the point of view of the foreign trader, but for every dollar which the foreigner loses through inefficient management of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway the Chinese themselves probably lose a thousand. There is no doubt that one of the main contributing causes of the disastrous famine now devastating North China is the lack of adequate transportation.\n\nI have made no mention of military interference with railways nor of the vast and burning question of taxation. I have confined myself solely to matters in respect to which it is within the power of the railway authorities to effect the necessary reforms of their own volition. Foreign-owned railways on Chinese soil succeed in avoiding most of the abuses here complained of, but I do not for a moment suggest that lines such as the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway should be placed under foreign control. That is no real solution of the problem. These railways run through Chinese territory and are for the benefit primarily of the Chinese people. The Chinese undoubtedly have sufficient ability to manage such undertakings efficiently, and there can be no reasonable doubt that in time they will succeed in doing so. The only permanent solution of this, as of other administrative problems in this country, is to assist the Chinese by expert advice and by friendly constructive criticism to set their house in order in the hope that China will gradually attain a standard of honesty and efficiency comparable with that of the nations thronging within her gates.\n\n## RAILWAY STANDARDISATION\n\nIn connection with the railway question, attention is called to the following resolution, which was passed unanimously:\n\nThat in view of the vast potentialities of railway development in China, and with special reference to the efforts now being made by the Chinese Government, with the assistance of an international advisory committee, to standardise the national railway system this conference regards it as a matter of primary importance that British engineering and technical skill, as applied to railway construction and equipment, should be adequately represented in this country, and commends this view to the careful consideration of manufacturers in the United Kingdom.\n\n## AIDS TO NAVIGATION\n\n### Wireless at Hong Kong\n\nIt was unanimously agreed:\n\n\"That in view of the fact that the Hong Kong Government has approved the use of diaphones and wireless position finders as used in European, American and Canadian waters, and intends shortly to install these at the approaches to Hong Kong Harbour, this Conference is of opinion that China, through the Maritime Customs, should similarly install such aids to navigation on the China coast.\n\nFurther, that weather signals and cable communications should also be considered in connection with the wireless position finders, more especially in view of the recent frequent stoppages of the Swatow-Hong Kong Shanghai Telegraph services, and that a sufficiently powerful wireless installation should be established at Swatow in conjunction with one at Hong Kong at the earliest possible moment to provide telegraphic and wireless communication with Hong Kong and other places which is at present inadequate.”\n\nIn moving this resolution Mr. Holyoak, on behalf of the Hong Kong Chamber, said:\n\n\"The main part of the resolution is a continuance of the resolution which was passed last year at the conference under the same heading. And immediately after the return to Hong Kong of the delegates the matter was taken up with the Hong Kong Government, and through them with the Home Government for the establishment in Hong Kong of diaphones and wireless position finders, and only a very few weeks ago permission was received to establish them in Hong Kong. We are now pressing for the full connection to be made with the Chinese coast in order that the greatest benefits to all may be obtained from these two most important things. It is unnecessary for me to dilate upon the necessity for every protection to shipping which can possibly be afforded in these waters, upon the immense amount of shipping which traverses them during the course of the year, nor upon the importance of the trade which is carried, nor upon the fact that the coast for several months in the year is about the most fog-bound coast in the world. These things are so well known to most of us as shipping men and merchants that it is quite unnecessary for me to argue at any length upon the importance of representing to the Chinese Government through the Maritime Customs the desirability of completing the chain which will be established by the installation of wireless in Hong Kong.\n\n\"The resolution falls under four headings: (1) the establishment of diaphones and wireless position finders in Chinese waters; (2) increased weather signals and communications along the coast: (3) establishment of increased cable service or a powerful wireless station at Swatow, and (4) the establishment of a wireless telegraph station of sufficient power at Hong Kong.\n\n\"I have raised the latter question because I understand there will be present in this room this morning one whom we all regard as an expert on this subject, and that with the permission of the Admiral, he will be allowed to speak upon it. The necessity for a wireless telegraph station at Swatow has been so amply demonstrated that I need not argue that point. Swatow has been cut off repeatedly for as long as four days, and even longer, from communicating with Shanghai and Hong Kong by telegraph. Therefore the matter of laying a submarine cable connecting Swatow or establishing a wireless station needs no further urging on my part.\n\n\"Upon the fourth part of the resolution, dealing with the establishment of a powerful station in Hong Kong, I have to point out that for the whole duration of the war it was increasingly forced upon us - all of us having to do with commerce - that communication is hopelessly insufficient with Europe or the United States of America. I know the war placed the matter in abeyance, but the war has been over for a long time, and even now communication with London and the United States takes as much as forty-eight hours and sometimes longer than that. It is a matter for experts to tell us whether it is practicable to establish so powerful a wireless...",
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        "content_text": "# \n31 \n\nstation in Hong Kong, to make it possible to communicate with Honolulu on one side and India on the other, or because it is impracticable, suggest we should have increased cable accommodation. So far as we know, the wireless station at Manila connects with Honolulu, and they are in daily touch with New York, and it has been our lot to see in Hong Kong important commercial information sent to us from Manila via the United States by wireless. And it is known to us that there are certain powerful wireless stations which do not belong to Great Britain, though they do belong to friendly powers in China. We feel it is of vital importance to us that we should have a station of sufficient power and magnitude so far as is practicable—to communicate at long distances, in order that we may have in time the very latest commercial information at our command and coming through British sources.\n\n## \nAsked by the Chairman to give his views, Lieutenant R. R. Stewart (H.M.S. *\"Alacrity\"*), said :- \n\nMr. Chairman and Gentlemen, the kind remarks which Mr. Holyoak has said about me are not quite true. My job out here is wireless officer of the fleet, and as such my duties are to make myself conversant with all wireless telegraph stations out here. I merely co-ordinate the views of experts on the subject, and that is what I propose to give you this morning.\n\n## \nI think the best way of dealing with the matter is to try and answer three points (1) Can Stonecutters compete with commercial traffic home to England? (2) The question of the installation of a powerful installation at Hong Kong, and (3) to give you some general remarks on the subject.\n\nIn order to bring out my first point I would like to say what has happened with regard to wireless stations. Before the war the question was brought up for the installation of a chain of stations connecting England with the Colonies. War broke out, and a hurried station was erected at Stonecutters. This was fitted with spark gear, and the power of the station was about 30 kilowatts giving about 1,000 miles communication. This gave a total distance of the link in the chain of 2,000 miles or more. That met certain necessities for communicating with ships at sea, but they found they could not communicate satisfactorily with home through the intermediate stations. So they installed a Poulsen arc, which was a step further in wireless transmission, and which gave out a continuous wave enabling them to get a further distance with less power.\n\nIt is necessary for me to point out here that wireless communication is not so easy as the ordinary man would believe. If you have a wireless station at Hong Kong trying to get into touch with Sumatra, you do it through Singapore. Then first you have got to get into touch with Singapore. Hong Kong fires off its message. Singapore replies message received and then gets into communication with Sumatra, so you will see that Singapore has a lot to do. Then there is the question of atmospherics. Atmospherics are things about which we do not know a great deal at present, but atmospherics in connection with traffic are a continual source of trouble. The message from Hong Kong to Singapore might meet with a great deal of trouble. I have known of a message of ninety groups taking an hour to pass, and that is not going to be much good for commercial needs as they stand. The Admiralty sent out messages by wireless to relieve the cables, and I have known messages take as long as fourteen days to come out. Those, however, were routine messages, and merely sent out that way to relieve the cables.\n\nThe next thing I want to point out is that the wireless station at Hong Kong has a very busy time. There is the communication with Singapore, communication with the Yang-tsze gunboats and communication with the flagship. A great deal of work goes from Hong Kong to the flagship, not only telegrams, but matters upon which the Commander-in-chief's approval is required. Really Hong Kong is the centre of naval activity in the Far East, and the programme at Stonecutters is very full. When D'Aguilar was started as the commercial station, I pointed out to Mr. Fletcher that the receiving gear was in rather a bad state, and he replied that they would be only too pleased to make it efficient. We have installed at D'Aguilar a set giving superior transmission from the naval supplies, new gear is being purchased and D'Aguilar will soon be more efficient, and Stonecutters will be having a little more time in which to do its own work.\n\nWireless stations have to compete with telegraph offices in which rapidity, cheapness are absolutely essential factors, but you would not get rapidity in messages passing through the Hong Kong wireless station.\n\n35 \n\nThere is another point which I would bring to your consideration, and that is that you would not get the Hong Kong wireless station to pay. The Navy would be only too pleased to take commercial messages if they could squeeze in the time, because it would help to pay for their installations. Now, with the new organisation, I believe the Commander-in-chief is prepared to squeeze in time in the Hong Kong routine by which commercial people in Hong Kong could carry out shore to shore traffic. It would not be a commercial proposition, but if they wanted to get into touch with Manila, Swatow or Saigon, we could introduce into the daily routine say a quarter of an hour every four or five hours in which they could actually communicate with those stations or the coast.\n\n\"My second point to be brought out is the establishment of a powerful station at Hong Kong. Now we come to the Imperial Conference scheme. When we first came out here we wrote home to recommend certain wireless stations to be put up, and the answer to the letter was that we got out the report of the Imperial Wireless Committee which has been presented to Parliament from which I will give you a few notes. But before I do so I would state that the letter we wrote home showed that we pointed out that it was necessary to bring commercial requirements into line with naval requirements, because they would have to be dealt with separately though the two would be dealt with by one large organisation, whereby the requirements of all services would be met.\n\nThe first thing that was pointed out in the report was that wireless is not like telegraphy. A good deal of trouble comes in the transmission and receiving, and consequently delay, and though reliability, speed and cheapness were essential factors the installation had to be made to pay. They got the Post Office to keep a listening watch on the main European systems of wireless, and they found that transmission across the Atlantic was not all it was commonly thought to be, and that there was a great deal of repetition going on. Hours were spent merely in repetition. That was a loss of money. The thing was not a commercial proposition. They then went on to discuss methods of transmission—the spark, the Poulsen arc, high frequency alternators, high frequency oscillators, which have the same effect as the continuous wave, and the thermionic valve, which is the latest development of wireless transmission. They came to the conclusion that the thermionic valve was the best thing to use.\n\nEvery wireless scheme which has come into being has been on the principle of trial and error. Marconi tried with 23 kilowatts to communicate across the Atlantic. That was not found sufficient. In 1906 it was increased to 70 kilowatts and the Poulsen arc was introduced with 13 kilowatts. The spark was then pushed up to 200 by Marconi. That did not have much effect, and the Poulsen was pushed up to 250 kilowatts. The whole demand was for more power. Germany, Nauen, has a 400 kilowatt installation, and they are thinking of increasing that.\n\n## \nBefore I came here this morning I was able to get for the Admiral the Nauen press from the Nauen installation of 400 kilowatts. This was done by hand operation, and it is only sometimes that we can get it out here. Now, business people, for whom the trial and error system has no appeal, realising that it is no good for commercial purposes have to determine what distance they are to get with absolute certainty. My people want to get a distance of 4,000 miles which will allow of communication from England to India and Australia. That was what people wanted. People say we are getting wireless signals from Mars, that must take an enormously powerful installation and cannot be a commercial proposition at all. When, however, they came to work out wireless telegraphy as a business proposition, they came to the conclusion that 2,000 miles with the thermionic valve would give reliable communication, and the cost would be considerably less than a station with a distance of 4,000 miles; they would get more traffic, more words passing through per day. The result was that they decided upon two 2,000 mile steps for India at a capital cost of £483,000, and an annual cost of £185,000. Then they discussed how much traffic they could expect and they came to the conclusion that they would lose on the stations for five years at first, after which they would make up.\n\n\"I may say that this scheme of 2,000 mile step allows for stations at Egypt, Cairo, Poona, Singapore, a branch to Hong Kong and Australia. Already they are putting up an arc in England and another in Cairo, and they will have another valve in England and Cairo. Hong Kong may consider that the branch from Singapore rather puts them out of it, but the whole question is whether the thing can be made to pay. If it is found that Hong Kong cannot pass the messages with the installation it gets, it will be the simplest matter in the world to erect another...\n\n503",
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        "content_text": "# 515 \n## 10/130/14 \n### 5th April 1921\n\nI have received your despatch 26.77 of February 14th, 1921, forwarding copy of a letter from the Chairman of the Shanghai British Chamber of Commerce, covering its resolution on the subject of opium passed at the conference in November, 1920.\n\nYour despatch has transmitted telegraph 20.314 of March 4th, instructing you to address to the Chinese Government a formal protest in the name of His Majesty's Government, against their culpable inefficiency and gross breach of faith in regard to the suppression of opium.\n\nYou should now inform the Chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce that a copy of his letter of December 17th, 1920, has been forwarded to the Home Office for communication to Sir Malcolm Delevingne, the British Delegate at the forthcoming meeting of the Opium Advisory Committee of the League of Nations, and that a copy is also being furnished confidentially to Sir John Jordan, the British Assessor on that Committee.\n\nWith regard to the views expressed in the penultimate sentence of the Chairman's letter, you may add that they are fully appreciated by His Majesty's Government, who understand that they have already been brought to the notice of the competent Chinese Authorities.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`F 1435/181/10`\n\n## No. 1.\n\n**(No. 526.) Sir.**\n\n### Earl Curzon to Sir A. Geddes (Washington)\n\n#### SECTION 1.\n\nForeign Office, April 20, 1921.\n\nI asked the American Chargé d'Affaires, Mr. Butler Wright, to come to the Foreign Office on the 18th instant in order that I might hand to him my reply to the American memorandum of the 17th February, concerning the dispute which had arisen between our two Governments with regard to concessions for wireless telegraphy in China.\n\nI told Mr. Wright that I had invited him to attend because I desired to accompany the presentation of the reply with one or two observations, which I thought had better be delivered orally rather than in writing.\n\nIn the first place, I said that I had been a little surprised at the tone and language of the note to which His Majesty's Government were now replying. This was a dispute in which different views of the situation were entertained by the two Governments, and in which, as our reply, when Mr. Wright had read it, would show, we felt no doubt that we were on very strong ground. In these circumstances, I was rather surprised that the American Government, in the note in question, had expressed their amazement at our contentions, and had concluded by a sentence which, though correct in form, indicated, by implication, that in the solution of this question the continuance of the good relations between the two Powers was involved. This seemed to me, I said, very strong and rather unusual language to employ in connection with a matter of manifestly secondary importance, which ought to be disposed of without raising the larger issues of comity between our countries.\n\nI went on to say that I thought it my duty to inform Mr. Butler Wright that we had information as to the manner in which the American contract of the Federal Telegraph Company had been procured at Peking, which, though it had not affected the argument contained in our reply and was not even mentioned in the letter, could not fail, to some extent, to colour our opinion as to the nature of the transaction which we were passing under review. Our information, which had come from the highest source, namely, the British Minister at Peking himself, was to the effect that, while an American gentleman had failed to secure a similar contract from the Chinese Government because he had declined to pay more than 100,000 dollars commission, the successful competitor, whose name was Mr. Barnes Moss, had succeeded in obtaining the contract by the payment to the Chinese Minister of Communications and the Chinese Director-General of Telegraphs of no less a sum than 800,000 Mexican dollars, which is equivalent to more than 80,000_l_. at the present rate of exchange.\n\nMr. Butler Wright said that he had never heard the name of Mr. Barnes Moss, and was wholly in ignorance of this transaction.\n\nTo this I replied that this had rendered it all the more necessary that, if from no one else, he should learn it from me.\n\nI then went on to say that, in view of the fact that in the realm of Chinese finance we had recently found no difficulty, after a long and friendly discussion, in coming to an agreement of the Great Powers embodied in the consortium, it seemed to me a deplorable thing that the Great Powers should be squabbling with each other about such a matter as wireless telegraph concessions, when it ought to be quite possible, by methods of conference and co-operation, to avoid international competition altogether and to provide for some amalgamation of interests on an international basis. The Chinese Government was in a miserably weak condition, and turned without scruple or compunction first to one Power and then to the other, in the effort to extract the maximum advantage for herself, while, if the Powers fell out, she was all the more pleased.\n\nI hoped he would convey to his Government that, in my judgment, this was not the way in which such matters ought to be settled, and that a better method should be devised.\n\nThe American Chargé d'Affaires, who has always been most sympathetic and \n\n559  \n6061 π-1 xg",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS\n\nPage 174\n\n## No. 1\n\nApril 12.\n\n### SECTION 4\n\n36321\n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon. (Received April 12.)\n\n**(No. 102.)** My Lord,\n\nKe Peking. February 23, 1921.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 521 of the 8th December last on the question of the negotiations which are now pending between the Chinese Government and the foreign cable and wireless interests in China, I have the honour to enclose a resolution regarding wireless, passed by the recent Conference of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce.\n\nThis resolution emphasises the importance of wireless installations from the point of view of commercial development and the views of the Chambers of Commerce will be of exceptional interest at the present moment. (Copy to Department of Overseas Trade)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\nMr. Mackay (British Chambers of Commerce in China) to Consul-General, Shanghai.\n\nShanghai, January 12, 1921.\n\nI HAVE the honour to request that you will be good enough to transmit to His Majesty's Minister at Peking the following resolution passed at the recent Conference of British Chambers of Commerce in China and Hong Kong -\n\n\"That in view of the fact that the Hong Kong Government has approved the use of diaphones and wireless position-finders as used in European, American and Canadian waters, and intends shortly to install these at the approaches to Hong Kong Harbour, this conference is of opinion that China through the Maritime Customs should similarly install such aids to navigation on the China coast.\n\n\"Further, that weather signals and cable communications should be considered in connection with the wireless position-finders, more especially in view of the recent frequent stoppages of the Swatow-Hong Kong-Shanghai telegraph services, and that a sufficiently powerful wireless installation should be established at Swatow in conjunction with one at Hong Kong at the earliest possible moment to provide telegraphic and wireless communication with Hong Kong and other places, which is at present inadequate.\"\n\nAs pointed out by Mr. Holyoak in his introductory speech, this resolution falls under four headings:-\n\n1. The establishment of diaphones and wireless position-finders on the China coast\n2. Increased weather signals and communications along the coast.\n3. Establishment of increased cable services or a powerful wireless station at Swatow.\n4. Establishment of a powerful wireless station at Hong Kong.\n\nIt is unnecessary for me to enlarge on the urgent advisability of providing the additional safeguards specified under the first and second headings. Steamship traffic on the China coast continues to increase, and any measure that can be devised to reduce the perils of navigation in these dangerous waters must necessarily appeal to every one interested in the foreign and interport trade of China. I feel sure, therefore, that His Majesty's Minister will do what he can to support these recommendations, and will endeavour to secure the consent of the Chinese Government to their adoption at the earliest possible moment.\n\nThe extremely unsatisfactory position in which Swatow is placed in the matter of telegraph communications formed the subject of a resolution at last year's conference\n\n`[F 1304/181/10]`\n`[6061 m-4]`",
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        "content_text": "# \n## \n\n175 \n2 \n\nand it is regrettable that no improvement in this respect has been achieved since that time. The Associated Chambers venture to express the hope that His Majesty's Minister will continue to use his influence both with the Chinese Government and with the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company (Limited), with a view to securing an early solution of the question, which, according to a letter recently received from the London office of the company, dated the 27th October, 1920, is at the present moment under consideration by the Chinese Telegraph administration.\n\nAs regards the reference in the resolution to the provision of a powerful wireless installation at Hong Kong, the conference had the privilege of hearing from a naval expert a full account of the present position at Hong Kong in relation to wireless communications, and an explanation of some of the difficulties, financial and others, which must be considered in connection with any proposal to establish a high-power station of the nature indicated.\n\nThe Associated Chambers fully realise that these difficulties demand very serious consideration, but I feel sure that I am voicing their views in expressing the hope that in deciding on the advisability of erecting a powerful installation at Hong Kong His Majesty's Government will not accord too much importance to the question whether such a station would be on a commercially profitable basis. In this connection, I would venture to refer His Majesty's Minister to the remarks made by Mr. Holyoak in closing the discussion, and I believe that the delegate for Hong Kong had the full support of the conference in expressing the view that in the interests of His Majesty's navy and of the British commercial community in the Far East, the provision of a powerful wireless station at Hong Kong is a matter of vital necessity.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**EDW. F. MACKAY, Vice-Chairman.**\n\n## FROM \n1921 \nZo \n\n**FOR CIRCULATION :—**\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Mr. ... |\n| Mr. Beaded |\n| Mr. Grindle |\n| Sir H. Lambert |\n| Sir H. Read |\n| Sir G. Fiddles |\n| Mr. Wood |\n| Mr. Churchill |\n\n| Reference | Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `201805` |  |  |\n| `27805` |  | HONG KONG |\n|  | 19 July | Increased... |\n| `35990` | 16 JUL 211 | ...of morphine in Korea |\n|  |  | The copy ... from Tokyo |\n| `44035` |  |  |\n\n| MINUTES |\n| --- |\n| ... |\n| `((877800) Wt. 4710/19 Gp. 163` |\n| `40000 8-21 W&S Ltd,` |",
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        "content_text": "## 46\n\ndestroyed, and Mr. Consul Kirke suggested that its destruction at Wuchow should be insisted on, as he could then witness the proceedings. Sir John Jordan accordingly took the opportunity of an interview at the Wai-chiao Pu to bring the matter to the notice of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who promised that instructions in this sense should be sent to the Governor. The latter, however, continued to insist that the opium should be sent to Nanning, and, in spite of further representations based on the 1911 agreement, and urged both locally and at Peking, the consignment was eventually shipped to the provincial capital on the 18th September.\n\nIt only remained therefore to press for its destruction at Nanning, and, at Sir John Jordan's request, the Wai-chiao Pu promised to send telegraphic orders to this effect. At the same time His Majesty's consul was instructed to secure an account of the proceedings from a reliable source. This he did, and his description shows that the so-called opium burning was nothing but an elaborate farce which deceived nobody. In the meantime the official traffic in the drug continues unabated, and a Government patrol-boat is even used for its conveyance to Wuchow.\n\nBefore he left Peking Sir John Jordan took occasion to speak very strongly to the President's private secretary about the province's conduct in the matter of opium, and he requested that his remarks should be conveyed to the President, with the intimation that the whole matter would be reported to His Majesty's Government and the Government of India.\n\nThe Opium Agreement of 1911 provides for the total extinction of the trade by the end of 1917. There are indications that the Chinese Government is uneasy as to what is going to happen at the expiration of the stipulated period, and a National Opium Prohibition Conference has been meeting daily in Peking since the 10th instant to devise immediate measures for the suppression of the evil. It is hoped therefore that the representations that have been made, as reported above in connection with the Kuangsi incident, will strengthen the hands of the Central Government in dealing with the recalcitrant provinces.\n\n## No. 25.\n\n**Mr. Balfour to Mr. Alston.**\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\nForeign Office. February 23, 1917.\n\nYOU may assent to joint inspection of six remaining provinces.\n\n## No. 26.\n\n**Mr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.**-(Received March 15.)\n\nPeking, January 24, 1917.\n\nWITH reference to Sir John Jordan's despatch of the 13th September last on the subject of opium, I have the honour to forward herewith translation of a note which I have received from the Wai-chiao Pu, informing me that it is proposed to hold a joint inspection of the provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Shensi, Yunnan, and Kweichow.\n\nI had the honour to telegraph on the 22nd instant requesting instructions as to the reply which should be made to this note. In Sir John Jordan's despatch referred to, it was contemplated that the provinces of Kiangsu and Kiangsi, and later Kwang-tung, would be carefully examined, and that the remaining unclosed provinces would be closed without examination, but I have had no recent indication of the wishes of the Indian Government in the matter.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n## 47\n\n### Enclosure in No. 26.\n\n**Wai-chiao Pu to Mr. Alston.**\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, January 19, 1917.\n\nAS in accordance with the original Anglo-Chinese arrangement for the yearly reduction of the import of Indian opium, the amount was decreased in 1911 to 30,600 chests, and was subsequently further reduced every year by 5,100 chests, the import has now in the present year been extinguished, and no more Indian opium should come to China,\n\nThe cultivation of opium in China itself has also been decreased in proportion to the reduction of import, and at the end of last year reports were received from Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Shensi, Yunnan and Kweichow stating that the planting of the poppy had been completely suppressed in those six provinces.\n\nIt is now my intention, in order to make known the success achieved by China in the matter of opium prohibition, to request your Excellency to depute officers to proceed to the said provinces and to examine them in company with deputies to be appointed by this Government, so that the matter may be placed beyond doubt.\n\nWhen the dates for the joint investigations have been fixed in consultation with the provinces concerned, I shall have the honour to address your Excellency a further despatch, and in the meantime I shall be glad to have the favour of a reply.\n\n(Seal of Wai-chiao Pu.)\n\n## No. 27.\n\n**Mr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.**-(Received July 7.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, March 13, 1917.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch of the 24th January and your telegram of the 23rd February, I have the honour to report that on the 26th February I addressed a note (copy enclosed) to the Wai-chiao Pu informing them that His Majesty's Government assented to the proposal of the Chinese Government that the six provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kuangtung, Shensi, Yunnan, and Kueichow should be jointly inspected for opium cultivation. I sent a member of my staff to the Ministry to discuss with the Commercial Department, which is in charge of the opium affairs, the arrangements to be made, as far as they can be settled in Peking, with regard to the appointment of the British and Chinese delegates and their dates and places of rendezvous.\n\nThese are set out in my notes to the Wai-chiao Pu of the 7th and 12th March, of which copies are enclosed herewith. It will be seen that I have appointed the following consular officers as the British delegates:\n\n| Province        | Delegate                          |\n|----------------|-----------------------------------|\n| Kiangsu        | Mr. W. S. Toller, acting consul at Ningpo. |\n| Kiangsi        | Mr. W. R. Brown, acting consul, Kiukiang. |\n| Kuangtung      | Mr. Wyatt Smith, His Majesty's consulate, Swatow. |\n| Shensi         | Mr. E. Teichman, His Majesty's Legation, Peking. |\n| Kueichow and Eastern Yunnan | Mr. B. 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        "content_text": "## 1921 \n## HONG KONG \n## 634 \n\n7. The delegates to attend the Pacific Conference shall be chosen by the people's convention. \n\n8. The decisions of both the people's convention and the military convention shall be promulgated and carried out by the former. \n\n9. The conference shall be convened when the approval of the majority of the provinces and areas shall have been secured. \n\n10. The rules governing the procedure of the conference shall be promulgated when approved by a majority of the delegates thereto. \n\n11. The officials of the locality where the conference is to be held shall be entrusted with all arrangements therefor. \n\n12. The expenses of the convention shall be borne by the various provinces, &c. \n13. If found necessary, these regulations may be amended after the conference has opened. \n\n14. These principles of agreement, after being passed by the conference, shall be considered its legal resolutions. \n\nWhat I have said represents my personal opinion, but at a time when the life of the country hangs by a thread, I see no means, other than this, for the salvation of this country and people. I love my country, and who does not? It is sincerely hoped that my fellow-countrymen will give me the benefit of their opinions upon these suggestions, addressing them by telegraph to my office at the Liu Chia Hua Yuan, Hankow.\n\n## FROM \n## 30 \n## FOR CIRCULATION :- \n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Mr. Afr. |\n| Mr. Beckett |\n| Mr. Grindle |\n| Sir H. Lambert |\n| Sir H. Read |\n| Sir Maston Smith |\n| Mr. Wood |\n| Mr. Churchill |\n\n## DATE \n## 10 Nov. \n## SUBJECT \n## Situation in China \n\nC \n56261 \nNOV 21 \n& copy cores between the Junk lesung & Consul Geve, Canton, resp. Kwangchowwan by Anking troops.\n\n| Code | Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 56187 | 12/11 | ? |\n| 58593 |  | (0) (877309) WG, 4710/19 Gp. 163 |\n\n40000 8-21 W&N LAL \n60000 \" \" JITYSSAG \n4.5.18.11 \n& come",
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        "content_text": "# SINGAPORE GENERAL REPORT\n-10- \n460 \n## PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT\n\n### Chinese Meetings (Cont.)\n\nThe Council were asked by the Commissioners to support the policy of free diagnosis and treatment, and to assist in an educational campaign among the Chinese community. The Council passed a resolution in favour of free diagnosis and treatment, and offered to appoint a Committee from among their own number to confer with the Medical Department, or with the local Council for Combating Venereal Diseases if formed. This Committee would both advise and initiate on educational matters.\n\nThe Chinese Chamber of Commerce meeting was presided over by the President, and between 50 and 30 members were present. The members were asked to support the policy of the Commission. At the end of the meeting, the President, on behalf of the Chamber, promised the fullest co-operation, and offered all help the Government felt the Chamber could give in the dissemination of information by meetings or in any other suitable way.\n\n### Conference of Ministers of all Denominations\n\nThe meeting was small in numbers, but there were present representatives of the Church of England, the Methodists, and the Wesleyans. Those present undertook to support the scheme for extending the recreational facilities at present available for members of the Mercantile Marine.\n\n### Conference of Judicial and Police Authorities\n\nA brief address was given on comparative legislation. The existing laws on venereal disease were gone through with the Attorney General, who took the Ontario and Western Australian Acts to be copied for their guidance in Singapore.\n\n### Women's Meetings\n\nOwing to the absence of Her Excellency, Lady Guillemard, it was difficult to arrange drawing-room meetings during the first week of the Commissioners' visit. Two were held: one at Lady Murison's, presided over by Lady Guillemard; one at Mrs. Salmond's, wife of the head of the Eastern Telegraph Company. In addition, two meetings for women and social workers were held in the morning at the Y.M.C.A.\n\nThe result of the meeting held at Lady Murison's was the appointment of a representative Committee of women with direction to co-operate with the Committee appointed at the Conference of Municipal and Port Authorities in formulating plans for a Singapore Welfare Association, which should undertake to promote facilities for recreation for officers and men of the Mercantile Marine and for the junior employees of firms.",
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        "content_text": "No seamen or officer of the Seamen's Union in Hongkong shall be banished for any charge, which has no proof.\n\nOn the 27th January, the following telegraphic reply was sent:-\n\n\"For Civil Governor, Canton. Your despatch 26th January. Proposal that Seamen should only be employed through the Union, and agreements should have no effect unless Union has been a witness makes any discussion useless.\" \"Requirements of the Merchant Shipping Law would in any case make it impossible to accept these conditions to say nothing of international questions arising in cases of foreign owned ships.\n\nProposal to arbitrate at Canton cannot in any case be considered.\" \"The ostensible grounds for strike are solely questions of wages.\n\nOwners are still prepared to refer these to arbitration by Board appointed by my Government and suggest that Union should employ delegates to confer with them here to settle preliminaries.\n\nSTUBBS.\n\nBetween the 4th and the 7th February certain Hongkong Guilds came forward with proposals that they should assist in the negotiations with the seamen in Canton, and their offers were at once accepted.\n\nOn the 7th February the following telegraphic correspondence took place:\n\nFrom H.M. Consul-General, Canton, to Governor, Hongkong, dated 7th February.\n\n\"Urgent. Your telegram 4th February. Leaders of movement through Commissioner of Foreign Affairs inform me that they are prepared to proceed to Hongkong to confer with owners on condition that offices of Union reopened again, and on guarantee of freedom from arrest. They state that they are not responsible for intimidation in the Colony, and to appear at a conference as members of an outlawed society would place them in a false position. Please telegraph reply.'\n\nFrom Governor, Hongkong, to H.M. Consul-General, Canton, dated 7th February,\n\nDelegates will be given safe conduct, but Union cannot be re-opened. Point in last sentence need not arise if delegates come as representatives of seamen in Canton and not of Union. Intimidation is undoubtedly rife here, and in Canton and Sheklung. Are the Union authorities, in view of their statement, prepared to issue public repudiation of intimidation and to make it clear that men who wish to return to work need not fear the consequences?\n\nOn the 9th February the shipowners, on the suggestion of the Government, renewed their offer which had been withdrawn on the 18th January; and the Government thereupon issued the following notice in Chinese, emphasising the point that the offer was not finally binding on either side, but was subject to revision by the arbitrators.\n\nAt the suggestion of the Governor, the shipowners are willing to reinstate their former offer of increased wages to take effect from the day on which the seamen return to work. This scale of wages is merely a temporary scale pending arbitration and is on no account to be taken as a basis from which the arbitrators will work. Addition to it or subtraction from it are alike within the sole discretion of the arbitrators. The scale offered is repeated below:-\n\nChinese River Steamers.25%\nOther Chinese Steamers up to 1000 D.W. Tons.- Canton, Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co.'s Steamers15%\nOther British Companies River Steamers, taking the scale of Canton, Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co. as base.**25%\n *15%\nCoasting Steamers.\nJava Lines.24%\nPacific Lines.12%\nEuropean Lines7½%\nAustralian Lines.7½%\n10%\n\nIn the meantime the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital had proposed to the Government that they should use their good offices in bringing about a settlement. Other leading members of the Chinese Community were subsequently associated with them, and on the 8th February the Tung Wa Hospital, as representing the Chinese of the Colony, telegraphed to Canton asking the seamen to send delegates to discuss a settlement with them. The delegates arrived on the 12th February and on the following day at a meeting at the Tung Wa Hospital they declared that they could not carry the matter further until the settlement of the question of the re-opening of the Seamen's Union, which had been closed by the Government on the 1st February as being an unlawful society. The matter was accordingly referred on the 14th February to the Government, who on the 15th February issued a proclamation in Chinese in the following terms:-\n\nOn instructions from the Government, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs has communicated the following decision to the seamen's representatives:--\n\n1. The Seamen's Union was closed because it exceeded its legitimate bounds and broke the law of Hongkong, not because it asked for an increase of wages.\n\n2. The Governor absolutely requires proof of freedom from unlawfulness before he can change his present attitude.\n\n3. If it is desired to give proof of freedom from unlawfulness, all seamen and all workmen whom they involved in the strike must return to work and Hongkong resume its normal condition, before it can be considered that proof of freedom from unlawfulness has been furnished.\n\n4. If all come back to work first on the conditions offered by the shipowners and await the award of the arbitrators, the Governor will cancel the proclamation closing the Union.\"\n\nThe delegates returned to Canton on the 15th February, and they came back to Hongkong on the 17th February with certain suggestions which were considered by the shipowners on the 19th February. The shipowners' decision was conveyed to the delegates on the 20th February by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and the delegates left for Canton on the 21st February. On the 24th February a letter was handed to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs stating that the seamen were not prepared to accept the proposals made.\n\nOn the 22nd February a telegram had been received from H.M. Consul General at Canton, suggesting that there were good grounds for believing that an all-round increase of some 2% on the owners' original offer would be accepted. On the 24th February the Engineers' Society came forward with a similar suggestion and offered to negotiate for a settlement on this basis.\n\nThe Government informed the shipowners of these proposals, and suggested that, as it seemed likely that the offer of such an increase would bring the men back immediately to work and would prevent a general strike, it would be wise to add some 2% to the figures shown in the notice of the 9th February which is quoted above. That notice still stood. It pointed out clearly that the shipowners' offer covered only the immediate present, and that the scale would be increased or lowered in the sole discretion of the arbitrators. The shipowners added 2¼% to their previous figures, and on the 24th February this information was telegraphed to Canton and was communicated to the Engineers' Guild. The seamen refused the new terms.\n\nOn the 28th February, H.M. Consul-General telegraphed that he had information to the effect that, if a meeting between the shipowners and the seamen's delegates could be arranged, there was every prospect of a settlement. On the 1st March a reply was sent by the Hongkong Government that the shipowners were willing to meet the seamen's delegates. It was added that, in order to avoid further abortive proceedings, the Government considered it to be highly desirable that the delegates should be fully empowered to make a settlement.",
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        "content_text": "No seamen or officer of the Seamen's Union in Hongkong shall be banished for any charge, which has no proof.\n\nOn the 27th January, the following telegraphic reply was sent :-\n\n\"For Civil Governor, Canton. Your despatch 26th January. Proposal that Seamen should only be employed through the Union, and agreements should have no effect unless Union has been a witness makes any discussion useless.\" \"Requirements of the Merchant Shipping Law would in any case make it impossible to accept these conditions to say nothing of international questions arising in cases of foreign owned ships.\"\n\n\"Proposal to arbitrate at Canton cannot in any case be considered.\"\n\nThe ostensible grounds for strike are solely questions of wages. Owners are still prepared to refer these to arbitration by Board appointed by my Government and suggest that Union should employ delegates to confer with them here to settle preliminaries.\"\n\nSTUBBS.\n\nBetween the 4th and the 7th February certain Hongkong Guilds came forward with proposals that they should assist in the negotiations with the seamen in Canton, and their offers were at once accepted.\n\nOn the 7th February the following telegraphic correspondence took place :-\n\nFrom H.M. Consul-General, Canton, to Governor, Hongkong, dated 7th February.\n\n\"Urgent. Your telegram 4th February. Leaders of movement through Commissioner of Foreign Affairs inform me that they are prepared to proceed to Hongkong to confer with owners on condition that offices of Union be opened again, and on guarantee of freedom from arrest. They state that they are not responsible for intimidation in the Colony, and to appear at a conference as members of an outlawed society would place them in a false position. Please telegraph reply.'\n\nFrom Governor, Hongkong, to H.M. Consul-General, Canton, dated 7th February.\n\nDelegates will be given safe conduct, but Union cannot be re-opened. Point in last sentence need not arise if delegates come as representatives of seamen in Canton and not of Union. Intimidation is undoubtedly rife here, and in Canton and Sheklung. Are the Union authorities, in view of their statement, prepared to issue public repudiation of intimidation and to make it clear that men who wish to return to work need not fear the consequences?\"\n\nOn the 9th February the shipowners, on the suggestion of the Government, renewed their offer which had been withdrawn on the 18th January; and the Government thereupon issued the following notice in Chinese, emphasising the point that the offer was not finally binding on either side, but was subject to revision by the arbitrators.\n\n\"At the suggestion of the Governor, the shipowners are willing to reinstate their former offer of increased wages to take effect from the day on which the seamen return to work. This scale of wages is merely a temporary scale pending arbitration and is on no account to be taken as a basis from which the arbitrators will work. Addition to it or subtraction from it are alike within the sole discretion of the arbitrators. The scale offered is repeated below:-\n\n  \n    Chinese River Steamers.\n    -\n    25%\n  \n  \n    Other Chinese Steamers up to 1000 D.W. Tons.\n    -\n    25%\n  \n  \n    Canton, Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co.'s Steamers.\n    -\n    15%\n  \n  \n    Other British Companies River Steamers, taking the scale of Canton, Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co. as base.\n    -\n    15%\n  \n  \n    Coasting Steamers.\n    -\n    12%\n  \n  \n    Java Lines.\n    -\n    74%\n  \n  \n    Pacific Lines.\n    -\n    71%\n    7+%\n\n  \n  \n    European Lines\n    -\n    10%\n  \n  \n    Australian Lines.\n    414\n  \n\nIn the meantime the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital had proposed to the Government that they should use their good offices in bringing about a settlement. Other leading members of the Chinese Community were subsequently associated with them, and on the 8th February the Tung Wa Hospital, as representing the Chinese of the Colony, telegraphed to Canton asking the seamen to send delegates to discuss a settlement with them. The delegates arrived on the 12th February and on the following day at a meeting at the Tung Wa Hospital they declared that they could not carry the matter further until the settlement of the question of the re-opening of the Seamen's Union, which had been closed by the Government on the 1st February as being an unlawful society. The matter was accordingly referred on the 14th February to the Government, who on the 15th February issued a proclamation in Chinese in the following terms :--\n\n\"On instructions from the Government, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs has communicated the following decision to the seamen's representatives :--\n\nI. The Seamen's Union was closed because it exceeded its legitimate bounds and broke the law of Hongkong, not because it asked for an increase of wages.\n\n2. The Governor absolutely requires proof of freedom from unlawfulness before he can change his present attitude.\n\n3. If it is desired to give proof of freedom from unlawfulness, all seamen and all workmen whom they involved in the strike must return to work and Hongkong resume its normal condition, before it can be considered that proof of freedom from unlawfulness has been furnished.\n\n4. If all come back to work first on the conditions offered by the shipowners and await the award of the arbitrators, the Governor will cancel the proclamation closing the Union.\"\n\nThe delegates returned to Canton on the 15th February, and they came back to Hongkong on the 17th February with certain suggestions which were considered by the shipowners on the 19th February. The shipowners' decision was conveyed to the delegates on the 20th February by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and the delegates left for Canton on the 21st February. On the 24th February a letter was handed to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs stating that the seamen were not prepared to accept the proposals made.\n\nOn the 22 February a telegram had been received from H.M. Consul-General at Canton, suggesting that there were good grounds for believing that an all-round increase of some 2% on the owners' original offer would be accepted. On the 24th February the Engineers' Society came forward with a similar suggestion and offered to negotiate for a settlement on this basis.\n\nThe Government informed the shipowners of these proposals, and suggested that, as it seemed likely that the offer of such an increase would bring the men back immediately to work and would prevent a general strike, it would be wise to add some 2% to the figures shown in the notice of the 9th February which is quoted above. That notice still stood. It pointed out clearly that the ship-owners' offer covered only the immediate present, and that the scale would be increased or lowered in the sole discretion of the arbitrators. The shipowners added 2½% to their previous figures, and on the 24th February this information was telegraphed to Canton and was communicated to the Engineers' Guild. The seamen refused the new terms,\n\nOn the 28th February, H.M. Consul-General telegraphed that he had information to the effect that, if a meeting between the shipowners and the seamen's delegates could be arranged, there was every prospect of a settlement. On the 1st March a reply was sent by the Hongkong Government that the shipowners were willing to meet the seamen's delegates. It was added that, in order to avoid further abortive proceedings, the Government considered it to be highly desirable that the delegates should be fully empowered to make a settlement.",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Weekly Press\n\nVOL. XCIV.]\n\nAND\n\nChina Overland Trade Report.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nFar Eastern News\n\nHongkong\n\nMui Teai in Hongkong\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD., 1921.\n\nPAGE 213 ........ 213 ..... 214\n\nThe Sanitary Board................................................................................ ..... ... 214\n\nLeading Articles :-\n\nRandom Reflections\n\n215\n\n215\n\n,216\n\n.216\n\n....217\n\n.... 217 ....218 219 .........227\n\nHongkong and the Water Carriage System........... 227\n\nHongkong Book-keeper's Sharp Sentence\n\n......... 228\n\n228\n\n229\n\n....230\n\nJapanese \"Aggression\" in China\n\nJapan in China and Siberia\n\nThe Central Yangtsze Situation\n\nThe British in South China\n\nWedding in Kowloon......\n\n\"Hongkong Daily Press\n\nHongkong Legislative Council....\n\nRoyal Dutch Petroleum Company\n\nCorrespondence :-\n\nAn Inaccurate Report\n\nSuspected Arson\n\nChamber of Commerce\n\nThieves Still Busy\n\nThe Cassel Mining Agreement..\n\nWhat Kansu's Earthquake Cost the Province ...230\n\nSt. Joseph's College\n\nBank of East Asia\n\n281\n\nThe Bank of China\n\nMr. Stevens's Kidnapper\n\nThe Law Courts..\n\n231 231 232\n\nThe War in Hapeh\n\n234\n\nFar Eastern Cable News...\n\nWireless Telegraph Communication with China 234\n\nLocal Sport\n\n235\n\n236\n\nFamine Committee and a Bank Fraud\n\n...236\n\nRepublicanism\" in China\n\n237\n\nFiring on Ships on the Yangtsze......\n\n..238\n\nCompany Meeting :-\n\nHongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. ..\n\nShipping\n\n..239\n\nThe Upper Yangtze Trade\n\nCommercial....\n\nBIRTHS.\n\n239\n\n239 .240\n\nCARTER.-At Shanghai, on August 21st, to Mr. and Mrs. D. CARTER, a daughter.\n\nCHAPEAUX.-At Shanghai, on August 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT CHAPEAUX, a son.\n\nMOONEY REED.-At Shanghai, on August 19th, AUSTIN JAMES MOONEY to ANNE CONSTANCE REED.\n\nNICHOLLS-INWOOD --At Shanghai, on August 13th, HARRY CHARLES THOMAS NICHOLLS, of Shanghai and Bristol, to EMILY INWOOD, of Shanghai and London.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nBONE.--At Studley, Warwick, England, on the 26th August, Mrs. C. BONE, beloved wife of the Rev. C. Bone (formerly Pastor, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wanchai). By cable.\n\nHARDY. At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on August 24th, HERBERT JOHN HARDY (Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd.), aged 47 years.\n\nRegistered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.\n\nNo. 10\n\nBy order of the Canton Government 140,000 taels of opium, worth $400,000, which had been confiscated by the customs and police authorities from Smugglers, were publicly destroyed by fire on August 27th on the East Parade Ground.\n\nAdvices from Washington state that Mr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, author of \"Contemporary International Politics,\" has been invited to serve as an adviser on Far Eastern affairs to the American State Department for the Pacific Conference. Mr. Hornbeck, who has been travelling in China, Japan and the Philippine Islands for the past 18 months, will return to Washington next week.\n\nMr. W. S. Fleming, the American Attorney, who has been very prominently in the limelight lately at Shanghai, sailed, last week, for America, but sent to the Press a parting letter in which he wrote:- \"There is no reason to camouflage my purpose in leaving China, as I am going straight to Washington, D.C., in response to telegraphic advices I have received to be there in connection with an investigation I initiated in the Department of State early in March of this year. Lest certain evil-disposed persons should misrepresent the purpose of my departure I would ask you kindly to publish this at an early date.\"\n\nJENNER. At Shanghai, on August 22nd.\n\nELI WILLIAM JENNER, of Kent, England, aged 28 years.\n\nLINN.-At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on August 24th, CATHERINE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Linn, aged 7 weeks.\n\nRAWLINGSON.-At Shanghai, on August 26th. Captain W. J. RAWLINGSON, of Shanghai.\n\nHongkong Weekly Press.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VOEUX ROAD C LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.\n\nFAR EASTERN NEWS.\n\nLANE. At Tientsin, on August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. LANE, a daughter.\n\nRecent floods not only interrupted traffic on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway by washing away the tracks, but washed away a bridge on the Peking-Mukden Line, near Shanhaikuan.\n\nMURPHY.-At Cork, on August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. MURPHY, of Shanghai, a son.\n\nPRITCHARD.-At Yunnanfu, on August 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. PRITCHARD, a daughter.\n\nREIS.-In Manila, on Sunday, the 21st inst., at 8.40 a.m., to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. REIS, a son, PEDRO FAUSTINO.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nOLIVER-KAY.-At the Abbey Hotel, Jedburgh, Scotland, on July 19th, by the Rev. Stewart Burns, M.A., St. Mary's, Hawick, MICHAEL OLIVER, China Navigation Co., Hongkong, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Oliver, 20. Slitrig Crescent, Hawick, to AGNES ROBSON, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Kay, Hill View, Jedburgh.\n\nSir Arthur Whitton Brown, the Transatlantic airman, who paid a visit to China on behalf of Messrs. Vickers, a few months ago, has undergone an operation for appendicitis since his return to England.\n\nThe late Admiral Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, K.C.M.G. (75), who saw service in Nigeria and was second in command in China at the time of the Boxer outbreak, formerly A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, left estate of the gross value of £20,957.\n\nAfter a full day's proceedings, investigation of the charge against J. G. Gardiner, alleged to have stolen 50 barrels of cement, the property of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, was completed at H.M. Police Court at Shanghai, on Aug. 24th, before Mr. G. W. King, when the defendant was discharged.\n\nCertain Chinese now in London, says a London paper, are demanding that the value of two sacred golden bells taken from the Temple of Heaven in Peking during the Boxer rising shall be restored to the temple authorities. It is stated that the bells were found under piles of rubbish, and that one of them was taken by British troops to Delhi and there melted down, the gold being sold for £25,000. The interested Chinese now point to the special clause in the Versailles Treaty whereby the ancient astronomical instruments looted by the Germans during the capture of Peking were returned to China, and demand that the sacred bells, or their value, shall also be restored to the Temple of Heaven.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nOwing to the recent heavy rains the road from Laichikok to Castle Peak is closed.\n\nIt has been decided to admit women to Hongkong University and the first girl student has already been registered.\n\nMr. Percy Smith, who has been taking the waters at Marienbad, is expected to return to Hongkong in the middle of October.\n\nMr. B. Tanner, Head Master of Queen's College, who has been home on leave, returned to the Colony on August 31st by the Kamo-maru.\n\nOn one day last week seven opium raids produced 45 defendants in the dock at the Magistracy and a haul of thousands of taels of opium.",
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        "content_text": "800\n\n- 2\n\nNo seamen or officer of the Seamen's Union in Hongkong shall be banished for any charge, which has no proof.\n\nOn the 27th January, the following telegraphic reply was sent :-\n\n\"For Civil Governor, Canton, Your despatch 26th January. Proposal that Seamen should only be employed through the Union, and agreements should have no effect unless Union has been a witness makes any discussion useless.' \"Requirements of the Merchant Shipping Law would in any case make it impossible to accept these conditions to say nothing of international questions arising in cases of foreign owned ships.\"\n\nFL\n\nProposal to arbitrate at Canton cannot in any case be considered. ' \"The ostensible grounds for strike are solely questions of wages.\n\n\"\n\nOwners are still prepared to refer these to arbitration by Board appointed by my Government and suggest that Union should employ delegates to confer with them here to settle preliminaries.\n\nSTUBBS.\n\nBetween the 4th and the 7th February certain Hongkong Guilds came forward with proposals that they should assist in the negotiations with the seamen in Canton, and their offers were at once accepted.\n\nOn the 7th February the following telegraphic correspondence took place:\n\nFrom H.M. Consul-General, Canton, to Governor, Hongkong, dated 7th February.\n\n\"Urgent. Your telegram 4th February. Leaders of movement through Commissioner of Foreign Affairs inform me that they are prepared to proceed to Hongkong to confer with owners on condition that offices of Union be opened again, and on guarantee of freedom from arrest. They state that they are not responsible for intimidation in the Colony, and to appear at a conference as members of an outlawed society would place them in a false position, Please telegraph reply.'\n\nFrom Governor, Hongkong, to H.M. Consul-General, Canton, dated 7th February.\n\nDelegates will be given safe conduct, but Union cannot be re-opened. Point in last sentence need not arise if delegates come as representatives of seamen in Canton and not of Union. Intimidation is undoubtedly rife here, and in Canton and Sheklung. Are the Union authorities, in view of their statement, prepared to issue public repudiation of intimidation and to make it clear that men who wish to return to work need not fear the consequences?\n\nOn the 9th February the shipowners, on the suggestion of the Government, renewed their offer which had been withdrawn on the 18th January; and the Government thereupon issued the following notice in Chinese, emphasising the point that the offer was not finally binding on either side, but was subject to revision by the arbitrators.\n\nAt the suggestion of the Governor, the shipowners are willing to reinstate their former offer of increased wages to take effect from the day on which the seamen return to work. This scale of wages is merely a temporary scale pending arbitration and is on no account to be taken as a basis from which the arbitrators will work. Addition to it or subtraction from it are alike within the sole discretion of the arbitrators. The scale offered is repeated below:-\n\nChinese River Steamers.\n\n25%\n\nOther Chinese Steamers up to 1000 D.W. Tons, Canton, Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co.'s Steamers.\n\nOther British Companies River Steamers, taking the scale of Canton, Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co. as base.\n\nCoasting Steamers.\n\nJava Lines.\n\nPacific Lines.\n\nEuropean Lines\n\nAustralian Lines.\n\n15%\n\n25%\n\n15%\n\n12%\n\n7½%\n\n7½%\n\n10%\n\nIn the meantime the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital had proposed to the Government that they should use their good offices in bringing about a settlement. Other leading members of the Chinese Community were subsequently associated with them, and on the 8th February the Tung Wa Hospital, as representing the Chinese of the Colony, telegraphed to Canton asking the seamen to send delegates to discuss a settlement with them. The delegates arrived on the 12th February and on the following day at a meeting at the Tung Wa Hospital they declared that they could not carry the matter further until the settlement of the question of the re-opening of the Seamen's Union, which had been closed by the Government on the 1st February as being an unlawful society. The matter was accordingly referred on the 14th February to the Government, who on the 15th February issued a proclamation in Chinese in the following terms :-\n\n\"On instructions from the Government, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs has communicated the following decision to the seamen's representatives :-\n\n1. The Seamen's Union was closed because it exceeded its legitimate bounds and broke the law of Hongkong, not because it asked for an increase of wages.\n\n2. The Governor absolutely requires proof of freedom from unlawfulness before he can change his present attitude.\n\n3. If it is desired to give proof of freedom from unlawfulness, all seamen and all workmen whom they involved in the strike must return to work and Hongkong resume its normal condition, before it can be considered that proof of freedom from unlawfulness has been furnished.\n\n4. If all come back to work first on the conditions offered by the shipowners and await the award of the arbitrators, the Governor will cancel the proclamation closing the Union.\"\n\nThe delegates returned to Canton on the 15th February, and they came back to Hongkong on the 17th February with certain suggestions which were considered by the shipowners on the 19th February. The shipowners' decision was conveyed to the delegates on the 20th February by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and the delegates left for Canton on the 21st February. On the 24th February a letter was handed to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs stating that the seamen were not prepared to accept the proposals made.\n\nOn the 22nd February a telegram had been received from H.M. Consul-General at Canton, suggesting that there were good grounds for believing that an all-round increase of some 2% on the owners' original offer would be accepted On the 24th February the Engineers' Society came forward with a similar suggestion and offered to negotiate for a settlement on this basis.\n\nThe Government informed the shipowners of these proposals, and suggested that, as it seemed likely that the offer of such an increase would bring the men back immediately to work and would prevent a general strike, it would be wise to add some 2% to the figures shown in the notice of the 9th February which is quoted above. That notice still stood. It pointed out clearly that the shipowners' offer covered only the immediate present, and that the scale would be increased or lowered in the sole discretion of the arbitrators. The shipowners added 2% to their previous figures, and on the 24th February this information was telegraphed to Canton and was communicated to the Engineers' Guild. The seamen refused the new terms.\n\nOn the 28th February, H.M. Consul-General telegraphed that he had information to the effect that, if a meeting between the shipowners and the seamen's delegates could be arranged, there was every prospect of a settlement. On the 1st March a reply was sent by the Hongkong Government that the shipowners were willing to meet the seamen's delegates. It was added that, in order to avoid further abortive proceedings, the Government considered it to be highly desirable that the delegates should be fully empowered to make a settlement.",
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Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver 7th Nov.\n\nNEW YORK SERVICE (via Suez or Panama)\n\nANTILOCHUS AGAMEMNON TEUCER TERESIAS PYRRHUS PYRRHUS\n\n5th Oct. via Suez 25th Oct. via Suez 15 Nov. via Suez\n\nPASSENGER SERVICE\n\n25th Sept. for Singapore & London 1st Nov for Shanghai & Japan 4th Nov. for Singapore & London\n\nFor Freight and Passage Rates and further information apply to :-\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.) AGENTS.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.\n\nRegular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong, Swatow and return.\n\nS. S. \"BAKA\" Due S. S. \"BINTANG\" Will leave for Bangkok via Swatow\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., Agents. CONSIGNEES.\n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE.\n\nThe Steamship \"PRESIDENT MCKINLEY\" having arrived from Manila P. I on Sep. 21 consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., at Kowloon, and stored at consignees' risk.\n\nConsignees of cargo must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading will be counter-signed.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nEARLIER TELEGRAMS. (Continued from Page 3)\n\nTHE ALLIES AND TURKEY.\n\nParis, Sept. 21.\n\nAn account of the proceedings of the Foreign Ministers' Conference yesterday is contained in the semi-official statement which says that Lord Curzon expressed great astonishment at the fact that while the British had decided to reinforce her troops at Chanak, both France and Italy had resolved to withdraw their contingents from the south side of the Sea of Marmora.\n\nLord Curzon considered that the Franco-Italian decision hardly conformed with the agreements of 1915 and 1918, providing for partial Inter-Allied occupation of Turkish territory.\n\nM. Poincare regarded the agreements as being at present inapplicable, as no conflict was feared when the allocation of troops was provided thereunder. He added that French opinion would not permit French troops to act with the Greeks and he argued that if Chanak was held, the whole of the southern shore of the Sea of Marmora ought equally to be occupied.\n\nKemalists would entertain peace proposals.\n\nSignor Sforza, agreeing with M. Poincare, believed that the discussions on the acceptable basis of agreement cabled last night and which just then arrived.\n\nThe Conference decided, in principle, to hold a Peace Conference at Venice, but pointed out that Russia had not been invited as she was not directly interested, the Soviet-Angora Treaty specifically excluding Russian decisions affecting the sovereignty of Turkey and the security of Constantinople.\n\nM. Poincare further pointed out the military objection to the Allies fighting with their backs to the sea. He also pointed out the undesirable effect upon the Islamic world if Britain adopted an uncompromising or bellicose attitude.\n\nIt is semi-officially declared that the problem cannot be referred to the League of Nations as urged by Dr. Nansen and Dominion representatives, as it is a Government matter.\n\nThe document states that the Foreign Minister's decision marks a big step on the road to peace.\n\nAll broken, chafed and damaged cargo is to be left in the Godowns, where it will be examined at 10 a.m. on 26th inst., by the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Anderson & Ashe.\n\nAll claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.\n\nNo claims will be recognised after the goods have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Sept. 27th will be subject to rent.\n\nNo Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.\n\nConsignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for counter-signature immediately.\n\nPACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, No. 4. Des Voeux Road, Managing Agents, THE ADMIRAL LINE. Hongkong, 21st. Sept., 1922.\n\n\"For the Blood is the Life.\"\n\nSufferers from Bad Legs, Abscesses, Ulcers, Piles, Glandular Swellings, Eczema, Boils, Pimples and Eruptions, Gout, Rheumatism, must realise that the only sure way to complete and lasting relief is to free the blood of the poisonous waste matter, the one cause of such troubles.\n\nClarke's Blood Mixture contains ingredients which soon overcome and expel the impurities, that's why so many lasting cures stand to its credit.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. COPENHAGEN.\n\nThe M. S. \"INDIEN\" will be loading for Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen & other Scandinavian Ports, about 1st October.\n\nFurther Sailings:-Expected on or about 4th October M. S. \"ASIA\" 15th October M. S. \"PANAMA\" 26th October M. S. \"MALAYA\" Subject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. Agents. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1922.\n\nMRS. SEKAI MASSAGE\n\nTHE CANTON BANK, 2nd Floor, No. 2, DUDDELL ST. HONGKONG.\n\nSAVARESSE'S SANTAL CAPSULES\n\nFrom all Chemists The best internal treatment. Specially made in a way that prevents sickness or nausea. Physicians recommend them.\n\nTHE GRECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO CO. 12a, Queen's Road, Beg to announce to the general public the arrival of their new coffee roasting machine for the best quality Mocha and Java coffee, which can be had at the above address, Fresh Coffee roasted daily.\n\nA PERSIAN PROVERB: \"A cup of hot coffee without an Egyptian cigarette is like meat without salt.\"\n\nSimla, Sept. 21.\n\nTwenty-five Moslem Members of the Legislature have submitted their views on the Near East situation to the Viceroy, most earnestly and with the greatest moderation drawing his attention to the points on which it is considered Turkish peace ought to be based and which formed the subject of the Government of India's famous telegram of March 8, the unauthorised publication of which resulted in Mr. Montagu's resignation of the Secretaryship of India.\n\nThe Viceroy promised to lay their views before the Imperial Government.\n\nParis, Sept. 21. A message from Angora reports that the Turks altogether captured 60,000 Greeks.\n\nWellington (N.Z.), Sept. 21. There has been an immense response to the proposal for service in the Straits. Ten thousand New Zealanders yesterday alone offered themselves.\n\nConstantinople, Sept. 21. Hamid Bey, the Kemalist representative here, has informed a British correspondent that the Turks intend to cross the Dardanelles and enter Thrace, but will not fire on the Allies in crossing unless first attacked.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Near East policy of the United States has been outlined at the White House.\n\nIt is stated that the United States will stand aloof in the event of trouble, except to provide adequately for the relief of American citizens endangered by the Turkish advance and to participate in any general programme of relief adopted by the European governments.\n\nTHE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Treasury experts estimate that the new tariff under the Fordney-McCumber Bill, the measure when enacted, will yield about $100,000,000 annual revenue, half of which will be derived from the following sources, viz., sugar, $37,000,000; raw wool, $63,000,000; tobacco, $35,000,000; laces and embroideries, $15,000,000; while the average ad valorem rates will be slightly higher than the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.\n\nThey will in actual operation show an average slightly lower because some of the new duties will be inoperative owing to their height or the absence of imports of commodities they cover.\n\nPerhaps, the most notable feature of the Bill is the power given to the President, after investigation by the Tariff Commission, to increase or decrease any rate in the Bill by 50 per cent. if necessary, in order to set off the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad.\n\nThe President may also declare American valuations as the basis of an assessment of ad valorem duties.\n\nIt is estimated that this will automatically increase the rates about 100 per cent.\n\nAfter such declaration the President could reduce any duty by 50 per cent. but could not increase it.\n\nAlmost all infantile troubles arise in the first place from stomach and bowel troubles.\n\nTo remedy these conditions use Baby's Own Tablets.\n\nThese Tablets stand in a class by themselves, being especially made for children's use, pleasant in taste and guaranteed absolutely harmless.\n\nThey quickly reduce simple fever, cure indigestion, check diarrhoea, allay teething pains, expel worms, relieve croup and colds, quiet the nerves and promote health-giving, restful sleep in a natural way.\n\nBaby's Own Tablets are sold by chemists, or at 60 cents the vial, post free, from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai.\n\nVisitors always welcome a VICTROLA No Home complete without one.\n\nMCUTRIES:-Sole Agents.\n\nAIRSHIPS SUPPLANT CRUISERS.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. The Admiralty has decided that the use of the airship in wartime shall become the first consideration of British airship policy, and its employment for Imperial communications the next.\n\nThis decision was influenced by figures in comparison with the cruiser, showing that the airship costing £250,000, compared with £900,000, is cheaper to navigate and able to cover seven times more area.\n\nSIAMESE TEAK TRADE.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. As the May meeting of the Anglo-Siam Corporation is forthcoming, the issue of 22,000 ordinary shares of £50,000, 7%, preferences is announced.\n\nThe chairman's review considered the Siamese Government was insufficiently considering the interests of the teak trade in Siam.\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO. Just Arrived \"SWIMEASY\" Worsted and Wool BATHING SUITS for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. Practical and Dressy Style Large Assortment of WATER WINGS Price $1.25 a pair\n\nGOLDEN STATE BUTTER From CALIFORNIA CREAMERIES. 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Central No. 1186.\n\nThe Telegraph.\n\nHONGKONG, 22nd Sept., 1922.\n\nSUN YAT-SEN EXPOSED.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nDAY BY DAY.\n\nOUR GREATEST GLORY CONSISTS NOT IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL.-oldsmith.\n\nSun Yat-sen's emissary openly states that he has received the help of von Hintze, whom he describes as a man of modern ideas whose \"plans harmony with current democratic opinion.\" Further, it is put on record that this German schemer has decided to devote the whole of his energies to this project of a Triple Alliance and that he is planning to obtain official sanction for his being sent to China. So hopeful were Sun Yat-sen and his emissary of this request being granted that they had made all the necessary arrangements for von Hintze being secretly taken to Government headquarters in Canton, in order...\n\nOwing to the breakage of an oar, a sampan became unmanageable and capsized off the Kowloon Wharf this morning. A woman was drowned.\n\nKEMALISTS REACH NEUTRAL ZONE.\n\nFrench and Italian Contingents Withdrawn.\n\nANGORA INSISTS UPON OCCUPATION OF THRACE.\n\nReuters' Service.\n\nConstantinople, September 21. The French and Italian detachments and flags were to-day removed from Ismid, the Dardanelles, and the neutral zones on orders from their respective Governments. The lines are now held exclusively by British troops, supported by the combined Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets.\n\nThe Kemalist vanguard is reported to have reached the neutral zone of the Dardanelles, and the next few hours will show whether they contemplate action. The Kemalist representative at Constantinople declined to pledge that the Kemalists would respect the neutral zone, although he was warned that an offensive would mean war with Britain.\n\n\"Continue Until Achievement of National Aims.\"\n\nLater.\n\nHamid Bey, the Angoran representative, interviewed, entertained scant hope of a successful outcome of the conference between the French High Commissioner and Mustapha Kemal, because nothing will alter Angora's determination to occupy Thrace. The Angora Assembly, by an overwhelming majority, authorised Kemal to continue the war until the achievement of the national aims.\n\nA partner in a contractor's firm at 195, Temple Street, Yau-ma-tei, is alleged to have absconded with a sum of $500 which he had collected on behalf of the firm.\n\nTheir Smyrna Refugees' Plight.\n\nThe British, French, and Italian Consuls at Mitylene have wired to the High Commissioners at Constantinople stating that two hundred thousand Christians are still lying on the foreshore at Smyrna awaiting help and insisting upon urgent action, otherwise nobody will survive.\n\nMiners' Federation Against War.\n\nLondon, September 21. The Executive of the Miners' Federation has passed a resolution against the war policy of the Government as regards the Near East.\n\nPremier's Reply to Trades Union Deputation.\n\nLater.\n\nMr. Lloyd George, accompanied by Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Robert Horne, and Sir Worthington Evans, received a deputation of thirty members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, who voiced Labour's uncompromising peace policy in regard to the Near East.\n\nMr. Lloyd George, replying, explained the Cabinet's well-known views. He is understood to have pointed out that peace was always their aim, and contended that it was partly due to the Government's prompt action that the position was easier.\n\nNationalists Reported to Have Made Smyrna Their Headquarters.\n\nThere are many significant factors that must be borne in mind when considering this great strike for over a week.\n\nThe teachers of the Middle-School at Canton have been on strike, demanding the payment of 50 per cent. of their salaries in silver coin.\n\nThe Canton Times says that the movement is Bolshevistic in character, and that Sun Yat-sen has long been credited with revolutionary ideas and has in recent times openly espoused the labourers' cause.\n\nAdana, September 21. According to a message from Smyrna, Kemalist Ministers have assumed control, and it is reported, but not confirmed, that Smyrna will henceforth be the Nationalists' headquarters.\n\nAuthoritative quarters here express the view that the Turks will not attack the Allied troops in the neutral zone, which Turkey does not intend at present to cross.\n\nMr. Lew Yuk-lin, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, is very keen on settling the Macao affair. He wishes to obtain full knowledge on the subject, and has called on the British Consul for certain information.\n\nNo Further Move, by Kemalists.\n\nConstantinople, September 21. The Kemalists have not made a fresh move in the direction of the neutral zone during the past twenty-four hours, and it is hoped by well-informed persons that the question will be settled peacefully to-day if the guarantees demanded by the Kemalists for immediate Greek evacuation of Thrace are forthcoming.\n\nKemalist Demands.\n\nParis, September 22. An inspired statement says that the British resolve to keep troops in the Asiatic zone has unfavourably impressed French and Italian circles, but understands that Angora will refrain, at least for some days, from any imprudent move.\n\nThe French Government has received information that Sun Yat-sen's secret documents, which were left behind by an official of Sun Yat-sen's South China Government when the leaders thereof were compelled to flee as consequence of General Yip Kai's coup, are incriminating to the point of absolute conviction.\n\nINDIAN INDUSTRIAL UNREST.\n\nIndications of Further Trouble.\n\nBombay, September 21. There are signs that India is on the verge of another spell of industrial unrest. In addition to the trouble at the Tata Iron and Steel Works, three-fourths of the Bombay tramwaymen have struck for an increase of wages.\n\nVessels arriving in port yesterday and to-day report bad weather. The Japanese steamers Hirano Maru, Asama Maru, and Kishu Maru had to put back to Hongkong owing to heavy seas, and the Sanka Maru, which arrived this morning, had to take refuge in Shito Bay, off St. John's Island, on account of the typhoon, for sixteen hours.\n\nCharged with the theft of a sheet and two towels from the Empress of Canada, Ah Kam, 19, unemployed, pleaded at the Police Court this morning that these articles were left behind by one of the boys and were not wanted. It was stated that the towels were found wrapped round the man's waist.\n\nCOUNCIL OF THE L. ON.\n\nIncrease in Non-Permanent Members.\n\nGeneva, September 21. The Bourgeois, the First Commission of the League of Nations decided to increase the non-permanent members of the council from four to six.\n\nWELSH COLLIERIES CLOSED.\n\nTen Thousand Men Affected.\n\nLondon, September 21. The Ebbw Vale Collieries and Steel Works, employing over 10,000 men, is closing indefinitely, following a wage dispute and a twenty-four hours' strike.\n\nGAMBLING IN WHEAT.\n\nPresident Harding Signs Restrictive Measure.\n\nWashington, September 21. President Harding has signed the Bill regulating trading in grain futures. The Bill is to be effective from October 1.\n\nNEW AERIAL RECORD.\n\n213 Miles in an Hour.\n\nEtampes, September 21. Sadi Lecointe, the well-known aviator, broke the world's aeroplane speed record by covering 213 miles in an hour.\n\nDUTCH AEROPLANE DISASTER.\n\nAmsterdam, September 21. A military aeroplane nose-dived into the Zuider Zee near Den Helder, the pilot and observer being drowned.\n\nGERMAN BANK RATE RAISED.\n\nBerlin, September 1. The Reichsbank has raised its discount from seven to eight per cent.\n\nFord Works Restarting.\n\nDetroit, September 21. 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        "content_text": "Shipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nP.&O.-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR\n\nAND\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND)\n\nTO\n\nBURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST & SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND & QUEENSLAND PORTS.\n\nRED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC\n\nPENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS (UNDER CONTRACT WITH H. M. GOVERNMENT.)\n\n  \n    S.S.\n    Tons\n    From Hong-kong (about)\n    Destination\n    Miles\n  \n  \n    MACEDONIA\n    11,000\n    27 Sept. 11 am\n    'pore, P'ang, C'ho & B'bay\nB'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n    6,696\n  \n  \n    KALYAN\n    9,000\n    11th Oct.\n    B'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n    \n  \n  \n    MANTUA\n    11,000\n    25th Oct.\n    M'les, London & Antwerp\n    \n  \n  \n    DONGOLA\n    8,000\n    8th Nov.\n    \n    \n  \n\nBRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS (South)\n\nTORILLA 15,205 24th Sept. 11 a.m. | Singapore & Madras.\n\nJANUS 4,824 29th Sept. | Calcutta via S'pore, Penang.\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)\n\nARAFURA 4th Oct. | Manila, Iloilo, Sandakan, Thurs. Is., Tville, B'bane,\n\nSydney and Melbourne,\n\nFrequent connections from Australia with the following:-\n\nThe Union S. S. Co's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc\n\nThe P.&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal\n\nThe P&O Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape\n\nThe New Zealand Shipping Co's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.\n\n  \n    S.S.\n    Tons\n    From Hong-kong (about)\n    Destination\n  \n  \n    ST. ALBANS\n    6,052\n    22 Sept. d'light\n    Amoy, Y'hama & Kobe\n  \n  \n    MANTUA\n    10,902\n    25 Sept. d'light\n    S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama\n  \n  \n    DONGOLA\n    8,083\n    7th Oct.\n    Shanghai & Japan\n  \n\nSAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.\n\nAll dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice\n\nWIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS.\n\nParcels Measuring not more than 2ft x 2ft. x 1ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing.\n\nFor Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights etc., apply to\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO\n\n22, Des Voeux Road Central.\n\nGLEN\n\nAND\n\nSHIRE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS.\n\nU.K., STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN Service.\n\n  \n    Vessel\n    OUTWARDS\n    HOMEWARDS\n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENOGLE\n    Leaves Hongkong... 22nd September\n    Discharges G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENAVY\n    5th October\n    \n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENAPP\n    5th October\n    \n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENADE\n    24th Sept.\n    G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n  \n  \n    S.S GLENARIFFE\n    18th Oct.\n    G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, H'BURG\n  \n\nMovements are subject to change without notice. For freight or further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.\n\nTHE GLEN LINE, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nTelephone Central No. 215, sub-ex. 23 and 3696\n\nJAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY\n\nSERVICE BETWEEN\n\nJAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    From\n    Expected on or about\n    Will leave on\n    in port\n  \n  \n    Tjikini\n    Java\n    21st Sept.\n    23rd Sept.\n    Shanghai\n  \n  \n    Tjisondari\n    Java\n    \n    21st Sept.\n    Japan\n  \n  \n    Tjisalak\n    Japan\n    23rd Sept.\n    \n    Java\n  \n\nThe steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers\n\nAll steamers carry a duly qualified Surgeon.\n\nCargo taken with through rates to all ports in N., Frlands-India and Australia.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to the\n\nJava-China-Japan Lijn.\n\nYork Buildings.\n\nTelephone Central No. 1574.\n\nHONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMERS.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-CANTON LINE.\n\nSailings: To Canton daily at 8 a.m & 10 p.m. (Sun. 10 p.m. only)\n\nFrom Canton daily at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. (Sundays 5 p.m. only)\n\nSERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMBOAT CO., LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-MACAO LINE.\n\nSailings to Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sundays at 9 a.m. only)\n\nSailings from Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sun. at 5 p.m. only)\n\nFurther information may be obtained at the Company's office, 4A Des Voeux Road Central, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son or the American Express Company, Hongkong.\n\nTHE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY.\n\nShipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nN. Y. K.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,\n\nVICTORIA, SEATTLE & VANCOUVER via S'hai & Japan ports\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued to all Overland Common Points in U.S.A & Canada\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    Sailing\n    Destination\n  \n  \n    SHIDZUOKA MARU\n    Saturday, 30th Sept., at 11 am\n    \n  \n  \n    YOKOHAMA MARU\n    Monday, 23rd Oct., at 11 am\n    \n    KASHIMA MARU\n    Friday, 29th Sept. at 11a.m.\n    MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP via Singanore, &c.\n  \n  \n    HAKONE MARU\n    Friday, 13th Oct. at 11 am\n    \n  \n  \n    MATSUMOTO MARU\n    Thursday, 28th September.\n    LIVERPOOL via MARSEILLES\n  \n  \n    TOYOHASHI MARU\n    17th Oct. at 11 a.m.\n    SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, &c.\n  \n  \n    YOSHINO MARU\n    Tuesday, 26th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n    \n  \n  \n    AKI MARU\n    Tuesday, 3rd Oct. at 11 a.m.\n    NEW YORK VIA PANAMA\n  \n  \n    SANUKI MARU\n    Monday, 25th September.\n    CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon\n  \n  \n    MORICKA MARU\n    Friday, 29th Sept.\n    BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo\n  \n  \n    AKI MARU\n    Friday, 13th Oct. at 11a.m.\n    NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n  \n  \n    TOTTORI M.\n    Saturday, 23rd Sept.\n    SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n  \n  \n    FUSHIMI MARU\n    Thursday, 28th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n    \n  \n\nFor further information apply to Tel. Central Nos. 292 & 293.\n\nNIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nK. H. KAMEI, Manager.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nCOASTAL\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nINDO CHINA STEAM\n\n309\n\n11\n\nSHIPPING NEWS.\n\nSYDNEY'S PILFERAGE LOST\n\nThe annual loss at the port of Sydney through pillaging of cargo\n\nNAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    Sailing\n    Destination\n  \n  \n    Yuensang\n    Sat. 23rd Sept. at 3 p.m.\n    MANILA\n  \n  \n    Chipshing\n    Tues. 26th Sept. at 4 p.m.\n    TIENTSIN\n  \n  \n    Wingsang\n    Tues. 26th Sept. at noon\n    T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n  \n  \n    Drufar\n    Tues, 26th Sept. at noon\n    BANGKOK via Swatow\n  \n  \n    Mingsang\n    Wed. 27th Sept. at 8 a.m.\n    HAIPHONG via Hoihow\n  \n  \n    Fooksang\n    Wed. 27th Sept. at 3 p.m.\n    STRAITS & Calcutta\n  \n  \n    Yatching\n    Thurs. 28th Sept. at noon\n    T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n  \n  \n    Mausang\n    Sat. 30th Sept. at 2 p.m.\n    SANDAKAN\n  \n  \n    Hangsang\n    Sun. 1st Oct. at noon\n    T'TAO via Stow & S'hai\n  \n  \n    Kutsang\n    Tues. 3rd Oct. at 3 p.m.\n    STRAITS & Calcutta\n  \n  \n    Laisang\n    Thurs. 5th Oct. at noon\n    KOBE\n  \n\nCALCUTTA LINE:-This Line now affords regular sailings to Calcutta, Penang and Singapore; Returning from Calcutta steamers proceed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan occasionally calling at Shanghai.\n\nfrom ships is considered to be not less than £500,000 yearly.\n\nSECOND MATE'S CERTIFICATE\n\nDuring the year ended June 30 last 1,974 candidates were examined at Home for certificates of competency as second mates. 829 were successful.\n\nSOOCHOW SHIPPING. A total of 4.293 vessels, aggregating 188,948 tons, entered and cleared at the Custom House during 1921 as compared with 4031 vessels, aggregating 189,859 tons, during 1920.\n\nGERMANY BUYS JAPANESE STEAMER.\n\nThe Japanese s. Shimpo Maru, 4,392 gross tons, has been purchased by Messrs. Schroser, Holcken and Fischer, of E\n\nSHANGHAI LINE: Sailings approximately every three days between Canton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through Bills of Lading are issued for all to Northern and Yangtsze Ports via Shanghai.\n\nAll steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light & Fans and carry a fully qualified Surgeon.\n\nstated to have been re-christened the Harald.\n\nMANILA LINE-A weekly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger accommodation, sailing from both ports every Friday.\n\nHAIPHONG LINE:-Sailings, approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at Hoihow when inducement offers.\n\nBORNEO LINE:-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 ton steamers s.s.\" HINSANG\" & \" MAUSANG \"\n\nboth steamers having excellent passenger accommodation.\n\nCargo taken on through Bills of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu.\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nTIENTSIN LINE-A regular service is run from March to Nov.\n\nREGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON\n\nFOR NEW YORK & BOSTON.\n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO.\n\nTaking cargo on through Bills of Lading for Levant. Black Sea and Danube Ports.\n\nFIUME having been re-opened for traffic, cargo is also accepted for this port on through Bills of Lading.\n\nFOR SHANGHAI.\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE “\n\nSailing on or about 5th October.\n\nFor BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE.\n\nVia Singapore, Penang and Colombo.\n\nS.S. \"PERSIA \"\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE\"\n\nSailing on or about 22nd September.\n\nSailing on or about 22nd October.\n\nPassengers Luggage can be insured at the office of the Agents.\n\nNATAL LINE OF STEAMERS.\n\nRegular Passenger and Cargo Service.\n\nFROM CALCUTTA TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.\n\nS.S. \"UMLAZI \"\n\nSailing on or about 31st October.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong.\n\nFor Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:-\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.,\n\nAgents.\n\nTelephone Central 1030.\n\nAUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL LINE.\n\nHONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS.\n\nSAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    Arrives Hongkong from Australia\n    Leaves Hongkong for Australia\n  \n  \n    TAIYUAN\n    28th Sept.\n    3rd Oct.\n  \n  \n    CHANGSHA\n    15th Oct.\n    20th Oct.\n  \n\nThis steamer is fitted with Refrigerating machinery, ensuring\n\nbetween H'kong & Tientsin calling at Weihaiwei & Chefoo, plan. The Shipping Board suggested the plan to preserve the rates after the recent disruptions and disorganizing of the Eastern freight shipments. when the Atlantic Conference declare i open rates. A later report av that fourteen steamship es. plying between American N Atlantic and Far Eastern ports, have drawn up a schedule f freights, which is stated to b higher than the present rate. They have also agreed to deposit a sum of $25,000 each as a guarantee of the maintenan the schedule.\n\nCREW'S \"SMOKE-ABLES\"\n\nRecently in the House of Commons a member asked the President of the Board of Trade a question relative to the prices charged to ships' crews for cigarettes and tobacco. According to this querier, there \"M certain stij masters who compel those on board to\n\nSHANGHAI LINE.-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO.\n\nExcellent Saloon accommodation amidships. Electric Fans in Saloon and State-rooms. Regular schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai (thrice weekly) and Tsingtao (weekly), taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtsze, and Northern China Ports. Passengers are Landed in Shanghai avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosung.\n\nBANGKOK LINE.-Weekly service to and from B'kok via 'tow.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, (John Swire & Sons, Ltd.)\n\nAGENTS.\n\nTelephone Central No. 36. Cargo and baggage can be insured at the above office.\n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.\n\nand\n\nHONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE.\n\nRegular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having a plentiful supply of ice, fresh provisions etc. and has superior good accommodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms. A duly qualified Doctor is carried. Reduced Fares. Cargo booked through to all Australian. New Zealand and Tasmanian ports.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to\n\nTelephone Central No. 36.\n\nButterfield & Swire. JOHN SWIRE, & SON, LTD.) Agents.\n\nFor Swatow, Amoy and Foochow and Returns, (Occupying 9 to 10 days,) Steamships.\n\nCaptain. Leaving. Haiching... J. S. Thomson ... | SUN..\n\n24th Sept. at 11 a.m. Haihong .. W. C. Passmore\n\nFRI, 29th Sept. at 1 p.m. Haifoong... W. S. Turnbull... | FRI., 29th Sept. at p.m.\n\nArrivals and Departures from the Co's Wharf (dear Blake Pier.)\n\nFor Freight and Passage, apply to\n\n\"ELLERMAN\" LINE.\n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall S. S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT SERVICE.\n\n  \n    Vessel\n    OUTWARDS\n    HOMEWARDS\n  \n  \n    \"City of Tokio\n    S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama. 20th Oct.\n    \n  \n  \n    \"City of Sydney\"\n    \n    10th Oct. L'don, Alwerp, R'dam, H'burg. G’gow\n  \n  \n    \"City of Paris\"\n    Mid. Dec.\n    Marseilles & London\n  \n  \n    \"City of York\"\n    Beg. Feb.\n    \n  \n  \n    \"City of Simla \"\n    Mud, March.\n    \n  \n  \n    \"City of Poona\"\n    Mid. April.\n    \n  \n\nPASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars apply to\n\nREISS & CO.\n\nCANTON.\n\nDouglas Lapraik & Co., General Managers.\n\nbe left to shipowners and masters to take action.\n\nAN OLD-TIME CAPTAIN\n\nThe following is culler ** the Syren anul Shipping The late Captain \"Tom \"Dutton mas in his day one of those tine a men whose sterling chara ter and sound navigational ski...com tributed so largely to the enviable reputation which the hard Line enjoys Atlantic voy acers. We made several passages ar ago with Captain Dutton in the old Umbria, and have Many pleasant recollections, both of the ship and her commander. He was a typical British sailo bluff, courteous, and cool an emergency. During his 32 rear of service with the Cunard Cor-pany he commanded many of their well-known liners, and h was in command of the inhr when he retired some 20 -\n\nOld Cunarders will re bar the late Captain Drzys famous \"mosquito net,\" was one of the institutions tr Umbria. Many tales are tid o\n\nago.\n\nNANYO YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nthis old sea.dog. One fine ...\n\nThe South Sea Mail S.S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE between\n\nJAPAN, HONGKONG & JAVA.\n\nFor Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. SAMARANG MARU\n\nSailing on or about 26th Sept.\n\nFor Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.\n\nS.S. CHERIBON MARU\n\nSailing on or about 24th Sept.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\n(Tel. Central 80).\n\nTel. Central No. 2206. Second Floor, Prince's Building.\n\nK. SUZUKI, Manager.\n\nday morning in mid-Atlan: fe appeared on deck in full rezal -white cap cover, white trou etc. A lady passenger meeting him said: 'Good morning Captain, I see you've got clea white trousers ou.\" madam,\" was the reply, and i hope you have, too.\"\n\nKIANGSU EDUCATORS'\n\nAPPEAL\n\nTO PEKING,\n\nThe Educational Association of Kiangsu has sent a telegraphic appeal to the Peking Government asking that a stricter enforcement of the Presidential Mandates against lotteries be made. These Mandates prohibiting lotteries : China bave not been obeyed the merchants of Kiangsu a they have even gone to the ends of requesting the local authorities to suspend the operation of the..",
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        "content_text": "REMOVAL NOTICE.\n\nAndersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., beg to announce the removal on September 1st., 1922, of their offices from No. 2, Queen's Road Central, to No. 67, 69, Des Voeux Road. (SITE OF THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE)\n\nThe Hongkong Telegraph. FOUNDED 1881 No. 12,503\n\nKEMAL TO MEET GENERAL HARINGTON. Atlantic Flotilla En Route. GREECE INVOKES AID OF VENIZELOS.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nConstantinople, September 29. Replying to General Harington's telegram mentioned in a message of the 28th inst., Mustapha Kemal declares that his troops will not advance further. He desires that no incident shall occur, and will seize the earliest opportunity of meeting General Harington.\n\n[A message of the 28th inst. stated: General Harington, in a conciliatory reply to Kemal Pasha, thanks him for his declaration to respect the neutrality of the Straits and his desire to avoid incidents, and points out that the destruction and building of roads was carried out as a military necessity. He assures Kemal Pasha that no shot will be fired except by his, General Harington's, orders, and expresses readiness to meet Kemal Pasha anywhere that is convenient to discuss an understanding.]\n\nNaval Reinforcements on the Way.\n\nGibraltar, September 29. The flotilla leader and eight destroyers of the first flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet have arrived en route to the Near East, also two submarines.\n\nFull Support from Australia.\n\nMelbourne, September 27. Speaking in the House of Representatives, Mr. Hughes said that Australia was praying that there would not be war, but if it came Britain would be in the right, even if left alone. Australia had previously put in the field a larger army than the Turks could now muster, and would do the same again if necessary.\n\nVenizelos to Represent Greece at Conference?\n\nThe Revolutionary Committee has telegraphed to M. Venizelos at Paris asking him to undertake the defence of Greek interests with the Entente and to represent Greece at the Near East conference.\n\nThe Committee demanded the immediate departure from Greece of ex-King Constantine, ex-Queen Sophie, and the Princes Nicholas and Andrew. It is understood that they departed aboard a battleship last night.\n\nThe Committee has forbidden demonstrations in the streets. It is announced that the revolution has not been accompanied by a single drop of bloodshed. Several Royalist officers arrested at the outbreak of the revolution have been released, and all political prisoners have been liberated. The elements which long terrorized the city under the Constantin regime have mysteriously disappeared. It is rumoured that ex-Premiers, Gounaris, Stratos, and Protopapadakis have been arrested. Many politicians believe that the reign of the new King will not be a long one, and that a republic is likely.\n\nGreece Talking of Retrieving Disaster.\n\nLater. The revolutionary leaders, in a statement, insist that the movement is absolutely national, and is exclusively aimed at reparation of the recent catastrophe and the creation of a strong army to save Thrace. They declare that the settlement of the dynastic question must conform to the will of the great majority of the Greek people.\n\nHigh Commissioners Despatch Pacificatory Delegates.\n\nConstantinople, September 29. The High Commissioners have decided to despatch a commission composed of British, French, and Italian officers to Rodosto, Lule Burgas, and Adrianople to exercise a pacifying influence.\n\nArrest of Greek Premiers Confirmed.\n\nParis, September 29. A message from Athens confirms the arrest of the three ex-Premiers. M. Theotokis and Rear-Admiral Goudas have also been arrested. The message adds that it is expected they will be brought to trial as responsible for the events in Asia Minor.\n\nCabinet Regards Kemalist Action as Infringement.\n\nLondon, September 29. At the conclusion of further series of Cabinet meetings, anxiety in official circles was nowise eased. It is understood that the Government regard the Turkish action as an infringement of the Allied Note, and decided that it is impossible to permit the Kemalists to remain and continue positions in the neutral zone. The Government has therefore informed the military authorities that they have complete support in demanding the withdrawal of the Kemalists, leaving the question of a time-limit to the discretion of General Harington, Admiral Brock, and the High Commissioner. Meantime, the members of the Cabinet are standing by ready for emergencies, and are expecting an early development.\n\nRumour of War Causes Slump.\n\nLondon, September 29. The nervousness created by the Near Eastern situation is exemplified by the slump on the Liverpool cotton market today owing to a baseless rumour that Britain had declared war on Turkey, concerning which an authoritative denial was subsequently issued.\n\nLANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE DEPRESSION.\n\nCompanies Gradually Losing Their Capital.\n\nLondon, September 29. The question of the continued severe depression in the Lancashire cotton trade was discussed at a Manchester meeting of representatives of over fifty per cent. of the spinning companies. Leading spinners pointed out that most concerns were gradually losing their capital, and only immediate and drastic action would avert a financial crisis. An enquiry into the question of fixing minimum prices for standard counts of yarn was suggested, also the curtailment of production.\n\nLEAGUE OF NATIONS FINANCES.\n\nSUN YAT-SEN'S REPLY.\n\nAuthenticity of \"Telegraph\" Letters Admitted.\n\n1922. 日十初月八\n\nLAST NIGHT'S SENSATION.\n\nDetective Murdered; Two Men Shot.\n\nSINGLE COPY 10 CTS. $30 PER ANNUM\n\nTHE BANK\n\nREMOVAL NOTICE.\n\nAndersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., beg to announce the removal on September 1st., 1922, of their offices from No. 2, Queen's Road Central, to No. 67, 69, Des Voeux Road. (SITE OF THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE.)\n\nMYSTERY. PORTUGUESE CRUISER.\n\nNot a Book-keeping Error.\n\nOrdered to Macao.\n\nLisbon, Sept. 29. The cruiser Republica has been ordered to proceed to Macao from South America.\n\nThe disappearance of $200,000 from the International Banking Corporation still remains shrouded in mystery. A Telegraph reporter who called on the acting manager this morning to inquire if anything had been discovered which would throw some light on the affair was informed that the Bank are still in the dark as to what has happened to the money.\n\nIt has been ascertained that the loss is not through any book-keeping error, the pressman was told, and there has been no tampering with either the vaults or the safes. Beyond those facts, practically nothing appears to be known.\n\nAbout eight o'clock last night, armed men visited 26, Wing Wo Street, an emigrants' boarding house. They gagged and bound the inmates and during the half-hour they remained on the premises collected all the money and valuables, including gold dollars and foreign coin to the value of some $6,000.\n\nAs the robbers were leaving, they were observed by Detective Sergeant Sin Chuen, who, it will be remembered, was highly praised for his services in the famous Wo Ping Theatre case. Although single-handed, the detective tackled the gang, but they were too many for him. One of the armed men pointed his revolver at the officer and fired, hitting him in the chest. The gang then made off, chased by a number of police and others who by this time had been attracted to the scene.\n\nThe chase was an exciting one, and firearms were used frequently. Two men, on one of whom was found a revolver, were arrested. They were escorted to the Central Police Station by a party of constables with drawn revolvers, and on the way, an accident happened. In Graham Street, the weapon of one of the constables accidentally went off and wounded two brothers who came out of No. 6 to watch the procession pass.\n\nThe police visited the boarding house where the robbery occurred and it is understood that three daggers were found.\n\nJAPAN'S MILITARISTS.\n\nFurther Disclosures.\n\nTokyo, Sept. 30. The revelations continued by the Kokumin alleging that Japanese militarists have completed plans to establish a buffer state in alliance with Germany and Russia intended.\n\nDenial of Bolshevism.\n\n(Our Own Correspondent.)\n\nShanghai, September 29. Dr. Sun Yat-sen admits the veracity of the Hongkong Telegraph's disclosures relative to the proposal to form an Alliance with Germany and Russia.\n\nHe says, however, that the letters have been improperly translated and are partly false. He defended himself on the ground that all the Powers except Germany and Russia continued to be aggressive. He cites the relinquishment of extra-territoriality as proof that Germany and Russia have shown a favourable attitude to China.\n\nChina's Desire for Equality.\n\nDr. Sun Yat-sen says that the creation of the Soviet Government had removed China's greatest political menace, so long as the Soviet Government continues its non-Imperialistic policy. He says that China's greatest need is assistance from Powers which will treat China as an equal, and believes that Germany and Russia are the only Powers qualified to treat China in that manner. He therefore favours a conciliatory attitude towards Germany and Russia.\n\nAccording to Dr. Sun, such a policy will not injure any of the other Powers which honestly desire a re-united China. He states that these are his main considerations.\n\nBolshevism Unsuited to China.\n\nDr. Sun says that epithets accusing him of Bolshevistic views do not injure him and will not deter him. He denies that he has any sympathy with Bolshevism as a principle and says that a correct reading of his letters will prove this beyond doubt. He also says that he may issue an English translation of the letters reproduced in the \"Hongkong Telegraph\". He asserts that the \"Hongkong Telegraph's\" insinuation that the letters reveal a leaning towards Bolshevism is a charge unworthy of an answer, as all intelligent minds will realise that China is politically and economically unsuited to Bolshevism. Dr. Sun says that he never once dreamed of transforming China into a Bolshevik Republic.\n\nFruitless Overtures to Foreign Capitalists.\n\nIn conclusion, the late President of the South says that he had made repeated overtures to American, British, and other foreign capitalists with a view to arousing their interest in the commercial development of China, but all were deaf to his suggestions. Hence, he says, he had to turn elsewhere for much-needed co-operation.\n\nSIKI'S VICTORY.\n\nEndorsed by French Boxing Federation.\n\nParis, September 29. The French Boxing Federation has endorsed the decision of the judges in the Carpentier-Siki fight and approved Siki's claim to the light-heavyweight championship of the world.\n\nARMS TRAFFIC.\n\nFull Sentence Imposed.\n\nWhen charged today with trafficking in arms on river boats, the prisoner was found guilty. Inspector Fallon prosecuted, and asked the Magistrate to pass an exemplary sentence, pointing out that this trafficking in arms was attaining serious proportions. The Magistrate accordingly imposed the full penalty of a year's hard labour on the prisoner.\n\nThe Chinese detective, Sin Cheun, who was shot by the armed men, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, but the wound was serious and the gallant man expired shortly after admission.\n\nA report was made to the police by the accountant of the Wong Tak Loong, import and export firm, occupying the first and second floors of No. 26 Wing Wo Street, to the effect that the gang entered the premises at 7.30, being armed with daggers and revolvers which they used to intimidate the twelve fokia of the firm.\n\nAfter being bound and gagged, the victims were all bundled into one room whilst the process of ransacking the floors took place. From a safe, the robbers took a sum of $4,176, some American money, and a gold watch and chain, the value of which is unknown.\n\nHONGKONG FINANCES.\n\nA Healthy Outlook.\n\nHongkong's finances continue in a healthy state. The figures for the first half of the year are now available. These show that at the end of June there was a balance of $11,512,230, which compares with $7, $7,810,494 during the first half of 1921. The increase was largely due to more receipts from land sales, which produced no less than $2,197,356, against $208,627 for 1921.\n\nDuring the month of June, the revenue was $1,646,108, this comparing with $1,372,442 for June, 1921.\n\nThe total expenditure during the half year was $8,278,026, this contrasting with $6,421,324 for the first six months of 1921, there being considerable increases in Miscellaneous Expenditure and Public Works Extraordinary. For the month of June, the outgoings totalled $1,519,647, compared with $1,066,426 in June last year.\n\nV.R.C. SPORTS.\n\nSecond Day's Events.\n\nThe attendance on the second day of the annual sports carnival of the Victoria Recreation Club left much to be desired, for it was the poorest on record. However, there were enough competitors to make every race interesting, the 220 yards Championship being the outstanding feature of the day.\n\nIn the absence of Johnstone, Lyon was favourite, though with rivals of the capability of Laing and Jack, the finish was a hot one. Lyon set the pace, and in the fourth length, the tussle between Laing and Jack for second place became very keen. Jack had enjoyed the advantage, but in this length, Laing made up and was ahead of the former by a mere matter of feet. The race then resolved itself principally into a tussle between these two for second place, Laing eventually beating Jack by a few seconds. Lyon's win yesterday makes his third championship success in this year's sports. Time—D. Lyon, 2 mins. 40 secs.; D. Laing, 2 mins. 47 secs.\n\nFollowing are the results of the other events:\n\nFour lengths handicap (members).—1, S. A. Marcal; 2, T. Stewart. Time 1 min. 13 sec.\n\nLong plunge.—1, M. Souza; 2. B. Rasmussen. Distance 58 ft. 2 ins.\n\nTwo lengths handicap (open).—1, Baldwin, 2, G. McDade.\n\nTwo lengths test race (men).—1, D. Lyon, V. Ramsay, A. A. R. Remedio, W. Hyde, A. Kitchell, G. A. Razavet, and D. Ogilvie. Time 3 mins. 38 secs.\n\n100 yards boys' championship.—1, A. May; 2, J. Montalto. Time 1 min. 7-2/5 secs.\n\nFour lengths handicap (ladies).—1, Miss R. Kitchell; 2, Miss E. Bell. Time 1 min. 40 secs.\n\nFour lengths handicap (girls) 1st. heat.—1, E. Allen; 2, Molly Groundwater. 2nd. heat.—1, E. Bliss; 2, B. Pathejohns.\n\nTwo lengths handicap (boys).—1st. heat.—1, A. May; 2, W. Tillery. 2nd. heat.—1, W. G. Urquhart; 2;, L. Rozs Pereira. 3rd. heat.—1, A. Bliss; 2; F. Suzara. 4th. heat.—1, H. Watson; 2, G. Noronha. 5th. heat.—1, J. Montalto; 2, M. Noronha.\n\nCANTON'S FINANCES.\n\nReported Conclusion of Foreign Loan.\n\nOur Canton correspondent states that the members of the Provincial Assembly, on hearing that a foreign loan of £2,000,000 has been concluded and was signed by the Civil Governor on the 28th instant, are keen to know the details of the scheme.\n\nIRISH POSTAL SETTLEMENT.\n\nLondon, September 29. The report of the Fourth Commission shows that the League of Nations is financially stressed, owing to the non-payment of contributions totalling 5,000,000 gold francs for 1921 and the payment so far of only 55 per cent. of the 1922 contributions while the Budget has increased to 25 millions.\n\nThe Irish postal settlement provides that three-eighths of the proposed wage reduction shall operate from September 1st, and the remainder from December 1st. The submitted to and approved by the Assembly.\n\nAn Unsatisfactory Position.\n\nGeneva, September 29.\n\nLISTEN!\n\nMake a hobby of your advertising.\n\nThe full week-end programme at the World Theatre is given on page 4.\n\n\"The Witness for the Defence\" is being shown at the Star Theatre tonight.—Page 4.\n\nTo-Day's Exchange. The closing rate of the dollar on demand today was 2s, 6.13/16d\n\nLighting Up-Time. Lighting-up time today, 6.13 p.m.",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nagain, and on guarantee of freedom from arrest. They state that they are not responsible for intimidation in the colony, and to appear at a conference as members of an outlawed society would place them in a false position. Please telegraph reply.\" From Governor, Hong Kong, to His Majesty's Consul-General, Canton, dated\n\nFebruary 7,\n\nDelegates will be given safe conduct, but union cannot be reopened. Point in last sentence need not arise if delegates come as representatives of seamen in Canton and not of union. Intimidation is undoubtedly rife here and in Canton and Sheklung. Are the union authorities, in view of their statement, prepared to issue public repudiation of intimidation and to make it clear that men who wish to return to work need not fear the consequences?\"\n\nOn the 9th February the shipowners, on the suggestion of the Government, renewed their offer which had been withdrawn on the 18th January; and the Government thereupon issued the following notice in Chinese, emphasising the point that the offer was not finally binding on either side, but was subject to revision by the arbitrators:\n\n\"At the suggestion of the Governor, the shipowners are willing to reinstate their former offer of increased wages, to take effect from the day on which the seamen return to work. This scale of wages is merely a temporary scale pending arbitration, and is on no account to be taken as a basis from which the arbitrators will work. Addition to it or substraction from it are alike within the sole discretion of the arbitrators. The scale offered is repeated below:-\n\n  \n    Per cent.\n    \n  \n  \n    24\n    Chinese river steamers\n  \n  \n    25\n    Other Chinese steamers up to 1,000 D.W. tons\n  \n  \n    25\n    Canton, Hong Kong and Macao Steamboat Company's steamers\n  \n  \n    15\n    Other British companies' river steamers, taking the scale of Canton, Hong Kong and Macao Steamboat Company as base\n  \n  \n    15\n    Coasting steamers\n  \n  \n    12\n    Java lines...\n  \n  \n    \n    \"Pacific lines\n  \n  \n    7½\n    European lines\n  \n  \n    10\n    \"Australian lines\n  \n\nIn the meantime, the committee of the Tung Wa Hospital had proposed to the Government that they should use their good offices in bringing about a settlement. Other leading members of the Chinese community were subsequently associated with them, and on the 8th February the Tung Wa Hospital, as representing the Chinese of the colony, telegraphed to Canton asking the seamen to send delegates to discuss a settlement with them. The delegates arrived on the 12th February, and on the following day at a meeting at the Tung Wa Hospital they declared that they could not carry the matter further until the settlement of the question of the reopening of the Seamen's Union, which had been closed by the Government on the 1st February as being an unlawful society. The matter was accordingly referred on the 14th February to the Government, who, on the 15th February, issued a proclamation in Chinese in the following terms:—\n\n\"On instructions from the Government, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs has communicated the following decision to the seamen's representatives :-\n\n\"1. The Seamen's Union was closed because it exceeded its legitimate bounds and broke the law of Hong Kong, not because it asked for an increase of wages.\n\n2. The Governor absolutely requires proof of freedom from unlawfulness before he can change his present attitude,\n\n3. If it is desired to give proof of freedom from unlawfulness, all seamen and all workmen whom they involved in the strike must return to work and Hong Kong resume its normal condition before it can be considered that proof of freedom from unlawfulness has been furnished.\n\n4. If all come back to work first on the conditions offered by the ship-owners and await the award of the arbitrators, the Governor will cancel the proclamation closing the union.\"\n\nThe delegates returned to Canton on the 15th February, and they came back to Hong Kong on the 17th February with certain suggestions which were considered by the shipowners on the 19th February. The shipowners' decision was conveyed to the delegates on the 20th February by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and the delegates left for Canton on the 21st February. On the 24th February a letter was handed to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs stating that the seamen were not prepared to accept the proposals made.\n\nOn the 22nd February a telegram had been received from His Majesty's consul-general at Canton suggesting that there were good grounds for believing that an all-round increase of some 2 per cent, on the owners' original offer would be accepted. On the 24th February the Engineers' Society came forward with a similar suggestion and offered to negotiate for a settlement on this basis.\n\nThe Government informed the shipowners of these proposals, and suggested that, as it seemed likely that the offer of such an increase would bring the men back immediately to work and would prevent a general strike, it would be wise to add some 2 per cent, to the figures shown in the notice of the 9th February, which is quoted above. That notice still stood. It pointed out clearly that the shipowners' offer covered only the immediate present, and that the scale would be increased or lowered in the sole discretion of the arbitrators The shipowners added 2½ per cent, to their previous figures, and on the 24th February this information was telegraphed to Canton and was communicated to the Engineers' Guild. The seamen refused the new terms.\n\nOn the 28th February His Majesty's consul-general telegraphed that he had information to the effect that, if a meeting between the shipowners and the seamen's delegates could be arranged, there was every prospect of a settlement. On the 1st March a reply was sent by the Hong Kong Government that the shipowners were willing to meet the seamen's delegates. It was added that, in order to avoid further abortive proceedings, the Government considered it to be highly desirable that the delegates should be fully empowered to make a settlement.\n\nA further telegram was sent on the 1st March asking Dr. Jamieson to come to Hong Kong to discuss the situation, and he arrived on the 2nd March. On the 2nd March telegrams were received from the consulate at Canton that delegates with full powers were coming on the 4th March; and they arrived accordingly.\n\nOn the 3rd March it was arranged that the Hong Kong Government should not be represented at the conference, but the Government accepted a suggestion from Dr. Jamieson that he should be present in an unofficial capacity. It was further arranged that, in the event of a settlement being arrived at between the shipowners and the seamen, the representatives of the Hong Kong Government should subsequently meet the seamen in order to consider any proposals affecting the Government that they might wish to put forward for discussion. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Attorney-General and Clerk of Councils were appointed to represent the Government.\n\nThe conference between the shipowners and the seamen took place on the 4th March, and it was announced late in the afternoon that a settlement had been reached.\n\nIt was then arranged that the seamen's delegates would meet the Government's representatives at 7 P.M. The meeting took place accordingly, but as proceedings were about to commence Mr. R. Sutherland, Chairman of the Shipowners' Committee, brought in for signature the agreement between the shipowners and the seamen, which had been concluded verbally and had since been set out in writing by the shipowners. Government's representatives thereupon withdrew, as the Government was in no way responsible for the agreement. It was reported later in the evening that the delegates were unable to sign the document as worded, while Mr. Sutherland had no authority to alter the wording in any material particular; and so a further meeting between the shipowners and the seamen was arranged for the following morning.\n\nOn the 5th March, prior to the meeting, Sir R. Ho-tung approached the Government with an offer which he was prepared to make in order to facilitate a settlement, and he was informed that he was at liberty to convey this offer to such parties as he might think fit. The Government was unable itself to make use of the offer, as it did not wish to intervene in the economic side of the dispute.\n\nThe further conference took place on the 5th March, and an agreement was concluded and signed in the afternoon.\n\n282",
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        "content_text": "APPENDIX I.\n\nCopy of Telegram from Viceroy to Secretary of State for India, dated Delhi, 2nd March, 1922.\n\n526IT. Your telegram dated 13th January, No.174. Imperial Wireless Telegraph Chain. With every desire to assist in execution of scheme which has been approved by the Cabinet and the Imperial Conference, and to secure advantage of State ownership and direct control, and keenly alive as we are to risk of entrusting this service to a company which may possibly secure a monopolist control, we have re-examined the position and are confronted with following difficulties in the way of our undertaking it.\n\nPara. 2. Firstly, we are definitely unable to provide funds at present. The work is not likely to be remunerative and would have to be financed from revenue. We are informed that figure mentioned by you is probably a serious under-estimate. Moreover, it does not include expenditure on account of royalties, patent rights or defensive measures.\n\nSecondly, we have not the staff to undertake the work.\n\nThirdly, we are doubtful whether the Assembly and the general public would endorse the policy.\n\nPara. 3. Position stands thus with regard to communication between the Allied Kabul and Tiflis: we have taken into consideration...\n\nPage 406\n\n \n(expected three lines at the bottom, if available, please provide the rest of the text)\n\n(if the original text has the following lines at the bottom of Page 405 and top of Page 406 like: \"8.\", \"ray\", \"* 2\", they should be kept as is)\n\n(the rest of the text is not available in the given snippet, if you have more text, please provide it)",
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        "content_text": "The R (To 2 L only) affei porcible kay If som ative der'de it may the to effect economics anging * for the 7 d to be epresentative suuffled with intray of f the J. S. Flay Good q ! would HK. that be un a parition to Attal te DRAFT. Ze Ca.G. Lovemon 6.S. Sungapore and 37637 Ind 19.9 Cabrich 29601 /22. X Coded is for teme not dead. KUNGLORIFY 27607 bheke emmy ply deep of Mc Elderry Hong Kong represent a 16 445 $2.25pm. Sent July 27.7.2.2 LAMINIFORM Mo 324. leave from TOURNIOLE willing ADOR NOLAS Telegraph if you Wia CACOLOGY call at TOMADERO warday Colomis. agree) Singapore to Banghoth Specially suitable his work OKIDEN LO with League of Nations CLAWING Opering Advisory Committee. with any prections the raviess wl. in ay the Conference either HK. at caffecting Ralara If jou aque C will the necessary, han any doubt emento direct (162) H.K. yout of (To 3) The S.S with The to wh Cher deep. Smiilan teru ððused. The axangangh LA being Mr. MINUTE. J.J.P. 2017 Mr. Begatt Mr. Ollin Mr. Davis. Bir G. Grindle. Bir H. Read. 2 2 Gal Sir J. Masterton Smith. Mr. Wood. Mr. Churchill. 3 ft corrson. should. of Course include the sharing of the Serything OL upresentative & Banghom. Roughler.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n134\n\nforth; and it is also there explained that persons of the former category are not entitled to British protection unless and until they have been registered at one of His Majesty's Consulates in China.\n\n4.\n\nI need not add that this question will be much simplified on the establishment of some form of responsible central government in China by the conclusion of the proposed negotiations; and I am entirely in agreement with your view that the negotiations should be conducted by your legation, rather than that delegates from the colonial governments concerned should meet a Chinese delegation in formal conference, as originally suggested. It would, however, be necessary for you to consult those governments by telegraph, if necessary, before reaching any agreement with the Chinese authorities regarding the procedure to be adopted.\n\n5.\n\nCopies of this correspondence are being sent to the Colonial Office; and I shall be glad if you will keep His Majesty's consuls in China informed in regard to the general position of this question.\n\nI am, etc.,\n\n**(For the Secretary of State)**\n\n(signed) **Hubert Montgomery**",
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        "content_text": "`1838/427/10`).\n\n**NO DISTRI HIJ MON.**\n\nFrom Telegram to Sir R. Macleay (Peking)\n\nForeign Office, May 3rd, 1923. 2.0 p.m.\n\nNo. 64.\n\n**(R)**\n\n236\n\nYour despatch the No. 66.\n\nEastern Extension Company and Great Northern Company agreed to confer with Japanese telegraph authorities at Shanghai with a view to amicable arrangement in the matter of the Tsingtao-Sasebo cable, but Japanese delegate has now gone to Peking and told the Companies' representatives that he will treat with them after he has finished negotiations with the Chinese Telegraph Administration. Companies fear it is Japan's intention to confront them with a fait accompli which it may be difficult to alter, and ask me to raise objection at Peking to any definite agreement being entered into by China before the conference with the Companies takes place.\n\nThe Companies' request is reasonable and you should raise the objection asked for with the Chinese government. The support of your Danish colleague should be enlisted.\n\nRepeat to Tokio.",
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        "content_text": "## COATS/JOJE 2018/427/10)\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION**\n\n1.\n\nTelegram to Mr R. Macleay, (Peking), Foreign Office, May 3rd 1923.\n\n2. Following for Tokyo:-\n\nBy telegram No. 64 to Peking.\n\nYou should draw attention of Japanese Government to the fact that there are British interests which must be safeguarded and point out that for this purpose the conference at Shanghai with the cable Companies' representatives, to which the Japanese telegraph authorities have already agreed, should take place before any agreement is concluded by the latter with the Chinese Telegraph Administration.\n\nYou should enlist the support of your Danish colleague in your action.",
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        "content_text": "## FCS\n1/02\n\nPY.\n\n`COM\\S\\JE [168/487/10]`. \n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION**\n\n15.01 DTC TAM\n\n1\n\n(* 1910 matters of \n\n.(x) \n\nCode Telegram to Sir R. Hacloney (Peking) \n\n**Foreign Office, May 3rd, 1923.** \n\n2.0.p.. \n\nNo. 66. \n\n**(R)**\n\n238\n\nYou should inform the Chinese Government that the \nrecommendations of the telegraph experts as stated in the \nlast paragraph of the Washington memorandum of 4th February \n1922, (see Washington Conference papers page 192, paragraph 6) \nhave our support and that the policy therein indicated will \nbe strongly pressed by His Majesty's Government.\n\nRepeat to Tokyo,\n\nPage 240\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Foreign Office, 212 S.W.1.\n### 10th May, 1923.\n\nSir,\n\nThe contents of your letters of February 14th, February 23rd, and April 12th on the subject of cable and telegraphic communications in the Far East have been carefully considered in consultation with the General Post Office and other departments interested in these matters, and I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to inform you that the following steps have been taken in response to the requests contained in your letter of February 14th:\n\n1. As regards the Tsingtao-Sasebo cable, Sir R. Macleay has been instructed by telegraph to raise an objection against the conclusion of any agreement by China with Japan before the conference at Shanghai with the Cable Companies, which the Japanese telegraph authorities had agreed to. His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Tokyo has also been instructed to draw the attention of the Japanese Government to the fact that there are British interests which must be safeguarded, and to point out that for this purpose, the conference above referred to should take place before any agreement is concluded by the Japanese telegraph authorities with the Chinese Telegraph administration. Both at Tokyo and Peking, the support of the Danish representative is to be enlisted in the action taken.\n\n2. His Majesty's representatives at Peking and Tokyo have also been instructed to inform the Chinese and Japanese Governments that His Majesty's Government support the recommendations of the telegraph experts as stated in the last paragraph of the `Washington/...`\n\nThe Chairman,  \nEastern Extension Telegraph Company,  \nElectra House,  \nMoorgate,  \nLondon, E.C.2.\n\n(p=101)\n`F1068/427/10`  \nCOPY  \nIIS  \n(or ...)",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTES\n`120/9821/9`\n\nSee new letter's from The Antrobus attached.\n\n24/9.\n\nThe (2) Forbes of the C.O. came to see me about the fact that the tall. from Severa was not a paraphrase. I have reminded the C.O. sent to H.K. & have paraphrased both tels. Mr Forbes retained the copies of the paraphrases (incl. previous tels.). \n\n25/9 \n* Apri Keramite) Tharpp. 55th Cotting 2.10 to see letters from the Antolus SR.\n\n**MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.**\n`46202/23`\n\n## PARAPHRASE (TELEGRAM)\nA 20. (Geneva) Casti ho.155. COLCHAL =@oprembes= OFF 409\n\nFrom Sir M.Delevigne to Sir G. Grindle(Colonial Office) (Sent from C.O. (Received in Foreign Office 3.35 p.m. 17th September, 1923)\n\nNo.62. \nThis telegram has been seen by Antrobus. Before replying you may wish to discuss the matter with the Foreign Office.\n\nThere is a movement in Geneva in favour of combining into one the two Conferences proposed by the Opium Advisory Committee, viz., those on the Production of Drugs and on the Far Eastern question. There are great objections to this, but it is favoured by the American delegation. It seems to me that their reason is that in view of the situation in the Philippines they desire to be represented at the Conference on the Far Eastern question. They might therefore be satisfied if they were invited to participate in this one.\n\nAmerica was not included in the Committee's proposal since they have no (?dependencies) in which there is a temporary continuance of opium smoking. They might, if they were present, urge proposals which may be impracticable e.g. suppression within a fixed period. It is, however, desirable not to antagonise them. The British Government would accordingly probably not wish to raise objections if America were to press their desire for representation openly. The opium question is to be discussed tomorrow, so I should be glad to learn the views of the Colonial Office as soon as possible by telegraph.\n\n`Opium -9ppl. 56/2179.` \nFall 2/30. (5282) 111,",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n\nCopy\n\nNo.4955/1908.\nCOD.No.41 of 21.2.1974\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\nHongkong.\n7th June, 1924.\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 23rd of May, 1924, and previous correspondence on the subject,\n\nI am directed to enclose for the consideration of your Chamber copies of a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to compulsory Wireless Telegraphy on British ships on the China Coast, and of a memorandum on the proceedings of a Conference on the subject held at Shanghai on the 24th of April.\n\nI am to request the views of your Chamber on the suggestion that steps should now be taken for the introduction of some scheme on the lines of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraph) Act 1919, modified to suit the special circumstances of the China Coast.\n\nI am, etc.,\n\n**CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nThe Secretary,\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce.",
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        "content_text": "## Compulsory Wireless Telegraphy on British Ships on the China Coast\n\nA conference was held at Shanghai on 24th April 1924 at which were present:\n\n* Sir Skinner Turner, Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China,\n* Mr. J. H. Kemp, Attorney General, Hongkong,\n* Mr. S. Barton, His Majesty's Consul-General and Registrar of Shipping, Shanghai,\n* Mr. W. G. Sheppard, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Company, Limited,\n* Mr. T. H. R. Shaw, of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nMessrs. Sheppard and Shaw stated that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company and the China Navigation Company were already preparing to install wireless on their coastal steamers plying on routes where large numbers of passengers were carried and had established at Hongkong a school for training Chinese and British subjects as operators.\n\nReference was made to the correspondence which had passed between the Harbour Master and the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce in 1921 on the subject of the adoption at Hongkong of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraph) Act 1919, and Messrs. Sheppard and Shaw stated that in regard to coasting vessels running out of Shanghai and other China ports, their views were in agreement with those expressed by the Hongkong Chamber. They objected to the adoption of the provisions of the 1919 Act for the following reasons:\n\n| Reason | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | The classification of ships on the basis of the nature of the voyage for the purpose of determining the type of apparatus and number of operators to be carried was not suited to the peculiar conditions prevailing on the China Coast. |\n| (ii) | The expense involved in the employment of white operators... |\n\nPage 36",
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        "content_text": "101 \n\nI am involved and to consider whether any remedies can and should be applied, might be convened as soon as the report from the Governor of Hongkong foreshadowed in your letter under reference is available. \n\nAccordingly to express the hope that Sir R. Stubbs may be asked by telegraph to expedite this report. The opportunity of the presence on leave in this country of His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton might be taken to secure his assistance at the conference. \n\n4. \n\nMr. Ramsay MacDonald would be glad to learn whether Mr. Secretary Thomas, if he concurs in these proposals, considers that the conference should meet at the Colonial office or (in view of the possibility of international issues being raised) at the Foreign office. \n\nRamsay \n\n5. Unless Mr. Thomas sees strong objection, Mr. MacDonald proposes meanwhile to cause the Marine Engineers' Guild to be informed, in reply to their letter of March 17th, that steps will be taken, in the manner indicated above, to give early and thorough consideration to the situation to which their letter refers. \n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nVollwater(?)tow",
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        "content_text": "# THE SECRETARY OF THE POST OFFICE presents his \ncompliments to the UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE \nCOLONIES and with reference to the Colonial Office \nrequest of the 13th August, begs leave to forward \nherewith 3 copies of Press Notice No.298 concerning \nthe new arrangements for Broadcasting in this \ncountry introduced on the 1st July, 1924.\n\n## Daily Telegraph \n15 July 1924 \n\n## AUSTRALIA AND WIRELESS. \nTO THE EDITOR OF “THE DAILY TELEGRAPH” Sir,—Your recent cable from Sydney will be welcomed by all Australians who have patiently awaited broadcasting and its delights, but your Correspondent errs in stating that the previous scheme, based on the sealed receiving set, was altered without having a chance to prove itself. \nWriting as chairman of the conference called by the Australian Postmaster-General to consider broadcasting, I must point out that the sealed set was tried and failed, and that nine months after it had been submitted the regulations were inefficient: hence my association, on behalf of the dissatisfied public and wireless enthusiasts, requested the Postmaster-General to call a further conference, and recommended the open set. Mr. Gibson, ever ready to accede to reasonable requests, did so, and the result is that Australia should now have opportunity to develop broadcasting and radio experiments generally, \nYours, &c., \nGEORGE A. TAYLOR, \nPresident of the Association for Development of Wireless in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. \nRegent Palace Hotel, July 14.\n\n## GITAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, E.C.1. \n2 August 1924.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n593\n\nSee Japanese Territories (he instanced Kwantung) and that they never have any difficulties there. The new article will be a considerable advance on the present position generally, and I think it will be well to have it in the Agreement even if it does involve a modification of the arrangements at Singapore.\n\nThe First Opium Conference will not meet again till the beginning of next week in order to allow time for the Delegations to communicate with their Governments.\n\nI am writing in the same sense to Sir John Anderson and to Waterlow at the Foreign Office. Waterlow and Grindle (or you) will no doubt consult with Sir John about the matter. It might be desirable to consult Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith on the form of the article. You will remember that a special provision was inserted in the Transit and Maritime Ports Conventions excepting the traffic in opium and other drugs from the provisions of those Conventions, but it will be well to see that the text of the article proposed does not cut across anything in those Conventions.\n\nI hope to get a reply by telegraph on Friday if possible.\n\nYours sincerely,\nMalcolm Delevingne\n\nJ.J. Paskin, Esq., M.O.",
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        "content_text": "# No.584/1925.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,  \nHongkong,  \n10th March, 1925.\n\nWith reference to the recent conference at this office, I am directed to forward for your consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from Mr. Lo Sek-tean.\n\nI shall be glad to learn whether you concur in his proposal that the receipts for inward traffic should be paid over by you to the Kwang Tung Administration.\n\nI am, &c..\n\n(sd.) Claud Severn,  \nColonial Secretary.\n\nAu Tung, Esq.,  \nManager,  \nChinese Telegraph Administration.",
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        "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n### THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH\n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\nWILLIAM DESMOND IN \"STRAIGHT THROUGH\" \nWANDA WILEY IN \"GETTING TRIMMED.\" \nOUR OWN TOPICAL.\n\n## QUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \nLON CHANEY IN \"THE NIGHT ROSE\" IN SIX PARTS. \nSaturday, July 11th. \nLILLIAN GISH IN \"THE WHITE SISTER\" IN ELEVEN PARTS. \nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY. At all Shows. \nWILLIAM DUNCAN AND EDITH JOHNSON IN \"THE FIGHTING GUIDE\" (IN SEVEN REELS), \nADDED ATTRACTION: \"A GAME LADY\" (COMEDY IN TWO REELS) AND TOWN TOPICS.\n\n## WORLD THEATRE NOTICE\n\n#9 \nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well Stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently Received Large and Well Selected New Stocks. \nCome and Select your Menu from us \nMAGASIN GÉNÉRAL, The Corner Shop, Phone 3312. Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n## [101 \nTHE NAME MOUTRIE ON A PIANO IS A GUARANTEE OF RELIABILITY. \nEASY TERMS ARRANGED. \nS. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., CHATER RD.\n\n| Ad | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 117 | CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. |\n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. PROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands.\n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments.\n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers.\n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties.\n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st.\n\n## GERMAN LOANS. UNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG\n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation only 2 per cent., compared with 12.5 per cent. for old holders.\n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. Bankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be possible to parry out much differentiation and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby.\n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list.\n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON\n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. COMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH\n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going.\n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously.\n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. Bluebell makes all the bread for them and the bluejackets have been doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore.\n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. TO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA?\n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the Peking and Tientsin Times.\n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor, the number 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again.\n\n## HOME CRICKET. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872. Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 60 not out.\n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November.\n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. RIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. \nPARIS, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repair, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after luncheon at the Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. C. Denison Pender.\n\nA message from Fez says the French evacuated two advanced posts after destruction of defences northward of Wezzan. A later despatch reports that the Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergha region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south.\n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes.\n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. MR. 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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.\n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW. BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuehlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh floor apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was killed. The accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the Berengaria to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio.\n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. Violent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit.\n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97.\n\n## LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nL. C's are clearing out their stock of Aertex Underwear at reduced prices - $3.00 per Garment.\n\n## GAUNTIE HATS. HOSE AND SOCKS\n\nThe Ideal Hat for Sportsmen. Price $7.50 \nThe Ideal Summer Sock-Light Weight-Silk Mixture in Drab Brown and Grey Shades. $1.75 Pr. \n6 Prs. $10.\n\n## GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nGOLF HOSE and KHAKI SHORTS.\n\n## E. MERCK, Darmstadt. 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        "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n**THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, 1925** \n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\n**WILLIAM DESMOND** \nin \n\"STRAIGHT \nTHROUGH” \nand \n**WANDA WILEY** \nin \n“GETTING TRIMMED.” \nOur own topical. \n\n**QUEEN'S THEATRE** \n\n66 \n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \n**LON CHANEY** \nin \n\"THE NIGHT ROSE” \nin six parts. \n\nSaturday, July 11th. \n**LILLIAN GISH** \nin \n\"THE WHITE SISTER\" \nin eleven parts. \n\nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY, At all Shows, \n**WILLIAM DUNCAN** \nand \n**EDITH JOHNSON** \nin \n\"The Fighting Guide\" \n(in seven reels), \nAdded Attraction :- \n“A Game Lady\" \n(comedy in two reels) \nand \nTown Topics. \n\n**WORLD THEATRE** \n\nNOTICE. \n89 \n\nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently received large and well-selected new stocks. Come and select your menu from us \n\n**MAGASIN GÉNÉRAL**, \nThe Corner Shop, \nPhone 3312. \nBeaconsfield Arcade. \n\nThe name **MOUTRIE** on a piano is a guarantee of reliability. Easy terms arranged. \n**S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.**, Chater Rd. \n\n[CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] \n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. \n\nPROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands. \n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments. \n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers. \n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties. \n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st. \n\n## GERMAN LOANS. \n\nUNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG. \n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation at only 2 per cent., compared with 5 per cent. for old holders. \n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. \n\nBankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be impossible to carry out such a differentiation, and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby. \n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list. \n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repairing, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after a luncheon at The Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. O. Denison Pender. \n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes. \n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. \n\nMR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement. \n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete. \n\n## FLYING RECORDS. \n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with a Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 266 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records. \n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. \n\nENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN. \n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastie by 3 goals to nil. \n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.--Reuter. \n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. \n\nCOMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH. \n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been a boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going. \n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously. \n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. `Bluebell` makes all the bread for the bluejackets have been helping them and doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore. \n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. \n\nTO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA? \n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the `Peking and Tientsin Times`. \n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor car, No. 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again. \n\n## HOME CRICKET. \n\nOXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872 Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 68. \n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \n\nIn the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November. \n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. \n\nRIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. A message from Fez says the French northward of Wezzan evacuated two advanced posts after the removal of stores and destruction of defences. A later despatch reports that Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergba region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south. \n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuhlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh-floor fashionable apartment at the Carlton Hotel and was killed. \n\nThe accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the `Berengaria` to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio. \n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. \n\nViolent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit. \n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97. \n\n| Ad            | Price     |\n| :------------- | :-------- |\n| Aertex Underwear | $3.00 per Garment |\n| Hat (Fine Soft Felt) | $7.50     |\n| Ideal Summer Sock | $1.75 Pr.  |\n| Holeproof Socks  | 6 Prs. $10 |\n| Golf Hose and Khaki Shorts | -         |\n\n**LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.** \nGentlemen's Outfitters.\n\n\"MERCK'S\" Products are second to none for Purity and Reliability. \nSole-Agents:-**BORNEMANN & Co.**, HONGKONG, ASIATIC BUILDING. \n\n## DECCA \n\n$35.00 at **THE DECCA** and **ANDERSON'S**. \n| Item          | Price       |\n| :------------ | :---------- |\n| Powell Vests  | $6.25 & $8.25 ea. O.S. $6.50 & $8.50 ea. |\n| Knickers to match | $8.25       |\n| Teddies       | $8.50, $10.50, $11.00 |\n| A New Delivery of White Dresses Just Received | -         |",
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        "content_text": "Paraphrase telegram from the Governor of Hongkong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 22nd December, 1925. (Received Colonial Office 7.45 a.m. 22nd December, 1925).\n\n637\n\nCanton situation. Your telegram of the 19th December.\n\nI found when I assumed the administration on the 1st November that there was little or no inter-communication between His Majesty's Consul-General, Canton, and the de facto Canton Government or between the former and the Government of Hongkong. The re-establishment of friendly relations between His Majesty's Consul-General and myself was of course an easy matter, but the restoration of similar relations between the former and the Canton Government was impossible of achievement, since Sir J. Jamieson believed that he would be assassinated if he entered Canton and so refused to leave Shameen. In these circumstances Consul-General agreed to my getting into direct touch myself, if I could, with the Canton Government and I have been trying for weeks to do so. I met with no success for some time but on the 19th December Wong Tsing Wai, the Chairman of Council of Government of Canton, in reply to a personal letter which I addressed to him, sent secretly to visit me here Sung Tazman, a member of the Council of Government and head of the Treasury. The result of this visit was that on the 20th December I sent Fletcher to Canton with Sung for conference with Wong and Council of Government. When he returns I will telegraph further developments.",
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        "content_text": "necessity of \n\n40599 \n\n1925 \n\nHORS TONG \n\nC.O. \n\nwithdrawing the \n\nprovisional recognition accorded \n\n70. \n\nMr Anderson, \n\nS. \n\nCIRCULATION — \n\nb. U.S. of S. \n\nPain!- U.S. of S. \n\nU.S. of S. \n\nSecretary of State. \n\nPrevious Paper \n\n7482 \n\na copy of notes; _Council \n\n23 JAN 1920(?) \n\nFile: 5425/26 \n\n9261-888-1/0-filing of × filing \n\n1 \n\nDATE \n\n5 Sept \n\n7 SEP 25 \n\n17 \n\nRemoval of the Office of the \n\nChinese Telegraph Administration \n\nConcurs in suggestion that the matter be discussed with him on \n\nhis return to this country. \n\nWe have \n\nthe correspondence. \n\nLead \n\nMINUTES \n\nsent out by despatch \n\n34822. L \n\n687el. \n\nTo for confirmation \n\nThen is \n\nLF \n\noh 34822 \n\nref Tallharbuck 16.9.25(?) \n\nAt once \n\nAre \n\nIG \n\nI arranged with the Waterlow that \n\nhe stay after the Printing Conference \n\nWed. 13/1 to discuss \n\nLi R. Stubbs, \n\nSubsequent Paper \n\nthat \n\nHis with \n\nF... \n\nI have since heard from S. \n\nhat to do \n\nThe Waterlow then \n\nDone \n\nwill \n\n(?) arranged that \n\nJ the \n\nFE. Dypt, Fo. \n\nhere after \n\nKe \n\nfor 5425/26 \n\n2613) Wt. 17813/38 Gp. 140 50000 12-24 W & S Ltd.",
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        "content_text": "(b.) The higher rate of surtax (viz., 5 per cent.) should only be applied where there is a reasonable prospect that it will result in an appreciable increase of revenue. Where its main effect would probably be to protect native industry by excluding or diminishing foreign imports, it should not be sanctioned, as the sole object of the surtax is to yield additional customs revenue.\n\n(c.) The articles subject to the 5 per cent. surtax should be articles which can be specially taxed without giving rise to discriminations. For example, alcoholic liquors or tobacco should be subject to the higher surtax as a whole, and there should be no differentiation between the treatment of different kinds of wines, spirits or other liquors or between cigars and other forms of tobacco. There is no desire to prescribe in advance a list of articles to which the surtax should be applied, as this is a matter which must be examined by the special conference in the light of evidence obtained on the spot.\n\nFor the reasons stated above, the British delegates should resist any proposal to apply the higher surtax, or any intermediate surtax, to the more expensive kinds of textile tissues or other classes of manufactured goods, the imports of which present a considerable range of value. It may, if necessary, be pointed out that, as the Chinese tariff has a uniform ad valorem basis, there are already heavier specific rates on the higher-priced goods, so that there is no logical ground for further differentiation by applying a higher rate of surtax to such goods.\n\nIn considering the application of the higher surtax it should always be borne in mind that the general practice of Great Britain and other Western countries which impose high import duties on certain articles for purely revenue purposes is to impose a corresponding excise on similar goods of home manufacture, as otherwise the high import duties may fail to attain their object and merely serve as protection for home industries. Unfortunately, such experience as we have had of Chinese excise duties gives rise to doubt if it is at present within the power of the Chinese Government, even if it so desires, to impose an excise effectively and impartially on a product of Chinese industry unless the production of that article be centralised in a comparatively small number of factories or other undertakings (e.g., sugar refineries). Where an article is produced partly in large foreign-owned establishments and partly as a domestic or small-scale native industry, there is a danger that the tax will only be effectively collected from the former class of establishments, and thus constitute a new differentiation against foreign enterprise. Where, as in the case of refined sugar, the process of refining is necessarily concentrated in a small number of expensively-equipped factories, the difficulty of collecting an excise does not apply, and should it, for example, be decided by the conference to include refined sugar in the list of luxuries, it would be desirable, in order to protect the revenue and reduce the injury to foreign trade, to require as a condition the imposition of an excise.\n\nThe difficulties of levying excise above alluded to constituted one of the principal reasons for the low rate of the luxury surtax authorised by the Washington Conference. The British delegates should take care that this point is clearly brought out in the enquiries and report of the special conference.\n\nSubject to the above observations, the British delegates should consider on its merits any specific proposal to include particular articles in the category of luxuries, being careful to telegraph home for instructions in any doubtful case. His Majesty's Government are prepared in principle to place a reasonably wide interpretation on the word \"luxuries\" on the understanding that the object of the inclusion of articles in that category is to raise additional customs revenues.\n\nPage 11\n\nThe question of increasing the surtaxes on certain articles of luxury such as wines and tobaccos beyond the limits laid down in the Washington Chinese Customs Treaty with the object of settling the cigarette tax controversy is dealt with in Section I above (see also article 2 of the scheme contained in Annex (M)).\n\nVI. THE ALLOCATION OF THE INCREASED REVENUES AND THE PROBLEM OF THE UNSECURED DEBTS.\n\nThe chief problem before the conference is how to dispose of the increased revenues to be derived from the raising of the tariff.\n\nA preliminary difficulty, which may prove to be of some importance, confronts the delegates.\n\nImportant foreign obligations—the outstanding pre-Boxer loans, the Boxer Indemnity and, finally, the Reorganisation loan are secured on the Maritime customs revenues in order of precedence and so as to exclude priority over them being given to any subsequent obligations. The 2 per cent. surtax will indubitably form part of the Maritime customs revenues, and, as such, forms part of the security for these loans.\n\nThe practical consequences of this position cannot be accurately gauged in advance. All that can safely be said at present is that while, in normal circumstances, all the above-mentioned foreign obligations will certainly be met out of the proceeds of the existing tariff, it is easy to imagine conditions in which it would be necessary to draw on the 2 per cent. surtax in order to meet them. The delegates will no doubt be in a position to make more accurate calculations from fuller data when the conference assembles. All that is now necessary is to lay down the principle that the obligations in question have a prior lien on the whole customs revenues, and take precedence, if necessary, of any purposes to which the Special Conference may allocate the proceeds of the surtax.\n\nIt might perhaps be argued (a) that, in signing at Washington, without any proviso safeguarding prior liens, an article to the effect that the Special Conference shall authorise the levying of a surtax for such purposes and subject to such conditions as it may determine,\" China agreed to a provision incompatible with her engagements to various banks, to whom she had already given prior mortgages on the whole of her customs revenues; (b) that the other signatories of the Washington Treaty are entitled to look to that treaty alone, and to ignore the various loan agreements to which they, as Governments, are not parties; (c) that in these circumstances China will be compelled to induce the banks in return for some quid pro quo, financial or other—to abandon their rights in so far as they extend to the additional 2 per cent. duty. But it would be invidious for the conference to encourage, and, indeed, force, China to recede from obligations openly and freely incurred by her towards leading financial groups of the principal Powers represented at the conference. Nor would it in practice be worth while, as the probability of any considerable proportion of the 2 per cent. surtax being, in fact, required to meet the obligations in question is comparatively remote.\n\nIt should be mentioned that by a Presidential mandate of the 3rd March, 1921, future customs surplus was assigned by the Chinese Government for the service of their internal loans and the Inspector-General of Customs instructed by them in that sense. The Diplomatic Body at Peking subsequently, in November of the same year, took cognisance of this arrangement to the extent of refusing a release of customs surplus to the Chinese Government for other purposes on the ground that it had already been mortgaged for these loans. Their excuse for this intervention in what was primarily a matter of domestic concern was apparently that foreign interests had subscribed to these loans on the strength of the Presidential mandate in question. Since then the surpluses have in fact been almost entirely devoted to the service of the internal loans and applications by the Chinese Government to the Diplomatic Body for releases for administrative and other purposes have come to an end, with the incidental result that the Diplomatic Body have to a great extent permitted the control of the customs surplus to pass from their hands into those of the Inspector-General, to whom they have been entrusted by the Chinese Government for the service of the internal debt secured thereon. The principal argument, from the foreign point of view, to be put forward in favour of this arrangement is that Chinese financial interests are thereby concerned, equally with foreign interests, in the continued integrity of the customs revenues and the maintenance of the foreign-controlled customs administration. Its disadvantages lie in the increased responsibilities incurred by the Inspector-General and the customs administration and the international jealousies aroused by the former's control over a considerable portion of China's finances. His Majesty's Government were not consulted when the arrangement was made, and have never formally signified their approval of it; indeed, of recent years, they and the Governments of the other interested Powers have on more than one occasion protested to the Chinese Government against the employment of the entire customs surplus for the internal debt when the services of certain of the earlier but inadequately secured foreign loans were in default or in danger of default. Subject only therefore to the recognition of a prior lien in favour of the pre-Boxer loans, the Indemnity Service and the Reorganisation Loan (and in the event of the abolition of li-kin of the Hukuang Loan) it is the duty of the Special\n\nPage 64",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nThe British delegates should be careful to ensure that the rules prescribed by the general conference under article 4 should be of a general character and should not be of a kind which might embarrass the Revision Committee, since the latter body will have no power to alter the rules except in so far as this power is expressly conferred on it by the rules themselves.\n\nThe question will arise whether the tariff revisions decided on by the Revision Committee at its periodical meetings can, in future, come into effect without ratification by the Powers represented on the committee. This is a point of some importance. Under article 1 of the Washington Treaty, the Powers, including China, expressly agreed beforehand to accept the tariff rates fixed by the Revision Committee. But this provision, inserted mainly in order to avoid the delay which would have been involved by the necessity of ratification by the Governments of the revised rates of duty, applies only to the first revision which took place immediately after the Washington Conference; it is not repeated in article 4, which deals with the future periodical tariff revisions in general, and which only states that \"in order to prevent delay rules should be drawn up by the Special Conference for such revisions.\"\n\nIn the opinion of His Majesty's Government it would be in accord with the spirit of this provision that the special conference should agree that the stipulation of article 1 referred to above should be regarded as applying not only to the first, but to subsequent tariff revisions. But it is very doubtful if a provision to this effect in the rules would have any binding force unless the rules themselves are submitted for ratification by the Powers, which is clearly not the intention of article 4. It is left to the discretion of the British delegates to deal with this difficulty in any manner which may command general approval, e.g., by a protocol covering this special point, to be signed at the conference and submitted for ratification in the usual way, or by embodying the whole of the rules in such a protocol, or by some other appropriate device. If, on consideration, the British delegates think it best not to raise the point and no other delegate raises it, His Majesty's Government would be content that the undertaking should be inserted in the rules for what it may be worth, though they apprehend that some difficulty might arise at a future date with the United States similar to that which they understand arose over the result of the 1918 revision. A possible alternative would be to provide in the rules that the revised tariff should be published and should take effect two months after publication, without any mention of ratification, leaving it to be inferred that the revised tariff would automatically take effect without any further approval.\n\nA set of draft rules, framed by His Majesty's commercial counsellor in China, the British member of the Tariff Revision Committee, are attached (see Annex (L)).\n\nCONCLUSION.\n\nApart from the above consideration of the issues likely to come before the conference, His Majesty's Government hope that opportunities may be provided at the conference of restoring and strengthening the traditional friendliness of Anglo-Chinese relations and of making some attempt to unite conflicting Chinese elements in the work of effecting, with foreign assistance and co-operation, the fiscal and financial reorganisation and general reconstruction of China. For this purpose His Majesty's Government for their part would welcome any enlargement of the scope of the conference as defined in the Washington Chinese Customs Treaty which may be necessary.\n\nWith a view to facilitating the examination of the problems under consideration and of elaborating in more concrete form and in greater detail the general policy of His Majesty's Government as outlined in these notes, a scheme for the abolition of internal taxation and fiscal and financial reconstruction in China, drafted in the form of a treaty in fulfilment of the objects contemplated in the Washington Chinese Customs Treaty, has been prepared and is attached, as Annex (M), to these notes. The principal elements of this scheme are, to free, so far as may be possible, all goods, Chinese or foreign, from all forms of vexatious and irregular internal taxations, to consolidate the debt on the security of the customs revenues as increased by the surtaxes, to furnish both Central and Provincial Governments with reasonably adequate revenues on lines attractive not only to the former but also to the latter, and to provide such guarantees as it may be possible to devise that the arrangements made will be effective; the principle of allocating a pro rata share of the customs revenues to the provinces is carried out by assigning to the Provincial Administrations the proceeds of transit dues collected by the maritime customs, thus preserving the integrity of the customs revenues proper (the proceeds of the import and export duties) as national revenues accruing to the Central Government for the service of the national debt and other approved purposes; and solutions of minor outstanding questions are worked in as occasion arises.\n\n19\n\nIt should be made clear that this scheme in no way represents a direct objective to be sought at the conference, but that it is merely intended to serve as a compendium of desiderata and as a guide for the use of the British delegates if the negotiations proceed or can be guided on lines in any way relevant thereto. This may not be easy to arrange, since the scheme goes in some ways beyond the provisions of the Washington Treaty, notably in its recommendations of an increase of taxation on wines and tobacco and the formulation of a programme leading by progressive stages to full tariff autonomy. In regard to some of its other proposals, e.g., increased foreign assistance in the collection and custody of China's national revenues, it will, moreover, probably be impolitic for the British delegation to take the lead. The Chinese will, indeed, doubtless have their own proposals to put forward, and the more it may prove possible for the British delegates to support and build on such Chinese proposals the better. The scheme gives some general indication, however, of the lengths to which His Majesty's Government are prepared to go in promoting the reorganisation and reconstruction of China and the revision of the tariff aspect of the Commercial Treaties. Save in exceptional circumstances, the delegate should, of course, telegraph home for instructions before definitely accepting any decisions going beyond the scope of the provisions of the Washington Chinese Customs Treaty. It has been the view of His Majesty's Government that the surtaxes contemplated in article 3 of the Chinese Tariff Treaty are intended to represent an instalment of, and to form part of, the full Mackay Treaty rate of 12 per cent. The British delegates need not, however, feel precluded from considering the concession of an alternative point of view, should it appear that some commensurate advantage could be obtained, either in the way of internal taxation reforms or otherwise. Similarly, while His Majesty's Government hold that the meaning of article 7 of the treaty is that transit pass dues shall remain at their existing figure pending their abolition on the fulfilment of the relevant conditions of the Mackay Treaty, the British delegates are not precluded from considering proposals for an eventual increase in transit dues collected by the customs administration from their present rate in order, if necessary, to increase the revenues from the taxation of trade to be allocated to the provinces, and thus secure provincial co-operation in making and maintaining reforms of internal taxation on the lines suggested in the scheme. But the sum of such transit dues and of the import or export duties levied on the same articles must not, of course, exceed the figure recognised as the limit of the taxation which can properly be borne by the articles in question without undue prejudice to their sale and consumption.\n\nForeign Office, September 21, 1925.\n\n[13577]\n\nD 2",
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        "content_text": "In R egard to \n\ndiscussions between Sir J. Envidu & R.E. \n\nStubs yesterday.\n\nRE. Stubs' view is that the proper \n\nand practical way of disposing of the Naval Hospital \n\nis by amalgamation with the \n\nMilitary Hospital \n\nwhere the accommodation \n\nof staff would be ample. Sir P. Walters \n\nis of the opinion that it should be made a \n\nnursing home \n\nwith the requisite staff to deal with the \n\ncases which are sent there by Sir E. Bradford.\n\nA conference with the \n\nHarbour \n\nBoard is fixed for 4:30 \n\ntomorrow, \n\nand the P.W.D. \n\nDevelopment Conference \n\nis fixed for 3:0 on Wed. 13/1, \n\n& the Chinese Telegraph Administration \n\nis to have place \n\nafter \n\nonly \n\nmatters \n\nwere discussed \n\nbetween \n\n3 & 4:30 \n\nnoted for \n\noffice \n\nas not \n\nin his opinion, \n\nConference, \n\nwill provide \n\nsufficient accommodation for \n\nthe \n\ntype \n\nof cases treated \n\nby Sir E. Stubbs \n\nat the Naval Hospital.\n\nTomorrow \n\nAs regards the dock, \n\nI gathered that \n\nthe \n\nreduced schoolmasters \n\nSir P. Chater \n\nis of the opinion that \n\nthe \n\nH.K. Dock Co. was \n\nIt is now \n\nrecognised \n\nthat the \n\ndemolition\n\n(\"Tolley & Richmond \n\nsee pp. below); \n\nNaval Yard \n\nis superfluous Torpedo boatness \n\n# \n\nof war. \n\naffairs of the community. \n\nIf the Admiralty \n\nhave the land \n\nit could be filled in \n\nand the break \n\nwater frontage \n\nis not a \n\nService, but a \n\nColonial \n\nasset worth developing.\n\nIf it is decided to reply to the P.C. it is possible \n\nthat the matter how \n\nDan R-Stubbs, who has expressed these views (except \n\none) to J. Parking \n\n76 \n\n+ 2 Sir P. Chater's support (42153) \n\nshould be taken \n\nThe Colony should take over the Naval Yard \n\nand \n\nclear it \n\nby \n\nfilling it in.\n\n+ \n\nDo with \n\nthe Colony land \n\n& is however in P.C. \n\nThe thing \n\nis to construct \n\na \n\nSubject. \n\nthe proposal \n\nfor graving dock \n\nbeing necessary",
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        "content_text": "Harbour development.\n\nOne tel. of the 26th of Oct. will have that the conference shd. be adjourned until your arrival (at that time 312389- zon were expected. and of July).\n\nLy that \"/discussion to amie have about the (C.A. 41233) Chourr is likely to Centre. The ju of who wd. muni də.\n\nThe W.O. pay for provided. Encanes the extra forces if they £0. of com 0.\n\nExpanding suggest fo Ke Inter expect the general you, though imothe point for discursanin with the identy representative whether the ther be prepared referend expenses of running your anti-pring 40. (42440/ Commates (Jums desp. of 72\" any.) (c.42153) wud. Nuval Dockyard.\n\n2. I amstore By Charter urange a copy of a settle written to Collins. Perhaps you Collins about this, some Male.\n\n3. Removal f Chinese Telegraph office. (You. 3253 (You Desp. of 17th June). This is for disscussion with the 2.0. oppin advison Conttre having A mote prep A little. If you will suitable dute I will arrange C.A. representatives to attend.\n\nI expect (Signed) G. GRINDLE.\n\nfor leave for the whole of January apaid for there is ruled out",
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        "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
        "page_number": 285,
        "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]",
        "content_text": "I pressed the point that we were not dealing with China, but with the intolerable situation at Canton. There seemed to be a real chance of giving the push that would overthrow the Reds. To this it was objected that you cannot establish a friendly Government by force, and more important that we had no guarantee of the continuance of any new Government set up in Canton.\n\nThe Foreign Office are definitely opposed to a blockade both on political and military grounds, and they support their view by reference to the C.I.D. papers in O.8844 herewith, which point out military difficulties and throw doubt on the effectiveness of a blockade. I put the point that we could stop arms going in. Unfortunately the Foreign Office are satisfied that they cannot stop ships under neutral flags (the Russian flag included) without a declaration of a state of war. I quoted the Venezuelan precedent of some years ago, but Sir V. Wellesley was emphatic that in present conditions interference with American, Japanese, or Russian ships was out of the question. If this view is adopted by His Majesty's Government, then clearly it is useless to ask for a blockade. And the C.I.D.'s report that prior international agreement is essential to a blockade seems to bear the Foreign Office out. Such international agreement is most unlikely.\n\nThe Foreign Office views are embodied in a draft telegram to Pekin which they had already prepared for submission to the Prime Minister (Sir Austen Chamberlain is still away). I asked for further reference to the Admiralty and War Office. The Foreign Office agreed, but were unwilling to delay the telegram though they will add a paragraph that the Admiralty and War Office are being further consulted on the C.I.D.'s reports and will arrange a conference at which we will attend. It can do no harm to hear what Sir R. Macleay and Sir C. Clementi have to say on the Foreign Office objections, and I presume we may telegraph to Hong Kong to ask the Governor's observations on the Foreign Office telegram which will be repeated to him from Pekin as the quickest method.\n\nSir R. Macleay's alternative of lifting the arms embargo in favour of one side does not directly concern Hong Kong. In any case, it seems a very doubtful expedient.\n\nIt is very disappointing to see what looks like a chance slipping away, but if a blockade is not to be effective one can but agree that it would be worse than useless. You may wish to press for further consideration of the legal questions of international law involved when we get the replies from Hong Kong and Pekin.\n\nGG. 17delt. 26.\n\nPage 263",
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        "content_text": "330\n\nhad altered his view that the junks could be driven down the river. He now proposed only to herd them together and prevent their being used.\n\nA minor objection to his schemes was that it would be practically impossible to apply this procedure to a foreign war-ship; also it would not prevent the importation of arms as the Russian ships carrying arms could be brought alongside the deep-water quays.\n\nIt appeared therefore that the Admiralty attitude was that, given the necessity of holding Shameen, there was no new form of pressure to be brought to bear on Canton short of a first-class naval and military operation, i.e., open war and formal blockade. In this they were supported by the War Office and Air Ministry.\n\nWe pointed out the extreme seriousness of the position reached. It meant that we were powerless to bring any pressure on the Canton Government if on the 10th October they failed to keep their promise. Merely turning the pickets off the water front would do nothing to stop the boycott of British trade or bring pressure to bear on Canton.\n\nIt appeared that the Admiralty view hinged on the supposed necessity of holding on to Shameen. We therefore suggested that it should be considered whether it was more important to hold on to Shameen or to stop the boycott. The Admiralty representative said that evacuation could not be confined to Europeans. There was a considerable population of friendly Chinese whose lives would be in danger, and who must also be evacuated. This would be a bigger operation than the gun-boats could manage.\n\nThe Foreign Office also pointed out that it would be essential to consult the French before anything was done. They agreed to insert in their telegram some phrases which would elicit local opinion as to the preliminary evacuation of Shameen.\n\nIt was understood that the fighting departments thought it would be possible to carry out the Commodore's suggestions if Shameen were first evacuated. But it is very doubtful whether the authorities on the spot will recommend evacuation. They have hitherto been strongly opposed to it.\n\nIn view of the Admiralty attitude, I presume we can but concur in the Foreign Office telegram? We shall be in a stronger position to press for action if the Canton Government are not merely dilatory, but openly defiant after 10th October. But of course it is possible, and much to be hoped, that the question of an ultimatum and coercive measures may not arise.\n\nWe should also telegraph to the Governor to report how the boycott stands as soon as possible after 10th October. The Foreign Office are telegraphing in this sense to the Consul General.\n\nCopies of the Governor's telegram were before the conference.\n\n5 Oct. 26\n\n2\n\nand October\n\nI think cc. might be prepared.\n\n5.10.26.\n\nMusical fear. But it to\n\nIn res\n\nOve",
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        "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "(3). \n\n446\n\ncustodian banks and that in future the Chinese government should have full control of these revenues, the custody of which should be in Chinese and not in foreign hands; that is to say, the Commissioner of Customs at each port would hand over the revenues to his Chinese colleague, the Superintendent, retaining possibly a percentage to be calculated for each port,\n\nfor the service of the foreign secured loans.\n\nThe\n\nadoption of this policy would, of course, entail\n\nrelegation of unsecured debts to be dealt with outside the conference. Its advantages may be enumerated as follows:-\n\n1. It would be interpreted as a liberal gesture and a recognition of China's right to be mistress in her own house.\n\n2. It would automatically achieve provincial allocation. If the Chinese wish the revenues to flow to Peking and be used for foreign and domestic loans, they must make their own arrangements without invoking foreign gunboats.\n\n3. The Customs administration would be saved from destruction.\n\n4. It might pacify Canton.\n\n5. It would save the secured foreign bond-holder, who otherwise will be dragged under by the unsecured debtor.\n\n6. It would facilitate abolition of likin.\n\nPlease telegraph your considered observations on this proposed policy. The matter should be treated as confidential, but you should take an opportunity",
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        "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\nDecypher.\n\nCHI\n\nMiracleay (Peking).\n\n23rd February, 1926.\n\nD.\n\nA.\n\n4.00 p.m. 1.30 p.m. 23rd February, 1926.\n\n23rd February, 1926.\n\n0.72.\n\n4392\n\nI am instructing Consul General to telegraph any further observations he may have to offer beyond those embodied in my telegram No.68 on the points referred to.\n\nOwing to corrupt telegrams due to bad telegraphic communication between here and Canton, the following sentence, which only reached me after repetition had been called for, should have been embodied in my telegram after \"on this point Consul General telegraphs\" and before the word \"Borodin\". (Quotation begins) \"So far, the question of claim to customs surplus has not been raised by Cantonese since the opening of the conference, but he understands that Borodin has gone north...\" etc.\n\nPage 294",
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        "document_key": "CO129-495N  - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12",
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        "title": "CO129-495N  - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12",
        "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": "-5-\n\n92\n\nto press for a treaty, we shall of course have to fall back on some less formal agreement and possibly even be content with mutual assurances, but in any case their interdependence should if possible be made clear. Failing this there remains nothing but to hold the Chinese to their promise.\n\n6. Do you consider the risks involved in such a course are very great? If granted tariff autonomy in the manner proposed, is it your view that the Chinese will merely levy taxes in accordance with the scale of interim surtaxes already put before the Conference and that we should still be in a favourable position for negotiating a separate convention to come into force simultaneously with tariff autonomy?\n\n7. Please telegraph your considered views, on receipt of which the question will be further considered here in consultation with the interests concerned.",
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        "content_text": "97\n\n-5-\n\nto press for a treaty, we shall of course have to \n\nfall back on some legal formula agreement and \n\npossibly even be content with mutual assurances, \n\nbut in any case their interdependence should if \n\npossible be made clear. Failing this there remains \n\nnothing but to hold the Chinese to their promise.\n\n6.\n\nDo you consider the risks involved in such \n\na course are very great? If granted tariff autonomy \n\nin the manner proposed, is it your view that the \n\nChinese will merely levy taxes in accordance with \n\nthe scale of interim surtaxes already put before the \n\nConference and that we should still be in a favour-\n\nable position for negotiating a separate convention \n\nto come into force simultaneously with tariff \n\nautonomy?\n\n7.\n\nPlease telegraph your considered views, on \n\nreceipt of which the question will be further \n\nconsidered here in consultation with the interests \n\nconcerned.",
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        "content_text": "these circumstances the general feeling in Hong Kong, which the Chinese merchants fully shared, was entirely opposed to the payment of \"compensation\" to Canton, and there was universal support for the view that no lasting settlement could be reached by this means. On the contrary, the payment of blackmail could only result in the creation of a disastrous precedent which could be exploited by the Cantonese at will. In these circumstances, and in order that the Canton Government might labour under no delusion as to the state of feeling in Hong Kong, it was intimated to them in the course of the preliminary conversations that the Hong Kong Government would neither make any direct payment to Canton as compensation nor would they permit private individuals in Hong Kong to do so. On the other hand, an endeavour was made to bring the Canton Government to the view that the true interests of Hong Kong and Canton were interdependent, and in order to induce them to take the natural course of looking for aid to the British Empire, rather than to Russia, they were informed that the Hong Kong Government would be prepared to consider the grant of a loan for specific works of development in Kwangtung. The change of feeling in Hong Kong evidently came as a surprise to the Canton Government, and in order that the latter might consider the new situation more fully, the conversations were adjourned sine die.\n\nEarly in June, Mr. Eugene Chen, a journalist of Communist tendencies, was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, and at once proposed the reopening of negotiations. The reasons for this step are not very clear, but it seems highly probable that the motive which chiefly influenced the Cantonese is their acute need of money, mainly for military expenditure. This they doubtless hope to obtain from the proposed Hong Kong loan referred to above. The Russians, including Borodin, and even Karakhan himself, are believed to be in favour of ending the boycott, because they fear a revulsion of feeling against them, such as has developed in North China, if the struggle is prolonged indefinitely. In view of the threat of a war with the North and with Yunnan, General Chiang Kai-shek would probably welcome the additional security to his base which would result from a settlement.\n\nHong Kong, although prepared to continue the contest rather than consent to the payment of blackmail, stands to gain enormously from the termination of the boycott.\n\nThere are, moreover, other issues, such as the boycott at Swatow, and various claims in respect of loss of British life and property, which involve imperial, as opposed to Hong Kong, interests, and with which Hong Kong is not in a position to deal. Further, it can reasonably be expected that a marked improvement in general British relations with South China would follow a settlement of the boycott. This would imply, in the first place, a dissolution of the strike organisation, which is the focus of anti-British propaganda. It should also be followed by a period of great commercial activity. In these circumstances, the Conservative and Moderate elements in Canton should be strengthened and Russian influence correspondingly diminished. Correspondence bearing upon the negotiations is appended below:-\n\n(1.)\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\n(Received Colonial Office, March 23, 1926.)\n\n(Telegraphic) P.\n\nHong Kong, March 23, 1926. Please let me know at the earliest possible moment whether I am authorised to discuss loan proposal and to present formal protest at suitable opportunity. A conference is imminent, since I have to-day received a letter from Wong Tsing Wai, in which he agrees to appoint C. C. Wu, Sung Tszman and Chan King Pok, who are all members of the Canton Government, to negotiate in Canton with representatives of this Government. I propose to appoint for the purpose Hallifax, Tratman and Kemp. The time is opportune for substituting British for Russian influence in Kwangtung, since the latter has been badly shaken.\n\n5\n\n(2.)\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nColonial Office, March 26, 1926.\n\nRepeat to Canton and Peking. Secret. Canton situation. I have been in consultation with Foreign Office regarding your telegram of the 23rd March, and what follows is the result of our discussion in the light of your further telegram of the 25th March and of Peking telegrams Nos. 129 and 133 :-\n\n1. We do not consider that it would be expedient at this juncture to present formally claim for damages. But you may intimate in course of negotiations, if you wish, that His Majesty's Government are considering such a claim in the event of a settlement not being speedily reached.\n\nThere would be no objection to a protest against violation of treaty rights, but if such protest is made in the form of a note on lines proposed in your telegram of the 4th March it is suggested that-\n\n(a.) Some phrase, such as \"Government actually exercising authority in Canton,\" should be substituted for the term \"de facto Government\" paragraph 4. While the latter term is not inaccurate, it has been so much canvassed lately that it might seem to imply some further measure of recognition.\n(b.) Appeal in paragraphs 2 and 3 should be simply to treaties of Nanking and Tien-tsin, or even to treaty rights in general, and reference should not be made to specific articles of the treaties.\n\n2. Loan Question. The following serious difficulties present themselves :- (i.) A loan for railway works\n\n(a) Could not be open to public subscription,\n(b) Would have to be confined to Kwangtung Province,\n\nas otherwise we would be exposed to a charge by signatory Powers of infringement of consortium agreement.\n\n(ii) See Peking telegram No. 133. The rights of Peking Government to sanction all financial contracts made with local authorities in China have hitherto been recognised by His Majesty's Government.\n\n(iii) Any proposal that an endeavour should be made to secure the participation of His Majesty's Government in such loan (whether by guarantee or otherwise) would, in view of present financial situation, result almost inevitably in delay, which would defeat your purpose.\n\nIn these circumstances, it would not appear that a loan would be practicable unless, firstly, it was devoted to works (preferably other than railway) within Kwangtung Province, and, secondly, the sum required was within the resources of Hong Kong. It is possible that arrangements could be made for a portion of the balance of the trade loan to be made available for this purpose.\n\nIf you consider that this modified procedure would serve purpose in view, please telegraph estimate of sum likely to be required. I imagine that, in order to ensure good behaviour over maximum period, the procedure would be to dole out advances from the loan as slowly as possible.\n\nIn the meantime, so far as immediate negotiations are concerned, you are authorised at your discretion to take the line that, if the Canton Government on their side furnish guarantees of good behaviour and secure termination of boycott, you on your side will be prepared to recommend not only that claim for damages should be dropped, but that assistance for municipal improvements (or some such vague and general purpose) should be granted from Hong Kong funds.\n\nHis Majesty's Government do not contemplate recognition of independence of Canton, and it will be necessary, therefore, for any arrangement reached with Canton Government to be so adjusted as not to conflict with our obligations to Peking and other Powers. It is important that you should bear this in mind; in other respects the foregoing observations appear to agree, on the whole, with the policy outlined in your telegram of the 25th March.\n\n246",
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        "content_text": "TO \n\nSubject \n\nbe reconsidered and the necessary instructions given to the consul-general. To the approval by His Majesty's Government of this procedure, I propose to despatch to the consul-general two letters in the following sense :- \n\n(1.) First letter, a copy of which should be sent to Chen by consul-general. (For text see my immediately following telegram.) \n\n(2.) Second letter, the substance of which will be communicated verbally to Chen by consul-general. Letter will add that His Majesty's Government has sent him directions to attend and participate (it is hoped that he will receive such instructions from Peking) (The text of this letter is contained in a separate telegram which follows after (1) above.) \n\nDelay in reply to invitation of Canton Government may produce bad effect, and I should be glad if you would telegraph urgently whether you approve. The proposed course of action has received the unanimous concurrence of the Executive Council, \n\n(9.) \n\nGovernor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\n(Telegraphic.) (First Letter.) \n\n(Received Colonial Office, June 10, 1926.) \n\nHong Kong, June 10, 1926. \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch forwarding a letter addressed to me on 5th June by Mr. Chen Yujen, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Canton. In reply to the latter I shall be obliged if you will kindly inform Mr. Chen Yujen that the strike in Hong Kong has long been a thing of the past, but that I have appointed the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp and the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax as representatives of the Hong Kong Government to negotiate with the official representatives of the Canton Government a settlement of the anti-British boycott, and that I should be glad to learn when negotiations can be commenced. \n\nI have only appointed two delegates as His Majesty's Minister at Peking has authorised you to be a member of the delegation. \n\nPage 11\n\nI find the situation less unpromising than in February, and attribute this, amongst other things, to the more aggressive attitude of the navy since then, coupled with Mr. Brenan's way of handling local authorities. We shall be liable to waste the advantages already gained by the latter, as well as to spoil our wicket for any stronger action His Majesty's Government might favour in case of failure of negotiations, unless Mr. Brenan is authorised to participate in them and to use reasonable discretion in consultation with Hong Kong delegates to effect settlement. \n\n\"A settlement of the boycott of Hong Kong, which left Shamien and Swatow questions unsettled, thus affording excuse for continued existence of strike organisations, would be unsatisfactory. But Shamien and Swatow have nothing to do with Hong Kong, and could only be dealt with by Mr. Brenan. Mr. Brenan's personal qualifications also render his participation and, I should say, the chairmanship of British delegation desirable. The Governor, Hong Kong, has, I am sure, full confidence in him. \n\nIt is considered here quite possible that Chiang Kaishek hopes by effecting settlement to devote all his attention to more energetic military measures and propaganda against Hunan and/or Lower Yang-tsze, but I venture to urge that procedure for negotiations with Kwangtung, where immediate vital interests are at stake, should not be subordinated to the exigencies of the nebulous and shifting political situation in centre and north of China. With reference to paragraph 2 of your telegram, comparison between attitude of a civil Government or a military dictatorship in Canton seems to us here a very speculative basis for policy. \n\nMy advice is based on firm conviction that protection of British interests in China must inevitably and increasingly depend, with or without approval by His Majesty's Government, on direct relations with the provinces rather than with a succession of phantom Governments in Peking, but I should have hesitated to express this unorthodox view unless I had found warm support for it with His Majesty's consuls-general, Shanghai, Canton and with the Governor of Hong Kong.\" \n\n(Addressed to Peking, No. 59; repeated to Hong Kong.) \n\n(12.) \n\n(10.) \n\nGovernor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\n(Telegraphic.) (Second Letter.) \n\nSir R. Macleay to Sir Austen Chamberlain.-(Received June 8.) \n\n(No. 209.) (Telegraphic,) R. \n\nPeking, June 8, 1926. \n\nFollowing received from acting consul-general, Canton — \n\nMy telegram No. 203. \n\n(Received Colonial Office, June 10, 1926.) \n\nMy telegram No, 55. \n\nHong Kong, June 10, 1926. \n\nWith reference to my letter of even date, I trust that you may yourself be able to attend and participate in the forthcoming conference with Messrs. Kemp Hallifax with Messrs. Chen Yujen, Sung Tszman and Chan Kungpok. If so, I beg the honour to request you to inform Mr. Chen that you do so at the request and with the full concurrence of the Hong Kong Government. \n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs, without waiting for assurance demanded, and disregarding alternatives previously offered, has now addressed letter to Governor of Hong Kong through me inviting appointment of three plenipotentiary delegates to negotiate Canton-Hong Kong strike. \n\n\"Reason for haste is, I think, urgent need for funds, which Canton Government hope in one form or another to get from Hong Kong. \n\nIn any case, I trust that instructions regarding claims will still be sent to me, as question is bound to arise. \n\n(Addressed to Peking, No. 56; repeated to Hong Kong.) \"* \n\n(11.) \n\n(13.) \n\nBritish Consul General, Canton, to Sir Austen Chamberlain.--(Received June 12.) \n\n(No. 25.) \n\n(Telegraphic.) \n\nFollowing from Mr. O'Malley \n\nCanton (via Hong Kong), June 12, 1926. \n\nYour telegram No. 203 to Foreign Office, and Hong Kong telegram Colonial Office of 10th June. \n\nPage 10\n\nSir Austen Chamberlain to Sir R. Macleay (Peking), \n\n(No. 176.) Telegraphic.) \n\nForeign Office, June 11, 1926. Your telegram No. 209, and Hong Kong telegram of 10th June repeated direct to you. \n\nMy immediately following telegram contains text of draft reply, which, after inter-departmental consultation, Colonial Office propose should be returned to Governor of Hong Kong, subject to your approval. \n\n[14831] \n\nC 2 \n\n249",
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        "content_text": "They observe that Merchant Ships are expected to protect themselves to a large extent from sporadic attack and also to accept inconveniences, some of which (e.g. sailing under convoy) are such as the Hong Kong traders have complained of. It appears to the Admiralty to be an untenable proposition that traders should expect to carry on their business without inconvenience or danger in a foreign country suffering from Civil war, and should have provided for them without cost to themselves, whatever increase of protection is necessary to affect this.\n\n4. The Admiralty is, on the other hand, in complete agreement with the view, which has from time to time been expressed in Sir R.E. Stubbs' despatches, and was endorsed in the Report of the Inter-Departmental conference referred to above, that in the conditions obtaining in the waters of the Canton Delta, no system of patrol can supply protection unless a ship is prepared to defend itself against an attack from within by a small body of determined men.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9\n\nPag\n\nPag\n\n5. The fact remains that although, as indicated in the terms of reference to the local Committee appointed by Sir R. E. Stubbs, certain amendments in the Piracy Regulations are desirable, no suggestion that I am able to regard as practicable has yet been put forward for an effective substitute for the general scheme of defence embodied in the Regulations.\n\n6. I have to request that you will take such steps, as you may consider desirable, to remove any misapprehensions as to the views of the Admiralty and myself on these questions which may still prevail in the minds of any sections of the community in the Colony which may be concerned.\n\n7. As regards the proposal that additional armed launches should be provided by the Admiralty for service on the West River, it seems hardly necessary to say more at this juncture than that in existing circumstances any discussion of this question would be entirely academic. You will of course be at liberty to raise the question again should the necessity arise. I am however not without hope that, when commercial intercourse between Hong Kong and Canton again becomes possible, there will not be any serious recrudescence of piracy in these waters.\n\n(13123/25)\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9\n\nPag\n\nPag\n\n8. As regards the question (dealt with in paragraphs 23-29 of the Report of the 1924 Inter-Departmental Conference) whether vessels subject to the Piracy Regulations should be required to carry some suitable form of wireless telegraph apparatus, I enclose copies of the report on the tests referred to in paragraph 27 of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Conference. I understand that the Board of Trade is not yet in a position to form any definite conclusion as to the form of automatic apparatus which may ultimately be licenced; and of course until such a decision is reached, such apparatus will not be manufactured on a commercial scale, and will accordingly not be obtainable at a price which, apart from other considerations, would justify its installation being made compulsory under the Piracy Regulations.\n\nPage 10\n\netc.,\n\nPage 10",
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        "content_text": "affective substitute for the moral schemes of defence embodied in the Regulations.\n\nI have to request that you will take much trouble to remove any misapprehensions which may still prevail in the Colony as to the view of the Admiralty with myself as to\n\n7. As regards the proposal that additional motor launches should be provided by the Admiralty for service work on the West River, it is hardly necessary to enlarge on this situation more than that in existing circumstances any discussion of this situation would be entirely academic. You will of course be at liberty to rise to national exigencies should the necessity arise. I have hope, however, that, when commercial intercourse between Hong Kong and Canton again becomes possible, there will not be any serious recrudescence of piracy in these waters.\n\nA. As to the question (dealt with in paragraph 29 or thereabouts of the 1924 Interdepartmental Conference) whether vessels subject to the Ferry Regulations should be required to carry some suitable form of wireless telegraph apparatus, I enclose copies of the report on the tests referred to in paragraph 27 of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Conference. I understand that the Board of Trade is not yet in a position to form any definite conclusion as to the form of wireless apparatus which may ultimately be licensed;",
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        "content_text": "## 2 \n\nBorodin and Hsu Chien. At this distance it is difficult to get at the facts, and you will doubtless have received more reliable information from Hankow, but it may be of interest to record the views which have been expressed to me by Mr. Robert S. Norman, who has recently returned to Canton. Mr. Norman, who is an American, was for many years the legal adviser and close personal friend of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. He has, I understand, always been well disposed towards the British, and did a good deal to allay the excitement aroused in the city immediately after the Shakee shooting affair of June 1925, a fact which was, I believe, acknowledged in despatches by Sir James Jamieson. Mr. Norman is himself a member of the Kuo Min-tang, and, although he holds no official position at the moment, and is in Canton on private business, he is in close touch with General Li Chai-sum and the leading local officials, and is in correspondence with General Chiang Kai-shek, of whom he holds a very high opinion. He told me that General Chiang had had enough of Communist interference with his military plans, and that he was calling a conference of Kuo Min-tang leaders at his headquarters in Nanchang with a view to defining and limiting the position of the Communists in the Nationalist party and getting rid of the Russians. General Li Chai-sum, the real ruler of this province, was, he said, a loyal adherent of Chiang Kai-shek, to whom he referred for instructions in all matters of importance. His chief of staff, Ma Wen-che, had just left for the North to attend the Nanchang Conference. Mr. Norman, who evidently holds a brief for Chiang Kai-shek, appeared to regard him as the only true exponent of Sun Yat-sen's principles, and the sole hope of a moderate Nationalist policy as against the Communist and Russian influence, which had seized control of the party machine.\n\n## 5. \nThe civil officials, such as Eugene Chen, T. V. Soong and Sun Fo, he considered to be mere politicians and time-servers, who knew which side their bread was buttered, and who clung to the Russians because they had no other support or following. He stated that Eugene Chen had more principles than the others and Sun Fo none at all. Sun Fo, he said, had promoted the right wing opposition Kuo Min-tang group in Shanghai at the end of 1925, and had collected funds for the purpose in America. Subsequently he had deserted them for the party in power in Canton. He was wanted by the latter because of his name (he is, of course, the son of the late Sun Yat-sen), but he is regarded with suspicion by his present associates, and has to be ultra-red to atone for his previous disaffection; hence his violent speeches.\n\n## 6. \nThere is a tendency on the part of foreigners to attach political labels to Chinese politicians and to classify them individually as moderate or extremist, right or left, Communist or Conservative, &c., and the same foreigners are constantly being puzzled and disconcerted because the people so labelled do not run true to form. The truth is that the Chinese who now fill the political stage are actuated in their groupings much more by personal attraction or animosity than by political ideals, and are quite ready to be either extreme or moderate as may suit their purpose for the time being. Sun Fo is an unscrupulous wind-bag of this type, and C. C. Wu is another. No more bitter and violent invective has been heaped on the British people during all this anti-foreign campaign than was emitted by C. C. Wu during his tenure of office in Canton, but fortunately he was such a poisonous person to deal with that his own colleagues could stand him no longer, and he was summarily ejected by General Chiang Kai-shek. He fled to Shanghai via Macao, where he has since been intriguing against the Canton Government from the safety of the French concession. He is now entertained as the guest of honour by the Union Club, and impresses the Shanghai community with the sweet reasonableness of his speeches and the moderation with which he sets forth the Nationalist aspirations.\n\n## 7. \nMen like T. V. Soong, the Minister of Finance, and his brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, the newly-appointed Minister of Industry in Canton, have certainly no desire for Communism, if by that is meant class warfare, mob rule and the commandeering of their wealth by the proletariat. They both come of bourgeois stock and are Christian in religion. Soong is said to have feathered his nest pretty well since becoming Finance Minister, and Kung is already a wealthy man from a banking family, whose wife, well known, I believe, to the Diplomatic Body in Peking, has social ambitions and likes entertaining on a large scale.\n\n## 8. \nAs a matter of fact, I am informed confidentially that both these men are siding with General Chiang Kai-shek in the present dispute, but those of their colleagues in the Nationalist party who have fallen foul of their own military are obliged to look elsewhere for support, if they are to continue to exist politically, for they have no personal following of their own. Therefore, they cling to the Russians and the Communists, who wield the agitation weapon and can raise the mob. General Chiang is demanding the dismissal of the Russians, but his opponents are using the argument that if the Russians are discarded the Nationalist party will be without extraneous support in the event of attack by the Northerners or the imperialist Powers, and that there will be danger of losing the gains already wrested from the latter.\n\n## 9. \nMr. Norman and Mr. Morris Cohen, a Canadian employed in the Central Bank, have been to me and to the American consul-general, evidently on behalf of some of the local officials, to ask if the Powers cannot give Chiang Kai-shek some assurance of their support provided he eliminates the Russians, but they were very vague as to the form such assurance could take. I replied that **His Majesty's Government** declined to interfere in Chinese politics, but that they had already publicly made known to both Governments in China their willingness to alter the treaties and to do their best to meet the Nationalist aspirations, and that this offer would not be withdrawn whatever happened to the Russians. I said, however, that I would be glad to communicate by telegraph any considered suggestions made to me personally by any of the political leaders in Canton. I was then told that Mr. Kung would probably come and see me confidentially on the subject, but, although he returned my call and expressed his friendly sentiments, he has not so far seen fit to confide in me to the above extent. I have reason to believe, however, that my American colleague has telegraphed to Mr. MacMurray suggesting that Sun Fo and his party should be approached unofficially in Hankow and assured that they will not lose ground in an international sense by abandoning their Russian connection.\n\n## 10. \nIn the meantime the Japanese seem, in their own way, to be flirting with the South. The Japanese consul-general is a frequent visitor at General Li Chai-sum's residence, and he is in close touch with Mr. Chen Shu-jen, the Civil Commissioner in the Provincial Government, who was educated in Japan and speaks the language fluently. The Kuo Min-tang is at present represented in Japan by Mr. Tai Chi-tao, a prominent member of the party, and a close friend of Chiang Kai-shek. Mr. Cohen, who knows Mr. Tai personally, tells me that Chiang Kai-shek, having no son of his own, has adopted a son of Mr. Tai by one of his concubines. General Wu Te-chen, formerly chief of police in Canton, is also in Japan. I have seen a private letter from him describing his cordial reception by the Japanese authorities, while recent speeches by Mr. Saburi and Baron Shidehara would indicate that Japan is preparing the ground for an understanding with the Southerners in the event of their triumph.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**J. F. BRENAN.**\n\n## 46",
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        "content_text": "## \nSir J. J. Risky might see there ff. sin con he would like 1m present at the discussion.\n\n8 copy til 1: Peking No 176 (R) of 4 Mch \n\nVP.R. dour nos \n\nwith to be fennt the question is \n\nas \n\npolitical rather Mantel \n\nThis is the result of our recent conference. The draft was shown to us for concurrence before despatch, and it was arranged explaining 62 shs. also telegraph to HK the position rasking for. I keep in touch with Sir My. Lampson.\n\nI submit dft. tel. in which Fo concur, and which provides for repetition, with relevant portion of Fo tel., to Singapore.\n\nTo make it quite clear at our confer. the question to form that it was out of question for the Chinese to modify their nationality law, and that in consequence the proposals for facilitating the investment of Chinese nationality have been abandoned.\n\nIndeed, though our telmes. sent with their concurrence showed that we had less right to hope for an arrangement for investment, Fo even took the line that they had never conceived such an arrangement was possible on the lines of that with the Dutch.\n\nThe utmost that we could hope for was an angl. on a similar footing. The Dutch angl., which is briefly described in Fo tel and fully set out in `42238/22`, seems too complicated. I am afraid that we can hardly expect the Chinese to give its application without restricting even if Koo foresees angl. may vary considerably.",
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        "content_text": "## 2.\n\n97 \n\nof certain very onerous taxes. If this view is accepted, our line would then be to instruct Sir S. Barton to protest, inform the Nanking government that our merchants will be supported in refusing to pay, but indicate his readiness to enter into a discussion of the whole question. He should then secure such concessions in the way of reductions or postponement, as seem possible, and eventually acquiesce.\n\n### 3. \nShould this lead to anything in the nature of a conference at Shanghai, the Japanese will probably endeavour to drive some bargain over their unsecured debts. It is important that Sir S. Barton should avoid being drawn into any discussion of debts in relation to tariff increases similar to the Tariff Conference negotiations.\n\n### 4. \nPlease telegraph fully your views.\n\nRepeat to Shanghai, Commander-in-Chief Hankow, Canton for Hongkong, and Tokyo.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927",
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        "content_text": "32.\n\n22:\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Dated 19th December, 1927. Received Colonial Office 11.44 a.m. 19th December, 1927.)\n\n& no 23 no23\n\nCopy 6 FOR DEC 1927 Ausd. tel. 24/1/28\n\n328€\n\nYour confidential despatch of 18th October.\n\nI had a conference at Peking on 15th November with Chiang Tsun Wei, Director General of Chinese telegraph administration. He proposed that I should recognise Chen Ching Wen as manager of the Chinese telegraph office Hong Kong in lieu of the present manager who is charged with misappropriating funds. With the concurrence of Sir M. Lampson, I replied that provided that Chen was acceptable to Canton Authorities, he would be acceptable to Colonial Government, but that if the Canton authorities could not see their way to accepting him, Hong Kong would feel compelled to close down Chinese telegraph office in the Colony and work with Canton by wireless pending a satisfactory settlement as to future control of land line to Canton and of its terminus at Hong Kong.\n\nChen has now arrived here and at an interview which I had with him to-day, he stated that it is not possible for him under existing conditions to visit Canton and that he is not aware who is the present manager of telegraphs at Canton. Great confusion of course exists there and the future is completely uncertain.\n\nThere has been a great degeneration of conditions since 15th November when Li Chai-sum was still ruler of Canton. In the circumstances, I submit that it is the highest time to end the anomaly whereby rival authorities",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Dated 19th December, 1927. Received Colonial Office 11.44 a.m. 19th December, 1927.)\n\nYour confidential despatch of 18th October.\n\nI had a conference at Peking on 15th November with Chiang Tsun Wei, Director General of Chinese telegraph administration.\n\nHe proposed that I should recognise Chen Ching Wen as manager of the Chinese telegraph office in Hong Kong in lieu of the present manager who is charged with misappropriating funds. With the concurrence of Sir M. Lampson, I replied that provided that Chen was acceptable to Canton Authorities, he would be acceptable to the Colonial Government, but that if the Canton authorities could not see their way to accepting him, Hong Kong would feel compelled to close down the Chinese telegraph office in the Colony and work with Canton by wireless pending a satisfactory settlement as to future control of the land line to Canton and of its terminus at Hong Kong.\n\nChen has now arrived here and at an interview which I gave him to-day stated that it is not possible for him under existing conditions to visit Canton and that he is not aware who is the present manager of telegraphs at Canton. Great confusion of course exists there and the future is completely uncertain.\n\nThere has been a great degeneration of conditions since 15th November when Li Chai-sum was still ruler of Canton. In the circumstances, I submit that it is the highest time to end the anomaly whereby rival authorities...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928",
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        "content_text": "F.O.\n\n(Pinary Suppression in China)\n\n13.1.2\n\nCanton dash. 140\n\nofer.\n\n4\n\n21177\n\nXF...\n\n14.1.28\n\n(Interdept? Conference fixed for 18th Jan. with F.O. representatives)\n\nAsk for names\n\n11 is principally concerned with river piracies. Without full cooperation by Chinese authorities effective measures are impossible. On the other hand there have been hopes, in any way, piracies in the delta and the less frequented arms of the Canton Hong Kong route.\n\nThey will tell F.O. that W. T. South will progress to meet C.M.G. & P. with attend Lunthern type of Button attinet Compre, asking him to attend and Telynn Jilyon at 3 on Wednesday and to see me at noon. Ask him to telegraph reply as soon as he may.\n\nIn our has got the button\n\nTotal- 16.1.28\n\nMDG 16\n\n616/1ter",
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        "title": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928",
        "content_text": "07.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.\n\nMay 3rd, 1928.\n\n41\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 161, dated 26th April, 1928, covering a communication from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Canton, on the subject of the appointment of a Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong.\n\n2. In reply, I have to request you to be good enough to remind Mr. Chu Chae-hsin (Chu Chao-hsin) that the arrangement made at the Conference in Canton on the 10th March was that I was prepared to consider nomination by the Canton Government of a Commercial Agent to take charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong, on the condition (among other conditions) that the nominee should be in fact a merchant and not an official. The English title for the Superintendent which I suggested at the Conference - \"Commercial Agent in charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong\" embodied this essential provision, and it has consistently been made clear in all later correspondence that I am not prepared to carry the concession any further.\n\n3. The translation of the title as suggested by the Canton Government effects a radical alteration of its meaning and so far from giving the office a neutral and commercial character and removing it from the arena of party control, which was the object I had in view, it actually accentuates the undesirable features of the existing system.\n\nI, therefore, find it impossible to accept the suggested translation: and in view of the attitude of the Canton...",
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        "content_text": "42\n\nCanton Government as set out in your despatch, I have no alternative but to consider that the negotiations on this subject initiated at the Conference of the 10th March have broken down: and to request you to inform Mr. Chum officially that the offer of the concession then made by me is now definitely withdrawn.\n\nI regret that the offer of a concession which would have tended to the further improvement of the relations between Hong Kong and Canton should have been considered an opportunity for making party capital: and I remain prepared to carry out my original purpose of neutralising the office by establishing the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company as Commercial Agents in charge pending the unification of China. I propose, however, to wait till circumstance alter or the Government of Canton or of Peking or both make a formal suggestion to that effect before taking further action.\n\nChou-pan { In the meantime, as long as Mr. Lafite } appears to be acceptable to one political party, my object is at least partially attained by leaving him in possession undisturbed.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Sd). C. Clementi.\n\nGovernor, H.K.",
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        "content_text": "H.D.M. Consulate General,\n\nCanton.\n\nMay 7th, 1928.\n\n43\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I transmitted to the Governor of Hongkong a copy of your letter of the 24th April regarding the Chinese telegraph office in Mengkong.\n\nI am now requested by His Excellency to inform you of his regret that for the reasons which have been explained at length to Marshal Li Chai-sum and yourself the Hongkong Government is unable to accede to the wishes of the Canton authorities in this matter, and to state that the concession offered by the Governor of Hongkong at the conference of the 10th March, having been refused, is now definitely withdrawn.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Sd) J. F. Brenan.\n\nActing Consul-General.\n\nThe Commissioner for Foreign Affairs,\n\nCanton.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No.1 in Mr. Brennan's despatch No.51 of April 16th, 1928.\n\nNo. 57\n\nCOPY.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n20th March, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 13th March, approving the proposal made in my telegram of the 20th February that I should notify Mr. Lau Cheak Pan that I cannot permit him to function any longer in Hong Kong as Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph office; that he must vacate the premises at once and hand over to the Electrical Engineer of the Hong Kong Public Works Department, who will temporarily act as custodian; that I should then endeavour to arrange that the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company should assume control of this office under a working arrangement with the Canton authorities; and that meanwhile telegraphic messages between Canton and Hong Kong should be handled by the Government wireless stations at both ends.\n\n2. You will recollect that at the conference which I had with Marshal Li Chai-sum at Canton on the 10th March, at which you were present, the Cantonese Authorities urged that I should not close down, even temporarily, the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong, but that I should allow the Canton Government to nominate a superintendent of this office. It was then agreed between Marshal Li and myself that the Canton Government should be permitted to send a Cantonese merchant to Hong Kong to be manager of this office, such merchant to be persona grata to the Hong Kong Government and not to be an official, and the title of the post to be \"Commercial Agent in charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong\".\n\n3. If...\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul General,\n\nCanton.",
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        "content_text": "59\n\nEnclosure No.4 in Mr. Brenan's despatch No.51 of April 16th, 1928.\n\nNo.64.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong.\n\n26th March, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd March regarding the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong, and to request you to bring to Mr. Chu's attention the fact that no Chinese equivalent for the title \"Commercial Agent in Charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong\" was agreed upon at the conference in Canton on the 10th March. A pencilled note by Mr. Chu as a suggested translation was included in the notes of the meeting, but there was no discussion of it and the point was merely reserved for later consideration.\n\nThe result of the conference was that I engaged to raise no objection to the nomination by the Canton Government of a Commercial Agent to be in charge of the Hong Kong Office: but it was made perfectly clear that this agent must be persona grata to the Hong Kong Government and must not be an official and that his appointment would require the previous approval of the Hong Kong Government. Further emphasis was laid on the point that the selection of the agent must rest entirely on commercial grounds, and that the appointment could be in no sense a political one.\n\nAccordingly, on my return to Hong Kong, after careful consideration I settled upon the following translation of the title, the English version of which I note from your letter is accepted by Mr. Chu, namely:\n\nMr. Chu's version, namely\n\ncontravenes",
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        "content_text": "(F2653/76/10).\n\nEnclosure No. 10 in Mr. Brenan's despatch No.51 of April 16th, 1928.\n\nNo. 140.\n\n68\n\nH.B.M. Consulate General, Canton.\n\nApril 13th, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my semi-official letter of the 3rd April, I have the honour to enclose a copy and translation of a letter from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs from which it will be seen that the Canton Government declines to make any alteration in the existing Chinese title of the Superintendent of the Chinese telegraph office in Hongkong.\n\nI much regret that I have been unable to induce the Canton authorities to accept the version proposed by Your Excellency, but the question is one of prestige vis-a-vis the Northern Government, in which the Nationalists are evidently determined not to give way.\n\nI can only suggest, therefore, that Your Excellency should now adopt the attitude agreed on at the conference at Government House on the 10th April and leave the matter in statu quo. You will then be in a strong position, for Peking will have no ground for protest whilst its nominee is left in possession, and if the Canton Government does try to reopen the question, it can either be referred to Your Excellency's offer of a compromise, or it can be told that that offer, having been rejected, has now lapsed, whichever may seem most expedient.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor, Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n3rd May, 1928.\n\n81\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof your letter No. 161, dated 26th April, 1928, covering a communication from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Canton, on the subject of the appointment of a Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong.\n\n2.\n\nIn reply I have to request you to be good enough to remind Mr. Chu Chao-hsin that the arrangement made at the Conference in Canton on the 10th March was that I was prepared to consider nomination by the Canton Government of a Commercial Agent to take charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong, on the condition (among other conditions) that the nominee should be in fact a merchant and not an official. The English title for the Superintendent which I suggested at the conference \"Commercial Agent in charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong\" embodied this essential provision, and it has consistently been made clear in all later correspondence that I am not prepared to carry the concession any further.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,\n\nCANTON.",
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        "content_text": "-2-\n\n82\n\n3.\n\nThe translation of the title as suggested by the Canton Government effects a radical alteration of its meaning: and so far from giving the office a neutral and commercial character and removing it from the arena of party control, which was the object I had in view, it actually accentuates the undesirable features of the existing system.\n\n4. I, therefore, find it impossible to accept the suggested translation: and in view of the attitude of the Canton Government as set out in your despatch, I have no alternative but to consider that the negotiations on this subject initiated at the Conference of the 10th March have broken down: and to request you to inform Mr. Chu officially that the offer of the concession then made by me is now definitely withdrawn.\n\n5. I regret that the offer of a concession which would have tended to the further improvement of the relations between Hong Kong and Canton should have been considered an opportunity for making party capital: and I remain prepared to carry out my original purpose of neutralising the office by establishing the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company as Commercial Agents in charge pending the unification of China. I propose, however, to wait till circumstances alter or the Government of Canton or of Peking or both make a formal suggestion to that effect before taking further action. In the meantime, as long as Mr. Lau Cheuk-pan appears to be acceptable to no political party, my object is at least partially attained.\n\nby",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 1.\n\nGovernment House\n\nHong Kong, 20th March, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 13th March, approving the proposal made in my telegram of the 20th February that I should notify Mr. Lai Cheuk Pan (黎卓彬) that I cannot permit him to function any longer in Hong Kong as Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office; that he must vacate the premises at once and hand over to the Electrical Engineer of the Hong Kong Public Works Department, who will temporarily act as custodian; that I should then endeavour to arrange that the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company should assume control of this office under a working arrangement with the Canton authorities; and that meanwhile telegraphic messages between Canton and Hong Kong should be handled by the Government wireless stations at both ends.\n\n2. You will recollect that at the conference which I had with Marshal Li Chai-sum at Canton on the 10th March, at which you were present, the Cantonese Authorities urged that I should not close down, even temporarily, the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong, but that I should allow the Canton Government to nominate a superintendent of this office. It was then agreed between Marshal Li and myself that the Canton Government should be permitted to send a Cantonese merchant to Hong Kong to be manager of this office,\n\nHIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S CONSUL-GENERAL, CANTON.",
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        "content_text": "No. 64.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure No. 3.\n\n101\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong, 26th March, 1928.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd March regarding the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong, and to request you to bring to Mr. Chu's attention the fact that no Chinese equivalent for the title \"Commercial Agent in Charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong\" was agreed upon at the conference in Canton on the 10th March. A pencilled note by Mr. Chu as a suggested translation was included in the notes of the meeting, but there was no discussion of it and the point was merely reserved for later consideration.\n\n2.\n\nThe result of the conference was that I engaged to raise no objection to the nomination by the Canton Government of a Commercial Agent to be in charge of the Hong Kong Office: but it was made perfectly clear that this agent must be persona grata to the Hong Kong Government and must not be an official and that his appointment would require the previous approval of the Hong Kong Government. Further emphasis was laid on the point that the selection of the agent must rest entirely on commercial grounds, and that the appointment could be in no sense a political one.\n\nAccordingly, on my return to Hong Kong, after\n\n3.\n\ncareful consideration I settled upon the following translation of the title, the English version of which I note from your letter is accepted by Mr. Chu, namely:-\n\n管理駐港中國電報局商務代理\n\nMr. Chu's version, namely 由廣東省政府派一居留香港之中國商人充駐香港中國電報局局長",
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        "content_text": "-2-\n\n72\n\nsubway or tunnel, and it appears to me that if in the future this question of transport has to be taken up, it might be possible to utilise a subway for pipes, in the first instance, to be enlarged afterwards and when required into a tunnel large enough for the transport of persons or vehicles, but without committing myself in any way, until I have surveyed the site, it appears to me that it might be possible to construct a subway which would be available for the pipes, and would also in the future be available by enlargement for a full sized tunnel and offer facilities for constructing such.\n\nIt is very difficult to estimate the cost without some knowledge and personal examination of the site, etc., but assuming the rock is granite, continuous and solid in the bed of the harbour, the cost of constructing a subway with pipes might be less than the proposal to lay the pipes with sufficient cover in the bed of the harbour, as recently tendered for.\n\nThis would obviate all danger from anchors of any craft dragging across the site of the pipes, and it has another advantage - the work could proceed independent of the weather, and the plant would not have the same risk in a tidal harbour. In addition, the heading or subway could be used for other purposes, such as cable for telegraph, lighting and possibly gas mains.\n\nI have not raised these points with Mr. Ellis, who was present at the conference, but if you think I should do so I await your instructions.\n\nI am, Gentlemen,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Sgd) William Fairley.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n14 \n\nLabour Conference in June last.\n\nIt was mentioned in a draft resolution, which could not be laid before the Conference as the conditions of the Standing Orders had not been complied with. I anticipate, however, that the question may be raised again in some form or another, possibly in October. Any information which you could give me would therefore be extremely valuable. I fully realise the difficulties which must exist in arriving at a final settlement, but I believe that, if an effort could be made to reach some solution at an early date, it would be welcomed by the workers' representatives and others at the Conference and a fresh step would have been taken in the way of conciliation and social peace.\n\nI do not need to repeat that this letter is entirely informal and personal, for the sole purpose of contributing, if possible, to removing every cause of misunderstanding which may hinder the development of harmony between all the factors in production.\n\nIn view of the early date of our October Conference, I cannot hope to have your reply in time. If, however, you could telegraph the tenor of it, I should be extremely indebted to you.\n\nPlease accept my thanks and my apologies for troubling you.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n(sd.) Albert Thomas.",
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        "content_text": "15\n\nmight never have been born if the present Government had been in power a year ago.\n\nI think that the birth of Imperial Communications is quite obviously a fait accompli which cannot be undone.\n\nI think that matters of this kind should be treated as urgent and I would not be afraid to telegraph about them (I am sure Imperial Communications would let us off paying for the telegrams if we asked them).\n\nSir B. Blackett suggests that the Hong Kong Post Office, in becoming a partner in a wireless service competing with the cables, is acting contrary to the spirit of the recommendations of the recent Conference and a charge of this kind may cause very grave trouble later on. By far the simplest way out of the difficulty would be for Imperial Communications to acquire the Hong Kong wireless service. It will then be up to them to make the best arrangements they can with the Restriction Council of Shanghai.\n\nI should, therefore, telegraph to Hong Kong enquiring whether they are able to name a price for the sale of the wireless system and services of the Colony to Imperial and International Communications Limited. I should tell them about the representations made with regard to the new wireless service with Shanghai and say that in view of the general policy which is being followed with regard to Inter-Imperial Communications, we think that it is desirable that the Hong Kong wireless service should be taken over by Imperial",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n38\n\nThe Companies' share is the total of the charges collected for all telegrams exchanged terminally between Hongkong on the one side and Amoy, Foochow and Shanghai on the other side.\n\nBut, in addition, the action of the Post Office at Hongkong in opening up a competitive wireless service with Shanghai appears to be contrary to the spirit of the recommendations of the recent Conference.\n\nAs this question is of very material importance to the Communications Company, I should be obliged if the necessary action with the Post Office at Hongkong could be taken by telegraph in order to enable the purchase of that station by my Company to be definitely settled at an early date.\n\nYours sincerely,\nBerill. War Mil",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n\n## ART MARBLE WORK\n\nWe undertake every description of DECORATIVE MARBLE WORK including PAVEMENTS, COLUMNS, WALL LININGS, STAIRCASES, PEDESTALS, BALUSTRADES, ALTARS, STATUES, FONTS & STOUPS, VASES, REREDOS, SHOP FRONTS, FACIAS, CHIMNEY PIECES, HEARTHS & KERBS, FLOORING, LAVATORY DIVISIONS, TOPS & BATH CASES.\n\nC. E. WARREN CO., LTD.  \nEstb. 1800.  \nChina Bldg.  \nTel. C.260.  \nAgents for RAOUL BIGAZZI, FLORENCE, ITALY.\n\n## OBITUARY\n\n### A British Patriot Passes Away. EARL OF MEATH.\n\nLondon, Oct. 11. The death took place to-day of the Earl of Meath at the age of 88 years.\n\nThe Earl was famous as the founder of that movement for thinking imperially which resulted in May 24th, the birthday of Queen Victoria, being observed as Empire Day. The suggestion that the day should be devoted to this purpose he first made to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain when the latter was Colonial Secretary, in 1893 he suggested that the anniversary of Queen Victoria be made a universal school holiday.\n\nLord Meath was also identified with many religious and social movements, including the Scouts and the Church Army. He had been ill for some time and he passed away at 2.25 this afternoon.\n\n### Former Diplomat.\n\nThe veteran Earl of Meath was born on July 31st, 1841, and succeeded to the title, of which he was the 12th holder, in 1887. He was educated at Eton and on the Continent and then served in the Foreign Office for five years.\n\nAfterwards, he was attached to the Legation at Frankfort in 1866, to the Embassy at Berlin from 1867 to 1870, and at Paris from 1870 to 1873. He was married in 1868 to Lady Mary Jane Maitland (who died in 1918), and his marriage assured him of the co-operation and sympathy of one whose whole heart, like his own, was devoted to the welfare of others.\n\nAs Lord Brabazon, he became the founder and first Hon. Secretary of the Hospital Saturday Fund, in 1875, and whilst engaged in this work his health broke down by addressing seventy meetings in the course of a few weeks, including an audience of 40,000 in Hyde Park, this being, at the time, the largest non-political meeting ever held there. He was also the originator of the Hospital Sunday movement in Dublin.\n\n## TO-DAY'S NEWS\n\n### A Summary for the Busy Man.\n\n#### PRINCIPAL EVENTS\n\nThe Government is amending the Ordinance for the Protection of Page 3.\n\nAt to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Mr. M. K. Lo will ask the following questions:\n\n| Question | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| i. | Whether he has received any official information from the Government in regard to the proposed Advisory Health Board, and if so, whether he will make a statement to this Board? |\n| ii. | Whether it is the intention of the Government to abridge by legislation the executive powers and functions of the Sanitary Board, as set forth in Part II, of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903? |\n| iii. | Whether it is intended by the Government that the proposed Advisory Board is to function independently of the Sanitary Board, and in any case whether it will tender advice only upon subjects which are not within the scope of that Ordinance? |\n| iv. | In view of the fact that this matter gravely affects the question of public health of the Colony and therefore vitally concerns this Board, will he make the necessary representations to the Government that this Board be given due opportunity for expressing its views on any proposed legislative changes affecting the public health of the Colony? |\n\nDr. Fawcett. Mr. M. K. Lo has given notice to move: \"That this Board desires to put on record an expression of its appreciation of the valuable services rendered, and the ability, energy and zeal displayed, by Dr. H. A. Fawcett whilst acting as Medical Officer of Health.\"\n\n### Man of Many Interests.\n\nHow busy a life the late Earl of Meath spent may be gathered from the fact that he was the first chairman of the Young Men's Friendly Society, 1879; founder (1882) and first Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association; first President of the British College of Physical Education; founder and first President of the Lads' Drill Association; ex-President of the Christian Union for Social Service; first President of the British Institute for Social Service; founder and first President of the Duty and Discipline Movement: and Senator of the Parliament of Southern Ireland.\n\nDuring the sit of Rumania many years ago, he acted as her cicerone, having been for many years previously the friend and correspondent of \"Carmen Sylva.\"\n\nThe passing of the veteran Earl of Meath at the ripe age of 88 years, removes yet another of those patriotic figures who have done so much to cement the bonds of the British Empire.\n\n### Cigarette Statistics.\n\nAmerica, the land of statistics, has sent us some interesting figures, says the London Daily Telegraph. Enough cigarettes were smoked in the United States to provide every man, woman, and child with 856. Twenty-five years ago the Earl of Meath originated the Empire Day Movement. It was a thought that had been in his mind for many years before.\n\n## OTHER NEWS\n\n### WEDDING BELLS.\n\nMr. R. W. Ritchie and Miss Nancy Riley.\n\n#### CATHEDRAL CEREMONY.\n\nA very pretty wedding was solemnised at St. John's Cathedral on Saturday when Miss Nancy Riley, the elder daughter of Mr. Robert Riley, of Blackpool, Lancashire, and Ceylon, became the bride of Mr. Richard W. Ritchie, son of Mr. Richard C. Ritchie, of St. Albans, Herts. The Very Rev. Dean Swann officiated.\n\nThe bride, who was given away by Mr. Bernard Thorpe, looked charming in a gown of ivory ring muslin velvet with a veil of embroidery tulle and a coronet of orange blossoms. Her shoes and stockings were of white satin, while she carried a bouquet of white roses.\n\nMiss Patsy L. Kerr, attended as bridesmaid, and was attired in Princess Mary blue taffeta trimmed with silver lace with silver shoes and blue hat. Her bouquet was also of white roses.\n\nThe duties of best man were discharged by ...\n\n### The Volunteers.\n\nAn episode in his life was his election to be an Alderman of the London County Council. His Parliament and secured the introduction of important reforms in popular education. He later elected to be the first Chairman of the Parks Committee, but when the hour for his re-election came he was told he was \"not Progressive enough\" and he had to go.\n\n### HEALTH BOARD.\n\n#### Sanitary Board Wants Information.\n\nM.O.H.'S SERVICES.\n\n### Page Numbers\n\nPage 3  \nPage 6  \nPage 7  \nPage 8  \nPage 9  \nPage 10  \nPage 11  \nPage 12  \nPage 13  \nPage 14  \nPage 15\n\n### The Far East.\n\nA combination of forces, including the Kuominchun, are arrayed against Nanking. It is reported that war has been declared.\n\n### Overseas.\n\nLord Meath, founder of Empire Day, is dead.  \nThe condition of the Princess Royal still gives cause for anxiety.  \nTenders have been invited for the construction of two huge American liners. Four more are projected.  \nIt is denied that Britain and America have agreed to pool their navies.  \nDuring the course of a hectic programme in New York, the British Premier declared that he was beginning to long to return to Lossiemouth.  \nThe Labour party secured a big victory in the Australian general election.  \nR 101, the largest airship built, was safely moored at Cardington, preparatory to her trial flights.  \nThe capture of Kabul by Nadir Khan's forces is confirmed.  \nThe railwaymen's reduction in wages is to continue for a further period of six months.\n\n### Sports.\n\nTilden represented Britain in a match against France.  \nMiss Gourlay won the golf final at ...  \nThe Electric R.C. beat the Shanghai bowlers by 30 shots to 10.  \nTaikoo won the second division championship and was made ...  \n\n### CYCLIST INJURED.\n\n\"MINISTER'S TRANSFER.\n\nMr. N. M. Henderson Transferred From Paris.\n\n### ALL ANXIETY NOT YET REMOVED.\n\nKowloon J. R. Johnstone broke the local 440 yards record at the V.R.C. night fete.\n\n### HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS.\n\nDuncan and Mitchell beat Compaton and Cotton in a 36 holes foursome for a purse of £250.\n\nThe annual gymkhana and presentation of prizes was held at Kowloon Golf Club.\n\nThe S.C.A.A. members' sports meeting opened yesterday.\n\nWeek-end baseball matches are reported on ...\n\nH.M. the King has approved the appointment of Mr. Nevile Meyrick Henderson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade.\n\nThe Princess Royal is gradually improving according to an official bulletin issued this evening...\n\nThe Far East.\n\nA Chinese detective sergeant attached to the Shamshuipo Police has added another smart capture to an already long list of creditable performances.\n\nA further week's remand was given in a kidnapping case owing to the complainant's failure to return from the country.\n\nThe Kuominchun malcontents strongly denounce Chiang Kai-shek's regime.\n\nFuller details of General Lui's coup in Wuchow are given on ...\n\nJapan's delegation to the Disarmament Conference has been appointed.\n\nThe gold embargo may be lifted in Japan early next year.\n\n### Charity\n\n1 Cor. 13:8.  \n\"Charity never faileth.\"  \nMONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929.  \nNo. 7,041.",
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        "content_text": "23 \n\n`F219/4/10` \n\nof 1926. \n\nExtension Telegraph Company was not favourably received. \n\nThe Canton Government, who realised that the facilities afforded to the Chinese Government by their having an official station in Hong Kong were being directed against them, have requested either that the office might be removed or that it might be put under their control. \n\nThe whole question was the subject of the conference at the Colonial Office on January 13, 1926, when it was agreed on behalf of this department that it was desirable that the Chinese office in Hong Kong should be removed, but that the moment was inopportune since any attempt at that juncture would jeopardise the negotiations going forward for the extension of the Companies' agreements with the Chinese Government. \n\nA suggestion, which appeared to meet the views of Sir R. Stubbs representing the Hong Kong Government, was that the office of the Chinese Government telegraphs should remain in Hong Kong but should be in charge of an Englishman nominated with the approval of the Hong Kong Government. \n\nThe telegraph companies were still opposed to any action which would affect the status of the Chinese telegraph office, and in this attitude they were supported by His Majesty's Minister at Peking. \n\nThe change in the state of affairs in China, the improved status of the Canton Government, and the delicacy of the companies' position vis-a-vis the Peking Authorities has, however, resulted in a change of views on the part of the companies, who realise that they can no longer oppose the natural desire of the Hong Kong Authorities to make other...",
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        "content_text": "90\n\n250\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\n257\n\ni\n\n2.\n\nSearch of all Post Office boxes.\n\n3.\n\nAs a means of facilitating the search, all mails destined for the Far East should be handled by specially designated Post Offices.\n\nThe Ministry is understood to have forwarded the above communication to the Opium Suppression Committee for reference.\n\nEXPORT RAW SILK TO BE TESTED\n\nIt is announced at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor that beginning from March 1, all shipments of raw silk destined for exportation abroad will be subject to examination by the Testing Bureau of the Ministry at Shanghai before such shipments may be exported. The purpose of the examination is to ensure that only raw silk of the requisite standards shall be shipped abroad so as to enhance the quality of Chinese products in foreign countries.\n\nGOVERNMENT RADIO ADMINISTRATION\n\nAccording to a spokesman of the Ministry of Communications, formal notification of the termination of the Government's contracts with the Great Eastern and Great Northern Telegraph Companies at the end of the current year have been dispatched to the Companies concerned.\n\nWith the Government Radio Administration now in direct contact with Manila and in view of the early completion of the construction of the powerful radio stations near Shanghai for direct communication with Europe and America, it is believed that satisfactory arrangements will be made for all messages abroad to be transmitted direct through the Government's radio stations.\n\nGOVERNMENT RAILWAYS: REVENUE & EXPENDITURE\n\nAccording to a statistical report recently compiled by the Ministry of Railways, the total revenue and expenditure for 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918 of thirteen Government Railways, namely, Peiping-Nanking, Liaoning, Shanghai-Hangchow, Peiping-Suiyuan, Taiyuan-Shihehiachwang, Taokow-Chinghua, Lung-Hai, Kirin-Changchun, Canton-Kowloon, Hunan-Hupeh, Sipingchi-Taonan, Kiaochow-Tsinan and Nanchang-Kiukiang Lines, are as follows:\n\n  \n    Total revenue\n    Total expenditure\n  \n  \n    $111,110,613\n    $47,990,511\n  \n  \n    75,892,621\n    50,621,403\n  \n  \n    76,292,582\n    51,405,365\n  \n  \n    62,445,686\n    41,256,072\n  \n  \n    1915\n    1916\n    1917\n    1918\n  \n\nMODERN PAPER MILL\n\nWenchow is greatly interested at the prospect of having the country's first modern paper mill in the immediate future. Preparations for the construction of the mill have been under way for some time. It is stated that over half of the authorized capital of $3,000,000 has been obtained through subscription to the stocks of the proposed company, which is headed by a powerful group of Shanghai newspaper magnates. According to technical experts who have been investigating the district around Wenchow, the pine forests will make excellent pulp for the paper making industry.\n\nRAIL COMMUNICATIONS\n\nIt is announced by the Tientsin-Pukow Railway Administration that beginning from March 3 all up-trains on the Line will proceed as far as Tsinanfu only, while down-trains will leave Tsinan for Pukow once a week. Down-trains from Tientsin only proceed as far as Lienchin, one station north of Tehchow, on the Shantung-Hopei border.\n\nTONNAGE OF VESSELS & IMPORTS REQUIRED\n\nIn a circular ministerial order issued on March 2 to all Superintendents and Commissioners of Customs throughout the country, the Ministry of Finance instructs that full reports on the total tonnage of foreign vessels engaged in the export or import trade during the year 1929, as well as the total tonnage and quantity of all foreign imports during the year should be immediately submitted to the Ministry.\n\nYUNGTING RIVER BRIDGE COLLAPSES\n\nTwo bridges of the Yungting River suddenly collapsed on March 4 and 8 resulting in the destruction of over 400 feet of the embankment. The Conservancy Bureau has rushed a number of workmen to effect immediate repairs.\n\nThe necessity for reinforcing different parts of the embankment is keenly felt by the Hopei Provincial Authorities and a petition for an appropriation of $1,000,000, to be remitted by the Changlu Salt Inspectorate, for effecting repairs has been submitted to the Central Government.\n\nCOAL MINES\n\nPreparations for the opening of the coal mines at the Hualyuan District, west of Pengpu in Northern Anhwei, having been completed, it is announced by the National Reconstruction Commission that work will be commenced on the 15th inst.\n\nIt is expected that the preliminary excavations will require one year to complete following which, it is estimated, a daily output of 300 tons will be obtained. To facilitate transportation of the coal, extensions of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway from Pengpu and Huaiho to the mining area will be constructed. The Commission is also planning to construct a road directly connecting Hofei with the Yangtze River.\n\nPRESS COMMENTS\n\nM. TARDIEU'S CABINET IN FRANCE\n\nThe China Times: On the 17th ultimo, M. Tardieu's Cabinet was defeated by a division of votes on the Bill decreasing the income tax payable by married women, the Chamber's votes showing 281 for and 286 against the Bill. M. Chautemps, leader of the Social-Radical Party, succeeded in forming a cabinet. But the Chamber threw his government out by casting only 277 votes in favor of his declaration of policy and 292 votes opposed to it; and since M. Chautemps made this a question of confidence, his Cabinet had to resign en bloc. Whereupon, M. Tardieu resumed his premiership on the second instant.\n\nM. Chautemps' Cabinet lasted five days only, a rare phenomenon in the annals of parliamentary government of the world; not even in the history of France has there ever been a cabinet as short-lived as that of M. Chautemps'. It is a well-known fact that the French Cabinet has been changed scores of times since 1870 when the Republic was reestablished for the third time. The chief reason why a French Cabinet cannot be maintained for long is because of the multiplicity of political parties, coupled with the divergence of views held even between members of the same party in and out of the Parliament.\n\nCONSERVANCY WORK OF THE YUNGTING RIVER\n\nThe Sinwanpao: The North appears to be again afflicted with flood, especially threatening has been the aspect of the Yungtingho. For the present, preventive measures must be urgently taken. But no fund is available owing to lack of a clear understanding as to responsibility between local authorities and the Central Government.\n\nRESULT OF THE NAVAL CONFERENCE\n\nThe Shunpao: According to preceding cases, no satisfactory result could possibly be expected from the Naval Disarmament Conference now being held in London.\n\nQUARANTINE SERVICE IN CHINA\n\nThe Sinwanpao: The Health Committee of the League of Nations discussed the proposals made by China the other day.\n\n91",
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        "content_text": "Conference without being tied by definite instructions. Any policy that emerges will of course be submitted to the S.of.S. for instructions.\n\nBefore we confer, we had better telegraph to Hongkong with reference to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce telegram of 25 and 29 Jan to ask what are the alternative constructive proposals there referred to.\n\nMy distinct impression is to make the most of the concession we are offering in the Chinese Castoms tariff by allowing the junction in Swatow/Kongmoon/Canton/Kowloon.\n\nSee if you could get Jaffrey to agree that the matter should be discussed at an inter-departmental Conference.\n\n6.1.30\n7.2.30\n27/2",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nCHINA UNITY.\n\nOrders to Wind Up Canton Government?\n\nSOUTH'S OPTIMISM.\n\nAnticipating Nanking negotiations for peace, making preparations for the dissolution of the Canton Government on November 1.\n\nCanton officials are said to be of success the\n\nNanking, Oct. 14.\n\nGovernment organs for the control of narcotic drugs are to be established by the Ministry of Interior, according to a resolution adopted at yesterday's meeting of the Kuo-Wa-Hui-I (State Council) pursuant to a recommendation from the National Opium-Suppression Commission.\n\nThe Wah Kiu Yat Po, which publishes a message to this effect from Shanghai, says that Canton Government departmental heads have been instructed to proceed with the work of winding up their departments within two weeks' time.\n\nThe unfinished work of these departments will be transferred to Nanking, where it is expected that several of the high officials of the Southern Government will be invited to administer departments in the new Government.\n\nSouthern Optimism.\n\nThe establishment of the proposed new organs is expressly provided for by Regulations governing the Control of Narcotic Drugs recently promulgated by the National Government.\n\nThe main function of these new organs will be to see that narcotic drugs are limited to scientific and medical uses and that the sale of narcotic drugs devoted to purposes other than the authorized ones is strictly suppressed.—Kua Min.\n\nTHE DRUG TRAFFIC.\n\nChina Makes New Plans for Suppression.\n\nNanking, Oct. 14.\n\n...\n\nSCIENCE CONGRESS.\n\nScientists to be Invited to China.\n\nTHE TSANG FOO VILLAS MURDER TRIAL.\n\nDISCHARGE OF TWO DEFENDANTS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.\n\nVICTIM'S TERRIBLE INJURIES.\n\nTwo of the twelve defendants in the Tsang Foo Villas murder trial were discharged in the course of yesterday's proceedings before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy.\n\nThe evidence given against these two men was such, his Worship said, that no jury would convict.\n\nEvidence given of the injuries received by the Japanese showed that the bodies in all cases were mutilated.\n\nThe injuries received by the amah of sixteen were particularly brutal.\n\nFURTHER DECISIONS TO-DAY?\n\nRACIAL VIRILITY.\n\nSir L. Hill on Birth Control.\n\nSURNAMES.\n\nOur Own and Other Peoples.\n\nDOWNFALL OF EMPIRES. CURIOSITIES OF ORIGIN\n\nAt the annual conference of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association at Bridlington, Sir Leonard Hill, in his presidential address, said that the sanitary inspectors' Association at Bridlington, Sir Leonard Hill, in his presidential address, said that the birth rate was now the subject of intensive propaganda among the masses of the people, and the no-child or one-child home was becoming the rule.\n\nAlthough the unskilled continued as yet to breed more than the skilled, birth-control was practised in every class of society.\n\nIn consequence, between 1921-31 the population of Great Britain had increased hardly more than in the 10 years 1911-21, which included the War, when about a million young men were killed and several millions listed and were taken away from family life.\n\nThe infant mortality rate had fallen from 167 per 1,000 births at the end of last century to 60 in 1930, but the saving so effected compensated very little for the enormous drop in the birth rate.\n\nThe annual increase of births over deaths per 1,000 living was 12 at the end of last century, and in 1929 it was under three, so very shortly the population would be stationary; the proportion of older persons increasing as children became scarcer.\n\nThree children per family were required to make good the losses and keep up the population.\n\nOne-child families meant halving the population—\n\n(By Walter G. Bell, in the Daily Telegraph).\n\n\"John ate chyldren.\" So he did, did he? A husbandman was this John; one goes out to the Fen country around Huntingdon for \"Richard ate Forty\"—a ferocious monster when at table.\n\nReading old documents from days when villeinage flourished in England, one experiences shocks like these not infrequently.\n\nThen consciousness comes that all that is meant is \"at\" or \"off,\" and the ogre is really the quite inoffensive John at Chiltern.\n\nThe other is of Ford—to find him you at the ford.\n\nSpelling was apt to vary with each clerk who wrote, and much corruption crept in.\n\nBut can one account by geography alone for \"Thomas atte Hell,\" a Suffolk man? He was the man at the hill.\n\nBARONET WITH A WHIP.\n\nFined for Striking Two \"Noisy\" Young Men.\n\nROADSIDE GATHERING.\n\nSir Christopher Furness, Bart., of Netherbyres, Ayton, Berwickshire, was fined 10s. at Eyemouth on a charge of assaulting two young men by striking them with a whip.\n\nMr. A. Carnegie, prosecuting, said that on August 14, at night, a band of young men were congregated on the road between Eyemouth and Ayton.\n\nOne started to play a mouthorgan and the others started to dance, and no doubt they were a bit hilarious.\n\nSir Christopher approached them and struck George Todd Dougal, of Eyemouth, across the back with a whip.\n\nThe others, with the exception of George Collin, also of Eyemouth, ran away, and Sir Christopher struck Collin across the face with a whip.\n\nFor the defence it was submitted that Sir Christopher was ill and that the noise had so upset him that he had impulsively sought his own remedy.\n\nThe chairman said that this mitigated very much the seriousness of the offence, but there was no excuse for Sir Christopher taking the law into his own hands.\n\nSir Christopher is 31, and the third baronet.\n\nHis father, Sir Stephen Wilson Furness, succeeded Sir Christopher Furness, who was Chairman of Furness, Withy and Co., Ltd., and Liberal M.P. for Hartlepool 1910-14.\n\nAt this juncture, Mr. White-Smith asked for Richard\n\nOur forenames are mostly much older than our surnames.\n\nWhen the Domesday Book accounts for some 283,000 inhabitants in all of England that was surveyed—it sufficed to indicate John by his place of residence, or as John the son of Richard, or very frequently John the servant of his named master; often, too, as John Sessmith, distinguished by his trade.\n\nSince names of persons are of first importance, and their indication is no longer so simple as this, whom he succeeded in 1914, was\n\nLegal Attitude.\n\nOdd that while names are supremely important in the transaction of life, the law has paid little or no head.\n\nIt will offend a man's title to his own name when there has been fraudulent misuse, but in nothing else.\n\nMen and women may call themselves just what they please, change their names as often as they like; the law is not concerned.\n\nCustom ordains that on marriage a woman shall adopt her husband's surname, signing her patronymic at birth and on the marriage register, but there is no legal enforcement of it.\n\nThe first witness called yesterday was Dr. J. Smalley, who testified that certain Japanese were admitted to the Kowloon Hospital on the night of September 26.\n\nThe first to be admitted entered the hospital at about 11 p.m. and the last one at about 12.45 a.m.\n\nIn all cases, the Police brought in the arrested.\n\nThe eighth was arrested in a hut in Po Kong Village at about midnight.\n\nHe had a wound on his head, which he said he had received from the military.\n\nWitness examined Shiro Yamashita, the boy of four, whose skull was fractured.\n\nThere were multiple injuries, and although he was conscious, he was obviously dying.\n\nNothing could be done for him and he never recovered.\n\nHe was about 60 feet from the gate of Tsang Foo Villas.\n\nThis man was arrested about ten minutes after the eighth defendant was arrested.\n\nNiyoji Yamashita, the boy of nine, had multiple injuries, his skull and left thigh bone being fractured.\n\nHis condition was very bad.\n\nHe was given medical treatment, but passed away at 1 a.m.\n\nSumiko Yamaguchi, the Japanese amah of 16, had multiple injuries including a scalp wound, while her skull was fractured.\n\nShe had many bruises all over her body.\n\nDr. Smalley then described her other injuries.\n\nHer wounds were inflicted by blunt weapons such as sticks or poles.\n\nMiyo Yamashita, the old lady, had a fractured skull, while two irregular lacerated wounds were growing up in Africa with education of the native races.\n\nAlleged Street Incident.\n\nA Chinese constable, B632, said he was on duty between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. outside Tsang Foo Villas on September 27.\n\nWhilst he was on duty, he met with three men, of whom defendant was one, talking near the wall of Tsang Foo Villas.\n\nTwo policemen had been posted there.\n\nEn-vene Chen asked why ten\", Tsai Yuan-pei, C. C. Wu (Western Hills clique) conferred to represent China at the Fifth Convention of the Pacific Conference to be held next May in Canada.\n\nSince the institute has been designated to represent China at the fifth convention, a preparatory committee of 11 experts has been appointed to attend to all preliminary matters.\n\nMr. Ewen cites the case, in the year 1857, of a Mr. Bedbug who changed his name to Bowditch.\n\nA Satisfactory Conclave.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 22.\n\nMarshal Chiang Kai-shek and Messrs. Hu Han-min, Wang Ching-wei, Sun Fo, Li Chi-sen, Li Shih-shan, Tsai Yuan-pei, C. C. Wu (Western Hills clique) conferred yesterday morning for two hours.\n\nThe entire peace mission proceeded to the residence of Mr. Hu Han-min immediately upon their arrival and it was while there that Mr. Wang Ching-wei and the peace delegates will leave for Nanking immediately after a meeting with General Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nStatements of Defendants.\n\nThe 12 defendants made various statements to Mr. Whyte-Smith, A.S.P., and Sub-Inspector Murphy.\n\nMr. Whyte-Smith said that was all the evidence against this defendant, your Worship.\n\nHis Worship said that the evidence is such that no jury would convict.\n\nHe accordingly discharged the sixth and twelfth defendants.\n\nThe fourth defendant said he went so near to Tsang Foo Villas because he saw his brother had been injured and he went inside the house to see what was going on.\n\nThe fifth defendant, a boy of 15, said he was there to pick him up.\n\nThe sixth defendant, another boy of 15, said he had nothing to do with the murder.\n\nThe seventh defendant referred to a bandaged arm.\n\nThe eighth defendant, who was arrested in his hut that night, said he had never been out of his hut that evening.\n\nThe ninth defendant, who was represented by Mr. F. X. D'Almada, Sr., said he knew absolutely nothing.\n\nThe tenth, eleventh, and twelfth defendants made the same statement.\n\nTo Leave for Nanking.\n\nNanking, Oct. 22.\n\nMr. Wang Ching-wei and the peace delegates will leave for Nanking immediately after a meeting with General Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nCanton's Reservations.\n\nCanton, Oct. 22.\n\nInterviewed as to the reliability of the report that the Canton Government will be wound up within two weeks' time, a certain member of the Council has remarked that this is premature.\n\nThe Government is still uncertain whether the overthrow of dictatorial government will be effected, and the Canton Government must remain until this end has been attained.\n\nConditional Dissolution.\n\nCanton Army Changes.\n\nGen. Yen Yin-nai, Commander of the 1st New Division has tendered his resignation, and asked for troops to be disbanded.\n\nThe Government has decided to comply.\n\nGen. Ye will be reappointed as a staff officer.\n\nGen. Chan Chatong has decided to enlarge the Peace Preservation Corps into a brigade with Mr. Chan Chang-po as commander.—Rensha.\n\nMr. Eugene Chen.\n\nCanton, Oct. 22.\n\nAn extraordinary session of the Kuomintang C.E.C. to-day formally appointed Mr. Eugene Chen as delegate to the Shanghai peace parley.\n\nMr. Chen will take a leading part in discussing Sino-Foreign relations, particularly Manchurian affairs.—Central Press.\n\nAll the Talents.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 22.\n\nGood progress is being made by the leaders representing the various factions of the Kuomintang for the formation of the new National Government at Nanking representative of \"all the talents.\"\n\nIn this connexion, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the Kuomintang Leftist leader, who is heading the Canton peace mission of five members, conferred yesterday morning for two hours with Mr. Hu Han-min, the leader of the Nanking Conservatives.\n\nThe entire peace mission proceeded to the residence of Mr. Hu Han-min immediately upon their arrival and it was while there that Mr. Wang Ching-wei and the peace delegates held a lengthy discussion of possible cases, but as a critic has pointed out, the name appears to have had little or nothing to do with either \"shake\" (verb) or \"spear.\"\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMR. & MRS. Y. MORI,\n\nCertificate.\n\nHolder of Japanese Government Certificate. Sprained Ankle and Wrist opp. \"South China Morning Post.\" 4, Wyndham Street. (1st floor). Telephone 26051.\n\n\"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\" is always on sale at SELFRIDGE'S London, W. 1.\n\nPage 15\n\nPage 15\n\nPage 15\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 16",
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        "content_text": "422\n\nA (1) 10\n\n10. As a result of the Ottawa Conference it was decided that, although the Free Trade conditions of Hong Kong give few openings for reciprocity, motor vehicles provided an opportunity for adopting the principle of preference. A general import duty, although possible, might have interfered with the entrepôt trade which it is so desirable to encourage in the Colony and it was decided that effect should be given to the principle at the time of registration for use in the Colony. It was therefore enacted by Ordinance No. 32 of 1932 that motor vehicles which are not Empire products should be subject to a special licence fee on first registration of an amount equal to twenty per cent of the value, including cost, insurance and freight of such vehicle, on its arrival in the Colony after deduction of the value of the tyres and of any spare wheels or other spare parts. It will be seen therefore that foreign motor vehicles may be stored in the Colony and re-exported without tax but immediately they are sold for use in the Colony the special licence fee becomes payable.\n\nExpenditure.\n\n11. The expenditure for the year amounted to $32,050,283 against an estimate of $34,981,661 a decrease of $2,931,378. The total sum of $32,050,283 is made up as follows:-\n\nHeads of Expenditure.\n\n  \n    Actual 1931\n    Estimates, 1932\n    Actual 1932\n  \n  \n    His Excellency the Governor\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cadet Service\n    $209,720\n    $165,697.86\n  \n  \n    Treasury...\n    755,321\n    554,240.58\n  \n  \n    Audit Department\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    District Office, North\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do, South\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (4)-Post Office\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (B)- Do. Wireless Telegraph\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Services Imports and Exports Office\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (A)-Harbour Department\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fire Brigade...\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Supreme Court\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Attorney General's Office\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Crown Solicitor's Office\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Official Receiver's Office\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Land Office\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    170,605.97\n    636,078.97\n    \n  \n  \n    Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff\n    $409,634\n    $302,843.48\n  \n  \n    Junior Clerical Service\n    $973,480\n    $932,571.81\n  \n  \n    Colonial Secretary's Office and Legislature\n    $78,946\n    $60,372.93\n  \n  \n    Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n    $27,938\n    $28,607.63\n  \n  \n    71,280.57\n    $115,580\n    $92,138.35\n  \n  \n    81,080.71\n    $97,054\n    $59,883.07\n  \n  \n    22,958.36\n    $26,867\n    $22,005.73\n  \n  \n    11,041.82\n    $18,644\n    $11,151.33\n  \n  \n    406,215.38\n    $448,592\n    $457,655.03\n  \n  \n    148,677.96\n    $1,031,294.48\n    $156,604.80\n  \n  \n    2,437.25\n    $802,437\n    $152,214.25\n  \n  \n    695,074.02\n    $962,648.12\n    $1,020,784.07\n  \n  \n    1,298,865\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (B)- Air Service..\n    $52,807\n    $11,545.84\n  \n  \n    26,691.12\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Royal Observatory\n    $84,160\n    $68,184.87\n  \n  \n    74,137.85\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    305,046.77\n    $363,905\n    $297,080.17\n  \n  \n    185,316.02\n    $209,000\n    $172,095.89\n  \n  \n    50,632.92\n    $50,190\n    $38,717.16\n  \n  \n    55,252.64\n    $70,668\n    $65,003.76\n  \n  \n    20,711.14\n    $24,641\n    $18,806.12\n  \n  \n    42,163.90\n    $48,604\n    $37,135.93\n  \n  \n    Ordinary Expenditure\n    \n    $29,082,423\n  \n  \n    Magistracy, Hong Kong\n    $2,274\n    $2,088.09\n  \n  \n    Do.. Kowloon\n    $2,117\n    $1,733.12\n  \n  \n    Police Force ...\n    $3,075,359\n    $2,520,708.37\n  \n  \n    Extraordinary Expenditure\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Public Works................\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Part payment to the Admiralty for surrender of the Naval Arsenal Yard and Kellett Island\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ordinary Expenditure for the year was $29,082,423 against $28,785,843 in the preceding year showing an increase $296,580.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12. In the following table the actual expenditure for the year 1932 is compared with the expenditure of the previous year and with the estimates for 1932.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Public Works Department.\n    \n    $1,967,860.20\n  \n  \n    Do. Recurrent\n    $942,910\n    $765,777.56\n  \n  \n    Prison Department\n    $1,628,764\n    $1,285,571.04\n  \n  \n    Medical Department\n    $1,033,504\n    $846,286.83\n  \n  \n    Sanitary Department\n    $129,070\n    $117,200.45\n  \n  \n    Botanical & Forestry Department\n    $2,046,096\n    $1,745,983.64\n  \n  \n    Education Department\n    $959,025\n    $873,466.90\n  \n  \n    Kowloon-Canton Railway\n    $182,949\n    \n  \n  \n    (4) Volunteer Defence Corps...\n    $6,366,567\n    $6,569,239.47\n  \n  \n    (B)-Military Contribution\n    $110,261.35\n    \n  \n  \n    4,932,598.36\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Services\n    $1,452,481\n    $1,580,943.65\n  \n  \n    of Charitable Services\n    $175,762\n    $169,926.51\n  \n  \n    Charge on Account of Public Debt.\n    $1,973,307\n    $1,708,000\n  \n  \n    Pensions...\n    $1,666,704.81\n    $1,581,926.75\n  \n  \n    1,541,441.41\n    $2,306,678.48\n    $1,545,269.52\n  \n  \n    2,335,114\n    $2,116,882.14\n    $1,521,800\n  \n  \n    1,894,290.79\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    28,785,842.01\n    $31,808,116\n    $29,082,423.32\n  \n  \n    Public Works Extraordinary\n    \n    $1,967,860.20\n  \n  \n    2,374,931.99\n    $31,160,774.00\n    \n  \n  \n    Expenditure from Surplus Balances...\n    $1,000,000\n    $1,000,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    $34,981,661\n    $32,050,283.52\n  \n  \n    TOTAL...\n    $31,160,774.00\n    \n  \n\n423\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "to develop its wireless services.\n\nAfter careful consideration, the Secretary of State has decided to approve the request that the negotiations with your company should be broken off, and I am directed to inform you accordingly.\n\nThe Government of Hong Kong is being informed that any proposals they wish to make for the development of the Government wireless services in Hong Kong must be in conformity with paragraph 44 of the Report of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference, 1928; and that if it is permitted to develop any necessary services, this must not preclude or prejudice the reopening of negotiations with your Company at a later date for the transfer of all wireless telegraph and telephone services including any improvements.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL",
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        "title": "CO129-539-13 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless Service to Imperial and International Communications Ltd. 11-4-1932 - 17-6-1933",
        "content_text": "AIR COMMODORE WARRINGTON-MORRIS said that he would like to have it recorded that 1.5 landing ground at Singapore had, after considerable pressure, been given up by the Air Ministry as a site for the proposed high power wireless station. As the building of the station is postponed the position may arise where the Air Ministry would ask for this decision to be reversed.\n\nCONCLUSION.\n\nIt was agreed:\n\n(a) that the Colonial Office, in consultation with the Treasury, should prepare telegrams for despatch to the Governors of Hong Kong and Malaya referring to para. 44 of the 1928 Conference report, and stating that action in any colony should be consistent with the policy of co-operation laid down therein; while the colonies should be free to develop services which were necessary for their commercial requirements, they should refrain from establishing any service where existing facilities were reasonably adequate and that rate-cutting was obviously incompatible with the policy of co-operation. In applying this policy to the case of Hong Kong it would appear that the establishment of wireless telephone services was reasonable, but that the establishment of a wireless telegraph service with Japan would be an unreasonable competition with the existing cable facilities.\n\n(b) That sanction to develop such services should not preclude or prejudice negotiations being entered into with Imperial and International Communications Limited at a later date for the transfer of all wireless telephone and telegraph services, including any improvements.\n\n(c) That the telegrams despatched and replies received from the Governors of Hong Kong and Malaya respectively should be circulated to the Committee; if these replies appeared satisfactory, then permission should be given to the Governors to proceed with their proposals. On the other hand if any members of the Committee had any points to raise they should inform the Secretary when, if necessary, a further meeting of the Committee would be held.\n\n2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1.\n\n14th March, 1933.",
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        "content_text": "SHANGHAI SITUATION SINGAPORE PLANES\n\nMOST GRAVE. (Continued from page 11) considering strong action separately or jointly with Britain.\n\nThe New York Herald-Tribune says: \"There is every sign that a strong protest would be raised if the Japanese move within the Settlement.\"\n\nThe administration spokesmen have given an inferential warning that Japanese military action within the Settlement would be unwarranted and inexcusable.\n\nRumours of a British Note.\n\nNew York, Jan. 26.\n\nIt is learned from Tokio that the British Government has sent a Note to the Japanese Government presumably on the subject of extraterritoriality in China.\n\nA Flat Denial.\n\nLondon, Jan. 27. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent states that British official circles yesterday flatly denied the reports from America alleging that the British Government had dispatched a Note to Japan anent Shanghai.\n\nFOR AUSTRALIA.\n\nTHE STRAITS TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.\n\nAir Base Machines to Fly To Port Darwin,\n\nThree flying boats from the Seletar Air Base are to make a flight in mid-March to Port Darwin, Australia.\n\nThe Straits Times was informed that nothing is yet fixed definitely. The crews will be selected later. The route will probably be via Banka, Tandjong Priok, Sourabaya, Bima, Timor Island, and on to Port Darwin. The return flight will be made in the first or second week of April.\n\nMAN AND WOMAN STABBED.\n\nAttempted Robbery At Pasir Panjang.\n\nShortly after one o'clock this morning, information of a robbery at the 84th milestone, Pasir Panjang Road, was received by the Orchard Road division police. Inspector Ratton and Inspector Goh went to the scene to find a Chinese and his wife suffering from stab wounds. The woman had a wound in her hand, while the husband had several stabs in the neck.\n\nTwo Chinese, it is said, armed with knives, attacked the inmates. On alarm being raised, the robbers got away. The proprietor is said to be in a critical condition.\n\nPOOR MR. HU HAN-MIN!\n\nStudents Pester His Life Out.\n\nHong Kong, Jan. 27. The Nanking University students who went to Canton from Hong Kong a day or two ago have decided to return to Hong Kong today in order to continue their efforts to persuade Mr. Hu Han-min to go north.-Sin Kuo Min. Reuter.\n\nGeneva, Jan. 26 (8.53 p.m.)\n\n\"Please Go Away!\"\n\nHong Kong, Jan. 27. Reuter learns authoritatively that there is no truth in the report that the League Council has decided to warn Japan regarding Shanghai.\n\nThe Council commissioned M. Paul Boncour to give moderating advice to both parties, and this was done when the Chinese and Japanese delegates were received separately.-Reuter.\n\nA number of students from the Chungshan University at Canton, who are appealing for funds on behalf of their military corps, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday on their way to Nanking. They proceeded to the residence of Mr. Hu Han-min in Hong Kong yesterday in order to endeavour to persuade him to go north, but Mr. Hu Han-min refused to receive a deputation from them.-Sin Kuo Min.\n\n'QUIET BUT TENSE.\" Chinese Entrenched On City Outskirts.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 26.\n\nThe situation is quiet but tense, and there is general apprehension lest the Japanese naval authorities should take the law into their own hands.\n\nSZECHWAN-KANSU. Situation Rapidly Developing.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27. Reports to hand state that the situation as regards the Szechwan-Kansu hostilities is rapidly developing, but reliable details are not available. Meanwhile, Chinese troops are entrenching on the outskirts of Shanghai, notably in the neighbourhood of Hungjao Road, in the western district, which is a favourite foreign residential area. Reuter.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27.\n\nThe 19th army, which is in the Shanghai area, is determined to fight the Japanese should the Japanese decide to take drastic measures in Shanghai.\n\nMartial law is being enforced every night around Shanghai.-Sin Kuo Min.\n\nA Significant Appointment.\n\nNanking, Jan. 26.\n\nVice-General Chan Ming-shu (the President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Communications) has been appointed Foreign Minister in succession to Mr. Eugene Chen, who has resigned.-Reuter.\n\nThis is a most significant appointment since General Chan Ming-shu is a staunch supporter of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who is favouring a policy of conciliation towards Japan.\n\nPEKING AND SWATOW.\n\nJapanese Demands Closing Down of Newspapers.\n\nPeking, Jan. 26.\n\nThe Japanese Chargé d'Affaires has called on Marshal Chang Hsueh-lang and expressed strong indignation at an editorial regarding Korea printed on Jan. 23 by the Chinese-owned Peking Leader, the only English language daily in Peking.\n\nDeclaring that he was acting under the instructions of the Foreign Office, the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires demanded the permanent closing down of the Peking Leader, the arrest of the editor, and an apology.-Reuter.\n\nMayor of Swatow Defiant.\n\nHong Kong, Jan. 26.\n\nThe Japanese Consul at Swatow again interviewed the Mayor of Swatow on January 23 and peremptorily demanded the suppression of all newspapers in Swatow publishing news against Japan and the Japanese.\n\nHowever, the Mayor of Swatow declined to give any such promise.-Sin Kuo Min.\n\nJEHOL INVASION. Japanese Advance As Villages Burn.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27.\n\nWest of the Liao-ho River, the main Japanese forces are continuing their drive northward up the Tatung Railway from Tahushan towards Tunglao.\n\nThey are still meeting with considerable resistance from Chinese volunteers, and severe fighting is stated to be in progress.\n\nThe Chinese volunteers have withdrawn to Hungloshan.\n\nThe Japanese advance northwards and into Jehol is being handicapped by reason of the fact that villages in the mountains are being set on fire. It is stated that the Chinese people who have their homes in these mountains are suffering miserably in consequence.\n\nGeneral Yu Hsueh-tsung has dispatched representatives to Tatung to welcome Marshal Wu Pei-fu. General Yu Hsueh-tsung was, at all events until recently, the garrison commander of the Peking and Tientsin area and commander of the first army of the North-Eastern Frontier Defence Force. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nVolunteers Attacking Tahushan.\n\nNanking, Jan. 27. Chinese volunteers are again counter-attacking Tahushan (between Sinmin and Kowpangtse on the Mukden-Peking Railway, where the Tatung branch line from Tungliao joins the main line).\n\nThe extent of the casualties is unknown. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nAeroplane Shot Down.\n\nNanking, Jan. 26. Fighting continues spasmodically on the Jehol frontier.\n\nThe Chinese volunteers have retreated to Hingcheng. It is reported that one Japanese plane was shot down by the volunteers. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nMarshal Wu and Yen.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 26. Marshal Wu Pei-fu is continuing his conference with Marshal Yen Shi-shan at Pati. It is understood that he is ready to proceed to the front at any time to fight against the Japanese.\n\nGeneral Choi Ting-kai is taking every precaution in the Shanghai and Nanking area.\n\nThe following have been elected office-bearers of the Siew Sin Sia Association, Singapore: President, Messrs. Ghee Song (re-elected); Vice-President, Messrs. Lam To (re-elected) and Lim Tan; hon. secretary, Mr. Teo Soo Poh; asst. hon. secretary, Mr. Sng Seng Heng; hon. treasurer, Mr. Teo Geok Lin (re-elected); asst. hon. treasurer, Mr. Pek Kim Feng (re-elected); hon. Auditor, Mr. See Tho Soo; hon. superintendent, Mr. Lim Tiang Kiat (re-elected); asst. hon. superintendents, Messrs. Koh Yeng Keng (re-elected) and Wong Shih Shu (re-elected); hon. sports captain, Mr. Ong Cheong Tin; asst. hon. sports captain, Mr. Tan Tiang Seer.\n\nIN THE SETTLEMENT.\n\nRepublican Daily News Shut Down.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 26. Following on the visit of the five Japanese naval officers to the Editor, mentioned in an earlier cable, the Kuomintang organ, the Republican Daily News, which is published in the heart of the International Settlement, has been closed down in compliance with the demands of Japanese Admiral Shiosawa.\n\nMAYOR WU.\n\nExpected to Comply With Japanese Demands.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27.\n\nAs a result of a long discussion which he had with the principal Chinese bankers, the Mayor of Greater Shanghai (Mr. Wu Tieh-cheng) is expected to order the dissolution of all anti-Japanese Associations in Greater Shanghai tomorrow.\n\nDERAILED MAIL TRAIN.\n\nFalling on Line.\n\nCause Thought to be Brake Box.\n\nIpoh, Jan. 26. It is believed that the mail train accident between Kumunting and Krian Road, in which three coaches were derailed, was caused by a brake box falling on the line.\n\nPassengers in the derailed coaches were transferred to other coaches and continued the journey to Prai.\n\nOur Penang correspondent telegraphs that the train was 90 minutes late in reaching Prai.\n\nThe work of cleaning the line is proceeding quickly.\n\n\"BIG MASTER\" Editor to Pay Costs Of Prosecution.\n\nIpoh, Jan. 26.\n\nIn addition to the fine of $300, the editor of The Thunderer has been ordered to pay the costs of prosecution in a case in which a headmaster complained he had been defamed in a story \"Big Masters' Five Whiskers.\"\n\nLOCAL INDUSTRY.\n\nU.S. Manila Fleet on Way.\n\nNanking, Jan. 27. It is reported here that the United States Fleet at Manila is moving to Shanghai. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nWELSH PIT DISASTER.\n\nRescuers Display Great Gallantry.\n\nRugby, Jan. 27. Eleven bodies have been recovered from the pit at Llwynypia, South Wales, where an explosion occurred while 100 men were working in the pit.\n\nMany of the men are suffering from gas, shock, and minor injuries. Great gallantry was displayed by the rescuers.\n\nTHE STRAITS TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.\n\nPage 66\n\nGOOD YEAR\n\nTHE ELECTRICAL GEE OF ENGLAND\n\nWORLD WIDE GUARANTEE OF QUALITY & SATISFACTION\n\nMASTENS\n\nSINGAPORE\n\nKUALA LUMPUR\n\nIPOH\n\nNEW ALL-WEATHER TREAD TYRE HAS GREAT TRACTION\n\nGOOD YEAR\n\n3-$1-14\n\n15\n\n41",
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        "content_text": "## Head 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1933. Estimate, 1934.\n\n**(B)-WIRELESS.**\n\n#### 1 Personal Emoluments\n#### Other Charges.\n\n| Category | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing | 300 | 300 |\n| 3 Contribution towards Expenses of Radiotelegraph Union | 640 | 800 |\n| 4 Documents relating to Radiotelegraph Service | 200 | 400 |\n| 5 Incidental Expenses | 750 | 750 |\n| 6 Rent of Offices for radiotelegraphs | 15,000 | 18,000 |\n| 7 Telegrams | ... | ... |\n| 8 Uniforms..... | 1,800 | 1,800 |\n| **Total Other Charges** | **18,690** | **22,300** |\n\n### Special Expenditure.\n\n| Category | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Gestetner Duplicating Machine | ... | 1,045 |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | ... | **1,045** |\n| **Total B-Wireless Telegraph Service** | **164,735** | **178,174** |\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments.\n\n**(B)-WIRELESS.**\n\n| Post | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Traffic Superintendent, (£475 to £575 by £20 annually) | 9,514 | 9,200 |\n| Assistant Traffic Superintendent, (£310 to £350 by £10 annually) | 5,943 | 5,600 |\n| Assistant Accountant, | 4,200 | 4,200 |\n| Class I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually) | 7,800 | 8,200 |\n| Class II Telegraphist, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually) | 2,813 | 2,875 |\n| Class III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 10,125 | 10,309 |\n| Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 25,549 | 35,409 |\n| Class V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 34,450 | 34,699 |\n| Class VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 8,373 | 8,953 |\n| Field Allowances to Telegraphists | 400 | 400 |\n| Class I Clerk, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually) | 3,700 | 3,900 |\n| Class III Clerk, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 1,950 | 1,900 |\n| Class IV Clerks, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 3,400 | 3,234 |\n| Class V Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 7,758 | 7,734 |\n| Class VI Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 3,724 | 3,849 |\n| Radio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually) | 348 | 348 |\n| Radio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually) | 4,105 | 4,216 |\n| Rent Allowances to 19 at $48 each... | 912 | 912 |\n| Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | ... | ... |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each | 432 | 432 |\n| Sunday and holiday work Allowances.. | 8,100 | 8,100 |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | **145,000** | **155,874** |\n\n(1) Increases anticipated due to Madrid Conference.\n(2) Higher rental.\n(3) Higher rate of exchange.\n(4) Stipulated increments.\n(5) One in place of one Class VI, and five new posts due to expansion.\n(6) One replaced by one Class IV.\n(7) Changes in personnel.",
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        "title": "CO129-546-8 Revision of Kowloon Canton Railway Agreement 11-12-1933 - 4-12-1934",
        "content_text": "75 \n\nA proposal for and the particulars of the results necessary to the \n\n**CARESTRID** = one Law already divided in the proportion of 80+ British and 20+ Chinese jurisdiction. It is noteworthy that if it were \n\nto be possible for an arrangement to buy Kowloon or filmers Family harbour in have \n\ncourse be awaited a decision, for a Loop line. This point was not, \n\nhowever, conceded to the Chinese delegation.\n\nAfter a further attempt to get the British delegation will1 \n\nfurther to satisfy their misgivings, Mr. Chung and Ts'u finally stated \n\nthat they would have to telegraph to the Secretary of Railways for further instruction. He intimated that he had already received a telegram advising an agreement on a 1:3/2⁄1 British and 7:8,1/2 Chinese division.\n\nFin suggested that Mr. Green should bring that proposal before his Govern-\n\nment for their favourable consideration. In return, it was replied that while \n\nthe proceedings would be reported to His Excellency the Governor, \n\nfurther he could \n\n7. The proceedings of the Conference were commenced at 10:30 in the morning \n\nand concluded at 3 \n\nPinsbury \n\nI have \n\nthe honour to be \n\nYour most obedient, humble \n\nG. C. PELHAM \n\nH. K. Brand, Commissioner and General Secretary,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935",
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        "title": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935",
        "content_text": "25\n\nof the certificate should be conditional upon;\n\n(a) the fitting of adequate grilles;\n\n(b) the provision of efficient guards;\n\n(c) the provision of an efficient wireless telegraph apparatus of adequate power and a fully qualified operator, who should be employed full time on this duty.\n\nWhile the scheme was intended primarily for British vessels, it was thought that ships in non-British ownership might also be eligible to apply for these certificates if owners so desired. It was true that such a system should be supplementary to, and not take the place of, the ordinary Board of Trade certificates and should be on a voluntary basis. Inspection would of course be obligatory before a certificate was issued. And the cost of the scheme would have to be borne, in some way or other, by the companies.\n\n3.\n\nThe conference agreed that a system as that outlined above, if suitably represented to the British shipping companies concerned, might well meet with their approval and would probably, through force of competition, result in a widespread improvement in the protective measures taken. Before approaching the companies, however, and in view of the possible existence of difficulties which could only be appreciated locally (such as, for example, the lack of adequate surveying staff at Shanghai, and the possible need for legislative action in order, for instance, to prevent the misuse of certificates) it was considered desirable that the British authorities in China and Hong Kong should be consulted first and that, in the light of their views as subsequently furnished, the scheme still appeared practicable, the shipping companies should then be sounded, preferably through their representatives.",
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        "title": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935",
        "content_text": "this report that the original proposal, \n\nput forward by Admiral Tyrer, provided for the \n\nissue by the British authorities at Hong Kong \n\nor Shanghai to British ships carrying \n\nPassengers on the China coast of three classes \n\nof certificates, according to the degree of \n\nprotection afforded against pirates. As a \n\nresult of the discussion of this question at \n\nthe conference it was considered desirable for \n\nvarious reasons that only one class of \n\ncertificate should be issued, and not three, \n\nproposed by the Commander-in-Chief, and that \n\nthe issue of the certificate should be \n\nconditional upon: \n\n(a) the fitting or adequate grilles; \n\n(b) the provision of adequate guards; \n\n(c) the provision of an efficient \n\nwireless telegraph apparatus of \n\nadequate power and a fully \n\nqualified operator, who should be \n\nemployed full time on this duty. \n\nIt was agreed that such a system should be \n\nsupplementary to, and not take the place of \n\nthe ordinary Board of Trade certificates and \n\nshould",
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        "document_key": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937",
        "content_text": "## -3- \n\n21 \n\nGull, Mrs Paterson (wife of Dr Paterson, Superintendent of the Lester Chinese Hospital), Lady Hosie, Mrs Byrne M.B.E., J.P. and Mrs Dixon: and a Finance Sub-Committee consisting of D.G.M. Bernard, Major A.C. Abrahams and S.H. Dixon. For the time being I am acting as Honorary Secretary of the organisation.\n\nThe great help which the Lord Mayor has given the Fund was, in the first instance, going to be confined to the City. On October 6th the following letter from him appeared in \"The Times\".\n\n\"I have been asked to organise an Appeal to the City of London in order to render prompt and efficient help for the people of China, who are enduring untold suffering as the result of the hostilities now in progress in their country, and for the large number of British subjects affected.\n\n\"There is an acute shortage of medical and sanitary supplies of all kinds. The intensity of the hostility has caused an enormous number of casualties among the general population in the areas attacked from sea, land and air, and also among the multitudes of refugees who have been evacuated to seek safety and shelter.\n\n\"The need is already most serious and is increasing at an alarming rate, as air raids daily spread death and destruction, while interference with sea traffic renders it most difficult to obtain the indispensable supplies.\n\n\"The entire City is deeply stirred by the terrible picture of this tragedy, and all are anxious and ready to do something to relieve this desperate situation.\n\n\"I am immediately forming, in cooperation with the Governor of the Bank of England, a Collecting Committee representing all departments of financial and commercial life, for the purpose of arranging an appeal to the City of London.\n\nYours truly, George Broadbridge, Lord Mayor.\"\n\nA similar letter appeared in the Daily Telegraph of the 6th. On the 14th October, after seeing the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Lord Mayor decided to extend his appeal to the whole country. This was announced in a broadcast by the Lord Mayor (which I drafted) on October 20th, and on the following day a Press luncheon was held at the Mansion House at which I arranged for speeches to be made by Dr Harold Balme, Dame Rachel Crowdy and Mr William Teeling. Reports of the luncheon appeared in the Press on the following morning.\n\nThe conversion of the appeal originally made by the China Association, the British Red Cross Society and the Conference of British Missionary Societies into a Lord Mayor's Fund is now being followed by the institution of a central office which, while working under the direction of the Executive Committee, will be presided over by someone unconnected with any of the three bodies. Who this is to be had not yet been determined.*\n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to you via Suez and copies of my letter to Mr Calder-Marshall have been sent to Mr Kay, Hon. Secretary of the China Association, Hongkong, and to the Foreign Office and Colonial Office.\n\nYours sincerely,\nR.G. Howe Esq. C.M.G.\n\nSgd. E.M. Gull, Hon. Sec. pro tem. the Fund for the Relief of Distress in China.\nC/o H.B.M. Consulate-General, SHANGHAI\n\n## POSTSCRIPT",
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        "page_number": 30,
        "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937",
        "content_text": "30 \n\nA similar letter appeared in the \"Daily Telegraph\" of the 6th. \n\nOn the 14th October, after seeing the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Lord Mayor decided to extend his appeal to the whole country. This was announced in a broadcast by the Lord Mayor (which I drafted) on October 20th and on the following day a Press luncheon was held at the Mansion House at which I arranged for speeches to be made by Dr. Harold Balme, Dame Rachel Crowdy and Mr. William Teeling. Reports of the luncheon appeared in the Press on the following morning. \n\nThe conversion of the appeal originally made by the China Association, the British Red Cross Society and the Conference of British Missionary Societies into a Lord Mayor's Fund is now being followed by the institution of a central office which, while working under the direction of the Executive Committee, will be presided over by someone unconnected with any one of the three bodies. The person who is to be in charge has not yet been determined. \n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to you via `Ɛues` and a copy is also being sent by airmail to Key, the secretary of the China Association at Hongkong. Copies are also being given to the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office. \n\nYours sincerely, \nR. Calder-Marshall, Esq.\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce and China Association, \n27, The Bund, \nShanghai.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "document_key": "CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939",
        "content_text": "19 \n\n19. F0-F1708/298/10 \n\n14th and \n\n24-2-38 \n\nAgrees \n\nthat assembly of ambulance planes \n\nshould be sanctioned, but not of passenger planes \n\nI have spoken to Lieutenant-Commander \n\nWigglesworth. \n\nOn the ground that \n\nThe Foreign Office agree that \n\nambulance aircraft may be assembled at Hong \n\nKong and delivered to China, but consider \n\nthat the assembly of passenger aircraft should \n\nnot be sanctioned \"as it is virtually impossible \n\nto ensure that they shall not be used for \n\nmilitary purposes\". I understand that the \n\nAir Ministry agree with this view and are writing to us accordingly. I presume that \n\nin view of this, we can only telegraph such \n\na decision in reply to the Governor's \n\ntelegram (No. 13), and I attach a draft for \n\nconsideration accordingly. \n\nIf I may be permitted \n\nthe remark, however, I am not quite clear as \n\nto the Foreign Office line of reasoning \n\non the assembly of ambulance aircraft, but not of passenger aircraft. If it is virtually impossible to \n\nensure that passenger aircraft shall not be \n\nused for military purposes, as I understand \n\nfrom Lieutenant-Commander Wigglesworth that \n\nthere is practically no difference between the military purposes for which either ambulance \n\nor passenger aircraft can be used. The distinction is purely a political one, and \n\nthe assembly of passenger aircraft in Hong Kong is presumably considered to be more \n\n\"provocative\" to the Japanese Government. \n\nIn view of this decision, I suggest \n\nthat it is now scarcely worth while discussing \n\nthe project for setting up a factory in Hong \n\nKong as set out in (18), at an inter-departmental conference. \n\nIf neither civil \nnor",
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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": "# Oral Answers\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### Oral Answers\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: I have previously given a whole list of improvements in the conditions.\n\nMajor Dower: Does not the splendid increase in recruiting show that the country fully appreciates the improvements in the Territorial Army which my right hon. Friend has introduced; and will he continue the good work?\n\n## BREN GUNS.\n\n3 and 4. Mr. Anstruther-Gray asked the Secretary of State for War (1) whether there are any regular infantry battalions without their full complement of Bren guns; and by what date will any deficiency be made good; (2) Whether there are any territorial infantry battalions without their full complement of Bren guns; and by what date will any deficiency be made good?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: I hope my hon. Friend will agree that it is not in the public interest to give precise details of the distribution of equipment, but the House will be glad to know that the production of Bren guns is now proceeding at its maximum rate.\n\nCaptain Sir Derrick Gunston: Is the gun being manufactured in this country or in Czechoslovakia?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: It is being manufactured in this country.\n\nMr. Lawson: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is great disturbance of mind among the people generally on this question; and can he assure the House that there is no need for disturbance at the present moment?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: I am well aware that there is great disturbance in the public mind, and I feel that, if the public could be put in possession of some of the facts, there would be less cause for disturbance.\n\nViscountess Astor: Has all information with regard to our defences been put in the possession of the leaders of the Opposition?\n\nAn Hon. Member: You have given it to Ribbentrop.\n\n22. Mr. Day asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs particulars of what arrangements are now in operation for keeping each of the Dominion Governments informed with regard to foreign affairs; and what changes have taken place in the scheme of Empire co-ordination in respect of foreign policy since same was laid down by the Imperial Conference of 1926?\n\nMr. M. MacDonald: In accordance with the system laid down as a result of discussions at successive Imperial Conferences, the Dominion Governments are kept constantly informed by telegraph of the information at the disposal of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, as well as of His Majesty's Government's policy, regarding foreign affairs. As an illustration of the extent to which the system has been developed, I may mention that the number of circular telegrams so far sent to each of the Dominion Governments on foreign affairs since the beginning of this year has been 398, of which some 150 were sent during the month of September alone.\n\nMr. Day: Do I understand that no action is to be taken on foreign affairs without consulting the members of the Commonwealth?\n\nMr. MacDonald: When such consultation would be appropriate, action is not taken without such consultation.\n\n## SCOTLAND.\n### DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (RENTS)\n\n5. Mr. Robert Gibson asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can now make a statement regarding the rents derived by the Department of Agriculture from agricultural tenants and from sporting tenants, respectively, during each of the last three years, and the total annual rentals, respectively, at the present time?\n\nThe Secretary of State for Scotland: (Mr. Colville): I propose, with the permission of the hon. and learned Member, to circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT the statement which I sent to him during the Recess.\n\nFollowing is the statement:\n\n## Oral Answers\n### 5 NOVEMBER 1938\n#### Oral Answers\n\n| Receivable in 1937-38 | Received in 1937-38 | Received in 1936–37 | Received in 1935-36 | Category |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Rent | Building Loan Annuity | Rent | Building Loan Annuity | Rent | Building Loan Annuity | Rent | Building Loan Annuity |  |\n| ... | ... | 2,348 | 25 | 10 | 0 | 45 | 14 | 8 | (a) Small Holding Colonies |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (b) Congested Districts Board Estates |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Section 9-Rural Housing B.L.A. receivable on (a) (b) and (c) |\n| 0 | 0 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (c) Fishermen's Schemes |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (d) Plots |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (e) Stud Farms |\n| 88,467 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ... | 17,977 | 0 | ... | Testing Seed (f) Egg Laying Test Station and Station |\n| £ s. d. 81,479 | 12 | 3 | 4,388 | II | ... | £ s. d. 15,390 | 7 | 11 | Shooting, etc., rents included |\n| £ s. d. 77,838 | 17 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |  |\n| 342 | 8 | 10 | 4,347 | 17 | 2 | 15,220 | 14 | 2 |  |\n| 332 | 19 | 2 | 4,497 | 12 | ... | 76,291 | 3 | ... |  |\n| £9.4.15,557 | 11 | ... | ... | ... | ... | £ s. d. 60,213 | 17 | 3 |  |\n| ... | ... | ... | 16,630 | 16 | 5 | ... | ... | ... |  |\n| 278 | 0 | 3 | 4,366 | 15 | 3 | 293 | 2 | 6 |  |\n| 180 | 7 | 9 | 180 | 17 | 7 | 157 | 9 | 6 |  |\n| 2,244 | 3 | 8 | 2,173 | 5 | 4 | 2,585 | 13 | 9 |  |\n| 2,961 | 17 | 7 | 1,703 | 4 | I | 25 | 10 | 0 |  |\n| 45 | 14 | 8 | 1,386 | II | 4 | 1,112 | 5 | 9 |  |\n| 84,142 | 8 | 0 | 53 | 2 | 7 | 46 | 8 | 8 |  |\n\nShooting rents included in heads (a) and (b) above amounted to £6,243 17s. 1d.  \nShooting rents included in heads (a) and (b) above amounted to £5,754 2s. 1d.  \nShooting rents included in heads (a) and (b) above amounted to £5,842 14s. 11d.  \n\n| 17,726 | 18 | ... | 82,385 | 19 | 4 | 18,521 | 5 | 4 |  |\n| 65,916 | 14 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 19,885 | 16 | 6 |  |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | £4,170 | 13s. | 6d. | Shooting rents included in heads (a) and (6) above amounted to |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939",
        "content_text": "## Visits of Colonial Governors-General\n\n184. During the month of May, visits were paid to Tokyo by General Minami, Governor-General of Korea, and Admiral Kobayashi, Governor-General of Formosa. It is reported that new policies in Korea were decided on during General Minami's visit, both in regard to the development of the agriculture and industry of the country, which has acquired a special importance as the \"arsenal base\" for Japan's continental policy, and in regard to the treatment of Koreans in Korea and in Japan. It is said that a system of compulsory education is to be introduced into Korea as soon as possible, and that eventually conscription and suffrage will follow. It is also reported that it is planned to import large numbers of Korean labourers to cope with the growing shortage of labour here. On his arrival here on the 19th May, Admiral Kobayashi gave a press interview in which he referred to the good effect that the incident was having on the morale of the Formosans, more than 9,500 of whom had already fought and worked for the army in China. He also said that the future of Formosa depended on the island's industrialisation. He said that the recently acquired Spratley Islands would be a good stepping-stone for Japan's southward development, but he considered that the recently mooted plan for the administrative combination of Formosa and the mandated islands under a Governor-General of the south would prove difficult of realisation owing to the immense distance which separates Formosa from the eastern end of the archipelago. He also expressed the opinion that Formosa should be developed as the first line of defence against the south and west, and the mandated islands as the first line of defence against the Pacific. This remark is interesting in connection with the statement of General Koiso at the conference of prefectural Governors that the Government was taking appropriate measures for protection and guidance in the South Sea islands.\n\n## Plans for the Development of North Manchuria\n\n185. On the 15th May, the Hsinking Government published details of a comprehensive plan for the development of the northern border districts of Manchuria, which have hitherto been neglected on account of their remoteness. The project is expected to be completed in the main by 1941. The total expenditure involved will be some 1,000 million yuan. The scheme provides for new railways, roads, postal facilities, telephone cables, radio towers, and aerodromes, as well as for repairs and improvements to what already exists, for the development of water power supply, colonisation of uninhabited areas, rationalisation of labour supply, encouragement of agriculture by establishment of experimental stations, guilds, and commissions for the distribution of materials, strengthening of air defences, and provision of clubs and other social facilities.\n\n## Reorganisation of Municipalities of Dairen and Port Arthur\n\n186. The municipal government of these two cities has hitherto been not unlike that of a Japanese city, comprising an Assembly whose members, apart from four Chinese selected by the Kwantung Government, have been elected every four years by Japanese householders; the mayor was chosen every four years by the Assembly. Under the new system, half the members of the Assembly are to be officially nominated, and the term of service is to be three years only. The mayor and vice-mayor (a new post) are to be Japanese Government officials appointed by the Japanese Ambassador at Hsinking. The mayor actually chosen has for the past four and a half years been Vice-Governor of two provinces in Manchuria, and his appointment illustrates the ease with which Japanese officials can be interchanged between Japan and the \"independent\" State of Manchukuo.\n\nIt is probable that the new Assembly's function will be merely to endorse the decisions of the executive authority headed by the mayor, but the staffing of the executive by permanent Government officials, which forms part of the reorganisation, should bring some increase of efficiency. The change has been received with complete apathy by the inhabitants.\n\n## Trial of Japanese Communists\n\n187. The trial of twenty-two so-called Communists, which began in September last year, came to an end on the 8th May, when Mr. Toshi Futami was sentenced to death. Many of the twenty-one other defendants on trial with Mr. Futami since last September were shown leniency by the court in consideration of their avowed repentance. The judge refused to rule on the case against another of the group, who has been drafted into military service.\n\n188. All twenty-two of the defendants, arrested late in 1935, were said to have been members of the extinct Japan Anarchist-Communist party. They were accused and convicted on various criminal charges, including larceny, attempted homicide, desertion of a corpse, possession of explosives, and violation of the Peace Preservation Law.\n\n189. It was said that they had sought to maintain a vestige of the party after it had been suppressed by resorting to petty racketeering to obtain funds. Procurators handling the case demanded severe penalties for each of them, but the court took note of their penitent attitude and imposed milder sentences on virtually all but Mr. Futami, who was found more deeply implicated in the serious charges.\n\n## Expansion of Wireless Services\n\n190. It is reported in the vernacular press that the Communications Ministry have concluded negotiations with various countries for the inauguration of direct wireless telephone or telegraph services. Communication by wireless telegraph with Kalgan is expected to be opened by the end of June, and will be followed by services to Afghanistan, Peru, and Belgium. Wireless telephone services with France, Peru, Brazil, Australia, and Hong Kong are also to be inaugurated by the autumn. There is said to be a balance in Japan's favour of messages received over messages despatched of some 3 million words; in spite of this, Japan pays annual fees amounting to 10 million yen, owing to the fact that she is obliged to make use of the network of submarine cables owned by Great Britain, France, and the United States. The new expansion in Japan's direct wireless services is designed to remedy this handicap.\n\n## Foreign Misconception of Japan's Aims\n\n191. According to the Yomiuri, the Japan Economic Federation are exercised at the reception being given to Japanese goods abroad, and at the attitude of western countries to Japan's economic expansion in Asia, and are proposing to set up a special committee for the correction of the misconceptions by foreign countries regarding Japan's programme. The paper understands that the committee's first business will be to start investigations on a large scale into the reasons for these misconceptions.\n\n## Improving the Policeman's Lot\n\n192. The tendency of policemen and other underpaid minor officials to drift into munitions factories has already been referred to. During the first four months of this year, more than 400 policemen resigned from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force, whereas the present output of the police training school is about 160 a year. It is said that the Metropolitan Police Board are greatly concerned at the effect of these defections on the morale of the force and are doing their best to stop them; but the remaining policemen are said to be asking for better conditions of service. A plan has, however, been worked out by the board, by which certain \"welfare measures\" will take the place of increased salaries. Under this plan, subsidies of from 10 to 15 yen per child per annum are to be granted for the education of policemen's children, new houses with specially low rentals are to be built for the men, loans without interest are to be granted in cases of illness, and arrangements are to be made to...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-580-8 League of Nations- Medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 6-4-1939 - 5-7-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-580-8 League of Nations- Medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 6-4-1939 - 5-7-1939",
        "content_text": "(P4418/52/10).\n\n20th April, 1989.\n\nDear Smets,\n\nWith reference to my letter No.2894/10 of the 6th April about one telegram from Longtan Tanve, we have now had a reply from the Colonial Office.\n\n2. Sorry to say that it has proved impossible to agree to the proposal, outlined in your letter of the 30th March last, that copies of the messages from your Consulate-General in Nanking should be sent to your force detachment in Hong Kong for retransmission to Tientsin.\n\n3. It is pointed out that the practice of retransmitting telegrams in order to secure the benefit of cheaper rates across an intermediate point is condemned by the International Telecommunication Conference and that provisions designed to prevent retransmission appear in paragraph 42 of the International Telegraph Regulations, League of Nations.\n\n3./",
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        "document_key": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945",
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        "title": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945",
        "content_text": "24\n\n38. Extract from Official Report - 20-8-45,\n\n39. Extract from \"Peterborough's Column in Daily Telegraph\" about speech? - 21-8-45\n\n40. Suggested Question and Answer.\n\n41. To Miss Watson, No. 10 (enclosing 40) - 23-8-45\n\n41A. Possible Supplementary Question.\n\n42. Suggested Reply to Supplementary Question.\n\n43. Minute by Mr. Gent reporting what Mr. Eden said to F.O. about Mr. Byrne's Press Conference - 23-8-45\n\n44. To Miss Watson, No.10. - 23-8-45 (enclosing 42).\n\nI have added papers 45 and 46 of 45.\n\n45. Text of Question and Answer and Supplementary Q&A\n\n46. Tel. In 1528 (from D.G. to all Domes.) - 23-8-45 (text of Mr. Churchill's Questions and P.M's replies)\n\n47. Extract from Official Report - 23-8-45.\n\n48. Extract from Editorial from Newsweek - 23-8-45",
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        "document_key": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946",
        "page_number": 115,
        "title": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946",
        "content_text": "## 3\n\nreconstituted University, the maintenance of a good medical school to meet the Colony's needs, an expansion and strengthening of the Government's organization for the training of teachers, and the development of the existing Technical school to the point at which it could train efficient assistants for local engineering services, Government and commercial. If endowments of the University could be transferred for these purposes, Colonial needs could be met at less cost to public funds than a restored University will need.\n\n## 8\n\nThere was ample evidence for the Committee's conclusion that such a recommendation would meet very strong opposition. Sir Mark Young in his conference with the Committee spoke decisively against it as a proposal that would be repugnant to local Chinese feeling, and, especially at this time, as likely to be interpreted as the first intimation of an intention of His Majesty's Government to free itself of commitments in China. The dissolution of the University after thirty years of not entirely valueless existence, he thought, would offend not only the British Chinese in Hong Kong but all our friends in the Far East. The Committee believes that Great Britain, especially at this time, in the regions of science, politics, economics and in the arts of life, has something of value for Chinese acceptance and that a strong, well-equipped University in Hong Kong is the aptest means of contact. By its presentation of British ideals in these regions of the mind, and by the development of the fullest exchange of teachers, the Committee believes that the ground will be well prepared for enduring friendliness.\n\n## 9\n\nBut manifestly a British University of a standard that presupposes challenging comparisons by its situation on the flank of China, is far beyond the resources of a small Colony already faced by the burden of vast material reconstruction and great schemes of social welfare. But anything less no longer will suffice. The only British University in the Far East should be fitted to stand comparison with the best that China herself has done. Merely to continue on the old scale and scope would, in the opinion of the Committee, result in a loss of prestige hardly less than would result from the substitution of a group of technological institutions for a University. British prestige should not be hazarded by judgment of pretentious inferiority.\n\n## 10\n\nIt is the final judgment of the Committee that the only proper course is to reconstitute the University with the financial help from the Treasury on a basis on which it might in a period of years grow into an institution comparable with the new Universities of Great Britain. Meantime immediate provision for an early restart of teaching is necessary on a basis that does not compromise our proposals for development. This Committee approves the steps taken by the University of Hong Kong Provisional Powers Committee. (Appendix to this Report).\n\n## 11\n\nPage 363  \nThe Committee has been influenced in reaching its decision by the written opinion of two men whose concern has been the fostering of good relations with China. Professor V. Roxby, the representative of the British Council in China and Dr. Joseph Needham, Head of the British Scientific Mission in China have expressed themselves very decisively on the value from this point of view, of the University but equally decisively on the need to improve it. Finally, we would refer to a later and authoritative Chinese opinion quoted by the Commander in Chief, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt in Hong Kong, when on March 23rd 1946 he spoke on the occasion of the conferring of war-time medical degrees in the ruins of the University Hall. As reported in the Hong Kong Telegraph he said: \"In each step of the rebuilding of the University it is the intention to bear in mind...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
        "page_number": 161,
        "title": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
        "content_text": "Charges to pay\n\nRECEIVED\n\nat Central Telegraph Office, E.C.1\n\nd.\n\nPOST\n\nTELEGRAM\n\nOFFICE\n\nH\n\nPrefix. Time handed in. Office of Origin and Service instructions. Words.\n\nFrom\n\nE\n\n63\n\nW\n\n[\n\n63\n\n11/6 HIGHCLIFFE\n\n18\n\nTo\n\nNo.\n\n10\n\n(9\n\nOFFICE STAMP\n\n157\n\nWHI\n\nFB\n\n46\n\nOREIGN\n\n51-7747. 75,000 Pads. 11/43. J. D. & Co. Ltd.\n\nH\n\nHUMPHREY EASTERN DEPT COLONIAL OFFICE\n\nDOWNING ST WHITEHALL LONDON SW1\n\nvide (1)\n\nWILL ATTEND\n\nCT\n\nREQUESTED CONFERENCE 11TH FEBRUARY AS PERDUE ++\n\nLONDON SW1 ONE 11+\n\nFor free repetition of doubtful words telephone \"TELEGRAMS ENQUIRY\" or call, with this form at office of delivery. Other enquiries should be accompanied by this form and, if possible, the envelope\n\n80\n\nC\n\nF C\n\nOFFICE",
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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": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951",
        "page_number": 280,
        "title": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951",
        "content_text": "OUTWARD TELEGRAM\n\nFROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES\n\n3963\n\n53652/50\n\nCode\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nTO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)\n\nSent 6th March, 1950 17.45 hrs.\n\nNo 320 Confidential\n\nYour confidential telegram No. 196.\n\nEstimates.\n\nI approve proposals in paragraphs 6 and 8 of your telegram that standard rate of earnings and profits tax should be raised from 10% to 15% and that payment of $5,000,000 should be made to sinking fund of Rehabilitation Loan. I will tomorrow telegraph comments on these proposals which may prove helpful during Debate on Budget.\n\n2. I have no objection to the proposals in your paragraphs 9 and 10. In connection with the financial conference in April see my telegram No. 303.\n\nTreasury\n\nLt. Col. Russell-Edmunds.\n\nPage 280\n\nPage 281",
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        "document_key": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951",
        "page_number": 281,
        "title": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951",
        "content_text": "Mr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir\n\nTELEGRAM/\n\n*\n\nTo:-\n\n*\n\nSAVINGRAM\n\n* The word Priority may be entered here, if necessary.\n\nGoo. Hony Kory\n\nFanclough 4/3 alone\n\nRepeated to:-\n\nMa Hall\n\nagres\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nS. of S.\n\nPriority:-\n\nNil.\n\nReply urgently required.\n\nImportant.\n\n[Immediate,\n\nMost Immediate.\n\nTo be transmitted :-\n\nIn Near\n\nCocle\n\nCypher code\n\nFile No.\n\n3\n\n53652/50\n\nNapps 397\n\nSent. Code\n\n1245 hours\n\n6/3/5031\n\nNo. 320\n\nRestricted.\n\nConfidential. Secret. Top Secret and Personal.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nW\n\n7 MAR 1950\n\nIn tel C.D.\n\nDistribution:\n\n()\n\nCopes to 94003/10/50'\n\n54:26/5/50\n\nof Cost of Living Allowance\n\npps\n\nFurther action:-\n\nRecic to 1452 for attachment to file,\n\nWt. 15855/746 5M 6-48 Wa. & Co. 51/3 Wt. 29377/790 50M 11-48 Wa. & Co. 81/3\n\nYour confidential telegram No. 196. Estimates.\n\n9\n\napprove proposals in\n\nparagraphs 6 and 8 of your telegram that standard rate of earnings and profits\n\nprofits tax should be raised from 10% to 15% and\n\nbe made\n\nthat\n\npayment of $5,000,000 should\n\nto sinking fund of Rehabilitation Loan. I will tomorrow telegraph comments on\n\nthese proposals\n\nwhich may prove helpful during\n\nBudget Debate on\n\n2. I have no\n\nthe\n\nproposals in\n\nto\n\nobjection\n\nYour paragraphs 1 and 100 In connection with the financial conference in April\n\ntelegram No. 303.\n\n()see\n\nmy\n\nSECRET",
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